although this is way off topic, the bottomline is the the US Supreme Court has held that spending money is an expression of free speech. This is why self funded candidates can spend infinite amounts of money. Although McCain Feingold makes many good advances, true campaign finance reform cannot occur unless a SC decision was reached the other way. Europeans have a hard time imagining a country without a national news media. The US has two semi national papers, the NY Times and USA Today, with the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal somewhere behind. Local newspapers and television are very important. Due to the incredible size of the US, the cost of television ads vary dramatically. In Texas, there are places where one can get prime time ads that cover an entire distrcit for 500. In New Jersey, there are districts without their own television stations, and therefore candidates have to advertise on both the Philadelphia and NYC channels to hit their district, in addition to hundreds of thousands of irrelevant voters. It is nearly impossible to imagine how a workable government funded campaign system would work in the US. Although flawed, our current disclosure system works decently. matt
Win95 has an arbitrary 2gig FAT 16 limit. One can create a 4 gig FAT 16 partition with NT. Of course, that only makes sense if you are going to convert it to NTFS because of cluster considerations. matt
There is a fair amount of HDTV broadcasts in the US, considering the few HDTVs sold. We have a legislated cut off in a couple of years which will force everyone to buy a new set or a convertor box.
No kidding. I spent last semester in London, and was amazed that Euros don't walk around with blood spurting outta their eye sockets. Yuck. 50hz is godawful.
Considering MS makes it clear that you cannot upgrade 95 with NT , they explicitly do not recommend that you install NT into the same folder as windows. I would love to see your source that claims otherwise.
FWIW, I used to have a shared program files folder for 98 and NT, and netscape and MS Office worked fine. I am now runninng win2k exclusively
I am typing this on a dual celeron box running win2k rc2. with this motherboard, I could elect to use a USB keyboard, and IDE Superdisk (1.44/120mb floppy).
This board has two unoccupied ISA slots. Intel and MS's pushed PC 99 spec already calls for the elimination of ISA slots. Over the last year, motherboards have moved from a typical 1/4/3 to a 1/5/2 format for the most part (AGP/PCI/ISA). Currently there is little demand for more than 5 PCI slots, which would necessitate an additional bridge controller (read cost), so they just are not being made. I am in the minority as someone who would like 6-7 PCI slots (right now I have NIC, SCSI, sound and video; I expect to get both an AGP card and a DVD decoder card which would leave me eventually with only 1 pci slot free).
I love pc hardware because of its commodity nature. So much of my stuff trickles down from box to box. So, I am willing to accept the slow rate of change and the excrutiating time it has taken to kill things like ISA.
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The average selling price of computers continues to drop. IT is now down to about 900 bucks. Also, informally, on campus here this year I simply have not seen any PIII in kids rooms.
I forget the industry term for it, but those Dell and Gateway ads with Intel ads all over em are paid for in half by Intel. AMD clearly does not have the money to do so.
Go to control panel, system, find the hardware profiles section. copy existing profile, name new copy NOZIP. Reboot with zip attached, and at the prompt use the existing profile. Install zip drivers, and rename profile to ZIP. See how that works.
I don't quite see how this is an NT problem. Unless a *Nix variant was configured such that anyone could mount drives, etc, it is unlikely that OSS would be a panacea on the hardware and OS side, not considering the lack of *Nix audio apps.
US Govt requires a certain level of POSIX compatibility for OS purchasing decisions. They are the only ones I have ever heard complain about it, thus the level of support for it in NT is not surprising.
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I am an MCSE. I worked on an Exchange 5.0 upgrade and box migration to 5.5 this summer. The Exchange interface is mediocre at best, and the inability to change folder permissions hierarchically throughout public folders drove me nuts. Public folders kinda bewildered me, as I had to ensure that data's migration to the new box and version, even though no one seemed to have added anything to them recently.
As I struggled through changing permissions and other Exchange vagaries, I realized a few things (warning blanket generalizations to follow). I am a geek. I hate writing things down. I don't and have not used the scheduling features of Exchange.
