That may be true, but regardless of how a decision is made, they have consequences. Get the answers right, and you get promoted, paid, laid, etc.
I can make the snappy, thinly-sliced decision that I have the right of way at the crosswalk because I'm a pedestrian, but the bus will still surely kill me.
Yes, purposefully ignorant; that covers it. I can't tell you what a joy it is to hear the tellers that call in tell me they aren't computer literate. I always gently remind them that they work for a bank and handle money; and can't tell me that.
Any person that has a problem with two buttons on a mouse will have the same or similar problems with a one button mouse.
This device needs to have a TV out feature as well. Not everyone has a $100 monitor laying around, but may have a TV. Linux would certainly be a good idea, but I imagine that MS charged only a nominal amount for CE.
Most Likely Scenario: Rural village with perhaps one TV in a community hall. They use it to watch instructional videos transmitted via satellite. This machine, the big, green, AMD Lozenge[tm] will be used to search for weather forecasts, crop prices, some medical info for the local medic/doctor, downloading lessons for the K-12 schoolteacher, correspondence with officials in far-away local government centers, etc.
It may well be a 50/2015 proposition, but this device might serve 20-30 poeple. Before The shrieking and wailing starts from the left, there are areas in the US that look an awful lot like third-world countries. These devices would be a boon and a leg up for developing areas.
These would be fun boxes to hack and play with, no doubt. If you think that no one wants an internet appliance, check the gospel according to Cringley this week. These units were a bit ahead of their time in aticipation of need, but are perfect for right now and the near future.
Mt. St Helens would flood the Columbia with ash and mud like it did last time. Mt Rainier would send it's load toward Seattle, where I live. The town of Orting, WA would disappear under a wall of mud. It would head down the Duwamish and deposit a bit of mud. Tacoma would get hit hard. The Puyallup, White, and Carbon Rivers would become giant mud sluices and converge on Tacoma. Olympia would get a fair bit in the Nisqually river, but I think the city itself would be okay.
"The overly broad wording of the legislation, according to the study, could allow employees to sue employers for not doing enough to stop porn spam."
Jesus H. Fucking Christ on a Popsickle stick.
I'm sorry, but weren't these the same people that laughed at us, considered us backward, for being upset with Janet Jackson's breast being exposed on TV?
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Yeah, I was going to mention something about a Mars probes and the Hubble, but... club; horse carcass...
I got caught by the sift rotation monster, and I'm at work. We have a Dish network setup, and I was watching it on NASA TV. My break ended before I could see it launch.:(
If this does get pushed through, and I doubt it, the end result is the important thing. The US government should get to see the Windows source code and analyze it. It can also analyze the source code of any GPL'd OS just as easily.
Home Power is primarily concerned with photovoltaics, but have articles on a wide range of home power alternatives. Eachs article has a schematic for the system they're presenting. This is what I want to do. I don't want to pay the Man anymore. I don't want to damage the environment, but I don't want to have it damage me.
small screwdriver or nailfile planted in the speaker would do it. I would hope they would be helpful, but I fear the shopping carts are goin gto end up as Talky Toasters, only no toast and no wit.
Mr. Bean Owning one; that would be disturbing. Now Edmund Blackadder owning one is a foregone conclusion. There are three seats in a McLaren, but it's doubtful Percy or Baldric would get a lift.
I believe the waste can be reprocessed again. These pebble-bed reactors would be ideal. They could be used to generate straight electricity for consumption, and crack water into hydrogen and oxygen. There's that hydrogen distribution everyone says we need for fuel-cell vehicles.
Instead of using the oil to power the cars, it would be used to produce carbon-fibre vehicle bodies that are lightweight and nearly indestructible.
The oil companies are more than welcome to get in on the small reactor business, and make scads of money.
I really thought about it today, and Wordpad covers just about everything I really need. I just need to be able to underline, bold, or italicize things, and MAYBE adjust the font size. A sans-serif proportional font looks great IMO. A spelll checker is a nice thing to have, too. Abiword is looking very nice right about now.
