I'm really surprised that the tire wasn't admitted into the mail queue. I'm from Alaska, and I worked in the mailroom at a Sears store there. We routinely sent tires straight thru the USPS; just wrap the address with clear shipping tape, put on a ton of postage, and off it would go.
It's possible, though, that the USPS in AK has a higher tolerance because of the lack of other options for moving stuff around in Alaska. A buddy of mine said that his grandfather once wanted a Christmas tree where he lived in Kodiak (an island off the southern coast of AK) so he came to Anchorage, bought one, dragged it into the post office, and mailed it. No extra packaging, no problem.
Why would you hate to say that we have to go back to trusting humans? I doubt any level of sophisticated software could match the regulatory power of a big, scary teacher over a student's shoulders.
I mean come on, which are you going to fear more, filtering software that gives you a nice, pretty "That page is unviewable" message, or a pissed off teacher yelling "Billy! What are you looking at! Go to the principal's office..."?
I for one plan to jump ship for OSX. Assuming OSX doesn't suck (which is a big assumption), it will have all I want out of an OS. The apps I need and use are Photoshop, BBEdit, Transmit, and Audion for the mac; emacs, g++, gdb, tcl, and perl for Unix. OSX will run all of those, plus will provide a console command line so I can really have the best of both worlds.
Additionally, as I get more and more into programming, I can rest assured that anything I write to run on a Unix box will run unchanged under OSX.
Pretty much the only thing that I'll feel bad about is the freedom issue, but I don't really mind unfree software that doesn't suck.
You might be surprised. My fraternity is known as the computer science house, though that's not totally factual in reality. When our friends need computer help, they come to us. Last year we graduated the 2000 class valedictorian.
Seriously, I don't understand the criticisms of Mozilla. I hate Netscape 6, but Mozilla.6 was fine, fine software. Sure there were bugs, but it's a huge product and it's still in the pre-1.0 releases, so you expect it to be somewhat unfinished. I'll tell you what - M.6 was much faster and must less annoyingly hypercommercial than was N6.
I'm also a web developer interested in the cusps of DOM and CSS and the consistent cross-platform highly-compliant nature of Mozilla means I can develop with these new technologies and refer visitors to Mozilla if the pages don't render.
So I really look forward to using M.7. I've been using nightly builds a lot in the past couple weeks anticipating the.7 release and every build is a bit better than the previous. I applaud the Mozilla effort.
Dude are you a retard? You're telling people to read the article, then you say that he doesn't plan to use cubes?
Researcher Dennis Wingo says there's a cheaper, simpler way to set up a network of wireless-data satellites: Girdle the globe with Apple's Cubes
What part of that didn't you understand? And no, he didn't say he'd use OS9, but it does say Mac OS. I agree that he'll probably use Darwin (more probably the whole OSX) because if he claims that Windows crashes a lot, he doesn't use classic Mac OSs very often.
The constitution doesn't define "authors and inventors". Tell me why that can't be a corporation? what about a partnership? group work? Isn't group work basically corporate work?
although much of the data will be freely available and researchers can even seek patents on what they find there, there will be limits on the amount of genetic data that can be downloaded by individual researchers and requirements that researchers under some circumstances sign agreements that limit their ability to redistribute or commercialize the data.
There are restrictions on how much you download, what you can do with it, and to whom you can give your results. THAT is not acceptable. People can't just "download the database" as you said.
How come moderators mark people up every time they say "go read the article!"? This guy himself aparently missed the article.
I've only heard of one browser claiming to be fully W3C CSS1 compliant: IE5.0 Macintosh Edition. It's the browser I use for exactly that reason. No other browser claims to be fully compliant. And I haven't heard of any browsers that claim to implement JavaScript in a standard way.
I bought and regularly wear one of CopyLeft's DeCSS shirts, with some of the DeCSS code on the back. Now that lawsuits have been filed over those shirts, and people have been jailed and otherwise harassed over the DMCA and DeCSS, I am (honestly) concerned about being arrested or harassed for wearing my shirt.
I wear that shirt as an expression of support for the hacker community. I haven't read all the code, and probably wouldn't understand it terribly well if I did. That shirt is only an expression of speech and support, and the DMCA is limiting my comfort in expressing that support.
Mr. Flanagan is complaining that the the most standard-compliant browser is not compliant enough
Dude, I hope you aren't suggesting that Mozilla or Netscape is the most standard-compliant browser. There is exactly one, and only one, fully CSS1-compliant browser in existence. That's Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 for the Macintosh. Even 5.5 for Windows isn't. And Netscape is such a joke... I build webpages to help pay for my tuition and if everyone used a standards-compliant browser such as IE5Mac I wouldn't have to worry about anything. Netscape is, has been, and will continue to be the bane of my professional existence.
I look forward to the day that someone will offer me a browser that doesn't suck. MS is the closest thing I have so far.
In a related move, God has released Moose 3.1, which is mostly a bug fix release of the popular mammal, though some extra features include increased moose nugget production and and option for larger horns.
"I'm sorry", said God, "but the release schedule for Human is to be set back again." God went on to specify that Human 1.0.1 is having trouble making it to beta due to a hairy bug in the evolution code in Kansas.
