That's not true. Opera works. I spent last weekend volunteering at the Reunion Arena shelter in Dallas. We booted one machine with Knoppix because the Windows install was bad. Mozilla and Konquerer failed to load the page correctly. So I downloaded Opera and it worked. Unless FEMA have gone out of their way to eliminate Opera, you should be able to register with Opera. In other words, there is nothing on that page that Opera cannot handle. We've registered a few hundred people already and a few with Opera.
The stupid site really ticks me off. Even with IE you will have problems. I think they did the stupid thing in ASP. Every stupid action you take requires exchange of states between you and the server. If you click before that's complete it will give you and error and you might have to start all over. There was nothing on that page that could not have been done with simple HTML
BTW, yesterday was the first day FEMA started working fully in Dallas. Their computers couldn't network properly so they had to take over OUR PCs to register people by doing exactly the same thing we've been doing. Not only that, they only want those computers, which do not belong to them, to be used only for FEMA registration. In the words of a FEMA worker, "People need money not email or Internet." That would be great if they all knew where the family was or our government was competent enough to provide them with that information. Unfortunately, most people have to look for their family on their own on the Internet.
What have the editors done!? They posted a link back to Slashdot so now they're going to Slashdot Slashdot and create a Internet blackhole where the same articles get posted over and over again!
Can someone who knows better Chinese than me tell me what Baidu means? "Bai" sounds like "one hundred" and "du" sounds like "degree". 100 degrees makes no sense but it does sound a lot like the meaning of Googol (or Google) in Chinese. I could be way off on this one since Mandarin is not my native dialect and it's been a while since I've studied it.
'glitch' has forced the mars probe to switch into a "safe-mode",
Damn spyware! That's the only way you'll be able to remove them. I hope they did Safe Mode with Networking Support because it's will take awhile for someone to cold boot that baby if it something goes wrong.
'I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google.' Schmidt previously worked for Sun Microsystems and was the CEO of Novell."
You know Schmidy is just harboring some serious grudge against MS right now. If Balmer thinks he's the only one with the motivation to compete, he doesn't know what it's like to be driven vengenance. Schmidt is like the underdog who've been kicked around and have finally made his break. We all know how those stories end.
.Linux is enormously popular among IT staff members, many of whom are at the beginning of their careers, as well as with IT educators in universities and technical institutions worldwide.
That statement is so true. Back in college, we all developed on Linux environment because:
1. Our professors were old school and know Unix and C.
2. More importantly, we can get down into the nuts and bolts of the OS. It really helps when you're taking a class on OS. My friend and I wrote a 2 line Perl script to create and kill process one after another just to see how Linux will handle process IDs wrapping around and basing our design decision on that (part of it is also the Geek factor to see what happens).
3. Linux and open source tools are freely available.
Now at work, most of the younger developers and IT staffers are also Linux users. MS haven't done so well in winning the hearts and minds of the next generation.
Basically all modern views of syntax are unscientific and we're not going to get anywhere until Chompsky dies.
I really don't understand that. How are modern views of syntax unscientific? Also, if Chomsky is such an influence on linguistics, then maybe he's right about it. Aren't you essentially saying that we have no way of arguing with him so let's wait til he dies so he can't argue back? I would think the correct view should win out regardless of the speaker.
Other than what I've studied in cognitive science, I am not in any way or form a linguist. However, what you say really confuses me and contradicts what I've learned. I can only assume that what you say make sense because of your deeper knowledge. So can you please explain what you mean for the rest of us?
This is complete off-topics but I've been thinking about learning how to fly myself. How much did that cost you and how long did it take to get as far as you did?
Anyone else here remember that show "Beyond 2000" on Discovery Channel? Well it's 5 years past that and still no flying car. For God's sake there's no completely electric cars either! I remember in grade school reading about GM's EV1 car. My dad promised me that when I turn 18 he'll buy one for me. 18 came and went, no free electric car from dad. 4 more years later, the best we have is the hybrids and GM isn't even one of the makers. I would be wary of GM's promises...
The use of an irrevocable Commons license, which effectively ends any hope of the artist being compensated by the creative industries, doesn't seem fair or sensible for most readers.
What is the whole point of his diatribe? It's not like someone took a gun to the artist's head and told him to do it. The artist presumably read and understood what he is doing and did it. Can we just stop this paternalism? If Ray Charles wants to keep his music royalties and rights, he can. It's not as though CC is being pressed into law. It's your material and your choice. Behind his comment is this assumption that most artists are morons and will want to revoke his decision some day. That's perfectly alright and he can. He can release his work under some other license if he likes. CC is just a convient template to use if that's the road you want to take.
And guess what? It is through the sampling of CC music from iRate radio that I discovered new music and purchased copies of artists' other songs. You can give some of your music away for free and keep the rest under copyright. You can do whatever the hell you want with your work. CC is just one option out there. Having choices is usually good.
