Two things to consider about teachers: 1) state/city budgets took a beating from economic downtown and they have to cut money *somewhere* and still cover pay raises (set by contracts with the teacher's union), increasing health care costs, and so on. 2) There are certain fringe benefits: Schools only require 6 hours of teaching (although teachers end up putting 10-12 depending on grading load, etc.); 2-3 months off in summer (and opportunity to pick extra money or not cover child care); union and/or governement position so good benefits.
Nurses may have dropped starting but, once again, semi-public institution and healthy percentage of union employees...or they have to meet the contract or face a strike. Plus starting does not cover overtime AFAIK. Nurses are expected to put in extra time or work 3 on, 3 off...once again fringe benefit not elaborated by salary alone.
I highly recommend KisMAC, works great, never played with the GPS bit but it autogenerates a map. Two cavets - it only works on Jaguar and, while it supports Airport Extreme, no passive mode. It does, however, support a long list of PCMCIA cards and quite a few in passive.
still better than most???
I get 4 hours out of my iBook (G3 900)
My '98 vintage Toshiba 3110CT PII 300 manages 2 to 2 1/2 hours, depending on how much juice the LCD gets...my wife's P266 MMX 3015CT did 3 hours or so until the hard drive died...anything less than 2 1/2 hours is unacceptable to me...that was one of my big reasons for buying an iBook.
Any course in Chaucer includes rudimentary introduction to middle English. Most Linguistic courses also cover the evolution of English from Old to Early-Modern.
I did the same thing on my iBook and get the same output:
[Adam-Laptop:/usr/bin] user% openssl version OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003 [Adam-Laptop:/usr/bin] user%
Now, the weird thing is there is openssl command in/usr/bin/ but when I run "which openssl" I get "/sw/bin/openssl" and running "/usr/bin/openssl version" returns "Command not found."
Well, how would you know if the computer cheated because presumably it would cheat if it could get away with it...otherwise it becomes another rule the computer cannot violate ("No Cheating" in this case...)
Now they're offering business models to organized crime...does anyone really think illegal gambling even thought it was losing money to online gambling until the RIAA started screaming about piracy?
No, there will be American classics...keep in mind the classics we value now like the Chevelle, Camaro, Mustang, Nova, Impala, Cornet/Super Bee, Roadrunner, Barracuda, Charger, Galaxie, Falcon, Ranchero, El Camino, and so on were all mass produced, popular cars. Everybody know an uncle, had father, brother, or grandpa that one...and everyone wanted one. That's what made them classic, everybody knew them and then they were tossed for the "next big thing" or when gas got too expensive. So, yes, there will be post-'85 classics. However, like the Chevelle, it won't be the plain vanilla straight six four door grocery getter, it will be the top of the line models like the 454SS.
Yes, women's shirts generally have the buttons on the opposite side of men's shirts.
Why is this?
It's easier to dress someone else when the buttons are oriented towards your right hand. Back when women didn't dress themselves, they had servants to do it (or daughters, if they weren't rich). Shirts just kinda carried over the tradition.
(Although I'm lost on the remote comment...now I have to go look at my wife's iPod clip)
GM has been putting automatic shutdown and tracking in vehicles for a few years now as On-Star and all of their computers incorporate black-box recording of accidents (although it's constantly overwritten and only gets saved when there is a collision).
So, at some point the NHSTA could mandate all vehicles with On-Star be registared and all new cars incorporate it to facilitate highway safety...after all if airbags kill people, passive safety does not work so we need active safety to stop accidents from happening...
Don't pay your license fees? No car. Don't pay your insurance? No car. Drive to many miles? No car. Speed? No car.
I would agree 90% of the marks are grime and oils, however, there are still slight abrasions...I've had mine (12" iBook) about 2 months and they seem to clean right off (I've done it twice now) but if the reflection is just right, you can still see them. They don't show up when the screen is on, only off and looking almost straight down the screen.
I use those alcohol glasses wipes to clean screens. They work great and take everything right off without having to press or scrub.
I don't know what you people expect from a giant ball of super heated gas undergoing fusion...perhaps large explusions of luke-warm gas and flaccid solar energy?
Maybe it just the geek mentality, but, hell, yeah, I'm taking a 12" Powerbook over a 14" iBook anyday of the week...for me, it's worth the 100 bucks to get the 512MB RAM, DVI, form factor, and nifty aluminum case with attached keyboard.
