I tried arguing about that with a law school friend. He basically sided with the banks, and left it as "don't write checks you don't have the money for."
Seems that's exactly what the banks want too. I don't see Check21 helping me at *all*.. it was more post 9/11 "oh crap, we need to do everything electronic!" legislation too.
Oh, yes. I do love bittorrent. Especially since I can't just add the Sci-Fi channel. I'd have to upgrade to Digital cable, schedule Comcast to come out and give me a box for it, *and* my new cable rate would be nearly $80/mo. It's only $44 now. Oh, but.. when i call comcast, they tell me that digital cable isn't available in my area and there's no way that I could add Sci Fi channel anyway. I can't even get the Comcast DVR where I am! (I'm in the Silicon Valley, about a mile away from flippin NASA.)
We *should* have tracked them down and obliterated them years ago.
I can't wait until we can travel back in time and flog those two. Had they been slapped down hardcore when it first happened, we'd have: * Less lawyers * Less spammers.
An Ethanol promoting friend pointed out that this article/study is apparantly based on outdated techniques and the research didn't take into account newer, more efficient methods of ethanol fuel production.
"While 99 percent of women say they use their DVRs to zap through commercial spots,"
Goes to show you how many people actually watch ads. I bet the percentage for men is the same. Slobbering ad executives still won't get it.
"A full 94 percent of those who said they fast forwarded commercials said they could still recognize brands and products as they zapped through the spots."... or maybe they will, and they'll finally invent the Blipvert! I'd tolerate blipverts if it meant that less time per show was spent on ads. Currently it's about 15-19 minutes per hour.
It's that whole "electrically charged exploding dude" side-effect that kinda worries me..
If you have enough machines, roll out Microsoft SUS. Eliminates that whole problem right there. Just push the updates across the LAN.:-)
Waiting until the END of the day can be a bad thing because people that come in early and leave early are going to miss the updates, and they'll end up installing them tomorrow morning anyway.
I'm going to assume that you don't plan out/inform users of updates.;)
"English as a Second Language." Now before everyone mods this "racist" or "flamebait" please take the time to read it and think about it. I went to a high school in Yokohama, Japan. The student body was made up of dozens of cultures and their respective languages. One of the major rules was "English ONLY" during classes. Materials were all in English. Lessons were in English. Back here in the US, I learned from several teacher friends that things were different. Kids that spoke NO english were being tossed into classes with native speakers. And guess what? It brought the pace of the class to a crawl because those that already knew the language had to often wait for the non-native speakers to catch up. These kids didn't learn English at home because the parents didn't know English either. Why should they when businesses everywhere are putting up signage in Spanish & advertising "Se habla espanol?" These kids had nowhere outside of the normal classroom routine to learn English skills because the ESL programs were axed due to budget cuts. if everyone speaks English, cultures integrate better. I'm sure that many will say "Well, just learn Spanish!" but it's not only the Spanish speakers - sometimes it's the Asian kids. This is the United States. Our language is English. So why aren't we doing a better job of teaching it to those that want to make a life here?
Here is an excellent article to reinforce my point. Before I moved to Japan, I lived near that school. I spent every summer back in that area and I personally watched the area change to what it is now. It also illustrates what a disaster "No Child Left Behind" has turned out to be.
That is exactly why I hate standardized testing and the "Everyone is a winner!' attitude. There are some kids that just *cannot do the work* no matter how much they study and no matter how many times it's been drilled into their heads.
I'm one of those kids. Algebra is *VERY* difficult for me. I spent most of my high school years in basic Algebra. But, I did great in Geometry where some of the Calc students were struggling.
Children are not all the same. We need to stop treating them like they are. Oh, and bring back ESL classes and make the immigrants take them. Sorry, but when half the class speaks *no* english, it drags the rest of the class down.
"stop moving kids onto the next grade if they really didn't perform at the level necessary. It's become an "everybody gets a trophy" society, and that's not consistent with the real world. Kids more than ever need to understand rewards and accountability."
