Don't look now, but before the national convention there are state and local events at which people can express their opinions about the platform. Arguing that people posted the list to Indymedia to make it easier for Republicans to express their opinion is disingenuous in the extreme.
Thank you, thank you! Indeed it was the Colani mouse. Googling turned up a picture. Time to email the Colani web site to ask if there's an optical version.
A local (for me, local = Des Moines) band (long disbanded, alas; they were quite good) used broken terminals as a backdrop for a performance. They weren't hooked up to anything (save the outlet, of course), but they were sufficiently fried that the CRT traced a pattern on the screen with no input at all.
OTOH, there would be one thing that would tempt me to try a mouse again... some time ago--pushing ten years, now--there was a designer mouse that I actually bought. Thd designer was Italian, and the mouse was shaped rather like a bar of Dove soap, with a beautifully contoured shape that the muscles that let your thumb oppose your finger could gently nestle in, and that supported the hand perfectly. (It was, therefore, not ambidextrous; there were right-handed and left-handed versions.)
It was long enough ago that the mouse was mechanical, darn it. If there were an optical version of it, I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
They actually have faith in other people's abilities, whereas I have none.
You don't trust other people, but somehow, those people who are entrusted with the coercive power of government, they are somehow ennobled? I don't quite follow that...
The problem, for Kerry anyway, is that that's all there is to him, unless you count his ego, belief in his superiority to "little people" (Google Kerry and "DYKWIA" ("do you know who I am?") for more on that), and his skill at marrying rich women.
So, Kerry and the Democrats have nothing better than to endlessly remind us all of Kerry's four months in Vietnam (he spent more time than that in the Navy, but only four months actually in Vietnam--see, initially, when Kerry volunteered for it, swift boat duty was out at sea relatively safe; it was once they were sent inland for far more dangerous tasks that Kerry quickly got his three Purple Hearts and got the heck out of Dodge), so that those opposed to Kerry's election find that their best bet is to show Kerry as not the hero he paints himself as.
The last time I tried it, WinAmp wouldn't work for me unless I had administrator privileges--so this exploit can do maximal damage. Maybe this will move a rewrite to work reasonably in a multi-user environment up on their priority list? (We can hope...)
Ack! You've made me realize that I've forgotten the name of someone who perhaps inspired Mr. Dvorak.
His name was Ivan something-or-other, and back in the late 1960s or early 1970s he wrote a bunch of computer books, mostly with examples from IBM mainframes. His books were a riot of flowcharts and font masturbation--if I remember rightly, he'd use Bank Script for names of access methods like ISAM or BDAM (hence the phrase I used back when I was a student assistant at a college using a 370, "Well, I'll BDAM."). Can anyone keep me from going crazy trying to remember this guy's name?
Excellent--I was one of those who prodded him to switch, too. Be sure to follow up with an email to suggest that he take the next step and switch to Linux.
Welcome back, my friends, to the dupe that never ends...
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Well... last Wednesday I was waiting for my next turn to sing at a karaoke bar when a guy I knew came up to me and said "You know a lot about computers, don't you?" and proceeded to tell me about what he wanted to do. He'd gotten a quote on a system he wanted to do video editing on, and was wondering whether the people he'd talked to were trying to sell him more than he needed. The quote they'd given him was $550, and he didn't want to spend that much.
They hadn't padded the system, save in one respect: $100 of the $550 was for Windows.
He had a copy of Windows 98 that he could install...but I told him he'd be wasting a lot of hard disk space that way.
Then I told him about Linux, and the video editing software available, all for free.
While you're tracking down a copy of Babel-17, also look around for Jack Vance's The Languages of Pao, which is very much based on the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. A man who kills the ruler of Pao and seizes power hires a consultant to turn Pao from a backwater planet into a prosperous world, and he sets out to do so by training castes of merchants, warriors, and technicians, teaching them each a language suited to their task. Of course, that means they need interpreters for the first time... and the true heir to the throne becomes one of the interpreters in an effort to regain his true position and undo the consultant's work. It's a fun read.
dictionary.com lists "titbit" as the variant. Had you asked me, I'd have guessed that "titbit" might be an Anglicism, but OTOH, the quote dictionary.com gives for "tidbit" is from Sir Alec Guinness, who I (admittedly an American) would think very English indeed.
What's wrong with that? I look at it the same way as I do MS ads in Linux Magazine: if MS is willing to subsidize my learning more about Linux, who am I to turn it down? Let them fund their own downfall, and may it come soon.
Ah...so your vacuous handwaving and thumping generalizations with sample size == 0 beat the previous poster's small sample size? I doubt that anyone save the True Believers is impressed.
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Could be argued, for that matter the entire concept of "random" is truly just a human thought construct.
You might want to read some of Chaitin's work, and then reconsider.
As one would say to Mycroft in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, that's a "funny only once" joke...and the "once" was probably decades ago.
So... how much of mass media does MS need to control before you're concerned?
Don't look now, but before the national convention there are state and local events at which people can express their opinions about the platform. Arguing that people posted the list to Indymedia to make it easier for Republicans to express their opinion is disingenuous in the extreme.
