Having the right tools is nice, but in the case of a word processor, I think it would benefit students if they could actually WRITE two or more cohesive sentences. Any use of text messaging shorthand ('ub2', '2g2bt','gr8') would be grounds for banning them from using an electronic communications device for one year per infraction.
Somebody please tell congress that they don't have jurisdiction on other planets.
in fact they don't but they do have jurisdiction over the citizens of the US that may travel there. Enlightened body that they are, I can see the headlines in 2025 - "FIRST MARS EXPLORERS FACE JAIL SENTENCE".
I think it odd that Rep Barney Frank, my esteemed Congressman, wanted to stop human exploration of Mars. If that passes, how will he ever get home?
Congress is familiar with three types of space:
the space that exists in their coat pockets when empty
the space that exists between themselves and the people that continue to elect them
and, Congress is very familiar with dark matter. They often see it while exploring the space between their buttocks.
While I'm sure your posting is sort of serious, I can't help chuckle at the thought of being serious about a form of "entertainment" where every five minutes or so, someone's tongue or penis is in one of someone else's bodily orifices.
You live in a fantasy land if you think different. It never ceases to amaze me how the third world countries can hi-jack the UN to beat the US up over waterboarding prisoners while those same countries execute people at random - yeah, let's give the UN control. Great idea.
The tinfoil hat crowd is alive and well at/. They sit in their dark little cubicles, spouting off the crap they learned from their Ward Churchillian professors, and have zero critical thinking skills.
The comment just above yours was modded "Insightful" by some tinfoil asshat. Of course, if you could confront these dweebs that write this garbage and ask them what country they would prefer over the US, I doubt they would have a clue how to answer. What they usually do is start calling the challenger names and making derogatory remarks about the challenger's intelligence or penis size. They remind me of the Fedex TV commercial where the guy is asked to put a pin in China and ends up tearing down the map. Totally clueless - and they should be completely marginalized.
If the dish is on property under your exclusive control, ie your deck, then they can suck it. Otherwise you need permission to install.
And the only reason you'd need permission is so the installation is in compliance with local building and safety codes. Otherwise, I can picture some Joe Handyman attaching a dish to a flagpole with tie wraps. Or, hanging it out a window and securing it with Velcro.
Trust me, there would be those that would do things like that.
As for the guy that ended up with garbage (if BestBuy didn't do the right thing, as they didn't seem to),
5. if Best Buy continue to not hand over the drive, sue them for selling you a brick (small claims) + taking money for it + ALL your time you lost + court filing fees. Just do not exaggerate your time - judges don't like that.
Unfortunately, one can't sue for time in small claims in the US. A small claims action is designed to replace property value. A plaintiff will never be made whole in small claims court.
why does everything have to be harder to do in Windows?
To keep people like me employed of course.......
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There is a reason why Usenet was forgotten: it was the birthplace of spam.
Huh? Forgotten? I reviewed the list of MP3 groups tonight and by my estimate, there is over 25 million message headers, just in the alt* mp3 groups. I use Giganews which has a long retention window, but usenet has grown quite large in the last five years. My favorite newsreader, first purchased in 1997, Forte Agent, could no longer handle the massive number of headers without hanging, and that still occurs after a major rewrite of the code. I now use a more efficient client, News Rover that handles the huge influx of headers with ease,
You are correct; the average user is clueless about usenet. But that's just fine with me. The users that do know about it have been enjoying years of downloading bliss.
hands up who here uses gmail to the max?
myself after 2 years im only using ~500MB
Well, maybe it's because you don't have friends or relatives that send you stupid videos and pictures.
I regret the day I trained my mother-in-law how to attach things to emails. I may have to show her how to find things on Youtube or how to upload and link to them on Youtube.
Or maybe just break her PC and tell her it can't be fixed........
Not everyone who pirates Windows did so intentionally. What about those of us who spent $80,000 on Microsoft licenses from a VAR in which case the VAR pirated the software? See, some of us are stuck with pirated software that we paid for but Microsoft will not allow us to use.
Call me crazy, but if my former employer budgeted 80 large for anything from one source, you can believe that vendor would get the mother of all anal exams.
Didn't anyone ever hear of references or indemnification clauses?
Oh, I agree. As I said many tymes [sic] I think ownership of some infrastructure should be separate from the services that it provides. For instance I think it might be better for a community to build and own the infrastructure but allow open access for any services the infrastructure can provide.
For the most part I concur, provided you're not suggesting enshrining such separation into law. It would be a reasonable way to divide up the existing telco system, since the primary complaint seems to be that the infrastructure was publically funded in the first place, while the actual services are -- for the most part -- privately funded from current revenues.
