No, they liked Clinton! As if that was a smart choice. I have seen a secondary poll that goes right behind this one. The numbers are abotuthe same and other countries want the US to have a weak president, like Kerry.
Of course there is: www.republican.com www.usa.com www.democrat ic.com (when I need a good laugh) www.democraticunderground.com (when I need a belly laugh) www.johnkerry.com - another funny site - they think Kerry is going to win! www.ratherbiased.com
When asked the follow up question the trend was about the same. Do you want a strong American President or a weak American president? The poll came out about the same with a weak presiedent (John Kerry is one) leading over a strong president (Like George Bush). Like American wants to let the rest of the world walk all over us.....
The model that supports global warming is seriously flawed. The only people that support global warming in the scientific community are those whose grants are based upon it. Gee, I wonder why.
You want to seriously look into how the Global warming scam is being played, check out www.junkscience.com They have a lot of information over there that just might open your eyes.
How many people did you see layed off during that time? I saw plenty. Do I have stats? No, but it happened. And I saw one shop headed for it a year before it happened. That was the first shop I was in tha tI left 8 weeks later. Less than 1 year later, they layed off 2000 people.
Very good, but the one detail you missed is the same one the article missed in the first place.
The Dot bomb started in the spring of 2000, not 2001. It started with laying off the Y2K people. The qualified Y2K people started taking the jobs of the others and the crash began.
I, for one was laid off in June 2000, and found a new job twice that summer. The second one is the one I still have now.
Except for the part about degradation of the registry. Look, I've got systems that are running Win 98SE and even 2 still running Win 95.
One of the Win 95 machines has been running for 7 YEARS without having to reload the OS. I have swapped hardware in and out, and changed drivers. The last time the OS was changed was when I put the 6 Gig drive in (1997) and I needed to upgrade from Win 95 ver B to ver C (B didn't support drives that big).
One of the Win 98 machines is now 4 years old, with no reloads, the other is only about 18 months old.
I run them all now on a router with a hardware firewall. The 95 machine is hardwired, the 98's are Wi-fi. Cable modem coming out the other end. There is NO anti-virus software installed, though adaware still runs on them every so often. I did install all the patches from MS.
Oh, and one more item of security for your Wi-fi system. Put passwords on your disk drives. You can teach all the other machines in your network to remember the passwords, but joe drive by can not access the drives if he breaks thru the first layer of security. Like anything else, he will go somewhere else where it is easier to get thru.
Well, then there was also the fact that when Star Wars was originally in the theater in 1977 it was titled Star Wars and there was not an Episode IV or the title "A New Hope".
Those of us old foggies that are old enough can remember back that far. That was my first date, opening night, because a girl I liked saw me with the book and was interested in it.
Yes, I read the article. Someone - a known terrorist used the alias of T. Kennedy. The screen list is used to make sure that this is really Ted Kennedy, not someone pretending to be him. Hmm, sounds legit to me.
Then again, Ted Kennedy IS dangerous when traveling.
>Err, if you haven't noticed, many of the worst M$ security problems lately have affected only the WinNT codebase, including some that are WinXP-specific. As long as you're only running client apps, Win9x derivatives may actually be safer than the newer ones!
I have 3 machines at home right now. 2 are running Win 98SE and 1 is running Win 95c. You heard me. When I went to broadband, I hooked up all 3 machines to the net. 6+ months later and I have not yet seen a SINGLE VIRUS or SPYWARE hit on any of the machines.
Now, since I have three, I did put a router in and turned on the router's firewall, but the Win95 machine has no virus protection! (You can't buy it anymore). The Win 98SE machines have some, but the detection isn't really up to date. Adaware is running, but hasn't found anything malicious yet.
So, why is everyone having such problems? Good user training not to open crap, and a lack of visits to stupid websites maybe?
Heck, the only item I had attack me was while I was on dialup, and I got rid of that ad thing via the delete command!
I benchmarked Ingres in the late 1980s. It was half the speed of Oracle then. And 1/50 of the speed of a dedicated Network (Codasyl) model for the same data.
