Take a look at Drupal and the different distributions that are available for download (pre-defined packages of modules and features known to work together). It looks like they have a distribution right up your alley in OpenPublic (openpublicapp.com).
That is awesome. I was in a similar situation about 3 years ago where I was trying to help my community with their web presence. We tried Drupal, and it worked for the most part. But OpenPublic would have saved us a lot of time and grief.
This will be costly for the people that buy OEM licenses of Windows OS. The way that I understand it is that the OEM license is tied to the motherboard serial number. With OEM license you can upgrade everything (video card, audio card, network, hard drive, RAM, etc) except the motherboard and you will not need to purchase another license. However, if you replace the motherboard you will need to purchase another license. Supposedly Microsoft will not reactivate an OEM license. They will make you buy another license.
This should not affect the retail license versions.
The ridiculous retiree benefits mandate handed down from congress is pretty much the sole reason for this unnecessary debacle.
No other organization is required to provide such an absurd level of retiree benefits payment so why is this insanity allowed to persist in light of the fact it could potentially doom the USPS?
Why are we still paying people to not work? Seriously. Why do we have public pension plans that pay people after they are done working? They need to phase out pensions and start going the 401k/403b route. Put the burden of retirement savings on the employee, not the employer. Problem solved. The public should *not* be on the hook for lavish public pension plans that guarantee money regardless of economic conditions.
Why a user would not simply install MS Security Essentials and be done with it?
Because if I can't trust Microsoft to make a relatively secure OS then there's no way in hell I'm trusting the same company/developers to make a properly working security software to run on top of the OS.
why diesel? any generator worth it's salt is running on Natural Gas or Propane.
Obvious answer: Natural gas lines are usually cut during emergencies like flooding, fires, etc. Storing a liquid fuel like diesel allows you use the generator when external energy sources have been severed.
What does such a major shakeup say about Tim Cook's leadership?
He is going to lead and hold people accountable?
Maybe Tim Cook should be POTUS. It would be much better than the current empty suit in the White House that doesn't hold people on his staff accountable.
The idea that requiring ID to vote some how disenfranchises legitimate and legal voters is asinine.
You have that exactly backwards. A quarter of black Americans do not have ID. Those "free" ID's can cost $200 for older Americans born at home without birth certificates, and expensive trips to the DMV for the poor.
Please explain to me how the poor were able to make it to the welfare office to sign up for government assistance.
And all to address a problem that simply does not exist.
You can't set out of office from Active Sync devices, unless you buy an extra app. I get calls from iOS users that forget to set their OoO replies before they leave the office. All of our BlackBerry users can change it with the native mail client.
..I laud this public school's initiative to make sure that they are tracking attendance.
I can only think back to my child hood, where we sometimes skipped school and still turned out pretty damn swell. Todays kids?! I encountered a 12 year old child who thought that females had penises just like he did... Even the damn 5 year olds in 3rd world countries know that girls have vaginae and boys have penises -- They even know the finality of death because they help kill and/or cook their food.
You can thank public school policy for advancing those kids even though they should have been held back.
Fuck you and your oppressive views of life. School kids are PEOPLE too.
Oppressive? I don't think so. Oppressive is living under government control because you're too stupid to function on your own. The whole point of my post is to make sure that kids attend classes, become educated and are independently successful.
Even though I send my kids to private school, I'm still paying for the public education. If that money is going to be spent, those kids better damn well be in class.
School kids are people, but they don't have full rights when they attend school.
I thought welfare was about putting food in peoples' mouths so they wouldn't go hungry? If they can tie welfare to attendance, then the welfare must not be that necessary, huh?
I think you're missing the point. Most of the people on welfare today are apart of a generational epidemic. The idea is to still make the money available, but tie it to an action that benefits the family and society. In a way the family is earning their welfare simply by forcing the kids to go to school.
Granted the kids don't have to pay attention in school and could get all failing grades. The hope is that the education rubs off on the kids and they don't end up depending on welfare.
So you avoid public schools like the plague, yet you're willing to pontificate on the plebes being herded around and tracked electronically like cattle. Does your darling private school child get tracked the same way? Are you agitating for that at your school?
