Having played around with the speech recognition in Vista, it is very easy to turn the speech recognition off when you are not using it. I don't remember the precise phrase, but you just say something like "stop listening". A kid in one of my classes had a Mac and used speech recognition on it. When he was using speech recognition we would shout different phrases in an attempt to shut his machine down, among other things. I think we only got it to shutdown once, most of the time it didn't work b/c we were too far away, or he turned that feature off. I've had the same experience with Vista. This sounds like FUD to me.....
First off, I live in Louisiana, while we may not have invented scummy politicians, we did perfect them. The following are in jail or have been in jail, a former Governor, a former State Rep, three Insurance Comissioners in a row, and that is the short list. Then there is Congressman Jefferson and his cold hard cash. Here the Democrats use race amongst all of their tools to win office. Jessie Jackson among others were saying that they were going to challenge the results of the elections in New Orleans, when it looked like Nagin was going to lose. They weren't saying "if", they were saying, "we will challenge the election." When Nagin won, that all went away...interesting... We have all of these people who aren't living in Louisiana anymore after Katrina and Rita, but they'll be able to vote for who knows how long in our elections. This is a dream come true for so many politicians, they don't live here, so they don't know how bad the politicians are, and all the politicians have to do is send them a ballot every election. And people wonder why I am so eager to leave when I graduate, but at least I'll be able to vote.
Now that I've established that, I wouldn't be shocked about problems in Ohio, or anywhere else for that matter. The Democrats are most upset that the red-neck Republicians out played them at their own game. I am surpised at how many people actually voted for Kerry, or did they first vote for him and then against him? In Louisiana politics I have to sometimes vote for a Democrat, as he/she is the best one for the job. With the presidential election I did the same thing, and it was a no brainer to pick between Bush and flip-flop Kerry. Kerry just didn't have anything to offer, he tried to please everyone, which I've seen too often down here to fall for that trick. The Democrats shot themselves in the foot with that one. I could go on, Blanco Nagin , but I have things to do....
First off, this is a good thing. As someone else said most new servers are running around 5-10% utilization. In fact we have a server at work dedicated to running virtual servers that is running 7 under MS Virtual Server 2003 R2 64-Bit, and it hums along at about 15%. Our only limiting factor is RAM and hard drive space, but more so the RAM. Most new services we are looking at implementing we mock up in a virtual server before even considering putting it on a host machine. If we like the way it runs in the virtual server we often decide to just leave it in a virtual server, extra RAM for our virtual server box is cheaper than a whole new box.
Now for the downside. As nice as this is, I see this as a ploy for MS to sell more copies of Windows, even with them releasing the Linux tools. If I was in their shoes, sure give Virtual Server away, the ones losing are the hardware vendors.
....seems the same as mine, except I am still working on my Comp. Eng. degree. I am going to LSU, where we cancel classes because a hurricane delayed a football game from Saturday to Monday, so I understand that academics are not what the university is focused on. Still, a 'C' grade (read passing) in my second physics class was a 50% and that was after the curve and extra points. In my third physics class they just gave out lots of points, for instance they would give you points for writing down the correct formula to use for a given problem (they gave us formula sheets), I wrote down four formulas for one problem, two were wrong, but I got half the points the problem was worth. The intro Circuits class has a failure / drop rate of 50%, but one thing that sets those who want to be engineers apart from the liberal arts majors is that if we fail said class, we will repeat it and to better, as many do around here. Once you get pass all of the intro classes, you get into the classes that are more fun, and teachers that aren't bent on you failing (though if they are, it comes from the department), but actually want you to understand the material. My experience with the low level math classes with just grad students teach is about the same as his, and this really doesn't help students learn what they need to survive in the intro engineering and physic classes, those that can learn it by themselves survive, otherwise, the rest become liberal arts majors. These classes don't help produce any more engineers, and it is all the university fault for not wanting to pay for anything more than grad students (do they actually get paid?).
We actually got an e-mail alert today from the company that makes our phone system server and client software that said if we installed XP SP2 it would break their software. Oh, and they have a patch forthcoming for the latest version, which we've had issues upgrading too. I don't know if this is Microsoft's fault or the company that wrote the software, most likely a little of both, but we won't be deploying for a while. The patch for our version isn't going to be release immediately. How many others are having this problem?
When you go to your current boss, don't tell them you have been offered a job somewhere else, just ask for a raise. That way you get an idea about how valuable you are without them knowing for sure if you've shopping around....
...but thats b/c I attend LSU as a student. This is actually typical of LSU, to do something as stupid as this. We won't mention the recent sport scandals that haven't made national news becuase its expected of LSU.
Besides most of the students going to LSU only go because of the cost. Louisiana will give almost any Louisiana High School Graduate money for college, for four years. You just have to pay for books. Nothing like a free four years of college to make anyone choose the "quality" education that LSU has to offer.
