How well will Obama's plan work once it's chewed, digested, and shit out the other end by Washington? It'll end up being nothing like the original and will more than likely become something that strengthens the lack of public oversight of the government.
Yet another pointless footnote for a Presidential candidate that will never see the light of day. He might as well have said "Read my lips," just to make sure it dies.
... I could imagine that this advancement of the 'art of advertising' could do some harm to people that are not so stable.
I'm stable, as far as I know, and it might just cause me to fucking kill someone if I happen to hear it. Thus, I'm not so certain that it's limited to those who have fragile psyches.
Its funny that, because the needs of nearly all your customers is that your operating system is reliable and user friendly and runs fast, and every OS that's released from Microsoft is worse is most of those categories compared with the previous version.
To me the best example is Office 2007. While they apparently spoke with focus groups who were new to the system and decided what would be the best thing for them to use in Office, they apparently did not do quite as much with previous users of the software. While I have spouted off before about how I dislike Office 2007's UI I was shredded because of people who claimed I did not use it long enough to learn to appreciate the ease of use, etc.
Well, today I sit here using Office 2007 (even at home) after having been forced into using it at work several months ago. While I'm trying my absolute hardest to learn to appreciate it, the only thing I can do is learn to hate it more and more with every day.
My productivity is down, my stress level is up, and I sit there cursing 50% of these new designs because it's nothing like what it used to be. Yes, there are ways to go back to the old but I'm stubborn and I will learn to use the new one but I seriously fear that another new UI design will appear from Microsoft before that happens.
My biggest complaint? Access doesn't seem to have a program setting that enables the left pane to show all groups, sort by name ASC, and keep it that way for every database. If I've overlooked something, and I hope I have in my scramble to get all my old databases setup again, please do let me know so I can have at least one less thing to stress over every time I open a file I haven't used in 6 months.
As for Bill learning something about Open Source? When he starts releasing future versions of Windows with the full source and an open license, then I will agree that he's learned something. Until then, not so much.
Don't worry, between the security line, customs, delays, and waiting on the tarmac, you'll still be garunteed at least 10 hours at the airport for any trip.
Delays, yes but the other stuff? I think not. The worst experience I have had in recent memory was at MCO where even at 4:00 AM the line was backed up entirely too long. Here at MSP, however, I have never had more than a 20 minute wait in line and it's especially short over in the Humphrey Terminal.
It could simply be that your child has alternative methods towards hiding things and while the encryption might be interesting in theory, he has a much stronger desire to keep it out of a realm you obviously understand well.
Check for hidden compartments in his closet that's he discovered behind loose pieces of wooden molding that look perfectly normal like I used to hide condoms, cigarettes, porn and other contraband.
Well, I'm not sure how a smiley face is NSFW but whatever.
Personally, being that it was a balmy +5F outside this morning on my walk in from the car, I was seriously considering making my dreams come true and showing up in a school completely naked -- well, except for the yellow smiley face hovering over my dick.
That passion is a productive alternative to the other model we have of Iran as a bunch of wild eyed fundamentalists who want to bomb the world back to the 8th century.
Hmm, strange, that's how the rest of the world has perceived the United States for the last 6 or so years.
I have something sorta like that. When I was using Gallery along with a shell script out of procmail to do uploads from e-mail to handle my mobile pictures, it would create galleries in the format yyyymmdd and I can usually recall almost to the day what I was doing.
It's most likely because I would go back through the photos either that day or the next and caption some. This would help to jog my memory and help me recall the dates much later. My friends say I'm an idiot savant (in the most negative connotation possible) but I tell them that I'm just a nerd.
Most colleges, on semesters, empty out in early May (1st or 2nd week). I want to see the data for 5/07 and then every month up through 12/07 when it lets out again.
This blogger might have found the cycle of enrollment flow and nothing more -- as much as I don't like to admit it;)
Customers could always use GSM phones not sold by AT&T on our network. We can't guarantee the performance of the device, of course.
I assume they mean those with a roaming agreement, right and even then there might only be one roaming slot open for data services in any given area. Plenty of times I've been geocaching with a friend in some Cingular/AT&T area and one of us would have GPRS data on our T-mobile Sidekick and the other would not. I'd have to disable/enable the radio in one unit at a time to gain GPRS.
