The source can be big business, labor unions (e.g. AFL/CIO, AFSCME), professional organizations (e.g. trial lawyers association), and even individuals (e.g. George Soros). We have the best politicians money can buy.
I respectfully disagree - please name one thing congress (or the judicial branch for that matter - who is NOT enforcing existing laws protecting labor unions) has done to enforce existing laws on labor unions or enacted new legislation to favor unions (ie give workers more rights over their employers).
Ever switch on a laptop? I've got a T42 and I swear laptop hdd's are like 10 times slower that desktop hdd's. I think something like this would be nice.
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Good point - all the vcr's I've ever bought still work just fine:).
Adobe Acrobat actually comes in handy with this - as a) its a full blown ole server (which lets you place pdf files inside word docs - or anywhere for that matter), and b) you can export pdf files to word docs from Acrobat.
Actually I used to live in Portland as well and there is a north south line - it goes all the way to up Jantzen Beach (I've ridden on it!). And last I checked they were working on a line from Beaverton to Wilsonville and another that goes down to Milwaukie.
There may have been cost over-runs, but I stand by my original figure. Billion dollars a mile is no way to build a light rail system - even in Seattle.
Finally - you don't have to live near a max line to use it - as most of the busses feed transit centers. I know because I used to use them.
I live in Seattle and even I was shocked at the 1 billion dollar per mile cost - what light rail system on earth costs that much to build?! My question is - why a monorail? They're like 10 times more expensive to build that regular light rail. I'm thinking thats the questions they are asking themselves.
The tri-met max system in Portland has cost something like 1.5 billion total - and its very extensive with north/south and east/west lines.
Who's going to be driving a car like that in places where it gets to -40 deg celsius or fahrenheit (your pick) and allows their keys to get run over by passing trucks.
Come to think of it - I've never had my keys run over by anything anywhere...
Why do people always take the hard way out? Just go into edit > preferences > internet > uncheck display pdf in browser.
That little feature has been there since at least acrobat 3 when the first browser plugin came about.
With 6 and 7 there both package components too - so you can do a msiexec/i acropro.msi (or whatever the package is called) REMOVE=AcrobatBrowserIntegration and your done.
Win95 was terrible for games. None of my games worked with it. None! Not until DirectX 5 and 6 could DirectX be said to have matured enough for general use. Nothing really good came out until then, either. Quake was still something you'd "Exit into DOS mode" for.
Windows 95 was the platform I first saw GLQuake running under the 3dfx Voodoo - I can still remember my remarks cleary "holy shit this is awsome!" Sure the very first direct 3d game (monster truck madness - which ran in directx 3) was kinda crappy, but a lot of that was targeted for video cards like the S3 Virge.
I did have a mac then - System 7.5.x could multitask as well as Windows 3.1 - which was poor at best. 95 was much better at multi-tasking in every way. Remember System 7 (os 8 and os 9 for that matter) still had the "allocate memory" kludge that Windows never had to deal with. Anyone who has done support for System 7, 8 and 9 knows what a pain that little feature was.
You might want to watch out actually. I've found stock that pc power supplies have way to much ac line ripple on the dc outputs. This is something you can see easily on any scope on even the very best pc power supplies.
I personally find it a little odd too but who is going to be offended by this?
I lost my brother - he had a seizure and stopped breathing. He died before his time. To this day pictures of him bring up emotions that are hard to describe (I don't feel angry, probably just a little sad/confused - something like that). I don't feel the same way for my grandmother who passed away either this year because she lived a productive and full life.
When I go to visit him in the creamatorium its pretty hard - I think seeing videos of him in the same setting might just put me over the edge.
On the flip side if someone else wants to do this to their relative knock yourself out. I just couldn't do that to my brother or any of my friends.
This is such a stupid argument to me. One of the wealthiest companies on earth (Microsoft) didn't get rich selling hardware. You can say there different markets - but that doesn't matter - fact is Apple's biggest competitor is Microsoft and they don't make hardware at all.
