I don't know. X works fine on every machine I tried. The only thing about X is it's chattyness on a network. The dang thing is so chatty that you need a good/great network connection to run anything remotely. The need for DirectFB is becoming greater? The only thing I see the speeds that a DirectFB woulde be very useful for is a desktop that is playing games, or watching videos.
Now, for my spiel on Transparant terminals....I never liked em. I like to run color Xterms and transparant terminals don't do much for me there. No matter what kind of background you use, the colors of the background always kind of blend with the text making it much harder to read. I would not mind things like transparant, attatched dialog boxes ala OSX, but so far as transparant Xterms, I have no use for them. I also don't think a transparant video player would be very useful either. Yeah, it looks cool, but usually when I am playing video, I want to WATCH it not work through or on top of it.
Personally, I think everyone's major beef about X has been is is being resolved. That would be crappy looking fonts. Anti-aliasing is fixing this gradually. You can now have an anti aliased KDE or Gnome desktop. That's nice. The only other complaint I can see is not so much as a complaint about Xwindows as it is about video card manufacturers. No matter what they do, they have to make money. If that means they withhold source or their spec so we can make good drivers, then, well, it doesn't matter whether you use X or DirectFB. You still have the same problem. X is a good thing. Network transparant applications is a good thing when it's security is implemented well (and we KNOW X has problems there). Let's fix X windows. I know, it's code is arcane and boring, but I can't help but feel that DirectFB feels more like the way Windows does things then Linux and we all know how well THAT works!
Sigh.....is this really an issue? I would rather see the iso then a gzipped, bzip2 or heck even pkzipped file. Why? It saves you ZERO time in downloading it. The iso contains mostly tarballs. Sure, there are other uncompressed files, but most of a install iso is ALREADY compressed. Compressing it further won't save that much time or make it much smaller. It will still be a big file.
While, I like the idea behind Debian's system, I find that on non Linux boxes, it's difficult ot do with some reliability. Debian has some sort of system that builds the iso for you and can download multiple parts of it from different mirrors. That way you don't tie up a server connection for any longer then a few minutes, and if a server comes up busy, it can go to the next server to find the file.....that's a simplistic way of explaining it....I am not sure exactly how it works because I have never been able to get it to work on any of my boxes. It's real elegant, but it's a pain in the butt when you just want to grab an iso. Although with Debian, you just need an install floppy that supports your machine and you can apt the rest. But sometimes you want the whole CD so you can install it on a non networked box (maybe a car MP3 Player project or something), so the boot floppy deal ain't cool for everything.
Online trading has dropped? Well, maybe a little but I doubt it! Ever heard of Morpheus? Kazaa? Bearshare? Gnutella? Sure it's not in a nice shiny package like Napster was. It's not totally Music either. Personally, I might download a MP3 when I want to here something then delete it. I may also download clips from TV shows as well on Morpheous.
I would BUY every CD I wanted if it was only about 5 bucks. The RIAA and music agents steal from artists. Take a look at artists like TLC and a few others. Yeah yeah they may have been lame one hit wonders, but I don't know anyone who doesn't know their songs and they went totally broke right about the time they were the most popular and selling lots of CD's. Then, all of a sudden, noone listened to TLC anymore and/or someone started to wondered what happened to them. Watch any beyond the music or behind the music or whatever and lots of artists have a similar story. Very few reach the heights of bands and musicians like Aerosmith, Eric Clapton, Mariah Carey (ok her new one sucks be she had way more hits then most of the current musicians) or heck even Metallica has done extremely well and held on for a while.
If the music industry wants to increase sales, they need to make the purchase worth it. Enhanced CD's while cool, are usually poorly executed. They want to install 3-4 year old software like Quicktime 2.0 and even old versions of flash. They don't recognize that PC owners have there stuff already installed. Where am I going with this? Fans will buy regardless, but if you give that new listener something other then 10 other songs that don't get airplay, they may be more apt to buy future CD's. A real well done enhanced CD could go further towards that. Include some professional Winamp skins or Windows Media Player skins and things such as wallpaper and professional Windows and Mac skins and themes. Ditch the auto launching flash presentations, or if you have one, don't go too crazy with it. Include a link in the flash presentation that will launch a file explorer. Real fans will eat em up and new users may get more then the song they hear on the radio 15 times a day.
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I was in the store Saturday and we walked past the Lego's after picking out a hot wheel for my son (two year old....I know, they are 3 and up but he doesn't put them in his mouth and he KNOWS what they are!:) ) and I was amazed. I saw a Lego set that looked more like K'nex then Lego. You could combine it's pieces with Lego blocks (it had four Lego dots on some pieces, while others only had one). It looked nothing like Lego. Lego can do the special pieces, but then make them WORK for other things. I remember getting wedge shaped pieces that had computer panels on them and I loved those! When I did not have enough of those, I came up with the idea of using regular wedge shaped pieces as computer terminals.....every spaceship I built had many seats with a computer terminal at each seat. I remember building my own warp drive on some with the engine pieces. I remember building engines out of blocks when I didn't have enough. I remember when you used to be able to buy figures by themselves and they had multiple handheld acessories for them to carry.....every accesory had a lego dot on it somewhere, and I have been known to use the handheld devices in strange places.
