The way it was explained to me: When your electorate wakes up and realizes that pollution is actually BAD, and they're ready to legislate, its much easier to legislate something like "three power plands over there: comply with better emissions standards" than "hey you 400,000 civvies, please replace your car engines this year". Of course, this takes an idealistic view of government, that says its easier for the government to boss around a few corporations than the whole electorate.
You've got the idea, just substitute "wouldn't boot due to a driver or service pack issue" with "wouldn't boot because I don't have the necessary password". Boot an interloper OS, mount the filesystem, corrupt it in some way, unmount, reboot, "all your base are belong to yadda yadda yadda"...
Right. That's the idea! The tip of the elevator is essentially a mini-moon, a little bit farther out than geosynchronous orbit. That's what keeps the whole thing from, y'know, falling down. : )
Not really. In the worst case scenario, the ribbon breaks, the crew vehicle parachutes down into the ocean and the crew is rescued, pieces of ribbon float down like confetti, nobody gets hurt, nobody dies. Compare that to the history of the shuttle program, where many failure scenarios lead to the disintegration of the crew vehicle and the loss of all hands.
Oh, dude, its so much better in Red Mars... a rope multiple times the equitorial circumfrence, falling down on the equator, at mach-very-fast, killing 5% of the population....
It often happens that web pages hosting PDFs and whatnot rig the links to open in a new window. With firefox this is a pain, because you click the link, an empty browser window comes up, then download manager comes up, then xpdf comes up. 4 windows for one damn document! I found the pref to cause download manager to not pop up, but I was wondering if you know of any way to get the empty browser window to not come up?
Geeks are cool. Why? Because their services are in demand and they can get good jobs.
Gangsta rap glorifies drug dealing. Why is it popular? Because drug dealing is seen as a means of social mobility for young poor black men. No wonder they're interested in it.
Considering that 4gb is enough to hold an entire operating system, a swap partition, and some key applications, I shake my head and wonder when you'll be satisfied? Sure, you're not going to be putting your mp3 collection on this drive, but you don't need to. IDE is fine for that kind of stuff.
That's the spirit. I'll trot out my time-tested technique of taping squares of old tee-shirt to the inside of the case. Someone will probably complain that'll cause the computer to die of lint poisoning, and I'll just come back with "if you're worried about dirt in your computer that's the least of your problems".
As long as we're making arbitrary changes that are going to **** over the system right good, I think we should make William Saphire happy and stop supporting the penny. Minting pennies costs a lot of money, and after all these years inflation has made them more trouble than they're worth. Worse than worthless, really, as handling them is a burden on cash-handling facilities like banks and stores.
We should just round to the nearest nickel, as we currently do with half-cents.
Add to this, there's NOTHING HAPPENING on the software front that is requiring new hardware. In 1996-8 the internet pushed a new wave of hardware buying, since 16mb 75mhz Pentium Is weren't up to the task of browsing the web. This killer app led to a new hardware "baby boom" that was predictable to the slashdot crowd. So what's on the horizon now to drive a new wave of hardware upgrades? VRML? Dead. Nasty Virii? Doesn't affect Macs. Anything else?
I see a long period of status-quo coming, hardware-wise.
For the clueless: Jubal Early was a semi-famous confederate general during the American Civil War. After a string of crushing defeats, he went into hybernation for a while. Awakening into the 24th century, he became black like me, and retrained himself to become a schizo Boba-Fett-esque bounty hunter.
There's good reason to believe that "Peak Oil" is already here. This is it. These are the painfully high gas prices we were warned about. (Historically speaking, gas prices today are horrifying. Ask your parents.)
Are you advocating demands that Apple Records provide free music DVDs to everybody who bought Yellow Submarine on 8 Track? If I bought a copy of Ping (book about the duck) and go blind am I entitled to a free copy on tape?
Yeah, but lets say, just hypothetically, that Paul McCartney refuses to release the original Yellow Submarione on CD. Instead, he'll be happy to sell you a new, digitally remastered Yellow Submarine, that's 'more true to his original vision'. It sucks donkey balls. And Greedo shoots first.
Then I think you have a moral imperative to 'liberate' a non-sucky version, for free, assuming you bought the original 8-track.
That "calculating the angles" thing always bugged me. I've never fired a gun, but it seems to me the physical act of squeezing the trigger gently and dealing with recoil would lead to some insurmountable odds on the second shot.
Not to mention the bad guys were looking right at her.
I wish she'd just stuck her gun hand around the corner, and not stuck her head out while firing. That woulda been cooler.
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The way it was explained to me:
When your electorate wakes up and realizes that pollution is actually BAD, and they're ready to legislate, its much easier to legislate something like "three power plands over there: comply with better emissions standards" than "hey you 400,000 civvies, please replace your car engines this year". Of course, this takes an idealistic view of government, that says its easier for the government to boss around a few corporations than the whole electorate.
