I don't know why the Americans don't use $1 coins, but I suspect it's a combination of two things. Firstly, people in the states don't like the idea.
When the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin was introduced in 1979, the nation was gripped by a pretty nasty recession brought about by Jimmy Carter's failed economic policies. Double-digit inflation eroded the value of people's money. That the new coin was disturbingly similar in size to the quarter didn't go unnoticed...not only did a dollar have the same buying power as the quarter did a few years earlier, but you could now get it in a coin that was about the same size as a quarter. (It's just barely larger than a quarter; you have to hold two of them together to see the difference.)
If by "well" you mean "without regard to the truth" -- for proof please see [Google cache of] www.fair.org/media-outlets/limbaugh.html
"FAIR" is anything but. They're apologists for the left-wing media. You'll find more analysis of media bias at the Media Research Center.
Besides, FAIR's claims against Rush were debunked long ago in one of his books. (I think it was his first one, but I can't check them right now since they're at home.)
California is not the most liberal left-wing state in the nation except perhaps on a few specific issues. California has adopted a regressive sales tax regime
That's the end result of something a left-winger would implement (look at Social Security as an example of regressive taxation).
has outlawed gay marriage
Point taken, though I guess that only means California isn't quite as beyond hope as I thought.
has a smaller tax margin than at least two New England states
That's not saying much, especially if one of those states is Massachusetts.
and was controlled by a Republican governor, Pete Wilson, for most of the 1990s.
Pete Wilson was as much a "Republican" as Kenny Guinn, the current governor next door in Nevada. They're both RINOs--Republicans In Name Only. They call themselves Republicans in order to get votes, but then they drive programs through (such as a proposed $1 billion tax hike) that could only come from the fevered imagination of a closeted left-winger.
(If the state GOP doesn't get its act together in 2006, it'll be time to pay closer attention to third-party candidates. In 2002, the Democrat candidate didn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of getting elected, so it's not like a vote for Guinn was necessary to keep the Democrats out of the governor's mansion...hell, there's not been much difference between them, other than that the casinos like Guinn because he won't raise their taxes.)
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NPR its virtually the only American Media that seems to be capable of balanced/objective international news.
I'm sorry, but something isn't coming through right in your post. Maybe you meant to write "Fox News" when instead you wrote "NPR."
And, about the "piknos mooching off taxpayers" - Are there really clueless rednecks like this still left?
Try asking Bill Moyers sometime where all his money comes from. He might not be getting all of his money from Uncle Sam, but he sure knows how to take what was originally a government-funded production and squeeze millions more out of it that he can hand over to the likes of tompaine.com.
McCarthy is dead
Is he? With groups like International ANSWER (a peacenik front group of the Workers World Party) running around, we could use someone like McCarthy right now.
Not everyone grew up on a diet of Jingoism and 100% Pure American Capitalism(TM).
Those who didn't only wish they did.:-) Since when does any expression that you might think your country's doing the Right Thing qualify as "jingoisn," anyway?
But really, is this the level of discourse of the American Right? Pinko-namecalling and Rush-Fucking-Limbaugh?
Don't even try to pretend, after the protest marches of recent weeks, that your side is above namecalling. "Bush == Hitler"? "Bush is a babykiller"? Pot, meet kettle...kettle, meet pot.
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A few years ago, I was timeshifting Rush Limbaugh...
Damn, dude -- you admit to this in public?!?
Better Rush than National Pinko Radio...at least he has to earn a living instead of mooching off the taxpayers.
Isn't that called a Tape Recorder???? Seriously, a Tape is much better for this, and most radios have tape players builtin ANYWAYS.
Most of them don't have timers, and you can get at most 120 minutes of uninterrupted recording (and that's with one of those ultra-thin C-120 tapes in an auto-reverse deck). There are reduced-speed recorders with timers available, but it's not the kind of thing you'll find on the shelf at the average electronics store.
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does anyone have an idea of how to do this now with a Mac OS X machine?
A few years ago, I was timeshifting Rush Limbaugh with a Linux box running RealEncoder in a cron job. If I were to do something similar today, I'd replace RealEncoder with something that would do live MP3 encoding. Assuming that Mac OS X has cron (a reasonable assumption), you should be able to do the same.
(These days, though, it's simpler to just sign up for Rush 24/7.)
Slashdot is great, but do you actually want to get slashdot comments as search results? As far as I can tell, google doesn't index them at all, anyway.
