Why not raise a few lawsuits against car manufacturers and city planners for not having audible instructions for the blind drivers to turn left, right, to brake or accelerate.
Come on people, nobody is deliberately trying to upset the blind, rather the embedded image schemes are there to stop the lowlife scum that automate the sign-up to free e-mail accounts just to spam from them. It's the same with the attempts to automate PayPal payments, etc. If these undesirables were dealt with, web services wouldn't have to resort to such technology in the first place.
Yes, it's awfully sad for the blind, but I'm sure on those infrequent occassions where they are subjected to such interfaces they could ask a friend or family member who can see to help, or perhaps they could use the phone, and if not, why not just give that company a miss and find another - "Vote with your wallets" and all that.
I doubt they've even tried to think up a real workable alternative.. oh no, it's easier to just litigate/screw some money out of honest companies, and what does that achieve? How about all the folk who were happily using service X sue the blind guy who sued service X into bankruptcy? It's pathetic, it really is.
I've not really thought this out very much, and hopefully someone will reply with a reasoned opposing view (great! let's hear it) rather than modding this a troll and that be it, but I'm just really irked at the way so many things these days are solved by clogging up the courts with needless litigation. I know I'm going off topic here but it's not like it doesn't happen every day on/. Anyway, back to the rant. Here are a few examples.
e.g. The old 'beer vs women' sexist joke showed up on a company e-mail system, and a company gets sued for millions by some female employee, etc. Sticks and stones? Stop being so pathetic and just send back 'Cucumber vs men' or something.
Then there's the overweight fool that sues a fast food chain claiming he didn't know the food would make him fat and wins the case. "What do you mean if I consume more calories than I wear off I gain weight??" DUH! Eject that man from the courtroom!
Another well known one.. "Oh no that coffee you sold me, marked hot on the cup was hot! I spilt it on myself because I'm a dozy clot and burnt my little handypoo.. time to call my lawyer" and said person wins.
Nngh.. make love, not war (m'kay?). Maybe I should have stayed in bed.
My experience - early 80s home computing in the UK --- Back in '83 my father bought the family a BBC B [1], and not long after playing the bundled games thoroughly I found the User Guide, tried out the teletext examples to do double height text, the moving man vdu23 example, and didn't stop until I got to the end. It was a wonderful learning experience..
Switch the Beeb on... *blur*beep* BBC Computer 32k
Basic
> 10 PRINT "Ooh look a programming language" > 20 PRINT "that is right there at power up" > 30 PRINT "and easy enough for a preteen" > 40 GOTO 10 > RUN
From that prompt BBC BASIC was right there available to you from power up. Want to draw a triangle - plot 85.. play a middle C note - SOUND 1,-15,53,5. Now is that or talking to DirectX via C/C++/VB/Delphi/etc easier for a child?
Along with the Beeb, plenty other 8 bit machines also provided a simple to use programming environment right there by default at power up. No extras to have to buy, no alternative OS's to install, and what plenty of people who've posted here seem to be completely forgetting - a learning curve suitable for a pre-teen.
Nowadays --- I think the article is spot on. A child who sits down at an out of the box Windows PC can do nothing more than play Solitaire. Sure there is plenty that can be done if you know about it. This requires purchase of $50+ books, programming languages, or knowledge to wipe the system and install some Unix variant with an oss compiler, etc. These are out of reach for a child. Even if a knowing parent had sorted out one of these solutions, it is still have a steeper learning curve.
It's all about accessibility, and nowadays programming really is less accessible to young children. Anyone who can't see that either wasn't there in the 80s or lives in an alternative reality.
[1] Huge UK success. Never cracked US market. See here for some background history on it. [2] For the BBC, Electron, etc there was Micro User, A&B Computing, Acorn User, Electron World, and others besides. The C64/128 had Crash, Zzap, etc, and for the Speccy there was Your Sinclair, and lots of others I've forgotten.
During my earliest school years [1] of the 1980s, having a computer in the classroom was uncommon. If there was a computer room there might perhaps be half a dozen computers at best[2]. As they had to be shared among the whole school we did not get to use them often, hence much of the work we produced in class involved handwriting.
