I'll save everyone the time and money to get and read the book. Get an air-tight firewall (OpenBSD or similar), run anti-virus and resitrict IE's bad features (ActiveX, and so on) if you're on a Windows network, train employees so they aren't completely ignorant, and force all users to run in non-administrator mode. Ta da! Do I win a prize?
If they're feeling adventurous, admins also could do things like require Firefox and Thunderbird, run OS X or Linux on desktops, etc. as long as they have some extra scratch in the training budget.
Hey, I'm a Floridian you insensitive clod! You forgot trailer park developments in coastal hurricane zones, sketchy interstate-side strip clubs that take out every billboard for miles in either direction, and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays!
If it looks like beer, foams like beer, but smells and tases like coffee, then it's this stuff. It has caffiene, but no alcohol. I'm wondering if this is just a novelty, or if there really is some place for it in the market since I think this probably would be more expensive than regular coffee. I would think if people want coffee they'd get coffee, and if they want beer they'd get beer. It just strikes me as a solution without a problem. A very clever solution, but still one without a problem.
Here at the University of Florida I've seen the Microsoft ones. They're heavily promoting OneNote, figuring college students probably would have use of note-taking software. Except that most people don't go to class, ergo they don't take notes, and those that do generally buy the note packets from local copy stores (professors put all of their slides or outlines of all of the lectures together and the stores print and bind them). There's no need for OneNote when you have the slides on paper.
They also wrote a URL for how to download a free trial in sidewalk chalk all over campus, which is technically regarded as graffiti and as such is against campus rules. Fortunately a combination of UPD and the outer bands of Tropical Storm Tammy took care of that. I haven't seen them since.
So if some sites are quoting dynamically from other sites, what happens when some script kiddies or crackers get into someone's source material?
"... which brings up a good point that Steve Ballmer said in an interview with smallcomputersite.com when he said, 'Fr33 V14GR4!!1!!1 C1AL15 4 L3S5!111!!'"
Before everyone assumes everything with Gaim will be instantly different, remember that a couple Firefox developers got hired by Google, and nothing much changed with that project. I mean, Microsoft hired the founder of Gentoo, and look how much has changed there (practically nil).
In short, if anything this is good because ensures that Gaim will not die. Google hired a dev, they didn't somehow buy the whole project.
Sports are not necessarily the problem. Sports are one of the only ways many children excercise, which helps keep the child obesity problem from being worse than it already is. Plus, the scientific community only rarely loses top-caliber minds to sports. (Basketball's Michael Doleac could been a heart surgeon, and football's Craig Krenzel graduated Ohio State with a degree in molecular biology. That's about all I'm aware of.) Plus, sports has influenced science for the better, such as the advent of Tommy John surgery and the formulation of Gatorade. On top of that, football is a major source of funding for many universities. A lot of that cash goes back to the other sports programs, but in almost every case a cut of it goes to health and human performance studies too.
Could culture in schools stand to improve to become more firendly to smart children? Sure, but I have a hard time believing it's only a recent (in the last century) problem brought on by the increased popularity of sports.
Let's step back for a second. There's a lot more to science than biology, and especially the small part of biology concerned with the origin of life. Evolution vs. creationism vs. intelligent design has nothing to do with engineering, computer science, chemistry, physics, and all the rest. I mean, when was the last time origin-of-life science significantly grew the nation's GDP? Has attempting to prove evolution ever increased US manufacturing to reduce the trade deficit? Has attempting to prove intelligent design ever resulted in a new breakthrough drug? Seriously, there's more to this than the evolution flame war.
If you're looking for new music outside the top-40 crap, try the NPR All Songs Considered podcast. It goes over the music used on All Things Considered, and it's an incredible variety of music.
Bring as much Gatorade as possible, possibly in the powdered mix form so you can bring more. At risk of sounding like a commercial, it really does replentish more than just water does. I can tell you from being a Florida resident that working outside in extreme humidity, like what Louisiana has and Nebraska probably doesn't have, causes you to sweat profusely and you need to replace everything besides just water that you lose when you sweat. Trust me on this; I helped clean up what Hurricane Charley did last year and there's no substitute for Gatorade.
If you would like to know what is wrong with the Xbox division, it is quite simply that it loses hundreds of millions of dollars every year. It has never come even close to breaking even, and with the upcoming Xbox 360 release it probably won't for the near future.
I have no idea what it's like to work for Microsoft in general much less the Xbox division, but it probably weighs on them occasionally that they are destined to be a cash drain in perpetuity.
It depends. If you don't mind the prospect of some current or future management of Trolltech possibly ruining the company and losing all the money you invest, then go right ahead.
It's one thing to advocate open source via word of mouth, Internet message boards, etc. It's another thing to throw your money into an open source company without checking it out first. If/when the IPO draws near, do some research, dig into the financial reports, and find out if this is a financially sound company.
