You know, people actually quantify things and then apply statistical methods, in order to see if they are deceiving themselves. You will (almost) always be able to look backwards in history to find a single worse event. The frequency and intensity of events is what matters in a statistical sense.
Scientists have done the math and drawn scientific conclusions on increasing extreme weather events.
Insurance companies have actuaries who spend their lives studying and calculating risk, and they work out the rates on insurance policies. And the verdict is that premiums will need to go up.
But forget them.
There was a big hurricane in 1938 in NYC.
See what you did there?
=== There was a statement that Arizona, Iowa and the mid-west will be hurt most by the climate change. Summers in these places will be dry and very hot, leading to poor crops. Tornados and other storms will be on the rise. The concensus is that the populations there and including Texas will be moving north.
It was thought that Canada will be getting many immigrant requests, much more than they get now as the population needs to move north. Agricultural land use in the northern hemisphere is going to be at a premium.
If you don't believe that you need to think seriously about your own personal contributions to the problem, then you rob future generations by your sloth.
There will be all sorts of methods, some that work, some that are insane and don't work, but I appreciate California trying to tackle the problem. With hard work, the California example will help mitigate the problem and raise understanding of how to make it work.
But tey don't CLAIM to be using it for class to class attendance. Fry it, then wear it around.... Staff is probably more concerned because it IS a "security risk" to have people running around that don't belong. My local high school had an issue with a 20-something lurking around and ended up in the girls' locker room. Since then, everybody without a lanyard getsstopped and questioned by ANY faculty roaming the halls... Not just "hall monitors".
As an IT person, I'm plain skeptical about the tracking stuff anyway. I'd be 100% certain that nobody in IT is watching this, and nobody in security is watching either. They might have a screen with the little dots moving around, they might pull reports... I doubt the accuracy of any place not staffing 2-3 full time staff on this.
My grandkids attend a mixed public grade-high school. At 8:15am, the doors lock (outside only), and cameras are on. Any parent or guardian or student arriving late has to ring the doorbell, be recognized, or mention who he or she is and then present himself at the Principal office. No adult can wander the corridors unaccompanied.
I tested the security, and it is very good. I was challenged, I was recognized and even so, I was not allowed to take my grandchild out from the classroom, because my daughter had forgotten to give the office a permission slip naming me the one for this specific visit. (Kid had a dental appointment). Two phone calls clarified the situation, and my granddaughter was waiting. She too was asked, "Is this your grandfather?"
The school has many children, and these youngsters have working parents. Security is not a joking matter.
So she can be marked as absent when she's actually in school? Great solution. Better to pursue the lawsuit.
Or borrow a few badges from friends and allow friends to go to the coffee shop for the afternoon, or just not attend school. You can assume many persons and personalities.
What's so surprising is that the current crop of intelligent people have actually succumbed to the bullies by the inferiority complex sufferers.
I too, and many like me in my generation, and those before me, had gone through the gauntlet of taunts and shovings and beatings, just because we think differently.
Those that bullied us bullied us because they felt inferior. They INSTINCTIVELY KNEW that they are inferior, but their ego just won't that happened.
It's their internal struggles - ego versus instinct - that promoted some of them to act out in violence.
As I said, I too got beaten up just because I ain't one of them, but so what?
Why should I hide my own self just because someone else don't like who I am?
Hey, I am born into this world not because I am destined to follow dumbasses. I am born into this world to do what I must do - that is, to be myself.
Yes, I got beaten up, but that didn't affect my determination to be my own self, not even a bit.
I hold my head high because I know that I am not guilty of anything. The guilty party is THEM, not me.
I too was bright, but I became bored with the grinding that the teacher had to dish out. Highschool was such a painful experience. At least two days a week, I was absent as I went to different movie houses. I saw more movies in my last two years of high school to last 10 years beyond.
Large businesses are recording record profits (record for the 5-7 years, anyway) and aren't hiring. If people don't have jobs, people can't buy shit. If the so-called 'job creators' were actually creating jobs, instead of continuing to lay people off while raking in bonuses for improving the company's bottom line, the recession would be over.
The future manufacturing for large organizations will be done with robots. Much of electronic and vehicle manufacturing in Asia is already done with robots. The same is already in place for the food industry. A robot can do the work of many workers, and can do it flawlessly. So... big business will install robots, and bring the manufacturing back to the USA, and yes, a few jobs will be created. The world will do manufacturing where there are mineral resources, and the rest of the world will be a creating jobs in services. There will always be a need for talent. But realize, automation of the worker also reduces demands for workers.
