An illustrated version federal budget allocation is here.
It gives the 2004 Discretionary Budget and it reveals some interesting stuff. Military spending was the largest part of the budget and was roughly $399 BN (not including Iraq/Afghanistan); while non military spending (Education, Enviroment, Transportation, NASA, Justice, Labor, etc.) accounted for $383 BN.
I don't think you understand the court case. The SC ruled that private property may be seized and given/sold to another private entity.
This wasn't the case of the government tearing down some houses to make a new highway or public resource, it was tearing them down so a corporation could build a development.
This case is most onerous because it allows the government to seize your land if they think they can make more money from it. Have a nice plot of forest? The govt. can now seize it for a logging company. And God help you if ever find an sizable mineral deposit on any property you own.
Income taxes were originally supposed to be a temporary measure to help the govt. pay for defense and you can easily see how quickly it turned in to a free-for-all cash grab. I have a hard time believing that these new confiscatory powers won't be used the same way.
You choose to have kids; you be their moral guide.
Which is the point of this law, an OPT-IN system to allow parents to have the ISP block adult content for their connection. The only mandatory part is that ISPs have to OFFER it. It's really no different than being able to call up the cable company and have them block certain channels.
It was very much a joint effort and appeared on both macs and PCs about the same time. Apple was much more aggressive in their rollout (The original imac only had USB connectors), and USB support for PC's wasn't added until Windows98 (there was an OEM version of win95 that supported it, but it wasn't widely deployed)
From the wiki: Apple computers have used USB mice and keyboards exclusively since January 1999. Compaq included USB as early as April 1996.
I STILL can't figure out why people don't like X11-style copy/paste.
Probably because when you are editing a document, you can't easily select and replace text. With other OS's if I want to replace a section of text, I copy the replacing text, highlight what I want to replace and then paste.
The mac/win method is mostly consistent across the whole operating system, files and text must be explicitly copied. With X11, its not. Another thing that is broken in X11 copy/paste is the ability to keep a selection copied when the original program is no longer running. I can't tell you how frustating it is to lose a bunch of text because you have to have the app you copied from open. It isn't broken like that on Mac or Windows.
rumor that Apple will be switching to Intel. I imagine Steve Jobs has seen the writing on the wall and sees that Apple's mobile efforts don't have much future if they stick with IBM. Apple continues to sell notebooks like hotcakes despite having all their tech be a generation or two behind PCs.
Serious question (posted from a new mac mini)... What draws you to the PowerPC arch?? It would seem to me (moderate tech knowledge) that the only areas where PPC is better than x86 (stuff like register counts, etc.) are too low-level to be much interest to a user.
I like my mini, it seems well designed (apart from out of spec VGA voltage), but the compelling part was OSX; linux et all already run on my P4 just fine.
When you click on an upper row tab, the upper row of TABS becomes the bottom row?!?
Do you think before you post? If the default behaviour was for the upper row to stay the upper row when clicked, it would cover up the bottom row of tabs.
A "jury of your peers" determines guilt or innocence
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If you have ever used the google toolbar, you know that a google search field is probably the least helpful part of the google toolbar. The really useful stuff is search highlighting (and the ability to find your search text on the webpage just by clicking on the word), the ability to translate page into your native language, etc.
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An illustrated version federal budget allocation is here.
It gives the 2004 Discretionary Budget and it reveals some interesting stuff. Military spending was the largest part of the budget and was roughly $399 BN (not including Iraq/Afghanistan); while non military spending (Education, Enviroment, Transportation, NASA, Justice, Labor, etc.) accounted for $383 BN.
Its right here. I found it using the locations they gave on their site(it's one of the only places in Idaho that google maps can zoom in all the way).
I don't think you understand the court case. The SC ruled that private property may be seized and given/sold to another private entity.
This wasn't the case of the government tearing down some houses to make a new highway or public resource, it was tearing them down so a corporation could build a development.
