Personally, I think that if MSIE had tabbed browsing like the Mozilla, Netscape, and Opera that many people using Mozilla/Firefox wouldn't have made the switch to begin with.
I put firefox on my PC at work, but because of the firewall and the Active Directory integration of it, my password wasn't getting transmitted right to the firewall and I was getting locked out. I use Mozilla on my Unix Xterm, but I found a utility call MyIE2, which does do the pop-up blocking and gives tabbed browsing capability.
Most Americans do not seem to realize that they have been paying ridiculously LOW prices for gas for years. FYI, regular petrol has cost around 2 euro over here for the past two-three years. And before that, it wasn't much less. American prices are still much lower (2 dollars a gallon is about.50 euro/liter - most Europeans pay FOUR times that amount).
Taxes on a gallon of gasoline here in the US is about 65 cents. Over in Europe, taxes shoot up the price to near double of what the US pays.
It doesn't matter at all if you really aren't the father. The States don't care and, apparently, feminists don't either.
Actually, the issue of paternity comes down from English case law, which doesn't care about feminism in the slightest. English and American case law is most concerned about ensuring the financial support of the children.
Before dna tests (and blood tests before dna tests were available) if a man was married to a woman he was the father (despite the possibility that the wife was fooling around on him). This has been established for centuries in English case law. Even if the man was gone for a year or two (i.e. on a Crusade or war) he was the father of the child.
Nowadays, the law is still weighted to the issue that the courts have deemed the most important: the support of the children. To that effect, the name listed on the birth certificate or attested to by the mother is the father, and it takes a lot more work to get that cleared off. You can do it through dna tests, or by having an alibi ("Honest, I was in Botswana all last year, and never came home!"), but you still have to go to court. Major caveat, though, is that once the man finds out he has to act asap.
In short, case law doesn't care most of the time, it wants to have someone provide financially for the kids, and case law is fairly well settled.
And in black and white in the Bible we find the exact oppposite:
"What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?" (James 2:14)
You'd have to actually read it to know that, though.
Let me guess: you also have to 'interpret it properly'.
Context is the issue here. You are right in saying that you need deeds. The main problem, can one have faith without that selfsame faith showing itself in deeds?
Further down in James 2:17-18:
17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, it is dead 18 But someone will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without your works and I will show you my faith by my works.
Basically, one's faith will save you, but that faith will be demonstrated in your actions and deeds. It's not the deeds that gets one saved, but the faith behind the deeds. If someone claims to have great faith but no deeds to show in evidence, then you'd have to be a little more wary.
So, both of the previous posters have valid points: the profession of faith and belief in Jesus's resurrection truly is all that's needed, and that the deeds/works that come from that faith must be seen as a testimony to that faith.
Unfortunately, I don't think having windows binary capability will work based on history.
OS/2 was competing with Windows 3.1, but was losing in terms of market share. IBM came up with the brilliant idea of enabling OS/2 to run MS Windows applications natively until the developers had created/ported applications that would run natively underneath OS/2.
The result: Developers saw that their apps would run under OS/2 and basically decided that it wasn't worth the effort to developing a port that ran exclusively under OS/2 when the Win3.1 code would do fine as is. OS/2 was declining anyway at that time, but it IMHO hastened the decline of OS/2.
(Yes, I know a lot of people still using OS/2, we have a lot of it here at the facility where I work.)
My wife loves this old movie (starring Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn). She loves to watch it whenever it comes onto AMC.
I for one hate the movie because of the butchering they do to the IBM computers back then. To some extent, it's a byproduct of our education and experience, we can recognise the major inaccuracies in a movie or TV show, and want to fix it.
On the other hand, when a show comes on that utilizes speech pathology or audiology (what my wife has a masters degree in) she cringes and tries to explain what they've done wrong.
In short, it depends on your level of knowledge about the props or plotpoints in the movie.
Still, there are enough "nervous nellies" in the I.T. world to allow SCO to continue to bluster and bully there way to a few more "license" bucks before the courts finally put an end to this nonsense.
As someone who's last name is pronounced as "Nellie" (spelled Nelle in real life) I get kidded once in a while about the "Nervous Nellie" bit.
Funny story: My wife and I were sitting in a Sunday School class being taught by the Pastor's wife. She was making a point about how to watch your words and said "Now, don't be a nervous nellie about this." I looked over to my wife, gave her a shrug of my shoulders and a half smile in apology. When some of the people in the class started chuckling, the Pastor's wife realized her faux pax, and said "I don't mean the Nelle's."
We now return you to the topic of the fall of the house of SCO.
