Way back before there were PCs I learned BASIC in a graduate school course. Today, that is taught, if at all, in elementary school. SURELY today by the time a student gets to college, he or she knows all about word processing, spreadsheets (Long live Lotus 123!) and Powerpoint. Courses on these subjects are largely superfulous. No one with any brains needs them. I see my local community college offers them for the "gotta get retrained" crowd, but other than that colleges might take a good hard look at their courses--and eliminate them.
I went to the site and looked around. You selected the absolute worst, of course. But if you go to the project page of each one of these, there were some very nice designs submitted. It's obvious why professional designers don't like this, the kind of people who charge tens of thousands of dollars for a single logo. They are being undercut by some very nice designs.
I've bought hundreds of Dells, really. Maybe a thousand altogether, but probably no more than that. I'd buy them ten or twenty at a time. I'm actually a guy who likes doing it. I love taking a new computer out of the box to smell those wafting polymers in the air. Out of the box failure rate = 0. Three year failure rate = maybe 1 per 100, too low to really need to track. I actually usually pushed the boxes to five years. Customer Service? I don't believe I've ever called them. I simply didn't need it. If I have to call customer service, I figure I'm the one who failed. They were reasonably priced, reasonably well powered, network ready, and easy to work on. I used them for rack mount servers as well. I bought between forty and fifty of those. I had one drive go out.
Maybe different model and all, but certainly in my own case, I simply don't have any problems at all with Dell.
The first library automation system I installed, in about 1982, had us convert from a signature check out system to one using barcodes and had us issue library cards with barcodes on them. We received a very eruditely written letter (Perfect English and grammar) from a gentleman who patiently explained to us that barcodes were the mark of the beast and we were to disassociate his name from any barcodes immediately and he would be checking back to make sure this happened.
Just FYI. The system was made by Geac of Canada. Most code was written in ZOPL (Our Programming Language with a "Z" in front to make it sound cool) It also used Hugo, Ugli, and Glug, a report generator. And root was called "dyna" envisioned as a vast sea which contained 'islands' (sub-directories) and "God Bless all who sail her." That system was history years ago, but it taught me the meaning of the old saying, "I've forgotten more than you will ever know." Only a few people in the world understand the phrase "liberator card."
Legality has nothing to do with it. Your "rights" to play WoW instead of parent your kids has nothing to do with it. You're getting a divorce. It's nasty. The opposing attorney is going to try to paint you as a poor parent so that a judge will rule against whatever it is you want, whether it is custody, alimony, or the house.
How do you think you're going to look when your attorney gets up and counters this with "My client has the legal right to play WoW."? You'll look like a self-indulgent, egotistical, self-righteous prig who ignores his/her kids to play stupid irrelevant games on the Internet. It IS all about you, but not in the way you think. Do you get it yet?
Do you seriously believe that your "gmail" account, which is provide by, you know, Google, could not be accessed by Google anytime at all, regardless of their druve by WiFi shenanigans? You've already put yopur trust in Google by accepting an email account from them in the first place.
A committee did and then put his name on it because they felt it would be recognizable to Roosevelt enough that he would pay attemtion to it. In fact, the committee members joked about what they would put in the next letter from Einstein.
Yes, yes. America is bad (tm); the rest of the world is good. Look at it this way. If that original 'compromise' had not been made, the USA would never have existed and, a few years later, the most devestating war that had ever been fought in human history would not have resulted in the deaths of vast numbers of Caucasian soldiers, more than all the rest of America's wars combined, not to mention the complete devastation of the countryside and a complete disruption of the economy.
Slavery was brought to the colonies by British subjects in 1619 and institutionalized by the British system for 160 years. When the US became a country those pushing for a continuation of slavery had been British subjects. So America inherited the blame. The British did not entirely ban slavery until 1840, when the last "apprentices" were freed. This was a scant generation before this ountry did the same thing.
We've lost sight of the fact that until 1865 the "United States" was a plural noun. By 'today's standards' Washington, Jefferson, and Adams are dangerous right wingers threatening the stability of the socialist state. But there is a tenth amendment. Though the feds would prefer you forget that it exists, there is a tenth amendment (and a second). Why not go read them? In fact, read all 27.
