Don't worry too much about the software. When I was in high school we were taught WordPerfect because that is what business used. Don't see that around, yet most of my classmates have adopted.
I'd more worry that they are teaching your kids to make terrible presentations, than that they are teaching any particular software.
Where did this come from? TCP/IP on Windows NT (starting in 92 at least) was a core part of the OS. I specifically remember that TCP/IP for Win 3.x was free. WTF are you talking about?
Anyone remember when NT was released? My recollection of 92 is that OS/2 was significant in the PC multi-tasking world (though Desqview was dominate), and NT wasn't released until latter, but I don't recall when. In any case 3.1 never had TCP/IP from microsoft. FTP software, humminbird, and several others had WinSock clients that you could use if you wanted TCP/IP, but they typically charged $79.99. (Trumpet had the home market, IIRC they were shareware)
Back when this could possibly have been true the corporate standards on Windows were cc:Mail and Netware-based products. Eudora and Pegasus have never actually had any meaningful market share.
Microsoft mail was big too. You paid big bucks if you wanted to connect any of them to the internet though. Not that most companies cared about the internet yet. There were only a couple years between exchange and outlook where people cared about the internet.
We don't give the disabled access to everything. Case in point: you do not see wheel chair bound workers placing the I beams of skyscrappers.
We provide the disabled access where it is feasible. I know many hard of hearing (and a few deaf) people, and the majority are otherwise normal smart people. They can function in society with just a little help. Now I have a choice: I can give them money for food each day, or I can pay for a few things like TTY operators and let them then earn their living. The latter is cheaper, and gets beggars off the streets. (I prefer to leave that room for musicans who provide me a service in return for my money)
Now there are also those who are deaf because of mental problems. That is a different situation. I'd prefer them off the streets though, (They would freeze in our winters) and most in limited ways are interesting people. We support them because it is the right thing. We give them TTY because it is not only cheaper than supporting them right out, but it lets them do something useful.
Can you blame the voters? Something has to keep the city in line.
This is a sore subject with me now, the local city is trying to annex my land into the city. My taxes would then go up 7 times!, and so far all they can say I would get is the local sheriff (no city police force) would drive by my house a little more often. They might give me city sewer and water (which would be nice, but it is unlikely) but that would be at an extra cost. What it really comes down to is they put in community center and replaced a few roads, and now they want me to pay for it.
Well if he really does drive a '96 camaro (or any other sporty car), particularly if it is red, odds are the cops are pulling him out of the crowd more often than the average car.
Even if not though, there are only so many cops, so they are not on every area. Even if a cop decides to target one area, he can write out perhaps 1 ticket ever 5 minutes, but in that time thousands of cars can go by. If nearly all cars are going faster than the speed limit, which is a typical situation, odds are the cop won't pull over any one despite working as many as he can. Even if you have a major speed trap with 10 cops at a time pulling cars over, the majority will get through the speed trap just because all cops are busy at the time.
I don't know why it is law, but I do know that there is a good mechanical reason. The pilot bearing in the clutch only wears when the pedal is pushed in. When the pedal is out there is no wear and the bearing lasts longer.
I know that I've worn out two pilot bearings in my lifetime, both after more than 100,000 miles, and in both cases the clutch itself still has plenty of surface. I try to use every trick I can to save that part because experience has shown that at least for me it is the part most likely to break.
I believe I have made more left turns on red than right turns on red. For a couple years my normal route included a one-way to one-way left turn, and it normally happened that I could make a left turn as soon as I got there, without waiting for the light to change. (3 lane road, and most traffic was in the right lane preparing to turn right a block ahead). Normally and perfectly safe if you know what you are doing.
Personally I think that a red light should only signal you don't have right of way. If you come to a red light and nobody is coming you should be allowed to go (after a full stop) without waiting for the light to change.
