With a bit more, I have a thinkpad A21p with a 1600x1200 screen and everything built in . . . FreeBSD can even run the silly internal modem. I have yet to figure out what to do with this dvd drive . . .
yeah, it's all about pixels. The next model down honly had a 1400xsomething screen.
hawk
But HP can use this stuff . . .
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Both of those are businesses in which HP has substantial experience. They can put those pieces to better use than Compaq ever did.
It's the alpha going to HP that has me intrigued. Intel's new design is heavily of HP origin, and now HP has a competitve processor--with out the albatross of latter-day Digital's marketing . . .
Look, that's not how usenet works. It is *not* true that newsspools carry all groups save those that have been censored, nor has this been true for over ten years.
A spool subscribes/peers/whatevers to carry the groups it wants. They tend to do this by customer interest. It is very rare to find a place that carries *all* of the newsgroups--and it is likely that noen exist at all. As a matter of fact, I'll bet against finding one that carries both the psu.* and iastate.* heirarchies . . .
Each newsgroup carried requires resources, both in disk storage and bandwidth. Cutting high-bandwidth groups saves on both.
Finally, the realistic groups which get cut off? It's the naked.bimbo.* heriarchy--which after a recent audit, a big player found consumed more than 90% of the resources for usenet . . .
hawk, who still thinks allowing mime on usenet was a bad idea
I followed the windows RG link a few days ago when someone sent it to me. In the interests of honesty, I don't and never have used windows. It launches some games for the kids (ok, and an occasisonal game for me). I went from unix to mac and back to unix when I found LyX. So just how is this RG supposed to be different from the current version? In that it takes slightly longer to crash?
I tried everything it displayed; I just can't see the difference. I suppose it's a joke along the lines of Dogbert's new operating system . . .
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, contact an attorney licensed in your own jurisdiction.
This is a temporary restraining order. THe very nature of these is that you get one at the time of filing to protect the status quo. A time for a preliminary injunction hearing is set, typically within ten days, which is the first time that evidence from both sides will be heard. There is *nothing* sneaking about getting the TRO before the other side heres of the suit; you serve them both at the same time.
While the standard of evidence to get the TRO is pretty much "file an affadavit,", to get the preliminary injunction you must show a likelihood of winningat trial and that you will be irreparably harmed. If the other side shows you perjured yourself in the TRO affadavit, you tend not to get it (Judges *hate* perjury. They were the group most angry at Clinton).
Actually, our hats are off to you guys, as the smartest folks in the country: as near as we can tell, not one of you has ever paid a dime in taxes to D.C.:)
hawk, the rabid Nevadan who wants D.C. out of southern Nevada
Word 1.0 on the Mac in 1984 had them. I have no idea when they made it in to the dos version. I don't think anyone ever claimed that any dos/windows version prior to 6.0 was any good (though word for windows 2, a partial portof the mac version, was supposedly less bad). [And from the mac side, Word 6 and later are staggering steps backwards.]
There were ways to print footnotes on micro word processors that I'd used prior to that, but they took significant work. For word, you just hit cmd-e and filled in the box. Most of the time it would get the pagination correct (though sometimes, with plenty of room [= 1/2 page] it would still skip to the next page for the line with the footnote. As of whatever the current version was in Fall of '99, this bug was still there--I saw it bite someone two offices down.)
>frankly, there's a REASON that Office became the behemoth it is, and
>that is solely due to features, not monopoly.
While most of what you wrote makes sense, this is just nonsense. Word and Excel became dominant on the mac because they were better than any of their competition. They utterly failed on the dos and windows side. They failed in the market and consistently placed last in reviews.
And then something happened: Office suddenly started shipping pre-installed on everything from several major hardware manufacturors--the same thing that happened to DR-DOS. With office already installed the difference between office and competitors was no loner the difference in purchase price, but the entire purchaseprice of the competitng product. On top of that, the "free" installation of office that everyone had meant that files started flying around in that format, forcing others to use it. As we type, law firms across the US are being dragged kicking and screaming away from word perfect and into office--not because word is appropriate for their use (it isn't), but because clients keep sending everything in word and difficulty hring secretaries because of a notion that using WP will pigeon-hole them into that field.
Otherwise, you raise good points. Footnotes are critical (are you serious? It really doesn't support these???). The functional footnote is one of microsoft's three innovations. A "word processor" without this is simply a toy.
No, I'm not missing it: that *is* the point. It's tivoli that they're selling, and it needs a *nix to run on top of. They maintain and develop tivoli either way. There's no additional benefit to them in maintaining AIX as well when it gives them no extra advantage.
hawk
Use of Linux rather than AIX is in IBM's interest
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As an economic issue, it's not surprising at all. There is a maximum price IBM can charge for the systrem. If they can replace a commodity function (the OS) with a less expensive version, it translates directly into more profits.
