It is, but the Birmingham council and the civil servants working there aren't that bad ass when it comes to computers. But I bet they are more bad ass than you about things governmental.
Yes, but sometimes I can make more money by using the time I would have been fishing to do other things that make more income than the difference in the cost of the fish at the market. For some enviroments Microsoft products really do make sense. For others OSS solutions do. For still others maybe Sun Java Desktop, or whatever it's called now, would be the best fit. Use what works for you.
You need support. You need techs and installers and troubleshooters on staff. You need a support contract so that if anything bites it big time you can call up Novell, or Redhat, and have them find the solution for you rather than tying up your staff that already have other duties. Besides, if it becomes unresolvable you can point to the purchased support as the cause thus covering your very tender and precious butt. Same thing goes on with any software in a commercial/governmental setting.
Ok. You go on believeing that. If a large customer comes along and says they have a requirement for a contract and it can make your company a lot of money you do it. Supporting ODF would not endanger the "company bedrock". Not supporting things potential customers want, will. Even if the state backs off from ODF, other large groups and institutions will start requiring it. Not making an effort to compete for those contracts and losing the income may just piss off some Microsoft stock holders, myself included. Microsoft isn't selling the.doc format they are selling software and support services. They already support other formats that are not propiatary, and ODF will just be another.
p.s. I work for a public company and have invested in quite a few over the years. I can assure you that I understand how the free-market works.
So, this must be a "with us or against us" situation and if you advocate "the right tool for the job" rather than "my tool for the job" then you're "not up to the job in general"? Bullshit. ODF is a good fit for document availability/readability across platforms and software packages. Microsoft is a good fit for a software vendor who can give a large organization like the state government good support. All it requires is for MS to make standards compliant ODF a save/open option. Ta freaking da. It's not rocket science.
Their assumption is that you have total air superiority and the drones are simply platforms to transport ground attack weapons to their targets. Sort of like, "Hey drones, follow me. You, drone 1 destroy that bridge. Drone 2, destroy that railway section. You other three drone follow me to the next set of targets." My example is a bit over the top, but the basic idea is there. They will use the UAVCCI hardware to have the drone follow him, and then the pilot will controll them to attack the targets, then he uses his planes weapons last, and then flies home with the drone to be rearmed. Maybe he is his own Air-to-Air cover with the drones being the ground attack. He doesn't have to fight several drone while fighting his own plane, he just covers them as if he were escorting ground attack craft. Basically it's a way for a single pilot to deliver several plane loads of munitions.
Decent test monofiliment with a weight on the end tied to a plate attached to some of the structural members of the fuselage. Clip them in the wings or across the fuselage. I saw something akin to this done 30 years ago with planes made from balsa and glue impregnated tissue paper.
I read TFA. He needs to just stop whining. If you can't decide what you want your computer state to be when you "shutdown" step away from the computer. Permenantly. All of the choices you are given in the menu do different things. The buttons, real and virtual, are simply shortcuts to the menu choices. What a pussy he is if he can't make a decision and wants the developers to decide for him. Well, it locks, then sleeps, then hibernates in his world. And if that is not what I want it to fucking do? What if I want it to hibernate right now so I can leave Starbucks and go back to my desk, but not lose my state vectors? Oh, and if he decides not to go that far, which does the sleep/hibernate choice he describes do, sleep or hibernate? I think the real choice he needs to make is to get a clue, or get a clue.
They sucked back then too, you just had different standards. I have hated most fast food since I was in my late teens almost 30 years ago. Good food is like crack. It's hard to give up.
My uncle said that to me when I dropped out of college. He still makes more than me, but at almost $80k in a midwestern town I'm not doing too bad. Much better than many of my classmates that have degrees. It all depends on what you want to do, and how you do it. Some jobs require a degree, others it helps with, and others still it means jack.
You missed the past tense "didn't" I assume. They still aren't in the majority of MMORPG and FPS death match players. They certainly aren't in the majority in the big guilds on those types of games either because their out banging the cheerleaders and can't make molten core every fucking thursday evening.
No, what this really is is a plea by him to put down your other technological distractions and watch his show. As his followers age off and either die or get committed to the rest/nursing homes his ratings will drop and Fox will drop him unless he can get new viewers. Since many video gaming, iPod wearing, geeks don't watch TV he feels this is his largest potential source of new viewers, even if they just watch him for laughs.
Bad assumption there. Are your lack of social skills caused by your gaming, or is your attraction to gaming a side effect of having poor interpersonal skills? The reason a lot of people got into gaming was BECAUSE the lack of social interaction with large groups of people they didn't want to interact with. The jocks didn't game. The preps didn't game. The teachers didn't game. The fucking pundits didn't game.
