crashed off the coast of Australia. What I can't figure out is how these people get their documentary broadcast but nobody has been able to find the island they are stranded on for 2 years
It's only about 2 months of elapsed time... But anyway, if you're looking off the coast of Australia, try Oahu.
Last time I checked (er, I'm just guessing),/. doesn't have a staff of paid investigative reporters who travel the world, so why would you expect more than a bunch of carefully selected links?
They do have about a half-dozen editors, but they DO NOT give a bunch of "carefully selected links". I read TFA, the only link, and had no idea what the case was about. I've heard of Tivo (fortunately, since that wasn't explained), but not EchoStar. Only after followong some links in comments do I have any idea of what this is about.
"peaceful and law-abiding" does not include conspiracy, harboring fugitives, funding terrorist organizations, purgery, and being an accessory to others' crimes.
The picture credit is "Getty Images/AFP", the text is from AP. Some editor dug up a file photo to illustrate the story. The crank is not part of the current design. Besides, just about every village in Thailand is electrified, they'll use mains power directly or to charge the battery.
Apparently 1 in 10 North Koreans are a victim of this behavior
Apparently, you don't know the difference between North Korea (maybe.01% of the population has even seen a computer) and South Korea (fibre-to-home broadband). Anyway, TFA makes that claim, but I find it unlikely. For one thing, with a population of 48 million, how could 4.8 million people have become national pariahs? I can't imagine they could get through demonising and destroying the life of more than one or two people a day; that comes to about 40,000 people over the last 10 years (roughly since Internet became a mass phenomenon). What it probably really means is being attacked online, as a nasty message on a bulletin board. Not nice, but not something that will wreck your life like the two or three extreme cases cited.
2. That said, control on the bottom left is much easier to hit once you start using the "edge of palm" technique.
I can't contort my hands to do this, perhaps my hands are larger. I have to take my fingers off the home row to even touch a key with my palm. And though I did use vi for a few years, that was back in the 70s... so my memory is a little fuzzy.
The simple fact of the matter is the CURRENT problem is ISLAMIC extremists
That's more or less true. But of the billion Muslims in the world, how many are "extremists"? How many are bombers? A few hundred.
All the 9/11 bombers were males under 40. Simple. Ban all males under 40 from flying. Just as effective.
When I'm on holiday in Thailand I often get profiled as a pedophile, because most of the pedophiles in the news there happen to be of my race and age. Under your rules I'd be castrated and locked up just to be safe.
Idiotic. Then all the terrorists just give up? There are plenty of Muslims who don't look like your stereotypical Arab. And there are plenty of Middle Eastern Jews and Christians who could supply ID, or have it stolen from them. There are plenty of US citizens who are Muslim, it would be interesting to try to get a ban on their travelling through court. Not to mention the huge backlash the US would suffer.
Think of it like spam. A couple of years ago, you were getting lots of spam with the word "Viagra" in it. Simple. Filter out all messages with the word "Viagra". Two weeks later, you start to get spam about "V1agra", "V;agra", "Viiagra"....
However, I don't think it's safe anymore to allow your eight year old to wander a large shopping mall alone.
Less safe than the 70s? I doubt it. Everyone is just more paranoid now. The risks are real, but no greater than before. People have just seem too many CSI episodes of sickos kidnapping kids from malls.
There are over 5,400 orginal manuscript copies and they all correlate.
They're COPIES. So I'd hope they do. So what? How many of the authors witnessed anything?
That doesn't even factor in all the eye witnesses and outside (non-christian, non-jewish) historocity that validates the claims in the new testament.
Bollocks. There isn't a single contemporary document mentioning Jesus. Including the gospels, which were written at least a century after. That's irrelevant though, we were discussing Genesis. Whether Jesus existed, whether he was divine, is a whole other debate and again you try to make them the same. They're not. I can believe in Jesus' teaching (which I do) without believing in Adam and Eve.
Ahh, and where are all of the transitional forms that have lived and died over the last 30 million years?
What's a "transitional form"? Except a buzzword used by creationists who think it's a zinger. How about you explain Homo erectus, Pithecanthropus, etc.
"In fact, it is precisely because of these problems that more and more modern evolutionists are adopting a new theory known as Punctuated Equilibrium....
Who are you quoting here? Someone who creates straw men, who puts words in the mouths of evolutionists and knocks them down. If you want to debate with evolutionists, quote a real one. Better yet, actually read, say, Richard Dawkins (or for that matter, Charles Darwin; he's quite readable).
Make no mistake; America has a state sponsored religion that is indoctrinated in public schools...
Bollocks again. TFA says the US has almost the highest proportion of creationists in the whole world. You're winning. Yet you still claim persecution. If it goes on, in a century the US will be a third-world theocracy.
