As of Windows 2000, YOU CAN USE DRIVERS FOR OLDER VERSIONS OF WINDOWS.
While that's interesting PR for MS, it's totally at odds with my experiences with win2k. I had all kinds of problems trying to get drivers for win2k, and in many cases older ones wouldn't work. Printers seemed to be especially problematic.
Yes, we do, it's a hilly area. But no, the sidewalk we put this fiat on was not one of them. Still, a fiat is pretty light. The four of us might have been able to lift it a meter if we'd wanted to, at the most we would have needed maybe 2 more guys.
10+? 3 friends and I lifted a guys Fiat and put it on the sidewalk when I was in high school, and we weren't weight-lifters or anything. The more the merrier, I suppose, but you certainly don't need that many.
I don't see how you could expect to find a fertilizer that isn't "hydrocarbon-derived". I mean, H and C, along with N and O, are pretty much the building blocks of all life as we know it.
winter storm problems and electrical outages across the country...(There will still be broadband at the house.)
and my first response was "Bwahaha, what a fool!" And as you point out, that's only one of the many problems you can have with an all-tech solution.
Seriously, the guy's relocating. Why keep the house empty? Just seems dumb to me. "Hey, I think I'll pay a bunch of money to keep this house I'm not even using, while it deteriorates from disuse." (Sorry, but no amount of tech is a substitute for a real live person living in the house)
I'm a big fan of Tivo, but claiming they co-invented the DVR is just plain nonsense.
There are certainly other things about how a Tivo does it's thing that are/were innovative, and they've made a DVR product that is affordable to the general public, but I myself have serviced DVRs based around a 486 running WinNT3.1.
My experience has been the opposite. The managers I've had that were technical themselves have gnereally understood that what I really needed, most of the time, was to not be bothered by all that "business stuff" and just be left alone to do my job. They've also generally been more understanding when I had needs for more equipment, information, etc.
That said, I may have just been lucky and had former-tech managers who didn't regret their move to management.
But they are also no worse, and have a lot of advantages in other areas. I would be much more comfortable giving a completely inexperienced user Linux than Windows. I'm not saying I'd give them Gentoo or LFS, but Kubuntu is quite nice to work with in my limited experience.
I think that depends very much on the market sector you're working in. If you're stuck on the idea that working in America means working for large corporations, then yeah, you're right. In my experience, though, smaller companies want "cross-specialized" people very badly, as it means that's hopefully one less area they have to find a specialist for, probably at consultant rates since they really only need that ability maybe a few hours a week.
I don't get why people keep complaining that this is a waste of money and they would rather use their money to help those people get food and other types of support. Well there are already programs for that.
The conclusion I've come to is that the people making these arguments fall into two categories:
1) Sour Grapes. This article falls into this category, I think. We all know what the M in MSN stands for, and what OS the OLPC isn't running. Some people badmouth stuff because they wish they could be a part of it, but aren't, or can't have the exact position they'd like to have (I doubt the OLPC folks would refuse a monetary donation from MS/BG, they just chose an open source OS because that fit better with the goals of the project).
2) Codependents. People who have a great need to feel like they're helping others. This in itself is great, but the "need" part of it makes them sometimes behave in ways that aren't necessarily for the long-term good. I think the guy quoted in the article ("with $100 you could almost feed a village for a year, so why waste that sum on a laptop?") is a member of this group. My response is; great, what have they gained from that? Another year of living in the same shitty situation? For what purpose? So you can give them another $100 worth of food next year? I think giving someone a resource that can help them improve their situation themselves is a lot more valuable than a years worth of food. But then, if their situation were actually improved, they wouldn't need this guy to give them food, and then how would he feel good about himself?
I was a loyal SUSE user since 6.3 in late 1999. With 10.0 and the switch to OpenSUSE came a lot of problems I never had before; broken updates, problems installing stuff from third-parties (like packman), etc. I switched to Gentoo over the summer, and I'm quite happy with it. My roommate hung on through SUSE 10.1, but the problems only got worse. He just switched to Kubuntu, and it seems to be working quite well.
Back when Novell first acquired SUSE, there were a lot of people saying "Oh great, Novell gets to kill another great product." I didn't want to listen then, but now I think they were right. It would be nice if Novell used some of whatever MS is giving them to try and bring SUSE back up to it's historic quality standards, but I've spent too much time in Corporate America to have any hope of that actually happening.
