If anyone gets as incensed as you all were about it, I would certainly tell them to vote with their feet.
Only one little problem with that. There is nobody else in the area.
The high-speed Internet market is about as competitive as the cable TV market -- lots of companies fighting for turf, but on their little patch of turf they reign supreme.
What other business has this model? Shady characters on the street corner with large rolls of cash and little packets of powder.
I do own my own cable modem, and have had it long enough for it to "pay for itself." But now I'll be asked to pay for it again... and again... and again...
One of the challenges of LEGOs, like writing computer programs used to be, is to do the most you can with your limited resources. Run chain or gearing to make your one motor do many things. Make an object hollow or with outlines or gaps to save pieces. Practice efficiency of design.
A virtual set would probably give you as many of piece X as you want. LEGO bloat would set in. You could build LEGO Office...
Now I can put up a website to let total strangers have my robot chase my cats around the house at any hour of the day or night... the poor things will turn into nervous wrecks.
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Have you been in a US post office lately? Last one I went into was plastered with Windows XP posters, and there were even some demo disks at one point.
I saw them. They were on the same wall as the front-and-profile shots of Bill Gates under the heading "Wanted by the FBI."
Seriously -- A certificate only tells me what questions to start asking. It's sort of like that college question a few days ago: I don't want people who know things; I want people who can think and learn things.
You might be better off spending some time studying on your own and doing a free project of some sort for a local charity or school. It's something you can put on your resume and build up a bit rather than just one line of questionable value... and good for the community as well.
Bullshit. You have obviously never been raped. At worst, spam is a milder form of sexual assault. A grope in the subway, or an indecent and unwelcome proposition from a shady character. "Rape" would be reserved for somebody cracking your firewall.
Let's keep the hyperbole down to something reasonable, shall we?
... you must not be mislead[sic] by false hippocracy[sic] as this eBay conspiracy.
/me puts on a bemused look
I really don't even know where to start with this. We must not be given false elemental metal by something that really isn't government-by-hippopotamus such as what eBay is deliberately falsifying?
1) College is the most fun four years of your life. Five if you stretch it.:) If you miss them you will regret it for the rest of your life. You won't have anywhere near the same experience if you go back when you're 30; you'll just be studying (which is what it sounds like you think all of college is. Wrong!)
2) Maybe 10% of what I learned in college related to my major (CS) (and unlike many people, I majored in what I eventually ended up working in.) Maybe 30% total was related to classes I took. That doesn't mean the other 70% wasn't useful to learn; in fact I think it was that other 70% that most made the time worthwhile. Some of it might relate to hobbies you take up and get a lot of fun from. Some of it will be interpersonal relationships (read that how you like.:) Sex, but more than that too. Friends who will last you your whole life. Teachers who will open your eyes to new things, academic and otherwise. More.) Some of it will just be fun and cool stuff you'll never forget.
3) Maybe 10% of what I knew about my major when I graduated, I learned in classes. The rest of the stuff I got because I had four years to essentially play with whatever interested me, with the college's blessing and equipment and assistance (except for the one time when I almost got expelled.:) )
But at the same time don't discount that classroom 10%. Many of the things I learned from classes were things I would not ever have learned on my own, for lack of time or interest or simply not having a reason to go there. Chip architecture and why some types of operations work better than others. Compiler design. Assembly language. Real fundamentals that make the bits and pieces you learn elsewhere fit into a cohesive framework and become workable knowledge. In addition to giving you a better understanding of things you know now, you'll have a more solid base for learning things in the future.
4) Maybe you will find that you like something even better than being a sysadmin. Don't scoff, it happens all the time. Acting. Teaching. Digging up fossils. Blowing up the chem lab. Whatever. Maybe even programming.:) You won't ever be exposed to most of these things if you go straight into the workforce.
5) If you really feel the need to work, you can work while you're in college. Best of all possible worlds. Not only are you getting the experience, you're having the fun, and if you run into a problem at work you have a ton of resources at hand you can use to learn about the problem and how it should be fixed. You can get a job with a company and make (a little) money or you can work at a job in the college and get broader experience. Or both, if you're a masochist.
6) Did I mention that college was fun?
People here who are saying "You don't need college; look at me, I didn't," don't know what they are missing. Sure they have a job. Whoopee. If a job is all you want out of life, fine. But IMNSHO college is an opportunity for a lot more than a better job.
I don't think this is a valid argument from the manufacturers. If Dell or Gateway or Compaq started preloading Linux on their machines, what is microsoft going to do?
Hello? [rap rap rap on the screen] Anybody home? Been paying attention?
They're going to raise the price Dell gets charged for Windows. Dell suddenly has to pay (say) $150 a copy instead of $50 because Dell suddenly, mysteriously no longer qualifies as a "Preferred" OEM. That extra $50 either comes out of Dell's bottom line (ouch) or gets passed on to Dell's customers in the form of higher prices (result: Dell's customers flock to Dell's competitors.)
