I have always thought the same thing. If the UN decided that Israel can exist, it can also decide that those holy sites are important and belong to the whole world. No one owns them. All are free to visit, but no one can live there.
Not just by the Brits you idiot...it was the UN who voted to give them the land since the whole of the western world felt bad/guilty about the holocaust.
Agreed. This was a mistake in my opinion. Nothing against people of Jewish faith, but before WWII was anyone stopped from going to the holy land? I am not talking the crusades here. I am talking about the 1800s, and early 1900s. It appears to be that only after the reformation of Israel did the trouble start. Granted there are those who will appose all who do not share their view of things, but the formation of Israel only fanned the flames of their anger.
My personal opinion is if the patent is of something tangible (like an engine design or type of electric motor) you have to make a prototype in 3-5 years or else the patent is void. For software you have to have it written and somewhat usable (it can still have bugs seen windows anyone?) but it is there also in 3-5 years. After said time the patent should be re-evaluated. If the patent office feel you do not have enough to hold the patent. That patent is void. If you do not have something at all, the patent is void.
The patent system was supposed to allow the little guy to make something to compete with the big companies. Companies wording patents with no product is completely against what the patent system was supposed to do.
I have seen parents tell their kids that they do not need math so it does not matter what grade they get. So if the parents are telling their kids this, what are the chances of a child who is good at math not liking it because their parents told them so?
I would like to see a series of tests done. say in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade. kindergarten might be too young. these tests evaluate a child's math, science, reading, language, social studies,and what ever other main subjects you want skills. based upon those test results, you break up the children's learning accordingly. You put the kids who are on the similar level in math together, similar level in reading together, etc. There will be some conflicts, but that will need to be worked out. This goes against the thought that the lower level kids need to bring themselves up to the higher level kids. Mixing them together will achieve this. From what I have seen the opposite happens. The higher level kids start to slack off and do lees work since there is no bonus to do more work. The lower level kids do less still.
It might mean that by the time these kids graduate high school there might be a few more groups (Highest level, above average, average, below average, low level, could be more). If this was done it might make some kids work harder to get into the better group. Some kids will not work harder no matter what the school systems do. Leave kids in the lowest group since that is where they want to be. Make the kids take some responsibility for their learning. We cannot place all of it on the teachers and school systems.
I have an apple sticker on my red dell mini 9 running OSX. I still have people asking where I got the red apple laptop at. They cannot find it at the apple store.
I so want to go to the apple store and just to see the sale people's faces when someone asks for a red (or any other color) apple laptop.
Remember to back up twice (two drives) if going the hard drive route. I have seen too many people who backed their data up to a external drive that failed.
Unless you can actually see the 'girl', who says that it is not a guy with a girl avatar? Nothing in the article says they check to make sure that the girls are real girls. Sort of reminds me of the video for sweet emotion. In the end the girl was a real girl, but she looked nothing like what the guy thought.
We have had mac machines running things that attacked the windows machines at work. The mac user did allow the software to be installed. They were prompted for their password to install it. It's OSX, it's apple, they are safe. Wrong. The software was trying to gain access by guessing the account and password and sending them to a machine in China. Well, CA and the owner of the site is in China. It actually sent the failed ones as well. It could have been doing more, but that is what we found first.
This person got this by visiting a dating site. He was prompted for his apple password when the site loaded. No he was not looking to date Chinese girls. We did a few tests (with test machines). On windows logged in with guest access, errors on page load. Windows with regular user or admin, page loaded fine. Machine appeared fine. It wasn't. On linux, a bunch or errors messages (can't find C:\windows, missing file, etc.). Yes the faculty did have to explain to his director why he was looking at dating sites while at work on university machines. I was not there for that meeting. I so wanted to be.
Personally, I'd have gone for +1 Insightful for this. It potentially serves to emphasise to the mainlanders that they are somehow second class to the citizens of HK. A former colleague once described going from HK to the mainland to visit a supplier as like going from West Berlin to communist East Berlin. He was talking about all the security involved - and having to be followed around by a communist party apparatchik all the time. However, you do have to wonder if there are other parallels to be drawn there...
I don't know. Was the the apparatchchik a good looking woman? That could have been a good thing.
The insurance have gone on record as supporting this health care reform.
