Sugar Act. Parliament, desiring revenue from its North American colonies, passed the first law specifically aimed at raising colonial money for the Crown. The act increased duties on non-British goods shipped to the colonies.
Currency Act. This act prohibited American colonies from issuing their own currency, angering many American colonists.
Of course! these events in 1764 are the base of American colonial opposition!
Thanks to the DMCA, my copyrights will live on long after I die. So the dead do have rights. Copyrights. Forever, or at least into the forseeable forever.
Right now I'm not using Microsoft Visual C++. I can't afford it. I do, however, want it. I really, really want it. Right now I'm using Dev C++ 4 from Bloodshed. It's open-source and free, but it can't do code completion like Microsoft can. It doesn't have those cool drop-down menus that offer you a list of all the functions in the class you just selected.
Does anyone know of any free software that does code-completion and other time-saving features? I'd really appreciate a link, or even just a name. But I have looked, and I haven't been able to find an IDE that matched the apparent ease of MSVC. For now, I look upon my friends in envy.
Okay, so now having public officials that don't understand and fear technology seems to be a good thing.
I think the only way to get politicians on your side of any technological issue is to scare them. From now on, we should just push the absolute worst-case scenario of issues we don't want to become a part of policy.
If the DMCA is passed, um, people could be forced to sign complicated contracts just to listen to music!
Actually, that's not quite frightening enough.
Maybe one of you can do better?
The second area, the video area, is the tougher of the two, because that really does require this high speed connection. And most people at work have high speed connections. So you can take a little news clip or video conference, and use that quite easily. In the U.S., as I mentioned, only 10 percent of homes have broadband. Actually, in Korea it's 40 percent of homes, but the U.S. is close to being second among broadband penetration. We'd like to see that go up. Of course, the key element of that is that the price has to come down somewhat from the $50 a month in order to see the wider spread usage.
I'm glad that inexpensive broadband is a part of Microsft's plan for us. I'm not sure what Gates and friends plan to do in order to lower broadband prices, aside from just wait, and let supply and demand do it's thing, but they seem to be moving in a direction in which they are becomming more and more dependant upon broadband.
So what should open-source developers do? Provide an alternative that doesn't rely upon high-speed internet access. I think Microsoft has really overestimated the future poularity of this broadband trend, and when they shift their focus away from people that cna't afford to spend $50 dollars a month on internet service, those poor and/or thrifty millions will find a more sensibly priced alternative. A free alternative!
Has anyone been following the trends of viruses over the past decade? As computers become more user-friendly, we allow more dumb people onto the internet. Each new, more abstract version of windows brings teeming waves of imbeciles onto the internet's sandy shore. Beached, they lay idle in the bile-soaked sand, stinking up the coast. We can clean up the mess by requiring that people take a simple test before they are allowed to use thier computers. It could be part of the liscense agreement. We could call it the Garbage Prohibited Liscense.
The dumb people can have a seperate dumb internet using a proprietary protocol developed by Micrsoft.
Earlier today, on NPR I heard the poet laureate of the United States,Billy Collins, suggest that the vaccum left by the destruction of the huge structures serve as a memorial, as no memorial we build could surpass the awe-inspiring stature of the original buildings.
People are comparing this disaster to the bombing of Peal Harbor by the Japanese. That was a bad time to be a Japanese American. I understand they were sent to interrment camps. It's just as well becuase if they had been outside the camps they might have been lynched.
Now is not a good time to be of Arabian descent. I haven't heard anything yet, but I predict there will be murder.
Also, politicians are debating on television how to balance the principles of the bill of rights with the threat that is facing us today. What are they calling for, if not interrment camps.
I am certain it will be bad. I know that foriegners are about to suffer, but will it become to bad that I will be forced to withold my liberal views for fear of violent retaliation?
