Yes-- private schools can be just as bad. A parent really has to be involved to make sure that their child isn't being indoctrinated against their wishes!
Coda: You're opinions are supposed to be backed up with a fact or two. How about telling us why the Church of Scientology would want to mislead anyone about the educational system? What reason do they have? I personally don't give a flying fsck who published it as long as the research is there. The bibliography is in the back of the pamphlet.
I live in Ohio, which passed a law in 1996 that says I can refuse to have my SSN on my license. However, I got my license in 1995 (my first), and even when I got my copy (couple months ago), they showed me the law: I can't take it off of my license if I already had one. To realize how stupid this is, think about the fact that the licenses are generated and printed on the fly in the office while you stand there. Why the hell won't they take it off for you? Anyone else have this situation?
"Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable...of thinking or acting otherwise than their schoolmasters would have wished." --Bertrand Russell
Who do you think runs those schools, and for that matter, the whole system?
The only time I _ever_ need to change the default install dir is when I have multiple partitions in my system (NT doesn't support a boot partition larger than 4G!!) and i constantly have to specify "D:" to install! In linux, if I have multiple drives or partitions, I mount them accordingly, and netscape goes where it should by default! It doesn't need to know or care what is happenning on the FS or hardware level.
Also, that "Last Known Good" hardware choice for NT has NEVER worked. I support 60 NT boxen, and 5 NT servers, and I have NEVER been able to get that to work. Even hardware profiles being created don't help, for some reason. And guess what Tech Support is gonna tell you to do?
And hopefully noone is an idiot enough to overwrite their old kernel without first booting to the new one...
I subscribe ot Cincinnati Bell's ADSL service, which has been down about 20% of the time. They refuse to give me a static IP, and I have to "login" to the service through a Javascript-enabled browser (not lynx). This means that IU have to launch XFree86 just to connect to the internet, atleast I get my own NAT. But the connection seems to drop for no reason (the "modem" has to retrain and connect), in the middle of downloads, and my line quality is great! For a solid week I got a "busy signal" on the DSL connection (the "modem" is actually a Cisco 675 router and I can telnet to it to check on things). They block incoming connections to the telnet port so I have to change that on my machine so that I can use it from work. Their intranet page is shockwave-enhanced and has _no_ content in the shockwave that is remotely usable, but I have to set it as my home page so that I can log in to the service. I signed a 12-month contract, and once it's up, I'm going with RoadRunner (from Time-Warner Cable). One good thing though-- last month they doubled the Base speed to 768Kb, and took $5 off the bill at the same time. Gotta like that...
If you're looking to build a workflow-type database application don't discount Lotus Notes/Domino. You can very quickly build applications to handle this and much more, and then port it straight to the web. It doesn't inherently use relational database structure, though that's possible to design as well. You're running NT, which Domino runs on, and Domino R5 Linux beta has been out for a while now. I've been running Domino on Linux at home for 3 weeks now. It hasn't died once. We use Domino at work, one server for internal, one for the web, and we can do _anything_ we've ever tried. Also, they're letting people download it for free for trial.
I agree completely, another example of technology that was designed to be "cost-effective" was USB. Firewire, as you know, is more expensive, but faster, along with a few other advantages.
And like many Americans, I've also been guilty of thinking that the US supplies the technology to the rest of the world. HA!
I have a friend who works for the WaterWorks in this city ("the best in the nation"). They, of course, run everything on NT and wrote it in VB. They are terribly buggy, and know it. However, three years ago, they looked at the sitiation and decided not to fix it. They will be going "manual" (and doubling their staff) in December. This means they will have hundreds of people in trucks running around the city turning on/off valves and checking gauges in closets all over the place. It is sickening that the government can get away with saying that this is "Y2K Preparedness" (which the city does) while every business has to provide real proof to their financial backers (you know, the banks) in order to keep their credit.
