Trek may be dying, but damn... they got Neil Armstrong to show up. That is too freaking cool; AFAIK, he does an extremely limited number of public appearances each year (as in single digits).
Don't forget the One True Gem from the various companies Compaq picked up: the ultra-super-high-availability (as in you have to have a full project plan to cover all the steps to make it shut down fully) Tandem. Of course, that is also planned to migrate onto Itanic.
Smithsonian, the official mag of the Smithsonian Institution. I always tell people, if you can't find at least one article of interest in any given issue, than you are a very boring person.
Actually, they'd be claiming that every friend networking system in the world was theirs, and they are owed a royalty on every successful romance that starts as a result of one of these things.
Over the 70+ year duration of their copyright, that should amount to, say, $1.75.
As usual, these ideas don't scale down to rural densities very well. What is the range of a WiFi receiver? Can you use it from a mile away? Do the VoIP economics work if the carriers have to provide universal service, as well as e911 and wiretap capability?
If the baby Bells die, who will maintain the T1s and all the switching equipment that the VoIP eventually has to tie into? You can't WiFi across the Atlantic.
IIRC (although I can't find a reference right now), Martin Luther said something to the effect that he doubted the canonicity of James, due to its emphasis on works as a necessary manifestation of faith. I believe he later retracted this, but the relationship between faith, works, and eternal salvation is perhaps the key theological point of the Reformation. I found an intriguing page that discusses the theology involved, but I certainly am in no position to judge its arguments.
They can take the time to tell you that your browser sucks, and is unable to use their website, but they're clueless enough to not be able to promote their own... browser.
The worst part was, I was trying to use their own browser... the version of IE that came as part of NT 4. Here was their flagship product (NT), and they made it impossible to use out of the box without downloading the competitor's browser!
You should have tried installing NT 4 in the 1999 timeframe, especially without SP4 on CD. You had to:
Install the base system
Use IE 2 to download Navigator from ftp.netscape.com
Use Navigator to go to Microsoft.com (which would refuse to work with IE2) to download IE 4
Install IE 4
Go back to Microsoft with IE4 to download SP4
Install SP4
Go back to MS yet again to install all the Y2K fixes (including an update to IE4)
Install the Y2K fixes
(the good part) drink heavily
I may have misplaced some steps (it has been a blessedly long time since I had to do it), but I will never forget having to download Netscape so I could download IE from Microsoft!
Have you seen governmental budget figures recently? Cheap is not an issue.
That depends on which government you're looking at. I don't know if you're in the USA, or which state you live in if you are, but in my state, voting systems are purchased and funded by the local town or city, and they never have huge sums of money sitting around. Most state governments don't, either, for that matter. Uncle Sam may, but he's not the one buying the machines.
I've heard people complain about MDI before (going back to my OS/2 days), and I am finally going to ask: just what is supposed to be wrong with MDI? I, personally, prefer the "entire app in one box" interface to the "plaster 6 independent boxes around your screen without telling you which app they are part of" approach (I'll make an exception for visual IDEs, where you need to see separately the window you are working on). So, why do people dislike MDI?
3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement: This product includes software developed and originally released under the NetBSD® trademark.
I believe you're confusing two separate issues. The agreement relating to "no production use" is the evaluation, where you can have them give you a limited-time license key for n users to evaluate the software. The 2-user, 2-workspace configuration is gratis:
You can download and use any Perforce software product free. All Perforce software you download is fully functional, with the exception of the Perforce Server, which allows only two users and two client workspaces when used without a license.
You may use software downloaded from Perforce for any purpose you want and for as long as you like. The Perforce Server supports only two users and two client workspaces unless used with a Perforce License.
As far as I have been able to tell, there is no restriction against using the 2-user version in production. If you have an example of such a restiction, please post it.
We have at least two... the University of Maine at Presque Isle has one at the scale of 1 mile = 1 a.u., which is not only a larger scale than the one in Illinois, but is also lined up along U.S. Route 1 from the nearest I-95 exit to the campus, so you can visit the planets in order, instead of wandering all over Peoria trying to find them!
Except that the machine (is supposed to) keep a count of the number of pieces of paper inserted into its craw (LEDs on the front so the voter can see that their ballot was registered). If the number of paper ballots counted don't match the number on the LEDs, the ballot workers must start counting. There are all sorts of safeguards possible when a paper trail exists.
However, even reading the Boston Phoenix's report of the recount (see the link in another reply to you rcomment), they admit that Bush won if the recount was completed under the rules that it was using. Gore only wins if you assume that all votes with him and someone else both selected were meant for him. There is no way you can do that if both candidates are marked cleanly, so that's a non-starter regardless of whose ox is being gored.
Second, I served as an alternate delegate to my state party's convention in a particularly contentious year, and I realized something: if the voting is close, the actual ballots mean nothing. What matters in that case is control of the rules, and both parties play that game exactly the same: take no prisoners. If you want to place blame for Bush's election, blame Nader.
