- "For the power supply, the three of us easily agreed on a vendor: PC Power & Cooling"
Bloody typical. Yet the reality is that the PC Power & Cooling mob are just 'badge engineers' - they re-sell other manufacturers products with their own own brand markings & inflated prices.
The 350 watt Enermax lacks sufficient power for the Thunder K7 motherboard, at least to spec, and neither are redundant (probably Raymond's reason to choose this product).
If you want to snub PC Power & Cooling's inventory, you could contribute something positive by finding the same (or equivalent) PS from another vendor, cheaper or better.
[And for what it's worth, I'm not affiliated with pcpowercooling.com, ESR, or with the mob.]
Her 2000 creation was The Last Supper. This year it was John Wayne (life size) (sorry I couldn't find a pic online). She's been at it for decades. If I recall correctly, she made a cheddar pig once for Late Night with David Letterman once.
I'd've skipped Dylan to attend the "I Milked a Cow" exhibit.
Network TV will simply never run this story because of Coke's enormous advertising budget. That bumps this story up to the best thing I've read online. -----
god exists !
there is an plan !
When I Customize Sidebar, select google, and click OK, google.xul downloads via a visible download dialogue (I think this is already wrong), and wants me to suggest a default action (for which only "Save to disk") seems to be an option.
Default download directory doesn't work for me. Using mozilla.exe to open the google.xul displays the sidebar info in the main page. What should I do here?
Am I missing something obvious, or is this a bug I should report? Also, since other sidebars (CNN I'm looking at) work okay, is the problem in Moz or on Google's end?
I realize there are better forums for this question, but I thought I'd start here. I'm not noticing it in Bugzilla.
Oh here's another question...
Does anyone have the link for that utility that adds Slashdot to yr sidebar?
I've been reading/. on AvantGo for a while (cos no PC's are convenient to my bed or bathtub) and it's kinda unsatisfying:
AvantGo only DL's 2MB for all my sites combined. That leave 5.75MB on my Visor with nothing to do.
Insufficient control over what links to follow (haven't tried the DigitalPaths yet, so I can't compare). Since most/. pages even in light mode have many links, a relatively low level of links to follow maxes me out quickly, but I have to follow a lot of links to satisfying reading.
One wouldn't have to alter code code on M$'s end to cause trouble. Windows isn't intended to be open source, and probably relies on security through obscurity. Just downloading and viewing the code probably means someone can write malicious hacks, or publish it elsewhere and let others do the work.
For this reason alone I don't believe Microsoft faked the break in. __________
Whoops I should have read your reply before I spouted off. Three quick things:
Government censorship is a First Amendment issue. This seems to me like a really blatant example of government censorship.
Gay opinion is not the same thing as gay porn (except to the people who wish to suppress gay opinion). If my kids (very hypothetical) or anyone else's wanted to research opinions on (for example) same-sex marriage and found nothing from organizations who favor it, might they conclude there was no significant support for it? If they read convincing arguments "anti", and no convincing arguments "pro", whose side might they take on this issue?
I think this is such an excellent example of how this kind of censorship is political censorship (and may even be intended as such) and also how censorware will hurt people.
"Educationally valid" is a hard thing to define, and I don't want someone's appointed censors to define it for everyone else.
Anyway, why aren't these geniuses doing something about email spam? Oooh I'm trolling now... never mind.
This isn't relevant to the topic of "Girl Geeks", except for clouding the discussion. Sommers' arguments tend to miss feminist points in a way that looks deliberate to me. Take for instance the that Atlantic Monthly article you linked...
"today's girls outshine boys" (Sommers' words in my italics) because they "now outnumber boys in student government, in honor societies, on school newspapers, and in debating clubs". The skills practiced here are mostly social, not deeply technical. Actually so are many examples of girls' behavior illustrated in this article -- irrelevant to the subject of math/science education for girls.
Boys as a group probably have a different constellation of needs that aren't being met in the school system (as acknowledged not just by Sommers but by Sommer's feminist whipping girl Carol Gilligan). This doesn't disprove or contradict that girls with potential to excel in technical fields are shortchanged, only that boys are probably shortchanged in different ways.
That Summers chooses to characterize this issue as a "feminist" "War on Boys" strikes me as opportunistic and unnecessary, like she's looking for the big media attention that was given Camille Paglia and Katie Roiphe (as opposed to the academics she criticizes but nobody reads). Even her Atlantic Monthly bio lists "tart essays about feminist disingenuousness" as one of her specialties. Nothing wrong with criticism & honest debunking, but she could address this issue without invoking her pet demon.
