forcing everyone to now use Longhorn because the security holes in NT/2k based OSs (XP) will be sky high?
Not only will they be able to claim that any Samba project is tainted they will be able to claim that everyone must upgrade to their latest OS not based on NT/2k code.
Sounds like a money-maker.
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you obviously don't know the episode as to which I am referring:
Nurse: Abraham Simpson, your family is here to visit you.
Abe: Hot diggity, my family's come to visit me!
[runs down the hall]
Wait a minute... My family never comes to vi... Whoa!
[a knife flies at his head]
Vidal: [disguised as Homer] D'oh! Not again!
Burns: [disguised as Marge] I can't take much more of your blundering numskullery.
Smithers: [disguised as Bart] I'll be in the car, dudes.
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Come on... At least take it in stride. You know that Smithers would play a killer Bart.
because most people can't/don't uninstall programs as it is? Probably because Mozilla doesn't make webpages designed for IE (which is a vast majority of them out there) render correctly? And the #1 reason, because people don't know that Mozilla does this, nor do they care.
They know that google's toolbar or X application blocks the popups.
I haven't known a single non-geek that said, you know what? I want tabbed browsing... They just don't need it. Multiple IE windows work just as well.
amazingly enough I have just installed Firefox.8 (supposedly something that is going to make Microsoft look out according to Forbes)...
Looks poor to me:
Doesn't render Slashdot correctly (as the sidebars are actually overlapping the text in the main section)
The toolbars don't drag so I have two toolbars instead of one (I have a 21" CRT, I have plenty of room for the menu and the URL bars)
It seems to load pages slower than IE.
And when I type it appears that the cursor is actually over the piece of text instead of ahead of it which makes for an annoying black on white bar while you're typing.
Standards are being ignored and shoved to the wayside. Sure, make a website that conforms and blah blah blah, but does it matter? No, not really... People use IE. People will probably continue to use IE. If a website is "correct" and IE is "broken" because of ignoring standards and the webpage displays incorrectly the IE people are going to complain. The IE people will win, hands down.
For handhelds you want and need simplicity like the old Psion handhelds and the PalmOS based devices. You can dress Linux up all you want, but at the end of the day, you're running Linux.
Isn't that the point? Having the ability to dress up Linux to appear simple yet have the powerful backend that Linux can provide?
No need to wait for applications to be written for PDAs running Linux, just recompile and run your old apps... Sounds like a good plan to me.
And what do you think that GIS specialists use? You think that they are using personal-use GPSs? Get real.
I was given a demonstration of what they had back in 1994 when I was a Scout. They were accurate to the size of a dime (and that long before SA was turned off and WAAS was available -- so they are obviously not hampered by the scrambled signals).
I never found my PocketPC all that great for usage w/the GPS (I am using PocketPC 2002 though). I have constant stability issues and in the extreme temps we experience here (it got down to -22 without windchill in January) the PocketPCs just don't hold up well enough.
OMFG, do you people even bother to read the articles?
They are using Photoshop to ENHANCE photographs. Bring out details that would not have been there (the example given was a fingerprint on the inside of a piece of duct-tape used to wrap someone up).
Sure Photoshop makes photos look good but do we want to put people away when there's a good chance that the modifications made to the photo changed the print?
correct, the digital media SHOULD be locked away and only brought out when it is necessary to show it off. Problem is that the "teams" are using "enhancements" via Photoshop (or the like) to create a better image (or supposedly what the image would have looked like if natural damage had not occured).
If you had read the article you would have noticed that Photoshop can do 100x more "damage"/"good" than a photographer in a dark room.
I used to have a very lengthy voicemail message (about 2 minutes and 50 seconds). It explained, in detail, every single last question someone could want answered. If they did have some other question it was likely that they didn't belong calling my department or they were confused but there was still an option to leave a voicemail and I would return the call... Using this method I had limited myself to 5 or less voicemails a day since July 2003 (I would receive anywhere between 80 and 100 calls a day)...