You might want to check all sides of the health care debate.
Also, if you think that taxes and health care costs will not go up as a result of this new bill, you are sadly mistaken. I wish costs will not go up, but the numbers do not work out. How can millions of people who cannot afford health care get free health care? Those government vouchers, that is right. Those vouchers are paid for by: taxes. The added costs by the health care companies will be passed down to the customers.
Health care costs could have been cut more by stopping all the frivolous health care related law suites. Doctors are too afraid of being sued to provide the care needed. They order too many tests to cover everything plus people lie to their doctors to get meds. The doctors and hospitals have to have massive malpractice insurance in case they are sued. Guess where the cost of this insurance goes? It is passed to their customers.
All we're doing by saying "discipline or fire people who won't follow the policies we propose" is making it Somebody Else's Problem.
Depends on the problem. The drive by stuff from bad ads should not be the user's fault. Unless those ads were from sites that the person was not supposed to be vising. But for things that require user interaction to get installed, yes the user is at fault. And saying "that is an IT issue" is not going to solve the problem. The problem is the user and should be addressed.
I have no idea why some people nee to open every email they get. The subject contains nothing to do with work, and is obvious spam, yet they still open those emails. I have seen more malware from email that is totally avoidable. Do not open the email. Also people are amazed to find out the preview is the same as opening the email message.
It would be nice if employees are but through some kind of "this is what not to do on a computer" training.
Why have you not just built your own box? It may not have the nicest looking case (well there are some but they can really up the cost), but it will be a PC and stream video, and record if you put in the correct components. Plus by building your own, you choose what parts go into it, so you know what it can and cannot do. If things change, you can change a component to keep up with the change.
As long as you do your homework before you buy anything, you should be OK. Make sure that the parts you want to get do work together on the OS you want to use.
AMD's chips don't change sockets every 2 months. I can upgrade my AMD CPU without having to upgrade my entire machine. You can't compare the cost of the Intel chip directly to the AMD chip without taking the other costs into account as well.
I thought I remember something similar being said about AMD switching to AM2 then AM3 sockets. Yes you can plug an AM3 CPU into an AM2 socket but there was (is?) a performance hit. Also how long did intel keep the 775 socket? But intel should have kept the 1156 socket around longer. They did jump to socket 1366 really fast when compared to how long the 775 socket was around.
The problem is that some of those students also come from wealthy families with lawyers. They feel it is the school's responsibility to educate the students. The problem that I see is that the students do not care about learning. They just want to have fun and get their A.
I'd say give all the students the grade they earn, and if they fail so be it. That is part of being responsible for your own actions. Something many people need to learn.
No. Those who were elected into power should never have anonymous voting. Only those not in power (that would be the regular people) should have anonymous voting. Those in power should be doing the will of the people that put them there. The regular people need to be able to vote without fear of being arrested, fined, etc. for voting against something that those in power want.
So, thin clients? Or maybe thick clients? The user's machine only has enough software to get a web browser online. Everything else is out there in the cloud.
For the time being, there will be end users who do not trust the cloud. They want to be able to get to their apps/docs/files when ever they want to. Also back in the early 2000's the internet was not as big as it is today. There are a lot more people using it today. Timing can also be a factor.
I'd say office 2007 is a pretty major improvement, At least for me only because excel can open way way more cells now.
There is a reason why there are these called databases. Stop using excel as a database. The old 65,000 row limit was too large. When spreadsheets get that large it is time to 'upgrade' to a database. Use database views (or what ever they are called in your database of choice) to sum up the data so that the smaller spreadsheet application can handle the data.
How does photoshop (and the rest of adobe's suite) run in a VM? I know is horrifying to some to actually use windows, but if you need photoshop, and it runs fine in a VM, why not do that? At least it will work as intended, and you can nerf the outside world on that VM so windows doesn't catch anything.
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I have always thought the same thing. If the UN decided that Israel can exist, it can also decide that those holy sites are important and belong to the whole world. No one owns them. All are free to visit, but no one can live there.
Not just by the Brits you idiot...it was the UN who voted to give them the land since the whole of the western world felt bad/guilty about the holocaust.
