If they gave this to a dolphin or a whale which already have larger brains than us, but presumably don't have our overabundance of the magic protein.
Or our nearest neighbors like chimps and gorillas... Though I think it would be more interesting to give it exclusively to Bonobos, they'd probably write some interesting erotica;)
As others have noted ACPI support is coming along, and I've even read of people having success with your laptop. But even without it there is a tool called lvcool out there which will put your machine into the idle state when you're not compiling or anything. This should help your battery life a little. The best thing is to get a secondary battery since the FX[A] series is made to carry two.
He told me they would not be doing this. This was after the last Slashdot story at the last GDC (a day before the game was widely distributed). The Guardian doesn't mention any names so unless someone finds where Acclaim said this I'll file this under "how accurate is the Guardian?"
LED's will too, it's just a Diode. Just like Solar Cells. They are made differently though cuz the solar cell needs to have a large surface area to be efficient, the [O]LED is designed as an emitter, it doesn't. (They also use different materials for different bandgaps & hence color.)
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If you want pure comfort and support, you still can't beat Herman Miller's Aeron's [hermanmiller.com].
This isn't the chair for you if you like to cross your legs.. I used it for about 4 months and it was great for both sitting back when in deep thought and leaning forward for coding. Not to mention the only chair I've ever gotten the elbow rests to be useful on. But I have bad knees from a couple childhood accidents so I need to move them even if I'm just sitting somewhere for an hour and those tough plastic moldings holding the seat can get super unconfortable if you cross your legs.
That's 48 BILLION people in 150 years, which most would agree is a number completely unsupportable, not without some extreme reductions in the standard of living for western cultures, to the level of 3rd world countries.
It will not reach that number in 150 years. Just like bacteria slow down their growth as their supplies dwindle so will human populations. I'm not saying you should go ahead and have 7 children. There are a lot of animals that grow to the maximum supportable population and then starve whon there is a long draught.
This has happened to humans too. With a global economy this is less frequent since global food shortages only happen when there is a huge volcano eruption or some other planetary disaster. There are things like farming subsidies in Western Europe and the US and Japan that affect the distribution of farmed land negatively, but still the entire northern hemisphere would need to be affected.
Population growth is already slowing the growth is likely to peak at some point and stay steady at some level between 10-20 Billion for the forseable future.
Perhaps in a 1000 years when we're farming everything in greenhouses and colonizing the moon the population will be at levels we couldn't imagine now, but lets just figure out fusion first.
Alright, so... what am I missing here? You've got IBM behind your efforts. Whats the problem?
He's probably comparing IBM service with SGI service. IBM will support your PC as well or better than Dell or Compaq, but SGI will send a guy in a cab with extra workstations if you have a problem. They charge for that type of service when you buy one of their PC's, but when they lend you an Origin on short notice you appreciate it.
SGI will gladly sell you Maya for your Linux box, but it's up to you to set up the scanner, find the right 1000Mbps network card, compile a custom kernel, pick the filesystem, etc.
Of course, this requires overt and blatant corruption on the part of legislators, but legislators have demonstrated they're ok with that, and not nearly as squeamish as judges.
Heh, I know we all enjoying making fun of Canadian's, but I was describing our electoral system to one a while back, she stopped me by practically yelling, "What? They have corporate sponsorship? Bribery is illegal in Canada!" She was entirelly befudled by the whole concept of 'soft-money' "It buys as many ads as the hard money, eh?"
The article mentions 'twice as strong as steel and titanium', yet does not quote which 'strength' this refers to (or gives any real objective data). I suspect it might have high tensile strength (hard to break by pulling it apart)...
I would guess this is what they are talking about, but it sounded like a press release to me. From the talk it sounded as if they were comparing it to the strength of multicrystaline cast steel, which isn't the strongest steel. Is it less ductile and/or stronger than single crystal steel object, does it cost less to produce?