Yes-- it's a pretty inept point of paranoia
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Long, long ago, people actually used COBOL for something other than a conversation piece ("It took us 3 hours to add 2 and 2!") Anyway, back then, memory was expensive, and programmers thought up ways to use less of it. I don't quite know how shaving two digits off the date string would help, but apparently somebody thought so and did it (apparently!). Apparently some inept programmer(s) thought that since we won't ever have four 9's in a row, we'll just make that the end of file marker. This means that ANY information stored in a file that their program reads will stop at that point and not see any more data past that. Note that this means IN A FILE, READING IT. The "code" shouldn't stop, depending on where the EOF marker is found. If it is in the middle of the line, for instance, it could cause problems unless the program handles an exception like not having enough data in the string that was read. All up to the programmer. But also take note-- the date could be in the file at any time-- in fact, its more likely that a database will hold information for something in the future (an appointment, invoice, order ship date, etc.). That would have caused trouble last week, month, etc., not necessarily today! I think that this 9999 "bug" was thought up by someone in the press who at one time or another worked as a programmer in COBOL (can't imagine why he wouldn't be doing THAT anymore;). He said, "You know, I did it this way once... geez, everyone must have done it that way..." And so he told all his buddies, and they published it. Almost as stupid as the hoax going around that you must change Windoze "regional settings" so that the short date string has four digits of year displayed ("It's a STRING for _DISPLAY_, people!").
I mean really... Even if terrorists got pictures of some important place (c'mon, think of one...) how could that possibly give them an advantage? Surely someone out there has thought this through...
And as far as someone seeing you, I kinda think of 1-meter resolution as not very good. If you think about it: I'm standing in my front yard. Will the optics see the pick dot or will it see the green that takes up most of the space around me? Chances are it will see only brown (my lawn).
WebTV and MSN prove that point-- a company needs to branch out or completely change their business in order to stay alive. They are in software, hardward (keyboards, mice, cordless phones), online service, and probably a couple more broad categories I can't seem to think of. Not that they necessarily see the end of their OS reign (maybe they do), but they are smart enough to put an egg in every basket.
While I agree that an Code of Ethics needs to be applied in some way, a COE is an individual's responsibility to apply to themself. Once the government, or for that matter, any other party tries to enforce "ethics" it becomes Justice. Obviously ethics are more reliable than government's "justice."
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Yes-- private schools can be just as bad. A parent really has to be involved to make sure that their child isn't being indoctrinated against their wishes!
Coda: You're opinions are supposed to be backed up with a fact or two. How about telling us why the Church of Scientology would want to mislead anyone about the educational system? What reason do they have?
I personally don't give a flying fsck who published it as long as the research is there. The bibliography is in the back of the pamphlet.
Flying fsck-- that's when it's really fast?
I live in Ohio, which passed a law in 1996 that says I can refuse to have my SSN on my license. However, I got my license in 1995 (my first), and even when I got my copy (couple months ago), they showed me the law: I can't take it off of my license if I already had one.
To realize how stupid this is, think about the fact that the licenses are generated and printed on the fly in the office while you stand there. Why the hell won't they take it off for you? Anyone else have this situation?
"Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable...of thinking or acting otherwise than their schoolmasters would have wished." --Bertrand Russell
Who do you think runs those schools, and for that matter, the whole system?
Check it out: http://children.cchr.org/eng/pdf/chil dren.pdf
The only time I _ever_ need to change the default install dir is when I have multiple partitions in my system (NT doesn't support a boot partition larger than 4G!!) and i constantly have to specify "D:" to install!
In linux, if I have multiple drives or partitions, I mount them accordingly, and netscape goes where it should by default! It doesn't need to know or care what is happenning on the FS or hardware level.
Also, that "Last Known Good" hardware choice for NT has NEVER worked. I support 60 NT boxen, and 5 NT servers, and I have NEVER been able to get that to work. Even hardware profiles being created don't help, for some reason. And guess what Tech Support is gonna tell you to do?
And hopefully noone is an idiot enough to overwrite their old kernel without first booting to the new one...
I subscribe ot Cincinnati Bell's ADSL service, which has been down about 20% of the time. They refuse to give me a static IP, and I have to "login" to the service through a Javascript-enabled browser (not lynx). This means that IU have to launch XFree86 just to connect to the internet, atleast I get my own NAT.
