I'm all for public transport. However the main problem with a lot of the US is the urban sprawl. There is talk of a rail line from Macon, GA to Atlanta. This would stop right by where I work. Sounds great - except I have to to drive just as far as I do to work to get to where the closest stop would be.
Or you have MARTA in Atlanta. It goes basically North, South, East and West. If you destination isn't by a rail station, you can transfer to a bus. However, you have to wait around for the bus and try to decipher the schedules and routes. NYC on the other hand has subway all over the island for the most part. You may have to switch trains, but it is all one system that is pretty easy to get around.
Until it becomes as easy or convienent to take public transportation as it is to take a car, it's not gonna fly. Why should I go through the extra hassle and cost?
I agree with you - until it is super easy for me to get an item without going to the store (now now now!!!) people will prefer to drive. I'd even accept 2 days, but it seems it takes weeks for packages.
I try to from time to time. However, the history that comes with IE is such a pain to search through that I usually give up and head towards google.
Occasionally I'll be trying to find some page I was at two days ago. However, was it www.somesite.com or cgi.somesite.com, etc... Makes it a pain to find.
I watch Scrubs, and I download it as well. I use my MythTV box to watch M*A*S*H reruns that come on HallMark weeknights.
However, there are some shows that I download because I can't see them. They are shows that come on the BBC. Sure, Coupling I can see a few seasons later on PBS if I'm lucky, but some other shows never make it over here.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I would pay to have the BBC channels. BBC America does not cover it. I want the real live feeds. I wonder why no one has done this yet. I'm sure they could charge enough for a package to make more money than the TV license would generate.
When I was growing up I remember WTBS (Atlanta, usually offered nationwide now) used to do something like this - shows started at 8:05 or 8:35, so if you watch one show on TBS, you may as well watch the next one as you've already missed the start of anything on the other networks.
As for the 40-minute shows. They had a "supersized" Scrubs - normally the shows are 20 minutes without commercials. I think Scrubs (supersized) was 23 minutes without commercials.
I guess I have bad luck and come across the most useless review sites, or most of the things I see listed as reviews are just reprints of the manufactuers specs.
I like finding reviews from other average joes that have bought the item. I hate when some trade rag or something reviews something - always feels like there is something more there...here's a freebie, tell people how great it is kinda thing.
And reviews of the item. And reviews of the sites offering it for sell. And sites that link to sites offering it for sell. And everything about KX-234KR. And products related to KX-234KR, etc...
That too is my biggest google beef - try to find info about a product and all you can find is how to buy the product.
Works for me. I agree 100%. Though I think a better punishment was in one of Raymond Feist's books.
Take the person, stake him down with genitails over an ant hill, apply honey, poke hill with stick.
I guess the problem is that Okinawaw sees us as going too soft on the soldiers and that's why they want to try them. If we did the above - got harsh on crime - it'd drop quick.
I like the idea of my computer auto-detecting any network printers. I don't have my printer linked up to the network as I don't have time to try and figure out how to do it.
I do to. But I also want the ability to say "you're wrong...do it this way" to the computer.
I think you are in the minority. If the printer is currently down then you can't use it so configure it later when you CAN use it.
For home users, this may not be an issue. For an office environment, it may be. There have been a few times dealing with printers where part of the support group is out unboxing them, putting them in place, assigning an IP to it, while the network group is setting the servers up to have that print queue. It'd suck if there were 20 of these and we had to wait until they were all unboxed and setup to add the queue, or get interrupted to do each one as it's setup.
Sure...have the ability to say "I don't think this is the option you are looking for" but at the same time, allow people to override any auto-detection with the caveat that this may no work if you don't know what you're doing. Just don't force them to be at the mercy of the wizard programmer as to what should happen in the real world.
How will it just work if it cannot connect to the network interface?
The point was, I believe, that the wizard may not be smart enough to recognize every type of connection. For instance, if the wizard was written by someone who never say anything but Linux, there may be code that looks for ethx. But on HPUX it's lanx, or whatever Solaris calls its interfaces. Or what if my only connection is a ppp connection (dialup or VPN) and it isn't connected at the time I'm setting it up. Again, it's about saying "this is what it looks like to the wizard, but if you wanna igore those assumptions, go ahead at your own risk."
They user doesn't care about how difficult it is behind. If it's badly designed then it will be system dependant and a support nightmare. It will need a bit of thought in the design, that's all.
Amen brother.
And it isn't just Linux - printers on any Unix system (or any system at all) are ridiculous.
When a soldier commits a violation of a local law while on active duty, it really is a violation on the part of the nation that sent him there, and it should be handled accordingly.
So when the US (a soldier committing a violation of a local law) rapes women in Okinawa, how should it be handled?
Underneath OS X is BSD. But the UI is different. Solaris provides X/CDE/Whatever as it's GUI. OS X uses something else, though you are able to add X to OS X to get it running.
It's kinda like saying that a KDE app should work under Gnome with a few tweaks and a recompile because they both run on Linux. Different API's alltogether though. (okay...bad example, but best I could think of)
So, in theory they should be able to port it to X on the Mac, but is probably more trouble than it's worth for them.
