As a designer, I'm really not interested in working with or supporting anything from Microsoft. My reasons? IE 6 & 7. IE6 doesn't even come close to supporting web standards. IE7 does a slightly better job. I hear IE8 is coming along better support-wise. Guess we'll see...
Try a UPS Store if you have one near you. The have software that takes the guesswork out of shipping Internationally. Also, you're not necessarily limited to shipping with UPS. Some stores also ship DHL and FedEx.
Me too. Filtering now. I don't read Slashdot - "News for Nerds" for political "news" especially when the last few articles ( all so far?) have been slanted to the left (IIRC). Thanks, but no thanks. I've really grown to dislike BoingBoing.net for the same reason. It _was_ one of my favorite sites, but it's slanted so far to the left... UGGGHHH!!!
I've always thought this guys (The Video Professor) videos would be a good way for a "newbie" to learn the basics of Windows computing. I've thought about getting them more my Mom who's kind of in the same boat.
And they say that cell phones are distracting while driving.
"...as well as random 'rolling retests' to discourage others from taking the test for you. These rolling retests require the driver to take the test as the car is moving. If the driver fails a retest, the horn sounds and the lights flash until the car is turned off."
I hate to be a dick about it, but this sounds eerily like what has been going on with the Finance community. Not reporting correctly. This just sounds like deceit plain and simple. People in the financial world are going to jail for not reporting correctly. Granted, your situation may not be as serious, but it certainly could be and not being honest and up front isn't going to help things one bit when a poorly built house of cards comes tumbling down. It's a bitter pill to swallow, but in the long run, honesty really is the best policy. A lot of cliches? yeah, but they are cliches for a reason.
Another poster wrote "get your resume ready". I agree. Hiding things won't make them any less of an issue later. In fact, I think these things have a way of getting bigger and worse.
I am all for space exploration, but sometimes I wonder... Why?? Why should we explore space when we have so many struggles here on Earth where the money could be (arguably) better spent.
I say this to say: NASA does not do a good job marketing itself. I bet a lot of "average" Americans say/think the same thing. I REALLY wish NASA would get a professional marketing team from Madison Avenue to get Americans more excited about space. Big Question: What do we have to gain from it? And I'm talking about monetary gain. Where will we be paid back from out investment in so many tax dollars? Like I said, I'm all for it, but I think NASA (and the government) need to do a better job of selling it.
I've had similar issues with mp3's and supposedly (ala 60 Minutes) the RIAA hired a company to put bogus files out there to discourage P2P downloading. Might this be the MPAA using the same tactic?
Debian's "profit", if you will, is reputation. They already have a fantastic one and this only strengthens it. It should go without saying that no system, network, or sysadmin is perfect. This is to be expected. Dreaded certainly, but expected. It's also a learning experience for all of those involved. True to the ethics of Open Source and Free Software, this kind of thing is made public so all can benefit in the long run. Bravo to the Debian team for being... open.
IT and Plumbing or Information and Water
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I like analogies. If you don't, quit reading.
To me, IT is like plumbing. Before we had plumbing, it sucked pretty badly to have to walk to the well to get fresh water. And just how fresh was it? No purification systems. It could have bacteria in it and you might die from drinking it. Then, along comes plumbing and gets the water to our house. Purification systems came about and gave us clean(er) water to drink and use for cooking, making tea, showering (some of us anyway) and such. Life was good. I bet when plumbing first came out, plumbers were thought of as the shit. They received high salaries (some still do) and all the young guys just out of college wanted to be a plumber because it was cool and getting water to people was cool (okay, maybe not all of the young guys and okay, maybe it wasn't that cool. This is an analogy after all.)
So, along comes IT (Information Technology) and computers. Before IT, we had to go to the library to get books and do research (like going to the well, this kinda sucked) we also had to do all of our math on paper with pencils. This kind of sucked too. It also limited the scale of our calculations. We also had to resort to Playboys for porn. Kind of embarassing to go to the store and buy a Playboy from the girl at the register. We also had to pay for our music and movies (really, we still should, but most of us don't.)
