I had a machine open one time and was mucking about. Then I saw the shiny topped capacitors. I knew perfectly well what capacitors did. For some reason, though, I was uncontrollably compelled to touch one with the screwdriver. Well, I won't be doing THAT again!
The best SF on TV right now is over on Showtime. It's called Odyssey 5 and stars Peter Weller. It's about a Shuttle crew that is in orbit when the Earth is destroyed. They encounter a strange alien, who's homeworld was also destroyed in the same manner, that sends them back in time five years to attempt to discover what happened and prevent it. It is very reminiscent of Babylon 5 in tone and the overriding arc. Great writing and really interesting characters.
There are, admidittedly many things that I don't know. However, the biggest perplexing question I have right now is, "Why the Hell are the liberals so against moving agaist Iraq?!?!?!" I mean, if Hussein was a liberal or even a moderate conservative, I would understand the liberal position on Iraq. As it stands, it makes no sense. Saddam Hussein is a brutal dictator that has slaughtered wholesale many thousands of his own people. He has been pursuing a nuclear weapons program despite UN regulations prohibiting him from doing so. And, what should be second most reprehensible to liberals, he has diverted money for humanitarian aid from the people who it was intended for to himself, his cronies, and his weapons program. By all rights and means, liberals should have already put together a strike team by themselves and gone in and removed him.
I'll tell you how it helps inner city schools... COMPETITION! There is NO incentive for any public school to get better. As a matter of fact, the worst schools consistently get the most money. Money is not the problem. The problem is that the government sucks at teaching kids. As for the federal government "raping" all of the money from schools to "bomb Iraq" and fund "star wars," it's not the federal government's job to educate our kids. The farther removed the money for schools is from the schools themselves, the less effective it is. I fully support folding the Department of Education. That and busting teachers' unions. There's a reason that the teachers' unions don't want vouchers, they know that when the vouchers start, they'll be held accountable for their performance.
I had a Palm III for many years. I was able to pick up Grafitti in about an hour. Now I have a Zaurus. The handwriting recognition is amazing. I almost never use it. I usually use the keyboard. No matter how great handwriting recognition gets, it'll never be as fast a competent (not great, just okay) typist. It simply takes longer to write words and letters than to type them. I don't see the advantage of the tablet PC thing (except for vertical markets). As I see it, Microsoft is merely attempting to manufacture a market that doesn't exist. It's all hype, but Microsoft will get credit for it when everyone wants one (why? because it's "new" and "cool"). I say thee FEH!
" * User: I want to be able to share my schedule contacts and project info.
* admin: sure we can install exchange it will cost $$$$$$, ohh yea it also runs on Win2k.
* User: Fine, whatever, just tell me when it's done and don't bug me with details.
* admin: what about all of that mimlinda, in lisa and melissa and code red stuff?
* User: Which part of 'don't bug me with details' was unclear? Just do it."
Actually, I think the last part would be:
Admin: Did I mention it'll cost $$$$$$$ User: How much $$$$$$$ Admin: A LOT of $$$$$$$ User: Isn't there another way? Admin: Nope. User: I guess we can wait on collaboration.
Really, the biggest issue with Exchange is its price. It, because MS have a lock on the market, is entirely over priced for what it is and how well it works. Of course, you could go with Notes, but that would necessitate going with something other than Outlook. Fat chance the suits would go for that. OpenMail was choice, but HP couldn't seem to get it off the ground, unfortunately. Currently, I'm evaluating PHPGroupWare. So far so good. I figure that in a month or so, I'll reccommend it to a client and see how it goes.
As for Exchange support. Well, if you call the following (real) exchange (no pun intended) support, then I'll eat my hat. When I worked for a market leading software development company in IT, we upgraded from Exchange 5.0 to 5.5. It locked up at least once a day. After several days of troubleshooting, we burned a support call to Microsoft (not cheap). This is the jist of the call:
Us: Yeah, we just upgraded to Exchange 5.5 and it locks up at least once a day. All other services on the server are fine, but Exchange just stops.
MS Support: Well, have you uninstalled and reinstalled Exchange?
