It's really surprising that gas stations don't market themselves like other products do, where the price tag contains the true price and the taxes are added when you pay. Gas would look something like "70 cents/gal + Taxes".
Don't they do that in Indiana? You pump your gas, then find at the end that the price that the pump says is less than the total amount you'll be paying because not all of the taxes are included in the price that's set at the pump.
While I think it would be useful if people knew how large a percentage of the price of gasoline is tax of one sort or another, most people would rather see the full price at the pump...they'd rather see $20.00 at the pump and pay that than see $15.00 and end up paying some oddball amount (like $21.34) because the tax wasn't added in. I know some people who make a point on long trips of topping off the tank in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, or Kentucky so that they won't have to stop for gas in Indiana and deal with pumps that don't ring up the full price.
It's also pointless. I could buy a case of beer to drink over the next three months, and only when I'm done will I throw the case out. I could claim that I drink only one beer a week, but if you happen to search my garbage the week I throw out my case, you'd think I was an alcoholic.
Most people don't hang onto their empties...they go in the trash as they're emptied.
(Then again, I'm a homebrewer, so if it's brown and not a twist-off, I rinse it out and save it for my own beer.)
Clit source - The source code for clit and associated library. This should compile cleanly on linux and BSD, and should be easily portable. The source code is released under the GPL.
OTOH, both links (source and binary) are currently 404...
As far as I know, you cannot use Firewire hard drives or practically any other devices in Linux.
Hmm...I'd swear I had SuSE running off a FireWire hard drive before. I needed a boot floppy since FireWire drives aren't bootable (no firmware on the controller to enable booting), but once the kernel was loaded from the floppy, everything else ran off of the hard drive.
I think the problem with the article is that it starts on the assumption that liberals are fair and true, and conservatives twist the truth to their own ends. But it's the New York Times. Of course they would think that. Keep that in mind.
The above, my friends, is a troll from Hell.
Being fair is what liberalism is all about.
Pot. Kettle. Black. Slander and Bias have more examples to disprove your assertion than you can shake a stick at.
In issue 10.12 of Wired Magazine there was a NASA Timeline sort of article -- it had a timeline of NASA's projected accomplishments and also what it had successfully achieved. Sending humans to Mars was on the agenda -- in fact, according to the projected timeline, we should have been ready to set up a base on Mars already!
I suspect that a manned Mars mission has always been 10-30 years out on every NASA timeline (or other space-exploration timeline) you could dig up. I have a little paperback from 1961 called First American Into Space that makes these predictions for what would happen:
1961-1962: first orbital manned flights around the Earth. Unmanned probes to the Moon.
1963-1964: unmanned probes to Mars and Venus. "Soft" instrument landings on the Moon. Continued unmanned satellite research.
1965-1966: orbital flights around the Earth by multi-manned capsule laboratories. Unmanned orbiting of the Moon.
1968: manned orbital flights around the Moon.
1970: manned landing on the Moon. Construction of permanent space stations in orbit around Earth.
Mid-1970s: manned landings on Mars, Venus. Establishment of pioneer settlements on the Moon. Unmanned orbiting probes to the outer planets.
1980: first large-scale exploration and settlement of Mars and Venus by scientific research teams.
Mid-1980s: first manned flights to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Beginning of the exploration of the outer planets.
1990: commercial development of space by private enterprise. Health centers on the Moon, resorts on space stations. Interplanetary tourism.
Up to 1970, their timeline wasn't too far off the mark. Friendship 7 (the third Mercury flight) orbited the earth in 1962. The Ranger missions sent cameras to the moon's surface beginning in 1964. Gemini III put two astronauts in orbit in 1965. Apollo 8 orbited the moon in 1968. Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969.
After that, things started slipping. Skylab was launched into orbit in 1973, but it was used for less than a year before it was mothballed (and eventually allowed to burn up in 1979). They predicted manned missions to Mars (and Venus!) in ~15 years. It's been more than 40 years since that book was published, and the closest we've gotten to Mars is a handful of movies that try to guess at what it would be like.
Don't you think that's REALLY crappy design? On a laptop without a separate numpad, you have to look up the number for the character you want, press Fn+Num Lock, hold Alt and type 165, release Alt, and then press Fn+Num Lock again to return to typing mode.