Vengence is a valid emotion. It is an undenyable human drive. McVeigh was not killed becuse he would have remained a threat had he not been killed, he was killed becuase humanity is vengeful by nature. It is foolish to deny that which makes us human. The people that died in recent disasters might not have been responsible for the suffering that our prosperity has brought to other parts of the world, it was done out of vengence. When we retaliate, it will not be based upon rational thought, but instead upon the savage, vengefull thanatos within us all.
Noun: intelligence
1. a good ability to understand and to profit from experience
2. secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy)
3. new information about specific and timely events
4. the operation of gathering information about an enemy
Educated women are much less likely to reproduce than uneducated women. Assuming that intelligent women are more likely to be educated, we are children of a lesser mind, and thus not really evolving at all.
Been done here in the backwoods.
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I live in Oklahoma, and before the big corporate video rental chains moved in we had a unique place called Aardvark Video. I only rented Super Nintendo games there, but for a brief period they rented computer games as well. The only PC game I can remember seeing in the store was Beavis and Butthead related. I didn't have the right platform, but my friends talked about how they could copy minigames to their hard disk and run them individually. This of course, was before CD-R became mainstream.
There was a large, cartoon aardvark painted on the front window.
It looked a lot like Alf .
I think it is now a Mailbox Etc.
As I understand it, Microsoft owns a large portion of Apple, so I really don't expect any legal action to take place.
Also, Netscape and Sun don't have legal legs to stand upon. RealMedia Networks, however, may have the ability and motive to bring Microsoft to court over this one, but their legal resources are no match for Microsoft, and I do not expect them to win.
I predict this will become a part of the antitrust case that is already in progress.
The Physics Boys seem to misunderstand the fundamentals of computer science. They write about hyperlinks as though they were physical network connections. It is possible that they chose to study hyperlink structure after discovering that studying they actual structure of the Internet is impossible. Even so, the resulting report is misleading. They make observations of the Internet's Achilles Heal and Virus Thresholds and so forth and use hyperlink data they gathered using thier own Web Crawler to support their claims.
Ricochet at 128 kbps is available in Atlanta, Baltimore, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis St. Paul, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego and San Francisco and 15 airports nationwide. These areas join the Washington DC and Seattle 28.8 kbps service areas, allowing Ricochet users to take advantage of the freedom of wireless mobility on a nationwide basis. Coverage will continue expanding and is targeted to reach 46 markets in 2001.
It's always sad to take a look at the mission statements of bankrupt companies, they always have such big, unfulfilled dreams, and they almost never bother to change the About page even after they go under. It's like looking through old photographs of Russia's plans to go to the moon.
Microsoft hasn't gotten around to changing it's page yet. They never do. Again, it's sad.
Remember the sequel to Revenge of the Nerds? All the nerds went on strike, and there was no electric power, no gasoline, and nobody to run their computers.
If anyone out there is working on the servers that support NBCi or any of the other big media websites, next time the server crashes, just say no!
Without nerds the telephone system won't function, the U.S. will be at our mercy!
From the press kit...
In September 2004, the samples will arrive on Earth in a dramatic helicopter capture.
As the sample return capsule parachutes toward the ground at the U.S. Air Force's
Utah Testing and Training Range, specially trained helicopter pilots will catch it on the fly to prevent the delicate samples from being disturbed by the impact of a parachute
landing. The samples will be taken to NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas,
where the collector materials will be stored and distributed for analysis. The samples
will be maintained under extremely clean conditions to preserve their purity for scientif-ic
study throughout the century.
Thats sounds like it might be worth watching. Does anyone know the details of the recovery? I'd guess that they plan on using a net of some kind. NASA really needs this, just to put something out there that can impress Joe Taxpayer.
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Sugar Act. Parliament, desiring revenue from its North American colonies, passed the first law specifically aimed at raising colonial money for the Crown. The act increased duties on non-British goods shipped to the colonies.
Currency Act. This act prohibited American colonies from issuing their own currency, angering many American colonists.
Of course! these events in 1764 are the base of American colonial opposition!
Thanks to the DMCA, my copyrights will live on long after I die. So the dead do have rights. Copyrights. Forever, or at least into the forseeable forever.
