>Take your business elsewhere and let >msoft@buddy.ebay.com know it
Finally! An excuse to sell those Mint-condition MS-DOS 3.3 packages that I found while cleaning my employeers basement!
Although, it is interesting to note that Micros~1/Ebay didn't pull all MS-related auctions, because there are still plenty of acuctions for older Microsoft Products like MS-DOS 6.22 and the like.
I'm no fan of Intel, but Tom's accusations seem like a stretch to me.
In 1999, Intel made $29-Billion in revenue. It doesn't seem reasonable that Intel would gamble such a large part of it's reputation on a shoddy product get a piddly $158 Million dollars (Well, I guess that's piddly). They probably spend more then that on advertising and marketing in 1999.
The Philipines and Columbia choose to cooperate because they rely on support (Money, Military Aide, excemption from sanctions) from the US Governement and US-friendly corporations.
If these countries didn't comply with US wants, then the US might apply Sanction or withold funding or military support. These countries rely on aide from the US (Columbia wants serious help in fighting drug lords and various rebel groups).
But you are right, they do loose some of their soverignity every time they do this.
The promise of HDTV, crystal-clear images with more than double the resolution of today's televisions, led Congress to mandate that all broadcasts be digital by 2006 and impelled the FCC to give broadcasters extra airwaves for free
So I own a 26" color analog Television set. I paid $250 for this baby back in 1996. I don't have cable. I get my reception from a pair of rabbit ears or an attenna on my roof. Sure the image is fuzzy every once in a while, but I don't care. This setup works great for me. Unless the TV breaks, I have no intention on replacing my set. There's a very good chance that my TV set will last through 2006 and later.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but according to what I read (In this article and elsewhere), I won't be able to receive analog broadcasts past 2006. I will either need to replace working television with a new Digital capable one, or I will need to buy a Digital-to-Analog converter. How much will this box cost? Probably a couple hundred bucks in the begining. I don't want to spend that (and alot of families can't afford this). But if I don't buy this converter, I won't receive any broadcasts, right? Yay, excluded from information because of economics.
Even though 90% of the stuff on TV is crap, television is still a useful medium. From news about tropical storms to the State of the Union, most people get their news through TV. Don't we have a right to access this media without spending more money?
Alot of people have told me that "well, you need to spend money on a Television anyways, which isn't that much different then spending money on a converter box." But the difference is that I can pick up a used television at any Thrift Store for $20, and it works well enough-- it's got sound and an image. Enough to receive useful news.
So why do I want HDTV?
The broadcast spectrum is supposed to be "Free" as in "Democracy", not free as in "High Resolution+ THX sound".
No no no, Londo's the only one with a French-ish accent. This was done on purpose, because the Centari were modeled a bit on pre-Napoleon-France (before the Aristocrats were executed), and really any over-the-hill empire.
Most other aliens either have an American or an English (As is common for all sophisticated species... 'specially the evil ones) accent.
Beer in the Czech Republic is as good as Austria, and it's usually about US$0.07 per pint (In touristy area, you'll pay up to 50-cents...)
Plus the Czechs are hiking maniacs... every trail is marked incredibly well, so that even the most drunken Penguin can find her way from town to town...
"Just follow the markers, you can't get lost", say the Czech.
I have 5 moderator points to burn... but for some reason I can't moderate that post (Poor Slashdot/Andover/VA Linux - the truth hurts up or down. I wonder if this is the new Slash one-dot-oh .
>Miguel shares the deadly truth about GNOME, the >shocking story of the future of Bonobo and CORBA, >and the titillating tale of adventure and >intrigue that lies deep within the bowels of >popular Free Software development projects.
Hey man, you've been watching too many of those Sun commercials...
Everyone knows that 12 frames per second is wayyyyy too much information for our tiny little brains. Watching all that data stream by in such a short amount of time will make you blow up!
Right, but you would probably need another FOIA to find this out. The First requested FIOA probably won't say "And since Stefan Lasiewski requested his file, we put him on the special 'watch' list". -= Stefan
Interestingly, it looks like DoubleClick disabled the Opt-Out feature. Try it for yourself.
If you go to the Opt-Out page, and click on the link under "If you would still like to Opt-Out, please click here", you will be prompted for username and password.
