The 8.2% third quarter growth was purchased on credit-the $374 billion budget deficit that was the largest in the country's history. All indications are that next year's deficit will be even larger, exceeding half a trillion dollars.
Any idiot with a hand full of credit cards charged to the next generation's children can gin up the short term illusion of prosperity. Until, that is, the bills come due.
George W. Bush inherited a $127 billion fiscal surplus but ran through all of that and more in his first year. He has turned a $5.6 trillion 10 year forecast surplus into a $3+ trillion forecast loss-an almost unimaginable reversal of $9 trillion in only three years.
The result of this almost psychotic profligacy, according to the Congressional Budget Office, will be a national debt of $14 trillion in 10 years. Interest payments alone will approach a trillion dollars a year and will exceed spending for all discretionary federal programs combined.
1911 was always a mark of quality cracking in file.nfo
but soon as you fuck with Cisco it's off to the clink
"AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted"
Word, but who the fuck has heard? It's time to take a trip to the suburbs Let em see a nigga invasion Point blank for the caucasian Cock the hammer then crack a little smile Take me to your house, pal Got to the house, my pockets got fat, see Crack the safe, got the money and the jewellry Three weeks later, I'm at the P-A-D Had a little fly ass bitch wit me Sittin in the den, yo it couldn't be (Whattup G?) Saw my face on TV Damn (oh shit!) I didn't know I lucked out Struck out, I gotta get the fuck out Pack my bags and tried to hit the door when the ol' bitch down the street must've turned me in Cos the feds was out there ten deep I got hassled and gaffled in the back seat I think back when I was robbin' my own kind The police didn't pay it no mind But when I start robbin the white folks Now I'm in the pen wit the soap-on-a-rope I said it before and I'll still call it Every motherfucker with a colour is most wanted
I guess that's the problem of a constitution, we have no such encumberance here. Unless you count the European Parliament. I think we can just leave the EU if it becomes a burden.
I know Berners-Lee didn't envisage it to work out that way (he was annoyed when graphics were added!) but by IE3 in 1996 when Microsoft introduced ActiveX and Java they knew exactly where they wanted it to head.
Nine days after release and we started to see how this leverage would *really* pan out with the discovery of the fly in the ointment in the guise of "The Princeton Word Macro Virus Loophole". You could make IE download files in the background which would be auto-opened via their mime-type. It got it's name from being able to supply a Word document with an on-open macro. Being Windows 95 this meant an introduction to remote root exploits via web pages. "Information at Your Fingertips" indeed.
I don't advocate it as the model to follow but seeing Word as just a word processing program misses it's power.
Office is more like a set of APIs that happen to have GUIs.
And now I shall ramble on a bit not really in response to your comment but just because I've got the muse.
We should really thank our lucky stars from a freedom point of view that the Microsoft Network came just too late to be outshone by the Internet. The combined power of Office Servers and Office Clients would be much more difficult to usurp had it taken hold.
Ironically I think that users have suffered from the fragmentation. A closely coupled client/server combination with such a huge installed base could really have brought an interesting outcome. I thknk the result of this failure to dominate then brought about the will to try and force the issue through the draconic OEM deals that brought about the subsequent DoJ prosecution. They had a great vision and didn't want to let it go.
We will have to wait much longer for the benefits such tight coupling can bring. The stateless web browser is a *really* crappy platform for networked applications, that's how we ended up with Javascript but it is a crufty model.
Oh well, the market will find something eventually. I envision that KDE will probably be the first to bring something neat but IE's entrenchment is now a *major* stumbling block for innovation and IE7 will just be playing catch up. It's going to be a long time so sit back and sip some gin & juice while we wait.
All of the Office applications are also ActiveX objects with enough methods to do *any* of the tasks one can do via kb/mouse with the GUI.
For instance I wrote some IIS script that instanciated the Word object, opened a template, filled in the contents, printed the document and then archived itself as a Word document on the server for later retrieval as required for some legal documents (these were court documents for non-payment of bills).
You can open a Word document and have it present dialog boxes and generate an Excel sheet complete with graphs etc. if you felt like it.
I don't do this stuff myself any more (I don't even know what it's called these days. It was 'Visual Basic for Applications' in my day.) but that's the kind of thing you can do.
Most MS places I've been don't use it, through ignorance usually, and have been impressed when I wrote a few scripts to repeat tasks that people seemed to like doing manually!
Fortunately for Transmeta and its end users, this backdoor is difficult to exploit without the consent of the user, since it does require both x86 kernel level access and in some cases physical access to the machine. However, if you are experienced enough to be reading this, such limitations are unlikely to be a problem.
Ah, someone who still believes in the/. readership:)
I don't think the poster even read the article however;
yeah, one should always read one's work before handing it in.
Guylhem writes "Are you still wondering why you should prefer an handheld running free software over one running Palm OS or Windows CE? Here's a short article:
Slashdot Mirror
How does that work at the equator where there are no seasons?
Do you normally keep it tied up then?
Because bash/zsh are everywhere
;)
That's odd, perhaps you mean 'Because bash/zsh are in GNUserland'
'cause they sure as shit aint in *BSD or Unix by default or plan9 by design
So is it rare as in 'you can download bash, zsh and rc if you want and use them'?
Thanks for the sh example, I knew it would be in other shells but when perl is your hammer you'd better watch your fingers
good, presumably you know how much I care
Perhaps it's redundant because even the most retarded
why not use a decent shell like rc ?
/usr/share/dict/words}) /dev/null
for (w in `{cat
curl 'http://www.buddylinks.net/support.php?sn=' ^$w >
When is it that one thinks 'okay, I have enough porn now' ?
what is keeping America afloat?
is a good question
The 8.2% third quarter growth was purchased on credit-the $374 billion budget deficit that was the largest in the country's history. All indications are that next year's deficit will be even larger, exceeding half a trillion dollars.