Now, with these frickin HUGE pieces everywhere, how are we supposed to be creative? I remember when the cockpit windows were all some sort of cool looking wedge shape derived from the roof tiles. Now they have these huge bubble butt windows that can't be used for anything BUT cockpit windows. With the wedged shaped ones, I can use those to create a dome on my space station and things like that. You can't do that with these huge pieces!
That's probably because it's not littered with huge Javascripts, purty looking graphics and asp files. Yahoo KNOW's how to make a site accessible to ALL and not just those with cable modems and T-1's at their disposal.
Well, mine stays the same most of the time and lately it's been better. Yes, during the evenings it's slower, but not that slow. My slowdown is usually caused by the DNS being a bit on the slow side. Once the address is resolved, it pops up fairly quick. That's most of it. A few times I can definitely say it was excess traffic in our neighborhood. New Years Eve was one where the network slowed to a crawl if it worked at all and this weekend, after the attacks happened, it seemed to be VERY slow and not fast until sometime Monday Morning. I get INCESSANT hits on the firewall since Code Red and Nimda. For a while, my activity light was lit solid for DAYS on end. I used to get 100-200 hits on the firewall per hour. Now, I still get too many hits and they are all coming from local IP's, but only about 10-20 an hour. I get VERY few hits on the firewall from IP's outside of road runner. It's all local traffic. Some of it seems to be pings from the provider as well. I think most of the hits seem to be Road Runner scanning the network looking for unpatched IIS boxes or unauthorized servers (it is in the agreement(no servers)folks and they have every right to do it no matter how stupid we think it is....).
I agree with the other person about the DSL ads and the fact that you have to be practically ontop of the CO to get the high speeds. I am only 1 mile away and I couldn't even get 128 K a while ago. Now I can get it, but it's all slower then and more expensive then my cable modem. Lately, Road Runner has been REAL attentavie to outages even. I remember one time I was out for a whole day and I didn't even call techsup and I had a credit on my bill the next month. That's cool. They KNOW when these outages happen. You should not have to call and bitch to get a credit. I do know that they are starting to be more attentive to customers, although their network issue page is usually out of date. At least they are updating the equipment gradually. I used to have a legacy modem, but after one REAL long outage, they gave me a new DOCSIS modem. Plus I think that some cable providers are loosening the IP restricitons and not hassling people who want to share their connection with other machines. Cable Modems are getting better. They have to or they are going to really loose it when the local phone companies get a clue about DSL and reduce price and make it competitive and make it so you don't have to live over the CO to get a high speed connection.
Maybe something like recording keystrokes, but I was pretty sure there was no VBA in PowerPoint 95 and 97. The macro languages in Word and Excel were also incompatabile because of minor differences in each. At least for the 95 version. In the 95 version, there was WordBasic for Word (subset of VB) and VBA in Excel (Visual Basic for Applications...another subset of VB). In Office 2000 (it could be 97, but I thought it was 2000) everything got a compatible macro language. Thus the recent blossoming of macro virii. Personally, I have PowerPoint installed, but don't use it much. Only people I have ever seen use this are suits and sales monkey's.
If you have Office 97 or 95, their should be no Powerpoint hole because powerpoint does not have macros until Office 2000 and then Office XP. Just checked the help file cuz I happen to have Office 95 (it does what I want and is not as bloated as the new stuff....it's still bloated, just not as bloated as the latest stuff....).
When UserFriendly WORKED in a ICBM silo!:) That was a good series. I tell ya one thing....you won't have to worry much about Chemical or Nuclear Warfare....
I think that just excluding web access isn't going to achieve their objective. Moving to a platform with less security faults and better security over all is something that needs to be done. Microsoft built some cool stuff, but the failed to realize that while you could actually use it for useful things, that it could actually be used for malicious intent and did not make it easy enough to fix. Linux and open sources OS's are good because there are thousands of eyes looking at the code every day. I know I am preaching to the choir here, but this is an idea who's time has come.
Another thing is that companies SCRIMP on training. Period. We used to have a perwson which offered volunteer training on various products. What noone EVER looked at or suggested was both policy and software training as a REQUIRMENT! Thus people are not only idiots about e-mail virii and stuff, they now can't use what they are paid to use. So they decided we needed a new one (more "pretty" and "PC LIKE" then the mainframe). A project got started by these exact folks. After our folks and some folks in other departments helped (usually the ones who help are not the ones who use the system), and we got a project approved and we can actually start to spend money, there's zero interest and they keep wanting to change our existing system. Now when the real work starts (RSN), noone cares and the higher ups don't want to lay a no changes mandate down and we are chasing a moving target. Why did I type all this? It displays the complete LACK of understanding of computers. Some people think, oh we need to change the way we do this and then don't think on how it affects the computer folks maintaining the current system who are trying to devlop a new system and maintaine the existing stuff. A simple policy change can wreak havoc on our lives. We have no way of billing them and they think that these kind of changes cost no money (to them) but it doesn't matter that we have to work overtime for weeks to implement their change. Ok I am rambling again, but it's this behavior is why users don't think when they click on executables. They think, oh well if I mess it up, IT will fix it. They take no responsibility for their actions.
I feel if most IT departments would just get the approval to bill other departments for things they do, then one: we'd have budget for the infrastructure upgrades and two: we'd have the budget and time to have enough admins to take control of the security problems and bottlenecks on the network. People have to realize that these are NOT their PC's and NOT their server's, they just happen to use them.
