I expect the FBI, CIA, drones, black helicopters, KGB, PITA, the police (not the pop group), and all the other agencies to track my every move and show up at my door any second now.
On a more serious note, if google or any other search engine was to do this it is a huge slippery slope. I hope that google or whoever would be held accountable for any harm done. If they did report it and some crime was stopped, google (or whoever) would be reaping the rewards of that act. They should be held accountable for any harm as well. Hopefully this is not going to happen. If it does I could see 5th grade little Johnny having his home raided due to looking up how to make a guillotine. He wanted to make a 4 inch by 5 inch working model for his class project.
What if some other company/country copied something that is Chinese? Would the Chinese company (or person or whoever) get upset or look at it as a positive thing? Or would that Chinese entity sue the crap out of the offending entity?
Regular people think those in IT can read minds and predict the future. I keep on telling my co-workers that I cannot read minds and cannot predict the future. For if I could, do you actually think I would be working here?
Well unions keep crappy teachers teaching. That is a bad thing.
And no child left behind actually hurt students. Instead of having them repeat a grade since they didn't learn anything (the reasons for that aside for the moment) that student was sent to the next grade unpaired for that grade. That process keeps on repeating. This is from over 300 teachers. They were not allowed to fail a student. No NCLB is bad.
The reasons for a student not learning can be that student does not care. In those cases either have them repeat the grade so they are away from their friends, or boot them from the school. Repeating a grade can embarrass a student. That might actually make them do the work.
Someone who is in the neighborhood watch can and does ask an unknown person what they are doing there. This is a gated community. People just to do pass through such places. If Martin had said I am just going to my dad's girlfriend's house. That would have been it. Or Zimmerman could have then asked which house, checked it out and that would have been it. No need to fight at all. To some people asking what are you doing here is a confrontation that demands violence. That is a problem.
Zimmerman gets out of his car. Zimmerman asks Martin what are you doing here. Martin instead of saying that he was going to his dad's girlfriend's house. Attacks Zimmerman. Zimmerman then shoots Martin.
Everything is a matter of who did what. If Zimmerman wanted to kill Martin, why did Zimmerman have the injuries on the back of his head? The eye witness who said that Martin was on top of Zimmerman. Zimmerman could have just shot Martin and been done with it.
I don't think guns should be banned, I think they should be controlled and only licensed to people with extensive training or military experience. You know, like Switzerland where everyone is armed because everyone is in the military.
Some of us are old. Going though basic training now would be a killer.
There is something about pulling out a 45 revolver that makes the person trying to rob you back the off really fast.
Hand guns are for close range. Where you can see the "whites of their eyes" range. Also, most rifles and shotguns are not so good in close quarters. If you are in your narrow hallway and there is someone trying to rob or kill you in your own home, which would you rather have? Besides most hand guns have more rounds then a rifle or shotgun. We citizens are not supposed to have the assault rifles that can have large clips of rounds.
Personally, if someone wants a hand gun for "self defense" or to protect their home (same thing to me). They should have to get a.45. If you can not handle a.45, then you should not get a hand gun. A.45 has good stopping power. The.45 itself can be imitating. It has been around a long time. It is simpler (much like the.38 and other revolvers) to clean and keep in good working order then the semi automatics. Yes it can kill. If you are shooting someone who breaks into your house, are you going to shoot them in the foot and ask them to wait there while you call the police? Or are you going to shoot them until they are no longer a threat then call the police. That is if you have not already called the police.
ps. I do not own a gun. I know i would use it if the situation came up. For me a baseball bat works well.
Are you installing XP 64 bit? It looks like you are not. Some people have a need to put 4GB or more of RAM in the computer to work with the huge images files, video files, and other huge files. If you don't that is fine. Some people want to use the faster CPUs that are out. To use the newer CPU they need to use a the newer motherboard. That motherboard may not even have XP drivers. Or those drivers are buggy as hell since the motherboard manufacture thinks people are not using XP that much. There are reasons to switch. You just do not have any.