It didn't do that 8 hours ago, so something has changed since then. This morning, I was able to Opt Out from my work computer just fine.
What gives?
-= Stefan
Can we use 'X-priority' to sort by Score/Priority?
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News Access for/. is a really good idea (Something I've been thinking about for a while, but don't have the experience or time to do). I'm glad someone else thought of it.
Netscape Newsreader uses 'X-priority' headers to rate the importance of a Message. This Priority is set by the sender when they send out a message via NNTP or Email. The Receiver can click a button on their buttonbar to sort the message by Priority.
'X-Priority' could be used to translate./ scores to a an Importance Ranking. If we translate the Slashdot Moderation score to the X-priority like this:
.. Viola! You enable certain newsreaders to organize the./ News based on Importance.
Sure, it's lacking in features (For example, it does not distuinguish '3, Insightful' from '3, Funny'), but it works on a basic level.
I don't have Mozilla up and running at work, but I assume it supports some sort of Priority. MSOE 5 doesn't use Priority headers for News (It has 'X-MSMail-Priority: High|Low' for email).
Is Methanol much more volatile or explosive then hard liquor? People fly with multi-liter jugs of Vodka, Whisky and other flammable liquids all the time. Why is methanol different?
Think about _THIS_: How many times are GUYS insulted for getting into computers, being called geeks and fags and dorks and everything else.
People called me many names for my interest in computers and science. It sounds like you had a similar experience growing up. Women who follow the same path ALSO hear and feel many of the same insults, and on top of that they face the sexism in our overwhelmingly male industry.
These women are doing a Good Thing by pushing these boundaries.
I'm a female geek myself, and the reason there are so few women in the tech fields is not that they're discouraged or gender roles or glass ceiling it's just they don't want to.
Right, but why is it way? There are as many female social outcasts as male social outcasts, but we are encouraged to handle our 'outcastness' in a different way. When I was a kid, I was encouraged by my parents, teachers, scoutleaders and friends to adopt hobbies around electronic, mechanical and scientific things. I was discouraged to pursue art or literature.
The women I knew were directed in the opposite way, to pursue art and flowers, and NOT pursue science, math, electronics and mechanics.
The genderization of technology goes far beyond the fact that we were social outcasts in High School (And come on, everyone thinks that they were an outcast in HS, it is what HS is all about).
>or maybe a "hostile learning-environment" for girls Yes, I think most young women who take these classes do face a hostile learning environment. When I was in high school, the girls in electronics and mechanic classes were teased endlessly. The comments, from the students, teachers, administrators and parents were often something like "Why are you here, is Home Ec (or "art" full? This is a boys class, do you want to be a boy? What are you, a lesbian? MY GOD, YOU'RE WEARING PANTS!" Just like the 'glass ceiling' in the mostly-male management and technical fields, gender-bias in technical education classes is always apparent. If you know any of these women, -= Stefan
Yeah but it *was* your choice to go into the army.. a lot of folk didn't get the choice about working Y2K night. Not many people when they joined their it admin job thought they'd be working on new years eve before a new millennium.
Yes, but most everyone in this forum chose to be in the job that they are in now, just like razvedchik.
If Management wants you to work on NYE and this is unacceptable to you, quit. If you are too afraid to quit, organize with your coworkers and raise hell. If you are too afraid to organize, well... maybe that's why Management asked you to work on NYE in the first place.
In many regions the job market is at it's healthist point in decades, especially in the computer industry. Use this to your advantage.
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Finally! Something to do with the 20-or-so Sun 3/60's I have sitting in my workplace basement!
"At last, once I finish transferring my mighty brain into this Sun 3/60 I will be indestructable! I will be invincible! INVINCIBLE! BWAHAHAHA!!!!"
Note: He said *wearable* PC, not movable PC. Probably can't move very far with a few Sun's strapped to your butt
If the case had wheels, I suppose you could scoot along veeeery slowly... but the cheap plastic wheels always broke on me.
Ha! Probably because the poor sap payed $80 for it 5 years ago.
Dammit! I need to make a profit! Who cares about shelf space!
>Take your business elsewhere and let >msoft@buddy.ebay.com know it
Finally! An excuse to sell those Mint-condition MS-DOS 3.3 packages that I found while cleaning my employeers basement!