Agreed. This was a mistake in my opinion. Nothing against people of Jewish faith, but before WWII was anyone stopped from going to the holy land? I am not talking the crusades here. I am talking about the 1800s, and early 1900s. It appears to be that only after the reformation of Israel did the trouble start. Granted there are those who will appose all who do not share their view of things, but the formation of Israel only fanned the flames of their anger.
My personal opinion is if the patent is of something tangible (like an engine design or type of electric motor) you have to make a prototype in 3-5 years or else the patent is void. For software you have to have it written and somewhat usable (it can still have bugs seen windows anyone?) but it is there also in 3-5 years. After said time the patent should be re-evaluated. If the patent office feel you do not have enough to hold the patent. That patent is void. If you do not have something at all, the patent is void.
The patent system was supposed to allow the little guy to make something to compete with the big companies. Companies wording patents with no product is completely against what the patent system was supposed to do.
I have seen parents tell their kids that they do not need math so it does not matter what grade they get. So if the parents are telling their kids this, what are the chances of a child who is good at math not liking it because their parents told them so?
I would like to see a series of tests done. say in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade. kindergarten might be too young. these tests evaluate a child's math, science, reading, language, social studies,and what ever other main subjects you want skills. based upon those test results, you break up the children's learning accordingly. You put the kids who are on the similar level in math together, similar level in reading together, etc. There will be some conflicts, but that will need to be worked out. This goes against the thought that the lower level kids need to bring themselves up to the higher level kids. Mixing them together will achieve this. From what I have seen the opposite happens. The higher level kids start to slack off and do lees work since there is no bonus to do more work. The lower level kids do less still.
It might mean that by the time these kids graduate high school there might be a few more groups (Highest level, above average, average, below average, low level, could be more). If this was done it might make some kids work harder to get into the better group. Some kids will not work harder no matter what the school systems do. Leave kids in the lowest group since that is where they want to be. Make the kids take some responsibility for their learning. We cannot place all of it on the teachers and school systems.
I have an apple sticker on my red dell mini 9 running OSX. I still have people asking where I got the red apple laptop at. They cannot find it at the apple store.
I so want to go to the apple store and just to see the sale people's faces when someone asks for a red (or any other color) apple laptop.
How about ROM Basic with the options:
A. Boot Linux
B. Boot OSX
C. Boot Windows
*Bonus if it randomly switched the order (of A,B,C) on each boot.
And how is Apply going to like some other company selling an OSX machine?
Remember to back up twice (two drives) if going the hard drive route. I have seen too many people who backed their data up to a external drive that failed.
Unless you can actually see the 'girl', who says that it is not a guy with a girl avatar? Nothing in the article says they check to make sure that the girls are real girls. Sort of reminds me of the video for sweet emotion. In the end the girl was a real girl, but she looked nothing like what the guy thought.
If you pay for porn you're doing it wrong
Right. Your supposed to get paid for doing porn. Wait, was that TMI?
We have had mac machines running things that attacked the windows machines at work. The mac user did allow the software to be installed. They were prompted for their password to install it. It's OSX, it's apple, they are safe. Wrong. The software was trying to gain access by guessing the account and password and sending them to a machine in China. Well, CA and the owner of the site is in China. It actually sent the failed ones as well. It could have been doing more, but that is what we found first.
This person got this by visiting a dating site. He was prompted for his apple password when the site loaded. No he was not looking to date Chinese girls. We did a few tests (with test machines). On windows logged in with guest access, errors on page load. Windows with regular user or admin, page loaded fine. Machine appeared fine. It wasn't. On linux, a bunch or errors messages (can't find C:\windows, missing file, etc.). Yes the faculty did have to explain to his director why he was looking at dating sites while at work on university machines. I was not there for that meeting. I so wanted to be.
Personally, I'd have gone for +1 Insightful for this. It potentially serves to emphasise to the mainlanders that they are somehow second class to the citizens of HK. A former colleague once described going from HK to the mainland to visit a supplier as like going from West Berlin to communist East Berlin. He was talking about all the security involved - and having to be followed around by a communist party apparatchik all the time. However, you do have to wonder if there are other parallels to be drawn there...
I don't know. Was the the apparatchchik a good looking woman? That could have been a good thing.
The insurance have gone on record as supporting this health care reform.
You might want to check all sides of the health care debate.
