Usenet back before Canter/Siegel. Heck, Usenet back before AOL made it available to their users. Despite lack of civility and the occasional (OK, not so occasional) flamefest - it was entertaining, amusing (i.e. kremvax hoax), and surprisingly useful. If you wanted to get information, share information, it was the place. And no - even with a zillion Web sites and Google Groups (the remains of Usenet) there's no equivalent.
My most sincere apologies to any Redmondians (Redmondists? Redmonders?) that I may have offended. In fact, some of my best friends run Windows. I always say that if more Windows, Macs, and Linux machine would only interact on the same LAN, the world would be a better place.
Shouldn't be that hard to slap a Java or PHP front-end on top of a SQL database to do what you want. I'd look at sourceforge[1,2] to see if someone's already built it.
[1] Sourceforge is owned by the same folks that own slashdot. [2] I'm not affiliated with either, except as a user.
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Just because they don't kill people doesn't mean they are peaceful. Live in the south as a non-christian and see how much "peace" you see on a daily basis. It is still a violent religion, it's just a matter of degrees.
Been there, done that, bought the shirt. I've lived in the South, I'm not Christian. I've had disagreements, I've been lectured to, I've been told I'm "going to hell", etc. But, I've NEVER felt in physical danger. And occasionally, I've had folks "agree to disagree". No worse than a roomful of Mac, Windows, and Linux advocates (in in many cases more polite).
As others have mentioned, "Christian" religious extremists have killed many times more people than "Islamic" religious extremists
Sure, there was the Inquisition, the Counter-Reformation, etc. Christian extremists did kill far more people in the last 500 years than Islamic extremists did in the last 5 years.
So what? Christianity has matured - it's a peaceful religion. I'd rather spend two weeks discussing relgion and philosophy with 100 Christian fundamentalists than with 100 Taliban. In the first case, I might get lectured to or even prayed for. In the second, I might get my head cut off.
I disagree with teaching so-called 'Intelligent Design' in schools. I also disagree with all the Christian baching going on in this thread.
Hoi Polloi wrote: Ah, Christian Fundamentalists, America's Taliban.
Yup, wanting to teach pseudo-science in public schools is exactly the same as destroying ancient artifacts of another religion, beating women who refuse to wear full body coverings, murdering gays, rape victims, and non-believers.
Any Web site developer that produces content for the general public has to deal with IE (like it or not). It's not wise for a commercial site to tell a large block of potential customers - sorry, we won't interact with you, go load another browser.
My experience with WiFi enabled PDA's is that they exhaust the batteries really really fast. How long will a student be able to read before the 'Low Battery' message pops up?
I fully expect Chinese companies and the Chinese govt. (often the same thing) to steal trade secrets and IP from outsourced operations and then turn around and compete against us using our own technology. Anyone who thinks otherwise is naive. American companies that outsource their SW / HW development to China are writing their own epitaph.
300 years ago, the West was probably at least on par technologically wise with China, with all the enlightenment and stuff, while progress in China pretty much stalled.
The west was running Enlightenment over 300 years ago? Was that the distribution for the Difference Engine or the one on the Jacquard Loom?
There is a third party external battery pack available http://store.yahoo.com/semsons-inc/batexwitusb.htm l. It works with the Zaurus when loaded with NIMH rechargables (I was advised in a FAQ, NOT to use alkalines). On the plus side it extends the battery life considerably. On the down side it's $20 with shipping, and four NIMH batteries w. charger were an additional $10. Also, attaching an external battery pack to a PDA is the definition of a 'kludge'.
The "so what" part is that it takes more than a gallon of ethanol to produce a gallon of ethanol. That's a problem.
Only if you view ethanol as a source of energy rather than a means to store energy - one that's compatible with existing transportation infrastructure. Of course that assumes that you're not using oil or natural gas to generate power to make the ethanol - that would be absurd.
I suspect most of the energy in producing ethanol is spent distilling the alcohol. If a less energy intensive way of separating the alcohol could be found, or if a means of producing higher alcohol concentrations could be found (before the alcohol kills of the yeast) - the efficiency of the process could be increased.
Yeah, Ethanol is a portable source of energy that requires a portable source of energy (gasoline) to make. Corn cannot be grown without tractors.
So what? Oil refineries use power, pipelines require power to pump oil. Oil tankers use diesel fuel to transport oil, etc. Even fusion power plants (if we ever figure out how to build one) - will use power for magentic containment. As Newton said - there ain't no free lunch (or something like that).
Ethanol is a portable source of stored energy. The advantage is that you can take a non-portable source - hydroelectric, coal, nuclear, solar, etc. and convert it to a form that you can run a vehicle from. Furthermore, you can use existing distribution channels (gas trucks, pipelines, gas stations) to deliver it. And best of all, it can reduce dependence on mid-east oil. Given that, the fact that production is somewhat inefficient is not relevant.
A lot of county GIS systems are available as public information on the Web. Given an address, you can view things such as recent (low altitude) aerial photos (in color), list of residents, purchase price of house, purchase history of house, current assessment, and perhaps even floor plans, and recent building permits. There's a trade-off between the public's "right-to-know" and an individual's privacy. Usually I see articles in newspapers that come out strongly for the public's "right to know'. But I guess it all depends on the current agenda of the article's author.
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Thanks - stopped using Usenet around the time the S/N approached 0 (mostly due to spam). I'll have to take another look.
Usenet back before Canter/Siegel. Heck, Usenet back before AOL made it available to their users. Despite lack of civility and the occasional (OK, not so occasional) flamefest - it was entertaining, amusing (i.e. kremvax hoax), and surprisingly useful. If you wanted to get information, share information, it was the place. And no - even with a zillion Web sites and Google Groups (the remains of Usenet) there's no equivalent.
