The comment I made was a paraphrase of a line by Morpheus in The Matrix, and was supposed to be funny.:)
It is true, however, that I was also pointing out that the person initially referring to 'edges' meant the boundary separating the interior space from exterior space, and so was, in fact, writing about the edge of that space, which is (as you note) a surface.
Now that we've given this far more time than it deserves...:)
Recently my wife did some geneaology research in Pennsylvania for my mother-in-law. She intended to use her digital camera instead of feeding the copy machines, but all of the libraries, record archives, and courthouses she visited refused to allow her to do so, and even required she sign an agreement stating she was familiar with the rules of the place, all of wihch were about how she could not use scanners, cameras, or other copying mechanisms other than the copy machine provided by the library.
Does this version of Star/Open Office attempt to install itself every time you run it?
That's my biggest gripe with this suite: both in SO (5.2 or 5.3; don't remember) and OO 641, it goes into the install every time I run it. I'd actually like to USE the program, but after installing it (in/usr/local/*) the first time, it now just wants to run the installation program again when I start it as a real user. Obviously other people aren't having this problem, but I'll be damned if I know why.
They've been saying they had this technology since, like, 1998. Well, maybe they do, but they certainly aren't in a hurry about getting it into customers' hands, are they?
I was really excited about this company a few years ago, but now I'm somewhat more sceptical: they've had 4 years with nothing but vapor announcements and a nice website.
I've used 3ware Escalade cards repeatedly, and never had any problems. I've only actually used RAID 5 once, but so far no worries with it. Of course, these are IDE RAID cards, which may not be acceptable if you have lots of SCSI drives already.
Actually, you're right. I'd forgotten about that. Nevertheless, if you are used, as I am, to simply highlighting and middle clicking, it's a process of "highlight, click, 'Damn.', re-highlight, right-click or Ctrl-C, pulldown menu to 'Copy', right-click or Ctrl-V, pulldown menu to 'Paste', grumble, move on".:) I realize that if you do the Ctrl key thing, you don't have to pull down the menu.
This really is my biggest gripe with the Windows interface, though, and I wouldn't be surprised to find that there is some third-party tool that allows this out there, though I'm not aware of any.
In the article, they mentioned that the idea was to put an internal combustion piston everywhere you would have a muscle. This seems practical and solves some of your objections: it's powerful, needs only the same sort of maintenance as other internal combustion engines, and is as fast to refuel as a gasoline engine.
Within 15 years, we should have molecular assembly, which will make much of this academic. It'll be more worrying if they can manage to do this in 4-5 years.
If someone told me that everyone in some small town had been made to inhale the smoke of millions of pounds of burning tobacco, I would expect that there would be an extremely high incidence of lung cancer. If in fact lung cancer wasn't noticably more prevalent there than elsewhere, this might suggest to me that tobacco isn't really a major cause of lung cancer.
Cases like this just show that problems resulting from PCBs aren't necessarily a huge problem, if they're giving us all the relevant facts in the article, because if they were, something like this would have caused an obvious, critical health crisis in Anniston.
The EPA and the World Health Organization classify PCBs as "probable carcinogens," and while no one has determined whether the people in Anniston are sicker than average, [...]
Yet, earlier, they say that millions of pounds of PCBs were dumped in or near Anniston.
If PCBs are any more "carcinogenic" than water, everyone near there or downstream should have cancer.
[...]if that fails, append it to the url. if that fails, you have a few options[...]
How, exactly, could appending it to the URL fail? I use this method in everything I do that requires session ids (since it avoids the extra code for cookie checking, and you can hide the ugly session URL behind frames), and haven't ever had it fail. I'm not sure how that would even be possible.
He explicitly compared the Darwin CL to Linux's CL. It's hard to get from what he said to any assertion that "there is no CL interface to OS X". Was your non sequitur intentional?
Bush has stacked his cabinet with SCARY FUCKERS, hard-liners who are hell bent on national isolation and missile defense.
If they were really hell bent on national isolation, they wouldn't be "SCARY FUCKERS", would they? They certainly wouldn't talk about invading other countries! Isolationism is when a country keeps its nose out of other nations' affairs.
How in the hell did "isolationist" come to mean "warmonger" in so many people's minds?
1)Airplane full of dead passengers.
2)Civilians on the ground in danger of being hit by flaming wreckage.
That is quite and improvement over the currant situation.
