This is the machine based on Windows and Access, right? Did they outsource the main code to a high school class?
I can believe it though. I worked for a place that bought a specialized Oracle system. You could print your uber-complex reports to dead tree but there was no way to save or share them. Set the place up with "print-to-postscript" and a ghostscript reader.
Obviously, there will be 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, and 256 versions. Features vary. Standard upgrade rules on the first four relative to Vista, then they can premium price the last five as "Corporate", "Super-Corporate", "Hyper-Corporate", "Gold" and "Platinum". Should be simple enough.
Worked in Outland. Just remember to put on your helmet.
Or wall-projected golf and a nightclub.
Despite the "world's coolest job" posts, I'm more on the Philip K. Dick side that thinks months in a can will truly suck and they'll have ad agencies lying through their teeth to get people up to the mining colonies.
Don't get me started. I was routinely doing B&W trifold brochures in WordPerfect a dozen years ago. Essentially desktop publishing in rotated text and image boxes. I'll hate Microsoft until the day the last person spits on a copy of Vista for the way they used their monopoly to give away Office '97 and kill WordPerfect. (Not that Corel didn't do their part screwing with the innards to dumb it down to something buggy and Word-i-like.)
So, since Word became the lower, dumbed down standard for "text editing", hell, OO.org has been fine with me on that front and I'll keep a hopeful eye on the development of Scribus for more interesting work. Perhaps Microsoft's problem with producing the unexceptional has always been that someone can more easily copy them.
I retrofitted my 24x7 home machines to Earthwatts supplies earlier last year and immediately noted very significant $$s savings. I figure there just need to be a couple high publicity articles on large companies saving millions with these before every company wants it, every computer comes with it, and people will wonder how we ever got along without it.
Qemu/kvm for the software. I have PC-DOS 7, Windows 98, OS2 Warp 4 (for Galactic Civ the way God and Stardock intended) and XP. Still have a floppy and dd'ed my disks, and old CD's. Zips went to CD but I guess a USB Zip for continued availability.
I know I've had B&W dreams but I don't think actual gray scale has happened in many, many years. I would say many of them are dark and high contrast now which probably has less to do with the 50s and 60s and more to do with contemporary horror and sci fi.
But some of the most interesting dreams were late 60s: you know, day glow and flying. Where was that in the report?
First 100 miles after filling the Prius and mostly interstate going 70-75 mph with moderate lane-changing in moderate traffic got 50.2. Did a back-highway trip this spring of 300+ miles mostly holding to the local 55-ish while driving "Priusy" and the mileage for that tank was showing 52.1 when we got home. So I'd say not a huge difference based on various top legal speeds.
It strikes me that the wonderful thing about outsourcing government, from government administration's standpoint, is that nobody is ever really responsible. The contractors can say government didn't properly communicate with them, oversee the operation, or allocate adequate funding. Government can claim that they did and it's the contractor's fault. Perfect. Everybody's happy. Except for the people who are supposed to be served, of course.
It's at the tertiary level but the culture pervades American society. Went to/worked for enough colleges and U's that I can pick and choose my charity. My local Big 10 is building a football stadium that would have been the pride of any American metropolis 30 years ago. When their Advancement Office calls, I ask:
"How big is Columbia's football stadium? Johns Hopkins? The Sorbonne? Oxford? Cambridge? They seem to be holding their own in the reputation department. Why was a world-class football field a top priority here?"
They predictably give me the line that it is precisely such extravagant expenses on entertainment that build school spirit and prime the pump for donations. At which point I can explain that it does not have that effect on me. Research and scholarship are the rightful products of a university and they would impress me.
Of course, I'm wrong. They claim their donations have spiked significantly since groundbreaking on the stadium. Which circles back to the idea that it's pervasive and deep in the culture. We're Romans, not Greeks. Americans, not Europeans. What _can_ you do but wait for the Mongols to invade from the East?
The police also entered the activists' names into the federal Washington-Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area database, which tracks suspected terrorists.
I've believed for a long time that the so-called "'war' on drugs" was a major, perhaps the primary, excuse for building a fascist-supportive police structure. From narcs, snitches, and entrapment to asset confiscation and eternal "wars" against personal activities it all began there. So, was it worth it? Or would we be a more free and sane society if we were more like Amsterdam?