That is why I believe the future is with small business. Just go give you an idea of small businesses, an electrician in my municipality was hired to repair street lights (bulb changes, photocell relays, and more). He invested in a Cherry Picker, and became a contractor for our municipality and for two others around the metropolis. Now, he has three trucks, a good revenue stream and the municipalities are saving money and giving good service to their residents.
2 hours?! For us, east coasters, 2 hours don't make any difference... for others will be too... soon enough...
And you can't use it in an off-grid solar setup - there aren't many charge/discharge cycles left...
It's difficult to read your post and understand what you are trying to convey; but I am assuming that you're talking about Hurricane Sandy based on your reference to the East Coast. This is not for that.
In a warm climate, the battery solution is fine. It would be used to power lights, refrigerator, and a few small appliances. It really looks like it has future.
Yep, at SAP they probably want someone cheap and with no experience that will do low-tech drudge work without complaining. But are you ever going to see someone designing the next NASA exploration vehicle asking for twenty year olds, or do you want your medical devices to be designed by the cheapest programmers? Hell, I don't even want someone called a "techie" to be working on machines that keep me alive.
Regarding marketing... In the old IBM mainframe days we said of a vendor.. You can always find better, but you can't pay more.
And that is when he will stop wanting to work 12 hour days, 5 days per week. At 40 he may have teenage kids at home. or kids just to become teens.
When I was 20, working to 3am on a bit of code I loved, was a reward for my ego. Today, it is a punishment.
Thats for lines of code, but when you look at architecture, clean code design, reuse of code, and bug-free, upgradeable code, foget the 20 year old. He is full of theory, but lacks real production hands-on situations.
I have 3 times actually seen a cop driving in a car talking on their cell phone, despite a law here banning using a cell while driving. I even managed to get a video of it one of the times. I think the reason respect for cops has decreased so much over the last couple decades is that people are realizing they are hypocritical, power drunk assholes, and not just a few 'bad apples, but the majority of them.
In my city, the cops have junior college deplomas in criminology. The more recent graduates have bachelor degrees in criminology and cyberfraud. They train with "incase" and other software tools, they learn law, as required. The driving of the beat is a step forward to forensics, or other crime investigation careers. A few of our policewomen and policemen have mba and/or law degrees. Read where I am from.
Some people still have their heads so far up his ass, reveling in the smell of "hope".
As far as I am concerned Obama is a traitor in every way possible by not coming through on his promises, and basically doing everything he can to destroy freedoms and turn us into a police state.
No, ObamaCare does not make up for it, nor has anything else he has done make up for it either.
The only thing more disgusting is the fact Romney would have been far worse.
== Please answer this question. You want jobs to be created. Do you believe the wealthy are going to do it? Who are the customers going to be? Step out of the cacoon and look around the world. There is a major recession out there, and there is no money to buy USA goods, or even China's goods. China is crying because there is a recession, and the USA is suffering and crying because there are no customers. If you have no customers, what jobs can you create? Can you survive if your only customers are your fellow Americans who are as broke as you?
Small business creation is the way the economy is going to recover. Small business starts small, employs one or two, and takes a few years to grow. A restart of the economy takes a few years (at least 10) to recover. So, who started the global recession? Please research this and come back to Slashdot with your answer. It started in 2000, after the minor boom to convert computer systems from 2 digit years to 4 digit years and to implement major ERP systems.
If the USA was being attacked with rockets from Cuba, and finally, after 700 of them you decide "enough is enough" and you attack the leader of the group, and you bomb the missile sites, after dropping 1.5 milion leaflets to tell people to move away from the rocket sites, what do you do. You do what Israel has done.
So you'd rather have 2500 psychopathic children free to roam the streets of your town, and potentially grow up to commit more horrible crimes than they have already been convicted of doing?
The rest of the world appears to manage. And with every other country having a much lower adult prison population too, I can't see the American policy having solved a lot of the problem with adult crimes?
At the risk of being modded into oblivion I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest you may be a moslem shill. I say this because of the statistically young age of suicide bombers and the high probability they suffer from a severe pathology.
I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but I'm a white freethinker with no sympathy for absurd nonsense like religion and dogmatism, on either side.
=== When are children able to be non-impulsive? Children learn to manage rage and anger by following their parents and peers. So, if children murder, it is probably because the gun was left in the house within reach, and it was loaded. Only in the USA is it necessary to have a gun in your truck or van. (Well perhaps as well, if you live in some Latin American countries).
I am surprised that someone hasn't stated that the other countries execute children, and that is why the number is at zero.
I usually download DVD images of Linux distributions as evaluation copies. If it is midnight, (GMT-5), I will start a torrent for a distribution and go to bed. My ISP does not support high upload rates, so throttling is more or less done by the system. During the day, I will use wget and a mirror website to download my favorite distribution. Since I am in North America, if I can, I choose a mirror that is in Europe. Midnight there, is 6pm here in Montreal. At midnight their system us is low, and ours is moderate. I have rarely run into medium to severe throttling.
