Yep, silly six times of errors and you get PIO. I've had to manually reset quite a few Windows IDE channels. Watch for this one especially if you are cloning HDDs without defragementing regularly.
CA's AV Suite beats up on Vista (at least one the one Vista PC I have), making what is a responsive system with AVG or SAV painfully slow, especially for UAC events. There may be other AVs with this problem.
I'm surprised that none of the posts have mentioned Bart's PE, http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ Easy enough to add AV to it an do a full scan with the OS offline, and no way to infect anything as you are running from a CD. That is about the easiest way to determine if it is software, as there will be items noted by the AV program, something odd that will stand out when compared to a happy system.
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Eh, machismo maybe is a factor for managerial preference for people over automatons in the military, I think more one of trust though. As a civilian, who likes peace, I would rather that War costs lives, as that cost should equal a reluctance to engage unless necessary.
Man, if we go all automatons, cracking skills will bring some serious power.
Both private plans subsidized by small employers (one plan available, take it or leave it) and a public plan could be difficult if the disagreement is with insurance company itself. I have argued with bureaucrats, and upward. Those around me have shown me the frustration of fighting with an HMO for a second opinion, and third. A patient actually needs someone to show up daily to check on the staff and the care given in most health care facilities, regardless of the type of insurance. Dollars talk more than any complaint form. Again, others experiences will be different, but I have seen poor care given for more frequently that good care for illnesses that are not done in a day or two. The threat of money being lost gets management moving, while complaints are just handled.
So I Google about for Obama national health insurance to find some details on current plans, and find quite a few references to HR676. Ignoring those hits, http://www.barackobama.com/issues/healthcare/ gives the high-level vision and no details. http://www.orthosupersite.com/view.asp?rid=31812 has some more overview, all sounding good, sort of like everyone gets what they want and for less cost, because the federal government said so. I'll believe it when it shows up. I'm not saying this is impossible, just that it is heavy on hope.
We have to get rid of the greed in the system to get costs down, which means getting down the greed pretty much everywhere.
The problem with the cost of health care is not the system, it is the society it exist within. And the society is what I do not see changing.
These are heavily used in the service sector. My personal view, if used correctly in conjunction with an interview and the application/resume, they help give a fuller picture of the applicant. They should not be used as a pass/fail measure.
But, HR believes in it, so it must be golden. If only they knew how many managers had their own answer key tests hard copied onsite, and were used when they had applicants that they wanted.
People are too complex to be sorted out in 200 questions.
If mental health and STDs are blocked, then they are knowable. I mean, could someone see that there are 20 bi-weekly visits in the last 10 weeks but not see who the patient saw, and figure it is psych.? I know that is not what you typed, and the system could be setup so that no one would know about hidden visits unless they had entered the password, but it could also be done incorrectly.
If you wouldn't mind, answer me this; if there is a disagreement between the patient and the administration on the care or lack of care provided, what are the patient's options?
In the USA at least, the current public care and HMO systems put the patient at a disadvantage in the event of a disagreement. With private insurance, I have the control. If I do not like a doctor, I find a new one, without having to file a request through the HMO. I may also choose to see the same doctor, instead of getting whoever the HMO has on staff that day.
HMO's, the closest entities to national healthcare here, are what the federal proposals are based upon. They cost less, but also provide less, with much less freedom.
So while it is more expensive, private insurance allows for that individuality that us Americans prefer. Until there is a federal plan that gives control to the patient, this will fail.
Emergencies, how will my existing radios that pick broadcast television work after analog is gone? As far as a I understand, they will not, unless I come up with some wiring magic from one my converters. Not really a complaint, just something to note.
Quite true, I'm sure, as there are people on this side of the Atlantic walking about with Bowie knives hidden. But, there are already laws against doing that, all felonies. Homicide is already illegal, and carrying a knife that is illegal either do to size or concealment is also illegal and shows premeditation if used in a homicide. So whoever goes after someone with a butcher knife hidden on their person really hasn't much to argue about in court, yet it still happens.
Would making all metallic or ceramic devices of a certain shape prevent the homicides, or would the murderer simply change tools? I did not mean to be facetious with mentioning guitar strings, only to note that even they could be used as a weapon, and that those who wish to murder (or just "f*** up" someone) will try to find another means. I suppose that a ban on certain types of cutlery could help prevent home-setting type homicides committed in passion. But how many would that be?
