"London-based Apple Corps is owned by Sir Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the widows of John Lennon [Yoko] and George Harrison." (from Scotsman News) Not just Paul and Ringo.
John's first wife only got 100,000 pounds in the divorce settlement. It sounds like a lot, but its nothing compared to his future earnings.
Don't get me started on the whole Northern Music, Michael Jackson, Sony thing.
Not Anne Frank, Martin Niemoeller, a Protestant pastor who lived in Nazi Germany and spent
seven years in a concentration camp.
Original Quote: "First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."
I wouldn't worry about the Hubble, it will just end up drifting off into space only to return 300 years later as H'ble, the super intelligent sentient telescope of the future, bent on destroying the human race.
Then it will use its giant lens to focus the sun's rays on humans and burn us up like ants.
That is unless we find some bald Indian chick to have a super space make-out with a white guy...Then the female Klingon science officer will go to work in a Boston bar...
I saw "The Song Remains the Same" in '77 the first time I got really stoned. I've never been the same since seeing Jimmy's eyes glowing red and merging into the whole universe.
The thing is that the rover is not looking for signs of life, just for rocks and possibly signs of water. Its obvious that the aliens that control the U.S. government had NASA design it that way. The aliens don't have as much clout with the European Space Agency so they weren't able to keep the creators of the Beagle from designing it to look for life. They had to disable it once it got to the planet. This way they won't find any evidence of life that gets to the surface from the underground Martian cities.
Thanks for the links, but I am looking for something that works with the OS X desktop, not X-11. I'm sure that there are enough OSXers out there to make porting OpenOffice worthwhile.
AppleWorks is a bit crippled. The MacOS X version seems to be exactly like the one that I used to run on my PowerBook 1400c way back when.
I think that Apple stopped improving AppleWorks a while back so that it doesn't compete with MSOffice. Wanting to have Word, etc. available for the latest version of Apple OS has kept Jobs under Gate's thumb for decades. It was part of the leverage he used to get Apple GUI for early version of Windows.
AppleWorks is great for writing simple basic documents and it doesn't have a pop-up box that tells me how to spell my own name or assumes that I want an indented list everytime I type a number. I would like to see a version of OpenOffice for OSX. Does anyone know if one is in the works?
Just sent out 2000 brochures using FileMaker and MacLabel on OS X.2. Had bar codes and everything. The fun part was getting the address database from a flat file into the FileMaker relational database. Was able to use Perl to do this from the command line in OS X. I doubt that it would be as easy to do this in Windows. Can you even get to a command line in the latest version of Windows? Is Perl included? Can you easily write your own scripts?
Java is way to difficult to learn and implement. Gimmie good ol' Perl any day. No variable declaration, no worry about classes and objects, just write it out, drop it in the cgi bin and you're ready to go. Perl is the gurilla attack of programming. Go in, get the job done, and get out. Maybe they should call it SEAL.
As I recall, Lucas did sue the makers of Spaceballs. Lucas lost the case since the movie was clearly parody. I tried searching for info on this on Google, but didn't see anything; didn't try seaching Booble.
I hope Jackson gets an award for creative writing for the changes he made to the story line. All the movies were entertaining, but they should have a tag: loosly based on "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy." When did Legolos ever kill an elephant in the books?
Will Tolkein get any credit or award from the Academy?
How about not spending billions of dollars on an unpopular and unnecessary war. Think of all the energy we could have saved if the war in Iraq had not taken place. And oh yea, we may have saved a few innocent human lives also.
As I recall this was discussed as a possibility for the Moon landing; landing a man on the moon and not bringing him back. The thought of the world listening as he ran out of life support was too grusome and they abandoned the idea.
Did you notice that in the HTML script version the line "Collecting data is only the first step towards wisdom, But sharing data is the first step towards community" is attributed to a Mr. Gates? The actor is a black actor, obviously not Bill. Did Bill Gates actually say that line. Is Big Blue trying to interject some ironic humor?
Its great that IBM is backing Linux. It was Microsoft's alliance with IBM on the first PC's that got Microsoft off the ground. Now if IBM can come up with an easy to use Linux desktop for use beyond their own offices we could be seeing something.
And when will Open Office be available for OS X? I know they have one for X-11, but changing GUI interfaces everytime I need to type something is too much trouble.
He also pointed out that not everyone can be converted yet because of one application (the City Council's Agenda Management System) that requires MS Office to run.
I'm sure it could be run on a cheaper and more open system that didn't require M$ applications to run it. MySQL/PHP or FileMaker would both be good database apps to use.
The web should be platform and application independent, even for management systems, but Bill's insistance on Microsoft products on both the client and sever sides will only limit the use of his products, not expand his market share.
I found a way to completly skip commercials: READ A BOOK. I am currently rereading the Elric saga, but I didn't notice the part where Elric shares a coke with the god Arioch the first time I read it . . .
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"London-based Apple Corps is owned by Sir Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the widows of John Lennon [Yoko] and George Harrison." (from Scotsman News) Not just Paul and Ringo.
John's first wife only got 100,000 pounds in the divorce settlement. It sounds like a lot, but its nothing compared to his future earnings.
