Is everyone over there BLIND as to what's happening? Since 9/11 America the Free have turned into America the Paranoid.
Under the guise of "Anti-Terrorism", your government have embarked on a campaign to systematically strip you of your rights, catalog you, and make sure that the machine gun wall gets built around your country to keep all them damn foreigners out, and good, hard-working 'mericans in.
RFID tags in your passports, now the ID card -- what's next?
Pretty soon, it won't be your CAT or DOG that gets the ID pellet behind the ear -- it will be YOU.
Of course, capitalism may prevail -- the market for quick-and-dirty surgery to replace the pellets with new identification chips will be great -- as will the buying and selling of stolen or traded chips.
What happens if you go out to a bar, someone slips you a mikey, and you wake up in the morning in an alley with a hole in your head where your chip used to be?
Maybe you'll find your bank account has been cleaned out, your wife, your job and your home are all occupied by the new owner of your chip.
If you think you have problems now -- just imagine if that mole is able to tap into the database Homeland Security has... Talk about getting the fox to run the chicken coop.
Spam will be the least of your worries when every advertiser with the money to buy it has access to data about you that you may not even know about yourself.
Of course, the US government would > do anything like that (would they)?
I'll try to remember that the next time I'm visiting the USA and need to provide fingerprints, retina scan and details about my personal life -- just for the pleasure of doing some shopping south of the border...;)
What the hell gives Google (or anyone else for that matter) the right to take content provided willingly and free by millions of people, take ownership of it and start charging for it?
This kind of stunt is exactly how Russian ogliarcs managed to aquire every major state asset for a small fraction of 1% of their true value.
Imagine if Google actually had to PAY the contributors -- say $10 per page. What would WikiPedia be worth? Of course even at that they have the bucks to do it -- but look at it another way -- would YOU be willing to contribute YOUR time and effort to create content for FREE that someone ELSE would package up and PROFIT from?
If so, you're a bigger sucker than I am. Unfortunately, all the WikiPedia contributors will probably NOT receive ANY of the $20 that was mentioned. It'll just go to the new 'information ogliarcs'.
On another front -- who the hell says that EVERYONE on the planet CAN EVEN AFFORD or has access to ANY METHOD of paying for this knowledge? School kids around the world sure don't -- unless they steal their parent's credit cards perhaps. Of course that doesn't help people who are too poor or live in countries where credit cards don't even exist.
I would have thought that the 'NIX crowd would be jumping up and down for joy with this revelation.
For years, you've all been whining and crying about how MS is 'proprietary this and 'closed that -- nad now when they DO decide to open up the CLR with ADDITIONAL language support - now you're whining about security? Gimme a break!
Until now, the CLR in.NET has supported just C#, VB.NET as the main development languages. However, the way the CLR was MEANT to evolve and be open OPEN to the addition of new native language support.
Yes folks -- PERL.NET, PHP.NET -- and even, (god forbid) Fortran.NET, or COBOL.NET could be seen someday soon.
The support of C and C++ does nothing but open the door for people who otherwise would not have access to the.NET platform. Is the word OPEN suddenly causing you fear because it happens to be related to something MS did (this time)?:)
Java dudes -- stick to the sandbox where you won't get hurt -- bury your heads in the sand if you want -- but don't block the road for people who WANT the power and speed of C, C++ and C#. (I run with knives too -- AND LIKE IT!:)
After reading this dog pile -- is it any wonder that the vast majority of corporations DO NOT use Linux AT ALL?
Hundreds of 'popuplar' distributions -- each requiring tweaking and fiddling to get ANY application to run on them -- nothing compatible and integrated with anything else -- is it any wonder that MS still rules?
Flame on!:)
GUYS -- don't be such weenies!
Don't you GET IT? ActiveX is SUPPOSED to give the developer the POWER to access the FULL capabilities of the hardware and software installed on the user's box!
That's POWER -- That's what it was MEANT to DO!
This is the one major advantage that MS has over the open-source, el-lameo browsers and HTML-Java-web-based-applications. They are so 'safe' you CAN NOT take advantage of what the user (or the company) spent so much to put on their bloody desk.
Wanna go back to terminal days -- or what? How about a Firefox dumb-terminal? Talk about killing all the fun in programming...
By USING ActiveX properly -- you can build applications can that literally make the computer sing and dance.
