Not only those companies you mentioned but look at ATG. They have the Repositories which is the same concept as Hibernate. And I think ATG had Repositores LONG before 2000....
This scheme is typcial I saw this ALL OVER Denver, CO. You also see it rampant in the back of all the IT trade magazines. All those jobs yo usee listed are specifically targeted at H1-B's not AMERICANS. Granted I have worked with more H1-B people than I can count on my fingers and toes. Many were useless lied like hell on their resumes and didn't know the skills they were hired for. But, there also were some that knew their stuff and there are some I have become friends with. The problem is there is no level playing field. What everyone doens't understand is this is ALL about globalization. As Bush said "The New World Order". It's all about tearing down the borders of countries. Look at the "amnesty" program for the Illigal immagrants from mexico. The say they do the jobs ameircans don't want to do. Really? Those will be the only jobs we have left when corporations outsource all the really good jobs for $hit pay. But we as Americans won't be able to do those jobs because they will already be taken by people who will work for pennies.
Here is my suggestion:
All the hispanics from mexico should do something about their country! You don't like the wages you get paid do something about it! Fight for it in YOUR country! We Americans paid for our freedoms and rights in OUR BLOOD! We fought our American Revolution for it! The Mexican people might want to think about their own Revlolution to change their corrupt country!
The same goes for people in other countries. If you don't like the jobs/wages in your country DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT - Fight for it in YOUR country.
It is true we Americans need to get off of our lazy @$$E$ and take on our own government AGAIN because they have gotten so far out of control it's not funny. We need to do it NOW or we won't have any rights left to fight them with. Our politicians are just as corrupt as those in many other countries. Fortunately our founding fathers had insight enough to lay down some rights that give us the power to LEGALLY fight for our rights. But how many Americans don't? Many! The two party system is outdated we need more third parties, this is the ONLY way we will be able to send the message we are SICK AND TIRED of the status quo! You can't just "throw the bums out" without third parties. Who will replace the current BUMS? Yup more bums - Democrats and Republicans - they are all bad!
Think about this long and hard folks the powers that be don't give a raging rats @$$ about you they only care about money and power. Be it be the poloticians or the corporations.
The U.S. Air Force was testing airborne pulse laser weapons in the 1980's (I was in Junior High at the time.). They had them mounted in the inside of C-130's and the pulse laser shot out the back of the C-130. The battery pack in the C-130 was only good for about 3-4 shots before it was depleted. About 3 months after they announced they were testing them they said they were discontinuing testing because they said the lasers "tended to cause blindness in the enemy.". HELLO! Sounds like the typical LAME excuse they give for everything.
I wish I could give you some URL's but they didn't exist back in the 1980's. But this was happening around the same time Russia was testing their "Killer Satalites" and around the same time the "G.E" satalite "dissapeared". Anyone remember these things?
I have tried them before - don't bother! I bought some to protect my son's DVD's so they wouldn't get scratched. Guess what The DVD player wouldn't even read the DVD. I pulled the thing off and it read just fine. Also they are a pain in the arse to put on and get the stupid air bubbles out from between the cover and the DVD/CD.
I don't know about this exploit. But within about 2 hours of installing FF1.5 I reverted back to 1.07. FF1.5 had SERIOUS issues with allowing checkout on several ECommerce sites. I did file a bug in bugzilla with exact steps to reproduce. But I won't move forward with FF until some of the serious issues are fixed. I wish I had time to tear into the source to fix it myself....
I just upgraded from 1.07 to 1.5 and now some eCommerce sites I can't checkout on! 1.5 DOES NOT "transfer" on CC info. example (www.espnshop.com). I installed 1.07 "side by side" with 1.5 and 1.07 works, 1.5 does not! This is a HUGE bug! If you do a lot of online shopping DON'T overwrite your older version of firefox - you may have to revert back!
I just finished my CIS degree with Regis University in May 2005 (Magna Cum Laude). I had previously taken courses on campus with them at their Lowell campus. But when I moved out of Colorado to Nebraska I used their online services to finish my degree. Another guy I work with did his Masters with Regis completely online. I was highly satisfied with their online curriculum. And a Regis degree is HIGHLY regarded from what I have found.