Would you buy stock in any random company out of the business section of the newspaper without researching it first? I would hope not. While it's noble to suggest such things as this, let's face it: Trolltech is a for-profit company. It's not running a charity. Do you own Red Hat stock simply because it deals in open source software? If not, then why would you blindly buy Trolltech stock instead?
To me, the Mario and Kirby games are the ones that are supposed to be cartoony, not Zelda games. Looks like Nintendo has realized that a lot of people would at least agree with the third part of that statement.
From TFA: "Previously, AOL would distribute bonuses in the "tens of thousands of dollars" if representatives were able to retain half the customers who called to cancel their service, according to the attorney general."
This just further goes to prove Scott Adams, the Dilbert comic creator, correct when he said that all management incentives lead to weasel behavior. Of course, it helps when they receive weasel directives in the first place.
Also, is it too late to clone Eliot Spitzer? We need at least one of him per state, preferably more.
The University of Florida has Windows, Mac, and Linux (vanilla Debian, I believe) computer labs depending on what building you're in. Each school is responsible for its own computer labs should it want to have them, and so the different schools build different labs for their needs.
Mark Cuban is one of the more fascinating personality studies of the past decade. He's very shrewd and is an incredibly smart businessman, but he's also very impulsive, as you would know if you've ever seen him courtside when the Mavericks aren't getting calls on a particular night. After catching some criticism for saying he wouldn't hire a particular set of NBA referees to work at a Dairy Queen, he himself worked the counter at a Dairy Queen for an afternoon to benefit charity. He does have business reasons for this, but he also could be doing this because he feels it's the right thing to do (like when he lambastes the refs on his blog, or refusing to trade Nowitzki for Shaq). He made his money from technology so he understands it very well, so he definitely understands the implications and importance of this case. I applaud him for this as he's taking a stand for a reason other than trying to get David Stern cheesed off.
It's always ironic to me wherever Gentoo is discussed on Slashdot because Gentoo has struck me as the ultimate RTFM distribution. Think about that for a second. RTFM required + Slashdot =...
If this were really true, why isn't Windows Media Center Edition flying off the shelves?
I think this is fairly implausible since I don't think people will end up usign computers for everything. Buying a TV and a DVD player is a lot cheaper than buying a computer, so I think people will always use that to build an entertainment center off of, not a PC. Plus, these movies being downloaded via broadband will probably have some kind of DRM that prevents people from burning them to disc, or at least they will if a certain Media Center Edition OS producer has anything to say about it.
In the end, I think the convenience gained of downloading movies via broadband does not outweigh the inconvenience of setting up a computer to do everything a TV does, especially considering the price differential.
Is this just like the computer industry's equivalent to the auto industry's international car shows? Because this doesn't seem all that much like news to me, just a bunch of random laptops. Still pictures really don't show off processor capability, so what's the point? And couldn't they have wiped the fingerprints off of the screens of the ones at the bottom of page 2?
Maybe it's just because I live in SEC country, but I first read it as Intel having a University of Kentucky Sonoma launch party, which made absolutely no sense.
I don't know how it is in F1 since it doesn't get much coverage in America outside of Michael Schumacher's annual championship and the now-and-then spectacular crash, but in NASCAR I would say the 75% car/25% driver ratio is not accurate. Great drivers tend to win more often than lousy drivers. You'll see Kurt Busch or Dale Jr. say after a race "Well, we didn't have the best or fastest car today, but we worked hard and won it," and usually they're right - they won because of great driving and pit strategy. Compare with "Front Row" Joe Nemechek who racks up pole position after pole position in qualifying showing that he often has excellent cars, but he has only 3 victories to his name in 11 years on the top circuit. It takes a good car to win, but also a great driver to get it around the track in one piece and good pit strategy and times to preserve or make up time and make sure it doesn't run out of gas on the last lap.
One thing I almost never hear in conjunction with the controversy on the record labels losing money due to decreased CD sales is the fact that the economy began to go downhill at around the same time that the CD sales began to fall. True, this coincidentally was also the time when file sharing became popular, but I should think that the bursting of the economic bubble would have more to do with the losses. CDs are a luxury item, basically, and when people have fewer discretionary dollars (as what happens when the economy goes sour) they quit buying as many luxury items. When the economy is up, people might just go out and buy that new CD even though there's probably only two or three good songs on it. When the economy is down, it has to be a damn good album or a person's favorite artist to get that CD sold. Upscale stores saw hits in 2001 (blamed on the economy), upscale restaurants saw hits in 2001 (blamed on the economy), and record companies saw hits in 2001 (not blamed on the economy). The logic doesn't follow.
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I'll save everyone the time and money to get and read the book. Get an air-tight firewall (OpenBSD or similar), run anti-virus and resitrict IE's bad features (ActiveX, and so on) if you're on a Windows network, train employees so they aren't completely ignorant, and force all users to run in non-administrator mode. Ta da! Do I win a prize?
