The game trained him ''how to point and shoot a gun in a fashion making him an extraordinarily effective killer without teaching him any of the constraints or responsibilities needed to inhibit such a killing capacity,'' according to the suit.
Am I the only one who has played the game and is still a terrible shot when I go out to the range? I can hit the broad side of a barn, but that's about as good as I can do in real life. I'm pretty decent playing any of the GTA tho.
I guess I've waited too long to post and no one is ever going to read this, but someone needs to say this especially after all this nonsense about missing the college experience.
Wahoowa! Way to go man! Keep it up.
I skipped one grade in High School and after all the crap I heard about missing a year of social development, I decided to do the full four years at college (plus I was a double major). Hugh mistake. I should have skipped two grades in High School and done college in 2-3 years (I'm no where near as talented as this guy, so there is no way I could have done college in 1 year). Frankly the social stuff was pointless and the living sistuation unrealistic.
First you're trapped in the dorms with people who more than likely have nothing in common with you. This never happens in the real world. Once you're out, you get your own place and have complete control over the roommate sistuation. Plus you don't have general services to call to fix your lightbulb or clean the shower.
Then there's the social activities. Again completely unrealistic. Once you're out, you're too busy having to work to pay your taxes and your mortgage to ever have time enough to go to the football game or the insane political rallies.
This guy is smart enough to realize at an early all of this. I just wish I had realized it back then. The biggest waste of time and money was the formal education I had. I could be a millionaire right now, instead of being at least 2-3 years from that. This guy should be consider an example for all of our kids to look up to. I applaud him.
@#$$@# That's where all my mod points went!! I had 4points and like I always do, I play with the dropdowns quite a bit before I find ones I want to moderate. No telling what kind of horrible moderation I did last week. #!@#$#@ Sorry about that folks.
Folks, just get an answering machine and never pick up the phone when it rings. If you want to catch friends and family then also get caller id and only pick up numbers you know. I usually turn the ringer off and the machine vol to low unless one of the family is out of the house or I'm expecting a call. This way I'm not disturbed by telemarketers. Once a day I play the machine to see if there is anything interesting on it. Other than some rug cleaning guy who keeps saying "I'm just going to call you this one time" there usually isn't. You don't need this silly do not call list.
Wow... not only does that outlaw gay marriage, it outlaws any attempt to define a state-recognized relationship between homosexuals which attempts to confer the same benefits.
It's worse than that even. The key words are "unmarried individuals" you don't have to be gay for it to affect you. You and your best friend want to buy a house together to avoid having to pay outrageous rent. Well ownership is normally a benefit of marriage so you're out of luck. If you were trying to do this with your girlfriend y'all would have to get married first. See http://www.votenova.org/ for more examples.
The really bad thing here isn't that this amendment is likely to pass, but that we have no way of knowing if the vote count is going to be accurate. In my own county in last year's General Assembly elections, there were two precincts, which for over a week had officially only 2% turn out. Then all of a sudden votes were found in the electronic machines to bring the turn out around 30%, which was more in line with the rest of the county. These new votes were heavily biased for the incumbent. I think this was unlikely since I know in one of them the challenger campaigned heavily and was well liked. The Board of Elections didn't give any information other than they wouldn't comment while the votes were being certified. When the votes were certified they said nothing could be done once the votes were certified.
I know the challenger involved didn't contest the issue since the found votes didn't affect the outcome of the election. However the more I think about it, the more I wonder if the machines weren't all program to come up with similar results and that two of them screwed up and gave the real results until someone got to them and fixed them.
We'll never know until we get good machines that produce a paper trail.
In an ideal society, crimes committed by very powerful people should result in very severe penalties. Crimes committed by less powerful people should result in less severe penalties.
No no no. There should not be unequal penalities based on how powerful a person is. If a powerful person shoplifts they should get the same punishment as the less powerful person. If they both steal millions of dollars then they should both get the same punishment. The same goes if they kill or rape someone.
Your example of the someone stealing something 3x their salary is the old apples and oranges thing.. You've got two crimes that cause different amounts of damage. You need to consider the case if they both stole the car or both embezzled the money. For the apples to apples case, in an ideal world they should both get the same punishement.
You also need to consider if stealing someone's car a worse worse than skimming some money from a mutual fund. I'm not sure either sould really get jail time. The car thief obviously has to replace the car in the same condition before the theft and pay for the missed work and any other damanges that happened to the car owner b/c he didn't have use of his car. The embezzler needs to return the money as well as pay interest for the time that the people didn't have use of their money. If they can't repay, then you need to start looking into some kind of garnishment of their wages or something. Jail time in either case doesn't help anyone.
