1. that i get telemarketing calls despite being on do not call list.
2. that i get telemarketing calls on my cell phone? ( for some reason i get spanish automated telemarketing calls out of some outfit in a cetain city in florida. basic reverse lookup can't seem to pinpoint more than that.)
Oh yeah, I forgot supposedly they only keep international calls on the list... Dang it...
Well it was an idea...
Ahh yes, the skill set is different... but at the time I had no idea about win XP either.
However I can troubleshoot fairly well and have doen ok over the years installing and using different OS's.
I have installed previous - older versions of linux - but never had decent success in getting it to run. My first linux experience was with a Red Hat linux system. Got it to run but could not get it to network... The research back then indicated that there was some sort of configuration/driver error issue for that NIC driver. The required fix was just too much work at the time - I didn't need linux to run that badly... IN my current case... Well, if Knoppix can run ( and yes, Fedora core 5 had no problem instlling this evening - getting it to multiboot on my system now is a different story...) why shouldn't the other distros? These other distros can't handle the same disk controller that Knoppix and Fedora can? If Mandrake 2006 and Suse 10 where several years old, i could understand but not such recent releases.
Working, well, my employee does it for me most of the time, with our linux servers I have come to appreciate the lack of needing to reboot on configuration changes - particularly the networkign changes:).
Oh, by the way windows XP home/pro does not come with a ftp server. but they do come with a ftp client(well pro does/not sure about home). In a cmd shell just type ftp...
for people trying out linux.
Knoppix 4 is the only distro that will boot properly on my system and it runs reasonaly well of the DVD.
I just spent a frustrating weekend trying to get Mandriva 2006, suse 9.2, Suse 10.0 running on my machine. I can't even get them to install. Other than Knoppix, the others choke on the the fact that i have a Siil3112 SATA controller ( but not RAIDed). I do have 2 other IDE drives, 1 blank one on which I am trying to install linux.
Suse 10 will start installing in safe mode, but freezes/locks up 10% into the copying process... One of the messages I saw somewhere (in one of the alternate consoles ) it was trying to write tho the yast.log - Stupidly it was trying to do that to the frst drive - the SATA drive that is NTFS formatted and mounted read-only. I would think the log should be written to the drive to which it it is being installed...
So having a frustrating time for large portions of 3 days trying to install linux, my personal observation would be "Linux sucks!". While getting XP installed on this machine wasn't as easy as it should have been either, i had its issue resolved in 1 hour ( needed a driver diskette for the siil controller ).
We use linux at work as servers without any trouble. But as a desktop at home, my attitude is unless i can make it work on my machine linux sucks as a desktop, never mind seeing the frustrating experience people I know are having doing more than just the basic things of browsing and word processing on linux. Frustrating doesn't mean impossible, just spending more than 30 minutes trying to get something to work - like being able to watch a DVD movie. ( need this codec, this codec needs this library, this library needs to be in this specific path....).
Bah, despite this I will try the latest fedora core on my home machine to see if it works.
The top level post was a clear enough question regarding business relationships, but one level down the argument already is about which distro is better.
While I like T-Mobile, your status wiht them is now the same as was with your previous company. I learned that the hard way when i tried to get a new phone. Despite having been a customer past any contract period - stayed with them for year past contract renewal - I could not get a new phone the same way as a new customer could.
However checking arounf with the other services we (my wife and I) could not find any deal we liked ( I don't like 2 year contracts - T-Mobile was the only still had a 1 year contract). All plans seem to have a customer loyalty program - but none that compare with becoming a new customer in terms of perks.
So I ended up becoming a new customer to T-Mobile by creating an account under my name and cancelling the existing account which was in my wife's name. The only minor down side was that i had to got new cell numbers.
Doesn't seem to me that companies care if you walk - they are so focused on getting new customers that they forget about the exisiting customers.
The problem is not limited to CDs and PCs. Apparently Sony's philosophy on DRM is prevasive throughout their product line.
Maximum PC reports that Sony is actively patching their PSP via games to prevent 3rd party hacks. You want that shiny new game, well, the newest frimnware gets downloaded into your PSP and is required to run the new game.
I had once thought that I may buy a PSP despite the debacle on the music side, thinking it was a music side issue/philosophy only. Not anymore.
How is the open document format not accessible to Blind and Deaf users?
That accessability is not a function of the file format. That is a function of the application or the OS.
Of course they do not have to use Open Office.
They could use other as yet unknown to us lightwight Open Document compliant word processor.
