I have Rhythms service at work and at home.
It's simply fantastic.
I signed the contracts for both places before RTHM was reselling, so I purchased direct. I think this helps alot cause I can call the NOC direct too, if I have problems/hassles.
Home install went great- BellAtlantic and Rhythms got it together fine and all was up and running within 3 weeks of the order (a week earlier than they had quoted). One major outage for a week in December when a phoneline crapped out (apparently). RTHM credited me a month free for that outage.
Work install was more hairy. Bell Atlantic kept getting the address wrong, so after a month, finally got the line dropped to the right closet (in retro, we should just run the CAT5 ourselves from the closet down the way...).
But after that fiasco, the service hasn't been down ONCE since installed in February. Not ONCE.
home speed contract- 256k sdsl, consistently get 300.
work speed contract- 384k sdsl, consistently get 400.
From all I've read and experienced, RTHM has the cap on quality. BUT you WILL pay for it- they're not cheap.
Oh, finally, had to get a branch office in MI setup with DSL. Talked to the RTHM resellers, got it all setup, all was fine...til Ameritech screwed up the line drops, twice. Finally got it right on the third try, and now RTHM is pumping our SDSL VPN connections between offices.
Really a great service, in all three of my experiences with them. The poster may have similar, since he's not far (overall) from Denver- their homebase (well, Englewood).
I love DSL.
I used Toad for my dialup when I first moved to Annapolis. Worked great for a while, but then I started getting these odd lags...I'd ping various destinations, but the packet never got out of Toad's network (stuck at beast.toad.net). I'd have no throughput for about 3 minutes, then everything ok for about an hour, then big stoppage again.
After a couple months of complaining about this (especially when it happened in the middle of frag fests;), and them responding 'it must be the phone company', I bagged them.
Having said that, I respect Toad alot. Dave the CEO is one smart cookie and built the company from a BBS. They grabbed onto being a DLEC and reselling Covad before COVD even went public.
From your report, they apparently got their routing problems figured out.
And they just reduced their prices- didja hear? If not, lemme know and I'll send you the notice (my webspace, subdomain mailboxes, and subscription to the monthly newsletter are all still active, even though I cancelled in Febuary!;).
I'm not supposed to say this in public, but since it's slashdot, it'll be written off as blatherings...
Humanity started on Mars billions of years ago.
They seeded Earth as a new place to live, as they wasted their natural resources and destroyed their own planet.
They also seeded Earth with low-level lifeforms whom they could use as beasts-of-burden and slave labor.
All those crop circles and such you hear about today are people who still have this Mars programming in their subconscious and are making landing sites for their masters.- whom no longer exist
And it's also the reason for the various odd land formations, like the Nazca works in South America.
However, something went horribly wrong on Mars before the seeding and transplanting was complete...likely some kinda war which wiped out all natural life on that planet. We're still looking into that.
Thus, earth was left to develop on it's own- and look where we are today! Not too bad...
The thing we need to worry about is when the beings who seeded Mars come back to look in on their experiment. Will they know we're related? Or an aberration?
Wait and see, young ones, wait and see.
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Good thought- in line with mine!;)
Say MS does this XBox thing well. Say it takes off. Good for them, great for their extended monopoly. Imagine this DOES kill consoles as we know it? Imagine being only able to buy an XBox to play the latest, coolest games?
uck.
So, what would be needed are XBox clones. Would this be hard? Maybe just making it an appropriate case. Could one not just assemble a machine with the same spec's as the XBox and run the games?
Guess it may ultimately depend on:
1) if they change the Win2k kernal enough so the games don't work with the 'real' Win2k
2) if they put some kinda proprietary decoding chips in the box (which could be overcome by a software codec and a faster CPU than spec).
I personally will be selling XBox clones if the established consoles die off.
I agree. I read over his site, then paid for it before I initiated the download.
I like King books- been reading them since middle school (10 years now- though not as much free time now), and I'll support him in this effort because:
1. The net will shakeout the middle-men who make the prices of everything twice as much as they should be (RIAA prime example). I support anything that provides direct-delivery.
2. King has given me years of imaginative enjoyment and I happily pay for those, and future, dreams.
My concerns:
1. That first dload was, what, 20 pages? I hope all his chapters aren't that short or the book wil end up costing way more than a standard paperback.
2. Jerks in the public who just don't have any sense of honesty, and who feed of the chartity of others, in any situation.
The format is fine- reads great on my basic.28dpi 17" monitor. Printing it out, double-sided, is a fine option too.
