Energy would be a much better currency than gold, but how would you use it in trade? I have the solution! For investment opportunities, e-mail me with subject="Enron"
While SatanicPuppy's wishes may not have been the most polite, they were not undeserved. You anonymous cowards come on here and start making fun of a guy who's girlfriend has recently passed away (if YOU can do math, it's less than a year!). Sarcastic smart ass comments to any other post would have been accepted and probably rated as funny, but to comments like that, it's just cold and heartless. Then you wonder why people think nerds have no social skills. Grow a set of balls, sign your posts, and try to make sure your IQ is above that of a carrot before you post. You all knew you were being a "Total Fuckwad" when you posted, or you wouldn't have used AC. If you can't have some common human decency, I for one don't care what you have to say, and maybe getting some ass cancer as suggested may improve your perspective.
The only thing we need to decide is if we're going to pull ourselves down to the wages of other countries or pull them up to ours. I choose the latter.
While that's a great idea in theory, how would that ever happen? We order online (outsource if you will) because we can get product cheaper by ordering them from a huge warehouse in some tax free state. They lose the cost of maintaining public stores, and can deal in higher volume, so we can get cheaper wares. If we could go down to a local shop and buy the exact same thing for the exact same price we could find on pricegrabber, why would we ever order online? We'd get instant gratification, easier returns, actually getting to try the product in some cases, etc. We trade that for the savings in cost by ordering online.
If we drove these outsourced wages up, they'd then be without jobs. Why would a company hire these workers overseas, when they could get them locally for the same price? At that point, either us or them producing the goods would result in higher prices, and we couldn't afford to buy as much, in which case neither the local or outsourced workforces would have a job, and we'd both be SOL.
I want to make more money too, but the reality is if I demand too much money, there's another guy out there that can do the same thing I do and is willing to do it for less. That guy is probably out there right now, but they'll keep me because I have experience now and know my abilities, and a new hire is always a gamble. Push that price up to high, and the gamble starts having better odds in the eyes of the employer.
Yes, it would be absolutely wonderful if everybody could be well off, and afford everything they desire. Unskilled labor does not have much value, because by it's very nature ANYONE can do it!
As far as Americans are concerned, learn a better trade. There are plenty of schools, there is plenty of tuition assistance, and when that runs out, there are student loans. I've known people that refused to take student loans because "Why should *I* pay for school?" It's not a birth right, it is an investment. Really, if you don't have faith in yourself, why should the tax payers that are providing the assistance and the federally guaranteed loans? Yes, I have a nice large student debt, but because I took it and developed a skill, I am a more desirable employee that is worth more money, and I can afford to pay off that loan and still be better off than I would be had I not taken it.
Well I for one did NOT go to a university to learn things outside of my immediate job needs. What kind of silly person would do THAT?!
I also report to my school every time I call my German friend, that was an exchange student here. Doesn't everyone report all their personal calls to the school?
I also cleared with my dean when I planned my vacation to Cancun. Do some people think having a passport and the OK from both governments is all they need? Oh, and a Visa where needed. Craziness I swear!
Oh yeah, and every college student I've ever met maintained a normal 8-5 job. Why would a student ever work nights? Nobody ELSE in this country ever does!!!
I wasn't interested in this for security implications. I'm interested so I can finally run some of my unsigned device drivers. XP would just give you a message when installing, but I couldn't install my Audigy sound card in Vista. I also couldn't install random obscure hardware drivers for some of the stuff I have. Mind you, it's not all old and obsolete, some devices just don't include signed drivers and actually list the signed driver dialog as part of the installation process. This is really annoying that Vista absolutely prevented this. Currently, you have to boot in to safe mode to install them, and when you leave safe mode they won't load. Make it non-trivial, fine, but don't make it impossible. Some of us still want to run un-signed code.
Facebook doesn't bother me as much as the people that use it without discretion. Facebook isn't even as bad as some sites, it will send you ONE invitation, then it leaves you alone. That's acceptable. sms.ac, wayn.com, and others will e-mail you constantly. I had a friend that got upset because someone told her to quit sending them. She told them "I didn't, the site did" and he asked her to quit adding him to the invitation lists in the first place. She says "Well I'm NOT going through and manually selecting everyone." I told her if she doesn't care enough to manually select the people she thinks would be interested, she shouldn't use the feature.
