It's not age, it's interest. Not all 'old guys' are clueless.
My mom, who passed away at age 76, never really used a computer. My son, at age 3, was trying to teach her. "Just do this, Grandma" She had no clue.
My dad, who passed away a couple years ago at age 81, was a computer geek before all of you (and me) were born. Radio shop repair in in highschool in the 30's, patent holder for various electronic and radio wave propagation principles, charter member of Compuserv and AOL (before it was screwed up AOL), gave me my first programmable TI-99, VIC-20, C-64 and IBM XT....his castoffs. Passed away 4 months after putting in his resignation as a MS Office instructor for Microcenter. Previously built computer controls for various nuclear power plants and DoD messaging services.
I seriously doubt you'll ever see a school district encouraging students to "mob" a shooter,
You'd be wrong.
"(Oct. 18) - The Independent School District of Burleson, Texas, just south of Ft. Worth is the first in the country to adopt a policy of training students to immediately fight back and use their advantage in numbers to take tactical control if a gunman enters their classroom."
The next great advance will be the direct linking of human minds, imagine having access to a minds eye that you can both share when connected together, you can manipulate the data in the minds eye vis space of the other persons imagination and vice versa, it opens up a whole new level of personal and professional communication, not only that I have no doubt it would bring people closer together as they would have direct access to each others thoughts if they so allowed.
This will suck.
Those who do will never know a moments peace, being connected to everyone else 24/7. And those who don't will feel or be 'left behind'.
In any economy the money supply is limited, so if you want to "eliminate poverty" then all you really need to do is redistribute the wealth from the top most to the bottom most.
Distribute 10 $10 million fortunes (a good size fortune) equally among the residents of a medium size city, and everyone gets $100. Whee! Now everyone is poor.
Nonsense. What you're saying is, the amount of 'money' is static. We have exactly the same amount of 'money' as we did in the 1920's. Or 1870's. Right.
Whatever product you choose, expensive proprietary, or expensive open source with consultants and/or your time...you will have to customize it for your business. Nothing will conform to your implementation precisely. Unless you want to change your business to fit the software.
Which is what I advocate -- health insurance, with a $10,000 deductible (and max annual out-of-pocket payout). You save $10,000, you're covered for that real emergency.
$10k per person? Hubby, wife, 2 kids. $40k, in the bank, just for medical emergencies. Right. 1 emergency room visit for a possible broken ankle in a soccer game will easily eat up $5k per visit.
Have you checked what industry visa is in ? Obviously they know a thing or two about both physical and electronic security.
No, Visa has decided that 'some' breakins are OK, as long as it doesn't rise to the point of impacting profits. At the Olympics, having 'some' breakins, physical or other, is not acceptable.
As AOL has demonstrated, we could blanket the earth in install CD's, so the supply/demand price of the software enclosed approaches zero.
I don't know if usung AOL as a standard is a good thing. Yes, they were 'successful', even to the point of buying TimeWarner, but only because soooo many people are/were clueless.
You have to blanket the earth with good stuff*. Even then, I'm not sure the 'clueless ones' will not screw it up.
I live in Canada and let me say I've been praying for government-funded fiber to the home for the last few years now.
You want this guy to be providing your Fiber?
"A member of Canada's ruling Conservative party has pledged to "clean up" the Internet with new bill that would mandate ISP licensing, know-your-subscriber rules, and allow the government to order ISPs to block content."
The only reason I still have an inkjet is to print CD/DVD's, via the Epson R300. Everything else goes through the $300 Dell color laser. 1 year, ~500 pages (1/3 of those full page color), and I'm at 90% capacity left.
Now, to come up with $150-300 per computer, they either raise their prices, or pay their workers less, or go out of business.
Why can they make and sell things so cheaply? Because they can skimp on operating costs. Costs which other competing companies, in other countries, have to account for in their operation.
If they're going to compete on the world stage, they should follow the same basic rules as everyone else. Doing otherwise gives them an unfair advantage.
OK, you're not taking it in context, and you probably don't know a lot about rap.
And when you reply based on false assumptions, you're almost always badly wrong. For the record, I am a black guy. Somewhat older than the typical/. audience, but that's neither here nor there.
No, I'm not a fan of the more hardcore rap, but I have significant exposure to it through my (adult) kids, and through my (almost) son-in-law, who I've been helping build a living room music studio. I know rap. Knowing it doesn't mean liking it. I dislike the way the more hardcore rap denigrates women, and promotes the thug lifestyle. From an outsiders point of view (that of a parent/old guy) I've seen how those thoughts and concepts affect many of the teenagers I've come in contact with. How it influences their contact with peer females, how it affects their life outlook. How it ultimately affects how they view themselves. Talked to them at length about it. By the time it filters down to the radio, much of the original 'message', pain, lost children looking for justice, injustice of The Man...is lost. When the primary thing you take away from a video is a shot of a thug throwing benjamins at a random ass in a thong...what thoughtful message are you supposed to glean form that?
