You should have been at the function where he released 100 screaming Rhesus monkeys into the audience to highlight the problems of Ebola virus. It was great fun watching the attendees trying to avoid being bitten.
Since DC is running so efficiently now I can't wait for this guy to bring his success to the rest of the nation! Cough-cough Cough-cough Cough-cough Cough-cough Cough-cough Cough-cough Cough-cough Cough-cough Cough-cough...
PTA is rubber-stamp for the school board/administration. Heaven forbid you try to question anything/anyone! If you do you are troublemaker.
At least in every jurisdiction I've lived in the school administration is top-heavy (why does our Superintendent need a private bathroom with shower?) and can sling the doubletalk as fast as any politician.
Think mebbe you could tell that to all the "local" school boards and soccer-mom types who think that is precisely what everyone needs to do?
Just once I'd love to tell my local school board "yes, you can have ALL the money you are asking for" because I know they will only come back next eyar and ask for MORE when their revolutionary program-du-jour doesn't meet expectations.
Leonardo Dicaprio in Brave New World? Great. I can't wait to see him running around on screen yelling "I'm the king of the world! Shit! Shit! Where's my soma?!?"
What I'd be happy with is Lynx on dialup. I'm more text than visual oriented and while all the bells & whistles are fun (for about 5 minutes) I think I'd be content to peel away all the protection - like A/V software, adblockers, etc. that we have to use to take advantage of broadband. The Intertubes are so bloated the core information that I'm usually looking for is too often obscured.
But then again I am a cynic!
Actually I've got it and am thinking about getting rid of it because it has become as big a time waster as the tube. (And I say this as an IT pro for the past 22 years.)
I'm getting more interested in living life than observing life on machines which seems to be the case more and more. For example (and forgive me for saying the next three words but) in my day we aspired to be Guitar Heroes. Now, everysome seems to be content playing the game!
Luddite out!
No, I don't want silly which is why I pointed out the original. It looks like business as usual in that they would rather blame the previous occupant than take care of business.
The Washington Post had a truly idiotic story today entitled: "Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages" that seemed (to me) silly.
Among the statements: " The team members, accustomed to working on Macintoshes, found computers outfitted with six-year-old versions of Microsoft software." seemed the silliest in that it implies that six-year old software (WinXP?) is "old". The author needs to be told that just because newer is available doesn't mean there is a business sense to use it!
From the article: "What does that mean in 21st-century terms? No Facebook to communicate with supporters. No outside e-mail log-ins. No instant messaging. Hard adjustments for a staff that helped sweep Obama to power through, among other things, relentless online social networking."
The young'uns should learn there are reasons to make those things unavailable. Like, uhhh, security?
Think back to when Clinton took office and his minions were saying the same kinds of things about the WH phone system left by Bush 1...that is used "dial phones" (for christ's sake!)...and everything had to go through the WH switchboard. There was a reason for that as the Clintonites found when they "modernized". Suddenly the WH began leaking info like a sieve when the "new technology" was adopted.
Watch for the same thing to happen here!
For the record: I didn't vote for Obama or McCain but it seems like this article was another kick at GWB.
The uncritical adoration of Obama reminds me of this from 1984:
"But the face of Big Brother seemed to persist for several seconds on the screen, as though the impact that it had made on everyone's eyeballs was too vivid to wear off immediately. The little sandyhaired woman had flung herself forward over the back of the chair in front of her. With a tremulous murmur that sounded like 'My Saviour!' she extended her arms towards the screen. Then she buried her face in her hands. It was apparent that she was uttering a prayer.
"At this moment the entire group of people broke into a deep, slow, rhythmical chant of 'B-B!...B-B!' -- over and over again, very slowly, with a long pause between the first 'B' and the second-a heavy, murmurous sound, somehow curiously savage, in the background of which one seemed to hear the stamp of naked feet and the throbbing of tom-toms. For perhaps as much as thirty seconds they kept it up. It was a refrain that was often heard in moments of overwhelming emotion. Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise. Winston's entrails seemed to grow cold. In the Two Minutes Hate he could not help sharing in the general delirium, but this sub-human chanting of 'B-B!...B-B!' always filled him with horror. Of course he chanted with the rest: it was impossible to do otherwise. To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to do what everyone else was doing, was an instinctive reaction. "
I bought MAKE's book on Small Form Factor PCs thinking it would provide some background on modding cases, hardware, etc. Instead, it turns out to feature a handful of projects with, in many cases by the author's own admission, obsolete and unavailable equipment. Avoid it. I've become more disenchanted with Oreilly over this book and MAKE magazine.
TFA says this about Open Office 3.0: "With an acquisition cost of between $150 and $200 less than Microsoft Office 2007"
Uh. Am I missing something? Isn't the acquisition cost a big $0?
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before Windows starts crashing.
If so, please notify me when Carly Fiorina does a spread in Playboy.
You should have been at the function where he released 100 screaming Rhesus monkeys into the audience to highlight the problems of Ebola virus. It was great fun watching the attendees trying to avoid being bitten.
Since DC is running so efficiently now I can't wait for this guy to bring his success to the rest of the nation! Cough-cough Cough-cough Cough-cough Cough-cough Cough-cough Cough-cough Cough-cough Cough-cough Cough-cough...