You've got the idea, just substitute "wouldn't boot due to a driver or service pack issue" with "wouldn't boot because I don't have the necessary password". Boot an interloper OS, mount the filesystem, corrupt it in some way, unmount, reboot, "all your base are belong to yadda yadda yadda"...
Yeah, where "corrupted" means "not yet rooted".
Heh.
Dood. Just send my neighbor, he never leaves the house, just watches Tivo all day, every day.
Yet another reason not to drive. Wake me when they have bicycle virusues!
Right. That's the idea! The tip of the elevator is essentially a mini-moon, a little bit farther out than geosynchronous orbit. That's what keeps the whole thing from, y'know, falling down. : )
Interesting extension.
I have a somewhat related mozilla question.
It often happens that web pages hosting PDFs and whatnot rig the links to open in a new window. With firefox this is a pain, because you click the link, an empty browser window comes up, then download manager comes up, then xpdf comes up. 4 windows for one damn document! I found the pref to cause download manager to not pop up, but I was wondering if you know of any way to get the empty browser window to not come up?
You mean 99% of the XBox Userbase isn't really gay? (I believe everything I read.)
I've actually installed all his crab, and it doesn't even seem to work right.
The gnome theme highlights white text with white background on menu mouseover. Thanks!
The firefox theme I had to switch out because it was clearly corrupting memory - suddenly all my nav buttons started to look like the "back" button.
I couldn't get the gnome icon theme to install at all.
Nothing to see here, folks.
Q: why do you think its the most downloaded ever?
A: BoObIeS!!@1
So who has the cahones to develop a standards-compliant web browser for this gui? Meet the new killer app. Same as the old killer app.
I've been poking around for a viable web-surfing configuration for an 8mb pentium-1 system, and there really is nothing out there.
Where's the $ in that? Lets see, 10% of nothing is
Why would a commercial entity want to compete in the freely-downloadable-OS market?
Opera has been doing the equivalent in web browsers for years. You can see how they're now masters of that universe.
Rap is always about social mobility.
Geeks are cool. Why? Because their services are in demand and they can get good jobs.
Gangsta rap glorifies drug dealing. Why is it popular? Because drug dealing is seen as a means of social mobility for young poor black men. No wonder they're interested in it.
In both cases, rap celebrates social mobility.
Flame away, friends.
Considering that 4gb is enough to hold an entire operating system, a swap partition, and some key applications, I shake my head and wonder when you'll be satisfied? Sure, you're not going to be putting your mp3 collection on this drive, but you don't need to. IDE is fine for that kind of stuff.
So far so good. ;)
That's the spirit. I'll trot out my time-tested technique of taping squares of old tee-shirt to the inside of the case. Someone will probably complain that'll cause the computer to die of lint poisoning, and I'll just come back with "if you're worried about dirt in your computer that's the least of your problems".
As long as we're making arbitrary changes that are going to **** over the system right good, I think we should make William Saphire happy and stop supporting the penny. Minting pennies costs a lot of money, and after all these years inflation has made them more trouble than they're worth. Worse than worthless, really, as handling them is a burden on cash-handling facilities like banks and stores.
We should just round to the nearest nickel, as we currently do with half-cents.
That's my 2cents.
Add to this, there's NOTHING HAPPENING on the software front that is requiring new hardware. In 1996-8 the internet pushed a new wave of hardware buying, since 16mb 75mhz Pentium Is weren't up to the task of browsing the web. This killer app led to a new hardware "baby boom" that was predictable to the slashdot crowd. So what's on the horizon now to drive a new wave of hardware upgrades? VRML? Dead. Nasty Virii? Doesn't affect Macs. Anything else?
I see a long period of status-quo coming, hardware-wise.
So its obvious to you fellows, but not to me, why is WoD a state's rights issue?
For the clueless: Jubal Early was a semi-famous confederate general during the American Civil War. After a string of crushing defeats, he went into hybernation for a while. Awakening into the 24th century, he became black like me, and retrained himself to become a schizo Boba-Fett-esque bounty hunter.
In 1981 the cost of a gallon of gas was $3 in 2005 dollars. See "The Oil Uproar that Isn't."
So we pretty much know that the threshold for economic shit hitting the fan is between $2 and $3 per gallon in 2005 dollars, eh?
Then I think you have a moral imperative to 'liberate' a non-sucky version, for free, assuming you bought the original 8-track.
That "calculating the angles" thing always bugged me. I've never fired a gun, but it seems to me the physical act of squeezing the trigger gently and dealing with recoil would lead to some insurmountable odds on the second shot.
Not to mention the bad guys were looking right at her.
I wish she'd just stuck her gun hand around the corner, and not stuck her head out while firing. That woulda been cooler.