Guess again. For a while, when you searched Google for TyStudio, you didn't get a link to the project's homepage. You did get a link (I think it was the second or third link) to a/. article that included a reply I had posted that mentioned TyStudio. (I found that when I needed to install TyStudio on a different machine, but couldn't recall the URL. Google has since updated its index so that the TyStudio homepage is the first link returned.)
This is going to be nice...Its quite annyoing to get a bunch of weblogs when your looking for something
What's more annoying is getting a bunch of links back to some lame-ass web interface to a mailing list...mailing lists themselves are useful, but the web interfaces to 99% of them suck. It doesn't help that they're often different web interfaces to the same list. (Blocking http://*/pipermail/* would get rid of most of it...maybe there's at least some way to exclude URLs matching a pattern from Google's results.)
Ctrl-Tab works, too, and it's less awkward [than Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn] (only needs one hand to type).
Err, can't you use the right Ctrl key together with PgUp/PgDn? I.e. just with your right hand?
I learned typing on a keyboard (that of an Apple IIe) with only one Ctrl key, so it only gets hit with my left pinky. (It was enough of a pain switching from Ctrl next to the A to Ctrl in the lower-left corner.) Besides, the right Ctrl key on the IBM Model M I'm using now is remapped to the menu key and the right Alt key is remapped to the Windows key because the keyboard is old enough that it doesn't have those keys.
One warning though, it probably has to be disabled on the window manager since it's often the "change viewports" binding.
With Windows apps, Ctrl-Tab changes between open documents in an (instance of an) app. Switching tabs in Mozilla is analogous to switching documents in an MDI app.
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Er, you can already switch tabs using only the keyboard in the standard Mozilla client, with Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn.
Ctrl-Tab works, too, and it's less awkward (only needs one hand to type).
I think I will spend the next few years of my life learning how to speak fluent Modem.
Hayes-compatible, I hope?
That was only the command set by which the modem was controlled. Show me someone who speaks Bell 103 (let alone anything faster) and I'll be impressed.:-)
2500 Watts would only be around 34 amps using the standard %65 V*A to Watt conveersion, That is a special circuit, but nothing that special. Probably lying like the 2500 Watt microwaves you can buy.
There are 2.5-kW microwaves out there...they're just not the ones you're likely to find in your kitchen. Back when McDonald's was nuking everything (early-to-mid-'90s or so), the Amana microwaves (or "Q-ing ovens," as McD's labeled them) used were rated for 2.4 kW each and were driven by single-phase 240V service. You'll find similar microwaves in other foodservice environments.
(FWIW, the most power I've seen specified for a household microwave is closer to 1.3 or 1.4 kW. One of these days, the 11-year-old 800W microwave with the mechanical timer I'm currently using will croak and I can go buy something newer.:-) )
I knew about that and have had it unchecked for the longest time.
The other options don't have a UI for them. You can turn them off manually by going to the "about:config" page and toggling the various "dom.disable_window_open_feature" options.
I think I heard something about this URL when Mozilla 1.3 was introduced, but I had forgotten it and hadn't heard that you could change settings through it. I tried it on a page that I knew threw some popups with the menubar, etc. disabled and it worked the way I wanted it to work...cool!
Allowing remote pages to remove them is a bug IMO. Mozilla, yum.
Mozilla exhibits the same behavior as IE...but if you know of a way to shut it off, I'm all ears. Webpages that kill browser features (menu/navigation bars, right-clicking, etc.) suck.
The military gets such a large chunk of the federal budget (49% IIRC, but don't quote me on it)
It's nowhere near 49%. In 2003, the DoD accounted for 16.9% of federal outlays, 10.6% of net public spending, and just 3.5% of gross domestic product. In 2001, the government spent 3x more on welfare, Social Security, etc. than it did on defense (54% vs. 18%).
PRINTLN isn't a valid command, but it'll get interpreted as PRINT LN, which will display as 0.
What are you talking about? println is a valid BASIC command.
Not in any BASIC I've ever used (Applesoft, Integer BASIC, TI BASIC, Color & Extended Color BASIC, Atari BASIC (& Microsoft BASIC for 8-bit Ataris), etc.). You use PRINT to generate text output. Maybe it's valid syntax for Visual BASIC or something like that...if it is, that would explain why VB bears as much resemblance to BASIC as INTERCAL bears to BASIC.
GSOS sucks because it only supports 40MB partitions (2 40MB and 1 5MB on that drive).