So yeah, guaranteeing the performance of the device might entail not having data at all.
News flash! The Register has less credibility than Wiki, if only for this idiotic smear job.
Ah yes, but The Register is little more than a rag e-zine but Wikipedia attempts to pass of this air of authority that it obviously does not have as there are people, at the top, fucking things up.
Yes, but is this relevant to 85% of the body of work? Do we really need to throw the word "totalitarian" around, or "black helicopters?" Jeez.
How the fuck would we know? We don't have someone who devoted a good bit of his free time in a year to attempting to track down the source of this snafu. It could seriously be that a majority of entries are fucked with in this way -- much to the enjoyment of the douchebags that believe they are somehow important because they are in a "ruling clique" -- but we'd never know w/o more people digging around.
That said, this sounds like a bunch of forum trolling, whining and conspiracy theory that I see on almost every single web-forum that has some sort of board running most of the show. Move along, it's not worth getting upset over.
simply distribute them digitally:) I'm sure that people won't mind downloading them and it will save some $.
It doesn't save me any money (not that I use Netflix) but I don't want to watch movies on my computer and I don't want to move a computer next to my main TV just so shareholders can sustain a profit. Not only that but I'm not saving any money when I have to pay for bandwidth to download those crippled videos. We all seem to forget that having the Internet connected to your house isn't free.
I want a physical medium that I'm free to watch as I see fit and that I can watch at my leisure in a multitude of locations w/o having to worry about DRM (aside from what my players can already handle), bandwidth, Internet connectivity, and whether or not my computer will play it to my TV in an acceptable manner.
The question is: is it better to teach old commercial software or their open source counterparts (Komposer, Gimp, etc.)?
What are you trying to accomplish? Are you trying to teach them design or are you trying to train them in the use of software programs to accomplish any old goal?
If you're trying to teach them design principles in general, then I don't see what the difference is between outdated commercial software and their OSS counterparts. If you're trying to teach them to use software skills in software packages they are likely to see in the real world/college after graduation then that's not the best way to go about it.
If you're trying to teach both, I really don't know what to tell you. Probably retool a bit to put more emphasis on the design part and less on the use of specific software. Design skills change but not like specific software needs.
Maybe MS sees Blu Ray as the next Betamax? (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060420-6641.html)
That would be possible if the physical media wasn't the same size and it wasn't controlled by a program interacting with similar hardware to read the disc. Because of that, the market will develop dual players and in the end it won't matter what type of disc you've purchased (just like DVD+/-R/W).
This is an economics blog, so you tell me: why don't the computer companies compete on boot-speed?
7 to 10 years ago that might have been a problem but these days with people booting at most once or twice a day (and the majority just putting their laptops to sleep or not turning their machines off at all) I don't see why we should even be discussing this topic.
I can't. No one can; there are simply too many. But I have a few strategies.
None of which are acceptable. This person needs to learn more about security and a different way to go about handling their passwords. Based on the techniques I use I am able to remember every single password for every single site I use with 99% of them being different (I have some legacy passwords on sites that don't require security in the first place but that's because I'm lazy).
There will never be a global repository for public keys, for the same reason there isn't a single ID card in your wallet.
Never is a long time and just like the sci-fi writers of the past getting stuff wrong, this guy is likely to get this wrong as well. If the slippery slope continues to degrade as it has been for the last 7 years, I have a feeling that we will see a different world stage with the players running that stage handling things a little differently than we would have thought about 10 years ago or even today...
There are probably zillions of books and classes on basic computer and Internet skills, and I wouldn't even know where to begin to suggest one. Okay, that's a lie. I do know where to begin. I would Google "basic computer skills" and see what comes up.
This tutorial is the first hit. While interesting, I don't believe it's someone who is interested in learning basic computer skills is going to stumble across -- even if you told them what to do. I work with those that don't even have the most basic computer skills and believe me, when you tell them to Google something it isn't processed like it is by those that have at least some basic skills.
Quite frankly, I don't understand the Verizon hate. Yes they area large company, but overall they seem to play well.
