Yeah, I saw that this morning. I was wondering how the town felt about their new-found popularity and what had become of our person of the year. It's a sad state affairs to be a citizen of Tuttle, OK when their only news-source seems to tow the party line regardless of the embarrassment their city manager caused them.
Of course, there's no response to the letter on the paper's forums. I had thought about posting the letter to/. in an attempt to make this letter more visible. However, Tuttle city officials "have more important things to worry about" than the disparaging, inflammatory comments created by their community-embarrassing city manager and I'm not sure if the un-mentioned letter is powerful enough to motivate people or if I missed its posting earlier.
{anti-microsoft rhetoric ON} What's to stop Microsoft from receiving a request then patenting it and stiffling all future OSS development for your submission?
On the covers, it sounds like Microsoft is opening their arms to open-source development - which is what the OSS community has been wanting for years - but, under the covers, what's to prevent Microsoft from garnering too much control of any given project?
This move isn't to gain the respect of the IT community, it's a ploy aimed directly at removing the ever-increasing market share that GNU/Linux has been gaining. Every Linux installation removes the Microsoft Tax Revenue Stream from Microsoft's coffers and that is a threat to them.
Until you see a Microsoft release of a GNU/Linux distro, don't expect Microsoft to support Linux too earnestly. This is just another move by Microsoft geared to directly affect GNU/Linux installations by those installations being replaced with Microsoft server OSs. {anti-microsoft rhetoric OFF}
"Regulating the Internet according to law is international practice," Liu told reporters. "After studying Internet legislation in the West, I've found we basically have identical legislative objectives and principles."
...
For example, The New York Times website says: "We reserve the right to delete, move or edit messages that we deem abusive, defamatory, obscene, in violation of copyright or trademark laws, or otherwise unacceptable We reserve the right to remove the posting privileges of users who violate these standards of Forum behaviour at any time."
Liu said "it is unfair and smacks of double standards when (they) criticize China for deleting illegal and harmful messages while it is legal for US websites for doing so."...
What Liu Zhengrong, deputy chief of the Internet Affairs Bureau of the State Council Information Office, fails to discern is that it is the company's free-willed decision to remove such offending material (or not) and not the government's decision.
It was 1997 or 1998. I was working for a multimedia company making training software for submariners. Two recently retired Navy Submarine Chiefs were hired to do some story-board writing. Typically, this entailed an Access 2.0 database with a vb front-end so they could enter their work.
The day they were hired the hiring manager, an ex submarine CO, hadn't procured an office to place them in...Nor desks, nor chairs, nor {{drum roll}}... computers. When they inquired as to how they were going to get anything done without a computer to do it on the manager excused himself. Ten minutes later he came back with a stack of printed blank 'story-boards' and two sharpened #2 pencils.
They lasted at the company about three months - just long enough to get jobs at an aerospace corporation where the employees were taken seriously.
The patch, according to MS site, says that it has been available since September 27, 2005. Since I upgraded my system in early January, 2006, I wasn't even aware of this issue until today. Therefore, I wasn't given (nor cared about) information pertaining to a patent issue.
Though, for those of us not connecting Excel and Access, who cares?
And, of course, Microsoft isn't about to publically humiliate themselves on their own website. What company would if not forced to do so by the conditions of a court ruling?
MS lost it's case. They issued a replacement and paid their fine - let's all move along.
{Prof Farnsworth holds up egg-size pill} PF:Fry, take this pill. It will allow you breath in space. Fry: {Shocked}What!? I can't swallow that! PF:{Excited}Good news! It's a suppository.
I've been sitting in front of PCs since 1978 - when I was 9. I have no problems with my wrists at all. Though I will agree that sitting at _certain_ workstations my wrist will ache; however, they'll ache from the wrist to the elbow - not just the wrist. I'll either adjust the working conditions or I'll move to another workstation minutes later and no ache at all. It's about the ergonomics of the workstation.
Of course, since I've been typing at a terminal since I was a child, maybe my body kind of 'grew into it.' Could it be akin to a child who starts smoking at 9 and lives to 99 smoking every day of his life and dies peacefully in his sleep of old age; whereas, someone else starts smoking at 30 and dies of lung cancer by age 45 caused by smoking.
So what is it? Conditioning? Poor ergonomics? Lack of exercise?
Of course, the natural position of my fingers, at rest, is to close in on the palm of the hand. I find myself strecthing my fingers before I go to bed.
Well, that's $30.00 cheaper than what I paid for it at Border's. However, I found the book so captivating I picked it up right then and there. I've been looking for a comprehensive book that explains the nitty-gritty of TCP/IP and this is it! The author uses many illustrations to solidify his book's textual content where mere text will not suffice. I'm not more then 10% into the book, yet, and already it's become one of my most treasured books in my library.
