Well, that's because the TV has such a crappy resolution. Computer monitors have a much higher resolution. If you are watching video, things look fine. If you are using something like MythTV which is designed to work at TV resolutions, things look good as well.
I recently rebuilt a machine with XP and I installed AIM. The claims that it puts free.aol.com into IE's trusted zone and that it installs WildTangent are completely false. Spybot doesn't find WildTangent and there is nothing in the Trusted Zone, just how XP ships.
I most definitely don't agree with the morality of Scott, but the ruling was based on the law at the time. Have you actually read the majority opinion? There was no other legally accurate ruling to be made. Then again, that never stopped Taney or Marshall before him..... but I digress.
The reasoning is that the Constitution actually regulates slavery much like property. The Constitution prohibits the Federal Government from taking property from a person without the due process of law. Therefore, the Missouri Comprimise was unconstitutional because the feds couldn't legislate away property rights. It wasn't until the 13th amendment when the constitution was amended to eliminate slavery so they were no longer considered property.
The other issue and the reason why the case was dismissed is because Scott was not a citizen and therefore did not legally have access to the courts. The Constitution clearly defines slaves as another class of people, a group that were not citizens. This was not changed until the 14th amendment.
The SCOTUS was simply supporting the law of the time. The reason why things are different today is because people cared enough to have the constitution changed.
This is a pet peeve of mine. When a site can't resolve, it is an nxdomain. A 404 is when the requested file on a web server doesn't exist. Please stop calling an nxdomain a 404.
The ratemyteachers.com is for students from both the US and Canada.
This actually presents a problem. We have a system there where an administrator of a school can become a "trusted administrator" after a certain period of good behavior. These trusted admins review comments for sites that do not have administrators. From time to time, we get French comments in the pool. I don't know French, so the official policy is for me to delete both the comment and the rating.
We've been bugging the staff for awhile for a way for a trusted admin to refer a comment to a French speaking trusted admin. The coders there are pretty lazy though.
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What is so wrong with the NT kernel? It's probably one of the best in the world. It's all the shit on top of it that's screwed up.
BTW, Apple didn't use a BSD kernel. They used a modified version of Mach called xnu which was actually carried over from NeXTStep. Sure, the userland is based on FreeBSD 5.x. The kernel is a totally different story. Mach != BSD
What is wrong about the Debian installer? It's straightforward without any of the annoying frills. It is very functional. Someone scared of the text based installer?
I used Mac OS X and I had to install the GNU tools manually. They use the stuff from FreeBSD for the userland tools. And it gets hella annoying sometimes. Little things about having to run whois twice: once to get the whois server I need to use and a second time with the -h flag to point to that server to get the info I want.
I'm a sys admin and I need it for stuff like Terminal Services on the 2k machines I administer. No, I don't have a choice of which OS we use. If it were up to me, we'd be running Debian or OpenBSD.
I don't know where this comes from. There are many different translations of the Bible. The majority of the differences come from omissions in manuscripts that aren't doctrinally important or from differences in wording the translators used.
The only really popular Bible translation out there that is radically different in content from the rest is the New World Translation by the Jehovah's Witnesses.
And so what if the Dead Sea Scrolls are in Hebrew and Aramaic? You can certanly translate them!
Seriously, most blogs like that are written for friends of the blogger. I mean, that is why I write in mine. Not because I think anyone else out there actually cares about every little aspect of my life. About four of my close friends know of my blog and they all have blogs too.
Also, there is the aspect of venting when you are frustrated. Believe it or not, writing relieves stress for some people. It's nice being able to not carry a journal around and just be able to write wherever there is a computer.
Heh... the one way mirror thing is already in some equipment used for broadcast. At my local TV station, we have three camera platforms with teleprompters. There is a monitor below the camera level and a one way mirror that is slanted to reflect the monitor. The camera goes behind the one way mirror. I thought it was a nifty idea when I first saw them.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure if these transparent screens will only show stuff on one side and not on the other, so the camera doesn't rebroadcast the signal of the person you are talking to. Interesting idea though.
Nah.... A/UX only runs on 68k Macs, not early Apples. I forget what processors the Apples used offhand......
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Amen. That sucker was by far the crappiest laptop I have ever had the misfortune of using. A friend of mine bought one off of e-bay. He couldn't get it to work, so he gave it to me.
The thing barely worked. The internal bracing was brittle, so it cracked, leaving the thing feeling not solid at all. The eject buttons for the PCMICA slots were on a tiny circuit board, perpendicular to the mobo. It was secured by only the leads that soldered it to the mobo. Broke off pretty quickly.
Not to mention that the screen is crap. Oh yeah, it unexpectedly died. I was happier with my PowerBook 180, which is so much older.
