Depends on your definition of "pursuit of happiness":) Yeah, I know that's really Declaration of Independence, and not Constituition, though there's always the "more perfect union" clause in the preamble:). At one point there was a constituitional ammendment banning alcohol, so would the ammendment that repealed that ammendment count as a constituitional right to alcohol?
Same here, I thought it was my video card choking on a scroll bar click, or something else mouse related like the way the king's eyes shift in Freecell. You look at it and it doesn't move and doesn't move and just when you think it isn't going to move it startles the bejeepers out of you.
What this guy is trying to say is *not* that the i-opener doesn't have a USB port, and *not* that ISB to Ethernet adapters don't exist, but that they are cheaper than the i-opener.
Raining flaming death across the entire world's surface would be kinder than any more of Farscape unless the first episode was some sort of isolated abomination, following which they replaced the cast, the writers, the premise, the sets, the producer and director, and basically everything except the title.
You had to have seen 2001:A Space Odyssey back in '69 when it first came out (before ABC stole the look of the ending for their TV network promo graphics, and Elvis and everybody's brother used the intro music)to properly appreciate it (and being a sci-fi reading teen helped too).
Didn't Garabaldi (sp?) ride in one of those tunnels with Walter Koenig's character? BTW, anybody else ever stumble across Koenig's sci-fi book some several years ago?
Too late for karma but... As I noted in a previous story's thread, The Register had an article about a General Accounting Office report that basically says the DOJ is going about this in entirely the wrong way because of turf concerns.
In the spring of '96, having pretty much never touched a computer before, I signed up for an intro computer class at the local community college. They had DOS and Win3.1 on the machines at that time. If scroll bars had been named something different I'd probably have had a lot less trouble with them. With a real scroll, like you see in pictures in Sunday School of Old Testament Days, or in movies of some flunky reading the latest proclamation from the Sherriff of Nottingham, one turns the upper handle to roll up some of the scroll and bring into view a lower part of the actual document. Your line of sight stays fixed and the document moves. With computer screen scrollbars, the document doesn't move, the rectangle through which you look at it moves. It's as though you're in an elevator with the door missing, and the vertical scroll bar is a sort of "where you currently are in the elevator shaft" kind of map. If they had been called "viewpoint adjuster bars" or somesuch, using them would have been a lot more intuitive.
I'm thinking of changing my sig to Proud to be a member of a "self-selecting group of loudmouth power users".
If you're talking computer espionage, wouldn't they attempt to go undetected by the person they were spying on and try all those other places for copies of the e-mail first before chancing alerting the person they're trying to spy on by trying to get to his computer directly?
Assuming this thing doesn't have any sort of disk drive, the "OS" is probably in that flashrom. Anybody got any ideas about how to re-flash it with something else to turn it into a "computer" (sort of)? Anybody got any pictures of the inside of this thing?
In order to actually use the i-opener to "surf the web", you have to pay them $21.95 per month for their internet service, can't use your old ISP. I'm waiting for a return e-mail as to whether you can use that account with any other equipment, like a "real computer". Will post answer (if I get it) in reply to this post.
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Depends on your definition of "pursuit of happiness" :) :). At one point there was a constituitional ammendment banning alcohol, so would the ammendment that repealed that ammendment count as a constituitional right to alcohol?
Yeah, I know that's really Declaration of Independence, and not Constituition, though there's always the "more perfect union" clause in the preamble
Why would someone have assumed you'd post information about your family in a place like this?
Apparently another benefit of the late hour (east coast U.S.) is that among the moderators present are fewer of the type we've had too many of lately.
Sometimes the way you say things influences the way people take what you have to say.
Same here, I thought it was my video card choking on a scroll bar click, or something else mouse related like the way the king's eyes shift in Freecell. You look at it and it doesn't move and doesn't move and just when you think it isn't going to move it startles the bejeepers out of you.
Wouldn't zero friction mean zero traction? Perhaps you meant resistance or somesuch?
Did the Unabomber bomb Unaversities?
Let's use you first.
It's perfectly obvious that he was discussing seafood :)
--insert fisherman catching old boot joke here--
Bull, however, is another story.
They just forgot their password :)
What this guy is trying to say is *not* that the i-opener doesn't have a USB port, and *not* that ISB to Ethernet adapters don't exist, but that they are cheaper than the i-opener.
Raining flaming death across the entire world's surface would be kinder than any more of Farscape unless the first episode was some sort of isolated abomination, following which they replaced the cast, the writers, the premise, the sets, the producer and director, and basically everything except the title.
I thought "remember" looked a little odd, but had to click "Submit" for that breakthrough moment of revelation. :)
Remeber fondly, along with ERB's Venus books. (Not to mention the actual Tarzan novels, before Hollywood dumbed them down)
You had to have seen 2001:A Space Odyssey back in '69 when it first came out (before ABC stole the look of the ending for their TV network promo graphics, and Elvis and everybody's brother used the intro music)to properly appreciate it (and being a sci-fi reading teen helped too).
Didn't Garabaldi (sp?) ride in one of those tunnels with Walter Koenig's character?
BTW, anybody else ever stumble across Koenig's sci-fi book some several years ago?
I thought he was related to that supplemental insurance the duck keeps quacking about in that TV spot.
Or is that a goose?
Too late for karma but...
As I noted in a previous story's thread, The Register had an article about a General Accounting Office report that basically says the DOJ is going about this in entirely the wrong way because of turf concerns.
When it comes to patents, someone's always getting knifed in the back or forked over.
Not to mention wasting a perfectly good bus. :)
I'm thinking of changing my sig to
Proud to be a member of a "self-selecting group of loudmouth power users".
If you're talking computer espionage, wouldn't they attempt to go undetected by the person they were spying on and try all those other places for copies of the e-mail first before chancing alerting the person they're trying to spy on by trying to get to his computer directly?
Assuming this thing doesn't have any sort of disk drive, the "OS" is probably in that flashrom. Anybody got any ideas about how to re-flash it with something else to turn it into a "computer" (sort of)? Anybody got any pictures of the inside of this thing?
In order to actually use the i-opener to "surf the web", you have to pay them $21.95 per month for their internet service, can't use your old ISP. I'm waiting for a return e-mail as to whether you can use that account with any other equipment, like a "real computer". Will post answer (if I get it) in reply to this post.