Sending an e-mail is not hard. I don't understand why people can't just send their own e-mail to their friends. Then they're not sharing my e-mail, and I'm not getting a bunch of stuff I don't want.
I agree with your post, my response is only to the signature.
I've made my share of complaints about Microsoft and Windows in my life, but with the whole bundling argument I disagree. I don't like that Microsoft bundles IE, which is an inferior browser, and MSN, which is an inferier messenger client and network. This alone pushes many people to it, including our corporate environments (yes, we use MSN/Windows Live messenger, along with many other companies).
The problem with the bundling thing is, why should Microsoft NOT be allowed to bundle their apps? Should Ford not be allowed to bundle Ford engines with their cars? Perhaps we should buy a car, then run down to an engine dealer and buy an engine. Of course, to a mechanic, this may sound great. To an end user though, where do they get support? If my engine is too powerful and tears up my transmission, who should fix it? My guess is that Ford would blame the engine, and that the engine manufacturer would blame the drive train. Of course, we don't see any complaints about Ford bundling their cars with Ford engines, transmissions, etc.
I bought a Sony shelf stereo a few yeard back. I wanted to use it with Pioneer speakers. . . but the stereo was only sold in a bundle with its own speakers. Of course, I could still use Pioneer speakers if I wanted to, but I had little incentive since the ones that came with it still sounded good.
Logitech only sells the Bluetooth version of the MX1000 laser mouse in a bundle with their bluetooth keyboard.
I'm not saying I LIKE the bundling that Microsoft does, and it is, in some ways, an entirely different circumstance due to their overwhemling domination of the desktop market. However in the real world, there is still nothing that stops you from running alternatives, even within windows itself. My home computer runs Windows XP, but nothing else is Microsoft. I use Winamp, Trillian, Firefox, Thunderbird, and OpenOffice. My parents use a similar setup to run their company.
I just got one a few weeks ago and replaced my WRT54G v6 with it. The same day I flashed to DD-WRT micro (they say you're supposed to start with that before upgrading the version you really want), and panicked because the web interface never game back. I did a reset on the router, and it's been running ever since. I was really impressed the other day when I upgraded to the VPN version of DD-WRT, and during the reboot I never even noticed an internet connection loss. Even MSN and AOL messengers stayed connected.
I haven't used a lot of the features, but I do like the control I have. I boosted my power to 35mW from 28, and that seems to have made my room mates upstairs connections a bit more stable. I can't see how a significant boost would help without external high gain antennas, because the wi-fi client cards are still limited to a very low power output. I can also view neighboring access points with it to find free channels, which is much easier than having to boot up my laptop to check. It's easy to view how the hardware is utilized, and it seems the wireless connection to my media box has less dropped frames and freezes when streaming a full DVD quality 8Mbps MPEG2 file than it did with the stock firmware.
I don't have a problem at all with the $1 coin - but it's absolutely useless when no vending machine takes it. When vending machines and strippers take $1 coins. . . people will be more receptive to them!
The only upgrade edition I have ever run was ME (don't mock me!), however a clean install with the upgrade version is possible. When you boot to the upgrade disc, it prompts for the previous version disc (mine was a 98SE OEM). It accepts that, requests the upgrade disc back, and does a nice clean install (as clean as ME gets anyway). This was even in the product manual.
Vista 64 changes this by allowing 32 bit drivers to run. Unfortunately it's a pain to get unsigned drivers to install (every boot you have to select the special boot option). I've run several 32bit-XP based drivers in Vista 64 RC 1 build 5728 with no problems, except sound and video which require vista-specific drivers due to the new subsystem anyway.
The limit is only on Windows's built in shares and services. It limits the number of PC's that can access a file share or a shared printer, etc. This prevents you from using an XP Home or Pro (non-server licensed) system as a network file storage server, or an ASP web server.
They can't prevent the number of connections in terms of network sockets, your browser can have more than that open to load one website, it would be terribly slow to force it to do one connection at a time for a site that pulls resources from several locations. Your IM service if you use direct connection (such as with AIM or ICQ), will also use at a minimum of one socket per chat, plus one for the server (unless you disable direct connections).
