Note how many kids are being babysat by a DVD player in their parents cars -they are not really watching it in depth, but it is just on and it occupies some of their attention without really engaging them.
I think this hurts the ability to concentrate fully on anything when they get in the classroom for instance.
My sister teaches preschool and that is her observation.
A canadian animation that took place initially inside of a game console, although the second series also included the internet. A bit like Tron, but with a richer world inside the computer hardware.
Bob the guardian, his girlfriend Dot and the great villains Megabyte and Hexadecimal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReBoot
Actually it looks like they are reviving it already, so -asked and answered as they say.
I know you're being sarcastic, but apart from the fact that much of what has been extracted from the ground already has gone up in smoke....
What's remains in the ground is going to require increasing energy (and associated pollution) or will be in inconvenient or pristine areas.
Take a look at the environmental impact of mining and extracting Alberta's oil sands for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athabasca_Oil_Sands
for a similar case in point -by the end of the CA gold rush they were making huge cyanide leaches to extract miniscule amounts of gold from ore that had to be pounded into dust. those companies then all folded leaving CA and Nevada (mostly) with these Superfund-type sites (except no one will ever pay to have them cleaned up)
Although I hadn't posted a resume for at least 3 or 4 years, until quite recently I was still getting hits for ridiculous jobs thanks to idiot headhunters.
No I don't want to relocate from N California to West Virginia or Oklahoma for a 6 month contract......that only pays $20/hr
Just because I worked on a Broadvision WebPortal for Nortel does not mean that I am a Nortel Certified Hardware technician.
Although I had worked peripherally as a tester on Peoplesoft project I got a lot of hardcore Peoplesoft developer offers as well.
and something on my resume must have indicated build/release experience, because I got a lot of calls for release/build engineering too. Fortunately I had already found a good job as a test engineer/tech writer/dev support.
A lot of corporations and government agencies still specify IE6
as others have said, this will help give access to newer technologies/websites to people whose organizations (or grandmothers) are stuck on old, crufty tech.
however -I wonder if it will still present an IE6 app string to those websites/apps that require it???
I ran up a $1300 data bill through AT&T because I was doing client/server testing over 2 nights in Banff, Canada using my moto Vphone as a tether to a laptop.
apparently my 'International Roaming' service didn't include data usage, so Rogers really 'rogered' me on that one.
Fortunately my employer reimbursed me, but in retrospect, next time I will pay the $20 to use the hotel's wifi!
Used Firefox on this XP machine for years, accepting all the upgrades and now Firefox crashes hard when started. Tried reinstalling, removing toolbar, etc, but the goggles, zey do nothing...
I suppose I could revert to 3.0, but meh -I just installed Chrome instead.
We are using both ocsinventory and openNMS and they both seem to have their advantages
OCS seems to be superior for pure inventory -ie CPUs, RAM, NIC, and HW and has a cleaner interface.
NMS has more active agent-based monitoring (extensible via SNMP) and is really good at tracking connectivity/downtime by NIC and also network stats such as packet stats over time, etc. and has decent time sequence graphs out of the box.
they are both open source and seem to have their different strengths, so try 'em both out and see what works
There may be more functional overlap than what I have indicated above, but this is based on the way we have used them
Although I don't doubt that there are political reasons for having some Tesla mfg in the US (not to mention tariffs, etc) there are also some practical ones:
1) You can't just take some laid off Mexican auto assemblers from an old GM plant, put them in a new building and tell them to start making Electric car drivetrains -there are probably entirely new process steps (not to mention components) which would make this a non-starter 2) they probably need to tweak that process as well as being able to introduce changes in parts as the design is tested and improved
therefore it makes sense for the factory to be close to where design/engineering takes place -not to mention that there is also a highly trained, technologically able workforce in the Bay Area.
Also, thanks to Hitech, Lockheed, Lawrence Livermore Labs, etc there are a great many machine tooling shops in the area which are second to none.
