you act like we should give a shit about the welfare cases... anyone I know who isn't that well off has managed to do fine by hard work without resorting to handouts. my parents fall into this same category.
Considering that welfare benefits can net you more money than a minimum wage job can, I fail to see why you think eliminating minimum pay rates would somehow make employment look more attractive. I'd bet that you'd just end up with more useless bottomdwellers on the dole.
I find it hilarious that by the phrasing of your post you assume most companies have either moved to win2k already or are waiting to... There are many of us out here in various industries that would rather shoot ourselves in the head than move to win2k. Talk about insane overhead, non-compliant "standards based" features, and just general pain... maybe win2k would have been ok if they had axed the winNT compatibility so that lanman crap wasn't still hanging around. blah. I'll stick with our various commercial unix platforms for the time being, thank you:)
Well, considering that we made an attempt in the early 90's to try and give them some food, political stability, etc. under the guise of the UN, wouldn't you say we already tried to help? What did they do? steal food and shoot UN soldiers. who cares what happens to them now? I don't know about you but I'm not willing to let my heart bleed for a people that can't accept a good thing when it's given to them.
teaching people so they have some education could give them a higher rate of income which means that perhaps they could afford things like condoms, or rice, or basic medical supplies.
again, to give you fuel to rant on, south america should sink into the sea and disappear forever.
as for defending you when you are called a wetback or a spick, that's really not my problem is it? nobody defended my grandparents when the nazis burned their whole family and made them shovel their ashes. so shut up already.
I'm sorry, we're required to feel sorry because people in the third world can't get their act together? I don't care who's oppressing who, or what my anscestors and myself did to keep the whole world down under our evil white thumb. all I care about is making sure my future kids survive, and all else falls below that. You are a fool if you think that anyone else would think otherwise.
If you want to rant on about socioeconomic evils, donate all your salary to the poor in some filthy country and shut up sally struthers. until you give away all your worldly goods, don't bother me.
no, i'm not trolling- i'm just a realist. I could care less about your disabilities or your perceived need for social equality. it doesn't exist, and i don't see a need for it to exist. read schopenhauer sometime if you think that *i'm* being excessive.
All governmental uses aside, this will be great for businesses. The lack of legally binding signatures has been a stick in the side of "e-business" for a long time. The ablility to legally sign a document (preferably using some sort of crypto of course) over the internet would enable all sorts of industries to offer all sorts of new services. Banking, securities investments, insurance, etc. will all benefit from this immensely. Think about it.
I completely agree with you here- I find that my 80+ hour workweek precludes my ability to take half the day off to participate in any sort of political activity, much less go through the effort to start a grass roots campaign. I'd like to see some technologically intelligent groups start up so we have someone other than the AARP, the unemployed and the welfare cases campaigning for the future legistation of our country.
I don't know about you, but I work for a living and have not had anything given to me by anyone. If you don't have the ability to do something with yourself to the point that you either need government handouts or require society to lower itself just so you don't get lost in the shuffle, then maybe you aren't worth the effort. Elitism isn't always a bad thing.
Things like this just reinforce my beliefs that we need to have some decent data privacy legislation in this country (like everywhere else.) I'm not advocating heavy handed actions, but the ability to have some recourse against mistakes would be a definite plus. However, this is like having a mistake on a credit record- while there is legislation on the books so you can have this sort of thing corrected, it's quite difficult to get the corporate hive mind to fix things.
Does anyone have a good suggestion on how to strike a balance between corporate data mining and libertarians running free across the prairies? there has to be a median here that allows us to have sane data control without giving up essential freedoms.
how does this device connect to others? it said it was a fully compliant SBC board ? so can I slap 4 of these in a passive PCI backplane and interface them with each other? that would interesting if possible; for that matter can I put some in on a PCI backplane in a working system? I didn't see anything on the site... good questions though, because a 32 or 64bit backplane connection would really work pretty well for inter-server connectivity; ie. even basic 133MB x 8 = 1064Mbits/sec transfer rate. not too bad, eh?
