Understand that judging groups of people is as a rule wrong. It is called bigotry. Even the question is bigoted since you are trying to say what a whole group should or should not do.
I think it is a lot more relevant than it was a few years ago. It has all but killed the yellow pages. The vast majority of people when they need to find something just Google it. IMHO the real failing of Web 2.0 is the lack of integration that small businesses can pull off. Take your local Pizza place. The chains all have websites where you can order on line and even pay online. The local place which has much better pizza has to use the phone and hope you have the phone number or remember it.
Just about every business needs a web presence and most could do with some integration but right now it is too complex for them.
"Funny, I saw Stallman give a speech, and he basically said that he started hating proprietary software specifically when a printer failed to work with a new computer setup. Had the driver been open, he could have fixed it. Had the OS been open, he could have fixed it to be compatible. Neither was, so he couldn't." I guess it is a good thing that was back when printers where expensive. What do you do today if the your printer doesn't work with your OS? Buy a printer that does. In fact that is the very advice that you will get from the FOSS crowd. You should only buy devices that have not just working drivers but working drivers that are FOSS...
Yep on the internet nobody can hear the tone of your voice. I have not worked with PHP for a while so maybe PHP5's OOP helps a lot. As far as your joke about perl. We forgive me I should have guessed that you where making a joke. The problem is that often I see things on Slashdot that I think must be a joke only to find that the poster is deadly serious.
I don't buy that. If a perl developer has the skill of writing readable code then it will be readable. Yes they will have to stop using the mentality that every perl program should e written like a one time use macro but it can be done.
And shot. Of course it doesn't solve the problem of no wifi provider to start with. The blimp idea will not work. Or keep them from jamming wifi which really isn't hard.
Sorry I have work on both Perl and PHP. I see little difference in them as far as read ability. Heck if nothing else PHP can be worse. Python seems like it is better for maintenance but that is from just a quick look.
Nice idea except that the US has been transmitting news and entertainment to Cuba for the last 40 years. The Cuban jam it. If the US tried to put blimps or ships with wifi anywhere near Cuba the Cubans would shoot them down. Hey if the brave Cuban air force will attack a Cessna Skymaster in international waters with just two Mig 29s what makes you think they wouldn't attack a blimp. Also what makes you think that those people have there own PCs?
That is close to what I have seen. The thing is that backlog seems like the major hold up. Once that is cleared things seem to go smoothly. That is why I wondered if using doors on both sides would speed up deplaning. Maybe it is just me but the boarding isn't anywhere as bad as the deplaning as far as the wait goes. Of course it may just be my perception. Once the plane lands I am ready got go. Usually if I am changing planes I want to have time to grab some food or a magazine and get to my next gate which will be at the other end of the airport if I have 10 minutes to switch planes or will be right next to my current gate but far from any food or news stands if I have a two hour layover.
Not exactly. For some reason that I can not figure out people think Kennedy was a great president. History shows that he massively increased nuclear weapons, backed a failed invasion of Cuba, and massively increased the US involvement in Viet Nam. Then you had secret attempts on Castro's life that he and his brother supported... In Civil rights he basically followed Eisenhower's lead. His only accomplishments that I can think of was starting the Apollo program and getting the Democrats interested in Civil Rights. That being said for the longest time if you supported communication with Cuba you would be spitting on JFK,s grave. The republicans will not support better relations with Cuba because for the longest time they could count on the Cuban vote in Florida because they hated Kennedy with a passion because of what he did during the Bay of Pigs so they where hard core GOP supporters. Then you have the final reason. It had no benefit for the US. If the US allowed free trade with Cuba it would run US Sugar out of business. A good thing for the Everglades but pretty bad for the people that work there. Lots of US money would flow into Cuba helping Cuba but probably hurting the Bahamas at least a little. Finally what benefit would it have for the US? The policy has been in effect for 40+ years and hasn't hurt the US at all while putting a burden on the old USSR and Russia to prop up Cuba. Heck I am not saying that it is the best plan but the root cause of it does fall back on JFK and what he did as president. His actions made it the SOP for the last 40 years so put the blame where it belongs. It is valid to say that it may be time to soften the policy or even past time but the root cause has Kennedy written all over it. The one person that I think could change it is Ted Kennedy. If he would stand up and support then maybe the rest of the mindless church of JFK would follow.
