I saw an interview with Michael Moore this morning on Oprah (don't ask). He said that Cananda had 8 million guns, but that 7.5 million of those were hunting rifles.
If guns were completely abolished, imagine the rap videos on MTV. Snoop and Dre rapping about how their rolled on some suckas with their broadswords and morning stars? Somehow that seems way cooler than taking pot shots at people from the safety of your convertible.:-)
If skepticism is your hobby, you should check out Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) magazine. Carl Sagan used to be a contributor. CSICOP encourages the critical investigation of paranormal and fringe-science claims from a responsible, scientific point of view and disseminates factual information about the results of such inquiries to the scientific community and the public.
but mostly it is some relentless ass-kickin' of pseudoscience and the paranormal.:-)
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The stems are bent without damange to the plant and the area of the circles displays odd flux vortices.
Hoaxers, most croppies insisted, could not be responsible because the plants were only bent and not broken, and there were no footprints or other traces of human activity. Skeptics replied that from mid-May to early August the English wheat was green and pliable, and could only be broken with difficulty.
For more information on how usability and user goals should be designed BEFORE coding, Alan Cooper written some great books on usability and design . Ok, so they are mostly Windows-focused, but his design approach is universal. "About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design" is written for designers and programmers. "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity" is written for PHBs and marketing people.
and who would buy OVERPRICED PRODUCT v1.0 when it is based on the free OpenBSD? And would Sun be upset when someone buys their Sparc hardware to run someone else's OVERPRICED PRODUCT v1.0? Solaris is a cost center for Sun.
PS: As for comments like "Why is copying WinXP by rounding things considdered new?", it's not. The fact that the edges are rounded is NOT the point, that wouldn't be new.
Sure, the rounded edges are "k3wl d3wd", but I think they hurt usability. They make pointing and clicking more difficult (for the user AND the CPU!) because the clickable surface is a strange shape.
Sun borrowing OpenSSH is one thing, but Sun giving hardware docs to OpenBSD is another. Perhaps Sun is afraid their hardware support would not be safe with the BSD license. That would be ironic.
and couldn't spammers write customized mail servers that LOOK like real mail servers, but only store one copy of the spam for ALL users? like a web server.
The TeleZapper uses the technology of telemarketers' automatic dialing equipment against them. When you or your answering machine picks up a call, the TeleZapper emits a special tone that "fools" the computer into thinking your number is disconnected. Instead of connecting you to a salesperson, the computer stores your number as disconnected in it's database. Over time, as your number is removed from more and more databases, you'll see a dramatic decrease in the number of annoying telemarketing calls you receive.
The Bayesian filter is not limited to just the email's message body. The message headers and PNG/JPG filename/URL are analyzed too. Plus the Bayesian filter would QUICKLY identify that people that send me email that contains NO text are likely spammers.
X configurators will get done for most people. Most of the hard stuff will be abstracted into a few sensible combinations that people need and they will work. Progress so far shows me this will happen.
Linux bigots have been saying this for how many years now? "Next year, Linux/X/GNOME/KDE will be the ultimate user desktop! Just wait and see." That is so 1995. Sure, the Linux kernel can push bytes over ethernet at world-record speeds. But why can't those same speed freak gooroos do the same with X performance? Because open source only scratches the itches of the people developing it. So the "Happy Point" for new users will never be addressed until someone tries to sell them something for their money..
Microsoft Office implements its own GUI menu code instead of using the Windows menu code. Office is a proving ground of sorts for Microsoft's new GUI ideas. Office had icons in menus before other apps. Office had "sliding" and alpha-faded menus first too. And Office had the "flat" coolbar menus first too I think.
Your idle PPC apps should not use up any CPU time. When the PPC's memory becomes limited, the OS first notifies idle apps (with a Windows message) that they should reduce their memory usage. If memory is still too tight, the OS then notifies idle apps that they should exit. If apps do not respond to these messages, then the apps are impolitely not following the PPC system conventions and recommendations. I know developers like to have a "clean" system, but does it really matter if some apps are idle in the background? All it does is reduce their reload time for a frequently used app when it is next needed.
I no longer use my mouse wheel. It gave me significant wrist pain.:-(
You should also disable your mouse wheel. On Windows, you can do this in the Control Panel. The mouse wheel is too tempting if you leave it on but promise yourself not to use it.:-)
I think most ballot measures, for example, are written deceptively. When you read the arguments for and against some ballot measure, inevitably, one argument will say "this will LOWER taxes" while the other side says "this will RAISE taxes". No wonder voters are fed up and don't bother to vote.
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I saw an interview with Michael Moore this morning on Oprah (don't ask). He said that Cananda had 8 million guns, but that 7.5 million of those were hunting rifles.
If guns were completely abolished, imagine the rap videos on MTV. Snoop and Dre rapping about how their rolled on some suckas with their broadswords and morning stars? Somehow that seems way cooler than taking pot shots at people from the safety of your convertible.
If skepticism is your hobby, you should check out Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) magazine. Carl Sagan used to be a contributor. CSICOP encourages the critical investigation of paranormal and fringe-science claims from a responsible, scientific point of view and disseminates factual information about the results of such inquiries to the scientific community and the public.
