And when you can synch your databases, web directories, book marks, photos, calendars, reports, contacts, sales pipelines and everything else you can think of over RSS, you can have announcements like this to thank for kicking it off.
The real reason it's not surprising to see a "jump" of 19% is that targets have learned that it takes longer to get a wiretap up than it does for them to drop their cell phone and start using a new one. So criminals try to stay one step ahead of the authorities by using Tracphones, T-Mobile pay-as-you-go, etc. and dropping them every few days. (Think: HBO's "The Wire") Meanwhile, the authorities try to keep up by getting a new order for the same target over and over and over again. Not really an accurate indicator of increased use of wiretaps, if you ask me.
Resolutions of the Board of Directors have zero probative value as to whether Novell acted maliciously. The only document that governs what Novell did or did not sell to SCO is the APA (as amended). The Board is charged with the knowledge of what was in the agreement. And anyone (such as an officer of Novell) wanting to know what Novell sold to SCO would have to look to the agreement, not resolutions of the Board authorizing the agreement, to know what was sold.
Resolutions of the Board merely authorize the company to enter into the agreement. So, unless Novell is trying to repudiate the agreement because it was not authorized by the Board, these resolutions are probative of nothing (except that whoever drafted these resolutions did not have a solid grasp of corporate law).
This is not the first time that tit-for-tat has failed to win an iterated prisoner's dilemma competition. (Cannot find a good link to past results of similar competitions, but here's a link to results of one simulation.)
The cooperation strategy used by the Southhampton programs is interesting. At first it may seem unrealistic and not very informative about human behavior, especially in the context of life and death decisions. In other words, what incentive do I have to cooperate with a "brother" to my detriment, when at the end of the day, he lives and I die? But you can think of rationales for such a strategy (e.g., familial ties, idealistic reasons). These rationales may not be rational, strictly speaking -- If I die, what do I really care what happens after I'm gone? I cannot know or benefit from the beyond. (Or can I?) -- but being able to identify, account for and respond to them rationally would be beneficial.
My mother (who, BTW, is a lead-foot) has the first model year of the Toyota Prius. According to the running total in the car's computer, she's averaging 49.5 MPG.
I hate to tell you, but this method (for Window XP, at least) is not completely satisfactory. Even if you disable the Messenger service, sometimes it gets turned back on. I'm guessing that applying Windows Updates might be the reason that happens.
In any event, I believe that taking one additional step makes disabling Messenger permanent: After you've disabled Messenger from the Services tool, go to the next tab, labelled "Log On", and disable Messenger in the hardware profile. This way, even if somehow the service itself is reenabled, the hardware profile prevents it from starting.
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"... but I cannot figure out how to convince GTK1 apps to use certain themes under my GNOME2 desktop environment. It's completely opaque."
No kidding. But it's quite simple. In your theme directory, you've got a gtk-2 directory containing all of your theme elements, right? Now, at the same level as the gtk-2 directory, create a symlink to the gtk-2 directory named gtk. That's it! The only barrier to this working is compatibility between your theme and gtk1.
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I think you're right: AC == producer of advertised product. I couldn't find that before. What a slime! (I'm not going to waste any more of my time on this AC. Later.)
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Actually, I think it's even worse than you (Greedo) suspect. Elance appears to be a site where "freelancers" bid to provide services in response to project posts (i.e., reverse bidding). I think your google sleuthing uncovered that the anonymous poster won the bid for this "Web Template & Graphic design" project from Computer Exhaust Systems. I wonder if submitting this Slashdot story was part of the deal and, if so, whether they got a success fee when it actually got posted!
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Holloween... is a Pagan holliday that celebrates pure Evil and the power of Satin. Do not allow you're children to wear costume, do not let them go to holloween party's, and do not hand out candy to kid's who are glorrifying Satin. This type of holliday has no place in a post 9-11 world!
I love satin! Soft, smooth, shiny. Satin is definitely not "pure evil." Pure lux, is more like it. What's this AC's problem with satin?! Where would the post 9-11 world be without satin pajamas?! We must fight for the love of satin or the terrorists will have already won!
The submitter noted that "...the North American railway system needs a major overhaul in order to support faster trains." Frankly, I wonder if that's likely.
Even without regard to the current economic climate, no one (especially the U.S. Federal government) seems too interesting in overhauling the railway system. Rail travel is great, but Amtrak has been begging to cease service on many, many routes because, for the most part, people don't ride trains anymore. Most travellers seem to feel that flying is cheap (enough) and safe (enough), and even with the new airport security measures, flying is faster than train travel.