And Dell does not realistically have the option of saying "We will no longer ship any computers with Windows on them." They'd be out of business in a week.
Some "hand sanitizers" say their active ingredient is the alcohol (don't ask me whether something can become resistant to that)
Hey... if plants can adapt to a world absolutely overrun with their own toxic, violently reactive polluting excretions (that is to say, oxygen) I wouldn't bet against some microbe finding a way to use alcohol.:)
Yes I have read other Doc Smith, including Skylark and Spacehounds of IPC and the Family D'Alembert (all but three of them that I can't find.) Yes there are themes.
Does a good painter only use a particular color once? Or not paint things that are close to his/her heart? Of course there are themes, repetitive ones throughout his work.
But I submit that the themes are not the point of the books. They're backdrop. Smith is not suggesting we implement breeding programs, nor that a human is best qualified to be Galactic Overlord, nor that there are really Arisians and Eddorians using us in some universe-wide battle between good and evil.
He wrote these things for fun... ours and (hopefully) his own. Because it's enjoyable to postulate this idealized world now and then... and pretend we are in this world with the heroes of the story. The essense of escapism. If we are impelled to do a little more good in our lives because we read them, that's great... but I don't think that was his point.
Microsoft does actually follow the RFT[sic] standard, because RFT[sic] is a Microsoft standard.
Just because the same company that wrote the software wrote the standard doesn't mean the software follows the standard.
In a recent discussion here on/. about SAMBA, for example, it was stated that MS network clients do not follow the (published!) CIFS standards documents, a product and standard MS invented.
And if one product that implements the standard changes, regardless of who the author of that product is, that by itself does not change the standard -- or else it wasn't a "standard" in the first place. The "standard" exists in its own right and is independent of any single implementation. In this case, MS (as the owner) can change the standard, but not just by changing the product, and the new standard is not just "whatever the product happens to do."
CNN put Connie Chung on Skywalker Ranch and all she could ask about was whether Lucas felt that Annakin represented his father.
"No," was the answer.
"Are you sure?"
"I'm sure."
"Are you really sure?"
[click of the remote control]
Why can't space opera be space opera anymore? Who here has read Doc Smith's Lensman series? Good vs. evil. They hit us, we hit them. They build a bigger blaster, we build a stronger base. If you'll pardon the expression, this is not rocket science, people!
This is escapism, pure and simple, and no apologies or explanations need to be made for it. Those who do want to analyze these things down to the color of Darth Vader's Underoos[tm] (p.s. whose image is printed on the underwear Annakin wears? And what does that mean???) are doing about as effective and useful a divination as somebody slitting the belly of a goat and reading its entrails.
I would love to agree with you but unfortunately experience will show that MS's RTF implementation is nonstandard. (What a surprise, huh?) I cite a support document from Adobe (at http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/a87a.htm):
Because of incompatibilities with the way Word saves documents to RTF..., FrameMaker returns an error when you import an RTF file saved from Word.
This also reflects my experience when using StarOffice to author documents sent to Word users, and vice versa. The resulting document is readable but often not presentable.
I love the analogy put forward by the witness that the OS is as fragile as a "house of cards." (Page 5722, line 17.) Maybe he's not so dumb after all...:)
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The high-speed Internet market is about as competitive as the cable TV market -- lots of companies fighting for turf, but on their little patch of turf they reign supreme.
What other business has this model? Shady characters on the street corner with large rolls of cash and little packets of powder.
I do own my own cable modem, and have had it long enough for it to "pay for itself." But now I'll be asked to pay for it again... and again... and again...
A prior poster said it best: How in hell do these people get away with claiming incompetency as a defense?
Has anybody announced what OS they'll run on? If they stick to the 9x series like most of their other games did, I'll never see it.
A virtual set would probably give you as many of piece X as you want. LEGO bloat would set in. You could build LEGO Office...
Now I can put up a website to let total strangers have my robot chase my cats around the house at any hour of the day or night... the poor things will turn into nervous wrecks.
An Enterprise is a starship. :)
Lots of really rich folks are pretty old, though -- was the study limited to respondents who are healthy enough to go?
Seriously -- A certificate only tells me what questions to start asking. It's sort of like that college question a few days ago: I don't want people who know things; I want people who can think and learn things.
You might be better off spending some time studying on your own and doing a free project of some sort for a local charity or school. It's something you can put on your resume and build up a bit rather than just one line of questionable value... and good for the community as well.
Let's keep the hyperbole down to something reasonable, shall we?
I really don't even know where to start with this. We must not be given false elemental metal by something that really isn't government-by-hippopotamus such as what eBay is deliberately falsifying?
I guess all I can say is PbPbPbPbPbPbPbPb...
By the way -- that was a joke.
[sigh]
1) College is the most fun four years of your life. Five if you stretch it. :) If you miss them you will regret it for the rest of your life. You won't have anywhere near the same experience if you go back when you're 30; you'll just be studying (which is what it sounds like you think all of college is. Wrong!)