Though yes they di give the numbers as a comparison between MS Office and Open Office. I would wager that part of the Open Office $5M includes *some* of the same hardware upgrades as the office upgrades. The 2 that put the whole idea together did do their homework on the subject. But, and yes, they did say that it was a rough estimate on both numbers - and that is why Pacheco can call them out and complain not a proper cost benefit analysis was done. But that is starting down the pat start splitting hairs.
You must have missed the earlier articels where MA said that they still run many machines with Win98. IIRC, office 12 does not run on that "OS".
Not sure if OpenOffice 2.0 does.
Except Cnet hardly published anything private...
No personal address, phone number or description of the house or neighborhood.
CNet actually was very restrained in comparison.
I agree with another poster, that there is somethign else to this. It does state that both Yahoo and Google employees have access to more private information than they display, so that alone cannot be it either.
The issue of "inviting" is an interesting one...
Lawsuits have been won ( in the US) because of an inanimate object being an enticement, causing maiming and/or death of persone ebing enticed, even though said object is on private property.
Ahh, but it doesn't have to be revolutionary.
Just refined quality is what can set products apart form the norm. Revolutionary does not mean immediately useable. Often it takes years to have good refinement that makes the revolutionary idea really nice. That applies to physical products as well as software.
Cars and motorcycles are common products where this can be easily seen. Mercedes ( or your favorite high end brand ) doesn't make a revolutionary automobile, but most people appreciate its refinement and would rather own and drive that rather than a Yugo.
Well, plumbers are cosntantly changing to differences iin infrastructure...
Depending how far back you want to go ( and i am sure i am leaping some intermediate steps here) - stone channels -> cast iron pipes -> copper pipes -> pvc tubing -> pex tubing.
I often write my passwords down, but embedded in another string that looks like something else - like a pin number filled out to resemble a phone number. Or a longer alphanumeric password to look like an address. Just written on scraps of paper.
Well, I for one bought computers for a company around that time. We still had standardized on WordPerfect/Qpro and Paradox.
Buying a computer from Gateway at the time highlighted MS bundling to me.
Basically it ran soemthing like this - Gateway had a a machine with certain specs that met our requirements. Salesperson first ( the numebrs are not exact, but the gist is):
"That will $1950."
"Oh, ok. I see that MS Office is included with that."
"yes"
"We dont use MS office we use Wordperfect office, can we get that instead?"
"Sure, that would be $2200".
"Umm but WP office is cheaper than MS Office"
"Well MS gives us a special deal".
"Oh, ok. How much is the machine without MS Office?"
"That would be $1950".
"What?, It costs the same with office or wiotout?"
"Yes, MS will not allow us to sell a machine cheaper. It is a special arrangement for using Windows."
So if that doesn't constitute bundling, I do not know what is. Yes i know this is anecdoatal to everyone else - but it certainly happened to me.
It certtainly showed that Microsoft's success at that time had little to do with superior product.
Albeit it would have ot be very high pressure water pistol....
I wonder if this will lead to new wepaons technolgy based on water pressure...
Bring out the SuperSoakers!
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I love the comment, also mentioned by Diebold, that computer experts have no clue about teh election process, ie teh management of the voting process.
Well form all the articles i have read, it is celar Diebold and many of the election officals do not have a handle on the management process either; lets see - the ones i recall of fthe top of my haed: taking vote counts remotely during voting, certifiers leaving before the end of the certification process but certifying machines anyway; leaving voting machines unsecured and unguarded in accessible areas. Seems to me the computer geeks worrying about the process and machines already know at least one thing more than Diebold or these election comissioners....
I got my degreein Comp-Sci in 1984, but stayed on to get a teaching certifcation( didn't want to go into the industrial-miltiary complex of the time - and ironically enough the teaching post that i first got was to replace someone that went to Aberdeen, MD ). Taught Calculus, precalculs and programming.
Anyhow as part of the teaching certifcation process we had to take courses re history and sociology of education. The big thing that changed from the 60's to the 80's have a lot to do with what we see now: ( no order of signifcance)
1. parents railing ( and sueing) against students being held back a grade
2. Working jobs during school year that rob study time.
3. ( the one i found most telling and experienced while in school as well while i was teaching) that being smart is a talent, so studying is a waste and doesn't really help - ie the idea that since one cant be the best one doesnt have to waste time studying). This perversion of academic success is in my mind the biggest issue.
Of course, these are all generalizations but they exist. And there are other factors as well, all contributinig to this phenomena. this issue often does get hidden, because we do have a large pool of students, and a large pool of talented people that obscure the overall decline in teh educational system.
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1. that i get telemarketing calls despite being on do not call list.
2. that i get telemarketing calls on my cell phone? ( for some reason i get spanish automated telemarketing calls out of some outfit in a cetain city in florida. basic reverse lookup can't seem to pinpoint more than that.)
