Wrong, the USPS is required by law to be self-sufficient. They do from time to time borrow money from the government to finance buildings and equipment, but since the '70s, the Post Office uses no tax money.
Well, this was just one judges opinion on the subject. It would be nice if it were the same guy on the DeCSS thing, but it isn't. Remember, another judge found that it was illegal, and he was over turned by this judge.
Nope, the congressional offices must pay the post office to send the mail. There is no such thing as free mail anymore. Of course, Congress writes it into their bills that the taxpayers will pay for Congress' mail, but it is not free, the Post Office gets paid for every piece of mail it delivers.
Remember that the tax money you pay goes in part to susbsidize the Postal Office.
There is no subsidy, since 1983, by law the Post Office must be self supporting. They can borrow money from the government, but they must pay it back. Even the government and military must now pay for their postage. Most likely what you saw was the payment by the government to the Post Office for the costs of all government mailings for the year.
However, the good looks don't always translate to practicality; check out the three buttons at the top of the window (I think they look like jewels). They look exactly alike, except for color, until you mouse over them. Then all three get little symbols (X for clode, + for maximize, - for minimize) embedded in the jewels. It's still bad interface, though.
Not only that, but putting the close button next to the minimize button violates the Human Interface Guidelines. I wonder how long it will take the engineers to move the minimize/maximize buttons back to the right hand side where they belong.
A user-programmer is far more likely to deliver something useful in practice rather than something primarily useful in theory.
Nothing theoretical about it.
Popup a heirarchical menu in Gnome, then try to move to an item in a submenu that is below and to the right. You have to do some intricate threading the needle to get the cursor to exit the main menu exactly at the point where the arrow points to the sub menu. With a Mac, I can select the main item, then move my mouse down diagonally directly to the subitem. Missing the subitem more than once on a non-Mac system gets old very fast. And how about some built-in hysteresis? If I move the mouse along that menu very fast, every submenu pops up. The Mac has a built-in timer so that fast cursor moves do not cause that annoying flashing.
Watch out for your crappy old bios/RTC. Some were found to have date errors known as the Crouch Echlin effect. You may not see a problem for two or three weeks.
Currently (7:49 Pacific time, New Years' eve) the National Physical Laboratory in Middlesex shows the current time as the 26th hour of December 31. This is the readout from the atomic clock at Greenwich. We're all doomed!:-)
Major media outlets (CNNonline, local TV in Boston, Reuters) and the Seattle PD are not acknowledging using rubber bullets
That's because technically they're not using rubber bullets (a bullet casing with a rubber tip). Rubber bullets can be just as lethal as a bullet with a lead tip. They are using rubber pellets fired from a paint ball gun. Pellets merely sting without breaking the skin.
The protesters in California were terrorists, they got what they deserved. They busted into a private business, assaulted a secretary and destroyed private property. They were told if they don't leave, they would be pepper sprayed. I don't know about you, but if someone told me they were going to inflict pain upon my person, I would move immediately.
Then, these people showed up two weeks later in order to be pepper sprayed again, because they didn't have the first one on tape. These people are masochists, not martyrs.
Protesting is a right that all citizens enjoy, but terrorizing others is not a right.
I'd love to have your address, because I'm sure you're doing something that I want to protest about. Now I know I can come into your house, bust everything up, and you'll defend me from the police. Thanks.
And see, these former monopolists were split up, required to compete and have done so. Without the breakup of AT&T, companies like Sprint and MCI wouild not have been possible. Nor would the proliferation of the 10-10 somethings.
That was the case against one of the national news reports. GM sued saying that the show had planted incendiary devices to make the gas tank blow up on camera.
Slashdot Mirror
our taxes subsidize the mail
Wrong, the USPS is required by law to be self-sufficient. They do from time to time borrow money from the government to finance buildings and equipment, but since the '70s, the Post Office uses no tax money.
Don
No, the word you're looking for is innovations.
Don
Well, this was just one judges opinion on the subject. It would be nice if it were the same guy on the DeCSS thing, but it isn't. Remember, another judge found that it was illegal, and he was over turned by this judge.
No, this case was decided by a panel of 3 judges.
Don
But each column is already represented by 12 bits, that is one "byte". Why multiply by 8?
The IBM standard size of a punchcard is 7 3/8 x 3 1/4 inches. As I recall, a full box was about 15 to 18 inches long.
Don
Gonna boycott Slashdot when TimeWarner buys out Andover?
