I'm not talking IRS, I'm talking private sector, particularly those huge departments at big businesses.
The Iron Law applies just as much to business as it does to government. Think not? Look at all those "reserve" auto workers sitting around all day "Just In Case" they're needed because of union regulations. If you don't think it happens, read up on featherbedding.
Actually, that was just a comment on the fact that they're still using that law, although I agree that Interesting would have been a more appropriate moderation.
Trust me: if we went to a flat tax, the number of accountants working for the IRS wouldn't drop one bit. Bureaucracies don't work that way. This is explained by The Iron Law of Bureaucracy.
The GUIs work, mostly, but they aren't nearly as stable as Windows Vista, and they don't add any real value that Vista doesn't have.
You are joking, aren't you? I use Fedora 9, with Gnome on my home computer. I never log out unless I'm rebooting, and I only reboot when there's a kernel update. Several times, I've had uptimes of over three weeks. If I weren't so interested in keeping my box up to date, I'd probably never need to reboot. I don't know how good Vista is at things like that, because I've never used it and, God willing, never will, but saying that the Linux GUI isn't as stable as Vista is Just Plain Wrong.
Oh, and before I forget, there's that little thing about not adding any value that Vista doesn't have. Right now, I'm using Compiz-Fusion, with four separate desktops. That means, for those of you who've never seen it, my effective screen real estate is four times as wide as my monitor and, each desktop has a complete set of icons, so that I don't have to scroll around from one to the other to find the one I need. Can Vista do that?
India didn't become an independent nation until after WW II. Checking Wikipedia, I find that this law was held over from the British colonial administration. Interesting.
The fact that Vegas now sees snow every year actually strengthens the argument about global climate change, not weaken it...
But nobody in their right mind doesn't think that the global climate isn't in a state of constant flux. The thing that AlGore and his minions don't want us to know is that right now, it's getting cooler, not warmer.
That looks like you're assuming that all of the Perot vote would have gone to Clinton. How would it have worked out if it were divided proportionately between the two major candidates? I'm sure Clinton still would have won, but considering that there were, as always, other minor candidates, would he have had an absolute majority?
I tried to RTFA and found that the article was nothing but a stupid slide show with a vapid paragraph of comment for each. Unless there's a link to the complete text, there really isn't anything worth looking at.
Maybe we should turn the design and implementation of an electronic voting system over to people like you, then. Whatever you come up with couldn't possibly be as bad as what Diebold seems to think is acceptable.
Clearly what happened is that the design was made specifying a tolerances of a blonde hair, and it was built to within a red one. When will these engineers learn to be more specific!
Ext3 is a journalled filesystem so much less prone, but not immune, to fragmentation.
From what I've been able to learn, the reason Linux doesn't generally need defragging isn't that it uses ext3; it's the way it decides where to put files. Instead of jamming them into the first opening it finds whether it's big enough or not, it tries to put it where it's got room to grow. It can't always do that, of course, but it does its best.
if vista was simply XP with the ability to run as administrator finally "turned off"
I'm not a Microsoft fanboi, and, in fact, I don't "do" Windows, but I gather that the issue isn't so much people running all the time as administrator, but programs that won't run unless you do. And, from all I've heard, Microsoft is doing what it can to get software developers to correct their cranial-rectal insertions and stop writing programs that way.
I think she may have felt compelled to say that because so many pro-life people act as though anybody who's pro-choice thinks that casual abortion is just another form of birth control, and that having one is "no big thing." Either they can't wrap their heads around the idea that for many women abortion is their last, reluctant option other than having a baby that they don't want and can't care for or they simply reject that possibility because it doesn't fit in with their agenda. Taking care to state that she considers the need for an abortion unfortunate, but sometimes needed makes it harder for her opponents to throw that type of accusation against her.
Oh, I don't know. We recently transferred my sister's dual boot system to a brand new HP computer. The only thing Ubuntu needed to do was download the drivers for the new video card. Win2K barfed because it didn't have drivers for the new hard disk, and wouldn't even ask us for the new ones.
Have you checked Puppy Linux? You can have it create a special boot floppy that will find Puppy on the CD and start it. Don't know, though, if it can run on a 486, but it's worth a try...
Anyway, my point is that even though Linux is mostly awesome and everything mostly "just works", there are still some stuff that doesn't.
How well I know! I'm a regular on my distro's support forum, and I've seen lots of cases where Linux Just Didn't Work. However, I also know that I never see anything from all the people who install it and never have to ask. That's why I mentioned the possibility of "weird hardware." There will always be NICs, video cards, hard drives or whatever that are either so new or so obscure that it's hard to get them going, and that might have been what happened to the OP.
Considering the (by current standards) small amount of RAM, I need a rather compact distro, and ended up with Puppy. It recognizes my PCMCIA NIC with no trouble, and the PCMCIA USB hub only needed a little tweaking to get working better than it ever had with Windows. That's my point, really, that unless you're using bleeding edge equipment, Linux almost certainly can handle it, especially when it comes to networking.
My point was that if Linux could get such an old machine on-line without any messing around (It Just Worked) it should be able to get a more recent machine going without any trouble, unless there's something weird about the hardware. (Quite possible, and that's why I mentioned it.)
I find that interesting. My laptop is almost 10 years old, with a PII 233 Mhz chip and maxed out at 96Meg of RAM, but I have Linux running on it. And, I've never had the slightest difficulty connecting it to the Internet or surfing the web. Either you have some very weird hardware or you haven't tried very hard.
