No kidding. I totally agree. I think the problem is that there isn't any peer review or even basic reality checking going on here with the movement. Any attempt to address a critisism is simply met with ignorant responses and scoffing.
My Uncle's company is growing and they looked at the licence compliance issue with MS Office. For each 10 people they would need to shell out $4,000. Or they could just give people a copy of StarOffice and by a new Hazmat suit (they do clean up operations). So the office is going over to StarOffice. Not too shabby.
In 1993 I was working on "The Big Dig" - an extremely large construction project in Boston slated to be completed in 2004. During that year we needed to set up a network link between South Station and 185 Kneeland Street. In good weather it was a godsend. The roads and telephone lines were constantly being chewed up and thus unavailable for a hard link. However in light snow and light rain the network became very slow. This is in 1993 at 1993 levels of network traffic. Whatever technology they have it needs to be really kick ass. The level of weather that would disturb this thing back then was minimal and the only thing keeping this in place was absolute necessity.
Groupware is not just useful, it is empowering. I have worked in companies that have groupware (Lotus Notes) and I now work in one that doesn't. It is like night and day. I was much more effective in the company with groupware. I think that if the system were to use Interbase at it's core (as I am not overly fond of MySQL) they have a good chance at being very competetive. The big problem I see is that a lot of companies and even a lot of tech geeks don't get groupware - they don't see the benefits of it. This is a shame because it makes all the difference in the world when it comes to software design. It also reduces the number of meetings people have to have. Praise the Lord for that one.
Overall I am super glad this thing is going to take off.
I wanted to find more information on the web about this so called slim TV and all I found was a bunch of men who are thin and dress in womens clothing looking for dates!!! I think Sony should rethink the name of this thing!!!
The fact is the media is biased aginst any system that the military develops. The XM-1 program later developed the M-1 Abrams MBT which is the most successful heavy combat tank the United States has ever produced. The M1-A3&4 is just a work of art. However the press lambasted the system before the A1 was out. Much like they are lambasting the V-22 and the MV-44 systems. Oddly this disinformation works for the military as it affects the opinion of World leaders about U.S. combat strength.
As for what systems Rogue states would use, how can you discount the missile as a potential system? It is crazy to discount that. North Korea aleady has Canada and the Northern part of the U.S. in missile range (over the Pole baby) and demonstrated this by firing a missile over Japan.
People here make George W. Bush to be some enemy of the state, of personal freedoms and what have you. It is all liberal bullshit in my opinion. If he was half the dictator people portray him as he would have started the bombing campaign against Iraq, Iran, North Korea, China and everywhere else that would be drastically improved by the glow of atomic warfare. However, he is no Saddam Hussein or Quadafi or Ayatola so he is rightfully taking the defensive approach.
CSS helps the content by reducing the size of the HTML document. Style can convey a lot of meaning - ask anyone who does layout. Smaller file size, means better through put for the site, the more sites that use it the better through put for the entire internet and the better off everyone's experience. I maintain a site for an organization that changes theme focus a lot. CSS means that I can change *one* file to change the *look* of the whole site instantly. The new look is then applied to the new content. Whenever someone wants to change style they don't have to mess with any of my code or mess with a ton of files, they can just go to the correct style sheet file and maket he changes there. It is a good technology. You should embrace it.
I thought Slashdot was pro-freedom, pro-choice? This guy made his choice. He programmed his site for the browser client of his choice. If you don't agree with him don't browse his site or better yet put up your own advocacy site.
The real problem isn't which browser is better, and sites shouldn't ask the client what agent they are. What is smarter is for the client to report what standards they follow. That is what makes sense. (CSS 1.0, DOM 1.0) vs (Netscape X.XX) Browsers should be judged by how well they follow the standards. Browser specific tags are ok, it just limits who can visit your site.
Personally I use HTML-Kit and HTML-tidy so that I know I am targeting a specific standard and not a specific client.
Forbes is well known for featuring a company with a great strategy and a bright future only to have it in Chapter 11 by the time the rag hit's the streets. I did some SQL/Database consulting work for Fortune Magazine and they loved to go on about that.
Wow, neat what the Internet has brought us. Now if only we can get.01m images so we can read serial numbers off the equipment and count hairs on the heads of people walking around.
To protect the communications of the U.S. Government.
So with that in mind it is not at all surprising that their juristiction includes the US. Why should we be uncomfortable with that? Are you uncomfortable that the #1 spy agency (the FBI) has juristiction inside the US? I do worry about the ATF guys, but when they can capture people like McVeigh and the World Trade Center bombers I know they are out there to protect me.
