Simple, do only what you love and nothing else! It sounds inane or naive, but I assure you, it works! It's the only thing that does! I've been a work-at-home writer, so to speak, for years. The only thing that keeps everything straight, from money to family to work time is to do only what I'm inspired to do in every moment. The world takes care of everything else. My love, my wife and I, have been separated for months at a time. The only thing that kept us wanting to be together was the fact we loved that neither one of us would ever give in to someone else's ideas of what we "should be" doing and have done only what we loved to do! Believe it or not, it is not a fairy tale life! But, it is better than anyone else I've known to try to work at home! So, God bless you, if you're into that sort of thing! It will work out fine if you're supposed to. If not, get to work, and you'll figure it our sooner or later! If you love what you're doing, it'll be really easy! If not, change careers, immediately! That's my only advice to you. God says so too, by the way! It's my "alter ego" that disagrees sometimes:)
In fact, there's a lot of truth to the idea that error and ignorance makes money for the IRS. Actually the 16th Amendment of the US Constitution was never appropriately ratified (which was supposed to give authority to the government to be able to collect the tax). On top of that, the US Supreme Court has ruled that the 16th Amendment gave no additional taxing power (otherwise it would be unconstitutional!) So, due to the misconception about the federal government's jurisdiction, the federal income tax only applies to Washington DC, Puerto Rico, and the like and does not apply to the 50 states of the Union. So... when you file your taxes, you do so completely voluntarily (read here: under fear of punishment by the system for tax evasion... when no such actual law exists anywhere in the US Code). The IRS tax code, by the way, is not law, but rather more like instructions on how to follow a non-existent law.
But, please, don't take my word on any of this and check out the copious info on the net about the subject. Just don't expect your tax preparer or lawyer (who have made themselves just as dependent upon this sham as the IRS) to agree with me.
I choose to take personal responsibility for my actions. Ok, done with my rant.
I currently work with Primerica, a member of Citigroup. The parent company is US-based (international), but the Primerica Life company operates out of both Canada and the US as separate companies to some degree. I've found the "corporate environment" to be unrivaled. This company has only the best in mind for all related parties. I love the place and will never leave. I highly recommend you go to your local office and check them out, esp. considering your background.
Best of Luck
-jcpii
"Compound interest is the most powerful force in the Universe." -Albert Einstein
Maybe subscribers could go online and vote for the programming they would like to see, or even submit program ideas. You could call it "TV for Nerds. Stuff that Matters."
Yes, get up and walk. I've noticed over my short years that simply not avoiding exercise is very useful. When someone has something heavy that needs to be carried down the hall, I volunteer. When 50 boxes of records needed to be taken down 3 flights of stairs, when furniture needs to be moved around, etc.
Between that and not overeating (this was my big challenge), you can manage to keep reasonable muscle tone/mass. Just consider your bike ride the diffence between being a pencil neck and a beef cake (wife said to use that term).
I would recommend searching the NPR website for less biased info. on gun control. I remember hearing something on an NPR station in the last week or so about a scientist doing a "study without motive" on the statistic of whether guns in the home made people less or more prone to deaths by gun shot.
You should keep all those CDs. Then tile the ceiling of your bedroom like a mirror, take a picture or two like this, and send them to the AOL execs. They can be comforted in knowing that they brought it upon themselves... kinda.
Really... you should keep all those CDs. Then tile the ceiling of your bedroom like a mirror, take a picture or two like this, and send them to the AOL execs. They can be comforted in know that they brought it on themselves... kinda.
What about some of those not-so-technical reasons that many of us use Win instead of Lin as our primary OS...
1. Familiarity - Thanks to the 90-something percent market saturation of Windows on desktops, people have just become comfortable with it. Why change if it does most of the things most users need - sometimes price isn't enough.
2. Ease of Use - The existence of command lines in Linux is scary for Win-ers (Windows users), even if they never have to use them. In a fully fleshed out GUI, most users won't need a command line. And, it's not that Windows is a perfect GUI, it's that most Windows users don't know that it could be so much better. (KDE, Gnome, etc. are by no means any better at this point.)
3. Fear of Change - the completely irrational reason that some people will NEVER change from Windows to any other OS. These are the people still using Win95 because they don't want to deal with all the new things that have come up in 7 years. Until it becomes easier to change to Linux than upgrade to another version of Windows, these people are lost. (Side Note: This last sentence probably applies to almost all Windows users to a significant degree.)
4. Lack of Accountability - who will fix it when it breaks? You can't just pay $100 and have your computer shipped to Mandrake (or whoever) for repair. So, until comprehensive warantees come with Linux boxes from Dell, Gateway, HP, or somebody else with a reputation, many small businesses and almost all home users won't cross over.
