Haha - sure, then we'll throw a virgin in the volcano to appease the rain gods to return to our dry, partched southwest, and then hang giant, industrial sized skulls over the San Andreas fault to ward off "The Big One". Everyone knows disasters are sent by some god angry with the sins of humanity.
How many people do you know have a philosophy that takes into account the life left behind after they're gone, or 'life after death'? A space-faring civilization would have to be a multi-generational endeavor, where people plan ahead and work for events to take place long after they're gone, but the prevailing mode of thinking, that I can tell, is personally selfish, life for yourself, enjoy life all you can while your alive and let posterity fend for themselves. Heck, rack up a big debt and pass it on, who cares, I'll be dead then, haha. Even today we live with the selfish wrongs and debts passed down from the past, like slavery, while enjoying the fruits of those who worked for a better future. Working for a trans-personal goal like space travel smacks of some kind of religion, which, oddly enough, is obliterated by a naiev application of the science and technology that would make it possible, and makes us selfish and shortsighted, with science used for ego and hedonist ends and we end up living like animals in the crunch, instead of living up to out higher ideals.
If I change the oil in my car myself, every ~3000 miles, it costs me about $20. If I have to take it to Quicky Lube it's about $32 (plus they try to sell me a bunch of useless stuff). Obviously TCO of the same car varies depending on the expertise and willingness of the customer to crawl underneath and get dirty.
Similarly, if a customer has to hire someone to edit his inittab then it's probably going to cost more than a Windows jockey clicking on services attributes. Dunno, there's just too many indefinite variable to compare complex systems.
The ozone hole is caused by the effect of pollutants in the atmosphere destroying stratospheric ozone.
That's right, it's ALL 100% due to the misbehavior of humanity - it's has nothing whatsoever to due with there being 6 MONTHS OF DARKNESS WITH NO IONIZING SUNLIGHT </sarcasm>
You really have to admire the naivety of the blame us first crowd.
A bee's "corbiculae", or pollen-baskets, are located on its tibiae (midsegments of its legs). The phrase "the bee's knees", meaning "the height of excellence", became popular in the U.S. in the 1920s, along with "the cat's whiskers" (possibly from the use of these in radio crystal sets), "the cat's pajamas" (pyjamas were still new enough to be daring), and similar phrases which made less sense and didn't endure: "the eel's ankle", "the elephant's instep", "the snake's hip". Stories in circulation about the phrase's origin include: "b's and e's", short for "be-alls and end-alls"; and a corruption of "business".
A saying once was that a good advisor finds out what his boss wants to do, and advises him to do it. I've noticed a lot of PHB's just ask their crew what they think needs to be done, then tells them to do it.
And *never* "think out loud" to a PHB, as in enummerating a list of possibilities to check into - his little mind will just grasp onto the first one and decide that that's *it*, whether it actually is or not.
Yeah, it's like police departments and burgerly - you'd think after all these centuries the police would realise they can't stop house breakins and just give up already.
Just spotted on the register: "As usual, shipments of Linux servers grew fastest. The Penguin's presence swelled by 45 per cent in terms of revenue, outpacing the 14 per cent growth of Windows servers and the 3 per cent Unix server growth."
So the sellers are limiting supply to try to get a better price. They are free to do that. If I have widgets to sell and the market is glutted with cheap widgets I don't have to sell them - I can store them away and wait for better conditions. That's how self-correcting supply/demain is.
What the g-parent is saying that you don't necessarily have to pass off cost-savings to your customers. In fact, any business would love to cut their cost of production or labor but still charge the same prices, thereby getting a bigger profit margin. That's also why business loves to have a patented method of reducing costs that only they can use so a competitor won't come in and undercut their price and squeeze their nice fat profit margin.
It's just the payback for the closed source mindset: Mainframes are the biggest players of the secret info game: Pay me $10K and I'll tell you the answer, otherwise your payroll system won't work. Since the keepers of the secrets and the insider priests are dying off, so is the religion they use to control their customers. Meanwhile open systems are growing by leaps and bounds - not with the lush riches of a captive paying customer base but at least it will be around for a LONG time and pay enough to earn a living.
