Doesn't everyone know this already? Santa Claus is a multinational corparation who subsidizes gift-giving to children's parents. Santa gives the responsibility of giving presents to the parents. C'mon, have all of you been living under a rock?
I don't think that anyone is saying that he should throw his talent away, but I think that the kid should have a life. My god, take my brother for instance. He has a talent, he's a wizard with photo-finishing technology and he's got a job with photochannel.com. The problem is that he has no social life. Remember the words of Clarence, the angel from It's a Wonderful Life, "No man is a failure, who has friends"
Granted, I realize that the technology is partly to blame for your problem, but honestly, it is, for the most part, the incompetency of your local government. I have something similiar to what you have and it's called E-Z Pass. But at the toll plazas it tells you to keep it under 45MPH? That's insane! How can they expect a barcode scanner (because that's what they're really using, isn't it?) to pick up something zooming by them at 45MPH? Where I am they tell you to keep it under 5MPH but it works at up to 20. Granted, you have to slow down, but it's a hell of a lot better than coming to a dead stop and dealing with the incompetency of the toll collectors. Quite frankly, I don't think that the technology is to blame at all, it's your local government's inability to realize the limitations of that technology. -Thomas Hunt(thomashunt@escape.com)
The system administrator at my school is running RedHat 5.0 on our web server. The domain is www.fordhamprep.org. I guess that even if he kicks you out of the computer center for looking at "non-educational" material like/., he can't be that bad if he uses Linux.
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Doesn't everyone know this already? Santa Claus is a multinational corparation who subsidizes gift-giving to children's parents. Santa gives the responsibility of giving presents to the parents. C'mon, have all of you been living under a rock?
I don't think that anyone is saying that he should throw his talent away, but I think that the kid should have a life. My god, take my brother for instance. He has a talent, he's a wizard with photo-finishing technology and he's got a job with photochannel.com. The problem is that he has no social life. Remember the words of Clarence, the angel from It's a Wonderful Life, "No man is a failure, who has friends"
Teach him how to drink beer and smoke weed. I would've loved that childhood.
Granted, I realize that the technology is partly to blame for your problem, but honestly, it is, for the most part, the incompetency of your local government. I have something similiar to what you have and it's called E-Z Pass. But at the toll plazas it tells you to keep it under 45MPH? That's insane! How can they expect a barcode scanner (because that's what they're really using, isn't it?) to pick up something zooming by them at 45MPH? Where I am they tell you to keep it under 5MPH but it works at up to 20. Granted, you have to slow down, but it's a hell of a lot better than coming to a dead stop and dealing with the incompetency of the toll collectors. Quite frankly, I don't think that the technology is to blame at all, it's your local government's inability to realize the limitations of that technology.
-Thomas Hunt(thomashunt@escape.com)
The system administrator at my school is running RedHat 5.0 on our web server. The domain is www.fordhamprep.org. I guess that even if he kicks you out of the computer center for looking at "non-educational" material like /., he can't be that bad if he uses Linux.
Vi sucks, EMACS sucks, everything but PICO sucks. Thank you, good night.
Microsoft has no interest in changing for the ever-evolving technology market, they'll try to make the technology market evolve around them.