Kirk, Spock, and McCoy were not individuals; they were different parts of humanity. There was no attempt to interest in who was dating, personal interactions, poker games, etc.
It was about the ideas.
After the first half dozen or so Next Generation episodes (or was it the whole half season?), this was completely lost, and there was a heavy focus on the characters as characters. This missed the whole point that made Start Trek interesting in the first place.
And no, I couldn't care less about the stupid robot and his attempt to be human. All of that together wasn't worth a single round of McCoy and Spock.
Lessse, the ship is taken over what, once a month, on average? And they let them run around with phasers, photon torpedoes, and whaterver else that week's plot needs (planet destroyers??? as a stock item???)
These folks shouldn't be allowed deflectors, let alone weapons.
And they've brought security through obscurity to new levels: oooh, an access code. Control any one federation ship, know where to look things up, and you can control them all.
Kind of takes the fun out of collecting . ..
And haven't these folks ever heard of an ignition key? No key, no warp drive?
>Again, technically true, but you have to agree that the odds of being >shot in a country where 10,000 people have a gun is significantly >higher than a country where only one guy owns one.
Probably, but the chance of producing such a country by disarmament are much lower than the chances of being shot in the country with 10,000 guns . . .
>The problem is the US's "all or nothing" stance on guns - this belief >that a right to own weapons is some divine mandate.
I'm not buying your argument that we'd be safer without guns, but let's accept for the point of argument.
You are talking about something enshrined in the Bill of Rights. To get rid of guns, we need to change the Bill of Rights, removing something. This is a dangerous precedend. Maybe there could be a better list if we were starting from scratch under today's circumstances, but making the BofR negotiable is just too high a price. Hmm, maybe defendants' rights . . . OJ was clearly guilty; let's allow double jeapardy. Those people that aren't willing to be searched must be hiding something. And those hurtful things that those folks are saying; there's too much freedom of speech.
Yes, the price may be high. But even assuming no or minimal benefits from the guns to society, tampering with the Bill of Rights is just too high a price.
> Kinda like how the nuclear arms race has made the world a safer place? > Especially now that the soviet union has disintegrated and the world's > well funded terrorist groups now have The Bomb?
Do you *really* think that without the nuclear threat we would have gone from 1945 until the implosion of the Soviet Union without a major war in Europe? This is the longest period of general peace in Europe since the end of the Pax Romana . . . (and yes, I"m aware of the level of atrocities that are occurring).
Call it the Pax Americana or Pax Atomica as you wish (I'll let future historians decide), but WWII would have lasted another couple of years in the Pacific without the bomb, with a seven-figure casualty count for the Allies, and several times that for the Japanese. Soviet invasion and direct conflict (rather than proxy fights in southeast Asia) would have been thinkable.
Yes, I think we're *much* safer with the existance of these weapons, although I'd be much happier if they'd all go away now.
>I believe that when a government infringes upon your rights, you >should avail yourself of all legal, nonviolent means to eliminate that >infringement. In the event that these means fail, then it is time to >consider revolution and overthrow of the oppressive regime.
I sure hope it's OK. Otherwise, we owe about 225 years of back taxes to London . . . .:)
> LyX may be OK for somebody with just a few equations to typeset,
I did an entire dissertation in computational economics with it . . . *editing* without a display of the equations becomes a problem forr me; just too bloody many braces, parenthesis, etc. for me to mess with.
My natural inclination would certainly be raw LaTeX, but the editing and matchig gets extreme. And perhaps as importantly, lyx takes less keystrokes (though I'm not yet to where I was with word4/5, typesetting commands, and external macros . . .
I've been too busy to follow the last few months of development. My copy seems to be a variant (custom mail merge) from 1.0.4pre7 . ..
Tables are not LyX's strongpoint; this is inherited from LaTeX (yes, it can do some wonderful things, but most word processors have had it beat for years). I don't use many other than simple supply/demand tables I put in homwork sets and tests.
Equations, though. . . WOW . . . that was what sold me on LyX, and got me to buy an x86 box instead of expanding my fleet of Macs.
He shouldn't be too surprised by a 1.1.x, though--the odd minor indicates a development branch where anything can happen . . .
I'm a non-tenured professor in a public institution. If it were used for a complaint, the context wouldn't matter, just the word. And "stop these stupid proceedings or the white, middle-clas male resigns" just doesn't have the same affect on the angry mob . ..
