What's really bothersome is not that they were collecting the data but that he had to prove his innocence instead of the State having to prove his guilt. It's a disturbing trend where we're proving innocence as opposed to relying on the State to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt. (Or more likely than not, in the case of civil matters.)
As a defendant, you should never have to prove your innocence. The verbiage might seem trivial but it's the underlying concept, and how important it is, that makes me alarmed. Not that long ago, I had a conversation on/. where the person thought it was outdated and "stupid" that it was better for ten guilty people to go free than one innocent person be jailed.
Sadly, I'm not even remotely kidding about that conversation. I'm not exaggerating and it is not hyperbole. They not only stated that but they made comments that supported that sentiment - before and since. They're not alone, they had people who openly agreed with them. I should not have to prove that I'm innocent. Not at all. Needing to find an alibi, from that many years ago, is crazy. Given the time that has passed, the case should have not been prosecuted unless it was so air-tight that an alibi would not have made a difference. That's awfully close to, if not being past, the line where one is proving innocence.
The fact that the records are kept is secondary to that - and kind of disturbing but there's not much we can do about it unless we wish to enact legislation to prohibit or require data retention. Right now, they're free to retain those records. It'd also be a bit difficult to ensure records are not kept.
It also depends on where you do your banking and how much you're depositing into the institution. If you're depositing sums that greatly exceed the FDIC values, for example, you're going to get a different interest rate than the guy who saved up $25,000. If you're going with a private bank then you may get even higher rates.
I do not know all the details about all the variations but there's more than one type of bank out there. When I sold my business, I was given access to a real person who was a financial advisor - by my bank and at no cost. They spent time coming to visit, answer questions, come talk, talk on the phone, etc... They were really handy to have and the bank provided their services as no cost for a month.
Actually, I think they were available longer than a month but I only had enough questions to keep them busy for a month. I believe that they normally charged for the service but provided it at no cost initially. As I recall, they were going to start charging for it at some point but I didn't need the service beyond that. That would have been 2007 so I don't remember numbers and names but that's the gist of it. I have no idea if they typically give away such services but I was going to be moving a whole lot of money through them and they might have had a policy of offering such to people who were in that position.
Today, other than private banking, I mostly use credit unions. I much prefer them and the services they provide. They too may opt to offer a larger interest rate that depends on the amount of money you have deposited there.
I can't be the last old-guy here. I've seen it throughout the thread so you're not alone. It's COBOL. It stands for something like COmmon Business Oriented Language. Something like that, at any rate. I played with it years and years ago - actually after I'd played with BASIC. I want to say that I played with it in about 1987 or 1988.
I don't remember what it was about it that I didn't like but the fact remains that I didn't like it. I think it was that it was tough to read, as a human, that made me dislike it so much. I do seem to recall that that problem sort of started to go away as I used it more frequently. However, it never really went away - which might say more about me than it does about the language, and I'm okay with that.
C was a bit like that. C++ was less like that but I'd been reading C for a while. While not really the same, I do okay at 'reading' PHP. PERL doesn't even need obfuscation. As an aside; I'm not sure about spelling it Perl or PERL. It's usually spelled Perl but it's an acronym for something or other.
Hmm... You wrote, "bale us out." Really? From reading your post, it looks like that wasn't said for ironic reasons. I'm pretty sure you mean 'bail.' Unless you've somehow twisted the adage to have something to do with bundling together a bunch of stuff, such as cotton or hay, then I'm pretty sure the word you're looking for is 'bail.' Like one bails someone out of jail, hot water, or a sinking boat. Perhaps you were too busy worried about others doing the needful and didn't have time to attend to your own problems.
But of course. They should rewrite their code every time a new fad language comes about and claims to resolve the ills of the old while not inserting any new problems. I sold and retired but I'm damned glad I didn't have any idiots like that. See, we *did* rewrite in a 'new' language.
I'd written the original in C. We rewrote it in C++. By we I mean they but we as a company. I did a bunch of research and even audited a class in C++ before deciding to let them go ahead with it. In my case, it wasn't because it was a fad language but because it brought benefits to the table and we could keep the existing code and just upgrade it as needed/time allowed. It also happened that this was around the time where I'd really figured out that I'd hired these people because they were better at it than I was and I was unable to take it further or to the places where I wanted it to go. I needed real professionals for that.
So, while we did change (and sort of rewrite) it was not to be fashionable, trendy, and had real benefits. It also happens that the idea to rewrite in C++ had already popped up a few times, I'd actually asked if it might be a worthwhile choice based on some materials that I'd read, and the entire (as in every last one) team was in favor of it.
I believe you'll find you're money is always cash. As far as I know, they don't charge to deposit money. They charge to deposit cash. Cash has some problems of its own, from security to physical storage, and they seem to want to minimize its use - and we can speculate about the reasons for that.
It takes an exceedingly long time (comparatively speaking) because of all the notices and checks that are made to it. At least that's how it was explained to me. I've moved large sums across borders. It varies but can take as little as a couple of days or up to a week - depending on transfer type and what it is a transfer to.
There's a lot that can be done one the back-end that makes me think that we really haven't got time for teaching all of that. Are you saying we should teach 'em all PHP, AJAX, Ruby, MySQL, MongoDB, etc? There's more to a website than slapping up Joomla and throwing a theme on it. Also, plenty of people make money doing this. Hell, Twitter, Slashdot, and Facebook are websites. There are others that are far more complicated.
