Obviously you don't live in Texas. I really don't see how you could say that if you live anywhere near here. Lots of our public school classes are taught for english as a second language, so many that I know english-speaking kids that have trouble finding classes that don't teach them bored because they focus more on the language skills than the subject. College students have personal interpreters in primarily english classes whose translating seriously disturbs their ability to learn.
Now, I'm certainly not saying that having a multilingual nation is a bad thing, I take pride in the fact that I've learned to speak spanish fairly well without significant formal teaching, and I'm picking up russian the same way, but everything has its place.
Perhaps you aren't aware of the city (sorry, can't remember the name) which has an ordinance requiring city business be done in spanish only, or the fact that in many rednecks eyes we spend too much on interpreters in public colleges or ESL classes. But you should take care to learn a little more before you make such broad claims.
Perhaps a better analogy . . . assume for a moment that kittie pr0n0graphy is legal, but still morally reprehensible.
An apartment complex makes it publicly known that they will hamper all efforts by law enforcement agencies (police, feds, etc) therefore making it easy for you to house your kiddie-porn empire on the premises. Lots of people decide that they will not associate with anyone who lives in the apartments, neither going to visit them, nor allowing them to come visit. Some grocery stores and gas stations even refuse to do business with these people, because they live at that address. The whole idea is to make people not want to live there, and move. When there are only a few kitty-pr0nographers there, the apartments won't be making enough money, and will go out of business. Or, when they're all doing kitty-pr0n, perhaps you could justify a good down-home lynching, or firebombing, or maybe the feds will just storm the place en-masse. The end result is the same, no more kitty-pr0n.
Now, perhaps it's not "fair" to the innocent families living next door to the people taking nekkid kitty pics to have to deal with not having any friends or transportation, or food. I agree, it would feel bad. But you have to realize that, as a society, you can't just let a system alone and hope it improves itself. Look at the second law of thermodynamics for yourself. It works on a macroscopic scale too. What I'm saying is that "we" are required to expend a certain extra amount of effort to keep our system from reverting to a disorganized, chaotic state.
Nobody's breaking into anyone's apartment, tearing down doors, or going inside
I'd tend to have a lot less sympathy in that case.
Oh fond memories of god codes - live virtually forever! (actually, when I first started playing Contra, that would increase my average game time from 20 sec to almost three minutes)
You know what I really want to see? I wanna see them redo most/all of the area codes, a complete restructuring, based on projected needs 10-15 years from now. Where I live, Houston, we've had 10-digit dialing for almost five years. It's at most a minor inconvenience, but it shouldn't have had to be done (then again, a 25 or so year longevitiy on the last plain ain't bad).
What I REALLY want to see, though, is area codes based on services. They charge different rates for residential and business service Could it be that hard to differentiate on the area code, using a simple overlay? It would also help them make sure no businesses are gypping them out on a residential rate (would you want to call a business that was run from a residential phone number? - of course forwarders from the bus area code could be sold at cheap rates, ringing on the same line). Oh, that leads me to telemarketers - make it illegal to call a residential/mobile area code number for marketing purposes. What kind of excuse can they give? (phone spam burns me)
Have another one for mobile devices. Okay, each metro area has three area codes. Seems like it would be enough. It's what we have in Houston, and right now it's just a mishmash - business, residential and mobile sharing 713 and 281, mobiles only on 832. Restructuring would probably help things a lot in long-term effeciency.
You're right, local authentication is pluggable, but I'm talking about network authentication. I don't care who logs onto the machine, as long as they've been authenticated by my authority on the network. It's THAT mechanism I worry about changing if needed.
It doesn't matter if the company sees a dime from your VOIP. The justifying reason for charging more for LD is that they have to rent bandwidth on nonlocal comm pipes from other companies, they have to pay, so you have to pay. If you use VOIP, then the telco doesn't have to pay these rates for nonlocal circuits, so you shouldn't have to either.
I'm an admin in an NT network, and have a little to add. Granted you have some great points. NT does, however have local volume management with the ability to span disks. The newer versions have the ability to do this on the fly. WindowsME has a "feature" to allow the snapshots, but personally I think this is crap.
Correct on windows 2000 authentication not being pluggable. I don't like this. Some services to allow standards-compliant plaintext authentication (ftp, www, telnet), though it's only the most basic, and I don't trust plaintext for anything but anonymous access.
I know you can run some versions/flavors of windows without the GUI, notably 9x. I don't think this can be done in NT because of the way the GDI is integrated into the kernel. It wasn't always like this, but around version 3.5 they decided that having an external graphics driver was too much of a performance hit. Now it's pluggable, directly into the kernel (why changing some graphics settings requires a reboot even in NT5). As a result, a vast majority of instability comes from poorly-written third-party video drivers. The decision was controversial, but I think MS chose the better route.
Windows thin client support is shoddy, plain and simple. It's better now in NT5 (that's windows 2000 for the sheeple in the crowd, Windows NT version 5), but it needs work. I think X is one of the best abilities of Linux. Then again, I understand that it's one of the biggest problems . . . kernelized GDI anyone?
