Labor unions, education, and time solve all problems. If any of you have grandparents old enough to remember when the world's largest developing economy was the United States, ask them about pay and working conditions.
Yeah, their jobs stayed pretty much the same, but products and services from union shops became more expensive. It's certainly great for the union bosses.
At one time in the US you were able to support a family on the wages of a store clerk.
And when exactly was this? Something like a store clerk have always been low paying, low skill jobs. The ones most likely to fill these jobs are kids and single adults. I grant you that if a guy had been there a long time and worked a lot of hours, then he might have been able to support a family. Generally, it's always been the case, that if you wanted to make more money, you needed to move into a job that required a skill and/or had risk involved. The supposed person trying to raise a family on minimum wage is a myth. The large majority of these people are teenagers and students. If someone doesn't have the gumption and desire to learn a trade and just stays a warm body for min. wage, they they shouldn't have a family, IMHO. It's irresponsible.
What has changed? The attitude that it is required to have two incomes. In "The Tightwad Gazette" pp23-24, Amy Dacyczyn addresses this. In many cases, you add up the added expeses for transportation, child care, professional wardrobe, meals, increased taxes, etc., the 2nd income isn't contributing that much unless both of them are in the higher paying 'professional' labor markets. [The ones on the low end may actually need two incomes, but in the past, that meant Dad (or sometimes Mom) worked multiple jobs in order to make sure someone was running the household business. My dad did this for decades] In addition, due to reduced amount of time, people often purchase prepackaged, ready made food & other services which end up costing even more (my wife knows people that spend approx $1500/month in groceries because of this). Over the years the companies & individuals selling big ticket items have recognized that the ones with the mid to high paying jobs have some money left over, so their prices have risen to match. Madison avenue has also fueled some of this with their bigger, faster, more, more, more mindset. Compare the houses in a suburb built 30-40 years ago to some new ones. The newer ones have a lot more square footage and most certainly cost more after adjusted for inflation. The same can be set for vehicles. All of this when the average number of people in a family has gone down.
I guess the point is, that it seems too many people have skewed priorities. Do you want both parents working long hours, but no time with each other & the kids, but have a big new house, big new SUVs, and all the latest expensive toys for the kids? Or do you want to be more modest in your living standards, get by on one income, and spend more time with your family? I know for a fact that it's been better for my family to do the latter. The kids get lots of individual attention from their mom and I and aren't total little shits like many of their peers (as related by their peers' parents). On the flip side, my wife recently wanted to work in a museum to get out & about. Most of what she ears is turned right around and given to someone else. I doubt what's left covers the extra taxes we owe, instead of getting a refund.
I can't see why they couldn't have come up with a standard for memory or even use the same standard as the desktop. I have an old laptop that uses a standard 72pin SIMM, so it's been done (the same laptop though has it's hard drive wired directly to the motherboard). I don't understand why it's not more widespread. I would think this would help the manufacturers bring their costs down.
If it's a pain for you, well, it's not their fault your television predates VCRs
You must be joking. There are lots of TVs that don't have RCA inputs that are only a few years old. My TV is maybe only 4 years old and it only has coax input. At the time, the only TVs that did have RCA inputs where the stereo models and they were much more expensive and in my case unnecessary since I already had a home theater system. I don't want to buy a new TV just for the stupid DVD player. I hated having to buy the stupid Radio Shack switch box too, but I had to because someone in Hollyweird is paranoid that I might copy a movie, even if it's for archival purposes.
The VCR with two inputs doesn't always work. I had an stereo VCR that was a 4-5 years old and everything worked ok with the DVD on the AUX input. That VCR recently burned out it's video output circuits, so I bought a new one and hooked it up the same way. No luck. Even though the manual said Macrovision would only be noticible if I tried recording, whenever I tried playing a DVD, it would fade in and out to a blue screen. I had to get a Radio Shack switch.
All this BS, just to stop the average person from copying their own tapes!
