or the NeXT which put the pipe/backslash over on the freaking keypad
Aside from that, I still enjoy typing on my NeXT keyboard. It has good tactile feel, and the control key is in the correct place.
Apple's old extended keyboard was good too, despite the emacs-unfriendly control key. I saw it suggested once that Steve Jobs stopped caring about keyboards when he had a jack installed in his brain to communicate w/ the computer. The latest Apple stuff certainly doesn't do anything to dispel that idea. I haven't found a single Apple keyboard I was happy with since they killed off ADB. Now they've extended the macbook's keyboard (which doesn't bother me as much as I thought it would when I bought it) to the desktops, and it sits a quarter inch off the desk. Jeeze.
But I understand that they're working on quite a bit of IPv6 stuff.
Nor have most other major net sites.
OTSG needs to get in gear. Slashdot and Sourceforge should have had connectivity two years ago.
IPv4 is still the only way to connect to almost all of the internet.
Unfortunately, this is true. I am able, however, to do most of my free software system updates over IPv6 (NetBSD and Debian).
The uptake of IPv6 should continue to grow as a) the federal government really starts to integrate things (deadline for the backbone of all federal agencies is this summer, per OMB, but there's also work ongoing with the emerging military systems....from what i understand, the F-35 makes use of ad-hoc features....an aircraft from all three branches that'll fly them will be able to get together, and share information so long as they're in comms range), and b) Vista's uptake increases.
The second one will be even more important than the first for the edge devices....the only consumer-grade router I've seen that does v6 natively (yes, you can do them on a linksys w/ loonix, I get it already) is the Airport stuff from Apple.
And Ohio, alone, has a third of Canada's population. In large precincts, this is becoming impractical, if not impossible. I'm sure it'd work in smaller cities in the US, too.
They use the optical scan ballots where I used to vote (I just moved last month), and they're very easy to use, and very accurate.
If that's the standard, then every method used is probably illegal. How can a voter verify he pulled the correct level? Handwritten ballots can't be relied upon, either.
Optical scans have historically been regarded as the best, and practically everyone who went to school since 1960 has filled out a scantron sheet.
The ACLU is a bit off base here, IMO.
Off topic....the "Related Links" this time were interesting.
Hmm... What about the liquid ban? I used to take a large bottle of water with me in my carry-on - the dry stuffy air in the cabin does horrid things to me, and I often have a headache by the time I disembark. Now I have to keep bothering the stewardesses for water, when I could very well have brought my own.
I flew from Norfolk, VA to Phoenix about a week after the bans went into effect, and, yes, it was a pain (water + hall's cough drops are plane staples for me). What was even more annoying was that even if you bought something in one of the shops past security (which I did in Houston), you still couldn't take it on board with you. Thankfully, they're rescinded that now. While you have to be dry going through security, you can buy a bottle once you get inside.
There most assuredly won't be an impact. Effects, perhaps, but very minimal ones, as print media is dying.
That aside, if you actually bothered to read the constitution, the only federal office that was intended to be popularly elected was that of Representative. In many circumstances indirect representative democracy is preferable to elections.
Imagine for a moment Ted "Series of Tubes" Stevens and Cynthia McKinney as elected federal judges with lifetime appointments.....
If anyone hasn't already noticed, print media is dying. Prime example would be Tribune Co., but you could also look at the New York Times. Circulation is dropping rapidly, and digital presence will soon be as, if not more, important than print editions.
On a related note, I really missed being able to pick up a copy of the Weekly World News last week while I was traveling. Their crosswords were always great on the plane.
1. is the subject, because I've found a remote ssh client to be indispensable. 2. SIP Client 3. A provider other than AT&T. I use T-Mobile, because that's the only carrier with decent signal at my house (no, I'm not out in the boonies....Sprint and Verizon had great coverage here before Hurricane Isabel took out their shared tower....the new one is just far enough away that the signal is too weak for inside use)
I'd buy one if numbers 1 and 3 were fulfilled. Right now, I'm using a T-Mobile Wing, and am not overly impressed. To me, Windows Mobile has regressed in many ways going from version 5 to version 6....it's certainly a lot more unstable.