Steel already has a low melting point, I'm guessing you wouldn't want to make a frying pan out of this stuff...
Is it toxic?
Not that I expect any research in "technical journalism" but it really seems like an entirely hollow piece.
Is it a security thing? There was a hole last year I think.
ntp tries to compensate for latency on the network, and you usually have two stratum 2 time servers on a decent sized network to triangulate between. At work we just use a single stratum 3 server (the main NFS server). But it uses two stratum 2 servers (tick and tock;).
rdate with cron would work on Unix, but what about you're Mac OS 9 and Windows clients? Plus isn't it easier to just use the ntpd that's usually installed by default?
I really love the idea of the Parrots in NYC, there is apparently only one colony of them living on top of Statium lights on the northern end of the city. Only a little over a hundred, no one is quite sure where they came from, but they've been there since the 60's or 70's. There has been some talk of killing them off but I think few think they could spread very far.
Interesting article, good coverage of the history of this particular rock and similar cases, but the main reason I read to the end of the thing was to understand how in the hell a ROCK can be the defendant in a court case. No explanation of that wacky concept at all.
It's a result of the assinine "War on Drugs." Reagan and Bush I appointed Supreme Court Justices that didn't believe in the law, and they were confirmed by Democratic and Republican Senates. Then when the government found arresting people for practicing capitalism was ineffective they decided to pass laws that allow you to arrest and try property. Houses and cars don't have any rights and tend to be mute so they are pretty easy to imprison. This of course hasn't done anything to stop people from using "unsafe" drugs, but has been very effective in financing the whole mess.
When the law was passed most anyone paying attention knew it violated the rights explicitly protected by the Bill of Rights, but the fox is guarding the hen house so there essentially is no constitution, just three branches of government, none with very much representation. I guess the positive on the court is that they don't need to get a corporate sponsorship every few years so if the president accidentally appoints a thinking person they might do something for the people.
4) before anybody asks -- yes airports can be re-fitted. Chicago-midway, for example, is currently undergoing something like that. but even AFTER refitting, A380 will *still* not fit in ~5% of the airports. (something to do with runway length
This plane wouldn't go to most airports. With 800 passengers it's a hub jumper. For the US it would have to be accommodated in LA, Chicago, New York, London, Tokyo, Atlanta, and maybe Paris & Sydney.
This was discussed on the nycwireless list so I'm not gonna go into it but basically the cable companies lobbied not to have internet service included in the definition of cable so they wouldn't be under same restrictions selling internet service as they are under cable. With cable they are subject to regulation which often has must serve provisions.
Also the $50,000 quoted in the letter is only for reselling the cable television service. The fine for non-commercial cable tv service sharing ranges from $100 to $1000. However they may go after the fees they could have charged your neighbor in a civil suit.
Thankfully in New York there are plenty of DSL providers, and some such as AceDSL and Bway.net explicitly encourage wireless sharing. Others will sell you a business line for $60/mo so there is no good reason to use a Cable modem.
I think it may actually be illegal and subject to a $100 minimum fine($1000 max). There were laws set up to protect cable companies when they were the little guy fighting broadcast. The fine can go up to $1000 if they send you a letter and you still do it, or up to $50,000 if you resell the service for profit.
Well, my one-person daily commuter car is a Miata:-) Our other vehicle is the humongous familymobile and it is full more often than it is not, so I think I'm being fairly responsible. I just bridle at the knee-jerk reaction to large vehicles from people who live alone or only have one or two other people to haul around.
You know I don't react badly when I see a family in an SUV. I try to make eye contact with the driver because they are still unsafe, as long as they are driven with the proper caution and at proper speeds for such a vehicle, which I'm sure you do with all those kids, they aren't so bad.
