Exactly. Yes, it sucks that it takes 30 years to pay off a mortgage. But I still *own* my home, in the sense that I benefit from any appreciation (or get screwed by depreciation), not the bank. Otherwise it would be considered a lease.
True enough - I was never envisioning Jacki Chan as a flight attendant.:-)
But your point that "most criminals don't want any sort of fight, even a crude one," suggests that even a false sense of security among the crew and passengers may embolden them to mob the attackers. Of course, encouraging mob attacks from passengers may cause more problems than it solves, so take that with a grain of salt, I guess.
I thought I'd heard that one of the flight attendants was actually killed early into the hijacking with one of those boxcutters - tough to do with cardboard.
In any case, the 9/11 terrorists also took advantage of the standard practice of placating terrorists until they could get the plane safely on the ground. I would guess that is no longer the SOP.
Rather than rooting out every mildly-threatening piece of hardware from passengers, wouldn't it make more sense to train flight attendants in some kind of martial arts/self-defense, tailored for use within the cramped confines of a crowded airplane? Ensure that no bombs or other more serious weaponry is on board, and prepare to fight back against the rest instead of getting nervous every time someone pulls out a nail clipper.
I've wondered the same things since the tighter security has been implemented. How many zillion places could one hide a knife-like object inside a laptop, for example? Fun to think about while sitting in traffic, but probably not a wise idea to test in real life!
Thanks for the link! I also found this which goes into a bit more detail.
Most of my ancestors are from the northwestern part of Germany (Oldenburg, Hanover, etc.), and my grandparents spoke "Low German" here in America until 1917, when English suddenly gained in importance. Whenever I asked my grandparents if they still remembered much German, they would say something like, "Oh, sure, but it's just that Low German." I never really understood what they meant by that - I figured they were just being their usual overly-modest selves.
Right on. I was the SW licensing manager for a company back in 2001, and also recommended that we pass on SA for the same reasons you mentioned. Why throw money at something we have absolutely no control over?
Still, doesn't this report ease the tiny part of your brain that worried that somehow, Microsoft would release huge, critical upgrades for all their products every year once Licensing 6.0 took effect? (Sounds pretty silly, now that I put that in writing.)
This is purely anecdotal, but my brother-in-law just bought a Dell w/XP Home, and informed me that my sister was relieved to "finally" have a computer that was easy to use. (They've mostly had Windows in the past, and one short flirtation with an old iMac.) This surprised me, since my sister is certainly no dummy. But it also reminded me that one should never underestimate the power of a flashy new GUI running on a fast machine.
What I haven't seen addressed in any posts yet is how one can record radio audio on the computer at pre-programmed times, on multiple stations? Yeah, you can plug a radio into the audio-in, and set the pc to start recording at such-and-such a time, but what options are available if you want to record off multiple stations (like a VCR/Tivo/whatever)? Is there a PCI card with a radio tuner and is there software that can control the tuner and record from it?
OK, I answered my own question (with a tiny bit of help from Google). Media Forte makes a couple of FM-tuner PCI cards and bundle software that records, too. The description says Linux-compatible (drivers?), though the bundled software looks Windows-only.
He didn't say anything about fish, actually. Stop putting words in the man's mouth.:-)
But seriously, that statement did strike me as an odd bit of wishful thinking overpowering his otherwise healthy sense of skepticism. Jumping to grand conclusions based on sketchy facts is the kind of thing that leads to crusades, inquisitions, and other deplorable acts he attributes solely to religion.
Nevertheless, you've gotta cut some slack for people who dare to use their imagination. So what if they're wrong much of the time? They're also right, occasionally, and in ways nobody else could have envisioned.
I'd never heard of it either, until I started working here. I imagine it's only the bigger companies, hiring a substantial number of H1-B's, who have the leverage to get away with this. I'd never worked at a corporation nearly this large before.
Being a contract worker myself for the past 4 months, I have come to the realization that these contracts are *hardly* set in stone, especially with regards to their length or compensation. This can work to either side's advantage, depending on supply/demand of the labor. It definitely takes some getting used to, when you're used to a salaried position.
I've heard through the grapevine that it is standard procedure within my current employer's IT department to change the contract after a foreign worker has been in America for a month or two. They then have a choice: accept the lower pay, or return home. I don't know how this works, exactly, but it sounds like bait-and-switch to me, and I've often wondered how this practice is perceived by these workers.
