Nah, the true hallmark is the middle mouse button. Very handy in Firefox and Emacs. My company is apparently moving from ThinkPads to HPs, and the prospect fills me with dread.
That should be "viditur", not "vidutar"; Latin verbs don't end in -ar, but (deponent) ones do end in -ur. And, as you might guess from the "vidi" prefix, "appears" would be a more literal translation than "sounds".
Sure, there are searches for which the current behavior is helpful. But I'm with the GP on this -- far too often, I find myself annoyed by piles of irrelevant search results which don't contain the specific strings I used. It's gotten to the point where I've wondered about the feasibility of implementing a proxy that would post-process the results to weed out ones that lacked the specified strings. It appears the best situation would be for Google to add a parameter which would control which behavior was desired.
But that's four possible keys right there - Shift-Ctrl-Meta plus a normal key In Emacs land Meta was also Alt for a while because of PC keyboards, but I seem to recall some original keyboards (probably on Lisp machines) also having a real Meta key just as we have Windows/Apple keys today, so we really have five possible (though on keyboards really three modifiers are the most practical to use at once).
LISP Machines did indeed have an actual Meta key; they also (at least, the Symbolics) had Super and Hyper modifier keys as well. I found using them in "Zmacs" quite practical, ThankYouVeryMuch. Emacs does indeed treat Alt as a substitute for Meta thanks to the crippled keyboards we're all stuck with these days.
Yup, the 3600 was the first model. Followed by the 3670 and 3640, etc, if memory serves. I had the pleasure of coding extensively on, and administering, a network of several of them in the mid-80s. Led to a career-long love of LISP and EMACS. Great machines; you just had to reseat the boards on the backplane every so often...
The Verizon blog says: "We think the new WiFi service will be a real value for customers, and we're anxious to get their reactions - and yours."
Well, dandy, Verizon. How about you ask me -- a Verizon FiOS customer -- for one! Thus far, I've not received an announcement from you in any way, shape, or form...
ISO-3166 assigned UA to Ukraine, not UK. ISO marked UK as "exceptionally reserved", apparently to reduce confusion.
faqs.org claims that both GB and UK are valid TLDs, but the former gets much less use:
VI. UK and GB domains
UK stands for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland. GB actually stands for Great Britain. GB is therefore a
subset of UK. In reality, the GB top level domain has been used mainly
for X.400 addressing of sites, while the UK top level domain is more
commonly used. While in the early nineties, there was an emphasis towards
X.400, and hence towards registration under the GB top level domain,
this policy does not stand anymore, and relatively few sites in the
UK are now registered under the GB top level domain.
Yeah, the small tablet and small clamshell choices are sadly limited. What have you really got in the 5"-to-7" screen fits-in-your-jacket-pocket space that's a PC or a PDA? Especially if you'd rather not spend $1K+? Damned little, and I've been looking: a couple Viliv models almost available, the UMID, and what else? Here's hoping that's what this will be.
Triggered by the purchase of Tucana (built on top of Kowari) by Northrop-Grumman and their subsequent alienation of the Kowari developers. As such, it seems like an example Oracle should keep in mind.
Sometimes your bank changes on you. I've been a happy customer of Chevy Chase Bank for many years. Just got the wonderful news that they're becoming part of Capital One. We'll see how long it takes for them to do something that warrants bailing.
Calls to my GC number get forwarded to whatever combination of work, home, and cell numbers I want, based on the calling number (or group I've placed it in). You can designate up to 6 numbers to ring, but each has to have one of those 3 labels, or Gizmo. You can have specific calling numbers ring directly to voicemail or get a "not in service" message.
I can also temporarily add another number to have calls forwarded to. There's no charge for long-distance forwarding.
Voicemail can be listened to on the GC website, downloaded, or forwarded via email (as an MP3).
I can place a call to any number in my GC contacts by clicking its Call button, which rings it as well as the designated phone at my end.
