My desktop at my old job was sub-300Mhz (233 or 266 P2), and ran XP fairly well. (IIRC, it was technically below minimum spec to run XP.) It had an assload of ram, which I'm sure would help, and I turned off *all* the candyland UI stuff. Sure it was a business machine, but I ran Office (2k or XP, not sure), Harvard Graphics, Pegasus Mail, and Moz 1.0 on it with no problem. (I'm sure it would have choked on games though.)
Neither did Bush, in his non-professional opinion. However, neither you nor Bush are doctors. Thank you for deciding that you know better than doctors who have dedicated their lives to medicine and spent years both preparing in school and working directly in the field in question.
Actually, I think I left that an open question. Are you a doctor?
For the record, partial birth abortions were never allowed as of Roe V Wade unless the mother's life was in danger.
I can tell you aren't a lawyer either. PBAs were not protected (unless medically necessary) by Roe-v-Wade, and all abortions after "viability" are subject to regulation (or ban) by the states or the Federal government.
The PBA ban would have been nothing but a token gesture...
The PBA ban was a token gesture because the SCOTUS will likely strike down the law for its lack of a medical/life exception. However, a PBA ban lacking this exception would be politically unsatisfactory to the Right to Life groups. The RTL'ers would rather have ideologically pure politicians than save the lives of babies.
Thank you for declaring that we will make sure women die in childbirth in the united states of america.
First of all, very few of these procedures occur, and secondly, the SCOTUS will end up protecting PBAs when the mother's life is in danger.
The big question will be whether the SCOTUS will limit its protection to "life" of the mother, or "life or health". "Health" can be very broadly construed, and mental health even more so.
##Does the US force women to die because of laws banning late term abortions? Yes.
#No. This is not only completely false, but quite inflamatory as well. The banning of partial-birth abortions, which involves sucking the brain out of a living baby who just happens to have its head in the birth canal, specifically allows abortions where the mothers health is at risk. So you are very WRONG.
Actually, the PBA ban that was recently signed by the Prez includes a finding of fact that PBAs are never medically necessary, and as such, the law does not include any exemptions. This was a response to a SCOTUS case which struck down a similar PBA ban in Nebraska which did not include a medical exemption from the ban.
In my completely non-professional opinion, I can't imagine PBAs being medically necessary, but I think the authors of the recent PBA ban were foolish not to include that exemption because of SCOTUS concerns.
I'm not saying that they have perfect freedom of speech (but then the US hardly does either -- people have been jailed in the US for websites encouraging rebellion just like they would in China),
Wow. You can't be an American, can you? Do you understand how stupid that statement is? Yes, in the US, if you are actively plotting to kill the President or encourage armed rebellion against the Powers That Be, no shit you will be jailed. That is true of every nation on the earth.
If somebody in China said that the President and his party should be removed from office, and all their policies recinded, that person would (at best) be thrown in jail. In the US, that person could be Howard Dean. And while Howard Dean is really annoying, no reasonable person is suggesting that we throw him in jail. Big F'ing difference.
The term "Anti-Sionist" needs some definition. In many circles, the term "Zionist" merely indicates a belief that Israel should be allowed to exist. Anti-Zionists support the Palestinian thug-ocracy, and by extension, their desire to eliminate Israel altogether by whatever murderous and terroristic means necessary. An anti-Zionist assigns moral equivalence between the tactics of the IDF and Hizbollah.
I'm missing the fundamental difference between anti-semitism and anti-zionism. It seems to be only a matter of degree.
Good point about trusting the Japanese over the French with nuke stuff. Bad point about the probability of nuclear incidents. The only way there can be a nuclear facility accident is IF YOU BUILD A FACILITY. It has nothing to do with previous nuclear history.
That said, fusion accidents would be much less nasty than fission accidents.
