I guess I'm wondering why you wouldn't name your files "Pacman - E - Dumbass group - 0713" to go from generic to more specific. I'd also make sure that I had ample leading zeros on the version number so they sort correctly.
Or even better yet, have a pacman directory, a directory for each language, then for each group, and then for the versions that group has put out. You can nicely browse through the directories with either a GUI or CLI that way. Plus things are nicely organized that way.
My god. Our users are so dumb they can barely remember the name they gave a file 10 minutes ago, and now you want them to think in terms of "concepts," "terms," and "shortcuts"? This will confuse them sooo much it isn't even funny.
Oh yeah, I'm not saying that this study is suggesting something really novel, or even necessarily needed. All they are really talking about is integrating a true history into the back button. It's way overdone.
Personally I'd like to be able to get my true chronological history using alt+ -, instead of opening the history window and trying to remember where exactly I was, but I agree with the poster who said that this is pretty far down the list of needed features for browsers.
But the cool thing is that it should be a fairly trivial hack to add to Mozilla.
1) Go to the Slashdot main page at http://slashdot.org
2) Go to the discussion about the back button.
3) Click your back button and go back to the main page
4) Click on the link to the discussion about Microsoft being its own worst enemy.
5) Now try to use your back button to get back to the discussion about the back button. On both Mozilla 1.2.1 and IE 6, that piece of data is gone. You go back to the slashdot main page and then back to the site you visited before slashdot. It is a feature I've been annoyed with for awhile.
At the end of the day, I can't just hit alt+- and revisit every page I've been to.
Why is it gone? Because you went "up" in the directory hierarchy to the main slashdot page and so it erased the back button discussion.
I can get to the page in the history of course. And as I read the article, that's really what they are talking about (at least as I understood it): integrating the history into the back button so that you can more easily retrace your steps.
At least that's what I think they are talking about.
Except some software you cannot just resell if you are not using it anymore. Most software bought through an educational discount, for example, cannot be resold or resold within a certain number of years. The license of windows that you got with your new computer? Can only be sold with the computer. So if you get a new computer and then put linux on it, you are most likely still stuck with the license.
It's been awhile, so I missed that nuance. And there is a very fine line between technology and art. I would argue that a very well built piece of technology is art; there is an art in the creation of a tool, a technology, that is so fit for its purpose that it could be nothing else.
A local museum here had an display of old tools, and in a time when each tool was hand made, there was no difference between the technology of the tool and the art of the tool. It is difficult for me to describe, mainly because I don't remember what all the tools were. But it went beyond making something "pretty" -- an inlaid handle on a saw, the fretwork decorations on a sawhorse that had been used for years.
The best comparison I can make that might make sense to the slashdot crowd is an algorithm. Some algorithms are so perfect that they are a thing of beauty. Here's one someone showed me that is a very short example of what I mean. Swap the values of two variables without using a 3rd variable.
Many times the dwarves lament the fact that they have lost their knowledge of how to make something or create a technology. It seems that their longing for the past is a longing to a return to technology.
Yes, the person who makes the table controls the conditions under which it is sold. Those conditions may include the way the table is used, sure. And you as a purchaser should be free to either:
1) negotiate the terms under which it is sold 2) Purchase a table with different condition
or find someone else to deal with. (We won't get into the issue of a table monopoly here.)
If you read the inside cover of most books, you'll see something like "This book is sold under the condition that it not to be resold under a different cover." Or something like that, don't have anything to hand here at work. What it means is that the book is sold to you under the condition that you may not rip the cover off and put your own cover on it and resell it. Doesn't mean you can't sell the book, just that you can't repackage it and sell it.
As others have pointed out, you are free to copy and give away RMS's book, under the condition that you put in the copyright notice. So there's a couple of examples from the real world. That's why the book is essentially GPL'ed, not put out under the freebsd license. I think I got that right. Under GPL, redistributors must credit original authors and make source code available (another restriction on the use of your table -- if you copy it, you provide blueprints so people can build their own) but with freebsd, people can just steal it and never give you credit. Is that right? Not sure here.
