You are a far better person than I am. I couldn't do it and I hope if I ever need help the paramedic is as dedicated as you.
My brother in law is also an inner city paramedic/firefighter/emergency rescue guy. He doesn't really do it out of altruism. Rather, he is a hyper-competitive adenalin junkie. He doesn't care much for the victims/patients as people, but they afford him an opportunuity to perfect and demonstrate his madd people saving skillz. To that end he made sure to have himself transferred to the busiest firehouse in the worst neighborhood in the city. Having spent a little time around the firehouse, I have to say this seems to be pretty much the norm (in this busiest, worst station anyway). If anything, they seem to have a measure of disdain for civilians (although not nearly so pronounced as their antipathy to cops and ER/EU interns).
That said, this he is definitely the guy you want pulling you out of a collapsed building and reviving you. He doesn't care about you as a human, but saving your life is unreasonably important to his self image. This is fine with me. OTOH, I think he really does care about your pets. He will risk his life to save your dog simply because he likes animals.
A better solution would be to pin the Dock to the bottom left corner and move the Trash to that corner (and *really* put it all the way to the corner).
The problem with pinning at the right corner, as you suggest, is minimising windows moves the application icons. By pinning it to the left and moving the Trash, the only icons that really move around are the minimised window icons (which is still a problem).
That would be a fine solution if it were possible. You can't move the trash at all in any direction. If I have to choose between launchers moving before I target them, and the trash moving while I target it, I'm taking the launchers every time.
Using something like TinkerTool [bresink.de] (as a convenience interface to writing the preferences) you can anchor it to the left/right edge at the bottom of the screen, so it only grows in one direction...which means applications are always in the same spot, if you anchor it to the left. Is this what you mean by 'lockable'?
Or more importantly, if you lock it to the bottom right, your trash doesn't jump around in a desperate attempt to avoid the objects you drag to it. Mousing over your app icons doesn't move them (unless you have taken the insane step of enabling magnification). Dragging objects to the trash, and missing slightly, actually moves the target (trash can), unless you pin it to the bottom right. Too bad there is no way to increase its target size so it encompasses the whole bottom right corner. Then the trash would be infinitely deep and wide (in the direction of travel): A triumph of Fitts's Law.
As much as I would like to visit Westport Rivers, it is rare I go to the mainland U.S. anymore. You see I wasn't kidding, I literally grow one of the most revered coffees in the world, Kona coffee. If I do ever get that far east I will be sure to look your friend up, if you don't mind. If you or your coffee loving friends find yourselves this direction, we would be happy to show you the coffee fields.
Mmmmm...I love Kona. Plus, I am a Mets fan. I wish I were in Hawaii right now. It is -2 F here today.
I think, svejk, that anorexia is highly overrated. A person who looks like they enjoy life looks good.
Well then I get better looking every year. Toodles.:-)
The $150 million wasn't exactly a gift. It was a stock deal which gave MS amazingly favorable terms on the purchase. They bought the stock, which after three years became convertible to common shares at 4:1, for just under the common share market value of about $16. Unlike Apple common stock, this preferred stock paid a dividend. IIRC, MS sold their quadrupled shares at a market price somewhere around $80.
Also, conspicuously absent from the deal was an MS commitment to port Office to OS X, which is what Gil Amelio had been holding out for. Luckily for Apple, MS decided to go that route of their own free will. To be fair, without Carbon, which which was Jobs's baby, it is unlikely MS would have ported Office.
My memory is that Apple's cash reserves at the time were closer to $6 billion. IIRC most of this derived from a convertible debenture issue. Another large chunk came from the sale of capital assets (manufacturing facilities and equipment) and equities, notably some of their valuable ARM hodings.
How fortunate for you to have such a friend. And, I am sure he appreciates your love of Champagne.
It's mostly due to him. What little I know about wine I learned from him. If you live in the north east US, try some of these. Or better yet, stop by the winery for a tour. My man is the Cellar Master (number two winemaker after Bill. I don't want to web publish his name without permission). If he's around , tell him svejk sent you. He'll give you the VIP treatment. All their bubblies are very good, but the Imperial RD is a real standout. It is only available onsite and is actually worth the $66. It will blow away most non-vintage Champagnes. Depending on your taste, it should compete with the VCP you had on New Year's Eve. Very different; it is made from a decidedly non-champagne grape.