Even when I used P3s, I did have 512MB or maxed the motherboard out. XP ran a lot better then with 128MB. If you can find the RAM try it. You might just see XP running faster.
Switching out failed hardware requires windows to activate again. I could sort of understand changing the motherboard, but changing the RAM? That is stupid. Well more stupid then having to activate after typing in the code in the first place. Having to call microsoft to get a new code is a pain. Of course having to explain to them a motherboard upgrade due to a motherboard failure is a pain, but doable. Telling them the old one blew its capacitors did help a bit. I actually had someone who knew something about hardware.
The last time I got the call to fix my parents computer I backed up all their data and installed ubuntu I think it was version 9 or 10. Installed Open office and copied back their data. Set up their email, tested a few things that I didn't test before I went there. They thought they were on windows for about 4 months. They did not like having to use a password at first. But for what they do, ubuntu worked fine. The hardest part was finding an application that let them do what print shop did.
I thought there were many servers (a lot in CA) that are merely in the US for foreign people. Since they had a US IP they were not blocked even though they are pushing the same crap as their foreign counterparts.
If people took responsibility for their own actions, the person who lead a high fat/high cholesterol lifestyle should have planned for an early death. He/she took out insurance policies and saved money for their family to use when then kicked the bucket. Planing for the future should also have been taught to the family. That person's kids should have planned on not relaying on their parent who is heading towards an early grave. I don't mean the kids when they are 1-17 years of age. But at 18 those kids should have enough common sense that mommie or daddy is doing something wrong and is not going to live forever. They better plan for that.
Instead we have a society where many expect others to provide for them. That is a problem. Case in point: the US department of agriculture (USDA) makes the signs that are put in parks that say "Do not feed the animals. Feeding them makes them more dependent and they cannot fend for themselves". The same department also makes food stamps available. That department is happy to provide the record number of people on food stamps. People should be trying to better themselves. Many expect the handout. They do not try to better themselves. Why should they? They are given free food, a free place to live. That is wrong. Somewhere along the line the idea that this assistance was to help you along while you picked yourself up and made your life better was lost. That needs to be corrected.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. The courage to change the things I can. And the wisdom to know where to bury the bodies of those people I had to kill along the way....!
Most of the upper management people can't get past IT asking for an expensive . They do not see IT as bring in money. It doesn't matter how much IT saves, or allows those other people to bring in money. The MBA types only see IT as spending money that others make.
They also can not under stand why they have a hard time filling the position when they combine 6-7 IT jobs into one single job. I have seen a position where one person was supposed to: Design and maintain the website, build and maintain the servers, deploy the desktops/laptops to people, trouble shoot end users problems, teach users how to do things, maintain the software licenses for the company, trouble shoot wired and wireless network issues. All that for a company with 550 employees. So they were not a huge company, but they are not small ether. The pay, $45,000-$50,000.
He definitely cares about himself first. He care about getting reelected. He wants the younger generation vote. The younger generation is more likely to use smart phones. Obama is probable thinking if I do something that the younger people like/want they will vote for me.
It would be funny if this was the same person. They just post anti google one day anti linux, anti apple another day. All to get reactions out of other people. There are people who get great pleasure in getting negative reactions out of others. They might be the ultimate/. troll.
Going by what people are saying on how bad chrome books are selling, I think the market disagrees with you.
Like any of the "this is the greatest thing ever" devices. Some people claim that it will replace everything else. For example, the ipad and other tablets. Some people claim that they can do all of their computing needs. For some people this is true. For others it is an accessory to their computer. They still need the laptop/desktop to do most things. For others the tablet is just not going to cut it. The faster people stop buying the hype, and see as a device for what it is and how they can use it, the better.
