"I had dealings with them about 10 years ago. I ended up paying GBP30 for a course just to get out of the hard sell and even though I never did the course the often phoned and wrote letters of about 5 years after." So what was so hard with no and getting up and leaving.
"Racial profiling? Always popular - ask any American of Asian heritage how many times strangers have asked where they are from," Funny but I often ask people where they are from. I live in South FL and most people are not from here. If I notice an accent I don't know I am even more interested. How is this racist?
But if you have a heavy foreign accent and you are applying for school why shouldn't that be a tip off. Guess what? If you go to Germany and try to apply for college and don't speak perfect German I bet they will check to see where you are from. If you go to Japan and you are not Japanese you will get get checked as well. When you are signing up for work, school, or a drivers license why is it so evil to check that you are who you really say you are?
"(99% of potential problems from XP programs assuming they're running as admin are due to writes to Hkey_Local_Machine and \Program Files during normal operation, both of which are solved by file & registry virtualisation to the user's home folder). " Not exactly something that the average person knows how to do. So they turn off the UAC. Do a google on turn off UAC to see how many sites recommend that?
Well I never had any problem with Sprint but I can understand. What I like about Sprint is that they don't lock out applications on your phone. Verizon is about the worst and AT&T is not far behind. Small company doesn't equal a good company and T-Mobile is anything but a small company. They are huge in the EU. I have heard good things about their customer service but not so good on the coverage.
As to small regional carriers. Even a small regional carrier wouldn't be small. Smaller then say Sprint but still a huge company. Think back to those early days of Cell phones. They where expensive, coverage sucked, and roaming charges where mind numbing.
As to WiMax? I just don't see it being a replacement for Cable, FIOS or even DSL. It will be great for mobile and for areas that don't have other types of Broadband.
What we really need is more competition in Cable and broadband.
But that in NO WAY gets Apple off the hook. Somebody has to find the problem. It should have been Apple and Adobe. I guess Apple doesn't put out RCs of Quicktime to developers. That is a big strike on Apple. Apple busted an important application with an update. Strike two on Apple. Yes if your a proffesional you don't update your production system but that doesn't mean that Apple is any less responsible for this disaster.
The simple fact is that no small company can afford to build out this spectrum. Google isn't a small company. I can also remember when Microsoft wasn't evil and IBM was. I don't think Google is all that super good but I know that I am in the minority on Slashdot. Yea I would love for Sprint to do better BTW. I feel they are the least evil of the Cell companies.
"That is a better example, but precisely because you don't publicize it, " Horrible catch 22 isn't it. You can not verify it so it may or may not be true if it is publicized then it wouldn't be true charity.
" What you can not expect them to do is to provide donations that are actually counter to their interests!
Phillip-Morris does."
After it has been sued to death and as away to avoid more court cases. I so wouldn't call that a good example.
"I think part of the problem is the negative connotation that anti-evolution people give to the word 'theory.' The truth is, 'facts' don't exist (in science anyway [and that's all that really matters])." So I should change the truth to make the pro-evolution faithful happy because the think that the truth gives the pro-creationism some ammo? Sorry but science is science. I would no more want creationism to be taught as a valid scientific theory than I would want Evolution as unquestionable fact. As I said Evolution has bee observed but the current theory of Evolution is an incomplete theory. We are learning more about it everyday. Being a theory isn't a bad thing. I wish the faithful on both sides would learn that. They also need to learn the difference between a valid theory and a failed on.
What part of the Theory of Evolution is fact? Is evolution gradual as Charles Darwin first stated or is punctuated? What is the mechanism of evolution? Is it limited to changes in DNA or can it us other mechanisms? What about the effects of retroviruses on evolution? What about mitochondrial DNA? Or you talking about the simple fourth grade level "Theory of Evolution"? AKA life changes over time to fit the environment?
"electrons may or may not exist", not exactly. A particle wave duality that carries a negative does exist. Some of the theory about what a electron really is still in the realm of theory.
Evolution is still a theory and as I said it is the theory that fits with all the current data the best. But the theory of Evolution is still just a theory. A lot of questions are still unanswered about how Evolution works. Being scientific means having an open mind about scientific theories. You should keep your mind open but not so open that your brain falls out.
Anyone that says that the current theory of evolution is fact isn't being scientific.
No but Evolution is still mostly theory but it is the best current theory. At least some evolution has been seen in the "wild". Drug resistant bacteria is a good example of evolution in action.
Why must public transit funding be increased. I admit that it would probably be a good thing but not completely required. Car pooling would cut the number of cars in at least half. I car pool to work as do some of the other people at my office. With the price of gas and the increase in tolls it could become practical for commercial companies to provide transport. Heck offer free tolls for anyone with more than four passengers.