Now, if you've managed to get this far down in this post, I applaud you. So, next is my disclaimer:
I use Windows 2000 as my primary OS. I also use Mandrake 9.0 as an 'experimental' option for the sake of learning. In general, I find myself more frustrated with M$ products than not. Having spent 6+ years getting to know windows so well, I fear spending another ~5 years to learn Linux equally well. Competition is great, and I hope open source distros become a real (20+ percent of the market) competitor for the home PC market. Anything that will improve the products available to consumers and bend the wills of software/hardware companies to the wishes of tech and non-tech savvy consumers deserves a chance. Monopolies suck for the average Joe, and so does lack of adhearance to industry standards.... 'n stuff
This delay is probably for the better as far as stability/quality of the next OS and longevity of 2K. Maybe MS learned from XP that releasing an OS to early is a pain in the butt (fixes, bad publicity, and all) and that their time would be better spent polishing up their finnished products a little more. After all, they do have a lot of work to do to catch up with their open-source competitors.
I'd rather have one good OS every six years from them than one crappy one every two years.
I'm rather amazed that the wayback machine found *6* old versions of my college-days website! Does anyone have an impressively obscure website they've found on the machine?
I, personally, am happy to have had the chance to see one of my _life's ambitions_ filled... Thanks to Mr. Philyaw, I now own a bar code scanner to catalog my music with.
I spent months trying to find a reasonably priced scanner, and eventually I gave up. But shortly there after, a trip to the local Radio Shack fixed that problem. I consider it a fair deal after all the times I've overpaid for items at that place, that I get a little something back.
I'm quite willing to spend a little effort to find the buttons on a touch screen considering all the flexibility of the buttons. You can change the size, location, look of, and text in each of the buttons. Although you will have to have at least a H.S. Diploma or G.E.D. to figure out the manual, once you've mastered the remote, it will be the last remote you will ever buy. It is rugged, its OS can (and has been) updated, and you can use a computer (Mac to come soon, which also probably meens it'll work for FreeBSD!) to manage/backup the buttons and OS.
After primarily considering the Sony, Home Theater Master, and Palm; I would recommend the H.T.M. if you just want a remote, or the Palm of you have an additional need for a PDA, but the Sony is just to expensive and awkward.
My Co. has been using an Exchange server, and although it is functional with those calendars and automatic meetings, we only have about 60 users. Maybe more like 80 or 100 if you consider we run internal and external systems (the internal is inside a bank and is isolated for security purposes). I forsee the management of the Exchange users getting out of hand real quick as we exceed 100+ users. I don't think I would trust any M$ product with ~1000 users and not expect it to crash regularly, either.
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Simple, do only what you love and nothing else! It sounds inane or naive, but I assure you, it works! It's the only thing that does! I've been a work-at-home writer, so to speak, for years. The only thing that keeps everything straight, from money to family to work time is to do only what I'm inspired to do in every moment. The world takes care of everything else. My love, my wife and I, have been separated for months at a time. The only thing that kept us wanting to be together was the fact we loved that neither one of us would ever give in to someone else's ideas of what we "should be" doing and have done only what we loved to do! Believe it or not, it is not a fairy tale life! But, it is better than anyone else I've known to try to work at home! So, God bless you, if you're into that sort of thing! It will work out fine if you're supposed to. If not, get to work, and you'll figure it our sooner or later! If you love what you're doing, it'll be really easy! If not, change careers, immediately! That's my only advice to you. God says so too, by the way! It's my "alter ego" that disagrees sometimes :)
-John P
So, does this mean I can watch ABC programs on my Google TV? Or is Netflix "opting out" of the open internet, too?
In fact, there's a lot of truth to the idea that error and ignorance makes money for the IRS. Actually the 16th Amendment of the US Constitution was never appropriately ratified (which was supposed to give authority to the government to be able to collect the tax). On top of that, the US Supreme Court has ruled that the 16th Amendment gave no additional taxing power (otherwise it would be unconstitutional!) So, due to the misconception about the federal government's jurisdiction, the federal income tax only applies to Washington DC, Puerto Rico, and the like and does not apply to the 50 states of the Union. So... when you file your taxes, you do so completely voluntarily (read here: under fear of punishment by the system for tax evasion... when no such actual law exists anywhere in the US Code). The IRS tax code, by the way, is not law, but rather more like instructions on how to follow a non-existent law.
But, please, don't take my word on any of this and check out the copious info on the net about the subject. Just don't expect your tax preparer or lawyer (who have made themselves just as dependent upon this sham as the IRS) to agree with me.
I choose to take personal responsibility for my actions. Ok, done with my rant.
I currently work with Primerica, a member of Citigroup. The parent company is US-based (international), but the Primerica Life company operates out of both Canada and the US as separate companies to some degree. I've found the "corporate environment" to be unrivaled. This company has only the best in mind for all related parties. I love the place and will never leave. I highly recommend you go to your local office and check them out, esp. considering your background.
Best of Luck
-jcpii
"Compound interest is the most powerful force in the Universe." -Albert Einstein
Maybe subscribers could go online and vote for the programming they would like to see, or even submit program ideas. You could call it "TV for Nerds. Stuff that Matters."
Anybody know what format data is stored on the USB key in? FAT?
I guess what I'm really asking is if I'll be able to pull docs off the USB key with an out-of-the-box install of Windows or MacOS X.
-jcpii
Yes, get up and walk. I've noticed over my short years that simply not avoiding exercise is very useful. When someone has something heavy that needs to be carried down the hall, I volunteer. When 50 boxes of records needed to be taken down 3 flights of stairs, when furniture needs to be moved around, etc.
