There's a warning in x86config when setting monitor refresh rates that warns you that your choice may destroy your monitor. Granted, thats not a necessary step in a lot of installs, and most people have moved to LCD screens that wouldn't explode, but I think they were thinking of something similar to that. Badly written drivers CAN destroy hardware, in rare cases.
Or, the higher level software may shorten the lifetime of hardware. Maybe Linux uses the hard disk more than Vista, which leads to higher usage frequency which causes it to reach its MTBF earlier.
Is it fair, no, not really. I'm sure you could wear out your hardware just even faster with certain applications.
They can't possible start rejecting the waranty, depending upon3rd party apps installed could they? I'm sure Something like Maya or Blender could put a lot of use on a hard disk, especially on a low end system without much RAM.
When a new storage medium comes out, I drool and think only two of these and my entire HD will be backed up! Just need to wait for prices to come down!
When prices do come down, I then have five times the storage I did, requiring 10-12 disks. Once again making back ups on to removable storage time consuming, cumbersome, and fault prone.
But it needs to connect to the internet to make the call. Right now all of the unlimited data plans are more expensive as the regular monthly bundle, unless you make a ton and a half of calls( and yes you can measure call time by gross weight). there are some devices like the nokia internet appliance that is only a skype phone that rely on wifi or a blue tooth internet connection, but there isn't enough wifi coverage in my area to be practical.
It would be a shame if your mother were to be grated "accidentally". My friends and I, we might be able to provide "protection" from such an "accident".
He talks about unix/ posix compliance being improtant in the future. There was already BSD. Windows/DOS/OS2 wasn't a server class or even workstation class operating system. it would be very difficult to explain the concept to him back then.
You:Hey bill in 28 years windows will rule the desktop and 30% of the marketspace making you the richest man in th e world, but there will also be a free OS linux that will have the majority of the server market.
Bill: Linux so its a UNIX Variant thats Posix Compliant?
You: Well, it is POSIX Compliant, but it wont be UNIX, even thought it will have the exact same command and program names, but it will all be rewritten by a University Student from FinLand.
And then the conversation would turn to what ATT does about it, which leads into the disscusion of the whole Sco thing. It quickly becomes very confusing for some one of that time, and for some one of this time to write about past events in future tesne, so they stop.
I am an ideal integrator. I would love to work at a place that is completely integrated. I could work for google, have a google wife, 2.5 google kids, live in a google house, drive to google in my google car, drop of my laundry of google brand clothes at the google dry cleaners, eat at the googleteria, taking a break at 5 to go to the google bar to share a few drinks with my google friends, pick the kids up from google school, and head out for a night at the google opera with my google wife. That would be perfect. All of my needs would be met entirely.
However, anything short of that requires me to segment my personal life from work. I need to fulfill the needs that work doesn't provide, requiring necessary non work related period. Perks would be nice, but not if they distract me for fulfilling the other needs. As the article says, they'd get in the way of my real life. At least thats what happened when I tried living a truly integrated workplace, very far from google. I went a whole month without leaving the compound's gates. Needless to say, I was not attending any operas with my wife. Which is why I had to leave. It was like 75% perfect, but anything short of perfection sucks.
These days we seem to have a plethora of Evil Empires. Evil Empire of software, Evil Empire of Domain Registration, Evil Empire of Music Labels, Evil Empire of Movies, Evil Empire of Pizza chains, Evil Empire of dry cleaning, Evil Empire of Milwaukee area Dairy Producers. The list just never stops.
We need a onestop resource to look up the Evil Empire of a good or service, if we want to keep it all straight, or if we want to keep our purchasing and use of services of Evil Empires to a minimum. So we should put them in a Directory book. Yellow is actually aready taken, so is blue and red, How about the chartreuse book of Evil Empires?
The more functionality and interactivity you have between what were always envisioned as static documents, the more security holes are opened up. This combined with the Search Engine Optimization Industry, which is dedicated to lying about a sites content and relative importance, will ultimately sink any attempt to bring any trustable semanticness to the Web.
