Yes I'm one of those "Relics" that used VAX..So wot ? I've been pounding keyboards and circuits since '88, seen digital get in bed with Intel (Alpha research) and Microsoft (NT Is VAX)...So of course, I have to say a few words.... Vista is so different from all other releases from M$, but if I have to go into a rant why then there's no point. Our department (read Government) is still on 2000 for stations (thousands) and have migrated to 2003 servers. And that's the way it's going to be for at least the next five years (yes you read it right). No one has written up the business case for XP on the workstations yet, but XP it will be, not Vista. There is a plethora of ways of gaining the slight advantages that Vista promises, without all the heartaches... There's just no way to read on about Vista without getting down right disgusted at some point.... I'll run it to support the clients I keep after five, but it isn't going to be any pleasure.... I'll keep my Linux/XP/Dos Home office clean of Vista except for one box(legit) and laugh (cry?) every time it crashes something I've grown used to, or still need. If this is the future of PC computing, then count Me as one of the nerds going underground.
Why all these exploits now with applications that have been around for over seven years ??!! I mean if the latest version of word had a newly discovered bug, ok...move along, nothing to see here... But an exploit that can affect all three version of word (2000, 2002,2003)??!! Oh sorry, up to three now aren't we....in the same month....
I smell a rat... And I'll notice the Tail when Word 2007 is declared void of these exploits.. Call me paranoid, but at least just call me... I'm glad I no longer work as MS Phone Support....
What we need now is the Stories of the Orion Combines! Just think how many Booty Shots we can get into an episode!! And they don't ALL have to be of voluptuous green booty either. All the colours man!
How about this, Episode 1, an Orion Slaveship, piloted by scantily clad Vulcans chickos blow away the Enterprise J ?! They beam aboard the Captain, who thinks he's been Attacked by the Intergalactic Hooters....
Merry Christmas Charlie Brown The world is filled with winners and whiners.. I'll settle for my blanket...with a warm cup of coco in the corner... And hopefully THIS year what Goes around will COME around...
Doesn't this business owner have better things to do than blame some guy who's GOOD at what what he does ?! Like advertising ??!!
Blame the other guy and move along...nothing to see here...
I've read all I can on this Lomborg fellow... The short list : Biography: Bjørn Lomborg, born January 6 1965. M.A. in political science (Cand.scient.pol.) 1991. Ph.D. at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. 1994. Assistant professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, 1994-1996. Associate professor same place, 1997-2005. Director of Denmark's national Environmental Assessment Institute February 2002-July 2004. Organizer of the Copenhagen Consensus May 2004, prioritizing the best opportunities to the world's big challenges. Adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School 2005-. Director for the Copenhagen Consensus Center 2006-.
His Views on the Environment do not interest me, as they would be biased beyond belief. Why don't we get the Environmental scientist to lead the charge instead of some Politico ??!! Might as well argue about Evolution.....
I'll still hope that it goes the way of Microsoft Bob... Even if it's Microsoft's "Only" failure;) Now if they can just give us a better filesystem as promised instead of indexing the crap out of our HDD's (yeah I know it's not shipping with it yet...)
Thanx, One out three....;-) I wonder where they get their stats...but the stats for Vista aren't out and won't be out for a long time.... Johnny fivebucks won't have the money this year to buy that new fangled PC that some of us already have "Vista Ready"...
And they weren't working for MS when I kept getting calls asking me how to install 98SE on a 95/98/ME/2000 PC. Vista is going to make waves.....Nuff said.
"While there is no way that Vista will be a flop, since all new computers will come with Vista pre-installed"
Right, I've never bought a New PC and wiped it....never.. EVEN if it came with XP Home and I had three Full XP Pro licenses, I would STILL use the crappy install that came with the PC as installed by the OEM... Riiiiiiiiiight !
SO I guess what you are saying is that just because it will be shipped out with XXX number of PC's, they will be counting those as successes ??!! Riiiiiiiiiight !
I don't mean to be selfish here but there are other factors as well... Leading here on Rogers is the Mail servers being switched over to Yahoo... We all know what kind of privacy policy THEY have don't we..... I NEVER got spam before this, and then I started getting fifteen a day... Now It's between twenty to forty a day...thank god for filters but what about the bandwith it's wasting ?! I'm seriously considering sending them a charge for sending me this unsolicitated e-mail from their Parent/child spam companies...I complained of course back then, and got the usual "do this to help protect yourself"... But what happens when your ISP is the main factor in your e-mail addy being passed around ?!