This also opens up the market for home book-binding kits: a selection of 10 covers to choose from, instructions, tools, and glue to bind that book you just dloaded. Goofy idea? Wait and see;)
Finally, I like the suggestion of all this going into an escrow- so we can be refunded if the book is never finished. I will be pissed if he gets into 20 chapters then stops cause of one bad 60% month!
You, sir, are correct. Unfortunately, the cartoon Clerks on Fox (of not Fox, forgive, but it's gotta be Fox) is just so not funny. I keep trying to give it a chance, but man.... Clerks the movie was classic (though what kinda guys did that gal screw to not notice fat man was DEAD?). Clerks the cartoon won't make it past July.
Anarchism is: Tool to the worker, computer to the hacker, tractor to the farmer, etc
I'm no study of political theory, but this is certainly not what anarchy means to me! Does not anarchy support the idea of no government? So anarchists have faith in human nature, eh? You believe that if there is no government, and no governing law, that the farmer is going to keep his tractor? What if the farmer down the road owns a bunch more land and has a gun? Can't he just take the first farmer's tractor? Heck, can't he enslave that farmer- and his family? Sorry I don't have time to go through you FAQ's, I really am interested to know if my take on anarchy is incorrect. But the Anarchists I knew in College...boy...talk about trouble-makers. These cats not only disrespected authority (perhaps rightfully), but pretty much disrespected humanity in general.
When it comes to wireless, I am definitely wary or Verizon. But there's PCS and ATT for now to offer competition. Even if Sprint merges with WCOM, that's three major provider choices.
So ATT will own a hunk of cable- so what? TW-AOL will own another big chunk. As another poster pointed out, that's still only 60% of the national coverage- plenty of room for other cable providers
There's a standard just agreed upon to allow home networking over powerlines. Assume this technology will be developed to the point where nation/worldwide IP traffic will work as well.
And DSL is here, and getting faster, and will provide voice (VoDSL). So as I see it, consumers will be able to get their internet, cable, phone, etc service over either: 1. Cable lines 2. Phone lines 3. Wireless/Satellite 4. Power lines
Doesn't sound like a monopoly situation to me. And as seen with MS, the Fed Gov't, while certainly clueless sometimes, will not allow one company to dominate so many delivery systems completely. Plus, who would WANT to own all that infrastructure- what a nightmare for upkeep.
The only concern I have is rates and providers. Likely, it'll be cheaper to get your phone, net, and TV access through one provider, but that's a single point of failure. Yikes! At least when my cable goes out, my DSL connection still works, or at least my phone does so I can call my cable provider and get them moving. If all was provided by one company, man, I'd be raging when the next hurricane completely kills my stimuli. Time to break out Scrabble!
Or for that matter a pro-abortion (I REFUSE to call is pro-choice...) idea in a pro-life group?
huh? I dunno how open your mind is, but you may want to consider actually talking to a few pro-choice people. My wife has a kid from an earlier...mistake. She's pro-choice, and chose to keep her child. Two friends of mine from college have both had unplanned pregnancies. While both are strongly pro-choice, they've both kept their babies as well. All pro-choice means is that such folks believe a woman has choice and control over her own body and that the gov't shouldn't dictate. If they so choose to have the baby, that's fine. But they won't be judged as heathen if they choose to abort. Open your circle of friends = open your mind.
I hear ya- I hate seeing a third of my paycheck disappear too! But there are alot of other things on which our money is misspent, IMO. While I also agree the school/library cash is being mis-spent, that doesn't surprise me much. It's a large program and our gov't is nothing if not perfectly adept at mismanagement. Still, it's a needed measure and has my full support.
Tax-whining. A lot of it may be justified, but not in this case (in MY o, of course). I happily pay a portion of my taxes to build-out the net infrastructure of our schools, libraries, etc. NO PROBLEM! I figure if the gov't is going to use my tax $$ to develop military machinery, the least they can do is use another portion to actually help educate the woefully uneducated American populace. Imagine the time when your opinion may actually be HEARD by our elected officials.
While I tend to look at such programs with a skeptical eye as well, I think that this is an overall a good thing. Yeap, it builds loyalty, high morale and such, but tell ya what Ford really wants to do with these home computers... Training. They spend HUGE $$ on training every year. One of our services is to create computer-based training for manufacturing clients; Ford being one of them. Imagine the $$ they save if, not only does a given plant not have to send their employees out of state for new training (now that they have the program locally on their factory's network), but they can convince their employees to sit through the training on their OWN time at home! Cool by us; web-based training has a higher cost justification;) I dunno how much luck Ford will have with such a request- the UAW is pretty leery of doing any work for free. But overall, a good plan. If nothing else, UAW/Ford workers will be able to ICQ-plot together during the next labor strike!
