Seems relevant. He doesn't say whether he has a T1 to the home but, if not, it seems like his modest needs probably don't require anything like a three-year turnover. Our home DSL web server does what we need with an 800 mhz Slot A and a 2-gig scsi (recycled from ebay at 4+controller for $30).
Third World way to be efficient. Don't toss it if it works.
Don't these people know the 6+ mile Boston "Big Dig" with only 2+ miles under the harbor has so-far cost almost as much as the 31-mile Chunnel? That they faked the books to hide substandard materials, it leaks like a sieve, and a chunk has already fallen loose and killed a motorist? It's just becoming an American tradition post-Challenger/Hubble/Star Wars that you got paid to do it multiple times until you get it right.
What were they thinking contracting one of the most important components to Americans?
So you can talk the tech support person through the hardware problem on Windows.
I had a similar incident when I reported a DSL outage years ago. The tech support person felt she had to ask her supervisor whether my linux telnet worked like Windows telnet. To their credit, they decided it did.
Maybe. But the bottom line is that "It's all good", isn't it? If using OpenOffice.org on Windows means someone can look at a linux machine and say, "Oh, OpenOffice. I use that!" then that's cool.
My "maybe" is tentative. I'm a generalizer and obviously your wife is intelligent too. But I keep hearing about people who curl up into a fetal ball of fear and frustration because the menu button in the lower left doesn't say "Start".
And we have to face the fact that most people use Windows. It is fun giving out OpenCDs.
this may be an extremely rare instance where Microsoft stepped _ahead_ of the curve instead of _following_ in the marketing sweet spot of home and business consumer comfort. Looks like Media Center shares some issues with MythTV not only because it is rough around the edges but because the whole idea of a networked multi-function entertainment center is a little ahead of what most people want to deal with.
That said, once you do make the leap there is no going back. I dread the howl that will come up from my wife if I ever have the MythTV down for more than a couple days and she has to fire up the analog TV collecting dust.
At first glance I thought this was the most inane headline I've seen since Discover put "Why Kids Today Love Big Brother" on their cover for a story about MySpace and the loss of privacy a few months back. But if this is just reporting a trend, that is really sad.
I've been saying for a few years now that the only effective protest is a French-style protest where people walk off their jobs to clog the streets and a lot of those jobs are in transport and services so the economy is significantly crippled. Then power notices. Without even knowing the guy, I think I can almost guarantee you that George Bush doesn't give a rat's ass what you say about him on YouTube.
You can go to the internet for _information_ when the Mainstream Media won't give it to you. But _protest_ on the internet? That's just a few million people in the electronic forest baying at the moon. Didn't Nietzsche say something about real men and snarling dogs? Let's kill the fashion of 21st Century Schizoid Boy and get back to actually doing stuff. (Yes, I'm implying, like, back in the _real_ world.)
"The CBS field sequential color system in its simplest form consisted of a rotating color wheel of red, blue, and green filter segments in front of a monochrome camera, feeding a black and white CRT receiver viewed through a second rotating color wheel. The two wheels were kept in phase synchronization, such that successive television fields were viewed using identical color primary filters to that at the camera....
CBS had first broadcast its Field Sequential Color System as early as August 28, 1940."
Makes me so happy I could just sh*t. They are already holding preliminary public meetings on where to set up the free speech pens and the like. One can only imagine the non-public planning. It overlaps with the state fair which is a big thing in Minnesota so I can envision the SWAT snipers on the roof of the dairy barn.
Great points. Solvig Hoagland (sp?) has a chapter on the web in conjunction with the release of her OO.org v2 book on how to enhance compatibility. You are right that a surprising number of people don't do simple things like page breaks and proper headers and footers and then wonder why their document formats crazily in another suite.
For my part, I would say a downside of OO.org is that, even if you do practice proper word processing, you should still review your export in Microsoft Word reader to check the results.
You know what's interesting about this topic? I had never heard about Florida commuter rail. You probably never heard about my post above on how the State of Minnesota disallowed even holding a referendum on 1/2 a billion for a Minnesota Twins ball park. I follow some "liberal" sites but I bet there are a lot of cases like this we never hear about. Somebody should probably start a web site: "Demcracy Denied State by State" or the like specifically on how the people's voice gets ignored or stifled in the U.S.
In a bigger sense, this is all part of a trend toward government unravelling out of control that starts at the top with Bush issuing signing statements about what Congress' legislation means to him and how he feels he should or should not follow their "recommendations and guidelines". Instead of the traditional other way around where the legislative branch legislates and the executive branch executes. If the federal government has gone crazy, why should we expect states, counties and cities not to?
When Lucas made "Star Wars" in 1977, he was paying tribute to a subgenre of science fiction that he loved dearly as a boy
To which I have always said "bullshit".
