Within the decade the spinning hard disk may go the way of the floppy and CRT.
You mean it'll still be the default option on most new PCs and in use by ~90% of PC users?
awwww...I was going to say that, but with more blood dripping evil sarcasm.
I still wonder why we can't move away from floppies. I mean we made the switch from 5.25 to 3.5. The only thing I see taking the floppies place right now is the cdburner and there are so many limitations to that media. I've got floppies from the early 90s that I still read/write to....I don't use cds that way.
The vehicle's design is not really street-safe - this will be a problem as more efficient, lighter cars share the road with Hummers.
On a similar note, I always find it odd that people feel safer with more mass (as in massive SUVs - not massive waist line [though that probably applies too.])
Fatalities have gone up since Regean decided to nix Carter's plan for smaller cars. It was either Frontline or Nova that did a show about the issue 2 years ago.
Similar to this administrations' decision not to listen to FDA's scientists about Plan-B, during Regean's era the head of the Department of Transportation went against its advisors to recommend heavier vehicles.
Of course! Think of the children! I expect politicians to trot this out every time they're eroding our rights. I fear for the Republic when ordinary citizens start doing so.
The masses are sheep. I expect them to jump at shadows.
Of course 'terrorists' are the latest fade fear. My sister in law calls my wife every time something 'terrorist' related happens. She called when a 21 yr old took a plane joy riding into powerlines. She called when a Military Hummer was stolen. She calls all the time with these silly news items and lives in fear. What a waste...
She fears all these possible threats, but ignores all the rights she is losing to protect her from those threats.
I agree the terms sound annoying, but you can understand why they did it. The Department of Justice would be all over Vonage if VoIP services were being used by criminals or even worse by 'terrorists.'
It wasn't until recently that the fcc ruled VoIP must be tappable. Give them some more time. They might change their TOS in light of this FCC ruling.
Do you hate highways, traffic signals, and schools, as well? How about emergency services, snow plows and possibly (depending on your area) garbage service? Do you hate parks and sidewalks and libraries? Sure, it's all underfunded. But look at countries with no funding for those things. They all seem a bit, well, third world.
I didn't say I hated income tax. I find that sales and property taxes are used as a hidden way to raise taxes.
I'd love to see a flat income tax, but I'll take a progressive income tax if they'll get rid of sales and property taxes.
I live in Texas where we do not have a state income tax.
because thousands of very large companies (you know, the ones which actually pay for symantec software?) standardised all of their internal applications on IE -- basically meaning they invested millions (billions?) of dollars writing internal web applications which work in IE but no other web browsers. a huge mistake, yes, but you're talking about re-write work on the order of a hundred or so million dollars.
agreed that is the problem. The question is when will the major companies stop writting IE specific applications and make browser neutral applications....
We all know of applications that have been around since the dinosaurs, but are still in use because they are mission critical. Heck there are some government websites that can only be accessed via old Netscape versions running on windows 98.
The point at which this trend will end is when it hits the bottom line. A few good virus hits and they'll be looking for alternatives.
So why are they using Microsoft (IE) still? Because they only have to deal with one vendor and probably one contract.
Q: What's the cheapest way to shave 500g off your bike weight?
A: Lose 500g.
Additional eat fewer of the Powerbars:
FUEL: PowerBar, $1.79 To help replace the 110,000 calories (31 pounds!) Armstrong will burn during the race, he will nosh on some 105 PowerBars and 210 PowerGels. Yum.
Corporate knows its IT staff will want broadband for themselves. Why pay for it?
Where is it going to stop? Where the employee wants it to stop.
My company isn't paying for my home phone, but it could be used for similar contact after hours uses.
(as a lawful evil player) I think companies should go the opposite direction. Give everyone broadband connections, enforce VPN connections to the company intranet, force VoIP, and force anything else you can to control your employees. Monitor everything. Data mine it all.
I'm not sure what you are talking about. We were trying to get him to speak at University of Houston Clear Lake and it was going to cost us $40k or $25k if we had a 5000 seat theater and charged only $5/ticket or less.
He was also willing to come with less than 3 months notice.
While this was intended to be funny, there is some seriousness here. If I were Moore, and my goal was widest possible distribution, not most money made, putting it up for P2P download is a great idea.
You know that is my complaint with the Passion. Moore believes in something so much he is willing to give it away to convert the non-believers.
Mel Gibson makes a movie about something he 'passionately' believes in, but he wants to milk it for all it for all the money it is worth.
I think it is important to remember that Michael Moore started in newspapers.
So as far as definitions, I think I'll go with an editorial definition.
Calling it a mockumentary is meant as a insult by the right and I don't think it is fair to call this opinion piece little more than entertainment. Just like Bowling for Columbine, F911 does stir up issues that need to be discussed.
