Fortunately, Fry's just learned of a bunch of store space which will soon be available.
The typical CompUSA store is nowhere near as large as the typical Fry's. The average Fry's is maybe 3-4x the size of the largest Best Buy stores (I used to work in one of their 58k-sqft stores), and those are larger than any CompUSA I've run across.
You can choose to not select any candidates for one or all races in the US, but there is not "vote blank" or "abstain" option on the ballot.
That depends on where you live. Some states offer "none of the above" as an option for state office. Since it's only for state office, it's not much use when Turd Sandwich and Giant Douche are your options for Congress or the White House, but it's a step in the right direction.
Making "none of the above" an option for federal office would most likely require an amendment to the Constitution, and since we've only managed to pass 27 of those out of thousands proposed...
Why create a 'perfect' society? Why not go with the Australian model and send our criminals?
Because ~300 years later, those criminals will commandeer a starship and leave its captain buried in the heart of a cold, dead planet...marooned for all eternity...buried alive...buried alive...
Yeah well most houses don't have garages, there's no room for them.
What color is the sky on your world? Here, it's blue, and you'd have a hard time finding a house that doesn't have a garage (where "house"=="single-family dwelling," though most townhomes and some condos have them too).
Given the extreme poverty of the country, such a switch is not a coup to me. I'm more surprised that Microsoft was allowed to sell Cuba copies of Windows in the first place.
Who said anything about selling Cuba software? It's more likely they said "fsck the capitalist running dogs in Redmond" and just ran warez copies of everything.
That's all well and good, but that requires carrying around a TDD keyboard in addition to the cellphone. Those things aren't small. It also requires that the receiving party also have a TDD, unless the cellphones know to display the TDD text on their tiny screens.
With something like a Treo, it should be possible to emulate a TDD within the device. It has a suitable display and keyboard, and it's small enough to carry around. All that's needed is an implementation of whatever protocol is needed.
It's not dead at all. I have some nice Mac hardware with the rainbow logo that runs just fine. Both of my SE/30's, my SE, my Quadra 650, and both Powerbooks have the logo.
If you really want to kick it old-school, the Apple II is where it's at.:-) Right now, I have a IIe running my fermentation fridge. A II+ and a couple of IIGSes are still boxed up from a recent move.
Macs don't. I don't think there's even a version of IE available for MacOS.
Not for Mac OS X, at least. IE 5.1 is (IIRC) the last version for PowerPC-based Macs (don't know if it runs on Classic or if it needs Mac OS 8 or 9 running on the metal), and IE 4.something (4.01?) is the last version for 68K Macs.
And congratulations to a Real American, Lt. Ehren Watada,
You've got to be a total idiot to believe that what Mr. Watada attempted was in any way a Good Thing. In his world, the military would have effective veto power over civilian authority. He willfully disobeyed lawful orders because he didn't like the nature of those orders. He claimed they were "illegal," but it is not the military's place to adjudicate the lawfulness of the orders it is given by the civilian leadership. It's not the role of the generals in the E ring, and it's certainly not the role of some wet-behind-the-ears lieutenant who signed up under false pretenses. Giving the military veto power over its orders leads to a breakdown of discipline, and if left unchecked, leads inevitably to military dictatorship, as seen in places such as Cuba, Venezuela, and Saddam's Iraq.
There was a time when punks like Mr. Watada would've been taken outside and summarily executed for what he did. This would've happened without so much as an Article 32 hearing, let alone with a court martial. He should consider himself lucky he's still allowed to steal oxygen from better men than himself.
"No one?" I guess that makes me "no one." Hell, there are plenty of people here who are running VS6 on Win2K. If it ain't broke...
Not everybody uses Visual Studio to grind out web apps in VB or C# or whatever. A device driver or video compressor builds the same way in older versions of VC++ as in newer versions (especially if your code has a fair bit of hand-coded assembly-language optimizations to take advantage of SIMD operations).
(The only reason I'm not still using VS6 is that my app triggered some MFC bugs that got fixed in VS2002. Now there are some other bugs that have started making themselves obvious, so I'm ripping MFC out from underneath the app and rewriting bits as necessary to talk directly to the Win32 API instead.)
I don't know if CPUID is user mode under any OS or is dependent on some setting.