Oh yeah, I forgot supposedly they only keep international calls on the list... Dang it... Well it was an idea...
Ahh yes, the skill set is different... but at the time I had no idea about win XP either.
However I can troubleshoot fairly well and have doen ok over the years installing and using different OS's.
I have installed previous - older versions of linux - but never had decent success in getting it to run. My first linux experience was with a Red Hat linux system. Got it to run but could not get it to network... The research back then indicated that there was some sort of configuration/driver error issue for that NIC driver. The required fix was just too much work at the time - I didn't need linux to run that badly...
IN my current case... Well, if Knoppix can run ( and yes, Fedora core 5 had no problem instlling this evening - getting it to multiboot on my system now is a different story...) why shouldn't the other distros?
These other distros can't handle the same disk controller that Knoppix and Fedora can? If Mandrake 2006 and Suse 10 where several years old, i could understand but not such recent releases.
Working, well, my employee does it for me most of the time, with our linux servers I have come to appreciate the lack of needing to reboot on configuration changes - particularly the networkign changes:).
Oh, by the way windows XP home/pro does not come with a ftp server. but they do come with a ftp client(well pro does/not sure about home). In a cmd shell just type ftp...
for people trying out linux.
Knoppix 4 is the only distro that will boot properly on my system and it runs reasonaly well of the DVD.
I just spent a frustrating weekend trying to get Mandriva 2006, suse 9.2, Suse 10.0 running on my machine. I can't even get them to install. Other than Knoppix, the others choke on the the fact that i have a Siil3112 SATA controller ( but not RAIDed). I do have 2 other IDE drives, 1 blank one on which I am trying to install linux.
Suse 10 will start installing in safe mode, but freezes/locks up 10% into the copying process... One of the messages I saw somewhere (in one of the alternate consoles ) it was trying to write tho the yast.log - Stupidly it was trying to do that to the frst drive - the SATA drive that is NTFS formatted and mounted read-only. I would think the log should be written to the drive to which it it is being installed...
So having a frustrating time for large portions of 3 days trying to install linux, my personal observation would be "Linux sucks!". While getting XP installed on this machine wasn't as easy as it should have been either, i had its issue resolved in 1 hour ( needed a driver diskette for the siil controller ). We use linux at work as servers without any trouble. But as a desktop at home, my attitude is unless i can make it work on my machine linux sucks as a desktop, never mind seeing the frustrating experience people I know are having doing more than just the basic things of browsing and word processing on linux. Frustrating doesn't mean impossible, just spending more than 30 minutes trying to get something to work - like being able to watch a DVD movie. ( need this codec, this codec needs this library, this library needs to be in this specific path....).
Bah, despite this I will try the latest fedora core on my home machine to see if it works.
world. It is a collective world. And that includes all kinds of different physiological beings.
The top level post was a clear enough question regarding business relationships, but one level down the argument already is about which distro is better.
While I like T-Mobile, your status wiht them is now the same as was with your previous company. I learned that the hard way when i tried to get a new phone. Despite having been a customer past any contract period - stayed with them for year past contract renewal - I could not get a new phone the same way as a new customer could.
However checking arounf with the other services we (my wife and I) could not find any deal we liked ( I don't like 2 year contracts - T-Mobile was the only still had a 1 year contract). All plans seem to have a customer loyalty program - but none that compare with becoming a new customer in terms of perks.
So I ended up becoming a new customer to T-Mobile by creating an account under my name and cancelling the existing account which was in my wife's name. The only minor down side was that i had to got new cell numbers.
Doesn't seem to me that companies care if you walk - they are so focused on getting new customers that they forget about the exisiting customers.
The problem is not limited to CDs and PCs. Apparently Sony's philosophy on DRM is prevasive throughout their product line. Maximum PC reports that Sony is actively patching their PSP via games to prevent 3rd party hacks. You want that shiny new game, well, the newest frimnware gets downloaded into your PSP and is required to run the new game. I had once thought that I may buy a PSP despite the debacle on the music side, thinking it was a music side issue/philosophy only. Not anymore.
because auto-run is still enabled. Auto-play is not the same as auto-run
How is the open document format not accessible to Blind and Deaf users?
That accessability is not a function of the file format. That is a function of the application or the OS.
Of course they do not have to use Open Office. They could use other as yet unknown to us lightwight Open Document compliant word processor.
Though yes they di give the numbers as a comparison between MS Office and Open Office. I would wager that part of the Open Office $5M includes *some* of the same hardware upgrades as the office upgrades. The 2 that put the whole idea together did do their homework on the subject. But, and yes, they did say that it was a rough estimate on both numbers - and that is why Pacheco can call them out and complain not a proper cost benefit analysis was done. But that is starting down the pat start splitting hairs.
