The hour carries with valuable meta information. Under our current system if it's 2 am, you have an idea that you probably won't get a hold of anyone if you called. With local times more or less being synchronous, 2 am is the same most everywhere and with it comes information about conditions in that time zone. Without this information using the pure UTC time, you'll still have to ask about the conditions on the ground in New Zealand. You'd have to ask follow up questions about whether 2am there is business hours or dinner time or sleeping time. It would be a nightmare. No, the current standardization is useful and communicates valuable information in a convenient format. I am convinced that OP is a troll.
Only the V1 models. Be careful. I bought an e280 and got burned as it was a V2 model (tiny tiny print). Some folks are working on a Rockbox port for the V2, but it's slow going.
That is just plain not true (16e being restricted only). I would like to see your sources. WiMAX of all kinds runs on a variety of signal strengths and allocated/unallocated portions of the spectrum. And I would not call 16d "old." It's what most people are using. Every company that I've dealt with is a fixed provider and has bought 16d equipment. I don't know any mobile providers yet (they are coming, but I don't personally know of any).
Please support your post with a reference of some sort.
Therefore, to gain a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest excellence;
to subjugate the enemy's army without doing battle is the highest of excellence
Therefore, the best warfare strategy is to attack the enemy's plans, next is to attack alliances, next is to attack the army, and the worst is to attack a walled city.
What we just saw was a failed attack on the walled city. Comeon people, this spam stuff is easy. We should be more passive, evasive, quiet, never raising our voices to spammers, never confronting them, yet battling them by proxy, and avoiding them. Use spamassassin to quietly drop email's that are flagged as spam. Use various rules, checks, and metrics to assign probable spam flags to messages, keep your rules up to date, monitor trends, evade and obfuscate.
If the general cannot control his temper and sends troops to swarm the walls, one third of them will be killed, and the city will still not be taken.
This is the kind of calamity when laying siege to a walled city.
Generally in warfare:
* If ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; * if five times, attack them; * if double, divide them; * if equal, be able to fight them; * if fewer, be able to evade them; * if weaker, be able to avoid them.
I'm the CTO of Altamente, mentioned in the article. We invited Peter to the conference in Puerto Rico simply because we felt that the government of Puerto Rico needed to hear what Massachusetts was doing with regard to IT. How simple is that? We don't do any business in/with Mass.
It was a great opportunity for one government to share with another some of the challanges and difficulties of budgeting information technology and one possible solution that Peter's office had proposed. Since we're an open source company, it makes perfect sense that we like what he was doing with OpenDocument.
It's just a stupid witch hunt. His trip to Brazil, Puerto Rico and most of the far flung conferences were paid by people who wanted to hear what he had to say, what he was doing, and how they could do the same. As many people wanted to listen to Dr. Edgar David Villanueva from Peru, lots of people want to hear what Peter Quinn has to say as well. Same deal.
Isn't it more like, "there are 4 states of knowledge with regard to binary," which includes a 0th state where no knowledge of exists.
1) Oth state. Doesn't know what binary is. Binary doesn't exist. 2) 1st state. Knows it exists, but has no idea what it is. 3) 2nd state. Knows it exists and believes it would be cool to have it in their slashdot sig. 4) 3rd state. Knows it exists and knows how it works.
http://xinha.python-hosting.com/ is an textarea replacement based on HTMLArea. Works in IE and Gecko-based browsers. It has "Remove Word Formatting" and Tidy buttons.
If you were going to use forms to cut and paste Word content, this should be your route.
beats the heart of a Jehovah's Witness. We're all,
"Have you heard that the end days are approaching? That soon, all M$ users will be sucked into the maw of eternal torment?"
"Get the f$ck out, idiot. I'm trying to watch 'Kids WB'! Leave me the f$ck alone, before I rip out your Firefox and shove it up your ass! Besides, I'm an OS X user, didn't you see the statue of Steve Jobs on my front lawn?"
Just to throw in an alternate viewpoint - I waited tables through college at a variety of establishments both franchise (Casa Gallardo - El Torito in the mid-west, dunno if they still exist) and private restaurants.
I have always seen and practiced a high level of attention to sanitation and procedure. I always felt comfortable eating where I worked, and would continue to. If the restaurant wants to stay in business they had better make sure that procedures are followed. The managers are tough, want to keep their jobs, and are audited frequently by the health department (they are tough too and I found out the hard way they don't like jokes... kinda like the TSA people).