Although, it is interesting to note that Micros~1/Ebay didn't pull all MS-related auctions, because there are still plenty of acuctions for older Microsoft Products like MS-DOS 6.22 and the like.
I'm no fan of Intel, but Tom's accusations seem like a stretch to me.
In 1999, Intel made $29-Billion in revenue. It doesn't seem reasonable that Intel would gamble such a large part of it's reputation on a shoddy product get a piddly $158 Million dollars (Well, I guess that's piddly). They probably spend more then that on advertising and marketing in 1999.
The Philipines and Columbia choose to cooperate because they rely on support (Money, Military Aide, excemption from sanctions) from the US Governement and US-friendly corporations.
If these countries didn't comply with US wants, then the US might apply Sanction or withold funding or military support. These countries rely on aide from the US (Columbia wants serious help in fighting drug lords and various rebel groups).
But you are right, they do loose some of their soverignity every time they do this.
It's neocolonialism...
The promise of HDTV, crystal-clear images with more than double the resolution of today's televisions, led Congress to mandate that all broadcasts be digital by 2006 and impelled the FCC to give broadcasters extra airwaves for free
So I own a 26" color analog Television set. I paid $250 for this baby back in 1996. I don't have cable. I get my reception from a pair of rabbit ears or an attenna on my roof. Sure the image is fuzzy every once in a while, but I don't care. This setup works great for me. Unless the TV breaks, I have no intention on replacing my set. There's a very good chance that my TV set will last through 2006 and later.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but according to what I read (In this article and elsewhere), I won't be able to receive analog broadcasts past 2006. I will either need to replace working television with a new Digital capable one, or I will need to buy a Digital-to-Analog converter. How much will this box cost? Probably a couple hundred bucks in the begining. I don't want to spend that (and alot of families can't afford this). But if I don't buy this converter, I won't receive any broadcasts, right? Yay, excluded from information because of economics.
Even though 90% of the stuff on TV is crap, television is still a useful medium. From news about tropical storms to the State of the Union, most people get their news through TV. Don't we have a right to access this media without spending more money?
Alot of people have told me that "well, you need to spend money on a Television anyways, which isn't that much different then spending money on a converter box." But the difference is that I can pick up a used television at any Thrift Store for $20, and it works well enough-- it's got sound and an image. Enough to receive useful news.
So why do I want HDTV?
The broadcast spectrum is supposed to be "Free" as in "Democracy", not free as in "High Resolution+ THX sound".
No no no, Londo's the only one with a French-ish accent. This was done on purpose, because the Centari were modeled a bit on pre-Napoleon-France (before the Aristocrats were executed), and really any over-the-hill empire.
Most other aliens either have an American or an English (As is common for all sophisticated species... 'specially the evil ones) accent.
Beer in the Czech Republic is as good as Austria, and it's usually about US$0.07 per pint (In touristy area, you'll pay up to 50-cents...)
Plus the Czechs are hiking maniacs... every trail is marked incredibly well, so that even the most drunken Penguin can find her way from town to town...
"Just follow the markers, you can't get lost", say the Czech.
Hmmm... "LinuxPivo Jit Pesky"
I have 5 moderator points to burn... but for some reason I can't moderate that post (Poor Slashdot/Andover/VA Linux - the truth hurts up or down. I wonder if this is the new Slash one-dot-oh .
>Miguel shares the deadly truth about GNOME, the >shocking story of the future of Bonobo and CORBA, >and the titillating tale of adventure and >intrigue that lies deep within the bowels of >popular Free Software development projects.
Hey man, you've been watching too many of those Sun commercials...
"Gnome, it's the DOT in DOT.ORG"
Waldo is letting all this attention go to his head!!!!
Quick, Quick... someone Troll him... Flamebait him! Bring him to his senses...
Didn't you learn your lesson from Max Headroom? Remember the BlipVerts????
Everyone knows that 12 frames per second is wayyyyy too much information for our tiny little brains. Watching all that data stream by in such a short amount of time will make you blow up!
My God, this will be much worse then that Pokemon episode which made all those Japanese children go into seizures and convlulsions.
Right, but you would probably need another FOIA to find this out. The First requested FIOA probably won't say "And since Stefan Lasiewski requested his file, we put him on the special 'watch' list". -= Stefan
Moe: Hey Larry, remember those nitrogen and oxygen tanks I gave you last month? Do you remember what happened to them?
