Remote Desktop is made available by installing netmeeting on a win2k machine. if you would rather use it than VNC, that is. Fast User switching is a good feature? huh. my kids like it, but I can't figue out why; the only XP machine in the house is my uberfast new laptop, and it takes essentially the same amount of time to log out then log back in as it does to do the switching thing. and yeah, I capitilize too much when i'm feeling particularly fed up with something. sorry about that.
This will probably be flamebaited, but... "vista is 5 years more advanced than XP", huh? what, exactly, are the features of Vista that make it a "upgrade" from WinXP, or better yet, Win2k? Is there ANY feature of Vista that will improve my ability to do ANYTHING AT ALL I currently do on my Win2k machine? NOTE: Due to Microsoft failing to release the software after developing it (except to a $6000 version of Win2k Server), my Win2k machine does not fully make use of a 64-bit CPU, or a "hyperthreading" intel CPU. I'm aware of this, and don't consider it a problem as there are no 64-bit apps or games that look interesting; and my dual AMD CPU motherboard unclogs it's nose at hyperthreading, it's a silly concept. The only thing that makes me even consider changing operating systems is the 64-bit thing; eventually, software developers are going to start using it... I just hope Debian & WINE will be up to the task by then.
So, I repeat, to the parent & everyone else who even begins to consider "upgrading" to Vista: Is there ANY feature of Vista that will improve my ability to do ANYTHING AT ALL I currently do on my DRM-free Win2k machine?
I am not talking about any such thing. I was merely referencing the writings of Jeffereson & Paine in a non-direct modern context. Could you please clarify what you mean by "the guns will be available"? are you saying that after a strict gun-control president gets in power, that the ease of firearm availability will be totally unchanged? Have you been paying any attention to the news lately? specifically, Iraq? Pissed-off masses with guns are a paine in the ass.
I think I'm going to have to disagree with you on that; people who truly support the 2nd amendment also usually support the other freedoms. Like Ron Paul.
As to the effectiveness of modern civilian arms, the standard issue modern military sniper rifle is essentially the same as that owned by a large number of modern Deer hunters.
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Did you mean Magic Lantern? I'm pretty sure the Green Lantern was otherwise occupied during the Clinton administration.
Why I'm voting against Hillary: she is Anti-Gun, pure & simple. without a strong 2nd Amendment, the other "rights" are just words on paper that can be ignored as the powers-that-be wish. With a strong 2nd Amendment, they have to at least consider just how much they afford to piss us off. It's not much, but it's something.
He needs to be make some real clear defining non-misunderstandable statements about his abortion stance; I've seen some attacks against him on this. I may know that he has clearly stated that "it's none of his business, he's not a woman", and "it's a state issue, not a federal issue, so my personal opinion has no bearing", but he needs to shout it from the rooftops.
I buy software. I buy expensive software, like 3Dstudio max, Vue d'esprit, etc. thousands of dollars worth. I also develop for freenet, and worked on early gnutella development; I think I could probably download ("steal") software, movies, games, whatever if I wanted to. About the only thing I don't buy is new music. I don't like the RIAA, so will not do anything that might result in them getting my money. It is EASY to steal. it is a little harder to steal without legal consequence, and hard for most people to steal without moral consequences. I, honestly, can steal some things without it being a moral issue for me, a sort of "an it harm none, do what thou wilt" sort of thing. If you do not, personally, have a moral problem with stealing ANYTHING, that is your problem.
Grab a Palm TX; they rock. built in WiFi. Literally thousands of free apps & games, great text readers, easy to print out your work to a network printer. I gave away the first PDA I got because I could not figure out a way in which it would possibly assist me more than carrying around a pad & pen. But the TX does everything. It's got a SD slot, so you can carry around full length movies, a million MP3's... Excuse me, I have to go hug my palm.
I have no idea about this specific tech, but... There are ways to stabilize dielectrics, via selective channels, vacuums, and other weird esoteric stuff; it is not IMPOSSIBLE that they have found a way to work around the drawbacks of BaTiO3. But I would have to ask my brother the mad scientist for details.
ahh..no. 6000 DUN individual machines. 65 national nodes, with an average of 125 user each. dedicated T1's, with a few OC3's. 3 overseas nodes via satellite/microwave. Central datacenter with about 400-800 users, depending.
