Not to get into any serious MS bashing, I'm just very pissed off at them right now...
I've never run office 2000 on a 233, so I can't say for sure, but I'm running it on a 333 at the moment and it is dog slow. Its true that once you wait for the damn hour glass to go away some of the programs will run fine, but don't expect to get useable performance off a 233 when running something like access.
I guess I should get on topic now >:D (or at least on the topic for this thread). All these new fangled fast processors might be considered overkill for some things, but if you look at what people want to run (Windows, Office, etc) the people developing those applications are making no noticable attempt to include any sort of efficiency, therefore one needs to put the fastest processor that he/she can afford into a box just to make it useable. Not that I'm a huge fan of cyrix, but I welcome any cheap processor with reasonably fast speed to the market.
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By making the project GPL it is already doomed. It means more or less that the project and therefore the idea it represents will reach only a tiny (5% or so) of computer users.
5% of computer users is quite a few people. You have to remember that a project like this isn't for the average user. Most people don't want to give up windows and don't want to use any sort of different user interface. Because it is GPL it will reach the people that want to try it out (like me). Right now in the computer world there are so many people interested in playing around with GPL software that if this project turns out to be everything that it says it will be then it will be around for quite some time.
heheh... got that same letter the other day. The only problem is that the only decent connections I can get off the school's network are to leech mp3s off napster...
How many areas rely on coal or oil plants alone, rather than just as a backup?
I'm sure lots of areas rely on coal and oil plants for power. Last I heard, coal makes about 80% of the power in the US. There are several thousand coal plants scattered around the country, yet only about 110 nuclear plants (making around 10% of our power). Also, we haven't made a new nuclear power plant in around 15 years or so.
This thing can't be better than hydro/nuclear power.
I bet it doesn't even begin to hold a candle to nuclear and hydro power, but for some reason people don't seem interested in those methods of generating power. Personally, I'm all for anything that'll keep me from choking to death on the coal dust being pumped into our air, plus it makes for another neat little electric toy...
Alternative Tenacles! That's the record label to go with. They are the complete opposite of what the RIAA stands for, and I've never been disappointed with anything they've put out... they don't have too many cd's out, but they've got lots of "unique" music...
what exactly would your career options be if you decided to leave the NSA's employ?
My guess would be you could apply just about anywhere you wanted, except perhaps for a government agency in another country. I know one of my coworkers is a former NSA employee. I'm sure everything will be fine as long as you don't go blabing about the work you did there (after all, it is secret)... remember, its not the mafia or "The Firm" or anything...
I just got through reading the employment information on the NSA's web page. There's lots of it there... it seems like it wouldn't be a bad place to work...
Re:We can't vote on every single thing...
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I humbly suggest that the potential to do that is now at hand
That sounds like a good idea to me, but there are a few flaws with the idea. The main one that I'd like to bring up (and one that I don't think any of the other replies have brought up) is the fact that we don't know enough about everything to make the right decision. We all have opinions, and some decisions are based purely on what the opinion of the majority is (issues such as abortion), but there are decisions that should be made by experts.
I'm not saying that we aren't smart enough to run our own country, I'm saying that some things shouldn't be decided by the general population voting. Some economic issues, national security issues, and various other things that the average person just isn't qualified to make a decision about. This may be because we're not all trained to understand the effects of some actions (we're not all economists, I know its one of my weak points) and that's why we elect people to handle these things for us.
After all, if we spent all day every day doing research and voting, when would we have the time to be effected by what we're voting on?
The CIA and the NSA are not handled by any democratically elected official, nor by anybody appointed by such an officail
And you call me uninformed? Your paranoia is taking over again. Who pays the bills to run these operations? People in elected offices (the congress) do. Sometimes the people in charge (who aren't elected, but are appointed by people who are) get out of the loop, but they can get back into the loop, and they have the power to control what's going on.
If you don't like how security is being handled, you can vote for people who will investigate these agencies, people who will reform them, and people who will shut them down if they're in violation of our rights. No matter how carried away they get they still must obey the constitution and secure our basic rights. I'm not saying that they always do, but I'm saying that they are required to, and if they're not then we have the power to do something about it.
