I spend 90% of my time running VNC (or Exceed) to connect to remote machines. I spent the other 10% of my time deleting spam from outlook and replying to urgent messages. I also spent that other 10% of the time surfing and running Excel and powerPoint. Also, my project management stuff is all done through IE and MSProject (ugh!).
How hard would it be to plug a Mac Powerbook into my companies network and connect to:
a) my Exchange Server (for mail), b) my NTFS drives (for profile stuff) c) my SAMBA drives (for unix access) d) an X client (so I can connect to my multiple compute servers cross-site)
If I could do all of those, I could switch to a Mac and no one would ever notice. Is it possible?
Honestly, is it really that easy to get OS-X up and running?
sorry, but that quote just smacks of icky marketing ectoplasm targeted at wannabes with lots of disposable income.
and what up with the other guy: "...after two and a half years of linux, i've finally found joy in a unix operating system..." give me a break, this ad is so targeted at weenies.
need more proof? last quote "...we're old hardcore UNIX hackers..."
Why would vast reserves of H alleviate our dependencies on other nations? I'm sure someone will claim the H, just as the arab nations own all of the oil they sit on. Of course, if it all lies under the US of A, then we have nothing to worry about, but if it is all under Iraq, we'll, we're still boned.
Greed will eventually settle in. I'm sure lots of legislation would be passed by our corporate controlled government to make sure that the WTO and Free-Trade agreements put us in full control.
The answer is a pretty complicated one and to explain that would require some basic knowledge that you just can't squeeze into a 30 second commercial.
You have essentially identified the root of many, many problems, for example, in my world, I personally consider these issues to be very important:
1) Why don't people listen to Ralph Nader? 2) Why do people listen to Britney Spears? 3) Why do people eat Vitamin C and Echinacea in massive quantities? 4) Why do some people believe Creationism belongs in public schools? 5) Why is Prozac(tm) legal and marijuana illegal?
The discussion required to analyze these issues last longer than 30 seconds, so instead:
1) 97% of the voting bloc votes republicrat 2) Britney spears has sold millions of albums 3) Herbal remedies run rampant w/nearly zero clinical support 4) Evolution is market for extermination by some board's of education 5)...i'll quit while i'm ahead...
Anything that takes longer than 30 seconds to understand is far beyond the Oprah-fried brains of the masses.
What makes us think the masses would care about facts?
I dread having to go home and listen to Matt Lauer, Stone Philips, Sam Donaldson, Peter Jennings and the rest run a story about this. I dread all of the dumb comments I'm going to hear tonight. Becaues you know EVERY station will pick this up and burn 5 minutes.
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Agreed. Plus, how many more chemicals are we going to deposit into landfills so that they can run off into drinking water?
i mean, sometimes it's easy: prepubescent is obviously kiddie porn. but what about 14 year olds that look 25? who decides? how do you tell if it's an 18 year old, or are they going after the really twisted child stuff only?
as for the comment about "someone has to look at all the porn to find it", well, maybe they can just hire the convicted felons to scan the archives and whatever turns them on is removed. partially sarcasm, partially serious.
But how much directional emphasis was put on the cube and Qui Gon's role? Way too little! That's where I think Lucas squandered the pivotal element of his entire six-work saga. don't you think Lucas should have developed Qui Gon a little more than just depicting a long-haired, somewhat rougish, police-cop? i mean, the entire empire is a result of his actions, to make him such a flat character seems to me like an actual lack of director foresight.
imo: lucas is a better special effects directory than story teller. you made a really interesting observation so you might enjoy this: watch bergman's "seventh seal" and see if you agree how little time Lucas spent developing the characters. this exercise makes me see StarWars more like a soap opera than cinema.
Based on this one comment I could claim Mann is a pretty lousy hardware designer.
What he did was the equivalent of soldering the keyboard to the motherboard. Couldn't he have at least forseen having to one-day disconnect and had instead used a micro molex connector or something?