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Of course not. But once you buy it, you don't have to deal with Volvo (or whoever you bought it from) again if you don't want to. A person is free to buy repair manuals and parts from their local auto part store and do everything your self. To make your example fit, the engine compartment would have to be sealed, only special volvo tools could be used on it, and you would only get optimum performance if you bought gasoline at station that was owned by or in partnership with a Volvo subsidiary.
This would be useful in building internet/compute appliances with standard PC motherboards. People have come to expect a device to be on instantly when they hit the power button. How successful do you think a modern TV would be if it took 20-30 seconds before the user could do anything? In their case, they wanted to have the ability to add a compute node to their Beowulf cluster, turn it on, and have it ready for work in a few seconds.
Go to their site and read some of the pages. This started at Los Alamos _for_ their Beowulf clusters exactly for that reason.
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Thousands of people rely on the film-making industry for employment. Replacing them with a freely distributed software package seems morally questionable at the least.
Please go re-read the article. A lot of the software that's being ported are the in-house tools that the special effects houses created themselves (the exception was the 16bit/channel GIMP). They are just porting it from one version of Unix to Linux. People would still have to pay for the proprietary 3rd party programs once they are ported to linux (this was mentioned in the article). The only people that are really going to be hurt by this is SGI and the vendors that are pushing NT & NT-only software packages. Given that SGI is supporting linux, I'm guessing they saw the handwriting on the wall and decided that if these places are going to replace their Irix machines with linux, it would be in SGI's best interest to have a linux based solution for them.
Now whether it's moral to replace proprietary software with open source depends on who's side you are on. For the user, open source ultimately means control. Control over _your_ own data and systems. You aren't locked into some other company's vision of how you should be using their software. True people have bills to pay, but it's not like every programmer is working for a proprietary software vendor. A lot work for companies where the creation of software for their products or their own use is just a cost of doing business. There will always be a place for proprietary for-profit software, just like there was a place for accountants/bookkeepers after the introduction of the computer. Technology creates and destroys jobs all the time. I don't see how this is all that different.
There is a linux based Palm SDK and emulator available. Here's an intro on Linux Gazette. You can download tools and documentation from the Palm developer page. You can do all your programming on linux with the familiar gnu tools, do some testing with the emulator, and then download them to the Palm for more in depth testing.
The July 2000 issue of Linux Journal had a story about a prof at the University of Tornoto had created a watch in 1998 running linux that has a video camera. Here's the article: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue75/399 3.html.
I went to their site to see if they had any company history online. It only says that it was started in 1985 and by two guys in an Iowa farm house. I do know that by 87 or 88, they were in N Sioux City, because one of my classmates in college worked there during the summers. I can't remember when they moved the headquarters to San Diego. I believe it was to be closer to Silicon Valley and Waite liked the climate better (wimp!).
I can believe the state not giving them a tax break. My roommate from college lives in IA City now and when it comes to taxes, hates the IA state income tax.
Since when? I thought it's always been in N Sioux City, South Dakota. I mean, why live or base a business that could be anywhere in Sioux City, when you can go a few miles north and not have to pay state income tax & lower property tax? When I was in college, I know that some of Gateway's machines were made in Rapid City, SD because for an EE class, we toured a custom electronics assembly plant in town. We watched them make Gateways and some other stuff.
Didn't someone create a DCOM/ActiveX/whatever Gecko component? If so, couldn't a person have IE use that for displaying HTML instead of it's original component?
It would need changes to the X well defined X-protocol to implement this
But isn't that what an extension is? I'm not that worried about it right now. Let the XFree people get any of the kinks out of DRI for local use first and then remote displays sometime later.
Not necessarily. X is smart enough to know what tricks to enable when the display is on the local machine. For example, for a local display, all the X protocol traffic is being done via shared memory instead of the TCP/IP protocol stack. Several years ago this wasn't the case and one had to explicitly set the $DISPLAY variable to enable it.
