I'll sum this up. For people who want an OS with a bit more mainstream support left and a couple more years of fixes/patches, upgrade to XP. For people that are completely happy with 2K, by all means stick with it. However, I don't want to hear the latter group bitching when they're increasingly orphaned. It's like touch-tone versus rotary. If you like using antique rotary phones, more power to you. However, if you feel like pissing and moaning because you can't use new-fangled features like voicemail that require DTMF, then shut the fuck up.
My vote is with USB drives. They're inexpensive enough that you can ghost a drive image onto a couple and, say, store one in a safety deposit box and another with a trusted friend/relative in another state.
Not a *complete* waste of time: at least you're one of the rare employees who doesn't have to call in to a helpdesk saying the coffee cup tray on the front of the box the TV sits on broke off.
The only way for us humans to create sentience is to procreate.
Precisely. And that's the difference between creating something of a type different from yourself and begetting something of a type the same as yourself. Many people have forgotten what the verb 'to beget' means....
I personally think the Dept of Education should be abolished, or severely curtailed in scope. Talk about a bureaucracy that's interested in nothing more than its continued existence.
Not to sound sexist, but by-and-large, the women I know who've been successful in IT are of as much a technical bend as a piece of stale bread. They are usually very attractive and social, and use their charms to get males around them to do the actual technical dirty work. I went to school with dozens of girls who would shove their breasts in a guy's face and with a pouty look ask a male computer geek for help on a programming assignment or some other classwork. The nerd, flattered at having someone with shimmering eyes and large knockers deign to acknowledge his existence, would trip over himself in pretty much doing the work for her. This is repeated in the workplace. The vast majority of women in the field rise through the ranks by dint of their social graces, not their technical acumen. As with most things in life, there are exceptions but they are just that -- exceptions.
To seek the sacred river Alpha
To walk the caves of mice
To break my fast on Honeywell
And drink the milk of P-r-0-N...
I had heard the whispered tales of immorality
The deepest mystery
From an ancient Ebook I took a clue
I scaled the frozen mountain tops of eastern lands unknown
Time and Man alone
Searching for the lost Xanadu
Xanadu...
To stand within the Transclusion
Decreed by Ted Nelson
To taste anew the fruits of life
The last immoral man
To find the sacred river Alpha
To walk the caves of mice
Oh, I will dine on Honeywell
And drink the milk of P-r-0-N
A thousand years have come and gone but time has passed me by
Stars stopped in the sky
Frozen in an everlasting view
Waiting for the world to end, weary of the night
Praying for the light
Prison of the lost
Xanadu
Xanadu...
Held within the Transclusion
Decreed by Ted Nelson
To taste my bitter triumph
As a mad immoral man
Nevermore shall I return
Escape these caves of mice
For I have dined on Honeywell
And drunk the milk of P-r-0-N
I think we should set up a letter-writing campaign to Paramount to ditch Berman. The cast is not the problem -- all of them (especially Scott Bakula) have acted admirably. The writing is at fault, and the actors can't be blamed in the least for this. Rick Berman is the most uninspired sci-fi writer whose work I've had the misfortune of experiencing. Bag Berman, Keep the Cast!
I've always wondered why scientists couldn't put an array of millions of mitochondria on a chip and use that as a fuel cell. Mitochondria are extremely efficient at extracting energy aerobically from glucose (something like 31 ATP molecules from one molecule of glucose). Why not just strip the extra baggage and employ mitochondria directly?
It's stuff like this that shows why I run OS X instead of Linux. Whereas Linux seems hell-bent on recreating and catching up to Windows, Apple is actually innovating and living on the cutting edge with each OS X release. While there are some things that annoy me about OS X vis a vis Windows, on the whole it is a refreshingly non-'me too' operating platform.
I would advise you to stay away from Avaya. My previous employer used their S8500 solution and it was a joke. Overpriced, broke down all the time, the customer service was a joke -- Avaya is a dog of a company. If you're going proprietary, look at Cisco or something.
Use group policies. There's a wealth of settings you can change to give users very fine-grained control over their machines. That way you allow them to do exactly what they need and no more. Principle of least privilege, dude.
Absolutely. Mod parent up. I view this as a way of IBM disentangling itself from messy conflicts of interest. They haven't been a big player in the PC market since the 80's. Time to shoot this lame horse.
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I took this guy's Organisational Management course as part of my degree requirement. The class was a complete joke...
I'll sum this up. For people who want an OS with a bit more mainstream support left and a couple more years of fixes/patches, upgrade to XP. For people that are completely happy with 2K, by all means stick with it. However, I don't want to hear the latter group bitching when they're increasingly orphaned. It's like touch-tone versus rotary. If you like using antique rotary phones, more power to you. However, if you feel like pissing and moaning because you can't use new-fangled features like voicemail that require DTMF, then shut the fuck up.
