As a mac owner, my only characterizations of typical Mac owners would be that they are more likely to drive Volvos and more likely to think that their presidential candidate was robbed in the last election.
I have a Quadra 610 that gets fired up occasionally (currently loaded with MacOS 7.5.3 and NetBSD), as well as a bunch of Apple IIs...that makes me more of an old-school Apple user than most Mac-heads. My automotive preferences lean more toward GM than Volvo (have an '02 S10 and a '77 Cutlass Supreme), and Satan will be engaged in snowball fights before I'd even consider voting for a Democrat. (I usually vote Republican, but I've occasionally thrown my vote to a third-party candidate if the putative GOP candidate was really just a RINO—a Republican In Name Only.)
You just pinpointed THE problem with the second amendment of the US constitution. Any fucking clueless moron can have a gun.
Actually, the mentally incompetent are prohibited from possessing firearms. I'm fairly sure that morons would fall into that group. Convicted felons and those who are dishonorably discharged from military service (the two are roughly equivalent) are also excluded. Outside of those groups, there is no moral or legal basis to prohibit possession or use of a gun.
This isn't to say that Linux is bad - but its design is a copy of a design that's well over 30 years old now.
The Chevy small block is almost 50 years old, but you still find variations of it going into new products. (The 4.3L V6 in the S10 I bought earlier this year is basically three-fourths of a 350.)
If it's been around a while, odds are it's better understood and more thoroughly debugged than the newer stuff.
Internet TLDs mean nothing, they contribute no extra information. Slashdot.org is the same as Slashdot.com.
Not always...one example that comes to mind is that mbusa.net is the website of a filtered ISP while mbusa.com is the American website of a certain German automaker. I doubt that's the only example where the TLD disambiguates.
One of my coworkers was a crew chief in the early 90's for a B-52 that was built in 1962. He said, even though the plane may be fourty years old, so many parts (nose, wings, tail, fuselage sections, navcomp, weapons, et cetera) have been replaced over time that the build date of the plane is more like 1980-something.
Every few years, they basically take the plane apart and put it together. Since many of the parts are no longer available from the original manufacturers, the facility that does this work has the ability to build pretty much any needed replacement part from scratch by measuring/analyzing/reverse-engineering the originals. (There was a story linked by/. a few months ago about the Air Force sending a B-52H to OCALC to be refitted and turned over to NASA to replace its B-52B launch aircraft, but I can't seem to locate it.)
That stuff's bilgewater, not beer. I can make better beer than that (just bottled 5 gallons of a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale clone two weeks ago...haven't had any of it yet because it hasn't settled out, but the two batches (one pale ale, one amber ale) before it turned out pretty well).
'The DMCA does not eliminate fair use or substantially impair the fair use rights of anyone,' the judge wrote in a 35-page opinion. 'The fair user may find it more difficult to engage in certain fair uses with regard to electronic books, but nevertheless, fair use is still available.'
War is peace.
Slavery is freedom.
Ignorance is strength.
On a related note to tivo, legally or not, you can't tivo a pay-per-view event (such as wrestlemania). It completely blocks the recording function.
I'm pretty sure that when I went over to a friend's place to watch UFC, he had his TiVo recording it. When your cable box only feeds your TiVo in a normal hookup, do you think the cable company (or whoever) would be so stupid as to force people to rewire their AV systems when a PPV show is on?
(Then again, with the subject of this story, maybe the media pukes are that stupid.:-P )
Or just install Mozilla which has pretty decent popup prevention
My ad-filtering proxy (updated block list available through this page) blocks the Flash ad they try to send. Editing the URL in the address bar brings you back to the Flash ad (which gets replaced with a 1x1 transparent GIF by the proxy). You also need to remove the cookies set by Salon and block them from sending any more cookies (the same page came up fine in Lynx when I told it to not accept Salon's cookies). Select Edit|Preferences, select "Cookies" under "Privacy & Security," and click "Manage Stored Cookies." Check "Don't allow removed cookies to be reaccepted later," scroll through the list of cookies, and remove the ones set by Salon (I found two, sent by salon.com and www.salon.com).
