And the fact that for most of their printers (well the C82 that I have) you can get very good 3rd party ink for $5 a cartridge, if you don't mind waiting a month for it to arrive, and $7 per color and $15 a black if you want it in 4 days.
Not to mention that if by any chance this ink clogs up the printer, epson will replace it under warrenty (I mention this as many people claim this is a big problem with 3rd party inks. It has happened to me, about 1/2 the time - but after I get the fixed printer I don't have problems anymore, and haven't seen any decrease in print quality)
See, it's much simplier to say that unborn babies is a contradiction in terms. For me, a baby has to be born to be a baby - till then, I just don't see it as separate from the mother.
I do agree with the rest, with one caveat - I'm currently against capital punishment for 2 main reasons, one it costs more than life in prison, and seems like less of a punishment.
You are missing his point here though. He's not arguing about security but useability. Two totally different things.
The most secure system in the world is turned off and locked in a closet, but you wouldn't be able to use it. It probably would be pretty bug free too.
There are many aspects to a system that are important, but - as MS has found - nothing much matters if users can't use it. Which is why MS can sell insecure OS's and have people use them.
Incremental search is useful, but I have trouble believing that most users would be able to remember the content, let alone the exact wording, of every document they wrote. I certainly find things myself according to where I put them (i.e. what folder, sub-folder, etc.).
Well, I used to feel the same way, until I started using the quick find for bookmarks in Opera. I used to try and remember, ok that coding page - did I put that in my top level list, or my computer info folder, maybe my class work folder...
You could say I'm disorganized, but also - some things fit into different folders depending on how you are looking at it today. With quickfind I just start typing something that would be in the bookmark name like C++ for instance, and there it is, likely along with other bookmarks related to the topic (and some that don't fit but nothing's perfect).
More and more I'm also abandoning folders on my hard drives for organization. I just cannot remember if I have that document in my work - word pro folder, or if it's in my FTP server, or maybe in whoevers directory I want to read it, or it might be on the desktop or whatever... Now I run a search. It often takes less time than me looking through all my folders myself.
Honestly - why would you possibly want this over say the normal taskbar with the various applications there?
Why do people seem to want to allow the web to be their applications? Not only are you then tied down to an internet connection, but your computer is pretty useless by itself. Laptops wouldn't work at all.
What about security? If you let remote locations do everything on your PC (as many applications need to) then you have security holes such as Windows XP never dreamed of.
I guess it would finally give companies the software as a service that they are so keen on - which I don't need at all.
The problem is that more and more of what we do on a computer requires an internet connection.
What do I normally do in a day on a PC?
Check e-mail - need internet
Check weather,news, and forums - need internet
Write a paper - need internet for sources or access to colleges electronic databases (you TRY finding journals on paper anymore - I recently went to Cornell University and 95% of their stuff was electronic.)
Get help with office 2k3 application - need internet(and this is assinine, makes my laptop often useless unless I have memorized all of the applications I might need to use or functions in excell etc...)
So - what do I do that doesn't need the net?
Listen to mp3's and cd's.
Write C++ code. Visual Studio 6 still has the help on my PC, otherise I'd probably need the internet for this.
My point is that much of what we do with our PC's requires the internet today, so that's not a real great reason not to do a service OS.
I wonder if it's possible to craft a packet where the ip address is 127.0.0.1 but the MAC address is the address of a different (target) machine.
Yes. There are various tools to create any kind of packet you want.
Wouldn't that mean that the packets are delivered to the machine with the MAC address?
Not exactly. The packet is delivered to IP address 127.0.0.1. However the (assuming ethernet) frame would be delivered to the MAC address specified. So the effect would be what you say. The problem of course is that the reply data would use the IP layer to determine the lower ethernet layer unless you were crafting packets on the target machine also.
I honestly think that is the most horrible idea ever. I mean, do you want to have to deal with a whole other suite of applications and formats when you are not connected to the net?
