"It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency." -- George W. Bush, June 14, 2001. Speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling.
Smart people will use whatever tool gets the job done the best and most efficient way, regardless of what anyone's personal opinion is. We all know what happens to businesses that let personal opinion dictate the choices they make.
If your job is to set up a web server, the tools you choose will be totally different than if your job is to playtest games.
Anyone know if using Software Update Services to update an entire network will bypass these checks? If it can and if MS is using this to target people for a visit from the software police then they will miss a lot of people.
If it were that simple to explain, Bush would have explained it this way a long time ago. A lack of simple explanations and a lot of dodging says there is a lot more to the story that we don't know about.
Please learn to read before making as ass of yourself. I never said I pirated movies and I never said that it was ok to pirate movies. We buy movies when they hit the $6 walmart bin and occasionally for really good movies we'll buy them earlier for around $10 or $12. Rarely will we buy a movie new at full price. Just so you know, we don't go to the theaters simply because very few movies are really worth spending that much money on.
Say, there's a great thing to teach kids. "Hey kids, we're gonna be pirating a movie tonight, because it's slightly cheaper! Maybe if we like the movie we stole, we'll buy a used copy of the DVD in six months time!"
I don't know what planet you're on, but in most households its the kids teaching parents how to pirate dvd's.;)
It's not "slightly" cheaper either. Its immensely cheaper. The "cheap" theater here costs us $35 for the family before snacks, $55 after. A majority of households find $35 or $55 for a movie outside of the budget and a waste of money.
That analogy doesn't work very well. At the meat counter, the tags are temporary. Once you get your meat you throw the tag away, you are never identified with the tag number, and the butcher never writes down your name and the tag number together. The number tags also do not affect the meat in any way. You do not have to cook the meat longer and you don't have to change your recipe for cooking meat just because you got a numbered tag while waiting in line.
The human body isn't 100% efficient. We breathe out most of the oxygen we breathe in. Same with water and urine. There is some water in urine and after filtering the water is what goes into the food (hopefully). If you've ever noticed, the more water you drink the lighter your pee is. Dark smelly pee is a sign that you're not drinking enough. The problem I see is in the desert its hard to drink enough, so pee won't have as much water as it would if you were in say a jungle or colder area.
No, unless everyone wanted to take turns. No matter which way a kvm is hooked up, you still have to push the button that determines which set is in use.
It isn't "necessary" for linux to play games, just as it isn't necessary for an apple or windows to play games. It is what some people want to do though. Basically what you're saying is that if I want to run linux AND play games, I should spend more money on more computers and more consoles so that I can have 500 different pieces of hardware to do all the things I want to do. If my computer can do linux and games and I don't have to buy anything else, thats more economical and more money for beer later.
I was just like that when I was younger. Kept getting put in honors and advanced classes because of my intelligence yet finished high school with a 2.05 GPA because I was so bored and couldn't get into the subjects. Tried college and I just wasn't into it. Ended up joining the military so I wouldn't have to work for minimum wage anymore. Seriously, suck it up and finish college. The regret of not finishing lasts a lifetime. I found that spending a lot of time studying things I liked helped deal with the more mundane aspects of life. You don't have to end up in a dull job though, no matter what you like or are good at, there can be good money to be made doing it if you plan and think ahead. Every career has good paying jobs and bad ones, and the good paying jobs are far fewer. Welders can make some money welding mufflers, or they can learn underwater welding and make serious cash. Most importantly, don't let anyone tell you what you should do for a career. Most people won't be able to comprehend your situation and offer good advice. I let a girl talk me into being a physics major and even though I was plenty smart enough to do it, it wasn't something I was very interested in and failed miserably. Find your interests and follow your heart.
Is it legal to share commercials? I mean I see commercials for free download on the net all the time, and not on P2P, I mean on actual legit-looking websites.
The honest answer is a big generalized no. I watch my kids switch who they like and don't like on a daily basis. Most people can't decide their own opinions when it comes to clothes, music, whatever. Thats why so much money is spent on advertising. Have you see the billboards over the past year that say "The next big thing, the diamond right hand ring?" They popped up then within a few months I start seeing women with these big rings on their right hand. People in general and en masse aren't terribly bright and will follow the trends or fads.
All 4 kids were birth control babies. Condom AND the pill failed 4 times. After the 4th a hysterectomy was used as birth control. Regardless of this, thats a total bs arguement that has nothing to do with the topic. The topic isn't about how rich people have noticed that linux is getting slower. And yeah you can spread the cost of ram over a million years and say but it really only costs a fraction of a penny! but thats just another really poor argument. If I need ram it has a fixed one time cost. If I could finance ram over 4 years then your arguement has merit. Ram doesn't get financed so your arguement is invalid. It's also a matter or priorities. If I wanted to go out and buy more ram, I could. When you have 4 kids, there are a billion things far more important than buying more ram. My point, which you seem to have missed completely, was that we thought we could abandon windows and go all linux and be able to keep up to date with the software without having to spend so much money like you do with microsoft. We thought that we had an alternative. We thought wrong on both counts. In the past, we could see major differences between microsoft and linux. Now we don't see many at all. Both have gotten huge and both require relatively new hardware to use, unless you want to stick with the old versions.