Hey maybe they'll try to sue me for talking bad about them.:)
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Having played around with the speech recognition in Vista, it is very easy to turn the speech recognition off when you are not using it. I don't remember the precise phrase, but you just say something like "stop listening". A kid in one of my classes had a Mac and used speech recognition on it. When he was using speech recognition we would shout different phrases in an attempt to shut his machine down, among other things. I think we only got it to shutdown once, most of the time it didn't work b/c we were too far away, or he turned that feature off. I've had the same experience with Vista. This sounds like FUD to me.....
First off, I live in Louisiana, while we may not have invented scummy politicians, we did perfect them. The following are in jail or have been in jail, a former Governor, a former State Rep, three Insurance Comissioners in a row, and that is the short list. Then there is Congressman Jefferson and his cold hard cash. Here the Democrats use race amongst all of their tools to win office. Jessie Jackson among others were saying that they were going to challenge the results of the elections in New Orleans, when it looked like Nagin was going to lose. They weren't saying "if", they were saying, "we will challenge the election." When Nagin won, that all went away...interesting... We have all of these people who aren't living in Louisiana anymore after Katrina and Rita, but they'll be able to vote for who knows how long in our elections. This is a dream come true for so many politicians, they don't live here, so they don't know how bad the politicians are, and all the politicians have to do is send them a ballot every election. And people wonder why I am so eager to leave when I graduate, but at least I'll be able to vote.
Now that I've established that, I wouldn't be shocked about problems in Ohio, or anywhere else for that matter. The Democrats are most upset that the red-neck Republicians out played them at their own game. I am surpised at how many people actually voted for Kerry, or did they first vote for him and then against him? In Louisiana politics I have to sometimes vote for a Democrat, as he/she is the best one for the job. With the presidential election I did the same thing, and it was a no brainer to pick between Bush and flip-flop Kerry. Kerry just didn't have anything to offer, he tried to please everyone, which I've seen too often down here to fall for that trick. The Democrats shot themselves in the foot with that one. I could go on, Blanco Nagin , but I have things to do....
First off, this is a good thing. As someone else said most new servers are running around 5-10% utilization. In fact we have a server at work dedicated to running virtual servers that is running 7 under MS Virtual Server 2003 R2 64-Bit, and it hums along at about 15%. Our only limiting factor is RAM and hard drive space, but more so the RAM. Most new services we are looking at implementing we mock up in a virtual server before even considering putting it on a host machine. If we like the way it runs in the virtual server we often decide to just leave it in a virtual server, extra RAM for our virtual server box is cheaper than a whole new box.
Now for the downside. As nice as this is, I see this as a ploy for MS to sell more copies of Windows, even with them releasing the Linux tools. If I was in their shoes, sure give Virtual Server away, the ones losing are the hardware vendors.
....seems the same as mine, except I am still working on my Comp. Eng. degree. I am going to LSU, where we cancel classes because a hurricane delayed a football game from Saturday to Monday, so I understand that academics are not what the university is focused on. Still, a 'C' grade (read passing) in my second physics class was a 50% and that was after the curve and extra points. In my third physics class they just gave out lots of points, for instance they would give you points for writing down the correct formula to use for a given problem (they gave us formula sheets), I wrote down four formulas for one problem, two were wrong, but I got half the points the problem was worth. The intro Circuits class has a failure / drop rate of 50%, but one thing that sets those who want to be engineers apart from the liberal arts majors is that if we fail said class, we will repeat it and to better, as many do around here. Once you get pass all of the intro classes, you get into the classes that are more fun, and teachers that aren't bent on you failing (though if they are, it comes from the department), but actually want you to understand the material. My experience with the low level math classes with just grad students teach is about the same as his, and this really doesn't help students learn what they need to survive in the intro engineering and physic classes, those that can learn it by themselves survive, otherwise, the rest become liberal arts majors. These classes don't help produce any more engineers, and it is all the university fault for not wanting to pay for anything more than grad students (do they actually get paid?).
We actually got an e-mail alert today from the company that makes our phone system server and client software that said if we installed XP SP2 it would break their software. Oh, and they have a patch forthcoming for the latest version, which we've had issues upgrading too. I don't know if this is Microsoft's fault or the company that wrote the software, most likely a little of both, but we won't be deploying for a while. The patch for our version isn't going to be release immediately. How many others are having this problem?
When you go to your current boss, don't tell them you have been offered a job somewhere else, just ask for a raise. That way you get an idea about how valuable you are without them knowing for sure if you've shopping around....
...but thats b/c I attend LSU as a student. This is actually typical of LSU, to do something as stupid as this. We won't mention the recent sport scandals that haven't made national news becuase its expected of LSU.
:)
Besides most of the students going to LSU only go because of the cost. Louisiana will give almost any Louisiana High School Graduate money for college, for four years. You just have to pay for books. Nothing like a free four years of college to make anyone choose the "quality" education that LSU has to offer.
Hey maybe they'll try to sue me for talking bad about them.