I must agree with our anonymous friend in one respect; Windows with IE will most certainly outdo anything else in mangling the web pages I design, requiring me to have a Windows machine just to make sure my hacks and workarounds in CSS for IE/Windows work. And I suppose I'll have to upgrade my Windows to be able to make sure IE 7 also works, since it is also going to be lacking in standards compliance. Except the old P-166 box I've got running Win98 with IE 6 won't even install XP or Vista. So now I'll have to buy a whole new computer...just to check on workarounds for a badly designed web browser. Yep, Microsoft really outdoes everything else. We shall just not say exactly in what.
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Ah, but when is rape really rape? These arguments pro-porn are exactly the same arguments my father used for years when frequently justifying his sexual abuse of myself. Didn't make me stop hating it and him then, and now still, forty years later.
This is also exactly the same argument the Man-Boy Love Association uses to justify their seduction/rape of young boys. It wouldn't be a crime if it weren't for all these right-wing Christian wacko fundamentalist prudes that won't let us have any fun!
I would be willing to bet a goodly sum that at least 90% of the women in these porno flicks and pictures have been drugged and raped so much that they just gave up trying to fight it. In the end, I quit trying to resist my father, and ended up being passed around to his friends whenever they were in town. Was I acquiescent? Yes. Was I willing? Hell, no. Would I be happy to see every one of those bastards hung? Hell yes!
My first marriage ended after 24 years of my husband demanding that I do things that turned my stomach, but he got all hot for them when he watched porn. At least he didn't make me watch it with him, as my father did.
Sorry that I can't agree with you, I guess I'm just not liberal and unrepressed enough. Been there and done that.
Hmm. I think I just got a blinding flash of insight into why Slashdot geeks are always complaining about not getting laid. They wouldn't know a female if she hit him over the head with her... uh... handbag.
Back to the topic. OK, men get all the high-powered jobs, make more money, get higher scores on IQ tests, but women live longer. Maybe it's because they are smart enough to know better than to drive themselves into an early grave?
" Meanwhile in the early 1980s major hospitals in Finland were the first institutions outside of the United States to adopt and adapt the VistA system to their language and institutional processes, creating a suite of applications called MUSTI and Multilab. Since then, institutions in Germany, Egypt, Nigeria, and other nations abroad have adopted and adapted the system for their use. "
I worked for two years in the medical records department of a large university medical campus environment and I never met a single doctor who liked any of the many different computerized systems used in the various departments across the campus or in the attached clinics and hospitals. Basically they were all unhappy about having to learn how to use the system and fought it tooth and nail, thus never learning it well. The only ones that were at all happy about the computerized systems were the ones who had very good secretaries and nurses who did all their computer work for them. "Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a computer tech!"
Even where I live now, in a different country that has a national health care system, every time I have a doctor's appointment, they're OK with swiping my card across the reader at the beginning, but they all have sour faces and bang on the keyboard with two fingers as they fill out the necessary forms. I've been here 8 years and never yet saw a doctor who was comfortable with the system. And I've seen doctors of all ages from quite a number of different countries, India, Russia, Canada, South Africa, Australia, France, England, Cuba, and they all react in the same way.
There are plugins for just about any language/programming task that you can imagine; there is even a plugin with games. I use the php and html/css/javascript plugins for web development.
Actually, there are a number of "public" buildings, fountains and sculptures in public parks, that are copyrighted and you can get in trouble for trying to take pictures, especially if you use those pictures on a website or something.
This is the same company that sues DVD decryption software authors, sues restaurant owners who's name happens to be Sony, sues people using old Sony cases for iPod mods.
So apparently it's OK to "vigorously defend their IP", while blatantly violating everybody else's. I wonder if the same big bucks and lawyers that force little people to bow to their corporate steamroller had anything to do with voiding Microsoft's patent of the FAT filesystem?
Don't misunderstand me; pulling out that particular stupid patent after all these years was a dirty stunt, and certainly deserved to get shot down, but that doesn't make Sony any cleaner. Two rabid pit bulls aren't any better than one.