Look at the hardware companies who made money on just hardware. Commodore (don't knock them - they used one of the largest computer manufacturer in Europe ti'll the day they went backrupt), SGI, SUN, Compaq, Gateway etc etc - all of these companies are either gone or marginialized by cheap "windows" hardware.
Finally - Apple should just raise the price of their OS until it is profitable.
I'm sure Jobs has learned a lesson all right, that being PC users are untrustworthy and if there is no DRM locking OS X onto Apple boxes they will all just pirate it without paying one penny.
This is one of those cases where I would gladly pay to run OSX on my PC.
I don't see myself buying a 2000$ intel mac anywhere in the future though.
They put serious effort into making sure the ram your system uses is of quality.
When I popped open my mac mini to upgrade its memory what did I find? Hynix memory. Where else have I seen that... Oh yeah - consumer grade dell computers and laptops.
Apple uses hynix ram in there G5's too...
Not that I'm saying thats a bad thing - but you make it sound like the PC manufacturers are a bunch of small time OEM's.
Yeah thats in the deathbed vigil movie of Commodore's demise - without digging up the video tape I want to say it was called the "David Henly" memorial floppy drive.
If you were that die hard I have a Commodore Amiga you might like. Has 148 megs of ram (16 fast - 128 expansion) boots in 3 seconds, and sports a 50 MHz 68060.
And will process any image Paint Shop will touch and more in its sleep.
Don't want it? Don't blame you - people like their pretty icons, flexibility etc.
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The source can be big business, labor unions (e.g. AFL/CIO, AFSCME), professional organizations (e.g. trial lawyers association), and even individuals (e.g. George Soros). We have the best politicians money can buy.
I respectfully disagree - please name one thing congress (or the judicial branch for that matter - who is NOT enforcing existing laws protecting labor unions) has done to enforce existing laws on labor unions or enacted new legislation to favor unions (ie give workers more rights over their employers).
Ever switch on a laptop? I've got a T42 and I swear laptop hdd's are like 10 times slower that desktop hdd's. I think something like this would be nice.
Good point - all the vcr's I've ever bought still work just fine :).
I used to work for a company called gts services that sold a program called breakaway (still does) thats based on pick :).
There are a lot of pick based systems that have been moved to Linux relatively easily - especially since jbase and mvbase run on Linux now.
Adobe Acrobat actually comes in handy with this - as a) its a full blown ole server (which lets you place pdf files inside word docs - or anywhere for that matter), and b) you can export pdf files to word docs from Acrobat.
Actually I used to live in Portland as well and there is a north south line - it goes all the way to up Jantzen Beach (I've ridden on it!). And last I checked they were working on a line from Beaverton to Wilsonville and another that goes down to Milwaukie.
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Also those figures I got from Tri-Met here > http://www.trimet.org/inside/history/maxoverview.
There may have been cost over-runs, but I stand by my original figure. Billion dollars a mile is no way to build a light rail system - even in Seattle.
Finally - you don't have to live near a max line to use it - as most of the busses feed transit centers. I know because I used to use them.
I live in Seattle and even I was shocked at the 1 billion dollar per mile cost - what light rail system on earth costs that much to build?! My question is - why a monorail? They're like 10 times more expensive to build that regular light rail. I'm thinking thats the questions they are asking themselves.
The tri-met max system in Portland has cost something like 1.5 billion total - and its very extensive with north/south and east/west lines.
:) - if these are geostationary the most you could do is about 25,000 miles.
Or dare I mention FrameMaker which gives you wwysiwyg and the ability to spending time writing the silly thing too.
Despite all its short comings its a really good word processor.
This happens on the corperate level as well - thats why we use SAP software at the place I work - despite its many shortcomings.
Here we go again. Please know that communism and authoritarian government are not the same!
:).
Good thing China is both
Is this a dead link convention?
Who's going to be driving a car like that in places where it gets to -40 deg celsius or fahrenheit (your pick) and allows their keys to get run over by passing trucks.
