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Palmar hyperhidrosis
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Clammy Modding
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· Score: 4, Interesting
People who have this condition so bad that their mouse shorts out have Palmar Hyperhidrosis, and it can be treated by applying antiperspirant to your palms several times per week. I read an article about it. It's totally weird. dripping hands all the time.
There's nothing troll about it. I wanted to know about the apps. I didn't want snarky comments about my choice of OS. I think it was perfectly fine to mention that my favorite of all the OSes was Win2k because it's relevant to my problem--finding the necessary apps to do my job (physics research). I didn't say it was better than the others, or that they were bad, I said it was my fave, and I think it's obvious from my situation why. Other people's responses were useful, and that's what I wanted.
I would love to try Solaris on x86, but I don't know if a couple essential programs are available. Are there many companies which offer their products for x86 solaris? Mathematica, for instance, is essential. Though I've tried everything from BeOS to Mandrake to Win2k (my fave), I can't use an operating system which has a weak selection of apps.
I'm not using POP, I'm using IMAP. But my job doing research generates an enormous amount of attachment-heavy email traffic which needs to be accessible. I can not save 300 megs of old email on the IMAP server here at NCSU, I have to use local folders. And with mature email clients in the past, backing up/exporting those folders was quick and straightforward. I like Tbird, but it needs the same capability to do that which has existed in the mature email clients for the last 5+ years.
Hopefully one day it'll have the capability to export/backup your old email. I'm tired of finding the files manually and copying them, then reinserting them when I upgrade. Not having that capability is pretty amateurish.
The thing that separates America from some of the numerous runners-up is the willingness to try, and the ability to blow-off failure, coupled with a system which permits people to try to do things without crushing them in regulation and beaurocracy. As other countries like China liberalize their rules, the system begins to work there too. When countries like France saddle new efforts with too many unions, permits, requirements, regulations, their economy suffers (I'm not talking about the effects of the embargo, look at the problems they were having before that). One of the great things about this country is that we have some requirements which only apply when companies get to a certain size and can withstand their cost. If you want to learn where wealth comes from, you should observe the different systems different countries/communities have. Some enable the activities which generate wealth, some hinder it, to varying degrees.
I think it's reasonable to believe that we are nearing the end of necessary work. 100 years ago the majority of the population worked on farms. Back-breaking, grueling work, with minimal payoff, and little time left over for productive things like education, art, and science. Now 2% of the population works on farms, and most of those work normal hours. So everyone's getting fed with 95% less manpower. Similarly, basic manufacturing should follow the same pattern, and houses, cars, and such will be made with very little manpower.
About the Author: Bob Patterson graduated summa cum laude from Babylon university, with a degree in accounting. He spent the first part of his professional life as a money changer at H.R. Ziggurat before being assaulted by a homeless religous zealot. Though the zealot was later killed by some Romans, Bob was depressed about how many followers these religious crazies can accumulate, and decided to spoof them in this clever send-up of what people will believe. While Bob doesn't expect anyone will believe these haphazard tales of a god who's infinitely good and yet a real jerk most of the time, slaughtering people willy-nilly, and punishing eternally those who don't believe in him while doing nothing to make them think otherwise, he does expect they'll serve as a useful object lesson. The fun starts right at the beginning, with a story of how man and the animals came to be, followed a page later with a different story describing their origin. Mr. Patterson, who resides in Sumaria, says if anything, he made the collection of short stories "a little too crazy" because it was so much fun writing he couldn't help himself.
Only a matter of time before some jury of creationist-level intellects awards $84 million in damages against this company for some kid setting himself on fire with their products.
The article says "Voters using SERVE can register to vote and cast their ballots from any computer using Microsoft Windows with Internet access."
It does not say only from any computer using Windows. Everyone here's reacting as if the article said the latter, but it didn't. The article does not say, if you read carefully, that the system will somehow be limited to Windows. I just says anyone with Windows and the internet will have access.
Before the internet I was a library junkie. I'd go to the library three times a week. Then in college I'd go there every day. Then the internet came along, and I obsessively check news sites like slashdot, wired news, msnbc, bottomquark, science news online, skeptic news, etc. It's really a problem. It's either an addiction or an extremely strong habit. There are better things I could do with two hours per day.;-)
What I said was correct. Whether additional software (Netscape) ameliorates the problem is not the issue.
I don't think it should catch on yet
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Netscape 7.1 Released
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Though I use it, I wouldn't reccommend others use Mozilla yet. Why? Because the mechanism for saving your old mail is not yet developed. You have to physically find the file which contains your old mail and transplant it. This is an important capability which is missing.
I'll continue to use Mozilla firebird and thunderbird, thank you very much. Why? Same code, basically, but Mozilla doesn't litter every spot on my computer with AOL icons, in my favorites, start menu, programs menu, etc.
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"This article (shameless plug alert - I'm quoted in it)(shameless brag alert - I'm bragging about being quoted in an article)..."
People who have this condition so bad that their mouse shorts out have Palmar Hyperhidrosis, and it can be treated by applying antiperspirant to your palms several times per week. I read an article about it. It's totally weird. dripping hands all the time.