The limit for ProDOS filesystems is 32MB, but HFS filesystems can be larger. I my GS's hard drive from a 340MB IBM that was thinking of getting flaky to a 4.3GB Seagate Barracuda (hey, they're dirt cheap nowadays:-) ). It has a couple of 32MB ProDOS partitions (one to boot, one for 8-bit apps) and the remainder as one big HFS partition. The only downsides to HFS are (1) 8-bit apps can't access it and (2) if the filesystem gets hosed, you'll need a Mac to fix it because no HFS repair utilities were ever written for the IIGS.
(The new drive can probably hold the contents of every Apple II floppy I've picked up in the past 18 years, and it'd still have space left over.:-) )
BTW,/. really needs the old-school six-color Apple logo for articles like this. All of my IIs and Macs are of the six-color variety...none of this trendy single-color stuff.
I would use the term "satisfaction"; I remember being very pleased with myself for coming up with a sixteen bit by sixteen bit shifting multiplication algorithm in just 24 instructions or realizing that self-modifying code is needed to perform an indirect jump or data access anywhere in the 16 bit address space.
The 65C02 added indirect and indexed indirect addressing to JMP (previously, only absolute addressing was available).
What I think was my most clever hack was a routine to play WAVs (11.025 kHz 8-bit mono) on an Apple II with no additional hardware. 73 bytes on page 3 was all it took to play sounds through the speaker with a resolution of 4 bits per sample. Source code is here.
More recently (just a few months ago), I wrote some code to communicate with Dallas Semiconductor's 1-Wire devices through the joystick port. I used a temperature sensor and a clock chip to turn a II into a programmable temperature controller for my beer fridge. In addition to maintaining a set temperature anywhere from the 70s down to the 30s, it also manages gradual temperature changes (1/hr) for different stages of brewing--primary fermentation, diacetyl rest, lagering, etc. The code to do all this is GPL'd; I just haven't gotten around to putting up a page on my website for all of it yet (though the 1-Wire primitives are available through this page).
Although, how come I don't see it in the preferences anymore? I know you can still edit prefs.js though.
In 1.3, popups got their own entry under Privacy & Security, instead of just a checkbox in Scripts & Plugins in Advanced. (While Mozilla kills most popups, I found today that it doesn't kill all of them.)
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You see, I am the guy who actually clicks through the ads to go to the advertised sites. If it weren't for me, then no traffic would be generated by the ads and hense no advertising revenue.
I also like to drive 45 MPH on the highway during rush hour while I yammer away on my cell phone.
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I got the first unrequested popup I've ever run across in Mozilla when I was reading a NYTimes article linked in this article. The ad-filtering proxy I use at least made it a blank popup, but a change to the config file fixed it so that it closes as soon as it opens. We could only be so lucky that the Times would be targeted by Shuster.
(The popups appear when you click a "next page" or "previous page" link in the article, so Mozilla must be treating it as a requested popup. In addition to a whitelist of sites that are allowed to throw popups, Mozilla needs a blacklist of sites that are never allowed to throw popups.)
Nope. Sorry. There are 2 reasons why 14.4K will never be fast again:
1. Graphics. There are plenty of web pages that are not optimizing for graphics, and plenty of web pages that are using more complicated technologies (such as flash) where simple technologies (such as gif) will work.
That sounds more like a problem of webpages that suck than a bandwidth problem. A webmaster who pays for hosting sees a higher bill at the end of the month if (for instance) he's sending out 3MP images straight from a digital camera instead of cutting them down to a more reasonable resolution and applying a reasonable level of compression (something like cjpeg -Q 40 -opt foo.bmp >foo.jpg at a minimum).
2. HTML Mail. Isn't it wonderful how a simple "Meet you at 5" can end up being bloated to half a meg with a "pretty" html background?
Bouncing HTML mail back to the lusers who send it takes care of that problem 95% of the time. HTML mail is nearly as annoying as top-posting to Usenet.
(All that said, you can have my cable modem after you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.:-) )
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When the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin was introduced in 1979, the nation was gripped by a pretty nasty recession brought about by Jimmy Carter's failed economic policies. Double-digit inflation eroded the value of people's money. That the new coin was disturbingly similar in size to the quarter didn't go unnoticed...not only did a dollar have the same buying power as the quarter did a few years earlier, but you could now get it in a coin that was about the same size as a quarter. (It's just barely larger than a quarter; you have to hold two of them together to see the difference.)