Us: Yeah.
MS: Have you restored the Information Store from a previous backup?
Us: Yeah.
MS: Well, just reboot the server once a day. That's what we do here.
Yeah, THAT's support. We ended up downgrading back to 5.0.
Ummm... Actually, the GPL restricts your use of a given piece of software in the same ways that an EULA does, it just restricts different things. If you start from the base of, "you can do whatever you want to with this software," the GPL restricts redistribution (must include source code) and alteration of the software (must distribute changes) among other things. These are restrictions, not additional rights. Granted, they're pretty cool restrictions, but restrictions nonetheless.
Actually, the government is just another form of monopoly. Albeit, a vastly less efficient one. If Ihad the choice of sending tax dollars to an organization that paid half a million dollars for a toilet seat or to the people that sold them the toilet seat, the sellers have my cash. Aside from defense, the government can't seem to do anything right. And the cost of defense could come down dramatically. But back to the point, leaving things in the hands of government is just replacing a potential monopoly with a certain one.
Exactly how does broadcasting a group's product harm them in any way? The RIAA BENEFITS from rasio broadcasts. It's like free advertising only they want to get paid for it now. This is totally insane. The RIAA should be less concerned with control, and more concerned with getting music out to the people that they might actually BUY something. It's crazy.
As for the artists... Do you really think they see anything from the broadcast of their music on the radio? Webcasting would be no different.
The fact that this is a relatively small sum of money is irrelevant. It shouldn't cost anyone a DIME to do advertise for the RIAA.
If there's one thing that Bill Gates & Co. are good at it's marketing. It is inconceivable that the suits at Microsoft were not aware of the particulars of the campaign. At the very least, they saw it before it was approved for public consumption. That they are now taking action that could jeopardize this woman's job is inexcusable.
...as my primary server. Once I'm sure I don't need anything else from my 8.2 box, I'll install RH 8 on it and mess around). I have found NO problems with Mandrake 9. It's solid. It's easier to configure (as a matter of fact, I expected some things to be harder than they were and ended up wasting time trying to do them the hard way. Once I realized there was an easier way, they went off without a hitch). Everything you could want is there. Everything is easier to configure and everything just works. I'm actually considering moving to Mandrake as the corporate server to reccommend over Red Hat.
" Well no, it would more like having all the products in the store on a seven foot high shelf, so only seven footers can reach the items."
And giving everyone under 7 feet tall a ladder. The ladder being the telephone in this scenario. Really, there is an alternative for a blind person to get the exact same service. It shouldn't be an issue.
"without the ADA in place, businesses can and will discriminate against handicapped people."
I don't think discriminate is the correct term here. It implies implicit disdain. I think it's more accurate to say they these businesses didn't even consider handicapped people. And, I doubt most people do on a regular basis. I highly doubt that these people sat around before the ADA and plotted to keep out the wheel-butts. Now the racial discrimination is clearly pre-meditated. Although I'm torn on the legislation of that as well. The libertarian in me says that a company has the right to serve or not serve whomever they wish. If they want to exclude an entire segment of income generators, let them be stupid. On the other hand, it would be irresponsible for society to let it go, and government is a huge arm of society.
"Sometimes there is no other way to get a business to listen other than through its wallet."
Actually, that's EXACTLY the way it's supposed to work.
"We all have a right to make use of public services, be them brick and morder or online."
First of all, this is NOT a public service. It's a private service run by a private company. Second of all, there ARE other ways to acces the information available on the site. Instead of calling the webmasters (which is the user's prerogative and a reasonable, yet probably futile, course of action), why not just CALL TO BUY A TICKET?!?!?
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I had a machine open one time and was mucking about. Then I saw the shiny topped capacitors. I knew perfectly well what capacitors did. For some reason, though, I was uncontrollably compelled to touch one with the screwdriver. Well, I won't be doing THAT again!
There have been PPC boards for Amigas available for years. However, they all have required a real Amiga until the A1 comes (came?) out.
