A few weeks ago Memphis got hit by a big, random storm that knocked out most of the cities power, put gigantic trees across major roads, no traffic lights, no AC, etc. Some people were without power for two weeks (I was lucky at four days). You know what we all did? We went to work.
I'm so glad I moved away from the eastern sea board. There is such a high percentage of spazes out there. An afternoon with no lights and people are going insane, really, what a bunch of spazes.
As much as I hated the USSR and its socialist brethern, at least they knew better than to use such things, as opposed to fanatical islamists who seek to destroy all of Judeo-Christian society who should be their brethren if they followed their prophet.
Did you read the article? What we are talking about here is a bomb that kills with gamma radiation and leaves dirty gamma emiters in the environment. It is not Soviet Russia or fanatical islamists that are trying to build 'usable nukes'. It is the United States Department of Defense. Do you know what that means? It is the US that wants to use nuclear weapons.
I've tried to use the GIMP. I've tried really hard several times, once in the last few months. It hurts me. It hurts so bad. I have gone back to photoshop. The GIMP has too far to go, and I don't have the time to take it there.
I'm glad to hear somebody got it running in wine, even if it is disney. Photoshop is really the only reason I still have a windows machine.
Ok, I'm normally a big proponent of identity freedom on the internet, but I'm having a little trouble justifying this one. I think you need to be able to trace the money trail. I just think there are too many bad uses to justify the few good ones.
How about the fact that it's no different from cash?
Well we should put thumb print reader smart chips in all bills and coins so we can track when cash changes hands. That will be easier than setting up a net of RFID readers every four square feet all over the planet (including in the air and under the sea) to track cash properly.
I just tried that stuff out. It's pretty cool. A clever solution to a sticky problem. It's slower than typing a password, but not very much slower.
I wonder how it would work with bunches of passwords though. Between various systems I use, and various web forms, etc. I have tons of passwords. I like to keep them separate so that if one gets compromised they don't all get compromised. How well could I remember a hundred faces I wonder.
Still better than the "Find bug. Report to MS. Wait. Wait. Wait." procedure that I'm more than familiar with. And if you really get a hair up your ass you can fix it yourself.
is that it simply doesn't import MS Word documents properly. MS Word is the still the norm wether you like it or not.
So we have two choices to what we can do.
Give up.
Support OOo whenever possible. By contributing, donating, or just using it when ever it makes sense for the project.
I'm not much of a defeatist, so I'm going with option 2.
Besides, it imports simple word docs fine. And really, Word is a word processor, not a page layout program. If you really want to do some fancy stuff neither word nor OOo are good. Go get pagemaker or quark.
There aren't many bears in baltimore, but after a particularly busy night at the whistling oyster, where national bohemian is a buck and a quarter, I did almost go for a swim in the inner harbor. As anyone from baltimore can tell you, that water is way more dangerous than fighting a bear.
I keep meaning to dl and install FreeNet when there isn't a/. story running about it. But I keep forgetting. Is there a mirror anywhere for when the web-install server gets/.ed?
I used to really dig Shiner Bock. Then I got my hands on a bad batch and I've gone off it.
What I really want is something I used to get in New Mexico, but I think it came from Texas. It was lager with a chili in the bottle. I can't emember what it's called. But you know it has to be good. I mean, you take the two best things ever and put them together. It can't help but be yumtacular.
Well, if you read the article, you would know that people in developing countries don't have even constant access to dial up.
And it can cost way more than you would expect for a few minutes on line in developing countries. My business has dealings with some people in Africa occasionally. Sometimes it's even too expensive to send an email.
Plus, the lag between, say, Nairobi, and servers in the US, over dial up and steatite, can be way more than 20 seconds. I spent nine months on a team that duplicated functionality of some old crappy system that everybody in my office used, because some people in china were trying to use it over telnet, and it was too slow. Something like 6 seconds a key press.
I used to have netscape, mozilla, opera, IE and lynx just so I could check my work. With mozilla as my primary. About a year ago I dropped netscape, moved mozilla into it's spot, and now firebird is my primary browser. I actually have a phoenix, two firebirds and mozilla right now, in addition to the others.
btw, the proliferation of browsers might be more of an indicator as to how bored I get at work than how thorough I am.
