I know an Aussie/Brit/married-an-American who was traumatized by Aussie education. "They made us wear panties in the school colors! PANTIES!" But her school was in Adelaide. So kids in Adelaide: your turn to get into the act and rate your schools.
"For two decades I've hated the command prompt in DOS and Windows. Inconsistencies abound and everything is a special case."
Inconsistencies? Read "The Unix Hater's Handbook". It came with a barf bag pasted to the back inside cover. From that standpoint, it has been a blessing that the Windows shell has been a tiny subset of the UNIX shell.
I remember when Target actually had useful stuff instead of being a big 7-11 with clothing. In recent years, we've been visiting the neighborhood hardware and auto stores again like we didn't for years. Imagine being happy to pay 30 cent/piece for screws because, dammit, I'll know they have them.
I mention Target because they give me the creeps. I leave with the feeling that I'm never really getting a deal and every item of inventory and model of that item has been efficiently spreadsheeted for optimum profit.
I guess "really low" is relative but that's effectively what DI.FM is doing with 96k stream and 320k paid downloads and the subscription premium service.
I know we all love the Register and all, but my first thought was that we have to link to a UK site to get news of an anti-megacorporate bill here in the U.S.? I know, I know. Typical now.
For so many reasons, state departments of education are not likely to be hotbeds of daring creativity. It's the old "best tertiary education in the world/funky primary and secondary education" dichotomy.
Is Kodak really pushing the pricing or the first to respond to other trends?
We've always gone laser for stock home printing but especially now, when you can get a refurb HP "toaster" for $99+cartridge and do your photos at Target or via the web, why mess with the annoyance and expense of inkjets? For extra economic joy I give the cartridges one recharge. Takes about 5 minutes for thousands of copies.
every time the president/vp is in office, and a different party has a majority in the senate and house, you'll see an impeachment.
Who started that? Last time it was failure to report a blow job. This time it is war crimes and treason lying Congress into meaningless war and subverting the CIA to maintain that lie. Multiple choice: which impeachment is justified?
Have the Democrats done stupid things? Who hasn't? But one thing polls will show is that the Republicans at least stand for something whether you believe it is crazy or not. I welcome the Democrats showing some spine and demonstrating some principles. Where would culture be if Gandhi had said, "You know, I don't think I have the votes to agitate for human rights."
More accurately, "If you aren't a black, homosexual working-class mother, you're an oppressor pig!" Still say it occasionally.
Yes, my first appreciation of Christopher Guest as a comic musician. But so old now most of/. would have to sit down with a copy of the Woodstock CDs and movies and a Rolling Stone History of Sixties rock to appreciate it.
Who are you to bemoan your fuel prices? Over here in Europe the prices are about double that!
All well and good. But surely you understand that cheap oil is supposed to be a spoil of war here. There are current estimates that Iraq is going to cost a couple trillion dollars in the end and it has actually _restricted_ oil production. And look at how we have neglected our Central and South American covert operations and let Venezuela get away from our influence.
Oh, sure. I suppose we could just buy the oil like Europe. But where is the death, destruction and chaos in that?
Read a book on chocolate in my cooking phase. It's a lot like coffee with less opportunity to explore bean varietals: purity, freshness, some qualities of the grind and flavorings you might find pleasant. Freshness for instance. Godiva originally commanded its price because it was the one that shipped in refrigerated cars.
If American manufacturers want to sacrifice purity with crap ingredients, that's just something else to buy elsewhere.
Iran has said they want nuclear _power_, not weapons. Somebody got them plans on how to run a _power_ plant? So that's good news, right? It confirms what Iran has been saying all along. So where's the propaganda meat to start bombing tomorrow?
Back in my day, kids, it was widely reported that LSD caused chromosome damage. But then all sorts of commonly ingested substances cause chromosome damage in test tubes. As is usually the case in these things, that rebuttal came out some time later and was not widely reported so most people middle-aged and up probably still believe LSD causes chromosome damage.
If NBC was useful in letting someone demonstrate a logical fallacy surrounding soap, that worked out pretty well.
$19 for an OS? Not remembering offhand, I'm sure the Minnesota settlement was considerably more. MS bought my wife and I an Epson Store refurbished scanner, cheap HP inkjet and some surplus "Linux Store" linux keyboards on the basis of our OS purchases alone. And, mostly, I used OS/2 and other OSes during the settlement period.
And the display apparently isn't a HUD. Looks more like an eye patch and a blind spot. I know if I were infantry lugging a weapon there is nothing I would welcome more than something that ruins my stereoscopic vision in a life-threatening reaction-time situation.