A friend of mine who works at another large tech company in town said his company followed the same practice (until eventually outsourcing that work directly to their new subsidiary in India).
The "younger and less mature" label is probably quite okay with all those middle-aged "Juniors" out there who are younger and less mature than their senior parents. With all due respect toward our elders, nursing homes aren't my idea of a good time.
Back to the browser topic, I don't know of any businesses that use Mosaic, even though it's definitely more "mature than" most anything in use today. Looking forward, when will Netscape and Mozilla Sr. (and IE??) be ready for full retirement?
All that, just to say that I like the name "Mozilla Junior."
To rename a file in Windows, you can select a file and then: 1. Go File > Rename. 2. Press F2. (just learned this from others' posts - thanks guys! It sure beats Alt+F+M. Why isn't this shortcut documented in the menu? Talk about hidden features!) 3. Right click > Rename. 4. wait a second, then click the file's name.
To rename a file in Nautilus, you can select a file and then: 1. Go Edit > Rename. 2. Press F2. (this *is* documented in the Edit menu) 3. Right click > Rename.
The author's point was that #4 for Windows causes more trouble than it's worth. YRMV, but I totally agree.
And now I've probably wasted more time writing this post than I will ever save by using a slightly more efficient UI.
"Desler said the changes Microsoft had considered making, and could still end up making, were modest. Computer users visiting pages that rely on Active X code would be confronted with an additional dialog box that would ask the user whether they wished to run Active X controls."
After reading that, I'm wondering if that would really be such a bad thing? It seems like that would help reduce the amount of rogue executable code (i.e. spyware) that gets installed without the user's permission.
Also, would Microsoft then be in violation of the patent if they provided an option for the user to turn off this prompt?
Which is kinda funny (or sad, depending on how you look at it), since Eudora stores its mail on the local drive in files easily opened by any text editor.
I imagine that being treated like a service department rather than a productive part of the company has been a very common experience within corporate IT departments over the years. What is so unusual (but good!) about yours is that you've managed to begin to reverse that trend, while so many others' relationships with their managment have only gotten worse.
The Mall of American in Minnesota has a Legoland (that's what we call it, anyway), where you can also scoop your own legos out of bins. The prices didn't seem too exhorbitant, either.
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Exactly. Yes, it sucks that it takes 30 years to pay off a mortgage. But I still *own* my home, in the sense that I benefit from any appreciation (or get screwed by depreciation), not the bank. Otherwise it would be considered a lease.
But your point that "most criminals don't want any sort of fight, even a crude one," suggests that even a false sense of security among the crew and passengers may embolden them to mob the attackers. Of course, encouraging mob attacks from passengers may cause more problems than it solves, so take that with a grain of salt, I guess.
In any case, the 9/11 terrorists also took advantage of the standard practice of placating terrorists until they could get the plane safely on the ground. I would guess that is no longer the SOP.
Rather than rooting out every mildly-threatening piece of hardware from passengers, wouldn't it make more sense to train flight attendants in some kind of martial arts/self-defense, tailored for use within the cramped confines of a crowded airplane? Ensure that no bombs or other more serious weaponry is on board, and prepare to fight back against the rest instead of getting nervous every time someone pulls out a nail clipper.
Most of my ancestors are from the northwestern part of Germany (Oldenburg, Hanover, etc.), and my grandparents spoke "Low German" here in America until 1917, when English suddenly gained in importance. Whenever I asked my grandparents if they still remembered much German, they would say something like, "Oh, sure, but it's just that Low German." I never really understood what they meant by that - I figured they were just being their usual overly-modest selves.
Still, doesn't this report ease the tiny part of your brain that worried that somehow, Microsoft would release huge, critical upgrades for all their products every year once Licensing 6.0 took effect? (Sounds pretty silly, now that I put that in writing.)
This is purely anecdotal, but my brother-in-law just bought a Dell w/XP Home, and informed me that my sister was relieved to "finally" have a computer that was easy to use. (They've mostly had Windows in the past, and one short flirtation with an old iMac.) This surprised me, since my sister is certainly no dummy. But it also reminded me that one should never underestimate the power of a flashy new GUI running on a fast machine.