If there is a reason for floppies to cost more, it's not the thickness
I was referring not to the cost of the floppies (though it is higher), but the binding into the book. And I was talking specifically about books; magazines often have a lot of crap bound in and attached otherwsie, and higher printing costs all around, so it's not a big deal for them.
Either way, you're wrong, and I call shenanigans. None of those floppies were ever bad when I got them.
"Shenanigans"? WTF? And who said the floppies would be "bad".
Also, the binding for floppies, certainly 3.5" floppies, is certainly much more bulky and expensive than for a CD, requiring changes in design. I work in book publishing, gluing in a CD envelope is a trivial afterthought, adding a floppy would be much more expensive, usually they used a thick insert bound with the pages. With magazines, I recall the magazine was usually bagged. I'm not saying it can't be done, but it is not simple and a major cost -- compared to the printing cost of typically one or two dollars.
If you read my posts, you'd see that my point was that SOME media outlets reported the story, and SOME didn't.
So a majority of the population saw this story about the one shell, even though it was downplayed, and formed their considered opinion that this was proof of WMD? Fine.
I work in finance, and on occasion I have to manually type out invoices. It is important to maintain consistancy, so all the invoices are typed in block caps.
Manually? If using MS Word, you can select the text after typing it in and use the AAa button, or SHIFT-F3 to cycle through various cases. Or make a macro. Or better, make a style all caps (Style->Font), and that's all you can type.
I think maybe they switched them to be more like traditional mechanical typewriters.
Read these two posts by Dan Strychalski in alt.folklore.computers: Date: 1998/04/16
Windows came out in August 1985. The "enhanced" PC AT
keyboard with Control in the bottom row appeared in April 1986. Its
Control key was in exactly the same place as the Mac's Command key. At
some point after that -- exactly when, I don't know -- Microsoft
started using Control-X, C, and V for Cut, Copy, and Paste in Windows.
I'm not saying IBM moved the Control key to let Microsoft copy Mac
keystrokes. I wouldn't discount the possibility, either. I *do* believe
the Control key was moved to make keyboard-only operation uncomfortable
and inefficient. I've met a *few* keyboarders who prefer a bottom-row
Control key; *not one* of them likes it where IBM put it in 1986.
Some people say IBM wanted to make the keyboard more typewriter-like.
By adding a second Alt and a second Control key? By using `Enter' where
all typewriters and most other computer keyboards have `Return'? People
had squawked about departures from the Selectric design in 1981; the
changes they'd asked for had been made on the original PC AT in 1984.
One of the design goals of the Mac's creators was to make
programs such as WordStar impossible. They were not about to
copy anything from WordStar. While WordStar lets you do
*everything* through the Ctrl key, the Mac in its first
three years had *no* Ctrl key; it had a single Command key,
and that key was in the worst possible place for comfortable
use with all but a few character keys. The OS and the first
model apps simply did not allow keyboard-only operation. At
the time, CP/M was still going strong; lots of new IBM-type
and non-IBM-type machines were coming out; and WordStar held
near-absolute sway in the word processing world. Steve Jobs
did not want Mac users learning a method of operation that
would be transferrable to other systems.
~~~~~
So it all goes back to IBM, Microsoft and Apple trying to fuck each other over, and cooperating to wipe out "old school" apps like Wordstar.
Really? "In packaging terms" does rather look like you're talking about physical volume (as after all is TFA's topic). And preferably be a little more clear beforehand rather than condescending later.
The publishers insisted that it should be on a CD, not a floppy...in packaging terms the space wastage was enormous, but in marketing terms it was the sensible decision.
I don't get how it wasted space (unless you mean data capacity). Most CDs included in books are in plastic or paper envelopes glued inside the back cover. A floppy is rather too thick to do that, it would need to be separately packaged. Also, it's a lot easier, and cheaper, to press CDs than floppies nowadays. I doubt there are many places that could duplicate floppies in bulk these days anyway.
And, if they're going to include OSes, WINDOWS doesn't make the cut?
He included MacOS, and Unix. Is there anytng that Windows did that wasn't copied from either one?
It's a "greatest software" list. Obviously how you measure "greatness" is subjective. Just selling billions of copies isn't enough. Otherwise Big Macs would be the "greatest" food in the USA. |American Idol would be the "greatest TV show" (just guessing there, but whatever does get the highest ratings is probably as bad).
Take away all income and possessions until the debt is paid.
He now either has the choice of living in povery until he dies or digging up the gold/platinum himself
RTFA. AOL wants to search the spammer's PARENT's property for gold they allege he buried there. He's long gone, no known property to seize.
