I sold a Gravis Ultrasound Classic a few months back for $50. There are a few hobbyest clubs around that tinker with old gear, but I doubt many will pay cash.
Ditto on the Usenet part. If I ever meet anybody IRL who I corresponded with on Usenet (and it's happened at least once), I'll know who they are immediately, because of real names. That civility and community online is rare in public forums these days, though I'm sure there's something about the type of person who had internet access those days (educated, could afford a $1000 typewriter (ie. computer) that that could also access the internet).
Slashdot was one of my first online accounts (other than email) I had created, and I didn't see any reason to use anything other than my real name. I probably would make a different choice if I could create a new account and weren't so attached to the low user ID.
Communication will work, but at the cost of lowered efficiency. Typos and the lack of clarity in a sentence will force most careful readers to backtrack and reread to ensure it wasn't an error on the reader's part. To me, it's a little like driving with a dirty windshield. Sure, it's doable, but its nonetheless distracting. On the net, I can accept that the rules of grammar are as variable as the backgrounds of the people writing and reading it. In print, or on permanent signage, I'm not so forgiving.
The sea floor is a veritable desert compared to the ocean surface. The food chain starts in the first 10' of water, where plankton have access to sunlight.
Absolutely wrong. Anybody who has ever gone diving or fishing knows that the bottom is where all the action is. A reference: http://www.fathom.com/course/10701050/session2.html While the food chain starts at the top, the biodiversity is accumulated near the bottom. Even if you might not care about biodiversity, commercial crab, shrimp, and lobster fisheries will depend on organisms on the sea floor to be uncontaminated, even if they do survive.
There are creatures that will be effected by oil on the sea floor like crabs and such, but it's still better than letting it run ashore.
Better for whom? The tourist industry?
Briefly, oil on the ocean floor or dispersed in the water column is bad. Oil on the ocean surface is worse. And oil on the ocean surface at the shoreline and in the estuaries is an ecological catastrophe.
Still wrong. As far as animal life is concerned, each is bad for its own reasons. Surface oil may affect animals that are visually more photogenic--birds, dolphins, seals--but oil on the bottom will make life difficult for the myriads of bottom-dwellers. Sea urchins and starfish are especially sensitive. http://echinoblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/spiny-skinned-canaries-in-coal-mine.html
The difference to me is that new versions of browsers are generally advertised as a recommended update. Most users see "an update is now available", and click "OK". One of my XP machines recently showed an unwelcome IE8 as an update. And with each update, the computer gets slightly slower. Most people would expect it to be the same product. But it's not.
Actually, cell coverage is quite ubiquitous in most of Ghana. And the people most likely to afford a computer will be able to afford a cell phone. Can't speak for the other countries. But the problem is that there are multiple providers, and roaming is virtually non-existant. It prides itself on being one of the best connected countries in Africa. However, 3G is not there yet (it's being planned). But I think that would be the best choice for most wanting internet access.
BTW, the link you referred to is 404'd. But as I understand it, the reason for the migration to South Africa is more to do with business opportunities than health and lifestyle (I know, I talked with quite a few of them when I was in South Africa). The recent (last 5 years) megalomaniac leadership in Zimbabwe caused a 90% unemployment, causing much of the exodus.
Specifically, the cost to "normalize" say, a Down's child is far more than the avg cost of a normal student. Since you're disagreeing with "pouring" resources into a small fraction of the students, surely you're against such policies. My guess would be because in 10 years, when they're out of school, the academically challenged 15% will be homeless and cost society way more than the investment made for the few years that they're in school. If you can bring up the lowest segments of the population, society as a whole will benefit.
I saw this interface probably 11 years ago in university. It was clean and quick. Logitech's implementation was slow and heavy (the ui widgets were huge), and didn't sync up with the Start menu, and I didn't miss it when I uninstalled that.
Just be glad he was buying cigarettes and not his next fix-in-a-needle.
Desperate people will use any story they have to get cash. They will evoke tears, uncontrollable sobbing, etc. I've offered to buy food, only for that person complain about allergies. So if I give away money, I do it expecting that it's only to get the person one step closer to his drug fix.
I'd say in the case of the Dell machines, it's Dell who has to test it. Not Microsoft. I work in the software industry, and I know slapping on "compatible with Vista" is stating more about our software's compatibility with the platform than Microsoft's approval of that software. I'm fairly certain that the same goes for hardware. The hardware vendor (Dell) probably just needs to go through a bunch of checklists, and if their hardware works according to that checklist, they get certified. Because of the size of Dell, they probably have some clout and can influence MS to fix certain things, but generally, you're buying a Dell when you buy the PC, not Microsoft.