Actually yes the do. That was a total embargo that ended after the missiles where removed. The Jupiter sites removed from Turkey was nothing more than a token. The US had Thor sites in the UK, Polaris subs in the Med, B-52s everywhere, and the Atlas on line so the loss of the Jupiter sites in Turkey was frankly a big yawn. The Jupiter was already being fazed out in favor of the Thor and Polaris. At that time Russia had no long range bombers that where a real threat, the Soviet ICBM program was a total mess, and the Soviet SLBM where far behind the US Polaris system. The only real threat to the US where the IRBMs in Cuba while the US could pretty much hit the USSR at will.
Of course they didn't teach you in school that the US had other IRBM sites in Europe that they did keep or that the Jupiter was an Army missile that the Air Force had forced on them after the Army was limited to short ranged missiles or that the Thor made the Jupiter redundant or that Kennedy had ordered the removal of the Jupiter missiles long before the Cuban missile crisis.
Well I hate to have to tell you this but this restriction is no less than 40 years old. As I have said before if you want to blame somebody it can be dropped right in the lab of the Kennedy's JFK and his brother. Of course that isn't a popular thing to say but it is the truth.
Well not exactly. The US has had an Embargo on trade with Cuba since... 1961 I think. That Embargo goes as far as to punish ANY company that business with Cuba. This is so not new or even unexpected. If you want to blame anybody blame JFK.
Well add in maybe $45 for a new battery you would still have a Notebook that weighed more than the eee, was bigger, and took longer to boot. Is it a better system than an eee? Yes for some tasks but not for other. I have a Thinkpad and I love it. The screen is great but it weighs too much for me to carry with me every where. The EEE is so small and light that I could see taking it with me everywhere. My wife would love one to put in her purse as well. It all comes down to portability.
Last time I checked the EEE had a good OS on it. With the latest version of Ubuntu I find that I only have boot Windows to run Flight Simulator. I can surf the web, do email, work with digital pictures, chat, IM, play videos, and use Quicken on-line just fine under Linux. If you have some software that you must use that only works in Windows well then yes you may need Windows but that has nothing to do with the quality of the OS.
I have to say that I really have had fewer problems with kids than I had with adults. One one flight I went and put my stuff in the over head and the guy started to crab because he put his expensive cell phone in there and it was getting crushed. Well things get crammed in the overheads so deal with it. Then a very pregnant woman was going to have to sit next to me in the very center of an MD11 middle row. She asked if she could set on the isle so she could go the rest room if she had to go in a hurry. Well I was second from the isle so I offered to take the very middle but the jerk face with the Cell wouldn't budge. Well on that flight we hit some turbulence and this bodybuilder type on the other side of me started crying and saying we where all going to die. Kids I can take. It is the mean, crazy, and stupid adults I want banned.
I did try the RCs. I lost my ability to use PDF creator which is a negative for me. It ran slower on my X2 4400 with an nVidia 6600 GT than XP did.
DX10 right now is a non-feature. Outside of the super wiz bang neato cool UI are the benefits of Vista for the average user?
I know about the new graphics engine but that isn't much of a benefit to me. So what do I gain over XP that makes it worth the problems and the cost? Security while always an issue hasn't been one for me. I don't use Outlook or IE and my machine is behind a firewall. I also have AVG running and the Windows Firewall set up.
No the idea of upgrading to Vista has fallen by the wayside. I think that Apple actually sells a lot of upgrades. I have not upgraded to Vista because of the cost to benefit ratio. For me it would be a lot of cost and probably a negative benefit.
I did upgrade from 95 to 98. I upgraded from 98 to 2000. I then upgraded to XP after a while because of the lack of games that said they would run under 2000. XP isn't bad. as far as windows goes. Notice that I didn't get Me or Vista.
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Understand that judging groups of people is as a rule wrong. It is called bigotry.
Even the question is bigoted since you are trying to say what a whole group should or should not do.
I think it is a lot more relevant than it was a few years ago. It has all but killed the yellow pages. The vast majority of people when they need to find something just Google it.
IMHO the real failing of Web 2.0 is the lack of integration that small businesses can pull off. Take your local Pizza place. The chains all have websites where you can order on line and even pay online. The local place which has much better pizza has to use the phone and hope you have the phone number or remember it.