How is $250 cheap? That's part of this whole issue. Quite a large number of people consider $250 to be a lot of money, especially for ram. Besides I think Dell is ripping you off. According to price watch, PC4400 DDR 512 meg ram is going for $174 right now. PC2100 is $48. For me with 4 kids, $48 is a lot of money to spend on ram. Thats a pair of shoes right there. The reason this is an issue for me is that if I can't afford to buy new computers every few years for me and my kids then we're left behind in a technology black hole. I used to think that we could always use the latest greatest version of *nix but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Just like we still have to run win98 on some computers, we'll have to keep using old versions of *nix.
I got a lot of grief for a long time until I installed Gunbound (www.gunbound.net) on her computer and now she's hooked bad. Now she gets mad when I won't play gunbound with her.
"It seems to me that if you can't see the road far enough ahead to follow it, the proper response is to slow down until you can."
Ever driven at night in the rain? If we followed that advice we wouldn't be driving at all. It's almost impossible to see where the lanes are on a lot of roads at night when they are wet. Botts dots do wonders to let you see the lane lines in these situations. The dots also vibrate the car when they are driven over, giving the driver a warning that they are leaving their lane. There's not much debate as to whether the dots increase safety or not, but they've been around for so long that it's time they were upgraded to something far better with fewer negative aspects to them.
Saying that the dots encourage people to drive faster when visibility is low may be true, but not that many people are going to do that, while everyone needs to be able to see the lane lines when visibility is bad.
Reagan did start some good policies with economics. Clinton, after 8 years, left office with a $500 billion surplus. In 2 years, the 2nd bush brought us to a $500 billion deficit. If bush can screw a surplus so badly in 2 years, then clinton did an awesome job to leave us with a surplus after 8 years. During clintons reign, jobs weren't hard to find (talking about ALL jobs, not just tech jobs). Now they are. That speaks volumes to me on who screwed the economy more than anything.
It wasn't so much that people were afraid of a small hard wheeled object on sidewalks, it was the damage that skateboards do to curbs, stairs, railings, and it was the blantand disregard for public safety that a lot of skaters had while riding on public areas. I wasn't afraid of a skater running into me, I was afraid of a skater trying some trick on a railing and shooting his board at high speed toward my head. Skate parks weren't a solution because if it was, they would have been common a long time before they were. The skaters where I grew up tried to get a park built and were met by deaf ears and harsh opposition. Skaters and their friends grow up and take office in government, get jobs as teachers, or other things that give credibility and before too long public opinion changes to be more accepting. Time is the real test. Skateboarding by itself is not a bad thing so it survived. Violence and gore in games is another. So far it has survived because enough people not only think its okay, but are willing to pay good money for it.
I've seen this happen a few times. The most memorable one was with skateboarding. When it first came out there were laws passed banning skating and if you were out on the sidewalk on your board a cop would surely stop you. Now you can find public skate parks in most cities that are supported by the local government. I'm sure when the printing press was invented, people freaked out just as bad at the thought of someone's opinion being widely available to anyone.
You obviously didn't read the article. The point the interviewer was trying to make what that neither side really understands what the other is saying, and nobody is listening to anyone else. It doesn't matter that Valenti wouldn't know the answer because that had nothing to do with his point. His point was to let Valenti know that he didn't have all the information, and he made that point very well.
This might be true, but that only changes the kind of work that needs to be done. You still have to have someone administer the thing. You still need someone that can check security logs and look for strange things. You'll still need someone around that can help that clueless user that can't figure out how to log in. As we've seen with windows, as the systems get more powerful and do more things automatically, the problems that can come up grow and grow. Windows 3.1 was very easy to fix when something went wrong and was very easy to reinstall if you had to. The knowledge base of problems for win 3.1 is quite small compared to XP or server 2003. It's kind of like replacing auto assemblers with robots. Yeah those assemblers might be out of work, but you still need someone to service the robots. Just make sure your skill set stays current and you keep track of what needs to be done, as that is what changes the most. When I was working for one of those 3rd party support companies, most of the computers we worked on were win98 or dos and this was just 2 years ago. Businesses keep their old systems around for a very long time, especially in small towns. We even had a few clients that were still running their databases off of 486's.
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"It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency." -- George W. Bush, June 14, 2001. Speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling.