The best SF on TV right now is over on Showtime. It's called Odyssey 5 and stars Peter Weller. It's about a Shuttle crew that is in orbit when the Earth is destroyed. They encounter a strange alien, who's homeworld was also destroyed in the same manner, that sends them back in time five years to attempt to discover what happened and prevent it. It is very reminiscent of Babylon 5 in tone and the overriding arc. Great writing and really interesting characters.
There are, admidittedly many things that I don't know. However, the biggest perplexing question I have right now is, "Why the Hell are the liberals so against moving agaist Iraq?!?!?!" I mean, if Hussein was a liberal or even a moderate conservative, I would understand the liberal position on Iraq. As it stands, it makes no sense. Saddam Hussein is a brutal dictator that has slaughtered wholesale many thousands of his own people. He has been pursuing a nuclear weapons program despite UN regulations prohibiting him from doing so. And, what should be second most reprehensible to liberals, he has diverted money for humanitarian aid from the people who it was intended for to himself, his cronies, and his weapons program. By all rights and means, liberals should have already put together a strike team by themselves and gone in and removed him.
I'll tell you how it helps inner city schools... COMPETITION! There is NO incentive for any public school to get better. As a matter of fact, the worst schools consistently get the most money. Money is not the problem. The problem is that the government sucks at teaching kids. As for the federal government "raping" all of the money from schools to "bomb Iraq" and fund "star wars," it's not the federal government's job to educate our kids. The farther removed the money for schools is from the schools themselves, the less effective it is. I fully support folding the Department of Education. That and busting teachers' unions. There's a reason that the teachers' unions don't want vouchers, they know that when the vouchers start, they'll be held accountable for their performance.
And Clinton purgered himself in front of Congress. He didn't get ANY time.
Lest we forget, corporations are made up of people. They're not monolithic giant beings in and of themselves.
I had a Palm III for many years. I was able to pick up Grafitti in about an hour. Now I have a Zaurus. The handwriting recognition is amazing. I almost never use it. I usually use the keyboard. No matter how great handwriting recognition gets, it'll never be as fast a competent (not great, just okay) typist. It simply takes longer to write words and letters than to type them. I don't see the advantage of the tablet PC thing (except for vertical markets). As I see it, Microsoft is merely attempting to manufacture a market that doesn't exist. It's all hype, but Microsoft will get credit for it when everyone wants one (why? because it's "new" and "cool"). I say thee FEH!
Get a WriteRight screen protector for your Palm. It works wonders for writing feel and accuracy as well as protects your screen.
I bank at SouthTrust and at least up until a few months ago it didn't work all that well with Mozilla.
" * User: I want to be able to share my schedule contacts and project info.
* admin: sure we can install exchange it will cost $$$$$$, ohh yea it also runs on Win2k.
* User: Fine, whatever, just tell me when it's done and don't bug me with details.
* admin: what about all of that mimlinda, in lisa and melissa and code red stuff?
* User: Which part of 'don't bug me with details' was unclear? Just do it."
Actually, I think the last part would be:
Admin: Did I mention it'll cost $$$$$$$
User: How much $$$$$$$
Admin: A LOT of $$$$$$$
User: Isn't there another way?
Admin: Nope.
User: I guess we can wait on collaboration.
Really, the biggest issue with Exchange is its price. It, because MS have a lock on the market, is entirely over priced for what it is and how well it works. Of course, you could go with Notes, but that would necessitate going with something other than Outlook. Fat chance the suits would go for that. OpenMail was choice, but HP couldn't seem to get it off the ground, unfortunately. Currently, I'm evaluating PHPGroupWare. So far so good. I figure that in a month or so, I'll reccommend it to a client and see how it goes.
As for Exchange support. Well, if you call the following (real) exchange (no pun intended) support, then I'll eat my hat. When I worked for a market leading software development company in IT, we upgraded from Exchange 5.0 to 5.5. It locked up at least once a day. After several days of troubleshooting, we burned a support call to Microsoft (not cheap). This is the jist of the call:
Us: Yeah, we just upgraded to Exchange 5.5 and it locks up at least once a day. All other services on the server are fine, but Exchange just stops.
MS Support: Well, have you uninstalled and reinstalled Exchange?
Us: Yeah.
