last time I checked, Cygwin didn't work well on Windows 98
I am running cygwin on MS-Win95B without many problems. X is a little slow on my P2/300, but only about 2-4 times slower then under Slackware 9.0. (That may change, though, once I finish downloading and installing KDE.)
once public domain preservation projects such as Mutopia and Gutenberg have run out of popular pre-1923 works to transcribe, what will happen to those projects?
In a couple of decades, they will be able to do works between 1923 and 1943. Unless Disney buys another extension from Congress, that is.
I can't recall the last time I saw an unmovable window.
In Mozilla, on a 56K modem line, middle-click on a link to a large PDF file. Then try to do anything with the window. (Note: This is on MS-Win95B; it may work differently on more recent MS-Wins.)
Or, try running an old MS-Win3.1 (16-bit) app on MS-Win95. If that app goes into a loop, the whole screen hangs until the loop exits.
Compare this with the NY Times reaction when it was discovered that a black reporter was falsifying stories.
Are you implying that they would have reacted differently had he been a white reporter? Why didn't you just write "Compare this with the NY Times reaction when it was discovered that a reporter was falsifying stories."?
They are bandwidth limited and all digital networks are overcompressed. This causes noticeable artifacting that doesn't exist with satellite.
I don't know; satellite seems oversompressed to me. My parents have DirecTV and the artifacting of dark grays especially is very distracting. Shows about astronomy or deep-sea exploration, where there is a lot of dark in the picture, are sometimes difficult to watch because of the noticable pixellation in the dark areas. The other thing that I don't like is that the settop unit sometimes takes several seconds to respond to a button press in the remote.
Then why did they destroy the twin towers and kill 4000+ American civilians before we arrived in Afghanistan and Iraq?
The WTC destruction was initiated by a Saudi Arabian (OBL) who was opposed to the "occupation" of Saudi Arabia by US troops (the presence of whom was managed with the cooperation of the Saudi government).
If the US wasn't dependent upon foreign oil, we wouldn't have been over there in the first place, and there would have been no reason (however twisted) for attacking us. You don't see many Africans bombing buildings over here. Why? We aren't occupying any African countries, that's why. (And before you bring up the Lockerbie bombing, note that that occured after Reagan bombed Libya.)
If the US would keep its nose out of other countries' business, we wouldn't have all of the problems with terrorism that we now have. George Washington said it best: "Avoid foreign entanglements."
The site is presenting "evidence" of alien artifacts. By magnifying the pictures, the pixelization causes rectangular artifacts (heh) in the picture that make them look somewhat artificial, i.e., manufactured. In addition, the site authors seem to have quite an imagination when interpreting ordinary but unusual natural structures as artificial.
An easier way is to just substitute "it is" for every occurance of "its/it's". If the sentence makes sense grammatically with "it is", then you can use its contraction, "it's". Otherwise, you should use "its". (E.g., "you can use it is contraction" makes no sense grammatically, so you should use "its", but "it is just one more goofy thing" does make sense grammatically, so you should use "it's".)
The problem is that pronouns are the exception to the apostrophization of the possessive form of nouns. All singular non-pronounical nouns indicate the possessive form with "'s", but the pronouns don't. It's just one more goofy thing about the English language.
Damn! And I've been using White-Out all this time to erase my CD/RWs (faster than having the drive do it). No wonder I would sometimes have problems reusing my CD/RWs.
Can someone tell me the point of info? [...] Why not just HTML and your favorite browser?
The info format was created a long time ago. At that time, HTML didn't yet exist (or, at least, wasn't ubiquitous as it is now), so info made at least some sense (although I've always preferred man pages and n/troff docs myself). Nowadays, however, it makes no sense at all to continue with info when HTML/XML is so common. All of the info docs should be translated to HTML or XML and the old, obsolete info format should be abandoned.
You think that you have it bad? Do you have any idea how many times I've heard "some guy I know killed someone" or "some guy I know just got arrested for selling drugs / exposing himself to children / trying to bribe a cop"?
Not as realistic, Charlemagne's Kingdom in Helen, Georgia (USA) has a stylized representation of Germany. The trains are only part of the setup, and run automatically. I went there on a slow day and mentioned that I was interested in model railroading. The owner took me in back and showed me the control room. It was pretty impressive.
Well, it looked like they wanted to name it after a real-life author, not after a fictional character.
I just thought that a Martian author would be more appropriate, considering. If I were going to name it after an Heinleinian character, I would probably use "Podcayne".
if we [...] mine too much of it away, the balance will change, and over a period of a few thousand years, this will cause it [the Moon] to [...] float away
No, that's not right. If you take helium away from the Moon, the Moon will actually get closer to the Earth, because there will be less helium to keep it up in the air. This should be obvious to anybody who has seen what happens to a leaking balloon.
I think that it is more likely that asteroids (esp. Earth-crossing asteroids) will be the source for heavy elements and compounds (nickel, steel, etc.) for structures built in near-Earth space, although the Moon may be a source of heavier materials for structures built on the Moon, as well as lighter elements and compounds (e.g., He3, O, and possibly Al) for space that asteroids may not provide.
