If you can't figure out what to do with the money, then why are you collecting it?? I swear, you liberals are just nuts..
Hmmm... Let's see: "liberal" John F Kennedy wanted to go to the moon. Had the government not spent millions trying to get to the moon, we would not have many products/materials we use today. In fact the Internet and much of the computer technology we take for granted today was funded by taxpayer funds allocated by the government.
Nuts? Hardly, it is what you call good public policy. I seriously cannot see how spending LESS money will allow you to do a better job educating MORE students...
...why not refund the money back to the students who paid it? As a current taxpayer and recent student I am sick and tired of the waste of my money that occurs in the system by people spending money whimsically on unneeded expenditures.
How about some examples? Every right-wing Ditto-head I have met claims that there is government waste left and right, but how come so few of them have specific examples to back up their assertions?
I commend AMD on doing something by themselves that many socialist (democrat) Americans wanted the government to do -- make Intel realize they're not the only fish in the sea.
I want some of whatever you are smoking, dude! -- your average socialist couldn't give a rat's ass about Intel -- otherwise they would be capitalists!
(dada21) Your Friendly Lake County, IL Libertarian
Oh wait, that explains it! The "libertarians" I have met to date are simply conservatives that don't have the balls to call themselves conservative...
"Never broke into a car. Never hot-wired a car. Kid. I never broke into a trunk. I shall not cause harm to any vehicle nor the personal contents thereof. Nor through inaction let that vehicle or the personal contents thereof come to harm. That's what I call the repo code kid. Don't forget it etch it in your brain. Not many people got a code to live by anymore."
Kid, you probably don't remember when TV sets DID have panels full of little knobs (more than a dozen) right behind the back cover. Mess with them without the proper test pattern generators and your set was b0rken. Lacking the correct equipment I never messed with them.
You really couldn't "break" the TV by messing with the knobs on the back. I remember receiving several "broken" TV's that only required tweaking the knobs on the back.
To really do damage to the TV you had to take the back cover and mess with the internals. Of course, if you did not know what you were doing you could get a fatal shock in the process!:->
Most places, trash is considered 'public domain'. That is, by physically throwing something out, you're relinquishing your ownership of it.
Only if you put it on the curb, in that case it is on public property (i.e., a publically accessible right of way). If you go on some else's property without permission it is considered trespassing, not breaking and entering. If you actually broke into someone's house to take the trash, then you would probably be charged with B&E and theft of said trash...
The authors' choices seemed unnecessarily limited to me. It is kind of hard to have a "best" of anything if you only sample a few of them.
For instance, they did not mention Mandrake except when talking about the Sims. Mandrake kicks ass though IMO SUSE comes close.
The window manager choices were also sparse. Lightweight WMs like Sawfish and IceWM weren't mentioned. Everyone knows about Gnone and KDE, how about telling people about the WMs they don't know about?
And when it comes to text editors, no new ground was broken. What about FTE? It is the best cross-platform (Linux, Windows, OS/2 and others) editor I have come across: full-featured yet relatively small and easy to use.
Jeez, it seems that *anyone* can start a Linux site these days!!!:->
most college grads cs or not are getting some linux exposure these days, those that arent are getting it in the work place.
I guess I am kind of lucky in that regard. Houston Community College uses Linux (and Solaris) in their Unix courses, and my Oracle DBA II course used Oracle 9i on SUSE 7.2. I also work for HCC (in Distance Education) and I got to install Mandrake 8.1 on my workstation. I haven't booted into Win2K since late Sept - early Oct and I couldn't be happier!
As as matter of fact, I used my workstation to set up some web apps while I was waiting on my server. I think that it is kind of neat that I was able to tell users beta testing my web app forms to go to my workstation's IP with their web browser to test the apps for me.
linux is quite friendly to ad min, more so than unix, and allows the organization to save on upfront licencse and hardware costs as well as ongoing maintance and headache costs.
I am currently developing a PHP/MySQL setup that will eventually be migrated to a Red Hat 7.2 server to replace a DOS-based DBase (!!!) system. Even though I think MySQL rocks, I am considering putting SUSE 7.2 on the server so that I could run Oracle 9i -- and after Mandrake Red Hat seems positively prehistoric!:->
Total cost? A few hours to download some ISOs, $10.00 for a box of CD-R disks, and a little time and effort on my part. I feel that Linux has an amazing amount of functionality out of the box for next to nothing. The best part is that I can save the taxpayers a few dollars in the process!