I have seen too many people force the ipad into things that it is just not made to do. For example, They have a video conference system. Insteasd of using it, they use the ipad with skype. For a one on one call, no problem. For a room of 12 people having a conference with another room of 25 people? No, use the video conference system that is already in place. They propped up the ipad to show the room. We had a great view of the ceiling and the tops of a few people's heads. No faces. To top is off, they were showing slides. We did not see any of the slides. If they had used the video conference system, we would have seen everyone and seen the slides.
Some people have it in the head that is the answer to everything. They fail to see the device's shortcomings. This seems to be getting worse as time goes on. That or the hype is getting better.
Just remember to cancel or you could be paying the normal price. Cable + extended cable (to get sifi or is it syfy now?) initial cost me $50 a month. Now it is $95 a month. No DVR. No HBO. To get HBO now I have to get digital cable which adds another $40 a month. If I had an option that was not worse I would switch. I made a DVR. I can record 4 channels at the same time. I can record more if I add another tuner card. If I switch to digital cable, fios, or satellite I can only record 1 maybe 2 channels at the same time. For some reason the shows I like get moved all to the same night at the same time. The price has gone up and will continue to go up until the analog cable cost equals the digital cable cost. Then we will get a 'free' upgrade to digital cable. Which will allow me to do less then I can do now. For me it would be a downgrade to digital cable.
If you are looking to move, and the area is a flood zone. Look elsewhere. If you are dumb enough to move into a flood zone, why should other people pay for your foolishness. Tornado zones really can be anywhere. The state of Maryland has many tornados. Yet that state is not considered part of tornado ally.
What OS? From what I read the bulldozer line had issues that were to be addressed in the windows 8. So many on windows 7 stayed away. If your not on windows this is a non issue. Besides 8 real cores should beat the snot out of 4 real cores and 4 virtual cores every time.
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Since that brings up every how to thing...
I expect the FBI, CIA, drones, black helicopters, KGB, PITA, the police (not the pop group), and all the other agencies to track my every move and show up at my door any second now.
On a more serious note, if google or any other search engine was to do this it is a huge slippery slope. I hope that google or whoever would be held accountable for any harm done. If they did report it and some crime was stopped, google (or whoever) would be reaping the rewards of that act. They should be held accountable for any harm as well. Hopefully this is not going to happen. If it does I could see 5th grade little Johnny having his home raided due to looking up how to make a guillotine. He wanted to make a 4 inch by 5 inch working model for his class project.
Must not have been a Disney town. Those copyrights never expire!
What if some other company/country copied something that is Chinese? Would the Chinese company (or person or whoever) get upset or look at it as a positive thing? Or would that Chinese entity sue the crap out of the offending entity?
Regular people think those in IT can read minds and predict the future. I keep on telling my co-workers that I cannot read minds and cannot predict the future. For if I could, do you actually think I would be working here?
Well unions keep crappy teachers teaching. That is a bad thing.
And no child left behind actually hurt students. Instead of having them repeat a grade since they didn't learn anything (the reasons for that aside for the moment) that student was sent to the next grade unpaired for that grade. That process keeps on repeating. This is from over 300 teachers. They were not allowed to fail a student. No NCLB is bad.
The reasons for a student not learning can be that student does not care. In those cases either have them repeat the grade so they are away from their friends, or boot them from the school. Repeating a grade can embarrass a student. That might actually make them do the work.
I was thinking the same thing. Then again I have never looked up porn positions/acts on Wikipedia.
Then again, did this story drive up Wikipedia's page hits today? Maybe this is nothing more then an attempt to drive up the numbers.
Someone who is in the neighborhood watch can and does ask an unknown person what they are doing there. This is a gated community. People just to do pass through such places. If Martin had said I am just going to my dad's girlfriend's house. That would have been it. Or Zimmerman could have then asked which house, checked it out and that would have been it. No need to fight at all. To some people asking what are you doing here is a confrontation that demands violence. That is a problem.