I use Macromedia products daily. The stipulation in their EULA applies to them using your product for marketing purposes. They CANNOT resell it or otherwise profit from the product you created with their software. Well, I guess they do profit somewhat by using your product as a showcase piece, but I would think that would be more complimentary than offensive... I use their Authorware product the most, and that licensing agreement states you may distribute products created with Authorware freely, as long as you: 1. Embed their logo and a 'Made with Macromedia' line in your software and on the packaging 2. Send them two copies of your product.
I've been developing A'ware products for 5 years now, and have yet to see anything I've developed used anywhere but where it was intended, so I doubt Macromedia has anything subversive in mind (?). Then again, we create custom CBT, not usually off-shelf products.
Thing is, those kids so many years ago did exactly as you say- they went out- hunted, killed, and cleanded. I have many friends from western PA who do the same things today.
The difference is they EXPERIENCE death. They KNOW the power of the weapon. They see the blood, they see the light go out in the animals' eyes. They understand what pulling the trigger means.
Video games emulate all the behavior without the experience. Ya, you can blow away 20 aliens in one minute, but do you experience the pain? Do the aliens cry out? Do you see pictures of their parents grief-stricken?
That's the issue. Not that guns are any different today than they were years ago, but that the experience is different. Without respect for life- without understanding the pain and sorrow killing can cause- that is the tragedy.
Violent video games can perpetuate the violence- and kids can grow up thinking violence is no big deal. Ah, so someone gets shot-they'll be ok....right?
That is where the parent/peer guidance needs to come in. I watched violent movies sometimes as a kid, but my parents were always there with the sorrowful look on their face when a death occurred- or they made me watch MASH to see the other side.
Yeah, that's it- every hour my kid plays a violent video game, it'll be balanced with an episode of MASH.;)
Man, and I thought I was the only one with that notion. Good to know others are just as paranoid as me in some respects. You really DO have to wonder...nature is nature, and ya fsck with it too much, consequences can be dire. Then again, I sit surrounded by three monitors, 2 computers, and random externals daily. My personal magnetic field (aura?) is probably heavy itself. I feel no strange effects...yet.
Hear! Hear! Wish I had moderator points today... I need to get a solar, uh, expert out to my place sometime to do some readings- I think there are too many trees in the way for a good solar array on my roof (though- never such a thing as too many trees!;). If it is feasible, it will be installed and will charge a battery specifically for running the well pump. That only turns on about four times a day, and for about 5 minutes. Not sure of the Kw usage, but surely enough to run off a constantly recharged battery. The battery will ALSO run the sump pump when its needed- which failed during Floyd when electricity was knocked out by trees and our basement flooded (we were out of state). Solar power definitely has it's usefulness, but isn't a cure-all....yet. Time to get outta here and go hug a tree.
I like this Slashdot thing. Cool stuff since I was led to it a couple years ago. Perhaps this is beyond what slashdot hopes to accomplish, but there is SUCH a great wealth of knowledge here, its a shame it can only be accessed via designated topics. Even Ask Slashdot questions are picked for us.
So how about setting up a part of this venerable website as a general forum? Where folks can post questions which the Powers That Be may not consider worthy enough to post on the front page?
I'm trying to learn Linux, and often have questions directly related to the OS, or others about what type of programs are the best, the options- how exactly a recompile works and such. It would be fantastic if I could post these questions in a general forum in case anyone is willing to help.
Or perhaps such a place exists already! But usually I have to remember 10 different newsgroups/webboards and which I posted questions to...
Kinda like an Open Ask Q/A section. Embrace and Extend?
Perhaps the moderation of such an area would be overwhelming. Then again, the same user-moderation scheme could be used there. Or perhaps just ask for volunteers from among those with the higher karma points.
Regardless, love the site and would really dig if it expanded in such a way.
Ya, ya, ya... Look everyone, I agree that the Clinton administration is FAR from honest. I'm sure they're being as sneaky and underhanded as they can get away with (or can't) in order to do what they feel they 'have' to do -whether you or I believe it's in the country's best interest or not.
Thing is, what has changed? Certainly NOT the integrity of the Presidency (aside from public view of), nor the federal government in general. I have no way of proving this, but history surely indicates that the Fed. Gov't has done such sneaky and underhanded deals since its inception!