Because, quite frankly, when I had DSL through Verizon I was supposed to be getting 768/128 and was instead getting 350/70 during off-peak times and 250/50 during on-peak (and it was a college town so the off-peak times were limited). Latency was high with round-trip averages in the 200ms range and spikes to 350+ (my 53k dialup through icontech.com at home in PA was steady at 175ms to 180ms). We were paying double what similar DSL offerings in other areas were because that was the only game in town.
Calls to their support lines would end up in discussions about powercycling the modem and computer instead of a decision to roll a truck after months of the same reoccurring issues. At one point, when a truck was finally rolled, it took two weeks to hook back up what the tech had disconnected and claimed he couldn't repair that day.
I'm glad that you have had an above average experience with Verizon DSL. The rest of us thought it fucking sucked and thanked our lucky fucking stars when TimeWarner Roadrunner showed up with 3000/256 that went down one time (scheduled) in the 1.5 years we had it. It was half the price, 10x the speed, and the latency was in the 70 to 90ms range. I don't know what happened with Verizon after that but I have a feeling that it lost much of the business it had accumulated in the years prior.
(And yes, I did attempt to contact them by email and phone before resorting to the more obnoxious behaviour of contacting the ISP. No reply to my email, and the series of friendly receptionists I got bounced between had no idea who would be responsible but promised me someone would call back. No joy there, either.)
Was the test given before or after the students had a kegger? It might explain the chimps score.
While that might have something to do with it I would assume it has a lot more to do with the fact that your typical college student has a ton more on their minds than just a series of numbers for a test. Numerous passwords, telephone numbers, what time/date they have an exam/group meeting/social gathering, several projects to work on that evening, etc.
I would go so far as to say that the animals compared to the college students in the study have a lot less on their minds.
Now, this does not mean you have to build a new Berlin wall, resurrect the inquisition and make KGB/Gestapo's archives look like child's play.
Of course not, that would be counterproductive to the goals of the administration that's pushing for all of this. People of today equate physical barriers to the Cold War and that's exactly what this administration doesn't want -- transparency about what's going on. What they would much prefer, is a veil of secrecy that is as impenetrable as the walls of years passed.
What they can accomplish now is far more evil and devastating to our way of life, Constitution and national identity because the majority of people will blindly continue their daily routines by choosing to ignore the random media news stories and pointless discussions in Congress while their favorite TV shows are playing.
Your (and our) only option is to educate people, tell the general public what's going on, because the longer the masses stay ignorant, the longer the politicians will keep getting away with things like this, because - as sad as this sounds - people will genuinely think this is a good idea.
The douchebag politicians have coerced the public into believing that people, like us, who are trying to educate them on the reality they have created are nothing more than crackpot terrorist sympathizers who belong disappeared and tucked away from the prying eyes of any oversight groups and proper legal advice.
Someone needs to shut down TV networks so that the reality TV drugs for the masses end and the riots against the mind-numbing political machine can commence.
In a round-the-clock operation, targeters match names against terrorist watch lists and a host of other data to determine whether a person's background or behavior indicates a terrorist threat, a risk to border security or the potential for illegal activity.
So what they're saying is that they are going to use a high-tech facility to match names to a list of people known to cause false positives and is based on poor information at best so that a list of names can be created for the next half century for the government to track the travel habits of its citizens.
Now, the vast majority of people coming in and out of this country are legitimate and yet our freedoms are being restricted for a handful of people worldwide that would most likely not appear on that list as there are new "freedom haters" popping up every second -- especially when news, like this, keep coming to light.
I'm ashamed that my future tax dollars and my children's future tax contributions will be going to pay for this fucking horseshit and no one is doing anything to stop it. Hey, politicians listen up... Want my vote? Put a fucking stop to this waste of time, energy and money. Thanks.
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How well will Obama's plan work once it's chewed, digested, and shit out the other end by Washington? It'll end up being nothing like the original and will more than likely become something that strengthens the lack of public oversight of the government.
Yet another pointless footnote for a Presidential candidate that will never see the light of day. He might as well have said "Read my lips," just to make sure it dies.
