Have you any idea how many US cities and counties, let alone states, have Native American names already? Alaska (through Russian), Arizona (through Spanish), Hawaii, Idaho (disputed), Illinois (through French), Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan (through French), Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Wisconsin, and Wyoming are all derived from Native American words in some form or another. That's almost 40% of the states.
You forgot New Mexico, Montana, North and South Dakota, Ohio, Nevada, and Texas (through Spanish). And, basically all states have towns, rivers, mountains or other places that all come from Native American origins.
Actually, a similar system seems to work ok for the Catholic Church, which could be considered as a non-geographically oriented political entity, complete with it's own laws, court system, a voluntary constituency which also funds it's operations voluntarily through their own contributions. Not shabby, especially when you consider it's lasted for 2000 years, which is longer than any government has.
I explain it the way that I just did. With the possible exception of 1996, the GOP did not field anybody even remotely palatable to the voters there. And they've been getting more and more extreme since then.
Maybe, instead of being an Anonymous Coward you should run for office in WA? Just a logical conclusion to your illogical argument.
At my repair shop, I have a $1 contact-break alarm system on my back door. As soon as it goes off, 100 dB alarm in your face and it's rather difficult to disable without knowing how it works. Not many people would say "well, that alarm is blasting but let's keep robbing it." They just run.
I can't believe modern people are still stupider than medieval people. This is pure castle theory. You don't build tons and tons and tons of defense like walls and locks and moats and then just leave it. Persistent threats will find a way in. What did rich people and kings do? Set traps. Make it look somewhat secure but then oops, you stepped on the wrong rock. Now there's spikes in your face. Or you pick a lock on the treasure chest and it released poison gas because the treasure chest is actually backwards and the real lock is on the back.
Bars on the windows are nothing. They'll just bring a crow bar. The "low hanging fruit" theory about which stores get robbed do not apply here. But add traps aka window break alarms and make sure the "Protected by alarms" and red blinking lights are showing and a thief would have no idea what trap they're about to fall into and would stay away.
All that is cool and James Bond-y, but if it's an inside job and they know police response times, your "traps", etc. it's all for naught. Determine the cause/source of the crimes and THEN apply your silly castle theory. Also, local laws might prevent you from making "traps", so checking with a police officer first would be a good idea. Don't want your security theatre turning into a lawsuit against you because you maimed a burglar.
Dogs work well. But, housing and caring for dogs in a downtown business district can create a lot of headaches, too. Not to mention, that well trained security dogs are expensive, and poorly trained dogs are a liability. Be prepared to spend not less than twelve hours per week with a pair of dogs - time that many businessmen don't have.
In short, I wouldn't recommend dogs to anyone who didn't
A: think of it themselves
B: actually likes dogs (preferably loves dogs)
C: have a close by exercise yard
D: have plenty of time to work with the dogs
Does the same apply to night watchmen? [giggle] I ask because a night watchmen might be about the same annualized cost as keeping a dog. And, I also like the questions in posts above about why this place being hit so much and is it an inside (or ex-employee) job. Too many questions about why and how these crimes keep happening to really provide a good answer to the security question, but low tech is where you should start; including introspection and asking yourself why this is happening!
Yes, I end up doing this once in a while. I also use R, Perl, PHP, or even bash to process some data. However, in some cases it is handy to have a view of the data while you're processing it.
For instance, suppose you need to run a regexp function over the 12nd column of a matrix; usually I save data as a CSV, cat file.csv | perl -ne '@a=split/,/; $tmp = $a[11];.... ' > new_file.csv, load the new CSV, check for errors, debug, repeat... sometimes is just a one-time task I need to do.
OMG! Why did you even ask? And, if you're debugging why write to a file when you can just dump to standard output and pipe it to 'more', check the results and if it's correct write it to file? You make my brain hurt.
With [insert programming language of your choice here] you don't need spread sheets! What kind of programmer worth a thimble full of goat piss uses Excel to do much of anything important anyway?!?! I'm not a programmer and would use Perl, Python or [gasp] PHP to do anything I want with tabular, comma separated values. It just isn't that hard. Excel was made for people who can't program. If you can write code you don't NEED Excel. [shakes head in disgust]
When you say mainframe without protected memory are you talking about hardware made last week or mid- to late-last century? I ask because if the hardware is THAT old it could probably be replaced by a mini-ATX system or Raspberry Pi and all the C in the world would run on it. It makes no sense to me that corporations would actually buy something new (made last week) that would HAVE to run COBOL because they didn't want to pay programmers the extra to convert that legacy code to run on more modern, protected memory systems. Now, I know it is probably happening, but WHY GOD WHY?!?!?! If it's the bottom line they are worried about they are doing more harm than good by perpetuating legacy code on legacy hardware. [shakes head in disbelief]
People like Rick Sanatorium are destroying this country and need to be run out.
