I havn't read the ruling, and I don't have any idea what it was about, but this is probably a pretty good guess:
House had contraband in it. House had alarm go off. Cops go in and see drugs. Owners move to suppress evidence, citing entry without warrant, no probable cause, etc & therefore contraband evidence cannot be used at trial. Cops say that alarm was an "invitation" to entry so they didn't need a warrant & therefore could use contraband evidence against Owners. Judge agrees with Owners, evidence thrown out.
If the above was what happened in the case you are talking about, then all it means is that, sure, the cops can go in, but if they find evidence of illegal activity, it cannot be used in court. Such a ruling would in no way prevent cops from entering to stop a criminal -- it would just keep them from busting the owners.
Hey, 'cmon, who the f*ck modded me down for that? I was totally serious. When I was end-using, I always found VMS to be less of a PITA 'cause I didn't have to worry about case.
Here our calculations probably become much less accurate because we took some shortcuts and made some assumptions that may be way off, but the result we got is that we needed to send some tens of thousands of tonnes of working mass (e.g. water) along with the nuke to convert its energy to momentum with reasonable efficiency.
Needless to say, this is beyond our current launching capabilities.
With the Orion it is not. I have a feeling that if there were a dinasaur killer on the way, an atomic powered launch vehicle would be be more politically correct.
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mean IE is not the best browser for specs compliance, and crashes quite often.
My system:
Duron 1gig (at 133FSB*7.5, but otherwise not clocked) Shuttle AK31a 256 megs Crucial PC2100 (1 stick) RadeonVE 300W AMD approved PS Thermaltake 6Cu HSF (quiet) Spacious case with nice quiet 120mm cooling fan. Realtek 8139 based 10/100 card Cable modem Latest drivers for everything, Latency patch, Windows XP all updates dual boot with Gentoo/KDE3.0.3
My system has been like this for 8 months more or less (whenever the AK31 was released, I can't remember).
IE gets used about 3 hours a day. I maybe switch from WinXP to Linux every two weeks, and then switch back to XP again two weeks later. (I just start getting bored with the same OS all the time). I can't remember the last time I was forced to reboot because of a problem. Generally the system stays up on either OS for two straight weeks.
In eight months, IE6 has NEVER crashed. Not once. And I've gone through some pretty hairy sites too, that I can't belive IE managed to deal with. I would say you either have some corrupt files, or you are running a non-NT based Windows OS, or your hardware is cr*p.
I'm no fan of IE and use mozilla 1.1b exclusively under Gentoo, but your critisism of IE simply isn't valid.
There's really no way to transmit much useful info over copper wires that have been at more or less the same specifications since the telephone was patented by Bell.
The future of the videophone (if there actually is a future) is wireless broadband, whether it is 3G cell phone tech (which should have the bugs worked out in a year or so or wireless networking. But it will never be popular.
This is why:
I could set up videophoney with my broadband connection right now -- and set it up for my friends too -- probably in about a day. But demand, as far as I can tell, is zilch. Let's face it: the face we put on outdoors is, for many of us that aren't naturally built and beautiful, and PITA. How wonderful it is that we can still sit around at home sweaty, stinky, and half naked and yet still interact with our friends, and they still think we are cool.
Somehow I just don't think the vid phone will *ever* catch on. The video-free phone just has so many advantates over it, why should anyone want to take a step backwards in technology?
Some folks find this odd, but my favorite keyboards are *not* the clicky kind. I prefer a keyboard that has the least possible resistance to the keypress and then smacks the bottom of the press sharply (as opposed to squishing into the bottom). Generally the cheapie junkie $5.00 keyboards work much better than the expensive clicky ones, at least for me. I also prefer the least amount of travel down. Basically I just want to feather over the keys, and if I even brush one, I want a character on the screen. I also prefer smaller, non-standard sized keyboards (i.e., laptop size) as my fingers have to travel less far between keys then.
I still havn't found the perfect keyboard.
YMMV
Interestingly, my aunt won a typing contest in the 1930's at 120wpm. On a manual typewriter. Now THAT is impressive.
I used WP6, and granted it didn't have the eye-candy that MS had, the GUI was still quite functional and, hard as it is to believe, that version is still in use in quite a few law offices today.
A lawyer's living depends on the quality and quantity text produced, as does the lawyer's secretary's living. There is a reason that a person whose livelihood is completely dependant on the continuous production of documents uses WordPerfect.
