Python in and of its self isn't so bad, it the fact it requires Python 2.0 or greater. None of the main distributions ship with this at all and I really don't want to install it. That is the bummer.
Is there any possiblity or chance that custom reporting mechnisms can be added into GNUCash? (I.E. A number of rules can be set up to group certain transactions into groups and generate different reports based on other sets of rules.) It is the one thing in the 1.4 release that I thought was needed. The reports that were there seemed limited and I resorted to copying data into gnumeric to generate the reports I wanted. Does 1.6 correct this, or am I still limited to a number of default reports? Is there currently work on this area, or if not where in the code can I best look to start to add this capablity.
NT and VMS design teams were lead by the same person. Other than that, NT and VMS share very little in common, and definately no code. Digitial was a stickler with VMS code to Microsoft after Microsoft stole its software CP/M and its key design employees.
And the Republicans have made it very clear which judges they will pick, and have picked. Each side is calling the kettle black. Each side can say they'll choose moderates, but in the end they'll almost always nominate someone from the party wings if they can get away with it. The Bush II administration has so far chosen decidedly right wing members of the party for apointment, the Clinton administration chose decidedly left wing. How is this any different? The Bush and Republicans claimed "compassionate conservatism", meaning a centrist government, then promptly forgot all about compassion to focus on the conservatism and started to move as quickly as possible to the right. Clinton did the same thing back in 1992, but was pulled back in 1994 by the Republicans. The Republicans will be pulled back
by the Senate Democrats. The left wing members were shot down by the right wing congress, the right wing members will be shot down by left wing congress. By and large though, these problems are not really an issue to the public at large. When was the last time you really heard about a big fight for someone appointed to a district judge ship or ambassdor to Moldaves. Most of these things are handled very quitely. Only the Supreme Court and Cabinet appointments are aired publicly. In then end the whole process really allows for most of the nominates to be centrist, moderate judges will get through. The way it should be.
And how exactly is making your idea of choices known lead to "dirty tricks"? If the Republicans make it clear they want more judges to upheave things to the right, why can't the Democrats try to upheave things to the left? The Republicans and Democrats are both equally guilty for playing these games.
Not to mention to the absentee ballot forms that Republican operatives altered.
The applications for absentee ballots were altered, not the ballots them selves. There was a lot of error in the last election, to bad the US isn't going to take the time and spend the money to prevent these mistakes from ever happening again.
t's too bad the Democrats are already planning to "fight dirty" to prevent another legal mind like Scalia's from sitting on the court. (Of course, that presupposes that Bush has the cojones to nominate someone of that caliber, a very iffy proposition given his demonstrated invertebrate nature to date...)
I don't exactly understand how the Democrats are going to "fight dirty"? You mean that they are going to put the nominations through the same political process that all the others nominations have gone two throughout the last 210 years? Or even through the same process that Clinton nominations have gone through in the last six? So they don't give the Republicans any extra processes to route around the normal proceedures. They haven't had them in the last six years, and no one has ever had them. 154 of Clinton's nominations never even got a hearing. Is that fair for the majority to do? So they should give up the rights of the majority in order to appease them? The Democrats have the same rights to polical vetting of canidates as the Bush administration has in nominating them. It is all a political game, one way or another. Bush nominates them based on political reasons, and the Senate votes up on down on the same reasons. Being a legal mind has never got you nominated to the courts, it is always a polical descision and the charctersitics of what one calls a legal mind has almost always to do with their politics. To claim the Democrats have all the burden to be apolitical, but the Republicans do not is a fallicy, to claim other wise is to have your head in the sand. Besides Scalia passed through a Senate that was heavily controlled by the Democrat party (Even Al Gore voted for his confirmation.) What says that another like him couldn't pass through another Senate that is controlled even less by the Democratic party.
How do the last two books support your hypothsis at all. Book two is a history on the philanthropy work of the Kennedy Family in the field of Mental Retardation. The third one discusses bedside manners through the last 200 years. From the abstract it doesn't seem to be 1. focused on a disease, 2. bashing anyone. Looks like you've got two humanities and social science books. No bashing there.
