My company sponsors employee purchase plans for PCs. We had factory people lined up to take advantage. And, over the past three years, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the PC skills of our people. We can pretty directly attribute this skills increase to the purchase plan.
What is the reference to the "free pc" from the company then? I -did- read the article.
You must have read a different article than the one on the Star-Tribune page, then. The Slashdot description talks about free pcs, but the linked article does not. I just read it again to be sure. At no place in the original article is there any implication that the company provided the PCs for any of the employees.
Are you one of the computer users that feels "powerful and excited" when using a computer?
Did you even bother to read the article? It says that they were searching the HOME computers, not the WORK computers. Not supplied by the company, paid for by the company, or used for company business.
Same product here. If you're seeing what I'm seeing (Smurfs), then it's more likely that what you're looking at is somebody trying to use your network in an attack on somebody else. I personally consider those to be part of the noise.
And, if you run into another site that requires that you register, enter that name and password. If it requires an email address, use the spam receiving service at spam@tinaa.com.
...phil
Re:What it is good for?
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An example: How many people can you feed for how long with 165 million US$?
Not very many, for not very long. And, when the money is gone, you still have hungry people. At least with the space probes, you have investments in knowledge (including the knowledge of how to engineer the probe) which you can re-use later.
How many schools can be build with this money?
33? (Assuming $5 million per school). And, while you would have more schools, there doesn't seem to be the politcal will to repair the ones we have, or pay the teachers more (which is arguably more important anyway). So, I think this qualifies as a strawman.
Would the Polar Lander have had any affect of the daily problems on earth hadn't it get lost?
It's impossible to know for certain, but more knowledge is never bad. Because of the Venus probes, we know more about atmospheric dynamics than we did, which gives us better weather prediction. And the program to put a man on the moon kickstarted developments in technology that we're still seeing today, including the Internet and the computer you're reading this message on.
All from money that, at the time, you'd say was 'wasted'.
There's a bug (or maybe it's a feature) that allows you to make up your own SID in the URL, thereby creating your own article. I've seen a few referenced on some articles.
And I am not going to be giving out my SSN (Purdue Student ID = Social Security Number) to LinuxOne!
Use 078-05-1120. This was a number printed on millions of demonstration billfold inserts. The Social Security Administration has retired it permenantly. For more info, look here.
The SIMMs were broken, CPUs crushed, HDs smashed (4x18GB diff SCSI in the 690... grrr)!
I could actually understand smashing the drives. They could have been worried that data on them might have gotten out of the control of the company. The best way to avoid that would be to destroy the drives.
As far as destroying the machine is concerned, there are often tax ramifications to desposing hardware. If you're getting rid of it, and you've depreciated it completely, you cannot have somebody else pick it up and thereby demonstrate that it still has 'value'. That would mean that the company wrote off more $$$ than they were legally allowed to, thereby exposing themselves to a tax lawsuit. The response in cases like that is often to physically destroy the equipment before it hits the dumpster.
The problem will be that the executives will read how "...ActiveDirectory is just like NDS..." on their airline magazines and then come down and tell the computer people to dump Novell since Microsoft can give them the same thing. It took a year for NDS to get stable enough to use (I know - we tried), and I'd expect no less for ActiveDirectory. But, try explaining that to management.
I welcome the diversity of views, sounds, and ideas that will come about through this ruling. It's a little late now that the Internet has supplanted it.
Far from it. The Internet is nowhere near supplanting radio. The vast majority of people in the country do not have access to anything like what would be required (computers, bandwidth, etc.) for the Internet to supplant radio.
I also came up with the idea of radio broadcasting at Pennsic, just to get accurate weather information out. Now that it's going to be legal, I'm going to bring it up to the autocrat.
I suspect that the second message ever posted to an electronic bulliten board was "You jerk!".
As a participant on the first ever bulletin board, I can say with some certainty that flaming was unknown in that environment. However, it had made its appearance well and truely by the time Fidonet was established.
There's always PGPi, which is the official legal exported version. It was sent out of the U.S. as printed material, which is legal, then retyped in. It also doesn't have any patent issues. And, it's fully interoperable.
If I want to e-mail someone I can simply type in the address and send it to anyone I want to.
No, you can't. The receiving site is under no obligation to accept your mail. They could easily look up your domain name and refuse to receive mail from you.
If I want to go to a web page I can as well.
And that site is perfectly able to reject your connection if the owner so desires. You do not have a right to send me e-mail or view my web pages.
Writing a piece of software and giving it away as an OS-bundled freebie may drive out the competition, but it doesn't do them much good.
You're contradicting yourself. Driving out the competition is exactly the goal in and of itself.
...phil
This merger is good... how?
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Somebody needs to explain to me how this merger is a good thing. What is being accomplished that couldn't be done with a marketing agreement and a contract? Who does this benefit?
Uh, you have not been paying attention. The satellites involved will be GPS satellites - one way transmission only, sky to ground. Plus, they are already in orbit.
There's lots of problems with this proposal, but your list is way off the mark.