I grow gourmet coffee. If you and your friend ever have too much Champagne you can call me for "first aid".
If you go to Westport, bring some of your bean with you. My man is a big coffee maven as well. He'd greatly appreciate it.
My other best friend is the Chef at one of the top restaurants in our fair city. It is amazing I'm not even fatter than I am.
The real problem surfaced when Gates cleverly decided not to sell his OS but to license it.
Actually, IBM insisted on this. They were still defending a Federal anti-trust suit and therefore treaded gingerly into the PC market. Later the Meese Justice Department dropped the suit.
Yes, Svejk, It was the "Vintage Reserve". And, though I don't have ANY other exposure to true champagne than this bottle, the taste was like nothing I have ever had.
I know it sounds silly to call a $70 bottle of wine a bargain, but I think the VCP VR has very good price-performace for a Champagne. The whole genre has been obscenely overpriced since 1999, even though millenial overproduction resulted in a huge glut. For a while I could get Henri Abele by the case for $17 a bottle, but then is got a high Parker rating and the price doubled.
Thanks for the links. I especially liked the one about Madame Clicquot and her riddling process. That is brilliant.
She certainly was a Grande Dame. Too bad VCP recently changed their web site. They used to have a really cool comic strip version of the riddling story on the old site. The current version doesn't seem to mention it at all, although they have a page on her conquest of Russia.
Thanks for your comments!
My pleasure. Your standards are now unaturally high, but if you want to try some decent table bubblies in the $8-12 range, there are lots of nice Spanish Cavas. I like Segura Viudas's Aria. Actually, I've liked all the Segura Viudas cavas I've tried. Freixenet Cordon Negro is ubiquitous and not at all bad. Oddly, one of the best Cavas I've had is Julio Iglesias's J.
Don't get me wrong, these are quite different wines from Champagne (different grapes for one thing), and nowhere near the quality of the VCP VR, but for the price they are all nice little bubblies. Rotari, an Italian label, is more like Champagne. It is made from Champagne grapes (Pinot Noir and Chardonay. Champagne may also have Pinot Meunier) but is priced like a Cava. Again, compared to your experience to date, this is not a special wine. But for $10 it compares favorably to a lot of $30-40 non vintage bottles from Champagne. Italy also has its own indigenous bubbly styles, such as secco and prosecco spumante, but I haven't had much luck with them.
Just spreadin' the love. BTW, my best friend makes bubbly for a living.
I forwarded this article to a friend who makes several well regarded Methode Chamenoise bubblies professionally. Here is his reaction:
This string is highly informative of the fine line between uninformed and misinformed.
The study mentioned was either poorly conducted or deliberately misleading. I suspect the latter as it included beer and carbonated water. Real science would use controlled factors, such as the same base wine, same storage conditions, etc. As to the 'sparkling wine' in the study, we are not informed whether it is injection carbonated, bulk transfer, bottle transfer, or traditional method(methode champenoise). These processes all contribute or detract from the flavor of finished wine. Do apples taste better than oranges? I think so, but I wouldn't then draw conclusions about the organaleptic superiority of malic acid over citric acid.
In my research, evidence about a correlation between bubble size and gustatory quality is mixed. Cited in the
following article is one of many studies that draws a more ambivalent conclusion, but I have read others as well. There is also an explanation of the Guiness cascade effect.
By the way, according to the EU, the term 'methode champenoise' referring to wines grown and produced outside of Champagne, also causes enough confusion so as to be banned in Europe. While I agree with protection of appellation through regulation-mainly because businesses have proven they will stoop to any prevarication in order to increase sales-this one I would have to disagree with as it is a description of process and it seems to me it is done in a respectful and even deferential way. The term used now is 'methode traditionelle' or 'traditional method.'
If it was the Grande Dame, you really started off with a bang. The 90 Grande Dame is a classic bottle. I actually liked the 89 even more, but it has been a couple of years since I've had the 90 and it may have improved. Haven't seen the 89 around for a while.
