43 percent of one's income is peanuts. Try going to Canada or any European country and see how much of their income that they take home. It is possible in France to pay over one hundred percent tax on one's income. Taxes are so high it is illegal to show the price of an item without the taxes already factored in.
The problem here is whether you think that all the money that comes out of your check is spent well. Personally, I like the federal programs and have no problems funding them. You state that your friend was to earn $2,000 more per year he would move up a bracket? Well I say fine. You neglected to mention that he is probably making a six-figure salary and doesn't need to worry about where his next meal is coming from.
The point of the tax code is to be fair to those who cannot afford to lose any or all of their meager incomes. The rich would love to see a flat tax scheme implemented, since it would save them millions each year. The tax system levels the playing field, and uses the wealth of the rich to improve the life of the poor. It all comes down to capitalism versus socialism. I like the current system, damnit, and I am more than happy to pay the tax man when he comes calling.
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
Two years ago I was the Admin of a NT box with Exchange 5.5 on it. It had about 50 mailboxes on it, but all the mail was kept on the server (In one large file, no less). It would routinely take about 30-40 minutes to reboot, depending on what exchange was up to at the current moment.
Unfortunately, we had a power failure overnight and the server went down. Hard. Very Hard. Exchange was NOT happy about having open files all over the place. Exchange would take forever to try and bring up all its messaging services, and usually fail in thr process of initializing the internet gateway. Before we blew the whole mess away, it was taking almost 2 hours to reboot.
Surprisingly, the box was a PPro 200 with 224MB memory (128+64+32)
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
Just because NT has an admin account doesn't neccesarily make it more secure. I seem to recall a certain 'screen saver' exploit that allowed any user to get admin access on any NT machine that they had physical access to. Yes, I know that any machine that a user has physical access to is not secure, but have you tried to use a NT machine remotely?
Another problem with NT boxes is that Windows applications like to write to the damndest locations. God forbid you want to restrict access to/winnt dirctory - many applications simply won't save your preferences, or simply not run correctly!
Securing the NT computer lab at my school was a nightmare. According to the head Sysadmin, we switched from a NT app server to a Red Hat Linux box because "we stopped the unstoppable Windows NT".
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
My high school didn't start issuing ID cards until I was in 9th grade (1994). They had your name, picture, school name, and your student number (NOT your SSN). No bar code was present. They were used for admittance to dances, library materials, and other things. We never had to wear them, only carry them on our person at all times. I only recall showing the card at dances or late night activities.
My college, on the other hand, has your SSN on your student ID in Code 39 form. The cafeteria and library computers are capable of scanning this number. My ID has my SSN on it unfortunately. However, due to student pressure, the administration agreed to change the student ID from your SSN to a different number. This year's freshmen class has a different number than the rest of us. Granted, it's still on their ID card, but it is meaningless outside the context of the university.
Regarding the forced wearing of the badges at all times, my college technically requires all students and faculty to do this, but no one complies at my campus. Farmingdale, NY isn't exactly the crime capital of the US. However, the Brooklyn, NY campus enforces the above rule, due to security concerns.
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---Snip--- WinCE makes me sick, not because it's Microsoft, not because it's Windows, and not because it isn't PalmOS. It's because it's a bloated, buggy, non-fault-tolerant OS that has no place in the embedded OS market. If it did it's job without as many crashes, I could reccomend it, but as it is right now I really can't. ---Snip---
WinCE (pronounced wince at my job:) is a terrible OS. It requires much more horsepower than it should to get the job done. It's very buggy and prone to crashes. The Symbol Palm Terminals never crash in daily usage - you have to TRY to crash them (try deleting a hack while its active and tell me what happens). The WinCE scanner terminals are very buggy - i've seen them crash four times in a half hour!
The 'best feature' of WinCE was that development time was supposed to be reduced because it uses the Win32 API. Unfortunately, every manufacturer uses different hardware, and programs for one WinCE device are not guaranteed to run on different model, let alone manufacturer. You get all of the overhead of windows, and none of the benefits.
