They take anything on CD-R. A while ago there was a story on/. about these RIAA goons going into actual stores, not street corners, and taking all of their stuff on CD-R, which just so happened to be legit indy stuff.
It works fine with Windows, Linux (Motif or GTK), Solaris, QNX, AIX, HP-UX, and Mac OSX. They fit with the rest of the desktop better for a few reasons. One, they LOOK just like the rest of the OS. Two, they are faster. I'm not sure about drag and drop, however.
As for not running on anything...I'm not sure about that. Having read the white paper a while ago, I seem to recall that if the platform doesn't have a widget that SWT needs, it uses its own implementation. Either way, it works fine with Win32, GTK, Motif, Photon, and Carbon for sure.
Yes, I know the reason. It's not a very good one though. In Canada, there is a law that caffine cannot be added to any light-coloured beverage. So Cola and Root-Beer are fine. But Mountain Dew is not. Some people started selling caffinated water, but they got shut down eventually. Should have checked up on Canadian law before they started exporting;)
As for WHY it is against the law, I have no idea. Maybe to prevent people from adding it to all pop to make them addictive? Or maybe no reason at all. Lawmakers love to be arbitrary.
Ahahaha, somebody I know spelt AWOL as "awall" and thought that it meant getting mad. Because on some military movie somebody got mad, and somebody else said they were "awall"
But the point is, public nudity is only illegal because it offends some people. If nobody saw it, nobody could be offended by it, so why should it be illegal?
You should do that, and not try to eat your cake and have it, too!
Eating cake that you don't have is stealing (Unless somebody is offering you a slice). And having a cake and not eating it is pointless. Therefore, having a cake and eating is too is the ONLY logical combonation of the two things to do with cake.
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Yes, they explained that. His point, however, was viruses are not living things, so it wouldn't be possible to find a living sample. It's pedantics, mostly. It's generally understood that a "dead" virus is one that is damaged to the point that it can no longer infect a cell.
Yes. Mozilla does this, but so does every other browser I have ever used. In IE, it is bound to ctrl+wheel, just like in every single MS product available. In Opera, it resizes images too, which makes for better layout, usually. Netscape has it bound by default to Ctrl +/-
Ther are First World countries. In 1952, the french coined the phrase "Third World" to describe a poor, exploited nation. Named after the "Third Estate", or the lower class that was abused in pre-revolution France. The cold war had two sides. The US and Russia. The THIRD side were the poor countries, used and abused by both sides. Calling the US First side, and Russia the second side was arbitrary, and has little to do with living conditions and industrial capibilities, and everything to do with whose side they are (were) on.
Because those media corporations, along with most of the newspapers and magazines in the country, have certain corporations with a fairly large voting interest. And those same corporations also have controlling interest of ES&S and Diebold, the two big e-voting machine firms that just happenen to be run by two brothers.
What it takes to get them to report it is enough risk and backlash to make the bigger investors let them run the story, whatever Omaha World-Herald Company and the McCarthy Group say.
Places that don't allowed same sexed marriages have seen increased divorce and infidelity, too. It's a global trend. Additionally, 1 or 2 data points are not enough to draw any sort of conclusion from.
Especially since they were wearing ARMOUR. Fine, their armour may be useless for stopping any sort of sword, knife, arrow, or axe, but it should at least absorb some of the impact of a hand-thrown rock
All of the different strains have something in common, however. I seem to recall somebody genetically engineering some e-coli bacteria to release only SOME of the proteins, not all of them. The end reslt was, they made a vaccine using a sample from 10 years ago, and it immunized people against modern strains. I'm not sure what happened to that research, though. That was over 2 years ago.
A few years ago in my home town, there was a big spurt. A BB and a Video Works and a Video Replay and a Rogers Video ALL opened up in the same small suburb. The Video Works and Video Replay were even in the same shoping center. And they all went out of business within a few months, and manged to take the local store in the area out as well, so now everybody on the north end of town has a 15 minute drive to the BB in the central region (Which also drove another local store out of business. Not by being cheaper, because they were more expensive, or by offering better selection, because they didn't, but because there wasn't the demand to sustain that many damn stores, and they had deeper pockets)
Not with the TV, but the media device. For example, putting a tape in the VCR, and then recording it onto the computer. A VCR that only outputs an encrypted signal is useless...unless the TV accepts encrypted signals.