That line has been on my tax return for as long as I can remember. Of course when I first started doing taxes we didn't have internet sales, and it was intended to only apply to mail order stuff. I don't know anyone who put anything in that line back then, and I don't see any reason to expect that to change now that internet sales should be added in as well.
The NSA is the largest hirer of math majors. The NSA is mostly interested in encryption. A custom computer is not nearly as good as an algorithm breakthrough, though the computer is obviously creatable (or not creatable depending on the requirements). We know the NSA is doing algorithm research, but because they are not talking we don't know what or how much.
Back in the '70s IBM developed DES, and it was proposed that it become the national standard for encryption. In the process the NSA got involved and told IBM to make some changes, IBM did, but didn't understand why. About 10 years latter differential cryptanalysis was developed, and it turns out that the changes the NSA requested made DES much more secure than the original design, just because of resistance to differential cryptanalysis.
Many researchers believe that with recent private interest in cryptography the gap has been closed. However we do not know that. In any case, the NSA know everything universities know, but they do not contribute back.
The actual flight will take place on July 2nd, 2004, but they will wait to release that information until July 4th.
For those outside the US: the U.S decleration of independance was adopted on July 2nd, 1776, but not actually ratified until the 4th. (It is slightly more complex than that, read the link)
Why do I need cheap access to space? If you gave me a cable that worked for a space elevator, but the only material that would work resulted in a cable that required something with twice the power of the Saturn V, I'd jump at it despite having to hire rocket scientists to design and build the thing. (Assume that the plan of dropping a small cable to pull the big one up turns out not to work for whatever reason).
Once I get a cable in place, all launches are cheap. I can undercut anyone with a conventional rocket, and still make money, despite my high initial costs. I'll just spread those costs out over 50 years.
Mind I will be very careful to make sure that if you want to compete with me, you have to build your own rocket because there is no way I could compete with you taking your cable up on my elevator.
Just get me a cable. The rest is easy. (Easy as in we already have the technical know-how to do it. Not as in any fool can do it)
Fortunately US pilots have a tradition of experimental planes, and a regulation to place them under. Not everything needed to get into space, but you can work under those rules to do a lot of test flights before you have to get into untested regulatory waters.
Mind you would be a fool to start with an experimental plane classification and give no hints that you intend to reach farther. Regulators do not like it when you surprise them. However you can work with them in well understood areas, while making it clear you intend to go farther.
Still if you are in the US and interested you should write your congressmen. (all 3, house and senate) Nothing greases the wheels for those doing better than congress leaning on the regulators to make it easy.
If you need powered aluminum, I can get you plenty. All my neighbors drink pop from cans (I'm the strange one on the block who can't stand soda) and most throw them away. Cans are about as pure aluminum as you can get, so I'll just powder them, and then sell to you.
Okay, so I'll burn the paint off too, and if you like I will use electrolysis to get rid of the Al oxide.
I disagree that private citizen are interested in the health of the forest. Some are, but a large number have been swayed by activists into supporting a position that isn't for the health of the forest. In many cases the result of what these "private citizens" want is more harmful to industry than helpful to the forest.
There are however many different forests, and each is different so it is unfair to everyone to talk about general cases and assume they apply to all. Just beware of the above when looking at the issues.
BTW, Loggers are private citizens too. As are the people who buy the products built with lumber cut from forests. Both have an equal share of rights to these trees.
No it is not clear. If anything/.ers are libertarians where something they enjoy is being infringed on, while very for regulations that affect others. Throw in a large amount of "Give everyone welfare, but don't make me pay for it." In other words just like everyone else in the world. Individuals of course run the whole spectrum of political opinion, and a few are even able to recognize the inconsistencies of their views.
Last presidential election the Nadir supports got a lot of voice, then Gore people. There was a small minority of people talking about Browne (? wasn't he the libertarian candidate?) and seemingly less Bush fans. Nadir and Gore are not compatable with a libertarian viewpoint, (though some fans re unable to recognize this because they have a few libertarian tendencies that were masked. Bush pretended to represent a closer view, but I don't think anyone really believed it, he hasn't lived up to it.
