Windows has come a long way in the last 5/6 years and vista should ship reasonably secure out of the box. It's still an unbelievably shitty OS peddled by an objectionable bunch of borderline criminals, but you have to give them credit for addressing security issues.
Isn't that rather like giving credit to someone who quits mugging, when credit should be given to those who have never mugged in the first place?
and has anyone thought why 7 out of the 8 Ivy Leagues reside in "blue" states,
Because there is such a thing as 'overeducated'?
Don't pull that Ivy League hooha. The biggest idiots I've ever met were Ivy Leaguers with PhDs, back when I was at NASA. I'd rather deal with an electrician from Akron; he actually does something for a living, so I can work with him and learn from him.
Create an obvious shortage to gouge the consumer? Brilliant! Afterall, it's working so well in the oil industry, and their customers are so happy that they're not seeking alternatives!
(For those who couldn't catch a clue with a mitt, this is sarcasm.) (And yes, I do need to include this disclaimer.)
Dunno why Kevin Pollak is particularly responsible for Christopher Walken's dancing celebrity.
Once when Pollak was on The Bob and Tom Show, he did a dead-on Christopher Walken that is 1) hysterical and 2) re-played with regularity. Pollak is hilarious and dead-on with this imitation, and having heard it, you don't forget it. Also, Bob and Tom can have a slashdot-like effect since they are a national radio show with a big audience.
Arizona has a lot of gall just ignoring DST; same for those counties in Indiana.
Actually, I have yet to hear a good reason for going on DST, except that "everyone else does it". In fact, if you want to talk gall, talk to the US Government. When the reailroads created timezones, they had Indiana on Central. When the US government took that over, they put the line between Eastern and Central down Pennsylvannia Street in Indianapolis. That's three blocks from the exact middle of the state.
Perhaps these happy Mac users are former Windows users? Dvorak is going on a limb by assuming they're techo-illiterates who haven't used Windows.
We're having a bit of a political play at work, where the Softies think they can go to Sql Server and VB/C# to replace Oracle on our Sun boxes. It's pretty obvious to me that they never step outside of Windows World. Not all of them, of course; a couple are interested in Linux and OS X and so on, but by far most of them never leave that world. The "great features available at the end of next year" have been in OS X for three years, and I'd be willing to bet a paycheck that Apple did them better back then. However, they refuse to listen to that and have more attitude and arrogance that I thought possible in a professional.
Those of us who do Oracle and Unix, OTOH, have to deal with Windows every day: Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. We see the other side; we use Firefox, many of Oracle's tools, Perl, PowerBuilder, Linux, Toad, SQL Navigator, iTunes, Java, and on and on and on. We will concede when MS does something right. (Excel, given what it is, is a pretty good product.) But we also don't blindly follow such things and see different views. I don't think the goose-steppers in the MS camp could even conceive of that.
You were given lots of priveleges in life, so you have to give all your money to those who weren't. Right?
No. First, this is America; you can earn in the top 3% of world income and qualify for poverty benefits here. And yes, America's cost of living is higher, but this is also a land where opportunity knocks, rings the doorbell, and looks in the window to see if you didn't hear. And while I don't mind helping people, I do mind being forced to help people, particularly those who wet their own nests. Then expect me to clean it up. And repeat the process. Again and again.
They tax you when you make it, they tax you when you save it, they tax you when you spend it, they tax you when you win it, they tax you when you invest it, they tax you when you inherit it, they tax you when you buy food, they tax you when you buy clothing, they tax you when you buy shelter, they tax you when you do anything. In short, we are taxed for living until we are taxed to death.
When is enough enough? I know we need taxes for things like policmen, firemen, the military, the courts, roads, etc, but fer cryin' out loud, when I have to work until July 1 just to pay my income, property, sales, gas, ticket, etc etc etc taxes, I'm ready to spend the winter at Valley Forge. If a politican and bureaucrat are getting less of our money to waste because there is no on-line sales tax, and they complain about it, then I for one am against any internet tax.
*sigh* Sorry, I'll go cheer myself up by reading some Thomas Payne and James Madison... until the government tries to ban those books.
As a longtime Apple watcher, and more significantly a longtime Apple press
watcher, I think that this is a red herring. Apple seems to be pretty good at having someone leak believable disinformation to the press to get the media herd pointed in the wrong direction. That way, the herd is surprised when the new Apple product is not the long-rumored cellphone or PDA, and they bleat even more loudly when it is something else. Thus the herd will talk about it even more and be more likely to praise Apple and the new product... provided of course that Apple doesn't produce the consumer electronics/computing equivalent of Beef Ice Cream.
That being said, I think it could be the video store that Apple has supposedly been working on, possibly with Sony. Certainly they have the infrastructure to deliver the product, given all that they've done for iTMS. Since this has been long-awaited and the media herd is bleating about the phone, I'll place $10 on the video store at 10-1.
Too bad Vegas doesn't make book on these things. Trust me, those bookies in Vegas know how things will break, because their livelihood depends on it. More, if they are working for a guy with a name like "Vinnie the Nose", their lives may depend on it. If you want to see how a sports season will turn out, look at Vegas' oddsmakers.
I know it is/., but you might want to consider reading the occational article.
Hey, we have to conform to our de facto standards!
"I must say, Headmaster, that your standards are rather out of date."
"Of course they're our of date! Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards."
- Alan Bennett, Forty Years On
Speaking of linking Fortran to C, do you know any good online resources about that?
