That's pretty harsh, dude. You really don't understand politics, do you? Every long-term Congressman has, at one time or another, proposed a bill that was bad. That's why bills go through a review process and a vote before being made into law. And that's only for the few bills that actually get that for - the overwhelming majority of ideas never make it to bills, let alone laws. The debate and decision process is vital to our country, and so you can't begrude anyone for using it. He certainly shouldn't apologize for doing his job. And yes, listening to other people and proposing bills to address a problem is his primary job.
Hollings thought he had a good idea. He's not very knowledgeable about technology, just like you know little about politics. He has learned the hard way that the SSSCA and its kin are not good bills.
If you don't allow people to learn from their mistakes, then they will continue to make them. If this privacy bill is a good one, then perhaps we can count Hollings as a future ally. History is FULL of individuals who made big mistakes, realized them, and then changed sides. Perhaps Hollings will be the next example.
Mark Forman is the "Associate Director for Information Technology and E-Government" at the Office of Management and Budget. There's a press release announcing his appointment. His boss is apparently Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. Could someone confirm that for me? I haven't been able to find an address, but Mr. Forman's phone number is 202-395-1148.
If you're going to write, you should write Mr. Forman and his boss, in addition to your Congresscritters. Be sure to mention that by requiring Passport, the government is effectively forcing its citizens to use Microsoft's technology in order to access the public information. What happens if MS decides to start charging for Passport use? Will citizens then have to pay Microsoft to access public information? This is especially disturbing considering that the government is currently in ligitation against MS. I think part of the problem is that some government departments think it doesn't matter if some OTHER government department is in ligitation with MS. Make sure the people you write understand that you don't make that distinction. Try to equate MS with Enron, by asking if they would be so quick to adopt any of Enron products. After all, both companies used donations to affect policy, both companies have broken the law, and both companies are under investigation by the DOJ.
Unfortunately, this is a flawed argument. The problem is that sick people are almost never satisfied with a moderate amount of whatever makes them sick. If you give them all the virtual child porn they want, then some of them will want to take it to the "next level". If they had never gotten the virtual stuff in the first place, they may have been able to control their urges enough to keep children safe.
Chances are, he was hired to work as an OS X kernel developer, not necessarily as a file system developer. And even if he was hired in the file system group, it's still unlikely that he'll port BFS to Mac, because that's a brand new file system and its existance would just complicate things. He may, however, work on adding journalling to HFS, much like ext3 is a "journalling version" of ext2.
I've been looking at Linux kernel development jobs in my area, and all of them are for people with very extensive experience (over three years in the Linux kernel itself, for example), particular people who have developed a major component of the kernel itself. Of course, 99% of these people already have good jobs, so these positions will go unfilled for months. Anyway, my point is that it doesn't surprise me that someone like Giampaolo has joing Apple, because it's just part of a trend - only people who have lots of experience in the field are getting job offers.
I've never been able to really watch a movie and the subtitles at the same time. My focus diverts between the middle of the screen and bottom too frequently, and I just can't seem to enjoy the movie as much. Yes, dubbing does tend to remove something from the original, but I just don't think that subtitles are an improvement. I wonder if there's another way?
Just because they don't know or understand the legislation doesn't mean they're not affected by it. The people are on our side, they just don't realize it.
Man, I can't believe all this time I thought it was some old IBM-invented relic that just seemed to have been passed from one generation to the next, kinda like DASD as an acronym for a hard drive.
I'm not ashamed of it, but that's because I know what it means. A politician doesn't have the same understanding of the term that we do.
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Sorry, but no politician is going to take an organization with the name "geek" in it seriously. They need to choose a name that makes it sound like they represent the CIO's of major companies. Just think of what a Senator's first impression will be when his secretary tells him, "The gentleman from GeekPAC is here to see you, sir."
I really liked OS/2, but there were just too many problems. Installation was a pain, hardware support was iffy
The same is true with every operating system. If OS/2 had had the support that Windows had, issues like installation and hardware support would no longer be a problem.
Although frankly, with eComStation, installation and hardware support are not a problem for me anymore.
