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This is not a new phenomena, I don't think. I can remember many times growing up near Atlanta when there'd be awful weather coming and all the TV reporters were telling us to hide in the basement, only to find that the line of storms divided and went around town.
It's been my observation that no significant weather happens in Midtown, and little happens anywhere in the metro area. Except smog
Actually when I was at Georgia Tech (1989-1995), slirp wasn't available and many of use used TIA (on Acme even!). I know I bought a TIA licence. Notice that the slirp page was from September, 1995; I graduated March 95.
Yes, generally speaking nothing has happened with LPFM; from what I've read it's just about impossible to get an LPFM license. Not impossible, however. C93 has been going for a while now. They're an LPFM station that we get around town.
PDF is great for one thing and one thing only: printing documents. Paper is superior to computer screens in many ways, and users often prefer to print documents that are too long to easily read online.
2) Personally I like the idea of a navigation bar on the side that reminds the reader where they are in the text, like the Outline view in Acrobat Reader (but don't use PDF!)or the way Google Groups shows threads.
3) Don't do things that break printing. If people need to print out a section, it should print properly. I can't tell you how many times I curse at web page designers when I print out a page to refer to later and the text flows off the right edge of the page!
4) Keep blocks of text small; I am of the opinion that scrolling through large blocks of text on-screen is mentally tiring and turns readers off. By the same token, don't do things that slow page loading down for dialup users!
5) If you include figures or pictures, use inlined thumbnails that load quickly, but are also links to full-sized (and printable?) images. Wrap text around the images in a way that is eye-pleasing and makes sense. Excess white space looks as unprofessional as too little.
6) Avoid flashy things that add nothing to the information you're trying to convey.
7) Read anything written on the subject by Jakob Nielson.
It's not the money that makes it hard; it's the human bent to self-aggrandizement and unwillingness to recognize where material blessing comes from that makes it hard.
See the story of the Rich Young Ruler (Mark 10:17-30). The money didn't make him leave sad. It was his love of money that did.
The saying has little to do with money, and everything to do with one's attitude towards it.
The same model as PBS could work. Basically no one donates, you get interrupted every 4 months or so, and it all ends up being supported by Exxon/Mobil or some other extremely rich coporation/individuals and tax money.
I don't know about that; I worked many a begathon at Georgia Public Television, and many people called in and made pledges. Now I'm sure that statistically it's a small number, but I assure you it's greater than zero.
I remember distinctly several shows that got special play because they were such draws. "Yanni-- Live at the Acropolis" comes to mind, as does "Moody Blues-- Live at Red Rocks." Both of those concerts got multiple plays during the pledge period because so many people would call in during those shows.
I don't know if they ever actually beat the Whovians, however. "Dr. Who" was just about the biggest pledge draw they had.
Not all of them were from Georgia, either. I fielded calls from every border state with people watching.
One thing you got to remember is that the blank CD's we pay for, some of that money goes back to the companies that make music
This is only true if you buy "Audio" CD-Rs. They're labelled differently, and are more expensive than non-"Audio" CD-Rs. "Audio" CD-Rs also have codes on them that allow them to be used by home stereo CD recorders. Data discs do not have that code.
So you're advocating that open source authors get paid from either locally-collected (as in the case of libraries) or nationally-collected (as is the case of NPR and PBS) taxes?
Or that they should have their software, for a two-week period every six months, interrupt what your doing every few hours with modal dialog boxes that block your work until you pledge more money (as PBS and most public radio do)?
It would probably be less expensive to just go out and buy a new one. I'm sure their "reasonable replacement charge plus shipping" would total more than what a trip to Wal-Mart for a new CD would cost.
Actually, back in April my wife and I chapperoned a trip to Paris and London. I remember seeing several interesting cars over there, and picked up a newspaper or two to read about them.
I was absolutely shocked at how poorly they did for fuel economy (and how expensive they were in general!). I read a review of the VauxhallZafira, I think it was. Thirteen thousand pounds for that little box! Yikes! The top-of-the-line GSi costs twenty thousand pounds and only gets 35 MPG on the highway? Their Astra model is just as expensive for the most part, but gets much better milage, not that Americans would buy a diesel-powered car that small for what amounts to $20K.
"Stabbed in the back" would be better, but I think that a more appropriate sentiment would be "hijacked": Since Safari is based on the same engine as Konqueror, if Safari development lags the project could be hijacked by the Konqueror devlopers.
Yep! Send a few bucks my way (cost of CDs, shipping, and maybe a few minutes of my time to burn them), and *I* could send you a set of Red Hat's latest!
