However, when I just need to do some basic config file editing I use Jove which is a scaled down version of Emacs that has the same keys as Emacs but loads as quickly as vi.
Or you could use Vile, which is a scaled-down version of Emacs that has the same keys as vi but loads as quickly as vi. Oh, wait...
For an interesting look at a time before refrigerators when ice was cut from lakes in North America and shipped around the world, read Gavin Weightman's book The Frozen Water Trade.
It would seem that we need phones that use an open-sourced OS that supports customized encryption extensions, which would allow people to choose the type of security they want to use. But of course, the patriots would never allow that. I wonder if the market forces would allow it?
Unfortunately, the majority of water policy in the U.S. (and elsewhere) has more to do with politics and business than with science or common sense. For an excellent intro to the history of water-related politics in the U.S., you should read the book Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. Can't recommend it highly enough.
And in California, I believe the use tax itself has been around for many, many years. It just wasn't part of the state-income tax form. There was a completely separate form you were expected to submit detailing out-of-state purchases. Since almost nobody ever did that, the state tax franchise board decided to make it more "convenient" by allowing tax-payers to include the use tax with their income tax. Wasn't that nice of them?
I worked a while for a company attempting to aggregate published science content and provide it over the web to subscribers, etc. From that experience I can tell you that technical publishers are exceptionally conservative and extremely protective with regards to their current business models. They are terrified of losing that golden-egg laying goose - narrow channels of content distribution.
Actually Fesseden (sic) receives quite a bit of coverage in "Signor Marconi's Magic Box," along with quite a few other contributors. For the sake of expediency though, I condensed most of that part into the phrase "he seems to give credit where it's due.":-)
Don't know about the future, but maybe we could take some lessons from the past. The TI Explorer, a short-lived LISP machine from the 1980s had a great tactile surface, and a RubOut (backspace) key to the left of the 'a' key. This took a little while to get used to, but quickly became automatic to use. It seemed much more natural and efficient than reaching for the top right-hand corner to backspace.
Maybe we should cut there...
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I used to bike commute through Sunnyvale past one of these companies. The name "Intuitive Surgical" used to scare the hell out of me...
The very site you reference indicates that the
leaflets were dropped after the Hiroshima
attack. So, yes, you are full of crap.:-)
Even if that were otherwise, what do you think the
U.S. response would be if Iraq issued a warning
of an impending nuclear attack? The U.S. govt.
would undoubtly point to the warning as yet more
"evidence" of Saddam's "madness".
(And G. W. Bush's campaign staff would have a
party and take the rest of the day off.)
Some LISP machine keyboards (notably the TI explorer and I believe the Symbolics as well) had a large key immediately to the left of the 'a' key marked "Rubout". This was the backspace key. The first time I sat down in front of an Explorer I thought, "this is insane..." After about a week of coding, I didn't want to live without it. Compare backspacing by sliding your left pinky one key to the left with sending your right pinky off to who knows where in search of a backspace key, which usually requires you to move your right fingers off the "home" keys. Using the "Rubout" key, you could correct typos and keep on going with hardly any interruption at all. Very slick.
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My C.S. Dept chairman (not my favorite professor by far) once said to me, "No one will be programming in 10 years."
That was in 1989.
I for one welcome our new cephalopod overlords.
Or you could use Vile, which is a scaled-down version of Emacs that has the same keys as vi but loads as quickly as vi. Oh, wait...
For an interesting look at a time before refrigerators when ice was cut from lakes in North America and shipped around the world, read Gavin Weightman's book The Frozen Water Trade.
You might give serious consideration to outsourcing your spam and virus filtering.
Makes you wonder how much longer Rand McNally will let this go on...
Does anyone know if the Sun Java car got crushed (or will be crushed) as well?
It seems to me that this is exactly how one should view any encyclopedia.
It would seem that we need phones that use an open-sourced OS that supports customized encryption extensions, which would allow people to choose the type of security they want to use. But of course, the patriots would never allow that. I wonder if the market forces would allow it?
And those stupid names. God, who the hell green lights crap like "Rev Blem" or "Trance Gemini"...oooo! So alien! So spacey future sounding!
I think we should do a series where all the aliens are named Bob.
That would be cool.
Unfortunately, the majority of water policy in the U.S. (and elsewhere) has more to do with politics and business than with science or common sense. For an excellent intro to the history of water-related politics in the U.S., you should read the book Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. Can't recommend it highly enough.
And in California, I believe the use tax itself has been around for many, many years. It just wasn't part of the state-income tax form. There was a completely separate form you were expected to submit detailing out-of-state purchases. Since almost nobody ever did that, the state tax franchise board decided to make it more "convenient" by allowing tax-payers to include the use tax with their income tax. Wasn't that nice of them?
I worked a while for a company attempting to aggregate published science content and provide it over the web to subscribers, etc. From that experience I can tell you that technical publishers are exceptionally conservative and extremely protective with regards to their current business models. They are terrified of losing that golden-egg laying goose - narrow channels of content distribution.
Not as bad as the name Coward.
Actually Fesseden (sic) receives quite a bit of coverage in "Signor Marconi's Magic Box," along with quite a few other contributors. For the sake of expediency though, I condensed most of that part into the phrase "he seems to give credit where it's due." :-)
Don't know about the future, but maybe we could take some lessons from the past. The TI Explorer, a short-lived LISP machine from the 1980s had a great tactile surface, and a RubOut (backspace) key to the left of the 'a' key. This took a little while to get used to, but quickly became automatic to use. It seemed much more natural and efficient than reaching for the top right-hand corner to backspace.
I used to bike commute through Sunnyvale past
one of these companies. The name "Intuitive Surgical" used to scare the hell out of me...
Even if that were otherwise, what do you think the U.S. response would be if Iraq issued a warning of an impending nuclear attack? The U.S. govt. would undoubtly point to the warning as yet more "evidence" of Saddam's "madness".
(And G. W. Bush's campaign staff would have a party and take the rest of the day off.)
Thank goodness that has never happened.
Oh, wait...
It has...
Twice...
And the U.S. was responsible...
Seems to me that the whole point to this is that
we already have a large, working fusion reactor.
We're just not utilizing it as well as we might...
I hope they never develop a waitress that knows when I'm thinking about her. That could get embarrassing...
And in Deepness in the Sky he used
smart-dust-like devices explicitly.
Though videotaping yourself using an illegal substance is probably not a great idea... :-)
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Some LISP machine keyboards (notably the TI explorer and I believe the Symbolics as well) had a large key immediately to the left of the 'a' key marked "Rubout". This was the backspace key. The first time I sat down in front of an Explorer I thought, "this is insane..." After about a week of coding, I didn't want to live without it. Compare backspacing by sliding your left pinky one key to the left with sending your right pinky off to who knows where in search of a backspace key, which usually requires you to move your right fingers off the "home" keys. Using the "Rubout" key, you could correct typos and keep on going with hardly any interruption at all. Very slick.