PTA is rubber-stamp for the school board/administration. Heaven forbid you try to question anything/anyone! If you do you are troublemaker. At least in every jurisdiction I've lived in the school administration is top-heavy (why does our Superintendent need a private bathroom with shower?) and can sling the doubletalk as fast as any politician.
Think mebbe you could tell that to all the "local" school boards and soccer-mom types who think that is precisely what everyone needs to do? Just once I'd love to tell my local school board "yes, you can have ALL the money you are asking for" because I know they will only come back next eyar and ask for MORE when their revolutionary program-du-jour doesn't meet expectations.
...contributing to its own global warming.
the idiots have solved all the real problems so they can waste time with this!
Leonardo Dicaprio in Brave New World? Great. I can't wait to see him running around on screen yelling "I'm the king of the world! Shit! Shit! Where's my soma?!?"
Bravo! Reliable coverage IS something I'd be willing to pay for!
What I'd be happy with is Lynx on dialup. I'm more text than visual oriented and while all the bells & whistles are fun (for about 5 minutes) I think I'd be content to peel away all the protection - like A/V software, adblockers, etc. that we have to use to take advantage of broadband. The Intertubes are so bloated the core information that I'm usually looking for is too often obscured. But then again I am a cynic!
Actually I've got it and am thinking about getting rid of it because it has become as big a time waster as the tube. (And I say this as an IT pro for the past 22 years.) I'm getting more interested in living life than observing life on machines which seems to be the case more and more. For example (and forgive me for saying the next three words but) in my day we aspired to be Guitar Heroes. Now, everysome seems to be content playing the game! Luddite out!
No, I don't want silly which is why I pointed out the original. It looks like business as usual in that they would rather blame the previous occupant than take care of business.
The Washington Post had a truly idiotic story today entitled: "Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages" that seemed (to me) silly. Among the statements: " The team members, accustomed to working on Macintoshes, found computers outfitted with six-year-old versions of Microsoft software." seemed the silliest in that it implies that six-year old software (WinXP?) is "old". The author needs to be told that just because newer is available doesn't mean there is a business sense to use it! From the article: "What does that mean in 21st-century terms? No Facebook to communicate with supporters. No outside e-mail log-ins. No instant messaging. Hard adjustments for a staff that helped sweep Obama to power through, among other things, relentless online social networking." The young'uns should learn there are reasons to make those things unavailable. Like, uhhh, security? Think back to when Clinton took office and his minions were saying the same kinds of things about the WH phone system left by Bush 1...that is used "dial phones" (for christ's sake!)...and everything had to go through the WH switchboard. There was a reason for that as the Clintonites found when they "modernized". Suddenly the WH began leaking info like a sieve when the "new technology" was adopted. Watch for the same thing to happen here! For the record: I didn't vote for Obama or McCain but it seems like this article was another kick at GWB.
The uncritical adoration of Obama reminds me of this from 1984: "But the face of Big Brother seemed to persist for several seconds on the screen, as though the impact that it had made on everyone's eyeballs was too vivid to wear off immediately. The little sandyhaired woman had flung herself forward over the back of the chair in front of her. With a tremulous murmur that sounded like 'My Saviour!' she extended her arms towards the screen. Then she buried her face in her hands. It was apparent that she was uttering a prayer. "At this moment the entire group of people broke into a deep, slow, rhythmical chant of 'B-B! ...B-B!' -- over and over again, very slowly, with a long pause between the first 'B' and the second-a heavy, murmurous sound, somehow curiously savage, in the background of which one seemed to hear the stamp of naked feet and the throbbing of tom-toms. For perhaps as much as thirty seconds they kept it up. It was a refrain that was often heard in moments of overwhelming emotion. Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise. Winston's entrails seemed to grow cold. In the Two Minutes Hate he could not help sharing in the general delirium, but this sub-human chanting of 'B-B! ...B-B!' always filled him with horror. Of course he chanted with the rest: it was impossible to do otherwise. To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to do what everyone else was doing, was an instinctive reaction. "
"lacing humans on Mars will be an extraordinary feat in itself"
They should just send a boatload of rabbits. What could possible go wrong?
That way only YOU would have to deal with this shit. This isn't a story! (Nor is it an intelligent question.)
I bought MAKE's book on Small Form Factor PCs thinking it would provide some background on modding cases, hardware, etc. Instead, it turns out to feature a handful of projects with, in many cases by the author's own admission, obsolete and unavailable equipment. Avoid it. I've become more disenchanted with Oreilly over this book and MAKE magazine.
Agreed! ptorrone (look at all the self-promoting posts) is the editor of MAKE. Hardly MAKES me want to buy the magazine.
carefully timed jerks was referring to our Congressional elections.
The new self-parking Ford to be powered by Microsoft Sync!
I can't *wait* for this. Can you imagine how much fun it will be playing chicken?
My point exactly. 90% of all users don't need (or understand) MS Word. They can get by with Notepad.
TFA says this about Open Office 3.0: "With an acquisition cost of between $150 and $200 less than Microsoft Office 2007" Uh. Am I missing something? Isn't the acquisition cost a big $0?