You must have missed the earlier articels where MA said that they still run many machines with Win98. IIRC, office 12 does not run on that "OS". Not sure if OpenOffice 2.0 does.
throwing in the word "more" changes the arguement a little bit.
Other than that, the answer is yes.
Except Cnet hardly published anything private... No personal address, phone number or description of the house or neighborhood. CNet actually was very restrained in comparison. I agree with another poster, that there is somethign else to this. It does state that both Yahoo and Google employees have access to more private information than they display, so that alone cannot be it either.
The issue of "inviting" is an interesting one... Lawsuits have been won ( in the US) because of an inanimate object being an enticement, causing maiming and/or death of persone ebing enticed, even though said object is on private property.
Ahh, but it doesn't have to be revolutionary. Just refined quality is what can set products apart form the norm. Revolutionary does not mean immediately useable. Often it takes years to have good refinement that makes the revolutionary idea really nice. That applies to physical products as well as software. Cars and motorcycles are common products where this can be easily seen. Mercedes ( or your favorite high end brand ) doesn't make a revolutionary automobile, but most people appreciate its refinement and would rather own and drive that rather than a Yugo.
Well, plumbers are cosntantly changing to differences iin infrastructure... Depending how far back you want to go ( and i am sure i am leaping some intermediate steps here) - stone channels -> cast iron pipes -> copper pipes -> pvc tubing -> pex tubing.
and 2AA batteries easily last for 12 hours. At least on my 60C ( no S ) they do.
I often write my passwords down, but embedded in another string that looks like something else - like a pin number filled out to resemble a phone number. Or a longer alphanumeric password to look like an address. Just written on scraps of paper.
Well, I for one bought computers for a company around that time. We still had standardized on WordPerfect/Qpro and Paradox. Buying a computer from Gateway at the time highlighted MS bundling to me. Basically it ran soemthing like this - Gateway had a a machine with certain specs that met our requirements. Salesperson first ( the numebrs are not exact, but the gist is): "That will $1950." "Oh, ok. I see that MS Office is included with that." "yes" "We dont use MS office we use Wordperfect office, can we get that instead?" "Sure, that would be $2200". "Umm but WP office is cheaper than MS Office" "Well MS gives us a special deal". "Oh, ok. How much is the machine without MS Office?" "That would be $1950". "What?, It costs the same with office or wiotout?" "Yes, MS will not allow us to sell a machine cheaper. It is a special arrangement for using Windows." So if that doesn't constitute bundling, I do not know what is. Yes i know this is anecdoatal to everyone else - but it certainly happened to me. It certtainly showed that Microsoft's success at that time had little to do with superior product.
As far as i can see this flag still lets you do this. It just doesn't let you do it on another piece of equipment.
Oh, you will get to vote - but for only one candidate...
Albeit it would have ot be very high pressure water pistol.... I wonder if this will lead to new wepaons technolgy based on water pressure... Bring out the SuperSoakers!
I love the comment, also mentioned by Diebold, that computer experts have no clue about teh election process, ie teh management of the voting process.
Well form all the articles i have read, it is celar Diebold and many of the election officals do not have a handle on the management process either; lets see - the ones i recall of fthe top of my haed: taking vote counts remotely during voting, certifiers leaving before the end of the certification process but certifying machines anyway; leaving voting machines unsecured and unguarded in accessible areas.
Seems to me the computer geeks worrying about the process and machines already know at least one thing more than Diebold or these election comissioners....
Motorcyclists are also allowed to pump their own gas...
I got my degreein Comp-Sci in 1984, but stayed on to get a teaching certifcation( didn't want to go into the industrial-miltiary complex of the time - and ironically enough the teaching post that i first got was to replace someone that went to Aberdeen, MD ). Taught Calculus, precalculs and programming.
Anyhow as part of the teaching certifcation process we had to take courses re history and sociology of education. The big thing that changed from the 60's to the 80's have a lot to do with what we see now: ( no order of signifcance)
1. parents railing ( and sueing) against students being held back a grade
2. Working jobs during school year that rob study time. 3. ( the one i found most telling and experienced while in school as well while i was teaching) that being smart is a talent, so studying is a waste and doesn't really help - ie the idea that since one cant be the best one doesnt have to waste time studying). This perversion of academic success is in my mind the biggest issue.
Of course, these are all generalizations but they exist. And there are other factors as well, all contributinig to this phenomena. this issue often does get hidden, because we do have a large pool of students, and a large pool of talented people that obscure the overall decline in teh educational system.