Do they think us old folks don't notice the cuties? Hell, sometimes we get to sleep with 'em.
I've a girlfriend at the moment but there's a certain special quality about a marginally insane crazy college chick with daddy issues. I did not sleep with any of my students. I have not slept with any of my former students - but I have gotten wasted with a couple of them back when I used to drink. They were no longer my students and were over the age of 21 as far as I know.
Oh you silly child. No, the students who remained loved my class. I hated it because I could not devote enough time to actually teach them all. I wanted to teach them mathematics, not rote mathematics. I hated it. There is not enough time in my day, or in their day, to do so.
On the other hand, yes I am an asshole. I fully admit, accept, and intend it.
I am just getting to read the responses. There are a few to mine (and then to yours) that indicate they would not have passed the exam. I'd already stressed the importance of following instructions - including the importance of bringing a pen with blue or black ink.
Pretty much. It's not like these kids were going to go on to be mathematicians. They were going to be (many of them) physical education teachers. (I kid you not.)
The grade didn't impact a whole lot but it did go into the books. Follow directions. 'Snot hard. Just follow 'em. If you don't understand the directions - stop and ask. The importance of following instructions and asking if they did not understand any of them was stressed on day one. Day two, we found out if you paid the least bit of attention on day one.
Two things. That sounds good and is a nice pithy thought but we both know better. The second is that... Ah, screw it. You'll only want to argue anyhow. Yet, I suspect if you look at where I am and where you are - and then at who followed the rules, you would still just want to argue. Have a nice day.
It's interesting that you point that out. I went and looked and there's a Google Maps for business/work. I'd think there's a serviceability/merchantability obligation there - irrespective of any attempt to attempt to will it away UNLESS they already specifically included some such. So, unless they have a clause in there specifically granting them immunity then a jury might find them partially culpable and there's a damned good chance that they *will* be named in the lawsuit. And there will be a lawsuit.;-)
I'm not even sure how they'd word such a thing and I'm not going to invest the time in reading the TOS/EULA for that. I'm not going to read it tomorrow, either. I'm going to assume they've got that covered, but if they don't... It's too bad that we hardly ever hear the follow-up to these sorts of things. Of course, it can also drag out through the courts for years though I'm pretty sure somebody is in the wrong here. It might even be multiple parties. I wonder if there were any mysterious priceless family heirlooms in the one that was also destroyed?;-)
I taught college maths for three semesters after retiring. The lack of longevity should be an indication of how much I enjoyed it. I only taught two different classes and then just one class for the final semester. I sort of enjoyed it but it was a "teacher's college" where they graduate future teachers. (It was UMF.) I'd had some decent instructors and borrowed/modified this entrance exam. It tells you a lot about the student's abilities.
At any rate, I did the tried and true exam at the start of two of those semesters. I did not bother doing so for the third. This was our second day class and I'd given them some instructions on the first day. I told everyone to not flip the paper over until they were told to do so. Anyone who turned the exam over prior to being told to do so was quietly marked as a failure. There were no questions asked and I let them keep going. I then told them the exam's rules.
The exam was to be done in black or blue pen. They'd been instructed to bring one on the first day of class. I told them to read all of the exam questions and instructions completely before answering any of them. The top of the exam also included the instructions to read all of the questions/instructions thoroughly prior to answering any of them.
The third to last "question" was instructions that said to finish reading the exam, sign the top of the page in blue or black ink, not to mark anywhere else on the front of the exam, but to continue pretending to work or to answer the bonus question. The bonus question, I forget how it was worded, was the last question and the bonus was to draw an impressionist's sketch of pi on the back of the exam.
Most people wrote their name in first. Many did all the questions until they got to #7 (? - I think it had ten questions - buggered if I remember all the details). In both of the years that I did it, only a few people actually got it right. It wasn't my original idea or anything.
However, I did fail (for that exam) those who failed it. It was a simple pass/fail exam where failure counted as a zero. It was not a mathematics test, it was a test to see how well they would follow instructions in my class. If they can't follow instructions then they'll need to learn how and we can start there.
For the most part, it worked out well. It did not work out well for everyone. After doing it a second time, I got an angry phone call from a parent (seriously, who has their parent's call their professor at a university about failing a test?) who was really unhappy that I'd given their brilliant daughter a failing score on the exam. She'd already failed it when she flipped it over before being told to but she failed it when she did the work in pencil and she failed it again when she completed the problems up until #7.
I refused to remove the grade. She, and her parents (her mother, specifically) were livid. She didn't drop the course. She passed but just barely. It seems she'd been to a private school and was considered very bright. She barely passed an introduction to collegiate mathematics... Who the hell has their parents call their professor because they legitimately failed an exam? It didn't even count for much. They expected me to not re-test but to just change the grade.
I did not change the grade. She even showed up after class with fake tears - not even good fake crying. Some of the folks who failed it were a little pissed but they got the point - and did well, most of them. I can only imagine what this person must have lead for a life to get to that point. It must have been pretty inept if they were used to being able to get stuff like that "fixed" by calling the parental units or pretending to cry. Presumably, she's out there teaching someone today - probably in some public school somewhere in Rural America.
At any rate, that's just one of the many reasons why I simply did the one more semester that I'd said I'd do. I'd have not even done that semester but I had said I would do it and I try to do what I say I will do. She was one
If you can get away with it, preserve ~/ and you won't even have to do much in the way of customization. That's not applicable this time, theoretically, but none of it is applicable as this doesn't appear to impact Linux users.
