In other words, you can't convert movies that work on both devices without having two machines, dual boot or virtualization software -- in other words, more than one Windows license.
Actually the rearrangement of the home/end etc keys has been returned to it's true home in most of the newest Microsoft keyboards.
The F keys very based on the keyboard quite a bit. For example my MS keyboard has only one split: F5/F6.
I'm actually happier with this keyboard than any previous keyboard. One of the reasons for that is that the wrist support actually works for people with longer fingers (like me). Most keyboards (and mice) seem to be designed for people with hands like my wife: one full joint shorter than mine in all fingers.
Because there is no such beast as effective gun registration. Criminals can get guns any time they want. You can't get rid of guns until you get your hands on them.
Sure. In Australia, with strong laws banning guns except under limited circumstances (particularly handguns), my understanding is that the going rate for a glock is $5000 AUD (or it was 3 years ago). That said, any crime involving guns is treated very seriously. And it has been pretty effective.
The point is that it may be an imperfect system but it is better than your current system.
In Australia (land of the free), we have two houses of parliment. One is elected based on voting regions (eg win a region and get the seat), the other by proportional representation (eg get 20% of the votes, get 20% of the seats). Legislation has to pass both houses. This actually gives the minor parties greater power, as they often hold the balance of power.
We have strict gun control because having a large bore semi-auto isn't as useful as knowing that muggers and bank theives don't have them.
I love this sentiment, as if criminals actually pay attention to that one law and ignore the others. Why don't you also stop mugging and bank thievery by outlawing those activities too?
The argument seems to run that the criminal can be better armed than the law abiding citizen. America seems to have solved this by having an arms race between the criminals and the law abiding citizens. This ignores the fact that criminals will win the race (they are criminal, duh) and they know when they will commit the crime. They can chose a time that is advantagous to them, one where the balance is stacked in their favour.
Sorry, but this can actually work, but I think America lacks the political will to make it happen. That and the fact that you are infested with liberterians (and I do mean infested, liberterianism is selfishness under another label).
Why not implement effective gun registration at a federal level? Provide strict punishments for unregistered firearms, with some inital grace period and a gun buyback scheme. Basically clear out the unregistered guns. If you dry up the pool of firearms for criminals, then there is no need for citizens to be armed against the criminals.
Of course defence against government is another issue.
Why limit it to just passenger airship travel? The Germans lost quite a few zeppelins trying to bomb london, and most of them were lost as much due to the weather as to hostile activity.
To get the most out of the new formats, most people will need a new TV. As the higher def TVs increase penetration, people will buy the higher def formats.
Maybe, just maybe, if she is a devout southern baptist she might be teaching a class of devout southern baptist children, necessitating an explanation.
Why is this a concession? Judging from the small blurb in the article, this is simply recognising that science and religion do not need to come into conflict.
There are Christians who believe evolution happens (and happened). I have a Christian friend who is an academic working in the evolutionary biology.
It's the same problem I have with counter-strike, if you're on the losing team with no money, how are you supposed to take out people with body armor and AK-47s when all you have is a pistol?
This isn't as much of a problem as it might seem. You can always just save money for a round, that will give you enough money to buy pretty much anything.
A bigger problem with CS is that some maps are clearly stacked in favour of one team (eg dust is a major CT map).
Did you ever use NT 3.51? 4.0? 2000? They were terrible. XP is the first MS OS that has actually stayed stable for me for more than a few days. I still get bluescreens, but hey, it is a MS product. The "professional" line was worthless in a variety of ways.
Was that a typo? I take it you might have noticed that XP and 2000 are only marginally different (inbuilt firewall, some flakey backwards compatibility etc), although XP SP2 changed that somewhat. Even Microsoft's internal version numbering calls 2000 5.0 and XP 5.1 (see here, I'm too lazy to fight MSDN to find the actual structs). Were you blinded by the lame jelly bean interface and the helful *(#*$&@$# dog?
The professional line was not worthless. You have the choice between ME and 2K, which is best described as the choice between castration using a blunt knife and a relatively pleasant massage.
For a lot of people, they did go from ME to XP because they had no consumer option. What was the consumer OS from MS after ME? XP Home! Another POS, but far better than ME. So YOU learn your OS history please.
I practice in Australia - another country of puritan heritage...
I live in Australia: go get a history book. Australia has convict, irish (convict under another label:)), English, scottish, chinese (and the list goes on) heritage. It has almost nil puritan heritage.
English heritage does not mean a country has puritan heritage. Seriously, WTF?