I think a lot of negative press has been given to our intelligence agencies. The CIA looks like dumb assess on our very biased news coverage, the DIA and NSA look like geeks with incredible powers and the FBI is seen as a mad house. However, not everything you read or hear repeated is true. I found out recenty that JEH was NOT a crossdresser. That is a myth that was used to discredit him. He was a bully, but why bother to lie like that? The truth always comes out.
I am all for electronic voting. I think that vote collection should be standardized for national elections. Why is it someone can vote for a candidate in one state but not in another? A federal system of vote tabulation could clear this up.
However I am dead set against voting from home or work. The problem is, the election committee cannot certify your home PC. It could have a virus on it or trojan program specifically designed to interfere with your vote. Electronic systems that are highly secure, closed from external mischief and under the care of the election officials is the way to go.
Voting isn't like eCommerce. The system has to verify it is you, give you the proper choices, get your result AND THEN FORGET IT WAS YOU when it records the results.
Also, since an electronic system would have the results at the close of the election I think it makes sense for the system to NOT return results until all votes have been cast. It always seems terribly unfair to the West Coast and to Alaska that the election is often decided by the time evening rolls around there.
Clearly Slashdot is censoring Pat Buchanan. I won't vote for him, but I should have the choice to. Slashdot is showing the worst partisan censorship I have ever seen in deliberately not having the Reform Party on the ballot.
It has already been done, a long time ago, by the former Soviet Union. The King Fisher missile was basically a MIG jet strapped to a bomber. I believe it was an over the horizon type of weapon and used terminal guidence supplied by low flying helicopters. (Hormone-A chopper?) The principle target at the time of development was U.S. carriers. It's speed was measured in Machs.
Also, GPS/Model Airplanes has been a military hobby for both the U.S. and the Isralis. I think both countries have some very innovative systems. The U.S. even has pocket versions that will allow a Company commander to deploy a disposable tiny plane so she can see beyond a hill or around other obstacles. Something similar was envisioned by Vernor Vinge in "A Fire Upon the Deep."
Unless you were alerting them to threats that take more than a century to impact...:-)
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Well, last I checked the Serbs were not forming line while naked on the battlefield. They used every advantage they could to try and not become a sacrifice. It would be immoral for the U.S. to over expose our troops to danger - so - should we kill if we can do so with impunity? Damn right we should. Was the war moraly just? Yep - ethnic cleansing is hateful and should be stopped. Did we fight the war in a manner that was likely to get achieve our aims? There I think I have to part with the Clinton administration. The war was poorly planed and executed. We won, not through skill/technology/courage but because the Serbs made mistakes we took advantage of.
As for why Milosivic is still in power: we did not fight a war to remove him from power. As for why Saddam Husein is still in power, the allied commanders felt there was value in maintaining a regional balance of power instead of going for total victory. My opinion is: there is no substitute for total victory. The balance of Iraq vs. Iran could have been better maintained with allies rather than with a reduced enemy.
My website, insuranceanalyst.onesource.com got sold to Sheshunoff and reincarnated as insuranceanalyst.sheshunoff.com for $12.8M US. The team consisted of a business manager, a sales manager, 3 support people, 5 developers and 7 sales people. There was also a CD-Rom based data product. Our income was around $7.0M US. This gives a multiples of earnings of 1.8 for a sucessful and profitable product group.
You make a claim of turning away $100,000 in potential revenue. Is this because you felt the ad would have driven away your core market? You would have to make a strong case for how much growth your site could get in revenue - and so far the evidence is you are loosing $40K US or more currently. Consider the costs the new owners would need to incur - professional staff, etc.
There are things you could do to build this up and make it worth more. You should invest some time in the business section of the Library or book store.
*.mil and *.gov are probably blocked in BOTH China and the US against each other. I think it is time people recognized that the second Cold War has officially kicked off.
Do you REALLY think the U.S. had bad maps of Belgrade when it bombed the Chinese Embassy? Please!
"Yes, evil comes in many forms, whether it be a man-eating cow or Joseph Stalin, but you can't let the package hide the pudding! Evil is just plain bad! You don't cotton to it. You gotta smack it in the nose with the rolled-up newspaper of goodness! Bad dog! Bad dog!"
Hollywood will PROBABLY F' this up but what they hey, the first Batman was pretty decent so maybe there is hope! The question is, who do you trust to Direct this? Sam Raimi? Cameron? Oliver Stone? No-dear God-No!!!