There was a strong emphasis on good handwriting and cursive was used often around school. Teachers used it on wall displays, and when writing on the blackboards. The educational TV shows we watched focused on it also [3]. For the last lesson of the day on Wednesday afternoons the headmaster took us for handwriting class. I became good at using cursive and still use it now.
These days I see 8th graders who can't read properly, let alone write even in print.
Some other poster mentioned ties and shoelaces being replaced with snap-on or elastic ties and zip/velcro/etc shoe fasteners. I have no problem with this, and the convenience is obvious. Perhaps I'm just old fashioned in thinking you should be able to do these things the 'old' way too. Being able to tie your own shoelaces and knot your own tie was quite normal when I was a kid.
[1] Referring to the British public school system. [2] BBC B/32k with tape decks, and later Acorn DFS/Cumana 40/80 track 5 1/4 floppies. Ph33r! [3] e.g. Words and Pictures, with Wordy the orange floating character covered in letters, Magic E, and the floating pen with the light in the end that would write letters against the black background while a voice said 'up and down, round and over' and similar.
"In his new position at Unix vendor SCO, former Iraqi information minister Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf wasted no time in denying the claims that SCO had given away intellectual property within its own Linux distribution..";)
.. there are many critical systems glued together with very badly written scripts (shell, etc). They work fine as long as there is not a problem or delay along the way, at which point they fall apart.
For example, we retain 60 days worth of logs and reports. The original script looked at the system date, and deleted any files older than 60 days. Simple, except for when the clock skewed wildly (to the year 2020). All history data was deemed more than 60 days old and deleted.
I altered said script to delete anything older than 60 days and newer than 61 days and the problem went away.
In another example we have several important EDI files that go up to a broker system each day. There was a plain old upload script, called from another script, that would upload the files and exit. The calling script would then delete the files. This was all fine unless of course the FTP failed, which it did fairly often.
Of course, because there was no error checking to see if the FTP succeeded, the files were erased regardless, and an administrator had to log in, rebuild the files, and run the upload script. Fine, but nobody knew usually that the scripts had failed until the broker called or e-mailed about it.
Seeing how much time this wasted I wrote a quick Perl script to do the upload, and report back by email to the administrators if it failed, along with why (couldn't connect, login info rejected, etc). On failure it queued up the files to go later, rather like a mail queue. Again, a little error checking goes a long way.
If you don't bother with error checking, it will almost invariably come back to haunt you.
How do you people manage to keep falling for such obvious trolls? Someone with a UID as low as yours should be able to spot trickier ones than this.
Maybe I was too subtle with the;)
And since when was the WWW the whole Internet? Sheesh, stop trying to grab glory for Britannia already.
I don't believe I actually equated the two. I am well aware of the difference and get just as irritated by people referring to the web as the Internet.
Didn't British Telecommunications try to patent the hyperlink?
The world wide web was created at CERN by Tim Berners Lee, born in London England. As you also don't have a problem with American companies getting money back from their creation of 'the whole internet', then you also don't mind if Mr Berners Lee collects revenues from non-British companies?;)
I'd like to think you were joking. The granting of the Verisign multiple lookup patent is ridiculous.
The TVs aren't 'CeeFax' capable. They are Teletext capable, and the BBC transmit CeeFax using Teletext.
TeleText has two forms, the old one in which the TeleText data is transmitted in the scan lines at the top of analogue television pictures. Capable TVs then takes those lines and decodes them into the pages you get to read. For digital TV e.g. digital cable with a set top box, etc the teletext data is added to the mpeg4 data that comes in, and it gets decoded by the set top box, so no it won't necessarily go away in 2010 when analogue disappears. By then other prettier looking interactive services will likely have taken over.
Bit of background. Teletext consists of a 40x25 text display, with a special character set consisting of alphanumeric characters and some special block graphics, both of which can be displayed in 8 colours, with 8 flashing colour combos - black,red,yellow,blue,cyan,magenta,white. You could also create double height text by placing character 141 before it on two consecutive lines. It was in the days of 1200bps,etc modems much quicker to download and display than ANSI text, so was very popular for BBS / viewdata systems such as Prestel in the UK.