Yeah, but where do we send them? The British kicked the Puritans out and sent them to America for this very reason, but there are no wilderness frontiers left unclaimed in the world... Wait, there's the Moon and Mars? But, why eff up a perfectly good planet with a bunch of hypocritical yabos?
teachers shall not question, survey, or otherwise influence student belief in a nonverifiable identity within a science course
They're supposed to be teaching the scientific method. ie: creating a hypothesis and proving or disproving it.. If you can't prove or disprove it, you've failed. Yet it is illegal for the teachers to mark it as wrong, since they can't question it?
So I could say elephants have a long nose because the flying spaghetti monster decried that it shall have a noodley appendage and I would be correct because I don't have to verify the identity of the flying spaghetti monster?
Strangely, I'm ok with that. It's at least non-hypocritical.
The cost of higher ed is due to government loan programs removing the market forces to hold the prices down.
-jcr
As someone that has worked in education for 20 years I can say this without hesitation. You are full of shit! The cost of higher education has gone up due to conservative budget cuts that ALWAYS target education and social services before any other cuts. Period. We are in our fifth straight year of budget cuts and tuition increases in Virginia because of the Repulitards constantly cutting education spending and forcing us to hike tuition to try and offset the losses. You don't know what you're talking about and should really do some homework before you form an opinion rather than being spoon fed one by people who do not have your best interests in mind when they tell you stupid stuff like that.
They'll just use their bible as their proof. "Look! It says it right there!"
I have a bunch of other books that say things, too. The printed word is NOT scientific fact. Reproducible, observable physical experiments define scientific fact. I want to see the one that proves God is real. That would be a hoot, and an historical first! Quick call Ripley's and Guiness!
It both makes it oh so obviously more legitimate and less pseudo science and also suggests we were created by aliens instead of god/gods/pigdemons/whateverotherrandombullshitpeoplearegullibleenoughtoswallow at the same time.
Leave it to a politician to explain how the IT field is going to disappear. "As we move toward the cloud and technology gets easier to use", and who supports these technologies Mr. Mayor?
No shit. This was a bit dumb too:
It's more efficient for those engineers and concerned citizens to take open government data and use it to build apps that serve a civic function
Oh, you mean like that newspaper in New York did posting the locations of everyone with a registered handgun? Yeah, that went over well! This guy is a COMPLETE idiot.
Ok, lets say this somehow actually works... you spell something wrong, while writing with a PEN... now what?
Damn, that was actually funnier than what I was thinking would happen if it did it to me. See, I'd throw the damn thing across the room and get a Pilot Precise back out and write for real. Boy would e. e. cummings HATE that thing! As someone that thinks negative feedback is the best teacher, this has got to be the lamest idea for teaching children (or adults) how to remember proper spelling and grammar. How is it any different than auto correct? Actually, I think it would be worse because it doesn't actually show you the correction. So, again it would be hurled at a wall in short order!
It's ironic — when Bill Gates agreed to port Office to the Mac nearly 20 years ago, it was seen as a lifeline for the beleaguered manufacturer. Now, Microsoft is knocking on the door of Apple's business and Cupertino seems disinclined to answer.
This conclusion absolutely does not follow from the sentence that came before it.
Not only that it's COMPLETELY wrong!
As pointed out below in the comments Office wasn't ported to the Mac for altruistic reasons, it was ported due to DOJ monopoly investigations
Uhhh, which company is beleaguered today???? Oh yeah, NEITHER!
"Prior to packaging its various office-type Macintosh software applications into Office, Microsoft released Mac versions of Word 1.0 in 1984, the first year of the Macintosh computer; Excel 1.0 in 1985; and PowerPoint 1.0 in 1987.[62] Microsoft does not include its Access database application in Office for Mac." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office#Macintosh_versions If I remember correctly the first all inclusive Office for the Mac as a bundle was in 1988. So, try more than 20 years of Office on the Mac, and it was written during Apple's hayday in the 1980s not the mid-1990s when Apple was "beleaguered".
Is there anyone in the/. editorial crew that was born before the CD? This whole article should never have made it to the page. It's just not in the slightest bit correct. I would assume it was written by someone that watches a lot of Faux (Fox) News. Disgraceful.
