Air conditioning has also made it possible for the US Congress to be in session all year long. Time was they disappeared from D.C. in early June and came back in October. Now they are here most all year long. Is that necessarily a good thing?
And think of the poor Brits at their embassy in D.C.--they used to get topical duty pay!
Agreed! I retook calculus in a JC 15 years after nearly failing it in college. The second time around I loved it! And JC's often have better teachers for those courses than do universities.
My wife is a teacher and is constantly butting heads over the net nanny software the school district installed (this from the same boobs that (a) repeatly assigned duplicate IPs (b) moved to Outlook, which keeps half the network down with viruses). This filtering stuff has interesting side effects--like no one being able to do web research on the planet Venus: Because it crops up in so many adult sites, it got added to the exclusion list!
Amen! I've changed my career goals 5 times or more since college--three of those changes while working in the technology area (programmer? manager? db admin?)--and expect to change them again before I retire. The important thing is to not close any doors at this stage and, since there will never be an easier time to go to college, skipping it now could close a door that is hard (although not impossible) to reopen. Also, if you skip college now, you may find in 10-15 years that employers will be saying, "Why hire/promote/retain someone who didn't even get a degree?"
From what I see, the biggest danger my kids face from chatting is the time it takes away from their school work. Come on, parents! You mean you've never told your kids to beware of strangers? My kids get a lot from online and email chat--not just MSN or Yahoo but gaming and history groups. I don't mind a bit having to okay my kid into a new group but I shouldn't have to stand-by to approve each session.
I'd also advise lawmakers to look to what the kids do to lead on adults. It doesn't take long on Yahoo! or GeoCities to find underaged kids selling themselves.
Unfortunately, my sources tell me the Outlook and Office team at Microsoft insisted on putting it in--over the objections of the Visual Basic team who knew it was a bad idea from the start. The Office logic was "We make more revenue, we want it, you have to do it." Now if only MS would get stuck with some major suits over it the would clean up their act.
I wonder about this "no Constitutional right to privacy" claim. Look at Amendments IX and X:
Amendment IX: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Well then, maybe it's the Virtual Memory Manager. You know--when the Windows box slows and churns to repaint itself after a simple/common task--like moving or closing a window. You get the same stellar performance from the X-Box.
Well, when you get an X-Box, you *do* get a PC--but one with a stripped-down Windows like Gates just admitted was possible.
One guy here watched his 17-year old know-it-all son buy an X-Box and a skateboarding (maybe snowboarding) game. About 20 minutes into play, you can see the game pause for Windows' garbage collection. Over the next 10 minutes, it gets slower and slower and the garbage collection increases. At 30 minutes, the Blue Screen of Death. Yep! That's Windows alright!
Free? From MS?? Hmmm... and last time I looked, the entry price for.Net development was a $1000/year MSDN subscription. Right!
I don't think it's the developer community pushing.Net--it's the PHBs. So, it looks like Gates' best shot at boosting X-Box sales is the same approach he uses with.Net--beat on management (read 'parents') until they insist that those who know the environment better (read 'kids') use the X-Box or nothing else.
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I've been boycotting Best Buy for over a year now. I my case, my wife and I bought a over-the-range microwave oven and hood with a 3 year in-home warranty (afterall, you don't want to have to uninstall it to get it fixed). When it broke, they refused to honor the in-home warranty. When we took it to the store, they kept it one week before returning it saying that they didn't fix them, a 3d party did. Then the closest 3d party they could find was in the next town over, 15 miles from out home. He also wouldn't come to the house and kept the microwave over a week. Since then I have heard numerous stories from locals with similar beefs over computers and other appliances. These days, I go to Circut City or Sears.
But of course the Scientologists aren't the only ones in this game. Just look at the Christian Right. It amazes me (especially as a practicing Christian) that these bozos think that a religion that has managed to resist the efforts of the Romans, the Communists, etc. to stomp it out now requires the protection of the US Government in order to flourish.
