Extradition should only be used for really serious offenses -- like software piracy.
Of course, the U.S. refused extradition of Kissinger for war crimes.
Looks like France may request extradition of Cheney for screwing not just the U.S. taxpayer but the rest of the world as well with the Halliburten money funnel. Of course, that will be denied as well.
Thank goodness this is coming out. Bucking the trend for 24/7 connectivity has made me feel about 150 years old.
I've always thought that if somebody thinks he has had an inspiration moment, I _don't_ want him to call me up immediately like some happy little monkey to share the joy. Let him think about it overnight, give it some structure and depth, and we'll talk about it the next morning at the office.
But then I went to school back when you had to sit at desks in neat rows and shut up.
An optional stand-alone charger is available if your [sic] into drag racing
Not that I'm that much of a stickler for grammar or anything, but, yeah, I'm going to trust these guys.
Can it be as simple as replacing your alternator with a belt-driven motor and battery pack? (How big is that battery pack, by-the-way, compared to "real" hybrids?
Your points are generally on target. But it was demonstrated that vendors were too afraid of Microsoft to carry OS/2 as well. Sort of hosed without vendors. And they couldn't really do a Windows 95 compatible OS/2. They had license access to Win 3.1 code, but look how long it took Codeweavers to come up with a tie-in to the 32-bit API.
But there were marketing mistakes too.
1. There was the OS/2 version that worked with an existing Win3.1 install and there was the "full" version that contained WinOS/2, the IBM rework of the Microsoft source. Unfortunately, they named the former version "OS/2 for Windows". "FOR" Windows?? What is OS/2 -- a Clippy add-on or something? I contend to this day that "OS/2 'for' Windows" was a stupid name.
2. I never saw them but Dvorak wrote that there were airport billboards saying that "OS/2 will obliterate your hard drive!" Duh?
I suppose it could also be considered a marketing mistake to have an advanced OS that needed 8 meg to run when your competition needed a base 4 meg. Reagan decided to go medieval on Japanese RAM manufacturers and show them what protective tarrifs really looked like around the time OS/2 was developing nicely. RAM was expensive back then.
Actually, OpenOffice 1.0 "encountered an error" and "needed repair" so often here that I kept the.bin on our hard drives and it wasn't hard to remembered where it was at all times. But that disappeared and seems to have been replaced with rock solid stability in OpenOffice 1.1. Looks like Word is on the opposite side of the development curve.
Like a broken record, I'll get in my standard comment that Word always did look like a text editor that programmer wonks threw "secretary-type stuff" into. In contrast, WordPerfect seemed like model software development. Do the analysis of what people would want to do and how they can do it best, and then start programming. Our department fought like badgers to keep it and were distributing copies of WordPerfect Magazine's article "500 things Word 97 can't do" around the college. To no avail.
So y'all stampeded with the herd, lived in the Microsoft monopoly PR dream -- and are starting to wake up?
Since I don't have cable and watch about an hour of broadcast TV per week during summer rerun season, AND SINCE NOBODY ELSE IS ALLOWED TO REPORT ON THE OLYMPICS, that could help explain why I haven't built up the interest to watch a minute of it, eh?
That was one guy's response when I said I liked to take Amtrak whenever practical. If true, they were minding their own business and never gave me any trouble.
I have had to conclude that my fellow Americans are cowards with their SUVs and Patriot Acts. Bullies, but that defining heart of cowardice. Better to kill a 1000 third-world children now than risk the chance that one of them might grow up to be a terrorist -- and on-and-on.
And 8.0 will get you native Win32 support (with a point-n-click installer and everything, if I'm not mistaken).
You aren't mistaken. The sort of install a Windows user will love -- although he will have to find PgAdmin III and create his own desktop shortcut.:) Pretty cursory look so far but I imported a db I'm working on from Debian and my more complex procedures ran fine.
With features like point-in-time recovery, I think we are going to hear a lot more about PostgreSQL this year.
Oh, yeah. You're right. Well, they say if you can't remember that decade......
There were a lot of rich kids with cameras who produced the most incredible slop in a short number of years around then. Pretty much anything with Marianne Faithfull should make the short list too.
Morgan Fairchild, '81. The mall rotated it in with the movie I actually went there to see. I love really, really bad cinema and this is literally the only movie I have ever walked out on:
"The Black Hole might take a certain amount of sympathy to squeak by nowadays (the film was a post-Star Wars rush job and looks it - there are visible wires on the robots)"
Caused me to rush out a side exit during the credits in the hope I wouldn't see anybody I knew waiting for the next showing. With the exception of Ed Wood, the Black Hole has left a putrid taste in my mouth for anything Disney to this day.
What was in, now, that the Northwest pilots threatening their last strike said NWA wanted their starting/low-range pilots to make? $25,000/year? Oh, here it is:
http://www.wsws.org/sections/category/workers/na me rica.shtml
"Do you want fries with that flight?"
I know a place where you can get pilot training for free and are almost certainly assured a job. And you get to take the low wages out on the people you kill. Then you can get out and be a mercentary for an outstanding U.S. corporation.
But commercial pilot? I think the glamour is long gone.
