Why is the building "pretty ugly"? Because you say so? Ah, so you've studied architecture at length, have you? You're an expert on the aesthetics of the built environment? No? I didn't think so.
I have news for you. Any one can have a valid opinion about the looks of anything. I may hate the way a coffee pot at Target looks. I'm not a materials designer. It's their job to please us! I won't buy what I think it ugly. The board of directors/trustees who authorized that building, must have had several bids and picked that one. Personnally, I never would have. Art that pleases 80%-90% of the population will most likely please 80%-90% of the population in 100 years. Art that 5% of the population like now, will in a 100 years still be art that only 5% of the population like. Buildings are a valid artform. Like all art though it should please its audience. Did this one? Remember, we aren't the audience. The board that authorized it and the staff that will have to work their are.
The man can be an asshole, and he is full of himself. To me he has earned the right to be full of himself.
I see that you are confused. Most mathematicians are like that not just Stallman. Most people will bitch and moan about stuff just like Stallman. What is different? Stallman has his own audience of linux geeks that will listen to him. Most mathematications have their own strong opinions about life; most people do. If I bitch and moan, my co-workers would listen to me for five minutes, then they'd tell me to shut up and get back to work.
Yes, but then 75% of Win98 and WinXP games will not run as a regular user. They demand admin access. Does regular user care. Nope, he wants to play his game. Why should he be restricted from his own machine? I know the reasons myself. Try convincing him of that though.
It's an abnormal request - a student doesn't have an obvious need for information about the tunnels at his school.
What if he is a GIS student attempting to map out all the utilities of his school? What if he was an CS student asking for all information about the data lines into the school? Unusual, yes. Universities and college encourage students to think about their environment. If you were doing a class project, wouldn't you do it about your school rather than some random public buidling?
There already exist entitites that make others of their type, operate on chemical energy from the enviroment, and are self-repairing. We call them "bacteria".
How many "bacteria" and long does it take to form a tree, or a table? Yes, we could do it, but I'd think it'll take about a 100 years to grow a house from scratch.
Yes, it is cheating. But does he count how long it takes to turn his computer on and dailup for each question as well? I'm assuming that he had his computer turned on and web browser up on a lan. It could have taken him 30-40 seconds on dialup.
Remember this is just a benchmarking review. When have benchmarks ever told the truth?
Hey, the only time I've ever even heard of Who's Who was them asking for money for me to be included in their book. I just figured Whos Who was always a scam to tell the truth. Who knew that some people use it for reference?
people who want a PDA and for whom 650 bucks doesnt mean anything.
If you are a person that wants a PDA and for whom 650 bucks doesnt mean anything, please send me $1300 and I'll test a PDA for you, and keep an, um, backup handy for when yours is down we could have a replacement ready.
Just send me the money and see what I could do for you.
It's been hyped since the mid-90's, but thin clients have never really caught on in the corporate environment. Why is that?
No, it is because tons of managers that just need IE, Outlook, and Wordpad, opps Word, and Access won't stand it. Managers have to have a scanner, digital camera, video capture cards, and dual monitors. It doesn't matter what they are managing they approve the budget. If it wasn't the manager, it would be the IT guy or the desktop publishing/web guru that needed it. The managers would generally argree that they need to lock down and micromanage all their employees. They want all that on the same platform as all their toys.
Thin clients should be on almost every business desktop. Other than call centers, I'd doubt that will ever happen. Remember if it was good enough for the manager it is good enough for his sec. or assistant.
What kind of problem is that supposed to be? Are you just evaluating the expression? I know I had a hard time thinking of an example right of the top of my head. Usually you'd have something like the quadratic formalua and you'd have to solve it for some point. It is hard the couple of times, but gets really easy. Ax^2+Bx+C=y There were several classes of problems that just find the consansts or fill in what you know, plug in an x or graph an y as a consant and just find the intersection of the lines. There are dozens of ways to solve problems. We'd find one that we'd like and stick with it.
My buddies fiance is student teaching a class of 8th graders and says that for simple *addition*, kids are breaking out their TI's.
When I was in HS, we'd graph the equation to solve it, or we'd type our an entire equation. 96 + 48 is an easy step, but when you have 10 problems of 10x^3 + 20(a^2+b^3)^3 where a = 5, b = 3 & x = 2 for a 5 min. daily quiz. It helps to be able to put it all in one line and solve it in one step.
Lastly, why would an OS need all this power? The OS isn't supposed to gobble up all the machine's resources, because then you can't run these power-hungry apps.
