really, this is fascinating. I'd love to see the reems of hard evidence that you have to back up your wild claims. Please tell me how many welfare recipients there are in the rural areas of the midwest compared to the droves of people in "NY and CA" that are sitting back doing absolutely nothing and living off the government. Maybe we _should_ be spending more tax dollars helping out people stupid enough to continue to build houses on the beach in a hurricane plain or on top of a fault line. And maybe you haven't been to the midwest, but there aren't a lot of "concrete higways" looping around here. Most of the money that pays to maintain the minimal roads here comes from local property taxes. There isn't an interstate highway every 5 miles with off ramps every other block. Major roads are placed were they can stratgically funnel people where they need to go. Get off of those and the roads are much more modest but perfectly capable of handling the load of traffic that they do.
I'd love to see this terribly informative data about those poor bastards on "the coasts" getting the shaft. Please enlighten a poor, illiterate, tax sucking midwesterner.
I say if those people are so easily swayed as to not vote because THE TV tells them that so and so is ahead then I could really care less if they vote. Better to have their ignorent opinion removed from the voting pool.
Well, having lived in several places in the Midwest" including Chicago, Eastern Kansas and Central Illinois I can say that I don't think you have a very good read on midwesterners. Not that I can blame you. Where would you get exposure to real midwestern lifestyle? Certainly not from TV or movies, all we get are two versions of life. East coast, and west cost. I will concede that midwesterners value their religion, but I think you're very wrong about their faith being _blind_. I have always been taught and encouraged to think for myself and find that many around me do the same. I post this if for no other reason then to offer an alternative to your obviously uninformed opinion.
I can understand their wanting to be able to read data off the passport automatically, but the ability to have the data read remotely seems a little dangerours of course. Why not line the outside of the passport with something to block the signal. Then you can just open the passport to allow it to be read. I suppose you could do this on your own, but why not have this built in by the government?
I'm curious, has there been any talk of Reilly getting the John Kerry nod for AG? It would make some sense with them both being from Mass. Just curious if there's anything hard behind that rumor.
A very astute question. All of the reports I've read are that this will be a very minor eruption. In fact, the debris from the eruption will probably be contained in the crater itself. Unfortunatly I can't remember where I read the article, but trust me. If you're not on the mountain you don't need to worry.
Actually, Bush has admitted that he is flawed and succummed to drug and alcohol use earlier in his life. For some reason you think he would admit to this but not to something as common place as getting into the national guard becuase of his parent's connections.
It looks like they're fairly new from looking at their support site. Not a lot of entries in the KB. Does their base install come with any programs loaded? Apache, some mail server, PHP? This sounds like a good deal, how much work would it be to get a mail and web server up and running on this for a adequate linux user and novice admin?
The problem with a comparison like this is that it doesn't take into consideration the cost of living. Yes, I make more than most people in Mexico, but it costs a heck of a lot less to live in Mexico than it does to live in USA.
As a web developer that has slowly come around to the fixed width web site, I can give a couple of reasons why it is a good thing.
1) Consistency. There are a myriad of different environments that your site will have to function in. Different browsers, different resolutions, different OS. By setting the width, you take _some_ of the guess work out which allows you to have a better idea what the user will see and make sure that she sees the best looking and most easy to use site possible. Fluid sites have the disadvantage of being displayed on large screens that can stretch your easily readible paragraph into a single leviathon line.
2) The other reason is not so much a user friendly matter, that's covered in item 1, but a development cost factor. Remember web sites cost real money. While fluid sites sound easy, getting them to look the same in every browser etc is not easy, even with CSS. Fixed width sites are much easier to produce quickly with CSS, and using CSS allows us to address that other thing people are complaining about here: little screens.
For those that gripe about viewing my 760px wide site on their PDA or phone. I can pretty much guarantee that you won't be able to use any site designed for the "big screen" on your tiny screens. What is needed is for site layout to be controlled through style sheets which can sense when a PDA is accessing the site and apply a different style that minimizes the page to the essentials that a PDA would want. You can change the look of the page entirely by simply chanigng your style sheet and you won't have to mess with the core cod of your page.