Restricting knives for purchase is just silly. Sort of like a policy found in some restaurants against pocket knives for employees (yep, under 3" blades) while allowing 12"+ knives for general usage in the shop. I'm sure that there are already laws preventing carrying concealed blades over a certain length, so this add nothing new. A file will take care of the dull end too. To bring the bring the "terrorist" flavor to the discussion, those airplanes that went crashing on 2001-09-11 were taken with the predominant weapon being a box cutter. They proved that a big blade is not necessary.
Wasn't there something in the UK press about 5 years back, changing steins to plastic so that fewer people would be slashed with broken glass in bar fights? And don't forget blunt heavy objects, and several other ways of killing.
A guitar string as a garrote? Maybe they should all be really flimsy plastic; more than 5lbs of load and they break.
Being stabbed or bludgeoned to death doesn't much matter to the dead on the exact how it happened.
The politicians seek to treat the symptom, and get political revenue from the treatment, without touching the cause. What would a politician do in a land with 0 crime, 0 poverty (true poverty, as in no place to live, no food, and no clothes) and 0 enemies?
If you want to prevent homicides, you prevent WHY they happen, not WHAT they happen with. If you want to manage crime, and your population, you work on the WHAT.
Were viruses susceptible to detection using the scientific method three hundred years ago? No, people thought that they were invaded by evil spirits, doctors bled their patients, and soap, who needed soap? Certainly the doctors did not need soap, right?. Knowledge grows, and what was once a mystery is either known, like viruses, or is revealed, like dragon's teeth really being stalactites and stalagmites and their stories just being the local entertainment.
Just because we can not measure it now with an instrument does not prove its nonexistence. Of course, there is no proving a negative and some people still believe in dragons.
There is more to people that the can be measured, currently. Open your eyes and accept that there are things that we still do not understand.
But the Hoover Dam, TVA, and Interstate system is not the same as broadband to every home. Those are true public works, greater than private business could create and serving the common good, not individuals directly. Federally built trunks across the country would be close in comparison, and let local ISP's spread out from there. The FCC is a more fair comparison to a "broadband for every home" project. The FCC controls who gets what, and how what they get may be used.
With federal planning comes federal control, and government control will always be a "one size fits all" thing. Couple that with broadband access not equaling improved educational or economic opportunities, only enabling them (if there is a PC available). What we have now is good because it is not centrally run/monitored/censored.
With those concerns mentioned, I would really like for an OC3 or better equivalent to exist for every home. I just don't see how we get around an FCC type org. to rule it, or regulated monopolies to push regulated data to it. The internet becomes broadcast TV when that happens.
Heh, more like laptops are all that is to be found in the big box shops like Best Buy. Heck, you can even finance it with them, and in effect perpetually lease your laptop, having paid it off just about when the battery is junk and the hardware just a little dated.
With a desktop, you would upgrade your drive space by adding an HDD, add an optical drive, upgrade the video card, so on. With a lappy, the options other than purchasing a new one are more limited.
But, the consumer does get convenience, which is all that they want anyway.
It is almost just an unintentional echo chamber for the 53% who voted for Obama. It should prove a good source of talking points for the next few speeches to help keep them faithful, but nothing really interesting. This is expected since the faithful are the ones posting and voting.
I saw that once too, on Firefox 3.0/Suse 11. A popup appeared from where the SysTray would be, if running XP with the default theme. If it had been on XP, and unwary user would have easily believed it to be a legitimate XP security warning. Another user that I recently converted to Linux saw this on Ubuntu 8.1/Unknown browser, and took it for a good thing that Linux prevented an intrusion. The sad part is that they would have provided sudo if prompted.
The Democrats are the "tax and spend" party, while the Republicans are the "borrow and spend" party.
Quite true, but in the end we can only blame ourselves. We are the ones who repeatedly vote in those who promise what can not be afforded. We, The People want comfortable and easy and cheap/lots of it, and forget about everything else.
