Totally agree. More options are always better. Let the consumer decide in general. I don't like most my options I have now, especially with all the traveling I do. This is very cool, if it turns out to be bad, people will turn away quickly. If it turns out to be good, we just reduced the cost of healthcare, good deal. And like the parent says, probably increased access to atleast some type of health care.
That was my thought, the ruling is idiotic, but the judge/lawyer relationships are disgusting problems. I've dealt with it personally watching a non local defending lawyer be reamed as the judge and the prosecutor of the medium size town are so obvious it looks like courting. And it had very very nasty costs, that put someone in prison for 3 years. Saw first hand prosecutor request/suggest and get a yes, defender ask something and get serious attitude with the no. Made me think they should have a 4 year district rotation/move cycle. Treat judges/prosecutors like park rangers, and transfer them around.
Funniest thing I saw, was deaf people in a car driving in front of me talking. It took a while for me to figure out what all the hand motions and swerving was about, but man when I figured it out, it was FUNNY.
You should be banned form slashdot for even typing MCSE. Especially in caps. I've yet to meet someone with those letters that deserve them capitalized, except for the one that kept sending me emails in all caps. Seemed appropriate for him.:)
I always liked this concept also, a bit socialistic, but with the stupid gaps we have, it's starting to seem like a good idea, but the loop holes are there. Though one has to acknowledge that you would be throwing a considerable hurdle out there. Top end staff will need to be under pretty strict contracted out contract agreements for issues of company knowledge, customer information, non competes, etc etc. And with a little more thought, you can probably take this concept and shore it up a bit more.
We are all money whores in some way/fashion. And that fact alone means, if you pay me to make it work in IE 6, it will work in IE 6. If web development is your income, which it is for me, then any techno-religious views are irrelevant. Client needs/requirements and time/cost/payment is the bible.
Having said that, obviously the technical preference is that IE 6 goes away sooner rather then later. And I will be right there celebrating with you.
Agreed. I find it odd that they build such an intensive OS now as well. You would think my mac would be the slow one, but I suppose apple controls the hardware, so they don't sell a machine that runs osx like a dog maybe. But my mac does some neat and pretty things, but seems to do it quickly and without a lot of fuss. Vista, not so much.
I think your right on, I'm a java/php/ex asp/vb developer that uses a mac 99% of the time. For the simple fact that I spend a lot less time messing with the computer and a whole lot more using it. Which means more time billable, and less time screwing around.
Which is good, cause I need to respond to your post:D
Honestly, this is sad that so much time is spent commenting on yet another tv show. Seriously, I know we are all computer geeks here, but turn the tv off and go outside and live your life a bit more. In the grand scheme of things, it's just entertainment, and is of no consequence whether the show existed or didn't and/or why.
Just throwing a little "there is a real world" perspective in;)
That kind of visual augmentation became real popular I think starting in the 60's. I think it was call PCP? Not to be confused with the more recent mobile device PSP.
We are full time rv'ers that travel and work, we have 2 with Verizon, and they work great. But you do any audio, any video, and much photo, you will easily jump over the limit. And like cell phones, you do that, and your dropping a lot of money very quickly.
I just did for work. I was earning money, so it's our cost of doing biz when I need it. But we travel and use wifi rv parks and business networks and coffee shops when we can, and our cards when we can't.
We use macs, they work great, and except in the absolute middle of nowhere they seem to do ok, for basic stuff, like reading slashdot, coding, emailing, uploading work, vpn etc.
But vid/aud super slow. And quickly expensive.
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I am a software developer that travels and consults for B2b solutions using all flavors of OS's/databases/languages and about 4 years ago I switched my primary computer to a mac osx laptop, and keep a vista laptop around for the occasional must have windows machine myself reasons. Which is rare.
I spend virtually none of my time "managing" my computer, which was the point, and all my time actually working. And a tiny bit of time watching people everywhere I go be amazed that I can do almost everything I need to on a Mac. And more, since things like 'telnet' aren't even in a standard distro of vista. Let alone, ssh and many other goodies of the such.
Hardware does "seem" like there is a tiny premium on the apple stuff though, but just read some guys article the other day where it's very little if you actually try and compare apples to apples with pc/apple hardware configs.
But oh how much time I save in billable hours, by not spending days upgrading/downgrading/sidegrading/recovering from virus'/restoring/installing/uninstalling.
I do a lot of photog, I bought a bad compact flash once. How I knew, a handful of photos ended up half visible. Obviously a corrupted file, that I could visually identify. I grabbed all the good photos off and proceeded to the nearest trash can.