Hmmm...Conservatives often spout that belief, but, for the life of me, I can't figure out how that could possibly be. In the end, both the dollar spent by the private sector and the dollar spent by the government end up back in the economy, to be recycled again thru both private and governmental spending yet again.
In the private sector, a dollar gets bounced around between businesses and individuals. Let's say that I buy a TiVo at Circuit City. Circuit City pays its employees out of that money. One of those employees grabs a Big Mac on his lunch break. That money gets paid to a McDonald's employee, who buys a CD at the record store, etc. The more likely path that dollar will take through the government will be to pay off an old fart on Social Security or a welfare queen (but I repeat myself here) or throw the money down some pork-barrel rathole. At best, it might get tied up in capital expenses for infrastructure or something like that.
What I found lacking in the article (and all posts so far) is a biggie for me: most printer manufacturers will void your warranty if you use recycled cartridges, and with good reason. Last time I had to maintain several laser printers, every time some dingbat (read: the boss) went and ordered a recycled toner cartridge, the printer(s) died within a few weeks of using it.
I can back up that story. At a previous workplace, we had a Lexmark Optra S 2420n. New toner cartridges for it run about $170 or so and typically last for 7k-10k pages. Some moron ordered up a rebuilt cartridge for it even after being told that only new cartridges should be used in the printer. I don't know how much money was saved up front with the rebuilt cartridge, but I do remember that the printer conked out after maybe a few hundred pages. We had to order a printer rebuild kit (about $450) from Lexmark and install that to get it working right again. (The rebuild kit, IIRC, includes a fuser assembly, rubber rollers for the paper pickup, and other stuff. You can ordinarily put somewhere around 100k-150k pages (or maybe more...maybe it's closer to 200k) on this printer before you need one of these kits.)
While working as a tech I saw several Epson's ruined by refills, since the heads are built into the printer and not part of the cart a bad refill turns the printer into a doorstop
IME an Epson printer will turn itself into a doorstop after a few months with just the cartridges that came with it...the heads on the POS will dry up and you then have to send it away to get it fixed.
Try OfficeMax next time. They got a lexmark inkjet printer for 30 bucks. Thats less than most ink carts:
Lexmark Z13 Color Inkjet Printer.
Be warned that it's a single-cartridge printer, so color printouts will use old-school 3-ink (CMY) process color instead of 4-ink (CMYK) or 6-ink (CMYKcm) process color.
Back when I had a DeskJet 682C, I tried a black-cartridge refill kit. It worked as long as you didn't try printing in EconoFast mode...in EconoFast mode, the ink would slosh around too much inside the cartridge and the head would be ink-starved. You'd get streaky output. Also, the ink wasn't as dense as the original ink and it tended to bleed a bit more.
I've since replaced that printer with an Optra Color 40. Costco and Sam's Club usually sell black cartridges at $45 for two, and they last a while. I've not bothered with refills as I suspect I'd get the same subpar results as with the DeskJet. As for buying new printers instead of new cartridges...none of the cheap ones support PostScript.:-)
The question is, "will one ever be able to obtain an easy to use and open source tool for removing excess noses from smileys?" Stay tuned for more info.
You are correct. "Tax evasion" was the wrong phrase. "Screwing over the American public by legally avoiding taxes" would be better.
That depends on whether you believe money (or other property) belongs (a) to the people, corporations, etc. who earn it or (b) to the government. Given that a dollar in the private sector generates far more economic activity than a dollar held by Uncle Sam, I would say that your position is incorrect. Tax avoidance isn't tax evasion, but it isn't "screwing the public" either.
Let me guess...you've never used TurboTax (or similar software) to minimize the taxes you pay. If you have, then explain the difference between you doing that with your income and MSFT doing something similar with its income.
If 99% of the people want to discriminate against others, that's not legal. If 99% of the people want to kill and rape whoever they want, that's not legal.