Well, you get the picture. IT is like plumbing and information is like water. Granted, water is more essential to life. But information can be as well. It has made us incredibly more productive and efficient. Sure, it has created new problems and issues, but it has helped us to solve a lot of problems and issues as well.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that IT does matter as plumbing matters. As time goes on we'll begin taking IT for granted (as we do clean drinking water and nice warm showers.) But, IT DOES matter and IMHO, anyone who says different is, well, just not that smart. That is all I have to say about that. Thanks for reading.
Could this be Netscape vs. Internet Explorer all over again?
Once again, Microsoft is late to the game. Apple started it this time with iTunes (where it was Netscape with the web browser). Initially, Bill and MS were reluctant to get on the bandwagon with the Internet. Then, it started to leave without them. They smell money and take off after it. "Well, we'll just give our browser away for free and because it's installed by default, why would anyone pay for Netscape?" Of course many "average" users didn't blink and eye used IE and Netscape died.
Are we going to have the online music wars now? MS, again late to the party says, "Well, we've got Media player already installed by default and it's free. Now all we have to do is undercut everyone else on the prices of singles and albums and we'll own the market. If anyone matches our prices, heck, we've got so much money in the bank, we'll just give the music away. We'll also slip some DRM in and make our compression technology proprietary. Customers will love us for free music and the RIAA will love us for DRM."
I don't see how this can happen. Network Solutions bugs the crap out of me to renew mine well in advance. They've been sending me renewal notices for a couple of months now for domains I have that will need to be renewed by March and May of 2004!
Not sure, but Timothy may have been referring to the stance that the OpenBSD team has taken in the past with regard to encryption technologies. Essentially keeping development headquartered outside of the U.S. because of export restrictions. But then again, Theo is from and lives in Canada anyway, so I guess I could be wrong about the above.
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As a designer, I'm really not interested in working with or supporting anything from Microsoft. My reasons? IE 6 & 7. IE6 doesn't even come close to supporting web standards. IE7 does a slightly better job. I hear IE8 is coming along better support-wise. Guess we'll see...
Try a UPS Store if you have one near you. The have software that takes the guesswork out of shipping Internationally. Also, you're not necessarily limited to shipping with UPS. Some stores also ship DHL and FedEx.
Shouldn't this be in the "Political" group so that my filter catches it and doesn't display it?
Me too. Filtering now. I don't read Slashdot - "News for Nerds" for political "news" especially when the last few articles ( all so far?) have been slanted to the left (IIRC). Thanks, but no thanks. I've really grown to dislike BoingBoing.net for the same reason. It _was_ one of my favorite sites, but it's slanted so far to the left... UGGGHHH!!!
The ultimate subterfuge for the bodies buried in the backyard.
"Oh, that smell? It's just my Amorphophallus Titanum."
A wonderful book!!
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
by Steven Levy
Call the FBI as soon as possible.
Hmmmm.... I think they use computers as well. Guess he better get rid of those to. Poor guy.
I've always thought this guys (The Video Professor) videos would be a good way for a "newbie" to learn the basics of Windows computing. I've thought about getting them more my Mom who's kind of in the same boat.
And they say that cell phones are distracting while driving.
"...as well as random 'rolling retests' to discourage others from taking the test for you. These rolling retests require the driver to take the test as the car is moving. If the driver fails a retest, the horn sounds and the lights flash until the car is turned off."
What the HELL do they think this will be?
Review the future?? Could we get some lotto numbers while we're at it?
Yeah, I guess I'm too cautious. I haven't seen it yet. Can you go ahead and forward it?
Thanks.
I hate to be a dick about it, but this sounds eerily like what has been going on with the Finance community. Not reporting correctly. This just sounds like deceit plain and simple. People in the financial world are going to jail for not reporting correctly. Granted, your situation may not be as serious, but it certainly could be and not being honest and up front isn't going to help things one bit when a poorly built house of cards comes tumbling down. It's a bitter pill to swallow, but in the long run, honesty really is the best policy. A lot of cliches? yeah, but they are cliches for a reason.
Another poster wrote "get your resume ready". I agree. Hiding things won't make them any less of an issue later. In fact, I think these things have a way of getting bigger and worse.
I am all for space exploration, but sometimes I wonder... Why?? Why should we explore space when we have so many struggles here on Earth where the money could be (arguably) better spent.