Dell made a LOT of money, as did microsoft. did not grow, just went BOOM. and while this was my biggest job, it wasn't the first time I did something pretty damn big from scratch; during the bank merger era of the dot.com boom, a LOT of networks that were working ok locally had to be tossed and replaced with something new.
Argghhh. Hard to mod someone down when they make such great games. Think about this though; I bought democracy after playing a demo version. That was a smart move on your part, making a playable demo. However, I have done the same thing with companies that do not make demos available; I've grabbed a copy off of P2P to see if it was worth having, then bought the game if it was. I do the exact same thing with Video & Music; If I can not find a place to hear a decent example of the music, there is no chance in hell I'll buy it; if a band is cool enough to release a free version, i'm almost certain to buy it even if I just sort of like it; I like to support people not being idiots with my $$$.
Yup. I'm pretty current on things, and while I have a pretty good idea what VT is, I have no clue whatsoever why a chip would need to have it enabled/disabled in order to function, it's basically a big WTF? right now. Before starting my research on the subject, and just from reading TFA & posts, i'm assuming it is some form of way to have a Virtualized OS run directly at the CPU layer instead of having the virtualization software provide a framework for it to operate in. But I'm guessing. It doesn't sound right because I can not see a advantage over just using lilo. I'll now go and look it up and see if my guess was right.
I worked with a guy in Indiana, Eric Paul, that could do just about anything I could, and still was one of the better speakers i've been around; he could talk anyone into anything, had no lack of interpersonal skills.
But that is one guy, and maybe 2 others I can think of, in 20 years of IT; and they still weren't the "Wow, he wrote the code on a napkin at lunch that saved the company 3 weeks" types, just really competent. All the people who I've worked with that you could take a unsolvable problem to get it taken care of were not the social types; they are more the Draper types. Not great for day-to-day, they really suck at day-to-day.
So, other people could have done the things that Draper did. Why was it that he did them? Just lucky? Right place at the right time?
cheaper? maybe. Easier to deal with? No doubt at all. No social issues? probably not. Able to actually get the job done more efficiently? I note you didn't go that far.
"As smart as you are, there are other people out there just as smart, who are also able and willing to have more normal social contact with others, and they'll get chosen over you."
I know a lot of people like to tell themselves this sort of thing, but let me point out something that you really should know; not all people are created equal. There are people out there who are the very best at what they do. Would we have Personal Computers, if it wasn't for Woz & Jobs? A lot of people say that we would, the time was right... but we did have Woz & Jobs, and if nothing else they established that someone can be the very best at being reasonably smart & lucky at the right time. and good luck trying to get a normal joe to paint a Mona lisa, scult a David, design a T34 etc. Woz had interpersonal skills, that kept him from being a liability to the startup apple. But a lot of the upper-end-of-the-geekosphere types do NOT have interpersonal skills. they just don't. I've always thought it was a idiot savant thing, myself...
I know a few of these people, one is in my family. He has degrees in aerospace engineering & computer science; he wrote a interface driver in assembly for a ARM based device one of my old companies was having fits with in less than 2 hours, just given the detailed specs via e-mail; something that recent graduates had been working on for days, if not weeks. But he works Janitor type jobs, because he can't handle people bugging him all the time.
I'm sort of in a similar boat; I made it through my career & i'm now retired, but every day was a struggle... not to do the work, but to try and fit in & not screw up terribly on the interpersonal crap. With the coming of the Dot.Com era, it got harder as more & more "normal" types (less smarts, better interpersonal skills) were rushing to get jobs in the tech industry, making it difficult for people who were merely good with technology to compete. So, the workplaces lost the people able to do the work, the dropout Business Management majors who were now IT couldn't keep the technology rolling, and everything went to india.
SO, some company could right now have THE Cap'n Crunch on retainer, or working from home, but instead they probably have 3 guys who took CompSci because their highschool advisor told them they would make more money that way. Which do you honestly think would be likely to give the most return for their investment?
I haven't been a high energy microwave tech actively for quite a while, but i'm pretty certain thst with some $$ and an actual interest, I could read a passive rfid tag at about 100m. Might screw up some nearby cell phones, though.
i'm just going to address one of your many points, "What is up with all these people who say that they will never consider using XP or Vista?"
