Um, I occasionally drink alcohol. I have smoked (quite recently, actually) although it is not something I normally do. I smoke pot, although quite disfrequently. Alcohol is my most common, applicable vice. There is nothing wrong with alcohol, in moderation. A cup (or two) of wine a day, especially if it's red, is good for your health. It is quite sad that Mr. Katz had a problem with it, but it is demeaning to his memory to say that you avoid it because alcohol tastes "wretched." Have some compasion, and understand that almost anything can be a self-destructive habit. It is unbfortuneate Mr. Katz was addicted to one of the worst. adam
I know MS is first to have many technologies to market, but I do not think that they actually innovate many technologies. The obvious example is the Win GUI that both upgrades and degrades concepts of the Mac GUI. I think other companies do the innovation and come up with the ideas, but MS has the size and market strength to bring those ideas to market first, and, if not, they buy the innovator. I like the optical mouse idea, though. Don't know who actually thought up that. adam
The article said that most "important" and/or government transmissions are atleast 1024bit, and I would venture to say that No Such Agency is quite capable of handling and using much, much more. Remember, we may have a rather stupid government, but they did manage to keep stealth planes under wraps for years before the Gulf War, besides easily discredited rumors.
I read the Guide about a year ago (and it's on my senior reading list along with Restaurant at the End of the Universe, thankyou public school). As I remember, Trillian was the human woman that Zapod picked up at a party with some line like "You know, I'm a space alien." Arthur was working on picking up Trillian at the time, so he and Zaphod started out on the wrong step.
Oh, shutup. Ever notice how Slashdot centers many of its stories around Linux? It is News for Nerds. Ever notice that Red Hat has many, many Linux packages for various purposes (although one could argue there a tad over priced). Slashdot recently had a story about a new release of SuSe that hasn't even been released yet. Also, it featured a prevelant story on the release of a new XFree86, although no binaries are to be released until the next version. Red Hat makes less Linux packages, they get less time here. SuSe makes more, they get more time here.
Well, Elbrus has a history of creating processors that are for ahead of those by Intel, AMD, Cyrix, National Semi, etc. Much of the Pentiums most advanced features were first present in Elbrus processors. Some Elbrus employees then left to join intel (this according to an old register article). Oh, and by the way, Russia is a westernized nation.
Internet Explorer does this as well. Here is what I think the problem is. You click a link that takes you to an anchored spot on the same page. You scroll around a little bit and find another, more interesting link to another page. When you click the back button, the last link you went to is still the anchor, despite you having scrolled around a little bit. It's annoying, but I think it's to be expected when a site, such as many news sites, relies heavily on anchors.
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Um, I occasionally drink alcohol. I have smoked (quite recently, actually) although it is not something I normally do. I smoke pot, although quite disfrequently. Alcohol is my most common, applicable vice. There is nothing wrong with alcohol, in moderation. A cup (or two) of wine a day, especially if it's red, is good for your health. It is quite sad that Mr. Katz had a problem with it, but it is demeaning to his memory to say that you avoid it because alcohol tastes "wretched." Have some compasion, and understand that almost anything can be a self-destructive habit. It is unbfortuneate Mr. Katz was addicted to one of the worst. adam
I know MS is first to have many technologies to market, but I do not think that they actually innovate many technologies. The obvious example is the Win GUI that both upgrades and degrades concepts of the Mac GUI. I think other companies do the innovation and come up with the ideas, but MS has the size and market strength to bring those ideas to market first, and, if not, they buy the innovator. I like the optical mouse idea, though. Don't know who actually thought up that. adam
The article said that most "important" and/or government transmissions are atleast 1024bit, and I would venture to say that No Such Agency is quite capable of handling and using much, much more. Remember, we may have a rather stupid government, but they did manage to keep stealth planes under wraps for years before the Gulf War, besides easily discredited rumors.
adam
I read the Guide about a year ago (and it's on my senior reading list along with Restaurant at the End of the Universe, thankyou public school). As I remember, Trillian was the human woman that Zapod picked up at a party with some line like "You know, I'm a space alien." Arthur was working on picking up Trillian at the time, so he and Zaphod started out on the wrong step.
adam
Oh, shutup. Ever notice how Slashdot centers many of its stories around Linux? It is News for Nerds. Ever notice that Red Hat has many, many Linux packages for various purposes (although one could argue there a tad over priced). Slashdot recently had a story about a new release of SuSe that hasn't even been released yet. Also, it featured a prevelant story on the release of a new XFree86, although no binaries are to be released until the next version. Red Hat makes less Linux packages, they get less time here. SuSe makes more, they get more time here.
adam
Well, Elbrus has a history of creating processors that are for ahead of those by Intel, AMD, Cyrix, National Semi, etc. Much of the Pentiums most advanced features were first present in Elbrus processors. Some Elbrus employees then left to join intel (this according to an old register article). Oh, and by the way, Russia is a westernized nation.
adam
Internet Explorer does this as well. Here is what I think the problem is. You click a link that takes you to an anchored spot on the same page. You scroll around a little bit and find another, more interesting link to another page. When you click the back button, the last link you went to is still the anchor, despite you having scrolled around a little bit. It's annoying, but I think it's to be expected when a site, such as many news sites, relies heavily on anchors.
Thats just my opinion, I could be wrong.
Adam