If it was the Vintage Reserve. it was also probably very, very good. I haven't had the 90, but the 93 was outstanding in the $70 range and I would expect the 90 to tbe better. For that money it is a far better deal than two bottles of the "Yellow Label" Brut NV.
La Grande Dame is named after Madame Clicquot, who invented the all important riddling process.
I'll keep an eye out for those although I suspect they'll be tough to find in the states. I drink a lot of Cava, mostly Segura Viudas's Aria Brut Nature, which is very crisp and clean (60% Macabeo, 20% Xarello, 20% Parellada grapes). It's a nice bottle for $11. I also like Segura Viudas's base Brut Reserva ($8, 50% Macabeo, 35% Parellada, 15% Xarello) and "upscale" Reserva Heredad ($17, 67% Macabeo, 33% Parellada). I think they are a bit more typical of the style. All these are widely available in the US. Freixenet is surprisingly good for such an overwhelmingly pervasive bottle. Last week, on a lark, I grabbed a bottle of Julio Iglesias's J. It was really very good: rich and balanced.
For Americans who prefer a more champagne style bubbly but don't want to pay the $20 for a decent California bottle, much less the $40 for a Champagne, I suggest Rotari. It's an Italian bubbly but made from Champagne grapes (90% Pinot Noir, 10% Chardonay). Pretty good stuff for $10. I have yet to find a Prosecco Spumante which impressed me, but am open to suggestions.
If you have been using SMS to install and manage OO.org and StarOffice, our Windows desktop team would like to toalk to you. They seem to think this is a major hurdle.
While Israel may be pretty much all Jews who would welcome Hebrew language support
Hardly. About 80% of Israeli citizens are Jews. Approximately 20% are Israeli born native Hebrew speakers (CIA Factbook). The rest are imigrants from the US, Europe, Africa and Asia. Of course anyone who wants to do business there needs to be able to write documents in Hebrew.
BTW, if you factor in Palestinians in Israeli occupied territory who do not hold Israeli passports, then the Jewish majority drops to about 53%.
I did know that and originally assumed that those were his fingerprints on DU. However, in retrospect I doubt it. IIRC, most of the new functionality in the DU is analogous to NetRestore, not CCC. That means it was all available in the command line version of Apple Software Restore built into Jaguar. Bombich's front ends were nice, but I don't see that they needed him to add a little GUI element to DU.
Actually, my wife used to be the Director of Marketing at Eastpack. Not sure if this is still true, but they made LL Bean's bags back then. Not that my opinion is biased. They were a horrible company to work for, especially after the buyout. But they made good bags. We've got a pile of seconds in the basement.
I use CCC all the time, although much Bombich functionality is now built into Disk Utility. I wasn't backing up the whole system, just my home directory, so booting off the iPod wasn't an issue. I just made a disk image on the ipod, then mounted it to see if it worked. Stupidly I didn't try to open any of the files. Frankly, I don't miss the data. Except for the couple of gig of public domain books.
Nice implementation. If you weren't replying to a thread I'm already on I'd mod you up. But I'm a rat biker (R90S, RD400 Daytona) so gaffer's tape is more my style. Nomad trash and all that...
Rather than wrapping the computer in a shirt, I recommend making a neoprene sleeve out of a piece of insulate pad (available at REI or wherever) and some gaffer's tape. Simply cut a piece about twice the size of the laptop, fold it in half, and tape it up. Makes an indestructible nest, regardless of what kind of bag you choose to wrap around it.
Historically, I have found Eastpack to be a better quality backpack that Jansport. But that may have changed after Coleman bought them several years ago. Guaranteed for life... maybe longer.
I lost all my data after backing up to a disk image on my iPod then reformatting my TiBook. The disk image was corrupt in such a way that it mounted and showed file metadata, but all the files were empty (still reporting appropriate sizes to the Finder). I mentioned it to my Apple rep and he handed me to a back line engineer. At first they thought it was a hardware problem and asked me to return the unit for study. They planned to Fed-Ex me a new unit. I declined, because it clearly wasn't a hardware problem.
