Linux good for specialty things - a niche - but not ready for prime time general use by masses. 10 reasons:
1. Spend hours trying to get Linux to work with frequent hardware or software hiccups. 2. Boss not happy. 3. Not good for me when boss not happy. 4. Company not happy. Not good for boss when company not happy. 5. Company paying him (and me) pay for Windows software that can be used out of box more or less. 6. Work get done 7. Boss happy 8. Company happy 9. Boss get paid. Boss get to eat, sleep indoors. 10. Me get paid. Me get to eat, sleep indoors.
If the power company is like the local ISP monopoly where I lived until earlier this year, most of the activity was financial: companies buying and selling each other. The ISP tech who told me this while working at my house said little to no money was put into infrastructure for the past 20 years or so.
Used it overseas during my career and most English channels were encrypted/subscription. Only English free channels I saw were news (occasionally) and infomercials. Years ago I read that there were sidebands on the C-band signals that contained radio and data but never investigated it.
Originally up to 5 computers was free. When that number went to six - my elderly parents and relatives, plus my accessing my files at home while I'm on the road - I started paying a reasonable annual subscription fee. Now for $49, then $99, for only two computers, it's not worth it. I know several small business owners that were paying this subscription for access to a similar number of computers in their offices. Neither they nor I need/use the "gee whiz" junk of LMI Pro. We're all leaving because LMI is no longer worth the cost.
I had dinner with a H.S. teacher recently and I was amazed at how things have changed. For example, it's now SOP for them to call the police when two kids get into a FIGHT. Even a basic fistfight with no weapons and no serious injuries. "Ridiculous" is right.
How does a kid being bullied not count as assault? Certainly when I was at school there was a lot of bullying going on and the school simply didn't care (even when people inevitably ended up injured). Whilst I'll agree that the first port of call should be for it to be handled internally in the school, if that doesn't work shouldn't the police be involved if only for the protection of the kids on the receiving end?
Drummer in our band in Frankfurt, Germany in 2003-2004, was a teacher at International Schule of Frankfurt. USED to be a high-school teacher in Baltimore. Broke up a knife fight between two girls and HE got into trouble for allegedly touching one of the girls "inappropriately" as he tried to pull them apart. That HE or one or both of the girls could be injured was immaterial. He basically said, "F**k this!" and is still teaching in Germany.
German extension phones also cannot be used to pick up and listen to or join another phone conversation happening in your house, unlike US extension phones. This law was put into place decades ago in a reaction to the Nazi days. Seems to me the requirement to secure your wireless connections may be related legally.
We have had a generation, maybe two, that have been pushed through school with self-esteem pushed above academics, creating a situation where (as summed up by a friend of mine,) "we have a nation full of kids who are dumber than a box of rocks but feel great about themselves."
Dave Matthews and Charlize Theron are "African" too - both born in South Africa - but can you imagine the hoo-ha if they went around promoting themselves African or African-Americans? (I don't know either are naturalized US citizens.) To claim oneself AFRICAN-American is the current, "PC" synonym for black, and is technically innaccurate and as meaningless as myself saying I'm Scots/Irish-American. Naming a kid Jamal, Shaniqua, Taniqua, Chandral, or whatever will not make them one bit more African. Neither would naming my kids Sean, Ian, Seamus, or whatever make them a Scot or Irish. Unless severely inbred, in the US we're all essentially mongrels after a few generations and could claim lineage from any number of places. AMERICAN is the operative word, or SHOULD be. The part before the hyphen is, simply a flag of your favorite heritage, but usually it's an affected one with only a remote genealogical connection.
And, by the way, the same logic of African-American terminology legitimizes people from anywhere in the Western Hemisphere call themselves Americans.
Both of their tax cut programs are in la-la land. I'm voting against the party who in 1999 pushed Mae and Mac into (essentially) guaranteeing sub-prime mortgages, who stymied later attempts to regulate Mac/Mae so that the greedy could push and the no-credit/risky borrowers could obtain jumbo mortgages, who cost me $75k so far and my mother-in-law $100k in our retirement accounts, just as she's required to start withdrawing from hers, and who's House Speaker lied through her teeth saying Bush caused it, when Slick Willy himself said his democratic colleagues were most culpable...
Clinton cut intelligence and military budgets...and we know what that contributed to.
I'm not in love with George W (I voted for Gore in 2000) but W had to deal with a mess that was already brewing during the Clinton years which blew up on his watch.
In August, 1983, at age 23, my banjo-playing brother was in a near-fatal car crash. He had compound fractures of both femurs, broke both arms and suffered severe brain trauma. He was in a coma for a month and there was considerable doubt that he'd live, much less walk. Once out of his coma and physically able to hold the banjo, he started playing again, slowly at first but eventually recovering his pro-level ability on it, and his ability to walk again. His doctors said that rerouting of his brain pathways was in no small part by the mental stimulus provided by playing that banjo.
