Uh, yeah, those were the spinofffs, as opposed to Star Trek.
The only things they couldn't replicate were those that were needed for the plot in the handful of episodes that did happen (not wiped out by gratuitous and inconsistent time travel) or solved by by techno-gobbly-gook that the watcher was supposed to care about.
The people on the planet are cold and starving? No problem, replicate food and blankets.
Back when I handled criminals, I had some *real* dumb ones, but my favorite robbed a friend's credit union.
When the police found him, he leaped up to tell them that the money in one pocket was his; that theirs was on the other. And when they brought the teller out to ID him, *he* IDed *her* instead!
Burglary was defined at Common Law to be a forced entry into the dwelling of another at night with the intent of committing a felony.
Modern statutory versions have dropped many of the requirements, such as being a dwelling, or at night, and some have probably even dropped the felonious intent requirement.
Under the classic definition, if you only intended to commit a misdemeanor, it wasn't burglary. Note that it's *intent* at the time of entry, not whether or not the crime occurs.
Or if you break in to steal a sandwich, and are inspired to steal the jewels you find in the icebox (a felony), it still isn't burglay.
In many states, the newer statute may label itself as something like "daytime burglary" in order to make it distinguishable.
Word for *Windows* became common only when it started getting shipped preinstalled from major vendors; while it still competed, it was a distant competitor.
hawk, who still sees the mac versions of word 5.1 and excel 4 as the last things worth buying to come out of redmond (and, indeed, owns both)
Money was alive and well in Star Trek, as was trade and commerce. I think the price of the ship was even referred to at one point.
The spinoffs are another story--in them, it indeed appears that scarcity has been solved. This doesn't lead to *communist* economics, but the complete *lack* of economics. With scarcity solved, economics becomes merely a historical discipline.
The older computer, of course, was the ABC, from which the ENIAC borrowed heavily and then patented! The patents were later found invalid, due to the ABC.
Several pieces of the ABC remain at Iowa State. Once Atanasoff (A) and Berry (B) were done with it, it was cannibalized for other projects.
Two replicas were built in the late 90's, one of which was actually run a few times.
I'm a lawyer, but this isn't legal advice. If you get your legal advice here, you may as well just sign away your house, children, and car now and savve on legal fees . . .
Anyway . . .
That's not quite right; the facts as alleged by that party do matter. "As a matter of law" means that the evidence doesn't matter. Such a ruling means that even if they could prove everything that they alleged, they would still lose.
In this case, they found that the judge did indeed err--but not by giving the wrong instructions, as the RIAA alleged, but by even letting the jury hear the case, as no reasonable jury could have found for the RIAA. (Yeah, and here we get a bit murky with two overlapping "as a matter of law" usages, one on the allegations, and one on the strength of the evidence. Life's rough:)
Nah. A plain, straight Apple II. Not even a +, just a II. (OK, ][).
And without the changes at the Rev 7 motherboard that took the purple tint away on the text.
OK, I'll settle for an emulator that runs full-screen on linux or FreeBSD, with the purple-tinting, and with a parameter for how fuzzy my television is . . .
For those under--oh, yikes!! can't admit *that*, the ][ had a purplish tint on most color displays because the color subcarrier was still present. In rev 7, this finally got supressed while displaying text--whether in text mode or the 4 lines of text in mixed mode. On top of that, at a 1mhz clock, with characters displayed at the same speed, and seven horizontal pixels per, *they* were coming at about the colorburst frequency (seven Million pixels/second, right about twice 3.575949 Mhaz when they alternate off and on--and if memory serves, the color carrier & the pixel clock actually came from the same clock [a 14mhz??? it's been a while]).
The multiple colors in hi-res also came from tickling the color carrier--seven pixels/byte, with the eight being used to slightly shift the timing of the pixels, causing color change as the pixel rubbed the color subcarrier).
hawk, who has some//e's in the garage, but wants to set up a plain old ][ to run a model railroad.
The *very* first thing I did when I receive class lists as a professor was to delete the SS number column. It sure made my life easier when the "purge the ss numbers from your files" initiatives started . . .
To get their grades included on the post outside my office, students had to submit an alphanumeric code for me to use for this purpose. I warned them not to use pieces of their SS, but there was no way I could enforce this, not having the number myself.
I'm assuming that it looked like the equations were done in something other than Word was becuae they could be read?:)
Anyway, the middle ground for equation intensive writing is to wo it in LyX, and let it write your LaTeX. With LyX' equation functions, you type quite similarly to TeX, but get the equations displayed--and editable--as you go. And it's not word's click-type-click-type-click-click-type of word; you can enter it entirely from the keyboard, and maneuver around the equation from the keyboard.