That's a great question. I'm not aware of any attendance issues at the private school in my town. If my child's school went this route I would definitely want the specific details, but I don't see any reason why I would be against it. After all, as another person pointed out earlier today, I have to carry my ID badge at my office so I can access certain doors.
Obviously it's primarily about funding in this case. But it also provides documented evidence of whether kids are in class or not.
When I was at school, the kids would have loved this. No need to turn up, just get a friend to carry your RFID tag.
True. This is why the school should also take a look at patterns and walk around with a handheld RFID device that will let them know if one kid has multiple cards. Give them in-school suspensions if caught.
We desperately need accountability in the public school system. It is obvious that the system is failing at multiple levels, including the parents. This is why I went to private schools and my child goes to a private school. There is more accountability.
..I laud this public school's initiative to make sure that they are tracking attendance. Obviously it's primarily about funding in this case. But it also provides documented evidence of whether kids are in class or not. This information can (and should) be passed on to parents.
Also, in Iowa back in the 1990's our Governor (R) had proposed a change to the state's welfare system called "learnfare". The idea was that a family's welfare check depended on the child's attendance in school. They received 100% of the check for good attendance and were penalized for poor attendance. The idea was that they wanted kids in 3rd, 4th, 5th generations of welfare families to get a good education and not be the next generation on welfare.
Now obviously school attendance doesn't necessarily mean good grades, or caring about your future. But still, it was a step in the right direction.
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Will Netflix lower the cost of DVD/Blu-ray rentals since I can't view as many movies per month now?
They have to know they wouldn't last 3 weeks against a U.S. military onslaught.
I'm thinking more like 3 days and all without a single boot on NK soil.
After all, it is legal right? I'm sure nothing bad would happen. :/
It's all going BYOD. As much as I hate it, its all going BYOD. Bad move, Dell.
Even RIM, which is based on the enterprise, is changing.
This is basically a man-in-the-middle attack.
Take a look at Drupal and the different distributions that are available for download (pre-defined packages of modules and features known to work together). It looks like they have a distribution right up your alley in OpenPublic (openpublicapp.com).
That is awesome. I was in a similar situation about 3 years ago where I was trying to help my community with their web presence. We tried Drupal, and it worked for the most part. But OpenPublic would have saved us a lot of time and grief.
This will be costly for the people that buy OEM licenses of Windows OS. The way that I understand it is that the OEM license is tied to the motherboard serial number. With OEM license you can upgrade everything (video card, audio card, network, hard drive, RAM, etc) except the motherboard and you will not need to purchase another license. However, if you replace the motherboard you will need to purchase another license. Supposedly Microsoft will not reactivate an OEM license. They will make you buy another license.
This should not affect the retail license versions.
Stupid summary is stupid. Just because a state made it legal does not change the fact that there are federal laws that trump it.
The ridiculous retiree benefits mandate handed down from congress is pretty much the sole reason for this unnecessary debacle.
No other organization is required to provide such an absurd level of retiree benefits payment so why is this insanity allowed to persist in light of the fact it could potentially doom the USPS?
Why are we still paying people to not work? Seriously. Why do we have public pension plans that pay people after they are done working? They need to phase out pensions and start going the 401k/403b route. Put the burden of retirement savings on the employee, not the employer. Problem solved. The public should *not* be on the hook for lavish public pension plans that guarantee money regardless of economic conditions.
Why a user would not simply install MS Security Essentials and be done with it?
Because if I can't trust Microsoft to make a relatively secure OS then there's no way in hell I'm trusting the same company/developers to make a properly working security software to run on top of the OS.
Third party security software makes sense.
I was hoping for a car analogy. :(
Let's see anything that can take hits from bridge pylons and storms do that.
Well technically the bridge pylon didn't hit the shuttle. The shuttle hit the bridge.
NYC didn't deserve to have a shuttle in the first place. The Enterprise should have gone to Houston.
why diesel? any generator worth it's salt is running on Natural Gas or Propane.
Obvious answer: Natural gas lines are usually cut during emergencies like flooding, fires, etc. Storing a liquid fuel like diesel allows you use the generator when external energy sources have been severed.
