Instead of "tweaking the bios," why didn't you convince someone to let you put VMWare ESXi on a server somewhere, and run XP there via the vCenter client? Or put Virtual Box on everyone's system where necessary to run the legacy XP? Another alternative would be to cobble yourself up some Windows Server instances on Amazon and accomplish what you were trying to do from there, VPNing into your local network if necessary to get to any floating licenses your company needed.
Dang inexperienced kids. Now a 54 year old guy like me would have known all that.:)
where some bright fellow in the government mistakes a real document for a false one, or vice versa, and makes a decision about some silly thing like national defense based on misinformation.
The new service from AppleGoogleMicrosoft. Put your files there. Store them. Depend on them. PAY for their storage. And we'll just say bye to the whole thing when some MBA-asshole (but I repeat myself) wants to make his bonus by "saving" money this quarter.
I usually just plug the earphone jack into the mic jack and record. Will radio shack cease to manufacture wires with male jacks at both ends? Just trying to be prepared over here.
Interesting. You've described the main flaw in capitalism, but you don't see it. The most profitable thing that self-interested capitalists can do is to purchase the government, after which capitalism ceases and cronyism becomes the rule of law. This has, indeed, been going on for over a century in the USA, and ha become a bit more blatant of late.
I'm curious though, what makes you think that power companies in Virginia, specifically Dominion Resources Inc is a "socialist entity." I expect that they might beg to differ.
No. I meant capitalism. FYI, I wasn't claiming communism or socialism is "better." I'm describing a behavioral phenomenon.
In fact, both capitalism and socialism are pretty lousy as methods of social organization, but nothing better has turned up yet and if it did, the originators of any better ideas would be hunted down and excluded from presidential campaigns.
Capitalism enforces ever rising levels of mediocrity. Like what's in Wal-Mart, every product or service is made to be *just* reliable enough to sell and beat the competition, if there is any. The power grid is *just* good enough so that no company will spend money to fix it. As for the actual physical grid itself, there's no significant competition.Thinking ahead to emergencies doesn't figure into this, and don't even start to discuss the national interest if it compromises profit somewhere. EMP anyone?
Agreed. The "diet can cure diabetes" meme is so much popsci crap. Blood sugar in type 2s can be managed with diet, to some degree, by some people. There is no "cure." Moreover, the stem cell treatment that may work for type 1 diabetics probably won't work for type 2 diabetics. Type 2 diabetics often have insulin. Their bodies just can't use the insulin that's there. Adding more doesn't necessarily help.
Sorry. Having lived with a type 2 diabetic for the last decade makes me touchy about the topic.
No, actually, I was thinking about a comment I read on Slashdot where a russian programmer criticized VB6 as "too simple." He sort of typified what was wrong with a certain class of mathematicians and programmers.
As for what you're describing, I'm with you on those. FYI, I prefer error message Haiku (http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/error-haiku.html).
The community of programmers splits sloppily into "I want something understandable and easy to use" (VB6, PHP) and "I want something internally consistent and aesthetically pleasing from a mathematical standpoint (Powershell, C++, Pascal).
Neither side is entirely right, or wrong. Any good programming language should be both consistent AND immediately understandable by a human with only programming language concepts as background knowledge. Thus far, such an animal is imaginary, despite what the Python folks think.
There's a subset of self- absorbed, arrogant twits that believe that if a programming language is "too simple," it's just wrong and You. Just. Don't. Understand. REAL. Programming! I tend to filter them out as noise and recommend you do the same.
Yes, SaaS and web based apps have their place in life. So do local apps. Neither is going away, ever, despite what some breathless 20-something goofball chooses to post to Slashdot.
I happened to monitor the debate on the Microsoft forums on the start button and the sentiment among users was *overwhelmingly* "Don't TAKE MY START BUTTON AWAY!" This is just another example of some self-absorbed Microsoft "genius" with a brainwave that there's a "better" way to do something. The start button was just too obvious and simple. Well, listen up, genius, whoever you are. YOU ARE NOT STEVE JOBS AND NEVER WILL BE. You *do not* know better.
They're desperate, as they should be. There's less then 40 years of conventional oil at current usage rates. Far more importantly, the remaining oil is going to have declining energy return all the way to the bottom. If the oil companies can put the days of reckoning off for five more years, they've done well for themselves, and we have that much longer before people start starving.
Installing ghostery is the first thing I do now when I install a browser. You'll find that you can't interact with a lot of sites, or write comments on them if their tracking software is off, which gives you a good list of sites to stay away from.
