Limit Internet connectivity to the school router while at school, but allow them the means to use a different ISP while at home. The connectivity should be the same, but the content at home could be their's and their parent's problem. Should be pretty easy to set up.
Give them free rein as far as you can. Filter the legal minimum. Warn the users that if they stuff it up, they will be rewarded with a fresh re-image right down to the oxide. And sell them lots of data keys from the school shop.
My mother didn't like it that much, though, thought it was too derivative. But that's because she wrote scripts for Crusader Rabbit, and didn't get the flow on work.
Shouldn't be too hard to keep it from plugging up the bore hole. You should have a fairly accurate idea of how far down it is. Drill again next to that bore but stop a few meters back to the point where the rock isn't plastic any more. Provided you don't change the shape of the magma chamber near where your bore hole would be (due to pressure deformation and consequent flow changes) you should get lots and lots of very economic heat.
FORTRAN is spoken only by angels. GCOS is spoken only be He Who Shall Remain Nameless. And PL/I is for those angels who have fallen yet refuse to embrace COBOL.
I think the US should adopt the Commonwealth language. "Demanding Money with Menaces" gets right down to the point, don't you think? Whereas the term "Extortion" sounds like something you measure from the exhaust pipe.
Sorry, caffieneometer is in the red zone. I meant to say "the early Corvairs, the swing-axle models".
Oh, and I take absolutely no exception with your statement that Ralph Nader was a self-serving prick. It's quite common for lawmakers to find their way into office with a straw man in the passenger seat. Case in point: look at what Harry J. Ainslinger did in the 1930's with hemp use. Good chronicle of this in Allan Ginsberg's "The Marijuana Papers" which may be out of print by now.
The Pinto was a deathtrap, sure, but not the Corvair.
Ok, let me qualify that. The latter half-shaft Corvairs, particulary the rare turbocharged ones, were to die for. The early Corvairs, the half-shaft models with the control rod omitted, were to die in. To be fair though, you could just as easily die in a swing-axle Porsche 956, which could just as easily surprise you by swapping ends and spearing off the road backwards. And a deathtrap is a deathtrap, whether there's a law against inadequate design or not.
Mind you, I think people, if they know a car is a deathtrap, still have a right to buy and operate one. I'm a motor racing fan. Provided it's not someone else's death, of course. The right of one man to throw a punch ends at another man's jaw.
Its racketeering to sue someone for infringing on their copyright?
The suggestion was to have the infringing person(s) pay a fee in lieu of legal action. The definition of racketeering approximately is; Paying someone to not undertake an economically damaging course of action to you and/or your business. That's a nice credit score you have there. Shame if something were to happen to it...
Bingo! Got it in one. It's standover tactics, extortion, to do that. It's Racketeering because this illegal act is a fundamental component of the RIAA's business model. Organised illegal business = organised crime.
I think I used to work for you during Sol's early tenure. Key=The Russian dev team didn't half suck, did it? The ladies were good looking, but the Russian PM with the bad stammer, who would tell you how to build a clock if you asked him the time... (shudder).
Microsoft does suck in many ways, but I'd defend the devil in court rather than allow injustice to prevail. Not all of your issues here are universally shared.
1. File system is still a sewer. This includes showing unnecessary files, being unable to re-organize programs, the slowness of search, fragility of ailases and links, drive naming conventions, etc.
Agree in part. I like to see all files, from personal preference. Unless you're discussing false hits on search? The rest of it seems to work ok for me.
2. Lots of aspects of networking and wireless networking are unnecessarily complex and useless.
Lots of aspects of networking and wireless networking are still not standard. Hiding the technology from clueless users may still be a good thing. As long as I can get a command window and ipconfig etc. I'm happy.
3. At least 4 separate locations where startup items can be stored / triggered.
You say that like it's a bad thing. I don't see it that way. Although it would be nice if VMS-style logical names were part of the mix.
4. Still terrible search after all these years.
Download the new version of Microsoft's desktop search. I'm finding it better than Google Desktop, my previous favorite.