The benchmarks were all done on the same machine, using the same data, and as close to the same data model as could be had vs the various DBMSes involved.
Needless to say, we didn't use it for anything after that.
Bah, Jr or SR isn't neccessary to screw up the credit reports. My Dad came to live with me for 5 months while his new house was under construction. It took 2 years to straighten out the credit reports (and I have a different brother who is a JR and he and my Dad never did get one company straightened out with some stock. They finally agreed to sell it and split the money on a given day to fix the problem.)
For many years as I grew up, my Dad was a part time wedding photographer (His day job was in IT). So every weekend he earned extra money doing weddings.
When I approached the only good studio in town about doing my wedding, he was very frank about it. I want x$ as a minimum garauntee, because I know that you will have other photographers there (He knew I had hi-quality equipment of my own, because he processed most of my film in those days).
I opted to have my Dad do the job. And one of these days, I will own the copyrights, though I have the negatives now. And it was free. And I got a professional to do the job.
In case you think that is a nasty thing to do to your Dad during the wedding, he did the same thing to his Dad all those years before.
When my little brother got married, I shot a roll of 35mm and had it processed to a Kodak Photo disc. While I kept the original disc, I did burn a copy for him.
And for the address, n/a makes a good street, and zip code 12345 is the General Electric main plant in Schenctady, NY (I actually could recieve mail there once upon a time, so that address is just out of date, not a lie.....)
with examples of 2 cases where the DMCA law is dangerous to my health/healthcare, to the point of it actually threatening my life and others like me. I described what I had done to combat those cases, which involved violating the DMCA.
In one case, after I cracked the password of a vender package, I reported the password back to the vender's help desk, where they now give it out to everyone who asks (before I cracked the password, they didn't know it, because I asked).
I urge others with such examples to do the same and give Rep Boucher more data to work with.
that had the patent on hypercards a while back. When it got to the courts, they lost.
Further, isn't a patent supposed to present something that isn't just common sense? I can remember diagramming such a system as this on a whiteboard for a fellow programmer - in 1981! Can you say prior art?
Look, exposure to low level languages and limited memory make you think about what you really need in the program and what you can do without.
In one shop I would take code from the consulting firm, trim out 40-60% of the code, and end up with a job running 25-35% faster (and cheaper). And then there was the other bug in the code. 50 lines of useless code in each of three programs was costing the company $60K in usage to a department per year!
Or how about added transfer time into an EDI program twice for each item calculated. It was causing Disney to hold $10 Million in the warehouses in inventory until I found it.
And it isn't just assembler. It is low level DBMS functionality too. I had one job where the first test ran 12 hours. By re-coding it in a completely different manner it took 5 minutes. The 12 hour method was the method recommended by the vendor of the DBMS. The 5 minute version was mine.
Finally, code can be in a high level language and still be efficient. And there are still plenty of devices out there with limited memory - how about PDAs? or Dive Computers?
As for printing shots, you can bulk load film too. A roll of 100 foot slide film is about $30. That will make ~850 frames of slide film. Processing it yourself you can get chemicals for much cheaper than the above. Also, with slides (and even prints) you only print the shots you want (get a loupe for god's sake - an expensive one is $8.)
Finally, if you shoot film, you will learn quickly, which shots are going to be crap - and not shoot them. So you will only shoot 2000 say.
Digital lends itself much to easily to what we call "machine gun photography" Shoot 50 shots in a burst to get one good one. The film shooter will shoot 3, and get it.
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At least there he is wanted. I, for one, already voted (got my Absentee ballot Friday) and while Nader was on the ballot, he didn't get my vote.
No, they liked Clinton! As if that was a smart choice. I have seen a secondary poll that goes right behind this one. The numbers are abotuthe same and other countries want the US to have a weak president, like Kerry.
Got that right. Spring of 2000 was when the Y2K programmers started to get laid off. THAT was the start of the recession.
Anything else is pure bull.
And since Bush didn't take office until Jan 2001, guess whose fault IT CAN NOT BE?
And in case you ask, I had to find work twice that summer, thanks to the stupid economy.