Knowing what I know now about how intelligent people are treated in society compared to a beautiful people and the kinds of problems intelligent people experience, I would say your niece is pretty damn smart. If ignorance is bliss then dumb and beautiful would be heavenly.
I heard the Chinese will sell you a real nice 100% DoD compliant computer for really cheap. The only caveat is that you have to use their ISP for network connections.
1. Some "consulting firm" is involved in a study instead of some non-profit organization.
2. When that firm is Gartner, who've been known to make all kinds of outrageous claims to get publicity.
3. They come up with nice, easy numbers like "Gartner Research believes a drop of 45% in India's share could happen in the next two years." Anyone who've done any research or studies, knows that numbers ending in 5 or 0 don't have special meanings in reality. The only thing that it matters to are readers, especially PHBs. What this suggests is that Gartner just pulled some number out of a hand to get more publicity, again. 45% is much easier for a PHB to rattle off than 73% during a meeting.
I have no strong feelings about this "news" either especially coming from a source as unreliable as Gartner. The trend is probably true but the number is probably bogus.
That's nothing new. It's been done for many years now at my Alma Mater, Yale. All our classes were divided into 4 groups. Group I was the most artsy/literature heavy, Group IV had the hard sciences, math, and engineering and the groups progressed in a scale. We were all required to take a certain number of classes from each group to graduate plus proficiency in one foreign language. Even though I was a CS major, only 1/3 of my classes were actual CS classes. I'm not the best programmer in the world but I graduated with a good background in literature, philosophy, and history. More importantly, I also took classes that were in more than one group so I can see how ideas in CS relate to ideas in neuroscience and game theory. Ultimately, my education gave me a lot of flexibility in my career choices and enhanced my life in general. There is a lot of interesting ideas and topics out there besides just computing and science.
I highly encourage anyone who have similar opportunities at their school to try out new and different classes even if they don't have to. There are geniuses in every field and it's worth observing what they thought and what drove them. Boundaries are places where interesting things occur.
"Using the Windows operating system, we have programs to record the images and put them in a database of patients."
That's half the expense right there.
And by "Galaxy" they mean that every hour it draws enough power to require the consumption of a micro-galaxy, like the kind you find in a marble from the first Men in Black. Everytime you power on your system it is "As if a million souls cried out in torment..." The Jedis are going to be mad about this one.
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That's not true. Opera works. I spent last weekend volunteering at the Reunion Arena shelter in Dallas. We booted one machine with Knoppix because the Windows install was bad. Mozilla and Konquerer failed to load the page correctly. So I downloaded Opera and it worked. Unless FEMA have gone out of their way to eliminate Opera, you should be able to register with Opera. In other words, there is nothing on that page that Opera cannot handle. We've registered a few hundred people already and a few with Opera.
The stupid site really ticks me off. Even with IE you will have problems. I think they did the stupid thing in ASP. Every stupid action you take requires exchange of states between you and the server. If you click before that's complete it will give you and error and you might have to start all over. There was nothing on that page that could not have been done with simple HTML
BTW, yesterday was the first day FEMA started working fully in Dallas. Their computers couldn't network properly so they had to take over OUR PCs to register people by doing exactly the same thing we've been doing. Not only that, they only want those computers, which do not belong to them, to be used only for FEMA registration. In the words of a FEMA worker, "People need money not email or Internet." That would be great if they all knew where the family was or our government was competent enough to provide them with that information. Unfortunately, most people have to look for their family on their own on the Internet.
Or FUD considering who owns MSNBC...
I kid, I kid.
Can someone who knows better Chinese than me tell me what Baidu means? "Bai" sounds like "one hundred" and "du" sounds like "degree". 100 degrees makes no sense but it does sound a lot like the meaning of Googol (or Google) in Chinese. I could be way off on this one since Mandarin is not my native dialect and it's been a while since I've studied it.
Damn spyware! That's the only way you'll be able to remove them. I hope they did Safe Mode with Networking Support because it's will take awhile for someone to cold boot that baby if it something goes wrong.
And here's an artist rendering of how they might have looked.
You know, I don't even know how my post got modded up insightful. It was meant as a joke but boy did that one turn out really bad.
You know Schmidy is just harboring some serious grudge against MS right now. If Balmer thinks he's the only one with the motivation to compete, he doesn't know what it's like to be driven vengenance. Schmidt is like the underdog who've been kicked around and have finally made his break. We all know how those stories end.
They can figure out IE's convoluted way of storing data such as cookies but they can't find out how Firefox stores its data? Bogus!