It's about everyone having choices, including the producers. It is your choice to be an idiot and say that the table may only be used to serve turkey, and that it violates the terms of the sale to serve ham on the table. People make contracts for all sorts of stupid things, and they should be free to do so.
My problem with FSF and RMS is actually the basic tenet of the moment: the idea that the producer (developer) has no more rights than the consumer (user).
Thank you. I've been saying this myself on slashdot every so often. The person who does the work, who puts the time into the creation should have more say in what happens to that creation than the schlub that sits on the sofa and picks his nose. Maybe it's that old Protestant work ethic, maybe it's from having "The Little Red Hen" read to me too much as a child. I don't know. But it just seems so intuitive that the person who does the work, gets a say. If you don't do the work, i.e., sponge off the work of others like a slug, you don't get a say.
That having been said, you have to admire RMS for his contributions. He practices what he preaches.
Appealing a ruling is certainly not trying someone twice for the same crime. What's happening is that they are taking the case to the next level of the appeal process. Happens all the time, all the way up to the Supreme Court of the US. This has nothing at all to do with trying them twice. In fact, they've been found guilty. What the argument is over is the punishment.
Think of it this way. Someone negligently drives their vehicle into your house (Happened here last week, a semi lost control and took out half a house. Everything else in the example is made up.) Now let's pretend that the driver was forced by the company to drive 12 hours a day, clearly against the rules. The trucking company's insurance refuses to pay. You take them to court and allege 1) that their employee knowingly violated trucking rules and regulations 2) that the company knew their driver was breaking the law 3) that the company forced them to break the law and 4) that the driver was on company business at the time of the accident. The jury finds in your favor. The trucker, his company, and their insurance are all found liable. Then the judge says, "You get a dollar out of this to pay for your medical bills and to rebuild your house, and the company can continue to break the rules." First, you'd be pretty po'd. Second, you'd appeal the judges ruling to a higher court. Which is exactly what's happening here.
But what if I only paid for the channels I actually watched? That would be the capitalist ideal--channels would have to actually put something on that people would pay for. Instead, you have to take a package that includes crap like TBS, TBN, a bazillion espns, etc. I could easily get by with about 10 stations at the moment, plus 4 broadcast stations that fall under the must carry rule. SF, TNN, CNN, CNNhn, BBC, TLC, Discover, Animal Planet, Showtime and HBO, Fox, WB (our local station carries Buffy and Enterprise because we don't have a UPN affiliate).
Since you could never get it to network to anything, it could not be hacked from the Internet
Put this in your autoexec.bat file and smoke it:
lsl 3c905x [or whatever driver you needed for your card. We always used 3com 3c905 cards] tcpip
and boom you are networked. Used to do it all the time for 486's that were on our network. Network them before you even loaded windows.
Even today I make bootable floppies that network a computer so we can get driveimage files off our novell server, so we get both tcp/ip and ipx/spx (its an old server).
The "plex" theme looked familiar, and then I realized where I've seen it before. It is Redhat's Bluecurve theme, with windows with rounded corners, combined with Aqua's jellybean/translucent buttons.
Or am I imagining it?
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1) Vaporware. Simple. If the product hasn't shipped, then don't donate. After all, the point is that the software exists now (either for free with a suggested donation or for a normal price) but the license is restrictive and the source is closed until the goal is met. People used Blender before it went open source. Now it is open source. If you are donating before a product even ships, then you take that risk.
2) Shifting release conditions. It seems to me that by paying for the software, you are entering into a contract with the copyright holder. They are licensing the product to you for a price and in return you get the right to use the product and the promise that when certain conditions are met, the product will be open source. If the conditions are changed, then the company has violated the terms of the license and the license holders should have a cause of action for a lawsuit for breach of contract. A reasonable settlement would be to make all the code open sourse at that point.
3) The name. Change it to GoalWare. The developers have a goal and the users have a goal. They work together as a team to reach it.
I thought cable was invented to give people in rural areas access to television
Ah, the lies we are told. I remember when I was young, they used to say things like that. And they told us that because we were paying for a service, there'd be no need for commercials (seriously, they used to say that with a straight face).
