I wonder why they even bother using TCP/IP at all. It would make sense to have some kind of proprietary protocol in this matter, since we don't want to have all the security issues that are present on the net present in the ATM machine.
ATM machines shouldn't be connected to the internet, which means TCP/IP is optional. This would be security through obscurity at it's finest. Eliminate ports altogether.
Pachebel's Cannon in D. That's all you need. You either have to have the same chord progression, or just use the same chords in a different order. For some reason, it spawns a hit.
Examples include: "Basketcase" by Green Day, "Want you bad" by the Offspring, and "Glycerine" by Bush. Of course, you could always do the obvious thing and base an entire R&B song off of it. That'd be a hit, no prob.
That's typically attributed to the number of colors present in the image, and the addition of the alpha channel. If you have a PNG image with 256 colors compared to the same GIF image, the PNG will be smaller.
The very fact that you can have 16 million colors + alpha in a PNG is well worth the sacrifice you make in file size. The difference is typically on the order of 4-5 KB anyways.
Does Linx support style sheets? What about all those other text-only browsers?
CSS is very important, and a great saver of bandwidth and time. If it is used, however, will it be readable by most browsers? Whitespace is parsed out, yes, but maybe it is the only way to render the proper two spaces after a period in these browsers.
The guy didn't even have a Yahoo! account, he had deleted it a month ago.:rolls eyes: He just assumed that Yahoo! had changed everyone's preferences without verifying it first.
I never think of software as "sexy," yet many geeks out there do. If you want a sexy name, they should go with something like "long legs linux," "tits and thighs linux," "supple navel linux," "hourglass linux," etc.
I think Fedora is suitable enough, it's about as recognizable a word as Gentoo or Mandrake.
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I'd say that this falls squarely into the "maintenance" section though. You have a hub site that can't go down, but it functions with current hardware. Will the hub site require a complete upgrade if you add another factory, or will it be able to handle that too?
My point, as convoluted as it was, was that there are a number of companies that scream because their whole business is based on upgrades and brand new solutions. If you've got the hardware to handle everything already, and the manpower, then IT becomes less of a sticking point in the budget (only salaries and power bills, no new eServers, Win2K3 licenses, yada).
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I can say that IT isn't necessary, but sure makes things more convenient. There are a number of businesses that exist without computers, they are mainly retail shops and the like (lemonade stands,cash/check only antiques, yada). In order for IT to actually be necessary would mean that you cannot do business at all without it.
If we didn't have the internet, we'd resort to telephones and fax machines for long distance communication. Snail mail is another option, although not as fast. Databases are a way more convenient form of file cabinets full of binders, but for some reason most accounting departments keep the paper along with the electric.
I'm not particularly worried about losing my job in IT, or afraid of someone calling my job unnecessary. I don't think my job is necessary. The whole point of my job is to ease the burden of my co-workers, by making their payrolls go faster and easier, by eliminating as much paper from the interoffice ordering and communication, or by providing support for co-workers when Outlook is barfing. All of it has functioned without computers before, it could very well do it without them again. Perhaps they wouldn't be quite so efficient, but that wouldn't hinder the actual function of the business.
The only places where IT matters are in those businesses that have bet the bank on IT. MS, IBM, and HP are all places that look at such a paper as detrimental to their position. If people in business realize that innovation does not necessarily mean upgrade, but also includes better internal programming and process auditing, all of those big tech companies will take a hit in sales.
Look at the years after the bubble burst, for instance. The business community proved how unnecessay IT really was, which my bretheren are still very sore about. Businesses found that they needed to focus on cost cutting and efficiency, both were things that didn't need bleeding edge hardware and platforms to accomplish. Cost cutting came into being through the massive release of IT workers, through limiting the spending on new servers and pipes, and through reorganization. Efficiency came when reorganization forced workers to do their jobs better, and not be so distracted by the nerf balls and ping pong tables.
Granted, many excellent workers were cut, and many poor workers were kept. This is the nature of the upper level management beast. Eventually, those people will get rolled out of their jobs, and those positions will be re-filled by the competant ones. There will not be so many positions, though, mostly because the focus of IT will be on maintaining regular operations and on optimizing current applications. There will be little room for creativity, but it can be sneaked in in the name of "easing the burden of co-workers."
