You're looking at this the wrong way. Don't think of it as SCO getting funding to continue to irritate all of us, think of it as a new lease of life for GrokLaw!!
I only use the trackpoint on my ThinkPad T61 (in fact, I have the track pad disabled), but I was surprised, when I bought a MacBook, how quickly I got use to the pad. It's definitely not as good, but it hasn't turned out to be a dealbreaker in terms of productivity. And for very casual, on your back surfing (admit it, you surf in bed), it's actually superior sometimes.
The article is so full of bullshit it's almost unreadable. WiiPlay was #2 not DESPITE it's bad metacritic score, but BECAUSE it was practically the ONLY WAY TO GET A SECOND WII MOTE in 2007. Give me a break! Whether teh game was good or not was almost totally incidental to its sales.
Panera saved my life (well, my job anyway) once when I was in the bowels on Tennessee a few years ago and there was simply no Internet access to be found (not at Starbucks, not at the library, and certainly not at Grandma's). I think I bought like six loaves of bread, I was so thankful. Since then, if I see one (they're not that common in CA), I stop there, generally. Their free wifi earned them a customer for life. I think this program is geat, esp. since you can fill a starbucks card with cash, so it should be pretty anonymous surfing (unless you'll still need a login/pw).
That's true. Most of the cost of a shuttle launch is amortizing its development. However, since it can only get you into a pretty low orbit (and it doesn't seem to be built very well), I say the Chinese are welcome to it -- especially if they build it to the same standards that most goods from China are built to, I don't think the US has much to worry about.
Given that our friends in France already scan my passport when I arrive... and that I create a record of my trip about every five seconds with credit card purchases... and that I don't take any steps to hide my presence there (in fact, I send out a ton of postcards that read OMGWTFRANCE!), why the heck should I care if they have my thumbprint or retinal print anyway? There's already no privacy when crossing borders.
Seriously, I'm not being a troll. Someone please tell me why this is somehow worse than them seeing my passport anyway, assuming that I am who I say I am (and I am, I say).
What I think is funny is that the recording is endlessly referred to as a recording of a "never before heard" concert, not as a "never before heard" recording OF a concert. (See this for great examples.) Hmm... maybe the people who were present for the concert were deaf, but I'm fairly sure they heard it.
Oh, and so do the local Christians, Zoroastrians, Bahai, and Jews, who are routinely persecuted by the regime (you can do the search yourself, I'm getting nauseated looking at these links).
Look, I understand people don't like GWB, but to insinuate that the US is somehow responsible for human rights violations in Iran, or has a somehow comprable record on human rights is insane.
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that putting a notice at the bottom of a message creates a legally binding contract.
Hmm... That's an interesting concept.
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Huh... I don't think you can create a legally binding contract that way...
I'm saying he's a non-factor and it's amusing that his supporters are whining about people saying that, but not really even discussing his policies, or trying to help him become a factor based on the strength of his ideas. But if you're really asking... IMHO he is also not the best person for the job: Moonbat isolationalism didn't work before WWI, didn't work in WWII, and sure as shit won't now; people hating the US (to me) is not neccesaarily a causal relationship. So, our enemies don't hate us just because we're "over there messing with them," they hate us for what we believe in / stand for, or because we're very successful as a country, or as a convenient scapegoat for their own local problems, etc. And if we suddenly picked up our toys and came home, they wouldn't stop hating us.
As for the illegality of undeclared wars, a Paul favorite debating point, I direct all loons' attentions to the undeclared Barbary Wars of 1801 and 1815 . Considering that these undeclared (but supported and funded by Congress) wars occured when the framers of the Constitution were still, you know, alive and in many cases in the goverment, I think someone would have spoken up then if undeclared military action was necessarily unconstitutional.
I was checking out comment section mainly to see how fast it would get totally derailed by some OT bullshit (I was expecting either some democrat trolling or -- god forbid, the word "abortion" being used). I was pleased to see it started with the FIRST POST! That's awesome!!
Let me be the fiftieth to add "Hey, why is there no coverage about my fringe candidate in the summary!! Rather than moving on to debate his MERITS, I will just grief the summary and throw around conspiracy theories!!"