As long as the ISOs are available for download *somewhere*, burned copies will be be ready for the asking-- just not from Red Hat.
Once again, the point is missed: no computer neophyte installs *any* operating system. They bought a machine that had Windows pre-installed on it. They upgrade through Windows Update (if they can). They NEVER install an OS of any stripe.
To even begin considering installing an operating system takes them out of the league of the complete newbie and puts them in the realm of the half-clued. Even people with half a clue can click "OK" or make a choice from a menu of options.
I've run Red Hat 7.1 and now 9.0 on my box at home. In both cases the install could have been done by just about anyone with that mythic half-a-clue. The installation CDs are bootable. The installation programs take care of disk partitioning and formatting as required. Kudzu finds the different hardware pieces. The only thing that didn't work right out of the box was the Nvidia ethernet system on my new Abit NF7-M motherboard. Other than that, everything worked "out of the box" for both that board and the Asus P5A (and the video/audio/ethernet cards used with it) it replaced.
My wife runs Win98 on her machine. I've installed Windows on it and on the many machines I worked on at the school she taught in. Installing Windows is no more and no less difficult than any modern Red Hat distribution. Except the built-in VIA hardware on her Biostar M7-VKQ wasn't recognized and I had to manually install driver for them *all*. I suppose that makes Win98 *more* difficult than Red Hat!
I don't know about that; I've found Red Hat 9 most impressive.
* My winprinter (Samsung ML-1210) works right out of the box; it's a menu pick in the printer setup program!
* My USB scanner worked the first time (once I figured out which was the proper firmware file).
* Nautilus' built-in CD creation facility beats the pants off (my experience is admittedly limited) Windows CD creation products.
* The included version of Wine actually *prints*! I was never able to get it configured properly to use my printers; now it works right out of the box!
Gotta give those guys credit. I downloaded the ISOs for 9 (I bought 7.1), but I think I just may have to get the box for it so they'll keep going.
Your insurance provider isn't picking up the rest; the other subscribers to your plans are.
Most insurance works basically the same way: a group of people pay into a "pool" of money (that's the premiums you pay) that gets disbursed when one of them file a claim. It's kinda like a betting pool in that the money that the winner (insurance claimant) receives comes from the others in the pool.
The key to insurance is having (many) more people paying in than filing claims. Obviously, if everybody "wins" (hurricane, anyone?) the pool of money can't cover the claims. That's the problem with Social Security and Medicare-- everybody that plays wins!
So anyway, you're welcome for my contributions to your subsidized healthcare.
Our local paper, Florida Today, has more reporting and it was the above-the-fold news today.
From my point of view, this is the most impressive part of the whole thing:
The real panels cost $800,000 each. So combined with the $1 million custom-built wing frame, the cost of the tests is $4.2 million not counting the fake fiberglass parts or money paid to Southwest Research Institute for use of its unique nitrogen gas gun.
That's an awful lot of testing that's been done for a mere $4.2 million! Last winter I was involved with some testing that cost $500,000 and the result was a little 50-page report. Way to go, NASA! Hooray for SRI!
What's the big deal, anyway? Every field of endevor has its own terms that are used (almost) exclusively within that realm. The automotive industry has its own language. Aviation has a language. Farming has a language. Textiles has a language.
I didn't know what calender and anvil rolls were until I worked at Kimberly-Clark. I couldn't have told you the difference between SBL and SMS materials. Didn't know what a forming wire was, or what a motor drive was used for.
Before I learned to fly I didn't know the difference between a Class-B or Class-C airspace, but I did know that "stalling" had nothing to do with the propulsion units:) Ask the guy on the street what a "pitot tube" is, and why is it important (even better, ask him to spell it!).
Working as a microwave circuit designer, I get to deal with another completely different set of words that nobody outside the field understands.
What it all comes down to is that since the Renniassance, it has become impossible for somebody to know everything that is knowable. People don't (can't!) put in the time and effort required to be well-versed in every aspect of modern existance.
Most people, when faced with a household problem or emergency, call an expert: a plumber, a roofer, an exterminator, an electrician or perhaps a carpenter. Each field of expertise has its own phraseology that compactly convey the thoughts of the speaker. Yes, it becomes cryptic to the uninitiated, but over the centuries people have decided that the expressive power of obscure words is better than the alternative: a torrent of verbal effluent that takes a day to pronounce and still doesn't quite capture what the speaker intended.