Make fun of it if you will - and personally about the only thing that drives me crazier than the banjo is opera - but the neurological activity require to play an instrument, particularly to professional skill level he has, is therapeutic to the injured and good mental exercise for the uninjured.
What's so smart about believing that democrats only want to tax those making over $250,000/year? They bring out that bedtime fairy tale every election.
And how does the incumbent party responsible for the largest increases in national debt in history continue to claim that they're the fiscally responsible party?
And how does the party who pushed thru the 1999 relaxation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac credit requirements, allowing people with bad credit to get mortgage loans in the predatory subprime mortgage market and who opposed the 2003 Bush administration attempts to impose tighter fiscal regulation and oversight claim the same thing?
I recall a CNN segment a few years back where Big Head Todd and the Monsters said that now that they're doing their own production and distribution they're selling fewer CDs than they did under their record contract but they're making more money.
I'm a US citizen living in the Dominican Republic. The same Dish Network satellite footprint feeds central Florida (my permanent home) and Puerto Rico, and the DR is right in the middle. Dish Network techs even helped me over the phone regarding antenna types to use here. Only problem was that my DVR needed to phone home to Dish's 1-800 number and the DR phone system doesn't support direct dialing to US 1-800 numbers.
Vonage to the rescue: I have a phone number from my US home town, can call my family and friends and US toll-free numbers easily with good connections, and my DVR can call Dish Network, so that I'm not PIRATING the signal like the other expats are doing here (And they lose their service every week or so when the encryption changes and put money in the pockets of the local satellite guys to fix it.)
My sons originally were into newer stuff, dominant features of which were rapping/screaming to the exclusion of SINGING, and canned beats instead of musicians playing. As they got into music and learned to play it THEMSELVES, what I hear from their various players changed to considerable amounts of "classic rock": Zep, Hendrix, Yes, et. al. As my youngest son put it: Rap and stuff like that are for people who don't KNOW anything about music.
It struck me that they have simply rediscovered and appreciated music that had real people singing and playing real instruments on the recordings, before sampled-and-programmed this and that buried it.
I ran Windows 2000 on an old Gateway 2000 10th Anniversary special I purchased in 1995. It was p100 (I think) but had been upgraded from 16 to 96 MB. Ran a little slower under Win2k versus WinNT I had on it but wasn't that much difference.
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Linux good for specialty things - a niche - but not ready for prime time general use by masses. 10 reasons:
1. Spend hours trying to get Linux to work with frequent hardware or software hiccups.
2. Boss not happy.
3. Not good for me when boss not happy.
4. Company not happy. Not good for boss when company not happy.
5. Company paying him (and me) pay for Windows software that can be used out of box more or less.
6. Work get done
7. Boss happy
8. Company happy
9. Boss get paid. Boss get to eat, sleep indoors.
10. Me get paid. Me get to eat, sleep indoors.
If the power company is like the local ISP monopoly where I lived until earlier this year, most of the activity was financial: companies buying and selling each other. The ISP tech who told me this while working at my house said little to no money was put into infrastructure for the past 20 years or so.
Used it overseas during my career and most English channels were encrypted/subscription. Only English free channels I saw were news (occasionally) and infomercials. Years ago I read that there were sidebands on the C-band signals that contained radio and data but never investigated it.
Originally up to 5 computers was free. When that number went to six - my elderly parents and relatives, plus my accessing my files at home while I'm on the road - I started paying a reasonable annual subscription fee. Now for $49, then $99, for only two computers, it's not worth it. I know several small business owners that were paying this subscription for access to a similar number of computers in their offices. Neither they nor I need/use the "gee whiz" junk of LMI Pro. We're all leaving because LMI is no longer worth the cost.
I had dinner with a H.S. teacher recently and I was amazed at how things have changed. For example, it's now SOP for them to call the police when two kids get into a FIGHT. Even a basic fistfight with no weapons and no serious injuries. "Ridiculous" is right.
How does a kid being bullied not count as assault? Certainly when I was at school there was a lot of bullying going on and the school simply didn't care (even when people inevitably ended up injured). Whilst I'll agree that the first port of call should be for it to be handled internally in the school, if that doesn't work shouldn't the police be involved if only for the protection of the kids on the receiving end?
Drummer in our band in Frankfurt, Germany in 2003-2004, was a teacher at International Schule of Frankfurt. USED to be a high-school teacher in Baltimore. Broke up a knife fight between two girls and HE got into trouble for allegedly touching one of the girls "inappropriately" as he tried to pull them apart. That HE or one or both of the girls could be injured was immaterial. He basically said, "F**k this!" and is still teaching in Germany.
Common sense is dead!
I got Ophiuchus!
What do I win?
Me too, but my wife says I'm still a horse's ass
First thing I thought of was if the network is to be considered a "medical device" does it now become subject to additional taxes under ObamaCare?
Friend of mine put it nicely a few years ago: "Once you get into your early thirties employers care more for your experience than your education."
German extension phones also cannot be used to pick up and listen to or join another phone conversation happening in your house, unlike US extension phones. This law was put into place decades ago in a reaction to the Nazi days. Seems to me the requirement to secure your wireless connections may be related legally.
