I have to correct you on that statement. Last I checked, they had about 1/4 of the Earth's population, but that doesn't matter in this case. China doesn't have the means to get all those people over here to the US. The size in population only matters when the two countries are connected via land or if the country with the larger population could get those people of accross the sea to the United States. China can't do either of those, and let's not forget Japan beat China in WWII. Japan had a lot less troups than China, and Japan killed the Chinese navy. Japan also invaded a lot of South-East Asia. Size doesn't always matter! Size would matter if the US was trying to invade China, but that won't happen.
Yeah, right! They would even try. They can't get back Taiwan without our telling them to knock it off. They don't have the capability of a long term invasion of the USA, so they can say it all they want.
Seriously, I remember seeing a show where the found Asian skeletal remainsin the continental United States, but I don't remember what date the remain are supposed to be from.
Is this earlier than the Vickings? I don't think they were the earliest. I think Egypt (the tombs of the Pharaohs have been found to contain tobacco (only grown natively in the Americas), and I think it was on the Mummies. There is alos an older map from another civilization that has a map with a continent that looks like south America, and a lot of Atlantean people (people who believe in Atlantis) believe this is Atlantis, but I think it looks more like South America (or it could be both {based on a PBS show}).
Unfortunately, it is not that simple. It may not be up to the the teacher/tutor/lecturer. It may up to the school. Also, it the paper is the result of research paid for by a group of people they may not want the information to have the ownership transfered to another party--especially if they plan to spin of a company to make a profit with kick backs to the institution.
I don't see that many Colleges using this service. They would be giving up the rights to publish/use the informaiton in the future.
On top of that, this service will not cover all papers and will not cover papers prior to it's existence. This service will only be good once a lot of papers have been submited. Since they only have been around since 1996, any thing prior to 1996 will not be caught.
If I was still in college, I would sue a college that forced me to use this service. You are not garenteed as to what they will do with the paper in the future. While it is unlikely they will data mine the paper for habits, grammar accuracy, and other tibits of information, it is possible for them to do it. Then they could sell the information off. If they get enough papers from a given person, they could easily build basic description a writing style for that person.
I know what you mean. I wish I could eliminate all the ones I don't want to look at. I only saw two where I knew who sent the comment. One was Red Hat, Inc (MTC-00030616 0068 RedHat, Inc), and the other was my comment(MTC-00004682 0001 McCay, Joseph).
Oe of the Linux Magazines you can buy in the stores (March 2002) issue has an article that compares the web browsers, and it does include Konqueror. I think it is in the March 2002 Linux Journal--it's got a lot of green on the cover.
I know I won't like it if I have to pay for every site I visit. Imagine paying for every site you visit, and paying for the sites from a search engine the takes payments for placement! So essentially, you pay to to garbage in those cases.
As far as slashdot subscriptions, I will hold out and see what happens.
I think you are thinking of Apple. As long as they haven sold it, it was reported here, but also including as a part of the same deal was the sharing of technology. You will notice Microsoft paid Borland (then called Inprise) $100 Million for "the rights to use Inprise-patented technology in Microsoft products and to settle a number of long-standing patent and technology licensing issues" (this is from the actual press release. I wouldn't be surprised if compiling to a common language was one of the things they paid the rights to use.
Neither is new or inovative. C# is a combination of C++ & Java with a few changes here and there.
As for.NET, Microsoft just combined existing technologies for other areas. Take there idea to compile everything down to one to one language. It is not new. I go into this here. The only thing Borland didn't do is create a an interpreter for the common language. If they would have done that, you'd have part of the new compiler that Microsoft has in VisualStudio.Net. I should also mention that Microsoft owns a portions of Borland.
The idea that Microsoft created this completely new and innovative technology is strictly a PR campaign.
You'd have to pay only if you live in California. They have no way of enoforcing other states to pay the fee. I did notice it was two Democrats that sponcered the bill. I bet the truth is they want more money and very little of the fee will go toward the recycling as they claim.
I would be happy to have a distro that install correctly out of the box. Red Hat 7.1 doesn't install properly out of the box for me. The graphic setup doesn't work. If this distro does, and if it saves me the time and hassle, I would be willing to pay $40 to get the pro version.
I am actually thinking about trying this distro. Red Hat 7.1 will nt completely install on my system out of the box. I have to install the basics and go back and configure the the graphics after figuring out why it's not working. I would be willing to pay $40.00 to get a stable distro that install the first time.