Uh, fifteen years ago at NASA we were using make to compile the.f and.c files to.o files and "assembling" the.o files into an executable. That should still work, since it's what the GUI development tools are doing in in the background anyway. Of course, back when I was doing that work, the world was in black-and-white and we had to make our own flint-knapped keyboards.
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Isn't that rather like giving credit to someone who quits mugging, when credit should be given to those who have never mugged in the first place?
Because there is such a thing as 'overeducated'?
Don't pull that Ivy League hooha. The biggest idiots I've ever met were Ivy Leaguers with PhDs, back when I was at NASA. I'd rather deal with an electrician from Akron; he actually does something for a living, so I can work with him and learn from him.
That's what Jayson Blair told me before we passed fake documents to Dan Rather.
Sincerely,
Lord Gnome
(For those who couldn't catch a clue with a mitt, this is sarcasm.) (And yes, I do need to include this disclaimer.)
Once when Pollak was on The Bob and Tom Show, he did a dead-on Christopher Walken that is 1) hysterical and 2) re-played with regularity. Pollak is hilarious and dead-on with this imitation, and having heard it, you don't forget it. Also, Bob and Tom can have a slashdot-like effect since they are a national radio show with a big audience.
Something tells me that Kevin Pollak is owed a royalty somewhere.
Except colonies are supposed to be profitable and important. Ours would be better refered to as 'companies that contract with Accenture'.
Actually, I have yet to hear a good reason for going on DST, except that "everyone else does it". In fact, if you want to talk gall, talk to the US Government. When the reailroads created timezones, they had Indiana on Central. When the US government took that over, they put the line between Eastern and Central down Pennsylvannia Street in Indianapolis. That's three blocks from the exact middle of the state.
Brilliant! [CLINKS GUINNESS GLASS]
Hey, it works for the Washington Post.
We're having a bit of a political play at work, where the Softies think they can go to Sql Server and VB/C# to replace Oracle on our Sun boxes. It's pretty obvious to me that they never step outside of Windows World. Not all of them, of course; a couple are interested in Linux and OS X and so on, but by far most of them never leave that world. The "great features available at the end of next year" have been in OS X for three years, and I'd be willing to bet a paycheck that Apple did them better back then. However, they refuse to listen to that and have more attitude and arrogance that I thought possible in a professional.
Those of us who do Oracle and Unix, OTOH, have to deal with Windows every day: Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. We see the other side; we use Firefox, many of Oracle's tools, Perl, PowerBuilder, Linux, Toad, SQL Navigator, iTunes, Java, and on and on and on. We will concede when MS does something right. (Excel, given what it is, is a pretty good product.) But we also don't blindly follow such things and see different views. I don't think the goose-steppers in the MS camp could even conceive of that.
At least 46 times since April 1995.
They put a wrapper over iTunes?
Does "Desperate Housewives" count?
Sincerely,
Terrell Owens
And that young man
No. First, this is America; you can earn in the top 3% of world income and qualify for poverty benefits here. And yes, America's cost of living is higher, but this is also a land where opportunity knocks, rings the doorbell, and looks in the window to see if you didn't hear. And while I don't mind helping people, I do mind being forced to help people, particularly those who wet their own nests. Then expect me to clean it up. And repeat the process. Again and again.
The smiley is duly noted, but I really don't see the difference. If these things were really about caring and all that, I could pay the IRS in hugs.
When is enough enough? I know we need taxes for things like policmen, firemen, the military, the courts, roads, etc, but fer cryin' out loud, when I have to work until July 1 just to pay my income, property, sales, gas, ticket, etc etc etc taxes, I'm ready to spend the winter at Valley Forge. If a politican and bureaucrat are getting less of our money to waste because there is no on-line sales tax, and they complain about it, then I for one am against any internet tax.
*sigh* Sorry, I'll go cheer myself up by reading some Thomas Payne and James Madison ... until the government tries to ban those books.
I didn't. I filled it up with MP3s/AACs ripped from my legally-purchased CDs, with a smattering that I've purchased from iTMS.
That being said, I think it could be the video store that Apple has supposedly been working on, possibly with Sony. Certainly they have the infrastructure to deliver the product, given all that they've done for iTMS. Since this has been long-awaited and the media herd is bleating about the phone, I'll place $10 on the video store at 10-1.
Too bad Vegas doesn't make book on these things. Trust me, those bookies in Vegas know how things will break, because their livelihood depends on it. More, if they are working for a guy with a name like "Vinnie the Nose", their lives may depend on it. If you want to see how a sports season will turn out, look at Vegas' oddsmakers.
Sincerely,
Jayson Blair
(Oh, right, he stole someone's story, and I'm the bad guy here ...)
- I know it is
/., but you might want to consider reading the occational article.
Hey, we have to conform to our de facto standards!"I must say, Headmaster, that your standards are rather out of date."
"Of course they're our of date! Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards."
- Alan Bennett, Forty Years On
Uh, fifteen years ago at NASA we were using make to compile the .f and .c files to .o files and "assembling" the .o files into an executable. That should still work, since it's what the GUI development tools are doing in in the background anyway. Of course, back when I was doing that work, the world was in black-and-white and we had to make our own flint-knapped keyboards.
If it's a musician, it probably is.
"THE FUTURE OF DESKTOP COMPUTING: Apple.
That does it: if Dvorak says this, Apple is doomed.