In the case of this HP scandal. How much harm was there really? Some phone records discovered. The people really at fault is AT&T for giving the records out. AT&T needs to compensate the victim and perhaps see to make Dunn pay AT&T. Dunn's reputation should be ruined since she is an admited to lying. Jail time in her case doesn't really help anyone and ends up costing us all. It would be better to get over the anger and move on with your life.
Only on/. would someone make a point to mention that they put on clean underware before leaving their domicile. I think normal people must take clean underware for granted!
Not so sure about that. The dress code at my middle school said that every child would have to wear clean underwear (only part of the code I thought was legit). This was a suburban school in an afluent area back in the 80's. The school even won some kind of Presidential award from Regan.
Look, the ONLY point of articles like this is to bring the libertarians out of the woodwork so they can dance around in a circle chanting their magic chant that makes oil last forever and the Earth be inhabitable forever.
I don't know any libertarian who believes that oil or the Earth will last forever. What they do belive is that government interference is uncessary in dealing with the energy supply. If we start to run out of oil, prices will go up and encourage the development of alternative energy supplies (something all the billions government has poured into bloated programs has failed to do).
Wiki's have their place as a reference book. However one should not consider a forums to be purely social. People go to a forum all the time for advice and help. Maybe the answer is just a link to a wiki or previous forum post. However usually it is much more useful. Think of the forum as more of a library with 1000's of librarians waiting to help you.
I followed the link the summary and attempted to sign up for the service. However it wants me to change my MX and CNAME records so that basically google will handle everything for my domain. I most certainly don't want that. I just want to be able to use the office suite and have my other volunteers be able to use it. Am I missing something???
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Having an open network is nice, but I've got two questions:
1) what do you do to keep your neighbor from hacking your computer and looking at all of your important files?
2) what are you going to do when someone uses your network to do something illegal and/or immoral like sending spam and the authories decide it is time to make an example out of you.
Unless I can make sure I'm reasonably safe from these two likely senarios, I'm going to keep my wifi locked down and only allow me to connect.
When I hear the word pod, I think of PODS, Portable On-Demand Storage. iPod is a blatant ripoff of PODS, since the iPOD just "stores" your electronic crap, just like a POD stores your physical crap.
I think they should be able to trademark iPod, but not the word pod. Besides the pod has been in the dictionary for quite a long time.
Once upon a time, I got my own website. After months of searching and trying a bunch of discount hosts that gave me less than I paid for, I came across phpwebhosting.com and all was good. While only $10 a month, it provide me with great reliable hosting and even better tech support. That was in 1998. By 2003 I had moved all of my client's sites to phpwebhosting.com and everything was still good. Of course there were now cheaper discount hosts (some for as low as $4 a month!), but I stayed with phpwebhosting.com b/c of the great past and present service.
Then 2004 arrived. AOL and other ISPs started blocking email sent from phpwebhosting.com servers. I managed to work around the problem, but I had no idea what had happened in the background. Then one day, I noticed that instead of one of my domains going to phpwebhosting.com's server, it was going to theplanet.com's. After more research it appeared that theplanet.com had taken over phpwebhosting.com, or at the very least phpwebhosting.com was just reselling theplanet.com's stuff.
At the end of 2004 things started to turn bad. One client's site was down for 5-6 hours a day for an entire week. No warning, no appology, and no responce to the trouble ticket. Then all of the clients started to be blocked again by AOL. Then worse my personal account could not recieve email. Since all of this started just before X-mas, I gave them a week to reply to the trouble ticket (in the past it was normally only 24hr or less). Then I raised the level of the ticket and asked for an update. Since New Years was just around the corner, I gave them another week to do something. Nothing happened. At this point, I started to get phone calls from people asking why my email was bouncing. The ticket was already at the emergency level, so I again asked for an update. Still nothing by the end of the first week in Jan.
I began the really annoying task of seeking out a new webhost. Meanwhile the clock was ticking on the trouble ticket. The 2nd week in Jan was gone and I had found the place I would move some of my clients (other's I decided to set up on their own servers). The end of Jan, I finally moved the last of my domains from phpwebhosting.com (which I think is now controlled by theplanet.com). Over a month had gone by and there was still no answer to the trouble ticket.
I can only say that for many years phpwebhosting.com was great and that only after theplanet.com somehow became involved with them did the server go down hill. It must be theplanet.com's fault. Had the Friends of Joe Lieberman knew about this, I'm sure they would have chosen a better discount webhost.
