It was slow as blazes, and took out or encumbered features that I used daily. Equation editor is no substitute for the old typesetting commands, inserting symbols (greek) is much more complicated, and the mail merge is, well, wretched.
Aside from the unbearably slow, these problems exist to this day (or worse: open a file that uses the old formats, and it changes the *original* file to the new format without permission, unless you knew ahead of time to mark it read-only).
If it weren't for LyX, I'd still be using Word 5.1 today, as well as Excel 4. IM!HO, these were the last good products to come out of Redmond.
A while back, I needed to send out many job applications. I figured out that it would be easier to add mail-merge to LyX than to fight with the current MS version (hey, let's display the results of the conditional from the first record, rather than the conditional! See, a nice easy nothing to click on to make changes. Bleach.). I was right. With the mailmerge patch applied, I can now not only write merge code as was once possible, I can do the things that *should* have been in word's merge capacity to start with. (IF/ELSEIF, unlimited recursion . ..)
What worse can you say about a product than that it was easier to write something to replace it than to use it?
Get the rechargable alkalines. They cost about twice as much as regular alkalines, butput out the same voltage, and can (obviously) be recharged.
They don't suffer from memory, and actually benefit from an early recharge.
Then there's the nickel-hydrides that have now appeared in regular battery sizes . . .
Years ago, I considered making the modification to hold a 5th nicad in my tandy 102, thus reaching then intended 6v (5x1.2=4*1.5). The manuals warned of brownout for the insufficient voltage, but I neverhad a problem running the thing on 4 nicads. They probably lasted longer, too, as the higher voltage would have increased the current drawn . . .
Disclaimer: I am a lawyer, but I'm probably not licensed in your jurisdiction. This isn't legal advice, anyway. If you need legal advice, see an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction.
The only thing surprising about this is that it took so long to happen. In fact, this was my initial reaction to the use of Visa for these places.
Using a Visa or MC for *anything* creates a loan. It is also a contract. Courts have refused to enforce contracts that violate public policy for as far back as the Common Law records cases. You also can't sell yourself into slavery, nor consent to be murdered.
Nothing prevents the transaction if everyone agrees to it. But when a party enters the courtroom, they are asking the court/government to enforce the contract.
Gambling contracts are a particular type that courts commonly refuse to enforce. California's constitution specifically prohibits the legislature from legalizing gambling of the type seen in Nevada casinos. The public policy is explicit.
When a Nevada casino issues a loan, it is aware that it can't enforce the loan in California. For that matter, it couldn't even be enforced in Nevada until the late 1980's.
We've seen that one over here, without help fo the government:)
Every couple of years, usually in California, someone opens a topless donut store. Not the customers, but topless waitresses. Yes, it's a dumb idea, and not viable. Left to themselves, they'd be gone within a month.
But what happens, which they *count on* before opening, is that NOW will come picket, and local news will cover the pickets. They sell a lot of donuts (probably very bad donuts:) for a couple of months, and then go away--having made a killing, thanks to the notoriety.
>Actually, the solution was the "best" in the fact >that it fullfilled all the requirements given. >The computer has no way of putting further >requirements on its construction, so anything >that solved the problem would be equally "best" >for it.
No. That's plain and simply not how GA's work.l
They evaluate solutions based upon a fitness function, and choose some from among the solutions with higher fitness to "breed" in some form to get the next generation of solutions.
In some cases, there may be a known and reachable maximum fitness, but this is the exception, rather than the rule.
I'd be surprised to see "makes it all the way across" recieve full fitness. More likely, the number of bricks should be included, perhaps the width of the bridge at the narrowest point, etc.
GA's are not (usually) used to find "a" solution, but the best reachable solution.
I should note, though, that GA's are susceptible to local maxima; once one is reached, it may be difficult to change to the global optimum. However, there are techniques that address this problem in a wide variety of cases.
Close. The chevy 400 was also listed as 6.6 liters. But 6600 or 6.6 just doesn't have the ring of 400 (which is close to the horsepower it put out before the replaced the 4-barrel with a 2-barrel over emissions).
I had one in a 72 Impala -- three tons of American steel, 400 cubes, and 12 miles to the gallon (properly tuned, and on the highway). Sucked gas, but what a ride . . .
for using a *different* system than the Brits. U.S. liquid measure is only about.8 that of the corresponding imperial measures. This means that every time I order a pint, I get shorted by about 4 undersized/US ounces:)
since first ordered by executive order--by President Jefferson.
