The "System" menu in that screenshot is on the taskbar, not in the application window menubar. (Admittedly, in MacOS they are the same, which is another superiority:)
It's irritating how people don't even read the BBC quick-article, but for those who actually want to know what the researchers figured out: the paper is here; it's in Acrobat format, sigh.
Southern Ontario, plus Montreal. There's AC in Canada, oh yes.
But you're right in a sense: it does depend on his climate, and if he lives in Prince George (for example), then he's got No Issues with it getting too hot outside.:)
Well, I have DSL with 1024K down, and I can listen to streams quite effectively: although I usually have to pick something rather a bit smaller than the size of my pipe would suggest, due to router distance. For example, I usually listen to Tag's Trance somewhere around 128K or so.
I would be very upset if I had to give it up. Fortunately, all the college radio stations I listen to are Canadian, but if Tag's Trance went offline I would be unamused.
I wish there were someway I could read through the submissions directly, and cut those worthless editors, with their inane, poorly-written comments, right out of the process since I could really give a damn about those little biased blurbs they throw on the end of each post.
That would be Usenet. Get a newsreader, head on back.
Well, the Gnome screenshot there looks to me (as a long-time multi-platform user who has always preferred the Mac GUI) like a Windows screen. (Although I haven't used it, so I don't know how the behaviours work.) Why?
Windows-style control box in the upper right hand corner of the window; I'll bet there's no button for Make It As Big As It Needs To Be (the MacOS "maximize"), but rather a button for Fill The Whole Screen (the Windows maximize)
Broken scrollbars: the MacOS implementation puts the arrows next to each other. This is massively easier on the mouse-hand; it's why Mac users generally don't care about mousewheels (unless they play FPS games).
Lack of an OS-based menu alongside the application menus (i.e., an equivalent to the Apple menu - Windows' Start menu appears on the taskbar, which is pretty far from the app menus and therefore involves more mousing).
This is a general problem I've seen with X interfaces; they tend to be inspired by, well, Win95.
A natural monopoly is one that comes about in the marketplace not by gov't intervention but simply thru market forces.
In that case, all monopolies based on copyright or patent rights are by definition not natural. Copyright and patent laws are a method the government uses to interfere with the natural markets. They are, in themselves, a kind of economic regulation.
Well, I don't use pot, I just know enough people who do to know what the prices are.:)
Prices for pot vary widely by location; however, the price I quoted was in canadian dollars.
However, yes, pot is really expensive in north america, with the possible exception of BC (I don't know what the prices are like out there, but I suspect they're lower - the reason for the high prices has to do with the War on Drugs, which isn't really happening on the left coast:).
One thing not many people have mentioned is how clean and simple the base installation is (after you've installed it). Core system with X windows, add what you need afterwards.
This is partly true. However, even the minimal install does contain programs that you can rip out in special-purpose systems, like firewalls. The annoying part is that they don't get included as ports, but rather just left there. I wish the default sendmail install was listed in/var/db/pkg to make it more removable.
However, I know that I'm probably too obsessed with maximizing available disk space.:)
They had pretty wacky email addresses back then. What's up with that?
UUCP email specified the full route. The email address of the poster, in full, was: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!houxi!houxs!hansen which means this:
The news server this message was retrieved from is utzoo. The message came to utzoo from decvax, and from there from ucbvax, and from there from mhtsa, and from there from ihnss, and from there from houxi, and from there from houxs which was directly connected in some manner to hansen (perhaps hansen is a user on houxi; the important thing though is that houxi knows what hansen is).
so, if you want to send hansen email, and you're currently using ucbvax, then you send email to mhtsa!ihnss!houxi!houxs!hansen for example. If you're on a system that isn't in the bang-path, then you have to know the way to a system that is.
This is why MX-type Internet email got very popular very fast. However, sendmail still supports UUCP delivery, though most sane people compile it out.
Actually, for what it's worth, drug bust numbers are nearly as inaccurate as software losses. The problem is that drug prices are caculated [sic] at street value, but the people they're busting, at least if they have any serious amount, aren't selling on the street.
Drug busts, in many cases, are far, far worse than you believe.
Drug prices are calculated based on what the police claim their street value is.
For example, I've seen pot busts where, if you work back the ratio of weight to claimed value, it works out at well over $50 a gram; this in a region where the normal street price is more in the $15 a gram range.
stock options are going to be a lot harder to use.
the way a corp uses stock options to do tax reduction is that it pays its execs relatively low amounts in direct employment amounts, but sells them stock at a ridiculously low rate.
then it gets to deduct the difference between the rate it sold the stock at and the trading value of the stock as a business expense.
with the lowered stock market, the taxman stands to gain.
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The "System" menu in that screenshot is on the taskbar, not in the application window menubar. (Admittedly, in MacOS they are the same, which is another superiority :)
It's irritating how people don't even read the BBC quick-article, but for those who actually want to know what the researchers figured out: the paper is here; it's in Acrobat format, sigh.
Well, if you have three servers, then no, it doesn't really matter.