I was a HP/UX admin before I got my MCSE and switched to the NT world; Win2k is the best operating system I've ever used. I have a laptop running debian, a laptop running WinMCE, a server running Solaris VII, and all my house systems (6-8, depending on biz & family needs) run Win2k. Every game ever made for DOS/Win works, either just straight up, or with VirtualPC. I'm able to disable version checking that forces WinXP, so no problems with them trying to force me to upgrade that way. I've been running Tiny personal Firewall since win2k came out, my boxes are secure. There is no logical reason to "upgrade" to something with integrated DRM, that requires more resources for no additional benefits. I've been a semi-pro 3D graphics & special effects guy for about 4-5 years; everything runs rock steady on win2k with minimal OS overhead. Using WinDiz, I get the updates that might apply to me on the win2k systems, skipping the ones that will install malware like DRM. I Personally think a person would have to be an idiot to "upgrade" to WinXP or Vista, unless you are so inept you can not build your own systems and don't want to bother looking for the version-checking patches for games.
Note: I am forced to admit that the time will come when a 64-bit app for Windows will come out that will require me to make one machine a winXP-64 workstation. it will happen, and I don't see much chance of microsoft releasing the fully working 64-bit patch they made for Win2k. I'm just hoping whoever makes that 64-bit app makes a Linux or Mac version.
I know it is not possible that anyone is going to believe this, but there are positive health benefits to be had from tobacco, if used in moderation. Anyone reading these results will be certain that the medical studies were funded by Big Tobacco, and for all I know, maybe they were. And maybe the studies showing the health benefits of drinking a glass of red wine daily are funded by big alchohol?
I'm a firm believer that doing anything to excess is bad, and doing anything in moderation CAN BE good. The problem is identifying the point that is moderate.
I'll go along with everything but the lowering of priority in gaining access to treatments. Of course, I smoke a pipe, so I'm not likely to see the problems A 2 pack-a-day smoker will. But, it has to be part of an omnibus law; one that will apply the same restrictions to people who drink alchohol, eat red meat, ingest products made with high fructose corn syrup, etc.
I would also suggest that you restrict in a similar fashion people who are injured while driving a motor vehicle in speeds in excess of 30mph, bungee jumping, mountain climbing, scuba diving, flying, etc.
It's only fair; people who purposefully do things which endenger their health shouldn't have to be treated the same way Sane, healthy, non-risk takers do. As this pretty much leaves the Amish, I imagine tax income would be seriously impacted, as it wouldn't be in the vast majority of peoples interest to pay taxes, since they wouldn't see any benefit.
On a unrelated note, can someone direct me to a forum or mailing list where I can talk about TOR development? I can't seem to find anyplace, and I have some things I want to try.
Sharepoint is not the latest microsoft thing, it's been around since 1999. It was also a lot cooler in 1999; you could do some really cool things with it, like web page subscription and commenting, that I don't think you can do anymore. But still, the version that is around now is a very, very valuable business tool; it allows small business to have features and abilities that you could not easily accomplish with anything else that i'm aware of for anything close to the same investment. I don't think it will save microsoft though. I started out as a Unix admin in the early 90's, and switched to NT when it became obvious it was the way to go; with the purposeful crippling that is going on now (I would never trust secure data to a system that has DRM or the trusted computing software/hardware), I'm convinced Linux is the way to go. I think that means I have to hand in my MCSE? good thing i'm retired.
Yeah, i got him to sign up with the VA; there is, like I said, no official record of him being there, but he managed to hang on to radiologicl badges with his name on them, and a set of travel order he had for a leave he took to visit his parents (I on the other hand have problems finding my tax records for last year), which got them to concede he was there. Luckily, the only problems he seems to be having is recurring skin cancer. he remembers one was smoky, which placed him there 31 August 1957; the government claims that troops were brought in after the test, but he was in a foxhole about 1 1/2 miles from the tower when it went off.
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"Upgrade" has the implication that something is being improved; my position is that Vista is a downgrade.
Remote Desktop is made available by installing netmeeting on a win2k machine. if you would rather use it than VNC, that is.