However, avoiding reformatting/home or ~/ are both awesome ways to do a "repair" install in a lot of cases so it is worth mentioning it. As for your use of Lubuntu, I agree with your OS choice. Lubuntu is my favorite distro - even on bleeding edge hardware. If folks think LXDE is fast on older hardware, they should see it fly on new hardware.
I keep thinking about saying this and I never do because I am not sure how to say it properly. There are a few political things we are a bit different about but that's okay. The gist of it is welcome to your country. It is not welcome to my country. Every time, you express your gratitude for your adopted country. Even when you are disappointed you are seemingly sincere in your appreciation.
So, it is not welcome to my country but, rather, it is welcome to your country. It is a bit late to say so but I prefer to think of it as long-overdue. Thanks for coming.
Ah, okay. A quick look at Google says there's a few documentaries with 1944 in the title. One of which was what made me think I'd potentially seen it before. I'll have to give them a shot but, to be clear, I usually try to make it through anything I start. Sometimes, I just can't do it. I may leave it running but I won't be paying attention to it any more. I'll give them both a shot.
I was able to find 1944 at my favorite pirate stream site* but they do not appear to have a link to In the Crosswind on the site. In fact, when I search IMDb by the title I...
Wait a minute. You called it Risttuules in your original post. That shows up in IMDb and it looks like I may be able to find it elsewhere. Ha! Okay, I found it by that name. I should have checked that name first.
* My favorite pirate stream site is ZMovie. Seeing as you were kind enough to share two movies that you thought I might like, I shall share two of my favorite streaming sites. I prefer the former but that's not for any good reason except that it's the one that I found before Solar. Also, Solar doesn't seem to like being added as a custom search engine. I've not tried it in a while but it used to be that if you added it as a search engine then it would go in and get listed like one. It just would always time out, complain about redirecting too many times, error out on a strange disallowed referrer editor, or things like that. I suspect they've got a complicated and borderline retarded.htaccess file. But, without further ado: http://www.zmovie.tw/ https://www.solarmovie.ph/
If you're into sports then: http://www.streamsports.me/ http://www.vipbox.me/ (This one seems to have taken a turn for the worse. It still functioned with some work, or it did the last time I used it.
Anyhow, I've no idea how much I'll enjoy either of the two movies as they're not typically things that I enjoy. I'm almost always, with little variation, watching energy dense documentaries if I'm watching anything at all. Hopefully these will be nice and I will enjoy them. We'll have to see. I might get time to watch one tonight - I'm not sure. If not then I'll get to them both as soon as possible. You're free to follow-up via email if you're curious. Either way, thanks! They just might be something that I truly enjoy.
I am familiar with Escrima. I had a friend who's father was a ranked master. I guess you could say my father and he were friends. They were both Marines. His son never joined the Marines and I've long since lost track. I once got to see his father spar with a master of Kenpo and that was exciting - it was also exceedingly fast. They were, truly, a blur.
I have been sitting here trying to think of ways to articulate this. I've probably spent about fifteen minutes pondering. I've typed, erased, and typed again. I'm going to guess that you've done some competitions or have been to competitions and that you've done a lot of sparring? If so, you notice how many martial artists will circle and seek a weakness?
I do not do that. I do not circle - nor do animals, more often than not. Only when animals are trained do they circle each other - usually. Normally, they go in straight. I depend on quick and precise, as opposed to brute force. It's actually graceful. It is finesse but sudden and exact. I will do something stupid (seeming) like take an easy strike and hit my opponent in the nose. I won't do that because I expect it to cause damage. I'm trained to do that because it blinds them for a moment, they will reach accordingly, and it then opens them up to other vulnerabilities such as taking out a knee.
I never, ever, kick higher than my waist - with one notable exception. If the opponent happens to be on the ground, I may kick as high as I possibly can so that I can slam my heel down on their sternum or throat.
I do not know what words you're used to but it's akin to Systema (Spetsnaz' martial art, sometimes called Systema Spetsnaz) and Krav Maga (Israeli martial art used by Mossad and IDF). They made the conscious choice to tame it quite a bit because it was considered too rough for use in Afghanistan and Iraq. No, that's not bragging or anything. They really did tame it just for that reason.
So, if you and I were in a fight then you'd probably beat me up. However, if you didn't beat me up then you'd be in a whole bunch of trouble. You're presumably younger, stronger, and faster than I. You've also probably dedicated many more hours to training than I have. That's okay, my ego isn't frail. You'd almost certainly kick my ass. If you did not kick my ass then you'd be in a spot of trouble.
Anyhow, the same goes to you. If you happen to get into the States then make sure you let me know ahead of time and I'll show you around. I know some people who are very heavily into martial arts - as in really into them and not into them as a fad or as a way to be tough. I'd be happy to show you around, introduce you, and even let you hang out at my house while doing so. I've got a guest house with plenty of room and it sits empty the vast majority of the time.
I hate calling it a guest house. It's just an old farmhouse that was here when I bought the place. I was going to have it torn down but it's from the 1840s, post and beam construction, and was in beautiful shape. So, instead of having it demolished and the basement filled in, I hired a company to come in and do a rehab and a restitution so that it's near original condition in a lot of ways. I've had a variety of people who used it for various purposes. It seems pompous to call it a guest house, though it technically is, and is disingenuous in that it implies more to it than there really is.