The bands I like have no advertising, buy their own food, room, and board, and travel expenses. Generally they do it to enjoy being with friends, and make enough from the gigs to pay for expenses and a new instrument from time to time. No Music videos, photographers is the wives/husbands/friends. They do pay the engineer, as part of renting the studio.
Though the bands I like get by on talent, not adversing. They also don't get much airtime, in many cases I've never heard them on the radio. Somehow they still get $16 for a CD though.:( Though at least I know that it is a self produced album and they are getting a lot more per sale.
The "Indians" used to manage the forests by burning. Today forest fires are taboo, so we have to manage them other ways. Of course before that lightening set fires once in a while to clear the forests.
Mind as the other poster pointed out, there are many different forests, and all need different management. I'd tend to trust forest managers who have at least studied biology more than activists who general have not. Though the above is clearly not that case in all situations. Trees are a renewable resource, and properly managed cutting is not a problem.
What privacy issues? The usher answers the phone "theater for john doe, would you like to leave a message or should I get him?" (Or something to that effect) Sure it is a private call, but that doesn't mean the phone answerer needs to be told anything more than "This is an urgent matter than needs his attention now". In any case all the people around the doctor will hear a lot of private information if he answers, while the usher can be assumed to be a little more discrete, if only cause it is just one person. (Who also has made it clear he isn't the doctor)
I don't go to movies, but every theater I've been to (with real actors), they informed us that there were usher willing to hold your phone and answer it for you.
Forests are managed, if you do not management correctly they become overgrown, which is not healthy. Thus if you are not going to cut the trees, you need to find some other way to get rid of the old growth so new trees can grow.
I interned at a company that made routers[1], and one of the big customers was the IRS. All the engineers joked that they wished they had known in advance so they could put backdoors in. Of course we didn't actually know the data formats (and at the datarates were are talking about, capturing isn't exactly feasible...) so it couldn't be done, but trust me, if you ever find that your code is being used by the IRS you too will be joking that you should have put a backdoor in.
[1]Router in the sense that one of the optional modules you could buy was support for this protocol that a few academics were using called IP. Nobody in the real world used it at the time, as the mainframe didn't support it. Soon after IPX (Novel) came to dominate the market for routers, latter replaced by IP.
Well technically it wouldn't be a layover anyway, as the airline didn't offer that. My sister just noted that she had that option after not liking the rate for the direct flight and comparing that to the MSP/paris rate. We are pretty sure that the Paris/DC flight would be about the same price, and thus the total cheaper.
There are more than 100 different medical problems that the lower arm/wrist/hands can have. What will solve one problem may make a different one worse. You have to find what works for you. The ideas that others have poster may help. If your case is bad enough a good doctor might be able to help too.
Some things that might help (in addition to what others have said): learn piano. Seriously, a good piano teacher will sit over you with a ruler and give you a good whack every time your poster gets off, take these habits to the computer and you better off. Note too that musicans have been facing problems like this for years (hundreds if not thousands), so if after getting the advice of your piano teacher it doesn't go away, you they can often recommend doctors who know more about this type of problem than the average doctor.
Get a big trackball and place it on the floor. Rig up some foot pedals (at least for the left button...), and train your feet to do the work. You will still need a mouse for precision work, but this can take a lot of load off your hands.
Stretch. Search the web and you will come up with a bunch of hand stretches. I find they help me, they might help you.
Get in shape. Exercise can help in surprising ways, so if you are not in shape do it.
Take a vacation. When my wrist problems got the worst, nothing was helping. After a week in the backcountry in a canoe I came back with no pain. All those tricks I was doing before prevented the problems from coming back. I needed time to heal though before they would work.
Remember, nobody here is a medical doctor. Seek professional help if you need it. If things are getting worse stop.
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Cause he broke them in anger. Latter he carved copies of the originals. I'm not sure what happened to them.