As another post here mentioned, you can use Ghost Walker to change the SID- most large-scale corporate environments I have been in that use NT have ALL ghosted an image onto all the new systems. I can't imagine anyone else would do it another way, what a pain in the ass... All you do is ghost your image on, run ghost walker, and change part of the sid to something else, usually the machine's asset tag (if your organization doesn't use asset tags... then you've got more than one problem!) This seems to work painlessly for most places, and lets you roll out hundreds of machines in a day as opposed to, say, 10:)
and besides, hasn't he ever heard of site licensing? sheesh...
"It's no big secret that Windows NT isn't an easy operating system to set up and configure (although it's miles ahead of Linux, OS/2, or even BeOS)"...
It never ceases to amaze me that no matter what, they always put that *spin* on what they say. "Well, yeah, we know this product sucks, but hey, so does everything else! they all suck more!" Furthermore, BeOS (which is way easier to set up, I thought) and Linux do not have a huge army taking up most of northwest Washington writing code for them, having meetings about menu items, etc etc. I fail to see how they could compare themselves to any other product when you consider the money backing them and the time spent. It's almost like saying "Hey, our tank may have a few design flaws, but it's way better than that moped designed by the other guys." Bleah.
Well, having been a contractor who has worked on several projects over quite a few years, I have to say that while there are many contractors that can demand the big bucks for their highly marketable skills, there are also vast legions of contractors that are more or less useless and are only there as temporary people to fill in on crap jobs that full time employees won't do. I find it interesting, though, that you rarely find a contractor who is inbetween- they truly are either in the top, or down at the bottom. I think your choice depends on the application and the need; Keep in mind that fulltime employees can sometimes be best because they can be held responsible more than a legion of unknown contractors, from who knows where. YMMV.
as far as the high school kids, I looked for ones who's parents didn't have the cash... I live in a rich school district, but there are some people here who have no money to spare. I made sure those technically capable but monetarily unable kids got a hookup.
This is truly an interesting question, I've personally delved into some different problems with this. 1.) is that most local organizations either want them but can't take them, or could take them but don't want them. I know that sounds silly, but I've had elementary schools tell me that they really need computers to upgrade from apple IIe's, but the district has a strict guidline saying they can only have a minimum of a pentium II/266 if they get new equipment. 2.) many places won't or can't take equipment because it messes with their tax setup. none of them have ever tried to explain this to me, and I truly wish I could find out how it all works. I don't even want to take any kind of tax break for this, and I think they might want to be able to say it came from a real charity. so much for helping people in need, right? 3.) helping individuals is great, but I would really suggest if you want to get into the computer charity thing that you do NOT do that, or if so, only on a limited basis. why? because of support. If you give computers to an organization, they can usually ask you questions all at once, you can train one person who can show others how to use things, etc... if you give them to people you come across through a church, school, or local organization, you seem to always end up helping them with hardware and software problems. (I had to change my work cell phone # because a group of poor folks I gave computers to email and surf the net would call me over 20 times a day!)
I don't mean to sound like a naysayer, because I truly think it is important to give out what we have to those who need it. but before you go out and start doing things, have a plan, and research things... as a previous poster said, find a local organization. they can be the best way to do things because the overhead is no issue.
locally in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, I like to volunteer at http://www.dragnet.com. dragnet is very cool and does alot of what I wanted to do.
Last note- if you want to have fun, my most exciting project was this: I went to a local high school, asked the math/computer teacher guy (there's always one) if he knew some kids who could really use a computer to learn programming, etc. I tracked down and met with 5 worthy little geeklings (reminded me alot of myself at that age), and gave them IBM thinkpads w/ a stock turbolinux install on them. all between 486/75's and pentium 120's. my only stipulation to them was that they HAD to use them for linux, and while I couldn't check up on them I really expected them to learn how to use it. So far, we've met up once every other month or so, I buy them pizza, and we do geek stuff and talk about linux. It's a great reward!
as far as I can recall, when you get a driver's license you are actually agreeing to a contract, in which you waive certain rights. also, when you break a traffic law (ie. clause in the contract) you are not entitled to a trial by jury, but instead are only tried by a judge, since your offense is only a breach-of-contract. I wonder what other kinds of things have this sort of crap tied in. my 2 cents.