At the risk of sounding like an asshole, I'd like to say "AMEN." Enough of this "every child is a winner! Every child is special!" crap that's been wrecking our schools. Not every child is a winner. Sorry, but it's true. Some kids aren't as smart as the others. Some of them need extra schooling. Others need more time to finish tests. Some kids excel at geometry only to fail at algebra. Instead of pushing standardized tests and preaching about how wonderful each child is, I vote that we go back to the logical way of doing things. We need to be realistic about how children learn and not apply one ruleset across the board.
My god, with all that crap strapped to you, you'd be lucky to get the bike moving at all. It'd be like bumper cars for senior citizens. How.. uh, not exciting.:)
Maybe your offer just didn't meet their requirements. Maybe they have tax reasons. Maybe they just want to be near all of the Gentoo project machines at OSU.
Could be many reasons for it, and if Drupal owns the hardware and has it hosted at an educational institution, it probably works out better for them.:)
Have you seen the mountains of paperwork that Sarbanes-Oxley has caused? You have to test & validate & fully document (and prove your tests & results) in many cases.
Can't simply "apply the patch ASAP" these days.. even an emergency patch will take *hours* to install, test, and document BEFORE applying it to live financial systems.
It was already +5. *sniffle* It's the most insightful thing I've read all week. Brings a tear to my eye and made me want to salute our flag!;)
"Re:Sadly, no surprise. (Score:5, Insightful) by bigman2003 (671309) on Thursday July 07, @07:21AM (#13003157) (http://insidewoodland.com/) Furry Wookie- this is not pointed at you directly...but at something you said which sounds like what a ton of other people are saying:
"...take control of your life..."
A lot of the MS vs. (everyone else) debate sounds like this.
My life? How is an anti-spyware tool on my computer going to really affect my life? Or how is my computer going to help me take control of my life?
My computer is just a stupid, noisy, power-sucking box that sits on the floor. I am the one that gives it life, not the other way around. Whatever operating system it runs doesn't really affect my life at all- I just use the thing.
Just like the hedge trimmers I bought last weekend- I went to the store, bought some, and used them. It wasn't a decision that would affect my life- just those few moments as I trimmed the bushes.
My whole point is...don't confuse a computer with real life. Real life is about people, love, adventure, relationships, hardships and successes.
Computers are about reading e-mail, and surfing for porn. -- Read about my small town [insidewoodland.com]
"I'd have thought the motivation was to limit the number of separate accounts you need. Having a billion accounts running around is a massive security nightmare. Either you're using the same password everywhere (and telling every web site owner your password) or you're wandering around with a notebook of thousands of passwords."
True, and it's not a half bad idea, but look at the previous attempts at a "shared password" system like Passport, "Adultcheck," and that thing that Sun/etc were pushing. They haven't gone very far yet..
I imagine that this might make some headway in the blogging community, but I dunno about outside of it.
Uh, you mean.44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world.:P
Of all things to misquote, don't misquote Dirty Harry!;)
"I know what you're thinking: "Did he fire six shots, or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But, being this is a.44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya punk?"
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Yup, you're right. "Fewer" would have been a better choice. However, that was a "Pre-caffeine Slashdot post" and is therefore exempt. :)
Very very true. The only thing that I can think of is that someone is making money off of the interest while the money is in that limbo.
:(
It's a very one way street, benefitting the banks & financial institutions.
I tried arguing about that with a law school friend. He basically sided with the banks, and left it as "don't write checks you don't have the money for."
.. it was more post 9/11 "oh crap, we need to do everything electronic!" legislation too.
Seems that's exactly what the banks want too. I don't see Check21 helping me at *all*
Oh, yes. I do love bittorrent. Especially since I can't just add the Sci-Fi channel. I'd have to upgrade to Digital cable, schedule Comcast to come out and give me a box for it, *and* my new cable rate would be nearly $80/mo. It's only $44 now. Oh, but.. when i call comcast, they tell me that digital cable isn't available in my area and there's no way that I could add Sci Fi channel anyway. I can't even get the Comcast DVR where I am! (I'm in the Silicon Valley, about a mile away from flippin NASA.)