I would highly reccomend you stay away from University of Phoneix. I was with them for a year and was SEVERLY dissapointed. Their instructors were bafoons! (I attended their Colorado school) In one instance an instructor took up a whole class session talking about his theory about what happend to the dinasaurs - this was in a CS class! Another instructor that did my Project Managment class came into class the day the Columbine shootings had happened the instructor came in dressed in black pants, black cowboy boots, black shirt and a black trenchcoat! We all looked at each other like "doesn't this dope know what happened today?!". This school completely screwed up my student aid even. I do not look highly on a degree from this school!
I had a previous boss that got his masters from Websters University. I can't say I have personal knowledge of this online school, but my boss was a class "A" @$$hole! He even admitted cheating by using other peoples papers for his degree and offered to let me use some of his for my degree. I told him thanks but no thanks, I'll get my degree by my OWN work! Needless to say I quit that company!
Call me crazy, but I don't ever remeber Congress ever giving a "Declaration Of War". They had to get one for WWI, WWII... Technically this -IS- a World War - a World War on Terrorists right? So why has there been no declaration of war? Oh wait, you have to declare war on a country/countries not a "group". Ok whatever!
I seem to remember it was "Government of the people, by the people, for the people"
Nowadays it's "Government of the Govenment, by the Government, for the Goverment."
If they tried to force me off my property for some BS like this, I would dump as much chemicals on the property as I could! Antifreeze, Oil, you name it. They want it? Let em deal with TOXIC WASTE! Then when they take posetion, turn them in the the EPA!
Ah, yes, I remember. That was the same Longhorn that was planned to have a Database Filesystem (WinFS), but it had to be removed in order to facillitate a 2006 release schedule of the OS, and a ~2008 release of the Filesystem
Ahh, again Microsoft coming late with ideas! Like this is "innovative". NOT! IBM had this a long time ago... It's called OS/400. (OS of the AS/400). DB2/400 is at the center of the filesystem.
Way to go Idaho! Again, someone tell me how Microsoft is "Innovative"....
I was once put into a management position, after about 6 months of it I couldn't stand it. Yes I had plenty of management/leadership training in the military but the business world is a lot different than the military. I steped down back into the "trenches" to become what I am a "geek". I am more pushing for like a technical lead type role as mentioned here as an alternative. Many "geeks" just don't make good managers. There better suited to more technical roles. I just don't like sitting at a desk pushing papers all day. I much prefer "hands on" type work. I also don't like having to go against my ethics and morals. Many managers I have seen love to push the line of ethics and moral deeds. Some I have met and worked for don't know right from wrong, everything is a "grey area". Sorry not me!
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Where I work we run ATG Dynamo for our servlet container (Linux on staging, Solaris on production), AS/400 for our core data, SQL Server for presentation tier data,.NET for our Intranet, and until very recently a single Alpha box took care of all of our credit card processing. That little box just sat in a corner and did its job, day in, day out, taking care of thousands of requests per day, and we never had to touch it. I loved that thing.
We use ATG Dynamo (5.1.1) (working on an ATG 6.4 udgrade) as well but we use Solaris on our staging and production environments. We use the AS/400 as well for our backend system. But we use Oracle for our tier data for the front end. Using a "home grown" data propagation to do the data pushes from the AS/400 to Oracle. Although we are moving towards using Webmethods more.
We use Linux for A LOT of smaller things. We now have a multi-rack SUN Starfire system all running Red Hat Linux EE for R&D. Unfortunately we use Windows 2K and Windows XP on our workstations for development. God I hate Windows! But it's the corporate Desktop...
The military was testing airbone pulse lasers out the back of C-130's back in the early eighties! They could get about 4 shots off before the battery packs were depleted. The offical release as to why they were discontinuing testing of the weapon was "The blasts tended to blind the enemy." Excuse me....? I thought the idea was to render the enemy incable of fighting in a war? I was in Jr. High when I first heard about these tests. They were mentioned briefly in the news before it got quiet. (No this isn't a "conspircy theory".)
I have Dish network and Love it. I probably have had maybe 5 outages in over a year and a half. I get LOTS of cloud cover here is Nebraska sometimes and still get a great signal. We get 30+ MPH winds and still no signal loss. The keep adding channels and the price isn't too bad either. I wouldn't switch to cable ever, unless their quality went in the toilet! I have one of the 501 PVR's and their are nice! (Some hacks so you can transfer the video files to CD out there even! (Win2K needed though for the software.)
