Besides absolutely critical patches (for worms, and exploits in the wild and the like) I think this could be a really good thing. I know when I was a network administrator it was nigh impossible to keep up with all the patches on my linux boxen. If all patches were released like movies and music, on Tuesdays only. It would have been easier. Come into work every tuesday read what patches I need to install...
Either that or like one poster suggested, we just need better tools for keeping track and managing the flow of updates... Strangely enough, MS's XP update does a really good job at this (despite their slow release process).
"Smart Cars" programmed by "Stupid" programmers, killing smart drivers...
I think we can all enjoy the versitility of things like vinyl, analog devices and hacker friendly consumer electronics (see: all the support for the dreamcast in the Poll). I just fear that after a while cars might be restricting smart/clever driving with "safeguards" and eventually get some smart driver killed...
As long as you can shut off things here and there, this system sounds kind of nice...
All you have to do is buy my Subliminal CD instruction course. It's 4 Message packed Subliminal CDs that will teach you all the secrets of the subliminal industry and how you too can program your own dron... errrr... mind to do what you want!
But the visual aspects of pure "compatible" HTML (as in not CSS and Divs, which many design shops still stay away from) are hacks. So you have these editors trying to visually do something that HTML was never intended to do. Dreamweaver, the best of these editors, was oft called "the moody woman" at one shop I worked at, as you had to know just how to coddle it it wouldn't do what you wanted, or even what it was supposed to. Handwriting the code was still superior for these hacks...
Then CSS/Layers became totally (mostly) supported. Now WYSIWYG editors work QUITE well... (Even some non editors generate perfect code. Photoshop's image ready generates some very nice code)
Anyway, point being, when something is designed to be designed visually it can be visually designed much easier. *grin*
5.6 is the one CNN used to say that Bush was doing a horrible job.
Strangely 5.6 is also the figure they used to say that Clinton was doing a great job.
So I'm just using the mainstream figure. No job figure being quoted (that I know of) counts 1099s, only W2s. Which is sad because alot of people have gone the 1099 route, esp in IT.
The unemployment rate is something like 5.6%. About the same as it was back in the Clinton re-election years, and when we were all screaming about how great the economy was.
I know I know, quality of jobs and all that. But wasn't it a little suspect when you could easily land any job you wanted and get stock options, PS2 lounges, flextime, and 3 weeks of vacation? People were stupid with their money, and it got them no where, and drove our industry into the ground. Now people are smart with their money and things are stablizing.
So jobs are being outsourced. It happens. It's happend in alot of industries. But those jobs are still here. Much (as in the parts) of cars are made in America, yet they went through this. You can still get made in America clothing. And you'll still get made in America software.
It's not as bad as it first seems, but it might require some flexibility and effort on your part to keep on climbing that corporate latter.
besides, our jobs were always doomed, remember when we whined about how when we turned 40 we'd be replaced by two younger guys out of school?
Bush is losing in Polls? Perhaps for a couple days he was...
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Presidential_Tra ck ing_Poll.htm
Back in early Feb when Kerry was getting all kinds of free publicity and Bush just did an interview was less than steller Bush lagged in the polls. That was front page on CNN, New York times and all that... The newest poll that factored in Nader as well one month later was buried in some unrelated article on A13 in the NYT.
To say CNN is pro-bush is just whack most def. It's true they don't report much anything that shows him in a good light, but that is not because it doesn't exist.
Either way, polls are bunk. Remember when Dean was supposed to sweep the IA caucus? Polls.
Perhaps I too should have used the sarcasm tag? Nah, I understand the difference.
Anyway, my concern is this. Kerry is making a huge deal about his service. In fact he won't talk about much else. He wrote a letter to the president that the president was challenging his patriotism when he brought up Kerry's voting record (specifically in the area of defense). Kerry is getting by on who he isn't, Bush. What annoys me is that no one really has pinned down who he is. I can respect people coming home from a war and being changed. Even doing and saying stupid things (such as lying to a court about what he witnessed in vietnam). But to say you can't bring up these things because you may be questioning one's patriotism is silly. I would have a lot more respect for the man if he'd just say what he is and be definate about the issues instead of being on both sides of everything and shouting "I'm not Bush!" for a campaign.
Just say, "yeah, I got home, I was changed, and I was against the war." Take some freaking responsibility. But rather it makes any matter to the Vets, or Democrats, he's too busy trying to bury his past in this "I was in Vietnam!" stuff.
Anyway, as far as evidence for spitting, no one has any for or against it. No matter, take it as a figure of speach if you will.