Right now I'm not using Microsoft Visual C++. I can't afford it. I do, however, want it. I really, really want it. Right now I'm using Dev C++ 4 from Bloodshed. It's open-source and free, but it can't do code completion like Microsoft can. It doesn't have those cool drop-down menus that offer you a list of all the functions in the class you just selected.
Does anyone know of any free software that does code-completion and other time-saving features? I'd really appreciate a link, or even just a name. But I have looked, and I haven't been able to find an IDE that matched the apparent ease of MSVC. For now, I look upon my friends in envy.
So what's a non-proprietary PDA?
Maybe one that allows you to use non-prprietary software to interact with it?
DataSync Program Only Available in MS Windows Platform
I don't think these will sell very well at all.
Insurance is a sucker's bet, in the real world as much as in Vegas. Anyone who takes it deserves the reaming he will most certainly receive.
What should we do about state mandated car insurance and things like that? Not own a car? I'm really asking, this isn't necessarily rhetorical.
HEY! your're sonic2!
Unless they quoted your name incorrectly also.
Okay, so now having public officials that don't understand and fear technology seems to be a good thing.
I think the only way to get politicians on your side of any technological issue is to scare them. From now on, we should just push the absolute worst-case scenario of issues we don't want to become a part of policy.
If the DMCA is passed, um, people could be forced to sign complicated contracts just to listen to music!
Actually, that's not quite frightening enough.
Maybe one of you can do better?
The second area, the video area, is the tougher of the two, because that really does require this high speed connection. And most people at work have high speed connections. So you can take a little news clip or video conference, and use that quite easily. In the U.S., as I mentioned, only 10 percent of homes have broadband. Actually, in Korea it's 40 percent of homes, but the U.S. is close to being second among broadband penetration. We'd like to see that go up. Of course, the key element of that is that the price has to come down somewhat from the $50 a month in order to see the wider spread usage.
I'm glad that inexpensive broadband is a part of Microsft's plan for us. I'm not sure what Gates and friends plan to do in order to lower broadband prices, aside from just wait, and let supply and demand do it's thing, but they seem to be moving in a direction in which they are becomming more and more dependant upon broadband.
So what should open-source developers do? Provide an alternative that doesn't rely upon high-speed internet access. I think Microsoft has really overestimated the future poularity of this broadband trend, and when they shift their focus away from people that cna't afford to spend $50 dollars a month on internet service, those poor and/or thrifty millions will find a more sensibly priced alternative. A free alternative!
Abstraction is great. For me to poop on.
Has anyone been following the trends of viruses over the past decade? As computers become more user-friendly, we allow more dumb people onto the internet. Each new, more abstract version of windows brings teeming waves of imbeciles onto the internet's sandy shore. Beached, they lay idle in the bile-soaked sand, stinking up the coast. We can clean up the mess by requiring that people take a simple test before they are allowed to use thier computers. It could be part of the liscense agreement. We could call it the Garbage Prohibited Liscense.
The dumb people can have a seperate dumb internet using a proprietary protocol developed by Micrsoft.
Radioactive Man: My eyes! They Burn! The goggles do nothing!
Earlier today, on NPR I heard the poet laureate of the United States,Billy Collins, suggest that the vaccum left by the destruction of the huge structures serve as a memorial, as no memorial we build could surpass the awe-inspiring stature of the original buildings.
People are comparing this disaster to the bombing of Peal Harbor by the Japanese. That was a bad time to be a Japanese American. I understand they were sent to interrment camps. It's just as well becuase if they had been outside the camps they might have been lynched.
Now is not a good time to be of Arabian descent. I haven't heard anything yet, but I predict there will be murder.
Also, politicians are debating on television how to balance the principles of the bill of rights with the threat that is facing us today. What are they calling for, if not interrment camps.
I am certain it will be bad. I know that foriegners are about to suffer, but will it become to bad that I will be forced to withold my liberal views for fear of violent retaliation?
That's 9-11, the national emergency number. Anyone else notice?