Personally I've always thought communications infrastructure was a good opportunity for a community co-op, for the same reasons that power and natural gas are often provided by co-ops: local control over local infrastructure. The co-op could either purchase Internet access on behalf of its members, or just act as a large LAN that its members could use to communicate directly with each other and with various independent ISPs of their choice.
Thankfully, someone else thinks the way I do. I'm all in favor of the public owning the infrastructure, just as we do know when it comes to roadways. Owning the fibre highway doesn't preclude the community from making a profit on it - charge access fees (leases) - just as any good business would.
This is not something that can be worked out in a posting on/. or a cocktail napkin. But, the time to do this is now, because a lot of fibre is being laid each day and in a few years, the idea will be unworkable.
IIRC, the boxes are supposed to be more like $40. They are going to be subsidized with part of the money the gov't rakes in from auctioning off the bandwidth. IMO, that's fair because these companies that buy little spectrum monopolies are going to be making serious cash with their exclusive privileges. It's only right that part of their fees compensate current TV users for having to deal with this major pain in the ass.
That is fair, if it really happens. The problem I have with government mandated problems is someone always figures out a way to scam the system and in the end, it becomes unfair.
Maybe this will be different. Hope springs eternal.
To those people against the switch to digital because it is going to cost them US$20 it may be a good idea to start saving (all-right I have not covered portables).
A few other posters have mentioned the set top converter will be $20US. I'm cynical enough to have serious doubts that such a box will ever exist, that the final cost will be much more, unless it's subsidized which I'd completely oppose.
Can you or any others cite some source that states the box really will only cost $20?
S&T magazine has been published for more than 65 years, and while many might not consider it "entry level", it has changed in recent years to include more newbie information. With the cesation of publishing of its sister magazine "Night Sky" some of the stuff from NS is now in S&T.
What we need for road safety is reflectors in the roads. Roads that have them are substantially easier to drive on at night and during heavy rain, especially heavy rain at night.
If you live in a area where there is no snow, road reflectors work beautifully. But, here in the US snow belt, no road reflector has yet been invented that will survive a snowplow. And before the snowplow rips it from the roadway, snow on the road makes reflectors useless. Invent one that will survive cold and snoplows, and you'll be set for life.
I don't have the answer, but this is an alternate perspective.
The average supermarket parking lot is much brighter at midnight than necessary. You also don't need the entire parking lot lit all night, when on most nights, the first two rows of lights would suffice for the night-time customers.
I would disagree with that statement, because no business wants to waste energy if they can help it. Most large parking lots I'm familiar with have shielding to prevent upward glare, but that doesn't mean you won't see the bulb filament. They are installed high up to allow the light to spread, resulting in fewer light fixtures and poles.
A dark parking lot is a sure fire way to scare off customers. Stores and malls just won't do what you suggest for that reason alone.
While I'm sure we could all point to lots where power is wasted, the majority of the large parking lots are designed to be relatively energy efficient. But they won't be dark under any circumstances.
I think the biggest problem in music, at least in the US, is the end of independent ownership and management of radio stations. Radio is the most important tool for disseminating musical innovation, and once the distribution channels are centrally controlled, innovation is squashed by corporate gatekeeper........ In this context, the crushing of Internet radio is the worst thing imaginable, because it is crushing the last legitimate outlet for individuality in music distribution. File sharing may be a problem for the music industry, but unauthorized sharing is really the only outlet left for individual music advocacy.
Your view is a bit apocalyptic. While it's true radio USED to be most important distribution channel, it no longer is considering the internet's ability to make music available. Crushing internet radio? Only if the music is licensed by ASCAP, BMI or other RIAA sanctioned licensing entities is affected. If a musician chooses not to license through the standard licensing outfits, his/her music can be performed publicly without compensation. There's no income from it, but that model is still being born. It's just not ready to stand on its own yet.
Within a few years, music (or 'record') stores will cease to exist. Hundreds have already closed; more will follow. The internet will be the source and some brilliant person will eventually develop a business model that benefits the artists. It just won't be me 'cause I'm just not that smart.
I'd be interested if they said artificial cartilage. I had arthroscopic surgery on my right elbow 10 years ago... I'd like them to have been able to replace the cartilage they removed. Might not hurt as much now.
Better than artificial cartilage would be a way to re-grow the original stuff, or preserve what we've got. Loss of cartilage is arthritis, and it's a disease that hits millions of people, not just old folks either. I'm now 54, and having total hip replacement (THR) surgery next week, and other than that, have no medical problems. The doctors say hip joint degeneration is genetic, but that seems to be the explanation for anything they can't otherwise explain.
Figuring out how to maintain cartilage would be of greater interest to me and many others like yourself, I'm sure.
.....nothing but an MIS (Management Information Systems) degree and experience working on their mom's computer. I can hear it now, "but they are cisco certified!!!". Yeah- certification.. spend a few hours studying some high level networking material, take a test-- now your an *expert*. always blaming whatever is new touching their "pristine" networks.