If courts started making spammers do this instead, it'd be a much better deterrent than jail, and it would much better fit the crime.
I like the thought of keeping him locked up until he has written all 92 million apologies. That should keep him busy, motivated and VERY fearful of ever doing anything similar in the future.
I used to program RDIF Chips. Sometimes we would have numerous chips in the same room with us and we've have a problem selecting a particular chip. The solution: We used a simple wire shelf that was laying around between the RFID Chips and the antenna. This was so effective that whenever anyone needed to block other tags in their cube farm, they'd ask, "When you going to be done with the shelf?"
Now, take the concept of the faraday cage and weave it into clothing - a Faraday Suit, if you will. Instantly, you've blocked the RFID chip's response and effectively removed yourself from being spied on (Or having your criminal activity being noted with your name).
Slightly off topic, but considere this:
let's consider the new gamma ray riot(crowd) control weapon that is in development and about to be tested/deployed in Iraq. If this chip is embedded inside a body and exposed to this ray, it will, potentially, heat up and burst releasing it's chemical make-up inside a person's body - not to mention the cruel heating experience the person will be subjected to.
This whole concept is just bad science, bad politics and bad thinking.
There's also this 'tiny' little problem of moon-dust getting into everything! The dust/sand-sized particles on the moon aren't like particles on Earth - that is, nice and rounded. Moon particles are very jagged and cling to everything. Eventually, these tag-alongs will creep their way into your space suit slowly cutting the seals on your suit to shreds and eventually exposing the wearing to danger.
Not to mention if any of these particles get into one's lungs. Space dust in my lungs sounds more hideous than drowning in water because essentially, you'd be drowning in your own blood - I'm guessing. Elch!
[...]nor have I EVER had a virus infection on any of the ten or so computers I've owned over the years.
You know what's really scary. I applied recently for a tech-repair position in Fort Wayne, Indiana and during my interview, I told the three people before me that I have never been infected with a virus. They blinked three or four times and looked at me like I was some kind of idiot.
I guess they figured that since I'd never been infected before, they hundreds of PCs I've removed viruses from in the past must still be infected. Dumbasses.
Even when the 'I Love You Virus' hit in 1999 I knew instantly that it was a virus and told everyone not to open it. Some listened; but, enough didn't. Instant log-jam. Ah, the good-ole days!
3 monitors? I'm sure you've heard of a KVM switch? I use one for my four boxes and it's life in heaven. Of course, if you're referencing things on one to do work on the other it could be a nuisence. Anyway, the energy costs are far lower than having 3 CRTs chugging away.
Or, another bunch of GNOME/Slackware users could fork their own distro of Slackware and call it "Not-So-Slackware" that includes Gnome for those die-hard Gnome fans. Let them take over if they don't like that Slackware dropped support for Gnome. Hell, I think this empowers people.
I live in the country, and no-shit, I bank at the (wait for it) Hicksville bank.
Anyway, I called comcast for the surrounding area and asked if Cable Internet was available to us. They told us not yet and that they would send a team to investigate the area. They did so and we were told that comcast still declined to lay cable. Too few people, I guess, not to mention the hicks who don't have time fer us city slickers and their fancy-pants computers.
So I called our current subscriber for our 56K (read 42K MAX) dial-up connection and inquired about their DSL service. They informed us that SBC controls the phone lines in our area and we'd have to go through them because SBC will not contract with locl-net to provide DSL. Then, if we decide to use SBC's DSL service, it'd be a long distance call 24/7/365.
So, besides comcasts economic reasoning to refuse to lay cable, I'm also cought between locl-net and SBC's political crap-storm.
Don't get me started on the cost of satellite internet!! ~2600 for 18 months and we already get Sat TV.
Yup, unfortunately, I bought HL2 at something like 12:05 AM in a super-Walmart the day(night) of it's release. The problem wasn't so known and I had no idea I'd have to log in to play a singleplayer game.
I was so disgusted with having to log in to some shoddy server setup everytime I play that I didn't even get half-way through playing it before I just stopped playing it altogether. That equates to about 2 weeks.
Steam is to Valve as Quicken (with DRM) is to Intuit. I've stopped using both.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, I saw that this morning. I was wondering how the town felt about their new-found popularity and what had become of our person of the year. It's a sad state affairs to be a citizen of Tuttle, OK when their only news-source seems to tow the party line regardless of the embarrassment their city manager caused them.
6 101552.html I had to search Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuttle%2C_OK, no less, for the Letter to the Editor to be even noted.
/. in an attempt to make this letter more visible. However, Tuttle city officials "have more important things to worry about" than the disparaging, inflammatory comments created by their community-embarrassing city manager and I'm not sure if the un-mentioned letter is powerful enough to motivate people or if I missed its posting earlier.