Oh, really it for MS Total Information Awareness. You actually only have 10% of that TB of HD to use. The rest is reserved for MS use to record everything you do. They then spend 25%-50% of the total processing power trying to figure out if the installed version is pirated. Oh, it also has an AI propaganda that redirects all postive mentions of Linux to negative mentions. Slashdot is set by default to be 127.0.0.1 in the sam file as well. They are thinking ahead this time.
And, even if they kept it quiet, it'd be hard to miss something this size and proximity to Earth, even by an amateur astronomer.
What would be bad is if the amateur astronomer agreed and didn't release the news. How large a bribe would needed to keep them quite? How many people look up at the night sky and pay attention? Could you tell that a little tiny dot was coming at us? Could you tell that it wasn't an airplane or helicopter?
I can't. During daylight I could tell that it was an airplane. At night time, it would have to block out the moon for me to notice, which would mean it would be a little late.
With a few exceptions, such as the System management tools, most of these features can be found in a normal linux system. I'm obviously missing something here? (I hope - enlighten me please)
Sun is a multi-billion(???) dollar company selling a desktop solution that isn't Microsoft or IBM. Corporates may decide to pay Sun rather than do it themselves. Don't forget the average IT guy is lazy. Why do something yourself if you can outsource it?
Today's roomful of rack-mounted systems is tomorrow's server unit. Today's server unit is tomorrow's workstation. Today's workstation is tomorrow's desktop. Todays's desktop to tomorrow's laptop. Today's laptop is tomorrow's PDA. Today's PDA is tomorrow's wristwatch.
So how long long until my wristwatch can render the entire Lord of the Rings in the time it would take to watch? Second question, what could I use that much processing power on my wrist for?
Every year there is a huge influx of morons into first year.
And also, every year there is a huge *outflux* of morons from first and second years who finally realize they can't hack it.
Every decent university sees this. They encourage it. Hell most overbook themselves on the basis that only 65% of students stay past their first year.
The reason? Why turn away a morons first year tution?:P
I think the same concept should apply highschool and maybe junior high. Personally, I don't believe public schools should be allowed to have sports teams. If a community wants to sponser youth sports, that is fine and all. I just hate them putting "sports" as part of the basic education package.
What if the FBI came knocking on the door with printouts and said we know the guy that was here 2 nights ago at this IP and computer name is planning a bombing we need all the info. you have on him, now! It would be useful if you could provide a Name and Address.
That's the very thing we should be wary of. It would be best if you COULDN'T supply a name and address. It would be best if the FBI didn't come by to harass you to begin with.
So if the FBI was actually doing its job and found out about a terrorist using your business, actually followed the rules, you would rather say that "I'm sorry although it is required that we collect that information, it is our company policy to shread it and burn it before it could be used against our customers." I know the FBI isn't perfect. They are made up of people. You'd consider it harassment if they came by to pick up a co-worker or a customer that they had proof was about to do something. Those poor FBI agents couldn't look good in your eyes unless they were hunting UFOs.
I agree that I don't want a state where SWAT Teams could just come in and take me and my family away and the neighbors would just shake there heads saying "I always knew they were troublemakers." Actually, I don't care if a SWAT team does come and take me and my family away along as all the official rules are followed, and my other family and employeer are notified. I wouldn't want them to worry.
I'll ask you this. What would happen to you if right now cops with DEA came looking for a drug bust in your house? Right, now the only drugs in my house are allergy related Wal-mart drugs. I'm not big on the war on drugs, but those that do support it wouldn't blink an eye at either type of SWAT team. Your neighbors would just assume that you are a high classed drug middle man rather than a lowlife drug user. Remember, you neighbors are always willing to believe the worst about you. If you are better off than they, it is easier for them to accept. There is no protection from the government. Although it has been mentioned that one reason for the second admendment was so we could overthrow the government, the 9th says we have an infinite amount of rights the federal government shouldn't be able to touch or restrict. People don't seem to see it that way for some reason. I think your neighbors just want to control you.
Customers personal information, such as name, age, and their national citizen identification number, before they are allowed to log onto the Internet.
If only, we could have that here. Hold on. I have to pay for internet access. They usually want my name and some other identifying infomation such as address. I don't tend to use internet cafes though. I'm speaking of home internet. Why shouldn't they be required to write their name, age, and drivers license number here? What if the FBI came knocking on the door with printouts and said we know the guy that was here 2 nights ago at this IP and computer name is planning a bombing we need all the info. you have on him, now! It would be useful if you could provide a Name and Address.