A technological problem cannot be solved using legal methods, it must be solved technically.
People flying through the windshield when they run their car into something is a technical problem. The auto industry developed safety technology on their own, thus solving the problem technically. But seatbelts didn't save many lives until they were legislated into all cars.
People still die in auto accidents, and laws don't work completely (I'm so tired of 'click-it or ticket PSAs). But sometimes solving the technical problem isn't enough.
I think this is a case where some laws need to be involved. You can't control people's behavior with software. You can't really do it with laws either, but that *is* their problem domain.
But they are much bigger than us, and due to the nature of our relationship, it would be more costly for us to switch suppliers (I won't bore you with the detail unless you really want me to). So, while we can put some pressure on them, if we are their only customer doing so we are, as they say, up shit's creek.
Criticism immediately reached boiling point. Web developers bewailed the fact that end users who want Explorer 7 will have to buy the newest Windows version. In my opinion this critique, though correct in a literal sense, is both dishonest and ineffective.
Everyone seems to forget that end users don't care about Explorer 7, with or without a new OS. End users will upgrade to the new OS, or will not upgrade, for reasons that have nothing to do with browsers.
We web developers project our own desires and anger on the end users. Only we want the new browser. Only we will be forced to buy the newest Windows version to be able to check our sites in Explorer 7. But we don't admit that even to ourselves. That's dishonest.
There's one important point this guy is missing here. Big corporations often provide web applications that are based on the latest IE. To do my job I have to use one particular web app. provided by my firms supplier. It requires IE 6. If I wanted to use IE 5.5, I am SOL. When this supplier starts to require IE 7 we will have to upgrade our Windows.
So by tying IE 7 to the OS Microsoft can just about guarantee corporate acceptance of the upcoming windows. Even now, we can't switch completely to Linux because we would not be able to do business. Sucks if you ask me.
I seem to remember that Frank Lloyd Wright, while he did have a wife and kids, had a very poor or non-existent relationship with them. He avoided the effect described by the article by ignoring the family.
But I could be remembering wrong. I should go read a book about it.
Ah, but that's why there are few journalists. You must pay them.
A single individual (or small group) will not need to do all the reporting. each story can come from anyone who happens to be around when it happens. Aggregators bring reports together from multitudes of varied sources. Reputation systems provide peer review. Someone else mentioned it, it could be OSJ (open source journalism), with the same advantages as OSS.
I like games like Dark Cloud where you get to name your companions as well as yourself. That way I can still be somewhat cool, but I can run with guys like 'kingpantie' and 'dorknose'.
In a related note, the best thing about Animal Crossing is when the other characters ask you for slang. Then they pass it around amongst each other. I've watched the word 'dickbreath' spread around two towns now. It's the only way I've found to have fun with an otherwise monotonous game. [Please don't light me on fire. I understand why you might enjoy it, I just don't]
I feel is necessary is an IE browser (no, no matter what anyone says Mozilla doesn't perform anything close to how IE does, and yes, I have used both (Mozilla in Windows and Linux, and IE on Windows))
My girlfriend says IE is faster over and over again. I don't see it, but then I don't go to a lot of sites running on IIS (which allows IE to cheat on setup time. IE does start faster, because most of it is loaded into memory before you ever click the IE icon. Mozilla can't do this because Mozilla.org does not own the operating system. Also, some sites use activeX controls and other IE specific things, (except for one site I use for work I'm lucky enough to not have to use any such sites, since I use Firebird the type of sites I look at (they adhere to w3 recommendations) actually look better).
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Just take Mozilla Thunderbird and Calendar, integrate them into the kernel. Then put in a feature that allows an arbitrary host on the network run arbitrary code on your machine in the interest of letting other people invite you to meetings automatically.
That should infuse some of the old MS flavor into the dish. Should really get the punters switching to linux in droves.
Good point. I think I might not hate advertising in general quite so much if it was actually tailored to my preferences. Someone else mentioned Amazon's recommendations. I don't hate those. I never buy anything from them, but they're close enough that they don't piss me off.
But then again, I have to decide who I trust. Is it some corporation that is trying to get as much money from me as possible? I don't know.