Fast User switching is a good feature? huh. my kids like it, but I can't figue out why; the only XP machine in the house is my uberfast new laptop, and it takes essentially the same amount of time to log out then log back in as it does to do the switching thing.
and yeah, I capitilize too much when i'm feeling particularly fed up with something. sorry about that.
This will probably be flamebaited, but...
"vista is 5 years more advanced than XP", huh? what, exactly, are the features of Vista that make it a "upgrade" from WinXP, or better yet, Win2k?
Is there ANY feature of Vista that will improve my ability to do ANYTHING AT ALL I currently do on my Win2k machine?
NOTE: Due to Microsoft failing to release the software after developing it (except to a $6000 version of Win2k Server), my Win2k machine does not fully make use of a 64-bit CPU, or a "hyperthreading" intel CPU. I'm aware of this, and don't consider it a problem as there are no 64-bit apps or games that look interesting; and my dual AMD CPU motherboard unclogs it's nose at hyperthreading, it's a silly concept. The only thing that makes me even consider changing operating systems is the 64-bit thing; eventually, software developers are going to start using it... I just hope Debian & WINE will be up to the task by then.
So, I repeat, to the parent & everyone else who even begins to consider "upgrading" to Vista: Is there ANY feature of Vista that will improve my ability to do ANYTHING AT ALL I currently do on my DRM-free Win2k machine?
I am not talking about any such thing. I was merely referencing the writings of Jeffereson & Paine in a non-direct modern context.
Could you please clarify what you mean by "the guns will be available"? are you saying that after a strict gun-control president gets in power, that the ease of firearm availability will be totally unchanged?
Have you been paying any attention to the news lately? specifically, Iraq? Pissed-off masses with guns are a paine in the ass.
I think I'm going to have to disagree with you on that; people who truly support the 2nd amendment also usually support the other freedoms. Like Ron Paul.
As to the effectiveness of modern civilian arms, the standard issue modern military sniper rifle is essentially the same as that owned by a large number of modern Deer hunters.
Is there some new meme I didn't get the memo on?
Did you mean Magic Lantern? I'm pretty sure the Green Lantern was otherwise occupied during the Clinton administration.
Why I'm voting against Hillary: she is Anti-Gun, pure & simple. without a strong 2nd Amendment, the other "rights" are just words on paper that can be ignored as the powers-that-be wish. With a strong 2nd Amendment, they have to at least consider just how much they afford to piss us off.
It's not much, but it's something.
He needs to be make some real clear defining non-misunderstandable statements about his abortion stance; I've seen some attacks against him on this.
I may know that he has clearly stated that "it's none of his business, he's not a woman", and "it's a state issue, not a federal issue, so my personal opinion has no bearing", but he needs to shout it from the rooftops.
I buy software. I buy expensive software, like 3Dstudio max, Vue d'esprit, etc. thousands of dollars worth. I also develop for freenet, and worked on early gnutella development; I think I could probably download ("steal") software, movies, games, whatever if I wanted to.
About the only thing I don't buy is new music. I don't like the RIAA, so will not do anything that might result in them getting my money.
It is EASY to steal. it is a little harder to steal without legal consequence, and hard for most people to steal without moral consequences.
I, honestly, can steal some things without it being a moral issue for me, a sort of "an it harm none, do what thou wilt" sort of thing.
If you do not, personally, have a moral problem with stealing ANYTHING, that is your problem.
Grab a Palm TX; they rock. built in WiFi. Literally thousands of free apps & games, great text readers, easy to print out your work to a network printer.
I gave away the first PDA I got because I could not figure out a way in which it would possibly assist me more than carrying around a pad & pen.
But the TX does everything. It's got a SD slot, so you can carry around full length movies, a million MP3's...
Excuse me, I have to go hug my palm.
I have no idea about this specific tech, but...
There are ways to stabilize dielectrics, via selective channels, vacuums, and other weird esoteric stuff; it is not IMPOSSIBLE that they have found a way to work around the drawbacks of BaTiO3.
But I would have to ask my brother the mad scientist for details.
ahh..no.
6000 DUN individual machines.
65 national nodes, with an average of 125 user each. dedicated T1's, with a few OC3's.
3 overseas nodes via satellite/microwave.
Central datacenter with about 400-800 users, depending.