And this is why he was shutdown. Just read the FAQ on that page and you will see that he had a blue apple in his theme. I don't think this is look and feel at all. It's because he used the freakin LOGO is why he had his themes shutdown. In fact, I believe you can still get the Aqua like look in enlightenment and the like from Themes.org, just not the Apple logos.
Look and feel is ok, just don't use the TRADEMARKED logo.
One thing some sci-fi especially books has done is not sugar coat things. Sometimes you have to be almost naked when doing screwy things like decontamination. Star Trek has always stayed away from it until recently with 7 of 9 in Voyager and Enterprise. I believe that it's more realistic to show stuff like this. I don't mean pure soft core (fully naked), but stuff like in this scene. I don't believe it will be a weekly occurance in any event.
The theme song....well, it's better then most other tv shows, but PALES when you compare it to DS9 or Voyager or any other Star Trek. Also, I feel there's too much past stuff being show in the opening sequence and not enough stuff from that 100 years since First Contact. Yeah the history is important, but not for this show. They need a different opening with more beauty shots of the NX-01.
Flashbacks to Archer's childhood were cool. Anyone get a load of the antigrav remote control plane he built? Cool eh?
I don't like to nitpick too much, but it's been added to my must see tv list!:)
One last thing...let me say this.....T'pol = Tent Pole! (had to be done;) ). I know, but man I didn't know Vulcans could look that good!;)
Sigh. The terrorists have won people. Now, I don't get me wrong, I am not disrespecting the dead here, but man we need to get over this. This LIDAR stuff IS cool. It's terrible we have to use something such as this on a disaster, but technology is what helps us learn things to either help prevent such disasters, or make the damage suffered in such events not as catastrophic. Now if you are directly affected, I understand if you are still mourning, but the general american should be over this by now....no, you shouldn't forget, but we need to get back to business.
It would not surprise people that technology is used after every disaster. Technology is what helped analyze damage created by a hurricane and help prevent the new stuff from being blown away as easily. There was a hurricane in 1900 that killed almost as many people as the WTC tragedy. It wasnt even as powerful as Andrew was, yet more people died in 1900 then in 1992 when Andrew hit. Yes there was still MAJOR damage and some loss of life, but the amount of deaths was minimized thanks to weather satellites and NEXRAD radar. Would it not be irresponsible for us to NOT use technology to try to prevent the catastrophic bulding collapses from happening when the next crazy terrorist get's pissed at us and decideds to use another plane as a missile? Yes, existing buildings would still be at risk and noone can ever plan far enough in the future to stop something like this happening (sure, planes like the planes used at the WTC are our biggest now, but whose to say that even bigger planes or heck spaceplanes with more volitile fuels would not be in common use 30 years down the road), but for a period of time, safety may be increased.
Technology is cool to us geeks because we realize it's a TOOL that can be used for non-life saving things or non human advancing things, and for things that make us better. This LIDAR stuff is nifty, cool, dope or whatever levity thing you want to put in here because it provides a in depth analysis of the building's destruction so we can prevent such catastrophic damage and loss of life from happening again if a plane were to hit another building on purpose or accidental.
Yeah this I have to agree with you. JUST because IE is installed by default doesn't mean you have to use it. This is why the DOJ pretty much dismissed the case. The thing was how does this bundling hurt users? It doesn't. I, personally don't care what they bundle, so long as if I like something better, I can still use it. I have Windows Media Player installed, but I still am able to use Winamp(all I use for MP3 and OGG). If Microsoft disabled Winamp with Windows Media Player, then I'd be pissed. Granted Microsoft isn't the only one on the platform that grabs file extensions. Apple will grab mp3's, wav files and mpeg files if you install quicktime. Their are others that do this kind of stuff plus the I HAVE TO RUN SOME BS IN THE SYSTEM TRAY programs like Real Audio. I mean does having the Real Audio program in the system tray REALLY speed up launching Real Audio streams? I think not! And why does every graphics card and sound card have to have a tray utility? I guess these tray utilities are for the dolts who HAVE to see something to make sure it's running instead of the program just launching or something just working. I am not saying all tray utilites are bad, it's just some aren't very good or not needed. IM's, Activesync indicators, Weatherbug (or other tray utilities) work GREAT in the tray. But why do you need anything more then the little yellow speaker for controlling audio?
Why shouldn't burning be supported by the OS? Do you have a separate utility to write to floppies or the harddisk? NOPE! It SHOULD be included in the OS and I applaud MS for including this in XP. Also, Linux does even more bundling then MS.
Yes and we need to stop these planes from being easily hijackable. Air Marshals, arming the pilots, knockout gas in the passenger cabin, cameras in the plane....any number of things as well as better security at the airport will make it much safer for all. Now, my kid won't be able to see my plane leave when I go on a trip (No unticketed people allowed past the security checkpoint). Logan airport allows NO knives period in the snack bars....even plastic ones. I know this may mean less privacy when flying, but do we really want a hijacker crashing a airplane into a building again?
I believe this would be a great design for a New World Trade Center. It's beautiful, energy efficient and large. Definitely almost looks like the WTC (twin tower type design....). It would also prevent power outages from taking out your whole building. It would be a great way to get people and companies to put offices in these buildings.....advertised free or discounted electricity.