I do agree except that some places don't have public transport. Of course the solution besides public transport would be private transport. Car pooling or even private bus companies could offer the service. Enough people car pool and then the congestion goes down and you save even more by car pooling.
Well that is for the courts to decide. The end result is that Microsoft wouldn't donate any money for IT projects and just donate the software. That couldn't be considered anti-trust since it isn't undercutting the cost of FOSS.
"I should also point out that there are corporations which genuinely do just give, without necessarily a direct ulterior motive. Google's Sumer of Code is a good example." Yes they do but Google's Summer of code isn't a great example. It is a recruitment tool and does buy them a lot of good publicity. The company I work for does donate to a charity that helps disabled children. We don't publicize it because the owner thinks of this as an act of charity. We also give away our software to school that in our industry and train their teachers for free.
Yes a corporation can be expected to make charitable contributions that do not directly benefit them. What you can not expect them to do is to provide donations that are actually counter to their interests!
Why wouldn't Microsoft offer support to Schools that teach Windows and not offer support to schools that do not? This isn't some foundation it is a company. Sorry but this isn't shocking or news. Do you think Novell or Redhat would donate money to schools that teach Windows?
"People will be trained to always click yes with UAC, but not sudo right?" Correct because very few Unix/Linux/Mac OS/X programs require you to run as root. A lot of programs that ran just fine under XP do require you to. "You're worried about performance, but you'd still rather install a slew of third party applications on top of XP to get the same indexing, integrated search, visual extensions, and more?" No. I don't install visual extensions because I have no need for Eye candy. index and integrated search are pretty much one and the same but I don't have a problem using the search in XP for files and the search in Thunderbird for email. Not everyone will fell the same but then they have the OPTION to add those programs.
Vista does have some improvements but they are not worth the cost in money or time for me to upgrade any of my systems to Vista.
"While that's true, the fraudulent response to the FOIA request is itself a notable issue. ' How do you know it is fraudulent? Maybe there is no document with that number.
But it doesn't make a lot of sense. Turkish and Israeli-run network ?? okay Turkey is mostly Islamic Israel really tends to not get along with Islamic countries. selling nuclear weapons info to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan wouldn't be logical for Israel. So we have on person saying this happened with no proof. Seems really thin. Not saying it is impossible but also not exactly proven.
I tried to find document "193C-QW-120014". That document proves that Al Gore actually conspired with the 9/11 attackers to kill Bush and to drive up oil prices so he could make money off his movie! When I filed for it I was told that it also didn't exist.
'I'd like to see Apple come out with a larger laptop. I once saw a Windows laptop with a 21" LCD and wanted one from Apple." If you have a 21" wide lap I really wouldn't want to sit next to you on a plane. I would think that a 21" wide laptop would have a pretty small audience.
I have and no joy yet. I really want it so I can message my wife when she is in the computer room at home with out firing up the notebook. It would be a replacement for an intercom.
5. MapReduce is incompatible with the DBMS tools A modern SQL DBMS has available all of the following classes of tools:
* Report writers (e.g., Crystal reports) to prepare reports for human visualization
Perl? Really Perl was made for doing reports. I am sure that somebody will create a report writer for it. I am just amazed that Chrystal Reports has become the universal solution for so many things.
This is a pretty new bit of kit. If it catches on then people will start porting tools to it. When it comes to database tech I tend to believe that IBM really knows what they are doing. If this interests them I bet there is something too it.
But nothing but the battery really bugs me. I would like to see Apple come out with a lower cost notebook. I would like to see Apple come out with a desktop that doesn't cost a fortune and lets you upgrade the graphics card.
I had ICQ but I never really got into the IM thing. I used and still do use IRC. Now I do use Gtalk but I just wish they had a version for my cell phone:)
"In the US, on the other hand, the big stores are healthy, but finding something which is not mainstream is rather hard, especially outside the big cities. " Even before the big stores came finding something out of the mainstream was hard outside of big cities. I grew up in a smallish town and unless you lived in a college town it has always been hard if not impossible to find none mains stream books. In a small town a small book store will always have x amount of space and a small customer base. They will always have a limited selection. If anything the big book stores have brought a bigger selection to smaller towns and not the other way around. Amazon has made finding hard to find books even easier. The Internet and Amazon allow you to buy from a HUGE selection of books that you might never have seen. Yes I do miss small books stores but to be honest it really isn't because of the their selection.
