Unfortunately, it seems the newspapers can't make money. (I know I haven't bought one in years.) As such, they're turning to desperate measures in their death throws. It is sad, since future generations may or may not be able to look up information as readily in newspapers which are not sufficiently archived.
Um, what about the mass extinction that pre-dated (and even ushered in) the dinosaur era - some 350 M years ago? IIRC, those critters that died out - some 90% of the Earth's population - were pretty small.
I can actually tell time faster with an analog dial than a digital watch. Sure, I had the Timex LCD when i was in 4th grade, followed by the data watches, teh calculator watches and the ones with 24 time zones.
I finally decided it was quicker and easier to use a watch with an analog face.
The only "digital" thing about is that mine has a night light. (Timex indiglo)
I have a linux laptop (an older 1.x GHz model) sitting at home running Ubuntu. I have port 443 (?) open on my firewall and forwarded to an ssh client on that laptop. I simply connect via ssh to the home IP address and am able to VNC or RDP into whatever computer. (This is me using VNC into my wife's Vista desktop.)
I have a co-worker who always asks me why I wear a (analog) watch. I respond that I can tell the time in a matter of seconds vs. looking for my blackbery and that my bb is often charging, while my watch just keeps on ticking.
Even my two boys (9 and 7 years old) wear watches.
Wow! I'd say that Greenbaum should be reprimanded for not performing his duties. I wonder where - in the St. Louis Dispatch policies - it states for employees to track down the ip address of those making offensive (but not illegal) posts and then contact the work.
OTOH, why the heck did the teacher resign at first being contacted? I wonder how much more there is to the story than we're seeing.
Lesson learned: When making anonymous posts, use either a proxy, an anonymous posting service (COTSE.NET), someone's open WiFi connection, or a friend's computer.
Is it just me, or is KDE looking more and more like GNOME?
I jumped ship from KDE to GNOME when I swichted - after four years - to Ubuntu from openSUSE. Having used KDE 3.x and hating gnome, I finally accepted GNOME as viable (though I still hate the file open/save dialogs) and noticed KDE 4 apps seem to look very similar.
(FWIW, my father-in-law, who works as a magazine editor for a technical magaine, used a Leading Edge XT clone until just a few years ago. They switched him finally to a Macintosh, which is his new primary desktop.)
Nope! Wasn't suggesting Ubuntu is superior because of that. In fact, I miss the all-in-one functionality of YaST. Keep in mind, that I used SUSE/openSUSE from '05 until early '09. I only switched because of other issues I was having and the percieved instability of Novell to maintain both KDE and GNOME versions while trying to make zypper finally work (which it hadn't since replacing YPM in 10.x).
Oddly enough, though I bashed GNOME heavily - and still find it's file open/save dialog lacking - I jumped into GNOME over KDE since I didn't really like what the KDE team had done with 4.x and felt GNOME was more suitable for day-to-day usage.
Ubuntu is a very nice distro that *appears* to have better support than openSUSE and seems to have less fanatical devotees.:P
I'm suprised to see they're only at 11.2. I honestly had moved away from SUSE/openSUSE towards Ubuntu after the zypper wars and teh KDE3/4 issues. (I succumbed to using GNOME on Ubuntu and am okay with it.) The last I used openSUSE was 11.1 almost a year ago, and I would have figured they to be at 11.3 or even 12.0 by now.
I figure that - even if we find the dilithium crystals - we'd need really fast computers to handle space flights, transporter beams, instant food generators, doors that go "shh!" and warp drive.
Seriously, I don't get the warm fuzzies from the current video driver manufacturers fro normal laptops in either Wintendo or Linux, I can't imagine the support nightmare for a laptop with one main screen and three sub-screens.
I hate cursive. I've never been able to write it "properly" and it takes me three times as long to read the stuff. (This might have to do with me being left-handed, I don't know.) I'm constantly talking about what a waste of time cursive is in writing when computers print block letters and so do I.
My kids are now in second and fourth grades. The fourth grader argues the same - he's been on computers for several years and already uses Tux Type to learn typing.
Since when does a hardware company feel it is a good idea to purchase a software delivery company? I can see some bean counters saying it might bring more Dell-branded hardware to the Perot-systems customers, but is that really gonna happen?
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Unfortunately, it seems the newspapers can't make money. (I know I haven't bought one in years.) As such, they're turning to desperate measures in their death throws. It is sad, since future generations may or may not be able to look up information as readily in newspapers which are not sufficiently archived.
Um, what about the mass extinction that pre-dated (and even ushered in) the dinosaur era - some 350 M years ago? IIRC, those critters that died out - some 90% of the Earth's population - were pretty small.
I'm not sure if SUV's had any contribution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Devonian_extinction
Oh, sorry. Should have explained the analog part.
I can actually tell time faster with an analog dial than a digital watch. Sure, I had the Timex LCD when i was in 4th grade, followed by the data watches, teh calculator watches and the ones with 24 time zones.
I finally decided it was quicker and easier to use a watch with an analog face.
The only "digital" thing about is that mine has a night light. (Timex indiglo)
I have a linux laptop (an older 1.x GHz model) sitting at home running Ubuntu. I have port 443 (?) open on my firewall and forwarded to an ssh client on that laptop. I simply connect via ssh to the home IP address and am able to VNC or RDP into whatever computer. (This is me using VNC into my wife's Vista desktop.)
http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2009/20090920_vnc_lilly.jpg
It is free and works 100% of the time.