Do I like the situation? No. But my kids like to eat, so I'll leave the battle to those with tenure. (yes, this is why tenure exists; it's not really [supposed to be] about job security in general).
I'm not gonna say quartz, cuz I'd probably label the wrong piece . ..
My big question is whether or not I can have both X and mac simultaneously displayed. If I can, I probably want one of these at my new job in the fall. But I absolutely have to have unix and a heavy-duty compiler, and I like my X stuff. They stay. If I can have mac apps too, then a mac becomes possible. If not, there's no point.
It finally loaded. At http://www.publicsource.apple.com/ps-faq.html, second question:
Q. Does the Apple Public Source License qualify as an Open Source license? Yes, the Open Source Initiative has determined that the Apple Public Source License is conformant to the "Open Source Definition:" http://www.opensource.org/osd.html.
>I am not sure but I would hazard a guess that the Apple Public Licenses >is NOT a certified (by OSI) Open Source (TM) licence
Would you like another guess?:) There were complaints about the initial license, and it was changed, and now meets the DFSG or whatever those initials are. (unless, of course, you're saying they haven't paid the organization for the certification. But neither has any other open source project that I've heard of . ..)
And "Open Source" is not a trademark. They let the application expire (and would never have received a valid trademark, anyway).
The linux version doesn't seem to have one, nor does it have a README . ..
I untarred the thing, and not finding anything to reat, tried running./netscape. It launches, and takes a few minutes drawing screens, resizing its window, occasionally flashing something. THen it just sits and spins, eating all cpu time. I can't get at a menu to try turnign off java and javascript. THen it locked up the pointer in X while I was writing this in lynx, forcing me to go to a text console to kill the mozilla-bin's . ..
Is it any good? I couldnt' tell you; I can't get that far.
This machine is old, slow, and lean, but it can run netscape3, and plod it's way through 4.
But then, we've usually had to use shift-alt-arrow, since X intercepts alt-arrows under most configurations. Then again, with a different window manager, you might use the default alt-arrow. But if you use KDE, you're in trouble because it doesn't seem to like you using netscape in the first place, and you don't get *any* arrow key motions.
And using the brackets may be reminiscent of the switcher on the mac--switching between virtual macintoshes before the multifinder. Come to think of it, I think I used it after the multifinder, too, to save memory . ..
THe download came at about 100k/s the third time. The first two were at 80. If you use netscape3 to download, it takes the file and tosses it into the ether without saving it or prompting you; I had to use a shift-click. And there doesn't seem to be a 128 bit encription--I fired up netscape yesterday for the first time in weeks to try to access vanguard; I don't have much use for netscape now that I have lynx launching new instances of itself . . .
The court looked at length at what the appellate court said. It noted both that taken literally, the decision would conflict with Suprem Court precedents, and that the appellate court noted that it did not have a factual record available, which could change its opinions.
At that point in the proceedings (preliminary injunction), Microsoft was entitled to have potential evidence viewed in the best possible light. After the findings of fact, this just doesn't hold.
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Kirk, Spock, and McCoy were not individuals; they were different parts of humanity. There was no attempt to interest in who was dating, personal interactions, poker games, etc.
It was about the ideas.
After the first half dozen or so Next Generation episodes (or was it the whole half season?), this was completely lost, and there was a heavy focus on the characters as characters. This missed the whole point that made Start Trek interesting in the first place.
And no, I couldn't care less about the stupid robot and his attempt to be human. All of that together wasn't worth a single round of McCoy and Spock.
Lessse, the ship is taken over what, once a month, on average? And they let them run around with phasers, photon torpedoes, and whaterver else that week's plot needs (planet destroyers??? as a stock item???)
.
These folks shouldn't be allowed deflectors, let alone weapons.
And they've brought security through obscurity to new levels: oooh, an access code. Control any one federation ship, know where to look things up, and you can control them all.
Kind of takes the fun out of collecting . .
And haven't these folks ever heard of an ignition key? No key, no warp drive?
That's the most important part. We *really* want her voice.
Wouldn't it be just perfect during boot?
"Starting network services"
"Going multi-user"
I'd probably pay for a package with her voice on it . . .