What HAS changed is our ability to learn about such things. With all the high-handed morality of the 50's, you think that JFK's mob connections and philandering WOULDN'T have caused national scandal?
Iran/Contra. Watergate. Viet Nam. McCarthyism.Slavery..all the way back to when our government cheated, lied, and mass-murdered the Native Americans two centuries ago...
And fill in here _______ the wrongful government behavior you like to comment on.
Perhaps the ability of our traditional and NONtraditional media will have the effect of restoring the integrity of our government. But until that's true, I'm pretty sick of people saying 'well, THIS administration takes the cake!'. Whatever. They're just as sneaky as everyone else, with better tools. Our job is to make sure our tools counter that as often as possible to keep the balance. Clinton's Admin sucked, Reagan's Admin sucked, (Carter was a god), Ford/Nixon's Admin sucked...before that I was too young to care;)
And here's to AL GORE's Admin sucking- but at least it'll keep our water drinkable and air breathable. ---
Yes, well said! OE definitely has advantages- multiple POP accounts, for one, are something I've needed for a long while. Netscape's lack of support for such is simply unexcusable, IMO. Overall, it would certainly be better to be able to download the various components of Mozilla. I use ICQ, but very rarely. I have no need for another IM agent. The fact that every Netscape release I d'load FORCE installs AIM, with NO uninstall option, really pisses me off- gotta delete the directory, then hunt down all the registry keys for it. Argh. Why should I have to load a whole bunch of.dll's or whatever for components I have no interest in using. Netscape/M14 take long enough to load as it is. Of course, Mozilla will never be as fast as IE- the advantages of being tied directly to the OS instead of having to move through another layer are unbeatable. Unless/til MS opens their API's entirely, this will not be overcome. I would really dig being able to decide what I want to use to browse my system on Windows install- Netscape or Explorer? If Netscape can't do it all on a direct, API level, then don't TRY! Let me d'load and install the specific components I want to use- don't bunch everything together as 'program files', then give me lame optionals like RealPlayer and such. I'm also not all that impressed with how Mozilla is shaping up- an earlier poster hit it dead on when he said a 'poor imitation of IE'. Password saving? Ugh. Nav bar on left side? What was wrong with bookmarks? I want innovation! But sadly, perhaps MS actually had a point- as IE certainly seemed to be more innovative than M* is turning out to be. That's a sad, sad development.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
This is the US citizen's Right to Privacy. How the Bill of Rights is interpreted is a matter of constant debate, and pretty much depends on the majority opinion of the Supreme Court.
The right to privacy certainly exists, but how it's interpreted and enforced- that is the question. Overall, I agree with your point.
This I completely agree with. College may be a bastion of free expression, but growing your personal collection of music, most likely pirated, is not a valid expression (if you think music is, then buy the CD- no one stops you from doing that). Censorship is not an issue.
When I entered that URL in my Netscape (4.72) broswer, it resolved to this mess: http://32.97.169.81/@^@l$C5g$3C$C4Go{m$80$BA$_$F B$0C34770000000000056622315/wc121 But the page came up, along with an ever-lovin' popup banner too! Win98se, Netscape, 312k SDSL, uh, whatever else...
I've been watching XFiles since it started. One of the first in my 'hood to spread the word of this cool-ass show. But ever since the movie was released and the whole alien-conspiracy thing was (somewhat) resolved...it's just lost it's...edge? meaning? purpose? grit? I dunno, but for the past few months, I've been BORED with XFiles (maybe cause Dave/Dana don't wanna do it anymore). So a friend turns me on to the Sopranos (HBO). Kickass show, no doubt. When I first heard of it, I though it was some gay show about opera singers! Was I wrong.... Too bad for the non-HBO folks, but if XFiles is boring you, Sopranos are a good alternative. (this Sunday, though, it's on at 8pm, dammit, cutting into our Simpsons time!) XFiles is over
The conspiracy is actually that no 'news source' is ever going to want to post Linux-related articles for fear that their servers will be DoS'd, er, I mean, slashdotted.
Now THAT is a website with power.
Who needs portals? Next ya know, startups will be using/. in their marketing, "...plan to become the slashdot of the e-commerce world" Thus it begins
I agree, though it's kinda scarey to see a specific distro tie-in like this. So what if everyone runs to Red Hat first, and doesn't offer their products to the other distros? Couldn't that effectively kill off the commercial viability (of linux?!;) of the others? What is made for one Linux distro should be made available to ALL Linux distros- sell your brand on your support.
Anomalous Canard==Anormal Duck? (French to Eng babblefish;)
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I have Rhythms service at work and at home.