What does such a major shakeup say about Tim Cook's leadership?
He is going to lead and hold people accountable?
Maybe Tim Cook should be POTUS. It would be much better than the current empty suit in the White House that doesn't hold people on his staff accountable.
FTFY
You have that exactly backwards. A quarter of black Americans do not have ID. Those "free" ID's can cost $200 for older Americans born at home without birth certificates, and expensive trips to the DMV for the poor.
Please explain to me how the poor were able to make it to the welfare office to sign up for government assistance.
And all to address a problem that simply does not exist.
A quick Google search proves you to be a liar.
but when it gets its hands on something everybody wants and is willing to pay crazy prices for, it's gonna take you to the cleaners.
FTFY.
This!
How is mobile Internet access a need? (Hint: It's not)
Also, three words: Out Of Office.
You can't set out of office from Active Sync devices, unless you buy an extra app. I get calls from iOS users that forget to set their OoO replies before they leave the office. All of our BlackBerry users can change it with the native mail client.
..I laud this public school's initiative to make sure that they are tracking attendance.
I can only think back to my child hood, where we sometimes skipped school and still turned out pretty damn swell. Todays kids?! I encountered a 12 year old child who thought that females had penises just like he did... Even the damn 5 year olds in 3rd world countries know that girls have vaginae and boys have penises -- They even know the finality of death because they help kill and/or cook their food.
You can thank public school policy for advancing those kids even though they should have been held back.
Fuck you and your oppressive views of life. School kids are PEOPLE too.
Oppressive? I don't think so. Oppressive is living under government control because you're too stupid to function on your own. The whole point of my post is to make sure that kids attend classes, become educated and are independently successful.
Even though I send my kids to private school, I'm still paying for the public education. If that money is going to be spent, those kids better damn well be in class.
School kids are people, but they don't have full rights when they attend school.
I thought welfare was about putting food in peoples' mouths so they wouldn't go hungry? If they can tie welfare to attendance, then the welfare must not be that necessary, huh?
I think you're missing the point. Most of the people on welfare today are apart of a generational epidemic. The idea is to still make the money available, but tie it to an action that benefits the family and society. In a way the family is earning their welfare simply by forcing the kids to go to school.
Granted the kids don't have to pay attention in school and could get all failing grades. The hope is that the education rubs off on the kids and they don't end up depending on welfare.
Did it work?
I don't believe that it was passed in the end. Very unfortunate.
So you avoid public schools like the plague, yet you're willing to pontificate on the plebes being herded around and tracked electronically like cattle. Does your darling private school child get tracked the same way? Are you agitating for that at your school?
That's a great question. I'm not aware of any attendance issues at the private school in my town. If my child's school went this route I would definitely want the specific details, but I don't see any reason why I would be against it. After all, as another person pointed out earlier today, I have to carry my ID badge at my office so I can access certain doors.
Obviously it's primarily about funding in this case. But it also provides documented evidence of whether kids are in class or not.
When I was at school, the kids would have loved this. No need to turn up, just get a friend to carry your RFID tag.
True. This is why the school should also take a look at patterns and walk around with a handheld RFID device that will let them know if one kid has multiple cards. Give them in-school suspensions if caught.
We desperately need accountability in the public school system. It is obvious that the system is failing at multiple levels, including the parents. This is why I went to private schools and my child goes to a private school. There is more accountability.
..I laud this public school's initiative to make sure that they are tracking attendance. Obviously it's primarily about funding in this case. But it also provides documented evidence of whether kids are in class or not. This information can (and should) be passed on to parents.
Also, in Iowa back in the 1990's our Governor (R) had proposed a change to the state's welfare system called "learnfare". The idea was that a family's welfare check depended on the child's attendance in school. They received 100% of the check for good attendance and were penalized for poor attendance. The idea was that they wanted kids in 3rd, 4th, 5th generations of welfare families to get a good education and not be the next generation on welfare.
Now obviously school attendance doesn't necessarily mean good grades, or caring about your future. But still, it was a step in the right direction.
My parents still have cable for one reason: no box required. They will sign up with DirecTV in a heartbeat now.
Thanks cable!