How long before states want sales tax? Perhaps because they realize it is impossible to implement, our state demands self-disclosure of internet purchases and payment of sales tax annually on the tax return.
Everything I've needed to use has worked perfectly using Firefox
I think that is the point that cycles back to first post: Stupidity. There are still _some_ sites who are stupid enough to annoy 10% or more of their potential business rather than invest in the relatively meager extra web designer resources to ensure compatibility across platforms. Penny wise, pound foolish. Go-Go 90s still live in their heads. Ain't got time to bother to pick up the crumbs.
My wife feels strongly about this because she has often had jobs where designing for the widest possible audience using WebTV on up was a priority [people with disabilities too]. Me, I can remember when a few sites like TigerDirect didn't work with Mozilla, but except for the obvious embedded.wmvs and the like (the ones I can't hack the URL for) I have also not had problems with compatibility lately.
So the challenge is a pretty common one: how to make the stupid exceptions realize they really are acting stupidly out of phase.
Figured the 2000+ posts didn't need another one but I got tired of hearing "worst massacre in U.S. history!" repeated over and over again this morning. Say "worst one-off mass murder in U.S. history", "in _recent_ history" or "worst massacre since Wounded Knee".
But "worst massacre in U.S. history"? Give me a friggin' break attention deficit disordered America.
A USB turntable is interesting from the standpoint of how technologies overlap (or don't). I saw an ad for one of these turntables the other week and I believe that ad mentioned an audio-technica cartridge. My thought was that Technics may have figured out how to ramp up the turntable biz and the idea is a natural.
But how come they just came up with it? Because CDs took over in the early 80s and the home computer wasn't commonplace until arguably the earlier 90s. That decade gap apparently made it difficult for the technologies to conceptually connect. [Excepting, obviously, for experimenters who were willing to connect a preamp to their sound card.]
That consumer gap and how the two just reconnected is sort of interesting.
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If that is cyberpunk noire, I don't know what is.
I know an Aussie/Brit/married-an-American who was traumatized by Aussie education. "They made us wear panties in the school colors! PANTIES!" But her school was in Adelaide. So kids in Adelaide: your turn to get into the act and rate your schools.
"For two decades I've hated the command prompt in DOS and Windows. Inconsistencies abound and everything is a special case."
Inconsistencies? Read "The Unix Hater's Handbook". It came with a barf bag pasted to the back inside cover. From that standpoint, it has been a blessing that the Windows shell has been a tiny subset of the UNIX shell.
The Russian equivalent of "save the children" is apparently "save the gangsters".
And take our cut. Isn't that the definition of a protection racket?
So the problem of prosecuting them is purely political? Or not?
I remember when Target actually had useful stuff instead of being a big 7-11 with clothing. In recent years, we've been visiting the neighborhood hardware and auto stores again like we didn't for years. Imagine being happy to pay 30 cent/piece for screws because, dammit, I'll know they have them.
I mention Target because they give me the creeps. I leave with the feeling that I'm never really getting a deal and every item of inventory and model of that item has been efficiently spreadsheeted for optimum profit.
And the Gates Foundation will chip in $75?
Isn't that how these things always work?
I guess "really low" is relative but that's effectively what DI.FM is doing with 96k stream and 320k paid downloads and the subscription premium service.
I know we all love the Register and all, but my first thought was that we have to link to a UK site to get news of an anti-megacorporate bill here in the U.S.? I know, I know. Typical now.
If they based the VR on Six Million Dollar Man reruns, the guy will rip his shoulder out.
Lots of luck. Schools are locked into Microsoft.
For so many reasons, state departments of education are not likely to be hotbeds of daring creativity. It's the old "best tertiary education in the world/funky primary and secondary education" dichotomy.
Is Kodak really pushing the pricing or the first to respond to other trends?
We've always gone laser for stock home printing but especially now, when you can get a refurb HP "toaster" for $99+cartridge and do your photos at Target or via the web, why mess with the annoyance and expense of inkjets? For extra economic joy I give the cartridges one recharge. Takes about 5 minutes for thousands of copies.
every time the president/vp is in office, and a different party has a majority in the senate and house, you'll see an impeachment.
Who started that? Last time it was failure to report a blow job. This time it is war crimes and treason lying Congress into meaningless war and subverting the CIA to maintain that lie. Multiple choice: which impeachment is justified?
Have the Democrats done stupid things? Who hasn't? But one thing polls will show is that the Republicans at least stand for something whether you believe it is crazy or not. I welcome the Democrats showing some spine and demonstrating some principles. Where would culture be if Gandhi had said, "You know, I don't think I have the votes to agitate for human rights."