In and of its self the flying wing can be made into a stable flying platform. There have been implementations of it going back as far as the late 1920's. In the 1940's and the 1950's NASA and the Air Force had a number of stable flying wings, without resorting to the use of Fly By Wire, which didn't exist. Only its the B2, that is unstable. The stablity of the wing is in it's implementation, not it's inherent concepts. If the wing was inherently unstable, the design would of never been considered, since designers focus on making the plane as stable as possible, without having computers make many, many corrections per second. The wing was chosen, because Lockhead's designers have been facinated with the wing for a long time and finally found a problem that fit the correct solution.
The transistion team was in the same building, but the old Y2K center was just an excuse for the FBI to build a command and control center of its own. It has now been taken over by the NISB which over sees "internet security" too bad they just suck at there job as the GAO found. Really, it just sits there for FBI to do what ever they want with, like running big investigation and such. Really should just be demolished.
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Except that the initrd image cannot be loaded from the disk until the controllers for the disk have been initialized. On the Redhat install, the CDROM/Floppy drivers have been loaded at the point the RAM disk needs to be loaded. For IDE this just won't work. You can't initialize the disk until the drivers are loaded, and you can't load the drivers until you initialize the disks. Chicken, egg. Added to the fact that chipsets effect things like memory mangement and other settings like PCI configuration, waiting until everything gets set up, then loading the drivers won't work.
There are no legal issues of lots of different people hitting a site at the same time. None of the traffic is intended to cause harm (everyone just wants to read the story), and the information is publicly available. If the site can't handle a lot of people getting the information at once, then it is the fault of the administrators, not of Slashdot or the public at large. The administrators of the site make determinations about bandwith, virtual servers, computers, etc, etc. They make this determiniation based on the average number of users on the site. If they are wrong, thanks to slashdot, then they are wrong. It happens. The Slashdot Effect is annoying, but there would be many, many more legal problems with directly copying the content (i.e. caching), then just telling everyone else reading the story. No one gets sued for telling everyone they know there is a cool artile in Time, and everyone needs to go check it out. They get sued over copying the artile and posting it on their web site.
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Good news is that they can't. Chipset/IDE drivers must be loaded before the disks initialized, DMA set up, etc. It cannot be loaded as a module since there is no disk access until the system starts. Since it is build in, it must be GPL, no binary only. The X driver is another story though.
Because Cable companies are given a local monopoly, meaning that there are zero other sources for cable. If they are not allowed to advertise on that medium, the local ISP have effectively been cut from the market. It is very anti-competitive. Coca-Cola not shipping Pepsi does nothing to prevent Pepsi from being competitive. Coca-Cola and Pepsi cannot stop each other from advertising on TV or stop a third party say RC Cola from advertising there as well, why should AOL/Compuserve and MSN stop RC ISP from advertising as well. Too bad the FTC is too meak and whipped to do anything about this enfraction.
Except that encryption offers no threat to anyone else. I cannot kill my neighbors accidently with a bit of code. You could kill them accidently with a howitizer. Since code offers no threat to anyone and it is a weapon, banning it for the public good won't fly. It is only a threat to the government in that case, and the courts have traditionally sided for the citizen in those cases. Besides, encryption software has been classified as a weapon for almost 30-40 years. Not once in that time has the US government prevented a citizen from using and creating cryptography for internal use (Any reason why? Could it be the 2nd). It is only cared about export, which isn't covered by the 2nd Amendment. Since export is so easy over the internet, they seem more heavy handed then they actually are.
But neither does the west treat people with respect. Look at the conservative movement in the US, there is even talk of making it law for women to stay home after having children be barred from working (here). Is descrimination still present? What about xenophobia or isolationism? The West is not the be all, end all of civilization. Just another silly stage.
Now Indiana Jones, Laura Croft, or that couple from the Mummy won't have to chase after the bad guys, because the only map was stolen. Now they just have to wait for the meter to 100% after stalling 95%. Think of the movies it would be great!
