You young whippersnappers and your fancy hex codes. Back when I was a student, I had to walk 2 miles through snowdrifts just to get to the computer lab so we could flip the switches on our IMSAI 8080 and input code in Binary. Then we had to walk another 2 miles over to the mainframe center, where we had to write IBM/360 code in Octal. And we LIKED it!
(BTW, I'm totally serious, I did all that stuff, even the walking through snowdrifts. No shit.)
It's not just critical mass, it's thousands of years of evolution in use. Esperanto nerds seem to have this stupid idea that languages are something written down in stone and do not evolve. Quite the contrary, today's languages have evolved and become more useful, more descriptive, more flexible over time. Given that esperanto has none of that history, it will always be inferior to any currently spoken language. I'd just be happy if native English speakers practiced their English skills instead of wasting time on fictional bullshit languages. Most colleges have given up on that idea, nowadays they teach foreign languages, not with the goal of the students attaining fluency, but to make them rethink their native language usage. Hell, I never knew what a transitive or intransitive verb was until I studied Japanese. My English writing improved considerably once I learned to write in Japanese.
Esperanto is known to amateur linguists as a "conlang" (constructed language), a class that includes everything from Klingon to Elvish. There used to be a conlang fool I saw spouting off on the net about how he had invented a new conlang, it was a combination of Japanese and Maltese as if it would be spoken by a dinosaur with enormous nasal cavities. I kid you not. And these people expect to be taken seriously? If you want to be understood by the largest number of people, you'll study Chinese. If you want to be understood by the greatest number of technologists, you study English or Japanese. If you want to be understood by the greatest number of idiots, you study esperanto.
The figure 4134800 represents trades, not shares, and has nothing to do with the company's valuation. Go look at the STEH history at some site like bigcharts.com, STEH traded as high as 50 cents back around the end of June, and dropped to 20 cents by August. This is a company that was already in steep decline, well before this incident.
STEH currently sells at 11 cents per share, a 20% drop means it's down from 15 cents. This is a low-end penny stock, almost completely worthless even before the alleged "damage." Any amateur spammer could move this stock more than 4 cents with even a badly executed pump and dump.
I clearly remember reading that the fedgov had implemented a strict ban on web bugs and cookies. I couldn't find the exact law, but here's an interesting tidbit from a.mil site: http://www.defenselink.mil/nii/org/cio/doc/ cookies.html
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has reaffirmed (attachment 1) that it is Federal policy that each Federal agency operating a public web site, or contractors operating such sites on behalf of an agency, must post clear privacy policies at their principal web sites, at known, major entry points to the sites, and at those sites where the agency or the contractor collects substantial personal information from the public. The OMB emphasizes that it also is Federal policy that web technology, such as "cookies," should not be used at Federal web sites to identify and track the activities of web users unless a compelling need exists to collect such information, appropriate publicized procedures are established to safeguard the information, and collection has been personally approved by the head of the agency.
I read it, but that description was completely unclear. You can move text up, down, and sideways using the cursor too. Una never was a very clear writer, she's more interested in her lesbian porn than clarity. She focuses on minutiae like her incorrect assertion that ScrlLk was intended for pausing, and ignores its original design function. I repeat: The ScrlLk key is a vestige of IBM WPS, it should really be called Cursor Lock because it locks the cursor, not scrolling.
Not on my keyboard, no markings on the F14 key. Apple hasn't made an ADB keyboard in years, I don't know why this was cited as any sort of "evidence" for the reason ScrlLk exists. I used to sell MacCharlie kits for the original Macs, IIRC they had a wraparound keyboard thingie that also had IBM keys. So what?
Scroll lock is not what "una" says it is. The function she describes wasn't used in that manner. The IBM PC used the standard Control-S and Control-Q to stop and start screen scrolling. The Scroll Lock key was a vestige of the old IBM word processor systems. It was used to lock the cursor in place, and the up and down arrow keys scrolled the entire screen, leaving the cursor locked. It should have been called "cursor lock." The article is riddled with errors. For example, una says the Macintosh extended keyboards have a scroll lock key. It does not.
Yeah, tell that to the woman that won the largest slots jackpot in Las Vegas history.. and was killed by a drunk driver on the way home. What are the odds on that?
That is a possibility. I recall reading somewhere that Apple has the option to buy out all of Moto's PPC operations, the option is coming up in a year or two. This move could be preparation for that sale. But the big question is, why the hell would Apple WANT to buy it? I think Moto holds some fundamental patents on PPC that are licensed to IBM, maybe Apple and IBM could break the shackles completely by owning all the rights free and clear.
I withdraw my previous remarks. Back when you say Apple didn't have a pro line, they had the MacIIcx through the IIfx, and they also sold the MacPlus models. They had clearly differentiated pro and consumer models. And they were all price competitive with PeeCee models in their target niche.