Every Acorn computer bar the Electron and Atom had Mode 7, which was teletext. It was great as it only used up 1k of screen memory. By adding a teletext adapter, such as the ones Morley, Watford Electronics,etc used to sell, you could feed CeeFax, Oracle, etc pages into the computer.
It's not just OK. Recently, tornadoes have turned up in Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee and Florida to name a few states. Most states suffer from one form of natural disaster or another at some point, be it tornadoes, earthquakes, forest fires, floods, hurricanes, volcanoes (Hawaii), etc. What are you going to do? Mass exodus.
Having said that, perhaps it wouldn't be wise to buy a house in Moore, Del City or along the turner Turnpike. Poor buggers only rebuilt 3 years ago!
I've added indexes.. there were no possible keys on the reviews table! Sloppy. Anyway, queries have sped up somewhat (was about 4 seconds per query, now much better).
"Yes dear, I had to buy this 21" monitor. I was concerned the 17" impacted your spatial abilities"
The screen resolution on my main home PC is set to 1280x1024. Often when my wife uses the PC she lowers the screen resolution down to 1024x768 or 800x600. It could be an eyesight thing as she infrequently wears reading glasses, though it could also hint that there is some truth to the article.
Having lived in the UK up until moving to the US 2 years ago, I really hope the Iraqi's get a system that works across the board.
In the UK (GSM, Vodafone, Nokia 3310)...
I could send SMS messages to *ANYONE* regardless of their network, and vice versa.
I could easily obtain ringtones, logos, etc, even make my own. Again, these could be sent and received with other people regardless of network.
In the US (CDMA, Sprint, Kyocera 2345 by Qualcomm)...
I can't send/receive SMS from any network.
The 'web & e-mail' gimmick is useless and costs airtime regardless of whether it actually works or not.
MMS messages, hah yeah right unless I spend a fortune, and then I imagine it'll be subject to the same limitations with SMS above e.g. only works on the same network.
What I'm trying to say is that although CDMA may be technically better than GSM, the way the networks in the US don't interoperate for SMS,MMS,etc means that those services will never take off in the way that they deserve to. SMS is HUGELY popular in the UK and Europe.
Of course I could just be pissed off that I can't have my servers SMS me when there's a problem on the network, but hey;p
October '94 PC Plus CD.. the very same one that got me started with Slack:) I think I still have it somewhere.. blue with either white or silver writing. Maybe I should frame it;)
Oh, you know that Jolt account you're using.. that started because Adrian Mardlin saw me playing Quake one evening after work at Nildram and asked what I thought of a 'games ISP' idea. I thought it'd be great to create something to rival Barrysworld, so he, I and a guy called Jon started work on it all. Look what it has become!:) It runs on Slackware too, or at least the core servers do:)
I wouldn't have been working for Nildram if I hadn't learned about Unix having used Slack, so I guess I have to thank Pat and the Slack team for that too!
vsprintf wrote... "Funny. Neither the Clinton or Bush administration has ever provided funding for enforcement of the H-1B reguations, and the companies know it. And anyone who thinks the INS could ever catch a wrongdoer hasn't read the news in years."
I totally agree. My post was to explain what an H-1B was supposed to be. If I were to write about all the problems with it the post would have been considerably longer:)
H-1B is a non immigrant worker visa. In short, it allows non US citizens to work in the US to fill positions where a local job candidate could not be sourced.
The company wishing to hire the non US worker files a petition for an H-1B visa with the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service). Once the visa is processed, the worker can start working.
There are certain restrictions to this visa...
The worker can only work for the company petitioning them.
The H-1B visa lasts 3 years. It can be renewed once, giving a maximum of 6 years in which the worker is allowed to reside in the US.
The worker must leave the US within 10 days of either the H-1B expiring or the petitioning company being unable/unwilling to continue their employment. If the worker chooses to stay they become an illegal immigrant and risk deportation and banned re-entry to the US.
The petitioning company is expected to pay them the salary they would pay a normal US worker. If the company fails on their obligations they are fined by the INS.