Stephen King is that you?!
... I could imagine that this advancement of the 'art of advertising' could do some harm to people that are not so stable.
I'm stable, as far as I know, and it might just cause me to fucking kill someone if I happen to hear it. Thus, I'm not so certain that it's limited to those who have fragile psyches.
Its funny that, because the needs of nearly all your customers is that your operating system is reliable and user friendly and runs fast, and every OS that's released from Microsoft is worse is most of those categories compared with the previous version.
To me the best example is Office 2007. While they apparently spoke with focus groups who were new to the system and decided what would be the best thing for them to use in Office, they apparently did not do quite as much with previous users of the software. While I have spouted off before about how I dislike Office 2007's UI I was shredded because of people who claimed I did not use it long enough to learn to appreciate the ease of use, etc.
Well, today I sit here using Office 2007 (even at home) after having been forced into using it at work several months ago. While I'm trying my absolute hardest to learn to appreciate it, the only thing I can do is learn to hate it more and more with every day.
My productivity is down, my stress level is up, and I sit there cursing 50% of these new designs because it's nothing like what it used to be. Yes, there are ways to go back to the old but I'm stubborn and I will learn to use the new one but I seriously fear that another new UI design will appear from Microsoft before that happens.
My biggest complaint? Access doesn't seem to have a program setting that enables the left pane to show all groups, sort by name ASC, and keep it that way for every database. If I've overlooked something, and I hope I have in my scramble to get all my old databases setup again, please do let me know so I can have at least one less thing to stress over every time I open a file I haven't used in 6 months.
As for Bill learning something about Open Source? When he starts releasing future versions of Windows with the full source and an open license, then I will agree that he's learned something. Until then, not so much.
Don't worry, between the security line, customs, delays, and waiting on the tarmac, you'll still be garunteed at least 10 hours at the airport for any trip.
Delays, yes but the other stuff? I think not. The worst experience I have had in recent memory was at MCO where even at 4:00 AM the line was backed up entirely too long. Here at MSP, however, I have never had more than a 20 minute wait in line and it's especially short over in the Humphrey Terminal.
It could simply be that your child has alternative methods towards hiding things and while the encryption might be interesting in theory, he has a much stronger desire to keep it out of a realm you obviously understand well.
Check for hidden compartments in his closet that's he discovered behind loose pieces of wooden molding that look perfectly normal like I used to hide condoms, cigarettes, porn and other contraband.
Well, I'm not sure how a smiley face is NSFW but whatever.
Personally, being that it was a balmy +5F outside this morning on my walk in from the car, I was seriously considering making my dreams come true and showing up in a school completely naked -- well, except for the yellow smiley face hovering over my dick.
That passion is a productive alternative to the other model we have of Iran as a bunch of wild eyed fundamentalists who want to bomb the world back to the 8th century.
Hmm, strange, that's how the rest of the world has perceived the United States for the last 6 or so years.
I have something sorta like that. When I was using Gallery along with a shell script out of procmail to do uploads from e-mail to handle my mobile pictures, it would create galleries in the format yyyymmdd and I can usually recall almost to the day what I was doing.
It's most likely because I would go back through the photos either that day or the next and caption some. This would help to jog my memory and help me recall the dates much later. My friends say I'm an idiot savant (in the most negative connotation possible) but I tell them that I'm just a nerd.
02/01/07 342854 8398 2.40% 2.45
;)
04/12/07 291001 7175 2.50% 2.47
06/14/07 265504 2475 0.93% 0.93
07/14/07 199333 1303 0.65% 0.65
Most colleges, on semesters, empty out in early May (1st or 2nd week). I want to see the data for 5/07 and then every month up through 12/07 when it lets out again.
This blogger might have found the cycle of enrollment flow and nothing more -- as much as I don't like to admit it
Customers could always use GSM phones not sold by AT&T on our network. We can't guarantee the performance of the device, of course.
I assume they mean those with a roaming agreement, right and even then there might only be one roaming slot open for data services in any given area. Plenty of times I've been geocaching with a friend in some Cingular/AT&T area and one of us would have GPRS data on our T-mobile Sidekick and the other would not. I'd have to disable/enable the radio in one unit at a time to gain GPRS.
