So who is left after you discount both the Republicans and the Democrats?
209 Republicans voted for it, 15 against
55 Democrats voted for it, 147 against.
...because they hide these kind of crap laws inside dissimilar bills, in this case an appropriations bill. It's time to think about who you're going to vote for in 2004.
I wouldn't call it _smoking_ but the truth about the Opteron is commoditization of the 64-bit space. Wasn't that supposed to be the impetus behind Itanium in the first place?
A two-lane road is just as fast as a four-lane freeway as long as there are only a few cars on the road. But the reality is the roads are quite crowded these days
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The day somebody finds an easy way to "root" win98 machines remotely, they could potentially use 27% of the internet-reachable machines in the world.
That's been done many times in the past. Will MS no longer offer patches if a new, powerful exploit finds its way around?
I don't pretend that electric vehicles are pollution-free. Think sulphuric acid, lithium, mercury, lead. And if these vehicles are 100% electric, then think pollution from electric plants (or is it 'out of sight out of mind' makes an electric car pollution-free?). If you think going solar is good, think of the vast fields of solar panels occupying the landscape. And don't forget how dirty is is to even MAKE a solar panel. And try to remember how much of this earth will remain a paved-over dead zone to accommodate any and all future 'Green' cars.
If you really want to be a real green, rather than a Green, start advocating some serious birth control and stop making so many babies.
Since they call them electric engines, they get to pretend that their same-old same-old is NEW NEW NEW! But having same-old same-old in the whells makes for bad handling and feels like a bus to drive, which is probably why their first product is a bus.
"If Howard Dean had his way, Saddam Hussein would still be in power today, not in prison..."
-Joe Lieberman
Joe's standing in the polls continue to indicate that No One Likes a Whiner. I guess whining is the whole point of any Micros**t story on Slashdot. See how I tried to steer things back on topic while at the same time take a swipe at the Senator from Connecticut?
I was working for Linotype when they showed me this new thing called PostScript. So that weekend I went out and bought a Mac with Apple financing at extreme interest rates. No matter, because I was hooked. I stayed up all night playing with the damn thing. It still works, probably, but I haven't turned it on for a couple of years.
The best thing about the Mac was the community. I used to go to Berkeley Macintosh Users Group meetings and swap pirate software and score pot. There were a lot of bulletin boards that had pirate software, especially beta stuff.
When Jobs was fired from Apple and started making pronouncements about the NeXT having Display PostScript and running on a UNIX-derived OS, I built a 10mhz 286 machine and got a legit copy of Microport UNIX. The basic set was $99, but you had to pay another $99 for the compiler and yet another $99 for their 'text processing' addon which had troff and nroff.
Open Source saved me from a life of crime. I haven't gotten any pirate software for a couple of years now... but it's one day at a time.
It wouldn't hurt either if they made a headless imac. Not quite a cube but at least a snowball.
It would also be nice if they put back Quartz support over tcp/ip (they took it off in the NeXTStep days because of security issues). Apple has lousy market presence in the business/office world, but a high-powered QuartzTerminal(tm) and a headless imac might be nice. In the meantime, I buy my Macs used on ebay!
Libel. Got any paperwork from the outsourcing company? Did the company make you sign a non-sue contract before they 'let' you claim unemployment benefits? Sue them, too!
Now wait just a minute here. Our patriotic American Government reported today that inflation was minus 0.1 percent the past month and that it has risen only 1.1 percent for the whole year. My food, gasoline, heating, rent, clothing and electricity bills attest to an absolute flatline, don't yours?;-)
I'm not sure we'll ever see a B&W digital camera back and Ansel Adams rarely worked with color. And don't forget how crappy the digital printing medium is. Adams knew his silver. I think Iris prints don't approach the quality, archival life, and process of a good silver print,
It's smart to buy a camera like the Contax which is gaining in value every day. I used to have a lot of old Nikon Fs, with motor drives and lots of nice lenses of the era which I bought used. A couple of years ago I sold all of it and ended up with quite a profit.
I agree about the old Nikon. Their lenses will always be good enough to grow with you in your photographic needs (depending on the autofocus nonsense). So what I mean here is to bypass cheap lenses. Get good lenses -- even if it is a standard 50mm. Also, don't overlook used Yashica 124 twin lens reflex. They use 120 film -- less grain and super tonality because the negative is so much larger than 35mm.
