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  1. Re:Myer's-Briggs Test on Eric Sink on Starting Your Own Software Company · · Score: 1

    There is an excellent book about MBTI called Please Understand Me and and an updated version of it called Please Understand Me II.

    Arg!

    Please Understand Me is *not* about the MBTI. It is about the four types, and how it *fits* with the MBTI. As for the MBTI, Keirsey hasn't the slightest idea what Intovert/Extravert is, and says it means shyness. He then explains S/N as how Meyers explains I/E. His T/F is absolute lunacy.

    Keirsey wanted to know what made people tick, so he looked at the outside of people to help understand their inside. The name of the book, Please Understand *Me*, shows this. It is for others to come inside me.

    Briggs/Meyers wanted to understand how people will function in the world (specfically getting women to into the workforce during wartime where men had to leave) and did this by looking at the inside. Thus Meyers book, Gifts Differing. It's about the different things each person can contribute.

    The *only* decent book on the MBTI is Gifts Differing. She herself mention that only Van Der Hoop properly understood Jung, and her mother (Briggs) consulted with Jung. To understand the four types, however, and get (just) a taste of the MBTI read Please Understand Me II.

    And you call yourself an INTJ. Pheh! :)

  2. Re:Moo on Alternatives to Icons and Start Menus? · · Score: 1

    I believe in never more than five (well sometimes six) folder in any one menu. If there are more, sub-folder it.

    I have putty as <ctrl>-<alt>-t. I actually rarely use the Start Menu. :)

  3. Moo on Alternatives to Icons and Start Menus? · · Score: 1

    Oragnize them! (subfolders, and sub-sub-folders). Delete icons that are useless, and so on.

    Also, use keyboard shortcuts.

  4. Re:Fire the Producers Instead on Star Trek: Enterprise in Danger of Being Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it was good. Except when he decided he could live with it.

    I never really like The Sisko (the story about him was good, but i'd never choose him as a friend) but when he decided it was OK to murder, i lost any "respect" for the character. I mean, i still liked watching him. The only character i couldn't stand was Kira. What a horrible actress.

  5. Re:Fire the Producers Instead on Star Trek: Enterprise in Danger of Being Cancelled · · Score: 1

    But seriously, the last two-hour episode was a disaster.

    Actually, the last four episodes were fine, if they would have been stretched out over a season or two.

    One episode they have EMP, the next they get past it. They had so much build up to find out that it was an EMP, and then that let down. It's too bad they cancelled it. The story was more intruiging than ever.

  6. Re:Good. on Star Trek: Enterprise in Danger of Being Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Star Trek: Deep Space 9
    Very deep storyline spanning many seasons. Characters not as memorable as those on TNG, but memorable none the less.


    Characters were *more* memorable. They had personalities! Dax and Garek were fantastic, noone on TNG came close.

    Admittedly, DS-9 was different. It was drama, not action. So, it's a matter of taste.

  7. Re:Invision on Best Web Forums for Businesses? · · Score: 1

    Invision also takes time to load pages, requires people to login multiple times, slows down the browser, and so on. It's also got so much going on, it's hard to find anything.

    I went to site that used it and got scared away.

  8. Re:lightweight forums, real solution on Best Web Forums for Businesses? · · Score: 1

    Phorum is written pretty horribly. I needed to delete an article, and just a few hours later i had admin access. Here.

  9. Moo on What is the Worst Tech Mistake You Ever Made? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Someone made an installation program, to install on a floppy. It formatted A: to start.

    Well, went to Japan, and someone lost the data on his harddrive on a NEC. It would seem that Japanese NECs are A: for the harddrive, and C: for the floppy.

  10. Re:So the real question is.... on Black Holes No More -- Introducing the Gravastar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow, and i though by UID was worth noting. :)

  11. Moo on Agile Software Development with Scrum · · Score: 1

    o because my reaction to this book

    To what book?

  12. Re:Proud to be a Heretic! on What You Can't Say · · Score: 1

    >My uid is 1/10th his, and I'll call him a n00b.

    Hihi.


    Grr... outdone. :P

  13. Re:User ID's for sale on E-bay?? on What You Can't Say · · Score: 1

    Such silly newbies. :)

  14. Re:"Report as Spam" on You've Got Spam: AOL Blocks 1/2 Trillion Spam · · Score: 1

    Yeah. I know it. Worked at a place where poeple opt-in (a great deal of the time though *postcards*) and they still get reported as spam. Go figure.

