If we are to rise to the chsllenqe of Linux and Apple,
Yesterday there was this story about a Gates interview where he mentioned Linux before Apple when talking about the competition. I wonder if Linux is a bigger threat in their minds than Apple?
Professional Politicians are not the solution, they ARE the problem.
I'll probably get modded down for replying to your sig, but I've been beating that drum for several years now - never, ever elect incumbent politicians. Glad to see some one else spreading the word.
security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.
I love that line. Famous last words? Plus he sounds awfully defensive in this interview.
I'm sorry, no one here has any intentions of helping you with anything. I am the manager of all of Customer Service. There
The guy was certainly a piss ant, but if the lady was concerned about securing her mail, she should have saved it all to her own computer and then backed it up to boot.
I know a lot of/.er's save all their e-mails. I almost never do unless there's a document I need or something. I delete it with impunity.
If it's important to you, keep it under your control.
This has been a public service rant, courtesy of alhunt.
How do you advocate Linux to people who are more comfortable using Windows?"
I don't think you do. Possibly you could ask him/her what motivated them to try Linux in the first place and build on that. Until someone is willing to climb the learning curve they're probably not going to be a Linux user.
"Piracy helped the young generation discover computers.
I think that's the most telling line in the article. That young generation would not have purchased the software in the first place so there really was no "loss" of income to MS or anyone else. And along the way they created an entire industry.
How many/.ers learned from pirated software? I'd suspect quite a large number played with DOS/WFWG/95/98, photoshop or tons of other programs they might never have learned to use otherwise. And how many now work in IT and buy legitimate software for themselves and their employers?
Of course, now that there are very high quality OSS programs available there's really no need to pirate MS stuff anymore.
If you can reform medical insurance, government aid, and malpractice lawsuits in the U.S., you'll have a much better situation for the doctors (and their families) and the patients.
Excellent point. Medicine is not an exact science. Things that should work, don't always. Yet patients and lawyers treat medicine like widget manufacturing, resulting in idiot juries awarding millions in malpractice awards, thus (along with other factors) driving the cost of healthcare beyond reason.
Interesting that you take such exception to my comment. I could run a tally of outrageous fees charged by your profession, but I'll simply refer you to overlawyered.com where they do a great job.
I might also suggest we return to the Roman system where advocates couldn't charge fees but could only receive gifts after the fact. Until Claudius came along and screwed things up. Or a "loser pays" system would certainly free up the courts.
I don't dislike lawyers. Had dinner with a lawyer last week, in fact. I dislike what your profession has become and so should you.
>created incentives to use CFLs or maybe tax incandescents?
What? Tax incandescents? Please, don't give them any ideas. Let these guys dip their toe in a revenue stream it's not long before they're skinny dipping in it.
I'm all for incentives rather than outlawing one thing or another.
California Assemblyman Llyod Levine wants to make his state the first to ban incandescent lightbulbs
Jerk. I'm all for CFL's over incandescent. But how about finding a way to convince people to make the change without shoving it down their throats? Maybe there'll be a large black market for incandescents in California... I can see it now - smuggle incandescents in, sell them out of the trunks of cars. Maybe this is an economic development project in disguise.
We have a neolithic stone, known as the Long Stone, a ten minute walk down the road from where I'm writing this,... and it feels good to be connected with the people who lived here four thousand years ago
And, of course, some whistledick modded you down.
Connection to the past is kind of the point of preserving Stone Henge and other historic' places. I live in a house built around 1875 and even that short time is a great connection to the past.
It's easy to stand somewhere like Stonehenge, Long Stone or my parlor and imagine all the people that went before you. It creates a sense of place, of permanence, a sense that long after you're gone people will be standing in the same place doing the same thing you're doing.
have decided to stop this program tells me that they have simply started another one somewhere
While I don't share the anti-Bush tenor of your post, this was the first thing I thought, too. There was probably another executive order in place about the same time they stopped the old program.
There is still some hope that our course can be reversed, but doing so will require a concerted effort by the Congress, the Courts, and the People to achieve it.