Suppose you have twenty-three. Now think. You're going to sit down in front of these one day after having spent a month in Bermuda. How will you feel?
I know I'd rather feel the latter.
then there's the geeky-friend situation.
personally, my favourite solution is to label my computers. give them names, and stick the names to them somehow.
hardware geeks can be such snobs.
software guys have souls, too! :)
and I was born in winnipeg... oh yes, mosquito nets in the summer, oh my :)
manitoba - land of extreme weather
Southern Ontario, plus Montreal. There's AC in Canada, oh yes.
But you're right in a sense: it does depend on his climate, and if he lives in Prince George (for example), then he's got No Issues with it getting too hot outside. :)
Well, I have DSL with 1024K down, and I can listen to streams quite effectively: although I usually have to pick something rather a bit smaller than the size of my pipe would suggest, due to router distance. For example, I usually listen to Tag's Trance somewhere around 128K or so.
I would be very upset if I had to give it up. Fortunately, all the college radio stations I listen to are Canadian, but if Tag's Trance went offline I would be unamused.
That would be Usenet. Get a newsreader, head on back.
True, but you should reread my post. Copyright is a form of economic regulation: it doesn't exist in an unregulated market.
Well, the Gnome screenshot there looks to me (as a long-time multi-platform user who has always preferred the Mac GUI) like a Windows screen. (Although I haven't used it, so I don't know how the behaviours work.) Why?
This is a general problem I've seen with X interfaces; they tend to be inspired by, well, Win95.
In that case, all monopolies based on copyright or patent rights are by definition not natural. Copyright and patent laws are a method the government uses to interfere with the natural markets. They are, in themselves, a kind of economic regulation.
This is kinda true. He has to testify as a government witness, but he doesn't have to lie on the stand (which would be illegal anyway :)
In other words, he can say what he likes in response to the questions of the DOJ lawyer, but the DOJ gets to pick the questions.
If this all seems unusually Machiavellian to you, well, it is.
Well, one neuron would be better, yes ;)
Some of us use telnet for other applications. Like, BBSes.
I run telnetd, but it doesn't give a shell. :)
Well, I don't use pot, I just know enough people who do to know what the prices are. :)
Prices for pot vary widely by location; however, the price I quoted was in canadian dollars.
However, yes, pot is really expensive in north america, with the possible exception of BC (I don't know what the prices are like out there, but I suspect they're lower - the reason for the high prices has to do with the War on Drugs, which isn't really happening on the left coast :).
the cheap drugs over here are acid and speed.
This is partly true. However, even the minimal install does contain programs that you can rip out in special-purpose systems, like firewalls. The annoying part is that they don't get included as ports, but rather just left there. I wish the default sendmail install was listed in /var/db/pkg to make it more removable.
However, I know that I'm probably too obsessed with maximizing available disk space. :)
UUCP email specified the full route. The email address of the poster, in full, was: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!houxi!houxs!hansen which means this:
The news server this message was retrieved from is utzoo. The message came to utzoo from decvax, and from there from ucbvax, and from there from mhtsa, and from there from ihnss, and from there from houxi, and from there from houxs which was directly connected in some manner to hansen (perhaps hansen is a user on houxi; the important thing though is that houxi knows what hansen is).
so, if you want to send hansen email, and you're currently using ucbvax, then you send email to mhtsa!ihnss!houxi!houxs!hansen for example. If you're on a system that isn't in the bang-path, then you have to know the way to a system that is.
This is why MX-type Internet email got very popular very fast. However, sendmail still supports UUCP delivery, though most sane people compile it out.
I believe that's an American doctrine to prevent people from suing in both contract and tort to get even more money.
You'd have to be willing to sue for breach of contract in the alternative.
The Real World (i.e. non-American common law countries) avoids this problem by simply requiring you to sue only once for one incident.
Just because somebody claims no warranty, doesn't let them off the hook in cases of actual negligence.
It's a standard lawyer tactic to discourage lawsuits: but courts regularly ignore it.
Image is safe, if you don't implement http in your mail reader. Some emails wrap images in the email, and reference those.
What, two weeks?
God, how the mighty have fallen. :)
Back when I was a teen, the 64 pirate scene often had software six months before. In some cases it was a year or more.
I never even saw a legal copy of Elite, for example. :)
Drug busts, in many cases, are far, far worse than you believe.
Drug prices are calculated based on what the police claim their street value is.
For example, I've seen pot busts where, if you work back the ratio of weight to claimed value, it works out at well over $50 a gram; this in a region where the normal street price is more in the $15 a gram range.
Unless the US is way off, you can't impeach an attorney general, just the president. he can be fired of course ;)
Except that Google has a take-down link. You can contact them to have your stuff removed.
Also, there were archives even back in 1981. This isn't new: it's just that the web makes it easier to access.
stock options are going to be a lot harder to use.
the way a corp uses stock options to do tax reduction is that it pays its execs relatively low amounts in direct employment amounts, but sells them stock at a ridiculously low rate.
then it gets to deduct the difference between the rate it sold the stock at and the trading value of the stock as a business expense.
with the lowered stock market, the taxman stands to gain.