So yeah, guaranteeing the performance of the device might entail not having data at all.
News flash! The Register has less credibility than Wiki, if only for this idiotic smear job.
Ah yes, but The Register is little more than a rag e-zine but Wikipedia attempts to pass of this air of authority that it obviously does not have as there are people, at the top, fucking things up.
Yes, but is this relevant to 85% of the body of work? Do we really need to throw the word "totalitarian" around, or "black helicopters?" Jeez.
How the fuck would we know? We don't have someone who devoted a good bit of his free time in a year to attempting to track down the source of this snafu. It could seriously be that a majority of entries are fucked with in this way -- much to the enjoyment of the douchebags that believe they are somehow important because they are in a "ruling clique" -- but we'd never know w/o more people digging around.
That said, this sounds like a bunch of forum trolling, whining and conspiracy theory that I see on almost every single web-forum that has some sort of board running most of the show. Move along, it's not worth getting upset over.
simply distribute them digitally :) I'm sure that people won't mind downloading them and it will save some $.
It doesn't save me any money (not that I use Netflix) but I don't want to watch movies on my computer and I don't want to move a computer next to my main TV just so shareholders can sustain a profit. Not only that but I'm not saving any money when I have to pay for bandwidth to download those crippled videos. We all seem to forget that having the Internet connected to your house isn't free.
I want a physical medium that I'm free to watch as I see fit and that I can watch at my leisure in a multitude of locations w/o having to worry about DRM (aside from what my players can already handle), bandwidth, Internet connectivity, and whether or not my computer will play it to my TV in an acceptable manner.
YMMV.
The question is: is it better to teach old commercial software or their open source counterparts (Komposer, Gimp, etc.)?
What are you trying to accomplish? Are you trying to teach them design or are you trying to train them in the use of software programs to accomplish any old goal?
If you're trying to teach them design principles in general, then I don't see what the difference is between outdated commercial software and their OSS counterparts. If you're trying to teach them to use software skills in software packages they are likely to see in the real world/college after graduation then that's not the best way to go about it.
If you're trying to teach both, I really don't know what to tell you. Probably retool a bit to put more emphasis on the design part and less on the use of specific software. Design skills change but not like specific software needs.
Good luck.
Maybe MS sees Blu Ray as the next Betamax? (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060420-6641.html)
That would be possible if the physical media wasn't the same size and it wasn't controlled by a program interacting with similar hardware to read the disc. Because of that, the market will develop dual players and in the end it won't matter what type of disc you've purchased (just like DVD+/-R/W).
This is an economics blog, so you tell me: why don't the computer companies compete on boot-speed?
7 to 10 years ago that might have been a problem but these days with people booting at most once or twice a day (and the majority just putting their laptops to sleep or not turning their machines off at all) I don't see why we should even be discussing this topic.
I can't. No one can; there are simply too many. But I have a few strategies.
None of which are acceptable. This person needs to learn more about security and a different way to go about handling their passwords. Based on the techniques I use I am able to remember every single password for every single site I use with 99% of them being different (I have some legacy passwords on sites that don't require security in the first place but that's because I'm lazy).
There will never be a global repository for public keys, for the same reason there isn't a single ID card in your wallet.
Never is a long time and just like the sci-fi writers of the past getting stuff wrong, this guy is likely to get this wrong as well. If the slippery slope continues to degrade as it has been for the last 7 years, I have a feeling that we will see a different world stage with the players running that stage handling things a little differently than we would have thought about 10 years ago or even today...
There are probably zillions of books and classes on basic computer and Internet skills, and I wouldn't even know where to begin to suggest one. Okay, that's a lie. I do know where to begin. I would Google "basic computer skills" and see what comes up.
This tutorial is the first hit. While interesting, I don't believe it's someone who is interested in learning basic computer skills is going to stumble across -- even if you told them what to do. I work with those that don't even have the most basic computer skills and believe me, when you tell them to Google something it isn't processed like it is by those that have at least some basic skills.
Quite frankly, I don't understand the Verizon hate. Yes they area large company, but overall they seem to play well.
