While most people don't think of them as "historic", displaying a 5 to 10 year-old computer and comparing it with a modern computer highlights the rapid pace of change in the industry and is interesting to see.
Instead of complaining this group should get involved! That's what Open Source is all about: participating. Instead of whining about it they should help to make it happen.
They ARE involved. They've kicked off a dialogue and raised the awareness level of the issue of accessibility in open-sourced apps. Writing code isn't the only way to participate in the open source movement.
Most people will understand that you have other responsibilities and cannot continue to provide support for their systems, especially ones they bought someplace else.
You've never actually worked with the public, have you? The type of person who is abusing his willingness to help is the type of person who will NOT be understanding.
True enough, however, it is impossible to guage the level of risk anymore. These "it's not our fault" labels are on everything and it's impossible to know if it's a bona fide warning or just an overactive legal department. If I do something dumb, I have no problem taking responsibility for it. I'd like to be able to know what my actual risks are before I do something dumb, though.
If a bunch of people pretending to be employees came into my business I would have called the cops myself.
I just bet you're an assistant principal somewhere. You have that follow-all-the-rules attitude. For what it's worth, the instructions that were given out: "If a customer comes up to you and asks you a question, be polite and help them if you know the answer. If anyone asks you if you work there, say no. If an employee asks you what you're doing, respond 'I'm waiting for my girlfriend/boyfriend who is shopping elsewhere in the store.' If they question you about your clothing, just explain that it's what you put on when you woke up this morning and you don't know any of the other people dressed like you."
A really common type of home construction in San Francisco is stucco exteriors. The chicken wire used to support the stucco is going to interfere with reception.
As a free market promoter and anarcho-capitalist, child porn is one grey area that I don't have a good answer to.
I like to look at porn and do so fairly regularly. I mostly download Usenet porn and have for ~10 years or so. In all that time, I have never once seen child porn. Although I don't go looking for it, I would expect at least once to have accidentally stumbled upon some. It never happened. All this makes me wonder if the hysteria around child porn is actually just people pandering to parent's fears in order to advance their own agenda. It begs the question: is all this mindless panic in proportion to the severity of the problem?
Also in the article is the factoid that Americans consider Fox News the most trustworthy national news program overall (coming in at 11%).
I think I'd want to see the actual methodology of the survey before I'm going to believe this. Maybe I'm too naive but I have a hard time believing my fellow Americans actually trust the Republican mouthpieces at Fox more than any other media.
I know very little about this subject. However, I was under the impression that only the US Federal Reserve had the authority and responsibility to coin (or print) money. How is it they can do this?
Whether or not the man in charge is crazy or not has little bearing on the validity of his claims
I'm trying to think of the last time a certifiable whack job came up with a brillant scientific discovery. I'm fairly confident that a man who thinks the Maya were descended from the Atlanteans isn't going to discover much of anything.
Because when video rental services compete, I win.
Yeah, but I wish just once a corporation would decide to compete on quality or service instead of competing strictly on price. I'd happily pay a few extra bucks to not have to deal with the assholes that work at Blockbuster.
And the Democrats have ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, Time, Newsweek, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.
The New York Times? You mean the New York Times that was the first newspaper to call for Presidnet Clinton's impeachment? That New York Times? Wow - imagine what might have happened if they weren't part of the "liberal media". Can you imagine Fox ever calling for bush's impeachment? Me either.
This government says it can make you not a citizen by simple declaration without evidence.
No. I have never heard of this, in any case. As far as I can tell it is manufactured.
Read Section 501 of Patriot Act II. If, as seems to be the case, you're too lazy, the meat of it is that the government can decide your conduct means you are a supporter of terrorism and, as such, an enemy combatant who can be expatriated. Once expatriated then the rest of the Bill of Rights doesn't apply and it's Guantanamo for you. Face it, your right-wing heroes are scum who've managed to subvert the entire Constitution.
In the Senate, 1/3 are up for election in 2006 and another 1/3 in 2008. The entire Senate will have stood for re-election by November of 2010. I like to nitpick on Friday afternooons.
No, a redesign is what the guy who is paying for it says it is. If the customer wants trifling color and font changes as part of their "redesign" requirements, then that's what they get. Arguing about what does and does not constitute a redesign smacks of arrogance and is guaranteed to not get you any work.