This case is most onerous because it allows the government to seize your land if they think they can make more money from it. Have a nice plot of forest? The govt. can now seize it for a logging company. And God help you if ever find an sizable mineral deposit on any property you own.
Income taxes were originally supposed to be a temporary measure to help the govt. pay for defense and you can easily see how quickly it turned in to a free-for-all cash grab. I have a hard time believing that these new confiscatory powers won't be used the same way.
I bought a 6800 for $160 shipped from newegg. It must be a pretty good deal because newegg can't keep them in stock for more than a few days.
Open up itunes and click on the "browse" button (it looks like an eye). In itunes default state, it is exactly the same as the picture in question.
You choose to have kids; you be their moral guide.
Which is the point of this law, an OPT-IN system to allow parents to have the ISP block adult content for their connection. The only mandatory part is that ISPs have to OFFER it. It's really no different than being able to call up the cable company and have them block certain channels.
USB was created by the USB Implementers Forum.
It was very much a joint effort and appeared on both macs and PCs about the same time. Apple was much more aggressive in their rollout (The original imac only had USB connectors), and USB support for PC's wasn't added until Windows98 (there was an OEM version of win95 that supported it, but it wasn't widely deployed)
From the wiki: Apple computers have used USB mice and keyboards exclusively since January 1999. Compaq included USB as early as April 1996.
that stinks.
I STILL can't figure out why people don't like X11-style copy/paste.
Probably because when you are editing a document, you can't easily select and replace text. With other OS's if I want to replace a section of text, I copy the replacing text, highlight what I want to replace and then paste.
The mac/win method is mostly consistent across the whole operating system, files and text must be explicitly copied. With X11, its not. Another thing that is broken in X11 copy/paste is the ability to keep a selection copied when the original program is no longer running. I can't tell you how frustating it is to lose a bunch of text because you have to have the app you copied from open. It isn't broken like that on Mac or Windows.
I couldn't help but think of X11 copy/paste. I'd try and grab a trash bag to replace with a new one and each time I grabbed it, it'd make two!
I think this is a quote of Steve (I got it from here)
More than even hardware innovations, the core of the mac is the operating system
that's not changing.
All Apple notebooks are 32-bit G4s so plz stfu.
rumor that Apple will be switching to Intel. I imagine Steve Jobs has seen the writing on the wall and sees that Apple's mobile efforts don't have much future if they stick with IBM. Apple continues to sell notebooks like hotcakes despite having all their tech be a generation or two behind PCs.
Serious question (posted from a new mac mini)... What draws you to the PowerPC arch?? It would seem to me (moderate tech knowledge) that the only areas where PPC is better than x86 (stuff like register counts, etc.) are too low-level to be much interest to a user.
I like my mini, it seems well designed (apart from out of spec VGA voltage), but the compelling part was OSX; linux et all already run on my P4 just fine.
When you click on an upper row tab, the upper row of TABS becomes the bottom row?!?
Do you think before you post? If the default behaviour was for the upper row to stay the upper row when clicked, it would cover up the bottom row of tabs.
and
Firefox Win:
* Shift-click == Open in new window
and one more revision:
On Firefox Win:
* ctrl-click == open link in new tab
* Alt-click == download link
shit, blank comments don't work anymore
OSX gets faster and faster because apple started out with a really slow kernel (mach) and have been rewriting more and more of it each iteration.
happened to that kid if he tried to fix his ipod with one of these in it.
it more along the lines of GM selling OnStar
A "jury of your peers" determines guilt or innocence
If you have ever used the google toolbar, you know that a google search field is probably the least helpful part of the google toolbar. The really useful stuff is search highlighting (and the ability to find your search text on the webpage just by clicking on the word), the ability to translate page into your native language, etc.
don't use Iron Mountain
.asp?
besides, would you really trust critical stuff to someone who uses
Linus uses a mac because he was given one for free.