What kind of danger do you see in RHEL clones to FC's market? I use RHEL at work and it is by far the best OS I've ever seen. At home I use FC and in spite of your claims it just doesn't measure up. I've started looking into whitebox and CentOS for home use. What are the reasons why I should stay with FC and not switch to a RHEL clone? Also what is being done to make FC more stable, robust, and feature-rich like RHEL?
I don't really think this IRC log is true. PHP has been linked to Zend since PHP3. Zend has had some serious links to Isreal since the beginning.
According to http://www.zend.com/company/management
Zeev Suraski is a graduate of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology as is Andi Gutmans.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Php
Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, two Israeli developers at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, rewrote the parser in 1997 and formed the base of PHP 3, changing the language's name to the recursive initialism "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor". The development team officially released PHP/FI 2 in November 1997 after months of beta testing. Public testing of PHP 3 began immediately and the official launch came in June 1998. Suraski and Gutmans then started a new rewrite of PHP's core, producing the Zend engine in 1999.[2] They also founded Zend Technologies in Ramat Gan, Israel, which is actively involved with PHP development.
The link as been there since the late 1990's. So if Jani had these views he wouldn't have started with PHP in the early 2000's.
Also if he really believed this, he most likely would have said something about it in his message so as to help damage the project. His messsage was clearly crafted to get him out of the project immediately without causing a major problem (of course/. will make a mountain out of a molehill anyday). It's pretty obvious he's leaving over some kind of interpersonal relation problem with some or all of the team. Instead of making accusations, hurling insults, or trying to damage people's reputation, he's taken the honorable way out and qickly leaves. Yes this makes some of the uninformed masses speculate but this is going a little far even for the/. crowd.
For the last two years, I've been looking for a Unified Content Management System (I've even tried to submit questions about finding one to ask.slashdot.org but they've been rejected). The specifics of our site is that we need a News Blog which supports user comments and slashdot style moderation, a discussion forum, a wiki, an events calendar, email lists management, and a shopping cart/e-commerce software. All of this needs to have a unified login and unified graphical design. So far we're forced to use MoveableType (which lacks the slashdot style moderation and user submitted stories and has a really awful comment system), Ikonboard (which last time I check had ceased to be published due to some legal issues between the developers), MediaWiki (which has some serious performance problems), PHPCalendar (which works great but is difficult to fix the graphic design), mailman (which also works great but again is difficult to fix the graphic design), a home grown shopping cart (which really isn't very good). All of these have their own login system and graphic design issues. It looks like there are 6 different sites on our 1 site. Of course there is no chance of getting any kind of workflow set up for proper approval of visitor submitted information or for monitoring the editors by an admin.
The closest I've come to something that is a Unified Content Management System is Drupal. However, it lacks the slashdot style moderation. It also seems overly complex to install, setup, and admin. Finally the biggest problem is that all of its pages are dynamically generated. If they would use static html pages like MoveableType it would dramatically reduce the server load and we'd scrap most everything in favor of drupal.
Whose "rights" are being challenged here? This is just about politics in a standards committee. When the government comes swooping in and takes over things then we'll talk.
You better wake up now. As soon as the government can say "look here is yet another failure of the free market, where a private group has 'failed' to provide the service we think it should. Clearly we need a big bloated government program to take this over." Then it will be too late to talk the government will be in motion and we'll all get screwed.
I agree Choices are good...but look at it from another point of view like my mother or even a CEO. Both have some really important things to think about (mom has to worry about taking care of her kids, the CEO has to worry about getting the SOX reports filed correctly). They don't have time to think about their computer's clipboard manager. WTF is a clipboard manager anyway? They've got more important things to think about (Johnny just scraped his knee or the SEC just called about the SOX report). They just need one option that works. This is why MS has become so successful.
Another example. Do you spend all day going across town to five different stores to pick up the best of each item you need or do you hit Wal-Mart down the street and pick up all the items you need for less (both in cost and quality). You pick the one option that works.
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And while it probably is just an innocent mistake, someone could do it deliberately, knowing that your code will end up exposed to the internet on a particular server. Once you say "hey thanks that worked great", this someone knows that you have a wide-open security hole for them to exploit.
Well I've not had any problem learning stuff in public forums. On the rare occasion where I got wrong information, someone else has posted saying don't do what the first reply says, it's wrong for these reasons.
It's ashame that it took only a month to be assimlated into this kind of MSthink.