Exactly. If PowerPoint doesn't let you do something you want, it isn't making you dumb. But if you just say "Oh well, I'll just not do that" then you ARE dumb.
Anyways, I've used powerpoint to make presentations. It's nice to be able to SHOW a complex diagram, rather than drawing it on the blackboard. But of COURSE you can't fit all of the text you need in it. But the whole idea behind a presentation is to TALK! Use words to describe the topic. And if you need a graph that is to detail to show up clearly on the projector, then print it out and hand it out. Just like you would do if your old transparency slide was too detailed to read on the overhead projector. If another application can make some diagram, PowerPoint can probably import it. The import menu doesn't have "Visio" but you can just drag a Visio diagram over and it will display (Thanks to OLE embedding) and if you can't get it to work, you can Alt-Tab, (or whever-Tab on a Mac) to some other program, and display it there. That's what we did. Rather than "describing" how our application handels certain situations with bullet points, we switched over to the running application and demonstrated!
Everybody makes up news stories. Like when NBC needed to show that GM trucks explode when struck from the side. They said the fuel tank ruptured. But what they did was overfil the gas tank, didn't screw the gas cap on (Just left it sitting on top) and then they strapped remotely detonated explosive under the truck to ignite the gas when it spilt out! And even then, the flames went out after a few seconds, so they had to "creativly" edit it to make the fire look worse. Here is a summary Although he did get one thing wrong: NBC hasn't died yet, in the 4 years since it happened. Hmm, I also recall something about slowing down the tape, so it looked like the truck they hit it with was going fairly slow, but it was actually going really fast.
Wrong. Please stop repeating that. The Kurds were killed in a fight between Iranian and Iraqi forces in their city. They were not the intentional targets of either sides chemical weapons. And the US Army sent in specialists after the battle, that concluded in a nice big official report that they were killed by Iranian chemical weapons, since Iraq was using Mustard Gas, but they were killed by a blood agent, which chlorine gas is not. So, IRAN accidentially killed Kurds with chemical weapons. Both sides were irresponsible for using their US weapons in a populated city, however. (That's right, both bought their chemical weapons from the US government)
While we are talking about that sort of thing, mass graves: In accordance with their religion, Muslims bury their dead as soon as possible. That is why there was such an outrage over displaying the corpses of Hussein's sons. Because it was desecrating their dead! Especially dressing them up and cleaning their wounds, which you are also not supposed to do! (To put it in a Sci-Fi context, the series Space: Above and Beyond. The aliens mutulated fallen human troops. Humans were outraged and disgusted. But it turns out that the aliens were honouring their fallen foes as they honoured their own dead. And they were outraged in turn, by humans daring to cover their fallen with dirt, or else burn them to nothing.)
But anyways, the result is that if thousands of people are killed, mass graves are really the only option. So what killed all of these people. Well, after Gulf War I, the US told the Shi'ite and the Kurds that they had completely destroyed the Iraqi army. Both peoples revolted, slaughtering entire cities. Now, the Republican Guard was not so decimated as the US told them, and they regrouped after the war, and put down the rebellions with deadly force. That is where the mass graves came from. Because it would dishonor the dead to fix them up, and put them in their best clothes, and ship them off to their family, and THEN bury them. They needed to be burried as soon as possible.
Now, perhaps they used too much force...let's imagine this: Say some group in the US somewhere, it doesn't really matter who, realizes that most of the National Guard and army Reserves are already off in Iraq. So they rise up in a few cities, and kill all of the police, and the mayor, and basically anybody who works for any sort of government. City sanitation, DMV, everybody. Now, that done, they move on to the next city. People who fight back at them are killed, too. Now, what would the National Guard be justified in doing to them? Should they bust out the tear gas and rubber bullets? Or the mortars and the gunships?
Now, on to Kuwait. In 1990, Hussein in person flew to the White House, and asked G. H. W. Bush's permission to invade. And George said to go for it, it was none of his business what Iraq did to protect itself from oil thieves. And I think everybody knows what follows after that. Either way, Kuwait is run by a dictatorship with death squards, too. But the dictator is pro-US, so it is a good brutal regeim. But that sort of thing completely negates any "We had to get rid of a brutah dictator!" argument, since they are propping up another right next door!
