400 miles? If you are in Orlando, you'll be unable to find a 400 mile trip along I4. Tampa is only 75 miles away, and the other end of I4 (Daytona) is even less. It's not even 400 miles from Orlando to Miami (it's only 200).
400 miles would take you almost to Atlanta, which won't be participating in our little High Speed Rail fiasco.
Take a Greyhound. That's what I did when I was going to school in Gainesville. It doesn't take very long on trips like Orlando to Tampa, or Orlando to Miami. It's cheap ($20), and it's not going to cause the taxpayers to be ripped off beyond their wildest imaginations. This rail thing is a huge waste.
As a Florida resident, I am deeply concerned by the whole High Speed Rail movement.
We now have a Constitutional Amendment (yes, in our State Constitution) mandating a high speed rail. That's absurd. Constitutions are for more important matters - rights that are undeniable. It was on the ballot and the morons of the state voted for it. There were no provisions for cost or anything else. Just that we are required to have a tax dollar supported rail.
It's not even going to get used. Our cities do not have adequate transportation to support this. Let's say I want to go from Orlando to Tampa (this will undoubtedly be one of the links on the rail). I will drive my car down to the train station, park and ride to Tampa. What do I do then? Tampa does not have a subway, only buses. The bus system is not even very good. Shall I take a cab? Not likely, as the Tampa area is not conducive to cheap taxi rides (it is a large area split by a bay). Besides which, there aren't taxis just passing by everywhere like in New York. There are cabs at the airport, and there will likely be some at the train station, but you will be calling for a cab to come get you and then waiting the 15 to 45 minutes for it to arrive.
The trip from Tampa to Orlando is only a little more than one hour by car, anyway. So, I would be driving to the train station (likely somewhere near downtown). This will take me 45 minutes. The average person probably 30 minutes(some more, some less). Let's allow 10 minutes for getting there a little early, dealing with ticket issues, boarding, etc (this is a very low estimate - I'll bet it's higher). Let's say the rail can get there in 30 minutes. Let's allow 5 minutes to get off the train and find local transportation. I've spent an hour and 15 minutes going from Tampa to Orlando. I've paid to park, and I've paid to ride the train. I now have to pay for some local transportation. So, I've arrived in the same amount of time, but I've spent more money. Perfect. Thank goodness for Constitutional Rights!
Look also at the source code around the copyright line at the bottom. Apple uses what looks like an include with HTML comments to append the copyright line. No such thing on the mac.com/1/ page.
It does look like iTools is unavailable right now, though.
What does that prove? That there is some page on mac.com? Doesn't Apple sell/rent space on mac.com for people to host pages? How do we know that this is not some guy who has mac.com/1/? Apple usually has better subdirectory names than/1/. Besides, the language in that FAQ isn't very good.
Isn't mac.com something that Apple uses to let people have their own email addresses and web hosting space? Obviously, someone just has the URL for mac.com/1/, which is not so inconceivable.
Just reading through that FAQ, I don't think that it was written by Apple. It's not good enough.
As often as linked websites get Slashdotted from articles, I wonder how often the supply of a book suffers from this same effect. I know when A New Kind of Science was reviewed, that thing was completely unavailable. Whether or not that was related to Slashdot is unknown.
I also find it interesting that the links to purchase the book are generally to Amazon.com, a company who has been bashed around here numerous times. Never do you see a link to someone like Bookpool.com, who tends to be cheaper. I guess Amazon can probably take whatever load Slashdot sends along.
Not too long ago I was helping a roomate through a remedial math class he was taking at community college. The text books were horrible. Without me, the poor guy would never have gotten the idea of negative numbers.
The EFF, a foundation created to defend the technological freedoms and rights of individuals around the world, is promoting the use of Macromedia Flash, the success of which will fill the coffers of a pro-DMCA company at the expense of open W3C [w3.org] standards. The irony is sweet and poignant.
Please point me to the place on the W3C site where it talks about an open standard for what flash does. Are you going to try to refer me to SVG? I don't think that will fit the bill. Don't see anything about sound or interactivity.