No, it's not a 'standard disclaimer.' If you RTFA the legal beagles say this gives the company no particular advantage. This is a small publisher, probably publish on demand, that sells exclusively through amazon. Their only contact is a P.O. box.
There were TWO things going on here. A few days ago Google introducedc the VOLUNTARY background. You could, if you wanted to, add a Bing-like background. The link at the bottom left allowed you to control this. That was available for a few days.
The SECOND thing that happened was a non-voluntary background. There were at least two of them. The first was a Dale Chihuly pice; the second was some sort of yellow flower design. The bottomleft link stayed, but, as people have said, didn't work unless you were signed in.
The option still exists, even as we speak. If you are signed into Google, you can Bingify the page.
Wow! Symphony! Now THERE'S a cutting-edge technology! I remember the helicopters buzzing Manhattan in, umm, 1990 something, proclaiming. "We're cool! We're Lotus 1-2-3 in drag because now we incor[orate a word processor and, umm, Visiterm!" Next up: "Munich has disclosed that the entire city is dumping Windows for DOS 6.0"
Which was kind of my point. I didn't expect to have to point out the obvious, particularly in view of the previous post which was suggesting the coke got hauled away never to be seen again.
Interesting. I live in the Pacific Northwest and regularly encounter water rationing in the summers. Everyone seems completely obsessed with the size of the snow pack in the Cascade Mountains worrying if it will melt too early. Sure the rain forest in Olympic National Park has a great water table; it's just that no one lives there and you can't get to it. We're certainly better off than southern Arizona, but it isn't as if it's not a problem at all.
I'm not sure that is 100% true. Coca Cola licenses the formula to be used by local bottling companies who "make" the coke for more or less local distribution. Every major city has a coca cola bottling plant for distribution right there.
"China's 1.33 billion citizens each have 2,117 cubic meters of water available to them per year... In the US, consumers can count on as much as 9,943 cubic meters."
There's something missing here. I don't know what it is. It says "citizens...water available to them." Sounds personal. A cubic meter is 264.2 gallons (US) My last water bill averaged 125 gallons per day (for $26.00, in minimum charge territory.) That works out to 165 cubic meters a year. Now, if they REALLY mean water 'consumed on my behalf' with farming of crops I wind up eating, or cleaning the chips in the computer I just bought, or commercial water use in my area I have nothing personally to do with, that's one thing, but water consumption by individuals is surely much less even if many people are far more extravagent than I am. And "counting on 9,943 cubic meters" per person isn't the same as using it. I did RTFA and this issue isn't addressed. They are more interested in water fights between India and China. Any enlightenment thanked in advance.
Remember Level 3? There's a whole lot of dark fiber already in the ground that is obsolete and will never be lit up. Level 3 has conduit and fiber in place all over the globe. Before "The Fall" it was trading near $100 per share. Now it's $1.25. So no, I wouldn't buy stock in this venture.
Mod parent up. Market capitalization is nothing more than perceived value by those who play the stock market gambling game. It's driven by a combination of factors, including the falling Euro, the Greek disaster, and the Gulf oil spill, all which have nothing to do with Apple. I suppose it gives Apple some bragging rights for awhile, but it doesn't have much to do with the real world. Microsoft isn't selling iPhones or marketing music. Apple isn't marketing Microsoft Office.
just cancelled out ALL the 'carbon mitigation' efforts around the world for the last five years. That's right. The volcano's CO2 emissions are more than was saved by all the Priuses, all the 'green' efforts to reduce carbon, the whole enchilada. So unless you get Mother Neture to sign on to Cap n Trade it doesn't matter much what you do. Ironically, the eruption will likely result in an overall cooling trend the same way the volcano in the Phillipines did a few years ago.