Look, I've voted for Ron Paul in a general election before, but the guy is not going to be a factor in the election.
Anyway, kids will always know what that stuff is, as long as they keep re-running old cartoons. Trust me, I've never used a Voctrola, cranked a car to start it, or used an anvil, but I know exactly what they are, thanks to cartoons.
Man, you've wrecked my delicately formed story with your stupid knowledge and facts! And also kind of an offensive prejudice against Westerns and translators... So here's the epilogue: The translator was a friend, who did solve the situation (in fact it was she who told my friend, "dude, you should have said yes when she asked if you were allergic, it would have saved us all some trouble; always do that here."), the restaurant was Jonathan's, so the pizza was probably frozen, and "with squid" was the only option for pizza on the menu.
Lastly, there's a certain type of poster on Slashdot who always assumes the worst of others... don't be one. I obviously recognize that Japan is a nation of individuals, (and that, for instance, the fact that a taxi driver in Osaka was rude to me doesn't mean "everyone in Japan is rude," or even "those Oskans are rude,") but there are also clear differences in culture and mores between Japan and America, and while there are obviously great people and bad people in both places, I think you will find more willingness and familiarity with order substitutions -- on the part of customers and staff -- in Amercia.
From TFA (ok, or at least the summary): "Vista sometimes seems so slow"
Unacceptable. Computers going slower while doing NOTHING is unacceptable. Compare the time it takes to boot, open the word processor of your choice, and print a business letter with Vista, XP, Mac OSX, MacOS7, an Apple IIc, and a C64.
Vista is the worst. I don't need a nanny state OS. I need to make little letters appear on my screen as fast a humanly possible, without pointless graphics effects and dialog boxes wasting my time. AT least with XP, I could turn that shit all off and make it look like Windows 95.
I've been using Windows since my first job 14 years ago. Vista is slower than Win 3.0 running on a 25Mhz 386, and produces no output that is superior.
It's probably best not to think about the food culture of other countries, it will always seem weird to you, just as your food conventions seem weird to them. So, you prefer water with your plutonium, others prefer sodium. Just try and see what the other people in the contamination suits are doing and follow their lead. In a worst case scenario, pretend you're allergic.
Seriously though, compared to America, Japan really doesn't have a "we do it your way" mentality with food. I once had to endure a twenty minute back and forth between a friend, a translator, a waitress, and (presumably) a cook because my friend tried to order his pizza without squid. Frankly, ordering *anything* without squid in Japan is probably a stretch, but what was worse, was that even after our translator was like "a special order is very difficult to do in Japan," which is polite translator speak for THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN, STUPID AMERICAN, he then spectacularly failed to take the face-saving bait offered by the waitress, "Are you allergic to squid?" and said "no I just don't eat it, I'm vegetarian." Here's a hint: If a Japanese person makes a suggestion like that to you in a service situation, take it!! I don't even know how this scene ended (but I do know the chef's next comment, conveyed by the waitress, was "but vegetarians eat squid"), but I do know it took a long time to finally receive my tasty beef curry, Japan's proudest culinary achievment.
It advances the state of the art not at all, but if it gets the kids interested in space flight, and icreases public support for NASA and other govt. funding, or even creates a market for that crazy inflatable space hotel, I am all for it. Plus Scaled Composites is a cool company.
Plus, why does something need to advance the state of the art to be cool or worth doing? Making something that's already proven to be possible cheaper and more accesible is a noble goal too (see also: the personal computer revolution).
Nope, Quicktime updates shouldn't break other apps. But since we live in real world, not the world we should live in, and all know upgrades are unpredictable, never upgrading mid-project is an excellent rule to live by.
Ok, but... if you read the crap they send you, there are like coupons in there. You can save money. Some people could give a shit if the government and corporations track their every move, if they can save $1 on dog food. I don't know.... I can't condemn frugality and coupon clipping, even if it does mean reading junk mail. I disapprove of the TVs everywhere trend (except in Japan, where the TVs play nature videos a lot) for sure, but just because not everyone is opposed to savings cards and targeted ads, doesn't mean they're all sheep. They may just have different values.
Of course, they are probably SUV driving mouth breathers, but...