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"I had dealings with them about 10 years ago. I ended up paying GBP30 for a course just to get out of the hard sell and even though I never did the course the often phoned and wrote letters of about 5 years after."
So what was so hard with no and getting up and leaving.
"Racial profiling? Always popular - ask any American of Asian heritage how many times strangers have asked where they are from,"
Funny but I often ask people where they are from. I live in South FL and most people are not from here. If I notice an accent I don't know I am even more interested. How is this racist?
But if you have a heavy foreign accent and you are applying for school why shouldn't that be a tip off.
Guess what? If you go to Germany and try to apply for college and don't speak perfect German I bet they will check to see where you are from. If you go to Japan and you are not Japanese you will get get checked as well.
When you are signing up for work, school, or a drivers license why is it so evil to check that you are who you really say you are?
"(99% of potential problems from XP programs assuming they're running as admin are due to writes to Hkey_Local_Machine and \Program Files during normal operation, both of which are solved by file & registry virtualisation to the user's home folder). "
Not exactly something that the average person knows how to do. So they turn off the UAC. Do a google on turn off UAC to see how many sites recommend that?
Well I never had any problem with Sprint but I can understand. What I like about Sprint is that they don't lock out applications on your phone. Verizon is about the worst and AT&T is not far behind. Small company doesn't equal a good company and T-Mobile is anything but a small company. They are huge in the EU. I have heard good things about their customer service but not so good on the coverage.
As to small regional carriers. Even a small regional carrier wouldn't be small. Smaller then say Sprint but still a huge company. Think back to those early days of Cell phones. They where expensive, coverage sucked, and roaming charges where mind numbing.
As to WiMax? I just don't see it being a replacement for Cable, FIOS or even DSL. It will be great for mobile and for areas that don't have other types of Broadband.
What we really need is more competition in Cable and broadband.
But that in NO WAY gets Apple off the hook. Somebody has to find the problem. It should have been Apple and Adobe. I guess Apple doesn't put out RCs of Quicktime to developers. That is a big strike on Apple. Apple busted an important application with an update. Strike two on Apple.
Yes if your a proffesional you don't update your production system but that doesn't mean that Apple is any less responsible for this disaster.
The simple fact is that no small company can afford to build out this spectrum. Google isn't a small company. I can also remember when Microsoft wasn't evil and IBM was.
I don't think Google is all that super good but I know that I am in the minority on Slashdot.
Yea I would love for Sprint to do better BTW. I feel they are the least evil of the Cell companies.
"That is a better example, but precisely because you don't publicize it, " Horrible catch 22 isn't it. You can not verify it so it may or may not be true if it is publicized then it wouldn't be true charity.
" What you can not expect them to do is to provide donations that are actually counter to their interests!
Phillip-Morris does."
After it has been sued to death and as away to avoid more court cases. I so wouldn't call that a good example.
"I think part of the problem is the negative connotation that anti-evolution people give to the word 'theory.' The truth is, 'facts' don't exist (in science anyway [and that's all that really matters])."
So I should change the truth to make the pro-evolution faithful happy because the think that the truth gives the pro-creationism some ammo?
Sorry but science is science. I would no more want creationism to be taught as a valid scientific theory than I would want Evolution as unquestionable fact.
As I said Evolution has bee observed but the current theory of Evolution is an incomplete theory. We are learning more about it everyday.
Being a theory isn't a bad thing. I wish the faithful on both sides would learn that.
They also need to learn the difference between a valid theory and a failed on.
What part of the Theory of Evolution is fact? Is evolution gradual as Charles Darwin first stated or is punctuated? What is the mechanism of evolution? Is it limited to changes in DNA or can it us other mechanisms? What about the effects of retroviruses on evolution? What about mitochondrial DNA?
Or you talking about the simple fourth grade level "Theory of Evolution"? AKA life changes over time to fit the environment?
"electrons may or may not exist", not exactly. A particle wave duality that carries a negative does exist. Some of the theory about what a electron really is still in the realm of theory.
Evolution is still a theory and as I said it is the theory that fits with all the current data the best. But the theory of Evolution is still just a theory. A lot of questions are still unanswered about how Evolution works. Being scientific means having an open mind about scientific theories. You should keep your mind open but not so open that your brain falls out.
Anyone that says that the current theory of evolution is fact isn't being scientific.
No but Evolution is still mostly theory but it is the best current theory. At least some evolution has been seen in the "wild". Drug resistant bacteria is a good example of evolution in action.
Why must public transit funding be increased. I admit that it would probably be a good thing but not completely required. Car pooling would cut the number of cars in at least half. I car pool to work as do some of the other people at my office. With the price of gas and the increase in tolls it could become practical for commercial companies to provide transport. Heck offer free tolls for anyone with more than four passengers.
