The first generation Ford explorers were basically small trucks. I often "borrowed" my dad's, went off roading with friends, gave it all sorts of hell, and then would wash it up real good before going home. Then, ford found that women didn't like them, because they were 'rough' and didn't drive or turn smooth. So they made them smaller, so they were easier to park, gave them a softer ride, so they were more like a car, etc. They ruined that damn SUV.
Even more than that, I would love to see some laws that simply state the the credit companies have to prove it was you that took out the credit. (you know, innocent to proven guilty, one of the cornerstones of our democracy). Right now, you have to find out what is going on, and then prove to them that you didn't request/use the money. If they would just put the principle of innocent till proven guilty, the banks and credit companies would have to drastically change the way they give credit. (since they have to prove its you!).
I also think much would change if everyone had a right to get their own information that is collected from them. I can get credit reports 1 time a freaking year. thats it. Not to mention all the other companies that collect information about me. Some use that information for things like employment screening. How the hell am I supposed to know that I didn't get a job, because some company I have never heard of claims I had a record. (maybe they mistyped my social security or name...). Employers are scared of lawsuits, and they never tell you why you weren't selected..
Sounds like you live in a perfect market location to start your own ISP. Its really not that expensive to install a tower for fixed wireless or wimax. (compared to running wires all over town). Seriously. Start your own..
Wait until a patent comes out for:
"Taking a web presense offline, to generate discussion about the web presense, thereby increasing awareness about the site."
Also, sucks to be the guy that stepped on the surge protector laying on the floor....
Wait, your not seeing clearly. You see, gerrymandering districts is getting harder and harder each time they try to do it. What you are describing fixes that little problem... (sadly, i'm not so sure this is sarcasm..)
People that say "I've nothing to hide" have never worked in IT. Can't tell you the number of times I've had to deal with screwups, usually because some data entry person mis-typed a social security number, or entered the same person twice, or thought 2 john smiths were the same person... (Had one fun one.. Firstname, lastname, birthday, address, all the same. Gender and SocialSec number were different. They were married;)
Really, cause in my old school district, in the 90's, they had teachers working in the wharehouse, because they had been "innappropriate" around children, and they couldn't fire them. The union would say that they weren't convicted, so they couldn't be fired, parents wouldn't allow them to be around kids, so they got paid teachers wages to move boxes in the district warehouse. (nowadays, with the pedophile paranoia, i'm sure thats gone!)
3 reasons to go into teaching at less than average wage:
1. June
2. July
3. August
I know, I know, old joke, but really, my uncle became a teacher because of it (and took a huge paycut) because he loves camping (and teaching, he's quite good!), and his good paying job only gave him 2 weeks a year. He'd much rather get paid less, but have lots of time to travel and camp.
This is just a story about SUN doing something that others have already done in for sometime now
Really? What other top 5 computer manufacturer has been putting flash drives in SERVERS? I've seen a few laptops, but I haven't seen any used in servers or storage systems. (EMC and a few others have announced plans to do it, but haven't released anything AFAK)
Also, their "thumper" server has 48 drives in it. Would you want to pay around $1000 per drive to fill that up?
Why not? Windows currently runs on X86 and Itanium architectures. NT4 also ran on MIPS, and Alpha, if I remember correctly. If a processor gets popular enough, you better believe that MS will support it to generate sales. (BTW, Windows Mobile runs on ARM cores.)
What happens if your 3 year old finds your game disks? then you have to go purchase another copy. I haven't used steam in a year now (removed windows XP from my computer), but it was nice that every time I re-installed, or got a new computer, I would download a small file to install steam, and my games would start downloading and installing. (and man do they have bandwidth. I remember downloading CS:S in about 30 minutes). Thats much faster than if I had to drive down to the store, find the game, find an employee to unlock the cabinet so I could purchase the game, and get home. Now, if steam would just have a native Linux client, I would re-install in a heartbeat. (don't like the wine thing).
Had a friend that grew up in Ireland. He once mentioned, not long after the war started against Iraq, that in the 80's, a couple Brittish soldiers were at a security checkpoint in northern Ireland They shot up a car, that had a family in it. He mentioned that that one incident, in that one town, caused a huge number of people to join the IRA, and fight against Brittan. It took a good 10 years for things to calm back down.
Here were people that hated a country, and wanted it to die and suffer, but they just said that all the time. One wrong action, and those people actually started taking up arms, bombings, etc. There is a big difference between wanting American's killed, and actually trying to kill Americans. He wondered how many people we moved from Haters to Terrorists in Iraq.