As a (mostly) happy owner of a 5500 and a C3200, I wonder whether this is too late to do the product line and users any good. Is it too much to hope for a movie player for the SL-C3200 that handles MPEG4, for example?
My wish is less ambitious than that. The search engine and indexer need to have a basic understanding of the query and the page content. When I search for, say, 'image viewer for Mac', I want pages that are about -- astonishingly enough -- an image viewer for Mac, not a page that happens to have all those words scattered through it. When I search for pages about a person named 'John Lee', I want pages that at least mention a person with that name, not pages about 'John Lee Hooker', or about companies that happen to have 'John Lee' in their name. Enough semantics to know that 'photo' will do as a substitute for 'image', for example, would be helpful as well.
Now, now. Let's be fair. Enderle actually got something right once. Don't remember about what -- nothing to do with SCO -- but I distinctly remember it happening. I thought it was a sign of the apocalypse.
I disagree. IBM may, and I hope will, go after Darl and company for the reasons others have mentioned. But even aside from that, it is in their interest to get the rulings against SCO; it clears them, and prevents anyone from claiming SCO had a case and would have prevailed if they hadn't gone broke.
Novell actually countersued SCO. SCO had sued them first for publicly contradicting SCO's claim to hold the Unix copyrights.
Oh, and Novell's countersuit included the claims that SCO did not have the rights to make the deals they did with Sun and Microsoft without Novell's approval.
The judge agreed with Novell on the copyrights, the license payments, and the Sun deal, but not the Microsoft deal.
SCO lost a lot of ammunition against IBM due to the Novell rulings as well as rulings in IBM itself, but not all the claims have been lost yet, and IBM has also countersued.
So, don't put the popcorn away yet. More smackdowns of SCO are yet to come.
...get a big-name paper to make the problem public.
I have to assume -- and the post seems to indicate -- that the upstreams were given plenty of evidence of this activity; yet they did nothing. It took the light shone on it by the paper to force them to acknowledge the problem and do something about it.
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Actually, FiOS offers all of phone, internet and TV, though there may areas where TV is not an option.
Nah, the true hallmark is the middle mouse button. Very handy in Firefox and Emacs. My company is apparently moving from ThinkPads to HPs, and the prospect fills me with dread.
That should be "viditur", not "vidutar"; Latin verbs don't end in -ar, but (deponent) ones do end in -ur. And, as you might guess from the "vidi" prefix, "appears" would be a more literal translation than "sounds".
Sure, there are searches for which the current behavior is helpful. But I'm with the GP on this -- far too often, I find myself annoyed by piles of irrelevant search results which don't contain the specific strings I used. It's gotten to the point where I've wondered about the feasibility of implementing a proxy that would post-process the results to weed out ones that lacked the specified strings. It appears the best situation would be for Google to add a parameter which would control which behavior was desired.
LISP Machines did indeed have an actual Meta key; they also (at least, the Symbolics) had Super and Hyper modifier keys as well. I found using them in "Zmacs" quite practical, ThankYouVeryMuch. Emacs does indeed treat Alt as a substitute for Meta thanks to the crippled keyboards we're all stuck with these days.
Yup, the 3600 was the first model. Followed by the 3670 and 3640, etc, if memory serves. I had the pleasure of coding extensively on, and administering, a network of several of them in the mid-80s. Led to a career-long love of LISP and EMACS. Great machines; you just had to reseat the boards on the backplane every so often...
The Verizon blog says: "We think the new WiFi service will be a real value for customers, and we're anxious to get their reactions - and yours." Well, dandy, Verizon. How about you ask me -- a Verizon FiOS customer -- for one! Thus far, I've not received an announcement from you in any way, shape, or form...
faqs.org claims that both GB and UK are valid TLDs, but the former gets much less use:
Still miss it, huh? I think I still have mine -- or maybe it's the 520ST I got next -- in the basement somewhere. Hint, hint.
That's almost it. They ring the specified phone number and prompt you for the PIN.