But, a *lot* of people do. Sales and marketing types love contacts folders that the whole department can interact with. Group scheduling, yadda yadda yadda. Messenging systems are not being marketed towards geeks. As a major investment, they need to offer a lot of fricking value to the enterprise as a whole. Thus, these features are becoming mandatory for messenging systems.
That said, this is why I would love to evaluate OpenMail in the future. An exchange like system runnning on Linux/BSD could be CRITICAL for OSS explosion. Remeber all those MS ads with however many thousands of users running on just one exchange box? Well, we all know that that was an alpha box. Somebody should be creating a migration path for NT Exchange alpha boxes to move to Linux or BSD / Openmail. Anyhow, Exchange like features on Linux is a huge step forward for OSS credibility in the enterprise.
I have a dual celeron 400 with SCSI DVD and CDROM while having an IDE HD. My CPU rates are about the same for a disc to disc copy as they are for burning an ISO from my hard drive. IDE is acceptible these days. SCSI definitely has its place (servers, and for peripherals for geeks like me), but IDE hard drives are the way to go just about everywhere that is non server.
The US has really low population density. If you want to live in either a place like Montana or Manhattan it is your choice. Sorry that I don't buy into the overpopulation myths. The population bomb types had the world going to hell when world pop hit 3.8 bill. Oops.
I am an American (read probable bias), but the fact remains that the US has a rosier future for growth. Currently, yes, the US has a pop of 260 ish mill. The Euro Zone has a pop of 300 mill. Sociologically, parents needs to have 2.1 kids to sustain the pop (the.1 to replace kids who don't grow into child bearing years). In the US, the rate is around 1.9, but in Euro land, it is about 1.3. The US also has 1 million immigrants a year. So, by 2050, the US will have 350 mill people or so, while the Euro land will drop drastically to about 175 mill. All this data is from one of the most interesting arguments against the likelihood of success for the Euro currency. I could probably dig up the source under duress.
Currently we are at a point where some of the OSS crowd views software patents as limiting creativity and competition. However, I have yet to see any real examples of this in practice. This NCR/ Netscape suit is being debated without any real idea as to what the patents are. We also have yet to see any major legal cases as a result of these patents yet, but we do hear tons of bluster (I recall a recordable digital music patent that was feared on/. a month or so back as stifling portable mp3 players). Until we see some definitive legal results from software patents lawsuits, it is far too early to claim that the "US governemnt is limited to destorying its own software industry and intellectual base"
Because you had kids using Apple at school, and parents using PCs at work. When it comes time to a purchasing decision, parents went with what they knew, not what the kids did. I don't think Apple ever realized that while a ton of kids can scream "Mommy, I wanna dreamcast (200USD)" and get it, not many can do the same for a (then) 2000USD Apple.
The Indigo GIrls who were paid >10k to play the greater than 10k capacity arena on my campus last year. Those underground Indigo Girls, eh?
Popular music has little to do with what is actually going on in clubs/ basements / garages/ etc. I'm afraid you have selected the bands/ artists you like, and have since formulated a theory around them that suits you.
Office 2k Professional comes on 4 cds. The last two are Photo Draw, which I have yet to play around with. I think Access might be on #2. I have only used Cd #1 for Word, Excel, PPoint, and Outlook.
Am I the only one under the impression that Visio started out as a flowcharting app that progressed to include networking diagramming in an upscale version?
Apparently some people here have actually used these, as there are comments on the quickness of screen redraw, etc. Could anyone comment on the case rigidity? I have a Palm Pro with a flaky screen that I need to have looked at, but the amount of give in its design has always troubled me. I love the feel of the Palm V, but these Handspring units are a better value, but I am worried that they too may suffer from the loose feel of Palm Pro era devices.