I do not fear working in a tall skyscraper because working in a tall building is not what killed these people. I believe it would be impossible to build something that can take the force of these type of blasts. If you do fear working in these type of buildings, well then the terrorists have already won. They want you to be afraid of them and you need to be strong and show them you are not afraid of them.
I was talking about the Palestinians that were celebrating in the streets. A bus with only one American on it blows up and they cheer. NOT the bombing stuff.
Let me appeal to those of the nuke the suckers opinion and those who insult arabs....NOT all arabs or islamics are like this. A vast amount of them are like us. In fact I work with a, you heard it right, Irish/German decent women who has converted to Islam and married a arab...she's the nicest person in my department and with exception of no touching (islamic rule..by touching, I mean period! No pats on back or anything), and watching my own tongue, it's not too bad! I consider her a close friend.
Yes but you talk about this like it's news. It ain't! Thins kind of stuff happens over in the Middle East everyday! I bet there's always flag burnings and people cheering when US nationals are hurt.
Who says anyone in the Middle East did this?? I maintain it would have been WAY easier for a American to do this then someone in the middle east. Some people say it sounds too complex for a smaller group to pull this off...I say no.
Slashdotters of all people should know that the airlines have the schedules on the web. Take that, and 30-50 people could definitely pull this off. What does it take to hijack a plane?? 4-5 people with glocks per plane or some other easily sneakable gun onto the plane. Put the gun to the pilots head and he'll take you anywhere you want. He may not steer it into the World Trade Center, but after you get close, how easy would it be to do this??
What the HECK is wrong with these people! I have two gas stations near my house....one is $1.59 a gallon and another is $4.99 a gallon! The one with $1.59 a gallon has a line a block long! Oil has been 30 dollars a barrel before....why are thes gas stations hiking the price???
This desk was built by Blake who runs Blakespot (used to run a Nino fan page until Philips killed it(the Nino that is...)). He built his own and I have been contemplating doing the same. Sauder and folks that make the home desks don't really make them good enough for people who actually need to work at them. Mine has stuff littered all over it because my wife uses it too. I don't have enough space for everything. It's also too deap. I would like to have one go floor to ceiling (well, almost) and have it L shaped with a long L shaped section that goes below my Window with a cut out in it for my 35 in TV. Why? I eventually will have a ATI or some other card with TV out and I feel whiy have two DVD players in the same room when I have one in my computer? Also this design would allow my TV to be seen without having to look through a person using the computer. Anyway, check out Blake's design at Blakespot.
These are not all that new. They have installed in some chronic drunks a breathalyzer in the car and the car would not start if the driver was drunk. Granted, a drunk could find a sober person to breath in it, but if his buddies were all alcholoics they might have trouble!:) I think they need to do something to this effect and or start making the bars more responsible (although not entirely....). Once a person gets visibly drunk, he should not be served anymore. Period. That's only a life saving method.
Here in Columbus, OH you may have heard of the riots on OSU campus last year and the not so great mayor came up with an idea that with in the city limits (actually this might possibly be a state law too) people were only allowed to buy 4 kegs before they had to sing an affidavit basically telling the cops you were having a party and when and where it was. The smart OSU students got around this though (politicians are SO dumb...duh!). They just divvied up the money and say you get 4 you get 4 and you get 4 and now they have 12 kegs! That's a small OSU party. At one raid (where all residents were underage I might add) they confiscated over 50 kegs of beer from ONE house! There's something wrong with that! The students that the law was supposedly designed to protect or defeat got around the law and the guy who's having a huge retirement party can't go buy 8 kegs with out giving out all of the info!
Even though the system in question was not a mainframe (intel based blade plane type system), I do want to say a few things about S/390...or whatever IBM is calling them now. Everyone thinks when MS or Linux adds support for a new fangled thing (say the new buses on the PC that are supposed to be mainframe channel like....), well, the mainframe has been doing it for years! When the PC folk added virtual ram via paging stuff out to disk, that came first on the mainframe. Almost every type of PC technology that comes down the pike has it's roots in the mainframe world. PC's need better I/O buses....in comes channels and so on and so on. Our mainframe support consultant that I work with used to call PC's pretend computers because they didn't have half of what the manframe did. Now servers are starting to get these I/O things and we are supposed to gasp because it's new. Well, it isn't new and it's been around for 15 years on the mainframe. Mainframes are solid so long as your network stays up and you don't have students hammering on the thing!:)
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HP has always made good stuff. I can't say the same thing about Compaq although the iPaq is pretty good. This could be good for HP. At least maybe they can work towards a good iPaq replacement! The Jornada's screen sucks! Looks like the new HP handheld will be a good one! Wonder what Bruce Perens thinks of this move!
I remember and loved the first Lego Space Sets. They were the core of what me and my brother did: build unique looking Lego Space ships. I loved some of the special parts that they had then like the Rocket Nozzles and the space dudes. Now, I walk into a store and see Star Wars Legos and think they are even more cool. I do thing that the need to nix some of the special parts, or, if they are going to include them, include instructions for more then say the X-wing. I dunno if they do that, but if they did, it would then open up their minds and see well if I had two Xwing kits I could make a 8 engined X-wing or something like that. Oh and I saw the Bioncles and they suck in my opinion.