I have a co-worker who always asks me why I wear a (analog) watch. I respond that I can tell the time in a matter of seconds vs. looking for my blackbery and that my bb is often charging, while my watch just keeps on ticking.
Even my two boys (9 and 7 years old) wear watches.
ROTFL!
Inteersting. I didn't see the repeated postings in the article.
I thought further - if there was a school-based policy of no personal posting, then the teacher would be possibly subject to disciplinary action.
Wow! I'd say that Greenbaum should be reprimanded for not performing his duties. I wonder where - in the St. Louis Dispatch policies - it states for employees to track down the ip address of those making offensive (but not illegal) posts and then contact the work.
OTOH, why the heck did the teacher resign at first being contacted? I wonder how much more there is to the story than we're seeing.
Lesson learned: When making anonymous posts, use either a proxy, an anonymous posting service (COTSE.NET), someone's open WiFi connection, or a friend's computer.
Is it just me, or is KDE looking more and more like GNOME?
I jumped ship from KDE to GNOME when I swichted - after four years - to Ubuntu from openSUSE. Having used KDE 3.x and hating gnome, I finally accepted GNOME as viable (though I still hate the file open/save dialogs) and noticed KDE 4 apps seem to look very similar.
Wow! 16-bit Linux. That's very geeky indeed.
(FWIW, my father-in-law, who works as a magazine editor for a technical magaine, used a Leading Edge XT clone until just a few years ago. They switched him finally to a Macintosh, which is his new primary desktop.)
ROTFL!
...run Linux?
j/k
This should actually be quite cool. I can see garage-based tinkerers messing with this chip, the registry and even coming up with a retro User Group.
How is HTML 5 - as opposed to moonlight/silverlight/flash - not vunerable (potentially) to the same sort of attack?
Explorer - as I use it daily in expee, Vista and Win7 - is not as well-designed as either Nautilus or Konqueror. I find it lacking on many counts.
As for me "pretending that" Linux can do everything Average Joe wants, I don't. It does what I want, it works for my mother. It works for my two boys.
There are things that are needed - for those I run VirtualBox:
http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2009/virtualbox_xp_vb6.jpg
and can do such tasks as Visual Basic 6.0 development on XP machines. The rest can pretty much be done using FOSS under Ubuntu.
Nope! Wasn't suggesting Ubuntu is superior because of that. In fact, I miss the all-in-one functionality of YaST. Keep in mind, that I used SUSE/openSUSE from '05 until early '09. I only switched because of other issues I was having and the percieved instability of Novell to maintain both KDE and GNOME versions while trying to make zypper finally work (which it hadn't since replacing YPM in 10.x).
:P
Oddly enough, though I bashed GNOME heavily - and still find it's file open/save dialog lacking - I jumped into GNOME over KDE since I didn't really like what the KDE team had done with 4.x and felt GNOME was more suitable for day-to-day usage.
Ubuntu is a very nice distro that *appears* to have better support than openSUSE and seems to have less fanatical devotees.
Hey, Houghi! I see it used to be six months.
I do have openSUSE 11.x running KDE 2.2 still...
http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2009/20090522_kde22_opensuse11.jpg
I'm suprised to see they're only at 11.2. I honestly had moved away from SUSE/openSUSE towards Ubuntu after the zypper wars and teh KDE3/4 issues. (I succumbed to using GNOME on Ubuntu and am okay with it.) The last I used openSUSE was 11.1 almost a year ago, and I would have figured they to be at 11.3 or even 12.0 by now.
It is unfortunate, however, you'll need to run Wine or VMWare or Virtualbox or Xen to get those viruses loaded and running.
(I tend to think the other way: How can I run Nautilus, KTorrent, KRDC, and GMountISO in Windows.)
Are you sure that wasn't attributed to the State Government?
I figure that - even if we find the dilithium crystals - we'd need really fast computers to handle space flights, transporter beams, instant food generators, doors that go "shh!" and warp drive.
I guess it is all just fiction after all.
Oops! Sorry, I didn't see your comment before I posted mine.
I still cannot fathom why people want to differentiate a Windows-running PC from a Macintosh-running PC.
AFAIK, neither are midrange boxes nor are they mainframes.
Yes, my Mac SE/30 has a motorola 8000-series chip, but mewer macs have intel chips and run a variant of UNIX, just like windows-based PC's.
Since when?
I noticed in the pic it was running Vista.
Seriously, I don't get the warm fuzzies from the current video driver manufacturers fro normal laptops in either Wintendo or Linux, I can't imagine the support nightmare for a laptop with one main screen and three sub-screens.
On that note - what about battery life?
Screen savers?
I hate cursive. I've never been able to write it "properly" and it takes me three times as long to read the stuff. (This might have to do with me being left-handed, I don't know.) I'm constantly talking about what a waste of time cursive is in writing when computers print block letters and so do I.
My kids are now in second and fourth grades. The fourth grader argues the same - he's been on computers for several years and already uses Tux Type to learn typing.
I hope cursive goes the way of Latin.
Since when does a hardware company feel it is a good idea to purchase a software delivery company? I can see some bean counters saying it might bring more Dell-branded hardware to the Perot-systems customers, but is that really gonna happen?
I wonder if HP will look at buying EDS now.
Oh, wait...