The "Cellphones cause cancer" groups would defenatly have fits over that. But the Government might find it useful. I can just see Bush on TV, "If we don't stop the evil terrorists(tm), they could turn your cellphone into a nuclear holocost. Think of the children!"
In all seriousness if the manufacturers can guarentee that its safe I'm all for portable power that lasts 200 years.
Re:Very interesting, but I still don't understand.
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I believe personally that the bell is tolling for spam and here's why: Most of the people responding are senior citizens. I visit an older widow from time to time who just loves the Internet. She's always calling the numbers or responding to the emails. I tell her that she shouldn't do that but she always says "But that man was just so nice... ". They are so trusting, I guess 50 years ago you didn't have a reason not to trust people.
That said, people from that generation are steadly leaving us. As older generations are more and more tech saavy and younger ones are taught to know better in the first place then we should see a significant decline in Spam as it should become less and less profitable.
Then again as the saying goes "There's a sucker born every minute"
Just a bit of a pet peeve. 'Simba' is the Swahilli word for for Lion. I lived in East Africa for 6 years of my childhood. When I saw I 'Lion King' the first time it bugged me so much I hated it. Disney was so unoriginal that they named their lion 'Lion'.
Just a bit of a tidbit, the mongoose 'Rafiki' means friends which was somewhat interesting. And when the wise monkey is running across the plains to find Simba and singing 'Asante sana, squashed banana' -- Asante sana means 'thank you very much' and it always made me wonder what the Disney people were smoking when they came up with that.
But hey they are Disney, the company notorious for coming up with a bad idea and then running it into the ground by making movie after movie with the same stupid junior-high themes ('Air Bud' anyone?). Now it seems that their stupid ideas aren't even their own... how fitting./disney rant
Consider how an economy might react to (for example: the collapse of air traffic)
Fortunatly you are wrong. There will be no collapse of air traffic because airplanes are largely guided by other means these days.
Even if radiation knocked out every communications device on earth the sun will still rise in the east and set in the west. And the stars will still stay in their predictiable patterns.
Lets see if I've got this conspirasy theory correct here. Microsoft has problems with Free Software, the Justice Department and with Eola company that claims to have a patent over Active X which MS is now basing everything on. So they decide to kill 2 birds with one stone. Late in 2000 they put in a call to GWB. They tell him to get his brother Jeb to fix the election in Florida. MS will take care of the Supreme Court nastyness and they will make sure that GWB gets elected. They call in some favors with the Supreme Court, maybe pass around some cash. When the election looks fishy the Supreme court does its part and GWB gets elected.
A few months later as the second part of the plan MS threatens to go public with the details of how GWB is in the white house, they of course will report that it was Apple, Sun, IBM, and AOL all under the command of RMS that paid off the Supreme Court and came up with the plan in the first place.
GWB points out the flaw in this plan is that if they got Apple, Sun, IBM and AOL the public would begin suspecting things so he offers a better plan. One that will get him in a war so that people will stop paying attention to those pesky corporate scandels. MS agrees. They also bring in the MPAA and the RIAA. GWB puts in a call to his good friend Osama. Osama flies a couple of planes into the World Trade Center. In return Osama wants GWB to use the military to get Sadaam. Apparently Sadaam stole a camel and 23 of Osama's wives. Also in order for him to not be harmed in Afganistan, Osama was brought to America and sent to see Michael Jackson's doctors. Now he's a white guy that helps out on Microsoft's legal team.
Now GWB says that Eola is suspected of supporting Al Queda. There finances are frozen. MS buys the patent. That patent is used to kill off other browsers especially Mozilla. GWB also goes after the FSF and accuses them of Cyber patent infrigement which under the new Cyber-Terrorism law is punishable by death.
At this moment Microsoft and the Bush Administration are analizing the Linux kernel in order to find evidence to charge the kernel developers with the same crime. They also want to go after Apache and KDE.
All the new laws on Terrorism allow the MPAA and RIAA to hack people's comptuers. They make playing media on anything other than an approved device illegal and Microsoft makes sure that only they can create approved devices. DRM and Pallidium become rampant and Free software is gone, corporatism rejoices and the sheep that are consumers follow it all and talk about how its so great for the economy.
Well there's not a 'clueless' moderation..:) I'm kidding,
to answer your question: No. As many other comments have stated there are 13 root servers, if one went down your client's request would simply go to another one. But even 'J' has not completely switched over yet as it will still respond to the old IP address, according to the article for hte "foreseeable future".