The PowerPoint before PowerPoint. Of course, I hate PowerPoint, but Harvard Graphics had a large impact on PCs as presentation tools or presentation creation tools. We printed a lot of them on acetate and used the slides on overhead projectors back then.
Then there's things like Digital Darkroom (which became Photoshop), WordPerfect (not-WYSIWYG), QuarkExpress(WYSIWYG) and PageMaker (WYSIWYG) desktop publishing applications. QuickTime Player 1.0 and Video for Windows for desktop digital video pioneering, heck, throw in Adobe Premiere 1.0 or Avid 1.0. There are a ton of packages we still use today that were revolutionary or pioneering tools when they were wee 1.0 programs that fit on a few floppy disks!
Yep. You're going to have to make a business case for what you want to do and show management what it will save in $$$ or change will come with much more pain, if at all. You are going to have to argue sensibly and make sense to them in a language that they understand. This should be at most two to three pages covering the nature of the problem, how it can be solved and a budget and/or cost comparison. You want to be coherent and concise without getting into too much detail and three pages is about as much as you can ask a high-level manager to read. You are talking about major process change within the structure of the company. You might think it's trivial (or not), but understanding as much as you can about what effect this has across the board (not just in the software you're writing) will help you make a better case for this kind of change. You will also need to appeal to the bottom line.
The difference is that, things you can effectively protest by physically being in a given space are effective for the reason that your presence blocks *other humans* from doing something. That is to say, there's an equality between what is being blocked and the means used to block it.
But in the case of pressing a refresh button: there is no human at the other end of the network whose work is blocked by you clicking refresh. Your protest is up against an automated process. When protesting by "occupying" a website, there is no longer a level of equality between the humans doing the protesting and the automated processes they're trying to obstruct. Using automated proceses for the protest levels the playing field.
See, I was wondering how they were going to draw a physical parallel to what they were doing that *WAS* a legal form of protest. The closest I could think of was a union mob blocking the entrance to a business, BUT that is illegal. You cannot legally protest by obstructing right of way (without a permit). Right of way also includes the entrance of a business to a road front in most states, for instance. So blocking where cars and trucks enter a property would be illegal. By blocking all/any IP traffic to a machine connected to the Internet wouldn't you be violating "virtual" rights of way and thereby be acting illegally in the same sense as the union mob?
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Have you any idea how many US cities and counties, let alone states, have Native American names already? Alaska (through Russian), Arizona (through Spanish), Hawaii, Idaho (disputed), Illinois (through French), Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan (through French), Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Wisconsin, and Wyoming are all derived from Native American words in some form or another. That's almost 40% of the states.
You forgot New Mexico, Montana, North and South Dakota, Ohio, Nevada, and Texas (through Spanish). And, basically all states have towns, rivers, mountains or other places that all come from Native American origins.
Actually, a similar system seems to work ok for the Catholic Church, which could be considered as a non-geographically oriented political entity, complete with it's own laws, court system, a voluntary constituency which also funds it's operations voluntarily through their own contributions. Not shabby, especially when you consider it's lasted for 2000 years, which is longer than any government has.
Oh, and lest us not forget committed some of the most heinous atrocities in Western civilization and corrupted more governments through threats of excommunication and just downright treachery than any other organization. That Catholic Church, you mean? Puh-lease!
I explain it the way that I just did. With the possible exception of 1996, the GOP did not field anybody even remotely palatable to the voters there. And they've been getting more and more extreme since then.
Maybe, instead of being an Anonymous Coward you should run for office in WA? Just a logical conclusion to your illogical argument.
At my repair shop, I have a $1 contact-break alarm system on my back door. As soon as it goes off, 100 dB alarm in your face and it's rather difficult to disable without knowing how it works. Not many people would say "well, that alarm is blasting but let's keep robbing it." They just run. I can't believe modern people are still stupider than medieval people. This is pure castle theory. You don't build tons and tons and tons of defense like walls and locks and moats and then just leave it. Persistent threats will find a way in. What did rich people and kings do? Set traps. Make it look somewhat secure but then oops, you stepped on the wrong rock. Now there's spikes in your face. Or you pick a lock on the treasure chest and it released poison gas because the treasure chest is actually backwards and the real lock is on the back. Bars on the windows are nothing. They'll just bring a crow bar. The "low hanging fruit" theory about which stores get robbed do not apply here. But add traps aka window break alarms and make sure the "Protected by alarms" and red blinking lights are showing and a thief would have no idea what trap they're about to fall into and would stay away.