While I use it when I'm on a Windows PC (at work, and that's about it), I really can't stand it on the Mac, much as I couldn't deal with the regular Mozilla (now Seamonkey or something) in the pre-Safari days. The only place where it really looks native is on Linux/BSD/Unix running Gnome. Everywhere else, it just looks out-of-place with the rest of the system.
But, when your competition is Java, especially older applications with all that CDE goodlieness (they look *great* on Vista)....
Dislike: It's just another example of trying to exchange annoyingly imperfect technology for imperfect human judgment. "It looks like you're trying to drive plastered! Would you like to: a) get out and try again later, b) go to the passenger seat and sleep it off, or c) have my onboard navigations and communications system tip off the authorities of your route?"
Like: Nissan Altima drivers are the worst on the roads when they're sober. Keeping them from driving drunk might help save others' lives.
A Core Solo is downright killer for low power laptops. It's still pretty zippy on modern apps, yet uses a very minimal amount of power.
I wish they'd get more of these into the public's hands. They're so far ahead of the C3/C7 now, that Via should be worried, too. AMD's Geode line, for that matter, has gotten pretty good, too, though they don't seem to be targeting it to the notebook world for whatever reason.
A satellite doesn't require: a) a flight crew b) a ground crew c) training costs of flight crew and ground crew c) expensive fuel d) runway space e) hangar space...and so on.
Compare the costs over fifteen years, taking those things into account, and it wouldn't surprise me in the least if the satellite came out far cheaper.
Why isn't DoD funding going to bio diesel research? I mean, other than the obvious reason that the government as a whole is in the pockets of the oil industry. Seems to me that less dependence on foreign oil is a major strategic advantage for the military (and by extension, the U.S.).
Note from TFA, "Lear said further research is required to make the plant more compact and otherwise enhance its performance. That's one of the goals of the Army's Small Business Innovation Research Grant to the Gainesville company, Triad Research."
The SBIR program really promotes innovation. While I can't find the original solicitation for this one, the SBIR program really allows companies to kind of go their own way to do something new and different. I would imagine that the original solicit didn't mention anything at all about biodiesel, but the company leading the charge included it as a way to set themselves apart. There's lots of stuff that comes out of the SBIR program that makes you go, "wow, that's fucking cool!" And it's something that a poster above you failed to realize when he took a potshot at Bill Gates. Big companies don't think about these kinds of things. Rooms of engineers and MBAs don't think of really novel solutions to problems.
But it's not just DoD that funds SBIR -- other federal departments also put out solicitations.
I've configured NetBSD machines with just echo and cat (borked RAID controller, moving just one of the disks in the array).:-)
Let's just say that writing an fstab is an adventure.
As for the Sendmail issue, one of my normal commands on first boot with a new NetBSD machine is "echo sendmail=NO >>/etc/rc.conf". It normally comes right after "echo sshd=YES". I, for one, won't miss it. If I do need mail on a NetBSD machine, Postfix works quite nicely. If I'm actually serving Windows users with a NetBSD machine, it's normally Exim (with the integrated spamd/clamd interface), or Qmail.
And, just to get flamed about the editors, normally the second thing I install from pkgsrc (after tcsh) is emacs.:-D
General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream. Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Lord, Jack. General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began? Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: I... no, no. I don't, Jack. General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works. Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Uh, Jack, Jack, listen, tell me, tell me, Jack. When did you first... become... well, develop this theory? General Jack D. Ripper: Well, I, uh... I... I... first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love. Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm. General Jack D. Ripper: Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue... a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I... I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence. Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm. General Jack D. Ripper: I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh... women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid women, Mandrake. Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No. General Jack D. Ripper: But I... I do deny them my essence.
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or the NeXT which put the pipe/backslash over on the freaking keypad
Aside from that, I still enjoy typing on my NeXT keyboard. It has good tactile feel, and the control key is in the correct place.
Apple's old extended keyboard was good too, despite the emacs-unfriendly control key. I saw it suggested once that Steve Jobs stopped caring about keyboards when he had a jack installed in his brain to communicate w/ the computer. The latest Apple stuff certainly doesn't do anything to dispel that idea. I haven't found a single Apple keyboard I was happy with since they killed off ADB. Now they've extended the macbook's keyboard (which doesn't bother me as much as I thought it would when I bought it) to the desktops, and it sits a quarter inch off the desk. Jeeze.
