Heck, I've still got an HP IIP Plus at home that I use everyday. It's forteen years old and still works great. And I do nothing to it other than put new ink carts in it. It'll probably run for another forteen years.
Any time that you move code from being closed to open you have to go through a long procedure reviewing the code and scrubbing it of things you don't want to or can't show. Microsoft is not alone in this. Anyone who intends to opensource code has to clean it first. You have to research all the licences to make sure you are not releasing someone elses code. And if there is code you can't release in there you have to either rewrite it or just cut that functionality. You have to scrub any comments that you might not want released, especially insults to other companies. And a big thing you need to do is to scrub all the email address and personal names out of it so that you are not exposing your current and former employees to harassment. And then you need to run a script to add a comment header to each files.
Look, I don't see how installing winamp and firefox could kill the OS (although this is windows we're talking about) but you were installing software on someone elses computer, you deserved to get yelled at. On the other hand, why is anyone allowed to install software on a lab machine? We have some WinXP machines in our lab and no one but the lab admin can install anything on them.
they are engineered to "bounce" away from an oncoming impact.
So what happens when you are in the middle of a multi-vehicle accident? How can you bounce away when you are hit from behind and the front? Or if you bounce right off the cliff? I'm sorry but I can't see these making it in the U.S.
No one in this world, so far as I know... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
Notes on journalism, Chicago Tribune, [19 September 1926]
I was annoyed by their comment but I think that it should just be turned around to, "Make sure you have a clue before you vote." Read the paper(s). Go the candidate's websites. Watch the debates. Go to the Library. Read the LOWV's site. Browse Factcheck.org. This stuff isn't secret, you need to filter the spin but there's more than enough information to make an informed opinion with. Whether you vote or not, the outcome could effect your life so get a damn clue.
That's why you have representatives and Senators (two per state no matter how small) to address your problems in congress. I feel that the President should represent the people as a whole and should be elected that way.
I think that was what I was saying! We don't get to vote for the president and I think that is why we need to change the constitution to allow us to do just that. The un-ammended constitution has many bad ideas that have been fixed by ammendments over the years. As written there, we couldn't even vote for US Senators, they were appointed by the state legistlators. That was a bad idea that was fixed by an ammendment. The constitution is a wonderful document but it's far from flawless. Don't forget that the Bill of Rights was added almost immediately after the constitution was ratified due the fact that the constition did nothing to protect individual rights. If the founding fathers thought that the constitution was to be written in stone, they would not have ammended it themselves within a year.
Note that I'm not for ammending it for any new popular idea; the difficult ratification system that they put in does a good job of keeping most dumb ideas (I know prohibition was pretty darn dumb) but I think that this is one thing that needs to change. Whatever you think about the activities in Florida in 2000, it's just wrong that one candidate can win the popular vote but lose the electoral. And don't think that I'm just saying this because I support the Democrats; Bill Clinton did not get the majority of votes in either 1992 or 1996. It's a posibility that most voters did not want Bill in there but he won anyway. No matter who wins on Tuesday, I the system is broken and needs to be fixed.
The electoral college is not obselete. If we got rid of it, the presidential election campaigns would focus on the top five or ten population centers/media markets in the country, and effectively disenfranchise the rest of it.
They would not be disenfranchised, their vote would count the same as everyone elses. Right now, I'm partially disenfranched since I live in a big state and my vote for president counts far less then someone's vote in Utah or Montana. I have nothing against people who want to live out in the wilds although it's not my preference. But why should they get such a bigger vote than I do? We're all effected by the same things: health care, SS, the war, terrorism, etc, we should all have the same say.
This is not the UN. Maybe it was in 1789 but we're all the same country now and all our votes should count the same.
Sometimes I feel like I'm just not a good enough geek because I use Fedora, I should be using Gentoo or Debian. But I work fulltime and go to grad school and I don't have time to mess with an OS that is anymore complicated than Fedora. Fedora works, is easy to configure, knows all my hardware, has lots of community support and is easy to update with Yum. When I graduate or get laid-off I'll go back to messing with Gentoo but right now I just don't have the time. Of course I have the time to read/. !