I don't think that it should be required myself. I do believe that it will be required in libraries to "prevent minors" from viewing "adult content."
If Ashcroft thinks along those lines, a regulation here or there in licensing could bring it about with out any troublesome laws.
Remember, you only have to think around those pesky laws if you don't argee with them.
I wish that they'd just do it. Wal-mart's usual method is to put it in a few stores 5-10 in the home state. If it works, spread it out. If it doesn't, see if they could get it to work or look at a different vendor. As Wal-Mart could force most manufacturers to put RFID tags on their products, I'm surprised that they haven't done more testing. They may have. Bar codes save money. RFID Tags could save that much more money than Bar codes. As far as software, all they have to do is modify it to read in the UPC and the RFID tag and it is done. Wal-mart already has very advanced inventory tracking software. Wal-mart's problem is that they need faster/cheaper/easier ways of counting items and verifing the number of item off the truck was the same amount as that put on the truck. The number of products received was the same as the the number of products paid for. The number of items that are on the shelves is what the software says it is. Software isn't magic. It takes stock clerks with barcode wands to do an audit to verify if the store's inventory is "correct." Remember they are trying to reduce shrinkage. Elimating shinkage due to employee theft and employees not following storage procedures would be a good thing. Reducing Shrinkage due to "customers" not paying for "purchased" items would be a good thing as well.
You may be able to say Copyright infrigement does not equal theft. But can you say walking out of Wal-mart with items isn't theft? How could it invade your privacy by them tracking their inventory? Its not your goods unles you purchase them. You can demand that there be no RFID tags on products that you buy. You could go some where else. Here in AR we know that it is possible to compete and stay in business against Wal-mart. I find it hilarious that those in other states are afraid to compete against a little chain store from AR.
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Why is the building "pretty ugly"? Because you say so? Ah, so you've studied architecture at length, have you? You're an expert on the aesthetics of the built environment? No? I didn't think so.
I have news for you. Any one can have a valid opinion about the looks of anything. I may hate the way a coffee pot at Target looks. I'm not a materials designer. It's their job to please us! I won't buy what I think it ugly. The board of directors/trustees who authorized that building, must have had several bids and picked that one. Personnally, I never would have. Art that pleases 80%-90% of the population will most likely please 80%-90% of the population in 100 years. Art that 5% of the population like now, will in a 100 years still be art that only 5% of the population like. Buildings are a valid artform. Like all art though it should please its audience. Did this one? Remember, we aren't the audience. The board that authorized it and the staff that will have to work their are.
The man can be an asshole, and he is full of himself. To me he has earned the right to be full of himself.
I see that you are confused. Most mathematicians are like that not just Stallman. Most people will bitch and moan about stuff just like Stallman. What is different? Stallman has his own audience of linux geeks that will listen to him. Most mathematications have their own strong opinions about life; most people do. If I bitch and moan, my co-workers would listen to me for five minutes, then they'd tell me to shut up and get back to work.
Yes, but then 75% of Win98 and WinXP games will not run as a regular user. They demand admin access. Does regular user care. Nope, he wants to play his game. Why should he be restricted from his own machine? I know the reasons myself. Try convincing him of that though.
It's an abnormal request - a student doesn't have an obvious need for information about the tunnels at his school.
What if he is a GIS student attempting to map out all the utilities of his school? What if he was an CS student asking for all information about the data lines into the school? Unusual, yes. Universities and college encourage students to think about their environment. If you were doing a class project, wouldn't you do it about your school rather than some random public buidling?
Rights that can be arbitrarily taken away at any time aren't rights at all. They're an illusion.
All rights are illusions unless you have your own private military to backup your viewpoint.
Remember StarShip Troopers: Properly applied force is the basis of all government.
There already exist entitites that make others of their type, operate on chemical energy from the enviroment, and are self-repairing. We call them "bacteria".
How many "bacteria" and long does it take to form a tree, or a table? Yes, we could do it, but I'd think it'll take about a 100 years to grow a house from scratch.
Yes, it is cheating. But does he count how long it takes to turn his computer on and dailup for each question as well? I'm assuming that he had his computer turned on and web browser up on a lan. It could have taken him 30-40 seconds on dialup.
Remember this is just a benchmarking review. When have benchmarks ever told the truth?
Hey, the only time I've ever even heard of Who's Who was them asking for money for me to be included in their book. I just figured Whos Who was always a scam to tell the truth. Who knew that some people use it for reference?
No, I'm jealous about the Sweedish bikini team.
And we can import chocolate.
