Thank you Montana! This will probably ending up going to the Supreme Court, and I hope Montana wins. The requirements for the "Real ID" are ridiculous. I don't even know where my birth certificate is! I've had a valid state driver's license for 17 years- suddenly I need to prove again that I was born? I've had a valid SSN (and card) for 20-some years- I now need to re-prove my national id (c'mon, you know it is)? Utility bills- am I joining a library? Hell, will I need 3 references, a DNA sample, resume, and a documentary (on DVD of course) of my life next?
All this does is make life harder on regular people. Just like gun laws- when the current laws are not being upheld, lets make more! Just uphold the current laws on getting a driver's license. At least in Pennsylvania, you have to provide a birth certificate and another form of ID. If the states' held up this standard in the first place, you wouldn't have to implement a secondary layer. Pass a law making the states to uphold their current standards.
Blah, I hate government in general. Sorry, just had to pay taxes....
I did a small part of the reqs for the network-centric part of the system. Without more detailed info, I can't tell if they took all of my team's recommendations or not. It seems like it does what it is supposed to do, but really badly. This is sad, because we were excited that we could really help "the grunts", as an ex-tanker put it. We really tried to make a good system, and it looks like the implementation got blown.
I agree on battlefield care, but the afterwards VA care seems to be lacking. Seems like a "now out of sight, out of mind" mentality. Of course, the VA is really more of a government beauracracy than real military, so even my viewpoint is sort of invalid.
"We make it easy to invite your friends. Other sites don't provide good ways for people to spread the word."
What, like calling your friend and saying "Hey, this is a great site" or emailing them and saying "Hey, this is a great site" or texting them and saying "Hey, this is a great site" or walking up to them and saying "Hey, this is a great site"? (Did I make my point?)
From "Blaster.virus.com"- "Hey, we have a great site and we're going to check out you email address list and send email to everyone on it and tell them 'Hey, we have a great virus'."
This most be the most redundent post ever on/.
I'm almost ashamed. Except these idiots are worse. Well, there is also the RIAA, MPAA, Microsoft on certain weeks, SCO, various politicos, sometimes the USA, generally always the BSA, Taco Bell for getting rid of the burrito chiwawa (I have no idea how to spell that), George Lucas for his "remakes", Brannon Braga for screwing up Star Trek, the Sci-Fi channel for canceling Stargate, TNT for screwing up Bab5, whoever cancelled Threshold, L Ron Hubbard for going nuts after writing "Battelfield Earth", Scientology in general, the 4 Horsemen, cats and dogs living together, and general anarachy!
Well thanks for crushing all my hopes of ever writing a book. I like to write, and I'd thought maybe, hey, this might be good enough for someone to like it. If it takes that much work to even get someone to read it, screw it; I'll just give it to my family- I'm not trying to be Steven King or Tom Clancy.
Everytime I seen a new mouse solution come up, no one ever mentions trying a trackball. Yes, it still has click buttons (but from the demo it wasn't clear to me how exactly you popped up the windows and didn't pick the wrong one), but all the movement is with one finger and no wrist movement.
To be honest, I was going to complain to you about the issues you brought up about Office users who did the things you bulleted, mainly because I do some of them myself, and on purpose. I tend to treat Word as a text editor (yes I know that is a mistake), so I hate all the "Header 1" "Header 2" "Paragraph 3" stuff (I do use page breaks and wrap though).
Then you had to go and make sense with the rest of your argument! Darn you!:)
If you ever get the chance though, try Apple's Page app, it's pretty nifty. But then you still have the whole compatibility problem. And Apple's Keynote makes Powerpoint look like a joke (seriously).
Looks like this thread just went totally downhill from here, but I think that his fax and clip art issues were separate.
And I have seen some business faxes with clip art that were poignant, appropriate, and funny. Some of us other people like a little levity in their lives.
This is interesting. When I went to the main campus from '94-'98 they didn't have this. I'm going for a grad degree at their Great Valley campus now and can do wireless over VPN with no tie in.
I have no idea how my experience ties into this, but just wanted to put it out there.