But if 99% of the people want to do that, then...
in the case of discrimination, who are they discriminating against? That other 1%?
Democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding what to have for dinner...that is why America is not a democracy. There are some democratic elements to the way our system works (and those elements have been responsible for, among other things, some of the darker elements of our history), but we never have had a pure democracy—and I hope we never have a pure democracy.
I think it happens when you have an email address posted on a web page.
I've had my real address on my website pretty much ever since I started tinkering with a GeoCities page years ago. I've used the same address on my self-hosted page for the past two years, but it's only in the past month or two that spam has picked up.
I think the increase I've seen lately in spam is the result of putting my email address in Usenet postings. For a long time, I obscured my email address. The last time I reinstalled Linux on my server, though, I didn't bother fixing trn to mangle my email address. (IIRC, I tweaked the Pnews script to insert "ncc74656" somewhere in the hostname...I think it became salfter.dyndns.ncc74656.org, or something like that.) The volume isn't too high yet, but it used to be almost nonexistent. (Since so much of it is HTML-formatted, it gets diverted into a bounce file. I then go into that file and delete anything that looks even remotely like spam.)
As for website address harvesting, I have a robots.txt file set up. I don't know if spambots respect the settings in it (there's a better-than-even chance they don't), but try this:
User-agent: *
Disallow:/email-addresses/
Re:I wonder what Jamie Kellner thinks of this?
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Maybe this development means that his bosses will tell him to STFU. (We can always hope that will happen, at least...)
Like when Disney makes you watch a preview for their new movie every time you watch the DVD you bought, and you can't fast-forward through it or skip it or whatever...
If you had an Apex AD600A, you'd just hit "PBC Off" twice and then go straight to the menu. (It's good for skipping "FBI warnings" on other DVDs...can't say that I've tested it against any Di$ney stuff as I've never bought or rented any Di$ney DVDs.)
I don't have a PVR. But I still choose not watch most commercials, except during the Super Bowl. In addition to choosing not to watch commercials, I will be choosing not to watch the following:
TNT
TBS
CNN
TCM
and (ouch) The Cartoon Network.
I have a TiVo, and while all those channels are carried by the local cable system, I've marked them as "not received." They won't have to worry about any "theft" from me since I'm not watching their drek. (I've blocked them ever since they got bought out by AOHell.)
Over the last few months he's put together a CompactFlash/IDE adapter card for the Apple//e and IIgs, and now he's taking orders. The largest hard drive that ProDOS supports, as flash RAM, costs $14!
I have a 1GB hard drive hooked up to my IIGS right now...and all the space can be used. ProDOS 8 only allows 32MB partitions, but RamFAST and Apple rev. D SCSI cards provide various methods for mapping more than two drives to a physical slot. (ProDOS 8 itself allows for four drives if the controller is in particular slots.) The number of slot/drive combinations limits you to somewhere around 300-350MB maximum online storage with ProDOS 8 (the RamFAST will let you mark partitions active or inactive). If you're using a IIGS and its GS/OS, though, you just create a couple of 32MB ProDOS partitions (to boot and to run your 8-bit apps) and one big HFS partition to use up the entire drive. (The only downside to HFS is that you'll need a Mac to fix the partition if it's corrupted.)
I buy nearly everything there...have ever since the local grocery-store union tried to keep Wal-Mart from opening its supercenter stores in Las Vegas. UFCW #726 (I think that's the number) even had its whore on the county commission get an ordinance passed against stores over a certain size that carry both food and dry goods. (Citizen backlash, organized by this local talk-show host, caused the ordinance to be repealed.)
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I have a Quadra 610 that gets fired up occasionally (currently loaded with MacOS 7.5.3 and NetBSD), as well as a bunch of Apple IIs...that makes me more of an old-school Apple user than most Mac-heads. My automotive preferences lean more toward GM than Volvo (have an '02 S10 and a '77 Cutlass Supreme), and Satan will be engaged in snowball fights before I'd even consider voting for a Democrat. (I usually vote Republican, but I've occasionally thrown my vote to a third-party candidate if the putative GOP candidate was really just a RINO—a Republican In Name Only.)
