> imply disseminate via internet simple instructions for how to adjust the votes on various types of electronic machines, and use them to cast an enourmous amount of votes for the least likely canidate in every single election. If this happened in even a few cases around the country the news and governement would have no choice but to take electronic tampering completely seriously.
Yes, but what happens when the U.S. Government starts to "take things seriously?" They make new laws, making it more illegal to do what you did, to give the companies more control over closing the software. In addition, you could be called a terrorist and removed from the country for doing such a "good service."
In addition, what you meant to be informative will wind up being totally P.R.ed to make you look even worse and th general public will cry out for the government to protect them more -- when, in fact, what they need is less of it.
> how many times per month does your Exchange server go unavailable > this might not be caused by the Jet database engine
Might I suggest that you separate your SQL and EMail servers? If you are having such problems with overutilization, your server probably isn't good enough to handle both. Seemed like the obvious answer to me. Of course, we don't use Exchange, so I can't say for sure.
> But, you can't just "install SQL" somewhere and have a nice user interface to go along with it
Absolutely, this is the SINGLE problem in getting people to use DBs correctly. I have used Linux for a number of years, but (3 yrs ago) getting MySQL to do anything was a horrible exercise in futility. Then to do anything with it at all, I had to download some other software just to manage it. If some of the tools needed to use the DB do not come with it, it is not very good. That was 3 years ago, but I don't think there has been much progress on that front. I guess part of it is that in OSS, tho coders are writing the programs for themselves, not for non-tech people who will be using it.
> Being heterosexual didn't seem to stop the Romans or the Mongols
Well, I don't know much about Mongols, but there was quite a bit of homo-/bisexuality in the Roman Empire. Doesn't mean it helped them in any way, just pointing it out.
I think you have one of two problems: 1) You replied to the wrong post 2) You misunderstood me 3) You saw beneath my clever guise of a joke to expose the harsh truth about my intentions. Muwahahaha. Wait, what were they again?
Oh, you also might have thought I was correcting him because I'm an ass. I posted that because it was an easy shot for a lame joke. Either way, I'm still an ass.
> after a post that offers bittorrent to download isos, we interview its creater.
As another said, that's coincidence. Irony would be if his whole life he touted the thing as the best, safest system ever created.. and then he is killed by it.
Dunno how that could happen, but it would be quite interesting.
> Please put this "it's not stealing, it's infringement" argument to rest, folks. It's used as a particularly moronic crutch by some avid P2P fileswappers
I haven't used filesharing in a few years, but I still believe this is true... because it is. Most rational people will admit that it is "wrong" either legally or morally, but it is still not theft. Just saying "It REALLY IS stealing" over & over may convince you, but not to the people who actually think about what words mean.
> something you bought last week is now out of style and on sale, and the new instyle piece is full pop
Umm, except that those dress shirts aren't a new style. Hell, it's probably not even a new material or anything. I have 8-yr old shirts that look like that, but they sure as hell didn't cost $225 each.
Security is inversely proportional to paycheck. Except physical security, since you can hire a bodyguard.
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> what, is Prada?
A clothing line for people who think they are important, like Gucci. Some people claim they are better quality, while most realize it's a bunch of hooey just to raise the price of a shirt 100x.
> a reflective layer should be cheaper than lighting tubes.
Is that layer behind an LCD all that would be necessary to make a passively lit screen? If so, maybe it would be cheaper to make. I guess that it makes sense, but it doesn't "feel right." My gut tells me it would be a bit too dark with just that, but my gut has been wrong before... Like every time I choose between a burger & a salad.
> Considering just how much money these monitors would save companies
Okay, we'll leave out the part that assumes making these would be more costly, thus raising the price.
Ignoring that, how much energy would truly be saved? How much of the energy spent in operating a monitor is just to illuminate it? I really don't know. How much energy savings/loss would there be in changing the technology to one that displays w/o light. As someone else said, it would be like a big GBA screen (hopefully better than one, actually), but isn't that the single most expensive piece on a GBA?
I don't know the details of such a beast, but I do not think the small (perceived) demand would justify any _real_ monitor producers making a line of them. Of course, there may be a small company for the niche market, but they woul certainly not be used for anything important -- if your power goes out but your PCs are on battery backup, you'll have time to shut them down, but 'Oops,' can't see the screen to do it, so we have to hope power comes back on before the battery runs out. Umm, unless you have emergency lights pointing right at it.
> Takes apporximately 9 seconds to fully open a new OpenOffice "Text Document"
Great. I hope that one day OO is faster than MSO and beats the pants off of it in market share. I'm just pointing out that not everyone automatically hates all MS software because they hate the company, and I give them some credit when due. I'd rather give the credit to OO, but I can't. I CAN give them credit, however, for making a kickass -free- office suite that runs amazingly well.