As for cargo trains, previous posters correctly observed that faster cargo transport is not a compelling need.
I've been using the Samsung ML-4600 as my home laser printer for about a year-and-a-half, and I have no complaints. It seems to print as fast as they claimed (who tests?), the toner lasted way longer than the box said it would, and, as promised on the box, Linux setup was very easy then (required installing an RPM in RedHat 7.2, IIRC), and has gotten dead simple with subsequent Linux installs (Mandrake and Slackware). And it was only about $150.
There is a way you can create PDFs from *any* program, and with all free software too:
Adobe's free PostScript printer driver to output to PS Then GhostScript and GhostView to quickly convert the PS to PDF format.
This solution is incomplete. For example, with ghostscript, you cannot embed truetype fonts... so you are restricted to PS fonts, and any PS fonts beyond those that come with ghostscript will likely cost you money. And you'll need something like Adobe Type Manager to install new PS fonts, too. You can work around/with this limitation, but for most people, this solution restricts your font selection in the PDFs you create to Arial, Times, and Courier. Blech!
I AGREE! Local shops have always been the best solution for me, be it here in New York City where I now live, or Miami, Philly or D.C., where I've lived before.
In fact, I just built a new system, mostly with parts from a local shop. I preshopped at pricescan, which I think is much better than pricecrotch for accurate low prices. Then, I took price printouts with me to the shop, haggled with the salesman, and got a terrific deal on most of the components I wanted. One thing he didn't have (60GB 7200RPM HDD), I got from Spartan Technologies. And CompUSA had an amazing, unbeatable deal on one other item I wanted (CD-RW).
Before the explosion of the commercial Web, I did the same thing with catalogs or ads from Computer Shopper -- snip 'em and take 'em to the local guy.
I've seen lots of these reviews of consumer sound cards, but precious few reviews of pro audio cards (I think I found two such reviews when I was shopping for one). I'll share my experience with one such card, for anyone who's interested.
I just started using an Echo Mia, which is a 24 bit/96 kHz digital audio card. No MIDI, no gameport.
Pluses:
FANTASTIC audio quality! The highs are crisp and smooth, and the lows are round and roomy.
Integrates/plays nice with gaming/everyday soundcard. I'm using the Mia in conjunction with an SBLive! Platinum (under WinXP) with no problems.
Negative: Finicky about which motherboard chipset you're using. This is a HUGE consideration for this card, but if Echo says your chipset will work, you're ok.
Others rightly point out the nuance of the instrument. However, the nuance of the ROOM is just as important... and unreproducible. The piano's sound changes with the room and, if fact responds to the room, especially the harmonics and other sympathetic vibrations. And if the pianist is in a room full of people, but the judge in Japan is in an empty recital hall, the acoustics will be ridiculously different!
American usage does NOT allow inconsistency. Your example ("IBM has...; they have...") is gramatically incorrect in America and any other English-speaking country. Just because some people talk or write inconsistently doesn't make it gramatically correct. Even William Safire (or his editor, if he has one) makes mistakes.
In addition, it is untrue that "companies are people in America." Companies, corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, trusts, banks, charities, fraternal organizations, etc. are fictitious entities that have been accorded legal standing, first by judges, then by statutes. IBM is not a person, it is a thing. Unlike cats and dogs, which are also not people, IBM does not have a gender or a sex.
Although it does not address this particular topic, you might want to refer to Strunk's The Elements of Style. __________ You couldn't give them away around here. -- Kurt Heasley
A: It is not necessary. Screen image will be presented at 2 feet from your eye. To see it is exactly the same as you see real objects at 2 feet from your eye. If you need corrective eye glasses or contact lenses, you can use them while wearing the display.
Obviously the display is not 2 feet from your eye, i.e., sticking out from your forehead by two feet. So there must be some optic gimmick to make it appear 2 feet from your eye. What kind of gimmick is this that would never need focus adjustment for any reason, such as, oh I dunno, I have a big protruding forehead so my display is further from my eye than the next guy's? Can someone familiar with optics shed some light on this (no pun intended)?
For me, "PC" stuff has included finding and downloading the banned Puerto Rican Day Parade episode of Seinfeld (with WinMX), converting it to MPEG-1 and burning a VideoCD of it so that my wife could watch the episode on our DVD player, since she missed the only airing on TV. She refused to sit at the PC to watch the episode!