IT has lost it's glamour, and everyone (including the deluded IT guys) has finally realized that IT hasn't changed much since the 70's and 80's. The mid-late 90's were an enigma, perhaps the actual recognition of this strange section of business, but it was just everything blown out of proportion in the end.
IT really isn't as necessary as IBM, MS, and HP would like people to think. These businesses have excelled recently in creating extra expense in business, just so that they can show how it could be cut with bleeding edge technology. The stuff is nice to drool over, but technology that is two-ten years old can still fulfill that role, and the cost has already been paid. IT's role is now to be intelligent with the data, to work with it efficiently, and to maximize the effectiveness of this hardware.
Then God gets pissed off because Darl called him a "person."
Of course, Darl could use "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God." as proof. No one back there knew what that a word was just four nibbles, and God should have recognized that "word" was used in SCO's Source.
Of course, God then gives proof of using SCO code by causing a segmentation fault right under Lindon, Utah. He wasn't too pleased with those Mormon people either, so it was like two birds with one stone.
We'll just need one of them big Corellian ships to do the transporting. Just as long as we get more than one or two companies doing the work, the last thing we want is a space-aged DeBeers.
If Microsoft did that, they'd have a pile of pissed off companies that would have to re-write their drivers. They'd only be able to make additions, not changes to the API, and then you still have the current versions of the drivers that still use the NDIS API.
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It actually goes like this:
After Bill Gates declares himself "God of IT," the Master Authentication Server starts to consume all other pc's without anyone knowing. Those PC's become dumb terminals to the Master Authentication System. This continues on until one man write a small security program that checks all other programs for things like buffer overflows. This program becomes a part of the system, as the MAS consumes this last man's machine.
The MAS, realizing that it has run out of pc's to consume, then starts consuming humans by turning them into batteries. These humans believe that they are in some kind of virtual world, where they play games like 'lightbikes,' and 'catch the glowing ball while trying not to fall off of the very thin floating discs.' Eventually, all but a small portion of mankind is enslaved.
As time goes on, a new instance small security program is created, but it thinks that it is human. This small program then proceeds to attack the system through the massive numbers of buffer overflows, making it appear that this program has Godlike powers. He moves incredibly fast, flies around, and makes his lightbike break that stupid blueish wall boundry.
The humans notice him, and start thinking that their dreams feel more real than when they're awake. They start to question the system, all the while the MAS is sending out security programs to try and stop these people from the realization. People start to drop out of the system, and fall back into reality.
The reality that they see is rather bland, it is a lot more colorful than the virtual world was, and they notice that it's texture and bump-mapped too. There's a whole bunch of boxes around where they're sitting, and some sort of headset with goggles attached. Some people put the headset on and get trapped back in the system, but then immediately pop out of the system. They start to develop traits like the security program that freed them, but not as great.
These people then go to the MAS headquarters in Remond, Microsoftdom. The constitution of the ancient land of the United States appears to have been used as wallpaper, but then painted over multiple times in varying hues of bright orange, blue, and red. They notice that the MAS computer itself has a plug, it didn't have the physical capabilities of producing anything. They pull the plug, and immediately the rest of the world pops out of the system.
Some of the people die of shock, they were really pissed off because they were just one ring away from beating the computer in 'catch the glowing ball while trying not to fall off of the very thin floating discs.' Most of the people rejoice at the enhanced graphics of this world, and start to understand the nature of copulation again.
In the end, the sky is blue, the grass is green, people are laying around naked, and the world is free of SCO and Microsoft forever.
I had that "willpower" that you speak of. I was a tiny kid, I weighed only 115 lb when I got into high school, by the time I left I had gained a bit more... but being the tiny reclusive kid didn't help. By the end of high school, I had one of the sharpest tongues in school. I didn't "zing" or "burn" people, I just downright insulted their intelligence at every oppurtunity (it was often, IIRC).