2. AT&T calls Google and says "We have 100,000 customers. Pay us $0.01 a packet or we will deliberately slow down or lose packets sent from you to our customers."
What happens when the 100,000 customers see that google isn't working with their service, but everyone of their neighbors with a comcast connection gets google lightning fast? "Hello AT&T, cancel my service, I'm switching to Comcast."
One note about EmperorLinux, they're not that cheap. Their cheapest model is over $1100. However I have heard good things about them, so they might be worth the price.
That means the law frequently rests on the definition of "authorization." Many cases suggest that if the owner doesn't want you to use the system, for whatever reason, your use is unauthorized. In one case I took on appeal, the trial court had held that searching for airline fares on a publicly available, unprotected website was unauthorized access because the airline had asked the searcher to stop.
This is almost as outrageous as what happened to McCarty. A publicly available website, how can anyone's access to it be unauthorized. It's like saying my access of my neighbor's wireless router is unauthorized eventhough the router advertises itself and has no password or security. When are we going to get some Judges that understand technology.
Looks like Tucow really behaved badly. They cancled an account of a legimite user instead of defeating the attack. The should never have given into the spammer's demands.
ok I'm stupid what's the difference between...
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What's the difference between a NOVELLA, NOVELETTE, and a SHORT STORY?
* Novel -- 40,000 words or more
* Novella -- 17,500-39,999 words
* Novelette -- 7,500-17,499 words
* Short Story -- 7,499 words or fewer
* Script -- a professionally produced audio, radio, television, motion picture, multimedia, or theatrical script
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I guess I've waited too long to post and no one is ever going to read this, but someone needs to say this especially after all this nonsense about missing the college experience.
Wahoowa! Way to go man! Keep it up.
I skipped one grade in High School and after all the crap I heard about missing a year of social development, I decided to do the full four years at college (plus I was a double major). Hugh mistake. I should have skipped two grades in High School and done college in 2-3 years (I'm no where near as talented as this guy, so there is no way I could have done college in 1 year). Frankly the social stuff was pointless and the living sistuation unrealistic.
First you're trapped in the dorms with people who more than likely have nothing in common with you. This never happens in the real world. Once you're out, you get your own place and have complete control over the roommate sistuation. Plus you don't have general services to call to fix your lightbulb or clean the shower.
Then there's the social activities. Again completely unrealistic. Once you're out, you're too busy having to work to pay your taxes and your mortgage to ever have time enough to go to the football game or the insane political rallies.
This guy is smart enough to realize at an early all of this. I just wish I had realized it back then. The biggest waste of time and money was the formal education I had. I could be a millionaire right now, instead of being at least 2-3 years from that. This guy should be consider an example for all of our kids to look up to. I applaud him.
@#$$@# That's where all my mod points went!! I had 4points and like I always do, I play with the dropdowns quite a bit before I find ones I want to moderate. No telling what kind of horrible moderation I did last week. #!@#$#@ Sorry about that folks.
Folks, just get an answering machine and never pick up the phone when it rings. If you want to catch friends and family then also get caller id and only pick up numbers you know. I usually turn the ringer off and the machine vol to low unless one of the family is out of the house or I'm expecting a call. This way I'm not disturbed by telemarketers. Once a day I play the machine to see if there is anything interesting on it. Other than some rug cleaning guy who keeps saying "I'm just going to call you this one time" there usually isn't. You don't need this silly do not call list.
The really bad thing here isn't that this amendment is likely to pass, but that we have no way of knowing if the vote count is going to be accurate. In my own county in last year's General Assembly elections, there were two precincts, which for over a week had officially only 2% turn out. Then all of a sudden votes were found in the electronic machines to bring the turn out around 30%, which was more in line with the rest of the county. These new votes were heavily biased for the incumbent. I think this was unlikely since I know in one of them the challenger campaigned heavily and was well liked. The Board of Elections didn't give any information other than they wouldn't comment while the votes were being certified. When the votes were certified they said nothing could be done once the votes were certified.
I know the challenger involved didn't contest the issue since the found votes didn't affect the outcome of the election. However the more I think about it, the more I wonder if the machines weren't all program to come up with similar results and that two of them screwed up and gave the real results until someone got to them and fixed them.
We'll never know until we get good machines that produce a paper trail.
No no no. There should not be unequal penalities based on how powerful a person is. If a powerful person shoplifts they should get the same punishment as the less powerful person. If they both steal millions of dollars then they should both get the same punishment. The same goes if they kill or rape someone.
