Find a group of people who don't know what a mouse is for, and see if they can share files without putting their entire drive at risk...
While I agree that the parent post's definition of "novice" doesn't seem to fit the status quo, I also have to ask how you could expect people that don't know what a mouse is for to find, download and install a file sharing utility in the first place.
I think it's time to write the congress persons in your areas.
In my case, I think I'm going to write the major Airlines that fly out of Philadelphia and let them know that I will be using other airports (and thus other airlines) starting on November 1 unless the items at issue are addressed.
I agree with you, this isn't exactly confidence inspiring news.
Me too. It sounds to me like some cowboy made a commitment and doesn't want his pride hurt by not delivering, so they're going to deliver no matter how many lives it costs. You know, it's the same type of person you find when you take a look far enough up your management chain....
Even a buggy air-traffic control system is better than the one they have now.
I'm not sure I agree with you. From your description, it sounds like they have it pretty bad, but after reading the letter that was linked to by the original post, I think what they're getting may be even worse. Recovery times when the computer goes down are between 90 minutes and 3 hours! They're not supposed to use their existing system as an emergency backup. The FAA technicians were FORCED (by a clause in their contract) to give the system (in Syracuse) their stamp of approval, even though they don't feel it's safe for real world use. And the folks on the project can't even get close to agreeing on the number of CRITICAL trouble reports that are still outstanding. In my mind, anything marked as CRITICAL is a safety hazard.
I am predicting a divide by zero error the first time one of these systems tracks a plane landing in a below-sea-level area.
Hear that? That's the sound of a STARS programmer realizing that you're right and scurrying to his computer to send out a notification e-mail and code up a fix for the bug.
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One wonders why you couldn't just find a good ISP and stick with them?
Because GOOD ISPs frequently get bought out by BAD ones.
The trees only consume the amount of CO2 they need to grow. When the trees die, rott or are made into paper wich is burned or rotts, they evapore the same amount of CO2 they ate before.
Could you please provide a link with proof of this statement? I've never seen anything that proves a rotting tree releases as much CO2 as the tree ever took in during its entire lifetime.
No, the ice melting part is correct. As you stated, the density of ice is different from liquid water. In fact, it's less dense, and therefore FLOATS on the liquid water. Because of this, the ice is only partially submerged in the water, and thus only displaces a fraction of the full volume of the ice. The parent post is correct in describing that when the ice melts, the volume that it occupies will end up being exactly the same as the amount of water that was displaced by the ice cube (minus evaporation). This, as previously stated, only applies to ice that is floating. Go ahead and try the experiment. Make sure you fill the glass completely full. When the ice melts, the glass won't overflow at all. I believe this is all dealt with by Archimedes' Law of Displacement.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I thought this might be helpful for you, just in case you have other old albums lying around. It's not worth what they're asking ($130 -- about $75 too much), but it's far short of a small fortune. Not that I would advise buying anything from "Worst Buy" these days....
it ALLOWES you to pick everything you want installed
Yes, yes. I know. Probably poorly worded on my part. But in order to build a secure system, you really need to start on the bare-bones end and add the stuff you want piece by piece. SuSE allows you to do that, but most of the people that I mentioned before wouldn't be able to. If you just take the default installation, you get all kinds of things that you don't need and make it less secure. Maybe more secure than Windows, but less secure that I'd prefer.
The new corporate America that will fire 6,000 employees on Monday and give "retention bonuses" to "talented executives" on Friday.
Agreed, but of course the new corporate America thrives on the fact that we continue to buy its products. Perhaps we should have been more diligent when we actually had a choice.
Undoubtedly. XP by default installs a bunch of stuff that most people don't need or want, some with severe security holes. SuSE makes you pick every little detail about your system installation. Both approaches, obviously, have their merits. Unfortunatly, the good part about having to pick each thing you want installed (making the system more secure), is offset by the fact that the people who most need to use it (those who habitually leave their systems wide-open to hackers) are not able to do so (or don't have the patience). Too many parentheticals?:-)
Basically appears to be that the US likes to consider itself superior and look down on other nations. Rather than seeing them as peers.
I disagree. Other countries frequently try to intervene when one of their citizens or companies is caught in US law, particularly when it may concern the death penalty (understandable). I suspect that the United States may usually be more successful. On top of the other countries complaining, there are plenty of civil liberties groups within the United States itself that have an even louder voice. I've not encountered such loud groups in other countries I've visited / lived in. Maybe I just missed it.