I've seen the evidence that supports my belief in God, but if you're too blind to even look for it, you will never find it.
Interesting that equate "belief in creationism" to "belief in God". It's really only in America that Biblical literalism is so strong. Thus the survey results. Most other rational, but religious, people can see that much of the Bible is allegorical. One thing that the DaVinci Code, silly as it is mostly, got right is that the "scriptures" we have today are a result of centuries of selection and interpretation; not typed verbatim by God into His stone laptop.
The Theory of Creationism has been around since 4004 BC. There should be scores of photos of actual evidence that undeniably support this theory. Let's see...
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It's only about 2 months of elapsed time... But anyway, if you're looking off the coast of Australia, try Oahu.
They do have about a half-dozen editors, but they DO NOT give a bunch of "carefully selected links". I read TFA, the only link, and had no idea what the case was about. I've heard of Tivo (fortunately, since that wasn't explained), but not EchoStar. Only after followong some links in comments do I have any idea of what this is about.
Purgery? Is bulimia illegal now?
The picture credit is "Getty Images/AFP", the text is from AP. Some editor dug up a file photo to illustrate the story. The crank is not part of the current design. Besides, just about every village in Thailand is electrified, they'll use mains power directly or to charge the battery.
Apparently, you don't know the difference between North Korea (maybe .01% of the population has even seen a computer) and South Korea (fibre-to-home broadband). Anyway, TFA makes that claim, but I find it unlikely. For one thing, with a population of 48 million, how could 4.8 million people have become national pariahs? I can't imagine they could get through demonising and destroying the life of more than one or two people a day; that comes to about 40,000 people over the last 10 years (roughly since Internet became a mass phenomenon). What it probably really means is being attacked online, as a nasty message on a bulletin board. Not nice, but not something that will wreck your life like the two or three extreme cases cited.
Please don't trivialise the word "terrorism" by using it to describe being trashed online.
I can't contort my hands to do this, perhaps my hands are larger. I have to take my fingers off the home row to even touch a key with my palm. And though I did use vi for a few years, that was back in the 70s... so my memory is a little fuzzy.
That's more or less true. But of the billion Muslims in the world, how many are "extremists"? How many are bombers? A few hundred.
All the 9/11 bombers were males under 40. Simple. Ban all males under 40 from flying. Just as effective.
When I'm on holiday in Thailand I often get profiled as a pedophile, because most of the pedophiles in the news there happen to be of my race and age. Under your rules I'd be castrated and locked up just to be safe.
Idiotic. Then all the terrorists just give up? There are plenty of Muslims who don't look like your stereotypical Arab. And there are plenty of Middle Eastern Jews and Christians who could supply ID, or have it stolen from them. There are plenty of US citizens who are Muslim, it would be interesting to try to get a ban on their travelling through court. Not to mention the huge backlash the US would suffer.
Think of it like spam. A couple of years ago, you were getting lots of spam with the word "Viagra" in it. Simple. Filter out all messages with the word "Viagra". Two weeks later, you start to get spam about "V1agra", "V;agra", "Viiagra"....
Less safe than the 70s? I doubt it. Everyone is just more paranoid now. The risks are real, but no greater than before. People have just seem too many CSI episodes of sickos kidnapping kids from malls.
They're COPIES. So I'd hope they do. So what? How many of the authors witnessed anything?
That doesn't even factor in all the eye witnesses and outside (non-christian, non-jewish) historocity that validates the claims in the new testament.
Bollocks. There isn't a single contemporary document mentioning Jesus. Including the gospels, which were written at least a century after. That's irrelevant though, we were discussing Genesis. Whether Jesus existed, whether he was divine, is a whole other debate and again you try to make them the same. They're not. I can believe in Jesus' teaching (which I do) without believing in Adam and Eve.
Ahh, and where are all of the transitional forms that have lived and died over the last 30 million years?
What's a "transitional form"? Except a buzzword used by creationists who think it's a zinger. How about you explain Homo erectus, Pithecanthropus, etc.
"In fact, it is precisely because of these problems that more and more modern evolutionists are adopting a new theory known as Punctuated Equilibrium....
Who are you quoting here? Someone who creates straw men, who puts words in the mouths of evolutionists and knocks them down. If you want to debate with evolutionists, quote a real one. Better yet, actually read, say, Richard Dawkins (or for that matter, Charles Darwin; he's quite readable).
Make no mistake; America has a state sponsored religion that is indoctrinated in public schools...
Bollocks again. TFA says the US has almost the highest proportion of creationists in the whole world. You're winning. Yet you still claim persecution. If it goes on, in a century the US will be a third-world theocracy.