Kidding aside, what they meant was that small towns that were hidden in valleys and so forth and couldn't get reception over the air would be able to use cable to get the signal to houses in the town. No one ever seriously considered running 8 miles worth of cable to get to *one* rural farm house. They were just going to run it in town only. That's why if you drive around in the country here you'll see lots of folks with satellite dishes. A lot of them even have the big 6 foot models. I looked into those, and at the time they would sell you descramblers on a per channel basis. Only want Disney? Then pay 4 bucks for the Disney channel and you won't have to get 20 home shopping networks thrown in. Nice deal, but I think those days are gone.
I copied the code, saved it as a.html, put it up on a webserver and opened it with IE 6. All that happened was the help file started.
I remember a similar vulnerability from a couple months ago (it too was based on the windows help file), and I patched against that, so maybe that patch stopped this one? I don't normally use IE, but maybe I flipped something to turn off some of the scripting.
Disney renowned for its original work? Even assuming you managed to miss all the listings of public domain works that Disney has done, a few seconds of though would show that Disny produces almost no original story lines. The last one they did was Lilo and Stitch. Just off the top of my head here's a list of public domain works they used that the above lists missed:
Aladdin Beauty and the Beast Little Mermaid Hunchback of Notre Dame A Christmas Carol (Mickey's Christmas Carol)
Note that these last three were originally copyrighted works that entered the public domain when their copyright expired. Something that Disney capitalizes on all the time, yet has paid congress to protect itself from. Ok, I could have written that a little better, but you get the idea.
Ecite must hate you. I had no problem following your link. Mozilla 1.1 on XP. I even signed up for yet another excite account which I will happily ignore. Logged me in no problems.
What are your cookie settings? I've enabled all cookies. I logged out, changed my settings to enable cookies from originating site only and then logged back in ok.
Access is more than just a combo of mysql and php. It pretty much allows the user to click through wizards and make basic entry forms, queries, and reports. While you can certainly accomplish all of that using php and mysql (I do), the ease of use of Access is its main strength.
I can walk a person through making a query over the phone with my eyes closed. Telling them how to make a while loop and proper line termination syntax is simply not going to happen.
In fact, as a database implementation, it isn't that great.
The closest thing to access is StarOffice/OpenOffice's data access and macros. If Access is a 9 in terms of ease of use for simple things, SO/OOo is a 7.
Their on line section has alway sworked for me in Mozilla, Netscape and Konqueror. I've never tried it in Opera -- not a big Opera fan.
Plus, I don't get charged to use ATM's owned by them and about a dozen other banks.
Every one was praising Wells Fargo, but until recently Iowa had a law on the books that made it illegal to charge for ATM usage. We could use our cards in any ATM in the state, no matter who owned them, with no charge. Wells Fargo sued to have the law repealed and won. So I'm not a big Wells Fargo fan.
Re:Don't compare Mac OS Finder to Windows Explorer
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The 10th time is something like this:
Given directory foo with the following files: a.txt 1.hlp bb.doc 123.wpd memo to smith lunch meeting dog.jpg cat.gif homepage.html
Move cat.gif, "memo to smith", bb.doc, and 1.hlp to directory bar.
In a gui, you hold the ctrl key down and it takes about 7 clicks total. From the command line, there's not much you can do to make it fast since the files have nothing in common.
This comes up pretty frequently for end users. For sysadmins the story is different, but most end users don't have files that lend themselves to regular expressions or something that makes the cli efficient. The file names and contents are almost random, so there's no efficient way to group them.
Not to mention the fact that it corrupts its own codes. Everyone always says how wonderful it is that you can reveal codes. You wouldn't need it if WP didn't mess up its own documents so much.
You don't know hell until you've picked out all the bad code in a 100 page document.
WP takes a simple sentence like this:
"Alexander had a horse"
and turns it into:
"[font: Arial 16pt]Alexander [font: Times New Roman][font: italic on][font:italic off][font: italic on][font:italic off][font: italic on][font:italic off][font: italic on][font:italic off][font: Arial 14pt][font size: 16pt]had a [bold on][bold off][margin +.5][margin -.5] horse"
They actually put out a program that would fix files that WP corrupted.