Now I finally know what case mod I'm going to do! I'm going to the flea market and finding an old Sony cabinet TV, a really old b/w model with the tiny screen, and making a desk/case mod out of it! Inspired by mindless corporate greed!
Maybe they're not using KDE or Gnome. With older hardware and limited memory, there are plenty of window managers that don't suck up as much resources.
Indeed, once years ago I was even denied an interview because while I had used (in fact I installed and did tech support for all my friends and neighbors) WordPerfect 5.1 and 6.0 for DOS and 6.1 for Windows, I had never used 6.0 for Windows. So it's more an issue of ignorance on the part of the HR department than whether or not a person is qualified for any given position. They make a requirement that they know nothing about and may well lose the best candidates for the job.
Just to show that candidate qualification sometimes is irrelevant:
This was in the height of the "affirmative action" days, at a large university, and the job was finally given to a 60-year old African-American typist who had used a word processor two or three times! I know this for a fact; I was sitting outside the office waiting for another pre-interview interview immediately after my rejection, and overheard her pre-interview interview. The HR person went around and around trying to determine if it were possible that the "word processor" in question may have been a computer with WordPerfect 6.0 for Windows, although it was obvious that this was a word processor machine and not a computer at all. I found out later that the woman was given the job.
So disable USB in the BIOS. Password protect the BIOS. Get computers that have a pin on the motherboard to protect the BIOS. Use thin clients with minimal configurations. Plenty of ways to lock down the user's machines if you're serious about it.
Two online service companies that I have worked for over the years (one gaming network, one shopping comparison service) have had Microsoft come and discuss "licensing" and "bundling".
The gaming company was totally convinced that their software would be bundled with Windows 95 when it shipped. I was fired a week after the corporate meeting where they told us about it, and told us to cooperate fully whenever Mr. Gates, using his father's account (Mr. Gates Sr. was a bridge player), asked us questions or to demonstrate features. I was horrified, quite firmly assured them that they would most certainly NOT be any part of the release, and they were not happy with my reaction.
Much the same happened with the shopping comparison site, except I had learned to keep my mouth shut, and didn't get fired until the third wave of massive layoffs.
As a grandmother, who's been pretty much on my own for learning how to program, and wasn't allowed to have a computer "to waste time and money on" until my husband decided that HE could use one, I can tell you immediately why there are fewer women in FOSS development.
Most FOSS projects start as an after-work (or school), spare-time project. Most women work, and even working women are expected to handle housework, shopping, and child care after work. Where is the spare time left for anything else?
Over 10 years ago, when Microsoft was pushing itself into the server market, and the university hospital where I worked was moving away from their IBM servers to PCs with Microsoft (and managed to lose most of a year's worth of doctor's dictated medical procedure reports within a few months of moving them), I told the IT department that this trend would eventually cause the destruction of a large part of the US IT infrastructure. I still believe that. And, funny thing is, I don't see the huge savings in IT spending that this was supposed to bring about...
Microsoft is a monopoly. It is illegal for such entities to engage in anti-competative activities that would be legal for smaller, non-monopoly entities. Microsoft has been convicted of violation of these laws, but nothing has ever been done to actually make it stop.
Well, would the independent Kashmir be based upon a policy of the total destruction of the nation of India, the elimination of all ethnic Indians from the peninsula and the destruction of all ancient Indian holy sites?
Yeah, they did pass a law. You have to have a notarized statement that you are one of a few authorized persons to have a copy for ID purposes. Anybody can get an informational copy marked "unauthorized". You can fill out a form using a credit card, and then when the form is accepted and you think that it's all finished, you get a page with another form you have to fill out, sign before a notary public, and fax/send back to them within 4 or 5 days.
Yes, but the criminal breaking into your house did not CHOOSE to be filmed, nor did he CHOOSE to have an alarm set off when he breaks in. Whose choice gets precedence?
