When I went to UNC in 1989, in-state tuition was something like $300/semester, plus maybe $100 worth of books. (Math books were expensive even then, maybe $250 for a semester of books by senior year).
You guys today are getting totally raped by the Banks & Credit lenders -- they're the ones conspiring to launch you into life $100,000 in debt and spend the rest of your life that way. You bitch about Haliburton and the oil companies -- but it's the Equifax/Visa/&c.s of the world that are your true enemies.
Verisign's statement is probably true: Many users (excepting myself) would probably prefer being offered alternative instead of an error message.
However, the proper place to implement this is at the browser level, not at the network level. So, you can grant their statement is true but it doesn't justify their case.
That would be a reasonable analogy, if it weren't for the fact that you were the aggressor in this conflict, continually stealing their land, destroying their homes, killing their people.
Way back before you were born, Egypt and everybody tried to wipe Isreal off the map, they stood up, and kicked ass, and ever since then it's been a pride issue on both sides. AFAICT you have the arabs on one side who won't be happy till Isreal is flat gone, and Jews who at worst are pretty damn callous -- but that's called the right of survival.
The hugest irony to me is that both have right-to-left script, both have similar glyph structures, hell both *LOOK* kind of the same. You can tell Jews and Arabs share common genetic history. It reminds me of those two races in the Dark Crystal.
All the college students bitching about the Jews really need to watch out. Western Europeans have a dangerous pogrom tradition that goes back 1000 years. It's a serious case of glass houses.
Sometimes I turn on Captions just for fun. One late night, I was watching the Kids in the Hall rerun on Comedy channel.
When they had bleeped out the word "fuck" (or something), the captions had the unedited text! I searched the net about it and said for budget reasons sometimes they don't censor captions.
The shitty thing about living in the Soviet Union was (1) the fear of being shot by your own government, (2) waiting in lines for hours for toilet paper, only to find out its rough and awful quality, and (3) having to get basic supplies on the black market.
The great thing about living in America is going to the supermarket and the endless choices of great things to consume, all there for the taking.
Now, which of these sounds like the Microsoft community and which sounds like Linux?
Is this news to anyone? If the thing can send you a call it can draw a little blip on a computer screen showing (within 600 feet or so) where you are walking.
I asked an Army Special Ops guy one time: Is Big Brother here? He said: When he wants to be. So I said: but most of the time he's just not interested in looking right? And he said, of course.
My dad has an IBM-AT Serial No 5 he got in 1982, running something like PC-DOS 3.2 and Quicken for DOS I think 5? It has a green monochrome monitor.
(I'm confident about the serial # not about the year).
The funny thing he is left it running during the Y2K rollover and had ZERO problems, with the PC, DOS, or Quicken. THAT's how far off base the millenium fears were.
I currently have 560GB (200x2, 120x1, 40x1) and 2 DVD drives crammed into my mini-tower. I pulled this off by replacing the 3.5" floppy with a hard drive held in by duct tape.
I literally cannot cram another disk into the thing. And, even though I'm ripping music into.flac, and doing all I can to cram data onto there, I'm MAYBE using 25% of my capacity.
Still, it's an embaressment of riches.
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Growth is about change. Just because "the Microsoft way" was beneficial for "Joe User" does not imply that it is currently or will be indefinitely into the future. This, however, does not imply that future interfaces must be "geek-only."
Ask any Microsoft employee or contractor where Code Red, Nimda, Slammer, attacks are the worst: they will tell you: on CorpNet. This is where ITG supposedly runs "the perfect network."
Weigh that into your decision as to whether or not the Microsoft monoculture can prevent hacks.
They would have to sue VMWare as well. VMWare offers to disable CD AutoRun when you install it. Hell, they'd have to sue Microsoft too, because Microsoft offers to a checkbox to disable autoplay and *documents how to do it* in the online help, a clear violation of the DMCA!
Oh, and I forgot to add, their smart and crisp table layout logic is now what is making people love InfoPath -- take a schema, give it the "Microsoft look and feel".
Again, save your bitches about the result -- I know it's ugly as fuck, but working with tables in MS products (1) has changed over releases and (2) IMO is easier than the competition [for simple operations - more complex operations shouldn't be done visually anyway].
Nah, there is ONE *key difference* between wordpad, and one innovation:
Table Support.
MS-word table support, it's natural interfaces for working with, and editing tables, is stellar and hasn't been matched by the competition. (Notice I say working with tables, not the end result -- the end result for complex tables is pretty bad.) If you'll notice, MS has migrated this from word, to the Trident HTML component, to Frontpage, to Visual Studio. It's the one thing people love. Easy as fuck to work with, ironically producing messy results, but not present in Wordpad or in equal dexterity in OpenOffice or other competitors (IMHO).
Ironic, you should read "The Language Police" by Diane Ravitch. Farenheit 451 was heavily edited by left-wing educators to suit their own pedagogic objectives.
