I wouldn't dream of writing a large document in anything other than LaTeX; the learning curve may be a bit steep but once you're up to speed you'll be amazed and thankful for the gobs of work the system will save you. Plus you can use whatever text editor you're most comfortable with; also, the format lends itself greatly to use of collaboration and revision control tools which will simplify your work even further.
So what you're saying is that you prefer the game that's good for the tv company, the one where you get to enjoy the most advertisement... because, you know, you could switch channels...
in most of the world, the World Cup is (dare I say it) more important than any other sporting event (yes, even the olympic games). It'd do good to US citizens to dig out of the hole and stop pretending; while you're at it you might as well start ditching the imperial measuring system. And yes, in most of the rest of the world, interesting matches are broadcast for free. lol!
"Aren't you guys having daily riots and demonstrations in downtown Mexico City? As in, demonstrations that block traffic through the city for hours at a time?"
Sure we are. We have at least two every week. And the only ones who notice are us, other people, when we can't get to work or spend 2 hours stranded on a traffic jam. The government doesn't.
I understand the sentiment (often expressed in this thread) regarding mexicans who just want to take from the US without, basically, giving back (other than the work they perform). Realize that mexicans actually have no love for the US; I think a lot of the immigrants see it as a "I got there and i'm taking what I can before I get kicked out" affair. They'd much rather stay home but the reality of mexican economy is such that millions of people would rather risk their lives to go there and get a US $1-a-day job than stay here and starve to death. So, as I mentioned on another post, it would be up to the mexican government to start turning our economy around so that people have less incentive to leave. The current government isn't going to do it. It's a good thing a change is coming.
But as I also said, there's also fault with the americans who are willing to pay less-than-minimum to immigrant workers. Penalize those who do, and suddenly there's no need for a mexican worker when (as you mentioned) a high school kid will work for the same pay and can actually speak english.
The problem goes both ways. So either governments wake up and take measures to solve it (from the root, not by erecting walls) or we'll be facing a huge mess from the people; mexicans already desperate enough to do what they're doing, and americans angry enough to actually do something about it other than saying "damn mexicans" and then turning around and hiring a guatemalteco gardener because it's cheaper than a mexican:P
You're exactly right. All of this wouldn't happen if Mexican economy wasn't such a mess. Mexican government steers the economy, but guess to which organization's recomendations? the IMF. Guess where the IMF is based? and guess what? the recommendations ain't working. So you're right that it's our responsibility to elect a government with different ideas of their own instead of following a (flawed) recipe, maybe that will improve things. Once Mexico has better wealth distribution people will have less reason to leave. Right now it's quite the contrary: the president and his cabinet are so brain-dead that they tout the strength of the immigrant economy, with money immigrants send to their families here in mexico being the country's second largest source of income (after oil). What they don't realize is that it's but a phantom of what real wealth should be.
However, make no mistake: it's not like americans are 100% innocent and we mexicans want to take over the US. Mexicans are willing to work for less than minimum wage in the US, but who's willing to let them? and why aren't authorities prosecuting the people who actually violate US law by paying *less* to immigrant workers?
Being neighbors we should find a way to work things out to the benefit of both countries. Unfortunately it's a complex problem dating back to at least the 1940's and it's not going to be solved easily, not by discussing it here, and certainly not by the geniuses in the president chairs in each country.
I guess you americans already have enough gardeners, farm helpers, construction workers and waiters, eh? truly, the way the US and Mexico act belies the official discourse about both countries being friends and associates. Sadly I believe we're burdened by two of the single most idiotic presidents in history, George W. Bush and Vicente Fox. Luckily for us Mexicans, Fox is leaving office this december. Hopefully whoever the new president is, will have a more sensible (at *all* sensible) foreign policy as well as measures to reduce the need for migration. And hopefully americans will realize that Mexico is a friendly country and pressure the Bush administration into looking at real solutions to the immigration "problem". Building fences and putting up cameras is *not* a solution.
It's OK, but on the demo page the ad is HUGE, and way too in-your-face. Takes a lot of valuable space. Please don't make the same mistake Yahoo! made with their non-flowing redesign; they say 1024x768 but that's the resolution I have and it still makes me scroll around, which is dumb because hey, I thought we'd all learned that fixed dimensions are bad!
