1. According to an established norm, rule, or principle;
conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing
the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural;
analogical.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
normal
adj 1: conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or
level or type or social norm; not abnormal; "serve wine
at normal room temperature"; "normal diplomatic
relations"; "normal working hours"; "normal word order";
"normal curiosity"; "the normal course of events" [ant:
{abnormal}, {unnatural}]
2: in accordance with scientific laws [ant: {paranormal}]
3: being approximately average or within certain limits in e.g.
intelligence and development; "a perfectly normal child"; "of
normal intelligence"; "the most normal person I've ever met"
[ant: {abnormal}]
4: forming a right angle
n 1: something regarded as a normative example; "the convention
of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule
not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors"
[syn: {convention}, {normal}, {pattern}, {rule}, {formula}]
Hardware wasn't powerful enough for world domination until the late 1980s. For the 10 years prior to that, network databases and plain old VSAM/ISAM were dominant though slipping.
The same money you don't want to spend on fixing the problem.
Building all that new stuff takes time and lots of money. In the meantime we still need heat and fuel.
Besides, enviro-freaks have made it impossible to build new refineries in the US. What makes you think they won't come up with reason to file lawsuits for 20 years blocking these new plants?
The savings we'll get for not having to move NYC and Miami when the ocean rises?
Like the money we "save" buy buying stuff on "sale", which isn't saving but just spending less?
Anyway, moving NYC in 2050 doesn't answer where the money comes from in 2012.
Or perhaps the BILLIONS we currently send overseas for oil? Keep the money there AND not rely on an unstable region...which lowers the BILLIONS we have to spend on the military....etc.
Excellent point, one that many conservatives have been making regarding nuclear, fracking, Alaska drilling, etc for quite some time, all to howls of protest from Those Who Know Best.
I wish we could buy machines without a Microsoft tax.
You can, if you buy the parts from some place like newegg. The only hard part is getting the mobo secured in the case and wired correctly. Everything else is child's play.
I don't know if SharePoint is innovative or simple to manage, but it's pretty darned useful. Same with SQL Server: yes they bought it from Sybase, but have continued to add new features while seeing it dig deeper into corporate data centers.
People use IE in the business environment because it's the default and IT departments frown on (and in almost all cases prohibit) individuals from installing FF or Chrome.
Even though, since I telecommute and so have admin rights on my company-provided laptop, I've installed and primarily use FF, sometimes I still must use IE for some stupid intranet app or other that only works with IE.
There are "strict" obligations and then there are practical obligations.
MSFT's Windows lock-in with the manufacturers means that you'll buy Windows if you buy a pre-built computer from anyone except tiny Linux shops. Or Apple.
Yes. You want your spouse, children & parents to know what's in there and where it is so that they can quickly access your accounts in the event of your untimely demise.
the resources of an entire government,... sign it with an exact copy of your signature, which could be reproduced using a digital image of the signature on the envelope prior to unsealing.
The typical process is for the living person to create a cron job to periodically send his friends an "I'm alive!" email. Presumably the dead person's family would turn off his PC soon after he dies so if ever the friends don't receive the expected email, they should validate is mortality status.
Allowing access only to your heirs, and only when you're dead is impossible unless you've got *lots* of money. After 9/11 and the destruction of Swiss banking secrecyt, it's probably impossible.
But you don't have that much money.
So, since as others have mentioned, law enforcement can get your stuff if they really, really want it, all you can reasonably hope for is to make your documents tamper obvious
Thus...
Print out accounts, passwords, etc.
Put them in a "safety lined" envelope, sealing it closed just like normal.
Write your signature across the edge of the flap.
Further seal it with packing tape.
So, if someone tries to steam open the envelope and then reseal it, you'll notice since they won't be able to exactly line up the two halves of the envelope and thus your signature will be misaligned.
(This is a variation on the old displaced strand of hair trick.)
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the start bar/gnome menu metaphor was really showing its age.
In what way? WinXP (at work) and GNOME fallback (at home) still work perfectly well.
Normal society. Where does that exist?
Do we really have to point you to a dictionary?
Or one of the minmalist WMs like ratpoison, any of the dwm derivatives, fluxbox, notion, etc.