I didn't have to do anything special to use it under Windows (other than include it in assembly-language block, but that goes without saying). With it, you can read out the ID string that shows up in the system properties dialog (such as "AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 242" on the machine I'm using right now) and you can read out most of the processor's capabilities (MMX, SSE, 3DNow!, etc.). There's more info you can read out of the processor, but those are the things I've needed.
Odd that they came up with the idea that dimethyl sulfide (DMS, for short) smells like the sea. In homebrewing, DMS is one of several undesirable compounds that get driven off by the boil. If you boil the wort with the lid on the kettle, it remains in the wort. It tends to produce a disagreeable cooked-vegetable (especially cooked-corn) aroma and flavor (see this beer-judging scoresheet for a list of things that can go wrong with beer, and their causes).
Not once have I thought that my home smelled like the seashore after brew day. Instead, it smelled like a brewery, and I'm OK with that.:-)
If it does, I hope your home has a loading dock to facilitate getting it off the delivery truck. IIRC, Vista ships on DVD-ROM. A full single-layer DVD-ROM would need somewhere around 3200 floppies. A full dual-layer DVD-ROM would need somewhere around 5900 floppies.
As cheap as modern floppy drives appear to be built (seeing as how they're usually the product of Chinese slave labor), the thing would probably fall apart somewhere around disk 3190, and then you'd really be pissed.
the added security of dumb terminals - no vector for USB thumbdrives, floppys, or CD burners
How do you think the keyboard and mouse are going to be attached to the terminal? Hardwired?
Maybe you've heard of PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports...you know, those 6-pin mini-DIN connectors that 99.9999% of computers (excluding Macs) have on the back? You're probably using them right now.
Hell, if they also wanted to keep people from ripping off keyboards and mice, they could even use ADB (which is what older Macs and the Apple IIGS used), or they could use some sort of modular jack (common on dumb terminals from various manufacturers back in the day).
I'd be more interested in seeing wireless drivers, Broadcomm network drivers, and video capture and hardware encoding drivers.
WiFi (especially Broadcom WiFi) under Linux is a pain, but video capture isn't nearly as dire a situation. Most dumb framegrabbers are handled by the bt8x8 driver, while most MPEG-2 compressor boards are handled by the ivtv driver. Compare that to the separate drivers from each manufacturer that you typically need with Windows.
If you cannot transfer these files by a simple drag and drop, to and from an arbitrary directory, it is defective by design.
Back in the day, I couldn't drag-and-drop MP3s to my Rio Volt SP90; I had to burn them to CD-R first. Does that make it "defective by design?"
If you want to suffer with a less-polished UI, you can run Rockbox on your iPod and drag-and-drop all you want. I've considered it before because there are some other interesting capabilities in Rockbox, but its UI is clunky to the point of rapid frustration. If I'm tooling down the freeway at 80 mph and need to make an adjustment to my iPod, it's much easier to do that with the default firmware.
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The typical CompUSA store is nowhere near as large as the typical Fry's. The average Fry's is maybe 3-4x the size of the largest Best Buy stores (I used to work in one of their 58k-sqft stores), and those are larger than any CompUSA I've run across.
BC? Is that you?
Nevada is one of them. I know this because "none of the above" has been an option for several offices in the last few elections here.
That depends on where you live. Some states offer "none of the above" as an option for state office. Since it's only for state office, it's not much use when Turd Sandwich and Giant Douche are your options for Congress or the White House, but it's a step in the right direction.
Making "none of the above" an option for federal office would most likely require an amendment to the Constitution, and since we've only managed to pass 27 of those out of thousands proposed...
A yard full of 'em blew up in North Las Vegas last summer. I lived a few miles away at the time, and the biggest explosion rattled the building.
(Your point about the usual safety of this stuff is taken, but since you asked...)
There's an even shorter way to do the same thing:
emerge foo
Because ~300 years later, those criminals will commandeer a starship and leave its captain buried in the heart of a cold, dead planet...marooned for all eternity...buried alive...buried alive...
What color is the sky on your world? Here, it's blue, and you'd have a hard time finding a house that doesn't have a garage (where "house"=="single-family dwelling," though most townhomes and some condos have them too).
Who said anything about selling Cuba software? It's more likely they said "fsck the capitalist running dogs in Redmond" and just ran warez copies of everything.
It could be worse:
"Raspberry. There's only one man who would dare give me the raspberry. Lone Starr!"
With something like a Treo, it should be possible to emulate a TDD within the device. It has a suitable display and keyboard, and it's small enough to carry around. All that's needed is an implementation of whatever protocol is needed.