So no your DNS problems are probably related to Windows or clueless users or a combination of the two.
Good grief I ought to mod you down but I'll waste the points just to set the record straight on this one.
Native Americans have every right to leave the reservations if they so desire. But on the reservation they get access to a number of free government programs, namely free medical care.
I'm not condoning what American's did to the natives in the 1800s, and really there is no way to make that up to those people other than to try and make sure their needs are meet now. But don't spread FUD that the government is still actively oppressing them or something like that.
Okay fine your statement is about 1/4 true. There are private prisons in Texas, mostly filled with inmates from other states that they shipped here because of over crowding in their own states (no I don't like that either). According to your research we have 38 out of about 115 that exist in the US. (18 other states have them). There is usually a prison for every county in Texas (254 counties), plus some state prisons. That's a long way from "all the prisons in Texas are privately owned".
There's UCITA at work. Wasn't there a big fuss about a hundred and fifty years ago about one state's laws being enforced in another? That and something about those who forget the lessons of history...
I live in Texas and as far as I know we have not passed UCITA. Texas legislature only meets 6 months out of every 24 to keep us from passing too many laws (it doesn't always work but it helps). The reason that American Airlines wants to be governed by the laws of Texas is because the are headquartered in Dallas. Probably in there so when someone sues them they can point to the clause and say "See you have to come here to fight us" and they don't have to send an army of lawyers to North Dakota or something like that.
And fortunatly there is even a Mac version of VNC, you should have seen the look on some of the graphic guys faces when their beloved Macs turned on them and told them to use PCs by order of Bill Gates at a web development company I worked at a few years ago:)
Perl isn't any harder than any other language to code with in a team as long as CVS (or other revision system is used) and a common set of programming rules are set up for the team and commenting is done at least to some extent. It works, I've done it.
As far as PHP, I use it because i'm required to for my job, however I think its namespace issues are a mess. I can't say it enough times: I_really_hate_typing_function_names_that_go_on_for ever()
With perl that function is in a package and you assign it an object variable or import what you need into the namespace.
And what is this garbage about Perl having longer development times? I had a long discussion in person with someone on this very subject recently. "Perl takes so much more code than PHP". Has no one even heard of CPAN??? There are pre-built functions for everything, frankly I've found the opposite problem with PHP. With Perl I can find a CPAN module to do what I want. Ever tried parsing HTML in PHP? -- actually parsing it not striping it out. Or intense date manipulation? Sure some of this stuff has been written but its a pain to find and nothing is tested so if doesn't work half the time and then you can't easily install modules that can be used everywhere.
PHP has horrible interpolation, regexes you have to call a function? Good date parsing is non-existant (sure you can display them but what about adding them and subtracting? And don't give tell me that you can convert them to UNIX timestamps and then add... yeah daylight savings time breaks that.) And requiring or including modules is braindead if you can't include the same module twice (like if one is in one file and on is in another), gives you an error. Also for web apps it's nearly impossible to completely separate HTML from the actual code.
Everytime I do PHP I feel like someone complained about lack of X function and so it was just slapped in rather than carefully thought out. With no way to really extend the language without dumping crap into the core. Perl is elegant and functions make sense and objects make sense. It has basic stuff in the core language and you call modules with the extensions you need.
To stay on topic in my personal opinion Perl is far easier because it doesn't try to hold your hand, that's what the man page is for, not to mention the countless resources on the web.
I also think the knee-jerk/. reaction on this issue is incorrect: The application of censorware at home does not automatically imply lazy/bad parents. Even good parents (I think I'm one, I know my wife is one) can't keep an eye on their children every second of every day.
My apologies, I was refering to parents who don't take the time even try watching what their kids view on the web and instead leave it up to software all the time. My point is that software is a tool, not an end all be-all to social problems:)
I am a Christian. I believe that porn is morally wrong (For reasons other than "God said so" but that's a discussion for another day.). I also believe it is wrong to censor porn because some people don't have problems with it. I would love porn to go away but that would require a change in people that view it and I understand that you can't legislate morality people have to be moral on their own.
Just like we can't bring morality by legislating a technology that can censor, we really shouldn't be legislating against that technology either. We have free speech in the U.S. and nothing should be allowed to come between us and that freedom. But people have the freedom to choose to censor things. I don't want to see porn so I don't go to porn sites. I don't need a technology to censor that because I can choose on my own and I've used the Internet long enough to make sure I don't accidentally do that. What about a child? If we ban censoring technology can parents still get software that that helps keep them from coming across porn? We do need better parents but buying such software should be a parent's choice and it shouldn't be legislated one way or the other.