I've found google browser sync to be more trouble than it is worth. Sycning across 3 machines (one Mac), I've found that it sometimes gets hold of a bad collection of bookmarks and propogates them to all the installations. It is very hard to fix.
Ah, very funny - you're kidding right? - you are comparing a kids book adapted to a movie, compared to a 1,000+ page epic masterpiece done (quite well) into 3 successful movies.
They may be a different scale, but it is an example of an excellent adaption. I use that as an example because it is the only occasion I can recall (off the top of my head) where there has actually been a good adaption of a book.
Sorry - bad comparison there buddy. Peter Jackson did a great job of getting the feel of the books through - I honestly didnt think it was possible and I dreaded going to the cinemas to see them, but I was pleasantly suprised.
I suggest you go back and re-read the books, the one thing Jackson captured poorly was the feel of the books. Fellowship was almost passable but it was all downhill from there.
Thanks for the comments. You are correct, my background is more Java/C++ and I haven't touched Smalltalk.
I can see a feature of this sort might be useful for prototyping, but I see it as a major issue with more formal code. That said prototype code often doesn't stay a prototype, so the usage can bleed from one to the other.
Do you have any suggestions on where I might be able to find the paper?
My criteria for a good film adaption is that it maintains the feel of the original books, even if the events are altered.
Peter Jackson's movies changed the feel of the books significantly (introducing internal tensions in the fellowship, removing the awe factor from characters, emphasis fragility of Aragorn etc..).
If you want an example of a really good film adaption, look at the recent Charlie and the chocolate factory. That introduced and removed items but produced something that felt like the original book.
To counter this, Microsoft's development process is opaque.
There is little information on what they are working on/planning. There are few avenues for providing feedback/bug reports (I don't consider pay for options viable). When feedback is provided it is not clear that it is being acted upon.
Because FOSS is developed in the open, the internal process are exposed also, hence more of the stuff mentioned above.
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Sometimes the conditions under which the money is donated are more important than the fact that money is donated.
Money can be donated in such a manner that further impoverishes the recipients.
Donations of Microsoft software are not donations, they are a form of marketing.
In other words, you can't convert movies that work on both devices without having two machines, dual boot or virtualization software -- in other words, more than one Windows license.
Dual boot only requires one license.
Actually the rearrangement of the home/end etc keys has been returned to it's true home in most of the newest Microsoft keyboards.
The F keys very based on the keyboard quite a bit. For example my MS keyboard has only one split: F5/F6.
I'm actually happier with this keyboard than any previous keyboard. One of the reasons for that is that the wrist support actually works for people with longer fingers (like me). Most keyboards (and mice) seem to be designed for people with hands like my wife: one full joint shorter than mine in all fingers.
Nice list.
I hang onto the windows because I am on windows and it has handy shortcuts (eg Win-E, Win-R). The menu key is handy if you are without a mouse.
Thanks for the information, I have no idea that was how the current system evolved.
My question is, why is there a problem if you select a candidate that does not represent the people? They just won't get voted in.
Because there is no such beast as effective gun registration. Criminals can get guns any time they want. You can't get rid of guns until you get your hands on them.
Sure. In Australia, with strong laws banning guns except under limited circumstances (particularly handguns), my understanding is that the going rate for a glock is $5000 AUD (or it was 3 years ago). That said, any crime involving guns is treated very seriously. And it has been pretty effective.
The point is that it may be an imperfect system but it is better than your current system.
In Australia (land of the free), we have two houses of parliment. One is elected based on voting regions (eg win a region and get the seat), the other by proportional representation (eg get 20% of the votes, get 20% of the seats). Legislation has to pass both houses. This actually gives the minor parties greater power, as they often hold the balance of power.
The argument seems to run that the criminal can be better armed than the law abiding citizen. America seems to have solved this by having an arms race between the criminals and the law abiding citizens. This ignores the fact that criminals will win the race (they are criminal, duh) and they know when they will commit the crime. They can chose a time that is advantagous to them, one where the balance is stacked in their favour.
Sorry, but this can actually work, but I think America lacks the political will to make it happen. That and the fact that you are infested with liberterians (and I do mean infested, liberterianism is selfishness under another label).
Why not implement effective gun registration at a federal level? Provide strict punishments for unregistered firearms, with some inital grace period and a gun buyback scheme. Basically clear out the unregistered guns. If you dry up the pool of firearms for criminals, then there is no need for citizens to be armed against the criminals.
Of course defence against government is another issue.
And this is why you belong back in the nursery.
You could do what everyone else does: cry themselves to sleep .... and then dream it.