I saw a bit yesterday when he asked that congressman if he'd be willing to let his kids sign up to go to war (the point being that those in power don't mind sacrificing the lives of other peoples' children). The congressman declined and that made it into the movie. However, in an interview with someone else, the congressman stated that Moore cut off the part of the interview where he said his nephew just got shipped off to Afghanistan.
I saw that interview too, but he was deceiving also. Moore was asking congressmen to send their kids to Iraq. He wasn't asking about nephews and he wasn't asking about Afghanistan. Basically Moore was asking him to send his son or daughter to Iraq. He wasn't asking for him to send his second cousin from marriage twice removed. The congressmen's answer wasn't appropriate to Moore's question and hence it was cut.
I'm sure everyone has watched the deleted scenes on DVDs with the commentaries. Usually the scenes are deleted for timing or because they do not add to film's message.
Moore's films are editorials. He has a message. The congressmen's answer was outside Moore's message and therefore expendable.
Frontline did a story about how GWB got into the White House. Basically Shrub proved for the Republican party that you could get into office using only the Religious Right. Before GWB, Republicans wanted to maintain an appeal to the middle of America.
Also, it doesn't matter if most of America is not on the far Right. For Shrub, it only matters that the people who vote are on the Far Right.
So register and vote people!
PS. I was handing out voter registation cards at F911. Pick up a stack and do the same!
Exactly. Don't believe what anyone tells you without going out and doing some research yourself. If what you find confirms what you are told, then and only then can you consider it as fact. I see too many people on both sides pick up quick buzz-phrases and run with them only to be made a complete fool by someone who is more informed. Do your homework.
Though I agree, the web has changed information gathering. The old saying that if you tell a lie often enough it'll become the truth gains new life on the web. If I do a google search about some Bush topic, I'll probably turn up several articles from conservative news companies.
What I like about Micheal Moore, is the real footage. Yes, he does edit it, but that still doesn't change what the fact that Bush says the insane things he says.
I mailed my F911 ticket stub to the White House. I recommend everyone else do the same.
In a way I agree with your statement that SUVs are not the evil peopl make them out to be. SUVs do have their uses.
It's the people that do not use the SUV for what it was intended that I have a problem with....
If you only drive in the city, I hope you have a Honda CRV or Toyota Rav4. If you are driving something else, you are driving for style because there are other vehicles that would work better. You are a Catholic soccer mom with 7+ kids, get a van. You are a handyman, get a truck.
Leave the offroading to us lazy rich. (yes I have a SUV)
People need to focus on this (Blackout Was Good News, For Pollution)
It is attributed to Arnaud-Armaury, the Abbot of Citeaux, and "spiritual advisor" to the Albigensian Crusade.
Pope Innocent III ordered the Albigensian Crusade, to purge southern France of the Cathari heretics. It began in the summer of 1209, with their first target - the town of Beziers. The Catholic faithful in Beziers refused to give up the Catharis among themselves. The crusaders invaded. When Arnaud-Amaury was asked whom to kill he replied "Kill them all. God will know his own." They did. The crusaders slaughtered nearly everyone in town, over 20,000, either burned or clubbed to death. Thus they achieved their goal of killing the estimated 200 heretics who were hiding in the town among the Catholic faithful. The brutal crusade continued on for the next twenty years. Eventually the Catholics devised a new approach for dealing with the remaining Cathari heretics in France. It was called "the Inquisition".
But if most behave, a few have a huge incentive to misbehave.
They key is to increase the penalties for misbehaving so that there is no incentive.
the next problem is if the penalties are too high then those that do misbehave will do even more vile acts.
If you are already doing enough criminal activity to get a life sentence, what would stop you from doing more (short of death penalty crimes?)
and in Texas the general opinion is sex offenders should get the death penalty. I frequently have to remind those around me that if that was the case, why would the criminal ever let their victim live?
Since society depends on electronics so much, I've always wondered if these stun gun makers will get sued for toasting a laptop or frying someone's pacemaker.
I have a hearing aid. What good will soldiers yelling at me do when they have fried my hearing.
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Within the decade the spinning hard disk may go the way of the floppy and CRT.
You mean it'll still be the default option on most new PCs and in use by ~90% of PC users?
awwww...I was going to say that, but with more blood dripping evil sarcasm.
I still wonder why we can't move away from floppies. I mean we made the switch from 5.25 to 3.5. The only thing I see taking the floppies place right now is the cdburner and there are so many limitations to that media. I've got floppies from the early 90s that I still read/write to....I don't use cds that way.
The vehicle's design is not really street-safe - this will be a problem as more efficient, lighter cars share the road with Hummers.
On a similar note, I always find it odd that people feel safer with more mass (as in massive SUVs - not massive waist line [though that probably applies too.])
Fatalities have gone up since Regean decided to nix Carter's plan for smaller cars. It was either Frontline or Nova that did a show about the issue 2 years ago.