Just about every business needs a web presence and most could do with some integration but right now it is too complex for them.
Submarine cable taps for one thing.
Just a wild guess.
"Funny, I saw Stallman give a speech, and he basically said that he started hating proprietary software specifically when a printer failed to work with a new computer setup. Had the driver been open, he could have fixed it. Had the OS been open, he could have fixed it to be compatible. Neither was, so he couldn't."
I guess it is a good thing that was back when printers where expensive.
What do you do today if the your printer doesn't work with your OS? Buy a printer that does. In fact that is the very advice that you will get from the FOSS crowd. You should only buy devices that have not just working drivers but working drivers that are FOSS...
Yep on the internet nobody can hear the tone of your voice. I have not worked with PHP for a while so maybe PHP5's OOP helps a lot.
As far as your joke about perl. We forgive me I should have guessed that you where making a joke. The problem is that often I see things on Slashdot that I think must be a joke only to find that the poster is deadly serious.
I don't buy that. If a perl developer has the skill of writing readable code then it will be readable. Yes they will have to stop using the mentality that every perl program should e written like a one time use macro but it can be done.
And shot.
Of course it doesn't solve the problem of no wifi provider to start with. The blimp idea will not work. Or keep them from jamming wifi which really isn't hard.
Sorry I have work on both Perl and PHP. I see little difference in them as far as read ability. Heck if nothing else PHP can be worse.
Python seems like it is better for maintenance but that is from just a quick look.
School, Office, Libraries.... Since a half an hour at an Internet Cafe costs two weeks wages I would bet that a PC is probably a bit more.
Nice idea except that the US has been transmitting news and entertainment to Cuba for the last 40 years. The Cuban jam it. If the US tried to put blimps or ships with wifi anywhere near Cuba the Cubans would shoot them down. Hey if the brave Cuban air force will attack a Cessna Skymaster in international waters with just two Mig 29s what makes you think they wouldn't attack a blimp.
Also what makes you think that those people have there own PCs?
That is close to what I have seen. The thing is that backlog seems like the major hold up. Once that is cleared things seem to go smoothly. That is why I wondered if using doors on both sides would speed up deplaning. Maybe it is just me but the boarding isn't anywhere as bad as the deplaning as far as the wait goes. Of course it may just be my perception. Once the plane lands I am ready got go. Usually if I am changing planes I want to have time to grab some food or a magazine and get to my next gate which will be at the other end of the airport if I have 10 minutes to switch planes or will be right next to my current gate but far from any food or news stands if I have a two hour layover.
Not exactly. For some reason that I can not figure out people think Kennedy was a great president. History shows that he massively increased nuclear weapons, backed a failed invasion of Cuba, and massively increased the US involvement in Viet Nam. Then you had secret attempts on Castro's life that he and his brother supported... In Civil rights he basically followed Eisenhower's lead. His only accomplishments that I can think of was starting the Apollo program and getting the Democrats interested in Civil Rights.
That being said for the longest time if you supported communication with Cuba you would be spitting on JFK,s grave. The republicans will not support better relations with Cuba because for the longest time they could count on the Cuban vote in Florida because they hated Kennedy with a passion because of what he did during the Bay of Pigs so they where hard core GOP supporters.
Then you have the final reason. It had no benefit for the US.
If the US allowed free trade with Cuba it would run US Sugar out of business. A good thing for the Everglades but pretty bad for the people that work there. Lots of US money would flow into Cuba helping Cuba but probably hurting the Bahamas at least a little. Finally what benefit would it have for the US? The policy has been in effect for 40+ years and hasn't hurt the US at all while putting a burden on the old USSR and Russia to prop up Cuba.
Heck I am not saying that it is the best plan but the root cause of it does fall back on JFK and what he did as president. His actions made it the SOP for the last 40 years so put the blame where it belongs. It is valid to say that it may be time to soften the policy or even past time but the root cause has Kennedy written all over it. The one person that I think could change it is Ted Kennedy. If he would stand up and support then maybe the rest of the mindless church of JFK would follow.
Wow I really suggest you read some history books about that time. I will give you a good starting point. Try looking up the Hungarian revolt.