A little here, a little there. Things that have advantages convert. Things that don't might never convert--what real use is there for Celisius-speak about the temperature outside. Food is now beginning to come in metric sizes, as are some common parts. When new parts are designed, they'll usually be metric.
OTOH, maybe this all just shows how dangerous shifting to that silly system is:) If we hadn't used some of them funny units, we'd still have the orbiter . . . [duck]
Oh, and don't bother trying to sell me a car with a lot of cc's or liters of displacement--I want 400 cubes . . .
Look at the mish-mash of theologies; it was clearly a joke.
Start at the beginning, with the pronunciation--the latun pronunciation of "Jesu" with an "x" sound at the end. Heavy Catholic overtones.
Then look at the theologians for the quotes: C.S. Lewis is one of them. Lewis was one of the "anglo-Catholics" of the Oxford movement. As I recall, he never converted to Catholocism, instead holding out for a Canterbury-Rome reconcilliation, but he--and his theology--were the very last step before outright Catholicsm. As high-church as you can get (for crying out loud, the High King in the Narnia books is named "Peter").
Then read further down the page. Most of the rest is very low-church (e.g., only the KJV), some to positions generally only held by groups that maintain that all Catholics will go to Hell.
It doesn't match. Not that wacko groups are consistant, but the mish-mash shows mutually exclusive groups setting the agenda.
The one thing they did blow is the CPSL--the list of disclaimers should have referred, in the list of potential losses, one's immortal soul and eternal damnation.
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>Don't US users pay a lot more for 'long distance' >calls than we do anyway?
I doubt it:) I pay AT&T $9.95 a month to get 5c/minute around the clock (they advertise $5.95 for 7c; you have to know about this one to ask for it). (mm, and I have to cross a state line, I think, but I don't have any in-state long distance, anyway).
In my wallet is a calling card that I can use from any phone for 9c/minute to anywhere in the U.S.
And it's tough to get past.25/minute at home under any circmstances.
Exactly two (2) of the ships sunk that morning did not see action during the war, the Arizona, which remains down, and another whose name I don't recall that was floated but used only for artillery practice.
Two major mistakes by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor:
1) You can't sink big ships in shallow water. They're easy to recover.
2) They *grossly* underestimated our reaction. The point was to keep us *out* of the war by smashing our pacific presence. But it's in our nature that we get *really* steamed about being dragged into things. Only very few of the Japanese comprehended what our reaction would be (such as Yakimoto (sp?) and the "I fear we've awakened a sleeping giant).
and this is part of a horrid breach of etiquitte by the medical profession.
The M.D. was constructed specifically to borrow the legitimacy of the Doctors of the Universities, in an attempt to produce physcians that were something short of dangerous.
Having insisted on being called Dr. for several generations, even though they lacked the distinguishing characteristic of Doctors--the contribution of new knowledge, they then attempted to monopolize the title, as "real doctors."
The holder Ph.D. is a Doctor, those with M.D.'s and J.D.'s are not.
>After I told him I don't like old Bill all that >much he started complaining about the lack of >style on Bill's part because he wore sneakers >under his white tie.
My first reation was that this was the best thing I'd ever heard about Bill.
A fraction of a second later, I remembered Apple's Christmas Ball where Jobs strongarmed the Macintosh team into wearing tuxes--they did, but wore tennis shoes.
Disclaimer: I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. I'm probably not even licensed in your jurisdiction. If you need legal advice, contact an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction.
Essentially the same issue came up several years ago with the introduction of VCR's. (After Disney failed to tax tapes.) Disney found that it was required to pay royalties to the voices, since the movies were now being sold in a format not covered--or forseen--by the original license. For some reason, the voices thought that they were just as entitled to the fruits of their own labor of Disney:) iirc, most of them made far more from this than they made from the original movies . . .
The increase in revenue in Reagan's tenure (yes, it went up, not down, following his tax *rate* cuts [1]) was much more than would have been necessary to cover the increase n defense spending. But in order to get these approved, the price in Congress was signing onto the huge increases in social spending--the largest increases in social spending in U.S. History (later eclipsed during the Bush administration).
[1] There was a single year in which revenue failed to grow at prior rates--the period between the announcment of the cuts and their effective date. Also, the portion of taxes paid by the "rich" went up.
