Back in the days when people lived close to their work in large cities, tenement slums were the norm. Families of six living in one room, bathrooms and water down the hall and garbage all over the place were commonplaces.
The very wealthy types lived in massive intown mansions in exclusive sections of the city where they didn't have to smell the (literally) unwashed masses.
Not to mention all those dangerous trolly cars. The original name of the Dodgers baseball team was the Brooklyn Trolly Dodgers.
Amitai Etzioni, a leading communitarian, memorably suggested that society would improve if young drug dealers, caught in a first offense, were "sent home with their heads shaved and without their pants."
Shaved heads and no pants would then become the new fad among American teens.
I occasionally work with steel cable. The quickest way to cut cable is to use a small 4" grinder. Just a few seconds work. Cordless grinders are found in most hardware stores.
Using a hacksaw is a long tedious business. For stuck or rusted bolts, a few seconds with the grinder cures all. If I have to cut one with a saw, I use a recip saw with a metal cutting blade. Also available cordless.
It takes me only a few moments to download and install a newer version, and get my stuff from extensionroom.mozdev.org.
Its a painless process, which I do about once a week since I like to use the nightlies.
No one is forced to move to a newer version. The older versions also work well.
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There are a great many non-readers who have gone from TV to PC. When they screw up their windows install, I just give them a Knoppix disk and tell them to click yes to everything. The only hard part is explaining how to change the boot sequence to boot from their CD player first.
"What's a bios, is it dangerous?"
I do not mean illiterates, but people whose lives were formed around staring at a tube. To these people, a PC is just another tube with more variety.
A manager has done his job properly should have little to do.
If he has hired good people and given them the right training, they should be able to handle the day to day business on their own. He is there to handle problems that are beyond the ability and experience of his subordinates.
But we don't have a situation where we say that all authors have to be employed by large companies in order to be able to make money directory from their literature. Sure, they may go with a large publisher, but the author is basically able to sell books, this is an accepted and normal part of everyday life. People don't expect to get a book for free
Until recent times, artists were supported by patrons. For example, Gibbon had the Duke of Cumberland as his patron. A man who famously replied to Gibbon on being presented with the third Volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, "Another short, thick, sqauare book, eh, Mr. Gibbon".
Today, mass marketing takes the place of patrons for authors. This necessitates targeting the tastes of the masses. Whether this is good or not is another arguement.
Patronage still exists. It is now in the form of grants from such government agencies, museums, philanthropic foundations and corperate donations. Aas an example, the Mozilla Foundation relies on both corperate funding and private donations.
Any form of art that does not appeal to mass consumption requires some form of patronage so the artist doesn't starve more necessary. Programming is often refered to as an art, and should be similarly supported. I heartily agree.
Individual contributions are a real necessity if we want open source to continue to be open source.
In 1998, I bought a WebTv for my Aunt, then in her 70s, Our Tv usage plummeted to almost zero. After a short time, I bought a PC, and my Aunt who is now 84, is still addicted to WebTv. I have a phone line just for her WebTv use. My Aunt is a true technophobe, but loves her IM and Chat Rooms, so the WebTv unit is perfect for her. She will sign up for anything and everything. She will open every piece of spam and click anything contained therein. WebTv protects her from a lot of unplesantness and allows an elderly shut in to access to a much wider world.
Within a month I had cancelled our cable service. I watch the local news for the weather in the morning and thats it. Many of the friends I made on WebTv said they had a similar experience. WebTv can become an addiction and quickly change a Tv's status to that of an inefficient monitor.
I finally got sound working after quite a struggle with ALSA
I'm happy someone could. I installed FC2 64bit last Wednesday and spent the next five days combing Google, Forums and anything else I could find for info about getting the sound working. I could heard the test sound but my onboard AC97 never worked. The only thing I learned is that it is a common problem with all FC2 ports.
I think few people outside the Linux community would go to even a days effort before fdisk and reinstall Windows.
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Back in the days when people lived close to their work in large cities, tenement slums were the norm. Families of six living in one room, bathrooms and water down the hall and garbage all over the place were commonplaces.
The very wealthy types lived in massive intown mansions in exclusive sections of the city where they didn't have to smell the (literally) unwashed masses.
Not to mention all those dangerous trolly cars. The original name of the Dodgers baseball team was the Brooklyn Trolly Dodgers.
Shaved heads and no pants would then become the new fad among American teens.
Easily done. Just make then in China where all our factories have been relocated.
I agree that there is no mass mirgation. But I continue to help people move to Mozilla. And I am willing to accept victory one person at a time.