More accurately, "If you aren't a black, homosexual working-class mother, you're an oppressor pig!" Still say it occasionally.
/. would have to sit down with a copy of the Woodstock CDs and movies and a Rolling Stone History of Sixties rock to appreciate it.
Yes, my first appreciation of Christopher Guest as a comic musician. But so old now most of
Who are you to bemoan your fuel prices? Over here in Europe the prices are about double that!
All well and good. But surely you understand that cheap oil is supposed to be a spoil of war here. There are current estimates that Iraq is going to cost a couple trillion dollars in the end and it has actually _restricted_ oil production. And look at how we have neglected our Central and South American covert operations and let Venezuela get away from our influence.
Oh, sure. I suppose we could just buy the oil like Europe. But where is the death, destruction and chaos in that?
Read a book on chocolate in my cooking phase. It's a lot like coffee with less opportunity to explore bean varietals: purity, freshness, some qualities of the grind and flavorings you might find pleasant. Freshness for instance. Godiva originally commanded its price because it was the one that shipped in refrigerated cars.
If American manufacturers want to sacrifice purity with crap ingredients, that's just something else to buy elsewhere.
Have to agree.
Iran has said they want nuclear _power_, not weapons. Somebody got them plans on how to run a _power_ plant? So that's good news, right? It confirms what Iran has been saying all along. So where's the propaganda meat to start bombing tomorrow?
Back in my day, kids, it was widely reported that LSD caused chromosome damage. But then all sorts of commonly ingested substances cause chromosome damage in test tubes. As is usually the case in these things, that rebuttal came out some time later and was not widely reported so most people middle-aged and up probably still believe LSD causes chromosome damage.
If NBC was useful in letting someone demonstrate a logical fallacy surrounding soap, that worked out pretty well.
Since Amtrak doesn't own the rails and that forces them to go about 25 mph at times in the U.S., I'm sure Amtrak would feel right at home in Siberia.
$19 for an OS? Not remembering offhand, I'm sure the Minnesota settlement was considerably more. MS bought my wife and I an Epson Store refurbished scanner, cheap HP inkjet and some surplus "Linux Store" linux keyboards on the basis of our OS purchases alone. And, mostly, I used OS/2 and other OSes during the settlement period.
Another 16 pounds would suck.
And the display apparently isn't a HUD. Looks more like an eye patch and a blind spot. I know if I were infantry lugging a weapon there is nothing I would welcome more than something that ruins my stereoscopic vision in a life-threatening reaction-time situation.
How long before states want sales tax? Perhaps because they realize it is impossible to implement, our state demands self-disclosure of internet purchases and payment of sales tax annually on the tax return.
Everything I've needed to use has worked perfectly using Firefox
.wmvs and the like (the ones I can't hack the URL for) I have also not had problems with compatibility lately.
I think that is the point that cycles back to first post: Stupidity. There are still _some_ sites who are stupid enough to annoy 10% or more of their potential business rather than invest in the relatively meager extra web designer resources to ensure compatibility across platforms. Penny wise, pound foolish. Go-Go 90s still live in their heads. Ain't got time to bother to pick up the crumbs.
My wife feels strongly about this because she has often had jobs where designing for the widest possible audience using WebTV on up was a priority [people with disabilities too]. Me, I can remember when a few sites like TigerDirect didn't work with Mozilla, but except for the obvious embedded
So the challenge is a pretty common one: how to make the stupid exceptions realize they really are acting stupidly out of phase.
"Meat certified to contain not more than .005% human content."
Think of it as a 21st century extension of "Product created in a facility that processes peanuts and other nuts."
Figured the 2000+ posts didn't need another one but I got tired of hearing "worst massacre in U.S. history!" repeated over and over again this morning. Say "worst one-off mass murder in U.S. history", "in _recent_ history" or "worst massacre since Wounded Knee".
But "worst massacre in U.S. history"? Give me a friggin' break attention deficit disordered America.
A USB turntable is interesting from the standpoint of how technologies overlap (or don't). I saw an ad for one of these turntables the other week and I believe that ad mentioned an audio-technica cartridge. My thought was that Technics may have figured out how to ramp up the turntable biz and the idea is a natural.
But how come they just came up with it? Because CDs took over in the early 80s and the home computer wasn't commonplace until arguably the earlier 90s. That decade gap apparently made it difficult for the technologies to conceptually connect. [Excepting, obviously, for experimenters who were willing to connect a preamp to their sound card.]
That consumer gap and how the two just reconnected is sort of interesting.