Now, for internet Starband I would stay so far away from it isn't funny! (This is Dish Networks choice for Internet if you want it). ONLY get this if you have no otehr choice. I have had it for a year and a half ( no other choice catn' get DEL or Cable internet only 28.8K dialup way out in farmersville). Starband SUCKS! Their techs don't know their head from their ass and I have all 10 of their solutions on their scripts down pat! As soon as Qwest or Charter get DSL/Cable near me I am SO off starband! Starband charges $800 instalation fee!
Is it me or is the U.S. the ONLY country not "Beating Back" the abusiveness of it's own corporations and government. (This should get me tag as a terrorist by saying this, in a country were supposedly we have a 1st amendment right to freedom of speech!).
Yes I do live in the U.S., yes I do think it is corrupt from the top levels of our goverment down to the corporations.
It seems just about every other country in the world is smacking the U.S. corporations that are trying to screw everyone, but for some strange reason WE CAN'T!
Look what kind of crap we are having to fight:
1) SCO - 'nuff said! 2) MPAA/RIAA - take away our rights to fair use, and to mayn other things to list. 3) Our Goverment - Took away our 4th amendment with the Patiriot act and allow law enforcement agencies free reign in what they do. All in the name of "terrorism".
What they don't want you to know is that our damn goverment KNEW about 911 on August 20th. THe Israil (sp?) Massad warned our governemt about a terrorist threat and of massive amounts of terrorists (about 200 I belive) comming into this country. There was even an article about it in the Jeruselum Post's website not long after 911. (Any of our Israli brothers want to confirm this?) That's right your own government let it happen, why you say??? Think about what they have been able to do with that "terrorist threat" that they are using to try and scare us with. The patriot act, now talk of the patriot act II. Patriot Act - that is a damn slap in the face to the TRUE patriots that gave their lives for this country to be what it is today! I being former military am ASHAMED of our government right now!
REDMOND, Wash. -- July 25, 2003 -- Microsoft today announced the release of Joe-Bob(tm), a new software package that the company hopes will open up a huge untapped computer market. With the motto "The software for the rest of y'all(tm)," Joe-Bob reaches out to the same demographic group that buys 4x4s, supports the gun lobby, and drinks Miller Lite.
"Computers have been commonly seen as for leftists and intellectuals," explains Microsoft spokesperson Willy Maclean, "but we've recently seen people like Newt Gingrinch embracing new technology -- the time is right for the rest of America to get wired!"
Instead of a desktop or office metaphor, Joe-Bob(tm) puts the user in a garage. "Click on the Lynyrd Skynyrd tapes, and get a complete music library in digital stereo. Click on the pinups, and get hooked up to the Internet's hottest gifs," the promotional materials explain.
The package does not include a word processor or spreadsheet, but does have software that keeps track of the football season, lists the best roadhouses between Florida and Nevada, and can even order spareribs and beer at the click of a mouse.
"This is righteous software, man," says beta-tester Billy Grugg. "It thinks like I think." Brad Cunningham agrees: "I take it everywhere," he says, pointing to a Pentium laptop racked under his 12-gauge in his pickup truck. Microsoft is offering desktop users a special clip-on beer holder for their monitors.
"Look at what's popular out there," says Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.
"Four of the top-10 Usenet newsgroups are about sex, and splatter video games like Doom and Mortal Kombat are bestsellers. We're just catering to a demand, that's all."
Microsoft is reportedly distributing badges and bumper stickers saying things like "Joe-Bob: Make Your Disk Hard," "Go Microsoft -- Go Intel -- Go America," and "QuickTime is for Pinko Hippie Wimps."
The big Linux folks are being way to quiet. Why don't we hear IBM, SuSE, Red Hat et all. Screaming at SCO or at least putting out their own press releases. At least Linus has said something. The only ones screaming are US - the linux users. Some other countries are taking a stand and telling SCO to "Put up or shut up" and wining, Germany, poland and now Austrailia is getting in on it. WTF is wrong with the U.S.A.? Besides our Governemnt being OWNED by big corporations! Isn't there some laywer out there that would take on a class action lawsuit of all linux users and sue SCO for slander, extortion etc..?