That statement is so true. Back in college, we all developed on Linux environment because: 1. Our professors were old school and know Unix and C. 2. More importantly, we can get down into the nuts and bolts of the OS. It really helps when you're taking a class on OS. My friend and I wrote a 2 line Perl script to create and kill process one after another just to see how Linux will handle process IDs wrapping around and basing our design decision on that (part of it is also the Geek factor to see what happens). 3. Linux and open source tools are freely available.
Now at work, most of the younger developers and IT staffers are also Linux users. MS haven't done so well in winning the hearts and minds of the next generation.
I really don't understand that. How are modern views of syntax unscientific? Also, if Chomsky is such an influence on linguistics, then maybe he's right about it. Aren't you essentially saying that we have no way of arguing with him so let's wait til he dies so he can't argue back? I would think the correct view should win out regardless of the speaker.
Other than what I've studied in cognitive science, I am not in any way or form a linguist. However, what you say really confuses me and contradicts what I've learned. I can only assume that what you say make sense because of your deeper knowledge. So can you please explain what you mean for the rest of us?
Thanks.
This is complete off-topics but I've been thinking about learning how to fly myself. How much did that cost you and how long did it take to get as far as you did?
Thanks.
Anyone else here remember that show "Beyond 2000" on Discovery Channel? Well it's 5 years past that and still no flying car. For God's sake there's no completely electric cars either! I remember in grade school reading about GM's EV1 car. My dad promised me that when I turn 18 he'll buy one for me. 18 came and went, no free electric car from dad. 4 more years later, the best we have is the hybrids and GM isn't even one of the makers. I would be wary of GM's promises...
What is the whole point of his diatribe? It's not like someone took a gun to the artist's head and told him to do it. The artist presumably read and understood what he is doing and did it. Can we just stop this paternalism? If Ray Charles wants to keep his music royalties and rights, he can. It's not as though CC is being pressed into law. It's your material and your choice. Behind his comment is this assumption that most artists are morons and will want to revoke his decision some day. That's perfectly alright and he can. He can release his work under some other license if he likes. CC is just a convient template to use if that's the road you want to take.
And guess what? It is through the sampling of CC music from iRate radio that I discovered new music and purchased copies of artists' other songs. You can give some of your music away for free and keep the rest under copyright. You can do whatever the hell you want with your work. CC is just one option out there. Having choices is usually good.
A nerd improves his chances of getting laid...
Office XP = Office 2002. That makes it 3 years old, not 5.
Fuck me! I'm Chinese American. I guess it's off to the concentration camps for me... excuse me, I meant internment camps.
Because the concept of race might literally be only skin deep.
Knowing what I know now about how intelligent people are treated in society compared to a beautiful people and the kinds of problems intelligent people experience, I would say your niece is pretty damn smart. If ignorance is bliss then dumb and beautiful would be heavenly.
I heard the Chinese will sell you a real nice 100% DoD compliant computer for really cheap. The only caveat is that you have to use their ISP for network connections.
1. Some "consulting firm" is involved in a study instead of some non-profit organization.
2. When that firm is Gartner, who've been known to make all kinds of outrageous claims to get publicity.
3. They come up with nice, easy numbers like "Gartner Research believes a drop of 45% in India's share could happen in the next two years." Anyone who've done any research or studies, knows that numbers ending in 5 or 0 don't have special meanings in reality. The only thing that it matters to are readers, especially PHBs. What this suggests is that Gartner just pulled some number out of a hand to get more publicity, again. 45% is much easier for a PHB to rattle off than 73% during a meeting.
I have no strong feelings about this "news" either especially coming from a source as unreliable as Gartner. The trend is probably true but the number is probably bogus.
Screw that! I want to see the secretaries go at it!
That's nothing new. It's been done for many years now at my Alma Mater, Yale. All our classes were divided into 4 groups. Group I was the most artsy/literature heavy, Group IV had the hard sciences, math, and engineering and the groups progressed in a scale. We were all required to take a certain number of classes from each group to graduate plus proficiency in one foreign language. Even though I was a CS major, only 1/3 of my classes were actual CS classes. I'm not the best programmer in the world but I graduated with a good background in literature, philosophy, and history. More importantly, I also took classes that were in more than one group so I can see how ideas in CS relate to ideas in neuroscience and game theory. Ultimately, my education gave me a lot of flexibility in my career choices and enhanced my life in general. There is a lot of interesting ideas and topics out there besides just computing and science.
I highly encourage anyone who have similar opportunities at their school to try out new and different classes even if they don't have to. There are geniuses in every field and it's worth observing what they thought and what drove them. Boundaries are places where interesting things occur.
In Vietnam Windows is free-as-in-beer-ware.
And by "Galaxy" they mean that every hour it draws enough power to require the consumption of a micro-galaxy, like the kind you find in a marble from the first Men in Black. Everytime you power on your system it is "As if a million souls cried out in torment..." The Jedis are going to be mad about this one.