It's easier, in that instance, to use Character Map...double-click the character, copy it from the edit window to the control, and paste it wherever. You probably had to start Character Map anyway to get the character code to type in, unless you memorized it (which you might do if you use certain foreign languages frequently).
And what about those characters that don't exist in ISO-8859-1, such as a Euro sign?
Alt-0128 yields (euro). Using a leading zero gets you a different set of characters than if you leave it out...Alt-128 produces Ç (C-cedilla). While Alt-165 produces Ñ (N-tilde), Alt-0165 produces ¥ (yen). Alt-0209 produces Ñ (N-tilde).
(IIRC, no leading zero gets you characters from the IBM-graphics set, while the leading zero uses ISO-8859-1. Also, I think the distinction between Alt-0xxx and Alt-xxx might be Win32-only, as punching Alt-0165 and Alt-165 into joe on a Linux box both produced ¥ (yen). I've put character names in parentheses in case the characters somehow get mangled. I think that the edit box in Mozilla translates IBM graphics to ISO-8859-1 as you enter them, as the box-drawing characters are all translated to their nearest ASCII equivalents. Alt-206 should produce a double-line intersection, but it shows up as + (plus) instead.)
Going to this review hung Mozilla on my TiBook three times before I switched to IE. Worked fine on IE. I hate web sites that do crap that crashes browsers.
Mozilla 1.2.1 on my dual-Athlon Win2K box handled it just fine. Are you sure you're not still running an older version?
What surprises me is that in this day and age we still have battery powered calculators at all. Wouldn't a decently sized solar panel [e.g. make it 2cm x 1cm and that should be enough].
That'd work fine for a 4-function calculator (or an entry-level scientific calculator), but I'd think the solar panel you would need to power (for instance) a TI-92+ or an HP 48GX would be a bit on the bulky side.
I have seen temperture winding clocks from back in the 1960 - 1970 time frame. This has prior art.
Clocks, perhaps...but watches? Given the difficulties often encountered when trying to scale mechanical systems down to smaller sizes, I doubt that claiming a thermally-powered clock as prior art WRT a patent on a thermally-powered watch would fly.
"Really? Care to point out a single constructive use of popups?"
I find that pop-ups are used quite constructively on many e-commerce sites. For example, if you are on the page where you type in your credit card information and you don't know what the "Card verification number" is, you can click 'help' and a little window pops up showing you how to find it.
You could also use the <abbr> tag, which will associate a tooltip with a chunk of text. HP is one site that uses this tag frequently...as an example, hover over the underlined "PCs" in the "PCs & workstations" link on their homepage. A tooltip that says "Personal computers" will pop up.
It's interesting to note that the spyware-free Kaaza Lite's webpage slams you with four popups and at least one window that dances across your screen...
No popups get past the lizard, if he's set up properly.
Would lead fuel actually damage your engine these days, or is the sticker just a propaganda device against the evil harmful lead?
Leaded gasoline never harmed an engine...in fact, it's unleaded gasoline that can damage valve seats in older vehicles (built before 1970 or '71, usually). Lead isn't so good for catalytic converters (introduced in 1975) or oxygen sensors (introduced sometime in the early '80s), though, which is why "Unleaded Fuel Only" labels started popping up on vehicles. (My '02 S10 doesn't have any such labels on it...but I'm guessing that someone decided they were no longer necessary since you haven't been able to get leaded fuel here for several years now.)
In 1984, my father took the catalytic converter out of an '80 Chevette...it was replaced with a pipe of the appropriate length. The car was shipped overseas, where it spent four years in England and Germany before it was shipped back here. It ran just fine on leaded fuel...the only difference we ever noticed was a slight tendency for it to backfire on deceleration without the catalytic converter, and it usually did that only after hard acceleration (like going uphill, and then stopping for a light). It kept going until 1996, when an old fart in a Town Car cut me off. The engine still ran like new and had never been cracked open.
Crossover cables are obsolete. At least, they should be. Doesn't everybody do autosense MDI-X by now?
NICs don't (whether you're dealing with cheapie Realteks or something a little more expensive, like 3Com or Intel). I have a bunch of Fast Ethernet switches that do...but while my 5-port switches cost me only $25 each, you'd be hard-pressed to find a Gigabit Ethernet switch of any kind for less than $300 (except for the $100 units that have a bunch of Fast Ethernet ports and one Gigabit Ethernet uplink port).