Looking for a deus ex machina to kill off MSIE is wishful thinking. We all have to do our little bit.
I occasionally work with steel cable. The quickest way to cut cable is to use a small 4" grinder. Just a few seconds work. Cordless grinders are found in most hardware stores.
Using a hacksaw is a long tedious business. For stuck or rusted bolts, a few seconds with the grinder cures all. If I have to cut one with a saw, I use a recip saw with a metal cutting blade. Also available cordless.
Estonia has a large non citizen population, mostly resettled Russian nationals. There are serious questions about who is a citizen and who isn't.
This, and other problems that arose from the long term Soviet occupation make a secure method on identification necessary.
Under their circumstances, the Estonian Government believes security is more important than privacy.
Just got a postcard asking me to renew a subscription to one of their mags.
Really have to think about it now.
It takes me only a few moments to download and install a newer version, and get my stuff from extensionroom.mozdev.org.
Its a painless process, which I do about once a week since I like to use the nightlies.
No one is forced to move to a newer version. The older versions also work well.
There are a great many non-readers who have gone from TV to PC. When they screw up their windows install, I just give them a Knoppix disk and tell them to click yes to everything. The only hard part is explaining how to change the boot sequence to boot from their CD player first.
"What's a bios, is it dangerous?"
I do not mean illiterates, but people whose lives were formed around staring at a tube. To these people, a PC is just another tube with more variety.
A manager has done his job properly should have little to do.
If he has hired good people and given them the right training, they should be able to handle the day to day business on their own. He is there to handle problems that are beyond the ability and experience of his subordinates.
Says it all right there
The evening news reports a guilty plea to two counts of vehicular manslaughter.
The couple's son will doubtless file a wrongful death lawsuit.
Somehow, it figures.
Until recent times, artists were supported by patrons. For example, Gibbon had the Duke of Cumberland as his patron. A man who famously replied to Gibbon on being presented with the third Volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, "Another short, thick, sqauare book, eh, Mr. Gibbon".
Today, mass marketing takes the place of patrons for authors. This necessitates targeting the tastes of the masses. Whether this is good or not is another arguement.
Patronage still exists. It is now in the form of grants from such government agencies, museums, philanthropic foundations and corperate donations. Aas an example, the Mozilla Foundation relies on both corperate funding and private donations.
Any form of art that does not appeal to mass consumption requires some form of patronage so the artist doesn't starve more necessary. Programming is often refered to as an art, and should be similarly supported. I heartily agree.
Individual contributions are a real necessity if we want open source to continue to be open source.
A new toy for those with terminal boredom.
And if you don't think you look odd ehough walking in public.
And a nice place to store CD/DVD disks.
As every backpacker knows, lightweight, portable water filters have long been available.
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Here is selection
Whether these could be used under combat conditions is another question.
In 1998, I bought a WebTv for my Aunt, then in her 70s, Our Tv usage plummeted to almost zero. After a short time, I bought a PC, and my Aunt who is now 84, is still addicted to WebTv. I have a phone line just for her WebTv use. My Aunt is a true technophobe, but loves her IM and Chat Rooms, so the WebTv unit is perfect for her. She will sign up for anything and everything. She will open every piece of spam and click anything contained therein. WebTv protects her from a lot of unplesantness and allows an elderly shut in to access to a much wider world.
Within a month I had cancelled our cable service. I watch the local news for the weather in the morning and thats it. Many of the friends I made on WebTv said they had a similar experience. WebTv can become an addiction and quickly change a Tv's status to that of an inefficient monitor.
Only if they are investigating cannibalism. The purpose of science is the advancement of knowledge. Service to humanity, if it happens is incidental.
Death would be a mercy after that.
Away from
The requirement for shirt, shoes and a minimum age of 18 to be served alcohol.
I recently installed Win64 on a box with an AMD64 3800+.
"Not really usable." is far kinder than my opinion.
I am trying to think of someone I dislike enough to give the Win64 install disk.
64 bit FedoraCore2 was a relatively painless install and execpt for the sound card, worked rather nicely.
FIrst advice I found was to adjust the mixer settings. Unfortunately, getting ALSA to work seems to be the problem.
I'm happy someone could. I installed FC2 64bit last Wednesday and spent the next five days combing Google, Forums and anything else I could find for info about getting the sound working. I could heard the test sound but my onboard AC97 never worked. The only thing I learned is that it is a common problem with all FC2 ports.
I think few people outside the Linux community would go to even a days effort before fdisk and reinstall Windows.
I've seen many articles about Carnivore, Echelon, etc. and how everyting is monitored.
Just how do they filter out spam?