If you agree with me, why did you use <b> and <i> instead of <blockquote> to quote me, and asterisks instead of <em> or <strong> to show emphasis? (I won't comment on your apparent use of <br> instead of <p> for paragraphs, because for all I know Slashcode mangled that part itself.)
Actually, I did attend a real university, thanks...
I don't doubt that it called itself that, but like American Intercontinental "University" or DeVry "University," I still believe from your description that it was a vocational school in disguise. Care to tell us the name of the place?
(or as you put it, "an college." I apparently came out better than I thought.)
Phooey! I usually don't make mistakes like that; if I had to guess, I'd say I probably initially wrote "actual" then replaced it with "genuine" and forgot to fix the article. Either that or I was being stupid, anyway.
In college all of our high-level math courses were geared around the TI calculators. They are great machines, and I finally got my hands on a couple of them, including the TI-92. However, at the time I borrowed a friend's Casio, because I was dirt friggen poor. Guess what? I spent a LOT more time translating operations between the calculators than I spent on the course work.
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you enter college with the expectation that you will leave with universally marketable skills.
I'm sorry, but you've obviously been duped into thinking that the vocational school you apparently went to was actually the same thing as an genuine "college." It's not.
Not to be a Microsoft apologist (please see my history of posting) but I have to say that your approach is wrong. Inserting a table with at least two columns and one row would be all that is needed. Justification in the individual cells would serve the task nicely.
No, your approach is wrong. Why? Because semantically, it's not a table, it's a heading! If you hack up your document using a table instead you might still get the same visual effect, but the structure of it will still be very, very Wrong.
Among other things, this would screw up the outlining function, table of contents, parsing by search engines, parsing by text-to-speech engines, etc.
Of course, then you get into the issue that everything Word-like programs do is Wrong, and that people ought to be marking up their documents in some semantic markup language (e.g. TeX, DocBook) instead. But I digress...
Do me a favor: use Calc's charting function to make a bar graph with "whiskers" (to show the extents of the range of values in each bar). I had to do this for a materials lab a while back, was unable to accomplish it in Calc, and was forced to use Excel instead. I don't believe it can be done.
You ought to file that as a feature request for both GNOME and KDE.
(Seriously, why not? It's not as if networks using weak encryption would have actually been secure anyway; this just provides better usability!)
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Now, that said, having a nice Double-Dragon cabinet is pretty sweet, but so is having one cabinet that will play 4 player Gauntlet (4 stations), Gyruss (37-way stick), Tempest (spinner), Missile Command (trackball), and Time Crisis (gun). No, it wont have that totally immersive nostalgia effect, but it also wont take up the entire garage.
I think the best compromize would be to build 5 MAME machines, each with a different control scheme, and on each load up all the games that use that particular scheme. For example, the trackball machine would play both Missle Command and Centipede.
I also have it with Warcraft III and thought I would have wanted Blizzard to fix it the game is old and atleast they have made a universal binary of it. I don't expect them to fix it but it would be nice.
Blizzard still supports StarCraft on the Mac, and StarCraft is a heck of a lot older than Warcraft III. Therefore, I suggest submitting a bug report -- you might be pleasantly surprised.
Sure, "odd-numbered-Star-Treks-suck" is a good rule of thumb, but that doesn't mean they uniformly suck. For example, The Search for Spock (3), in my opinion the best of the odd-numbered films, was better than Nemesis (10) even though Nemesis was even-numbered.
I take it that you are a relatively savvy tech-head geek. Would you be able to line up a buyer for social security or other personal information?
I wouldn't, but that's because I'm not a crackhead. Think about it: drug addicts have contacts that us law-abiding geeks don't, namely, their dealer. And their dealer's dealer. And so on up the chain until you get to billionaire Columbian drug lords. I'd be willing to bet a crackhead could just ask around and find a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy... who would know somebody who would want the tapes. In contrast, I'd probably try to find a shady IRC room and ask there, and likely as not end up talking to an FBI agent instead of a Russian identity thief.
