I have the same set of URLs available to me wherever I can get at the IMAP folder that holds them. If it's not my computer (and if it's still running Windows), I can fire up Portable Thunderbird to access them (and then bring them up in Portable Firefox, of course).
He's not saying that the top ten percent of income earners pay seventy percent of their income in taxes; he's saying that seventy percent of the tax revenue is provided by that top ten percent, which I'd like to see a reference for.
It's closer to 66% now (data compiled from this spreadsheet from the IRS), but the larger point still stands. The top 1% pays more than a third of the total tax bill, the top 5% pays over half, and the top 50% pays over 96%. The other half of the population is, for all practical purposes, getting a free ride.
Personally, I don't care how much my salary goes up compared to someone else's. I care about how much it goes up compared to inflation. If your or my wages don't keep up with inflation, then it's a pay cut.
Fortunately, inflation is also at historic lows. I don't know about you, but I'm earning about 3-3.5x what I was earning in December 2000. It'd take worse-than-Carter-era inflation to gobble up all of that increase.
Actually, yes, I liked Taco Bell...I hated most Mexican food, but I liked that (though I'm not sure it's classed as Mexican food).
I'm not sure Taco Hell qualifies as food of any sort, let alone as Mexican food. Del Taco is much better if you're in a hurry, but you'll only find it in California, Nevada, and Arizona (IIRC). If you hated real Mexican food but liked the slop they pass off as "Mexican" at Taco Hell, though, it's probably safe to say you just don't like Mexican.
I bought a 4-disk USB storage box recently. The activity LEDs are an orangey-yellow color that isn't hard on the eyes, but the power indicator is an ultra-bright blue LED that would be more at home in a flashlight. With all of the room lights and the TV off, it lights up my living room so much that I can almost read a newspaper held several feet away from it. I'm on the fence with what to do about it: stick a resistor inline to dim it, or replace it with another color. As it is, it makes the blue LEDs that light up the power button on the Antec Overture case next to it look dim by comparison.
I almost wish blue LEDs stayed closer to $10-$20 each, like they were 10-15 years ago when they first became available. If they had, we wouldn't have all the hardware designers trying to out-l33t each other by cramming more and more blue LEDs into their products.
Where are these mythical ink cartridges that cost $45???
I last saw the Lexmark 12A1980, the color cartridge for my Optra Color 40, for about that much at OfficeMax last week. Nobody else seems to carry them locally (and it's not like Las Vegas is some hick backwater town).
The snag, of course, is avoiding the Winprinter minefield to find a quality (but affordable) Postscript printer; which would Slashdotters recommend?
With or without PostScript support, it's pretty hard to go wrong with HP at this point. Most of their current models work with Linux, thanks to the hplip driver. I have two printers that don't speak PostScript (a DeskJet 450wbt and a Photosmart 3210) and one that does (a LaserJet 1320), and they're all fully functional with Linux (even the scanner and flashcard reader on the Photosmart 3210 work across the LAN, so it's shared with several Linux boxen and a Mac mini).
I wouldn't have thought that you'd need to touch a Mac in order to know about it. For awhile, it was one of the newest whiz-bangiest features of OS X. That and Dashboard.
I've had a Mac mini for a while now (long enough that it's a G4 instead of x86), but I don't think I've ever noticed it on there.
While fixing up my Linux boxes for a more OSX-like look and feel, I ran across an Expose workalike for KDE called Kompose. I had it enabled for maybe a minute or two. If Kompose is even a moderately faithful clone of Expose, I don't see what all the fuss is about. Reaching into the F-key row, grabbing the mouse, and clicking a window can't be faster than just Alt-Tabbing to the other window.
Oh, that's right... it's better to have half a million people in Washington DC with no voting representation in our federal government.
There's a process they could follow if they cared enough to do things the right way. That they don't says much about them, none of it good...and to think they accuse their opponents of "shredding the Constitution!" Pot, meet kettle.
If your bank cares so little about security that it forces you to use a browser (and OS) riddled with more (and bigger) holes than Mr. Goatse.cx, why do you still have your accounts there? Take your money elsewhere, and tell them why. There are plenty of other banks (such as this one, where I've had my checking account for 17 years) that don't have their heads up their asses.
Since it hasn't had a couple or three service packs issued for it yet, I suppose that could also be the case...but at the risk of stating the obvious, I don't think that's what the OP meant.