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No, just Optical to Electrical. If the data is all that matters, just convert it to Electrical Signals and route accordingly. Don't bother to convert it back. It takes to much time and if you left the data there in the first place it isn't needed to send the data to the next router. Eventually though, someone will come up with a technology to do DSP on the optical signals without conversion.
Err...It's not exactly a machine shared with other users, but a virutal machine that you can go crazy with. Install what you want into/usr/local, delete fun files from/boot. Do other silly stuff. It's a free account alright, the username just happens to be root!.
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Except OEO will soon die off for the really big switches, as all Optical Swtiches come into creation. No conversion from and to electronic signals, just all movements of photons. If OEO switches get slower as the get bigger, that fine. Just use all optical and forget the conversion all together.
Cheaters will exist whether or not they have direct access to the code. Some people even go through the byte code in order to gain an advantage over everyone else. The need and processes to stop cheating need to extend beyond releasing the code or not. To stop cheating things like public key cryptography and trust management must be employed. Binaries my be signed so one can trust where the binaries are coming from and that they have not been modified, same with the servers. Cheating serviers / players need to be identified and keys revoked. This will help place a dent on cheating, source has nothing to do with it.
It's not the far left and the far right that think this way. Both sides are opposed to almost all government interference and help in daily lives of the citizen. The side that is most for this is the center, which is why this sort of thing plays so well. If the center was against it, then the whole thing would be mute.
Ever heard of OpenGL? Without it, every games designer would have to write their own routines forom the video drivers all the way up to the high level APIs.
DirectX is not original or magic, and the idea certianlly didn't originate at Microsoft. (Here's a hint, generic highlevel API's are almost as old as software its self.) It wasn't the first and it certianly won't be the last programming API. Hell, DirectX's sole goal is to tie your hands to Windows. Where's DirectX for the Mac, for Linux, for Irix, for anyone else?
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Python in and of its self isn't so bad, it the fact it requires Python 2.0 or greater. None of the main distributions ship with this at all and I really don't want to install it. That is the bummer.
Is there any possiblity or chance that custom reporting mechnisms can be added into GNUCash? (I.E. A number of rules can be set up to group certain transactions into groups and generate different reports based on other sets of rules.) It is the one thing in the 1.4 release that I thought was needed. The reports that were there seemed limited and I resorted to copying data into gnumeric to generate the reports I wanted. Does 1.6 correct this, or am I still limited to a number of default reports? Is there currently work on this area, or if not where in the code can I best look to start to add this capablity.
NT and VMS design teams were lead by the same person. Other than that, NT and VMS share very little in common, and definately no code. Digitial was a stickler with VMS code to Microsoft after Microsoft stole its software CP/M and its key design employees.
And the Republicans have made it very clear which judges they will pick, and have picked. Each side is calling the kettle black. Each side can say they'll choose moderates, but in the end they'll almost always nominate someone from the party wings if they can get away with it. The Bush II administration has so far chosen decidedly right wing members of the party for apointment, the Clinton administration chose decidedly left wing. How is this any different? The Bush and Republicans claimed "compassionate conservatism", meaning a centrist government, then promptly forgot all about compassion to focus on the conservatism and started to move as quickly as possible to the right. Clinton did the same thing back in 1992, but was pulled back in 1994 by the Republicans. The Republicans will be pulled back by the Senate Democrats. The left wing members were shot down by the right wing congress, the right wing members will be shot down by left wing congress. By and large though, these problems are not really an issue to the public at large. When was the last time you really heard about a big fight for someone appointed to a district judge ship or ambassdor to Moldaves. Most of these things are handled very quitely. Only the Supreme Court and Cabinet appointments are aired publicly. In then end the whole process really allows for most of the nominates to be centrist, moderate judges will get through. The way it should be.
And how exactly is making your idea of choices known lead to "dirty tricks"? If the Republicans make it clear they want more judges to upheave things to the right, why can't the Democrats try to upheave things to the left? The Republicans and Democrats are both equally guilty for playing these games.