By "current situation", of course, you mean billions of dollars of property damage and several thousand people dead, right? Yeah, it does seem like quite an improvement.
Libertarians seem to think that by reducing gov't influence in daily life that things will somehow work out for the better. Hmm. Stupid! Sorry, but the fact is that corporations would have even more control and we would live in a capitalist dictatorship!
Corporations are creatures of the State. If government didn't explicitly permit limited liability, it couldn't exist (who's going to agree that they don't have the right to sue the owners, just because the 'corporation' went bankrupt?...but that's how it is now, because the State backs it up). Without government, businesses would actually have to serve customers to stay in business, instead of using government force (paid for by taxes stolen in part from those same customers) to extort money, as many do now.
...what's the deal on the good IBM laptops? Some of their machines have 1.13 Ghz chips and up to 1024MB of RAM, which in these days of really cheap RAM, should be a minimum.
Roads could be maintained to the same level that they are in third world countries, reducing taxes spent on maintenance
No, no, the idea is to sell the roads, and the owners will then be responsible for keeping them up and making money on it.
Great! We can turn the U.S. into a third-world country and then we can be labor cost competitive with war-ravaged countries full of starving people.
It seems clear that those reforms would make the US a cheaper, better place to live. I live outside the US right now (though I'm a US citizen), and I'm loving it. As for multi-million-dollar CEO salaries, eliminate market protectionism on information products (otherwise known as copyright and patent) and eliminate limited-liability laws, and then we'll see the corporations die, or starting really serving the public. Either outcome is fine with me.
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I wasn't being that literal.
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The comment I made was a paraphrase of a line by Morpheus in The Matrix, and was supposed to be funny.
It is true, however, that I was also pointing out that the person initially referring to 'edges' meant the boundary separating the interior space from exterior space, and so was, in fact, writing about the edge of that space, which is (as you note) a surface.
Now that we've given this far more time than it deserves...
Johnny Clegg has some deep, reasonably thoughtful, and freedom-oriented lyrics. I'm all about freedom. :)
You don't notice because it's everything you see.
You think that's a side at which you're looking?
At least, in Pennsylvania.
Recently my wife did some geneaology research in Pennsylvania for my mother-in-law. She intended to use her digital camera instead of feeding the copy machines, but all of the libraries, record archives, and courthouses she visited refused to allow her to do so, and even required she sign an agreement stating she was familiar with the rules of the place, all of wihch were about how she could not use scanners, cameras, or other copying mechanisms other than the copy machine provided by the library.
What are the chances this thing will be around in 2880, or even 2080?
I mean, I might be concerned if this thing was coming in 15 years, but eight hundred?!
Randall.
The original poster said that he has 15GB of music, of which less than one-fifth was actually bought and paid for. That's just being dishonest.
Are you saying that he's lying about owning all that music? Why would he?
Randall.
Does this version of Star/Open Office attempt to install itself every time you run it?
/usr/local/*) the first time, it now just wants to run the installation program again when I start it as a real user. Obviously other people aren't having this problem, but I'll be damned if I know why.
That's my biggest gripe with this suite: both in SO (5.2 or 5.3; don't remember) and OO 641, it goes into the install every time I run it. I'd actually like to USE the program, but after installing it (in
Both SO and OO behave this way.
Randall.
They've been saying they had this technology since, like, 1998. Well, maybe they do, but they certainly aren't in a hurry about getting it into customers' hands, are they?
I was really excited about this company a few years ago, but now I'm somewhat more sceptical: they've had 4 years with nothing but vapor announcements and a nice website.
I've used 3ware Escalade cards repeatedly, and never had any problems. I've only actually used RAID 5 once, but so far no worries with it. Of course, these are IDE RAID cards, which may not be acceptable if you have lots of SCSI drives already.
Randall.
You have to admit, though, it looks a lot better than the "new IMac".
Randall.Actually, you're right. I'd forgotten about that. Nevertheless, if you are used, as I am, to simply highlighting and middle clicking, it's a process of "highlight, click, 'Damn.', re-highlight, right-click or Ctrl-C, pulldown menu to 'Copy', right-click or Ctrl-V, pulldown menu to 'Paste', grumble, move on". :) I realize that if you do the Ctrl key thing, you don't have to pull down the menu.
This really is my biggest gripe with the Windows interface, though, and I wouldn't be surprised to find that there is some third-party tool that allows this out there, though I'm not aware of any.