Having said all of that, I feel that the US should have just let Singapore give the full eight lashes. Grafiti is frowned on by many in the US. If those kids did something they new was disliked in their own country without finding out what the local laws were, they got what they deserved.
Agreed, but the iPaq seemed to be just about a half-step ahead of the Journada in terms of technology. First, it was the better screen, then it was the faster processor. Having said that, there were obviously quality problems (we purchased about 400 of the devices, so I've had experience here). Maybe now we'll see the quality of the iPaq improve.
I agree. In an ideal world, you wouldn't need a law like this because parents would assume the responsibility. But I guess the lack of responsibility that parents are willing to take these days has forced some people to look at this. Here's my favorite quote from the article:
Do you really want your kids assuming the role of a mass murderer or car jacker when you are away at work?
And herein lies the problem. If your kid is the type that eats this stuff up, DON'T LEAVE THEM AT HOME ALONE, DUH. And any responsible parent should have some idea of their child's video game collection, now shouldn't they? For crying out loud, spend time with your children. Find out what makes them tick. Ask them questions.
You are most definitly correct. Oracle will most definitly sue CA for breach of contract.
How can Oracle sue CA when they have already offered twice to let CA back out of the contract? I'm not sure that kind of lawsuit will make it very far.
If CA backs out right now, while they aren't using the software provided by the contract, it should only be a "savings" for the tax payers. What am I missing?
If you're a typical American ISP customer, you're *not* paying any more to receive spam than to not receive spam - you're paying your ISP the same ~$20/month to get email that's really for you and to surf the web....
How do you figure? I have limited email space. On several occasions, the SPAM mail has eaten through all of it -- especially those messages with a payload on them. Therefore, some potentially important messages have bounced. Also, I would suspect that the ISP is passing the extra cost of network and disk usage on to us in some indirect fashion. No matter how you look at it, the only one not paying for spam is the spammer.
It happens over a period of time. I've had one e-mail account for a several years, and each year the spam gets worse. I know better than to follow the link that "unsubscribes" me, but it's gotten to the point that I can't tell the difference between e-mail pushes that I've agreed to and those I haven't. I don't like the idea of changing email addresses, either.
You post something insightful or informative, I'll mod it up. You post a troll or something misinformative
I agree with you. I think the parent post was expressing concern over the really cool effect of getting your post modded both up and down. If you already have a 50, and people mod your post up too much, somebody else will come along and mod it down for being overrated. In that case, unfortunately, you lose points instead of gaining. The same thing happened to me a couple days ago.
I was peeved the first couple of times it happened, but then I decided that it just provided more incentive for me to post something insightful or interesting so that I can get my points back.:-)
...since its been demonstrated repeatedly that flat rate pricing is a good way to lose money...
Could you please cite some studies or evidence on this for those that missed it in the past (me)? If it's a study, I'd prefer it not be sponsored by one of the big telecom companies.
but my point is that despite all that, the decision remains in the hands of the users.
I totally agree with you. Unfortunately, most of the users don't realize they've been hurt, otherwise you could trust them to do the right thing and install something else. It's Microsoft's competitors who fully realize that they've been hurt, and what they're really looking for is a remedy that forces OEMs and users to at least evaluate the competing products.
Now if MS downright disallowed the installation of another Internet browser, the states would have a more solid argument.
My memory may have a segment fault, but I believe this was actually one of the issues that started the whole antitrust case in the first place. I believe that part of the evidence included pressure from Microsoft to keep competing products off of PC's. The browser may not have been one of the issues, though....
Perhaps I'm taking you a bit too literally, but what is stopping people from installing and using another browser?
The issue is not the ability to install and use another browser. It's a tad more complicated than that.
Microsoft argues that they can't unbundle the browser, and it must be included with a Windows installation. This, of course, puts all potential competitors at a loss because a user is not likely to be motivated enough to try a competing product when they already have what seems to be a perfectly good tool.
Many people say that they should just remove the IE icons. That doesn't work either because too many other tools and applications on the system tie directly into the IE application. It will still come up anyway.
Footprint is the big one for me. If you don't unbundle the IE browser so that it can be replaced with another one, you're drastically increasing the memory and hard disk footprint needed for browsing. With today's monster hard drives, the storage space isn't all that much of an issue, but those blasted libraries that get loaded at bootup are already hogging memory. When I run Mozilla or Opera, they have to compete with IE because it is already loaded and taking up memory.
last time i looked, England like the rest of the world save for the U$A, used the Metric system.