Also, how dare they say I can't make a copy of my DVD. I want to make a copy of it to....um....well, I don't really know why I would make a copy of something that cost 14 bucks and doesn't really degrade from repeated viewing....but still, it's MY RIGHT to make as many copies as I want...doesn't matter that I really have no use for a copy.
As a father of three young children (6 1/2, 5, 3 3/4) I make copies of the computer games my kids play and have them use the copies in the computer. I have wiped off more fingerprints from the copies than I care to remember.
Now with DVD's, I or my wife are the ones who place the DVD's into the player, but when the oldest child is old enough to handle that task, I will be making copies of the DVD's that he's interested in to avoid the inevitable scratches that will occur.
My point, I do have a valid reason to make and use a backup copy. I don't share or use pirated material, but I do protect what I have from the normal stuff that happens at home.
"Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound
nonlinear, all purpose computer system
that can be produced by unskilled labor"
-- NASA report on manned space exploration
We had a similar situation. HR had filtered out the obvious non-qualifiers, my boss had filtered a few more out, and had me do an evaluation on the remaining five. Of those, only two were deemed as potentially interesting enough to bring on-site.
Of the two, one had everything that we wanted. His track history, though, pointed to a major concern of ours: he would likely quit within a year or so, as soon as the job market improved and he found a fancier position elsewhere. In short, we had major problems with job hopping.
The other candidate was not as good as the first candidate, about 52-55 years old, not flashy, etc. We chose him for three main reasons: He would be someone who would stick around for a long time, he would be happy to be in the maintenance mode we were aiming this position to fill, and he would fit in with the rest of the team (his personality meshed far better than the first candidate). Capping it off, he had been out of work for about a year, and was able to start working within a week.
Once upon a time, EDS had a very good core of people who knew UNIX quite well. I used to work for them in Michigan, installing workstations and servers for GM all over the midwest region. While some people who got into UNIX there didn't know squat, they actually had some decent talent.
Nowadays, all of the good folks that I knew are long since gone (with the possible exception of one guy who had a medical condition that made it hard to jump ship), and the folks I've chatted with there in the distant past knew nothing.
I did interview once with a manager who knew of the reputation of former EDS'rs, and thought "oh no, another useless person!" She was pleasantly taken aback when, in response to a softball question on how something was done, I said we could talk about it, or we could talk about any one of a dozen other hardball questions.
The reason that the Republicans in Texas wanted to revisit redistricting was that the Texas House and Senate deadlocked, along with the fallback plan of the Govenor, Sec. of State, House and Senate Majority leaders selecting a plan. In the end, a group of federal judges basically used the previous, gerrymandered map that the Democrat party created in 1991 and tweaked it a little bit. Viola, the state is still gerrymandered the way the Democrats want.
While I never interviewed at Microsoft, I have been on several interviews with different companies, and been through both the "problem solving" type questions and the "technical knowledge" questions. Since I've done well on both types of questions I've never had a problem landing a job offer (turned down most of them, though).
However, I have performed several interviews for people for jobs doing Unix systems administration work, and I followed a script (home grown), that combined both the puzzle and technical knowledge type questions into one interview format. What I did was to ask some fairly basic Unix command questions of a candidate (for instance on a HP platform what is the difference between rsh and remsh). If the candidate didn't know the question, I'd explain the difference in terms of what the candidate did know (i.e. remsh on HP is similar to rsh on Solaris, etc.). Then, two or three questions later, I'd ask the candidate a question that built on the previous question and combined it with some new technical data, and I'd see if he remembered what I told him a while back.
The best person who I hired into that position only got the right "technical" question right five times - but he remembered what I had explained to him earlier and came up with an answer that showed he could integrate what he had learned with his current knowledge to come up with an answer. Of course, what I was looking for was if he would be able to build on new information or not, and he did very well.
Let me lay out the scenario I was in, and then give you my advice:
I was consulting for a medium sized ISP on the East Coast, managing their Unix servers, helping with their Sybase system, as well as keeping their web presence up. One day, the guy in charge of the HTML development decided that they wanted to stream audio and video from the site (it was associated with a newspaper, and had a radio station as a client). Well, they came up with an inflated number of streams that would need to be served simultaneously, and thus they wanted these expensive SGI boxes that were tops in serving streamin media.
I did an analysis on their presentation, came up with more realistic numbers, and showed the manager that using a more mundane Unix server (a Sun box), they could easily get two Sun boxes for the price of one SGI box, and feed the streams that way. In addition, we had three flavors of Unix in house, and adding a fourth flavor would be exponentially harder to support.