If they're feeling adventurous, admins also could do things like require Firefox and Thunderbird, run OS X or Linux on desktops, etc. as long as they have some extra scratch in the training budget.
Hey, I'm a Floridian you insensitive clod! You forgot trailer park developments in coastal hurricane zones, sketchy interstate-side strip clubs that take out every billboard for miles in either direction, and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays!
If it looks like beer, foams like beer, but smells and tases like coffee, then it's this stuff. It has caffiene, but no alcohol. I'm wondering if this is just a novelty, or if there really is some place for it in the market since I think this probably would be more expensive than regular coffee. I would think if people want coffee they'd get coffee, and if they want beer they'd get beer. It just strikes me as a solution without a problem. A very clever solution, but still one without a problem.
Here at the University of Florida I've seen the Microsoft ones. They're heavily promoting OneNote, figuring college students probably would have use of note-taking software. Except that most people don't go to class, ergo they don't take notes, and those that do generally buy the note packets from local copy stores (professors put all of their slides or outlines of all of the lectures together and the stores print and bind them). There's no need for OneNote when you have the slides on paper.
They also wrote a URL for how to download a free trial in sidewalk chalk all over campus, which is technically regarded as graffiti and as such is against campus rules. Fortunately a combination of UPD and the outer bands of Tropical Storm Tammy took care of that. I haven't seen them since.
So if some sites are quoting dynamically from other sites, what happens when some script kiddies or crackers get into someone's source material?
"... which brings up a good point that Steve Ballmer said in an interview with smallcomputersite.com when he said, 'Fr33 V14GR4!!1!!1 C1AL15 4 L3S5!111!!'"
Before everyone assumes everything with Gaim will be instantly different, remember that a couple Firefox developers got hired by Google, and nothing much changed with that project. I mean, Microsoft hired the founder of Gentoo, and look how much has changed there (practically nil).
In short, if anything this is good because ensures that Gaim will not die. Google hired a dev, they didn't somehow buy the whole project.
Sports are not necessarily the problem. Sports are one of the only ways many children excercise, which helps keep the child obesity problem from being worse than it already is. Plus, the scientific community only rarely loses top-caliber minds to sports. (Basketball's Michael Doleac could been a heart surgeon, and football's Craig Krenzel graduated Ohio State with a degree in molecular biology. That's about all I'm aware of.) Plus, sports has influenced science for the better, such as the advent of Tommy John surgery and the formulation of Gatorade. On top of that, football is a major source of funding for many universities. A lot of that cash goes back to the other sports programs, but in almost every case a cut of it goes to health and human performance studies too.
Could culture in schools stand to improve to become more firendly to smart children? Sure, but I have a hard time believing it's only a recent (in the last century) problem brought on by the increased popularity of sports.
Let's step back for a second. There's a lot more to science than biology, and especially the small part of biology concerned with the origin of life. Evolution vs. creationism vs. intelligent design has nothing to do with engineering, computer science, chemistry, physics, and all the rest. I mean, when was the last time origin-of-life science significantly grew the nation's GDP? Has attempting to prove evolution ever increased US manufacturing to reduce the trade deficit? Has attempting to prove intelligent design ever resulted in a new breakthrough drug? Seriously, there's more to this than the evolution flame war.
If you're looking for new music outside the top-40 crap, try the NPR All Songs Considered podcast. It goes over the music used on All Things Considered, and it's an incredible variety of music.
Bring as much Gatorade as possible, possibly in the powdered mix form so you can bring more. At risk of sounding like a commercial, it really does replentish more than just water does. I can tell you from being a Florida resident that working outside in extreme humidity, like what Louisiana has and Nebraska probably doesn't have, causes you to sweat profusely and you need to replace everything besides just water that you lose when you sweat. Trust me on this; I helped clean up what Hurricane Charley did last year and there's no substitute for Gatorade.
Today seems to be Mozilladot day. At least it beats having another Googledot day. Variety is nice.
If you would like to know what is wrong with the Xbox division, it is quite simply that it loses hundreds of millions of dollars every year. It has never come even close to breaking even, and with the upcoming Xbox 360 release it probably won't for the near future. I have no idea what it's like to work for Microsoft in general much less the Xbox division, but it probably weighs on them occasionally that they are destined to be a cash drain in perpetuity.
It depends. If you don't mind the prospect of some current or future management of Trolltech possibly ruining the company and losing all the money you invest, then go right ahead.
It's one thing to advocate open source via word of mouth, Internet message boards, etc. It's another thing to throw your money into an open source company without checking it out first. If/when the IPO draws near, do some research, dig into the financial reports, and find out if this is a financially sound company.