And I shudder to consider this over dial-up which is still ~50% of the US (and probably more worldwide) net access. Not to mention all the demos above just went into an endless loop in my browser(Opera 7.54). The security issues make me shudder too.
However read the recent "Long Tail" article from Wired, showing that - for online retailing at least, the bottom 95% of music/movies by popularity is actually more profitable (assuming they stock a huge variety like Rhapsody or Netflix) than the popular top 5%.
I think Wal - Mart is successful for more than low prices. Everytime walmart is discussed I have to go into some detail about (at least the NY Walmarts).
It involves being a smart shopper too. First I notice what they have that is the same brand/product at a lower price than elsewhere, and what is higher. Don't buy bread at upstate NY Walmarts, it's 2x the price at Wegmans(an upscale up price grocery store chain).
But for instance, frozen foods. I seriously doubt that the hungry man dinner for $3.89 at Wal-mart is different from the hungry man dinner at Wegmans for $4.99 except the price. I've eaten both and they seem materially the same to me at least. If you buy frozen foods frequently, you can easily save $5 or more just on TV dinners like that.
Now, that we have established the low price items to get (if you are planning on getting these at all) at Wal-Mart let's talk about the other thing Wal-Mart does right. Customer treatment.
Let's face it, no big retail store that's anywhere near the discount market has great customer treatment, but wal-mart is consistantly above the rest. Like they have employees who will try and help you out if you'r obviously looking for something - opposed to say K-Mart where they ignore you as best as they can (if you can even find someone who works there).
Then there is the return policy. They actually take things back. For just about any reason. Anytime withing a year of purchase. You get cash back (no store credit hassles, or exchange pains, or do you have the secret recipt that was under your credit card recipt when we hand-..... etc.)
Honestly, if it's mid range household stuff I buy at Wal-Mart, and recommend people to do so. The 1 year warrenty, and wal-mart's help in enforcing manufactuer claims on the manufacturer is invaluable.
However all that said, there are many things I won't buy at Wal-Mart:
Meat
Computer Parts, Printers, etc.
Clothes, Shoes
Produce
Probably more that isn't on the top of my head. You have to know what to get where, and I'm not worried about shopping around. From where I live, I have to drive ~30-40 miles to get to a shopping district, might as well go to the one with Wal-Mart, Target, Staples, Wegmans, Mall all within a mile of each other and do the rounds.
I think the point is that you are paying to use the software, so you might expect you can use it, based on any restrictions placed on you at point of sale. Additional, hidden restrictions or conditions certainly do not seem fair at the very least.
How does.NET get rid of the Registry? I've been very against it, but if it really can allow the removal of the registry I'm all for it.
I think that more people need to be made aware of software like Acronis True Image, and maybe computermakers ought to look into making it part of their install. This would allow easy incremental image backups, and can be placed on a special partition or another HD from the OS. A better version IMO of go back or XP system Restore(which is a joke IMHO).
I don't know about reference books, but fiction books can be well served in this way.
This has been posted before on slashdot but see here: ebooks
As far as recipies, I figure you can get them online for free anyway (legally) with a normal google search, adding some books or not won't change that. Besides, the only time anyone I know has bought a recipe book is as a gift from some giftstore when they didn't know what type of souvenir to get someone.
Maybe google could do this like libraries, ie "check out" the copy of the book while someone is reading it, and only allow x people to read exerpts or the whole book or whatever at a time, where x is the number of copies google bought.
It worth remembering that while everyone now praises Mozilla and Firefox as a massive success story of a truly slick and usable open source application, a very short time ago it was considered a poor clunky application with slow GUI and poor usability.
Not everyone. Many do. I personally still shudder everytime I have to use Mozilla on some linux distro at school. Reminds me of netscape 4. I escaped that years ago, and I'm not nostalgic.
I'm one of those very weird people(I guess) who does not like MS software, but doesn't like any of the OSS software either. I happen to use Opera for browsing and Lotus Smartsuite Millenium edition for most office work(both are paid for), aside from required excel and access projects for school.