The main attraction of Palm OS is that the hardware has not changed much over the past few years. Palm OS 3.02 has some extra features, but I can easily run programs written for Palm OS 1.0 or 2.0 on my SPT1500. Granted, 3Com is stalling with upgrading the Palm's hardware, but it's not really neccesary to do so.
For the record, I do think that the Palms are overpriced.
For all you Palm lovers out there, Symbol Technologies has three variants on the Palm series.
The SPT1500 is a OEM Palm III with an integrated barcode laser scanner. It is used for warehouse management, shipping, and receiving applications. It looks like a standard Palm III with an added inch at the top for the scan engine. The expansion port holds the scanner card.
The SPT1 700 and SPT1740 are brand new ruggedized Palms that are designed to be used in an industrial environment. They are rated to survive a 4-foot drop onto solid concrete.
And yes, you can use standard function calls to enable and use the scanner. Someone wrote code that stops the scan mirror from oscillating and turns the SPT1500 into a ad-hoc laser pointer. ---------------------------------------- -----------------
Actually - the HP V class servers aren't really boxes - they're more like refrigerators:) We have one at my job that's about eight feet tall and four feet on a side. The breeze from its fans is enough to make walking difficult.
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
It's not a MINI-computer - that name's been taken already. Since it's an order of magnitude smaller than our desktop microcomputers, I vote for calling it a NANO-computer.
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
USSB and Direct TV just merged - as of now, members get one bill and a wider channel spread. DirectTV is far superior to Cablevision (I'm from Long Island, NY) and is much cheaper. I don't have the data connection, but the TV signal is clean and clear.
The interactive TV guide is also a neat plus.
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
High school for me sucked. I was unfortunate enough to go to a school that combined grades 7-12 in one building. I was always ridiculed for being 'different' and wanting to learn everything that I could.
I consider myself fortunate that I was in the "honors" track, and never had to interact with the rest of the school, except for gym class. I disliked some of the people in these classes, but I positively despised the rest of the school. The one class that was integrated across the grade was Government and Economics (a NY required course)
At this point I finally realized the power and magnitude of human stupidity. The sheer idiocy of my "peers" shocked me on a daily basis. And to compound the problem, the teacher was even less intelligent than the students! The most frightening thing is that these people will someday be our future leaders...
Why does our high school system have to exist like this? I came to college and finally realized that there are actually people in the world that actually want to learn things! I have made more friends here in my four semesters than I have made in my entire life. I LOVE my college. I am finally satisfying my voracious appitite for knowlege, and I am no longer ridiculed for being that way.
I'm just glad that my parents made me realize that being different is okay, and that people don't necessarily have to like you for you to be successful.
-AGJ
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to my Discrete Math class;)
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
I've ripped all my CD's, and I really enjoy being able to listen to any song I want with a few clicks of my mouse.
Unfortunately though, some of my college friends got a little too involved in trading of copyrighted music, and the RIAA took notice. The RIAA actually asked the school administration to turn over names and addresses of all the students that were running ftp servers with MP3's available. Fortunately, (and surprisingly) the school simply told the RIAA to go to hell! The offending MP3's were pulled voluntarily by the students, but not a single one was thrown to the wolves!
It's nice to see a school actually stand up for its students now and again...
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
Would it be a good idea to split the different architectures that the Linux kernel supports into different packages? It would certainly reduce the size of the download for most people...
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
The name of the game with the "Tiny Trucks" was Off Road, or later, Super Off Road. I think Ivan Ironman Stewart or someone had his name plastered all over it...
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
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43 percent of one's income is peanuts. Try going to Canada or any European country and see how much of their income that they take home. It is possible in France to pay over one hundred percent tax on one's income. Taxes are so high it is illegal to show the price of an item without the taxes already factored in.
The problem here is whether you think that all the money that comes out of your check is spent well. Personally, I like the federal programs and have no problems funding them. You state that your friend was to earn $2,000 more per year he would move up a bracket? Well I say fine. You neglected to mention that he is probably making a six-figure salary and doesn't need to worry about where his next meal is coming from.