Randall.The only problem is a consistent cut and paste between Mozilla, Konq, and everything else, so I usually use the middle mouse button to copy and paste.
Why would you ever use anything else? When I use Windows machines, lack of mouse-only copy and paste is the single biggest usability problem I have.
Randall.
In the article, they mentioned that the idea was to put an internal combustion piston everywhere you would have a muscle. This seems practical and solves some of your objections: it's powerful, needs only the same sort of maintenance as other internal combustion engines, and is as fast to refuel as a gasoline engine.
Randall.If it takes 15 years, they've already lost.
Within 15 years, we should have molecular assembly, which will make much of this academic.
Randall Randall.It'll be more worrying if they can manage to do this in 4-5 years.
If someone told me that everyone in some small town had been made to inhale the smoke of millions of pounds of burning tobacco, I would expect that there would be an extremely high incidence of lung cancer. If in fact lung cancer wasn't noticably more prevalent there than elsewhere, this might suggest to me that tobacco isn't really a major cause of lung cancer.
Cases like this just show that problems resulting from PCBs aren't necessarily a huge problem, if they're giving us all the relevant facts in the article, because if they were, something like this would have caused an obvious, critical health crisis in Anniston.
Randall.From the story:
The EPA and the World Health Organization classify PCBs as "probable carcinogens," and while no one has determined whether the people in Anniston are sicker than average, [...]
Yet, earlier, they say that millions of pounds of PCBs were dumped in or near Anniston.
If PCBs are any more "carcinogenic" than water, everyone near there or downstream should have cancer.
Something smells, and it isn't just the PCBs.
Randall.[...]if that fails, append it to the url. if that fails, you have a few options[...]
How, exactly, could appending it to the URL fail? I use this method in everything I do that requires session ids (since it avoids the extra code for cookie checking, and you can hide the ugly session URL behind frames), and haven't ever had it fail. I'm not sure how that would even be possible.
As many faults as they have, the US Army is certainly not responsible for a disease that predates them by millennia.
Randall.He explicitly compared the Darwin CL to Linux's CL. It's hard to get from what he said to any assertion that "there is no CL interface to OS X".
Randall.Was your non sequitur intentional?
Bush has stacked his cabinet with SCARY FUCKERS, hard-liners who are hell bent on national isolation and missile defense.
If they were really hell bent on national isolation, they wouldn't be "SCARY FUCKERS", would they? They certainly wouldn't talk about invading other countries! Isolationism is when a country keeps its nose out of other nations' affairs.
How in the hell did "isolationist" come to mean "warmonger" in so many people's minds?
1)Airplane full of dead passengers.
2)Civilians on the ground in danger of being hit by flaming wreckage.
That is quite and improvement over the currant situation.
By "current situation", of course, you mean billions of dollars of property damage and several thousand people dead, right? Yeah, it does seem like quite an improvement.
Libertarians seem to think that by reducing gov't influence in daily life that things will somehow work out for the better. Hmm. Stupid! Sorry, but the fact is that corporations would have even more control and we would live in a capitalist dictatorship!
Corporations are creatures of the State. If government didn't explicitly permit limited liability, it couldn't exist (who's going to agree that they don't have the right to sue the owners, just because the 'corporation' went bankrupt? ...but that's how it is now, because the State backs it up). Without government, businesses would actually have to serve customers to stay in business, instead of using government force (paid for by taxes stolen in part from those same customers) to extort money, as many do now.
Thanks, that's good to know.
What would be ideal is a laptop with all the high-end specs of the IBMs, and a nipple pointer, and a GeForce2Go or equivalent.
...what's the deal on the good IBM laptops? Some of their machines have 1.13 Ghz chips and up to 1024MB of RAM, which in these days of really cheap RAM, should be a minimum.
Has anyone put linux on one of those puppies?
Hey, I was with you until:
Roads could be maintained to the same level that they are in third world countries, reducing taxes spent on maintenance
No, no, the idea is to sell the roads, and the owners will then be responsible for keeping them up and making money on it.
Great! We can turn the U.S. into a third-world country and then we can be labor cost competitive with war-ravaged countries full of starving people.
It seems clear that those reforms would make the US a cheaper, better place to live. I live outside the US right now (though I'm a US citizen), and I'm loving it. As for multi-million-dollar CEO salaries, eliminate market protectionism on information products (otherwise known as copyright and patent) and eliminate limited-liability laws, and then we'll see the corporations die, or starting really serving the public. Either outcome is fine with me.