Is it possible that voting, if made so easy as a click of the mouse, placed right next to the CNN poll, would become as meaningless to the average person?
Don't forget the converse of this. For many people, this isn't easy, because they don't own a computer. To you and me, voting on the computer seems the simplest of things, ignoring implementation, but to the millions of people below the poverty line, even considering buying a computer is beyond their means. Now, I know that it's possible that we could also have public terminals from which the underprivileged could vote, but even that is discriminatory. Forcing the poor to get out of the house (or away from their two jobs) to go to a facility to vote while the more affluent get to spend two minutes doing the same thing from the comfort of their homes while still in their pajamas is wrong. That will end up meaning that the affluent have a more strongly heard voice than those less fortunate, and that is, very simply, wrong.
First off, using ``q'' to record commands is not a macro. The:map stuff are macros.
To use your example of repeating a register execution, instead of continually typing ``@@'' or ``@a'', you could, for example, try using ``:map q @aq'', which tells vim to execute ``@aq'' whenever you type ``q''. This puts vim in a loop, right? But vim has been intelligent enough in pretty much every case I've used to stop when its commands are no longer feasible. I feel certain, in reality, that I could manage to do everything past your setup in one macro. But, then again, I haven't tried.
I also get the impression that you were using external commands to perform greps and whatnot. You might want to take a look at vi's builtin ex support.
Or simply buying a high end CD transport (like the Mark Levinson No. 37, for one of many examples) and record the digital output? No need to hack at all. Just need a S/PDIF or AES/EBU input to your computer.
... named 'Bladerunner' (presumably, someone is a P.K. Dick fan)...
Presumably, someone is a William S. Burroughs fan. Or maybe Alan E. Nourse. Or perhaps Ridley Scott or Hampton Fancher or David Peoples. But Philip K. Dick never wrote a story called Blade Runner.
I'd like to add that, first, using the symbol was an absolutely brilliant move. He was no longer using the name that his former label had a contract on, yet he made it impossible for anyone to refer to him in any other manner. Secondly, while, technically, Prince is his stage name, it is also his real name -- Prince Rogers Nelson.
Let me give you a little snippet of how recording companies do business and then you tell me how they make money.
Recording label scout finds a band he likes
Scout promotes his band to execs
Execs decide they like the band and sign them to a contract
Label offers to loan the band money to record album
Band records album, usually taking quite some time, because they are new to the recording industry and they may not initially have 45-60 minutes of material
Band returns to label with finished album
Band finds that neither scout nor exec nor anyone they've ever seen before still works at label (the turnover in this industry surpasses even the tech sector for some reason)
No new exec is interested in publishing the band's album
Band tries to take album to another label, perhaps where the original scout or exec now works, but is unable to because they've signed a contract
Band still owes recording loan to label
Band languishes in debt because they cannot do anything with their created music nor start over without breach of contract
Label starts sending bill collectors for their loan payments
Maybe I should ask you to tell me how it could be possible for the label to fail to make money.
There are many bookstores where the distinction between living and dead is the distinction between fiction and literature. It usually works pretty well, as if a person's works are still in print after his death, then they're likely to be meritorious. It's also very objective. This doesn't always work, as your case points out. (I'm not arguing DNA's merit, but if Danielle Steel died tomorrow... well, you see where I'm going.) Genre authors don't usually make the jump, but some do.
There's a huge difference. The quote from the Bible (1 Timothy 6:10, BTW) does not claim that the mere existence of money is the (or a, depending on your translation) root of all evil, only that the love of it is. The fact that I need money as a tool to get by in the world is not a sin, but placing its acquisition above real goals is. It's kind of an extension of ``Thou shalt have no other gods before me''.
This is in direct opposition to the current fad ``Prayer of Jabez'' bullshit that tries to show that one obscure passage amongst an assload of begats (1 Chronicles 4) states that it's okay to accumulate money for its own sake.
<DISCLAIMER>I do not claim to be a Christian or a theologian, just a know-it-all.</DISCLAIMER>
I hope you're at least not using DTTerm. I've never seen a more backwards piece of engineering. Nothing I love more than trying to copy and paste text and having it move the text infinitesimally before deciding to paste it, all the while wasting about a second thinking about it. And I know why it does that, but have you ever needed (or wanted) to drag and drop text in the manner that that would suggest? In the immense bloat that is XTerm is still found a much livelier use experience. You might even be able to run ETerm with a transparent background under an unaccelerated X server and be more productive.