It's a company trying to do a bug-for-bug copy of microsoft bloatware, and (surprise!) produced bloatware while mimicing.
I'll keep whith scalc3 when possible.
Yes, the evil Dr. Killgood finally has the pink bunny in his sights. No fancy gadgets to go wrong. He aims, he fires . . . no, he doesn't . . .
.
[pan camera to confused look, then pull back]
He looks down, opens his wrist-tag . . . *AUGHH* he used the other brand of batteries! . .
And the bunny bangs its drum as it wanders off once again . . .
Windows and Mac users kill with guns, and *nix folks with kitchen knives, and *nix folks who use scripts concoct poisons?
:)
>Again, technically true, but you have to agree that the odds of being
>shot in a country where 10,000 people have a gun is significantly
>higher than a country where only one guy owns one.
Probably, but the chance of producing such a country by disarmament are much lower than the chances of being shot in the country with 10,000 guns . . .
>The problem is the US's "all or nothing" stance on guns - this belief
>that a right to own weapons is some divine mandate.
I'm not buying your argument that we'd be safer without guns, but let's accept for the point of argument.
You are talking about something enshrined in the Bill of Rights. To get rid of guns, we need to change the Bill of Rights, removing something. This is a dangerous precedend. Maybe there could be a better list if we were starting from scratch under today's circumstances, but making the BofR negotiable is just too high a price. Hmm, maybe defendants' rights . . . OJ was clearly guilty; let's allow double jeapardy. Those people that aren't willing to be searched must be hiding something. And those hurtful things that those folks are saying; there's too much freedom of speech.
Yes, the price may be high. But even assuming no or minimal benefits from the guns to society, tampering with the Bill of Rights is just too high a price.
hawk, esq.
> Kinda like how the nuclear arms race has made the world a safer place?
> Especially now that the soviet union has disintegrated and the world's
> well funded terrorist groups now have The Bomb?
Do you *really* think that without the nuclear threat we would have gone from 1945 until the implosion of the Soviet Union without a major war in Europe? This is the longest period of general peace in Europe since the end of the Pax Romana . . . (and yes, I"m aware of the level of atrocities that are occurring).
Call it the Pax Americana or Pax Atomica as you wish (I'll let future historians decide), but WWII would have lasted another couple of years in the Pacific without the bomb, with a seven-figure casualty count for the Allies, and several times that for the Japanese. Soviet invasion and direct conflict (rather than proxy fights in southeast Asia) would have been thinkable.
Yes, I think we're *much* safer with the existance of these weapons, although I'd be much happier if they'd all go away now.
hawk
>I believe that when a government infringes upon your rights, you
:)
>should avail yourself of all legal, nonviolent means to eliminate that
>infringement. In the event that these means fail, then it is time to
>consider revolution and overthrow of the oppressive regime.
I sure hope it's OK. Otherwise, we owe about 225 years of back
taxes to London . . . .
> LyX may be OK for somebody with just a few equations to typeset,
I did an entire dissertation in computational economics with it . . . *editing* without a display of the equations becomes a problem forr me; just too bloody many braces, parenthesis, etc. for me to mess with.
My natural inclination would certainly be raw LaTeX, but the editing and matchig gets extreme. And perhaps as importantly, lyx takes less keystrokes (though I'm not yet to where I was with word4/5, typesetting commands, and external macros . . .
I've been too busy to follow the last few months of development. My copy seems to be a variant (custom mail merge) from 1.0.4pre7 . . .
Tables are not LyX's strongpoint; this is inherited from LaTeX (yes, it can do some wonderful things, but most word processors have had it beat for years).
I don't use many other than simple supply/demand tables I put in homwork sets and tests.
Equations, though. . . WOW . . . that was what sold me on LyX, and got me to buy an x86 box instead of expanding my fleet of Macs.
He shouldn't be too surprised by a 1.1.x, though--the odd minor indicates a development branch where anything can happen . . .
Hmm, I hadn't thought of that. Then again, I tried MI/X when I was using a IIci running netbsd primarily as an X terminal.
"poor" doesn't begin to describe it. Xterminals worked fine, but some programs (including netscape) would draw the same horizontal line several times.
But the Xserver as a run of the mill mac program makes a certain amount of sense. I suppose I could customize the rest for the X-y things I like.
OK, I suppose what I really want is X to take, over, but let mac programs run . . .
