You get to live near one of the prettiest places on the face of the Earth
I'll buy that. I did quite a bit of contract work there for Minnesota Power in the mid 90's and I hated to leave every time. (Although driving down from the hill to the lake during a snowstorm with my right leg in a cast from the knee down was a life-changing experience.) If MP have ever offered me a job I'd probably have taken it. The people there are great too.
That award goes to "[modifying the source code] was discredited decades ago". WTF? How, by whom, and most importantly why was "modifying source code" discredited? I mean, the whole article is full of completely unsubstantiated nonsense and mudslinging, but this little comment grabbed my attention.
You run across these guys from time to time... good old fashioned IT weenies, left over from the days when the PHB's actually accepted that they had to wait a year or more for the high priests in the big-air-conditioned-room to make a few paltry changes to their little RPG-III payroll application. He didn't get those round lips from eating square meals.
There's something about Consumer Reports that doesn't make sense in the first place: where DO they get their revenue from? They "don't accept advertisements", so there's no ad revenue... and there is NO possible way that the cover price of the magazine provides more than a few percent of the money required to run a magazine enterprise of that size. (Last I heard, and that was 25+ years ago, the actual printing cost of a 100 page color magazine printed on clay paper is over $10 each, and that doesn't even take into consideration production or distribution costs, which probably dwarf printing costs.)
Many excluded items in the robots.txt file involve mentions of Iraq, possibly to prevent people from finding changes to past statements and information when archived elsewhere."
Maybe, but I would think they might also be looking for "shady" spiders that ignored robots.txt. I wouldn't be surprised if there aren't a few honeypot pages in there too.
Actually it wasn't dropped, they settled out of course, proving once again that there ain't no justice for the black man in today's society, that is, unless he's already rich and doesn't mind filing frivolous law suits.
Anyone else think that upgrade envy is becoming way too common, on computing platforms and elsewhere in life?
No.
Here's the problem: as mentioned in the article, Panther breaks many existing applications. The creators of these applications will now upgrade them to support Panther. Unfortunately, this will now break many of them with OSX 10.2 and older. I hadn't intended to upgrade from 10.1 to 10.2, but was forced to for this very reason.
So, no, nobody HAS to upgrade... unless, that is, you want to ever add to or upgrade any of your applications. Uh, let's see, what percentage of users would that be? 100%?
Why do you people try to make Apple seem more inportant than They really are?
Let's put that in perspective. YOU are unimportant. How do I know? Because Microsoft has never issued a press release that mentions you in any way. OTOH, MS has pretty much never shut up for any meaningful period of time about Apple. I can conclude from this that Bill Gates feels that Apple is, in fact, a Very Important company. Looking at mere market share is missing the point entirely: Apple is a market leader in practically every aspect of their business, and by dismissing them as insignificant to Microsoft you're not only displaying your ignorance of the industry, you're displaying ignorance of even Microsoft's own egocentric view of the industry.
As others have said, it depends on the motherboard. Most of the new ones are protected against ESD (as are a lot of TTL components nowdays) but IF that protection comes in the form of MOV's (little versions of the same thing in your power strip) they have a limited life span... they can only divert so much over-voltage before they're used up, at which time the ESD protection goes away and you're eventually going to fry something. Having hotplugged/unplugged both meese and kb's on dozens of computers hundreds of times, I have never actually had a problem, but it's almost certainly NOT something you can get away with forever.
Contrary to anything these guys might have to say, adding a reliable paper trail isn't difficult from a hardware perspective. (I build ATM's and public kiosks, which from a hardware perspective are essentially the same device as a voting machine.) However, I suspect that the main objection diebal et.al. have with paper is marketing: avoiding paper is almost certainly their main sales bullet when they're pushing these things to government entities... actually, avoiding paper is the ONLY advantage electronic machines have over anything simpler.
What makes it inane? Sociologists spend huge amounts of time learning statistical methods, and you can be sure that they took into account every variable that would matter. Why is it so hard for you to believe that tall people make more money simply by being tall? Being relatively short (5'-8") myself, I don't like it, but I've certainly observed it myself in real life. Look at personal ads, for one blatant example: MANY women (and I don't mean just tall women) prefer tall men. Marketing managers who do the hiring have the same preference (because most of them are shallow narcistic girly-men.) How many successful short-statured politicians can you name (at least since the age of mass media)?
Simply put: louder "sounds" better. Always. It's how the human ear/brain work. That said, in some markets the iPod has limited gain on the headphone outputs for legal reasons. (i.e. some countries legislate a maximum dBA output level.) It's possible that the reviewers (and consumers) who rate it higher have the higher-output version.