Stop re-electing incumbent politicians. Granted, this creates another set of problems, but we've had the "entrenched power-broker career politician" problem long enough. Let's try something different.
We can put a man on the moon, and soon Mars; but we can't take care of our own kids without legislation being introduced. Sheesh, the Republicans are acting more like Democrats these days, and the Dem's are acting more like Republicans! What's going on!?
The nanny state is growing, that's what's going on. You guys in GA need to squash the crap out of this legislation, please.
This, after she had described herself as "not one of those "stand by your man" kinds of women"
What relevance does this have to anything? So she's not a "stand by your man" type woman. Big deal.
She thought it was relevant enough make an issue of on national television. 60 minutes, if memory serves. If she thinks it's relevant, why shouldn't voters? They're her own words and actions.
Who knows, maybe they had an open marriage?
Fine. Why wasn't that the answer when the whole issue of Bill's philandering came to light? Either A) - that's NOT the answer or B) It won't play in Peoria. So the question is "Does she have one set of values, or two?" A public set and a private set? Which set will she apply when governing? How will I know which set she's applying? This reinforces my contention that you can't trust anything that comes out of her mouth.
and then had to publish her chocolate chip cookie recipe to prove how domesticated she was.
And what do chocolate chips or domestication have to do with extra-marital affairs or being a "stand by your man" woman? You know, it is possible to bake cookies and not havde traditional marital values
Possibly you could ask Hillary at one of her campaign stops. Publishing the recipe was *her* idea of a response to criticism of her "Tammy Wynette, Stand By Your Man" comment.
These are the things *she* thought were important - the things *she* wanted the American public to know about her.
How the hell would you know what her motivation was?
By paying attention to politics for the last 30 or 40 years. She's a public figure, makes many public comments and does many public activities. She's pretty well hoist on her own petard.
You comments seem to be based completely on misogyny
No, just based on paying attention.
Hillary is a social and political climber, first, foremost and always. Everything she does and has done in her life has been directed at raising her personal stature. Anything that comes out of her mouth is suspect.
Isn't this true of all politicians
Yes, it is. We have nobody to blame but ourselves for it, either. We keep rewarding bad behavior by our so-called "leaders" by re-electing them time and again. We need to spend about the next 20 years not re-electing any politician, ever.
What makes her particularly worse? I guess it must be the vagina.
Why would you say that? Do you really believe it? Please justify it, if so. Or, were you just being nasty?
Hillary will say anything, at any time, to acquire and hold power. The value of her promises is null
This is a woman who stayed with her husband after his very public affair, when any self-respecting woman would have packed her bags and left. This, after she had described herself as "not one of those "stand by your man" kinds of women" (or words to that effect - she made the "stand by your man" reference in a televised interview) and then had to publish her chocolate chip cookie recipe to prove how domesticated she was. She stayed after the Lewinski affair because her personal dignity was worth less to her than getting her American Express bill at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Hillary is a social and political climber, first, foremost and always. Everything she does and has done in her life has been directed at raising her personal stature. Anything that comes out of her mouth is suspect.
'I'm stunned how people aren't seeing that with TV, in five years from now, people will laugh at what we've had,' Gates told business leaders and politicians at the World Economic Forum. "
Coupe that with this quote:
There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features.
* James Coates, The Chicago Tribune
And the future of TV as we know it is bleak indeed.
Your TV will have to be manufactured by Cray.
Yes, I am a Maine resident. Like many young people, I'm out of here as soon as I graduate. Soon Maine will be come a state of elderly crotchety people, just like Florida
Demographically, Maine is already the oldest, whitest state in the nation.
Sorry to see you go, but we'll keep pulling for you, wherever you go.
I thought we got rid of the Doctrine of Nullification after the civil war?
Frankly? Tough. Real ID is just more federal nanny-state stuff hiding behind the skirts of "national security". That Maine has stood up to the feds and refused to be bullied into further eroding the privacy of it's citizens is a very positive development.
Let's see the other 49 states stand up for themselves, too.