Either way, one can't make broad statements, the vets you've heard talk about it don't care so much, the ones I have were often fuming or disturbed.
I'm just concerned about this propped up false image. And if what you said about no one caring is true, then for what?
To me it becomes a question of character. To me that's more important than anything in a president.
On the other hand, there are plenty of real pictures of current members of the Bush administration being all buddy-buddy with Saddam Hussein...
Help.
I'm forgetting my Liberal Lines, now do we like Saddam or not? I mean I know I was supposed to be angry about taking him down, yet here I feel I'm supposed to be angry for administration people meeting him.
so...confused...
oh and Vets (who Kerry is trying to portray himself as very much one of with his band `o brothers (kerry did serve though)) care VERY much about this. When a campaign is making a big deal about someone being a war hero, it's a bit suspect when that war hero became part of the faction that spit on soldiers when they got home...
That matters alot to the vets I've heard talk about. Nearly to tears in fact.
Republicans told you to? Heck most repbulicans would LOVE to have Dean get nominated. In the way that many Dems think Goldwater was a right wing nut the Reps think Dean is a left wing nut. They consider him an easy kill...
The real reason so many are voting for Kerry is that the media is just psycho about polls and after Kerry's Iowa win and Dean's fiasco we got to see a friendly little casscade. People aren't thinking anymore they're just doing what they see on TV.
I think Edwards would likely be MUCH more electable than John "It's not fair to talk about my *Public* voting record" Kerry...
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Second Best. Editorialization. Ever.
Besides absolutely critical patches (for worms, and exploits in the wild and the like) I think this could be a really good thing. I know when I was a network administrator it was nigh impossible to keep up with all the patches on my linux boxen. If all patches were released like movies and music, on Tuesdays only. It would have been easier. Come into work every tuesday read what patches I need to install...
Either that or like one poster suggested, we just need better tools for keeping track and managing the flow of updates... Strangely enough, MS's XP update does a really good job at this (despite their slow release process).
And Maine for that matter... (there is ONE actually, but it's "historical" I guess... I think it's just reminding all how much they suck)
Yeah then someone's wife drives by and wonders "Why are their so many Dating service billboards"
Or a husband borrows said wife's car and is barraged with Tampax ads all the way to the office...
ack, the future is going to suck.
Is AOL's AIM with its Save function aiding criminal action?
How soon until we see (much like US vs Non-US crypto) NH version of AIM vs US Version vs DC (posts all conversation to Drudge Report)?
Bah! We can get the hot women! I have one myself!
wait. dang it.
she dumped me...
allow me to rephrase your statement...
Now, only if we could *keep* the hot women...
Think of all the times you've spent with your computer.
All the hours of internet surfing, emerging and gaming.
All the good times.
All the time looking at pr0n.
All these years your computer has given you the gift of wood.
Won't you do the same for it?
I don't know why but this post makes me irrationally happy.
I guess that confirms my full-on geekitude.
"Smart Cars" programmed by "Stupid" programmers, killing smart drivers...
I think we can all enjoy the versitility of things like vinyl, analog devices and hacker friendly consumer electronics (see: all the support for the dreamcast in the Poll). I just fear that after a while cars might be restricting smart/clever driving with "safeguards" and eventually get some smart driver killed...
As long as you can shut off things here and there, this system sounds kind of nice...
Godwin's Law, Godwin the Lawyer?
All you have to do is buy my Subliminal CD instruction course. It's 4 Message packed Subliminal CDs that will teach you all the secrets of the subliminal industry and how you too can program your own dron... errrr... mind to do what you want!
You can learn all of this while you sleep!
Funny enough, it was women on the design team who dubbed it this, not I or any other guy.
*grin*
But the visual aspects of pure "compatible" HTML (as in not CSS and Divs, which many design shops still stay away from) are hacks. So you have these editors trying to visually do something that HTML was never intended to do. Dreamweaver, the best of these editors, was oft called "the moody woman" at one shop I worked at, as you had to know just how to coddle it it wouldn't do what you wanted, or even what it was supposed to. Handwriting the code was still superior for these hacks...
Then CSS/Layers became totally (mostly) supported. Now WYSIWYG editors work QUITE well... (Even some non editors generate perfect code. Photoshop's image ready generates some very nice code)
Anyway, point being, when something is designed to be designed visually it can be visually designed much easier. *grin*
That's another reality of working in IT that doesn't really come up in school.
unless of course your school as a BOFH.
Then it comes up *often*.
5.6 is the one CNN used to say that Bush was doing a horrible job.
Strangely 5.6 is also the figure they used to say that Clinton was doing a great job.