Similar to this administrations' decision not to listen to FDA's scientists about Plan-B, during Regean's era the head of the Department of Transportation went against its advisors to recommend heavier vehicles.
Of course! Think of the children! I expect politicians to trot this out every time they're eroding our rights. I fear for the Republic when ordinary citizens start doing so.
The masses are sheep. I expect them to jump at shadows.
Of course 'terrorists' are the latest fade fear. My sister in law calls my wife every time something 'terrorist' related happens. She called when a 21 yr old took a plane joy riding into powerlines. She called when a Military Hummer was stolen. She calls all the time with these silly news items and lives in fear. What a waste...
She fears all these possible threats, but ignores all the rights she is losing to protect her from those threats.
I agree the terms sound annoying, but you can understand why they did it.
The Department of Justice would be all over Vonage if VoIP services were being used by criminals or even worse by 'terrorists.'
It wasn't until recently that the fcc ruled VoIP must be tappable. Give them some more time. They might change their TOS in light of this FCC ruling.
I don't think hibernation prevents aging...
It better slow it down. Otherwise we still need to send food supplements
Government involvement is good when it does things that I want. It's bad when it does things I don't want.
Government should protect my rights. Government should protect my right to infringe on your rights.
Government should take your money to implement my agenda. Government shouldn't take my money to implement your agenda.
Just follow these simple rules and "the slashdot position on government" is easy to understand.
I think you are describing the US political system and the US view of the UN.
Of course I am biased because I live in the US. It could be happening else where.
I wonder if it has to do with the growing population.
Do you hate highways, traffic signals, and schools, as well? How about emergency services, snow plows and possibly (depending on your area) garbage service?
Do you hate parks and sidewalks and libraries?
Sure, it's all underfunded. But look at countries with no funding for those things. They all seem a bit, well, third world.
I didn't say I hated income tax. I find that sales and property taxes are used as a hidden way to raise taxes.
I'd love to see a flat income tax, but I'll take a progressive income tax if they'll get rid of sales and property taxes.
I live in Texas where we do not have a state income tax.
agreed.
When I was complaining to a friend about leasing everything, his remark was at least once you pay your house off, you'll own it.
I reminded him that he will still be paying property tax on it.....he'll never own his home. He'll always be renting from the government.
(I hate property and sales taxes)
because thousands of very large companies (you know, the ones which actually pay for symantec software?) standardised all of their internal applications on IE -- basically meaning they invested millions (billions?) of dollars writing internal web applications which work in IE but no other web browsers. a huge mistake, yes, but you're talking about re-write work on the order of a hundred or so million dollars.
agreed that is the problem. The question is when will the major companies stop writting IE specific applications and make browser neutral applications....
We all know of applications that have been around since the dinosaurs, but are still in use because they are mission critical. Heck there are some government websites that can only be accessed via old Netscape versions running on windows 98.
The point at which this trend will end is when it hits the bottom line. A few good virus hits and they'll be looking for alternatives.
So why are they using Microsoft (IE) still? Because they only have to deal with one vendor and probably one contract.
Q: What's the cheapest way to shave 500g off your bike weight?
A: Lose 500g.
Additional eat fewer of the Powerbars:
FUEL: PowerBar, $1.79
To help replace the 110,000 calories (31 pounds!) Armstrong will burn during the race, he will nosh on some 105 PowerBars and 210 PowerGels. Yum.
its cost per employee is about $300K"
maybe they could reduce those costs by...say...hiring the temp workers!
Corporate knows its IT staff will want broadband for themselves. Why pay for it?
Where is it going to stop? Where the employee wants it to stop.
My company isn't paying for my home phone, but it could be used for similar contact after hours uses.
(as a lawful evil player) I think companies should go the opposite direction. Give everyone broadband connections, enforce VPN connections to the company intranet, force VoIP, and force anything else you can to control your employees.
Monitor everything. Data mine it all.
then sit back and pull the strings.
"It's a 5.1MB Microsoft Word file."
So it's only three pages long? Somehow I expected more.
ah, but just look at the metadata! It was written by Netgear!
I'm not sure what you are talking about. We were trying to get him to speak at University of Houston Clear Lake and it was going to cost us $40k or $25k if we had a 5000 seat theater and charged only $5/ticket or less.
He was also willing to come with less than 3 months notice.
While this was intended to be funny, there is some seriousness here. If I were Moore, and my goal was widest possible distribution, not most money made, putting it up for P2P download is a great idea.
You know that is my complaint with the Passion. Moore believes in something so much he is willing to give it away to convert the non-believers.
Mel Gibson makes a movie about something he 'passionately' believes in, but he wants to milk it for all it for all the money it is worth.
ah the root of all evil....
I think it is important to remember that Michael Moore started in newspapers.