But I live in NYC and 90% of the time there is just a driver and maybe a single passenger and usually one who really just needs elevator shues or penis/boobjob and certainly shouldn't have a license for such a large vehicle. That's where the ugly looks come from. I think if these vehicles required a specialized license that required you do go out and roll one of these jobbies, and at least a weeklong full-time training course all that animosity would be replaced by respect. A $8-$10 dollar a gallon gas tax would probably even get some of the less responsible drivers to get a Miata for their commute. (I'm not all pro-tax, I think it should be accompanied by an equal reductions on other taxes, perhaps even earmarking the fuel tax for infrastructure, military and court costs from transportation issues.)
I have Windows 2000 on one of my systems, and this rebooting-after-everything is not nearly as much of a problem as it once was.
While changing configuration options rarely requires a reboot in 2000, I do find it much easier to install Windows things in WINE than Windows proper. I installed.NET on a work PC and I swear it took more than a dozen reboots and a few hours of rebooting. Later that day I installed all the plugins for crossover and it took less than 20 minutes because the "reboots" were all instantanious.
Not that it would ever happen, but it would be a lifesaver if Microsoft just cleaned up the WINE code and switched to the Linux kernel for Windows YP. Though maybe that Lindows dispute went deeper than we thought.;)
PS I used try to ignore the reboot prompt whenever I could, but it's resulted in a few burns. I hate reinstalling Windows so I follow it more religiously now.
It's funny how people on/., like you, typically assume that oher people are morons, noobies, or moron-noobies.
man XF86Config
Seriously do a Google search, this is a discussion site, the details of your particular configuration don't go here. I had a similar problem once in '95 with a slackware install, I don't remember what the problem was, but this was before DPMS. The solution is probably simpler now. I don't run RedHat 7.2 my suggestions probably would miss something or seem rude because you already have part of it right.
This must be one of those invisible features. How do you install a driver, change the refresh rate, color depth, resolution, etc. without editing/etc/X11/XF86Config-4? Why does X require a specific definition of each suitable resolution? can't it query the current monitor like Macs and Winders do (DPMS)?
You really need to update your linux installs. XFree86 4.0 uses DPMS, no more modelines needed. You can still use them if you have an older monitor of course. XFree86 is up to 4.2 already... Also if you use Mandrake you can run drakxconf to configure your X server. It's also somewhere in their Control Panel equivalent. I prefer the XF86Config-4 editing myself, you can do things like create your own modelines, configure different pointing devices so the Wacom stylus only works in drawing programs, you know the things you can't do in MS Windows.
Configure your X for multiple resolutions, and switch between them with ctrl-alt +/-
This does not change the resolution of the display, only the size of the viewport.
No it has always changed the resolution, if you're monitor can only do 1024x768 and you ask it to do 1280x1024 then it will just change the viewport, but this is something you have to specify by editing the XF86Config-4 yourself, the GUI configurations won't let you set a viewport larger than what your monitor supports.
Maybe you've upgraded the Xserver and always kept your old XF86Config? You should try just using the default, it seems your machines are massively misconfigured. Try switching to Mandrake where you want a desktop linux, it will even import your MS Windows fonts if you have it installed. (Through drakfont, but you probably just want to get used to drakconf which launches all the different configurators you'll want.)
I might agree that Linux isn't a Desktop OS, but Mandrake is much easier to use than MS Windows, it's just no Mac. And as far as configuration it has both beat handily. The only real weakness you've enumerated is the color management, that is still up to individual applications. Though it seems that applications that need it, like Gimp, can figure out the parameters they need. Why don't you write this and submit it as a patch to X11? The hardest part is probably finding the docs on reading the monitor spec files from Windows and converting them into some a more readable format.
We all used it under Linux and SunOS. There was one student that did the Windows port in a semester near the end of the project. Also the 0.2.7 version is quicker than the 0.9 version so you should try that one.
As a fresh young undergrad I worked on a zooming user interface (Pad++). It was pretty neat, eventually Sony got bought the right to use it when developing the PS2, but at some point killed the project. (Their version could put any Java app into a zoomable window. Though they never did X11 apps.)