Now, I look back and wonder about just how stupid I was. There's one thing about ignoring the bullying, but it's entirely different if you let the "ignoring" become "hardening." Those that are strong will resist the wind, but those that are hard will shatter in the wind.
It helped a lot that I was in completely advanced classes, and participated in band and whatnot. I did make a few friends that were not the jock or bully types, and they have remained good friends even after graduation and all of college. I've got a lot that I wish to apologize for, however, because in being so waspish I had become just the verbal form of them.
I sometimes wonder what my high school reunion will be like, and whether or not I will revert back to my old attitudes once I'm confronted with the people of the past.
Is this is the fault of Access, or is it the fault of the PHB that's using it? Access, as a tool, is decent. Access, as a toy in an Enterprise environment, is dangerous.
Would it be any different if your boss had the RDBMS program to Oracle installed on his machine and did the design of the tables in the same way? Last time I checked, Oracle, SQL Server, hell any DB will let you create complete crap. It's up to the designer to follow rules of relationships, keys, normalization, and all that other good stuff.
Access isn't that bad. Perhaps it shouldn't be shipped with MS Office, but it is. Don't point the finger at Access, when the blame lies solely on your manager.
If it supports such things as diagrams and visual representation of tables, I can see this as a really great application. There are other applications like this, most notably pgAccess and pgAdmin (for postgresql), but one that connects to a bunch of things is nice.
These types of apps are great for throwing together the framework of tables for an application. They're also good for managing stored queries (or whatever you call them), as well as viewing table information. You have everything in front of you, so that you can scan it with your eyes while writing your SQL.
PHP is just a language, and doesn't really give you much in the way of DB stuff... You usually have to roll your own application, and then you have security things that you need to attend to. XML isn't really useful at all in this case, since it's usually the result of working with a database, not part of the cause.
You don't *need* a credit card to establish credit though. Payments can be made on anything that you owe, which would include such things as cell phone bills, power bills, cable television / internet bills, rent, the works.
I just set up automatic deductions for everything, because I'm notoriously horrid at handling paper. It's better for me to spend 10 minutes setting up the billing info for them to hit my debit card or checking account than it is for me to consistently misplace my bill, checkbook, stamps, envelopes, yada.
That's true. All nations still dwell within the U.S., even if they are not still within their sovreign states. The American Culture is much more than a propensity to eat sweet and fatty things, and to buy the biggest thing with the most pizzaz. The culture of the U.S. is a conglomeration of family values, community support, acceptance of differences, in addition to the food, all blended together with a "don't tread on me" attitude.
This became most apparent after 9/11, where each U.S. citizen felt that much closer to their fellow citizen. I'm sure the Red Cross hadn't seen so much blood donated as in those following weeks, nor has New York been offered so much voluntary assistance. The Stars and Stripes became an emblem that shone on automobiles, and though the flag was treated without respect in these instances, the motivation, attitude, and intentions were sincere and honorable.
The culture gets buried beneath things that are clearly against it's members, those things being the superior attitudes of super-commerce, the inherant human want for everything, and the supreme availability of everything to those humans. No culture goes without these problems, though. The U.S. has enemies within that treat the people like cattle being steered towards the butcher. These enemies have arisen from within the culture, but they are not of the culture itself.
The culture of the U.S. is quite possibly the most flexible one, which is why such things can occur. Coca-Cola is not an emblem of the U.S. culture, rather it is a battle-flag of it's children. The culture supports the U.S., it thrives within each of its citizens without them knowing about it.
The culture of the U.S. is not shallow, like many think it is. The culture is possibly more complex than any other on this Earth, precisely because of the number of lives, races, and creeds that went into building it. It has its flaws, yet it is the object of jealousy the whole world over. People look at America and thing Coke, yet people also look at America and think "freedom," "spirit," "steadfastness," and "cohesion."
why not buy the brand most compatible with the format?
That's an easy one to answer. You've got 300-400 machines that require an office application suite, but you've got a small budget. Complete compatilibility is not much of an issue if you can save (400*$600) $180,000 - $240,000, yet run a "mostly compatible" suite. Now, with the opening of the format, that "mostly compatible" becomes "compatible."