Manager took my advice, chose to go with the HTML guy's choice, and I got the grand job of getting these SGI boxes going. Well, I did, I got them going and kept them going. They never got the number of subscribers that they projected, and the project eventually got shut down.
In short, let them know your points, but let them know that you're flexible and willing to work with them in any way that they want.
I was at WalMart today, shopping for a bike for my daughter. They had a DVD bin with all DVD's for $5 each (like "10"). They also had a ton of other DVD's for $9.44, like GhostBusters 2, etc. - videos that I would watch.
My point, the price of videos has come down due to pressure from the P2P networks, and competitive pressures from within the entertainment industry. Or, in other words, the movie houses would rather get a piece of the pie rather than lose any potential profits to pirated video. It's the same lesson learned when Charles Dickens released books to the US (higher quality) that were slightly higher in price than the bootlegged manuscripts (lower quality) hawked in the the US.
There are three things that affect how things come out: Time, Quality and Cost. You can change two variables only, and it shows up in the final leg. You want high quality in a short time, it's going to cost you. You want it low cost, but high quality? It'll take a long time. The same thing happens with P2P networks and what you get off of it.
As an aside, I remember this little snippet from the seminar:
Tulsa University had shuffled around some classrooms to free up a large conference room/lecture hall. Well, for those students who were supposed to attend a class in there that day, the administration had put a notice on the board "Class ???? - Goto 426 " (or something like that). Dr. Dijkstra had come in from the back of the room, was introduced, and started speaking - he never looked at the chalkboard the whole time. Well, when it came time for questions, one student (not me) asked him about the notice on the back of the room. Well, Dr. Dijkstra turned about, cleaned off the board, and said something about structuring the overall conversation, and that comment violated good system design.
I remember when Tulsa U. brought in Dr. Dijkstra back in the spring of 1984. He spoke at length about software design principles, and how design was the lynchpin of good systems. He was there only for a day, and had insisted on taking time out to talk to anyone interested in hearing him. I'm very glad that TU invited the Computer Science students from ORU over to hear him.
The Computer Science profession has lost another giant.
I can add to this mix somewhat. At a previous company, we got buried under this junk when it came it - took some time to figure it out, and then eliminate it.
Later that year (1994), I was the systems administrator for a number of systems, including free.org (slogan: get online for just a penny. Long distance, though) This jerk signed up for a free account, and proceeded to spam away. I stopped it after a bit, and had to put some hacks into my systems to stop the spam. The idiot had the gall to ask why I was blocking his spam. I had to direct him to the Acceptable Use Policy that he signed up under, while I was deleting his accounts (multiple of them, unfortunately - but he wasn't too smart in setting them up!)
Used to be a fairly regular player on the
GameZone pages, playing mostly chess and Risk.
Even got my rating in the chess areas higher than
my old USCF (United States Chess Federation)
rating was.
Bill, you just lost some more page views on your commercials.
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I put firefox on my PC at work, but because of the firewall and the Active Directory integration of it, my password wasn't getting transmitted right to the firewall and I was getting locked out. I use Mozilla on my Unix Xterm, but I found a utility call MyIE2, which does do the pop-up blocking and gives tabbed browsing capability.
Here's the link:
http://www.myie2.com/html_en/home.htm
I'm imagining a really big convection oven ...
Taxes on a gallon of gasoline here in the US is about 65 cents. Over in Europe, taxes shoot up the price to near double of what the US pays.
Actually, the issue of paternity comes down from English case law, which doesn't care about feminism in the slightest. English and American case law is most concerned about ensuring the financial support of the children.
Before dna tests (and blood tests before dna tests were available) if a man was married to a woman he was the father (despite the possibility that the wife was fooling around on him). This has been established for centuries in English case law. Even if the man was gone for a year or two (i.e. on a Crusade or war) he was the father of the child.
Nowadays, the law is still weighted to the issue that the courts have deemed the most important: the support of the children. To that effect, the name listed on the birth certificate or attested to by the mother is the father, and it takes a lot more work to get that cleared off. You can do it through dna tests, or by having an alibi ("Honest, I was in Botswana all last year, and never came home!"), but you still have to go to court. Major caveat, though, is that once the man finds out he has to act asap.
In short, case law doesn't care most of the time, it wants to have someone provide financially for the kids, and case law is fairly well settled.
Context is the issue here. You are right in saying that you need deeds. The main problem, can one have faith without that selfsame faith showing itself in deeds?
Further down in James 2:17-18:
17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, it is dead
18 But someone will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without your works and I will show you my faith by my works.
