Silverlight 1.1 is a stripped down version of the.Net framework 3.0. They took the 25+meg 3.0 library and started trimming out namespaces until they got down to a 4 meg library that could be run as a browser plug-in. So while their work is commendable, the hard part (the.Net libraries) was already done as part of the existing Mono project. I imagine the most time consuming part was determining exactly which namespaces Microsoft left in.
It matters on your corporate environment. We initial set up the blackberry using the redirector app, which does indeed work that way. Since then we bumped up to the express small business server. Given our size and IT ability, the express business server is the best solution, but I can easily imagine other corporate environments where that is not so. Sure, if you've got a bunch of users and a couple grand laying around you could pick up an enterprise server for $3k + licenses, but for small companies with limited finances and hosted email, the redirector may be the best solution.
Yup, just set one up last week for my VP. The emails are all stored on the provider's server and the system is set up to copy/redirect emails to/from your internal email to the provider's email service. So your email is only as secure as the 3rd party makes is.
I just picked up new ink (Black and Color) for my Lexmark bubble jet printer. The Lexmark brand combo pack was $59.99. Buying both ink cartridges individually under OfficeMax's label for refurbished units cost ~$55.
Not sure if having alternative's available for ink will really save you that much money.
One last time, this is very simple. Living Wage has nothing to do with your happiness, life style, or any of the other crap you are babbling about. It is a mathematically calculated value that determines the entry point of income in society. If your income drops below that point, you will not be able to continue being a contributing member of society with out assistance.
That's it. The rest of your post is so inane I just can't justify a line by line response. So here are a few summaries:
-Until you posted "Trader Joe's", I had no idea what it was. I had to google it. It still has no bearing on this discussion.
-In order to comment on your (initially) excessive Emerson attitude, I must first be familiar with Emerson's work. Seeing as how I am familiar with his work, it would be rather silly to make fun of you for reading them. I'll ridicule your abuse of his works, but I applaud your tenacity for literature.
-I do NOT believe that EVERYONE should get a Living Wage. I believe that everyone willing and able to put forth a minimum effort to contributing to society deserves a Living Wage. Any one who works harder/smarter is more than welcome to fight for more of the pie. Anyone who is unwilling too is welcome to starve. And anyone who is unable should have access to assistance programs to help them rise to the point that they can make that effort.
-I feel no guilt for having the privileges I have. I was born with more than many, and I have worked hard to keep more than some. I feel sorry for those in worse conditions than my own, but my family and my future is of far more concern to me.
-Living Wage should obviously only be applied in situations where there is A) a wage, and B) the consumer is responsible for using that wage to procure items necessities for their continuing function in society. Obviously in a true communism, there can be no Living Wage because there is no wage, or in a military like situation because your food, housing, water, and clothing is all provided for you.
-Your argument may have a sliver of truth in cases where paid labor is forced. Although, so long as the two mentioned requirements are there, I would still argue that there is a living wage. I would also argue that their Quality of Life sucks donkey balls (to put it technically). Not all societies are pleasant.
-Living wage must be viewed in respect to the local society. Even if that means that you make enough money to go to the market and buy food, but you've got a 50/50 chance of getting hit by an IED or sniper fire. You're still earning a living wage, you just happen to live in a really crappy society.
For the STATE representatives, just use the counties. For the FEDERAL representatives, just vote state wide.
Redrawing a county is a LOT harder. It would screw with numerous municipalities, courts, taxes, schools, and all sorts of other local government issues. There is a HUGE vested interest at the county level in not changing the counties. Sorry for the confusion.
Are you saying that those things don't contribute to "stability"?
Correct. I don't need a 3 bedroom house to be stable. I could be perfectly stable in a 1 room apartment, albeit uncomfortable, I would be stable.
Being "stable" was part of having a "living wage", right? I notice you didn't define "stable".
Uh, yeah I did. My definition of stable is that you are making a positive contribution to society. And that doesn't take much. You can hold down your job, and you can provide your family with food and shelter with out assistance. That's about it.
Make ends meet with what kind of lifestyle?
With a very crappy one. If being poor and down trodden was comfortable, why would anyone work to improve their position in life?
Survive for how long? With what kind of lifestyle?
As other people in this thread have stated, $3/day is more than the living wage in parts of China. I have not been there personally, but the descriptions used seemed to indicate people in that pay range were poor, but in over all good condition.
You're so privileged that you don't realize how good you have it.
Wooooh nellie. Don't go sticking your foot in the fox hole, you don't know who you are talking about. I assure you, I have seen destitution first hand, I have spent time out of this country, I have gone hungry, and I have worried about getting food for my new born child. Don't lecture me on being 'privileged'. I went through my own rough times and I worked my ass off to get where I am today.