Sun has always been Microsoft II. I have always felt that the words coming out of McNealy's mouth have been quite disturbing for some time. He is not interested in destroying Microsoft, he is interested in taking Bill Gates' place. For what it's worth, RMS has been advocating people not use Java for quite some time. His fears are now being realized. I tend to agree with the assessment that unlike just about every other computer language on the planet - Java is the only one that is proprietary. Imagine the ruckus if C/C++ remained an AT&T commodity after years of promising to make it "free".
I disagree, there is indeed lots of questions about our treatment of micro-organisms. The human body is designed to deal with micro-organisms and we have successfully dealt with them as well as the other races of this planet for hundreds of millions of years. Recently when we developed the ability to augment our senses and then detect that these micro-organisms were in fact responsible for some deaths a choice was presented:
1 - Do Nothing. Not a typical human response and quickly rejected. 2 - Work with the body to improve its ability to handle a larger array of micro-organisms. 3 - Erradicate the bastards! (Ahh here's the one Man was looking for!)
So now we have antiseptics and anti-bacterial soap and antibiotics. But there is a problem here. In the case of antibiotics - if you only manage to kill off 99% of whatever it is that ails you you leave that Super-Strong Genetically chosen 1% to come back and make your previous bout seem minor. With anti-bacterial soap you get the same type of response only now the little supper buggers are on surfaces others may come into contact with.
So, there are questions as to whether our current tact of trying to get rid of something we have survived with for EPOCHS of time is "A Good Thing"(tm).
Sorry to mess up my favorite quote from Apocalypse Now... but it had to be done! (originally "Charlie don't Surf!)
Honestly, Smaug had guts, brains, flight and a useful breath weapon. Sandworms are just bulky. The "Achilies heel" thing Tolkine tossed in about Smaug was so lame ass that it drives me nuts. Don't get me started!
Geeks like things other than electronic items. As a community we are into more wierd stuff than any other community (such as, say, stockbrokers). Look at all the geeks that treat recipies as software or brew beer! My interest this year is Ironclad - yes those ancient marine instruments of death. It took a few geeks to come up with the idea and the revolutionized river and sea travel (as well as water based combat - not to mention the fact that they made costal forts a huge joke).
There are two lines worth looking into. Thoroughbred Miniatures makes them in 1/600th scale and Old North State Figure Company makes them in 10mm scale (1/144th I think). I LOVE the ONSFC's Ironclads as they have crews and engine rooms and tons of details. Some geeks even use them in games, but I think most of us would just put them in a display case or on the mantle after we finished building and painting them.
ONSFC can be reached at ons10mm@monumental.com and Thoroughbred can be reached at:
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No kidding. I totally agree. I think the problem is that there isn't any peer review or even basic reality checking going on here with the movement. Any attempt to address a critisism is simply met with ignorant responses and scoffing.
My Uncle's company is growing and they looked at the licence compliance issue with MS Office. For each 10 people they would need to shell out $4,000. Or they could just give people a copy of StarOffice and by a new Hazmat suit (they do clean up operations). So the office is going over to StarOffice. Not too shabby.
--Peter
In 1993 I was working on "The Big Dig" - an extremely large construction project in Boston slated to be completed in 2004. During that year we needed to set up a network link between South Station and 185 Kneeland Street. In good weather it was a godsend. The roads and telephone lines were constantly being chewed up and thus unavailable for a hard link. However in light snow and light rain the network became very slow. This is in 1993 at 1993 levels of network traffic. Whatever technology they have it needs to be really kick ass. The level of weather that would disturb this thing back then was minimal and the only thing keeping this in place was absolute necessity.
--Peter
Groupware is not just useful, it is empowering. I have worked in companies that have groupware (Lotus Notes) and I now work in one that doesn't. It is like night and day. I was much more effective in the company with groupware. I think that if the system were to use Interbase at it's core (as I am not overly fond of MySQL) they have a good chance at being very competetive. The big problem I see is that a lot of companies and even a lot of tech geeks don't get groupware - they don't see the benefits of it. This is a shame because it makes all the difference in the world when it comes to software design. It also reduces the number of meetings people have to have. Praise the Lord for that one.
Overall I am super glad this thing is going to take off.
--Peter
I wanted to find more information on the web about this so called slim TV and all I found was a bunch of men who are thin and dress in womens clothing looking for dates!!! I think Sony should rethink the name of this thing!!!
The fact is the media is biased aginst any system that the military develops. The XM-1 program later developed the M-1 Abrams MBT which is the most successful heavy combat tank the United States has ever produced. The M1-A3&4 is just a work of art. However the press lambasted the system before the A1 was out. Much like they are lambasting the V-22 and the MV-44 systems. Oddly this disinformation works for the military as it affects the opinion of World leaders about U.S. combat strength.