That's because many, many Americans (including myself) feel that the French (as a whole, leadership and population) have been a bunch of duplicitous, hypocritical, arrogant assholes. The French accuse the US of being anti-Arab greedy capitalists, but the French had significant financial interests in Saddam's Iraq, and here they are passing "progressive" cultural initiatives which are primarily anti-Arab and anti-Jew (for the damn few Jews left in France). Sec of State Powell was given assurances by French diplomats that UNRes1441 would have some teeth to it and that the French would allow the US to enforce it without much problem. Lies.
Ditto. I resent being compared to a theater arts major. Maybe somebody just isn't aware of good poli sci programs, or what might distinguish a good program from a lousy one.
...from Sony Records... robotic boy-bands: permanently young and agile! And they won't even need to be paid zillions of dollars! A whole new spin on "mass produced".
A wysiwyg word proc was indeed available for the 2gs, but I just ran AppleWorks 3 on mine, which was not wysiwyg.
Later iterations of the GS/OS and programs specifically for the 2gs were very mac-like.
The question developers should ask themselves about every option and screen in the new Debian installer is whether a reasonably knowledgable person could figure it out without a walkthrough or printed directions.
For the most part, this is a huge improvement on the old Debian installer. But I have a gripe about figure 34exim.jpeg ("Which Major configuration? local, internet, smarthost, satellite, none"). Would it kill them to put some brief descriptions like "workstation", "home", "server", or "laptop"?
Ok, $30B is a non-negligible chunk of change, no doubt. But consider $30B over twenty-odd years versus some other recent expenditures... like $87B just for part of this year in Iraq & Afghanistan.
Ok, so double our fusion research dollars over 20 years and you still haven't hit part of our war effort this year.
Disclaimer 1: I am not busting on the Iraq thing, just trying to put things in perspective.
Disclaimer 2: I am aware that money does not directly buy scientific breakthroughs, but it sure does help!
... the DOE started pouring some serious cash into fusion research.
We should have been going balls to the wall on fusion since the energy crisis... of the SEVENTIES! Maybe we wouldn't have had it by now, but maybe it would be a lot closer.
Academics in the 50's (!!!) were writing about how US dependence on foreign oil (specifically Persian Gulf/Arabian oil) was just asking for trouble. Then OPEC bites us in the ass. We freak out a bit (price controls, wear more sweaters), but when the "crisis" (largely self-inflicted; read some economics books) abates, we go back to business as usual, just waiting for our dependence on foreign oil to bite us in the ass again... as it has several times to varying degrees.
"sic" is used when quoting a source that contains a misspelling or other error. It's used to show that you, the one doing the quoting, are aware of the error and that you did not introduce the error.
(Sorry to reply to myself - consider this an addendum.)
When I finally left my trusty Apple2gs and bought a windows machine the first thing I noticed was that the manuals SUCK for stuff now. My copy of AppleWorks 3.0 came with a very detailed and useful manual that described exactly how every function worked. It wasn't written in overly complicated language, but it was very thorough.
Contrast this with that thing that came with my copy of MS-Office97. Totally useless. It had a bunch of "practical" examples (which had little to do with my needs). Finding out what a specific function did, or even finding a list of available features was next to impossible.
The moral of the story is that people don't want to learn how to use a program, they want to intuit it. To the extent that they can't intuit it, they want their hands held, and they want "practical" results immediately.
Disclaimer: I can't code for shit (I took some intro C in high school, haven't touched it since. My html is piss poor as well).
Many users don't even know basic things, like the difference between RAM and Hard disk "memory". My brother has no idea what a "browser" is even though he uses one every day. My parents can't follow windows-related directions involving more than two steps. A good friend of mine asked if he neede a Zip drive to open zip files.
I think that having at least a rudimentary idea of what all the icons and pictures actually represent should be a prerequisite to calling one's self "end-user literate".
I know you're (half) joking, but some people can barely read when they get out of high school.
My sister couldn't even name one officially communist country (past or present) after she graduated. It's really sad. The "2nd law of thermodynamics" might as well be "practical applications for quantum slipstream warp drives".