Funny you should say that, but the first round of questions that the interrogator asks are meant for you to LIE, to see the difference, and I actually found it amusing.... But I don't comment here to sing to the quire. I was nervous and WAS afraid and quite frankly the details of where when and why are better kept to myself. The Polygraph is a useful tool, period. Nothing is infallible. But such is our world. Better this than nothing at all. The Farking Glass IS half FULL !!!!! Cheers !
Oh why must I wait until I'm forced into retirement for Nukem but have to support in the very near future a crowd of "Vistaneers"(TM)?!
Again my phone will bludgeon my ears with stories of woe from clients who should have spent the money on new PC's for Vista but went ahead anyways and upgraded their OS instead, and now will want me to "fix it".
Maybe after all these years, Vista will be my call to better my golf game. But I will feel guilty about these clients left in the hands of the "Geek Squads"...
You're right of course, the project management team would see it that way... Some bugs are expected, some are show stoppers...in this case..someone made a choice. And I'm surprised your pie comment doesn't get you a troll rating...
Just goes to show how going for the lowest bid on a contract screws everything up. That's barely ten lines of code no matter what language you want it in... Sloppy, dreadful, and as I like to say, "You get what you pay for"...
(Does anyone remember the multi thousand dollar toilet seat for the US Navy ?)
In this case, a setback sending 1970's technology into space...... About time the new vehicle gets rolled out. Maybe we can get Timex to code it in...
Again with the Insane in the Membrane ideas.... Just goes to prove having a PHD isn't all its cracked up to be...Ruin the planet, refuse to stop and then reach for a solution that has nothing to do with the problem.... The last thing we need is billions of "space debris" floating around up there. There's no conceivable way we'll ever be able to control, track and explain why space travel ended because of an error which cause our ionosphere to be "mined". Am I the only one that sees a sea of fast moving particles.... (read debris from silly project)... Sometimes I really wonder if they just release these stories to get us going. The general public has no idea how many dangerous hair brain ideas get tossed around every year by their respective governments...
There's nothing crackpot about it..... The main determination is never made by the machine, it simply registers changes in your metabolism...every security agency STILL uses it when agents come back in from the field...it IS science, but calling it a "lie detector" can be considered nonsense...it's called a POLYGRAPH.
The interrogator is the main component of that scenario that determines if you're trying to hide something. I suggest that unless you've gone through one (Yes, twice, passed) and studied the "science" behind the procedure you might want to hold off on further comments....
I could wish that we could enlighten the world in one fell swoop.. Ain't going to happen...psychotic apes act like psychotic apes do...
The problem here is that it doesn't matter...it's been going on for years... The State uses propaganda to disseminate its will unto its people...so what? It plays both sides of the fence, they see you coming and get you going... There are moles and traitors in every group...polarize an issue and you'll never get a resolution that the constitution supposes protects... Maybe we should try and get a count of how many trolls on/. are On some payroll to help lessen the influence a blog like this can have On public opinion and voters in general (think I'm kidding?)
Putting an official face on the Thought Police will only make it worse... And contradicting them will bring, will bring..huh, who's going to trust the Pentagon's redactions ??!! Hold on...is it April 1st and no one told moi ?
I guess you're part of the identity crisis I keep hearing about when they compare us to the states. If you actually liked Canadian history, you wouldn't have been so impolite. The rest of us Canucks have to apologize for this young man's lack of netiquette here.
"O Canada" was proclaimed Canada's national anthem on July 1, 1980, 100 years after it was first sung on June 24, 1880.
The first performance took place on June 24 (St Jean Baptist Day), 1880 at a banquet in the "Pavillon des Patineurs" in Quebec City as the climax of a "Mosaique sur des airs populaires canadiens" arranged by Joseph Vezina, a prominent composer and bandmaster.