I can build web-based applications that look, work and feel like desktop-based applications. They can communicate with the corporate back-end (whatever it happens to be), and not be limited to the RESTRICTIONS of non-MS browsers.
Even using Visual Basic (I can hear the groans now, but live with it.) -- I can build an ActiveX control in less than 30 seconds that performs a very useful function, such as connecting to a database, firing queries, while at the same time firing off OS function calls, communicating with other network-based applications or services -- or WHATEVER.
I can leverage my Visual Basic knowledge to develop true client-server applications that have some REAL POWER -- and the beauty of both ActiveX controls and Active Documents -- is that these can be ported between standalone/desktop applications to web-based applications WITHOUT pulling out one's fingernails to do it.
What may surprise some of you is that this POWER has been available for more than 6 years already. Some of you sound like you've just come out of Freshman-U and only just heard about it???
OOOOOOOOOOH ActiveX DANGER Will Robinson!!! Ohhh The sky is falling! RUN AWAY from ActiveX! Be afraid!
C'mon guys -- if you want to play in the sandbox, that's fine -- but don't knock the tools or technologies that let the big guys dig into the guts of the machine and have some REAL fun.:)
but I don't think they have the sue-for-every-mistake mentality we do here
If ONLY it were a sue-for-every-mistake mentality you had to deal with, life would be great!
Instead, it is a SUE because you CAN mentality that keeps the courts full of STUPID cases, the lawyers in multi-million-dollar mansions and the average Joe Schmoe in debt and broke.
I don't feel a great deal of sympathy for doctors either -- there are damn few of them who aren't driving around in 75K BMWs or Mercedes.
By the way, I'm a Canadian and everything people say about the waiting lists is TRUE. Unless you're on the stretcher and near death -- better be prepared to wait months or even years to get in the door of a hospital.
"I can't wait for the first company to blame outsourcing for a product's late, buggy arrival."
Outsourcing has been happening for over 20 years in the software industry. Anyone remember Isreal and COBOL?
Gonna wait ANOTHER 20 years?
Anyone who has ever SEEN how students behave in a foreign College or University knows damn well what the differences are between them and US ones.
Discipline and parental influence starts to show up from the age of 3 and continues to adulthood.
Foreign students still understand how LUCKY they are to have the OPPORTUNITY to get an education and take advantage of the opportunity instead of spending it at the mall or drunk.
Insurance companies are in for the profit same as anyone else. They have two ways to play the game: 1. Increase revenue -- which means raising rates -- in most cases, they're already squeezing the blood from people -- so not an option.
2. Reduce expenses -- which means coming up with new and innovative ways of not paying out. Enter technology!
The use of technology to avoid paying insurance claims is not new. Most Americans driving newer cars already have black boxes that have already been successful in proving driver negligence and nullifying insurance coverage.
This new technology just takes it to the next level. Instead of making the data available to the insurance company only after a crash -- they get the opportunity to know everything about your driving habits BEFORE.
Does anyone really believe that the insurance companies WOULD NOT use this data to THEIR advantage?
Most policies have a clause that completely removes the insurance coverage in the event the driver has broken the law. Proving you've been driving drunk was pretty easy -- but proving you ran a stop sign, or even a cross-walk was next to impossible -- until now.
If you can say that you are a 'perfect driver' and have never ever made a driving error of any kind -- I'd like to meet you! (I've never met a god before either, but won't be holding my breath.)
All this system will do is catalog your every transgression, and give the insurance company an easy way out of any attempt to get them to pay. "Judge, Joe Smith has violated the law 54 times in the past 2 years -- he has demonstrated a clear pattern of reckless driving -- why should our insurance company pay for this accident?"
Not having seen the screen in question I'd have to say that this is the correct answer.
Measurement of asynchronous systems (such as dial-up) generally refers to BPS (bits per second) and includes the start bit, stop bit and parity bit (if applicable).
This means that to send 8 bits of data, you need at least 10 bits (to include the start and stop bit). Or 11 bits if you include parity.
Parity bit is optional, and stop bit may be 1, 1.5 or 2 bits.
If you include the overhead of a protocol (TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, etc.), then the overhead is considerably more.
Tech support answer clearly BOGUS. (Kind of like the guy at Radio Shack that said I couldn't use rechargable batteries in a wireless microphone because they needed two positive terminals.)
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This whole judgment should raise alarm bells on both the pro- and anti- Microsoft sides of the fence -- but everyone is so busy bickering about trivialities about whether MS, their company or products are 'good' or 'bad' or whatever that everyone is missing the big picture.