...right here! never met the guy, but he personally responded to a letter i wrote him in 1984-ish.
i asked if they would release a set of leatherbound rulebooks on heavy vellum paper -- more tome-like than the current AD&D ruleset binding. he sent me a note saying it was a great idea and that i should fill out the submission forms provided (a dozen papers were included for TSR submissions by freelance writers). i enlisted 5 friends in my fifth-grade class to write a second monster manual (these were pre-FeindFolio & MM2 days, mind you). of course we never got anywhere, hell, we were kids.
even though the letter was a token form-reply, it _did_ have his signature in pen on it. sigh. i still have it somewhere with my old modules, boxed away.
Apparently you've never heard of something called a WATER-TABLE. It's how water gets from the sky into reservoirs after it rains. If developers bulldoze too much land it reduces the amount of water delivered to reservoirs, ergo less water delivered by NATURAL means to the storage areas we depend on.
A high-rise is far more friendly to the water table than a bazillion acres of track homes.
Once again, throwing laws at symptoms only makes people pissy, belligerent, and ready to find ways to circumvent the laws
wait second here: i said we should have laws about sprawl, and you said we should have laws telling home buyers to screw. so we're both suggesting laws, yes?
although, the problems that drive people out of cities are huge other discussion.
I agree completely, we do take it for granted. In northern california, sprawl is using up the water supply, but no one seems to be putting the brakes on. of course, in Cali, we were already had to deal with rolling blackouts, but at least we had water.
...same goes for New Jersey as you said. they have no water table left due to massive over-development.
that's why we need legislators willing to stand up to mega-suburb developers who don't care in the slightest about resource OR public transportion concerns. just build build build... a beige landscape.
I completely agree with that statement. If the gadget companies (Sony, Mitsubishi, Zenith, et al) start to accept obfuscation and complexity as part of a device's design (e.g. the PC), we're all boned in a big way. Trust me. Teenagers who have the brain capacity to devour all the latest technology won't have the energy for it in 15-20 years, and you'll all wonder why everything is so fucking complicated and can't just have one big red button labelled ON/OFF.
I'm a microarchitect and my JVC DVD player pisses me off to no end. Whoever said that the DVD was the most "rapid penetration of technology" was obviously referring to my ass.
why in the great ghost's name was this moderated as INFORMATIVE? oy! one minute i'm modded a 'troll' for something i thought was observant and humorous, and the next minute i'm modded 'informative' for something with zero content. moderation has some weird side effects.
Troll? Bah, more like a zealous moderator. Like it or not, I stand by my statement: the irony is funny. If you can't see that, pull your head out of your kernel and get a life.
So lets say I'm endomologist and I happen upon what I believe to be a new species of roach. How exactly does someone pin this as a brand-spankin-new species? I mean, is it possible that there are mistakes, meaning, someone accidentally claimed a new latin name for their discovery when one already existed?
how would this database be indexed if someone did find what they think is a new species? would they enter keywords, which are highly subjective?
someone mentioned a DNA snapshot, a gel image. that would be easier to index b/c it represents in GUID (global unique id...;-)....but the resolution of the gel sample wouldn't be high enough for the large number of species.
perhaps in the process of compiling this database, the authors will inadvertently upset the taxonomy applecart.
either way, this should be fairly exciting, but i don't want to look forward to being 55 years old and finally have the database on line! (it's hard enough waiting for warcraftIII)
Interesting. Has anyone ever used this? I would be surprised if it worked on Win2000. Every file dialog on Win2k has browsing capabilities. Unless they use one clean API to talk to IE, I would have to actually see this work to believe it. Any takers?
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Good point (er, list).
I must admit my interested is piqued.
Here's a question:
I spend 90% of my time running VNC (or Exceed) to connect to remote machines. I spent the other 10% of my time deleting spam from outlook and replying to urgent messages. I also spent that other 10% of the time surfing and running Excel and powerPoint. Also, my project management stuff is all done through IE and MSProject (ugh!).
How hard would it be to plug a Mac Powerbook into my companies network and connect to:
a) my Exchange Server (for mail),
b) my NTFS drives (for profile stuff)
c) my SAMBA drives (for unix access)
d) an X client (so I can connect to my multiple compute servers cross-site)
If I could do all of those, I could switch to a Mac and no one would ever notice. Is it possible?