> if you want to send me money to buy a new Dell laptop and a copy of MS Office so I can shave five seconds off my start up time
Well, this isn't new and isn't mine -- I couldn't afford one for myself, and the copy of Office 2k3 was sent to us for free from MS (*boggle* I have no idea WHY... we're a pretty small business).
Maybe if I win a few million dollars in the next few weeks, I'll look you up:)
> This is totally unfair. As you explained, they do not have the funds to take reports of dead birds.
Wow, they cannot afford a pen or two and a single sheet of paper per 20 (or so) calls? Talk about underfunded. OR, just maybe, they are too fucking lazy to do any work -- they are government workers -- and blame it on whatever is handy.
> Meanwhile Word, Excel and Access take about twice as along
I'm on a Dell Laptop, 1133Mhz, 256MB of RAM and running MS Office 2003. Word opens in just under 4 seconds. Then every other App opens faster, as parts of Office are still in memory.
Publisher: 2.5s Powerpoint: 2s Excel: Barely over 2 seconds Opening Word Again is less than 1 second. About as instantaneous as you can get.
I hate to say it, but MS really is getting better at writing software (or at least fast software). A week ago I had Office 2000 on here (With Win2k) and it was about 2x-3x as slow, and I didn't think it was slow at the time.
Hmm... just to keep myself sane: "M$ $ucks Dick!" "tehy are my bItCheS." I feel better now.
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> imply disseminate via internet simple instructions for how to adjust the votes on various types of electronic machines, and use them to cast an enourmous amount of votes for the least likely canidate in every single election. If this happened in even a few cases around the country the news and governement would have no choice but to take electronic tampering completely seriously.
Yes, but what happens when the U.S. Government starts to "take things seriously?" They make new laws, making it more illegal to do what you did, to give the companies more control over closing the software. In addition, you could be called a terrorist and removed from the country for doing such a "good service."
In addition, what you meant to be informative will wind up being totally P.R.ed to make you look even worse and th general public will cry out for the government to protect them more -- when, in fact, what they need is less of it.
> we've only got one mainstream OO language out there, and it's not C++.
An Eiffel fan, eh?
> how many times per month does your Exchange server go unavailable
> this might not be caused by the Jet database engine
Might I suggest that you separate your SQL and EMail servers? If you are having such problems with overutilization, your server probably isn't good enough to handle both. Seemed like the obvious answer to me. Of course, we don't use Exchange, so I can't say for sure.
> Doesn't Excel still have pathetically small row limits of a 16 bit integer?
If you need more than 65,000 rows, you probably shouldn't be using a spreadsheet.
> But, you can't just "install SQL" somewhere and have a nice user interface to go along with it
Absolutely, this is the SINGLE problem in getting people to use DBs correctly. I have used Linux for a number of years, but (3 yrs ago) getting MySQL to do anything was a horrible exercise in futility. Then to do anything with it at all, I had to download some other software just to manage it. If some of the tools needed to use the DB do not come with it, it is not very good. That was 3 years ago, but I don't think there has been much progress on that front. I guess part of it is that in OSS, tho coders are writing the programs for themselves, not for non-tech people who will be using it.
> Being heterosexual didn't seem to stop the Romans or the Mongols
Well, I don't know much about Mongols, but there was quite a bit of homo-/bisexuality in the Roman Empire. Doesn't mean it helped them in any way, just pointing it out.
And I have one of three problems:
I can't count.
> God bless you, Grammar nazi!
I think you have one of two problems:
1) You replied to the wrong post
2) You misunderstood me
3) You saw beneath my clever guise of a joke to expose the harsh truth about my intentions. Muwahahaha. Wait, what were they again?
Oh, you also might have thought I was correcting him because I'm an ass. I posted that because it was an easy shot for a lame joke. Either way, I'm still an ass.
> I'm on a Satellite frigging connection and thus, BitTorrent is useless to me!
Or I'm behind a firewall run by monkeys, making it useless. I guess that's not his fault, however.
Wonder if they do any active monitoring of traffic. Well, maybe I'll find out soon!
> after a post that offers bittorrent to download isos, we interview its creater.
As another said, that's coincidence. Irony would be if his whole life he touted the thing as the best, safest system ever created.. and then he is killed by it.
Dunno how that could happen, but it would be quite interesting.
