A humorous note. Early one Friday morning in L.A. my wife was driving by one of those monster billboards that are essentially big video terminals and it had a BSOD, a bunch of hex/binary/error codes, etc., and a MS logo floating in the lower corner.
In California the ACLU has been opposing a paper trail claiming it will negatively affect the experience of blind voters.
Well, personally I don't doubt that it would probably be a negative for blind voters.
Myself, I have a slight case of cerebral palsy and I'd certainly be upset that I had been inconvenienced at the polls, but I would at least have the fortitude to understand that I shouldn't put my one need above the needs of the many.
I can hardly see the justification behind supporting a fairly small proportion of the popilation while causing the rest of us to suffer.
Fix the system for the larger population and then work on it for the handicapped among us.
What fool at Diebold, and the others, wouldn't consider have a paper printout of the votes as a positive option that their sales force should promote.
The added printer technology etc. can certainly be considered a potential profit making venture.
Diebold would get additional margins for the additional gadgets included, and everybody is a lot happier in the end.
I just find it hard to fathom that Diebold and the others are resisting the technology unless they feel that they already have a liability issue or that they really are trying to steal an election.
If Diebold isn't looking at the full profit potential then their investors need to look more closely at the company.
My sister-in-law lived with my wife and I for about six months when she was just straight out of college.
She used our long-distance service which was with AT&T. Actually I don't think she ever made a long-distance phone call during that time.
But, somehow Worldcom got her name and my address (she was sending out lots of resumes).
They had the nerve to send her a bill for $32.98, or something like that, for services that to this day they cannot explain to her. She never had any formal contact with them while living with us.
The bill was sent a FULL two years after she moved out.
The bill has an account number on it but when she calls them no one can locate this mysterious account.
After about 6 months of getting a bill for $32.98 plus $2.50 additional late fee each month she forked up the money.
I told her it would be a cold day in hell before I paid that bill but she just wanted it to no longer be hanging over her head.
So what happens after she paid it. Now I get a bill at my address each month saying she has an $$.$$ refund awaiting her.
Can she find anyone who will actually cut a check for that money? Heck no!
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Perhaps the solution to this is to use the proposed law to make what you want to do possible.
What we need is some sort of an "Organization that is run By the People For the People" (OBPFP) which collects their personal info for placement into a DB.
Since this org would be working for the people most persons would want to join. See $$$ making opportunity below.
Then when Joe Marketer uses this info in a manner that you don't like you have the OBPFP sue the crap out of them.
Any funds retrieved would be divided up to pay the necessary lawyers (of course a majority of the funds, unfortunately), then a bit for jumpstarting the next average joe's lawsuit, and then a bit to compensate you.
Rather than setting up a big nasty industrial complex and the associated suburbs and strip malls has anyone thought of considering the moon and mars, etc. areas which should be preserved rather than exploited.
Until we humans can get our act together here on earth I see no logical reason why we should trash a couple of perfectly beautiful celestial bodies.
The whole point behind getting them to ship the OS without a "built-in" media player, or whatever else, is that the whole thing would be substandard.
Honestly, how many people would go down to the store and buy windows media player if MS had to retail it just like other player's have to (or at least theoretically have to).
If it's so critical for them to ship the media player attached at the hip to the OS then the EU should make them a deal.
The EU should say, "Ok you can ship the OS with the media player embedded, but for that privlege we require you to ship MS Office embedded in the OS and MS Flight Simulator embedded in the OS. I.E. they would loose a lot of profits, hit them where it hurts.
Looks like the idiot politicians are moving full force towards what the MPAA and the RIAA think will be the ultimate in IP protection for them.
Anyone who thinks the broadcast flag is the final step is not looking at the big picture. Pay-per-view-for-everything, nothing distributed over the internet, and so-on aren't that far off.
And if you don't think Michael Powell (or his successor) will make up a new set of laws to make those things come to pass you're crazy.
What they don't get is that the more they restrict the 99 percent of citizens who could care less about Kazaa, etc. the more they alienate those same citizens.
And just like in California with proposition 13 and with Arnold S. the citizens will rise up and put in office a set of people who will dramatically reverse the oppression put upon them.
It's only a matter of time. As soon as my dad finds out that he can't do the things he has done for the past 40 years with his tv is the day that the 99 percent is so disaffected that they throw out the politicians who have allowed all of this to come to pass.