This is -- what the hell is the point in building ANY product or service -- if you're going to have to GIVE IT TO YOUR COMPETITORS FOR FREE.
What good are copyrights -- what good are patents?
Microsoft -- good or bad -- have invested thousands of person-years developing THEIR PRODUCTS -- and now some foreign government seems to have the right to render them completely worthless.
This is NOT a case of a MONOPOLY for god's sake -- Microsoft doesn't own and restrict access to your telephone lines, power lines or control the water flowing to your home. They build SOFTWARE. PERIOD.
If you want to run Mac OS, or UNIX or whatever the hell you want -- you HAVE THE CHOICE. No bone breakers are coming to your place of work and breaking your arms and legs if you don't buy their stuff.
If Microsoft wants to IMPROVE their product -- do they not have every right in the world to do so? If they want to include new features or improve existing ones -- why shouldn't they be able to do that too?
Does Ford have to give their designs to GM? Does Plaxo need to share their drug recipes with Bayer? NOT BLOODY LIKELY -- BECAUSE RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION are exactly what separate one business from another.
Winners and losers -- survival of the fittest.
The most certain way to KILL INNOVATION is to strip people of the BENEFITS of DOING IT. (In most cases -- that means providing PROTECTION of intellectual property so that companies CAN EXPLOIT -- and YES -- heaven forbid -- PROFIT FROM IT.)
This isn't a question of money -- it's a question of the protection of a company's right to develop their own products as they see fit. Take away that -- and you may as well revert to communism. (And we saw how well THAT worked.)
One of the only reasons Linux and various flavours are so popular is because they are FREE. Check out the computer science programs at most Universities and see what's being used.
If people (or states) don't want to buy a particular software product or feel it is overpriced -- they have the CHOICE of buying something else.
The same idiots who suggest that Microsoft should give away their source code are the same ones bitching and screaming if someone copies 2 lines of text from their web site or even THINKS about using some obscure, invalid patent issued 20 years ago by a government employee who couldn't spell Operating System -- let alone have a clue what it was.
When in doubt -- hire a lawyer. When in doubt about being in doubt -- hire a lawyer. It's the "American Way". (Any wonder why lawyers drive Mercedes and BMWs and have multi-million dollar homes while most techies work 20 hours a day and get there on a bike?)
If Microsoft had half a brain (which is debatable, at times I must agree), they'd have moved the whole freakin company to the Cayman Islands, fired all the tens of thousands of people they have full-time employed, and hired them back the next day as tax-free contract workers.
If Microsoft REALLY wanted to screw the US Government and avoid billions of dollars in taxes AND litigation, this would be the fastest and easiest way to do it.
With all the crap they've been put through by JEALOUS competitors and 'make a fast buck lawyers' -- it may still be quite a viable option...
Marty R. Milette
Here in Russia, there are very few scrap yards, because the price of a new Russian car is about $5,000 USD (or less!) and the cost of the parts is miniscule.
Even a brand new "Chevrolet Niva" (4-wheel Drive SUV) is $10,000.
For example, a brand new door for a Lada 10 is about $30 USD. There are tons of 'third-party' suppliers for all parts, so pretty much everything is disposable.
The only significant scrap yards are for foreign cars -- Mercedes, BMW, Range Rover, etc.
A brand new headlight for a Lada is about $2.00 -- the same thing for a Mercedes is $300.00
(Which explains why I drive a Lada -- even though I don't particularly like it.) Between the lousy drivers, and the cheap cost of replacement parts...:)
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Cookies, in and of themselves, are not 'evil'. By wiping out all cookies, you'd be wiping out affiliate links too. In general, affiliates work pretty hard for their little slice of the pie. By wiping out affiliate tracking cookies -- you take money away from work-at-home moms, (and pops) and millions of other 'little guys' who manage to direct you to something you're looking for.
Where does the money go? Back into the pocket of the vendor who no longer has to pay their affiliates. What a great deal for them -- free traffic and sales -- zero overhead.
Please don't kill cookies unless they are evil ones. Thanks...
I was once given over 100,000 lines of Fortran Code (on a paper print-out) and asked to reverse-engineer and document it by drawing flow charts.
It wasn't for a fun and logical business program either -- it was for the simulation of an aircraft electrical system for a commercial flight simulator.
