Wow, I gave away one of these with two 19" b/w monitors three years ago, because they weren't worth the cost of shipping. How I wish eBay was around back then...
I'm a FreeBSD user who appreciates the elegance and "cleanliness" of an "authentic" UNIX. I also think Linux rocks, and if I had another machine, it would run Linux. But it's idiotic that this article spout off phrases like "technical superiority" when the author does not even bother to quantify that alleged superiority.
I fell into FreeBSD thanks to some hacking I did years back on NetBSD-VAXstation 2000. I have never encountered something I cannot do (aside from RealAudio, but I'm pretty sure I have a fix for that now). I'm sure that if I had started off with Linux, I'd be a Linux user today. They're both great. I don't think either is so much more wonderful than the other to justify a switch, at least not on my home computer.
Baltimore is a large city, and I find it unsurprising that we had notably different experiences living there. I respect what you lived through, and I must congratulate you on getting out of it. You've shown a rare and inspiring ability to overcome obstacles, and you write passionately.
But I can only speak from my own experience, and to respond to your assumptions, I did live in a cockroach-infested rowhouse, and there were crack deals going down on my doorstep. I stand by my previous post.
I entirely agree with the notion that the tax structure to support education is flawed and unfair. I believe that fixing this is a vital first step toward fixing the problems in the inner city.
I lived for more than three years in Baltimore, in a transition neighborhood (Charles Village). I used to walk the two miles downtown quite frequently, if the buses weren't being very timely. I did this well after dark, and while I don't dress like I have money - heck, I don't have money - I don't look destitute. And I never once had a problem. I live in Los Angeles now, again in a transition neighborhood, and I've never had a problem. I visit one of my best friends in South Central all the time. No problems.
Really, give the city a chance. It's not as bad as the evening news and the politicians would have you believe.
As I understand it, ticket sales aren't worth too much - but any merchandise at the concert is money directly in the artist's pockets, even with the boilerplate contract, which is, according to an agent friend of mine, much worse than the 35 cents a disc you quoted.
R.E.M.'s deal, if memory serves, was eighty million dollars for five albums and all the trimmings. The label (I forget which right now) is really flailing because their sales dropped about 75% right after signing. Not really their fault... just the music-buying public turned away from rock.
A notable exception to all of this is Ani Difranco. Because she's completely independent and self-produced, she nets about $4.50 a disc. She also arranges all her own tours and makes a substantial profit from those, though she does donate a signficant chunk of proceeds from every tour date to a local charity.
So I was using Internet Explorer 4 some time ago, since I figured I ought to give it a fighting chance. I was at amazon.com, if I recall, and had filled out an order for a rather expensive book, that I was going to order on my credit card.
Pausing before I hit "Submit," it occurred to me that I ought to find out the balance on my card before I actually bought the book, and that would require going to the credit card company's web site. So I opened up another window, and the moment I did, IE automatically submitted the form. I had bought the book.
I went to another site with a similar structure and tried a few more times, and every time, opening a new window while on a page with an order or submission form automatically caused the form to be submitted.
So I have vowed never to use IE again. It caused me to involuntarily lose money, and that is unacceptable.
I went to school in nearby Marlyand, and my college singing group once performed at VA Tech. Y'all simply are the best audience a group could dream of, hands-down, by the way.
I did notice, however, at the party following the concert, that the VA Tech men, who far outnumbered the women, were very, very friendly to to women in our group. Very friendly. Frighteningly so.:)
Anyway, I find this whole thread extremely delightful. Keep it up!
Posts like this truly boggle the mind. Maybe I work in a bubble, but I'm at my second job in a row now where the company ships functional Java applications - not dancing bears on web pages, but full applications - for which customers are paying real money. If Java is dead, we're crying all the way to the bank.
IBM Visual Age for Java is a port of the original Visual Age for Smalltalk. In a sense, it's written in Smalltalk. Developers have clamored for a version written in 100% Pure Java, but that would require a significant development investment by IBM.
Summary to his conviction for having a homosexual relationship, Turing was forced to undergo hormonal therapy that was akin to torture, making his life painful and miserable and certainly contributing to the feelings that led to his suicide.
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Considering the content of your post, I would have to say that the M-x spook .signature was slightly redundant.
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(oh, how boring, I know)
Wow, I gave away one of these with two 19" b/w monitors three years ago, because they weren't worth the cost of shipping. How I wish eBay was around back then...
I fell into FreeBSD thanks to some hacking I did years back on NetBSD-VAXstation 2000. I have never encountered something I cannot do (aside from RealAudio, but I'm pretty sure I have a fix for that now). I'm sure that if I had started off with Linux, I'd be a Linux user today. They're both great. I don't think either is so much more wonderful than the other to justify a switch, at least not on my home computer.
But I can only speak from my own experience, and to respond to your assumptions, I did live in a cockroach-infested rowhouse, and there were crack deals going down on my doorstep. I stand by my previous post.
I entirely agree with the notion that the tax structure to support education is flawed and unfair. I believe that fixing this is a vital first step toward fixing the problems in the inner city.
Really, give the city a chance. It's not as bad as the evening news and the politicians would have you believe.
R.E.M.'s deal, if memory serves, was eighty million dollars for five albums and all the trimmings. The label (I forget which right now) is really flailing because their sales dropped about 75% right after signing. Not really their fault... just the music-buying public turned away from rock.
A notable exception to all of this is Ani Difranco. Because she's completely independent and self-produced, she nets about $4.50 a disc. She also arranges all her own tours and makes a substantial profit from those, though she does donate a signficant chunk of proceeds from every tour date to a local charity.
Pausing before I hit "Submit," it occurred to me that I ought to find out the balance on my card before I actually bought the book, and that would require going to the credit card company's web site. So I opened up another window, and the moment I did, IE automatically submitted the form. I had bought the book.
I went to another site with a similar structure and tried a few more times, and every time, opening a new window while on a page with an order or submission form automatically caused the form to be submitted.
So I have vowed never to use IE again. It caused me to involuntarily lose money, and that is unacceptable.
"...patriotic innovators..."
Really, a beautiful parody of an MS press release. You do have a future at Waggoner-Edstrom (SP?), if you choose to accept it.
I did notice, however, at the party following the concert, that the VA Tech men, who far outnumbered the women, were very, very friendly to to women in our group. Very friendly. Frighteningly so. :)
Anyway, I find this whole thread extremely delightful. Keep it up!
Summary to his conviction for having a homosexual relationship, Turing was forced to undergo hormonal therapy that was akin to torture, making his life painful and miserable and certainly contributing to the feelings that led to his suicide.