Shows how much you know about England... Last time *I* checked, they were about halfway there. Distances are still measured in miles. Petrol, although usually sold in litres now, is still occasionally measured in gallons. Weight / Mass is measured in both stone and kg.
I can't really defend my country (USA) for not switching to the metric system. We had planned to years ago (in 7th grade, I learned and used both systems), but it somehow never happened. It should have, though. People weren't looking at long-term benefits -- only the short run struggles. Too many people were afraid of getting cheated at the pump and the supermarket. Kind of like the situation with the adoption of the Euro. People in Germany were really concerned that the prices of things would go up with the switch. The government assured them that that wasn't the case. Guess who was wrong. It wasn't the people.... The funny thing is that the government tells everybody that they are just imagining things -- that the prices haven't really gone up. Last time I was over there (a few weeks ago), I confirmed the situation.
I hope you understand that by "standard" I meant "most widely used and accepted format."
I do now.:-) I'm only being a stickler for the words because I don't want to see {insert abusive large corporation here} twist the definition of words around to their advantage (they all do that enough as it is). And I also understand that, unless one has leverage, he/she can't demand that all of the MSOffice users out there download software to read a different file format, even if the software is free.
BTW (and totally off topic), which do you prefer? Coke, Pepsi or RC? I can never seem to find RC anymore, even though I liked it the best. And I've never heard of Virgin Cola. Real product?
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While I agree that the parent post's definition of "novice" doesn't seem to fit the status quo, I also have to ask how you could expect people that don't know what a mouse is for to find, download and install a file sharing utility in the first place.
In my case, I think I'm going to write the major Airlines that fly out of Philadelphia and let them know that I will be using other airports (and thus other airlines) starting on November 1 unless the items at issue are addressed.
Me too. It sounds to me like some cowboy made a commitment and doesn't want his pride hurt by not delivering, so they're going to deliver no matter how many lives it costs. You know, it's the same type of person you find when you take a look far enough up your management chain....
I'm not sure I agree with you. From your description, it sounds like they have it pretty bad, but after reading the letter that was linked to by the original post, I think what they're getting may be even worse. Recovery times when the computer goes down are between 90 minutes and 3 hours! They're not supposed to use their existing system as an emergency backup. The FAA technicians were FORCED (by a clause in their contract) to give the system (in Syracuse) their stamp of approval, even though they don't feel it's safe for real world use. And the folks on the project can't even get close to agreeing on the number of CRITICAL trouble reports that are still outstanding. In my mind, anything marked as CRITICAL is a safety hazard.
Hear that? That's the sound of a STARS programmer realizing that you're right and scurrying to his computer to send out a notification e-mail and code up a fix for the bug.
Because GOOD ISPs frequently get bought out by BAD ones.
I thought the result of this process was mostly methane, not CO2. Am I wrong?
Could you please provide a link with proof of this statement? I've never seen anything that proves a rotting tree releases as much CO2 as the tree ever took in during its entire lifetime.
No, the ice melting part is correct. As you stated, the density of ice is different from liquid water. In fact, it's less dense, and therefore FLOATS on the liquid water. Because of this, the ice is only partially submerged in the water, and thus only displaces a fraction of the full volume of the ice. The parent post is correct in describing that when the ice melts, the volume that it occupies will end up being exactly the same as the amount of water that was displaced by the ice cube (minus evaporation). This, as previously stated, only applies to ice that is floating. Go ahead and try the experiment. Make sure you fill the glass completely full. When the ice melts, the glass won't overflow at all. I believe this is all dealt with by Archimedes' Law of Displacement.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I thought this might be helpful for you, just in case you have other old albums lying around. It's not worth what they're asking ($130 -- about $75 too much), but it's far short of a small fortune. Not that I would advise buying anything from "Worst Buy" these days....
Yes, yes. I know. Probably poorly worded on my part. But in order to build a secure system, you really need to start on the bare-bones end and add the stuff you want piece by piece. SuSE allows you to do that, but most of the people that I mentioned before wouldn't be able to. If you just take the default installation, you get all kinds of things that you don't need and make it less secure. Maybe more secure than Windows, but less secure that I'd prefer.
Agreed, but of course the new corporate America thrives on the fact that we continue to buy its products. Perhaps we should have been more diligent when we actually had a choice.