It also could have gone down this way:
Zimmerman gets out of his car. Zimmerman asks Martin what are you doing here. Martin instead of saying that he was going to his dad's girlfriend's house. Attacks Zimmerman. Zimmerman then shoots Martin.
Everything is a matter of who did what. If Zimmerman wanted to kill Martin, why did Zimmerman have the injuries on the back of his head? The eye witness who said that Martin was on top of Zimmerman. Zimmerman could have just shot Martin and been done with it.
I don't think guns should be banned, I think they should be controlled and only licensed to people with extensive training or military experience. You know, like Switzerland where everyone is armed because everyone is in the military.
Some of us are old. Going though basic training now would be a killer.
There is something about pulling out a 45 revolver that makes the person trying to rob you back the off really fast.
Hand guns are for close range. Where you can see the "whites of their eyes" range. Also, most rifles and shotguns are not so good in close quarters. If you are in your narrow hallway and there is someone trying to rob or kill you in your own home, which would you rather have? Besides most hand guns have more rounds then a rifle or shotgun. We citizens are not supposed to have the assault rifles that can have large clips of rounds.
Personally, if someone wants a hand gun for "self defense" or to protect their home (same thing to me). They should have to get a .45. If you can not handle a .45, then you should not get a hand gun. A .45 has good stopping power. The .45 itself can be imitating. It has been around a long time. It is simpler (much like the .38 and other revolvers) to clean and keep in good working order then the semi automatics. Yes it can kill. If you are shooting someone who breaks into your house, are you going to shoot them in the foot and ask them to wait there while you call the police? Or are you going to shoot them until they are no longer a threat then call the police. That is if you have not already called the police.
ps. I do not own a gun. I know i would use it if the situation came up. For me a baseball bat works well.
Are you installing XP 64 bit? It looks like you are not. Some people have a need to put 4GB or more of RAM in the computer to work with the huge images files, video files, and other huge files. If you don't that is fine. Some people want to use the faster CPUs that are out. To use the newer CPU they need to use a the newer motherboard. That motherboard may not even have XP drivers. Or those drivers are buggy as hell since the motherboard manufacture thinks people are not using XP that much. There are reasons to switch. You just do not have any.
Even when I used P3s, I did have 512MB or maxed the motherboard out. XP ran a lot better then with 128MB. If you can find the RAM try it. You might just see XP running faster.
Amazon, Newegg, and other online places that sell stuff. Buy the game online. It gets shipped to you. No need to go to a store.
Switching out failed hardware requires windows to activate again. I could sort of understand changing the motherboard, but changing the RAM? That is stupid. Well more stupid then having to activate after typing in the code in the first place. Having to call microsoft to get a new code is a pain. Of course having to explain to them a motherboard upgrade due to a motherboard failure is a pain, but doable. Telling them the old one blew its capacitors did help a bit. I actually had someone who knew something about hardware.
The last time I got the call to fix my parents computer I backed up all their data and installed ubuntu I think it was version 9 or 10. Installed Open office and copied back their data. Set up their email, tested a few things that I didn't test before I went there. They thought they were on windows for about 4 months. They did not like having to use a password at first. But for what they do, ubuntu worked fine. The hardest part was finding an application that let them do what print shop did.
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I thought there were many servers (a lot in CA) that are merely in the US for foreign people. Since they had a US IP they were not blocked even though they are pushing the same crap as their foreign counterparts.
If people took responsibility for their own actions, the person who lead a high fat/high cholesterol lifestyle should have planned for an early death. He/she took out insurance policies and saved money for their family to use when then kicked the bucket. Planing for the future should also have been taught to the family. That person's kids should have planned on not relaying on their parent who is heading towards an early grave. I don't mean the kids when they are 1-17 years of age. But at 18 those kids should have enough common sense that mommie or daddy is doing something wrong and is not going to live forever. They better plan for that.