Don't get me wrong, plain text editors are great, but I like proportional fonts. I did my best work in Word 6.0 on a Win3.11 machine.
The users are all idiots until they prove otherwise. You do not tell them they are such. You'll never, ever hear anything so precious as to hear a Microsoft employee say they are not very computer literate.
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It was called Buran, it most definitely flew in space. It was an unmanned flight, a few orbits, then back again for a remote op landing. It worked, but the Russians realized it was too expensive. I was all for the shuttle, but if all we're doing is moving personnel, Apollo is the way to go. If it was built to today's standard's it would be a robust, reliable system, without Too much of the complexity that was necessary 30 years ago.
BTW, the Buran's been converted to a restaurant, and resides in Gorky park now.
"The ignorant masses don't need a dumbed-down interface, they need a uniform and familiar package"
This is good; exactly. However, we have to be careful not to hang the sign on the Linux clubhouse that says "Girls and the ignorant masses stay out". They won't take kindly to being insulted.
This is your opinion of them, and a lot of others I've seen on this overgrown Usenet alt.chatroom. This is why they hate us. This is why Microsoft will win.
The whole point is the interface is not for YOU, and not for "the Community at large". It's for an average user who's been using MS software all their lives. I think a spruced up IceWM would be just right, but that's my opinion. It's small, fast, fairly uncomplicated, and looks like the interface they are used to.
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That may be true, but regardless of how a decision is made, they have consequences. Get the answers right, and you get promoted, paid, laid, etc.
I can make the snappy, thinly-sliced decision that I have the right of way at the crosswalk because I'm a pedestrian, but the bus will still surely kill me.
Yes, purposefully ignorant; that covers it. I can't tell you what a joy it is to hear the tellers that call in tell me they aren't computer literate. I always gently remind them that they work for a bank and handle money; and can't tell me that.
Any person that has a problem with two buttons on a mouse will have the same or similar problems with a one button mouse.
Marshall Savage also proposed this in his book "The Millennial Project: How to Colonize the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps" Linky
Your Milage may Vary. Sort of.
Anyone else notice the Yearanimo Multimedia Ventures can be abbreviated to YMV?
Not isightful, just an insight
This device needs to have a TV out feature as well. Not everyone has a $100 monitor laying around, but may have a TV. Linux would certainly be a good idea, but I imagine that MS charged only a nominal amount for CE.
Most Likely Scenario: Rural village with perhaps one TV in a community hall. They use it to watch instructional videos transmitted via satellite. This machine, the big, green, AMD Lozenge[tm] will be used to search for weather forecasts, crop prices, some medical info for the local medic/doctor, downloading lessons for the K-12 schoolteacher, correspondence with officials in far-away local government centers, etc.
It may well be a 50/2015 proposition, but this device might serve 20-30 poeple. Before The shrieking and wailing starts from the left, there are areas in the US that look an awful lot like third-world countries. These devices would be a boon and a leg up for developing areas.
These would be fun boxes to hack and play with, no doubt. If you think that no one wants an internet appliance, check the gospel according to Cringley this week. These units were a bit ahead of their time in aticipation of need, but are perfect for right now and the near future.
Mt. St Helens would flood the Columbia with ash and mud like it did last time. Mt Rainier would send it's load toward Seattle, where I live. The town of Orting, WA would disappear under a wall of mud. It would head down the Duwamish and deposit a bit of mud. Tacoma would get hit hard. The Puyallup, White, and Carbon Rivers would become giant mud sluices and converge on Tacoma. Olympia would get a fair bit in the Nisqually river, but I think the city itself would be okay.
They're fun, whacky, sometimes surprising uses for what everyone hopes will be the last mile from the telcos to the customers.
They were Red Hat v1 through 8; this looks to be based on Red Hat 9.