Your example of the someone stealing something 3x their salary is the old apples and oranges thing.. You've got two crimes that cause different amounts of damage. You need to consider the case if they both stole the car or both embezzled the money. For the apples to apples case, in an ideal world they should both get the same punishement.
You also need to consider if stealing someone's car a worse worse than skimming some money from a mutual fund. I'm not sure either sould really get jail time. The car thief obviously has to replace the car in the same condition before the theft and pay for the missed work and any other damanges that happened to the car owner b/c he didn't have use of his car. The embezzler needs to return the money as well as pay interest for the time that the people didn't have use of their money. If they can't repay, then you need to start looking into some kind of garnishment of their wages or something. Jail time in either case doesn't help anyone.
In the case of this HP scandal. How much harm was there really? Some phone records discovered. The people really at fault is AT&T for giving the records out. AT&T needs to compensate the victim and perhaps see to make Dunn pay AT&T. Dunn's reputation should be ruined since she is an admited to lying. Jail time in her case doesn't really help anyone and ends up costing us all. It would be better to get over the anger and move on with your life.
Not so sure about that. The dress code at my middle school said that every child would have to wear clean underwear (only part of the code I thought was legit). This was a suburban school in an afluent area back in the 80's. The school even won some kind of Presidential award from Regan.
I don't know any libertarian who believes that oil or the Earth will last forever. What they do belive is that government interference is uncessary in dealing with the energy supply. If we start to run out of oil, prices will go up and encourage the development of alternative energy supplies (something all the billions government has poured into bloated programs has failed to do).
As for the global warming hype, check out the real inconvenient truth
Wiki's have their place as a reference book. However one should not consider a forums to be purely social. People go to a forum all the time for advice and help. Maybe the answer is just a link to a wiki or previous forum post. However usually it is much more useful. Think of the forum as more of a library with 1000's of librarians waiting to help you.
Has anyone checked out "Ajax And Php: Building Responsive Web Applications (Paperback)" If I can only afford one of these books, should I get this one or the one reviewed here on /.
I followed the link the summary and attempted to sign up for the service. However it wants me to change my MX and CNAME records so that basically google will handle everything for my domain. I most certainly don't want that. I just want to be able to use the office suite and have my other volunteers be able to use it. Am I missing something???
Having an open network is nice, but I've got two questions:
1) what do you do to keep your neighbor from hacking your computer and looking at all of your important files?
2) what are you going to do when someone uses your network to do something illegal and/or immoral like sending spam and the authories decide it is time to make an example out of you.
Unless I can make sure I'm reasonably safe from these two likely senarios, I'm going to keep my wifi locked down and only allow me to connect.
When I hear the word pod, I think of PODS, Portable On-Demand Storage. iPod is a blatant ripoff of PODS, since the iPOD just "stores" your electronic crap, just like a POD stores your physical crap.
I think they should be able to trademark iPod, but not the word pod. Besides the pod has been in the dictionary for quite a long time.
Once upon a time, I got my own website. After months of searching and trying a bunch of discount hosts that gave me less than I paid for, I came across phpwebhosting.com and all was good. While only $10 a month, it provide me with great reliable hosting and even better tech support. That was in 1998. By 2003 I had moved all of my client's sites to phpwebhosting.com and everything was still good. Of course there were now cheaper discount hosts (some for as low as $4 a month!), but I stayed with phpwebhosting.com b/c of the great past and present service.
Then 2004 arrived. AOL and other ISPs started blocking email sent from phpwebhosting.com servers. I managed to work around the problem, but I had no idea what had happened in the background. Then one day, I noticed that instead of one of my domains going to phpwebhosting.com's server, it was going to theplanet.com's. After more research it appeared that theplanet.com had taken over phpwebhosting.com, or at the very least phpwebhosting.com was just reselling theplanet.com's stuff.
At the end of 2004 things started to turn bad. One client's site was down for 5-6 hours a day for an entire week. No warning, no appology, and no responce to the trouble ticket. Then all of the clients started to be blocked again by AOL. Then worse my personal account could not recieve email. Since all of this started just before X-mas, I gave them a week to reply to the trouble ticket (in the past it was normally only 24hr or less). Then I raised the level of the ticket and asked for an update. Since New Years was just around the corner, I gave them another week to do something. Nothing happened. At this point, I started to get phone calls from people asking why my email was bouncing. The ticket was already at the emergency level, so I again asked for an update. Still nothing by the end of the first week in Jan.