The question for me has always been how Lucas went from THX 1138, which I love deeply for its vision, to Star Wars, which I considered a trivial comic space western out of the gate. The answer isn't that obtuse. Lucas self-censored to produce what the Hollywood bosses wanted. It was explained to us at an art museum showing of THX 1138 and lecture well over a decade ago that the executives hated THX 1138. Hate, hate, HATED IT! And buried it. Told their movie theaters at the initial release that they didn't have to honor the obligation to show the turkey for the agreed two weeks.
Now, if you want to be a film director and your bosses have just told you you've produced a steaming pile of dog crap, what do you do _after_ kissing a whole lot of butt? That's right. Produce box office fodder that will make the executives happy and never look back.
That's why I"ve always wondered whether Lucas sees himself as one of the most cynical in a cynical business. I guess my wish is that maybe before he dies he'll go full circle and make a deep sci fi movie again just to prove to himself he still has it in him.
As an older "gifted" who had "difficulties in family relationships" causing self-esteem issues it explains why I understood that Iggy Pop is God and why other people often seem unwilling or unable to appreciate that.
I've started using dvdisaster for stuff like taxes and qemu images that I really don't want to lose. But it's a pain. Run mkisofs, run dvdisaster against the iso and then do a couple multipart k3b runs.
It would be a really nice next leap if programs like k3b included the option to run recovery data creation and include it in the burn transparently.
You get a motherboard with a couple PCI slots and put a couple HDTV tuners in them -- so where does the sound card go? Hunting down quality motherboards with enough slots to give you some slack to deal with potential drivers issues with the onboard "peripherals" seems like one of the larger annoyances with linux these days.
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Seems relevant. He doesn't say whether he has a T1 to the home but, if not, it seems like his modest needs probably don't require anything like a three-year turnover. Our home DSL web server does what we need with an 800 mhz Slot A and a 2-gig scsi (recycled from ebay at 4+controller for $30).
Third World way to be efficient. Don't toss it if it works.
Speaking scientifically on the need for control groups and cross variable analysus I think it would be a pretty good idea to get some stats on that.
Don't these people know the 6+ mile Boston "Big Dig" with only 2+ miles under the harbor has so-far cost almost as much as the 31-mile Chunnel? That they faked the books to hide substandard materials, it leaks like a sieve, and a chunk has already fallen loose and killed a motorist? It's just becoming an American tradition post-Challenger/Hubble/Star Wars that you got paid to do it multiple times until you get it right.
What were they thinking contracting one of the most important components to Americans?
So you can talk the tech support person through the hardware problem on Windows.
I had a similar incident when I reported a DSL outage years ago. The tech support person felt she had to ask her supervisor whether my linux telnet worked like Windows telnet. To their credit, they decided it did.
Maybe. But the bottom line is that "It's all good", isn't it? If using OpenOffice.org on Windows means someone can look at a linux machine and say, "Oh, OpenOffice. I use that!" then that's cool.
My "maybe" is tentative. I'm a generalizer and obviously your wife is intelligent too. But I keep hearing about people who curl up into a fetal ball of fear and frustration because the menu button in the lower left doesn't say "Start".
And we have to face the fact that most people use Windows. It is fun giving out OpenCDs.
Oh sure, be cynical now but just wait until World Weekly News comes out with their conclusions on this.
this may be an extremely rare instance where Microsoft stepped _ahead_ of the curve instead of _following_ in the marketing sweet spot of home and business consumer comfort. Looks like Media Center shares some issues with MythTV not only because it is rough around the edges but because the whole idea of a networked multi-function entertainment center is a little ahead of what most people want to deal with.
That said, once you do make the leap there is no going back. I dread the howl that will come up from my wife if I ever have the MythTV down for more than a couple days and she has to fire up the analog TV collecting dust.
Yeah, but the hacked-up replacement is floating off-column in an endearingly amateurish way.
At first glance I thought this was the most inane headline I've seen since Discover put "Why Kids Today Love Big Brother" on their cover for a story about MySpace and the loss of privacy a few months back. But if this is just reporting a trend, that is really sad.
I've been saying for a few years now that the only effective protest is a French-style protest where people walk off their jobs to clog the streets and a lot of those jobs are in transport and services so the economy is significantly crippled. Then power notices. Without even knowing the guy, I think I can almost guarantee you that George Bush doesn't give a rat's ass what you say about him on YouTube.
You can go to the internet for _information_ when the Mainstream Media won't give it to you. But _protest_ on the internet? That's just a few million people in the electronic forest baying at the moon. Didn't Nietzsche say something about real men and snarling dogs? Let's kill the fashion of 21st Century Schizoid Boy and get back to actually doing stuff. (Yes, I'm implying, like, back in the _real_ world.)
Everything old is new again:
"The CBS field sequential color system in its simplest form consisted of a rotating color wheel of red, blue, and green filter segments in front of a monochrome camera, feeding a black and white CRT receiver viewed through a second rotating color wheel. The two wheels were kept in phase synchronization, such that successive television fields were viewed using identical color primary filters to that at the camera....
