Umm... It is opt-in? You opt to use a distro with or without it. You opt to not make your own. You opt to not take the time to learn to use it. You opt to not support those who do offer a distro without it. It, like everything else, is quite clearly an optional thing. You don't have to use SystemD. You have choices. You can even put your money where your mouth is and financially support a distro without it or help with the code or help with their adoption rates. You could even create and propose an alternative.
Or you could rant on/. if you want. Whichever's easiest, I suppose.
Anyhow, I'm really starting to enjoy GhostBSD. Anyone know if this will make its way to GhostBSD or if it's worth actually investigating? I'm not sure that I have much need for change - it just works for me. I'd kind of like to take GhostBSD out of the VM and onto the metal but I'm still learning and still finding things missing that I prefer to use and am unable to port on my own. For example, I may have to *settle* for Firefox instead of Opera. I understand there's an interpretation layer but I've not done any more looking than that. I've yet to try all that hard - I should probably just go with a bare metal install and force myself to use it exclusively for a few months.
WTF? United? No, son, no... The dream has never been about unity (unless you mean the silly Unity from Cannonical). The dream has been about the exact opposite of unity. It has been about freedom of choice. There's no unity in FOSS. There are groups of united people but no universal thing - not even EFF or The Linux Foundation is the final authority. In fact, you - the user, are the final authority.
I'm not sure why you'd have that notion. It's exactly not that. You can, and should, find what works for you and are encouraged to work off code that's already been started so that you need less effort to make something that suits your individual needs. If express individuality and an atmosphere of independence is unity then I'm not sure where I need to go to buy a new dictionary.
Now there are united groups but there's no whole - there's no universal - there's no sense of unity other than a sense of community and that only goes so far. in fact, I'm an aficionado and an oddball to some extent. I'm not an open source zealot (even though I use and prefer it) but one who suggests you use what you want to use and what works best for you. Hell, I flit between distros and even code bases with nary a thought. There's no unity - there's freedom of choice and an encouragement to make what you need.
Also, she has a rather unfortunate name. Not my daughter - the lady in the image you linked. I'm glad I didn't name my daughter 'Isis.' Actually, the thought never crossed my mind.
She looks almost like my daughter. How odd. My daughter's finished med school and is now working in an emergency room. I don't think anyone questions if she's a doctor. At least not in this day and age. They might have back when I was a kid though. Seriously, they might have.
FWIW - I'm mixed racially and I think affirmative action should never have been a policy. Affirmative action is telling me that I'm unable to do it on my own - that I'm incapable of succeeding on my own merits and that I must have help from the people who were supposedly oppressing me. Now I have bumped into overt racists. I just chalk it up to them being ignorant and go on my way - I do my task as well as I'd have normally done and continue to strive to do the same things i'd have done even if I'd not encountered them.
The idea that I can't do it on my own is an affront. I can, and have, been able to accomplish my goals. Obviously, nobody really does anything on their own (if we want to get really meta) but I didn't need help by being given preferential treatment. In fact, I'd rather not get preferential treatment - it might make me do lower quality work because I know I can get away with it. Don't give me bonus points for my race - give me bonus points for my successes and negative points for my failures. Judge me on who I am and what I do - not what I am or who I do.
It might have made sense at one point where there were systemic biases and people weren't being judged based on their merits. So long as we're judging by merit then let us do so and not prefer one or the other because of the same innate traits we're explicitly told to not judge people by. Saying don't judge me because I'm a girl and then saying give me preferential treatment because I'm a girl just seems hypocritical to me and, hopefully, nobody is doing that. As mentioned above, I'm starting to think I'm behind the times and not really keeping a finger on the pulse as well as I could.
I employed more male programmers than I employed female programmers. I actually had more female traffic engineers than I had male traffic engineers for a while. I had zero in the server room. I had a female accountant and all the secretarial staff was female. There were times where I hired a female programmer because she was the best candidate for the job. Their pay was exactly equal and gender had nothing to do with it.
I never gave a male preferential treatment. We never had sexual harassment in the workplace. We were assholes from time to time but it was universal and spanned the genders. I never gave a female preferential treatment. I hired the best because I wanted the best. We had multiple genders and sexual preferences - even a strange old man who was the epitome of anti-everything. Don't mind him. He's a wizard. He was the database admin. I don't know how he did what he did but he did it well. Did I mention he was a wizard?