OK, I answered my own question (with a tiny bit of help from Google). Media Forte makes a couple of FM-tuner PCI cards and bundle software that records, too. The description says Linux-compatible (drivers?), though the bundled software looks Windows-only.
Sony sells a 400-DVD carousel player (dvp-cx777es) for about $700.
d -p layers_1991342851
http://shopping.yahoo.com/p_sony-dvp-cx777es_dv
Should tide you over until the ripping technology becomes mainstream enough to be cheap & reliable.
It's not a tumah!!
He didn't say anything about fish, actually. Stop putting words in the man's mouth. :-)
But seriously, that statement did strike me as an odd bit of wishful thinking overpowering his otherwise healthy sense of skepticism. Jumping to grand conclusions based on sketchy facts is the kind of thing that leads to crusades, inquisitions, and other deplorable acts he attributes solely to religion.
Nevertheless, you've gotta cut some slack for people who dare to use their imagination. So what if they're wrong much of the time? They're also right, occasionally, and in ways nobody else could have envisioned.
Oh, ja - dey are from de Hall of Lutefisk!
Sorry - it's late.
I tried this, but could not locate "turbo."
A quick Google search reveals that the -turbo feature was removed from Firebird around version 0.6.x, so I'd assume it is still out.
I'd never heard of it either, until I started working here. I imagine it's only the bigger companies, hiring a substantial number of H1-B's, who have the leverage to get away with this. I'd never worked at a corporation nearly this large before.
Being a contract worker myself for the past 4 months, I have come to the realization that these contracts are *hardly* set in stone, especially with regards to their length or compensation. This can work to either side's advantage, depending on supply/demand of the labor. It definitely takes some getting used to, when you're used to a salaried position.
I've heard through the grapevine that it is standard procedure within my current employer's IT department to change the contract after a foreign worker has been in America for a month or two. They then have a choice: accept the lower pay, or return home. I don't know how this works, exactly, but it sounds like bait-and-switch to me, and I've often wondered how this practice is perceived by these workers.
A friend of mine who works at another large tech company in town said his company followed the same practice (until eventually outsourcing that work directly to their new subsidiary in India).
The "younger and less mature" label is probably quite okay with all those middle-aged "Juniors" out there who are younger and less mature than their senior parents. With all due respect toward our elders, nursing homes aren't my idea of a good time. Back to the browser topic, I don't know of any businesses that use Mosaic, even though it's definitely more "mature than" most anything in use today. Looking forward, when will Netscape and Mozilla Sr. (and IE??) be ready for full retirement? All that, just to say that I like the name "Mozilla Junior."
So if this works, instead of my car getting hail damage, it'll just get a Mr. Misty headache?
To summarize...
To rename a file in Windows, you can select a file and then:
1. Go File > Rename.
2. Press F2. (just learned this from others' posts - thanks guys! It sure beats Alt+F+M. Why isn't this shortcut documented in the menu? Talk about hidden features!)
3. Right click > Rename.
4. wait a second, then click the file's name.
To rename a file in Nautilus, you can select a file and then:
1. Go Edit > Rename.
2. Press F2. (this *is* documented in the Edit menu)
3. Right click > Rename.
The author's point was that #4 for Windows causes more trouble than it's worth. YRMV, but I totally agree.
And now I've probably wasted more time writing this post than I will ever save by using a slightly more efficient UI.
After reading that, I'm wondering if that would really be such a bad thing? It seems like that would help reduce the amount of rogue executable code (i.e. spyware) that gets installed without the user's permission.
Also, would Microsoft then be in violation of the patent if they provided an option for the user to turn off this prompt?
Which is kinda funny (or sad, depending on how you look at it), since Eudora stores its mail on the local drive in files easily opened by any text editor.
Yup, it's January - thank God *something* is finally heating up!
I imagine that being treated like a service department rather than a productive part of the company has been a very common experience within corporate IT departments over the years. What is so unusual (but good!) about yours is that you've managed to begin to reverse that trend, while so many others' relationships with their managment have only gotten worse.
The Mall of American in Minnesota has a Legoland (that's what we call it, anyway), where you can also scoop your own legos out of bins. The prices didn't seem too exhorbitant, either.
Thank you for saying what goes through my head whenever I see headlines like that. Arg, that drives me nuts!