Don't get me wrong, it's not that I like Saddam, or think he was a particularly good leader. But many of the justifications given are pure lies, plain and simple. They said he had WMD, and he didn't. People have been saying "Well he shouldn't have made us think he did!" but he spend a year professing his innocence, saying he had none. He gave the inspectors free reign (He didn't want them in his palaces, but eventually gave in. Understandable, they ARE his houses, after all) People say his commits genocide. But many of the supporting evidence for that statement is false. (Unless there are others I have missed, of course. But the US reports clearly state that it wasn't Iraq that did it. So the only way to prove the US right is by first proving the US
No, I'm pretty sure that what he means is that they can get PLENTY from spinal fluids, liposuctions, and bone marrow. And if you happen to think that this is wrong, why don't you go donate some spinal fluids and bone marrow?
Plus, immortality would suck! First, most likely only the super rich would get it. And if everybody got it, we would have to 1: Ban child birth. 2: Colonize planet after plant, to deal with the exponentially increasing population. 3: Have a lot more wars...And 1 and 2 arn't really possible.
Actually, they want to ban umbilical cord cells, as well. Why? Because they say the doctors are tricking the mother into donating them, by saying it could save her baby if it has some rare disease. But since most babies don't have this rare disease, they get to keep most of them for medical research. They say this is unethical because they are tricking the mother into giving up a part of her on the off chance it would save her child's life.
But spinal cells, as well as cells from marrow and liposuction, are still fair game;)
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Indeed. A friend took a machine in to get a trojan removed. Although NAV and McAffee can remove it, and googling for it returns instructions on how to remove it as the #1 match, they formatted her machine and charged her $80, plus the cost of re-installing XP. (Although they were generous and didn't charge for the warezed copy of XP they installed)
What will be the 21st century's analogue of the atom bomb?
A genetically engineered virus, designed to kill anybody with a specific genotype. Say, everybody with red hair, or all midgets, or oh, I don't know, everybody who is Chinese, Irish, German, Arab, whatever you want. Or maybe just one specific person, or maybe his extended family, too. Sounds pretty bad, no? Who would dream of such a thing? Here is a quote from a group, who outlined JUST such a bioligical super weapon..
"...advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool."
Politically useful...
You can read the whole report Here. It's on page 60 (72 as they are numbered in the PDF) It doesn't list the authors in the actual PDF, but a few contributors are: Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, and Cheney.
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They take anything on CD-R. A while ago there was a story on /. about these RIAA goons going into actual stores, not street corners, and taking all of their stuff on CD-R, which just so happened to be legit indy stuff.
It works fine with Windows, Linux (Motif or GTK), Solaris, QNX, AIX, HP-UX, and Mac OSX. They fit with the rest of the desktop better for a few reasons. One, they LOOK just like the rest of the OS. Two, they are faster. I'm not sure about drag and drop, however.
As for not running on anything...I'm not sure about that. Having read the white paper a while ago, I seem to recall that if the platform doesn't have a widget that SWT needs, it uses its own implementation. Either way, it works fine with Win32, GTK, Motif, Photon, and Carbon for sure.
Yes, I know the reason. It's not a very good one though. In Canada, there is a law that caffine cannot be added to any light-coloured beverage. So Cola and Root-Beer are fine. But Mountain Dew is not. Some people started selling caffinated water, but they got shut down eventually. Should have checked up on Canadian law before they started exporting ;)
As for WHY it is against the law, I have no idea. Maybe to prevent people from adding it to all pop to make them addictive? Or maybe no reason at all. Lawmakers love to be arbitrary.
Ahahaha, somebody I know spelt AWOL as "awall" and thought that it meant getting mad. Because on some military movie somebody got mad, and somebody else said they were "awall"
But the point is, public nudity is only illegal because it offends some people. If nobody saw it, nobody could be offended by it, so why should it be illegal?
Yes, they explained that. His point, however, was viruses are not living things, so it wouldn't be possible to find a living sample. It's pedantics, mostly. It's generally understood that a "dead" virus is one that is damaged to the point that it can no longer infect a cell.
Yes. Mozilla does this, but so does every other browser I have ever used. In IE, it is bound to ctrl+wheel, just like in every single MS product available. In Opera, it resizes images too, which makes for better layout, usually. Netscape has it bound by default to Ctrl +/-
Ther are First World countries. In 1952, the french coined the phrase "Third World" to describe a poor, exploited nation. Named after the "Third Estate", or the lower class that was abused in pre-revolution France. The cold war had two sides. The US and Russia. The THIRD side were the poor countries, used and abused by both sides. Calling the US First side, and Russia the second side was arbitrary, and has little to do with living conditions and industrial capibilities, and everything to do with whose side they are (were) on.