Anyhow, I've since been told I'm a sexist because I was (still am, really) an egalitarian. I still have yet to have someone explain why that is true. I've been told that I'm part of the problem. This is likely to turn into a novella, it's not easy to explain in text short enough to fit on a bumper sticker. So, read or skip it, I guess.
Also, we had no sexist crap in the office. There were office romances and even two weddings. I'd have fired the first person who made disparaging remarks because of someone's innate traits like gender, race, or sexuality. Immediately. That never happened. Yet we were all geeks - each and every one. Our geekiness even rubbed off on our secretarial staff and others not involved in the tech aspect. Heck, we even set up our accountant with their own system early on as they too were just entering the business world - she'd worked for the state revenue service prior to hanging out her shingle. She did payroll and our taxes and her business grew as well.
Now, I am assuming that we were not unique in any way. This sexism or harassment in the work place was not pervasive - in fact, it was non-existent. Again, I'd have fired anyone on the spot and that never happened. We had loads of harassment, it was good natured and ubiquitous, but it was never due to anything like gender - not even jokingly. I think the closest would have been a female employee who used to always say, "Well, I'm a blond girl, of course I don't know anything about math." Really, she was brilliant.
Is this something new? Has IT been taken over by new people? I retired when I sold my business as I've mentioned countless times - that was eight years ago. There were quite a few women in the tech field back then. Has this changed? We started in the early 1990s.
If this is a problem, is it as systemic as is claimed? I see no reason to give preferential treatment to anyone but the best candidates but if there's a real abuse issue then that's certainly a management issue and needs to be resolved.
*shrugs* I keep asking new questions hoping to understand more and to understand better. In my experience it simply wasn't a problem. If anything, we were welcoming of anyone and everyone because, you know, we were a bunch of freaks - nerds and geeks, working to do something that was new and different. We were doing things that hadn't been done before. We were, by our nature, oddballs. We welcomed anyone who was accepting of us enough to speak with us in public. Hell, we had gaming sessions that would last through a weekend and we'd still be smelly and dirty come Monday morning and still rolling dice when the rest of the crew started meandering in. We were pretty damned welcoming of anyone.
Has this changed? Is this really an issue? Are people more sensitive or are they overly sensitive to things that aren't actually there? Not long ago we had a shooting by a gay black man who was sure that being sent out into the field was a racist comment and he overreacted. Is it like that or is there a real problem?
Sorry for the novella and questions but I keep asking and
There is a story of a train that was underground, not really a subway though, that stopped and let on two families who were in the tunnel. They were escaping from East Germany at the time and were successful at it. So, well, there's that. In other words, it's not entirely without merit. I'm sure there are many other instances where human piloted/controlled vehicles have done quality things.
I, for one, go out in the winter with a tow strap and chains and pull people out of ditches. I can't wait until this upcoming season because I now own a restored tow truck. I don't charge, I get loads of enjoyment from it and consider driving in the snow an art. In fact, I go out driving in pretty much every snow storm and I plow people out for fun if there's no one to extract from a snow bank. The tow truck doesn't have a plow on it and I'm not sure that I'm going to put one on it. I can, and will, make multiple trips. Other times, I go out and help people out (I can't extract them) in a rear wheel drive vehicle that's not really designed to be used in heavy snowfalls - I do that just to enjoy myself but I sometimes bump into people and have driven them somewhere or even gone back to get a vehicle that is capable of extracting them.
If you've ever had a crazy lunatic (I used to do it drunk) pull you out of a ditch in NW Maine, in the past eight years or so, then it might have been me.;) Seriously, it's one of my great joys as crazy as it sounds. I love driving in the snow. It's awesome and an art. On a good day, I can do the "Axl Rose Shuffle" for miles.
Which is why I clarified that it was quite specific and my assumption that they were specifically referring to it as a field of study - independent of (though tied with) mathematics such as Mathematics Philosophers. I'm *assuming* (a bit assumption, I know) that the OP was specifically referring to Applied Mathematics. It's also why I use the capitalization.
