You're just saying that because we didn't let you join:)
However, the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (VRWC) still has openings for people of all political persuasions (how do you think it got so vast?). BYOBH (Bring your own black helicopter).
I forget what they were called, now, but Intel's version of the future was *not* the 8086, but the 8600 (?). The 8086 was just supposed to be a transition chip for which 8080 code could be easily cross-compiled. But silly IBM made a PC with the thing, and those three letters took over . ..
The 186 was meant for controllers, but Radio Shack and a couple of others used it in desktops.
The 286 would buy a couple of more years, and iirc, the 386 was supposed to be the flat-out end of the line (and a lot further than had been planned at the time of the 8086).
Then a team managed to come up with the 486, and kept going a while . .
Under the view menu, you can turn off most of those stupid menubars (though on 3.1 most come back after any crash or anything slightly wierd.
Then take that stupid window to the left, drag it away so it floats, and nuke it, too.
Then again, I started grumbling about wasting my precious screen space when microsoft added the extra ruler in addition to the regular ruler in Word 3 (or was it 4???)
1) marking keywords 2) looking at pictures of peoples kids--and I do that rately enough that it's not important; I can use another machine when it comes up.
Monochrome isn't just a little sharper; it's a lot sharper. There's no mask to get in the way.
However, I"ll admit to apprciating a slight improvement when I went to four bit greyscale on my powerbook a few years ago. 2 bit really wans't enough, and four would have been silly. But I'd generally prefer the sharper screen to the color.
used to explain electricity through through a wire. The general version uses a tube of billiard balls rather than a pole. Push a ball/electron in at one end of the tube/wire, and a ball/electron pops out at the other end aftera delay indicated by the speed of light. It's not the *same* ball/electron,but the information travelled at lightspeed (for the medium in question).
>>"That's just a derogatory term that's on the other side of the >>table," he said. "Direct-marketing people don't like to hear the >>paper mail called `junk mail.' "
>But it IS junkmail, and "direct marketing" is just a good name from >the other side of the table.
Exactly. Pedophiles don't like the terms "pervert" and "kiddie-f******", but it doesn't make them any less true. Nor do we agree to call hookers "sexual service professionals," etc.
A rose by any other name . . .
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Last night, as cell phone after cell phone went off, it occurred to me: restaruants and the loke should have jammers . . .
Look at it in horror. "Where did this come from? May I borrow your shoe?"
And when she hands you the shoe (with a rather confused & concerned look), use the heel to smash it into tiny bits of silicon and plastic (ignoring the toxic waste that leaks from the fractured battery).
Suavely return the shoe, and continue the conversation mid-sentence.
Or are we supposed to call it "herstory" when it diverges this far from reality?
I don't think we know much about how well the native americans lived in harmony with nature, but we do know that a few thousand years ago newcomers came from the *west* and, as near as we can tell, killed them all off. These newcomers came to be known as "Indians" when Columbus thought he'd travelled to India. The name stuck, but modernly there are folks calling this group "Native Americans."
This new group had a great many cultures, many of which were quite different. Some were peacefull, licving with nature, etc. Others were warlike, violent, and bloodthirsty. Some of these tortured their captives, by such endearing methods as burning them alive to test their bravery. Others enslaved other groups. Still others exterminated others completely. The paths across the continent of some of the warlike groups can still be traced by some of the characteristics of the groups they displaced.
Eventually another group showed up from the east. These were more warlike than some, and quite less warlike than other of the native inhabitants. However, they were much better at war, and had better weapons. They eventually ended up with most of the good land, regardless of whether the peaceful or warlike groups previously held it.
Unless you get your history from political rallies, the American Indians/Native Americans/whatever were rather diverse. The myth about universally living in peace and harmony with nature is just that, a myth. Some did, some didn't.
Northwest was suing individuals believed to have coordinated an illegal work action (sick-in). They obtained a warrant to check for material of their opponents in the suit.
Furthermore, Northwest was not allowed to look at the computers. An independent accounting firm was brought in to find the material covered, and turn over nothing else.
Yikes. After reading a few pages of this, my head is reeling.
Years of complaints about misbehavior by executives in mergers, and then one does the *right* thing, and we all complaint.
The board of directors are supposed to represent the shareholders. It is generally a Good Thing (tm) for them to have a large enough stake in the company to align their interests with theose of the shareholders. He has over 3 million shares.
When an offer to buy the company comes, directors are supposed to evaluate whether or not the offer is in the best interests of the shareholders, and find a better deal if they can (or, remain solo if they think the shareholders will do better). THat is *exactly* what he is doing here: saying that the shareholders may be better with a different deal,k and that they should go shopping.
