Maybe you could put it in the display department...you know...
"I had to go down to the cellar." "That's the display department." "With a torch," Arthur continued. "Ah. The lights had probably gone." "So had the stairs." "Well you found the notice, didn't you?" "Yes. Yes I did. I found it at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet, in a dis-used lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the leopard.'."
"Life is changing to the digital a bit more evey day. And just as we have cardboard boxes in our attic holding the things we dont use, file cabinets in our office alphabetized, firesafes for important documents, and Safe Deposit boxes for wills. The average home user will need to know and use the digital equivalents."
Or, if you are like many people, you have documents on your desk and in piles on the floor that you will never use, your kids birth certificate is in a stack of papers from when you had to take it to school for registration, your file cabinets have partially labeled folders that are in chronological order...as in the order that you stuffed them in the filing cabinet, your will is in the "to be filed" folder in the bottom of said filing cabinet and you could fill the bathtub with your old phone and electric bills.
Hopefully the digital equivalents will be better for the organizationally challenged.
And I noted that "pedophelia" (instead of "pedophilia") succeeds...and gives you the option on the side to narrow your search to "Preteen Girls Virgin"...so apparently the stuff they are protecting us (or them...whichever logic they are using) from is still there, you just have to know how to find it.
>>"My wife and I also went to try out MagiQuest at Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach. We really did not know what to expect from their advertising."
I was down in Myrtle about 2 months ago...and while the MagiQuest advertising was everywhere, and looked mildly interesting (for a person like me who loves fantasy lit, not sure about the general public), it was like pulling teeth to find out exactly what the attraction was. I didn't even get a real good explanation at their website. And I wasn't about to throw down $80+ (for me and three kids) to experiment with some unknown attraction. And besides, the kids were liking catching lizards in Brookgreen Gardens...so why mess with a good thing.
"and the Management Studio download has been much nicer than the old 2000 version"
Have you really found it to be better? Are you comparing it with Enterprise Manager? I've found Management Studio (at least the full version of it, not the express version) to be very buggy and slow. Operations that would take a couple of seconds in EM take upwards of a minute in Management Studio. It has also been crashing pretty regularly on me. I see potential in it, but I feel like I've been handed a pre 1.0 Beta tool, when I had been working with a stable 8.0 version.
Two of my kids, ages 7 and 9 (girl and boy) are absolutely addicted to Animal Crossing. They never have really gotten in to any of the more "action" oriented games that we have bought (Tak...which is very cool, and one of the Harry Potter titles...which was lame). They were kind of cool to Animal Crossing at first...but recently they have started playing it a couple of hours a day.
I don't know if it is related, but both of them are high functioning autistic, and I think the "life" in the game with it's very simple and clear set of rules is very appealing to them.
They also love Pikmin, but not like Animal Crossing.
I've also been wanting them to try Harvest Moon: It's a Wonderful Life. And Chibi-Robo.
I have been wondering whether all of these new Ajax apps are going to be workable on the client. Especially when you start having multiple applications open at once. I was checking out various calendar apps earlier today (kiko.com, planzo.com and others). My machine was seeming pretty sluggish...firefox was taking up over 200MB of memory and constantly using between 25-50% of my cpu...and none of the windows seemed to be doing anything.
I think that was a joke in reference to the obviously fake survey that they describe in the final paragraph...not the survey that is the main subject of the article.
It seemed like it was more their way of saying.."take the above with a lot of salt".
One thing I noticed with the acquisition is that some of the discounts that were available previously are not there any more. Realtors were able to get a pretty good discount (20% or so) on Thinkpads, but when you go to the link from the Realtor partner site, there are no thinkpads with discounts listed anymore. I wonder if they are doing away with these discounts? What about the good discounts that IBM employees get for their family and friends...I'd really hate to have to pay retail for a thinkpad.
I think this is a pretty bad move for users. Basically you are taking the two biggest players in the web design and display area, who have quite a few competing tools, and combining them which will reduce competition.
One can only hope that this will increase the viability of open souce design and display technologies (GIMP, etc).
It will also be interesting to see what they do with ColdFusion, which while it had floundered for the first couple of years under MACR, had recently come out with some pretty impressive capabilities.