Actually yes the do. That was a total embargo that ended after the missiles where removed.
The Jupiter sites removed from Turkey was nothing more than a token. The US had Thor sites in the UK, Polaris subs in the Med, B-52s everywhere, and the Atlas on line so the loss of the Jupiter sites in Turkey was frankly a big yawn. The Jupiter was already being fazed out in favor of the Thor and Polaris. At that time Russia had no long range bombers that where a real threat, the Soviet ICBM program was a total mess, and the Soviet SLBM where far behind the US Polaris system. The only real threat to the US where the IRBMs in Cuba while the US could pretty much hit the USSR at will.
Of course they didn't teach you in school that the US had other IRBM sites in Europe that they did keep or that the Jupiter was an Army missile that the Air Force had forced on them after the Army was limited to short ranged missiles or that the Thor made the Jupiter redundant or that Kennedy had ordered the removal of the Jupiter missiles long before the Cuban missile crisis.
Well I hate to have to tell you this but this restriction is no less than 40 years old. As I have said before if you want to blame somebody it can be dropped right in the lab of the Kennedy's JFK and his brother. Of course that isn't a popular thing to say but it is the truth.
Well not exactly. The US has had an Embargo on trade with Cuba since... 1961 I think. That Embargo goes as far as to punish ANY company that business with Cuba. This is so not new or even unexpected. If you want to blame anybody blame JFK.
When I have flow 767 I have noticed slowdowns at the door and where the two isles merge. But that is usually in the unloading and not the loading.
Yes I have that also. It is very good but not as good as FS IMHO. At least for me.
Well add in maybe $45 for a new battery you would still have a Notebook that weighed more than the eee, was bigger, and took longer to boot.
Is it a better system than an eee? Yes for some tasks but not for other.
I have a Thinkpad and I love it. The screen is great but it weighs too much for me to carry with me every where. The EEE is so small and light that I could see taking it with me everywhere. My wife would love one to put in her purse as well.
It all comes down to portability.
Last time I checked the EEE had a good OS on it. With the latest version of Ubuntu I find that I only have boot Windows to run Flight Simulator.
I can surf the web, do email, work with digital pictures, chat, IM, play videos, and use Quicken on-line just fine under Linux.
If you have some software that you must use that only works in Windows well then yes you may need Windows but that has nothing to do with the quality of the OS.
I have to say that I really have had fewer problems with kids than I had with adults.
One one flight I went and put my stuff in the over head and the guy started to crab because he put his expensive cell phone in there and it was getting crushed. Well things get crammed in the overheads so deal with it. Then a very pregnant woman was going to have to sit next to me in the very center of an MD11 middle row. She asked if she could set on the isle so she could go the rest room if she had to go in a hurry. Well I was second from the isle so I offered to take the very middle but the jerk face with the Cell wouldn't budge.
Well on that flight we hit some turbulence and this bodybuilder type on the other side of me started crying and saying we where all going to die.
Kids I can take. It is the mean, crazy, and stupid adults I want banned.
Well on Wide bodies the ones with two isles why not use two jetways. One on each side of the plane?
"Well, the first solution would be not to screw up your life by having kids... obviously."
Too bad your parents didn't figure that out in time.
Humm. Let's see having kids watching vs Death Note....
Well in your case you have probably made the right choice.
I did try the RCs.
I lost my ability to use PDF creator which is a negative for me.
It ran slower on my X2 4400 with an nVidia 6600 GT than XP did.
DX10 right now is a non-feature.
Outside of the super wiz bang neato cool UI are the benefits of Vista for the average user?
I know about the new graphics engine but that isn't much of a benefit to me. So what do I gain over XP that makes it worth the problems and the cost?
Security while always an issue hasn't been one for me. I don't use Outlook or IE and my machine is behind a firewall. I also have AVG running and the Windows Firewall set up.
No the idea of upgrading to Vista has fallen by the wayside.
I think that Apple actually sells a lot of upgrades.
I have not upgraded to Vista because of the cost to benefit ratio. For me it would be a lot of cost and probably a negative benefit.
I did upgrade from 95 to 98. I upgraded from 98 to 2000. I then upgraded to XP after a while because of the lack of games that said they would run under 2000.
XP isn't bad. as far as windows goes.
Notice that I didn't get Me or Vista.