All that is cool and James Bond-y, but if it's an inside job and they know police response times, your "traps", etc. it's all for naught. Determine the cause/source of the crimes and THEN apply your silly castle theory. Also, local laws might prevent you from making "traps", so checking with a police officer first would be a good idea. Don't want your security theatre turning into a lawsuit against you because you maimed a burglar.
Dogs work well. But, housing and caring for dogs in a downtown business district can create a lot of headaches, too. Not to mention, that well trained security dogs are expensive, and poorly trained dogs are a liability. Be prepared to spend not less than twelve hours per week with a pair of dogs - time that many businessmen don't have.
In short, I wouldn't recommend dogs to anyone who didn't A: think of it themselves B: actually likes dogs (preferably loves dogs) C: have a close by exercise yard D: have plenty of time to work with the dogs
Does the same apply to night watchmen? [giggle] I ask because a night watchmen might be about the same annualized cost as keeping a dog. And, I also like the questions in posts above about why this place being hit so much and is it an inside (or ex-employee) job. Too many questions about why and how these crimes keep happening to really provide a good answer to the security question, but low tech is where you should start; including introspection and asking yourself why this is happening!
Damn! Beat me by five minutes! But, yes, its been despised for as long as I can remember, and I've been hand coding HTML since 1993.
I can't say when there was a time when "venerable" would describe Internet Explorer. It's pretty much been despised its whole existence.
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Yes, I end up doing this once in a while. I also use R, Perl, PHP, or even bash to process some data. However, in some cases it is handy to have a view of the data while you're processing it.
For instance, suppose you need to run a regexp function over the 12nd column of a matrix; usually I save data as a CSV, cat file.csv | perl -ne '@a=split/,/; $tmp = $a[11]; .... ' > new_file.csv, load the new CSV, check for errors, debug, repeat... sometimes is just a one-time task I need to do.
OMG! Why did you even ask? And, if you're debugging why write to a file when you can just dump to standard output and pipe it to 'more', check the results and if it's correct write it to file? You make my brain hurt.
www.r-project.org/
With [insert programming language of your choice here] you don't need spread sheets! What kind of programmer worth a thimble full of goat piss uses Excel to do much of anything important anyway?!?! I'm not a programmer and would use Perl, Python or [gasp] PHP to do anything I want with tabular, comma separated values. It just isn't that hard. Excel was made for people who can't program. If you can write code you don't NEED Excel. [shakes head in disgust]
"Look, it tells time simultaneously in Monte Carlo, Beverly Hills, London, Paris, Rome, and Gstaad."
When you say mainframe without protected memory are you talking about hardware made last week or mid- to late-last century? I ask because if the hardware is THAT old it could probably be replaced by a mini-ATX system or Raspberry Pi and all the C in the world would run on it. It makes no sense to me that corporations would actually buy something new (made last week) that would HAVE to run COBOL because they didn't want to pay programmers the extra to convert that legacy code to run on more modern, protected memory systems. Now, I know it is probably happening, but WHY GOD WHY?!?!?! If it's the bottom line they are worried about they are doing more harm than good by perpetuating legacy code on legacy hardware. [shakes head in disbelief]
People like Rick Sanatorium are destroying this country and need to be run out.
Yeah, but where do we send them? The British kicked the Puritans out and sent them to America for this very reason, but there are no wilderness frontiers left unclaimed in the world... Wait, there's the Moon and Mars? But, why eff up a perfectly good planet with a bunch of hypocritical yabos?
teachers shall not question, survey, or otherwise influence student belief in a nonverifiable identity within a science course
They're supposed to be teaching the scientific method. ie: creating a hypothesis and proving or disproving it.. If you can't prove or disprove it, you've failed. Yet it is illegal for the teachers to mark it as wrong, since they can't question it?
So I could say elephants have a long nose because the flying spaghetti monster decried that it shall have a noodley appendage and I would be correct because I don't have to verify the identity of the flying spaghetti monster?
Strangely, I'm ok with that. It's at least non-hypocritical.
Wow, and your comments keep getting dumber and dumber. Wow, just wow.
The cost of higher ed is due to government loan programs removing the market forces to hold the prices down.
-jcr
As someone that has worked in education for 20 years I can say this without hesitation. You are full of shit! The cost of higher education has gone up due to conservative budget cuts that ALWAYS target education and social services before any other cuts. Period. We are in our fifth straight year of budget cuts and tuition increases in Virginia because of the Repulitards constantly cutting education spending and forcing us to hike tuition to try and offset the losses. You don't know what you're talking about and should really do some homework before you form an opinion rather than being spoon fed one by people who do not have your best interests in mind when they tell you stupid stuff like that.
They'll just use their bible as their proof. "Look! It says it right there!"