3. Popular culture that denigrates "geeks" and "nerds" and makes it a social crime to get A's? Check.
I think this may actually be the root cause of a good many of our problems. We have a President who is proud of the fact that he doesn't read and doesn't think too deeply about problems. In fact, that was a big part of his success. We have school boards focusing on finding ways to force Bible instruction into the classroom. All the while that academic rigor is going out the window.
I refuse to set foot in a CompUSA after having been ripped off by them. I received a router as a Christmas present and found that it was DOA when I plugged it in. I took it back to CompUSA and, since I didn't have a receipt, they refused to exchange it for a working model. I wasn't looking for cash or even store credit - I just wanted a working router. Since then, I've discovered they charge exorbitant "restocking fees". One friend opened the box with his new Imac and found it was cracked. Compusa charged him $200 to replace it with an unbroken Imac. How this is legal, I don't know. They're low-life pirates and I'll never shop there. I take every opportunity to direct people to alternate stores.
...everyone will pay even higher taxes for something they don't use
Yeah, like I pay for a fire department I've never used and roads I've never driven on. The self-centered, greedy right-wing can't fathom the concept of doing something that benefits everyone. If there is nothing in it for them personally, they scream about having to pay for it.
Sound familiar?
Sure does. The same old greed-centered crap the right keeps pumping out. Funny how the right wing thinks that everything would be fine if we just handed over everything to the corporations.
...there's a potential general economic benefit to providing this service...
But the right-wing doesn't recognize "potential economic benefits". If it doesn't enrich a very small, already wealthy contingent, then it's a communist plot.
When you get done with your ridiculous rant, you might stop and look at the ACTUAL benefits of wind power, which are underwhelming: http://www.aweo.org/lowbenefit.html
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While most people don't think of them as "historic", displaying a 5 to 10 year-old computer and comparing it with a modern computer highlights the rapid pace of change in the industry and is interesting to see.
Instead of complaining this group should get involved! That's what Open Source is all about: participating. Instead of whining about it they should help to make it happen.
They ARE involved. They've kicked off a dialogue and raised the awareness level of the issue of accessibility in open-sourced apps. Writing code isn't the only way to participate in the open source movement.
Most people will understand that you have other responsibilities and cannot continue to provide support for their systems, especially ones they bought someplace else.
You've never actually worked with the public, have you? The type of person who is abusing his willingness to help is the type of person who will NOT be understanding.
Life is unpredictable and unsafe.
True enough, however, it is impossible to guage the level of risk anymore. These "it's not our fault" labels are on everything and it's impossible to know if it's a bona fide warning or just an overactive legal department. If I do something dumb, I have no problem taking responsibility for it. I'd like to be able to know what my actual risks are before I do something dumb, though.
If a bunch of people pretending to be employees came into my business I would have called the cops myself.
I just bet you're an assistant principal somewhere. You have that follow-all-the-rules attitude.
For what it's worth, the instructions that were given out:
"If a customer comes up to you and asks you a question, be polite and help them if you know the answer. If anyone asks you if you work there, say no. If an employee asks you what you're doing, respond 'I'm waiting for my girlfriend/boyfriend who is shopping elsewhere in the store.' If they question you about your clothing, just explain that it's what you put on when you woke up this morning and you don't know any of the other people dressed like you."
I get spam sent via email. I get spam in my snail mailbox. I get spam on my fax machine. I get spammed by cold calls from sales drones/marketers.
Shakespeare got it wrong - The first thing we must do is kill all the marketing department.
A really common type of home construction in San Francisco is stucco exteriors. The chicken wire used to support the stucco is going to interfere with reception.
As a free market promoter and anarcho-capitalist, child porn is one grey area that I don't have a good answer to.
I like to look at porn and do so fairly regularly. I mostly download Usenet porn and have for ~10 years or so. In all that time, I have never once seen child porn. Although I don't go looking for it, I would expect at least once to have accidentally stumbled upon some. It never happened. All this makes me wonder if the hysteria around child porn is actually just people pandering to parent's fears in order to advance their own agenda. It begs the question: is all this mindless panic in proportion to the severity of the problem?
Also in the article is the factoid that Americans consider Fox News the most trustworthy national news program overall (coming in at 11%).
