Assuming that the software you want is on mac, which is pretty doubtful.
The Mac has plenty of decent software, especially software that the elderly would be using (online banking, email, web browsing, watching movies).
Maybe it doesn't have a terrific array of games and specialty softare, but somehow I don't expect Granddad to be hosing down aliens with a flamethrower in Halo2.
That's all fair and good, but isn't that why your OS has a "search" tool?
Well, the built in search tool for Windows isn't very good. It's slow, can't search (Some? All?) compressed files, doesn't have ranked search results, doesn't search your Outlook folders, and I need to turn off the stupid doggie every time I log into a new system.
I haven't used any of these Desktop search tools, but the Google search mechanism is great, and I can definately see it being a useful tools. I won't use it because of the privacy concerns.
I can't imagine why MSN has a desktop search tool... "Microsoft says that Microsoft's built in search tool 'sucks'..."
No one attacks the music industry for using half-naked chicks and musclemen with abs-o-steele to get teenagers to watch their videos...
Are you kidding or are you just fucking stupid?
Have you heard of this television station called "MTV", which has been the target of complaints by practically every feminist, religious and childrens group since it's inception over 20 years ago for showing too many hypersexed music videos, and there have got to be several hundred news programs which cover the contraversy.
There have been people around to complain about sex and music since humans developed a sense of morality...
Oooooh... sounds like somebody's bitter and out of work.
Hey there, it's a joke... laugh.
I am employeed (no thanks to PeopleSoft), and I usually get a job offer if I can get my foot in the door. Trouble is,
Sure I'm bitter, but that's because the only time I notice PeopleSoft software is because it's in my way-- today I couldn't enter my vacation hours because I'm getting 500 errors in the new PS system. And I've seen some of the results that HR passed on because eRecruit said it was a good match-- and yes, they really did print out a ton of ASCII Resumes...
Sure, I realize that PS produces decent software, and these are implementation problems, but it's pretty clear that the PeopleSoft salesfolks oversell the capabilities of their software, and the decisions to implement are made by HR managers who don't understand what "Keyword ranking" means.
Plus, I've had one too many drinks with some engineers over at PS, and with PS customers who work with implementing PS at several large institutions (But they don't trust the results that it provides for hiring searches).
You should do something about that cough - maybe see a doctor?
Sheesh! Obviously the fix is to take him apart piece by piece, see how he works and then try to reassemble him in a better order... maybe we'll throw some packets his way and see how he responds...
Am I the only one left who has no fucking clue what PeopleSoft is
This is PeopleSoft:
You're looking for a job, and each of the potential employeers have a brand new Job website, but they all look strangly familar. You find job you like and decide to apply. You need to register for an account. Ok, type in Username, email address, password, and password again to verify.
Ok, it's sending an email to you to verify your email address. 5 minutes later, the email isn't there. An hour later you are still waiting. Hmmm... 2 hours later email still isn't there. OK, time to go outside. I'll apply for this job tomorrow.
Next day, you finally get an email from "Peoplesoft " with your account information. Great!
You log in, and fill out a couple small forms. Cool! They let you submit your resume and they'll automatically populate the webform using the contents of your resume! Oops! Your resume is in RTF or PDF format and their website only accepts MS Word documents. Fuck... but this is for a Unix sysadmin job. Ok, well I have a pirated version of MS Word around here somewhere...
So you reformat your resume using MS Word, and submit it to the Resume wizard. Dang, the stupid wizard put your job title as "TheLastCompany IworkedAt, Inc", the company name as "2003, 2004" and it trimmed off the last few lines describing all your job duties... dang I need to fix that up. Maybe it would have been better to type in all this stuff by hand in the first place...
WHen you're done with all the manual editing and hit the Submit button, you feel like you accomplished something.
And immediately afterwards, an email is sent to the HR STaff, and PeopleSoft has fucked up the formatting so much it looks worse then the ASCII rendering of the goatse.cx image... the HR assistant prints out your resume and adds it to the stack of 300 other resumes for a dozen different positions.
Later, you don't aren't considered for the job because you wrote a sentence in proper English like this:
"Researched, designed and configured web load balancing scheme using Apache webserver."
Some fucktard got the job instead, because they wrote a resume to receive a high score with the keyword "Apache" and "Load balancing", like this:
"Researched load balancing scheme using Apache webserver" "Designed load balancing scheme using Apache webserver" "Configured load balancing scheme using Apache webserver" "I'ma fucking apache god. APACHE APACHE APACHE APACHE"
(I fit the slashdot stereotype - unmarried, no kids, good job...)
So your life is pretty simple-- it shouldn't be that hard to save money when you're single and have a good job.
But let me tell you, things tend to get much more complicated when you get married, have kids and loose your job. But don't let that stop you from having a life...
Seriously, did they think they were hired for their hard work and moral values?
