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He's created a real bond with the American people. Unlike Clinton, who created a morbid fascination with his goings on, people really try Pres. Bush. While your self-appointed intellectuals may hate him (because Clinton was a brilliant man, however flawed, and Bush is simply above-average), the American people have a leader that they believe it. This is the first President since Reagan that the people really believe in.
If he said that they were going to make decisions without turning it over to "eggheads", they'd get a lot of support.
The republican base LOVES this president. And the swing voters in middle America love this president.
He will be reelected regardless of what the urban intellectual elites think.
I've been on an Atkins diet for about 4 months, I dropped over 45 lbs, with another 50 to go. Now I'm at the gym a few days a week and feel great. My secret is really unhealthy but uses a 23 year old's metabolism... when I stop losing weight, I eat a carb heavy diet for 2-5 days. Then I go back on induction, that resumes my weight loss.
If you really want breads and pastas, this is a bad diet for you. My diet mostly consists of meats and cheeses anyways, so being on Atkins was mostly about cutting out junk.
It's all about finding a diet plan that meshes with your lifestyle. Excess sugars are bad for you, too many carbs are bad for you. Monitor your intake and work out and you'll be fine. For meat/cheese eaters, Atkins is great. By not eating carbs, your body can't fully digest the fats that you consume, helping you lose weight.
NN4, IE5, IE4, WebTV, etc. my customers use them. I hate jumping through hoops, but at this point we can write an HTML 4.01 transition + CSS 1 page that renders perfectly on IE and Mozilla browsers, really well on Netscape 4, and should degrade nicely on WebTV.
The more people using a modern browser, the better an experience the users will have. My site isn't big enough to warrant separate NN4 pages, just separate stylesheets.
However, people like you help me out. I won't pass on their business, it isn't my place to tell them what to use. Webmasters like yourself make the web more painful for NN4 users. HOPEFULLY that will cause them to upgrade (although it is more likely that they'll stop webbrowsing, which would suck), but who knows.
You can read the Webmaster World article, "XHTML -- is now the time?" if you want to read a debate among professionals. There are many pros, primarily developers of small sites, that are advocating dropping NN 4 for XHTML Strict and CSS, but most developers aren't going that route.
They are developing XHTML 1.0 trans or HTML 4.01, maybe adding CSS to go foward. NN4 will be around for a while, and few people are willing to write them off simply to appease the standards gods.
In the real world, we build sites for human composition. We separate content from display with our databases and content management. HTML may be an inefficient way to get the data to the browser (XML+XSLT would be ideal, XHTML+CSS would be easier on the browser), but it works. The browser parsers are done.
Sure XHTML+CSS is easier on the browser, and that may help rendering issues. However, the reality is that old browsers will be with us for a while. Maybe in 5 years this will matter, but not until then.
You should want OSS because it respects your rights. You shouldn't care what others use.
The government (or a company) wants a verified, legit product? Fine. They don't use an OSS OS (like a downloaded copy of Linux), they buy copies of Redhat Linux.
Why do you care?
Why is everyone here worried what other people are doing?
Americans are over-worked. America runs the world with a pretty small population. These are related.
Inventors, successful executives, top-notch engineers, etc., all worked hard. It's an abusive lifestyle. The nice thing about America is the fact that people can hop off the fast-track whenever you want. If you don't want to work hard, you're unlikely to make a LOT of money or make a BIG impact.
Look, 95% of the world wan't have a major impact, that's okay. Pick what you want.
I want to have an impact. My organization is small and only has room for people that want that. Investment banking firms, law firms, they do the same thing.
Find a surgeon that has only worked 40 hours week.
The world doesn't work that way.
There is nothing wrong with your job not being your life, but don't kid yourself that you're just as productive.
Everyone I interview knows upfront that we work really hard. Nobody comes in taking a 40 hr/wk job and getting slammed with 60.
If you want a 40 hour/week job, go get a job.
I have a small startup, that's the deal.
I offer an opportunity to be involved in our organization. I tell you the truth about it. If you want the opportunity, you'll have to work for it. If you don't, I'll wish you luck and send you on your way.
It gave some perspective on things. I didn't want to be like the 20-somethings we heard about on the news. The ones that went back to their desks to finish work.