Years and years ago there was a company, in Maine actually - kind of neat I guess, that designed and created optical disks that were based on organics and would stop working after a set time once exposed to air. The thinking was DVD rental kiosks and things like Netflix. It didn't catch on and, I think, they've since stopped trying to market them and may have gone out of business.
I sit on the board at my local credit union and we were approached for funding. We declined. They were in the media for a while but that didn't last long either. I've no idea what actually became of them or their idea. I just figured that people would just copy the disks first thing and that the whole idea was borderline retarded. The board has some not-so-very tech-savvy people on it and my background has come in handy at times though we'll often call in a specialist for additional information.
As an aside, we didn't slow down lending and still haven't. We're raking in money hand over fist. Seriously, I see a trend in small and single proprietorships being the future - as it was in the past. It may well be time to hang out your shingle though I'd worry about the taxation. Oddly, larger businesses get more tax breaks than smaller businesses even though the smaller ones probably do as much for society as a whole but I digress.
I don't think the US actually uses autonomous non-self-destructing area-defense munitions any more? They took them out of the NorK DMZ quite a while ago IIRC. There are still, surely, some remaining from old (and still people being harmed by them) but I don't think we're actually using them any more. I am too lazy to Google so I could be wrong.
Conversely, you don't have a right to their content. It's a conundrum I suppose. I block ads. I block them because I hate them. I accept if a site kicks me off because of it. I don't have a right to use their site in a manner they didn't approve of - it's their property. I just go elsewhere.
There you go again... Put quotes around the "Applied Mathematics" part. They're not two separate and distinct words - they're a single concept that has a two word tautology. Physics is Applied Mathematics. Traffic Modeling is Applied Mathematics. I'm assuming that's what they mean when they say this. You appear to be thinking of it as "applied mathematics." I can understand the confusion. Think of it as "Applied Mathematics." That might help.
Of course, I'm assuming that the OP was, in fact, thinking of Applied Mathematics. Lots of things are Applied Mathematics - it's a pretty broad field. I'm going to appeal to authority here but I encourage you to verify if you want. I hold my PhD in exactly that - Applied Mathematics. I applied mathematics, note the capitalization, to work in pedestrian and vehicular traffic modeling. Traffic Modeling is Applied Mathematics, as is physics. Even quantum physics and quantum mechanics and all that - they, too, are Applied Mathematics.
You'll probably continue to argue but, I can assure you, you're mistaken IF the OP actually was using the term properly. I usually resort to capitalization to avoid confusion or to clarify. I've spent enough time on the internet to know that I have to make sure things are clear - it's one of the reasons that I'm as verbose as I am. The other reason is, of course, I'm about as articulate as a horse.
I'm assuming they meant "Applied Mathematics" which is a thing. Physics is Applied Mathematics by my definition. I think you'll find the rest of the world (except you) agrees. Then again, what do I know? I'm just a mathematician - specifically, my degree is in Applied Mathematics. I'm sure you know best, however.
I see you've never heard of post and beam construction. Back home, we have barns and houses that are hundreds of years old and post and beam (using mortise and tenon joinery) is still in use. It's also heavily used in furniture and cabinetry. Hell, when I make something for someone, I use biscuit joints quite frequently - especially when laminating.
Maybe if you'd not let them take the firearms away in the first place that sort of question might not seriously be up for debate. I'll never understand why citizens willingly disarm themselves and I'm sure that's due to my cultural bias. However, I've tried to think about it logically and reason my way to understanding. The only conclusion I can make is that those citizens did not use logic and reason their way to understanding. Fear will do that, I suppose.
Me? I'm willing to accept that some violence occurs. I don't want a government that can't be removed by the force of the people when the will is not enough. For those who say that it can't be done because of the military, I'd suggest they try a little more of my favorite breakfast cereal - Reason Bran. An insurgency is pretty effective and many of those enlisted will take up arms with the insurgents (and bring equipment and expertise) if the cause is just. That and, well, the ruling parties aren't going to destroy their infrastructure but will likely seek a quick and speedy remedy that enables them to keep their wealth and a modicum of power.
Reason Bran, now with two scoops of logic and an extra 20% critical thinking.