Huh? Say that next time we use a $12 cable to copy gigs of stuff from my Power Mac to my friend's PowerBook G4 at over 30 MB/s.
A crossover cable works fine if you have only two machines. The second you add a third machine to the mix, Gigabit Ethernet gets much more expensive. (BTW, $12 for a crossover cable? You could've made one for much less.)
Never used those...then again, I used Apple IIs almost exclusively up to '91 or '92. Copy II Plus (same company, but for a different computer) was useful for more than just making backups...it also had lots of file-management tools bundled in. (I just put it back on my IIGS not long ago...some software I scanned in from a magazine only works under DOS 3.3, and Copy II Plus makes copying files between ProDOS and DOS 3.3 disks fairly easy.)
Now if only the RIAA and the rest of the music industry would just learn from the mistakes of the past, they would realize that all their stupid protection mechanisms are just a complete waste of time.
Score: 5, Insightful. Of course, it's worth mentioning that they more than likely don't know about this bit of history. Hillary Rosen, Fritz Hollings, and the rest of them probably barely know how to switch their machines on and use that "Intarweb thingy." What are the odds that they've ever tried copying Lode Runner?
I have NEVER seen a stable installation of quicktime and I'll be damned if I install it on my new machine.
Knowing how to install an OS and apps would go a long way toward solving your QuickTime problems. Of all of the media players on the market, QuickTime is the one that's caused me the least grief. I currently run it on Win2K, and I've used it under different flavors of Win9x. (I also have a Quadra 610 with MacOS 7.5.3, but I've never tried to track down an older version of QuickTime to install on it. I'm not sure how useful it'd be on such a slow machine.)
Fox News is right wing propaganda brought to you by facist and sleazemonger, Rupert Murdoch.
The same Rupert Murdoch who donated $50k to the Gore campaign? What're the odds a real conservative would ever have done that? It's more likely that you're off your meds again. From the article:
After years of hard-hitting reporting on the Fox News Network savaging the Clinton-Gore administration in the United States, Murdoch has recently been termed an "über-Republican" and "legendarily conservative" by American media outlets. Yet Murdoch's personal money funded the presidential campaign of Al Gore. Murdoch served as "Vice Chair" of Gore's September 14th fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall, meaning that he personally contributed $50,000 to Gore's campaign. But that's not all. The on-line edition of Newsweek reported in September 2000 that "last spring, Murdoch's News Corp. contributed $50,000 at a Democratic National Committee fundraising event. But the mother lode of Murdoch's financial help to Gore came during the Democratic National Convention. As an in-kind contribution, the Staples Center didn't charge the Democrats for their use of the site -- a $3.5 million savings. News Corp. owns a 40 percent share of the facility. In addition, the Staples Center organization raised another $4.5 million to help fund the Los Angeles host committee, which organized the convention. Separately, News Corp. donated an additional $100,000 to the committee." On Murdoch's support of Al Gore for the Presidency, a Murdoch spokesman noted that Murdoch "knows the vice president and has a lot of respect for him as a public servant." In the same story mentioned above, Newsweek noted that Peter Chernin, News Corp.'s second-in-command, and News Corp. Director Stanley Shuman are also prominent Democratic Party activists.
I'd consider suing the kid just to get her convicted of a felony, which gets to go on her permanent record and fucks her life about as squarely as she just fucked his.
IANAL (and most of what I know about the law comes from "Law & Order" and similar shows:-) ), but AFAIK you can't sue someone (which happens in civil court) to get someone convicted of a crime of any sort (which happens in criminal court). If someone presents false testimony against you in court, though, and if you can prove that it's false, you could speak with the district attorney's office about having perjury charges filed.
In stop-and-go traffic, a fit cyclist can generally keep up with the traffic flow, so it's acceptable to maintain your place in the roadway. Hugging the curb invites danger as cars try to squeeze past you.
Very true.
I'm not so sure that it is. When's the last time you managed to get 45-55 mph out of your bike? It's easy for cars to get up to that speed between lights. Meanwhile, I'm lucky if I can get 30 mph out of my bikeand that usually happens only when going down a fairly steep hill.