He's like my great grandfather bitching about my grandpa and those other kids spending all their time working on their hotrods and watching TV rather than going to the icecream social down at the VFW. Societies change. Bill can get a grip. If my kids are acting like me when they grow up I'll be damn scared for society then.
The hell with if MS does it to be extortionists, what if a hacker/cracker gets a worm/virus/trojan/root kit on the WGA/Vista "Really Paid For It" servers and flags everyone as fake for a few hours. What if they had a nasty bug in the code that calculated the keys of 2% of the genuine keys were fake? How would MicroSoft know who to reactivate? Who would be liable, if anyone? So far WGA hasn't been too obtrusive from what I can see. It hasn't flagged either of my HP boxes incorrectly, but that doesn't mean it won't. If it wasn't for my kids playing games on the PCs all 5 of my desktops would be Linux or BSD. I haven't booted mine into windows since I quit playing WoW.
Could you butcher the saying you raped for your sig any worse? I'm sure you can if you try really, really, hard.
Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart;
to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.
-Francois Guisot (1787-1874)
Yeah, that is pretty much the way I see it. It is really, really, sensitive, and you don't have to move off the screen to get it to turn. Just a few degrees of wrist rotation will leave the Wiimote still pointing near the center of the screen and the pipper will be off screen and you will be spinning. Me, I sit in a chair and never move more than my wrist unless I'm zooming in. If you move around like the guy in the trailer you will just watch the blurs go by.
In the words of my 11 year old. "Dad, you better move. I get a little wild when I'm boxing." He's not quite up to the pro rating yet, but he's only 11 and had it for one day.
No, that's not a dick move. They left the consoles for the people who were willing to go stand in line. There were four in my group and we just got one console. If our friends or family wanted one they could have come down and sat with us. They made their choice, and we made ours. And as for the scalpers, I hope they choke on the nice meal they buy to celebrate their victory. Just my feeling.
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It is, but the Birmingham council and the civil servants working there aren't that bad ass when it comes to computers. But I bet they are more bad ass than you about things governmental.
Yes, but sometimes I can make more money by using the time I would have been fishing to do other things that make more income than the difference in the cost of the fish at the market. For some enviroments Microsoft products really do make sense. For others OSS solutions do. For still others maybe Sun Java Desktop, or whatever it's called now, would be the best fit. Use what works for you.
You need support. You need techs and installers and troubleshooters on staff. You need a support contract so that if anything bites it big time you can call up Novell, or Redhat, and have them find the solution for you rather than tying up your staff that already have other duties. Besides, if it becomes unresolvable you can point to the purchased support as the cause thus covering your very tender and precious butt. Same thing goes on with any software in a commercial/governmental setting.
Ok. You go on believeing that. If a large customer comes along and says they have a requirement for a contract and it can make your company a lot of money you do it. Supporting ODF would not endanger the "company bedrock". Not supporting things potential customers want, will. Even if the state backs off from ODF, other large groups and institutions will start requiring it. Not making an effort to compete for those contracts and losing the income may just piss off some Microsoft stock holders, myself included. Microsoft isn't selling the .doc format they are selling software and support services. They already support other formats that are not propiatary, and ODF will just be another.
p.s. I work for a public company and have invested in quite a few over the years. I can assure you that I understand how the free-market works.
So, this must be a "with us or against us" situation and if you advocate "the right tool for the job" rather than "my tool for the job" then you're "not up to the job in general"? Bullshit. ODF is a good fit for document availability/readability across platforms and software packages. Microsoft is a good fit for a software vendor who can give a large organization like the state government good support. All it requires is for MS to make standards compliant ODF a save/open option. Ta freaking da. It's not rocket science.
Their assumption is that you have total air superiority and the drones are simply platforms to transport ground attack weapons to their targets. Sort of like, "Hey drones, follow me. You, drone 1 destroy that bridge. Drone 2, destroy that railway section. You other three drone follow me to the next set of targets." My example is a bit over the top, but the basic idea is there. They will use the UAVCCI hardware to have the drone follow him, and then the pilot will controll them to attack the targets, then he uses his planes weapons last, and then flies home with the drone to be rearmed. Maybe he is his own Air-to-Air cover with the drones being the ground attack. He doesn't have to fight several drone while fighting his own plane, he just covers them as if he were escorting ground attack craft. Basically it's a way for a single pilot to deliver several plane loads of munitions.