We have had a generation, maybe two, that have been pushed through school with self-esteem pushed above academics, creating a situation where (as summed up by a friend of mine,) "we have a nation full of kids who are dumber than a box of rocks but feel great about themselves."
Dave Matthews and Charlize Theron are "African" too - both born in South Africa - but can you imagine the hoo-ha if they went around promoting themselves African or African-Americans? (I don't know either are naturalized US citizens.) To claim oneself AFRICAN-American is the current, "PC" synonym for black, and is technically innaccurate and as meaningless as myself saying I'm Scots/Irish-American. Naming a kid Jamal, Shaniqua, Taniqua, Chandral, or whatever will not make them one bit more African. Neither would naming my kids Sean, Ian, Seamus, or whatever make them a Scot or Irish. Unless severely inbred, in the US we're all essentially mongrels after a few generations and could claim lineage from any number of places. AMERICAN is the operative word, or SHOULD be. The part before the hyphen is, simply a flag of your favorite heritage, but usually it's an affected one with only a remote genealogical connection.
And, by the way, the same logic of African-American terminology legitimizes people from anywhere in the Western Hemisphere call themselves Americans.
Both of their tax cut programs are in la-la land. I'm voting against the party who in 1999 pushed Mae and Mac into (essentially) guaranteeing sub-prime mortgages, who stymied later attempts to regulate Mac/Mae so that the greedy could push and the no-credit/risky borrowers could obtain jumbo mortgages, who cost me $75k so far and my mother-in-law $100k in our retirement accounts, just as she's required to start withdrawing from hers, and who's House Speaker lied through her teeth saying Bush caused it, when Slick Willy himself said his democratic colleagues were most culpable...
Clinton cut intelligence and military budgets...and we know what that contributed to.
I'm not in love with George W (I voted for Gore in 2000) but W had to deal with a mess that was already brewing during the Clinton years which blew up on his watch.
In August, 1983, at age 23, my banjo-playing brother was in a near-fatal car crash. He had compound fractures of both femurs, broke both arms and suffered severe brain trauma. He was in a coma for a month and there was considerable doubt that he'd live, much less walk. Once out of his coma and physically able to hold the banjo, he started playing again, slowly at first but eventually recovering his pro-level ability on it, and his ability to walk again. His doctors said that rerouting of his brain pathways was in no small part by the mental stimulus provided by playing that banjo.
Make fun of it if you will - and personally about the only thing that drives me crazier than the banjo is opera - but the neurological activity require to play an instrument, particularly to professional skill level he has, is therapeutic to the injured and good mental exercise for the uninjured.
What's so smart about believing that democrats only want to tax those making over $250,000/year? They bring out that bedtime fairy tale every election.
And how does the incumbent party responsible for the largest increases in national debt in history continue to claim that they're the fiscally responsible party?
And how does the party who pushed thru the 1999 relaxation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac credit requirements, allowing people with bad credit to get mortgage loans in the predatory subprime mortgage market and who opposed the 2003 Bush administration attempts to impose tighter fiscal regulation and oversight claim the same thing?
I recall a CNN segment a few years back where Big Head Todd and the Monsters said that now that they're doing their own production and distribution they're selling fewer CDs than they did under their record contract but they're making more money.
The CRIME was the tauting of the dangers animal by a bunch of idiots.
I nominate these clowns for the Darwin Awards...
I'm a US citizen living in the Dominican Republic. The same Dish Network satellite footprint feeds central Florida (my permanent home) and Puerto Rico, and the DR is right in the middle. Dish Network techs even helped me over the phone regarding antenna types to use here. Only problem was that my DVR needed to phone home to Dish's 1-800 number and the DR phone system doesn't support direct dialing to US 1-800 numbers.
Vonage to the rescue: I have a phone number from my US home town, can call my family and friends and US toll-free numbers easily with good connections, and my DVR can call Dish Network, so that I'm not PIRATING the signal like the other expats are doing here (And they lose their service every week or so when the encryption changes and put money in the pockets of the local satellite guys to fix it.)
If Vonage dies, then what?
My sons originally were into newer stuff, dominant features of which were rapping/screaming to the exclusion of SINGING, and canned beats instead of musicians playing. As they got into music and learned to play it THEMSELVES, what I hear from their various players changed to considerable amounts of "classic rock": Zep, Hendrix, Yes, et. al. As my youngest son put it: Rap and stuff like that are for people who don't KNOW anything about music. It struck me that they have simply rediscovered and appreciated music that had real people singing and playing real instruments on the recordings, before sampled-and-programmed this and that buried it.
I ran Windows 2000 on an old Gateway 2000 10th Anniversary special I purchased in 1995. It was p100 (I think) but had been upgraded from 16 to 96 MB. Ran a little slower under Win2k versus WinNT I had on it but wasn't that much difference.
Could you please contact me at sornord@hotmail.com? Have a few questions re your earlier telecommunting posts.