The US is no longer a democracy, because we no longer control our security democratically
You've gotta love the paranoia, I know I do. I'd like to point out that we are a democracy (as much as we have ever been). You've got to understand that we elect people into high positions, and they make decisions or appoint people to make decisions for them, that's the way the system works. We can't vote on every single thing that happens in the government. We've got to allow the people we elect to do their jobs, or elect someone else to do them.
I don't think our national security was ever handled democratically. Could you imagine our troops standing in the woods waiting for the votes to come in on where to attack next?
You may not agree with everything that goes on in the government, I know I don't, but you can do your part to change it. You can eather sit back and bitch about it and let things get even more messed up, or you can go out and try to change things...
Talking to Norm MacDonald might be cool, but having a recording of Norm talk to a machine recording it is not.
I could understand how it would be cool to meet him face to face, but leaving recordings of Norm Macdonald's voice on people's answer machines is just cruel. Have you people heard his voice? Its sounds like a robot that's being kicked in the nuts.
Strong words, but netscape deserves all of them. I don't know about the rest of you, but I've felt a little abandoned by netscape for the past year or so. None of the 4.x browsers are as good as they should be, and that goes for every platform. Most of the people I know have switched to other browsers, weather they're good or not they're better than netscape has been.
Like the letter said, netscape has only a little bit of time left before they lose all their users. Kinda sad for a product that (I think) was once really great.
He's allowed to have his own opinion, and I'm sure what he's saying is correct... but he should have mentioned that about 25 or 30 years ago... its a little late now.
If you hate Microsoft products so much, why do you continue use them?
Well, because I have to. Every computer in this office has office on it. Almost every document is sent out in some sort of office format. Almost all of our databases are in access format. Its not my fault, I didn't decide what software to use.
I know people that have quit their jobs because they refuse to use Microsoft products
Its a major annoyance, but I'm not going to quit over it. After all, its the company that's loosing money because of this software (as in having to pay people for time they spend rebooting their computers when the applications crash)...
Anyway, my comment wasn't about how I wish I didn't have to use microsoft products (I'm sure I've posted several comments on that topic already). It was about how even though Star Office may be slow to load and a bit annoying to use, the software with the biggest market share isn't any better...
Microsoft completely avoided that problem. They designed office applications (especially access) so that they load up quickly (under a half hour) but god forbid you should try to shut them down. I've spent many late nights waiting for parts of MS office to shut down, and for clippy to get his ugly ass off my screen.
Office 2000 seems to have perfected this. After a few minutes of hanging up the computer the program will GPF and die... a very innovative solution, if you ask me.
13 - 17 is a rather useless spot to be trying to get customers from
That's not true. You gotta remember that even though they don't have very much income, they don't have any expenses. Most 13-17 year olds will find a way to get money (from their parents, or by getting a job) and spend that money faster than an adult will. Or, if they don't have the money to blow, they can get their parents to pay for it.
If you ask me, that's the main problem with alternative fuels... they're not available. If you go to the DOE's website and find the section on alternative fuels (I don't have the url on hand)there is a feature that'll let you search for alternative fuel stations near you. I searched last summer, and I found that the closest place to gas up with methanol was about 200 miles away, and it sure as hell is not worth it to use a full tank of fuel to drive to a place to buy more fuel.
Ford seems to be leading the way with the methanol fueled cars. They have some pickups and some of their cars (taurus and crown vic to name a few) that are available to run off methanol. Other companies seem to be waisting time with crap like electric cars (that electricity comes from burning fossil fuels anyway, so what's the difference?). Its all about the availability, the methanol burning cars aren't hard to make, the methanol itself isn't hard to make, its just a matter of it finding its way into a market that's dominated by oil companies.
That's all very true. I think forcing people to vote is a very bad idea. I was just raising that point because someone asked "are people too lazy to get off their arses and vote." The statistics say yes, people are too lazy to vote, and one of the advantages to internet voting is that it will make voting easier for the people who don't have the time or are too lazy to go vote.
Perhaps the addition of a "none of the above" option would also increase attendance at the polls....
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Man, that's one phat table...
Office 2000 would have no problems on a 233
Not to get into any serious MS bashing, I'm just very pissed off at them right now...
I've never run office 2000 on a 233, so I can't say for sure, but I'm running it on a 333 at the moment and it is dog slow. Its true that once you wait for the damn hour glass to go away some of the programs will run fine, but don't expect to get useable performance off a 233 when running something like access.