I'm impressed that he lets you try the album before you buy it, and that it's in flash. Of course, nobody would ever download the file and convert it to an mpeg because that wouldn't be honest.
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The Iron Law applies just as much to business as it does to government. Think not? Look at all those "reserve" auto workers sitting around all day "Just In Case" they're needed because of union regulations. If you don't think it happens, read up on featherbedding.
I hope the building code in Las Vegas is written that way.
Actually, that was just a comment on the fact that they're still using that law, although I agree that Interesting would have been a more appropriate moderation.
Trust me: if we went to a flat tax, the number of accountants working for the IRS wouldn't drop one bit. Bureaucracies don't work that way. This is explained by The Iron Law of Bureaucracy.
You are joking, aren't you? I use Fedora 9, with Gnome on my home computer. I never log out unless I'm rebooting, and I only reboot when there's a kernel update. Several times, I've had uptimes of over three weeks. If I weren't so interested in keeping my box up to date, I'd probably never need to reboot. I don't know how good Vista is at things like that, because I've never used it and, God willing, never will, but saying that the Linux GUI isn't as stable as Vista is Just Plain Wrong.
Oh, and before I forget, there's that little thing about not adding any value that Vista doesn't have. Right now, I'm using Compiz-Fusion, with four separate desktops. That means, for those of you who've never seen it, my effective screen real estate is four times as wide as my monitor and, each desktop has a complete set of icons, so that I don't have to scroll around from one to the other to find the one I need. Can Vista do that?
India didn't become an independent nation until after WW II. Checking Wikipedia, I find that this law was held over from the British colonial administration. Interesting.
But nobody in their right mind doesn't think that the global climate isn't in a state of constant flux. The thing that AlGore and his minions don't want us to know is that right now, it's getting cooler, not warmer.
Let me guess: the drilling tower looks rather...organic, doesn't it?
In America, people complain when the government starts censoring the news. In Soviet China, people complain when it stops.
That looks like you're assuming that all of the Perot vote would have gone to Clinton. How would it have worked out if it were divided proportionately between the two major candidates? I'm sure Clinton still would have won, but considering that there were, as always, other minor candidates, would he have had an absolute majority?
Not only that, it's not entertaining. Even rank amateurs can do better, as this InFauxmercial shows.
I tried to RTFA and found that the article was nothing but a stupid slide show with a vapid paragraph of comment for each. Unless there's a link to the complete text, there really isn't anything worth looking at.
Maybe we should turn the design and implementation of an electronic voting system over to people like you, then. Whatever you come up with couldn't possibly be as bad as what Diebold seems to think is acceptable.
Clearly what happened is that the design was made specifying a tolerances of a blonde hair, and it was built to within a red one. When will these engineers learn to be more specific!
Sigh! So close, and yet so far away. E = .5*m * v^2 is what you meant.
From what I've been able to learn, the reason Linux doesn't generally need defragging isn't that it uses ext3; it's the way it decides where to put files. Instead of jamming them into the first opening it finds whether it's big enough or not, it tries to put it where it's got room to grow. It can't always do that, of course, but it does its best.
I'm not a Microsoft fanboi, and, in fact, I don't "do" Windows, but I gather that the issue isn't so much people running all the time as administrator, but programs that won't run unless you do. And, from all I've heard, Microsoft is doing what it can to get software developers to correct their cranial-rectal insertions and stop writing programs that way.
I think she may have felt compelled to say that because so many pro-life people act as though anybody who's pro-choice thinks that casual abortion is just another form of birth control, and that having one is "no big thing." Either they can't wrap their heads around the idea that for many women abortion is their last, reluctant option other than having a baby that they don't want and can't care for or they simply reject that possibility because it doesn't fit in with their agenda. Taking care to state that she considers the need for an abortion unfortunate, but sometimes needed makes it harder for her opponents to throw that type of accusation against her.
Oh, I don't know. We recently transferred my sister's dual boot system to a brand new HP computer. The only thing Ubuntu needed to do was download the drivers for the new video card. Win2K barfed because it didn't have drivers for the new hard disk, and wouldn't even ask us for the new ones.
Have you checked Puppy Linux? You can have it create a special boot floppy that will find Puppy on the CD and start it. Don't know, though, if it can run on a 486, but it's worth a try...
How well I know! I'm a regular on my distro's support forum, and I've seen lots of cases where Linux Just Didn't Work. However, I also know that I never see anything from all the people who install it and never have to ask. That's why I mentioned the possibility of "weird hardware." There will always be NICs, video cards, hard drives or whatever that are either so new or so obscure that it's hard to get them going, and that might have been what happened to the OP.
Considering the (by current standards) small amount of RAM, I need a rather compact distro, and ended up with Puppy. It recognizes my PCMCIA NIC with no trouble, and the PCMCIA USB hub only needed a little tweaking to get working better than it ever had with Windows. That's my point, really, that unless you're using bleeding edge equipment, Linux almost certainly can handle it, especially when it comes to networking.
My point was that if Linux could get such an old machine on-line without any messing around (It Just Worked) it should be able to get a more recent machine going without any trouble, unless there's something weird about the hardware. (Quite possible, and that's why I mentioned it.)
I find that interesting. My laptop is almost 10 years old, with a PII 233 Mhz chip and maxed out at 96Meg of RAM, but I have Linux running on it. And, I've never had the slightest difficulty connecting it to the Internet or surfing the web. Either you have some very weird hardware or you haven't tried very hard.
I'm impressed that he lets you try the album before you buy it, and that it's in flash. Of course, nobody would ever download the file and convert it to an mpeg because that wouldn't be honest.