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I don't know. X works fine on every machine I tried. The only thing about X is it's chattyness on a network. The dang thing is so chatty that you need a good/great network connection to run anything remotely. The need for DirectFB is becoming greater? The only thing I see the speeds that a DirectFB woulde be very useful for is a desktop that is playing games, or watching videos.
Now, for my spiel on Transparant terminals....I never liked em. I like to run color Xterms and transparant terminals don't do much for me there. No matter what kind of background you use, the colors of the background always kind of blend with the text making it much harder to read. I would not mind things like transparant, attatched dialog boxes ala OSX, but so far as transparant Xterms, I have no use for them. I also don't think a transparant video player would be very useful either. Yeah, it looks cool, but usually when I am playing video, I want to WATCH it not work through or on top of it.
Personally, I think everyone's major beef about X has been is is being resolved. That would be crappy looking fonts. Anti-aliasing is fixing this gradually. You can now have an anti aliased KDE or Gnome desktop. That's nice. The only other complaint I can see is not so much as a complaint about Xwindows as it is about video card manufacturers. No matter what they do, they have to make money. If that means they withhold source or their spec so we can make good drivers, then, well, it doesn't matter whether you use X or DirectFB. You still have the same problem. X is a good thing. Network transparant applications is a good thing when it's security is implemented well (and we KNOW X has problems there). Let's fix X windows. I know, it's code is arcane and boring, but I can't help but feel that DirectFB feels more like the way Windows does things then Linux and we all know how well THAT works!
Sigh.....is this really an issue? I would rather see the iso then a gzipped, bzip2 or heck even pkzipped file. Why? It saves you ZERO time in downloading it. The iso contains mostly tarballs. Sure, there are other uncompressed files, but most of a install iso is ALREADY compressed. Compressing it further won't save that much time or make it much smaller. It will still be a big file.
While, I like the idea behind Debian's system, I find that on non Linux boxes, it's difficult ot do with some reliability. Debian has some sort of system that builds the iso for you and can download multiple parts of it from different mirrors. That way you don't tie up a server connection for any longer then a few minutes, and if a server comes up busy, it can go to the next server to find the file.....that's a simplistic way of explaining it....I am not sure exactly how it works because I have never been able to get it to work on any of my boxes. It's real elegant, but it's a pain in the butt when you just want to grab an iso. Although with Debian, you just need an install floppy that supports your machine and you can apt the rest. But sometimes you want the whole CD so you can install it on a non networked box (maybe a car MP3 Player project or something), so the boot floppy deal ain't cool for everything.
Online trading has dropped? Well, maybe a little but I doubt it! Ever heard of Morpheus? Kazaa? Bearshare? Gnutella? Sure it's not in a nice shiny package like Napster was. It's not totally Music either. Personally, I might download a MP3 when I want to here something then delete it. I may also download clips from TV shows as well on Morpheous.
I would BUY every CD I wanted if it was only about 5 bucks. The RIAA and music agents steal from artists. Take a look at artists like TLC and a few others. Yeah yeah they may have been lame one hit wonders, but I don't know anyone who doesn't know their songs and they went totally broke right about the time they were the most popular and selling lots of CD's. Then, all of a sudden, noone listened to TLC anymore and/or someone started to wondered what happened to them. Watch any beyond the music or behind the music or whatever and lots of artists have a similar story. Very few reach the heights of bands and musicians like Aerosmith, Eric Clapton, Mariah Carey (ok her new one sucks be she had way more hits then most of the current musicians) or heck even Metallica has done extremely well and held on for a while.
If the music industry wants to increase sales, they need to make the purchase worth it. Enhanced CD's while cool, are usually poorly executed. They want to install 3-4 year old software like Quicktime 2.0 and even old versions of flash. They don't recognize that PC owners have there stuff already installed. Where am I going with this? Fans will buy regardless, but if you give that new listener something other then 10 other songs that don't get airplay, they may be more apt to buy future CD's. A real well done enhanced CD could go further towards that. Include some professional Winamp skins or Windows Media Player skins and things such as wallpaper and professional Windows and Mac skins and themes. Ditch the auto launching flash presentations, or if you have one, don't go too crazy with it. Include a link in the flash presentation that will launch a file explorer. Real fans will eat em up and new users may get more then the song they hear on the radio 15 times a day.
I was in the store Saturday and we walked past the Lego's after picking out a hot wheel for my son (two year old....I know, they are 3 and up but he doesn't put them in his mouth and he KNOWS what they are! :) ) and I was amazed. I saw a Lego set that looked more like K'nex then Lego. You could combine it's pieces with Lego blocks (it had four Lego dots on some pieces, while others only had one). It looked nothing like Lego. Lego can do the special pieces, but then make them WORK for other things. I remember getting wedge shaped pieces that had computer panels on them and I loved those! When I did not have enough of those, I came up with the idea of using regular wedge shaped pieces as computer terminals.....every spaceship I built had many seats with a computer terminal at each seat. I remember building my own warp drive on some with the engine pieces. I remember building engines out of blocks when I didn't have enough. I remember when you used to be able to buy figures by themselves and they had multiple handheld acessories for them to carry.....every accesory had a lego dot on it somewhere, and I have been known to use the handheld devices in strange places.
