They are killing off small, independently-owned specialty bookshops.
No, unfortunately that happened several years ago when Barnes & Noble opened a few stores in town. Along with the other mall bookstores that where already there, they wiped them out.
That seemed to be the final straw for my favorite little bookstores. Sad, I used to love to shop in them.
It seems strange, but those tiny stores seemed to have the same selection as the massive two story B&N... just about.
They could easily be high school seniors who are 18, right?
I believe that on the DVD commentary track they even mentioned something about one of the guys who was 17 when the movie was shot. He was the one who was with the mother in the pool room. They had to cut it around so as not to make it obvious that they where going to have sex, even though they weren't going to show him naked. The idea was enough.
And Blockbuster probably likes the fact that they never need to worry about rewinding DVDs.
Yeah, but wouldn't it be good for them to not have to worry about scratched media? I've always wondered what their loss rate is due to mistreatment.
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Yeah, we'll get to all that after we get a decent browser that works on *nix that is half as good as IE.
Sorry, I'm not trying to be a troll here, but so many people are fooling themselves. If Microsoft wants to control.NET, they will. If they come up with ONE feature that requires either a MS server or client to take advantage of, the common consumer will stick with them.
...and they will.
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I don't know how I feel about this. I am in a similiar situation. I usually make it home about once a month for a weekend. Invariably there will be someone in my family who needs some kind of help... installing hardware/software, problems, etc.
Sometimes I feel like just saying, "Hey, I'm not a hardware guy any more. I sit and write code all day. We've got kids we hire to do that stuff. Anyway, I'm not at work. I just want to be around family."
But they are there for me and help me whenever they can. I don't think that if I was unable or unwilling to help them with their computer problems that they would hate me or something. I know when I was younger (and poorer) my older brother spent many nights with me trying to keep my old junker car running.
Now maybe I can return the favor. Everybody's good at something. And if it helps other people, all the better.
Now not-close friends bugging me for help, that's a different story! ARGH!
All numbers should be your SSN (or some other number) followed by a letter from a to z. When you move, change jobs, etc., you call the phone company/post office and have them point your SSN+x number to the correct place.
SSN+h: home phone
SSN+w: work phone
SSN+c: cell phone
SSN+p: pager phone
SSN+f: fax phone
SSN+a: physical address
SSN+e: email address
SSN+w: personal web page
SSN+u: Unified Internet Chat ID
etc...
Once someone knows your number, you would never have to change it again.
I would assume that most of the youngsters on here haven't even heard of edlin much less know how to go back and edit a line 3 lines up.
It's pretty sad when you are considered an "old guy" at 30. The hardest part is that when I was younger, people where amazed that I was able to do what I could do at such a young age. Now it's just expected. And it's fairly common for a 17 year old to hold a professional position in the computing field.
Sure, they are going to have the Dr. Laura show, but only on one of the channels. It wouldn't make sense to air it on several of them. This leaves a lot of channels available even after you throw in all of the music for other types of offerings.
I have heard that they plan on having a old-time radio comedy channel, a sci-fi channel, and others.
While this will not be the end-all of radio, it is a temporary step that greatly improves on what is available now.
I am anxiously awaiting this to become available specifically for this reason.
I spend a LOT of time in the car traveling between metro areas which means that a large portion of each trip is in rural areas. I am addicted to talk radio and the NPR/PRI shows.
Yeah, I've got an MP3 player, but for regular 5-8 hour commutes, just having music can get a bit boring.
Try running it under NT or 2000. I have absolutely NO problems. I can't remember the last time my machine (or just IE for that matter) locked up. I've been using this setup for over 3 years.
And don't give me the lame excuse that I don't do anything on the box. I usually have Photoshop, about 10 TextPad sessions, usually 4 SecureCRT sessions, Windows Commander, a couple of pcAnywhere sessions, along with 10 or so IE windows (8 of which are usually pointing to/. or a link from/.)