While I agree with you about Linux digging it's own grave, I must say that Microsoft will never produce a stable operating system. They always incorporate their other product's into the operating system, and that intern always creates more problems and security issues. Until they change their idea of one HUGE monolithic operating system that does everything, they will not produce a stable operating system, and they would still have other things to do.
Actually the higher you get in the game, the more codes they give you. The codes I know so far: chrysalis, page78, page98, page168, page 272, and sixtypages.
This is on top of the reload code. You enter these by selecting the upper right screen after you get through the reload screen.
The state tracking the movement of anyone is not a good idea. If this were instituted in the US, how long before the data is ordered open under the freedom of information act? Also, I can see it now, Mr. X & Mrs. X are getting a divorce becuase Mr. X says Mrs. X is cheatign on him. To prove his case his gets a court order to get the records of her vehicles movement over the last 5 years (or so).
Then there is the government. If you don't think the government will use this against you, do kid your self. In Connecticut (USA), there were two rental car companies using the GPS to track your speed. It's only a hop skip and jump away from this type of tracking. I for one do not want to get a monthly bill for all the traveling I do. This will hurt England's economy in the long run. Especially for companies that have a district manager setup where the manager has to travel to several stores a month!
This idea is no good. It would reverse any idea of being inocent until proven guilty if they extended it to include tracking speed. They could do also tack on extra fees per mile. The list is endless. This is a very bad idea.
I could think of several older TV shows I would like to see on DVD, but I won't hold my breathe. The companies that are still around won't do it. Why should they pour their money in producing DVDs of older stuff when the can produce newer stuff and charge more? The industry just hasn't come to understand it's consumer like they think they do. Maybe someday they will learn.
Chances are Microsoft is trying to eliminate the market of generic controlers inside the US. That way you will only get what Micrsoft officially allows because to be able to otherwise would require proprietary knowledge (the USB ID).
I doubt even Microsoft could force somethign like this on the PC because they don't control the entire distribution of PCs.
Not totally true. I live in o ne of the areas where AT&T provides the Cable and Digital Cable. AT&T has been decent. There is a lot of channels. It used to be media one, so things won't change for me unless AOL/Time Warner were to buy AT&T (or at least there Cable Service). AT&T Cable has deals with everyone.
I had all 3 models of the COCO. It worked the best with OS-9 (no not the Apple Mac OS). OS-9 is a realtime Unix clone. For a short time before 3.5 became the standard, I remember being able to be 3" disks and drives ont hat system. There was a lot of cool things on the system. Speech Recognition, and Speech Synthesis (phonetically spelled words), touch pad, gun type joystick (only other system to have that was the First Nintendo at the time), and people used to design and build electornic add-on all the time for the system. There was a lot out there for that system than for any other system. THen I switch to dos, and was disappointed!
I agree with you. I hated the x-files after the first 2 seasons, and to hear that Stargate is taking an X-Files approach, just sickens me! The government conspiracy plot got old really quick. I like the Star Gate plots that have them exploring different worlds and find new Alien cultures. I also like the interaction between the main characters. This is one of the fews shows I had to watch. The writing used to be great, but I have been noticing that the plots have been going down hill. I just haven't felt like watching. I used to watch 6 shows regularly (Angel, Stargate SG-1, First Wave, Andromeda, and Babylon 5 {both series and the movies}). Now, First Wave has finished, and the first B5 series is finished. The second B5 series was canceled. Now Star Gate SG-1 is going down the toilet? What a bumber!!!
Hopefully Battlestar Galactica will come back soon. All the new shows just suck (incliuding the new Star Trek). Oh well, I might get some house work down! I got two shows left before I stop watching any series on a regular basis. Maybe they will introduce a new B5 show based of the latest movie around the "Hand of God" mentioned in it. It suck to be a sci-fi fan and watch tv these days because Lexx and Farscape just don't cut it. Lexx could have been great but the went for the teen male audience with all the sexual references.
Now comes the fun part! Planning the wedding, and making sure everything is right. My brother just got married in October, so Commander, I got one Pearl of wisdom for you. Make sure your best man has his head on straight because you won't on your wedding day, and you don't want to be on your honeymoon and realize you forgot something.
Slashdot Mirror
I have to correct you on that statement. Last I checked, they had about 1/4 of the Earth's population, but that doesn't matter in this case. China doesn't have the means to get all those people over here to the US. The size in population only matters when the two countries are connected via land or if the country with the larger population could get those people of accross the sea to the United States. China can't do either of those, and let's not forget Japan beat China in WWII. Japan had a lot less troups than China, and Japan killed the Chinese navy. Japan also invaded a lot of South-East Asia. Size doesn't always matter! Size would matter if the US was trying to invade China, but that won't happen.