I can't decide who this will help or hurt. I think that it might just be a wash. Bush supporters will say, " this is why we still need a strong leader like Bush," and Kerry supporters will say, "why didn't we get him when we could have?" Kerry has been talking about how Bush let OBL escape for the whole campain, now he can say, "told you so!" But I don't think that it helps the left that OBL has obviously seen the movie F9/11 from his comment on My Pet Goat. The right will say, "Oh that proves that the left plays right into the terrorists' hands." I think my head will expload before Tuesday.
The shuttles are cool but they've never gotten anywhere near to the cost/lb that the program was started for. I remember as far back as the mid-seventies that they were being critisized for being too expensive as compared to one-shot rockets. It's not really NASA fault, they kept having to scale back the designs due to budget cuts, the origional vision was to have a 100% reusable system built out of titanium alloy instead of the partially resuable alluminum design that they ended up with. The lighter weight of a more expensive alloy and not throwing away the fuel tanks might have made the cost/flight cheap enough to be competative.
Can't vote early in PA. Letting people vote early would be a new, inovative idea and we don't allow those in the keystone state. If it was good enough for your grandfather, it's good enough for you. Heck, people are worring about electronic voting machines, we don't even have electric voting machines! I'll be voting with a lever machine that people probably voted for Truman on. Or maybe Wilson, who knows.
Yea CMU must not be very connected since this article says so. I guess that I must have been dreaming this past year when I took two classes online since this article says that I can't do that. And I guess that my webpage must not exist if Forbes says it doesn't. And I guess that I can't look for used equiptment on cmu.misc.market since Forbes says that we have no usenet access. And I guess that all those robots I see rolling around campus don't exist since Forbes says that CMU doesn't offer classes in "emerging technologies!" What a load of rubbish. Doesn't anyone do fact checks anymore before they publish?
These look very cool and well designed but what good is a two seat car? I know it gets great mileage buy you'd still need to own a second bigger car to when you needed more room. And yes it gets 60 MPG vs my 25 MPG in my Chevy Tracker but at 10K Miles a year and $1.85 gas prices, I'd save a big $431.67 per year. And at 6'2", I don't think I'd fit anyway.
I don't know, my wife and I have 14 Gig of music on our server at home and we paid for every single CD of it. All the music on there comes from CD's that we paid for and ripped to MP3 files. And we only usually rip at 56k, if we ripped at a higher bit rate we'd easily have 20 Gig.
We have an electoral college for the same reason we have a senate: to keep the more populous states from walking all over the less populous states.
But it makes the people in those tiny states much more powerfull than those of us who live in places where you might actually want to live. If you live in North Dakota, there are only 214K citizens per electoral vote but if you live in PA, there are 585K per electoral vote. So a resident of ND has 2.7 times the voting power for president than I do. How is that fair? It seems to me that it lets the small states walk all over the big states.
Nevermind your personal ideology, do you really think that it is a good thing for the country that the person with the most popular votes in the presidential election does not get elected? I'll admit that I voted for Gore in 2000 and plan to vote for Kerry in November but if Kerry wins the electoral vote but loses the popular, I'll still think that the current system sucks. The person with the most votes should win in a democracy (or a republic).
I still have an old copy of Analog magazine from the late-seventies or early eighties with the cover story, "Mars by 1994?" Hell we can't even get to low earth orbit right now, ten years after that.
You can set keyboard shortcuts for vertical and horizontal maximize in Gnome 2.6 but no, as far as I can tell you can't do that with the mouse. The other problem I have is that you can't set the "raise window" action to only happen when you click on the top bar of a window and not when you click in the window. These two things seem like simple things that most other window managers have.
Well, I'm sorry but I don't own any Brian Adams or Whitney and my HD is only 80G with 158,205 files on it but you're still way off on your numbers.
My Home Music server is an old IBM Aptiva K6-2 300 runnning EXT3 on Fedora Core 2 and it easily meets your goals for WinFS.