For the car example, it's more like a highway having a sign saying it's been tested with Prius', rather than Toyota saying it works on all highways.
As for software vendors taking legal responsibility, many of them do...so long as you pay them accordingly. If you run an accounting business and have a contract with your software vendors, they have a legal obligation to fix the bugs that undermine your business. Even MS has service contracts you can purchase to get this level of service.
There is no reason software companies, especially one as large and as rich as Microsoft can't get it right on the first go.
Because software is made to be multipurpose. They do not have all the customer configurations at their disposal for testing. They cannot predict everything that people will do with it. Console gaming is superior not because of the software, but becasue of the uniformity of the hardware (same goes for the Mac platform).
Tell me this, are you willing to by a car, dvd player or microwave that only sort of works out of the box and the manufacturer promising to fix it at a later date? If not, then why is it acceptable for Microsoft to do this?
Again, because your car is made to do only a handful of things. Try to do something outside of that realm (ie. take your Prius offroading) and your warranty is void by no fault of Toyota. Take your operating system offroading, and somehow you're expecting the OS to protect us or recover from it. That doesn't make for a fair comparison.
The colour and filmmaking in this series is quite groundbreaking as well. The dynamic cinematography is groundbreaking on many levels. When you, as a parent, link it back to the wildlife you and your child can observe either in your back yard or a trip to the beach, then science becomes more than just a show.
Note that some flash videos like youtube videos, won't run in this implementation of Flash (so perhaps the article is referring to a version of Flash that *will* run streaming video). The widgets that web site designers tend to embed in their bloated websites do load for me with Windows Mobile 2003.
The "news" part of this may be that it's MS supporting this, not Adobe as it currently is, which may mean a better implementation.
All this talk about orbiting the moon and the Lagrange point reminded me of Jules Verne's "From the Earth To The Moon", a surprisingly accurate description of lunar travel written 140 years ago. I only wish space travel were as simple as he described.
I'm pretty sure parenthesis and quotation marks qualify as using the shift key. I'm also pretty sure you're a professional proofreader. Good catch! You're doing your profession proud.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/iphone-thief-off-the-hook-due-to-privacy-laws/
Telus seems to ignore the blacklist, at least at this time.
"I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by."
- Doc Brown
I sold a Gravis Ultrasound Classic a few months back for $50. There are a few hobbyest clubs around that tinker with old gear, but I doubt many will pay cash.
Ditto on the Usenet part. If I ever meet anybody IRL who I corresponded with on Usenet (and it's happened at least once), I'll know who they are immediately, because of real names. That civility and community online is rare in public forums these days, though I'm sure there's something about the type of person who had internet access those days (educated, could afford a $1000 typewriter (ie. computer) that that could also access the internet).
Slashdot was one of my first online accounts (other than email) I had created, and I didn't see any reason to use anything other than my real name. I probably would make a different choice if I could create a new account and weren't so attached to the low user ID.
Let me know when Trumpet will release a network stack, so I can load up Netscape in all its glory.
Three letter synonymn. Synonymous with three letter acronymn.
Http://cockeyed.com/incredible/solardish/dish01.shtml
Play "will it melt" with your friends.
Communication will work, but at the cost of lowered efficiency. Typos and the lack of clarity in a sentence will force most careful readers to backtrack and reread to ensure it wasn't an error on the reader's part. To me, it's a little like driving with a dirty windshield. Sure, it's doable, but its nonetheless distracting.
On the net, I can accept that the rules of grammar are as variable as the backgrounds of the people writing and reading it. In print, or on permanent signage, I'm not so forgiving.
Since nobody's posted any links:
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/lspeer/oil_dispersants_spell_trouble.html
The best solution seems to be to burn it off.
http://echinoblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/spiny-skinned-canaries-in-coal-mine.html
The sea floor is a veritable desert compared to the ocean surface. The food chain starts in the first 10' of water, where plankton have access to sunlight.
Absolutely wrong. Anybody who has ever gone diving or fishing knows that the bottom is where all the action is. A reference: http://www.fathom.com/course/10701050/session2.html
While the food chain starts at the top, the biodiversity is accumulated near the bottom. Even if you might not care about biodiversity, commercial crab, shrimp, and lobster fisheries will depend on organisms on the sea floor to be uncontaminated, even if they do survive.
There are creatures that will be effected by oil on the sea floor like crabs and such, but it's still better than letting it run ashore.
Better for whom? The tourist industry?
Briefly, oil on the ocean floor or dispersed in the water column is bad. Oil on the ocean surface is worse. And oil on the ocean surface at the shoreline and in the estuaries is an ecological catastrophe.