At the time, there weren't any PCs in the office -- let alone Visio or any kind of software to do it. I was told to photocopy thousands of standard flowchart symbols, cut them out and paste them on a huge (wall-sized) piece of paper.
Paper Cuts, Glue Poisoning and many, many, many long hours! It was NOT PLEASANT!:)
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Is everyone over there BLIND as to what's happening? Since 9/11 America the Free have turned into America the Paranoid.
:)
Under the guise of "Anti-Terrorism", your government have embarked on a campaign to systematically strip you of your rights, catalog you, and make sure that the machine gun wall gets built around your country to keep all them damn foreigners out, and good, hard-working 'mericans in.
RFID tags in your passports, now the ID card -- what's next?
Pretty soon, it won't be your CAT or DOG that gets the ID pellet behind the ear -- it will be YOU.
Of course, capitalism may prevail -- the market for quick-and-dirty surgery to replace the pellets with new identification chips will be great -- as will the buying and selling of stolen or traded chips.
What happens if you go out to a bar, someone slips you a mikey, and you wake up in the morning in an alley with a hole in your head where your chip used to be?
Maybe you'll find your bank account has been cleaned out, your wife, your job and your home are all occupied by the new owner of your chip.
Welcome to America!
If you think you have problems now -- just imagine if that mole is able to tap into the database Homeland Security has... Talk about getting the fox to run the chicken coop.
;)
Spam will be the least of your worries when every advertiser with the money to buy it has access to data about you that you may not even know about yourself.
Of course, the US government would > do anything like that (would they)?
I'll try to remember that the next time I'm visiting the USA and need to provide fingerprints, retina scan and details about my personal life -- just for the pleasure of doing some shopping south of the border...
What the hell gives Google (or anyone else for that matter) the right to take content provided willingly and free by millions of people, take ownership of it and start charging for it?
This kind of stunt is exactly how Russian ogliarcs managed to aquire every major state asset for a small fraction of 1% of their true value.
Imagine if Google actually had to PAY the contributors -- say $10 per page. What would WikiPedia be worth? Of course even at that they have the bucks to do it -- but look at it another way -- would YOU be willing to contribute YOUR time and effort to create content for FREE that someone ELSE would package up and PROFIT from?
If so, you're a bigger sucker than I am. Unfortunately, all the WikiPedia contributors will probably NOT receive ANY of the $20 that was mentioned. It'll just go to the new 'information ogliarcs'.
On another front -- who the hell says that EVERYONE on the planet CAN EVEN AFFORD or has access to ANY METHOD of paying for this knowledge? School kids around the world sure don't -- unless they steal their parent's credit cards perhaps. Of course that doesn't help people who are too poor or live in countries where credit cards don't even exist.
I would have thought that the 'NIX crowd would be jumping up and down for joy with this revelation.
.NET has supported just C#, VB.NET as the main development languages. However, the way the CLR was MEANT to evolve and be open OPEN to the addition of new native language support.
.NET platform. Is the word OPEN suddenly causing you fear because it happens to be related to something MS did (this time)? :)
:)
For years, you've all been whining and crying about how MS is 'proprietary this and 'closed that -- nad now when they DO decide to open up the CLR with ADDITIONAL language support - now you're whining about security? Gimme a break!
Until now, the CLR in
Yes folks -- PERL.NET, PHP.NET -- and even, (god forbid) Fortran.NET, or COBOL.NET could be seen someday soon.
The support of C and C++ does nothing but open the door for people who otherwise would not have access to the
Java dudes -- stick to the sandbox where you won't get hurt -- bury your heads in the sand if you want -- but don't block the road for people who WANT the power and speed of C, C++ and C#. (I run with knives too -- AND LIKE IT!