TSA in Oakland just noticed I had a letter opener Katana-style blade (the blade was like 6" long, but it was in a wooden sheath), that I bought in Japan in SEPTEMBER and has been travelling with me (unbeknowst to me) in my laptop bag ever since, including to and from France. This would include probably 20 domestic roundtrips through Oakland or SFO, LAX, SEA, etc.
Luckily, I doubt anyone with a blade on a plane could accomplish anything anymore, other than maybe cutting a few people on his way to being killed by the other passengers, but it was still sort of unnerving. I also thought there was a chance they might arrest me or something (it basically was like a little dagger), but they just gave me the option of taking it outside security, which I was running too late to do.
The current issue is Ok, but MAKE really almost lost me with the Bike issue... oh look, a bunch of hippies made less functional, but larger, bicycles. How arty. How... boring. I'm sure there's some better magazine to feature burning man people in (although, maybe not).
I guess I'm less interested in the art elements, and more interested in the nerd elements. The maker section up front is now basically all artist and really dull and stupid.
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This is true. But in our DIY culture today, one is often both the writer, the typesetter, and the distributer. Therefor, one may need to think about these things, either during the writing process, or after. Also, being able to do all these things is one of the greatest powers of the computer over, say, the typewriter.
Don'r get me wrong -- I love WriteRoom and use it a lot, (and I still lament the loss of WriteNow on the Mac), but I use Word (on a PC) when I am making a doc that I need to show people, but will not invest the time in InDesign for.
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You're looking at this the wrong way. Don't think of it as SCO getting funding to continue to irritate all of us, think of it as a new lease of life for GrokLaw!!
I only use the trackpoint on my ThinkPad T61 (in fact, I have the track pad disabled), but I was surprised, when I bought a MacBook, how quickly I got use to the pad. It's definitely not as good, but it hasn't turned out to be a dealbreaker in terms of productivity. And for very casual, on your back surfing (admit it, you surf in bed), it's actually superior sometimes.
The article is so full of bullshit it's almost unreadable. WiiPlay was #2 not DESPITE it's bad metacritic score, but BECAUSE it was practically the ONLY WAY TO GET A SECOND WII MOTE in 2007. Give me a break! Whether teh game was good or not was almost totally incidental to its sales.
Panera saved my life (well, my job anyway) once when I was in the bowels on Tennessee a few years ago and there was simply no Internet access to be found (not at Starbucks, not at the library, and certainly not at Grandma's). I think I bought like six loaves of bread, I was so thankful. Since then, if I see one (they're not that common in CA), I stop there, generally. Their free wifi earned them a customer for life. I think this program is geat, esp. since you can fill a starbucks card with cash, so it should be pretty anonymous surfing (unless you'll still need a login/pw).
5.5) ???
Seriously, I see what you're saying, I guess I just don't believe governments can get their acts together enough to make something like that workable.
That's true. Most of the cost of a shuttle launch is amortizing its development. However, since it can only get you into a pretty low orbit (and it doesn't seem to be built very well), I say the Chinese are welcome to it -- especially if they build it to the same standards that most goods from China are built to, I don't think the US has much to worry about.
Seriously, I'm not being a troll. Someone please tell me why this is somehow worse than them seeing my passport anyway, assuming that I am who I say I am (and I am, I say).
What I think is funny is that the recording is endlessly referred to as a recording of a "never before heard" concert, not as a "never before heard" recording OF a concert. (See this for great examples.) Hmm... maybe the people who were present for the concert were deaf, but I'm fairly sure they heard it.
All the executed homosexuals and women beaten for not maintaining the appropriate veil angle on the street say "hi."
Oh, so do the journalists killed in detention by the regime.
So do the children being kids being executed by the regime.
So does Amnesty International , while we're at it...
Oh, and so do the local Christians, Zoroastrians, Bahai, and Jews, who are routinely persecuted by the regime (you can do the search yourself, I'm getting nauseated looking at these links).
Look, I understand people don't like GWB, but to insinuate that the US is somehow responsible for human rights violations in Iran, or has a somehow comprable record on human rights is insane.
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Huh... I don't think you can create a legally binding contract that way...
