In my spare time, I'm attempting to get my Masters of Divinity and when the preacher goes on vacation or goes somewhere for continued education I get to fill in for that Sunday. It earns me about $100 per Sunday and really helps out with the bills for seminary. A lot of the parishoners really like the progressive edge I put on many of the sermons. No hell and damnation from me (except for multinationals like Monsanto).
I also teach a CS class at the college I work full time for each semester. My classes are usually not that big but we get to cover really fun stuff like DB design, Networking/Internetworking, System Administration Skills, etc. And it's always nice to see that check at the end of the semester.
Being a linux geek, I'm all for new technologies being used to make out lives easier, but there are too many special interests and flaws in the current method of E-Voting. The vast majority of E-Voting companies are really just one company that supports a biased outcome to the elections. Not to mention the fact that most of the E-Voting-Machines run M$. The state of E-Voting in america is really bad...
From http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingSecurity.htm:
If people are voting on machines, they are not voting at all. In Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court said that, A "legal vote," as determined by the Supreme Court, is "one in which there is a 'clear indication of the intent of the voter.'" If a machine is involved in the voting process, the voter has been relegated to making inputs and hoping that the machines' output is the same. That output can only be 'circumstantial' evidence of what the voter intended. It is the voters' right to create 'real' evidence of their own intention.
peace
We are currently using Mozilla 1.3 as the standard install for the entire campus. In fact have been using Netscape 4.x ever since we moved from Banyan Vines to Windows/Samba.
We haven't had any problems and it seems like everyone here doesn't mind (or doesn't care). I think it might also have to do with the fact that we disallow the use of Outlook on college machines.
Maybe that is the problem with business today. I always thought (hoped) that the goal was(should be) to better society and if you make a few extra bucks along the side...more power to you.
"You may say that I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one"
The more and more comments that I see coming in, the more I find pine to be the perfect email client.
From what I've read, a lot of people seem to like the idea of color coded emails. Well, pine does this. In fact I have my client setup for a variety of different rules.
I use pine for all of my email interaction. I find it does everything an email client should do and no more. It allows me an interface to my email. Shouldn't that be the only thing an email client does?
I tried to switch to Netscape's behemoth mail client, but I never liked the idea of opening a multi-megabyte program to view text. It either crashed while opening an email or just generally corrupted the folders on the imap server.
Moreover, I think there is something intrinsicly wrong with bloating software to the point of failure. When a program goes beyond it's "center" the entire program can become far to complex to manage. In essence many bloatware programs are doomed to evolve into bugware.
Keep it simple, yet featureful. Above all keep it on the mark as far as original intent.
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Fewer AOL users... "users" are countable. 'Less' is used when there is an uncountable quantity.
In my spare time, I'm attempting to get my Masters of Divinity and when the preacher goes on vacation or goes somewhere for continued education I get to fill in for that Sunday. It earns me about $100 per Sunday and really helps out with the bills for seminary. A lot of the parishoners really like the progressive edge I put on many of the sermons. No hell and damnation from me (except for multinationals like Monsanto).
I also teach a CS class at the college I work full time for each semester. My classes are usually not that big but we get to cover really fun stuff like DB design, Networking/Internetworking, System Administration Skills, etc. And it's always nice to see that check at the end of the semester.
Being a linux geek, I'm all for new technologies being used to make out lives easier, but there are too many special interests and flaws in the current method of E-Voting. The vast majority of E-Voting companies are really just one company that supports a biased outcome to the elections. Not to mention the fact that most of the E-Voting-Machines run M$. The state of E-Voting in america is really bad...
From http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingSecurity.htm: If people are voting on machines, they are not voting at all. In Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court said that, A "legal vote," as determined by the Supreme Court, is "one in which there is a 'clear indication of the intent of the voter.'" If a machine is involved in the voting process, the voter has been relegated to making inputs and hoping that the machines' output is the same. That output can only be 'circumstantial' evidence of what the voter intended. It is the voters' right to create 'real' evidence of their own intention.
peace
We are currently using Mozilla 1.3 as the standard install for the entire campus. In fact have been using Netscape 4.x ever since we moved from Banyan Vines to Windows/Samba.
We haven't had any problems and it seems like everyone here doesn't mind (or doesn't care). I think it might also have to do with the fact that we disallow the use of Outlook on college machines.
Maybe that is the problem with business today. I always thought (hoped) that the goal was(should be) to better society and if you make a few extra bucks along the side...more power to you.
"You may say that I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one"
It seems like a natural move... Anything for money right?
From what I've read, a lot of people seem to like the idea of color coded emails. Well, pine does this. In fact I have my client setup for a variety of different rules.
Simple, yet featureful. Pine rules!
I tried to switch to Netscape's behemoth mail client, but I never liked the idea of opening a multi-megabyte program to view text. It either crashed while opening an email or just generally corrupted the folders on the imap server.
Moreover, I think there is something intrinsicly wrong with bloating software to the point of failure. When a program goes beyond it's "center" the entire program can become far to complex to manage. In essence many bloatware programs are doomed to evolve into bugware.
Keep it simple, yet featureful. Above all keep it on the mark as far as original intent.