First of all, it has been my experience that, as ESL speakers, Indians are among the most fluent in the world. It seems to me that they take great care to learn and use English well, unlike the stumbling parody you provided. No doubt a consequence of British colonialism, but perhaps a happy one.
Second, it is my opinion that the English language is very much enriched by hearing it spoken in so many fascinating accents. Let's face it: every one of us has an accent that sounds "funny" to more than one other culture in the world. We can giggle now and then about how weird we sound to each other, but let's keep it at a good-natured level.
Third, learning a second language is difficult. Those who speak something other than English as a second language are all-too-well aware of the challenge. Just imagine how you would sound trying to order a meal in a foreign land. Probably much worse than the example you gave. And yet you just might find that the server is pleased at your effort.
============= I moved from English Canada to a bilingual but mainly French Quebec Province in 1985 (at age 45). I could have continued in English, but chose to integrate myself into the majority community. The first few things I did were:
a) Block all English Newspapers, Radio, Television in the house. b) Take two basic French courses. c) Select easy to read French textbooks and story books and read them d) Even reprogram the car radio to only tune to French stations (sports, news, music). e) Buy a set of French grammar books (Bescherelle verb conjugation book and a pocket dictionary)
I kept this up for two years, when one morning, while driving the car and listening to the radio, the French announcer cracked a joke, and I started to laugh. Suddenly I exclaimed "I arrived, I am bilingual". The next day, English was again welcome in the house.
Surprisingly, my English vocabulary was significantly increased because of foreign words and French idioms. My English writing became more precise, my tolerance for all other languages increased substantially, as did my caring for other people.
I am currently fluent in English, French and am getting there with Spanish. Now I read and write all three, as do my kids. My grandchildren studied in French Immersion in public school (French only until grade 4), and are now (grade 5) studying in English with French continuing as a second language. Gym and sports and lunch hours are a mixture of both languages, and the grandkids know the differences. And compared to me at their age, they have richer vocabularies and very good analytical skills. They switch from English to French without stumbling.
We admire the number of doctorates and highly intelligent people from India and European countries. They are no more intelligent than Americans, but because of multilingualism, they are better at thinking out of the box. And where a very few Americans are the Archie Bunkers of the USA, India has it's own.
This is my success story with languages. Disassociate from intolerant people.
The only people using mail anymore are junk mailers. And they get an ENORMOUS discount to send out thousands of flyers and coupons. So let's raise our taxes even more to prop up a bunch of spammers. If you don't, the union gets angry and leans on politicians. That's just good policy.
Canada faced this problem 10 years ago. What Canada did was a) offer small businesses the opportunity to sell stamps and to collect parcel post or accept registered mail. Typically, independent pharmacies reserved a 10x10 corner of the store for the PO. Having the PO brought in extra business.
Merge distribution centers. Build a large sorting center with modern machinery, and transfer mail to the regional centers. Stop door to door delivery. (Street corners have mailbox clusters, with one dropoff slot and individual boxes per resident.
Give early retirement incentives to the age 60+ employees. Work with UPS and FEDEX on sharing airline routes for parcel handling. Allow postmen/postwomen to distribute flyers, with direct pay to these individuals from the flyer publishers. Review and adjust postal rates.
Not being in that postal delivery business, I am mentioning what I saw and see. I am no expert. Perhaps the postal service has already done those things.
Or a long series of unions taking a bigger and bigger piece of the pie till not enough was left to run the business on.
Your point of view is directly contradicted by reality, as the average American wage has stayed mostly flat since the late 60s and union membership has never been lower.
The claim that if unions went away today those laws would go away is totally wrong. That is what many people think. If unions would go away, companies would force their workers to work 20 hours a day 7 days a week for 30 hours of pay at a really low rate. Their pensions would go away. That is not going to happen. Unions keep on repeating this to get people to vote the union way.
The economy has grown in leaps and bounds since [arbitrary date], the stock market is higher than ever, unions are weaker than ever, pensions are almost entirely nonexistent, and out of all that wealth... workers have been paid just enough to keep up with inflation. Oh yea, worker productivity has almost doubled over the same period of time and black lung is making a comeback in amongst coal miners.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark and it ain't the unions.
Up until the Regan era, there was a very strong need for unions. Unions were there to insure workers were protected by forced safety standards, by insuring reasonable salaries, and by taking a strong cut out of union wages to pay for union management (leaders). With universal health care, and the global economy, global unions are a unnecessary overhead. Unions should be worker committees, and these committees should have shares in the company. If the company does poorly the shares do poorly, and if the company does well, the shares do well. Worker committees owning shares forces a balance between what the company can share as benefits and what it needs to survive. A job at 20% pay reduction is better than no job at all, and a job where the worker committees expenses are covered by dividends is a win-win-win.