Last point (I need to get to work now): Today's WP can do everything with a mouse too. The documents are interchangeable to and from Word via RTF format.
Why in the world corps don't standardize on.rtf format, instead of.doc, I cannot understand -- except that they are probably too stupid to understand the difference.
Ctrl-Z? That doesn't help when something I typed 15 minutes ago decided to mysteriously change into something else. What, am I supposed to Ctrl-Z back through 15 minutes of work?
Perhaps I wasn't clear: I don't *type* faster on WP, rather, I produce more document per minute with WP because I never struggle with formatting issues: WP always allows me to put the text where *I* want it... as opposed to MSWord which is always trying to put the text where MSWord things it ought to be.
duh... not "control codes," but "reveal codes." Stuff like that happens when I type faster than I think... although the reason that I don't remember what it is called is 'cause I never have to use a mouse to go find it but just hit the function key that immediately opens the codes window.
Ask any secretary that actually TYPES for a living, especially the ones that need to do complex text formatting (e.g., legal secretaries) -- the secretaries that type 90+wpm. They *all* agree, and I mean every single last one, that nothing can *touch* word perfect for speed of text input. The function keys, which have mapped to more or less the same functions since 1985 (...earlier?), allow experienced users to do many things in less than a second that would otherwise take quite a while to do with a mouse. WP was, and is still *keyboard* based -- that means that if you know what you are doing, you can do everything in WP, very quickly, without ever taking your hands off the keyboard. I can't imagine ever having to use that horrible MSword to do anything except under threat of starvation. Of course the very best thing about WP, that I have never seen any other WP do, is that the "control codes" option always lets you see exactly why a document is behaving the way it is on screen: each formatting option is just a simple code between text brackets in a text document. There's never any question of why something looks the way it does in WP. No matter what the function, whether it be bold, or column size, or printer type, or whatever, it is just a simple code between brackets. In contrast, MSWord users are constantly baffled by a program that is trying to "assist" the user, by doing things it wasn't asked to do (and of course, cannot be undone) -- which is generally chalked up as being "just the way the program is,;" or else the users just feel like they are stupid and don't know how to use the program properly.
MSWord exists today only because it was bundled by OEMs (originally as MSWorks, in crippled form... though the full version is still crippled...) It never could have caught on otherwise as no one that actually knew about word processors would have chosen it over WP if they actually had to pay for it.
Oh yea, what platforms does WP work on right now? At least these:
Amiga, every version ever made Linux, every version ever made Unix, every version ever made Windows, every version ever made Mac, every version ever made
I'm sure there are other versions -- the above ones are just the ones that I have personally used.
Do I know what I'm talking about? Well, I used to be a legal secretary before I started accumulating degrees. I have been tested out, several times, at 100+wpm. I was word processing on a Prime mainframe (using a text editor) before word processors (and PCs) existed.
When making a living depends on how fast you get a document out of the printer -- which word processor you use is extremely important.
The typing ability requirements for a legal secretary are far more stringent than any "normal" secretary. Glance in the want-ads in your local paper and you'll see what I mean. Legal secretaries are, on an almost daily basis, required to pump out GIGANTIC documents, always suddenly, always in a complete crisis situation, and always mere minutes before they must be faxed out. It is the rare law office that does not use WP, and the secretaries in the occasional law office that uses MSWord instead are extremely unhappy about it, bitch continuously, and quit constantly.
I use KDE over Gnome for one reason only: with KDE I can easily remove all the desktop icons (the "home" and "trash" icons) and have a completely clean look. I have never found a way to do this in Gnome wihtout removing the desktop alltogether. Is there a way to do this in Gnome?
If you work through some of the equations, you'll see that it's not necessarily "gravity" per se that slows (relative to a distant observer) time, but acceleration, which is, in a relativistic universe, indistinguishable from gravity.
So let me ask you something. Is there an *INTERNATIONAL* sign language? From your post it seems like you know only English sign language.
Now if there were an international sign language that worked all over the world, I can imagine that EVERYONE on the face of the earth would eventually know it. I'd go out and start taking classes right away.
Wow. KGX! That actually sounds good. I've often thought that the name "Linux" (no offense intended Mr. T) sounded kind of... um... I don't quite know how to say it? Prissy? Weak? Some of you must understand what I mean.
Even I was a little hesitant at first, geeky as I am because of the name. It probably only sounds that way to a native English speaker though.