Not to mention to the absentee ballot forms that Republican operatives altered. The applications for absentee ballots were altered, not the ballots them selves. There was a lot of error in the last election, to bad the US isn't going to take the time and spend the money to prevent these mistakes from ever happening again.
t's too bad the Democrats are already planning to "fight dirty" to prevent another legal mind like Scalia's from sitting on the court. (Of course, that presupposes that Bush has the cojones to nominate someone of that caliber, a very iffy proposition given his demonstrated invertebrate nature to date...)
I don't exactly understand how the Democrats are going to "fight dirty"? You mean that they are going to put the nominations through the same political process that all the others nominations have gone two throughout the last 210 years? Or even through the same process that Clinton nominations have gone through in the last six? So they don't give the Republicans any extra processes to route around the normal proceedures. They haven't had them in the last six years, and no one has ever had them. 154 of Clinton's nominations never even got a hearing. Is that fair for the majority to do? So they should give up the rights of the majority in order to appease them? The Democrats have the same rights to polical vetting of canidates as the Bush administration has in nominating them. It is all a political game, one way or another. Bush nominates them based on political reasons, and the Senate votes up on down on the same reasons. Being a legal mind has never got you nominated to the courts, it is always a polical descision and the charctersitics of what one calls a legal mind has almost always to do with their politics. To claim the Democrats have all the burden to be apolitical, but the Republicans do not is a fallicy, to claim other wise is to have your head in the sand. Besides Scalia passed through a Senate that was heavily controlled by the Democrat party (Even Al Gore voted for his confirmation.) What says that another like him couldn't pass through another Senate that is controlled even less by the Democratic party.
How do the last two books support your hypothsis at all. Book two is a history on the philanthropy work of the Kennedy Family in the field of Mental Retardation. The third one discusses bedside manners through the last 200 years. From the abstract it doesn't seem to be 1. focused on a disease, 2. bashing anyone. Looks like you've got two humanities and social science books. No bashing there.
In and of its self the flying wing can be made into a stable flying platform. There have been implementations of it going back as far as the late 1920's. In the 1940's and the 1950's NASA and the Air Force had a number of stable flying wings, without resorting to the use of Fly By Wire, which didn't exist. Only its the B2, that is unstable. The stablity of the wing is in it's implementation, not it's inherent concepts. If the wing was inherently unstable, the design would of never been considered, since designers focus on making the plane as stable as possible, without having computers make many, many corrections per second. The wing was chosen, because Lockhead's designers have been facinated with the wing for a long time and finally found a problem that fit the correct solution.
The transistion team was in the same building, but the old Y2K center was just an excuse for the FBI to build a command and control center of its own. It has now been taken over by the NISB which over sees "internet security" too bad they just suck at there job as the GAO found. Really, it just sits there for FBI to do what ever they want with, like running big investigation and such. Really should just be demolished.
Except that the initrd image cannot be loaded from the disk until the controllers for the disk have been initialized. On the Redhat install, the CDROM/Floppy drivers have been loaded at the point the RAM disk needs to be loaded. For IDE this just won't work. You can't initialize the disk until the drivers are loaded, and you can't load the drivers until you initialize the disks. Chicken, egg. Added to the fact that chipsets effect things like memory mangement and other settings like PCI configuration, waiting until everything gets set up, then loading the drivers won't work.
There are no legal issues of lots of different people hitting a site at the same time. None of the traffic is intended to cause harm (everyone just wants to read the story), and the information is publicly available. If the site can't handle a lot of people getting the information at once, then it is the fault of the administrators, not of Slashdot or the public at large. The administrators of the site make determinations about bandwith, virtual servers, computers, etc, etc. They make this determiniation based on the average number of users on the site. If they are wrong, thanks to slashdot, then they are wrong. It happens. The Slashdot Effect is annoying, but there would be many, many more legal problems with directly copying the content (i.e. caching), then just telling everyone else reading the story. No one gets sued for telling everyone they know there is a cool artile in Time, and everyone needs to go check it out. They get sued over copying the artile and posting it on their web site.