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you act like we should give a shit about the welfare cases... anyone I know who isn't that well off has managed to do fine by hard work without resorting to handouts. my parents fall into this same category. Considering that welfare benefits can net you more money than a minimum wage job can, I fail to see why you think eliminating minimum pay rates would somehow make employment look more attractive. I'd bet that you'd just end up with more useless bottomdwellers on the dole.
thankfully it's not my job to run windoze networks. kiss off. :)
I find it hilarious that by the phrasing of your post you assume most companies have either moved to win2k already or are waiting to... There are many of us out here in various industries that would rather shoot ourselves in the head than move to win2k. Talk about insane overhead, non-compliant "standards based" features, and just general pain... maybe win2k would have been ok if they had axed the winNT compatibility so that lanman crap wasn't still hanging around. blah. I'll stick with our various commercial unix platforms for the time being, thank you :)
Well, considering that we made an attempt in the early 90's to try and give them some food, political stability, etc. under the guise of the UN, wouldn't you say we already tried to help? What did they do? steal food and shoot UN soldiers. who cares what happens to them now? I don't know about you but I'm not willing to let my heart bleed for a people that can't accept a good thing when it's given to them.
well, this is sarcasm but has a grain of truth:
teaching people so they have some education could give them a higher rate of income which means that perhaps they could afford things like condoms, or rice, or basic medical supplies.
again, to give you fuel to rant on, south america should sink into the sea and disappear forever.
as for defending you when you are called a wetback or a spick, that's really not my problem is it? nobody defended my grandparents when the nazis burned their whole family and made them shovel their ashes. so shut up already.
I'm sorry, we're required to feel sorry because people in the third world can't get their act together? I don't care who's oppressing who, or what my anscestors and myself did to keep the whole world down under our evil white thumb. all I care about is making sure my future kids survive, and all else falls below that. You are a fool if you think that anyone else would think otherwise.
If you want to rant on about socioeconomic evils, donate all your salary to the poor in some filthy country and shut up sally struthers. until you give away all your worldly goods, don't bother me.
you really think the US is an intact and functional system, still? you've led a sheltered life, then.
no, i'm not trolling- i'm just a realist. I could care less about your disabilities or your perceived need for social equality. it doesn't exist, and i don't see a need for it to exist. read schopenhauer sometime if you think that *i'm* being excessive.
hell i'll get on board that one...
All governmental uses aside, this will be great for businesses. The lack of legally binding signatures has been a stick in the side of "e-business" for a long time. The ablility to legally sign a document (preferably using some sort of crypto of course) over the internet would enable all sorts of industries to offer all sorts of new services. Banking, securities investments, insurance, etc. will all benefit from this immensely. Think about it.
I completely agree with you here- I find that my 80+ hour workweek precludes my ability to take half the day off to participate in any sort of political activity, much less go through the effort to start a grass roots campaign. I'd like to see some technologically intelligent groups start up so we have someone other than the AARP, the unemployed and the welfare cases campaigning for the future legistation of our country.
I don't know about you, but I work for a living and have not had anything given to me by anyone. If you don't have the ability to do something with yourself to the point that you either need government handouts or require society to lower itself just so you don't get lost in the shuffle, then maybe you aren't worth the effort. Elitism isn't always a bad thing.
Things like this just reinforce my beliefs that we need to have some decent data privacy legislation in this country (like everywhere else.) I'm not advocating heavy handed actions, but the ability to have some recourse against mistakes would be a definite plus. However, this is like having a mistake on a credit record- while there is legislation on the books so you can have this sort of thing corrected, it's quite difficult to get the corporate hive mind to fix things.
Does anyone have a good suggestion on how to strike a balance between corporate data mining and libertarians running free across the prairies? there has to be a median here that allows us to have sane data control without giving up essential freedoms.
how does this device connect to others? it said it was a fully compliant SBC board ? so can I slap 4 of these in a passive PCI backplane and interface them with each other? that would interesting if possible; for that matter can I put some in on a PCI backplane in a working system? I didn't see anything on the site... good questions though, because a 32 or 64bit backplane connection would really work pretty well for inter-server connectivity; ie. even basic 133MB x 8 = 1064Mbits/sec transfer rate. not too bad, eh?
As another post here mentioned, you can use Ghost Walker to change the SID- most large-scale corporate environments I have been in that use NT have ALL ghosted an image onto all the new systems. I can't imagine anyone else would do it another way, what a pain in the ass... All you do is ghost your image on, run ghost walker, and change part of the sid to something else, usually the machine's asset tag (if your organization doesn't use asset tags... then you've got more than one problem!) This seems to work painlessly for most places, and lets you roll out hundreds of machines in a day as opposed to, say, 10 :)
and besides, hasn't he ever heard of site licensing? sheesh...