Actually, the mentally incompetent are prohibited from possessing firearms. I'm fairly sure that morons would fall into that group. Convicted felons and those who are dishonorably discharged from military service (the two are roughly equivalent) are also excluded. Outside of those groups, there is no moral or legal basis to prohibit possession or use of a gun.
Better hope Despair doesn't nail you for trademark infringement for your post...:-)
The Chevy small block is almost 50 years old, but you still find variations of it going into new products. (The 4.3L V6 in the S10 I bought earlier this year is basically three-fourths of a 350.)
If it's been around a while, odds are it's better understood and more thoroughly debugged than the newer stuff.
Not always...one example that comes to mind is that mbusa.net is the website of a filtered ISP while mbusa.com is the American website of a certain German automaker. I doubt that's the only example where the TLD disambiguates.
Every few years, they basically take the plane apart and put it together. Since many of the parts are no longer available from the original manufacturers, the facility that does this work has the ability to build pretty much any needed replacement part from scratch by measuring/analyzing/reverse-engineering the originals. (There was a story linked by /. a few months ago about the Air Force sending a B-52H to OCALC to be refitted and turned over to NASA to replace its B-52B launch aircraft, but I can't seem to locate it.)
That stuff's bilgewater, not beer. I can make better beer than that (just bottled 5 gallons of a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale clone two weeks ago...haven't had any of it yet because it hasn't settled out, but the two batches (one pale ale, one amber ale) before it turned out pretty well).
Pale, fizzy beer is for wussies.
War is peace.
Slavery is freedom.
Ignorance is strength.
I'm pretty sure that when I went over to a friend's place to watch UFC, he had his TiVo recording it. When your cable box only feeds your TiVo in a normal hookup, do you think the cable company (or whoever) would be so stupid as to force people to rewire their AV systems when a PPV show is on?
(Then again, with the subject of this story, maybe the media pukes are that stupid. :-P )
My ad-filtering proxy (updated block list available through this page) blocks the Flash ad they try to send. Editing the URL in the address bar brings you back to the Flash ad (which gets replaced with a 1x1 transparent GIF by the proxy). You also need to remove the cookies set by Salon and block them from sending any more cookies (the same page came up fine in Lynx when I told it to not accept Salon's cookies). Select Edit|Preferences, select "Cookies" under "Privacy & Security," and click "Manage Stored Cookies." Check "Don't allow removed cookies to be reaccepted later," scroll through the list of cookies, and remove the ones set by Salon (I found two, sent by salon.com and www.salon.com).
In the private sector, a dollar gets bounced around between businesses and individuals. Let's say that I buy a TiVo at Circuit City. Circuit City pays its employees out of that money. One of those employees grabs a Big Mac on his lunch break. That money gets paid to a McDonald's employee, who buys a CD at the record store, etc. The more likely path that dollar will take through the government will be to pay off an old fart on Social Security or a welfare queen (but I repeat myself here) or throw the money down some pork-barrel rathole. At best, it might get tied up in capital expenses for infrastructure or something like that.
I can back up that story. At a previous workplace, we had a Lexmark Optra S 2420n. New toner cartridges for it run about $170 or so and typically last for 7k-10k pages. Some moron ordered up a rebuilt cartridge for it even after being told that only new cartridges should be used in the printer. I don't know how much money was saved up front with the rebuilt cartridge, but I do remember that the printer conked out after maybe a few hundred pages. We had to order a printer rebuild kit (about $450) from Lexmark and install that to get it working right again. (The rebuild kit, IIRC, includes a fuser assembly, rubber rollers for the paper pickup, and other stuff. You can ordinarily put somewhere around 100k-150k pages (or maybe more...maybe it's closer to 200k) on this printer before you need one of these kits.)
IME an Epson printer will turn itself into a doorstop after a few months with just the cartridges that came with it...the heads on the POS will dry up and you then have to send it away to get it fixed.