Somthing like it. I'm getting occasional drop outs under heavy system load with 16k airamericaradio where I never noticed a problem with XMMS 56k music streams under similar conditions.
But it is a good thing in general to have a RealPlayer with plugin.
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Just put a senior citizen who only wanted web and email on linux. Tried a Knoppix hard drive install to experiment, but:
1. Modem driver didn't claim to work with Debian, and, although the install script was "Debian-aware", it didn't. 2. How do I get _user_ level icons for mounting and unmounting removable media that a computer newbie can understand? Seemed like "auto" was broken after a hard drive install?
Fedora Core. Simple process. She's happy.
My conclusion was that Knoppix isn't quite there for the clueless home user's desktop.
But Knoppix is a clever insert for a beginner's book and, looking through a book store thinking about what my new user might understand, I can see that such a book is very needed.
Throw him in prison for a couple decades. The idea that a driver's license gives somebody a right to treat the windshield like a video game is psycho and anybody who thinks otherwise should grow up. It is a responsibility and actually does require the full attention of one's brilliant mind (unless one is a Senator from South Dakota).
No excuses. No "oopsy!" No "two kills and you're out." Just no excuses. I remember a few years ago when some local kids were randomly shooting a rifle out a car window and "accidently" killed a guy on a porch. They got several years in reform school. What's the difference between a rifle and a car when it is wielded irresponsibly in a death?
Does it really have to be an either/or question? Couldn't we cut funding for something else,
Not to bring up the elephant standing in the room or anything, but we _are_ occupying a (now) hostile foreign country larger than California and paying for that on future debt. (And half-ass occupying Afghanistan, which is somewhat less than twice the size of California).
Maybe we should cut local government some more? Like fire, police, schools, libraries? "Spare money" was back in the Clinton surplus. The U.S. doesn't have "spare money" now.
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Extradition should only be used for really serious offenses -- like software piracy.
Of course, the U.S. refused extradition of Kissinger for war crimes.
Looks like France may request extradition of Cheney for screwing not just the U.S. taxpayer but the rest of the world as well with the Halliburten money funnel. Of course, that will be denied as well.
Maybe software pirates need lobbyists?
Thank goodness this is coming out. Bucking the trend for 24/7 connectivity has made me feel about 150 years old.
I've always thought that if somebody thinks he has had an inspiration moment, I _don't_ want him to call me up immediately like some happy little monkey to share the joy. Let him think about it overnight, give it some structure and depth, and we'll talk about it the next morning at the office.
But then I went to school back when you had to sit at desks in neat rows and shut up.
I had a dorm single for two years. Crowd control, dude.
Ah, the classics. Some books will ruffle feathers for a century.
Beyond that, I was amused to see that I couldn't always decide whether a book was hated by classic fascists or the "politically correct".
An optional stand-alone charger is available if your [sic] into drag racing
Not that I'm that much of a stickler for grammar or anything, but, yeah, I'm going to trust these guys.
Can it be as simple as replacing your alternator with a belt-driven motor and battery pack? (How big is that battery pack, by-the-way, compared to "real" hybrids?
Your points are generally on target. But it was demonstrated that vendors were too afraid of Microsoft to carry OS/2 as well. Sort of hosed without vendors. And they couldn't really do a Windows 95 compatible OS/2. They had license access to Win 3.1 code, but look how long it took Codeweavers to come up with a tie-in to the 32-bit API.
But there were marketing mistakes too.
1. There was the OS/2 version that worked with an existing Win3.1 install and there was the "full" version that contained WinOS/2, the IBM rework of the Microsoft source. Unfortunately, they named the former version "OS/2 for Windows". "FOR" Windows?? What is OS/2 -- a Clippy add-on or something? I contend to this day that "OS/2 'for' Windows" was a stupid name.
2. I never saw them but Dvorak wrote that there were airport billboards saying that "OS/2 will obliterate your hard drive!" Duh?
I suppose it could also be considered a marketing mistake to have an advanced OS that needed 8 meg to run when your competition needed a base 4 meg. Reagan decided to go medieval on Japanese RAM manufacturers and show them what protective tarrifs really looked like around the time OS/2 was developing nicely. RAM was expensive back then.
I strongly desire to keep my personal stuff separate from my work stuff
How much porn can you download at work that it won't fit into a half-gig USB key?
Actually, OpenOffice 1.0 "encountered an error" and "needed repair" so often here that I kept the
Like a broken record, I'll get in my standard comment that Word always did look like a text editor that programmer wonks threw "secretary-type stuff" into. In contrast, WordPerfect seemed like model software development. Do the analysis of what people would want to do and how they can do it best, and then start programming. Our department fought like badgers to keep it and were distributing copies of WordPerfect Magazine's article "500 things Word 97 can't do" around the college. To no avail.
So y'all stampeded with the herd, lived in the Microsoft monopoly PR dream -- and are starting to wake up?
have we lost our common sense when it comes to passenger screening?"
We've lost our common sense as a nation.
"Mad dog ideology"
and the sad part is,
we don't even have our
"backs against the wall."