I'm not a grub aficionado, but shouldn't you be able to use it in place of lilo even in their example?
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Babbage, A Look Back
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In my OED, the first reference listed (which is supposed to be the earliest available printed example) for the usage of ``computer'' as a device rather than a person is from the January 22, 1898 issue of Engineering:
This was... a computer made by Mr. W. Cox. He described it as of the nature of a circular slide rule.
I don't know what the rule is for "prior art" (does it need to be published?), but I worked for Nando.net back in the early-to-mid 90s and we had a system that would qualify. We had a legacy system for newspaper editors that eventually got the data back in those systems back to a series of Perl scripts that we wrote that formatted it according to the site's format. Anyway, the editors wrote only text - no HTML.
I seriously doubt that they still use the same system, though.
Yes, but electricity is consumed, and is intended to be consumed. When you purchase things, you want them to be usable as many times as is possible, and books are intended to be used indefinitely, not arbitrarily taken away at the whim of someone else, be it your ISP, the provider's ISP, the provider himself, etc.
If anything, the book was a ``novelization'' of the screenplay, not the other way around. The movie was written as a movie by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick, and was later adapted into a novel by Clarke. There were some differences between the story that Clarke wrote as the screenplay and the final filmed version, but that is typical of filmmaking.
It's hard to pay for information, solely because it's intangible.
I think it has more to do with the fact that it's mutable and ephemeral. If you buy a paper book, then you know that it'll pretty much always be there unless you lose it or it decomposes, neither of which can be the fault of the entity that sold it to you. You have no such guarantee with online materials. It might go away with no notice whatsoever. In addition, using a book requires no preparation or additional equipment. It's easy. Reading online material requires that you dial up to the Internet, which has so many points of possible failure that it's useless to itemize them.
And downloading it to your computer and/or printing it out is probably going to cost more than purchasing it at a store. Consider how much it would cost to print out Cryptonomicon (918 pages) vs. buying a copy for $16 retail. These arguments remain fairly valid for media other than books as well. News sites may be an exception, as few people hoard old newspapers and news magazines.
So the intangibility isn't even solely a psychological one. There are very real reasons, as well.
First tech support question: Do you have our proprietary Windows-only driver installed properly?
Second tech support question: Can you run that driver through its test mode?
Somewhere along the way they'll force it out of you. And then tell you that they don't care if its their problem -- Linux/BSD/Solaris still isn't supported, and they won't help you.
Slashdot Mirror
Not that they did make something IE-specific (at least in this case), but IE is the browser that ships with MacOS.
Don't forget the converse of this. For many people, this isn't easy, because they don't own a computer. To you and me, voting on the computer seems the simplest of things, ignoring implementation, but to the millions of people below the poverty line, even considering buying a computer is beyond their means. Now, I know that it's possible that we could also have public terminals from which the underprivileged could vote, but even that is discriminatory. Forcing the poor to get out of the house (or away from their two jobs) to go to a facility to vote while the more affluent get to spend two minutes doing the same thing from the comfort of their homes while still in their pajamas is wrong. That will end up meaning that the affluent have a more strongly heard voice than those less fortunate, and that is, very simply, wrong.
First off, using ``q'' to record commands is not a macro. The :map stuff are macros.
To use your example of repeating a register execution, instead of continually typing ``@@'' or ``@a'', you could, for example, try using ``:map q @aq'', which tells vim to execute ``@aq'' whenever you type ``q''. This puts vim in a loop, right? But vim has been intelligent enough in pretty much every case I've used to stop when its commands are no longer feasible. I feel certain, in reality, that I could manage to do everything past your setup in one macro. But, then again, I haven't tried.
I also get the impression that you were using external commands to perform greps and whatnot. You might want to take a look at vi's builtin ex support.
Or simply buying a high end CD transport (like the Mark Levinson No. 37, for one of many examples) and record the digital output? No need to hack at all. Just need a S/PDIF or AES/EBU input to your computer.
The Shooting Gallery
Uhh-huh. And there are no audio devices that support uncompressed WMA or WAVs, either.