A bit of metal foil or metallic paint over the GPS antenna and it won't receive a thing. Then either the system cuts out because it can't figure out where you are (zoooom!), or the car won't run because it's programmed to not run when the GPS isn't working.
Slashdot Mirror
Cablemodems?
...phil
My company sponsors employee purchase plans for PCs. We had factory people lined up to take advantage. And, over the past three years, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the PC skills of our people. We can pretty directly attribute this skills increase to the purchase plan.
...phil
You must have read a different article than the one on the Star-Tribune page, then. The Slashdot description talks about free pcs, but the linked article does not. I just read it again to be sure. At no place in the original article is there any implication that the company provided the PCs for any of the employees.
Are you one of the computer users that feels "powerful and excited" when using a computer?
Amusing. Lame, but amusing.
...phil
Did you even bother to read the article? It says that they were searching the HOME computers, not the WORK computers. Not supplied by the company, paid for by the company, or used for company business.
...phil
Same product here. If you're seeing what I'm seeing (Smurfs), then it's more likely that what you're looking at is somebody trying to use your network in an attack on somebody else. I personally consider those to be part of the noise.
...phil
And, if you run into another site that requires that you register, enter that name and password. If it requires an email address, use the spam receiving service at spam@tinaa.com.
...phil
Not very many, for not very long. And, when the money is gone, you still have hungry people. At least with the space probes, you have investments in knowledge (including the knowledge of how to engineer the probe) which you can re-use later.
How many schools can be build with this money?
33? (Assuming $5 million per school). And, while you would have more schools, there doesn't seem to be the politcal will to repair the ones we have, or pay the teachers more (which is arguably more important anyway). So, I think this qualifies as a strawman.
Would the Polar Lander have had any affect of the daily problems on earth hadn't it get lost?
It's impossible to know for certain, but more knowledge is never bad. Because of the Venus probes, we know more about atmospheric dynamics than we did, which gives us better weather prediction. And the program to put a man on the moon kickstarted developments in technology that we're still seeing today, including the Internet and the computer you're reading this message on.
All from money that, at the time, you'd say was 'wasted'.
...phil
There's a bug (or maybe it's a feature) that allows you to make up your own SID in the URL, thereby creating your own article. I've seen a few referenced on some articles.
...phil
Use 078-05-1120. This was a number printed on millions of demonstration billfold inserts. The Social Security Administration has retired it permenantly. For more info, look here.
...phil
Uh, read it again. He was pulling your leg so hard it came off in his hands.
...phil
Just out of curiosity, what do you think of AS/400s?
...phil
I could actually understand smashing the drives. They could have been worried that data on them might have gotten out of the control of the company. The best way to avoid that would be to destroy the drives.
As far as destroying the machine is concerned, there are often tax ramifications to desposing hardware. If you're getting rid of it, and you've depreciated it completely, you cannot have somebody else pick it up and thereby demonstrate that it still has 'value'. That would mean that the company wrote off more $$$ than they were legally allowed to, thereby exposing themselves to a tax lawsuit. The response in cases like that is often to physically destroy the equipment before it hits the dumpster.
...phil
The problem will be that the executives will read how "...ActiveDirectory is just like NDS..." on their airline magazines and then come down and tell the computer people to dump Novell since Microsoft can give them the same thing. It took a year for NDS to get stable enough to use (I know - we tried), and I'd expect no less for ActiveDirectory. But, try explaining that to management.
...phil
Far from it. The Internet is nowhere near supplanting radio. The vast majority of people in the country do not have access to anything like what would be required (computers, bandwidth, etc.) for the Internet to supplant radio.
...phil
Take a look here for a complete history of the broadcast call signs in the U.S.
...phil
I also came up with the idea of radio broadcasting at Pennsic, just to get accurate weather information out. Now that it's going to be legal, I'm going to bring it up to the autocrat.
...phil
As a participant on the first ever bulletin board, I can say with some certainty that flaming was unknown in that environment. However, it had made its appearance well and truely by the time Fidonet was established.
...phil
There's always PGPi, which is the official legal exported version. It was sent out of the U.S. as printed material, which is legal, then retyped in. It also doesn't have any patent issues. And, it's fully interoperable.
...phil
The flight simulator in Excel 97?
...phil
No, you can't. The receiving site is under no obligation to accept your mail. They could easily look up your domain name and refuse to receive mail from you.
If I want to go to a web page I can as well.
And that site is perfectly able to reject your connection if the owner so desires. You do not have a right to send me e-mail or view my web pages.
...phil
You're contradicting yourself. Driving out the competition is exactly the goal in and of itself.
...phil
Somebody needs to explain to me how this merger is a good thing. What is being accomplished that couldn't be done with a marketing agreement and a contract? Who does this benefit?
...phil
Subject, of course, to whatever their 'acceptable content' policy is.
...phil
There's lots of problems with this proposal, but your list is way off the mark.
...phil
A bit of metal foil or metallic paint over the GPS antenna and it won't receive a thing. Then either the system cuts out because it can't figure out where you are (zoooom!), or the car won't run because it's programmed to not run when the GPS isn't working.
...phil