Why limit it to just passenger airship travel? The Germans lost quite a few zeppelins trying to bomb london, and most of them were lost as much due to the weather as to hostile activity.
That's fantastic, we have found a fixable vulnerability but we won't do anything about it because there are others that are slightly more serious?
Have you thought of auditioning for the Bush administration (and yes auditioning is the correct word to use)?
You missed point 0.
0. Buy new TV.
To get the most out of the new formats, most people will need a new TV. As the higher def TVs increase penetration, people will buy the higher def formats.
Maybe, just maybe, if she is a devout southern baptist she might be teaching a class of devout southern baptist children, necessitating an explanation.
Nah, too simple a solution.
Why is this a concession? Judging from the small blurb in the article, this is simply recognising that science and religion do not need to come into conflict.
There are Christians who believe evolution happens (and happened). I have a Christian friend who is an academic working in the evolutionary biology.
Or the short version: Neocons don't read history.
It's the same problem I have with counter-strike, if you're on the losing team with no money, how are you supposed to take out people with body armor and AK-47s when all you have is a pistol?
This isn't as much of a problem as it might seem. You can always just save money for a round, that will give you enough money to buy pretty much anything.
A bigger problem with CS is that some maps are clearly stacked in favour of one team (eg dust is a major CT map).
Did you ever use NT 3.51? 4.0? 2000? They were terrible. XP is the first MS OS that has actually stayed stable for me for more than a few days. I still get bluescreens, but hey, it is a MS product. The "professional" line was worthless in a variety of ways.
Was that a typo? I take it you might have noticed that XP and 2000 are only marginally different (inbuilt firewall, some flakey backwards compatibility etc), although XP SP2 changed that somewhat. Even Microsoft's internal version numbering calls 2000 5.0 and XP 5.1 (see here, I'm too lazy to fight MSDN to find the actual structs). Were you blinded by the lame jelly bean interface and the helful *(#*$&@$# dog?
The professional line was not worthless. You have the choice between ME and 2K, which is best described as the choice between castration using a blunt knife and a relatively pleasant massage.
For a lot of people, they did go from ME to XP because they had no consumer option. What was the consumer OS from MS after ME? XP Home! Another POS, but far better than ME. So YOU learn your OS history please.
Right back at you.
I practice in Australia - another country of puritan heritage...
:)), English, scottish, chinese (and the list goes on) heritage. It has almost nil puritan heritage.
I live in Australia: go get a history book. Australia has convict, irish (convict under another label
English heritage does not mean a country has puritan heritage. Seriously, WTF?
I've found google browser sync to be more trouble than it is worth. Sycning across 3 machines (one Mac), I've found that it sometimes gets hold of a bad collection of bookmarks and propogates them to all the installations. It is very hard to fix.
Ah, very funny - you're kidding right? - you are comparing a kids book adapted to a movie, compared to a 1,000+ page epic masterpiece done (quite well) into 3 successful movies.
They may be a different scale, but it is an example of an excellent adaption. I use that as an example because it is the only occasion I can recall (off the top of my head) where there has actually been a good adaption of a book.
Sorry - bad comparison there buddy. Peter Jackson did a great job of getting the feel of the books through - I honestly didnt think it was possible and I dreaded going to the cinemas to see them, but I was pleasantly suprised.
I suggest you go back and re-read the books, the one thing Jackson captured poorly was the feel of the books. Fellowship was almost passable but it was all downhill from there.
Thanks for the suggestion and for the paper, I'll look into it.
Thanks for the comments. You are correct, my background is more Java/C++ and I haven't touched Smalltalk.
I can see a feature of this sort might be useful for prototyping, but I see it as a major issue with more formal code. That said prototype code often doesn't stay a prototype, so the usage can bleed from one to the other.
Do you have any suggestions on where I might be able to find the paper?
Sorry but it was *not* a good film adaption.
My criteria for a good film adaption is that it maintains the feel of the original books, even if the events are altered.
Peter Jackson's movies changed the feel of the books significantly (introducing internal tensions in the fellowship, removing the awe factor from characters, emphasis fragility of Aragorn etc..).
If you want an example of a really good film adaption, look at the recent Charlie and the chocolate factory. That introduced and removed items but produced something that felt like the original book.
To counter this, Microsoft's development process is opaque.
There is little information on what they are working on/planning. There are few avenues for providing feedback/bug reports (I don't consider pay for options viable). When feedback is provided it is not clear that it is being acted upon.
Because FOSS is developed in the open, the internal process are exposed also, hence more of the stuff mentioned above.