Think about it for a minute. You may hate a person you don't like, and wish that they were dead. How much would it take to push you to the point that you actually murder them?
It has as much to do with this site as "internet-based" retailers did a decade ago. It is forging ahead, changing an industry. I don't have time to go sit with a realestate agent, I want to look at the houses online, and narrow it down to one or two, take a look at them, and make an offer. I don't want to have to give 3-6% of the sale price to somebody, when I do most of the work. (And no, posting some pictures and some text into a MLS database is not "work"). If I, as a nerd, can make the standard 6% commission go down to about 3% by using "internet-based" real estate companies, who have less infrastructure costs to support, and can make a profit on volume, instead of "services", then I can save many thousands of dollars. In California, many houses in "average" neighborhoods sell for around 400k. The commission you are paying to an agent is around $24k for the privilege of buying that house.
Right, but guess who owns T-Mobile, a large, US wireless company? (They were called Voicestream wireless before they got bought by Deutsche Telekom, along with a dozen small cell companies, to form one big one.)
That is great, but what happens when you need support, because something dies on the laptop? Will you be willing to re-load Windows on it so that their techs can run their tools? One of the reasons for the higher costs with the Dell's with Ubuntu is that their "home" techs don't know linux, and they need to hire and train techs. (they're enterprise server support is fine with linux)
Because places like your work still buy it. Seriously, move to something else, encourage others to do the same, and let them know why you are moving, and that you will be happy to take a look at them again in a few years, to see if you like the licensing terms better
At my college (a community college in Oregon), once we mark them appropriately as surplus, I am allowed to give them very easily to non-profits. I've given several hundred desktops to the local school districts, the fire district, and even some non-profit after school youth programs. We have "tech fees" that allow us to cycle our PC's every 3 years, and the ones we get rid of are usually better than the other local schools and such have in their rooms (they have very, very heavy budget cuts). Normally, they don't like taking peoples donated machines, and I can't blame them, but they like that I give them in groups of 30 or so, all hardware identical, it makes it very easy to set them up in a lab. (do make sure that you format the PC's first, or else you could be violating your MS Campus Agreement).
I can't agree more. For something of his needs, something like a MacMini or a small Shuttle XPC would be perfect, and very cheap to build.. (if your insistant on using a "rack" you can get a shelf for your rack for dirt cheap.
On the mac-Mini, the lack of a fan in the chasis, as well as the external power supply work great. Less moving parts to break, and less heat from the power supply. You can find them on Ebay cheap.
No, because people get the "release" of their distro, use the Beta version of firefox, then complain that it is unstable, and look for something else.
Lots of people right now (including me) are having big problems with Flash video in firefox. There is a problem somewhere in the Firefox3-FlashPlayer-Pulseaudio that causes the browser to just crash when watching flash videos. (really frustrating when trying to watch shows on Hulu.com). It was fine when I was running the beta of Ubuntu 8.04, but not cool when it is the "release version".
Had a friend that checked out ubuntu for the first time on his laptop, He loved it, until he tried to watch video's on his favoritte site. Gave him a very bad impression of Linux as being horribly unstable, and he went back to Vista. Its really sad when someone goes back to vista because its stable!
In the late 90's, I got pulled into a VP's office, because someone in our building had accessed an "inappropriate" web page during our late night shift in a wafer fab. I pointed out that I don't have access to the area where the offices are (I was a clean room tech back then), and asked if they looked to see who had entered the area with their electronic key. Then I asked what website they had visited. They looked at the stack of papers and said, "Excite.com".. I laughed and asked if they had ever looked at the site. (they hadn't) Maybe thats why I am so deadset against filtering now!
I looked at the opt out page, but I am not giving them my information on a non-SSL page. Also, The first rule people learn about web browsing is to regularly delete your cookies. (I have lots of friends that set firefox to do this everytime they close the browser).
So then you have to give them all your information every time you re-open your browser.
I use charter.net for cable internet, and just saw this today. (kudos to Consumerist.com and DSL reports for the scoop!)
Looks like Charter is using DPI, and your browsing habits to "replace" adds on the websites you visit with their own ads that are "more relevant". You can opt out by filling out your personal info on a non-secured website, but you must re-opt out anytime you delete your cookies. Not to mention the copyright ramifications. I would be pissed if I was a webmaster, and lost revenue becuase the ISP's replaced my ads.
**Knock Knock** <guy in ISS> WTF? **Opens Airlock, guy standing there in spacesuit, with package. <guy outside> You have been served. Have a good day! <guy in ISS> WTF??