Perhaps you could stop your whining and generate your Flash from PHP, or you could head over here and read the spec for Flash, published by Macromedia in 1998.
I never see a blue screen of death on Windows 2000. What is this you are speaking of?
Uhh, it happens to my workstation at work about once a month. It generally happens when I am not using it - I'll come in from lunch and find it that way. A couple of weeks ago, I found a task that could repeat the blue screen, but I've forgotten what it was.
Anyway, there are blue screens in Windows 2000. It's much better than NT 4, though.
Not every possible interpretation. Bush would have lost without the electoral college votes from Florida. Considering the utter farce of the election process there Florida abstaining would have been perfectly reasonable behaviour.
Throwing out the ballots from an entire state would be absolutely unacceptable. They would still be sorting out the lawsuits. I have a Constitutional right to have my vote counted towards an election of the President. If my State Government, or the Federal Government denied that right in any fashion, I would sue them to the point that you'd all be paying higher taxes so the government could pay me my judgment.
Imagine a proposed law that said, since shoplifting is common and unstoppable, all customers at every store will be stopped, background-checked, and strip-searched.
What actually happens is that stores charge more money for the stuff you do buy, so you are paying for the shoplifting. It's basically the same as the tax - the honest person pays for the dishonest person's actions. However, the tax is a decision of the government, not a decision of the marketplace.
I suppose you're right. Theft is not a felony until the amount totals $1000. Nothing in a Target (the place I used to work when we were told this) is worth $1000.
You can't actually force someone to come back inside, anyway. Once they step off the curb, you can't keep them there. You can try to talk them into coming inside, or write down their license tag (if they're dumb enough to get in their car with you watching), but you can't make them go back in the store. Also, remember that they haven't actually stolen anything until they go through the door, even if they put something under their shirt.
So, you have a short distance, from the door to the curb, in which to stop someone.
When I worked at Target (way back in college), we used the walkie talkies to tell some employees to go stand right outside the door. That way, the person can't get away.
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I actually prefer "A Book On C" (ISBN 0201183994) by Kelley and Pohl. Found it easier to pick up.
Unless a Links plugin is one of them, I say bugger off with your flashy bullshit.
You must use lynx all the time, since you don't even know how to spell it. It's command line, so you might want to learn how to spell it, if you want it to run.
Going to college is much more involving than a 40-hour-a-week+commute job
Are you nuts?
sports, campus activities, signifcant other(s), friends, beer, crazy little stunts to keep life interesting, piano lessons, running
Gee, you're right, you wouldn't have time to write a computer program. You seem to have far less free time than someone with a real job, a house to take care of, kids to take to practices every weeknight and games on Saturday and Sunday and to their friends' houses. If you think dating is time consuming, try marriage. where you live in an apartment or house, NOT surrounded by 200 other 18-22 year olds. Hmm, you're right. No 18-22 year olds here. Just a bunch of neighbor kids. Oh, and I own my house, so there is no landlord to fix everything for me.
I'd love to have the free time I had when I was in school.
I can't access Netscape.com or Mozilla.org since I installed a beta copy of.NET Enterprise server. I'm using it for NAT for a WinXP box, a Redhat 7.2 box, and an OS X box. None of the machines can access either site.
If I shut down the.NET box, I can access both sites.
I'm not saying it was historically accurate. I'm saying it has historical perspective. There are some fallacies, but battles took place, and many of the events were real.
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400 miles? If you are in Orlando, you'll be unable to find a 400 mile trip along I4. Tampa is only 75 miles away, and the other end of I4 (Daytona) is even less. It's not even 400 miles from Orlando to Miami (it's only 200).
400 miles would take you almost to Atlanta, which won't be participating in our little High Speed Rail fiasco.
Take a Greyhound. That's what I did when I was going to school in Gainesville. It doesn't take very long on trips like Orlando to Tampa, or Orlando to Miami. It's cheap ($20), and it's not going to cause the taxpayers to be ripped off beyond their wildest imaginations. This rail thing is a huge waste.