What the heck can be done to shut SCO the HELL up!
I guess our friends at Mcaffee's and Norton's need better trained virus writers so they can get more people to buy their products.
Heck all the virus's to date are trivial! I remeber the Fuck virus on the Amiga, now that was a virus! the thing killed your Hard Drive to where it ws unusble. Or even the old Morris worm.
If someone really wanted to write an unstoppable virus they would include a mutation engine in it. That way NO virus checker would stop it!
But of course this would put Mcaffee and Nortons out of business.
I think the AFl/CIO need to actually take some things a step further.
Today it isn't about how much you know, it is about how low your salary will go!
Think about this. Corporations want to pay lower salaries to "improve their bottom line". But as salries go down the cost for things does not. Corporations that bring in more H1B's and farming out work to other countries, yes puts American workers out of jobs.
Yes many American programmers need to improve their skills. But, even the ones that are GOOD at what they do are losing out to foreign labor. Why, because they won't work for $20,000/yr.
It is expensive to live in the U.S. anymore. Look at the cost of housing, the price of just about anything you buy. Heck look at a typical Dmonoes or Pizza Hut Pizza! A large is now the size of a medium for the price of a large! It used to be you could live on $30,000/year in the U.S. not today, unless you have a spouse that makes at least $30,000/year as well.
In a day when Corporate CEO's and the like are funneling away the company profits to some off shore bank account, and raiding american workers pension funds. Of course they want to pay less, so they can keep more!
Many H1B's from overseas are just rying to hold on long enough to get there green card. Once they have that they are in like flint.
Corporations have zero, nada, none, NO loyalty to employees anymore, most companies treats employees like dirt, not just H1B's. Then they whine when the employees leave. Or if you complain about how you are being treated they just get rid of you!
The way I see it my friends, the corporations ARE the problem!
Two things should be done: 1) Revamp the H1B' laws and the practices of "farming out". 2) Come down on corrupt corporations (most of them are and we know it!).
I just got Starband installed. Yeah right! I got it installed on November 30th and I am still waiting to get on the internet.
Can you say "are we there yet?"
Supposedly it is windows only, but I found information on how to get it to work under Linux. Now if Only the satalite modem would work, I could try it.
This guy has it right. I have been working AS/400's for YEARS! The OS is built around the DB2 database. And IBM beat MS to the idea a long time ago. But, MS likes to make everyone think they actually "Innovate" things. When in fact they don't! They buy up companies, steal technoligies etc... The only thing MS has perfected is the marketing engine. And yes it is true MS uses AS/400's. In fact MS wanted me to come interview to work on their team that did the MS--> As/400 integration work. (I told them to blow me, I wouldn't work for a company I dispised!).
>I heard that to settle a legal dispute MS agreed to NEVER produce a version of UNIX.
This is true. M$ sold Xenix to SCO SCO Unix is Xenix or was Xenix. But part of the condition of the sale was the M$ could NEVER produce a version of Unix again. That is why NT was touted as an OS like Unix but better. .
This takes away our rights under the constituion. This bill strips normal people of their rights under the 4th & 6th amendments.
This bill breaks the 4th amendment where it states "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be
violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be
searched, and the persons or things to be seized." This bill allows law enforcemtn to enter homes without proper warrents. Our right to privacy is now out the window.
This bill also breaks the 6th amendment where it states "... and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense." As it is the FBi is holding 650 -700 people without charging, them without allowing them access to laywers.
This bill is completely UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
But the government has been looking for a way and a reason to start stripping us of our rights anyway. September 11th gave them that reason didn't it?
The sad thing is the Supreme Court will not strike it down as unconstitutional. It seems our whole government is totally corrupt.
Where will it end? The DMCA, the anti-terrorism
bill, next the SSSCA and UCITA.....
Ho, Ho, Ho, They ALL have to go!
But since I probably won't be able to vote in the next election since now under this bill, my speaking out against the goverment is grounds to label me a terrorist! Right?
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Not only those companies you mentioned but look at ATG. They have the Repositories which is the same concept as Hibernate. And I think ATG had Repositores LONG before 2000....
