That appears to be a woefully incomplete list, both historically and recently. I don't see ANY of the planned parenthood clinic shootings on it, just to think of one right off the bat, and that's clearly (IMHO) a terrorist tactic, intended to persuade by fear.
I also don't see as much in the 1800s as there should be; there were several in the early 1800s, and in the mid-century, the entire U.S. policy against native americans should be counted as thousands of acts of terrorism with tens of thousands dead.
Even within the last 20 years, I bet there are dozens, perhaps hundreds of things not on that list.
It would also be interesting to see a list of terrorism activities that were funded by the US or other western countries, though they may not have been directly carried out by them.
Windows 2000 still runs fine, and as fast as it ever did. I guess the gamers will be forced to Vista when DirectX 10-only games come out, but I won't care.
The power is out story is not fake. In fact it has happened multiple times. I heard it straight from a manager who started in our company in tech support, she took the actual call and swears up and down it's true.
I've worked a bit of support myself and I can believe absolutely anything of customers. Anything above the level of breathing seems to be a challenge to some.
The key is that a book is reliable. Any media I can't back up easily is not reliable. No media can stand getting cooked in a house fire. I have a few hundred ebooks, and they're all backed up offsite. I have a few thousand paper books, and if my house burns, they're just gone.
I suppose it's human to fear the unknown. And the terror age we live in is filled with uncertainty.
People like to say "everything changed on 9/11". Well, as far as I'm concerned, the only thing that changed on 9/11 is that a lot of people with a naieve and incorrect notion of security got a rude wake-up call. I've wondered since I was a teenager (back in the 70s) why such an obviously soft and much-hated target as the US had not had a significant terror attack in many decades. OK City got us started, and was more along the lines of what I was originally thinking; absolutely anyone could have done that.
People want their warm fuzzy fake security back. They can't have it of course, because it never really existed, but there are no end of people (in government and elsewhere) willing to exploit their desire to their own ends.
Please don't act like your "knowledge" is universal. In many areas of the country, including where I live, 911 is simply how you get hold of emergency people. Our townships do not have enough money to man all the posts all the time, so they use the 911 system to route calls to whichever post has someone there at the time. If you try to call the normal number, you may have to try 4 or 5 numbers (if you have them all) before you get anyone, especially at night.
I have called 911 to report dangerous debris on the road that could cause an accident, and was thanked for it and they got a cruiser right out there to get the crap out of the road before someone got hurt by it.
My son's cub scout pack had a deputy out to talk to them last year. He very carefully told them that they should use 911 "any time that they are really scared of something real" - he gave examples of strange people looking in windows and they were home alone, or if a family member seemed to be asleep and wouldn't wake up. He did caution them that dialling 911 was a serious step, once they hit those three numbers, a police car WOULD come to their house, regardless of what else happened, even if an adult said it was a mistake, but he really tried to impress on them that if they really felt it was a scary situation they SHOULD call.
Besides, as has been already stated multiple times, 911 is for all real time situations, not just for when someone is bleeding or pointing a gun. In any area of the country, any situation where you need to talk to someone quickly, 911 is the right answer.
Yesterday in the local paper there was an article about a woman who's house was broken into and a lot of stuff stolen. One day she came home and her neighbor was having a yard sale, SELLING HER STUFF.
Yeah, there are some really less than bright individuals out there.
Vegetable oil in diesel engines USED to be thought to be one of the probable ways that cars would be powered. Diesel engines were certainly run off vegetable oils before then, but I'm not sure whether it was out of common usage by 1920 or not.
No. C: gets OS and apps only. Move "My Documents" to D: or higher. All data goes to D: or higher. When all is set up perfectly, Ghost the C: drive. Now if you have a problem, at any time you can just restore the C: drive without fear of losing data. I've been setting my machines up like this for years, and it's nice to be able to wipe out any spyware or whatever that the kids have installed in 10 minutes.
Nobody would have predicted that most people would now take pictures by holding the camera out in front of them and look at the preview screen to frame a shot.
Typical Dvorak; talks a lot, knows a lot less. I think maybe he should look at how cameras were built more than 20 years ago.
The very earliest cameras, from the 1800s, were mounted on a tripod, and in place of film you put a ground glass, and you looked at that "preview screen" to frame and focus the shot. Then you replaced the glass with film and took the shot.
Later on came the development of thet Twin Lens Reflex camera. In the early development of them, say, around 1920, you held it in front of you and looked at the "preview" screen to frame and focus, and then took the shot through the 2nd lens. Later on with the addition of a mirror they were generally held at the chest.
Pro cameras still use an optical viewfinder, and for good reason.