I know it's not an electrical engineer description, but it is how I noticed my compactflash card had failed.
haha, ya, that one is tough enough, I'll admit that. Course I say that, junior year on in HS I didn't have too much trouble and am now married. But there are times that you have to play the numbers a lot just to get those 2. Course that was my point, the more and more reqs you add on, the curve of females eligible gets sharper and sharper.:)
I can't resist making a comment... I think your comment is actually an example of why geeks don't have a girlfriend. A non geeks requirements for a girl are far less. Will they have sex with me? Yes. Do I want to have sex with them? Yes. Boom they got a girlfriend. Meanwhile here you are, the geek, wanting a girl to do that and have thoughts to share, similar sense of humor, to take care of you etc. That's a much longer requirement list to have out of the gate.
Having said that, your approach is probably the more rational one by far, and more satisfying when you do get the girlfriend, but geeks go for quality, not quantity. Non geeks, it's all about quantity till you hopefully find that quality.
I wanted to comment with something funny about how I have tried to buy many women a good steak dinner for that same reason, but somehow evolution clearly affected women faster then it did me. I kept trying, not very many women were buying. Sometimes evolution sucks.
I have re-wired large portions of 3 houses I owned. And your mentality, and the fact that your right about many locals having governments nose in the homeowners ass way too much is annoying to me. Your rant comes across like the boss I had in a college co-op talking about how hard all the computer shit he does is, and how he has to do it. And I figured out why, he was scared as hell that someone would come along and expose his incompetence that he was probably overpaid for.
If we are talking about 220 circuits or higher, or work at the box, then sure, most people probably should call an electrician, but should the government be up my ass about it, and should you be trying to convince me that I am too incapable of changing a light switch, and expect me to value your over charged service?
Seriously man, your not that smart, and residential wiring isn't that hard. I don't get on here and bust your balls about your bad website code, or your open wifi router that I steal bandwidth from, and demand you go hire the Geek Squad cause your too incompetent.
Basically chill out and leave people to shock the shit out of themselves if they want. It's kind of a good time anyway.
It gets even worse then that. We have been sanctioned to do a new brokers site, and the MLS data feed tie in, so that you can list houses in MLS on a website is a racket in itself.
1. There is no national data, feed, it's thousands of regional MLS systems.
2. Though they are all very similar, they are not standard.
3. Even worse, not only do you have to be a member of the local realtor association to get access to them, you may have a lot of additional restrictions or requirements. Some make you pay 10 bucks, some make you pay hundreds a quarter, some only allow you access if you physically host your site on a dedicated site/server that is located on site, or in a dedicated data warehouse. Basically no standard web hosts. And some, only allow a specific MLS web listing application provider to be who you hire to make your website display MLS data.
4. Also there is a lot of rules and restrictions about how you display the data.
The article seems to make it clear that the NAR is essentially being forced to atleast "loosen" it's access to the MLS data. Frankly I think we also need standards, and the ability to get aggregate feeds, and honestly, be included in a brokers association fees, cause the add on fees are all over the place depending on what the local association decides.
Government and Business both need to realize that streamlining things like this, sales tax rules, etc are worth it for both brick and mortar companies and internet companies. The old world regional, everyone do their own thing, is a little more problematic now days.
Wife and I love movies, we stopped almost a year ago now going to the theater for the cell phone issue. They are the ones that need to search and not allow cell/pda/pagers etc in. Talk about turning around a declining industry in a heartbeat.
It is not only a problem of getting people to realize they run the government, but getting them educated enough to understand it, so they can have a real evaluation of it. You would need to make every adult retake 8th grade courses on American History and Government on a 5 year periodic basis, and demand simplification, such as no "paper clipping" of bills, non lawyer language publications of the said bills, and names of the people who vote for/against attached to each bill.
Then a nice monthly newsletter sent to every voting citizen with these updates.
Then you have to turn off the tv news, which convinces good, normal people that there is things like child molesters that should be given 90% of our law and crime fighting resources while the car theives are laughing cause they are 90% of the crime.
Take moral issues out of social issues, convince the "poeple" this will make more dollars and cents. Legalize and control things like prostitution in a way that keeps them safe, the "johns" safe, tax income in, and crime out of it.
I like religion, other then when they are preaching at me, it gives millions a sense of community and overall they normally do some good helpful things for society, but just like the media, our current government, and much of the world, they too are the "people" and people seem to be driven more by fear and irrationality more so then a pragmatic cost/benefit view of our issues.
Essentially we all operate strongly from feeling more so then logic, even the most logical of us. Lots of people with an agenda and money know this and use this, every hour of every day to guide those "people".
I agree with you, it's a first big step, stop fearing your government and make them fear you. But I think the complexity immediately after that fact gets very high, especially to maintain the kind of government that would uphold a strong middle class and let people live their lives over the long term.
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Totally agree. More options are always better. Let the consumer decide in general. I don't like most my options I have now, especially with all the traveling I do. This is very cool, if it turns out to be bad, people will turn away quickly. If it turns out to be good, we just reduced the cost of healthcare, good deal. And like the parent says, probably increased access to atleast some type of health care.