The last time I read this in a child developmental text, a child tends to learn object permanence (disappearing from view != no longer existing) at 6 months. A 2-3 year old is interacting with the world pretty significantly and they would have learned this long ago.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well. By the time my daughter was 2, she was well on her way to understanding complex family relationships (gramma Janelle is mommy's mother, etc), and making abstract connections to the people she knew (like knowing she was near where I worked, even though she couldn't see the building, or me for that matter).
"The only 'intuitive' interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned." (Attributed to Bruce Ediger)
One of the most telling signs that IT is dominated by men is the fact that this statement still holds any credence.
The nipple is a learned interface as well, by both mother and child. Anyone who knows anything about breastfeeding could tell you this, but clearly there aren't many of those people around here...
I think that's really only true if you're stuck in the meme of centralised production. The really great thing about solar is that rooftops are almost always effectively unused space, and that space is generally adjacent to the need, minimizing transmission cost.
Another common misconception about solar is that it's only useful in the southwest. Actually, while there is generally a lot of sun here, it comes with a lot of heat, which reduces the efficiency of the panels. Solar is actually more effecient in areas that are cold, but have clear skies.
I don't know nearly as much about wind generation, but similarly, the windiest places are not the best places to put them, since higher winds place generate much stronger forces that have to be engineered for. I often see wind generators shut down on the windiest days.
That's all well and good if you're someone who learns easily from books, but that leaves out about 2/3 of the population who are either strongly audio learners (who benefit most from being "spoon fed" the material via lecture) or strongly tactile-kinesthetic leaners (who benefit most from doing it themselves, hence all that "pointless busy work"). You are making a serious error if you think people are less intelligent than you simply because they aren't able to learn from the book like you do.
I also question wether you actually learned anything in that math class. I suspect you simply got good test grades, which is not at all the same thing.
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They don't see the irony that Apple has become Microsoft of the DAP market.
They can have the Double Anal Penetration market, I want no part of it!
As of Windows 2000, YOU CAN USE DRIVERS FOR OLDER VERSIONS OF WINDOWS.
While that's interesting PR for MS, it's totally at odds with my experiences with win2k. I had all kinds of problems trying to get drivers for win2k, and in many cases older ones wouldn't work. Printers seemed to be especially problematic.
No, because you do not have the copyright, or an agreement with the copyright holder which would allow you to legally make copies.
It is true that format is not the legal issue here: you still don't have the legal right to make copies, regardless of the format.
In this era, it's almost our duty to raise hell about wrongheaded actions like this
Almost? In this era? This is a democracy; it IS our duty, and has been since the inception of this country.
He isn't defending himself, he's the plaintiff, and as a real person he's not allowed to bring a lawyer into small claims court.
Yes, we do, it's a hilly area. But no, the sidewalk we put this fiat on was not one of them. Still, a fiat is pretty light. The four of us might have been able to lift it a meter if we'd wanted to, at the most we would have needed maybe 2 more guys.
10+? 3 friends and I lifted a guys Fiat and put it on the sidewalk when I was in high school, and we weren't weight-lifters or anything. The more the merrier, I suppose, but you certainly don't need that many.
no... by definition DRM causes issues with unauthorized usage, plenty of which is perfectly legitimate as defined by the law.
Especially not if they're left-handed albino midgets. I hear they're contagious.
I don't see how you could expect to find a fertilizer that isn't "hydrocarbon-derived". I mean, H and C, along with N and O, are pretty much the building blocks of all life as we know it.
No kidding. I saw this:
winter storm problems and electrical outages across the country...(There will still be broadband at the house.)
and my first response was "Bwahaha, what a fool!" And as you point out, that's only one of the many problems you can have with an all-tech solution.
Seriously, the guy's relocating. Why keep the house empty? Just seems dumb to me. "Hey, I think I'll pay a bunch of money to keep this house I'm not even using, while it deteriorates from disuse." (Sorry, but no amount of tech is a substitute for a real live person living in the house)
I'm a big fan of Tivo, but claiming they co-invented the DVR is just plain nonsense.
There are certainly other things about how a Tivo does it's thing that are/were innovative, and they've made a DVR product that is affordable to the general public, but I myself have serviced DVRs based around a 486 running WinNT3.1.
Done. 4 years ago, in fact. Never looked back. But I don't see how that's particularly helpful in this situation.
What sort of "decisive action" do you suggest I take?
My experience has been the opposite. The managers I've had that were technical themselves have gnereally understood that what I really needed, most of the time, was to not be bothered by all that "business stuff" and just be left alone to do my job. They've also generally been more understanding when I had needs for more equipment, information, etc.
That said, I may have just been lucky and had former-tech managers who didn't regret their move to management.