I don't know much about the specifics of DRI, but if it's like what SGI did w/ GLX, they you should still be able to export the display to another machine and get some hardware assisted rendering. IIRC, the GLX extension would send the 3D information over the network to an X server capable of handling it. The server would pass it off the the gl layer that SGI built whether it was totally in software for the lowend machines or one of their massive multicard 3D units (or at least that how I remember it from the gl class I took at SGI several years ago). Yet another X extension that the server has to advertise. If an application needs this capability, it will have to query the server when it starts up and fall back to another rendering method or just complain to the user and exit. Sure it's not going to be as fast since it has to go over the network, but it is better than trying to do 3D w/ the plain X protocol.
In the past, I have usually split up my resume into two sections. One section is an expertise summary outline. It lists the types of work I've done followed by the operating systems, languages, and tools that I have moderate to extensive experience with. This can also include any certifications you hold or professional training courses you've taken. The next section contains my recent employement history where I list about 3 of my most recent employers. For each one I give a very short description of what my job was and list a few of the major accomplishments. Be consice, but like a previous person had suggested, don't go overboard on the acronyms. It would be nice to have a customized resume for each job application. In my Technical Communications courses, the profs usually suggested a customized cover letter that would explain how your knowledge and experience matches what the company is looking for an employee.
Once you've come up with a first draft, have as many other people review it and give you feedback. Try taking it to a recruiting professional (either at a college or at an agency) and see if they will critique it for you too.
Granted the pay scale isn't what can be found in private industry. However, if you are recent college graduate, you are probably used to not having a lot of income anyway. I personally, would try to get hired by the contractor company at a military or science facility. These tend to have the more interesting projects that can often be on the bleeding edge. I mention contractor because the actual Federal jobs are more often held by management, not the coders.
I would disagree with you here. Just because you are on a tight budget doesn't mean you won't be on the cutting edge. The Lobos and Beowulf projects were started at govt labs because of these tight budgets. If you are dealing with open systems, the software and documentation about it is on the web for free. At worst case you will want to buy a book. Also that doesn't mean that they will never buy any of the latest and greatest hardware. The Federal govt is probably the single biggest buyer of unix workstations and servers. These aren't cheap.
I used to work as an employee for the primary contractor at a USGS facility that was an absolute blast. I loved that job. Only a small fraction of the people at many Fed. facilities actually work for the Govt. The rest are employees of contractors. In many cases, when the contract changes, you just switch to being an employee of the new contractor. True, the pay was lower than what I get now in the private sector. I didn't care. I was out of school and eager to soak up all the technology I could get. I'm sure the original person who asked the question is too. Later on the new wife didn't like the wages, which caused problems and eventually resulted in my leaving. It also made head hunters question my ability because they were basing it on my previous payscale. Once informed it was a govt job, they changed their minds. Sure, I may be making over twice what I did before, but I don't have a tenth of the job satisfaction that I did at the USGS.
From a cartoon: Private industry on the left, govt/educational institutions on the right. The caption: super salaries or supercomputers. Take your pick.
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Tell them that in order to 'secure' the content, you will eliminate the primary goal of being able to access it from any computer. On top of that, any encryption scheme that is not cumbersome for the user will end up being cracked, so your effort will be wasted. If they want to make money from these ebooks, create a subscription service.
However, I do agree that there are times where you don't want the users to be saving information that they are viewing via the web. With Netscape 4.x, one can use javascript to turn off the ability to click on a page (to highlight for cut & paste, view source, etc.). I've used this trick along with an frame containing only an invisible <layer> tag that has a blank page as its source. Java script on another frame changes the source for the layer with the output of a CGI script that's been tagged as non cacheable. The user can see the content, but when they try to save it or print it from the menus, they get the original blank page. I'm not quite sure how to do a similiar sort of thing with IE or Mozilla. Of course, this only keeps the casual users from saving or printing out the pages. The 'crooks' would find a way around it.
That's not true. Paying tithes or 10% of ones income is a part of the doctrine of most Christian denominations. The difference is that some churches strongly encourage their members to follow doctrine, and others don't. Besides, I'd rather write out a check & mail it to my bishop twice a month than sit through the weekly 15-20 minute begging & groveling for funds part of every service for every Pentacostal church that I've ever been a member of or visited. I'd much rather sit and listen to a guy stumble through his talk and means it than fake, gimicky, pseudo-entertainment that's more for show and lining the pockets of the pastor than worshiping God.