My mom goes down to Nicaragua pretty regularly with a civic group...the last trip she had a filling replaced by a dentist down there. She said it was the most pleasant dental visit of her life, and it cost $25...so it's not just India where things are going to be exported to.
And to expand on item 1...the standards need to start on the Windows platform. Everyone should be pushing these open source tools on every friend and neighbor who will listen.
I've recently made 3 or 4 new converts to Firebird...all on windows
I'm moving my wife over to using Openoffice on XP
At work, we are developing solutions with Tomcat/Struts for clients on Windows 2000 (I know, I know...not desktop related)
Point is, these people will have a much easier time moving to another operating system later on if the tools they are currently working on don't change too much.
For me, it is even more significant that I can now change wireless companies without changing my number. That should be good for competition across wireless companies.
I'll agree that just about anything is ok in moderation...and I have definitely used the laptop with a dvd on long trips...but I also remember long trips when I was a kid, and playing games like road sign bingo, and singing silly songs. My wife and I have been trying to do more of that lately, and the kids eat it up, and the time seems to go faster. It's like we have lost the ability to think creatively in situations like that.
Another aspect that has changed in travel today is the vehicle. We have a minivan, and the only effective way of putting the carseats in puts two of the kids all the way in the back. Even in the middle row, they are much farther back than in a car. There are definite advantages to the size and capacity of a minivan, but personal communication is not one of them. There are times we think we would be much better off with a large sedan/wagon like our parents had.
"It's like you don't even have them. You can baby-sit and drive at the same time"
Isn't it great that we don't have to pay attention to our children anymore in the car just like we don't pay attention to them at home. Why would we need to when the TV/computer/video game is there to "baby-sit" them? We can plug them in at any time...they don't talk to us about any of their inane, childish ideas. We can blissfully act like we are still freewheeling non-parents going off on some big adventure than like the haggard parents we really are who have been forced to "care" for these inferior beings.
I have three of those annoying little brats, ages 3,5, and 7. I know how blissful a moment to yourself is, and how seductive it is to plug them in and tune them out.
But you really need to remember that they will be getting their values/ambitions from whatever is raising them. I think most people would not want to think that they are basically raising their children to be ignorant, negative consumers, but they need to watch the shows their children watch, and pay close attention to the advertising that comes along with those "children's" shows.
As fast as the world goes today, being in the car for a while might be one of the few times that a family can actually talk to each other for an extended period of time. Listen to those children, don't tune them out.
I think you are right...partially. If someone comes in to a company and turns things around, they are entitled to a portion of the money that comes in. Also, a pro athlete that generates advertising revenue should get a fair portion of that. But the way many of the contracts for both jobs are being written, the employee has no risk. Often times their compensation is not at all tied to performance, and some of the CEO's seem to have clauses built in that compensate them even more in the case of a bust.
CEO's, other upper management, musicians, actors and sports stars should be paid a fair salary for the work they are doing and then be compensated with bonuses based on long term performance.
While I was checking out the links that were in this story, the story disappeared and then reappeared on the slashdot front page. Very odd. There must be a conspiracy afoot. I think we should spend a large amount of time dicussing this possiblity and trying to find other oddities on slashdot that might clue us in to what they are really trying to do with this site.
My company develops windows applications, and one thing we are running into is the end of life issues.
Right now NT4 has reached the end of its support, and will be end-of-life next June. There are still many corporate environments where NT4 is the norm, and many of them aren't going to be changing anytime soon. This makes it hard for a developer who wants to create a product that works on NT4 through XP, as there is little or no support for adding or changing the NT4 platform at MS. However, it is not a problem for MS, since if they have any problems with an application (Word, Excel, IE, etc) not working on NT4, they have the ability to ship a change to the operating system with the update to the application(probably even after the "end-of-life"). This makes it hard for developers who have to say, yes you can use our product, but you have to upgrade to a later version of Windows, where MS can just say go ahead and buy this product now...you can upgrade the operating system when you are ready. This drives more of the application use on these older systems to only using MS products.
I wonder if that aspect has ever been discussed in any of the anti-trust proceedings.