That said I'm now going to say its not "right-wing Christians" that are producing or mandating censorware. The people who are doing that corporations which after they develop a technology they come on TV screaming "protect the children" which insites some people, including some Christians to demand it. If censorware is legislated then certain companies make lots of money. So it all comes down to money.
Example: hardware vendors should all work together and cooperate. There should be only one single kind of CD drive, one kind of each size of monitor, one kind of CPU, etc.
The Bazzar seems to work there quite well. Look at hardware prices.
But the difference there is that if you install a new CD rom or a new monitor you don't have to jump through hoops to use them. Once the CDROM is installed it can be used normally as a disk on the file system no matter what brand it is.
Contrast that to the linux desktop, (copy and paste is my huge beef) where my regular X apps don'y play so well and look different from my GNOME apps that don't play so well or look the same as my KDE apps and vice versa. I can't reliably copy and paste anything other than text between any apps on Linux because everyone uses their own copy and paste methods (even though X has them built in as I was informed the other day). Makers of CDROMs conform their drives to a standard way of making CDROM devices, there is still good competition. Why can't we have a standard way of making graphical apps on Linux? There's still competition but theere would still be a standard, things would look the same and work the same. I think the problem is that so many people are busy stroking their egos they don't want to work together. (I cite KDE team's reaction to Redhat after they tried to do some very nice things with the software).
one last thing: I am not against womens rights, I am for fetal rights, there is an important difference.
That's the first time I've heard someone state that. Thank you. Interestingly enough it seems (to me) that a woman's right to an abortion in this country gives more rights to men to take advantage of women without fear of consequences.
Sounds like the airlines are between a rock and a hard place. Sued if they charge large passengers for an extra seat or in this case sued if they let other passengers be squashed by larger ones!
Personally I agree with Southwest's policy I don't want to be sat on either.
NextGen, Alteer, Practice Partner, and Medical Manager our all Windows only apps. These 4 are the the most widely used systems in family practice offices around our area. They don't run on a *nix platform, and they never will.
Unless MS changes its licensing, medical practices will have to migrate to something else as the EULA will be illegal. If the these companies refuse to adapt their software for other platforms they will be replaced by other companies.
I wish it would happen but I'm sure MS will make special considerations for institutions where privacy is mandated and we will be back in the vicious cycle again.
What really needs to happen is a outcry from the medical community saying that they will not use windows any longer a drop it. The software will come very quickly if that step is made.
Cut and paste faults are BUGS in individual applications or toolkits. The XFree86 maintainers cannot fix these bugs by changing X, because X already does the right thing.
Not to be a troll but I think some of the main reasons for these bugs are because X can only copy and paste text and now we have a situation where all the major window managers have hacked up their own copy and paste over X's so that it can do binaries as well.
It would be really great if X could copy and paste binaries because it really would fix this problem and then we could copy and paste anything between apps no matter what window system we use.
Can anyone give a reason why work hasn't been done in this area, preferably a technical one, I've heard many arguments of "X wasn't designed for that, that's not its purpose" to which I ask then why have copy and paste at all that in terms of a modern operating system is not complete.
X10? I thought /. was better than that
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How much money did you get for the X10 Ad? When are the really annoying flashing ones coming?
Okay I'm only kidding. Actually those camera's look really cool, I'd probably get one if their business model didn't remind me of used car salesmen.
Completely offtopic but you don't have an e-mail address listed.
Where at in Tanzania? I lived in Dar es Salam, Morogoro and then later in Tukuyu. I was in East Africa for about seven years. Been awhile now, I miss it!
On topic: Wouldn't the ice cap melting result in a higher volume of water in local rivers? I mean that's the whole global warming fear isn't it? That the polar ice caps will melt and the coastal areas will be flooded?
It gets even worse too. Now we have sleeze lawyers that come on TV and advertise class action lawsuits, usually it has to do with medical malpractice or bad prescription drugs. Anyway you call up the number and join the suit. And the people wonder why healthcare costs so much in the US.
They'll make live action movies of the Simpsons that really suck. Tom Arnold will play the grandpa since he'll be too old to be the dad in that one... well I guess there is always plastic surgery, but I digress.
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The "Cellphones cause cancer" groups would defenatly have fits over that. But the Government might find it useful. I can just see Bush on TV, "If we don't stop the evil terrorists(tm), they could turn your cellphone into a nuclear holocost. Think of the children!"