I just wish they had done it in 1985 when they put that piece of crud 20MB in the first PC-ATs! I was installing some 50+ PC-ATs overseas at the time and IBM's harddrives were nothing but trouble. We finally had to go with dual-floppy systems until--months later--IBM sent us Seagate drives.
Hahahaha! Good one! Or (opps!), am I speaking to a disciple?
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Sadly though, as the reviewer implies, Yourdan is the Oracle of Delphi to many PHBs who's computer education ended with dataflow diagrams and HIPO charts. Why? Because their '70s era college texts for IS consisted largely of books by or inspired by Yourdan; because Yourdan has gotten rich selling his snake oil; and because they fancy they'll get rich, too. You know the type of manager I mean--the same sort of IS dumbass that thinks you need Windows servers and that everyone should be running Outlook. Solution? You got me! Every place I've been with more than a couple of dozen employees has had a Yourdan disciple in management.
I was considering subscribing in order to improve the performance of downloads (which have gone to a snail's pace since the subscription program began) but two out of three of my last update attempts have ended in file not found errors. This type of error doesn't give me confidence in how well RedCarpet setups are tested. So why shouldn't I just forget about subscriptions and go with KDE?
A facility of sufficient size could be located in arid regions, since discharged air that is deficient in carbon dioxide could have consequences on nearby plant life.
I would be very nervous about locating such a plant in Texas. Considering the quality of the politicans they have been sending us, do we really want to add the effect of oxygen deprevation on their mental functions?
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Air conditioning has also made it possible for the US Congress to be in session all year long. Time was they disappeared from D.C. in early June and came back in October. Now they are here most all year long. Is that necessarily a good thing?
And think of the poor Brits at their embassy in D.C.--they used to get topical duty pay!
Agreed! I retook calculus in a JC 15 years after nearly failing it in college. The second time around I loved it! And JC's often have better teachers for those courses than do universities.
I see your point, but if I hired him for this, what good is he to me? Looks like something that you really need to go over in the interview process.
Sounds like he's being disloyal to you. Fire his butt!
Well, thankfully, Disney can't bribe the Justices with money for their reelection coffers.
And what is Disney's business plan anyway? To have copyrights extended whenever Mickey Mouse risks becoming public domain?
My wife is a teacher and is constantly butting heads over the net nanny software the school district installed (this from the same boobs that (a) repeatly assigned duplicate IPs (b) moved to Outlook, which keeps half the network down with viruses). This filtering stuff has interesting side effects--like no one being able to do web research on the planet Venus: Because it crops up in so many adult sites, it got added to the exclusion list!
Amen! I've changed my career goals 5 times or more since college--three of those changes while working in the technology area (programmer? manager? db admin?)--and expect to change them again before I retire. The important thing is to not close any doors at this stage and, since there will never be an easier time to go to college, skipping it now could close a door that is hard (although not impossible) to reopen. Also, if you skip college now, you may find in 10-15 years that employers will be saying, "Why hire/promote/retain someone who didn't even get a degree?"
From what I see, the biggest danger my kids face from chatting is the time it takes away from their school work. Come on, parents! You mean you've never told your kids to beware of strangers? My kids get a lot from online and email chat--not just MSN or Yahoo but gaming and history groups. I don't mind a bit having to okay my kid into a new group but I shouldn't have to stand-by to approve each session.
I'd also advise lawmakers to look to what the kids do to lead on adults. It doesn't take long on Yahoo! or GeoCities to find underaged kids selling themselves.
Unfortunately, my sources tell me the Outlook and Office team at Microsoft insisted on putting it in--over the objections of the Visual Basic team who knew it was a bad idea from the start. The Office logic was "We make more revenue, we want it, you have to do it." Now if only MS would get stuck with some major suits over it the would clean up their act.
And where on their web site to they make this claim? I don't see it. How is someone to know before the vultures--I mean, lawyers--show up?