>the high-end "best" model described seems to >conflict with the low end G4s
Recall the SE/30? It was a IIx in an SE box--which happened to make it the fastest machine apple built at the time, since it didn't pay the overhead for nuBus by the simple expedient ofnot having one:)
It's a strategy that apple *should* have used several times since: heavy horsepower in a basic box.
The only mac that I've ever had that I haven't disassembles was my original 128k--and if it hadn't gone off to my little brother years ago, I would have upgraded it by hand.
And I lost track of how many times I've replaced fuses in my 180, or resoldered the power receptacle in my backlit portable. Hmm, and how many macs I've owned:)
But then I found LyX, and traded my macs for linux. I'll certainly take another look at a mac for the kids if and when macos/X client is out--at least if it can run my collection of darkside 3.1 cd's with kid stuff.
>This just goes to show the dismal state of our >justice system nowadays.
Not yet. If the courts fail to sanction the attorneys for filing this (which has been happening to this plaintiff's firm with increasing frequency), then it will show a dismal shape.
Rather than suing for fear, file it in a case with *real* damages.
My favorite scenario is to name the plaintiff's bar as a class of defendants (the "class" is not always the plaintiffs). The injury needs to be one in which a consumer did not receive an important safety warning, due to the stupid warnings placed defensively all over products (my favorite: the warning on a dry-cleaning bag that the ink used to print the warning was poisonous--with nothing printed on the bag save the warning).
Normally, winning the suit that caused the warning would be a valid defense. But many of these suits were pressed even though the manufacturor complied with laws regulating the subject, making turnabout fair play.
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Word 6 was just plain a crummy product :)
.)
It was slow as blazes, and took out or encumbered features that I used daily. Equation editor is no substitute for the old typesetting commands, inserting symbols (greek) is much more complicated, and the mail merge is, well, wretched.
Aside from the unbearably slow, these problems exist to this day (or worse: open a file that uses the old formats, and it changes the *original* file to the new format without permission, unless you knew ahead of time to mark it read-only).
If it weren't for LyX, I'd still be using Word 5.1 today, as well as Excel 4. IM!HO, these were the last good products to come out of Redmond.
A while back, I needed to send out many job applications. I figured out that it would be easier to add mail-merge to LyX than to fight with the current MS version (hey, let's display the results of the conditional from the first record, rather than the conditional! See, a nice easy nothing to click on to make changes. Bleach.). I was right. With the mailmerge patch applied, I can now not only write merge code as was once possible, I can do the things that *should* have been in word's merge capacity to start with. (IF/ELSEIF, unlimited recursion . .
What worse can you say about a product than that it was easier to write something to replace it than to use it?
Get the rechargable alkalines. They cost about twice as much as regular alkalines, butput out the same voltage, and can (obviously) be recharged.
They don't suffer from memory, and actually benefit from an early recharge.
Then there's the nickel-hydrides that have now appeared in regular battery sizes . . .
Years ago, I considered making the modification to hold a 5th nicad in my tandy 102, thus reaching then intended 6v (5x1.2=4*1.5). The manuals warned of brownout for the insufficient voltage, but I neverhad a problem running the thing on 4 nicads. They probably lasted longer, too, as the higher voltage would have increased the current drawn . . .
Disclaimer: I am a lawyer, but I'm probably not licensed in your jurisdiction. This isn't legal advice, anyway. If you need legal advice, see an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction.
The only thing surprising about this is that it took so long to happen. In fact, this was my initial reaction to the use of Visa for these places.
Using a Visa or MC for *anything* creates a loan. It is also a contract. Courts have refused to enforce contracts that violate public policy for as far back as the Common Law records cases. You also can't sell yourself into slavery, nor consent to be murdered.
Nothing prevents the transaction if everyone agrees to it. But when a party enters the courtroom, they are asking the court/government to enforce the contract.
Gambling contracts are a particular type that courts commonly refuse to enforce. California's constitution specifically prohibits the legislature from legalizing gambling of the type seen in Nevada casinos. The public policy is explicit.
When a Nevada casino issues a loan, it is aware that it can't enforce the loan in California. For that matter, it couldn't even be enforced in Nevada until the late 1980's.
Ahh, but with the RMS version, every time you type "Linux", a daemon corrects it to "GNU/Linux". A similar patch modifies incoming email.