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501 c4 groups can lobby and many efforts pair them up with a C3, so a side of the operation can lobby.
matt
although this is way off topic, the bottomline is the the US Supreme Court has held that spending money is an expression of free speech. This is why self funded candidates can spend infinite amounts of money. Although McCain Feingold makes many good advances, true campaign finance reform cannot occur unless a SC decision was reached the other way. Europeans have a hard time imagining a country without a national news media. The US has two semi national papers, the NY Times and USA Today, with the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal somewhere behind. Local newspapers and television are very important. Due to the incredible size of the US, the cost of television ads vary dramatically. In Texas, there are places where one can get prime time ads that cover an entire distrcit for 500. In New Jersey, there are districts without their own television stations, and therefore candidates have to advertise on both the Philadelphia and NYC channels to hit their district, in addition to hundreds of thousands of irrelevant voters. It is nearly impossible to imagine how a workable government funded campaign system would work in the US. Although flawed, our current disclosure system works decently. matt
Win95 has an arbitrary 2gig FAT 16 limit. One can create a 4 gig FAT 16 partition with NT. Of course, that only makes sense if you are going to convert it to NTFS because of cluster considerations. matt
There is a fair amount of HDTV broadcasts in the US, considering the few HDTVs sold. We have a legislated cut off in a couple of years which will force everyone to buy a new set or a convertor box.
Matt
No kidding. I spent last semester in London, and was amazed that Euros don't walk around with blood spurting outta their eye sockets. Yuck. 50hz is godawful.
matt
Considering MS makes it clear that you cannot upgrade 95 with NT , they explicitly do not recommend that you install NT into the same folder as windows. I would love to see your source that claims otherwise.
FWIW, I used to have a shared program files folder for 98 and NT, and netscape and MS Office worked fine. I am now runninng win2k exclusively
matt
I am typing this on a dual celeron box running win2k rc2. with this motherboard, I could elect to use a USB keyboard, and IDE Superdisk (1.44/120mb floppy).
This board has two unoccupied ISA slots. Intel and MS's pushed PC 99 spec already calls for the elimination of ISA slots. Over the last year, motherboards have moved from a typical 1/4/3 to a 1/5/2 format for the most part (AGP/PCI/ISA). Currently there is little demand for more than 5 PCI slots, which would necessitate an additional bridge controller (read cost), so they just are not being made. I am in the minority as someone who would like 6-7 PCI slots (right now I have NIC, SCSI, sound and video; I expect to get both an AGP card and a DVD decoder card which would leave me eventually with only 1 pci slot free).
I love pc hardware because of its commodity nature. So much of my stuff trickles down from box to box. So, I am willing to accept the slow rate of change and the excrutiating time it has taken to kill things like ISA.
matt
The average selling price of computers continues to drop. IT is now down to about 900 bucks. Also, informally, on campus here this year I simply have not seen any PIII in kids rooms.
matt
I forget the industry term for it, but those Dell and Gateway ads with Intel ads all over em are paid for in half by Intel. AMD clearly does not have the money to do so.
Matt
Go to control panel, system, find the hardware profiles section. copy existing profile, name new copy NOZIP. Reboot with zip attached, and at the prompt use the existing profile. Install zip drivers, and rename profile to ZIP. See how that works.
I don't quite see how this is an NT problem. Unless a *Nix variant was configured such that anyone could mount drives, etc, it is unlikely that OSS would be a panacea on the hardware and OS side, not considering the lack of *Nix audio apps.
matt
US Govt requires a certain level of POSIX compatibility for OS purchasing decisions. They are the only ones I have ever heard complain about it, thus the level of support for it in NT is not surprising.
matt
I am an MCSE. I worked on an Exchange 5.0 upgrade and box migration to 5.5 this summer. The Exchange interface is mediocre at best, and the inability to change folder permissions hierarchically throughout public folders drove me nuts. Public folders kinda bewildered me, as I had to ensure that data's migration to the new box and version, even though no one seemed to have added anything to them recently.
As I struggled through changing permissions and other Exchange vagaries, I realized a few things (warning blanket generalizations to follow). I am a geek. I hate writing things down. I don't and have not used the scheduling features of Exchange.