I also noted that Johnny Hughes wrote a letter to the editor discussing his viewpoint, "Mr." Taylor's viewpoint and the paper's skewed slant. http://www.tuttletimes.com/letters/local_story_09
Of course, there's no response to the letter on the paper's forums. I had thought about posting the letter to
Hrm, I'll bite. http://www.tuttle-ok.gov/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&S
{anti-microsoft rhetoric ON}
What's to stop Microsoft from receiving a request then patenting it and stiffling all future OSS development for your submission?
On the covers, it sounds like Microsoft is opening their arms to open-source development - which is what the OSS community has been wanting for years - but, under the covers, what's to prevent Microsoft from garnering too much control of any given project?
This move isn't to gain the respect of the IT community, it's a ploy aimed directly at removing the ever-increasing market share that GNU/Linux has been gaining. Every Linux installation removes the Microsoft Tax Revenue Stream from Microsoft's coffers and that is a threat to them.
Until you see a Microsoft release of a GNU/Linux distro, don't expect Microsoft to support Linux too earnestly. This is just another move by Microsoft geared to directly affect GNU/Linux installations by those installations being replaced with Microsoft server OSs.
{anti-microsoft rhetoric OFF}
What Liu Zhengrong, deputy chief of the Internet Affairs Bureau of the State Council Information Office, fails to discern is that it is the company's free-willed decision to remove such offending material (or not) and not the government's decision.
This really happened...
... computers. When they inquired as to how they were going to get anything done without a computer to do it on the manager excused himself. Ten minutes later he came back with a stack of printed blank 'story-boards' and two sharpened #2 pencils.
It was 1997 or 1998. I was working for a multimedia company making training software for submariners. Two recently retired Navy Submarine Chiefs were hired to do some story-board writing. Typically, this entailed an Access 2.0 database with a vb front-end so they could enter their work.
The day they were hired the hiring manager, an ex submarine CO, hadn't procured an office to place them in...Nor desks, nor chairs, nor {{drum roll}}
They lasted at the company about three months - just long enough to get jobs at an aerospace corporation where the employees were taken seriously.
Monitor, CPU and keyboard all encased in one giant chunk of metal with a whopping 16K of RAM. Plus, an uber expensive tape drive attachment.
s t=1&c=103
And it was instant on, baby! Of course, it took forever to load something from the tape drive.
Here you go.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?
I hope you're only taking the recommended dosage and not downing the whole bottle.
Directions:
Adults: Take 1 Ounce Daily (2 Tablespoons).
Recommended: 1 Tablespoon in AM - 1 Tablespoon in PM
Children...blah blah blah...
Red Bull has an energy that has zero sugar. I like the way it tastes better than the sugar'd variety.
:)
I only drink it in the summer time when I ride my bike, so my results are skewed.
The patch, according to MS site, says that it has been available since September 27, 2005. Since I upgraded my system in early January, 2006, I wasn't even aware of this issue until today. Therefore, I wasn't given (nor cared about) information pertaining to a patent issue.
Though, for those of us not connecting Excel and Access, who cares?
And, of course, Microsoft isn't about to publically humiliate themselves on their own website. What company would if not forced to do so by the conditions of a court ruling?
MS lost it's case. They issued a replacement and paid their fine - let's all move along.
doesn't burn up as fast as their servers!
YOU'RE LONELY!? I just said to myself, "Yup! He's Right."
My favorite:
{Prof Farnsworth holds up egg-size pill}
PF:Fry, take this pill. It will allow you breath in space.
Fry: {Shocked}What!? I can't swallow that!
PF:{Excited}Good news! It's a suppository.
Looks like another entry on the Mars Scorecard.
r ecard.html
Mars is winning, folks.
http://www.bio.aps.anl.gov/~dgore/fun/PSL/marssco
I've been sitting in front of PCs since 1978 - when I was 9. I have no problems with my wrists at all. Though I will agree that sitting at _certain_ workstations my wrist will ache; however, they'll ache from the wrist to the elbow - not just the wrist. I'll either adjust the working conditions or I'll move to another workstation minutes later and no ache at all. It's about the ergonomics of the workstation.
Of course, since I've been typing at a terminal since I was a child, maybe my body kind of 'grew into it.' Could it be akin to a child who starts smoking at 9 and lives to 99 smoking every day of his life and dies peacefully in his sleep of old age; whereas, someone else starts smoking at 30 and dies of lung cancer by age 45 caused by smoking.
So what is it? Conditioning? Poor ergonomics? Lack of exercise?
Of course, the natural position of my fingers, at rest, is to close in on the palm of the hand. I find myself strecthing my fingers before I go to bed.
Well, that's $30.00 cheaper than what I paid for it at Border's. However, I found the book so captivating I picked it up right then and there. I've been looking for a comprehensive book that explains the nitty-gritty of TCP/IP and this is it! The author uses many illustrations to solidify his book's textual content where mere text will not suffice. I'm not more then 10% into the book, yet, and already it's become one of my most treasured books in my library.