As a Florida resident, I am deeply concerned by the whole High Speed Rail movement.
We now have a Constitutional Amendment (yes, in our State Constitution) mandating a high speed rail. That's absurd. Constitutions are for more important matters - rights that are undeniable. It was on the ballot and the morons of the state voted for it. There were no provisions for cost or anything else. Just that we are required to have a tax dollar supported rail.
It's not even going to get used. Our cities do not have adequate transportation to support this. Let's say I want to go from Orlando to Tampa (this will undoubtedly be one of the links on the rail). I will drive my car down to the train station, park and ride to Tampa. What do I do then? Tampa does not have a subway, only buses. The bus system is not even very good. Shall I take a cab? Not likely, as the Tampa area is not conducive to cheap taxi rides (it is a large area split by a bay). Besides which, there aren't taxis just passing by everywhere like in New York. There are cabs at the airport, and there will likely be some at the train station, but you will be calling for a cab to come get you and then waiting the 15 to 45 minutes for it to arrive.
The trip from Tampa to Orlando is only a little more than one hour by car, anyway. So, I would be driving to the train station (likely somewhere near downtown). This will take me 45 minutes. The average person probably 30 minutes(some more, some less). Let's allow 10 minutes for getting there a little early, dealing with ticket issues, boarding, etc (this is a very low estimate - I'll bet it's higher). Let's say the rail can get there in 30 minutes. Let's allow 5 minutes to get off the train and find local transportation. I've spent an hour and 15 minutes going from Tampa to Orlando. I've paid to park, and I've paid to ride the train. I now have to pay for some local transportation. So, I've arrived in the same amount of time, but I've spent more money. Perfect. Thank goodness for Constitutional Rights!
Look also at the source code around the copyright line at the bottom. Apple uses what looks like an include with HTML comments to append the copyright line. No such thing on the mac.com/1/ page.
It does look like iTools is unavailable right now, though.
What does that prove? That there is some page on mac.com? Doesn't Apple sell/rent space on mac.com for people to host pages? How do we know that this is not some guy who has mac.com/1/? Apple usually has better subdirectory names than /1/. Besides, the language in that FAQ isn't very good.
Let Apple know you are upset! I did!
http://www.apple.com/contact/feedback.html [apple.com]
Why not wait until you know for sure that it is real? So far, this is an unconfirmed rumor.
Isn't mac.com something that Apple uses to let people have their own email addresses and web hosting space? Obviously, someone just has the URL for mac.com/1/, which is not so inconceivable.
Just reading through that FAQ, I don't think that it was written by Apple. It's not good enough.
As often as linked websites get Slashdotted from articles, I wonder how often the supply of a book suffers from this same effect. I know when A New Kind of Science was reviewed, that thing was completely unavailable. Whether or not that was related to Slashdot is unknown.
I also find it interesting that the links to purchase the book are generally to Amazon.com, a company who has been bashed around here numerous times. Never do you see a link to someone like Bookpool.com, who tends to be cheaper. I guess Amazon can probably take whatever load Slashdot sends along.
Yeah, I can't decide if these new people are better or worse than Jeff Goldblum (sp?).
Not too long ago I was helping a roomate through a remedial math class he was taking at community college. The text books were horrible. Without me, the poor guy would never have gotten the idea of negative numbers.
They let him out of high school? Holy crap!
The EFF, a foundation created to defend the technological freedoms and rights of individuals around the world, is promoting the use of Macromedia Flash, the success of which will fill the coffers of a pro-DMCA company at the expense of open W3C [w3.org] standards. The irony is sweet and poignant.
Please point me to the place on the W3C site where it talks about an open standard for what flash does. Are you going to try to refer me to SVG? I don't think that will fit the bill. Don't see anything about sound or interactivity.
Perhaps you could stop your whining and generate your Flash from PHP, or you could head over here and read the spec for Flash, published by Macromedia in 1998.