Of course, on the other hand, I'm baffled by the inconviently portable portable.
And what is up with Apple addressing white spots in 15" Powerbooks but not addressing screen imperfections from keyboard imprint in iBooks? Shouldn't bad design be considered equally?
The first was cool because it was side note, the second one it helps if you have a clue-hey,look explosions!...what was I saying? Oh, and the third seems to be a dissertation on the objective nature of good and evil, judging from the reviews.
"He [Dr. Thomas] added: "If Guy Fawkes was an expert in explosives and so knew what he was doing and had the gunpowder confined in barrels and well packed-in, it could have been almost as powerful as the equivalent TNT explosion so this is a fairly good model," he said."
The explosion model assumes Fawkes was an expert in explosives and would have packed the barrels really tight instead of just using the barrels as is...so by that logic there would have been more gunpowder there than historical attributed. I suppose it could have packed in there with nails and steel balls but then there's less gunpowder than the model (maybe)
Dampness could have been a factor also, generating heat, fire, and explosive pockets rather than an all out boom.
So, yeah, there could have been a big explosion but the polictical implications would have far outreached the physical damage or collateral damage.
Erm, it's 10 bucks a full album on iTunes for most older commerically sucessful releases...and a dollar a song is reasonable considering it's 15.99 to go buy a 12-15 track CD from your local retailer or 11.88-14.85 to buy it on iTunes...which makes up for the electricity and CD-R to make the CD, IMO, plus the savings on gas and sales tax.
DRM is fine as long I get a CD with no strings attached to do whatever I feel like with...it's M$ and the **IAA pushing draconian DRMs to keep media digital where the problem is. Apple said "okay" and then kludged it... (I think when iTunes was licensed no one took it seriously at all...they laughed and then realized it works...hence the ugly WinMediaPlayer 9 DRM)
"There's no doubt it's a strong brand, with a strong profile of viewers," said Phil Leigh, senior analyst at Inside Digital Media, about MTV's plans. "But they can't rely solely on their brand come next year... After iTunes launched in April, MTV should have been like a hawk on a field mouse."
Oops, I think maybe MTV is the mouse now...I do wonder what gives MTV any kind of credibility selling music when they basically invented reality TV and ran with it, dropping music into 1am to 8am slot or whatever...now they have viewers but I don't think they have any kind of serious listeners.
This whole article is one giant piece of flamebait...GNU-Darwin is clearly crap, doing nothing that can't be accomplished with either FreeBSD or OpenDarwin and Fink. There is nothing newsworthy here, 5 years of an OS that has made significant inroads would be something...Linux certainly developed into something notable in five years beyond a curious *NIX-like OS...and BSD has been around for ages, powering Yahoo and Google et al.
Darwin has not managed managed to achieve anything other than curiousity status, IMO. I mean it's great when it's under OS X and it's cool that Apple is trying to provide an Open Source alternative for its hardware (ever think maybe all those G3s and G4s need to do something and it's easier to sell a G5 when that old computer can become a web server/firewall/mail server/file server for nothing and still use all the Apple hardware? Or let all those switchers do something with that x86 they now have collecting dust?) Plus, ya know, if the hardware market ever goes bust, Apple can always sell this nifty OS as an enterprise/opensource/consumer alternative depending on what they put in or take out...
(Posted from an iBook running Jaguar)
yeah, I missed the boat on the G4 and Panther...my Toshiba Protege 3110CT decided to die a week before classes started so I needed a laptop *now*...I ended buying an iBook 9/06 or well outside Panther...d'oh...
However, I love my iBook to death and really don't care which tells me I made a good choice.
I now have one less reason not to upgrade now...although I must admit, I'm happy with my iBook as is...G4 and Panther two months after I bought it now withstanding...
I think more needs to be preserving the important e-mails of government for posterity. The DoD and other agencies do not backup or retain e-mails in any meaningful way nor does the Whitehouse or National Archive have any kind of e-mail policy, AFIK. Hard disks and, by extentsion, e-mail suffer from the time limit of magnetic media...eventually all those ions disappear and there is no *magnetic* in the media.
CDs have the translation problem...what happens in 150 years when the standards are corrupted or lost and nobody can acknowledge the binary code in any meaningful format?