Perhaps I am being overly simplistic about the non-need for international unions.
Bullshit. I have been involved in dozens of ERP implementations over the years. The software works. When implementations fail it is always, in my experience, because of the people (i.e. management) making the decisions on how to implement the product.
Me: "Let me show you how Product X handles Accounts Payable" Client: "That's not how we do it" Me: "This might be a good opportunity to take a look at your current business practices and see if they can be done in a more efficient way" Client: "But we've always done it this way" Me: "Why?" Client "Dunno...just always have. And I doubt that the team is willing to change" Me: "Ok, we can customize the product to make it work the way you want but it's going to take more time and money. And when you do an upgrade later on there will be implications as well" Client: "Fine. Just make it work the way we do it now"
And so it goes. Time and again I see clients go out and buy an expensive ERP system only to customize the bejezus out of it to make it look exactly like the systems they are retiring. They are not open to better business practices. Too many political headwinds.
What does this say about these clowns in the Air Force? It takes them 10 years and $1.03B to realize that the project is going to fail? On an original budget of $88M? One of the big problems with trying to shoehorn a best practice ERP system into a large government institution is that often they employ worst practices. They won't, or can't, change them so you have to end up rewriting the product to fit their ass backwards ways. The whole purpose of implementing an ERP system is to replace aging, stove-piped systems with modern integrated systems. It can work well if it's implemented properly and the right decisions are made along the way. But it's not a magic pill.
The reason for overruns is simple. They are not spending their own money.
Oh wow, it gets worse. Oracle won this with a $88.5 million bid; what the hell took the Air Force so long to pull the plug with that kind of overrun?
The reason it took long may have something to do with free golf trips, paid vacations, gifts exceeding 10,000 dollars, etc., otherwise known as schmire.
And our "ally" Israel has launched terrorist attacks against Americans on US soil, attempted to bomb the offices of a Muslim US senator, has repeated been caught carrying out espionage against our intel agencies and businesses, deliberately feeds false intel to the State department, sells weapons to our enemies, sells our military technology to China, attempted to bomb the Mexican parliament, and boasts about carrying out false flag terrorist attacks so that the US will retaliate against their enemies for them. Hopefully Netenyahu shot himself in the foot with his open endorsement of Romney.
Netenyahu and Romney knew each other before Obama was elected. Netenyahu wants a partner to go in with Israel and bomb Iran. Obama wants financial(political) pressure, because, the US government is virtually bankrupt. (The people are not bankrupt, but the government is on the precipice of a run on the money by all foreign countries. )
They just won't make a sedan you'd buy, yourself. Mazda and VW will trounce the value/dollar every day of the week.
Enterprises will not be buying W8. They took years to move from XP to W7. They will stay with W7 because the hardware they just installed a year ago has 9 more years of life. And since most software is using browsers as an interface, there will be no need to continue with Windows. LibreOffice and OpenOffice can both read and write MS Office files. Ergo, time to move forward. MS will have to decide to continue supporting W7, or create a W8 that is fully compatible with W7. As far as I have read, W8 will require every software to be installed on it to be MS certified, or pass through the MS app store. This requirement is intolerable for enterprises.
You have to say, good customer service. At least they didn't say the users were just doing it wrong.
New products have teething problems. Issues such as this (remember the cracked glass issue with Apple) will be resolved. That is one reason why I never want to be first in. The second is that you pay more for being first, a reward for your obsession.
Which can run with lower overhead. I tried Fedora 17 with KDE on my netbook. I found the system very very sluggish. I switched to Gnome 3.x and the system came alive. My Netbook is a dual core atom, 1 gig ram and 512 gig disk. I believe KDE requires too much memory for a 1gig system. I have not tried mint on the netbook, so in all fairness, Mint is probably A#1 for the Netbook too
Rather than applying for a full-time position, have you considered forming your own independent consulting business? You would have to leverage your contacts in the industry, but there is a massive difference in the culture between hiring a 60-year-old technical lead and hiring a 60-year-old's consulting business. Vendor management contacts just won't care, in my opinion, if you're professional and can get results.
=========== I formed my own consulting company and contacted many Head Hunters with my credentials and information. You would want to be incorporated, rather than just a registered one. Research why incorporation is better for you.
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You know, people actually quantify things and then apply statistical methods, in order to see if they are deceiving themselves. You will (almost) always be able to look backwards in history to find a single worse event. The frequency and intensity of events is what matters in a statistical sense.