I recently sold an old Minolta SR-1 camera on ebay for less than $60. It had a 55mm Minolta lens and an aftermarket 135mm telephoto. It was a fine user.
Wealth doesn't give us human rights -- we have built wealth because we have human rights. Free markets aren't really free unless the people are free. Current so-called free trade is skewed because unfree people's labor is exploited like an animal.
All I propose is that there be a tariff based on the UN Declaration of Human Rights. If people lack the freedom to form unions, then a tariff of a certain percentage be applied to items entering this (or any Western) country. Same thing with reasonable environmental laws -- tariffs get collected on the polluters.
Money is the only thing that business does, or should, understand. It is not the perogative of business to provide human rights. Business is a-moral. So if they treat their people like dirt, they should have a profit incentive, provided by their customers, to not do so.
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And the prints! Digital printing methods really, really suck. Give me a silver print. Give me Cibachrome over injet junk anyday.
55 Democrats voted for it, 147 against.
I wouldn't call it _smoking_ but the truth about the Opteron is commoditization of the 64-bit space. Wasn't that supposed to be the impetus behind Itanium in the first place?
That's been done many times in the past. Will MS no longer offer patches if a new, powerful exploit finds its way around?
I don't pretend that electric vehicles are pollution-free. Think sulphuric acid, lithium, mercury, lead. And if these vehicles are 100% electric, then think pollution from electric plants (or is it 'out of sight out of mind' makes an electric car pollution-free?). If you think going solar is good, think of the vast fields of solar panels occupying the landscape. And don't forget how dirty is is to even MAKE a solar panel. And try to remember how much of this earth will remain a paved-over dead zone to accommodate any and all future 'Green' cars.
If you really want to be a real green, rather than a Green, start advocating some serious birth control and stop making so many babies.
Give me a '59 Alfa Romeo any day.
Joe's standing in the polls continue to indicate that No One Likes a Whiner. I guess whining is the whole point of any Micros**t story on Slashdot. See how I tried to steer things back on topic while at the same time take a swipe at the Senator from Connecticut?
The best thing about the Mac was the community. I used to go to Berkeley Macintosh Users Group meetings and swap pirate software and score pot. There were a lot of bulletin boards that had pirate software, especially beta stuff.
When Jobs was fired from Apple and started making pronouncements about the NeXT having Display PostScript and running on a UNIX-derived OS, I built a 10mhz 286 machine and got a legit copy of Microport UNIX. The basic set was $99, but you had to pay another $99 for the compiler and yet another $99 for their 'text processing' addon which had troff and nroff.
Open Source saved me from a life of crime. I haven't gotten any pirate software for a couple of years now... but it's one day at a time.
It would also be nice if they put back Quartz support over tcp/ip (they took it off in the NeXTStep days because of security issues). Apple has lousy market presence in the business/office world, but a high-powered QuartzTerminal(tm) and a headless imac might be nice. In the meantime, I buy my Macs used on ebay!
Before it even gets out of the gate, it's becoming apparent that nobody is going to be using it.
Weird, yes. But I see it as an opportunity for a small development shop in Austin to score a nice project.
Apple should co-publish with Apple Records. I always wondered why Apple Computer never tried to cozy up with them and be money-making friends.
I'm not sure we'll ever see a B&W digital camera back and Ansel Adams rarely worked with color. And don't forget how crappy the digital printing medium is. Adams knew his silver. I think Iris prints don't approach the quality, archival life, and process of a good silver print,
I recently sold an old Minolta SR-1 camera on ebay for less than $60. It had a 55mm Minolta lens and an aftermarket 135mm telephoto. It was a fine user.
All I propose is that there be a tariff based on the UN Declaration of Human Rights. If people lack the freedom to form unions, then a tariff of a certain percentage be applied to items entering this (or any Western) country. Same thing with reasonable environmental laws -- tariffs get collected on the polluters.
Money is the only thing that business does, or should, understand. It is not the perogative of business to provide human rights. Business is a-moral. So if they treat their people like dirt, they should have a profit incentive, provided by their customers, to not do so.