The fear is that the serial numbers (presented with RFIDs) could be checked automatically without the holders knowledge (the bill could still be in your wallet).
But, of course, to actually track who used the bill you'd have to track where the bill was in relation to the holder, at all times.
The further fear is that if you also have RFIDs in all your clothes, the same scanner that scans the bills in your wallet could also scan the ones in your clothes and in most cases get a good picture of who was spending that bill.
Of course I buy almost every thing with my debit card, so *they*, whoever *they* are, can already track my spending history, just ask my bank.
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A few weeks ago Memphis got hit by a big, random storm that knocked out most of the cities power, put gigantic trees across major roads, no traffic lights, no AC, etc. Some people were without power for two weeks (I was lucky at four days). You know what we all did? We went to work.
I'm so glad I moved away from the eastern sea board. There is such a high percentage of spazes out there. An afternoon with no lights and people are going insane, really, what a bunch of spazes.
Did you read the article? What we are talking about here is a bomb that kills with gamma radiation and leaves dirty gamma emiters in the environment. It is not Soviet Russia or fanatical islamists that are trying to build 'usable nukes'. It is the United States Department of Defense. Do you know what that means? It is the US that wants to use nuclear weapons.
Right on.
I've tried to use the GIMP. I've tried really hard several times, once in the last few months. It hurts me. It hurts so bad. I have gone back to photoshop. The GIMP has too far to go, and I don't have the time to take it there.
I'm glad to hear somebody got it running in wine, even if it is disney. Photoshop is really the only reason I still have a windows machine.
Well we should put thumb print reader smart chips in all bills and coins so we can track when cash changes hands. That will be easier than setting up a net of RFID readers every four square feet all over the planet (including in the air and under the sea) to track cash properly.
I just tried that stuff out. It's pretty cool. A clever solution to a sticky problem. It's slower than typing a password, but not very much slower.
I wonder how it would work with bunches of passwords though. Between various systems I use, and various web forms, etc. I have tons of passwords. I like to keep them separate so that if one gets compromised they don't all get compromised. How well could I remember a hundred faces I wonder.
Still better than the "Find bug. Report to MS. Wait. Wait. Wait." procedure that I'm more than familiar with. And if you really get a hair up your ass you can fix it yourself.
So we have two choices to what we can do.
I'm not much of a defeatist, so I'm going with option 2.
Besides, it imports simple word docs fine. And really, Word is a word processor, not a page layout program. If you really want to do some fancy stuff neither word nor OOo are good. Go get pagemaker or quark.
There aren't many bears in baltimore, but after a particularly busy night at the whistling oyster, where national bohemian is a buck and a quarter, I did almost go for a swim in the inner harbor. As anyone from baltimore can tell you, that water is way more dangerous than fighting a bear.
I keep meaning to dl and install FreeNet when there isn't a /. story running about it. But I keep forgetting. Is there a mirror anywhere for when the web-install server gets /.ed?
I used to really dig Shiner Bock. Then I got my hands on a bad batch and I've gone off it.
What I really want is something I used to get in New Mexico, but I think it came from Texas. It was lager with a chili in the bottle. I can't emember what it's called. But you know it has to be good. I mean, you take the two best things ever and put them together. It can't help but be yumtacular.
Well, if you read the article, you would know that people in developing countries don't have even constant access to dial up.
And it can cost way more than you would expect for a few minutes on line in developing countries. My business has dealings with some people in Africa occasionally. Sometimes it's even too expensive to send an email.
Plus, the lag between, say, Nairobi, and servers in the US, over dial up and steatite, can be way more than 20 seconds. I spent nine months on a team that duplicated functionality of some old crappy system that everybody in my office used, because some people in china were trying to use it over telnet, and it was too slow. Something like 6 seconds a key press.
But in baltimore they go for the Natty Boh. I don't even like cheap bear anymore, but I miss the Boh.
It's actuall made by Pabst now. I wonder if I can get it when I move to texas.
Well I've always wanted to learn japanese. Now here's some motivation.