It is logically inconsistent to believe Sun is doing poorly because the market has decided propetiary hardware/os combinations make bad financial sense, and that Microsoft will succeed in making hardware propritary to an OS. The free market will prevent this.
In other words, Microsoft is going to die on its own sword.
"Notice how CUM, the first parameter, is used unprotected? Guess what happens in the CUM++; statement when CUM happens to be *args_so_far? Our exact problem! Compiling a call to odd64() would trigger the CUM++;"
Butthead: He said cum
Beavis: heh heh heh hehh e heh heheh eh ehe
Google is on the verge of sucking. It USED to take me to what it want. Now, it tends to take me to where it wants to go.
Linux search terms tend to take me to the wrong places all the time. (Google groups works better). Enternainment and move title search times take me to the wrong places. Generic searchs "whats the weather like in Mountain View california" are AWFUL. Searching for hotel/resort information in an area is awful (takes me to package tour sites).
In all these examples, Google takes me to "commercial clearinghouses" rather than the definitive source of information. The more successful Google is whenever it IPOs, the more its results will skew. (Google groups searchs still tend to take me "where I want to go").
All of this reinforces my theory: all search engines are doomed to fail. The start small, peak, get rich, suck, and go away. Google is entering the "get rich" phase.
I tried to follow 18.06 "Intro. to Linear Algebra" as a refresher; I figured it would be a good "beta test". I noticed some problems:
(1) The problem sets refer to problems on certain pages of the textbook. The textbook is not available online.
(2) I was able to view the lectures under Linux with the latest Mplayer. However, I could not seek, so if the stream is interrupted, you have to watch it all again. There are links to specific topics within each lecture, but apparently Mplayer doesn't respect them.
Other than that, between gv to view docs, Mplayer to watch the guy, and octave to "take notes" and test things, it's pretty good e-learning!
Looking forward to when they "work out the bugs" and get some more breadth in the online courseware...
Remember the "Summer of the Shark Attacks" ?? i.e. Summer 2001....
We tend to focus too much on the news of the moment. If we have a bunch of blackouts, all that will happen is we'll work real hard and turn the power back on.
Although the sequence of blackouts is an odd coincidence. Mebbe somebody's playing a trick.
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When I went to UNC in 1989, in-state tuition was something like $300/semester, plus maybe $100 worth of books. (Math books were expensive even then, maybe $250 for a semester of books by senior year).
You guys today are getting totally raped by the Banks & Credit lenders -- they're the ones conspiring to launch you into life $100,000 in debt and spend the rest of your life that way. You bitch about Haliburton and the oil companies -- but it's the Equifax/Visa/&c.s of the world that are your true enemies.
Just turn on text-to-speech features for the blind, capture the output, and then later use speech-to-text.
If they disable features for the blind, sue Microsoft.
PROFIT!
Verisign's statement is probably true: Many users (excepting myself) would probably prefer being offered alternative instead of an error message.
However, the proper place to implement this is at the browser level, not at the network level. So, you can grant their statement is true but it doesn't justify their case.
Way back before you were born, Egypt and everybody tried to wipe Isreal off the map, they stood up, and kicked ass, and ever since then it's been a pride issue on both sides. AFAICT you have the arabs on one side who won't be happy till Isreal is flat gone, and Jews who at worst are pretty damn callous -- but that's called the right of survival.
The hugest irony to me is that both have right-to-left script, both have similar glyph structures, hell both *LOOK* kind of the same. You can tell Jews and Arabs share common genetic history. It reminds me of those two races in the Dark Crystal.
All the college students bitching about the Jews really need to watch out. Western Europeans have a dangerous pogrom tradition that goes back 1000 years. It's a serious case of glass houses.
I prefer my artwork on LSD tabs.
Sometimes I turn on Captions just for fun. One late night, I was watching the Kids in the Hall rerun on Comedy channel.
When they had bleeped out the word "fuck" (or something), the captions had the unedited text! I searched the net about it and said for budget reasons sometimes they don't censor captions.
The shitty thing about living in the Soviet Union was (1) the fear of being shot by your own government, (2) waiting in lines for hours for toilet paper, only to find out its rough and awful quality, and (3) having to get basic supplies on the black market.
The great thing about living in America is going to the supermarket and the endless choices of great things to consume, all there for the taking.
Now, which of these sounds like the Microsoft community and which sounds like Linux?
Is this news to anyone? If the thing can send you a call it can draw a little blip on a computer screen showing (within 600 feet or so) where you are walking.
I asked an Army Special Ops guy one time: Is Big Brother here? He said: When he wants to be. So I said: but most of the time he's just not interested in looking right? And he said, of course.
My dad has an IBM-AT Serial No 5 he got in 1982, running something like PC-DOS 3.2 and Quicken for DOS I think 5? It has a green monochrome monitor.
(I'm confident about the serial # not about the year).