So, back to bittorrent I go.
We *should* have tracked them down and obliterated them years ago.
;)
I can't wait until we can travel back in time and flog those two. Had they been slapped down hardcore when it first happened, we'd have:
* Less lawyers
* Less spammers.
I'm failing to see a bad side to this.
but... "CAN-SPAM" is so utterly useless that a lot of this spam we're seeing is perfectly legal.
:(
Suing spammers has become a LOT more difficult thanks to that piece of shit legislation.
(I worked for a company that became spammers. I've seen *exactly* how CAN-SPAM opened the floodgates.)
An Ethanol promoting friend pointed out that this article/study is apparantly based on outdated techniques and the research didn't take into account newer, more efficient methods of ethanol fuel production.
Any truth to that?
"While 99 percent of women say they use their DVRs to zap through commercial spots,"
... or maybe they will, and they'll finally invent the Blipvert! I'd tolerate blipverts if it meant that less time per show was spent on ads. Currently it's about 15-19 minutes per hour.
Goes to show you how many people actually watch ads. I bet the percentage for men is the same. Slobbering ad executives still won't get it.
"A full 94 percent of those who said they fast forwarded commercials said they could still recognize brands and products as they zapped through the spots."
It's that whole "electrically charged exploding dude" side-effect that kinda worries me..
Well, the end result of getting hit with a bullet or a bomb is in fact massive blood loss.
:)
So yes, bleeding is the largest cause of death.
What time would college students roll out of bed? When Sun #1 rose? Sun #2?
;)
Many questions to ask about this multiple sun stuff.
that looks kind of neat. How is the web interface coming along?
It's making a lot of lawyers a lot of money.. and there are more lawyers popping up all the time. Along with them, more laws.
It really does suck. It's way too easy to just steamroll over someone with a lawsuit just because 'you can' these days.
If you have enough machines, roll out Microsoft SUS. Eliminates that whole problem right there. Just push the updates across the LAN. :-)
;)
Waiting until the END of the day can be a bad thing because people that come in early and leave early are going to miss the updates, and they'll end up installing them tomorrow morning anyway.
I'm going to assume that you don't plan out/inform users of updates.
"English as a Second Language." Now before everyone mods this "racist" or "flamebait" please take the time to read it and think about it.
I went to a high school in Yokohama, Japan. The student body was made up of dozens of cultures and their respective languages. One of the major rules was "English ONLY" during classes. Materials were all in English. Lessons were in English.
Back here in the US, I learned from several teacher friends that things were different. Kids that spoke NO english were being tossed into classes with native speakers. And guess what? It brought the pace of the class to a crawl because those that already knew the language had to often wait for the non-native speakers to catch up. These kids didn't learn English at home because the parents didn't know English either. Why should they when businesses everywhere are putting up signage in Spanish & advertising "Se habla espanol?" These kids had nowhere outside of the normal classroom routine to learn English skills because the ESL programs were axed due to budget cuts.
if everyone speaks English, cultures integrate better. I'm sure that many will say "Well, just learn Spanish!" but it's not only the Spanish speakers - sometimes it's the Asian kids. This is the United States. Our language is English. So why aren't we doing a better job of teaching it to those that want to make a life here?
Here is an excellent article to reinforce my point. Before I moved to Japan, I lived near that school. I spent every summer back in that area and I personally watched the area change to what it is now. It also illustrates what a disaster "No Child Left Behind" has turned out to be.
Our educational system is damaged.
That is exactly why I hate standardized testing and the "Everyone is a winner!' attitude. There are some kids that just *cannot do the work* no matter how much they study and no matter how many times it's been drilled into their heads.
I'm one of those kids. Algebra is *VERY* difficult for me. I spent most of my high school years in basic Algebra. But, I did great in Geometry where some of the Calc students were struggling.
