Get rid of the MS Network and Network Neighborhood because you never use it?
I tried that with Windows 2000 on my Toshiba laptop once. I wanted to make my wife's destop as clutter-free as possible, so I tried about 3 different ways to get rid of "Network Neighborhood".
I finally succeeded, but it broke the entire machine; I could never connect to the network through Windows again. I had made the laptop dual-boot and didn't want to wipe RedHat off the machine with my OEM Windows install CD, so we just stopped using Windows. No big deal for us.
Cool. What section of the constitution covers the subsidization of giant corporations?
Check out the documentary "The Corporation" sometime; it's out on DVD. After the 14th Amendment passed, which banned slavery by granting the right for all citizens to own property, a Supreme Court decision determined that corporations were in fact "persons" and could therefore exist perpetually and own property. Before this, corporations could only exist through legislative acts (for the public good), they usually had a finite lifetime, and what happened to excess profits was spelled out in the legislation.
It's pretty twisted that an Amendment designed to ban slavery ends up being used to justify the perpetual accumulation of wealth by a non-physical entity.
BROOKE GLADSTONE: Well you've been quoted as saying you don't think you'll ever work in television again. Do you think you've been blacklisted?
STEVE WILSON: I think journalism -- and I'm talking about mainstream journalism now that's, that's run by large corporations -- fewer than ever before as consolidation goes on -- has made it pretty clear that, you know, people are supposed to keep their heads down and their mouths shut. Journalists are not supposed to stand up and challenge the people they work for. Meanwhile the people they work for now are big corporations, and they look at the news now not as a public service but as a product! And if it's going to cost you a whole lot of money in lost advertising because you offended some car maker or some big company like Monsanto, then suddenly it isn't worth it to give people that information, because from a business standpoint you're not going to make as much money doing that!
BROOKE GLADSTONE: So you think there's a sort of craven spirit that has infected the mainstream press.
STEVE WILSON: I think it's laziness and cowardice. That's what I think. You know. [BOTH SPEAK AT ONCE]
JANE AKRE: There's a great deal of self-censorship, but you certainly wouldn't advocate, Steve, that people do what we do and end up unemployed and-- unemployable! [BOTH SPEAK AT ONCE]
My reading of the TFA is that it starts out with a few anecdotal problems, then it goes on to talk about how the future looks very, very good for linux.
The phrase was "bombed OR invaded". I was thinking more of the bombing than the invading, in terms of recent history. I think my point was that Americans are still getting used to the concept of massive indiscriminate bombings on their own soil.
Perhaps it's that America is more physically removed from the rest of the world. America hasn't been bombed or invaded at nearly the same frequency as Great Britain.
You seem to be implying that those instincts are just as strong during pregnancy as after birth.
That's not what I got. It strengthens over time seems a possible theory.
If this was true then why would there be so many abortions, right or wrong?
There are many possible reasons that come to my mind. Lack of money to take care of a child would rank kind of high as a reason. Being emotionally unfit as a mother seems another.
Adoption does not make all these problems go away. Look at the number of children without health insurance in the U.S. today. Imagine going bankrupt and living in poverty because your child gets sick. It happens all the time. My first child was born 2 months early. Total medical bill was $40,000. I was lucky; I had insurance. Many are not.
Right now im installing SuSE 9.3 from the default http site. I thought it was released to the public more than a weak ago, but it still is not on the mirrors. It right now is about to take 6 hours to download 1.3 gig of packages. amazing.
Oops no; I really DID think it was funny. I forgot the smiley perhaps; really, I don't know the latest cool way to indicate that you're not being sarcastic in a post.
Someday all posts will be audio instead of text; so much information is gained from voice inflection.
I just wanted to prepare everyone for the last link. If you haven't drunk your coffee yet and are not stable, DO NOT CLICK. Repeat: DO NOT CLICK this link.
People who complain about assembly language's difficulty level are usually the sort of people who think automatic garbage collection is a good programming idea.
Do they think digital watches are a pretty neat idea, too?
Are you paranoid, perhaps? You seem to have pretty strong ideas about what I think, and you've missed my point entirely. I was suggesting that if you were starving, and your family in Mexico was starving, you might also choose to eat dog food and send the huge wealth of money left over to your family.
That's actually kind of rational. Be glad you're not in that situation.
The performance numbers Anand came up with on this are a little disappointing, in my view.
Agreed; for readers who want to save themselves 5 minutes of page loading, here are the 2 amazing numbers mentioned: Windows XP loads in 9 seconds instead of 15 if you use one of these drives instead of a Raptor.
Overall, a pretty annoying (low information density) article spread over way too many pages.
The reason the US has an illegal imigrant problem is because the poor in Mexico would much rather be poor in the US. We pay illegals so much here that there's a thriving money-order industry just to send their excess wages back to their family in Mexico.
