...if everybody lives 1000 years and there is no war to thin them out. The government has one thing right, even if they didn't do it on purpose. People are ok, but I would like some room left for other critters. No special reason, I just like to know a variety of critters is running around.
Expecting the government to get aging research right is pretty darn optimistic. Perhaps your optimism will extend your life for you.
Damn...that sucks. I at least get my for real 64k.
They don't need excuses....they have layers and layers of clueless phonefolk to wear you down.
Best case, you get to the top...and talk to a clueless, greedy suit.
See if you can get wireless (not satellite). I was initially suspicious of it, but I have a client on it and it works great. Has the same potential loading problem as cable, but the unwashed masses seem to have trouble getting their heads around the wireless internet concept, so you may luck out.
...I pay the same $60 for 64k ISDN. PLUS a penny a minute for when I dare to use it.
7 miles from town...in a canyon, no line of site for wireless. But come ON....this is friggin Southern California. We're supposed to be civilized...instead we have rolling blackouts and spotty internet coverage.
The US is already a 3rd world country...the rest of the world is just afraid to collect on all the bad debt.
Are you saying that some bomb-chucking Arab is going to behave himself if we torture him and let him go?
Or are we just torturing him to make ourselves feel better?
Torture is an entry point for evil into our world. I can think of situations where it might prevent more evil from coming into the world, and maybe it's justified in those cases.
Being able to say "We showed HIM what happens if he messes with us" is not one of those cases.
"Rejecting any comparison of the two, the Bush administration has underscored the stark contrast between the Indian and North Korean ventures. New Delhi, it noted, went about its test in a "transparent and non-threatening" way, while Pyongyang defied neighbours and fired missiles as a provocation without warning."
What a bunch of horseshit. Why would anybody test a nuke delivery system if not to scream to the world "DONT FUCK WITH ME! I'LL KILL YOU ALL! BAAAAAAHAHAHAHAH!"
...if India's fueding with Pakistan, WTF do they need a long range missle for? To hit people far away, obviously...people like Europe, Russia, and The US. Are they going to start shaking us down for handouts like Iran and South Korea?
Maybe they just are sick of Americans on the tech support lines abusing them because of their accents.
After my 1 year old HP crapped out, and tech support tells me 1.) its out of warranty, 2.) no tech manuals exist so I can figure out how to take the darn thing apart and have a look, 3.) they will look at it for 300 bucks, 4.) if its a mobo problem (most likely scenario, it will be 900 bucks to fix it)
I'm afraid I threw a bit of a fit and smashed the laptop against the wall, then kicked it a few times. "Are you ok?" asks the tech (who I did not yell at), "Yes, that was the sound of me kicking the crap out of the last HP product I will ever buy, for me or my clients. If you can, please let somebody know about how this little incident affected one little customer's view of HP." I try to make things better if I can...
Soooo...I now needed a new laptop. I bought a new Dell from some random dude off ebay. I put pre-release Dapper on it, which somehow was hosing the bios, making the thing unbootable AT ALL. Screwed, I thought. I am just SCREWED Called Dell, they did an ownership transfer so I have a warranty, and sent me docs on how to take the thing apart to get to the cmos battery.
Other times I have had to warranty stuff, they overnight me parts, and pay for shipping for the return too. I've had stuff out of warranty break, and they pick up the tab for overnight shipping AND don't gouge me on the part price (28 bucks for a power supply is quite reasonable).
I did despise Dell for their practice of advertising $499 systems that you somehow never could complete an order for for under $600, but the service has made up for that and more.
Hate to gush, and if they screw me over, I will dump on them just as hard, but for now Dell is doing a great job for me.
Just because a browser can do lots of stuff doesn't mean its the best way to do it. A browser is perfect for presenting documents, simple input forms, and downloading real clients to do more complicated stuff.
...I feel for you, I really do. My television has never received any kind of broadcast, and is used only for dvds and games. 15 years and counting, no broadcast tv in my house. I see it at the neighbors sometimes, and hear the echos of it in the way people talk...wtf is this "good times, good times" thing about anyhow?
You folks really shouldn't do business with the broadcasters. I think they are trying to control your minds.
...and I spend a good bit of time developing windows software...on a VM running on my Linux box.
I'm your basic, dumb-as-a-rock, self taught database devloper, the very person that should be the most dependant on MS and all their ease of use goodies and eye candy. Yet I just despise windows anymore, and I can't even offer a rational explanation why. Hundreds of hours (albiet billable ones) cleaning up viruses doubtless has something to do with it, that and the rapacity of the company (which shouldn't bug me...survival of the fittest and all..but it DOES bug me.)