A bicycle is a vehicle. As such, it is entitled and subject to the same rules of the road as any other vehicle. Specifically, you are entitled to an entire lane of traffic. Don't let a car try and convince you otherwise.
You are correct about that...but would you bet your life on getting some random asshole to believe you? I wouldn't. I usually keep within 3 feet of the edge of the road, and I've still been beeped at and, in some cases, almost run off the road. (Then again, we probably have more ex-Californians here than you do. Dealing with them on the road is bad enough when you're in your car...they must be the worst drivers in America.)
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Don't they do that in Indiana? You pump your gas, then find at the end that the price that the pump says is less than the total amount you'll be paying because not all of the taxes are included in the price that's set at the pump.
While I think it would be useful if people knew how large a percentage of the price of gasoline is tax of one sort or another, most people would rather see the full price at the pump...they'd rather see $20.00 at the pump and pay that than see $15.00 and end up paying some oddball amount (like $21.34) because the tax wasn't added in. I know some people who make a point on long trips of topping off the tank in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, or Kentucky so that they won't have to stop for gas in Indiana and deal with pumps that don't ring up the full price.
Most people don't hang onto their empties...they go in the trash as they're emptied.
(Then again, I'm a homebrewer, so if it's brown and not a twist-off, I rinse it out and save it for my own beer.)
Unless the condom doesn't do its job...
Hmm...what, then, is this?
OTOH, both links (source and binary) are currently 404...
You say that as if The Nation is a credible source WRT anything. You might as well quote Pravda.
Hmm...I'd swear I had SuSE running off a FireWire hard drive before. I needed a boot floppy since FireWire drives aren't bootable (no firmware on the controller to enable booting), but once the kernel was loaded from the floppy, everything else ran off of the hard drive.
Pot. Kettle. Black. Slander and Bias have more examples to disprove your assertion than you can shake a stick at.
I suspect that a manned Mars mission has always been 10-30 years out on every NASA timeline (or other space-exploration timeline) you could dig up. I have a little paperback from 1961 called First American Into Space that makes these predictions for what would happen:
Up to 1970, their timeline wasn't too far off the mark. Friendship 7 (the third Mercury flight) orbited the earth in 1962. The Ranger missions sent cameras to the moon's surface beginning in 1964. Gemini III put two astronauts in orbit in 1965. Apollo 8 orbited the moon in 1968. Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969.
After that, things started slipping. Skylab was launched into orbit in 1973, but it was used for less than a year before it was mothballed (and eventually allowed to burn up in 1979). They predicted manned missions to Mars (and Venus!) in ~15 years. It's been more than 40 years since that book was published, and the closest we've gotten to Mars is a handful of movies that try to guess at what it would be like.
It's easier, in that instance, to use Character Map...double-click the character, copy it from the edit window to the control, and paste it wherever. You probably had to start Character Map anyway to get the character code to type in, unless you memorized it (which you might do if you use certain foreign languages frequently).
Alt-0128 yields (euro). Using a leading zero gets you a different set of characters than if you leave it out...Alt-128 produces Ç (C-cedilla). While Alt-165 produces Ñ (N-tilde), Alt-0165 produces ¥ (yen). Alt-0209 produces Ñ (N-tilde).
(IIRC, no leading zero gets you characters from the IBM-graphics set, while the leading zero uses ISO-8859-1. Also, I think the distinction between Alt-0xxx and Alt-xxx might be Win32-only, as punching Alt-0165 and Alt-165 into joe on a Linux box both produced ¥ (yen). I've put character names in parentheses in case the characters somehow get mangled. I think that the edit box in Mozilla translates IBM graphics to ISO-8859-1 as you enter them, as the box-drawing characters are all translated to their nearest ASCII equivalents. Alt-206 should produce a double-line intersection, but it shows up as + (plus) instead.)
Mozilla 1.2.1 on my dual-Athlon Win2K box handled it just fine. Are you sure you're not still running an older version?
That'd work fine for a 4-function calculator (or an entry-level scientific calculator), but I'd think the solar panel you would need to power (for instance) a TI-92+ or an HP 48GX would be a bit on the bulky side.
Clocks, perhaps...but watches? Given the difficulties often encountered when trying to scale mechanical systems down to smaller sizes, I doubt that claiming a thermally-powered clock as prior art WRT a patent on a thermally-powered watch would fly.