To be fair, I often go to sites based in other countries and get my news there when it concerns certain topics. Journalism is now, and has always been, biased. There is no true fair and balanced journalism really - there probably never will be. I've taken a look into the history of "yellow journalism" and, yeah, it might actually be better today than it has ever been. At least we can, today, get our news from a wider group of sources which gives those interested some chance of actually finding out the truth.
Back home, in my state, DSL is able to be provisioned by any company willing to service the area. I paid a small company to run my lines and put in a CO. That company was purchased by Fairpoint. For a while, well outside of their region, I got my services from GWI. I went back to Fairpoint when they sent me a mailing offering a higher speed. They're not allowed to limit GWI's access but GWI didn't offer the increased speed. Fairpoint has since raised my speeds frequently and always sends me new hardware (that I don't actually use).
In theory, I could use your ISP if they wanted to pay Fairpoint's access fees.
Well, this is a fine place to interject my opinion - for what it's worth... I'm not an authority (obviously) but I did manage to get things done and was successful at it.
First, this is absolutely horrific - not the subject but the process of watching this video. I've never watched a/. video before - I've read transcripts. This required so much effort to allow so many things in uMatrix that it was absurd. Between Disconnect and uMatrix I wasn't sure that I'd ever see the video. There were nearly 1000 requests. Just with the new page loaded (this one with the comments) and not watching the video, Disconnect shows 1062 requests and uMatrix is now much lower at 84 requests. That's bullshit and unnecessary.
Second, this is not new. It may be that my shop was heavily oriented to processing large data sets and working with the results and doing loads of manipulations but our dev team worked very much in hand with the ops team - one could say that there were representatives of either and some cross-talk always taking place. My hiring reflected my opinions and so I almost always ensured that there were enough people available so that someone was always able to be freed up to work with the rest of the crew. They were in "teams" with specialized rolls but those lines were often fuzzy.
Finally, I'm going to have to use a lose definition of "cloud" here as it's not very well defined. To me, much of this cloud shit is nothing more than a return to dumb terminals (in some ways) and not much different than hosting your own data - from the perspective of those who work with the data. We had a locked server room and a locked comms room and whatnot. Locked doors didn't mean a whole lot as they didn't really need to be locked and people interacted with one another frequently. Doors would probably be locked if a client was in the building, for example.
So, it seems to me that if they're having issues with this then the problem is likely the process they're using or ill defined goals. He's right, the IT staff, structural IT if you will, don't need to know until after the dev team has a working model that's fairly close to feature complete. We did internal provisioning, I'm sure this is a little slower, but I imagine the process is much the same.
To my eyes this looks like Yet Another Management Problem (YAMP). It seems like piss poor managing, improper goal setting, and generally wasting time for no real efficiencies. Funny enough, if you hire good people, pay them well, and shut the hell up and listen to them so that you can give them the tools they need - they usually do a really good job at getting stuff done when you give them the freedom and space to do so. If they know what it is they're meant to be doing and you give them the tools to do it and then get out of their way then they get the job done. If they don't get the job done there's all sorts of problems but it's usually the fault of not giving them the ability to do the job you wanted - be it communication, realistic time periods, or the appropriate tools.
Also, the tools aren't what the vendor suggested. They're the ones they users requested. Strangely enough, keeping people satisfied and engaged enables them to do good work and actually have an investment in doing good work. Imagine that?
At first I tried the sort of micromanaging and the whole helping thing. This was because I'd started as just one person with a single other employee. So this was my baby. Fortunately, I was smart enough to hire people more capable than I. They were honest enough to tell me to stop helping. Given that I'm not usually an idiot, I listened. They were better at it than I was - that wasn't my area of expertise and I really had too much work to do elsewhere which is why I'd hired them in the first place.
So, to all you managers out there, take it from me... Shut the hell up and listen. Give them the tools they need and the space to do what you asked. Articulate and ensure that they know not just the process but the goals. Guide - d
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Umm... It is opt-in? You opt to use a distro with or without it. You opt to not make your own. You opt to not take the time to learn to use it. You opt to not support those who do offer a distro without it. It, like everything else, is quite clearly an optional thing. You don't have to use SystemD. You have choices. You can even put your money where your mouth is and financially support a distro without it or help with the code or help with their adoption rates. You could even create and propose an alternative.