Scientists have done the math and drawn scientific conclusions on increasing extreme weather events.
Insurance companies have actuaries who spend their lives studying and calculating risk, and they work out the rates on insurance policies. And the verdict is that premiums will need to go up.
But forget them.
There was a big hurricane in 1938 in NYC.
See what you did there?
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There was a statement that Arizona, Iowa and the mid-west will be hurt most by the climate change. Summers in these places will be dry and very hot, leading to poor crops. Tornados and other storms will be on the rise.
The concensus is that the populations there and including Texas will be moving north.
It was thought that Canada will be getting many immigrant requests, much more than they get now as the population needs to move north. Agricultural land use in the northern hemisphere is going to be at a premium.
A glib and superficial comment at best.
If you don't believe that you need to think seriously about your own personal contributions to the problem, then you rob future generations by your sloth.
There will be all sorts of methods, some that work, some that are insane and don't work, but I appreciate California trying to tackle the problem. With hard work, the California example will help mitigate the problem and raise understanding of how to make it work.
Ask GWBush if he still believes it is a fallacy.
But tey don't CLAIM to be using it for class to class attendance. Fry it, then wear it around.... Staff is probably more concerned because it IS a "security risk" to have people running around that don't belong. My local high school had an issue with a 20-something lurking around and ended up in the girls' locker room. Since then, everybody without a lanyard getsstopped and questioned by ANY faculty roaming the halls... Not just "hall monitors".
As an IT person, I'm plain skeptical about the tracking stuff anyway. I'd be 100% certain that nobody in IT is watching this, and nobody in security is watching either. They might have a screen with the little dots moving around, they might pull reports... I doubt the accuracy of any place not staffing 2-3 full time staff on this.
My grandkids attend a mixed public grade-high school. At 8:15am, the doors lock (outside only), and cameras are on. Any parent or guardian or student arriving late has to ring the doorbell, be recognized, or mention who he or she is and then present himself at the Principal office. No adult can wander the corridors unaccompanied.
I tested the security, and it is very good. I was challenged, I was recognized and even so, I was not allowed to take my grandchild out from the classroom, because my daughter had forgotten to give the office a permission slip naming me the one for this specific visit. (Kid had a dental appointment). Two phone calls clarified the situation, and my granddaughter was waiting. She too was asked, "Is this your grandfather?"
The school has many children, and these youngsters have working parents. Security is not a joking matter.
So she can be marked as absent when she's actually in school? Great solution. Better to pursue the lawsuit.
Or borrow a few badges from friends and allow friends to go to the coffee shop for the afternoon, or just not attend school. You can assume many persons and personalities.
What's so surprising is that the current crop of intelligent people have actually succumbed to the bullies by the inferiority complex sufferers.
I too, and many like me in my generation, and those before me, had gone through the gauntlet of taunts and shovings and beatings, just because we think differently.
Those that bullied us bullied us because they felt inferior. They INSTINCTIVELY KNEW that they are inferior, but their ego just won't that happened.
It's their internal struggles - ego versus instinct - that promoted some of them to act out in violence.
As I said, I too got beaten up just because I ain't one of them, but so what?
Why should I hide my own self just because someone else don't like who I am?
Hey, I am born into this world not because I am destined to follow dumbasses. I am born into this world to do what I must do - that is, to be myself.
Yes, I got beaten up, but that didn't affect my determination to be my own self, not even a bit.
I hold my head high because I know that I am not guilty of anything. The guilty party is THEM, not me.
I too was bright, but I became bored with the grinding that the teacher had to dish out. Highschool was such a painful experience. At least two days a week, I was absent as I went to different movie houses. I saw more movies in my last two years of high school to last 10 years beyond.
Large businesses are recording record profits (record for the 5-7 years, anyway) and aren't hiring. If people don't have jobs, people can't buy shit. If the so-called 'job creators' were actually creating jobs, instead of continuing to lay people off while raking in bonuses for improving the company's bottom line, the recession would be over.
The future manufacturing for large organizations will be done with robots. Much of electronic and vehicle manufacturing in Asia is already done with robots. The same is already in place for the food industry. A robot can do the work of many workers, and can do it flawlessly. So... big business will install robots, and bring the manufacturing back to the USA, and yes, a few jobs will be created. The world will do manufacturing where there are mineral resources, and the rest of the world will be a creating jobs in services. There will always be a need for talent. But realize, automation of the worker also reduces demands for workers.
That is why I believe the future is with small business. Just go give you an idea of small businesses, an electrician in my municipality was hired to repair street lights (bulb changes, photocell relays, and more). He invested in a Cherry Picker, and became a contractor for our municipality and for two others around the metropolis. Now, he has three trucks, a good revenue stream and the municipalities are saving money and giving good service to their residents.