Ah well... At any rate, hit me up via email if you want. This thread is going to expire soon. The site is *not* up and running just yet but I'm working on a project. I'm getting https://kgiii.gq/ up and running and seeing what one can accomplish using nothing but free tools and their own labor. It does appear that the site is having some technical difficulties - it's at the server level. That's to be expected for a free hosting company but I was pleased to see that the outage was expected to happen and was announced. They're actually in the process of replacing some hardware.
I could see it as being something that's not only long-term fiscally advantageous but also something that enables them to push the envelope and thus give their products a lead. Part of the picture I have in my head means that they'd be selling the chips themselves instead of limiting them to their own devices. That sort of goes against business practices seen by Apple in the past but I guess it's possible, however unlikely. As a long-term strategy, it might be worthwhile.
I did mention one of the larger drawbacks in my earlier reply. It puts them at a place of a single point of failure - unless another company *also* has the tech and can spin up the fab style/tech quickly in case of a crisis. I'm thinking that's really antithetical to typical corporate behavior with regards to Apple.
That said, if Apple made server hardware that was not a fashion accessory and had the longevity, durability, and build quality associated with the consumer lines then I'd absolutely consider purchasing it for my home use. I don't refresh nearly as often, as a home user, so it's okay for me to buy a server and expect to get five to seven years out of it. Quality isn't so valuable a metric (but is still a metric - just not as valuable) when you're going to refresh in 2-3 years already and have already factored in the MTBF with your purchase.
As a home user, that metric becomes more heavily weighted, at least it does in my choices, and I'd give Apple a serious consideration at that point. I'd SERIOUSLY want to be able to have some alternatives. I'd really rather a different operating system on the bare metal. It is BSD and is Unix-like so I could live with it but it is not my preferences. So long as it had a decent VNC server and I could get VMWare up and running then I'd almost certainly opt for it - if it were an option and I was in the market for one.
I'm sure there's a VNC server application package that exists or could be converted easily enough. I want something better than SSH. RDP is nice but I prefer VNC. I'm not sure but I bet there's an RDP app for OS X so that's an option. I do insist on VMWare. I know that it is pricey but it's something that I absolutely insist on. If I could get VMWare to run on *BSD then I'd probably be a GhostBSD user today. VirtualBox is not, in fact, the same. I can use VirtualBox but I have acclimated to VMWare, am happy with it, prefer it, and it's something that I absolutely insist on. And, seeing as it's me making the choices and the choices are only impacting me, I get to decide such things.;-)
At any rate, I'd absolutely consider it. I am not, on the other hand, a business. Assuming it had the quality and subsequent longevity traditionally associated with Apple products then it might also be a viable solution for the small business market - where they're wanting to get longevity from devices. They are, to the best of my knowledge, not generally refreshing parts or the whole of their server room every couple of years.
However, I don't think they'd have to manufacture their own chips for that. If Apple wanted to be in the chip fad industry, beyond that of simply designing, then they'd absolutely be in that market. They've capital enough to enter any market they want. I mean that quite literally. There is no industrial field that is where cost is a barrier to entry for Apple that I can think of. Those guys have some serious, serious assets and cash on-hand. It'd very impressive.
As they do their own design, they probably do have some limited manufacturing capacity. You'd know more about that than I. They're not just designing and sending out to get a prototype built, are they? I'd expect they're prototyping in-house. It's obviously working well for them but if they're not prototyping in-house then I'd expect that to be eating into their time. Then again, maybe it's faster to have the fabs prototype than it is for them to do so in-house?
I really, really prefer a manual. Even if it were worse for efficiency, I'd prefer a manual. I can see a hill coming. I know what my load is. I know what my goal is. I know what the driving conditions are. Those are just a few things that an automatic can not account for.
I've not really kept up as well as I should have but, starting in the 80s and then into the 90s, they were working on adaptive automatic transmissions that would adjust, and set memories, according to the individual driving styles. So, not only did you have profiles available but it would develop a profile for you and would learn to shift according to your driving style.
I'm not sure what's come of that. I don't think I've heard it referenced in a long time. Whilst I am into automotive things, I am not an encyclopedia nor do I make an effort to know/remember everything. As I do not prefer automatic transmissions, I've not paid much attention to them. I remember them being fairly heavily discussed in Automobile, Car and Driver, and Road & Track. (All great magazines, by the way.) I want to say that the Dodge Neon, one of the variations on that, came with such an option but I don't think it was limited to just Dodge/Chrysler/Plymouth.
I've driven a few cars with a CVT. I've yet to be impressed with them, for the most part. I've driven a lot of them and I've only moderately liked it in the A6, WRX, Maxima. The rest that I've tried (probably about another half-dozen via rentals or friends/acquaintances) did not impress me. They do seem to have one marginal advantage, if it can be considered so, in that I noticed they've all been pretty good at reducing wheel spin during heavy acceleration. Except, in most cases, I don't think that was actually the desired outcome.;-)
My brain doesn't work that way. I'll remember details but have no idea what the name or acronym is. I can tell you all sorts of history but if you ask for a specific date or the names of the units (sometimes the people) involved then I may not be able to tell you.
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What's really bothersome is not that they were collecting the data but that he had to prove his innocence instead of the State having to prove his guilt. It's a disturbing trend where we're proving innocence as opposed to relying on the State to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt. (Or more likely than not, in the case of civil matters.)