I have a small business. A year ago, we did it, we worked just about every weekend of the summer, worked until midnight, etc. Now, we work 50 hour weeks, plus whatever we want from home on the weekends. Sure we still work hard, but it is more reasonable. I'm in the office 60 hours, but I doubt that I work more than 40. I need my team to work hard, so I make certain that I'm the first in, and usually the first out.
At the same time, I no longer demand insanity. OTOH, slackers that don't work hard wion't find themselves there for long. Sorry, you can talk here about how entitled you are to jobs, you aren't. If you can produce in 40 hours, great. Work 45 and produce more and I'm impressed. Just do 40 and I won't be thrilled. Work 40 and don't produce, and I will likely can you. Work 60 and have trouble, I'll work with you because you're putting forth the effort.
However, this Slashdot 40 is enough garbage is just that, garbage. Sorry, if you want to work short hours, move to Europe and be useless like the French. People that make an impact on the world work hard, REALLY hard.
You're not going to change the world working 40 hours/week. You're not going to have an impact on the world working 40 hours/week. Don't want to change the world? Don't want to have an impact? Don't work for a small company.
The owner that you're all deriding, its HIS money on the line. He's paying you. If you fail, he loses money. You get unemployment and another job in a few weeks. You don't know what the owner has on the line. The utter contempt here for the people that put it all on the line is a little disgusting.
If your average entry-level IT Consultant is making $60k-$75k (probably about right nationwide), then without ANY extra costs, thats equivalient to 1 month of salary. Figuring that benefits, management time, etc., probably increases to $120k. So its like 2 weeks of their time...
In other words, your two week vacation and JBoss Certification cost the company the same...
How much of your time is spent playing Quake at the office? 80 hrs in a year? Same cost...
Here is the deal. When I call you at 10:00 (I never call programmers before 10... I studied CS at MIT, I understand the lifestyle), don't answer groggy. Sound like you've been up and about for 3 hours. Most business types that you talk to have been up since at least 7 AM. They like to get in early, get home earlier, and see their families.
Tell you what, when I stopped coming in at noon and started working mornings, business picked up tremendously. (125% increase in revenue in the past 4 months).
Its all about appearance. I CAN assess someone's technical ability, most decision makers can't. I still screw up. I got an intern that dropped the ball on a big project. If he was in from 9 AM - 7 PM, appeared to be working, I'd have assumed that we fucked up. Instead he rolled in at 11, left at 6, and looked like shit every day. Had he produced, he'd have gotten leeway. Had he produced and worked "banker hours", he'd have probably landed a big bonus. Instead he fucked around, and gave the appearance of not caring.
Because you don't understand, you're posting anonymously on Slashdot supporting the "loser" instead of explaining how he should win.
Maybe instead of insisting on how right you guys are, you should listen to some of the people here explaining how to win the projects.
You're missing the point of I.C. Nobody is interested in paying you to sit around in unclean clothes jerking off. They like to work with people that come off professionally.
You can't sit on slashdot and complain about how unfair it is and how stupid all the people that control the money are, or you can understand how to succeed. Hopefully the poster is learning, maybe one day you will too.
Shocking, everyone can afford a VHS deck, while DVD players are considered more of a luxury. Sure there are $60 DVD decks, but mostly online and hard to find. While they have recently hit the affordable levels, VHS has been there for 10 years.
Therefore, DVD, with its smaller penetration, has more penetration among upper income folks.
Upper income folks buy more DVDs? Wow... Who would have thought.
Video collecting is an expensive extravagance. While I enjoy my DVD collection (it gets used more than my VHS collection), I have more disposable income than most Americans.
However, I can't imagine being shocked at DVD's penetration...
Too late to likely get a response, but what the hell...
The US is the world's only super power. It CAN impose its morality on the world.
In ST:TNG, the Federation is rediculously overpowering, it CAN impose its morality on the world.
In Enterprise, United Earth is a fly on the wall, it should be finding allies.
That's the difference.
I think that Americans, the first time in deep space, would be looking for new weapons and the ability to establish themselves.
Archer is MORE than welcome to beat up on little guys. Its his possession of the Klingon ship and trying to help them, that bothers me. Grab the schematics and figure out how the weapons work. If a Klingon wakes up, shoot them. Next encounter with the Klingons, you're not as much at their mercy.
That's my problem.
America imposes its strategic interests on the world, that's a MAJOR difference. Archer is imposing his morality to the DETRIMENT of the Earth's strategic interests, that's what bothers me.
When I worked at my last company, they had all Dell machines. One went out, and it tooks DAYS of sitting on hold for 1-2 hours to get through to someone. This was WITH the paid next-day support.
When it was time to upgrade the machines, we bought all Compaqs. With Compaq, I call, 3 options in the voice mail, and I'm talking to someone within 5 minutes. They overnight all the parts to us, etc.
I've had several bad experiences with Dell, I had nothing but great experiences with Compaq (going back 5 years to a stint at Citrix).
I realize that lots of Slashdotters are really impressed that Dell gave them the overnight treatment for their basic service plans, but that didn't help me. It would somethings take 2-3 days to get someone to the office to fix the problems. We're paying for next day, so that's unacceptable.
I look foward to Andromeda each week. Everyone comes over to my place for Enterprise, we dread it, yet feel compelled to watch.
They don't seem like pioneers, AT ALL.
Captain Archer is an awful character. Earth's first mission, and instead of making new friends and allies, hes imposing his morality on those around him. Earth has no new friends because of him, and hes pissed off the one they started with.
I picked up Anti-trust, because I have a habit of buying movies that I want to see when they are $10 or under. Its nice, no trips to Blockbuster and I have a bunch of films lying around.
The storyline didn't make any sense. Watched the deleted scenes, where a MAJOR part of the plot was cut. Makes more sense.
Some of the deleted scenes from Dogma gave a LOT more insight into the characters.
AOL is the SINGLE most important demographic for anyone in the B2C space. They are followed closely by people that use MSN's search engine. People that use Yahoo's search engine are a distant third.
People that run NS6/Mozilla are meaningless. Google searchers with any browser are kinda worthless.
NS4 users are important, you get people at work at low-tech companies.
I mean, it depends what you are doing. If you are building crazy flash sites with loud annoying noises, ignore AOL. My sites try to make money, like hell I'll ignore the largest contingent of shoppers, just because people think that they are stupid.
I'll take an semi-illiterate user running AOL 5.0 on an 800x600 monitor visiting my site over a "1337 Linux Hacker" running a Mozilla beta shopping me and 12 competitors to save 50 cents...
We run our accounting on Quickbooks. Our development is done with text editors on Windows, but the apps run on PHP on Linux or OpenBSD servers. We want to give everyone their own complete environment, so we think that we're switching the office to OS X.
However, I need Quickbooks.
Quickbooks for Mac looks promising, but if it isn't feature complete, we'll keep a PC environment as well. That may just be a Quickbooks workstation on my desk, it may be VirtualPC, who knows. However, we will keep our accounting on Quickbooks.
We use Intuit's payroll service. Its over-priced, but its 3 mouse clicks to send out paychecks, that's really slick.
Apple has a policy of NOT paying for product placement. If you want to use their hardware as props, you can buy them at the store like everyone else. However, since people like how they look, they often buy Apples, still a cheap prop.
Many shows blank out the Apple logo, as Apple isn't paying them. If the policy is no freebies, no logo. Otherwise, they can use the logo.
People use Apple computers because they look good.
domain\username refers to your user account in the domain. username@domain might work if authenticating against Win2K, but I've never tried (our NT servers are NT4SP6a).
However, if they don't allow basic authentication, you may be out of luck.
When I was a kid, we'd lug our Nintendo over to someone's house if they didn't have a Nintendo (granted, this was a theoretical use after a few years) as well as games.
We would also move from room to room. When I had friends over, we'd get kicked across the house to not disturb my parents. With this tech, your friend could bring their Gamecube over and you could play that way.
While Slashdot users will have no problems with cross-over cables or Network hubs, that seems like more of a pain. Besides, while 20-something gamers that LAN party may be able to put the TVs nearby, most kids are stuck with the TVs in place.
I certainly can think of times we'd have used TVs in nearby rooms but couldn't run a network cable.
Remember, Console gaming isn't about tech, its JUST about fun. The tech can enhacne the fun, but don't expect people to read manuals.
Hell, games explain the controls inside the game now, as people don't read the manual. You want them to setup a TCP/IP network?
They are licensed under open source licenses, but they are not the Open Source Software that people on Slashdot ramble about. Linux was a grass-roots project, though the Enterprise features didn't show up until IBM paid some developers to really implement it.
OpenOffice? Sun writes it. Sure the "community" may write SOME code, but Sun pays for the overwhelming majority of it.
Mozilla? Netscape sponsers it. Netscape pays engineers to code. I wonder what percentage of the code is Copyright Netscape (a whole owned subsidiary of AOL Time Warner)? 85%? 90%?
Open Source has had some incredible accomplishments (Apache comes to mind), but Mozilla and Open Office aren't among them.
My office standardized on the Compaq iPaq desktop. They were small little machines, came in two configurations: legacy free (2 front USB, 3 rear, no PS/2, Serial, or Parallel ports) and standard (2 front USB, standard connectors in the back). The CD-ROM/DVD-ROM was a multibay connector. We really liked them, I didn't have CD-ROM drives letting people install crap, I had good support to replace Dell's crappy service, etc.
The machines didn't really take off, as most Wintel offices want "upgradable" machines that they'll never upgrade.
However, they liked the iPaq name and introduced an iPaq handheld, confusing the hell out of some people, and causing the iPaq desktops to be dropped.
Murder is normally a state crime, because you commit it in a state. When killing someone crosses state lines, you need the Feds. Additionally, when it is possible via Modem/Internet, you have a case where the FCC and Courts have ruled (at least in some circumstances, I believe) that it is always Interstate and Federal jurisdiction.
Keep in mind that Federal does not mean more seriously.
In the scenario where you got a really big kill (say wiped out lower Manhattan), you don't want to leave it to New York to deal with, when they might be dealing with massive problems. Letting the Feds run the manhunt, investigation, and prosecution for this makes sense.
Assassinating the President is a Federal crime, so its not unprecedented for the Feds to outlaw murder.
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He's created a real bond with the American people. Unlike Clinton, who created a morbid fascination with his goings on, people really try Pres. Bush. While your self-appointed intellectuals may hate him (because Clinton was a brilliant man, however flawed, and Bush is simply above-average), the American people have a leader that they believe it. This is the first President since Reagan that the people really believe in.
If he said that they were going to make decisions without turning it over to "eggheads", they'd get a lot of support.
The republican base LOVES this president. And the swing voters in middle America love this president.
He will be reelected regardless of what the urban intellectual elites think.
Alex
I've been on an Atkins diet for about 4 months, I dropped over 45 lbs, with another 50 to go. Now I'm at the gym a few days a week and feel great. My secret is really unhealthy but uses a 23 year old's metabolism... when I stop losing weight, I eat a carb heavy diet for 2-5 days. Then I go back on induction, that resumes my weight loss.
If you really want breads and pastas, this is a bad diet for you. My diet mostly consists of meats and cheeses anyways, so being on Atkins was mostly about cutting out junk.
It's all about finding a diet plan that meshes with your lifestyle. Excess sugars are bad for you, too many carbs are bad for you. Monitor your intake and work out and you'll be fine. For meat/cheese eaters, Atkins is great. By not eating carbs, your body can't fully digest the fats that you consume, helping you lose weight.
Alex
NN4, IE5, IE4, WebTV, etc. my customers use them. I hate jumping through hoops, but at this point we can write an HTML 4.01 transition + CSS 1 page that renders perfectly on IE and Mozilla browsers, really well on Netscape 4, and should degrade nicely on WebTV.
The more people using a modern browser, the better an experience the users will have. My site isn't big enough to warrant separate NN4 pages, just separate stylesheets.
However, people like you help me out. I won't pass on their business, it isn't my place to tell them what to use. Webmasters like yourself make the web more painful for NN4 users. HOPEFULLY that will cause them to upgrade (although it is more likely that they'll stop webbrowsing, which would suck), but who knows.
I'll leave the upgrade war to others.
Alex
You can read the Webmaster World article, "XHTML -- is now the time?" if you want to read a debate among professionals. There are many pros, primarily developers of small sites, that are advocating dropping NN 4 for XHTML Strict and CSS, but most developers aren't going that route.
They are developing XHTML 1.0 trans or HTML 4.01, maybe adding CSS to go foward. NN4 will be around for a while, and few people are willing to write them off simply to appease the standards gods.
In the real world, we build sites for human composition. We separate content from display with our databases and content management. HTML may be an inefficient way to get the data to the browser (XML+XSLT would be ideal, XHTML+CSS would be easier on the browser), but it works. The browser parsers are done.
Sure XHTML+CSS is easier on the browser, and that may help rendering issues. However, the reality is that old browsers will be with us for a while. Maybe in 5 years this will matter, but not until then.
Alex
You should want OSS because it respects your rights. You shouldn't care what others use.
The government (or a company) wants a verified, legit product? Fine. They don't use an OSS OS (like a downloaded copy of Linux), they buy copies of Redhat Linux.
Why do you care?
Why is everyone here worried what other people are doing?
Alex
Americans are over-worked. America runs the world with a pretty small population. These are related.
Inventors, successful executives, top-notch engineers, etc., all worked hard. It's an abusive lifestyle. The nice thing about America is the fact that people can hop off the fast-track whenever you want. If you don't want to work hard, you're unlikely to make a LOT of money or make a BIG impact.
Look, 95% of the world wan't have a major impact, that's okay. Pick what you want.
I want to have an impact. My organization is small and only has room for people that want that. Investment banking firms, law firms, they do the same thing.
Find a surgeon that has only worked 40 hours week.
The world doesn't work that way.
There is nothing wrong with your job not being your life, but don't kid yourself that you're just as productive.
Alex
Everyone I interview knows upfront that we work really hard. Nobody comes in taking a 40 hr/wk job and getting slammed with 60.
If you want a 40 hour/week job, go get a job.
I have a small startup, that's the deal.
I offer an opportunity to be involved in our organization. I tell you the truth about it. If you want the opportunity, you'll have to work for it. If you don't, I'll wish you luck and send you on your way.
Alex
It gave some perspective on things. I didn't want to be like the 20-somethings we heard about on the news. The ones that went back to their desks to finish work.
I have a small business. A year ago, we did it, we worked just about every weekend of the summer, worked until midnight, etc. Now, we work 50 hour weeks, plus whatever we want from home on the weekends. Sure we still work hard, but it is more reasonable. I'm in the office 60 hours, but I doubt that I work more than 40. I need my team to work hard, so I make certain that I'm the first in, and usually the first out.
At the same time, I no longer demand insanity. OTOH, slackers that don't work hard wion't find themselves there for long. Sorry, you can talk here about how entitled you are to jobs, you aren't. If you can produce in 40 hours, great. Work 45 and produce more and I'm impressed. Just do 40 and I won't be thrilled. Work 40 and don't produce, and I will likely can you. Work 60 and have trouble, I'll work with you because you're putting forth the effort.
However, this Slashdot 40 is enough garbage is just that, garbage. Sorry, if you want to work short hours, move to Europe and be useless like the French. People that make an impact on the world work hard, REALLY hard.
You're not going to change the world working 40 hours/week. You're not going to have an impact on the world working 40 hours/week. Don't want to change the world? Don't want to have an impact? Don't work for a small company.
The owner that you're all deriding, its HIS money on the line. He's paying you. If you fail, he loses money. You get unemployment and another job in a few weeks. You don't know what the owner has on the line. The utter contempt here for the people that put it all on the line is a little disgusting.
Alex
If your average entry-level IT Consultant is making $60k-$75k (probably about right nationwide), then without ANY extra costs, thats equivalient to 1 month of salary. Figuring that benefits, management time, etc., probably increases to $120k. So its like 2 weeks of their time...
In other words, your two week vacation and JBoss Certification cost the company the same...
How much of your time is spent playing Quake at the office? 80 hrs in a year? Same cost...
Alex
Here is the deal. When I call you at 10:00 (I never call programmers before 10... I studied CS at MIT, I understand the lifestyle), don't answer groggy. Sound like you've been up and about for 3 hours. Most business types that you talk to have been up since at least 7 AM. They like to get in early, get home earlier, and see their families.
Tell you what, when I stopped coming in at noon and started working mornings, business picked up tremendously. (125% increase in revenue in the past 4 months).
Its all about appearance. I CAN assess someone's technical ability, most decision makers can't. I still screw up. I got an intern that dropped the ball on a big project. If he was in from 9 AM - 7 PM, appeared to be working, I'd have assumed that we fucked up. Instead he rolled in at 11, left at 6, and looked like shit every day. Had he produced, he'd have gotten leeway. Had he produced and worked "banker hours", he'd have probably landed a big bonus. Instead he fucked around, and gave the appearance of not caring.
Alex
Because you don't understand, you're posting anonymously on Slashdot supporting the "loser" instead of explaining how he should win.
Maybe instead of insisting on how right you guys are, you should listen to some of the people here explaining how to win the projects.
You're missing the point of I.C. Nobody is interested in paying you to sit around in unclean clothes jerking off. They like to work with people that come off professionally.
You can't sit on slashdot and complain about how unfair it is and how stupid all the people that control the money are, or you can understand how to succeed. Hopefully the poster is learning, maybe one day you will too.
Alex
Shocking, everyone can afford a VHS deck, while DVD players are considered more of a luxury. Sure there are $60 DVD decks, but mostly online and hard to find. While they have recently hit the affordable levels, VHS has been there for 10 years.
Therefore, DVD, with its smaller penetration, has more penetration among upper income folks.
Upper income folks buy more DVDs? Wow... Who would have thought.
Video collecting is an expensive extravagance. While I enjoy my DVD collection (it gets used more than my VHS collection), I have more disposable income than most Americans.
However, I can't imagine being shocked at DVD's penetration...
Alex
Too late to likely get a response, but what the hell...
The US is the world's only super power. It CAN impose its morality on the world.
In ST:TNG, the Federation is rediculously overpowering, it CAN impose its morality on the world.
In Enterprise, United Earth is a fly on the wall, it should be finding allies.
That's the difference.
I think that Americans, the first time in deep space, would be looking for new weapons and the ability to establish themselves.
Archer is MORE than welcome to beat up on little guys. Its his possession of the Klingon ship and trying to help them, that bothers me. Grab the schematics and figure out how the weapons work. If a Klingon wakes up, shoot them. Next encounter with the Klingons, you're not as much at their mercy.
That's my problem.
America imposes its strategic interests on the world, that's a MAJOR difference. Archer is imposing his morality to the DETRIMENT of the Earth's strategic interests, that's what bothers me.
Alex
When I worked at my last company, they had all Dell machines. One went out, and it tooks DAYS of sitting on hold for 1-2 hours to get through to someone. This was WITH the paid next-day support.
When it was time to upgrade the machines, we bought all Compaqs. With Compaq, I call, 3 options in the voice mail, and I'm talking to someone within 5 minutes. They overnight all the parts to us, etc.
I've had several bad experiences with Dell, I had nothing but great experiences with Compaq (going back 5 years to a stint at Citrix).
I realize that lots of Slashdotters are really impressed that Dell gave them the overnight treatment for their basic service plans, but that didn't help me. It would somethings take 2-3 days to get someone to the office to fix the problems. We're paying for next day, so that's unacceptable.
Alex
I look foward to Andromeda each week. Everyone comes over to my place for Enterprise, we dread it, yet feel compelled to watch.
They don't seem like pioneers, AT ALL.
Captain Archer is an awful character. Earth's first mission, and instead of making new friends and allies, hes imposing his morality on those around him. Earth has no new friends because of him, and hes pissed off the one they started with.
WTF?
Alex
I picked up Anti-trust, because I have a habit of buying movies that I want to see when they are $10 or under. Its nice, no trips to Blockbuster and I have a bunch of films lying around.
The storyline didn't make any sense. Watched the deleted scenes, where a MAJOR part of the plot was cut. Makes more sense.
Some of the deleted scenes from Dogma gave a LOT more insight into the characters.
Alex
AOL is the SINGLE most important demographic for anyone in the B2C space. They are followed closely by people that use MSN's search engine. People that use Yahoo's search engine are a distant third.
People that run NS6/Mozilla are meaningless. Google searchers with any browser are kinda worthless.
NS4 users are important, you get people at work at low-tech companies.
I mean, it depends what you are doing. If you are building crazy flash sites with loud annoying noises, ignore AOL. My sites try to make money, like hell I'll ignore the largest contingent of shoppers, just because people think that they are stupid.
