What a dumb article. Its called marketing. Are we going to start bitching now because some government agencies (or entities associated with the government like the Postal Service) are actually using Windows on their desktop PC's?
And like flynt was saying, just because the DOJ thinks Microsoft sux doesnt mean the postal service does too...
If you think you can't smoke in SLC try living in Boulder, CO
HA! That is so true. They don't even let people smoke in the bars on Pearl street, do they? But what more can you expect from Boulder- the City Council's most pressing problems is how to humanely dispose of the rodents on public grounds (I think they currently hire a company to come with a huge vaccuum to suck them out of the ground and transport them out of the city at a cost of $1300+/prairie dog).
Re:Proof? Proof that Utah and SL2002 are Mormon?!
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Against my better judgement, I'm gonna respond (just like you were trolling for- shame on me). Ohh- this should be fun.
The most important parts of the downtown area are speech-restricted (Really! With guards and everything!)
Entire blocks, huh? Just to clarify for people that might not know what happened, the mormon church bought the 1 block street between its headquarters building and 'Temple Square' and made it into a little flower garden/pedestrian park. The ACLU was pissed that there were 'no smoking' signs there, and the mormon church responded that it was a guideline that probably wouldnt be enforced. There are security guards at Temple Square to prevent vandalism and stuff, but thats about it. Oh, and if you want coffee in downtown SLC, try one of Starbucks 13 SLC locations.
Over 95% of all government (local, city, county, state, plus senators and congressmen sent to DC) of Utah are Mormon.
A majority of Utahns are mormon- it makes sense that the majority of the government reps are mormon too, don't you think? Simple math...
At job interviews for private industry in Utah, you will be asked what (Mormon) ward you belong to
What kind of job where you applying for? I've had 2 software jobs in Utah and interviewed at several other companies, and I have never been asked anything close to what you describe. In fact, it wasnt until I interviewed with a large tech company in CA that I had to take a drug test. And its funny, my offices have always had designated smoking areas and coffee pots in the break room too...
You soon learn to judge immediately in your dealings whether the person you're talking to is Mormon or non-Mormon. If they're Mormon and you're non, you mentally give up and move on to the next task of the day
Wow- with an attitude like that, maybe you are part of the problem?
In most of Utah, you cannot buy real beer, but must by "special" beer with limited alcohol content
"Special" beer? You mean 3.2 beer? I grew up in Colorado where unless you have a liqueur license, you can only sell 3.2 (or less) alcoholic drinks from 5 am to 12 midnight. Liqueur stores can sell anything, but they have to be closed on Sunday. Its the same thing in Utah. And funny you should mention Rocky Anderson- the non-mormon mayor of SLC (who is very popular, btw). And guess what? His alcohol law changes were approved- either the mormon church doesnt have as much influence as you seem to think or they were not opposing it as much as you thought (it was a combination of both, actually).
If you have children, they will have no friends in school
I don't have any kids, so I don't know first hand what the schools are like. I do know several public school teachers, though, and they would strongley disagree with your charactization. And what kind of religious activity during school hours are you talking about? Thats illegal in Utah just like the rest of the country and it doesnt happen. Christmas vacation is called 'Winter Break' here too.
Yeah- no kidding. I regularly plug my Clie into my computer speakers at work to listen to music, and I've got a Lexar memory stick too. And what does he/she mean by "only compatible with Sony software"? It comes with a Sony picture viewer, movie player, audio player, and memory stick manager, but I've seen 3rd party software that does all of that stuff too. And you can use the standard Palm Desktop.
The linux boys have made a nice try, but I think they need to start over and try some more standards compliance. I mean, look at that kerberos implementation. Until they do, I'm sticking with Microsoft.
If the job is to get an 80 year old grandma (or anybody for that matter) who has never used a computer to start using a computer, then microsoft is a pretty good tool. At work I use FreeBSD, but my wife would have problems learning the beauty of sed or tweaking the horizontal refresh rates in her xf86config. Consequently Win2k is the right tool for our main computer at home. And no, it doesn't screw things up massively- it works great.
ATA on the otherhand requires your CPU to coordinate reads/writes, so that means that your system performance suffers.
Maybe in the dark days of PIO, but he was talking about DMA. With DMA, the IDE controller (usually on the southbridge) takes care of the reads/writes without cpu intervention.
I am all for us helping out people in need, but we are not required to. Its attitudes like yours that I am opposed to- we are not forced to give anything. We have a legitimate right to defend ourselves, and if helping out the needy in other countries is going to bankrupt us, then we shouldnt help. Kilobug even went so far to say that the US should cut it's military budget so we can help more. If people hate us now even with all of the humanitarian aid that we give, giving more isn't going to help. Cutting our military budget would just mean that we would be unable to defend ourselves.
while we're busy bombing Afghanistan
Don't you mean busy bombing terrorists that pose a serious threat to our national security? Accoring to the UN charter, what we are doing in Afghanistan is an act of self defense. Even Musharraf in Pakistan said that this isn't an attack on Afghanistan- its just an attack on the terrorists.
