Last ep should have Scully, Mulder, and the Cancer Man. Mulder should be killed, execution style, and dropped into an unmarked grave... by Scully! Why? Because the Cancer Man lets her in on the conspiracy, which she sees as logical and neccesary, in order for her to replace him. To keep it spooky we, the viewers, should still not know the basis of the conspiracy.
If Microsoft is so worried about rampant piracy, how come they make it so hard to detect multiple copies on the network? Two copies of Photoshop or Xpress with the same serial numbers won't run at the same time on the same LAN, they pop up a message saying "someone else is already using this, tough luck buddy" or some such. But Office does not do this.
I have one storebought copy of Office 2001 (Mac) and bought my 20 liscenses through this fucked up Microsoft liscensing web page. They didn't send me serial numbers, just a contract, so all 21 copies of Office here have the same serial number even though they are all legaly liscensed. Adobe and Quark OTOH gave me a list of serials when I bought my bulk liscenses. So if someone snakes the Office disk and installs it on his laptop and has it on the LAN I get zero warning that I have an unliscensed copy on the LAN. Thanks for making it a bitch Microsoft. Even if I am fully compliant you better bet your ass the BSA is going to have to wade through lawyers to get into my shop... just to make it painfull for them too.
You make a good point about avoiding cheap fonts like the plauge, but I'm talking about corrupted fonts. None of my users have cheap ass fonts installed because I'll kill them if they do and they know this. I had to replace a corrupted copy of Adobe Garamond this morning, it's not the fonts themselves as I've seen fonts from many manufacturers do this. Although I will grant that some fonts, IDC Futura for instance, do seem to corrupt themselves at the drop of a hat. I suspect our collection software may be causing some corruption, but I'm not sure yet.
ATM's problem is that it doesn't automaticly disable corrupted fonts nor does it keep apps that activate fonts from doing so to a corrupted one. Quark's problem is that when it gets a bad font it doesn't do so gracefully. In fact it locks up the computer when it inevitably crashes, every single time, forcing a restart.
So ATM is missing a feature or two but Quark is the main culprit here. The system shouldn't lock up when an app crashes, but it does so if the app is badly written - like Quark Xpress is - because, among other things, the app doesn't run in protected space. I can crash Photoshop all day long without it taking the system out... for that matter I can try and use a corrupt font in Illustrator or InDesign without it crashing at all, although the font will not display or print correctly. These are the clues that point to slight culpability by ATM and MacOS, and massive negligence by Quark and perhaps Flight Check.
I agree with you... up to a point. I've got a database server (Filemaker and Cumulus) running 9.1 that stays up for months at a time. But on designer's machines one corrupt font in ATM crashes Quark which locks the system up. No, that's not all the OS's fault, much blame can be laid at the feet of ATM and Quark (much, much blame for Quark), but classic MacOS's decrepit memory management is a big part of the problem. Unfortunately, lack of a few things (font management, xtension compatability, collection software) prevents upgrading the users to X yet. Servers are all being changed over (the db server being the last one running classic), but it's just not ready for production machines quite yet.
Built in burning is super easy, but get Toast anyways. For some reason the built in burning software will only format about 680MB of a 700MB disk. No problem unless you have a 700MB file... like, oh say, a DAP episode of MST3k. Toast OTOH will format all 700MB.
Actually, gelatin is mostly denatured collagen obtained from connective tissue like hoofs, bones, cartlidge, tendons, ligaments, and skin. Pigs and cattle are the primary sources, but horses and even fish bones are used as well.
The OS 9 apple menu is also easier to hit, since it's in the corner and effectively infinitely large in two directions because there is no margin to the left or top; you can't 'overshoot' the icon (I'm sitting on OS X now and can't double-check that there's no margin to the left [there is one on OS X--shame on Apple], but I believe there are none).
I'm sitting on an 8200/132 running OS 9.1 and alas, there is a margin to the left. Some third party menus can place themselves to the left of the Apple menu although most are on the right. But even without there is a 10 pixel or so dead space on the far left of the menu bar.
Hence the scoop given to Time... probably in exchange for a cover spot. Apple's ad-wizards are some of the best in the business, and they are doing their damndest to get some info into the heads of the consumer mass. They've done a fair job with the iPod, although I personally detest the 'advertise via annoyance' method (die Dellboy die!), and I imagine they'll do well with this. But Apple really needs a "holy shit" type product for their spin boys to pimp... I'm not sure this is it.
