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For all the posts saying "it still doesn't do every last little thing that Exchange does!", do you really need those things?
You might try defining your requirements based on business needs, rather than the feature set of one piece of software. Or is that a crazy, radical idea?
Reminds me of all those guys doing simple web graphics, who say that Gimp doesn't do {some esoteric prepress color feature} that PhotoShop does, so they just can't use it;)
This isn't some great new insight; people have been railing against "rote" learning for about a century or so. More, in some places.
So why was there more literacy and learning (among those attending school, with access to books, etc.) before all these wonderous theories of, er, non-rote learning?
When this law requires "ADV:" in the Subject and another law requires "Adv:", another "AD:", another "Anu:", another "Rek:", another "Pub: ", another "", another "", and another "Pro: ", what happens? Does it become impossible to lawfully spam?
We can only hope...;)
Actually, if enforced successfully, it would require genuine opt-in. Why of course you know whether this email address belongs to a Michigan resident, he opted in, right? Right?
Why shouldn't they be hooked early? Do you think that businesses are just going to magically stop using MS Office in the near future?
I'm continually astounded that they don't, and I've worked in the military, manufacturing, insurance, and state government.
Sure, if you need complete interoperability with MS Office users, then you need a copy. No-brainer. But why the hell does every seat in an organization need it? The receptionist? The customer service rep who at most generates paper letters?
MS Office should be like any other costly app. Need the full version of Acrobat? Fine; request it, justify it, and get it installed. Should be the same for MS Office.
Going about it the way they are would be like leaving the door to my house or car wide open and then getting mad when someone comes in and looks around.
Stupid.
Maybe, but as with those examples, "coming in and looking around" is still illegal.
I can think of one concrete example. I received a forwarded email in 2000 of stupid statements allegedly made by Al Gore. I replied with an email from 1992 with the same set of quotes, but attributed to Dan Quayle. Did the original sender feel humiliated and send an apologetic retraction to everyone he had forwarded the message to? Of course not. The truth was easily available, but they liked the lie better.
What makes you think that the 1992 email was accurate?
Is there anyone who actually, really uses the internet for obtaining and swapping recipes???
Is there anyone who actually uses recipes who doesn't?:)
It might be a pretty low percentage in the/. community, but I assure you that anyone in the first world who is looking for a recipe uses the internet, once they realize that they can do so. It's a huge number!
Export your PPT to a series of WMFs, autonamed with names like slide1.wmf, slide2.wmf, etc.
Then import the first one into Flash. Flash asks if you want to import the whole series. You say yes. Each one loads as a Frame.
From there, it's trivial to make a navigation layer, put stop() actions on each frame, etc. Voila! A PPT authored presentation, but in Flash. Smaller, and you can insert more complex animations in choice spots.
I don't want to quibble about the specific number, but how do they decide what is spam? Much of the decision is somewhat ambiguous.
No it isn't. You know spam when you see it. It's unsolicited commercial email. If you are trying to sell me something, or trying to get me to go increase page views on your website, and I didn't *explicitly agree* to receive such communication, it is spam. Very simple.
Generally, the only people who ask this are involved in spamming, and either don't feel right about it or are trying to muddy the waters.
But I'll assume that you are genuinely curious:)
I'm curious: What industry do you work in? Government? Medical? Do you do IT or Development?
It's very rare to find an IT or Development position that pays overtime. All positions are salaried, except for a few in the public sector, or in unionized hospitals.
I'm sort of a "perma-contractor" in a government office. The pay arrangement is totally up to the actual (private) employer.
I am in fact salaried, so what I receive is "bonus" hours, not officially "overtime". Any hours worked over the normal 40 per week are paid straight time, and I don't get docked if I work less than 40/wk (though I'm not sure that has happened yet...).
And I'm a technical communicator, but as far as I know, this goes for the development, testing, etc. positions as well. I don't know that they are all salaried, but one way or another people get paid for hours worked. After all, the employers bill the government on that basis.
Now, two jobs ago I got actual time and a half overtime (but the base salary was bad). One job ago, we just rarely worked late (but if we did were pressured to just suck it up). So my experience is varied. I just think (my original point) that Slashdot gives a rather monlithic view of things, because bad things make a better story.