There's all those wearable computing folks too, talking to their computers all day.
And I'm sure there are a few other good WIMP replacements out there too, but they never seem to be adopted by the big boys into shipping products. What gives?
It seems like Apple has the kind of user that would try a new UI, like say telling your mp3 player what you want to listen too. But they are too focused on little improvents, just like their PC Bretheren. It may make for a profitable company but there's something wrong with our industry if only mediocre products can be profitable.
I'm not blaming Apple per say, Jobs had to save them from early death. But I don't the Dvorak is either (ignoring the Slashdot headline and reading the article, oh/. I have sinned.)
You give a copy of your work to the Libary of Congress, and there the evidence sits for eternity, free to be accessed by anyone with a request slip.
Unfortunately this is not the case, if a librarian at some point feels your book isn't historically significant they will chuck it. They don't have offsite archiving, like some more reputable university libraries do, so there just isn't the space to keep every book that's sent to them. They do however have a right to keep those two books you sent them in perpetuity and copy them into archival formats if they want to.
I sure as hell don't want to be on-line with those types of people
If you aren't breaking the law, then you have nothing to worry about
anyone who is made nervous because of this probably has something to hide.
By god, Hoover! You're alive!
Mr. Atrowe, if that is you're real name, I don't want to share the internet with your type of people, but I'm not lobbying to have the FBI come knocking on your door; Though you obviously have something to hide. The worst thing you could say I was doing to hurt your kind was that time I voted for a pro-education mayor. That doesn't even try to fix you, just save your children from your horrible fate.
I know this sounds really simple, maybe I'm not getting something. But I've helped set up a couple websites with just CVS and a few scripts to update the content. It works for scripted stuff and static pages just fine. It wouldn't be so good for a news site, but it sounds like just what you need. Plus it's simple for anyone with unix experience to set permissions and stuff so that people don't go updating things they shouldn't. We didn't even need perl, just plain old shell scripting.
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If they gave this to a dolphin or a whale which already have larger brains than us, but presumably don't have our overabundance of the magic protein.
Or our nearest neighbors like chimps and gorillas... Though I think it would be more interesting to give it exclusively to Bonobos, they'd probably write some interesting erotica
As others have noted ACPI support is coming along, and I've even read of people having success with your laptop. But even without it there is a tool called lvcool out there which will put your machine into the idle state when you're not compiling or anything. This should help your battery life a little. The best thing is to get a secondary battery since the FX[A] series is made to carry two.
He told me they would not be doing this. This was after the last Slashdot story at the last GDC (a day before the game was widely distributed). The Guardian doesn't mention any names so unless someone finds where Acclaim said this I'll file this under "how accurate is the Guardian?"
LED's will too, it's just a Diode. Just like Solar Cells. They are made differently though cuz the solar cell needs to have a large surface area to be efficient, the [O]LED is designed as an emitter, it doesn't. (They also use different materials for different bandgaps & hence color.)
If you want pure comfort and support, you still can't beat Herman Miller's Aeron's [hermanmiller.com].
This isn't the chair for you if you like to cross your legs.. I used it for about 4 months and it was great for both sitting back when in deep thought and leaning forward for coding. Not to mention the only chair I've ever gotten the elbow rests to be useful on. But I have bad knees from a couple childhood accidents so I need to move them even if I'm just sitting somewhere for an hour and those tough plastic moldings holding the seat can get super unconfortable if you cross your legs.
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That's 48 BILLION people in 150 years, which most would agree is a number completely unsupportable, not without some extreme reductions in the standard of living for western cultures, to the level of 3rd world countries.
It will not reach that number in 150 years. Just like bacteria slow down their growth as their supplies dwindle so will human populations. I'm not saying you should go ahead and have 7 children. There are a lot of animals that grow to the maximum supportable population and then starve whon there is a long draught.
