I don't know about the rest of you, but every elementary school I went to would let you "go home for lunch" with a simple note from your parents. It is sad to think that my child at 18 will have less flexability, responsibility, and trust than I did at 8.
As much as Notes/Domino is the platform that users love to hate, It is a powerful and often under utilized platform. It also has a HUGE install base. With IBM (Lotus' parent) being so pro linux, Firefox and Domino being cross platform, there is a good match. Currently iNotes is only certified for IE. The Firefox team needs to get this rectified.
Given the huge number of Domino/Notes seats, getting Firefox to be the preferred browser for accessing web based Domino applications, would give a very good foothold into the business world.
The idea of taxing a perticular kind of data going across the internet is crazy. Is sending a.wav file considered VOIP? What if we each keep sending.wav files back and forth to carry on a conversation? What if we use Vonage, and only one person speaks? How is that different than Internet Radio?
The slippery slope from taxing VIOP to taxing everything on a protocol by protocol basis is pretty simple.
It's because Jupiter http://www.occultopedia.com/z/zeus.htm (AKA Zues) was the king of the gods! Everybody knows that chicks get all hot for men with power.
Don't believe it. It takes most humans ~2 years to learn to speak their native tounge enough to call them fluent, and then they still have a limited vocabulary. If you take an adult and put them in an environment that has no one who speaks their native language, and many people who will have infinite patience in teaching their language to you, you will be able to speak it in less than 2 years. The myth that children learn language faster is created because standards are lower, and adults have a lot more to distract them, so the spend less time over an equivelent period, actually trying to learn the language.
Watch a baby for it first year, and listen to it. You will find that babies just start making noise from thier mouths. When the sounds match what the other people say, they do it more, and when they get rewards for making certain sounds they really go with those. You know like when they say MAMA, and everyone in the room goes crazy. It's simple, and well known.
Distribution of music without the authors permission is common and legal. It is called mandatory licensing. Radio stations do not have to ask permission to distribute music.
Anyone know what the per play cost is for a radio station?
Comments like this show how well people respond to MS FUD. Several years ago MS tried to bill Exchange as a Notes killer. They started calling it "Groupware". It wasn't even close, and they eventually gave up because Exchange was never going to be a real competitor to Notes/Domino.
Now anything that lets multi-user posting is called "Groupware". Notes/Domino is an environment to write applications. If you just want it for email and a blog, it is still a fine tool, but it is so much more. I am currently working on a full health and safety system that covers everying from the initial interviews all the way through the investigation through the corrective actions. All while tracking responsibility of actions, security for sensitive medical documents, and a full reminder notification system.
The Lotus Notes/Domion projects I work on are not in competition with Exchange or Wiki. They are in competition with VB and Java.
If your Domino installation is anything but rock solid, it is time to start looking for a new administrator. The only unreliable installations of Domino I have ever seen have been unreliable as a direct result of bad administration. This on Domino networks ranging from 1 to 170 servers.
The con that gate + concessions pays for the school sports doesn't wash. Every time the numbers get counted, there are huge gaps in the accounting. For example, I highly doubt that in the last decade the concessions and gates in my city have brought in even close to the 3+ million that the upgrades cost. Then there is the costs of power, water, staff, etc...etc...etc...
As for the "I learned as much from playing High School Football as I learned from the classroom" comment....Either you are lying, or your school was so bad in the classroom, that you might as well not gone. Listen to what you are saying...You learned AS MUCH playing a game as you did in the classroom?!?!?!
Don't get me wrong, there are thing to be learned screwing around, but your kidding yourself if you think it was anything more than that.
The school district here, decided that it was a good idea to spend several million dollars for football field upgrades. Until we decide that education has a higher importance in our EDUCATIONAL system than playing games, we are screwed.
I haven't seen a school yet that hires an economics teacher, and has them fill in as a coach, but they all seem to be fine with hiring a coach and asking them to fill in as an economics teacher.
The claim that stores don't take returns because they are afraid of piracy is simply a lie. I'm not saying that YOU are lying, but that the stores have lied to you.
There are plenty of ways to get your hands on the original media long enough to copy it, and when CD burners were $800, and media was $30 a pop, most stores still wouldn't take returns. Back then, the reason was that you might put a virus on the write only CD.
From personal experience, I used to work at a Software Etc. We did take returns. In fact when someone came back and told us the game worked fine, but sucked, we would tell them that they should brink it back for a refund or exchange! Funny thing is that crappy/buggy games got returned fairly often, and good games almost never got returned. I don't think a single copy of Falcon 4.0 (The best flight sim at the time) ever got returned.
In two years, only one time did I ever run across an individual that was abusing the return policy. After about the 5th return, I simply explained to the "customer" that we obviously don't sell software that is compatible with his system, so this would be the last return he would be allowed to make. Since returns required a form to be filled out (like in almost all types of stores) that contained a name, it is incredibly easy to see if someone is abusing a store return policy, even in a big Best Buy type store.