Now. Just last week I had to remove this message and shorten it to under a minute because some asshole complained that he did not want to wait that long for the message (and he wasn't bright enough to try * or # which nearly all voicemail systems respond to to skip the message). I was first asked to put the disclaimer that you can skip the message w/the * key... Whoever thought that up was a moron. You NEVER tell someone how to skip it or the point of the voicemail message is moot.
Phone trees are apparently never checked thoroughly. They need to be tested 100s of times by different people to make sure that no matter what a call is routed to the right place. My voicemail message was corrected 5 or 6 times to make sure that it was working 100% and that no questions would be left unanswered.
oh they "Learned" all right. They figured out that it was making them a lot more money to give women a show that they could force their husbands and unlucky boyfriends to watch.
I not only am being begged to get cable when the gf returns but I also shelled out money for the While you were out DVD...
I heard somewhere that it was the most popular CATV show for 20-early 30 somethings...
Back when I was in college at BGSU and the method of checking email was telnet to one of four different SunOS servers to use Pine, someone came in and "revamped" everything so that we could covert to Lotus Notes. They upgraded hardware, software, and pushed Notes on everyone. Sure, you *could* use any old POP equipped mail client but anywhere on campus you could only check your mail with Notes.
It was a major flop. The software was seriously crappy, it was slow, and it was quickly dropped in favor of POP clients and now webmail (which from what I understand still sucks).
The code may be messy but the application itself is a POS and isn't likely to be picked up by users.
they will continue to work on it for years and years until their death just like Einstein did? A previous mover/shaker forever lost in the past by refusing to move along?
So what if it doesn't really exist? We know very little about anything anyway. Trying to find a unified explanation via "String Theory" is spotty at best but at least it "helps".
What's the difference if dark-matter is really just another false theory? In the long run it's not going to make a whole heck of a lot of difference.
I think you somehow missed the point here. He is asking if it is possible to add a suplement to a NEW contract, so no sending out resumes, no "keeping" the job,...
I missed a single word... "keep your job *offer*". You are probably the best candidate out of 100s that applied. There are always other people that are more than happy to take that job regardless of what their contract says.
You feel free to ask them to make those changes to your agreement. You also feel free to start sending out your resumes to other companies... It is highly unlikely that they are going to allow you to make these changes and keep your job.
Whether you like that or not, it is likely the way it will be. Sure, some people would say, "well I wouldn't want to work for a draconian company like that anyway." Some others would say, "I have been unemployed for months, perhaps I should take the job and swallow my pride."
I figured it was far worse than just PCBs but I guess it would have been set up as a Superfund site otherwise.
It was of no surprise to me that the military wanted to use property in a little town in the middle of no-where Minnesota for some sort of nuclear experiments.
Is Linux (running on a PDA meant to run Linux) more stable than one running PocketPC 2002? I have CONSTANT issues w/the device locking up hard and forcing a complete reset (losing everything that wasn't stored on the CF card -- many programs require at least pieces of themselves be installed on the main memory and not a storage card).
It's a big time hassle for me and I would love to switch if Linux had the stability on the PDAs that it does on the PC side.
funny... U-Lands, Gopher Munitions the University of Minnesota "bought" this land from the government years ago after it was abandoned, unfinished, after WWII. Multiple parties have been interested in buying the land but have been ignored. So why should this particular "piece of history" be preserved w/o being torn down?
Side note, I visited the unfinished sister version of this structure in Rosemount, MN (see here and here). It's in ruins, covered in graffiti, and is just rotting away.
Why on our dime (the University of Minnesota is a state funded operation mind you...)?
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forcing everyone to now use Longhorn because the security holes in NT/2k based OSs (XP) will be sky high?
Not only will they be able to claim that any Samba project is tainted they will be able to claim that everyone must upgrade to their latest OS not based on NT/2k code.
Sounds like a money-maker.
you obviously don't know the episode as to which I am referring:
[3F19] "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"
Specifically:
Then it's up to plan B...
Nurse: Abraham Simpson, your family is here to visit you.
