Almost nobody in this "works"/"No it doesn't" tug of war mentions how _far_ they are from the antenna farm. For me, it's a solid 40+ miles across a metro to an indoor yagi and one network's 1080 in particular can be marginal now and then weather notwithstanding. That's why I _really_ want to be done with this and see DT running full power.
How many of these politicians trawling the bottom of the barrel for populist votes really thinks another six months will do what the previous six months didn't do to get the old, the poor and the stupid up and running? Before passing an extension there should be a rider attached to the bill mandating that the TV warning commercials state something like, "Because some of you are really slow, you are holding everybody else up. You know who you are and this is your last warning."
Sadly, have to agree. My Democratic Senator was one of the cosponsors and I've been thinking for some time that, aside from the calculation of her pandering meat-and-'taters populism, she's pretty lacking in wisdom.
At our new home of two months, reception is marginal on a few channels. I've been holding on for that last month wondering whether power will be diverted to HD when analog goes down so my problem will disappear. Or whether I need an amp and a better antenna. If they move the channels back to VHF when analog goes down will any given amp and antenna combo I buy now be optimal at VHF?
This is really annoying. We've been on broadcast HD for something like 2-1/4 years and I don't think that earns us any early-adopter bragging rights. If the Senate wants to please the greatest slice of the normal curve, I think they have aimed very low.
The thought might be good. But what percentage of our taxes will be listed as "other" for the NSA, CIA, classified Defense, State and God knows what?
On the other hand, if Americans realize how much is "other", it could be an eye-opener. People will have more to complain about than welfare mothers and mass transit.
Pretty much the same here. "Eh, it's all good." Done both, currently KDE 3.5 and not tired of tweaking, but Gnome has its good points and I could live with it happily enough if it takes KDE 4.x some time to recreate 3.5 features.
Actually, you mention xfce and that's my new toy. Done the home DSL server command line on an old 2g Barracuda SCSI but it's a lot more elegant with a laptop running xfce. Also have a 400 mhz K6-III running a current Debian with xfce surprisingly decently -- if you don't count boot and program load times -- and that's sort of cool to watch.
Except in places like China and Thailand. Since the Bush regime destroyed our economy, deflation is a serious concern. Americans don't have the money to pay "American prices" anymore. Microsoft being a mighty spoiled corporation with a mighty high margin, it isn't surprising that they will be the last to notice and adjust. All the better for linux.
Or is at least getting paid moonlighting at some tutoring blog.
Hasn't this come up before in/. where a prof has claimed their lecture is copyrighted by some publisher so students can't copy it? Might be true regarding the contract the prof signed with the company, so it is up to the university in the contract it signs with professors to explicitly forbid this nonsense.
If they were willing to speak truthfully with an honest heart about where the facts lead, a requirement to point out the weaknesses of evolution wouldn't be a bad thing. I read a fascinating article at New Scientist yesterday, Why Darwin was wrong about the tree of life, on how hibridization is rampant in life. It would be a fantastic thing to discuss in class.
But here's what would happen. Jim Bob would use that article as his talk on the weaknesses of evolution. No later than about two days he would be called to the principal's office and the discussion would go something like this: "Jim Bob, there have been some concerns about your commitment as a teacher. Do you feel you have the sort of character and motivation for teaching our youth?" And next round of contracts Jim Bob is asking whether you'd like fries with that. _That_ is how our honorable principal would handle the problem of Jim Bob bringing up actual science in discussion of Darwin.
Which comes to the second problem America has in this area: local control. Unfortunately, local control is a sacred cow in our society but as long as a couple crazy parents can sit outside a principal's door every day driving him crazy with their demands for this or that curriculum addition, we will have problems with American education. If we had a national curriculum like so many other countries at least much of the discussion would be above-board.
Sounds particularly weird to my experience as well that a PDF wouldn't export great.
One does understand that exporting from any word processor to any other word processor requires good word processing practices, right? You don't type some text at the top of a page and _call_ it a header, or at the bottom and _call_ it a footer, or tab out some text and _call_ it a table. Hard page returns are good and it never hurts to leave an extra line/page if font differences cause expansion. Etc. A person can search for more extensive guides on export practices and I know the person who wrote the OpenOffice Resource Kit has one on the web.