But the connection seems to drop for no reason (the "modem" has to retrain and connect), in the middle of downloads, and my line quality is great! For a solid week I got a "busy signal" on the DSL connection (the "modem" is actually a Cisco 675 router and I can telnet to it to check on things). They block incoming connections to the telnet port so I have to change that on my machine so that I can use it from work.
Their intranet page is shockwave-enhanced and has _no_ content in the shockwave that is remotely usable, but I have to set it as my home page so that I can log in to the service.
I signed a 12-month contract, and once it's up, I'm going with RoadRunner (from Time-Warner Cable). One good thing though-- last month they doubled the Base speed to 768Kb, and took $5 off the bill at the same time. Gotta like that...
If you're looking to build a workflow-type database application don't discount Lotus Notes/Domino. You can very quickly build applications to handle this and much more, and then port it straight to the web. It doesn't inherently use relational database structure, though that's possible to design as well.
You're running NT, which Domino runs on, and Domino R5 Linux beta has been out for a while now.
I've been running Domino on Linux at home for 3 weeks now. It hasn't died once. We use Domino at work, one server for internal, one for the web, and we can do _anything_ we've ever tried.
Also, they're letting people download it for free for trial.
I agree completely, another example of technology that was designed to be "cost-effective" was USB. Firewire, as you know, is more expensive, but faster, along with a few other advantages.
And like many Americans, I've also been guilty of thinking that the US supplies the technology to the rest of the world. HA!
I have a friend who works for the WaterWorks in this city ("the best in the nation"). They, of course, run everything on NT and wrote it in VB. They are terribly buggy, and know it. However, three years ago, they looked at the sitiation and decided not to fix it. They will be going "manual" (and doubling their staff) in December. This means they will have hundreds of people in trucks running around the city turning on/off valves and checking gauges in closets all over the place.
It is sickening that the government can get away with saying that this is "Y2K Preparedness" (which the city does) while every business has to provide real proof to their financial backers (you know, the banks) in order to keep their credit.
Long, long ago, people actually used COBOL for something other than a conversation piece ("It took us 3 hours to add 2 and 2!") Anyway, back then, memory was expensive, and programmers thought up ways to use less of it. I don't quite know how shaving two digits off the date string would help, but apparently somebody thought so and did it (apparently!). ;). He said, "You know, I did it this way once... geez, everyone must have done it that way..." And so he told all his buddies, and they published it.
Apparently some inept programmer(s) thought that since we won't ever have four 9's in a row, we'll just make that the end of file marker. This means that ANY information stored in a file that their program reads will stop at that point and not see any more data past that. Note that this means IN A FILE, READING IT. The "code" shouldn't stop, depending on where the EOF marker is found. If it is in the middle of the line, for instance, it could cause problems unless the program handles an exception like not having enough data in the string that was read. All up to the programmer. But also take note-- the date could be in the file at any time-- in fact, its more likely that a database will hold information for something in the future (an appointment, invoice, order ship date, etc.). That would have caused trouble last week, month, etc., not necessarily today!
I think that this 9999 "bug" was thought up by someone in the press who at one time or another worked as a programmer in COBOL (can't imagine why he wouldn't be doing THAT anymore
Almost as stupid as the hoax going around that you must change Windoze "regional settings" so that the short date string has four digits of year displayed ("It's a STRING for _DISPLAY_, people!").
I mean really... Even if terrorists got pictures of some important place (c'mon, think of one...) how could that possibly give them an advantage?
Surely someone out there has thought this through...
And as far as someone seeing you, I kinda think of 1-meter resolution as not very good. If you think about it: I'm standing in my front yard. Will the optics see the pick dot or will it see the green that takes up most of the space around me? Chances are it will see only brown (my lawn).
WebTV and MSN prove that point-- a company needs to branch out or completely change their business in order to stay alive. They are in software, hardward (keyboards, mice, cordless phones), online service, and probably a couple more broad categories I can't seem to think of.
Not that they necessarily see the end of their OS reign (maybe they do), but they are smart enough to put an egg in every basket.
MS-bashing is an art.
While I agree that an Code of Ethics needs to be applied in some way, a COE is an individual's responsibility to apply to themself. Once the government, or for that matter, any other party tries to enforce "ethics" it becomes Justice. Obviously ethics are more reliable than government's "justice."