But KGX? KGX sounds kick *ss! It somehow conveys high tech-ness, polish, trendyness, etc.
I can see how Joe-sixpack would shy away from "Linux" on his PC, but really have an urge to try the coolness that is "KGX."
Since I myself run KDE3.0.3 over Gentoo, I think from now on I'm gonna start saying, when folks ask me what kind of computer I have, that I have a "KGX machine."
Eight years ago I bought some sony headphones. They sounded great at the time, and probably still would now. However, last year, for no reason, the plastic the headphones are made from turned to goo. I'm not kidding. Those of you that bought Sony headphones long ago know what I'm talking about.
...seems to me that I always recommend Dell over Gateway to folks (unless they want *me* to build them a custom pc) because even though the boxes are more or less equivalent, and because even though you have to pay shipping on either box, the Dell always comes out a bit cheaper as Dell has no retail stores and hense no sales tax is paid by the purchaser.
Here in Louisiana, the sales tax is almost 10%, which is a pretty hefty chunk of change on a $2000 computer.
I think Dell realizes this, and yet it still wants to be able to go after the same local markets that a Gateway store more or less owns around here. This is a way for them to get at that without taking away the sales tax advantage from their mail order business.
Excuse me? How about making the subject "Let's get over Mandrake being easy to use"
You've been using linux for 5 years? I've been using *nix for 20. Mandrake is EASY TO CLEAN INSTALL, and that is it. After that it is a bloated pig of a distribution with horrible dependency issues and an alpha version software installer. In contrast, Gentoo is a pretty large PITA to install, but so much faster than Mandrake when it is done that it is rediculous, and has the easiest new software installation procedure of *any* linux distro out there, with near ZERO dependency issues.
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I havn't read the ruling, and I don't have any idea what it was about, but this is probably a pretty good guess:
House had contraband in it. House had alarm go off. Cops go in and see drugs. Owners move to suppress evidence, citing entry without warrant, no probable cause, etc & therefore contraband evidence cannot be used at trial. Cops say that alarm was an "invitation" to entry so they didn't need a warrant & therefore could use contraband evidence against Owners. Judge agrees with Owners, evidence thrown out.
If the above was what happened in the case you are talking about, then all it means is that, sure, the cops can go in, but if they find evidence of illegal activity, it cannot be used in court. Such a ruling would in no way prevent cops from entering to stop a criminal -- it would just keep them from busting the owners.
What in the world are you talking about? Haven't you ever heard of yellow dog linux: the distro that runs on mac hardware?
OSX is BSD with a pretty face. The most any developer would have to do is recompile.
Hey, 'cmon, who the f*ck modded me down for that? I was totally serious. When I was end-using, I always found VMS to be less of a PITA 'cause I didn't have to worry about case.
Lame mods.
Can somebody please explain to me (or tell me to RTFM/STFW and point me to the relevant resource) what makes VMS better than *NIX?
In a nutshell, VMS is not case sensitive.
Here our calculations probably become much less accurate because we took some shortcuts and made some assumptions that may be way off, but the result we got is that we needed to send some tens of thousands of tonnes of working mass (e.g. water) along with the nuke to convert its energy to momentum with reasonable efficiency.
Needless to say, this is beyond our current launching capabilities.
With the Orion it is not. I have a feeling that if there were a dinasaur killer on the way, an atomic powered launch vehicle would be be more politically correct.
mean IE is not the best browser for specs compliance, and crashes quite often.
My system:
Duron 1gig (at 133FSB*7.5, but otherwise not clocked)
Shuttle AK31a
256 megs Crucial PC2100 (1 stick)
RadeonVE
300W AMD approved PS
Thermaltake 6Cu HSF (quiet)
Spacious case with nice quiet 120mm cooling fan.
Realtek 8139 based 10/100 card
Cable modem
Latest drivers for everything, Latency patch, Windows XP all updates dual boot with Gentoo/KDE3.0.3
My system has been like this for 8 months more or less (whenever the AK31 was released, I can't remember).
IE gets used about 3 hours a day. I maybe switch from WinXP to Linux every two weeks, and then switch back to XP again two weeks later. (I just start getting bored with the same OS all the time). I can't remember the last time I was forced to reboot because of a problem. Generally the system stays up on either OS for two straight weeks.