Also, the equation writer in StarOffice/OpenOffice beats the tar out of the one in word.
hawk, who gave up his macs for unix over LyX over a decade ago
When I added a supplement I'd found during a semester, the Penn State bookstore (Barnes & Noble on contract) informed me that I'd violated their contract with the University by telling students where they could buy it!
My favorite professors were the ones who said "f*** the books". My Psych 101 prof actually wrote his own book that the bookstore printed up for $25.
.
One night before class, I tried actually writing out the text of what I would say in the next day's lecture. Being me, it ended up having subheadings, footnotes and such. So I printed it out and passed it out, warning people not to complain that they didn't get their money's worth, and that they were welcome to toss it.
They asked for more.
A couple of more chapters each year, and I had most of a statistics book, that was apparently better than any I could find (and certainly different in approach--explain *first* verbally, then drop the equation, and show how they're all very much the same).
Anyway, after a couple of years, a couple of students informed me after the semester that they had never bought the course book, using only mine and my handouts (I handed out reduced size copies of my lecture notes/slide; reduced 50% on the left of the page, with the right available for notes).
>Actually, the understanding of historical concepts and trends evolves quite a bit.
*every* two years, for *every* book?
Personally, once I develop a course, I leave in the older homework problems (the self-study suggestions), for every edition I've used since I've taught the course, as well as the reading assignments by version. While it *can* happen, I have yet to see a new edition that makes enough improvement to suggest the new version.
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KDE took a different approach.
They produced a network manager so horrible that the majority of network problems have a single solution: replace it with WiCD. :)
hawk
In that case, you plea bargain while the DA is laughing his *** off. :)
hawk
No, but it was real. Fortunately I'd moved, and didn't end up with him for a client.
They brought her to the scene, and he said, "Yeah, that's her; she's the one I robbed."
This was a couple of years before the lineup of mugging victims or whatever they were in that spoof movie (Hot Shots?).
Yes, criminals are capital-S STUPID!
If they, as a group, had what we think of as "ordinary intelligence," we'd be in *BIG* trouble . .
hawk, esq.
Uh, yeah, those were the spinofffs, as opposed to Star Trek.
The only things they couldn't replicate were those that were needed for the plot in the handful of episodes that did happen (not wiped out by gratuitous and inconsistent time travel) or solved by by techno-gobbly-gook that the watcher was supposed to care about.
The people on the planet are cold and starving? No problem, replicate food and blankets.
Poker? It's all about plastic chips.
bah
hawk
Back when I handled criminals, I had some *real* dumb ones, but my favorite robbed a friend's credit union.
When the police found him, he leaped up to tell them that the money in one pocket was his; that theirs was on the other. And when they brought the teller out to ID him, *he* IDed *her* instead!
Yes, criminals really are this dumb.
hawk, esq
[Huh? what a little comment box!]
Burglary was defined at Common Law to be a forced entry into the dwelling of another at night with the intent of committing a felony.
Modern statutory versions have dropped many of the requirements, such as being a dwelling, or at night, and some have probably even dropped the felonious intent requirement.
Under the classic definition, if you only intended to commit a misdemeanor, it wasn't burglary. Note that it's *intent* at the time of entry, not whether or not the crime occurs.
Or if you break in to steal a sandwich, and are inspired to steal the jewels you find in the icebox (a felony), it still isn't burglay.
In many states, the newer statute may label itself as something like "daytime burglary" in order to make it distinguishable.
hawk, esq.
Word for *Mac* beat its competition, soundly.
Word for *Windows* became common only when it started getting shipped preinstalled from major vendors; while it still competed, it was a distant competitor.
hawk, who still sees the mac versions of word 5.1 and excel 4 as the last things worth buying to come out of redmond (and, indeed, owns both)
I finally called my high school when I didn't receive anything about the 25th reunion.
They showed me as deceased. Huh?
They read their record, which showed calling my parents house, and being told that my my little brother . . .
I fell much better, now :)
hawk, who missed being printed in the memorial by hours . ..
Money was alive and well in Star Trek, as was trade and commerce. I think the price of the ship was even referred to at one point.
The spinoffs are another story--in them, it indeed appears that scarcity has been solved. This doesn't lead to *communist* economics, but the complete *lack* of economics. With scarcity solved, economics becomes merely a historical discipline.
hawk, sometime economics professor
Well, I think we just found out how vista was conceived :)
hawk
The older computer, of course, was the ABC, from which the ENIAC borrowed heavily and then patented! The patents were later found invalid, due to the ABC.
Several pieces of the ABC remain at Iowa State. Once Atanasoff (A) and Berry (B) were done with it, it was cannibalized for other projects.
Two replicas were built in the late 90's, one of which was actually run a few times.
hawk
I got that, or I wouldn't have jumped in with my own joke!
hawk
>No charge.
*shudder*
C'mon, a country lawyer should know to never point that out or bring attention to it :)
hawk, esq.