Don't forget that those extra watts turn into heat! In order to determine the true cost, you need to add them to your cooling bill (or subtract them from your heating bill, depending on climate).
the fridge. There are models that use 140kwh per year available, yours probably uses 300 or more
the freezer. same here, but when upgrading, consider a top-opening freezer. As cold air stays down, it's much more energy conserving than front-opening models
Another good tip is to keep the fridge and freezer full at all times, even if you do so just by putting in containers full of water. This is because the specific heat of air is lower than water and most food substances, and also because airspace allows heat to be transferred through convection when the door is opened instead of only conduction and radiation.
Is there anyway to simple reverse the color scheme (like a photographic negative)
Mac OS X has a keyboard shortcut (cmd-opt-ctrl-8) to do exactly this. It doesn't help you if you need to use Visual Studio at the same time, of course...
But what good does "Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0" do you when you need proprietary software (namely, Sharepoint itself) to actually do anything with it?
I'm looking to buy a 9600XT and sell the piece of junk I have now.
Wait a second, let me get this straight: you're complaining about how your ATI card sucks (which is very likely because it is ATI, and has crappy drivers), yet you're planning to replace it with another ATi card? What are you, stupid? A glutton for punishment? Did Nvidia and Matrox gang up and steal your lunch money as a kid? Stop me if I guess it!
The NVidia driver update was a single.bin that removed the old drivers, installed the new ones, and setup xorg.conf. It also moved the old xorg.conf to xorg.conf.bak, I was surprised to see that they did the Right Thing throughout the entire install.
The Nvidia driver might be admirably well-behaved, but don't forget that the real "Right Thing" would be for it to be released under a Free Software license so that it can simply be distributed with X.org to begin with, like the nv driver.
Now, getting one thats fully automatic is a different story.
Right, and that's exactly the problem I was referring to. In order to make the claim that American citizens could equal Iraqi insurgents, it would be necessary for them to have access to fully-automatic weapons.
And Iraq is showing us every day exactly how effective guerrilla insurgents with improvised explosives and small arms can be against the world's most powerful military force.
The Iraqi insurgents may not have much compared to our military, but they still have a damn sight more than us American civilians do! For example, go try to buy an AK-47 with an intact receiver (which I'm sure the Iraqis have plenty of) and see how far you get.
At least in the U.S., you can make fun of Bushy, Dick "No, not in the face!" Cheney, Pinch Faced Pelosi, The Baptists, Mormons, and Stogey Boy Clinton.
If you're really arguing that the GPL does not force distributors to provide source code, you don't understand the GPL.
No, I'm arguing that distributors are not important. They don't deserve freedom.
Users are important, and the GPL provides freedom for users. Therefore, the GPL is permissive.
Complaining that the GPL favors the rights of users over the bogus "freedom" of distributors is exactly like complaining that the law favors the rights of citizens not to be killed over the freedom of murderers to kill!
I personally am waiting for the OpenMoko Neo1973, comes with Python and these other things by default or a just few taps away through its package manager.
What kind of package manager does it have? Is it Debian-based?
Your 3rd requirement runs contrary to what I'm saying - updates must NOT be applied by the end user.
Right, and that can always be accomplished without violating the GPLv3! For example, the "updates" could be provided as entirely new ROM chips that get physically replaced by the hospital staff. It would have to be legal for the patient to install his own new ROM chip... but where's he gonna get it?
Besides, this argument is specious to begin with, because who the Hell is gonna want to modify his glucometer anyway?!
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If you agree with me, why did you use <b> and <i> instead of <blockquote> to quote me, and asterisks instead of <em> or <strong> to show emphasis? (I won't comment on your apparent use of <br> instead of <p> for paragraphs, because for all I know Slashcode mangled that part itself.)
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I don't doubt that it called itself that, but like American Intercontinental "University" or DeVry "University," I still believe from your description that it was a vocational school in disguise. Care to tell us the name of the place?
Phooey! I usually don't make mistakes like that; if I had to guess, I'd say I probably initially wrote "actual" then replaced it with "genuine" and forgot to fix the article. Either that or I was being stupid, anyway.
I'm sorry, but you've obviously been duped into thinking that the vocational school you apparently went to was actually the same thing as an genuine "college." It's not.
No, your approach is wrong. Why? Because semantically, it's not a table, it's a heading! If you hack up your document using a table instead you might still get the same visual effect, but the structure of it will still be very, very Wrong.
Among other things, this would screw up the outlining function, table of contents, parsing by search engines, parsing by text-to-speech engines, etc.