"Europe's new anti-spam legislation"
"The overly broad wording of the legislation, according to the study, could allow employees to sue employers for not doing enough to stop porn spam."
Jesus H. Fucking Christ on a Popsickle stick.
I'm sorry, but weren't these the same people that laughed at us, considered us backward, for being upset with Janet Jackson's breast being exposed on TV?
Yeah, I was going to mention something about a Mars probes and the Hubble, but... club; horse carcass...
:(
I got caught by the sift rotation monster, and I'm at work. We have a Dish network setup, and I was watching it on NASA TV. My break ended before I could see it launch.
It was Gershwin the Gargling Gargoyle.
If this does get pushed through, and I doubt it, the end result is the important thing. The US government should get to see the Windows source code and analyze it. It can also analyze the source code of any GPL'd OS just as easily.
May the best code win.
Check out http://www.homepower.com/. Specifically, the article "Off-Grid Luxury", http://www.homepower.com/files/HP98_14.pdf.
Home Power is primarily concerned with photovoltaics, but have articles on a wide range of home power alternatives. Eachs article has a schematic for the system they're presenting. This is what I want to do. I don't want to pay the Man anymore. I don't want to damage the environment, but I don't want to have it damage me.
small screwdriver or nailfile planted in the speaker would do it. I would hope they would be helpful, but I fear the shopping carts are goin gto end up as Talky Toasters, only no toast and no wit.
Mr. Bean Owning one; that would be disturbing. Now Edmund Blackadder owning one is a foregone conclusion. There are three seats in a McLaren, but it's doubtful Percy or Baldric would get a lift.
I believe the waste can be reprocessed again. These pebble-bed reactors would be ideal. They could be used to generate straight electricity for consumption, and crack water into hydrogen and oxygen. There's that hydrogen distribution everyone says we need for fuel-cell vehicles.
Instead of using the oil to power the cars, it would be used to produce carbon-fibre vehicle bodies that are lightweight and nearly indestructible.
The oil companies are more than welcome to get in on the small reactor business, and make scads of money.
Mod parent up. Succinct, to the point, and appropriate. I hope the Chinese will want to help us with the ISS.
Shit. The things I absolutely can't lose, that can't be downloaded again(OSes, apps, pix, etc)amount to 16 Mb. Everything else is expendable.
I really thought about it today, and Wordpad covers just about everything I really need. I just need to be able to underline, bold, or italicize things, and MAYBE adjust the font size. A sans-serif proportional font looks great IMO. A spelll checker is a nice thing to have, too. Abiword is looking very nice right about now.
Don't get me wrong, plain text editors are great, but I like proportional fonts. I did my best work in Word 6.0 on a Win3.11 machine.
The users are all idiots until they prove otherwise. You do not tell them they are such. You'll never, ever hear anything so precious as to hear a Microsoft employee say they are not very computer literate.
It was called Buran, it most definitely flew in space. It was an unmanned flight, a few orbits, then back again for a remote op landing. It worked, but the Russians realized it was too expensive. I was all for the shuttle, but if all we're doing is moving personnel, Apollo is the way to go. If it was built to today's standard's it would be a robust, reliable system, without Too much of the complexity that was necessary 30 years ago.
BTW, the Buran's been converted to a restaurant, and resides in Gorky park now.
"The ignorant masses don't need a dumbed-down interface, they need a uniform and familiar package"
This is good; exactly. However, we have to be careful not to hang the sign on the Linux clubhouse that says "Girls and the ignorant masses stay out". They won't take kindly to being insulted.
"I don't care if the unwashed masses ..."
This is your opinion of them, and a lot of others I've seen on this overgrown Usenet alt.chatroom. This is why they hate us. This is why Microsoft will win.
The whole point is the interface is not for YOU, and not for "the Community at large". It's for an average user who's been using MS software all their lives. I think a spruced up IceWM would be just right, but that's my opinion. It's small, fast, fairly uncomplicated, and looks like the interface they are used to.