Children are not all the same. We need to stop treating them like they are.
Oh, and bring back ESL classes and make the immigrants take them. Sorry, but when half the class speaks *no* english, it drags the rest of the class down.
"stop moving kids onto the next grade if they really didn't perform at the level necessary. It's become an "everybody gets a trophy" society, and that's not consistent with the real world. Kids more than ever need to understand rewards and accountability."
At the risk of sounding like an asshole, I'd like to say "AMEN." Enough of this "every child is a winner! Every child is special!" crap that's been wrecking our schools. Not every child is a winner. Sorry, but it's true. Some kids aren't as smart as the others. Some of them need extra schooling. Others need more time to finish tests. Some kids excel at geometry only to fail at algebra.
Instead of pushing standardized tests and preaching about how wonderful each child is, I vote that we go back to the logical way of doing things. We need to be realistic about how children learn and not apply one ruleset across the board.
My god, with all that crap strapped to you, you'd be lucky to get the bike moving at all. It'd be like bumper cars for senior citizens. How.. uh, not exciting. :)
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit."
How true it is.
Maybe your offer just didn't meet their requirements. Maybe they have tax reasons. Maybe they just want to be near all of the Gentoo project machines at OSU.
:)
Could be many reasons for it, and if Drupal owns the hardware and has it hosted at an educational institution, it probably works out better for them.
Lucky you. The first one (one r) is now yet another one of those stupid "search engine" sites with nothing but "sponsored links."
:(
I hate those worse.
Japan Air Lines was using the runway at Moses Lake, WA (13500 ft) for training Boeing 747 pilots.
That's a HUUUUGE runway for a town that can reach out and slap the Middle of Nowhere.
Have you seen the mountains of paperwork that Sarbanes-Oxley has caused?
You have to test & validate & fully document (and prove your tests & results) in many cases.
Can't simply "apply the patch ASAP" these days.. even an emergency patch will take *hours* to install, test, and document BEFORE applying it to live financial systems.
Ugh. Piss on legislation.
It was already +5. *sniffle* It's the most insightful thing I've read all week. Brings a tear to my eye and made me want to salute our flag! ;)
"Re:Sadly, no surprise. (Score:5, Insightful)
by bigman2003 (671309) on Thursday July 07, @07:21AM (#13003157)
(http://insidewoodland.com/)
Furry Wookie- this is not pointed at you directly...but at something you said which sounds like what a ton of other people are saying:
"...take control of your life..."
A lot of the MS vs. (everyone else) debate sounds like this.
My life? How is an anti-spyware tool on my computer going to really affect my life? Or how is my computer going to help me take control of my life?
My computer is just a stupid, noisy, power-sucking box that sits on the floor. I am the one that gives it life, not the other way around. Whatever operating system it runs doesn't really affect my life at all- I just use the thing.
Just like the hedge trimmers I bought last weekend- I went to the store, bought some, and used them. It wasn't a decision that would affect my life- just those few moments as I trimmed the bushes.
My whole point is...don't confuse a computer with real life. Real life is about people, love, adventure, relationships, hardships and successes.
Computers are about reading e-mail, and surfing for porn.
--
Read about my small town [insidewoodland.com]
[ Reply to This | Parent ]"
"I'd have thought the motivation was to limit the number of separate accounts you need. Having a billion accounts running around is a massive security nightmare. Either you're using the same password everywhere (and telling every web site owner your password) or you're wandering around with a notebook of thousands of passwords."
True, and it's not a half bad idea, but look at the previous attempts at a "shared password" system like Passport, "Adultcheck," and that thing that Sun/etc were pushing. They haven't gone very far yet..
I imagine that this might make some headway in the blogging community, but I dunno about outside of it.
Uh, you mean .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world. :P
;)
.44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya punk?"
Of all things to misquote, don't misquote Dirty Harry!
"I know what you're thinking: "Did he fire six shots, or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But, being this is a