I lived there for a little bit and loved it! I would certainly move back if I could. It's nice and clean with lots of outdoor activities participate in. Unfortunately, lots of other people have the same idea, and as a result housing can be high. I also prefer living in a state w/o an income tax.
Contrary to popular belief, the state isn't totally LDS (about 70% state wide, less than 50% for SLC, I believe). If you want to drink, at least you can buy it. There are several places in the south where you can't (supposedly the county where Jack Daniels whiskey is distilled is a dry county!). Also, the liquor laws haven't stopped the Hollywood (some would say, Hollyweird) crowd from coming to Park City every year for the Sundance and other festivals.
IMHO, this guy from Iomega is just hopping on Rocky Anderson's bandwagon to change standards for the stupid Olympics.
I would love to have a tech job in a rural area. The job that I loved more than any other was with a USGS facility that was surrounded by farms. After lunch many of the programmers would go for peaceful walks out in the country side. I would like to go back, but my wife hates snow.
So what exactly is it that makes the urban or suburban lifestyle supposedly so attractive? Is it the traffic, polllution, or crime? The people packed into little apartment boxes downtown or cookie cutter houses in suburbia? Twenty-four hour shopping so my wife can waste my paycheck at any time of the night? I go to work and the come home to spend time with the family and tinker on my computer. The _only_ thing these areas offer me is employement. Given a choice between the smaller towns and the metro areas I've lived in, I'd choose the small towns (the only exception to that statement is SLC). Preferably, out in the country away from people.
BTW, a very large majority of the population of Utah live in metro areas. I've heard some census types say that UT is one of the most urbanized states in the US. Sure, it's got lots of land, but most of it's empty.
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Labor unions, education, and time solve all problems. If any of you have grandparents old enough to remember when the world's largest developing economy was the United States, ask them about pay and working conditions.
Yeah, their jobs stayed pretty much the same, but products and services from union shops became more expensive. It's certainly great for the union bosses.
At one time in the US you were able to support a family on the wages of a store clerk.
And when exactly was this? Something like a store clerk have always been low paying, low skill jobs. The ones most likely to fill these jobs are kids and single adults. I grant you that if a guy had been there a long time and worked a lot of hours, then he might have been able to support a family. Generally, it's always been the case, that if you wanted to make more money, you needed to move into a job that required a skill and/or had risk involved. The supposed person trying to raise a family on minimum wage is a myth. The large majority of these people are teenagers and students. If someone doesn't have the gumption and desire to learn a trade and just stays a warm body for min. wage, they they shouldn't have a family, IMHO. It's irresponsible.
What has changed? The attitude that it is required to have two incomes. In "The Tightwad Gazette" pp23-24, Amy Dacyczyn addresses this. In many cases, you add up the added expeses for transportation, child care, professional wardrobe, meals, increased taxes, etc., the 2nd income isn't contributing that much unless both of them are in the higher paying 'professional' labor markets. [The ones on the low end may actually need two incomes, but in the past, that meant Dad (or sometimes Mom) worked multiple jobs in order to make sure someone was running the household business. My dad did this for decades] In addition, due to reduced amount of time, people often purchase prepackaged, ready made food & other services which end up costing even more (my wife knows people that spend approx $1500/month in groceries because of this). Over the years the companies & individuals selling big ticket items have recognized that the ones with the mid to high paying jobs have some money left over, so their prices have risen to match. Madison avenue has also fueled some of this with their bigger, faster, more, more, more mindset. Compare the houses in a suburb built 30-40 years ago to some new ones. The newer ones have a lot more square footage and most certainly cost more after adjusted for inflation. The same can be set for vehicles. All of this when the average number of people in a family has gone down.