The concerns on the proposed Obama community service plan, aside from we'll need new bureaucracy to run it both at the Federal and State levels, is if it is voluntary. Plenty of people donate time already in their communities. But, the Federal Government requiring involuntary community service of everyone between 6th and 12th grades is not nearly the same thing.
Currently, only those paying back their local society for a crime have involuntary community service.
If they purchased new laptops for this, then it would be silly. I thought that they were theorizing about using old laptops, like corporate laptops that have been retired after two or three years. The batteries are junk and the keyboards worn out, but the displays are still okay. The speakers will be as tinny as ever and the displays would not combine for a perfect surround screen as the bezels will be in the way. Eh, still, just for fun.
And I agree with your points on making/selecting a proper sound system, that matching it to the surroundings and sound types is also good Geeky Fun.
They're smoking GeekWeed:>) You know, the stuff that makes you take items and bend them to a new purpose just for the joy of doing it.
Me, I think this would be a fun project. Having the LCD's wrap around, and getting it to transition smoothly, plus then getting the sound to wrap around, well, that would just plain be cool. And if you want better sound, just use the audio out port to desktop speakers.
Better could probably be bought for less (assuming you have cash and not twelve laptops), but where is the fun in setting up a theater in a box?
I think it is more the race to the bottom, who can be the most profitable. It almost like a MBA law based on an engineer's law; Good, Quick, Profitable, pick two. Since profitable is always picked, we are left with good or quick. And since quick is thought to equal more profitable (less DEV time), it is the second choice. Good becomes good enough.
Then there is the thought process that believes that whoever is doing support is just a fixed cost, and therefore do not cost more when things are poorly made.
A lot of Windows and Windows DEV is like McDonalds; quick cheap, and good enough. Not many want to take the time to make their stuff from scratch.
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Yep, silly six times of errors and you get PIO. I've had to manually reset quite a few Windows IDE channels. Watch for this one especially if you are cloning HDDs without defragementing regularly.
CA's AV Suite beats up on Vista (at least one the one Vista PC I have), making what is a responsive system with AVG or SAV painfully slow, especially for UAC events. There may be other AVs with this problem.
I'm surprised that none of the posts have mentioned Bart's PE, http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ Easy enough to add AV to it an do a full scan with the OS offline, and no way to infect anything as you are running from a CD. That is about the easiest way to determine if it is software, as there will be items noted by the AV program, something odd that will stand out when compared to a happy system.
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Eh, machismo maybe is a factor for managerial preference for people over automatons in the military, I think more one of trust though. As a civilian, who likes peace, I would rather that War costs lives, as that cost should equal a reluctance to engage unless necessary.
Man, if we go all automatons, cracking skills will bring some serious power.
Both private plans subsidized by small employers (one plan available, take it or leave it) and a public plan could be difficult if the disagreement is with insurance company itself. I have argued with bureaucrats, and upward. Those around me have shown me the frustration of fighting with an HMO for a second opinion, and third. A patient actually needs someone to show up daily to check on the staff and the care given in most health care facilities, regardless of the type of insurance. Dollars talk more than any complaint form. Again, others experiences will be different, but I have seen poor care given for more frequently that good care for illnesses that are not done in a day or two. The threat of money being lost gets management moving, while complaints are just handled.
The last proposal that I read any of was HR676, 2007, which establishes a new American national health insurance program by creating a single payer health care system. The bill would create a publicly financed, privately delivered health care program that uses the already existing Medicare program by expanding and improving it to all U.S. residents, and all residents living in U.S. territories. It certainly seems to seek expanding Medicare into an HMO, effectively rolling up the private practitioners into it.
So I Google about for Obama national health insurance to find some details on current plans, and find quite a few references to HR676. Ignoring those hits, http://www.barackobama.com/issues/healthcare/ gives the high-level vision and no details. http://www.orthosupersite.com/view.asp?rid=31812 has some more overview, all sounding good, sort of like everyone gets what they want and for less cost, because the federal government said so. I'll believe it when it shows up. I'm not saying this is impossible, just that it is heavy on hope.
We have to get rid of the greed in the system to get costs down, which means getting down the greed pretty much everywhere.
The problem with the cost of health care is not the system, it is the society it exist within. And the society is what I do not see changing.
Tortoise, what's that?