Don't get me started on the whole Northern Music, Michael Jackson, Sony thing.
Not Anne Frank, Martin Niemoeller, a Protestant pastor who lived in Nazi Germany and spent seven years in a concentration camp.
Original Quote: "First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."
I wouldn't worry about the Hubble, it will just end up drifting off into space only to return 300 years later as H'ble, the super intelligent sentient telescope of the future, bent on destroying the human race.
Then it will use its giant lens to focus the sun's rays on humans and burn us up like ants.
That is unless we find some bald Indian chick to have a super space make-out with a white guy ...Then the female Klingon science officer will go to work in a Boston bar ...
I saw "The Song Remains the Same" in '77 the first time I got really stoned. I've never been the same since seeing Jimmy's eyes glowing red and merging into the whole universe.
Was that the same Homer who wrote "Tales of Brave Ulysses"?
I love the line, "Tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers." Great guitar riff too.
Nevermind. The story I was thinking about was called "The Last Question" and was written by Asimov. Should have googled first.
"The Question." A short story about the future of mankind with some theological implicaitons.
Not first once again
Modded off topic too, sniff
needs HTML
Any thoughts on diagnostic software for Mac OSX?
McAffe? DiskWarrior? Norton?
First Post I hope so On Slashdot for five years now Never first before
The thing is that the rover is not looking for signs of life, just for rocks and possibly signs of water. Its obvious that the aliens that control the U.S. government had NASA design it that way. The aliens don't have as much clout with the European Space Agency so they weren't able to keep the creators of the Beagle from designing it to look for life. They had to disable it once it got to the planet. This way they won't find any evidence of life that gets to the surface from the underground Martian cities.
Thanks for the links, but I am looking for something that works with the OS X desktop, not X-11. I'm sure that there are enough OSXers out there to make porting OpenOffice worthwhile.
AppleWorks is a bit crippled. The MacOS X version seems to be exactly like the one that I used to run on my PowerBook 1400c way back when.
I think that Apple stopped improving AppleWorks a while back so that it doesn't compete with MSOffice. Wanting to have Word, etc. available for the latest version of Apple OS has kept Jobs under Gate's thumb for decades. It was part of the leverage he used to get Apple GUI for early version of Windows.
AppleWorks is great for writing simple basic documents and it doesn't have a pop-up box that tells me how to spell my own name or assumes that I want an indented list everytime I type a number. I would like to see a version of OpenOffice for OSX. Does anyone know if one is in the works?
Just sent out 2000 brochures using FileMaker and MacLabel on OS X.2. Had bar codes and everything. The fun part was getting the address database from a flat file into the FileMaker relational database. Was able to use Perl to do this from the command line in OS X. I doubt that it would be as easy to do this in Windows. Can you even get to a command line in the latest version of Windows? Is Perl included? Can you easily write your own scripts?
So does this article have anything to do with Slashdot's sig today?: Small things make base men proud. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
Java is way to difficult to learn and implement. Gimmie good ol' Perl any day. No variable declaration, no worry about classes and objects, just write it out, drop it in the cgi bin and you're ready to go. Perl is the gurilla attack of programming. Go in, get the job done, and get out. Maybe they should call it SEAL.
As I recall, Lucas did sue the makers of Spaceballs. Lucas lost the case since the movie was clearly parody. I tried searching for info on this on Google, but didn't see anything; didn't try seaching Booble.
I hope Jackson gets an award for creative writing for the changes he made to the story line. All the movies were entertaining, but they should have a tag: loosly based on "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy." When did Legolos ever kill an elephant in the books?
Will Tolkein get any credit or award from the Academy?
How about not spending billions of dollars on an unpopular and unnecessary war. Think of all the energy we could have saved if the war in Iraq had not taken place. And oh yea, we may have saved a few innocent human lives also.
As I recall this was discussed as a possibility for the Moon landing; landing a man on the moon and not bringing him back. The thought of the world listening as he ran out of life support was too grusome and they abandoned the idea.
Did you notice that in the HTML script version the line "Collecting data is only the first step towards wisdom, But sharing data is the first step towards community" is attributed to a Mr. Gates? The actor is a black actor, obviously not Bill. Did Bill Gates actually say that line. Is Big Blue trying to interject some ironic humor?
Its great that IBM is backing Linux. It was Microsoft's alliance with IBM on the first PC's that got Microsoft off the ground. Now if IBM can come up with an easy to use Linux desktop for use beyond their own offices we could be seeing something.
And when will Open Office be available for OS X? I know they have one for X-11, but changing GUI interfaces everytime I need to type something is too much trouble.
He also pointed out that not everyone can be converted yet because of one application (the City Council's Agenda Management System) that requires MS Office to run.
I'm sure it could be run on a cheaper and more open system that didn't require M$ applications to run it. MySQL/PHP or FileMaker would both be good database apps to use.
The web should be platform and application independent, even for management systems, but Bill's insistance on Microsoft products on both the client and sever sides will only limit the use of his products, not expand his market share.
At least it doesn't have 777 pages . . .
I found a way to completly skip commercials: READ A BOOK. I am currently rereading the Elric saga, but I didn't notice the part where Elric shares a coke with the god Arioch the first time I read it . . .