Anyway, my personal experience with food service was positive. The people from the top down were concerned with doing things right and in the few instances where people stepped out of line, they were fired on the spot. Waiters, line cooks, and dessert guys are easy to find.
Haha. Funny coincidence. In Puerto Rico, running a stop sign is, "Comerse un pare" "to eat a stop [sign]." That's too funny.
Interestingly enough, this whole eating similarity goes to illuminate that similarities of taste metaphors. In Puerto Rico, everything is related to taste, both good and bad. Language is a reflection of culture and is shaped by it. Of course it is a reciprocal relationship, but IMHO language is most strongly a reflection on the values of the people. Puerto Rico = taste. Everything is related to it, women, experience, actions, beauty, etc.
1) Hopefully not 2) It's morally/ethically wrong to "play" with genes.
Now, if you respect life and you approach your work, whether it be breeding or GM, with a certain reverence then you'll be okay. It's the same thing as with the meat/dairy/agricultural industry. Show some respect, use resources wisely, try to do the right thing, and truly appreciate that some things have to die to feed other things, and I think we'll be okay. Start "playing" and we're bound to start down the slippery slope.
In my mind it's all about intentions. If the only reason for a particular mutation is to keep the farmers hooked on your "product" then I would consider that immoral. If on the other hand, a particular mutated variety of rice grows better in drier climates and will help feed starving folks, then that would be a good thing.
Are you manipulating in utero fetuses to give them bigger breasts? fuller lips? Broader shoulders, a bigger dick, blue eyes, blond hair? Or are you attempting to correct spinal bifida, mental retardation, downs syndrome, truncated arms, legs, etc.?
I think it's just an evolution of our abilities and no more or less moral or ethical than any other technological advance. Do we generate cheap clean electricity or kill millions of people?
I concur, this is exactly how military risk assessment worksheets work. I kind of like this new version a little better though. PHB aggravation factor is useful.
It basically boils down to how often do you do a thing? (frequency). How bad can the worst failure be? (importance). Mitigating factors (skill, urgency). Which basically gives you what British Gas came up with.
I saw a presentation on these last week, and was blown away. We're talking basically complete system with a 400 Mhz processor (~700 bogomips) the size of a stick of gum. Shitty floating point, but who cares.
Actually, I'm running a crappy old PIII 600 with 256 Meg RAM. The new openoffice-ximian build with kde integration (native widgets) launches in 7-10 seconds (takes over 24 hrs to build though *G*).
On a LTSP setup (PIV 2.8 with 1 Gig RAM) I've got with a client (~15 users), it launches nearly instantaneously. Newer OO builds are looking really sweet and speed issues are definitely being worked on. I can actually comfortably tolerate it on a PII 450 with 128 Meg RAM. Not saying it's the best, but for 6 year old hardware, that's not bad.
I second jabber as the replacement. My company has installed it for a couple of clients for whom instant messaging was already important in their communications. They were using messenger but had the added problem of lost productivity. Jabber gave them all that instant communications with no spam, and no chatting outside the WAN. Problem solved.
I wish more people would get a clue about jabber. You can instantly send files, live chat, save histories, show presense, AND most importantly, keep your company's private data from flowing out over the big bad internet or through someone else's servers. Convenience and control, things companies like.
What was that ad company who's pres got busted for bad mouthing his clients? Their downfall was accelerated because there was as a public record of his embarrassing statements on the internet.
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What kind of poor concrete house do you live in that can only withstand a category 3-4? When Georges passed over Puerto Rico in 1998, we didn't lose a single concrete house. Not a one (well except for mud slides in mountainous regions, but there's no helping that).
The winds that hit my house were 140+ and in other areas in a direct path with the eye got even worse. San Juan metro area looked like Hiroshima afterwards. I never realized how many buildings there were with all the trees gone. But we don't have mobile homes where, and very little wood construction. Everything is concrete boxes.
Don't know what sort of building codes you have over there, but I'd pit my house against a category 5. Not like I'd like it, but I think we could handle it.
I guess since we live on an island, there's no place to evacuate to, so we've got build our houses tough.
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How many automobile engine projects have failed? The last I can remember is Chevrolet's Vega engine - glass lined cylinders should have been a tip-off right there....
Aluminum my boy, aluminum. After the aluminum sheathed cylinders went, it was oil oil oil. Lovely stuff
That's hilarious. _Now_ I know this Pajero of which everyone speaks. I've only known that monstrosity as the Montero and wondered why they didn't have them in the US. *chuckle* Montero's a better name anyway.