Well, if it makes you feel any better, the company I was serving ads through, Riddler, shut me down after 3 months when I broke into their top 25 list. I told them it shouldn't matter as their ads were still getting seen, but oh well. Glad to bring a little smile to your life.:)
The system was even easier to rig back then. Back in 96ish, I created a web page with the title "Not Sexy Naked Women". Then repeated that phrase several times and then gave a message telling people to click the link below for more Hot Sexy Naked Women which took them to a page that admonished them for looking for such trash. I added a banner ad to the top of both of these pages, submitted them to a search engine and made $500 in a month! Things are better today, but they're still not perfect.
Or they could have taken a page from Nascar and used pull away covers over the solar panels that could be pulled off with the dust when they got full. But, like you said, these are pretty smart guys, I'm sure there was a reason.
Computers should be simple consumer devices, despite their complexity. Look at modern automobiles. Very complex machines, yet anyone can drive one without being overly trained. True not everyone can fix their car, but the great thing is, they don't have to. It doesn't break down that often, and if it does you take it to a specialist. The same can apply to computers.
Riiiight. And that AOL browser switch is going to happen any day now. Come on. We've been saying that for 6 years. It's not going to happen. AOL values having their logo on the Windows desktop too much. Especially now with broadband gaining ground and phone and cable companies actively promoting their access. It would have been great, but it's not going to happen.
You won't get widespread adoption until Firefox and Thunderbird reach 1.0. Call it symantics, but it is important for them them to reach the 1.0 mark soon, not just in name but in functionality.
I find that forcing the user to change their password every three months and then not allowing them to use the previous 4 passwords virtually guarantees that the person will write down all 5 password and then type in all 5, one after the other and until they get to the one that they are currently using. Personal passwords that are kept by one person, should not be forcibly changed on a rotating basis. Shared passwords that several people have should to handle people leaving and what not.
Please explain to me the benefit of frequently forcing changes to personal passwords.
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really, this is fascinating. I'd love to see the reems of hard evidence that you have to back up your wild claims. Please tell me how many welfare recipients there are in the rural areas of the midwest compared to the droves of people in "NY and CA" that are sitting back doing absolutely nothing and living off the government. Maybe we _should_ be spending more tax dollars helping out people stupid enough to continue to build houses on the beach in a hurricane plain or on top of a fault line. And maybe you haven't been to the midwest, but there aren't a lot of "concrete higways" looping around here. Most of the money that pays to maintain the minimal roads here comes from local property taxes. There isn't an interstate highway every 5 miles with off ramps every other block. Major roads are placed were they can stratgically funnel people where they need to go. Get off of those and the roads are much more modest but perfectly capable of handling the load of traffic that they do.
I'd love to see this terribly informative data about those poor bastards on "the coasts" getting the shaft. Please enlighten a poor, illiterate, tax sucking midwesterner.
I say if those people are so easily swayed as to not vote because THE TV tells them that so and so is ahead then I could really care less if they vote. Better to have their ignorent opinion removed from the voting pool.
Well, having lived in several places in the Midwest" including Chicago, Eastern Kansas and Central Illinois I can say that I don't think you have a very good read on midwesterners. Not that I can blame you. Where would you get exposure to real midwestern lifestyle? Certainly not from TV or movies, all we get are two versions of life. East coast, and west cost. I will concede that midwesterners value their religion, but I think you're very wrong about their faith being _blind_. I have always been taught and encouraged to think for myself and find that many around me do the same. I post this if for no other reason then to offer an alternative to your obviously uninformed opinion.
I can understand their wanting to be able to read data off the passport automatically, but the ability to have the data read remotely seems a little dangerours of course. Why not line the outside of the passport with something to block the signal. Then you can just open the passport to allow it to be read. I suppose you could do this on your own, but why not have this built in by the government?
I'm curious, has there been any talk of Reilly getting the John Kerry nod for AG? It would make some sense with them both being from Mass. Just curious if there's anything hard behind that rumor.
A very astute question. All of the reports I've read are that this will be a very minor eruption. In fact, the debris from the eruption will probably be contained in the crater itself. Unfortunatly I can't remember where I read the article, but trust me. If you're not on the mountain you don't need to worry.
I bet we could. I think Teddy Roosevelt had several of them.