But, a *lot* of people do. Sales and marketing types love contacts folders that the whole department can interact with. Group scheduling, yadda yadda yadda. Messenging systems are not being marketed towards geeks. As a major investment, they need to offer a lot of fricking value to the enterprise as a whole. Thus, these features are becoming mandatory for messenging systems.
That said, this is why I would love to evaluate OpenMail in the future. An exchange like system runnning on Linux/BSD could be CRITICAL for OSS explosion. Remeber all those MS ads with however many thousands of users running on just one exchange box? Well, we all know that that was an alpha box. Somebody should be creating a migration path for NT Exchange alpha boxes to move to Linux or BSD / Openmail. Anyhow, Exchange like features on Linux is a huge step forward for OSS credibility in the enterprise.
matt
I have a dual celeron 400 with SCSI DVD and CDROM while having an IDE HD. My CPU rates are about the same for a disc to disc copy as they are for burning an ISO from my hard drive. IDE is acceptible these days. SCSI definitely has its place (servers, and for peripherals for geeks like me), but IDE hard drives are the way to go just about everywhere that is non server.
matt
The US has really low population density. If you want to live in either a place like Montana or Manhattan it is your choice. Sorry that I don't buy into the overpopulation myths. The population bomb types had the world going to hell when world pop hit 3.8 bill. Oops.
matt
I am an American (read probable bias), but the fact remains that the US has a rosier future for growth. Currently, yes, the US has a pop of 260 ish mill. The Euro Zone has a pop of 300 mill. Sociologically, parents needs to have 2.1 kids to sustain the pop (the .1 to replace kids who don't grow into child bearing years). In the US, the rate is around 1.9, but in Euro land, it is about 1.3. The US also has 1 million immigrants a year. So, by 2050, the US will have 350 mill people or so, while the Euro land will drop drastically to about 175 mill. All this data is from one of the most interesting arguments against the likelihood of success for the Euro currency. I could probably dig up the source under duress.
/. a month or so back as stifling portable mp3 players). Until we see some definitive legal results from software patents lawsuits, it is far too early to claim that the "US governemnt is limited to destorying its own software industry and intellectual base"
Currently we are at a point where some of the OSS crowd views software patents as limiting creativity and competition. However, I have yet to see any real examples of this in practice. This NCR/ Netscape suit is being debated without any real idea as to what the patents are. We also have yet to see any major legal cases as a result of these patents yet, but we do hear tons of bluster (I recall a recordable digital music patent that was feared on
matt
notepad has limits in 9x for file size. hasn't been the case in nt since at least 3.51
matt
115k work visas for the US were all used up by June of this year. You know not of what you speak.
Matt
yeah, either last semester, or over the summer, American U. became an all coke campus. fuck
matt
Because you had kids using Apple at school, and parents using PCs at work. When it comes time to a purchasing decision, parents went with what they knew, not what the kids did. I don't think Apple ever realized that while a ton of kids can scream "Mommy, I wanna dreamcast (200USD)" and get it, not many can do the same for a (then) 2000USD Apple.
The Indigo GIrls who were paid >10k to play the greater than 10k capacity arena on my campus last year. Those underground Indigo Girls, eh?
Popular music has little to do with what is actually going on in clubs/ basements / garages/ etc. I'm afraid you have selected the bands/ artists you like, and have since formulated a theory around them that suits you.
matt
Office 2k Professional comes on 4 cds. The last two are Photo Draw, which I have yet to play around with. I think Access might be on #2. I have only used Cd #1 for Word, Excel, PPoint, and Outlook.
matt
Am I the only one under the impression that Visio started out as a flowcharting app that progressed to include networking diagramming in an upscale version?
hmmmmm.
matt
Apparently some people here have actually used these, as there are comments on the quickness of screen redraw, etc. Could anyone comment on the case rigidity? I have a Palm Pro with a flaky screen that I need to have looked at, but the amount of give in its design has always troubled me. I love the feel of the Palm V, but these Handspring units are a better value, but I am worried that they too may suffer from the loose feel of Palm Pro era devices.
matt
I believe this is often a preventative measure to ensure goods manufactured for the US stay here.
Is a man. hmmmm.
matt