Yeah, the small tablet and small clamshell choices are sadly limited. What have you really got in the 5"-to-7" screen fits-in-your-jacket-pocket space that's a PC or a PDA? Especially if you'd rather not spend $1K+? Damned little, and I've been looking: a couple Viliv models almost available, the UMID, and what else? Here's hoping that's what this will be.
Kowari -> Mulgara
Triggered by the purchase of Tucana (built on top of Kowari) by Northrop-Grumman and their subsequent alienation of the Kowari developers. As such, it seems like an example Oracle should keep in mind.
Yup. I suspect this is a case where Hanlon's Razor should be remembered.
Sometimes your bank changes on you. I've been a happy customer of Chevy Chase Bank for many years. Just got the wonderful news that they're becoming part of Capital One. We'll see how long it takes for them to do something that warrants bailing.
As a GC user, let me take a stab at it.
Calls to my GC number get forwarded to whatever combination of work, home, and cell numbers I want, based on the calling number (or group I've placed it in). You can designate up to 6 numbers to ring, but each has to have one of those 3 labels, or Gizmo. You can have specific calling numbers ring directly to voicemail or get a "not in service" message.
I can also temporarily add another number to have calls forwarded to. There's no charge for long-distance forwarding.
Voicemail can be listened to on the GC website, downloaded, or forwarded via email (as an MP3).
I can place a call to any number in my GC contacts by clicking its Call button, which rings it as well as the designated phone at my end.
Invites are apparently still turned off. Sorry.
As a (mostly) happy owner of a 5500 and a C3200, I wonder whether this is too late to do the product line and users any good. Is it too much to hope for a movie player for the SL-C3200 that handles MPEG4, for example?
Here here, it's a doggy-dog world.
Dog-eat-dog world.
*Whoosh*!
My wish is less ambitious than that. The search engine and indexer need to have a basic understanding of the query and the page content. When I search for, say, 'image viewer for Mac', I want pages that are about -- astonishingly enough -- an image viewer for Mac, not a page that happens to have all those words scattered through it. When I search for pages about a person named 'John Lee', I want pages that at least mention a person with that name, not pages about 'John Lee Hooker', or about companies that happen to have 'John Lee' in their name. Enough semantics to know that 'photo' will do as a substitute for 'image', for example, would be helpful as well.
(You listening, Google? I'm an ontologist / NLP developer; let's talk.)
You need 10.4 to run Firefox 3. And 10.3.9 isn't that old...
"Johnny Carson is ... Ed McMahon's sidekick"
Um, I think it's the other way around...
Now, now. Let's be fair. Enderle actually got something right once. Don't remember about what -- nothing to do with SCO -- but I distinctly remember it happening. I thought it was a sign of the apocalypse.
I disagree. IBM may, and I hope will, go after Darl and company for the reasons others have mentioned. But even aside from that, it is in their interest to get the rulings against SCO; it clears them, and prevents anyone from claiming SCO had a case and would have prevailed if they hadn't gone broke.
I'd point you at last month's Ubersoft cartoon suggesting exactly that, but they seem to be unavailable currently due to a server move.
Novell actually countersued SCO. SCO had sued them first for publicly contradicting SCO's claim to hold the Unix copyrights.
Oh, and Novell's countersuit included the claims that SCO did not have the rights to make the deals they did with Sun and Microsoft without Novell's approval.
The judge agreed with Novell on the copyrights, the license payments, and the Sun deal, but not the Microsoft deal.
SCO lost a lot of ammunition against IBM due to the Novell rulings as well as rulings in IBM itself, but not all the claims have been lost yet, and IBM has also countersued.
So, don't put the popcorn away yet. More smackdowns of SCO are yet to come.
...get a big-name paper to make the problem public.
I have to assume -- and the post seems to indicate -- that the upstreams were given plenty of evidence of this activity; yet they did nothing. It took the light shone on it by the paper to force them to acknowledge the problem and do something about it.