It's the dramatic, negative reports that get heard.
I'm in the US, I have great working conditions, I get paid for overtime (not time and a half, but then I'm salaried - I get paid for undertime too;) ).
But I don't have to Ask Slashdot about it - I'm happy. My story is uninteresting, and won't generate lots of comments and page views.
To borrow a page from Adbusters, go sit in front of your TV but don't turn it on. Sit there for an hour looking at it. If the first idea through your head is "that's nonsense, I'm not going to do nothing for a whole hour"...well what do you think you'd be doing if it was on?
You could say the same thing about a blank sheet of paper and a book.
One thing you have to realise is that twenty years from now nobody will care if one wacky bankrupt state has banned Linux. There will be no real IT industry left in the USA by then anyway. The odd billion chinese people are slightly more significant.
Hmm... yet oddly, the people who try to migrate for economic opportunity and freedom move from China to the US, not from the US to China.
I guess it's those people you should be ranting to; they don't seem to be listening...
So they expect Iraqis to take emails seriously of which they cannot verify the source to take action that could cost the lives of themselves and their families
Er, these are the people who surrendered to anything that even looked American, including reporters. Let's not overestimate them now...
Would the US really blow up their own people for the sake of global military supremacy? Naaaah...
I hate to contaminate your anti-Americanism with some reality, Michael, but in 1944 the people who were desiring global military supremacy were German and Japanese.
That's funny. Let's see, we have a president sitting in the White House who lost the election.
No, moron, he won. He won the majority of votes in Florida. It was close enough to trigger a recount under state law. The recount was performed, and he still won.
Everything that happened after that was triggered by his loser opponent, who couldn't accept that he had lost. We entered the world of the postmodern election, where inherently biased humans held punch cards up to the light to "determine" whether a hole was really a hole. That's not a road you want to go down, and the Dems took us down that road for Al Gore, of all people. Holy crap.
Funny how when fifty-thousand people think earth was settled by aliens they are a cult, but when a billion people believe that earth was created by an invisible man in the sky, that group is a religion.
Yeah, college students always find that sort of thing ironic, until they grow up (or they don't grow up, and become professors).
If you really can't see the difference, I'm not sure what to tell you. But I suspect that you can; I give you more credit than that.
Actually, what I find funny is the opposite; would-be clever folk will believe anything but the wisdom of the ages. Witness, the cult in the story.
Imagine walking into any jazz joint or grilled cheese stand, or getting your hair washed or your feet massaged, and your money is no good because this town operates on a gift economy. Imagine that everybody Leaves No Trace. Imagine diversity coexisting with common ritual - ritual based on radical free expression and purification by fire.
I suspect you'll have to imagine pretty hard - especially that "leave no trace" stuff...
What I see disappearing are the median income jobs. It seems like things are becoming more and more polarized w/many many low pay jobs and a few very high paying jobs.
People have said this for decades, and the middle class has not disappeared. That's not to say it never will, but the record of these predictions is very, very poor.
Do you have any actual data to support your contention? Is the data based on valid assumptions and samples (i.e. the decline in VAX programmers doesn't necessarily count, unless you include the increase in game console programmers).
It can even be automated, if you really want to, with bill and coin accepters.
I wonder at what point all this information becomes wastful. You just know that because this information can be tracked, it will. But imagine if we suddenly switched back to an all-cash system. There would be so much less data to store, transmit, transform, mess up, validate, etc. There's a certain economy in that, isn't there?
... but until Microsoft make a simliar public legal declaration to Sun's JSPA, any.NET re-implementation represents a pending legal mindfield.
Hey, anyone can make spelling mistakes. But this sounds like a great idea for a sci-fi novel... our intrepid heroes carefully make their way through a mindfield, using an, er, mindsweeper...
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For all the posts saying "it still doesn't do every last little thing that Exchange does!", do you really need those things?
You might try defining your requirements based on business needs, rather than the feature set of one piece of software. Or is that a crazy, radical idea?
