What I'd really like to see is a case of the Marine Corps using Linux -- then when someone was doing outright bashing thereof, I could instruct them to "tell it to the Marines."
To me Lynx is still a textmode browser -- which, along with pssh, is the best way for me to get Internet on my Wi-Fi PDA. And besides, it works on OS X.
And to be technical, Apple portables are built to custom specs, unlike some other name brand laptops such as (if I recall) Gateway -- I'm pretty sure noone else is selling PowerPC laptops, and if they are I'm pretty sure they're PReP rather than New World Mac. Hence Apple not being affected by the Centrino shortage, though if there's a problem at the G4 factory they'll be problematic.
What is the real advantage to a consumer of a system like this, as opposed to a traditional download system such as iTunes? I doubt the downloads will be significantly faster, and I suppose that the catalog won't be anything spectacular. You can get your WMA fix from Napster or Real with minimal upstream bandwidth.
That's not outsourcing; that's the hiring of immigrants. Outsourcing would be if the NASA facilities themselves were located in India, and the staff were paid in rubles.
Wasn't the surrender offer conditional in some unacceptable way or something?
Re:What's with the complicated rules?
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Actually, your version sounds like golf -- and that's good, I like golf. You can play by yourself, no timing. Get from Point A to Point B in as few shots as needed. I'll have to try this on the wiki
It was that or march on Tokyo; the death toll, including the civilian death toll, would have been higher with boots on the ground in Japan, the only real alternative to the a-bomb.
Well, that's because a CRT is basically an HDTV -- it shows you a high res image that doesn't actually exist, but is rather an optial illusion produced by scintillations of beta radiation on phosphors. The screen is thick and has lead in it so the beta particles don't get out and cause any problems associated with small quantities of radiation.
That's probably why LCDs produce less eye strain -- the image is actually there (having been created by the electricity activating the liquid crystals) and it's where you perceive it as being. It's got a fluorescent light behind it in most modern cases, and that's why you can use it in the dark -- non-backlit LCDs depend on available darkness.
Smart cards are a good thing for multifactor identification -- if you have not only the username and password but also a smartcard, authenticity is pretty good. Toss in a biometric and you can be almost certain of who's logging in.
But a common pickpocket can take your smart card, and if you don't realize right away (or can't report it quickly enough) you won't get it deactivated in time to prevent compromise. Coupled with a password, though, the amount of time needed to break a decent password will give you the time you need to change out the card anyhow.
It already got a successor in 10/03. iTunes for Windows came out and I uninstalled WinAmp -- probably was not the only person to do so.
Let's face it -- if you want to use an iPod or the immensely popular iTunes Music Store, iTunes is your only choice, save maybe the third-party iPod software and running your iTMS music through QuickTime after you buy it. And if you're just using ripped CDs or downloaded MP3s, you can use iTunes well for those too, and have pretty easy management. And it comes on every HP box sold, not to mention all the people who download it when they get QuickTime.
Plus you have the ubiquitous Windows Media Player, you have MusicMatch, and on the Linux front you have a plethora, including Winamp clone XMMS.
BSD is for all intents and purposes public domain -- or it might be better to say that public domain is for all intents and purposes licensed like BSD.
I really miss that one company that used to have a big chunk of the PC market, before Microsoft got their act together. What was their name again? Apple? It's a real shame they went debt-free and profitable, eh?
If the President really wants to avoid treaties that are costing jobs, I want to know why he's not wanting to pull us out of NAFTA and WTO, a.k.a. the only real public mistakes Clinton made. All the rampant offshoring and outsourcing have cost us more jobs than Kyoto would.
The Web is very efficient -- a bunch of ASCII documents, maybe a few kilobytes each, plus jpegs and whatnot. Oh, and Flash, when you run into people who use that; but even those are never more than a few megabytes. As has been said, BitTorrented files can run into the gigabytes.
Linksys routers are pretty easy, if you don't have a mental block about setting them up. Hardest part is messing with Ethernet cables.
To which end the Apple Airport access points, which work with any 802.11b or 802.11a device from a TiVo with a USB adapter up to a Mac G5, aren't much trouble to set up or even to administer, though of course wireless security is always a bit tricky until you get the hang of it.
Basically three reasons. Tradition, relative reliability (you don't get disconnected enough to piss some people off), and the fact that they won't let you go -- they bounce you around and around if you try to cancel, and in my experience for a month or two after you finally get them to they may just keep billing you. Then come all the "Please come back!" messages, by mail and I think by phone. For someone who switched to an unreliable service, they'd be coming straight back to AOL. For everyone else, that's why AOL is losing money.
Don't you know what you do when the woman hurls your trousers?
You sue her, of course. For the first month's child support.
Re:Not all Mac users are like this
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I never tell people to immediately sell their Windows box, but to consider something different at their next purchasing time. As I said, I help them, but on the other hand I might suggest they look down another path.
If the mechanic is a paid employee of the Chevy garage, I can see your analogy, but if the mechanic is someone who is just fixing the van for a favor, I can see mentioning Volvo (or as a better analogy, Ford or Chrysler). If you never hear that you may have not made the wisest purchasing decision they're bound to repeat it -- and not consider any alternatives. People should be aware of the alternatives when making any decision; it's simple informed buying. Basically the same thing as using Linux rather than Windows for just reading your e-mail and Slashdot -- cheaper and more reliable.
SSS was being restaffed because the draft board members who signed up in the early 80s were being term limited (in many cases, I think the board seats were actually vacant), and if they send a report to Congress saying they're not ready for a draft, they get shut down.
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FSF does have a lot of greasy hippies in it, but you know what? The hippies were right -- they smoked too much marijuana, but they were right.
What I'd really like to see is a case of the Marine Corps using Linux -- then when someone was doing outright bashing thereof, I could instruct them to "tell it to the Marines."