How old were Romeo and Juliet? Seriously, I've read that the average life expectancy in classical Greece was something like 19, something like 23 for Imperial Rome, and, for that matter, something like 45 for 19th century America. When does this guy think people in tribal societies started breeding when an impacted wisdom tooth could kill you?
Sounds more like _somebody_ is having way too many thoughts about his grad assistants blended in with fantasies about the good old days when the chief got _all_ the action.
Succinct. I think you've hit it. Saw a Prius conversion and a couple lead-acid conversions, including a 'vette, in August and the latter in particular just seem wrong. You're pushing around this huge, solid mass of batteries.
I was more impressed with a couple ground-ups from among a handful on display. About 40 mph at 40 range seems to be the current gold standard. One was a large and attractive scooter about the size of a smaller motorcycle. Owner said it would do 60 for shorter mileage. Another was a little truck that still had a spartan interior by Prius standards but at 40x40 it was very usable by it's electrician owner to scoot from job to job and not be an annoyance on neighborhood streets.
Haven't watched network "news" in ages but I find it interesting that my ranking of local news from propaganda-to-facts has little correlation with the results he got that correlate one-to-one on both questions. As a recent example, the scale of "all anarchists all the time" when reporting on the Republican National Convention protests I would rank NBC, ABC, FOX, CBS worst to best. Perhaps it is a distinction between parroting outright lies from the White House and a station's "slant"?
"It would be a stretch to charge a felony [in the Palin case], but if they want to be hard on [the hacker], they could do that,"
Let's see. Hacking into the Republican VP candidate's email under the Bush regime. Gosh, what are the odds they will find a judge who will bite on the felony rap? I mean, really, if any words comes to mind when I think of Neocons it must be "forgiving" and "merciful".
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This is the machine based on Windows and Access, right? Did they outsource the main code to a high school class?
I can believe it though. I worked for a place that bought a specialized Oracle system. You could print your uber-complex reports to dead tree but there was no way to save or share them. Set the place up with "print-to-postscript" and a ghostscript reader.
Oh, right. Never mind.
Obviously, there will be 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, and 256 versions. Features vary. Standard upgrade rules on the first four relative to Vista, then they can premium price the last five as "Corporate", "Super-Corporate", "Hyper-Corporate", "Gold" and "Platinum". Should be simple enough.
If they steal a third one, I can watch them unfold the story line.
Otherwise, I can undoubtedly watch the most volatile melange of Freudian neurotic mechanisms seen in one place since Hilter's last days in the bunker.
(crick) (crick)
What? There is something else to say?
Worked in Outland. Just remember to put on your helmet.
Or wall-projected golf and a nightclub.
Despite the "world's coolest job" posts, I'm more on the Philip K. Dick side that thinks months in a can will truly suck and they'll have ad agencies lying through their teeth to get people up to the mining colonies.
Don't get me started. I was routinely doing B&W trifold brochures in WordPerfect a dozen years ago. Essentially desktop publishing in rotated text and image boxes. I'll hate Microsoft until the day the last person spits on a copy of Vista for the way they used their monopoly to give away Office '97 and kill WordPerfect. (Not that Corel didn't do their part screwing with the innards to dumb it down to something buggy and Word-i-like.)
So, since Word became the lower, dumbed down standard for "text editing", hell, OO.org has been fine with me on that front and I'll keep a hopeful eye on the development of Scribus for more interesting work. Perhaps Microsoft's problem with producing the unexceptional has always been that someone can more easily copy them.
If the next decade becomes a Depression-Lite economy, then there will be a lot fewer engineers
Could well be some truth to that. But Dark Ages have their monastaries and it may well be the huge institutions that don't survive.
I retrofitted my 24x7 home machines to Earthwatts supplies earlier last year and immediately noted very significant $$s savings. I figure there just need to be a couple high publicity articles on large companies saving millions with these before every company wants it, every computer comes with it, and people will wonder how we ever got along without it.
Qemu/kvm for the software. I have PC-DOS 7, Windows 98, OS2 Warp 4 (for Galactic Civ the way God and Stardock intended) and XP. Still have a floppy and dd'ed my disks, and old CD's. Zips went to CD but I guess a USB Zip for continued availability.
I know I've had B&W dreams but I don't think actual gray scale has happened in many, many years. I would say many of them are dark and high contrast now which probably has less to do with the 50s and 60s and more to do with contemporary horror and sci fi.
But some of the most interesting dreams were late 60s: you know, day glow and flying. Where was that in the report?
