I strongly agree about hobbies. In addition, I think there is a benefit to limiting contact with the news. As Steve Chandler said, "It's not the news, it's the bad news". This is of course related to having a hobby. If you disappear into the basement for 4 hours, you probably didn't fire up CNN every 10 minutes during that time.
Another thought, perhaps controversial, is that women seem inclined to worry more than guys. I try to minimize potential worry-items -- opening up bills just before I plan to actually pay them, for example. My wife will open a bill the minute she sees it, even if we are just off for a walk with the dogs. Then while we are walking the dogs in the fresh air, she has to be thinking about that ridiculous Comcast bill.
Finally I would add that carrying too much stuff around in our head does us no favors. No one in our family has a cell phone, nor do we wish we did. That way when I'm driving from A to B, I am not so rudely interrupted that I almost drive off the road. Instead I can enjoy the beautiful bumper-to-bumper traffic in peace. But seriously, if I am fuming in traffic I would just as soon not share my headspace with someone else at that exact moment. I have also used a reminder program for eight or nine years now, and currently have 225 reminders in it. When my wife hits me with an event -- take the dog to the vet on Wed -- I create a reminder and then forget about it until the reminder goes off. I miss fewer events and carry a dozen times less event-related detail in my mind -- has to be a good thing.
I agree about successful people having help -- rich parents, or powerful connections. What is even more annoying is that those who genuinely innovate (someone like Dan Bricklin comes to mind) will often have their work stolen/copied/sidelined by someone in a more powerful position. The corruption of the system always approaches 100%.
All we little people can do is try to give credit to the true innovators, geniuses and hard workers. In the latter category I would place David Harris of Pegasus fame. Philippe Kahn would go in the true innovator (Sidekick) and genius (his compilers vs. microsoft ones) categories. And if Paul Katz were alive, it is doubtful we could give him enough credit and reward for PKzip. He made ARC look bad and we benefited from that.
In the "from out of left field" category, I would suggest Neil Rubenking. I think he has a vast and deep understanding of PCs and, unlike Jerry can-never-get-one-computer-working Pournelle he has helped a large number of us over many years from the back pages of PCMag. Steve Ciarcia did the same thing, but for hardware guys.
There may be some truth in this remark for some of these people, espec. billg, but your "Booth was a patriot".SIG is laughable. Booth was part of a substantial conspiracy to take down a President who was committing the ultimate act of treason in the U.S. -- remaining free from corruption. For more, check out Jim Bishop's "The Day Lincoln Was Shot".
I think this is what Microsoft wants now. There was a time when they wanted plenty of email eyeballs -- so they bought Hotmail. Now I think it is a profitless headache to them and has no upside -- so time to slowly kill it.
Furthering my theory is the fact that the invites YahooGroups lists send to msn.com addresses are bounced as spam. Why would Microsoft do this? There is of course no logical reason, nor any civilized reason. One could pretend this is a competitive thing -- reject the competitor's attempt to grow their user base. More realistically msn.com bouncing perfectly reasonable email will simply cause people with msn.com addresses to abandon those addresses -- success from Microsoft's point of view.
Microsoft doesn't need people who only email. They want to push people "forward", into more "advanced" features like Live -- where they can make some actual cash. Email is passe, so why have hundreds of millions of mailboxes to worry about? Of course, this is why they dispose of user email if said user is unable to access their mailbox for a remarkably short amount of time -- a month, IIRC. I used to set reminders so that this wouldn't happen to my backup hotmail.com accounts but now I just let it happen -- useless hotmail.com mailboxes being toasted by a useless company seems appropriately bizarre.
Why is the parent marked as Flamebait? I'm serious. Can someone, anyone, explain this? And before anyone tries, remember that most if not all the comments in this thread could be labeled "Flamebait", given the nature of political "discussion".
Ron Paul deserves more attention -- when compared with how he is doing with the people, the media snub he is getting is sickeningly biased and unfair. Period.
The Income Tax provision has never been properly ratified. It is illegal, and 100% abused. Do your research before you attempt to argue this.
The Federal Reserve is the other half of the Income Tax fraud. Once a private company got in the position to loan the government all the money it wastes, a means was needed to pay back the "interest" (i.e. illegal profits). Income taxes started when The Fraud did. Check out Aaron Russo's "America: Freedom To Fascism" (or any one of countless other works detailing this conspiracy -- yes, conspiracy).
