Weather does the most damage to the roads. Especially in the northeast where you have varying climate combined with high traffic.
The expansion and contraction from hot summers and cold winters are extremely damaging. As does the salting to melt snow and cars mushing the salt into the roads.
As for rebooting. You are asked to reboot every time a security patch is installed.
XP's also famous for self reboots for "misbehaving drivers". Altho the only I installed was a new Firewall. You don't even get a blue screen. WinXP just decides to take a break!
If you shopped specifically for a machine specifically for WP why did you upgrade? Did WP stop working? Or were you taken in by MS FUD to upgrade WinME which is has the stellar reputation of being the most incompatible version ever? If you're willing to pay MS for the upgrade, why are you not willing to pay Corel?
One problem with core component upgrades is that most people don't realise the real cost associated. CPU may be incompatible with OS or motherboard. motherboard may be incompatible with RAM. The list goes on. The thing you should have done when you realised that the new CPU had a problem with the OS was probably to return the CPU and looked for a new system that includes WP as part of the package. Getting new OS and blaming Corel for not giving you free upgrades is plain whining...
Am I the only one shocked that there are 1000 times more jedi in Australia than there were in the entire movie Attack of the Clones (which is supposedly to show the number of jedi that kept peace on an entire galaxy?
I guess since Star Wars saga took place a long, long time ago, the jedis have since multiplied.:)
I've been seeing many threads blaming the fall of IT on HTML monkeys and certificate trained incompetents. However, no one seems to be discussing the reverse side of the coin, which is the fact that the system that IT has been putting in place for the past 20-some odd years HAVE made us more efficient and allowed many existing offices to require fewer employees and those were laid off in the early 90's. We saw in a way that it was the triumph of tech and how we made things better.
IT departments were given carte blanche to increase their headcount unchecked because their senior management did not have the expertise to review what IT departments were pushing, causing the 'net boom. As the net boomed in the late 90's those laid off folks (aka folks we put out of jobs) moved to the tech sector because that was where the jobs were. Remember the glory tales that we were hearing about on a weekly basis in 99' 00' about how program xx converted laid off employees into HTML programmers or network admins and that it was a "good thing"?
Now that the bubble has burst, I doubt the blame it on the unqualified monkeys we imported / retrained idea, there are no jobs to go into. IT and the information age was what everybody was counting on to save us and prevent a recession / depression. There are no places for those people to go. They are going to cling to there certificates and go to interviews of jobs they don't qualify for so they can feed themselves and their families.
How can there be such a bill when there is no equivalent bill for those people who RUIN the livelihoods of millions of people in the name of personal greed?
In my experience, movie ticket sites are the worse in terms of things that work in IE but not in Moz (especially w/ pop-up off). I've not been able to buy movie tix in Moz with moviefone, moviewatcher, nor fandango. That just about covers all of the on-line movie sites...
Has anyone tried to compare software engineering to other, more mature, professional institution? Don't the best Doctors/Lawyers/Brokers produce more effectively than the average? How are they managed? Don't they have problems with working long hours?
I don't have the answers but just thought that the questions should be asked.
I agree the software engineering discipline is different from other industrial professions that have been workflowed to the minutia and broken up into assembly line pieces. But it seems to me that it perhaps is growing up and realizing that it is NOT an labor based industry, but rather an skill based profession.
Wait a minute, how can you have an impetus to create a vaccine if it becomes public domain as soon it is created?
The current copyright/patent system provides the impetus by providing exclusive ownership of that knowledge for a period of time during which the owner can make money from it, thus providing the impetus. Whether or not it is abused is a separate issue...
I grant you the broadband adoption rate is low as is stated by most people. But, DSL/cable modem setups are frequently as simple or even simpler than modems and do not require user intervention.
For example, when I got my cable modem and network card. I just plugged it in and started the machine. It autorecognized, installed the drivers and detected the IP address from the server. I didn't even have to enter a phone number to dial for the ISP like I would have had to with a cable modem. It was completely transparent!
Slashdot Mirror
Weather does the most damage to the roads. Especially in the northeast where you have varying climate combined with high traffic.
The expansion and contraction from hot summers and cold winters are extremely damaging. As does the salting to melt snow and cars mushing the salt into the roads.
You mean:
The Holy Bible: IMAX edition*
* - 2,000 verses edited for time
But 20 of 20 are generating a loss...
As for rebooting. You are asked to reboot every time a security patch is installed.
XP's also famous for self reboots for "misbehaving drivers". Altho the only I installed was a new Firewall. You don't even get a blue screen. WinXP just decides to take a break!
Don't fall for it! It's just another trick by dateless geek programmer to get a date. Damm, I should have come up with it first!