Yes, I understand why they are saying the things they do. I've been there. Doesn't mean I like it.
Please get off the 'rap = thought and understanding' train. Rap = money. Exactly the same as music in the 60's. "Oh, it has a message, blah blah..." Bullshit. I've watched kids with a significant contemporary message transform that message to match what sells. Ultimately, only what sells gets noticed.
The plane's high-octane fuel exploded, hurtling flames down the side of the building and inside through hallways and stairwells all the way down to the 75th floor.
There is a LOT of difference between a B-25 hitting the ESB, and a 757 hitting the WTC. A B-25 is about the weight of a current F-16. Fully fueled, it carries about 700 gallons. A 757 has a MTOW of 272,500lb, and fully fueled carries 11,000+ gallons of fuel.
About the same difference as a pickup truck and a semi.
The ESB is a hard outer shell building, the WTC is a soft skin, internal structure building.
The difference with rapper DMX is that he is not employed by someone who will sack him for perceived outrage. His performance is measured in how many CDs he sells, not how many people he does not manage to offend.
Imus' performance is measured in ad dollars. Nothing more. Some majors pulled out, he got sacked.
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It's not age, it's interest. Not all 'old guys' are clueless.
My mom, who passed away at age 76, never really used a computer. My son, at age 3, was trying to teach her. "Just do this, Grandma" She had no clue.
My dad, who passed away a couple years ago at age 81, was a computer geek before all of you (and me) were born. Radio shop repair in in highschool in the 30's, patent holder for various electronic and radio wave propagation principles, charter member of Compuserv and AOL (before it was screwed up AOL), gave me my first programmable TI-99, VIC-20, C-64 and IBM XT....his castoffs. Passed away 4 months after putting in his resignation as a MS Office instructor for Microcenter. Previously built computer controls for various nuclear power plants and DoD messaging services.
Don't discount 'old people'.
Microsoft has had design and UI guidelines out forever. An awful lot of 'developers' do not know, or fail to heed..but they've been out there.
I seriously doubt you'll ever see a school district encouraging students to "mob" a shooter,
You'd be wrong.
"(Oct. 18) - The Independent School District of Burleson, Texas, just south of Ft. Worth is the first in the country to adopt a policy of training students to immediately fight back and use their advantage in numbers to take tactical control if a gunman enters their classroom."
The next great advance will be the direct linking of human minds, imagine having access to a minds eye that you can both share when connected together, you can manipulate the data in the minds eye vis space of the other persons imagination and vice versa, it opens up a whole new level of personal and professional communication, not only that I have no doubt it would bring people closer together as they would have direct access to each others thoughts if they so allowed.
This will suck. Those who do will never know a moments peace, being connected to everyone else 24/7. And those who don't will feel or be 'left behind'.
In any economy the money supply is limited, so if you want to "eliminate poverty" then all you really need to do is redistribute the wealth from the top most to the bottom most.
Distribute 10 $10 million fortunes (a good size fortune) equally among the residents of a medium size city, and everyone gets $100. Whee! Now everyone is poor.
Nonsense. What you're saying is, the amount of 'money' is static. We have exactly the same amount of 'money' as we did in the 1920's. Or 1870's. Right.
Your 'freedom' to text while driving directly impacts the safety of everyone else on the road.
I can think of a number of interfaces that would make text messaging way safer than a kid in the back seat
So build one. You'll make millions.
And a *coughAmericancough* government was forced to make a specific law on the subject...
And so have a lot of other govt's.
Whatever product you choose, expensive proprietary, or expensive open source with consultants and/or your time...you will have to customize it for your business. Nothing will conform to your implementation precisely. Unless you want to change your business to fit the software.
Be prepared.
Use an MD5 password generator. You can use the same password across sites, but it won't get compromised. Ever.
Until some idiot admin leaks, or lets leak, all those oh-so-secret passwords.
What do you like to do?
You keep using the word 'free'. I don't think it means what you think it means.
but when you walk from room to room, it's almost impossible to get the music aligned.
That's what the volume knob is for. I assume you have an '11' setting on it? Problem solved. You can hear it in all rooms simultaneously.
Which is what I advocate -- health insurance, with a $10,000 deductible (and max annual out-of-pocket payout). You save $10,000, you're covered for that real emergency.