Between that and not overeating (this was my big challenge), you can manage to keep reasonable muscle tone/mass. Just consider your bike ride the diffence between being a pencil neck and a beef cake (wife said to use that term).
-John
Now, I know most of you don't buy computer equipment at Costco, but I must say their rebates are quick and painless!
I had one of these in college. I must say that Campus Police did not take kindly to us shooting out street lights. ...it was an accident ;)
really...
I would recommend searching the NPR website for less biased info. on gun control. I remember hearing something on an NPR station in the last week or so about a scientist doing a "study without motive" on the statistic of whether guns in the home made people less or more prone to deaths by gun shot.
So, like I said in an earlier post...
You should keep all those CDs. Then tile the ceiling of your bedroom like a mirror, take a picture or two like this, and send them to the AOL execs. They can be comforted in knowing that they brought it upon themselves... kinda.
Really... you should keep all those CDs. Then tile the ceiling of your bedroom like a mirror, take a picture or two like this, and send them to the AOL execs. They can be comforted in know that they brought it on themselves... kinda.
What about some of those not-so-technical reasons that many of us use Win instead of Lin as our primary OS...
... 'n stuff
1. Familiarity - Thanks to the 90-something percent market saturation of Windows on desktops, people have just become comfortable with it. Why change if it does most of the things most users need - sometimes price isn't enough.
2. Ease of Use - The existence of command lines in Linux is scary for Win-ers (Windows users), even if they never have to use them. In a fully fleshed out GUI, most users won't need a command line. And, it's not that Windows is a perfect GUI, it's that most Windows users don't know that it could be so much better. (KDE, Gnome, etc. are by no means any better at this point.)
3. Fear of Change - the completely irrational reason that some people will NEVER change from Windows to any other OS. These are the people still using Win95 because they don't want to deal with all the new things that have come up in 7 years. Until it becomes easier to change to Linux than upgrade to another version of Windows, these people are lost. (Side Note: This last sentence probably applies to almost all Windows users to a significant degree.)
4. Lack of Accountability - who will fix it when it breaks? You can't just pay $100 and have your computer shipped to Mandrake (or whoever) for repair. So, until comprehensive warantees come with Linux boxes from Dell, Gateway, HP, or somebody else with a reputation, many small businesses and almost all home users won't cross over.
Now, if you've managed to get this far down in this post, I applaud you. So, next is my disclaimer:
I use Windows 2000 as my primary OS. I also use Mandrake 9.0 as an 'experimental' option for the sake of learning. In general, I find myself more frustrated with M$ products than not. Having spent 6+ years getting to know windows so well, I fear spending another ~5 years to learn Linux equally well. Competition is great, and I hope open source distros become a real (20+ percent of the market) competitor for the home PC market. Anything that will improve the products available to consumers and bend the wills of software/hardware companies to the wishes of tech and non-tech savvy consumers deserves a chance. Monopolies suck for the average Joe, and so does lack of adhearance to industry standards.
-jcpii
This delay is probably for the better as far as stability/quality of the next OS and longevity of 2K. Maybe MS learned from XP that releasing an OS to early is a pain in the butt (fixes, bad publicity, and all) and that their time would be better spent polishing up their finnished products a little more. After all, they do have a lot of work to do to catch up with their open-source competitors.
I'd rather have one good OS every six years from them than one crappy one every two years.
-jcpii
I'm rather amazed that the wayback machine found *6* old versions of my college-days website! Does anyone have an impressively obscure website they've found on the machine?
I, personally, am happy to have had the chance to see one of my _life's ambitions_ filled... Thanks to Mr. Philyaw, I now own a bar code scanner to catalog my music with.
I spent months trying to find a reasonably priced scanner, and eventually I gave up. But shortly there after, a trip to the local Radio Shack fixed that problem. I consider it a fair deal after all the times I've overpaid for items at that place, that I get a little something back.
I'm quite willing to spend a little effort to find the buttons on a touch screen considering all the flexibility of the buttons. You can change the size, location, look of, and text in each of the buttons. Although you will have to have at least a H.S. Diploma or G.E.D. to figure out the manual, once you've mastered the remote, it will be the last remote you will ever buy. It is rugged, its OS can (and has been) updated, and you can use a computer (Mac to come soon, which also probably meens it'll work for FreeBSD!) to manage/backup the buttons and OS.
After primarily considering the Sony, Home Theater Master, and Palm; I would recommend the H.T.M. if you just want a remote, or the Palm of you have an additional need for a PDA, but the Sony is just to expensive and awkward.
-John
Low res or not, I bet a bunch of people will jump at the chance to buy a 196.8" viewable screen for just a bit more than a GMC Hummer.
My Co. has been using an Exchange server, and although it is functional with those calendars and automatic meetings, we only have about 60 users. Maybe more like 80 or 100 if you consider we run internal and external systems (the internal is inside a bank and is isolated for security purposes). I forsee the management of the Exchange users getting out of hand real quick as we exceed 100+ users. I don't think I would trust any M$ product with ~1000 users and not expect it to crash regularly, either.