Abe: Hot diggity, my family's come to visit me!
[runs down the hall]
Wait a minute... My family never comes to vi... Whoa!
[a knife flies at his head]
Vidal: [disguised as Homer] D'oh! Not again!
Burns: [disguised as Marge] I can't take much more of your blundering numskullery.
Smithers: [disguised as Bart] I'll be in the car, dudes.
Come on... At least take it in stride. You know that Smithers would play a killer Bart.
to be replaced by what? More re-runs of "The Show About Nothing"? No thanks.
maybe if this had been posted in 1997. Now the Simpsons aren't nearly as funny as they used to be. :(
The animation and drawing has improved but the story lines have not.
disclaimer: I watch the re-runs daily and new Simpson's weekly.
because most people can't/don't uninstall programs as it is? Probably because Mozilla doesn't make webpages designed for IE (which is a vast majority of them out there) render correctly? And the #1 reason, because people don't know that Mozilla does this, nor do they care.
They know that google's toolbar or X application blocks the popups.
I haven't known a single non-geek that said, you know what? I want tabbed browsing... They just don't need it. Multiple IE windows work just as well.
amazingly enough I have just installed Firefox .8 (supposedly something that is going to make Microsoft look out according to Forbes)...
Looks poor to me:
Doesn't render Slashdot correctly (as the sidebars are actually overlapping the text in the main section)
The toolbars don't drag so I have two toolbars instead of one (I have a 21" CRT, I have plenty of room for the menu and the URL bars)
It seems to load pages slower than IE.
And when I type it appears that the cursor is actually over the piece of text instead of ahead of it which makes for an annoying black on white bar while you're typing.
I'll stick to IE.
no, see, that's where the zealots are wrong.
Standards are being ignored and shoved to the wayside. Sure, make a website that conforms and blah blah blah, but does it matter? No, not really... People use IE. People will probably continue to use IE. If a website is "correct" and IE is "broken" because of ignoring standards and the webpage displays incorrectly the IE people are going to complain. The IE people will win, hands down.
It's unfortunate but it's true.
For handhelds you want and need simplicity like the old Psion handhelds and the PalmOS based devices. You can dress Linux up all you want, but at the end of the day, you're running Linux.
Isn't that the point? Having the ability to dress up Linux to appear simple yet have the powerful backend that Linux can provide?
No need to wait for applications to be written for PDAs running Linux, just recompile and run your old apps... Sounds like a good plan to me.
And what do you think that GIS specialists use? You think that they are using personal-use GPSs? Get real.
I was given a demonstration of what they had back in 1994 when I was a Scout. They were accurate to the size of a dime (and that long before SA was turned off and WAAS was available -- so they are obviously not hampered by the scrambled signals).
This is especially useful for wardriving and warflying...
See here.
I never found my PocketPC all that great for usage w/the GPS (I am using PocketPC 2002 though). I have constant stability issues and in the extreme temps we experience here (it got down to -22 without windchill in January) the PocketPCs just don't hold up well enough.
OMFG, do you people even bother to read the articles?
They are using Photoshop to ENHANCE photographs. Bring out details that would not have been there (the example given was a fingerprint on the inside of a piece of duct-tape used to wrap someone up).
Sure Photoshop makes photos look good but do we want to put people away when there's a good chance that the modifications made to the photo changed the print?
correct, the digital media SHOULD be locked away and only brought out when it is necessary to show it off. Problem is that the "teams" are using "enhancements" via Photoshop (or the like) to create a better image (or supposedly what the image would have looked like if natural damage had not occured).
If you had read the article you would have noticed that Photoshop can do 100x more "damage"/"good" than a photographer in a dark room.
I used to have a very lengthy voicemail message (about 2 minutes and 50 seconds). It explained, in detail, every single last question someone could want answered. If they did have some other question it was likely that they didn't belong calling my department or they were confused but there was still an option to leave a voicemail and I would return the call... Using this method I had limited myself to 5 or less voicemails a day since July 2003 (I would receive anywhere between 80 and 100 calls a day)...
