Ronald Reagan is going to kill us all. We aren't going to survive the 1980's with that warmonger in office. The End is Near.
Oh, wait... your post just triggered the indoctrination I received back in school during the 1980's.
I had a teacher who swore that the absolute power of the Military Industrial Complex, the usage of petroleum fertilizers (the world is going to run out of oil by 1994 don't you know) or Ronald Reagan's war mongering was going to destroy our civilization by the year 1995.
I didn't sleep for weeks until I realized he was full of shit.
Made me the skeptic I am today.
You people who are so sure this thing is real better be sure you're not doing the same thing. Because if you are you're doing more harm then good.
No, because when someone does actually find a way to make spyware on a Mac, no matter how inane or insignificant said piece of spyware might actually be, the anti-Macintosh crowd would get erections the size of The Empire State Building over the opportunity to point out the hypocrisy.
How anyone can be anti-Mac is beside me. I understand Mac ambivalence, but Mac hatred?
But they're there, and the PR backlash would overshadow any previous gain.
It was in the book where the USA was at war with Japan. American agents hiding in Japan used high-intensity lights to blind the Japanese AWACS aircraft pilots just before landing. Thus causing them to crash and thus making them tactically blind.
This is the same book that ends with a JAL 747 suicide crashing into the US Capitol.
No kidding it's encouraged. It's even in the traffic law books now in most states. And that's the problem. There is no unified traffic law for North America like there is for a lot of the world.
Just because it's vaguely referred to as the law in a few states and you like it doesn't mean it's the best way to control traffic flow or that it isn't controversial.
It's a chaotic way for traffic to flow.
For traffic to flow efficiently, being able to accurately predict what another driver is probably going to do helps keep traffic safe. The middle lane travel lane with two passing options doesn't do this. Add to the fact that most North American drivers forgot that their cars are equipped with turn-signals makes this even worse.
I haven't been misinformed. I've just seen places where this rule would be considered insane and actually prefer to drive there.
When there are few exits and fast moving traffic keeping right, is the best way to keep traffic flow moving and avoiding confusion.
Too many times have I seen traffic bunched up in the left two lanes because there's a line of people squatting in the middle lane because people who learned how to drive correctly won't, with good reason, pass on the right.
I think this is just another relaxation of the rules to allow incompetent drivers a better environment to drive in at the expense of efficiency.
Man you just hit on one of my biggest pet peeves. The damned "middle lane squatter". Here in Upstate NY we have a three lane interstate (87) that goes between Albany and Lake George (after that it's rural 2-lane to Canada).
The damned thing is congested (or at least more than it should be) during most of the waking hours, even though the average distance between exits over the stretch is over three miles, because everyone has decided that the middle lane is for cruising.
What effectively happens is a perfectly good three-lane highway, becomes a two-lane highway with the exception of the idiots who pass routinely on the right like we're driving in England or something.
(I have been informed that passing on the right in NY on a three lane highway is in fact legal which further adds to erode my faith in the common good.)
This is just an example. The "Middle Lane Squatter" phenomenon is pretty widespread and I think if people would just follow a little "lane etiquette" a major victory would be won for traffic flow.
I think the larger problem is the "me first" attitude that most American drivers have. The middle lane is comfortable and easy. When you're in the middle lane, you don't have to worry about people merging etc. And screw the guy trying to get around you. He's not important.
"Keep right except to pass" is just too damned hard and selfless to actually follow.
It's actually more ergonomic to use the command key.
Unfortunately, I switched to a Mac when the two-button with scroll wheel mouse had already been burned into my brain and I work with it.
But, if you ever watch a Mac user, especially a professional, who uses a lot of keyboard shortcuts, that command key is the most used key on the keyboard and the left thumb is always posed above it.
A one-button mouse is not a detriment and is in fact a more efficient way to work if you have learned to work within the ergonomic environment that it was designed in.
The fact that these guys can't detect earth-sized planets isn't a detriment to this "alone" idea. it's the fact that all these systems that they are finding consist of planets with hugely elliptical orbits.
Earth (and all the planets in our system) has an elliptical orbit but it only differs in distance from the sun a few million miles. Any planet in a "class-M zone" (to use Star Trek terminology) in almost all the extrosolar systems they've found so far consist of planets that would have elliptical orbits which would vary their distance from the sun by tens of millions of miles.
That won't work for life as we know it because these planets would be cooked like Venus for the perigee of their orbit and frozen like mars for their apogee.
But, if life is the rule and not the exception, it could lead to some very interesting critters on these planets if in fact they did exist.
Actually it just has an axial tilt of 97.86 degrees. I dunno if astronomers refer to the poles by North/South or East/West.
The latter would make more sense though.
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Yes and it's really @#$%ing cold here right now in the Adirondacks (plural) too.