Maybe not "perfectly" well because there is something that got corrupted that OO.o ignores. But, yes, I got a reputation around the office a few years ago as the "hacker" who should be forwarded all the corrupt Word attachments (lucky me) because I could get the content out.
That's my thinking. Sure, this scheme is probably poison to the small, independent ISP but I can't imagine Comcast and Time Warner don't already have somebody firing up his spreadsheet to do some income stream projections. Seems like a natural win-win-win for all businesses involved. I mean, if somebody can't figure out how to connect Ubuntu to their broadband how are they going to think to research the availability of alternative, small ISPs even if they do exist for any given location?
Of course, readers of Slashdot will know *why* it doesn't work
E-V-E-N-T-U-A-L-L-Y -- if not now. That's where the "intelligence thing" comes in, isn't it?
My first home broadband, I had to configure OS/2 Warp from dial-up to LAN. I'd been using home computers for over a decade but I hadn't a damn clue and couldn't have done it myself if somebody put a gun to my head. But I knew there was The Google and The Yahoo. So there really is a distinction between somebody who is helpless and somebody who can at least research their situation.
I never know how to respond to this sort of thing that I'm sure other people at/. also get all the time. Is it stupidity (more specifically an inability to generalize out of a real-world problem) or is it just "technie knowledge" that she shouldn't have to know? Frankly, I have to sway toward stupid. If a person that young isn't smart enough to get on The Google and find a how-to she can doggedly follow to set her name servers and make sure Ubuntu is set up for DHCP with her provider's modem, she may have already funked the college IQ test.
Have a friend going for a second try on parathyroid (and now maybe thyroid) tumor surgery next week. It is my understanding the tumor is non-malignant but the tissue is literally indistinguishable by eye from healthy tissue and needs a marker. They have to figure out a 3D "eyeball" of it with a radiation counter after they slit the throat open. First try, they just didn't feel they had the parameters so they closed up and they're going in again.
Ah, a fellow cynic. Some people just don't appreciate good sarcasm.
Yes, I could see Congressmen who dine regularly with their Microsoft lobbyist giving speeches about how excessive $2 billion would be for "hobbyists". While the (foreign) Citibank got -- $300 billion, right? To produce what?
This whole idea shows way too much pragmatic sense for 21st century America.
With the apparent difference that they are up-front about it.
There is that nightmare scenario of getting your player stolen. Just try to get the cops to stay awake long enough to write out a report, make sure you have a full and complete list, and when the RIAA comes calling for their million dollars, make sure you say, "But my player was stolen!".
On the question: "You see that one of your coworkers occasionally shoplifts small items. Do you:"
_Always_ answer: "It's no big thing. He's a good worker otherwise."
1. If you _are_ company rat material, do you really want to come to that self-realization when your tires are slashed?
2. Why are you applying for a job at the Buy More anyway?
[Actually, as a kid I was pretty naive to interview strategies. But, then, the best job I ever had the group interview somehow got around to the fact I was from Minnesota and so was Bob Dylan. So, quite the opposite of rapport, if you show up at a place that is treating you like a child, shouldn't you turn around and run very fast?]
If I remember they said there was a storm in the mid-19th century that interfered with _telegraph_ traffic. Which is to say, think about what it would do to microprocessors.
In Minnesota, you have the right to a copy of your employment record and employment offices recommend you get it. I understand some companies have tried to tell you to appear in person and run the copier but I didn't have that problem. Unfortunately, off-and-on, here-and-there in academia I managed to work a full ten years at the last place without once submitting a performance review. Although I think that is pretty impressive on the one hand, it meant my HR record amounted to 1/2 an inch plus of mostly worthless paper. One sheet, a manager's personal commendation for a project well done, was the HR record of my decade outside of "present".
I guess the moral is: performance reviews are good, commendations are a valuable thing to enter into a subordinate's record, and, really, most of a person's HR record is worthless fodder of the bureaucracy anyway.
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Almost nobody in this "works"/"No it doesn't" tug of war mentions how _far_ they are from the antenna farm. For me, it's a solid 40+ miles across a metro to an indoor yagi and one network's 1080 in particular can be marginal now and then weather notwithstanding. That's why I _really_ want to be done with this and see DT running full power.