Think of this as a pilot mfg plant -they will no doubt try to go somewhere cheaper when it comes time to produce quantities in the 100ks
On the other hand, we have the only large scale auto manufacturing plant left on the West Coast just down the street from me: http://www.nummi.com/ , so stranger things have happened.
Housing is considerably cheaper in other parts of the Bay Area than the peninsula in general and SF in particular although there are also some pricey areas in the South Bay as well -Los Altos, Saratoga, Cupertino and Los Gatos among others.
but ~450k median housing price is way more reasonable than the 600k+ median of a few years ago http://www.mercurynews.com/realestatenews/ci_12578838
wheras SF is considered to be a Buyer's market now because the median home price has dropped to a mere $950k http://www.altosresearch.com/research/CA/SAN+FRANCISCO
ever since the.com boom young professionals have flocked to SF driving out older and low income residents
as others have stated before there are literally hundreds of firms with IT needs here in Santa Clara and the other counties that ring the bay -but not so many in Oakland or SF -although Pixar is in Emeryville and Genentech and other Biotechs are in S San Francisco
The problem in San Jose is that almost all the hitech jobs are up by the Bay (where it stays cool) in N San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale and Mtn View and most of the affordable housing is in the East and South Valley -which is why 101 237 and 880 are all parking lots going one direction each workday.
Radiohead spend $100k in the studio to record 4 really cool songs that they wrote over a several weeks at a rehearsal studio -they put them on their server and consumers pay to download it -Radiohead can keep making new music because they can keep paying for their rehearsal studio, engineer, etc
Radiohead's 4 really cool songs are pirated and they don't get as much money for rehearsals and recording due to that lost revenue and Thom gets crabby and writes less
This is the cost of piracy to the artist (not counting music conpany ripoffs, etc)
variation of the mask example:
Radiohead's 4 really cool songs are heard by some other musician and they are inspired to (choose one)
a) record their own version of those songs b) write their own new songs inspired or influenced by those really cool Radiohead songs
in the case of A they will be hammered by ASCAP or Harry Fox unless they pay mechanical and songwriter royalties
That is the true version of the mask making analogy when applied to music -unless the mask copier had a replicator. The kids pirating music are not creating anything new and piracy does lead to (some) loss of income to the rightful producer. If art is about the exchange of ideas, free or non-free, the important thing is that other artists can get ideas from listening to others, not from copying them directly.
In the case of the masks it is more likely that the mask copied would only be similar, not exactly the same, so it would be more 'in the style of' or 'inspired by' rahter than a stroke for stroke copy.
At any rate, PP is using the disengenous and disproven 'information wants to be free' meme without considering that without some compensation/recognition or the hope of the same there is a loss of artists participation
Not to mention 'alternative' non-commercial, non-NPR radio.
Here in the SF Bay area we have: KKUP -Cupertino hippie station KPOO -independent black SF station KPFA -Pacifica Free Radio
and the following AWESOME college stations KALX -Berkely KZSU -Stanford KSCU -Santa Clara university KSJS -San Jose State KFJC -Foothill College -the wave of the west KZSC -Santa Cruz
and the former KFAT -now kpig.com from FREEDOM CA
plus the trades follow college playlists -that's how bands like Vampire Weekend and REM get discovered
The college stations also provide a place for genre music like hardcore, surf music, reggae, electronica, etc
-I'm just sayin -because I listen to the radio A LOT and when I get bored with Live105, KFOG, Alice, whatever I have a lot of great choices
My Mum was once ordered OFF Highway 17 in N CA by a CHP patrol car because she was going too slow...
and this wasn't due to old age or anything -it happened about 30 years ago when she was in her 30s or 40s. She mostly keeps off the Freeway these days...
as you can see from the pictures of the massive heatsink (covers the entire board) this is NOT a low power device
and until there is a market for laptop gamers wanting 60fps and millions of polygons specialized cards/chips like this will be found only on render farms, gamer desktop rigs and graphics workstations -which is their intended market anyway
you generally do not get high performance with an economical product, so, for my car analogy I will say that a Pontiac Vibe that gets 35 miles to the gallon is not going to beat a Mustang V8 off the line....
