Do you think fax lines are secure? Any enemey stophisticated enough to break into military computer systems probably isn't going to bother taking revenge on individual soldure's families.
And for a lot of these guys, the choice is between this and not voting at all given the unavailability of faxes and regular mail.
I mean really, implementing this for a few people at remote locations seems only fair, given they are risking their lives for the country they should be able to vote.
On the other hand Missouri isn't a swing state, so none of this matters anyway.
You know, a lot of times when companies go under, they start to use their patent portfolio in a last kamakazi attempt to drag everyone else down with them. Perhaps Microsoft sees the writing on the wall, and realizes that things are going to go so well for them in the future.
And I'd bet that people who liked it would like his later work, but I'm not sure the inverse is really true. It's pretty goofy, certanly dosn't have the realistic edge that Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle.
If you want, you can try sending money to paypal@hatori42.com. Paypal dosn't like people using their service for porn, and I had my old account shut down due to accepting donation on the autopr0n main page. But hopefully simply posting this address on slashdot won't cause any problems.
Not suprising this was on an apple site. Dreaming up 'cool' products and services whole of the cloth and reporting them as news seems to a hobby for these people.
While ICQ may have had some usefull features (feel free to dig through the 450 page manual), the interface was awfull. It got killed by AIM and MSN because they were simple to use.
Wow, this is just absolutly facinating for people who are not freshman at Duke Univ. It dosn't sound like more needless iPod promotion on/. Nope, not at all.
I had an old nokia 8620. Solid phone, had a snake game. It died, and although I had insurance I needed a new phone right away (I was trying to get a job -- which didn't happen). so I ended up signing a new 2 year agreement just to get a free phone immediately.
The thing I have now is loaded with features, but the basic interface is shit. The most annoying thing -- The ringer is to quiet, and I can't set it to ring and vibrate at the same time. I miss calls when I'm listening to loud music, now, that I would have at least felt otherwise. and I miss calls simply from the phone being to quiet. The thing seems to last about a third the time of the nokia on a full charge, and takes 3 times as long to get there.
On the old nokia I could hit the power button to turn on the backlight without popping up the 'the keys are locked' dialog. On this phone, you can't see the display at all without turning on the backlight, day or night, and the keylock warning show up no matter what.
Its like they didn't even have people using this phone for a while before they just tossed it out there. The amount of thought that nokia obviously put into their handset is clear.
OTOH, nokia's design esthetic has just gone way overboard lately.
I love how a link to some random website proves how 'wrong' the common historical understanding. While FDR's programs may not have lifted americans out of the depression, what they did do was allow americans to like, not starve to death.
I don't see how you can view the repulican party as good for "individual freedom" in any sense of the word. They want to shove religiosity down our throats in order to apease their base. How does the embryonic stem cell restrictions support individual liberty? how does the war on drugs support invididual liberty? and so on.
But since economic factors can take years to drag out, maybe it was all the measures the Republican president put in place that improved things a few years later when a Democrat was in power?
Maybe, but probably not. I mean, republicans always go on and on about how the crappy economies are always the fault of their democratic predecessors, and vise versa. It's getting a little old.
Haven't you ever heard of comparative advantage? If someone is willing to do these little utilities for free, then people who want to get paid should do something else to make money. A friend of mine graduated with a CS degree and started a tshirt site, getting tens of thousands of dollars worth of web design for free (by doing it himself).
Anyway, that 1-3 person shareware shop wasn't really the main source of employment in the IT field, it was corps that had lots of data-processing needs. Now those jobs are being outsourced. Along with a shrinking economy (only 32k new jobs this month. Bush claimed we'd be getting 300k on average until the election, but I guess those got lost along with the WMD) are causing this bout of lowered employment.
After taking the same test "tigers in the wild" I managed to boost my score to 85 WPM. I'm guessing this is closer to my "actual" score as far as being able to type things I 'know', such as slashdot comments, papers I'm writing, etc.
Actualy, it's intresting. On those tests I always get hung up on certan words, or even phrases. The Mark Twain bit confused the hell out of me with it's non-standard grammar, and I got hung up (sometimes for a second or two) on some words that I don't know how to spell.
Dispite this, I got in the 70s on most of the tests. I'm going to try retaking them untill I get the whole test text memorized:)
Please. This guy installed Spyware on his bosses computer, and his wife's. for seven months, probably looking for porn surfing but all he got was solitaire.
This guy was just an asshole, the kind of person who thinks because he's a sys-admin who has admin access on the computers that he ought to be the computer morality person as well. Or in this case, the productivity nazi.
The supervisor in this story has gotten good reports, maybe playing solitaire is the way he 'thinks'. Who knows?
The person who setup these screen grabs (seven months of them) deserved exactly what he got.
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Are you for real?
Do you think fax lines are secure? Any enemey stophisticated enough to break into military computer systems probably isn't going to bother taking revenge on individual soldure's families.
And for a lot of these guys, the choice is between this and not voting at all given the unavailability of faxes and regular mail.
I mean really, implementing this for a few people at remote locations seems only fair, given they are risking their lives for the country they should be able to vote.
On the other hand Missouri isn't a swing state, so none of this matters anyway.
That's why everyone's got one!
We're talking about a company with a few hundred billion in the bank, that is growing at about 20% per year.