It's just too bad that the US Constitution doesn't allow for California type propositions/ballot measures.
Jeez, I sound like I should be living in a cave with my twenty-nine rifles, a years supply of food, and my twelve dirty children.
Be forced to buy a digital TV I don't want and then on top of that it will not play anything because I refuse to pay for broadcast-flag protected pay-per-view.
We all know the broadcast flag is simply a scheme to make us all go to pay-per-view on everything.
Not sure if StartupMonitor will stop Real in it's tracks, at least in terms of dropping things in your startup/system tray, but it is definitely worth a look.
StartupMonitor just sits around and waits for a program to try to install itself into your system tray. If it detects such activity it pops up a message asking you if you want to allow it.
I can proudly state that I only have four icons in my startup tray and each and every one of them I want to be there.
Google for StartupMonitor and you shall receive...
Which is a declarative statement (proposition if you so please) of the opposite of my statement.
Since it is true that the Mozilla currently being typed into does not work when using Yahoo Maps! the conclusion that can be reached is that we have both stated fuzzy logic propositions.
Philosophy is such a great subject. Thanks for bringing it up.
Is strange about your comment is that now that I have obtained a TIVO I often have found myself standing in a shopping mall, etc. watching something interesting in life unfold before my eyes.
And I swear I go into TIVO user mode unconsciously and find myself wanting to hit the rewind 10 seconds button (a capability in TIVO) on the situation in the mall. It is so strange.
I often find myself just wanting to pause real life also.
But your comment of speeding past those thirty seconds of life's unwanted advertising makes perfect sense as well.
I'm sure you meant your comment as a joke to some degree but life and TIVO watching have some peculiar similarities for some odd reason.
Handheld from 1985. Full qwerty keyboard, 2k ram, basic interpreter, color printer (little miniature pens ran out of ink a long time ago), 80 character one-line LCD display.
Not much for being a real computer, but for it's day it was one of the bestest calculators on the face of the earth.
Sure a HP-41CV could run circles around it in terms of expandability, etc. but nothin could beat this little beauty for it's ability to allow you to edit equations, store values into variables and then use them in equations, etc.
To this day I haven't had the need for another calculator. I'm sure todays calculators are vastly superior, but for 1985ish this thing was awesome....
At what point does all the computer bugs in your car create a point where you can legitimately invoke the lemon law provisions?
On a side note I started trailing a lady in a brand new BMW 7 series a couple of days ago. The car's emergency flashers were on and at the leisurely pace she was taking things I knew she wasn't aware of it.
So I pulled alongside at a redlight, fortunately she had her drivers side window down, so I shouted to her that her emergency flashers were on.
She looked really surprised and muttered something to the effect of "Oh really". Not a doubting oh really, but a surprised oh really.
Apparently there was no indicator inside the car telling her what was happening with her lights.
If I'm not mistaken the BMW 7 series has a Windows CE O/S? I've heard the 5 series does.
I know I'd be incredibly irritated to spend the kind of money she had in that BMW only to find it riddled with computer bugs.
Lastly, isn't it the law in the US that car makers have to "support" the vehicles they sell for 8 years?
Will MS still be willing to issue a BMW patch 8 years from now? They've certainly seemed to be trying to reduce the amount of time they support a particular version of their O/Ses.
I cannot attest to actually having been involved in any project which used XP as defined but I can say the following about what I consider similar:
I used to work at a company that strangely enough fostered both getting things done quickly for some projects while fostering a long drawn out method for other projects.
The company was a consulting firm which always needed an answer yesterday for this or that problem.
They also wrote fairly large simulation packages for the FAA. Some of these projects would go up to three years. Lots of planning etc. was usually done.
Regardless of which type project I worked on I always tended to be the type who would get something working quick and then iterate over it several times if necessary.
Others tended to be going at what I considered to be a snails pace mode. They would plan for days, weeks, months on something that I never considered worth that much planning.
I could usually have a pretty good prototype working with a couple of major revisions made before the "planning types" could even get out a initial prototype.
But, over the years I noticed that I (and those like me) tended to get "officially finished" in about the same amount of time that the annoying guys who planned everything out to the Nth degree got finished.
Was my product any better than their's? No not really.