As for what systems Rogue states would use, how can you discount the missile as a potential system? It is crazy to discount that. North Korea aleady has Canada and the Northern part of the U.S. in missile range (over the Pole baby) and demonstrated this by firing a missile over Japan.
People here make George W. Bush to be some enemy of the state, of personal freedoms and what have you. It is all liberal bullshit in my opinion. If he was half the dictator people portray him as he would have started the bombing campaign against Iraq, Iran, North Korea, China and everywhere else that would be drastically improved by the glow of atomic warfare. However, he is no Saddam Hussein or Quadafi or Ayatola so he is rightfully taking the defensive approach.
CSS helps the content by reducing the size of the HTML document. Style can convey a lot of meaning - ask anyone who does layout. Smaller file size, means better through put for the site, the more sites that use it the better through put for the entire internet and the better off everyone's experience. I maintain a site for an organization that changes theme focus a lot. CSS means that I can change *one* file to change the *look* of the whole site instantly. The new look is then applied to the new content. Whenever someone wants to change style they don't have to mess with any of my code or mess with a ton of files, they can just go to the correct style sheet file and maket he changes there. It is a good technology. You should embrace it.
I thought Slashdot was pro-freedom, pro-choice? This guy made his choice. He programmed his site for the browser client of his choice. If you don't agree with him don't browse his site or better yet put up your own advocacy site.
The real problem isn't which browser is better, and sites shouldn't ask the client what agent they are. What is smarter is for the client to report what standards they follow. That is what makes sense. (CSS 1.0, DOM 1.0) vs (Netscape X.XX) Browsers should be judged by how well they follow the standards. Browser specific tags are ok, it just limits who can visit your site.
Personally I use HTML-Kit and HTML-tidy so that I know I am targeting a specific standard and not a specific client.
--Peter
Forbes is well known for featuring a company with a great strategy and a bright future only to have it in Chapter 11 by the time the rag hit's the streets. I did some SQL/Database consulting work for Fortune Magazine and they loved to go on about that.
Wow, neat what the Internet has brought us. Now if only we can get .01m images so we can read serial numbers off the equipment and count hairs on the heads of people walking around.
--Peter
The mission of the NSA is quite simple:
To protect the communications of the U.S. Government.
So with that in mind it is not at all surprising that their juristiction includes the US. Why should we be uncomfortable with that? Are you uncomfortable that the #1 spy agency (the FBI) has juristiction inside the US? I do worry about the ATF guys, but when they can capture people like McVeigh and the World Trade Center bombers I know they are out there to protect me.
I think a lot of negative press has been given to our intelligence agencies. The CIA looks like dumb assess on our very biased news coverage, the DIA and NSA look like geeks with incredible powers and the FBI is seen as a mad house. However, not everything you read or hear repeated is true. I found out recenty that JEH was NOT a crossdresser. That is a myth that was used to discredit him. He was a bully, but why bother to lie like that? The truth always comes out.
--Peter
I am all for electronic voting. I think that vote collection should be standardized for national elections. Why is it someone can vote for a candidate in one state but not in another? A federal system of vote tabulation could clear this up.
However I am dead set against voting from home or work. The problem is, the election committee cannot certify your home PC. It could have a virus on it or trojan program specifically designed to interfere with your vote. Electronic systems that are highly secure, closed from external mischief and under the care of the election officials is the way to go.
Voting isn't like eCommerce. The system has to verify it is you, give you the proper choices, get your result AND THEN FORGET IT WAS YOU when it records the results.
Also, since an electronic system would have the results at the close of the election I think it makes sense for the system to NOT return results until all votes have been cast. It always seems terribly unfair to the West Coast and to Alaska that the election is often decided by the time evening rolls around there.
Clearly Slashdot is censoring Pat Buchanan. I won't vote for him, but I should have the choice to. Slashdot is showing the worst partisan censorship I have ever seen in deliberately not having the Reform Party on the ballot.
Leave it to a Brit to put 007 at the center of the universe...
"I'm Bond, Nuclii Bond."
>Or heck, make it a remote controlled jet!
It has already been done, a long time ago, by the former Soviet Union. The King Fisher missile was basically a MIG jet strapped to a bomber. I believe it was an over the horizon type of weapon and used terminal guidence supplied by low flying helicopters. (Hormone-A chopper?) The principle target at the time of development was U.S. carriers. It's speed was measured in Machs.