These are heavily used in the service sector. My personal view, if used correctly in conjunction with an interview and the application/resume, they help give a fuller picture of the applicant. They should not be used as a pass/fail measure.
But, HR believes in it, so it must be golden. If only they knew how many managers had their own answer key tests hard copied onsite, and were used when they had applicants that they wanted.
People are too complex to be sorted out in 200 questions.
Kaiser-Permanente's system is likely the basis for this plan, as KP has been for federal health care plans proposed before.
If mental health and STDs are blocked, then they are knowable. I mean, could someone see that there are 20 bi-weekly visits in the last 10 weeks but not see who the patient saw, and figure it is psych.? I know that is not what you typed, and the system could be setup so that no one would know about hidden visits unless they had entered the password, but it could also be done incorrectly.
If you wouldn't mind, answer me this; if there is a disagreement between the patient and the administration on the care or lack of care provided, what are the patient's options?
In the USA at least, the current public care and HMO systems put the patient at a disadvantage in the event of a disagreement. With private insurance, I have the control. If I do not like a doctor, I find a new one, without having to file a request through the HMO. I may also choose to see the same doctor, instead of getting whoever the HMO has on staff that day.
HMO's, the closest entities to national healthcare here, are what the federal proposals are based upon. They cost less, but also provide less, with much less freedom.
So while it is more expensive, private insurance allows for that individuality that us Americans prefer. Until there is a federal plan that gives control to the patient, this will fail.
Emergencies, how will my existing radios that pick broadcast television work after analog is gone? As far as a I understand, they will not, unless I come up with some wiring magic from one my converters. Not really a complaint, just something to note.
... he's done a pretty good job for his clients, so hopefully he will do a good job for his new client, the DoJ.
Which is the point of concern for some, that the same tactics used by the RIAA's lawyers will now be employed by the DoJ.
Quite true, I'm sure, as there are people on this side of the Atlantic walking about with Bowie knives hidden. But, there are already laws against doing that, all felonies. Homicide is already illegal, and carrying a knife that is illegal either do to size or concealment is also illegal and shows premeditation if used in a homicide. So whoever goes after someone with a butcher knife hidden on their person really hasn't much to argue about in court, yet it still happens.
Would making all metallic or ceramic devices of a certain shape prevent the homicides, or would the murderer simply change tools? I did not mean to be facetious with mentioning guitar strings, only to note that even they could be used as a weapon, and that those who wish to murder (or just "f*** up" someone) will try to find another means. I suppose that a ban on certain types of cutlery could help prevent home-setting type homicides committed in passion. But how many would that be?
Just some thoughts:
Restricting knives for purchase is just silly. Sort of like a policy found in some restaurants against pocket knives for employees (yep, under 3" blades) while allowing 12"+ knives for general usage in the shop. I'm sure that there are already laws preventing carrying concealed blades over a certain length, so this add nothing new. A file will take care of the dull end too. To bring the bring the "terrorist" flavor to the discussion, those airplanes that went crashing on 2001-09-11 were taken with the predominant weapon being a box cutter. They proved that a big blade is not necessary.
Wasn't there something in the UK press about 5 years back, changing steins to plastic so that fewer people would be slashed with broken glass in bar fights? And don't forget blunt heavy objects, and several other ways of killing.
A guitar string as a garrote? Maybe they should all be really flimsy plastic; more than 5lbs of load and they break.
Being stabbed or bludgeoned to death doesn't much matter to the dead on the exact how it happened.
The politicians seek to treat the symptom, and get political revenue from the treatment, without touching the cause. What would a politician do in a land with 0 crime, 0 poverty (true poverty, as in no place to live, no food, and no clothes) and 0 enemies?
If you want to prevent homicides, you prevent WHY they happen, not WHAT they happen with. If you want to manage crime, and your population, you work on the WHAT.
Be wary of absolute statements.
Were viruses susceptible to detection using the scientific method three hundred years ago? No, people thought that they were invaded by evil spirits, doctors bled their patients, and soap, who needed soap? Certainly the doctors did not need soap, right?. Knowledge grows, and what was once a mystery is either known, like viruses, or is revealed, like dragon's teeth really being stalactites and stalagmites and their stories just being the local entertainment.