That would explain why I've run across so many of them in the time I've lived in Las Vegas...before coming here, I'd never seen one.
"FAIR" is anything but. They're apologists for the left-wing media. You'll find more analysis of media bias at the Media Research Center.
Besides, FAIR's claims against Rush were debunked long ago in one of his books. (I think it was his first one, but I can't check them right now since they're at home.)
That's the end result of something a left-winger would implement (look at Social Security as an example of regressive taxation).
Point taken, though I guess that only means California isn't quite as beyond hope as I thought.
That's not saying much, especially if one of those states is Massachusetts.
Pete Wilson was as much a "Republican" as Kenny Guinn, the current governor next door in Nevada. They're both RINOs--Republicans In Name Only. They call themselves Republicans in order to get votes, but then they drive programs through (such as a proposed $1 billion tax hike) that could only come from the fevered imagination of a closeted left-winger.
(If the state GOP doesn't get its act together in 2006, it'll be time to pay closer attention to third-party candidates. In 2002, the Democrat candidate didn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of getting elected, so it's not like a vote for Guinn was necessary to keep the Democrats out of the governor's mansion...hell, there's not been much difference between them, other than that the casinos like Guinn because he won't raise their taxes.)
I'm sorry, but something isn't coming through right in your post. Maybe you meant to write "Fox News" when instead you wrote "NPR."
Try asking Bill Moyers sometime where all his money comes from. He might not be getting all of his money from Uncle Sam, but he sure knows how to take what was originally a government-funded production and squeeze millions more out of it that he can hand over to the likes of tompaine.com.
Is he? With groups like International ANSWER (a peacenik front group of the Workers World Party) running around, we could use someone like McCarthy right now.
Those who didn't only wish they did. :-) Since when does any expression that you might think your country's doing the Right Thing qualify as "jingoisn," anyway?
Don't even try to pretend, after the protest marches of recent weeks, that your side is above namecalling. "Bush == Hitler"? "Bush is a babykiller"? Pot, meet kettle...kettle, meet pot.
Better Rush than National Pinko Radio...at least he has to earn a living instead of mooching off the taxpayers.
Most of them don't have timers, and you can get at most 120 minutes of uninterrupted recording (and that's with one of those ultra-thin C-120 tapes in an auto-reverse deck). There are reduced-speed recorders with timers available, but it's not the kind of thing you'll find on the shelf at the average electronics store.
A few years ago, I was timeshifting Rush Limbaugh with a Linux box running RealEncoder in a cron job. If I were to do something similar today, I'd replace RealEncoder with something that would do live MP3 encoding. Assuming that Mac OS X has cron (a reasonable assumption), you should be able to do the same.
(These days, though, it's simpler to just sign up for Rush 24/7.)
Guess again. For a while, when you searched Google for TyStudio, you didn't get a link to the project's homepage. You did get a link (I think it was the second or third link) to a /. article that included a reply I had posted that mentioned TyStudio. (I found that when I needed to install TyStudio on a different machine, but couldn't recall the URL. Google has since updated its index so that the TyStudio homepage is the first link returned.)
What's more annoying is getting a bunch of links back to some lame-ass web interface to a mailing list...mailing lists themselves are useful, but the web interfaces to 99% of them suck. It doesn't help that they're often different web interfaces to the same list. (Blocking http://*/pipermail/* would get rid of most of it...maybe there's at least some way to exclude URLs matching a pattern from Google's results.)
I learned typing on a keyboard (that of an Apple IIe) with only one Ctrl key, so it only gets hit with my left pinky. (It was enough of a pain switching from Ctrl next to the A to Ctrl in the lower-left corner.) Besides, the right Ctrl key on the IBM Model M I'm using now is remapped to the menu key and the right Alt key is remapped to the Windows key because the keyboard is old enough that it doesn't have those keys.
With Windows apps, Ctrl-Tab changes between open documents in an (instance of an) app. Switching tabs in Mozilla is analogous to switching documents in an MDI app.
Ctrl-Tab works, too, and it's less awkward (only needs one hand to type).
That was only the command set by which the modem was controlled. Show me someone who speaks Bell 103 (let alone anything faster) and I'll be impressed. :-)
There are 2.5-kW microwaves out there...they're just not the ones you're likely to find in your kitchen. Back when McDonald's was nuking everything (early-to-mid-'90s or so), the Amana microwaves (or "Q-ing ovens," as McD's labeled them) used were rated for 2.4 kW each and were driven by single-phase 240V service. You'll find similar microwaves in other foodservice environments.