:-)
but mostly it is some relentless ass-kickin' of pseudoscience and the paranormal.
The stems are bent without damange to the plant and the area of the circles displays odd flux vortices.
These issues and more are addressed in CSICOP's "Circular Reasoning: The 'Mystery' of Crop Circles and Their 'Orbs' of Light":
Hoaxers, most croppies insisted, could not be responsible because the plants were only bent and not broken, and there were no footprints or other traces of human activity. Skeptics replied that from mid-May to early August the English wheat was green and pliable, and could only be broken with difficulty.
For more information on how usability and user goals should be designed BEFORE coding, Alan Cooper written some great books on usability and design . Ok, so they are mostly Windows-focused, but his design approach is universal. "About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design" is written for designers and programmers. "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity" is written for PHBs and marketing people.
and who would buy OVERPRICED PRODUCT v1.0 when it is based on the free OpenBSD? And would Sun be upset when someone buys their Sparc hardware to run someone else's OVERPRICED PRODUCT v1.0? Solaris is a cost center for Sun.
on which platforms do stacks NOT already grow downward?
PS: As for comments like "Why is copying WinXP by rounding things considdered new?", it's not. The fact that the edges are rounded is NOT the point, that wouldn't be new.
Sure, the rounded edges are "k3wl d3wd", but I think they hurt usability. They make pointing and clicking more difficult (for the user AND the CPU!) because the clickable surface is a strange shape.
Sun borrowing OpenSSH is one thing, but Sun giving hardware docs to OpenBSD is another. Perhaps Sun is afraid their hardware support would not be safe with the BSD license. That would be ironic.
ls is easier to type than dir because it has fewer letters AND each letter is typed with a different hand.
and couldn't spammers write customized mail servers that LOOK like real mail servers, but only store one copy of the spam for ALL users? like a web server.
Sounds like you need the TeleZapper!
How does the TeleZapper "zap" telemarketers?
The TeleZapper uses the technology of telemarketers' automatic dialing equipment against them. When you or your answering machine picks up a call, the TeleZapper emits a special tone that "fools" the computer into thinking your number is disconnected. Instead of connecting you to a salesperson, the computer stores your number as disconnected in it's database. Over time, as your number is removed from more and more databases, you'll see a dramatic decrease in the number of annoying telemarketing calls you receive.
The Bayesian filter is not limited to just the email's message body. The message headers and PNG/JPG filename/URL are analyzed too. Plus the Bayesian filter would QUICKLY identify that people that send me email that contains NO text are likely spammers.
Here are the current statistics for the Flash Player adoption for each version: http://www.macromedia.com/software/player_census/f lashplayer/version_penetration.html. Flash 5 is about 92% and Flash 6 is about 53%.
X configurators will get done for most people. Most of the hard stuff will be abstracted into a few sensible combinations that people need and they will work. Progress so far shows me this will happen.
Linux bigots have been saying this for how many years now? "Next year, Linux/X/GNOME/KDE will be the ultimate user desktop! Just wait and see." That is so 1995. Sure, the Linux kernel can push bytes over ethernet at world-record speeds. But why can't those same speed freak gooroos do the same with X performance? Because open source only scratches the itches of the people developing it. So the "Happy Point" for new users will never be addressed until someone tries to sell them something for their money..
I think some processors have multiple register sets, so threads do not have to thrash the same set of registers for every thread context switch.
That's like hiring a plumber that asks you what room the bathroom sink is in.
Actually, it's more like hiring a plumber who drinks from your toilet and pees in your sink.
Greencone.com is slashdotted, but here's the UK web site: greengardener.co.uk
Microsoft Office implements its own GUI menu code instead of using the Windows menu code. Office is a proving ground of sorts for Microsoft's new GUI ideas. Office had icons in menus before other apps. Office had "sliding" and alpha-faded menus first too. And Office had the "flat" coolbar menus first too I think.
Your idle PPC apps should not use up any CPU time. When the PPC's memory becomes limited, the OS first notifies idle apps (with a Windows message) that they should reduce their memory usage. If memory is still too tight, the OS then notifies idle apps that they should exit. If apps do not respond to these messages, then the apps are impolitely not following the PPC system conventions and recommendations. I know developers like to have a "clean" system, but does it really matter if some apps are idle in the background? All it does is reduce their reload time for a frequently used app when it is next needed.
The Microsoft smartphone product is called Stinger, not "Stingray".
I no longer use my mouse wheel. It gave me significant wrist pain.
You should also disable your mouse wheel. On Windows, you can do this in the Control Panel. The mouse wheel is too tempting if you leave it on but promise yourself not to use it.
I think most ballot measures, for example, are written deceptively. When you read the arguments for and against some ballot measure, inevitably, one argument will say "this will LOWER taxes" while the other side says "this will RAISE taxes". No wonder voters are fed up and don't bother to vote.
yup, amazingly worse..
war is peace.
freedom is slavery.
ignorance is strength.