now take AOL, something already crappy. i can't possibly imagine what microsoft can do it. maybe this time around people will actually shy away to something else.
You mean like they originally did with MS-DOS? I recall they turned that into Windows.
It's true in PA equipment also. Nasty stuff for the price.
The only Bose gear I have heard with significant low-end is models of their bookshelf stereo speakers - and those tend to have the bass over-hyped for the home consumer easily marketed to by heavy bass, rather than quality sound.
Wouldn't most people have left their PC at home during the evacuation? I would expect most people working on an online filing are using some wide-open public access terminal in their place of refuge anyway.
The storm surge wasn't the problem - the breach in the Lake Ponchatrain levee was the problem. The brunt of the surge missed, then the floods came a day later when the Lake filled up.
I do agree with your points on erosion in general (and I am one of those evil red-state conservatives), but wetlands wouldn't likely have made a difference in this situation - Levee maintenance might have.
Part of a serious HAM's arsenal are several alternatives for backup power. HAM's in it for emergency response expect the power to be out. Now the fact that there is no power in the area eliminates BPL interference at the sending end, but all bets are off at any receiving end for those frequencies impacted in areas with power and BPL.
If the schools aren't teaching it, and there is a commercial need for it, then the corporate training world will provide the service (for a nominal fee, of course).
School didn't give me my Oracle training or other product-specific training. I got sent to a class by my employer.
College, in my view, is intended to provide a base experience, with specific job tasks trained by the employer. Sounds like corporations' free mainframe training is drying up, and they will have to start paying to train their own people.
If we had privately owned highways, no little startup would even be able to drive to work, much less ship a product (or even receive parts to build their product) using their competitor's highway system.
To support your point, that sounds like the Railroads. The free (as in tax-funded) highway system proved to be a better alternative for passenger transport (no cost at the point of entry), leaving rail almost completely used for mass freight.
Didn't survival of the fittest deem this to be the wrong continent for megafauna, since they were unable adapt to the changing environment and competing species?
Granted, we were largely responsible for the bison reduction, but those are making a comeback. I don't think the settlers in the 1800's were responsbile for any woolly mammoth deaths, and the Native Americans before them weren't prone to over-hunting anything to the point of extinction.
How does moving pr0nsite.com to pr0nsite.xxx free up domains? what else would you use pr0nsite.com for anyway?
Of course that is the wrong question.
My real question is how does creating a new TLD change anything about how sites will use.com?.com is engrained in our culture as something that follows a website like "and Jelly" follows "Peanut Butter". Sure, you can have peanut butter and lots of other things, but what's the most common?
Problem solved with a can of spray paint or cheap upholstery.
I don't see how DMCA applies, since there was no digital rights management hardware or software installed on the boxes he received (unless you count the chemical bonding of the paint to paper), and he did nothing to circumvent that (non-existent) copy protection.
This makes no snese to me 1) Why a publisher would do this. or 2) why a student would need this.
Back in the day I would buy a text book and sell it back if I didn't expect to need it again. An e-book wouldn't make sense because if I WANT to keep it, I would not want to rely on an electronic format that could become obsolete. And if I seel it back at (usually half price) that is equivalent to a 50% discount on the book in the long-run.
Of course many of my profs would use their OWN text (read: can't sell it back), or would change the edition used by the course (so the edition I just bought has no buy-back value).
I wonder how many people said the same thing about ships in the dawn of trans-ocean exploration.
"Here be dragons!"
Countries lost many more sailors exploring the seas than we have lost exploring space. That was no less perilous or unexplored of a venture in its time. Sailings ships were at the height of transportation technology in their day, same as the shuttle today.
1) This doesn't kick in until 2007. There is plenty of time to phase this into new software and devices.
2) From an article on foxnews.com:
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...A few countries even change dates every year.
Israel, for instance, bases daylight time on the lunar Jewish calendar, and Palestinians change their clocks at different times as an assertion of independence. Windows doesn't even provide an auto-adjust option for the time zone covering Jerusalem.
Moti Tzur, a sales manager at Sakal Electronics Ltd. in Jerusalem, says the constant changes do little to confound manufacturers, sales representatives or consumers.
"We get up and change the time on the VCR ourselves," Tzur said. "These things come with directions."
Don't confuse ID with the literal Biblical account of creation. Literal "young-earth" creationism implies a roughly 6,000 year timeline, based on the human geneaology alone.
Intelligent Design postulates that there is a designer, but does not set a time-line for implementation of said design. That designer may or may not be the God as described in the Bible.
It is possible to investigate the evidence for "an" intelligent designer without assuming any particular designer.
A bipedal robot with stereoscopic vision and so many degrees of freedom could potentially perform some complex tasks that traditional robots have been laughed at for trying.
