Good grief, why do you slashbots always get into this mentality of one size fits all. Tablet PC's are failing because not everybody wants one?
Good grief. The computing market is huge, there is room for a variety of ideas because there are a large variety of problems to solve. Tablet PC makes sense for certain problems, just like a laptop does.
"On a different note, I'm going back to school for aerospace engineering. When touring the department, I found that they are having record enrollment in both their graduate and undergraduate programs. Kinda make's one wonder how many of them (like me) are switching from the computer industry..."
When I graduated back in '91 people were actively switching from Aerospace Engineering into Fishery and Wildlife programs the job prospects were that bad.
I suspect it's better today, but I can't honestly believe it's as good as the Aerospace heyday of the 60's-80's.
"I know it's elitist and all, but I seriously wonder sometimes if many of the people out there using MS and AOL are the kinds of people the Free Software Movement should be wooing."
Actually this isn't elitist.
Basically your post is the first step on the path to enlightenment. You've realized that your present path is wrong, and you are beginning to wonder if there is something else out there that others have seen and you have missed.
No one had contested that Eckert and Mauchly had designed the first electronic computer, but instead had hooked onto details in the patent file.
Except for Honeywell who filed the lawsuit against Sperry on the basis that Eckert and Mauchly had derived their work from that done by Professor Atanasoff and his student Clifford Berry at Iowa State University.
ENIAC was not the first electronic computer, it was rather the ABC. That's what the lawsuit established.
The unfortunate thing is that the news broke the same day as the "Saturday Night Massacre", where Nixon told Robert Bork(yes the same Bork who Reagan later tried to appoint to the SCOTUS) his new Attorney General(after the other two guys had quit) and then had him fire the independent counsel investigating Watergate. So it didn't receive a whole lot of coverage.
I'm unclear on exactly what you think the similarities are here. I'm familiar with the Atanasoff story as I'm an alum of Iowa State.
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The Torricelli amendment. It was passed as part of the outrage following an incident in Guatemala where the husband of a United States citizen was murdered by a CIA paid informant.
It wasn't so much that the he was murdered, but that the US Govt knew what had happened to him and tried to cover it up. She tried for years to get information, information that the authorities had but kept denying.
Finally in 1995 Representative Torricelli of New Jersey revealed the information publicly.
Most people recognize the need for human intelligence, but it is very difficult to justify the US working with individuals who are murdering US citizens. How would you feel if you found out that the CIA was still in contact with, and was still paying Osama bin Laden?
Some intelligence and balance needs to be there. In the case of the Guatemala incident, the CIA had apparently severed ties with the colonel responsible for the murder, which was the correct thing for them to do. But they should not have tried to cover up the murder. Heads don't need to roll, we just need to be willing to admit when we made a bad choice.
What bothers me is not the lie, but the pervasiveness of this sort of attitude.
Actually the problem here really has nothing to do with Microsoft.
The problem here is the pervasiveness of the attitude that every action done by Microsoft or any other company is a move to destroy Linux. This attitude is further problematic in that every reasonable explanation is accused of being a lie.
It makes the "Linux Community" look like a bunch of 2 year old children.
Your posting has a dose of anti-conformity with a bit of anti-intellectualism. It's really quite stereotypical, which is interesting because I believe your desire is to shirk away from anything you regard as stereotypical.
"There are rogue programs in the Matrix, one of which is the Oracle."
You're told this by the Oracle, who you later find out is part of the exception handling routine of the Matrix. She identifies the programs that you see as the goons with the Merovingians as the rogue programs. But are they? They protect the Keymaster, which is also part of that exception handling routine.
So I would argue that those people exist in the Matrix for a purpose, and are therefore not rogue.
However... Agent Smith is clearly rogue. He's working against everybody and everything. I guess you'd call him a computer virus.:)
I play RTCW quite a bit on my WinXP box with no issues. RTCW occasionally crashes, and I have to hit CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up task manager and kill it, but the system remains stable.
When I first built this box I had some issues, after a while it would lock up. Turned out it was because the video card was overheating. The system itself wasn't locking up, just the video card. Put the system in a new Antec SX-835II case with better cooling and haven't had a problem since.
I guess I'm still looking for this cite that shows the FEC had a review and came to different conclusions. Suddenly all the right-wing partisans have gotten all quiet.
Statistically speaking the problems in Florida are similar to problems in other parts of the country. The fact remains that problems do exist. Unfortunately in the case of Florida because we had a statistical tie, those small problems got escalated to really big problems.
"but this is a total non-story to the partisan whiners that want to make this into a huge right-wing conspiracy- the facts just dont support that."
As opposed to the partisan whiners who keep claiming this is a non-story.
"Bush chose not to take that chance, however, showing that he was less interested in the American political process or the will of the American people than in a favorable result for himself - a philosophy he has continued to exhibit since."