As a defendant, you should never have to prove your innocence. The verbiage might seem trivial but it's the underlying concept, and how important it is, that makes me alarmed. Not that long ago, I had a conversation on /. where the person thought it was outdated and "stupid" that it was better for ten guilty people to go free than one innocent person be jailed.
Sadly, I'm not even remotely kidding about that conversation. I'm not exaggerating and it is not hyperbole. They not only stated that but they made comments that supported that sentiment - before and since. They're not alone, they had people who openly agreed with them. I should not have to prove that I'm innocent. Not at all. Needing to find an alibi, from that many years ago, is crazy. Given the time that has passed, the case should have not been prosecuted unless it was so air-tight that an alibi would not have made a difference. That's awfully close to, if not being past, the line where one is proving innocence.
The fact that the records are kept is secondary to that - and kind of disturbing but there's not much we can do about it unless we wish to enact legislation to prohibit or require data retention. Right now, they're free to retain those records. It'd also be a bit difficult to ensure records are not kept.
It also depends on where you do your banking and how much you're depositing into the institution. If you're depositing sums that greatly exceed the FDIC values, for example, you're going to get a different interest rate than the guy who saved up $25,000. If you're going with a private bank then you may get even higher rates.
I do not know all the details about all the variations but there's more than one type of bank out there. When I sold my business, I was given access to a real person who was a financial advisor - by my bank and at no cost. They spent time coming to visit, answer questions, come talk, talk on the phone, etc... They were really handy to have and the bank provided their services as no cost for a month.
Actually, I think they were available longer than a month but I only had enough questions to keep them busy for a month. I believe that they normally charged for the service but provided it at no cost initially. As I recall, they were going to start charging for it at some point but I didn't need the service beyond that. That would have been 2007 so I don't remember numbers and names but that's the gist of it. I have no idea if they typically give away such services but I was going to be moving a whole lot of money through them and they might have had a policy of offering such to people who were in that position.
Today, other than private banking, I mostly use credit unions. I much prefer them and the services they provide. They too may opt to offer a larger interest rate that depends on the amount of money you have deposited there.
I can't be the last old-guy here. I've seen it throughout the thread so you're not alone. It's COBOL. It stands for something like COmmon Business Oriented Language. Something like that, at any rate. I played with it years and years ago - actually after I'd played with BASIC. I want to say that I played with it in about 1987 or 1988.
I don't remember what it was about it that I didn't like but the fact remains that I didn't like it. I think it was that it was tough to read, as a human, that made me dislike it so much. I do seem to recall that that problem sort of started to go away as I used it more frequently. However, it never really went away - which might say more about me than it does about the language, and I'm okay with that.
C was a bit like that. C++ was less like that but I'd been reading C for a while. While not really the same, I do okay at 'reading' PHP. PERL doesn't even need obfuscation. As an aside; I'm not sure about spelling it Perl or PERL. It's usually spelled Perl but it's an acronym for something or other.
Hmm... You wrote, "bale us out." Really? From reading your post, it looks like that wasn't said for ironic reasons. I'm pretty sure you mean 'bail.' Unless you've somehow twisted the adage to have something to do with bundling together a bunch of stuff, such as cotton or hay, then I'm pretty sure the word you're looking for is 'bail.' Like one bails someone out of jail, hot water, or a sinking boat. Perhaps you were too busy worried about others doing the needful and didn't have time to attend to your own problems.
Oh, and Matthew - "The definition of 'a legacy system' is one that works".
That, that right there was beautiful. I'm going to say, "for some definition of works." However, that's a topic for another day.
I love a good novella - more so when it's one that is spot on and written by someone other than I.
But of course. They should rewrite their code every time a new fad language comes about and claims to resolve the ills of the old while not inserting any new problems. I sold and retired but I'm damned glad I didn't have any idiots like that. See, we *did* rewrite in a 'new' language.
I'd written the original in C. We rewrote it in C++. By we I mean they but we as a company. I did a bunch of research and even audited a class in C++ before deciding to let them go ahead with it. In my case, it wasn't because it was a fad language but because it brought benefits to the table and we could keep the existing code and just upgrade it as needed/time allowed. It also happened that this was around the time where I'd really figured out that I'd hired these people because they were better at it than I was and I was unable to take it further or to the places where I wanted it to go. I needed real professionals for that.
So, while we did change (and sort of rewrite) it was not to be fashionable, trendy, and had real benefits. It also happens that the idea to rewrite in C++ had already popped up a few times, I'd actually asked if it might be a worthwhile choice based on some materials that I'd read, and the entire (as in every last one) team was in favor of it.
I believe you'll find you're money is always cash. As far as I know, they don't charge to deposit money. They charge to deposit cash. Cash has some problems of its own, from security to physical storage, and they seem to want to minimize its use - and we can speculate about the reasons for that.
It takes an exceedingly long time (comparatively speaking) because of all the notices and checks that are made to it. At least that's how it was explained to me. I've moved large sums across borders. It varies but can take as little as a couple of days or up to a week - depending on transfer type and what it is a transfer to.
> If you like to stand between the feet of these giants (at the lowest level of this pyramid of giants), feel free.
Sure but then there is both the pride of having been the giant and the need for new giants all the time as our overall knowledge and skills increase.
Though, I suspect that, at a deeper level, even those giants we stand upon stand upon giants themselves. It's giants, all the way down.