> Please put this "it's not stealing, it's infringement" argument to rest, folks. It's used as a particularly moronic crutch by some avid P2P fileswappers
I haven't used filesharing in a few years, but I still believe this is true... because it is. Most rational people will admit that it is "wrong" either legally or morally, but it is still not theft. Just saying "It REALLY IS stealing" over & over may convince you, but not to the people who actually think about what words mean.
> Please somebody tell me that *cash* isn't good enough
At Prada? No. I seriously doubt they deal in cash at all any more. When a simple shirt costs $200, you don't get many cash sales.
> something you bought last week is now out of style and on sale, and the new instyle piece is full pop
Umm, except that those dress shirts aren't a new style. Hell, it's probably not even a new material or anything. I have 8-yr old shirts that look like that, but they sure as hell didn't cost $225 each.
> What kind of insecurity does one need
Security is inversely proportional to paycheck. Except physical security, since you can hire a bodyguard.
> what, is Prada?
A clothing line for people who think they are important, like Gucci. Some people claim they are better quality, while most realize it's a bunch of hooey just to raise the price of a shirt 100x.
> a reflective layer should be cheaper than lighting tubes.
Is that layer behind an LCD all that would be necessary to make a passively lit screen? If so, maybe it would be cheaper to make. I guess that it makes sense, but it doesn't "feel right." My gut tells me it would be a bit too dark with just that, but my gut has been wrong before... Like every time I choose between a burger & a salad.
Informative? What a fucking joke. "Funny" would be a stretch, but at least somewhat closer to not abusing mod priviledges.
> Considering just how much money these monitors would save companies
Okay, we'll leave out the part that assumes making these would be more costly, thus raising the price.
Ignoring that, how much energy would truly be saved? How much of the energy spent in operating a monitor is just to illuminate it? I really don't know. How much energy savings/loss would there be in changing the technology to one that displays w/o light. As someone else said, it would be like a big GBA screen (hopefully better than one, actually), but isn't that the single most expensive piece on a GBA?
I don't know the details of such a beast, but I do not think the small (perceived) demand would justify any _real_ monitor producers making a line of them. Of course, there may be a small company for the niche market, but they woul certainly not be used for anything important -- if your power goes out but your PCs are on battery backup, you'll have time to shut them down, but 'Oops,' can't see the screen to do it, so we have to hope power comes back on before the battery runs out. Umm, unless you have emergency lights pointing right at it.
> Takes apporximately 9 seconds to fully open a new OpenOffice "Text Document"
:)
Great. I hope that one day OO is faster than MSO and beats the pants off of it in market share. I'm just pointing out that not everyone automatically hates all MS software because they hate the company, and I give them some credit when due. I'd rather give the credit to OO, but I can't. I CAN give them credit, however, for making a kickass -free- office suite that runs amazingly well.
> if you want to send me money to buy a new Dell laptop and a copy of MS Office so I can shave five seconds off my start up time
Well, this isn't new and isn't mine -- I couldn't afford one for myself, and the copy of Office 2k3 was sent to us for free from MS (*boggle* I have no idea WHY... we're a pretty small business).
Maybe if I win a few million dollars in the next few weeks, I'll look you up
Aaah, I see. BTW, I love those photos, they are very good. My favorite is the fourth one (close-up on two flowers). Thanks!
To hell with bulletproofing, that's only useful on Earth. If they make it ASTEROID-PROOF... now THAT would be impressive.
> The md5sum would have to be digitally signed, or it could be modified too
Ummm, since we are talking about a write-once media, no, it could not.
> This is totally unfair. As you explained, they do not have the funds to take reports of dead birds.
Wow, they cannot afford a pen or two and a single sheet of paper per 20 (or so) calls? Talk about underfunded. OR, just maybe, they are too fucking lazy to do any work -- they are government workers -- and blame it on whatever is handy.
> #define THE_QUESTION (TO_BE) ((TO_BE) || !(TO_BE))
#define THE_ANSWER 42
Seems like a pretty strange question, when no matter the subject, the answer is 1. Maybe it's a rhetorical definition?
> Meanwhile Word, Excel and Access take about twice as along
I'm on a Dell Laptop, 1133Mhz, 256MB of RAM and running MS Office 2003. Word opens in just under 4 seconds. Then every other App opens faster, as parts of Office are still in memory.
Publisher: 2.5s
Powerpoint: 2s
Excel: Barely over 2 seconds
Opening Word Again is less than 1 second. About as instantaneous as you can get.
I hate to say it, but MS really is getting better at writing software (or at least fast software). A week ago I had Office 2000 on here (With Win2k) and it was about 2x-3x as slow, and I didn't think it was slow at the time.
Hmm... just to keep myself sane: "M$ $ucks Dick!" "tehy are my bItCheS." I feel better now.