Just because we can not measure it now with an instrument does not prove its nonexistence. Of course, there is no proving a negative and some people still believe in dragons.
There is more to people that the can be measured, currently. Open your eyes and accept that there are things that we still do not understand.
But the Hoover Dam, TVA, and Interstate system is not the same as broadband to every home. Those are true public works, greater than private business could create and serving the common good, not individuals directly. Federally built trunks across the country would be close in comparison, and let local ISP's spread out from there. The FCC is a more fair comparison to a "broadband for every home" project. The FCC controls who gets what, and how what they get may be used.
With federal planning comes federal control, and government control will always be a "one size fits all" thing. Couple that with broadband access not equaling improved educational or economic opportunities, only enabling them (if there is a PC available). What we have now is good because it is not centrally run/monitored/censored.
With those concerns mentioned, I would really like for an OC3 or better equivalent to exist for every home. I just don't see how we get around an FCC type org. to rule it, or regulated monopolies to push regulated data to it. The internet becomes broadcast TV when that happens.
Heh, more like laptops are all that is to be found in the big box shops like Best Buy. Heck, you can even finance it with them, and in effect perpetually lease your laptop, having paid it off just about when the battery is junk and the hardware just a little dated.
With a desktop, you would upgrade your drive space by adding an HDD, add an optical drive, upgrade the video card, so on. With a lappy, the options other than purchasing a new one are more limited.
But, the consumer does get convenience, which is all that they want anyway.
Yes, my favorite of the Minsc lines. Ah, such a fun game.
It is almost just an unintentional echo chamber for the 53% who voted for Obama. It should prove a good source of talking points for the next few speeches to help keep them faithful, but nothing really interesting. This is expected since the faithful are the ones posting and voting.
I saw that once too, on Firefox 3.0/Suse 11. A popup appeared from where the SysTray would be, if running XP with the default theme. If it had been on XP, and unwary user would have easily believed it to be a legitimate XP security warning. Another user that I recently converted to Linux saw this on Ubuntu 8.1/Unknown browser, and took it for a good thing that Linux prevented an intrusion. The sad part is that they would have provided sudo if prompted.
Quite true, but in the end we can only blame ourselves. We are the ones who repeatedly vote in those who promise what can not be afforded. We, The People want comfortable and easy and cheap/lots of it, and forget about everything else.
The concerns on the proposed Obama community service plan, aside from we'll need new bureaucracy to run it both at the Federal and State levels, is if it is voluntary. Plenty of people donate time already in their communities. But, the Federal Government requiring involuntary community service of everyone between 6th and 12th grades is not nearly the same thing.
Currently, only those paying back their local society for a crime have involuntary community service.
If they purchased new laptops for this, then it would be silly. I thought that they were theorizing about using old laptops, like corporate laptops that have been retired after two or three years. The batteries are junk and the keyboards worn out, but the displays are still okay. The speakers will be as tinny as ever and the displays would not combine for a perfect surround screen as the bezels will be in the way. Eh, still, just for fun.
And I agree with your points on making/selecting a proper sound system, that matching it to the surroundings and sound types is also good Geeky Fun.
They're smoking GeekWeed :>) You know, the stuff that makes you take items and bend them to a new purpose just for the joy of doing it.
Me, I think this would be a fun project. Having the LCD's wrap around, and getting it to transition smoothly, plus then getting the sound to wrap around, well, that would just plain be cool. And if you want better sound, just use the audio out port to desktop speakers.
Better could probably be bought for less (assuming you have cash and not twelve laptops), but where is the fun in setting up a theater in a box?
I was going to reply to arth1, but yours states it just about perfectly. Thanks.
I think it is more the race to the bottom, who can be the most profitable. It almost like a MBA law based on an engineer's law; Good, Quick, Profitable, pick two. Since profitable is always picked, we are left with good or quick. And since quick is thought to equal more profitable (less DEV time), it is the second choice. Good becomes good enough.
Then there is the thought process that believes that whoever is doing support is just a fixed cost, and therefore do not cost more when things are poorly made.
A lot of Windows and Windows DEV is like McDonalds; quick cheap, and good enough. Not many want to take the time to make their stuff from scratch.