This is excellent from the point of name recognition. None of us will care about Netscape as an ISP, or as a division of AOL, or whatever. But if there are TV ads throwing the name out there, it can't help but promote Netscape THE BROWSER, and (albeit to a much lesser extent) Mozilla. I don't really care that it's Mozilla even. Make it Opera. Whatever. Just SOMETHING to make people realize that there is something other than godddam IE out there.
Those were made before PC's were a commodity. $3000 in 1983 was a pretty good chunk of change, and what you got for that was a sturdy piece of business equipment. I still have my original 5051 PC and monochrome monitor, including all the boxes, software, and loose-leaf documentation (including the tech ref manual). I haven't powered it up in ten years but I would be surprised if it didn't boot right up. (No MFM hard drive, and that would be the only part I would expect not to survive due to disuse.)
No.
It was once "Santa Cruz Operation" but now it doesn't stand for anything, according to them. It's just plain old "SCO", which rhymes with "BLOW", no pun intended.
Re:Why, yes, it IS an aluminum foil hat.
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As hard as it may be to believe, Ashcroft has nothing to do with TIA or anything else in the Pentagon. TIA was Poindexter's baby and carried Rumsfeld's seal of approval, not Ashcroft's.
And pry-thee which division of the Defense Department was going to use TIA had it been fully implemented and deployed?
DARPA may be part of the Defense Department, but in this case they were essentially a contractor developing a product for use by Justice.
Why, yes, it IS an aluminum foil hat.
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Anybody who thinks for a minute that TIA is going away as long as Ashcroft is AG is high. This isn't a retreat, it's a regrouping before the next attack. As has been discussed here before, we will see this thing pop up again, medusa-like, under a variety of disguises; they'll be tracking child molesters, deadbeat dads, drug dealers, rapists, what have you, and each will be a noble enterprise, as difficult to criticize as a newborn baby. (No mention of rogue librarians will be made, for sure.) Behind the scenes, of course, will be the massive data-mining that was the original goal. We'll only hear about THAT part incidentally, incrementally, accidentally, etc-ally.
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People who don't read the small print are the bane of modern life.
People who WRITE small print are the bane of modern life. People who are victimized by it are just lemmings going over the cliff.
Seriously. Hell, when I started out we didn't even have 1's and 0's... we just had 0's, and we liked it that way.
You get to live near one of the prettiest places on the face of the Earth
I'll buy that. I did quite a bit of contract work there for Minnesota Power in the mid 90's and I hated to leave every time. (Although driving down from the hill to the lake during a snowstorm with my right leg in a cast from the knee down was a life-changing experience.) If MP have ever offered me a job I'd probably have taken it. The people there are great too.
That award goes to "[modifying the source code] was discredited decades ago". WTF? How, by whom, and most importantly why was "modifying source code" discredited? I mean, the whole article is full of completely unsubstantiated nonsense and mudslinging, but this little comment grabbed my attention.
You run across these guys from time to time... good old fashioned IT weenies, left over from the days when the PHB's actually accepted that they had to wait a year or more for the high priests in the big-air-conditioned-room to make a few paltry changes to their little RPG-III payroll application. He didn't get those round lips from eating square meals.
There's something about Consumer Reports that doesn't make sense in the first place: where DO they get their revenue from? They "don't accept advertisements", so there's no ad revenue... and there is NO possible way that the cover price of the magazine provides more than a few percent of the money required to run a magazine enterprise of that size. (Last I heard, and that was 25+ years ago, the actual printing cost of a 100 page color magazine printed on clay paper is over $10 each, and that doesn't even take into consideration production or distribution costs, which probably dwarf printing costs.)
Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen, unfortunately.
Many excluded items in the robots.txt file involve mentions of Iraq, possibly to prevent people from finding changes to past statements and information when archived elsewhere."
Maybe, but I would think they might also be looking for "shady" spiders that ignored robots.txt. I wouldn't be surprised if there aren't a few honeypot pages in there too.
that's "out of court".
we don't need no steenkin preview...
just rampin' up the count on my +1 no moderation posts here. Nothing to see, move right along.
The suit was dropped
Actually it wasn't dropped, they settled out of course, proving once again that there ain't no justice for the black man in today's society, that is, unless he's already rich and doesn't mind filing frivolous law suits.
I had the apple development tools in mind, specifically. I'm sure Apple appreciates your sentiments.
Anyone else think that upgrade envy is becoming way too common, on computing platforms and elsewhere in life?
No.
Here's the problem: as mentioned in the article, Panther breaks many existing applications. The creators of these applications will now upgrade them to support Panther. Unfortunately, this will now break many of them with OSX 10.2 and older. I hadn't intended to upgrade from 10.1 to 10.2, but was forced to for this very reason.