You can run game servers, or even a web server with a third party tools such as Apache, and allow more connections. People do that all the time, including myself.
I didn't find anything about that either. The only thing that really seems all that different is the VM rule, which is just a bunch of crap. What difference does it make to them? They then get TWO licenses for my ONE PC. That's dumb for them to deny!
Seriously though, XP Home doesn't allow remote desktop, only remote assistance, and it also is not threaded, so no good on dual core machines (not a problem for its day, but definitely a problem in the next generation).
The only thing that bugs me is the reactivation on upgrades. Seriously, it wouldn't be that difficult to allow a user unlimited upgrades. Here's my thought. User buys OS, installs on PC, and activates their unique product ID, stored with some form of unique hardware hash as XP supposedly does now. Now, periodically check these ID's to see if they match. Keep a database of these combinations. An ID should only show up with it's most recent hardware hash, or one that hasn't been used before. If the relation consistently goes back and forth between several hardware id's, you know it's being used on more than one machine, and the key can be deactivated.
Tim Bray (XML, Atom) - XML has nothing to do with programming
Depends. It's extensible. If you write an interpreter for it, you can program in it. That's what we did. Complete with branching, loops, external calls, etc.
Why should you, as a site admin, ban hostnames that indicate a government workplace? Perhaps they're on break, after hours (maybe 3 is after hours if they work different time periods/zones), or some other situation you don't know. How is that your job as the forum admin?
I spent an average of 4-5 hours a day in front of the computer. Very little TV and only moderate gaming though. I graduated with several honors in HS, and only missed honors in college by about 0.06 GPA points.. . . mainly because I slacked off so much during my last year after already getting a job offer that didn't even depend on my graduation. I spent my time in front of the computer learning a lot. I lived a distance from a small town, there wasn't much else to do. I then earned my spending money through HS doing computer work for people, and paid my way through college doing it.
Time in front of a TV or computer is not the only factor. It's also WHAT is on the TV or computer that matters.
Quantum theory only applies when working on a quantum level - which is below atomic. By this theory, the sound quality would change when someone else walked into the room. I know someone is going to say it does, due to the interference with the aucoustics of the room. But that is not the source changing, it's the ambiance of the room. Does your photo album change every time someone looks at your pictures?
I wish data got changed through encryption. I'd buy a Lamborghini online. Since my credit card number is encrypted, it's changed, and I can never be charged. Of course I'd have to pick up the car myself, as delivery would be impossible since my address would be random too.
. . . only mine were free and publicly available for the entire semester and any class I'd ever taken. It was primarily Computer Science, but I had a few other classes on there, like the generic classes everyone had to take and a few of my electives. I had faculty and staff blessing, but the faculty never provided their own notes. I had FTP upload for anyone that wanted to provide notes from their classes, just e-mail me and I'd give them an account. Honestly, a lot of the students that used my site told me I should charge and make a few extra bucks off of it, that they'd gladly pay. Of course, most of them were suggesting like $5/semester or something like that. I just ran it off the PC in my dorm after getting so many e-mails asking for notes since I always typed them on my laptop in class. Faculty even referred to my site when students asked about a class they missed. One student said he didn't know where my site was, and the professor actually said in disbelief, "Everyone knows his site". When I interviewed for a job in Computer Services they asked if I had a resume, and when I said it was on my site (It was an unplanned on-the-spot interview) preparing to give them the URL, they just typed it in and asked where to go from there.
I even provided extra content, like funny quotes from professors (of which the most famous one always gave me a hard time, but just in fun).
If any faculty or staff member had ever asked me to remove their content, I would have without question (I even had that notice published at the bottom of every page).
Summary: It's a great service, and students will pay if they need it. But why on EARTH is the professor paying so much for web hosting?
XM Radio charges you for sending you a bill. If you mail in your payment instead of using a credit card, it costs you $2.00 extra each month. And as soon as you fill it out with your credit card they stop sending you a bill. They don't even e-mail me when they put a charge on my card. I'm not complaining about the price - but an e-mail would be nice. Guess then I'd get a fee for that too.
Of course dropping all the deprecated methods entirely would break backwards compatibility with older software that uses it. Write once, run anywhere (as long as you have the same old version it was written in). I personally don't want 10 versions of the same software and having to deal with which version it was written in and what to run it in.