Example, you want to cause a huge chemical disaster via bombing a a chemical plant, lets say you want to blow up the plant that contains the most amount of chlorine, in the most densely populated area. All of this information can be obtained through various government reports.
You mean like the petrochemical complex next to Houston Texas? Did you know that all those chemical plants are listed in the local Yellow Pages? Or that you can find them by simply by driving around a little?
Now, I'm not getting into whether this is the right thing or not. I haven't really decided that. However, the least you people can do is think a little about what the issue really is and not go off half cocked and spout jibberish that doesn't touch the real issue.
Hmmm... you haven't made up your mind yet you spouted off. Your words are nothing but half-cocked gibberish -- maybe you should try following your own advice...
The big stuff in the Windows GUI has not changed either.
If by that you mean the stuff they stole from Apple/Xerox (mouse, windows, pull-down menus, etc.) then you are correct.
Only the little stuff changed (akin to moving the windshiled wiper and headlight controls around).
Even though it is the "little stuff" you are talking about, you are still changing what was once a familiar GUI to something not quite so familiar. To make it worse, those changes are not necessarily improvements and they are often made for no reason at all.
Changing a GUI means retraining users familar with the old GUI. If the new GUI changes were really "intuitive" then no retraining would be needed and the "easy to use" claim would be true; however, that has not been my experience when I have to support Windows users.
Anyway you did say "car" controls (gas/brake pedals and steering wheel) and not "car accessory" controls (lights/wipers) which are nice to have on a rainy night but are totally unnecessary when it is sunny and dry outside...
For people who "get" software, it ain't hard -- it's akin to learning the layout of the controls of a new car (which also, coincidentally, get moved around with each new model year).
Wrong! The location of the clutch, gas/brake pedals and steering wheel DON'T move around from year to year...
He obtained copies of pages, which pages were subject to copyright, and which obtainment was
without the authority of the copyright holder, and this was done by means of an device that
circumvented access controls.
If Front Page is a device that
circumvents access controls, does that mean that the FBI can arrest Bill Gates for distributing it?:->
And no, I don't own any MS stock and don't have
any vested interest in their wellbeing other than I think they have driven the market to a much better place than it would be without
them...
Ha ha ha ha! That's a good one!
I guess your antivirus company stock is doing well these days! -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Personally I think all windows products suck. I've got an athlon based box at home right now that I can't even install 2k on without
it blue screening about 80% of the way through the process... and if I use a 98 or ME boot disk to try to install them, fdisk hangs
hard.
You too huh? I have an 850 Athlon that won't boot Win 98 at all. I'm too poor to give billionare Bill Gates more money and I'm too ethical to pirate NT4 or W2K even though I could if I wanted to.
No biggie. It runs Mandrake 7.2, Oracle 8i, and Apache/PHP4 so I use it for school and web development. I love that box.
Meanwhile my old P-II 300 creaks along with a four-year old Win 98 install (upgraded from Win 3.1). I use it for internet access (fscking WinModem) and Office 97. It is like a house of cards, where you have to tread lightly lest the slightest touch knocks it down.
I'm just dreading the day when Micro$oft breaks my system with some DLL forced on my system by some Internet Exploder "upgrade". The day that happens I swear I will go Micro$oft free.
It will give me a good reason to play with the various BSD distributions, something I've wanted to do for a while now.:-> -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
-- The_Messenger, UID 110966, posting anonymously because recent censorship has disabled my account.
Hmmm....
PS -- You are fatter and considerably less attractive than Rei Ayanami. Please consider adopting a nick more descriptive of yourself, such as "AOLoser2165" or "GothChunk".
I see cause and effect here. You say stupid shit like this you should expect to get moderated down.
P.S. Censorship applies to the government, not private entities. The ownership of/. can legally restrict you or even ban you outright if you keep making idiotic comments like this...
-- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Taking 26% of someone's wages and using it to fund all manner of things including aid to the homeless is not so fine. Not because of the things funded by that money, but because it is taken, not offered up freely.
Some of us (liberals) willingly pay taxes in return for services like national defense, interstate highways, public schools, etc...
Of course you never went to a public school, don't use any interstate highways, or depend on the U.S. military to keep you safe.
If you do you are a major hypocrite, like most of the Libertarians I know... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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For those of use without trust funds, 20K ain't about shit after rent and food...