This is ultimately what was wrong in 2000.
The election was an example of the Win At All Costs mentality that is so pervasive in the GOP.:( We just saw another example of this mentality down in Texas this past week.
The system we use in my county is to get a sheet of paper with the candidates listed and you circle the dots next to the names. Then you take your paper over to an optical reader and it sucks it in, even supposedly makes sure the ballot is accurately filled in.
Ok, I think that system works.
So now just put a touch screen like your suggesting... you put your paper in, and it fills it in with the results from the touch screen. This helps making voting easy, because the screen would have rules (you can only select two judges) and insures the ballots are filled in fully...
But it also gives you a paper trail to audit, and a fall back if the machines fail.(back to pencils)
I definately don't like the non-secret ballot aspect of your proposal. There's no need to take the ballot home.
Watch Whitehouse press conferences... they generally run like this:
Q: "How do you plan on funding this initiative? Many of it's critics have questioned that it is even possible or wise to absord these costs ino the present fiscal year."
A: "I realize that some people disagree. The President chooses not to disagree. Next question please."
It's just downright ludicrous at it's core, but the public accepts these answers without question. The journalists are market driven, they just give the public what it wants.
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The thing that helped me most during my last two years in college was a small planner. Something like this.
Keep track of homework assignments, tests, and class schedule. Easier to do on paper than with a PDA.
Good grief, why do you slashbots always get into this mentality of one size fits all. Tablet PC's are failing because not everybody wants one?
Good grief. The computing market is huge, there is room for a variety of ideas because there are a large variety of problems to solve. Tablet PC makes sense for certain problems, just like a laptop does.
I just don't get this mentality.
"On a different note, I'm going back to school for aerospace engineering. When touring the department, I found that they are having record enrollment in both their graduate and undergraduate programs. Kinda make's one wonder how many of them (like me) are switching from the computer industry..."
When I graduated back in '91 people were actively switching from Aerospace Engineering into Fishery and Wildlife programs the job prospects were that bad.
I suspect it's better today, but I can't honestly believe it's as good as the Aerospace heyday of the 60's-80's.
"I know it's elitist and all, but I seriously wonder sometimes if many of the people out there using MS and AOL are the kinds of people the Free Software Movement should be wooing."
Actually this isn't elitist.
Basically your post is the first step on the path to enlightenment. You've realized that your present path is wrong, and you are beginning to wonder if there is something else out there that others have seen and you have missed.
Seek enlightenment, grasshopper.
"But my point is that Microsoft and others are just blowing it up."
..."
Sounds like you are blowing it up.
"web-services were going to change our way of booking flight tickets combined hotel rooms and a rent-a-car,
Web services are going to change the way of booking flight tickets combined hotel rooms and the rent-a-car. On what basis do you dispute this?
"Programmers will still need to make the connection between different companies."
But now they don't need to negotiate the underlying transport.
You're suffering from anti-Microsoftism.
What do you mean by not that special?
It isn't supposed to be special, it's just supposed to be easier than writing custom HTTP parsers.
As for not being worth it, I guess I'm curious what you suggest as an alternative?
alum is colloquial shortened form.
No one had contested that Eckert and Mauchly had designed the first electronic computer, but instead had hooked onto details in the patent file.
Except for Honeywell who filed the lawsuit against Sperry on the basis that Eckert and Mauchly had derived their work from that done by Professor Atanasoff and his student Clifford Berry at Iowa State University.
ENIAC was not the first electronic computer, it was rather the ABC. That's what the lawsuit established.
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The unfortunate thing is that the news broke the same day as the "Saturday Night Massacre", where Nixon told Robert Bork(yes the same Bork who Reagan later tried to appoint to the SCOTUS) his new Attorney General(after the other two guys had quit) and then had him fire the independent counsel investigating Watergate. So it didn't receive a whole lot of coverage.
I'm unclear on exactly what you think the similarities are here. I'm familiar with the Atanasoff story as I'm an alum of Iowa State.
The Torricelli amendment. It was passed as part of the outrage following an incident in Guatemala where the husband of a United States citizen was murdered by a CIA paid informant.
More about that here.
It wasn't so much that the he was murdered, but that the US Govt knew what had happened to him and tried to cover it up. She tried for years to get information, information that the authorities had but kept denying.
Finally in 1995 Representative Torricelli of New Jersey revealed the information publicly.
Most people recognize the need for human intelligence, but it is very difficult to justify the US working with individuals who are murdering US citizens. How would you feel if you found out that the CIA was still in contact with, and was still paying Osama bin Laden?
Some intelligence and balance needs to be there. In the case of the Guatemala incident, the CIA had apparently severed ties with the colonel responsible for the murder, which was the correct thing for them to do. But they should not have tried to cover up the murder. Heads don't need to roll, we just need to be willing to admit when we made a bad choice.
I'll make this short and sweet...
Grow up already.