This has happened to humans too. With a global economy this is less frequent since global food shortages only happen when there is a huge volcano eruption or some other planetary disaster. There are things like farming subsidies in Western Europe and the US and Japan that affect the distribution of farmed land negatively, but still the entire northern hemisphere would need to be affected.
Population growth is already slowing the growth is likely to peak at some point and stay steady at some level between 10-20 Billion for the forseable future.
Perhaps in a 1000 years when we're farming everything in greenhouses and colonizing the moon the population will be at levels we couldn't imagine now, but lets just figure out fusion first.
Alright, so... what am I missing here? You've got IBM behind your efforts. Whats the problem?
He's probably comparing IBM service with SGI service. IBM will support your PC as well or better than Dell or Compaq, but SGI will send a guy in a cab with extra workstations if you have a problem. They charge for that type of service when you buy one of their PC's, but when they lend you an Origin on short notice you appreciate it.
SGI will gladly sell you Maya for your Linux box, but it's up to you to set up the scanner, find the right 1000Mbps network card, compile a custom kernel, pick the filesystem, etc.
Of course, this requires overt and blatant corruption on the part of legislators, but legislators have demonstrated they're ok with that, and not nearly as squeamish as judges.
Heh, I know we all enjoying making fun of Canadian's, but I was describing our electoral system to one a while back, she stopped me by practically yelling, "What? They have corporate sponsorship? Bribery is illegal in Canada!" She was entirelly befudled by the whole concept of 'soft-money' "It buys as many ads as the hard money, eh?"
My phrases from then on all began with, "But.."
The article mentions 'twice as strong as steel and titanium', yet does not quote which 'strength' this refers to (or gives any real objective data). I suspect it might have high tensile strength (hard to break by pulling it apart)...
I would guess this is what they are talking about, but it sounded like a press release to me. From the talk it sounded as if they were comparing it to the strength of multicrystaline cast steel, which isn't the strongest steel. Is it less ductile and/or stronger than single crystal steel object, does it cost less to produce?
Steel already has a low melting point, I'm guessing you wouldn't want to make a frying pan out of this stuff...
Is it toxic?
Not that I expect any research in "technical journalism" but it really seems like an entirely hollow piece.
Why not use ntpd?
Is it a security thing? There was a hole last year I think.
ntp tries to compensate for latency on the network, and you usually have two stratum 2 time servers on a decent sized network to triangulate between. At work we just use a single stratum 3 server (the main NFS server). But it uses two stratum 2 servers (tick and tock
rdate with cron would work on Unix, but what about you're Mac OS 9 and Windows clients? Plus isn't it easier to just use the ntpd that's usually installed by default?
I really love the idea of the Parrots in NYC, there is apparently only one colony of them living on top of Statium lights on the northern end of the city. Only a little over a hundred, no one is quite sure where they came from, but they've been there since the 60's or 70's. There has been some talk of killing them off but I think few think they could spread very far.
Interesting article, good coverage of the history of this particular rock and similar cases, but the main reason I read to the end of the thing was to understand how in the hell a ROCK can be the defendant in a court case. No explanation of that wacky concept at all.
It's a result of the assinine "War on Drugs." Reagan and Bush I appointed Supreme Court Justices that didn't believe in the law, and they were confirmed by Democratic and Republican Senates. Then when the government found arresting people for practicing capitalism was ineffective they decided to pass laws that allow you to arrest and try property. Houses and cars don't have any rights and tend to be mute so they are pretty easy to imprison. This of course hasn't done anything to stop people from using "unsafe" drugs, but has been very effective in financing the whole mess.
When the law was passed most anyone paying attention knew it violated the rights explicitly protected by the Bill of Rights, but the fox is guarding the hen house so there essentially is no constitution, just three branches of government, none with very much representation. I guess the positive on the court is that they don't need to get a corporate sponsorship every few years so if the president accidentally appoints a thinking person they might do something for the people.