So as far as definitions, I think I'll go with an editorial definition.
Calling it a mockumentary is meant as a insult by the right and I don't think it is fair to call this opinion piece little more than entertainment. Just like Bowling for Columbine, F911 does stir up issues that need to be discussed.
I saw a bit yesterday when he asked that congressman if he'd be willing to let his kids sign up to go to war (the point being that those in power don't mind sacrificing the lives of other peoples' children). The congressman declined and that made it into the movie. However, in an interview with someone else, the congressman stated that Moore cut off the part of the interview where he said his nephew just got shipped off to Afghanistan.
I saw that interview too, but he was deceiving also. Moore was asking congressmen to send their kids to Iraq. He wasn't asking about nephews and he wasn't asking about Afghanistan. Basically Moore was asking him to send his son or daughter to Iraq. He wasn't asking for him to send his second cousin from marriage twice removed. The congressmen's answer wasn't appropriate to Moore's question and hence it was cut.
I'm sure everyone has watched the deleted scenes on DVDs with the commentaries. Usually the scenes are deleted for timing or because they do not add to film's message.
Moore's films are editorials. He has a message. The congressmen's answer was outside Moore's message and therefore expendable.
ah...if you noticed in the film, he didn't even pick up the kids book until after he was told the 2nd plane hit the building.
lacking anyone to tell him what to do...he took comfort in a kids book for 7 minutes.
But the best part was that he had cut funding for counter-terrorism a month prior. duh!
Frontline did a story about how GWB got into the White House. Basically Shrub proved for the Republican party that you could get into office using only the Religious Right. Before GWB, Republicans wanted to maintain an appeal to the middle of America.
Also, it doesn't matter if most of America is not on the far Right. For Shrub, it only matters that the people who vote are on the Far Right.
So register and vote people!
PS. I was handing out voter registation cards at F911. Pick up a stack and do the same!
Exactly. Don't believe what anyone tells you without going out and doing some research yourself. If what you find confirms what you are told, then and only then can you consider it as fact. I see too many people on both sides pick up quick buzz-phrases and run with them only to be made a complete fool by someone who is more informed. Do your homework.
Though I agree, the web has changed information gathering. The old saying that if you tell a lie often enough it'll become the truth gains new life on the web. If I do a google search about some Bush topic, I'll probably turn up several articles from conservative news companies.
What I like about Micheal Moore, is the real footage. Yes, he does edit it, but that still doesn't change what the fact that Bush says the insane things he says.
I mailed my F911 ticket stub to the White House. I recommend everyone else do the same.
SUVs are not the anti-christ.
It is lawn mowers.
In a way I agree with your statement that SUVs are not the evil peopl make them out to be. SUVs do have their uses.
It's the people that do not use the SUV for what it was intended that I have a problem with....
If you only drive in the city, I hope you have a Honda CRV or Toyota Rav4. If you are driving something else, you are driving for style because there are other vehicles that would work better. You are a Catholic soccer mom with 7+ kids, get a van. You are a handyman, get a truck.
Leave the offroading to us lazy rich.
(yes I have a SUV)
People need to focus on this (Blackout Was Good News, For Pollution)
It is attributed to Arnaud-Armaury, the Abbot of Citeaux, and "spiritual advisor" to the Albigensian Crusade.
Pope Innocent III ordered the Albigensian Crusade, to purge southern France of the Cathari heretics. It began in the summer of 1209, with their first target - the town of Beziers. The Catholic faithful in Beziers refused to give up the Catharis among themselves. The crusaders invaded. When Arnaud-Amaury was asked whom to kill he replied "Kill them all. God will know his own." They did. The crusaders slaughtered nearly everyone in town, over 20,000, either burned or clubbed to death. Thus they achieved their goal of killing the estimated 200 heretics who were hiding in the town among the Catholic faithful. The brutal crusade continued on for the next twenty years. Eventually the Catholics devised a new approach for dealing with the remaining Cathari heretics in France. It was called "the Inquisition".
But if most behave, a few have a huge incentive to misbehave.
They key is to increase the penalties for misbehaving so that there is no incentive.
the next problem is if the penalties are too high then those that do misbehave will do even more vile acts.
If you are already doing enough criminal activity to get a life sentence, what would stop you from doing more (short of death penalty crimes?)
and in Texas the general opinion is sex offenders should get the death penalty. I frequently have to remind those around me that if that was the case, why would the criminal ever let their victim live?
Since society depends on electronics so much, I've always wondered if these stun gun makers will get sued for toasting a laptop or frying someone's pacemaker.
I have a hearing aid. What good will soldiers yelling at me do when they have fried my hearing.
Potato canon technology is now within reach of the US armed forces.
You want fries with THAT! and THAT! and THAT!
Nothing to laugh at here...that was probably their previous job.