This is the reason that about 12 years ago, A little town called Silverton, OR, started arresting Parents if their kids skipped school too much. Its amazing how much the parents would scream and cry about it being unfair, but when they were subjected to Jail time or fines, the kids got to school. (at least until the parents got together and sued the city and school district!)
Wouldn't it just be easier to "accidentally" anchor some navy ships in the wrong spot, and sever many of the connections to the area. We learned this last winter that you don't need to cut off areas, just make their working links so oversaturated that they are essentially worthless.
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The first generation Ford explorers were basically small trucks. I often "borrowed" my dad's, went off roading with friends, gave it all sorts of hell, and then would wash it up real good before going home. Then, ford found that women didn't like them, because they were 'rough' and didn't drive or turn smooth. So they made them smaller, so they were easier to park, gave them a softer ride, so they were more like a car, etc. They ruined that damn SUV.
I also think much would change if everyone had a right to get their own information that is collected from them. I can get credit reports 1 time a freaking year. thats it. Not to mention all the other companies that collect information about me. Some use that information for things like employment screening. How the hell am I supposed to know that I didn't get a job, because some company I have never heard of claims I had a record. (maybe they mistyped my social security or name...). Employers are scared of lawsuits, and they never tell you why you weren't selected..
Sounds like you live in a perfect market location to start your own ISP. Its really not that expensive to install a tower for fixed wireless or wimax. (compared to running wires all over town). Seriously. Start your own..
Wait until a patent comes out for: "Taking a web presense offline, to generate discussion about the web presense, thereby increasing awareness about the site." Also, sucks to be the guy that stepped on the surge protector laying on the floor....
Wait, your not seeing clearly. You see, gerrymandering districts is getting harder and harder each time they try to do it. What you are describing fixes that little problem... (sadly, i'm not so sure this is sarcasm..)
People that say "I've nothing to hide" have never worked in IT. Can't tell you the number of times I've had to deal with screwups, usually because some data entry person mis-typed a social security number, or entered the same person twice, or thought 2 john smiths were the same person... (Had one fun one.. Firstname, lastname, birthday, address, all the same. Gender and SocialSec number were different. They were married ;)
Really, cause in my old school district, in the 90's, they had teachers working in the wharehouse, because they had been "innappropriate" around children, and they couldn't fire them. The union would say that they weren't convicted, so they couldn't be fired, parents wouldn't allow them to be around kids, so they got paid teachers wages to move boxes in the district warehouse. (nowadays, with the pedophile paranoia, i'm sure thats gone!)
3 reasons to go into teaching at less than average wage: 1. June 2. July 3. August I know, I know, old joke, but really, my uncle became a teacher because of it (and took a huge paycut) because he loves camping (and teaching, he's quite good!), and his good paying job only gave him 2 weeks a year. He'd much rather get paid less, but have lots of time to travel and camp.
Really? What other top 5 computer manufacturer has been putting flash drives in SERVERS? I've seen a few laptops, but I haven't seen any used in servers or storage systems. (EMC and a few others have announced plans to do it, but haven't released anything AFAK)
Also, their "thumper" server has 48 drives in it. Would you want to pay around $1000 per drive to fill that up?
Why not? Windows currently runs on X86 and Itanium architectures. NT4 also ran on MIPS, and Alpha, if I remember correctly. If a processor gets popular enough, you better believe that MS will support it to generate sales. (BTW, Windows Mobile runs on ARM cores.)
What happens if your 3 year old finds your game disks? then you have to go purchase another copy. I haven't used steam in a year now (removed windows XP from my computer), but it was nice that every time I re-installed, or got a new computer, I would download a small file to install steam, and my games would start downloading and installing. (and man do they have bandwidth. I remember downloading CS:S in about 30 minutes). Thats much faster than if I had to drive down to the store, find the game, find an employee to unlock the cabinet so I could purchase the game, and get home. Now, if steam would just have a native Linux client, I would re-install in a heartbeat. (don't like the wine thing).
Here were people that hated a country, and wanted it to die and suffer, but they just said that all the time. One wrong action, and those people actually started taking up arms, bombings, etc. There is a big difference between wanting American's killed, and actually trying to kill Americans. He wondered how many people we moved from Haters to Terrorists in Iraq.
Think about it for a minute. You may hate a person you don't like, and wish that they were dead. How much would it take to push you to the point that you actually murder them?