Copyright laws are obviously needed to insure that currency is provided to the author of a work as an incentive to create that work in the first place.
Of course in any society there will be exceptions who would not require this incentive if they could count on a stream of revenue from some other source (you have to eat;). This is where Open Source is.
Doing away with copyright laws will not be viable until the successful creation and widespread implementation of replicators is completed. When we can pick and choose what we want for dinner, what we want to wear, etc., without having to worry about paying for it.
Notice the grammatical error here (capture instead of captured):
"...Linux has capture 5.6 percent of the desktop market."
I'm going to assume that this letter is real and that Bill created several versions with different typos in each one and distributed them to suspected leaks...
Using this logic, why not use slide out IDE HDD caddies? They cost about $15 for the 5 1/4" rack and the caddy. Get each student a 10G HDD and have them carry that around. The docking station is so cheap, you could sell them in the bookstore for $15, $20 installed for their personal computer.
Just configure the networ so the user's home directory gets mapped when the login on the network, and then have it accessable via FTP from the Internet. They could save the file to the floppy(ies) and use the FTP method as a backup.
Seems like that would be a reasonable setup. Surely the student has Internet access in their dorm or at least a dialup connection at home. If not, head over to Kinkos or the such if your floppy fails to work when you get home.
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So do *I* get some kind of micropayment for each song downloaded from me, using my bandwidth, my cpu cycles, my electricity?
Yeah, but they could require a small membership to read anything +4 or above! ;)
They are killing off small, independently-owned specialty bookshops.
No, unfortunately that happened several years ago when Barnes & Noble opened a few stores in town. Along with the other mall bookstores that where already there, they wiped them out.
That seemed to be the final straw for my favorite little bookstores. Sad, I used to love to shop in them.
It seems strange, but those tiny stores seemed to have the same selection as the massive two story B&N... just about.
That's the episode that pretty much convinced me that he had to be gay. I mean, did you see his facial expressions while hiding there? Geez.
...but I like it. Strange.
They could easily be high school seniors who are 18, right?
I believe that on the DVD commentary track they even mentioned something about one of the guys who was 17 when the movie was shot. He was the one who was with the mother in the pool room. They had to cut it around so as not to make it obvious that they where going to have sex, even though they weren't going to show him naked. The idea was enough.
And Blockbuster probably likes the fact that they never need to worry about rewinding DVDs.
Yeah, but wouldn't it be good for them to not have to worry about scratched media? I've always wondered what their loss rate is due to mistreatment.
Yeah, we'll get to all that after we get a decent browser that works on *nix that is half as good as IE.
.NET, they will. If they come up with ONE feature that requires either a MS server or client to take advantage of, the common consumer will stick with them.
Sorry, I'm not trying to be a troll here, but so many people are fooling themselves. If Microsoft wants to control
...and they will.
I don't know how I feel about this. I am in a similiar situation. I usually make it home about once a month for a weekend. Invariably there will be someone in my family who needs some kind of help... installing hardware/software, problems, etc.
Sometimes I feel like just saying, "Hey, I'm not a hardware guy any more. I sit and write code all day. We've got kids we hire to do that stuff. Anyway, I'm not at work. I just want to be around family."
But they are there for me and help me whenever they can. I don't think that if I was unable or unwilling to help them with their computer problems that they would hate me or something. I know when I was younger (and poorer) my older brother spent many nights with me trying to keep my old junker car running.
Now maybe I can return the favor. Everybody's good at something. And if it helps other people, all the better.
Now not-close friends bugging me for help, that's a different story! ARGH!
A simple search for mysql turned up nothing. I wonder what they are using as their database backend?
The part of this page I like the best:
Usability: This site allows users to bind keyboard strokes to actions. This WAI initiative is not supported by Netscape.
damn.
But say rather than spending millions on frivilous things they where to donate the money to charitable organizations.
But who are we to say that Ellison hasn't been contributing to some worthy causes? If he has, he deserves a few toys to reward himself for success.