To me Lynx is still a textmode browser -- which, along with pssh, is the best way for me to get Internet on my Wi-Fi PDA. And besides, it works on OS X.
I hope it doesn't end up like Journeyman Project 4 -- but on the other hand, Myst managed to survive going from Broderbund to Ubisoft.
And to be technical, Apple portables are built to custom specs, unlike some other name brand laptops such as (if I recall) Gateway -- I'm pretty sure noone else is selling PowerPC laptops, and if they are I'm pretty sure they're PReP rather than New World Mac. Hence Apple not being affected by the Centrino shortage, though if there's a problem at the G4 factory they'll be problematic.
What is the real advantage to a consumer of a system like this, as opposed to a traditional download system such as iTunes? I doubt the downloads will be significantly faster, and I suppose that the catalog won't be anything spectacular. You can get your WMA fix from Napster or Real with minimal upstream bandwidth.
That's not outsourcing; that's the hiring of immigrants. Outsourcing would be if the NASA facilities themselves were located in India, and the staff were paid in rubles.
Wasn't the surrender offer conditional in some unacceptable way or something?
Actually, your version sounds like golf -- and that's good, I like golf. You can play by yourself, no timing. Get from Point A to Point B in as few shots as needed. I'll have to try this on the wiki
It was that or march on Tokyo; the death toll, including the civilian death toll, would have been higher with boots on the ground in Japan, the only real alternative to the a-bomb.
Well, that's because a CRT is basically an HDTV -- it shows you a high res image that doesn't actually exist, but is rather an optial illusion produced by scintillations of beta radiation on phosphors. The screen is thick and has lead in it so the beta particles don't get out and cause any problems associated with small quantities of radiation.
That's probably why LCDs produce less eye strain -- the image is actually there (having been created by the electricity activating the liquid crystals) and it's where you perceive it as being. It's got a fluorescent light behind it in most modern cases, and that's why you can use it in the dark -- non-backlit LCDs depend on available darkness.
Smart cards are a good thing for multifactor identification -- if you have not only the username and password but also a smartcard, authenticity is pretty good. Toss in a biometric and you can be almost certain of who's logging in.
But a common pickpocket can take your smart card, and if you don't realize right away (or can't report it quickly enough) you won't get it deactivated in time to prevent compromise. Coupled with a password, though, the amount of time needed to break a decent password will give you the time you need to change out the card anyhow.
It already got a successor in 10/03. iTunes for Windows came out and I uninstalled WinAmp -- probably was not the only person to do so.
Let's face it -- if you want to use an iPod or the immensely popular iTunes Music Store, iTunes is your only choice, save maybe the third-party iPod software and running your iTMS music through QuickTime after you buy it. And if you're just using ripped CDs or downloaded MP3s, you can use iTunes well for those too, and have pretty easy management. And it comes on every HP box sold, not to mention all the people who download it when they get QuickTime.
Plus you have the ubiquitous Windows Media Player, you have MusicMatch, and on the Linux front you have a plethora, including Winamp clone XMMS.
If you're using POP3, you're probably deleting the mail from the server, so they don't have to buy as many storage devices.
BSD is for all intents and purposes public domain -- or it might be better to say that public domain is for all intents and purposes licensed like BSD.
I really miss that one company that used to have a big chunk of the PC market, before Microsoft got their act together. What was their name again? Apple? It's a real shame they went debt-free and profitable, eh?
Frist? The doctor is in the hou---er, the Senate.
If the President really wants to avoid treaties that are costing jobs, I want to know why he's not wanting to pull us out of NAFTA and WTO, a.k.a. the only real public mistakes Clinton made. All the rampant offshoring and outsourcing have cost us more jobs than Kyoto would.
The Web is very efficient -- a bunch of ASCII documents, maybe a few kilobytes each, plus jpegs and whatnot. Oh, and Flash, when you run into people who use that; but even those are never more than a few megabytes. As has been said, BitTorrented files can run into the gigabytes.
Rather, 802.11g rather than the obsolete 802.11a. Excuse me.
Linksys routers are pretty easy, if you don't have a mental block about setting them up. Hardest part is messing with Ethernet cables.
To which end the Apple Airport access points, which work with any 802.11b or 802.11a device from a TiVo with a USB adapter up to a Mac G5, aren't much trouble to set up or even to administer, though of course wireless security is always a bit tricky until you get the hang of it.
Basically three reasons. Tradition, relative reliability (you don't get disconnected enough to piss some people off), and the fact that they won't let you go -- they bounce you around and around if you try to cancel, and in my experience for a month or two after you finally get them to they may just keep billing you. Then come all the "Please come back!" messages, by mail and I think by phone. For someone who switched to an unreliable service, they'd be coming straight back to AOL. For everyone else, that's why AOL is losing money.
Don't you know what you do when the woman hurls your trousers?
You sue her, of course. For the first month's child support.
I never tell people to immediately sell their Windows box, but to consider something different at their next purchasing time. As I said, I help them, but on the other hand I might suggest they look down another path.
If the mechanic is a paid employee of the Chevy garage, I can see your analogy, but if the mechanic is someone who is just fixing the van for a favor, I can see mentioning Volvo (or as a better analogy, Ford or Chrysler). If you never hear that you may have not made the wisest purchasing decision they're bound to repeat it -- and not consider any alternatives. People should be aware of the alternatives when making any decision; it's simple informed buying. Basically the same thing as using Linux rather than Windows for just reading your e-mail and Slashdot -- cheaper and more reliable.
SSS was being restaffed because the draft board members who signed up in the early 80s were being term limited (in many cases, I think the board seats were actually vacant), and if they send a report to Congress saying they're not ready for a draft, they get shut down.