Which methodology was better? It's hard to say, I know I certainly always liked to utilize new methodologies that worked well while they liked to stick with the tried and true.
About the only thing that I can say is that my internal company clients usually appreciated that they had something to work with earlier rather than later.
They knew it was a rough version, but hey, if you need it now, you need it now. And two years from now may not pay the bills.
So, lots of times I came out looking like a hero.
But, looking back on it now I'd have to say that my own personal version of XP wasn't any better than my counterpart's long drawn out process, at least in terms of a final product.
OOo 1.1, and 1.0 for that matter to a lesser extent, loses graphics, such as GIF files, after a couple of edits (cut/copy/paste) and they never come back.
It's being rammed down my throat by coming through my phone lines into my personal home in an unwanted fashion then I'm actually for saying that there is no such thing as free speech.
It's my house, I should be allowed to block ALL calls coming into it. Thus, no distinctions between commerical, religious, or political. It's all harrassment as far as I'm concerned.
It's sorta akin to saying that religious and political zealots who come to my front door can put their foot in and make me listen to their crap but a guy selling vacuum cleaners cannot. NO, I can legally toss them all out, thus I should be able to do the same thing with telemarketers.
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On,
A humorous note. Early one Friday morning in L.A. my wife was driving by one of those monster billboards that are essentially big video terminals and it had a BSOD, a bunch of hex/binary/error codes, etc., and a MS logo floating in the lower corner.
She found it quite humorous.
In California the ACLU has been opposing a paper trail claiming it will negatively affect the experience of blind voters.
Well, personally I don't doubt that it would probably be a negative for blind voters.
Myself, I have a slight case of cerebral palsy and I'd certainly be upset that I had been inconvenienced at the polls, but I would at least have the fortitude to understand that I shouldn't put my one need above the needs of the many.
I can hardly see the justification behind supporting a fairly small proportion of the popilation while causing the rest of us to suffer.
Fix the system for the larger population and then work on it for the handicapped among us.
What fool at Diebold, and the others, wouldn't consider have a paper printout of the votes as a positive option that their sales force should promote.
The added printer technology etc. can certainly be considered a potential profit making venture.
Diebold would get additional margins for the additional gadgets included, and everybody is a lot happier in the end.
I just find it hard to fathom that Diebold and the others are resisting the technology unless they feel that they already have a liability issue or that they really are trying to steal an election.
If Diebold isn't looking at the full profit potential then their investors need to look more closely at the company.
Just one point on the curve. Take it anyway you like.
But on Thanksgiving Day I saw zero spams and the day after about two.
I usually get about 15 to 20 a day.
I'm,
Not so sure that Asian and S. American countries contribute much to spam.
I noticed a SIGNIFICANT decrease in the number of spams I received over the Thanksgiving holidays. Do asian countries celebrate Thanksgiving also?
Sounds about par for MCI/Worldcom.
My sister-in-law lived with my wife and I for about six months when she was just straight out of college.
She used our long-distance service which was with AT&T. Actually I don't think she ever made a long-distance phone call during that time.
But, somehow Worldcom got her name and my address (she was sending out lots of resumes).
They had the nerve to send her a bill for $32.98, or something like that, for services that to this day they cannot explain to her. She never had any formal contact with them while living with us.
The bill was sent a FULL two years after she moved out.
The bill has an account number on it but when she calls them no one can locate this mysterious account.
After about 6 months of getting a bill for $32.98 plus $2.50 additional late fee each month she forked up the money.
I told her it would be a cold day in hell before I paid that bill but she just wanted it to no longer be hanging over her head.
So what happens after she paid it. Now I get a bill at my address each month saying she has an $$.$$ refund awaiting her.
Can she find anyone who will actually cut a check for that money? Heck no!
Somebody is seriously underestimating that number
Perhaps the solution to this is to use the proposed law to make what you want to do possible.
What we need is some sort of an "Organization that is run By the People For the People" (OBPFP) which collects their personal info for placement into a DB.
Since this org would be working for the people most persons would want to join. See $$$ making opportunity below.
Then when Joe Marketer uses this info in a manner that you don't like you have the OBPFP sue the crap out of them.
Any funds retrieved would be divided up to pay the necessary lawyers (of course a majority of the funds, unfortunately), then a bit for jumpstarting the next average joe's lawsuit, and then a bit to compensate you.