Because, quite frankly, when I had DSL through Verizon I was supposed to be getting 768/128 and was instead getting 350/70 during off-peak times and 250/50 during on-peak (and it was a college town so the off-peak times were limited). Latency was high with round-trip averages in the 200ms range and spikes to 350+ (my 53k dialup through icontech.com at home in PA was steady at 175ms to 180ms). We were paying double what similar DSL offerings in other areas were because that was the only game in town.
Calls to their support lines would end up in discussions about powercycling the modem and computer instead of a decision to roll a truck after months of the same reoccurring issues. At one point, when a truck was finally rolled, it took two weeks to hook back up what the tech had disconnected and claimed he couldn't repair that day.
I'm glad that you have had an above average experience with Verizon DSL. The rest of us thought it fucking sucked and thanked our lucky fucking stars when TimeWarner Roadrunner showed up with 3000/256 that went down one time (scheduled) in the 1.5 years we had it. It was half the price, 10x the speed, and the latency was in the 70 to 90ms range. I don't know what happened with Verizon after that but I have a feeling that it lost much of the business it had accumulated in the years prior.
Nope, only the can of bug spray and a check he found slid under the bosses door.
Linking to a LiveJournal post that reads:
MPAA don't fuck with my shit.
(And yes, I did attempt to contact them by email and phone before resorting to the more obnoxious behaviour of contacting the ISP. No reply to my email, and the series of friendly receptionists I got bounced between had no idea who would be responsible but promised me someone would call back. No joy there, either.)
Awesome.
Was the test given before or after the students had a kegger? It might explain the chimps score.
While that might have something to do with it I would assume it has a lot more to do with the fact that your typical college student has a ton more on their minds than just a series of numbers for a test. Numerous passwords, telephone numbers, what time/date they have an exam/group meeting/social gathering, several projects to work on that evening, etc.
I would go so far as to say that the animals compared to the college students in the study have a lot less on their minds.
Now, this does not mean you have to build a new Berlin wall, resurrect the inquisition and make KGB/Gestapo's archives look like child's play.
Of course not, that would be counterproductive to the goals of the administration that's pushing for all of this. People of today equate physical barriers to the Cold War and that's exactly what this administration doesn't want -- transparency about what's going on. What they would much prefer, is a veil of secrecy that is as impenetrable as the walls of years passed.
What they can accomplish now is far more evil and devastating to our way of life, Constitution and national identity because the majority of people will blindly continue their daily routines by choosing to ignore the random media news stories and pointless discussions in Congress while their favorite TV shows are playing.
Unfortunately, so do many who should not be put in a position of power even if hell froze over.
Hell apparently froze over back in 2001.
Actually it's Bunty Soap all over again...
Your (and our) only option is to educate people, tell the general public what's going on, because the longer the masses stay ignorant, the longer the politicians will keep getting away with things like this, because - as sad as this sounds - people will genuinely think this is a good idea.
The douchebag politicians have coerced the public into believing that people, like us, who are trying to educate them on the reality they have created are nothing more than crackpot terrorist sympathizers who belong disappeared and tucked away from the prying eyes of any oversight groups and proper legal advice.
Someone needs to shut down TV networks so that the reality TV drugs for the masses end and the riots against the mind-numbing political machine can commence.
In a round-the-clock operation, targeters match names against terrorist watch lists and a host of other data to determine whether a person's background or behavior indicates a terrorist threat, a risk to border security or the potential for illegal activity.
So what they're saying is that they are going to use a high-tech facility to match names to a list of people known to cause false positives and is based on poor information at best so that a list of names can be created for the next half century for the government to track the travel habits of its citizens.
Now, the vast majority of people coming in and out of this country are legitimate and yet our freedoms are being restricted for a handful of people worldwide that would most likely not appear on that list as there are new "freedom haters" popping up every second -- especially when news, like this, keep coming to light.
I'm ashamed that my future tax dollars and my children's future tax contributions will be going to pay for this fucking horseshit and no one is doing anything to stop it. Hey, politicians listen up... Want my vote? Put a fucking stop to this waste of time, energy and money. Thanks.