Smart people will use whatever tool gets the job done the best and most efficient way, regardless of what anyone's personal opinion is. We all know what happens to businesses that let personal opinion dictate the choices they make.
If your job is to set up a web server, the tools you choose will be totally different than if your job is to playtest games.
Anyone know if using Software Update Services to update an entire network will bypass these checks? If it can and if MS is using this to target people for a visit from the software police then they will miss a lot of people.
"Fornax is facing an intergalactic headwind as it is pulled by an underlying superstructure of dark matter"
It's not being pulled by a headwind. It's facing a headwind.
If it were that simple to explain, Bush would have explained it this way a long time ago. A lack of simple explanations and a lot of dodging says there is a lot more to the story that we don't know about.
Please learn to read before making as ass of yourself. I never said I pirated movies and I never said that it was ok to pirate movies. We buy movies when they hit the $6 walmart bin and occasionally for really good movies we'll buy them earlier for around $10 or $12. Rarely will we buy a movie new at full price.
Just so you know, we don't go to the theaters simply because very few movies are really worth spending that much money on.
Say, there's a great thing to teach kids. "Hey kids, we're gonna be pirating a movie tonight, because it's slightly cheaper! Maybe if we like the movie we stole, we'll buy a used copy of the DVD in six months time!"
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I don't know what planet you're on, but in most households its the kids teaching parents how to pirate dvd's.
It's not "slightly" cheaper either. Its immensely cheaper. The "cheap" theater here costs us $35 for the family before snacks, $55 after. A majority of households find $35 or $55 for a movie outside of the budget and a waste of money.
That analogy doesn't work very well. At the meat counter, the tags are temporary. Once you get your meat you throw the tag away, you are never identified with the tag number, and the butcher never writes down your name and the tag number together. The number tags also do not affect the meat in any way. You do not have to cook the meat longer and you don't have to change your recipe for cooking meat just because you got a numbered tag while waiting in line.
The human body isn't 100% efficient. We breathe out most of the oxygen we breathe in. Same with water and urine. There is some water in urine and after filtering the water is what goes into the food (hopefully).
If you've ever noticed, the more water you drink the lighter your pee is. Dark smelly pee is a sign that you're not drinking enough.
The problem I see is in the desert its hard to drink enough, so pee won't have as much water as it would if you were in say a jungle or colder area.
No, unless everyone wanted to take turns. No matter which way a kvm is hooked up, you still have to push the button that determines which set is in use.
It isn't "necessary" for linux to play games, just as it isn't necessary for an apple or windows to play games. It is what some people want to do though.
Basically what you're saying is that if I want to run linux AND play games, I should spend more money on more computers and more consoles so that I can have 500 different pieces of hardware to do all the things I want to do. If my computer can do linux and games and I don't have to buy anything else, thats more economical and more money for beer later.
I was just like that when I was younger. Kept getting put in honors and advanced classes because of my intelligence yet finished high school with a 2.05 GPA because I was so bored and couldn't get into the subjects. Tried college and I just wasn't into it. Ended up joining the military so I wouldn't have to work for minimum wage anymore. Seriously, suck it up and finish college. The regret of not finishing lasts a lifetime.
I found that spending a lot of time studying things I liked helped deal with the more mundane aspects of life. You don't have to end up in a dull job though, no matter what you like or are good at, there can be good money to be made doing it if you plan and think ahead. Every career has good paying jobs and bad ones, and the good paying jobs are far fewer. Welders can make some money welding mufflers, or they can learn underwater welding and make serious cash.
Most importantly, don't let anyone tell you what you should do for a career. Most people won't be able to comprehend your situation and offer good advice. I let a girl talk me into being a physics major and even though I was plenty smart enough to do it, it wasn't something I was very interested in and failed miserably.
Find your interests and follow your heart.
It's from pulp fiction
Zed's dead baby....Zed's dead.
Is it legal to share commercials? I mean I see commercials for free download on the net all the time, and not on P2P, I mean on actual legit-looking websites.
The honest answer is a big generalized no. I watch my kids switch who they like and don't like on a daily basis. Most people can't decide their own opinions when it comes to clothes, music, whatever. Thats why so much money is spent on advertising. Have you see the billboards over the past year that say "The next big thing, the diamond right hand ring?" They popped up then within a few months I start seeing women with these big rings on their right hand.
People in general and en masse aren't terribly bright and will follow the trends or fads.
All 4 kids were birth control babies. Condom AND the pill failed 4 times. After the 4th a hysterectomy was used as birth control. Regardless of this, thats a total bs arguement that has nothing to do with the topic. The topic isn't about how rich people have noticed that linux is getting slower.
And yeah you can spread the cost of ram over a million years and say but it really only costs a fraction of a penny! but thats just another really poor argument. If I need ram it has a fixed one time cost. If I could finance ram over 4 years then your arguement has merit. Ram doesn't get financed so your arguement is invalid.