B of A used to have pretty good service. Up until the last financial bubble I had a Master Relationship Account where I had my own Asst Vice Prez to call, no fees, free checks, etc.. She could usually get me an uptick on interest rates, etc. I called her up and said, "What do we do now." She was very upbeat, said B of A could weather this no problem. A few months later she was laid off and the Master Relationship Account disappeared in favor of a First Gold Checking with the threat of fees and no more private banker. I'm moving to the credit union, but once you get auto payments and online banking established, it's a bitch to switch.
Follow through. Today I finally got it all squared away. Turns out they have a "Wealth Management Group" you can call if you have their secret number. The called me up, square it all away, and Mr. Chu has his $200 back. I told teh lady, "If Mr Chu bounced a check for this he really shouldn't have to pay." She assured me she had checked that. Anyway....
And yet, if government, because of this dynamic, continues not to be able to adopt modern transactional practices, then it's going to fall further behind the satisfaction curve.
Ha ha ha ha! Let me tell you how well private industry is doing. Last week I got on my online account with B of A. I discovered a deposit of $210.50 had been made to my account from out of state. I looked at the counter deposit and discovered that a Ms or Mr Chu from Virginia had deposited the $210.50 into their own account, but somehow in data entry a 'proof code' had been changed that put it in my account, with the exact same number, in another state. The deposit slip itself was filled out correctly and gave me enough information to figure out what had happened.
I tried to call them up. No dice as no number provided a human. So I carefully set about emailing them (online form) giving them ALL the information they needed to fix it, all the secret numbers, everything they needed to know. The next week I get a reply when I signed onto the account saying they considered this situation URGENT, but not only could they NOT email me at the address I provided, they also were not allowed to make outgoing calls to the contact number I provided. They gave me an 800 number to call, but only during 9-5 business hours.
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Way back before there were PCs I learned BASIC in a graduate school course. Today, that is taught, if at all, in elementary school. SURELY today by the time a student gets to college, he or she knows all about word processing, spreadsheets (Long live Lotus 123!) and Powerpoint. Courses on these subjects are largely superfulous. No one with any brains needs them. I see my local community college offers them for the "gotta get retrained" crowd, but other than that colleges might take a good hard look at their courses--and eliminate them.
I went to the site and looked around. You selected the absolute worst, of course. But if you go to the project page of each one of these, there were some very nice designs submitted. It's obvious why professional designers don't like this, the kind of people who charge tens of thousands of dollars for a single logo. They are being undercut by some very nice designs.
I've bought hundreds of Dells, really. Maybe a thousand altogether, but probably no more than that. I'd buy them ten or twenty at a time. I'm actually a guy who likes doing it. I love taking a new computer out of the box to smell those wafting polymers in the air. Out of the box failure rate = 0. Three year failure rate = maybe 1 per 100, too low to really need to track. I actually usually pushed the boxes to five years. Customer Service? I don't believe I've ever called them. I simply didn't need it. If I have to call customer service, I figure I'm the one who failed. They were reasonably priced, reasonably well powered, network ready, and easy to work on. I used them for rack mount servers as well. I bought between forty and fifty of those. I had one drive go out.
Maybe different model and all, but certainly in my own case, I simply don't have any problems at all with Dell.
Uh, no, but I've got root, so it doesn't matter. I own the keymaster.
The first library automation system I installed, in about 1982, had us convert from a signature check out system to one using barcodes and had us issue library cards with barcodes on them. We received a very eruditely written letter (Perfect English and grammar) from a gentleman who patiently explained to us that barcodes were the mark of the beast and we were to disassociate his name from any barcodes immediately and he would be checking back to make sure this happened.
Just FYI. The system was made by Geac of Canada. Most code was written in ZOPL (Our Programming Language with a "Z" in front to make it sound cool) It also used Hugo, Ugli, and Glug, a report generator. And root was called "dyna" envisioned as a vast sea which contained 'islands' (sub-directories) and "God Bless all who sail her." That system was history years ago, but it taught me the meaning of the old saying, "I've forgotten more than you will ever know." Only a few people in the world understand the phrase "liberator card."
Anyone here remember Geac?