Rather than setting up a big nasty industrial complex and the associated suburbs and strip malls has anyone thought of considering the moon and mars, etc. areas which should be preserved rather than exploited.
Until we humans can get our act together here on earth I see no logical reason why we should trash a couple of perfectly beautiful celestial bodies.
The whole point behind getting them to ship the OS without a "built-in" media player, or whatever else, is that the whole thing would be substandard.
Honestly, how many people would go down to the store and buy windows media player if MS had to retail it just like other player's have to (or at least theoretically have to).
If it's so critical for them to ship the media player attached at the hip to the OS then the EU should make them a deal.
The EU should say, "Ok you can ship the OS with the media player embedded, but for that privlege we require you to ship MS Office embedded in the OS and MS Flight Simulator embedded in the OS. I.E. they would loose a lot of profits, hit them where it hurts.
Hey, anything else would be substandard, right?
To the saying:
I've been everywhere man....
Congrats to Johnny Cash on all of his recent CMA awards. A great singer who will be missed.
You say: ... the days of the "Free Internet" will be almost over ...
What you neglect to say is that before banner ads, Gator, pop-unders, etc. there was a very thriving free Internet (excluding ISP charges).
And, btw, it was just fine by me.
In the early 90s I very happily found about the same amount of useful information and free products on the Internet as I do now.
I don't need Amazon to exist to feel like I have a complete Internet experience.
It,
Looks like the idiot politicians are moving full force towards what the MPAA and the RIAA think will be the ultimate in IP protection for them.
Anyone who thinks the broadcast flag is the final step is not looking at the big picture. Pay-per-view-for-everything, nothing distributed over the internet, and so-on aren't that far off.
And if you don't think Michael Powell (or his successor) will make up a new set of laws to make those things come to pass you're crazy.
What they don't get is that the more they restrict the 99 percent of citizens who could care less about Kazaa, etc. the more they alienate those same citizens.
And just like in California with proposition 13 and with Arnold S. the citizens will rise up and put in office a set of people who will dramatically reverse the oppression put upon them.
It's only a matter of time. As soon as my dad finds out that he can't do the things he has done for the past 40 years with his tv is the day that the 99 percent is so disaffected that they throw out the politicians who have allowed all of this to come to pass.
It's just too bad that the US Constitution doesn't allow for California type propositions/ballot measures.
Jeez, I sound like I should be living in a cave with my twenty-nine rifles, a years supply of food, and my twelve dirty children.
To,
Be forced to buy a digital TV I don't want and then on top of that it will not play anything because I refuse to pay for broadcast-flag protected pay-per-view.
We all know the broadcast flag is simply a scheme to make us all go to pay-per-view on everything.
Call your congress-critter and complain. I did!
I'm,
Not sure if StartupMonitor will stop Real in it's tracks, at least in terms of dropping things in your startup/system tray, but it is definitely worth a look.
StartupMonitor just sits around and waits for a program to try to install itself into your system tray. If it detects such activity it pops up a message asking you if you want to allow it.
I can proudly state that I only have four icons in my startup tray and each and every one of them I want to be there.
Google for StartupMonitor and you shall receive...
Fine,
Quoting from your first post:
> That's untrue.
Which is a declarative statement (proposition if you so please) of the opposite of my statement.
Since it is true that the Mozilla currently being typed into does not work when using Yahoo Maps! the conclusion that can be reached is that we have both stated fuzzy logic propositions.
Philosophy is such a great subject. Thanks for bringing it up.
Have a great day!
Actually it is true.
On Windows 2000 using Mozilla 1.4 the zoom buttons (numbered zooms) do not work.
If I use Windows 2000 and 1.3 the zoom buttons do work.
On RH9 Linux, the zoom buttons using 1.0.1 do work.
So, you are free to draw your own conclusions about my experiences, but the original poster wanted an opinion and I gave it.
But, it is true. Maybe not for all cases, but it is true...
Thanks for setting me straight. I really deserved it.
Recently,
Yahoo changed their mapping program such that many of the buttons no longer work using Mozilla 1.4.
Is it an issue with Mozilla or with Yahoo! I don't know but I know who won out in my case. Mapquest did!!!
What,
Is strange about your comment is that now that I have obtained a TIVO I often have found myself standing in a shopping mall, etc. watching something interesting in life unfold before my eyes.