I don't know why everyone always throws such a big fit about CSS. I think it's about time that great standard expands from the interweb. Imagine how good our movies can be now!
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While SatanicPuppy's wishes may not have been the most polite, they were not undeserved. You anonymous cowards come on here and start making fun of a guy who's girlfriend has recently passed away (if YOU can do math, it's less than a year!). Sarcastic smart ass comments to any other post would have been accepted and probably rated as funny, but to comments like that, it's just cold and heartless. Then you wonder why people think nerds have no social skills. Grow a set of balls, sign your posts, and try to make sure your IQ is above that of a carrot before you post. You all knew you were being a "Total Fuckwad" when you posted, or you wouldn't have used AC. If you can't have some common human decency, I for one don't care what you have to say, and maybe getting some ass cancer as suggested may improve your perspective.
While that's a great idea in theory, how would that ever happen? We order online (outsource if you will) because we can get product cheaper by ordering them from a huge warehouse in some tax free state. They lose the cost of maintaining public stores, and can deal in higher volume, so we can get cheaper wares. If we could go down to a local shop and buy the exact same thing for the exact same price we could find on pricegrabber, why would we ever order online? We'd get instant gratification, easier returns, actually getting to try the product in some cases, etc. We trade that for the savings in cost by ordering online.
If we drove these outsourced wages up, they'd then be without jobs. Why would a company hire these workers overseas, when they could get them locally for the same price? At that point, either us or them producing the goods would result in higher prices, and we couldn't afford to buy as much, in which case neither the local or outsourced workforces would have a job, and we'd both be SOL.
I want to make more money too, but the reality is if I demand too much money, there's another guy out there that can do the same thing I do and is willing to do it for less. That guy is probably out there right now, but they'll keep me because I have experience now and know my abilities, and a new hire is always a gamble. Push that price up to high, and the gamble starts having better odds in the eyes of the employer.
Yes, it would be absolutely wonderful if everybody could be well off, and afford everything they desire. Unskilled labor does not have much value, because by it's very nature ANYONE can do it!
As far as Americans are concerned, learn a better trade. There are plenty of schools, there is plenty of tuition assistance, and when that runs out, there are student loans. I've known people that refused to take student loans because "Why should *I* pay for school?" It's not a birth right, it is an investment. Really, if you don't have faith in yourself, why should the tax payers that are providing the assistance and the federally guaranteed loans? Yes, I have a nice large student debt, but because I took it and developed a skill, I am a more desirable employee that is worth more money, and I can afford to pay off that loan and still be better off than I would be had I not taken it.
Well I for one did NOT go to a university to learn things outside of my immediate job needs. What kind of silly person would do THAT?!
I also report to my school every time I call my German friend, that was an exchange student here. Doesn't everyone report all their personal calls to the school?
I also cleared with my dean when I planned my vacation to Cancun. Do some people think having a passport and the OK from both governments is all they need? Oh, and a Visa where needed. Craziness I swear!
Oh yeah, and every college student I've ever met maintained a normal 8-5 job. Why would a student ever work nights? Nobody ELSE in this country ever does!!!
It's funnier the other way though. We can still figure out what he said.
I wasn't interested in this for security implications. I'm interested so I can finally run some of my unsigned device drivers. XP would just give you a message when installing, but I couldn't install my Audigy sound card in Vista. I also couldn't install random obscure hardware drivers for some of the stuff I have. Mind you, it's not all old and obsolete, some devices just don't include signed drivers and actually list the signed driver dialog as part of the installation process. This is really annoying that Vista absolutely prevented this. Currently, you have to boot in to safe mode to install them, and when you leave safe mode they won't load. Make it non-trivial, fine, but don't make it impossible. Some of us still want to run un-signed code.
Facebook doesn't bother me as much as the people that use it without discretion. Facebook isn't even as bad as some sites, it will send you ONE invitation, then it leaves you alone. That's acceptable. sms.ac, wayn.com, and others will e-mail you constantly. I had a friend that got upset because someone told her to quit sending them. She told them "I didn't, the site did" and he asked her to quit adding him to the invitation lists in the first place. She says "Well I'm NOT going through and manually selecting everyone." I told her if she doesn't care enough to manually select the people she thinks would be interested, she shouldn't use the feature.