If businesses used your logic, there would be no PCs. We would still all be running green screens off of mainframes. It is those terrible users that found they could do thier job 5 times faster by going around IT and running apps on a 'toy' (PC) that has gotten us as far as we are.
At least 2/3 of the Administrators that I have run into are not competent, and are simply not well versed enough in business or technology to determine what software is necessary and what is not.
The comment about Kinko's is a perfect example. Remember the 'Shatter' attack? If you had access to the machine as any user, you could get admin access. The Kinko's Admins are probably thinking that they don't want the huge PR problem that happens the next time a similar hole is found, and some script kiddie grabs copies of confidential documents for weeks or months before the attack is made public and a fix is released.
SNL's 'Nick Burns' is not far from reality.
It's been around for ages. BMG "music club" has had zero click shopping for years. If you don't tell them NOT to ship the cd, you get it and are billed.
Your right, they will get around the DNC list very easily. A "Charity" organization will simply be the outsourced telemarketers. If they get a small percentage of the profits, the call is technically from a "charity". So, Citibank can have a hundred calls a day going to your DNC'ed phone number, and because Christian Childrens Fund is doing the sales, it is all legit.
When I hear one ENTIRELY original idea, MAYBE I will agree, but since every idea I have ever heard is highly derivative. Right down to the language itself. It's illegal because it's wrong, and it wrong because it's illegal is an absurd argument, and you can't even post on/. without using someone elses ideas.
Maybe I have this wrong, but shouldn't an object of that size and velocity hitting the ground make at least some kind of creater?
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I don't know about your county, but every county around here has declared florecent bulbs to be hazardous waste, so you cannot throw them when they fail.
PG&E keeps pushing residents to use them, and the county dump keeps saying "fine, but you better not throw them away!"
No, but if you want to do something useful like getting 100 people 50 miles down the road, the bunch on Festivas will beat the Indy car every time. Of course if your goal is to get a nice shiny trophy, go for the Indy car.
Just remind your employer that as their policy states, any data that runs on their network is their property because it is on their network. This means that if you pay for your own Broadband, it is your network, and thus any data on it belongs to you.
Of course this would be more convincing if the broadband connection in your home were in someone elses name, such as your spouse.
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I don't know about the rest of you, but every elementary school I went to would let you "go home for lunch" with a simple note from your parents. It is sad to think that my child at 18 will have less flexability, responsibility, and trust than I did at 8.
Not solar powered. It is powered by ZPM. (Zero Point Module) Which by the way is just about depleated. That's why they can't just go home.
As much as Notes/Domino is the platform that users love to hate, It is a powerful and often under utilized platform. It also has a HUGE install base. With IBM (Lotus' parent) being so pro linux, Firefox and Domino being cross platform, there is a good match. Currently iNotes is only certified for IE. The Firefox team needs to get this rectified.
Given the huge number of Domino/Notes seats, getting Firefox to be the preferred browser for accessing web based Domino applications, would give a very good foothold into the business world.
The idea of taxing a perticular kind of data going across the internet is crazy. Is sending a .wav file considered VOIP? What if we each keep sending .wav files back and forth to carry on a conversation? What if we use Vonage, and only one person speaks? How is that different than Internet Radio?
The slippery slope from taxing VIOP to taxing everything on a protocol by protocol basis is pretty simple.
It's because Jupiter http://www.occultopedia.com/z/zeus.htm (AKA Zues) was the king of the gods! Everybody knows that chicks get all hot for men with power.
One of the biggest problems here is that the guy's sentence is clearly based on his gender.
Violate law while male = 9 years violate law while female = $7500 fine
Is it somehow not as bad to get ripped off by a woman?
Don't believe it. It takes most humans ~2 years to learn to speak their native tounge enough to call them fluent, and then they still have a limited vocabulary. If you take an adult and put them in an environment that has no one who speaks their native language, and many people who will have infinite patience in teaching their language to you, you will be able to speak it in less than 2 years. The myth that children learn language faster is created because standards are lower, and adults have a lot more to distract them, so the spend less time over an equivelent period, actually trying to learn the language.
Watch a baby for it first year, and listen to it. You will find that babies just start making noise from thier mouths. When the sounds match what the other people say, they do it more, and when they get rewards for making certain sounds they really go with those. You know like when they say MAMA, and everyone in the room goes crazy. It's simple, and well known.
Distribution of music without the authors permission is common and legal. It is called mandatory licensing. Radio stations do not have to ask permission to distribute music. Anyone know what the per play cost is for a radio station?
Comments like this show how well people respond to MS FUD. Several years ago MS tried to bill Exchange as a Notes killer. They started calling it "Groupware". It wasn't even close, and they eventually gave up because Exchange was never going to be a real competitor to Notes/Domino.