Undoubtedly. XP by default installs a bunch of stuff that most people don't need or want, some with severe security holes. SuSE makes you pick every little detail about your system installation. Both approaches, obviously, have their merits. Unfortunatly, the good part about having to pick each thing you want installed (making the system more secure), is offset by the fact that the people who most need to use it (those who habitually leave their systems wide-open to hackers) are not able to do so (or don't have the patience). Too many parentheticals? :-)
I disagree. Other countries frequently try to intervene when one of their citizens or companies is caught in US law, particularly when it may concern the death penalty (understandable). I suspect that the United States may usually be more successful. On top of the other countries complaining, there are plenty of civil liberties groups within the United States itself that have an even louder voice. I've not encountered such loud groups in other countries I've visited / lived in. Maybe I just missed it.
Having said all of that, I feel that the US should have just let Singapore give the full eight lashes. Grafiti is frowned on by many in the US. If those kids did something they new was disliked in their own country without finding out what the local laws were, they got what they deserved.
Agreed, but the iPaq seemed to be just about a half-step ahead of the Journada in terms of technology. First, it was the better screen, then it was the faster processor. Having said that, there were obviously quality problems (we purchased about 400 of the devices, so I've had experience here). Maybe now we'll see the quality of the iPaq improve.
How can Oracle sue CA when they have already offered twice to let CA back out of the contract? I'm not sure that kind of lawsuit will make it very far.
If CA backs out right now, while they aren't using the software provided by the contract, it should only be a "savings" for the tax payers. What am I missing?
How do you figure? I have limited email space. On several occasions, the SPAM mail has eaten through all of it -- especially those messages with a payload on them. Therefore, some potentially important messages have bounced. Also, I would suspect that the ISP is passing the extra cost of network and disk usage on to us in some indirect fashion. No matter how you look at it, the only one not paying for spam is the spammer.
It happens over a period of time. I've had one e-mail account for a several years, and each year the spam gets worse. I know better than to follow the link that "unsubscribes" me, but it's gotten to the point that I can't tell the difference between e-mail pushes that I've agreed to and those I haven't. I don't like the idea of changing email addresses, either.
I agree with you. I think the parent post was expressing concern over the really cool effect of getting your post modded both up and down. If you already have a 50, and people mod your post up too much, somebody else will come along and mod it down for being overrated. In that case, unfortunately, you lose points instead of gaining. The same thing happened to me a couple days ago.
I was peeved the first couple of times it happened, but then I decided that it just provided more incentive for me to post something insightful or interesting so that I can get my points back. :-)
Could you please cite some studies or evidence on this for those that missed it in the past (me)? If it's a study, I'd prefer it not be sponsored by one of the big telecom companies.
I totally agree with you. Unfortunately, most of the users don't realize they've been hurt, otherwise you could trust them to do the right thing and install something else. It's Microsoft's competitors who fully realize that they've been hurt, and what they're really looking for is a remedy that forces OEMs and users to at least evaluate the competing products.
Now if MS downright disallowed the installation of another Internet browser, the states would have a more solid argument.
My memory may have a segment fault, but I believe this was actually one of the issues that started the whole antitrust case in the first place. I believe that part of the evidence included pressure from Microsoft to keep competing products off of PC's. The browser may not have been one of the issues, though....
The issue is not the ability to install and use another browser. It's a tad more complicated than that.
Shows how much you know about England... Last time *I* checked, they were about halfway there. Distances are still measured in miles. Petrol, although usually sold in litres now, is still occasionally measured in gallons. Weight / Mass is measured in both stone and kg.
I can't really defend my country (USA) for not switching to the metric system. We had planned to years ago (in 7th grade, I learned and used both systems), but it somehow never happened. It should have, though. People weren't looking at long-term benefits -- only the short run struggles. Too many people were afraid of getting cheated at the pump and the supermarket. Kind of like the situation with the adoption of the Euro. People in Germany were really concerned that the prices of things would go up with the switch. The government assured them that that wasn't the case. Guess who was wrong. It wasn't the people.... The funny thing is that the government tells everybody that they are just imagining things -- that the prices haven't really gone up. Last time I was over there (a few weeks ago), I confirmed the situation.
I do now. :-) I'm only being a stickler for the words because I don't want to see {insert abusive large corporation here} twist the definition of words around to their advantage (they all do that enough as it is). And I also understand that, unless one has leverage, he/she can't demand that all of the MSOffice users out there download software to read a different file format, even if the software is free.
BTW (and totally off topic), which do you prefer? Coke, Pepsi or RC? I can never seem to find RC anymore, even though I liked it the best. And I've never heard of Virgin Cola. Real product?