The Big Dig fiasco was the result of collusion amongts Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff, the Republican governor's office and the predominantly Democratic Legislature on Beacon Hill. Both the Governor's office and the Legislature made the project a patronage bonanza. When this corruption resulted in fiascos, they simple payed Bechtel and Parsons Brinkerhoff to clean up the messes.
The main reason we still have tolls, and in fact they have gone up, is to finance the Big Dig. Two board members (one Democrat one Republican) at the Mass Turnpike Authority spoke out on Bechtel/BP corruption at the Big Dig, and in fact threatened to terminate their contracts in 2001. Republican Governor Jane Swift quickly fired them and increase tolls on the Mass Pike. Her predecessor's, predecessor Bill Weld (also Republican) at one point considered selling the whole Mass Pike, but instead used it as collateral on $2.7 billion in loans to pay for, you guessed it, the Big Dig.
Painting the Big Dig as partisan issue is ridiculous. It cuts across every level and wing of Mass politics.
I'm not sure what makes people think Romney is so much better than the last three governors, all of whom were Republican. I happen to know he is a lying sack of crap. He openly claimed my rep, who is a prominant Democratic known for his honesty and independence (one of the few who voted to fund the Clean Elections law we passed by referendum) endorsed him, which was an outright lie.
You do raise a good point about the partisan bickering over what to name the northbound Central Artery tunnel. How our Democrats could oppose naming it after the late beloved Silvio Conte is beyond me. Conte worked closely with the House Democratic leadership under Tip O'Neill and endorsed Democrat John Olver as his successor before he died.
Back when the CFL was expanding into the US, I fantasized about bringing a franchise to Hartford Connecticut and call it the Hartford Bluefin. Then I'd steal Charlie Ward away from the Knicks to play QB...
The vulnerability is still local and relies on user action. And of course, it will only work with Outlook Express, Outlook or Entourage. But you are right that it is ridiculous that they left the defaults this way.
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My brother in law is also an inner city paramedic/firefighter/emergency rescue guy. He doesn't really do it out of altruism. Rather, he is a hyper-competitive adenalin junkie. He doesn't care much for the victims/patients as people, but they afford him an opportunuity to perfect and demonstrate his madd people saving skillz. To that end he made sure to have himself transferred to the busiest firehouse in the worst neighborhood in the city. Having spent a little time around the firehouse, I have to say this seems to be pretty much the norm (in this busiest, worst station anyway). If anything, they seem to have a measure of disdain for civilians (although not nearly so pronounced as their antipathy to cops and ER/EU interns).
That said, this he is definitely the guy you want pulling you out of a collapsed building and reviving you. He doesn't care about you as a human, but saving your life is unreasonably important to his self image. This is fine with me. OTOH, I think he really does care about your pets. He will risk his life to save your dog simply because he likes animals.
That would be a fine solution if it were possible. You can't move the trash at all in any direction. If I have to choose between launchers moving before I target them, and the trash moving while I target it, I'm taking the launchers every time.
Or more importantly, if you lock it to the bottom right, your trash doesn't jump around in a desperate attempt to avoid the objects you drag to it. Mousing over your app icons doesn't move them (unless you have taken the insane step of enabling magnification). Dragging objects to the trash, and missing slightly, actually moves the target (trash can), unless you pin it to the bottom right. Too bad there is no way to increase its target size so it encompasses the whole bottom right corner. Then the trash would be infinitely deep and wide (in the direction of travel): A triumph of Fitts's Law.
The $150 million wasn't exactly a gift. It was a stock deal which gave MS amazingly favorable terms on the purchase. They bought the stock, which after three years became convertible to common shares at 4:1, for just under the common share market value of about $16. Unlike Apple common stock, this preferred stock paid a dividend. IIRC, MS sold their quadrupled shares at a market price somewhere around $80.
Also, conspicuously absent from the deal was an MS commitment to port Office to OS X, which is what Gil Amelio had been holding out for. Luckily for Apple, MS decided to go that route of their own free will. To be fair, without Carbon, which which was Jobs's baby, it is unlikely MS would have ported Office.
