I suppose you'd just like to be able to click on an image and then click "Set as Background"? We could do that, but then e would be 300MB larger.
It's all those little touches that keep me buying more RAM and bigger hard drives so I can run the latest GNOME or KDE. Not that they aren't a bit bloated, but all the libraries they use ARE reusable, and half your apps use most of them anyway, so why not have them around?
Once you've got the nuclear reactor in your car, why bother with all this hydrogen business? You've got all the energy you need from the reactor itself.
This isn't all that hard to do. Just turn your mouse upside down and pass something over it. Watch the cursor move!
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Why not just decide beforehand who's going to win the election and then have the ballot read
But that's what they did! When you touched "Kerry" on the touch screen, it would record a vote for Bush. I've been talking about this for weeks. It's about time the NY Times picked it up.
Or it would tell you it recorded a vote for Kerry, and that would get magically changed to Bush later.
The only way this differs from the Soviet system is that they are perpetuating the illusion of choice. As long as most everyone thinks they have a choice, there aren't going to be mass protests, riots, and civil war.
The ultimate advantage for the warfighter? Increased combat readiness and effectiveness.
Now my wild guess is that NMCI has done no such thing in reality, but some numbers look good on paper. It's the same story over and over, just in the Pentagon rather than a civilian workplace this time.
Ever been in a central office? 150 pieces of equipment is indeed isolated. In my (fairly small town) central office there are probably half a million pieces of equipment. And yes, they leave the back door open sometimes.
If you can, arrange a tour of your nearest central office. They're hard to get but it can be done. Start counting pieces of equipment. You'll probably lose count somewhere around 37,108 when the tour guide asks you what you're doing staring at the frame.
I get paid to understand the system. I don't get paid to like the system. $TELCO doesn't like any of these spurious charges. That's why every last one of them has a separate line item on the bill. So I can come along and say This one comes from federal program X and this one comes from federal program Y and so on, and concerned citizens can then go lynch...er, write their congressmen. Otherwise we'd just hide all the charges and raise the rates.
Ha. I work for $TELCO. I know exactly where all these taxes, fees and charges come from. Try explaining to some confused guy from California why the taxes and surcharges are 56% of his total bill sometime. And whoever modded me flamebait, get a grip. I know exactly what I'm talking about; I deal with these taxes and charges every day. It's what I get paid the big bucks for. Well, then they come and take the taxes...and so it goes. Now get out of my wallet.
This technology will never work in the U.S. It has to be installed in a phone booth, and (Verizon|SBC|BellSouth|Qwest) got rid of all the phone booths!
I've bought all kinds of music after finding tracks on P2P networks, things I would never have even thought to look for before. The music industry is definitely making money on "illegal" file sharing.
Everything told me my computer was fine. Clearly it is, and I am mistaken.
Yes, but did you check the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer? I've had it report missing critical updates that Windows Update never bothered to mention.
Now I know why Patrick wasn't answering my emails, and I feel like a complete jackass.
The problem is that it takes so long to write a book, that by the time you have it written, proofread, edited, and sent to the presses, the next version of the software is probably almost ready.
How'd you manage to wind up with CSS on a DVD of your own stuff? You can make a DVD without it. As for MLB.com, you should file a chargeback with the credit card company, as they clearly created an expectation that you would be able to watch the files you bought in particular ways and then failed to deliver, and failed to remedy their breach.
Don't get me wrong, I love Apple's products. But I wish someone would explain to me why they're so much more expensive than competing products. I can walk into Office Depot (!) and find MP3 players with more space and that cost less.
It's fine if you don't watch it, you're not exactly the target audience. Windows users who don't know they have a choice, now that's the target audience. I'd consider the program a success if it makes Bill Gates lose even an hour of sleep.
1) Somehow provide an API, perhaps glibc-wise, that will allow to disable the relevant paths of code at runtime if the required library runtime is not available. Yeah, I know about dlopen. No, that's not workable. dlopen needs to be designed around. What we'd need would be something as easily managed as #define _HAVE_SDL, only at runtime. There is no way to ensure its adoption if you don't make it as efficient to use as possible.
I think that if there were a good way to do this, Microsoft or someone would already have done it. But Windows apps basically do the equivalent of this.