This scheme is typcial I saw this ALL OVER Denver, CO. You also see it rampant in the back of all the IT trade magazines. All those jobs yo usee listed are specifically targeted at H1-B's not AMERICANS. Granted I have worked with more H1-B people than I can count on my fingers and toes. Many were useless lied like hell on their resumes and didn't know the skills they were hired for. But, there also were some that knew their stuff and there are some I have become friends with. The problem is there is no level playing field. What everyone doens't understand is this is ALL about globalization. As Bush said "The New World Order". It's all about tearing down the borders of countries. Look at the "amnesty" program for the Illigal immagrants from mexico. The say they do the jobs ameircans don't want to do. Really? Those will be the only jobs we have left when corporations outsource all the really good jobs for $hit pay. But we as Americans won't be able to do those jobs because they will already be taken by people who will work for pennies.
Here is my suggestion:
All the hispanics from mexico should do something about their country! You don't like the wages you get paid do something about it! Fight for it in YOUR country! We Americans paid for our freedoms and rights in OUR BLOOD! We fought our American Revolution for it! The Mexican people might want to think about their own Revlolution to change their corrupt country!
The same goes for people in other countries. If you don't like the jobs/wages in your country DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT - Fight for it in YOUR country.
It is true we Americans need to get off of our lazy @$$E$ and take on our own government AGAIN because they have gotten so far out of control it's not funny. We need to do it NOW or we won't have any rights left to fight them with. Our politicians are just as corrupt as those in many other countries. Fortunately our founding fathers had insight enough to lay down some rights that give us the power to LEGALLY fight for our rights. But how many Americans don't? Many! The two party system is outdated we need more third parties, this is the ONLY way we will be able to send the message we are SICK AND TIRED of the status quo! You can't just "throw the bums out" without third parties. Who will replace the current BUMS? Yup more bums - Democrats and Republicans - they are all bad!
Think about this long and hard folks the powers that be don't give a raging rats @$$ about you they only care about money and power. Be it be the poloticians or the corporations.
This is OLD news!
The U.S. Air Force was testing airborne pulse laser weapons in the 1980's (I was in Junior High at the time.). They had them mounted in the inside of C-130's and the pulse laser shot out the back of the C-130. The battery pack in the C-130 was only good for about 3-4 shots before it was depleted. About 3 months after they announced they were testing them they said they were discontinuing testing because they said the lasers "tended to cause blindness in the enemy.". HELLO! Sounds like the typical LAME excuse they give for everything.
I wish I could give you some URL's but they didn't exist back in the 1980's. But this was happening around the same time Russia was testing their "Killer Satalites" and around the same time the "G.E" satalite "dissapeared". Anyone remember these things?
I have tried them before - don't bother! I bought some to protect my son's DVD's so they wouldn't get scratched. Guess what The DVD player wouldn't even read the DVD. I pulled the thing off and it read just fine. Also they are a pain in the arse to put on and get the stupid air bubbles out from between the cover and the DVD/CD.
I don't know about this exploit. But within about 2 hours of installing FF1.5 I reverted back to 1.07. FF1.5 had SERIOUS issues with allowing checkout on several ECommerce sites. I did file a bug in bugzilla with exact steps to reproduce. But I won't move forward with FF until some of the serious issues are fixed. I wish I had time to tear into the source to fix it myself....
I just upgraded from 1.07 to 1.5 and now some eCommerce sites I can't checkout on! 1.5 DOES NOT "transfer" on CC info. example (www.espnshop.com). I installed 1.07 "side by side" with 1.5 and 1.07 works, 1.5 does not! This is a HUGE bug! If you do a lot of online shopping DON'T overwrite your older version of firefox - you may have to revert back!
I just finished my CIS degree with Regis University in May 2005 (Magna Cum Laude). I had previously taken courses on campus with them at their Lowell campus. But when I moved out of Colorado to Nebraska I used their online services to finish my degree. Another guy I work with did his Masters with Regis completely online. I was highly satisfied with their online curriculum. And a Regis degree is HIGHLY regarded from what I have found.
