If I'm reading this correctly, you can still run Vista Home Edition on a Mac. You would want to use Boot Camp, which is a dual boot solution. In that scenario, you are running on the bare metal. Granted, it is not the preferred solution (having to reboot just to run a simple application), but it would get it done.
Only users of VMWare or Parallels would be impacted. Of course, so would users of other virtualization platforms on other OSes (Windows, Linux, etc.).
This could be quite nice. It could potentially meant that, if all documents are in a web-based tool, my underlying platform becomes less relevant. I could use my company-issued POS, or I could use my MacBook. Who cares, so long as I have a browser?
OTOH, I'd have to rely on internet access. I couldn't work on my documents in a plane.
I have to consider: once you're working on college-level material, how often are you citing a general encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Britannica for instance? Perhaps for the odd minor fact, but, if you are doing a serious paper, you're looking at multiple sources for most points, usually in detailed works on the subject, scholarly and professional journals, and other materials. As others have pointed out, it may be a starting point or a way to get a good overview, but I know that most of my professors would not have liked that most research was done in a general encyclopedia.
Disclaimers:
My degree is in a social science, so it is close to this
I know Wikipedia does go a bit deeper (and covers more ground) than other sources.
For an external candidate, you politely say "thank you for your time," check the box that says "do not hire this guy," objectively fill out any other related paperwork, and move on.
When interviewing, your interest are those of your company, not the field, or society as a whole. The questions you are interested in are "can this guy do the job?" and "will this guy fit into our organization?" Providing feedback to the candidate will cause you some degree of grief (litigation, someone pestering you for feedback, and unintentional protege).
If you feel you must give feedback, volunteer at a college, technical school, or high school, to give mock interviews.
If it is an internal candidate, I wouldn't say anything, either. I would provide any feedback to HR, the individual's supervisor, or my own (to channel to the individual).
Stevens came in at 53%. Tech friendly votes include "against taxes on Internet purchases," "for an R&D tax credit," "against banning sale of firearms online," "Extending ban on Internet access taxes through 2007," "To liberalize computer export restrictions" among others. Granted, he did vote for the CDA. However, I don't think "making bad analogies" equates a bad tech voting record.
You see, congress is like an iceberg full of penguins...
Here's a thought...and I'm surprised I didn't see this in the comments. There are scores of free and advertiser-support e-mail streams out there--gmail, yahoo, etc. Why not work to direct AOL folks to use one of these services. Even if AOL is their ISP, they can, presently, hit these sites. I may even have some invites to gmail I can contribute to the cause.
Best case scenario is that NO e-mail traffic goes to AOL anymore. Their list revenue would be minimal at best. Having migrated off AOL for e-mail, the barrier to moving ISPs may be lower for some, so they would have fewer subscribers.
The only ways AOL could respond is to either drop the e-mail fee, or block free web-based e-mail sites. Choosing the latter would be taking on Yahoo, Google, and the rest, which I don't think is a fight they can win.
One thing that I'm not clear on in this article is if they have plans for the server version (similar to XP vs. Windows Server 2003). Tied to that, of course, is if/when there will be "Windows Server 2007 Data Center Edition," for 32-way type systems.
I have suspected that keyboards would be a good place for germs to linger. I've taken to keeping a bottle of purell at my desk, which I use periodically. More-so when I have a cold, always disinfecting my hands after a particularly bad nose-blowing session.
That said, I'm sure I have a bunch of nasties in my keyboard even as we speak.
Did a bit of research on this--as a bicycle commuter, I often have to hear flak about "what right do you have on the road? You don't pay gas tax." It might be of interest.
The gas tax tends to pay more for larger roads--interstates and major highways. The majority of the cost for normal residential streets and country roads (the sorts of streets you see bicycles on, or, for that matter, most people do day-to-day driving) are not covered by the gas tax. These are typically covered by various municipal and state taxes (sales tax, income tax, property tax, etc.). The percentage varies from community to community, but the gas tax contribution ranges from about a quarter to a third of the infrastructure cost.
My point? I'm not entirely sure. Mostly just to give everyone a sense of scale.
Instead of pledging money to save a mediocre show, why not find ways to channel this into maintaining some of these projects. I suspect you might find more geeks willing to part with greenbacks to fund such a thing than "Enterprise," and the program managers might, when faced with the choice of this or cancellation, find ways to drop the cost ("lifeline" support).
I'm the last person to criticize why someone would want to tell someone what to watch, or how they spend their time or money relative to it. In general, I question the value these days of viewer campaigns (the Internet has increased their frequency, which, in turn, has diluted their value).
In the case of "Enterprise," I have to wonder. People are talking about funding an additional season on a network, in a serious fashion. And I do believe it is only a matter of time before a series is, at least in a significant part, funded by fans. I hope it is a quality gem that is given a truly raw deal by a major network.
However, I don't think "Enterprise" is it. It was given numerous renewals on the strength of shaky ratings. It's storytelling and acting are relatively weak. It has had some strong moments, but overall, I always found it lacking.