True. Morals are generally relative anyway across the various religions. Each person has their own morals and ethics that they follow and I doubt that their religion is the only factor or even the dominant one.
Moral relativism is fine with me, most societies will either find a sociatal balance that the majority can agree on, like with everything else, or fall apart.
I either don't know enough, or agree with the rest of your post, but this I take issue with. In what way does software installation not work on windows? I cannot remember the last time software failed to install on WindowsXP(Oh, I'm sure you can find some dos hardware accelerated game or such, but I'm talking about everyday software you can buy today at a store or online).
On the other hand, I think I've managed so far to get ONE piece of software to sucessfully install on a linux distro(that didn't come with it). I've easily spent 15 hours or more on trying to install software, and the one package I've gotten to work was Opera. I don't know why packages such as etherial don't install, or various games(for linux) or other random software I see on the net.
Until there is some file or link I can download or click for any 3rd party software(from the developers website - like on windows) and have the install start, I refuse to believe the claims that it is easy to install software on linux.
On the two distros I've used extensively, Redhat 7.3(at college - and no they will not upgrade) and SuSE 9.1Pro at home, I download an RPM which I think is the correct file type(why no.exe installer or similar???? for all distros???? I mean there is like 10 different versions of the software in different containers, wtf? - what version do I get if say SuSe isn't listed as an option on the site?), then double click on the downloaded file - and I get nothing. It asks me what program to open the file with. How do I know what program? I'm trying to install the damn program right now - I have no idea what Linux's version of the msi thingy is.
So I try various RPM programs, and some refuse to open the file, I finally find one that does seem to open the file, so I click install and get some sort of errors that I need 30 other files.
Why aren't the necessary files included with the install file? Just about every windows program I've ever used comes with java or with directx or with whatever it needs to run, and it will install them during the install of the software so it works when the single install program is done.
I think the worst case senario is I've had some single developer programs that ask you to install a vb runtime, with a link on the site to that runtime. NO WHERE ON sourceforge or the like do they tell you that if you want to install Etherial current, you need 10 other random files, much less link you to their download. No where does it tell you what order if any you should install the files. Let's just say that even with the latest versions of SuSe I find installation of software laughable. I recently hosed my SuSe install because I ran out of diskspace trying to update it with it's update tool. No warnings or checks to see if I had enough space to install the updates selected, just crashed during install, and now won't boot. Even the automanagers are missing OBVIOUS checks.
Linux install rant over. Seriously, until it's far easier to get software working on Linux, I'm stuck with Windows XP.
I'm not an economist by any stretch, and probably don't understand the economy at all.
Why is deflation any worse than inflation (of equal amounts)? In either case as I understand it, the current amount of $$ you have is worth less afterwords in true value.
Would something like the liberty dollar be better - a somewhat fixed currency, say tied to gold again?
I have to disagree here re Epson. They have always been rather reliable printers - I only have problems when I use really cheap 3rd party inks. I still do though, because Epson will replace the printer free during the first year, and I never have problems after that, up to ~4 1/2 years on a printer. Not bad for a $120 inkjet, using $5 cartridges.
The only thing I don't get is why they don't do whatever it is they do at the fix it factory that lets the printer work great with any crap ink for years in the first place rather than having everyone return the printer once in the first year...
Maybe I'm the only one who does - 4 printers along now between myself and my family - been using exclusively Epson since 1998.
I think you might have missed my point. Or I missed yours.
I'm not trying to thwart anyone aside from terrorists. I'm certainly not thinking we should lower our defenses, or ignore terrorism as a threat. No where in my analogy did I claim the person in question did not have pnumonia (or that we are targeted by some terrorists).
What I did claim was that the current actions by Bush and his administration appear as haphazard, impatient and well thought out as my example above.
I expect my government to provide for the common defense. I do not think that randomly invading countries is in any way related to defense. I do not buy pre-emptive strikes. I think they are immoral, often mistargeted, and all around things I always imagined the "bad guys" would do.