5. Can't add folder shortcuts to the standard save-as dialog box.
Yes that kind of sucks. Not worth moving to a new version to get them though unless they add better file system versioning options, my opinion
6. Still can't shutdown cleanly. For that matter, why should shutdown take 4 or 5 minutes?
Depends on a lot of factors, the primary one being purging cache to disk, and the harder job of relating all the marked pages to threads in memory to find out where they all go. And there are a lot of marked pages after a long session. Remember the threads are effectively pushed out when IO's are scheduled, with nothing more than a stack reference to point to where they belong. You really don't want incomplete IO's published to disk before you shut down. The more memory, the more threads, the longer this will take. If the entire file system were character based and log structured like Unix, this probably wouldn't be a problem, but the file structure seems pretty fundamental. Or at least, they saw this in Longhorn but weren't able to deliver it.
7. Still architedted for weird driver conflicts if you happen to switch wireless card manufacturers frequently.
Sorry? I've been down a long chain of wireless hardware and they can't even agree with themselves, much less the OS manufacturer. Many well known names in communications suck when it comes to wireless hardware. Need a few ARRL engineers in the design shops, imho.
8. Uninstall is terribly designed *and* terribly implemented.
Blame the software manufacturers, they write these things, not Microsoft. They each seem to have their own way to do it.
9. The registry must go.
Why? It's heaps (sorry) better than the previous method of having thousands of little conflicting.INI files everywhere. It's slow to edit, but fast to access -- it's just a keyed virtual array to the system.
10. How many control panels does one computer need? Why are administrative tools not under control panels?
You may have something here, it's a legacy application. The control panel was a response to the original Macintosh control panel "applet". MMC might be a better interface than going back to the basics here.
11. Really need standardized, easier way to manage startup applications.
The startup folder is pretty simple, but I too would like an easier way to pass arguments to the calling program, without having to create a fresh shortcut and go through all that. Something like dragging a line of command text to the startup toolbar and putting it in startup with a right-click option.
...The VOLT was promoted using jazzy images of impressive body lines that promoted interest, only to release a breadbox as the final design. GM doesn't want the VOLT to succeed...
I believe you.
General Motors is very competent in the area of marketing memes. They know exactly what impression a name will have on the buying public. The very name VOLT in upper case invokes the image of a brush against an electrified fence, not a family-friendly econo people carrier.
This is a bit more subtle, however, than there previous attempt at not selling a car the public demands -- the Chevy Impact. As me friends might say, "subtle as a 'frown brick".
And the Corvair and Pinto were less of a death trap? Give them a couple of years of success and customer feedback (read "people who vote with their wallet") and may the better solution win.
Not to mention that most customers would prefer to spend their money on a vendor they can trust. With their saber rattling over regulatory constraints (and deregulation is not a popular song just now, is it?) using some fairly egregious terms, I doubt that anybody would want to spend money in Telstra's direction.
You can only insult your customers so often before you lose their attention. We know at this point it would be simply good money after bad, just like the US Bush-era Information Superhighway spend. I don't care if the competition has its HQ in Singapore. Screw 'em if we can't get a decent ROI.
They submitted a 13 page 'proposal' at the last minute while (apparently) even the smallest of the bids were throughly detailed.
Having been in The Machine before (what Australian contractor hasn't been that hungry at least once?) I suspect they simply couldn't get it together to make the bid. Sol decimated the Telstra bureaucracy. This is both good and bad; the latter because they have utterly no clue how to communicate internally any more. No way is that executive team going to do any bid work to that level any more, they just don't have it in them. Big isn't necessarily muscular. That dog is too old to go hunting.
... Sol has been playing politics on this broadband plan from the start. The trick to win the bid without putting in a proper bid would let him set his own terms.
Aye.
Sol, we've given you every break. We've bent over backwards to give you a chance. What we don't want to do at this point is grab our ankles.
The esteemed Mr. Trujillo is of the "everything's negotiable when you're this big" school. I think, personally, that he has mis-read the Australian psyche.
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Limit Internet connectivity to the school router while at school, but allow them the means to use a different ISP while at home. The connectivity should be the same, but the content at home could be their's and their parent's problem. Should be pretty easy to set up.
...I doubt the students will have the know how to hack linux...
And well, those who can -- there's your next generation of Sysadmins. Let them.
Give them free rein as far as you can. Filter the legal minimum. Warn the users that if they stuff it up, they will be rewarded with a fresh re-image right down to the oxide. And sell them lots of data keys from the school shop.
My mother didn't like it that much, though, thought it was too derivative. But that's because she wrote scripts for Crusader Rabbit, and didn't get the flow on work.
That sounds better when read in a William Conrad voice, like in Rocky and Bulwinkle.