Now, with these frickin HUGE pieces everywhere, how are we supposed to be creative? I remember when the cockpit windows were all some sort of cool looking wedge shape derived from the roof tiles. Now they have these huge bubble butt windows that can't be used for anything BUT cockpit windows. With the wedged shaped ones, I can use those to create a dome on my space station and things like that. You can't do that with these huge pieces!
That's probably because it's not littered with huge Javascripts, purty looking graphics and asp files. Yahoo KNOW's how to make a site accessible to ALL and not just those with cable modems and T-1's at their disposal.
Well, mine stays the same most of the time and lately it's been better. Yes, during the evenings it's slower, but not that slow. My slowdown is usually caused by the DNS being a bit on the slow side. Once the address is resolved, it pops up fairly quick. That's most of it. A few times I can definitely say it was excess traffic in our neighborhood. New Years Eve was one where the network slowed to a crawl if it worked at all and this weekend, after the attacks happened, it seemed to be VERY slow and not fast until sometime Monday Morning. I get INCESSANT hits on the firewall since Code Red and Nimda. For a while, my activity light was lit solid for DAYS on end. I used to get 100-200 hits on the firewall per hour. Now, I still get too many hits and they are all coming from local IP's, but only about 10-20 an hour. I get VERY few hits on the firewall from IP's outside of road runner. It's all local traffic. Some of it seems to be pings from the provider as well. I think most of the hits seem to be Road Runner scanning the network looking for unpatched IIS boxes or unauthorized servers (it is in the agreement(no servers)folks and they have every right to do it no matter how stupid we think it is....).
I agree with the other person about the DSL ads and the fact that you have to be practically ontop of the CO to get the high speeds. I am only 1 mile away and I couldn't even get 128 K a while ago. Now I can get it, but it's all slower then and more expensive then my cable modem. Lately, Road Runner has been REAL attentavie to outages even. I remember one time I was out for a whole day and I didn't even call techsup and I had a credit on my bill the next month. That's cool. They KNOW when these outages happen. You should not have to call and bitch to get a credit. I do know that they are starting to be more attentive to customers, although their network issue page is usually out of date. At least they are updating the equipment gradually. I used to have a legacy modem, but after one REAL long outage, they gave me a new DOCSIS modem. Plus I think that some cable providers are loosening the IP restricitons and not hassling people who want to share their connection with other machines. Cable Modems are getting better. They have to or they are going to really loose it when the local phone companies get a clue about DSL and reduce price and make it competitive and make it so you don't have to live over the CO to get a high speed connection.
Maybe something like recording keystrokes, but I was pretty sure there was no VBA in PowerPoint 95 and 97. The macro languages in Word and Excel were also incompatabile because of minor differences in each. At least for the 95 version. In the 95 version, there was WordBasic for Word (subset of VB) and VBA in Excel (Visual Basic for Applications...another subset of VB). In Office 2000 (it could be 97, but I thought it was 2000) everything got a compatible macro language. Thus the recent blossoming of macro virii. Personally, I have PowerPoint installed, but don't use it much. Only people I have ever seen use this are suits and sales monkey's.
If you have Office 97 or 95, their should be no Powerpoint hole because powerpoint does not have macros until Office 2000 and then Office XP. Just checked the help file cuz I happen to have Office 95 (it does what I want and is not as bloated as the new stuff....it's still bloated, just not as bloated as the latest stuff....).
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When UserFriendly WORKED in a ICBM silo! :) That was a good series. I tell ya one thing....you won't have to worry much about Chemical or Nuclear Warfare....
I think that just excluding web access isn't going to achieve their objective. Moving to a platform with less security faults and better security over all is something that needs to be done. Microsoft built some cool stuff, but the failed to realize that while you could actually use it for useful things, that it could actually be used for malicious intent and did not make it easy enough to fix. Linux and open sources OS's are good because there are thousands of eyes looking at the code every day. I know I am preaching to the choir here, but this is an idea who's time has come.
Another thing is that companies SCRIMP on training. Period. We used to have a perwson which offered volunteer training on various products. What noone EVER looked at or suggested was both policy and software training as a REQUIRMENT! Thus people are not only idiots about e-mail virii and stuff, they now can't use what they are paid to use. So they decided we needed a new one (more "pretty" and "PC LIKE" then the mainframe). A project got started by these exact folks. After our folks and some folks in other departments helped (usually the ones who help are not the ones who use the system), and we got a project approved and we can actually start to spend money, there's zero interest and they keep wanting to change our existing system. Now when the real work starts (RSN), noone cares and the higher ups don't want to lay a no changes mandate down and we are chasing a moving target. Why did I type all this? It displays the complete LACK of understanding of computers. Some people think, oh we need to change the way we do this and then don't think on how it affects the computer folks maintaining the current system who are trying to devlop a new system and maintaine the existing stuff. A simple policy change can wreak havoc on our lives. We have no way of billing them and they think that these kind of changes cost no money (to them) but it doesn't matter that we have to work overtime for weeks to implement their change. Ok I am rambling again, but it's this behavior is why users don't think when they click on executables. They think, oh well if I mess it up, IT will fix it. They take no responsibility for their actions.
I feel if most IT departments would just get the approval to bill other departments for things they do, then one: we'd have budget for the infrastructure upgrades and two: we'd have the budget and time to have enough admins to take control of the security problems and bottlenecks on the network. People have to realize that these are NOT their PC's and NOT their server's, they just happen to use them.