I began the really annoying task of seeking out a new webhost. Meanwhile the clock was ticking on the trouble ticket. The 2nd week in Jan was gone and I had found the place I would move some of my clients (other's I decided to set up on their own servers). The end of Jan, I finally moved the last of my domains from phpwebhosting.com (which I think is now controlled by theplanet.com). Over a month had gone by and there was still no answer to the trouble ticket.
I can only say that for many years phpwebhosting.com was great and that only after theplanet.com somehow became involved with them did the server go down hill. It must be theplanet.com's fault. Had the Friends of Joe Lieberman knew about this, I'm sure they would have chosen a better discount webhost.
What kind of danger do you see in RHEL clones to FC's market? I use RHEL at work and it is by far the best OS I've ever seen. At home I use FC and in spite of your claims it just doesn't measure up. I've started looking into whitebox and CentOS for home use. What are the reasons why I should stay with FC and not switch to a RHEL clone? Also what is being done to make FC more stable, robust, and feature-rich like RHEL?
I don't really think this IRC log is true. PHP has been linked to Zend since PHP3. Zend has had some serious links to Isreal since the beginning. According to http://www.zend.com/company/management Zeev Suraski is a graduate of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology as is Andi Gutmans. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Php
The link as been there since the late 1990's. So if Jani had these views he wouldn't have started with PHP in the early 2000's.
Also if he really believed this, he most likely would have said something about it in his message so as to help damage the project. His messsage was clearly crafted to get him out of the project immediately without causing a major problem (of course /. will make a mountain out of a molehill anyday). It's pretty obvious he's leaving over some kind of interpersonal relation problem with some or all of the team. Instead of making accusations, hurling insults, or trying to damage people's reputation, he's taken the honorable way out and qickly leaves. Yes this makes some of the uninformed masses speculate but this is going a little far even for the /. crowd.
For the last two years, I've been looking for a Unified Content Management System (I've even tried to submit questions about finding one to ask.slashdot.org but they've been rejected). The specifics of our site is that we need a News Blog which supports user comments and slashdot style moderation, a discussion forum, a wiki, an events calendar, email lists management, and a shopping cart/e-commerce software. All of this needs to have a unified login and unified graphical design. So far we're forced to use MoveableType (which lacks the slashdot style moderation and user submitted stories and has a really awful comment system), Ikonboard (which last time I check had ceased to be published due to some legal issues between the developers), MediaWiki (which has some serious performance problems), PHPCalendar (which works great but is difficult to fix the graphic design), mailman (which also works great but again is difficult to fix the graphic design), a home grown shopping cart (which really isn't very good). All of these have their own login system and graphic design issues. It looks like there are 6 different sites on our 1 site. Of course there is no chance of getting any kind of workflow set up for proper approval of visitor submitted information or for monitoring the editors by an admin.
The closest I've come to something that is a Unified Content Management System is Drupal. However, it lacks the slashdot style moderation. It also seems overly complex to install, setup, and admin. Finally the biggest problem is that all of its pages are dynamically generated. If they would use static html pages like MoveableType it would dramatically reduce the server load and we'd scrap most everything in favor of drupal.
I agree Choices are good...but look at it from another point of view like my mother or even a CEO. Both have some really important things to think about (mom has to worry about taking care of her kids, the CEO has to worry about getting the SOX reports filed correctly). They don't have time to think about their computer's clipboard manager. WTF is a clipboard manager anyway? They've got more important things to think about (Johnny just scraped his knee or the SEC just called about the SOX report). They just need one option that works. This is why MS has become so successful.
Another example. Do you spend all day going across town to five different stores to pick up the best of each item you need or do you hit Wal-Mart down the street and pick up all the items you need for less (both in cost and quality). You pick the one option that works.
Well I've not had any problem learning stuff in public forums. On the rare occasion where I got wrong information, someone else has posted saying don't do what the first reply says, it's wrong for these reasons.
It's ashame that it took only a month to be assimlated into this kind of MSthink.
One note about EmperorLinux, they're not that cheap. Their cheapest model is over $1100. However I have heard good things about them, so they might be worth the price.
Looks like Tucow really behaved badly. They cancled an account of a legimite user instead of defeating the attack. The should never have given into the spammer's demands.
What's the difference between a NOVELLA, NOVELETTE, and a SHORT STORY?
From:
http://www.sfwa.org/awards/faq.htm#6
* Novel -- 40,000 words or more
* Novella -- 17,500-39,999 words
* Novelette -- 7,500-17,499 words
* Short Story -- 7,499 words or fewer
* Script -- a professionally produced audio, radio, television, motion picture, multimedia, or theatrical script