Maybe because their inkjet printers don't clog up like Epsons. My DeskJet 450 is still running on its original color cartridge after nearly two years. My Stylus Photo R200, OTOH, needed its head replaced after less than a year because it had clogged so badly that the cleaning cycle was ineffective. Both are used on an infrequent basis; the Epson gets used to print on DVDs, while the HP is used maybe twice a year at homebrew competitions.
Maybe because their Linux support is more complete than nearly anyone else's. Try this for some recent experience.
Those are just a couple of reasons I can think of offhand. If you don't want to be modded down as flamebait, you might try presenting evidence to support your claim, as I have done above.
Apple IIgs and a complete set of acessories, SIGNED BY WOZ!... $41
At the risk of stating the obvious, the first 10000 had Woz's sig silkscreened on them. They're not exactly rare (except maybe by eBay's standards for "rare", which say that something's "rare" if it wasn't on the shelf at the local Wal-Mart five minutes ago).
emerge foo (for a fairly large range of foo) gets me most of what I want/need.
But is there a standard, or at least universally compatible way to do things if it doesn't?
wget http://foowebsite.org/.../foo.tar.gz && tar xzf foo.tar.gz && cd foo &&./configure --prefix=/usr && make -j2 && su -c 'make install' tends to work a fairly good bit of the time.
because I can't just walk into a store and pick up a piece of software to do what I want
Who goes to a store to buy software anymore? 1985 called; it wants its software-distribution model back. I wouldn't be surprised if you still write checks to pay for the stuff you buy.
emerge foo (for a fairly large range of foo) gets me most of what I want/need.
Are you sure about that? (Those are just the Mac Pro options...picking a Mac mini or iMac model brings up a similar customization page for those machines.)
Vacuum tubes emit light as a side effect when overloaded
Some of them throw off plenty of light even in their normal operation. Consider gas rectifiers and voltage regulators as examples, or many directly-heated tubes. The 80 in my tube tester lights up almost like a lightbulb (this page says the filament pulls 10W, which is more than your average nightlight).
Well, if AppleSoft BASIC did it with HPLOT, wouldn't that mean that Microsoft had prior art? Or did HPLOT do something different than you are describing?
HPLOT, as a command that took advantage of features specific to the Apple II, may have been coded by someone at Apple, not Microsoft. Apple took one of the 6502 ports of Microsoft BASIC and added support for things such as graphics and cassette I/O. The only thing I'm not 100% clear on is who wrote those system-specific bits. While Microsoft could've done the whole thing, I think it's more likely that there would've been a provision for OEMs (such as Apple) to add system-specific bits...not unlike today, where an OEM starts with a Windows install CD and then throws a bunch of drivers at a new machine.
just remember: the same people who sport bumper stickers saying "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism" and are proud about getting their news from Comedy Central, they're the same ones writing letters to the editor in all the papers saying the debate is over
Another thing we've heard from the Grünsturmabteilung is that there's such a strong "consensus" around their view of what's happening with the weather. When a similarly large consensus says there's no danger in (for instance) genetically-modified foods, they ignore it and keep prattling on with their Chicken Little alarmism. Consensus only seems to matter to the Grünsturmabteilung when it works in their favor.
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I have the same set of URLs available to me wherever I can get at the IMAP folder that holds them. If it's not my computer (and if it's still running Windows), I can fire up Portable Thunderbird to access them (and then bring them up in Portable Firefox, of course).
It's closer to 66% now (data compiled from this spreadsheet from the IRS), but the larger point still stands. The top 1% pays more than a third of the total tax bill, the top 5% pays over half, and the top 50% pays over 96%. The other half of the population is, for all practical purposes, getting a free ride.
Fortunately, inflation is also at historic lows. I don't know about you, but I'm earning about 3-3.5x what I was earning in December 2000. It'd take worse-than-Carter-era inflation to gobble up all of that increase.
I'm not sure Taco Hell qualifies as food of any sort, let alone as Mexican food. Del Taco is much better if you're in a hurry, but you'll only find it in California, Nevada, and Arizona (IIRC). If you hated real Mexican food but liked the slop they pass off as "Mexican" at Taco Hell, though, it's probably safe to say you just don't like Mexican.
I almost wish blue LEDs stayed closer to $10-$20 each, like they were 10-15 years ago when they first became available. If they had, we wouldn't have all the hardware designers trying to out-l33t each other by cramming more and more blue LEDs into their products.
I last saw the Lexmark 12A1980, the color cartridge for my Optra Color 40, for about that much at OfficeMax last week. Nobody else seems to carry them locally (and it's not like Las Vegas is some hick backwater town).
