The situation I saw ClearCase used was (I now realize) a successful ploy to keep the rest of the company from
seeing what those clowns^h^h^h^h^h^h people were doing. Most stuff was in linux/unix based version
control systems (starting way before there was subversion).
Well, the Famous Photo of WWII of the flag raised on Iwo Jima was staged. Twice. The second one was the one folks have seen.
Nothing new here. Move along.
I'd add crap printers and crap faxers to the list, neither HP we had would feed properly with more than one sheet of paper
in the paper supply after a few weeks.
Nobody with sense thinks it's most important.
One hopes that elected officials are capable of understanding and dealing with more than one issue per...day?week?
Searching a phone without a warrant is, IMO, totally wrong, but I don't fault the Gov for doing more than one thing today... But this action seems wrong -- assuming
he really did veto a requirement for a warrant (and why the heck is such a bill needed? Yeah, recent history. But boy things are screwed up.).
So shortly the wife and I will need 21st century phones. And apparently the only phone not involving payments to MS
is the iphone. I refuse to buy an Samsung or HTC phone now and pay extortion even though I'd prefer Android.
I know someone who worked at Narus when it was a shiny new startup, and after hearing what they did
(basically spy on internet users) I was a little shocked my friend was willing to work there.
A The natural evolution of the alphas never came out of HP because of their infatuation with Intel Itanium processors, and see how that affair ended up.
HP was the source of the particular wide-instruction (instruction level parallelism) madness with, somehow, Intel involved. Fabulous amounts of money wasted by HP, Intel, and even small-fry SGI (believing the HP/Intel nonsense), and others.
I bought a generic Windows HP laptop only to discover after warranty expiration that the entire series had keyboard problems. Later I found out they put a check in the BIOS that prevented me from changing the wifi chip to any but two models. And neither HP printer we had would feed paper right. The HP 16C Calculator I bought years ago still works fine though:-)
I assume this was a matter of near-term survival, which LJ's message to subscribers hinted at but didn't state quite so bluntly
Reading the magazine on a computer monitor is torture, it does not represent survival of the magazine.
No computer monitor I can find
has sufficient density of pixels, and any that might exist would certainly not be supported by current graphics cards and connectors.
They did not say anything about giving me a computer monitor with sufficient pixel density that the magazine reads as well as paper.
Sadly, that means I won't be reading the magazine (I paid for a subscription, now the subscription is useless).
For me, they just went out of business. Period.
Somehow for me the Kindle DX is a terrible pdf reader. The fonts that look sensible on paper just look really light on Kindle. And the search on Kindle is horrible: AFAICT no partial word search no control of case-match/not and so on. Even translating the source to an ebook format only helps with the character visibility (while kind of making the really long tables in the doc I want on Kindle into a mess), using Calibre as the transformer.
Been reading a few books a day for a week now, recovering from a small injury, and find Kindle DX great for books...
Uh, in the1950's and 60's cars were built with 1 Liter engines a lot, and some of them capable of 120mph.
(at the sports car end, but still...). Today, of course the drivers in many parts of the
US seem to weigh more than those 1 Liter cars did back then. And of course some of the cars back
then could only go a few hundred miles before breaking down:-)
Exactly. The implementors of Wine have exactly this problem as so many MS interfaces don't have doc that is correct or complete.
There is lots of 'try it on windows and see what it does'.
At what point of Apple market penetration does it make sense to ask whether the bad guys are paying attention
and whether Mac is as easily penetrated as Windows (as so many have claimed will happen when there
are enough Macs out there).
Because of limited capital availability, plenty of areas with decent population density are unlikely to get the corporate providers to
install fiber. And you (as consumer) have no power to influence that. Now, on the other hand, you might be able to influence
a local political jurisdiction to provide fiber. But apparently alta feels using taxes for that is asking someone else to pay for it?
And, of course, the corporate providers will sue to prevent the local jurisdiction from installing, on grounds "We have a plan
to install it someday,we promise" though it might not be in your grandchildren's lifetime either.
From previous threads on broadband, I gather that Finland has 100% of the population covered with better speed anyone here
would hope for and Finland has wide areas with very low population density. Apparently the Finns decided
univeral access was a good idea. Recent articles have detailed horses carrying reels of fiber (here in the US) and the rider installing it
on existing phone poles, That does not cost a million dollars per mile, nor does it tear up the countryside.