At the company I work for, we were in a similar boat with many old Windows 95 installations, with replacement hardware only having drivers for Windows 98 or higher, and so on. Last summer we made the decision to move from Windows to Linux based primarily on the Windows upgrade cost.
The replacement consisted of RedHat Linux (7.x until 8.x came out), Gnome, OpenOffice and Mozilla. The choice of RedHat over other distros was made more because the other techs were new to Linux too and I might not be there all the time. The servers still run Slackware >:)
The results have been great and the staff had far fewer problems than expected and interestingly 98% of the tech calls that come in are from the on the road sales guys having problems using XP, which came preloaded on their laptops.
Given the wealth of ports available and the fact it is also a 6502 based system, it should be possible. Hey if Superior Software managed to squeeze Exile in there, well.. nuff said.
" Just curious- am I the longest Slackware user here? I haven't been able to part with any Slackware release since v1.2 (April 1994) which I still have right here. I've tried most others, find some strengths in some, but always use Slackware, and ditch the others I've trial installed. (Debian seems the next best)."
I was wondering the same thing. I picked up Slack in early 1994. First kernel I ever messed with was 1.0.9. Those were the days:)
It seems said person is all about stealing from others rather than playing fair. I wonder maybe if Bruceyboy got thrown in the slammer for not delivering the goods the silly patents would cease to be enforced? Or perhaps trying to circumvent software protection might do it. There's all kinds of interesting stuff about him on Google.
So what will happen if you leave something in the same place that the cloned atoms are reassembled in?
Wouldn't there always be something there, even if it was just air, in which case what happens to the atoms that existed in the space before? Do they have to be destroyed in order to make space, or are they displaced / merged?
I'd been waiting on the 4.3.0 release for some time as I really wanted gd 2.x support without the patching / using non-production releases of PHP. The image resampling function is so much nicer than the resize for generating thumbnail images on shopping / photo based sites, and now I can rewrite code to use it instead of spawning NetPBM. Good work PHP team!
ACard have been making a really cool range of SCSI to IDE products for several years now called SCSIDE. They work very well too, especially the mirroring and interface bridge stuff I've had my hands on:)
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Why not raise a few lawsuits against car manufacturers and city planners for not having audible instructions for the blind drivers to turn left, right, to brake or accelerate.
/. Anyway, back to the rant. Here are a few examples.
Come on people, nobody is deliberately trying to upset the blind, rather the embedded image schemes are there to stop the lowlife scum that automate the sign-up to free e-mail accounts just to spam from them. It's the same with the attempts to automate PayPal payments, etc. If these undesirables were dealt with, web services wouldn't have to resort to such technology in the first place.
Yes, it's awfully sad for the blind, but I'm sure on those infrequent occassions where they are subjected to such interfaces they could ask a friend or family member who can see to help, or perhaps they could use the phone, and if not, why not just give that company a miss and find another - "Vote with your wallets" and all that.
I doubt they've even tried to think up a real workable alternative.. oh no, it's easier to just litigate/screw some money out of honest companies, and what does that achieve? How about all the folk who were happily using service X sue the blind guy who sued service X into bankruptcy? It's pathetic, it really is.
I've not really thought this out very much, and hopefully someone will reply with a reasoned opposing view (great! let's hear it) rather than modding this a troll and that be it, but I'm just really irked at the way so many things these days are solved by clogging up the courts with needless litigation. I know I'm going off topic here but it's not like it doesn't happen every day on
e.g. The old 'beer vs women' sexist joke showed up on a company e-mail system, and a company gets sued for millions by some female employee, etc. Sticks and stones? Stop being so pathetic and just send back 'Cucumber vs men' or something.
Then there's the overweight fool that sues a fast food chain claiming he didn't know the food would make him fat and wins the case. "What do you mean if I consume more calories than I wear off I gain weight??" DUH! Eject that man from the courtroom!
Another well known one.. "Oh no that coffee you sold me, marked hot on the cup was hot! I spilt it on myself because I'm a dozy clot and burnt my little handypoo.. time to call my lawyer" and said person wins.