My uncle's computer is a virus and trojan-ridden piece of shit Win95 box that apparently visits a lot of shady pr0n sites. Until recently, a simple AVG update and scan got rid of everything. After once or twice finding re-infections I set AVG to auto-update and auto-scan. This worked for a while. Then I came across this nasty backdoor piece of shit that ran a process called "shellexp", which only has about 55 hits on Google right now, but only had about 15 when I first discovered it. Another wonderful feature of this backdoor exploit was a spoofed "explorer.exe" that refused to load the normal UI (start button, taskbar, desktop icons, etc.).
I finally got fed up and told him to use Firebird rather than IE. That should solve the vast majority of his problems.
What the hell is somebody supposed to do when the internet writ large has not heard of a problem?
AIM is annoying in this same way, even though I have repeatedly asked it not to check for upgrades. You can't pre-emptively ask it not to check for upgrades, but when it tells you that there is an upgrade and you decline it, there is a way to tell it not to ask again. Apparently AIM doesn't abide by this request.
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My desktop at my old job was sub-300Mhz (233 or 266 P2), and ran XP fairly well. (IIRC, it was technically below minimum spec to run XP.) It had an assload of ram, which I'm sure would help, and I turned off *all* the candyland UI stuff. Sure it was a business machine, but I ran Office (2k or XP, not sure), Harvard Graphics, Pegasus Mail, and Moz 1.0 on it with no problem. (I'm sure it would have choked on games though.)
Sorry, I've seen this way too many times on /. to let it slide again.
The word is "niche"
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Actually, I think I left that an open question. Are you a doctor?
For the record, partial birth abortions were never allowed as of Roe V Wade unless the mother's life was in danger.
I can tell you aren't a lawyer either. PBAs were not protected (unless medically necessary) by Roe-v-Wade, and all abortions after "viability" are subject to regulation (or ban) by the states or the Federal government.
The PBA ban would have been nothing but a token gesture...
The PBA ban was a token gesture because the SCOTUS will likely strike down the law for its lack of a medical/life exception. However, a PBA ban lacking this exception would be politically unsatisfactory to the Right to Life groups. The RTL'ers would rather have ideologically pure politicians than save the lives of babies.
Thank you for declaring that we will make sure women die in childbirth in the united states of america.
First of all, very few of these procedures occur, and secondly, the SCOTUS will end up protecting PBAs when the mother's life is in danger.
The big question will be whether the SCOTUS will limit its protection to "life" of the mother, or "life or health". "Health" can be very broadly construed, and mental health even more so.
#No. This is not only completely false, but quite inflamatory as well. The banning of partial-birth abortions, which involves sucking the brain out of a living baby who just happens to have its head in the birth canal, specifically allows abortions where the mothers health is at risk. So you are very WRONG.
Actually, the PBA ban that was recently signed by the Prez includes a finding of fact that PBAs are never medically necessary, and as such, the law does not include any exemptions. This was a response to a SCOTUS case which struck down a similar PBA ban in Nebraska which did not include a medical exemption from the ban.
In my completely non-professional opinion, I can't imagine PBAs being medically necessary, but I think the authors of the recent PBA ban were foolish not to include that exemption because of SCOTUS concerns.
Wow. You can't be an American, can you? Do you understand how stupid that statement is? Yes, in the US, if you are actively plotting to kill the President or encourage armed rebellion against the Powers That Be, no shit you will be jailed. That is true of every nation on the earth.
If somebody in China said that the President and his party should be removed from office, and all their policies recinded, that person would (at best) be thrown in jail. In the US, that person could be Howard Dean. And while Howard Dean is really annoying, no reasonable person is suggesting that we throw him in jail. Big F'ing difference.
Just keep telling yourself that...
Also, FrontPage Magazine has some good archived articles about Israel and the Palestinians.
I'm missing the fundamental difference between anti-semitism and anti-zionism. It seems to be only a matter of degree.
That said, fusion accidents would be much less nasty than fission accidents.