"Future generations will wonder what for"
[for those who pride themselves on obscure lyrics]
For a first-time user?
Hey, this is great, you've got your first Linux system. Whoops! Time's up. If you want security updates, it's time to wipe and reinstall!
Shouldn't be that bad. A simple update search, dependency checks, downloads, compiles and installs.
And there they are.
Coddle them and they just grow up weak.
Since I don't have cable and watch about an hour of broadcast TV per week during summer rerun season, AND SINCE NOBODY ELSE IS ALLOWED TO REPORT ON THE OLYMPICS, that could help explain why I haven't built up the interest to watch a minute of it, eh?
That was one guy's response when I said I liked to take Amtrak whenever practical. If true, they were minding their own business and never gave me any trouble.
I have had to conclude that my fellow Americans are cowards with their SUVs and Patriot Acts. Bullies, but that defining heart of cowardice. Better to kill a 1000 third-world children now than risk the chance that one of them might grow up to be a terrorist -- and on-and-on.
And 8.0 will get you native Win32 support (with a point-n-click installer and everything, if I'm not mistaken).
:) Pretty cursory look so far but I imported a db I'm working on from Debian and my more complex procedures ran fine.
You aren't mistaken. The sort of install a Windows user will love -- although he will have to find PgAdmin III and create his own desktop shortcut.
With features like point-in-time recovery, I think we are going to hear a lot more about PostgreSQL this year.
I had repressed Saturn 3. I'm not saying you're wrong, but look at the cast:
Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel, Christopher Walken, Douglas Lambert
It's pretty close to enjoyably camp as a disaster with that much talent (and Farrah).
Oh, yeah. You're right. Well, they say if you can't remember that decade......
There were a lot of rich kids with cameras who produced the most incredible slop in a short number of years around then. Pretty much anything with Marianne Faithfull should make the short list too.
Morgan Fairchild, '81. The mall rotated it in with the movie I actually went there to see. I love really, really bad cinema and this is literally the only movie I have ever walked out on:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/showthread.p
For my tastes, the runner-up goes to:
"The Black Hole might take a certain amount of sympathy to squeak by nowadays (the film was a post-Star Wars rush job and looks it - there are visible wires on the robots)"
http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=311
Caused me to rush out a side exit during the credits in the hope I wouldn't see anybody I knew waiting for the next showing. With the exception of Ed Wood, the Black Hole has left a putrid taste in my mouth for anything Disney to this day.
Ideally, the demographics of IT should mirror the demographics of hospital workers. Then we can be competitive.
Not that I'm cynical or anything.
can it deliver 500W for years and years ?
Oh, heck no. Look at the specs: 70% efficiency.
The guy above is right: spam hawking a 350w supply.
Oh, yeah. That'll be great.
What was in, now, that the Northwest pilots threatening their last strike said NWA wanted their starting/low-range pilots to make? $25,000/year? Oh, here it is:
http://www.wsws.org/sections/category/workers/n
"Do you want fries with that flight?"
I know a place where you can get pilot training for free and are almost certainly assured a job. And you get to take the low wages out on the people you kill. Then you can get out and be a mercentary for an outstanding U.S. corporation.
But commercial pilot? I think the glamour is long gone.
Somthing like it. I'm getting occasional drop outs under heavy system load with 16k airamericaradio where I never noticed a problem with XMMS 56k music streams under similar conditions.
But it is a good thing in general to have a RealPlayer with plugin.
Just put a senior citizen who only wanted web and email on linux. Tried a Knoppix hard drive install to experiment, but:
1. Modem driver didn't claim to work with Debian, and, although the install script was "Debian-aware", it didn't.
2. How do I get _user_ level icons for mounting and unmounting removable media that a computer newbie can understand? Seemed like "auto" was broken after a hard drive install?
Fedora Core. Simple process. She's happy.
My conclusion was that Knoppix isn't quite there for the clueless home user's desktop.
But Knoppix is a clever insert for a beginner's book and, looking through a book store thinking about what my new user might understand, I can see that such a book is very needed.
6.7 feet high still seems inadequate for several Doom3 monsters.
Don't think I could keep a straight face at this one though.
Pedestrian and runner here.
Throw him in prison for a couple decades. The idea that a driver's license gives somebody a right to treat the windshield like a video game is psycho and anybody who thinks otherwise should grow up. It is a responsibility and actually does require the full attention of one's brilliant mind (unless one is a Senator from South Dakota).
No excuses. No "oopsy!" No "two kills and you're out." Just no excuses. I remember a few years ago when some local kids were randomly shooting a rifle out a car window and "accidently" killed a guy on a porch. They got several years in reform school. What's the difference between a rifle and a car when it is wielded irresponsibly in a death?
Does it really have to be an either/or question? Couldn't we cut funding for something else,
Not to bring up the elephant standing in the room or anything, but we _are_ occupying a (now) hostile foreign country larger than California and paying for that on future debt. (And half-ass occupying Afghanistan, which is somewhat less than twice the size of California).
Maybe we should cut local government some more? Like fire, police, schools, libraries? "Spare money" was back in the Clinton surplus. The U.S. doesn't have "spare money" now.