Have you ever stepped foot into a poor area? South Side of Chicago? North St. Louis, South Central LA, or any of the various caserios (projects) in Puerto Rico. Lots of designer stuff, fancy cars, you name it. Contrary to popular belief, not every fancy car you see in the hood is from drugs. They are lot of hard working people that for whatever reason define themselves with what they purchase. Obviously it's a generalization, obviously there are exeptions, obviously there are middle class folks that do the same, but by and large it is the popular trend among poor folks. Poor folks kill themselves trying to live the American dream.
I've lived in all of the above places and I know what I'm talking about.
Now apply that to a poor nation trying to develop a technology economy by buying software from MS or Oracle?
This seems to be the problem with lots of cash-strapped folks, not just governments. Why do poor folks kill themselves to buy fancy cars, or overly expensive designer clothes? Poor folks are under the misguided perception that "buying" stuff makes you successful. Clothes make the man. A fancy SUV parked in front of the house, shows you have the goods. Success will come to you if you just purchase enough trappings.
Look at all the bone-headed moves done by my own government in Puerto Rico. Buying laptops for all the public school teachers while paying them $13,000 a year. $40 million to MS for site licensing, MS's biggest customer in the Caribbean, yet if we were a US state, we'd rank considerably lower than Mississipi (like half). *shakes head* Buy stuff to be successful. Stupid.
I tell you, technology doesn't do shit, just like a hammer doesn't do shit. In the hands of a trained, educated carpenter though, they are a means to fabulous ends.
Open Source allows carpenters to freely train in their trade, exchange ideas, collaborate, and become masters of their profession, instead of glorified assemblers. Instead of assembling other people's mass producted widgets, you get to create wealth for your local culture, area, neighborhood whatever.
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Yeah, shhhh, I'm not worth communicating with. No, I'm a worm... little ol' me. I'm tiny, no meat on my bones. Look at that? All skin. I'm not worth your trouble. Yeah, that's it, move along, nothing to see here.
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The hour carries with valuable meta information. Under our current system if it's 2 am, you have an idea that you probably won't get a hold of anyone if you called. With local times more or less being synchronous, 2 am is the same most everywhere and with it comes information about conditions in that time zone. Without this information using the pure UTC time, you'll still have to ask about the conditions on the ground in New Zealand. You'd have to ask follow up questions about whether 2am there is business hours or dinner time or sleeping time. It would be a nightmare. No, the current standardization is useful and communicates valuable information in a convenient format. I am convinced that OP is a troll.
I went to Botetourt Elementary in Gloucester. Now that's a blast from the past.
Only the V1 models. Be careful. I bought an e280 and got burned as it was a V2 model (tiny tiny print). Some folks are working on a Rockbox port for the V2, but it's slow going.
That is just plain not true (16e being restricted only). I would like to see your sources. WiMAX of all kinds runs on a variety of signal strengths and allocated/unallocated portions of the spectrum. And I would not call 16d "old." It's what most people are using. Every company that I've dealt with is a fixed provider and has bought 16d equipment. I don't know any mobile providers yet (they are coming, but I don't personally know of any).
Please support your post with a reference of some sort.
There is no uniform global licensed spectrum for WiMAX. You can run WiMAX in the unlicensed spectrum. There are already companies doing it.
WiMAX
from: http://www.sonshi.com/
Therefore, to gain a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest excellence;
to subjugate the enemy's army without doing battle is the highest of excellence
Therefore, the best warfare strategy is to attack the enemy's plans, next is to attack alliances, next is to attack the army, and the worst is to attack a walled city.
What we just saw was a failed attack on the walled city. Comeon people, this spam stuff is easy. We should be more passive, evasive, quiet, never raising our voices to spammers, never confronting them, yet battling them by proxy, and avoiding them. Use spamassassin to quietly drop email's that are flagged as spam. Use various rules, checks, and metrics to assign probable spam flags to messages, keep your rules up to date, monitor trends, evade and obfuscate.
If the general cannot control his temper and sends troops to swarm the walls, one third of them will be killed, and the city will still not be taken.
This is the kind of calamity when laying siege to a walled city.
Generally in warfare:
* If ten times the enemy's strength, surround them;
* if five times, attack them;
* if double, divide them;
* if equal, be able to fight them;
* if fewer, be able to evade them;
* if weaker, be able to avoid them.
Evade, evade, evade. Avoid, avoid, avoid.