I may be conflating rhetoric with actions somewhat, but "you're with us or against us?" That's a false dilemma - a logical fallacy. Switzerland is neutral, but that certainly doesn't mean they support terrorism.
I also hate being misled, or hell, lied to. Why are we in Iraq?
1. WMD? Precious few - heck Bush now says the administration never made that any part of the reason for going to Iraq.
2. To save the Iraqi people? Isn't that what Bush was against in his 2000 campaign, the US running off to Bosnia etc... to save them from themselves? (jibe - who's filp-flopping?)
3. Iraq was a imminent threat to someone? I don't buy this, Saddam hadn't managed to even begin to rebulid from the first gulf war, and he wasn't terribly intereseted in running amok again. Because he shot at our planes bomming Iraq in no fly zones? Maybe - but this certainly didn't make the mass media.
4. Saddam was a bad guy - so what? Lots of people are bad guys under some definition of it, and we aren't invading their countries (I hope).
Rather than just jibing Iraq, I'm going to step back to my main point - I do not think invasions of any country will not stop or slow down terrorism. Most terrorists are not scared of being killed (they kill them selves occomplishing their objective). Cell structure terrorists (like most are) can survive a very large number of people being captured or killed. Armies move too slow to catch many terrorists, and are ineffictive against the 50% or so that are in place in countries we cannot (I don't think) attack, like the UK, Germany, Spain, and the US.
This leads me to think that massivly funding our military is a "feel good" action, but will not make one iota of difference in protecting the United States from terrorism.
My personal opinion is that we can put our efforts into two useful areas. Those who have a chance to prevent terrorist acts (CIA, FBI, etc), and those who react to terrorist acts (police, firemen, etc). The second area also can help to lower the general crime rate, and help to improve survival of citizens in natural disasters and other non terrorist events. To me making sure the second group is ready and able to go in response of terrorism and other disasters is a no brainer, you get 2 good things for the price of one.
The current war in Iraq is the oppisite, you get two bad things for the price of 1, massive funding drain and distroyed international relations.
I agree Bush is doing something, but is it the logical thing, or the right thing?
His current actions seem to me to be analgous to grabbing the nearest medicine on the wal-mart shelf, taking a few, noticing that doesn't help, grabbing the next, taking the whole bottle - and realising that you now feel worse rather than better beginning to do katas in the store while going ooooommmmmmm and hoping no one realises you just stole a bunch of pills.
To continue my analogy, when the manager of the store comes up, you start hopping on one foot and declaring that he is for people dying of pnumonia because he wants you to pay for the pills and see a damn doctor - and by the way, don't ever come back in my store!
When the police come you start shouting how they are unpatratioc becasue they are against your war on pnumonia.
Honestly, that's how Bush's actions to deal with the terrorists look to me when translated to your bacterial infection.
This is why I always harp on people that if they want small content oriented files to send html or rtf (I don't do.doc I use Lotus Word Pro), if they want exact layout printout, send a PDF. There are free pdf creator software so... no excuses IMO.
It's getting so only the creator can actually edit documents in my class group work - we just pass pdf's with comments back and forth as some have Lotus(me) some have Office 2k, some XP, some 2k3 and none of them read spreadsheets the same, or database files or document files.
and Greedo will still shoot first in that release)
I must be one of the only people who is not a star wars fan, but I'm seeing this all over the place on/. recently. Could someone please indicate to me the significence of greedo shooting first?
Your own anonymous network? It must be real good cause all I see is vaporware.
More ontopic, where do we provide this e-mail address? How is one supposed to do this? How many people use 123@abc.net?
And a misdemenor? How are they going to slap you with that? Or find you? Is california now going to spend money on tracking down everyone sharing anything in the state?
For the same reasons it is hard for the RIAA to find the right person to sue, it would be similarily hard to get someone for this misdemeanor.
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And the fact that for most of their printers (well the C82 that I have) you can get very good 3rd party ink for $5 a cartridge, if you don't mind waiting a month for it to arrive, and $7 per color and $15 a black if you want it in 4 days.