From a person who grew up with that show as a core element of my sense of absurd, I would like to correct that. I'm pretty sure it was Hans Conried.
(upon seeing a drag baseball team captained by Boris Badinov) Rocky: "Golly, what kind of game can you play with girls?
Bullwinkle, to camera: "This really is a kids show, isn't it! Why, Parcheesi!
In the Uberwald regions of the Discworld, you can drill and hit underground deposits of animal fat.
Elephant fat, to be specific. Determined to be The Fifth Elephant, from the BCB count in the cores.
Below that, it's turtles all the way down, sonny.
Shouldn't be too hard to keep it from plugging up the bore hole. You should have a fairly accurate idea of how far down it is. Drill again next to that bore but stop a few meters back to the point where the rock isn't plastic any more. Provided you don't change the shape of the magma chamber near where your bore hole would be (due to pressure deformation and consequent flow changes) you should get lots and lots of very economic heat.
FORTRAN is spoken only by angels. GCOS is spoken only be He Who Shall Remain Nameless. And PL/I is for those angels who have fallen yet refuse to embrace COBOL.
I think the US should adopt the Commonwealth language. "Demanding Money with Menaces" gets right down to the point, don't you think? Whereas the term "Extortion" sounds like something you measure from the exhaust pipe.
Sorry, caffieneometer is in the red zone. I meant to say "the early Corvairs, the swing-axle models".
Oh, and I take absolutely no exception with your statement that Ralph Nader was a self-serving prick. It's quite common for lawmakers to find their way into office with a straw man in the passenger seat. Case in point: look at what Harry J. Ainslinger did in the 1930's with hemp use. Good chronicle of this in Allan Ginsberg's "The Marijuana Papers" which may be out of print by now.
The Pinto was a deathtrap, sure, but not the Corvair.
Ok, let me qualify that. The latter half-shaft Corvairs, particulary the rare turbocharged ones, were to die for. The early Corvairs, the half-shaft models with the control rod omitted, were to die in. To be fair though, you could just as easily die in a swing-axle Porsche 956, which could just as easily surprise you by swapping ends and spearing off the road backwards. And a deathtrap is a deathtrap, whether there's a law against inadequate design or not.
Mind you, I think people, if they know a car is a deathtrap, still have a right to buy and operate one. I'm a motor racing fan. Provided it's not someone else's death, of course. The right of one man to throw a punch ends at another man's jaw.
Its racketeering to sue someone for infringing on their copyright?
The suggestion was to have the infringing person(s) pay a fee in lieu of legal action. The definition of racketeering approximately is; Paying someone to not undertake an economically damaging course of action to you and/or your business. That's a nice credit score you have there. Shame if something were to happen to it...
Bingo! Got it in one. It's standover tactics, extortion, to do that. It's Racketeering because this illegal act is a fundamental component of the RIAA's business model. Organised illegal business = organised crime.
Priceless! "Yes, I saw you waving me over, Officer, it's just that this is the only way I know how to drive."
There are serious pitfalls ahead of people who respond in set patterns to everything.
I was once a member of the Michael Smith webring.
I think I used to work for you during Sol's early tenure. Key=The Russian dev team didn't half suck, did it? The ladies were good looking, but the Russian PM with the bad stammer, who would tell you how to build a clock if you asked him the time ... (shudder).
Actually, I wonder if this is exactly why the behavior of being a smart-ass has evolved in children.
Are you from New York? No offense, just curious. I think this is a cultural isomorphism, myself.
The behaviour that evolved in Australia is for children to grow up being amused at smart-arses.
...AC
So what's the mental disorder associated with detection of irony (or the lack thereof)?
Wrought irony. That's kind of like regular irony, but twisted.
Or maybe it was Goldy or Brassy. I forget.
Do they have to take a test of ultra-basic IT literacy, and only the real no-hopers get the job?
This will hopefully change once it becomes fashionable, because the US President is doing it.~
1. File system is still a sewer. This includes showing unnecessary files, being unable to re-organize programs, the slowness of search, fragility of ailases and links, drive naming conventions, etc.
Agree in part. I like to see all files, from personal preference. Unless you're discussing false hits on search? The rest of it seems to work ok for me.
2. Lots of aspects of networking and wireless networking are unnecessarily complex and useless.
Lots of aspects of networking and wireless networking are still not standard. Hiding the technology from clueless users may still be a good thing. As long as I can get a command window and ipconfig etc. I'm happy.