I guess the point is, that it seems too many people have skewed priorities. Do you want both parents working long hours, but no time with each other & the kids, but have a big new house, big new SUVs, and all the latest expensive toys for the kids? Or do you want to be more modest in your living standards, get by on one income, and spend more time with your family? I know for a fact that it's been better for my family to do the latter. The kids get lots of individual attention from their mom and I and aren't total little shits like many of their peers (as related by their peers' parents). On the flip side, my wife recently wanted to work in a museum to get out & about. Most of what she ears is turned right around and given to someone else. I doubt what's left covers the extra taxes we owe, instead of getting a refund.
Palm IIIxe's for $150?? I might have to wander over to Best Buy this Friday. What's Palm doing for their m105 promotion?
Between the Edge and the Vx, I'd probably pick the Edge..IMHO, it looks better.
I can't see why they couldn't have come up with a standard for memory or even use the same standard as the desktop. I have an old laptop that uses a standard 72pin SIMM, so it's been done (the same laptop though has it's hard drive wired directly to the motherboard). I don't understand why it's not more widespread. I would think this would help the manufacturers bring their costs down.
If it's a pain for you, well, it's not their fault your television predates VCRs
You must be joking. There are lots of TVs that don't have RCA inputs that are only a few years old. My TV is maybe only 4 years old and it only has coax input. At the time, the only TVs that did have RCA inputs where the stereo models and they were much more expensive and in my case unnecessary since I already had a home theater system. I don't want to buy a new TV just for the stupid DVD player. I hated having to buy the stupid Radio Shack switch box too, but I had to because someone in Hollyweird is paranoid that I might copy a movie, even if it's for archival purposes.
The VCR with two inputs doesn't always work. I had an stereo VCR that was a 4-5 years old and everything worked ok with the DVD on the AUX input. That VCR recently burned out it's video output circuits, so I bought a new one and hooked it up the same way. No luck. Even though the manual said Macrovision would only be noticible if I tried recording, whenever I tried playing a DVD, it would fade in and out to a blue screen. I had to get a Radio Shack switch.
All this BS, just to stop the average person from copying their own tapes!
Of course not. But once you buy it, you don't have to deal with Volvo (or whoever you bought it from) again if you don't want to. A person is free to buy repair manuals and parts from their local auto part store and do everything your self. To make your example fit, the engine compartment would have to be sealed, only special volvo tools could be used on it, and you would only get optimum performance if you bought gasoline at station that was owned by or in partnership with a Volvo subsidiary.
This would be useful in building internet/compute appliances with standard PC motherboards. People have come to expect a device to be on instantly when they hit the power button. How successful do you think a modern TV would be if it took 20-30 seconds before the user could do anything? In their case, they wanted to have the ability to add a compute node to their Beowulf cluster, turn it on, and have it ready for work in a few seconds.
Go to their site and read some of the pages. This started at Los Alamos _for_ their Beowulf clusters exactly for that reason.
Thousands of people rely on the film-making industry for employment. Replacing them with a freely distributed software package seems morally questionable at the least.
Please go re-read the article. A lot of the software that's being ported are the in-house tools that the special effects houses created themselves (the exception was the 16bit/channel GIMP). They are just porting it from one version of Unix to Linux. People would still have to pay for the proprietary 3rd party programs once they are ported to linux (this was mentioned in the article). The only people that are really going to be hurt by this is SGI and the vendors that are pushing NT & NT-only software packages. Given that SGI is supporting linux, I'm guessing they saw the handwriting on the wall and decided that if these places are going to replace their Irix machines with linux, it would be in SGI's best interest to have a linux based solution for them.
Now whether it's moral to replace proprietary software with open source depends on who's side you are on. For the user, open source ultimately means control. Control over _your_ own data and systems. You aren't locked into some other company's vision of how you should be using their software. True people have bills to pay, but it's not like every programmer is working for a proprietary software vendor. A lot work for companies where the creation of software for their products or their own use is just a cost of doing business. There will always be a place for proprietary for-profit software, just like there was a place for accountants/bookkeepers after the introduction of the computer. Technology creates and destroys jobs all the time. I don't see how this is all that different.