I think I'd want to see the actual methodology of the survey before I'm going to believe this. Maybe I'm too naive but I have a hard time believing my fellow Americans actually trust the Republican mouthpieces at Fox more than any other media.
In the tech industry , the market leader can lose ground EXTREMELY rapidly. Anyone seen a Hayes modem recently?
I know very little about this subject. However, I was under the impression that only the US Federal Reserve had the authority and responsibility to coin (or print) money. How is it they can do this?
Whether or not the man in charge is crazy or not has little bearing on the validity of his claims
I'm trying to think of the last time a certifiable whack job came up with a brillant scientific discovery. I'm fairly confident that a man who thinks the Maya were descended from the Atlanteans isn't going to discover much of anything.
Because when video rental services compete, I win.
Yeah, but I wish just once a corporation would decide to compete on quality or service instead of competing strictly on price. I'd happily pay a few extra bucks to not have to deal with the assholes that work at Blockbuster.
And the Democrats have ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, Time, Newsweek, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.
The New York Times? You mean the New York Times that was the first newspaper to call for Presidnet Clinton's impeachment? That New York Times? Wow - imagine what might have happened if they weren't part of the "liberal media".
Can you imagine Fox ever calling for bush's impeachment? Me either.
This government says it can make you not a citizen by simple declaration without evidence.
No. I have never heard of this, in any case. As far as I can tell it is manufactured.
Read Section 501 of Patriot Act II. If, as seems to be the case, you're too lazy, the meat of it is that the government can decide your conduct means you are a supporter of terrorism and, as such, an enemy combatant who can be expatriated. Once expatriated then the rest of the Bill of Rights doesn't apply and it's Guantanamo for you.
Face it, your right-wing heroes are scum who've managed to subvert the entire Constitution.
Half of us aren't up for re-election until 2010!
In the Senate, 1/3 are up for election in 2006 and another 1/3 in 2008. The entire Senate will have stood for re-election by November of 2010.
I like to nitpick on Friday afternooons.
and that is a COMPLETELY different statement than the generalized, "there is no money in Java".
first, a redesign is more than just skin-deep
No, a redesign is what the guy who is paying for it says it is. If the customer wants trifling color and font changes as part of their "redesign" requirements, then that's what they get. Arguing about what does and does not constitute a redesign smacks of arrogance and is guaranteed to not get you any work.
Your points are valid and would carry a lot more weight if you didn't start out with a stupendously dumb statement like, "There is no money in Java".
3. Popular culture that denigrates "geeks" and "nerds" and makes it a social crime to get A's? Check.
I think this may actually be the root cause of a good many of our problems. We have a President who is proud of the fact that he doesn't read and doesn't think too deeply about problems. In fact, that was a big part of his success. We have school boards focusing on finding ways to force Bible instruction into the classroom. All the while that academic rigor is going out the window.
I refuse to set foot in a CompUSA after having been ripped off by them. I received a router as a Christmas present and found that it was DOA when I plugged it in. I took it back to CompUSA and, since I didn't have a receipt, they refused to exchange it for a working model. I wasn't looking for cash or even store credit - I just wanted a working router. Since then, I've discovered they charge exorbitant "restocking fees". One friend opened the box with his new Imac and found it was cracked. Compusa charged him $200 to replace it with an unbroken Imac. How this is legal, I don't know. They're low-life pirates and I'll never shop there. I take every opportunity to direct people to alternate stores.
Those greedy right wingers in the red states give more to charity each year than those bleeding heart socialists in the blue states,
Bullshit! Is there anything you people don't lie about?
...everyone will pay even higher taxes for something they don't use
Yeah, like I pay for a fire department I've never used and roads I've never driven on. The self-centered, greedy right-wing can't fathom the concept of doing something that benefits everyone. If there is nothing in it for them personally, they scream about having to pay for it.
Sound familiar?
Sure does. The same old greed-centered crap the right keeps pumping out. Funny how the right wing thinks that everything would be fine if we just handed over everything to the corporations.
...there's a potential general economic benefit to providing this service...
But the right-wing doesn't recognize "potential economic benefits". If it doesn't enrich a very small, already wealthy contingent, then it's a communist plot.
When you get done with your ridiculous rant, you might stop and look at the ACTUAL benefits of wind power, which are underwhelming:
http://www.aweo.org/lowbenefit.html