If you really want to scare someone from 1920, put him in a car and hit the expressway. They'd faint dead away.
If you "need" TV then you need to readjust your life. As in, "get one". DVDs look fine to me, but I have only a 27" TV that I'm perfectly happy with, and have no plans to replace anytime soon.
Perhaps the computer was not operational when they took it in, so they couldn't do a wipe. I've seen people take non-booting machines in, and the store replaces the hard drive even though it's just a loose cable or something. Wouldn't surprise me at all. Most people don't want the old part and wouldn't know what to do with it anyway. I know what to do with it. Take it apart for the neat magnets inside.
The thing is, even at the time there were better alternatives. There was a floppy drive lookalike, I think called "superdisk". 120 mb capacity, looked just like a floppy. more capacity, cheaper, read and wrote normal floppies too so only one drive, faster, didn't die like Zip disks. Their main problem is that they had lousy marketing, nobody had heard of them, and they were up against IOMega, who could sell manure to a pig farmer. It really didn't matter how bad their products were, IOMega could generate buzz over anything and make it seem great. Now of course Zips are totally pointless. When you can buy a GB thumb drive for $20, Zip just doesn't make any sense anymore. IOMega is still selling mediocre stuff, but since it's standard equipment like CD recorders, that doesn't matter anymore.
Rule 1: It's almost certainly not legit, before you even look. Rule 2: If it seems legit, then go to your browser and manually go to the institution's website and log in normally, do not use hotlinks provided in any email.
My rule 1 used to be just "it's not legit" - none of my financial institutions EVER contacted me via email up until about 6 months ago. Now they do, so I've modified it a bit.
You'd think people would get a BIT of a clue from the fact that, like me, they must be getting very valid-looking emails from places that they don't even have accounts with. You'd think that would tell them something.
A) I wouldn't think to look on Kazaa for books, I generally look on usenet or torrents. B) I read a lot of books, mostly ebooks or audio books on the commute, but don't really listen to music, so I never got in to Kazaa. For that matter, I don't run any P2P system that's primarily designed for music like that; all I really run is BitTorrent.
Perhaps both of these could be your explanation; you've got the book reading population self-selecting away from Kazaa to some extent, and those that are on Kazaa don't even think to look there for books.
I use XML and javascript HTML creation because then I can do a lot of transforms (sorting by columns, etc) without having to hit the server again. Code is code. I have to write it one way or the other, and I haven't found it to be much different whether I render the HTML in the server or in the browser.
Well, hams invented or greatly refined most of the technology used in your computer junk. A ton of radio and electronics innovations were made by hams, and ham radio has and continues to inspire kids to go into electronics and engineering. Ham radio in the US is becoming less useful to some extent, but it's still an important form of communications in some repressive areas of the world.
Yeah, I have a Kyocera phone, and a Creative Zen Micro MP3 player. Both use LiIon batteries, both the same voltage, and both have identical pinouts in the upper left corner. But the phone's battery is about 5mm longer and 5mm narrower than the Zen's. So they could easily have been interchangable, but they're not. Just irritating. I wouldn't mind being able to slot my MP3 player's battery into my phone in an emergency to make a call or two. I'm about to buy a new digital camera, and this time I'm going with one that uses AA batteries (Canon A series)
NiMH is generally preferred though. Characteristics are pretty much the same in most areas; high current delivery capacity, etc. NiMH generally lasts more cycles, though to get the most out of it requires a little better chargers. NiMH also works better at low temps than NiCad.
Well hell, if it doesn't exist, then he shouldn't mind if I make a few hundred copies and hand them out at conventions. As far as I can tell, the original trilogy had been the subject of more "labor of love" really well done fan DVD sets than anything else I can think of. I personally have three different DVD sets, all well done, some with nice extras and good menus.
Honestly, I've already bought the original trilogy at least 3 times, once on CED videodisc (!), once on VHS, then again on VHS special edition (I recently put that box set on a "freebies" table at a convention and nobody took it). I'd probably buy the original series on DVD, but I'm not buying a combo original+SE copy; I wouldn't want anyone to think that I actually bought it because of the SE.
Please don't think I was actually suggesting landfilling electronics. Personally I dismantle computers myself, dump the cases and such into the ferrous metal bin at the recycling place, and put the boards in a box in my basement until I find a place that I think will handle them properly.
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That appears to be a woefully incomplete list, both historically and recently. I don't see ANY of the planned parenthood clinic shootings on it, just to think of one right off the bat, and that's clearly (IMHO) a terrorist tactic, intended to persuade by fear.