What bothers me is not the lie, but the pervasiveness of this sort of attitude.
Actually the problem here really has nothing to do with Microsoft.
The problem here is the pervasiveness of the attitude that every action done by Microsoft or any other company is a move to destroy Linux. This attitude is further problematic in that every reasonable explanation is accused of being a lie.
It makes the "Linux Community" look like a bunch of 2 year old children.
"I'd like to see a date put on this."
A quick search on google resolved this.
The quote itself isn't nearly as offensive as the entire email.
"And what, exactly, are SCO trying to imply with this?"
Simple. Like the Perens quote, they are simply showing a behavior of disrespect towards Copyright laws.
"Summary: Yet more FUD. Thanks, SCO, now please disappear off the face of the Earth."
The easiest way to discredit Open Source to the software development community is to quote Stallman, Perens. That's not SCO's problem, that's yours.
Your posting has a dose of anti-conformity with a bit of anti-intellectualism. It's really quite stereotypical, which is interesting because I believe your desire is to shirk away from anything you regard as stereotypical.
"There are rogue programs in the Matrix, one of which is the Oracle."
:)
You're told this by the Oracle, who you later find out is part of the exception handling routine of the Matrix. She identifies the programs that you see as the goons with the Merovingians as the rogue programs. But are they? They protect the Keymaster, which is also part of that exception handling routine.
So I would argue that those people exist in the Matrix for a purpose, and are therefore not rogue.
However... Agent Smith is clearly rogue. He's working against everybody and everything. I guess you'd call him a computer virus.
You could just summarize the sentence as:
"Every article posted on the Internet might not be true, or could be politically motivated."
And it'd be even closer to the truth.
"Stop the anti-MS BS all the damned time"
:)
No, keep it going. It helps us in selling Microsoft solutions to business to point out how mentally deranged the competition is.
Interesting.
I play RTCW quite a bit on my WinXP box with no issues. RTCW occasionally crashes, and I have to hit CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up task manager and kill it, but the system remains stable.
When I first built this box I had some issues, after a while it would lock up. Turned out it was because the video card was overheating. The system itself wasn't locking up, just the video card. Put the system in a new Antec SX-835II case with better cooling and haven't had a problem since.
I guess I'm still looking for this cite that shows the FEC had a review and came to different conclusions. Suddenly all the right-wing partisans have gotten all quiet.
Statistically speaking the problems in Florida are similar to problems in other parts of the country. The fact remains that problems do exist. Unfortunately in the case of Florida because we had a statistical tie, those small problems got escalated to really big problems.
"but this is a total non-story to the partisan whiners that want to make this into a huge right-wing conspiracy- the facts just dont support that."
As opposed to the partisan whiners who keep claiming this is a non-story.
"Bush chose not to take that chance, however, showing that he was less interested in the American political process or the will of the American people than in a favorable result for himself - a philosophy he has continued to exhibit since."
:( We just saw another example of this mentality down in Texas this past week.
This is ultimately what was wrong in 2000.
The election was an example of the Win At All Costs mentality that is so pervasive in the GOP.
Ok, now I'm pissed off. This is the second maroon making this claim.
h tm
"The Federal Election Commission held hearings"
I can find no evidence from searching google that the FEC held any such hearings.
The US Commission on Civil Rights held hearings and many people came to testify.
http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.
I want to see the report you are citing. I'm really really getting tired of people making up shit to try to prove points.
Do you have any sources for your version of the story?
h tm
I'm just curious because you claim we should review the actual facts, but the facts don't line up with your version of the story.
http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.
I would also like to know what your political motivation is for claiming this is a non-story.
I think it's far easier...
The system we use in my county is to get a sheet of paper with the candidates listed and you circle the dots next to the names. Then you take your paper over to an optical reader and it sucks it in, even supposedly makes sure the ballot is accurately filled in.
Ok, I think that system works.
So now just put a touch screen like your suggesting... you put your paper in, and it fills it in with the results from the touch screen. This helps making voting easy, because the screen would have rules (you can only select two judges) and insures the ballots are filled in fully...
But it also gives you a paper trail to audit, and a fall back if the machines fail.(back to pencils)
I definately don't like the non-secret ballot aspect of your proposal. There's no need to take the ballot home.
Is it the journalists?
Or the people who fall for the word plays.
Watch Whitehouse press conferences... they generally run like this:
Q: "How do you plan on funding this initiative? Many of it's critics have questioned that it is even possible or wise to absord these costs ino the present fiscal year."
A: "I realize that some people disagree. The President chooses not to disagree. Next question please."
It's just downright ludicrous at it's core, but the public accepts these answers without question. The journalists are market driven, they just give the public what it wants.
"They had no desire to expand beyond what their computers came with or didn't know how."
Millions of Napster and Kazaa users prove you wrong.
Blasphemer!
Everything you read on the Internet is true!