That was my thought, the ruling is idiotic, but the judge/lawyer relationships are disgusting problems. I've dealt with it personally watching a non local defending lawyer be reamed as the judge and the prosecutor of the medium size town are so obvious it looks like courting. And it had very very nasty costs, that put someone in prison for 3 years. Saw first hand prosecutor request/suggest and get a yes, defender ask something and get serious attitude with the no. Made me think they should have a 4 year district rotation/move cycle. Treat judges/prosecutors like park rangers, and transfer them around.
Funniest thing I saw, was deaf people in a car driving in front of me talking. It took a while for me to figure out what all the hand motions and swerving was about, but man when I figured it out, it was FUNNY.
You should be banned form slashdot for even typing MCSE. Especially in caps. I've yet to meet someone with those letters that deserve them capitalized, except for the one that kept sending me emails in all caps. Seemed appropriate for him. :)
I always liked this concept also, a bit socialistic, but with the stupid gaps we have, it's starting to seem like a good idea, but the loop holes are there. Though one has to acknowledge that you would be throwing a considerable hurdle out there. Top end staff will need to be under pretty strict contracted out contract agreements for issues of company knowledge, customer information, non competes, etc etc. And with a little more thought, you can probably take this concept and shore it up a bit more.
A clean windows install? I've never seen such a thing? Sounds like some sort of conspiracy theory to me.
...as many girls as boys now taking high school calculus
My problem is the number of **attractive** girls taking my class. There are girls, and then there are girls.
I am waiting for the girls in your class to post a comment about how they are waiting for some *attractive* guys to start taking your calculus class.
We are all money whores in some way/fashion. And that fact alone means, if you pay me to make it work in IE 6, it will work in IE 6. If web development is your income, which it is for me, then any techno-religious views are irrelevant. Client needs/requirements and time/cost/payment is the bible.
Having said that, obviously the technical preference is that IE 6 goes away sooner rather then later. And I will be right there celebrating with you.
Agreed. I find it odd that they build such an intensive OS now as well. You would think my mac would be the slow one, but I suppose apple controls the hardware, so they don't sell a machine that runs osx like a dog maybe. But my mac does some neat and pretty things, but seems to do it quickly and without a lot of fuss. Vista, not so much. I think your right on, I'm a java/php/ex asp/vb developer that uses a mac 99% of the time. For the simple fact that I spend a lot less time messing with the computer and a whole lot more using it. Which means more time billable, and less time screwing around. Which is good, cause I need to respond to your post :D
Honestly, this is sad that so much time is spent commenting on yet another tv show. Seriously, I know we are all computer geeks here, but turn the tv off and go outside and live your life a bit more. In the grand scheme of things, it's just entertainment, and is of no consequence whether the show existed or didn't and/or why. Just throwing a little "there is a real world" perspective in ;)
That kind of visual augmentation became real popular I think starting in the 60's. I think it was call PCP? Not to be confused with the more recent mobile device PSP.
We are full time rv'ers that travel and work, we have 2 with Verizon, and they work great. But you do any audio, any video, and much photo, you will easily jump over the limit. And like cell phones, you do that, and your dropping a lot of money very quickly. I just did for work. I was earning money, so it's our cost of doing biz when I need it. But we travel and use wifi rv parks and business networks and coffee shops when we can, and our cards when we can't. We use macs, they work great, and except in the absolute middle of nowhere they seem to do ok, for basic stuff, like reading slashdot, coding, emailing, uploading work, vpn etc. But vid/aud super slow. And quickly expensive.
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:D
I am a software developer that travels and consults for B2b solutions using all flavors of OS's/databases/languages and about 4 years ago I switched my primary computer to a mac osx laptop, and keep a vista laptop around for the occasional must have windows machine myself reasons. Which is rare.
I spend virtually none of my time "managing" my computer, which was the point, and all my time actually working. And a tiny bit of time watching people everywhere I go be amazed that I can do almost everything I need to on a Mac. And more, since things like 'telnet' aren't even in a standard distro of vista. Let alone, ssh and many other goodies of the such.
Hardware does "seem" like there is a tiny premium on the apple stuff though, but just read some guys article the other day where it's very little if you actually try and compare apples to apples with pc/apple hardware configs.
But oh how much time I save in billable hours, by not spending days upgrading/downgrading/sidegrading/recovering from virus'/restoring/installing/uninstalling.