The OS/2 version costs the same as the Windows version, so I guess most home users don't think $200 is too much. Perhaps Americans are more likely to spend that money than Europeans.
As for Windows crashing, all you do is close the session and relaunch. From OS/2's point of view, Virtual PC is just another OS/2 applications.
I once read a story about someone who ran A Windows NT server on his Mac using Virtual PC for Macintosh, so his Mac was basically a Windows server. One of the reasons why he did this is because Windows NT would, over time, just fall apart. It would just corrupt itself to oblivion about once every six months. So whenever that happened, he would just reload his backed-up VPC image and keep on going.
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You could write a program that would use Google as its back-end search engine for the Internet. That program could be sold and anyone can use it on their computer. For instance, I can imagine Apple using that API for their Sherlock search application. Just because the software that uses it is distributed doesn't mean that it violates the license. As long as the results are not redistributed (i.e. in your own public web site), and the search is initiated only upon request from the user and it not some kind of cron job, then it's okay. Apple's Sherlock and Mozilla's search tools both conform.
These games start very randomly. If a bunch of people are sitting around the lab working on stuff, all there needs for a game is for one person to *cough* and say "bz."
*sigh*, I miss college. Enjoy it while you can, buddy. Once you get a "real job", you'll never again work with a bunch of people who all share your interests.
I switched from Netscape 4.7 to Mozilla 0.99 on my Mac recently, and I also was amazed at how well it installed. Everything transferred automatically, although it did take a long time. Maybe I should open a bug report to display a dialog box with a progress indicator.
I'm not saying you shouldn't give children responsibility until they leave the home. I think that's crazy, and I'm surprised you would think I believe that. I certainly didn't say that anywhere. What I did say is that equating the President with the "man of the house" is not correct. The person who owns the house makes the rules, as if he were king.
Bad analogy. The President doesn't own the country. That's why he's President, and not king or emperor. The President is a civil servant much like any other, except that he has unique and extremely important job responsibilities.
If I wanted to, I could draft up a constitution for my house, and have all of my family members ratify it. Then we would use a voting system to determine policy. Of course, with only 3 people in the house, it wouldn't work out too well.
Your wife will be much better off if she actually learns grammar instead of having a computer correct her all the time. I suggest The Chicago Manual of Style.
My wife suffers from the same problem. I correct her when she says something the wrong way, and I explain why. She learns, and so can your wife.
I can't imagine the Cuban exile community in southern Florida ever forgivive Reno for deporting Elian Gonzolas.
Just because life sucks in some other country doesn't mean that we have to let everone from that country into ours. Immigration is a privilege, not a right. Besides, Elian belongs with his father, who wants to live in Cuba and wants his son back. Obviously, life can't be that bad over there.
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Hollings thought he had a good idea. He's not very knowledgeable about technology, just like you know little about politics. He has learned the hard way that the SSSCA and its kin are not good bills.
If you don't allow people to learn from their mistakes, then they will continue to make them. If this privacy bill is a good one, then perhaps we can count Hollings as a future ally. History is FULL of individuals who made big mistakes, realized them, and then changed sides. Perhaps Hollings will be the next example.
If you're going to write, you should write Mr. Forman and his boss, in addition to your Congresscritters. Be sure to mention that by requiring Passport, the government is effectively forcing its citizens to use Microsoft's technology in order to access the public information. What happens if MS decides to start charging for Passport use? Will citizens then have to pay Microsoft to access public information? This is especially disturbing considering that the government is currently in ligitation against MS. I think part of the problem is that some government departments think it doesn't matter if some OTHER government department is in ligitation with MS. Make sure the people you write understand that you don't make that distinction. Try to equate MS with Enron, by asking if they would be so quick to adopt any of Enron products. After all, both companies used donations to affect policy, both companies have broken the law, and both companies are under investigation by the DOJ.
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Unfortunately, this is a flawed argument. The problem is that sick people are almost never satisfied with a moderate amount of whatever makes them sick. If you give them all the virtual child porn they want, then some of them will want to take it to the "next level". If they had never gotten the virtual stuff in the first place, they may have been able to control their urges enough to keep children safe.
