I guess my point was more that this kind of thing is fairly common in the technology business - look at IBM with the example give, and Intel with their 486DX/SX chips.
IBM used to do this with their (very) old computers. They first came out with the "full" version and when the market for that was saturated, they sold a "lite" version of the machine for half the cost - the lite machine would insert sleep cycles in between instruction cycles so that the lite machine would only do half the work of the full machine.
I know people do not like the notion that someone searching for Presidential information might easily and accidentally end up at a porn site, but that doesn't mean that situation has been created deliberately.
I think that much of that is deliberate - and not just for Presidential information. How often do you go to google to look up some information (not on porn) and find porn near the top of the list? These sites (and sites that hijack your browser to not let you out) are deliberately trying to hook and catch the user.
On the history of the whitehouse site - I didn't know that there was a pre-existing magazine. I just guessed that it was trafficking on a common name and peoples' propensity to type the wrong address.
The intention of that site (and others using the same type of addressing like whitehouse.com) is to misdirect users from where they were really looking to go.
A good test to see if it really was political speech would be to see if the site's content does get moved to a different site.
I once heard that three man dorm rooms at Iowa State would be deemed unfit and overcrowded by the ACLU if prisoners were to live there - but they were perfectly satisfactory for students.
-15C is around 5F - and that temperature alone is not too bad. In northern Iowa, we get below that temperature, and then add this nice little thing we like to call "wind chill" to it to make it much, much worse.
Around 0 F is not too bad unless there is a wind. 32F can be terrible with enough wind.
All in all, I'd say that I hate wind during the winter.
I charge $30 an hour for the work. Depending upon what is required it often does reach around $100.
I also have an instruction sheet that I hand the customer with how to do the windows update from time to time, how to check antivirus signatures, and how to update and run AdAware and Spybot. That way if they trash the machine in a month, I'll ask if they followed the directions and won't feel to bad about charging them again if they didn't.
To be honest, it bugs me more as a consumer than as a service provider. And the Iowa deal really bugs me because the governor (a lawyer) proposed this as a tax on all services except those of lawyers.
Either Vilsack is stupid or wasn't trying that hard to get it enacted.
Iowa - the place where a bad idea can take root and grow unfettered.
I don't think that eliminating the sports programs would immediately transfer that money into academics.
Using the college sports exampe, in Division 1 much of the money that funds the athletic department is generated by football, basketball, and sports donors - donors who likely wouldn't suddenly give that money to the academic side of the school should athletics be discontinued.
Me either - just saying that the hunting and fishing licenses don't seem like a money grab because the money is (supposed) to be going back into that activity.
Fishing, hunting... licensing those activities is probably a good idea anyway since people tend to hunt things to extinction if left to themselves.
I think that in most states (in Iowa at least), fishing and hunting license fees go to the DNR for improving the habitat of the game species and for providing enforcement for catching poachers.
I Iowa, the act of granting deer licenses to limit the number taken has worked too well. There are too many deer in the state and we're starting to get predators moving in to take care of them.
So it's scam both by you and the state, presuming being a licensed firm means that you had to prove that you could do the work.
Not accusing anything here - I'd do the same if I had to fork over that $165 - probably would list a small $5 or $10 surcharge on each bill to cover that.
In Iowa, the DNR issues a "Hazardous Materials" license for businesses that do things like sell batteries and such.
In their "solicitation" for that, they list batteries and such as requirements for the license - but say that the list of such materials is not limited to what they say.
This is the same as our governors "bright idea" to start sales taxing service work (parts are taxable, labor (at this time) is not). This would be applied to computer service work, television service work, CPA work, everything but lawyers (the governor was a lawyer).
This Louisianna deal is just like that - the state has seen something that wasn't being taxed yet and thought it would be a "good" idea to do so.
If that's the case, it's rather annoying. I turn that off for internal machines because I like to have some modicum of control over when updates are applied.
For consumer customer machines, I do turn it on to make sure that updates actually happen without them having to call me.
They're finding out just how screwy the security system within Windows really is.