You've said what I've been thinking for years. Maybe with a little more force than I would have said it, but your point is on target.
When I certified on Novell in 1998, I assumed most of my classmates were already in the IT field as techs. Come to find out, many of them had never used a PC before Windows 98 or 95. One character was given a floppy disc with the Novell client on it and waited for it to run the install routine for him. On another occasion, I demonstrated ANSI color codes in a batch file to the class (the instructor and I got along well)and they were amazed.
I've said it before and nothing here has disproved my view - degrees or certifications are nothing more than showing the world you can take classes, accumulate facts and regurgitate what's been learned on a test. Out of every 100 degrees or certifications earned, I'd be willing to bet less than a third actually understand what they've studied. This may not apply to every cert or degree, but as one progresses up the degree tree, I think the number may actually decrease.
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Having the right tools is nice, but in the case of a word processor, I think it would benefit students if they could actually WRITE two or more cohesive sentences. Any use of text messaging shorthand ('ub2', '2g2bt','gr8') would be grounds for banning them from using an electronic communications device for one year per infraction.
in fact they don't but they do have jurisdiction over the citizens of the US that may travel there. Enlightened body that they are, I can see the headlines in 2025 - "FIRST MARS EXPLORERS FACE JAIL SENTENCE".
I think it odd that Rep Barney Frank, my esteemed Congressman, wanted to stop human exploration of Mars. If that passes, how will he ever get home?
Congress is familiar with three types of space:
the space that exists in their coat pockets when empty
the space that exists between themselves and the people that continue to elect them
and, Congress is very familiar with dark matter. They often see it while exploring the space between their buttocks.
It's kind of ............surreal.
The tinfoil hat crowd is alive and well at /. They sit in their dark little cubicles, spouting off the crap they learned from their Ward Churchillian professors, and have zero critical thinking skills.
The comment just above yours was modded "Insightful" by some tinfoil asshat. Of course, if you could confront these dweebs that write this garbage and ask them what country they would prefer over the US, I doubt they would have a clue how to answer. What they usually do is start calling the challenger names and making derogatory remarks about the challenger's intelligence or penis size. They remind me of the Fedex TV commercial where the guy is asked to put a pin in China and ends up tearing down the map. Totally clueless - and they should be completely marginalized.
Are you having "useability" as a yardstick? Silly you. It's all about having an electronic toy that convince
A) Geeks that they will now outrank other geeks.
B) Non-geeks that they are now cooler than other non-geeks.
C) Geeks that having an ubercool toy will get them sex with a non-geek.
I don't have any mod points today, but if I did, I'd mod this funny and interesting. Not sure how I'd do that but I'd try it.
By the way, sex with a non-geek isn't all that exciting. Just ask my wife......
Quite a story. That guy needs a sharper, tougher lawyer.
Question: id his case is so solid, why hasn't he sued Nissan?
Was it necessary for you to mention this? Now all of /. will know there are some ignorant people posting on here.............
And the only reason you'd need permission is so the installation is in compliance with local building and safety codes. Otherwise, I can picture some Joe Handyman attaching a dish to a flagpole with tie wraps. Or, hanging it out a window and securing it with Velcro.
Trust me, there would be those that would do things like that.
5. if Best Buy continue to not hand over the drive, sue them for selling you a brick (small claims) + taking money for it + ALL your time you lost + court filing fees. Just do not exaggerate your time - judges don't like that.
Unfortunately, one can't sue for time in small claims in the US. A small claims action is designed to replace property value. A plaintiff will never be made whole in small claims court.
IANAL but have been a plaintiff.
To keep people like me employed of course.......
Huh? Forgotten? I reviewed the list of MP3 groups tonight and by my estimate, there is over 25 million message headers, just in the alt* mp3 groups. I use Giganews which has a long retention window, but usenet has grown quite large in the last five years. My favorite newsreader, first purchased in 1997, Forte Agent, could no longer handle the massive number of headers without hanging, and that still occurs after a major rewrite of the code. I now use a more efficient client, News Rover that handles the huge influx of headers with ease,
You are correct; the average user is clueless about usenet. But that's just fine with me. The users that do know about it have been enjoying years of downloading bliss.
myself after 2 years im only using ~500MB
Well, maybe it's because you don't have friends or relatives that send you stupid videos and pictures.
I regret the day I trained my mother-in-law how to attach things to emails. I may have to show her how to find things on Youtube or how to upload and link to them on Youtube.
Or maybe just break her PC and tell her it can't be fixed........
Could you please reveal what arm of the US Government protects college campuses?
The only government protection I know of is the US military, and I'm fairly certain they're not stationed on US campuses.