Then there's the whole issue of MS Licensing 6.0 (as if it's a whole other application itself).
Yeah, a little backwards from the Indiana Jones quote, but it'll do.
If there's a dog, or person, or whatever, that is named after the "Hubble Telescope," is it then called "Hubble Telescope?" Do these people know who the telescope was named for originally, and how much of an honor it truly was?
If there's a dog named "Hubble," then he was named after Hubble himself, the scientist, and not some fricken telescope. The world should know better.
A lot of times, these Christian organizations are living on donations, or the coffers of a tightwad church. It's the story in many denominations, with exception of the blind-leading-blind (but pay us with $$) evangelicals.
Most positions in Christian (or any religion, I imagine) organizations are not going to be high paying or glamorous. There are people out there that would accept the position based on the fact that they are a Christian organization alone, such is the way faith is. I'm not too sure how much the cost of living in Colorado Springs is, but if it's as much as Boulder, it'd be rather difficult to keep the position without another job.
There's no such thing as moral wages. Wages don't do actions based on ethical decisions. The organization probably pays what it can. That $28k may be one of the highest paid positions that they've got.
If it's a world that you go into and assume the role of an on-line entity, then it definitely is and RPG. Let me school you on the meaning of an RPG... It means ROLE PLAYING GAME. Yes, that means playing any role for any type of entertainment.
RPG's come in many different flavours in the pencil & paper world, quite a few do not include elements of fantasy and killing. Your little rant about how this thing is *not* an RPG is completely inaccurate. RPGs do not need a plot, they just need an environment where you assume the role of something that is not yourself. If you are creating an avatar in this world, flying around and doing things that are not possible in this world, then you are indeed playing a role.
Calling Second Life an RPG or a MMORPG is fair and accurate.
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I wonder why they even bother using TCP/IP at all. It would make sense to have some kind of proprietary protocol in this matter, since we don't want to have all the security issues that are present on the net present in the ATM machine.
ATM machines shouldn't be connected to the internet, which means TCP/IP is optional. This would be security through obscurity at it's finest. Eliminate ports altogether.
Pachebel's Cannon in D. That's all you need. You either have to have the same chord progression, or just use the same chords in a different order. For some reason, it spawns a hit.
Examples include: "Basketcase" by Green Day, "Want you bad" by the Offspring, and "Glycerine" by Bush. Of course, you could always do the obvious thing and base an entire R&B song off of it. That'd be a hit, no prob.
That's typically attributed to the number of colors present in the image, and the addition of the alpha channel. If you have a PNG image with 256 colors compared to the same GIF image, the PNG will be smaller.
The very fact that you can have 16 million colors + alpha in a PNG is well worth the sacrifice you make in file size. The difference is typically on the order of 4-5 KB anyways.
Does Linx support style sheets? What about all those other text-only browsers?
CSS is very important, and a great saver of bandwidth and time. If it is used, however, will it be readable by most browsers? Whitespace is parsed out, yes, but maybe it is the only way to render the proper two spaces after a period in these browsers.
The guy didn't even have a Yahoo! account, he had deleted it a month ago. :rolls eyes: He just assumed that Yahoo! had changed everyone's preferences without verifying it first.
What a pud.
I'd take it on the condition that you have it plugged in, turned on, and connected to the internet full time.
Also, rebooting the machine is illegal.
You sure you want to take that bet?
It's all relative.
I never think of software as "sexy," yet many geeks out there do. If you want a sexy name, they should go with something like "long legs linux," "tits and thighs linux," "supple navel linux," "hourglass linux," etc.
I think Fedora is suitable enough, it's about as recognizable a word as Gentoo or Mandrake.
I'd say that this falls squarely into the "maintenance" section though. You have a hub site that can't go down, but it functions with current hardware. Will the hub site require a complete upgrade if you add another factory, or will it be able to handle that too?
My point, as convoluted as it was, was that there are a number of companies that scream because their whole business is based on upgrades and brand new solutions. If you've got the hardware to handle everything already, and the manpower, then IT becomes less of a sticking point in the budget (only salaries and power bills, no new eServers, Win2K3 licenses, yada).