So, no, nobody HAS to upgrade... unless, that is, you want to ever add to or upgrade any of your applications. Uh, let's see, what percentage of users would that be? 100%?
Why do you people try to make Apple seem more inportant than They really are?
Let's put that in perspective. YOU are unimportant. How do I know? Because Microsoft has never issued a press release that mentions you in any way. OTOH, MS has pretty much never shut up for any meaningful period of time about Apple. I can conclude from this that Bill Gates feels that Apple is, in fact, a Very Important company. Looking at mere market share is missing the point entirely: Apple is a market leader in practically every aspect of their business, and by dismissing them as insignificant to Microsoft you're not only displaying your ignorance of the industry, you're displaying ignorance of even Microsoft's own egocentric view of the industry.
As others have said, it depends on the motherboard. Most of the new ones are protected against ESD (as are a lot of TTL components nowdays) but IF that protection comes in the form of MOV's (little versions of the same thing in your power strip) they have a limited life span... they can only divert so much over-voltage before they're used up, at which time the ESD protection goes away and you're eventually going to fry something. Having hotplugged/unplugged both meese and kb's on dozens of computers hundreds of times, I have never actually had a problem, but it's almost certainly NOT something you can get away with forever.
Contrary to anything these guys might have to say, adding a reliable paper trail isn't difficult from a hardware perspective. (I build ATM's and public kiosks, which from a hardware perspective are essentially the same device as a voting machine.) However, I suspect that the main objection diebal et.al. have with paper is marketing: avoiding paper is almost certainly their main sales bullet when they're pushing these things to government entities... actually, avoiding paper is the ONLY advantage electronic machines have over anything simpler.
What makes it inane? Sociologists spend huge amounts of time learning statistical methods, and you can be sure that they took into account every variable that would matter. Why is it so hard for you to believe that tall people make more money simply by being tall? Being relatively short (5'-8") myself, I don't like it, but I've certainly observed it myself in real life. Look at personal ads, for one blatant example: MANY women (and I don't mean just tall women) prefer tall men. Marketing managers who do the hiring have the same preference (because most of them are shallow narcistic girly-men.) How many successful short-statured politicians can you name (at least since the age of mass media)?
Simply put: louder "sounds" better. Always. It's how the human ear/brain work. That said, in some markets the iPod has limited gain on the headphone outputs for legal reasons. (i.e. some countries legislate a maximum dBA output level.) It's possible that the reviewers (and consumers) who rate it higher have the higher-output version.
This is excellent from the point of name recognition. None of us will care about Netscape as an ISP, or as a division of AOL, or whatever. But if there are TV ads throwing the name out there, it can't help but promote Netscape THE BROWSER, and (albeit to a much lesser extent) Mozilla. I don't really care that it's Mozilla even. Make it Opera. Whatever. Just SOMETHING to make people realize that there is something other than godddam IE out there.
Those were made before PC's were a commodity. $3000 in 1983 was a pretty good chunk of change, and what you got for that was a sturdy piece of business equipment. I still have my original 5051 PC and monochrome monitor, including all the boxes, software, and loose-leaf documentation (including the tech ref manual). I haven't powered it up in ten years but I would be surprised if it didn't boot right up. (No MFM hard drive, and that would be the only part I would expect not to survive due to disuse.)
I don't have any mod points today but you get two twinkies and a small diet coke.
There goes the neighborhood.
Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.
No. It was once "Santa Cruz Operation" but now it doesn't stand for anything, according to them. It's just plain old "SCO", which rhymes with "BLOW", no pun intended.
As hard as it may be to believe, Ashcroft has nothing to do with TIA or anything else in the Pentagon. TIA was Poindexter's baby and carried Rumsfeld's seal of approval, not Ashcroft's.
And pry-thee which division of the Defense Department was going to use TIA had it been fully implemented and deployed?
DARPA may be part of the Defense Department, but in this case they were essentially a contractor developing a product for use by Justice.
Anybody who thinks for a minute that TIA is going away as long as Ashcroft is AG is high. This isn't a retreat, it's a regrouping before the next attack. As has been discussed here before, we will see this thing pop up again, medusa-like, under a variety of disguises; they'll be tracking child molesters, deadbeat dads, drug dealers, rapists, what have you, and each will be a noble enterprise, as difficult to criticize as a newborn baby. (No mention of rogue librarians will be made, for sure.) Behind the scenes, of course, will be the massive data-mining that was the original goal. We'll only hear about THAT part incidentally, incrementally, accidentally, etc-ally.
Anyone here believe the US and UK governments aren't spying on their own citizens, legally or not?
I imagine a lot of people believe that, but I'm not one of them.