I'm a lawyer, but this isn't legal advice. If you get your legal advice here, you may as well just sign away your house, children, and car now and savve on legal fees . . .
Anyway . . .
That's not quite right; the facts as alleged by that party do matter. "As a matter of law" means that the evidence doesn't matter. Such a ruling means that even if they could prove everything that they alleged, they would still lose.
In this case, they found that the judge did indeed err--but not by giving the wrong instructions, as the RIAA alleged, but by even letting the jury hear the case, as no reasonable jury could have found for the RIAA. (Yeah, and here we get a bit murky with two overlapping "as a matter of law" usages, one on the allegations, and one on the strength of the evidence. Life's rough :)
hawk, esq
>what I made of that was along the lines of it using a full GNU/Linux kernel
Yikes!
Now we're supposed to acknowledge GNU on the kernel, too? :(
hawk
No!
Never!
The Orion game *must* continue to involve taking out the guardian; there can be no "alternative mission."
No game changing, or I'll sic the Bulrathi on you! :)
hawk
Nothing worse than a sheriff that plays a flute at every chance . . .
hawk
>Apple //e
Nah. A plain, straight Apple II. Not even a +, just a II. (OK, ][).
And without the changes at the Rev 7 motherboard that took the purple tint away on the text.
OK, I'll settle for an emulator that runs full-screen on linux or FreeBSD, with the purple-tinting, and with a parameter for how fuzzy my television is . . .
For those under--oh, yikes!! can't admit *that*, the ][ had a purplish tint on most color displays because the color subcarrier was still present. In rev 7, this finally got supressed while displaying text--whether in text mode or the 4 lines of text in mixed mode. On top of that, at a 1mhz clock, with characters displayed at the same speed, and seven horizontal pixels per, *they* were coming at about the colorburst frequency (seven Million pixels/second, right about twice 3.575949 Mhaz when they alternate off and on--and if memory serves, the color carrier & the pixel clock actually came from the same clock [a 14mhz??? it's been a while]).
The multiple colors in hi-res also came from tickling the color carrier--seven pixels/byte, with the eight being used to slightly shift the timing of the pixels, causing color change as the pixel rubbed the color subcarrier).
hawk, who has some //e's in the garage, but wants to set up a plain old ][ to run a model railroad.
The Iomega Zip drive suit actually got the users everything they were supposed to have received (gee, plus an extra disk. whoopee!).
But that's the only class action I've heaver heard of that I can say that about . . .
hawk, esq
The *very* first thing I did when I receive class lists as a professor was to delete the SS number column. It sure made my life easier when the "purge the ss numbers from your files" initiatives started . . .
To get their grades included on the post outside my office, students had to submit an alphanumeric code for me to use for this purpose. I warned them not to use pieces of their SS, but there was no way I could enforce this, not having the number myself.
hawk
These things happen when you use versions labeled 1.0 and higher . . .
hawk
I'm assuming that it looked like the equations were done in something other than Word was becuae they could be read? :)
Anyway, the middle ground for equation intensive writing is to wo it in LyX, and let it write your LaTeX. With LyX' equation functions, you type quite similarly to TeX, but get the equations displayed--and editable--as you go. And it's not word's click-type-click-type-click-click-type of word; you can enter it entirely from the keyboard, and maneuver around the equation from the keyboard.
Also, the equation writer in StarOffice/OpenOffice beats the tar out of the one in word.
hawk, who gave up his macs for unix over LyX over a decade ago
When I added a supplement I'd found during a semester, the Penn State bookstore (Barnes & Noble on contract) informed me that I'd violated their contract with the University by telling students where they could buy it!
hawk
My favorite professors were the ones who said "f*** the books". My Psych 101 prof actually wrote his own book that the bookstore printed up for $25.
.
One night before class, I tried actually writing out the text of what I would say in the next day's lecture. Being me, it ended up having subheadings, footnotes and such. So I printed it out and passed it out, warning people not to complain that they didn't get their money's worth, and that they were welcome to toss it.
They asked for more.
A couple of more chapters each year, and I had most of a statistics book, that was apparently better than any I could find (and certainly different in approach--explain *first* verbally, then drop the equation, and show how they're all very much the same).
Anyway, after a couple of years, a couple of students informed me after the semester that they had never bought the course book, using only mine and my handouts (I handed out reduced size copies of my lecture notes/slide; reduced 50% on the left of the page, with the right available for notes).
Oh, well
hawk
>Actually, the understanding of historical concepts and trends evolves quite a bit.
*every* two years, for *every* book?
Personally, once I develop a course, I leave in the older homework problems (the self-study suggestions), for every edition I've used since I've taught the course, as well as the reading assignments by version. While it *can* happen, I have yet to see a new edition that makes enough improvement to suggest the new version.
hawk