Legality has nothing to do with it. Your "rights" to play WoW instead of parent your kids has nothing to do with it. You're getting a divorce. It's nasty. The opposing attorney is going to try to paint you as a poor parent so that a judge will rule against whatever it is you want, whether it is custody, alimony, or the house.
How do you think you're going to look when your attorney gets up and counters this with "My client has the legal right to play WoW."? You'll look like a self-indulgent, egotistical, self-righteous prig who ignores his/her kids to play stupid irrelevant games on the Internet. It IS all about you, but not in the way you think. Do you get it yet?
And yet this guy showed you himself what he thinks about dignity. Ask his victims (plural)
Oh, wait.....They're dead.
Do you seriously believe that your "gmail" account, which is provide by, you know, Google, could not be accessed by Google anytime at all, regardless of their druve by WiFi shenanigans? You've already put yopur trust in Google by accepting an email account from them in the first place.
A committee did and then put his name on it because they felt it would be recognizable to Roosevelt enough that he would pay attemtion to it. In fact, the committee members joked about what they would put in the next letter from Einstein.
Yes, yes. America is bad (tm); the rest of the world is good. Look at it this way. If that original 'compromise' had not been made, the USA would never have existed and, a few years later, the most devestating war that had ever been fought in human history would not have resulted in the deaths of vast numbers of Caucasian soldiers, more than all the rest of America's wars combined, not to mention the complete devastation of the countryside and a complete disruption of the economy.
Slavery was brought to the colonies by British subjects in 1619 and institutionalized by the British system for 160 years. When the US became a country those pushing for a continuation of slavery had been British subjects. So America inherited the blame. The British did not entirely ban slavery until 1840, when the last "apprentices" were freed. This was a scant generation before this ountry did the same thing.
We've lost sight of the fact that until 1865 the "United States" was a plural noun. By 'today's standards' Washington, Jefferson, and Adams are dangerous right wingers threatening the stability of the socialist state. But there is a tenth amendment. Though the feds would prefer you forget that it exists, there is a tenth amendment (and a second). Why not go read them? In fact, read all 27.
No, it's not a 'standard disclaimer.' If you RTFA the legal beagles say this gives the company no particular advantage. This is a small publisher, probably publish on demand, that sells exclusively through amazon. Their only contact is a P.O. box.
There were TWO things going on here. A few days ago Google introducedc the VOLUNTARY background. You could, if you wanted to, add a Bing-like background. The link at the bottom left allowed you to control this. That was available for a few days.
The SECOND thing that happened was a non-voluntary background. There were at least two of them. The first was a Dale Chihuly pice; the second was some sort of yellow flower design. The bottomleft link stayed, but, as people have said, didn't work unless you were signed in.
The option still exists, even as we speak. If you are signed into Google, you can Bingify the page.
Wow! Symphony! Now THERE'S a cutting-edge technology! I remember the helicopters buzzing Manhattan in, umm, 1990 something, proclaiming. "We're cool! We're Lotus 1-2-3 in drag because now we incor[orate a word processor and, umm, Visiterm!" Next up: "Munich has disclosed that the entire city is dumping Windows for DOS 6.0"
News at eleven.
Which was kind of my point. I didn't expect to have to point out the obvious, particularly in view of the previous post which was suggesting the coke got hauled away never to be seen again.
2.4 billion - 2.36 billion = 40 million.
There, fixed that for ya.
Math and stuff.
Interesting. I live in the Pacific Northwest and regularly encounter water rationing in the summers. Everyone seems completely obsessed with the size of the snow pack in the Cascade Mountains worrying if it will melt too early. Sure the rain forest in Olympic National Park has a great water table; it's just that no one lives there and you can't get to it. We're certainly better off than southern Arizona, but it isn't as if it's not a problem at all.
I'm not sure that is 100% true. Coca Cola licenses the formula to be used by local bottling companies who "make" the coke for more or less local distribution. Every major city has a coca cola bottling plant for distribution right there.
"China's 1.33 billion citizens each have 2,117 cubic meters of water available to them per year... In the US, consumers can count on as much as 9,943 cubic meters."