From what I gathered (and I may be wrong), this was a referendum rather than an election. Elections have strict rules, while referendums have, I guess not so strict rules? I'm fairly sure that no government entities can just declare an election result "wrong" and keep themselves in office. Remember the Florida 2000 presidential "hanging chads" fiasco? Even though this may only be a county seat, I'm pretty sure that trying to usurp an election can be pushed up into at least the state courts to challenge a "screw you, we're staying" fiat by the incumbents.
But I agree these whack-a-mole politicians should be smacked out of office for not going along with their constituents' beliefs. A couple of people saying "you don't know jack, so toss off", when there were obviously people there that did know what was being legislated (see some of the posts from people from Missoula who were there- especially the pot is worse than marijuana quote) is just scary. Hopefully/. and other media can cause enough fuss to scare these folks into listening to their people- just like they are supposed to do.
Let's see, her rig costs $500. Most rigs cost $20-100k. See gets $100k. She can build 200 rigs for $100k, then sell them at, say $30k, for a profit of $5.9 million.
Both of my parents went to Wilkes (long time ago- my mom met my dad in a slide rule class!), and they are impressed that Wilkes is going forward (for right or wrong). I think my mom was surprised that Wilkes even had computers. Like I said, long time ago!:)
As to good or bad- let it shake out and see what happens. I'm tired of all the fanboy/advocacy about what's better, cheaper, etc. Let's give some real world craziness a shot.
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Thank you Montana! This will probably ending up going to the Supreme Court, and I hope Montana wins. The requirements for the "Real ID" are ridiculous. I don't even know where my birth certificate is! I've had a valid state driver's license for 17 years- suddenly I need to prove again that I was born? I've had a valid SSN (and card) for 20-some years- I now need to re-prove my national id (c'mon, you know it is)? Utility bills- am I joining a library? Hell, will I need 3 references, a DNA sample, resume, and a documentary (on DVD of course) of my life next?
All this does is make life harder on regular people. Just like gun laws- when the current laws are not being upheld, lets make more! Just uphold the current laws on getting a driver's license. At least in Pennsylvania, you have to provide a birth certificate and another form of ID. If the states' held up this standard in the first place, you wouldn't have to implement a secondary layer. Pass a law making the states to uphold their current standards.
Blah, I hate government in general. Sorry, just had to pay taxes....
I did a small part of the reqs for the network-centric part of the system. Without more detailed info, I can't tell if they took all of my team's recommendations or not. It seems like it does what it is supposed to do, but really badly. This is sad, because we were excited that we could really help "the grunts", as an ex-tanker put it. We really tried to make a good system, and it looks like the implementation got blown.
Makes me embarrassed.
I think you may have some issues.
Do NOT bring logic into this! :)
"And your comment about medical care?"
I agree on battlefield care, but the afterwards VA care seems to be lacking. Seems like a "now out of sight, out of mind" mentality. Of course, the VA is really more of a government beauracracy than real military, so even my viewpoint is sort of invalid.
(Yes, relatives of mine have had VA problems)
"Edit: typo, I meant 32gb"
Actually, if they stuffed the thing with 32Mb sticks, It may actually end up costing a $1M!
Except for last year, we haven't been doing much better :(
It was? I thought it was a Window programmer who built that in to force a restart in case of a program lock. Or is that an urban myth-type of thing?
From the 2nd article-
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"We make it easy to invite your friends. Other sites don't provide good ways for people to spread the word."
What, like calling your friend and saying "Hey, this is a great site" or emailing them and saying "Hey, this is a great site" or texting them and saying "Hey, this is a great site" or walking up to them and saying "Hey, this is a great site"? (Did I make my point?)
From "Blaster.virus.com"- "Hey, we have a great site and we're going to check out you email address list and send email to everyone on it and tell them 'Hey, we have a great virus'."