Nngh.. make love, not war (m'kay?). Maybe I should have stayed in bed.
My experience - early 80s home computing in the UK
---
Back in '83 my father bought the family a BBC B [1], and not long after playing the bundled games thoroughly I found the User Guide, tried out the teletext examples to do double height text, the moving man vdu23 example, and didn't stop until I got to the end. It was a wonderful learning experience..
Switch the Beeb on...
*blur*beep*
BBC Computer 32k
Basic
> 10 PRINT "Ooh look a programming language"
> 20 PRINT "that is right there at power up"
> 30 PRINT "and easy enough for a preteen"
> 40 GOTO 10
> RUN
From that prompt BBC BASIC was right there available to you from power up. Want to draw a triangle - plot 85.. play a middle C note - SOUND 1,-15,53,5. Now is that or talking to DirectX via C/C++/VB/Delphi/etc easier for a child?
Along with the Beeb, plenty other 8 bit machines also provided a simple to use programming environment right there by default at power up. No extras to have to buy, no alternative OS's to install, and what plenty of people who've posted here seem to be completely forgetting - a learning curve suitable for a pre-teen.
Nowadays
---
I think the article is spot on. A child who sits down at an out of the box Windows PC can do nothing more than play Solitaire. Sure there is plenty that can be done if you know about it. This requires purchase of $50+ books, programming languages, or knowledge to wipe the system and install some Unix variant with an oss compiler, etc. These are out of reach for a child. Even if a knowing parent had sorted out one of these solutions, it is still have a steeper learning curve.
It's all about accessibility, and nowadays programming really is less accessible to young children. Anyone who can't see that either wasn't there in the 80s or lives in an alternative reality.
[1] Huge UK success. Never cracked US market. See here for some background history on it.
[2] For the BBC, Electron, etc there was Micro User, A&B Computing, Acorn User, Electron World, and others besides. The C64/128 had Crash, Zzap, etc, and for the Speccy there was Your Sinclair, and lots of others I've forgotten.
I remember really really wanting one of those little voice changer things that Donovan, etc wore to make them sound like the visitors.
;p
;)
Having one of the shuttle space ships would have been cool too, but it wouldn't have fitted in my parents back yard at the time
Finally, as someone else pointed out, Diana (Jane Badler) was definitely hot alien or not, though James T Kirk probably already already had her
During my earliest school years [1] of the 1980s, having a computer in the classroom was uncommon. If there was a computer room there might perhaps be half a dozen computers at best[2]. As they had to be shared among the whole school we did not get to use them often, hence much of the work we produced in class involved handwriting.
There was a strong emphasis on good handwriting and cursive was used often around school. Teachers used it on wall displays, and when writing on the blackboards. The educational TV shows we watched focused on it also [3]. For the last lesson of the day on Wednesday afternoons the headmaster took us for handwriting class. I became good at using cursive and still use it now.
These days I see 8th graders who can't read properly, let alone write even in print.
Some other poster mentioned ties and shoelaces being replaced with snap-on or elastic ties and zip/velcro/etc shoe fasteners. I have no problem with this, and the convenience is obvious. Perhaps I'm just old fashioned in thinking you should be able to do these things the 'old' way too. Being able to tie your own shoelaces and knot your own tie was quite normal when I was a kid.
[1] Referring to the British public school system.
[2] BBC B/32k with tape decks, and later Acorn DFS/Cumana 40/80 track 5 1/4 floppies. Ph33r!
[3] e.g. Words and Pictures, with Wordy the orange floating character covered in letters, Magic E, and the floating pen with the light in the end that would write letters against the black background while a voice said 'up and down, round and over' and similar.
I can see it now...
;)
"In his new position at Unix vendor SCO, former Iraqi information minister Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf wasted no time in denying the claims that SCO had given away intellectual property within its own Linux distribution.."
.. there are many critical systems glued together with very badly written scripts (shell, etc). They work fine as long as there is not a problem or delay along the way, at which point they fall apart.
For example, we retain 60 days worth of logs and reports. The original script looked at the system date, and deleted any files older than 60 days. Simple, except for when the clock skewed wildly (to the year 2020). All history data was deemed more than 60 days old and deleted.