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I must agree with our anonymous friend in one respect; Windows with IE will most certainly outdo anything else in mangling the web pages I design, requiring me to have a Windows machine just to make sure my hacks and workarounds in CSS for IE/Windows work. And I suppose I'll have to upgrade my Windows to be able to make sure IE 7 also works, since it is also going to be lacking in standards compliance. Except the old P-166 box I've got running Win98 with IE 6 won't even install XP or Vista. So now I'll have to buy a whole new computer...just to check on workarounds for a badly designed web browser. Yep, Microsoft really outdoes everything else. We shall just not say exactly in what.
Ah, but when is rape really rape? These arguments pro-porn are exactly the same arguments my father used for years when frequently justifying his sexual abuse of myself. Didn't make me stop hating it and him then, and now still, forty years later.
This is also exactly the same argument the Man-Boy Love Association uses to justify their seduction/rape of young boys. It wouldn't be a crime if it weren't for all these right-wing Christian wacko fundamentalist prudes that won't let us have any fun!
I would be willing to bet a goodly sum that at least 90% of the women in these porno flicks and pictures have been drugged and raped so much that they just gave up trying to fight it. In the end, I quit trying to resist my father, and ended up being passed around to his friends whenever they were in town. Was I acquiescent? Yes. Was I willing? Hell, no. Would I be happy to see every one of those bastards hung? Hell yes!
My first marriage ended after 24 years of my husband demanding that I do things that turned my stomach, but he got all hot for them when he watched porn. At least he didn't make me watch it with him, as my father did.
Sorry that I can't agree with you, I guess I'm just not liberal and unrepressed enough. Been there and done that.
Hmm. I think I just got a blinding flash of insight into why Slashdot geeks are always complaining about not getting laid. They wouldn't know a female if she hit him over the head with her ... uh ... handbag.
Back to the topic. OK, men get all the high-powered jobs, make more money, get higher scores on IQ tests, but women live longer. Maybe it's because they are smart enough to know better than to drive themselves into an early grave?
" Meanwhile in the early 1980s major hospitals in Finland were the first institutions outside of the United States to adopt and adapt the VistA system to their language and institutional processes, creating a suite of applications called MUSTI and Multilab. Since then, institutions in Germany, Egypt, Nigeria, and other nations abroad have adopted and adapted the system for their use. "
From the WorldVista site on Sourceforge.
Yes.
I worked for two years in the medical records department of a large university medical campus environment and I never met a single doctor who liked any of the many different computerized systems used in the various departments across the campus or in the attached clinics and hospitals. Basically they were all unhappy about having to learn how to use the system and fought it tooth and nail, thus never learning it well. The only ones that were at all happy about the computerized systems were the ones who had very good secretaries and nurses who did all their computer work for them. "Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a computer tech!"
Even where I live now, in a different country that has a national health care system, every time I have a doctor's appointment, they're OK with swiping my card across the reader at the beginning, but they all have sour faces and bang on the keyboard with two fingers as they fill out the necessary forms. I've been here 8 years and never yet saw a doctor who was comfortable with the system. And I've seen doctors of all ages from quite a number of different countries, India, Russia, Canada, South Africa, Australia, France, England, Cuba, and they all react in the same way.
There are plugins for just about any language/programming task that you can imagine; there is even a plugin with games. I use the php and html/css/javascript plugins for web development.
And grab yourself a copy of the Rute User's Guide http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/
Actually, there are a number of "public" buildings, fountains and sculptures in public parks, that are copyrighted and you can get in trouble for trying to take pictures, especially if you use those pictures on a website or something.
This is the same company that sues DVD decryption software authors, sues restaurant owners who's name happens to be Sony, sues people using old Sony cases for iPod mods.
So apparently it's OK to "vigorously defend their IP", while blatantly violating everybody else's. I wonder if the same big bucks and lawyers that force little people to bow to their corporate steamroller had anything to do with voiding Microsoft's patent of the FAT filesystem?
Don't misunderstand me; pulling out that particular stupid patent after all these years was a dirty stunt, and certainly deserved to get shot down, but that doesn't make Sony any cleaner. Two rabid pit bulls aren't any better than one.
No, not surprised at all. Sony has been a real bastard for a long time now.