Did you read the story about gathering cash in Buenos Aires?
Yes, I did. And I still fail to see what the lady having to walk around for cash has to do with living wage. Yes, it is a pain in the ass, but she still has enough money to pay for her necessities. She isn't starving, she hasn't been evicted, she has potable water, and she is maintaining a stable income.
You get the feeling that the unfit do not survive long past birth
Wow, now that's just humorous. Because we all just toss our newborn children out on the street and see how long they can survive as homeless people. This may come as a suprise to you, but many cultures outside the US abhore homelessness. Families will always take in relatives who have lost their residence. The author wasn't seeing much for homeless people because their society has determined that people should not be homeless. I'm not saying it's all peaches and roses, but it sure as hell isn't some street disease that kills homeless people in the night and runs off with their corpses.
You're still stuck in the land where you think in terms of "getting by" and "making ends meet" and you can't understand why we don't have enough stuff to ensure that Everyone Gets What They Need To Have A Good Life(TM)./shrug. There is a limited pool of resources in the world. Some people will get more of that pool, some will get less. That's just the way of life, and it always will be. How ever abstract you are feeling is irrelevant. Living wage is a practical and very real way of measuring the minimum amount of money needed to be a functioning and contributing member of society.
Boy, you need to set Emerson down and step back from the existential pipe you've been smoking.
Living wage doesn't care if you have a 1 room studio, or a 4 bedroom town house. Living wage doesn't care if you wash your close in a GE front loading washer in your house, or on a rock in the creek. Living wage doesn't care what type of food you are eating so long as it is healthy and substantial enough. All a living wage is, is the amount of money a person would have to earn to make ends meet in your local society. Regardless of what type of person you are, you need a bare minimum amount of money to ensure that you are decently feed, clean, and able to maintain a job and to be a productive member of society. That's why living wage is regional. Sure, you can survive on $3/day in parts of China, but $3/day wouldn't keep you alive for long in the US, let alone a productive member of society. Heck, the living wage in the mid west is significantly different then the living wage on the coasts.
If you ever get a chance to live at or below the 'living wage', I'm sure you'll quickly find that all the minds-eye dreams in the world won't put food on your child's plate.
What the hell are you talking about? So some lady has to walk all over town to/get/ her money? What does that have to do with a living wage? Is she is earning enough money to pay her rent, groceries, and keep herself healthy? If so, then she is earning a living wage. No one ever said making a living wage was enjoyable, it is merely enough to keep a person stable in society. No more, no less.
I not sure why you brought demographics, John Kerry, or http://www.traderjoes.com/ into this conversation either.
I haven't found any really concrete numbers or sites, but it sounds like a living wage in china is $3/day. At $.30/hr these guys have a pretty easy job compared to a lot of the textile and merchandise manufactures where people are getting paid less per hour in much more dangerous environments.
I'll pay $250 tops. This is the first smart phone that I've seen that I would actually consider using. I just set up my VP's black berry last week and after 5 minutes my thumbs were already sore. But I just can't justify spending more than $250 on a phone. I'd like the extra features, but I can live without them.
"It is a scientific fact that it will act like a greenhouse around the earth. The only question is the extent."
Which would make it a Theory.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a believer, but spouting off a layman's knowledge of global warming while spamming the word "fact" is no more scientific than the original article.
Even bigger than the speed change was the "if anyone in the county has broad band available, everyone in the county has broad band available" rule for counting. An ISP could offer services to one house, and everyone living in that county would be counted towards broadband penetration. Getting rid of that stupid measure will definitely take our penetration numbers down a serious notch.
I think you missed the implication the parent was trying to make. I believe he was trying to imply that this bill would restrict the president's ability to manipulate vote results and thus the president would use the guise of terrorist and fear mongering as justification for his veto. It's a stretch for a conspiracy theory, but it makes for a pretty good joke at Bush's expense.
I'm pretty sure the vast (if not absolute) majority of/. readers are in favor of making the vote counting process more open and accountable. And this bill would be a good step in that direction (provided some numb nuts senator doesn't stick $20bil in earmarks on the end of it).
Slashdot Mirror
Go to http://silverlight.net/ and click the "Silverlight in action" link on the right hand side. Then tell me that Flash still has them beat ;)
-Rick
http://silverlight.net/
-Rick
Silverlight 1.1 is a stripped down version of the .Net framework 3.0. They took the 25+meg 3.0 library and started trimming out namespaces until they got down to a 4 meg library that could be run as a browser plug-in. So while their work is commendable, the hard part (the .Net libraries) was already done as part of the existing Mono project. I imagine the most time consuming part was determining exactly which namespaces Microsoft left in.
-Rick
No, in this case the issue is with a law specifically dealing with the internet.