  15. Moo on Best Way To Beat A Caffeine Addiction? · · Score: 1

    Sleep.

    Most probably, you are not getting eight hours of sleep a night. Go to sleep every night for two weeks, and wake up only after you feel untired. If you must get up at a certain time, go to sleep much earlier. After a couple weeks, you should start getting approximately the same amount of asleep every night. That is how much sleep you need. Get it, and the headaches should go away.

  16. Moo on UK Police Want An Automotive Tractor Beam · · Score: 1

    So the UK has finally discovered Knight Rider. :)

  17. Re:Misleading name? on Israel's Finance Ministry To Distribute OpenOffice · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Misleading name? on Israel's Finance Ministry To Distribute OpenOffice · · Score: 1

    To present just one data point, opinion polls consistently show that the Israeli population overwhelmingly supports the formation of a Palestinian state (around a 60% majority),

    No, they don't. Unless you add the words "in some form, and under some circumstances". Most people *refuse* a state if not done with security. How that security plays out, in definition and order, is a major dispute.

    Even then, a "state" has many meanings? Will it be autonomous or completely soveregn? How will the borders be protected? Will they be able to have an army? Free trade?

    Your statistic can be said exactly the opposite. Opinion polls consistently show that the Israeli population overwhelmingly rejects the formation of a full-fledged Palestinian state. And, IIRC, its higher than 60%.

    Arutz 7's history is rife with controversy, from its announcers' miserable show of merriment when breaking the news of the massacre of 29 arabs in Hebron in 1994,

    Merriment?? I'm calling your bluff.

    to their infamous attacks on the late Israeli prime minister, Izhak Rabin, which were blamed as one of the factors that led to his assassination.

    Were blamed by who? By the same people who claim the "massacre" is Jenin? No decent report mentioned that.

    To say that Arutz 7 was in any sense mainstream in its views is disingenuous.

    So, it won awards because it isn't mainstream? MKs, both right and left, give them interviews because they aren't mainstream?

    You're violent reaction to the thought of A7 being mainstream is misguided. It *is* mainstream. However, your vehemence is due to another point. A7 is right-wing. Not extremely, though not too lenient. I'd place them between "moderately-" and "strongly-" right wing.

    The Israeli public is left wing on socio-economic issues, moderate on religious issues, and right wing on security and life. A7 does follow that mostly, and thus is very much mainstream.

    I would hardly describe allowing a pirate radio station to operate for over a decade as a clamp down.

    They did not "allow" it. They tried over the years to shut it down, with dubiously leagal raids and the like. It just so happens that's A7 is law abiding, so there was no legal reason to close them.

    Left wing circles in Israel have repeatedly accused the government of complacency in their dealings with Arutz 7

    Of course they will! Any time people don't gets their way (right or left) they complain of complicity or worse. The US has that as well.

    and the amount of time it took to shut it down serves as evidence that they may have been right.

    Exactly the opposite. It shows how they were wrong. Since they couldn't do it within the law, they raided them anyway and have a left-wing court retroactively legalize the raid. The left-wing tried everything legal, failed, and went illegal.

  19. Re:I'm curious, on Cross Platform BIOS Flash Upgrades? · · Score: 1

    Sure you lose a CD

    You're saying that you don't have at least one rewritable?

  20. Moo on Cross-Platform Video Capture Cards And TV Tuners? · · Score: 1

    This Christmas reminded me of the times when you were a child

    Wow! What was i like as a child?

  21. Re:Judging from the pictures.... on USB Menorah · · Score: 2, Informative

    Orthodox jews will not turn on electric lights on the sabbath,

    Not really because of the "fire" aspect. It's actually because it completes a circuit. And such completion would constitue "Binyan", or building, of of the 39 forbidden activities.

  22. Re:Judging from the pictures.... on USB Menorah · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The obvious answer to "why wouldn't LEDs count" is "because light bulbs don't really count either".

    According to many, it would count. However, not everyone holds of it, and traditionalists would go for oil, to match the original.

  23. Moo on Useful English-Japanese Handheld Dictionaries? · · Score: 1

    I've been interested in finding one of these,

    One of what?

  24. Re:IANEFAMCC on Have You Fought Your ISP Over Bandwidth Limits? · · Score: 1

    Exactly!

    I think that would actually honor the customer as a person, which they're probably too scared to do.

  25. Re:Costs? on EMC To Acquire VMware · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I went in at 1.0. And couldn't believe upgrades after that.

    Too bad. Another case of lusting for money ruining a killer app.