How many of these politicians trawling the bottom of the barrel for populist votes really thinks another six months will do what the previous six months didn't do to get the old, the poor and the stupid up and running? Before passing an extension there should be a rider attached to the bill mandating that the TV warning commercials state something like, "Because some of you are really slow, you are holding everybody else up. You know who you are and this is your last warning."
Sadly, have to agree. My Democratic Senator was one of the cosponsors and I've been thinking for some time that, aside from the calculation of her pandering meat-and-'taters populism, she's pretty lacking in wisdom.
So how will we move people to habitable colonies in the clouds before the Earth atmosphere is thick enough to support them?
At our new home of two months, reception is marginal on a few channels. I've been holding on for that last month wondering whether power will be diverted to HD when analog goes down so my problem will disappear. Or whether I need an amp and a better antenna. If they move the channels back to VHF when analog goes down will any given amp and antenna combo I buy now be optimal at VHF?
This is really annoying. We've been on broadcast HD for something like 2-1/4 years and I don't think that earns us any early-adopter bragging rights. If the Senate wants to please the greatest slice of the normal curve, I think they have aimed very low.
To anybody who can record Microsoft Bob singing to Songsmith while Clippy dances.
Preferably on a black velvet background.
The thought might be good. But what percentage of our taxes will be listed as "other" for the NSA, CIA, classified Defense, State and God knows what?
On the other hand, if Americans realize how much is "other", it could be an eye-opener. People will have more to complain about than welfare mothers and mass transit.
Pretty much the same here. "Eh, it's all good." Done both, currently KDE 3.5 and not tired of tweaking, but Gnome has its good points and I could live with it happily enough if it takes KDE 4.x some time to recreate 3.5 features.
Actually, you mention xfce and that's my new toy. Done the home DSL server command line on an old 2g Barracuda SCSI but it's a lot more elegant with a laptop running xfce. Also have a 400 mhz K6-III running a current Debian with xfce surprisingly decently -- if you don't count boot and program load times -- and that's sort of cool to watch.
Except in places like China and Thailand. Since the Bush regime destroyed our economy, deflation is a serious concern. Americans don't have the money to pay "American prices" anymore. Microsoft being a mighty spoiled corporation with a mighty high margin, it isn't surprising that they will be the last to notice and adjust. All the better for linux.
Or is at least getting paid moonlighting at some tutoring blog.
Hasn't this come up before in /. where a prof has claimed their lecture is copyrighted by some publisher so students can't copy it? Might be true regarding the contract the prof signed with the company, so it is up to the university in the contract it signs with professors to explicitly forbid this nonsense.
If they were willing to speak truthfully with an honest heart about where the facts lead, a requirement to point out the weaknesses of evolution wouldn't be a bad thing. I read a fascinating article at New Scientist yesterday, Why Darwin was wrong about the tree of life, on how hibridization is rampant in life. It would be a fantastic thing to discuss in class.
But here's what would happen. Jim Bob would use that article as his talk on the weaknesses of evolution. No later than about two days he would be called to the principal's office and the discussion would go something like this: "Jim Bob, there have been some concerns about your commitment as a teacher. Do you feel you have the sort of character and motivation for teaching our youth?" And next round of contracts Jim Bob is asking whether you'd like fries with that. _That_ is how our honorable principal would handle the problem of Jim Bob bringing up actual science in discussion of Darwin.
Which comes to the second problem America has in this area: local control. Unfortunately, local control is a sacred cow in our society but as long as a couple crazy parents can sit outside a principal's door every day driving him crazy with their demands for this or that curriculum addition, we will have problems with American education. If we had a national curriculum like so many other countries at least much of the discussion would be above-board.
What a way for a girl to get even by telepresence.
Sounds particularly weird to my experience as well that a PDF wouldn't export great.
One does understand that exporting from any word processor to any other word processor requires good word processing practices, right? You don't type some text at the top of a page and _call_ it a header, or at the bottom and _call_ it a footer, or tab out some text and _call_ it a table. Hard page returns are good and it never hurts to leave an extra line/page if font differences cause expansion. Etc. A person can search for more extensive guides on export practices and I know the person who wrote the OpenOffice Resource Kit has one on the web.