The article made it sound like that all the legislature cared about was the money it would cost to implement the national ID, and that they didn't care about any of the privacy issues.
Living here in Maine, let me assure you that privacy was discussed just as much as money. All your personal information; name, address, social security number, FINGERPRINT, all consolidated in one card and entered into a handy database for some shmuck to put on his government-supplied laptop to be stolen at Arby's.
No, thanks. You're welcome, America. The rest of you get busy.
The bitch is I JUST submitted this story before I found it here on the front page.
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SpinWizard uses an intuitive 3-D carousel design, and works with the Microsoft Windows Program Manager to manage the desktop and
Cute little gadget, actually, but all eye candy.
The guy was certainly a piss ant, but if the lady was concerned about securing her mail, she should have saved it all to her own computer and then backed it up to boot.
I know a lot of /.er's save all their e-mails. I almost never do unless there's a document I need or something. I delete it with impunity.
If it's important to you, keep it under your control.
This has been a public service rant, courtesy of alhunt.
I don't think you do. Possibly you could ask him/her what motivated them to try Linux in the first place and build on that. Until someone is willing to climb the learning curve they're probably not going to be a Linux user.
How many
Of course, now that there are very high quality OSS programs available there's really no need to pirate MS stuff anymore.
Essentially, $300/hr to see a PA.
The $75?
It's for "seting up a new patient". A handful of papers (most of which *I* filled out) and a file folder, for $75. Gimme a break
Interesting that you take such exception to my comment. I could run a tally of outrageous fees charged by your profession, but I'll simply refer you to overlawyered.com where they do a great job.
I might also suggest we return to the Roman system where advocates couldn't charge fees but could only receive gifts after the fact. Until Claudius came along and screwed things up. Or a "loser pays" system would certainly free up the courts.
I don't dislike lawyers. Had dinner with a lawyer last week, in fact. I dislike what your profession has become and so should you.
>created incentives to use CFLs or maybe tax incandescents?
What? Tax incandescents? Please, don't give them any ideas. Let these guys dip their toe in a revenue stream it's not long before they're skinny dipping in it.
I'm all for incentives rather than outlawing one thing or another.
Connection to the past is kind of the point of preserving Stone Henge and other historic' places. I live in a house built around 1875 and even that short time is a great connection to the past.
It's easy to stand somewhere like Stonehenge, Long Stone or my parlor and imagine all the people that went before you. It creates a sense of place, of permanence, a sense that long after you're gone people will be standing in the same place doing the same thing you're doing.
These are the things *she* thought were important - the things *she* wanted the American public to know about her. By paying attention to politics for the last 30 or 40 years. She's a public figure, makes many public comments and does many public activities. She's pretty well hoist on her own petard. No, just based on paying attention. Yes, it is. We have nobody to blame but ourselves for it, either. We keep rewarding bad behavior by our so-called "leaders" by re-electing them time and again. We need to spend about the next 20 years not re-electing any politician, ever. Why would you say that? Do you really believe it? Please justify it, if so. Or, were you just being nasty?
This is a woman who stayed with her husband after his very public affair, when any self-respecting woman would have packed her bags and left. This, after she had described herself as "not one of those "stand by your man" kinds of women" (or words to that effect - she made the "stand by your man" reference in a televised interview) and then had to publish her chocolate chip cookie recipe to prove how domesticated she was. She stayed after the Lewinski affair because her personal dignity was worth less to her than getting her American Express bill at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Hillary is a social and political climber, first, foremost and always. Everything she does and has done in her life has been directed at raising her personal stature. Anything that comes out of her mouth is suspect.
Your TV will have to be manufactured by Cray.
Sorry to see you go, but we'll keep pulling for you, wherever you go.
Let's see the other 49 states stand up for themselves, too.
No, thanks. You're welcome, America. The rest of you get busy.
The bitch is I JUST submitted this story before I found it here on the front page.
And yet everybody should know that microwaves heat things up by exciting water molecules.
Dry sponges have no water molecules.
The zero-thought society strikes again.