Maybe I'm just ever in search of Something New, and MS just seems to be fresh out of that.
I'll be running this XP vm for the next 5-7 years, by which time I hope to be able to write native Linux apps and get my clients switched over.
I mean, really. Vonage is using telco infrastructure to undercut a major telco profit center, without paying a them a dime for the privelege. Packets don't magically wing their way across the globe, you know.
If the phone business goes away, telcos are going to have to make up for it somewhere, and the only place left will be bandwidth...that stuff that we get for a flat rate now.
Metered priority usage paid by the user is the only really fair way to do it. You need a lot of packets, you pay more. You need a lot of fast high priority packets, you pay a lot more.
Tracking all this is a another can of worms entirely....but dammit, this is how it SHOULD work.
While there is a cool factor to all this, its essentially a hackup of a document presentation interface. The code ends up an unmaintainable mishmash of 2 or more languages within a file. Sure, you get a charge out of making it all work, but it really is crappy software engineering.
For instances where you really can't run an executable on the client, and all you have is the browser, it's obviously the only solution. I think these situations are the minority, however, and users can be much better served by a client side app running ssl over the internet to a backend database. Response is snappier, browser compatibility is a non-issue, and it uses a lot fewer packets.
Well...My Xbox is the only thing convienently connected to my projector...dont want to drag out the laptop and all the wiring that entails.
The 13 year old way down inside me is in heaven playing Smash TV on an 8 foot screen...with an infinite supply of quarters! Especially since the demo lets you keep playing after a single nag screen.
Defender is definately something I would be interested in.
"If Steve Jobs plays his cards right and delivers true paravirtualization, Apple may indeed double its market share."..I'll be buying powerbooks from now on. It is indeed the holy grail for me in my situation.
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...if everybody lives 1000 years and there is no war to thin them out. The government has one thing right, even if they didn't do it on purpose. People are ok, but I would like some room left for other critters. No special reason, I just like to know a variety of critters is running around.
Expecting the government to get aging research right is pretty darn optimistic. Perhaps your optimism will extend your life for you.
Damn...that sucks. I at least get my for real 64k.
They don't need excuses....they have layers and layers of clueless phonefolk to wear you down.
Best case, you get to the top...and talk to a clueless, greedy suit.
See if you can get wireless (not satellite). I was initially suspicious of it, but I have a client on it and it works great. Has the same potential loading problem as cable, but the unwashed masses seem to have trouble getting their heads around the wireless internet concept, so you may luck out.
...I pay the same $60 for 64k ISDN.
PLUS a penny a minute for when I dare to use it.
7 miles from town...in a canyon, no line of site for wireless.
But come ON....this is friggin Southern California. We're supposed to be civilized...instead we have rolling blackouts and spotty internet coverage.
The US is already a 3rd world country...the rest of the world is just afraid to collect on all the bad debt.
Are you saying that some bomb-chucking Arab is going to behave himself if we torture him and let him go? Or are we just torturing him to make ourselves feel better? Torture is an entry point for evil into our world. I can think of situations where it might prevent more evil from coming into the world, and maybe it's justified in those cases. Being able to say "We showed HIM what happens if he messes with us" is not one of those cases.
...Touchwood marketing a lapboard?
Makes me titter sophomorically.
"Rejecting any comparison of the two, the Bush administration has underscored the stark contrast between the Indian and North Korean ventures. New Delhi, it noted, went about its test in a "transparent and non-threatening" way, while Pyongyang defied neighbours and fired missiles as a provocation without warning." What a bunch of horseshit. Why would anybody test a nuke delivery system if not to scream to the world "DONT FUCK WITH ME! I'LL KILL YOU ALL! BAAAAAAHAHAHAHAH!"
...if India's fueding with Pakistan, WTF do they need a long range missle for? To hit people far away, obviously...people like Europe, Russia, and The US. Are they going to start shaking us down for handouts like Iran and South Korea?
Maybe they just are sick of Americans on the tech support lines abusing them because of their accents.
After my 1 year old HP crapped out, and tech support tells me
1.) its out of warranty,
2.) no tech manuals exist so I can figure out how to take the darn thing apart and have a look,
3.) they will look at it for 300 bucks,
4.) if its a mobo problem (most likely scenario, it will be 900 bucks to fix it)
I'm afraid I threw a bit of a fit and smashed the laptop against the wall, then kicked it a few times.