:)
We've seen that one over here, without help fo the government :)
:) for a couple of months, and then go away--having made a killing, thanks to the notoriety.
Every couple of years, usually in California, someone opens a topless donut store. Not the customers, but topless waitresses. Yes, it's a dumb idea, and not viable. Left to themselves, they'd be gone within a month.
But what happens, which they *count on* before opening, is that NOW will come picket, and local news will cover the pickets. They sell a lot of donuts (probably very bad donuts
>Actually, the solution was the "best" in the fact
>that it fullfilled all the requirements given.
>The computer has no way of putting further
>requirements on its construction, so anything
>that solved the problem would be equally "best"
>for it.
No. That's plain and simply not how GA's work.l
They evaluate solutions based upon a fitness function, and choose some from among the solutions with higher fitness to "breed" in some form to get the next generation of solutions.
In some cases, there may be a known and reachable maximum fitness, but this is the exception, rather than the rule.
I'd be surprised to see "makes it all the way across" recieve full fitness. More likely, the number of bricks should be included, perhaps the width of the bridge at the narrowest point, etc.
GA's are not (usually) used to find "a" solution, but the best reachable solution.
I should note, though, that GA's are susceptible to local maxima; once one is reached, it may be difficult to change to the global optimum. However, there are techniques that address this problem in a wide variety of cases.
is why you'll always be a page 3 girl, and never allowed to write an article again :)
[duck]
Close. The chevy 400 was also listed as 6.6 liters. But 6600 or 6.6 just doesn't have the ring of 400 (which is close to the horsepower it put out before the replaced the 4-barrel with a 2-barrel over emissions).
I had one in a 72 Impala -- three tons of American steel, 400 cubes, and 12 miles to the gallon (properly tuned, and on the highway). Sucked gas, but what a ride . . .
That's just the latest round. We've been deciding to go metric and then not doing anything about it for nearly 200 years now :)
for using a *different* system than the Brits. U.S. liquid measure is only about .8 that of the corresponding imperial measures. This means that every time I order a pint, I get shorted by about 4 undersized/US ounces :)
since first ordered by executive order--by President Jefferson.
:) If we hadn't used some of them funny units, we'd still have the orbiter . . . [duck]
A little here, a little there. Things that have advantages convert. Things that don't might never convert--what real use is there for Celisius-speak about the temperature outside. Food is now beginning to come in metric sizes, as are some common parts. When new parts are designed, they'll usually be metric.
OTOH, maybe this all just shows how dangerous shifting to that silly system is
Oh, and don't bother trying to sell me a car with a lot of cc's or liters of displacement--I want 400 cubes . . .
Look at the mish-mash of theologies; it was clearly a joke.
Start at the beginning, with the pronunciation--the latun pronunciation of "Jesu" with an "x" sound at the end. Heavy Catholic overtones.
Then look at the theologians for the quotes: C.S. Lewis is one of them. Lewis was one of the "anglo-Catholics" of the Oxford movement. As I recall, he never converted to Catholocism, instead holding out for a Canterbury-Rome reconcilliation, but he--and his theology--were the very last step before outright Catholicsm. As high-church as you can get (for crying out loud, the High King in the Narnia books is named "Peter").
Then read further down the page. Most of the rest is very low-church (e.g., only the KJV), some to positions generally only held by groups that maintain that all Catholics will go to Hell.
It doesn't match. Not that wacko groups are consistant, but the mish-mash shows mutually exclusive groups setting the agenda.
The one thing they did blow is the CPSL--the list of disclaimers should have referred, in the list of potential losses, one's immortal soul and eternal damnation.
>Don't US users pay a lot more for 'long distance'
:) I pay AT&T $9.95 a month to get 5c/minute around the clock (they advertise $5.95 for 7c; you have to know about this one to ask for it). (mm, and I have to cross a state line, I think, but I don't have any in-state long distance, anyway).
.25/minute at home under any circmstances.
>calls than we do anyway?
I doubt it
In my wallet is a calling card that I can use from any phone for 9c/minute to anywhere in the U.S.
And it's tough to get past
Exactly two (2) of the ships sunk that morning did not see action during the war, the Arizona, which remains down, and another whose name I don't recall that was floated but used only for artillery practice.
Two major mistakes by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor:
1) You can't sink big ships in shallow water. They're easy to recover.