Netware was old, slow, and just plain crappy. It was great for its time, but that time is over. Console-based ADSI admin utils are much better in NT5.
I think overall, it's a tossup, either-or for small installations, depending on details. For medium, I think Windows is generally better, unless you have special needs. Larger installs should probably have a hybrid design. Nobody ever said you had to choose one or the other. Anyway, that's my opinion. Your mileage may vary.
I'm interested, but I'm from Houston. What I'd really like to see is a page where these can be registered, on a more global scale (consumed.net might be global, I can't tell). Any way, it would be nice.
So basically Iridium LLC spawned Iridium Satellite LLC and bought their assets from themselves in a different name? Hmmm. The article is sparse on details about where the money came from. http://www.iridium.com/ isn't working for me. Slashdotted? Or was that even the right URI? Any way, I want some more details.
I'd have to disagree on that right to do anything to your body. (standard IANAL) As I understand, prostitution is made illegal by virtue of being a controlled transaction, involving money. Drugs are illegal by being a controlled substance (eg, can't have, buy, or sell them). If I remember the technicalities of one case here (no news article, probably due to America's drug taboo), three or four individuals were sentenced for posession of drugs and drug paraphenalia (some weed on one, and a plasic baggie on another). The third was obviously quite high, but no charges were filed.
Yeah, that's a very long-winded of saying it, oh well. And I'm really too lazy to look up the case, but if anyone cares, email me and I'll get off my butt to see if I can get info. Edit the email by hand.
That would be the point of the other post. If they can ram something like the DMCA up your ass sideways in the middle of the night without you knowing, would it be that much of a stretch for them to bend it to apply to anything they want?
Why do you sound so shocked about the DMCA being used like this? Isn't this why we Americans invented it?
Perhaps next time we can keep a closer watch on our "representatives."
e'mail would not work as a contraction. Contractions follow the style of using the complete first word and than adding an apostrophe and a contracted form of the last word. Therefore electronic'l would be a more correct contracted form.
What about o'clock? ("The time is six o'clock"). I believe that stands for "Of the clock".
Anyone here using Win2k wonder why they changed the installation wizards to an IE/web based look? It's a lot easier for a Kaplan-esque judge to understand "But he clicked an Accept button on a web page, your honor" . . .
I used to work down the row from some of the BA tech support. I can tell you first hand that they are totally clueless. To get hired, you just have to be able to speak english. I'm not kidding. There's no real screening, testing, or verification that you know anything.
I've had SBC in the Houston area a couple of times. The experience was horrible. The most recent time, I was without even a phone for six months. Of course I was still getting BILLED for everything (about $100 a month in total), but no service. Their solution was to transfer me between departments. With hold times starting at one hour, I could only do this a couple of times a day.
My advice, avoid SBC, Southwestern Bell, and Ameritech like the plague.
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Now, I'm certainly not saying that having a multilingual nation is a bad thing, I take pride in the fact that I've learned to speak spanish fairly well without significant formal teaching, and I'm picking up russian the same way, but everything has its place.
Perhaps you aren't aware of the city (sorry, can't remember the name) which has an ordinance requiring city business be done in spanish only, or the fact that in many rednecks eyes we spend too much on interpreters in public colleges or ESL classes. But you should take care to learn a little more before you make such broad claims.
You forgot that you could bring the innocent men, women, and children back to life when the spammers are dead.
An apartment complex makes it publicly known that they will hamper all efforts by law enforcement agencies (police, feds, etc) therefore making it easy for you to house your kiddie-porn empire on the premises. Lots of people decide that they will not associate with anyone who lives in the apartments, neither going to visit them, nor allowing them to come visit. Some grocery stores and gas stations even refuse to do business with these people, because they live at that address. The whole idea is to make people not want to live there, and move. When there are only a few kitty-pr0nographers there, the apartments won't be making enough money, and will go out of business. Or, when they're all doing kitty-pr0n, perhaps you could justify a good down-home lynching, or firebombing, or maybe the feds will just storm the place en-masse. The end result is the same, no more kitty-pr0n.
Now, perhaps it's not "fair" to the innocent families living next door to the people taking nekkid kitty pics to have to deal with not having any friends or transportation, or food. I agree, it would feel bad. But you have to realize that, as a society, you can't just let a system alone and hope it improves itself. Look at the second law of thermodynamics for yourself. It works on a macroscopic scale too. What I'm saying is that "we" are required to expend a certain extra amount of effort to keep our system from reverting to a disorganized, chaotic state.
Nobody's breaking into anyone's apartment, tearing down doors, or going inside I'd tend to have a lot less sympathy in that case.
Well since you're posting just like Mr Bruce now (admitting you're a dunce), perhaps they'll now moderate you up . . .