Honestly, is it really that easy to get OS-X up and running?
Thx in advance.
ahhh--igg-it - blah! - damn, blah! - blah-igg-itt - damn!
(if you've never seen greg the bunny that probably makes no sense.)
Ok, you're probably not a weenie, but what was more "joyful":
1. the first time you used any Unix?
2. the first time you switched to Linux?
3. the first time you used OS X?
As a 7-year Linux user, what are the top 5 things you find superior in OS-X? And don't say GUI.
sorry, but that quote just smacks of icky marketing ectoplasm targeted at wannabes with lots of disposable income.
and what up with the other guy: "...after two and a half years of linux, i've finally found joy in a unix operating system..." give me a break, this ad is so targeted at weenies.
need more proof? last quote "...we're old hardcore UNIX hackers..."
Why would vast reserves of H alleviate our dependencies on other nations? I'm sure someone will claim the H, just as the arab nations own all of the oil they sit on. Of course, if it all lies under the US of A, then we have nothing to worry about, but if it is all under Iraq, we'll, we're still boned.
Greed will eventually settle in. I'm sure lots of legislation would be passed by our corporate controlled government to make sure that the WTO and Free-Trade agreements put us in full control.
The answer is a pretty complicated one and to explain that would require some basic knowledge that you just can't squeeze into a 30 second commercial.
...i'll quit while i'm ahead...
You have essentially identified the root of many, many problems, for example, in my world, I personally consider these issues to be very important:
1) Why don't people listen to Ralph Nader?
2) Why do people listen to Britney Spears?
3) Why do people eat Vitamin C and Echinacea in massive quantities?
4) Why do some people believe Creationism belongs in public schools?
5) Why is Prozac(tm) legal and marijuana illegal?
The discussion required to analyze these issues last longer than 30 seconds, so instead:
1) 97% of the voting bloc votes republicrat
2) Britney spears has sold millions of albums
3) Herbal remedies run rampant w/nearly zero clinical support
4) Evolution is market for extermination by some board's of education
5)
Anything that takes longer than 30 seconds to understand is far beyond the Oprah-fried brains of the masses.
What makes us think the masses would care about facts?
I dread having to go home and listen to Matt Lauer, Stone Philips, Sam Donaldson, Peter Jennings and the rest run a story about this. I dread all of the dumb comments I'm going to hear tonight. Becaues you know EVERY station will pick this up and burn 5 minutes .
Agreed. Plus, how many more chemicals are we going to deposit into landfills so that they can run off into drinking water?
i mean, sometimes it's easy: prepubescent is obviously kiddie porn. but what about 14 year olds that look 25? who decides? how do you tell if it's an 18 year old, or are they going after the really twisted child stuff only?
as for the comment about "someone has to look at all the porn to find it", well, maybe they can just hire the convicted felons to scan the archives and whatever turns them on is removed. partially sarcasm, partially serious.
But how much directional emphasis was put on the cube and Qui Gon's role? Way too little! That's where I think Lucas squandered the pivotal element of his entire six-work saga. don't you think Lucas should have developed Qui Gon a little more than just depicting a long-haired, somewhat rougish, police-cop? i mean, the entire empire is a result of his actions, to make him such a flat character seems to me like an actual lack of director foresight.
imo: lucas is a better special effects directory than story teller. you made a really interesting observation so you might enjoy this: watch bergman's "seventh seal" and see if you agree how little time Lucas spent developing the characters. this exercise makes me see StarWars more like a soap opera than cinema.
and pulled off is electrodes was wrong,
Based on this one comment I could claim Mann is a pretty lousy hardware designer.
What he did was the equivalent of soldering the keyboard to the motherboard. Couldn't he have at least forseen having to one-day disconnect and had instead used a micro molex connector or something?
Duh.