Decent test monofiliment with a weight on the end tied to a plate attached to some of the structural members of the fuselage. Clip them in the wings or across the fuselage. I saw something akin to this done 30 years ago with planes made from balsa and glue impregnated tissue paper.
Never watched UHF, or whatever that horrid movie was back in the early '90s I assume.
They aren't.
I don't always answer my wifes calls. If she has a problem with that she can call someone that cares.
"You see it's like this: If Honda designed a car with seven engines..."
Damn, I might just have to buy a Honda!
I read TFA. He needs to just stop whining. If you can't decide what you want your computer state to be when you "shutdown" step away from the computer. Permenantly. All of the choices you are given in the menu do different things. The buttons, real and virtual, are simply shortcuts to the menu choices. What a pussy he is if he can't make a decision and wants the developers to decide for him. Well, it locks, then sleeps, then hibernates in his world. And if that is not what I want it to fucking do? What if I want it to hibernate right now so I can leave Starbucks and go back to my desk, but not lose my state vectors? Oh, and if he decides not to go that far, which does the sleep/hibernate choice he describes do, sleep or hibernate? I think the real choice he needs to make is to get a clue, or get a clue.
They sucked back then too, you just had different standards. I have hated most fast food since I was in my late teens almost 30 years ago. Good food is like crack. It's hard to give up.
My uncle said that to me when I dropped out of college. He still makes more than me, but at almost $80k in a midwestern town I'm not doing too bad. Much better than many of my classmates that have degrees. It all depends on what you want to do, and how you do it. Some jobs require a degree, others it helps with, and others still it means jack.
You missed the past tense "didn't" I assume. They still aren't in the majority of MMORPG and FPS death match players. They certainly aren't in the majority in the big guilds on those types of games either because their out banging the cheerleaders and can't make molten core every fucking thursday evening.
You do know that large expanses of wind farms will alter the weather patterns of the Earth, right?
No, what this really is is a plea by him to put down your other technological distractions and watch his show. As his followers age off and either die or get committed to the rest/nursing homes his ratings will drop and Fox will drop him unless he can get new viewers. Since many video gaming, iPod wearing, geeks don't watch TV he feels this is his largest potential source of new viewers, even if they just watch him for laughs.
I agree. Attacking Bill O'Reilly is a worthy discussion.
Bad assumption there. Are your lack of social skills caused by your gaming, or is your attraction to gaming a side effect of having poor interpersonal skills? The reason a lot of people got into gaming was BECAUSE the lack of social interaction with large groups of people they didn't want to interact with. The jocks didn't game. The preps didn't game. The teachers didn't game. The fucking pundits didn't game.
He's like my great grandfather bitching about my grandpa and those other kids spending all their time working on their hotrods and watching TV rather than going to the icecream social down at the VFW. Societies change. Bill can get a grip. If my kids are acting like me when they grow up I'll be damn scared for society then.
The hell with if MS does it to be extortionists, what if a hacker/cracker gets a worm/virus/trojan/root kit on the WGA/Vista "Really Paid For It" servers and flags everyone as fake for a few hours. What if they had a nasty bug in the code that calculated the keys of 2% of the genuine keys were fake? How would MicroSoft know who to reactivate? Who would be liable, if anyone? So far WGA hasn't been too obtrusive from what I can see. It hasn't flagged either of my HP boxes incorrectly, but that doesn't mean it won't. If it wasn't for my kids playing games on the PCs all 5 of my desktops would be Linux or BSD. I haven't booted mine into windows since I quit playing WoW.
Could you butcher the saying you raped for your sig any worse? I'm sure you can if you try really, really, hard. Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head. -Francois Guisot (1787-1874)
Total agreement from me on those points. I hate the load lag, and I have a pointer with a trigger for an FPS. Hint, hint, devs. ;)
Yeah, that is pretty much the way I see it. It is really, really, sensitive, and you don't have to move off the screen to get it to turn. Just a few degrees of wrist rotation will leave the Wiimote still pointing near the center of the screen and the pipper will be off screen and you will be spinning. Me, I sit in a chair and never move more than my wrist unless I'm zooming in. If you move around like the guy in the trailer you will just watch the blurs go by.
In the words of my 11 year old. "Dad, you better move. I get a little wild when I'm boxing." He's not quite up to the pro rating yet, but he's only 11 and had it for one day.
No, that's not a dick move. They left the consoles for the people who were willing to go stand in line. There were four in my group and we just got one console. If our friends or family wanted one they could have come down and sat with us. They made their choice, and we made ours. And as for the scalpers, I hope they choke on the nice meal they buy to celebrate their victory. Just my feeling.