At $80 for a 96-page book and a 20-minute DVD, anything but cheap, apparently. And it sold out. David Byrne, still having a joke at our expense after all these years. Gotta give him credit.
And for a long, technical but masterful treatise on von Neumann's, Shannon's and Turing's influence on modern economics, I heartily recommend "Machine Drams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science" by Philip Mirowski.
I serve on my school district's technology advisory committee, and all I can say in response to this is "please don't". We don't have a huge IT budget, but we do have purchasing and configuration guidelines, and your trash doesn't fit. If it's useless crap to you, it's useless crap to the school. The vast majority of people who want to "donate" stuff "just to help" are primarily interested in taking the inflated tax write-off and shifting the haz-mat disposal cost to somebody else. Well, the schools don't have the money to dispose of your garbage.
Also: Real estate, as a general rule, does not go down in value. Sometimes it stays the same price, but most of the time it goes up in price.
Sure it goes down. It's a market like any other. Prices fluctuate.
I know plenty of people who bought at the peak of the late-80's real-estate bubble in the Northeast US. They extended themselves to the limit in terms of financing, and within three years when prices had gone down, they had negative equity. That means they owed the bank more than the house was worth. Then you can't even sell or re-finance, so you're well and truly stuck. Some of those houses took 10-12 years to recover in price.
Intelligent and insightful? How? He mis-quotes an Indian article about nine children accidentally killed in Afghanistan and attributes it to Iraq, then berates the US media for not reporting on it, when it takes two seconds to find the relevant article on CNN or NYTimes.
So I RTFA, and the whining author works for a company called Javelin Software. Who remembers when Javelin was the Lotus 1-2-3 killer-in-waiting? Another great piece of software that didn't catch on. I even think if I poked through enough old boxes, I could find the prospectus for their IPO.
however look at the names up there. Every last one of those businesses has something to gain by having the Windows hegeonomy fall
Novell tried to take on Microsoft before, and got their ass handed to them. The only reason they're still in business is that sh*tload of cash they've been sitting on for all these years. Don't get me wrong, I want them to succeed, but they were completely blinded by anti-Microsoft hysteria the last time.
I'm considering giving my parents their very own website for the holidays.
I may be excessively dense here, but why on earth would you want to do this? This is the sort of idea that probably only makes sense on/. If you want to get them a gift, get a gift. You'd be giving them a chore that by your own admission they're not suited for, and a monthly bill, just to demonstrate how clever you are.
Instill your kids with good values and then trust them. Unfortunately this takes time.
They'll end up finding a way to do what they want anyway, and you can't stop them.
[Parent of three, aged 16 through 21]
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For many, the idea of mixing water and electronics is unearthly. Watercooling, a method in which water is used to cool the CPU, is not the only option for computer enthusiasts seeking high performance cooling.
For many? Sure, for many of that site's readers, who are too young or too PC-centric even to be aware of the existence of watercooled mainframes what, 30 years ago?
I personally am not a parent, but if I were, I believe I would be pulling my child out of these classes.
In public schools in the US, that is generally your right. But what you (and the rest of the crowd) could do, whether or not you are parents -- which can actually make a difference -- is to go to your local school board's regular meetings, see if/when this issue comes up, and voice your displeasure and the reasons for it. Far too few people generally attend such meetings, but they are open and public, and the boards generally listen fairly carefully to public comment.
But that takes actual time and patience, not just shooting off an irate/. post
What's the big deal unless you're going to kill someone, and you're worried that they'll track your movements (They did this in New York once, with the aforementioned E-Z-Pass system--proved that a person HAD entered the city at a time when they claimed they hadn't).
Now that's just stupid, really. Every time I drive in to NYC to kill somebody, I just leave the EZ-Pass at home and pay cash. If you're worried about misplacing the thing, they're even considerate enough to give you a metallized Mylar bag to put the transponder in, and you can just toss it in the glove compartment.
I'm not a SCO or McBride supporter, but let's stick with actual facts if we can. The Novak piece in Linuxworld, it appears to me, is a "column", an opinion piece, and not an article. He links to the actual Q&A in Computerworld, so you can read it for yourselves. The conclusion that SCO/McBride has "no idea" where the code snippets come from seems like the wildest sort of stretch on the author's part.
Interesting bit near the bottom of the Q&A suggests that Darl himself reads/.
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Unfortunately, I've abandoned my dignity on more than one occasion for nothing. Maybe the alcohol had something to do with it...