Doesn't surprise me from CMP; I think the bottom line is all that matters for this company. I still remember when they bought Byte Magazine, put it on "hiatus" for months while they "restructured" it, then decided it was better to *kill* it, and then had the gall to offer subscribers a "migration" to Windows Magazine; why in hell would I migrate from one of the few cross-platform-oriented magazines around, to *WINDOWS MAGAZINE*? I told them no, and of course I didn't get a refund on my subscription money.
There are those in CMP who genuinely care about their audience (such as a very kind person who offered me a subscription to Byte on the web after I made a comment similar to this one here, on slashdot, see this story); but it looks like upper management is filled with nothing but sharks. And nasty ones, at that.
"Once again Apple think that in the UK we should pay as much as 30% more for the privilege of having a machine shipped across the Atlantic and a couple of keys in a different place. Great."
Man, you should see the premium we pay in Mexico for having the damn Apple computers rolled across the border on a truck. It's so ridiculous in fact, it's almost better to take a quick trip to Houston or LA to buy your computer. Actually, I bet that's what people in Tijuana do, being so close to the border. Anyway.
"Mexican government intervention in the Mexican economy generates hordes of desperate labor that floods the American market for unskilled labor."
Unfortunately one of those "policies" the mexican government embarked on was NAFTA. This follows your apparent ideals of a "free" market eliminating trade tariffs between countries. I invite you to come to Mexico and witness how this has affected mexican farmers; as ridiculous as it sounds, they can't compete price-wise with US-govt-subsidized, supposedly more highly paid american farmers (how's that for government intervention?). Sometimes they prefer to give away their crops rather than see them go to waste because it was cheaper to import US-grown vegetables. And finally they end up going to the US where what you consider to be "slave wages" are easily higher than what most professionally educated people can make here in Mexico.
The mexican gov't has been making some pretty idiotic decisions regarding trade and our role in the world; this has been going on for decades now. However, don't dismiss the US gov'ts involvement in this. Trust me, Los Angeles wouldn't have the second largest population of Mexicans among cities (second only to Mexico City) unless a lot of americans actually want the mexicans to be there.
I believe the US-Mexico relationship would be a lot healthier if Mexico acknowledged that there's no way we can pretend to be on a level playing field with the US and Canada, and get out of NAFTA. Focus on building the country's prosperity rather than basing it on imported wages; money sent to Mexico by people living in the US is now the country's second most important source of income, only trailing oil exports (and guess who buys most of our oil). It's ridiculous when you realize gasoline is actually more expensive here in Mexico than in the US. Of course the US would be very angry at losing their source of slaves.
Finally, you know very little about president Fox if you believe he's anything other than a lapdog of the US government; so don't come proclaiming he should be assassinated by a CIA team for "meddling with congress". If anything he should be a US congressman because he clearly has no interest in leading Mexico into further progress. It's a good thing he's finally leaving office this year.
With all the problems surrounding IE lately (and always), you'd be crazy to assume IE7 is going to be any better. If you're already expecting a lot of breakage from the new version, which it seems you do, given the concerns it's given you, why not start a planned Firefox rollout now, tackle any issues in a controlled manner with your old IE as a fallback, and by the time IE7 actually arrives, you no longer care because you're already running something else. I bet new versions of Firefox won't be as breakage-prone as new IE's.
either podcast alley or the itunes search worked OK for me; it's easy to find podcasts relating to topics you're interested in. I personally listen to k9cast (about dogs), phedippidations, for runners (even though i'm not one of them) and dawn & drew (say what you want but they're hilarious when you're not in the mood for something more serious). I found all these podcasts and more by searching for specific topics on the search engines.
Oh, so it's ok for Bill to dream of a computer in every home when it's his software that's going to be on them, but it's wrong when someone else tries putting "a computer on every kid's lap" because he had nothing to do with it.
I think he forgot when HE learned how to use a computer, the things didn't even have displays, so why complain about a computer that's 1000 times more powerful than anything he used when a teenager?
And he might be a philantropist and yadda yadda, but he's into welfare and not into really helping people improve themselves. Helping them survive is one thing; helping them learn and thrive is another very different one. Let's see Bill donate several million computers *without* ties to MSFT software and then I'll believe he's really concerned about the MIT computer being a fiasco.
Give a kid medicine and he'll live to starve tomorrrow; show him how to use a computer and he'll be able to live decently for the rest of his life.