Finally, there has been motion towards outside directors in recent years--rather than form the whole board from company management, who have their own agenda (keeping their perks & incomes), the outside directors can freely object, and speak *just* from shareholder interests--*particularly* in the case of mergers.
We've spent the last fifteen or so years trying to create *exactly* this situation, and people are jumping all over him for this. There's even a couple below that think that he's upset because he was scheming to be CEO. Oh my goodness, a CEO (yes, he is CEO of another firm) with expertese in management consulting brought in as an outside director [*gasp*] submitted management suggestions! Why would he do this without ulterior motives???
Maybe he's right about the deal; maybe he's not. But his role in the system is to make exactly this decision; that's why the Imprise shareholders pay him in the first place.
LyX has *no* comparable proprietary product. For that matter, I can't think of one for TeX, either (LyX uses LaTeX to print. It is *not* a front end for LaTeX [anymore].)
Oh, wait; there are a couple of commercial knock-offs, but Scientific Word and the other one are years behind LyX in usability and function.
If you need to a) write your equation without reaching for the mouse b) be able to edit from the keyboard, and c) see your equation displayed
LyX *is* the leading edge. (Note: older versions of Word on the Mac, 1.0-5.1, could do a&b, or c, but not all three at the same time)
And as for speed? There was a feature I used regularly in word (insert a single character of greek/symbol) that wasn't in lyx. I mentioned it on the developer's list. Within a week it was part of the main code base. This was about four years ago--around the same time that this feature became awkward to use on Word . . .
But it is also known that 15% are dwarves. As the buring question, "are there no female dwarves, or do they have beards?" has yet to be answered, we still don't know whether the 7% are female, or whether they are follicularly challenged males while the 7% female are bearded dwarves . . .
So did the k6. It's just different from Intel's. To the best of my knowledge, noone ever built a chipset for dual k6's. The athlon bus is licensed from alpha, so maybe this time around . . .
All that time I spent drooling over 4mhz systems, hoping to someday be able to afford 64k of memory . ..
And now, the "insignificant difference" in the *cache* speed is twice the speed of my dreams, and that cache holds more memory than a room full of computers or a box of disks . ..
This is one of the most ignorant criticisms that I have ever seen.
I have no idea where you got your ideas about what economists thing, but it certainly didn't come from anything vaguely resembling the last couple of years of mainstream economics.
Yes, we're quite aware of the existence of limits. Perhaps this is why we teach about them in class . . . However, we also teach about why Malthus was wrong.
Ans as far as you realization that "publishing predictions such as this fellow just made actually produce the result.." . . . no kidding; we expect people to demonstrate an understanding of this to pass an introductory class in the field.
There is no adjustment that economists need to make to figure out the difference between today and the early period of industrialization. A "new paradigm"? Give it a rest.
On the other hand, if you think that there's a conflict between cooperation and competition, you probably have a very odd idea of what competition is.
until it's drawn blood . . . And my latest (hmm, two years old???) managed to do it before I got the motherboard . . . My uncle & cousin wanted to see it, so I brought it in from the trunk.
OK, it's also that my Uncle reads & writes ancietn egyptian, and I wanted the label that read "Hawkins":)
Is it where God meant it to be, next to the "A" (depending upon language)? I've never seen a ps/2 keyboard that doesn't suffer from CKIE syndrome (control key in exile).
"You see, boss, there's a couple of choices we need to make.s
"The first is whether to make something that can't be used for privacy, still achieves the purpose of playback, and won't buy us a lawsuit that costs millions to defend if we win, and puts us out of business if we lose, or to buy a lawsuit that will costs us thousands of times the revenue from a a handful of extra units, but we'd get brownie points for standing up to the folks that would sue us.
"The second is whether to enter the market now, while we can cover 90% of the potential consumers, or to wait six months and not sell to anyone until we have all 100% covered, losing millions in sales to our competitors."
Sounds like a pass/fail intelligence test to me . . .
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>there is no Cabal
:)
You're just saying that because we didn't let you join
However, the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (VRWC) still has openings for people of all political persuasions (how do you think it got so vast?). BYOBH (Bring your own black helicopter).
I forget what they were called, now, but Intel's version of the future was *not* the 8086, but the 8600 (?). The 8086 was just supposed to be a transition chip for which 8080 code could be easily cross-compiled. But silly IBM made a PC with the thing, and those three letters took over . . .
The 186 was meant for controllers, but Radio Shack and a couple of others used it in desktops.
The 286 would buy a couple of more years, and iirc, the 386 was supposed to be the flat-out end of the line (and a lot further than had been planned at the time of the 8086).
Then a team managed to come up with the 486, and kept going a while . .