It's also a matter or priorities. If I wanted to go out and buy more ram, I could. When you have 4 kids, there are a billion things far more important than buying more ram.
My point, which you seem to have missed completely, was that we thought we could abandon windows and go all linux and be able to keep up to date with the software without having to spend so much money like you do with microsoft. We thought that we had an alternative. We thought wrong on both counts. In the past, we could see major differences between microsoft and linux. Now we don't see many at all. Both have gotten huge and both require relatively new hardware to use, unless you want to stick with the old versions.
How is $250 cheap? That's part of this whole issue. Quite a large number of people consider $250 to be a lot of money, especially for ram. Besides I think Dell is ripping you off. According to price watch, PC4400 DDR 512 meg ram is going for $174 right now. PC2100 is $48. For me with 4 kids, $48 is a lot of money to spend on ram. Thats a pair of shoes right there.
The reason this is an issue for me is that if I can't afford to buy new computers every few years for me and my kids then we're left behind in a technology black hole. I used to think that we could always use the latest greatest version of *nix but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Just like we still have to run win98 on some computers, we'll have to keep using old versions of *nix.
I got a lot of grief for a long time until I installed Gunbound (www.gunbound.net) on her computer and now she's hooked bad. Now she gets mad when I won't play gunbound with her.
"It seems to me that if you can't see the road far enough ahead to follow it, the proper response is to slow down until you can."
Ever driven at night in the rain? If we followed that advice we wouldn't be driving at all. It's almost impossible to see where the lanes are on a lot of roads at night when they are wet. Botts dots do wonders to let you see the lane lines in these situations. The dots also vibrate the car when they are driven over, giving the driver a warning that they are leaving their lane. There's not much debate as to whether the dots increase safety or not, but they've been around for so long that it's time they were upgraded to something far better with fewer negative aspects to them.
Saying that the dots encourage people to drive faster when visibility is low may be true, but not that many people are going to do that, while everyone needs to be able to see the lane lines when visibility is bad.
Reagan did start some good policies with economics. Clinton, after 8 years, left office with a $500 billion surplus. In 2 years, the 2nd bush brought us to a $500 billion deficit. If bush can screw a surplus so badly in 2 years, then clinton did an awesome job to leave us with a surplus after 8 years. During clintons reign, jobs weren't hard to find (talking about ALL jobs, not just tech jobs). Now they are. That speaks volumes to me on who screwed the economy more than anything.
It wasn't so much that people were afraid of a small hard wheeled object on sidewalks, it was the damage that skateboards do to curbs, stairs, railings, and it was the blantand disregard for public safety that a lot of skaters had while riding on public areas. I wasn't afraid of a skater running into me, I was afraid of a skater trying some trick on a railing and shooting his board at high speed toward my head.
Skate parks weren't a solution because if it was, they would have been common a long time before they were. The skaters where I grew up tried to get a park built and were met by deaf ears and harsh opposition. Skaters and their friends grow up and take office in government, get jobs as teachers, or other things that give credibility and before too long public opinion changes to be more accepting.
Time is the real test. Skateboarding by itself is not a bad thing so it survived. Violence and gore in games is another. So far it has survived because enough people not only think its okay, but are willing to pay good money for it.
I've seen this happen a few times. The most memorable one was with skateboarding. When it first came out there were laws passed banning skating and if you were out on the sidewalk on your board a cop would surely stop you. Now you can find public skate parks in most cities that are supported by the local government.
I'm sure when the printing press was invented, people freaked out just as bad at the thought of someone's opinion being widely available to anyone.
You obviously didn't read the article. The point the interviewer was trying to make what that neither side really understands what the other is saying, and nobody is listening to anyone else. It doesn't matter that Valenti wouldn't know the answer because that had nothing to do with his point. His point was to let Valenti know that he didn't have all the information, and he made that point very well.
This might be true, but that only changes the kind of work that needs to be done. You still have to have someone administer the thing. You still need someone that can check security logs and look for strange things. You'll still need someone around that can help that clueless user that can't figure out how to log in.
As we've seen with windows, as the systems get more powerful and do more things automatically, the problems that can come up grow and grow. Windows 3.1 was very easy to fix when something went wrong and was very easy to reinstall if you had to. The knowledge base of problems for win 3.1 is quite small compared to XP or server 2003.
It's kind of like replacing auto assemblers with robots. Yeah those assemblers might be out of work, but you still need someone to service the robots. Just make sure your skill set stays current and you keep track of what needs to be done, as that is what changes the most.
When I was working for one of those 3rd party support companies, most of the computers we worked on were win98 or dos and this was just 2 years ago. Businesses keep their old systems around for a very long time, especially in small towns. We even had a few clients that were still running their databases off of 486's.