Sending an e-mail is not hard. I don't understand why people can't just send their own e-mail to their friends. Then they're not sharing my e-mail, and I'm not getting a bunch of stuff I don't want.
I agree with your post, my response is only to the signature. I've made my share of complaints about Microsoft and Windows in my life, but with the whole bundling argument I disagree. I don't like that Microsoft bundles IE, which is an inferior browser, and MSN, which is an inferier messenger client and network. This alone pushes many people to it, including our corporate environments (yes, we use MSN/Windows Live messenger, along with many other companies). The problem with the bundling thing is, why should Microsoft NOT be allowed to bundle their apps? Should Ford not be allowed to bundle Ford engines with their cars? Perhaps we should buy a car, then run down to an engine dealer and buy an engine. Of course, to a mechanic, this may sound great. To an end user though, where do they get support? If my engine is too powerful and tears up my transmission, who should fix it? My guess is that Ford would blame the engine, and that the engine manufacturer would blame the drive train. Of course, we don't see any complaints about Ford bundling their cars with Ford engines, transmissions, etc. I bought a Sony shelf stereo a few yeard back. I wanted to use it with Pioneer speakers. . . but the stereo was only sold in a bundle with its own speakers. Of course, I could still use Pioneer speakers if I wanted to, but I had little incentive since the ones that came with it still sounded good. Logitech only sells the Bluetooth version of the MX1000 laser mouse in a bundle with their bluetooth keyboard. I'm not saying I LIKE the bundling that Microsoft does, and it is, in some ways, an entirely different circumstance due to their overwhemling domination of the desktop market. However in the real world, there is still nothing that stops you from running alternatives, even within windows itself. My home computer runs Windows XP, but nothing else is Microsoft. I use Winamp, Trillian, Firefox, Thunderbird, and OpenOffice. My parents use a similar setup to run their company.
I just got one a few weeks ago and replaced my WRT54G v6 with it. The same day I flashed to DD-WRT micro (they say you're supposed to start with that before upgrading the version you really want), and panicked because the web interface never game back. I did a reset on the router, and it's been running ever since. I was really impressed the other day when I upgraded to the VPN version of DD-WRT, and during the reboot I never even noticed an internet connection loss. Even MSN and AOL messengers stayed connected.
I haven't used a lot of the features, but I do like the control I have. I boosted my power to 35mW from 28, and that seems to have made my room mates upstairs connections a bit more stable. I can't see how a significant boost would help without external high gain antennas, because the wi-fi client cards are still limited to a very low power output. I can also view neighboring access points with it to find free channels, which is much easier than having to boot up my laptop to check. It's easy to view how the hardware is utilized, and it seems the wireless connection to my media box has less dropped frames and freezes when streaming a full DVD quality 8Mbps MPEG2 file than it did with the stock firmware.
I haven't regretted it at all.
I don't have a problem at all with the $1 coin - but it's absolutely useless when no vending machine takes it. When vending machines and strippers take $1 coins. . . people will be more receptive to them!
The only upgrade edition I have ever run was ME (don't mock me!), however a clean install with the upgrade version is possible. When you boot to the upgrade disc, it prompts for the previous version disc (mine was a 98SE OEM). It accepts that, requests the upgrade disc back, and does a nice clean install (as clean as ME gets anyway). This was even in the product manual.
Vista 64 changes this by allowing 32 bit drivers to run. Unfortunately it's a pain to get unsigned drivers to install (every boot you have to select the special boot option). I've run several 32bit-XP based drivers in Vista 64 RC 1 build 5728 with no problems, except sound and video which require vista-specific drivers due to the new subsystem anyway.
The limit is only on Windows's built in shares and services. It limits the number of PC's that can access a file share or a shared printer, etc. This prevents you from using an XP Home or Pro (non-server licensed) system as a network file storage server, or an ASP web server.
They can't prevent the number of connections in terms of network sockets, your browser can have more than that open to load one website, it would be terribly slow to force it to do one connection at a time for a site that pulls resources from several locations. Your IM service if you use direct connection (such as with AIM or ICQ), will also use at a minimum of one socket per chat, plus one for the server (unless you disable direct connections).