Yeah, right! They would even try. They can't get back Taiwan without our telling them to knock it off. They don't have the capability of a long term invasion of the USA, so they can say it all they want.
Seriously, I remember seeing a show where the found Asian skeletal remainsin the continental United States, but I don't remember what date the remain are supposed to be from.
Is this earlier than the Vickings? I don't think they were the earliest. I think Egypt (the tombs of the Pharaohs have been found to contain tobacco (only grown natively in the Americas), and I think it was on the Mummies. There is alos an older map from another civilization that has a map with a continent that looks like south America, and a lot of Atlantean people (people who believe in Atlantis) believe this is Atlantis, but I think it looks more like South America (or it could be both {based on a PBS show}).
Unfortunately, it is not that simple. It may not be up to the the teacher/tutor/lecturer. It may up to the school. Also, it the paper is the result of research paid for by a group of people they may not want the information to have the ownership transfered to another party--especially if they plan to spin of a company to make a profit with kick backs to the institution.
I don't see that many Colleges using this service. They would be giving up the rights to publish/use the informaiton in the future.
On top of that, this service will not cover all papers and will not cover papers prior to it's existence. This service will only be good once a lot of papers have been submited. Since they only have been around since 1996, any thing prior to 1996 will not be caught.
If I was still in college, I would sue a college that forced me to use this service. You are not garenteed as to what they will do with the paper in the future. While it is unlikely they will data mine the paper for habits, grammar accuracy, and other tibits of information, it is possible for them to do it. Then they could sell the information off. If they get enough papers from a given person, they could easily build basic description a writing style for that person.
I know what you mean. I wish I could eliminate all the ones I don't want to look at. I only saw two where I knew who sent the comment. One was Red Hat, Inc (MTC-00030616 0068 RedHat, Inc), and the other was my comment(MTC-00004682 0001 McCay, Joseph).
Oe of the Linux Magazines you can buy in the stores (March 2002) issue has an article that compares the web browsers, and it does include Konqueror. I think it is in the March 2002 Linux Journal--it's got a lot of green on the cover.
I know I won't like it if I have to pay for every site I visit. Imagine paying for every site you visit, and paying for the sites from a search engine the takes payments for placement! So essentially, you pay to to garbage in those cases.
As far as slashdot subscriptions, I will hold out and see what happens.
That is what a sale person told me in an email. They said it supports all current USB versions. I just forgot to add a comment here.
I think you are thinking of Apple. As long as they haven sold it, it was reported here, but also including as a part of the same deal was the sharing of technology. You will notice Microsoft paid Borland (then called Inprise) $100 Million for "the rights to use Inprise-patented technology in Microsoft products and to settle a number of long-standing patent and technology licensing issues" (this is from the actual press release. I wouldn't be surprised if compiling to a common language was one of the things they paid the rights to use.
Neither is new or inovative. C# is a combination of C++ & Java with a few changes here and there.
.NET, Microsoft just combined existing technologies for other areas. Take there idea to compile everything down to one to one language. It is not new. I go into this here. The only thing Borland didn't do is create a an interpreter for the common language. If they would have done that, you'd have part of the new compiler that Microsoft has in VisualStudio.Net. I should also mention that Microsoft owns a portions of Borland.
As for
The idea that Microsoft created this completely new and innovative technology is strictly a PR campaign.
It is a little short on details. I for one would like to know if it has USB support.
You'd have to pay only if you live in California. They have no way of enoforcing other states to pay the fee. I did notice it was two Democrats that sponcered the bill. I bet the truth is they want more money and very little of the fee will go toward the recycling as they claim.
I would be happy to have a distro that install correctly out of the box. Red Hat 7.1 doesn't install properly out of the box for me. The graphic setup doesn't work. If this distro does, and if it saves me the time and hassle, I would be willing to pay $40 to get the pro version.
I am actually thinking about trying this distro. Red Hat 7.1 will nt completely install on my system out of the box. I have to install the basics and go back and configure the the graphics after figuring out why it's not working. I would be willing to pay $40.00 to get a stable distro that install the first time.