Of course, then you get into the issue that everything Word-like programs do is Wrong, and that people ought to be marking up their documents in some semantic markup language (e.g. TeX, DocBook) instead. But I digress...
Do me a favor: use Calc's charting function to make a bar graph with "whiskers" (to show the extents of the range of values in each bar). I had to do this for a materials lab a while back, was unable to accomplish it in Calc, and was forced to use Excel instead. I don't believe it can be done.
Calc can't make a bar (note: not "box") graph with "whiskers," which I was once required to do for a materials lab.
You ought to file that as a feature request for both GNOME and KDE.
(Seriously, why not? It's not as if networks using weak encryption would have actually been secure anyway; this just provides better usability!)
I think the best compromize would be to build 5 MAME machines, each with a different control scheme, and on each load up all the games that use that particular scheme. For example, the trackball machine would play both Missle Command and Centipede.
Blizzard still supports StarCraft on the Mac, and StarCraft is a heck of a lot older than Warcraft III. Therefore, I suggest submitting a bug report -- you might be pleasantly surprised.
That's exactly what I was trying to say. I guess I must not have succeeded, since you felt the need to correct me.
Right, but it means we could reasonably hope for something the equal of ST III.
Sure, "odd-numbered-Star-Treks-suck" is a good rule of thumb, but that doesn't mean they uniformly suck. For example, The Search for Spock (3), in my opinion the best of the odd-numbered films, was better than Nemesis (10) even though Nemesis was even-numbered.
I wouldn't, but that's because I'm not a crackhead. Think about it: drug addicts have contacts that us law-abiding geeks don't, namely, their dealer. And their dealer's dealer. And so on up the chain until you get to billionaire Columbian drug lords. I'd be willing to bet a crackhead could just ask around and find a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy... who would know somebody who would want the tapes. In contrast, I'd probably try to find a shady IRC room and ask there, and likely as not end up talking to an FBI agent instead of a Russian identity thief.
Don't forget that those extra watts turn into heat! In order to determine the true cost, you need to add them to your cooling bill (or subtract them from your heating bill, depending on climate).
Another good tip is to keep the fridge and freezer full at all times, even if you do so just by putting in containers full of water. This is because the specific heat of air is lower than water and most food substances, and also because airspace allows heat to be transferred through convection when the door is opened instead of only conduction and radiation.
Mac OS X has a keyboard shortcut (cmd-opt-ctrl-8) to do exactly this. It doesn't help you if you need to use Visual Studio at the same time, of course...
But what good does "Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0" do you when you need proprietary software (namely, Sharepoint itself) to actually do anything with it?
Wait a second, let me get this straight: you're complaining about how your ATI card sucks (which is very likely because it is ATI, and has crappy drivers), yet you're planning to replace it with another ATi card? What are you, stupid? A glutton for punishment? Did Nvidia and Matrox gang up and steal your lunch money as a kid? Stop me if I guess it!
The Nvidia driver might be admirably well-behaved, but don't forget that the real "Right Thing" would be for it to be released under a Free Software license so that it can simply be distributed with X.org to begin with, like the nv driver.
Right, and that's exactly the problem I was referring to. In order to make the claim that American citizens could equal Iraqi insurgents, it would be necessary for them to have access to fully-automatic weapons.
The Iraqi insurgents may not have much compared to our military, but they still have a damn sight more than us American civilians do! For example, go try to buy an AK-47 with an intact receiver (which I'm sure the Iraqis have plenty of) and see how far you get.
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No, I'm arguing that distributors are not important. They don't deserve freedom.
Users are important, and the GPL provides freedom for users. Therefore, the GPL is permissive.
Complaining that the GPL favors the rights of users over the bogus "freedom" of distributors is exactly like complaining that the law favors the rights of citizens not to be killed over the freedom of murderers to kill!
What kind of package manager does it have? Is it Debian-based?
Right, and that can always be accomplished without violating the GPLv3! For example, the "updates" could be provided as entirely new ROM chips that get physically replaced by the hospital staff. It would have to be legal for the patient to install his own new ROM chip... but where's he gonna get it?
Besides, this argument is specious to begin with, because who the Hell is gonna want to modify his glucometer anyway?!