Because those media corporations, along with most of the newspapers and magazines in the country, have certain corporations with a fairly large voting interest. And those same corporations also have controlling interest of ES&S and Diebold, the two big e-voting machine firms that just happenen to be run by two brothers.
What it takes to get them to report it is enough risk and backlash to make the bigger investors let them run the story, whatever Omaha World-Herald Company and the McCarthy Group say.
Places that don't allowed same sexed marriages have seen increased divorce and infidelity, too. It's a global trend. Additionally, 1 or 2 data points are not enough to draw any sort of conclusion from.
Especially since they were wearing ARMOUR. Fine, their armour may be useless for stopping any sort of sword, knife, arrow, or axe, but it should at least absorb some of the impact of a hand-thrown rock
All of the different strains have something in common, however. I seem to recall somebody genetically engineering some e-coli bacteria to release only SOME of the proteins, not all of them. The end reslt was, they made a vaccine using a sample from 10 years ago, and it immunized people against modern strains. I'm not sure what happened to that research, though. That was over 2 years ago.
A few years ago in my home town, there was a big spurt. A BB and a Video Works and a Video Replay and a Rogers Video ALL opened up in the same small suburb. The Video Works and Video Replay were even in the same shoping center. And they all went out of business within a few months, and manged to take the local store in the area out as well, so now everybody on the north end of town has a 15 minute drive to the BB in the central region (Which also drove another local store out of business. Not by being cheaper, because they were more expensive, or by offering better selection, because they didn't, but because there wasn't the demand to sustain that many damn stores, and they had deeper pockets)
Not with the TV, but the media device. For example, putting a tape in the VCR, and then recording it onto the computer. A VCR that only outputs an encrypted signal is useless...unless the TV accepts encrypted signals.
Exactly. If PowerPoint doesn't let you do something you want, it isn't making you dumb. But if you just say "Oh well, I'll just not do that" then you ARE dumb.
Anyways, I've used powerpoint to make presentations. It's nice to be able to SHOW a complex diagram, rather than drawing it on the blackboard. But of COURSE you can't fit all of the text you need in it. But the whole idea behind a presentation is to TALK! Use words to describe the topic. And if you need a graph that is to detail to show up clearly on the projector, then print it out and hand it out. Just like you would do if your old transparency slide was too detailed to read on the overhead projector. If another application can make some diagram, PowerPoint can probably import it. The import menu doesn't have "Visio" but you can just drag a Visio diagram over and it will display (Thanks to OLE embedding) and if you can't get it to work, you can Alt-Tab, (or whever-Tab on a Mac) to some other program, and display it there. That's what we did. Rather than "describing" how our application handels certain situations with bullet points, we switched over to the running application and demonstrated!
Everybody makes up news stories. Like when NBC needed to show that GM trucks explode when struck from the side. They said the fuel tank ruptured. But what they did was overfil the gas tank, didn't screw the gas cap on (Just left it sitting on top) and then they strapped remotely detonated explosive under the truck to ignite the gas when it spilt out! And even then, the flames went out after a few seconds, so they had to "creativly" edit it to make the fire look worse. Here is a summary Although he did get one thing wrong: NBC hasn't died yet, in the 4 years since it happened. Hmm, I also recall something about slowing down the tape, so it looked like the truck they hit it with was going fairly slow, but it was actually going really fast.
Wrong. Please stop repeating that. The Kurds were killed in a fight between Iranian and Iraqi forces in their city. They were not the intentional targets of either sides chemical weapons. And the US Army sent in specialists after the battle, that concluded in a nice big official report that they were killed by Iranian chemical weapons, since Iraq was using Mustard Gas, but they were killed by a blood agent, which chlorine gas is not. So, IRAN accidentially killed Kurds with chemical weapons. Both sides were irresponsible for using their US weapons in a populated city, however. (That's right, both bought their chemical weapons from the US government)
While we are talking about that sort of thing, mass graves: In accordance with their religion, Muslims bury their dead as soon as possible. That is why there was such an outrage over displaying the corpses of Hussein's sons. Because it was desecrating their dead! Especially dressing them up and cleaning their wounds, which you are also not supposed to do! (To put it in a Sci-Fi context, the series Space: Above and Beyond. The aliens mutulated fallen human troops. Humans were outraged and disgusted. But it turns out that the aliens were honouring their fallen foes as they honoured their own dead. And they were outraged in turn, by humans daring to cover their fallen with dirt, or else burn them to nothing.)