...they are also telling Intel what they can and can't do outside their borders. Maybe the DOJ does the same thing, but that's the only issue I have with it.
Well, the US does forbid US firms to engage in bribery in other countries (even if is SOP in those places)
Sun was just reported as admitting they may be in trouble over this.
Of course, the next question might be -why isn't the US also going after Intel for bribery in the EU? -unless that would constitute double jeapordy or something....but the US has a pretty miserable record of prosecuting market abusers these days...
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also, the lack of engagement.
Note how many kids are being babysat by a DVD player in their parents cars -they are not really watching it in depth, but it is just on and it occupies some of their attention without really engaging them.
I think this hurts the ability to concentrate fully on anything when they get in the classroom for instance.
My sister teaches preschool and that is her observation.
-I'm just sayin'
A canadian animation that took place initially inside of a game console, although the second series also included the internet. A bit like Tron, but with a richer world inside the computer hardware.
Bob the guardian, his girlfriend Dot and the great villains Megabyte and Hexadecimal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReBoot
Actually it looks like they are reviving it already, so -asked and answered as they say.
-I'm just sayin'
works pretty good for us -although it's not FOSS or anything
http://www.seapine.com/
priced pretty reasonable compared to Clearquest and other 'complete' software lifecycle/reqs packages
-I'm just sayin'
How will the customers even notice when they already have such spotty service?
My Music studio is in an industrial area of san jose, ca
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=uVf&ei=vjYpS6mSA9OvsAbQyq2wDQ&sa=X&oi=spellfullpage&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=2&ved=0CAcQvwUoAQ&&q=495+e+brokaw+rd+san+jose,+ca&spell=1
and I have to walk 100 yards out to the street before I get a signal back -and even then I have to power cycle my Blackjack2 first.
-I'm just sayin'
n.b for those few unititiated to the Illuminati. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati_(game)
or World Finance History, 'the gnomes' is a reference to the legendary gnomes of zurich
http://www.investorwords.com/7929/Gnomes_of_Zurich.html
who are losing their invisibility piece by piece:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10559415&pnum=1
-I'm just sayin'
oblig Futurama:
Have you ever thought about just turning off the tv...Sitting down with your children...and hitting them?" Bender Bending Rodriguez
-I'm just sayin'
I know you're being sarcastic, but apart from the fact that much of what has been extracted from the ground already has gone up in smoke....
What's remains in the ground is going to require increasing energy (and associated pollution) or will be in inconvenient or pristine areas.
Take a look at the environmental impact of mining and extracting Alberta's oil sands for instance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athabasca_Oil_Sands
for a similar case in point -by the end of the CA gold rush they were making huge cyanide leaches to extract miniscule amounts of gold from ore that had to be pounded into dust. those companies then all folded leaving CA and Nevada (mostly) with these Superfund-type sites (except no one will ever pay to have them cleaned up)
-I'm just sayin'
Although I hadn't posted a resume for at least 3 or 4 years, until quite recently I was still getting hits for ridiculous jobs thanks to idiot headhunters.
No I don't want to relocate from N California to West Virginia or Oklahoma for a 6 month contract......that only pays $20/hr
Just because I worked on a Broadvision WebPortal for Nortel does not mean that I am a Nortel Certified Hardware technician.
Although I had worked peripherally as a tester on Peoplesoft project I got a lot of hardcore Peoplesoft developer offers as well.
and something on my resume must have indicated build/release experience, because I got a lot of calls for release/build engineering too. Fortunately I had already found a good job as a test engineer/tech writer/dev support.
I'm just sayin'
A lot of corporations and government agencies still specify IE6
as others have said, this will help give access to newer technologies/websites to people whose organizations (or grandmothers) are stuck on old, crufty tech.
however -I wonder if it will still present an IE6 app string to those websites/apps that require it???
I'm just sayin'
I know this is a dark age for literacy, but s/b peek -ya know? like PEEK and POKE???