I also don't see as much in the 1800s as there should be; there were several in the early 1800s, and in the mid-century, the entire U.S. policy against native americans should be counted as thousands of acts of terrorism with tens of thousands dead.
Even within the last 20 years, I bet there are dozens, perhaps hundreds of things not on that list.
It would also be interesting to see a list of terrorism activities that were funded by the US or other western countries, though they may not have been directly carried out by them.
Windows 2000 still runs fine, and as fast as it ever did.
I guess the gamers will be forced to Vista when DirectX 10-only games come out, but I won't care.
Heck, Microsoft used to SHIP WINDOWS (95) on overformatted floppies. Knocking the install set down by one whole floppy must have saved them TONS.
Gee, I can't imagine why you were banned. Next time you want a new IP just change your MAC and reboot, unless that's to stupid for you.
The power is out story is not fake. In fact it has happened multiple times. I heard it straight from a manager who started in our company in tech support, she took the actual call and swears up and down it's true.
I've worked a bit of support myself and I can believe absolutely anything of customers. Anything above the level of breathing seems to be a challenge to some.
The key is that a book is reliable.
Any media I can't back up easily is not reliable. No media can stand getting cooked in a house fire. I have a few hundred ebooks, and they're all backed up offsite. I have a few thousand paper books, and if my house burns, they're just gone.
I suppose it's human to fear the unknown. And the terror age we live in is filled with uncertainty.
People like to say "everything changed on 9/11". Well, as far as I'm concerned, the only thing that changed on 9/11 is that a lot of people with a naieve and incorrect notion of security got a rude wake-up call. I've wondered since I was a teenager (back in the 70s) why such an obviously soft and much-hated target as the US had not had a significant terror attack in many decades. OK City got us started, and was more along the lines of what I was originally thinking; absolutely anyone could have done that.
People want their warm fuzzy fake security back. They can't have it of course, because it never really existed, but there are no end of people (in government and elsewhere) willing to exploit their desire to their own ends.
Please don't act like your "knowledge" is universal. In many areas of the country, including where I live, 911 is simply how you get hold of emergency people. Our townships do not have enough money to man all the posts all the time, so they use the 911 system to route calls to whichever post has someone there at the time. If you try to call the normal number, you may have to try 4 or 5 numbers (if you have them all) before you get anyone, especially at night.
I have called 911 to report dangerous debris on the road that could cause an accident, and was thanked for it and they got a cruiser right out there to get the crap out of the road before someone got hurt by it.
My son's cub scout pack had a deputy out to talk to them last year. He very carefully told them that they should use 911 "any time that they are really scared of something real" - he gave examples of strange people looking in windows and they were home alone, or if a family member seemed to be asleep and wouldn't wake up. He did caution them that dialling 911 was a serious step, once they hit those three numbers, a police car WOULD come to their house, regardless of what else happened, even if an adult said it was a mistake, but he really tried to impress on them that if they really felt it was a scary situation they SHOULD call.
Besides, as has been already stated multiple times, 911 is for all real time situations, not just for when someone is bleeding or pointing a gun. In any area of the country, any situation where you need to talk to someone quickly, 911 is the right answer.
Yesterday in the local paper there was an article about a woman who's house was broken into and a lot of stuff stolen. One day she came home and her neighbor was having a yard sale, SELLING HER STUFF.
Yeah, there are some really less than bright individuals out there.
Vegetable oil in diesel engines USED to be thought to be one of the probable ways that cars would be powered.
Diesel engines were certainly run off vegetable oils before then, but I'm not sure whether it was out of common usage by 1920 or not.
No. C: gets OS and apps only. Move "My Documents" to D: or higher. All data goes to D: or higher.
When all is set up perfectly, Ghost the C: drive.
Now if you have a problem, at any time you can just restore the C: drive without fear of losing data.
I've been setting my machines up like this for years, and it's nice to be able to wipe out any spyware or whatever that the kids have installed in 10 minutes.
Nobody would have predicted that most people would now take pictures by holding the camera out in front of them and look at the preview screen to frame a shot.
Typical Dvorak; talks a lot, knows a lot less. I think maybe he should look at how cameras were built more than 20 years ago.
The very earliest cameras, from the 1800s, were mounted on a tripod, and in place of film you put a ground glass, and you looked at that "preview screen" to frame and focus the shot. Then you replaced the glass with film and took the shot.
Later on came the development of thet Twin Lens Reflex camera. In the early development of them, say, around 1920, you held it in front of you and looked at the "preview" screen to frame and focus, and then took the shot through the 2nd lens. Later on with the addition of a mirror they were generally held at the chest.