Google has no IPv6 address to connect to.
But I understand that they're working on quite a bit of IPv6 stuff.
Nor have most other major net sites.
OTSG needs to get in gear. Slashdot and Sourceforge should have had connectivity two years ago.
IPv4 is still the only way to connect to almost all of the internet.
Unfortunately, this is true. I am able, however, to do most of my free software system updates over IPv6 (NetBSD and Debian).
The uptake of IPv6 should continue to grow as a) the federal government really starts to integrate things (deadline for the backbone of all federal agencies is this summer, per OMB, but there's also work ongoing with the emerging military systems....from what i understand, the F-35 makes use of ad-hoc features....an aircraft from all three branches that'll fly them will be able to get together, and share information so long as they're in comms range), and b) Vista's uptake increases.
The second one will be even more important than the first for the edge devices....the only consumer-grade router I've seen that does v6 natively (yes, you can do them on a linksys w/ loonix, I get it already) is the Airport stuff from Apple.
Why, when seeing this story, did I immediately think of the search for the "Time Masheen?"
And Ohio, alone, has a third of Canada's population. In large precincts, this is becoming impractical, if not impossible. I'm sure it'd work in smaller cities in the US, too.
They use the optical scan ballots where I used to vote (I just moved last month), and they're very easy to use, and very accurate.
If that's the standard, then every method used is probably illegal. How can a voter verify he pulled the correct level? Handwritten ballots can't be relied upon, either.
Optical scans have historically been regarded as the best, and practically everyone who went to school since 1960 has filled out a scantron sheet.
The ACLU is a bit off base here, IMO.
Off topic....the "Related Links" this time were interesting.
Compare prices on YRO Products
What, exactly is a YRO product?
Then stop contributing to GPL projects. The license allows users to do whatever they want with it, to whatever purpose.
Hmm... What about the liquid ban? I used to take a large bottle of water with me in my carry-on - the dry stuffy air in the cabin does horrid things to me, and I often have a headache by the time I disembark. Now I have to keep bothering the stewardesses for water, when I could very well have brought my own.
I flew from Norfolk, VA to Phoenix about a week after the bans went into effect, and, yes, it was a pain (water + hall's cough drops are plane staples for me). What was even more annoying was that even if you bought something in one of the shops past security (which I did in Houston), you still couldn't take it on board with you. Thankfully, they're rescinded that now. While you have to be dry going through security, you can buy a bottle once you get inside.
There most assuredly won't be an impact. Effects, perhaps, but very minimal ones, as print media is dying.
That aside, if you actually bothered to read the constitution, the only federal office that was intended to be popularly elected was that of Representative. In many circumstances indirect representative democracy is preferable to elections.
Imagine for a moment Ted "Series of Tubes" Stevens and Cynthia McKinney as elected federal judges with lifetime appointments.....
If anyone hasn't already noticed, print media is dying. Prime example would be Tribune Co., but you could also look at the New York Times. Circulation is dropping rapidly, and digital presence will soon be as, if not more, important than print editions.
On a related note, I really missed being able to pick up a copy of the Weekly World News last week while I was traveling. Their crosswords were always great on the plane.
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I've just now in my head intermingled the scene with the pirate uniform, Phoebe Cates, and Judge Judy. I am scarred for life.
I think I'm gonna go barf now.
1. is the subject, because I've found a remote ssh client to be indispensable.
2. SIP Client
3. A provider other than AT&T. I use T-Mobile, because that's the only carrier with decent signal at my house (no, I'm not out in the boonies....Sprint and Verizon had great coverage here before Hurricane Isabel took out their shared tower....the new one is just far enough away that the signal is too weak for inside use)
I'd buy one if numbers 1 and 3 were fulfilled. Right now, I'm using a T-Mobile Wing, and am not overly impressed. To me, Windows Mobile has regressed in many ways going from version 5 to version 6....it's certainly a lot more unstable.
....that SmartSuite is dead now?
Admittedly, OpenOffice is now a better product, but it seems a waste to let some pretty good code (WordPro, 1-2-3, etc.) just go the way of OS/2.
PCC is actually extremely old ... and apparently it still carries the advertising clause.
FWIW, NetBSD does that, too.