Not to mention that if by any chance this ink clogs up the printer, epson will replace it under warrenty (I mention this as many people claim this is a big problem with 3rd party inks. It has happened to me, about 1/2 the time - but after I get the fixed printer I don't have problems anymore, and haven't seen any decrease in print quality)
See, it's much simplier to say that unborn babies is a contradiction in terms. For me, a baby has to be born to be a baby - till then, I just don't see it as separate from the mother.
I do agree with the rest, with one caveat - I'm currently against capital punishment for 2 main reasons, one it costs more than life in prison, and seems like less of a punishment.
I know this is flippant, but what the hey.
I find life a lot simpler by rejecting religion wholesale, and ignoring all the various holy writings.
You are missing his point here though. He's not arguing about security but useability. Two totally different things.
The most secure system in the world is turned off and locked in a closet, but you wouldn't be able to use it. It probably would be pretty bug free too.
There are many aspects to a system that are important, but - as MS has found - nothing much matters if users can't use it. Which is why MS can sell insecure OS's and have people use them.
Incremental search is useful, but I have trouble believing that most users would be able to remember the content, let alone the exact wording, of every document they wrote. I certainly find things myself according to where I put them (i.e. what folder, sub-folder, etc.).
Well, I used to feel the same way, until I started using the quick find for bookmarks in Opera. I used to try and remember, ok that coding page - did I put that in my top level list, or my computer info folder, maybe my class work folder...
You could say I'm disorganized, but also - some things fit into different folders depending on how you are looking at it today. With quickfind I just start typing something that would be in the bookmark name like C++ for instance, and there it is, likely along with other bookmarks related to the topic (and some that don't fit but nothing's perfect).
More and more I'm also abandoning folders on my hard drives for organization. I just cannot remember if I have that document in my work - word pro folder, or if it's in my FTP server, or maybe in whoevers directory I want to read it, or it might be on the desktop or whatever... Now I run a search. It often takes less time than me looking through all my folders myself.
Why?
Honestly - why would you possibly want this over say the normal taskbar with the various applications there?
Why do people seem to want to allow the web to be their applications? Not only are you then tied down to an internet connection, but your computer is pretty useless by itself. Laptops wouldn't work at all.
What about security? If you let remote locations do everything on your PC (as many applications need to) then you have security holes such as Windows XP never dreamed of.
I guess it would finally give companies the software as a service that they are so keen on - which I don't need at all.
Ok, this site gives me an unsupported browser reply in BOTH Opera 7.54 and IE6. So I at least cannot view it.
The problem is that more and more of what we do on a computer requires an internet connection.
What do I normally do in a day on a PC?
Check e-mail - need internet
Check weather,news, and forums - need internet
Write a paper - need internet for sources or access to colleges electronic databases (you TRY finding journals on paper anymore - I recently went to Cornell University and 95% of their stuff was electronic.)
Get help with office 2k3 application - need internet(and this is assinine, makes my laptop often useless unless I have memorized all of the applications I might need to use or functions in excell etc...)
So - what do I do that doesn't need the net?
Listen to mp3's and cd's.
Write C++ code. Visual Studio 6 still has the help on my PC, otherise I'd probably need the internet for this.
My point is that much of what we do with our PC's requires the internet today, so that's not a real great reason not to do a service OS.
I wonder if it's possible to craft a packet where the ip address is 127.0.0.1 but the MAC address is the address of a different (target) machine.
Yes. There are various tools to create any kind of packet you want.
Wouldn't that mean that the packets are delivered to the machine with the MAC address?
Not exactly. The packet is delivered to IP address 127.0.0.1. However the (assuming ethernet) frame would be delivered to the MAC address specified. So the effect would be what you say. The problem of course is that the reply data would use the IP layer to determine the lower ethernet layer unless you were crafting packets on the target machine also.