All corporation do have one bias. They are all serve themselves. Concentrations of media ownership means you only get the points of view that serve the ownership of those major corporation. Specifically, that's these guys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlocking_directorate.
Feel free to find a real conflict between them. I'd be interested to know what that might be.
The problem with "rich guys" is that they effectively have become the government. Money = power, and a portion of that power comes from media ownership. As for "political causes," I'd like not to be ruled by an oligarchy of the wealthy as I have an old fashioned affection for democracy and have the perception to have noticed that while an inventor or an entrepreneur is productive, a hedge fund synthetic derivatives trader is a parasite.
Having a government that responds to middle class folks like me depends on having a minimal parasite load.
If you only know about business or politics, you won't get this.
are the best news outlets out there simply because they report on real newsworthy events like politics, the economy, world conflicts, and so on. NPR has become a series of puff pieces on sports and entertainment with perhaps one or two very *badly* researched news stories. CNN too focuses on entertainment. Fox is a propaganda noise machine. The networks are bland pablum, safe for 6- and 86-year olds, while the rest of the USA's media are at the level of Entertainment Tonight, The National Enquirer, AM talk radio and NewsMax.
If you want real news now, you go international. You go to blogs. You go to the remaining local papers across the world. Any privately owned major media outlet now is just a corporate propaganda and distraction device.
will assume that the most important aspects of existence involve cat pictures, kid pictures, porn, viagra, penis enlargement, breast enlargement, celebrity news and that most frequently mentioned country, Nigeria.
I for one, welcome our new, well endowed, artificially intelligent, trailer trash overlords
A great deal of math and science is conceptually trivial. What trips me up is symbolic notation. For some reason, it gives my brain fits. Give me the same problem with a decent verbal explanation and yeah, I'll have it coded up for you in a few minutes, thanks. Obviously math notation works for most people, but not for everyone.
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Instead of "tweaking the bios," why didn't you convince someone to let you put VMWare ESXi on a server somewhere, and run XP there via the vCenter client? Or put Virtual Box on everyone's system where necessary to run the legacy XP? Another alternative would be to cobble yourself up some Windows Server instances on Amazon and accomplish what you were trying to do from there, VPNing into your local network if necessary to get to any floating licenses your company needed.
Dang inexperienced kids. Now a 54 year old guy like me would have known all that. :)
It was an MBA class, by the way.
Why am I not surprised?
where some bright fellow in the government mistakes a real document for a false one, or vice versa, and makes a decision about some silly thing like national defense based on misinformation.
But of course, that will never happen.
The new service from AppleGoogleMicrosoft. Put your files there. Store them. Depend on them. PAY for their storage. And we'll just say bye to the whole thing when some MBA-asshole (but I repeat myself) wants to make his bonus by "saving" money this quarter.
I usually just plug the earphone jack into the mic jack and record. Will radio shack cease to manufacture wires with male jacks at both ends? Just trying to be prepared over here.
The USA is declining, we know, but the information was finally found. What difference does it make where it was found?
Interesting. You've described the main flaw in capitalism, but you don't see it. The most profitable thing that self-interested capitalists can do is to purchase the government, after which capitalism ceases and cronyism becomes the rule of law. This has, indeed, been going on for over a century in the USA, and ha become a bit more blatant of late.
I'm curious though, what makes you think that power companies in Virginia, specifically Dominion Resources Inc is a "socialist entity." I expect that they might beg to differ.
No. I meant capitalism. FYI, I wasn't claiming communism or socialism is "better." I'm describing a behavioral phenomenon.
In fact, both capitalism and socialism are pretty lousy as methods of social organization, but nothing better has turned up yet and if it did, the originators of any better ideas would be hunted down and excluded from presidential campaigns.
Capitalism enforces ever rising levels of mediocrity. Like what's in Wal-Mart, every product or service is made to be *just* reliable enough to sell and beat the competition, if there is any. The power grid is *just* good enough so that no company will spend money to fix it. As for the actual physical grid itself, there's no significant competition.Thinking ahead to emergencies doesn't figure into this, and don't even start to discuss the national interest if it compromises profit somewhere. EMP anyone?
Oh come on. You know someone had to say it.
Agreed. The "diet can cure diabetes" meme is so much popsci crap. Blood sugar in type 2s can be managed with diet, to some degree, by some people. There is no "cure." Moreover, the stem cell treatment that may work for type 1 diabetics probably won't work for type 2 diabetics. Type 2 diabetics often have insulin. Their bodies just can't use the insulin that's there. Adding more doesn't necessarily help.