People from my generation (and we are the ones in charge at IT now) think both terms are derogetory. You want to get hired, don't use either one.
As for the premise of this article, not NO, HELL NO!
A troll is not one that lists 7 items that are within the topic.
Of course there is:t ic.com (when I need a good laugh)
www.republican.com
www.usa.com
www.democra
www.democraticunderground.com (when I need a belly laugh)
www.johnkerry.com - another funny site - they think Kerry is going to win!
www.ratherbiased.com
When asked the follow up question the trend was about the same. Do you want a strong American President or a weak American president? The poll came out about the same with a weak presiedent (John Kerry is one) leading over a strong president (Like George Bush). Like American wants to let the rest of the world walk all over us.....
Then you haven't done enough homework.
The model that supports global warming is seriously flawed. The only people that support global warming in the scientific community are those whose grants are based upon it. Gee, I wonder why.
You want to seriously look into how the Global warming scam is being played, check out www.junkscience.com They have a lot of information over there that just might open your eyes.
How many people did you see layed off during that time? I saw plenty. Do I have stats? No, but it happened. And I saw one shop headed for it a year before it happened. That was the first shop I was in tha tI left 8 weeks later. Less than 1 year later, they layed off 2000 people.
Very good, but the one detail you missed is the same one the article missed in the first place.
The Dot bomb started in the spring of 2000, not 2001. It started with laying off the Y2K people. The qualified Y2K people started taking the jobs of the others and the crash began.
I, for one was laid off in June 2000, and found a new job twice that summer. The second one is the one I still have now.
Except for the part about degradation of the registry. Look, I've got systems that are running Win 98SE and even 2 still running Win 95.
One of the Win 95 machines has been running for 7 YEARS without having to reload the OS. I have swapped hardware in and out, and changed drivers. The last time the OS was changed was when I put the 6 Gig drive in (1997) and I needed to upgrade from Win 95 ver B to ver C (B didn't support drives that big).
One of the Win 98 machines is now 4 years old, with no reloads, the other is only about 18 months old.
I run them all now on a router with a hardware firewall. The 95 machine is hardwired, the 98's are Wi-fi. Cable modem coming out the other end. There is NO anti-virus software installed, though adaware still runs on them every so often. I did install all the patches from MS.
Oh, and one more item of security for your Wi-fi system. Put passwords on your disk drives. You can teach all the other machines in your network to remember the passwords, but joe drive by can not access the drives if he breaks thru the first layer of security. Like anything else, he will go somewhere else where it is easier to get thru.
Well, then there was also the fact that when Star Wars was originally in the theater in 1977 it was titled Star Wars and there was not an Episode IV or the title "A New Hope".
Those of us old foggies that are old enough can remember back that far. That was my first date, opening night, because a girl I liked saw me with the book and was interested in it.
Yes, I read the article. Someone - a known terrorist used the alias of T. Kennedy. The screen list is used to make sure that this is really Ted Kennedy, not someone pretending to be him. Hmm, sounds legit to me.
Then again, Ted Kennedy IS dangerous when traveling.
>Err, if you haven't noticed, many of the worst M$ security problems lately have affected only the WinNT codebase, including some that are WinXP-specific. As long as you're only running client apps, Win9x derivatives may actually be safer than the newer ones!
I have 3 machines at home right now. 2 are running Win 98SE and 1 is running Win 95c. You heard me. When I went to broadband, I hooked up all 3 machines to the net. 6+ months later and I have not yet seen a SINGLE VIRUS or SPYWARE hit on any of the machines.
Now, since I have three, I did put a router in and turned on the router's firewall, but the Win95 machine has no virus protection! (You can't buy it anymore). The Win 98SE machines have some, but the detection isn't really up to date. Adaware is running, but hasn't found anything malicious yet.
So, why is everyone having such problems? Good user training not to open crap, and a lack of visits to stupid websites maybe?
Heck, the only item I had attack me was while I was on dialup, and I got rid of that ad thing via the delete command!
I benchmarked Ingres in the late 1980s. It was half the speed of Oracle then. And 1/50 of the speed of a dedicated Network (Codasyl) model for the same data.