As of June 1 there were 7.6 million residential broadband Internet subscribers in the United States and 1.7 million in Canada, equal to 15 percent penetration of Canadian households, double the U.S. penetration rate. (from C-Net)
There is a bit of difference of scale going on here. Such wonders of modernity are a bit easier with 1/8th the population.
Over a billion potential consumers. Capitalists simply cream their panties when they think of China, and it blinds them to certain facts... like that the Chinese have no money.
First of all, a 10,000 Lb (weight) B43 hydrogen bomb has a yield of a megaton (using TNT as the basis). So a ton may well refer to weight or yield. However, the M110 General Purpose conventional bomb, weighing 10,000Kg or about 11 tons (US), is the heaviest bomb currently in the American conventional arsenal and it yields no more than 3 tons or so. Ultra small nuclear weapons, like a W54 backpack nuke yielding about 22 tons, are about as close as you'll get to a bomb that yields 20 tons.
Not being a pedant, you just piqued my interest and I figured someone else may enjoy the fruits of my research.
I know some artists who swear by trackballs; maybe 5 of the 30 artists I support. I can't stand 'em for Photoshop or Illustrator work myself, but some make 'em work. Kensington Orbits seem to be their preffered devices. I use one on my work Mac for the RSI thing too. Does absolute wonders for wrists and fingers to switch pointing devices occasionaly.
In the 19th century my family made quite a good living as wainwrights, they made wagons. I imagine thaey felt much like the content industry does now when the automobile was invented. But guess what? They divested from wagons and invested in autos, they didn't try to make cars illegal.
Technology giveth, there was no real music industry until the phonograph was invented, and technology taketh away. Limiting technology in favor of business is shortsited, ill founded, anti-capitalistic, and doomed to fail.
Yea. Fuck computer geeks too, cause I thought when I saw the new KDE screenshots it was Windows but these so-called experts tell me it's some Unix variant. Bullshit, it looks like windows to me. Whay exactly makes this Unix and not Windows? I mean, what key differences did I overlook that gives us the difference between KDE and Windows?
If that sounds stupid to us (as it was meant to), what you guys are saying sounds exactly the same to marine biologists.
And 'never question a question of authority'? You're just putting your unthinking belief at one more remove. Question everything, the basis of Science.
I have heard that 'Oxygen destroys naked DNA'. Therefore there can be no DNA-based life on Sol 3, but when we look at Sol 3, we are hard-pushed to find somewhere where there isn't life of some sort.
At the dawn of life, as now but to a greater degree, the vast majority (if not all) of life on the planet was anaerobic. Terra's early atmosphere was composed primarily of water vapor (H2O), Carbon Dioxide (CO2), monoxide (CO), molecular Nitrogen (N2), Hydrogen (H2), and Hydrogen Chloride (HCl) with only trace amounts of reactive molecular Oxygen (O2). Life was well along when oxygen producing microbes appeared and started poisoning the anaerobes.
Here is a story about experiments that show that anaerobes could survive on Mars now.
Oh hell, my (real) desktop and my (real) file cabinets don't use the same interface! What I need is a few dozen desks I can just leave all my shit on.
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I'm not saying Tolkein is completely dualistic, just that the basic premise of tLotR is good (our heros) versus evil (Sauron). There are many characters inbetween, Boromir, Theoden, even Saruman, but the basis is one of good vs evil. The Riftwar OTOH, is more of a grand war that sprung from a series of misunderstandings exasperated by mutual ignorance. In fact I very well might agree that Tolkein's characterization is less black and white than Feist's but that Tolkein's story as a whole is more black and white than Feist's.
But who cares!? They both spin ripping yarns and are well worth having read.
Hmm, I'd recomend Elizabeth Moon's Paksennarion series, Raymond E Feists's original Riftwar books, and Mary Gentle's Book of Ash right off the top of my head.
Moon's stuff is derivitive of Tolkein, but the story is fairly original and fresh. Feist is definately a succesor of Tolkein's as well and perhaps a bit too close to your example of standard fantasy, but it's much less black and white than Tolkein. Gentle's books are as original as any fantasy I've ever read weaving millitary history, fantasy, and even quantum mechanics into a compelling story. YMMV of course.