I was expecting some sneaky, Lone Gunman type site, but it was just, you know... nerds.
As for the illegality of undeclared wars, a Paul favorite debating point, I direct all loons' attentions to the undeclared Barbary Wars of 1801 and 1815 . Considering that these undeclared (but supported and funded by Congress) wars occured when the framers of the Constitution were still, you know, alive and in many cases in the goverment, I think someone would have spoken up then if undeclared military action was necessarily unconstitutional.
Let me be the fiftieth to add "Hey, why is there no coverage about my fringe candidate in the summary!! Rather than moving on to debate his MERITS, I will just grief the summary and throw around conspiracy theories!!"
Look, I've voted for Ron Paul in a general election before, but the guy is not going to be a factor in the election.
Or they can serve beer.. then they can get in under the sports bar exemption.
Anyway, kids will always know what that stuff is, as long as they keep re-running old cartoons. Trust me, I've never used a Voctrola, cranked a car to start it, or used an anvil, but I know exactly what they are, thanks to cartoons.
Lastly, there's a certain type of poster on Slashdot who always assumes the worst of others... don't be one. I obviously recognize that Japan is a nation of individuals, (and that, for instance, the fact that a taxi driver in Osaka was rude to me doesn't mean "everyone in Japan is rude," or even "those Oskans are rude,") but there are also clear differences in culture and mores between Japan and America, and while there are obviously great people and bad people in both places, I think you will find more willingness and familiarity with order substitutions -- on the part of customers and staff -- in Amercia.
Unacceptable. Computers going slower while doing NOTHING is unacceptable. Compare the time it takes to boot, open the word processor of your choice, and print a business letter with Vista, XP, Mac OSX, MacOS7, an Apple IIc, and a C64.
Vista is the worst. I don't need a nanny state OS. I need to make little letters appear on my screen as fast a humanly possible, without pointless graphics effects and dialog boxes wasting my time. AT least with XP, I could turn that shit all off and make it look like Windows 95.
I've been using Windows since my first job 14 years ago. Vista is slower than Win 3.0 running on a 25Mhz 386, and produces no output that is superior.
Seriously though, compared to America, Japan really doesn't have a "we do it your way" mentality with food. I once had to endure a twenty minute back and forth between a friend, a translator, a waitress, and (presumably) a cook because my friend tried to order his pizza without squid. Frankly, ordering *anything* without squid in Japan is probably a stretch, but what was worse, was that even after our translator was like "a special order is very difficult to do in Japan," which is polite translator speak for THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN, STUPID AMERICAN, he then spectacularly failed to take the face-saving bait offered by the waitress, "Are you allergic to squid?" and said "no I just don't eat it, I'm vegetarian." Here's a hint: If a Japanese person makes a suggestion like that to you in a service situation, take it!! I don't even know how this scene ended (but I do know the chef's next comment, conveyed by the waitress, was "but vegetarians eat squid"), but I do know it took a long time to finally receive my tasty beef curry, Japan's proudest culinary achievment.
Plus, why does something need to advance the state of the art to be cool or worth doing? Making something that's already proven to be possible cheaper and more accesible is a noble goal too (see also: the personal computer revolution).
Nope, Quicktime updates shouldn't break other apps. But since we live in real world, not the world we should live in, and all know upgrades are unpredictable, never upgrading mid-project is an excellent rule to live by.
It would be a good prank if a prankster did it. It's not a good prank if a news site does it. It's just retarded.
Of course, they are probably SUV driving mouth breathers, but...
Luckily, I doubt anyone with a blade on a plane could accomplish anything anymore, other than maybe cutting a few people on his way to being killed by the other passengers, but it was still sort of unnerving. I also thought there was a chance they might arrest me or something (it basically was like a little dagger), but they just gave me the option of taking it outside security, which I was running too late to do.
I guess I'm less interested in the art elements, and more interested in the nerd elements. The maker section up front is now basically all artist and really dull and stupid.
Don'r get me wrong -- I love WriteRoom and use it a lot, (and I still lament the loss of WriteNow on the Mac), but I use Word (on a PC) when I am making a doc that I need to show people, but will not invest the time in InDesign for.