The point of the tax code is to be fair to those who cannot afford to lose any or all of their meager incomes. The rich would love to see a flat tax scheme implemented, since it would save them millions each year. The tax system levels the playing field, and uses the wealth of the rich to improve the life of the poor. It all comes down to capitalism versus socialism. I like the current system, damnit, and I am more than happy to pay the tax man when he comes calling.
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
Two years ago I was the Admin of a NT box with Exchange 5.5 on it. It had about 50 mailboxes on it, but all the mail was kept on the server (In one large file, no less). It would routinely take about 30-40 minutes to reboot, depending on what exchange was up to at the current moment.
Unfortunately, we had a power failure overnight and the server went down. Hard. Very Hard. Exchange was NOT happy about having open files all over the place. Exchange would take forever to try and bring up all its messaging services, and usually fail in thr process of initializing the internet gateway. Before we blew the whole mess away, it was taking almost 2 hours to reboot.
Surprisingly, the box was a PPro 200 with 224MB memory (128+64+32)
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
Just because NT has an admin account doesn't neccesarily make it more secure. I seem to recall a certain 'screen saver' exploit that allowed any user to get admin access on any NT machine that they had physical access to. Yes, I know that any machine that a user has physical access to is not secure, but have you tried to use a NT machine remotely?
/winnt dirctory - many applications simply won't save your preferences, or simply not run correctly!
Another problem with NT boxes is that Windows applications like to write to the damndest locations. God forbid you want to restrict access to
Securing the NT computer lab at my school was a nightmare. According to the head Sysadmin, we switched from a NT app server to a Red Hat Linux box because "we stopped the unstoppable Windows NT".
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
Actually, Google has had this section open for a while. They just never p1mp3d it before.
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
My high school didn't start issuing ID cards until I was in 9th grade (1994). They had your name, picture, school name, and your student number (NOT your SSN). No bar code was present. They were used for admittance to dances, library materials, and other things. We never had to wear them, only carry them on our person at all times. I only recall showing the card at dances or late night activities.
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My college, on the other hand, has your SSN on your student ID in Code 39 form. The cafeteria and library computers are capable of scanning this number. My ID has my SSN on it unfortunately. However, due to student pressure, the administration agreed to change the student ID from your SSN to a different number. This year's freshmen class has a different number than the rest of us. Granted, it's still on their ID card, but it is meaningless outside the context of the university.
Regarding the forced wearing of the badges at all times, my college technically requires all students and faculty to do this, but no one complies at my campus. Farmingdale, NY isn't exactly the crime capital of the US. However, the Brooklyn, NY campus enforces the above rule, due to security concerns.
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"I may disagree with what you have to say,
---Snip---
:) is a terrible OS. It requires much more horsepower than it should to get the job done. It's very buggy and prone to crashes. The Symbol Palm Terminals never crash in daily usage - you have to TRY to crash them (try deleting a hack while its active and tell me what happens). The WinCE scanner terminals are very buggy - i've seen them crash four times in a half hour!
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WinCE makes me sick, not because it's Microsoft, not because it's Windows, and not because it isn't PalmOS. It's because it's a bloated, buggy, non-fault-tolerant OS that has no place in the embedded OS market. If it did it's job without as many crashes, I could reccomend it, but as it is right now I really can't.
---Snip---
WinCE (pronounced wince at my job
The 'best feature' of WinCE was that development time was supposed to be reduced because it uses the Win32 API. Unfortunately, every manufacturer uses different hardware, and programs for one WinCE device are not guaranteed to run on different model, let alone manufacturer. You get all of the overhead of windows, and none of the benefits.
The main attraction of Palm OS is that the hardware has not changed much over the past few years. Palm OS 3.02 has some extra features, but I can easily run programs written for Palm OS 1.0 or 2.0 on my SPT1500. Granted, 3Com is stalling with upgrading the Palm's hardware, but it's not really neccesary to do so.