I'm a non-tenured professor in a public institution. If it were used for a complaint, the context wouldn't matter, just the word. And "stop these stupid proceedings or the white, middle-clas male resigns" just doesn't have the same affect on the angry mob . . .
Do I like the situation? No. But my kids like to eat, so I'll leave the battle to those with tenure. (yes, this is why tenure exists; it's not really [supposed to be] about job security in general).
An open source application that sucks people away from its commercial competitors in droves.
Sometimes it pulls so hard that they switch hardware platforms to run a *nix so that they can use it.
Recall the scene where the village is about to lynch the black sheriff? He puts his gun to his own head, and hollers, "Freez, or the *** gets it!"
And the townsman back off, because he has a hostage . . .
I'm not gonna say quartz, cuz I'd probably label the wrong piece . . .
My big question is whether or not I can have both X and mac simultaneously displayed. If I can, I probably want one of these at my new job in the fall. But I absolutely have to have unix and a heavy-duty compiler, and I like my X stuff. They stay. If I can have mac apps too, then a mac becomes possible. If not, there's no point.
I'm a lawyer, but this isn't legal advice, etc.
>It's close but not quite.
That will be news to the OSI . . . see link above
>It has the so-called "termination clause", where Apple can revoke
>all rights under the license under certain conditions.
Those conditions are pretty much "if it becomes illegal to
distribute this software." The GPL has a similar term.
hawk, esq.
It finally loaded. At
second question:
http://www.publicsource.apple.com/ps-faq.html,
Q. Does the Apple Public Source License qualify as an Open Source
license?
Yes, the Open Source Initiative has determined that the Apple Public
Source License is conformant to the "Open Source Definition:"
http://www.opensource.org/osd.html.
>I am not sure but I would hazard a guess that the Apple Public Licenses
:) There were complaints about the .)
>is NOT a certified (by OSI) Open Source (TM) licence
Would you like another guess?
initial license, and it was changed, and now meets the DFSG or
whatever those initials are. (unless, of course, you're saying they
haven't paid the organization for the certification. But neither
has any other open source project that I've heard of . .
And "Open Source" is not a trademark. They let the application expire
(and would never have received a valid trademark, anyway).
hawk
Nope, it's the default KDE and fvwm2 from FreeBSD. I don't use KDE, it's there for my wife & kids.
kde+netscape is also the only way I've seen X on that box get locked so hard I couldn't get to a text console.
I tried it from /tmp. I'm running potato (a mistake, but that's another issue), but didn't get that message.
The linux version doesn't seem to have one, nor does it have a README . . .
./netscape. It launches, and takes a few minutes drawing screens, resizing its window, occasionally flashing something. THen it just sits and spins, eating all cpu time. I can't get at a menu to try turnign off java and javascript. THen it locked up the pointer in X while I was writing this in lynx, forcing me to go to a text console to kill the mozilla-bin's . . .
I untarred the thing, and not finding anything to reat, tried running
Is it any good? I couldnt' tell you; I can't get that far.
This machine is old, slow, and lean, but it can run netscape3, and plod it's way through 4.
But then, we've usually had to use shift-alt-arrow, since X intercepts alt-arrows under most configurations. Then again, with a different window manager, you might use the default alt-arrow. But if you use KDE, you're in trouble because it doesn't seem to like you using netscape in the first place, and you don't get *any* arrow key motions.
.
And using the brackets may be reminiscent of the switcher on the mac--switching between virtual macintoshes before the multifinder. Come to think of it, I think I used it after the multifinder, too, to save memory . .
THe download came at about 100k/s the third time. The first two were at 80. If you use netscape3 to download, it takes the file and tosses it into the ether without saving it or prompting you; I had to use a shift-click. And there doesn't seem to be a 128 bit encription--I fired up netscape yesterday for the first time in weeks to try to access vanguard; I don't have much use for netscape now that I have lynx launching new instances of itself . . .
The court looked at length at what the appellate court said. It noted
both that taken literally, the decision would conflict with Suprem
Court precedents, and that the appellate court noted that it did
not have a factual record available, which could change its opinions.
At that point in the proceedings (preliminary injunction), Microsoft
was entitled to have potential evidence viewed in the best possible
light. After the findings of fact, this just doesn't hold.
hawk, esq.