Basically, one's faith will save you, but that faith will be demonstrated in your actions and deeds. It's not the deeds that gets one saved, but the faith behind the deeds. If someone claims to have great faith but no deeds to show in evidence, then you'd have to be a little more wary.
So, both of the previous posters have valid points: the profession of faith and belief in Jesus's resurrection truly is all that's needed, and that the deeds/works that come from that faith must be seen as a testimony to that faith.
Sorry for the long-winded reply
Unfortunately, I don't think having windows binary capability will work based on history.
OS/2 was competing with Windows 3.1, but was losing in terms of market share. IBM came up with the brilliant idea of enabling OS/2 to run MS Windows applications natively until the developers had created/ported applications that would run natively underneath OS/2.
The result: Developers saw that their apps would run under OS/2 and basically decided that it wasn't worth the effort to developing a port that ran exclusively under OS/2 when the Win3.1 code would do fine as is. OS/2 was declining anyway at that time, but it IMHO hastened the decline of OS/2.
(Yes, I know a lot of people still using OS/2, we have a lot of it here at the facility where I work.)
My wife loves this old movie (starring Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn). She loves to watch it whenever it comes onto AMC.
I for one hate the movie because of the butchering they do to the IBM computers back then. To some extent, it's a byproduct of our education and experience, we can recognise the major inaccuracies in a movie or TV show, and want to fix it.
On the other hand, when a show comes on that utilizes speech pathology or audiology (what my wife has a masters degree in) she cringes and tries to explain what they've done wrong.
In short, it depends on your level of knowledge about the props or plotpoints in the movie.
As someone who's last name is pronounced as "Nellie" (spelled Nelle in real life) I get kidded once in a while about the "Nervous Nellie" bit.
Funny story: My wife and I were sitting in a Sunday School class being taught by the Pastor's wife. She was making a point about how to watch your words and said "Now, don't be a nervous nellie about this." I looked over to my wife, gave her a shrug of my shoulders and a half smile in apology. When some of the people in the class started chuckling, the Pastor's wife realized her faux pax, and said "I don't mean the Nelle's."
We now return you to the topic of the fall of the house of SCO.
"Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound
nonlinear, all purpose computer system
that can be produced by unskilled labor"
-- NASA report on manned space exploration
In Soviet Russia, chemicals rule YOU!
(I know, rather lame, but it had to be done)
We had a similar situation. HR had filtered out the obvious non-qualifiers, my boss had filtered a few more out, and had me do an evaluation on the remaining five. Of those, only two were deemed as potentially interesting enough to bring on-site.
Of the two, one had everything that we wanted. His track history, though, pointed to a major concern of ours: he would likely quit within a year or so, as soon as the job market improved and he found a fancier position elsewhere. In short, we had major problems with job hopping.
The other candidate was not as good as the first candidate, about 52-55 years old, not flashy, etc. We chose him for three main reasons: He would be someone who would stick around for a long time, he would be happy to be in the maintenance mode we were aiming this position to fill, and he would fit in with the rest of the team (his personality meshed far better than the first candidate). Capping it off, he had been out of work for about a year, and was able to start working within a week.
Red Rover, Red Rover, ;)
Send Beagle2 on over
Once upon a time, EDS had a very good core of people who knew UNIX quite well. I used to work for them in Michigan, installing workstations and servers for GM all over the midwest region. While some people who got into UNIX there didn't know squat, they actually had some decent talent.
Nowadays, all of the good folks that I knew are long since gone (with the possible exception of one guy who had a medical condition that made it hard to jump ship), and the folks I've chatted with there in the distant past knew nothing.
I did interview once with a manager who knew of the reputation of former EDS'rs, and thought "oh no, another useless person!" She was pleasantly taken aback when, in response to a softball question on how something was done, I said we could talk about it, or we could talk about any one of a dozen other hardball questions.
A comment:
The reason that the Republicans in Texas wanted to revisit redistricting was that the Texas House and Senate deadlocked, along with the fallback plan of the Govenor, Sec. of State, House and Senate Majority leaders selecting a plan. In the end, a group of federal judges basically used the previous, gerrymandered map that the Democrat party created in 1991 and tweaked it a little bit. Viola, the state is still gerrymandered the way the Democrats want.
Personally, I prefer my experts well done, with a bit of parsley on the side
I just got done reloading my w2k PC that my wife uses after a hard disk crash. Loading Linux is far easier than loading any Microsoft product.
While I never interviewed at Microsoft, I have been on several interviews with different companies, and been through both the "problem solving" type questions and the "technical knowledge" questions. Since I've done well on both types of questions I've never had a problem landing a job offer (turned down most of them, though).