Avisynth is pretty nice...
You could also use the <abbr> tag, which will associate a tooltip with a chunk of text. HP is one site that uses this tag frequently...as an example, hover over the underlined "PCs" in the "PCs & workstations" link on their homepage. A tooltip that says "Personal computers" will pop up.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
No popups get past the lizard, if he's set up properly.
Leaded gasoline never harmed an engine...in fact, it's unleaded gasoline that can damage valve seats in older vehicles (built before 1970 or '71, usually). Lead isn't so good for catalytic converters (introduced in 1975) or oxygen sensors (introduced sometime in the early '80s), though, which is why "Unleaded Fuel Only" labels started popping up on vehicles. (My '02 S10 doesn't have any such labels on it...but I'm guessing that someone decided they were no longer necessary since you haven't been able to get leaded fuel here for several years now.)
In 1984, my father took the catalytic converter out of an '80 Chevette...it was replaced with a pipe of the appropriate length. The car was shipped overseas, where it spent four years in England and Germany before it was shipped back here. It ran just fine on leaded fuel...the only difference we ever noticed was a slight tendency for it to backfire on deceleration without the catalytic converter, and it usually did that only after hard acceleration (like going uphill, and then stopping for a light). It kept going until 1996, when an old fart in a Town Car cut me off. The engine still ran like new and had never been cracked open.
Their supersonic airliner project (the 2707) was canceled more than 30 years ago. I don't think that has any bearing on how Boeing is doing today.
(Read more about the Boeing 2707 here.)
NICs don't (whether you're dealing with cheapie Realteks or something a little more expensive, like 3Com or Intel). I have a bunch of Fast Ethernet switches that do...but while my 5-port switches cost me only $25 each, you'd be hard-pressed to find a Gigabit Ethernet switch of any kind for less than $300 (except for the $100 units that have a bunch of Fast Ethernet ports and one Gigabit Ethernet uplink port).
A crossover cable works fine if you have only two machines. The second you add a third machine to the mix, Gigabit Ethernet gets much more expensive. (BTW, $12 for a crossover cable? You could've made one for much less.)
Never used those...then again, I used Apple IIs almost exclusively up to '91 or '92. Copy II Plus (same company, but for a different computer) was useful for more than just making backups...it also had lots of file-management tools bundled in. (I just put it back on my IIGS not long ago...some software I scanned in from a magazine only works under DOS 3.3, and Copy II Plus makes copying files between ProDOS and DOS 3.3 disks fairly easy.)
Score: 5, Insightful. Of course, it's worth mentioning that they more than likely don't know about this bit of history. Hillary Rosen, Fritz Hollings, and the rest of them probably barely know how to switch their machines on and use that "Intarweb thingy." What are the odds that they've ever tried copying Lode Runner?
Knowing how to install an OS and apps would go a long way toward solving your QuickTime problems. Of all of the media players on the market, QuickTime is the one that's caused me the least grief. I currently run it on Win2K, and I've used it under different flavors of Win9x. (I also have a Quadra 610 with MacOS 7.5.3, but I've never tried to track down an older version of QuickTime to install on it. I'm not sure how useful it'd be on such a slow machine.)
The same Rupert Murdoch who donated $50k to the Gore campaign? What're the odds a real conservative would ever have done that? It's more likely that you're off your meds again. From the article:
IANAL (and most of what I know about the law comes from "Law & Order" and similar shows :-) ), but AFAIK you can't sue someone (which happens in civil court) to get someone convicted of a crime of any sort (which happens in criminal court). If someone presents false testimony against you in court, though, and if you can prove that it's false, you could speak with the district attorney's office about having perjury charges filed.
I'm not so sure that it is. When's the last time you managed to get 45-55 mph out of your bike? It's easy for cars to get up to that speed between lights. Meanwhile, I'm lucky if I can get 30 mph out of my bikeand that usually happens only when going down a fairly steep hill.
You are correct about that...but would you bet your life on getting some random asshole to believe you? I wouldn't. I usually keep within 3 feet of the edge of the road, and I've still been beeped at and, in some cases, almost run off the road. (Then again, we probably have more ex-Californians here than you do. Dealing with them on the road is bad enough when you're in your car...they must be the worst drivers in America.)