The music was composed by Calixa Lavallee, a well-known composer; French lyrics to accompany the music were written by Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier. The song gained steadily in popularity. Many English versions have appeared over the years. The version on which the official English lyrics are based was written in 1908 by Mr. Justice Robert Stanley Weir. The official English version includes changes recommended in 1968 by a Special Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons. The French lyrics remain unaltered.
"violently annexed in a depressingly short amount of time (and our supplies of uranium, oil, fresh water and lumber might make us a delectable target), "
Where were you when they passed the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) aggreements ?! They already took our fuel and power resource reserves... there's not much else left but our health system and our Flag... They just walked in as Politicians do. Happy Cinquo de mayo !
Who said anything about socialists ?! Why is everything always left or right in the USA ? Being with the USA or against the USA ? The Capitalists or the commies ? Life brings a lot more diversity than just Republicans and Democrats.... We can have different views from the current "US Reperesentatives and leaders" and still not have ill will towards them.... But don't tell anyboday else ok ? wouldn't want to get shot over here....
Gotta catch a plane back to Canada now;-) Cheers !
Sure, Another Pearl Harbour... The Prez at the time will send away most of the space fleet, Some space admirals will resign.. The Prez will ignore new "space age" radars and reports that a fleet of ships were downed just around the moon previously while obviously doing recon... and, oh yeah and that strange communique from the other fleet's admirals saying they are on their way...
Seriously though, thinking about space war at this point is ridiculus...You have to get the hardware and troops up there in mass quantities first, then it's who shoots first...the one with the most "smart rock" cannons wins !
Move along.... Nothing to see here... If you knew why you were here you'd know what to do.... What happens here stays here, and then travels all around the world.... Move along....
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Yes I'm one of those "Relics" that used VAX..So wot ?
I've been pounding keyboards and circuits since '88, seen digital get in bed with Intel (Alpha research)
and Microsoft (NT Is VAX)...So of course, I have to say a few words....
Vista is so different from all other releases from M$, but if I have to go into a rant why then there's no point.
Our department (read Government) is still on 2000 for stations (thousands) and have migrated to 2003 servers.
And that's the way it's going to be for at least the next five years (yes you read it right).
No one has written up the business case for XP on the workstations yet, but XP it will be, not Vista.
There is a plethora of ways of gaining the slight advantages that Vista promises, without all the heartaches...
There's just no way to read on about Vista without getting down right disgusted at some point....
I'll run it to support the clients I keep after five, but it isn't going to be any pleasure....
I'll keep my Linux/XP/Dos Home office clean of Vista except for one box(legit) and laugh (cry?) every time
it crashes something I've grown used to, or still need. If this is the future of PC computing, then count
Me as one of the nerds going underground.
Why all these exploits now with applications that have been around for over seven years ??!!
I mean if the latest version of word had a newly discovered bug, ok...move along, nothing to see here...
But an exploit that can affect all three version of word (2000, 2002,2003)??!!
Oh sorry, up to three now aren't we....in the same month....
I smell a rat...
And I'll notice the Tail when Word 2007 is declared void of these exploits..
Call me paranoid, but at least just call me...
I'm glad I no longer work as MS Phone Support....
Cheers
What we need now is the Stories of the Orion Combines!
:-)
Just think how many Booty Shots we can get into an episode!!
And they don't ALL have to be of voluptuous green booty either. All the colours man!
How about this, Episode 1, an Orion Slaveship, piloted by scantily clad Vulcans chickos
blow away the Enterprise J ?! They beam aboard the Captain, who thinks he's been
Attacked by the Intergalactic Hooters....
Just a thought
God doesn't play easter egg hunts with fossils...
He plays pin the quantum string on the white hole...
FOSSIL!...FOSSIL!!- Lewis Black
Merry Christmas Charlie Brown
The world is filled with winners and whiners..
I'll settle for my blanket...with a warm cup of coco in the corner...
And hopefully THIS year what Goes around will COME around...
Doesn't this business owner have better things to do than blame
some guy who's GOOD at what what he does ?!
Like advertising ??!!
Blame the other guy and move along...nothing to see here...
Cheers
I've read all I can on this Lomborg fellow...
The short list :
Biography:
Bjørn Lomborg, born January 6 1965.
M.A. in political science (Cand.scient.pol.) 1991.
Ph.D. at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. 1994.
Assistant professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, 1994-1996.