Don't worry too much about the software. When I was in high school we were taught WordPerfect because that is what business used. Don't see that around, yet most of my classmates have adopted.
I'd more worry that they are teaching your kids to make terrible presentations, than that they are teaching any particular software.
Where did this come from? TCP/IP on Windows NT (starting in 92 at least) was a core part of the OS. I specifically remember that TCP/IP for Win 3.x was free. WTF are you talking about?
Anyone remember when NT was released? My recollection of 92 is that OS/2 was significant in the PC multi-tasking world (though Desqview was dominate), and NT wasn't released until latter, but I don't recall when. In any case 3.1 never had TCP/IP from microsoft. FTP software, humminbird, and several others had WinSock clients that you could use if you wanted TCP/IP, but they typically charged $79.99. (Trumpet had the home market, IIRC they were shareware)
Back when this could possibly have been true the corporate standards on Windows were cc:Mail and Netware-based products. Eudora and Pegasus have never actually had any meaningful market share.
Microsoft mail was big too. You paid big bucks if you wanted to connect any of them to the internet though. Not that most companies cared about the internet yet. There were only a couple years between exchange and outlook where people cared about the internet.
We don't give the disabled access to everything. Case in point: you do not see wheel chair bound workers placing the I beams of skyscrappers.
We provide the disabled access where it is feasible. I know many hard of hearing (and a few deaf) people, and the majority are otherwise normal smart people. They can function in society with just a little help. Now I have a choice: I can give them money for food each day, or I can pay for a few things like TTY operators and let them then earn their living. The latter is cheaper, and gets beggars off the streets. (I prefer to leave that room for musicans who provide me a service in return for my money)
Now there are also those who are deaf because of mental problems. That is a different situation. I'd prefer them off the streets though, (They would freeze in our winters) and most in limited ways are interesting people. We support them because it is the right thing. We give them TTY because it is not only cheaper than supporting them right out, but it lets them do something useful.
Can you blame the voters? Something has to keep the city in line.
This is a sore subject with me now, the local city is trying to annex my land into the city. My taxes would then go up 7 times!, and so far all they can say I would get is the local sheriff (no city police force) would drive by my house a little more often. They might give me city sewer and water (which would be nice, but it is unlikely) but that would be at an extra cost. What it really comes down to is they put in community center and replaced a few roads, and now they want me to pay for it.
Well if he really does drive a '96 camaro (or any other sporty car), particularly if it is red, odds are the cops are pulling him out of the crowd more often than the average car.
Even if not though, there are only so many cops, so they are not on every area. Even if a cop decides to target one area, he can write out perhaps 1 ticket ever 5 minutes, but in that time thousands of cars can go by. If nearly all cars are going faster than the speed limit, which is a typical situation, odds are the cop won't pull over any one despite working as many as he can. Even if you have a major speed trap with 10 cops at a time pulling cars over, the majority will get through the speed trap just because all cops are busy at the time.
I don't know why it is law, but I do know that there is a good mechanical reason. The pilot bearing in the clutch only wears when the pedal is pushed in. When the pedal is out there is no wear and the bearing lasts longer.
I know that I've worn out two pilot bearings in my lifetime, both after more than 100,000 miles, and in both cases the clutch itself still has plenty of surface. I try to use every trick I can to save that part because experience has shown that at least for me it is the part most likely to break.
I believe I have made more left turns on red than right turns on red. For a couple years my normal route included a one-way to one-way left turn, and it normally happened that I could make a left turn as soon as I got there, without waiting for the light to change. (3 lane road, and most traffic was in the right lane preparing to turn right a block ahead). Normally and perfectly safe if you know what you are doing.
Personally I think that a red light should only signal you don't have right of way. If you come to a red light and nobody is coming you should be allowed to go (after a full stop) without waiting for the light to change.
That line has been on my tax return for as long as I can remember. Of course when I first started doing taxes we didn't have internet sales, and it was intended to only apply to mail order stuff. I don't know anyone who put anything in that line back then, and I don't see any reason to expect that to change now that internet sales should be added in as well.