In all seriousness if the manufacturers can guarentee that its safe I'm all for portable power that lasts 200 years.
I believe personally that the bell is tolling for spam and here's why: Most of the people responding are senior citizens. I visit an older widow from time to time who just loves the Internet. She's always calling the numbers or responding to the emails. I tell her that she shouldn't do that but she always says "But that man was just so nice ... ". They are so trusting, I guess 50 years ago you didn't have a reason not to trust people.
That said, people from that generation are steadly leaving us. As older generations are more and more tech saavy and younger ones are taught to know better in the first place then we should see a significant decline in Spam as it should become less and less profitable.
Then again as the saying goes "There's a sucker born every minute"
Just a bit of a pet peeve. 'Simba' is the Swahilli word for for Lion. I lived in East Africa for 6 years of my childhood. When I saw I 'Lion King' the first time it bugged me so much I hated it. Disney was so unoriginal that they named their lion 'Lion'.
... how fitting. /disney rant
Just a bit of a tidbit, the mongoose 'Rafiki' means friends which was somewhat interesting. And when the wise monkey is running across the plains to find Simba and singing 'Asante sana, squashed banana' -- Asante sana means 'thank you very much' and it always made me wonder what the Disney people were smoking when they came up with that.
But hey they are Disney, the company notorious for coming up with a bad idea and then running it into the ground by making movie after movie with the same stupid junior-high themes ('Air Bud' anyone?).
Now it seems that their stupid ideas aren't even their own
Consider how an economy might react to (for example: the collapse of air traffic)
Fortunatly you are wrong. There will be no collapse of air traffic because airplanes are largely guided by other means these days.
Even if radiation knocked out every communications device on earth the sun will still rise in the east and set in the west. And the stars will still stay in their predictiable patterns.
Lets see if I've got this conspirasy theory correct here. Microsoft has problems with Free Software, the Justice Department and with Eola company that claims to have a patent over Active X which MS is now basing everything on. So they decide to kill 2 birds with one stone. Late in 2000 they put in a call to GWB. They tell him to get his brother Jeb to fix the election in Florida. MS will take care of the Supreme Court nastyness and they will make sure that GWB gets elected. They call in some favors with the Supreme Court, maybe pass around some cash. When the election looks fishy the Supreme court does its part and GWB gets elected.
:)
A few months later as the second part of the plan MS threatens to go public with the details of how GWB is in the white house, they of course will report that it was Apple, Sun, IBM, and AOL all under the command of RMS that paid off the Supreme Court and came up with the plan in the first place.
GWB points out the flaw in this plan is that if they got Apple, Sun, IBM and AOL the public would begin suspecting things so he offers a better plan. One that will get him in a war so that people will stop paying attention to those pesky corporate scandels. MS agrees. They also bring in the MPAA and the RIAA. GWB puts in a call to his good friend Osama. Osama flies a couple of planes into the World Trade Center. In return Osama wants GWB to use the military to get Sadaam. Apparently Sadaam stole a camel and 23 of Osama's wives. Also in order for him to not be harmed in Afganistan, Osama was brought to America and sent to see Michael Jackson's doctors. Now he's a white guy that helps out on Microsoft's legal team.
Now GWB says that Eola is suspected of supporting Al Queda. There finances are frozen. MS buys the patent. That patent is used to kill off other browsers especially Mozilla. GWB also goes after the FSF and accuses them of Cyber patent infrigement which under the new Cyber-Terrorism law is punishable by death.
At this moment Microsoft and the Bush Administration are analizing the Linux kernel in order to find evidence to charge the kernel developers with the same crime. They also want to go after Apache and KDE.
All the new laws on Terrorism allow the MPAA and RIAA to hack people's comptuers. They make playing media on anything other than an approved device illegal and Microsoft makes sure that only they can create approved devices. DRM and Pallidium become rampant and Free software is gone, corporatism rejoices and the sheep that are consumers follow it all and talk about how its so great for the economy.
Does that sound about right? I thought so
Moderators: the above comment is tongue-in-cheek.
/. editors: If you are trying to when best headline that poll is already over. You've probably got weirdest article hands down though.
Well there's not a 'clueless' moderation .. :) I'm kidding,
to answer your question: No. As many other comments have stated there are 13 root servers, if one went down your client's request would simply go to another one. But even 'J' has not completely switched over yet as it will still respond to the old IP address, according to the article for hte "foreseeable future".
So no your DNS problems are probably related to Windows or clueless users or a combination of the two.
Good grief I ought to mod you down but I'll waste the points just to set the record straight on this one.
