We all know that it's the longest running joke and will not happen. Even if it did, it would probably even suck. Knowing all that, I can't help but hope it's true.
I was all for net neutrality before Al Franken's comment. At that point, I realized there must be a problem with it. Instead of the ISP's and corporations dictating what you can do, it will be Al Franken. I'll take the free markets, thank you.
I had a bad experience with a plumber one time. Should I say the entire profession is bad?
I am a chiropractor. I no longer practice though. Why? Because I never subscribed to the chiropractic philosophy. I don't agree with the philosophical principles that chiropractic is founded on. But, that doesn't mean that it doesn't benefit millions of people beyond what any other health care profession can provide. Chiropractic provides more than symptomatic relief. It restores normal mobility to the joints. And, this is what I believe provides relief. I guess an Osteopath could provide that service, too.
The problem I've seen is that percentage wise, only a small number of people seek Chiropractic care. So, to make a living, that forces the unscrupulous chiropractor to treat conditions outside of their scope or keep the patient coming in longer than necessary, under false information. I could never do either. So, I went back to school and got a degree in CS. I'm much happier.
But, I want to correct you. Although my personality conflicts with the principles of the profession, Chiropractic does not resemble massage. It is not quackery.
I am fully convinced that Chiropractors prevent thousands of unnecessary surgeries every year. When it comes to neuromusculoskeletal conditions, I don't think other health care providers can make that claim.
I think the key is to find a Chiropractor by referral. If you they are helping you (give it a couple of weeks), then good for you. Otherwise, try something else.
I installed Windows 7 64 bit at work this week. I'm rolling back to XP.
Maybe you can contribute my problems to being 64 bit. But, the apps I need to do my job aren't going to work. I asked around the office and discovered other developers are running all of their important apps on XP or Vista VM's.
I tried to install VS 2005 32bit (which I need for existing apps). The installation warns of "known issues" and recommends an update. Even it won't install properly and the update can't find the install. I just don't need those kind of aggravations. So, count me as one of those "switchers" who upgraded from Windows 7 to XP.
Not to self promote, but I wrote a firefox extension for just this purpose. You can block Google search results with any phrase. I don't get any hits from scribd, experts-exchange and about.com. It also highlights preferred results. It's in Mozilla's sandbox. You can download it there. But, you have to have a free sandbox account to get to it. I call it GoogleCleaner.
You can also get it on my website (a tiny DSL connection).
http://www.crotchett.com
Try it out and let me know what you think. The only downside is that it doesn't clean results until the whole results page is retrieved. I wish someone would fix that for me. I don't have time to fix it myself.
I was practicing Chiropractic at the time. I was in my office looking through a Popular Mechanics April 1999. I saw an article about Linux with two screenshots, one of KDE and one of GNOME. I couldn't believe my eyes. I said to myself, "I have to have that."
A few days later, I was walking through the parking lot of a shopping center. I noticed a sign in the window of a computer store that said, "Have you checked your LUGOJ?", with a large picture of a fat penguin. I knew what I was looking at. I knew this was about Linux. So, I subscribed to the mailing list at lugoj.com. I actually already knew a guy in the group who was willing to come over to my house and help me get Slackware and Red Hat installed on an old 486.
It was awesome! It changed my life.
I sold my chiropractic practice and went back to school. I finished my prerequisites locally. Then, I drove 1.5 hours one way for 2 years to complete my Computer Science degree.
You make a good point. But, it's not ads per se that are so evil. If ads are done right, they aren't annoying. Look at Google's home page vs. Yahoo's. Google has a history of developing clean unobtrusive interfaces. I wouldn't be too surprised if Google let you install AdBlock or some other ways made browsing tolerable. I have hope.
I don't understand why the media has to contribute everything to the economy. Let's be honest. Most people don't like Microsoft and the direction it is going. Many customers are only customers because they didn't have a viable alternative. Given the opportunity or sufficient impetus, they will vote with their pocket books.