The NSA is the largest hirer of math majors. The NSA is mostly interested in encryption. A custom computer is not nearly as good as an algorithm breakthrough, though the computer is obviously creatable (or not creatable depending on the requirements). We know the NSA is doing algorithm research, but because they are not talking we don't know what or how much.
Back in the '70s IBM developed DES, and it was proposed that it become the national standard for encryption. In the process the NSA got involved and told IBM to make some changes, IBM did, but didn't understand why. About 10 years latter differential cryptanalysis was developed, and it turns out that the changes the NSA requested made DES much more secure than the original design, just because of resistance to differential cryptanalysis.
Many researchers believe that with recent private interest in cryptography the gap has been closed. However we do not know that. In any case, the NSA know everything universities know, but they do not contribute back.
The actual flight will take place on July 2nd, 2004, but they will wait to release that information until July 4th.
For those outside the US: the U.S decleration of independance was adopted on July 2nd, 1776, but not actually ratified until the 4th. (It is slightly more complex than that, read the link)
Why do I need cheap access to space? If you gave me a cable that worked for a space elevator, but the only material that would work resulted in a cable that required something with twice the power of the Saturn V, I'd jump at it despite having to hire rocket scientists to design and build the thing. (Assume that the plan of dropping a small cable to pull the big one up turns out not to work for whatever reason).
Once I get a cable in place, all launches are cheap. I can undercut anyone with a conventional rocket, and still make money, despite my high initial costs. I'll just spread those costs out over 50 years.
Mind I will be very careful to make sure that if you want to compete with me, you have to build your own rocket because there is no way I could compete with you taking your cable up on my elevator.
Just get me a cable. The rest is easy. (Easy as in we already have the technical know-how to do it. Not as in any fool can do it)
Fortunately US pilots have a tradition of experimental planes, and a regulation to place them under. Not everything needed to get into space, but you can work under those rules to do a lot of test flights before you have to get into untested regulatory waters.
Mind you would be a fool to start with an experimental plane classification and give no hints that you intend to reach farther. Regulators do not like it when you surprise them. However you can work with them in well understood areas, while making it clear you intend to go farther.
Still if you are in the US and interested you should write your congressmen. (all 3, house and senate) Nothing greases the wheels for those doing better than congress leaning on the regulators to make it easy.
If you need powered aluminum, I can get you plenty. All my neighbors drink pop from cans (I'm the strange one on the block who can't stand soda) and most throw them away. Cans are about as pure aluminum as you can get, so I'll just powder them, and then sell to you.
Okay, so I'll burn the paint off too, and if you like I will use electrolysis to get rid of the Al oxide.
I disagree that private citizen are interested in the health of the forest. Some are, but a large number have been swayed by activists into supporting a position that isn't for the health of the forest. In many cases the result of what these "private citizens" want is more harmful to industry than helpful to the forest.
There are however many different forests, and each is different so it is unfair to everyone to talk about general cases and assume they apply to all. Just beware of the above when looking at the issues.
BTW, Loggers are private citizens too. As are the people who buy the products built with lumber cut from forests. Both have an equal share of rights to these trees.
No it is not clear. If anything /.ers are libertarians where something they enjoy is being infringed on, while very for regulations that affect others. Throw in a large amount of "Give everyone welfare, but don't make me pay for it." In other words just like everyone else in the world. Individuals of course run the whole spectrum of political opinion, and a few are even able to recognize the inconsistencies of their views.
Last presidential election the Nadir supports got a lot of voice, then Gore people. There was a small minority of people talking about Browne (? wasn't he the libertarian candidate?) and seemingly less Bush fans. Nadir and Gore are not compatable with a libertarian viewpoint, (though some fans re unable to recognize this because they have a few libertarian tendencies that were masked. Bush pretended to represent a closer view, but I don't think anyone really believed it, he hasn't lived up to it.