My vote is with USB drives. They're inexpensive enough that you can ghost a drive image onto a couple and, say, store one in a safety deposit box and another with a trusted friend/relative in another state.
Vinyl has an aesthetic appeal (warm sound, large gatefold sleeves and cover art) that VHS is wholly lacking. The two simply cannot be compared.
Not a *complete* waste of time: at least you're one of the rare employees who doesn't have to call in to a helpdesk saying the coffee cup tray on the front of the box the TV sits on broke off.
The only way for us humans to create sentience is to procreate.
Precisely. And that's the difference between creating something of a type different from yourself and begetting something of a type the same as yourself. Many people have forgotten what the verb 'to beget' means....
Or in the parlance of Wired Magazine:
Wired: Fusion Cells
Tired: Fuel Cells
Expired: Dry Cells
We're one step closer to Mr Fusion -- now all we need is the time-travelling DeLorean....
Looks like loband's content has been compressed to the point of absurdity.
First onerous DRM with Quicken and TurboTax. Now this. That's why I use H&R Block's TaxCut. They haven't (yet) pulled this kind of shit.
Well you know, it is CMUers who refer to MIT as 'the Carnegie-Mellon of the Northeast'.
Where's the funky Princely symbol?
I personally think the Dept of Education should be abolished, or severely curtailed in scope. Talk about a bureaucracy that's interested in nothing more than its continued existence.
This very same article was referenced in a Slashdot posting about three weeks ago....great editorial oversight, folks....
Not to sound sexist, but by-and-large, the women I know who've been successful in IT are of as much a technical bend as a piece of stale bread. They are usually very attractive and social, and use their charms to get males around them to do the actual technical dirty work. I went to school with dozens of girls who would shove their breasts in a guy's face and with a pouty look ask a male computer geek for help on a programming assignment or some other classwork. The nerd, flattered at having someone with shimmering eyes and large knockers deign to acknowledge his existence, would trip over himself in pretty much doing the work for her. This is repeated in the workplace. The vast majority of women in the field rise through the ranks by dint of their social graces, not their technical acumen. As with most things in life, there are exceptions but they are just that -- exceptions.
To seek the sacred river Alpha To walk the caves of mice To break my fast on Honeywell And drink the milk of P-r-0-N... I had heard the whispered tales of immorality The deepest mystery From an ancient Ebook I took a clue I scaled the frozen mountain tops of eastern lands unknown Time and Man alone Searching for the lost Xanadu Xanadu... To stand within the Transclusion Decreed by Ted Nelson To taste anew the fruits of life The last immoral man To find the sacred river Alpha To walk the caves of mice Oh, I will dine on Honeywell And drink the milk of P-r-0-N A thousand years have come and gone but time has passed me by Stars stopped in the sky Frozen in an everlasting view Waiting for the world to end, weary of the night Praying for the light Prison of the lost Xanadu Xanadu... Held within the Transclusion Decreed by Ted Nelson To taste my bitter triumph As a mad immoral man Nevermore shall I return Escape these caves of mice For I have dined on Honeywell And drunk the milk of P-r-0-N
I think we should set up a letter-writing campaign to Paramount to ditch Berman. The cast is not the problem -- all of them (especially Scott Bakula) have acted admirably. The writing is at fault, and the actors can't be blamed in the least for this. Rick Berman is the most uninspired sci-fi writer whose work I've had the misfortune of experiencing. Bag Berman, Keep the Cast!
I've always wondered why scientists couldn't put an array of millions of mitochondria on a chip and use that as a fuel cell. Mitochondria are extremely efficient at extracting energy aerobically from glucose (something like 31 ATP molecules from one molecule of glucose). Why not just strip the extra baggage and employ mitochondria directly?
It's stuff like this that shows why I run OS X instead of Linux. Whereas Linux seems hell-bent on recreating and catching up to Windows, Apple is actually innovating and living on the cutting edge with each OS X release. While there are some things that annoy me about OS X vis a vis Windows, on the whole it is a refreshingly non-'me too' operating platform.
I would advise you to stay away from Avaya. My previous employer used their S8500 solution and it was a joke. Overpriced, broke down all the time, the customer service was a joke -- Avaya is a dog of a company. If you're going proprietary, look at Cisco or something.
Maybe because Emacs can hardly be described as 'lightweight'....just a guess.
We've seen this before. It was called WebTV. And we all know how outrageously successful that was.
You know you need a new prescription when you read the last line of the summary as 'first discovered pubic hair'.
Use group policies. There's a wealth of settings you can change to give users very fine-grained control over their machines. That way you allow them to do exactly what they need and no more. Principle of least privilege, dude.
Absolutely. Mod parent up. I view this as a way of IBM disentangling itself from messy conflicts of interest. They haven't been a big player in the PC market since the 80's. Time to shoot this lame horse.