Reminds me of a hike I did around where I grew up in Oregon (agricultural area with Mexican farm workers). I came across a sleeping bag in the woods next to a bag of dog food. It made me pause and consider why.
If you're going to guarantee format compatibility, you have to run Excel itself. Anything else is a gamble. That said, Wine apparently runs versions of Excel (perhaps the latest, too).
The LA Times, NY Times, and Washington Post all conducted their own independent counts and found that GWB was the winner.
Sorry, I can't let such revisionist history go. I'd like to see links to those reports.
I looked over the Wikipedia article on the 2000 election, and at the bottom are the results showing that Gore would have won a statewide recount. The problem apparently rested with the fact that no clear rules were in place mandating a complete statewide recount in a close race, but the Dems may have succeeded in arguing for a complete recount if they had had the foresight to do so:
In November 2001, after conducting an unofficial recount of Florida's ballots, the news outlets discovered that if all legally cast votes had been counted - regardless of the standard used for evaluating chads - Gore won [8]. But when legal votes were evaluated, based on the standards set in law at the time, Bush won.
I'm actually surprised at her retirement announcement. I haven't forgetten that the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to overturn the Florida Supreme Court's ruling on the 2000 Presidential Election, which effectively gave George W Bush the Presidency. From wikipedia:
O'Connor had been quoted by Newsweek magazine as expressing dismay to friends on the night of the election, when Al Gore was reported to have won several key states, and critics suggested that she did not want Gore to appoint her successor.
I would have thought that she'd at least wait until the next Presidential Election before retiring. After all, the Supreme Court has traditionally attempted to look as if it was not in the pocket of one or the other branch of federal government.
Mekong people believe it's a sacred fish, because it persists on plant matter and 'meditates'"--in the deep, stony pools of the Mekong River--"somewhat like a Buddhist monk, said Zeb Hogan, a fisheries biologist who studies the largest freshwater fish in the world.
Perhaps damming and irrigation practices have contributed more to this fish's decline than overfishing.
why do you think "backstabbing cheat" and "someone who strives to make the world better" are mutually exclusive?
Interesting question. I chose the words hastily, and I actually believe that people's motivations are a complex blend of selfish and selfless. I also believe that environmental factors can influence whether a person is one or the other; essentially any one of us may have tortured prisoners at Abu Ghraib because of the environment in which both prisoner and captor were contained (search for the "Stanford Prison Experiment" for some interesting experimental evidence of this).
When it comes right down to it (and I'm interested in what you think about this), I believe that the more transparent people's intentions are, the less likely evil can thrive in the world. The reason cheats exist is because people don't realize they're cheats until it's too late.
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Get rid of the MS Network and Network Neighborhood because you never use it?
I tried that with Windows 2000 on my Toshiba laptop once. I wanted to make my wife's destop as clutter-free as possible, so I tried about 3 different ways to get rid of "Network Neighborhood".
I finally succeeded, but it broke the entire machine; I could never connect to the network through Windows again. I had made the laptop dual-boot and didn't want to wipe RedHat off the machine with my OEM Windows install CD, so we just stopped using Windows. No big deal for us.
Cool. What section of the constitution covers the subsidization of giant corporations?
Check out the documentary "The Corporation" sometime; it's out on DVD. After the 14th Amendment passed, which banned slavery by granting the right for all citizens to own property, a Supreme Court decision determined that corporations were in fact "persons" and could therefore exist perpetually and own property. Before this, corporations could only exist through legislative acts (for the public good), they usually had a finite lifetime, and what happened to excess profits was spelled out in the legislation.
It's pretty twisted that an Amendment designed to ban slavery ends up being used to justify the perpetual accumulation of wealth by a non-physical entity.
Second up of course is plain poverty and lack of education.
And a third: lack of women's rights. If a woman is not allowed to say "no" to unprotected sex, it's much more likely to happen.
Here's an article stating as much.
That's cool. I have a couple of questions, if you don't mind.
1. Which OSS tools, if you don't mind me asking?
2. How could you tell whether you could configure the software for him ahead of time, and that it would provide what your boss needed?
3. Do you find reviews/documentation for various options adequate to assess the software's quality?
I would love to become an expert in OSS software options for businesses. That sounds like a nice consultant-type job.
How about a paycheck and a future in journalism?
From an interview of two journalists fired from FOX News:
As a numbed member of the US who has relatives from sane countries, I hope to visit your country someday. Cheers.
My reading of the TFA is that it starts out with a few anecdotal problems, then it goes on to talk about how the future looks very, very good for linux.
What world are you living in?
The phrase was "bombed OR invaded". I was thinking more of the bombing than the invading, in terms of recent history. I think my point was that Americans are still getting used to the concept of massive indiscriminate bombings on their own soil.