Small business is the future.
2 hours?! For us, east coasters, 2 hours don't make any difference... for others will be too... soon enough...
And you can't use it in an off-grid solar setup - there aren't many charge/discharge cycles left...
It's difficult to read your post and understand what you are trying to convey; but I am assuming that you're talking about Hurricane Sandy based on your reference to the East Coast. This is not for that.
In a warm climate, the battery solution is fine. It would be used to power lights, refrigerator, and a few small appliances.
It really looks like it has future.
Yep, at SAP they probably want someone cheap and with no experience that will do low-tech drudge work without complaining. But are you ever going to see someone designing the next NASA exploration vehicle asking for twenty year olds, or do you want your medical devices to be designed by the cheapest programmers? Hell, I don't even want someone called a "techie" to be working on machines that keep me alive.
Regarding marketing ...
In the old IBM mainframe days we said of a vendor..
You can always find better, but you can't pay more.
The same is true for ERP system vendors today.
He will be forty one day too...
And that is when he will stop wanting to work 12 hour days, 5 days per week. At 40 he may have teenage kids at home.
or kids just to become teens.
When I was 20, working to 3am on a bit of code I loved, was a reward for my ego. Today, it is a punishment.
Thats for lines of code, but when you look at architecture, clean code design, reuse of code, and bug-free, upgradeable code, foget the 20 year old. He is full of theory, but lacks real production hands-on situations.
I have 3 times actually seen a cop driving in a car talking on their cell phone, despite a law here banning using a cell while driving. I even managed to get a video of it one of the times. I think the reason respect for cops has decreased so much over the last couple decades is that people are realizing they are hypocritical, power drunk assholes, and not just a few 'bad apples, but the majority of them.
In my city, the cops have junior college deplomas in criminology. The more recent graduates have bachelor degrees in criminology and cyberfraud. They train with "incase" and other software tools, they learn law, as required. The driving of the beat is a step forward to forensics, or other crime investigation careers. A few of our policewomen and policemen have mba and/or law degrees. Read where I am from.
No shit.
Some people still have their heads so far up his ass, reveling in the smell of "hope".
As far as I am concerned Obama is a traitor in every way possible by not coming through on his promises, and basically doing everything he can to destroy freedoms and turn us into a police state.
No, ObamaCare does not make up for it, nor has anything else he has done make up for it either.
The only thing more disgusting is the fact Romney would have been far worse.
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Please answer this question. You want jobs to be created. Do you believe the wealthy are going to do it? Who are the customers going to be? Step out of the cacoon and look around the world. There is a major recession out there, and there is no money to buy USA goods, or even China's goods. China is crying because there is a recession, and the USA is suffering and crying because there are no customers. If you have no customers, what jobs can you create? Can you survive if your only customers are your fellow Americans who are as broke as you?
Small business creation is the way the economy is going to recover. Small business starts small, employs one or two, and takes a few years to grow. A restart of the economy takes a few years (at least 10) to recover.
So, who started the global recession? Please research this and come back to Slashdot with your answer. It started in 2000, after the minor boom to convert computer systems from 2 digit years to 4 digit years and to implement major ERP systems.
If the USA was being attacked with rockets from Cuba, and finally, after 700 of them you decide "enough is enough" and you attack the leader of the group, and you bomb the missile sites, after dropping 1.5 milion leaflets to tell people to move away from the rocket sites, what do you do. You do what Israel has done.
So you'd rather have 2500 psychopathic children free to roam the streets of your town, and potentially grow up to commit more horrible crimes than they have already been convicted of doing?
The rest of the world appears to manage. And with every other country having a much lower adult prison population too, I can't see the American policy having solved a lot of the problem with adult crimes?
At the risk of being modded into oblivion I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest you may be a moslem shill. I say this because of the statistically young age of suicide bombers and the high probability they suffer from a severe pathology.
I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but I'm a white freethinker with no sympathy for absurd nonsense like religion and dogmatism, on either side.
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When are children able to be non-impulsive? Children learn to manage rage and anger by following their parents and peers.
So, if children murder, it is probably because the gun was left in the house within reach, and it was loaded. Only in the USA is it necessary to have a gun in your truck or van. (Well perhaps as well, if you live in some Latin American countries).
I am surprised that someone hasn't stated that the other countries execute children, and that is why the number is at zero.
I usually download DVD images of Linux distributions as evaluation copies. If it is midnight, (GMT-5), I will start a torrent for a distribution and go to bed. My ISP does not support high upload rates, so throttling is more or less done by the system. During the day, I will use wget and a mirror website to download my favorite distribution. Since I am in North America, if I can, I choose a mirror that is in Europe. Midnight there, is 6pm here in Montreal. At midnight their system us is low, and ours is moderate. I have rarely run into medium to severe throttling.
