Of course not. Linux is a "hacker" operating system that is only used by people who try to circumvent safeguards that are used only for the protection of the children and good of the economy. Anyone using such a nefarious operating system doesn't deserve to be entertained, individually, at the low low fee of 0.01c per frame, per eyeball, per single non-sharable viewing.
You implied that you feel that the Department of Education is providing a good educational system. The DOE supported and rallied for "No Child Left Behind".
So you're now saying that you think that DOE policy is poor and it ruins children's ability to problem solve. But you want to _KEEP_ the very institution that put that very policy in place? I somehow don't think Ron Paul is the crazy one here.
Actually, the post says "...discuss the best presidential candidates...". Granted, you may define "best" as having a chance of winning the nomination, as judged by your personal criteria. Perhaps other people define "best" differently, such as a candidate that actually talks about _why_ the current policies are not working and _why_ his policy recommendations will help to fix the problems caused by the current (and past) policies. I consider that kind of candidate to be "best". Much more so than ones that seem to be more concerned about keeping the mentos tooth sparkle at full gleam, while their sycophants kiss their glove.
Yeah, because "No Child Left Behind" is working _so_ well. Okay, I guess it is working well, in turning children into fact spewing test takers with little to no capacity to manipulate or assimilate information outside the confines of a multiple choice test.
As many people have already noticed, people don't choose to use Outlook. Somebody else choose to use Exchange, and that means you're using Outlook. There's no way a third party could attempt to compete, since Exchange uses totally proprietary hooks and methods.
Personally, I think it'd be better to focus on something like a Visio replacement. Use Dia as a starting point, etc.
with Opera. In many respects, I find it easier to deal with than adblock. I have a daily rsync cron job that updates the file, and that's all there is to it. As a firefox user for many years, the main reason I went to firefox was to escape the massive bloat that had become the mozilla (now seamonkey) application collection. Unfortunately, while firefox started out lean, it seems to have gradually grown larger and larger and larger.
So far, I've been very happy with Opera, though if firefox (or some other browser) manages to become the next "lean and mean" web browser, I'll probably switch again.
You're not at the mercy of some ISP that may cut you off because you've suddenly used more bandwidth than you were supposed.
You have some public IPs, and can use them to provide whatever services you want. You're not beholden to the ISP with respect to what services you can and can't provide. For instance, a few years ago, a fella I worked with wanted to get a business cable internet connection run to his small business so he could host his own website, etc. The cable company told him that while they would happily provide him the line, he would not be allowed to run his own webpage (i.e. they would restrict connections to port 80/443 just like with the regular consumer grade cable internet).
And there's always the reliability factor. I would suspect a T1 is going to be significantly more reliable than either a cable or DSL connection.
So while there are obviously some bottom line cost savings, at what point do the other benefits of a T1 line start to counter balance that, especially with respect to a business?
Even with the privacy concerns aside (though I do think they are significant), I don't see any reason why I would want to use google destktop instead of slocate.
NO! That's NOT the end of the story. You need to do what is called "scrubbing" the array periodically, because drives "silently" fail, where areas become unreadable for various reasons. Guess when one usually discovers the bad data? When one drive screeches to a halt, and you confidently slap in another and hit "rebuild". Surpriiiiiiiiise.
That's why you use FreeBSD or Solaris with ZFS *grin*
Alex:
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this gold farming and internets is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise god!
Dr. Brodsky:
You're not cured yet, boy.
"...It's like making a complex solution to a simple problem..."
The weather system of the planet is about as far from "simple" as you can get. We have no clue about how the ecosystem of our world actually works. All this rancor about the "problem" of global warming and possible "solutions" are built upon an alter of such vast ignorance that I often find the discussion and "debate" of the topic to be the epitome of absurdity. The one prevailing predicate of almost every discourse about global warning and/or global climate change, is an unspoken implication that we (the human race) understand how the environment we live in works. WE DO NOT. And there exists a vast amount of historical evidence demonstrating that very notion.So the proposal of building a "shade" system for the planet to "cool it down" is so laughable due to the vast amount of hubris required to give it any consideration at all.
Perhaps we should work first on understanding the problem before coming up with solutions. Yeah, that means that the "I said it first" mentality will be hamstrung, but that, in my opinion, would be a good thing.
I like to ask folks who are rigid about sticking with MS Office what features they use and/or in their minds really make MS Office stand out. Normally there's not much of a response beyond things along the lines of "it's what I'm used to", "I can open documents other people send me", etc. Personally, I think a majority of non-technical people really don't care what Office-style product they use, and are much more concerned about whether they are using the software that "everyone else is using". And granted, there are people that actually use and utilize specific features in MS Office, but if those were the only ones who actively purchased MS Office, I don't think it'd be considered the de facto standard of Office applications.