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The more you tighten your grip, ... the more paying customers will slip through your fingers.
The real reason it's not surprising to see a "jump" of 19% is that targets have learned that it takes longer to get a wiretap up than it does for them to drop their cell phone and start using a new one. So criminals try to stay one step ahead of the authorities by using Tracphones, T-Mobile pay-as-you-go, etc. and dropping them every few days. (Think: HBO's "The Wire") Meanwhile, the authorities try to keep up by getting a new order for the same target over and over and over again. Not really an accurate indicator of increased use of wiretaps, if you ask me.
Resolutions of the Board of Directors have zero probative value as to whether Novell acted maliciously. The only document that governs what Novell did or did not sell to SCO is the APA (as amended). The Board is charged with the knowledge of what was in the agreement. And anyone (such as an officer of Novell) wanting to know what Novell sold to SCO would have to look to the agreement, not resolutions of the Board authorizing the agreement, to know what was sold.
Resolutions of the Board merely authorize the company to enter into the agreement. So, unless Novell is trying to repudiate the agreement because it was not authorized by the Board, these resolutions are probative of nothing (except that whoever drafted these resolutions did not have a solid grasp of corporate law).
This is not the first time that tit-for-tat has failed to win an iterated prisoner's dilemma competition. (Cannot find a good link to past results of similar competitions, but here's a link to results of one simulation.)
The cooperation strategy used by the Southhampton programs is interesting. At first it may seem unrealistic and not very informative about human behavior, especially in the context of life and death decisions. In other words, what incentive do I have to cooperate with a "brother" to my detriment, when at the end of the day, he lives and I die? But you can think of rationales for such a strategy (e.g., familial ties, idealistic reasons). These rationales may not be rational, strictly speaking -- If I die, what do I really care what happens after I'm gone? I cannot know or benefit from the beyond. (Or can I?) -- but being able to identify, account for and respond to them rationally would be beneficial.
If he wanted to write an Illustrator killer, shouldn't he have called it "Killustrator"? Oh, wait. That name's taken.
(Sorry, couldn't stop myself.)
My mother (who, BTW, is a lead-foot) has the first model year of the Toyota Prius. According to the running total in the car's computer, she's averaging 49.5 MPG.
I smell FUD.
I hate to tell you, but this method (for Window XP, at least) is not completely satisfactory. Even if you disable the Messenger service, sometimes it gets turned back on. I'm guessing that applying Windows Updates might be the reason that happens.
In any event, I believe that taking one additional step makes disabling Messenger permanent: After you've disabled Messenger from the Services tool, go to the next tab, labelled "Log On", and disable Messenger in the hardware profile. This way, even if somehow the service itself is reenabled, the hardware profile prevents it from starting.
What do you think income tax is?
No kidding. But it's quite simple. In your theme directory, you've got a gtk-2 directory containing all of your theme elements, right? Now, at the same level as the gtk-2 directory, create a symlink to the gtk-2 directory named gtk. That's it! The only barrier to this working is compatibility between your theme and gtk1.
I think you're right: AC == producer of advertised product. I couldn't find that before. What a slime! (I'm not going to waste any more of my time on this AC. Later.)
Actually, I think it's even worse than you (Greedo) suspect. Elance appears to be a site where "freelancers" bid to provide services in response to project posts (i.e., reverse bidding). I think your google sleuthing uncovered that the anonymous poster won the bid for this "Web Template & Graphic design" project from Computer Exhaust Systems. I wonder if submitting this Slashdot story was part of the deal and, if so, whether they got a success fee when it actually got posted!
I love satin! Soft, smooth, shiny. Satin is definitely not "pure evil." Pure lux, is more like it. What's this AC's problem with satin?! Where would the post 9-11 world be without satin pajamas?! We must fight for the love of satin or the terrorists will have already won!
Uh... he probably meant "Satan." Whatever.
The submitter noted that "...the North American railway system needs a major overhaul in order to support faster trains." Frankly, I wonder if that's likely.
Even without regard to the current economic climate, no one (especially the U.S. Federal government) seems too interesting in overhauling the railway system. Rail travel is great, but Amtrak has been begging to cease service on many, many routes because, for the most part, people don't ride trains anymore. Most travellers seem to feel that flying is cheap (enough) and safe (enough), and even with the new airport security measures, flying is faster than train travel.
As for cargo trains, previous posters correctly observed that faster cargo transport is not a compelling need.