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Actually, the moon does have an atmosphere. While it is very thin, about a billionth of the terran atmosphere's density, it extends over 5000 miles up from the lunar surface (as compared with about 70 miles for the earth's). But you are correct in that the effects of the lunar atmosphere are quite minimal. Orbital stations are still a better option IMHO, they have far less particulate interference than even a moon based collector, a far shorter transmission distance, and can spend far more time in direct sunlight.
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I have one storebought copy of Office 2001 (Mac) and bought my 20 liscenses through this fucked up Microsoft liscensing web page. They didn't send me serial numbers, just a contract, so all 21 copies of Office here have the same serial number even though they are all legaly liscensed. Adobe and Quark OTOH gave me a list of serials when I bought my bulk liscenses. So if someone snakes the Office disk and installs it on his laptop and has it on the LAN I get zero warning that I have an unliscensed copy on the LAN. Thanks for making it a bitch Microsoft. Even if I am fully compliant you better bet your ass the BSA is going to have to wade through lawyers to get into my shop... just to make it painfull for them too.
ATM's problem is that it doesn't automaticly disable corrupted fonts nor does it keep apps that activate fonts from doing so to a corrupted one. Quark's problem is that when it gets a bad font it doesn't do so gracefully. In fact it locks up the computer when it inevitably crashes, every single time, forcing a restart.
So ATM is missing a feature or two but Quark is the main culprit here. The system shouldn't lock up when an app crashes, but it does so if the app is badly written - like Quark Xpress is - because, among other things, the app doesn't run in protected space. I can crash Photoshop all day long without it taking the system out... for that matter I can try and use a corrupt font in Illustrator or InDesign without it crashing at all, although the font will not display or print correctly. These are the clues that point to slight culpability by ATM and MacOS, and massive negligence by Quark and perhaps Flight Check.
I'm sitting on an 8200/132 running OS 9.1 and alas, there is a margin to the left. Some third party menus can place themselves to the left of the Apple menu although most are on the right. But even without there is a 10 pixel or so dead space on the far left of the menu bar.
Hence the scoop given to Time... probably in exchange for a cover spot. Apple's ad-wizards are some of the best in the business, and they are doing their damndest to get some info into the heads of the consumer mass. They've done a fair job with the iPod, although I personally detest the 'advertise via annoyance' method (die Dellboy die!), and I imagine they'll do well with this. But Apple really needs a "holy shit" type product for their spin boys to pimp... I'm not sure this is it.
As of June 1 there were 7.6 million residential broadband Internet subscribers in the United States and 1.7 million in Canada, equal to 15 percent penetration of Canadian households, double the U.S. penetration rate. (from C-Net)
There is a bit of difference of scale going on here. Such wonders of modernity are a bit easier with 1/8th the population.
Over a billion potential consumers. Capitalists simply cream their panties when they think of China, and it blinds them to certain facts... like that the Chinese have no money.
Not being a pedant, you just piqued my interest and I figured someone else may enjoy the fruits of my research.
Technology giveth, there was no real music industry until the phonograph was invented, and technology taketh away. Limiting technology in favor of business is shortsited, ill founded, anti-capitalistic, and doomed to fail.
If that sounds stupid to us (as it was meant to), what you guys are saying sounds exactly the same to marine biologists.
And 'never question a question of authority'? You're just putting your unthinking belief at one more remove. Question everything, the basis of Science.
At the dawn of life, as now but to a greater degree, the vast majority (if not all) of life on the planet was anaerobic. Terra's early atmosphere was composed primarily of water vapor (H2O), Carbon Dioxide (CO2), monoxide (CO), molecular Nitrogen (N2), Hydrogen (H2), and Hydrogen Chloride (HCl) with only trace amounts of reactive molecular Oxygen (O2). Life was well along when oxygen producing microbes appeared and started poisoning the anaerobes.
Here is a story about experiments that show that anaerobes could survive on Mars now.
But who cares!? They both spin ripping yarns and are well worth having read.
Moon's stuff is derivitive of Tolkein, but the story is fairly original and fresh. Feist is definately a succesor of Tolkein's as well and perhaps a bit too close to your example of standard fantasy, but it's much less black and white than Tolkein. Gentle's books are as original as any fantasy I've ever read weaving millitary history, fantasy, and even quantum mechanics into a compelling story. YMMV of course.
Nothing funny about ignorance parading as arrogance... dork.