Thank you, thank you! Indeed it was the Colani mouse. Googling turned up a picture. Time to email the Colani web site to ask if there's an optical version.
A local (for me, local = Des Moines) band (long disbanded, alas; they were quite good) used broken terminals as a backdrop for a performance. They weren't hooked up to anything (save the outlet, of course), but they were sufficiently fried that the CRT traced a pattern on the screen with no input at all.
I switched to trackballs long ago.
OTOH, there would be one thing that would tempt me to try a mouse again... some time ago--pushing ten years, now--there was a designer mouse that I actually bought. Thd designer was Italian, and the mouse was shaped rather like a bar of Dove soap, with a beautifully contoured shape that the muscles that let your thumb oppose your finger could gently nestle in, and that supported the hand perfectly. (It was, therefore, not ambidextrous; there were right-handed and left-handed versions.)
It was long enough ago that the mouse was mechanical, darn it. If there were an optical version of it, I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
They actually have faith in other people's abilities, whereas I have none.
You don't trust other people, but somehow, those people who are entrusted with the coercive power of government, they are somehow ennobled? I don't quite follow that...
What is it with all these silly Vietnam rehashes?
The problem, for Kerry anyway, is that that's all there is to him, unless you count his ego, belief in his superiority to "little people" (Google Kerry and "DYKWIA" ("do you know who I am?") for more on that), and his skill at marrying rich women.
So, Kerry and the Democrats have nothing better than to endlessly remind us all of Kerry's four months in Vietnam (he spent more time than that in the Navy, but only four months actually in Vietnam--see, initially, when Kerry volunteered for it, swift boat duty was out at sea relatively safe; it was once they were sent inland for far more dangerous tasks that Kerry quickly got his three Purple Hearts and got the heck out of Dodge), so that those opposed to Kerry's election find that their best bet is to show Kerry as not the hero he paints himself as.
What I can't figure out is--why would someone in as cool a field as neuroscience want to take an administrative position?
The last time I tried it, WinAmp wouldn't work for me unless I had administrator privileges--so this exploit can do maximal damage. Maybe this will move a rewrite to work reasonably in a multi-user environment up on their priority list? (We can hope...)
Whew! I finally remembered. It was Ivan Flores.
Ack! You've made me realize that I've forgotten the name of someone who perhaps inspired Mr. Dvorak.
His name was Ivan something-or-other, and back in the late 1960s or early 1970s he wrote a bunch of computer books, mostly with examples from IBM mainframes. His books were a riot of flowcharts and font masturbation--if I remember rightly, he'd use Bank Script for names of access methods like ISAM or BDAM (hence the phrase I used back when I was a student assistant at a college using a 370, "Well, I'll BDAM."). Can anyone keep me from going crazy trying to remember this guy's name?
Excellent--I was one of those who prodded him to switch, too. Be sure to follow up with an email to suggest that he take the next step and switch to Linux.
Welcome back, my friends, to the dupe that never ends...
Well... last Wednesday I was waiting for my next turn to sing at a karaoke bar when a guy I knew came up to me and said "You know a lot about computers, don't you?" and proceeded to tell me about what he wanted to do. He'd gotten a quote on a system he wanted to do video editing on, and was wondering whether the people he'd talked to were trying to sell him more than he needed. The quote they'd given him was $550, and he didn't want to spend that much.
They hadn't padded the system, save in one respect: $100 of the $550 was for Windows.
He had a copy of Windows 98 that he could install...but I told him he'd be wasting a lot of hard disk space that way.
Then I told him about Linux, and the video editing software available, all for free.
18% savings is pretty persuasive.
I'm sure you've heard the phrase..."In America the dogs walk around with pretzels on their tails"
No, I haven't... from Googling around, it looks like the saying is Romanian, but it's not clear what it means.
While you're tracking down a copy of Babel-17, also look around for Jack Vance's The Languages of Pao, which is very much based on the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. A man who kills the ruler of Pao and seizes power hires a consultant to turn Pao from a backwater planet into a prosperous world, and he sets out to do so by training castes of merchants, warriors, and technicians, teaching them each a language suited to their task. Of course, that means they need interpreters for the first time... and the true heir to the throne becomes one of the interpreters in an effort to regain his true position and undo the consultant's work. It's a fun read.
Correction: doctors and birth control cost money everywhere, but in some countries the government seizes people's money to pay for it.
dictionary.com lists "titbit" as the variant. Had you asked me, I'd have guessed that "titbit" might be an Anglicism, but OTOH, the quote dictionary.com gives for "tidbit" is from Sir Alec Guinness, who I (admittedly an American) would think very English indeed.
Alas, the story of the renaming of the Chevy Nova for the Hispanic market is an urban legend.
Excuse me; I must now go bite a wax tadpole.
What's wrong with that? I look at it the same way as I do MS ads in Linux Magazine: if MS is willing to subsidize my learning more about Linux, who am I to turn it down? Let them fund their own downfall, and may it come soon.
MCS doesn't exist and the "treatments" for it can be extreme and expensive.
Ah...so your vacuous handwaving and thumping generalizations with sample size == 0 beat the previous poster's small sample size? I doubt that anyone save the True Believers is impressed.
Huh? I'm not aware of any version of Netscape running on OS-9.