On Janurary 2, 2006 the FCC will restore licences for analog TV broadcast spectrum after 250 million angry Americans show up on their doorstep with shotguns and rotten tomatoes!
Social Security is a pyramid scheme. As long as there's enough young fools paying into the system, Gramps gets the dough. but when we have a bunch of retirees, and not enough youngsters to support them, they're screwed!
If a pharmaceutical company develops a cure for AIDS, the proper procedure is to sit on it. If any other company finds this cure, they can sue the pants off them, and if keeping people on short-term treatments ever becomes unprofitable, then, and only then, will the cure be released.
It won't make any difference to the people in Brazil/Africa/insert your 3rd world country. If Malaria ever became a problem in the U.S. the drug companies would develop a treatment, but it STILL wouldn't be available for the third world.
Actually, I don't think its entirely Slashdot. LT's been flaky all morning. Slashdot may have pushed it over the edge though. It's certainly pushed ME over the edge a few times.:)
I think so too. The main reason I'm still using ext2 is because of the hassle in converting to Reiser. Plus I've heard about data corruption, and the tools suck! With ext3 RH will upgrade if you want it to, and it uses the more mature ext2 tools. I still wouldn't trust it too far on reliability, but that's what backups are for.
IMO, what hurt Phantom Menace was first, the long gap between the first trilogy and it and second, the fact that it was a prequel. JarJar was annoying, but I'm sure he was SUPPOSED to be. Given those limitations, I think it was a good movie and I'm still looking forward to the next 2.
I'd have no problem if I just got a message that said "You are infected with CodeRed! Please run this patch". But I would NOT appreciate something like "I have just autoran patch to save you from CodeRed" I want to control what's on my machine, and whether it's a white or black hat, it's still an intrusion!
Actually, yes! Have you heard about forcing kids who allegedly have attention defecit disorder to take Ritalin? Often they do so on advice from a teacher or school nurse, rather than a MD. There's nothing even remotely ethical about that!
Suppose I want a website. I'm not a.com business! I'm not a.org organization. I'm just some dumb shmoe who wants a website. Also it seems natural to want to call it myname.com. But some business might already have myname locked up. But it's MY NAME!! Why can't I use it?
He's on vacation this week and told me not to go online cause he thinks I'll get in trouble. Heck, I've been online for 2 days, and haven't gotten into trouble. In fact, Monday, I got an e-mail from a total stranger offering to help me manage my money. I e-mailed him my bank account numbers, SSN, Mom's maiden name, my PIN numbers and all my credit card numbers. Soon after I did that I got some e-mail from the credit card companies saying I was over my limit and did I want to increase it, but my new friend told me it was a glitch and to just click OK. Today, he showed me how to direct deposit my paycheck. Those numbers he gave me aren't what's on my bank statement, but he says thats fine. Tomorrow he's going to show me how to transfer my house title online. Thursday, he'll show me a non-revokable power of attorney. When my son comes back Friday, he'll see that I'm not incompetant!
To those people I will say this: Would you pay a child who frequents webmd.com a fraction of what you pay a heart surgon to install your pace maker.
(I know its corny):)
Of course I would! His web site says I can trust him!
Company X & Company Y are each implmenting a web-based ordering system. X hires a 15 year old with acne. Y uses their 40 year old with receding hair and expanding gut.
Day 1 X: "Kewl, this looks easy" Y: has nose in a book titled "Java for Dummies"
Day 3 X finishs coding
Day 5 Y starts coding.
Day 7 X goes online
Day 10 Y starts testing. X has been online 3 days.
Day 15 Y finally goes online. X has been raking in the dough for over a week.
Day 18 X programmer is running around like the proverbial chicken "I dont know what happened! The whole system crashed and wiped out our database" Boss asks if programmer can restore from backups. "Backups?"
Day 30 Y: "Yes, sir, we had a slight glitch because of those extra customers we got when X went out of business. I had to take it offline for an hour, but we're back now.
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The US government cannot *force* us to buy HDTV unless we follow them like bleating sheep! When the industry finds that only 5 people in the whole country are willing to buy HDTV's, they'll bribe the FCC to bring back analog quickly enough!
I paid less than $200 for my plain old 19" TV! And it's "good enough"! I don't care HOW good the resolution is on this digital stuff, there's no way in he** I'm going to spend that kind of money on a TV!!!
Mr Y can try to force Mrs Y to vote for W, but once she gets into the poll, she can just vote for Z and lie thru her teeth to hubby. I also know several people who don't have computers, don't want computers, can't stand computers, and still vote regularly.
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Maybe they'll do NOW later.
Yes, people our new improved P4.5 runs at a whooping 3 GZ! AMD is so far behind, they no longer even admit what they run at!
The K6's did NOT use PR ratings! Cyrix and WinChips are dead,dead,dead!