So I'm just using the mainstream figure. No job figure being quoted (that I know of) counts 1099s, only W2s. Which is sad because alot of people have gone the 1099 route, esp in IT.
The unemployment rate is something like 5.6%. About the same as it was back in the Clinton re-election years, and when we were all screaming about how great the economy was.
I know I know, quality of jobs and all that. But wasn't it a little suspect when you could easily land any job you wanted and get stock options, PS2 lounges, flextime, and 3 weeks of vacation? People were stupid with their money, and it got them no where, and drove our industry into the ground. Now people are smart with their money and things are stablizing.
So jobs are being outsourced. It happens. It's happend in alot of industries. But those jobs are still here. Much (as in the parts) of cars are made in America, yet they went through this. You can still get made in America clothing. And you'll still get made in America software.
It's not as bad as it first seems, but it might require some flexibility and effort on your part to keep on climbing that corporate latter.
besides, our jobs were always doomed, remember when we whined about how when we turned 40 we'd be replaced by two younger guys out of school?
It just happend earlier than we expected.
Bush is losing in Polls? Perhaps for a couple days he was...
a ck ing_Poll.htm
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Presidential_Tr
Back in early Feb when Kerry was getting all kinds of free publicity and Bush just did an interview was less than steller Bush lagged in the polls. That was front page on CNN, New York times and all that... The newest poll that factored in Nader as well one month later was buried in some unrelated article on A13 in the NYT.
To say CNN is pro-bush is just whack most def. It's true they don't report much anything that shows him in a good light, but that is not because it doesn't exist.
Either way, polls are bunk. Remember when Dean was supposed to sweep the IA caucus? Polls.
It's lazy news creation really...
You're all bastards...
Susie Plukit.
*duck*
apparently what matters most is connecting O'Reilly with customers?
The Military is starting to use it. Business men use it. No crashing, or anything. Stay up for days and then just goto sleep just as normal.
www.provigil.com
it's that or a pricey crack habit (as one poster suggested)
Perhaps I too should have used the sarcasm tag? Nah, I understand the difference.
Anyway, my concern is this. Kerry is making a huge deal about his service. In fact he won't talk about much else. He wrote a letter to the president that the president was challenging his patriotism when he brought up Kerry's voting record (specifically in the area of defense). Kerry is getting by on who he isn't, Bush. What annoys me is that no one really has pinned down who he is. I can respect people coming home from a war and being changed. Even doing and saying stupid things (such as lying to a court about what he witnessed in vietnam). But to say you can't bring up these things because you may be questioning one's patriotism is silly. I would have a lot more respect for the man if he'd just say what he is and be definate about the issues instead of being on both sides of everything and shouting "I'm not Bush!" for a campaign.
Just say, "yeah, I got home, I was changed, and I was against the war." Take some freaking responsibility. But rather it makes any matter to the Vets, or Democrats, he's too busy trying to bury his past in this "I was in Vietnam!" stuff.
Anyway, as far as evidence for spitting, no one has any for or against it. No matter, take it as a figure of speach if you will.
Either way, one can't make broad statements, the vets you've heard talk about it don't care so much, the ones I have were often fuming or disturbed.
I'm just concerned about this propped up false image. And if what you said about no one caring is true, then for what?
To me it becomes a question of character. To me that's more important than anything in a president.
On the other hand, there are plenty of real pictures of current members of the Bush administration being all buddy-buddy with Saddam Hussein...
Help.
I'm forgetting my Liberal Lines, now do we like Saddam or not? I mean I know I was supposed to be angry about taking him down, yet here I feel I'm supposed to be angry for administration people meeting him.
so...confused...
oh and Vets (who Kerry is trying to portray himself as very much one of with his band `o brothers (kerry did serve though)) care VERY much about this. When a campaign is making a big deal about someone being a war hero, it's a bit suspect when that war hero became part of the faction that spit on soldiers when they got home...
That matters alot to the vets I've heard talk about. Nearly to tears in fact.
To many vets it doesn't matter that he wasn't sitting next to her. They're just angry that he was any where near her without a sign protesting her.
LOL
Republicans told you to? Heck most repbulicans would LOVE to have Dean get nominated. In the way that many Dems think Goldwater was a right wing nut the Reps think Dean is a left wing nut. They consider him an easy kill...
The real reason so many are voting for Kerry is that the media is just psycho about polls and after Kerry's Iowa win and Dean's fiasco we got to see a friendly little casscade. People aren't thinking anymore they're just doing what they see on TV.
I think Edwards would likely be MUCH more electable than John "It's not fair to talk about my *Public* voting record" Kerry...