2) They *grossly* underestimated our reaction. The point was to keep us *out* of the war by smashing our pacific presence. But it's in our nature that we get *really* steamed about being dragged into things. Only very few of the Japanese comprehended what our reaction would be (such as Yakimoto (sp?) and the "I fear we've awakened a sleeping giant).
and this is part of a horrid breach of etiquitte by the medical profession.
The M.D. was constructed specifically to borrow the legitimacy of the Doctors of the Universities, in an attempt to produce physcians that were something short of dangerous.
Having insisted on being called Dr. for several generations, even though they lacked the distinguishing characteristic of Doctors--the contribution of new knowledge, they then attempted to monopolize the title, as "real doctors."
The holder Ph.D. is a Doctor, those with M.D.'s and J.D.'s are not.
Dr. Hawk, J.D., Ph.D., Esq.
>After I told him I don't like old Bill all that
:)
>much he started complaining about the lack of
>style on Bill's part because he wore sneakers >under his white tie.
My first reation was that this was the best thing I'd ever heard about Bill.
A fraction of a second later, I remembered Apple's Christmas Ball where Jobs strongarmed the Macintosh team into wearing tuxes--they did, but wore tennis shoes.
There's some kind of pattern here
iirc, Basic for the Tandy 100 ('83? '84?) was the last thing for which Gates personally coded anything.
Disclaimer: I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. I'm probably not even licensed in your jurisdiction. If you need legal advice, contact an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction.
:) iirc, most of them made far more from this than they made from the original movies . . .
Essentially the same issue came up several years ago with the introduction of VCR's. (After Disney failed to tax tapes.) Disney found that it was required to pay royalties to the voices, since the movies were now being sold in a format not covered--or forseen--by the original license. For some reason, the voices thought that they were just as entitled to the fruits of their own labor of Disney
\begin{economics professor}
The increase in revenue in Reagan's tenure (yes, it went up, not down, following his tax *rate* cuts [1]) was much more than would have been necessary to cover the increase n defense spending. But in order to get these approved, the price in Congress was signing onto the huge increases in social spending--the largest increases in social spending in U.S. History (later eclipsed during the Bush administration).
[1] There was a single year in which revenue failed to grow at prior rates--the period between the announcment of the cuts and their effective date. Also, the portion of taxes paid by the "rich" went up.
\end{}
>the high-end "best" model described seems to
:)
>conflict with the low end G4s
Recall the SE/30? It was a IIx in an SE box--which happened to make it the fastest machine apple built at the time, since it didn't pay the overhead for nuBus by the simple expedient ofnot having one
It's a strategy that apple *should* have used several times since: heavy horsepower in a basic box.
err, disassemble for yourself :)
:)
The only mac that I've ever had that I haven't disassembles was my original 128k--and if it hadn't gone off to my little brother years ago, I would have upgraded it by hand.
And I lost track of how many times I've replaced fuses in my 180, or resoldered the power receptacle in my backlit portable. Hmm, and how many macs I've owned
But then I found LyX, and traded my macs for linux. I'll certainly take another look at a mac for the kids if and when macos/X client is out--at least if it can run my collection of darkside 3.1 cd's with kid stuff.
>Can you buy "coins" at kiosks?
Yes, but we call them "banks" and "stores"
:)
>This just goes to show the dismal state of our
>justice system nowadays.
Not yet. If the courts fail to sanction the attorneys for filing this (which has been happening to this plaintiff's firm with increasing frequency), then it will show a dismal shape.
>well hey, it would be _her(gender neutral)_ life
No, it wouldn't. "her" implies the female gender. "he" does *not* imply gender, although something else in the context may.
English uses the same word for the masculine and for unknown gendin several contexts.
Rather than suing for fear, file it in a case with *real* damages.
My favorite scenario is to name the plaintiff's bar as a class of defendants (the "class" is not always the plaintiffs). The injury needs to be one in which a consumer did not receive an important safety warning, due to the stupid warnings placed defensively all over products (my favorite: the warning on a dry-cleaning bag that the ink used to print the warning was poisonous--with nothing printed on the bag save the warning).
Normally, winning the suit that caused the warning would be a valid defense. But many of these suits were pressed even though the manufacturor complied with laws regulating the subject, making turnabout fair play.
But it's all just a pipe dream . . .
hawk, esq.