I honestly think that is the most horrible idea ever. I mean, do you want to have to deal with a whole other suite of applications and formats when you are not connected to the net?
And I shudder to consider this over dial-up which is still ~50% of the US (and probably more worldwide) net access. Not to mention all the demos above just went into an endless loop in my browser(Opera 7.54). The security issues make me shudder too.
However read the recent "Long Tail" article from Wired, showing that - for online retailing at least, the bottom 95% of music/movies by popularity is actually more profitable (assuming they stock a huge variety like Rhapsody or Netflix) than the popular top 5%.
I think Wal - Mart is successful for more than low prices. Everytime walmart is discussed I have to go into some detail about (at least the NY Walmarts).
It involves being a smart shopper too. First I notice what they have that is the same brand/product at a lower price than elsewhere, and what is higher. Don't buy bread at upstate NY Walmarts, it's 2x the price at Wegmans(an upscale up price grocery store chain).
But for instance, frozen foods. I seriously doubt that the hungry man dinner for $3.89 at Wal-mart is different from the hungry man dinner at Wegmans for $4.99 except the price. I've eaten both and they seem materially the same to me at least. If you buy frozen foods frequently, you can easily save $5 or more just on TV dinners like that.
Now, that we have established the low price items to get (if you are planning on getting these at all) at Wal-Mart let's talk about the other thing Wal-Mart does right. Customer treatment.
Let's face it, no big retail store that's anywhere near the discount market has great customer treatment, but wal-mart is consistantly above the rest. Like they have employees who will try and help you out if you'r obviously looking for something - opposed to say K-Mart where they ignore you as best as they can (if you can even find someone who works there).
Then there is the return policy. They actually take things back. For just about any reason. Anytime withing a year of purchase. You get cash back (no store credit hassles, or exchange pains, or do you have the secret recipt that was under your credit card recipt when we hand-..... etc.)
Honestly, if it's mid range household stuff I buy at Wal-Mart, and recommend people to do so. The 1 year warrenty, and wal-mart's help in enforcing manufactuer claims on the manufacturer is invaluable.
However all that said, there are many things I won't buy at Wal-Mart:
Meat
Computer Parts, Printers, etc.
Clothes, Shoes
Produce
Probably more that isn't on the top of my head. You have to know what to get where, and I'm not worried about shopping around. From where I live, I have to drive ~30-40 miles to get to a shopping district, might as well go to the one with Wal-Mart, Target, Staples, Wegmans, Mall all within a mile of each other and do the rounds.
I think the point is that you are paying to use the software, so you might expect you can use it, based on any restrictions placed on you at point of sale. Additional, hidden restrictions or conditions certainly do not seem fair at the very least.
How does .NET get rid of the Registry? I've been very against it, but if it really can allow the removal of the registry I'm all for it.
I think that more people need to be made aware of software like Acronis True Image, and maybe computermakers ought to look into making it part of their install. This would allow easy incremental image backups, and can be placed on a special partition or another HD from the OS. A better version IMO of go back or XP system Restore(which is a joke IMHO).
I don't know about reference books, but fiction books can be well served in this way.
This has been posted before on slashdot but see here: ebooks
As far as recipies, I figure you can get them online for free anyway (legally) with a normal google search, adding some books or not won't change that. Besides, the only time anyone I know has bought a recipe book is as a gift from some giftstore when they didn't know what type of souvenir to get someone.
Maybe google could do this like libraries, ie "check out" the copy of the book while someone is reading it, and only allow x people to read exerpts or the whole book or whatever at a time, where x is the number of copies google bought.
It worth remembering that while everyone now praises Mozilla and Firefox as a massive success story of a truly slick and usable open source application, a very short time ago it was considered a poor clunky application with slow GUI and poor usability.
Not everyone. Many do. I personally still shudder everytime I have to use Mozilla on some linux distro at school. Reminds me of netscape 4. I escaped that years ago, and I'm not nostalgic.
