GE modified food is not accepted by other people purely for cultural reasons. Two examples (I will use the French for both)
Louis le 15 recommended that French peasants, who were suffering a long drought and crop disease, to adopt the potato as a staple food. Peasants were dying left and right because of lack of food. To help the situation, the King was said to eat potatoes at dinner, yet the peasantry declined to use the potato even though it would have saved many lives. They saw a plant growing underground as dirty/unclean.
Now for a modern example. If you go to Paris and live in a French home during the summer, you know it gets HOT. And there is no air conditioning... why? Ask many French people what air conditioning will do to you. They will tell you turning on the AC makes you sick and that it is bad for you. Many people die in Paris (especially old ones) who live alone in an apartment building with no air conditioning. With air conditioning, they would survive the hot summer rather than get heat stroke. However, nearly all French citizens refuse to use AC and dismiss it as an American comfort.
GE modified foods will not be accepted by the masses until there are enough deaths or suffering as a result of hunger/malnutrition to make people aware of an alternative. History does this time and again, you just have to look.
I think "Xena" should definitely become the official name of this planet-destroying roundish body that orbits about the Sun and is bigger than a breadbox but apparently is pretty friendly with its neighbors.
Xena (Lucy Lawless) is a lesbian warrior princess. Get your facts straight:-P
I have absolutely no remorse for people who sell pirated software for money, although it would be nicer if child molestors got at least this amount of jail time too.
The safety agency said the batteries were not unique to Dell, meaning that other companies using Sony batteries may also have to issue recalls. Sony has sold its batteries to most of the major computer makers.
This leads me to wonder if some of the MacBook Pro batteries were made by Sony.
I would be very happy to find an alternative to MS Outlook. I'm sick of people reaching the "2GB" mail limit and the program wiping all their messages. It happens all the time, and causes no end of frustration in the IT department and especailly the end user. MS needs some real competition in this arena to help them do some actual innovation. Apple and Open Source may provide the answer that we have waited a _long_ time to see come. Outlook needs to be completely redone, maybe MS will start feeling the pressure as Linux calendar apps come of age using Apple's technology.
Don't go to an Apple rep. Most likely you went to a CompUSA (where I know for a fact this happens), met a pushy sales person who did not want to make an RMA, and were denied your rights as an Apple user. In the future, contact Apple and only Apple unless they suggest otherwise. 1-800-APL-CARE
Is bluetooth such an energy hog that it needs two AA batteries to send moose X,Y coords and button clicks for a distance of a few feet?
The engineeer within me wishes to digress. There is an electronic component inside the Mighty Mouse that takes +1.5V and a -1.5V-- it is called an Operational Amplifier (Op Amp) and they are extermely efficient for signal processing especially at the 2.4Ghz range bluetooth works on. But the real question is: how you get that + 1.5V and - 1.5V from two batteries?
Take 2 AA batteries put a wire between them. The center will measure 1.5V, the top 3V, and the bottom 0V. In this case, 1.5V is actually your "ground."
There are several advantageous reasons for making a mouse this way, but the foremost is that, having a pseudo "split" supply, you make wireless communication and amplification much easier on the device.
Apple UK just released a new accessory, the iStun. It works with 3rd, 4th, and 5th generation iPods.
The iStun is an instant stun gun to ward against unknowing attackers. Simply plug it into the dock port of your iPod Nano, iPod, or iPod Mini, and BOOM! you have a weapon against criminals who would seek to steal your Apple products. The iStun features an oscillator designed to impair any muscle movement in your attacker, as well as an integrated module for playing AM/FM radio. With a maximum voltage of 450V and enough current to spare*, it makes the perfect iPod accessory!
So you want to run Citrix as your front end. That is a pretty good choice.
The main question is what are you running behind Citrix. Citrix itself does very little but present a screen to a virtual server. My experience has been that the thing behind Citrix- Netware in your case -is the thing that causes the most problems. Definately consider switching to an A/D setup if you have not already started migrating users from Netware to A/D. With A/D and cool projects like OpenLDAP you can do some pretty neat web based things with Java or PHP. (I have not checked in to other languages as of yet) When your company asks you to implement a fully customizable web portal using IIS (eek!) that accesses all this information, PHP is a good ally to have.