Back in college I did a lot of work on the mainframe in REXX. I knew that I'd been working too hard when my dreams at night would encounter a situation (non computer related - such as say no milk for cereal) and in my dream I'd solve the problem via some rexx code and/or XEDIT macros.
I've been meaning to try and get a XEDIT environment setup on my PC or Linux box, but have forgotten so much of it that I don't know if it'd be worth starting over or not.
but fortunately most of the First Doctor eps have been lost
You're kidding right? Yeah...a show that runs that long will have inconsitency, but some of the Hartnell episodes are pure classics. While there was some tripe and sillyness, there were some damned good stories in there as well.
Keys of Marinus, The Chase, Space Museum, The Time Meddler. A lot of it is many times better than the stuff that made up the later seasons.
I thought the SIDRAT's were just in "The War Games" as a name to the proto-tardis's in there. I can think of no place where the Masters TARDIS is refered to anything other than a TARDIS. It may not be an old type-40, but oh well.
Well, look at the chase through the TARDIS in "The Invasion of Time". It looked like they just went to any room on the BBC lot, had Tom and Louise walk through it and called it part of the TARDIS.
The one thing that I did like about the TV movie was not how they showed how much room could be in there, but the Doctor actually had a place to relax, kick back and read, listen to music, etc...
As you said, in the original series, they rarely showed other rooms, and they all looked the same (for cost reasons). The room in the movie reminded me a lot of the wooden control room from Tom's era.
If you take GPL code, use it in a product, you have to make the source available to the public.
Nope. I can take some GPL code, sell it to you for $5,000. You are the only person I have to make the source available to.
The catch is that my $5,000 item I just sold you is also under the GPL, so you can make a thousand copies and give it free away under the GPL. Or you can make your own mods and sell it or give it away.
So, no, there is nothing that says it has to be given to the public, but it is designed in such a way that once it gets to someone who is willing to give it to the public, they can, so the original company may as well just go ahead and do so.
I keep reading about some $125 package that includes a cable to go from the OBD to the serial or USB port and software that shows everything going on in the engine. Raise the cost of my car by $125 and provide that and I'll be happy!
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I'm all for public transport. However the main problem with a lot of the US is the urban sprawl. There is talk of a rail line from Macon, GA to Atlanta. This would stop right by where I work. Sounds great - except I have to to drive just as far as I do to work to get to where the closest stop would be.
Or you have MARTA in Atlanta. It goes basically North, South, East and West. If you destination isn't by a rail station, you can transfer to a bus. However, you have to wait around for the bus and try to decipher the schedules and routes. NYC on the other hand has subway all over the island for the most part. You may have to switch trains, but it is all one system that is pretty easy to get around.
Until it becomes as easy or convienent to take public transportation as it is to take a car, it's not gonna fly. Why should I go through the extra hassle and cost?
I agree with you - until it is super easy for me to get an item without going to the store (now now now!!!) people will prefer to drive. I'd even accept 2 days, but it seems it takes weeks for packages.
Why do I have a feeling that if I were to try this, I'd have google on the left followed by a bunch of lines leading out of it to all the other pages?
I try to from time to time. However, the history that comes with IE is such a pain to search through that I usually give up and head towards google.
Occasionally I'll be trying to find some page I was at two days ago. However, was it www.somesite.com or cgi.somesite.com, etc... Makes it a pain to find.
I watch Scrubs, and I download it as well. I use my MythTV box to watch M*A*S*H reruns that come on HallMark weeknights.
However, there are some shows that I download because I can't see them. They are shows that come on the BBC. Sure, Coupling I can see a few seasons later on PBS if I'm lucky, but some other shows never make it over here.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I would pay to have the BBC channels. BBC America does not cover it. I want the real live feeds. I wonder why no one has done this yet. I'm sure they could charge enough for a package to make more money than the TV license would generate.
When I was growing up I remember WTBS (Atlanta, usually offered nationwide now) used to do something like this - shows started at 8:05 or 8:35, so if you watch one show on TBS, you may as well watch the next one as you've already missed the start of anything on the other networks.
As for the 40-minute shows. They had a "supersized" Scrubs - normally the shows are 20 minutes without commercials. I think Scrubs (supersized) was 23 minutes without commercials.
Oh boy...Monty Pythons recreation of Wuthering Heights done in semaphore just popped into my head.
I guess I have bad luck and come across the most useless review sites, or most of the things I see listed as reviews are just reprints of the manufactuers specs.
I like finding reviews from other average joes that have bought the item. I hate when some trade rag or something reviews something - always feels like there is something more there...here's a freebie, tell people how great it is kinda thing.
And reviews of the item. And reviews of the sites offering it for sell. And sites that link to sites offering it for sell. And everything about KX-234KR. And products related to KX-234KR, etc...
That too is my biggest google beef - try to find info about a product and all you can find is how to buy the product.
For some reason I have a very strong urge to go watch "A Streetcare Named Desire" right now, or failing that, "Oh Streetcar"
Works for me. I agree 100%. Though I think a better punishment was in one of Raymond Feist's books.