Circuit City is another example of a poorly managed company. They filed for bankruptcy because they screwed their employees and treated their customers as though they were expendable.
I'm sure the economy affects all businesses. But, the ones that suffer most are the ones with the poor business model, inferior service or inferior products.
Now that's really not bad. I paid almost a $1000 for my Honda 2000i. But, mine weighs about 50 lbs or so. So, I can carry it with one hand and take it with me to outdoor sporting events.
I considered a more powerful model. But, even lifting one of those 3500 watt models into the back of a truck is too much for one person. And, portability was one of my significant criteria.
During a short term outage, a 2000i will get you by. You really only need enough to power a tv, cell phone, fridge (intermittently, cause it will hold it's temp for awhile), coffee pot and a small burner. Anything else is a luxury. And, realistically, I think most outages will be short term.
Later, if I think I need more power, I can buy another one and chain them together to double my output. I could then have the power to run a small window unit or a fan on my furnace. And, I'd still have portability, too.
I could have bought a 3500 watt Dewalt, Coleman or something like that for less than what I paid for my Honda. But, mine is very quiet and comes with Honda quality.
I haven't found "elsewhere". So, I tend to just say, "screw the whole lot", and simply choose not to patronize any of them. Until they get a clue, I'll just use my basic phone that doesn't do anything other than make a call. And, if they piss me off, I'll turn the whole damn thing off. Seriously, I did without a phone before and I can damn sure do it again.
The timing is a coincidence. Our organization has about 3000 employees. We had Adobe reps in this week to demo some of their solutions. They didn't demo Alfresco because they said it won't be out until next month. But, I can say that looking strictly at an Open Source app is not something I would expect from our organization. Not that we are dead set against it, it's just that it hasn't been presented to us in a cohesive manner from a reputable company like Adobe. Interesting....
Seriously, if the manufacturer had known their product could be used for this type of work, the costs of Shrinky Dinks would never have been an affordable toy.
This marks the first time I've ever bought music online. I chose to do it this time because it was easy. It didn't require me to have Windows or special software. Now, I would have liked to have had the Linux version of their download software because I wanted to download an album. But, considering they addressed this shortcoming in the faq and promised it was coming, I forgave them and downloaded a few singles.
Because the Wii is in the family room high upon a shelf. It works fine with the wireless remotes. But, his GC remotes aren't wireless. So, it would be difficult to use them without moving the Wii, which I do not want to do. Not only that, but he doesn't have enough room in his bedroom to play Wii games like Wii Sports Bowling. It costs us nothing to have it set up this way. Now, if the Wii remotes would work with the GC games, I would not be doing it this way.
Games don't have to make use of the new Wii remotes to be fun. That would make them more cross-platform (and more fun to me). In fact, I think it would be a huge mistake if all of the game makers thought they had make every game like the Wii Sports games.
I bought a Wii for my son last Christmas. And, he doesn't ever play it. But, everyday when I come home from work and pick him up from school, he can't wait to get home and play Super Smash Bros with me on his Game Cube.
Game studios need to design games that don't require the game player to move to control the action. But, it needs to sense the player's motion and treat this motion more like a hint to the game. For example, when my wife plays Mario Kart on the Game Cube she leans and tries to steer the remote (like it was doing some good). What the game makers need to do is to pick up on that motion for added actions (like sliding in a turn or making a sharper turn). I can't get used to games like Spongebob where you have to tilt the remote to turn. That sucks, to me.
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We all know that it's the longest running joke and will not happen. Even if it did, it would probably even suck. Knowing all that, I can't help but hope it's true.
Let's call it "healthy skepticism" based on the knowledge that we can count on Franken to always do one thing right, be on the wrong side of an issue.
I'm sure he's salivating at the chance of getting more control of the Internet and silencing the opposition.
I was all for net neutrality before Al Franken's comment. At that point, I realized there must be a problem with it. Instead of the ISP's and corporations dictating what you can do, it will be Al Franken. I'll take the free markets, thank you.