I've been looking at Linux kernel development jobs in my area, and all of them are for people with very extensive experience (over three years in the Linux kernel itself, for example), particular people who have developed a major component of the kernel itself. Of course, 99% of these people already have good jobs, so these positions will go unfilled for months. Anyway, my point is that it doesn't surprise me that someone like Giampaolo has joing Apple, because it's just part of a trend - only people who have lots of experience in the field are getting job offers.
I've never been able to really watch a movie and the subtitles at the same time. My focus diverts between the middle of the screen and bottom too frequently, and I just can't seem to enjoy the movie as much. Yes, dubbing does tend to remove something from the original, but I just don't think that subtitles are an improvement. I wonder if there's another way?
Could your mother be Julie Strunk, and her web site http://www.herbal-attitude.com/?
Just because they don't know or understand the legislation doesn't mean they're not affected by it. The people are on our side, they just don't realize it.
But knowing doesn't help anything! Since all politicians accept money from corporations and vote accordingly, you can't hold it against any of them.
Man, I can't believe all this time I thought it was some old IBM-invented relic that just seemed to have been passed from one generation to the next, kinda like DASD as an acronym for a hard drive.
I'm not ashamed of it, but that's because I know what it means. A politician doesn't have the same understanding of the term that we do.
Sorry, but no politician is going to take an organization with the name "geek" in it seriously. They need to choose a name that makes it sound like they represent the CIO's of major companies. Just think of what a Senator's first impression will be when his secretary tells him, "The gentleman from GeekPAC is here to see you, sir."
No, he's JUSTICE BENDOVER.
eComStation is the new OS/2 and can be purchased at a number of places. Just go to http://www.ecomstation.com/where_to_buy.phtml.
The same is true with every operating system. If OS/2 had had the support that Windows had, issues like installation and hardware support would no longer be a problem.
Although frankly, with eComStation, installation and hardware support are not a problem for me anymore.
As for Windows crashing, all you do is close the session and relaunch. From OS/2's point of view, Virtual PC is just another OS/2 applications.
I once read a story about someone who ran A Windows NT server on his Mac using Virtual PC for Macintosh, so his Mac was basically a Windows server. One of the reasons why he did this is because Windows NT would, over time, just fall apart. It would just corrupt itself to oblivion about once every six months. So whenever that happened, he would just reload his backed-up VPC image and keep on going.
You could write a program that would use Google as its back-end search engine for the Internet. That program could be sold and anyone can use it on their computer. For instance, I can imagine Apple using that API for their Sherlock search application. Just because the software that uses it is distributed doesn't mean that it violates the license. As long as the results are not redistributed (i.e. in your own public web site), and the search is initiated only upon request from the user and it not some kind of cron job, then it's okay. Apple's Sherlock and Mozilla's search tools both conform.
*sigh*, I miss college. Enjoy it while you can, buddy. Once you get a "real job", you'll never again work with a bunch of people who all share your interests.
I switched from Netscape 4.7 to Mozilla 0.99 on my Mac recently, and I also was amazed at how well it installed. Everything transferred automatically, although it did take a long time. Maybe I should open a bug report to display a dialog box with a progress indicator.
I'm not saying you shouldn't give children responsibility until they leave the home. I think that's crazy, and I'm surprised you would think I believe that. I certainly didn't say that anywhere. What I did say is that equating the President with the "man of the house" is not correct. The person who owns the house makes the rules, as if he were king.
If I wanted to, I could draft up a constitution for my house, and have all of my family members ratify it. Then we would use a voting system to determine policy. Of course, with only 3 people in the house, it wouldn't work out too well.
I play Munch Man every night! Oh wait, are we talking about the same thing?
A newspaper? Desktop publishing? A better question would be, why aren't they using Macs?
My wife suffers from the same problem. I correct her when she says something the wrong way, and I explain why. She learns, and so can your wife.
Just because life sucks in some other country doesn't mean that we have to let everone from that country into ours. Immigration is a privilege, not a right. Besides, Elian belongs with his father, who wants to live in Cuba and wants his son back. Obviously, life can't be that bad over there.