The benchmarks were all done on the same machine, using the same data, and as close to the same data model as could be had vs the various DBMSes involved.
Needless to say, we didn't use it for anything after that.
I described such a system in a short class I was doing on a whiteboard in 1982. Prior enough to the patent for you?
Bah, Jr or SR isn't neccessary to screw up the credit reports. My Dad came to live with me for 5 months while his new house was under construction. It took 2 years to straighten out the credit reports (and I have a different brother who is a JR and he and my Dad never did get one company straightened out with some stock. They finally agreed to sell it and split the money on a given day to fix the problem.)
Credit Reports - just say no!
That as a DBA, I've never even heard of the three bands listed as "DBA favorite bands" (ok, so I read the article, "Oops, I did it again").
For me, LRB, Foreigner, Kansas, and Meatloaf. Sometimes some other oddball stuff. Oh, and the musical "War of the Worlds".
For many years as I grew up, my Dad was a part time wedding photographer (His day job was in IT). So every weekend he earned extra money doing weddings.
When I approached the only good studio in town about doing my wedding, he was very frank about it. I want x$ as a minimum garauntee, because I know that you will have other photographers there (He knew I had hi-quality equipment of my own, because he processed most of my film in those days).
I opted to have my Dad do the job. And one of these days, I will own the copyrights, though I have the negatives now. And it was free. And I got a professional to do the job.
In case you think that is a nasty thing to do to your Dad during the wedding, he did the same thing to his Dad all those years before.
When my little brother got married, I shot a roll of 35mm and had it processed to a Kodak Photo disc. While I kept the original disc, I did burn a copy for him.
usually NOYB@yahoo.com (None Of Your Business).
And for the address, n/a makes a good street, and zip code 12345 is the General Electric main plant in Schenctady, NY (I actually could recieve mail there once upon a time, so that address is just out of date, not a lie.....)
with examples of 2 cases where the DMCA law is dangerous to my health/healthcare, to the point of it actually threatening my life and others like me. I described what I had done to combat those cases, which involved violating the DMCA.
In one case, after I cracked the password of a vender package, I reported the password back to the vender's help desk, where they now give it out to everyone who asks (before I cracked the password, they didn't know it, because I asked).
I urge others with such examples to do the same and give Rep Boucher more data to work with.
Since the first Ender story was published in 1977
that had the patent on hypercards a while back. When it got to the courts, they lost.
Further, isn't a patent supposed to present something that isn't just common sense? I can remember diagramming such a system as this on a whiteboard for a fellow programmer - in 1981! Can you say prior art?
That set up many 3-4am debugging sessions.
Look, exposure to low level languages and limited memory make you think about what you really need in the program and what you can do without.
In one shop I would take code from the consulting firm, trim out 40-60% of the code, and end up with a job running 25-35% faster (and cheaper). And then there was the other bug in the code. 50 lines of useless code in each of three programs was costing the company $60K in usage to a department per year!
Or how about added transfer time into an EDI program twice for each item calculated. It was causing Disney to hold $10 Million in the warehouses in inventory until I found it.
And it isn't just assembler. It is low level DBMS functionality too. I had one job where the first test ran 12 hours. By re-coding it in a completely different manner it took 5 minutes. The 12 hour method was the method recommended by the vendor of the DBMS. The 5 minute version was mine.
Finally, code can be in a high level language and still be efficient. And there are still plenty of devices out there with limited memory - how about PDAs? or Dive Computers?
and the price has come down.
As for printing shots, you can bulk load film too. A roll of 100 foot slide film is about $30. That will make ~850 frames of slide film. Processing it yourself you can get chemicals for much cheaper than the above. Also, with slides (and even prints) you only print the shots you want (get a loupe for god's sake - an expensive one is $8.)
Finally, if you shoot film, you will learn quickly, which shots are going to be crap - and not shoot them. So you will only shoot 2000 say.
Digital lends itself much to easily to what we call "machine gun photography" Shoot 50 shots in a burst to get one good one. The film shooter will shoot 3, and get it.