For the record, I do think that the Palms are overpriced.
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"We are but packets in the internet of life."
For all you Palm lovers out there, Symbol Technologies has three variants on the Palm series.
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The SPT1500 is a OEM Palm III with an integrated barcode laser scanner. It is used for warehouse management, shipping, and receiving applications. It looks like a standard Palm III with an added inch at the top for the scan engine. The expansion port holds the scanner card.
The SPT1 700 and SPT1740 are brand new ruggedized Palms that are designed to be used in an industrial environment. They are rated to survive a 4-foot drop onto solid concrete.
And yes, you can use standard function calls to enable and use the scanner. Someone wrote code that stops the scan mirror from oscillating and turns the SPT1500 into a ad-hoc laser pointer.
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"We are but packets in the internet of life."
I just went into my g/f's account with no problem - it looks like the hole is still open!- --------------
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"We are but packets in the internet of life."
Dontcha just feel sorry for the poor AC who valiantly tried to get a first post...and didn't :)
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
So will the menu consist of Tacos and Beer?
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
Actually - the HP V class servers aren't really boxes - they're more like refrigerators :)
We have one at my job that's about eight feet tall and four feet on a side. The breeze from its fans is enough to make walking difficult.
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
It's not a MINI-computer - that name's been taken already. Since it's an order of magnitude smaller than our desktop microcomputers, I vote for calling it a NANO-computer.
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
Smoking's bad, umkay!
- JB
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
USSB and Direct TV just merged - as of now, members get one bill and a wider channel spread. DirectTV is far superior to Cablevision (I'm from Long Island, NY) and is much cheaper. I don't have the data connection, but the TV signal is clean and clear.
The interactive TV guide is also a neat plus.
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
It was Caldera OpenLinux - and they Boot got quite a few letters asking them what they were supposed to do after they got a command prompt :)
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
High school for me sucked. I was unfortunate enough to go to a school that combined grades 7-12 in one building. I was always ridiculed for being 'different' and wanting to learn everything that I could.
;)
I consider myself fortunate that I was in the "honors" track, and never had to interact with the rest of the school, except for gym class. I disliked some of the people in these classes, but I positively despised the rest of the school. The one class that was integrated across the grade was Government and Economics (a NY required course)
At this point I finally realized the power and magnitude of human stupidity. The sheer idiocy of my "peers" shocked me on a daily basis. And to compound the problem, the teacher was even less intelligent than the students! The most frightening thing is that these people will someday be our future leaders...
Why does our high school system have to exist like this? I came to college and finally realized that there are actually people in the world that actually want to learn things! I have made more friends here in my four semesters than I have made in my entire life. I LOVE my college. I am finally satisfying my voracious appitite for knowlege, and I am no longer ridiculed for being that way.
I'm just glad that my parents made me realize that being different is okay, and that people don't necessarily have to like you for you to be successful.
-AGJ
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to my Discrete Math class
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
Just finding out what my default score is...
I'll refrain from commenting until the dust settles.
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
One word: PLAYLISTS ;)
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
I've ripped all my CD's, and I really enjoy being able to listen to any song I want with a few clicks of my mouse.
Unfortunately though, some of my college friends got a little too involved in trading of copyrighted music, and the RIAA took notice. The RIAA actually asked the school administration to turn over names and addresses of all the students that were running ftp servers with MP3's available. Fortunately, (and surprisingly) the school simply told the RIAA to go to hell! The offending MP3's were pulled voluntarily by the students, but not a single one was thrown to the wolves!
It's nice to see a school actually stand up for its students now and again...
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
Would it be a good idea to split the different architectures that the Linux kernel supports into different packages? It would certainly reduce the size of the download for most people...
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
What does the command syntax of Linux and Unices have to deal with stability? (can you say flame bait?)
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
Is there a good reason why it should be less stable under different operating systems as long as it's properly configured?
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
The name of the game with the "Tiny Trucks" was Off Road, or later, Super Off Road. I think Ivan Ironman Stewart or someone had his name plastered all over it...
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.