I think the primary requirment for a perfect capitolist society is, "Keep consumers ignorant." When something conflicts with the directive then pass laws to force compliance. It looks like the boss will have to keep passing laws. Well, until they start teaching ID in schools.
If they are cells from American humans I'm not worried about them taking over the world. They would most likely start hitting the beers by noon and pushing back bong hits soon after work.
I agree with him as far as "Linux users using Linux" goes. People that already use Linux don't need over simplicity.
However, 90% of everything I do is simplifying something to the point that a complete and total moron can use it. If I didn't make something overly simple then I would have to explain things to the people, who are in fact overly simple.
I would spend three days with the following conversation ad nausium: user: What is that SimbO thing? me: Follow the link it will explain everything. user: What link. me: i re send link user: what is that for? me: that is the link for the information for the SimbOS threat you were asking me about. user: oh that SimbO thing? Is it in my e-mail? Do I have it? me: slamming my head against the monitor until i'm rushed to hospitol for the only vacation time i'm allowed.
I wish it was as simple as being undercounted or underpaid or even unwanted. I think the biggest reason is engineers are inventors. In china and India the only thing holding you back is enough money to put it on the market. If someone in the US invents something they have to worry about getting sued for patent infringement.
I agree it isn't enough. I also think the company names, phone numbers, and fax numbers of the companies doing the telemarketing should be released so people can block them. I want a public register of these numbers as a prerequisite of getting a license to be a telemarketing firm.
We shouldn't be the ones having to list our numbers they should!
I don't beleive someone would use this argument for something so destructive. If I were about to be splattered accross the front of a train then no I wouldn't want to know. Victims of ID theft suffer years of pain. There seems to be some kind of new mentality that people SHOULD be ignorant.
3) Take out the MS Office compatibility from OpenOffice. Concentrate on making OpenOffice a great tool for creating OpenDocument format files.
People share documents in editable form so that changes can be made by all participants. There is no other reason for a standard.
I think that the wiki is the better alternative to all of these applications.
1) You can secure a wiki by resticting participants. 2) You can make the wiki available to anyone with a browser regardless of the systems OS or hardware. 3) You can design a wiki to "look and feel" like any of the applications. 4) A spreadsheet is a pathetic excuse for data storage compaired to a database. A wiki can store the fields in a database then display them in exactly the same way as a spreadsheet. 5) Keeping document copies "on my machine" is as simple as saving the current contents in any document format which pleases the person wanting the copy.
It makes me feel warm and fuzzy whenever I see this type^1 of user dislike Linux. To me it means that one more person capable of believing they can delete the internet from their computer^2 will not be asking me the most stupid fucking questions of all times.
1 An individual that believes double clicking on "their" icon is using a computer. 2 Usually referred to as a "hard drive" by this type of user.
Well at least someone in the comments mentioned Ursula le Guin's "The Dispossessed".
Nothing was listed for Elaine Cunningham http://www.elainecunningham.com/ even though she did both some of the best D&D books of all time and some Star Trek. IMHO The Songs and Swords series should have been there.
I don't know wtf they were thinking by not including "Red Mars Green Mars Blue Mars", Kim Stanley Robinson. Her novel Icehenge gave me chills.
No. It would be bad because. 1) It would conflict with all the other adware. 2) Spammers would join the rest of the world in anger because "Microsoft undercut them by giving their stuff away for free". 3) The advertisers would hold them liable for not keeping the systems up long enough.
I wonder if those of us that dont allow the use of IE for anything other than Windows Updates are keeping Microsoft from gathering information regarding our browsing habits.
Back when the DEC guys were making NT work properly, Microsoft was in the process of killing all ties with DOS. The talk back then was how they would no longer support 16 bit hardware/software when the great and wonderful Windows90 er 1 er 2... 5 came out. Microsoft's OS division has tunel vision.
The study compared two teams of experienced IT administrators running Windows Server 2000 and Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux 8, then monitored their progress as they upgraded to Windows Server 2003 and Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux 9.
I upgraded our 3 Debian servers to Sarge "apt-get distro-upgrade" in about 2 hours. With the exception of the mail server we had no significant down time. The mail service was turned off during the upgrade to avoid any errors.
Every one of our WindowsXP machines (no servers) were virtually unusable after the Service pack 2 upgrade for most of a day.
I've been mulling this concept in my head for years. Enriching desiel fuel with hydrogen created by the heat of the engine. The direction I started with was to generate the hydrogen using a "reverse peltier" methode. Two disimilar metals create a current when one side is hot and the other is cold. http://www.greencarcongress.com/thermoelectrics/ I wish I could find a link to the guy that actually created a generator out of this process using the exhaust system of a semi to create electricity in the 1Mw area. Anyway, using electrolysis was only good to create small amounts. The difficulties in pluming the hyrdogen into the fuel system, while keeping steam/water out of the mix, made the expense greater than the gain. Lately I've been thinking of routing the heat exhaust onto, or against, an area of a water tank. On the inside of the tank, where the heat is focused, I would like to place a zinc coil. In, an untested, theory the heated rod should suck the oxygen out of the water leaving hydrogen. Unfortunately, both ideas require me to cross into the area of patented technologies.
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Who can scream "NO! PLEASE GOD NO!" the loudest of course.
Then can we expect this type of item http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=vga+to+dvi+co nverter&btnG=Google+Search to be considered a "mod"?
I think the primary requirment for a perfect capitolist society is, "Keep consumers ignorant." When something conflicts with the directive then pass laws to force compliance. It looks like the boss will have to keep passing laws. Well, until they start teaching ID in schools.
I plan to get a PS3 more so I can hack on it; though, I still think it will be a very high quality console.
Hell, I just thought it was a really good deal.