I wonder about this "no Constitutional right to privacy" claim. Look at Amendments IX and X:
Amendment IX: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Maybe they just decided to give up on trying to stay a version number ahead of Mandrake.
And how much for the OS and for the web server that you are targeting with .Net? How much for the security updates and other patches?
Well then, maybe it's the Virtual Memory Manager. You know--when the Windows box slows and churns to repaint itself after a simple/common task--like moving or closing a window. You get the same stellar performance from the X-Box.
No, they just hawk Subarus. The Japanese build them and I have two: I get 27mpg on the Outback and 29mpg on the Forrester.
Well, when you get an X-Box, you *do* get a PC--but one with a stripped-down Windows like Gates just admitted was possible.
One guy here watched his 17-year old know-it-all son buy an X-Box and a skateboarding (maybe snowboarding) game. About 20 minutes into play, you can see the game pause for Windows' garbage collection. Over the next 10 minutes, it gets slower and slower and the garbage collection increases. At 30 minutes, the Blue Screen of Death. Yep! That's Windows alright!
And you can still get better performance from the overseas models. So tell me, how come only the Japanese can make a 4WD that gets better than 25mpg?
Free? From MS?? Hmmm... and last time I looked, the entry price for .Net development was a $1000/year MSDN subscription. Right!
.Net--it's the PHBs. So, it looks like Gates' best shot at boosting X-Box sales is the same approach he uses with .Net--beat on management (read 'parents') until they insist that those who know the environment better (read 'kids') use the X-Box or nothing else.
I don't think it's the developer community pushing
I've been boycotting Best Buy for over a year now. I my case, my wife and I bought a over-the-range microwave oven and hood with a 3 year in-home warranty (afterall, you don't want to have to uninstall it to get it fixed). When it broke, they refused to honor the in-home warranty. When we took it to the store, they kept it one week before returning it saying that they didn't fix them, a 3d party did. Then the closest 3d party they could find was in the next town over, 15 miles from out home. He also wouldn't come to the house and kept the microwave over a week. Since then I have heard numerous stories from locals with similar beefs over computers and other appliances. These days, I go to Circut City or Sears.
Amen Brother/Sister!! Do I hear a "Alleluia"?
But of course the Scientologists aren't the only ones in this game. Just look at the Christian Right. It amazes me (especially as a practicing Christian) that these bozos think that a religion that has managed to resist the efforts of the Romans, the Communists, etc. to stomp it out now requires the protection of the US Government in order to flourish.
I just wish they had done it in 1985 when they put that piece of crud 20MB in the first PC-ATs! I was installing some 50+ PC-ATs overseas at the time and IBM's harddrives were nothing but trouble. We finally had to go with dual-floppy systems until--months later--IBM sent us Seagate drives.
Hahahaha! Good one! Or (opps!), am I speaking to a disciple?
Sadly though, as the reviewer implies, Yourdan is the Oracle of Delphi to many PHBs who's computer education ended with dataflow diagrams and HIPO charts. Why? Because their '70s era college texts for IS consisted largely of books by or inspired by Yourdan; because Yourdan has gotten rich selling his snake oil; and because they fancy they'll get rich, too. You know the type of manager I mean--the same sort of IS dumbass that thinks you need Windows servers and that everyone should be running Outlook. Solution? You got me! Every place I've been with more than a couple of dozen employees has had a Yourdan disciple in management.
I was considering subscribing in order to improve the performance of downloads (which have gone to a snail's pace since the subscription program began) but two out of three of my last update attempts have ended in file not found errors. This type of error doesn't give me confidence in how well RedCarpet setups are tested. So why shouldn't I just forget about subscriptions and go with KDE?
A facility of sufficient size could be located in arid regions, since discharged air that is deficient in carbon dioxide could have consequences on nearby plant life.
I would be very nervous about locating such a plant in Texas. Considering the quality of the politicans they have been sending us, do we really want to add the effect of oxygen deprevation on their mental functions?