Sommers makes good points in that there are prejudices against boys, and attention needs to be given in schools to how they socialize, and they have special needs that different from girls. And it's obvious that Sommers care about boys a lot. But I'd be a lot more receptive to what she has to say if she didn't spend so much time vilifying feminism in general, and the American Association of University Women's "fishy" research (not my phrase, or even Sommers' come to think of it) in particular.
... its pretty obvious that obscenity is in the mind of the beholder, not the computer. So computers can't spot this stuff.
The solution then would be a computer that would simulate the stimulus/response patterns a horny raving sex addict. Then if it turns the 'droid on, block it. Heuristic programming would be trivial -- pipe in certain websites and a good chunk of Usenet's.alt hierarchy to yr handy neural net.
The spinoff value for teledildonics development is obvious. Sony announces Paibo the Pervbot.
Okay I'm ignorant. Why is toner such a popular spam/scam product? I get phone solicitations for this all the time, and it usually sounds blatantly "boiler room". I've nevered ordered toner before (that's someone else's job).
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Re:Really all that bad?
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RMS On eBooks
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Sure it's all that bad. When people learn each other's "dark" secrets they villify, ridicule, ostracize and exploit to gain advantage. This is a social control process that tends to enforce the social norm rather than promote tolerance and diversity. Privacy protects people from this process.
Chances are data submitted upon reading an e-book isn't going to the general community (not that it should), but to some private corporation. In all likelihood they'll use it for something dull and venal like directing tons of spamvertising your way, but the possibility sure exists of someone mining this data for even greater evil, say a political witch hunt to "expose" these "dangerous" people to the surrounding communities.
Gee here's a "worst case": what if Microsoft ends up owing Ralph Reed's christian right connections a big favor, and President George W.'s more than willing to look the other way? You'll regret using Microsoft Reader then. (Okay that was a bit troll-ey, and I'm a little sorry for saying it.)
Well there's probably worse scenarios, but I haven't sufficient imagination tonite.
In all fairness I gotta mention there is a Make It Fit equivalent (well I haven't functionally compared the two, but I've used them both) wizard in MS-Office. I've not seen Office 2000 but in Office97 it's one of the buttons on the Print Preview screen. (I'm not near a copy of Office now or I'd describe better. Float thru the tooltips to find "Make it fit".)
Dunno why it's so hidden in Word -- AFAIK that's the only way to find it -- and I think WordPerfect 6 did it first, but MS-Office does have this feature. __________
The Raite allows firmware upgrades from a CDrom you can download and burn yerself. From what I've heard, that may not be true with the Apex. __________
I don't know enough about Torvalds's ethics and willingness to participate in capitalist exploitation, but as an accomplished geek Linus has a lot of credibility with me. The fact that he hasn't quit Transmeta in disgust (c.f. that Mozilla fuss a while back) does warm me to the possibility that Crusoe might be a worthy project.
And even if Transmeta turns out to be just another processor company, it's still funding college educations for Linus's daughters. So I still wanna give Transmeta my $$. Also Linus seems like such a sweetheart...[transmission interrupted as this poster is avalanched by his stuffed penguin collection]
To use your example: cigarette advertising is not allowed on television in the United States. Tobacco companies routinely undermine this by displaying billboards at sports events, which are then broadcast. (Actually I don't know if this is still done. Cigarette billboard advertising has recently been banned in some states, but I think it's still allowed in most.)
With this technology available, might broadcasters be obliged to obscure these ads in real time? More interestingly, might this practice be made mandatory? Would legislation be passed requiring this?
Personally, I'm very anti-tobacco -- this isn't intended as pro-cigarette FUD -- but an issue like this could create the ugly precendent needed to make this a widely accepted "legitimate" practice.
Darn this is gonna drive people into the loving arms of etoys.com
Family members report last-minute orders from Amazon [insert *apology* here] arriving in like 2-3 days. Even my order from Forced Exposure was unusually fast for them (like 5 days). UPS and FedEx must've also been doing some good work.
I'm no Who expert so I can only guess. Could this be minimalist Terry Riley?
I don't have a link handy, but if anyone's curious, Riley most famous work includes
In C, serious
A Rainbow In Curved Air leaning pop, major label
and his collaboration with John Cale Church of Anthrax which I mention mostly cos Velvet Underground is my god band.