It's simply fantastic.
I signed the contracts for both places before RTHM was reselling, so I purchased direct. I think this helps alot cause I can call the NOC direct too, if I have problems/hassles.
Home install went great- BellAtlantic and Rhythms got it together fine and all was up and running within 3 weeks of the order (a week earlier than they had quoted). One major outage for a week in December when a phoneline crapped out (apparently). RTHM credited me a month free for that outage.
Work install was more hairy. Bell Atlantic kept getting the address wrong, so after a month, finally got the line dropped to the right closet (in retro, we should just run the CAT5 ourselves from the closet down the way...).
But after that fiasco, the service hasn't been down ONCE since installed in February. Not ONCE.
home speed contract- 256k sdsl, consistently get 300.
work speed contract- 384k sdsl, consistently get 400.
From all I've read and experienced, RTHM has the cap on quality. BUT you WILL pay for it- they're not cheap.
Oh, finally, had to get a branch office in MI setup with DSL. Talked to the RTHM resellers, got it all setup, all was fine...til Ameritech screwed up the line drops, twice. Finally got it right on the third try, and now RTHM is pumping our SDSL VPN connections between offices.
Really a great service, in all three of my experiences with them. The poster may have similar, since he's not far (overall) from Denver- their homebase (well, Englewood).
I love DSL.
I used Toad for my dialup when I first moved to Annapolis. Worked great for a while, but then I started getting these odd lags...I'd ping various destinations, but the packet never got out of Toad's network (stuck at beast.toad.net). I'd have no throughput for about 3 minutes, then everything ok for about an hour, then big stoppage again. ;), and them responding 'it must be the phone company', I bagged them.
;).
After a couple months of complaining about this (especially when it happened in the middle of frag fests
Having said that, I respect Toad alot. Dave the CEO is one smart cookie and built the company from a BBS. They grabbed onto being a DLEC and reselling Covad before COVD even went public.
From your report, they apparently got their routing problems figured out.
And they just reduced their prices- didja hear? If not, lemme know and I'll send you the notice (my webspace, subdomain mailboxes, and subscription to the monthly newsletter are all still active, even though I cancelled in Febuary!
I'm not supposed to say this in public, but since it's slashdot, it'll be written off as blatherings...
Humanity started on Mars billions of years ago.
They seeded Earth as a new place to live, as they wasted their natural resources and destroyed their own planet.
They also seeded Earth with low-level lifeforms whom they could use as beasts-of-burden and slave labor.
All those crop circles and such you hear about today are people who still have this Mars programming in their subconscious and are making landing sites for their masters.- whom no longer exist
And it's also the reason for the various odd land formations, like the Nazca works in South America.
However, something went horribly wrong on Mars before the seeding and transplanting was complete...likely some kinda war which wiped out all natural life on that planet. We're still looking into that.
Thus, earth was left to develop on it's own- and look where we are today! Not too bad...
The thing we need to worry about is when the beings who seeded Mars come back to look in on their experiment. Will they know we're related? Or an aberration?
Wait and see, young ones, wait and see.
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Good thought- in line with mine! ;)
Say MS does this XBox thing well. Say it takes off. Good for them, great for their extended monopoly. Imagine this DOES kill consoles as we know it? Imagine being only able to buy an XBox to play the latest, coolest games?
uck.
So, what would be needed are XBox clones. Would this be hard? Maybe just making it an appropriate case. Could one not just assemble a machine with the same spec's as the XBox and run the games?
Guess it may ultimately depend on:
1) if they change the Win2k kernal enough so the games don't work with the 'real' Win2k
2) if they put some kinda proprietary decoding chips in the box (which could be overcome by a software codec and a faster CPU than spec).
I personally will be selling XBox clones if the established consoles die off.
I agree. I read over his site, then paid for it before I initiated the download.
.28dpi 17" monitor. Printing it out, double-sided, is a fine option too.
;)
I like King books- been reading them since middle school (10 years now- though not as much free time now), and I'll support him in this effort because:
1. The net will shakeout the middle-men who make the prices of everything twice as much as they should be (RIAA prime example). I support anything that provides direct-delivery.
2. King has given me years of imaginative enjoyment and I happily pay for those, and future, dreams.
My concerns:
1. That first dload was, what, 20 pages? I hope all his chapters aren't that short or the book wil end up costing way more than a standard paperback.
2. Jerks in the public who just don't have any sense of honesty, and who feed of the chartity of others, in any situation.