In eight months, IE6 has NEVER crashed. Not once. And I've gone through some pretty hairy sites too, that I can't belive IE managed to deal with. I would say you either have some corrupt files, or you are running a non-NT based Windows OS, or your hardware is cr*p.
I'm no fan of IE and use mozilla 1.1b exclusively under Gentoo, but your critisism of IE simply isn't valid.
There's really no way to transmit much useful info over copper wires that have been at more or less the same specifications since the telephone was patented by Bell.
The future of the videophone (if there actually is a future) is wireless broadband, whether it is 3G cell phone tech (which should have the bugs worked out in a year or so or wireless networking. But it will never be popular.
This is why:
I could set up videophoney with my broadband connection right now -- and set it up for my friends too -- probably in about a day. But demand, as far as I can tell, is zilch. Let's face it: the face we put on outdoors is, for many of us that aren't naturally built and beautiful, and PITA. How wonderful it is that we can still sit around at home sweaty, stinky, and half naked and yet still interact with our friends, and they still think we are cool.
Somehow I just don't think the vid phone will *ever* catch on. The video-free phone just has so many advantates over it, why should anyone want to take a step backwards in technology?
Some folks find this odd, but my favorite keyboards are *not* the clicky kind. I prefer a keyboard that has the least possible resistance to the keypress and then smacks the bottom of the press sharply (as opposed to squishing into the bottom). Generally the cheapie junkie $5.00 keyboards work much better than the expensive clicky ones, at least for me. I also prefer the least amount of travel down. Basically I just want to feather over the keys, and if I even brush one, I want a character on the screen. I also prefer smaller, non-standard sized keyboards (i.e., laptop size) as my fingers have to travel less far between keys then.
I still havn't found the perfect keyboard.
YMMV
Interestingly, my aunt won a typing contest in the 1930's at 120wpm. On a manual typewriter. Now THAT is impressive.
I used WP6, and granted it didn't have the eye-candy that MS had, the GUI was still quite functional and, hard as it is to believe, that version is still in use in quite a few law offices today.
.rtf format, instead of .doc, I cannot understand -- except that they are probably too stupid to understand the difference.
A lawyer's living depends on the quality and quantity text produced, as does the lawyer's secretary's living. There is a reason that a person whose livelihood is completely dependant on the continuous production of documents uses WordPerfect.
Last point (I need to get to work now): Today's WP can do everything with a mouse too. The documents are interchangeable to and from Word via RTF format.
Why in the world corps don't standardize on
No, of course it didn't. However there is a version of WP that will install on the early Unix versions.
Ctrl-Z? That doesn't help when something I typed 15 minutes ago decided to mysteriously change into something else. What, am I supposed to Ctrl-Z back through 15 minutes of work?
Perhaps I wasn't clear: I don't *type* faster on WP, rather, I produce more document per minute with WP because I never struggle with formatting issues: WP always allows me to put the text where *I* want it... as opposed to MSWord which is always trying to put the text where MSWord things it ought to be.
duh... not "control codes," but "reveal codes." Stuff like that happens when I type faster than I think... although the reason that I don't remember what it is called is 'cause I never have to use a mouse to go find it but just hit the function key that immediately opens the codes window.
Ask any secretary that actually TYPES for a living, especially the ones that need to do complex text formatting (e.g., legal secretaries) -- the secretaries that type 90+wpm. They *all* agree, and I mean every single last one, that nothing can *touch* word perfect for speed of text input. The function keys, which have mapped to more or less the same functions since 1985 (...earlier?), allow experienced users to do many things in less than a second that would otherwise take quite a while to do with a mouse. WP was, and is still *keyboard* based -- that means that if you know what you are doing, you can do everything in WP, very quickly, without ever taking your hands off the keyboard. I can't imagine ever having to use that horrible MSword to do anything except under threat of starvation. Of course the very best thing about WP, that I have never seen any other WP do, is that the "control codes" option always lets you see exactly why a document is behaving the way it is on screen: each formatting option is just a simple code between text brackets in a text document. There's never any question of why something looks the way it does in WP. No matter what the function, whether it be bold, or column size, or printer type, or whatever, it is just a simple code between brackets. In contrast, MSWord users are constantly baffled by a program that is trying to "assist" the user, by doing things it wasn't asked to do (and of course, cannot be undone) -- which is generally chalked up as being "just the way the program is,;" or else the users just feel like they are stupid and don't know how to use the program properly.