A friend of mine was a booth babe, once. She was fine with showing off her assets to sell products or posing for photos. However, she wasn't prepared for just how immature grown men can be at a technical conference. Most of them had the mental maturity of a 13 year old boy stuck in a 30-year old man's body.
some sort of personal crisis that necessitated the debt
Yes, we had to cover part of my wife's schooling on credit cards. And later I was unemployeed for a year. Hard to pay the bills without a steady income.
What I'm suggesting is that people with high credit card debt (The vast majority of households in this country have a credit card debt) who own a house look into a HELOC to get a lower rate, so they can pay off the debt faster.
can use the basic 1040 -- don't own a business, take standard deduction
You should be very careful about using the 1040-EZ form. Unless you are young and don't make much money (which on./ is a sizable number of people), you can usually save a ton of money by doing itemized deductions. Of course, it takes time to figure out the itemized deductions.
Myself, I use a tax accountant to do my taxes (Local shop with a good reputation). We pay her $300, and she typically finds a more then a thousand dollars worth of deductions that we missed when we practiced on our own (even with TurboTax). Student loans, home loan, children, business expenses, professional education, healthcare expenses, donations to the Goodwill, etc. can really add up. Every year the tax rules change, and can't keep up on all the best loopholes.
Plus, she's gives us financial advice. I was employeed for a year, and we ran up too much debt. Last year we consolidated our Credit Card loans & some professional education loans into a Home Equity Line of Credit. Not only are the rates lower (4% vs 15% for the Credit Cards), but our payments are now tax deductable.
in fact I copied the servicepack files c:\windows\servicepackfiles\iexplore.exe in that location so I can click "programs/run/iexplore" instead of clicking
You can modify the $PATH variable for that purpose. Simply add the paths you want to be able to use with "Programs/Run..."
If it's not supposed to be a discussion forum, then why does every news article have a "add your comments" link to it?
I should be free to comment on the news articles. I understand why trolls may get modded into oblivion, but why are my serious comments and questions dissapear? It should be simple for Indymedia viewers to view all articles which have been modded down. Why are my news submissions, even the good ones, never accepted?
Indymedia is an echo chamber. You only go there when you want to hear people support your own positions. Dissenters ithin the Indymedia community are frequently punished, which is very ironic in a forums which is supposed to promote dissent.
I was around in the early days when Indymedia was being planned. I helped a bit from the technical end, how to set up Apache, which Linux would I recommend, etc. I dropped out of the project because I disagred with their moderation scheme, there is very little accountability.
I'm a flaming liberal, and these days I can't stand Indymedia. Why? Because many comments and stories are hidden by the fascist moderators.
Apparenly I'm not liberal ENOUGH to have my comments read by others, especially when I dare to criticize some Black Blockster when they do stupid shit like setting a trashcan on fire...
Because in this case Linus Torvalds is our new overlord, and I for one, welcome him.
Dude, he was our new overlord like 10 years ago, get with the program...
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Then we had that nice, long, winding road through the coast range which did not necessarily make reading while the car was in motion a good idea (motion sickness anyone?)
Most of my long drives involve the Coastal Range (in California, looks like you are up in Oregon). There is still a ton of stuff to look at... mountains, trees, seaside towns... call me crazy, but watching these things go by kept me occupied for hours... "how do these people live way out here", "look at that beautiful mountain", "I wanna go camping there"...
And if you take breaks and get to walk in the trees, it's even better!
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I'll bets are off for a 14 hour plane ride.
Have them walk up and down the isle a bunch of times, once you left American Airspace, give them some beer:)
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DON'T GO LOOK AT IT!
Look Denise, if you don't want to go look at it, fine. You just stay here. I'm going to look at it.
But first, here, wear my sports jacket, the sun is going down and it's going to get cold.
(walks away...)
(Turns around, and says reassuingly)
Don't worry, I'll be riiight back!
All but one of those is a function of a webbrowser.
Or, a specialized client software such as Quicken, Eudora or iTunes.
You mac lunatics always
For the record, I don't own a Mac. I owned an Apple IIe in 1984. But I think they are perfectly decent computers.
Fine, what software would your grandpa use which isn't on a Mac?
Now, anyone who's used the Sonicare knows that this thing really does a fantastic job on teeth and gums.
The Soniccare starts at $50. You can get a high quality, variable-speed vibrator for far less, and still have money for cheap dinner or a few drinks.
Assuming that the software you want is on mac, which is pretty doubtful.
The Mac has plenty of decent software, especially software that the elderly would be using (online banking, email, web browsing, watching movies).
Maybe it doesn't have a terrific array of games and specialty softare, but somehow I don't expect Granddad to be hosing down aliens with a flamethrower in Halo2.
This guy has to be talking out of his ass. I doubt the Army cares much about people cheating on a video game. It's just a fucking video game.