Yes. The box in my office at work, a P-II 300 with 196 megs of ram, running Mandrake 9. Mozilla takes about 5 seconds to load. My Mandrake 9 box at home, Athlon 1800+ with 512 megs is quite snappy. I think Mozilla actually loads faster in Linux than Windows.
Re:I was making $33,000 a year when I was 19
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I really don't understand this attitude, surely "America" is PRIMARILY a result of what happens in your coast cities.
Except that if you took out our midsection, a lot of people would starve. The midwest produces a large proportion of the world's food supply.
What does New York produce? California produces movies. While the coasts are certainly the cultural centers, and produce a lot of cultural exports, they don't produce as much actual product.
The "flyover" part of the country has the cornbelt, the rustbelt(where a lot manufacturing occurs, including a few cars still), oilfields in Texas, coal in Pennsylvania (which gets dangerously close to those New Yorkers;) )
If New York and California were to vanish, we'd certainly miss a lot of entertainment and cultural artifacts. But if Iowa and Kansas were to dissappear, a lot of people would starve.
Economically smaller than the UK? Iowa alone exports around 4 billion dollars in agricultural products. For exports of all items, Minnesota has a total of 9.6 billion exports, Illinois around 32 billion, Texas around 92 billion. You get the idea. Total UK exports are only around $321 billion. I bet if you added up all the exports from the midsection states, they would total more than 321 billion. Exports aren't necessarily the best comparison though. You really should use gdp, but I'm not inclined to look up the gdp for the other 40 odd states that would comprise the middle part of the country and total them.
California rolling blackouts may certainly be world news, but if the Iowa and Kansas crops fail, a good portion of the world won't eat.
Re:I was making $33,000 a year when I was 19
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33,000 a year when you are 19 is a good amount. There are plenty of people who would be glad to start out at that amount.
Unless you are in one of the coast cities I guess, where everything is outrageous.
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I guess I'm wondering why you wouldn't name your files "Pacman - E - Dumbass group - 0713" to go from generic to more specific. I'd also make sure that I had ample leading zeros on the version number so they sort correctly.
Or even better yet, have a pacman directory, a directory for each language, then for each group, and then for the versions that group has put out. You can nicely browse through the directories with either a GUI or CLI that way. Plus things are nicely organized that way.
My god. Our users are so dumb they can barely remember the name they gave a file 10 minutes ago, and now you want them to think in terms of "concepts," "terms," and "shortcuts"? This will confuse them sooo much it isn't even funny.
Oh yeah, I'm not saying that this study is suggesting something really novel, or even necessarily needed. All they are really talking about is integrating a true history into the back button. It's way overdone.
Personally I'd like to be able to get my true chronological history using alt+ -, instead of opening the history window and trying to remember where exactly I was, but I agree with the poster who said that this is pretty far down the list of needed features for browsers.
But the cool thing is that it should be a fairly trivial hack to add to Mozilla.
No, I don't think you do. Try the following:
1) Go to the Slashdot main page at http://slashdot.org
2) Go to the discussion about the back button.
3) Click your back button and go back to the main page
4) Click on the link to the discussion about Microsoft being its own worst enemy.
5) Now try to use your back button to get back to the discussion about the back button. On both Mozilla 1.2.1 and IE 6, that piece of data is gone. You go back to the slashdot main page and then back to the site you visited before slashdot. It is a feature I've been annoyed with for awhile.
At the end of the day, I can't just hit alt+- and revisit every page I've been to.
Why is it gone? Because you went "up" in the directory hierarchy to the main slashdot page and so it erased the back button discussion.
I can get to the page in the history of course. And as I read the article, that's really what they are talking about (at least as I understood it): integrating the history into the back button so that you can more easily retrace your steps.
At least that's what I think they are talking about.
Except some software you cannot just resell if you are not using it anymore. Most software bought through an educational discount, for example, cannot be resold or resold within a certain number of years. The license of windows that you got with your new computer? Can only be sold with the computer. So if you get a new computer and then put linux on it, you are most likely still stuck with the license.