I would highly reccomend you stay away from University of Phoneix. I was with them for a year and was SEVERLY dissapointed. Their instructors were bafoons! (I attended their Colorado school) In one instance an instructor took up a whole class session talking about his theory about what happend to the dinasaurs - this was in a CS class! Another instructor that did my Project Managment class came into class the day the Columbine shootings had happened the instructor came in dressed in black pants, black cowboy boots, black shirt and a black trenchcoat! We all looked at each other like "doesn't this dope know what happened today?!". This school completely screwed up my student aid even. I do not look highly on a degree from this school!
I had a previous boss that got his masters from Websters University. I can't say I have personal knowledge of this online school, but my boss was a class "A" @$$hole! He even admitted cheating by using other peoples papers for his degree and offered to let me use some of his for my degree. I told him thanks but no thanks, I'll get my degree by my OWN work! Needless to say I quit that company!
HTH, this is my 3 drachma's worth of input.
Call me crazy, but I don't ever remeber Congress ever giving a "Declaration Of War". They had to get one for WWI, WWII... Technically this -IS- a World War - a World War on Terrorists right? So why has there been no declaration of war? Oh wait, you have to declare war on a country/countries not a "group". Ok whatever!
I seem to remember it was "Government of the people, by the people, for the people"
Nowadays it's "Government of the Govenment, by the Government, for the Goverment."
If they tried to force me off my property for some BS like this, I would dump as much chemicals on the property as I could! Antifreeze, Oil, you name it. They want it? Let em deal with TOXIC WASTE! Then when they take posetion, turn them in the the EPA!
The Democrats want to take away your guns, and the Republicans want to take you away period.
Both are crooked as hell and both need to be taken down a notch.
Now someone tell me why we don't need third party candidates.....? Because, I'm sorry we need them desperately!
Ah, yes, I remember. That was the same Longhorn that was planned to have a Database Filesystem (WinFS), but it had to be removed in order to facillitate a 2006 release schedule of the OS, and a ~2008 release of the Filesystem
Ahh, again Microsoft coming late with ideas! Like this is "innovative". NOT! IBM had this a long time ago... It's called OS/400. (OS of the AS/400). DB2/400 is at the center of the filesystem.
Way to go Idaho!
Again, someone tell me how Microsoft is "Innovative"....
I was once put into a management position, after about 6 months of it I couldn't stand it. Yes I had plenty of management/leadership training in the military but the business world is a lot different than the military. I steped down back into the "trenches" to become what I am a "geek". I am more pushing for like a technical lead type role as mentioned here as an alternative. Many "geeks" just don't make good managers. There better suited to more technical roles. I just don't like sitting at a desk pushing papers all day. I much prefer "hands on" type work. I also don't like having to go against my ethics and morals. Many managers I have seen love to push the line of ethics and moral deeds. Some I have met and worked for don't know right from wrong, everything is a "grey area". Sorry not me!
Where I work we run ATG Dynamo for our servlet container (Linux on staging, Solaris on production), AS/400 for our core data, SQL Server for presentation tier data,
We use ATG Dynamo (5.1.1) (working on an ATG 6.4 udgrade) as well but we use Solaris on our staging and production environments. We use the AS/400 as well for our backend system. But we use Oracle for our tier data for the front end. Using a "home grown" data propagation to do the data pushes from the AS/400 to Oracle. Although we are moving towards using Webmethods more.
We use Linux for A LOT of smaller things. We now have a multi-rack SUN Starfire system all running Red Hat Linux EE for R&D. Unfortunately we use Windows 2K and Windows XP on our workstations for development. God I hate Windows! But it's the corporate Desktop...
The military was testing airbone pulse lasers out the back of C-130's back in the early eighties! They could get about 4 shots off before the battery packs were depleted. The offical release as to why they were discontinuing testing of the weapon was "The blasts tended to blind the enemy." Excuse me....? I thought the idea was to render the enemy incable of fighting in a war? I was in Jr. High when I first heard about these tests. They were mentioned briefly in the news before it got quiet.
(No this isn't a "conspircy theory".)
I have Dish network and Love it. I probably have had maybe 5 outages in over a year and a half. I get LOTS of cloud cover here is Nebraska sometimes and still get a great signal. We get 30+ MPH winds and still no signal loss. The keep adding channels and the price isn't too bad either. I wouldn't switch to cable ever, unless their quality went in the toilet! I have one of the 501 PVR's and their are nice! (Some hacks so you can transfer the video files to CD out there even! (Win2K needed though for the software.)