Now anything that lets multi-user posting is called "Groupware". Notes/Domino is an environment to write applications. If you just want it for email and a blog, it is still a fine tool, but it is so much more. I am currently working on a full health and safety system that covers everying from the initial interviews all the way through the investigation through the corrective actions. All while tracking responsibility of actions, security for sensitive medical documents, and a full reminder notification system.
The Lotus Notes/Domion projects I work on are not in competition with Exchange or Wiki. They are in competition with VB and Java.
If your Domino installation is anything but rock solid, it is time to start looking for a new administrator. The only unreliable installations of Domino I have ever seen have been unreliable as a direct result of bad administration. This on Domino networks ranging from 1 to 170 servers.
The con that gate + concessions pays for the school sports doesn't wash. Every time the numbers get counted, there are huge gaps in the accounting. For example, I highly doubt that in the last decade the concessions and gates in my city have brought in even close to the 3+ million that the upgrades cost. Then there is the costs of power, water, staff, etc...etc...etc... As for the "I learned as much from playing High School Football as I learned from the classroom" comment....Either you are lying, or your school was so bad in the classroom, that you might as well not gone. Listen to what you are saying...You learned AS MUCH playing a game as you did in the classroom?!?!?! Don't get me wrong, there are thing to be learned screwing around, but your kidding yourself if you think it was anything more than that.
The school district here, decided that it was a good idea to spend several million dollars for football field upgrades. Until we decide that education has a higher importance in our EDUCATIONAL system than playing games, we are screwed.
I haven't seen a school yet that hires an economics teacher, and has them fill in as a coach, but they all seem to be fine with hiring a coach and asking them to fill in as an economics teacher.
The claim that stores don't take returns because they are afraid of piracy is simply a lie. I'm not saying that YOU are lying, but that the stores have lied to you.
There are plenty of ways to get your hands on the original media long enough to copy it, and when CD burners were $800, and media was $30 a pop, most stores still wouldn't take returns. Back then, the reason was that you might put a virus on the write only CD.
From personal experience, I used to work at a Software Etc. We did take returns. In fact when someone came back and told us the game worked fine, but sucked, we would tell them that they should brink it back for a refund or exchange! Funny thing is that crappy/buggy games got returned fairly often, and good games almost never got returned. I don't think a single copy of Falcon 4.0 (The best flight sim at the time) ever got returned.
In two years, only one time did I ever run across an individual that was abusing the return policy. After about the 5th return, I simply explained to the "customer" that we obviously don't sell software that is compatible with his system, so this would be the last return he would be allowed to make. Since returns required a form to be filled out (like in almost all types of stores) that contained a name, it is incredibly easy to see if someone is abusing a store return policy, even in a big Best Buy type store.
If businesses used your logic, there would be no PCs. We would still all be running green screens off of mainframes. It is those terrible users that found they could do thier job 5 times faster by going around IT and running apps on a 'toy' (PC) that has gotten us as far as we are. At least 2/3 of the Administrators that I have run into are not competent, and are simply not well versed enough in business or technology to determine what software is necessary and what is not. The comment about Kinko's is a perfect example. Remember the 'Shatter' attack? If you had access to the machine as any user, you could get admin access. The Kinko's Admins are probably thinking that they don't want the huge PR problem that happens the next time a similar hole is found, and some script kiddie grabs copies of confidential documents for weeks or months before the attack is made public and a fix is released. SNL's 'Nick Burns' is not far from reality.
It's been around for ages. BMG "music club" has had zero click shopping for years. If you don't tell them NOT to ship the cd, you get it and are billed.
Your right, they will get around the DNC list very easily. A "Charity" organization will simply be the outsourced telemarketers. If they get a small percentage of the profits, the call is technically from a "charity". So, Citibank can have a hundred calls a day going to your DNC'ed phone number, and because Christian Childrens Fund is doing the sales, it is all legit.
When I hear one ENTIRELY original idea, MAYBE I will agree, but since every idea I have ever heard is highly derivative. Right down to the language itself. It's illegal because it's wrong, and it wrong because it's illegal is an absurd argument, and you can't even post on /. without using someone elses ideas.
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Maybe I have this wrong, but shouldn't an object of that size and velocity hitting the ground make at least some kind of creater?
I don't know about your county, but every county around here has declared florecent bulbs to be hazardous waste, so you cannot throw them when they fail. PG&E keeps pushing residents to use them, and the county dump keeps saying "fine, but you better not throw them away!"
No, but if you want to do something useful like getting 100 people 50 miles down the road, the bunch on Festivas will beat the Indy car every time. Of course if your goal is to get a nice shiny trophy, go for the Indy car.
Just remind your employer that as their policy states, any data that runs on their network is their property because it is on their network. This means that if you pay for your own Broadband, it is your network, and thus any data on it belongs to you. Of course this would be more convincing if the broadband connection in your home were in someone elses name, such as your spouse.