And this is why he was shutdown. Just read the FAQ on that page and you will see that he had a blue apple in his theme. I don't think this is look and feel at all. It's because he used the freakin LOGO is why he had his themes shutdown. In fact, I believe you can still get the Aqua like look in enlightenment and the like from Themes.org, just not the Apple logos.
Look and feel is ok, just don't use the TRADEMARKED logo.
One thing some sci-fi especially books has done is not sugar coat things. Sometimes you have to be almost naked when doing screwy things like decontamination. Star Trek has always stayed away from it until recently with 7 of 9 in Voyager and Enterprise. I believe that it's more realistic to show stuff like this. I don't mean pure soft core (fully naked), but stuff like in this scene. I don't believe it will be a weekly occurance in any event.
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;) ). I know, but man I didn't know Vulcans could look that good! ;)
The theme song....well, it's better then most other tv shows, but PALES when you compare it to DS9 or Voyager or any other Star Trek. Also, I feel there's too much past stuff being show in the opening sequence and not enough stuff from that 100 years since First Contact. Yeah the history is important, but not for this show. They need a different opening with more beauty shots of the NX-01.
Flashbacks to Archer's childhood were cool. Anyone get a load of the antigrav remote control plane he built? Cool eh?
I don't like to nitpick too much, but it's been added to my must see tv list!
One last thing...let me say this.....T'pol = Tent Pole! (had to be done
Sigh. The terrorists have won people. Now, I don't get me wrong, I am not disrespecting the dead here, but man we need to get over this. This LIDAR stuff IS cool. It's terrible we have to use something such as this on a disaster, but technology is what helps us learn things to either help prevent such disasters, or make the damage suffered in such events not as catastrophic. Now if you are directly affected, I understand if you are still mourning, but the general american should be over this by now....no, you shouldn't forget, but we need to get back to business.
It would not surprise people that technology is used after every disaster. Technology is what helped analyze damage created by a hurricane and help prevent the new stuff from being blown away as easily. There was a hurricane in 1900 that killed almost as many people as the WTC tragedy. It wasnt even as powerful as Andrew was, yet more people died in 1900 then in 1992 when Andrew hit. Yes there was still MAJOR damage and some loss of life, but the amount of deaths was minimized thanks to weather satellites and NEXRAD radar. Would it not be irresponsible for us to NOT use technology to try to prevent the catastrophic bulding collapses from happening when the next crazy terrorist get's pissed at us and decideds to use another plane as a missile? Yes, existing buildings would still be at risk and noone can ever plan far enough in the future to stop something like this happening (sure, planes like the planes used at the WTC are our biggest now, but whose to say that even bigger planes or heck spaceplanes with more volitile fuels would not be in common use 30 years down the road), but for a period of time, safety may be increased.
Technology is cool to us geeks because we realize it's a TOOL that can be used for non-life saving things or non human advancing things, and for things that make us better. This LIDAR stuff is nifty, cool, dope or whatever levity thing you want to put in here because it provides a in depth analysis of the building's destruction so we can prevent such catastrophic damage and loss of life from happening again if a plane were to hit another building on purpose or accidental.
Yeah this I have to agree with you. JUST because IE is installed by default doesn't mean you have to use it. This is why the DOJ pretty much dismissed the case. The thing was how does this bundling hurt users? It doesn't. I, personally don't care what they bundle, so long as if I like something better, I can still use it. I have Windows Media Player installed, but I still am able to use Winamp(all I use for MP3 and OGG). If Microsoft disabled Winamp with Windows Media Player, then I'd be pissed. Granted Microsoft isn't the only one on the platform that grabs file extensions. Apple will grab mp3's, wav files and mpeg files if you install quicktime. Their are others that do this kind of stuff plus the I HAVE TO RUN SOME BS IN THE SYSTEM TRAY programs like Real Audio. I mean does having the Real Audio program in the system tray REALLY speed up launching Real Audio streams? I think not! And why does every graphics card and sound card have to have a tray utility? I guess these tray utilities are for the dolts who HAVE to see something to make sure it's running instead of the program just launching or something just working. I am not saying all tray utilites are bad, it's just some aren't very good or not needed. IM's, Activesync indicators, Weatherbug (or other tray utilities) work GREAT in the tray. But why do you need anything more then the little yellow speaker for controlling audio?
Why shouldn't burning be supported by the OS? Do you have a separate utility to write to floppies or the harddisk? NOPE! It SHOULD be included in the OS and I applaud MS for including this in XP. Also, Linux does even more bundling then MS.
Yes and we need to stop these planes from being easily hijackable. Air Marshals, arming the pilots, knockout gas in the passenger cabin, cameras in the plane....any number of things as well as better security at the airport will make it much safer for all. Now, my kid won't be able to see my plane leave when I go on a trip (No unticketed people allowed past the security checkpoint). Logan airport allows NO knives period in the snack bars....even plastic ones. I know this may mean less privacy when flying, but do we really want a hijacker crashing a airplane into a building again?
I believe this would be a great design for a New World Trade Center. It's beautiful, energy efficient and large. Definitely almost looks like the WTC (twin tower type design....). It would also prevent power outages from taking out your whole building. It would be a great way to get people and companies to put offices in these buildings.....advertised free or discounted electricity.
