yes, america is the last of the victorian nations. we are obsessed by creating abundance where there was scarcity. and even better we are obsessed by being obsessive/compulsive in living our lives.
should we really worry about the fate of outdated institutions that will succumb to technological abundance?? no! let them. that mind share, talent pool or whatever you call it forms the basis for the next wave of innovations. sure, its cruel. but that is true schumpertarian "creative destruction".
the only thing to watch for is companies like m$ that practise destructive destruction to maintain a monopoly. that is done mainly through marketing, not technology, mind you. everything else, let technology run freeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
my most frequent complaint (And ubiquitous from my poor L-users) is "my (fill in browser, i install mozilla for them) is going slow, can you help it". every time. i get Lava Soft's AdAware and clean the systems. immediately, i hear a "oh, that wasn't happening that way before" and collect my tech support check (for beer).
i ilke tech support = beer. but its a lotta shit for a L-user to put up with
gimme a break. this is the oldest news out there?!?! didn't anyone here see demolition man? is it my imagination or does linus torvalds bear a striking resemblence to Edgar Friendly (ok, well kinda like a bland geeky version of dennis leary, whatever).
if you'll (totally) recall, they had rfid chips implanted in the movie that told their cast of charecters everything from where and when to which seashell (oh, you don't know about the three sea shells, psst. he doesn't know about the sea shells, hehehehehehe). if hollywood could nail this prediction 10 years ago, who here should be surprised today
that is what is going on in iraq right now. the bushies aren't stupid. they know that the oil gravy train they are milking could, be the last hurrah of the fossil fuels era.
the impact of alternative fuels could improve our ecology dramatically in a short period of time, or about as long as it took us to destroy our air and water in this country. of course, compassionate conservatism means being nice to all the multinational oil (and wholly owned military contracting) conglomerates, since they need a war chest to fight these alternative fuels in the marketplace.
that's my solution to the deal too. i just won't install anything into IE. i have found that it destroys the OS performance. every splorer window opening becomes a chore.
i have installed either firebird or mozilla quite a bit. and explained that its the popup terminator. set it as default and made alot of people happy!
the only complaint i ever hear is "don't change anything!!!!!!" from all of the stupid no-nothing slobs of users that i support. as if changing the screen resolution is irrevocably bad and impossible to change. but for stupid people, i would put nothing past their incompetence.
as for affixing something that will show up on every browser window they use from now to eternity. . . . i am not that mean.
it made picking up new domains take half of forever in my experience. i have bellsouth access, still, through sheer interia. they seem to be always the last on the net to refresh dns.
what's the deal with all the prejudgments lately
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this is the second article in the last two weeks that is qulified as, you won't like this or, this isn't what/. readers see things as, etc. . . ..
we're all big boys and girls here (well, never enough girls, sigh). i'm sure the article is wonderful, but i would prefer to see either a more insightful comment on the posting or none at all.
look man, 2/hr for labor adds up to the price of two or three machines. its like arguing the cost of the screws that hold the case of a pc together. i'm sure the accountants have a line item for it, but we aren't bean counters, nor have a line by line breakdown, lets use some nice round numbers, unless that is, we are the ones writing the checks. shoot.
all i'm sayin that's nice about SATA is that it is nice to see that apple is using the best commodity hardware out there, the new stuff, the stuff everyone wants, and wintel heads have been crowing about since it arrived. i missed that they went scsi in the article, i'm human, so sue me.
fact is, SATA will be easier to replace (compUSA or anywhere soon) and cheaper than scsi, as it is the successor to IDE and i think has a good clear shot at doing so.
yes, good product+good software+sane environment + reality distortion field = winning product
first, i have never heard of a university paying anything for labor. and if i recall, the VT is a volunteer project, and i for one would spare my time to play with hardware like that.
second, i have never heard labor factored into the cost of a machine (tho to call either of these beasts, just a machine is a shame, lol) but it would be reasonable for someon to calculate the TCO based on computing power and the cost of cooling, interconnect, etc.
third, the macs are using SATA which is today's technology, not ancient scsi, score one for cheaper hardware.
last, can't you just accept that apple finally hit a home run on the high end of the hardware world, for a welcome change from the stagnation of the wintel world? ? ? ?? ?
would love to, but i spent the money to buy it, care for it, and lug it everywhere with me for four years now. if they can't pay in what i paid for it, i'll keep it and make it into interesting art one day, or do something myself.
it's not like i'm a republican out for blood money. it is a great little piece of history and i have preserved it lovingly. all i want is enough to get some other toy, like a shuttle PC to run my freevo, or something else nifty that i will get more use out of these days. . . . . its just a science project waiting to happen . ... .