The 9th Circuit said Connectix's activities were protected under the ''fair use doctrine,'' which permits copying of software when necessary to understand the way a program works.
So, if I'm a assembler programmer and I just can't at all figure out how Photoshop is performing matrix multiplication on the pixels of an image, I can copy Photoshop legally from my buddy with the install disks and peek at the bytecode to figure out the algorithms? Is that right?
I mean, that would make sense to you and me and the rest of Slashdot's readers, but that makes sense to the lawyers that wrote the fair use laws?
What is stopping OSS developers from making a port of sorts for MS's APIs? Even if the function NAMES were different, it's not so hard to change Make_A_MS_Window() to Make_A_Linux_Window() in your source.
Hey, Frac, this is totally offtopic but is that line of code in your sig Dylan? It looks a heck of a lot like Dylan, and I didn't know anyone on earth USED Dylan except me in a lame class I took last year. I would have emailed you but I don't see your address anywhere. Email me: nrr@dartmouth.edu
Dude, if you can sort in linear time with no assumptions about input I'll give you a zillion dollars. And if you can actually BEAT linear time with a CS degree I'll give you two zillion.
When I was a youngin' (not that I'm so old now) I was, one week, restricted by a curfew law. The next week I participated in an election to ban it. Seven days separated my maturity level between "too young to know what to do at ten in the evening" and "old enough to vote on this law, and for the president of the USA"?
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It's possible, though, that the USPS in AK has a higher tolerance because of the lack of other options for moving stuff around in Alaska. A buddy of mine said that his grandfather once wanted a Christmas tree where he lived in Kodiak (an island off the southern coast of AK) so he came to Anchorage, bought one, dragged it into the post office, and mailed it. No extra packaging, no problem.
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I mean come on, which are you going to fear more, filtering software that gives you a nice, pretty "That page is unviewable" message, or a pissed off teacher yelling "Billy! What are you looking at! Go to the principal's office..."?
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Go there and there is information on how to take yourself off some major direct mail lists.
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Additionally, as I get more and more into programming, I can rest assured that anything I write to run on a Unix box will run unchanged under OSX.
Pretty much the only thing that I'll feel bad about is the freedom issue, but I don't really mind unfree software that doesn't suck.
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I'm also a web developer interested in the cusps of DOM and CSS and the consistent cross-platform highly-compliant nature of Mozilla means I can develop with these new technologies and refer visitors to Mozilla if the pages don't render.
So I really look forward to using M.7. I've been using nightly builds a lot in the past couple weeks anticipating the .7 release and every build is a bit better than the previous. I applaud the Mozilla effort.
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Researcher Dennis Wingo says there's a cheaper, simpler way to set up a network of wireless-data satellites: Girdle the globe with Apple's Cubes
What part of that didn't you understand? And no, he didn't say he'd use OS9, but it does say Mac OS. I agree that he'll probably use Darwin (more probably the whole OSX) because if he claims that Windows crashes a lot, he doesn't use classic Mac OSs very often.
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although much of the data will be freely available and researchers can even seek patents on what they find there, there will be limits on the amount of genetic data that can be downloaded by individual researchers and requirements that researchers under some circumstances sign agreements that limit their ability to redistribute or commercialize the data.
There are restrictions on how much you download, what you can do with it, and to whom you can give your results. THAT is not acceptable. People can't just "download the database" as you said.
How come moderators mark people up every time they say "go read the article!"? This guy himself aparently missed the article.
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I wear that shirt as an expression of support for the hacker community. I haven't read all the code, and probably wouldn't understand it terribly well if I did. That shirt is only an expression of speech and support, and the DMCA is limiting my comfort in expressing that support.
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Dude, I hope you aren't suggesting that Mozilla or Netscape is the most standard-compliant browser. There is exactly one, and only one, fully CSS1-compliant browser in existence. That's Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 for the Macintosh. Even 5.5 for Windows isn't. And Netscape is such a joke... I build webpages to help pay for my tuition and if everyone used a standards-compliant browser such as IE5Mac I wouldn't have to worry about anything. Netscape is, has been, and will continue to be the bane of my professional existence.
I look forward to the day that someone will offer me a browser that doesn't suck. MS is the closest thing I have so far.
PS iCab is getting closer...
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"I'm sorry", said God, "but the release schedule for Human is to be set back again." God went on to specify that Human 1.0.1 is having trouble making it to beta due to a hairy bug in the evolution code in Kansas.
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The 9th Circuit said Connectix's activities were protected under the ''fair use doctrine,'' which permits copying of software when necessary to understand the way a program works.
So, if I'm a assembler programmer and I just can't at all figure out how Photoshop is performing matrix multiplication on the pixels of an image, I can copy Photoshop legally from my buddy with the install disks and peek at the bytecode to figure out the algorithms? Is that right?
I mean, that would make sense to you and me and the rest of Slashdot's readers, but that makes sense to the lawyers that wrote the fair use laws?
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When I was a youngin' (not that I'm so old now) I was, one week, restricted by a curfew law. The next week I participated in an election to ban it. Seven days separated my maturity level between "too young to know what to do at ten in the evening" and "old enough to vote on this law, and for the president of the USA"?
Hmmm...
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