And I swear I go into TIVO user mode unconsciously and find myself wanting to hit the rewind 10 seconds button (a capability in TIVO) on the situation in the mall. It is so strange.
I often find myself just wanting to pause real life also.
But your comment of speeding past those thirty seconds of life's unwanted advertising makes perfect sense as well.
I'm sure you meant your comment as a joke to some degree but life and TIVO watching have some peculiar similarities for some odd reason.
Cool,
Handheld from 1985. Full qwerty keyboard, 2k ram, basic interpreter, color printer (little miniature pens ran out of ink a long time ago), 80 character one-line LCD display.
Not much for being a real computer, but for it's day it was one of the bestest calculators on the face of the earth.
Sure a HP-41CV could run circles around it in terms of expandability, etc. but nothin could beat this little beauty for it's ability to allow you to edit equations, store values into variables and then use them in equations, etc.
To this day I haven't had the need for another calculator. I'm sure todays calculators are vastly superior, but for 1985ish this thing was awesome....
So,
At what point does all the computer bugs in your car create a point where you can legitimately invoke the lemon law provisions?
On a side note I started trailing a lady in a brand new BMW 7 series a couple of days ago. The car's emergency flashers were on and at the leisurely pace she was taking things I knew she wasn't aware of it.
So I pulled alongside at a redlight, fortunately she had her drivers side window down, so I shouted to her that her emergency flashers were on.
She looked really surprised and muttered something to the effect of "Oh really". Not a doubting oh really, but a surprised oh really.
Apparently there was no indicator inside the car telling her what was happening with her lights.
If I'm not mistaken the BMW 7 series has a Windows CE O/S? I've heard the 5 series does.
I know I'd be incredibly irritated to spend the kind of money she had in that BMW only to find it riddled with computer bugs.
Lastly, isn't it the law in the US that car makers have to "support" the vehicles they sell for 8 years?
Will MS still be willing to issue a BMW patch 8 years from now? They've certainly seemed to be trying to reduce the amount of time they support a particular version of their O/Ses.
I cannot attest to actually having been involved in any project which used XP as defined but I can say the following about what I consider similar:
I used to work at a company that strangely enough fostered both getting things done quickly for some projects while fostering a long drawn out method for other projects.
The company was a consulting firm which always needed an answer yesterday for this or that problem.
They also wrote fairly large simulation packages for the FAA. Some of these projects would go up to three years. Lots of planning etc. was usually done.
Regardless of which type project I worked on I always tended to be the type who would get something working quick and then iterate over it several times if necessary.
Others tended to be going at what I considered to be a snails pace mode. They would plan for days, weeks, months on something that I never considered worth that much planning.
I could usually have a pretty good prototype working with a couple of major revisions made before the "planning types" could even get out a initial prototype.
But, over the years I noticed that I (and those like me) tended to get "officially finished" in about the same amount of time that the annoying guys who planned everything out to the Nth degree got finished.
Was my product any better than their's? No not really.
Which methodology was better? It's hard to say, I know I certainly always liked to utilize new methodologies that worked well while they liked to stick with the tried and true.
About the only thing that I can say is that my internal company clients usually appreciated that they had something to work with earlier rather than later.
They knew it was a rough version, but hey, if you need it now, you need it now. And two years from now may not pay the bills.
So, lots of times I came out looking like a hero.
But, looking back on it now I'd have to say that my own personal version of XP wasn't any better than my counterpart's long drawn out process, at least in terms of a final product.
My $0.02 worth.
Sorry if I was too far off-topic...
I'll,
Vote for your issue if you will vote for mine
OOo 1.1, and 1.0 for that matter to a lesser extent, loses graphics, such as GIF files, after a couple of edits (cut/copy/paste) and they never come back.
It really stinks to say the least.
When,
It's being rammed down my throat by coming through my phone lines into my personal home in an unwanted fashion then I'm actually for saying that there is no such thing as free speech.
It's my house, I should be allowed to block ALL calls coming into it. Thus, no distinctions between commerical, religious, or political. It's all harrassment as far as I'm concerned.
It's sorta akin to saying that religious and political zealots who come to my front door can put their foot in and make me listen to their crap but a guy selling vacuum cleaners cannot. NO, I can legally toss them all out, thus I should be able to do the same thing with telemarketers.