SP2 is supposed to be a big "security fix." Assuming that it really is, it sounds as if it's breaking lots of stuff that was previously able to work around existing security to function.
All kidding aside, we were required to take a semester of typing (on typewriters!) to graduate. I took it the last semester of my senior year and it was a waste of time - I had taught myself to type long before and was just taking up time in the class.
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I guess my point was more that this kind of thing is fairly common in the technology business - look at IBM with the example give, and Intel with their 486DX/SX chips.
IBM used to do this with their (very) old computers. They first came out with the "full" version and when the market for that was saturated, they sold a "lite" version of the machine for half the cost - the lite machine would insert sleep cycles in between instruction cycles so that the lite machine would only do half the work of the full machine.
I think that much of that is deliberate - and not just for Presidential information. How often do you go to google to look up some information (not on porn) and find porn near the top of the list? These sites (and sites that hijack your browser to not let you out) are deliberately trying to hook and catch the user.
On the history of the whitehouse site - I didn't know that there was a pre-existing magazine. I just guessed that it was trafficking on a common name and peoples' propensity to type the wrong address.
A good test to see if it really was political speech would be to see if the site's content does get moved to a different site.
I once heard that three man dorm rooms at Iowa State would be deemed unfit and overcrowded by the ACLU if prisoners were to live there - but they were perfectly satisfactory for students.
Around 0 F is not too bad unless there is a wind. 32F can be terrible with enough wind.
All in all, I'd say that I hate wind during the winter.
And for that "privilege" what do you pay in taxes - specifically taxes on fuel?
I also have an instruction sheet that I hand the customer with how to do the windows update from time to time, how to check antivirus signatures, and how to update and run AdAware and Spybot. That way if they trash the machine in a month, I'll ask if they followed the directions and won't feel to bad about charging them again if they didn't.
Either Vilsack is stupid or wasn't trying that hard to get it enacted.
Iowa - the place where a bad idea can take root and grow unfettered.
Using the college sports exampe, in Division 1 much of the money that funds the athletic department is generated by football, basketball, and sports donors - donors who likely wouldn't suddenly give that money to the academic side of the school should athletics be discontinued.
Me either - just saying that the hunting and fishing licenses don't seem like a money grab because the money is (supposed) to be going back into that activity.
When I read that, it sounded like the "automatically download updates" would be checked in the system applet.
If that's the way it's going to be, then that's the way it will be - it doesn't mean that we need to like it.
I think that in most states (in Iowa at least), fishing and hunting license fees go to the DNR for improving the habitat of the game species and for providing enforcement for catching poachers.
I Iowa, the act of granting deer licenses to limit the number taken has worked too well. There are too many deer in the state and we're starting to get predators moving in to take care of them.
Not accusing anything here - I'd do the same if I had to fork over that $165 - probably would list a small $5 or $10 surcharge on each bill to cover that.
In their "solicitation" for that, they list batteries and such as requirements for the license - but say that the list of such materials is not limited to what they say.
This is the same as our governors "bright idea" to start sales taxing service work (parts are taxable, labor (at this time) is not). This would be applied to computer service work, television service work, CPA work, everything but lawyers (the governor was a lawyer).
This Louisianna deal is just like that - the state has seen something that wasn't being taxed yet and thought it would be a "good" idea to do so.
And these kludges are the source of how many security problems?
For consumer customer machines, I do turn it on to make sure that updates actually happen without them having to call me.
So SP2 is now due out in 2006?
It also makes for a nice opportunity to clean that stuff up (for those of us who charge to do so :)
On the welcome screen, it tells you what you can do to get Windows XP Service Pack 2.
It doesn't say wait and pray.
SP2 is supposed to be a big "security fix." Assuming that it really is, it sounds as if it's breaking lots of stuff that was previously able to work around existing security to function.
All kidding aside, we were required to take a semester of typing (on typewriters!) to graduate. I took it the last semester of my senior year and it was a waste of time - I had taught myself to type long before and was just taking up time in the class.
Just because you can do something doesn't make it necessarily a good idea to do so.
I like angband over nethack too.