After reading this dog pile -- is it any wonder that the vast majority of corporations DO NOT use Linux AT ALL? Hundreds of 'popuplar' distributions -- each requiring tweaking and fiddling to get ANY application to run on them -- nothing compatible and integrated with anything else -- is it any wonder that MS still rules? Flame on! :)
GUYS -- don't be such weenies! Don't you GET IT? ActiveX is SUPPOSED to give the developer the POWER to access the FULL capabilities of the hardware and software installed on the user's box! That's POWER -- That's what it was MEANT to DO! This is the one major advantage that MS has over the open-source, el-lameo browsers and HTML-Java-web-based-applications. They are so 'safe' you CAN NOT take advantage of what the user (or the company) spent so much to put on their bloody desk. Wanna go back to terminal days -- or what? How about a Firefox dumb-terminal? Talk about killing all the fun in programming... By USING ActiveX properly -- you can build applications can that literally make the computer sing and dance. I can build web-based applications that look, work and feel like desktop-based applications. They can communicate with the corporate back-end (whatever it happens to be), and not be limited to the RESTRICTIONS of non-MS browsers. Even using Visual Basic (I can hear the groans now, but live with it.) -- I can build an ActiveX control in less than 30 seconds that performs a very useful function, such as connecting to a database, firing queries, while at the same time firing off OS function calls, communicating with other network-based applications or services -- or WHATEVER. I can leverage my Visual Basic knowledge to develop true client-server applications that have some REAL POWER -- and the beauty of both ActiveX controls and Active Documents -- is that these can be ported between standalone/desktop applications to web-based applications WITHOUT pulling out one's fingernails to do it. What may surprise some of you is that this POWER has been available for more than 6 years already. Some of you sound like you've just come out of Freshman-U and only just heard about it??? OOOOOOOOOOH ActiveX DANGER Will Robinson!!! Ohhh The sky is falling! RUN AWAY from ActiveX! Be afraid! C'mon guys -- if you want to play in the sandbox, that's fine -- but don't knock the tools or technologies that let the big guys dig into the guts of the machine and have some REAL fun. :)
"I can't wait for the first company to blame outsourcing for a product's late, buggy arrival." Outsourcing has been happening for over 20 years in the software industry. Anyone remember Isreal and COBOL? Gonna wait ANOTHER 20 years? Anyone who has ever SEEN how students behave in a foreign College or University knows damn well what the differences are between them and US ones. Discipline and parental influence starts to show up from the age of 3 and continues to adulthood. Foreign students still understand how LUCKY they are to have the OPPORTUNITY to get an education and take advantage of the opportunity instead of spending it at the mall or drunk.
Insurance companies are in for the profit same as anyone else. They have two ways to play the game: 1. Increase revenue -- which means raising rates -- in most cases, they're already squeezing the blood from people -- so not an option. 2. Reduce expenses -- which means coming up with new and innovative ways of not paying out. Enter technology! The use of technology to avoid paying insurance claims is not new. Most Americans driving newer cars already have black boxes that have already been successful in proving driver negligence and nullifying insurance coverage. This new technology just takes it to the next level. Instead of making the data available to the insurance company only after a crash -- they get the opportunity to know everything about your driving habits BEFORE. Does anyone really believe that the insurance companies WOULD NOT use this data to THEIR advantage? Most policies have a clause that completely removes the insurance coverage in the event the driver has broken the law. Proving you've been driving drunk was pretty easy -- but proving you ran a stop sign, or even a cross-walk was next to impossible -- until now. If you can say that you are a 'perfect driver' and have never ever made a driving error of any kind -- I'd like to meet you! (I've never met a god before either, but won't be holding my breath.) All this system will do is catalog your every transgression, and give the insurance company an easy way out of any attempt to get them to pay. "Judge, Joe Smith has violated the law 54 times in the past 2 years -- he has demonstrated a clear pattern of reckless driving -- why should our insurance company pay for this accident?"