Perhaps someone could write up a C library which makes the dlopen/dlfcn/etc. easier to manage?
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It's all those little touches that keep me buying more RAM and bigger hard drives so I can run the latest GNOME or KDE. Not that they aren't a bit bloated, but all the libraries they use ARE reusable, and half your apps use most of them anyway, so why not have them around?
Once you've got the nuclear reactor in your car, why bother with all this hydrogen business? You've got all the energy you need from the reactor itself.
This isn't all that hard to do. Just turn your mouse upside down and pass something over it. Watch the cursor move!
Or it would tell you it recorded a vote for Kerry, and that would get magically changed to Bush later.
The only way this differs from the Soviet system is that they are perpetuating the illusion of choice. As long as most everyone thinks they have a choice, there aren't going to be mass protests, riots, and civil war.
At least they made the advertising blatantly obvious this time.
From NMCI's about us page:
Now my wild guess is that NMCI has done no such thing in reality, but some numbers look good on paper. It's the same story over and over, just in the Pentagon rather than a civilian workplace this time.There's plenty of info out there on the NSA; you just have to actually pick up a book to find much of it.
If you can, arrange a tour of your nearest central office. They're hard to get but it can be done. Start counting pieces of equipment. You'll probably lose count somewhere around 37,108 when the tour guide asks you what you're doing staring at the frame.
I get paid to understand the system. I don't get paid to like the system. $TELCO doesn't like any of these spurious charges. That's why every last one of them has a separate line item on the bill. So I can come along and say This one comes from federal program X and this one comes from federal program Y and so on, and concerned citizens can then go lynch...er, write their congressmen. Otherwise we'd just hide all the charges and raise the rates.
Ha. I work for $TELCO. I know exactly where all these taxes, fees and charges come from. Try explaining to some confused guy from California why the taxes and surcharges are 56% of his total bill sometime. And whoever modded me flamebait, get a grip. I know exactly what I'm talking about; I deal with these taxes and charges every day. It's what I get paid the big bucks for. Well, then they come and take the taxes...and so it goes. Now get out of my wallet.
You want somebody else to have a phone because it "indirectly benefits" you? Fine, go pay for it. But stay out of my wallet. It doesn't benefit me.
This technology will never work in the U.S. It has to be installed in a phone booth, and (Verizon|SBC|BellSouth|Qwest) got rid of all the phone booths!
I've bought all kinds of music after finding tracks on P2P networks, things I would never have even thought to look for before. The music industry is definitely making money on "illegal" file sharing.
Yes, but did you check the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer? I've had it report missing critical updates that Windows Update never bothered to mention.
Now I know why Patrick wasn't answering my emails, and I feel like a complete jackass.
The problem is that it takes so long to write a book, that by the time you have it written, proofread, edited, and sent to the presses, the next version of the software is probably almost ready.
Check out much simpler, faster text entry in 5K of code!
How'd you manage to wind up with CSS on a DVD of your own stuff? You can make a DVD without it. As for MLB.com, you should file a chargeback with the credit card company, as they clearly created an expectation that you would be able to watch the files you bought in particular ways and then failed to deliver, and failed to remedy their breach.
Next we'll be having computers without hard drives, CD players without speakers, and /. without CowboyNeal.
Don't get me wrong, I love Apple's products. But I wish someone would explain to me why they're so much more expensive than competing products. I can walk into Office Depot (!) and find MP3 players with more space and that cost less.
CDs can be made for $1-$2 per disc in quantity. Throw it in a jewel case, slap on a certificate of bugginess, and you might be up to $3.
And they want to jack up the prices to make up for it.
It's not wiretapping if they're going into an open IRC channel.
It's fine if you don't watch it, you're not exactly the target audience. Windows users who don't know they have a choice, now that's the target audience. I'd consider the program a success if it makes Bill Gates lose even an hour of sleep.
I think that if there were a good way to do this, Microsoft or someone would already have done it. But Windows apps basically do the equivalent of this.
Perhaps someone could write up a C library which makes the dlopen/dlfcn/etc. easier to manage?
"I just like to code."
I'm surprised he didn't mention anything about the plans for world domination. Did that get put on the back burner?