The funny thing he is left it running during the Y2K rollover and had ZERO problems, with the PC, DOS, or Quicken. THAT's how far off base the millenium fears were.
I currently have 560GB (200x2, 120x1, 40x1) and 2 DVD drives crammed into my mini-tower. I pulled this off by replacing the 3.5" floppy with a hard drive held in by duct tape.
.flac, and doing all I can to cram data onto there, I'm MAYBE using 25% of my capacity.
I literally cannot cram another disk into the thing. And, even though I'm ripping music into
Still, it's an embaressment of riches.
Growth is about change. Just because "the Microsoft way" was beneficial for "Joe User" does not imply that it is currently or will be indefinitely into the future. This, however, does not imply that future interfaces must be "geek-only."
Evolve or die.
Ask any Microsoft employee or contractor where Code Red, Nimda, Slammer, attacks are the worst: they will tell you: on CorpNet. This is where ITG supposedly runs "the perfect network."
Weigh that into your decision as to whether or not the Microsoft monoculture can prevent hacks.
They would have to sue VMWare as well. VMWare offers to disable CD AutoRun when you install it. Hell, they'd have to sue Microsoft too, because Microsoft offers to a checkbox to disable autoplay and *documents how to do it* in the online help, a clear violation of the DMCA!
Seriously, this is beyond surreal.
Oh, and I forgot to add, their smart and crisp table layout logic is now what is making people love InfoPath -- take a schema, give it the "Microsoft look and feel".
Again, save your bitches about the result -- I know it's ugly as fuck, but working with tables in MS products (1) has changed over releases and (2) IMO is easier than the competition [for simple operations - more complex operations shouldn't be done visually anyway].
Nah, there is ONE *key difference* between wordpad, and one innovation:
Table Support.
MS-word table support, it's natural interfaces for working with, and editing tables, is stellar and hasn't been matched by the competition. (Notice I say working with tables, not the end result -- the end result for complex tables is pretty bad.) If you'll notice, MS has migrated this from word, to the Trident HTML component, to Frontpage, to Visual Studio. It's the one thing people love. Easy as fuck to work with, ironically producing messy results, but not present in Wordpad or in equal dexterity in OpenOffice or other competitors (IMHO).
Thank god I use Moz Firebird, and I when google asks if it can keep a cookie, I just say "no."
They really should track it at the server if they want to spook us!
Yeah, Ravitch burns Right-wing and Left-wing, as far as a couple of extremists who don't fit into any category, equally.
All extremists are the problem. You should really read the book.
Ironic, you should read "The Language Police" by Diane Ravitch. Farenheit 451 was heavily edited by left-wing educators to suit their own pedagogic objectives.
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I'm a database guy, so I believe in logic.
It is logically inconsistent to believe Sun is doing poorly because the market has decided propetiary hardware/os combinations make bad financial sense, and that Microsoft will succeed in making hardware propritary to an OS. The free market will prevent this.
In other words, Microsoft is going to die on its own sword.
I got one at Fry's for something like $100.
Played with it once or twice, haven't touched it in months. However:
TOTALLY worth $100 to see the light go "shooom" across the lake like that. Buy it.
Butthead: He said cum Beavis: heh heh heh hehh e heh heheh eh ehe
Google is on the verge of sucking. It USED to take me to what it want. Now, it tends to take me to where it wants to go.
Linux search terms tend to take me to the wrong places all the time. (Google groups works better). Enternainment and move title search times take me to the wrong places. Generic searchs "whats the weather like in Mountain View california" are AWFUL. Searching for hotel/resort information in an area is awful (takes me to package tour sites).
In all these examples, Google takes me to "commercial clearinghouses" rather than the definitive source of information. The more successful Google is whenever it IPOs, the more its results will skew. (Google groups searchs still tend to take me "where I want to go").
All of this reinforces my theory: all search engines are doomed to fail. The start small, peak, get rich, suck, and go away. Google is entering the "get rich" phase.
I tried to follow 18.06 "Intro. to Linear Algebra" as a refresher; I figured it would be a good "beta test". I noticed some problems:
(1) The problem sets refer to problems on certain pages of the textbook. The textbook is not available online.
(2) I was able to view the lectures under Linux with the latest Mplayer. However, I could not seek, so if the stream is interrupted, you have to watch it all again. There are links to specific topics within each lecture, but apparently Mplayer doesn't respect them.
Other than that, between gv to view docs, Mplayer to watch the guy, and octave to "take notes" and test things, it's pretty good e-learning!
Looking forward to when they "work out the bugs" and get some more breadth in the online courseware...
Remember the "Summer of the Shark Attacks" ?? i.e. Summer 2001....
We tend to focus too much on the news of the moment. If we have a bunch of blackouts, all that will happen is we'll work real hard and turn the power back on.
Although the sequence of blackouts is an odd coincidence. Mebbe somebody's playing a trick.
How is this flamebait? How could guessing at ship dates "incite" anybody?