Native Americans have every right to leave the reservations if they so desire. But on the reservation they get access to a number of free government programs, namely free medical care.
I'm not condoning what American's did to the natives in the 1800s, and really there is no way to make that up to those people other than to try and make sure their needs are meet now. But don't spread FUD that the government is still actively oppressing them or something like that.
Okay fine your statement is about 1/4 true. There are private prisons in Texas, mostly filled with inmates from other states that they shipped here because of over crowding in their own states (no I don't like that either). According to your research we have 38 out of about 115 that exist in the US. (18 other states have them). There is usually a prison for every county in Texas (254 counties), plus some state prisons. That's a long way from "all the prisons in Texas are privately owned".
but since the jails are privately owned and run for profit, it's probably a bad place to be, no?
How about a hyperlink to back up this completely untrue statement?
Unfortunatly Texas jails have quite a few ammenities that I wish my tax dollars weren't paying for.
There's UCITA at work. Wasn't there a big fuss about a hundred and fifty years ago about one state's laws being enforced in another? That and something about those who forget the lessons of history...
I live in Texas and as far as I know we have not passed UCITA. Texas legislature only meets 6 months out of every 24 to keep us from passing too many laws (it doesn't always work but it helps). The reason that American Airlines wants to be governed by the laws of Texas is because the are headquartered in Dallas. Probably in there so when someone sues them they can point to the clause and say "See you have to come here to fight us" and they don't have to send an army of lawyers to North Dakota or something like that.
And fortunatly there is even a Mac version of VNC, you should have seen the look on some of the graphic guys faces when their beloved Macs turned on them and told them to use PCs by order of Bill Gates at a web development company I worked at a few years ago :)
Perl isn't any harder than any other language to code with in a team as long as CVS (or other revision system is used) and a common set of programming rules are set up for the team and commenting is done at least to some extent. It works, I've done it.
r ever()
... yeah daylight savings time breaks that.) And requiring or including modules is braindead if you can't include the same module twice (like if one is in one file and on is in another), gives you an error. Also for web apps it's nearly impossible to completely separate HTML from the actual code.
As far as PHP, I use it because i'm required to for my job, however I think its namespace issues are a mess. I can't say it enough times: I_really_hate_typing_function_names_that_go_on_fo
With perl that function is in a package and you assign it an object variable or import what you need into the namespace.
And what is this garbage about Perl having longer development times? I had a long discussion in person with someone on this very subject recently. "Perl takes so much more code than PHP". Has no one even heard of CPAN??? There are pre-built functions for everything, frankly I've found the opposite problem with PHP. With Perl I can find a CPAN module to do what I want. Ever tried parsing HTML in PHP? -- actually parsing it not striping it out. Or intense date manipulation? Sure some of this stuff has been written but its a pain to find and nothing is tested so if doesn't work half the time and then you can't easily install modules that can be used everywhere.
PHP has horrible interpolation, regexes you have to call a function? Good date parsing is non-existant (sure you can display them but what about adding them and subtracting? And don't give tell me that you can convert them to UNIX timestamps and then add
Everytime I do PHP I feel like someone complained about lack of X function and so it was just slapped in rather than carefully thought out. With no way to really extend the language without dumping crap into the core. Perl is elegant and functions make sense and objects make sense. It has basic stuff in the core language and you call modules with the extensions you need.
To stay on topic in my personal opinion Perl is far easier because it doesn't try to hold your hand, that's what the man page is for, not to mention the countless resources on the web.
I also think the knee-jerk /. reaction on this issue is incorrect: The application of censorware at home does not automatically imply lazy/bad parents. Even good parents (I think I'm one, I know my wife is one) can't keep an eye on their children every second of every day.
:)
My apologies, I was refering to parents who don't take the time even try watching what their kids view on the web and instead leave it up to software all the time. My point is that software is a tool, not an end all be-all to social problems
Just because I'm against porn doesn't mean that I can't make fun of it (which is partially what that site is about) :)
This is a troll but I'll bite.
I am a Christian. I believe that porn is morally wrong (For reasons other than "God said so" but that's a discussion for another day.). I also believe it is wrong to censor porn because some people don't have problems with it. I would love porn to go away but that would require a change in people that view it and I understand that you can't legislate morality people have to be moral on their own.