Just my 2 cents.
"That's no moon..."
I've been using the Samsung ML-4600 as my home laser printer for about a year-and-a-half, and I have no complaints. It seems to print as fast as they claimed (who tests?), the toner lasted way longer than the box said it would, and, as promised on the box, Linux setup was very easy then (required installing an RPM in RedHat 7.2, IIRC), and has gotten dead simple with subsequent Linux installs (Mandrake and Slackware). And it was only about $150.
This solution is incomplete. For example, with ghostscript, you cannot embed truetype fonts... so you are restricted to PS fonts, and any PS fonts beyond those that come with ghostscript will likely cost you money. And you'll need something like Adobe Type Manager to install new PS fonts, too. You can work around/with this limitation, but for most people, this solution restricts your font selection in the PDFs you create to Arial, Times, and Courier. Blech!
I might be getting off topic by responding to this, but...
1) You've seen 1/2 episode of Survivor and concluded that all reality TV shows suck. Uh-huh.
2) So-called reality TV is every bit as phony -- and no more escapist -- than any other TV show... especially no more escapist than CARTOONS!
I AGREE! Local shops have always been the best solution for me, be it here in New York City where I now live, or Miami, Philly or D.C., where I've lived before.
In fact, I just built a new system, mostly with parts from a local shop. I preshopped at pricescan, which I think is much better than pricecrotch for accurate low prices. Then, I took price printouts with me to the shop, haggled with the salesman, and got a terrific deal on most of the components I wanted. One thing he didn't have (60GB 7200RPM HDD), I got from Spartan Technologies. And CompUSA had an amazing, unbeatable deal on one other item I wanted (CD-RW).
Before the explosion of the commercial Web, I did the same thing with catalogs or ads from Computer Shopper -- snip 'em and take 'em to the local guy.
I just started using an Echo Mia, which is a 24 bit/96 kHz digital audio card. No MIDI, no gameport.
Pluses:
FANTASTIC audio quality! The highs are crisp and smooth, and the lows are round and roomy.
Integrates/plays nice with gaming/everyday soundcard. I'm using the Mia in conjunction with an SBLive! Platinum (under WinXP) with no problems.
Negative: Finicky about which motherboard chipset you're using. This is a HUGE consideration for this card, but if Echo says your chipset will work, you're ok.
Others rightly point out the nuance of the instrument. However, the nuance of the ROOM is just as important ... and unreproducible. The piano's sound changes with the room and, if fact responds to the room, especially the harmonics and other sympathetic vibrations. And if the pianist is in a room full of people, but the judge in Japan is in an empty recital hall, the acoustics will be ridiculously different!
American usage does NOT allow inconsistency. Your example ("IBM has ...; they have ...") is gramatically incorrect in America and any other English-speaking country. Just because some people talk or write inconsistently doesn't make it gramatically correct. Even William Safire (or his editor, if he has one) makes mistakes.
In addition, it is untrue that "companies are people in America." Companies, corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, trusts, banks, charities, fraternal organizations, etc. are fictitious entities that have been accorded legal standing, first by judges, then by statutes. IBM is not a person, it is a thing. Unlike cats and dogs, which are also not people, IBM does not have a gender or a sex.
Although it does not address this particular topic, you might want to refer to Strunk's The Elements of Style.
__________
You couldn't give them away around here. -- Kurt Heasley
From the Q&A on the website:
Q: Does it have focus adjustment?
A: It is not necessary. Screen image will be presented at 2 feet from your eye. To see it is exactly the same as you see real objects at 2 feet from your eye. If you need corrective eye glasses or contact lenses, you can use them while wearing the display.
Obviously the display is not 2 feet from your eye, i.e., sticking out from your forehead by two feet. So there must be some optic gimmick to make it appear 2 feet from your eye. What kind of gimmick is this that would never need focus adjustment for any reason, such as, oh I dunno, I have a big protruding forehead so my display is further from my eye than the next guy's? Can someone familiar with optics shed some light on this (no pun intended)?
For me, "PC" stuff has included finding and downloading the banned Puerto Rican Day Parade episode of Seinfeld (with WinMX), converting it to MPEG-1 and burning a VideoCD of it so that my wife could watch the episode on our DVD player, since she missed the only airing on TV. She refused to sit at the PC to watch the episode!
Sony's website states that the range is ~15 feet. Whether or not that's "across the room" will depend on the size of your room.... ;)