I guess I should get on topic now >:D (or at least on the topic for this thread). All these new fangled fast processors might be considered overkill for some things, but if you look at what people want to run (Windows, Office, etc) the people developing those applications are making no noticable attempt to include any sort of efficiency, therefore one needs to put the fastest processor that he/she can afford into a box just to make it useable. Not that I'm a huge fan of cyrix, but I welcome any cheap processor with reasonably fast speed to the market.
Well, it looks like you've got some coding to do.
By making the project GPL it is already doomed. It means more or less that the project and therefore the idea it represents will reach only a tiny (5% or so) of computer users.
5% of computer users is quite a few people. You have to remember that a project like this isn't for the average user. Most people don't want to give up windows and don't want to use any sort of different user interface. Because it is GPL it will reach the people that want to try it out (like me). Right now in the computer world there are so many people interested in playing around with GPL software that if this project turns out to be everything that it says it will be then it will be around for quite some time.
heheh... got that same letter the other day. The only problem is that the only decent connections I can get off the school's network are to leech mp3s off napster...
How many areas rely on coal or oil plants alone, rather than just as a backup?
I'm sure lots of areas rely on coal and oil plants for power. Last I heard, coal makes about 80% of the power in the US. There are several thousand coal plants scattered around the country, yet only about 110 nuclear plants (making around 10% of our power). Also, we haven't made a new nuclear power plant in around 15 years or so.
This thing can't be better than hydro/nuclear power.
I bet it doesn't even begin to hold a candle to nuclear and hydro power, but for some reason people don't seem interested in those methods of generating power. Personally, I'm all for anything that'll keep me from choking to death on the coal dust being pumped into our air, plus it makes for another neat little electric toy...
Better yet, vote Jello Biafra for president. He is running after all
He would have my vote, but he's out of the election. He was going for the green party nomination which was given to Ralph Nader.
I'm sure he'll try again in 4 years >:D
Alternative Tenacles! That's the record label to go with. They are the complete opposite of what the RIAA stands for, and I've never been disappointed with anything they've put out... they don't have too many cd's out, but they've got lots of "unique" music...
what exactly would your career options be if you decided to leave the NSA's employ?
My guess would be you could apply just about anywhere you wanted, except perhaps for a government agency in another country. I know one of my coworkers is a former NSA employee. I'm sure everything will be fine as long as you don't go blabing about the work you did there (after all, it is secret)... remember, its not the mafia or "The Firm" or anything...
I just got through reading the employment information on the NSA's web page. There's lots of it there... it seems like it wouldn't be a bad place to work...
I humbly suggest that the potential to do that is now at hand
That sounds like a good idea to me, but there are a few flaws with the idea. The main one that I'd like to bring up (and one that I don't think any of the other replies have brought up) is the fact that we don't know enough about everything to make the right decision. We all have opinions, and some decisions are based purely on what the opinion of the majority is (issues such as abortion), but there are decisions that should be made by experts.
I'm not saying that we aren't smart enough to run our own country, I'm saying that some things shouldn't be decided by the general population voting. Some economic issues, national security issues, and various other things that the average person just isn't qualified to make a decision about. This may be because we're not all trained to understand the effects of some actions (we're not all economists, I know its one of my weak points) and that's why we elect people to handle these things for us.
After all, if we spent all day every day doing research and voting, when would we have the time to be effected by what we're voting on?
The CIA and the NSA are not handled by any democratically elected official, nor by anybody appointed by such an officail
And you call me uninformed? Your paranoia is taking over again. Who pays the bills to run these operations? People in elected offices (the congress) do. Sometimes the people in charge (who aren't elected, but are appointed by people who are) get out of the loop, but they can get back into the loop, and they have the power to control what's going on.
If you don't like how security is being handled, you can vote for people who will investigate these agencies, people who will reform them, and people who will shut them down if they're in violation of our rights. No matter how carried away they get they still must obey the constitution and secure our basic rights. I'm not saying that they always do, but I'm saying that they are required to, and if they're not then we have the power to do something about it.