I've installed Knowledge Tree in two business locations now, and it's been very successfull. The last time it was used as a replacement for Sharepoint.
"...requires companies to inform federal law enforcement agencies if a database containing information on more than 10,000 citizens is infiltrated by hackers.."
What about _government_ databases that get comprimised? I think the public should be informed whenever one of those get "infiltrated by hackers", especially since the public is the government's primary paying customer.
I think perhaps you missed my point. I'm not saying anything about whether farming is a good/bad thing, etc. The only point I was trying to make was that people are getting all excited about numbers that are not as significant as they might otherwise seem when stuck in a headline.
To me, the notion that Blizzard is taking some kind of hard stance by disabling ~15000 accounts is silly, considering how many WoW accounts there are in total. There's no attempt to make any kind of judgement on whether the action is a good or bad thing or even on why it was done or what the motiviations may or may not have been, just that it seems like the number ratio doesn't live up to the bru-ha-ha.
"Blizzard is once again clearing house, and this time they mean business"
Maybe I'm just being cynical, but I think that there are significantly more than 0.2% of WOW accounts involved in "gold farming and cheating in general". It sure sounds significant to throw around numbers like five and ten thousand until you realize that the number of accounts is in the millions.
It sorta reminds me of when the politicos squawk about the financial carnage that a few million dollars will cause to the many billion dollar budget.
Seems to me the best route would be to build very large (i.e. scalable) radiation filters that can also insulate. Eventually, farms will only exist inside massive greenhouse like enclosures, and people will spend very little time in the real outside. Even "outside" will actually be "inside". Perhaps the technology developed in helping us live on our current planet would help create side effect technologies that would help us live in less friendly environment, such as the moon or mars.
Not to mention that the first generation of people that only knew life "inside of the bubble" would also be better adapted for living in the same kind of environment on other planets.
I think the sooner people consider global warming as something that's inevitable and start working on creating ways to live in the new environment, instead of trying to put more pennies on the track in hopes of derailing the approaching juggernaut, the better off we'll all be.
Slashdot Mirror
That's because it's not just the slashdot effect ... the story landed on digg last night, and shortly after the order site buckled.
Of course not. Linux is a "hacker" operating system that is only used by people who try to circumvent safeguards that are used only for the protection of the children and good of the economy. Anyone using such a nefarious operating system doesn't deserve to be entertained, individually, at the low low fee of 0.01c per frame, per eyeball, per single non-sharable viewing.
Or rather, Clinton has no balls. ;P
You implied that you feel that the Department of Education is providing a good educational system. The DOE supported and rallied for "No Child Left Behind".
So you're now saying that you think that DOE policy is poor and it ruins children's ability to problem solve. But you want to _KEEP_ the very institution that put that very policy in place? I somehow don't think Ron Paul is the crazy one here.
Actually, the post says "...discuss the best presidential candidates...". Granted, you may define "best" as having a chance of winning the nomination, as judged by your personal criteria. Perhaps other people define "best" differently, such as a candidate that actually talks about _why_ the current policies are not working and _why_ his policy recommendations will help to fix the problems caused by the current (and past) policies. I consider that kind of candidate to be "best". Much more so than ones that seem to be more concerned about keeping the mentos tooth sparkle at full gleam, while their sycophants kiss their glove.
Yeah, because "No Child Left Behind" is working _so_ well. Okay, I guess it is working well, in turning children into fact spewing test takers with little to no capacity to manipulate or assimilate information outside the confines of a multiple choice test.
As many people have already noticed, people don't choose to use Outlook. Somebody else choose to use Exchange, and that means you're using Outlook. There's no way a third party could attempt to compete, since Exchange uses totally proprietary hooks and methods.
Personally, I think it'd be better to focus on something like a Visio replacement. Use Dia as a starting point, etc.
I use the following:
http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/urlfilter.ini
with Opera. In many respects, I find it easier to deal with than adblock. I have a daily rsync cron job that updates the file, and that's all there is to it. As a firefox user for many years, the main reason I went to firefox was to escape the massive bloat that had become the mozilla (now seamonkey) application collection. Unfortunately, while firefox started out lean, it seems to have gradually grown larger and larger and larger.
So far, I've been very happy with Opera, though if firefox (or some other browser) manages to become the next "lean and mean" web browser, I'll probably switch again.
For a business, wouldn't a T1 be better, though?.
You're not at the mercy of some ISP that may cut you off because you've suddenly used more bandwidth than you were supposed.