However, I have performed several interviews for people for jobs doing Unix systems administration work, and I followed a script (home grown), that combined both the puzzle and technical knowledge type questions into one interview format. What I did was to ask some fairly basic Unix command questions of a candidate (for instance on a HP platform what is the difference between rsh and remsh). If the candidate didn't know the question, I'd explain the difference in terms of what the candidate did know (i.e. remsh on HP is similar to rsh on Solaris, etc.). Then, two or three questions later, I'd ask the candidate a question that built on the previous question and combined it with some new technical data, and I'd see if he remembered what I told him a while back.
The best person who I hired into that position only got the right "technical" question right five times - but he remembered what I had explained to him earlier and came up with an answer that showed he could integrate what he had learned with his current knowledge to come up with an answer. Of course, what I was looking for was if he would be able to build on new information or not, and he did very well.
Let me lay out the scenario I was in, and then give you my advice:
I was consulting for a medium sized ISP on the East Coast, managing their Unix servers, helping with their Sybase system, as well as keeping their web presence up. One day, the guy in charge of the HTML development decided that they wanted to stream audio and video from the site (it was associated with a newspaper, and had a radio station as a client). Well, they came up with an inflated number of streams that would need to be served simultaneously, and thus they wanted these expensive SGI boxes that were tops in serving streamin media.
I did an analysis on their presentation, came up with more realistic numbers, and showed the manager that using a more mundane Unix server (a Sun box), they could easily get two Sun boxes for the price of one SGI box, and feed the streams that way. In addition, we had three flavors of Unix in house, and adding a fourth flavor would be exponentially harder to support.
Manager took my advice, chose to go with the HTML guy's choice, and I got the grand job of getting these SGI boxes going. Well, I did, I got them going and kept them going. They never got the number of subscribers that they projected, and the project eventually got shut down.
In short, let them know your points, but let them know that you're flexible and willing to work with them in any way that they want.
I was at WalMart today, shopping for a bike for my daughter. They had a DVD bin with all DVD's for $5 each (like "10"). They also had a ton of other DVD's for $9.44, like GhostBusters 2, etc. - videos that I would watch.
My point, the price of videos has come down due to pressure from the P2P networks, and competitive pressures from within the entertainment industry. Or, in other words, the movie houses would rather get a piece of the pie rather than lose any potential profits to pirated video. It's the same lesson learned when Charles Dickens released books to the US (higher quality) that were slightly higher in price than the bootlegged manuscripts (lower quality) hawked in the the US.
There are three things that affect how things come out: Time, Quality and Cost. You can change two variables only, and it shows up in the final leg. You want high quality in a short time, it's going to cost you. You want it low cost, but high quality? It'll take a long time. The same thing happens with P2P networks and what you get off of it.
Hell freezes over. News at 11.
As an aside, I remember this little snippet from the seminar:
Tulsa University had shuffled around some classrooms to free up a large conference room/lecture hall. Well, for those students who were supposed to attend a class in there that day, the administration had put a notice on the board "Class ???? - Goto 426 " (or something like that). Dr. Dijkstra had come in from the back of the room, was introduced, and started speaking - he never looked at the chalkboard the whole time. Well, when it came time for questions, one student (not me) asked him about the notice on the back of the room. Well, Dr. Dijkstra turned about, cleaned off the board, and said something about structuring the overall conversation, and that comment violated good system design.
I remember when Tulsa U. brought in Dr. Dijkstra back in the spring of 1984. He spoke at length about software design principles, and how design was the lynchpin of good systems. He was there only for a day, and had insisted on taking time out to talk to anyone interested in hearing him. I'm very glad that TU invited the Computer Science students from ORU over to hear him.
The Computer Science profession has lost another giant.
I can add to this mix somewhat. At a previous company, we got buried under this junk when it came it - took some time to figure it out, and then eliminate it.
Later that year (1994), I was the systems administrator for a number of systems, including free.org (slogan: get online for just a penny. Long distance, though) This jerk signed up for a free account, and proceeded to spam away. I stopped it after a bit, and had to put some hacks into my systems to stop the spam. The idiot had the gall to ask why I was blocking his spam. I had to direct him to the Acceptable Use Policy that he signed up under, while I was deleting his accounts (multiple of them, unfortunately - but he wasn't too smart in setting them up!)
Used to be a fairly regular player on the
GameZone pages, playing mostly chess and Risk.
Even got my rating in the chess areas higher than
my old USCF (United States Chess Federation)
rating was.
Bill, you just lost some more page views on your commercials.