i have a ten year old next cube that is ten years old (and coincidentally ready to hit ebay, i am taking private offers). it was THE SHIT OF THE SHIT BACK THEN and would have sold retail for $10,000 and up. it has a motorola 25 Mhz PPC chip, 16 MB ram, 2 Gig storage (1.3 and boot on 660 mb), onboard sound, video, dual ethernet, all the goodies. is the basis of gnustep and OS X with tru post script display.
just a typical Tim Berners Lee machina. i could run debian on it today, or net bsd i suppose. if i had the time. right now, its a wonderful paperweight. coming in at 100 lbs. (of magnesium, fire-resistant casing) its sure to keep your stacks of paper from floating off!
i got this machine from a former employee of apple in iowa (who i think was slightly queer, he reset the root password to penis) for 400 bucks 4 years ago. i have all the books and disks, cds and everything for it.
to answer the post, it was the cutting edge, onboard everything! so far ahead of its time, that everything we're using today to make this post was already there, just about, or born there. it created the matrix. a 12" by 12" square motherboard in a case with space for 4 of them, so you can buy another board and it will netboot and cluster off the first board. nearly impossible to crash. i first used one in 1995 and did music on it, back then it was just on par with the P133 we had next to it. in fact, the 133 ran openstep outrageously fast (for back then), but it is still useable, i have scattered links about the fun science project it could become (if i ever had time). if i can't find a buyer, i have been talking about creating a sculpture out of the parts i don't want (don't have time for this either). in other words, the keyboard is the only part i can use legacy without the rest, ADB --------->USB (which i don't have time to buy), its got the best ever clack!
make me an offer. i got it for 400 bucks four years ago. it starts, runs and has a fresh copy of the openstep install. comes with cds and floppys. even have some paper doc too. have a keyboard, and mouse w/ the greyscale studio monitor. long cabling included. a steal
as i said above. everything on the form indicated intent to apply. i'm not a lawyer, but intent counts. hence the initial post sayin USE A VOID (to which everyone said, shred it too).
imagine your mother in law with a baby food obsession with the attitude to match. ever meet a raw organic vegan? they are the stupidest people on earth! this guy fancies himself a hippie, and drives 400-500 miles a week, and complains constantly that he's never making enough money while sabotaging any big money projects. i'm introducing him to his new boss and lower salary next week.
we blended rodney dangerfield and bobcat goldthwaite genes with a three toed sloth to create a slow lazy fat bitch with a nasty twich, and crackling voice who's always complaining about not getting enough respect while botching your largest account !!!!!
agreed, but they probably wrote a sig on there. they probably had the same pen used to fill out the application.
i am not saying that its not fraud, but simply that the burden of proof falls on a prosecutor to prove in a criminal case that it was fraud, which she made far more difficult by leaving such a great target of opportunity for them. they might be able to get a civil judgement, but even that could be difficult.
yes, shredding is the best way to go, combined with a VOID statement you are totally covered as to your INTENT.
however, i was being narrow with my reply. honestly, if there was even just a void in the sig box, the application would never make it through processing.
so, yes, she could still have been harvested by the advertising shmos, but she would not have received the credit card. i think that getting credit un-asked for is a serious offence to her, as the terms of some of these cards are atrocious.
that is why card companies recruit on college campuses. the less one reads of those terms, the more it hurts later. there are annual fees, membership fees, late fees, talking to a human being fees, on and on and on. getting fed to the spam machinery is nothing compared to the unmitigated disaster of unplanned finances.
but the fact that there is not a VOID statement on the application makes the waters very cloudy in her case. i have been dabbling the world of finance, it is cut-throat!
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should we really worry about the fate of outdated institutions that will succumb to technological abundance?? no! let them. that mind share, talent pool or whatever you call it forms the basis for the next wave of innovations. sure, its cruel. but that is true schumpertarian "creative destruction".
the only thing to watch for is companies like m$ that practise destructive destruction to maintain a monopoly. that is done mainly through marketing, not technology, mind you. everything else, let technology run freeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
i ilke tech support = beer. but its a lotta shit for a L-user to put up with
if you'll (totally) recall, they had rfid chips implanted in the movie that told their cast of charecters everything from where and when to which seashell (oh, you don't know about the three sea shells, psst. he doesn't know about the sea shells, hehehehehehe). if hollywood could nail this prediction 10 years ago, who here should be surprised today
the impact of alternative fuels could improve our ecology dramatically in a short period of time, or about as long as it took us to destroy our air and water in this country. of course, compassionate conservatism means being nice to all the multinational oil (and wholly owned military contracting) conglomerates, since they need a war chest to fight these alternative fuels in the marketplace.
i have installed either firebird or mozilla quite a bit. and explained that its the popup terminator. set it as default and made alot of people happy!
as for affixing something that will show up on every browser window they use from now to eternity. . . . i am not that mean.