Maybe not "perfectly" well because there is something that got corrupted that OO.o ignores. But, yes, I got a reputation around the office a few years ago as the "hacker" who should be forwarded all the corrupt Word attachments (lucky me) because I could get the content out.
That American corporate/government policy would have it backwards?
Frankly, I think the 'ism supported here is consumerism, not environmentalism. Let old cars die their natural death.
That's my thinking. Sure, this scheme is probably poison to the small, independent ISP but I can't imagine Comcast and Time Warner don't already have somebody firing up his spreadsheet to do some income stream projections. Seems like a natural win-win-win for all businesses involved. I mean, if somebody can't figure out how to connect Ubuntu to their broadband how are they going to think to research the availability of alternative, small ISPs even if they do exist for any given location?
Of course, readers of Slashdot will know *why* it doesn't work
E-V-E-N-T-U-A-L-L-Y -- if not now. That's where the "intelligence thing" comes in, isn't it?
My first home broadband, I had to configure OS/2 Warp from dial-up to LAN. I'd been using home computers for over a decade but I hadn't a damn clue and couldn't have done it myself if somebody put a gun to my head. But I knew there was The Google and The Yahoo. So there really is a distinction between somebody who is helpless and somebody who can at least research their situation.
The MoD insisted that no command or operational systems had been affected, though many of these are based on similar hardware.
Hardware?
But she's _really_ cute, so she'll get by.
I never know how to respond to this sort of thing that I'm sure other people at /. also get all the time. Is it stupidity (more specifically an inability to generalize out of a real-world problem) or is it just "technie knowledge" that she shouldn't have to know? Frankly, I have to sway toward stupid. If a person that young isn't smart enough to get on The Google and find a how-to she can doggedly follow to set her name servers and make sure Ubuntu is set up for DHCP with her provider's modem, she may have already funked the college IQ test.
Have a friend going for a second try on parathyroid (and now maybe thyroid) tumor surgery next week. It is my understanding the tumor is non-malignant but the tissue is literally indistinguishable by eye from healthy tissue and needs a marker. They have to figure out a 3D "eyeball" of it with a radiation counter after they slit the throat open. First try, they just didn't feel they had the parameters so they closed up and they're going in again.
Ah, a fellow cynic. Some people just don't appreciate good sarcasm.
Yes, I could see Congressmen who dine regularly with their Microsoft lobbyist giving speeches about how excessive $2 billion would be for "hobbyists". While the (foreign) Citibank got -- $300 billion, right? To produce what?
This whole idea shows way too much pragmatic sense for 21st century America.
With the apparent difference that they are up-front about it.
There is that nightmare scenario of getting your player stolen. Just try to get the cops to stay awake long enough to write out a report, make sure you have a full and complete list, and when the RIAA comes calling for their million dollars, make sure you say, "But my player was stolen!".
On the question: "You see that one of your coworkers occasionally shoplifts small items. Do you:"
_Always_ answer: "It's no big thing. He's a good worker otherwise."
1. If you _are_ company rat material, do you really want to come to that self-realization when your tires are slashed?
2. Why are you applying for a job at the Buy More anyway?
[Actually, as a kid I was pretty naive to interview strategies. But, then, the best job I ever had the group interview somehow got around to the fact I was from Minnesota and so was Bob Dylan. So, quite the opposite of rapport, if you show up at a place that is treating you like a child, shouldn't you turn around and run very fast?]
If I remember they said there was a storm in the mid-19th century that interfered with _telegraph_ traffic. Which is to say, think about what it would do to microprocessors.
In Minnesota, you have the right to a copy of your employment record and employment offices recommend you get it. I understand some companies have tried to tell you to appear in person and run the copier but I didn't have that problem. Unfortunately, off-and-on, here-and-there in academia I managed to work a full ten years at the last place without once submitting a performance review. Although I think that is pretty impressive on the one hand, it meant my HR record amounted to 1/2 an inch plus of mostly worthless paper. One sheet, a manager's personal commendation for a project well done, was the HR record of my decade outside of "present".
I guess the moral is: performance reviews are good, commendations are a valuable thing to enter into a subordinate's record, and, really, most of a person's HR record is worthless fodder of the bureaucracy anyway.