If courts started making spammers do this instead, it'd be a much better deterrent than jail, and it would much better fit the crime.
I like the thought of keeping him locked up until he has written all 92 million apologies. That should keep him busy, motivated and VERY fearful of ever doing anything similar in the future.
I used to program RDIF Chips. Sometimes we would have numerous chips in the same room with us and we've have a problem selecting a particular chip. The solution: We used a simple wire shelf that was laying around between the RFID Chips and the antenna. This was so effective that whenever anyone needed to block other tags in their cube farm, they'd ask, "When you going to be done with the shelf?"
Now, take the concept of the faraday cage and weave it into clothing - a Faraday Suit, if you will. Instantly, you've blocked the RFID chip's response and effectively removed yourself from being spied on (Or having your criminal activity being noted with your name).
Slightly off topic, but considere this:
let's consider the new gamma ray riot(crowd) control weapon that is in development and about to be tested/deployed in Iraq. If this chip is embedded inside a body and exposed to this ray, it will, potentially, heat up and burst releasing it's chemical make-up inside a person's body - not to mention the cruel heating experience the person will be subjected to.
This whole concept is just bad science, bad politics and bad thinking.
Agreed. It makes me think that Al Quada has already succeeded in their plans and taken over the US government.
To quote Counter Strike: "Terrorists Win!"
Agreed.
IANAAstrophysicist; but...
There's also this 'tiny' little problem of moon-dust getting into everything! The dust/sand-sized particles on the moon aren't like particles on Earth - that is, nice and rounded. Moon particles are very jagged and cling to everything. Eventually, these tag-alongs will creep their way into your space suit slowly cutting the seals on your suit to shreds and eventually exposing the wearing to danger.
Not to mention if any of these particles get into one's lungs. Space dust in my lungs sounds more hideous than drowning in water because essentially, you'd be drowning in your own blood - I'm guessing. Elch!
[...]nor have I EVER had a virus infection on any of the ten or so computers I've owned over the years.
You know what's really scary. I applied recently for a tech-repair position in Fort Wayne, Indiana and during my interview, I told the three people before me that I have never been infected with a virus. They blinked three or four times and looked at me like I was some kind of idiot.
I guess they figured that since I'd never been infected before, they hundreds of PCs I've removed viruses from in the past must still be infected. Dumbasses.
Even when the 'I Love You Virus' hit in 1999 I knew instantly that it was a virus and told everyone not to open it. Some listened; but, enough didn't. Instant log-jam. Ah, the good-ole days!
Oh, well.3 monitors? I'm sure you've heard of a KVM switch? I use one for my four boxes and it's life in heaven. Of course, if you're referencing things on one to do work on the other it could be a nuisence. Anyway, the energy costs are far lower than having 3 CRTs chugging away.
I use the IOGEAR 4 port: clickity
Also, LCD screens use a lot less energy but are obviosly too cost prohibitive in your area. Good luck with that.
Or, another bunch of GNOME/Slackware users could fork their own distro of Slackware and call it "Not-So-Slackware" that includes Gnome for those die-hard Gnome fans. Let them take over if they don't like that Slackware dropped support for Gnome. Hell, I think this empowers people.
There's nothing to stop anyone is there?
I live in the country, and no-shit, I bank at the (wait for it) Hicksville bank.
Anyway, I called comcast for the surrounding area and asked if Cable Internet was available to us. They told us not yet and that they would send a team to investigate the area. They did so and we were told that comcast still declined to lay cable. Too few people, I guess, not to mention the hicks who don't have time fer us city slickers and their fancy-pants computers.
So I called our current subscriber for our 56K (read 42K MAX) dial-up connection and inquired about their DSL service. They informed us that SBC controls the phone lines in our area and we'd have to go through them because SBC will not contract with locl-net to provide DSL. Then, if we decide to use SBC's DSL service, it'd be a long distance call 24/7/365.
So, besides comcasts economic reasoning to refuse to lay cable, I'm also cought between locl-net and SBC's political crap-storm.
Don't get me started on the cost of satellite internet!! ~2600 for 18 months and we already get Sat TV.
Just check the SDK. I found this function in a Datalogic DS8500 handheld SDK. The HH has a touch screen via the use of a stylus.
bool PenIsTouching( void );
Crazy Italians!
Yup, unfortunately, I bought HL2 at something like 12:05 AM in a super-Walmart the day(night) of it's release. The problem wasn't so known and I had no idea I'd have to log in to play a singleplayer game.
I was so disgusted with having to log in to some shoddy server setup everytime I play that I didn't even get half-way through playing it before I just stopped playing it altogether. That equates to about 2 weeks.
Steam is to Valve as Quicken (with DRM) is to Intuit. I've stopped using both.