I had a bad experience with a plumber one time. Should I say the entire profession is bad?
I am a chiropractor. I no longer practice though. Why? Because I never subscribed to the chiropractic philosophy. I don't agree with the philosophical principles that chiropractic is founded on. But, that doesn't mean that it doesn't benefit millions of people beyond what any other health care profession can provide. Chiropractic provides more than symptomatic relief. It restores normal mobility to the joints. And, this is what I believe provides relief. I guess an Osteopath could provide that service, too.
The problem I've seen is that percentage wise, only a small number of people seek Chiropractic care. So, to make a living, that forces the unscrupulous chiropractor to treat conditions outside of their scope or keep the patient coming in longer than necessary, under false information. I could never do either. So, I went back to school and got a degree in CS. I'm much happier.
But, I want to correct you. Although my personality conflicts with the principles of the profession, Chiropractic does not resemble massage. It is not quackery.
I am fully convinced that Chiropractors prevent thousands of unnecessary surgeries every year. When it comes to neuromusculoskeletal conditions, I don't think other health care providers can make that claim.
I think the key is to find a Chiropractor by referral. If you they are helping you (give it a couple of weeks), then good for you. Otherwise, try something else.
ditto
I installed Windows 7 64 bit at work this week. I'm rolling back to XP.
Maybe you can contribute my problems to being 64 bit. But, the apps I need to do my job aren't going to work. I asked around the office and discovered other developers are running all of their important apps on XP or Vista VM's.
I tried to install VS 2005 32bit (which I need for existing apps). The installation warns of "known issues" and recommends an update. Even it won't install properly and the update can't find the install. I just don't need those kind of aggravations. So, count me as one of those "switchers" who upgraded from Windows 7 to XP.
Wake me up when I can install the apps I need.
Great. Now, instead of being dependent on foreign oil, we'll be dependent on foreign windmills.
That is cute. I double tapped to create a new box, then did document.getElementsByTagName("p")[0]...... a bunch of things. It was cool.
Not to self promote, but I wrote a firefox extension for just this purpose. You can block Google search results with any phrase. I don't get any hits from scribd, experts-exchange and about.com. It also highlights preferred results. It's in Mozilla's sandbox. You can download it there. But, you have to have a free sandbox account to get to it. I call it GoogleCleaner.
You can also get it on my website (a tiny DSL connection).
http://www.crotchett.com
Try it out and let me know what you think. The only downside is that it doesn't clean results until the whole results page is retrieved. I wish someone would fix that for me. I don't have time to fix it myself.
Oops. That's lugoj.org, not .com
I was practicing Chiropractic at the time. I was in my office looking through a Popular Mechanics April 1999. I saw an article about Linux with two screenshots, one of KDE and one of GNOME. I couldn't believe my eyes. I said to myself, "I have to have that."
A few days later, I was walking through the parking lot of a shopping center. I noticed a sign in the window of a computer store that said, "Have you checked your LUGOJ?", with a large picture of a fat penguin. I knew what I was looking at. I knew this was about Linux. So, I subscribed to the mailing list at lugoj.com. I actually already knew a guy in the group who was willing to come over to my house and help me get Slackware and Red Hat installed on an old 486.
It was awesome! It changed my life.
I sold my chiropractic practice and went back to school. I finished my prerequisites locally. Then, I drove 1.5 hours one way for 2 years to complete my Computer Science degree.
This is why gift cards are a bad idea. They instantly made my $75 of gift cards worth about $50.
Haley Barbour is a stanch Republican and a Republican presidential favorite. Him signing this is not a done deal.
You make a good point. But, it's not ads per se that are so evil. If ads are done right, they aren't annoying. Look at Google's home page vs. Yahoo's. Google has a history of developing clean unobtrusive interfaces. I wouldn't be too surprised if Google let you install AdBlock or some other ways made browsing tolerable. I have hope.