Choicepoint seems to be quite a nasty company, stopping at nothing to gather personal information by the truckload and sell it to the highest bidder. About a year ago, a highly-publicized case in Mexico involved Choicepoint purchasing electorate information from the Federal Elections Institute (IFE), which of course has a database with information on each and every registered voter in Mexico (about 49 million). I don't believe any sanctions were given out, either to the institute's personnel who authorized this, or to Choicepoint, which would have involved cooperation with the US gov't to prosecute the company.
YEAH. Screw you, Steve! guess Bill won't let you have an ipod and you're upset because of that! BTW I carry a couple of videos of you dancing to Gloria Estefan in my iPod Video. YOU GONNA SUE ME FOR THAT OR WHAT?
WOOF! no, I'm not Cerberus but I guess that helps make my point; a lot of people have bought DS's in order to play nintendogs and I don't think many have been disappointed.
Well, I bought a Nintendo DS with the sole purpose of playing Nintendogs; the game itself is awesome, it has us drooling and really, really impressed, and is topic for another discussion. The console itself has a great design, I'm quite impressed with the features, specs, design and ergonomics. I then bought Mario Kart DS and I now think that online play is the DS's killer app; it's tremendously fun to duke it out online with people, and I can only imagine how much fun it would be to play with people on a LAN setup. I decided to steer away from Nintendo after I hated my N64, but the NDS just won me over again.
Whoa, whoa. The Vista implementation *sounds* better. It *might* be better. Let's not forget, Vista ain't here yet. It might be an entirely new nightmare for sysadmins everywhere. Let's not get ahead of ourselves here, there's always a chance MSFT might disappoint yet again.
Given no support from the vendor, you'd have a lot more trouble getting a WiFi card working under Windows than under Linux. So go pester your favorite vendor for Linux drivers. Or get a supported card; my Cisco Aironet 350 has worked beautifully from day 1, so much so that I haven't had the need to upgrade it
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How about a spell checker? :P
I wouldn't dream of writing a large document in anything other than LaTeX; the learning curve may be a bit steep but once you're up to speed you'll be amazed and thankful for the gobs of work the system will save you. Plus you can use whatever text editor you're most comfortable with; also, the format lends itself greatly to use of collaboration and revision control tools which will simplify your work even further.
So what you're saying is that you prefer the game that's good for the tv company, the one where you get to enjoy the most advertisement... because, you know, you could switch channels...
Yeah, quite unlike a 5-hour world series game. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge baseball fan, but the length of soccer games is no excuse.
in most of the world, the World Cup is (dare I say it) more important than any other sporting event (yes, even the olympic games). It'd do good to US citizens to dig out of the hole and stop pretending; while you're at it you might as well start ditching the imperial measuring system. And yes, in most of the rest of the world, interesting matches are broadcast for free. lol!
"Aren't you guys having daily riots and demonstrations in downtown Mexico City? As in, demonstrations that block traffic through the city for hours at a time?"
:P
Sure we are. We have at least two every week. And the only ones who notice are us, other people, when we can't get to work or spend 2 hours stranded on a traffic jam. The government doesn't.
I understand the sentiment (often expressed in this thread) regarding mexicans who just want to take from the US without, basically, giving back (other than the work they perform). Realize that mexicans actually have no love for the US; I think a lot of the immigrants see it as a "I got there and i'm taking what I can before I get kicked out" affair. They'd much rather stay home but the reality of mexican economy is such that millions of people would rather risk their lives to go there and get a US $1-a-day job than stay here and starve to death. So, as I mentioned on another post, it would be up to the mexican government to start turning our economy around so that people have less incentive to leave. The current government isn't going to do it. It's a good thing a change is coming.
But as I also said, there's also fault with the americans who are willing to pay less-than-minimum to immigrant workers. Penalize those who do, and suddenly there's no need for a mexican worker when (as you mentioned) a high school kid will work for the same pay and can actually speak english.
The problem goes both ways. So either governments wake up and take measures to solve it (from the root, not by erecting walls) or we'll be facing a huge mess from the people; mexicans already desperate enough to do what they're doing, and americans angry enough to actually do something about it other than saying "damn mexicans" and then turning around and hiring a guatemalteco gardener because it's cheaper than a mexican
You're exactly right. All of this wouldn't happen if Mexican economy wasn't such a mess. Mexican government steers the economy, but guess to which organization's recomendations? the IMF. Guess where the IMF is based? and guess what? the recommendations ain't working. So you're right that it's our responsibility to elect a government with different ideas of their own instead of following a (flawed) recipe, maybe that will improve things. Once Mexico has better wealth distribution people will have less reason to leave. Right now it's quite the contrary: the president and his cabinet are so brain-dead that they tout the strength of the immigrant economy, with money immigrants send to their families here in mexico being the country's second largest source of income (after oil). What they don't realize is that it's but a phantom of what real wealth should be.