Hardware wasn't powerful enough for world domination until the late 1980s. For the 10 years prior to that, network databases and plain old VSAM/ISAM were dominant though slipping.
We need more refineries that can handle heavy, sour crude from Venezuela and Canada.
And they need to be graphically disbursed so that one natural disaster doesn't knock out a big chunk of America's capacity.
A Mercedes is 1/4 the cost of a house. Does that mean it's cheap? No.
small investments now.
Bwah hahahahahahaha.
The same money you don't want to spend on fixing the problem.
Building all that new stuff takes time and lots of money. In the meantime we still need heat and fuel.
Besides, enviro-freaks have made it impossible to build new refineries in the US. What makes you think they won't come up with reason to file lawsuits for 20 years blocking these new plants?
The savings we'll get for not having to move NYC and Miami when the ocean rises?
Like the money we "save" buy buying stuff on "sale", which isn't saving but just spending less?
Anyway, moving NYC in 2050 doesn't answer where the money comes from in 2012.
Or perhaps the BILLIONS we currently send overseas for oil? Keep the money there AND not rely on an unstable region...which lowers the BILLIONS we have to spend on the military....etc.
Excellent point, one that many conservatives have been making regarding nuclear, fracking, Alaska drilling, etc for quite some time, all to howls of protest from Those Who Know Best.
One scenario involves spending money to make ourselves more efficient and self sustastaining
Where exactly does that money come from?
I wish we could buy machines without a Microsoft tax.
You can, if you buy the parts from some place like newegg. The only hard part is getting the mobo secured in the case and wired correctly. Everything else is child's play.
Well enough on the home-user front. Not so well in the Enterprise, which is why my 2yo corporate laptop runs XP Pro.
I don't know if SharePoint is innovative or simple to manage, but it's pretty darned useful. Same with SQL Server: yes they bought it from Sybase, but have continued to add new features while seeing it dig deeper into corporate data centers.
People use IE in the business environment because it's the default and IT departments frown on (and in almost all cases prohibit) individuals from installing FF or Chrome.
Even though, since I telecommute and so have admin rights on my company-provided laptop, I've installed and primarily use FF, sometimes I still must use IE for some stupid intranet app or other that only works with IE.
No one is obliged to buy windows 8
There are "strict" obligations and then there are practical obligations.
MSFT's Windows lock-in with the manufacturers means that you'll buy Windows if you buy a pre-built computer from anyone except tiny Linux shops. Or Apple.
Yes. You want your spouse, children & parents to know what's in there and where it is so that they can quickly access your accounts in the event of your untimely demise.
You think there's such a thing as effortless security?
the resources of an entire government, ... sign it with an exact copy of your signature, which could be reproduced using a digital image of the signature on the envelope prior to unsealing.
I don't think I am the one being paranoid.
The typical process is for the living person to create a cron job to periodically send his friends an "I'm alive!" email. Presumably the dead person's family would turn off his PC soon after he dies so if ever the friends don't receive the expected email, they should validate is mortality status.
Allowing access only to your heirs, and only when you're dead is impossible unless you've got *lots* of money. After 9/11 and the destruction of Swiss banking secrecyt, it's probably impossible.
But you don't have that much money.
So, since as others have mentioned, law enforcement can get your stuff if they really, really want it, all you can reasonably hope for is to make your documents tamper obvious
Thus...
So, if someone tries to steam open the envelope and then reseal it, you'll notice since they won't be able to exactly line up the two halves of the envelope and thus your signature will be misaligned.
(This is a variation on the old displaced strand of hair trick.)
Tbird will never be an Outlook replacement until they can reverse engineer the Outlook protocols.
Lightning support would be useful, yes, but NNTP? Why?
Just as IMNSHO email client are superior to Gmail, dedicated news readers are much better than Tbird's news reader.
Exactly. The browser was perfectly adequate back in the 3.0 days.
In fact, server auto-discovery has made it difficult to configure Tbird on my systems, since I do my own imapd but rely on my ISP's smtp.
A counter-quote: "You make your own luck."
Not only were Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro rational, but also Stanislav Petrov and the dozens of other people over the decades who didn't panic (much):
http://www.skeptically.org/onwars/id7.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov