I always thought that the mortar used was more amazing than the blocks themselves. I had this book named the great pyramid decoded which explained that there were blocks held together with sheets of mortar that were in some places as thin as a sheet of aluminum foil. I have read elsewhere on the web that the chemical composition of the mortar is known but that it can't be reproduced today. I may be easily fascinated by this stuff, and there may be an better mortar now, but I just think that is really cool.
Honestly, there are some very useful things that notes offers. The majority of people who complain about Notes (as notes developers such as Dave Delay have stated) are actually making complaints against the client mail and calendar functionality. Although notes is groupware and there may be reasons to recommend it, the calendar/mail functionality it offers is certainly not one of those reasons. Although it has improved, it has certainly not impressed me. It may not blow, but it sure as hell sucks.
"It is easy to setup...
Notes is not easy to set up. The last three companies I have worked in had very skilled teams of administrators and in each scenario they gave up and fell back on Exchange due to massive issues and user acceptance problems.
...and it works"
So does everything, except stuff that doesn't work at all.
"Lotus/Domino is the top of the heap when it comes to mail calender integration."
This may be accurate, depending on which type of heap you are talking about:)
Does anyone know of a way to have all of my mail automatically sent to somewhere where they just pee on big piles of it before setting it on fire, because that is my current procedure. Thanks.
Lincoln was a republican, Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic-Republican Party, and Benjamin Franklin led the Quaker Party. Although I doubt most American students will remember their party affiliations, I'm sure that the vast majority of educated Americans would recognize every one of these names and know at least some of their accomplishments.
It seems as though you have a poor opinion of Americans, and I can't say I blame you. If the only Americans I knew of were the media, politicians, and lawyers, I'd probably want to hang me too.
OMG, this thing is totally a half life turret. It probably has many counters, and would be more effective against targets who have very limited or no methods of countering such device or in situations where it has the element of surprise, like if it popped up on folks or something. I think it would be best used to augment or to replace many jail security responsibilities, or to be used as indoor automated defenses. Then they need to make the speakers say something like.. "HALT CITIZEN!!"
"if the wound is cauterized as it is made, it may be a relatively ineffective weapon"
I'm in a fight with someone who pulls out a real life handheld laser weapon, my least worry is going to be how much I bleed or whether or not I suffer from internal bleeding as opposed to external. I'm going to be slightly worried about getting my nards and/or less important guts sliced by a frickin laser beam!!! There may be reasons why it wouldn't be an effective weapon, but this certainly isn't one of them dude.
"businesses will have to spend more time and energy on making sure that data is not just secure but also recording which users are accessing and manipulating information stored in corporate databases" which are housed overseas and manned by guys who would kind of like to behead your infidel children.
For Windows XP (pre SP1) a "significant hardware" change required an immediate reactivation. With the introduction of SP1, it stayed the same, except you were given a 3 day grace period to activate. Changes made to GPU, NIC, RAM, CPU, IDE, SCSI, HDD, or CD/DVD would result in a change in the hardware hash that is submitted to Microsoft, but only on the home edition of windows or on a professional edition that does not have a corporate volume license key. The corporate license for XP is not affected by hardware changes at all.
Allowing one significant change for anyone is in fact more lenient than they were previously, as long as they continue to allow unlimited hardware changes for corporate users. For them to do otherwise would be crazy.
"The change of a single component multiple times (e.g. from video adapter A to video adapter B to video adapter C) is treated as a single change." - Microsoft
As long as the above still holds true, you could update your video card multiple times and it would still only register as that one significant change. If however, you also upgraded your soundcard it would register as a second change and would require reactivation.
"Approximately 2 percent of activation requests are due to hardware changes or other reactivations." - Microsoft
I'd wager that most people who are the kind of folks to upgrade their hardware also have corporate licensed editions of windows or are smart enough to know how to reload XP Pro or at least smart enough to pick up a phone and call Microsoft.
Any new electronic voting method should incorporate IRV. For anyone not already familiar with this, Democrats and Republicans both want you to think you are throwing away your vote on third party candidates, and that you need your vote to keep someone out of office. During the previous election, third party candidates were even jailed for trying to attend the presidential debate just to be equally heard by Americans. As incredible as that is, you didn't hear about it on CNN, because that would only give third parties more publicity and the government owned media doesn't want that. Americans deserve a choice, and the power monopolists want to see that you don't. If this is not corrected now, as voting methods are being discussed and rengineered, then you will probably never even get an opportunity. It is in neither the republican nor the democrat interest to give up anything that helps them keep their strangleholds on the U.S. political system. Americans should make a stand by refusing any new voting system that does not incorporate IRV. They should also refuse any system which can be easily compromised.
"One in every 138 residents of the United States, a total of 2,131,180 inmates, were incarcerated in prison or jail as of June 30, 2004"
- about From 2004 to 2005, jail populations rose 2.6%.
- CNN
"As of June 30, 2005, about 1 out of every 136 U.S. residents was incarcerated either in prison or jail." - Wikipedia
I won't bother looking for 2006 midyear statistics, but it is reasonable to expect that this trend has not been altered.
How many of these hits were adware infested win95 PCs. We are talking about government systems here, and I am hesitant to believe that a report like this was carried out with such an attention to detail and covering all known variables. In the unlikely scenario that someone doing a statistical study actually payed full attention to detail (which would probably be a first), and even if these people did intentionally visit the sites on the job, you can bet they were managers/executives in which case they don't classify as people, but more like greater demons. Nothing to see here unless they happen to post some good pr0n links.
"Given those facts, the study says, movie piracy causes a total lost output for U.S. industries of $20.5 billion per year, thwarts the creation of about 140,000 jobs and accounts for more than $800 million in lost tax revenue."
If you can call copywrite infringement theft, then I guess you can call this lame study based on lame statistics "facts". In fact, I like to call potatoes french fries, because I'd like them to be fries. Don't tell, but I know they are really potatoes. Wouldn't it be nice though if fries grew in the ground? Anyway, since we are calling this factual, I would also like to state as "fact" that all consulting firms kill babies. Yes, I believe they kill children by taking money from corporations that could instead be spent on hard working employees so that they may adequately feed and provide medicine for their children. Instead, these poor children must starve and die. Won't someone please think of the children?
Well, if the earth cools off every few thousand years it all balances out right? Its not like the earth is going to go supernova or anything. If it gets hotter then I wouldn't mind anyway because I'm really cold natured. Of course, I also have central heating and AC. Science just doesn't suck. I remember when I used to watch the Mr. Wizard guy do all the science things. TV is cool too.
"When I began my Gentoo adventure, I believed that the main difference between Gentoo and the other distributions I've used (Caldera, Red Hat, Mandrake, Xandros, Storm, SUSE, Debian, Slackware, and Ubuntu) was that it was a roll-your-own distro"
Ok, so basically this guy experimented with Gentoo. He supposedly screwed up, and it screwed up or whatever. Then he gave up fixing it and decided to use Debian. Suprisingly enough, he had no problem using Debian because he started off the article telling us that he's already used it before! I think that sort of invalidates his article for fair comparison. I do think however, that it is fair to say Debian rules anyway. You can take my word for it. God bless America.
As a lucky AP student in one of the higher quality public schools, I was fortunate to have recieved training on computers in school beginning in as early as the 3rd grade. By the time I got to high school I was self trained in C and inline assembly, but the best my school could offer me were the options of mediocre courses in either PASCAL or COBOL. I dropped out of high school and decided to go to college, which I also dropped out of because I was making more money during the dot com boom than I could have hoped to have made had I graduated (not to encourage others to do the same). I am now 31 years old, but I haven't forgot what it was like to be a frustrated youngling who did not fit perfectly into the system, and felt like I was wasting my time with computer teachers who had psychology majors. I bucked the system. I got suspended one time for forging a note so that I could skip class to sit outside and read a programming book, which was not so much an attempt at learning as making a rebellious statement.
Kids will be kids (actually, make that total brats), and I was no exception. We can't fault children for wanting to learn or for detesting the educational system we stick them with, but as much as I would have liked it to be, not having laptops in schools is a very reasonable standard. This may be difficult to accept, especially for a child who is deprived of a quality learning experience already. Parents have plenty of reasons to be stressed about schools, but no laptops in schools is a good rule for several obvious reasons which I'm sure others will post. If they fixed the rest of the educational nightmare, this may be an issue, but I doubt it would then be debatable.
I wonder what the outcome would be had people been polled with questions that allow for the possibility of Theistic evolution beliefs (the other popular theory besides creationism and naturalistic evolution). I can imagine that many religious people answered the question as a creationist, despite the fact that they believe man was created by God, but has also evolved.
"TG Daily: Would you go as far as saying that Core reverses the competitive landscape in the micro processor industry? Does AMD now have" you like totally by the balls?
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I always thought that the mortar used was more amazing than the blocks themselves. I had this book named the great pyramid decoded which explained that there were blocks held together with sheets of mortar that were in some places as thin as a sheet of aluminum foil. I have read elsewhere on the web that the chemical composition of the mortar is known but that it can't be reproduced today. I may be easily fascinated by this stuff, and there may be an better mortar now, but I just think that is really cool.
Honestly, there are some very useful things that notes offers. The majority of people who complain about Notes (as notes developers such as Dave Delay have stated) are actually making complaints against the client mail and calendar functionality. Although notes is groupware and there may be reasons to recommend it, the calendar/mail functionality it offers is certainly not one of those reasons. Although it has improved, it has certainly not impressed me. It may not blow, but it sure as hell sucks.
"It is easy to setup...
Notes is not easy to set up. The last three companies I have worked in had very skilled teams of administrators and in each scenario they gave up and fell back on Exchange due to massive issues and user acceptance problems.
So does everything, except stuff that doesn't work at all.
"Lotus/Domino is the top of the heap when it comes to mail calender integration."
This may be accurate, depending on which type of heap you are talking about :)
Does anyone know of a way to have all of my mail automatically sent to somewhere where they just pee on big piles of it before setting it on fire, because that is my current procedure. Thanks.
Lincoln was a republican, Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic-Republican Party, and Benjamin Franklin led the Quaker Party. Although I doubt most American students will remember their party affiliations, I'm sure that the vast majority of educated Americans would recognize every one of these names and know at least some of their accomplishments.
It seems as though you have a poor opinion of Americans, and I can't say I blame you. If the only Americans I knew of were the media, politicians, and lawyers, I'd probably want to hang me too.
Cheers
Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were unpatriotic?
I'm sure it has nothing at all to do with the wii promo video
By the time Vista is released, the only things compatible with it will be in museums.
OMG, this thing is totally a half life turret. It probably has many counters, and would be more effective against targets who have very limited or no methods of countering such device or in situations where it has the element of surprise, like if it popped up on folks or something. I think it would be best used to augment or to replace many jail security responsibilities, or to be used as indoor automated defenses. Then they need to make the speakers say something like.. "HALT CITIZEN!!"
"if the wound is cauterized as it is made, it may be a relatively ineffective weapon"
I'm in a fight with someone who pulls out a real life handheld laser weapon, my least worry is going to be how much I bleed or whether or not I suffer from internal bleeding as opposed to external. I'm going to be slightly worried about getting my nards and/or less important guts sliced by a frickin laser beam!!! There may be reasons why it wouldn't be an effective weapon, but this certainly isn't one of them dude.
"businesses will have to spend more time and energy on making sure that data is not just secure but also recording which users are accessing and manipulating information stored in corporate databases" which are housed overseas and manned by guys who would kind of like to behead your infidel children.
Allowing one significant change for anyone is in fact more lenient than they were previously, as long as they continue to allow unlimited hardware changes for corporate users. For them to do otherwise would be crazy.
"The change of a single component multiple times (e.g. from video adapter A to video adapter B to video adapter C) is treated as a single change." - Microsoft
As long as the above still holds true, you could update your video card multiple times and it would still only register as that one significant change. If however, you also upgraded your soundcard it would register as a second change and would require reactivation.
"Approximately 2 percent of activation requests are due to hardware changes or other reactivations." - Microsoft
I'd wager that most people who are the kind of folks to upgrade their hardware also have corporate licensed editions of windows or are smart enough to know how to reload XP Pro or at least smart enough to pick up a phone and call Microsoft.
I'm not from Africa, but isn't it a continent and not a country? You are all high.
Any new electronic voting method should incorporate IRV. For anyone not already familiar with this, Democrats and Republicans both want you to think you are throwing away your vote on third party candidates, and that you need your vote to keep someone out of office. During the previous election, third party candidates were even jailed for trying to attend the presidential debate just to be equally heard by Americans. As incredible as that is, you didn't hear about it on CNN, because that would only give third parties more publicity and the government owned media doesn't want that. Americans deserve a choice, and the power monopolists want to see that you don't. If this is not corrected now, as voting methods are being discussed and rengineered, then you will probably never even get an opportunity. It is in neither the republican nor the democrat interest to give up anything that helps them keep their strangleholds on the U.S. political system. Americans should make a stand by refusing any new voting system that does not incorporate IRV. They should also refuse any system which can be easily compromised.