Microsoft gave most of that money back to their shareholders, and is no longer growing at 20% a year.
You know, a lot of times when companies go under, they start to use their patent portfolio in a last kamakazi attempt to drag everyone else down with them. Perhaps Microsoft sees the writing on the wall, and realizes that things are going to go so well for them in the future.
This could cause huge problems in the IT world...
Is there an FCLU? I don't really see what the ACLU and the First Amendment have to do with france...
And I'd bet that people who liked it would like his later work, but I'm not sure the inverse is really true. It's pretty goofy, certanly dosn't have the realistic edge that Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle.
If you want, you can try sending money to paypal@hatori42.com. Paypal dosn't like people using their service for porn, and I had my old account shut down due to accepting donation on the autopr0n main page. But hopefully simply posting this address on slashdot won't cause any problems.
Other then SPAM of course...
Not suprising this was on an apple site. Dreaming up 'cool' products and services whole of the cloth and reporting them as news seems to a hobby for these people.
While ICQ may have had some usefull features (feel free to dig through the 450 page manual), the interface was awfull. It got killed by AIM and MSN because they were simple to use.
We finaly have proof that conservative brains are simply malfunctioning!
Wow, this is just absolutly facinating for people who are not freshman at Duke Univ. It dosn't sound like more needless iPod promotion on /. Nope, not at all.
I'm sure if I ate McD's salads for a month I'd be fine, as long as I took some vitamins or something. Not that I'd enjoy it, but yeah.
Well dispite unbeliveably childish apple fans, I support what Real is doing, even though they are a horrible company, they're in the right here.
I had an old nokia 8620. Solid phone, had a snake game. It died, and although I had insurance I needed a new phone right away (I was trying to get a job -- which didn't happen). so I ended up signing a new 2 year agreement just to get a free phone immediately.
The thing I have now is loaded with features, but the basic interface is shit. The most annoying thing -- The ringer is to quiet, and I can't set it to ring and vibrate at the same time. I miss calls when I'm listening to loud music, now, that I would have at least felt otherwise. and I miss calls simply from the phone being to quiet. The thing seems to last about a third the time of the nokia on a full charge, and takes 3 times as long to get there.
On the old nokia I could hit the power button to turn on the backlight without popping up the 'the keys are locked' dialog. On this phone, you can't see the display at all without turning on the backlight, day or night, and the keylock warning show up no matter what.
Its like they didn't even have people using this phone for a while before they just tossed it out there. The amount of thought that nokia obviously put into their handset is clear.
OTOH, nokia's design esthetic has just gone way overboard lately.
I love how a link to some random website proves how 'wrong' the common historical understanding. While FDR's programs may not have lifted americans out of the depression, what they did do was allow americans to like, not starve to death.
I don't see how you can view the repulican party as good for "individual freedom" in any sense of the word. They want to shove religiosity down our throats in order to apease their base. How does the embryonic stem cell restrictions support individual liberty? how does the war on drugs support invididual liberty? and so on.
But since economic factors can take years to drag out, maybe it was all the measures the Republican president put in place that improved things a few years later when a Democrat was in power?
Maybe, but probably not. I mean, republicans always go on and on about how the crappy economies are always the fault of their democratic predecessors, and vise versa. It's getting a little old.
Haven't you ever heard of comparative advantage? If someone is willing to do these little utilities for free, then people who want to get paid should do something else to make money. A friend of mine graduated with a CS degree and started a tshirt site, getting tens of thousands of dollars worth of web design for free (by doing it himself).
Anyway, that 1-3 person shareware shop wasn't really the main source of employment in the IT field, it was corps that had lots of data-processing needs. Now those jobs are being outsourced. Along with a shrinking economy (only 32k new jobs this month. Bush claimed we'd be getting 300k on average until the election, but I guess those got lost along with the WMD) are causing this bout of lowered employment.
You must think pretty slowly.
What the hell are "you" smoking? I mean reall... what value, to anyone, is there in your comment?
After taking the same test "tigers in the wild" I managed to boost my score to 85 WPM. I'm guessing this is closer to my "actual" score as far as being able to type things I 'know', such as slashdot comments, papers I'm writing, etc.
Actualy, it's intresting. On those tests I always get hung up on certan words, or even phrases. The Mark Twain bit confused the hell out of me with it's non-standard grammar, and I got hung up (sometimes for a second or two) on some words that I don't know how to spell.
:)
Dispite this, I got in the 70s on most of the tests. I'm going to try retaking them untill I get the whole test text memorized
You think MLK didn't violate any 'criminal' laws? how did he end up in jail? They are using a different definition of 'civil' here.
I don't know why you think this, but it's wrong. In fact, some states actualy require absentee balots.
On the other hand, in a close election actualy showing up might be a better idea, since an absentee balot could be 'lost' in the mail.
Please. This guy installed Spyware on his bosses computer, and his wife's. for seven months, probably looking for porn surfing but all he got was solitaire.
This guy was just an asshole, the kind of person who thinks because he's a sys-admin who has admin access on the computers that he ought to be the computer morality person as well. Or in this case, the productivity nazi.
The supervisor in this story has gotten good reports, maybe playing solitaire is the way he 'thinks'. Who knows?
The person who setup these screen grabs (seven months of them) deserved exactly what he got.