If you really want to kick it old-school, the Apple II is where it's at. :-) Right now, I have a IIe running my fermentation fridge. A II+ and a couple of IIGSes are still boxed up from a recent move.
As long as you take a bite out of it, you're good to go. You don't even have to go to the trouble of finding a six-colored apple.
Not for Mac OS X, at least. IE 5.1 is (IIRC) the last version for PowerPC-based Macs (don't know if it runs on Classic or if it needs Mac OS 8 or 9 running on the metal), and IE 4.something (4.01?) is the last version for 68K Macs.
You've got to be a total idiot to believe that what Mr. Watada attempted was in any way a Good Thing. In his world, the military would have effective veto power over civilian authority. He willfully disobeyed lawful orders because he didn't like the nature of those orders. He claimed they were "illegal," but it is not the military's place to adjudicate the lawfulness of the orders it is given by the civilian leadership. It's not the role of the generals in the E ring, and it's certainly not the role of some wet-behind-the-ears lieutenant who signed up under false pretenses. Giving the military veto power over its orders leads to a breakdown of discipline, and if left unchecked, leads inevitably to military dictatorship, as seen in places such as Cuba, Venezuela, and Saddam's Iraq.
There was a time when punks like Mr. Watada would've been taken outside and summarily executed for what he did. This would've happened without so much as an Article 32 hearing, let alone with a court martial. He should consider himself lucky he's still allowed to steal oxygen from better men than himself.
"No one?" I guess that makes me "no one." Hell, there are plenty of people here who are running VS6 on Win2K. If it ain't broke...
Not everybody uses Visual Studio to grind out web apps in VB or C# or whatever. A device driver or video compressor builds the same way in older versions of VC++ as in newer versions (especially if your code has a fair bit of hand-coded assembly-language optimizations to take advantage of SIMD operations).
(The only reason I'm not still using VS6 is that my app triggered some MFC bugs that got fixed in VS2002. Now there are some other bugs that have started making themselves obvious, so I'm ripping MFC out from underneath the app and rewriting bits as necessary to talk directly to the Win32 API instead.)
I didn't have to do anything special to use it under Windows (other than include it in assembly-language block, but that goes without saying). With it, you can read out the ID string that shows up in the system properties dialog (such as "AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 242" on the machine I'm using right now) and you can read out most of the processor's capabilities (MMX, SSE, 3DNow!, etc.). There's more info you can read out of the processor, but those are the things I've needed.
Well-informed rants? On Slashdot? You must be new here.
You scream the first word in one of them. :-)
Not once have I thought that my home smelled like the seashore after brew day. Instead, it smelled like a brewery, and I'm OK with that. :-)
If it does, I hope your home has a loading dock to facilitate getting it off the delivery truck. IIRC, Vista ships on DVD-ROM. A full single-layer DVD-ROM would need somewhere around 3200 floppies. A full dual-layer DVD-ROM would need somewhere around 5900 floppies.
As cheap as modern floppy drives appear to be built (seeing as how they're usually the product of Chinese slave labor), the thing would probably fall apart somewhere around disk 3190, and then you'd really be pissed.
Maybe you've heard of PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports...you know, those 6-pin mini-DIN connectors that 99.9999% of computers (excluding Macs) have on the back? You're probably using them right now.
Hell, if they also wanted to keep people from ripping off keyboards and mice, they could even use ADB (which is what older Macs and the Apple IIGS used), or they could use some sort of modular jack (common on dumb terminals from various manufacturers back in the day).
WiFi (especially Broadcom WiFi) under Linux is a pain, but video capture isn't nearly as dire a situation. Most dumb framegrabbers are handled by the bt8x8 driver, while most MPEG-2 compressor boards are handled by the ivtv driver. Compare that to the separate drivers from each manufacturer that you typically need with Windows.
A while back (maybe a year or two), Google Maps blurred the Capitol Building, but not the White House. Now, neither of them are blurred.
Back in the day, I couldn't drag-and-drop MP3s to my Rio Volt SP90; I had to burn them to CD-R first. Does that make it "defective by design?"
If you want to suffer with a less-polished UI, you can run Rockbox on your iPod and drag-and-drop all you want. I've considered it before because there are some other interesting capabilities in Rockbox, but its UI is clunky to the point of rapid frustration. If I'm tooling down the freeway at 80 mph and need to make an adjustment to my iPod, it's much easier to do that with the default firmware.