(The Olympic Winter Games in 1980 were held in Lake Placid in The Adirondacks just up the road from where I'm sitting, if you need a mental image)
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"at a lot of posters have found evil political motivations in a seemingly non-political objective less from the evidence being there, but more from a want of finding it..."
Good Lord, someone making sense on Slashdot. Where are my friggin' Mod Points when I need them?
Seriously, you can't go down two clicks of the scroll wheel in any of these "Space" threads without someone Bush bashing or finding some ulterior political motive. I swear if even some of these folks translated the anger and hatred they have for the current Commander in Chief to actual energy, applied in the right place, they actually might be able to effect real change.
But who am I kidding?
Oh, and if I have Mod Points and I see anyone making another "Why don't we just send Bush to Mars;)" remark again, thinking that they're being original; it is getting modded -1, Redundant.
I use a Logictech Mouseman Duel-Optical (four buttons counting the scroll wheel) on all my Macs. With it you can use Mouseware to map the buttons any way you see fit.
My scroll wheel is mapped to command-q to quickly close a program (no kidding, and I love it too) and the side button is mapped to F9 for Expose bliss... just for an example.
Don't EVER let the one-button mouse scare you out of buying a Mac...puhleeez!
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Ronald Reagan is going to kill us all. We aren't going to survive the 1980's with that warmonger in office. The End is Near.
... your post just triggered the indoctrination I received back in school during the 1980's.
Oh, wait
I had a teacher who swore that the absolute power of the Military Industrial Complex, the usage of petroleum fertilizers (the world is going to run out of oil by 1994 don't you know) or Ronald Reagan's war mongering was going to destroy our civilization by the year 1995.
I didn't sleep for weeks until I realized he was full of shit.
Made me the skeptic I am today.
You people who are so sure this thing is real better be sure you're not doing the same thing. Because if you are you're doing more harm then good.
Yeah, and when the Asia bird flu mutates into the next big global plague, you in your dense population demographic will be the first to experience it.
Oh wait that was last week's "End of the World Scenario"
Or how about when that volcano in the Canary Islands collapses and sends a 200 Ft. Tsunami at NYC.
Oh wait, that was last month's "End of the World Scenario".
Seriously, which doomsday scenario is it today? I forget.
Dunmbasses?
No, because when someone does actually find a way to make spyware on a Mac, no matter how inane or insignificant said piece of spyware might actually be, the anti-Macintosh crowd would get erections the size of The Empire State Building over the opportunity to point out the hypocrisy.
How anyone can be anti-Mac is beside me. I understand Mac ambivalence, but Mac hatred?
But they're there, and the PR backlash would overshadow any previous gain.
That is the answer to your question.
Debt of Honor (1994)
...)
I remembered that book only after all the folks were proclaiming Clancy prophesied 9-11-01 (re: the airliner as a weapon thing
It was in the book where the USA was at war with Japan. American agents hiding in Japan used high-intensity lights to blind the Japanese AWACS aircraft pilots just before landing. Thus causing them to crash and thus making them tactically blind.
This is the same book that ends with a JAL 747 suicide crashing into the US Capitol.
That Tom Clancy is a pisser.
No kidding it's encouraged. It's even in the traffic law books now in most states. And that's the problem. There is no unified traffic law for North America like there is for a lot of the world.
Just because it's vaguely referred to as the law in a few states and you like it doesn't mean it's the best way to control traffic flow or that it isn't controversial.
It's a chaotic way for traffic to flow.
For traffic to flow efficiently, being able to accurately predict what another driver is probably going to do helps keep traffic safe. The middle lane travel lane with two passing options doesn't do this. Add to the fact that most North American drivers forgot that their cars are equipped with turn-signals makes this even worse.
I haven't been misinformed. I've just seen places where this rule would be considered insane and actually prefer to drive there.
When there are few exits and fast moving traffic keeping right, is the best way to keep traffic flow moving and avoiding confusion.
Too many times have I seen traffic bunched up in the left two lanes because there's a line of people squatting in the middle lane because people who learned how to drive correctly won't, with good reason, pass on the right.
I think this is just another relaxation of the rules to allow incompetent drivers a better environment to drive in at the expense of efficiency.
The USA.
Lowest common denominator wins again.
I often drive five hours from Upstate NY to spend a day and a half in Ottawa and to get a Boddingtons and a Boxty ay Patty Bolands on Clarence St.
Ottawa most definitely doesn't suck.
"Lane Etiquette"
Man you just hit on one of my biggest pet peeves. The damned "middle lane squatter".
Here in Upstate NY we have a three lane interstate (87) that goes between Albany and Lake George (after that it's rural 2-lane to Canada).
The damned thing is congested (or at least more than it should be) during most of the waking hours, even though the average distance between exits over the stretch is over three miles, because everyone has decided that the middle lane is for cruising.