I do not fear working in a tall skyscraper because working in a tall building is not what killed these people. I believe it would be impossible to build something that can take the force of these type of blasts. If you do fear working in these type of buildings, well then the terrorists have already won. They want you to be afraid of them and you need to be strong and show them you are not afraid of them.
I was talking about the Palestinians that were celebrating in the streets. A bus with only one American on it blows up and they cheer. NOT the bombing stuff.
Let me appeal to those of the nuke the suckers opinion and those who insult arabs....NOT all arabs or islamics are like this. A vast amount of them are like us. In fact I work with a, you heard it right, Irish/German decent women who has converted to Islam and married a arab...she's the nicest person in my department and with exception of no touching (islamic rule..by touching, I mean period! No pats on back or anything), and watching my own tongue, it's not too bad! I consider her a close friend.
Yes but you talk about this like it's news. It ain't! Thins kind of stuff happens over in the Middle East everyday! I bet there's always flag burnings and people cheering when US nationals are hurt.
Who says anyone in the Middle East did this?? I maintain it would have been WAY easier for a American to do this then someone in the middle east. Some people say it sounds too complex for a smaller group to pull this off...I say no.
Slashdotters of all people should know that the airlines have the schedules on the web. Take that, and 30-50 people could definitely pull this off. What does it take to hijack a plane?? 4-5 people with glocks per plane or some other easily sneakable gun onto the plane. Put the gun to the pilots head and he'll take you anywhere you want. He may not steer it into the World Trade Center, but after you get close, how easy would it be to do this??
What the HECK is wrong with these people! I have two gas stations near my house....one is $1.59 a gallon and another is $4.99 a gallon! The one with $1.59 a gallon has a line a block long! Oil has been 30 dollars a barrel before....why are thes gas stations hiking the price???
This desk was built by Blake who runs Blakespot (used to run a Nino fan page until Philips killed it(the Nino that is...)). He built his own and I have been contemplating doing the same. Sauder and folks that make the home desks don't really make them good enough for people who actually need to work at them. Mine has stuff littered all over it because my wife uses it too. I don't have enough space for everything. It's also too deap. I would like to have one go floor to ceiling (well, almost) and have it L shaped with a long L shaped section that goes below my Window with a cut out in it for my 35 in TV. Why? I eventually will have a ATI or some other card with TV out and I feel whiy have two DVD players in the same room when I have one in my computer? Also this design would allow my TV to be seen without having to look through a person using the computer. Anyway, check out Blake's design at Blakespot.
These are not all that new. They have installed in some chronic drunks a breathalyzer in the car and the car would not start if the driver was drunk. Granted, a drunk could find a sober person to breath in it, but if his buddies were all alcholoics they might have trouble! :) I think they need to do something to this effect and or start making the bars more responsible (although not entirely....). Once a person gets visibly drunk, he should not be served anymore. Period. That's only a life saving method.
Here in Columbus, OH you may have heard of the riots on OSU campus last year and the not so great mayor came up with an idea that with in the city limits (actually this might possibly be a state law too) people were only allowed to buy 4 kegs before they had to sing an affidavit basically telling the cops you were having a party and when and where it was. The smart OSU students got around this though (politicians are SO dumb...duh!). They just divvied up the money and say you get 4 you get 4 and you get 4 and now they have 12 kegs! That's a small OSU party. At one raid (where all residents were underage I might add) they confiscated over 50 kegs of beer from ONE house! There's something wrong with that! The students that the law was supposedly designed to protect or defeat got around the law and the guy who's having a huge retirement party can't go buy 8 kegs with out giving out all of the info!
Even though the system in question was not a mainframe (intel based blade plane type system), I do want to say a few things about S/390...or whatever IBM is calling them now. Everyone thinks when MS or Linux adds support for a new fangled thing (say the new buses on the PC that are supposed to be mainframe channel like....), well, the mainframe has been doing it for years! When the PC folk added virtual ram via paging stuff out to disk, that came first on the mainframe. Almost every type of PC technology that comes down the pike has it's roots in the mainframe world. PC's need better I/O buses....in comes channels and so on and so on. Our mainframe support consultant that I work with used to call PC's pretend computers because they didn't have half of what the manframe did. Now servers are starting to get these I/O things and we are supposed to gasp because it's new. Well, it isn't new and it's been around for 15 years on the mainframe. Mainframes are solid so long as your network stays up and you don't have students hammering on the thing! :)
HP has always made good stuff. I can't say the same thing about Compaq although the iPaq is pretty good. This could be good for HP. At least maybe they can work towards a good iPaq replacement! The Jornada's screen sucks! Looks like the new HP handheld will be a good one! Wonder what Bruce Perens thinks of this move!
I remember and loved the first Lego Space Sets. They were the core of what me and my brother did: build unique looking Lego Space ships. I loved some of the special parts that they had then like the Rocket Nozzles and the space dudes. Now, I walk into a store and see Star Wars Legos and think they are even more cool. I do thing that the need to nix some of the special parts, or, if they are going to include them, include instructions for more then say the X-wing. I dunno if they do that, but if they did, it would then open up their minds and see well if I had two Xwing kits I could make a 8 engined X-wing or something like that. Oh and I saw the Bioncles and they suck in my opinion.