Here is a copy-and-paste from a search for all my Bob Dylan mp3s:
[octothorpe@blue octothorpe]$ time locate -i *dylan* | wc -l 79
real 0m1.681s user 0m1.600s sys 0m0.080s [octothorpe@blue octothorpe]$
Gee, 1.681 seconds is just a little shorter than ten minutes. And that's on a six year old computer that won't even run XP let alone Longhorn or whatever they call it when they ever finish it.
The receipt would not have to have the result of your vote, just the record of it. Each voting machine should have a unchangable unique id so the reciept that the voter gets could have the id of machine, a timestamp and the id for the vote itself. The internal paper strip would have those three data points and the vote result itself.
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Best AGP Card For ~$175 - Geforce 7600 GT
I can't seem to find a retailer who actually sells this card. Does it actually exist for the AGP bus?
Heck, I've still got an HP IIP Plus at home that I use everyday. It's forteen years old and still works great. And I do nothing to it other than put new ink carts in it. It'll probably run for another forteen years.
Any time that you move code from being closed to open you have to go through a long procedure reviewing the code and scrubbing it of things you don't want to or can't show. Microsoft is not alone in this. Anyone who intends to opensource code has to clean it first. You have to research all the licences to make sure you are not releasing someone elses code. And if there is code you can't release in there you have to either rewrite it or just cut that functionality. You have to scrub any comments that you might not want released, especially insults to other companies. And a big thing you need to do is to scrub all the email address and personal names out of it so that you are not exposing your current and former employees to harassment. And then you need to run a script to add a comment header to each files.
Look, I don't see how installing winamp and firefox could kill the OS (although this is windows we're talking about) but you were installing software on someone elses computer, you deserved to get yelled at. On the other hand, why is anyone allowed to install software on a lab machine? We have some WinXP machines in our lab and no one but the lab admin can install anything on them.
Well, that's better than "inspired by" or "suggested by"
Looks like your friend did.
I was annoyed by their comment but I think that it should just be turned around to, "Make sure you have a clue before you vote." Read the paper(s). Go the candidate's websites. Watch the debates. Go to the Library. Read the LOWV's site. Browse Factcheck.org. This stuff isn't secret, you need to filter the spin but there's more than enough information to make an informed opinion with. Whether you vote or not, the outcome could effect your life so get a damn clue.
That's why you have representatives and Senators (two per state no matter how small) to address your problems in congress. I feel that the President should represent the people as a whole and should be elected that way.
Yes, but since the Senate would have to approve the ammendment to change it, it does not seem to be worth the breath arguing it.
I think that was what I was saying! We don't get to vote for the president and I think that is why we need to change the constitution to allow us to do just that. The un-ammended constitution has many bad ideas that have been fixed by ammendments over the years. As written there, we couldn't even vote for US Senators, they were appointed by the state legistlators. That was a bad idea that was fixed by an ammendment. The constitution is a wonderful document but it's far from flawless. Don't forget that the Bill of Rights was added almost immediately after the constitution was ratified due the fact that the constition did nothing to protect individual rights. If the founding fathers thought that the constitution was to be written in stone, they would not have ammended it themselves within a year.
Note that I'm not for ammending it for any new popular idea; the difficult ratification system that they put in does a good job of keeping most dumb ideas (I know prohibition was pretty darn dumb) but I think that this is one thing that needs to change. Whatever you think about the activities in Florida in 2000, it's just wrong that one candidate can win the popular vote but lose the electoral. And don't think that I'm just saying this because I support the Democrats; Bill Clinton did not get the majority of votes in either 1992 or 1996. It's a posibility that most voters did not want Bill in there but he won anyway. No matter who wins on Tuesday, I the system is broken and needs to be fixed.
Sometimes I feel like I'm just not a good enough geek because I use Fedora, I should be using Gentoo or Debian. But I work fulltime and go to grad school and I don't have time to mess with an OS that is anymore complicated than Fedora. Fedora works, is easy to configure, knows all my hardware, has lots of community support and is easy to update with Yum. When I graduate or get laid-off I'll go back to messing with Gentoo but right now I just don't have the time. /. !