I'm just sayin'
I ran up a $1300 data bill through AT&T because I was doing client/server testing over 2 nights in Banff, Canada using my moto Vphone as a tether to a laptop.
apparently my 'International Roaming' service didn't include data usage, so Rogers really 'rogered' me on that one.
Fortunately my employer reimbursed me, but in retrospect, next time I will pay the $20 to use the hotel's wifi!
I'm just sayin'
Used Firefox on this XP machine for years, accepting all the upgrades and now Firefox crashes hard when started. Tried reinstalling, removing toolbar, etc, but the goggles, zey do nothing...
I suppose I could revert to 3.0, but meh -I just installed Chrome instead.
-I'm just sayin'
I can't believe no one has pointed this out yet, but I think that the picture was perceived with excessive political correctness as being racist
Because Obama was portrayed in WHITEFACE
so I don't think it is at all about the characterization, but about whatever having a black man in whiteface implies
whatever -if this is the reason, then they are being hyper-sensitive and should grow a pair
-I'm just sayin
I never thought I would do one of these, but:
1. Credit Card Industry fails to secure servers
2. Massive Identity Theft Occurs
3. Offer Credit Report and Identity Theft Services to mitigate steps 1 & 2
4. Profit!!!
-I'm just sayin'
We are using both ocsinventory and openNMS and they both seem to have their advantages
OCS seems to be superior for pure inventory -ie CPUs, RAM, NIC, and HW and has a cleaner interface.
NMS has more active agent-based monitoring (extensible via SNMP) and is really good at tracking connectivity/downtime by NIC and also network stats such as packet stats over time, etc. and has decent time sequence graphs out of the box.
they are both open source and seem to have their different strengths, so try 'em both out and see what works
There may be more functional overlap than what I have indicated above, but this is based on the way we have used them
-I'm just sayin'
Although I don't doubt that there are political reasons for having some Tesla mfg in the US (not to mention tariffs, etc) there are also some practical ones:
1) You can't just take some laid off Mexican auto assemblers from an old GM plant, put them in a new building and tell them to start making Electric car drivetrains -there are probably entirely new process steps (not to mention components) which would make this a non-starter
2) they probably need to tweak that process as well as being able to introduce changes in parts as the design is tested and improved
therefore it makes sense for the factory to be close to where design/engineering takes place -not to mention that there is also a highly trained, technologically able workforce in the Bay Area.
Also, thanks to Hitech, Lockheed, Lawrence Livermore Labs, etc there are a great many machine tooling shops in the area which are second to none.
Think of this as a pilot mfg plant -they will no doubt try to go somewhere cheaper when it comes time to produce quantities in the 100ks
On the other hand, we have the only large scale auto manufacturing plant left on the West Coast just down the street from me: http://www.nummi.com/ , so stranger things have happened.
-I'm just sayin'
Housing is considerably cheaper in other parts of the Bay Area than the peninsula in general and SF in particular although there are also some pricey areas in the South Bay as well -Los Altos, Saratoga, Cupertino and Los Gatos among others.
.com boom young professionals have flocked to SF driving out older and low income residents
but ~450k median housing price is way more reasonable than the 600k+ median of a few years ago
http://www.mercurynews.com/realestatenews/ci_12578838
wheras SF is considered to be a Buyer's market now because the median home price has dropped to a mere $950k
http://www.altosresearch.com/research/CA/SAN+FRANCISCO
ever since the
as others have stated before there are literally hundreds of firms with IT needs here in Santa Clara and the other counties that ring the bay -but not so many in Oakland or SF -although Pixar is in Emeryville and Genentech and other Biotechs are in S San Francisco
The problem in San Jose is that almost all the hitech jobs are up by the Bay (where it stays cool) in N San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale and Mtn View and most of the affordable housing is in the East and South Valley -which is why 101 237 and 880 are all parking lots going one direction each workday.
I'm just sayin'
yep -world's biggest bounce house
for the world's richest, most overgrown kids
-I'm just saying
Memoirs found in a bathtub is also my favorite
One of his most unusual ones however was:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Perfect_Vacuum
which was a (Sometimes) hilarious reviews of non-existent (and ridiculous) books -it was a sort of dig at post-modernism -almost 40 years ago....