Pro cameras still use an optical viewfinder, and for good reason.
If you really want to scare someone from 1920, put him in a car and hit the expressway. They'd faint dead away.
If you "need" TV then you need to readjust your life. As in, "get one".
DVDs look fine to me, but I have only a 27" TV that I'm perfectly happy with, and have no plans to replace anytime soon.
Perhaps the computer was not operational when they took it in, so they couldn't do a wipe. I've seen people take non-booting machines in, and the store replaces the hard drive even though it's just a loose cable or something. Wouldn't surprise me at all. Most people don't want the old part and wouldn't know what to do with it anyway.
I know what to do with it. Take it apart for the neat magnets inside.
The kind of person who does something on their computer other than rip CDs and play games. Like, everyone except kids?
The thing is, even at the time there were better alternatives. There was a floppy drive lookalike, I think called "superdisk". 120 mb capacity, looked just like a floppy. more capacity, cheaper, read and wrote normal floppies too so only one drive, faster, didn't die like Zip disks. Their main problem is that they had lousy marketing, nobody had heard of them, and they were up against IOMega, who could sell manure to a pig farmer. It really didn't matter how bad their products were, IOMega could generate buzz over anything and make it seem great.
Now of course Zips are totally pointless. When you can buy a GB thumb drive for $20, Zip just doesn't make any sense anymore. IOMega is still selling mediocre stuff, but since it's standard equipment like CD recorders, that doesn't matter anymore.
Don't ever worry about who will get it. The right people will get it.
(that's an MST3K reference, BTW, on top of the Real Genius reference).
Rule 1: It's almost certainly not legit, before you even look.
Rule 2: If it seems legit, then go to your browser and manually go to the institution's website and log in normally, do not use hotlinks provided in any email.
My rule 1 used to be just "it's not legit" - none of my financial institutions EVER contacted me via email up until about 6 months ago. Now they do, so I've modified it a bit.
You'd think people would get a BIT of a clue from the fact that, like me, they must be getting very valid-looking emails from places that they don't even have accounts with. You'd think that would tell them something.
A) I wouldn't think to look on Kazaa for books, I generally look on usenet or torrents.
B) I read a lot of books, mostly ebooks or audio books on the commute, but don't really listen to music, so I never got in to Kazaa. For that matter, I don't run any P2P system that's primarily designed for music like that; all I really run is BitTorrent.
Perhaps both of these could be your explanation; you've got the book reading population self-selecting away from Kazaa to some extent, and those that are on Kazaa don't even think to look there for books.
I use XML and javascript HTML creation because then I can do a lot of transforms (sorting by columns, etc) without having to hit the server again.
Code is code. I have to write it one way or the other, and I haven't found it to be much different whether I render the HTML in the server or in the browser.
Well, hams invented or greatly refined most of the technology used in your computer junk. A ton of radio and electronics innovations were made by hams, and ham radio has and continues to inspire kids to go into electronics and engineering.
Ham radio in the US is becoming less useful to some extent, but it's still an important form of communications in some repressive areas of the world.
Yeah, I have a Kyocera phone, and a Creative Zen Micro MP3 player. Both use LiIon batteries, both the same voltage, and both have identical pinouts in the upper left corner. But the phone's battery is about 5mm longer and 5mm narrower than the Zen's. So they could easily have been interchangable, but they're not. Just irritating. I wouldn't mind being able to slot my MP3 player's battery into my phone in an emergency to make a call or two.
I'm about to buy a new digital camera, and this time I'm going with one that uses AA batteries (Canon A series)
NiMH is generally preferred though. Characteristics are pretty much the same in most areas; high current delivery capacity, etc. NiMH generally lasts more cycles, though to get the most out of it requires a little better chargers.
NiMH also works better at low temps than NiCad.
Well hell, if it doesn't exist, then he shouldn't mind if I make a few hundred copies and hand them out at conventions.
As far as I can tell, the original trilogy had been the subject of more "labor of love" really well done fan DVD sets than anything else I can think of. I personally have three different DVD sets, all well done, some with nice extras and good menus.
Honestly, I've already bought the original trilogy at least 3 times, once on CED videodisc (!), once on VHS, then again on VHS special edition (I recently put that box set on a "freebies" table at a convention and nobody took it). I'd probably buy the original series on DVD, but I'm not buying a combo original+SE copy; I wouldn't want anyone to think that I actually bought it because of the SE.
Please don't think I was actually suggesting landfilling electronics. Personally I dismantle computers myself, dump the cases and such into the ferrous metal bin at the recycling place, and put the boards in a box in my basement until I find a place that I think will handle them properly.