I can say that IT isn't necessary, but sure makes things more convenient. There are a number of businesses that exist without computers, they are mainly retail shops and the like (lemonade stands,cash/check only antiques, yada). In order for IT to actually be necessary would mean that you cannot do business at all without it.
If we didn't have the internet, we'd resort to telephones and fax machines for long distance communication. Snail mail is another option, although not as fast. Databases are a way more convenient form of file cabinets full of binders, but for some reason most accounting departments keep the paper along with the electric.
I'm not particularly worried about losing my job in IT, or afraid of someone calling my job unnecessary. I don't think my job is necessary. The whole point of my job is to ease the burden of my co-workers, by making their payrolls go faster and easier, by eliminating as much paper from the interoffice ordering and communication, or by providing support for co-workers when Outlook is barfing. All of it has functioned without computers before, it could very well do it without them again. Perhaps they wouldn't be quite so efficient, but that wouldn't hinder the actual function of the business.
The only places where IT matters are in those businesses that have bet the bank on IT. MS, IBM, and HP are all places that look at such a paper as detrimental to their position. If people in business realize that innovation does not necessarily mean upgrade, but also includes better internal programming and process auditing, all of those big tech companies will take a hit in sales.
Look at the years after the bubble burst, for instance. The business community proved how unnecessay IT really was, which my bretheren are still very sore about. Businesses found that they needed to focus on cost cutting and efficiency, both were things that didn't need bleeding edge hardware and platforms to accomplish. Cost cutting came into being through the massive release of IT workers, through limiting the spending on new servers and pipes, and through reorganization. Efficiency came when reorganization forced workers to do their jobs better, and not be so distracted by the nerf balls and ping pong tables.
Granted, many excellent workers were cut, and many poor workers were kept. This is the nature of the upper level management beast. Eventually, those people will get rolled out of their jobs, and those positions will be re-filled by the competant ones. There will not be so many positions, though, mostly because the focus of IT will be on maintaining regular operations and on optimizing current applications. There will be little room for creativity, but it can be sneaked in in the name of "easing the burden of co-workers."
IT has lost it's glamour, and everyone (including the deluded IT guys) has finally realized that IT hasn't changed much since the 70's and 80's. The mid-late 90's were an enigma, perhaps the actual recognition of this strange section of business, but it was just everything blown out of proportion in the end.
IT really isn't as necessary as IBM, MS, and HP would like people to think. These businesses have excelled recently in creating extra expense in business, just so that they can show how it could be cut with bleeding edge technology. The stuff is nice to drool over, but technology that is two-ten years old can still fulfill that role, and the cost has already been paid. IT's role is now to be intelligent with the data, to work with it efficiently, and to maximize the effectiveness of this hardware.
Yeah, then they'll sue the Chicago Bears for taking their business plan.
Then God gets pissed off because Darl called him a "person."
Of course, Darl could use "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God." as proof. No one back there knew what that a word was just four nibbles, and God should have recognized that "word" was used in SCO's Source.
Of course, God then gives proof of using SCO code by causing a segmentation fault right under Lindon, Utah. He wasn't too pleased with those Mormon people either, so it was like two birds with one stone.
We'll just need one of them big Corellian ships to do the transporting. Just as long as we get more than one or two companies doing the work, the last thing we want is a space-aged DeBeers.
If Microsoft did that, they'd have a pile of pissed off companies that would have to re-write their drivers. They'd only be able to make additions, not changes to the API, and then you still have the current versions of the drivers that still use the NDIS API.
It actually goes like this:
After Bill Gates declares himself "God of IT," the Master Authentication Server starts to consume all other pc's without anyone knowing. Those PC's become dumb terminals to the Master Authentication System. This continues on until one man write a small security program that checks all other programs for things like buffer overflows. This program becomes a part of the system, as the MAS consumes this last man's machine.