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you, sir, are a racist
My most sincere apologies to any Redmondians (Redmondists? Redmonders?) that I may have offended. In fact, some of my best friends run Windows. I always say that if more Windows, Macs, and Linux machine would only interact on the same LAN, the world would be a better place.
Kool-Aid sales up substantially.
Shouldn't be that hard to slap a Java or PHP front-end on top of a SQL database to do what you want. I'd look at sourceforge[1,2] to see if someone's already built it.
[1] Sourceforge is owned by the same folks that own slashdot.
[2] I'm not affiliated with either, except as a user.
Just because they don't kill people doesn't mean they are peaceful. Live in the south as a non-christian and see how much "peace" you see on a daily basis. It is still a violent religion, it's just a matter of degrees.
Been there, done that, bought the shirt. I've lived in the South, I'm not Christian. I've had disagreements, I've been lectured to, I've been told I'm "going to hell", etc. But, I've NEVER felt in physical danger. And occasionally, I've had folks "agree to disagree". No worse than a roomful of Mac, Windows, and Linux advocates (in in many cases more polite).
Futurepower wrote:
As others have mentioned, "Christian" religious extremists have killed many times more people than "Islamic" religious extremists
Sure, there was the Inquisition, the Counter-Reformation, etc. Christian extremists did kill far more people in the last 500 years than Islamic extremists did in the last 5 years.
So what? Christianity has matured - it's a peaceful religion. I'd rather spend two weeks discussing relgion and philosophy with 100 Christian fundamentalists than with 100 Taliban. In the first case, I might get lectured to or even prayed for. In the second, I might get my head cut off.
I disagree with teaching so-called 'Intelligent Design' in schools. I also disagree with all the Christian baching going on in this thread.
Hoi Polloi wrote: Ah, Christian Fundamentalists, America's Taliban.
Yup, wanting to teach pseudo-science in public schools is exactly the same as destroying ancient artifacts of another religion, beating women who refuse to wear full body coverings, murdering gays, rape victims, and non-believers.
Your moral equivalency is showing.
It finally makes sense that NASA Houston has a Saturn V up on blocks in their front yard.
Forget about encryption, anonymous re-mailers etc. and just make stuff up like Jason Blair (and others) did.
Any Web site developer that produces content for the general public has to deal with IE (like it or not). It's not wise for a commercial site to tell a large block of potential customers - sorry, we won't interact with you, go load another browser.
My experience with WiFi enabled PDA's is that they exhaust the batteries really really fast. How long will a student be able to read before the 'Low Battery' message pops up?
I'm really tired of hearing about Bush's campaign advisor ... oh! ... never mind ...
And what's going to happen, 5 years +, when Google charges $50 p.m. just to access GMail, and you want to switch away?
Google mail currently offers free POP access.
Nope, it all started with Cartman's Trapper Keeper.
I fully expect Chinese companies and the Chinese govt. (often the same thing) to steal trade secrets and IP from outsourced operations and then turn around and compete against us using our own technology. Anyone who thinks otherwise is naive. American companies that outsource their SW / HW development to China are writing their own epitaph.
300 years ago, the West was probably at least on par technologically wise with China, with all the enlightenment and stuff, while progress in China pretty much stalled.
The west was running Enlightenment over 300 years ago? Was that the distribution for the Difference Engine or the one on the Jacquard Loom?
There is a third party external battery pack available http://store.yahoo.com/semsons-inc/batexwitusb.htm l. It works with the Zaurus when loaded with NIMH rechargables (I was advised in a FAQ, NOT to use alkalines). On the plus side it extends the battery life considerably. On the down side it's $20 with shipping, and four NIMH batteries w. charger were an additional $10. Also, attaching an external battery pack to a PDA is the definition of a 'kludge'.
Lot's of people are getting tired of this particular fad.
The "so what" part is that it takes more than a gallon of ethanol to produce a gallon of ethanol. That's a problem.
Only if you view ethanol as a source of energy rather than a means to store energy - one that's compatible with existing transportation infrastructure. Of course that assumes that you're not using oil or natural gas to generate power to make the ethanol - that would be absurd.
I suspect most of the energy in producing ethanol is spent distilling the alcohol. If a less energy intensive way of separating the alcohol could be found, or if a means of producing higher alcohol concentrations could be found (before the alcohol kills of the yeast) - the efficiency of the process could be increased.
Yeah, Ethanol is a portable source of energy that requires a portable source of energy (gasoline) to make. Corn cannot be grown without tractors.
So what? Oil refineries use power, pipelines require power to pump oil. Oil tankers use diesel fuel to transport oil, etc. Even fusion power plants (if we ever figure out how to build one) - will use power for magentic containment. As Newton said - there ain't no free lunch (or something like that).
Ethanol is a portable source of stored energy. The advantage is that you can take a non-portable source - hydroelectric, coal, nuclear, solar, etc. and convert it to a form that you can run a vehicle from. Furthermore, you can use existing distribution channels (gas trucks, pipelines, gas stations) to deliver it. And best of all, it can reduce dependence on mid-east oil. Given that, the fact that production is somewhat inefficient is not relevant.
A lot of county GIS systems are available as public information on the Web. Given an address, you can view things such as recent (low altitude) aerial photos (in color), list of residents, purchase price of house, purchase history of house, current assessment, and perhaps even floor plans, and recent building permits. There's a trade-off between the public's "right-to-know" and an individual's privacy. Usually I see articles in newspapers that come out strongly for the public's "right to know'. But I guess it all depends on the current agenda of the article's author.
I guess I can take the Bussard Ramjet off the front of my Pontiac.