There's something missing here. I don't know what it is. It says "citizens...water available to them." Sounds personal. A cubic meter is 264.2 gallons (US) My last water bill averaged 125 gallons per day (for $26.00, in minimum charge territory.) That works out to 165 cubic meters a year. Now, if they REALLY mean water 'consumed on my behalf' with farming of crops I wind up eating, or cleaning the chips in the computer I just bought, or commercial water use in my area I have nothing personally to do with, that's one thing, but water consumption by individuals is surely much less even if many people are far more extravagent than I am. And "counting on 9,943 cubic meters" per person isn't the same as using it. I did RTFA and this issue isn't addressed. They are more interested in water fights between India and China. Any enlightenment thanked in advance.
Remember Level 3? There's a whole lot of dark fiber already in the ground that is obsolete and will never be lit up. Level 3 has conduit and fiber in place all over the globe. Before "The Fall" it was trading near $100 per share. Now it's $1.25. So no, I wouldn't buy stock in this venture.
Mod parent up. Market capitalization is nothing more than perceived value by those who play the stock market gambling game. It's driven by a combination of factors, including the falling Euro, the Greek disaster, and the Gulf oil spill, all which have nothing to do with Apple. I suppose it gives Apple some bragging rights for awhile, but it doesn't have much to do with the real world. Microsoft isn't selling iPhones or marketing music. Apple isn't marketing Microsoft Office.
just cancelled out ALL the 'carbon mitigation' efforts around the world for the last five years. That's right. The volcano's CO2 emissions are more than was saved by all the Priuses, all the 'green' efforts to reduce carbon, the whole enchilada. So unless you get Mother Neture to sign on to Cap n Trade it doesn't matter much what you do. Ironically, the eruption will likely result in an overall cooling trend the same way the volcano in the Phillipines did a few years ago.
The fact that this story is not in idle, or the fact that it has so many "serious" replies?
Next up: An in-depth analysis of what brand of adhesive tape is best to mend your glasses.
If Steve Jobs is still CEO in 2011, Apple stands to see a market drop they haven't seen since the mid-90's.
I'm no Apple fanboy; I own no Apple products, but I'm predicting your prediction is hogwash. Like Apple's done so poorly with Jobs so far.
B of A used to have pretty good service. Up until the last financial bubble I had a Master Relationship Account where I had my own Asst Vice Prez to call, no fees, free checks, etc.. She could usually get me an uptick on interest rates, etc. I called her up and said, "What do we do now." She was very upbeat, said B of A could weather this no problem. A few months later she was laid off and the Master Relationship Account disappeared in favor of a First Gold Checking with the threat of fees and no more private banker. I'm moving to the credit union, but once you get auto payments and online banking established, it's a bitch to switch.
Follow through. Today I finally got it all squared away. Turns out they have a "Wealth Management Group" you can call if you have their secret number. The called me up, square it all away, and Mr. Chu has his $200 back. I told teh lady, "If Mr Chu bounced a check for this he really shouldn't have to pay." She assured me she had checked that. Anyway....
And yet, if government, because of this dynamic, continues not to be able to adopt modern transactional practices, then it's going to fall further behind the satisfaction curve.
Ha ha ha ha! Let me tell you how well private industry is doing. Last week I got on my online account with B of A. I discovered a deposit of $210.50 had been made to my account from out of state. I looked at the counter deposit and discovered that a Ms or Mr Chu from Virginia had deposited the $210.50 into their own account, but somehow in data entry a 'proof code' had been changed that put it in my account, with the exact same number, in another state. The deposit slip itself was filled out correctly and gave me enough information to figure out what had happened.
I tried to call them up. No dice as no number provided a human. So I carefully set about emailing them (online form) giving them ALL the information they needed to fix it, all the secret numbers, everything they needed to know. The next week I get a reply when I signed onto the account saying they considered this situation URGENT, but not only could they NOT email me at the address I provided, they also were not allowed to make outgoing calls to the contact number I provided. They gave me an 800 number to call, but only during 9-5 business hours.
Meanwhile Mr. Chu is out his $200 bucks.
Un fucking believable!