The MAS, realizing that it has run out of pc's to consume, then starts consuming humans by turning them into batteries. These humans believe that they are in some kind of virtual world, where they play games like 'lightbikes,' and 'catch the glowing ball while trying not to fall off of the very thin floating discs.' Eventually, all but a small portion of mankind is enslaved.
As time goes on, a new instance small security program is created, but it thinks that it is human. This small program then proceeds to attack the system through the massive numbers of buffer overflows, making it appear that this program has Godlike powers. He moves incredibly fast, flies around, and makes his lightbike break that stupid blueish wall boundry.
The humans notice him, and start thinking that their dreams feel more real than when they're awake. They start to question the system, all the while the MAS is sending out security programs to try and stop these people from the realization. People start to drop out of the system, and fall back into reality.
The reality that they see is rather bland, it is a lot more colorful than the virtual world was, and they notice that it's texture and bump-mapped too. There's a whole bunch of boxes around where they're sitting, and some sort of headset with goggles attached. Some people put the headset on and get trapped back in the system, but then immediately pop out of the system. They start to develop traits like the security program that freed them, but not as great.
These people then go to the MAS headquarters in Remond, Microsoftdom. The constitution of the ancient land of the United States appears to have been used as wallpaper, but then painted over multiple times in varying hues of bright orange, blue, and red. They notice that the MAS computer itself has a plug, it didn't have the physical capabilities of producing anything. They pull the plug, and immediately the rest of the world pops out of the system.
Some of the people die of shock, they were really pissed off because they were just one ring away from beating the computer in 'catch the glowing ball while trying not to fall off of the very thin floating discs.' Most of the people rejoice at the enhanced graphics of this world, and start to understand the nature of copulation again.
In the end, the sky is blue, the grass is green, people are laying around naked, and the world is free of SCO and Microsoft forever.
I had that "willpower" that you speak of. I was a tiny kid, I weighed only 115 lb when I got into high school, by the time I left I had gained a bit more... but being the tiny reclusive kid didn't help. By the end of high school, I had one of the sharpest tongues in school. I didn't "zing" or "burn" people, I just downright insulted their intelligence at every oppurtunity (it was often, IIRC).
Now, I look back and wonder about just how stupid I was. There's one thing about ignoring the bullying, but it's entirely different if you let the "ignoring" become "hardening." Those that are strong will resist the wind, but those that are hard will shatter in the wind.
It helped a lot that I was in completely advanced classes, and participated in band and whatnot. I did make a few friends that were not the jock or bully types, and they have remained good friends even after graduation and all of college. I've got a lot that I wish to apologize for, however, because in being so waspish I had become just the verbal form of them.
I sometimes wonder what my high school reunion will be like, and whether or not I will revert back to my old attitudes once I'm confronted with the people of the past.
Is this is the fault of Access, or is it the fault of the PHB that's using it? Access, as a tool, is decent. Access, as a toy in an Enterprise environment, is dangerous.
Would it be any different if your boss had the RDBMS program to Oracle installed on his machine and did the design of the tables in the same way? Last time I checked, Oracle, SQL Server, hell any DB will let you create complete crap. It's up to the designer to follow rules of relationships, keys, normalization, and all that other good stuff.
Access isn't that bad. Perhaps it shouldn't be shipped with MS Office, but it is. Don't point the finger at Access, when the blame lies solely on your manager.
If it supports such things as diagrams and visual representation of tables, I can see this as a really great application. There are other applications like this, most notably pgAccess and pgAdmin (for postgresql), but one that connects to a bunch of things is nice.
These types of apps are great for throwing together the framework of tables for an application. They're also good for managing stored queries (or whatever you call them), as well as viewing table information. You have everything in front of you, so that you can scan it with your eyes while writing your SQL.
PHP is just a language, and doesn't really give you much in the way of DB stuff... You usually have to roll your own application, and then you have security things that you need to attend to. XML isn't really useful at all in this case, since it's usually the result of working with a database, not part of the cause.
You don't *need* a credit card to establish credit though. Payments can be made on anything that you owe, which would include such things as cell phone bills, power bills, cable television / internet bills, rent, the works.