What effectively happens is a perfectly good three-lane highway, becomes a two-lane highway with the exception of the idiots who pass routinely on the right like we're driving in England or something.
(I have been informed that passing on the right in NY on a three lane highway is in fact legal which further adds to erode my faith in the common good.)
This is just an example. The "Middle Lane Squatter" phenomenon is pretty widespread and I think if people would just follow a little "lane etiquette" a major victory would be won for traffic flow.
I think the larger problem is the "me first" attitude that most American drivers have. The middle lane is comfortable and easy. When you're in the middle lane, you don't have to worry about people merging etc. And screw the guy trying to get around you. He's not important.
"Keep right except to pass" is just too damned hard and selfless to actually follow.
I assume you're referring to the year 1898.
That would be a war with Spain, and the ship in question would be the U.S.S. Maine which blew up in Havana Harbor.
It was called "Yellow Journalism" at the time.
But it has been happening for many years before this.
It's actually more ergonomic to use the command key.
Unfortunately, I switched to a Mac when the two-button with scroll wheel mouse had already been burned into my brain and I work with it.
But, if you ever watch a Mac user, especially a professional, who uses a lot of keyboard shortcuts, that command key is the most used key on the keyboard and the left thumb is always posed above it.
A one-button mouse is not a detriment and is in fact a more efficient way to work if you have learned to work within the ergonomic environment that it was designed in.
Kinda like a Dvorak keyboard.
Modem? WTF is a modem????
I know not of such things.
Yeah, but Apples don't break! ;) ...
... and here on Slashdot that should be a large enough sample size to make it the truth!
At least none of mine ever have
Dammit.
Yeah, but who's gonna fix it when it breaks?
Man, analogies are fun.
The fact that these guys can't detect earth-sized planets isn't a detriment to this "alone" idea. it's the fact that all these systems that they are finding consist of planets with hugely elliptical orbits.
Earth (and all the planets in our system) has an elliptical orbit but it only differs in distance from the sun a few million miles. Any planet in a "class-M zone" (to use Star Trek terminology) in almost all the extrosolar systems they've found so far consist of planets that would have elliptical orbits which would vary their distance from the sun by tens of millions of miles.
That won't work for life as we know it because these planets would be cooked like Venus for the perigee of their orbit and frozen like mars for their apogee.
But, if life is the rule and not the exception, it could lead to some very interesting critters on these planets if in fact they did exist.
... and if there outrunning you, then you're most likely driving a mercury Grand Marquis ... and screaming about "those damned kids."
Funny, seeing that pic was the first time in my life I ever thought of putting the words "radioactive" and "turd" together.
All three years of those years, the Republicans were favored to win many races and/or pick up seats in congress.
Just food for thought.
They really should have left her as a man. Or, if they are going to leave her female, at least they could go all the way and make her a lesbian.
Hey, don't give up all hope, they could make her Bi.
Starbuck and Boomer
Ratings would skyrocket!
From my submitted items list:
2004-01-28 19:23:31 Apple G5 converted into a PC (articles,apple) (rejected)
Oh well, I tried.
... which has an East Pole and a West Pole.
Actually it just has an axial tilt of 97.86 degrees. I dunno if astronomers refer to the poles by North/South or East/West.
The latter would make more sense though.
Yes and it's really @#$%ing cold here right now in the Adirondacks (plural) too.
(The Olympic Winter Games in 1980 were held in Lake Placid in The Adirondacks just up the road from where I'm sitting, if you need a mental image)
"at a lot of posters have found evil political motivations in a seemingly non-political objective less from the evidence being there, but more from a want of finding it..."
;)" remark again, thinking that they're being original; it is getting modded -1, Redundant.
Good Lord, someone making sense on Slashdot. Where are my friggin' Mod Points when I need them?
Seriously, you can't go down two clicks of the scroll wheel in any of these "Space" threads without someone Bush bashing or finding some ulterior political motive. I swear if even some of these folks translated the anger and hatred they have for the current Commander in Chief to actual energy, applied in the right place, they actually might be able to effect real change.
But who am I kidding?
Oh, and if I have Mod Points and I see anyone making another "Why don't we just send Bush to Mars
Karma be damned!
Remember, it was retired so the $$$ could go to fixing all our earthly problems.
I mean we're sooo much better off now, right?
Thanks for the info ... I just unpacked my new G4 iBook last week and been reading this thread in about the same way that one rubbernecks a car wreck.
I use a Logictech Mouseman Duel-Optical (four buttons counting the scroll wheel) on all my Macs. With it you can use Mouseware to map the buttons any way you see fit.
... just for an example.
...puhleeez!
My scroll wheel is mapped to command-q to quickly close a program (no kidding, and I love it too) and the side button is mapped to F9 for Expose bliss
Don't EVER let the one-button mouse scare you out of buying a Mac
Have fun with yer new Mac!