1) Potatoe, Potaughto
The only business problems It can solve are It Problems. You can call them what you want, but they're still the same thing. Its really an argument as to the improvement of an organization comes from bottom up, or top down. What piece of IT contributes the most to business productivity? Word processing, spreadsheets, Right? Now what company provides those solutions to more companies than any other? Microsoft. Now, did every company in existence come tell bill gates to drop out of college and start writing a basic compiler for the altair? No. He as a techie, along with every other founder of technology companies, started his business to solve business problems that upper management didn't see. They had to sell them on the idea that giving employees powerful desktops will allow them to be better at their job.
Upper management has significant domain knowledge, but the it department has the ability to devise new unforseen improvements the business. The trick is to bring these two forces together harmoniously.
You are correct. In a sense. Those markets existed, but were in their infancy. Only a select group of people were aware of them at the time. If you ask the random person on the street in 1985 what windows was and you wouldn't have anyone tell you it was related to computers. If you do that now, they'd tell you about win xp or vista, not Mac Os x or any other windowing system. So does that mean microsoft does have a right to them? I don't know its really an unexplored territory, that microsoft paid dearly to prevent linspire/ lindows from charting.
Not all servers are connected to the internet. There are some installations that are so secure they are not remotely accessible by any means. I actually did download win2k sp4 via modem which I then sneakerneted to the real installation. Now, did I really need to know it was going to take 17 hours, thats debatable. But at Least I know someone in redmond cares about me.
I agree with all points with the exception of 1.5. yes GWII was very slick in its presentation, but Yugoslavia? That didn't get any airtime at all. Or are you referring to the brief kosovo incident, instead of the long bloody civil war that was virtually ignored in the states? Press coverage of war can be good and bad. We simply can't make war disappear by ignoring it.
The rule of thumb in Illinois government it to spend the most money on the worst product, to create as many jobs for unqualified people and claim that the state is the best due to the amount of money spent.
Sort of. It doesn't really compete with commercial offerings like visio or smart draw. Its too limited in what it does. But if it does what you want, your in luck.
"Viacom's strategy has been to avoid taking proactive steps to curtail the rights of consumers, artists and ninjas," Everyone with half a brain said in a statement. "Their business model, which is based on creative accounting to traffic and steal music from artists to 'license' to consumers and then sue everyone with a listing in the phone book, is clearly illegal and is in obvious conflict with copyright laws, as well as 250 state an national laws on monopolistic behavior and sodomy.'
open office's base ( the database app I just slammed) is getting better all the time. Its not very user friendly, but its the closest app I've seen to access. Soon they'll hit access 2 usability ( which is more than I ever expected of it).
Draw isn't very useful, except in a few limited cases. Don't try the database app either, its not ready for prime time.
Stick to writer, calc, and impress. Those are the good ones. 80% of people who use MS office just use word, excel, and powerpoint. Not many spring for the deluxe version that would include visio.
Well, ok. for a price I'll let them in on a way to turn their debt into wealth following my easy five step program. Soon, they will be able to afford the lifestyle they deserve. This is a risk free, money back guarantee on how to turn their outstanding debt into outstanding wealth.
a slim one. Think about our own oceans. We really don't know what happens in the deepest cracks, yet we've been searching for years in the ocean. I think you'd have a difficult time arguing that we've explored more of space than our own oceans.
Br.
But still, you are introducing a concept know as 'probability' into the equation which is a good thing. Its not merely the lack of evidence, but the time spent searching for evidence as well. That is a step in the right direction for the discussion.
You are the most correct. I should have expanded upon my previous post, yours is the logical conclusion. There is a difference between higgs and the time cube, but its not absence of proof.
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There's a warning in x86config when setting monitor refresh rates that warns you that your choice may destroy your monitor. Granted, thats not a necessary step in a lot of installs, and most people have moved to LCD screens that wouldn't explode, but I think they were thinking of something similar to that. Badly written drivers CAN destroy hardware, in rare cases.