But anyways, the result is that if thousands of people are killed, mass graves are really the only option. So what killed all of these people. Well, after Gulf War I, the US told the Shi'ite and the Kurds that they had completely destroyed the Iraqi army. Both peoples revolted, slaughtering entire cities. Now, the Republican Guard was not so decimated as the US told them, and they regrouped after the war, and put down the rebellions with deadly force. That is where the mass graves came from. Because it would dishonor the dead to fix them up, and put them in their best clothes, and ship them off to their family, and THEN bury them. They needed to be burried as soon as possible.
Now, perhaps they used too much force...let's imagine this: Say some group in the US somewhere, it doesn't really matter who, realizes that most of the National Guard and army Reserves are already off in Iraq. So they rise up in a few cities, and kill all of the police, and the mayor, and basically anybody who works for any sort of government. City sanitation, DMV, everybody. Now, that done, they move on to the next city. People who fight back at them are killed, too. Now, what would the National Guard be justified in doing to them? Should they bust out the tear gas and rubber bullets? Or the mortars and the gunships?
Now, on to Kuwait. In 1990, Hussein in person flew to the White House, and asked G. H. W. Bush's permission to invade. And George said to go for it, it was none of his business what Iraq did to protect itself from oil thieves. And I think everybody knows what follows after that. Either way, Kuwait is run by a dictatorship with death squards, too. But the dictator is pro-US, so it is a good brutal regeim. But that sort of thing completely negates any "We had to get rid of a brutah dictator!" argument, since they are propping up another right next door!
Don't get me wrong, it's not that I like Saddam, or think he was a particularly good leader. But many of the justifications given are pure lies, plain and simple. They said he had WMD, and he didn't. People have been saying "Well he shouldn't have made us think he did!" but he spend a year professing his innocence, saying he had none. He gave the inspectors free reign (He didn't want them in his palaces, but eventually gave in. Understandable, they ARE his houses, after all) People say his commits genocide. But many of the supporting evidence for that statement is false. (Unless there are others I have missed, of course. But the US reports clearly state that it wasn't Iraq that did it. So the only way to prove the US right is by first proving the US
No, I'm pretty sure that what he means is that they can get PLENTY from spinal fluids, liposuctions, and bone marrow. And if you happen to think that this is wrong, why don't you go donate some spinal fluids and bone marrow?
Plus, immortality would suck! First, most likely only the super rich would get it. And if everybody got it, we would have to 1: Ban child birth. 2: Colonize planet after plant, to deal with the exponentially increasing population. 3: Have a lot more wars...And 1 and 2 arn't really possible.
Actually, they want to ban umbilical cord cells, as well. Why? Because they say the doctors are tricking the mother into donating them, by saying it could save her baby if it has some rare disease. But since most babies don't have this rare disease, they get to keep most of them for medical research. They say this is unethical because they are tricking the mother into giving up a part of her on the off chance it would save her child's life.
But spinal cells, as well as cells from marrow and liposuction, are still fair game ;)
Indeed. A friend took a machine in to get a trojan removed. Although NAV and McAffee can remove it, and googling for it returns instructions on how to remove it as the #1 match, they formatted her machine and charged her $80, plus the cost of re-installing XP. (Although they were generous and didn't charge for the warezed copy of XP they installed)
What will be the 21st century's analogue of the atom bomb?
A genetically engineered virus, designed to kill anybody with a specific genotype. Say, everybody with red hair, or all midgets, or oh, I don't know, everybody who is Chinese, Irish, German, Arab, whatever you want. Or maybe just one specific person, or maybe his extended family, too. Sounds pretty bad, no? Who would dream of such a thing? Here is a quote from a group, who outlined JUST such a bioligical super weapon. .
Politically useful...You can read the whole report Here. It's on page 60 (72 as they are numbered in the PDF) It doesn't list the authors in the actual PDF, but a few contributors are: Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, and Cheney.
Lets just hope they realize that robots don't buy the products.