Inventor: Dear Mr/Ms Patent examiner, we are aware of the Wright Bros prior art in 'wing warping' as a means of dynamically changing flight characteristics and attaining control, but this invention is something completely new that we call, "Mission Adaptive Wing", plus it was developed over the Internet.
Patent Examiner: Well, in that case, patent granted! (stamp!).
My solution is, every 6 months or so, save the bookmarks.html somewhere with a date in the name and start over with a blank bookmarks.html. Then, if I need to find something old I just open up the old bookmarks_6_2003.html or whatever - the interesting thing is, it's like going back in time to review what I was interested in at the moment. Like if I was researching a lot on electric park flyer airplanes in 2003 it would have a lot of links. That way it's kinda like a scrapbook of your life - if your sorry life is spent browsing the web that is;)
is now accomplished by outsourcing engineering to India and manufacturing to China. IF the trend continues we'll end up a nation of international brokers and their support laborers (auto mechanics, maids, cooks, home repair, etc).
Of course such trends never continue indefinitely - it's just a leveling of inequalities left over from the WWII and cold war days. The US benefitted from an immigrant brain source once (Einstein, Von Braun, Tesla) - it could easily flow the other way if conditions here become too hostile or the grass looks greener elsewhere.
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Haha - sure, then we'll throw a virgin in the volcano to appease the rain gods to return to our dry, partched southwest, and then hang giant, industrial sized skulls over the San Andreas fault to ward off "The Big One". Everyone knows disasters are sent by some god angry with the sins of humanity.
If you don't read the EULA and agree to the TOS, they can't give you a COA and lower your TCO, then you'll be SOL.
so your work systems (well, if it wasn't a joke post) are kind of a real life corewar arena.
That exactly reflects my current thought - what with incompetetence having advanced all the way to the White House.
How many people do you know have a philosophy that takes into account the life left behind after they're gone, or 'life after death'? A space-faring civilization would have to be a multi-generational endeavor, where people plan ahead and work for events to take place long after they're gone, but the prevailing mode of thinking, that I can tell, is personally selfish, life for yourself, enjoy life all you can while your alive and let posterity fend for themselves. Heck, rack up a big debt and pass it on, who cares, I'll be dead then, haha. Even today we live with the selfish wrongs and debts passed down from the past, like slavery, while enjoying the fruits of those who worked for a better future. Working for a trans-personal goal like space travel smacks of some kind of religion, which, oddly enough, is obliterated by a naiev application of the science and technology that would make it possible, and makes us selfish and shortsighted, with science used for ego and hedonist ends and we end up living like animals in the crunch, instead of living up to out higher ideals.
If I change the oil in my car myself, every ~3000 miles, it costs me about $20. If I have to take it to Quicky Lube it's about $32 (plus they try to sell me a bunch of useless stuff). Obviously TCO of the same car varies depending on the expertise and willingness of the customer to crawl underneath and get dirty.
Similarly, if a customer has to hire someone to edit his inittab then it's probably going to cost more than a Windows jockey clicking on services attributes. Dunno, there's just too many indefinite variable to compare complex systems.
The ozone hole is caused by the effect of pollutants in the atmosphere destroying stratospheric ozone.
That's right, it's ALL 100% due to the misbehavior of humanity - it's has nothing whatsoever to due with there being 6 MONTHS OF DARKNESS WITH NO IONIZING SUNLIGHT </sarcasm>
You really have to admire the naivety of the blame us first crowd.
A bee's "corbiculae", or pollen-baskets, are located on its tibiae (midsegments of its legs). The phrase "the bee's knees", meaning "the height of excellence", became popular in the U.S. in the 1920s, along with "the cat's whiskers" (possibly from the use of these in radio crystal sets), "the cat's pajamas" (pyjamas were still new enough to be daring), and similar phrases which made less sense and didn't endure: "the eel's ankle", "the elephant's instep", "the snake's hip". Stories in circulation about the phrase's origin include: "b's and e's", short for "be-alls and end-alls"; and a corruption of "business".