There's a lot that can be done one the back-end that makes me think that we really haven't got time for teaching all of that. Are you saying we should teach 'em all PHP, AJAX, Ruby, MySQL, MongoDB, etc? There's more to a website than slapping up Joomla and throwing a theme on it. Also, plenty of people make money doing this. Hell, Twitter, Slashdot, and Facebook are websites. There are others that are far more complicated.
Do they think us old folks don't notice the cuties? Hell, sometimes we get to sleep with 'em.
I've a girlfriend at the moment but there's a certain special quality about a marginally insane crazy college chick with daddy issues. I did not sleep with any of my students. I have not slept with any of my former students - but I have gotten wasted with a couple of them back when I used to drink. They were no longer my students and were over the age of 21 as far as I know.
Oh you silly child. No, the students who remained loved my class. I hated it because I could not devote enough time to actually teach them all. I wanted to teach them mathematics, not rote mathematics. I hated it. There is not enough time in my day, or in their day, to do so.
On the other hand, yes I am an asshole. I fully admit, accept, and intend it.
I am just getting to read the responses. There are a few to mine (and then to yours) that indicate they would not have passed the exam. I'd already stressed the importance of following instructions - including the importance of bringing a pen with blue or black ink.
Pretty much. It's not like these kids were going to go on to be mathematicians. They were going to be (many of them) physical education teachers. (I kid you not.)
The grade didn't impact a whole lot but it did go into the books. Follow directions. 'Snot hard. Just follow 'em. If you don't understand the directions - stop and ask. The importance of following instructions and asking if they did not understand any of them was stressed on day one. Day two, we found out if you paid the least bit of attention on day one.
Two things. That sounds good and is a nice pithy thought but we both know better. The second is that... Ah, screw it. You'll only want to argue anyhow. Yet, I suspect if you look at where I am and where you are - and then at who followed the rules, you would still just want to argue. Have a nice day.
That would have been the proper choice for you. You're too special to follow directions.
It's interesting that you point that out. I went and looked and there's a Google Maps for business/work. I'd think there's a serviceability/merchantability obligation there - irrespective of any attempt to attempt to will it away UNLESS they already specifically included some such. So, unless they have a clause in there specifically granting them immunity then a jury might find them partially culpable and there's a damned good chance that they *will* be named in the lawsuit. And there will be a lawsuit. ;-)
I'm not even sure how they'd word such a thing and I'm not going to invest the time in reading the TOS/EULA for that. I'm not going to read it tomorrow, either. I'm going to assume they've got that covered, but if they don't... It's too bad that we hardly ever hear the follow-up to these sorts of things. Of course, it can also drag out through the courts for years though I'm pretty sure somebody is in the wrong here. It might even be multiple parties. I wonder if there were any mysterious priceless family heirlooms in the one that was also destroyed? ;-)
I taught college maths for three semesters after retiring. The lack of longevity should be an indication of how much I enjoyed it. I only taught two different classes and then just one class for the final semester. I sort of enjoyed it but it was a "teacher's college" where they graduate future teachers. (It was UMF.) I'd had some decent instructors and borrowed/modified this entrance exam. It tells you a lot about the student's abilities.
At any rate, I did the tried and true exam at the start of two of those semesters. I did not bother doing so for the third. This was our second day class and I'd given them some instructions on the first day. I told everyone to not flip the paper over until they were told to do so. Anyone who turned the exam over prior to being told to do so was quietly marked as a failure. There were no questions asked and I let them keep going. I then told them the exam's rules.
The exam was to be done in black or blue pen. They'd been instructed to bring one on the first day of class.
I told them to read all of the exam questions and instructions completely before answering any of them.
The top of the exam also included the instructions to read all of the questions/instructions thoroughly prior to answering any of them.
The third to last "question" was instructions that said to finish reading the exam, sign the top of the page in blue or black ink, not to mark anywhere else on the front of the exam, but to continue pretending to work or to answer the bonus question. The bonus question, I forget how it was worded, was the last question and the bonus was to draw an impressionist's sketch of pi on the back of the exam.
Most people wrote their name in first. Many did all the questions until they got to #7 (? - I think it had ten questions - buggered if I remember all the details). In both of the years that I did it, only a few people actually got it right. It wasn't my original idea or anything.
However, I did fail (for that exam) those who failed it. It was a simple pass/fail exam where failure counted as a zero. It was not a mathematics test, it was a test to see how well they would follow instructions in my class. If they can't follow instructions then they'll need to learn how and we can start there.
For the most part, it worked out well. It did not work out well for everyone. After doing it a second time, I got an angry phone call from a parent (seriously, who has their parent's call their professor at a university about failing a test?) who was really unhappy that I'd given their brilliant daughter a failing score on the exam. She'd already failed it when she flipped it over before being told to but she failed it when she did the work in pencil and she failed it again when she completed the problems up until #7.
I refused to remove the grade. She, and her parents (her mother, specifically) were livid. She didn't drop the course. She passed but just barely. It seems she'd been to a private school and was considered very bright. She barely passed an introduction to collegiate mathematics... Who the hell has their parents call their professor because they legitimately failed an exam? It didn't even count for much. They expected me to not re-test but to just change the grade.
I did not change the grade. She even showed up after class with fake tears - not even good fake crying. Some of the folks who failed it were a little pissed but they got the point - and did well, most of them. I can only imagine what this person must have lead for a life to get to that point. It must have been pretty inept if they were used to being able to get stuff like that "fixed" by calling the parental units or pretending to cry. Presumably, she's out there teaching someone today - probably in some public school somewhere in Rural America.