Hiroshima, Nagazaki: how many dead civilian?
The question is, how many people would have died had the US not dropped those bombs. The decision to drop them was not made lightly, but they decided that it would save lives in the long run.
Vietnam war: same thing.
People still dying today in Vietnam from your napalm and nuclear weapons.
There were no nuclear weapons used in Vietnam.
Drest bombing: how many dead civilian?* Iraq bombing and embargo: same thing. In the worst hours, 3 children where dying each second because of US embargo.
And what about Saddam stealing the UN humanitarian supplies before they reach the children?
How many people killed and tortured by Pinochet and others dictators armed by the CIA? (same thing for Ben Laden, Talibans,...)
It is impossible to predict what Pinochet was going to do in the future- you are faulting the US for not reading somebody's mind and predicting the future?
How many innocent people sentenced to death by error?
First of all, the number of innocent people that might be sentanced to death is a lot higher than the number that would acutally be executed- the standard of proof is extremely high in a death penalty case. But there are many people working here on getting rid of the death penalty. Thats the beauty of the US- every citizen has the power to try to change things he/she doesnt like.
How can you justify USA that refused to sign treaties to forbid mines, chemical weapons, and to reduce polution
I _hope_ you arent talking about the Kyoto protocol- that was the most worthless anti-american "treaty" that was disguised as anti-pollution (and an ineffective anti-pollution treaty at that).
USA don't respect the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child by using death penalty against children (the minimum legal age to be sentenced to death is 14 in some states) and mentally deficient people
Like I said before, there are people working on this.
People dying from starvation and lack of drugs everywhere in the world could be saved with only a little part of the military budget
So let me get this straight- instead of defending ourselves against idiots like Osama and taking care of the needy people in our own country, you think it is our job to spend our money feeding people that dont have the common sense to live in a place with water? We already spend billions a year in humanitarian aid to other countries. The only thanks we get is our troops getting murdered in Somalia and psychos flying planes into our buildings.
No kidding. I've been told as long as I have been on the internet that EMAIL IS NOT SECURE. Does anybody here actually send their credit card numbers in an email? Of course not, because that would be dumb. I don't have any expectation of privacy when I send a normal email. The same goes for instant messages. If I do want some privacy, there is always pgp.
Now some members of the senate say what all of us have known all along, and suddenly everybody is shocked.
In normal times the opinion of these 2 avowed members of the ultra conservative christian right would be ridiculed, but at this moment in time they will get wide support in some areas.
I think Mr Schumer would disagree that he is an "avowed member of the ultra-conservative christian right". And Hatch is one of the most respected members of the Senate (he used to be the chairman of the most important committee there). That doesnt sound to me like his opinion is normally ridiculed... Its even a stretch to call Hatch an ultra-conservative- he is known to go out of his way to occomodate others, and he even supported stem cell research (a very non-ultra-conservative thing to do).
One thing- in my news addiction this past week, I've heard a lot of government officials go way out of their way to make it clear that this is a "new kind" of war. Even Rumsfeld specifically said that it won't just be us lobbing some cruise missiles into Afghanistan because that has proven to be ineffective.
IMO, if we go the military route (which it looks like we are), it will involve a lot of intelligence and precision. I don't see anybody advocating a blind attack on the innocent civilians in Afghanistan.
This is true- Gordon Sinclair actually did deliver this commentary over the radio, but he did it almost 30 years ago in 1973. No wonder "recent" coverage has been so spotty...
Not really- states aren't democracies either. Along with your definition (before your definition, actually), Dictionary.com gives this definition of a republic:
A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.
We elect representatives that act for us- we don't make the laws directly (aside from simple ballot initiatives).
Dynamic DNS. I use tzo. Its only $25/year (but I'm still in the year's free subscription that came with my router). The standard service gives you a whatever.tzo.com domain, so I just set up a CNAME on my domain that points to the dynamic dns domain. Works great.
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Yeah- its back down to its initial price last week. Too bad you can't short a new issue- I would totally be selling paypal short!
I hate paypal- I HOPE THEY DIE DIE DIE!!!
(hows that for sounding bitter?)
I have to read through the first 364 pages before I get to "Pizza Hut."
Maybe you should consider a binary search instead of a sequential search. That would narrow it down to about 6-8 pages for pizza hut.
But if people actually looked at individual applications and found the best fit for each one, Oracle would be making much less money.
/. talk, people listen...