Come to think of it - I've never had my keys run over by anything anywhere...
Sounds like a bus.
Why do people always take the hard way out? Just go into edit > preferences > internet > uncheck display pdf in browser.
/i acropro.msi (or whatever the package is called) REMOVE=AcrobatBrowserIntegration and your done.
That little feature has been there since at least acrobat 3 when the first browser plugin came about.
With 6 and 7 there both package components too - so you can do a msiexec
Isn't windows cool?
Win95 was terrible for games. None of my games worked with it. None! Not until DirectX 5 and 6 could DirectX be said to have matured enough for general use. Nothing really good came out until then, either. Quake was still something you'd "Exit into DOS mode" for.
Windows 95 was the platform I first saw GLQuake running under the 3dfx Voodoo - I can still remember my remarks cleary "holy shit this is awsome!" Sure the very first direct 3d game (monster truck madness - which ran in directx 3) was kinda crappy, but a lot of that was targeted for video cards like the S3 Virge.
I did have a mac then - System 7.5.x could multitask as well as Windows 3.1 - which was poor at best. 95 was much better at multi-tasking in every way. Remember System 7 (os 8 and os 9 for that matter) still had the "allocate memory" kludge that Windows never had to deal with. Anyone who has done support for System 7, 8 and 9 knows what a pain that little feature was.
You might want to watch out actually. I've found stock that pc power supplies have way to much ac line ripple on the dc outputs. This is something you can see easily on any scope on even the very best pc power supplies.
I personally find it a little odd too but who is going to be offended by this?
I lost my brother - he had a seizure and stopped breathing. He died before his time. To this day pictures of him bring up emotions that are hard to describe (I don't feel angry, probably just a little sad/confused - something like that). I don't feel the same way for my grandmother who passed away either this year because she lived a productive and full life.
When I go to visit him in the creamatorium its pretty hard - I think seeing videos of him in the same setting might just put me over the edge.
On the flip side if someone else wants to do this to their relative knock yourself out. I just couldn't do that to my brother or any of my friends.
This is such a stupid argument to me. One of the wealthiest companies on earth (Microsoft) didn't get rich selling hardware. You can say there different markets - but that doesn't matter - fact is Apple's biggest competitor is Microsoft and they don't make hardware at all.
Look at the hardware companies who made money on just hardware. Commodore (don't knock them - they used one of the largest computer manufacturer in Europe ti'll the day they went backrupt), SGI, SUN, Compaq, Gateway etc etc - all of these companies are either gone or marginialized by cheap "windows" hardware.
Finally - Apple should just raise the price of their OS until it is profitable.
I'm sure Jobs has learned a lesson all right, that being PC users are untrustworthy and if there is no DRM locking OS X onto Apple boxes they will all just pirate it without paying one penny.
:).
This is one of those cases where I would gladly pay to run OSX on my PC.
I don't see myself buying a 2000$ intel mac anywhere in the future though.
Back to Windows and Linux I go
They put serious effort into making sure the ram your system uses is of quality.
When I popped open my mac mini to upgrade its memory what did I find? Hynix memory. Where else have I seen that... Oh yeah - consumer grade dell computers and laptops.
Apple uses hynix ram in there G5's too...
Not that I'm saying thats a bad thing - but you make it sound like the PC manufacturers are a bunch of small time OEM's.
Yeah thats in the deathbed vigil movie of Commodore's demise - without digging up the video tape I want to say it was called the "David Henly" memorial floppy drive.
If you were that die hard I have a Commodore Amiga you might like. Has 148 megs of ram (16 fast - 128 expansion) boots in 3 seconds, and sports a 50 MHz 68060.
And will process any image Paint Shop will touch and more in its sleep.
Don't want it? Don't blame you - people like their pretty icons, flexibility etc.
You know its ironic - when I got a mac mini with 256 megs of ram it ran like a dog until I got 512 megs.
I like the fact that MS is being realistic.