"It's no big secret that Windows NT isn't an easy operating system to set up and configure (although it's miles ahead of Linux, OS/2, or even BeOS)" ...
It never ceases to amaze me that no matter what, they always put that *spin* on what they say. "Well, yeah, we know this product sucks, but hey, so does everything else! they all suck more!"
Furthermore, BeOS (which is way easier to set up, I thought) and Linux do not have a huge army taking up most of northwest Washington writing code for them, having meetings about menu items, etc etc. I fail to see how they could compare themselves to any other product when you consider the money backing them and the time spent. It's almost like saying "Hey, our tank may have a few design flaws, but it's way better than that moped designed by the other guys." Bleah.
Well, having been a contractor who has worked on several projects over quite a few years, I have to say that while there are many contractors that can demand the big bucks for their highly marketable skills, there are also vast legions of contractors that are more or less useless and are only there as temporary people to fill in on crap jobs that full time employees won't do. I find it interesting, though, that you rarely find a contractor who is inbetween- they truly are either in the top, or down at the bottom. I think your choice depends on the application and the need; Keep in mind that fulltime employees can sometimes be best because they can be held responsible more than a legion of unknown contractors, from who knows where. YMMV.
as far as the high school kids, I looked for ones who's parents didn't have the cash... I live in a rich school district, but there are some people here who have no money to spare. I made sure those technically capable but monetarily unable kids got a hookup.
This is truly an interesting question, I've personally delved into some different problems with this. 1.) is that most local organizations either want them but can't take them, or could take them but don't want them. I know that sounds silly, but I've had elementary schools tell me that they really need computers to upgrade from apple IIe's, but the district has a strict guidline saying they can only have a minimum of a pentium II/266 if they get new equipment.
2.) many places won't or can't take equipment because it messes with their tax setup. none of them have ever tried to explain this to me, and I truly wish I could find out how it all works. I don't even want to take any kind of tax break for this, and I think they might want to be able to say it came from a real charity. so much for helping people in need, right?
3.) helping individuals is great, but I would really suggest if you want to get into the computer charity thing that you do NOT do that, or if so, only on a limited basis. why? because of support. If you give computers to an organization, they can usually ask you questions all at once, you can train one person who can show others how to use things, etc... if you give them to people you come across through a church, school, or local organization, you seem to always end up helping them with hardware and software problems. (I had to change my work cell phone # because a group of poor folks I gave computers to email and surf the net would call me over 20 times a day!)
I don't mean to sound like a naysayer, because I truly think it is important to give out what we have to those who need it. but before you go out and start doing things, have a plan, and research things... as a previous poster said, find a local organization. they can be the best way to do things because the overhead is no issue.
locally in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, I like to volunteer at http://www.dragnet.com. dragnet is very cool and does alot of what I wanted to do.
Last note- if you want to have fun, my most exciting project was this: I went to a local high school, asked the math/computer teacher guy (there's always one) if he knew some kids who could really use a computer to learn programming, etc. I tracked down and met with 5 worthy little geeklings (reminded me alot of myself at that age), and gave them IBM thinkpads w/ a stock turbolinux install on them. all between 486/75's and pentium 120's. my only stipulation to them was that they HAD to use them for linux, and while I couldn't check up on them I really expected them to learn how to use it. So far, we've met up once every other month or so, I buy them pizza, and we do geek stuff and talk about linux. It's a great reward!
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as far as I can recall, when you get a driver's license you are actually agreeing to a contract, in which you waive certain rights. also, when you break a traffic law (ie. clause in the contract) you are not entitled to a trial by jury, but instead are only tried by a judge, since your offense is only a breach-of-contract. I wonder what other kinds of things have this sort of crap tied in. my 2 cents.
at least someone else out there watches Red Dwarf. (Which is the pentultimate science fiction show. damn star wars. :P )
yes, indeed, look at me... I'm not a homosexual, i am a Grrl... stop shopping at the Gap and buying vintage clothing and wake up.
they make testosterone shots for that. take some, and switch.