However, make no mistake: it's not like americans are 100% innocent and we mexicans want to take over the US. Mexicans are willing to work for less than minimum wage in the US, but who's willing to let them? and why aren't authorities prosecuting the people who actually violate US law by paying *less* to immigrant workers?
Being neighbors we should find a way to work things out to the benefit of both countries. Unfortunately it's a complex problem dating back to at least the 1940's and it's not going to be solved easily, not by discussing it here, and certainly not by the geniuses in the president chairs in each country.
I guess you americans already have enough gardeners, farm helpers, construction workers and waiters, eh? truly, the way the US and Mexico act belies the official discourse about both countries being friends and associates. Sadly I believe we're burdened by two of the single most idiotic presidents in history, George W. Bush and Vicente Fox. Luckily for us Mexicans, Fox is leaving office this december. Hopefully whoever the new president is, will have a more sensible (at *all* sensible) foreign policy as well as measures to reduce the need for migration. And hopefully americans will realize that Mexico is a friendly country and pressure the Bush administration into looking at real solutions to the immigration "problem". Building fences and putting up cameras is *not* a solution.
It's OK, but on the demo page the ad is HUGE, and way too in-your-face. Takes a lot of valuable space. Please don't make the same mistake Yahoo! made with their non-flowing redesign; they say 1024x768 but that's the resolution I have and it still makes me scroll around, which is dumb because hey, I thought we'd all learned that fixed dimensions are bad!
still, good luck with the new design.
Doesn't surprise me from CMP; I think the bottom line is all that matters for this company. I still remember when they bought Byte Magazine, put it on "hiatus" for months while they "restructured" it, then decided it was better to *kill* it, and then had the gall to offer subscribers a "migration" to Windows Magazine; why in hell would I migrate from one of the few cross-platform-oriented magazines around, to *WINDOWS MAGAZINE*? I told them no, and of course I didn't get a refund on my subscription money.
There are those in CMP who genuinely care about their audience (such as a very kind person who offered me a subscription to Byte on the web after I made a comment similar to this one here, on slashdot, see this story); but it looks like upper management is filled with nothing but sharks. And nasty ones, at that.
"Once again Apple think that in the UK we should pay as much as 30% more for the privilege of having a machine shipped across the Atlantic and a couple of keys in a different place. Great."
Man, you should see the premium we pay in Mexico for having the damn Apple computers rolled across the border on a truck. It's so ridiculous in fact, it's almost better to take a quick trip to Houston or LA to buy your computer. Actually, I bet that's what people in Tijuana do, being so close to the border. Anyway.
"Mexican government intervention in the Mexican economy generates hordes of desperate labor that floods the American market for unskilled labor."
Unfortunately one of those "policies" the mexican government embarked on was NAFTA. This follows your apparent ideals of a "free" market eliminating trade tariffs between countries. I invite you to come to Mexico and witness how this has affected mexican farmers; as ridiculous as it sounds, they can't compete price-wise with US-govt-subsidized, supposedly more highly paid american farmers (how's that for government intervention?). Sometimes they prefer to give away their crops rather than see them go to waste because it was cheaper to import US-grown vegetables. And finally they end up going to the US where what you consider to be "slave wages" are easily higher than what most professionally educated people can make here in Mexico.
The mexican gov't has been making some pretty idiotic decisions regarding trade and our role in the world; this has been going on for decades now. However, don't dismiss the US gov'ts involvement in this. Trust me, Los Angeles wouldn't have the second largest population of Mexicans among cities (second only to Mexico City) unless a lot of americans actually want the mexicans to be there.
I believe the US-Mexico relationship would be a lot healthier if Mexico acknowledged that there's no way we can pretend to be on a level playing field with the US and Canada, and get out of NAFTA. Focus on building the country's prosperity rather than basing it on imported wages; money sent to Mexico by people living in the US is now the country's second most important source of income, only trailing oil exports (and guess who buys most of our oil). It's ridiculous when you realize gasoline is actually more expensive here in Mexico than in the US. Of course the US would be very angry at losing their source of slaves.