Finland 118,000 sq mi, averaging 44 people per sq mi
USA 3,540,000 sq mi, averaging 84 people per sq mi
Sorry you had trouble, but yes you can easily go back and fix whatever got wrong by looking at the accounts data with the
panels and windows that Thunderbird provides. For some data you have to notice the 'advanced' button on Account Settings->ServerSettings (which seems
a misfeature making it just a bit harder to find than it should be).
Had no trouble getting Thunderbird to interface with outlook (whatever
the MS server is called) (but it took an outlook expert to know how MS expected things to be set).
On the other hand the OWA web interface to MS's email was truly horrible, I refused to use it. Maddening. (at least with Firefox on Linux).
Actually I've used two slighly different versions of the OWA junk and both were horrible. As was Evolution (to be on-topic here).
This is all silly because some US Senators have assured me global warning does not exist.
I saw it on TV, it must be true! They wouldn't lie, would they?
People choose to die all the time. Suicide by cop, suicide by stepping in front of a train, jumping off something high,
pills, etc etc.
The question is whether we give people the choice of death with dignity. The notion that allowing death with
dignity is somehow giving governments permission to choose is... nonsensical. The government has
already chosen -- to try to prevent suicide --- with no respect given to the individual. A sad and
totally invalid government position.
There is a multi-thousand-year history of people using things up or destroying the environment and then
finding a way forward. See "Why the West Rules-for Now" by Ian Morris for examples over the
last 15000 years. Lets hope we can keep it up...
You cannot even read any content from io9 without enabling all sorts of scripting. Basically a blank
page. So I'll make a gesture: I'll ignore io9 entirely.
...agribusiness makes over use of antibiotics a primary part of their operation in order to grow bigger fatter animals faster.
In the case of cows in feedlots, they feed'em antibiotics because corn makes cows sick, so they try to keep the cows healthy enough long enough
to make feedlots profitable.
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The situation I saw ClearCase used was (I now realize) a successful ploy to keep the rest of the company from seeing what those clowns^h^h^h^h^h^h people were doing. Most stuff was in linux/unix based version control systems (starting way before there was subversion).
Well, the Famous Photo of WWII of the flag raised on Iwo Jima was staged. Twice. The second one was the one folks have seen. Nothing new here. Move along.
I'd add crap printers and crap faxers to the list, neither HP we had would feed properly with more than one sheet of paper in the paper supply after a few weeks.
Nobody with sense thinks it's most important. One hopes that elected officials are capable of understanding and dealing with more than one issue per...day?week? Searching a phone without a warrant is, IMO, totally wrong, but I don't fault the Gov for doing more than one thing today... But this action seems wrong -- assuming he really did veto a requirement for a warrant (and why the heck is such a bill needed? Yeah, recent history. But boy things are screwed up.).
Ok, I read half the post and my brain turned off. If it could ever be said to be on. Sigh. I'm an idiot. Motorola is it.
So shortly the wife and I will need 21st century phones. And apparently the only phone not involving payments to MS is the iphone. I refuse to buy an Samsung or HTC phone now and pay extortion even though I'd prefer Android.
I know someone who worked at Narus when it was a shiny new startup, and after hearing what they did (basically spy on internet users) I was a little shocked my friend was willing to work there.
A The natural evolution of the alphas never came out of HP because of their infatuation with Intel Itanium processors, and see how that affair ended up.
HP was the source of the particular wide-instruction (instruction level parallelism) madness with, somehow, Intel involved. Fabulous amounts of money wasted by HP, Intel, and even small-fry SGI (believing the HP/Intel nonsense), and others.
I bought a generic Windows HP laptop only to discover after warranty expiration that the entire series had keyboard problems. Later I found out they put a check in the BIOS that prevented me from changing the wifi chip to any but two models. And neither HP printer we had would feed paper right. The HP 16C Calculator I bought years ago still works fine though :-)
I assume this was a matter of near-term survival, which LJ's message to subscribers hinted at but didn't state quite so bluntly
Reading the magazine on a computer monitor is torture, it does not represent survival of the magazine.