MSWord exists today only because it was bundled by OEMs (originally as MSWorks, in crippled form... though the full version is still crippled...) It never could have caught on otherwise as no one that actually knew about word processors would have chosen it over WP if they actually had to pay for it.
Oh yea, what platforms does WP work on right now? At least these:
Amiga, every version ever made
Linux, every version ever made
Unix, every version ever made
Windows, every version ever made
Mac, every version ever made
I'm sure there are other versions -- the above ones are just the ones that I have personally used.
Do I know what I'm talking about? Well, I used to be a legal secretary before I started accumulating degrees. I have been tested out, several times, at 100+wpm. I was word processing on a Prime mainframe (using a text editor) before word processors (and PCs) existed.
When making a living depends on how fast you get a document out of the printer -- which word processor you use is extremely important.
The typing ability requirements for a legal secretary are far more stringent than any "normal" secretary. Glance in the want-ads in your local paper and you'll see what I mean. Legal secretaries are, on an almost daily basis, required to pump out GIGANTIC documents, always suddenly, always in a complete crisis situation, and always mere minutes before they must be faxed out. It is the rare law office that does not use WP, and the secretaries in the occasional law office that uses MSWord instead are extremely unhappy about it, bitch continuously, and quit constantly.
I was a college drop out.
I threw my TV away.
I now have two advanced degrees.
YMMV
I use KDE over Gnome for one reason only: with KDE I can easily remove all the desktop icons (the "home" and "trash" icons) and have a completely clean look. I have never found a way to do this in Gnome wihtout removing the desktop alltogether. Is there a way to do this in Gnome?
If you work through some of the equations, you'll see that it's not necessarily "gravity" per se that slows (relative to a distant observer) time, but acceleration, which is, in a relativistic universe, indistinguishable from gravity.
Here's one you forgot:
Arresting people!
So let me ask you something. Is there an *INTERNATIONAL* sign language? From your post it seems like you know only English sign language.
Now if there were an international sign language that worked all over the world, I can imagine that EVERYONE on the face of the earth would eventually know it. I'd go out and start taking classes right away.
Is it possible?
Boycott? What Boycott? I don't need a boycott. If there were a good CD out there, I'd buy it. I havn't bought a CD in two years. I'm still waiting.
it's a good thing they got their asses on tv or their asses whould've been whooped right out of that observatory forever
Wow. KGX! That actually sounds good. I've often thought that the name "Linux" (no offense intended Mr. T) sounded kind of... um... I don't quite know how to say it? Prissy? Weak? Some of you must understand what I mean.
Even I was a little hesitant at first, geeky as I am because of the name. It probably only sounds that way to a native English speaker though.
But KGX? KGX sounds kick *ss! It somehow conveys high tech-ness, polish, trendyness, etc.
I can see how Joe-sixpack would shy away from "Linux" on his PC, but really have an urge to try the coolness that is "KGX."
Since I myself run KDE3.0.3 over Gentoo, I think from now on I'm gonna start saying, when folks ask me what kind of computer I have, that I have a "KGX machine."
but i think it must be related somehow:
Eight years ago I bought some sony headphones. They sounded great at the time, and probably still would now. However, last year, for no reason, the plastic the headphones are made from turned to goo. I'm not kidding. Those of you that bought Sony headphones long ago know what I'm talking about.
...seems to me that I always recommend Dell over Gateway to folks (unless they want *me* to build them a custom pc) because even though the boxes are more or less equivalent, and because even though you have to pay shipping on either box, the Dell always comes out a bit cheaper as Dell has no retail stores and hense no sales tax is paid by the purchaser.
Here in Louisiana, the sales tax is almost 10%, which is a pretty hefty chunk of change on a $2000 computer.
I think Dell realizes this, and yet it still wants to be able to go after the same local markets that a Gateway store more or less owns around here. This is a way for them to get at that without taking away the sales tax advantage from their mail order business.
Excuse me? How about making the subject "Let's get over Mandrake being easy to use"
You've been using linux for 5 years? I've been using *nix for 20. Mandrake is EASY TO CLEAN INSTALL, and that is it. After that it is a bloated pig of a distribution with horrible dependency issues and an alpha version software installer. In contrast, Gentoo is a pretty large PITA to install, but so much faster than Mandrake when it is done that it is rediculous, and has the easiest new software installation procedure of *any* linux distro out there, with near ZERO dependency issues.