"And frustrated offices are faced with two less-than-ideal choices: delete the e-mail and ignore a potential constituent or spend valuable staff time and resources corresponding with nonconstituents - a civic-minded approach, perhaps, but not efficacious for Members who are up for re-election every two years. "
It always boils down to two things for them, money and re-election. The whole thing makes me sick.
All it takes is a Network Admin to switch over to a non standard software package and a few weeks for people to get used to it.
Believe me, when our school realised they would save over $9000, the switch was a no brainer.
All it takes is for some exposure, and some businesses looking at their savings, and people will not care if there software is Microsoft or not, especially with their "Trustworthy computing" campaign.
My sister's entire school district is switching to it, it's cheap and open source, so theres no "were not going to fix it" crap.
Schools have been sold on the idea that students need to learn the microsoft products for the business world. But I say if you learn open office you'll be able to use office 2000 should an employer some day down the road still be using it.
This job would be great....
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"Taking a cue from the RIAA, the gaming industry will attempt to place fake opponents onto the networks. These oppenents (bots) will appear normal, but will repeat themselfs after about 30 seconds."
p2p gaming.....wow.
Set the Wayback machine for May 2002
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What month did it happen?
Live rats are fitted with electrodes so they could be steered toward hidden bombs or disaster victims.
Was it:
January 2002 November 2001 May 2002 April 1999 August 2002
The correct answer is: May 2002, lets start checking dates and dupes!
The problem is that these machines are being programmed to play against 1 opponent, and are being fed data about that player's past games, habits, techniques...
Deep Blue won because it was programmed to defeat Kasparov, and only Kasparov. Until a computer is programmed to accept a blind challenge without background information about their opponent, I will continue to be unimpressed.
What happened to the right to reasonable privacy within ones home? I know some *cough cough* public figures have said that we cannot expect privacy in public, what about within our homes?
Isn't faxing materials into the home a violation of our privacy?
Maybe we should hold the fax senders under the same standards as telemarketers, after all they are using the same technology.
, I think this is a great idea, it keeps kids off of the streets and their parents know where they are. What do you think?
I doubt these are the type of kids that need to be kept off the street, I mean a kid thats willing to be locked in a school, on a weekend, to use computers, for many hours on end...
Yep, these are the bad boys that your momma warned you about, thank god there's a program like this to keep these bad asses off the street.
Otherwise they'd probably be into secret, underground lan parties and D&D games, where authority couldn't monitor them!
People, really what the hell are people thinking, the last thing anyone needs now is new laws,
It's not like people are being forced to ride roller coasters. It's a risk, one that millions of people take. Just like smoking and drinking, and driving.
What would regulating really do?
Keep people from riding? Doubt it.
Make people want to ride "black market" roller coasters? HA!
"Yeah kid, I know where you can find a little illegal roller coaster action"
I know that on Adult Swim, "Home Movies" started using flash for their animation this season and it is wonderful, actually many of the Adult Swim Comedy block use flash if I'm not mistaken.
This is really a shame, I hope a new version is available soon.
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Gee I dunno maybe that politicians shouldn't worry so much about reelection and should just do good work.
Seems to me I'd vote for a politician in a second if he completely adandoned reelection campaigning and instead worked on issues.
"And frustrated offices are faced with two less-than-ideal choices: delete the e-mail and ignore a potential constituent or spend valuable staff time and resources corresponding with nonconstituents - a civic-minded approach, perhaps, but not efficacious for Members who are up for re-election every two years. "
It always boils down to two things for them, money and re-election. The whole thing makes me sick.
UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2003
End of arguement.
All it takes is a Network Admin to switch over to a non standard software package and a few weeks for people to get used to it.
Believe me, when our school realised they would save over $9000, the switch was a no brainer.
All it takes is for some exposure, and some businesses looking at their savings, and people will not care if there software is Microsoft or not, especially with their "Trustworthy computing" campaign.
too bad that Microsoft sets their program defaults to exploit the users and not protect them...
Thank god I downloaded openoffice last night.
My sister's entire school district is switching to it, it's cheap and open source, so theres no "were not going to fix it" crap.