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This is not a new phenomena, I don't think. I can remember many times growing up near Atlanta when there'd be awful weather coming and all the TV reporters were telling us to hide in the basement, only to find that the line of storms divided and went around town.
It's been my observation that no significant weather happens in Midtown, and little happens anywhere in the metro area. Except smog
Actually when I was at Georgia Tech (1989-1995), slirp wasn't available and many of use used TIA (on Acme even!). I know I bought a TIA licence. Notice that the slirp page was from September, 1995; I graduated March 95.
TIA == The Internet Adapter, popular about ten years ago.
Yes, generally speaking nothing has happened with LPFM; from what I've read it's just about impossible to get an LPFM license. Not impossible, however. C93 has been going for a while now. They're an LPFM station that we get around town.
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1) No matter how fun or exciting your text content is, keep site design simple.
2) Personally I like the idea of a navigation bar on the side that reminds the reader where they are in the text, like the Outline view in Acrobat Reader (but don't use PDF!)or the way Google Groups shows threads.
3) Don't do things that break printing. If people need to print out a section, it should print properly. I can't tell you how many times I curse at web page designers when I print out a page to refer to later and the text flows off the right edge of the page!
4) Keep blocks of text small; I am of the opinion that scrolling through large blocks of text on-screen is mentally tiring and turns readers off. By the same token, don't do things that slow page loading down for dialup users!
5) If you include figures or pictures, use inlined thumbnails that load quickly, but are also links to full-sized (and printable?) images. Wrap text around the images in a way that is eye-pleasing and makes sense. Excess white space looks as unprofessional as too little.
6) Avoid flashy things that add nothing to the information you're trying to convey.
7) Read anything written on the subject by Jakob Nielson.
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I think your misunderstanding of the saying is:
It's not the money that makes it hard; it's the human bent to self-aggrandizement and unwillingness to recognize where material blessing comes from that makes it hard.
See the story of the Rich Young Ruler (Mark 10:17-30). The money didn't make him leave sad. It was his love of money that did.
The saying has little to do with money, and everything to do with one's attitude towards it.
I don't know about that; I worked many a begathon at Georgia Public Television, and many people called in and made pledges. Now I'm sure that statistically it's a small number, but I assure you it's greater than zero.
I remember distinctly several shows that got special play because they were such draws. "Yanni-- Live at the Acropolis" comes to mind, as does "Moody Blues-- Live at Red Rocks." Both of those concerts got multiple plays during the pledge period because so many people would call in during those shows.
I don't know if they ever actually beat the Whovians, however. "Dr. Who" was just about the biggest pledge draw they had.
Not all of them were from Georgia, either. I fielded calls from every border state with people watching.
This is only true if you buy "Audio" CD-Rs. They're labelled differently, and are more expensive than non-"Audio" CD-Rs. "Audio" CD-Rs also have codes on them that allow them to be used by home stereo CD recorders. Data discs do not have that code.
You make less than $100 a year? Wow. You've got to be pretty smart to live on that little.
You're some kind of manager and you make less than $100 per year? Wow!
So you're advocating that open source authors get paid from either locally-collected (as in the case of libraries) or nationally-collected (as is the case of NPR and PBS) taxes?
Or that they should have their software, for a two-week period every six months, interrupt what your doing every few hours with modal dialog boxes that block your work until you pledge more money (as PBS and most public radio do)?
There are two kinds of people in the world. The content creator (CCs) (authors, for written works), and the content licensees (CLs).
CCs get to do whatever they want with their stuff-- it's theirs. Simple.
CLs have a few options as to what they can do with their licensed copyrighted works:
This is the root of all sane copyright law.
It would probably be less expensive to just go out and buy a new one. I'm sure their "reasonable replacement charge plus shipping" would total more than what a trip to Wal-Mart for a new CD would cost.
;^)
Maybe I'm just a little cynical.
I must have missed it-- who actually "won" the old Slashdot Cruiser contest?
Actually, back in April my wife and I chapperoned a trip to Paris and London. I remember seeing several interesting cars over there, and picked up a newspaper or two to read about them.
I was absolutely shocked at how poorly they did for fuel economy (and how expensive they were in general!). I read a review of the Vauxhall Zafira, I think it was. Thirteen thousand pounds for that little box! Yikes! The top-of-the-line GSi costs twenty thousand pounds and only gets 35 MPG on the highway? Their Astra model is just as expensive for the most part, but gets much better milage, not that Americans would buy a diesel-powered car that small for what amounts to $20K.