It's main redeeming quality has been that it is "Star Trek." Even that has almost been a detriment. When it tries to close a continuity loop with the other series, it does so with too much of a wink, and too much hype. It never felt much like "Star Trek," from the types of stories to the sets and costumes.
But it is this "Star Trek" connection that probably has given this campaign series traction. There is likely a noteworthy percentage of people who are rallying, raising funds, etc, for this simply so that Star Trek stays on the air, not "Enterprise." To them I say, "is this the Trek you really want to put your money into?"
Suppose it works. There might be one more season. But, unless you can truly identify and resolve the reasons for the poor ratings, you'll either have delayed the cancellation, or have to pass the hat one more time.
The only upside is that you'll prove the viability of a fan-supported show. And, one day, there will be a not-even-one-season wonder that benefits from fans funding the balance of a season/a second season. With luck, this provides the show a better audience, both by the simple fact it is still on, as well as because it gets a lot of publicity by being fan funded. A third season may become self-sustaining, perhaps even providing some dividend to the fan investors.
So to the people who want to fund "Enterprise" only to keep "Star Trek" on the air, I ask that you save your money, and get behind a new Trek show (already rumored to be in development (think 2006 or 2007)), or one of the new SciFi shows that demonstrates quality worthy of your devotion.
My main experience with Panera has been using the NetFront browser on my PDA (Sony TH55). I have to launch the browser, but I get access. And NetFront can be rather picky...
My personal Panera story is 101 days ago, when we had our first child. I took a picture of the baby with the camera in my palm, and, when I could slip away for lunch, I went to a Panera (much closer than my house), and e-mailed the pic to family. That e-mail is now in her baby book, as the "birth announcement."
The ability to disable floppy disk access has been around for a while. Giving a corporate IT department the option of disabling other devices strikes me as being merely an extension of this policy.
Since this is an option, and can be turned on or off at the discretion of those in charge of the computer (and, in a corporate environment, charged with implementing corporate information security policy), I don't see why this would be controversial.
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If I'm reading this correctly, you can still run Vista Home Edition on a Mac. You would want to use Boot Camp, which is a dual boot solution. In that scenario, you are running on the bare metal. Granted, it is not the preferred solution (having to reboot just to run a simple application), but it would get it done.
Only users of VMWare or Parallels would be impacted. Of course, so would users of other virtualization platforms on other OSes (Windows, Linux, etc.).
This could be quite nice. It could potentially meant that, if all documents are in a web-based tool, my underlying platform becomes less relevant. I could use my company-issued POS, or I could use my MacBook. Who cares, so long as I have a browser?
OTOH, I'd have to rely on internet access. I couldn't work on my documents in a plane.
Disclaimers:
For an external candidate, you politely say "thank you for your time," check the box that says "do not hire this guy," objectively fill out any other related paperwork, and move on.
When interviewing, your interest are those of your company, not the field, or society as a whole. The questions you are interested in are "can this guy do the job?" and "will this guy fit into our organization?" Providing feedback to the candidate will cause you some degree of grief (litigation, someone pestering you for feedback, and unintentional protege).
If you feel you must give feedback, volunteer at a college, technical school, or high school, to give mock interviews.
If it is an internal candidate, I wouldn't say anything, either. I would provide any feedback to HR, the individual's supervisor, or my own (to channel to the individual).
Coincidentally, there is a report documenting a rise in the rate of obesity among killer whales during the same time period.
I'm just sayin'....
Hard Disk Drives now are about $0.50 a Gigabyte. Flash is now about $25.00 a Gigabyte. 3 1/2" Floppy disks about $250.00 per Gigabyte.
For you hard-core retrogrouches, that's $425/GB for audio cassette.
Stevens came in at 53%. Tech friendly votes include "against taxes on Internet purchases," "for an R&D tax credit," "against banning sale of firearms online," "Extending ban on Internet access taxes through 2007," "To liberalize computer export restrictions" among others. Granted, he did vote for the CDA. However, I don't think "making bad analogies" equates a bad tech voting record.
You see, congress is like an iceberg full of penguins...
That's my daughter's birthday? Is that a good thing, or a bad thing.
Here's a thought...and I'm surprised I didn't see this in the comments. There are scores of free and advertiser-support e-mail streams out there--gmail, yahoo, etc. Why not work to direct AOL folks to use one of these services. Even if AOL is their ISP, they can, presently, hit these sites. I may even have some invites to gmail I can contribute to the cause.
Best case scenario is that NO e-mail traffic goes to AOL anymore. Their list revenue would be minimal at best. Having migrated off AOL for e-mail, the barrier to moving ISPs may be lower for some, so they would have fewer subscribers.
The only ways AOL could respond is to either drop the e-mail fee, or block free web-based e-mail sites. Choosing the latter would be taking on Yahoo, Google, and the rest, which I don't think is a fight they can win.