I say this to say: NASA does not do a good job marketing itself. I bet a lot of "average" Americans say/think the same thing. I REALLY wish NASA would get a professional marketing team from Madison Avenue to get Americans more excited about space. Big Question: What do we have to gain from it? And I'm talking about monetary gain. Where will we be paid back from out investment in so many tax dollars? Like I said, I'm all for it, but I think NASA (and the government) need to do a better job of selling it.
I've had similar issues with mp3's and supposedly (ala 60 Minutes) the RIAA hired a company to put bogus files out there to discourage P2P downloading. Might this be the MPAA using the same tactic?
Now, who's going to confirm this?
"I'm pretty single right now so I can't answer, but my email address is listed on the bio page. I just wanted people to know that."
;-)
I love it. That's sure to get him a few dates at least
Debian's "profit", if you will, is reputation. They already have a fantastic one and this only strengthens it. It should go without saying that no system, network, or sysadmin is perfect. This is to be expected. Dreaded certainly, but expected. It's also a learning experience for all of those involved. True to the ethics of Open Source and Free Software, this kind of thing is made public so all can benefit in the long run. Bravo to the Debian team for being... open.
I like analogies. If you don't, quit reading.
To me, IT is like plumbing. Before we had plumbing, it sucked pretty badly to have to walk to the well to get fresh water. And just how fresh was it? No purification systems. It could have bacteria in it and you might die from drinking it. Then, along comes plumbing and gets the water to our house. Purification systems came about and gave us clean(er) water to drink and use for cooking, making tea, showering (some of us anyway) and such. Life was good. I bet when plumbing first came out, plumbers were thought of as the shit. They received high salaries (some still do) and all the young guys just out of college wanted to be a plumber because it was cool and getting water to people was cool (okay, maybe not all of the young guys and okay, maybe it wasn't that cool. This is an analogy after all.)
So, along comes IT (Information Technology) and computers. Before IT, we had to go to the library to get books and do research (like going to the well, this kinda sucked) we also had to do all of our math on paper with pencils. This kind of sucked too. It also limited the scale of our calculations. We also had to resort to Playboys for porn. Kind of embarassing to go to the store and buy a Playboy from the girl at the register. We also had to pay for our music and movies (really, we still should, but most of us don't.)
Well, you get the picture. IT is like plumbing and information is like water. Granted, water is more essential to life. But information can be as well. It has made us incredibly more productive and efficient. Sure, it has created new problems and issues, but it has helped us to solve a lot of problems and issues as well.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that IT does matter as plumbing matters. As time goes on we'll begin taking IT for granted (as we do clean drinking water and nice warm showers.) But, IT DOES matter and IMHO, anyone who says different is, well, just not that smart. That is all I have to say about that. Thanks for reading.
Well, we all know that Linux zealots are nut jobs. Oh... wait...
Could this be Netscape vs. Internet Explorer all over again?
Once again, Microsoft is late to the game. Apple started it this time with iTunes (where it was Netscape with the web browser). Initially, Bill and MS were reluctant to get on the bandwagon with the Internet. Then, it started to leave without them. They smell money and take off after it. "Well, we'll just give our browser away for free and because it's installed by default, why would anyone pay for Netscape?" Of course many "average" users didn't blink and eye used IE and Netscape died.
Are we going to have the online music wars now? MS, again late to the party says, "Well, we've got Media player already installed by default and it's free. Now all we have to do is undercut everyone else on the prices of singles and albums and we'll own the market. If anyone matches our prices, heck, we've got so much money in the bank, we'll just give the music away. We'll also slip some DRM in and make our compression technology proprietary. Customers will love us for free music and the RIAA will love us for DRM."
Nahhh, Microsoft is definitely not a monopoly.
Well done Andreas! Bravo and thanks!
I don't see how this can happen. Network Solutions bugs the crap out of me to renew mine well in advance. They've been sending me renewal notices for a couple of months now for domains I have that will need to be renewed by March and May of 2004!
Not sure, but Timothy may have been referring to the stance that the OpenBSD team has taken in the past with regard to encryption technologies. Essentially keeping development headquartered outside of the U.S. because of export restrictions. But then again, Theo is from and lives in Canada anyway, so I guess I could be wrong about the above.
I guess I could learn to spell cyclical. Hmph... reading Slashdot too much ;-)