Also gives me more time to read slashdot
I do a lot of photog, I bought a bad compact flash once. How I knew, a handful of photos ended up half visible. Obviously a corrupted file, that I could visually identify. I grabbed all the good photos off and proceeded to the nearest trash can. I know it's not an electrical engineer description, but it is how I noticed my compactflash card had failed.
haha, ya, that one is tough enough, I'll admit that. Course I say that, junior year on in HS I didn't have too much trouble and am now married. But there are times that you have to play the numbers a lot just to get those 2. Course that was my point, the more and more reqs you add on, the curve of females eligible gets sharper and sharper. :)
I can't resist making a comment... I think your comment is actually an example of why geeks don't have a girlfriend. A non geeks requirements for a girl are far less. Will they have sex with me? Yes. Do I want to have sex with them? Yes. Boom they got a girlfriend. Meanwhile here you are, the geek, wanting a girl to do that and have thoughts to share, similar sense of humor, to take care of you etc. That's a much longer requirement list to have out of the gate.
Having said that, your approach is probably the more rational one by far, and more satisfying when you do get the girlfriend, but geeks go for quality, not quantity. Non geeks, it's all about quantity till you hopefully find that quality.
I wanted to comment with something funny about how I have tried to buy many women a good steak dinner for that same reason, but somehow evolution clearly affected women faster then it did me. I kept trying, not very many women were buying. Sometimes evolution sucks.
I have re-wired large portions of 3 houses I owned. And your mentality, and the fact that your right about many locals having governments nose in the homeowners ass way too much is annoying to me. Your rant comes across like the boss I had in a college co-op talking about how hard all the computer shit he does is, and how he has to do it. And I figured out why, he was scared as hell that someone would come along and expose his incompetence that he was probably overpaid for.
If we are talking about 220 circuits or higher, or work at the box, then sure, most people probably should call an electrician, but should the government be up my ass about it, and should you be trying to convince me that I am too incapable of changing a light switch, and expect me to value your over charged service?
Seriously man, your not that smart, and residential wiring isn't that hard. I don't get on here and bust your balls about your bad website code, or your open wifi router that I steal bandwidth from, and demand you go hire the Geek Squad cause your too incompetent.
Basically chill out and leave people to shock the shit out of themselves if they want. It's kind of a good time anyway.
It gets even worse then that. We have been sanctioned to do a new brokers site, and the MLS data feed tie in, so that you can list houses in MLS on a website is a racket in itself.
1. There is no national data, feed, it's thousands of regional MLS systems.
2. Though they are all very similar, they are not standard.
3. Even worse, not only do you have to be a member of the local realtor association to get access to them, you may have a lot of additional restrictions or requirements. Some make you pay 10 bucks, some make you pay hundreds a quarter, some only allow you access if you physically host your site on a dedicated site/server that is located on site, or in a dedicated data warehouse. Basically no standard web hosts. And some, only allow a specific MLS web listing application provider to be who you hire to make your website display MLS data.
4. Also there is a lot of rules and restrictions about how you display the data.
The article seems to make it clear that the NAR is essentially being forced to atleast "loosen" it's access to the MLS data. Frankly I think we also need standards, and the ability to get aggregate feeds, and honestly, be included in a brokers association fees, cause the add on fees are all over the place depending on what the local association decides.
Government and Business both need to realize that streamlining things like this, sales tax rules, etc are worth it for both brick and mortar companies and internet companies. The old world regional, everyone do their own thing, is a little more problematic now days.
Wife and I love movies, we stopped almost a year ago now going to the theater for the cell phone issue. They are the ones that need to search and not allow cell/pda/pagers etc in. Talk about turning around a declining industry in a heartbeat.
It is not only a problem of getting people to realize they run the government, but getting them educated enough to understand it, so they can have a real evaluation of it. You would need to make every adult retake 8th grade courses on American History and Government on a 5 year periodic basis, and demand simplification, such as no "paper clipping" of bills, non lawyer language publications of the said bills, and names of the people who vote for/against attached to each bill.
Then a nice monthly newsletter sent to every voting citizen with these updates.
Then you have to turn off the tv news, which convinces good, normal people that there is things like child molesters that should be given 90% of our law and crime fighting resources while the car theives are laughing cause they are 90% of the crime.
Take moral issues out of social issues, convince the "poeple" this will make more dollars and cents. Legalize and control things like prostitution in a way that keeps them safe, the "johns" safe, tax income in, and crime out of it.
I like religion, other then when they are preaching at me, it gives millions a sense of community and overall they normally do some good helpful things for society, but just like the media, our current government, and much of the world, they too are the "people" and people seem to be driven more by fear and irrationality more so then a pragmatic cost/benefit view of our issues.
Essentially we all operate strongly from feeling more so then logic, even the most logical of us. Lots of people with an agenda and money know this and use this, every hour of every day to guide those "people".
I agree with you, it's a first big step, stop fearing your government and make them fear you. But I think the complexity immediately after that fact gets very high, especially to maintain the kind of government that would uphold a strong middle class and let people live their lives over the long term.