In our family we all use the same club card number (we just type it in the keypad at Safeway each time instead of having to carry a card). I really don't want my mother-in-law getting meesage like, "Last week you bought condoms. Today Trojans are on sale..."
I use my home machine for word processing, games, and Quicken. Now that they make a Mac version of Quicken maybe we can switch (there are already a lot of games for OS X: Warcraft 3, Civ III, etc)
At work I use Windows, Mac, and Unix/Linux, and my primary is an iMac running OS 9. However, my company recently "shifted focus" and everyone will have PC's within a year.
To anyone who has seen the movie, please read the short story and compare. Both are based on the pre-crime idea, but you will see it carried to different ends. The message Philip Dick leaves in the story is far different than the 'you can change your future' end the film provides.
Both are fun and worthwhile so visit the library soon.
Dantz's Retrospect is a good choice. You put a client on each workstation and one machine acts as server. This software is the only backup utility I know of that allows true incremental backups. It matches the files it finds on clients to files it has already backed up, if it finds it in the backup, it does not copy it again. Saves a lot of space just by not backing up the Windows 2000 system folder on each machine.
How long have we been recording dates? There is a cycle to everything. After the last Ice Age, the Earth's atmosphere has been rising. Who are we to say that that will continue instead of tapering off and recooling to Ice Age levels again? One to Two centuries of data just don't give much evidence when we live in a world that has been around for billions of years.
Insurance companies can charge more for car insurance for minors because they can show that an 18 year old male is much more likely to get in an accident than a 30 year old married man. It's all in the actuarial tables baby. The difference is that if we could show that black drivers had more accidents instead of raised premiums there would be an outpouring of government money (ie- the money the government took from you and me) to help blacks become better drivers.
There is a computer program that does this.
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One of the statistics professors, Wayne Larsen, at the university I attended helped create a program that would compare two documents and give a probability that they were authored by the same individual based on the usage of common words such as 'of', 'the' and 'or. The program is called WordPrint.
Since I went to Brigham Young University, of course I have a link to them using this technique to analyze the Book of Mormon.
http://caic.org.au/lds/byu_comp.htm
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In our family we all use the same club card number (we just type it in the keypad at Safeway each time instead of having to carry a card). I really don't want my mother-in-law getting meesage like, "Last week you bought condoms. Today Trojans are on sale..."
I use my home machine for word processing, games, and Quicken. Now that they make a Mac version of Quicken maybe we can switch (there are already a lot of games for OS X: Warcraft 3, Civ III, etc)
At work I use Windows, Mac, and Unix/Linux, and my primary is an iMac running OS 9. However, my company recently "shifted focus" and everyone will have PC's within a year.
If there is one thing a Mac is good for it is checking email.
until you realize you just need to go with the beat.
To anyone who has seen the movie, please read the short story and compare. Both are based on the pre-crime idea, but you will see it carried to different ends. The message Philip Dick leaves in the story is far different than the 'you can change your future' end the film provides.
Both are fun and worthwhile so visit the library soon.
Dantz's Retrospect is a good choice. You put a client on each workstation and one machine acts as server. This software is the only backup utility I know of that allows true incremental backups. It matches the files it finds on clients to files it has already backed up, if it finds it in the backup, it does not copy it again. Saves a lot of space just by not backing up the Windows 2000 system folder on each machine.
There is nothing like talking to someone with a salary twice your own, who can't follow directions knowing that you could do their job.
How long have we been recording dates? There is a cycle to everything. After the last Ice Age, the Earth's atmosphere has been rising. Who are we to say that that will continue instead of tapering off and recooling to Ice Age levels again? One to Two centuries of data just don't give much evidence when we live in a world that has been around for billions of years.
Variation in all things. 299,792,458m/s is the average speed of light.
Insurance companies can charge more for car insurance for minors because they can show that an 18 year old male is much more likely to get in an accident than a 30 year old married man. It's all in the actuarial tables baby. The difference is that if we could show that black drivers had more accidents instead of raised premiums there would be an outpouring of government money (ie- the money the government took from you and me) to help blacks become better drivers.
One of the statistics professors, Wayne Larsen, at the university I attended helped create a program that would compare two documents and give a probability that they were authored by the same individual based on the usage of common words such as 'of', 'the' and 'or. The program is called WordPrint. Since I went to Brigham Young University, of course I have a link to them using this technique to analyze the Book of Mormon. http://caic.org.au/lds/byu_comp.htm