Not having seen the screen in question I'd have to say that this is the correct answer. Measurement of asynchronous systems (such as dial-up) generally refers to BPS (bits per second) and includes the start bit, stop bit and parity bit (if applicable). This means that to send 8 bits of data, you need at least 10 bits (to include the start and stop bit). Or 11 bits if you include parity. Parity bit is optional, and stop bit may be 1, 1.5 or 2 bits. If you include the overhead of a protocol (TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, etc.), then the overhead is considerably more. Tech support answer clearly BOGUS. (Kind of like the guy at Radio Shack that said I couldn't use rechargable batteries in a wireless microphone because they needed two positive terminals.) Marty R. Milette Custom Toolbars
This whole judgment should raise alarm bells on both the pro- and anti- Microsoft sides of the fence -- but everyone is so busy bickering about trivialities about whether MS, their company or products are 'good' or 'bad' or whatever that everyone is missing the big picture. This is -- what the hell is the point in building ANY product or service -- if you're going to have to GIVE IT TO YOUR COMPETITORS FOR FREE. What good are copyrights -- what good are patents? Microsoft -- good or bad -- have invested thousands of person-years developing THEIR PRODUCTS -- and now some foreign government seems to have the right to render them completely worthless. This is NOT a case of a MONOPOLY for god's sake -- Microsoft doesn't own and restrict access to your telephone lines, power lines or control the water flowing to your home. They build SOFTWARE. PERIOD. If you want to run Mac OS, or UNIX or whatever the hell you want -- you HAVE THE CHOICE. No bone breakers are coming to your place of work and breaking your arms and legs if you don't buy their stuff. If Microsoft wants to IMPROVE their product -- do they not have every right in the world to do so? If they want to include new features or improve existing ones -- why shouldn't they be able to do that too? Does Ford have to give their designs to GM? Does Plaxo need to share their drug recipes with Bayer? NOT BLOODY LIKELY -- BECAUSE RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION are exactly what separate one business from another. Winners and losers -- survival of the fittest. The most certain way to KILL INNOVATION is to strip people of the BENEFITS of DOING IT. (In most cases -- that means providing PROTECTION of intellectual property so that companies CAN EXPLOIT -- and YES -- heaven forbid -- PROFIT FROM IT.) This isn't a question of money -- it's a question of the protection of a company's right to develop their own products as they see fit. Take away that -- and you may as well revert to communism. (And we saw how well THAT worked.)
One of the only reasons Linux and various flavours are so popular is because they are FREE. Check out the computer science programs at most Universities and see what's being used. If people (or states) don't want to buy a particular software product or feel it is overpriced -- they have the CHOICE of buying something else. The same idiots who suggest that Microsoft should give away their source code are the same ones bitching and screaming if someone copies 2 lines of text from their web site or even THINKS about using some obscure, invalid patent issued 20 years ago by a government employee who couldn't spell Operating System -- let alone have a clue what it was. When in doubt -- hire a lawyer. When in doubt about being in doubt -- hire a lawyer. It's the "American Way". (Any wonder why lawyers drive Mercedes and BMWs and have multi-million dollar homes while most techies work 20 hours a day and get there on a bike?) If Microsoft had half a brain (which is debatable, at times I must agree), they'd have moved the whole freakin company to the Cayman Islands, fired all the tens of thousands of people they have full-time employed, and hired them back the next day as tax-free contract workers. If Microsoft REALLY wanted to screw the US Government and avoid billions of dollars in taxes AND litigation, this would be the fastest and easiest way to do it. With all the crap they've been put through by JEALOUS competitors and 'make a fast buck lawyers' -- it may still be quite a viable option... Marty R. Milette
Here in Russia, there are very few scrap yards, because the price of a new Russian car is about $5,000 USD (or less!) and the cost of the parts is miniscule. Even a brand new "Chevrolet Niva" (4-wheel Drive SUV) is $10,000. For example, a brand new door for a Lada 10 is about $30 USD. There are tons of 'third-party' suppliers for all parts, so pretty much everything is disposable. The only significant scrap yards are for foreign cars -- Mercedes, BMW, Range Rover, etc. A brand new headlight for a Lada is about $2.00 -- the same thing for a Mercedes is $300.00 (Which explains why I drive a Lada -- even though I don't particularly like it.) Between the lousy drivers, and the cheap cost of replacement parts... :)
Marty R. Milette - Custom Toolbars
Cookies, in and of themselves, are not 'evil'. By wiping out all cookies, you'd be wiping out affiliate links too. In general, affiliates work pretty hard for their little slice of the pie. By wiping out affiliate tracking cookies -- you take money away from work-at-home moms, (and pops) and millions of other 'little guys' who manage to direct you to something you're looking for. Where does the money go? Back into the pocket of the vendor who no longer has to pay their affiliates. What a great deal for them -- free traffic and sales -- zero overhead. Please don't kill cookies unless they are evil ones. Thanks...
I was once given over 100,000 lines of Fortran Code (on a paper print-out) and asked to reverse-engineer and document it by drawing flow charts. It wasn't for a fun and logical business program either -- it was for the simulation of an aircraft electrical system for a commercial flight simulator. At the time, there weren't any PCs in the office -- let alone Visio or any kind of software to do it. I was told to photocopy thousands of standard flowchart symbols, cut them out and paste them on a huge (wall-sized) piece of paper. Paper Cuts, Glue Poisoning and many, many, many long hours! It was NOT PLEASANT! :)