Now, for internet Starband I would stay so far away from it isn't funny! (This is Dish Networks choice for Internet if you want it). ONLY get this if you have no otehr choice. I have had it for a year and a half ( no other choice catn' get DEL or Cable internet only 28.8K dialup way out in farmersville). Starband SUCKS! Their techs don't know their head from their ass and I have all 10 of their solutions on their scripts down pat! As soon as Qwest or Charter get DSL/Cable near me I am SO off starband! Starband charges $800 instalation fee!
Is it me or is the U.S. the ONLY country not "Beating Back" the abusiveness of it's own corporations and government. (This should get me tag as a terrorist by saying this, in a country were supposedly we have a 1st amendment right to freedom of speech!).
Yes I do live in the U.S., yes I do think it is corrupt from the top levels of our goverment down to the corporations.
It seems just about every other country in the world is smacking the U.S. corporations that are trying to screw everyone, but for some strange reason WE CAN'T!
Look what kind of crap we are having to fight:
1) SCO - 'nuff said!
2) MPAA/RIAA - take away our rights to fair use, and to mayn other things to list.
3) Our Goverment - Took away our 4th amendment with the Patiriot act and allow law enforcement agencies free reign in what they do. All in the name of "terrorism".
What they don't want you to know is that our damn goverment KNEW about 911 on August 20th. THe Israil (sp?) Massad warned our governemt about a terrorist threat and of massive amounts of terrorists (about 200 I belive) comming into this country. There was even an article about it in the Jeruselum Post's website not long after 911. (Any of our Israli brothers want to confirm this?)
That's right your own government let it happen, why you say??? Think about what they have been able to do with that "terrorist threat" that they are using to try and scare us with. The patriot act, now talk of the patriot act II. Patriot Act - that is a damn slap in the face to the TRUE patriots that gave their lives for this country to be what it is today! I being former military am ASHAMED of our government right now!
Except that GroupWise SUCKS! Lotus Notes is far superior!
MICROSOFT UNVEILS NEW JOE-BOB(tm) SOFTWARE
story by Andrew Burke
REDMOND, Wash. -- July 25, 2003 -- Microsoft today announced the release of Joe-Bob(tm), a new software package that the company hopes will open up a huge untapped computer market. With the motto "The software for the rest of y'all(tm)," Joe-Bob reaches out to the same demographic group that buys 4x4s, supports the gun lobby, and drinks
Miller Lite.
"Computers have been commonly seen as for leftists and intellectuals," explains Microsoft spokesperson Willy Maclean, "but we've recently seen people like Newt Gingrinch embracing new technology -- the time is right for the rest of America to get wired!"
Instead of a desktop or office metaphor, Joe-Bob(tm) puts the user in a garage. "Click on the Lynyrd Skynyrd tapes, and get a complete
music library in digital stereo. Click on the pinups, and get hooked up to the Internet's hottest gifs," the promotional materials explain.
The package does not include a word processor or spreadsheet, but does have software that keeps track of the football season, lists the best roadhouses between Florida and Nevada, and can even order spareribs and beer at the click of a mouse.
"This is righteous software, man," says beta-tester Billy Grugg. "It thinks like I think." Brad Cunningham agrees: "I take it everywhere," he says, pointing to a Pentium laptop racked under his 12-gauge in his pickup truck. Microsoft is offering desktop users a special clip-on beer holder for their monitors.
"Look at what's popular out there," says Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.
"Four of the top-10 Usenet newsgroups are about sex, and splatter video games like Doom and Mortal Kombat are bestsellers. We're just catering to a demand, that's all."
Microsoft is reportedly distributing badges and bumper stickers saying things like "Joe-Bob: Make Your Disk Hard," "Go Microsoft -- Go Intel -- Go America," and "QuickTime is for Pinko Hippie Wimps."
Apple declined to comment.
The big Linux folks are being way to quiet. Why don't we hear IBM, SuSE, Red Hat et all. Screaming at SCO or at least putting out their own press releases. At least Linus has said something. The only ones screaming are US - the linux users. Some other countries are taking a stand and telling SCO to "Put up or shut up" and wining, Germany, poland and now Austrailia is getting in on it. WTF is wrong with the U.S.A.? Besides our Governemnt being OWNED by big corporations! Isn't there some laywer out there that would take on a class action lawsuit of all linux users and sue SCO for slander, extortion etc..?
