That's the only way I could get it past the spell checker on my own computer *haha* Was to mispell it myself... Hmm... must remember to get more sleep...
Hmm... never heard of Linuz before. Must have been using that M$ Word Spellchecker. Not that it would have picked up Lixux anyways. I think if the spellchecker in Word sees Linux, it barfs horribly. Of course... that's windows for ya...
*cough* *cough* Mozilla *cough* *cough*... With any luck, Apple is probably just working out a few more bugs... which is probably a good thing. I'd rather wait a little longer and get a more stable product.
Get it right the first time... (unless you're building a DVD player with regional encoding... if you mess that up, we won't mind as much:-)
"We can make software for you that is (choose any 2) cheaper/faster/very stable."
Nope, a quote of a small passage, such as that one, falls under the fair use principle.
Looks like the Washington Post cited a slashdot user's post. I wonder if the user's permission was given and if not, whether this will yield the same upheaval from Katz doing the same thing.
RIAA reports units shipped: 1997 753.1 Million 1998 847.0 Million 1999 938.9 Million
True, these are number of units shipped (not bought), but still, demand doesn't seem to be dropping off... I don't think they'd increase shipments by 12% if the demand wasn't there... Even more funny... there's a reported "cash value" of these CD's there too... 1997 $9,915.1 Million 1998 $11,416.0 Million 1999 $12,816.3 Million
And even funnier still, taking the "cash value" per unit... 1997 $13.17 1998 $13.48 1999 $13.65 Not a pretty trend, huh?
I say GOOD! As one of my cow orkers said, "Anybody who writes someting that shows just how bad Microsofts programs are and how stupid people are deserves a statue, not jail time."
I think a quote from spaceballs is appropriate: Helmet: So, Lone Starr, now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.
Sattelite transmission would take at least 540 ms (read:.54 sec), at least 270 going up, and at least 270 coming down. Geez, I knew that data communications class would come in handy one day!;-)
True, but their rejection did allow the New York decision to stand. And that's a precedent. (At least for the State of New York). You can bet your bottoms that this is going to be used by ISP's to defend themselves.
The same thing happens in the executive branch of government. If congress is in session, and the president doesn't sign a bill after a certain period of time, it becomes law. The President didn't approve the law, but the law is. Same as the pocket veto when congress isn't in session. If the president doesn't sign a bill or veto it, it becomes vetoed without action.
Exactly... take a look at the Line-Item Veto that was shot down by the Supreme Court a couple of years ago... who filed the lawsuit? A team of 3 Republican congressmen, (Dole and 2 others IIRC.) Has to be an interested party to file a lawsuit.
Well, to me this looks like the push PNG has needed for some time. As soon as some major sites start switching to PNG we'll see IE and Netscape finally implementing proper support for it in browsers and probably other popular software packages will follow.
Okay, let me get this straight... Websites are going to shift to using a format that isn't correctly implemented in current browsers?
Sounds like a gas station selling X-2001, the fuel of the future, but there are no cars that run on X-2001. What happens? Gas station has no income, gas station closes.
Correct support from the browsers has to happen before web sites will switch over to it.
Jpegs are much easier to mess with and offer similar cmpression sizes
Umm... no. Do the following. Open up Photoshop, or Fireworks, or something. Create a solid block of color. Save the file as a GIF and a JPEG. The GIF will be a mere fraction the size of the JPEG. The GIF will be the exact color that was previously left. The JPEG may have color variations in it. JPEG compression != GIF compression.
This is an excellent guide to e-mail for not-so-newbies and in-duh-viduals. I should really add this to my "You're an idiot for sending this to me" e-mails.
One of the side effects of the copyright term extension is that some companies were printing/electronically distributing old works the day after their copyrights expired. As soon as the terms were extended, the company was essentially grounded (for 20 years anyways).
You said: What the government (state and local) needs to understand is that they must funnel these huge tax surpluses that the Internet economy is creating into capital improvements for school and transportation. If they do, we'll cruise through the recession with new schools and low taxes that just break even on the operating costs.