No one is more consistent in their thoughts, words and deeds than Ron Paul. This point alone makes the "Flamebait" mod ludicrous. Check out "The Case For Gold", published in 1982 -- Ron Paul co-authored this and his position is unchanged today...25 years later.
Should the US be policing the world? Few would say "aye".
What happened to freedom of speech, expression, and the PEOPLE choosing their president?
Hang on, I found out why the Flamebait mod. We can't have PEOPLE running things, can we?
Thank you for the InvisionFree suggestion. I have 3 mailing lists, sending about 35,000 emails per week. I have used YahooGroups for this for 9 years now and I have assumed their (relative) credibility helped me get my emails past the ubiquitously stupid spam filters.
By the way, and ironically, msn.com blocks invites from YahooGroups. What will they do if they own it?
If Microsoft had a total monopoly, they would be very vulnerable to government meddling. A few years back they avoided that with a $150M loan to Apple (and got the added benefit of handsome profits from their loan). Today they avoid a total monopoly by pushing out Vista. They get everything they want from this approach:
(1) keep a large marketshare/influence due to vendor lockin
(2) make OEMs happy by helping them peddle more hardware
(3) keep themselves in the consumer's head by releasing a shiney new OS
(4) give Apple & Linux a chance to regain marketshare
(5) give tech sites something to argue about (now that the Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD death match is over)
(6) give the New Fascist Order more control of Joe and Jane Sheep
(7) automatically make people interested in Windows 7: It's Not Vista!.
Sales of Windows 7 ain't guaranteed til Windows 6 won't run.
Sorry, don't agree. I bought MS Office 2000 for Wn98SE, and continue to use it today on XP. Same for Eudora. And CuteFTP. And PKZip4Win. etc.
I can think of only two cases where XP breaks programss. One of them is slight -- under XP, MS Word for DOS v5 (my almost 20-year-old editor do-it-all thingy) no longer has a clipboard path to other applications. Not exactly an every-program-every-user situation.
The other breakage is noteworthy -- video games. But then this has been a problem for decades, hasn't it? And hardly something businesses care about.
Perhaps you meant "every single on of their hardware/driver combinations"?
ARLINGTON, Va.--(Business Wire)--In response to an article published by The New Republic, Ron Paul
issued the following statement:
"The quotations in The New Republic article are not mine and do
not represent what I believe or have ever believed. I have never
uttered such words and denounce such small-minded thoughts.
"In fact, I have always agreed with Martin Luther King, Jr. that
we should only be concerned with the content of a person's character,
not the color of their skin. As I stated on the floor of the U.S.
House on April 20, 1999: 'I rise in great respect for the courage and
high ideals of Rosa Parks who stood steadfastly for the rights of
individuals against unjust laws and oppressive governmental policies.'
"This story is old news and has been rehashed for over a decade.
It's once again being resurrected for obvious political reasons on the
day of the New Hampshire primary.
"When I was out of Congress and practicing medicine full-time, a
newsletter was published under my name that I did not edit. Several
writers contributed to the product. For over a decade, I have
publically taken moral responsibility for not paying closer attention
to what went out under my name."
Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign Committee
Jesse Benton, 703-248-9115
I believe the Windows 95/98 backup program is different than the one in XP. A friend of mine had his machine crash with key contents lost. He emailed me his backup files but I couldn't restore them despite some effort -- XP could not restore 9x backups. Idiotic I know but what I ran up against.
would we think a custom message on toast is useless. Those who are married can imagine a significant improvement in their chances of getting lucky by burning "Honey, I love you!" on rye.
Either some of the scanlines are wasted showing back bars.
Wasted Scanlines, Tonight on 60 Minutes.
On a marginally more serious note, what are you talking about? It isn't "wasted scanlines" but rather the smaller picture area that is the downside of an anamorphic movie -- e.g. on a 1920 x 1200 display, showing "2001: A Space Odyssey" at its native 2.35 to 1 resolution, 1920 by 817 pixels are used (for a picture area of 1,568,680) whereas a 4x3 butchering of 2001 abuses 1600 by 1200 pixels (picture area=1,920,000). So for those who must fill up their monitors with colored pixels, by all means go full screen! Come to think of it, maybe the butchery of 4x3 is meant for slasher flicks?
Or
I think we all figured out the drawbacks of pan-and-scan ten years ago.
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My grandmother did this also. Works, in terms of reducing bill worry/stress. I guess the advantage of paying them all at once is an economy of scale.