Reminds me of all those guys doing simple web graphics, who say that Gimp doesn't do {some esoteric prepress color feature} that PhotoShop does, so they just can't use it ;)
Of course, you can remove any pdf security with GhostScript, using a cracked dll.
You don't need to crack the dll - you could just take the open source version, change the source, and compile it.
"Cracked dll" sounds sexier, I suppose ;) After all, only evil hackers would want to defeat "PDF security" :)
This isn't some great new insight; people have been railing against "rote" learning for about a century or so. More, in some places.
So why was there more literacy and learning (among those attending school, with access to books, etc.) before all these wonderous theories of, er, non-rote learning?
When this law requires "ADV:" in the Subject and another law requires "Adv:", another "AD:", another "Anu:", another "Rek:", another "Pub: ", another "", another "", and another "Pro: ", what happens? Does it become impossible to lawfully spam?
We can only hope ... ;)
Actually, if enforced successfully, it would require genuine opt-in. Why of course you know whether this email address belongs to a Michigan resident, he opted in, right? Right?
Why shouldn't they be hooked early? Do you think that businesses are just going to magically stop using MS Office in the near future?
I'm continually astounded that they don't, and I've worked in the military, manufacturing, insurance, and state government.
Sure, if you need complete interoperability with MS Office users, then you need a copy. No-brainer. But why the hell does every seat in an organization need it? The receptionist? The customer service rep who at most generates paper letters?
MS Office should be like any other costly app. Need the full version of Acrobat? Fine; request it, justify it, and get it installed. Should be the same for MS Office.
Going about it the way they are would be like leaving the door to my house or car wide open and then getting mad when someone comes in and looks around.
Stupid.
Maybe, but as with those examples, "coming in and looking around" is still illegal.
I can think of one concrete example. I received a forwarded email in 2000 of stupid statements allegedly made by Al Gore. I replied with an email from 1992 with the same set of quotes, but attributed to Dan Quayle. Did the original sender feel humiliated and send an apologetic retraction to everyone he had forwarded the message to? Of course not. The truth was easily available, but they liked the lie better.
What makes you think that the 1992 email was accurate?
Are you actually suggesting that in-house support is free? If so, you sound like management material to me
Maybe he means that it is cheaper than out-house support.
Pun intended.
Had you funded or harbored those who blew up my friends and family, you would have a trigger happy person showing up on your doorstep. God Dag.
Is there anyone who actually, really uses the internet for obtaining and swapping recipes???
Is there anyone who actually uses recipes who doesn't? :)
It might be a pretty low percentage in the /. community, but I assure you that anyone in the first world who is looking for a recipe uses the internet, once they realize that they can do so. It's a huge number!
Not exactly what you are looking for, but ...
Export your PPT to a series of WMFs, autonamed with names like slide1.wmf, slide2.wmf, etc.
Then import the first one into Flash. Flash asks if you want to import the whole series. You say yes. Each one loads as a Frame.
From there, it's trivial to make a navigation layer, put stop() actions on each frame, etc. Voila! A PPT authored presentation, but in Flash. Smaller, and you can insert more complex animations in choice spots.
I don't want to quibble about the specific number, but how do they decide what is spam? Much of the decision is somewhat ambiguous.
No it isn't. You know spam when you see it. It's unsolicited commercial email. If you are trying to sell me something, or trying to get me to go increase page views on your website, and I didn't *explicitly agree* to receive such communication, it is spam. Very simple.
Generally, the only people who ask this are involved in spamming, and either don't feel right about it or are trying to muddy the waters. But I'll assume that you are genuinely curious :)
I'm curious: What industry do you work in? Government? Medical? Do you do IT or Development?
It's very rare to find an IT or Development position that pays overtime. All positions are salaried, except for a few in the public sector, or in unionized hospitals.
I'm sort of a "perma-contractor" in a government office. The pay arrangement is totally up to the actual (private) employer.
I am in fact salaried, so what I receive is "bonus" hours, not officially "overtime". Any hours worked over the normal 40 per week are paid straight time, and I don't get docked if I work less than 40/wk (though I'm not sure that has happened yet ...).