I'm the CTO of Altamente, mentioned in the article. We invited Peter to the conference in Puerto Rico simply because we felt that the government of Puerto Rico needed to hear what Massachusetts was doing with regard to IT. How simple is that? We don't do any business in/with Mass.
It was a great opportunity for one government to share with another some of the challanges and difficulties of budgeting information technology and one possible solution that Peter's office had proposed. Since we're an open source company, it makes perfect sense that we like what he was doing with OpenDocument.
It's just a stupid witch hunt. His trip to Brazil, Puerto Rico and most of the far flung conferences were paid by people who wanted to hear what he had to say, what he was doing, and how they could do the same. As many people wanted to listen to Dr. Edgar David Villanueva from Peru, lots of people want to hear what Peter Quinn has to say as well. Same deal.
Isn't it more like, "there are 4 states of knowledge with regard to binary," which includes a 0th state where no knowledge of exists.
1) Oth state. Doesn't know what binary is. Binary doesn't exist.
2) 1st state. Knows it exists, but has no idea what it is.
3) 2nd state. Knows it exists and believes it would be cool to have it in their slashdot sig.
4) 3rd state. Knows it exists and knows how it works.
http://xinha.python-hosting.com/ is an textarea replacement based on HTMLArea. Works in IE and Gecko-based browsers. It has "Remove Word Formatting" and Tidy buttons.
If you were going to use forms to cut and paste Word content, this should be your route.
beats the heart of a Jehovah's Witness. We're all,
"Have you heard that the end days are approaching? That soon, all M$ users will be sucked into the maw of eternal torment?"
"Get the f$ck out, idiot. I'm trying to watch 'Kids WB'! Leave me the f$ck alone, before I rip out your Firefox and shove it up your ass! Besides, I'm an OS X user, didn't you see the statue of Steve Jobs on my front lawn?"
Sigh, some people!
Just to throw in an alternate viewpoint - I waited tables through college at a variety of establishments both franchise (Casa Gallardo - El Torito in the mid-west, dunno if they still exist) and private restaurants.
I have always seen and practiced a high level of attention to sanitation and procedure. I always felt comfortable eating where I worked, and would continue to. If the restaurant wants to stay in business they had better make sure that procedures are followed. The managers are tough, want to keep their jobs, and are audited frequently by the health department (they are tough too and I found out the hard way they don't like jokes... kinda like the TSA people).
Anyway, my personal experience with food service was positive. The people from the top down were concerned with doing things right and in the few instances where people stepped out of line, they were fired on the spot. Waiters, line cooks, and dessert guys are easy to find.
Haha. Funny coincidence. In Puerto Rico, running a stop sign is, "Comerse un pare" "to eat a stop [sign]." That's too funny.
Interestingly enough, this whole eating similarity goes to illuminate that similarities of taste metaphors. In Puerto Rico, everything is related to taste, both good and bad. Language is a reflection of culture and is shaped by it. Of course it is a reciprocal relationship, but IMHO language is most strongly a reflection on the values of the people. Puerto Rico = taste. Everything is related to it, women, experience, actions, beauty, etc.
William Hung?
Actually, nevermind - William Hung probably had more success.
1) Hopefully not
2) It's morally/ethically wrong to "play" with genes.
Now, if you respect life and you approach your work, whether it be breeding or GM, with a certain reverence then you'll be okay. It's the same thing as with the meat/dairy/agricultural industry. Show some respect, use resources wisely, try to do the right thing, and truly appreciate that some things have to die to feed other things, and I think we'll be okay. Start "playing" and we're bound to start down the slippery slope.
In my mind it's all about intentions. If the only reason for a particular mutation is to keep the farmers hooked on your "product" then I would consider that immoral. If on the other hand, a particular mutated variety of rice grows better in drier climates and will help feed starving folks, then that would be a good thing.
Are you manipulating in utero fetuses to give them bigger breasts? fuller lips? Broader shoulders, a bigger dick, blue eyes, blond hair? Or are you attempting to correct spinal bifida, mental retardation, downs syndrome, truncated arms, legs, etc.?
I think it's just an evolution of our abilities and no more or less moral or ethical than any other technological advance. Do we generate cheap clean electricity or kill millions of people?
It's our choice, but choose wisely.
I concur, this is exactly how military risk assessment worksheets work. I kind of like this new version a little better though. PHB aggravation factor is useful.
It basically boils down to how often do you do a thing? (frequency). How bad can the worst failure be? (importance).
Mitigating factors (skill, urgency). Which basically gives you what British Gas came up with.