Dell made a LOT of money, as did microsoft. did not grow, just went BOOM.
and while this was my biggest job, it wasn't the first time I did something pretty damn big from scratch; during the bank merger era of the dot.com boom, a LOT of networks that were working ok locally had to be tossed and replaced with something new.
Argghhh.
Hard to mod someone down when they make such great games.
Think about this though; I bought democracy after playing a demo version. That was a smart move on your part, making a playable demo.
However, I have done the same thing with companies that do not make demos available; I've grabbed a copy off of P2P to see if it was worth having, then bought the game if it was.
I do the exact same thing with Video & Music; If I can not find a place to hear a decent example of the music, there is no chance in hell I'll buy it; if a band is cool enough to release a free version, i'm almost certain to buy it even if I just sort of like it; I like to support people not being idiots with my $$$.
Yup.
I'm pretty current on things, and while I have a pretty good idea what VT is, I have no clue whatsoever why a chip would need to have it enabled/disabled in order to function, it's basically a big WTF? right now. Before starting my research on the subject, and just from reading TFA & posts, i'm assuming it is some form of way to have a Virtualized OS run directly at the CPU layer instead of having the virtualization software provide a framework for it to operate in. But I'm guessing. It doesn't sound right because I can not see a advantage over just using lilo.
I'll now go and look it up and see if my guess was right.
I worked with a guy in Indiana, Eric Paul, that could do just about anything I could, and still was one of the better speakers i've been around; he could talk anyone into anything, had no lack of interpersonal skills.
But that is one guy, and maybe 2 others I can think of, in 20 years of IT; and they still weren't the "Wow, he wrote the code on a napkin at lunch that saved the company 3 weeks" types, just really competent. All the people who I've worked with that you could take a unsolvable problem to get it taken care of were not the social types; they are more the Draper types. Not great for day-to-day, they really suck at day-to-day.
So, other people could have done the things that Draper did. Why was it that he did them? Just lucky? Right place at the right time?
cheaper? maybe.
Easier to deal with? No doubt at all.
No social issues? probably not.
Able to actually get the job done more efficiently? I note you didn't go that far.
I did.
right after I downloaded it to make sure it wouldn't suck.
But i'm a browncoat, so I probably would have bought 2 copies anyway.
"As smart as you are, there are other people out there just as smart, who are also able and willing to have more normal social contact with others, and they'll get chosen over you."
I know a lot of people like to tell themselves this sort of thing, but let me point out something that you really should know; not all people are created equal.
There are people out there who are the very best at what they do. Would we have Personal Computers, if it wasn't for Woz & Jobs? A lot of people say that we would, the time was right... but we did have Woz & Jobs, and if nothing else they established that someone can be the very best at being reasonably smart & lucky at the right time. and good luck trying to get a normal joe to paint a Mona lisa, scult a David, design a T34 etc.
Woz had interpersonal skills, that kept him from being a liability to the startup apple. But a lot of the upper-end-of-the-geekosphere types do NOT have interpersonal skills. they just don't. I've always thought it was a idiot savant thing, myself...
I know a few of these people, one is in my family. He has degrees in aerospace engineering & computer science; he wrote a interface driver in assembly for a ARM based device one of my old companies was having fits with in less than 2 hours, just given the detailed specs via e-mail; something that recent graduates had been working on for days, if not weeks. But he works Janitor type jobs, because he can't handle people bugging him all the time.
I'm sort of in a similar boat; I made it through my career & i'm now retired, but every day was a struggle... not to do the work, but to try and fit in & not screw up terribly on the interpersonal crap.
With the coming of the Dot.Com era, it got harder as more & more "normal" types (less smarts, better interpersonal skills) were rushing to get jobs in the tech industry, making it difficult for people who were merely good with technology to compete.
So, the workplaces lost the people able to do the work, the dropout Business Management majors who were now IT couldn't keep the technology rolling, and everything went to india.
SO, some company could right now have THE Cap'n Crunch on retainer, or working from home, but instead they probably have 3 guys who took CompSci because their highschool advisor told them they would make more money that way. Which do you honestly think would be likely to give the most return for their investment?
I haven't been a high energy microwave tech actively for quite a while, but i'm pretty certain thst with some $$ and an actual interest, I could read a passive rfid tag at about 100m. Might screw up some nearby cell phones, though.
i'm just going to address one of your many points, "What is up with all these people who say that they will never consider using XP or Vista?"