You're right of course. I couldn't remember who exactly started that one so I just through everyone one in. ;)
OK, in the case of Bush Jr, Congress gave him the power to wage war in Iraq. Here are some examples of "war" that wasn't declared by Congress.
Eisenghower - Korea
Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon - Vietnam
Reagan - Greneda
Clinton - Bosnia
Actually, Bush has admitted that he is flawed and succummed to drug and alcohol use earlier in his life. For some reason you think he would admit to this but not to something as common place as getting into the national guard becuase of his parent's connections.
record deficts!? Need I remind you of the Reagon years?
a statistic not to be overlooked.
Thanks for the info. Do you know how long they've been around?
It looks like they're fairly new from looking at their support site. Not a lot of entries in the KB. Does their base install come with any programs loaded? Apache, some mail server, PHP? This sounds like a good deal, how much work would it be to get a mail and web server up and running on this for a adequate linux user and novice admin?
The problem with a comparison like this is that it doesn't take into consideration the cost of living. Yes, I make more than most people in Mexico, but it costs a heck of a lot less to live in Mexico than it does to live in USA.
As a web developer that has slowly come around to the fixed width web site, I can give a couple of reasons why it is a good thing.
1) Consistency. There are a myriad of different environments that your site will have to function in. Different browsers, different resolutions, different OS. By setting the width, you take _some_ of the guess work out which allows you to have a better idea what the user will see and make sure that she sees the best looking and most easy to use site possible. Fluid sites have the disadvantage of being displayed on large screens that can stretch your easily readible paragraph into a single leviathon line.
2) The other reason is not so much a user friendly matter, that's covered in item 1, but a development cost factor. Remember web sites cost real money. While fluid sites sound easy, getting them to look the same in every browser etc is not easy, even with CSS. Fixed width sites are much easier to produce quickly with CSS, and using CSS allows us to address that other thing people are complaining about here: little screens.
For those that gripe about viewing my 760px wide site on their PDA or phone. I can pretty much guarantee that you won't be able to use any site designed for the "big screen" on your tiny screens. What is needed is for site layout to be controlled through style sheets which can sense when a PDA is accessing the site and apply a different style that minimizes the page to the essentials that a PDA would want. You can change the look of the page entirely by simply chanigng your style sheet and you won't have to mess with the core cod of your page.
Well, if it makes you feel any better, the company I was serving ads through, Riddler, shut me down after 3 months when I broke into their top 25 list. I told them it shouldn't matter as their ads were still getting seen, but oh well. Glad to bring a little smile to your life. :)
Bwahhahahahahahaha!!
The system was even easier to rig back then. Back in 96ish, I created a web page with the title "Not Sexy Naked Women". Then repeated that phrase several times and then gave a message telling people to click the link below for more Hot Sexy Naked Women which took them to a page that admonished them for looking for such trash. I added a banner ad to the top of both of these pages, submitted them to a search engine and made $500 in a month! Things are better today, but they're still not perfect.
Or they could have taken a page from Nascar and used pull away covers over the solar panels that could be pulled off with the dust when they got full. But, like you said, these are pretty smart guys, I'm sure there was a reason.
Well, with comments about evil web sites like He totally messed up my computer. I certainly take this guy seriously.
Computers should be simple consumer devices, despite their complexity. Look at modern automobiles. Very complex machines, yet anyone can drive one without being overly trained. True not everyone can fix their car, but the great thing is, they don't have to. It doesn't break down that often, and if it does you take it to a specialist. The same can apply to computers.
Riiiight. And that AOL browser switch is going to happen any day now. Come on. We've been saying that for 6 years. It's not going to happen. AOL values having their logo on the Windows desktop too much. Especially now with broadband gaining ground and phone and cable companies actively promoting their access. It would have been great, but it's not going to happen.
You won't get widespread adoption until Firefox and Thunderbird reach 1.0. Call it symantics, but it is important for them them to reach the 1.0 mark soon, not just in name but in functionality.
I find that forcing the user to change their password every three months and then not allowing them to use the previous 4 passwords virtually guarantees that the person will write down all 5 password and then type in all 5, one after the other and until they get to the one that they are currently using. Personal passwords that are kept by one person, should not be forcibly changed on a rotating basis. Shared passwords that several people have should to handle people leaving and what not.
Please explain to me the benefit of frequently forcing changes to personal passwords.