Or, the higher level software may shorten the lifetime of hardware. Maybe Linux uses the hard disk more than Vista, which leads to higher usage frequency which causes it to reach its MTBF earlier.
Is it fair, no, not really. I'm sure you could wear out your hardware just even faster with certain applications.
They can't possible start rejecting the waranty, depending upon3rd party apps installed could they? I'm sure Something like Maya or Blender could put a lot of use on a hard disk, especially on a low end system without much RAM.
When a new storage medium comes out, I drool and think only two of these and my entire HD will be backed up! Just need to wait for prices to come down!
When prices do come down, I then have five times the storage I did, requiring 10-12 disks. Once again making back ups on to removable storage time consuming, cumbersome, and fault prone.
But it needs to connect to the internet to make the call. Right now all of the unlimited data plans are more expensive as the regular monthly bundle, unless you make a ton and a half of calls( and yes you can measure call time by gross weight). there are some devices like the nokia internet appliance that is only a skype phone that rely on wifi or a blue tooth internet connection, but there isn't enough wifi coverage in my area to be practical.
It would be a shame if your mother were to be grated "accidentally". My friends and I, we might be able to provide "protection" from such an "accident".
He talks about unix/ posix compliance being improtant in the future. There was already BSD. Windows/DOS/OS2 wasn't a server class or even workstation class operating system. it would be very difficult to explain the concept to him back then.
You:Hey bill in 28 years windows will rule the desktop and 30% of the marketspace making you the richest man in th e world, but there will also be a free OS linux that will have the majority of the server market.
Bill: Linux so its a UNIX Variant thats Posix Compliant?
You: Well, it is POSIX Compliant, but it wont be UNIX, even thought it will have the exact same command and program names, but it will all be rewritten by a University Student from FinLand.
And then the conversation would turn to what ATT does about it, which leads into the disscusion of the whole Sco thing. It quickly becomes very confusing for some one of that time, and for some one of this time to write about past events in future tesne, so they stop.
In soviet Russia x86 emulates Java.
I am an ideal integrator. I would love to work at a place that is completely integrated. I could work for google, have a google wife, 2.5 google kids, live in a google house, drive to google in my google car, drop of my laundry of google brand clothes at the google dry cleaners, eat at the googleteria, taking a break at 5 to go to the google bar to share a few drinks with my google friends, pick the kids up from google school, and head out for a night at the google opera with my google wife. That would be perfect. All of my needs would be met entirely.
However, anything short of that requires me to segment my personal life from work. I need to fulfill the needs that work doesn't provide, requiring necessary non work related period. Perks would be nice, but not if they distract me for fulfilling the other needs. As the article says, they'd get in the way of my real life. At least thats what happened when I tried living a truly integrated workplace, very far from google. I went a whole month without leaving the compound's gates. Needless to say, I was not attending any operas with my wife. Which is why I had to leave. It was like 75% perfect, but anything short of perfection sucks.
These days we seem to have a plethora of Evil Empires. Evil Empire of software, Evil Empire of Domain Registration, Evil Empire of Music Labels, Evil Empire of Movies, Evil Empire of Pizza chains, Evil Empire of dry cleaning, Evil Empire of Milwaukee area Dairy Producers. The list just never stops. We need a onestop resource to look up the Evil Empire of a good or service, if we want to keep it all straight, or if we want to keep our purchasing and use of services of Evil Empires to a minimum. So we should put them in a Directory book. Yellow is actually aready taken, so is blue and red, How about the chartreuse book of Evil Empires?
The more functionality and interactivity you have between what were always envisioned as static documents, the more security holes are opened up. This combined with the Search Engine Optimization Industry, which is dedicated to lying about a sites content and relative importance, will ultimately sink any attempt to bring any trustable semanticness to the Web.
All platforms have holes in them.