I used to have netscape, mozilla, opera, IE and lynx just so I could check my work. With mozilla as my primary. About a year ago I dropped netscape, moved mozilla into it's spot, and now firebird is my primary browser. I actually have a phoenix, two firebirds and mozilla right now, in addition to the others.
btw, the proliferation of browsers might be more of an indicator as to how bored I get at work than how thorough I am.
People flying through the windshield when they run their car into something is a technical problem. The auto industry developed safety technology on their own, thus solving the problem technically. But seatbelts didn't save many lives until they were legislated into all cars.
People still die in auto accidents, and laws don't work completely (I'm so tired of 'click-it or ticket PSAs). But sometimes solving the technical problem isn't enough.
I think this is a case where some laws need to be involved. You can't control people's behavior with software. You can't really do it with laws either, but that *is* their problem domain.
But they are much bigger than us, and due to the nature of our relationship, it would be more costly for us to switch suppliers (I won't bore you with the detail unless you really want me to). So, while we can put some pressure on them, if we are their only customer doing so we are, as they say, up shit's creek.
There's one important point this guy is missing here. Big corporations often provide web applications that are based on the latest IE. To do my job I have to use one particular web app. provided by my firms supplier. It requires IE 6. If I wanted to use IE 5.5, I am SOL. When this supplier starts to require IE 7 we will have to upgrade our Windows.
So by tying IE 7 to the OS Microsoft can just about guarantee corporate acceptance of the upcoming windows. Even now, we can't switch completely to Linux because we would not be able to do business. Sucks if you ask me.
I seem to remember that Frank Lloyd Wright, while he did have a wife and kids, had a very poor or non-existent relationship with them. He avoided the effect described by the article by ignoring the family.
But I could be remembering wrong. I should go read a book about it.
Phone companies have be using SUN Sparc Stations and the like for years. What I guess happened is this:
Ah, but that's why there are few journalists. You must pay them.
A single individual (or small group) will not need to do all the reporting. each story can come from anyone who happens to be around when it happens. Aggregators bring reports together from multitudes of varied sources. Reputation systems provide peer review. Someone else mentioned it, it could be OSJ (open source journalism), with the same advantages as OSS.
I like games like Dark Cloud where you get to name your companions as well as yourself. That way I can still be somewhat cool, but I can run with guys like 'kingpantie' and 'dorknose'.
In a related note, the best thing about Animal Crossing is when the other characters ask you for slang. Then they pass it around amongst each other. I've watched the word 'dickbreath' spread around two towns now. It's the only way I've found to have fun with an otherwise monotonous game. [Please don't light me on fire. I understand why you might enjoy it, I just don't]
My girlfriend says IE is faster over and over again. I don't see it, but then I don't go to a lot of sites running on IIS (which allows IE to cheat on setup time. IE does start faster, because most of it is loaded into memory before you ever click the IE icon. Mozilla can't do this because Mozilla.org does not own the operating system. Also, some sites use activeX controls and other IE specific things, (except for one site I use for work I'm lucky enough to not have to use any such sites, since I use Firebird the type of sites I look at (they adhere to w3 recommendations) actually look better).
Just take Mozilla Thunderbird and Calendar, integrate them into the kernel. Then put in a feature that allows an arbitrary host on the network run arbitrary code on your machine in the interest of letting other people invite you to meetings automatically.
That should infuse some of the old MS flavor into the dish. Should really get the punters switching to linux in droves.
Good point. I think I might not hate advertising in general quite so much if it was actually tailored to my preferences. Someone else mentioned Amazon's recommendations. I don't hate those. I never buy anything from them, but they're close enough that they don't piss me off.
But then again, I have to decide who I trust. Is it some corporation that is trying to get as much money from me as possible? I don't know.
The fear is that the serial numbers (presented with RFIDs) could be checked automatically without the holders knowledge (the bill could still be in your wallet).
But, of course, to actually track who used the bill you'd have to track where the bill was in relation to the holder, at all times.
The further fear is that if you also have RFIDs in all your clothes, the same scanner that scans the bills in your wallet could also scan the ones in your clothes and in most cases get a good picture of who was spending that bill.
Of course I buy almost every thing with my debit card, so *they*, whoever *they* are, can already track my spending history, just ask my bank.
p.s. THEY LIVE