Oh man, where to begin with a post like this...
First of all, it has been my experience that, as ESL speakers, Indians are among the most fluent in the world. It seems to me that they take great care to learn and use English well, unlike the stumbling parody you provided. No doubt a consequence of British colonialism, but perhaps a happy one.
Second, it is my opinion that the English language is very much enriched by hearing it spoken in so many fascinating accents. Let's face it: every one of us has an accent that sounds "funny" to more than one other culture in the world. We can giggle now and then about how weird we sound to each other, but let's keep it at a good-natured level.
Third, learning a second language is difficult. Those who speak something other than English as a second language are all-too-well aware of the challenge. Just imagine how you would sound trying to order a meal in a foreign land. Probably much worse than the example you gave. And yet you just might find that the server is pleased at your effort.
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I moved from English Canada to a bilingual but mainly French Quebec Province in 1985 (at age 45). I could have continued in English, but chose to integrate myself into the majority community. The first few things I did were:
a) Block all English Newspapers, Radio, Television in the house.
b) Take two basic French courses.
c) Select easy to read French textbooks and story books and read them
d) Even reprogram the car radio to only tune to French stations (sports, news, music).
e) Buy a set of French grammar books (Bescherelle verb conjugation book and a pocket dictionary)
I kept this up for two years, when one morning, while driving the car and listening to the radio, the French announcer cracked a joke, and I started to laugh. Suddenly I exclaimed "I arrived, I am bilingual". The next day, English was again welcome in the house.
Surprisingly, my English vocabulary was significantly increased because of foreign words and French idioms. My English writing became more precise, my tolerance for all other languages increased substantially, as did my caring for other people.
I am currently fluent in English, French and am getting there with Spanish. Now I read and write all three, as do my kids. My grandchildren studied in French Immersion in public school (French only until grade 4), and are now (grade 5) studying in English with French continuing as a second language. Gym and sports and lunch hours are a mixture of both languages, and the grandkids know the differences. And compared to me at their age, they have richer vocabularies and very good analytical skills. They switch from English to French without stumbling.
We admire the number of doctorates and highly intelligent people from India and European countries. They are no more intelligent than Americans, but because of multilingualism, they are better at thinking out of the box. And where a very few Americans are the Archie Bunkers of the USA, India has it's own.
This is my success story with languages. Disassociate from intolerant people.
Like Office 2010?
I use office 2007, and even switch to 2003 from time to time.
The only people using mail anymore are junk mailers. And they get an ENORMOUS discount to send out thousands of flyers and coupons. So let's raise our taxes even more to prop up a bunch of spammers. If you don't, the union gets angry and leans on politicians. That's just good policy.
Canada faced this problem 10 years ago. What Canada did was a) offer small businesses the opportunity to sell stamps and to collect parcel post or accept registered mail. Typically, independent pharmacies reserved a 10x10 corner of the store for the PO. Having the PO brought in extra business.
Merge distribution centers. Build a large sorting center with modern machinery, and transfer mail to the regional centers. Stop door to door delivery. (Street corners have mailbox clusters, with one dropoff slot and individual boxes per resident.
Give early retirement incentives to the age 60+ employees. Work with UPS and FEDEX on sharing airline routes for parcel handling.
Allow postmen/postwomen to distribute flyers, with direct pay to these individuals from the flyer publishers.
Review and adjust postal rates.
Not being in that postal delivery business, I am mentioning what I saw and see. I am no expert. Perhaps the postal service has already done those things.
Or a long series of unions taking a bigger and bigger piece of the pie till not enough was left to run the business on.
Your point of view is directly contradicted by reality, as the average American wage has stayed mostly flat since the late 60s and union membership has never been lower.
The claim that if unions went away today those laws would go away is totally wrong. That is what many people think. If unions would go away, companies would force their workers to work 20 hours a day 7 days a week for 30 hours of pay at a really low rate. Their pensions would go away. That is not going to happen. Unions keep on repeating this to get people to vote the union way.
The economy has grown in leaps and bounds since [arbitrary date], the stock market is higher than ever, unions are weaker than ever,
pensions are almost entirely nonexistent, and out of all that wealth... workers have been paid just enough to keep up with inflation.
Oh yea, worker productivity has almost doubled over the same period of time and black lung is making a comeback in amongst coal miners.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark and it ain't the unions.