"Are you ok?" asks the tech (who I did not yell at), "Yes, that was the sound of me kicking the crap out of the last HP product I will ever buy, for me or my clients. If you can, please let somebody know about how this little incident affected one little customer's view of HP." I try to make things better if I can...
Soooo...I now needed a new laptop. I bought a new Dell from some random dude off ebay. I put pre-release Dapper on it, which somehow was hosing the bios, making the thing unbootable AT ALL. Screwed, I thought. I am just SCREWED Called Dell, they did an ownership transfer so I have a warranty, and sent me docs on how to take the thing apart to get to the cmos battery.
Other times I have had to warranty stuff, they overnight me parts, and pay for shipping for the return too. I've had stuff out of warranty break, and they pick up the tab for overnight shipping AND don't gouge me on the part price (28 bucks for a power supply is quite reasonable).
I did despise Dell for their practice of advertising $499 systems that you somehow never could complete an order for for under $600, but the service has made up for that and more.
Hate to gush, and if they screw me over, I will dump on them just as hard, but for now Dell is doing a great job for me.
Sam Kinneson?
...the measurements you cite are simply the result of every temperature measuring device known to man going out of calibration by the same amount.
It's part a hippy liberal plot to force us all to live in yurts.
SMALL yurts.
USA! USA! USA!
...otherwise, space exploration is a boondoggle.
They must be tiny little fellers.
Just because a browser can do lots of stuff doesn't mean its the best way to do it. A browser is perfect for presenting documents, simple input forms, and downloading real clients to do more complicated stuff.
...how much crap can they pile onto what was designed as document viewer before the whole thing implodes?
Give the browser a break people! It's seen enough abuse!
These people are off the deep end. Maybe they should cut to the chase and get laws passed that force us to buy their crap at gunpoint.
"Time for your new Brittany CD, citizen!"
...our hirsute, bespectacled overlords.
...I feel for you, I really do. My television has never received any kind of broadcast, and is used only for dvds and games. 15 years and counting, no broadcast tv in my house. I see it at the neighbors sometimes, and hear the echos of it in the way people talk...wtf is this "good times, good times" thing about anyhow? You folks really shouldn't do business with the broadcasters. I think they are trying to control your minds.
...and I spend a good bit of time developing windows software...on a VM running on my Linux box. I'm your basic, dumb-as-a-rock, self taught database devloper, the very person that should be the most dependant on MS and all their ease of use goodies and eye candy. Yet I just despise windows anymore, and I can't even offer a rational explanation why. Hundreds of hours (albiet billable ones) cleaning up viruses doubtless has something to do with it, that and the rapacity of the company (which shouldn't bug me...survival of the fittest and all..but it DOES bug me.) Maybe I'm just ever in search of Something New, and MS just seems to be fresh out of that. I'll be running this XP vm for the next 5-7 years, by which time I hope to be able to write native Linux apps and get my clients switched over.
...the War in Iraq.
For 3 or 4 days, anyhow, until that billion is burned.
Don't titter so...you and I are next.
I mean, really. Vonage is using telco infrastructure to undercut a major telco profit center, without paying a them a dime for the privelege. Packets don't magically wing their way across the globe, you know.
If the phone business goes away, telcos are going to have to make up for it somewhere, and the only place left will be bandwidth...that stuff that we get for a flat rate now.
Metered priority usage paid by the user is the only really fair way to do it. You need a lot of packets, you pay more. You need a lot of fast high priority packets, you pay a lot more.
Tracking all this is a another can of worms entirely....but dammit, this is how it SHOULD work.
Dammit! You beat me to it.
While there is a cool factor to all this, its essentially a hackup of a document presentation interface. The code ends up an unmaintainable mishmash of 2 or more languages within a file. Sure, you get a charge out of making it all work, but it really is crappy software engineering.
For instances where you really can't run an executable on the client, and all you have is the browser, it's obviously the only solution. I think these situations are the minority, however, and users can be much better served by a client side app running ssl over the internet to a backend database. Response is snappier, browser compatibility is a non-issue, and it uses a lot fewer packets.
Well...My Xbox is the only thing convienently connected to my projector...dont want to drag out the laptop and all the wiring that entails. The 13 year old way down inside me is in heaven playing Smash TV on an 8 foot screen...with an infinite supply of quarters! Especially since the demo lets you keep playing after a single nag screen. Defender is definately something I would be interested in.
...so I suppose it doesn't matter much how good your grammar is.
"If Steve Jobs plays his cards right and delivers true paravirtualization, Apple may indeed double its market share." ..I'll be buying powerbooks from now on. It is indeed the holy grail for me in my situation.