Any idiot with a hand full of credit cards charged to the next generation's children can gin up the short term illusion of prosperity. Until, that is, the bills come due.
George W. Bush inherited a $127 billion fiscal surplus but ran through all of that and more in his first year. He has turned a $5.6 trillion 10 year forecast surplus into a $3+ trillion forecast loss-an almost unimaginable reversal of $9 trillion in only three years.
The result of this almost psychotic profligacy, according to the Congressional Budget Office, will be a national debt of $14 trillion in 10 years. Interest payments alone will approach a trillion dollars a year and will exceed spending for all discretionary federal programs combined.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0105-08.htm
1911 was always a mark of quality cracking in file.nfo
but soon as you fuck with Cisco it's off to the clink
"AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted"
Word, but who the fuck has heard?
It's time to take a trip to the suburbs
Let em see a nigga invasion
Point blank for the caucasian
Cock the hammer then crack a little smile
Take me to your house, pal
Got to the house, my pockets got fat, see
Crack the safe, got the money and the jewellry
Three weeks later, I'm at the P-A-D
Had a little fly ass bitch wit me
Sittin in the den, yo it couldn't be
(Whattup G?) Saw my face on TV
Damn (oh shit!) I didn't know I lucked out
Struck out, I gotta get the fuck out
Pack my bags and tried to hit the door when
the ol' bitch down the street must've turned me in
Cos the feds was out there ten deep
I got hassled and gaffled in the back seat
I think back when I was robbin' my own kind
The police didn't pay it no mind
But when I start robbin the white folks
Now I'm in the pen wit the soap-on-a-rope
I said it before and I'll still call it
Every motherfucker with a colour is most wanted
I guess that's the problem of a constitution, we have no such encumberance here. Unless you count the European Parliament. I think we can just leave the EU if it becomes a burden.
If they're busy playing EQ then they won't be doing shit like this : Four-strong county council party flies club class to a conference in New Orleans at 2,699 pounds a ticket.
A trip that cost local tax-payers 58,000 pounds!
(for some reason slashcode won't let me enter £)
Things You Should Never Do, Part I
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000
Democracy doesn't work!
- Homer J. Simpson
and you get a camel not a horse
I know Berners-Lee didn't envisage it to work out that way (he was annoyed when graphics were added!) but by IE3 in 1996 when Microsoft introduced ActiveX and Java they knew exactly where they wanted it to head.
Nine days after release and we started to see how this leverage would *really* pan out with the discovery of the fly in the ointment in the guise of "The Princeton Word Macro Virus Loophole". You could make IE download files in the background which would be auto-opened via their mime-type. It got it's name from being able to supply a Word document with an on-open macro. Being Windows 95 this meant an introduction to remote root exploits via web pages. "Information at Your Fingertips" indeed.
I don't advocate it as the model to follow but seeing Word as just a word processing program misses it's power.
Office is more like a set of APIs that happen to have GUIs.
And now I shall ramble on a bit not really in response to your comment but just because I've got the muse.
We should really thank our lucky stars from a freedom point of view that the Microsoft Network came just too late to be outshone by the Internet. The combined power of Office Servers and Office Clients would be much more difficult to usurp had it taken hold.
Ironically I think that users have suffered from the fragmentation. A closely coupled client/server combination with such a huge installed base could really have brought an interesting outcome. I thknk the result of this failure to dominate then brought about the will to try and force the issue through the draconic OEM deals that brought about the subsequent DoJ prosecution. They had a great vision and didn't want to let it go.
We will have to wait much longer for the benefits such tight coupling can bring. The stateless web browser is a *really* crappy platform for networked applications, that's how we ended up with Javascript but it is a crufty model.
Oh well, the market will find something eventually. I envision that KDE will probably be the first to bring something neat but IE's entrenchment is now a *major* stumbling block for innovation and IE7 will just be playing catch up. It's going to be a long time so sit back and sip some gin & juice while we wait.
All of the Office applications are also ActiveX objects with enough methods to do *any* of the tasks one can do via kb/mouse with the GUI.
For instance I wrote some IIS script that instanciated the Word object, opened a template, filled in the contents, printed the document and then archived itself as a Word document on the server for later retrieval as required for some legal documents (these were court documents for non-payment of bills).
You can open a Word document and have it present dialog boxes and generate an Excel sheet complete with graphs etc. if you felt like it.
I don't do this stuff myself any more (I don't even know what it's called these days. It was 'Visual Basic for Applications' in my day.) but that's the kind of thing you can do.
Most MS places I've been don't use it, through ignorance usually, and have been impressed when I wrote a few scripts to repeat tasks that people seemed to like doing manually!
can any of those run vb script macros?
Cripes, your laptop broadcasts the whole frikkin pipeline!
Write: Write results back to GPRs or store buffer
Fortunately for Transmeta and its end users, this backdoor is difficult to exploit without the consent of the user, since it does require both x86 kernel level access and in some cases physical access to the machine. However, if you are experienced enough to be reading this, such limitations are unlikely to be a problem.
/. readership :)
Ah, someone who still believes in the
can't beat telecommuting from somewhere with such a low cost of living.
I'll be there next Winter but international GSM is a bit pricey.
hehe
:)
I have no idea *what* you're talking about
in any case, I really meant tab delimited not csv as such
well, any plain text will do
we're waiting for the ultimate : java bytecode as XML
because they hate that
use csv
I don't think the poster even read the article however;
:
yeah, one should always read one's work before handing it in.
Guylhem writes "Are you still wondering why you should prefer an handheld running free software over one running Palm OS or Windows CE? Here's a short article
Why Run Free Software on a PDA?
by Guylhem Aznar
"