Up until the Regan era, there was a very strong need for unions. Unions were there to insure workers were protected by forced safety standards, by insuring reasonable salaries, and by taking a strong cut out of union wages to pay for union management (leaders). With universal health care, and the global economy, global unions are a unnecessary overhead. Unions should be worker committees, and these committees should have shares in the company. If the company does poorly the shares do poorly, and if the company does well, the shares do well. Worker committees owning shares forces a balance between what the company can share as benefits and what it needs to survive. A job at 20% pay reduction is better than no job at all, and a job where the worker committees expenses are covered by dividends is a win-win-win.
Perhaps I am being overly simplistic about the non-need for international unions.
Bullshit. I have been involved in dozens of ERP implementations over the years. The software works. When implementations fail it is always, in my experience, because of the people (i.e. management) making the decisions on how to implement the product.
Me: "Let me show you how Product X handles Accounts Payable"
Client: "That's not how we do it"
Me: "This might be a good opportunity to take a look at your current business practices and see if they can be done in a more efficient way"
Client: "But we've always done it this way"
Me: "Why?"
Client "Dunno...just always have. And I doubt that the team is willing to change"
Me: "Ok, we can customize the product to make it work the way you want but it's going to take more time and money. And when you do an upgrade later on there will be implications as well"
Client: "Fine. Just make it work the way we do it now"
And so it goes. Time and again I see clients go out and buy an expensive ERP system only to customize the bejezus out of it to make it look exactly like the systems they are retiring. They are not open to better business practices. Too many political headwinds.
What does this say about these clowns in the Air Force? It takes them 10 years and $1.03B to realize that the project is going to fail? On an original budget of $88M? One of the big problems with trying to shoehorn a best practice ERP system into a large government institution is that often they employ worst practices. They won't, or can't, change them so you have to end up rewriting the product to fit their ass backwards ways. The whole purpose of implementing an ERP system is to replace aging, stove-piped systems with modern integrated systems. It can work well if it's implemented properly and the right decisions are made along the way. But it's not a magic pill.
The reason for overruns is simple. They are not spending their own money.
Oh wow, it gets worse. Oracle won this with a $88.5 million bid; what the hell took the Air Force so long to pull the plug with that kind of overrun?
The reason it took long may have something to do with free golf trips, paid vacations, gifts exceeding 10,000 dollars, etc., otherwise known as schmire.
And our "ally" Israel has launched terrorist attacks against Americans on US soil, attempted to bomb the offices of a Muslim US senator, has repeated been caught carrying out espionage against our intel agencies and businesses, deliberately feeds false intel to the State department, sells weapons to our enemies, sells our military technology to China, attempted to bomb the Mexican parliament, and boasts about carrying out false flag terrorist attacks so that the US will retaliate against their enemies for them. Hopefully Netenyahu shot himself in the foot with his open endorsement of Romney.
Netenyahu and Romney knew each other before Obama was elected. Netenyahu wants a partner to go in with Israel and bomb Iran. Obama wants financial(political) pressure, because, the US government is virtually bankrupt. (The people are not bankrupt, but the government is on the precipice of a run on the money by all foreign countries. )
Hey!
Microsoft will sell to "Enterprise".
GM will ALWAYS fleet cars.
They just won't make a sedan you'd buy, yourself. Mazda and VW will trounce the value/dollar every day of the week.
Enterprises will not be buying W8. They took years to move from XP to W7. They will stay with W7 because the hardware they just installed a year ago has 9 more years of life. And since most software is using browsers as an interface, there will be no need to continue with Windows.
LibreOffice and OpenOffice can both read and write MS Office files. Ergo, time to move forward. MS will have to decide to continue supporting W7, or create a W8 that is fully compatible with W7. As far as I have read, W8 will require every software to be installed on it to be MS certified, or pass through the MS app store. This requirement is intolerable for enterprises.
You have to say, good customer service. At least they didn't say the users were just doing it wrong.
New products have teething problems. Issues such as this (remember the cracked glass issue with Apple) will be resolved. That is one reason why I never want to be first in. The second is that you pay more for being first, a reward for your obsession.
Mint vs KDE.
Which can run with lower overhead. I tried Fedora 17 with KDE on my netbook. I found the system very very sluggish. I switched to Gnome 3.x and the system came alive. My Netbook is a dual core atom, 1 gig ram and 512 gig disk. I believe KDE requires too much memory for a 1gig system. I have not tried mint on the netbook, so in all fairness, Mint is probably A#1 for the Netbook too
Rather than applying for a full-time position, have you considered forming your own independent consulting business? You would have to leverage your contacts in the industry, but there is a massive difference in the culture between hiring a 60-year-old technical lead and hiring a 60-year-old's consulting business. Vendor management contacts just won't care, in my opinion, if you're professional and can get results.
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I formed my own consulting company and contacted many Head Hunters with my credentials and information. You would want to be incorporated, rather than just a registered one. Research why incorporation is better for you.