While I use it when I'm on a Windows PC (at work, and that's about it), I really can't stand it on the Mac, much as I couldn't deal with the regular Mozilla (now Seamonkey or something) in the pre-Safari days. The only place where it really looks native is on Linux/BSD/Unix running Gnome. Everywhere else, it just looks out-of-place with the rest of the system.
But, when your competition is Java, especially older applications with all that CDE goodlieness (they look *great* on Vista)....
And Safari on Windows is just um, weird.
Dislike: It's just another example of trying to exchange annoyingly imperfect technology for imperfect human judgment. "It looks like you're trying to drive plastered! Would you like to: a) get out and try again later, b) go to the passenger seat and sleep it off, or c) have my onboard navigations and communications system tip off the authorities of your route?"
Like: Nissan Altima drivers are the worst on the roads when they're sober. Keeping them from driving drunk might help save others' lives.
A Core Solo is downright killer for low power laptops. It's still pretty zippy on modern apps, yet uses a very minimal amount of power.
I wish they'd get more of these into the public's hands. They're so far ahead of the C3/C7 now, that Via should be worried, too. AMD's Geode line, for that matter, has gotten pretty good, too, though they don't seem to be targeting it to the notebook world for whatever reason.
Mod parent up. Another story from the Chicago Sun-Times .
You do realize that it's possible to weave a lie by telling the perfectly-cited truth......
Google for "Noam Chomsky" to get some good examples.
You'd honestly expect MSN to run on anything but x86 since their OS doesn't run on anything else?
i pf/default.mspx :-)
*cough*
Itanium
*cough*
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/64bit/
Your cost analysis is a little flawed there.....
...and so on.
A satellite doesn't require:
a) a flight crew
b) a ground crew
c) training costs of flight crew and ground crew
c) expensive fuel
d) runway space
e) hangar space
Compare the costs over fifteen years, taking those things into account, and it wouldn't surprise me in the least if the satellite came out far cheaper.
Why isn't DoD funding going to bio diesel research? I mean, other than the obvious reason that the government as a whole is in the pockets of the oil industry. Seems to me that less dependence on foreign oil is a major strategic advantage for the military (and by extension, the U.S.).
Note from TFA, "Lear said further research is required to make the plant more compact and otherwise enhance its performance. That's one of the goals of the Army's Small Business Innovation Research Grant to the Gainesville company, Triad Research."
The SBIR program really promotes innovation. While I can't find the original solicitation for this one, the SBIR program really allows companies to kind of go their own way to do something new and different. I would imagine that the original solicit didn't mention anything at all about biodiesel, but the company leading the charge included it as a way to set themselves apart. There's lots of stuff that comes out of the SBIR program that makes you go, "wow, that's fucking cool!" And it's something that a poster above you failed to realize when he took a potshot at Bill Gates. Big companies don't think about these kinds of things. Rooms of engineers and MBAs don't think of really novel solutions to problems.
But it's not just DoD that funds SBIR -- other federal departments also put out solicitations.
How dare someone defile Shatner's amazing theatrical work with the sad case that is Matt Damon?
What's next, Steve Buschemi as McCoy?
I've configured NetBSD machines with just echo and cat (borked RAID controller, moving just one of the disks in the array). :-)
/etc/rc.conf". It normally comes right after "echo sshd=YES". I, for one, won't miss it. If I do need mail on a NetBSD machine, Postfix works quite nicely. If I'm actually serving Windows users with a NetBSD machine, it's normally Exim (with the integrated spamd/clamd interface), or Qmail.
:-D
Let's just say that writing an fstab is an adventure.
As for the Sendmail issue, one of my normal commands on first boot with a new NetBSD machine is "echo sendmail=NO >>
And, just to get flamed about the editors, normally the second thing I install from pkgsrc (after tcsh) is emacs.
General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Lord, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: I... no, no. I don't, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Uh, Jack, Jack, listen, tell me, tell me, Jack. When did you first... become... well, develop this theory?
General Jack D. Ripper: Well, I, uh... I... I... first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.
General Jack D. Ripper: Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue... a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I... I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.
General Jack D. Ripper: I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh... women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid women, Mandrake.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No.
General Jack D. Ripper: But I... I do deny them my essence.
Stolen from imdb......