I like a href="http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedis play/img_display.php?pic=030827_hubble_mars_1_02,0.jpg&cap=Picture%20of%20Cowboy%20Neal's%20gallston e%20Aug.%2026,%202003%20">this caption better.
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Maybe you could put it in the display department...you know...
"I had to go down to the cellar."
"That's the display department."
"With a torch," Arthur continued.
"Ah. The lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"Well you found the notice, didn't you?"
"Yes. Yes I did. I found it at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet, in a dis-used lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the leopard.'."
"Life is changing to the digital a bit more evey day. And just as we have cardboard boxes in our attic holding the things we dont use, file cabinets in our office alphabetized, firesafes for important documents, and Safe Deposit boxes for wills. The average home user will need to know and use the digital equivalents."
Or, if you are like many people, you have documents on your desk and in piles on the floor that you will never use, your kids birth certificate is in a stack of papers from when you had to take it to school for registration, your file cabinets have partially labeled folders that are in chronological order...as in the order that you stuffed them in the filing cabinet, your will is in the "to be filed" folder in the bottom of said filing cabinet and you could fill the bathtub with your old phone and electric bills.
Hopefully the digital equivalents will be better for the organizationally challenged.
And I noted that "pedophelia" (instead of "pedophilia") succeeds...and gives you the option on the side to narrow your search to "Preteen Girls Virgin"...so apparently the stuff they are protecting us (or them...whichever logic they are using) from is still there, you just have to know how to find it.
Just did a search on "Australia's laws on pedophilia"
The actual text of the message is:
"This query does not comply with Ask.com Terms of Service"
>>"My wife and I also went to try out MagiQuest at Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach. We really did not know what to expect from their advertising."
I was down in Myrtle about 2 months ago...and while the MagiQuest advertising was everywhere, and looked mildly interesting (for a person like me who loves fantasy lit, not sure about the general public), it was like pulling teeth to find out exactly what the attraction was. I didn't even get a real good explanation at their website. And I wasn't about to throw down $80+ (for me and three kids) to experiment with some unknown attraction. And besides, the kids were liking catching lizards in Brookgreen Gardens...so why mess with a good thing.
"and the Management Studio download has been much nicer than the old 2000 version"
Have you really found it to be better? Are you comparing it with Enterprise Manager? I've found Management Studio (at least the full version of it, not the express version) to be very buggy and slow. Operations that would take a couple of seconds in EM take upwards of a minute in Management Studio. It has also been crashing pretty regularly on me. I see potential in it, but I feel like I've been handed a pre 1.0 Beta tool, when I had been working with a stable 8.0 version.
"(which is annoying when you can't remember why you were sent there)" ha ha ha...oh that gave me the chuckle of the day...it hit too close to home.
Two of my kids, ages 7 and 9 (girl and boy) are absolutely addicted to Animal Crossing. They never have really gotten in to any of the more "action" oriented games that we have bought (Tak...which is very cool, and one of the Harry Potter titles...which was lame). They were kind of cool to Animal Crossing at first...but recently they have started playing it a couple of hours a day.
I don't know if it is related, but both of them are high functioning autistic, and I think the "life" in the game with it's very simple and clear set of rules is very appealing to them.
They also love Pikmin, but not like Animal Crossing.
I've also been wanting them to try Harvest Moon: It's a Wonderful Life. And Chibi-Robo.
I have been wondering whether all of these new Ajax apps are going to be workable on the client. Especially when you start having multiple applications open at once. I was checking out various calendar apps earlier today (kiko.com, planzo.com and others). My machine was seeming pretty sluggish...firefox was taking up over 200MB of memory and constantly using between 25-50% of my cpu...and none of the windows seemed to be doing anything.
I think that was a joke in reference to the obviously fake survey that they describe in the final paragraph...not the survey that is the main subject of the article.
It seemed like it was more their way of saying.."take the above with a lot of salt".
One thing I noticed with the acquisition is that some of the discounts that were available previously are not there any more. Realtors were able to get a pretty good discount (20% or so) on Thinkpads, but when you go to the link from the Realtor partner site, there are no thinkpads with discounts listed anymore. I wonder if they are doing away with these discounts? What about the good discounts that IBM employees get for their family and friends...I'd really hate to have to pay retail for a thinkpad.