With or without PostScript support, it's pretty hard to go wrong with HP at this point. Most of their current models work with Linux, thanks to the hplip driver. I have two printers that don't speak PostScript (a DeskJet 450wbt and a Photosmart 3210) and one that does (a LaserJet 1320), and they're all fully functional with Linux (even the scanner and flashcard reader on the Photosmart 3210 work across the LAN, so it's shared with several Linux boxen and a Mac mini).
I've had a Mac mini for a while now (long enough that it's a G4 instead of x86), but I don't think I've ever noticed it on there.
While fixing up my Linux boxes for a more OSX-like look and feel, I ran across an Expose workalike for KDE called Kompose. I had it enabled for maybe a minute or two. If Kompose is even a moderately faithful clone of Expose, I don't see what all the fuss is about. Reaching into the F-key row, grabbing the mouse, and clicking a window can't be faster than just Alt-Tabbing to the other window.
There's a process they could follow if they cared enough to do things the right way. That they don't says much about them, none of it good...and to think they accuse their opponents of "shredding the Constitution!" Pot, meet kettle.
If your bank cares so little about security that it forces you to use a browser (and OS) riddled with more (and bigger) holes than Mr. Goatse.cx, why do you still have your accounts there? Take your money elsewhere, and tell them why. There are plenty of other banks (such as this one, where I've had my checking account for 17 years) that don't have their heads up their asses.
Since it hasn't had a couple or three service packs issued for it yet, I suppose that could also be the case...but at the risk of stating the obvious, I don't think that's what the OP meant.
Maybe because their inkjet printers don't clog up like Epsons. My DeskJet 450 is still running on its original color cartridge after nearly two years. My Stylus Photo R200, OTOH, needed its head replaced after less than a year because it had clogged so badly that the cleaning cycle was ineffective. Both are used on an infrequent basis; the Epson gets used to print on DVDs, while the HP is used maybe twice a year at homebrew competitions.
Maybe because their Linux support is more complete than nearly anyone else's. Try this for some recent experience.
Those are just a couple of reasons I can think of offhand. If you don't want to be modded down as flamebait, you might try presenting evidence to support your claim, as I have done above.
I think you've confused MSDN with the Action Pack.
At the risk of stating the obvious, the first 10000 had Woz's sig silkscreened on them. They're not exactly rare (except maybe by eBay's standards for "rare", which say that something's "rare" if it wasn't on the shelf at the local Wal-Mart five minutes ago).
wget http://foowebsite.org/.../foo.tar.gz && tar xzf foo.tar.gz && cd foo && ./configure --prefix=/usr && make -j2 && su -c 'make install' tends to work a fairly good bit of the time.
Who goes to a store to buy software anymore? 1985 called; it wants its software-distribution model back. I wouldn't be surprised if you still write checks to pay for the stuff you buy.
emerge foo (for a fairly large range of foo) gets me most of what I want/need.
Are you sure about that? (Those are just the Mac Pro options...picking a Mac mini or iMac model brings up a similar customization page for those machines.)
I'd be even more impressed if they managed to invent unobtainium. :-)
Some of them throw off plenty of light even in their normal operation. Consider gas rectifiers and voltage regulators as examples, or many directly-heated tubes. The 80 in my tube tester lights up almost like a lightbulb (this page says the filament pulls 10W, which is more than your average nightlight).
I thought it started at CERN. The Internet got its start with DARPA.
(Remember: the Web is a proper subset of the Internet.)
HPLOT, as a command that took advantage of features specific to the Apple II, may have been coded by someone at Apple, not Microsoft. Apple took one of the 6502 ports of Microsoft BASIC and added support for things such as graphics and cassette I/O. The only thing I'm not 100% clear on is who wrote those system-specific bits. While Microsoft could've done the whole thing, I think it's more likely that there would've been a provision for OEMs (such as Apple) to add system-specific bits...not unlike today, where an OEM starts with a Windows install CD and then throws a bunch of drivers at a new machine.
"Ad hominem"...you keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Another thing we've heard from the Grünsturmabteilung is that there's such a strong "consensus" around their view of what's happening with the weather. When a similarly large consensus says there's no danger in (for instance) genetically-modified foods, they ignore it and keep prattling on with their Chicken Little alarmism. Consensus only seems to matter to the Grünsturmabteilung when it works in their favor.
The TV-tuner card in my MythTV box works just fine, and its driver is not (yet) rolled into the kernel. Thanks for playing, though.