And it's strange to see perfectly normal PowerBook 5300cs's on e-bay for $200 at times. Bleh.. not worth it at all. I can't even give this piece of crap away.
Uhh.. this post was typed on a revision A iMac under Mac OS X 10.1.5. And I thought revision A was the first iMac Apple ever released.........
It did need a RAM upgrade, however.
I think Apple kept their promise that OS X would run on the original iMac pretty well. This machine works like a charm for office/internet use under OS X.
Bolo still has a following. At my old school, we had a lab of Beige G3s running 8.5. Awesome LAN partays after school.:-D
I honestly wish that SC would release the source. He's never going to make a carbon port anyway. Also, people could fix the various bugs that allow cheating. Definitely update the "telephone"-like way of communication between computers.
Well, since we graduated, quite a few of us have kept playing. These days, we use Win/LinBolo though. While it is close, certain little manuvering tricks that worked in the original version don't work in WinBolo. One of the first that comes to mind is a method of capturing a pill box. First, you have a pill you took the old fashioned way. Then, you would place it in such a way that it shelded you from the defensive fire of the pill you are trying to take. If you got things just right, you could shoot at the pill, but the pill you placed would keep the pill from shooting you.
I had the limit on AIM once (somewhere around 200) because I block everyone not on my list.
I'm a moderator on a major recording artist's forum, so there are lots of people who want to have me delete or lock threads. Sometimes ban a user.
So, I added everyone who posted regularly.
I don't need that quite so much anymore because I begged and pleaded for another mod. Now I'm down to about 50ish because only people I know in real life need to bug me, with the occasional close board friend thrown in for good measure.
Not everyone with huge buddy lists needs to have no life.
I got one too for Christmas two years ago. I love that thing to death. But, for my birthday this year, I got an LED headlamp. I find that thing so much more useful. Having an extra hand free while working inside of a computer is nice.
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Apache isn't exactly a "Unix attribute." I know people who run it on Windows natively.
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Well, that's because the TV has such a crappy resolution. Computer monitors have a much higher resolution. If you are watching video, things look fine. If you are using something like MythTV which is designed to work at TV resolutions, things look good as well.
Which is why you have a video card that can output to a TV. :-)
I recently rebuilt a machine with XP and I installed AIM. The claims that it puts free.aol.com into IE's trusted zone and that it installs WildTangent are completely false. Spybot doesn't find WildTangent and there is nothing in the Trusted Zone, just how XP ships.
Please stop spreading this lie.
I most definitely don't agree with the morality of Scott, but the ruling was based on the law at the time. Have you actually read the majority opinion? There was no other legally accurate ruling to be made. Then again, that never stopped Taney or Marshall before him..... but I digress.
The reasoning is that the Constitution actually regulates slavery much like property. The Constitution prohibits the Federal Government from taking property from a person without the due process of law. Therefore, the Missouri Comprimise was unconstitutional because the feds couldn't legislate away property rights. It wasn't until the 13th amendment when the constitution was amended to eliminate slavery so they were no longer considered property.
The other issue and the reason why the case was dismissed is because Scott was not a citizen and therefore did not legally have access to the courts. The Constitution clearly defines slaves as another class of people, a group that were not citizens. This was not changed until the 14th amendment.
The SCOTUS was simply supporting the law of the time. The reason why things are different today is because people cared enough to have the constitution changed.
This is a pet peeve of mine. When a site can't resolve, it is an nxdomain. A 404 is when the requested file on a web server doesn't exist. Please stop calling an nxdomain a 404.
The ratemyteachers.com is for students from both the US and Canada.
This actually presents a problem. We have a system there where an administrator of a school can become a "trusted administrator" after a certain period of good behavior. These trusted admins review comments for sites that do not have administrators. From time to time, we get French comments in the pool. I don't know French, so the official policy is for me to delete both the comment and the rating.
We've been bugging the staff for awhile for a way for a trusted admin to refer a comment to a French speaking trusted admin. The coders there are pretty lazy though.
What is so wrong with the NT kernel? It's probably one of the best in the world. It's all the shit on top of it that's screwed up.
BTW, Apple didn't use a BSD kernel. They used a modified version of Mach called xnu which was actually carried over from NeXTStep. Sure, the userland is based on FreeBSD 5.x. The kernel is a totally different story. Mach != BSD
What is wrong about the Debian installer? It's straightforward without any of the annoying frills. It is very functional. Someone scared of the text based installer?
I used Mac OS X and I had to install the GNU tools manually. They use the stuff from FreeBSD for the userland tools. And it gets hella annoying sometimes. Little things about having to run whois twice: once to get the whois server I need to use and a second time with the -h flag to point to that server to get the info I want.