If the Army tried to 'come after' people for cheating, they'd catch hell from all over the place for not doing their job.
The Army isn't exactly supposed to be operating against US citizens.
We know who you are, and can track down...
The Army is angry, and we're coming for you.
Nice to see that the Army is doing something useful. I wouldn't want any of these teenagers walking around the streets.
First they break the EULA, next they're killing babies. Gotta stop this evil when it starts!
Read the articles that I link to, idiot, then come up with a good counterargument.
When commercial Linux vendors let you upgrade to new versions without paying another license fee, let us know.
Most software companies do that, it's not unusual at all.
That's all fair and good, but isn't that why your OS has a "search" tool?
Well, the built in search tool for Windows isn't very good. It's slow, can't search (Some? All?) compressed files, doesn't have ranked search results, doesn't search your Outlook folders, and I need to turn off the stupid doggie every time I log into a new system.
I haven't used any of these Desktop search tools, but the Google search mechanism is great, and I can definately see it being a useful tools. I won't use it because of the privacy concerns.
I can't imagine why MSN has a desktop search tool... "Microsoft says that Microsoft's built in search tool 'sucks'..."
No one attacks the music industry for using half-naked chicks and musclemen with abs-o-steele to get teenagers to watch their videos...
Are you kidding or are you just fucking stupid?
Have you heard of this television station called "MTV", which has been the target of complaints by practically every feminist, religious and childrens group since it's inception over 20 years ago for showing too many hypersexed music videos, and there have got to be several hundred news programs which cover the contraversy.
There have been people around to complain about sex and music since humans developed a sense of morality...
Oooooh... sounds like somebody's bitter and out of work.
Hey there, it's a joke... laugh.
I am employeed (no thanks to PeopleSoft), and I usually get a job offer if I can get my foot in the door. Trouble is,
Sure I'm bitter, but that's because the only time I notice PeopleSoft software is because it's in my way-- today I couldn't enter my vacation hours because I'm getting 500 errors in the new PS system. And I've seen some of the results that HR passed on because eRecruit said it was a good match-- and yes, they really did print out a ton of ASCII Resumes...
Sure, I realize that PS produces decent software, and these are implementation problems, but it's pretty clear that the PeopleSoft salesfolks oversell the capabilities of their software, and the decisions to implement are made by HR managers who don't understand what "Keyword ranking" means.
Plus, I've had one too many drinks with some engineers over at PS, and with PS customers who work with implementing PS at several large institutions (But they don't trust the results that it provides for hiring searches).
You should do something about that cough - maybe see a doctor?
... maybe we'll throw some packets his way and see how he responds...
Sheesh! Obviously the fix is to take him apart piece by piece, see how he works and then try to reassemble him in a better order
Am I the only one left who has no fucking clue what PeopleSoft is
This is PeopleSoft:
You're looking for a job, and each of the potential employeers have a brand new Job website, but they all look strangly familar. You find job you like and decide to apply. You need to register for an account. Ok, type in Username, email address, password, and password again to verify.
Ok, it's sending an email to you to verify your email address. 5 minutes later, the email isn't there. An hour later you are still waiting. Hmmm... 2 hours later email still isn't there. OK, time to go outside. I'll apply for this job tomorrow.
Next day, you finally get an email from "Peoplesoft " with your account information. Great!
You log in, and fill out a couple small forms. Cool! They let you submit your resume and they'll automatically populate the webform using the contents of your resume! Oops! Your resume is in RTF or PDF format and their website only accepts MS Word documents. Fuck... but this is for a Unix sysadmin job. Ok, well I have a pirated version of MS Word around here somewhere...
So you reformat your resume using MS Word, and submit it to the Resume wizard. Dang, the stupid wizard put your job title as "TheLastCompany IworkedAt, Inc", the company name as "2003, 2004" and it trimmed off the last few lines describing all your job duties... dang I need to fix that up. Maybe it would have been better to type in all this stuff by hand in the first place...
WHen you're done with all the manual editing and hit the Submit button, you feel like you accomplished something.
And immediately afterwards, an email is sent to the HR STaff, and PeopleSoft has fucked up the formatting so much it looks worse then the ASCII rendering of the goatse.cx image... the HR assistant prints out your resume and adds it to the stack of 300 other resumes for a dozen different positions.
Later, you don't aren't considered for the job because you wrote a sentence in proper English like this:
"Researched, designed and configured web load balancing scheme using Apache webserver."
Some fucktard got the job instead, because they
wrote a resume to receive a high score with the keyword "Apache" and "Load balancing", like this:
"Researched load balancing scheme using Apache webserver"
"Designed load balancing scheme using Apache webserver"
"Configured load balancing scheme using Apache webserver"
"I'ma fucking apache god. APACHE APACHE APACHE APACHE"
That, my friend, is PeopleSoft.