The US is no longer a democracy, because we no longer control our security democratically
You've gotta love the paranoia, I know I do. I'd like to point out that we are a democracy (as much as we have ever been). You've got to understand that we elect people into high positions, and they make decisions or appoint people to make decisions for them, that's the way the system works. We can't vote on every single thing that happens in the government. We've got to allow the people we elect to do their jobs, or elect someone else to do them.
I don't think our national security was ever handled democratically. Could you imagine our troops standing in the woods waiting for the votes to come in on where to attack next?
You may not agree with everything that goes on in the government, I know I don't, but you can do your part to change it. You can eather sit back and bitch about it and let things get even more messed up, or you can go out and try to change things...
www.echelon.com,.. Still trying to figure out if this is real or not.
It looks real, but for some reason there isn't any www.echelon.gov
Jon Katz is an idiot.
Yes, and he's not a household name like other idiots, such as Bill Gates...
Talking to Norm MacDonald might be cool, but having a recording of Norm talk to a machine recording it is not.
I could understand how it would be cool to meet him face to face, but leaving recordings of Norm Macdonald's voice on people's answer machines is just cruel. Have you people heard his voice? Its sounds like a robot that's being kicked in the nuts.
Strong words, but netscape deserves all of them. I don't know about the rest of you, but I've felt a little abandoned by netscape for the past year or so. None of the 4.x browsers are as good as they should be, and that goes for every platform. Most of the people I know have switched to other browsers, weather they're good or not they're better than netscape has been.
Like the letter said, netscape has only a little bit of time left before they lose all their users. Kinda sad for a product that (I think) was once really great.
He's allowed to have his own opinion, and I'm sure what he's saying is correct... but he should have mentioned that about 25 or 30 years ago... its a little late now.
If you hate Microsoft products so much, why do you continue use them?
Well, because I have to. Every computer in this office has office on it. Almost every document is sent out in some sort of office format. Almost all of our databases are in access format. Its not my fault, I didn't decide what software to use.
I know people that have quit their jobs because they refuse to use Microsoft products
Its a major annoyance, but I'm not going to quit over it. After all, its the company that's loosing money because of this software (as in having to pay people for time they spend rebooting their computers when the applications crash)...
Anyway, my comment wasn't about how I wish I didn't have to use microsoft products (I'm sure I've posted several comments on that topic already). It was about how even though Star Office may be slow to load and a bit annoying to use, the software with the biggest market share isn't any better...
any release on that particular day has to be bad luck!
Hey! That's my birthday!
And it just so happens I was born on a friday...
Microsoft completely avoided that problem. They designed office applications (especially access) so that they load up quickly (under a half hour) but god forbid you should try to shut them down. I've spent many late nights waiting for parts of MS office to shut down, and for clippy to get his ugly ass off my screen.
Office 2000 seems to have perfected this. After a few minutes of hanging up the computer the program will GPF and die... a very innovative solution, if you ask me.
yea, the article can >:D
13 - 17 is a rather useless spot to be trying to get customers from
That's not true. You gotta remember that even though they don't have very much income, they don't have any expenses. Most 13-17 year olds will find a way to get money (from their parents, or by getting a job) and spend that money faster than an adult will. Or, if they don't have the money to blow, they can get their parents to pay for it.
If you ask me, that's the main problem with alternative fuels... they're not available. If you go to the DOE's website and find the section on alternative fuels (I don't have the url on hand)there is a feature that'll let you search for alternative fuel stations near you. I searched last summer, and I found that the closest place to gas up with methanol was about 200 miles away, and it sure as hell is not worth it to use a full tank of fuel to drive to a place to buy more fuel.
Ford seems to be leading the way with the methanol fueled cars. They have some pickups and some of their cars (taurus and crown vic to name a few) that are available to run off methanol. Other companies seem to be waisting time with crap like electric cars (that electricity comes from burning fossil fuels anyway, so what's the difference?). Its all about the availability, the methanol burning cars aren't hard to make, the methanol itself isn't hard to make, its just a matter of it finding its way into a market that's dominated by oil companies.
That's all very true. I think forcing people to vote is a very bad idea. I was just raising that point because someone asked "are people too lazy to get off their arses and vote." The statistics say yes, people are too lazy to vote, and one of the advantages to internet voting is that it will make voting easier for the people who don't have the time or are too lazy to go vote.
Perhaps the addition of a "none of the above" option would also increase attendance at the polls....