In Soviet Russia, you would be jealous about their chocolate and import the Sweedish bikini team.
there's much more respect to other people, less showing off and more maturity in general. I expect America to catch up in a few years in that respect.
You appear to not have visited US before. We aren't going to catch up on maturity.
people who want a PDA and for whom 650 bucks doesnt mean anything.
If you are a person that wants a PDA and for whom 650 bucks doesnt mean anything, please send me $1300 and I'll test a PDA for you, and keep an, um, backup handy for when yours is down we could have a replacement ready.
Just send me the money and see what I could do for you.
Microsoft dropping this is good in every way, except that it's ghost will return in other forms for sure...
Yes, like in the lastest MS Windows or IE Security Patch.
It's been hyped since the mid-90's, but thin clients have never really caught on in the corporate environment. Why is that?
No, it is because tons of managers that just need IE, Outlook, and Wordpad, opps Word, and Access won't stand it. Managers have to have a scanner, digital camera, video capture cards, and dual monitors. It doesn't matter what they are managing they approve the budget. If it wasn't the manager, it would be the IT guy or the desktop publishing/web guru that needed it. The managers would generally argree that they need to lock down and micromanage all their employees. They want all that on the same platform as all their toys.
Thin clients should be on almost every business desktop. Other than call centers, I'd doubt that will ever happen. Remember if it was good enough for the manager it is good enough for his sec. or assistant.
What kind of problem is that supposed to be? Are you just evaluating the expression?
I know I had a hard time thinking of an example right of the top of my head. Usually you'd have something like the quadratic formalua and you'd have to solve it for some point. It is hard the couple of times, but gets really easy. Ax^2+Bx+C=y There were several classes of problems that just find the consansts or fill in what you know, plug in an x or graph an y as a consant and just find the intersection of the lines. There are dozens of ways to solve problems. We'd find one that we'd like and stick with it.
My buddies fiance is student teaching a class of 8th graders and says that for simple *addition*, kids are breaking out their TI's.
When I was in HS, we'd graph the equation to solve it, or we'd type our an entire equation. 96 + 48 is an easy step, but when you have 10 problems of 10x^3 + 20(a^2+b^3)^3 where a = 5, b = 3 & x = 2 for a 5 min. daily quiz. It helps to be able to put it all in one line and solve it in one step.
Steve jobs will manage to create a pointing device with no buttons at all. Mac users will claim this to be a revolutionary feature.
I already have 10 of them. They are called fingers. Honestly, though only 2 work well for pointing.
that'd better be one hell of a game of Solitaire.
Did MS buy 3D Realms? They may have decided to release Duke Nukem Forever as part of the OS.
Lastly, why would an OS need all this power? The OS isn't supposed to gobble up all the machine's resources, because then you can't run these power-hungry apps.
Oh, really it for MS Total Information Awareness. You actually only have 10% of that TB of HD to use. The rest is reserved for MS use to record everything you do. They then spend 25%-50% of the total processing power trying to figure out if the installed version is pirated. Oh, it also has an AI propaganda that redirects all postive mentions of Linux to negative mentions. Slashdot is set by default to be 127.0.0.1 in the sam file as well. They are thinking ahead this time.
And, even if they kept it quiet, it'd be hard to miss something this size and proximity to Earth, even by an amateur astronomer.
What would be bad is if the amateur astronomer agreed and didn't release the news. How large a bribe would needed to keep them quite? How many people look up at the night sky and pay attention? Could you tell that a little tiny dot was coming at us? Could you tell that it wasn't an airplane or helicopter?
I can't. During daylight I could tell that it was an airplane. At night time, it would have to block out the moon for me to notice, which would mean it would be a little late.
With a few exceptions, such as the System management tools, most of these features can be found in a normal linux system. I'm obviously missing something here? (I hope - enlighten me please)
Sun is a multi-billion(???) dollar company selling a desktop solution that isn't Microsoft or IBM. Corporates may decide to pay Sun rather than do it themselves. Don't forget the average IT guy is lazy. Why do something yourself if you can outsource it?
Today's roomful of rack-mounted systems is tomorrow's server unit.
Today's server unit is tomorrow's workstation.
Today's workstation is tomorrow's desktop.
Todays's desktop to tomorrow's laptop.
Today's laptop is tomorrow's PDA.
Today's PDA is tomorrow's wristwatch.
So how long long until my wristwatch can render the entire Lord of the Rings in the time it would take to watch? Second question, what could I use that much processing power on my wrist for?
Every year there is a huge influx of morons into first year.