No computer monitor I can find has sufficient density of pixels, and any that might exist would certainly not be supported by current graphics cards and connectors.
They did not say anything about giving me a computer monitor with sufficient pixel density that the magazine reads as well as paper. Sadly, that means I won't be reading the magazine (I paid for a subscription, now the subscription is useless). For me, they just went out of business. Period.
Somehow for me the Kindle DX is a terrible pdf reader. The fonts that look sensible on paper just look really light on Kindle. And the search on Kindle is horrible: AFAICT no partial word search no control of case-match/not and so on. Even translating the source to an ebook format only helps with the character visibility (while kind of making the really long tables in the doc I want on Kindle into a mess), using Calibre as the transformer.
Been reading a few books a day for a week now, recovering from a small injury, and find Kindle DX great for books...
A few million patents here, a few million patents there, and pretty soon it is a real patent portfolio!
Uh, in the1950's and 60's cars were built with 1 Liter engines a lot, and some of them capable of 120mph. (at the sports car end, but still...). Today, of course the drivers in many parts of the US seem to weigh more than those 1 Liter cars did back then. And of course some of the cars back then could only go a few hundred miles before breaking down :-)
Exactly. The implementors of Wine have exactly this problem as so many MS interfaces don't have doc that is correct or complete. There is lots of 'try it on windows and see what it does'.
Whew. For just a second I read it as 'lands at KFC'.
At what point of Apple market penetration does it make sense to ask whether the bad guys are paying attention and whether Mac is as easily penetrated as Windows (as so many have claimed will happen when there are enough Macs out there).
Because of limited capital availability, plenty of areas with decent population density are unlikely to get the corporate providers to install fiber. And you (as consumer) have no power to influence that. Now, on the other hand, you might be able to influence a local political jurisdiction to provide fiber. But apparently alta feels using taxes for that is asking someone else to pay for it?
And, of course, the corporate providers will sue to prevent the local jurisdiction from installing, on grounds "We have a plan to install it someday,we promise" though it might not be in your grandchildren's lifetime either.
From previous threads on broadband, I gather that Finland has 100% of the population covered with better speed anyone here would hope for and Finland has wide areas with very low population density. Apparently the Finns decided univeral access was a good idea. Recent articles have detailed horses carrying reels of fiber (here in the US) and the rider installing it on existing phone poles, That does not cost a million dollars per mile, nor does it tear up the countryside.
Finland 118,000 sq mi, averaging 44 people per sq mi
USA 3,540,000 sq mi, averaging 84 people per sq mi
For whatever averages are worth...
Sorry you had trouble, but yes you can easily go back and fix whatever got wrong by looking at the accounts data with the panels and windows that Thunderbird provides. For some data you have to notice the 'advanced' button on Account Settings->ServerSettings (which seems a misfeature making it just a bit harder to find than it should be). Had no trouble getting Thunderbird to interface with outlook (whatever the MS server is called) (but it took an outlook expert to know how MS expected things to be set). On the other hand the OWA web interface to MS's email was truly horrible, I refused to use it. Maddening. (at least with Firefox on Linux). Actually I've used two slighly different versions of the OWA junk and both were horrible. As was Evolution (to be on-topic here).
This is all silly because some US Senators have assured me global warning does not exist. I saw it on TV, it must be true! They wouldn't lie, would they?
People choose to die all the time. Suicide by cop, suicide by stepping in front of a train, jumping off something high, pills, etc etc. The question is whether we give people the choice of death with dignity. The notion that allowing death with dignity is somehow giving governments permission to choose is... nonsensical. The government has already chosen -- to try to prevent suicide --- with no respect given to the individual. A sad and totally invalid government position.
There is a multi-thousand-year history of people using things up or destroying the environment and then finding a way forward. See "Why the West Rules-for Now" by Ian Morris for examples over the last 15000 years. Lets hope we can keep it up...
You cannot even read any content from io9 without enabling all sorts of scripting. Basically a blank page. So I'll make a gesture: I'll ignore io9 entirely.
...agribusiness makes over use of antibiotics a primary part of their operation in order to grow bigger fatter animals faster.
In the case of cows in feedlots, they feed'em antibiotics because corn makes cows sick, so they try to keep the cows healthy enough long enough to make feedlots profitable.