There's nothing troll about it. I wanted to know about the apps. I didn't want snarky comments about my choice of OS. I think it was perfectly fine to mention that my favorite of all the OSes was Win2k because it's relevant to my problem--finding the necessary apps to do my job (physics research). I didn't say it was better than the others, or that they were bad, I said it was my fave, and I think it's obvious from my situation why. Other people's responses were useful, and that's what I wanted.
didn't know that about the ability to run linux apps. That's really cool. Most everything I need is availible for linux.
I would love to try Solaris on x86, but I don't know if a couple essential programs are available. Are there many companies which offer their products for x86 solaris? Mathematica, for instance, is essential. Though I've tried everything from BeOS to Mandrake to Win2k (my fave), I can't use an operating system which has a weak selection of apps.
I'm not using POP, I'm using IMAP. But my job doing research generates an enormous amount of attachment-heavy email traffic which needs to be accessible. I can not save 300 megs of old email on the IMAP server here at NCSU, I have to use local folders. And with mature email clients in the past, backing up/exporting those folders was quick and straightforward. I like Tbird, but it needs the same capability to do that which has existed in the mature email clients for the last 5+ years.
Hopefully one day it'll have the capability to export/backup your old email. I'm tired of finding the files manually and copying them, then reinserting them when I upgrade. Not having that capability is pretty amateurish.
This seems to be the most important development because if SCO distributed the controvertial code under the GPL, it's out there.
The thing that separates America from some of the numerous runners-up is the willingness to try, and the ability to blow-off failure, coupled with a system which permits people to try to do things without crushing them in regulation and beaurocracy. As other countries like China liberalize their rules, the system begins to work there too. When countries like France saddle new efforts with too many unions, permits, requirements, regulations, their economy suffers (I'm not talking about the effects of the embargo, look at the problems they were having before that). One of the great things about this country is that we have some requirements which only apply when companies get to a certain size and can withstand their cost. If you want to learn where wealth comes from, you should observe the different systems different countries/communities have. Some enable the activities which generate wealth, some hinder it, to varying degrees.
I think it's reasonable to believe that we are nearing the end of necessary work. 100 years ago the majority of the population worked on farms. Back-breaking, grueling work, with minimal payoff, and little time left over for productive things like education, art, and science. Now 2% of the population works on farms, and most of those work normal hours. So everyone's getting fed with 95% less manpower. Similarly, basic manufacturing should follow the same pattern, and houses, cars, and such will be made with very little manpower.
About the Author:
Bob Patterson graduated summa cum laude from Babylon university, with a degree in accounting. He spent the first part of his professional life as a money changer at H.R. Ziggurat before being assaulted by a homeless religous zealot. Though the zealot was later killed by some Romans, Bob was depressed about how many followers these religious crazies can accumulate, and decided to spoof them in this clever send-up of what people will believe. While Bob doesn't expect anyone will believe these haphazard tales of a god who's infinitely good and yet a real jerk most of the time, slaughtering people willy-nilly, and punishing eternally those who don't believe in him while doing nothing to make them think otherwise, he does expect they'll serve as a useful object lesson. The fun starts right at the beginning, with a story of how man and the animals came to be, followed a page later with a different story describing their origin. Mr. Patterson, who resides in Sumaria, says if anything, he made the collection of short stories "a little too crazy" because it was so much fun writing he couldn't help himself.
Isn't this a little overdramatic? Crisis? Having to switch to an updated protocol is a crisis?
Only a matter of time before some jury of creationist-level intellects awards $84 million in damages against this company for some kid setting himself on fire with their products.
Be careful about how the "Home" button's programmed.
I'm using Firebird and Tbird and they're absurdly slow on various installations.
I love Mozilla for the pop-up blocking, but I wish they'd optimize it much more. It really shouldn't be sluggish on a damn 2.4 ghz machine.
It does not say only from any computer using Windows. Everyone here's reacting as if the article said the latter, but it didn't. The article does not say, if you read carefully, that the system will somehow be limited to Windows. I just says anyone with Windows and the internet will have access.
Settle down, Beavis.
F=dP/dt. What more do you need.
I didn't realize they had mormons in 19th century Finland.
Before the internet I was a library junkie. I'd go to the library three times a week. Then in college I'd go there every day. Then the internet came along, and I obsessively check news sites like slashdot, wired news, msnbc, bottomquark, science news online, skeptic news, etc. It's really a problem. It's either an addiction or an extremely strong habit. There are better things I could do with two hours per day. ;-)
Looks from the diagram like Gold's notion violates conservation of linear momentum. But I haven't yet read the article.
What I said was correct. Whether additional software (Netscape) ameliorates the problem is not the issue.
Though I use it, I wouldn't reccommend others use Mozilla yet. Why? Because the mechanism for saving your old mail is not yet developed. You have to physically find the file which contains your old mail and transplant it. This is an important capability which is missing.
I'll continue to use Mozilla firebird and thunderbird, thank you very much. Why? Same code, basically, but Mozilla doesn't litter every spot on my computer with AOL icons, in my favorites, start menu, programs menu, etc.