Associate professor same place, 1997-2005.
Director of Denmark's national Environmental Assessment Institute February 2002-July 2004.
Organizer of the Copenhagen Consensus May 2004, prioritizing the best opportunities to the world's big challenges.
Adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School 2005-.
Director for the Copenhagen Consensus Center 2006-.
His Views on the Environment do not interest me, as they would be biased beyond belief. Why don't we get the Environmental scientist to lead the charge instead of some Politico ??!!
Might as well argue about Evolution.....
I'll still hope that it goes the way of Microsoft Bob... ;)
Even if it's Microsoft's "Only" failure
Now if they can just give us a better filesystem as promised
instead of indexing the crap out of our HDD's (yeah I know it's not shipping with it yet...)
Thanx, One out three.... ;-)
I wonder where they get their stats...but the stats for Vista
aren't out and won't be out for a long time....
Johnny fivebucks won't have the money this year to buy that
new fangled PC that some of us already have "Vista Ready"...
And they weren't working for MS when I kept getting calls asking me
how to install 98SE on a 95/98/ME/2000 PC.
Vista is going to make waves.....Nuff said.
"While there is no way that Vista will be a flop,
since all new computers will come with Vista pre-installed"
Right, I've never bought a New PC and wiped it....never..
EVEN if it came with XP Home and I had three Full XP Pro licenses, I would
STILL use the crappy install that came with the PC as installed by the OEM...
Riiiiiiiiiight !
SO I guess what you are saying is that just because it will be shipped out
with XXX number of PC's, they will be counting those as successes ??!!
Riiiiiiiiiight !
I don't mean to be selfish here but there are other factors as well...
Leading here on Rogers is the Mail servers being switched over to Yahoo...
We all know what kind of privacy policy THEY have don't we.....
I NEVER got spam before this, and then I started getting fifteen a day...
Now It's between twenty to forty a day...thank god for filters but what
about the bandwith it's wasting ?! I'm seriously considering sending them a
charge for sending me this unsolicitated e-mail from their Parent/child
spam companies...I complained of course back then, and got the usual "do this to help protect yourself"...
But what happens when your ISP is the main factor in your e-mail addy being passed around ?!
Cheers
Funny you should say that, but the first round of questions that the interrogator asks are
meant for you to LIE, to see the difference, and I actually found it amusing....
But I don't comment here to sing to the quire. I was nervous and WAS afraid and quite frankly
the details of where when and why are better kept to myself.
The Polygraph is a useful tool, period. Nothing is infallible.
But such is our world.
Better this than nothing at all.
The Farking Glass IS half FULL !!!!!
Cheers !
Oh why must I wait until I'm forced into retirement for Nukem but
have to support in the very near future a crowd of "Vistaneers"(TM)?!
Again my phone will bludgeon my ears with stories of woe from
clients who should have spent the money on new PC's for Vista
but went ahead anyways and upgraded their OS instead, and now
will want me to "fix it".
Maybe after all these years, Vista will be my call to better my golf game.
But I will feel guilty about these clients left in the hands of the "Geek Squads"...
Oh well...
You're right of course, the project management team would see it that way...
Some bugs are expected, some are show stoppers...in this case..someone made a choice.
And I'm surprised your pie comment doesn't get you a troll rating...
Cheers !
Just goes to show how going for the lowest bid on a contract screws everything up.
That's barely ten lines of code no matter what language you want it in...
Sloppy, dreadful, and as I like to say, "You get what you pay for"...
(Does anyone remember the multi thousand dollar toilet seat for the US Navy ?)
In this case, a setback sending 1970's technology into space......
About time the new vehicle gets rolled out.
Maybe we can get Timex to code it in...
Cheers
Again with the Insane in the Membrane ideas....
Just goes to prove having a PHD isn't all its cracked up to be...Ruin the planet, refuse to stop and then reach for a solution that has nothing to do with the problem....
The last thing we need is billions of "space debris" floating around up there.
There's no conceivable way we'll ever be able to control, track and explain
why space travel ended because of an error which cause our ionosphere to
be "mined".
Am I the only one that sees a sea of fast moving particles....
(read debris from silly project)...
Sometimes I really wonder if they just release these stories to get us going.