Dang. Now I have to sell my Oracle stock. When people with sub-1000 user# on
What a dumb article. Its called marketing. Are we going to start bitching now because some government agencies (or entities associated with the government like the Postal Service) are actually using Windows on their desktop PC's?
And like flynt was saying, just because the DOJ thinks Microsoft sux doesnt mean the postal service does too...
If you think you can't smoke in SLC try living in Boulder, CO
HA! That is so true. They don't even let people smoke in the bars on Pearl street, do they? But what more can you expect from Boulder- the City Council's most pressing problems is how to humanely dispose of the rodents on public grounds (I think they currently hire a company to come with a huge vaccuum to suck them out of the ground and transport them out of the city at a cost of $1300+/prairie dog).
Against my better judgement, I'm gonna respond (just like you were trolling for- shame on me). Ohh- this should be fun.
The most important parts of the downtown area are speech-restricted (Really! With guards and everything!)
Entire blocks, huh? Just to clarify for people that might not know what happened, the mormon church bought the 1 block street between its headquarters building and 'Temple Square' and made it into a little flower garden/pedestrian park. The ACLU was pissed that there were 'no smoking' signs there, and the mormon church responded that it was a guideline that probably wouldnt be enforced. There are security guards at Temple Square to prevent vandalism and stuff, but thats about it. Oh, and if you want coffee in downtown SLC, try one of Starbucks 13 SLC locations.
Over 95% of all government (local, city, county, state, plus senators and congressmen sent to DC) of Utah are Mormon.
A majority of Utahns are mormon- it makes sense that the majority of the government reps are mormon too, don't you think? Simple math...
At job interviews for private industry in Utah, you will be asked what (Mormon) ward you belong to
What kind of job where you applying for? I've had 2 software jobs in Utah and interviewed at several other companies, and I have never been asked anything close to what you describe. In fact, it wasnt until I interviewed with a large tech company in CA that I had to take a drug test. And its funny, my offices have always had designated smoking areas and coffee pots in the break room too...
You soon learn to judge immediately in your dealings whether the person you're talking to is Mormon or non-Mormon. If they're Mormon and you're non, you mentally give up and move on to the next task of the day
Wow- with an attitude like that, maybe you are part of the problem?
In most of Utah, you cannot buy real beer, but must by "special" beer with limited alcohol content
"Special" beer? You mean 3.2 beer? I grew up in Colorado where unless you have a liqueur license, you can only sell 3.2 (or less) alcoholic drinks from 5 am to 12 midnight. Liqueur stores can sell anything, but they have to be closed on Sunday. Its the same thing in Utah. And funny you should mention Rocky Anderson- the non-mormon mayor of SLC (who is very popular, btw). And guess what? His alcohol law changes were approved- either the mormon church doesnt have as much influence as you seem to think or they were not opposing it as much as you thought (it was a combination of both, actually).
If you have children, they will have no friends in school
I don't have any kids, so I don't know first hand what the schools are like. I do know several public school teachers, though, and they would strongley disagree with your charactization. And what kind of religious activity during school hours are you talking about? Thats illegal in Utah just like the rest of the country and it doesnt happen. Christmas vacation is called 'Winter Break' here too.
I think you get my drift...
Yeah- no kidding. I regularly plug my Clie into my computer speakers at work to listen to music, and I've got a Lexar memory stick too. And what does he/she mean by "only compatible with Sony software"? It comes with a Sony picture viewer, movie player, audio player, and memory stick manager, but I've seen 3rd party software that does all of that stuff too. And you can use the standard Palm Desktop.
Now everybody can buy these to sell on ebay too.
The linux boys have made a nice try, but I think they need to start over and try some more standards compliance. I mean, look at that kerberos implementation. Until they do, I'm sticking with Microsoft.
If the job is to get an 80 year old grandma (or anybody for that matter) who has never used a computer to start using a computer, then microsoft is a pretty good tool. At work I use FreeBSD, but my wife would have problems learning the beauty of sed or tweaking the horizontal refresh rates in her xf86config. Consequently Win2k is the right tool for our main computer at home. And no, it doesn't screw things up massively- it works great.
ATA on the otherhand requires your CPU to coordinate reads/writes, so that means that your system performance suffers.
Maybe in the dark days of PIO, but he was talking about DMA. With DMA, the IDE controller (usually on the southbridge) takes care of the reads/writes without cpu intervention.
On Windows, its all about textpad. Open up the api documentation in a browser- what more do you need? You can compile and run directly from Textpad.
I always thought that SPA was Microsoft's implementation of POP AUTHorize extension (rfc 2195). Is that not the case???