I saw a presentation on these last week, and was blown away. We're talking basically complete system with a 400 Mhz processor (~700 bogomips) the size of a stick of gum. Shitty floating point, but who cares.
Actually, I'm running a crappy old PIII 600 with 256 Meg RAM. The new openoffice-ximian build with kde integration (native widgets) launches in 7-10 seconds (takes over 24 hrs to build though *G*).
On a LTSP setup (PIV 2.8 with 1 Gig RAM) I've got with a client (~15 users), it launches nearly instantaneously. Newer OO builds are looking really sweet and speed issues are definitely being worked on. I can actually comfortably tolerate it on a PII 450 with 128 Meg RAM. Not saying it's the best, but for 6 year old hardware, that's not bad.
I second jabber as the replacement. My company has installed it for a couple of clients for whom instant messaging was already important in their communications. They were using messenger but had the added problem of lost productivity. Jabber gave them all that instant communications with no spam, and no chatting outside the WAN. Problem solved.
I wish more people would get a clue about jabber. You can instantly send files, live chat, save histories, show presense, AND most importantly, keep your company's private data from flowing out over the big bad internet or through someone else's servers. Convenience and control, things companies like.
What was that ad company who's pres got busted for bad mouthing his clients? Their downfall was accelerated because there was as a public record of his embarrassing statements on the internet.
What kind of poor concrete house do you live in that can only withstand a category 3-4? When Georges passed over Puerto Rico in 1998, we didn't lose a single concrete house. Not a one (well except for mud slides in mountainous regions, but there's no helping that).
The winds that hit my house were 140+ and in other areas in a direct path with the eye got even worse. San Juan metro area looked like Hiroshima afterwards. I never realized how many buildings there were with all the trees gone. But we don't have mobile homes where, and very little wood construction. Everything is concrete boxes.
Don't know what sort of building codes you have over there, but I'd pit my house against a category 5. Not like I'd like it, but I think we could handle it.
I guess since we live on an island, there's no place to evacuate to, so we've got build our houses tough.
Aluminum my boy, aluminum. After the aluminum sheathed cylinders went, it was oil oil oil. Lovely stuff
Hey it's fun nitpicking. *G*
That's hilarious. _Now_ I know this Pajero of which everyone speaks. I've only known that monstrosity as the Montero and wondered why they didn't have them in the US. *chuckle* Montero's a better name anyway.
It's counter-intuitive but nonetheless very true.
Have you ever stepped foot into a poor area? South Side of Chicago? North St. Louis, South Central LA, or any of the various caserios (projects) in Puerto Rico. Lots of designer stuff, fancy cars, you name it. Contrary to popular belief, not every fancy car you see in the hood is from drugs. They are lot of hard working people that for whatever reason define themselves with what they purchase. Obviously it's a generalization, obviously there are exeptions, obviously there are middle class folks that do the same, but by and large it is the popular trend among poor folks. Poor folks kill themselves trying to live the American dream.
I've lived in all of the above places and I know what I'm talking about.
Now apply that to a poor nation trying to develop a technology economy by buying software from MS or Oracle?
Doesn't compute for me either.
This seems to be the problem with lots of cash-strapped folks, not just governments. Why do poor folks kill themselves to buy fancy cars, or overly expensive designer clothes? Poor folks are under the misguided perception that "buying" stuff makes you successful. Clothes make the man. A fancy SUV parked in front of the house, shows you have the goods. Success will come to you if you just purchase enough trappings.
Look at all the bone-headed moves done by my own government in Puerto Rico. Buying laptops for all the public school teachers while paying them $13,000 a year. $40 million to MS for site licensing, MS's biggest customer in the Caribbean, yet if we were a US state, we'd rank considerably lower than Mississipi (like half). *shakes head* Buy stuff to be successful. Stupid.
I tell you, technology doesn't do shit, just like a hammer doesn't do shit. In the hands of a trained, educated carpenter though, they are a means to fabulous ends.
Open Source allows carpenters to freely train in their trade, exchange ideas, collaborate, and become masters of their profession, instead of glorified assemblers. Instead of assembling other people's mass producted widgets, you get to create wealth for your local culture, area, neighborhood whatever.
Yeah, shhhh, I'm not worth communicating with. No, I'm a worm... little ol' me. I'm tiny, no meat on my bones. Look at that? All skin. I'm not worth your trouble. Yeah, that's it, move along, nothing to see here.
One could only hope.
Same thing as in "You don't need to explicitly register them in order to be protected." Sheez.