Finally, you know very little about president Fox if you believe he's anything other than a lapdog of the US government; so don't come proclaiming he should be assassinated by a CIA team for "meddling with congress". If anything he should be a US congressman because he clearly has no interest in leading Mexico into further progress. It's a good thing he's finally leaving office this year.
I guess I'll be downloading videos of all the concerts off P2P... and save the $250 towards the purchase of my new portable audio/video player. hah.
"The last thing I would ever want to hear is that a DBA is using khexedit on raw database files."
Wimps! real DBAs use cat!!
remember "burn all gifs day"? guess the server was loaded with gif's and someone remembered...
Did they actually come up with a recursive acronym? is there a geek advising them? there's hope!!! WHEE!!!
With all the problems surrounding IE lately (and always), you'd be crazy to assume IE7 is going to be any better. If you're already expecting a lot of breakage from the new version, which it seems you do, given the concerns it's given you, why not start a planned Firefox rollout now, tackle any issues in a controlled manner with your old IE as a fallback, and by the time IE7 actually arrives, you no longer care because you're already running something else. I bet new versions of Firefox won't be as breakage-prone as new IE's.
either podcast alley or the itunes search worked OK for me; it's easy to find podcasts relating to topics you're interested in. I personally listen to k9cast (about dogs), phedippidations, for runners (even though i'm not one of them) and dawn & drew (say what you want but they're hilarious when you're not in the mood for something more serious). I found all these podcasts and more by searching for specific topics on the search engines.
"Until they get at least some of these features write"
:)
For you, the feature they'd need to get working is a grammar checker I guess
Oh, so it's ok for Bill to dream of a computer in every home when it's his software that's going to be on them, but it's wrong when someone else tries putting "a computer on every kid's lap" because he had nothing to do with it.
I think he forgot when HE learned how to use a computer, the things didn't even have displays, so why complain about a computer that's 1000 times more powerful than anything he used when a teenager?
And he might be a philantropist and yadda yadda, but he's into welfare and not into really helping people improve themselves. Helping them survive is one thing; helping them learn and thrive is another very different one. Let's see Bill donate several million computers *without* ties to MSFT software and then I'll believe he's really concerned about the MIT computer being a fiasco.
Give a kid medicine and he'll live to starve tomorrrow; show him how to use a computer and he'll be able to live decently for the rest of his life.
Choicepoint seems to be quite a nasty company, stopping at nothing to gather personal information by the truckload and sell it to the highest bidder. About a year ago, a highly-publicized case in Mexico involved Choicepoint purchasing electorate information from the Federal Elections Institute (IFE), which of course has a database with information on each and every registered voter in Mexico (about 49 million). I don't believe any sanctions were given out, either to the institute's personnel who authorized this, or to Choicepoint, which would have involved cooperation with the US gov't to prosecute the company.
YEAH. Screw you, Steve! guess Bill won't let you have an ipod and you're upset because of that! BTW I carry a couple of videos of you dancing to Gloria Estefan in my iPod Video. YOU GONNA SUE ME FOR THAT OR WHAT?
LOL!
WOOF! no, I'm not Cerberus but I guess that helps make my point; a lot of people have bought DS's in order to play nintendogs and I don't think many have been disappointed.
Well, I bought a Nintendo DS with the sole purpose of playing Nintendogs; the game itself is awesome, it has us drooling and really, really impressed, and is topic for another discussion. The console itself has a great design, I'm quite impressed with the features, specs, design and ergonomics. I then bought Mario Kart DS and I now think that online play is the DS's killer app; it's tremendously fun to duke it out online with people, and I can only imagine how much fun it would be to play with people on a LAN setup. I decided to steer away from Nintendo after I hated my N64, but the NDS just won me over again.
Whoa, whoa. The Vista implementation *sounds* better. It *might* be better. Let's not forget, Vista ain't here yet. It might be an entirely new nightmare for sysadmins everywhere. Let's not get ahead of ourselves here, there's always a chance MSFT might disappoint yet again.
Given no support from the vendor, you'd have a lot more trouble getting a WiFi card working under Windows than under Linux. So go pester your favorite vendor for Linux drivers. Or get a supported card; my Cisco Aironet 350 has worked beautifully from day 1, so much so that I haven't had the need to upgrade it