I altered said script to delete anything older than 60 days and newer than 61 days and the problem went away.
In another example we have several important EDI files that go up to a broker system each day. There was a plain old upload script, called from another script, that would upload the files and exit. The calling script would then delete the files. This was all fine unless of course the FTP failed, which it did fairly often.
Of course, because there was no error checking to see if the FTP succeeded, the files were erased regardless, and an administrator had to log in, rebuild the files, and run the upload script. Fine, but nobody knew usually that the scripts had failed until the broker called or e-mailed about it.
Seeing how much time this wasted I wrote a quick Perl script to do the upload, and report back by email to the administrators if it failed, along with why (couldn't connect, login info rejected, etc). On failure it queued up the files to go later, rather like a mail queue. Again, a little error checking goes a long way.
If you don't bother with error checking, it will almost invariably come back to haunt you.
How do you people manage to keep falling for such obvious trolls? Someone with a UID as low as yours should be able to spot trickier ones than this.
;)
Maybe I was too subtle with the
And since when was the WWW the whole Internet? Sheesh, stop trying to grab glory for Britannia already.
I don't believe I actually equated the two. I am well aware of the difference and get just as irritated by people referring to the web as the Internet.
Didn't British Telecommunications try to patent the hyperlink?
Yes, they did, silly fools.
Oh well in that case...
;)
The world wide web was created at CERN by Tim Berners Lee, born in London England. As you also don't have a problem with American companies getting money back from their creation of 'the whole internet', then you also don't mind if Mr Berners Lee collects revenues from non-British companies?
I'd like to think you were joking. The granting of the Verisign multiple lookup patent is ridiculous.
oops.. replying to own post. Forgot green in the list of colours! lol
The TVs aren't 'CeeFax' capable. They are Teletext capable, and the BBC transmit CeeFax using Teletext.
TeleText has two forms, the old one in which the TeleText data is transmitted in the scan lines at the top of analogue television pictures. Capable TVs then takes those lines and decodes them into the pages you get to read. For digital TV e.g. digital cable with a set top box, etc the teletext data is added to the mpeg4 data that comes in, and it gets decoded by the set top box, so no it won't necessarily go away in 2010 when analogue disappears. By then other prettier looking interactive services will likely have taken over.
Bit of background. Teletext consists of a 40x25 text display, with a special character set consisting of alphanumeric characters and some special block graphics, both of which can be displayed in 8 colours, with 8 flashing colour combos - black,red,yellow,blue,cyan,magenta,white. You could also create double height text by placing character 141 before it on two consecutive lines. It was in the days of 1200bps,etc modems much quicker to download and display than ANSI text, so was very popular for BBS / viewdata systems such as Prestel in the UK.
Every Acorn computer bar the Electron and Atom had Mode 7, which was teletext. It was great as it only used up 1k of screen memory. By adding a teletext adapter, such as the ones Morley, Watford Electronics,etc used to sell, you could feed CeeFax, Oracle, etc pages into the computer.
It's not just OK. Recently, tornadoes have turned up in Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee and Florida to name a few states. Most states suffer from one form of natural disaster or another at some point, be it tornadoes, earthquakes, forest fires, floods, hurricanes, volcanoes (Hawaii), etc. What are you going to do? Mass exodus.
Having said that, perhaps it wouldn't be wise to buy a house in Moore, Del City or along the turner Turnpike. Poor buggers only rebuilt 3 years ago!
I've added indexes.. there were no possible keys on the reviews table! Sloppy. Anyway, queries have sped up somewhat (was about 4 seconds per query, now much better).
In conversation to wife tonight...
"Yes dear, I had to buy this 21" monitor. I was concerned the 17" impacted your spatial abilities"
The screen resolution on my main home PC is set to 1280x1024. Often when my wife uses the PC she lowers the screen resolution down to 1024x768 or 800x600. It could be an eyesight thing as she infrequently wears reading glasses, though it could also hint that there is some truth to the article.
In the UK (GSM, Vodafone, Nokia 3310)...