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"I've got a bad feeling about this."
You mean like they originally did with MS-DOS? I recall they turned that into Windows.
The only Bose gear I have heard with significant low-end is models of their bookshelf stereo speakers - and those tend to have the bass over-hyped for the home consumer easily marketed to by heavy bass, rather than quality sound.
Wouldn't most people have left their PC at home during the evacuation? I would expect most people working on an online filing are using some wide-open public access terminal in their place of refuge anyway.
Tech: You have to use the mouse, sir.
Scotty: (into mouse) Computer...
Mouse: (in Computer-voice) Hold on, my battery is low.
Scotty: (Changes batteries) Here, these are dilithium crystal cells.
Mouse: Thank you, I feel much better now. Where would you like to go today?
Scotty: Well, I'd like to get back to the future with a whale and save earth, but...
Mouse: (Interrupting) Hold on, You've got mail. Would you like to buy any v1a6ra?
Scotty: Maybe later, what I really need is some transparent aluminum?
Mouse: Whoah - don't know what that is. Hold down Button 7,scroll wheel down and left-click, and I'll launch a Google search for you.
Scotty: Umm, okay? (Clicks 3 or 4 random buttons).
Computer: (Clippy appears and performs a roundhouse-flying-punch-and-beam-of-death secret maneuver, impaling the Search Puppy)
Tech: Maybe you should try the keyboard...
Scotty: Keyboard?... How quaint.
I do agree with your points on erosion in general (and I am one of those evil red-state conservatives), but wetlands wouldn't likely have made a difference in this situation - Levee maintenance might have.
I don't think Adobe would take that lying down.
Having never used Acrobat to create PDF's, what DOES it add that "print to PDF" tools do not?
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Of course, the solution to that is cut the funding for extra programs, so kids have no reason to come early and stay late.
School didn't give me my Oracle training or other product-specific training. I got sent to a class by my employer.
College, in my view, is intended to provide a base experience, with specific job tasks trained by the employer. Sounds like corporations' free mainframe training is drying up, and they will have to start paying to train their own people.
To support your point, that sounds like the Railroads. The free (as in tax-funded) highway system proved to be a better alternative for passenger transport (no cost at the point of entry), leaving rail almost completely used for mass freight.
That was a serious question! I was NOT trolling! Have you read the moderator guidelines?
Granted, we were largely responsible for the bison reduction, but those are making a comeback. I don't think the settlers in the 1800's were responsbile for any woolly mammoth deaths, and the Native Americans before them weren't prone to over-hunting anything to the point of extinction.
Of course that is the wrong question.
My real question is how does creating a new TLD change anything about how sites will use
Maybe it'll even have a pop-up blocker for those 30-second, targeted ads.
As I read this thread, the ad displayed is for Google AdSense.
(or not)
I don't see how DMCA applies, since there was no digital rights management hardware or software installed on the boxes he received (unless you count the chemical bonding of the paint to paper), and he did nothing to circumvent that (non-existent) copy protection.
Back in the day I would buy a text book and sell it back if I didn't expect to need it again. An e-book wouldn't make sense because if I WANT to keep it, I would not want to rely on an electronic format that could become obsolete. And if I seel it back at (usually half price) that is equivalent to a 50% discount on the book in the long-run.
Of course many of my profs would use their OWN text (read: can't sell it back), or would change the edition used by the course (so the edition I just bought has no buy-back value).
What self-respecting Texan would work on this project? Everything from Texas is supposed to be BIGGER, not smaller!
"Here be dragons!"
Countries lost many more sailors exploring the seas than we have lost exploring space. That was no less perilous or unexplored of a venture in its time. Sailings ships were at the height of transportation technology in their day, same as the shuttle today.
1) This doesn't kick in until 2007. There is plenty of time to phase this into new software and devices.
2) From an article on foxnews.com:
---begin quote---
Israel, for instance, bases daylight time on the lunar Jewish calendar, and Palestinians change their clocks at different times as an assertion of independence. Windows doesn't even provide an auto-adjust option for the time zone covering Jerusalem.
Moti Tzur, a sales manager at Sakal Electronics Ltd. in Jerusalem, says the constant changes do little to confound manufacturers, sales representatives or consumers.
"We get up and change the time on the VCR ourselves," Tzur said. "These things come with directions."
---end quote---
It's not that people haven't tried. The NRA owns more politicians than the other side. It worked with the tobacco industry, though.
Intelligent Design postulates that there is a designer, but does not set a time-line for implementation of said design. That designer may or may not be the God as described in the Bible.
It is possible to investigate the evidence for "an" intelligent designer without assuming any particular designer.
Can anyone say "protocol droid"?