Take the person, stake him down with genitails over an ant hill, apply honey, poke hill with stick.
I guess the problem is that Okinawaw sees us as going too soft on the soldiers and that's why they want to try them. If we did the above - got harsh on crime - it'd drop quick.
I like the idea of my computer auto-detecting any network printers. I don't have my printer linked up to the network as I don't have time to try and figure out how to do it.
I do to. But I also want the ability to say "you're wrong...do it this way" to the computer.
I think you are in the minority. If the printer is currently down then you can't use it so configure it later when you CAN use it.
For home users, this may not be an issue. For an office environment, it may be. There have been a few times dealing with printers where part of the support group is out unboxing them, putting them in place, assigning an IP to it, while the network group is setting the servers up to have that print queue. It'd suck if there were 20 of these and we had to wait until they were all unboxed and setup to add the queue, or get interrupted to do each one as it's setup.
Sure...have the ability to say "I don't think this is the option you are looking for" but at the same time, allow people to override any auto-detection with the caveat that this may no work if you don't know what you're doing. Just don't force them to be at the mercy of the wizard programmer as to what should happen in the real world.
How will it just work if it cannot connect to the network interface?
The point was, I believe, that the wizard may not be smart enough to recognize every type of connection. For instance, if the wizard was written by someone who never say anything but Linux, there may be code that looks for ethx. But on HPUX it's lanx, or whatever Solaris calls its interfaces. Or what if my only connection is a ppp connection (dialup or VPN) and it isn't connected at the time I'm setting it up. Again, it's about saying "this is what it looks like to the wizard, but if you wanna igore those assumptions, go ahead at your own risk."
They user doesn't care about how difficult it is behind. If it's badly designed then it will be system dependant and a support nightmare. It will need a bit of thought in the design, that's all.
Amen brother.
And it isn't just Linux - printers on any Unix system (or any system at all) are ridiculous.
When a soldier commits a violation of a local law while on active duty, it really is a violation on the part of the nation that sent him there, and it should be handled accordingly.
So when the US (a soldier committing a violation of a local law) rapes women in Okinawa, how should it be handled?
Dell PowerEdges now come with the ability to redirect everything during POST to the serial port.
:)
It works, though my brain has a hard time remembering all the keystrokes to do stuff from a terminal, so I just use the KVM over IP solution
Underneath OS X is BSD. But the UI is different. Solaris provides X/CDE/Whatever as it's GUI. OS X uses something else, though you are able to add X to OS X to get it running.
It's kinda like saying that a KDE app should work under Gnome with a few tweaks and a recompile because they both run on Linux. Different API's alltogether though. (okay...bad example, but best I could think of)
So, in theory they should be able to port it to X on the Mac, but is probably more trouble than it's worth for them.
Back in college I did a lot of work on the mainframe in REXX. I knew that I'd been working too hard when my dreams at night would encounter a situation (non computer related - such as say no milk for cereal) and in my dream I'd solve the problem via some rexx code and/or XEDIT macros.
I've been meaning to try and get a XEDIT environment setup on my PC or Linux box, but have forgotten so much of it that I don't know if it'd be worth starting over or not.
but fortunately most of the First Doctor eps have been lost
You're kidding right? Yeah...a show that runs that long will have inconsitency, but some of the Hartnell episodes are pure classics. While there was some tripe and sillyness, there were some damned good stories in there as well.
Keys of Marinus, The Chase, Space Museum, The Time Meddler. A lot of it is many times better than the stuff that made up the later seasons.
I thought the SIDRAT's were just in "The War Games" as a name to the proto-tardis's in there. I can think of no place where the Masters TARDIS is refered to anything other than a TARDIS. It may not be an old type-40, but oh well.
Well, look at the chase through the TARDIS in "The Invasion of Time". It looked like they just went to any room on the BBC lot, had Tom and Louise walk through it and called it part of the TARDIS.
The one thing that I did like about the TV movie was not how they showed how much room could be in there, but the Doctor actually had a place to relax, kick back and read, listen to music, etc...
As you said, in the original series, they rarely showed other rooms, and they all looked the same (for cost reasons). The room in the movie reminded me a lot of the wooden control room from Tom's era.
Ah...was that in The Gunfighters or War Machines? I really can't remember.
Far and Away - An awesome movie.
If you take GPL code, use it in a product, you have to make the source available to the public.
Nope. I can take some GPL code, sell it to you for $5,000. You are the only person I have to make the source available to.
The catch is that my $5,000 item I just sold you is also under the GPL, so you can make a thousand copies and give it free away under the GPL. Or you can make your own mods and sell it or give it away.
So, no, there is nothing that says it has to be given to the public, but it is designed in such a way that once it gets to someone who is willing to give it to the public, they can, so the original company may as well just go ahead and do so.
I keep reading about some $125 package that includes a cable to go from the OBD to the serial or USB port and software that shows everything going on in the engine. Raise the cost of my car by $125 and provide that and I'll be happy!
The Tenth Planet - home of the cybermen!
Beagle 2 or one of the other "lost" probes? :)
Simple solution - take the "protected" cd and hold down shift while putting it in the drive