One can only hope that this will increase the viability of open souce design and display technologies (GIMP, etc).
It will also be interesting to see what they do with ColdFusion, which while it had floundered for the first couple of years under MACR, had recently come out with some pretty impressive capabilities.
Since the main article right now seems to be goatse.
My mom goes down to Nicaragua pretty regularly with a civic group...the last trip she had a filling replaced by a dentist down there. She said it was the most pleasant dental visit of her life, and it cost $25...so it's not just India where things are going to be exported to.
What zips? I put in 27614 and 27615 and it gave me no such message.
I've recently made 3 or 4 new converts to Firebird...all on windows
I'm moving my wife over to using Openoffice on XP
At work, we are developing solutions with Tomcat/Struts for clients on Windows 2000 (I know, I know...not desktop related)
Point is, these people will have a much easier time moving to another operating system later on if the tools they are currently working on don't change too much.
For me, it is even more significant that I can now change wireless companies without changing my number. That should be good for competition across wireless companies.
Another aspect that has changed in travel today is the vehicle. We have a minivan, and the only effective way of putting the carseats in puts two of the kids all the way in the back. Even in the middle row, they are much farther back than in a car. There are definite advantages to the size and capacity of a minivan, but personal communication is not one of them. There are times we think we would be much better off with a large sedan/wagon like our parents had.
"It's like you don't even have them. You can baby-sit and drive at the same time"
Isn't it great that we don't have to pay attention to our children anymore in the car just like we don't pay attention to them at home. Why would we need to when the TV/computer/video game is there to "baby-sit" them? We can plug them in at any time...they don't talk to us about any of their inane, childish ideas. We can blissfully act like we are still freewheeling non-parents going off on some big adventure than like the haggard parents we really are who have been forced to "care" for these inferior beings.
I have three of those annoying little brats, ages 3,5, and 7. I know how blissful a moment to yourself is, and how seductive it is to plug them in and tune them out.
But you really need to remember that they will be getting their values/ambitions from whatever is raising them. I think most people would not want to think that they are basically raising their children to be ignorant, negative consumers, but they need to watch the shows their children watch, and pay close attention to the advertising that comes along with those "children's" shows.
As fast as the world goes today, being in the car for a while might be one of the few times that a family can actually talk to each other for an extended period of time. Listen to those children, don't tune them out.
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CEO's, other upper management, musicians, actors and sports stars should be paid a fair salary for the work they are doing and then be compensated with bonuses based on long term performance.
While I was checking out the links that were in this story, the story disappeared and then reappeared on the slashdot front page. Very odd. There must be a conspiracy afoot. I think we should spend a large amount of time dicussing this possiblity and trying to find other oddities on slashdot that might clue us in to what they are really trying to do with this site.
Are we hurting so much for recreation alternatives that these are actually viable products?
TV/Music/Slashdot are not the only things worth doing in life.
ack..just getting old..ignore me...what the hell was I thinking.
Right now NT4 has reached the end of its support, and will be end-of-life next June. There are still many corporate environments where NT4 is the norm, and many of them aren't going to be changing anytime soon. This makes it hard for a developer who wants to create a product that works on NT4 through XP, as there is little or no support for adding or changing the NT4 platform at MS. However, it is not a problem for MS, since if they have any problems with an application (Word, Excel, IE, etc) not working on NT4, they have the ability to ship a change to the operating system with the update to the application(probably even after the "end-of-life"). This makes it hard for developers who have to say, yes you can use our product, but you have to upgrade to a later version of Windows, where MS can just say go ahead and buy this product now...you can upgrade the operating system when you are ready. This drives more of the application use on these older systems to only using MS products.
I wonder if that aspect has ever been discussed in any of the anti-trust proceedings.
I like this caption better.
I like a href="http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedis play/img_display.php?pic=030827_hubble_mars_1_02,0 .jpg&cap=Picture%20of%20Cowboy%20Neal's%20gallston e%20Aug.%2026,%202003%20">this caption better.