You are SO right. We recently went through a HUGE period of expansion in Amherst, NY (a suburb of Buffalo, NY). Population tripled. The local IDA & Republican Town Board were handing out tax breaks left and right. Now the growth has stopped. Development has taken a dive. Property values have plummeted, some houses losing 20-50% of their value in just 3-4 years. And our schools? Now we're the fourth largest schoold district in NYS (Except for City School Districts). The school budget topped $100 million 3 years ago. People are pissed now that we have:
120% as many roads, sewers and other infrastructure to maintain.
75% more students as opposed to 15 years ago.
People up in arms about how much their property taxes went up to pay for schools
Total bitterness over school budgets and such.
It just hasn't been good... and now the towns farther out into the rural areas are goign through what we went through... hopefully they'll be able to avoid the problems we saw.
One of my first experiences with web building was working with the color safe pallette, trying to understand what colors composed it, and how they looked side by side. Sure, I could probably have programmed a little utility to make all the nice swatches myself, but Lynda had these images on her page:
It was one of the most helpful tools I have ever had for the net. Now I can easily find a color, it's hex value, and how it contrasts with black or white. -Misch
And some days you can't even get the movie right... I meant American Beauty. Honestly. I just got a blue screen... that's all. Error in system. Reboot with REALITY.SYS? (Abort/Retry/Fail/Grab Hammer?)
Of course, it has said "Coming Soon!" since about October, when it was first announced. No surprise there... not surprised one bit. I think the Administration here is holding it back for some strange reason...
I'm just really glad that no movie really "swept" the Oscars like Titanic did. And at least American Pie was more 'deserving' of it... and didn't have Leonardo DiCaprio in it... a definite plus;-)
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That's the only way I could get it past the spell checker on my own computer *haha* Was to mispell it myself... Hmm... must remember to get more sleep...
Hmm... never heard of Linuz before. Must have been using that M$ Word Spellchecker. Not that it would have picked up Lixux anyways. I think if the spellchecker in Word sees Linux, it barfs horribly. Of course... that's windows for ya...
Now we wait till 2001
:-)
*cough* *cough* Mozilla *cough* *cough*... With any luck, Apple is probably just working out a few more bugs... which is probably a good thing. I'd rather wait a little longer and get a more stable product.
Get it right the first time... (unless you're building a DVD player with regional encoding... if you mess that up, we won't mind as much
"We can make software for you that is (choose any 2) cheaper/faster/very stable."
Nope, a quote of a small passage, such as that one, falls under the fair use principle.
Looks like the Washington Post cited a slashdot user's post. I wonder if the user's permission was given and if not, whether this will yield the same upheaval from Katz doing the same thing.
Are you sure about that?
RIAA reports units shipped:
1997 753.1 Million
1998 847.0 Million
1999 938.9 Million
True, these are number of units shipped (not bought), but still, demand doesn't seem to be dropping off... I don't think they'd increase shipments by 12% if the demand wasn't there... Even more funny... there's a reported "cash value" of these CD's there too...
1997 $9,915.1 Million
1998 $11,416.0 Million
1999 $12,816.3 Million
And even funnier still, taking the "cash value" per unit...
1997 $13.17
1998 $13.48
1999 $13.65
Not a pretty trend, huh?
I say GOOD! As one of my cow orkers said, "Anybody who writes someting that shows just how bad Microsofts programs are and how stupid people are deserves a statue, not jail time."
I think a quote from spaceballs is appropriate:
Helmet: So, Lone Starr, now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.
I think I've noticed something new here...
/. are now "rejected" instead of "declined". That's a great boost to my self esteem :-p
The stories I submitted to
Now they just have to arrest the millions who actually spreaded the virus by executing unknown programs. This is data darwinism at its finest.
Nah, we'll save that for Metallica to bother with.
Sattelite transmission would take at least 540 ms (read: .54 sec), at least 270 going up, and at least 270 coming down. Geez, I knew that data communications class would come in handy one day! ;-)
True, but their rejection did allow the New York decision to stand. And that's a precedent. (At least for the State of New York). You can bet your bottoms that this is going to be used by ISP's to defend themselves.