Hmmm... Let's see: "liberal" John F Kennedy wanted to go to the moon. Had the government not spent millions trying to get to the moon, we would not have many products/materials we use today. In fact the Internet and much of the computer technology we take for granted today was funded by taxpayer funds allocated by the government.
Nuts? Hardly, it is what you call good public policy. I seriously cannot see how spending LESS money will allow you to do a better job educating MORE students...
I want some of whatever you are smoking, dude! -- your average socialist couldn't give a rat's ass about Intel -- otherwise they would be capitalists!
Oh wait, that explains it! The "libertarians" I have met to date are simply conservatives that don't have the balls to call themselves conservative...
Nice try. Next time use your Slashdot login and you will get an "interesting" or "insightful" instead of "troll"...
I must confess that I have a few beers in me, but am I really seeing someone with a Slashdot ID < 10K speak out in favor of Windows?!?
Must be another sign of the impending apocalypse...
A Ferrari Testarossa? The Repo Man's wet dream!
Bud, from the Repo Man movie (quote from the online Repo Man script)
Calm down, Beavis!
Broke? According to this Time article he was worth an estimated ten million dollars in 1998.
He must of gotten some bad investment advice -- was he a major Enron stockholder or something?
To really do damage to the TV you had to take the back cover and mess with the internals. Of course, if you did not know what you were doing you could get a fatal shock in the process!
The authors' choices seemed unnecessarily limited to me. It is kind of hard to have a "best" of anything if you only sample a few of them.
:->
For instance, they did not mention Mandrake except when talking about the Sims. Mandrake kicks ass though IMO SUSE comes close.
The window manager choices were also sparse. Lightweight WMs like Sawfish and IceWM weren't mentioned. Everyone knows about Gnone and KDE, how about telling people about the WMs they don't know about?
And when it comes to text editors, no new ground was broken. What about FTE? It is the best cross-platform (Linux, Windows, OS/2 and others) editor I have come across: full-featured yet relatively small and easy to use.
Jeez, it seems that *anyone* can start a Linux site these days!!!
In Gutenberg's time information was valuable. It's distressing to hear that it is now "boring"!
As as matter of fact, I used my workstation to set up some web apps while I was waiting on my server. I think that it is kind of neat that I was able to tell users beta testing my web app forms to go to my workstation's IP with their web browser to test the apps for me.
I am currently developing a PHP/MySQL setup that will eventually be migrated to a Red Hat 7.2 server to replace a DOS-based DBase (!!!) system. Even though I think MySQL rocks, I am considering putting SUSE 7.2 on the server so that I could run Oracle 9i -- and after Mandrake Red Hat seems positively prehistoric!
Total cost? A few hours to download some ISOs, $10.00 for a box of CD-R disks, and a little time and effort on my part. I feel that Linux has an amazing amount of functionality out of the box for next to nothing. The best part is that I can save the taxpayers a few dollars in the process!
Hmmm... you haven't made up your mind yet you spouted off. Your words are nothing but half-cocked gibberish -- maybe you should try following your own advice...
Even though it is the "little stuff" you are talking about, you are still changing what was once a familiar GUI to something not quite so familiar. To make it worse, those changes are not necessarily improvements and they are often made for no reason at all.
Changing a GUI means retraining users familar with the old GUI. If the new GUI changes were really "intuitive" then no retraining would be needed and the "easy to use" claim would be true; however, that has not been my experience when I have to support Windows users.
Anyway you did say "car" controls (gas/brake pedals and steering wheel) and not "car accessory" controls (lights/wipers) which are nice to have on a rainy night but are totally unnecessary when it is sunny and dry outside...
I guess your antivirus company stock is doing well these days!
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
No biggie. It runs Mandrake 7.2, Oracle 8i, and Apache/PHP4 so I use it for school and web development. I love that box.
Meanwhile my old P-II 300 creaks along with a four-year old Win 98 install (upgraded from Win 3.1). I use it for internet access (fscking WinModem) and Office 97. It is like a house of cards, where you have to tread lightly lest the slightest touch knocks it down.
I'm just dreading the day when Micro$oft breaks my system with some DLL forced on my system by some Internet Exploder "upgrade". The day that happens I swear I will go Micro$oft free.
It will give me a good reason to play with the various BSD distributions, something I've wanted to do for a while now.
--
You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
P.S. Censorship applies to the government, not private entities. The ownership of
--
You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Of course you never went to a public school, don't use any interstate highways, or depend on the U.S. military to keep you safe.
If you do you are a major hypocrite, like most of the Libertarians I know...
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!