Current XHTML support in IE is severely lacking. I love to make up my own tags, define their attributes with CSS and place them all over the page.
However, IE does not support this (Safari, Opera, Firefox do) and it makes advancing a web site very difficult. It would be a huge time-saver if IE fully supported XHTML. Beta 3 might change this, but then again, unfortunatlely no one in my company runs IE beta 3. Kind of a problem if you want to make a successful web site from HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
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Ok, you are obviously not from the US or the UK- most likely you are from France. Frane has enough problems on its own. Trying to villify the US (while satisfying) does not accomplish anything in France, where you work, live and will spend your life. Concentrate on that.
I heard that the French Government is corrupt. I won't say to what point, but pensez-le avant ouvrant la bouche. Tout le monde ont problems, et vous jugez des autres pays trop rapidement.
I recently migrated a legacy ASP server in my company (previously all Windows and Cisco servers/firewalls) to a Linux box and have had no problems. If you need ASP.NET support on Linux then you're SOL, but as far as VBScript goes (ugh) it will run fine. You can also use your existing Access databases (which I assume you have) by connecting across the network. Sun's solution works, and I believe there are a few more implementations out there if you so wish to try them.
Really though, you should migrate to a more powerful programming language like Java, Perl, or PHP. You won't understand now, but when you get the order to build a huge website later on you will thank the gods that you went for one of those solutions.
In light of recent positive karma-related events, I propose we change the Slashdot Microsoft Icon from "Bill Gates as a Borg" to "Steven Balmer Throwing a Chair."
The problem with the internet is that one or two blogs can grab the attention of the world, but no one is taking into account the vast majority of the notebooks that aren't having an issue.
Don't you mean: "The problem with the Internet is that one or two blogs can grab the attention of slashdot...."??:)
And lastly, who's to say Apple would make money by licensing fairplay? What if itunes went down the crapper because someone was able to sell fairplay-encoded music in an interface that was better than itunes? What if third party players exploded in popularity, because people could easily transfer all their already-purchased music to those players, and ipod popularity dwindled?
And lastly, who's to say Apple won't make money by licensing fairplay? What if itunes becomes even more popular because competitors continue to make crappy interfaces as they have been doing since the dawn of the digital music age? What if apple developed an iPod that was also a PDA and cellphone- Apple could release iSync for Windows, and everyone would be able to sync all their current contacts, calenders, and to do's with the new ipod.
My point is that we don't live in the magical world of "if's" You can speculate all you want on the future, but it will never get you anywhere. Action is required for anything to happen.
As to the rest of the post, that was pretty on-target.
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Louis le 15 recommended that French peasants, who were suffering a long drought and crop disease, to adopt the potato as a staple food. Peasants were dying left and right because of lack of food. To help the situation, the King was said to eat potatoes at dinner, yet the peasantry declined to use the potato even though it would have saved many lives. They saw a plant growing underground as dirty/unclean.
Now for a modern example. If you go to Paris and live in a French home during the summer, you know it gets HOT. And there is no air conditioning... why? Ask many French people what air conditioning will do to you. They will tell you turning on the AC makes you sick and that it is bad for you. Many people die in Paris (especially old ones) who live alone in an apartment building with no air conditioning. With air conditioning, they would survive the hot summer rather than get heat stroke. However, nearly all French citizens refuse to use AC and dismiss it as an American comfort.
GE modified foods will not be accepted by the masses until there are enough deaths or suffering as a result of hunger/malnutrition to make people aware of an alternative. History does this time and again, you just have to look.
Xena (Lucy Lawless) is a lesbian warrior princess. Get your facts straight :-P
I have absolutely no remorse for people who sell pirated software for money, although it would be nicer if child molestors got at least this amount of jail time too.
Do not forget TANGELO!
This leads me to wonder if some of the MacBook Pro batteries were made by Sony.
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I think there is a method() to his madness (look down)
Speaking of penguins, did you know Al Gore invented Linux? ;)
One Token Ring to Rule them All, One Search Engine to Find Them, One WAN to bring them in, and TCP/IP Bind them...