CBS had first broadcast its Field Sequential Color System as early as August 28, 1940."
http://novia.net/~ereitan/Color_Sys_CBS.html
No doubt this company got a patent for their revolutionary new night goggles? (Although I'll admit it is a useful steal of the concept.)
Instead of setting you on fire your laptop pisses on you?
But how do you got it across the border? Yes, there is an answer: organized crime. Like cigarette smuggling in Europe.
It would probably be a nightmare for a few cities like Detroit and Buffalo.
Makes me so happy I could just sh*t. They are already holding preliminary public meetings on where to set up the free speech pens and the like. One can only imagine the non-public planning. It overlaps with the state fair which is a big thing in Minnesota so I can envision the SWAT snipers on the roof of the dairy barn.
Great points. Solvig Hoagland (sp?) has a chapter on the web in conjunction with the release of her OO.org v2 book on how to enhance compatibility. You are right that a surprising number of people don't do simple things like page breaks and proper headers and footers and then wonder why their document formats crazily in another suite.
For my part, I would say a downside of OO.org is that, even if you do practice proper word processing, you should still review your export in Microsoft Word reader to check the results.
You know what's interesting about this topic? I had never heard about Florida commuter rail. You probably never heard about my post above on how the State of Minnesota disallowed even holding a referendum on 1/2 a billion for a Minnesota Twins ball park. I follow some "liberal" sites but I bet there are a lot of cases like this we never hear about. Somebody should probably start a web site: "Demcracy Denied State by State" or the like specifically on how the people's voice gets ignored or stifled in the U.S.
In a bigger sense, this is all part of a trend toward government unravelling out of control that starts at the top with Bush issuing signing statements about what Congress' legislation means to him and how he feels he should or should not follow their "recommendations and guidelines". Instead of the traditional other way around where the legislative branch legislates and the executive branch executes. If the federal government has gone crazy, why should we expect states, counties and cities not to?
That's why the State of Minnesota, in its wisdom, made sure the new Twins baseball stadium couldn't be put to a referendum.
It's one thing to remember this is a republic, not a democracy. It is another thing to see how government serves the corporations, not the people.
I wondered whether that announcement was in coordination with a change to their streaming policy. Apparently not:
"Find out why CBC.ca uses Windows Media Player."
Typical doublespeak BS: "using this format allows CBC.ca to deliver live radio streaming to the widest possible audience."
http://www.cbc.ca/listen/#
When Lucas made "Star Wars" in 1977, he was paying tribute to a subgenre of science fiction that he loved dearly as a boy
To which I have always said "bullshit".
The question for me has always been how Lucas went from THX 1138, which I love deeply for its vision, to Star Wars, which I considered a trivial comic space western out of the gate. The answer isn't that obtuse. Lucas self-censored to produce what the Hollywood bosses wanted. It was explained to us at an art museum showing of THX 1138 and lecture well over a decade ago that the executives hated THX 1138. Hate, hate, HATED IT! And buried it. Told their movie theaters at the initial release that they didn't have to honor the obligation to show the turkey for the agreed two weeks.
Now, if you want to be a film director and your bosses have just told you you've produced a steaming pile of dog crap, what do you do _after_ kissing a whole lot of butt? That's right. Produce box office fodder that will make the executives happy and never look back.
That's why I"ve always wondered whether Lucas sees himself as one of the most cynical in a cynical business. I guess my wish is that maybe before he dies he'll go full circle and make a deep sci fi movie again just to prove to himself he still has it in him.
It's an honorary degree, it's more like saying "we recognise you as being prominent in this field and here's the proof."
Yup. He better not try to pass it off as a real degree on a job applicaton or he'll be in trouble.
First time they drill into a power line.
Seems problematic. Like this should be in a carpentry trade school track "with assistance from CompTIA" or something.
As an older "gifted" who had "difficulties in family relationships" causing self-esteem issues it explains why I understood that Iggy Pop is God and why other people often seem unwilling or unable to appreciate that.
I've started using dvdisaster for stuff like taxes and qemu images that I really don't want to lose. But it's a pain. Run mkisofs, run dvdisaster against the iso and then do a couple multipart k3b runs.
It would be a really nice next leap if programs like k3b included the option to run recovery data creation and include it in the burn transparently.
And who _gave_ them those smallpox infested blankets? Premeditated biological warfare.
Actually, it sort of gives me a warm feeling to see tribes taking back America one slot machine at a time.
You get a motherboard with a couple PCI slots and put a couple HDTV tuners in them -- so where does the sound card go? Hunting down quality motherboards with enough slots to give you some slack to deal with potential drivers issues with the onboard "peripherals" seems like one of the larger annoyances with linux these days.
written in the 60's, and it still runs great.
If not great, at least "faster"?
My first programming class was GOTRAN and FORTRAN on punched cards. The college's IBM 1620 had the extra 64K memory unit in the second room too!