It's been awhile, so I missed that nuance. And there is a very fine line between technology and art. I would argue that a very well built piece of technology is art; there is an art in the creation of a tool, a technology, that is so fit for its purpose that it could be nothing else.
A local museum here had an display of old tools, and in a time when each tool was hand made, there was no difference between the technology of the tool and the art of the tool. It is difficult for me to describe, mainly because I don't remember what all the tools were. But it went beyond making something "pretty" -- an inlaid handle on a saw, the fretwork decorations on a sawhorse that had been used for years.
The best comparison I can make that might make sense to the slashdot crowd is an algorithm. Some algorithms are so perfect that they are a thing of beauty. Here's one someone showed me that is a very short example of what I mean. Swap the values of two variables without using a 3rd variable.
a=3 b=5 | a=3 b=5
a=b-a | a=2 b=5
b=b-a | a=2 b=3
a=b+a | a=5 b=3
Elegant and artistic in its simplicity. I know, could have been a better example, but it's the best I could think of.
Many times the dwarves lament the fact that they have lost their knowledge of how to make something or create a technology. It seems that their longing for the past is a longing to a return to technology.
Yes, the person who makes the table controls the conditions under which it is sold. Those conditions may include the way the table is used, sure. And you as a purchaser should be free to either:
1) negotiate the terms under which it is sold
2) Purchase a table with different condition
or find someone else to deal with. (We won't get into the issue of a table monopoly here.)
If you read the inside cover of most books, you'll see something like "This book is sold under the condition that it not to be resold under a different cover." Or something like that, don't have anything to hand here at work. What it means is that the book is sold to you under the condition that you may not rip the cover off and put your own cover on it and resell it. Doesn't mean you can't sell the book, just that you can't repackage it and sell it.
As others have pointed out, you are free to copy and give away RMS's book, under the condition that you put in the copyright notice. So there's a couple of examples from the real world. That's why the book is essentially GPL'ed, not put out under the freebsd license. I think I got that right. Under GPL, redistributors must credit original authors and make source code available (another restriction on the use of your table -- if you copy it, you provide blueprints so people can build their own) but with freebsd, people can just steal it and never give you credit. Is that right? Not sure here.
It's about everyone having choices, including the producers. It is your choice to be an idiot and say that the table may only be used to serve turkey, and that it violates the terms of the sale to serve ham on the table. People make contracts for all sorts of stupid things, and they should be free to do so.
My problem with FSF and RMS is actually the basic tenet of the moment: the idea that the producer (developer) has no more rights than the consumer (user).
Thank you. I've been saying this myself on slashdot every so often. The person who does the work, who puts the time into the creation should have more say in what happens to that creation than the schlub that sits on the sofa and picks his nose. Maybe it's that old Protestant work ethic, maybe it's from having "The Little Red Hen" read to me too much as a child. I don't know. But it just seems so intuitive that the person who does the work, gets a say. If you don't do the work, i.e., sponge off the work of others like a slug, you don't get a say.
That having been said, you have to admire RMS for his contributions. He practices what he preaches.
Appealing a ruling is certainly not trying someone twice for the same crime. What's happening is that they are taking the case to the next level of the appeal process. Happens all the time, all the way up to the Supreme Court of the US. This has nothing at all to do with trying them twice. In fact, they've been found guilty. What the argument is over is the punishment.
Think of it this way. Someone negligently drives their vehicle into your house (Happened here last week, a semi lost control and took out half a house. Everything else in the example is made up.) Now let's pretend that the driver was forced by the company to drive 12 hours a day, clearly against the rules. The trucking company's insurance refuses to pay. You take them to court and allege 1) that their employee knowingly violated trucking rules and regulations 2) that the company knew their driver was breaking the law 3) that the company forced them to break the law and 4) that the driver was on company business at the time of the accident. The jury finds in your favor. The trucker, his company, and their insurance are all found liable. Then the judge says, "You get a dollar out of this to pay for your medical bills and to rebuild your house, and the company can continue to break the rules." First, you'd be pretty po'd. Second, you'd appeal the judges ruling to a higher court. Which is exactly what's happening here.
