This bug. Even though the bug report doesn't list Excel 2002 as having the bug, I can assure you that it does (I haven't tested the whole bug thoroughly, so maybe some of the indications have been fixed, but it's still there in some form).
Give me a break. I've (unfortunately) been programming in VBA for Excel for a couple of months, and it's buggy as hell. One bug that I had to work around has existed since Excel 95, and they clearly have no intention of ever fixing it. It crashes, it behaves badly, etc. Just works, my ass.
What I'm asking is this: why does Microsoft feel that they have a right to profit by this? By charging more than it costs them, they are certainly showing that they put profit ahead of customers and security.
It doesn't cost them $9 to burn and send a cd. I don't think that I want them to profit from the fact that their software is riddled with security holes.
And when human beings can stop using science to create new means of destroying himself, his fellow humans, and the planet, then I'll start believing we no longer need [a god]
And when most of the wars that are destroying our fellow humans are caused by reasons other than "gods", then I'll start believing that they (gods) might not have a negative influence on human affairs.
Is that actually measuring the doppler shift, which is the change in the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation? I don't see how that's the same thing as measuring the time it takes different pulses to come back. I agree that it's "millions of times easier than measuring doppler shift of light", my point was that using doppler shift would be difficult....
Doppler shift? Do you have any idea how little doppler shift there is at 50 miles/hr? And to figure out relative speeds using doppler shift, you need to know what wavelength (color) the light should be. How do you do that? Mandate that all cars be the same color blue?
It's not greenpeace people, afaik, that don't want the turbines near cape cod. It's all of the people who own million dollar homes there or on Martha's Vineyard, and don't want "their" view spoiled (as if somehow owning property near there makes a view "theirs").
If you have 6 months worth of living expenses saved up ($15,000+ for me), just sitting in an account somewhere, "just in case," then you're an idiot.
You're sticking words in other peoples' mouths. Nowhere did he say that you should have 6 months of expenses in cash or completely liquid form. You should, however, have 6 months worth of assets that can be liquidated in enough time for emergency purposes such as layoffs. The point being that you shouldn't burn each paycheck as soon as you get it.
I agree that most content management software out there is complete crap. But the rest of your advice is really off-base for the sort of people who look to those content management systems. Many organizations who use or need content management have content that non-technical people need to be able to maintain that needs to appear across different media (web, direct mail, multiple web sites, etc). They need to have simple and direct control over where and how the information will appear by checking a few boxes and clicking a few buttons. Simple tools won't support that sort of thing for a large corporation. I don't know of any complex tools that do the job well, but there are some that do some parts of it well.
You know how Nielsen gets the ratings? By sending out little pamphlets where respondents fill out which shows were watched by which people in the household. They don't somehow monitor the airwaves to see who's watching what.
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Worse yet is when something costs 77 cents, you give the cashier $1.02, and the cashier gives you... 23 cents back. Not only did the cashier's stupidity cause you to have 5 coins instead of 1, you're also out your 2 cents.... Happened to me at a Burger King.
You're right. Oracle isn't for everybody. But lots of companies do need high availability. Lots of companies do have hundreds of gigabytes of data, and need the performance that Oracle can provide. For lots of companies, the tens of thousands of dollars that Oracle costs SAVES them money in run-time and maintenance. Nobody is telling you that YOU need to go out and buy Oracle, but similarly, you don't know what my database needs are, so you're not in a position to tell me that postgres + RAIDb will fit my needs.
And Apple isn't going to help you convert the file to a.wav. How is that taking away your fair use rights? Do they have to provide software that converts AAC to every other conceivable audio format to satisfy you that they are letting you have your fair use rights?
Much like the Mass Turnpike.... Of course, now that toll money is going to pay for the Big Dig, which helps North-South drivers, rather than the East-West drivers who use the Mass Pike.
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This bug. Even though the bug report doesn't list Excel 2002 as having the bug, I can assure you that it does (I haven't tested the whole bug thoroughly, so maybe some of the indications have been fixed, but it's still there in some form).
MS might be expensive but the stuff just works.
Give me a break. I've (unfortunately) been programming in VBA for Excel for a couple of months, and it's buggy as hell. One bug that I had to work around has existed since Excel 95, and they clearly have no intention of ever fixing it. It crashes, it behaves badly, etc. Just works, my ass.