1) Potatoe, Potaughto The only business problems It can solve are It Problems. You can call them what you want, but they're still the same thing. Its really an argument as to the improvement of an organization comes from bottom up, or top down. What piece of IT contributes the most to business productivity? Word processing, spreadsheets, Right? Now what company provides those solutions to more companies than any other? Microsoft. Now, did every company in existence come tell bill gates to drop out of college and start writing a basic compiler for the altair? No. He as a techie, along with every other founder of technology companies, started his business to solve business problems that upper management didn't see. They had to sell them on the idea that giving employees powerful desktops will allow them to be better at their job. Upper management has significant domain knowledge, but the it department has the ability to devise new unforseen improvements the business. The trick is to bring these two forces together harmoniously.
Cause, I was in Haiti. No library, no hotspot.
You are correct. In a sense. Those markets existed, but were in their infancy. Only a select group of people were aware of them at the time. If you ask the random person on the street in 1985 what windows was and you wouldn't have anyone tell you it was related to computers. If you do that now, they'd tell you about win xp or vista, not Mac Os x or any other windowing system. So does that mean microsoft does have a right to them? I don't know its really an unexplored territory, that microsoft paid dearly to prevent linspire/ lindows from charting.
Not all servers are connected to the internet. There are some installations that are so secure they are not remotely accessible by any means. I actually did download win2k sp4 via modem which I then sneakerneted to the real installation. Now, did I really need to know it was going to take 17 hours, thats debatable. But at Least I know someone in redmond cares about me.
I agree with all points with the exception of 1.5. yes GWII was very slick in its presentation, but Yugoslavia? That didn't get any airtime at all. Or are you referring to the brief kosovo incident, instead of the long bloody civil war that was virtually ignored in the states? Press coverage of war can be good and bad. We simply can't make war disappear by ignoring it.
The rule of thumb in Illinois government it to spend the most money on the worst product, to create as many jobs for unqualified people and claim that the state is the best due to the amount of money spent.
Sort of. It doesn't really compete with commercial offerings like visio or smart draw. Its too limited in what it does. But if it does what you want, your in luck.
"Viacom's strategy has been to avoid taking proactive steps to curtail the rights of consumers, artists and ninjas," Everyone with half a brain said in a statement. "Their business model, which is based on creative accounting to traffic and steal music from artists to 'license' to consumers and then sue everyone with a listing in the phone book, is clearly illegal and is in obvious conflict with copyright laws, as well as 250 state an national laws on monopolistic behavior and sodomy.'
open office's base ( the database app I just slammed) is getting better all the time. Its not very user friendly, but its the closest app I've seen to access. Soon they'll hit access 2 usability ( which is more than I ever expected of it).
Not that I'll ever use it.
Draw isn't very useful, except in a few limited cases. Don't try the database app either, its not ready for prime time.
Stick to writer, calc, and impress. Those are the good ones. 80% of people who use MS office just use word, excel, and powerpoint. Not many spring for the deluxe version that would include visio.
Yeah, I'm guessing "doctor mastershake" was in diapers until the 90's.
They want us to come up with their business plan?
Well, ok. for a price I'll let them in on a way to turn their debt into wealth following my easy five step program. Soon, they will be able to afford the lifestyle they deserve. This is a risk free, money back guarantee on how to turn their outstanding debt into outstanding wealth.
a slim one. Think about our own oceans. We really don't know what happens in the deepest cracks, yet we've been searching for years in the ocean. I think you'd have a difficult time arguing that we've explored more of space than our own oceans.
Br. But still, you are introducing a concept know as 'probability' into the equation which is a good thing. Its not merely the lack of evidence, but the time spent searching for evidence as well. That is a step in the right direction for the discussion.
make a prediction that they will appear on a specific date at a specific time and do a specific thing. You can't. Its not testable at the moment.
You are the most correct. I should have expanded upon my previous post, yours is the logical conclusion. There is a difference between higgs and the time cube, but its not absence of proof.