Schools have been sold on the idea that students need to learn the microsoft products for the business world. But I say if you learn open office you'll be able to use office 2000 should an employer some day down the road still be using it.
If it wasnt for the customers!!!!
Sounds like a really bad "B" or hell even "c" rated movie!
"Taking a cue from the RIAA, the gaming industry will attempt to place fake opponents onto the networks. These oppenents (bots) will appear normal, but will repeat themselfs after about 30 seconds."
p2p gaming.....wow.
What month did it happen?
Live rats are fitted with electrodes so they could be steered toward hidden bombs or disaster victims.
Was it:
January 2002
November 2001
May 2002
April 1999
August 2002
The correct answer is: May 2002, lets start checking dates and dupes!
this seems pointless
The problem is that these machines are being programmed to play against 1 opponent, and are being fed data about that player's past games, habits, techniques...
Deep Blue won because it was programmed to defeat Kasparov, and only Kasparov.
Until a computer is programmed to accept a blind challenge without background information about their opponent, I will continue to be unimpressed.
What happened to the right to reasonable privacy within ones home? I know some *cough cough* public figures have said that we cannot expect privacy in public, what about within our homes?
Isn't faxing materials into the home a violation of our privacy?
Maybe we should hold the fax senders under the same standards as telemarketers, after all they are using the same technology.
pair of decent binoculars: $60
tank of gas to drive to dark location: $20
Lawn blankets: $15
The expression on your face as you realise some NASA mathmatican forgot to carry a one......priceless
I bet those roaming charges are going to suck!
Aparently since everyone on the planet already has a call phone or two, the wireless companies have finally realised to move on to other species.
Brillant! However, I am concerned that they chose whales and geese.....maybe they're easy to sucker into long contracts!
I thought $80,000 starting bid was bad, but look, Ebay getting an 18% premium of the selling price is even more outrageous.
That's insane!
That makes the min price for the chair $94,400.
I thought seller paid the fees.... geech.
yeah, that was called nerf arena...
oh never heard of it?
hmmmm....
, I think this is a great idea, it keeps kids off of the streets and their parents know where they are. What do you think?
I doubt these are the type of kids that need to be kept off the street, I mean a kid thats willing to be locked in a school, on a weekend, to use computers, for many hours on end...
Yep, these are the bad boys that your momma warned you about, thank god there's a program like this to keep these bad asses off the street.
Otherwise they'd probably be into secret, underground lan parties and D&D games, where authority couldn't monitor them!
exactly my point, do we really need to add Roller coasters to this list?
People, really what the hell are people thinking, the last thing anyone needs now is new laws,
It's not like people are being forced to ride roller coasters. It's a risk, one that millions of people take. Just like smoking and drinking, and driving.
What would regulating really do?
Keep people from riding? Doubt it.
Make people want to ride "black market" roller coasters? HA!
"Yeah kid, I know where you can find a little illegal roller coaster action"
This is slightly offtopic, but do you ever wonder why the TV industry doesn't launch an ad campaign against the use of PVR's like the ReplayTV 4000?
Hmm, or they could just have the president/head of the writers and actors guild go into a a 5 minute rant about it at the next Oscars.
Hell, maybe even hire some college kids to record as many TV shows as possible in three days...
I was just watching ESPN, and they're like "We've had an earthquake and we'll be back for the third period. The game was almost over.
Glad to see that not even earthquakes will stop a hockey game!
This is nothing new, Culture Jammers have been changing the meaning of signs and images for a while now, a great source for this is adbusters.org
/. readers is the defacement of a microsoft XP billboard in england
l lery/street/ is the main culture jammers gallery.
As for the method explained in the article, this was about helping people by altering existing signage.
Culture jamming is usually about subverting whatever message is present into something else.
One example that may interest
http://mirrors.meepzorp.com/xpsucks/
quite amusing, and very cost effective! Let the corporations pay for the message, and use it against them!
http://www.adbusters.org/creativeresistance/jamga
I know that on Adult Swim, "Home Movies" started using flash for their animation this season and it is wonderful, actually many of the Adult Swim Comedy block use flash if I'm not mistaken.
This is really a shame, I hope a new version is available soon.
"A new copy of Win 200 XP; 199.99"
huh huh, you got took.