I don't understand why the media has to contribute everything to the economy. Let's be honest. Most people don't like Microsoft and the direction it is going. Many customers are only customers because they didn't have a viable alternative. Given the opportunity or sufficient impetus, they will vote with their pocket books.
Circuit City is another example of a poorly managed company. They filed for bankruptcy because they screwed their employees and treated their customers as though they were expendable.
I'm sure the economy affects all businesses. But, the ones that suffer most are the ones with the poor business model, inferior service or inferior products.
Now that's really not bad. I paid almost a $1000 for my Honda 2000i. But, mine weighs about 50 lbs or so. So, I can carry it with one hand and take it with me to outdoor sporting events.
I considered a more powerful model. But, even lifting one of those 3500 watt models into the back of a truck is too much for one person. And, portability was one of my significant criteria.
During a short term outage, a 2000i will get you by. You really only need enough to power a tv, cell phone, fridge (intermittently, cause it will hold it's temp for awhile), coffee pot and a small burner. Anything else is a luxury. And, realistically, I think most outages will be short term.
Later, if I think I need more power, I can buy another one and chain them together to double my output. I could then have the power to run a small window unit or a fan on my furnace. And, I'd still have portability, too.
I could have bought a 3500 watt Dewalt, Coleman or something like that for less than what I paid for my Honda. But, mine is very quiet and comes with Honda quality.
I haven't found "elsewhere". So, I tend to just say, "screw the whole lot", and simply choose not to patronize any of them. Until they get a clue, I'll just use my basic phone that doesn't do anything other than make a call. And, if they piss me off, I'll turn the whole damn thing off. Seriously, I did without a phone before and I can damn sure do it again.
The timing is a coincidence. Our organization has about 3000 employees. We had Adobe reps in this week to demo some of their solutions. They didn't demo Alfresco because they said it won't be out until next month. But, I can say that looking strictly at an Open Source app is not something I would expect from our organization. Not that we are dead set against it, it's just that it hasn't been presented to us in a cohesive manner from a reputable company like Adobe. Interesting....
Ever heard of silicosis?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicosis
That's interesting. I did not know that. Interestingly, it's about the only application where I would find it helpful.
The cost of Shrinky Dinks just went up.
Seriously, if the manufacturer had known their product could be used for this type of work, the costs of Shrinky Dinks would never have been an affordable toy.
This must be why I noticed a new message from Gmail advising me to disable firebug for gmail.google.com.
This marks the first time I've ever bought music online. I chose to do it this time because it was easy. It didn't require me to have Windows or special software. Now, I would have liked to have had the Linux version of their download software because I wanted to download an album. But, considering they addressed this shortcoming in the faq and promised it was coming, I forgave them and downloaded a few singles.
I expect that I will use their service more.
Because the Wii is in the family room high upon a shelf. It works fine with the wireless remotes. But, his GC remotes aren't wireless. So, it would be difficult to use them without moving the Wii, which I do not want to do. Not only that, but he doesn't have enough room in his bedroom to play Wii games like Wii Sports Bowling. It costs us nothing to have it set up this way. Now, if the Wii remotes would work with the GC games, I would not be doing it this way.
Games don't have to make use of the new Wii remotes to be fun. That would make them more cross-platform (and more fun to me). In fact, I think it would be a huge mistake if all of the game makers thought they had make every game like the Wii Sports games.
I bought a Wii for my son last Christmas. And, he doesn't ever play it. But, everyday when I come home from work and pick him up from school, he can't wait to get home and play Super Smash Bros with me on his Game Cube.
Game studios need to design games that don't require the game player to move to control the action. But, it needs to sense the player's motion and treat this motion more like a hint to the game. For example, when my wife plays Mario Kart on the Game Cube she leans and tries to steer the remote (like it was doing some good). What the game makers need to do is to pick up on that motion for added actions (like sliding in a turn or making a sharper turn). I can't get used to games like Spongebob where you have to tilt the remote to turn. That sucks, to me.