Also, GPS/Model Airplanes has been a military hobby for both the U.S. and the Isralis. I think both countries have some very innovative systems. The U.S. even has pocket versions that will allow a Company commander to deploy a disposable tiny plane so she can see beyond a hill or around other obstacles. Something similar was envisioned by Vernor Vinge in "A Fire Upon the Deep."
--Peter
It is a falacy to think we can blow up the planet, what we can do is blow away the fragile buildings we have built on it many times over.
Unless you were alerting them to threats that take more than a century to impact... :-)
As for why Milosivic is still in power: we did not fight a war to remove him from power. As for why Saddam Husein is still in power, the allied commanders felt there was value in maintaining a regional balance of power instead of going for total victory. My opinion is: there is no substitute for total victory. The balance of Iraq vs. Iran could have been better maintained with allies rather than with a reduced enemy.
My website, insuranceanalyst.onesource.com got sold to Sheshunoff and reincarnated as insuranceanalyst.sheshunoff.com for $12.8M US. The team consisted of a business manager, a sales manager, 3 support people, 5 developers and 7 sales people. There was also a CD-Rom based data product. Our income was around $7.0M US. This gives a multiples of earnings of 1.8 for a sucessful and profitable product group.
You make a claim of turning away $100,000 in potential revenue. Is this because you felt the ad would have driven away your core market? You would have to make a strong case for how much growth your site could get in revenue - and so far the evidence is you are loosing $40K US or more currently. Consider the costs the new owners would need to incur - professional staff, etc.
There are things you could do to build this up and make it worth more. You should invest some time in the business section of the Library or book store.
*.mil and *.gov are probably blocked in BOTH China and the US against each other. I think it is time people recognized that the second Cold War has officially kicked off.
Do you REALLY think the U.S. had bad maps of Belgrade when it bombed the Chinese Embassy? Please!
"Yes, evil comes in many forms, whether it be a man-eating cow or Joseph Stalin, but you can't let the package hide the pudding! Evil is just plain bad! You don't cotton to it. You gotta smack it in the nose with the rolled-up newspaper of goodness! Bad dog! Bad dog!"
Hollywood will PROBABLY F' this up but what they hey, the first Batman was pretty decent so maybe there is hope! The question is, who do you trust to Direct this? Sam Raimi? Cameron? Oliver Stone? No-dear God-No!!!
Sun has always been Microsoft II. I have always felt that the words coming out of McNealy's mouth have been quite disturbing for some time. He is not interested in destroying Microsoft, he is interested in taking Bill Gates' place. For what it's worth, RMS has been advocating people not use Java for quite some time. His fears are now being realized. I tend to agree with the assessment that unlike just about every other computer language on the planet - Java is the only one that is proprietary. Imagine the ruckus if C/C++ remained an AT&T commodity after years of promising to make it "free".
Sun scares me, it should scare you too.
I disagree, there is indeed lots of questions about our treatment of micro-organisms. The human body is designed to deal with micro-organisms and we have successfully dealt with them as well as the other races of this planet for hundreds of millions of years. Recently when we developed the ability to augment our senses and then detect that these micro-organisms were in fact responsible for some deaths a choice was presented:
1 - Do Nothing. Not a typical human response and quickly rejected.
2 - Work with the body to improve its ability to handle a larger array of micro-organisms.
3 - Erradicate the bastards! (Ahh here's the one Man was looking for!)
So now we have antiseptics and anti-bacterial soap and antibiotics. But there is a problem here. In the case of antibiotics - if you only manage to kill off 99% of whatever it is that ails you you leave that Super-Strong Genetically chosen 1% to come back and make your previous bout seem minor. With anti-bacterial soap you get the same type of response only now the little supper buggers are on surfaces others may come into contact with.
So, there are questions as to whether our current tact of trying to get rid of something we have survived with for EPOCHS of time is "A Good Thing"(tm).
Sorry to mess up my favorite quote from Apocalypse Now... but it had to be done! (originally "Charlie don't Surf!)
Honestly, Smaug had guts, brains, flight and a useful breath weapon. Sandworms are just bulky. The "Achilies heel" thing Tolkine tossed in about Smaug was so lame ass that it drives me nuts. Don't get me started!
There are two lines worth looking into. Thoroughbred Miniatures makes them in 1/600th scale and Old North State Figure Company makes them in 10mm scale (1/144th I think). I LOVE the ONSFC's Ironclads as they have crews and engine rooms and tons of details. Some geeks even use them in games, but I think most of us would just put them in a display case or on the mantle after we finished building and painting them.
ONSFC can be reached at ons10mm@monumental.com and Thoroughbred can be reached at:
http://www.warweb.com/miniatures/t horoughbred.html