A lot of his older ("seminal" and "important" in minimalist circles) has recently been reissued. I saw him live once in the 80s -- very repetitious, not thrilling IMO.
Slashdot Mirror
Last time I checked, Winamp.com listed 4 plug-ins, two of which were outdated and couldn't read files encoded in v1.0.
See you on OpenNap.
If you want to snub PC Power & Cooling's inventory, you could contribute something positive by finding the same (or equivalent) PS from another vendor, cheaper or better.
[And for what it's worth, I'm not affiliated with pcpowercooling.com, ESR, or with the mob.]
Her 2000 creation was The Last Supper. This year it was John Wayne (life size) (sorry I couldn't find a pic online). She's been at it for decades. If I recall correctly, she made a cheddar pig once for Late Night with David Letterman once.
I'd've skipped Dylan to attend the "I Milked a Cow" exhibit.
Network TV will simply never run this story because of Coke's enormous advertising budget. That bumps this story up to the best thing I've read online.
-----
god exists !
there is an plan !
When I Customize Sidebar, select google, and click OK, google.xul downloads via a visible download dialogue (I think this is already wrong), and wants me to suggest a default action (for which only "Save to disk") seems to be an option.
Default download directory doesn't work for me. Using mozilla.exe to open the google.xul displays the sidebar info in the main page. What should I do here?
Am I missing something obvious, or is this a bug I should report? Also, since other sidebars (CNN I'm looking at) work okay, is the problem in Moz or on Google's end?
I realize there are better forums for this question, but I thought I'd start here. I'm not noticing it in Bugzilla.
Oh here's another question ...
Does anyone have the link for that utility that adds Slashdot to yr sidebar?
Es.
I've been reading /. on AvantGo for a while (cos no PC's are convenient to my bed or bathtub) and it's kinda unsatisfying:
Here's how configure my slashdot channel in AvantGo:
?title=slashdot&url=http://slashdot.org/palm
&max=1600&depth=4&images=0&links=0&refresh=hourly
&hours=2&dflags=127
I welcome tuning suggestions
Es.Hollywood are you listening?
- CitySkills.org
(Boston)
- Reboot Philadelphia (Philadelphia)
- Byte Back (Washington D.C.) [more info here]
I don't know of comparable national efforts.__________
For this reason alone I don't believe Microsoft faked the break in.
__________
- http://www.michaelmoore.co m/2000_07 _18.html
If you wanna spam everyone you know with this essay, you'll hog less bandwidth by just sending the link.__________
Government censorship is a First Amendment issue. This seems to me like a really blatant example of government censorship.
Gay opinion is not the same thing as gay porn (except to the people who wish to suppress gay opinion). If my kids (very hypothetical) or anyone else's wanted to research opinions on (for example) same-sex marriage and found nothing from organizations who favor it, might they conclude there was no significant support for it? If they read convincing arguments "anti", and no convincing arguments "pro", whose side might they take on this issue?
I think this is such an excellent example of how this kind of censorship is political censorship (and may even be intended as such) and also how censorware will hurt people.
"Educationally valid" is a hard thing to define, and I don't want someone's appointed censors to define it for everyone else.
Anyway, why aren't these geniuses doing something about email spam? Oooh I'm trolling now ... never mind.
__________
This really is an argument about what is legal, at least in the US. Freedom of speech logically carries with it
- an implicit freedom to be heard, and
- another freedom to hear what's being said.
I doubt limiting speech on certain topics to (for instance) a sound proof space with no one else in earshot is in the spirit of free speech.If the objection is
Computers with speech cripware no longer belong in public schools or libraries because they serve only as propaganda stations.
__________
I've not tried this myself, but Groupwise runs on NT and Unix networks. It may want Novell NDS, but it doesn't require NetWare.
__________
This isn't relevant to the topic of "Girl Geeks", except for clouding the discussion. Sommers' arguments tend to miss feminist points in a way that looks deliberate to me. Take for instance the that Atlantic Monthly article you linked ...
"today's girls outshine boys" (Sommers' words in my italics) because they "now outnumber boys in student government, in honor societies, on school newspapers, and in debating clubs". The skills practiced here are mostly social, not deeply technical. Actually so are many examples of girls' behavior illustrated in this article -- irrelevant to the subject of math/science education for girls.