Now. Just last week I had to remove this message and shorten it to under a minute because some asshole complained that he did not want to wait that long for the message (and he wasn't bright enough to try * or # which nearly all voicemail systems respond to to skip the message). I was first asked to put the disclaimer that you can skip the message w/the * key... Whoever thought that up was a moron. You NEVER tell someone how to skip it or the point of the voicemail message is moot.
Phone trees are apparently never checked thoroughly. They need to be tested 100s of times by different people to make sure that no matter what a call is routed to the right place. My voicemail message was corrected 5 or 6 times to make sure that it was working 100% and that no questions would be left unanswered.
Amazingly enough no one was happy except me.
Sad world we live in.
oh they "Learned" all right. They figured out that it was making them a lot more money to give women a show that they could force their husbands and unlucky boyfriends to watch.
I not only am being begged to get cable when the gf returns but I also shelled out money for the While you were out DVD...
I heard somewhere that it was the most popular CATV show for 20-early 30 somethings...
Back when I was in college at BGSU and the method of checking email was telnet to one of four different SunOS servers to use Pine, someone came in and "revamped" everything so that we could covert to Lotus Notes. They upgraded hardware, software, and pushed Notes on everyone. Sure, you *could* use any old POP equipped mail client but anywhere on campus you could only check your mail with Notes.
It was a major flop. The software was seriously crappy, it was slow, and it was quickly dropped in favor of POP clients and now webmail (which from what I understand still sucks).
The code may be messy but the application itself is a POS and isn't likely to be picked up by users.
they will continue to work on it for years and years until their death just like Einstein did? A previous mover/shaker forever lost in the past by refusing to move along?
So what if it doesn't really exist? We know very little about anything anyway. Trying to find a unified explanation via "String Theory" is spotty at best but at least it "helps".
What's the difference if dark-matter is really just another false theory? In the long run it's not going to make a whole heck of a lot of difference.
I think you somehow missed the point here. He is asking if it is possible to add a suplement to a NEW contract, so no sending out resumes, no "keeping" the job,...
I missed a single word... "keep your job *offer*". You are probably the best candidate out of 100s that applied. There are always other people that are more than happy to take that job regardless of what their contract says.
You feel free to ask them to make those changes to your agreement. You also feel free to start sending out your resumes to other companies... It is highly unlikely that they are going to allow you to make these changes and keep your job.
Whether you like that or not, it is likely the way it will be. Sure, some people would say, "well I wouldn't want to work for a draconian company like that anyway." Some others would say, "I have been unemployed for months, perhaps I should take the job and swallow my pride."
YMMV.
I figured it was far worse than just PCBs but I guess it would have been set up as a Superfund site otherwise.
It was of no surprise to me that the military wanted to use property in a little town in the middle of no-where Minnesota for some sort of nuclear experiments.
You apparently didn't understand what I said... Let me repeat:
I want to know if the OS crashes do you lose the ability to run the programs you installed (that don't come built into the ROM)?
Is Linux (running on a PDA meant to run Linux) more stable than one running PocketPC 2002? I have CONSTANT issues w/the device locking up hard and forcing a complete reset (losing everything that wasn't stored on the CF card -- many programs require at least pieces of themselves be installed on the main memory and not a storage card).
It's a big time hassle for me and I would love to switch if Linux had the stability on the PDAs that it does on the PC side.
no, it just makes me that much more interested in buying a competing phone. Oh wait, I don't care about cell phones, carry on.
funny... U-Lands, Gopher Munitions the University of Minnesota "bought" this land from the government years ago after it was abandoned, unfinished, after WWII. Multiple parties have been interested in buying the land but have been ignored. So why should this particular "piece of history" be preserved w/o being torn down?
Side note, I visited the unfinished sister version of this structure in Rosemount, MN (see here and here). It's in ruins, covered in graffiti, and is just rotting away.
Why on our dime (the University of Minnesota is a state funded operation mind you...)?