It should be "One Token Ring to Rule them All, One Search Engine to Find Them, One WAN to bring them in, and DNS to BIND them..." ;-)
and "Build a bridge to get over it." :)
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Don't go to an Apple rep. Most likely you went to a CompUSA (where I know for a fact this happens), met a pushy sales person who did not want to make an RMA, and were denied your rights as an Apple user. In the future, contact Apple and only Apple unless they suggest otherwise. 1-800-APL-CARE
The engineeer within me wishes to digress. There is an electronic component inside the Mighty Mouse that takes +1.5V and a -1.5V-- it is called an Operational Amplifier (Op Amp) and they are extermely efficient for signal processing especially at the 2.4Ghz range bluetooth works on. But the real question is: how you get that + 1.5V and - 1.5V from two batteries?
Take 2 AA batteries put a wire between them. The center will measure 1.5V, the top 3V, and the bottom 0V. In this case, 1.5V is actually your "ground."
There are several advantageous reasons for making a mouse this way, but the foremost is that, having a pseudo "split" supply, you make wireless communication and amplification much easier on the device.
The iStun is an instant stun gun to ward against unknowing attackers. Simply plug it into the dock port of your iPod Nano, iPod, or iPod Mini, and BOOM! you have a weapon against criminals who would seek to steal your Apple products. The iStun features an oscillator designed to impair any muscle movement in your attacker, as well as an integrated module for playing AM/FM radio. With a maximum voltage of 450V and enough current to spare*, it makes the perfect iPod accessory!
*Rated current 15mA at 450V for 6 seconds. Note: Using iStun will lower your iPod's battery life. Learn more about extending iPod's battery life here.Spasibo Comrade!
As such, duct tape can assume an infinite number of forms and uses, and is nearly impenetrable to all natural phenomena that faces it.
Indeed duct tape is the force that holds the world together and is the secret to all Physics-related questions.
The main question is what are you running behind Citrix. Citrix itself does very little but present a screen to a virtual server. My experience has been that the thing behind Citrix- Netware in your case -is the thing that causes the most problems. Definately consider switching to an A/D setup if you have not already started migrating users from Netware to A/D. With A/D and cool projects like OpenLDAP you can do some pretty neat web based things with Java or PHP. (I have not checked in to other languages as of yet) When your company asks you to implement a fully customizable web portal using IIS (eek!) that accesses all this information, PHP is a good ally to have.
However, IE does not support this (Safari, Opera, Firefox do) and it makes advancing a web site very difficult. It would be a huge time-saver if IE fully supported XHTML. Beta 3 might change this, but then again, unfortunatlely no one in my company runs IE beta 3. Kind of a problem if you want to make a successful web site from HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Ok, you are obviously not from the US or the UK- most likely you are from France. Frane has enough problems on its own. Trying to villify the US (while satisfying) does not accomplish anything in France, where you work, live and will spend your life. Concentrate on that.
I heard that the French Government is corrupt. I won't say to what point, but pensez-le avant ouvrant la bouche. Tout le monde ont problems, et vous jugez des autres pays trop rapidement.
"Faites attention aux baobobs."
Really though, you should migrate to a more powerful programming language like Java, Perl, or PHP. You won't understand now, but when you get the order to build a huge website later on you will thank the gods that you went for one of those solutions.
Does It is hoped that this model will enable us to predict Coronal Mass Ejections look like it has more than one meaning?
You heard it here first.
Don't you mean: "The problem with the Internet is that one or two blogs can grab the attention of slashdot...."??
That was one Dell of a bang
Very creative, mod article up "+1 insightful." Nevver mind funny, that twist of a cliche took some brain power!
And lastly, who's to say Apple won't make money by licensing fairplay? What if itunes becomes even more popular because competitors continue to make crappy interfaces as they have been doing since the dawn of the digital music age? What if apple developed an iPod that was also a PDA and cellphone- Apple could release iSync for Windows, and everyone would be able to sync all their current contacts, calenders, and to do's with the new ipod.
My point is that we don't live in the magical world of "if's" You can speculate all you want on the future, but it will never get you anywhere. Action is required for anything to happen.
As to the rest of the post, that was pretty on-target.