My memory is that Apple's cash reserves at the time were closer to $6 billion. IIRC most of this derived from a convertible debenture issue. Another large chunk came from the sale of capital assets (manufacturing facilities and equipment) and equities, notably some of their valuable ARM hodings.
It's mostly due to him. What little I know about wine I learned from him. If you live in the north east US, try some of these. Or better yet, stop by the winery for a tour. My man is the Cellar Master (number two winemaker after Bill. I don't want to web publish his name without permission). If he's around , tell him svejk sent you. He'll give you the VIP treatment. All their bubblies are very good, but the Imperial RD is a real standout. It is only available onsite and is actually worth the $66. It will blow away most non-vintage Champagnes. Depending on your taste, it should compete with the VCP you had on New Year's Eve. Very different; it is made from a decidedly non-champagne grape.
If you go to Westport, bring some of your bean with you. My man is a big coffee maven as well. He'd greatly appreciate it.
My other best friend is the Chef at one of the top restaurants in our fair city. It is amazing I'm not even fatter than I am.
Don't get me wrong, these are quite different wines from Champagne (different grapes for one thing), and nowhere near the quality of the VCP VR, but for the price they are all nice little bubblies. Rotari, an Italian label, is more like Champagne. It is made from Champagne grapes (Pinot Noir and Chardonay. Champagne may also have Pinot Meunier) but is priced like a Cava. Again, compared to your experience to date, this is not a special wine. But for $10 it compares favorably to a lot of $30-40 non vintage bottles from Champagne. Italy also has its own indigenous bubbly styles, such as secco and prosecco spumante, but I haven't had much luck with them.
Just spreadin' the love. BTW, my best friend makes bubbly for a living.
If it was the Grande Dame, you really started off with a bang. The 90 Grande Dame is a classic bottle. I actually liked the 89 even more, but it has been a couple of years since I've had the 90 and it may have improved. Haven't seen the 89 around for a while.
If it was the Vintage Reserve. it was also probably very, very good. I haven't had the 90, but the 93 was outstanding in the $70 range and I would expect the 90 to tbe better. For that money it is a far better deal than two bottles of the "Yellow Label" Brut NV.
La Grande Dame is named after Madame Clicquot, who invented the all important riddling process.
I'll keep an eye out for those although I suspect they'll be tough to find in the states. I drink a lot of Cava, mostly Segura Viudas's Aria Brut Nature, which is very crisp and clean (60% Macabeo, 20% Xarello, 20% Parellada grapes). It's a nice bottle for $11. I also like Segura Viudas's base Brut Reserva ($8, 50% Macabeo, 35% Parellada, 15% Xarello) and "upscale" Reserva Heredad ($17, 67% Macabeo, 33% Parellada). I think they are a bit more typical of the style. All these are widely available in the US. Freixenet is surprisingly good for such an overwhelmingly pervasive bottle. Last week, on a lark, I grabbed a bottle of Julio Iglesias's J. It was really very good: rich and balanced.
For Americans who prefer a more champagne style bubbly but don't want to pay the $20 for a decent California bottle, much less the $40 for a Champagne, I suggest Rotari. It's an Italian bubbly but made from Champagne grapes (90% Pinot Noir, 10% Chardonay). Pretty good stuff for $10. I have yet to find a Prosecco Spumante which impressed me, but am open to suggestions.
Still can't WINS browse my network. Finds about 300 shares, then pukes out.
If you have been using SMS to install and manage OO.org and StarOffice, our Windows desktop team would like to toalk to you. They seem to think this is a major hurdle.
Hardly. About 80% of Israeli citizens are Jews. Approximately 20% are Israeli born native Hebrew speakers (CIA Factbook). The rest are imigrants from the US, Europe, Africa and Asia. Of course anyone who wants to do business there needs to be able to write documents in Hebrew.
BTW, if you factor in Palestinians in Israeli occupied territory who do not hold Israeli passports, then the Jewish majority drops to about 53%.