You have some public IPs, and can use them to provide whatever services you want. You're not beholden to the ISP with respect to what services you can and can't provide. For instance, a few years ago, a fella I worked with wanted to get a business cable internet connection run to his small business so he could host his own website, etc. The cable company told him that while they would happily provide him the line, he would not be allowed to run his own webpage (i.e. they would restrict connections to port 80/443 just like with the regular consumer grade cable internet).
And there's always the reliability factor. I would suspect a T1 is going to be significantly more reliable than either a cable or DSL connection.
So while there are obviously some bottom line cost savings, at what point do the other benefits of a T1 line start to counter balance that, especially with respect to a business?
Even with the privacy concerns aside (though I do think they are significant), I don't see any reason why I would want to use google destktop instead of slocate.
That's why you use FreeBSD or Solaris with ZFS *grin*
Alex: You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this gold farming and internets is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise god! Dr. Brodsky: You're not cured yet, boy.
Coming to a www.dailywtf.com near you *grin*
... Eurasia Carrera! (couldn't resist)
And didn't Einstein have a smallish brain? I thought the correlation between brain size and intelligence went away a long time ago.
"...It's like making a complex solution to a simple problem ..."
The weather system of the planet is about as far from "simple" as you can get. We have no clue about how the ecosystem of our world actually works. All this rancor about the "problem" of global warming and possible "solutions" are built upon an alter of such vast ignorance that I often find the discussion and "debate" of the topic to be the epitome of absurdity. The one prevailing predicate of almost every discourse about global warning and/or global climate change, is an unspoken implication that we (the human race) understand how the environment we live in works. WE DO NOT. And there exists a vast amount of historical evidence demonstrating that very notion.So the proposal of building a "shade" system for the planet to "cool it down" is so laughable due to the vast amount of hubris required to give it any consideration at all.
Perhaps we should work first on understanding the problem before coming up with solutions. Yeah, that means that the "I said it first" mentality will be hamstrung, but that, in my opinion, would be a good thing.
Glad ol' Doc Brown had the right idea .. now when do I get one to stick ontop of the trunk of my time travelling Delorean?
Every conception is a party!
I like to ask folks who are rigid about sticking with MS Office what features they use and/or in their minds really make MS Office stand out. Normally there's not much of a response beyond things along the lines of "it's what I'm used to", "I can open documents other people send me", etc. Personally, I think a majority of non-technical people really don't care what Office-style product they use, and are much more concerned about whether they are using the software that "everyone else is using". And granted, there are people that actually use and utilize specific features in MS Office, but if those were the only ones who actively purchased MS Office, I don't think it'd be considered the de facto standard of Office applications.
Just my 2c.
... that typing out an email on a blackberry while driving would the equivalent of driving while on thorazine?
I've installed Knowledge Tree in two business locations now, and it's been very successfull. The last time it was used as a replacement for Sharepoint.
"...requires companies to inform federal law enforcement agencies if a database containing information on more than 10,000 citizens is infiltrated by hackers .."
What about _government_ databases that get comprimised? I think the public should be informed whenever one of those get "infiltrated by hackers", especially since the public is the government's primary paying customer.
I think perhaps you missed my point. I'm not saying anything about whether farming is a good/bad thing, etc. The only point I was trying to make was that people are getting all excited about numbers that are not as significant as they might otherwise seem when stuck in a headline.
To me, the notion that Blizzard is taking some kind of hard stance by disabling ~15000 accounts is silly, considering how many WoW accounts there are in total. There's no attempt to make any kind of judgement on whether the action is a good or bad thing or even on why it was done or what the motiviations may or may not have been, just that it seems like the number ratio doesn't live up to the bru-ha-ha.
"Blizzard is once again clearing house, and this time they mean business"
Maybe I'm just being cynical, but I think that there are significantly more than 0.2% of WOW accounts involved in "gold farming and cheating in general". It sure sounds significant to throw around numbers like five and ten thousand until you realize that the number of accounts is in the millions.
It sorta reminds me of when the politicos squawk about the financial carnage that a few million dollars will cause to the many billion dollar budget.
Seems to me the best route would be to build very large (i.e. scalable) radiation filters that can also insulate. Eventually, farms will only exist inside massive greenhouse like enclosures, and people will spend very little time in the real outside. Even "outside" will actually be "inside". Perhaps the technology developed in helping us live on our current planet would help create side effect technologies that would help us live in less friendly environment, such as the moon or mars.
Not to mention that the first generation of people that only knew life "inside of the bubble" would also be better adapted for living in the same kind of environment on other planets.
I think the sooner people consider global warming as something that's inevitable and start working on creating ways to live in the new environment, instead of trying to put more pennies on the track in hopes of derailing the approaching juggernaut, the better off we'll all be.
Just my 2c.