I believe that you like it, but shouldn't you have linked to a review that was a little more ... conciliatory?
I'd like to add that, first, using the symbol was an absolutely brilliant move. He was no longer using the name that his former label had a contract on, yet he made it impossible for anyone to refer to him in any other manner. Secondly, while, technically, Prince is his stage name, it is also his real name -- Prince Rogers Nelson.
- Recording label scout finds a band he likes
- Scout promotes his band to execs
- Execs decide they like the band and sign them to a contract
- Label offers to loan the band money to record album
- Band records album, usually taking quite some time, because they are new to the recording industry and they may not initially have 45-60 minutes of material
- Band returns to label with finished album
- Band finds that neither scout nor exec nor anyone they've ever seen before still works at label (the turnover in this industry surpasses even the tech sector for some reason)
- No new exec is interested in publishing the band's album
- Band tries to take album to another label, perhaps where the original scout or exec now works, but is unable to because they've signed a contract
- Band still owes recording loan to label
- Band languishes in debt because they cannot do anything with their created music nor start over without breach of contract
- Label starts sending bill collectors for their loan payments
Maybe I should ask you to tell me how it could be possible for the label to fail to make money.There are many bookstores where the distinction between living and dead is the distinction between fiction and literature. It usually works pretty well, as if a person's works are still in print after his death, then they're likely to be meritorious. It's also very objective. This doesn't always work, as your case points out. (I'm not arguing DNA's merit, but if Danielle Steel died tomorrow ... well, you see where I'm going.) Genre authors don't usually make the jump, but some do.
There's a huge difference. The quote from the Bible (1 Timothy 6:10, BTW) does not claim that the mere existence of money is the (or a, depending on your translation) root of all evil, only that the love of it is. The fact that I need money as a tool to get by in the world is not a sin, but placing its acquisition above real goals is. It's kind of an extension of ``Thou shalt have no other gods before me''.
This is in direct opposition to the current fad ``Prayer of Jabez'' bullshit that tries to show that one obscure passage amongst an assload of begats (1 Chronicles 4) states that it's okay to accumulate money for its own sake.
<DISCLAIMER>I do not claim to be a Christian or a theologian, just a know-it-all.</DISCLAIMER>
I hope you're at least not using DTTerm. I've never seen a more backwards piece of engineering. Nothing I love more than trying to copy and paste text and having it move the text infinitesimally before deciding to paste it, all the while wasting about a second thinking about it. And I know why it does that, but have you ever needed (or wanted) to drag and drop text in the manner that that would suggest? In the immense bloat that is XTerm is still found a much livelier use experience. You might even be able to run ETerm with a transparent background under an unaccelerated X server and be more productive.
I'm not a grub aficionado, but shouldn't you be able to use it in place of lilo even in their example?
I don't know what the rule is for "prior art" (does it need to be published?), but I worked for Nando.net back in the early-to-mid 90s and we had a system that would qualify. We had a legacy system for newspaper editors that eventually got the data back in those systems back to a series of Perl scripts that we wrote that formatted it according to the site's format. Anyway, the editors wrote only text - no HTML.
I seriously doubt that they still use the same system, though.
What the names mean
Yes, but electricity is consumed, and is intended to be consumed. When you purchase things, you want them to be usable as many times as is possible, and books are intended to be used indefinitely, not arbitrarily taken away at the whim of someone else, be it your ISP, the provider's ISP, the provider himself, etc.
If anything, the book was a ``novelization'' of the screenplay, not the other way around. The movie was written as a movie by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick, and was later adapted into a novel by Clarke. There were some differences between the story that Clarke wrote as the screenplay and the final filmed version, but that is typical of filmmaking.
And downloading it to your computer and/or printing it out is probably going to cost more than purchasing it at a store. Consider how much it would cost to print out Cryptonomicon (918 pages) vs. buying a copy for $16 retail. These arguments remain fairly valid for media other than books as well. News sites may be an exception, as few people hoard old newspapers and news magazines.
So the intangibility isn't even solely a psychological one. There are very real reasons, as well.
It still agreed that Microsoft is an operating system monopoly. Maybe you should read the news (or the decision itself), dumbass.
Sun Freeware has a snapshot version that compiles 64-bit binaries. It's not totally stable, though.