All numbers should be your SSN (or some other number) followed by a letter from a to z. When you move, change jobs, etc., you call the phone company/post office and have them point your SSN+x number to the correct place.
SSN+h: home phone
SSN+w: work phone
SSN+c: cell phone
SSN+p: pager phone
SSN+f: fax phone
SSN+a: physical address
SSN+e: email address
SSN+w: personal web page
SSN+u: Unified Internet Chat ID
etc...
Once someone knows your number, you would never have to change it again.
I would assume that most of the youngsters on here haven't even heard of edlin much less know how to go back and edit a line 3 lines up.
It's pretty sad when you are considered an "old guy" at 30. The hardest part is that when I was younger, people where amazed that I was able to do what I could do at such a young age. Now it's just expected. And it's fairly common for a 17 year old to hold a professional position in the computing field.
bah... who needs 'em!
I think you are totally wrong about this.
Sure, they are going to have the Dr. Laura show, but only on one of the channels. It wouldn't make sense to air it on several of them. This leaves a lot of channels available even after you throw in all of the music for other types of offerings.
I have heard that they plan on having a old-time radio comedy channel, a sci-fi channel, and others.
While this will not be the end-all of radio, it is a temporary step that greatly improves on what is available now.
I am anxiously awaiting this to become available specifically for this reason.
I spend a LOT of time in the car traveling between metro areas which means that a large portion of each trip is in rural areas. I am addicted to talk radio and the NPR/PRI shows.
Yeah, I've got an MP3 player, but for regular 5-8 hour commutes, just having music can get a bit boring.
So is there going to be two IDE's, one for KDE name Kylix and one for Gnome named Gylix? ;)
Try running it under NT or 2000. I have absolutely NO problems. I can't remember the last time my machine (or just IE for that matter) locked up. I've been using this setup for over 3 years.
/. or a link from /.)
And don't give me the lame excuse that I don't do anything on the box. I usually have Photoshop, about 10 TextPad sessions, usually 4 SecureCRT sessions, Windows Commander, a couple of pcAnywhere sessions, along with 10 or so IE windows (8 of which are usually pointing to
Copyright laws are obviously needed to insure that currency is provided to the author of a work as an incentive to create that work in the first place.
;). This is where Open Source is.
Of course in any society there will be exceptions who would not require this incentive if they could count on a stream of revenue from some other source (you have to eat
Doing away with copyright laws will not be viable until the successful creation and widespread implementation of replicators is completed. When we can pick and choose what we want for dinner, what we want to wear, etc., without having to worry about paying for it.
*Yawn* but apocolyptic stories are always good slashdot traffic generators.
;)
Yeah, look what we started when Taco put up that story about Y2K!
I still think someone could make a fortune mass producing a wooden furniture grade computer case. Say a deep mahogony or cherry.
I've seen a few people making them by hand, but they need the volume to make it worth doing on a large scale.
You need to get home after the interview/hiring session somehow so you can get to work, don't you?
Notice the grammatical error here (capture instead of captured):
"...Linux has capture 5.6 percent of the desktop market."
I'm going to assume that this letter is real and that Bill created several versions with different typos in each one and distributed them to suspected leaks...
Now he knows who sent the email out to the world!
Busted.
So what's the announcement that Robimo is going to make about his association with Mandrake?
Using this logic, why not use slide out IDE HDD caddies? They cost about $15 for the 5 1/4" rack and the caddy. Get each student a 10G HDD and have them carry that around. The docking station is so cheap, you could sell them in the bookstore for $15, $20 installed for their personal computer.
Just configure the networ so the user's home directory gets mapped when the login on the network, and then have it accessable via FTP from the Internet. They could save the file to the floppy(ies) and use the FTP method as a backup.
Seems like that would be a reasonable setup. Surely the student has Internet access in their dorm or at least a dialup connection at home. If not, head over to Kinkos or the such if your floppy fails to work when you get home.