...right here! never met the guy, but he personally responded to a letter i wrote him in 1984-ish.
i asked if they would release a set of leatherbound rulebooks on heavy vellum paper -- more tome-like than the current AD&D ruleset binding. he sent me a note saying it was a great idea and that i should fill out the submission forms provided (a dozen papers were included for TSR submissions by freelance writers). i enlisted 5 friends in my fifth-grade class to write a second monster manual (these were pre-FeindFolio & MM2 days, mind you). of course we never got anywhere, hell, we were kids.
even though the letter was a token form-reply, it _did_ have his signature in pen on it. sigh. i still have it somewhere with my old modules, boxed away.
Oh please -- people use water, not sprawl!
Oh please, let me enlighten you.
Apparently you've never heard of something called a WATER-TABLE. It's how water gets from the sky into reservoirs after it rains. If developers bulldoze too much land it reduces the amount of water delivered to reservoirs, ergo less water delivered by NATURAL means to the storage areas we depend on.
A high-rise is far more friendly to the water table than a bazillion acres of track homes.
Once again, throwing laws at symptoms only makes people pissy, belligerent, and ready to find ways to circumvent the laws
wait second here: i said we should have laws about sprawl, and you said we should have laws telling home buyers to screw. so we're both suggesting laws, yes?
although, the problems that drive people out of cities are huge other discussion.
I agree completely, we do take it for granted. In northern california, sprawl is using up the water supply, but no one seems to be putting the brakes on. of course, in Cali, we were already had to deal with rolling blackouts, but at least we had water.
... a beige landscape.
...same goes for New Jersey as you said. they have no water table left due to massive over-development.
that's why we need legislators willing to stand up to mega-suburb developers who don't care in the slightest about resource OR public transportion concerns. just build build build
we may screw that up with all the HDTV crap.
I completely agree with that statement. If the gadget companies (Sony, Mitsubishi, Zenith, et al) start to accept obfuscation and complexity as part of a device's design (e.g. the PC), we're all boned in a big way. Trust me. Teenagers who have the brain capacity to devour all the latest technology won't have the energy for it in 15-20 years, and you'll all wonder why everything is so fucking complicated and can't just have one big red button labelled ON/OFF.
I'm a microarchitect and my JVC DVD player pisses me off to no end. Whoever said that the DVD was the most "rapid penetration of technology" was obviously referring to my ass.
why in the great ghost's name was this moderated as INFORMATIVE? oy! one minute i'm modded a 'troll' for something i thought was observant and humorous, and the next minute i'm modded 'informative' for something with zero content. moderation has some weird side effects.
Troll? Bah, more like a zealous moderator. Like it or not, I stand by my statement: the irony is funny. If you can't see that, pull your head out of your kernel and get a life.
Didn't the previous Slashdot story claim how "Everyone seems to know ... Linux is safer than Windows"???
LOL at how biased some articles are!
could somebody point out where in the source this is? the article was fluff.
Who here has been locked in jail or harassed or abused by AOL or the authorities because of what they typed into their netscape 6 search bar?
...YET
haven't we learned that corporations CANNOT be trusted???
you can turn this off under
internet options --> advanced --> search from address bar...
my company was worried about this because dubious codenames and internal terms were being sent to microsoft!
Talk about a rift in the Democratic party:
The author of the SSSCA is a democrat, and so is Boucher.
So lets say I'm endomologist and I happen upon what I believe to be a new species of roach. How exactly does someone pin this as a brand-spankin-new species? I mean, is it possible that there are mistakes, meaning, someone accidentally claimed a new latin name for their discovery when one already existed?
;-). ...but the resolution of the gel sample wouldn't be high enough for the large number of species.
how would this database be indexed if someone did find what they think is a new species? would they enter keywords, which are highly subjective?
someone mentioned a DNA snapshot, a gel image. that would be easier to index b/c it represents in GUID (global unique id...
perhaps in the process of compiling this database, the authors will inadvertently upset the taxonomy applecart.
either way, this should be fairly exciting, but i don't want to look forward to being 55 years old and finally have the database on line! (it's hard enough waiting for warcraftIII)
Interesting. Has anyone ever used this? I would be surprised if it worked on Win2000. Every file dialog on Win2k has browsing capabilities. Unless they use one clean API to talk to IE, I would have to actually see this work to believe it. Any takers?