That's because many, many Americans (including myself) feel that the French (as a whole, leadership and population) have been a bunch of duplicitous, hypocritical, arrogant assholes. The French accuse the US of being anti-Arab greedy capitalists, but the French had significant financial interests in Saddam's Iraq, and here they are passing "progressive" cultural initiatives which are primarily anti-Arab and anti-Jew (for the damn few Jews left in France). Sec of State Powell was given assurances by French diplomats that UNRes1441 would have some teeth to it and that the French would allow the US to enforce it without much problem. Lies.
Ditto. I resent being compared to a theater arts major. Maybe somebody just isn't aware of good poli sci programs, or what might distinguish a good program from a lousy one.
Actually, it would be nice if they just finished the miniseries. (Is two shows a "series"?)
The second ep really left me hanging...
I'm not sure I'd want a robot that would steal from me and drink all my booze, but it sure would be cool if my friend had one!
The end is nigh!
Starcraft also plays reasonably well in WINE, tho I can't speak to multiplayer stuff.
A wysiwyg word proc was indeed available for the 2gs, but I just ran AppleWorks 3 on mine, which was not wysiwyg. Later iterations of the GS/OS and programs specifically for the 2gs were very mac-like.
For the most part, this is a huge improvement on the old Debian installer. But I have a gripe about figure 34exim.jpeg ("Which Major configuration? local, internet, smarthost, satellite, none"). Would it kill them to put some brief descriptions like "workstation", "home", "server", or "laptop"?
Ok, so double our fusion research dollars over 20 years and you still haven't hit part of our war effort this year.
Disclaimer 1: I am not busting on the Iraq thing, just trying to put things in perspective.
Disclaimer 2: I am aware that money does not directly buy scientific breakthroughs, but it sure does help!
We should have been going balls to the wall on fusion since the energy crisis... of the SEVENTIES! Maybe we wouldn't have had it by now, but maybe it would be a lot closer.
Academics in the 50's (!!!) were writing about how US dependence on foreign oil (specifically Persian Gulf/Arabian oil) was just asking for trouble. Then OPEC bites us in the ass. We freak out a bit (price controls, wear more sweaters), but when the "crisis" (largely self-inflicted; read some economics books) abates, we go back to business as usual, just waiting for our dependence on foreign oil to bite us in the ass again... as it has several times to varying degrees.
"sic" is used when quoting a source that contains a misspelling or other error. It's used to show that you, the one doing the quoting, are aware of the error and that you did not introduce the error.
When I finally left my trusty Apple2gs and bought a windows machine the first thing I noticed was that the manuals SUCK for stuff now. My copy of AppleWorks 3.0 came with a very detailed and useful manual that described exactly how every function worked. It wasn't written in overly complicated language, but it was very thorough.
Contrast this with that thing that came with my copy of MS-Office97. Totally useless. It had a bunch of "practical" examples (which had little to do with my needs). Finding out what a specific function did, or even finding a list of available features was next to impossible.
The moral of the story is that people don't want to learn how to use a program, they want to intuit it. To the extent that they can't intuit it, they want their hands held, and they want "practical" results immediately.
Many users don't even know basic things, like the difference between RAM and Hard disk "memory". My brother has no idea what a "browser" is even though he uses one every day. My parents can't follow windows-related directions involving more than two steps. A good friend of mine asked if he neede a Zip drive to open zip files.
I think that having at least a rudimentary idea of what all the icons and pictures actually represent should be a prerequisite to calling one's self "end-user literate".
My sister couldn't even name one officially communist country (past or present) after she graduated. It's really sad. The "2nd law of thermodynamics" might as well be "practical applications for quantum slipstream warp drives".
I finally got fed up and told him to use Firebird rather than IE. That should solve the vast majority of his problems.
What the hell is somebody supposed to do when the internet writ large has not heard of a problem?
AIM is annoying in this same way, even though I have repeatedly asked it not to check for upgrades. You can't pre-emptively ask it not to check for upgrades, but when it tells you that there is an upgrade and you decline it, there is a way to tell it not to ask again. Apparently AIM doesn't abide by this request.