:P
And also, every year there is a huge *outflux* of morons from first and second years who finally realize they can't hack it.
Every decent university sees this. They encourage it. Hell most overbook themselves on the basis that only 65% of students stay past their first year.
The reason? Why turn away a morons first year tution?
I think the same concept should apply highschool and maybe junior high. Personally, I don't believe public schools should be allowed to have sports teams. If a community wants to sponser youth sports, that is fine and all. I just hate them putting "sports" as part of the basic education package.
What if the FBI came knocking on the door with printouts and said we know the guy that was here 2 nights ago at this IP and computer name is planning a bombing we need all the info. you have on him, now! It would be useful if you could provide a Name and Address.
That's the very thing we should be wary of. It would be best if you COULDN'T supply a name and address. It would be best if the FBI didn't come by to harass you to begin with.
So if the FBI was actually doing its job and found out about a terrorist using your business, actually followed the rules, you would rather say that "I'm sorry although it is required that we collect that information, it is our company policy to shread it and burn it before it could be used against our customers." I know the FBI isn't perfect. They are made up of people. You'd consider it harassment if they came by to pick up a co-worker or a customer that they had proof was about to do something. Those poor FBI agents couldn't look good in your eyes unless they were hunting UFOs.
I agree that I don't want a state where SWAT Teams could just come in and take me and my family away and the neighbors would just shake there heads saying "I always knew they were troublemakers." Actually, I don't care if a SWAT team does come and take me and my family away along as all the official rules are followed, and my other family and employeer are notified. I wouldn't want them to worry.
I'll ask you this. What would happen to you if right now cops with DEA came looking for a drug bust in your house? Right, now the only drugs in my house are allergy related Wal-mart drugs. I'm not big on the war on drugs, but those that do support it wouldn't blink an eye at either type of SWAT team. Your neighbors would just assume that you are a high classed drug middle man rather than a lowlife drug user. Remember, you neighbors are always willing to believe the worst about you. If you are better off than they, it is easier for them to accept. There is no protection from the government. Although it has been mentioned that one reason for the second admendment was so we could overthrow the government, the 9th says we have an infinite amount of rights the federal government shouldn't be able to touch or restrict. People don't seem to see it that way for some reason. I think your neighbors just want to control you.
Customers personal information, such as name, age, and their national citizen identification number, before they are allowed to log onto the Internet.
If only, we could have that here. Hold on. I have to pay for internet access. They usually want my name and some other identifying infomation such as address. I don't tend to use internet cafes though. I'm speaking of home internet. Why shouldn't they be required to write their name, age, and drivers license number here? What if the FBI came knocking on the door with printouts and said we know the guy that was here 2 nights ago at this IP and computer name is planning a bombing we need all the info. you have on him, now! It would be useful if you could provide a Name and Address.
I don't think that it should be required myself. I do believe that it will be required in libraries to "prevent minors" from viewing "adult content."
If Ashcroft thinks along those lines, a regulation here or there in licensing could bring it about with out any troublesome laws.
Remember, you only have to think around those pesky laws if you don't argee with them.
I wish that they'd just do it. Wal-mart's usual method is to put it in a few stores 5-10 in the home state. If it works, spread it out. If it doesn't, see if they could get it to work or look at a different vendor. As Wal-Mart could force most manufacturers to put RFID tags on their products, I'm surprised that they haven't done more testing. They may have. Bar codes save money. RFID Tags could save that much more money than Bar codes. As far as software, all they have to do is modify it to read in the UPC and the RFID tag and it is done. Wal-mart already has very advanced inventory tracking software. Wal-mart's problem is that they need faster/cheaper/easier ways of counting items and verifing the number of item off the truck was the same amount as that put on the truck. The number of products received was the same as the the number of products paid for. The number of items that are on the shelves is what the software says it is. Software isn't magic. It takes stock clerks with barcode wands to do an audit to verify if the store's inventory is "correct." Remember they are trying to reduce shrinkage. Elimating shinkage due to employee theft and employees not following storage procedures would be a good thing. Reducing Shrinkage due to "customers" not paying for "purchased" items would be a good thing as well.
You may be able to say Copyright infrigement does not equal theft. But can you say walking out of Wal-mart with items isn't theft? How could it invade your privacy by them tracking their inventory? Its not your goods unles you purchase them. You can demand that there be no RFID tags on products that you buy. You could go some where else. Here in AR we know that it is possible to compete and stay in business against Wal-mart. I find it hilarious that those in other states are afraid to compete against a little chain store from AR.