Be warned that it's a single-cartridge printer, so color printouts will use old-school 3-ink (CMY) process color instead of 4-ink (CMYK) or 6-ink (CMYKcm) process color.
Back when I had a DeskJet 682C, I tried a black-cartridge refill kit. It worked as long as you didn't try printing in EconoFast mode...in EconoFast mode, the ink would slosh around too much inside the cartridge and the head would be ink-starved. You'd get streaky output. Also, the ink wasn't as dense as the original ink and it tended to bleed a bit more.
I've since replaced that printer with an Optra Color 40. Costco and Sam's Club usually sell black cartridges at $45 for two, and they last a while. I've not bothered with refills as I suspect I'd get the same subpar results as with the DeskJet. As for buying new printers instead of new cartridges...none of the cheap ones support PostScript. :-)
sed "s/:-)/:)/g"
That depends on whether you believe money (or other property) belongs (a) to the people, corporations, etc. who earn it or (b) to the government. Given that a dollar in the private sector generates far more economic activity than a dollar held by Uncle Sam, I would say that your position is incorrect. Tax avoidance isn't tax evasion, but it isn't "screwing the public" either.
Let me guess...you've never used TurboTax (or similar software) to minimize the taxes you pay. If you have, then explain the difference between you doing that with your income and MSFT doing something similar with its income.
Democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding what to have for dinner...that is why America is not a democracy. There are some democratic elements to the way our system works (and those elements have been responsible for, among other things, some of the darker elements of our history), but we never have had a pure democracy—and I hope we never have a pure democracy.
I've had my real address on my website pretty much ever since I started tinkering with a GeoCities page years ago. I've used the same address on my self-hosted page for the past two years, but it's only in the past month or two that spam has picked up.
I think the increase I've seen lately in spam is the result of putting my email address in Usenet postings. For a long time, I obscured my email address. The last time I reinstalled Linux on my server, though, I didn't bother fixing trn to mangle my email address. (IIRC, I tweaked the Pnews script to insert "ncc74656" somewhere in the hostname...I think it became salfter.dyndns.ncc74656.org, or something like that.) The volume isn't too high yet, but it used to be almost nonexistent. (Since so much of it is HTML-formatted, it gets diverted into a bounce file. I then go into that file and delete anything that looks even remotely like spam.)
As for website address harvesting, I have a robots.txt file set up. I don't know if spambots respect the settings in it (there's a better-than-even chance they don't), but try this:
User-agent: * /email-addresses/
Disallow:
Maybe this development means that his bosses will tell him to STFU. (We can always hope that will happen, at least...)
If you had an Apex AD600A, you'd just hit "PBC Off" twice and then go straight to the menu. (It's good for skipping "FBI warnings" on other DVDs...can't say that I've tested it against any Di$ney stuff as I've never bought or rented any Di$ney DVDs.)
The only "tolerance" they have is for people who think like they do.
I have a TiVo, and while all those channels are carried by the local cable system, I've marked them as "not received." They won't have to worry about any "theft" from me since I'm not watching their drek. (I've blocked them ever since they got bought out by AOHell.)
BTW, you forgot CNN Headline News. :-)
I have a 1GB hard drive hooked up to my IIGS right now...and all the space can be used. ProDOS 8 only allows 32MB partitions, but RamFAST and Apple rev. D SCSI cards provide various methods for mapping more than two drives to a physical slot. (ProDOS 8 itself allows for four drives if the controller is in particular slots.) The number of slot/drive combinations limits you to somewhere around 300-350MB maximum online storage with ProDOS 8 (the RamFAST will let you mark partitions active or inactive). If you're using a IIGS and its GS/OS, though, you just create a couple of 32MB ProDOS partitions (to boot and to run your 8-bit apps) and one big HFS partition to use up the entire drive. (The only downside to HFS is that you'll need a Mac to fix the partition if it's corrupted.)
Big Labor can FOAD, for all I care.