I also liked return from the stars, and pirx the pilot was fun, lighter fare.
-I'm just sayin'
Counter Example
Radiohead spend $100k in the studio to record 4 really cool songs that they wrote over a several weeks at a rehearsal studio -they put them on their server and consumers pay to download it -Radiohead can keep making new music because they can keep paying for their rehearsal studio, engineer, etc
Radiohead's 4 really cool songs are pirated and they don't get as much money for rehearsals and recording due to that lost revenue and Thom gets crabby and writes less
This is the cost of piracy to the artist (not counting music conpany ripoffs, etc)
variation of the mask example:
Radiohead's 4 really cool songs are heard by some other musician and they are inspired to (choose one)
a) record their own version of those songs
b) write their own new songs inspired or influenced by those really cool Radiohead songs
in the case of A they will be hammered by ASCAP or Harry Fox unless they pay mechanical and songwriter royalties
That is the true version of the mask making analogy when applied to music -unless the mask copier had a replicator. The kids pirating music are not creating anything new and piracy does lead to (some) loss of income to the rightful producer.
If art is about the exchange of ideas, free or non-free, the important thing is that other artists can get ideas from listening to others, not from copying them directly.
In the case of the masks it is more likely that the mask copied would only be similar, not exactly the same, so it would be more 'in the style of' or 'inspired by' rahter than a stroke for stroke copy.
At any rate, PP is using the disengenous and disproven 'information wants to be free' meme without considering that without some compensation/recognition or the hope of the same there is a loss of artists participation
-I'm just sayin'
Not to mention 'alternative' non-commercial, non-NPR radio.
Here in the SF Bay area we have:
KKUP -Cupertino hippie station
KPOO -independent black SF station
KPFA -Pacifica Free Radio
and the following AWESOME college stations
KALX -Berkely
KZSU -Stanford
KSCU -Santa Clara university
KSJS -San Jose State
KFJC -Foothill College -the wave of the west
KZSC -Santa Cruz
and the former KFAT -now kpig.com from FREEDOM CA
plus the trades follow college playlists -that's how bands like Vampire Weekend and REM get discovered
The college stations also provide a place for genre music like hardcore, surf music, reggae, electronica, etc
-I'm just sayin -because I listen to the radio A LOT and when I get bored with Live105, KFOG, Alice, whatever I have a lot of great choices
My Mum was once ordered OFF Highway 17 in N CA by a CHP patrol car because she was going too slow...
and this wasn't due to old age or anything -it happened about 30 years ago when she was in her 30s or 40s. She mostly keeps off the Freeway these days...
-I'm just sayin'
as you can see from the pictures of the massive heatsink (covers the entire board) this is NOT a low power device
and until there is a market for laptop gamers wanting 60fps and millions of polygons specialized cards/chips like this will be found only on render farms, gamer desktop rigs and graphics workstations -which is their intended market anyway
you generally do not get high performance with an economical product, so, for my car analogy I will say that a Pontiac Vibe that gets 35 miles to the gallon is not going to beat a Mustang V8 off the line....
-I'm just sayin'
...they are also telling Intel what they can and can't do outside their borders. Maybe the DOJ does the same thing, but that's the only issue I have with it.
Well, the US does forbid US firms to engage in bribery in other countries (even if is SOP in those places)
Sun was just reported as admitting they may be in trouble over this.
Of course, the next question might be -why isn't the US also going after Intel for bribery in the EU? -unless that would constitute double jeapordy or something....but the US has a pretty miserable record of prosecuting market abusers these days...
-I'm just sayin'
Well, there are Intel, AMD, LSI logic, SANdisk, Sun, Cisco, IBM research and HP in the Santa Clara Valley for starters.
and I think someone would notice if they all quit making chips....
It's true that the fabs are mostly elsewhere, but the chips are designed and the fabs are managed from here.
I'm just sayin'