Just like we can't bring morality by legislating a technology that can censor, we really shouldn't be legislating against that technology either. We have free speech in the U.S. and nothing should be allowed to come between us and that freedom. But people have the freedom to choose to censor things. I don't want to see porn so I don't go to porn sites. I don't need a technology to censor that because I can choose on my own and I've used the Internet long enough to make sure I don't accidentally do that. What about a child? If we ban censoring technology can parents still get software that that helps keep them from coming across porn? We do need better parents but buying such software should be a parent's choice and it shouldn't be legislated one way or the other.
That said I'm now going to say its not "right-wing Christians" that are producing or mandating censorware. The people who are doing that corporations which after they develop a technology they come on TV screaming "protect the children" which insites some people, including some Christians to demand it. If censorware is legislated then certain companies make lots of money. So it all comes down to money.
And finally I'm not rabid I've had all my shots.
Example: hardware vendors should all work together and cooperate. There should be only one single kind of CD drive, one kind of each size of monitor, one kind of CPU, etc.
The Bazzar seems to work there quite well. Look at hardware prices.
But the difference there is that if you install a new CD rom or a new monitor you don't have to jump through hoops to use them. Once the CDROM is installed it can be used normally as a disk on the file system no matter what brand it is.
Contrast that to the linux desktop, (copy and paste is my huge beef) where my regular X apps don'y play so well and look different from my GNOME apps that don't play so well or look the same as my KDE apps and vice versa. I can't reliably copy and paste anything other than text between any apps on Linux because everyone uses their own copy and paste methods (even though X has them built in as I was informed the other day). Makers of CDROMs conform their drives to a standard way of making CDROM devices, there is still good competition. Why can't we have a standard way of making graphical apps on Linux? There's still competition but theere would still be a standard, things would look the same and work the same. I think the problem is that so many people are busy stroking their egos they don't want to work together. (I cite KDE team's reaction to Redhat after they tried to do some very nice things with the software).
one last thing: I am not against womens rights, I am for fetal rights, there is an important difference.
That's the first time I've heard someone state that. Thank you. Interestingly enough it seems (to me) that a woman's right to an abortion in this country gives more rights to men to take advantage of women without fear of consequences.
Sounds like the airlines are between a rock and a hard place. Sued if they charge large passengers for an extra seat or in this case sued if they let other passengers be squashed by larger ones!
Personally I agree with Southwest's policy I don't want to be sat on either.
NextGen, Alteer, Practice Partner, and Medical Manager our all Windows only apps. These 4 are the the most widely used systems in family practice offices around our area. They don't run on a *nix platform, and they never will.
Unless MS changes its licensing, medical practices will have to migrate to something else as the EULA will be illegal. If the these companies refuse to adapt their software for other platforms they will be replaced by other companies.
I wish it would happen but I'm sure MS will make special considerations for institutions where privacy is mandated and we will be back in the vicious cycle again.
What really needs to happen is a outcry from the medical community saying that they will not use windows any longer a drop it. The software will come very quickly if that step is made.
Cut and paste faults are BUGS in individual applications or toolkits. The XFree86 maintainers cannot fix these bugs by changing X, because X already does the right thing.
Not to be a troll but I think some of the main reasons for these bugs are because X can only copy and paste text and now we have a situation where all the major window managers have hacked up their own copy and paste over X's so that it can do binaries as well.
It would be really great if X could copy and paste binaries because it really would fix this problem and then we could copy and paste anything between apps no matter what window system we use.
Can anyone give a reason why work hasn't been done in this area, preferably a technical one, I've heard many arguments of "X wasn't designed for that, that's not its purpose" to which I ask then why have copy and paste at all that in terms of a modern operating system is not complete.
How much money did you get for the X10 Ad? When are the really annoying flashing ones coming?
Okay I'm only kidding. Actually those camera's look really cool, I'd probably get one if their business model didn't remind me of used car salesmen.
I also want one of these little cars.
Completely offtopic but you don't have an e-mail address listed.
Where at in Tanzania? I lived in Dar es Salam, Morogoro and then later in Tukuyu. I was in East Africa for about seven years. Been awhile now, I miss it!
On topic: Wouldn't the ice cap melting result in a higher volume of water in local rivers? I mean that's the whole global warming fear isn't it? That the polar ice caps will melt and the coastal areas will be flooded?
It gets even worse too. Now we have sleeze lawyers that come on TV and advertise class action lawsuits, usually it has to do with medical malpractice or bad prescription drugs. Anyway you call up the number and join the suit. And the people wonder why healthcare costs so much in the US.
They'll make live action movies of the Simpsons that really suck. Tom Arnold will play the grandpa since he'll be too old to be the dad in that one ... well I guess there is always plastic surgery, but I digress.