On Janurary 2, 2006 the FCC will restore licences for analog TV broadcast spectrum after 250 million angry Americans show up on their doorstep with shotguns and rotten tomatoes!
Social Security is a pyramid scheme. As long as there's enough young fools paying into the system, Gramps gets the dough. but when we have a bunch of retirees, and not enough youngsters to support them, they're screwed!
If a pharmaceutical company develops a cure for AIDS, the proper procedure is to sit on it. If any other company finds this cure, they can sue the pants off them, and if keeping people on short-term treatments ever becomes unprofitable, then, and only then, will the cure be released.
My mom's dead cat voted for Gore.
I trust my son and he recommended that I convert my life support to Windows. That was right after I made him my sole beneficary.
It won't make any difference to the people in Brazil/Africa/insert your 3rd world country. If Malaria ever became a problem in the U.S. the drug companies would develop a treatment, but it STILL wouldn't be available for the third world.
IIRC, Linus never said 2.4.0 was rock-solid. He said something along the lines of "The heck with it. Here it is. Enjoy!"
Actually, I don't think its entirely Slashdot. LT's been flaky all morning. Slashdot may have pushed it over the edge though. It's certainly pushed ME over the edge a few times. :)
I think so too. The main reason I'm still using ext2 is because of the hassle in converting to Reiser. Plus I've heard about data corruption, and the tools suck! With ext3 RH will upgrade if you want it to, and it uses the more mature ext2 tools. I still wouldn't trust it too far on reliability, but that's what backups are for.
IMO, what hurt Phantom Menace was first, the long gap between the first trilogy and it and second, the fact that it was a prequel. JarJar was annoying, but I'm sure he was SUPPOSED to be. Given those limitations, I think it was a good movie and I'm still looking forward to the next 2.
I'd have no problem if I just got a message that said "You are infected with CodeRed! Please run this patch". But I would NOT appreciate something like "I have just autoran patch to save you from CodeRed" I want to control what's on my machine, and whether it's a white or black hat, it's still an intrusion!
Actually, yes! Have you heard about forcing kids who allegedly have attention defecit disorder to take Ritalin? Often they do so on advice from a teacher or school nurse, rather than a MD. There's nothing even remotely ethical about that!
Suppose I want a website. I'm not a .com business! I'm not a .org organization. I'm just some dumb shmoe who wants a website. Also it seems natural to want to call it myname.com. But some business might already have myname locked up. But it's MY NAME!! Why can't I use it?
He's on vacation this week and told me not to go online cause he thinks I'll get in trouble. Heck, I've been online for 2 days, and haven't gotten into trouble. In fact, Monday, I got an e-mail from a total stranger offering to help me manage my money. I e-mailed him my bank account numbers, SSN, Mom's maiden name, my PIN numbers and all my credit card numbers. Soon after I did that I got some e-mail from the credit card companies saying I was over my limit and did I want to increase it, but my new friend told me it was a glitch and to just click OK. Today, he showed me how to direct deposit my paycheck. Those numbers he gave me aren't what's on my bank statement, but he says thats fine. Tomorrow he's going to show me how to transfer my house title online. Thursday, he'll show me a non-revokable power of attorney. When my son comes back Friday, he'll see that I'm not incompetant!
To those people I will say this: Would you pay a child who frequents webmd.com a fraction of what you pay a heart surgon to install your pace maker. (I know its corny):) Of course I would! His web site says I can trust him!
Company X & Company Y are each implmenting a web-based ordering system. X hires a 15 year old with acne. Y uses their 40 year old with receding hair and expanding gut. Day 1 X: "Kewl, this looks easy" Y: has nose in a book titled "Java for Dummies" Day 3 X finishs coding Day 5 Y starts coding. Day 7 X goes online Day 10 Y starts testing. X has been online 3 days. Day 15 Y finally goes online. X has been raking in the dough for over a week. Day 18 X programmer is running around like the proverbial chicken "I dont know what happened! The whole system crashed and wiped out our database" Boss asks if programmer can restore from backups. "Backups?" Day 30 Y: "Yes, sir, we had a slight glitch because of those extra customers we got when X went out of business. I had to take it offline for an hour, but we're back now.
The US government cannot *force* us to buy HDTV unless we follow them like bleating sheep! When the industry finds that only 5 people in the whole country are willing to buy HDTV's, they'll bribe the FCC to bring back analog quickly enough!
If I had to spend $3,500 on a color TV, I'd still be using black and white!
I paid less than $200 for my plain old 19" TV! And it's "good enough"! I don't care HOW good the resolution is on this digital stuff, there's no way in he** I'm going to spend that kind of money on a TV!!!
Mr Y can try to force Mrs Y to vote for W, but once she gets into the poll, she can just vote for Z and lie thru her teeth to hubby. I also know several people who don't have computers, don't want computers, can't stand computers, and still vote regularly.
Well, I recommended Windows for my Grandpa's medical life support equiptment. Of course he DID have that life insurance policy. :)