What the heck can be done to shut SCO the HELL up!
I guess our friends at Mcaffee's and Norton's need better trained virus writers so they can get more people to buy their products.
Heck all the virus's to date are trivial! I remeber the Fuck virus on the Amiga, now that was a virus! the thing killed your Hard Drive to where it ws unusble. Or even the old Morris worm.
If someone really wanted to write an unstoppable virus they would include a mutation engine in it. That way NO virus checker would stop it!
But of course this would put Mcaffee and Nortons out of business.
I think the AFl/CIO need to actually take some things a step further.
Today it isn't about how much you know, it is about how low your salary will go!
Think about this. Corporations want to pay lower salaries to "improve their bottom line". But as salries go down the cost for things does not. Corporations that bring in more H1B's and farming out work to other countries, yes puts American workers out of jobs.
Yes many American programmers need to improve their skills. But, even the ones that are GOOD at what they do are losing out to foreign labor. Why, because they won't work for $20,000/yr.
It is expensive to live in the U.S. anymore. Look at the cost of housing, the price of just about anything you buy. Heck look at a typical Dmonoes or Pizza Hut Pizza! A large is now the size of a medium for the price of a large! It used to be you could live on $30,000/year in the U.S. not today, unless you have a spouse that makes at least $30,000/year as well.
In a day when Corporate CEO's and the like are funneling away the company profits to some off shore bank account, and raiding american workers pension funds. Of course they want to pay less, so they can keep more!
Many H1B's from overseas are just rying to hold on long enough to get there green card. Once they have that they are in like flint.
Corporations have zero, nada, none, NO loyalty to employees anymore, most companies treats employees like dirt, not just H1B's. Then they whine when the employees leave. Or if you complain about how you are being treated they just get rid of you!
The way I see it my friends, the corporations ARE the problem!
Two things should be done:
1) Revamp the H1B' laws and the practices of "farming out".
2) Come down on corrupt corporations (most of them are and we know it!).
Just my feelings on the matter!
I just got Starband installed. Yeah right! I got it installed on November 30th and I am still waiting to get on the internet.
Can you say "are we there yet?"
Supposedly it is windows only, but I found information on how to get it to work under Linux. Now if Only the satalite modem would work, I could try it.
Mod this up!
This guy has it right. I have been working AS/400's for YEARS! The OS is built around the DB2 database. And IBM beat MS to the idea a long time ago. But, MS likes to make everyone think they actually "Innovate" things. When in fact they don't! They buy up companies, steal technoligies etc... The only thing MS has perfected is the marketing engine. And yes it is true MS uses AS/400's. In fact MS wanted me to come interview to work on their team that did the MS--> As/400 integration work. (I told them to blow me, I wouldn't work for a company I dispised!).
>I heard that to settle a legal dispute MS agreed to NEVER produce a version of UNIX.
This is true. M$ sold Xenix to SCO SCO Unix is Xenix or was Xenix. But part of the condition of the sale was the M$ could NEVER produce a version of Unix again. That is why NT was touted as an OS like Unix but better. .
This takes away our rights under the constituion.
This bill strips normal people of their rights under the 4th & 6th amendments.
This bill breaks the 4th amendment where it states "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be
violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be
searched, and the persons or things to be seized." This bill allows law enforcemtn to enter homes without proper warrents. Our right to privacy is now out the window.
This bill also breaks the 6th amendment where it states "... and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense." As it is the FBi is holding 650 -700 people without charging, them without allowing them access to laywers.
This bill is completely UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
But the government has been looking for a way and a reason to start stripping us of our rights anyway. September 11th gave them that reason didn't it?
The sad thing is the Supreme Court will not strike it down as unconstitutional. It seems our whole government is totally corrupt.
Where will it end? The DMCA, the anti-terrorism
bill, next the SSSCA and UCITA.....
Ho, Ho, Ho, They ALL have to go!
But since I probably won't be able to vote in the next election since now under this bill, my speaking out against the goverment is grounds to label me a terrorist! Right?