Hey, I studied with Lauterbur! Actually, I dropped out of one of his classes after 1 week, when I realized I should have taken Linear Algebra first and I was in way over my head.
Wrong again. Apple has always lined up their Pro models against the expensive Wintel pro models. Apple lines up their low end iBooks and eMacs against the whiteboxes. In both cases, the Mac is not overpriced compared to the competition in its category. Yes, a G5 might seem overpriced to someone who only needs an iBook, just as an Alienware box might seem overpriced to a college student who can only afford an eMachines crapola box.
Nope, I don't have that job, or any job at the moment. You might have read other/. threads with me bitching about the CEO that fired me for blowing the whistle on his embezzling, this pen was from the same guy. And when I mean cheap, I mean it cost about $50, but Cross pens are cheap crap at any price. Maybe the company would have had enough money for proper bonuses if the CEO hadn't embezzled it. I only like the pen because it's a trophy, the only thing of value I still have from that job.
well of course it depends on your needs, Rotring is targeted at drafting, and is way overkill for general writing. Of course that never stopped anyone from buying a $400 MontBlanc fountain pen either. I sometimes tutor Japanese language students, and they all want to practice writing kanji with brush and pen. So I have a brush pen and let them play with it, and the results are so ugly they finally get the point. By 2nd year classes, they're all using mechanical pencils. I often used the.025mm pencils, you have to write really fine to get furigana notes inbetween the lines of text. But the.025mm pencils are a pain in the butt, the lead breaks too easily.
well actually, there was a little presentation ceremony where I got a really cheezy brass plaque, and an IBM coffee mug too. Yeah, they were cheap sonsabitches.
Oops, I just checked and the Sanford Logo II does have a retractable tip. It just isn't fully retractable into the body like the Grip500, the Logo II still comes to a point that can poke a hole in your shirt pocket. And I suppose I need to stave off the inevitable flames and restore my credibility as an artist by saying I really do have a BFA, selling computers was just my day job. I had to pay for that overpriced painter's loft somehow..
Oh ferchrissakes, quit trotting out that lame old story about how macs are more expensive. They are actually CHEAPER than most of the PeeCees that they're benchmarked against. Macs now have a better price/performance ratio than PeeCees. Sure they sent out a high-end unit for review, just like all the other manufacturers. But the new G5 units are way cheaper than similarly performing Windoze CPUs from Dell, IBM, etc. Sure you can put together a piece o'crap whitebox for less, but what you won't be getting a seamlessly integrated hardware/software solution.
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You young whippersnappers and your fancy hex codes. Back when I was a student, I had to walk 2 miles through snowdrifts just to get to the computer lab so we could flip the switches on our IMSAI 8080 and input code in Binary. Then we had to walk another 2 miles over to the mainframe center, where we had to write IBM/360 code in Octal. And we LIKED it!
(BTW, I'm totally serious, I did all that stuff, even the walking through snowdrifts. No shit.)
It's not just critical mass, it's thousands of years of evolution in use. Esperanto nerds seem to have this stupid idea that languages are something written down in stone and do not evolve. Quite the contrary, today's languages have evolved and become more useful, more descriptive, more flexible over time. Given that esperanto has none of that history, it will always be inferior to any currently spoken language.
I'd just be happy if native English speakers practiced their English skills instead of wasting time on fictional bullshit languages. Most colleges have given up on that idea, nowadays they teach foreign languages, not with the goal of the students attaining fluency, but to make them rethink their native language usage. Hell, I never knew what a transitive or intransitive verb was until I studied Japanese. My English writing improved considerably once I learned to write in Japanese.
I can see that this web page missed out on listing esperanto:
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Esperanto is known to amateur linguists as a "conlang" (constructed language), a class that includes everything from Klingon to Elvish. There used to be a conlang fool I saw spouting off on the net about how he had invented a new conlang, it was a combination of Japanese and Maltese as if it would be spoken by a dinosaur with enormous nasal cavities. I kid you not. And these people expect to be taken seriously?
If you want to be understood by the largest number of people, you'll study Chinese. If you want to be understood by the greatest number of technologists, you study English or Japanese. If you want to be understood by the greatest number of idiots, you study esperanto.
The figure 4134800 represents trades, not shares, and has nothing to do with the company's valuation. Go look at the STEH history at some site like bigcharts.com, STEH traded as high as 50 cents back around the end of June, and dropped to 20 cents by August. This is a company that was already in steep decline, well before this incident.
STEH currently sells at 11 cents per share, a 20% drop means it's down from 15 cents. This is a low-end penny stock, almost completely worthless even before the alleged "damage." Any amateur spammer could move this stock more than 4 cents with even a badly executed pump and dump.