First 100 miles after filling the Prius and mostly interstate going 70-75 mph with moderate lane-changing in moderate traffic got 50.2. Did a back-highway trip this spring of 300+ miles mostly holding to the local 55-ish while driving "Priusy" and the mileage for that tank was showing 52.1 when we got home. So I'd say not a huge difference based on various top legal speeds.
It strikes me that the wonderful thing about outsourcing government, from government administration's standpoint, is that nobody is ever really responsible. The contractors can say government didn't properly communicate with them, oversee the operation, or allocate adequate funding. Government can claim that they did and it's the contractor's fault. Perfect. Everybody's happy. Except for the people who are supposed to be served, of course.
And a bright, shiny prize in every box.
Good to the last byte!
But mind the spoilage date.
It's at the tertiary level but the culture pervades American society. Went to/worked for enough colleges and U's that I can pick and choose my charity. My local Big 10 is building a football stadium that would have been the pride of any American metropolis 30 years ago. When their Advancement Office calls, I ask:
"How big is Columbia's football stadium? Johns Hopkins? The Sorbonne? Oxford? Cambridge? They seem to be holding their own in the reputation department. Why was a world-class football field a top priority here?"
They predictably give me the line that it is precisely such extravagant expenses on entertainment that build school spirit and prime the pump for donations. At which point I can explain that it does not have that effect on me. Research and scholarship are the rightful products of a university and they would impress me.
Of course, I'm wrong. They claim their donations have spiked significantly since groundbreaking on the stadium. Which circles back to the idea that it's pervasive and deep in the culture. We're Romans, not Greeks. Americans, not Europeans. What _can_ you do but wait for the Mongols to invade from the East?
The police also entered the activists' names into the federal Washington-Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area database, which tracks suspected terrorists.
I've believed for a long time that the so-called "'war' on drugs" was a major, perhaps the primary, excuse for building a fascist-supportive police structure. From narcs, snitches, and entrapment to asset confiscation and eternal "wars" against personal activities it all began there. So, was it worth it? Or would we be a more free and sane society if we were more like Amsterdam?
How old were Romeo and Juliet? Seriously, I've read that the average life expectancy in classical Greece was something like 19, something like 23 for Imperial Rome, and, for that matter, something like 45 for 19th century America. When does this guy think people in tribal societies started breeding when an impacted wisdom tooth could kill you?
Sounds more like _somebody_ is having way too many thoughts about his grad assistants blended in with fantasies about the good old days when the chief got _all_ the action.
Bloody hell. Somebody should be shot for wasting our resources when our infrastructure is threatened with neglect.
Good! Laptop burglaries at Democratic offices here in Minnesota every election like clockwork.
Succinct. I think you've hit it. Saw a Prius conversion and a couple lead-acid conversions, including a 'vette, in August and the latter in particular just seem wrong. You're pushing around this huge, solid mass of batteries.
I was more impressed with a couple ground-ups from among a handful on display. About 40 mph at 40 range seems to be the current gold standard. One was a large and attractive scooter about the size of a smaller motorcycle. Owner said it would do 60 for shorter mileage. Another was a little truck that still had a spartan interior by Prius standards but at 40x40 it was very usable by it's electrician owner to scoot from job to job and not be an annoyance on neighborhood streets.
Said it was a tomato-based home-made sauce. Tomatoes sitting in oil is something cooks warn people about.
I'm not sure how long it will take for people to realize just how bad DRM is.
By "people" do you mean, well, "people" or Congressmen? If the latter, they'll quit loving DRM when Hollywood quits giving them money.
"chock full of bad science and questionable reasoning"
Just the book I'd enjoy adding to a class so we could learn something about science and reasoning by tearing it apart together.
Haven't watched network "news" in ages but I find it interesting that my ranking of local news from propaganda-to-facts has little correlation with the results he got that correlate one-to-one on both questions. As a recent example, the scale of "all anarchists all the time" when reporting on the Republican National Convention protests I would rank NBC, ABC, FOX, CBS worst to best. Perhaps it is a distinction between parroting outright lies from the White House and a station's "slant"?
"It would be a stretch to charge a felony [in the Palin case], but if they want to be hard on [the hacker], they could do that,"
Let's see. Hacking into the Republican VP candidate's email under the Bush regime. Gosh, what are the odds they will find a judge who will bite on the felony rap? I mean, really, if any words comes to mind when I think of Neocons it must be "forgiving" and "merciful".