I'm one of those very weird people(I guess) who does not like MS software, but doesn't like any of the OSS software either. I happen to use Opera for browsing and Lotus Smartsuite Millenium edition for most office work(both are paid for), aside from required excel and access projects for school.
True. Morals are generally relative anyway across the various religions. Each person has their own morals and ethics that they follow and I doubt that their religion is the only factor or even the dominant one.
Moral relativism is fine with me, most societies will either find a sociatal balance that the majority can agree on, like with everything else, or fall apart.
Software installation doesn't work worth a damn.
.exe installer or similar???? for all distros???? I mean there is like 10 different versions of the software in different containers, wtf? - what version do I get if say SuSe isn't listed as an option on the site?), then double click on the downloaded file - and I get nothing. It asks me what program to open the file with. How do I know what program? I'm trying to install the damn program right now - I have no idea what Linux's version of the msi thingy is.
I either don't know enough, or agree with the rest of your post, but this I take issue with. In what way does software installation not work on windows? I cannot remember the last time software failed to install on WindowsXP(Oh, I'm sure you can find some dos hardware accelerated game or such, but I'm talking about everyday software you can buy today at a store or online).
On the other hand, I think I've managed so far to get ONE piece of software to sucessfully install on a linux distro(that didn't come with it). I've easily spent 15 hours or more on trying to install software, and the one package I've gotten to work was Opera. I don't know why packages such as etherial don't install, or various games(for linux) or other random software I see on the net.
Until there is some file or link I can download or click for any 3rd party software(from the developers website - like on windows) and have the install start, I refuse to believe the claims that it is easy to install software on linux.
On the two distros I've used extensively, Redhat 7.3(at college - and no they will not upgrade) and SuSE 9.1Pro at home, I download an RPM which I think is the correct file type(why no
So I try various RPM programs, and some refuse to open the file, I finally find one that does seem to open the file, so I click install and get some sort of errors that I need 30 other files.
Why aren't the necessary files included with the install file? Just about every windows program I've ever used comes with java or with directx or with whatever it needs to run, and it will install them during the install of the software so it works when the single install program is done.
I think the worst case senario is I've had some single developer programs that ask you to install a vb runtime, with a link on the site to that runtime. NO WHERE ON sourceforge or the like do they tell you that if you want to install Etherial current, you need 10 other random files, much less link you to their download. No where does it tell you what order if any you should install the files. Let's just say that even with the latest versions of SuSe I find installation of software laughable. I recently hosed my SuSe install because I ran out of diskspace trying to update it with it's update tool. No warnings or checks to see if I had enough space to install the updates selected, just crashed during install, and now won't boot. Even the automanagers are missing OBVIOUS checks.
Linux install rant over. Seriously, until it's far easier to get software working on Linux, I'm stuck with Windows XP.
I'm not an economist by any stretch, and probably don't understand the economy at all.
Why is deflation any worse than inflation (of equal amounts)? In either case as I understand it, the current amount of $$ you have is worth less afterwords in true value.
Would something like the liberty dollar be better - a somewhat fixed currency, say tied to gold again?
I have to disagree here re Epson. They have always been rather reliable printers - I only have problems when I use really cheap 3rd party inks. I still do though, because Epson will replace the printer free during the first year, and I never have problems after that, up to ~4 1/2 years on a printer. Not bad for a $120 inkjet, using $5 cartridges.
The only thing I don't get is why they don't do whatever it is they do at the fix it factory that lets the printer work great with any crap ink for years in the first place rather than having everyone return the printer once in the first year...
Maybe I'm the only one who does - 4 printers along now between myself and my family - been using exclusively Epson since 1998.
I think you might have missed my point. Or I missed yours.
I'm not trying to thwart anyone aside from terrorists. I'm certainly not thinking we should lower our defenses, or ignore terrorism as a threat. No where in my analogy did I claim the person in question did not have pnumonia (or that we are targeted by some terrorists).
What I did claim was that the current actions by Bush and his administration appear as haphazard, impatient and well thought out as my example above.