Still wrong. As far as animal life is concerned, each is bad for its own reasons. Surface oil may affect animals that are visually more photogenic--birds, dolphins, seals--but oil on the bottom will make life difficult for the myriads of bottom-dwellers. Sea urchins and starfish are especially sensitive. http://echinoblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/spiny-skinned-canaries-in-coal-mine.html
(yeah, I know I'm posting two days later)
The difference to me is that new versions of browsers are generally advertised as a recommended update. Most users see "an update is now available", and click "OK". One of my XP machines recently showed an unwelcome IE8 as an update. And with each update, the computer gets slightly slower. Most people would expect it to be the same product. But it's not.
Actually, cell coverage is quite ubiquitous in most of Ghana. And the people most likely to afford a computer will be able to afford a cell phone. Can't speak for the other countries. But the problem is that there are multiple providers, and roaming is virtually non-existant. It prides itself on being one of the best connected countries in Africa. However, 3G is not there yet (it's being planned). But I think that would be the best choice for most wanting internet access.
BTW, the link you referred to is 404'd. But as I understand it, the reason for the migration to South Africa is more to do with business opportunities than health and lifestyle (I know, I talked with quite a few of them when I was in South Africa). The recent (last 5 years) megalomaniac leadership in Zimbabwe caused a 90% unemployment, causing much of the exodus.
...will say LOL, and I'll be following right behind WTF.
More direct link to piewm since the parent's post ends up in a DNS error: http://www.crynwr.com/piewm/
I saw this interface probably 11 years ago in university. It was clean and quick. Logitech's implementation was slow and heavy (the ui widgets were huge), and didn't sync up with the Start menu, and I didn't miss it when I uninstalled that.
Just be glad he was buying cigarettes and not his next fix-in-a-needle.
Desperate people will use any story they have to get cash. They will evoke tears, uncontrollable sobbing, etc. I've offered to buy food, only for that person complain about allergies. So if I give away money, I do it expecting that it's only to get the person one step closer to his drug fix.
I'd say in the case of the Dell machines, it's Dell who has to test it. Not Microsoft. I work in the software industry, and I know slapping on "compatible with Vista" is stating more about our software's compatibility with the platform than Microsoft's approval of that software. I'm fairly certain that the same goes for hardware. The hardware vendor (Dell) probably just needs to go through a bunch of checklists, and if their hardware works according to that checklist, they get certified. Because of the size of Dell, they probably have some clout and can influence MS to fix certain things, but generally, you're buying a Dell when you buy the PC, not Microsoft.
For the car example, it's more like a highway having a sign saying it's been tested with Prius', rather than Toyota saying it works on all highways.
As for software vendors taking legal responsibility, many of them do...so long as you pay them accordingly. If you run an accounting business and have a contract with your software vendors, they have a legal obligation to fix the bugs that undermine your business. Even MS has service contracts you can purchase to get this level of service.
Because software is made to be multipurpose. They do not have all the customer configurations at their disposal for testing. They cannot predict everything that people will do with it. Console gaming is superior not because of the software, but becasue of the uniformity of the hardware (same goes for the Mac platform).
Again, because your car is made to do only a handful of things. Try to do something outside of that realm (ie. take your Prius offroading) and your warranty is void by no fault of Toyota. Take your operating system offroading, and somehow you're expecting the OS to protect us or recover from it. That doesn't make for a fair comparison.
Here's a writeup of somebody who took part in a prior NASA study:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/bed/
A pretty interesting read.
The colour and filmmaking in this series is quite groundbreaking as well. The dynamic cinematography is groundbreaking on many levels. When you, as a parent, link it back to the wildlife you and your child can observe either in your back yard or a trip to the beach, then science becomes more than just a show.
What, nobody remembers Night Raven? Cobra's coolest looking plane. In fact, two planes in one.
http://crimsonguard.tripod.com/raven.html
Go Joe!
Hmmm...don't know why this is news:
Flash: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer_pocketpc/downloads/player.html
PDF: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrppcdload.html
I've had these installed since 2005.
Note that some flash videos like youtube videos, won't run in this implementation of Flash (so perhaps the article is referring to a version of Flash that *will* run streaming video). The widgets that web site designers tend to embed in their bloated websites do load for me with Windows Mobile 2003.
The "news" part of this may be that it's MS supporting this, not Adobe as it currently is, which may mean a better implementation.
All this talk about orbiting the moon and the Lagrange point reminded me of Jules Verne's "From the Earth To The Moon", a surprisingly accurate description of lunar travel written 140 years ago. I only wish space travel were as simple as he described.
I'm pretty sure parenthesis and quotation marks qualify as using the shift key. I'm also pretty sure you're a professional proofreader. Good catch! You're doing your profession proud.
No, don't. We don't need another Cyrix.