(FWIW, the most power I've seen specified for a household microwave is closer to 1.3 or 1.4 kW. One of these days, the 11-year-old 800W microwave with the mechanical timer I'm currently using will croak and I can go buy something newer. :-) )
I knew about that and have had it unchecked for the longest time.
I think I heard something about this URL when Mozilla 1.3 was introduced, but I had forgotten it and hadn't heard that you could change settings through it. I tried it on a page that I knew threw some popups with the menubar, etc. disabled and it worked the way I wanted it to work...cool!
Mozilla exhibits the same behavior as IE...but if you know of a way to shut it off, I'm all ears. Webpages that kill browser features (menu/navigation bars, right-clicking, etc.) suck.
It's nowhere near 49%. In 2003, the DoD accounted for 16.9% of federal outlays, 10.6% of net public spending, and just 3.5% of gross domestic product. In 2001, the government spent 3x more on welfare, Social Security, etc. than it did on defense (54% vs. 18%).
Not in any BASIC I've ever used (Applesoft, Integer BASIC, TI BASIC, Color & Extended Color BASIC, Atari BASIC (& Microsoft BASIC for 8-bit Ataris), etc.). You use PRINT to generate text output. Maybe it's valid syntax for Visual BASIC or something like that...if it is, that would explain why VB bears as much resemblance to BASIC as INTERCAL bears to BASIC.
The limit for ProDOS filesystems is 32MB, but HFS filesystems can be larger. I my GS's hard drive from a 340MB IBM that was thinking of getting flaky to a 4.3GB Seagate Barracuda (hey, they're dirt cheap nowadays :-) ). It has a couple of 32MB ProDOS partitions (one to boot, one for 8-bit apps) and the remainder as one big HFS partition. The only downsides to HFS are (1) 8-bit apps can't access it and (2) if the filesystem gets hosed, you'll need a Mac to fix it because no HFS repair utilities were ever written for the IIGS.
(The new drive can probably hold the contents of every Apple II floppy I've picked up in the past 18 years, and it'd still have space left over. :-) )
BTW, /. really needs the old-school six-color Apple logo for articles like this. All of my IIs and Macs are of the six-color variety...none of this trendy single-color stuff.
The 65C02 added indirect and indexed indirect addressing to JMP (previously, only absolute addressing was available).
What I think was my most clever hack was a routine to play WAVs (11.025 kHz 8-bit mono) on an Apple II with no additional hardware. 73 bytes on page 3 was all it took to play sounds through the speaker with a resolution of 4 bits per sample. Source code is here.
More recently (just a few months ago), I wrote some code to communicate with Dallas Semiconductor's 1-Wire devices through the joystick port. I used a temperature sensor and a clock chip to turn a II into a programmable temperature controller for my beer fridge. In addition to maintaining a set temperature anywhere from the 70s down to the 30s, it also manages gradual temperature changes (1/hr) for different stages of brewing--primary fermentation, diacetyl rest, lagering, etc. The code to do all this is GPL'd; I just haven't gotten around to putting up a page on my website for all of it yet (though the 1-Wire primitives are available through this page).
In 1.3, popups got their own entry under Privacy & Security, instead of just a checkbox in Scripts & Plugins in Advanced. (While Mozilla kills most popups, I found today that it doesn't kill all of them.)
I use public toilets and piss on the seat
I walk around in the summertime saying "how about this heat?"
(The popups appear when you click a "next page" or "previous page" link in the article, so Mozilla must be treating it as a requested popup. In addition to a whitelist of sites that are allowed to throw popups, Mozilla needs a blacklist of sites that are never allowed to throw popups.)
That sounds more like a problem of webpages that suck than a bandwidth problem. A webmaster who pays for hosting sees a higher bill at the end of the month if (for instance) he's sending out 3MP images straight from a digital camera instead of cutting them down to a more reasonable resolution and applying a reasonable level of compression (something like cjpeg -Q 40 -opt foo.bmp >foo.jpg at a minimum).
Bouncing HTML mail back to the lusers who send it takes care of that problem 95% of the time. HTML mail is nearly as annoying as top-posting to Usenet.
(All that said, you can have my cable modem after you pry it from my cold, dead fingers. :-) )