I expect my government to provide for the common defense. I do not think that randomly invading countries is in any way related to defense. I do not buy pre-emptive strikes. I think they are immoral, often mistargeted, and all around things I always imagined the "bad guys" would do.
I may be conflating rhetoric with actions somewhat, but "you're with us or against us?" That's a false dilemma - a logical fallacy. Switzerland is neutral, but that certainly doesn't mean they support terrorism.
I also hate being misled, or hell, lied to. Why are we in Iraq?
1. WMD? Precious few - heck Bush now says the administration never made that any part of the reason for going to Iraq.
2. To save the Iraqi people? Isn't that what Bush was against in his 2000 campaign, the US running off to Bosnia etc... to save them from themselves? (jibe - who's filp-flopping?)
3. Iraq was a imminent threat to someone? I don't buy this, Saddam hadn't managed to even begin to rebulid from the first gulf war, and he wasn't terribly intereseted in running amok again. Because he shot at our planes bomming Iraq in no fly zones? Maybe - but this certainly didn't make the mass media.
4. Saddam was a bad guy - so what? Lots of people are bad guys under some definition of it, and we aren't invading their countries (I hope).
Rather than just jibing Iraq, I'm going to step back to my main point - I do not think invasions of any country will not stop or slow down terrorism. Most terrorists are not scared of being killed (they kill them selves occomplishing their objective). Cell structure terrorists (like most are) can survive a very large number of people being captured or killed. Armies move too slow to catch many terrorists, and are ineffictive against the 50% or so that are in place in countries we cannot (I don't think) attack, like the UK, Germany, Spain, and the US.
This leads me to think that massivly funding our military is a "feel good" action, but will not make one iota of difference in protecting the United States from terrorism.
My personal opinion is that we can put our efforts into two useful areas. Those who have a chance to prevent terrorist acts (CIA, FBI, etc), and those who react to terrorist acts (police, firemen, etc). The second area also can help to lower the general crime rate, and help to improve survival of citizens in natural disasters and other non terrorist events. To me making sure the second group is ready and able to go in response of terrorism and other disasters is a no brainer, you get 2 good things for the price of one.
The current war in Iraq is the oppisite, you get two bad things for the price of 1, massive funding drain and distroyed international relations.
I agree Bush is doing something, but is it the logical thing, or the right thing?
His current actions seem to me to be analgous to grabbing the nearest medicine on the wal-mart shelf, taking a few, noticing that doesn't help, grabbing the next, taking the whole bottle - and realising that you now feel worse rather than better beginning to do katas in the store while going ooooommmmmmm and hoping no one realises you just stole a bunch of pills.
To continue my analogy, when the manager of the store comes up, you start hopping on one foot and declaring that he is for people dying of pnumonia because he wants you to pay for the pills and see a damn doctor - and by the way, don't ever come back in my store!
When the police come you start shouting how they are unpatratioc becasue they are against your war on pnumonia.
Honestly, that's how Bush's actions to deal with the terrorists look to me when translated to your bacterial infection.
This is why I always harp on people that if they want small content oriented files to send html or rtf (I don't do .doc I use Lotus Word Pro), if they want exact layout printout, send a PDF. There are free pdf creator software so... no excuses IMO.
It's getting so only the creator can actually edit documents in my class group work - we just pass pdf's with comments back and forth as some have Lotus(me) some have Office 2k, some XP, some 2k3 and none of them read spreadsheets the same, or database files or document files.
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/. recently. Could someone please indicate to me the significence of greedo shooting first?
I must be one of the only people who is not a star wars fan, but I'm seeing this all over the place on
Your own anonymous network? It must be real good cause all I see is vaporware.
More ontopic, where do we provide this e-mail address? How is one supposed to do this? How many people use 123@abc.net?
And a misdemenor? How are they going to slap you with that? Or find you? Is california now going to spend money on tracking down everyone sharing anything in the state?
For the same reasons it is hard for the RIAA to find the right person to sue, it would be similarily hard to get someone for this misdemeanor.