I won't bother looking for 2006 midyear statistics, but it is reasonable to expect that this trend has not been altered.
How many of these hits were adware infested win95 PCs. We are talking about government systems here, and I am hesitant to believe that a report like this was carried out with such an attention to detail and covering all known variables. In the unlikely scenario that someone doing a statistical study actually payed full attention to detail (which would probably be a first), and even if these people did intentionally visit the sites on the job, you can bet they were managers/executives in which case they don't classify as people, but more like greater demons. Nothing to see here unless they happen to post some good pr0n links.
You can opt out of this category, "Politics", in your slashdot preferences.
"Given those facts, the study says, movie piracy causes a total lost output for U.S. industries of $20.5 billion per year, thwarts the creation of about 140,000 jobs and accounts for more than $800 million in lost tax revenue."
If you can call copywrite infringement theft, then I guess you can call this lame study based on lame statistics "facts". In fact, I like to call potatoes french fries, because I'd like them to be fries. Don't tell, but I know they are really potatoes. Wouldn't it be nice though if fries grew in the ground? Anyway, since we are calling this factual, I would also like to state as "fact" that all consulting firms kill babies. Yes, I believe they kill children by taking money from corporations that could instead be spent on hard working employees so that they may adequately feed and provide medicine for their children. Instead, these poor children must starve and die. Won't someone please think of the children?
Well, if the earth cools off every few thousand years it all balances out right? Its not like the earth is going to go supernova or anything. If it gets hotter then I wouldn't mind anyway because I'm really cold natured. Of course, I also have central heating and AC. Science just doesn't suck. I remember when I used to watch the Mr. Wizard guy do all the science things. TV is cool too.
"When I began my Gentoo adventure, I believed that the main difference between Gentoo and the other distributions I've used (Caldera, Red Hat, Mandrake, Xandros, Storm, SUSE, Debian, Slackware, and Ubuntu) was that it was a roll-your-own distro"
Ok, so basically this guy experimented with Gentoo. He supposedly screwed up, and it screwed up or whatever. Then he gave up fixing it and decided to use Debian. Suprisingly enough, he had no problem using Debian because he started off the article telling us that he's already used it before! I think that sort of invalidates his article for fair comparison. I do think however, that it is fair to say Debian rules anyway. You can take my word for it. God bless America.
-Random person with no agenda
Why wait? Crossover Office supports both Dreamweaver MX and Photoshop 7.
RC1 performing poorly? Worse than XP? Actually, it does sound quite ready for a release.
RELEASE THE HOUNDS!!!! - Mr. Burns
As a lucky AP student in one of the higher quality public schools, I was fortunate to have recieved training on computers in school beginning in as early as the 3rd grade. By the time I got to high school I was self trained in C and inline assembly, but the best my school could offer me were the options of mediocre courses in either PASCAL or COBOL. I dropped out of high school and decided to go to college, which I also dropped out of because I was making more money during the dot com boom than I could have hoped to have made had I graduated (not to encourage others to do the same). I am now 31 years old, but I haven't forgot what it was like to be a frustrated youngling who did not fit perfectly into the system, and felt like I was wasting my time with computer teachers who had psychology majors. I bucked the system. I got suspended one time for forging a note so that I could skip class to sit outside and read a programming book, which was not so much an attempt at learning as making a rebellious statement.
Kids will be kids (actually, make that total brats), and I was no exception. We can't fault children for wanting to learn or for detesting the educational system we stick them with, but as much as I would have liked it to be, not having laptops in schools is a very reasonable standard. This may be difficult to accept, especially for a child who is deprived of a quality learning experience already. Parents have plenty of reasons to be stressed about schools, but no laptops in schools is a good rule for several obvious reasons which I'm sure others will post. If they fixed the rest of the educational nightmare, this may be an issue, but I doubt it would then be debatable.
GIT-R-DONE!
I wonder what the outcome would be had people been polled with questions that allow for the possibility of Theistic evolution beliefs (the other popular theory besides creationism and naturalistic evolution). I can imagine that many religious people answered the question as a creationist, despite the fact that they believe man was created by God, but has also evolved.
"Perlmutter: Yes."