3. At least 4 separate locations where startup items can be stored / triggered.
You say that like it's a bad thing. I don't see it that way. Although it would be nice if VMS-style logical names were part of the mix.
4. Still terrible search after all these years.
Download the new version of Microsoft's desktop search. I'm finding it better than Google Desktop, my previous favorite.
5. Can't add folder shortcuts to the standard save-as dialog box.
Yes that kind of sucks. Not worth moving to a new version to get them though unless they add better file system versioning options, my opinion
6. Still can't shutdown cleanly. For that matter, why should shutdown take 4 or 5 minutes?
Depends on a lot of factors, the primary one being purging cache to disk, and the harder job of relating all the marked pages to threads in memory to find out where they all go. And there are a lot of marked pages after a long session. Remember the threads are effectively pushed out when IO's are scheduled, with nothing more than a stack reference to point to where they belong. You really don't want incomplete IO's published to disk before you shut down. The more memory, the more threads, the longer this will take. If the entire file system were character based and log structured like Unix, this probably wouldn't be a problem, but the file structure seems pretty fundamental. Or at least, they saw this in Longhorn but weren't able to deliver it.
7. Still architedted for weird driver conflicts if you happen to switch wireless card manufacturers frequently.
Sorry? I've been down a long chain of wireless hardware and they can't even agree with themselves, much less the OS manufacturer. Many well known names in communications suck when it comes to wireless hardware. Need a few ARRL engineers in the design shops, imho.
8. Uninstall is terribly designed *and* terribly implemented.
Blame the software manufacturers, they write these things, not Microsoft. They each seem to have their own way to do it.
9. The registry must go.
Why? It's heaps (sorry) better than the previous method of having thousands of little conflicting .INI files everywhere. It's slow to edit, but fast to access -- it's just a keyed virtual array to the system.
10. How many control panels does one computer need? Why are administrative tools not under control panels?
You may have something here, it's a legacy application. The control panel was a response to the original Macintosh control panel "applet". MMC might be a better interface than going back to the basics here.
11. Really need standardized, easier way to manage startup applications.
The startup folder is pretty simple, but I too would like an easier way to pass arguments to the calling program, without having to create a fresh shortcut and go through all that. Something like dragging a line of command text to the startup toolbar and putting it in startup with a right-click option.
Dobby must be punished.
...The VOLT was promoted using jazzy images of impressive body lines that promoted interest, only to release a breadbox as the final design. GM doesn't want the VOLT to succeed...
I believe you.
General Motors is very competent in the area of marketing memes. They know exactly what impression a name will have on the buying public. The very name VOLT in upper case invokes the image of a brush against an electrified fence, not a family-friendly econo people carrier.
This is a bit more subtle, however, than there previous attempt at not selling a car the public demands -- the Chevy Impact. As me friends might say, "subtle as a 'frown brick".
And the Corvair and Pinto were less of a death trap? Give them a couple of years of success and customer feedback (read "people who vote with their wallet") and may the better solution win.
Not to mention that most customers would prefer to spend their money on a vendor they can trust. With their saber rattling over regulatory constraints (and deregulation is not a popular song just now, is it?) using some fairly egregious terms, I doubt that anybody would want to spend money in Telstra's direction.
You can only insult your customers so often before you lose their attention. We know at this point it would be simply good money after bad, just like the US Bush-era Information Superhighway spend. I don't care if the competition has its HQ in Singapore. Screw 'em if we can't get a decent ROI.
They submitted a 13 page 'proposal' at the last minute while (apparently) even the smallest of the bids were throughly detailed.
Having been in The Machine before (what Australian contractor hasn't been that hungry at least once?) I suspect they simply couldn't get it together to make the bid. Sol decimated the Telstra bureaucracy. This is both good and bad; the latter because they have utterly no clue how to communicate internally any more. No way is that executive team going to do any bid work to that level any more, they just don't have it in them. Big isn't necessarily muscular. That dog is too old to go hunting.
... Sol has been playing politics on this broadband plan from the start. The trick to win the bid without putting in a proper bid would let him set his own terms.
Aye.
Sol, we've given you every break. We've bent over backwards to give you a chance. What we don't want to do at this point is grab our ankles.
The esteemed Mr. Trujillo is of the "everything's negotiable when you're this big" school. I think, personally, that he has mis-read the Australian psyche.