Or you could rant on /. if you want. Whichever's easiest, I suppose.
Anyhow, I'm really starting to enjoy GhostBSD. Anyone know if this will make its way to GhostBSD or if it's worth actually investigating? I'm not sure that I have much need for change - it just works for me. I'd kind of like to take GhostBSD out of the VM and onto the metal but I'm still learning and still finding things missing that I prefer to use and am unable to port on my own. For example, I may have to *settle* for Firefox instead of Opera. I understand there's an interpretation layer but I've not done any more looking than that. I've yet to try all that hard - I should probably just go with a bare metal install and force myself to use it exclusively for a few months.
WTF? United? No, son, no... The dream has never been about unity (unless you mean the silly Unity from Cannonical). The dream has been about the exact opposite of unity. It has been about freedom of choice. There's no unity in FOSS. There are groups of united people but no universal thing - not even EFF or The Linux Foundation is the final authority. In fact, you - the user, are the final authority.
I'm not sure why you'd have that notion. It's exactly not that. You can, and should, find what works for you and are encouraged to work off code that's already been started so that you need less effort to make something that suits your individual needs. If express individuality and an atmosphere of independence is unity then I'm not sure where I need to go to buy a new dictionary.
Now there are united groups but there's no whole - there's no universal - there's no sense of unity other than a sense of community and that only goes so far. in fact, I'm an aficionado and an oddball to some extent. I'm not an open source zealot (even though I use and prefer it) but one who suggests you use what you want to use and what works best for you. Hell, I flit between distros and even code bases with nary a thought. There's no unity - there's freedom of choice and an encouragement to make what you need.
It's easier for the OP to beat up a strawman than it is for them to actually approach things openly and honestly.
Also, she has a rather unfortunate name. Not my daughter - the lady in the image you linked. I'm glad I didn't name my daughter 'Isis.' Actually, the thought never crossed my mind.
She looks almost like my daughter. How odd. My daughter's finished med school and is now working in an emergency room. I don't think anyone questions if she's a doctor. At least not in this day and age. They might have back when I was a kid though. Seriously, they might have.
FWIW - I'm mixed racially and I think affirmative action should never have been a policy. Affirmative action is telling me that I'm unable to do it on my own - that I'm incapable of succeeding on my own merits and that I must have help from the people who were supposedly oppressing me. Now I have bumped into overt racists. I just chalk it up to them being ignorant and go on my way - I do my task as well as I'd have normally done and continue to strive to do the same things i'd have done even if I'd not encountered them.
The idea that I can't do it on my own is an affront. I can, and have, been able to accomplish my goals. Obviously, nobody really does anything on their own (if we want to get really meta) but I didn't need help by being given preferential treatment. In fact, I'd rather not get preferential treatment - it might make me do lower quality work because I know I can get away with it. Don't give me bonus points for my race - give me bonus points for my successes and negative points for my failures. Judge me on who I am and what I do - not what I am or who I do.
It might have made sense at one point where there were systemic biases and people weren't being judged based on their merits. So long as we're judging by merit then let us do so and not prefer one or the other because of the same innate traits we're explicitly told to not judge people by. Saying don't judge me because I'm a girl and then saying give me preferential treatment because I'm a girl just seems hypocritical to me and, hopefully, nobody is doing that. As mentioned above, I'm starting to think I'm behind the times and not really keeping a finger on the pulse as well as I could.
I employed more male programmers than I employed female programmers. I actually had more female traffic engineers than I had male traffic engineers for a while. I had zero in the server room. I had a female accountant and all the secretarial staff was female. There were times where I hired a female programmer because she was the best candidate for the job. Their pay was exactly equal and gender had nothing to do with it.
I never gave a male preferential treatment. We never had sexual harassment in the workplace. We were assholes from time to time but it was universal and spanned the genders. I never gave a female preferential treatment. I hired the best because I wanted the best. We had multiple genders and sexual preferences - even a strange old man who was the epitome of anti-everything. Don't mind him. He's a wizard. He was the database admin. I don't know how he did what he did but he did it well. Did I mention he was a wizard?