I was a HP/UX admin before I got my MCSE and switched to the NT world; Win2k is the best operating system I've ever used.
I have a laptop running debian, a laptop running WinMCE, a server running Solaris VII, and all my house systems (6-8, depending on biz & family needs) run Win2k.
Every game ever made for DOS/Win works, either just straight up, or with VirtualPC. I'm able to disable version checking that forces WinXP, so no problems with them trying to force me to upgrade that way.
I've been running Tiny personal Firewall since win2k came out, my boxes are secure.
There is no logical reason to "upgrade" to something with integrated DRM, that requires more resources for no additional benefits.
I've been a semi-pro 3D graphics & special effects guy for about 4-5 years; everything runs rock steady on win2k with minimal OS overhead.
Using WinDiz, I get the updates that might apply to me on the win2k systems, skipping the ones that will install malware like DRM.
I Personally think a person would have to be an idiot to "upgrade" to WinXP or Vista, unless you are so inept you can not build your own systems and don't want to bother looking for the version-checking patches for games.
Note: I am forced to admit that the time will come when a 64-bit app for Windows will come out that will require me to make one machine a winXP-64 workstation. it will happen, and I don't see much chance of microsoft releasing the fully working 64-bit patch they made for Win2k. I'm just hoping whoever makes that 64-bit app makes a Linux or Mac version.
I know it is not possible that anyone is going to believe this, but there are positive health benefits to be had from tobacco, if used in moderation. Anyone reading these results will be certain that the medical studies were funded by Big Tobacco, and for all I know, maybe they were. And maybe the studies showing the health benefits of drinking a glass of red wine daily are funded by big alchohol?
Nicotine slows the growth of TB. Effects of Transdermal Nicotine on Cognitive Performance in Down's Syndrome. Parkinson's Disease Is Associated With Non-smoking .
I'm a firm believer that doing anything to excess is bad, and doing anything in moderation CAN BE good. The problem is identifying the point that is moderate.
I'll go along with everything but the lowering of priority in gaining access to treatments. Of course, I smoke a pipe, so I'm not likely to see the problems A 2 pack-a-day smoker will.
But, it has to be part of an omnibus law; one that will apply the same restrictions to people who drink alchohol, eat red meat, ingest products made with high fructose corn syrup, etc.
I would also suggest that you restrict in a similar fashion people who are injured while driving a motor vehicle in speeds in excess of 30mph, bungee jumping, mountain climbing, scuba diving, flying, etc.
It's only fair; people who purposefully do things which endenger their health shouldn't have to be treated the same way Sane, healthy, non-risk takers do.
As this pretty much leaves the Amish, I imagine tax income would be seriously impacted, as it wouldn't be in the vast majority of peoples interest to pay taxes, since they wouldn't see any benefit.
On a unrelated note, can someone direct me to a forum or mailing list where I can talk about TOR development? I can't seem to find anyplace, and I have some things I want to try.
Sharepoint is not the latest microsoft thing, it's been around since 1999.
It was also a lot cooler in 1999; you could do some really cool things with it, like web page subscription and commenting, that I don't think you can do anymore.
But still, the version that is around now is a very, very valuable business tool; it allows small business to have features and abilities that you could not easily accomplish with anything else that i'm aware of for anything close to the same investment.
I don't think it will save microsoft though.
I started out as a Unix admin in the early 90's, and switched to NT when it became obvious it was the way to go; with the purposeful crippling that is going on now (I would never trust secure data to a system that has DRM or the trusted computing software/hardware), I'm convinced Linux is the way to go.
I think that means I have to hand in my MCSE? good thing i'm retired.
Man, I was going to mod you +1 insightful, but I just have to be able to post in this thread.
Yeah, i got him to sign up with the VA; there is, like I said, no official record of him being there, but he managed to hang on to radiologicl badges with his name on them, and a set of travel order he had for a leave he took to visit his parents (I on the other hand have problems finding my tax records for last year), which got them to concede he was there.
Luckily, the only problems he seems to be having is recurring skin cancer.
he remembers one was smoky, which placed him there 31 August 1957; the government claims that troops were brought in after the test, but he was in a foxhole about 1 1/2 miles from the tower when it went off.