-Rick
It matters on your corporate environment. We initial set up the blackberry using the redirector app, which does indeed work that way. Since then we bumped up to the express small business server. Given our size and IT ability, the express business server is the best solution, but I can easily imagine other corporate environments where that is not so. Sure, if you've got a bunch of users and a couple grand laying around you could pick up an enterprise server for $3k + licenses, but for small companies with limited finances and hosted email, the redirector may be the best solution.
-Rick
Yup, just set one up last week for my VP. The emails are all stored on the provider's server and the system is set up to copy/redirect emails to/from your internal email to the provider's email service. So your email is only as secure as the 3rd party makes is.
-Rick
I just picked up new ink (Black and Color) for my Lexmark bubble jet printer. The Lexmark brand combo pack was $59.99. Buying both ink cartridges individually under OfficeMax's label for refurbished units cost ~$55.
Not sure if having alternative's available for ink will really save you that much money.
-Rick
Wow, and you're calling /me/ the emotional one?
One last time, this is very simple. Living Wage has nothing to do with your happiness, life style, or any of the other crap you are babbling about. It is a mathematically calculated value that determines the entry point of income in society. If your income drops below that point, you will not be able to continue being a contributing member of society with out assistance.
That's it. The rest of your post is so inane I just can't justify a line by line response. So here are a few summaries:
-Until you posted "Trader Joe's", I had no idea what it was. I had to google it. It still has no bearing on this discussion.
-In order to comment on your (initially) excessive Emerson attitude, I must first be familiar with Emerson's work. Seeing as how I am familiar with his work, it would be rather silly to make fun of you for reading them. I'll ridicule your abuse of his works, but I applaud your tenacity for literature.
-I do NOT believe that EVERYONE should get a Living Wage. I believe that everyone willing and able to put forth a minimum effort to contributing to society deserves a Living Wage. Any one who works harder/smarter is more than welcome to fight for more of the pie. Anyone who is unwilling too is welcome to starve. And anyone who is unable should have access to assistance programs to help them rise to the point that they can make that effort.
-I feel no guilt for having the privileges I have. I was born with more than many, and I have worked hard to keep more than some. I feel sorry for those in worse conditions than my own, but my family and my future is of far more concern to me.
-Living Wage should obviously only be applied in situations where there is A) a wage, and B) the consumer is responsible for using that wage to procure items necessities for their continuing function in society. Obviously in a true communism, there can be no Living Wage because there is no wage, or in a military like situation because your food, housing, water, and clothing is all provided for you.
-Your argument may have a sliver of truth in cases where paid labor is forced. Although, so long as the two mentioned requirements are there, I would still argue that there is a living wage. I would also argue that their Quality of Life sucks donkey balls (to put it technically). Not all societies are pleasant.
-Living wage must be viewed in respect to the local society. Even if that means that you make enough money to go to the market and buy food, but you've got a 50/50 chance of getting hit by an IED or sniper fire. You're still earning a living wage, you just happen to live in a really crappy society.
-Rick
Sorry, I should have clarified.
For the STATE representatives, just use the counties. For the FEDERAL representatives, just vote state wide.
Redrawing a county is a LOT harder. It would screw with numerous municipalities, courts, taxes, schools, and all sorts of other local government issues. There is a HUGE vested interest at the county level in not changing the counties. Sorry for the confusion.
-Rick
Are you saying that those things don't contribute to "stability"?
/shrug. There is a limited pool of resources in the world. Some people will get more of that pool, some will get less. That's just the way of life, and it always will be. How ever abstract you are feeling is irrelevant. Living wage is a practical and very real way of measuring the minimum amount of money needed to be a functioning and contributing member of society.
Correct. I don't need a 3 bedroom house to be stable. I could be perfectly stable in a 1 room apartment, albeit uncomfortable, I would be stable.
Being "stable" was part of having a "living wage", right? I notice you didn't define "stable".
Uh, yeah I did. My definition of stable is that you are making a positive contribution to society. And that doesn't take much. You can hold down your job, and you can provide your family with food and shelter with out assistance. That's about it.
Make ends meet with what kind of lifestyle?
With a very crappy one. If being poor and down trodden was comfortable, why would anyone work to improve their position in life?
Survive for how long? With what kind of lifestyle?
As other people in this thread have stated, $3/day is more than the living wage in parts of China. I have not been there personally, but the descriptions used seemed to indicate people in that pay range were poor, but in over all good condition.
You're so privileged that you don't realize how good you have it.
Wooooh nellie. Don't go sticking your foot in the fox hole, you don't know who you are talking about. I assure you, I have seen destitution first hand, I have spent time out of this country, I have gone hungry, and I have worried about getting food for my new born child. Don't lecture me on being 'privileged'. I went through my own rough times and I worked my ass off to get where I am today.