The bands I like have no advertising, buy their own food, room, and board, and travel expenses. Generally they do it to enjoy being with friends, and make enough from the gigs to pay for expenses and a new instrument from time to time. No Music videos, photographers is the wives/husbands/friends. They do pay the engineer, as part of renting the studio.
Though the bands I like get by on talent, not adversing. They also don't get much airtime, in many cases I've never heard them on the radio. Somehow they still get $16 for a CD though. :( Though at least I know that it is a self produced album and they are getting a lot more per sale.
The "Indians" used to manage the forests by burning. Today forest fires are taboo, so we have to manage them other ways. Of course before that lightening set fires once in a while to clear the forests.
Mind as the other poster pointed out, there are many different forests, and all need different management. I'd tend to trust forest managers who have at least studied biology more than activists who general have not. Though the above is clearly not that case in all situations. Trees are a renewable resource, and properly managed cutting is not a problem.
See the other post: leave that phone/pager with the usher outside the theator.
What privacy issues? The usher answers the phone "theater for john doe, would you like to leave a message or should I get him?" (Or something to that effect) Sure it is a private call, but that doesn't mean the phone answerer needs to be told anything more than "This is an urgent matter than needs his attention now". In any case all the people around the doctor will hear a lot of private information if he answers, while the usher can be assumed to be a little more discrete, if only cause it is just one person. (Who also has made it clear he isn't the doctor)
I don't go to movies, but every theater I've been to (with real actors), they informed us that there were usher willing to hold your phone and answer it for you.
Forests are managed, if you do not management correctly they become overgrown, which is not healthy. Thus if you are not going to cut the trees, you need to find some other way to get rid of the old growth so new trees can grow.
Shhh... Don't tell anyone else about this. I just scored a model M, and I have hopes of another.
I interned at a company that made routers[1], and one of the big customers was the IRS. All the engineers joked that they wished they had known in advance so they could put backdoors in. Of course we didn't actually know the data formats (and at the datarates were are talking about, capturing isn't exactly feasible...) so it couldn't be done, but trust me, if you ever find that your code is being used by the IRS you too will be joking that you should have put a backdoor in.
[1]Router in the sense that one of the optional modules you could buy was support for this protocol that a few academics were using called IP. Nobody in the real world used it at the time, as the mainframe didn't support it. Soon after IPX (Novel) came to dominate the market for routers, latter replaced by IP.
Well technically it wouldn't be a layover anyway, as the airline didn't offer that. My sister just noted that she had that option after not liking the rate for the direct flight and comparing that to the MSP/paris rate. We are pretty sure that the Paris/DC flight would be about the same price, and thus the total cheaper.
There are more than 100 different medical problems that the lower arm/wrist/hands can have. What will solve one problem may make a different one worse. You have to find what works for you. The ideas that others have poster may help. If your case is bad enough a good doctor might be able to help too.
Some things that might help (in addition to what others have said): learn piano. Seriously, a good piano teacher will sit over you with a ruler and give you a good whack every time your poster gets off, take these habits to the computer and you better off. Note too that musicans have been facing problems like this for years (hundreds if not thousands), so if after getting the advice of your piano teacher it doesn't go away, you they can often recommend doctors who know more about this type of problem than the average doctor.
Get a big trackball and place it on the floor. Rig up some foot pedals (at least for the left button...), and train your feet to do the work. You will still need a mouse for precision work, but this can take a lot of load off your hands.
Stretch. Search the web and you will come up with a bunch of hand stretches. I find they help me, they might help you.
Get in shape. Exercise can help in surprising ways, so if you are not in shape do it.
Take a vacation. When my wrist problems got the worst, nothing was helping. After a week in the backcountry in a canoe I came back with no pain. All those tricks I was doing before prevented the problems from coming back. I needed time to heal though before they would work.
Remember, nobody here is a medical doctor. Seek professional help if you need it. If things are getting worse stop.