While I agree with you about Linux digging it's own grave, I must say that Microsoft will never produce a stable operating system. They always incorporate their other product's into the operating system, and that intern always creates more problems and security issues. Until they change their idea of one HUGE monolithic operating system that does everything, they will not produce a stable operating system, and they would still have other things to do.
Actually the higher you get in the game, the more codes they give you. The codes I know so far:e 272, and
chrysalis,
page78,
page98,
page168,
pag
sixtypages.
This is on top of the reload code. You enter these by selecting the upper right screen after you get through the reload screen.
The state tracking the movement of anyone is not a good idea. If this were instituted in the US, how long before the data is ordered open under the freedom of information act? Also, I can see it now, Mr. X & Mrs. X are getting a divorce becuase Mr. X says Mrs. X is cheatign on him. To prove his case his gets a court order to get the records of her vehicles movement over the last 5 years (or so).
Then there is the government. If you don't think the government will use this against you, do kid your self. In Connecticut (USA), there were two rental car companies using the GPS to track your speed. It's only a hop skip and jump away from this type of tracking. I for one do not want to get a monthly bill for all the traveling I do. This will hurt England's economy in the long run. Especially for companies that have a district manager setup where the manager has to travel to several stores a month!
This idea is no good. It would reverse any idea of being inocent until proven guilty if they extended it to include tracking speed. They could do also tack on extra fees per mile. The list is endless. This is a very bad idea.
I could think of several older TV shows I would like to see on DVD, but I won't hold my breathe. The companies that are still around won't do it. Why should they pour their money in producing DVDs of older stuff when the can produce newer stuff and charge more? The industry just hasn't come to understand it's consumer like they think they do. Maybe someday they will learn.
Chances are Microsoft is trying to eliminate the market of generic controlers inside the US. That way you will only get what Micrsoft officially allows because to be able to otherwise would require proprietary knowledge (the USB ID).
I doubt even Microsoft could force somethign like this on the PC because they don't control the entire distribution of PCs.
Not totally true. I live in o ne of the areas where AT&T provides the Cable and Digital Cable. AT&T has been decent. There is a lot of channels. It used to be media one, so things won't change for me unless AOL/Time Warner were to buy AT&T (or at least there Cable Service). AT&T Cable has deals with everyone.
I had all 3 models of the COCO. It worked the best with OS-9 (no not the Apple Mac OS). OS-9 is a realtime Unix clone. For a short time before 3.5 became the standard, I remember being able to be 3" disks and drives ont hat system. There was a lot of cool things on the system. Speech Recognition, and Speech Synthesis (phonetically spelled words), touch pad, gun type joystick (only other system to have that was the First Nintendo at the time), and people used to design and build electornic add-on all the time for the system. There was a lot out there for that system than for any other system. THen I switch to dos, and was disappointed!
I agree with you. I hated the x-files after the first 2 seasons, and to hear that Stargate is taking an X-Files approach, just sickens me! The government conspiracy plot got old really quick. I like the Star Gate plots that have them exploring different worlds and find new Alien cultures. I also like the interaction between the main characters. This is one of the fews shows I had to watch. The writing used to be great, but I have been noticing that the plots have been going down hill. I just haven't felt like watching. I used to watch 6 shows regularly (Angel, Stargate SG-1, First Wave, Andromeda, and Babylon 5 {both series and the movies}). Now, First Wave has finished, and the first B5 series is finished. The second B5 series was canceled. Now Star Gate SG-1 is going down the toilet? What a bumber!!!
Hopefully Battlestar Galactica will come back soon. All the new shows just suck (incliuding the new Star Trek). Oh well, I might get some house work down! I got two shows left before I stop watching any series on a regular basis. Maybe they will introduce a new B5 show based of the latest movie around the "Hand of God" mentioned in it. It suck to be a sci-fi fan and watch tv these days because Lexx and Farscape just don't cut it. Lexx could have been great but the went for the teen male audience with all the sexual references.
Add to that the readers of wired.com because of the article at that site on Rob's proposal.
I bet that includes the wired.com article. Did anyone knoew we were bitten by the love bug?
Now comes the fun part! Planning the wedding, and making sure everything is right. My brother just got married in October, so Commander, I got one Pearl of wisdom for you. Make sure your best man has his head on straight because you won't on your wedding day, and you don't want to be on your honeymoon and realize you forgot something.
Best of luck.
Joseph McCay
Why don't we make it a new topic. Geeky marriage proposal stories. Or we can even make it simpler call it Geek Love, or Geek in Heat.
Best of luck Taco. Another single geek down.