Did you read the story about gathering cash in Buenos Aires?
Yes, I did. And I still fail to see what the lady having to walk around for cash has to do with living wage. Yes, it is a pain in the ass, but she still has enough money to pay for her necessities. She isn't starving, she hasn't been evicted, she has potable water, and she is maintaining a stable income.
You get the feeling that the unfit do not survive long past birth
Wow, now that's just humorous. Because we all just toss our newborn children out on the street and see how long they can survive as homeless people. This may come as a suprise to you, but many cultures outside the US abhore homelessness. Families will always take in relatives who have lost their residence. The author wasn't seeing much for homeless people because their society has determined that people should not be homeless. I'm not saying it's all peaches and roses, but it sure as hell isn't some street disease that kills homeless people in the night and runs off with their corpses.
You're still stuck in the land where you think in terms of "getting by" and "making ends meet" and you can't understand why we don't have enough stuff to ensure that Everyone Gets What They Need To Have A Good Life(TM).
-Rick
Why do we need districting anymore? Why not just use one representative per county and be done with it?
-Rick
Web compliance through legislation?!?
'Cause them tubes need laws!
-Rick
That's my question as well. Who cares about some government official's anonymity. It's the W3C, not a senate judiciary hearing.
-Rick
I'm not sure of the exact term, but I believe it would fall under a "Strategic Initiative" of some type.
-Rick
Boy, you need to set Emerson down and step back from the existential pipe you've been smoking.
Living wage doesn't care if you have a 1 room studio, or a 4 bedroom town house. Living wage doesn't care if you wash your close in a GE front loading washer in your house, or on a rock in the creek. Living wage doesn't care what type of food you are eating so long as it is healthy and substantial enough. All a living wage is, is the amount of money a person would have to earn to make ends meet in your local society. Regardless of what type of person you are, you need a bare minimum amount of money to ensure that you are decently feed, clean, and able to maintain a job and to be a productive member of society. That's why living wage is regional. Sure, you can survive on $3/day in parts of China, but $3/day wouldn't keep you alive for long in the US, let alone a productive member of society. Heck, the living wage in the mid west is significantly different then the living wage on the coasts.
If you ever get a chance to live at or below the 'living wage', I'm sure you'll quickly find that all the minds-eye dreams in the world won't put food on your child's plate.
-Rick
That the option didn't get turned down again?
-Rick
What the hell are you talking about? So some lady has to walk all over town to /get/ her money? What does that have to do with a living wage? Is she is earning enough money to pay her rent, groceries, and keep herself healthy? If so, then she is earning a living wage. No one ever said making a living wage was enjoyable, it is merely enough to keep a person stable in society. No more, no less.
I not sure why you brought demographics, John Kerry, or http://www.traderjoes.com/ into this conversation either.
-Rick
I haven't found any really concrete numbers or sites, but it sounds like a living wage in china is $3/day. At $.30/hr these guys have a pretty easy job compared to a lot of the textile and merchandise manufactures where people are getting paid less per hour in much more dangerous environments.
-Rick
And when "everyone else" starts jumping off bridges, I'll be first in line. Until then, I'm going to have my own opinion.
-Rick
Hey! I Liked Wing Commander!
-Rick
I'll pay $250 tops. This is the first smart phone that I've seen that I would actually consider using. I just set up my VP's black berry last week and after 5 minutes my thumbs were already sore. But I just can't justify spending more than $250 on a phone. I'd like the extra features, but I can live without them.
-Rick
"It is a scientific fact that it will act like a greenhouse around the earth. The only question is the extent."
Which would make it a Theory.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a believer, but spouting off a layman's knowledge of global warming while spamming the word "fact" is no more scientific than the original article.
-Rick
Even bigger than the speed change was the "if anyone in the county has broad band available, everyone in the county has broad band available" rule for counting. An ISP could offer services to one house, and everyone living in that county would be counted towards broadband penetration. Getting rid of that stupid measure will definitely take our penetration numbers down a serious notch.
-Rick
You are correct, so the only viable solution is to remove the RAM with out turning off the machine!
-Rick
PS: KIDDING!!!
I think you missed the implication the parent was trying to make. I believe he was trying to imply that this bill would restrict the president's ability to manipulate vote results and thus the president would use the guise of terrorist and fear mongering as justification for his veto. It's a stretch for a conspiracy theory, but it makes for a pretty good joke at Bush's expense.
/. readers are in favor of making the vote counting process more open and accountable. And this bill would be a good step in that direction (provided some numb nuts senator doesn't stick $20bil in earmarks on the end of it).
I'm pretty sure the vast (if not absolute) majority of
-Rick