The same thing happens in the executive branch of government. If congress is in session, and the president doesn't sign a bill after a certain period of time, it becomes law. The President didn't approve the law, but the law is. Same as the pocket veto when congress isn't in session. If the president doesn't sign a bill or veto it, it becomes vetoed without action.
Exactly... take a look at the Line-Item Veto that was shot down by the Supreme Court a couple of years ago... who filed the lawsuit? A team of 3 Republican congressmen, (Dole and 2 others IIRC.) Has to be an interested party to file a lawsuit.
Well, to me this looks like the push PNG has needed for some time. As soon as some major sites start switching to PNG we'll see IE and Netscape finally implementing proper support for it in browsers and probably other popular software packages will follow.
Okay, let me get this straight... Websites are going to shift to using a format that isn't correctly implemented in current browsers?
Sounds like a gas station selling X-2001, the fuel of the future, but there are no cars that run on X-2001. What happens? Gas station has no income, gas station closes.
Correct support from the browsers has to happen before web sites will switch over to it.
Jpegs are much easier to mess with and offer similar cmpression sizes
Umm... no. Do the following. Open up Photoshop, or Fireworks, or something. Create a solid block of color. Save the file as a GIF and a JPEG. The GIF will be a mere fraction the size of the JPEG. The GIF will be the exact color that was previously left. The JPEG may have color variations in it. JPEG compression != GIF compression.
This is an excellent guide to e-mail for not-so-newbies and in-duh-viduals. I should really add this to my "You're an idiot for sending this to me" e-mails.
Good point.
One of the side effects of the copyright term extension is that some companies were printing/electronically distributing old works the day after their copyrights expired. As soon as the terms were extended, the company was essentially grounded (for 20 years anyways).
Settlement talks have stalled.
(A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail, (G)rab Hammer?
You are SO right. We recently went through a HUGE period of expansion in Amherst, NY (a suburb of Buffalo, NY). Population tripled. The local IDA & Republican Town Board were handing out tax breaks left and right. Now the growth has stopped. Development has taken a dive. Property values have plummeted, some houses losing 20-50% of their value in just 3-4 years. And our schools? Now we're the fourth largest schoold district in NYS (Except for City School Districts). The school budget topped $100 million 3 years ago. People are pissed now that we have:
It just hasn't been good... and now the towns farther out into the rural areas are goign through what we went through... hopefully they'll be able to avoid the problems we saw.
One of my first experiences with web building was working with the color safe pallette, trying to understand what colors composed it, and how they looked side by side. Sure, I could probably have programmed a little utility to make all the nice swatches myself, but Lynda had these images on her page:
Color Safe Pallette - By hue
Color Safe Pallette - By Value
It was one of the most helpful tools I have ever had for the net. Now I can easily find a color, it's hex value, and how it contrasts with black or white. -Misch
And some days you can't even get the movie right... I meant American Beauty. Honestly. I just got a blue screen... that's all. Error in system. Reboot with REALITY.SYS? (Abort/Retry/Fail/Grab Hammer?)
Here at RIT, the Student Government is (was?) trying to implement an internet based student review system of professors.
The nice page they made for it is up on their website: Professor Evaluations
Of course, it has said "Coming Soon!" since about October, when it was first announced. No surprise there... not surprised one bit. I think the Administration here is holding it back for some strange reason...
-Misch
I'm just really glad that no movie really "swept" the Oscars like Titanic did. And at least American Pie was more 'deserving' of it... and didn't have Leonardo DiCaprio in it... a definite plus ;-)
Well, here is something to think about... In a network situation, average delay can be calculated as: 1/( mu - lambda )
mu = bandwidth avaliable
lambda = average bandwidth used
As lambda approaches mu, ( mu - lambda ) becomes really small. In fact, when lambda is even 60% of mu, the delay starts to get huge and unbearable.
For an example of the effects of stopping napster, take a look at this:
http://www.uri.edu/mrtg/jvnc.html
Note how at week 8, outgoing traffic drops to nearly zero.
So, even sucking up a percentage of the bandwidth can really slow down access for all users.