THe OS is not a competitive edge here; it's Tivoli and the custome software. IBM is much better off giving up its maintenance and development costs--and htis holds even if AIX is moderately superior to Linux for the task at hand.
An editorial *is* the position of the paper. An oped piece, or other opinion piece, is not. This is a simple matter of definititions. If it itsn't the paper's position, it is not an editorial . . .
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need local advice, contact an attorney licensed in your juriscdiction.
This doesn't even seem like a close call to me. The Bill of Rights is about privacy and the individual in the face of the awesome power of the state. The protections aren't to protect criminals, but to protect us normal folks against intrusions from the state.
long ago, we decided that wiretaps warranted special procedures, rather than a regular simple warrant. It would be bizarre to keep this reasoning while allowing the more intrusive act of sniffing keystrokes . . .
> The only way that this sort of activity can
> be stopped is by making it socially unacceptable (improper netiquette)
> for anyone to send executables through email.
For crying out loud, we can't even get people not to send messages in html . . .
> You don't want virus writers with imagination. You *really* don't.
absolutely not. One of the things I learned practicing law is that the reason we're not in serious danger from the criminal element is because *criminals are stupid*. They don't draw the connection between crime and punishment. THeir planning is lousy. I actually had one where five of them stole 70,000 (using my client's mother'ss car as a getaway vehicle), and each took their $5,000 share. It took the police ten minutes to get it through to them that the ringleader ripped them off.
Or the one that had to be rescued by the police after getting toasted, robbing a bar with a toy uzi, and then *going back in*, whereupon it was recognized and he was stabbed nearly to death . . .
If they had what we generally think of as "Average intelligence," we'd be in serious trouble (of course, this would in many cases keep them from criminal behgavior, too).
virus writers are just another kind of criminal . . .
This is nothing new. Windows 93 barely made it out in 95. Bob still doesn't work. After more than 15 years,the bug that leaves more than half a blank page for a small footnote is still around.
we weren't going to buy your car this year, anyway. First we'll wait for your new OS based on a *bsd. Then, once apple ships a flying car, we'll try to figure out when version 3 of your knock-off will ship . . .
> "Canada insured 100 percent of its citizens for $2,250
> per person in l998 while the United States expended $4,270 per person
> insuring only 84 percent of our citizens."
Which is why we see large number of americans going across the border for canadian healht care.
oh, wait a minute . . .
:)
>not only that, its cruel
> and disgusting to hold people's health ransom for money...
Far better to make it illegal to own, say, a private CAT scan machine, and hold health ransom to time, while allowing vetrinarians to have the same machines to use on pets (which stand idle while people die waiting their turn for the human ones).
The fiasco was perfectly timed for my statistics class, if nothing else:) So each day, I brought in th ebetter of the humor I found, and more were sent to me.
Anyway, I believe it was one of the interactive versions that would respond, "You're not voting for Al Gore. Are you sure?" After a couple of rounds of this, it informed you that since you were confused, it would record your vote for Al Gore . . .
> I like to print my code on legal sized paper (8.5x14in) in very small
> type, tape the sheets end to end, and work on it with a pen
Sounds convenient. It's a pity we can't convince a company to make paper that's already attached like that. Maybe they could even perforate it a bit tos that it would fold nicely without wrinkling the text . . .
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yeah, it's all about pixels. The next model down honly had a 1400xsomething screen.
hawk
It's the alpha going to HP that has me intrigued. Intel's new design is heavily of HP origin, and now HP has a competitve processor--with out the albatross of latter-day Digital's marketing . . .
hawk
A spool subscribes/peers/whatevers to carry the groups it wants. They tend to do this by customer interest. It is very rare to find a place that carries *all* of the newsgroups--and it is likely that noen exist at all. As a matter of fact, I'll bet against finding one that carries both the psu.* and iastate.* heirarchies . . .
Each newsgroup carried requires resources, both in disk storage and bandwidth. Cutting high-bandwidth groups saves on both.
Finally, the realistic groups which get cut off? It's the naked.bimbo.* heriarchy--which after a recent audit, a big player found consumed more than 90% of the resources for usenet . . .
hawk, who still thinks allowing mime on usenet was a bad idea
I tried everything it displayed; I just can't see the difference. I suppose it's a joke along the lines of Dogbert's new operating system . . .
hawk
Actually, the message says that it's only one *not counting Apple*.
So it's not quite as bad as it sounds.
hawk
This is a temporary restraining order. THe very nature of these is that you get one at the time of filing to protect the status quo. A time for a preliminary injunction hearing is set, typically within ten days, which is the first time that evidence from both sides will be heard. There is *nothing* sneaking about getting the TRO before the other side heres of the suit; you serve them both at the same time.