One thing that I'm not clear on in this article is if they have plans for the server version (similar to XP vs. Windows Server 2003). Tied to that, of course, is if/when there will be "Windows Server 2007 Data Center Edition," for 32-way type systems.
Somehow, I think the Mythbusters will crank out an entry with the stuff around the shop...
I have suspected that keyboards would be a good place for germs to linger. I've taken to keeping a bottle of purell at my desk, which I use periodically. More-so when I have a cold, always disinfecting my hands after a particularly bad nose-blowing session.
That said, I'm sure I have a bunch of nasties in my keyboard even as we speak.
Did a bit of research on this--as a bicycle commuter, I often have to hear flak about "what right do you have on the road? You don't pay gas tax." It might be of interest.
The gas tax tends to pay more for larger roads--interstates and major highways. The majority of the cost for normal residential streets and country roads (the sorts of streets you see bicycles on, or, for that matter, most people do day-to-day driving) are not covered by the gas tax. These are typically covered by various municipal and state taxes (sales tax, income tax, property tax, etc.). The percentage varies from community to community, but the gas tax contribution ranges from about a quarter to a third of the infrastructure cost.
My point? I'm not entirely sure. Mostly just to give everyone a sense of scale.
Instead of pledging money to save a mediocre show, why not find ways to channel this into maintaining some of these projects. I suspect you might find more geeks willing to part with greenbacks to fund such a thing than "Enterprise," and the program managers might, when faced with the choice of this or cancellation, find ways to drop the cost ("lifeline" support).
Just a thought...
Sure, ask this question on Slashdot. It won't create a holy war/flame war/hurt feelings/lots of MS bashing.
(Personally? Palm OS and Windows XP)
I'm the last person to criticize why someone would want to tell someone what to watch, or how they spend their time or money relative to it. In general, I question the value these days of viewer campaigns (the Internet has increased their frequency, which, in turn, has diluted their value).
In the case of "Enterprise," I have to wonder. People are talking about funding an additional season on a network, in a serious fashion. And I do believe it is only a matter of time before a series is, at least in a significant part, funded by fans. I hope it is a quality gem that is given a truly raw deal by a major network.
However, I don't think "Enterprise" is it. It was given numerous renewals on the strength of shaky ratings. It's storytelling and acting are relatively weak. It has had some strong moments, but overall, I always found it lacking.
It's main redeeming quality has been that it is "Star Trek." Even that has almost been a detriment. When it tries to close a continuity loop with the other series, it does so with too much of a wink, and too much hype. It never felt much like "Star Trek," from the types of stories to the sets and costumes.
But it is this "Star Trek" connection that probably has given this campaign series traction. There is likely a noteworthy percentage of people who are rallying, raising funds, etc, for this simply so that Star Trek stays on the air, not "Enterprise." To them I say, "is this the Trek you really want to put your money into?"
Suppose it works. There might be one more season. But, unless you can truly identify and resolve the reasons for the poor ratings, you'll either have delayed the cancellation, or have to pass the hat one more time.
The only upside is that you'll prove the viability of a fan-supported show. And, one day, there will be a not-even-one-season wonder that benefits from fans funding the balance of a season/a second season. With luck, this provides the show a better audience, both by the simple fact it is still on, as well as because it gets a lot of publicity by being fan funded. A third season may become self-sustaining, perhaps even providing some dividend to the fan investors.
So to the people who want to fund "Enterprise" only to keep "Star Trek" on the air, I ask that you save your money, and get behind a new Trek show (already rumored to be in development (think 2006 or 2007)), or one of the new SciFi shows that demonstrates quality worthy of your devotion.
My main experience with Panera has been using the NetFront browser on my PDA (Sony TH55). I have to launch the browser, but I get access. And NetFront can be rather picky...
My personal Panera story is 101 days ago, when we had our first child. I took a picture of the baby with the camera in my palm, and, when I could slip away for lunch, I went to a Panera (much closer than my house), and e-mailed the pic to family. That e-mail is now in her baby book, as the "birth announcement."
I knew a guy who used a mobius strip, and managed infinite data storage. Unfortunately, his I/O suffered.
I've been putting data on both sides of my disks for years. All it took was a hole punch. /shows his age.
I beleive it is time to end the "Red Hat Tax!"
After all, this is slashdot.
And thats why Open Source is better! find it one day patch it the next.
Nimbda and Code Red both came out after patches had been available for months. I don't see this as positive or negative for Open Source.
At the end of the day--regardless of platform, it comes down to someone actually installing the patch!
Since this is an option, and can be turned on or off at the discretion of those in charge of the computer (and, in a corporate environment, charged with implementing corporate information security policy), I don't see why this would be controversial.
You know, audio cassettes can hold your data forever. Plus it has that old skool street cred!
This sounds only a little more difficult that the recovery of drones ("UAVs" in today's parlance) during the early 70s. In this, drones would be captured in mid-air by a CH-3.
(My dad flew the CH-3 part of this set-up)
Not saying that there aren't new aspects, merely that the capability was present 30 years ago.