;)
Maybe it's not ready yet. For about 1/2 hr I've not been able to load this site, all the other sites are ok
Yeah... Microsoft BONG! What do you want to smoke today?
If you shopped specifically for a machine specifically for WP why did you upgrade? Did WP stop working? Or were you taken in by MS FUD to upgrade WinME which is has the stellar reputation of being the most incompatible version ever? If you're willing to pay MS for the upgrade, why are you not willing to pay Corel?
One problem with core component upgrades is that most people don't realise the real cost associated. CPU may be incompatible with OS or motherboard. motherboard may be incompatible with RAM. The list goes on. The thing you should have done when you realised that the new CPU had a problem with the OS was probably to return the CPU and looked for a new system that includes WP as part of the package. Getting new OS and blaming Corel for not giving you free upgrades is plain whining...
Am I the only one shocked that there are 1000 times more jedi in Australia than there were in the entire movie Attack of the Clones (which is supposedly to show the number of jedi that kept peace on an entire galaxy?
:)
I guess since Star Wars saga took place a long, long time ago, the jedis have since multiplied.
I've been seeing many threads blaming the fall of IT on HTML monkeys and certificate trained incompetents. However, no one seems to be discussing the reverse side of the coin, which is the fact that the system that IT has been putting in place for the past 20-some odd years HAVE made us more efficient and allowed many existing offices to require fewer employees and those were laid off in the early 90's. We saw in a way that it was the triumph of tech and how we made things better.
IT departments were given carte blanche to increase their headcount unchecked because their senior management did not have the expertise to review what IT departments were pushing, causing the 'net boom. As the net boomed in the late 90's those laid off folks (aka folks we put out of jobs) moved to the tech sector because that was where the jobs were. Remember the glory tales that we were hearing about on a weekly basis in 99' 00' about how program xx converted laid off employees into HTML programmers or network admins and that it was a "good thing"?
Now that the bubble has burst, I doubt the blame it on the unqualified monkeys we imported / retrained idea, there are no jobs to go into. IT and the information age was what everybody was counting on to save us and prevent a recession / depression. There are no places for those people to go. They are going to cling to there certificates and go to interviews of jobs they don't qualify for so they can feed themselves and their families.
How can there be such a bill when there is no equivalent bill for those people who RUIN the livelihoods of millions of people in the name of personal greed?
Kids these days....
In my experience, movie ticket sites are the worse in terms of things that work in IE but not in Moz (especially w/ pop-up off). I've not been able to buy movie tix in Moz with moviefone, moviewatcher, nor fandango. That just about covers all of the on-line movie sites...
This sounds less like prep for weightlessness than preparation for the fluid tanks in the Matrix.
;)
Wait till they start passing out the blue pills... Oh yeah, it's called Viagra
Following the trend, shouldn't Episode III be:
Episode III: To Be Edited?
Don't forget, with the new emphasis on Trusted Computing. The next version will be called Windows XP Security Blankie.
Must be that squirrat from 'Ice Age' again!
This is interesting, as Zhang Fei was born ~170 AD, it is interesting how a temple in his honor is more than 2000 years old?
You were so close to a Haiku! (5-7-5 variety) It's fun to play with Gets attacked by evil But fights back and win
I could not find it on Adcritic. Why? They said that they had all the commercials!
Has anyone tried to compare software engineering to other, more mature, professional institution? Don't the best Doctors/Lawyers/Brokers produce more effectively than the average? How are they managed? Don't they have problems with working long hours? I don't have the answers but just thought that the questions should be asked. I agree the software engineering discipline is different from other industrial professions that have been workflowed to the minutia and broken up into assembly line pieces. But it seems to me that it perhaps is growing up and realizing that it is NOT an labor based industry, but rather an skill based profession.
The first thing I think when I saw the article was that 1000 Palms, That's like at least 200 grand! Talk about expensive canvas.
The next version, codenamed Mirror is capable of live image capture!!
Wait a minute, how can you have an impetus to create a vaccine if it becomes public domain as soon it is created? The current copyright/patent system provides the impetus by providing exclusive ownership of that knowledge for a period of time during which the owner can make money from it, thus providing the impetus. Whether or not it is abused is a separate issue...
I grant you the broadband adoption rate is low as is stated by most people. But, DSL/cable modem setups are frequently as simple or even simpler than modems and do not require user intervention. For example, when I got my cable modem and network card. I just plugged it in and started the machine. It autorecognized, installed the drivers and detected the IP address from the server. I didn't even have to enter a phone number to dial for the ISP like I would have had to with a cable modem. It was completely transparent!