If the system can only cope with caps, it should convert all input itself. How stupid.
I was referring not to the cost of the floppies (though it is higher), but the binding into the book. And I was talking specifically about books; magazines often have a lot of crap bound in and attached otherwsie, and higher printing costs all around, so it's not a big deal for them.
"Shenanigans"? WTF? And who said the floppies would be "bad".
Also, the binding for floppies, certainly 3.5" floppies, is certainly much more bulky and expensive than for a CD, requiring changes in design. I work in book publishing, gluing in a CD envelope is a trivial afterthought, adding a floppy would be much more expensive, usually they used a thick insert bound with the pages. With magazines, I recall the magazine was usually bagged. I'm not saying it can't be done, but it is not simple and a major cost -- compared to the printing cost of typically one or two dollars.
Thousands of hard core Wordstar and vi geeks, who intensively use control keys, would venture to disagree.
So a majority of the population saw this story about the one shell, even though it was downplayed, and formed their considered opinion that this was proof of WMD? Fine.
Manually? If using MS Word, you can select the text after typing it in and use the AAa button, or SHIFT-F3 to cycle through various cases. Or make a macro. Or better, make a style all caps (Style->Font), and that's all you can type.
I think maybe they switched them to be more like traditional mechanical typewriters.
Read these two posts by Dan Strychalski in alt.folklore.computers:
Date: 1998/04/16
Windows came out in August 1985. The "enhanced" PC AT
keyboard with Control in the bottom row appeared in April 1986. Its
Control key was in exactly the same place as the Mac's Command key. At
some point after that -- exactly when, I don't know -- Microsoft
started using Control-X, C, and V for Cut, Copy, and Paste in Windows.
I'm not saying IBM moved the Control key to let Microsoft copy Mac
keystrokes. I wouldn't discount the possibility, either. I *do* believe
the Control key was moved to make keyboard-only operation uncomfortable
and inefficient. I've met a *few* keyboarders who prefer a bottom-row
Control key; *not one* of them likes it where IBM put it in 1986.
Some people say IBM wanted to make the keyboard more typewriter-like.
By adding a second Alt and a second Control key? By using `Enter' where
all typewriters and most other computer keyboards have `Return'? People
had squawked about departures from the Selectric design in 1981; the
changes they'd asked for had been made on the original PC AT in 1984.
and Date: 1999/01/09
One of the design goals of the Mac's creators was to make
programs such as WordStar impossible. They were not about to
copy anything from WordStar. While WordStar lets you do
*everything* through the Ctrl key, the Mac in its first
three years had *no* Ctrl key; it had a single Command key,
and that key was in the worst possible place for comfortable
use with all but a few character keys. The OS and the first
model apps simply did not allow keyboard-only operation. At
the time, CP/M was still going strong; lots of new IBM-type
and non-IBM-type machines were coming out; and WordStar held
near-absolute sway in the word processing world. Steve Jobs
did not want Mac users learning a method of operation that
would be transferrable to other systems.
~~~~~
So it all goes back to IBM, Microsoft and Apple trying to fuck each other
over, and cooperating to wipe out "old school" apps like Wordstar.
There is any number of utilities to remap it. I swap its function with the left control key, so I can still use ALL CAPS if I actually need to.
Really? "In packaging terms" does rather look like you're talking about physical volume (as after all is TFA's topic). And preferably be a little more clear beforehand rather than condescending later.
I don't get how it wasted space (unless you mean data capacity). Most CDs included in books are in plastic or paper envelopes glued inside the back cover. A floppy is rather too thick to do that, it would need to be separately packaged. Also, it's a lot easier, and cheaper, to press CDs than floppies nowadays. I doubt there are many places that could duplicate floppies in bulk these days anyway.
He included MacOS, and Unix. Is there anytng that Windows did that wasn't copied from either one?
It's a "greatest software" list. Obviously how you measure "greatness" is subjective. Just selling billions of copies isn't enough. Otherwise Big Macs would be the "greatest" food in the USA. |American Idol would be the "greatest TV show" (just guessing there, but whatever does get the highest ratings is probably as bad).
RTFA. AOL wants to search the spammer's PARENT's property for gold they allege he buried there. He's long gone, no known property to seize.
Interesting that equate "belief in creationism" to "belief in God". It's really only in America that Biblical literalism is so strong. Thus the survey results. Most other rational, but religious, people can see that much of the Bible is allegorical. One thing that the DaVinci Code, silly as it is mostly, got right is that the "scriptures" we have today are a result of centuries of selection and interpretation; not typed verbatim by God into His stone laptop.
The Theory of Creationism has been around since 4004 BC. There should be scores of photos of actual evidence that undeniably support this theory. Let's see...