Oh fond memories of god codes - live virtually forever! (actually, when I first started playing Contra, that would increase my average game time from 20 sec to almost three minutes)
What I REALLY want to see, though, is area codes based on services. They charge different rates for residential and business service Could it be that hard to differentiate on the area code, using a simple overlay? It would also help them make sure no businesses are gypping them out on a residential rate (would you want to call a business that was run from a residential phone number? - of course forwarders from the bus area code could be sold at cheap rates, ringing on the same line). Oh, that leads me to telemarketers - make it illegal to call a residential/mobile area code number for marketing purposes. What kind of excuse can they give? (phone spam burns me)
Have another one for mobile devices. Okay, each metro area has three area codes. Seems like it would be enough. It's what we have in Houston, and right now it's just a mishmash - business, residential and mobile sharing 713 and 281, mobiles only on 832. Restructuring would probably help things a lot in long-term effeciency.
But when do people listen to me?
You're right, local authentication is pluggable, but I'm talking about network authentication. I don't care who logs onto the machine, as long as they've been authenticated by my authority on the network. It's THAT mechanism I worry about changing if needed.
It doesn't matter if the company sees a dime from your VOIP. The justifying reason for charging more for LD is that they have to rent bandwidth on nonlocal comm pipes from other companies, they have to pay, so you have to pay. If you use VOIP, then the telco doesn't have to pay these rates for nonlocal circuits, so you shouldn't have to either.
Correct on windows 2000 authentication not being pluggable. I don't like this. Some services to allow standards-compliant plaintext authentication (ftp, www, telnet), though it's only the most basic, and I don't trust plaintext for anything but anonymous access.
I know you can run some versions/flavors of windows without the GUI, notably 9x. I don't think this can be done in NT because of the way the GDI is integrated into the kernel. It wasn't always like this, but around version 3.5 they decided that having an external graphics driver was too much of a performance hit. Now it's pluggable, directly into the kernel (why changing some graphics settings requires a reboot even in NT5). As a result, a vast majority of instability comes from poorly-written third-party video drivers. The decision was controversial, but I think MS chose the better route.
Windows thin client support is shoddy, plain and simple. It's better now in NT5 (that's windows 2000 for the sheeple in the crowd, Windows NT version 5), but it needs work. I think X is one of the best abilities of Linux. Then again, I understand that it's one of the biggest problems . . . kernelized GDI anyone?
Netware was old, slow, and just plain crappy. It was great for its time, but that time is over. Console-based ADSI admin utils are much better in NT5.
I think overall, it's a tossup, either-or for small installations, depending on details. For medium, I think Windows is generally better, unless you have special needs. Larger installs should probably have a hybrid design. Nobody ever said you had to choose one or the other. Anyway, that's my opinion. Your mileage may vary.
I'm interested, but I'm from Houston. What I'd really like to see is a page where these can be registered, on a more global scale (consumed.net might be global, I can't tell). Any way, it would be nice.
So basically Iridium LLC spawned Iridium Satellite LLC and bought their assets from themselves in a different name? Hmmm. The article is sparse on details about where the money came from. http://www.iridium.com/ isn't working for me. Slashdotted? Or was that even the right URI? Any way, I want some more details.
Now THAT is worth saying "Ho Lee Fook". Consumer-level my ass. At least it will make the older models go down in price . . .
It has from what I can tell. Perhaps it was confirmed as vaporware?
Wow, imagine a beowulf cluster of THESE (see #89)&l t;br>
I'd have to disagree on that right to do anything to your body. (standard IANAL) As I understand, prostitution is made illegal by virtue of being a controlled transaction, involving money. Drugs are illegal by being a controlled substance (eg, can't have, buy, or sell them). If I remember the technicalities of one case here (no news article, probably due to America's drug taboo), three or four individuals were sentenced for posession of drugs and drug paraphenalia (some weed on one, and a plasic baggie on another). The third was obviously quite high, but no charges were filed.
Yeah, that's a very long-winded of saying it, oh well. And I'm really too lazy to look up the case, but if anyone cares, email me and I'll get off my butt to see if I can get info. Edit the email by hand.
That would be the point of the other post. If they can ram something like the DMCA up your ass sideways in the middle of the night without you knowing, would it be that much of a stretch for them to bend it to apply to anything they want?
Why do you sound so shocked about the DMCA being used like this? Isn't this why we Americans invented it?
Perhaps next time we can keep a closer watch on our "representatives."
What about o'clock? ("The time is six o'clock"). I believe that stands for "Of the clock".
Anyone here using Win2k wonder why they changed the installation wizards to an IE/web based look? It's a lot easier for a Kaplan-esque judge to understand "But he clicked an Accept button on a web page, your honor" . . .
The only thing Microsoft makes that doesn't crash will be a planetary probe . . .
I used to work down the row from some of the BA tech support. I can tell you first hand that they are totally clueless. To get hired, you just have to be able to speak english. I'm not kidding. There's no real screening, testing, or verification that you know anything.
I've had SBC in the Houston area a couple of times. The experience was horrible. The most recent time, I was without even a phone for six months. Of course I was still getting BILLED for everything (about $100 a month in total), but no service. Their solution was to transfer me between departments. With hold times starting at one hour, I could only do this a couple of times a day.
My advice, avoid SBC, Southwestern Bell, and Ameritech like the plague.
So does that mean I couldn't put up a review site telling what I think about his site?
Family Console?