In the US (CDMA, Sprint, Kyocera 2345 by Qualcomm)...
What I'm trying to say is that although CDMA may be technically better than GSM, the way the networks in the US don't interoperate for SMS,MMS,etc means that those services will never take off in the way that they deserve to. SMS is HUGELY popular in the UK and Europe.
Of course I could just be pissed off that I can't have my servers SMS me when there's a problem on the network, but hey
October '94 PC Plus CD.. the very same one that got me started with Slack :) I think I still have it somewhere.. blue with either white or silver writing. Maybe I should frame it ;)
:) It runs on Slackware too, or at least the core servers do :)
Oh, you know that Jolt account you're using.. that started because Adrian Mardlin saw me playing Quake one evening after work at Nildram and asked what I thought of a 'games ISP' idea. I thought it'd be great to create something to rival Barrysworld, so he, I and a guy called Jon started work on it all. Look what it has become!
I wouldn't have been working for Nildram if I hadn't learned about Unix having used Slack, so I guess I have to thank Pat and the Slack team for that too!
vsprintf wrote...
:)
"Funny. Neither the Clinton or Bush administration has ever provided funding for enforcement of the H-1B reguations, and the companies know it. And anyone who thinks the INS could ever catch a wrongdoer hasn't read the news in years."
I totally agree. My post was to explain what an H-1B was supposed to be. If I were to write about all the problems with it the post would have been considerably longer
The company wishing to hire the non US worker files a petition for an H-1B visa with the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service). Once the visa is processed, the worker can start working.
There are certain restrictions to this visa...
The petitioning company is expected to pay them the salary they would pay a normal US worker. If the company fails on their obligations they are fined by the INS.
"What do you do if you buy some weed from a dealer and it turns out to be catnip and oregano? Call the cops?"
;)
You could give it to your cat and it'd love you forever. Always a silver lining
At the company I work for, we were in a similar boat with many old Windows 95 installations, with replacement hardware only having drivers for Windows 98 or higher, and so on. Last summer we made the decision to move from Windows to Linux based primarily on the Windows upgrade cost.
The replacement consisted of RedHat Linux (7.x until 8.x came out), Gnome, OpenOffice and Mozilla. The choice of RedHat over other distros was made more because the other techs were new to Linux too and I might not be there all the time. The servers still run Slackware >:)
The results have been great and the staff had far fewer problems than expected and interestingly 98% of the tech calls that come in are from the on the road sales guys having problems using XP, which came preloaded on their laptops.
I can see it now...
;)
BBC Computer 32k
BASIC
> *RUN kontiki
Searching..
Loading kontiki 00
Given the wealth of ports available and the fact it is also a 6502 based system, it should be possible. Hey if Superior Software managed to squeeze Exile in there, well.. nuff said.
" Just curious- am I the longest Slackware user here? I haven't been able to part with any Slackware release since v1.2 (April 1994) which I still have right here. I've tried most others, find some strengths in some, but always use Slackware, and ditch the others I've trial installed. (Debian seems the next best)."
:)
I was wondering the same thing. I picked up Slack in early 1994. First kernel I ever messed with was 1.0.9. Those were the days
It seems said person is all about stealing from others rather than playing fair. I wonder maybe if Bruceyboy got thrown in the slammer for not delivering the goods the silly patents would cease to be enforced? Or perhaps trying to circumvent software protection might do it. There's all kinds of interesting stuff about him on Google.
So what will happen if you leave something in the same place that the cloned atoms are reassembled in?
Wouldn't there always be something there, even if it was just air, in which case what happens to the atoms that existed in the space before? Do they have to be destroyed in order to make space, or are they displaced / merged?
I'd been waiting on the 4.3.0 release for some time as I really wanted gd 2.x support without the patching / using non-production releases of PHP. The image resampling function is so much nicer than the resize for generating thumbnail images on shopping / photo based sites, and now I can rewrite code to use it instead of spawning NetPBM. Good work PHP team!
ACard have been making a really cool range of SCSI to IDE products for several years now called SCSIDE. They work very well too, especially the mirroring and interface bridge stuff I've had my hands on :)
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