Anyhow, I've since been told I'm a sexist because I was (still am, really) an egalitarian. I still have yet to have someone explain why that is true. I've been told that I'm part of the problem. This is likely to turn into a novella, it's not easy to explain in text short enough to fit on a bumper sticker. So, read or skip it, I guess.
Also, we had no sexist crap in the office. There were office romances and even two weddings. I'd have fired the first person who made disparaging remarks because of someone's innate traits like gender, race, or sexuality. Immediately. That never happened. Yet we were all geeks - each and every one. Our geekiness even rubbed off on our secretarial staff and others not involved in the tech aspect. Heck, we even set up our accountant with their own system early on as they too were just entering the business world - she'd worked for the state revenue service prior to hanging out her shingle. She did payroll and our taxes and her business grew as well.
Now, I am assuming that we were not unique in any way. This sexism or harassment in the work place was not pervasive - in fact, it was non-existent. Again, I'd have fired anyone on the spot and that never happened. We had loads of harassment, it was good natured and ubiquitous, but it was never due to anything like gender - not even jokingly. I think the closest would have been a female employee who used to always say, "Well, I'm a blond girl, of course I don't know anything about math." Really, she was brilliant.
Is this something new? Has IT been taken over by new people? I retired when I sold my business as I've mentioned countless times - that was eight years ago. There were quite a few women in the tech field back then. Has this changed? We started in the early 1990s.
If this is a problem, is it as systemic as is claimed? I see no reason to give preferential treatment to anyone but the best candidates but if there's a real abuse issue then that's certainly a management issue and needs to be resolved.
*shrugs* I keep asking new questions hoping to understand more and to understand better. In my experience it simply wasn't a problem. If anything, we were welcoming of anyone and everyone because, you know, we were a bunch of freaks - nerds and geeks, working to do something that was new and different. We were doing things that hadn't been done before. We were, by our nature, oddballs. We welcomed anyone who was accepting of us enough to speak with us in public. Hell, we had gaming sessions that would last through a weekend and we'd still be smelly and dirty come Monday morning and still rolling dice when the rest of the crew started meandering in. We were pretty damned welcoming of anyone.
Has this changed? Is this really an issue? Are people more sensitive or are they overly sensitive to things that aren't actually there? Not long ago we had a shooting by a gay black man who was sure that being sent out into the field was a racist comment and he overreacted. Is it like that or is there a real problem?
Sorry for the novella and questions but I keep asking and
*insert scarebus copypasta here*
There is a story of a train that was underground, not really a subway though, that stopped and let on two families who were in the tunnel. They were escaping from East Germany at the time and were successful at it. So, well, there's that. In other words, it's not entirely without merit. I'm sure there are many other instances where human piloted/controlled vehicles have done quality things.
I, for one, go out in the winter with a tow strap and chains and pull people out of ditches. I can't wait until this upcoming season because I now own a restored tow truck. I don't charge, I get loads of enjoyment from it and consider driving in the snow an art. In fact, I go out driving in pretty much every snow storm and I plow people out for fun if there's no one to extract from a snow bank. The tow truck doesn't have a plow on it and I'm not sure that I'm going to put one on it. I can, and will, make multiple trips. Other times, I go out and help people out (I can't extract them) in a rear wheel drive vehicle that's not really designed to be used in heavy snowfalls - I do that just to enjoy myself but I sometimes bump into people and have driven them somewhere or even gone back to get a vehicle that is capable of extracting them.
If you've ever had a crazy lunatic (I used to do it drunk) pull you out of a ditch in NW Maine, in the past eight years or so, then it might have been me. ;) Seriously, it's one of my great joys as crazy as it sounds. I love driving in the snow. It's awesome and an art. On a good day, I can do the "Axl Rose Shuffle" for miles.
I think something other than a flag will be at half mast...
Thanks for explaining the joke, Captain.
By "Captain" he means "Captain Obvious."
*nods and moves along*
Which is why I clarified that it was quite specific and my assumption that they were specifically referring to it as a field of study - independent of (though tied with) mathematics such as Mathematics Philosophers. I'm *assuming* (a bit assumption, I know) that the OP was specifically referring to Applied Mathematics. It's also why I use the capitalization.