2) Maybe 10% of what I learned in college related to my major (CS) (and unlike many people, I majored in what I eventually ended up working in.) Maybe 30% total was related to classes I took. That doesn't mean the other 70% wasn't useful to learn; in fact I think it was that other 70% that most made the time worthwhile. Some of it might relate to hobbies you take up and get a lot of fun from. Some of it will be interpersonal relationships (read that how you like. :) Sex, but more than that too. Friends who will last you your whole life. Teachers who will open your eyes to new things, academic and otherwise. More.) Some of it will just be fun and cool stuff you'll never forget.
3) Maybe 10% of what I knew about my major when I graduated, I learned in classes. The rest of the stuff I got because I had four years to essentially play with whatever interested me, with the college's blessing and equipment and assistance (except for the one time when I almost got expelled. :) )
But at the same time don't discount that classroom 10%. Many of the things I learned from classes were things I would not ever have learned on my own, for lack of time or interest or simply not having a reason to go there. Chip architecture and why some types of operations work better than others. Compiler design. Assembly language. Real fundamentals that make the bits and pieces you learn elsewhere fit into a cohesive framework and become workable knowledge. In addition to giving you a better understanding of things you know now, you'll have a more solid base for learning things in the future.
4) Maybe you will find that you like something even better than being a sysadmin. Don't scoff, it happens all the time. Acting. Teaching. Digging up fossils. Blowing up the chem lab. Whatever. Maybe even programming. :) You won't ever be exposed to most of these things if you go straight into the workforce.
5) If you really feel the need to work, you can work while you're in college. Best of all possible worlds. Not only are you getting the experience, you're having the fun, and if you run into a problem at work you have a ton of resources at hand you can use to learn about the problem and how it should be fixed. You can get a job with a company and make (a little) money or you can work at a job in the college and get broader experience. Or both, if you're a masochist.
6) Did I mention that college was fun?
People here who are saying "You don't need college; look at me, I didn't," don't know what they are missing. Sure they have a job. Whoopee. If a job is all you want out of life, fine. But IMNSHO college is an opportunity for a lot more than a better job.
Don't screw yourself. Go to college.
They're going to raise the price Dell gets charged for Windows. Dell suddenly has to pay (say) $150 a copy instead of $50 because Dell suddenly, mysteriously no longer qualifies as a "Preferred" OEM. That extra $50 either comes out of Dell's bottom line (ouch) or gets passed on to Dell's customers in the form of higher prices (result: Dell's customers flock to Dell's competitors.)
And Dell does not realistically have the option of saying "We will no longer ship any computers with Windows on them." They'd be out of business in a week.
Yes I have read other Doc Smith, including Skylark and Spacehounds of IPC and the Family D'Alembert (all but three of them that I can't find.) Yes there are themes.
Does a good painter only use a particular color once? Or not paint things that are close to his/her heart? Of course there are themes, repetitive ones throughout his work.
But I submit that the themes are not the point of the books. They're backdrop. Smith is not suggesting we implement breeding programs, nor that a human is best qualified to be Galactic Overlord, nor that there are really Arisians and Eddorians using us in some universe-wide battle between good and evil.
He wrote these things for fun... ours and (hopefully) his own. Because it's enjoyable to postulate this idealized world now and then... and pretend we are in this world with the heroes of the story. The essense of escapism. If we are impelled to do a little more good in our lives because we read them, that's great... but I don't think that was his point.
In a recent discussion here on
And if one product that implements the standard changes, regardless of who the author of that product is, that by itself does not change the standard -- or else it wasn't a "standard" in the first place. The "standard" exists in its own right and is independent of any single implementation. In this case, MS (as the owner) can change the standard, but not just by changing the product, and the new standard is not just "whatever the product happens to do."
CNN put Connie Chung on Skywalker Ranch and all she could ask about was whether Lucas felt that Annakin represented his father.
"No," was the answer.
"Are you sure?"
"I'm sure."
"Are you really sure?"
[click of the remote control]
Why can't space opera be space opera anymore? Who here has read Doc Smith's Lensman series? Good vs. evil. They hit us, we hit them. They build a bigger blaster, we build a stronger base. If you'll pardon the expression, this is not rocket science, people!
This is escapism, pure and simple, and no apologies or explanations need to be made for it. Those who do want to analyze these things down to the color of Darth Vader's Underoos[tm] (p.s. whose image is printed on the underwear Annakin wears? And what does that mean???) are doing about as effective and useful a divination as somebody slitting the belly of a goat and reading its entrails.
This also reflects my experience when using StarOffice to author documents sent to Word users, and vice versa. The resulting document is readable but often not presentable.
But if Windows is modular, we can replace the copy protection / serial activation with our own modules, right? ;)
... that software package "Microsoft Money".
I wish I could get to be an "expert" in something so large so quickly. Maybe it's 'cause he's from MIT.
I love the analogy put forward by the witness that the OS is as fragile as a "house of cards." (Page 5722, line 17.) Maybe he's not so dumb after all... :)