The format is fine- reads great on my basic
This also opens up the market for home book-binding kits: a selection of 10 covers to choose from, instructions, tools, and glue to bind that book you just dloaded. Goofy idea? Wait and see
Finally, I like the suggestion of all this going into an escrow- so we can be refunded if the book is never finished. I will be pissed if he gets into 20 chapters then stops cause of one bad 60% month!
You, sir, are correct.
Unfortunately, the cartoon Clerks on Fox (of not Fox, forgive, but it's gotta be Fox) is just so not funny. I keep trying to give it a chance, but man....
Clerks the movie was classic (though what kinda guys did that gal screw to not notice fat man was DEAD?).
Clerks the cartoon won't make it past July.
Anarchism is: Tool to the worker, computer to the hacker, tractor to the farmer, etc
I'm no study of political theory, but this is certainly not what anarchy means to me! Does not anarchy support the idea of no government?
So anarchists have faith in human nature, eh? You believe that if there is no government, and no governing law, that the farmer is going to keep his tractor? What if the farmer down the road owns a bunch more land and has a gun? Can't he just take the first farmer's tractor? Heck, can't he enslave that farmer- and his family?
Sorry I don't have time to go through you FAQ's, I really am interested to know if my take on anarchy is incorrect. But the Anarchists I knew in College...boy...talk about trouble-makers. These cats not only disrespected authority (perhaps rightfully), but pretty much disrespected humanity in general.
When it comes to wireless, I am definitely wary or Verizon. But there's PCS and ATT for now to offer competition. Even if Sprint merges with WCOM, that's three major provider choices.
So ATT will own a hunk of cable- so what? TW-AOL will own another big chunk. As another poster pointed out, that's still only 60% of the national coverage- plenty of room for other cable providers
There's a standard just agreed upon to allow home networking over powerlines. Assume this technology will be developed to the point where nation/worldwide IP traffic will work as well.
And DSL is here, and getting faster, and will provide voice (VoDSL). So as I see it, consumers will be able to get their internet, cable, phone, etc service over either:
1. Cable lines
2. Phone lines
3. Wireless/Satellite
4. Power lines
Doesn't sound like a monopoly situation to me. And as seen with MS, the Fed Gov't, while certainly clueless sometimes, will not allow one company to dominate so many delivery systems completely. Plus, who would WANT to own all that infrastructure- what a nightmare for upkeep.
The only concern I have is rates and providers. Likely, it'll be cheaper to get your phone, net, and TV access through one provider, but that's a single point of failure. Yikes! At least when my cable goes out, my DSL connection still works, or at least my phone does so I can call my cable provider and get them moving.If all was provided by one company, man, I'd be raging when the next hurricane completely kills my stimuli. Time to break out Scrabble!
Or for that matter a pro-abortion (I REFUSE to call is pro-choice...) idea in a pro-life group?
huh? I dunno how open your mind is, but you may want to consider actually talking to a few pro-choice people. My wife has a kid from an earlier...mistake. She's pro-choice, and chose to keep her child. Two friends of mine from college have both had unplanned pregnancies. While both are strongly pro-choice, they've both kept their babies as well. All pro-choice means is that such folks believe a woman has choice and control over her own body and that the gov't shouldn't dictate. If they so choose to have the baby, that's fine. But they won't be judged as heathen if they choose to abort.Open your circle of friends = open your mind.
I hear ya- I hate seeing a third of my paycheck disappear too! But there are alot of other things on which our money is misspent, IMO. While I also agree the school/library cash is being mis-spent, that doesn't surprise me much. It's a large program and our gov't is nothing if not perfectly adept at mismanagement.
Still, it's a needed measure and has my full support.
Tax-whining. A lot of it may be justified, but not in this case (in MY o, of course). I happily pay a portion of my taxes to build-out the net infrastructure of our schools, libraries, etc. NO PROBLEM! I figure if the gov't is going to use my tax $$ to develop military machinery, the least they can do is use another portion to actually help educate the woefully uneducated American populace.
Imagine the time when your opinion may actually be HEARD by our elected officials.
While I tend to look at such programs with a skeptical eye as well, I think that this is an overall a good thing. ;)
Yeap, it builds loyalty, high morale and such, but tell ya what Ford really wants to do with these home computers...
Training.
They spend HUGE $$ on training every year. One of our services is to create computer-based training for manufacturing clients; Ford being one of them.
Imagine the $$ they save if, not only does a given plant not have to send their employees out of state for new training (now that they have the program locally on their factory's network), but they can convince their employees to sit through the training on their OWN time at home!