There is a linux based Palm SDK and emulator available. Here's an intro on Linux Gazette. You can download tools and documentation from the Palm developer page. You can do all your programming on linux with the familiar gnu tools, do some testing with the emulator, and then download them to the Palm for more in depth testing.
The July 2000 issue of Linux Journal had a story about a prof at the University of Tornoto had created a watch in 1998 running linux that has a video camera. Here's the article: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue75/399 3.html.
I went to their site to see if they had any company history online. It only says that it was started in 1985 and by two guys in an Iowa farm house. I do know that by 87 or 88, they were in N Sioux City, because one of my classmates in college worked there during the summers. I can't remember when they moved the headquarters to San Diego. I believe it was to be closer to Silicon Valley and Waite liked the climate better (wimp!).
I can believe the state not giving them a tax break. My roommate from college lives in IA City now and when it comes to taxes, hates the IA state income tax.
Gateway once was based in Iowa
Since when? I thought it's always been in N Sioux City, South Dakota. I mean, why live or base a business that could be anywhere in Sioux City, when you can go a few miles north and not have to pay state income tax & lower property tax? When I was in college, I know that some of Gateway's machines were made in Rapid City, SD because for an EE class, we toured a custom electronics assembly plant in town. We watched them make Gateways and some other stuff.
Didn't someone create a DCOM/ActiveX/whatever Gecko component? If so, couldn't a person have IE use that for displaying HTML instead of it's original component?
It would need changes to the X well defined X-protocol to implement this
But isn't that what an extension is? I'm not that worried about it right now. Let the XFree people get any of the kinks out of DRI for local use first and then remote displays sometime later.
Not necessarily. X is smart enough to know what tricks to enable when the display is on the local machine. For example, for a local display, all the X protocol traffic is being done via shared memory instead of the TCP/IP protocol stack. Several years ago this wasn't the case and one had to explicitly set the $DISPLAY variable to enable it.
I don't know much about the specifics of DRI, but if it's like what SGI did w/ GLX, they you should still be able to export the display to another machine and get some hardware assisted rendering. IIRC, the GLX extension would send the 3D information over the network to an X server capable of handling it. The server would pass it off the the gl layer that SGI built whether it was totally in software for the lowend machines or one of their massive multicard 3D units (or at least that how I remember it from the gl class I took at SGI several years ago). Yet another X extension that the server has to advertise. If an application needs this capability, it will have to query the server when it starts up and fall back to another rendering method or just complain to the user and exit. Sure it's not going to be as fast since it has to go over the network, but it is better than trying to do 3D w/ the plain X protocol.
In the past, I have usually split up my resume into two sections. One section is an expertise summary outline. It lists the types of work I've done followed by the operating systems, languages, and tools that I have moderate to extensive experience with. This can also include any certifications you hold or professional training courses you've taken. The next section contains my recent employement history where I list about 3 of my most recent employers. For each one I give a very short description of what my job was and list a few of the major accomplishments. Be consice, but like a previous person had suggested, don't go overboard on the acronyms. It would be nice to have a customized resume for each job application. In my Technical Communications courses, the profs usually suggested a customized cover letter that would explain how your knowledge and experience matches what the company is looking for an employee.
Once you've come up with a first draft, have as many other people review it and give you feedback. Try taking it to a recruiting professional (either at a college or at an agency) and see if they will critique it for you too.
Granted the pay scale isn't what can be found in private industry. However, if you are recent college graduate, you are probably used to not having a lot of income anyway. I personally, would try to get hired by the contractor company at a military or science facility. These tend to have the more interesting projects that can often be on the bleeding edge. I mention contractor because the actual Federal jobs are more often held by management, not the coders.
I did this and loved it.
I would disagree with you here. Just because you are on a tight budget doesn't mean you won't be on the cutting edge. The Lobos and Beowulf projects were started at govt labs because of these tight budgets. If you are dealing with open systems, the software and documentation about it is on the web for free. At worst case you will want to buy a book. Also that doesn't mean that they will never buy any of the latest and greatest hardware. The Federal govt is probably the single biggest buyer of unix workstations and servers. These aren't cheap.