You can run game servers, or even a web server with a third party tools such as Apache, and allow more connections. People do that all the time, including myself.
I didn't find anything about that either. The only thing that really seems all that different is the VM rule, which is just a bunch of crap. What difference does it make to them? They then get TWO licenses for my ONE PC. That's dumb for them to deny! Seriously though, XP Home doesn't allow remote desktop, only remote assistance, and it also is not threaded, so no good on dual core machines (not a problem for its day, but definitely a problem in the next generation). The only thing that bugs me is the reactivation on upgrades. Seriously, it wouldn't be that difficult to allow a user unlimited upgrades. Here's my thought. User buys OS, installs on PC, and activates their unique product ID, stored with some form of unique hardware hash as XP supposedly does now. Now, periodically check these ID's to see if they match. Keep a database of these combinations. An ID should only show up with it's most recent hardware hash, or one that hasn't been used before. If the relation consistently goes back and forth between several hardware id's, you know it's being used on more than one machine, and the key can be deactivated.
Depends. It's extensible. If you write an interpreter for it, you can program in it. That's what we did. Complete with branching, loops, external calls, etc.
Why should you, as a site admin, ban hostnames that indicate a government workplace? Perhaps they're on break, after hours (maybe 3 is after hours if they work different time periods/zones), or some other situation you don't know. How is that your job as the forum admin?
I spent an average of 4-5 hours a day in front of the computer. Very little TV and only moderate gaming though. I graduated with several honors in HS, and only missed honors in college by about 0.06 GPA points.. . . mainly because I slacked off so much during my last year after already getting a job offer that didn't even depend on my graduation. I spent my time in front of the computer learning a lot. I lived a distance from a small town, there wasn't much else to do. I then earned my spending money through HS doing computer work for people, and paid my way through college doing it.
Time in front of a TV or computer is not the only factor. It's also WHAT is on the TV or computer that matters.
Sure, there are great utilities for this task. But they're all on sourceforge!
I wish data got changed through encryption. I'd buy a Lamborghini online. Since my credit card number is encrypted, it's changed, and I can never be charged. Of course I'd have to pick up the car myself, as delivery would be impossible since my address would be random too.
. . . only mine were free and publicly available for the entire semester and any class I'd ever taken. It was primarily Computer Science, but I had a few other classes on there, like the generic classes everyone had to take and a few of my electives. I had faculty and staff blessing, but the faculty never provided their own notes. I had FTP upload for anyone that wanted to provide notes from their classes, just e-mail me and I'd give them an account. Honestly, a lot of the students that used my site told me I should charge and make a few extra bucks off of it, that they'd gladly pay. Of course, most of them were suggesting like $5/semester or something like that. I just ran it off the PC in my dorm after getting so many e-mails asking for notes since I always typed them on my laptop in class. Faculty even referred to my site when students asked about a class they missed. One student said he didn't know where my site was, and the professor actually said in disbelief, "Everyone knows his site". When I interviewed for a job in Computer Services they asked if I had a resume, and when I said it was on my site (It was an unplanned on-the-spot interview) preparing to give them the URL, they just typed it in and asked where to go from there.
I even provided extra content, like funny quotes from professors (of which the most famous one always gave me a hard time, but just in fun).
If any faculty or staff member had ever asked me to remove their content, I would have without question (I even had that notice published at the bottom of every page).
Summary: It's a great service, and students will pay if they need it. But why on EARTH is the professor paying so much for web hosting?
XM Radio charges you for sending you a bill. If you mail in your payment instead of using a credit card, it costs you $2.00 extra each month. And as soon as you fill it out with your credit card they stop sending you a bill. They don't even e-mail me when they put a charge on my card. I'm not complaining about the price - but an e-mail would be nice. Guess then I'd get a fee for that too.
Of course dropping all the deprecated methods entirely would break backwards compatibility with older software that uses it. Write once, run anywhere (as long as you have the same old version it was written in). I personally don't want 10 versions of the same software and having to deal with which version it was written in and what to run it in.
and he who comes too early is punished by wife.
I don't know why everyone always throws such a big fit about CSS. I think it's about time that great standard expands from the interweb. Imagine how good our movies can be now!
It's been done. Still going, and you can help. Don't know how effective it is, but read up
http://www.projecthoneypot.org/