This may also be the near-anniversary of some mid-east peace treaty.
Vengence is a valid emotion. It is an undenyable human drive. McVeigh was not killed becuse he would have remained a threat had he not been killed, he was killed becuase humanity is vengeful by nature. It is foolish to deny that which makes us human. The people that died in recent disasters might not have been responsible for the suffering that our prosperity has brought to other parts of the world, it was done out of vengence. When we retaliate, it will not be based upon rational thought, but instead upon the savage, vengefull thanatos within us all.
Noun: intelligence
1. a good ability to understand and to profit from experience
2. secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy)
3. new information about specific and timely events
4. the operation of gathering information about an enemy
Educated women are much less likely to reproduce than uneducated women. Assuming that intelligent women are more likely to be educated, we are children of a lesser mind, and thus not really evolving at all.
I live in Oklahoma, and before the big corporate video rental chains moved in we had a unique place called Aardvark Video. I only rented Super Nintendo games there, but for a brief period they rented computer games as well. The only PC game I can remember seeing in the store was Beavis and Butthead related. I didn't have the right platform, but my friends talked about how they could copy minigames to their hard disk and run them individually. This of course, was before CD-R became mainstream.
There was a large, cartoon aardvark painted on the front window.
It looked a lot like Alf .
I think it is now a Mailbox Etc.
As I understand it, Microsoft owns a large portion of Apple, so I really don't expect any legal action to take place.
Also, Netscape and Sun don't have legal legs to stand upon. RealMedia Networks, however, may have the ability and motive to bring Microsoft to court over this one, but their legal resources are no match for Microsoft, and I do not expect them to win.
I predict this will become a part of the antitrust case that is already in progress.
The Physics Boys seem to misunderstand the fundamentals of computer science. They write about hyperlinks as though they were physical network connections. It is possible that they chose to study hyperlink structure after discovering that studying they actual structure of the Internet is impossible. Even so, the resulting report is misleading. They make observations of the Internet's Achilles Heal and Virus Thresholds and so forth and use hyperlink data they gathered using thier own Web Crawler to support their claims.
That's Bad Science and I don't have to take it.
I'm sorry you had to say something also!
Always uncheck the bonus for zingers.
From the About page:
Ricochet at 128 kbps is available in Atlanta, Baltimore, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis St. Paul, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego and San Francisco and 15 airports nationwide. These areas join the Washington DC and Seattle 28.8 kbps service areas, allowing Ricochet users to take advantage of the freedom of wireless mobility on a nationwide basis. Coverage will continue expanding and is targeted to reach 46 markets in 2001.
It's always sad to take a look at the mission statements of bankrupt companies, they always have such big, unfulfilled dreams, and they almost never bother to change the About page even after they go under. It's like looking through old photographs of Russia's plans to go to the moon.
Microsoft hasn't gotten around to changing it's page yet. They never do. Again, it's sad.
HA!
I am unemployed!
Guess I showed you, huh?
Remember the sequel to Revenge of the Nerds? All the nerds went on strike, and there was no electric power, no gasoline, and nobody to run their computers.
If anyone out there is working on the servers that support NBCi or any of the other big media websites, next time the server crashes, just say no!
Without nerds the telephone system won't function, the U.S. will be at our mercy!
From the press kit... In September 2004, the samples will arrive on Earth in a dramatic helicopter capture. As the sample return capsule parachutes toward the ground at the U.S. Air Force's Utah Testing and Training Range, specially trained helicopter pilots will catch it on the fly to prevent the delicate samples from being disturbed by the impact of a parachute landing. The samples will be taken to NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, where the collector materials will be stored and distributed for analysis. The samples will be maintained under extremely clean conditions to preserve their purity for scientif-ic study throughout the century.
Thats sounds like it might be worth watching. Does anyone know the details of the recovery? I'd guess that they plan on using a net of some kind. NASA really needs this, just to put something out there that can impress Joe Taxpayer.
Does this mean no more Monkey Knife Fighting in international waters?
Does this mean no more international waters?