If you're actually using color, monochrome is kind of useless :)
:(
Overall, though, at the same level of technology, monochrome will be sharper. I just haven't seen a new, huge, monochrome for years . . .
Under the view menu, you can turn off most of those stupid menubars (though on 3.1 most come back after any crash or anything slightly wierd.
Then take that stupid window to the left, drag it away so it floats, and nuke it, too.
Then again, I started grumbling about wasting my precious screen space when microsoft added the extra ruler in addition to the regular ruler in Word 3 (or was it 4???)
hawk
I have found exactly two uses for color:
1) marking keywords
2) looking at pictures of peoples kids--and I do that rately enough that it's not important; I can use another machine when it comes up.
Monochrome isn't just a little sharper; it's a lot sharper. There's no mask to get in the way.
However, I"ll admit to apprciating a slight improvement when I went to four bit greyscale on my powerbook a few years ago. 2 bit really wans't enough, and four would have been silly. But I'd generally prefer the sharper screen to the color.
hawk
used to explain electricity through through a wire. The general version uses a tube of billiard balls rather than a pole. Push a ball/electron in at one end of the tube/wire, and a ball/electron pops out at the other end aftera delay indicated by the speed of light. It's not the *same* ball/electron,but the information travelled at lightspeed (for the medium in question).
hawk, onetime physicist among his many hats
>>"That's just a derogatory term that's on the other side of the
>>table," he said. "Direct-marketing people don't like to hear the
>>paper mail called `junk mail.' "
>But it IS junkmail, and "direct marketing" is just a good name from
>the other side of the table.
Exactly. Pedophiles don't like the terms "pervert" and "kiddie-f******",
but it doesn't make them any less true. Nor do we agree to call hookers
"sexual service professionals," etc.
A rose by any other name . . .
Last night, as cell phone after cell phone went off, it occurred to me: restaruants and the loke should have jammers . . .
Look at it in horror. "Where did this come from? May I borrow your shoe?"
And when she hands you the shoe (with a rather confused & concerned look), use the heel to smash it into tiny bits of silicon and plastic (ignoring the toxic waste that leaks from the fractured battery).
Suavely return the shoe, and continue the conversation mid-sentence.
:)
Or are we supposed to call it "herstory" when it diverges this far from reality?
I don't think we know much about how well the native americans lived in
harmony with nature, but we do know that a few thousand years ago
newcomers came from the *west* and, as near as we can tell, killed them all
off. These newcomers came to be known as "Indians" when Columbus
thought he'd travelled to India. The name stuck, but modernly there
are folks calling this group "Native Americans."
This new group had a great many cultures, many of which were quite
different. Some were peacefull, licving with nature, etc. Others
were warlike, violent, and bloodthirsty. Some of these tortured
their captives, by such endearing methods as burning them alive to
test their bravery. Others enslaved other groups. Still others
exterminated others completely. The paths across the continent
of some of the warlike groups can still be traced by some of the
characteristics of the groups they displaced.
Eventually another group showed up from the east. These were more
warlike than some, and quite less warlike than other of the native
inhabitants. However, they were much better at war, and had better
weapons. They eventually ended up with most of the good land,
regardless of whether the peaceful or warlike groups previously held it.
Unless you get your history from political rallies, the American
Indians/Native Americans/whatever were rather diverse. The myth
about universally living in peace and harmony with nature is just
that, a myth. Some did, some didn't.
The pinto had an auxilary heating system to keep you warm after a crash; the pinto didnt'
:)
And there was a huge difference under the hood: the pinto couldn't leave a nice oil spot in your driveway the day you brought it home
No, that wasn't what happened at all.
Northwest was suing individuals believed to have coordinated an illegal work action (sick-in). They obtained a warrant to check for material of their opponents in the suit.
Furthermore, Northwest was not allowed to look at the computers. An independent accounting firm was brought in to find the material covered, and turn over nothing else.
Yikes. After reading a few pages of this, my head is reeling.
Years of complaints about misbehavior by executives in mergers, and then one does the *right* thing, and we all complaint.
The board of directors are supposed to represent the shareholders. It is generally a Good Thing (tm) for them to have a large enough stake in the company to align their interests with theose of the shareholders. He has over 3 million shares.
When an offer to buy the company comes, directors are supposed to evaluate whether or not the offer is in the best interests of the shareholders, and find a better deal if they can (or, remain solo if they think the shareholders will do better). THat is *exactly* what he is doing here: saying that the shareholders may be better with a different deal,k and that they should go shopping.