4) before anybody asks -- yes airports can be re-fitted. Chicago-midway, for example, is currently undergoing something like that. but even AFTER refitting, A380 will *still* not fit in ~5% of the airports. (something to do with runway length
This plane wouldn't go to most airports. With 800 passengers it's a hub jumper. For the US it would have to be accommodated in LA, Chicago, New York, London, Tokyo, Atlanta, and maybe Paris & Sydney.
This was discussed on the nycwireless list so I'm not gonna go into it but basically the cable companies lobbied not to have internet service included in the definition of cable so they wouldn't be under same restrictions selling internet service as they are under cable. With cable they are subject to regulation which often has must serve provisions.
Also the $50,000 quoted in the letter is only for reselling the cable television service. The fine for non-commercial cable tv service sharing ranges from $100 to $1000. However they may go after the fees they could have charged your neighbor in a civil suit.
Thankfully in New York there are plenty of DSL providers, and some such as AceDSL and Bway.net explicitly encourage wireless sharing. Others will sell you a business line for $60/mo so there is no good reason to use a Cable modem.
I think it may actually be illegal and subject to a $100 minimum fine($1000 max). There were laws set up to protect cable companies when they were the little guy fighting broadcast. The fine can go up to $1000 if they send you a letter and you still do it, or up to $50,000 if you resell the service for profit.
Well, my one-person daily commuter car is a Miata :-) Our other vehicle is the humongous familymobile and it is full more often than it is not, so I think I'm being fairly responsible. I just bridle at the knee-jerk reaction to large vehicles from people who live alone or only have one or two other people to haul around.
You know I don't react badly when I see a family in an SUV. I try to make eye contact with the driver because they are still unsafe, as long as they are driven with the proper caution and at proper speeds for such a vehicle, which I'm sure you do with all those kids, they aren't so bad.
But I live in NYC and 90% of the time there is just a driver and maybe a single passenger and usually one who really just needs elevator shues or penis/boobjob and certainly shouldn't have a license for such a large vehicle. That's where the ugly looks come from. I think if these vehicles required a specialized license that required you do go out and roll one of these jobbies, and at least a weeklong full-time training course all that animosity would be replaced by respect. A $8-$10 dollar a gallon gas tax would probably even get some of the less responsible drivers to get a Miata for their commute. (I'm not all pro-tax, I think it should be accompanied by an equal reductions on other taxes, perhaps even earmarking the fuel tax for infrastructure, military and court costs from transportation issues.)
I have Windows 2000 on one of my systems, and this rebooting-after-everything is not nearly as much of a problem as it once was.
.NET on a work PC and I swear it took more than a dozen reboots and a few hours of rebooting. Later that day I installed all the plugins for crossover and it took less than 20 minutes because the "reboots" were all instantanious.
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While changing configuration options rarely requires a reboot in 2000, I do find it much easier to install Windows things in WINE than Windows proper. I installed
Not that it would ever happen, but it would be a lifesaver if Microsoft just cleaned up the WINE code and switched to the Linux kernel for Windows YP. Though maybe that Lindows dispute went deeper than we thought.
PS I used try to ignore the reboot prompt whenever I could, but it's resulted in a few burns. I hate reinstalling Windows so I follow it more religiously now.
It's funny how people on
man XF86Config
Seriously do a Google search, this is a discussion site, the details of your particular configuration don't go here. I had a similar problem once in '95 with a slackware install, I don't remember what the problem was, but this was before DPMS. The solution is probably simpler now. I don't run RedHat 7.2 my suggestions probably would miss something or seem rude because you already have part of it right.
This must be one of those invisible features. How do you install a driver, change the refresh rate, color depth, resolution, etc. without editing /etc/X11/XF86Config-4? Why does X require a specific definition of each suitable resolution? can't it query the current monitor like Macs and Winders do (DPMS)?