MS: Have you restored the Information Store from a previous backup?
Us: Yeah.
MS: Well, just reboot the server once a day. That's what we do here.
Yeah, THAT's support. We ended up downgrading back to 5.0.
Which, for people that are into semantics, is still a lie as the Internet was already underway before Gore was in office.
Ummm... Actually, the GPL restricts your use of a given piece of software in the same ways that an EULA does, it just restricts different things. If you start from the base of, "you can do whatever you want to with this software," the GPL restricts redistribution (must include source code) and alteration of the software (must distribute changes) among other things. These are restrictions, not additional rights. Granted, they're pretty cool restrictions, but restrictions nonetheless.
If they legalized X-Box mods, Microsoft would shut off the supply. Like they're threatening to do in Australia.
Actually, the government is just another form of monopoly. Albeit, a vastly less efficient one. If Ihad the choice of sending tax dollars to an organization that paid half a million dollars for a toilet seat or to the people that sold them the toilet seat, the sellers have my cash. Aside from defense, the government can't seem to do anything right. And the cost of defense could come down dramatically. But back to the point, leaving things in the hands of government is just replacing a potential monopoly with a certain one.
Liberty-mindedness and liberalism are NOT the same.
Hey, they had 100% voter turnout in Iraq last Tuesday.
Exactly how does broadcasting a group's product harm them in any way? The RIAA BENEFITS from rasio broadcasts. It's like free advertising only they want to get paid for it now. This is totally insane. The RIAA should be less concerned with control, and more concerned with getting music out to the people that they might actually BUY something. It's crazy.
As for the artists... Do you really think they see anything from the broadcast of their music on the radio? Webcasting would be no different.
The fact that this is a relatively small sum of money is irrelevant. It shouldn't cost anyone a DIME to do advertise for the RIAA.
No, that would be OUR Senator, Strom Thurmond.
If there's one thing that Bill Gates & Co. are good at it's marketing. It is inconceivable that the suits at Microsoft were not aware of the particulars of the campaign. At the very least, they saw it before it was approved for public consumption. That they are now taking action that could jeopardize this woman's job is inexcusable.
...as my primary server. Once I'm sure I don't need anything else from my 8.2 box, I'll install RH 8 on it and mess around). I have found NO problems with Mandrake 9. It's solid. It's easier to configure (as a matter of fact, I expected some things to be harder than they were and ended up wasting time trying to do them the hard way. Once I realized there was an easier way, they went off without a hitch). Everything you could want is there. Everything is easier to configure and everything just works. I'm actually considering moving to Mandrake as the corporate server to reccommend over Red Hat.
" Well no, it would more like having all the products in the store on a seven foot high shelf, so only seven footers can reach the items."
And giving everyone under 7 feet tall a ladder. The ladder being the telephone in this scenario. Really, there is an alternative for a blind person to get the exact same service. It shouldn't be an issue.
"It's not just drivers that use those machines."
But it's supposed to be. Actually, most of the drive up ATMs around here actually say you're not supposed to walk up to them.
"without the ADA in place, businesses can and will discriminate against handicapped people."
I don't think discriminate is the correct term here. It implies implicit disdain. I think it's more accurate to say they these businesses didn't even consider handicapped people. And, I doubt most people do on a regular basis. I highly doubt that these people sat around before the ADA and plotted to keep out the wheel-butts. Now the racial discrimination is clearly pre-meditated. Although I'm torn on the legislation of that as well. The libertarian in me says that a company has the right to serve or not serve whomever they wish. If they want to exclude an entire segment of income generators, let them be stupid. On the other hand, it would be irresponsible for society to let it go, and government is a huge arm of society.
"Sometimes there is no other way to get a business to listen other than through its wallet."
Actually, that's EXACTLY the way it's supposed to work.
"We all have a right to make use of public services, be them brick and morder or online."
First of all, this is NOT a public service. It's a private service run by a private company. Second of all, there ARE other ways to acces the information available on the site. Instead of calling the webmasters (which is the user's prerogative and a reasonable, yet probably futile, course of action), why not just CALL TO BUY A TICKET?!?!?