Yes, there is "Harris Sanitation," but they're a different company :)
"Stabbed in the back" would be better, but I think that a more appropriate sentiment would be "hijacked": Since Safari is based on the same engine as Konqueror, if Safari development lags the project could be hijacked by the Konqueror devlopers.
You say "Harris-made" like it's a bad thing :) I happen to work there...
Yep! Send a few bucks my way (cost of CDs, shipping, and maybe a few minutes of my time to burn them), and *I* could send you a set of Red Hat's latest!
As long as the ISOs are available for download *somewhere*, burned copies will be be ready for the asking-- just not from Red Hat.
Once again, the point is missed: no computer neophyte installs *any* operating system. They bought a machine that had Windows pre-installed on it. They upgrade through Windows Update (if they can). They NEVER install an OS of any stripe.
To even begin considering installing an operating system takes them out of the league of the complete newbie and puts them in the realm of the half-clued. Even people with half a clue can click "OK" or make a choice from a menu of options.
I've run Red Hat 7.1 and now 9.0 on my box at home. In both cases the install could have been done by just about anyone with that mythic half-a-clue. The installation CDs are bootable. The installation programs take care of disk partitioning and formatting as required. Kudzu finds the different hardware pieces. The only thing that didn't work right out of the box was the Nvidia ethernet system on my new Abit NF7-M motherboard. Other than that, everything worked "out of the box" for both that board and the Asus P5A (and the video/audio/ethernet cards used with it) it replaced.
My wife runs Win98 on her machine. I've installed Windows on it and on the many machines I worked on at the school she taught in. Installing Windows is no more and no less difficult than any modern Red Hat distribution. Except the built-in VIA hardware on her Biostar M7-VKQ wasn't recognized and I had to manually install driver for them *all*. I suppose that makes Win98 *more* difficult than Red Hat!
I don't know about that; I've found Red Hat 9 most impressive.
* My winprinter (Samsung ML-1210) works right out of the box; it's a menu pick in the printer setup program!
* My USB scanner worked the first time (once I figured out which was the proper firmware file).
* Nautilus' built-in CD creation facility beats the pants off (my experience is admittedly limited) Windows CD creation products.
* The included version of Wine actually *prints*! I was never able to get it configured properly to use my printers; now it works right out of the box!
Gotta give those guys credit. I downloaded the ISOs for 9 (I bought 7.1), but I think I just may have to get the box for it so they'll keep going.
Your insurance provider isn't picking up the rest; the other subscribers to your plans are.
Most insurance works basically the same way: a group of people pay into a "pool" of money (that's the premiums you pay) that gets disbursed when one of them file a claim. It's kinda like a betting pool in that the money that the winner (insurance claimant) receives comes from the others in the pool.
The key to insurance is having (many) more people paying in than filing claims. Obviously, if everybody "wins" (hurricane, anyone?) the pool of money can't cover the claims. That's the problem with Social Security and Medicare-- everybody that plays wins!
So anyway, you're welcome for my contributions to your subsidized healthcare.
From my point of view, this is the most impressive part of the whole thing:
That's an awful lot of testing that's been done for a mere $4.2 million! Last winter I was involved with some testing that cost $500,000 and the result was a little 50-page report. Way to go, NASA! Hooray for SRI!
What's the big deal, anyway? Every field of endevor has its own terms that are used (almost) exclusively within that realm. The automotive industry has its own language. Aviation has a language. Farming has a language. Textiles has a language.
:) Ask the guy on the street what a "pitot tube" is, and why is it important (even better, ask him to spell it!).
I didn't know what calender and anvil rolls were until I worked at Kimberly-Clark. I couldn't have told you the difference between SBL and SMS materials. Didn't know what a forming wire was, or what a motor drive was used for.
Before I learned to fly I didn't know the difference between a Class-B or Class-C airspace, but I did know that "stalling" had nothing to do with the propulsion units
Working as a microwave circuit designer, I get to deal with another completely different set of words that nobody outside the field understands.
What it all comes down to is that since the Renniassance, it has become impossible for somebody to know everything that is knowable. People don't (can't!) put in the time and effort required to be well-versed in every aspect of modern existance.
Most people, when faced with a household problem or emergency, call an expert: a plumber, a roofer, an exterminator, an electrician or perhaps a carpenter. Each field of expertise has its own phraseology that compactly convey the thoughts of the speaker. Yes, it becomes cryptic to the uninitiated, but over the centuries people have decided that the expressive power of obscure words is better than the alternative: a torrent of verbal effluent that takes a day to pronounce and still doesn't quite capture what the speaker intended.