Call me crazy, but if my former employer budgeted 80 large for anything from one source, you can believe that vendor would get the mother of all anal exams.
Didn't anyone ever hear of references or indemnification clauses?
For the most part I concur, provided you're not suggesting enshrining such separation into law. It would be a reasonable way to divide up the existing telco system, since the primary complaint seems to be that the infrastructure was publically funded in the first place, while the actual services are -- for the most part -- privately funded from current revenues.
Personally I've always thought communications infrastructure was a good opportunity for a community co-op, for the same reasons that power and natural gas are often provided by co-ops: local control over local infrastructure. The co-op could either purchase Internet access on behalf of its members, or just act as a large LAN that its members could use to communicate directly with each other and with various independent ISPs of their choice.
Thankfully, someone else thinks the way I do. I'm all in favor of the public owning the infrastructure, just as we do know when it comes to roadways. Owning the fibre highway doesn't preclude the community from making a profit on it - charge access fees (leases) - just as any good business would.
This is not something that can be worked out in a posting on /. or a cocktail napkin. But, the time to do this is now, because a lot of fibre is being laid each day and in a few years, the idea will be unworkable.
That is fair, if it really happens. The problem I have with government mandated problems is someone always figures out a way to scam the system and in the end, it becomes unfair.
Maybe this will be different. Hope springs eternal.
A few other posters have mentioned the set top converter will be $20US. I'm cynical enough to have serious doubts that such a box will ever exist, that the final cost will be much more, unless it's subsidized which I'd completely oppose.
Can you or any others cite some source that states the box really will only cost $20?
The S&T website is also a good resource for information: http://www.skytonight.com/
If you live in a area where there is no snow, road reflectors work beautifully. But, here in the US snow belt, no road reflector has yet been invented that will survive a snowplow. And before the snowplow rips it from the roadway, snow on the road makes reflectors useless. Invent one that will survive cold and snoplows, and you'll be set for life.
I don't have the answer, but this is an alternate perspective.
I would disagree with that statement, because no business wants to waste energy if they can help it. Most large parking lots I'm familiar with have shielding to prevent upward glare, but that doesn't mean you won't see the bulb filament. They are installed high up to allow the light to spread, resulting in fewer light fixtures and poles.
A dark parking lot is a sure fire way to scare off customers. Stores and malls just won't do what you suggest for that reason alone.
While I'm sure we could all point to lots where power is wasted, the majority of the large parking lots are designed to be relatively energy efficient. But they won't be dark under any circumstances.
Your view is a bit apocalyptic. While it's true radio USED to be most important distribution channel, it no longer is considering the internet's ability to make music available. Crushing internet radio? Only if the music is licensed by ASCAP, BMI or other RIAA sanctioned licensing entities is affected. If a musician chooses not to license through the standard licensing outfits, his/her music can be performed publicly without compensation. There's no income from it, but that model is still being born. It's just not ready to stand on its own yet.
Within a few years, music (or 'record') stores will cease to exist. Hundreds have already closed; more will follow. The internet will be the source and some brilliant person will eventually develop a business model that benefits the artists. It just won't be me 'cause I'm just not that smart.
My hip replacement is scheduled for next week, so let me add a "me too".
Better than artificial cartilage would be a way to re-grow the original stuff, or preserve what we've got. Loss of cartilage is arthritis, and it's a disease that hits millions of people, not just old folks either. I'm now 54, and having total hip replacement (THR) surgery next week, and other than that, have no medical problems. The doctors say hip joint degeneration is genetic, but that seems to be the explanation for anything they can't otherwise explain.
Figuring out how to maintain cartilage would be of greater interest to me and many others like yourself, I'm sure.
.....nothing but an MIS (Management Information Systems) degree and experience working on their mom's computer. I can hear it now, "but they are cisco certified!!!". Yeah- certification.. spend a few hours studying some high level networking material, take a test-- now your an *expert*. always blaming whatever is new touching their "pristine" networks.You've said what I've been thinking for years. Maybe with a little more force than I would have said it, but your point is on target.
When I certified on Novell in 1998, I assumed most of my classmates were already in the IT field as techs. Come to find out, many of them had never used a PC before Windows 98 or 95. One character was given a floppy disc with the Novell client on it and waited for it to run the install routine for him. On another occasion, I demonstrated ANSI color codes in a batch file to the class (the instructor and I got along well)and they were amazed.
I've said it before and nothing here has disproved my view - degrees or certifications are nothing more than showing the world you can take classes, accumulate facts and regurgitate what's been learned on a test. Out of every 100 degrees or certifications earned, I'd be willing to bet less than a third actually understand what they've studied. This may not apply to every cert or degree, but as one progresses up the degree tree, I think the number may actually decrease.
Thank gawd someone cares about me..........