I strongly agree about hobbies. In addition, I think there is a benefit to limiting contact with the news. As Steve Chandler said, "It's not the news, it's the bad news". This is of course related to having a hobby. If you disappear into the basement for 4 hours, you probably didn't fire up CNN every 10 minutes during that time.
Another thought, perhaps controversial, is that women seem inclined to worry more than guys. I try to minimize potential worry-items -- opening up bills just before I plan to actually pay them, for example. My wife will open a bill the minute she sees it, even if we are just off for a walk with the dogs. Then while we are walking the dogs in the fresh air, she has to be thinking about that ridiculous Comcast bill.
Finally I would add that carrying too much stuff around in our head does us no favors. No one in our family has a cell phone, nor do we wish we did. That way when I'm driving from A to B, I am not so rudely interrupted that I almost drive off the road. Instead I can enjoy the beautiful bumper-to-bumper traffic in peace. But seriously, if I am fuming in traffic I would just as soon not share my headspace with someone else at that exact moment. I have also used a reminder program for eight or nine years now, and currently have 225 reminders in it. When my wife hits me with an event -- take the dog to the vet on Wed -- I create a reminder and then forget about it until the reminder goes off. I miss fewer events and carry a dozen times less event-related detail in my mind -- has to be a good thing.
Did someone say moose test?
...it is near the end of the video.
I agree about successful people having help -- rich parents, or powerful connections. What is even more annoying is that those who genuinely innovate (someone like Dan Bricklin comes to mind) will often have their work stolen/copied/sidelined by someone in a more powerful position. The corruption of the system always approaches 100%.
All we little people can do is try to give credit to the true innovators, geniuses and hard workers. In the latter category I would place David Harris of Pegasus fame. Philippe Kahn would go in the true innovator (Sidekick) and genius (his compilers vs. microsoft ones) categories. And if Paul Katz were alive, it is doubtful we could give him enough credit and reward for PKzip. He made ARC look bad and we benefited from that.
In the "from out of left field" category, I would suggest Neil Rubenking. I think he has a vast and deep understanding of PCs and, unlike Jerry can-never-get-one-computer-working Pournelle he has helped a large number of us over many years from the back pages of PCMag. Steve Ciarcia did the same thing, but for hardware guys.
There may be some truth in this remark for some of these people, espec. billg, but your "Booth was a patriot" .SIG is laughable. Booth was part of a substantial conspiracy to take down a President who was committing the ultimate act of treason in the U.S. -- remaining free from corruption. For more, check out Jim Bishop's "The Day Lincoln Was Shot".
People are meant to be scanned. And besides, it would speed things up when you get beer and cigarettes.
I want my chip implanted in my eye so I light up like T2 when I get scanned.
I hereby grant everyone on Earth the right to fight over this idea in order to win the prize. May the best cyborg wannabe win.
Oh, and you can gaff hook us and swing us past the scanner to speed things up even more!
and remove the color cartridge. It sucks to waste color ink printing some order confirmation thingy anyway.
I think this is what Microsoft wants now. There was a time when they wanted plenty of email eyeballs -- so they bought Hotmail. Now I think it is a profitless headache to them and has no upside -- so time to slowly kill it.
Furthering my theory is the fact that the invites YahooGroups lists send to msn.com addresses are bounced as spam. Why would Microsoft do this? There is of course no logical reason, nor any civilized reason. One could pretend this is a competitive thing -- reject the competitor's attempt to grow their user base. More realistically msn.com bouncing perfectly reasonable email will simply cause people with msn.com addresses to abandon those addresses -- success from Microsoft's point of view.
Microsoft doesn't need people who only email. They want to push people "forward", into more "advanced" features like Live -- where they can make some actual cash. Email is passe, so why have hundreds of millions of mailboxes to worry about? Of course, this is why they dispose of user email if said user is unable to access their mailbox for a remarkably short amount of time -- a month, IIRC. I used to set reminders so that this wouldn't happen to my backup hotmail.com accounts but now I just let it happen -- useless hotmail.com mailboxes being toasted by a useless company seems appropriately bizarre.
Why is the parent marked as Flamebait? I'm serious. Can someone, anyone, explain this? And before anyone tries, remember that most if not all the comments in this thread could be labeled "Flamebait", given the nature of political "discussion".
Ron Paul deserves more attention -- when compared with how he is doing with the people, the media snub he is getting is sickeningly biased and unfair. Period.