That's an urban legend.
http://www.urbanlegends.com/ulz/xema iltax.html
Don
Nope, the congressional offices must pay the post office to send the mail. There is no such thing as free mail anymore. Of course, Congress writes it into their bills that the taxpayers will pay for Congress' mail, but it is not free, the Post Office gets paid for every piece of mail it delivers.
Don
Remember that the tax money you pay goes in part to susbsidize the Postal Office.
There is no subsidy, since 1983, by law the Post Office must be self supporting. They can borrow money from the government, but they must pay it back. Even the government and military must now pay for their postage. Most likely what you saw was the payment by the government to the Post Office for the costs of all government mailings for the year.
Don
THE EVOLUTION OF MICROSOFT
1980s- "It's not a feature, it's a bug"
1990s- "It's not a bug, it's a feature."
2000s- "It's not a feature, it's an innovation."
However, the good looks don't always translate to practicality; check out the three buttons at the top of the window (I think they look like jewels). They look exactly alike, except for color, until you mouse over them. Then all three get little symbols (X for clode, + for maximize, - for minimize) embedded in the jewels. It's still bad interface, though.
Not only that, but putting the close button next to the minimize button violates the Human Interface Guidelines. I wonder how long it will take the engineers to move the minimize/maximize buttons back to the right hand side where they belong.
$499 is the price for MacOS X *Server*. The consumer version will most likely be much cheaper.
A user-programmer is far more likely to deliver something useful in practice rather than something primarily useful in theory.
Nothing theoretical about it.
Popup a heirarchical menu in Gnome, then try to move to an item in a submenu that is below and to the right. You have to do some intricate threading the needle to get the cursor to exit the main menu exactly at the point where the arrow points to the sub menu. With a Mac, I can select the main item, then move my mouse down diagonally directly to the subitem. Missing the subitem more than once on a non-Mac system gets old very fast. And how about some built-in hysteresis? If I move the mouse along that menu very fast, every submenu pops up. The Mac has a built-in timer so that fast cursor moves do not cause that annoying flashing.
For references on why interface is important, see MacKido, Jakob Neilsen or Tognazzi's website.
Remember, bad interface killed John Denver.
Watch out for your crappy old bios/RTC. Some were found to have date errors known as the Crouch Echlin effect. You may not see a problem for two or three weeks.
Well, not exactly Greenwich, but close...
Currently (7:49 Pacific time, New Years' eve) the National Physical Laboratory in Middlesex shows the current time as the 26th hour of December 31. This is the readout from the atomic clock at Greenwich. We're all doomed! :-)
Duh. All cookies have expiration dates. This is part of the Netscape cookie spec, it has nothing to do with Cold Fusion.
Major media outlets (CNNonline, local TV in Boston, Reuters) and the Seattle PD are not acknowledging using rubber bullets
That's because technically they're not using rubber bullets (a bullet casing with a rubber tip). Rubber bullets can be just as lethal as a bullet with a lead tip. They are using rubber pellets fired from a paint ball gun. Pellets merely sting without breaking the skin.
In this country (america) it is very hard to get a bit of information that does not have some sort of a spin on it.
Bill Gates is not charing this event. He is attending a reception this evening for delegates.
And don't forget to buy stock in Waste Management. The landfills will be bursting with 55 gallon drums of discarded Y2K beans.
That's not exactly an original idea. Read The Lazlo Letters, by Lazlo Toth (Don Novello - Father Guido Sarducci). This book was written 20 years ago.
The protesters in California were terrorists, they got what they deserved. They busted into a private business, assaulted a secretary and destroyed private property. They were told if they don't leave, they would be pepper sprayed. I don't know about you, but if someone told me they were going to inflict pain upon my person, I would move immediately.
Then, these people showed up two weeks later in order to be pepper sprayed again, because they didn't have the first one on tape. These people are masochists, not martyrs.
Protesting is a right that all citizens enjoy, but terrorizing others is not a right.
I'd love to have your address, because I'm sure you're doing something that I want to protest about. Now I know I can come into your house, bust everything up, and you'll defend me from the police. Thanks.
And see, these former monopolists were split up, required to compete and have done so. Without the breakup of AT&T, companies like Sprint and MCI wouild not have been possible. Nor would the proliferation of the 10-10 somethings.
That was the case against one of the national news reports. GM sued saying that the show had planted incendiary devices to make the gas tank blow up on camera.
It had nothing to do with the government case.
As has the correct spelling - beleaguered...
Unfortunately, for Microsoft, the word "beleagured" has already been trademarked by Apple.