I think it's more a matter of Universal Service in exchange for the monopoly... Verizon (in my area) is protected from competition in the more populated areas of the state, but in exchange they have to run miles of wires in the rural / forested areas so everyone can have phone service. I doubt you'll see amny cell towers go up to serve settlements of 60 people who are 85 miles from the next town (and over 100 miles of unpaved woods from the next town in the opposite direction)....
Slashdot Mirror
Trek may be dying, but damn... they got Neil Armstrong to show up. That is too freaking cool; AFAIK, he does an extremely limited number of public appearances each year (as in single digits).
Whatever happened to Best Buy's lauded "We don't work on commission" schtick? Is that no longer the case?
Don't forget the One True Gem from the various companies Compaq picked up: the ultra-super-high-availability (as in you have to have a full project plan to cover all the steps to make it shut down fully) Tandem. Of course, that is also planned to migrate onto Itanic.
Is the PnP ID unique to a particular part (like a MAC address), or simply a unique identifier for the make/model?
- Analog
- The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Happy reading!Smithsonian, the official mag of the Smithsonian Institution. I always tell people, if you can't find at least one article of interest in any given issue, than you are a very boring person.
Actually, they'd be claiming that every friend networking system in the world was theirs, and they are owed a royalty on every successful romance that starts as a result of one of these things.
Over the 70+ year duration of their copyright, that should amount to, say, $1.75.
I also noticed that the Send-safe's Screenshots link from the article has been turned into a redirect back to the article's site homepage!
IIRC (although I can't find a reference right now), Martin Luther said something to the effect that he doubted the canonicity of James, due to its emphasis on works as a necessary manifestation of faith. I believe he later retracted this, but the relationship between faith, works, and eternal salvation is perhaps the key theological point of the Reformation. I found an intriguing page that discusses the theology involved, but I certainly am in no position to judge its arguments.
Wouldn't that just be Slashdot on TV?
The worst part was, I was trying to use their own browser... the version of IE that came as part of NT 4 . Here was their flagship product (NT), and they made it impossible to use out of the box without downloading the competitor's browser!
Exactly.
I may have misplaced some steps (it has been a blessedly long time since I had to do it), but I will never forget having to download Netscape so I could download IE from Microsoft!
That depends on which government you're looking at. I don't know if you're in the USA, or which state you live in if you are, but in my state, voting systems are purchased and funded by the local town or city, and they never have huge sums of money sitting around. Most state governments don't, either, for that matter. Uncle Sam may, but he's not the one buying the machines.
I've heard people complain about MDI before (going back to my OS/2 days), and I am finally going to ask: just what is supposed to be wrong with MDI? I, personally, prefer the "entire app in one box" interface to the "plaster 6 independent boxes around your screen without telling you which app they are part of" approach (I'll make an exception for visual IDEs, where you need to see separately the window you are working on). So, why do people dislike MDI?
Neither; Windows uses a Recycle Bin, MacOS uses a Trashcan.
Where's my ticket to Oslo?
Shatner, your agent called, something about a margarine commercial.
The Elements of Style , by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White. It's essentially the FM for American English.
You need an ending:
So here's to you, Mister Begs-the-Question, and here's to that Strunk & White you have jammed up your ass.
We have at least two... the University of Maine at Presque Isle has one at the scale of 1 mile = 1 a.u., which is not only a larger scale than the one in Illinois, but is also lined up along U.S. Route 1 from the nearest I-95 exit to the campus, so you can visit the planets in order, instead of wandering all over Peoria trying to find them!
Except that the machine (is supposed to) keep a count of the number of pieces of paper inserted into its craw (LEDs on the front so the voter can see that their ballot was registered). If the number of paper ballots counted don't match the number on the LEDs, the ballot workers must start counting. There are all sorts of safeguards possible when a paper trail exists.
Gore won the popular vote. I will grant you that.
However, even reading the Boston Phoenix's report of the recount (see the link in another reply to you rcomment), they admit that Bush won if the recount was completed under the rules that it was using. Gore only wins if you assume that all votes with him and someone else both selected were meant for him. There is no way you can do that if both candidates are marked cleanly, so that's a non-starter regardless of whose ox is being gored.
Second, I served as an alternate delegate to my state party's convention in a particularly contentious year, and I realized something: if the voting is close, the actual ballots mean nothing. What matters in that case is control of the rules, and both parties play that game exactly the same: take no prisoners. If you want to place blame for Bush's election, blame Nader.
I think it's more a matter of Universal Service in exchange for the monopoly... Verizon (in my area) is protected from competition in the more populated areas of the state, but in exchange they have to run miles of wires in the rural / forested areas so everyone can have phone service. I doubt you'll see amny cell towers go up to serve settlements of 60 people who are 85 miles from the next town (and over 100 miles of unpaved woods from the next town in the opposite direction)....