I do agree except that some places don't have public transport. Of course the solution besides public transport would be private transport. Car pooling or even private bus companies could offer the service. Enough people car pool and then the congestion goes down and you save even more by car pooling.
Well that is for the courts to decide.
The end result is that Microsoft wouldn't donate any money for IT projects and just donate the software. That couldn't be considered anti-trust since it isn't undercutting the cost of FOSS.
"I should also point out that there are corporations which genuinely do just give, without necessarily a direct ulterior motive. Google's Sumer of Code is a good example."
Yes they do but Google's Summer of code isn't a great example. It is a recruitment tool and does buy them a lot of good publicity.
The company I work for does donate to a charity that helps disabled children. We don't publicize it because the owner thinks of this as an act of charity.
We also give away our software to school that in our industry and train their teachers for free.
Yes a corporation can be expected to make charitable contributions that do not directly benefit them.
What you can not expect them to do is to provide donations that are actually counter to their interests!
Why wouldn't Microsoft offer support to Schools that teach Windows and not offer support to schools that do not?
This isn't some foundation it is a company. Sorry but this isn't shocking or news. Do you think Novell or Redhat would donate money to schools that teach Windows?
"People will be trained to always click yes with UAC, but not sudo right?"
Correct because very few Unix/Linux/Mac OS/X programs require you to run as root. A lot of programs that ran just fine under XP do require you to.
"You're worried about performance, but you'd still rather install a slew of third party applications on top of XP to get the same indexing, integrated search, visual extensions, and more?"
No. I don't install visual extensions because I have no need for Eye candy.
index and integrated search are pretty much one and the same but I don't have a problem using the search in XP for files and the search in Thunderbird for email. Not everyone will fell the same but then they have the OPTION to add those programs.
Vista does have some improvements but they are not worth the cost in money or time for me to upgrade any of my systems to Vista.
"While that's true, the fraudulent response to the FOIA request is itself a notable issue. '
How do you know it is fraudulent? Maybe there is no document with that number.
But it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Turkish and Israeli-run network ??
okay Turkey is mostly Islamic Israel really tends to not get along with Islamic countries. selling nuclear weapons info to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan wouldn't be logical for Israel.
So we have on person saying this happened with no proof.
Seems really thin. Not saying it is impossible but also not exactly proven.
I tried to find document "193C-QW-120014". That document proves that Al Gore actually conspired with the 9/11 attackers to kill Bush and to drive up oil prices so he could make money off his movie! When I filed for it I was told that it also didn't exist.
'I'd like to see Apple come out with a larger laptop. I once saw a Windows laptop with a 21" LCD and wanted one from Apple."
If you have a 21" wide lap I really wouldn't want to sit next to you on a plane.
I would think that a 21" wide laptop would have a pretty small audience.
I have and no joy yet.
I really want it so I can message my wife when she is in the computer room at home with out firing up the notebook. It would be a replacement for an intercom.
5. MapReduce is incompatible with the DBMS tools
A modern SQL DBMS has available all of the following classes of tools:
* Report writers (e.g., Crystal reports) to prepare reports for human visualization
Perl? Really Perl was made for doing reports. I am sure that somebody will create a report writer for it. I am just amazed that Chrystal Reports has become the universal solution for so many things.
This is a pretty new bit of kit. If it catches on then people will start porting tools to it. When it comes to database tech I tend to believe that IBM really knows what they are doing. If this interests them I bet there is something too it.
But nothing but the battery really bugs me.
I would like to see Apple come out with a lower cost notebook.
I would like to see Apple come out with a desktop that doesn't cost a fortune and lets you upgrade the graphics card.
Oh and iTunes needs to be all DRM free.
I had ICQ but I never really got into the IM thing. I used and still do use IRC. Now I do use Gtalk but I just wish they had a version for my cell phone :)
"In the US, on the other hand, the big stores are healthy, but finding something which is not mainstream is rather hard, especially outside the big cities. "
Even before the big stores came finding something out of the mainstream was hard outside of big cities. I grew up in a smallish town and unless you lived in a college town it has always been hard if not impossible to find none mains stream books. In a small town a small book store will always have x amount of space and a small customer base. They will always have a limited selection.
If anything the big book stores have brought a bigger selection to smaller towns and not the other way around.
Amazon has made finding hard to find books even easier. The Internet and Amazon allow you to buy from a HUGE selection of books that you might never have seen.
Yes I do miss small books stores but to be honest it really isn't because of the their selection.