But they are also no worse, and have a lot of advantages in other areas. I would be much more comfortable giving a completely inexperienced user Linux than Windows. I'm not saying I'd give them Gentoo or LFS, but Kubuntu is quite nice to work with in my limited experience.
I think that depends very much on the market sector you're working in. If you're stuck on the idea that working in America means working for large corporations, then yeah, you're right. In my experience, though, smaller companies want "cross-specialized" people very badly, as it means that's hopefully one less area they have to find a specialist for, probably at consultant rates since they really only need that ability maybe a few hours a week.
LOL!
The term "troll" has existed since before you were born.
There is something worse than old people trying to keep up with "The Lingo": it's snot-nosed little brats thinking they invented "The Lingo".
I don't get why people keep complaining that this is a waste of money and they would rather use their money to help those people get food and other types of support. Well there are already programs for that.
The conclusion I've come to is that the people making these arguments fall into two categories:
1) Sour Grapes. This article falls into this category, I think. We all know what the M in MSN stands for, and what OS the OLPC isn't running. Some people badmouth stuff because they wish they could be a part of it, but aren't, or can't have the exact position they'd like to have (I doubt the OLPC folks would refuse a monetary donation from MS/BG, they just chose an open source OS because that fit better with the goals of the project).
2) Codependents. People who have a great need to feel like they're helping others. This in itself is great, but the "need" part of it makes them sometimes behave in ways that aren't necessarily for the long-term good. I think the guy quoted in the article ("with $100 you could almost feed a village for a year, so why waste that sum on a laptop?") is a member of this group. My response is; great, what have they gained from that? Another year of living in the same shitty situation? For what purpose? So you can give them another $100 worth of food next year? I think giving someone a resource that can help them improve their situation themselves is a lot more valuable than a years worth of food. But then, if their situation were actually improved, they wouldn't need this guy to give them food, and then how would he feel good about himself?
I was a loyal SUSE user since 6.3 in late 1999. With 10.0 and the switch to OpenSUSE came a lot of problems I never had before; broken updates, problems installing stuff from third-parties (like packman), etc. I switched to Gentoo over the summer, and I'm quite happy with it. My roommate hung on through SUSE 10.1, but the problems only got worse. He just switched to Kubuntu, and it seems to be working quite well.
Back when Novell first acquired SUSE, there were a lot of people saying "Oh great, Novell gets to kill another great product." I didn't want to listen then, but now I think they were right. It would be nice if Novell used some of whatever MS is giving them to try and bring SUSE back up to it's historic quality standards, but I've spent too much time in Corporate America to have any hope of that actually happening.
The last time I read this in a child developmental text, a child tends to learn object permanence (disappearing from view != no longer existing) at 6 months. A 2-3 year old is interacting with the world pretty significantly and they would have learned this long ago.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well. By the time my daughter was 2, she was well on her way to understanding complex family relationships (gramma Janelle is mommy's mother, etc), and making abstract connections to the people she knew (like knowing she was near where I worked, even though she couldn't see the building, or me for that matter).
"The only 'intuitive' interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned." (Attributed to Bruce Ediger)
One of the most telling signs that IT is dominated by men is the fact that this statement still holds any credence.
The nipple is a learned interface as well, by both mother and child. Anyone who knows anything about breastfeeding could tell you this, but clearly there aren't many of those people around here...
You don't "own" software like property. You get a license to use it.
You could not possibly be more wrong. You own software in exactly the same way that you own a book.
I think that's really only true if you're stuck in the meme of centralised production. The really great thing about solar is that rooftops are almost always effectively unused space, and that space is generally adjacent to the need, minimizing transmission cost.
Another common misconception about solar is that it's only useful in the southwest. Actually, while there is generally a lot of sun here, it comes with a lot of heat, which reduces the efficiency of the panels. Solar is actually more effecient in areas that are cold, but have clear skies.
I don't know nearly as much about wind generation, but similarly, the windiest places are not the best places to put them, since higher winds place generate much stronger forces that have to be engineered for. I often see wind generators shut down on the windiest days.
PCA is industry lingo for Printed Circuit Assembly (with parts installed), as opposed to PCB, the bare board.
Sounds backwards to me. I don't like it.
That's all well and good if you're someone who learns easily from books, but that leaves out about 2/3 of the population who are either strongly audio learners (who benefit most from being "spoon fed" the material via lecture) or strongly tactile-kinesthetic leaners (who benefit most from doing it themselves, hence all that "pointless busy work"). You are making a serious error if you think people are less intelligent than you simply because they aren't able to learn from the book like you do.
I also question wether you actually learned anything in that math class. I suspect you simply got good test grades, which is not at all the same thing.