The Income Tax provision has never been properly ratified. It is illegal, and 100% abused. Do your research before you attempt to argue this.
The Federal Reserve is the other half of the Income Tax fraud. Once a private company got in the position to loan the government all the money it wastes, a means was needed to pay back the "interest" (i.e. illegal profits). Income taxes started when The Fraud did. Check out Aaron Russo's "America: Freedom To Fascism" (or any one of countless other works detailing this conspiracy -- yes, conspiracy).
No one is more consistent in their thoughts, words and deeds than Ron Paul. This point alone makes the "Flamebait" mod ludicrous. Check out "The Case For Gold", published in 1982 -- Ron Paul co-authored this and his position is unchanged today...25 years later.
Should the US be policing the world? Few would say "aye".
What happened to freedom of speech, expression, and the PEOPLE choosing their president?
Hang on, I found out why the Flamebait mod. We can't have PEOPLE running things, can we?
or
c. Because there are no white elephant asbestos-filled buildings in need of an extreme makeover by an owner who would figured out a way to make $7B on his $15M investment at the same time at the moment.
Thank you for the InvisionFree suggestion. I have 3 mailing lists, sending about 35,000 emails per week. I have used YahooGroups for this for 9 years now and I have assumed their (relative) credibility helped me get my emails past the ubiquitously stupid spam filters.
By the way, and ironically, msn.com blocks invites from YahooGroups. What will they do if they own it?
Anyone have an alternative?
If Microsoft had a total monopoly, they would be very vulnerable to government meddling. A few years back they avoided that with a $150M loan to Apple (and got the added benefit of handsome profits from their loan). Today they avoid a total monopoly by pushing out Vista. They get everything they want from this approach:
(1) keep a large marketshare/influence due to vendor lockin
(2) make OEMs happy by helping them peddle more hardware
(3) keep themselves in the consumer's head by releasing a shiney new OS
(4) give Apple & Linux a chance to regain marketshare
(5) give tech sites something to argue about (now that the Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD death match is over)
(6) give the New Fascist Order more control of Joe and Jane Sheep
(7) automatically make people interested in Windows 7: It's Not Vista! .
Sales of Windows 7 ain't guaranteed til Windows 6 won't run.
What stops you from disassembling? Given how small these things are, can't be all that much work.
"Engineers Have a Terrorist Mindset", from the people who eagerly broadcasted the 9/11 false flag operation but forgot to tell us that little detail.
I am curious if any versions of Windows provide this feature. If not then chock one up for Linux...
Sorry, don't agree. I bought MS Office 2000 for Wn98SE, and continue to use it today on XP. Same for Eudora. And CuteFTP. And PKZip4Win. etc.
I can think of only two cases where XP breaks programss. One of them is slight -- under XP, MS Word for DOS v5 (my almost 20-year-old editor do-it-all thingy) no longer has a clipboard path to other applications. Not exactly an every-program-every-user situation.
The other breakage is noteworthy -- video games. But then this has been a problem for decades, hasn't it? And hardly something businesses care about.
Perhaps you meant "every single on of their hardware/driver combinations"?
Let's go one stage further and call it what it most likely is: another CIA false flag operation.
...and why no thinkofthechildren tag?
Do you really how crazy you sounded just now?
I believe the Windows 95/98 backup program is different than the one in XP. A friend of mine had his machine crash with key contents lost. He emailed me his backup files but I couldn't restore them despite some effort -- XP could not restore 9x backups. Idiotic I know but what I ran up against.
would we think a custom message on toast is useless. Those who are married can imagine a significant improvement in their chances of getting lucky by burning "Honey, I love you!" on rye.
What about an AOL CD coffee coaster and other such things?
Either some of the scanlines are wasted showing back bars.
Wasted Scanlines, Tonight on 60 Minutes.
On a marginally more serious note, what are you talking about? It isn't "wasted scanlines" but rather the smaller picture area that is the downside of an anamorphic movie -- e.g. on a 1920 x 1200 display, showing "2001: A Space Odyssey" at its native 2.35 to 1 resolution, 1920 by 817 pixels are used (for a picture area of 1,568,680) whereas a 4x3 butchering of 2001 abuses 1600 by 1200 pixels (picture area=1,920,000). So for those who must fill up their monitors with colored pixels, by all means go full screen! Come to think of it, maybe the butchery of 4x3 is meant for slasher flicks?
Or
I think we all figured out the drawbacks of pan-and-scan ten years ago.
Sounds like it would be more useful than running SETI.