Years and years ago there was a company, in Maine actually - kind of neat I guess, that designed and created optical disks that were based on organics and would stop working after a set time once exposed to air. The thinking was DVD rental kiosks and things like Netflix. It didn't catch on and, I think, they've since stopped trying to market them and may have gone out of business.
I sit on the board at my local credit union and we were approached for funding. We declined. They were in the media for a while but that didn't last long either. I've no idea what actually became of them or their idea. I just figured that people would just copy the disks first thing and that the whole idea was borderline retarded. The board has some not-so-very tech-savvy people on it and my background has come in handy at times though we'll often call in a specialist for additional information.
As an aside, we didn't slow down lending and still haven't. We're raking in money hand over fist. Seriously, I see a trend in small and single proprietorships being the future - as it was in the past. It may well be time to hang out your shingle though I'd worry about the taxation. Oddly, larger businesses get more tax breaks than smaller businesses even though the smaller ones probably do as much for society as a whole but I digress.
I don't think the US actually uses autonomous non-self-destructing area-defense munitions any more? They took them out of the NorK DMZ quite a while ago IIRC. There are still, surely, some remaining from old (and still people being harmed by them) but I don't think we're actually using them any more. I am too lazy to Google so I could be wrong.
Conversely, you don't have a right to their content. It's a conundrum I suppose. I block ads. I block them because I hate them. I accept if a site kicks me off because of it. I don't have a right to use their site in a manner they didn't approve of - it's their property. I just go elsewhere.
Google "SELinux." That may be what you're looking for.
Third correction. Engineering is applied science. Technology is the tools used in that application.
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There you go again... Put quotes around the "Applied Mathematics" part. They're not two separate and distinct words - they're a single concept that has a two word tautology. Physics is Applied Mathematics. Traffic Modeling is Applied Mathematics. I'm assuming that's what they mean when they say this. You appear to be thinking of it as "applied mathematics." I can understand the confusion. Think of it as "Applied Mathematics." That might help.
Of course, I'm assuming that the OP was, in fact, thinking of Applied Mathematics. Lots of things are Applied Mathematics - it's a pretty broad field. I'm going to appeal to authority here but I encourage you to verify if you want. I hold my PhD in exactly that - Applied Mathematics. I applied mathematics, note the capitalization, to work in pedestrian and vehicular traffic modeling. Traffic Modeling is Applied Mathematics, as is physics. Even quantum physics and quantum mechanics and all that - they, too, are Applied Mathematics.
You'll probably continue to argue but, I can assure you, you're mistaken IF the OP actually was using the term properly. I usually resort to capitalization to avoid confusion or to clarify. I've spent enough time on the internet to know that I have to make sure things are clear - it's one of the reasons that I'm as verbose as I am. The other reason is, of course, I'm about as articulate as a horse.
I'm assuming they meant "Applied Mathematics" which is a thing. Physics is Applied Mathematics by my definition. I think you'll find the rest of the world (except you) agrees. Then again, what do I know? I'm just a mathematician - specifically, my degree is in Applied Mathematics. I'm sure you know best, however.
I see you've never heard of post and beam construction. Back home, we have barns and houses that are hundreds of years old and post and beam (using mortise and tenon joinery) is still in use. It's also heavily used in furniture and cabinetry. Hell, when I make something for someone, I use biscuit joints quite frequently - especially when laminating.
Foster's is piss that they export to gullible people and sell to tourists. They've got a few good beers in Australia. Foster's is not one of them.
Maybe if you'd not let them take the firearms away in the first place that sort of question might not seriously be up for debate. I'll never understand why citizens willingly disarm themselves and I'm sure that's due to my cultural bias. However, I've tried to think about it logically and reason my way to understanding. The only conclusion I can make is that those citizens did not use logic and reason their way to understanding. Fear will do that, I suppose.
Me? I'm willing to accept that some violence occurs. I don't want a government that can't be removed by the force of the people when the will is not enough. For those who say that it can't be done because of the military, I'd suggest they try a little more of my favorite breakfast cereal - Reason Bran. An insurgency is pretty effective and many of those enlisted will take up arms with the insurgents (and bring equipment and expertise) if the cause is just. That and, well, the ruling parties aren't going to destroy their infrastructure but will likely seek a quick and speedy remedy that enables them to keep their wealth and a modicum of power.