I have a bunch of other books that say things, too. The printed word is NOT scientific fact. Reproducible, observable physical experiments define scientific fact. I want to see the one that proves God is real. That would be a hoot, and an historical first! Quick call Ripley's and Guiness!
It both makes it oh so obviously more legitimate and less pseudo science and also suggests we were created by aliens instead of god/gods/pigdemons/whateverotherrandombullshitpeoplearegullibleenoughtoswallow at the same time.
How could you forget The Flying Spaghetti Monster!
...to the bottom.
No shit! And, Missouri, Kansas and Texas all seem to be neck-and-neck heading into the back stretch. Woooooo...what a race to stupid!
Leave it to a politician to explain how the IT field is going to disappear. "As we move toward the cloud and technology gets easier to use", and who supports these technologies Mr. Mayor?
No shit. This was a bit dumb too:
Oh, you mean like that newspaper in New York did posting the locations of everyone with a registered handgun? Yeah, that went over well! This guy is a COMPLETE idiot.
Ok, lets say this somehow actually works... you spell something wrong, while writing with a PEN... now what?
Damn, that was actually funnier than what I was thinking would happen if it did it to me. See, I'd throw the damn thing across the room and get a Pilot Precise back out and write for real. Boy would e. e. cummings HATE that thing! As someone that thinks negative feedback is the best teacher, this has got to be the lamest idea for teaching children (or adults) how to remember proper spelling and grammar. How is it any different than auto correct? Actually, I think it would be worse because it doesn't actually show you the correction. So, again it would be hurled at a wall in short order!
It's ironic — when Bill Gates agreed to port Office to the Mac nearly 20 years ago, it was seen as a lifeline for the beleaguered manufacturer. Now, Microsoft is knocking on the door of Apple's business and Cupertino seems disinclined to answer.
This conclusion absolutely does not follow from the sentence that came before it.
Not only that it's COMPLETELY wrong!
Is there anyone in the /. editorial crew that was born before the CD? This whole article should never have made it to the page. It's just not in the slightest bit correct. I would assume it was written by someone that watches a lot of Faux (Fox) News. Disgraceful.
you must be new here
Yeah, that's why his user number is less than 1 million. It's because he's new here. Cooney? Is that you? Tool!
The PowerPoint before PowerPoint. Of course, I hate PowerPoint, but Harvard Graphics had a large impact on PCs as presentation tools or presentation creation tools. We printed a lot of them on acetate and used the slides on overhead projectors back then.
Then there's things like Digital Darkroom (which became Photoshop), WordPerfect (not-WYSIWYG), QuarkExpress(WYSIWYG) and PageMaker (WYSIWYG) desktop publishing applications. QuickTime Player 1.0 and Video for Windows for desktop digital video pioneering, heck, throw in Adobe Premiere 1.0 or Avid 1.0. There are a ton of packages we still use today that were revolutionary or pioneering tools when they were wee 1.0 programs that fit on a few floppy disks!
Yep. You're going to have to make a business case for what you want to do and show management what it will save in $$$ or change will come with much more pain, if at all. You are going to have to argue sensibly and make sense to them in a language that they understand. This should be at most two to three pages covering the nature of the problem, how it can be solved and a budget and/or cost comparison. You want to be coherent and concise without getting into too much detail and three pages is about as much as you can ask a high-level manager to read. You are talking about major process change within the structure of the company. You might think it's trivial (or not), but understanding as much as you can about what effect this has across the board (not just in the software you're writing) will help you make a better case for this kind of change. You will also need to appeal to the bottom line.
The difference is that, things you can effectively protest by physically being in a given space are effective for the reason that your presence blocks *other humans* from doing something. That is to say, there's an equality between what is being blocked and the means used to block it.
But in the case of pressing a refresh button: there is no human at the other end of the network whose work is blocked by you clicking refresh. Your protest is up against an automated process. When protesting by "occupying" a website, there is no longer a level of equality between the humans doing the protesting and the automated processes they're trying to obstruct. Using automated proceses for the protest levels the playing field.
See, I was wondering how they were going to draw a physical parallel to what they were doing that *WAS* a legal form of protest. The closest I could think of was a union mob blocking the entrance to a business, BUT that is illegal. You cannot legally protest by obstructing right of way (without a permit). Right of way also includes the entrance of a business to a road front in most states, for instance. So blocking where cars and trucks enter a property would be illegal. By blocking all/any IP traffic to a machine connected to the Internet wouldn't you be violating "virtual" rights of way and thereby be acting illegally in the same sense as the union mob?