It has as much to do with this site as "internet-based" retailers did a decade ago. It is forging ahead, changing an industry. I don't have time to go sit with a realestate agent, I want to look at the houses online, and narrow it down to one or two, take a look at them, and make an offer. I don't want to have to give 3-6% of the sale price to somebody, when I do most of the work. (And no, posting some pictures and some text into a MLS database is not "work"). If I, as a nerd, can make the standard 6% commission go down to about 3% by using "internet-based" real estate companies, who have less infrastructure costs to support, and can make a profit on volume, instead of "services", then I can save many thousands of dollars. In California, many houses in "average" neighborhoods sell for around 400k. The commission you are paying to an agent is around $24k for the privilege of buying that house.
Right, but guess who owns T-Mobile, a large, US wireless company? (They were called Voicestream wireless before they got bought by Deutsche Telekom, along with a dozen small cell companies, to form one big one.)
That is great, but what happens when you need support, because something dies on the laptop? Will you be willing to re-load Windows on it so that their techs can run their tools? One of the reasons for the higher costs with the Dell's with Ubuntu is that their "home" techs don't know linux, and they need to hire and train techs. (they're enterprise server support is fine with linux)
Because places like your work still buy it. Seriously, move to something else, encourage others to do the same, and let them know why you are moving, and that you will be happy to take a look at them again in a few years, to see if you like the licensing terms better
At my college (a community college in Oregon), once we mark them appropriately as surplus, I am allowed to give them very easily to non-profits. I've given several hundred desktops to the local school districts, the fire district, and even some non-profit after school youth programs. We have "tech fees" that allow us to cycle our PC's every 3 years, and the ones we get rid of are usually better than the other local schools and such have in their rooms (they have very, very heavy budget cuts). Normally, they don't like taking peoples donated machines, and I can't blame them, but they like that I give them in groups of 30 or so, all hardware identical, it makes it very easy to set them up in a lab. (do make sure that you format the PC's first, or else you could be violating your MS Campus Agreement).
I can't agree more. For something of his needs, something like a MacMini or a small Shuttle XPC would be perfect, and very cheap to build.. (if your insistant on using a "rack" you can get a shelf for your rack for dirt cheap. On the mac-Mini, the lack of a fan in the chasis, as well as the external power supply work great. Less moving parts to break, and less heat from the power supply. You can find them on Ebay cheap.
No, because people get the "release" of their distro, use the Beta version of firefox, then complain that it is unstable, and look for something else. Lots of people right now (including me) are having big problems with Flash video in firefox. There is a problem somewhere in the Firefox3-FlashPlayer-Pulseaudio that causes the browser to just crash when watching flash videos. (really frustrating when trying to watch shows on Hulu.com). It was fine when I was running the beta of Ubuntu 8.04, but not cool when it is the "release version". Had a friend that checked out ubuntu for the first time on his laptop, He loved it, until he tried to watch video's on his favoritte site. Gave him a very bad impression of Linux as being horribly unstable, and he went back to Vista. Its really sad when someone goes back to vista because its stable!
In the late 90's, I got pulled into a VP's office, because someone in our building had accessed an "inappropriate" web page during our late night shift in a wafer fab. I pointed out that I don't have access to the area where the offices are (I was a clean room tech back then), and asked if they looked to see who had entered the area with their electronic key. Then I asked what website they had visited. They looked at the stack of papers and said, "Excite.com".. I laughed and asked if they had ever looked at the site. (they hadn't) Maybe thats why I am so deadset against filtering now!
I looked at the opt out page, but I am not giving them my information on a non-SSL page. Also, The first rule people learn about web browsing is to regularly delete your cookies. (I have lots of friends that set firefox to do this everytime they close the browser). So then you have to give them all your information every time you re-open your browser.
I use charter.net for cable internet, and just saw this today. (kudos to Consumerist.com and DSL reports for the scoop!) Looks like Charter is using DPI, and your browsing habits to "replace" adds on the websites you visit with their own ads that are "more relevant". You can opt out by filling out your personal info on a non-secured website, but you must re-opt out anytime you delete your cookies. Not to mention the copyright ramifications. I would be pissed if I was a webmaster, and lost revenue becuase the ISP's replaced my ads.
**Knock Knock**
<guy in ISS> WTF?
**Opens Airlock, guy standing there in spacesuit, with package.
<guy outside> You have been served. Have a good day!
<guy in ISS> WTF??
This is the reason that about 12 years ago, A little town called Silverton, OR, started arresting Parents if their kids skipped school too much. Its amazing how much the parents would scream and cry about it being unfair, but when they were subjected to Jail time or fines, the kids got to school. (at least until the parents got together and sued the city and school district!)
Wouldn't it just be easier to "accidentally" anchor some navy ships in the wrong spot, and sever many of the connections to the area. We learned this last winter that you don't need to cut off areas, just make their working links so oversaturated that they are essentially worthless.