Mac OS X DOES NOT use the GNU tools by default.
Thanks for the tip! Shweet!
Eh.... the $40B is just Bill's fortune. Or at least that is what it was before the .bomb. M$ has way more than $40B.
I'm a sys admin and I need it for stuff like Terminal Services on the 2k machines I administer. No, I don't have a choice of which OS we use. If it were up to me, we'd be running Debian or OpenBSD.
I don't know where this comes from. There are many different translations of the Bible. The majority of the differences come from omissions in manuscripts that aren't doctrinally important or from differences in wording the translators used.
The only really popular Bible translation out there that is radically different in content from the rest is the New World Translation by the Jehovah's Witnesses.
And so what if the Dead Sea Scrolls are in Hebrew and Aramaic? You can certanly translate them!
Nope, not as I understand it.
IE is a system service in Windows. Any application can use it to render HTML etc. Much like Quicktime on Mac OS.
I know many devs that would cry bloody murder if it was taken away. It's not going. Read the article. Nothing about it being taken away.
Last time I checked, PNG was fully supported in IE5 and up, although I think 4.5 might have had it.
Can anyone correct me?
Why the heck do you read those blogs then?
Seriously, most blogs like that are written for friends of the blogger. I mean, that is why I write in mine. Not because I think anyone else out there actually cares about every little aspect of my life. About four of my close friends know of my blog and they all have blogs too.
Also, there is the aspect of venting when you are frustrated. Believe it or not, writing relieves stress for some people. It's nice being able to not carry a journal around and just be able to write wherever there is a computer.
Heh... the one way mirror thing is already in some equipment used for broadcast. At my local TV station, we have three camera platforms with teleprompters. There is a monitor below the camera level and a one way mirror that is slanted to reflect the monitor. The camera goes behind the one way mirror. I thought it was a nifty idea when I first saw them.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure if these transparent screens will only show stuff on one side and not on the other, so the camera doesn't rebroadcast the signal of the person you are talking to. Interesting idea though.
Nah.... A/UX only runs on 68k Macs, not early Apples. I forget what processors the Apples used offhand......
Amen. That sucker was by far the crappiest laptop I have ever had the misfortune of using. A friend of mine bought one off of e-bay. He couldn't get it to work, so he gave it to me.
The thing barely worked. The internal bracing was brittle, so it cracked, leaving the thing feeling not solid at all. The eject buttons for the PCMICA slots were on a tiny circuit board, perpendicular to the mobo. It was secured by only the leads that soldered it to the mobo. Broke off pretty quickly.
Not to mention that the screen is crap. Oh yeah, it unexpectedly died. I was happier with my PowerBook 180, which is so much older.
And it's strange to see perfectly normal PowerBook 5300cs's on e-bay for $200 at times. Bleh.. not worth it at all. I can't even give this piece of crap away.
Uhh.. this post was typed on a revision A iMac under Mac OS X 10.1.5. And I thought revision A was the first iMac Apple ever released.........
It did need a RAM upgrade, however.
I think Apple kept their promise that OS X would run on the original iMac pretty well. This machine works like a charm for office/internet use under OS X.
Bolo still has a following. At my old school, we had a lab of Beige G3s running 8.5. Awesome LAN partays after school. :-D
:)
I honestly wish that SC would release the source. He's never going to make a carbon port anyway. Also, people could fix the various bugs that allow cheating. Definitely update the "telephone"-like way of communication between computers.
Well, since we graduated, quite a few of us have kept playing. These days, we use Win/LinBolo though. While it is close, certain little manuvering tricks that worked in the original version don't work in WinBolo. One of the first that comes to mind is a method of capturing a pill box. First, you have a pill you took the old fashioned way. Then, you would place it in such a way that it shelded you from the defensive fire of the pill you are trying to take. If you got things just right, you could shoot at the pill, but the pill you placed would keep the pill from shooting you.
Ahh.... still a wonderful game.
I had the limit on AIM once (somewhere around 200) because I block everyone not on my list.
I'm a moderator on a major recording artist's forum, so there are lots of people who want to have me delete or lock threads. Sometimes ban a user.
So, I added everyone who posted regularly.
I don't need that quite so much anymore because I begged and pleaded for another mod. Now I'm down to about 50ish because only people I know in real life need to bug me, with the occasional close board friend thrown in for good measure.
Not everyone with huge buddy lists needs to have no life.
I got one too for Christmas two years ago. I love that thing to death. But, for my birthday this year, I got an LED headlamp. I find that thing so much more useful. Having an extra hand free while working inside of a computer is nice.