I'll take an semi-illiterate user running AOL 5.0 on an 800x600 monitor visiting my site over a "1337 Linux Hacker" running a Mozilla beta shopping me and 12 competitors to save 50 cents...
Alex
We run our accounting on Quickbooks. Our development is done with text editors on Windows, but the apps run on PHP on Linux or OpenBSD servers. We want to give everyone their own complete environment, so we think that we're switching the office to OS X.
However, I need Quickbooks.
Quickbooks for Mac looks promising, but if it isn't feature complete, we'll keep a PC environment as well. That may just be a Quickbooks workstation on my desk, it may be VirtualPC, who knows. However, we will keep our accounting on Quickbooks.
We use Intuit's payroll service. Its over-priced, but its 3 mouse clicks to send out paychecks, that's really slick.
Alex
Apple has a policy of NOT paying for product placement. If you want to use their hardware as props, you can buy them at the store like everyone else. However, since people like how they look, they often buy Apples, still a cheap prop.
Many shows blank out the Apple logo, as Apple isn't paying them. If the policy is no freebies, no logo. Otherwise, they can use the logo.
People use Apple computers because they look good.
Alex
I thought that your sarcasm was really funny... too bad the myriad of replies don't get it.
Alex
domain\username refers to your user account in the domain. username@domain might work if authenticating against Win2K, but I've never tried (our NT servers are NT4SP6a).
However, if they don't allow basic authentication, you may be out of luck.
Good luck,
Alex
When I was a kid, we'd lug our Nintendo over to someone's house if they didn't have a Nintendo (granted, this was a theoretical use after a few years) as well as games.
We would also move from room to room. When I had friends over, we'd get kicked across the house to not disturb my parents. With this tech, your friend could bring their Gamecube over and you could play that way.
While Slashdot users will have no problems with cross-over cables or Network hubs, that seems like more of a pain. Besides, while 20-something gamers that LAN party may be able to put the TVs nearby, most kids are stuck with the TVs in place.
I certainly can think of times we'd have used TVs in nearby rooms but couldn't run a network cable.
Remember, Console gaming isn't about tech, its JUST about fun. The tech can enhacne the fun, but don't expect people to read manuals.
Hell, games explain the controls inside the game now, as people don't read the manual. You want them to setup a TCP/IP network?
Alex
They are licensed under open source licenses, but they are not the Open Source Software that people on Slashdot ramble about. Linux was a grass-roots project, though the Enterprise features didn't show up until IBM paid some developers to really implement it.
OpenOffice? Sun writes it. Sure the "community" may write SOME code, but Sun pays for the overwhelming majority of it.
Mozilla? Netscape sponsers it. Netscape pays engineers to code. I wonder what percentage of the code is Copyright Netscape (a whole owned subsidiary of AOL Time Warner)? 85%? 90%?
Open Source has had some incredible accomplishments (Apache comes to mind), but Mozilla and Open Office aren't among them.
Alex
My office standardized on the Compaq iPaq desktop. They were small little machines, came in two configurations: legacy free (2 front USB, 3 rear, no PS/2, Serial, or Parallel ports) and standard (2 front USB, standard connectors in the back). The CD-ROM/DVD-ROM was a multibay connector. We really liked them, I didn't have CD-ROM drives letting people install crap, I had good support to replace Dell's crappy service, etc.
The machines didn't really take off, as most Wintel offices want "upgradable" machines that they'll never upgrade.
However, they liked the iPaq name and introduced an iPaq handheld, confusing the hell out of some people, and causing the iPaq desktops to be dropped.
Alex
Murder is normally a state crime, because you commit it in a state. When killing someone crosses state lines, you need the Feds. Additionally, when it is possible via Modem/Internet, you have a case where the FCC and Courts have ruled (at least in some circumstances, I believe) that it is always Interstate and Federal jurisdiction.
Keep in mind that Federal does not mean more seriously.
In the scenario where you got a really big kill (say wiped out lower Manhattan), you don't want to leave it to New York to deal with, when they might be dealing with massive problems. Letting the Feds run the manhunt, investigation, and prosecution for this makes sense.
Assassinating the President is a Federal crime, so its not unprecedented for the Feds to outlaw murder.
Alex