Cool by us; web-based training has a higher cost justification
I dunno how much luck Ford will have with such a request- the UAW is pretty leery of doing any work for free. But overall, a good plan. If nothing else, UAW/Ford workers will be able to ICQ-plot together during the next labor strike!
I use Macromedia products daily. The stipulation in their EULA applies to them using your product for marketing purposes. They CANNOT resell it or otherwise profit from the product you created with their software. Well, I guess they do profit somewhat by using your product as a showcase piece, but I would think that would be more complimentary than offensive...
I use their Authorware product the most, and that licensing agreement states you may distribute products created with Authorware freely, as long as you:
1. Embed their logo and a 'Made with Macromedia' line in your software and on the packaging
2. Send them two copies of your product.
I've been developing A'ware products for 5 years now, and have yet to see anything I've developed used anywhere but where it was intended, so I doubt Macromedia has anything subversive in mind (?).
Then again, we create custom CBT, not usually off-shelf products.
Thing is, those kids so many years ago did exactly as you say- they went out- hunted, killed, and cleanded. I have many friends from western PA who do the same things today.
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The difference is they EXPERIENCE death. They KNOW the power of the weapon. They see the blood, they see the light go out in the animals' eyes. They understand what pulling the trigger means.
Video games emulate all the behavior without the experience. Ya, you can blow away 20 aliens in one minute, but do you experience the pain? Do the aliens cry out? Do you see pictures of their parents grief-stricken?
That's the issue. Not that guns are any different today than they were years ago, but that the experience is different. Without respect for life- without understanding the pain and sorrow killing can cause- that is the tragedy.
Violent video games can perpetuate the violence- and kids can grow up thinking violence is no big deal. Ah, so someone gets shot-they'll be ok....right?
That is where the parent/peer guidance needs to come in. I watched violent movies sometimes as a kid, but my parents were always there with the sorrowful look on their face when a death occurred- or they made me watch MASH to see the other side.
Yeah, that's it- every hour my kid plays a violent video game, it'll be balanced with an episode of MASH.
Man, and I thought I was the only one with that notion. Good to know others are just as paranoid as me in some respects. You really DO have to wonder...nature is nature, and ya fsck with it too much, consequences can be dire. Then again, I sit surrounded by three monitors, 2 computers, and random externals daily. My personal magnetic field (aura?) is probably heavy itself. I feel no strange effects...yet.
Hear! Hear! Wish I had moderator points today... ;). If it is feasible, it will be installed and will charge a battery specifically for running the well pump. That only turns on about four times a day, and for about 5 minutes. Not sure of the Kw usage, but surely enough to run off a constantly recharged battery. The battery will ALSO run the sump pump when its needed- which failed during Floyd when electricity was knocked out by trees and our basement flooded (we were out of state).
I need to get a solar, uh, expert out to my place sometime to do some readings- I think there are too many trees in the way for a good solar array on my roof (though- never such a thing as too many trees!
Solar power definitely has it's usefulness, but isn't a cure-all....yet.
Time to get outta here and go hug a tree.
I like this Slashdot thing. Cool stuff since I was led to it a couple years ago. Perhaps this is beyond what slashdot hopes to accomplish, but there is SUCH a great wealth of knowledge here, its a shame it can only be accessed via designated topics. Even Ask Slashdot questions are picked for us.
So how about setting up a part of this venerable website as a general forum? Where folks can post questions which the Powers That Be may not consider worthy enough to post on the front page?
I'm trying to learn Linux, and often have questions directly related to the OS, or others about what type of programs are the best, the options- how exactly a recompile works and such.
It would be fantastic if I could post these questions in a general forum in case anyone is willing to help.
Or perhaps such a place exists already! But usually I have to remember 10 different newsgroups/webboards and which I posted questions to...
Kinda like an Open Ask Q/A section. Embrace and Extend?
Perhaps the moderation of such an area would be overwhelming. Then again, the same user-moderation scheme could be used there. Or perhaps just ask for volunteers from among those with the higher karma points.
Regardless, love the site and would really dig if it expanded in such a way.
Ya, ya, ya...
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Look everyone, I agree that the Clinton administration is FAR from honest. I'm sure they're being as sneaky and underhanded as they can get away with (or can't) in order to do what they feel they 'have' to do -whether you or I believe it's in the country's best interest or not.
Thing is, what has changed? Certainly NOT the integrity of the Presidency (aside from public view of), nor the federal government in general. I have no way of proving this, but history surely indicates that the Fed. Gov't has done such sneaky and underhanded deals since its inception!