Would you buy stock in any random company out of the business section of the newspaper without researching it first? I would hope not. While it's noble to suggest such things as this, let's face it: Trolltech is a for-profit company. It's not running a charity. Do you own Red Hat stock simply because it deals in open source software? If not, then why would you blindly buy Trolltech stock instead?
For any of you wondering who Trolltech is and why you would care about them, their biggest claim to fame is that they develop Qt, the GUI used by KDE.
To me, the Mario and Kirby games are the ones that are supposed to be cartoony, not Zelda games. Looks like Nintendo has realized that a lot of people would at least agree with the third part of that statement.
From TFA: "Previously, AOL would distribute bonuses in the "tens of thousands of dollars" if representatives were able to retain half the customers who called to cancel their service, according to the attorney general." This just further goes to prove Scott Adams, the Dilbert comic creator, correct when he said that all management incentives lead to weasel behavior. Of course, it helps when they receive weasel directives in the first place. Also, is it too late to clone Eliot Spitzer? We need at least one of him per state, preferably more.
But Shaq is fat though. You ever seen how his gut hangs over his athletic shorts? He's spent years on a pizza-burgers-beer offseason diet.
The University of Florida has Windows, Mac, and Linux (vanilla Debian, I believe) computer labs depending on what building you're in. Each school is responsible for its own computer labs should it want to have them, and so the different schools build different labs for their needs.
Mark Cuban is one of the more fascinating personality studies of the past decade. He's very shrewd and is an incredibly smart businessman, but he's also very impulsive, as you would know if you've ever seen him courtside when the Mavericks aren't getting calls on a particular night. After catching some criticism for saying he wouldn't hire a particular set of NBA referees to work at a Dairy Queen, he himself worked the counter at a Dairy Queen for an afternoon to benefit charity. He does have business reasons for this, but he also could be doing this because he feels it's the right thing to do (like when he lambastes the refs on his blog, or refusing to trade Nowitzki for Shaq). He made his money from technology so he understands it very well, so he definitely understands the implications and importance of this case. I applaud him for this as he's taking a stand for a reason other than trying to get David Stern cheesed off.
It's always ironic to me wherever Gentoo is discussed on Slashdot because Gentoo has struck me as the ultimate RTFM distribution. Think about that for a second. RTFM required + Slashdot = ...
If this were really true, why isn't Windows Media Center Edition flying off the shelves? I think this is fairly implausible since I don't think people will end up usign computers for everything. Buying a TV and a DVD player is a lot cheaper than buying a computer, so I think people will always use that to build an entertainment center off of, not a PC. Plus, these movies being downloaded via broadband will probably have some kind of DRM that prevents people from burning them to disc, or at least they will if a certain Media Center Edition OS producer has anything to say about it. In the end, I think the convenience gained of downloading movies via broadband does not outweigh the inconvenience of setting up a computer to do everything a TV does, especially considering the price differential.
Is this just like the computer industry's equivalent to the auto industry's international car shows? Because this doesn't seem all that much like news to me, just a bunch of random laptops. Still pictures really don't show off processor capability, so what's the point? And couldn't they have wiped the fingerprints off of the screens of the ones at the bottom of page 2? Maybe it's just because I live in SEC country, but I first read it as Intel having a University of Kentucky Sonoma launch party, which made absolutely no sense.
I don't know how it is in F1 since it doesn't get much coverage in America outside of Michael Schumacher's annual championship and the now-and-then spectacular crash, but in NASCAR I would say the 75% car/25% driver ratio is not accurate. Great drivers tend to win more often than lousy drivers. You'll see Kurt Busch or Dale Jr. say after a race "Well, we didn't have the best or fastest car today, but we worked hard and won it," and usually they're right - they won because of great driving and pit strategy. Compare with "Front Row" Joe Nemechek who racks up pole position after pole position in qualifying showing that he often has excellent cars, but he has only 3 victories to his name in 11 years on the top circuit. It takes a good car to win, but also a great driver to get it around the track in one piece and good pit strategy and times to preserve or make up time and make sure it doesn't run out of gas on the last lap.
One thing I almost never hear in conjunction with the controversy on the record labels losing money due to decreased CD sales is the fact that the economy began to go downhill at around the same time that the CD sales began to fall. True, this coincidentally was also the time when file sharing became popular, but I should think that the bursting of the economic bubble would have more to do with the losses. CDs are a luxury item, basically, and when people have fewer discretionary dollars (as what happens when the economy goes sour) they quit buying as many luxury items. When the economy is up, people might just go out and buy that new CD even though there's probably only two or three good songs on it. When the economy is down, it has to be a damn good album or a person's favorite artist to get that CD sold. Upscale stores saw hits in 2001 (blamed on the economy), upscale restaurants saw hits in 2001 (blamed on the economy), and record companies saw hits in 2001 (not blamed on the economy). The logic doesn't follow.
My bad. The second link is correct.