I am all for us helping out people in need, but we are not required to. Its attitudes like yours that I am opposed to- we are not forced to give anything. We have a legitimate right to defend ourselves, and if helping out the needy in other countries is going to bankrupt us, then we shouldnt help. Kilobug even went so far to say that the US should cut it's military budget so we can help more. If people hate us now even with all of the humanitarian aid that we give, giving more isn't going to help. Cutting our military budget would just mean that we would be unable to defend ourselves.
while we're busy bombing Afghanistan
Don't you mean busy bombing terrorists that pose a serious threat to our national security? Accoring to the UN charter, what we are doing in Afghanistan is an act of self defense. Even Musharraf in Pakistan said that this isn't an attack on Afghanistan- its just an attack on the terrorists.
Hiroshima, Nagazaki: how many dead civilian?
...)
The question is, how many people would have died had the US not dropped those bombs. The decision to drop them was not made lightly, but they decided that it would save lives in the long run.
Vietnam war: same thing. People still dying today in Vietnam from your napalm and nuclear weapons.
There were no nuclear weapons used in Vietnam.
Drest bombing: how many dead civilian?* Iraq bombing and embargo: same thing. In the worst hours, 3 children where dying each second because of US embargo.
And what about Saddam stealing the UN humanitarian supplies before they reach the children?
How many people killed and tortured by Pinochet and others dictators armed by the CIA? (same thing for Ben Laden, Talibans,
It is impossible to predict what Pinochet was going to do in the future- you are faulting the US for not reading somebody's mind and predicting the future?
How many innocent people sentenced to death by error?
First of all, the number of innocent people that might be sentanced to death is a lot higher than the number that would acutally be executed- the standard of proof is extremely high in a death penalty case. But there are many people working here on getting rid of the death penalty. Thats the beauty of the US- every citizen has the power to try to change things he/she doesnt like.
How can you justify USA that refused to sign treaties to forbid mines, chemical weapons, and to reduce polution
I _hope_ you arent talking about the Kyoto protocol- that was the most worthless anti-american "treaty" that was disguised as anti-pollution (and an ineffective anti-pollution treaty at that).
USA don't respect the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child by using death penalty against children (the minimum legal age to be sentenced to death is 14 in some states) and mentally deficient people
Like I said before, there are people working on this.
People dying from starvation and lack of drugs everywhere in the world could be saved with only a little part of the military budget
So let me get this straight- instead of defending ourselves against idiots like Osama and taking care of the needy people in our own country, you think it is our job to spend our money feeding people that dont have the common sense to live in a place with water? We already spend billions a year in humanitarian aid to other countries. The only thanks we get is our troops getting murdered in Somalia and psychos flying planes into our buildings.
Are you from New York, do you know anything about New York? Do you keep up with current Senate events? No? That's what I thought.
Did you read my post? Did you notice that I was talking about Senator Hatch and not Schumer? No? That's what I thought.
No kidding. I've been told as long as I have been on the internet that EMAIL IS NOT SECURE. Does anybody here actually send their credit card numbers in an email? Of course not, because that would be dumb. I don't have any expectation of privacy when I send a normal email. The same goes for instant messages. If I do want some privacy, there is always pgp.
Now some members of the senate say what all of us have known all along, and suddenly everybody is shocked.
In normal times the opinion of these 2 avowed members of the ultra conservative christian right would be ridiculed, but at this moment in time they will get wide support in some areas.
I think Mr Schumer would disagree that he is an "avowed member of the ultra-conservative christian right". And Hatch is one of the most respected members of the Senate (he used to be the chairman of the most important committee there). That doesnt sound to me like his opinion is normally ridiculed... Its even a stretch to call Hatch an ultra-conservative- he is known to go out of his way to occomodate others, and he even supported stem cell research (a very non-ultra-conservative thing to do).
Big iso's aren't the problem- the problem is that some people still have dial-up connections (I'm kidding of course).
Well, Tomcat is a web server (jsp and servlets) and J-Run is an application server (EJB). No- they are not competitors.
Does that answer your question?
One thing- in my news addiction this past week, I've heard a lot of government officials go way out of their way to make it clear that this is a "new kind" of war. Even Rumsfeld specifically said that it won't just be us lobbing some cruise missiles into Afghanistan because that has proven to be ineffective.
IMO, if we go the military route (which it looks like we are), it will involve a lot of intelligence and precision. I don't see anybody advocating a blind attack on the innocent civilians in Afghanistan.
This is true- Gordon Sinclair actually did deliver this commentary over the radio, but he did it almost 30 years ago in 1973. No wonder "recent" coverage has been so spotty...
Snopes has more info
*as in 'real' democracy, not the circus of smoke and mirrors that the Plutocrats of USofAmerica organize every couple years...
The USA is not and never has been a democracy- its a republic. Pretty big difference.
Dynamic DNS. I use tzo. Its only $25/year (but I'm still in the year's free subscription that came with my router). The standard service gives you a whatever.tzo.com domain, so I just set up a CNAME on my domain that points to the dynamic dns domain. Works great.