Sorry. Having lived with a type 2 diabetic for the last decade makes me touchy about the topic.
No, actually, I was thinking about a comment I read on Slashdot where a russian programmer criticized VB6 as "too simple." He sort of typified what was wrong with a certain class of mathematicians and programmers.
As for what you're describing, I'm with you on those. FYI, I prefer error message Haiku (http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/error-haiku.html).
The community of programmers splits sloppily into "I want something understandable and easy to use" (VB6, PHP) and "I want something internally consistent and aesthetically pleasing from a mathematical standpoint (Powershell, C++, Pascal).
Neither side is entirely right, or wrong. Any good programming language should be both consistent AND immediately understandable by a human with only programming language concepts as background knowledge. Thus far, such an animal is imaginary, despite what the Python folks think.
There's a subset of self- absorbed, arrogant twits that believe that if a programming language is "too simple," it's just wrong and You. Just. Don't. Understand. REAL. Programming! I tend to filter them out as noise and recommend you do the same.
Yes, SaaS and web based apps have their place in life. So do local apps. Neither is going away, ever, despite what some breathless 20-something goofball chooses to post to Slashdot.
I happened to monitor the debate on the Microsoft forums on the start button and the sentiment among users was *overwhelmingly* "Don't TAKE MY START BUTTON AWAY!" This is just another example of some self-absorbed Microsoft "genius" with a brainwave that there's a "better" way to do something. The start button was just too obvious and simple. Well, listen up, genius, whoever you are. YOU ARE NOT STEVE JOBS AND NEVER WILL BE. You *do not* know better.
FAIL, FAIL, HUMAN FACTORS FAIL....
Which has nothing to do with overall supply, and even less to do with depleting energy return of hydrocarbons over time.
Numbers. They're good things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_mile_of_oil
The other alternative is a temporary instance of a VM in a cloud service. Use and toss much like a mobile phone.
They're desperate, as they should be. There's less then 40 years of conventional oil at current usage rates. Far more importantly, the remaining oil is going to have declining energy return all the way to the bottom. If the oil companies can put the days of reckoning off for five more years, they've done well for themselves, and we have that much longer before people start starving.
Installing ghostery is the first thing I do now when I install a browser. You'll find that you can't interact with a lot of sites, or write comments on them if their tracking software is off, which gives you a good list of sites to stay away from.
All corporation do have one bias. They are all serve themselves. Concentrations of media ownership means you only get the points of view that serve the ownership of those major corporation. Specifically, that's these guys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlocking_directorate.
Feel free to find a real conflict between them. I'd be interested to know what that might be.
The problem with "rich guys" is that they effectively have become the government. Money = power, and a portion of that power comes from media ownership. As for "political causes," I'd like not to be ruled by an oligarchy of the wealthy as I have an old fashioned affection for democracy and have the perception to have noticed that while an inventor or an entrepreneur is productive, a hedge fund synthetic derivatives trader is a parasite.
Having a government that responds to middle class folks like me depends on having a minimal parasite load.
If you only know about business or politics, you won't get this.
Sorry, you're sentence is not making sense. How can these two go together?
What could possibly go wrong? Oh wait, in the USA, they're the same now.
Same question though.
are the best news outlets out there simply because they report on real newsworthy events like politics, the economy, world conflicts, and so on. NPR has become a series of puff pieces on sports and entertainment with perhaps one or two very *badly* researched news stories. CNN too focuses on entertainment. Fox is a propaganda noise machine. The networks are bland pablum, safe for 6- and 86-year olds, while the rest of the USA's media are at the level of Entertainment Tonight, The National Enquirer, AM talk radio and NewsMax.
If you want real news now, you go international. You go to blogs. You go to the remaining local papers across the world. Any privately owned major media outlet now is just a corporate propaganda and distraction device.
will assume that the most important aspects of existence involve cat pictures, kid pictures, porn, viagra, penis enlargement, breast enlargement, celebrity news and that most frequently mentioned country, Nigeria.
I for one, welcome our new, well endowed, artificially intelligent, trailer trash overlords
A great deal of math and science is conceptually trivial. What trips me up is symbolic notation. For some reason, it gives my brain fits. Give me the same problem with a decent verbal explanation and yeah, I'll have it coded up for you in a few minutes, thanks. Obviously math notation works for most people, but not for everyone.