I did know that and originally assumed that those were his fingerprints on DU. However, in retrospect I doubt it. IIRC, most of the new functionality in the DU is analogous to NetRestore, not CCC. That means it was all available in the command line version of Apple Software Restore built into Jaguar. Bombich's front ends were nice, but I don't see that they needed him to add a little GUI element to DU.
Looks to me like he is the academic technical rep for Missouri.
Actually, my wife used to be the Director of Marketing at Eastpack. Not sure if this is still true, but they made LL Bean's bags back then. Not that my opinion is biased. They were a horrible company to work for, especially after the buyout. But they made good bags. We've got a pile of seconds in the basement.
I use CCC all the time, although much Bombich functionality is now built into Disk Utility. I wasn't backing up the whole system, just my home directory, so booting off the iPod wasn't an issue. I just made a disk image on the ipod, then mounted it to see if it worked. Stupidly I didn't try to open any of the files. Frankly, I don't miss the data. Except for the couple of gig of public domain books.
Nice implementation. If you weren't replying to a thread I'm already on I'd mod you up. But I'm a rat biker (R90S, RD400 Daytona) so gaffer's tape is more my style. Nomad trash and all that...
Rather than wrapping the computer in a shirt, I recommend making a neoprene sleeve out of a piece of insulate pad (available at REI or wherever) and some gaffer's tape. Simply cut a piece about twice the size of the laptop, fold it in half, and tape it up. Makes an indestructible nest, regardless of what kind of bag you choose to wrap around it.
Historically, I have found Eastpack to be a better quality backpack that Jansport. But that may have changed after Coleman bought them several years ago. Guaranteed for life... maybe longer.
I lost all my data after backing up to a disk image on my iPod then reformatting my TiBook. The disk image was corrupt in such a way that it mounted and showed file metadata, but all the files were empty (still reporting appropriate sizes to the Finder). I mentioned it to my Apple rep and he handed me to a back line engineer. At first they thought it was a hardware problem and asked me to return the unit for study. They planned to Fed-Ex me a new unit. I declined, because it clearly wasn't a hardware problem.
Now if they would only fix WINS browsing...
The Big Dig fiasco was the result of collusion amongts Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff, the Republican governor's office and the predominantly Democratic Legislature on Beacon Hill. Both the Governor's office and the Legislature made the project a patronage bonanza. When this corruption resulted in fiascos, they simple payed Bechtel and Parsons Brinkerhoff to clean up the messes.
The main reason we still have tolls, and in fact they have gone up, is to finance the Big Dig. Two board members (one Democrat one Republican) at the Mass Turnpike Authority spoke out on Bechtel/BP corruption at the Big Dig, and in fact threatened to terminate their contracts in 2001. Republican Governor Jane Swift quickly fired them and increase tolls on the Mass Pike. Her predecessor's, predecessor Bill Weld (also Republican) at one point considered selling the whole Mass Pike, but instead used it as collateral on $2.7 billion in loans to pay for, you guessed it, the Big Dig.
Painting the Big Dig as partisan issue is ridiculous. It cuts across every level and wing of Mass politics.
I'm not sure what makes people think Romney is so much better than the last three governors, all of whom were Republican. I happen to know he is a lying sack of crap. He openly claimed my rep, who is a prominant Democratic known for his honesty and independence (one of the few who voted to fund the Clean Elections law we passed by referendum) endorsed him, which was an outright lie.
You do raise a good point about the partisan bickering over what to name the northbound Central Artery tunnel. How our Democrats could oppose naming it after the late beloved Silvio Conte is beyond me. Conte worked closely with the House Democratic leadership under Tip O'Neill and endorsed Democrat John Olver as his successor before he died.
Cool! I may have to switch my CFL team.
Back when the CFL was expanding into the US, I fantasized about bringing a franchise to Hartford Connecticut and call it the Hartford Bluefin. Then I'd steal Charlie Ward away from the Knicks to play QB...
The vulnerability is still local and relies on user action. And of course, it will only work with Outlook Express, Outlook or Entourage. But you are right that it is ridiculous that they left the defaults this way.
It requires a local user to initiate the process. A remote host can't execute the attack on its own.
Nomad trash.