This most be the most redundent post ever on
I'm almost ashamed. Except these idiots are worse. Well, there is also the RIAA, MPAA, Microsoft on certain weeks, SCO, various politicos, sometimes the USA, generally always the BSA, Taco Bell for getting rid of the burrito chiwawa (I have no idea how to spell that), George Lucas for his "remakes", Brannon Braga for screwing up Star Trek, the Sci-Fi channel for canceling Stargate, TNT for screwing up Bab5, whoever cancelled Threshold, L Ron Hubbard for going nuts after writing "Battelfield Earth", Scientology in general, the 4 Horsemen, cats and dogs living together, and general anarachy!
Did I miss anyone?
Well thanks for crushing all my hopes of ever writing a book. I like to write, and I'd thought maybe, hey, this might be good enough for someone to like it. If it takes that much work to even get someone to read it, screw it; I'll just give it to my family- I'm not trying to be Steven King or Tom Clancy.
Everytime I seen a new mouse solution come up, no one ever mentions trying a trackball. Yes, it still has click buttons (but from the demo it wasn't clear to me how exactly you popped up the windows and didn't pick the wrong one), but all the movement is with one finger and no wrist movement.
"Because nobody will want only a .xxx domain."
What about the movie XXX? It could have XXX.xxx! And besides, it sucked about as much as any porn I've ever seen.
"Just putting a cute woman on screen is not enough."
/., correct?
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To be honest, I was going to complain to you about the issues you brought up about Office users who did the things you bulleted, mainly because I do some of them myself, and on purpose. I tend to treat Word as a text editor (yes I know that is a mistake), so I hate all the "Header 1" "Header 2" "Paragraph 3" stuff (I do use page breaks and wrap though).
:)
Then you had to go and make sense with the rest of your argument! Darn you!
If you ever get the chance though, try Apple's Page app, it's pretty nifty. But then you still have the whole compatibility problem. And Apple's Keynote makes Powerpoint look like a joke (seriously).
Looks like this thread just went totally downhill from here, but I think that his fax and clip art issues were separate.
And I have seen some business faxes with clip art that were poignant, appropriate, and funny. Some of us other people like a little levity in their lives.
Ok, this one is definently on my top 10 for weird tech stories.
Nice letter. Now if you guys didn't steal Penn State's football championship in '94, I'd give you an 'atta boy. :)
This is interesting. When I went to the main campus from '94-'98 they didn't have this. I'm going for a grad degree at their Great Valley campus now and can do wireless over VPN with no tie in.
I have no idea how my experience ties into this, but just wanted to put it out there.
Dead might save you money, but personally I would be pretty darned aggravated.
From what I gathered (and I may be wrong), this was a referendum rather than an election. Elections have strict rules, while referendums have, I guess not so strict rules? I'm fairly sure that no government entities can just declare an election result "wrong" and keep themselves in office. Remember the Florida 2000 presidential "hanging chads" fiasco? Even though this may only be a county seat, I'm pretty sure that trying to usurp an election can be pushed up into at least the state courts to challenge a "screw you, we're staying" fiat by the incumbents.
/. and other media can cause enough fuss to scare these folks into listening to their people- just like they are supposed to do.
But I agree these whack-a-mole politicians should be smacked out of office for not going along with their constituents' beliefs. A couple of people saying "you don't know jack, so toss off", when there were obviously people there that did know what was being legislated (see some of the posts from people from Missoula who were there- especially the pot is worse than marijuana quote) is just scary. Hopefully
This, for once, made me proud of PA's voters. Yes, I live in PA, and I helped toss a couple of these folks out. He he.
Sorry about that- just recalling off the top of my head!
Let's see, her rig costs $500. Most rigs cost $20-100k. See gets $100k. She can build 200 rigs for $100k, then sell them at, say $30k, for a profit of $5.9 million.
Stupid underpants gnomes.
Both of my parents went to Wilkes (long time ago- my mom met my dad in a slide rule class!), and they are impressed that Wilkes is going forward (for right or wrong). I think my mom was surprised that Wilkes even had computers. Like I said, long time ago! :)
As to good or bad- let it shake out and see what happens. I'm tired of all the fanboy/advocacy about what's better, cheaper, etc. Let's give some real world craziness a shot.
Come on, all we need is 3 weeks and Bruce Willis and his drilling buddies to defeat any asteroid. Geez, don't any of you watch the historical videos?