So why aren't the Brits in the same boat?
Perhaps it's that America is more physically removed from the rest of the world. America hasn't been bombed or invaded at nearly the same frequency as Great Britain.
You seem to be implying that those instincts are just as strong during pregnancy as after birth.
That's not what I got. It strengthens over time seems a possible theory.
If this was true then why would there be so many abortions, right or wrong?
There are many possible reasons that come to my mind. Lack of money to take care of a child would rank kind of high as a reason. Being emotionally unfit as a mother seems another.
Adoption does not make all these problems go away. Look at the number of children without health insurance in the U.S. today. Imagine going bankrupt and living in poverty because your child gets sick. It happens all the time. My first child was born 2 months early. Total medical bill was $40,000. I was lucky; I had insurance. Many are not.
Right now im installing SuSE 9.3 from the default http site. I thought it was released to the public more than a weak ago, but it still is not on the mirrors. It right now is about to take 6 hours to download 1.3 gig of packages. amazing.
In YAST, simply add an alternate download location. The link is only one of many choices. And it's been there since April, from what I can tell.
As with most mirrors, this can help download times a lot.
Oops no; I really DID think it was funny. I forgot the smiley perhaps; really, I don't know the latest cool way to indicate that you're not being sarcastic in a post.
Someday all posts will be audio instead of text; so much information is gained from voice inflection.
OMG that's pretty funny.
I know I just ruined your post by pointing that out... Sorry.
I just wanted to prepare everyone for the last link. If you haven't drunk your coffee yet and are not stable, DO NOT CLICK. Repeat: DO NOT CLICK this link.
People who complain about assembly language's difficulty level are usually the sort of people who think automatic garbage collection is a good programming idea.
Do they think digital watches are a pretty neat idea, too?
Are you paranoid, perhaps? You seem to have pretty strong ideas about what I think, and you've missed my point entirely. I was suggesting that if you were starving, and your family in Mexico was starving, you might also choose to eat dog food and send the huge wealth of money left over to your family.
That's actually kind of rational. Be glad you're not in that situation.
You are entitled to feel superior if you wish. Personally I think you're missing out, but that's your choice of consciousness.
The performance numbers Anand came up with on this are a little disappointing, in my view.
Agreed; for readers who want to save themselves 5 minutes of page loading, here are the 2 amazing numbers mentioned: Windows XP loads in 9 seconds instead of 15 if you use one of these drives instead of a Raptor.
Overall, a pretty annoying (low information density) article spread over way too many pages.
The reason the US has an illegal imigrant problem is because the poor in Mexico would much rather be poor in the US. We pay illegals so much here that there's a thriving money-order industry just to send their excess wages back to their family in Mexico.
Reminds me of a hike I did around where I grew up in Oregon (agricultural area with Mexican farm workers). I came across a sleeping bag in the woods next to a bag of dog food. It made me pause and consider why.
If you're going to guarantee format compatibility, you have to run Excel itself. Anything else is a gamble. That said, Wine apparently runs versions of Excel (perhaps the latest, too).
Sorry, I can't let such revisionist history go. I'd like to see links to those reports.
I looked over the Wikipedia article on the 2000 election, and at the bottom are the results showing that Gore would have won a statewide recount. The problem apparently rested with the fact that no clear rules were in place mandating a complete statewide recount in a close race, but the Dems may have succeeded in arguing for a complete recount if they had had the foresight to do so:
I'm actually surprised at her retirement announcement. I haven't forgetten that the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to overturn the Florida Supreme Court's ruling on the 2000 Presidential Election, which effectively gave George W Bush the Presidency. From wikipedia:
O'Connor had been quoted by Newsweek magazine as expressing dismay to friends on the night of the election, when Al Gore was reported to have won several key states, and critics suggested that she did not want Gore to appoint her successor.
I would have thought that she'd at least wait until the next Presidential Election before retiring. After all, the Supreme Court has traditionally attempted to look as if it was not in the pocket of one or the other branch of federal government.
Another "impartial" institution bites the dust.
An interesting quote from this National Geographic article:
Perhaps damming and irrigation practices have contributed more to this fish's decline than overfishing.
why do you think "backstabbing cheat" and "someone who strives to make the world better" are mutually exclusive?
Interesting question. I chose the words hastily, and I actually believe that people's motivations are a complex blend of selfish and selfless. I also believe that environmental factors can influence whether a person is one or the other; essentially any one of us may have tortured prisoners at Abu Ghraib because of the environment in which both prisoner and captor were contained (search for the "Stanford Prison Experiment" for some interesting experimental evidence of this).
When it comes right down to it (and I'm interested in what you think about this), I believe that the more transparent people's intentions are, the less likely evil can thrive in the world. The reason cheats exist is because people don't realize they're cheats until it's too late.