While the standard of evidence to get the TRO is pretty much "file an affadavit,", to get the preliminary injunction you must show a likelihood of winningat trial and that you will be irreparably harmed. If the other side shows you perjured yourself in the TRO affadavit, you tend not to get it (Judges *hate* perjury. They were the group most angry at Clinton).
hawk, wsq.
hawk, the rabid Nevadan who wants D.C. out of southern Nevada
There were ways to print footnotes on micro word processors that I'd used prior to that, but they took significant work. For word, you just hit cmd-e and filled in the box. Most of the time it would get the pagination correct (though sometimes, with plenty of room [= 1/2 page] it would still skip to the next page for the line with the footnote. As of whatever the current version was in Fall of '99, this bug was still there--I saw it bite someone two offices down.)
hawk
>that is solely due to features, not monopoly.
While most of what you wrote makes sense, this is just nonsense. Word and Excel became dominant on the mac because they were better than any of their competition. They utterly failed on the dos and windows side. They failed in the market and consistently placed last in reviews.
And then something happened: Office suddenly started shipping pre-installed on everything from several major hardware manufacturors--the same thing that happened to DR-DOS. With office already installed the difference between office and competitors was no loner the difference in purchase price, but the entire purchaseprice of the competitng product. On top of that, the "free" installation of office that everyone had meant that files started flying around in that format, forcing others to use it. As we type, law firms across the US are being dragged kicking and screaming away from word perfect and into office--not because word is appropriate for their use (it isn't), but because clients keep sending everything in word and difficulty hring secretaries because of a notion that using WP will pigeon-hole them into that field.
Otherwise, you raise good points. Footnotes are critical (are you serious? It really doesn't support these???). The functional footnote is one of microsoft's three innovations. A "word processor" without this is simply a toy.
hawk
hawk
THe OS is not a competitive edge here; it's Tivoli and the custome software. IBM is much better off giving up its maintenance and development costs--and htis holds even if AIX is moderately superior to Linux for the task at hand.
hawk, economist
> quite surprised to see so many of them around.
Nah, most of them are still in service. You just can't buy them, as most of us who own them have the "cold, dead fingers" attitude.
Oh, wait. You meant portable macintoshes, not *the* "Macintosh Portable," didn't you
hawk, who once injured his shoulder carrying all 26 lbs of his mac portable with carrying case through the airport
hawk
hawk
for crying out loud, that stuff is its *own* parody . . .
:)
hawk
This doesn't even seem like a close call to me. The Bill of Rights is about privacy and the individual in the face of the awesome power of the state. The protections aren't to protect criminals, but to protect us normal folks against intrusions from the state.
long ago, we decided that wiretaps warranted special procedures, rather than a regular simple warrant. It would be bizarre to keep this reasoning while allowing the more intrusive act of sniffing keystrokes . . .
hawk, esq.
> be stopped is by making it socially unacceptable (improper netiquette)
> for anyone to send executables through email.
For crying out loud, we can't even get people not to send messages in html . . .
absolutely not. One of the things I learned practicing law is that the reason we're not in serious danger from the criminal element is because *criminals are stupid*. They don't draw the connection between crime and punishment. THeir planning is lousy. I actually had one where five of them stole 70,000 (using my client's mother'ss car as a getaway vehicle), and each took their $5,000 share. It took the police ten minutes to get it through to them that the ringleader ripped them off.
Or the one that had to be rescued by the police after getting toasted, robbing a bar with a toy uzi, and then *going back in*, whereupon it was recognized and he was stabbed nearly to death . . .
If they had what we generally think of as "Average intelligence," we'd be in serious trouble (of course, this would in many cases keep them from criminal behgavior, too).
virus writers are just another kind of criminal . . .
hawk, esq., etc.
hawk
we weren't going to buy your car this year, anyway. First we'll wait for your new OS based on a *bsd. Then, once apple ships a flying car, we'll try to figure out when version 3 of your knock-off will ship . . .
:)
hawk
> per person in l998 while the United States expended $4,270 per person
> insuring only 84 percent of our citizens."
Which is why we see large number of americans going across the border for canadian healht care.
oh, wait a minute . . .
:)
>not only that, its cruel
> and disgusting to hold people's health ransom for money...
Far better to make it illegal to own, say, a private CAT scan machine, and hold health ransom to time, while allowing vetrinarians to have the same machines to use on pets (which stand idle while people die waiting their turn for the human ones).
hawk
Of all the good things I've heard about OpenBSD, I've never seen *this* one before
hawk
Anyway, I believe it was one of the interactive versions that would respond, "You're not voting for Al Gore. Are you sure?" After a couple of rounds of this, it informed you that since you were confused, it would record your vote for Al Gore . . .
hawk
> type, tape the sheets end to end, and work on it with a pen
Sounds convenient. It's a pity we can't convince a company to make paper that's already attached like that. Maybe they could even perforate it a bit tos that it would fold nicely without wrinkling the text . . .
:)
hawk