Larry: Sure Moe, I gave them to NASA. They said they needed them to decorate the 'Mars Polar Lamp' or something...
Curley: Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk!
Interestingly, it looks like DoubleClick disabled the Opt-Out feature. Try it for yourself.
If you go to the Opt-Out page, and click on the link under "If you would still like to Opt-Out, please click here", you will be prompted for username and password.
It didn't do that 8 hours ago, so something has changed since then. This morning, I was able to Opt Out from my work computer just fine.
What gives?
-= Stefan
News Access for /. is a really good idea (Something I've been thinking about for a while, but don't have the experience or time to do). I'm glad someone else thought of it.
./ scores to a an Importance Ranking. If we translate the Slashdot Moderation score to the X-priority like this:
./ News based on Importance.
Netscape Newsreader uses 'X-priority' headers to rate the importance of a Message. This Priority is set by the sender when they send out a message via NNTP or Email. The Receiver can click a button on their buttonbar to sort the message by Priority.
'X-Priority' could be used to translate
X-Priority...........Slashdot Score
Lowest: 5...........-1
Low: 4...........0,1
Normal: ?...........2,3
High: 2...........4
Highest: 1...........5
.. Viola! You enable certain newsreaders to organize the
Sure, it's lacking in features (For example, it does not distuinguish '3, Insightful' from '3, Funny'), but it works on a basic level.
I don't have Mozilla up and running at work, but I assume it supports some sort of Priority. MSOE 5 doesn't use Priority headers for News (It has 'X-MSMail-Priority: High|Low' for email).
Whaddya think?
-= Stefan
I'm not a Chemist, so forgive my ignorance.
Is Methanol much more volatile or explosive then hard liquor? People fly with multi-liter jugs of Vodka, Whisky and other flammable liquids all the time. Why is methanol different?
-= stefan
Think about _THIS_: How many times are GUYS insulted for getting into computers, being called geeks and fags and dorks and everything else.
People called me many names for my interest in computers and science. It sounds like you had a similar experience growing up. Women who follow the same path ALSO hear and feel many of the same insults, and on top of that they face the sexism in our overwhelmingly male industry.
These women are doing a Good Thing by pushing these boundaries.
-= Stefan
I'm a female geek myself, and the reason there are so few women in the tech fields is not that they're discouraged or gender roles or glass ceiling it's just they don't want to.
Right, but why is it way? There are as many female social outcasts as male social outcasts, but we are encouraged to handle our 'outcastness' in a different way. When I was a kid, I was encouraged by my parents, teachers, scoutleaders and friends to adopt hobbies around electronic, mechanical and scientific things. I was discouraged to pursue art or literature.
The women I knew were directed in the opposite way, to pursue art and flowers, and NOT pursue science, math, electronics and mechanics.
The genderization of technology goes far beyond the fact that we were social outcasts in High School (And come on, everyone thinks that they were an outcast in HS, it is what HS is all about).
-= Stefan
>or maybe a "hostile learning-environment" for girls Yes, I think most young women who take these classes do face a hostile learning environment. When I was in high school, the girls in electronics and mechanic classes were teased endlessly. The comments, from the students, teachers, administrators and parents were often something like "Why are you here, is Home Ec (or "art" full? This is a boys class, do you want to be a boy? What are you, a lesbian? MY GOD, YOU'RE WEARING PANTS!" Just like the 'glass ceiling' in the mostly-male management and technical fields, gender-bias in technical education classes is always apparent. If you know any of these women, -= Stefan
Yeah but it *was* your choice to go into the army.. a lot of folk didn't get the choice about working Y2K night. Not many people when they joined their it admin job thought they'd be working on new years eve before a new millennium.
Yes, but most everyone in this forum chose to be in the job that they are in now, just like razvedchik.
If Management wants you to work on NYE and this is unacceptable to you, quit. If you are too afraid to quit, organize with your coworkers and raise hell. If you are too afraid to organize, well... maybe that's why Management asked you to work on NYE in the first place.
In many regions the job market is at it's healthist point in decades, especially in the computer industry. Use this to your advantage.
You are your own boss.
-= Stefan