$10k per person? Hubby, wife, 2 kids. $40k, in the bank, just for medical emergencies. Right.
1 emergency room visit for a possible broken ankle in a soccer game will easily eat up $5k per visit.
Have you checked what industry visa is in ? Obviously they know a thing or two about both physical and electronic security.
No, Visa has decided that 'some' breakins are OK, as long as it doesn't rise to the point of impacting profits. At the Olympics, having 'some' breakins, physical or other, is not acceptable.
As AOL has demonstrated, we could blanket the earth in install CD's, so the supply/demand price of the software enclosed approaches zero.
I don't know if usung AOL as a standard is a good thing. Yes, they were 'successful', even to the point of buying TimeWarner, but only because soooo many people are/were clueless.
You have to blanket the earth with good stuff*. Even then, I'm not sure the 'clueless ones' will not screw it up.
* for various definitions of good stuff.
I live in Canada and let me say I've been praying for government-funded fiber to the home for the last few years now.
You want this guy to be providing your Fiber?
"A member of Canada's ruling Conservative party has pledged to "clean up" the Internet with new bill that would mandate ISP licensing, know-your-subscriber rules, and allow the government to order ISPs to block content."
I'm pretty sure he was talking about the ink cartridges, not the printer.
It's both. Printers wear out, too. Why do you think the $30 Walmart printers are $30? Not for longevity.
The only reason I still have an inkjet is to print CD/DVD's, via the Epson R300. Everything else goes through the $300 Dell color laser. 1 year, ~500 pages (1/3 of those full page color), and I'm at 90% capacity left.
and clotted cream
Excuse me while I gag. Clotted cream may be tasty to some, but I just can't get past the name.
Now, to come up with $150-300 per computer, they either raise their prices, or pay their workers less, or go out of business.
Why can they make and sell things so cheaply? Because they can skimp on operating costs. Costs which other competing companies, in other countries, have to account for in their operation.
If they're going to compete on the world stage, they should follow the same basic rules as everyone else. Doing otherwise gives them an unfair advantage.
I think that the point is: how the hell could be so easy for anybody to get such arsenal?!
ABC is reporting that it was 2 semi-automatic pistols. Hardly an asrenal.
The other way around. XP Home as the host doesn't work. I'm sure there's a way around it, but not as easily as with XP Pro.
Try running Virtual PC under XP Home. Nope...not supported. So it's not surprising that Vista would be any different.
OK, you're not taking it in context, and you probably don't know a lot about rap.
/. audience, but that's neither here nor there.
And when you reply based on false assumptions, you're almost always badly wrong. For the record, I am a black guy. Somewhat older than the typical
No, I'm not a fan of the more hardcore rap, but I have significant exposure to it through my (adult) kids, and through my (almost) son-in-law, who I've been helping build a living room music studio. I know rap. Knowing it doesn't mean liking it. I dislike the way the more hardcore rap denigrates women, and promotes the thug lifestyle. From an outsiders point of view (that of a parent/old guy) I've seen how those thoughts and concepts affect many of the teenagers I've come in contact with. How it influences their contact with peer females, how it affects their life outlook. How it ultimately affects how they view themselves. Talked to them at length about it.
By the time it filters down to the radio, much of the original 'message', pain, lost children looking for justice, injustice of The Man...is lost. When the primary thing you take away from a video is a shot of a thug throwing benjamins at a random ass in a thong...what thoughtful message are you supposed to glean form that?
Yes, I understand why they are saying the things they do. I've been there. Doesn't mean I like it.
Please get off the 'rap = thought and understanding' train. Rap = money. Exactly the same as music in the 60's. "Oh, it has a message, blah blah..." Bullshit. I've watched kids with a significant contemporary message transform that message to match what sells. Ultimately, only what sells gets noticed.
The plane's high-octane fuel exploded, hurtling flames down the side of the building and inside through hallways and stairwells all the way down to the 75th floor.
There is a LOT of difference between a B-25 hitting the ESB, and a 757 hitting the WTC.
A B-25 is about the weight of a current F-16. Fully fueled, it carries about 700 gallons. A 757 has a MTOW of 272,500lb, and fully fueled carries 11,000+ gallons of fuel.
About the same difference as a pickup truck and a semi.
The ESB is a hard outer shell building, the WTC is a soft skin, internal structure building.
The difference with rapper DMX is that he is not employed by someone who will sack him for perceived outrage. His performance is measured in how many CDs he sells, not how many people he does not manage to offend.
Imus' performance is measured in ad dollars. Nothing more. Some majors pulled out, he got sacked.