they kept the infrastructure aspect of netsol's old original business model. what they did in the past, they could do again if they wished.
it made picking up new domains take half of forever in my experience. i have bellsouth access, still, through sheer interia. they seem to be always the last on the net to refresh dns.
we're all big boys and girls here (well, never enough girls, sigh). i'm sure the article is wonderful, but i would prefer to see either a more insightful comment on the posting or none at all.
all i'm sayin that's nice about SATA is that it is nice to see that apple is using the best commodity hardware out there, the new stuff, the stuff everyone wants, and wintel heads have been crowing about since it arrived. i missed that they went scsi in the article, i'm human, so sue me.
fact is, SATA will be easier to replace (compUSA or anywhere soon) and cheaper than scsi, as it is the successor to IDE and i think has a good clear shot at doing so.
yes, good product+good software+sane environment + reality distortion field = winning product
second, i have never heard labor factored into the cost of a machine (tho to call either of these beasts, just a machine is a shame, lol) but it would be reasonable for someon to calculate the TCO based on computing power and the cost of cooling, interconnect, etc.
third, the macs are using SATA which is today's technology, not ancient scsi, score one for cheaper hardware.
last, can't you just accept that apple finally hit a home run on the high end of the hardware world, for a welcome change from the stagnation of the wintel world? ? ? ?? ?
it's not like i'm a republican out for blood money. it is a great little piece of history and i have preserved it lovingly. all i want is enough to get some other toy, like a shuttle PC to run my freevo, or something else nifty that i will get more use out of these days. . . . . its just a science project waiting to happen . . .. .
beg your pardon, that's 15 year old hardware. it says copyright 1988 on the back
just a typical Tim Berners Lee machina. i could run debian on it today, or net bsd i suppose. if i had the time. right now, its a wonderful paperweight. coming in at 100 lbs. (of magnesium, fire-resistant casing) its sure to keep your stacks of paper from floating off!
i got this machine from a former employee of apple in iowa (who i think was slightly queer, he reset the root password to penis) for 400 bucks 4 years ago. i have all the books and disks, cds and everything for it.
to answer the post, it was the cutting edge, onboard everything! so far ahead of its time, that everything we're using today to make this post was already there, just about, or born there. it created the matrix. a 12" by 12" square motherboard in a case with space for 4 of them, so you can buy another board and it will netboot and cluster off the first board. nearly impossible to crash. i first used one in 1995 and did music on it, back then it was just on par with the P133 we had next to it. in fact, the 133 ran openstep outrageously fast (for back then), but it is still useable, i have scattered links about the fun science project it could become (if i ever had time). if i can't find a buyer, i have been talking about creating a sculpture out of the parts i don't want (don't have time for this either). in other words, the keyboard is the only part i can use legacy without the rest, ADB --------->USB (which i don't have time to buy), its got the best ever clack!
ahhh, your first *nix box, nothin like it!
yes, sure, whaddeva. . . .. . :)
hehe
that's a good point. you can take the joker out of hialeah, but you cant take the hialeah out of the joker .
any heads from miami know exactly what i mean.
that's a good point. you can take the joker out of hialeah, but you cant .
any heads from miami know exactly what i mean.
i love slashbay or is it Edot ??? ? ? ? ?
as i said above. everything on the form indicated intent to apply. i'm not a lawyer, but intent counts. hence the initial post sayin USE A VOID (to which everyone said, shred it too).
imagine your mother in law with a baby food obsession with the attitude to match. ever meet a raw organic vegan? they are the stupidest people on earth! this guy fancies himself a hippie, and drives 400-500 miles a week, and complains constantly that he's never making enough money while sabotaging any big money projects. i'm introducing him to his new boss and lower salary next week.
AAAAERRRRrrrrrrrrrgggggghghhghghghghghghghg hghghghghghghghg
what were you saying about mice and men?
i am not saying that its not fraud, but simply that the burden of proof falls on a prosecutor to prove in a criminal case that it was fraud, which she made far more difficult by leaving such a great target of opportunity for them. they might be able to get a civil judgement, but even that could be difficult.
yes, shredding is the best way to go, combined with a VOID statement you are totally covered as to your INTENT.
however, i was being narrow with my reply. honestly, if there was even just a void in the sig box, the application would never make it through processing.
so, yes, she could still have been harvested by the advertising shmos, but she would not have received the credit card. i think that getting credit un-asked for is a serious offence to her, as the terms of some of these cards are atrocious.
that is why card companies recruit on college campuses. the less one reads of those terms, the more it hurts later. there are annual fees, membership fees, late fees, talking to a human being fees, on and on and on. getting fed to the spam machinery is nothing compared to the unmitigated disaster of unplanned finances.
but the fact that there is not a VOID statement on the application makes the waters very cloudy in her case. i have been dabbling the world of finance, it is cut-throat!