Instead we have a society where many expect others to provide for them. That is a problem. Case in point: the US department of agriculture (USDA) makes the signs that are put in parks that say "Do not feed the animals. Feeding them makes them more dependent and they cannot fend for themselves". The same department also makes food stamps available. That department is happy to provide the record number of people on food stamps. People should be trying to better themselves. Many expect the handout. They do not try to better themselves. Why should they? They are given free food, a free place to live. That is wrong. Somewhere along the line the idea that this assistance was to help you along while you picked yourself up and made your life better was lost. That needs to be corrected.
I see you took this advice:
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. The courage to change the things I can. And the wisdom to know where to bury the bodies of those people I had to kill along the way....!
Most of the upper management people can't get past IT asking for an expensive . They do not see IT as bring in money. It doesn't matter how much IT saves, or allows those other people to bring in money. The MBA types only see IT as spending money that others make.
They also can not under stand why they have a hard time filling the position when they combine 6-7 IT jobs into one single job. I have seen a position where one person was supposed to: Design and maintain the website, build and maintain the servers, deploy the desktops/laptops to people, trouble shoot end users problems, teach users how to do things, maintain the software licenses for the company, trouble shoot wired and wireless network issues. All that for a company with 550 employees. So they were not a huge company, but they are not small ether. The pay, $45,000-$50,000.
He definitely cares about himself first. He care about getting reelected. He wants the younger generation vote. The younger generation is more likely to use smart phones. Obama is probable thinking if I do something that the younger people like/want they will vote for me.
I doubt Obama is reading slashdot but anyway...
It is the economy! Work on that first!
It would be funny if this was the same person. They just post anti google one day anti linux, anti apple another day. All to get reactions out of other people. There are people who get great pleasure in getting negative reactions out of others. They might be the ultimate /. troll.
Going by what people are saying on how bad chrome books are selling, I think the market disagrees with you.
Like any of the "this is the greatest thing ever" devices. Some people claim that it will replace everything else. For example, the ipad and other tablets. Some people claim that they can do all of their computing needs. For some people this is true. For others it is an accessory to their computer. They still need the laptop/desktop to do most things. For others the tablet is just not going to cut it. The faster people stop buying the hype, and see as a device for what it is and how they can use it, the better.
I have seen too many people force the ipad into things that it is just not made to do. For example, They have a video conference system. Insteasd of using it, they use the ipad with skype. For a one on one call, no problem. For a room of 12 people having a conference with another room of 25 people? No, use the video conference system that is already in place. They propped up the ipad to show the room. We had a great view of the ceiling and the tops of a few people's heads. No faces. To top is off, they were showing slides. We did not see any of the slides. If they had used the video conference system, we would have seen everyone and seen the slides.
Some people have it in the head that is the answer to everything. They fail to see the device's shortcomings. This seems to be getting worse as time goes on. That or the hype is getting better.
Just remember to cancel or you could be paying the normal price. Cable + extended cable (to get sifi or is it syfy now?) initial cost me $50 a month. Now it is $95 a month. No DVR. No HBO. To get HBO now I have to get digital cable which adds another $40 a month. If I had an option that was not worse I would switch. I made a DVR. I can record 4 channels at the same time. I can record more if I add another tuner card. If I switch to digital cable, fios, or satellite I can only record 1 maybe 2 channels at the same time. For some reason the shows I like get moved all to the same night at the same time. The price has gone up and will continue to go up until the analog cable cost equals the digital cable cost. Then we will get a 'free' upgrade to digital cable. Which will allow me to do less then I can do now. For me it would be a downgrade to digital cable.
If you are looking to move, and the area is a flood zone. Look elsewhere. If you are dumb enough to move into a flood zone, why should other people pay for your foolishness. Tornado zones really can be anywhere. The state of Maryland has many tornados. Yet that state is not considered part of tornado ally.
What OS? From what I read the bulldozer line had issues that were to be addressed in the windows 8. So many on windows 7 stayed away. If your not on windows this is a non issue. Besides 8 real cores should beat the snot out of 4 real cores and 4 virtual cores every time.