Yup it's true, King Arthur is waiting in Atlantis.
He's pretty bored, the last bit of excitement was when Elvis arrived and gave Captain Nemo a wedgie.
Publicity for a great band, not much of a book if it is taken from the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_Man_Half_Biscuit Better off listening to the Trumpton Riots EP instead.
As an admin type speaking for.. well, me. I find that all the blocking decisions are made by the management who choose to buy stupid filtering products.
Management generally ask for staff to report on the pros and cons of blocking software and then proceed to ignore the report and make a decision based on what is least likely to get them in trouble. Whether it is workable is not an issue until after it has been implemented...
On my campus this is a very common problem. Teachers cannot access resources to teach their subject. Students cannot access learning resources due to the heavy handed and uninformed blocking filters.
The irony is that the students work out how to get past the filters by talking to each other and setting up their own proxies but the poor old teachers are left filling out endless bureaucratic forms to request access to the needed resources (one at a time). I have not yet seen any of the lecturers on my campus succeed in getting a blocked resource unblocked.
Sadly the network I am referring to is the Australian goverments, NSW Department of Education
It's fashionable to release stimulus packages at the moment. Everyone is doing it, why shouldn't Microsoft jump on the bandwagon. Of course those of a more cynical nature may construe this as just a trick to try and get more customers on board... The cynics may have something there.
The game remains the same but the presentation changes.
and the irony is that if the police or gov did do something it would stuff it up for the majority leaving the scammers, spammers and hackers free to find new ways to break, annoy and work around stuff. Oh hang on they are already doing it...
Open Goverment (up to a point), seems to be the stuff of dreams. Wouldn't it be great to know exactly what the process is behind this whole, "billion dollar promise". Probably not much money when you consider how much the education sector here in Oz spends on licensing and re-licensing software that has open alternatives.
Have you ever tried using any gov.au website? They are generally hard to navigate, bureaucratic and bloated with useless information. Admittedly it must be a huge and difficult job corralling all that information but I'd love to see someone trying (hopefully with a little success).
Seems like we are headed for another missed opportunity.
There is a pattern. The technical research staff hand in their reports and are sent back to their labs and only then do the Microsoft sales people swoop.
We all know that 'Selling Windows' is Microsoft's business, not making our lives easier....sigh, hoping it is not so.
I'm so sick of everyone banging on about their HD, plasma/LED, 42 inch tiny dick replacements. Yes we're geeks but that shouldn't stop us getting a life. Go for a walk, a swim, a cycle or just get laid.
Okay, so here's what you do. You keep a padded, heat-resistant safe in an upstairs room of the house. Mount wheels on it, and place it on an inclined track, facing toward a pre-scored section of thinner wall. Rest it against a swing gate or chock held shut by a locking device made of lead. If your house starts on fire, the heat will melt the lead, the gate will open, and the safe will roll down the incline, bursting through the wall and landing safely in the yard, outside the major heat zone.
Of course, you have the problem of your house becoming a flaming safe-launcher as well as being on fire... I'm sure that can all be worked out in the implementation.
And wouldn't it be ironic if the safe crushed you as you ran to put the fire out...
I guess it is a _bit_ like proprietary drugs being sold to third world countries for ~10 times the price of the generic version. The generic version often considered illegal according to the original manufacturer... generic vs branded
hear! hear! Exactly. Just cos they are older doesn't mean they have lost their marbles. Any OS will do as long as it is stable (counts Windows out I suppose!). I think Javascript has to be included and therefore Adblock Plus.
Just configure the system to ask as few questions as possible. Make sure it is easy to restore and supply it with a few computer books and manuals.
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Yup it's true, King Arthur is waiting in Atlantis.
He's pretty bored, the last bit of excitement was when Elvis arrived and gave Captain Nemo a wedgie.
Publicity for a great band, not much of a book if it is taken from the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_Man_Half_Biscuit
Better off listening to the Trumpton Riots EP instead.
If you are personally homophobic then filter your own network, do not force your opinions on others.
As an admin type speaking for.. well, me. I find that all the blocking decisions are made by the management who choose to buy stupid filtering products.
Management generally ask for staff to report on the pros and cons of blocking software and then proceed to ignore the report and make a decision based on what is least likely to get them in trouble. Whether it is workable is not an issue until after it has been implemented...
On my campus this is a very common problem. Teachers cannot access resources to teach their subject. Students cannot access learning resources due to the heavy handed and uninformed blocking filters.
The irony is that the students work out how to get past the filters by talking to each other and setting up their own proxies but the poor old teachers are left filling out endless bureaucratic forms to request access to the needed resources (one at a time). I have not yet seen any of the lecturers on my campus succeed in getting a blocked resource unblocked.
Sadly the network I am referring to is the Australian goverments, NSW Department of Education
It's fashionable to release stimulus packages at the moment. Everyone is doing it, why shouldn't Microsoft jump on the bandwagon. Of course those of a more cynical nature may construe this as just a trick to try and get more customers on board... The cynics may have something there.
The game remains the same but the presentation changes.
are there OS's that do all the crazy things most people would like them to do without getting unstable?
and the irony is that if the police or gov did do something it would stuff it up for the majority leaving the scammers, spammers and hackers free to find new ways to break, annoy and work around stuff. Oh hang on they are already doing it...
Open Goverment (up to a point), seems to be the stuff of dreams.
Wouldn't it be great to know exactly what the process is behind this whole, "billion dollar promise". Probably not much money when you consider how much the education sector here in Oz spends on licensing and re-licensing software that has open alternatives.
Have you ever tried using any gov.au website? They are generally hard to navigate, bureaucratic and bloated with useless information. Admittedly it must be a huge and difficult job corralling all that information but I'd love to see someone trying (hopefully with a little success).
Seems like we are headed for another missed opportunity.
There is a pattern. The technical research staff hand in their reports and are sent back to their labs and only then do the Microsoft sales people swoop.
We all know that 'Selling Windows' is Microsoft's business, not making our lives easier. ...sigh, hoping it is not so.
Its good to see so many non-english fast risers like, tuenti, wer kennt wen and nasza-klasa. Whatever they are...
I'm so sick of everyone banging on about their HD, plasma/LED, 42 inch tiny dick replacements. Yes we're geeks but that shouldn't stop us getting a life. Go for a walk, a swim, a cycle or just get laid.
Live it, don't watch it.
Okay, so here's what you do. You keep a padded, heat-resistant safe in an upstairs room of the house. Mount wheels on it, and place it on an inclined track, facing toward a pre-scored section of thinner wall. Rest it against a swing gate or chock held shut by a locking device made of lead. If your house starts on fire, the heat will melt the lead, the gate will open, and the safe will roll down the incline, bursting through the wall and landing safely in the yard, outside the major heat zone.
Of course, you have the problem of your house becoming a flaming safe-launcher as well as being on fire... I'm sure that can all be worked out in the implementation.
And wouldn't it be ironic if the safe crushed you as you ran to put the fire out...
I guess it is a _bit_ like proprietary drugs being sold to third world countries for ~10 times the price of the generic version. The generic version often considered illegal according to the original manufacturer...
generic vs branded
Real world DRM costing real lives.
hear! hear! Exactly.
Just cos they are older doesn't mean they have lost their marbles. Any OS will do as long as it is stable (counts Windows out I suppose!). I think Javascript has to be included and therefore Adblock Plus.
Just configure the system to ask as few questions as possible. Make sure it is easy to restore and supply it with a few computer books and manuals.
Yes it does still exist and I'm pretty sure you can get it from the Logo Foundation at http://el.www.media.mit.edu/groups/logo-foundation /