Of course I have the time to read
I can't decide who this will help or hurt. I think that it might just be a wash. Bush supporters will say, " this is why we still need a strong leader like Bush," and Kerry supporters will say, "why didn't we get him when we could have?" Kerry has been talking about how Bush let OBL escape for the whole campain, now he can say, "told you so!" But I don't think that it helps the left that OBL has obviously seen the movie F9/11 from his comment on My Pet Goat. The right will say, "Oh that proves that the left plays right into the terrorists' hands."
I think my head will expload before Tuesday.
The shuttles are cool but they've never gotten anywhere near to the cost/lb that the program was started for. I remember as far back as the mid-seventies that they were being critisized for being too expensive as compared to one-shot rockets. It's not really NASA fault, they kept having to scale back the designs due to budget cuts, the origional vision was to have a 100% reusable system built out of titanium alloy instead of the partially resuable alluminum design that they ended up with. The lighter weight of a more expensive alloy and not throwing away the fuel tanks might have made the cost/flight cheap enough to be competative.
Can't vote early in PA. Letting people vote early would be a new, inovative idea and we don't allow those in the keystone state. If it was good enough for your grandfather, it's good enough for you. Heck, people are worring about electronic voting machines, we don't even have electric voting machines! I'll be voting with a lever machine that people probably voted for Truman on. Or maybe Wilson, who knows.
Yea CMU must not be very connected since this article says so. I guess that I must have been dreaming this past year when I took two classes online since this article says that I can't do that. And I guess that my webpage must not exist if Forbes says it doesn't. And I guess that I can't look for used equiptment on cmu.misc.market since Forbes says that we have no usenet access. And I guess that all those robots I see rolling around campus don't exist since Forbes says that CMU doesn't offer classes in "emerging technologies!" What a load of rubbish. Doesn't anyone do fact checks anymore before they publish?
These look very cool and well designed but what good is a two seat car? I know it gets great mileage buy you'd still need to own a second bigger car to when you needed more room. And yes it gets 60 MPG vs my 25 MPG in my Chevy Tracker but at 10K Miles a year and $1.85 gas prices, I'd save a big $431.67 per year. And at 6'2", I don't think I'd fit anyway.
I don't know, my wife and I have 14 Gig of music on our server at home and we paid for every single CD of it. All the music on there comes from CD's that we paid for and ripped to MP3 files. And we only usually rip at 56k, if we ripped at a higher bit rate we'd easily have 20 Gig.
Yea, running 1.0PR on fedora 2 and I don't even get that message. Clicking on the check now button does not seem to do anything.
But it makes the people in those tiny states much more powerfull than those of us who live in places where you might actually want to live. If you live in North Dakota, there are only 214K citizens per electoral vote but if you live in PA, there are 585K per electoral vote. So a resident of ND has 2.7 times the voting power for president than I do. How is that fair? It seems to me that it lets the small states walk all over the big states.
Nevermind your personal ideology, do you really think that it is a good thing for the country that the person with the most popular votes in the presidential election does not get elected? I'll admit that I voted for Gore in 2000 and plan to vote for Kerry in November but if Kerry wins the electoral vote but loses the popular, I'll still think that the current system sucks. The person with the most votes should win in a democracy (or a republic).
I still have an old copy of Analog magazine from the late-seventies or early eighties with the cover story, "Mars by 1994?" Hell we can't even get to low earth orbit right now, ten years after that.
You can set keyboard shortcuts for vertical and horizontal maximize in Gnome 2.6 but no, as far as I can tell you can't do that with the mouse. The other problem I have is that you can't set the "raise window" action to only happen when you click on the top bar of a window and not when you click in the window. These two things seem like simple things that most other window managers have.
The receipt would not have to have the result of your vote, just the record of it. Each voting machine should have a unchangable unique id so the reciept that the voter gets could have the id of machine, a timestamp and the id for the vote itself. The internal paper strip would have those three data points and the vote result itself.