Sony's Restaurant
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Now I finally know what case mod I'm going to do! I'm going to the flea market and finding an old Sony cabinet TV, a really old b/w model with the tiny screen, and making a desk/case mod out of it! Inspired by mindless corporate greed!
Maybe they're not using KDE or Gnome. With older hardware and limited memory, there are plenty of window managers that don't suck up as much resources.
Indeed, once years ago I was even denied an interview because while I had used (in fact I installed and did tech support for all my friends and neighbors) WordPerfect 5.1 and 6.0 for DOS and 6.1 for Windows, I had never used 6.0 for Windows. So it's more an issue of ignorance on the part of the HR department than whether or not a person is qualified for any given position. They make a requirement that they know nothing about and may well lose the best candidates for the job.
Just to show that candidate qualification sometimes is irrelevant:
This was in the height of the "affirmative action" days, at a large university, and the job was finally given to a 60-year old African-American typist who had used a word processor two or three times! I know this for a fact; I was sitting outside the office waiting for another pre-interview interview immediately after my rejection, and overheard her pre-interview interview. The HR person went around and around trying to determine if it were possible that the "word processor" in question may have been a computer with WordPerfect 6.0 for Windows, although it was obvious that this was a word processor machine and not a computer at all. I found out later that the woman was given the job.
So disable USB in the BIOS. Password protect the BIOS. Get computers that have a pin on the motherboard to protect the BIOS. Use thin clients with minimal configurations. Plenty of ways to lock down the user's machines if you're serious about it.
Patent here
Looks to me like the most harmful part of it is that it's patented, or at least parts of it are.
Two online service companies that I have worked for over the years (one gaming network, one shopping comparison service) have had Microsoft come and discuss "licensing" and "bundling".
The gaming company was totally convinced that their software would be bundled with Windows 95 when it shipped. I was fired a week after the corporate meeting where they told us about it, and told us to cooperate fully whenever Mr. Gates, using his father's account (Mr. Gates Sr. was a bridge player), asked us questions or to demonstrate features. I was horrified, quite firmly assured them that they would most certainly NOT be any part of the release, and they were not happy with my reaction.
Much the same happened with the shopping comparison site, except I had learned to keep my mouth shut, and didn't get fired until the third wave of massive layoffs.
As a grandmother, who's been pretty much on my own for learning how to program, and wasn't allowed to have a computer "to waste time and money on" until my husband decided that HE could use one, I can tell you immediately why there are fewer women in FOSS development.
Most FOSS projects start as an after-work (or school), spare-time project. Most women work, and even working women are expected to handle housework, shopping, and child care after work. Where is the spare time left for anything else?
Over 10 years ago, when Microsoft was pushing itself into the server market, and the university hospital where I worked was moving away from their IBM servers to PCs with Microsoft (and managed to lose most of a year's worth of doctor's dictated medical procedure reports within a few months of moving them), I told the IT department that this trend would eventually cause the destruction of a large part of the US IT infrastructure. I still believe that. And, funny thing is, I don't see the huge savings in IT spending that this was supposed to bring about...
Microsoft is a monopoly. It is illegal for such entities to engage in anti-competative activities that would be legal for smaller, non-monopoly entities. Microsoft has been convicted of violation of these laws, but nothing has ever been done to actually make it stop.
Yet.
Nike would disagree with you, all the way to the Supreme Court...http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/7/9/115 822/8110
Well, would the independent Kashmir be based upon a policy of the total destruction of the nation of India, the elimination of all ethnic Indians from the peninsula and the destruction of all ancient Indian holy sites?
Now, about Palestine...
Yeah, they did pass a law. You have to have a notarized statement that you are one of a few authorized persons to have a copy for ID purposes. Anybody can get an informational copy marked "unauthorized". You can fill out a form using a credit card, and then when the form is accepted and you think that it's all finished, you get a page with another form you have to fill out, sign before a notary public, and fax/send back to them within 4 or 5 days.
Yes, but the criminal breaking into your house did not CHOOSE to be filmed, nor did he CHOOSE to have an alarm set off when he breaks in. Whose choice gets precedence?