Read the policy. It applies to subcontractors, and anything with a .gov domain.
http://www.defenselink.mil/nii/org/cio/doc
I read it, but that description was completely unclear. You can move text up, down, and sideways using the cursor too. Una never was a very clear writer, she's more interested in her lesbian porn than clarity. She focuses on minutiae like her incorrect assertion that ScrlLk was intended for pausing, and ignores its original design function. I repeat: The ScrlLk key is a vestige of IBM WPS, it should really be called Cursor Lock because it locks the cursor, not scrolling.
IBM PCs most certainly did use ctrl-S and ctrl-q to stop and start scrolling in DOS mode. And you know what? Windows STILL DOES!
Sheesh!
Not on my keyboard, no markings on the F14 key. Apple hasn't made an ADB keyboard in years, I don't know why this was cited as any sort of "evidence" for the reason ScrlLk exists. I used to sell MacCharlie kits for the original Macs, IIRC they had a wraparound keyboard thingie that also had IBM keys. So what?
Scroll lock is not what "una" says it is. The function she describes wasn't used in that manner. The IBM PC used the standard Control-S and Control-Q to stop and start screen scrolling.
The Scroll Lock key was a vestige of the old IBM word processor systems. It was used to lock the cursor in place, and the up and down arrow keys scrolled the entire screen, leaving the cursor locked. It should have been called "cursor lock."
The article is riddled with errors. For example, una says the Macintosh extended keyboards have a scroll lock key. It does not.
Yeah, tell that to the woman that won the largest slots jackpot in Las Vegas history.. and was killed by a drunk driver on the way home. What are the odds on that?
Only an idiot plays slots. They have the highest house odds of any casino game.
That is a possibility. I recall reading somewhere that Apple has the option to buy out all of Moto's PPC operations, the option is coming up in a year or two. This move could be preparation for that sale. But the big question is, why the hell would Apple WANT to buy it? I think Moto holds some fundamental patents on PPC that are licensed to IBM, maybe Apple and IBM could break the shackles completely by owning all the rights free and clear.
I withdraw my previous remarks. Back when you say Apple didn't have a pro line, they had the MacIIcx through the IIfx, and they also sold the MacPlus models. They had clearly differentiated pro and consumer models. And they were all price competitive with PeeCee models in their target niche.
I see. So you're saying that Macs were overpriced way back in the 1980s, but now they're not. Thanks for admitting your data is 20 years out of date.
Hey, I studied with Lauterbur! Actually, I dropped out of one of his classes after 1 week, when I realized I should have taken Linear Algebra first and I was in way over my head.
And even I, who posted the comment, am appalled that it had +5 mods.
Not going to happen. Tom Baker is pulling your leg. And you fell for it.
Wrong again. Apple has always lined up their Pro models against the expensive Wintel pro models. Apple lines up their low end iBooks and eMacs against the whiteboxes. In both cases, the Mac is not overpriced compared to the competition in its category.
Yes, a G5 might seem overpriced to someone who only needs an iBook, just as an Alienware box might seem overpriced to a college student who can only afford an eMachines crapola box.
Nope, I don't have that job, or any job at the moment. You might have read other /. threads with me bitching about the CEO that fired me for blowing the whistle on his embezzling, this pen was from the same guy. And when I mean cheap, I mean it cost about $50, but Cross pens are cheap crap at any price. Maybe the company would have had enough money for proper bonuses if the CEO hadn't embezzled it. I only like the pen because it's a trophy, the only thing of value I still have from that job.
well of course it depends on your needs, Rotring is targeted at drafting, and is way overkill for general writing. Of course that never stopped anyone from buying a $400 MontBlanc fountain pen either. .025mm pencils, you have to write really fine to get furigana notes inbetween the lines of text. But the .025mm pencils are a pain in the butt, the lead breaks too easily.
I sometimes tutor Japanese language students, and they all want to practice writing kanji with brush and pen. So I have a brush pen and let them play with it, and the results are so ugly they finally get the point. By 2nd year classes, they're all using mechanical pencils. I often used the
well actually, there was a little presentation ceremony where I got a really cheezy brass plaque, and an IBM coffee mug too. Yeah, they were cheap sonsabitches.
Oops, I just checked and the Sanford Logo II does have a retractable tip. It just isn't fully retractable into the body like the Grip500, the Logo II still comes to a point that can poke a hole in your shirt pocket.
And I suppose I need to stave off the inevitable flames and restore my credibility as an artist by saying I really do have a BFA, selling computers was just my day job. I had to pay for that overpriced painter's loft somehow..
Oh ferchrissakes, quit trotting out that lame old story about how macs are more expensive. They are actually CHEAPER than most of the PeeCees that they're benchmarked against. Macs now have a better price/performance ratio than PeeCees. Sure they sent out a high-end unit for review, just like all the other manufacturers. But the new G5 units are way cheaper than similarly performing Windoze CPUs from Dell, IBM, etc. Sure you can put together a piece o'crap whitebox for less, but what you won't be getting a seamlessly integrated hardware/software solution.