At any rate, that's just one of the many reasons why I simply did the one more semester that I'd said I'd do. I'd have not even done that semester but I had said I would do it and I try to do what I say I will do. She was one
If you can get away with it, preserve ~/ and you won't even have to do much in the way of customization. That's not applicable this time, theoretically, but none of it is applicable as this doesn't appear to impact Linux users.
However, avoiding reformatting /home or ~/ are both awesome ways to do a "repair" install in a lot of cases so it is worth mentioning it. As for your use of Lubuntu, I agree with your OS choice. Lubuntu is my favorite distro - even on bleeding edge hardware. If folks think LXDE is fast on older hardware, they should see it fly on new hardware.
I keep thinking about saying this and I never do because I am not sure how to say it properly. There are a few political things we are a bit different about but that's okay. The gist of it is welcome to your country. It is not welcome to my country. Every time, you express your gratitude for your adopted country. Even when you are disappointed you are seemingly sincere in your appreciation.
So, it is not welcome to my country but, rather, it is welcome to your country. It is a bit late to say so but I prefer to think of it as long-overdue. Thanks for coming.
Ah, okay. A quick look at Google says there's a few documentaries with 1944 in the title. One of which was what made me think I'd potentially seen it before. I'll have to give them a shot but, to be clear, I usually try to make it through anything I start. Sometimes, I just can't do it. I may leave it running but I won't be paying attention to it any more. I'll give them both a shot.
I was able to find 1944 at my favorite pirate stream site* but they do not appear to have a link to In the Crosswind on the site. In fact, when I search IMDb by the title I...
Wait a minute. You called it Risttuules in your original post. That shows up in IMDb and it looks like I may be able to find it elsewhere. Ha! Okay, I found it by that name. I should have checked that name first.
* My favorite pirate stream site is ZMovie. Seeing as you were kind enough to share two movies that you thought I might like, I shall share two of my favorite streaming sites. I prefer the former but that's not for any good reason except that it's the one that I found before Solar. Also, Solar doesn't seem to like being added as a custom search engine. I've not tried it in a while but it used to be that if you added it as a search engine then it would go in and get listed like one. It just would always time out, complain about redirecting too many times, error out on a strange disallowed referrer editor, or things like that. I suspect they've got a complicated and borderline retarded .htaccess file. But, without further ado:
http://www.zmovie.tw/
https://www.solarmovie.ph/
If you're into sports then:
http://www.streamsports.me/
http://www.vipbox.me/ (This one seems to have taken a turn for the worse. It still functioned with some work, or it did the last time I used it.
Anyhow, I've no idea how much I'll enjoy either of the two movies as they're not typically things that I enjoy. I'm almost always, with little variation, watching energy dense documentaries if I'm watching anything at all. Hopefully these will be nice and I will enjoy them. We'll have to see. I might get time to watch one tonight - I'm not sure. If not then I'll get to them both as soon as possible. You're free to follow-up via email if you're curious. Either way, thanks! They just might be something that I truly enjoy.
I am familiar with Escrima. I had a friend who's father was a ranked master. I guess you could say my father and he were friends. They were both Marines. His son never joined the Marines and I've long since lost track. I once got to see his father spar with a master of Kenpo and that was exciting - it was also exceedingly fast. They were, truly, a blur.
I have been sitting here trying to think of ways to articulate this. I've probably spent about fifteen minutes pondering. I've typed, erased, and typed again. I'm going to guess that you've done some competitions or have been to competitions and that you've done a lot of sparring? If so, you notice how many martial artists will circle and seek a weakness?
I do not do that. I do not circle - nor do animals, more often than not. Only when animals are trained do they circle each other - usually. Normally, they go in straight. I depend on quick and precise, as opposed to brute force. It's actually graceful. It is finesse but sudden and exact. I will do something stupid (seeming) like take an easy strike and hit my opponent in the nose. I won't do that because I expect it to cause damage. I'm trained to do that because it blinds them for a moment, they will reach accordingly, and it then opens them up to other vulnerabilities such as taking out a knee.
I never, ever, kick higher than my waist - with one notable exception. If the opponent happens to be on the ground, I may kick as high as I possibly can so that I can slam my heel down on their sternum or throat.
I do not know what words you're used to but it's akin to Systema (Spetsnaz' martial art, sometimes called Systema Spetsnaz) and Krav Maga (Israeli martial art used by Mossad and IDF). They made the conscious choice to tame it quite a bit because it was considered too rough for use in Afghanistan and Iraq. No, that's not bragging or anything. They really did tame it just for that reason.
So, if you and I were in a fight then you'd probably beat me up. However, if you didn't beat me up then you'd be in a whole bunch of trouble. You're presumably younger, stronger, and faster than I. You've also probably dedicated many more hours to training than I have. That's okay, my ego isn't frail. You'd almost certainly kick my ass. If you did not kick my ass then you'd be in a spot of trouble.
Anyhow, the same goes to you. If you happen to get into the States then make sure you let me know ahead of time and I'll show you around. I know some people who are very heavily into martial arts - as in really into them and not into them as a fad or as a way to be tough. I'd be happy to show you around, introduce you, and even let you hang out at my house while doing so. I've got a guest house with plenty of room and it sits empty the vast majority of the time.