Also, if you think that taxes and health care costs will not go up as a result of this new bill, you are sadly mistaken. I wish costs will not go up, but the numbers do not work out. How can millions of people who cannot afford health care get free health care? Those government vouchers, that is right. Those vouchers are paid for by: taxes. The added costs by the health care companies will be passed down to the customers.
Health care costs could have been cut more by stopping all the frivolous health care related law suites. Doctors are too afraid of being sued to provide the care needed. They order too many tests to cover everything plus people lie to their doctors to get meds. The doctors and hospitals have to have massive malpractice insurance in case they are sued. Guess where the cost of this insurance goes? It is passed to their customers.
All we're doing by saying "discipline or fire people who won't follow the policies we propose" is making it Somebody Else's Problem.
Depends on the problem. The drive by stuff from bad ads should not be the user's fault. Unless those ads were from sites that the person was not supposed to be vising. But for things that require user interaction to get installed, yes the user is at fault. And saying "that is an IT issue" is not going to solve the problem. The problem is the user and should be addressed.
I have no idea why some people nee to open every email they get. The subject contains nothing to do with work, and is obvious spam, yet they still open those emails. I have seen more malware from email that is totally avoidable. Do not open the email. Also people are amazed to find out the preview is the same as opening the email message.
It would be nice if employees are but through some kind of "this is what not to do on a computer" training.
Why have you not just built your own box? It may not have the nicest looking case (well there are some but they can really up the cost), but it will be a PC and stream video, and record if you put in the correct components. Plus by building your own, you choose what parts go into it, so you know what it can and cannot do. If things change, you can change a component to keep up with the change.
As long as you do your homework before you buy anything, you should be OK. Make sure that the parts you want to get do work together on the OS you want to use.
The number 1 search site in China is not Google but a Chinese company.
Stop subjecting my to groinal patdowns when I enter an airport or train terminal.
It depends on who is doing the pat down.
AMD's chips don't change sockets every 2 months. I can upgrade my AMD CPU without having to upgrade my entire machine. You can't compare the cost of the Intel chip directly to the AMD chip without taking the other costs into account as well.
I thought I remember something similar being said about AMD switching to AM2 then AM3 sockets. Yes you can plug an AM3 CPU into an AM2 socket but there was (is?) a performance hit. Also how long did intel keep the 775 socket? But intel should have kept the 1156 socket around longer. They did jump to socket 1366 really fast when compared to how long the 775 socket was around.
The problem is that some of those students also come from wealthy families with lawyers. They feel it is the school's responsibility to educate the students. The problem that I see is that the students do not care about learning. They just want to have fun and get their A.
I'd say give all the students the grade they earn, and if they fail so be it. That is part of being responsible for your own actions. Something many people need to learn.
No. Those who were elected into power should never have anonymous voting. Only those not in power (that would be the regular people) should have anonymous voting. Those in power should be doing the will of the people that put them there. The regular people need to be able to vote without fear of being arrested, fined, etc. for voting against something that those in power want.
So, thin clients? Or maybe thick clients? The user's machine only has enough software to get a web browser online. Everything else is out there in the cloud.
For the time being, there will be end users who do not trust the cloud. They want to be able to get to their apps/docs/files when ever they want to. Also back in the early 2000's the internet was not as big as it is today. There are a lot more people using it today. Timing can also be a factor.
I'd say office 2007 is a pretty major improvement, At least for me only because excel can open way way more cells now.
There is a reason why there are these called databases. Stop using excel as a database. The old 65,000 row limit was too large. When spreadsheets get that large it is time to 'upgrade' to a database. Use database views (or what ever they are called in your database of choice) to sum up the data so that the smaller spreadsheet application can handle the data.
Monetary damage != violence.
Depends on who you ask. If they cleaned out your bank account(s) and forced you to sell all you had, how would you feel?
Probably misses the file, edit, view.. across the top. Tools-->toolbars-->menu bar puts those back.
How does photoshop (and the rest of adobe's suite) run in a VM? I know is horrifying to some to actually use windows, but if you need photoshop, and it runs fine in a VM, why not do that? At least it will work as intended, and you can nerf the outside world on that VM so windows doesn't catch anything.
I must have gotten a deal. My mini 9 has a 32 GB SSD installed in it. It cost me $25 more to get it.
I keep on looking at the 64GB ones.