But what if I only paid for the channels I actually watched? That would be the capitalist ideal--channels would have to actually put something on that people would pay for. Instead, you have to take a package that includes crap like TBS, TBN, a bazillion espns, etc. I could easily get by with about 10 stations at the moment, plus 4 broadcast stations that fall under the must carry rule. SF, TNN, CNN, CNNhn, BBC, TLC, Discover, Animal Planet, Showtime and HBO, Fox, WB (our local station carries Buffy and Enterprise because we don't have a UPN affiliate).
Since you could never get it to network to anything, it could not be hacked from the Internet
Put this in your autoexec.bat file and smoke it:
lsl
3c905x [or whatever driver you needed for your card. We always used 3com 3c905 cards]
tcpip
and boom you are networked. Used to do it all the time for 486's that were on our network. Network them before you even loaded windows.
Even today I make bootable floppies that network a computer so we can get driveimage files off our novell server, so we get both tcp/ip and ipx/spx (its an old server).
The "plex" theme looked familiar, and then I realized where I've seen it before. It is Redhat's Bluecurve theme, with windows with rounded corners, combined with Aqua's jellybean/translucent buttons.
Or am I imagining it?
1) Vaporware. Simple. If the product hasn't shipped, then don't donate. After all, the point is that the software exists now (either for free with a suggested donation or for a normal price) but the license is restrictive and the source is closed until the goal is met. People used Blender before it went open source. Now it is open source. If you are donating before a product even ships, then you take that risk.
2) Shifting release conditions. It seems to me that by paying for the software, you are entering into a contract with the copyright holder. They are licensing the product to you for a price and in return you get the right to use the product and the promise that when certain conditions are met, the product will be open source. If the conditions are changed, then the company has violated the terms of the license and the license holders should have a cause of action for a lawsuit for breach of contract. A reasonable settlement would be to make all the code open sourse at that point.
3) The name. Change it to GoalWare. The developers have a goal and the users have a goal. They work together as a team to reach it.
Ah, the lies we are told. I remember when I was young, they used to say things like that. And they told us that because we were paying for a service, there'd be no need for commercials (seriously, they used to say that with a straight face).
Kidding aside, what they meant was that small towns that were hidden in valleys and so forth and couldn't get reception over the air would be able to use cable to get the signal to houses in the town. No one ever seriously considered running 8 miles worth of cable to get to *one* rural farm house. They were just going to run it in town only. That's why if you drive around in the country here you'll see lots of folks with satellite dishes. A lot of them even have the big 6 foot models. I looked into those, and at the time they would sell you descramblers on a per channel basis. Only want Disney? Then pay 4 bucks for the Disney channel and you won't have to get 20 home shopping networks thrown in. Nice deal, but I think those days are gone.
I copied the code, saved it as a.html, put it up on a webserver and opened it with IE 6. All that happened was the help file started.
I remember a similar vulnerability from a couple months ago (it too was based on the windows help file), and I patched against that, so maybe that patch stopped this one? I don't normally use IE, but maybe I flipped something to turn off some of the scripting.
Anybody else not have a problem?
Disney renowned for its original work? Even assuming you managed to miss all the listings of public domain works that Disney has done, a few seconds of though would show that Disny produces almost no original story lines. The last one they did was Lilo and Stitch. Just off the top of my head here's a list of public domain works they used that the above lists missed:
Aladdin
Beauty and the Beast
Little Mermaid
Hunchback of Notre Dame
A Christmas Carol (Mickey's Christmas Carol)
Note that these last three were originally copyrighted works that entered the public domain when their copyright expired. Something that Disney capitalizes on all the time, yet has paid congress to protect itself from. Ok, I could have written that a little better, but you get the idea.
Ecite must hate you. I had no problem following your link. Mozilla 1.1 on XP. I even signed up for yet another excite account which I will happily ignore. Logged me in no problems.
What are your cookie settings? I've enabled all cookies. I logged out, changed my settings to enable cookies from originating site only and then logged back in ok.