I hate calling it a guest house. It's just an old farmhouse that was here when I bought the place. I was going to have it torn down but it's from the 1840s, post and beam construction, and was in beautiful shape. So, instead of having it demolished and the basement filled in, I hired a company to come in and do a rehab and a restitution so that it's near original condition in a lot of ways. I've had a variety of people who used it for various purposes. It seems pompous to call it a guest house, though it technically is, and is disingenuous in that it implies more to it than there really is.
Ah well... At any rate, hit me up via email if you want. This thread is going to expire soon. The site is *not* up and running just yet but I'm working on a project. I'm getting https://kgiii.gq/ up and running and seeing what one can accomplish using nothing but free tools and their own labor. It does appear that the site is having some technical difficulties - it's at the server level. That's to be expected for a free hosting company but I was pleased to see that the outage was expected to happen and was announced. They're actually in the process of replacing some hardware.
Seriously, feel free to visit or to
I could see it as being something that's not only long-term fiscally advantageous but also something that enables them to push the envelope and thus give their products a lead. Part of the picture I have in my head means that they'd be selling the chips themselves instead of limiting them to their own devices. That sort of goes against business practices seen by Apple in the past but I guess it's possible, however unlikely. As a long-term strategy, it might be worthwhile.
I did mention one of the larger drawbacks in my earlier reply. It puts them at a place of a single point of failure - unless another company *also* has the tech and can spin up the fab style/tech quickly in case of a crisis. I'm thinking that's really antithetical to typical corporate behavior with regards to Apple.
That said, if Apple made server hardware that was not a fashion accessory and had the longevity, durability, and build quality associated with the consumer lines then I'd absolutely consider purchasing it for my home use. I don't refresh nearly as often, as a home user, so it's okay for me to buy a server and expect to get five to seven years out of it. Quality isn't so valuable a metric (but is still a metric - just not as valuable) when you're going to refresh in 2-3 years already and have already factored in the MTBF with your purchase.
As a home user, that metric becomes more heavily weighted, at least it does in my choices, and I'd give Apple a serious consideration at that point. I'd SERIOUSLY want to be able to have some alternatives. I'd really rather a different operating system on the bare metal. It is BSD and is Unix-like so I could live with it but it is not my preferences. So long as it had a decent VNC server and I could get VMWare up and running then I'd almost certainly opt for it - if it were an option and I was in the market for one.
I'm sure there's a VNC server application package that exists or could be converted easily enough. I want something better than SSH. RDP is nice but I prefer VNC. I'm not sure but I bet there's an RDP app for OS X so that's an option. I do insist on VMWare. I know that it is pricey but it's something that I absolutely insist on. If I could get VMWare to run on *BSD then I'd probably be a GhostBSD user today. VirtualBox is not, in fact, the same. I can use VirtualBox but I have acclimated to VMWare, am happy with it, prefer it, and it's something that I absolutely insist on. And, seeing as it's me making the choices and the choices are only impacting me, I get to decide such things. ;-)
At any rate, I'd absolutely consider it. I am not, on the other hand, a business. Assuming it had the quality and subsequent longevity traditionally associated with Apple products then it might also be a viable solution for the small business market - where they're wanting to get longevity from devices. They are, to the best of my knowledge, not generally refreshing parts or the whole of their server room every couple of years.
However, I don't think they'd have to manufacture their own chips for that. If Apple wanted to be in the chip fad industry, beyond that of simply designing, then they'd absolutely be in that market. They've capital enough to enter any market they want. I mean that quite literally. There is no industrial field that is where cost is a barrier to entry for Apple that I can think of. Those guys have some serious, serious assets and cash on-hand. It'd very impressive.
As they do their own design, they probably do have some limited manufacturing capacity. You'd know more about that than I. They're not just designing and sending out to get a prototype built, are they? I'd expect they're prototyping in-house. It's obviously working well for them but if they're not prototyping in-house then I'd expect that to be eating into their time. Then again, maybe it's faster to have the fabs prototype than it is for them to do so in-house?
I really, really prefer a manual. Even if it were worse for efficiency, I'd prefer a manual. I can see a hill coming. I know what my load is. I know what my goal is. I know what the driving conditions are. Those are just a few things that an automatic can not account for.
I've not really kept up as well as I should have but, starting in the 80s and then into the 90s, they were working on adaptive automatic transmissions that would adjust, and set memories, according to the individual driving styles. So, not only did you have profiles available but it would develop a profile for you and would learn to shift according to your driving style.
I'm not sure what's come of that. I don't think I've heard it referenced in a long time. Whilst I am into automotive things, I am not an encyclopedia nor do I make an effort to know/remember everything. As I do not prefer automatic transmissions, I've not paid much attention to them. I remember them being fairly heavily discussed in Automobile, Car and Driver, and Road & Track. (All great magazines, by the way.) I want to say that the Dodge Neon, one of the variations on that, came with such an option but I don't think it was limited to just Dodge/Chrysler/Plymouth.
I've driven a few cars with a CVT. I've yet to be impressed with them, for the most part. I've driven a lot of them and I've only moderately liked it in the A6, WRX, Maxima. The rest that I've tried (probably about another half-dozen via rentals or friends/acquaintances) did not impress me. They do seem to have one marginal advantage, if it can be considered so, in that I noticed they've all been pretty good at reducing wheel spin during heavy acceleration. Except, in most cases, I don't think that was actually the desired outcome. ;-)
Nice. Thanks. ;-)
My brain doesn't work that way. I'll remember details but have no idea what the name or acronym is. I can tell you all sorts of history but if you ask for a specific date or the names of the units (sometimes the people) involved then I may not be able to tell you.