I used to work as an employee for the primary contractor at a USGS facility that was an absolute blast. I loved that job. Only a small fraction of the people at many Fed. facilities actually work for the Govt. The rest are employees of contractors. In many cases, when the contract changes, you just switch to being an employee of the new contractor. True, the pay was lower than what I get now in the private sector. I didn't care. I was out of school and eager to soak up all the technology I could get. I'm sure the original person who asked the question is too. Later on the new wife didn't like the wages, which caused problems and eventually resulted in my leaving. It also made head hunters question my ability because they were basing it on my previous payscale. Once informed it was a govt job, they changed their minds. Sure, I may be making over twice what I did before, but I don't have a tenth of the job satisfaction that I did at the USGS.
From a cartoon: Private industry on the left, govt/educational institutions on the right. The caption: super salaries or supercomputers. Take your pick.
Tell them that in order to 'secure' the content, you will eliminate the primary goal of being able to access it from any computer. On top of that, any encryption scheme that is not cumbersome for the user will end up being cracked, so your effort will be wasted. If they want to make money from these ebooks, create a subscription service.
However, I do agree that there are times where you don't want the users to be saving information that they are viewing via the web. With Netscape 4.x, one can use javascript to turn off the ability to click on a page (to highlight for cut & paste, view source, etc.). I've used this trick along with an frame containing only an invisible <layer> tag that has a blank page as its source. Java script on another frame changes the source for the layer with the output of a CGI script that's been tagged as non cacheable. The user can see the content, but when they try to save it or print it from the menus, they get the original blank page. I'm not quite sure how to do a similiar sort of thing with IE or Mozilla. Of course, this only keeps the casual users from saving or printing out the pages. The 'crooks' would find a way around it.
No other religion demands 10%
That's not true. Paying tithes or 10% of ones income is a part of the doctrine of most Christian denominations. The difference is that some churches strongly encourage their members to follow doctrine, and others don't. Besides, I'd rather write out a check & mail it to my bishop twice a month than sit through the weekly 15-20 minute begging & groveling for funds part of every service for every Pentacostal church that I've ever been a member of or visited. I'd much rather sit and listen to a guy stumble through his talk and means it than fake, gimicky, pseudo-entertainment that's more for show and lining the pockets of the pastor than worshiping God.
Uh, actually from what I've heard, people in UT (and CO) are bitching about all the Californians moving in and driving up housing costs.
I lived there for a little bit and loved it! I would certainly move back if I could. It's nice and clean with lots of outdoor activities participate in. Unfortunately, lots of other people have the same idea, and as a result housing can be high. I also prefer living in a state w/o an income tax.
Contrary to popular belief, the state isn't totally LDS (about 70% state wide, less than 50% for SLC, I believe). If you want to drink, at least you can buy it. There are several places in the south where you can't (supposedly the county where Jack Daniels whiskey is distilled is a dry county!). Also, the liquor laws haven't stopped the Hollywood (some would say, Hollyweird) crowd from coming to Park City every year for the Sundance and other festivals.
IMHO, this guy from Iomega is just hopping on Rocky Anderson's bandwagon to change standards for the stupid Olympics.
I would love to have a tech job in a rural area. The job that I loved more than any other was with a USGS facility that was surrounded by farms. After lunch many of the programmers would go for peaceful walks out in the country side. I would like to go back, but my wife hates snow.
So what exactly is it that makes the urban or suburban lifestyle supposedly so attractive? Is it the traffic, polllution, or crime? The people packed into little apartment boxes downtown or cookie cutter houses in suburbia? Twenty-four hour shopping so my wife can waste my paycheck at any time of the night? I go to work and the come home to spend time with the family and tinker on my computer. The _only_ thing these areas offer me is employement. Given a choice between the smaller towns and the metro areas I've lived in, I'd choose the small towns (the only exception to that statement is SLC). Preferably, out in the country away from people.
BTW, a very large majority of the population of Utah live in metro areas. I've heard some census types say that UT is one of the most urbanized states in the US. Sure, it's got lots of land, but most of it's empty.