I don't know whether it would be more cost-effective to send aluminum up from the Moon's surface, or to capture iron-rich asteroids. My guess is that steel structures would provide more protection from solar radiation, etc., and so they would be preferable to aluminum for habitats.
What's really weird is that Jules Verne didn't write about going to Mars; he wrote about going to the Moon. It would have been more appropriate to name it the "H. G. Wells" or the "Edgar Rice Burroughs".
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X is a little slow on my P2/300, but only about 2-4 times slower then under Slackware 9.0.
(That may change, though, once I finish downloading and installing KDE.)
Unless Disney buys another extension from Congress, that is.
Representing a whole note with a circle is like representing an "O" or "0" with a circle: ugly, ugly, ugly.
If you want decent musical notation, you pretty much have to use a music font.
Then try to do anything with the window.
(Note: This is on MS-Win95B; it may work differently on more recent MS-Wins.)
Or, try running an old MS-Win3.1 (16-bit) app on MS-Win95.
If that app goes into a loop, the whole screen hangs until the loop exits.
Why didn't you just write "Compare this with the NY Times reaction when it was discovered that a reporter was falsifying stories."?
There is no civilized way to engage in warfare.
My parents have DirecTV and the artifacting of dark grays especially is very distracting.
Shows about astronomy or deep-sea exploration, where there is a lot of dark in the picture, are sometimes difficult to watch because of the noticable pixellation in the dark areas.
The other thing that I don't like is that the settop unit sometimes takes several seconds to respond to a button press in the remote.
If the US wasn't dependent upon foreign oil, we wouldn't have been over there in the first place, and there would have been no reason (however twisted) for attacking us.
You don't see many Africans bombing buildings over here.
Why?
We aren't occupying any African countries, that's why.
(And before you bring up the Lockerbie bombing, note that that occured after Reagan bombed Libya.)
If the US would keep its nose out of other countries' business, we wouldn't have all of the problems with terrorism that we now have.
George Washington said it best: "Avoid foreign entanglements."
By magnifying the pictures, the pixelization causes rectangular artifacts (heh) in the picture that make them look somewhat artificial, i.e., manufactured.
In addition, the site authors seem to have quite an imagination when interpreting ordinary but unusual natural structures as artificial.
An easier way is to just substitute "it is" for every occurance of "its/it's".
If the sentence makes sense grammatically with "it is", then you can use its contraction, "it's".
Otherwise, you should use "its".
(E.g., "you can use it is contraction" makes no sense grammatically, so you should use "its", but "it is just one more goofy thing" does make sense grammatically, so you should use "it's".)
The problem is that pronouns are the exception to the apostrophization of the possessive form of nouns.
All singular non-pronounical nouns indicate the possessive form with "'s", but the pronouns don't.
It's just one more goofy thing about the English language.
And I've been using White-Out all this time to erase my CD/RWs (faster than having the drive do it).
No wonder I would sometimes have problems reusing my CD/RWs.
BTW, many, many utilities exist for translating info docs into HTML.
At that time, HTML didn't yet exist (or, at least, wasn't ubiquitous as it is now), so info made at least some sense (although I've always preferred man pages and n/troff docs myself).
Nowadays, however, it makes no sense at all to continue with info when HTML/XML is so common.
All of the info docs should be translated to HTML or XML and the old, obsolete info format should be abandoned.
You think that you have it bad?
Do you have any idea how many times I've heard "some guy I know killed someone" or "some guy I know just got arrested for selling drugs / exposing himself to children / trying to bribe a cop"?
Not as realistic, Charlemagne's Kingdom in Helen, Georgia (USA) has a stylized representation of Germany.
The trains are only part of the setup, and run automatically.
I went there on a slow day and mentioned that I was interested in model railroading.
The owner took me in back and showed me the control room.
It was pretty impressive.
For more information, see here (last paragraph).
Well, it looked like they wanted to name it after a real-life author, not after a fictional character.
I just thought that a Martian author would be more appropriate, considering.
If I were going to name it after an Heinleinian character, I would probably use "Podcayne".
If you take helium away from the Moon, the Moon will actually get closer to the Earth, because there will be less helium to keep it up in the air.
This should be obvious to anybody who has seen what happens to a leaking balloon.
I think that it is more likely that asteroids (esp. Earth-crossing asteroids) will be the source for heavy elements and compounds (nickel, steel, etc.) for structures built in near-Earth space, although the Moon may be a source of heavier materials for structures built on the Moon, as well as lighter elements and compounds (e.g., He3, O, and possibly Al) for space that asteroids may not provide.
I don't know whether it would be more cost-effective to send aluminum up from the Moon's surface, or to capture iron-rich asteroids.
My guess is that steel structures would provide more protection from solar radiation, etc., and so they would be preferable to aluminum for habitats.
What's really weird is that Jules Verne didn't write about going to Mars; he wrote about going to the Moon.
It would have been more appropriate to name it the "H. G. Wells" or the "Edgar Rice Burroughs".