Access is more than just a combo of mysql and php. It pretty much allows the user to click through wizards and make basic entry forms, queries, and reports. While you can certainly accomplish all of that using php and mysql (I do), the ease of use of Access is its main strength.
I can walk a person through making a query over the phone with my eyes closed. Telling them how to make a while loop and proper line termination syntax is simply not going to happen.
In fact, as a database implementation, it isn't that great.
The closest thing to access is StarOffice/OpenOffice's data access and macros. If Access is a 9 in terms of ease of use for simple things, SO/OOo is a 7.
Their on line section has alway sworked for me in Mozilla, Netscape and Konqueror. I've never tried it in Opera -- not a big Opera fan.
Plus, I don't get charged to use ATM's owned by them and about a dozen other banks.
Every one was praising Wells Fargo, but until recently Iowa had a law on the books that made it illegal to charge for ATM usage. We could use our cards in any ATM in the state, no matter who owned them, with no charge. Wells Fargo sued to have the law repealed and won. So I'm not a big Wells Fargo fan.
The 10th time is something like this:
Given directory foo with the following files:
a.txt
1.hlp
bb.doc
123.wpd
memo to smith
lunch meeting
dog.jpg
cat.gif
homepage.html
Move cat.gif, "memo to smith", bb.doc, and 1.hlp to directory bar.
In a gui, you hold the ctrl key down and it takes about 7 clicks total. From the command line, there's not much you can do to make it fast since the files have nothing in common.
This comes up pretty frequently for end users. For sysadmins the story is different, but most end users don't have files that lend themselves to regular expressions or something that makes the cli efficient. The file names and contents are almost random, so there's no efficient way to group them.
Not to mention the fact that it corrupts its own codes. Everyone always says how wonderful it is that you can reveal codes. You wouldn't need it if WP didn't mess up its own documents so much.
You don't know hell until you've picked out all the bad code in a 100 page document.
WP takes a simple sentence like this:
"Alexander had a horse"
and turns it into:
"[font: Arial 16pt]Alexander [font: Times New Roman][font: italic on][font:italic off][font: italic on][font:italic off][font: italic on][font:italic off][font: italic on][font:italic off][font: Arial 14pt][font size: 16pt]had a [bold on][bold off][margin +.5][margin -.5] horse"
They actually put out a program that would fix files that WP corrupted.
Yes. The box in my office at work, a P-II 300 with 196 megs of ram, running Mandrake 9. Mozilla takes about 5 seconds to load. My Mandrake 9 box at home, Athlon 1800+ with 512 megs is quite snappy. I think Mozilla actually loads faster in Linux than Windows.
I really don't understand this attitude, surely "America" is PRIMARILY a result of what happens in your coast cities.
Except that if you took out our midsection, a lot of people would starve. The midwest produces a large proportion of the world's food supply.
What does New York produce? California produces movies. While the coasts are certainly the cultural centers, and produce a lot of cultural exports, they don't produce as much actual product.
The "flyover" part of the country has the cornbelt, the rustbelt(where a lot manufacturing occurs, including a few cars still), oilfields in Texas, coal in Pennsylvania (which gets dangerously close to those New Yorkers ;) )
If New York and California were to vanish, we'd certainly miss a lot of entertainment and cultural artifacts. But if Iowa and Kansas were to dissappear, a lot of people would starve.
Economically smaller than the UK? Iowa alone exports around 4 billion dollars in agricultural products. For exports of all items, Minnesota has a total of 9.6 billion exports, Illinois around 32 billion, Texas around 92 billion. You get the idea. Total UK exports are only around $321 billion. I bet if you added up all the exports from the midsection states, they would total more than 321 billion. Exports aren't necessarily the best comparison though. You really should use gdp, but I'm not inclined to look up the gdp for the other 40 odd states that would comprise the middle part of the country and total them.
California rolling blackouts may certainly be world news, but if the Iowa and Kansas crops fail, a good portion of the world won't eat.
33,000 a year when you are 19 is a good amount. There are plenty of people who would be glad to start out at that amount.
Unless you are in one of the coast cities I guess, where everything is outrageous.