The general public has no idea how many dangerous hair brain ideas get tossed around every year by their respective governments...
There's nothing crackpot about it.....
The main determination is never made by the machine, it simply
registers changes in your metabolism...every security agency STILL uses it
when agents come back in from the field...it IS science, but calling it a
"lie detector" can be considered nonsense...it's called a POLYGRAPH.
The interrogator is the main component of that scenario that determines if you're
trying to hide something. I suggest that unless you've gone through one
(Yes, twice, passed) and studied the "science" behind the procedure you might want to
hold off on further comments....
Dang nabbit, and moi with no mod points
for great justice !!
I could wish that we could enlighten the world in one fell swoop..
/. are
Ain't going to happen...psychotic apes act like psychotic apes do...
The problem here is that it doesn't matter...it's been going on for years...
The State uses propaganda to disseminate its will unto its people...so what?
It plays both sides of the fence, they see you coming and get you going...
There are moles and traitors in every group...polarize an issue and you'll
never get a resolution that the constitution supposes protects...
Maybe we should try and get a count of how many trolls on
On some payroll to help lessen the influence a blog like this can have
On public opinion and voters in general (think I'm kidding?)
Putting an official face on the Thought Police will only make it worse...
And contradicting them will bring, will bring..huh, who's going to trust
the Pentagon's redactions ??!! Hold on...is it April 1st and no one told moi ?
I just can't wait until this beast roars past us...
;-) )
Oh yes, the ten best reasons to upgrade to Vista are/will be...
Gaming, directX and please, no one bought our new OS....
They should call it VistaBob....crash and burn....
Secutity enhancements ? Oh please...If you're relying on Microsoft
to protect your Microsoft OS you're already on a zombie PC.....
One can only hope that Vista will be replaced by a robust
and free XP SP3 though 5. (yeah like that'll ever happen
Message ends
I guess you're part of the identity crisis I keep hearing about when they compare us to the states. If you actually liked Canadian history, you wouldn't have been so impolite. The rest of us Canucks have to apologize for this young man's lack of netiquette here.
Cheers
At least the french one has never been altered...
"O Canada" was proclaimed Canada's national anthem on July 1, 1980, 100 years after it was first sung on June 24, 1880.
The first performance took place on June 24 (St Jean Baptist Day), 1880 at a banquet in the "Pavillon des Patineurs" in Quebec City as the climax of a "Mosaique sur des airs populaires canadiens" arranged by Joseph Vezina, a prominent composer and bandmaster.
The music was composed by Calixa Lavallee, a well-known composer; French lyrics to accompany the music were written by Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier. The song gained steadily in popularity. Many English versions have appeared over the years. The version on which the official English lyrics are based was written in 1908 by Mr. Justice Robert Stanley Weir. The official English version includes changes recommended in 1968 by a Special Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons. The French lyrics remain unaltered.
"violently annexed in a depressingly short amount of time (and our supplies of uranium, oil, fresh water and lumber might make us a delectable target), "
Where were you when they passed the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) aggreements ?!
They already took our fuel and power resource reserves...
there's not much else left but our health system and our Flag...
They just walked in as Politicians do.
Happy Cinquo de mayo !
Who said anything about socialists ?!
;-)
Why is everything always left or right in the USA ?
Being with the USA or against the USA ?
The Capitalists or the commies ?
Life brings a lot more diversity than just Republicans and Democrats....
We can have different views from the current "US Reperesentatives and leaders"
and still not have ill will towards them....
But don't tell anyboday else ok ? wouldn't want to get shot over here....
Gotta catch a plane back to Canada now
Cheers !
Sure, Another Pearl Harbour...
The Prez at the time will send away most of the space fleet,
Some space admirals will resign..
The Prez will ignore new "space age" radars and reports that a fleet of ships were downed just around the moon previously while obviously doing recon...
and, oh yeah and that strange communique from the other fleet's admirals saying they are on their way...
Seriously though, thinking about space war at this point is ridiculus...You have to get the hardware and troops up there in mass quantities first, then it's who shoots first...the one with the most "smart rock" cannons wins !
This is just more saber rustling IMHO
Move along....
Nothing to see here...
If you knew why you were here you'd know what to do....
What happens here stays here, and then travels all around the world....
Move along....