Good news is that they can't. Chipset/IDE drivers must be loaded before the disks initialized, DMA set up, etc. It cannot be loaded as a module since there is no disk access until the system starts. Since it is build in, it must be GPL, no binary only. The X driver is another story though.
It doesn't.
Dont worry about X. It runs on a 32Mb IPaq with still enough room for java to run.
Because Cable companies are given a local monopoly, meaning that there are zero other sources for cable. If they are not allowed to advertise on that medium, the local ISP have effectively been cut from the market. It is very anti-competitive. Coca-Cola not shipping Pepsi does nothing to prevent Pepsi from being competitive. Coca-Cola and Pepsi cannot stop each other from advertising on TV or stop a third party say RC Cola from advertising there as well, why should AOL/Compuserve and MSN stop RC ISP from advertising as well. Too bad the FTC is too meak and whipped to do anything about this enfraction.
Controlled by an equally big and dirty company, NEWS Corp.
Except that encryption offers no threat to anyone else. I cannot kill my neighbors accidently with a bit of code. You could kill them accidently with a howitizer. Since code offers no threat to anyone and it is a weapon, banning it for the public good won't fly. It is only a threat to the government in that case, and the courts have traditionally sided for the citizen in those cases. Besides, encryption software has been classified as a weapon for almost 30-40 years. Not once in that time has the US government prevented a citizen from using and creating cryptography for internal use (Any reason why? Could it be the 2nd). It is only cared about export, which isn't covered by the 2nd Amendment. Since export is so easy over the internet, they seem more heavy handed then they actually are.
But neither does the west treat people with respect. Look at the conservative movement in the US, there is even talk of making it law for women to stay home after having children be barred from working (here). Is descrimination still present? What about xenophobia or isolationism? The West is not the be all, end all of civilization. Just another silly stage.
Now Indiana Jones, Laura Croft, or that couple from the Mummy won't have to chase after the bad guys, because the only map was stolen. Now they just have to wait for the meter to 100% after stalling 95%. Think of the movies it would be great!
No, just Optical to Electrical. If the data is all that matters, just convert it to Electrical Signals and route accordingly. Don't bother to convert it back. It takes to much time and if you left the data there in the first place it isn't needed to send the data to the next router. Eventually though, someone will come up with a technology to do DSP on the optical signals without conversion.
Err...It's not exactly a machine shared with other users, but a virutal machine that you can go crazy with. Install what you want into /usr/local, delete fun files from /boot. Do other silly stuff. It's a free account alright, the username just happens to be root!.
Except OEO will soon die off for the really big switches, as all Optical Swtiches come into creation. No conversion from and to electronic signals, just all movements of photons. If OEO switches get slower as the get bigger, that fine. Just use all optical and forget the conversion all together.
Cheaters will exist whether or not they have direct access to the code. Some people even go through the byte code in order to gain an advantage over everyone else. The need and processes to stop cheating need to extend beyond releasing the code or not. To stop cheating things like public key cryptography and trust management must be employed. Binaries my be signed so one can trust where the binaries are coming from and that they have not been modified, same with the servers. Cheating serviers / players need to be identified and keys revoked. This will help place a dent on cheating, source has nothing to do with it.
It's not the far left and the far right that think this way. Both sides are opposed to almost all government interference and help in daily lives of the citizen. The side that is most for this is the center, which is why this sort of thing plays so well. If the center was against it, then the whole thing would be mute.
Ever heard of OpenGL? Without it, every games designer would have to write their own routines forom the video drivers all the way up to the high level APIs.
DirectX is not original or magic, and the idea certianlly didn't originate at Microsoft. (Here's a hint, generic highlevel API's are almost as old as software its self.) It wasn't the first and it certianly won't be the last programming API. Hell, DirectX's sole goal is to tie your hands to Windows. Where's DirectX for the Mac, for Linux, for Irix, for anyone else?