It will level out. The only reason I went into IT was to meet all the babes.
When I was a kid we made our own toys. http://www.spookshows.com/toys/vacuform/vacuform.h tm http://www.timewarptoys.com/vacf1.jpg http://www.timewarptoys.com/vacf2.jpg
hmmm should I include uphill and stuff about snow?
If they are cells from American humans I'm not worried about them taking over the world. They would most likely start hitting the beers by noon and pushing back bong hits soon after work.
I agree with him as far as "Linux users using Linux" goes. People that already use Linux don't need over simplicity.
c /data/symbos.cardtrp.j.html has infected one of our roadwarriors. Please check your mail carefully.
However, 90% of everything I do is simplifying something to the point that a complete and total moron can use it. If I didn't make something overly simple then I would have to explain things to the people, who are in fact overly simple.
For example, if I sent this out as an email:
SimbOS.Cardtrp.J http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/ven
I would spend three days with the following conversation ad nausium:
user: What is that SimbO thing?
me: Follow the link it will explain everything.
user: What link.
me: i re send link
user: what is that for?
me: that is the link for the information for the SimbOS threat you were asking me about.
user: oh that SimbO thing? Is it in my e-mail? Do I have it?
me: slamming my head against the monitor until i'm rushed to hospitol for the only vacation time i'm allowed.
I wish it was as simple as being undercounted or underpaid or even unwanted. I think the biggest reason is engineers are inventors. In china and India the only thing holding you back is enough money to put it on the market. If someone in the US invents something they have to worry about getting sued for patent infringement.
I agree it isn't enough. I also think the company names, phone numbers, and fax numbers of the companies doing the telemarketing should be released so people can block them. I want a public register of these numbers as a prerequisite of getting a license to be a telemarketing firm.
We shouldn't be the ones having to list our numbers they should!
I don't beleive someone would use this argument for something so destructive. If I were about to be splattered accross the front of a train then no I wouldn't want to know. Victims of ID theft suffer years of pain. There seems to be some kind of new mentality that people SHOULD be ignorant.
So my coffee induced ulcer will never travel to my liver!?! http://www.ineedcoffee.com/00/03/myths/
There is a white bronco, I mean red, no green...
People share documents in editable form so that changes can be made by all participants. There is no other reason for a standard.
I think that the wiki is the better alternative to all of these applications.
1) You can secure a wiki by resticting participants.
2) You can make the wiki available to anyone with a browser regardless of the systems OS or hardware.
3) You can design a wiki to "look and feel" like any of the applications.
4) A spreadsheet is a pathetic excuse for data storage compaired to a database. A wiki can store the fields in a database then display them in exactly the same way as a spreadsheet.
5) Keeping document copies "on my machine" is as simple as saving the current contents in any document format which pleases the person wanting the copy.
It makes me feel warm and fuzzy whenever I see this type^1 of user dislike Linux. To me it means that one more person capable of believing they can delete the internet from their computer^2 will not be asking me the most stupid fucking questions of all times.
1 An individual that believes double clicking on "their" icon is using a computer.
2 Usually referred to as a "hard drive" by this type of user.
I think we should be more concerned about them sending us porn. Could you imagine the devistating effect alien porn could have on the human race?!?
Is this a first?
Is Microsoft's Xbox the first console to lock up like this?
I've searched everywhere and haven't found a precident.
Could Microsoft go down in history to be the first console maker to release a console the way vendors have been releasing software for years?
Well at least someone in the comments mentioned Ursula le Guin's "The Dispossessed".
Nothing was listed for Elaine Cunningham http://www.elainecunningham.com/ even though she did both some of the best D&D books of all time and some Star Trek. IMHO The Songs and Swords series should have been there.
I don't know wtf they were thinking by not including "Red Mars Green Mars Blue Mars", Kim Stanley Robinson. Her novel Icehenge gave me chills.
No. It would be bad because.
1) It would conflict with all the other adware.
2) Spammers would join the rest of the world in anger because "Microsoft undercut them by giving their stuff away for free".
3) The advertisers would hold them liable for not keeping the systems up long enough.
I wonder if those of us that dont allow the use of IE for anything other than Windows Updates are keeping Microsoft from gathering information regarding our browsing habits.
Back when the DEC guys were making NT work properly, Microsoft was in the process of killing all ties with DOS. The talk back then was how they would no longer support 16 bit hardware/software when the great and wonderful Windows90 er 1 er 2... 5 came out. Microsoft's OS division has tunel vision.
I upgraded our 3 Debian servers to Sarge "apt-get distro-upgrade" in about 2 hours. With the exception of the mail server we had no significant down time. The mail service was turned off during the upgrade to avoid any errors.
Every one of our WindowsXP machines (no servers) were virtually unusable after the Service pack 2 upgrade for most of a day.
Here is the link to the guy I was talking about. http://www.hi-z.com/websit07.htm
I've been mulling this concept in my head for years. Enriching desiel fuel with hydrogen created by the heat of the engine. The direction I started with was to generate the hydrogen using a "reverse peltier" methode. Two disimilar metals create a current when one side is hot and the other is cold. http://www.greencarcongress.com/thermoelectrics/ I wish I could find a link to the guy that actually created a generator out of this process using the exhaust system of a semi to create electricity in the 1Mw area. Anyway, using electrolysis was only good to create small amounts. The difficulties in pluming the hyrdogen into the fuel system, while keeping steam/water out of the mix, made the expense greater than the gain. Lately I've been thinking of routing the heat exhaust onto, or against, an area of a water tank. On the inside of the tank, where the heat is focused, I would like to place a zinc coil. In, an untested, theory the heated rod should suck the oxygen out of the water leaving hydrogen. Unfortunately, both ideas require me to cross into the area of patented technologies.