You really need to update your linux installs. XFree86 4.0 uses DPMS, no more modelines needed. You can still use them if you have an older monitor of course. XFree86 is up to 4.2 already... Also if you use Mandrake you can run drakxconf to configure your X server. It's also somewhere in their Control Panel equivalent. I prefer the XF86Config-4 editing myself, you can do things like create your own modelines, configure different pointing devices so the Wacom stylus only works in drawing programs, you know the things you can't do in MS Windows.
Configure your X for multiple resolutions, and switch between them with ctrl-alt +/-
This does not change the resolution of the display, only the size of the viewport.
No it has always changed the resolution, if you're monitor can only do 1024x768 and you ask it to do 1280x1024 then it will just change the viewport, but this is something you have to specify by editing the XF86Config-4 yourself, the GUI configurations won't let you set a viewport larger than what your monitor supports.
Maybe you've upgraded the Xserver and always kept your old XF86Config? You should try just using the default, it seems your machines are massively misconfigured. Try switching to Mandrake where you want a desktop linux, it will even import your MS Windows fonts if you have it installed. (Through drakfont, but you probably just want to get used to drakconf which launches all the different configurators you'll want.)
I might agree that Linux isn't a Desktop OS, but Mandrake is much easier to use than MS Windows, it's just no Mac. And as far as configuration it has both beat handily. The only real weakness you've enumerated is the color management, that is still up to individual applications. Though it seems that applications that need it, like Gimp, can figure out the parameters they need. Why don't you write this and submit it as a patch to X11? The hardest part is probably finding the docs on reading the monitor spec files from Windows and converting them into some a more readable format.
We all used it under Linux and SunOS. There was one student that did the Windows port in a semester near the end of the project. Also the 0.2.7 version is quicker than the 0.9 version so you should try that one.
As a fresh young undergrad I worked on a zooming user interface (Pad++). It was pretty neat, eventually Sony got bought the right to use it when developing the PS2, but at some point killed the project. (Their version could put any Java app into a zoomable window. Though they never did X11 apps.)
/. I have sinned.)
There's all those wearable computing folks too, talking to their computers all day.
And I'm sure there are a few other good WIMP replacements out there too, but they never seem to be adopted by the big boys into shipping products. What gives?
It seems like Apple has the kind of user that would try a new UI, like say telling your mp3 player what you want to listen too. But they are too focused on little improvents, just like their PC Bretheren. It may make for a profitable company but there's something wrong with our industry if only mediocre products can be profitable.
I'm not blaming Apple per say, Jobs had to save them from early death. But I don't the Dvorak is either (ignoring the Slashdot headline and reading the article, oh
You give a copy of your work to the Libary of Congress, and there the evidence sits for eternity, free to be accessed by anyone with a request slip.
Unfortunately this is not the case, if a librarian at some point feels your book isn't historically significant they will chuck it. They don't have offsite archiving, like some more reputable university libraries do, so there just isn't the space to keep every book that's sent to them. They do however have a right to keep those two books you sent them in perpetuity and copy them into archival formats if they want to.
I sure as hell don't want to be on-line with those types of people
If you aren't breaking the law, then you have nothing to worry about
anyone who is made nervous because of this probably has something to hide.
By god, Hoover! You're alive!
Mr. Atrowe, if that is you're real name, I don't want to share the internet with your type of people, but I'm not lobbying to have the FBI come knocking on your door; Though you obviously have something to hide. The worst thing you could say I was doing to hurt your kind was that time I voted for a pro-education mayor. That doesn't even try to fix you, just save your children from your horrible fate.
I know this sounds really simple, maybe I'm not getting something. But I've helped set up a couple websites with just CVS and a few scripts to update the content. It works for scripted stuff and static pages just fine. It wouldn't be so good for a news site, but it sounds like just what you need. Plus it's simple for anyone with unix experience to set permissions and stuff so that people don't go updating things they shouldn't. We didn't even need perl, just plain old shell scripting.