Tough life - there's only 1 minute difference between (+5, Funny) and (1, Redundant).
Better luck next time.
Basically, call it Americas "chernobyl"
How about call it Americas' "Atlantis".
A saying once was that a good advisor finds out what his boss wants to do, and advises him to do it. I've noticed a lot of PHB's just ask their crew what they think needs to be done, then tells them to do it.
And *never* "think out loud" to a PHB, as in enummerating a list of possibilities to check into - his little mind will just grasp onto the first one and decide that that's *it*, whether it actually is or not.
Yeah, it's like police departments and burgerly - you'd think after all these centuries the police would realise they can't stop house breakins and just give up already.
At least they didn't call it "Hacking the Stomach".
"Powered by Linux"
Just spotted on the register: "As usual, shipments of Linux servers grew fastest. The Penguin's presence swelled by 45 per cent in terms of revenue, outpacing the 14 per cent growth of Windows servers and the 3 per cent Unix server growth."
So the sellers are limiting supply to try to get a better price. They are free to do that. If I have widgets to sell and the market is glutted with cheap widgets I don't have to sell them - I can store them away and wait for better conditions. That's how self-correcting supply/demain is.
What the g-parent is saying that you don't necessarily have to pass off cost-savings to your customers. In fact, any business would love to cut their cost of production or labor but still charge the same prices, thereby getting a bigger profit margin. That's also why business loves to have a patented method of reducing costs that only they can use so a competitor won't come in and undercut their price and squeeze their nice fat profit margin.
now were gonna need a STFU button on our browsers.
I have a fever, and more Cobol is the only cure.
It's just the payback for the closed source mindset: Mainframes are the biggest players of the secret info game: Pay me $10K and I'll tell you the answer, otherwise your payroll system won't work. Since the keepers of the secrets and the insider priests are dying off, so is the religion they use to control their customers. Meanwhile open systems are growing by leaps and bounds - not with the lush riches of a captive paying customer base but at least it will be around for a LONG time and pay enough to earn a living.
Why did my database stop working? D'oh! I forgot to pay my computer utility bill!! (smacks forhead).
Inventor: Dear Mr/Ms Patent examiner, we are aware of the Wright Bros prior art in 'wing warping' as a means of dynamically changing flight characteristics and attaining control, but this invention is something completely new that we call, "Mission Adaptive Wing", plus it was developed over the Internet.
Patent Examiner: Well, in that case, patent granted! (stamp!).
My solution is, every 6 months or so, save the bookmarks.html somewhere with a date in the name and start over with a blank bookmarks.html. Then, if I need to find something old I just open up the old bookmarks_6_2003.html or whatever - the interesting thing is, it's like going back in time to review what I was interested in at the moment. Like if I was researching a lot on electric park flyer airplanes in 2003 it would have a lot of links. That way it's kinda like a scrapbook of your life - if your sorry life is spent browsing the web that is ;)
The Arab world ... they invented the zero
Good lord, now we're going to be hearing all sorts of good things about Arabia these days. In fact, the concept of the zero took place in India between the first and fifth centuries A.D. It was during that time in India that the zero was discovered and the system of place-value numeration was developed
We generally credit al-gebra to Arabia, but they fell behind when the Germans and English developed the Calculus.
is now accomplished by outsourcing engineering to India and manufacturing to China. IF the trend continues we'll end up a nation of international brokers and their support laborers (auto mechanics, maids, cooks, home repair, etc).
Of course such trends never continue indefinitely - it's just a leveling of inequalities left over from the WWII and cold war days. The US benefitted from an immigrant brain source once (Einstein, Von Braun, Tesla) - it could easily flow the other way if conditions here become too hostile or the grass looks greener elsewhere.
Click on the 1st photo, the 'Magic' table, and see one right away and another one, uh, doing something with her nose.
Unless you work for AOL - then it's a 300 hour work week.