Finally, there has been motion towards outside directors in recent years--rather than form the whole board from company management, who have their own agenda (keeping their perks & incomes), the outside directors can freely object, and speak *just* from shareholder interests--*particularly* in the case of mergers.
We've spent the last fifteen or so years trying to create *exactly* this situation, and people are jumping all over him for this. There's even a couple below that think that he's upset because he was scheming to be CEO. Oh my goodness, a CEO (yes, he is CEO of another firm) with expertese in management consulting brought in as an outside director [*gasp*] submitted management suggestions! Why would he do this without ulterior motives???
Maybe he's right about the deal; maybe he's not. But his role in the system is to make exactly this decision; that's why the Imprise shareholders pay him in the first place.
LyX has *no* comparable proprietary product. For that matter, I can't think
of one for TeX, either (LyX uses LaTeX to print. It is *not* a front end
for LaTeX [anymore].)
Oh, wait; there are a couple of commercial knock-offs, but Scientific
Word and the other one are years behind LyX in usability and function.
If you need to
a) write your equation without reaching for the mouse
b) be able to edit from the keyboard, and
c) see your equation displayed
LyX *is* the leading edge. (Note: older versions of Word on the Mac,
1.0-5.1, could do a&b, or c, but not all three at the same time)
And as for speed? There was a feature I used regularly in word (insert a single character of greek/symbol) that wasn't in lyx. I mentioned it on the developer's list. Within a week it was part of the main code base. This was about four years ago--around the same time that this feature became awkward to use on Word . . .
It's a place where they do eieio . . .
:)
But it is also known that 15% are dwarves. As the buring question, "are there no female dwarves, or do they have beards?" has yet to be answered, we still don't know whether the 7% are female, or whether they are follicularly challenged males while the 7% female are bearded dwarves . . .
Oops, OK. It was 32768 words, not bytes, on the PDP-11. Still, that's nearly half the memory . . .
Someday, I need to actually get the timeline on the larger memory 11's staight in my head . . .
So did the k6. It's just different from Intel's. To the best of my knowledge, noone ever built a chipset for dual k6's. The athlon bus is licensed from alpha, so maybe this time around . . .
All that time I spent drooling over 4mhz systems, hoping to someday be able to afford 64k of memory . . .
.
And now, the "insignificant difference" in the *cache* speed is twice the speed of my dreams, and that cache holds more memory than a room full of computers or a box of disks . .
Pass the Geritol and my cane, please . . .
This is one of the most ignorant criticisms that I have ever seen.
I have no idea where you got your ideas about what economists thing, but it certainly didn't come from anything vaguely resembling the last couple of years of mainstream economics.
Yes, we're quite aware of the existence of limits. Perhaps this is why we teach about them in class . . . However, we also teach about why Malthus was wrong.
Ans as far as you realization that "publishing
predictions such as this fellow just made actually produce the
result.." . . . no kidding; we expect people to demonstrate an understanding of this to pass an introductory class in the field.
There is no adjustment that economists need to make to figure out the difference between today and the early period of industrialization. A "new paradigm"? Give it a rest.
On the other hand, if you think that there's a conflict between cooperation and competition, you probably have a very odd idea of what competition is.
Go find another type of straw man to troll about.
until it's drawn blood . . . And my latest (hmm, two years old???) managed to do it before I got the motherboard . . . My uncle & cousin wanted to see it, so I brought it in from the trunk.
:)
OK, it's also that my Uncle reads & writes ancietn egyptian, and I wanted the label that read "Hawkins"
>If you've ever found yourself wanting a third hand while solderinge
:)
:)
>then you're probably not a hacker.
If you've never soldered anything where a third hand would have been *really*
useful, then you're just not ambitious enough.
Soldering wimp!
With a soldering iron, yellow stickies, duct tape, and a couple of
bungies, you can fix *anything*
Hmm, I've never considered myself a hacker, but I guess that last line
kind of defines me as one, doesn't it?
hawk
since he has to assemble one less piece than you do . . . :)
Is it where God meant it to be, next to the "A" (depending upon language)? I've never seen a ps/2 keyboard that doesn't suffer from CKIE syndrome (control key in exile).
"You see, boss, there's a couple of choices we need to make.s
"The first is whether to make something that can't be used for privacy, still achieves the purpose of playback, and won't buy us a lawsuit that costs millions to defend if we win, and puts us out of business if we lose, or to buy a lawsuit that will costs us thousands of times the revenue from a a handful of extra units, but we'd get brownie points for standing up to the folks that would sue us.
"The second is whether to enter the market now, while we can cover 90% of the potential consumers, or to wait six months and not sell to anyone until we have all 100% covered, losing millions in sales to our competitors."
Sounds like a pass/fail intelligence test to me . . .