What HAS changed is our ability to learn about such things. With all the high-handed morality of the 50's, you think that JFK's mob connections and philandering WOULDN'T have caused national scandal?
Iran/Contra. Watergate. Viet Nam. McCarthyism.Slavery..all the way back to when our government cheated, lied, and mass-murdered the Native Americans two centuries ago...
And fill in here _______ the wrongful government behavior you like to comment on.
Perhaps the ability of our traditional and NONtraditional media will have the effect of restoring the integrity of our government. But until that's true, I'm pretty sick of people saying 'well, THIS administration takes the cake!'. Whatever. They're just as sneaky as everyone else, with better tools. Our job is to make sure our tools counter that as often as possible to keep the balance.
Clinton's Admin sucked, Reagan's Admin sucked, (Carter was a god), Ford/Nixon's Admin sucked...before that I was too young to care
And here's to AL GORE's Admin sucking- but at least it'll keep our water drinkable and air breathable.
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Yes, well said! .dll's or whatever for components I have no interest in using. Netscape/M14 take long enough to load as it is.
OE definitely has advantages- multiple POP accounts, for one, are something I've needed for a long while. Netscape's lack of support for such is simply unexcusable, IMO.
Overall, it would certainly be better to be able to download the various components of Mozilla. I use ICQ, but very rarely. I have no need for another IM agent. The fact that every Netscape release I d'load FORCE installs AIM, with NO uninstall option, really pisses me off- gotta delete the directory, then hunt down all the registry keys for it. Argh.
Why should I have to load a whole bunch of
Of course, Mozilla will never be as fast as IE- the advantages of being tied directly to the OS instead of having to move through another layer are unbeatable. Unless/til MS opens their API's entirely, this will not be overcome. I would really dig being able to decide what I want to use to browse my system on Windows install- Netscape or Explorer?
If Netscape can't do it all on a direct, API level, then don't TRY! Let me d'load and install the specific components I want to use- don't bunch everything together as 'program files', then give me lame optionals like RealPlayer and such.
I'm also not all that impressed with how Mozilla is shaping up- an earlier poster hit it dead on when he said a 'poor imitation of IE'. Password saving? Ugh. Nav bar on left side? What was wrong with bookmarks? I want innovation! But sadly, perhaps MS actually had a point- as IE certainly seemed to be more innovative than M* is turning out to be. That's a sad, sad development.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
This is the US citizen's Right to Privacy. How the Bill of Rights is interpreted is a matter of constant debate, and pretty much depends on the majority opinion of the Supreme Court.
The right to privacy certainly exists, but how it's interpreted and enforced- that is the question. Overall, I agree with your point.
This I completely agree with.
College may be a bastion of free expression, but growing your personal collection of music, most likely pirated, is not a valid expression (if you think music is, then buy the CD- no one stops you from doing that).
Censorship is not an issue.
When I entered that URL in my Netscape (4.72) broswer, it resolved to this mess:F B$0C34770000000000056622315/wc121
http://32.97.169.81/@^@l$C5g$3C$C4Go{m$80$BA$_$
But the page came up, along with an ever-lovin' popup banner too!
Win98se, Netscape, 312k SDSL, uh, whatever else...
I've been watching XFiles since it started. One of the first in my 'hood to spread the word of this cool-ass show.
But ever since the movie was released and the whole alien-conspiracy thing was (somewhat) resolved...it's just lost it's...edge? meaning? purpose? grit?
I dunno, but for the past few months, I've been BORED with XFiles (maybe cause Dave/Dana don't wanna do it anymore).
So a friend turns me on to the Sopranos (HBO). Kickass show, no doubt. When I first heard of it, I though it was some gay show about opera singers!
Was I wrong....
Too bad for the non-HBO folks, but if XFiles is boring you, Sopranos are a good alternative. (this Sunday, though, it's on at 8pm, dammit, cutting into our Simpsons time!)
XFiles is over
The conspiracy is actually that no 'news source' is ever going to want to post Linux-related articles for fear that their servers will be DoS'd, er, I mean, slashdotted.
/. in their marketing,
Now THAT is a website with power.
Who needs portals? Next ya know, startups will be using
"...plan to become the slashdot of the e-commerce world"
Thus it begins
I agree, though it's kinda scarey to see a specific distro tie-in like this. So what if everyone runs to Red Hat first, and doesn't offer their products to the other distros? Couldn't that effectively kill off the commercial viability (of linux?! ;) of the others? What is made for one Linux distro should be made available to ALL Linux distros- sell your brand on your support.
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