And I'm a technical communicator, but as far as I know, this goes for the development, testing, etc. positions as well. I don't know that they are all salaried, but one way or another people get paid for hours worked. After all, the employers bill the government on that basis.
Now, two jobs ago I got actual time and a half overtime (but the base salary was bad). One job ago, we just rarely worked late (but if we did were pressured to just suck it up). So my experience is varied. I just think (my original point) that Slashdot gives a rather monlithic view of things, because bad things make a better story.
... that our having a large military is why you don't need one?
It's the dramatic, negative reports that get heard.
I'm in the US, I have great working conditions, I get paid for overtime (not time and a half, but then I'm salaried - I get paid for undertime too ;) ).
But I don't have to Ask Slashdot about it - I'm happy. My story is uninteresting, and won't generate lots of comments and page views.
To borrow a page from Adbusters, go sit in front of your TV but don't turn it on. Sit there for an hour looking at it. If the first idea through your head is "that's nonsense, I'm not going to do nothing for a whole hour" ...well what do you think you'd be doing if it was on?
You could say the same thing about a blank sheet of paper and a book.
One thing you have to realise is that twenty years from now nobody will care if one wacky bankrupt state has banned Linux. There will be no real IT industry left in the USA by then anyway. The odd billion chinese people are slightly more significant.
Hmm ... yet oddly, the people who try to migrate for economic opportunity and freedom move from China to the US, not from the US to China.
I guess it's those people you should be ranting to; they don't seem to be listening ...
So they expect Iraqis to take emails seriously of which they cannot verify the source to take action that could cost the lives of themselves and their families
Er, these are the people who surrendered to anything that even looked American, including reporters. Let's not overestimate them now ...
Would the US really blow up their own people for the sake of global military supremacy? Naaaah...
I hate to contaminate your anti-Americanism with some reality, Michael, but in 1944 the people who were desiring global military supremacy were German and Japanese.
That's funny. Let's see, we have a president sitting in the White House who lost the election.
No, moron, he won. He won the majority of votes in Florida. It was close enough to trigger a recount under state law. The recount was performed, and he still won.
Everything that happened after that was triggered by his loser opponent, who couldn't accept that he had lost. We entered the world of the postmodern election, where inherently biased humans held punch cards up to the light to "determine" whether a hole was really a hole. That's not a road you want to go down, and the Dems took us down that road for Al Gore, of all people. Holy crap.
Funny how when fifty-thousand people think earth was settled by aliens they are a cult, but when a billion people believe that earth was created by an invisible man in the sky, that group is a religion.
Yeah, college students always find that sort of thing ironic, until they grow up (or they don't grow up, and become professors).
If you really can't see the difference, I'm not sure what to tell you. But I suspect that you can; I give you more credit than that.
Actually, what I find funny is the opposite; would-be clever folk will believe anything but the wisdom of the ages. Witness, the cult in the story.
Imagine walking into any jazz joint or grilled cheese stand, or getting your hair washed or your feet massaged, and your money is no good because this town operates on a gift economy. Imagine that everybody Leaves No Trace. Imagine diversity coexisting with common ritual - ritual based on radical free expression and purification by fire.
I suspect you'll have to imagine pretty hard - especially that "leave no trace" stuff ...
What I see disappearing are the median income jobs. It seems like things are becoming more and more polarized w/many many low pay jobs and a few very high paying jobs.
People have said this for decades, and the middle class has not disappeared. That's not to say it never will, but the record of these predictions is very, very poor.
Do you have any actual data to support your contention? Is the data based on valid assumptions and samples (i.e. the decline in VAX programmers doesn't necessarily count, unless you include the increase in game console programmers).
It can even be automated, if you really want to, with bill and coin accepters.
I wonder at what point all this information becomes wastful. You just know that because this information can be tracked, it will. But imagine if we suddenly switched back to an all-cash system. There would be so much less data to store, transmit, transform, mess up, validate, etc. There's a certain economy in that, isn't there?
Hey, anyone can make spelling mistakes. But this sounds like a great idea for a sci-fi novel ... our intrepid heroes carefully make their way through a mindfield, using an, er, mindsweeper ...