At $80 for a 96-page book and a 20-minute DVD, anything but cheap, apparently. And it sold out. David Byrne, still having a joke at our expense after all these years. Gotta give him credit.
And for a long, technical but masterful treatise on von Neumann's, Shannon's and Turing's influence on modern economics, I heartily recommend "Machine Drams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science" by Philip Mirowski.
I serve on my school district's technology advisory committee, and all I can say in response to this is "please don't". We don't have a huge IT budget, but we do have purchasing and configuration guidelines, and your trash doesn't fit. If it's useless crap to you, it's useless crap to the school. The vast majority of people who want to "donate" stuff "just to help" are primarily interested in taking the inflated tax write-off and shifting the haz-mat disposal cost to somebody else. Well, the schools don't have the money to dispose of your garbage.
. Disconnect Network Connection.
. Setup a secure administrator password.
. Disable Client for Microsoft Networks
To verify: Start e Control Panel e Internet and Network Connections e Network Connection e select your network connection
. Disable File and Printer sharing
verify using the same dialog as 'Client for Microsoft Networks' . Enable Internet Connection Firewall
same dialog as 'Client for Microsoft Networks'. Select 'Advanced' tab. Connect Network
. Run Windows Update until there are no more critical updates.
Start e Control Panel e Windows Update e Scan for Updates
Sorry about the crappy formatting. The lone "e" things are arrows.
...Bostonians can learn how to drive.
Yeah, according to Aussie/NZ news reports he filed a false flight plan.
Uh, it's just about the beginning of summer there.
Sure it goes down. It's a market like any other. Prices fluctuate.
I know plenty of people who bought at the peak of the late-80's real-estate bubble in the Northeast US. They extended themselves to the limit in terms of financing, and within three years when prices had gone down, they had negative equity. That means they owed the bank more than the house was worth. Then you can't even sell or re-finance, so you're well and truly stuck. Some of those houses took 10-12 years to recover in price.
Intelligent and insightful? How? He mis-quotes an Indian article about nine children accidentally killed in Afghanistan and attributes it to Iraq, then berates the US media for not reporting on it, when it takes two seconds to find the relevant article on CNN or NYTimes.
So I RTFA, and the whining author works for a company called Javelin Software. Who remembers when Javelin was the Lotus 1-2-3 killer-in-waiting? Another great piece of software that didn't catch on. I even think if I poked through enough old boxes, I could find the prospectus for their IPO.
I'm pretty sure the poster was referring to Dantzig, not von Neumann, who was Hungarian anyway.
Novell tried to take on Microsoft before, and got their ass handed to them. The only reason they're still in business is that sh*tload of cash they've been sitting on for all these years. Don't get me wrong, I want them to succeed, but they were completely blinded by anti-Microsoft hysteria the last time.
I may be excessively dense here, but why on earth would you want to do this? This is the sort of idea that probably only makes sense on /. If you want to get them a gift, get a gift. You'd be giving them a chore that by your own admission they're not suited for, and a monthly bill, just to demonstrate how clever you are.
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for completely missing the fact it was a joke.
Thank you for your concern. Read the guy's journal and then come back and tell me who's missing what, OK?
I thought you were in dental school, or law school or something. Did you graduate already?
-1, Troll
They'll end up finding a way to do what they want anyway, and you can't stop them.
[Parent of three, aged 16 through 21]
For many? Sure, for many of that site's readers, who are too young or too PC-centric even to be aware of the existence of watercooled mainframes what, 30 years ago?
We had it. Man, you should have seen how fast it rendered the Novell C-worthy menu screens.
In public schools in the US, that is generally your right. But what you (and the rest of the crowd) could do, whether or not you are parents -- which can actually make a difference -- is to go to your local school board's regular meetings, see if/when this issue comes up, and voice your displeasure and the reasons for it. Far too few people generally attend such meetings, but they are open and public, and the boards generally listen fairly carefully to public comment.
But that takes actual time and patience, not just shooting off an irate /. post
Maybe even a Federal standard then? Like, uh... Ada? OSI? CMIP?
Now that's just stupid, really. Every time I drive in to NYC to kill somebody, I just leave the EZ-Pass at home and pay cash. If you're worried about misplacing the thing, they're even considerate enough to give you a metallized Mylar bag to put the transponder in, and you can just toss it in the glove compartment.
Interesting bit near the bottom of the Q&A suggests that Darl himself reads /.