I just set up automatic deductions for everything, because I'm notoriously horrid at handling paper. It's better for me to spend 10 minutes setting up the billing info for them to hit my debit card or checking account than it is for me to consistently misplace my bill, checkbook, stamps, envelopes, yada.
That's true. All nations still dwell within the U.S., even if they are not still within their sovreign states. The American Culture is much more than a propensity to eat sweet and fatty things, and to buy the biggest thing with the most pizzaz. The culture of the U.S. is a conglomeration of family values, community support, acceptance of differences, in addition to the food, all blended together with a "don't tread on me" attitude.
This became most apparent after 9/11, where each U.S. citizen felt that much closer to their fellow citizen. I'm sure the Red Cross hadn't seen so much blood donated as in those following weeks, nor has New York been offered so much voluntary assistance. The Stars and Stripes became an emblem that shone on automobiles, and though the flag was treated without respect in these instances, the motivation, attitude, and intentions were sincere and honorable.
The culture gets buried beneath things that are clearly against it's members, those things being the superior attitudes of super-commerce, the inherant human want for everything, and the supreme availability of everything to those humans. No culture goes without these problems, though. The U.S. has enemies within that treat the people like cattle being steered towards the butcher. These enemies have arisen from within the culture, but they are not of the culture itself.
The culture of the U.S. is quite possibly the most flexible one, which is why such things can occur. Coca-Cola is not an emblem of the U.S. culture, rather it is a battle-flag of it's children. The culture supports the U.S., it thrives within each of its citizens without them knowing about it.
The culture of the U.S. is not shallow, like many think it is. The culture is possibly more complex than any other on this Earth, precisely because of the number of lives, races, and creeds that went into building it. It has its flaws, yet it is the object of jealousy the whole world over. People look at America and thing Coke, yet people also look at America and think "freedom," "spirit," "steadfastness," and "cohesion."
why not buy the brand most compatible with the format?
That's an easy one to answer. You've got 300-400 machines that require an office application suite, but you've got a small budget. Complete compatilibility is not much of an issue if you can save (400*$600) $180,000 - $240,000, yet run a "mostly compatible" suite. Now, with the opening of the format, that "mostly compatible" becomes "compatible."
Then there's the whole issue of MS Licensing 6.0 (as if it's a whole other application itself).
Yeah, a little backwards from the Indiana Jones quote, but it'll do.
If there's a dog, or person, or whatever, that is named after the "Hubble Telescope," is it then called "Hubble Telescope?" Do these people know who the telescope was named for originally, and how much of an honor it truly was?
If there's a dog named "Hubble," then he was named after Hubble himself, the scientist, and not some fricken telescope. The world should know better.
A lot of times, these Christian organizations are living on donations, or the coffers of a tightwad church. It's the story in many denominations, with exception of the blind-leading-blind (but pay us with $$) evangelicals.
Most positions in Christian (or any religion, I imagine) organizations are not going to be high paying or glamorous. There are people out there that would accept the position based on the fact that they are a Christian organization alone, such is the way faith is. I'm not too sure how much the cost of living in Colorado Springs is, but if it's as much as Boulder, it'd be rather difficult to keep the position without another job.
There's no such thing as moral wages. Wages don't do actions based on ethical decisions. The organization probably pays what it can. That $28k may be one of the highest paid positions that they've got.
Actually, it had nothing to do with Novell, Office, etc. What they really wanted was someone who could go out and fix their Oak/Maple blend abacus.
And last but not least, fortune!
If it's a world that you go into and assume the role of an on-line entity, then it definitely is and RPG. Let me school you on the meaning of an RPG... It means ROLE PLAYING GAME. Yes, that means playing any role for any type of entertainment.
RPG's come in many different flavours in the pencil & paper world, quite a few do not include elements of fantasy and killing. Your little rant about how this thing is *not* an RPG is completely inaccurate. RPGs do not need a plot, they just need an environment where you assume the role of something that is not yourself. If you are creating an avatar in this world, flying around and doing things that are not possible in this world, then you are indeed playing a role.
Calling Second Life an RPG or a MMORPG is fair and accurate.