And it was small and a piece of shit. The Civic is a normal-size vehicle and very well made and reliable.
What I'm asking is this: why does Microsoft feel that they have a right to profit by this? By charging more than it costs them, they are certainly showing that they put profit ahead of customers and security.
It doesn't cost them $9 to burn and send a cd. I don't think that I want them to profit from the fact that their software is riddled with security holes.
So does this actually work? You really stop receiving the offers?
Ironical is a perfectly cromulent word.
And when human beings can stop using science to create new means of destroying himself, his fellow humans, and the planet, then I'll start believing we no longer need [a god]
And when most of the wars that are destroying our fellow humans are caused by reasons other than "gods", then I'll start believing that they (gods) might not have a negative influence on human affairs.
And do you think that would be crack-proof? Do you really?
Why is what they're doing a crime?
If anybody beat Tru64, Irix, HP/UX and AIX, then it was Solaris. This article is a nice example of revisionist history, though.
Once you get one, you can pass that G4 to me, so I can put my 400 MHz G3 to rest....
Is that actually measuring the doppler shift, which is the change in the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation? I don't see how that's the same thing as measuring the time it takes different pulses to come back. I agree that it's "millions of times easier than measuring doppler shift of light", my point was that using doppler shift would be difficult....
Doppler shift? Do you have any idea how little doppler shift there is at 50 miles/hr? And to figure out relative speeds using doppler shift, you need to know what wavelength (color) the light should be. How do you do that? Mandate that all cars be the same color blue?
It's not greenpeace people, afaik, that don't want the turbines near cape cod. It's all of the people who own million dollar homes there or on Martha's Vineyard, and don't want "their" view spoiled (as if somehow owning property near there makes a view "theirs").
If you have 6 months worth of living expenses saved up ($15,000+ for me), just sitting in an account somewhere, "just in case," then you're an idiot.
You're sticking words in other peoples' mouths. Nowhere did he say that you should have 6 months of expenses in cash or completely liquid form. You should, however, have 6 months worth of assets that can be liquidated in enough time for emergency purposes such as layoffs. The point being that you shouldn't burn each paycheck as soon as you get it.
You've got it wrong. That's the secret sequence to get you infinite lives in Contra on Nintendo....
I agree that most content management software out there is complete crap. But the rest of your advice is really off-base for the sort of people who look to those content management systems. Many organizations who use or need content management have content that non-technical people need to be able to maintain that needs to appear across different media (web, direct mail, multiple web sites, etc). They need to have simple and direct control over where and how the information will appear by checking a few boxes and clicking a few buttons. Simple tools won't support that sort of thing for a large corporation. I don't know of any complex tools that do the job well, but there are some that do some parts of it well.
You know how Nielsen gets the ratings? By sending out little pamphlets where respondents fill out which shows were watched by which people in the household. They don't somehow monitor the airwaves to see who's watching what.
Worse yet is when something costs 77 cents, you give the cashier $1.02, and the cashier gives you... 23 cents back. Not only did the cashier's stupidity cause you to have 5 coins instead of 1, you're also out your 2 cents.... Happened to me at a Burger King.
You're right. Oracle isn't for everybody. But lots of companies do need high availability. Lots of companies do have hundreds of gigabytes of data, and need the performance that Oracle can provide. For lots of companies, the tens of thousands of dollars that Oracle costs SAVES them money in run-time and maintenance. Nobody is telling you that YOU need to go out and buy Oracle, but similarly, you don't know what my database needs are, so you're not in a position to tell me that postgres + RAIDb will fit my needs.
And Apple isn't going to help you convert the file to a .wav. How is that taking away your fair use rights? Do they have to provide software that converts AAC to every other conceivable audio format to satisfy you that they are letting you have your fair use rights?
Much like the Mass Turnpike.... Of course, now that toll money is going to pay for the Big Dig, which helps North-South drivers, rather than the East-West drivers who use the Mass Pike.
That sounds like something an asshole would have on his luggage!
I don't remember when MetaCrawler started, but that's another search engine that submits the info to other search engines to do the actual work.