We have a daily need for responsive and robust desktop software, and Metacity has repeatedly stepped up to the plate
That's classic!
"You will never see a blue screen of death with Unix".
What about "Our technical support engineers won't tell you to reinstall everything every time you call us."?
I never see a blue screen of death on Windows 2000. What is this you are speaking of?
Uhh, it happens to my workstation at work about once a month. It generally happens when I am not using it - I'll come in from lunch and find it that way. A couple of weeks ago, I found a task that could repeat the blue screen, but I've forgotten what it was.
Anyway, there are blue screens in Windows 2000. It's much better than NT 4, though.
Not every possible interpretation. Bush would have lost without the electoral college votes from Florida. Considering the utter farce of the election process there Florida abstaining would have been perfectly reasonable behaviour.
Throwing out the ballots from an entire state would be absolutely unacceptable. They would still be sorting out the lawsuits. I have a Constitutional right to have my vote counted towards an election of the President. If my State Government, or the Federal Government denied that right in any fashion, I would sue them to the point that you'd all be paying higher taxes so the government could pay me my judgment.
Hmm... I'm there right now, 128bit.
Imagine a proposed law that said, since shoplifting is common and unstoppable, all customers at every store will be stopped, background-checked, and strip-searched.
What actually happens is that stores charge more money for the stuff you do buy, so you are paying for the shoplifting. It's basically the same as the tax - the honest person pays for the dishonest person's actions. However, the tax is a decision of the government, not a decision of the marketplace.
I suppose you're right. Theft is not a felony until the amount totals $1000. Nothing in a Target (the place I used to work when we were told this) is worth $1000.
You can't actually force someone to come back inside, anyway. Once they step off the curb, you can't keep them there. You can try to talk them into coming inside, or write down their license tag (if they're dumb enough to get in their car with you watching), but you can't make them go back in the store. Also, remember that they haven't actually stolen anything until they go through the door, even if they put something under their shirt.
So, you have a short distance, from the door to the curb, in which to stop someone.
When I worked at Target (way back in college), we used the walkie talkies to tell some employees to go stand right outside the door. That way, the person can't get away.
I actually prefer "A Book On C" (ISBN 0201183994) by Kelley and Pohl. Found it easier to pick up.
Unless a Links plugin is one of them, I say bugger off with your flashy bullshit.
You must use lynx all the time, since you don't even know how to spell it. It's command line, so you might want to learn how to spell it, if you want it to run.
Going to college is much more involving than a 40-hour-a-week+commute job
Are you nuts?
sports, campus activities, signifcant other(s), friends, beer, crazy little stunts to keep life interesting, piano lessons, running
Gee, you're right, you wouldn't have time to write a computer program. You seem to have far less free time than someone with a real job, a house to take care of, kids to take to practices every weeknight and games on Saturday and Sunday and to their friends' houses. If you think dating is time consuming, try marriage. where you live in an apartment or house, NOT surrounded by 200 other 18-22 year olds. Hmm, you're right. No 18-22 year olds here. Just a bunch of neighbor kids. Oh, and I own my house, so there is no landlord to fix everything for me.
I'd love to have the free time I had when I was in school.
I can't access Netscape.com or Mozilla.org since I installed a beta copy of .NET Enterprise server. I'm using it for NAT for a WinXP box, a Redhat 7.2 box, and an OS X box. None of the machines can access either site.
.NET box, I can access both sites.
If I shut down the
Why should some people pay more than others for the same good?
Because, just like with taxes, people seem to think it is somehow 'right' to screw the rich. They can afford it.
We should stop having laws, then. Give me an example of a law I can't get around somehow.
Murder is illegal, but what about Ted Kennedy, OJ Simpson, or Gary Condit?
I'm not saying it was historically accurate. I'm saying it has historical perspective. There are some fallacies, but battles took place, and many of the events were real.
The point remains that the violence in Braveheart is quite different from the violence in a John Woo movie, or Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarantino, or True Romance (written by Tarantino).
(I'm not bashing Woo or Tarantino, here. I like their movies.)