Boys as a group probably have a different constellation of needs that aren't being met in the school system (as acknowledged not just by Sommers but by Sommer's feminist whipping girl Carol Gilligan). This doesn't disprove or contradict that girls with potential to excel in technical fields are shortchanged, only that boys are probably shortchanged in different ways.
That Summers chooses to characterize this issue as a "feminist" "War on Boys" strikes me as opportunistic and unnecessary, like she's looking for the big media attention that was given Camille Paglia and Katie Roiphe (as opposed to the academics she criticizes but nobody reads). Even her Atlantic Monthly bio lists "tart essays about feminist disingenuousness" as one of her specialties. Nothing wrong with criticism & honest debunking, but she could address this issue without invoking her pet demon.
Sommers makes good points in that there are prejudices against boys, and attention needs to be given in schools to how they socialize, and they have special needs that different from girls. And it's obvious that Sommers care about boys a lot. But I'd be a lot more receptive to what she has to say if she didn't spend so much time vilifying feminism in general, and the American Association of University Women's "fishy" research (not my phrase, or even Sommers' come to think of it) in particular.
Here's a link to an NPR show with Christina Hoff Summers discussing her War Against Boys idea, with RealAudio. The host likes her a lot.
__________
ZDnet has a very entry-level article on the keynote ("So what is Linux?'), with links to the above video in WinMedia (if yr into that sort of thing).
__________
The solution then would be a computer that would simulate the stimulus/response patterns a horny raving sex addict. Then if it turns the 'droid on, block it. Heuristic programming would be trivial -- pipe in certain websites and a good chunk of Usenet's .alt hierarchy to yr handy neural net.
The spinoff value for teledildonics development is obvious. Sony announces Paibo the Pervbot.
__________
Okay I'm ignorant. Why is toner such a popular spam/scam product? I get phone solicitations for this all the time, and it usually sounds blatantly "boiler room". I've nevered ordered toner before (that's someone else's job).
__________
Sure it's all that bad. When people learn each other's "dark" secrets they villify, ridicule, ostracize and exploit to gain advantage. This is a social control process that tends to enforce the social norm rather than promote tolerance and diversity. Privacy protects people from this process.
Chances are data submitted upon reading an e-book isn't going to the general community (not that it should), but to some private corporation. In all likelihood they'll use it for something dull and venal like directing tons of spamvertising your way, but the possibility sure exists of someone mining this data for even greater evil, say a political witch hunt to "expose" these "dangerous" people to the surrounding communities.
Gee here's a "worst case": what if Microsoft ends up owing Ralph Reed's christian right connections a big favor, and President George W.'s more than willing to look the other way? You'll regret using Microsoft Reader then. (Okay that was a bit troll-ey, and I'm a little sorry for saying it.)
Well there's probably worse scenarios, but I haven't sufficient imagination tonite.
__________
Dunno why it's so hidden in Word -- AFAIK that's the only way to find it -- and I think WordPerfect 6 did it first, but MS-Office does have this feature.
__________
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~eriky/raite
The Raite allows firmware upgrades from a CDrom you can download and burn yerself. From what I've heard, that may not be true with the Apex.
__________
And even if Transmeta turns out to be just another processor company, it's still funding college educations for Linus's daughters. So I still wanna give Transmeta my $$. Also Linus seems like such a sweetheart ...[transmission interrupted as this poster is avalanched by his stuffed penguin collection]
With this technology available, might broadcasters be obliged to obscure these ads in real time? More interestingly, might this practice be made mandatory? Would legislation be passed requiring this?
Personally, I'm very anti-tobacco -- this isn't intended as pro-cigarette FUD -- but an issue like this could create the ugly precendent needed to make this a widely accepted "legitimate" practice.
Family members report last-minute orders from Amazon [insert *apology* here] arriving in like 2-3 days. Even my order from Forced Exposure was unusually fast for them (like 5 days). UPS and FedEx must've also been doing some good work.
Enjoying my new Twiddler :)
I don't have a link handy, but if anyone's curious, Riley most famous work includes
- In C , serious
- A Rainbow In Curved Air leaning pop, major label
- and his collaboration with John Cale Church of Anthrax which I mention mostly cos Velvet Underground is my god band.
A lot of his older ("seminal" and "important" in minimalist circles) has recently been reissued. I saw him live once in the 80s -- very repetitious, not thrilling IMO.