Reason Bran, now with two scoops of logic and an extra 20% critical thinking.
To be fair, I often go to sites based in other countries and get my news there when it concerns certain topics. Journalism is now, and has always been, biased. There is no true fair and balanced journalism really - there probably never will be. I've taken a look into the history of "yellow journalism" and, yeah, it might actually be better today than it has ever been. At least we can, today, get our news from a wider group of sources which gives those interested some chance of actually finding out the truth.
Heh... Rules for thee and not for me. The two are morally equivocal regardless of the duty performed.
Back home, in my state, DSL is able to be provisioned by any company willing to service the area. I paid a small company to run my lines and put in a CO. That company was purchased by Fairpoint. For a while, well outside of their region, I got my services from GWI. I went back to Fairpoint when they sent me a mailing offering a higher speed. They're not allowed to limit GWI's access but GWI didn't offer the increased speed. Fairpoint has since raised my speeds frequently and always sends me new hardware (that I don't actually use).
In theory, I could use your ISP if they wanted to pay Fairpoint's access fees.
Well, this is a fine place to interject my opinion - for what it's worth... I'm not an authority (obviously) but I did manage to get things done and was successful at it.
First, this is absolutely horrific - not the subject but the process of watching this video. I've never watched a /. video before - I've read transcripts. This required so much effort to allow so many things in uMatrix that it was absurd. Between Disconnect and uMatrix I wasn't sure that I'd ever see the video. There were nearly 1000 requests. Just with the new page loaded (this one with the comments) and not watching the video, Disconnect shows 1062 requests and uMatrix is now much lower at 84 requests. That's bullshit and unnecessary.
Second, this is not new. It may be that my shop was heavily oriented to processing large data sets and working with the results and doing loads of manipulations but our dev team worked very much in hand with the ops team - one could say that there were representatives of either and some cross-talk always taking place. My hiring reflected my opinions and so I almost always ensured that there were enough people available so that someone was always able to be freed up to work with the rest of the crew. They were in "teams" with specialized rolls but those lines were often fuzzy.
Finally, I'm going to have to use a lose definition of "cloud" here as it's not very well defined. To me, much of this cloud shit is nothing more than a return to dumb terminals (in some ways) and not much different than hosting your own data - from the perspective of those who work with the data. We had a locked server room and a locked comms room and whatnot. Locked doors didn't mean a whole lot as they didn't really need to be locked and people interacted with one another frequently. Doors would probably be locked if a client was in the building, for example.
So, it seems to me that if they're having issues with this then the problem is likely the process they're using or ill defined goals. He's right, the IT staff, structural IT if you will, don't need to know until after the dev team has a working model that's fairly close to feature complete. We did internal provisioning, I'm sure this is a little slower, but I imagine the process is much the same.
To my eyes this looks like Yet Another Management Problem (YAMP). It seems like piss poor managing, improper goal setting, and generally wasting time for no real efficiencies. Funny enough, if you hire good people, pay them well, and shut the hell up and listen to them so that you can give them the tools they need - they usually do a really good job at getting stuff done when you give them the freedom and space to do so. If they know what it is they're meant to be doing and you give them the tools to do it and then get out of their way then they get the job done. If they don't get the job done there's all sorts of problems but it's usually the fault of not giving them the ability to do the job you wanted - be it communication, realistic time periods, or the appropriate tools.
Also, the tools aren't what the vendor suggested. They're the ones they users requested. Strangely enough, keeping people satisfied and engaged enables them to do good work and actually have an investment in doing good work. Imagine that?
At first I tried the sort of micromanaging and the whole helping thing. This was because I'd started as just one person with a single other employee. So this was my baby. Fortunately, I was smart enough to hire people more capable than I. They were honest enough to tell me to stop helping. Given that I'm not usually an idiot, I listened. They were better at it than I was - that wasn't my area of expertise and I really had too much work to do elsewhere which is why I'd hired them in the first place.
So, to all you managers out there, take it from me... Shut the hell up and listen. Give them the tools they need and the space to do what you asked. Articulate and ensure that they know not just the process but the goals. Guide - d