Hmmm... with Microsoft web products, I often get 500 errors.
My employeer launched their new Peoplesoft HR website last month, and I 500 errors every couple of clicks...
So, since MS is really good at serving 500 errors, I'm sure they will be an excellent replacement for Peoplesoft's products.
(I fit the slashdot stereotype - unmarried, no kids, good job...)
So your life is pretty simple-- it shouldn't be that hard to save money when you're single and have a good job.
But let me tell you, things tend to get much more complicated when you get married, have kids and loose your job. But don't let that stop you from having a life...
Seriously, did they think they were hired for their hard work and moral values?
A friend of mine was a booth babe, once. She was fine with showing off her assets to sell products or posing for photos. However, she wasn't prepared for just how immature grown men can be at a technical conference. Most of them had the mental maturity of a 13 year old boy stuck in a 30-year old man's body.
Makes me embarrased for my gender...
some sort of personal crisis that necessitated the debt
Yes, we had to cover part of my wife's schooling on credit cards. And later I was unemployeed for a year. Hard to pay the bills without a steady income.
What I'm suggesting is that people with high credit card debt (The vast majority of households in this country have a credit card debt) who own a house look into a HELOC to get a lower rate, so they can pay off the debt faster.
can use the basic 1040 -- don't own a business, take standard deduction
./ is a sizable number of people), you can usually save a ton of money by doing itemized deductions. Of course, it takes time to figure out the itemized deductions.
You should be very careful about using the 1040-EZ form. Unless you are young and don't make much money (which on
Myself, I use a tax accountant to do my taxes (Local shop with a good reputation). We pay her $300, and she typically finds a more then a thousand dollars worth of deductions that we missed when we practiced on our own (even with TurboTax). Student loans, home loan, children, business expenses, professional education, healthcare expenses, donations to the Goodwill, etc. can really add up. Every year the tax rules change, and can't keep up on all the best loopholes.
Plus, she's gives us financial advice. I was employeed for a year, and we ran up too much debt. Last year we consolidated our Credit Card loans & some professional education loans into a Home Equity Line of Credit. Not only are the rates lower (4% vs 15% for the Credit Cards), but our payments are now tax deductable.
Taxes are such a fucking game.
in fact I copied the servicepack files c:\windows\servicepackfiles\iexplore.exe in that location so I can click "programs/run/iexplore" instead of clicking
You can modify the $PATH variable for that purpose. Simply add the paths you want to be able to use with "Programs/Run..."
So that you can add further details to the NEWS.
This could be fixed by changing the wording on the stupid button, change "Add your comments" to "Add further details to the NEWS".
I see all sorts of conversations which don't add further details to the NEWS, and yet they aren't always removed.
But if I dare point out another view or the macho men in the black block, my opinion is removed.
Perhaps this is because I broke two rules instead of one? I wasn't adding further details to the NEWS and I pissed off the moderators?
Who watches the watchers? Thanks for making those descisions for me.
political discussion forum.
If it's not supposed to be a discussion forum, then why does every news article have a "add your comments" link to it?
I should be free to comment on the news articles. I understand why trolls may get modded into oblivion, but why are my serious comments and questions dissapear? It should be simple for Indymedia viewers to view all articles which have been modded down. Why are my news submissions, even the good ones, never accepted?
Indymedia is an echo chamber. You only go there when you want to hear people support your own positions. Dissenters ithin the Indymedia community are frequently punished, which is very ironic in a forums which is supposed to promote dissent.
I was around in the early days when Indymedia was being planned. I helped a bit from the technical end, how to set up Apache, which Linux would I recommend, etc. I dropped out of the project because I disagred with their moderation scheme, there is very little accountability.
I'm a flaming liberal, and these days I can't stand Indymedia. Why? Because many comments and stories are hidden by the fascist moderators.
Apparenly I'm not liberal ENOUGH to have my comments read by others, especially when I dare to criticize some Black Blockster when they do stupid shit like setting a trashcan on fire...
Does Wikinews have a similar moderation scheme?
Because in this case Linus Torvalds is our new overlord, and I for one, welcome him.
Dude, he was our new overlord like 10 years ago, get with the program...
Then we had that nice, long, winding road through the coast range which did not necessarily make reading while the car was in motion a good idea (motion sickness anyone?)
Most of my long drives involve the Coastal Range (in California, looks like you are up in Oregon). There is still a ton of stuff to look at... mountains, trees, seaside towns... call me crazy, but watching these things go by kept me occupied for hours... "how do these people live way out here", "look at that beautiful mountain", "I wanna go camping there"...
And if you take breaks and get to walk in the trees, it's even better!
I'll bets are off for a 14 hour plane ride.
:)
Have them walk up and down the isle a bunch of times, once you left American Airspace, give them some beer