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Two things to consider about teachers: 1) state/city budgets took a beating from economic downtown and they have to cut money *somewhere* and still cover pay raises (set by contracts with the teacher's union), increasing health care costs, and so on. 2) There are certain fringe benefits: Schools only require 6 hours of teaching (although teachers end up putting 10-12 depending on grading load, etc.); 2-3 months off in summer (and opportunity to pick extra money or not cover child care); union and/or governement position so good benefits.
Nurses may have dropped starting but, once again, semi-public institution and healthy percentage of union employees...or they have to meet the contract or face a strike. Plus starting does not cover overtime AFAIK. Nurses are expected to put in extra time or work 3 on, 3 off...once again fringe benefit not elaborated by salary alone.
I highly recommend KisMAC, works great, never played with the GPS bit but it autogenerates a map. Two cavets - it only works on Jaguar and, while it supports Airport Extreme, no passive mode. It does, however, support a long list of PCMCIA cards and quite a few in passive.
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still better than most??? I get 4 hours out of my iBook (G3 900) My '98 vintage Toshiba 3110CT PII 300 manages 2 to 2 1/2 hours, depending on how much juice the LCD gets...my wife's P266 MMX 3015CT did 3 hours or so until the hard drive died...anything less than 2 1/2 hours is unacceptable to me...that was one of my big reasons for buying an iBook.
Any course in Chaucer includes rudimentary introduction to middle English. Most Linguistic courses also cover the evolution of English from Old to Early-Modern.
okay, I was totally braindead...I have A) Jaguar and B) everybody else's Panther output...
/usr/bin copy...
/usr/bin | grep openssl /sw/bin | grep openssl
It doesn't look like a symbolic link to me...but I can't find the version of the
[Adam-Laptop:~] usr% ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 935292 Sep 14 20:21 openssl
[Adam-Laptop:~] user% ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1314372 Oct 31 23:44 openssl
[Adam-Laptop:~] user%
I did the same thing on my iBook and get the same output:
/usr/bin/ but when I run "which openssl" I get "/sw/bin/openssl" and running "/usr/bin/openssl version" returns "Command not found."
[Adam-Laptop:/usr/bin] user% openssl version
OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003
[Adam-Laptop:/usr/bin] user%
Now, the weird thing is there is openssl command in
Now I have to ask why is this?
Well, how would you know if the computer cheated because presumably it would cheat if it could get away with it...otherwise it becomes another rule the computer cannot violate ("No Cheating" in this case...)
Now they're offering business models to organized crime...does anyone really think illegal gambling even thought it was losing money to online gambling until the RIAA started screaming about piracy?
Now there's irony...
No, there will be American classics...keep in mind the classics we value now like the Chevelle, Camaro, Mustang, Nova, Impala, Cornet/Super Bee, Roadrunner, Barracuda, Charger, Galaxie, Falcon, Ranchero, El Camino, and so on were all mass produced, popular cars. Everybody know an uncle, had father, brother, or grandpa that one...and everyone wanted one. That's what made them classic, everybody knew them and then they were tossed for the "next big thing" or when gas got too expensive. So, yes, there will be post-'85 classics. However, like the Chevelle, it won't be the plain vanilla straight six four door grocery getter, it will be the top of the line models like the 454SS.
Yes, women's shirts generally have the buttons on the opposite side of men's shirts.
Why is this?
It's easier to dress someone else when the buttons are oriented towards your right hand. Back when women didn't dress themselves, they had servants to do it (or daughters, if they weren't rich). Shirts just kinda carried over the tradition.
(Although I'm lost on the remote comment...now I have to go look at my wife's iPod clip)
GM has been putting automatic shutdown and tracking in vehicles for a few years now as On-Star and all of their computers incorporate black-box recording of accidents (although it's constantly overwritten and only gets saved when there is a collision). So, at some point the NHSTA could mandate all vehicles with On-Star be registared and all new cars incorporate it to facilitate highway safety...after all if airbags kill people, passive safety does not work so we need active safety to stop accidents from happening... Don't pay your license fees? No car. Don't pay your insurance? No car. Drive to many miles? No car. Speed? No car.
I would agree 90% of the marks are grime and oils, however, there are still slight abrasions...I've had mine (12" iBook) about 2 months and they seem to clean right off (I've done it twice now) but if the reflection is just right, you can still see them. They don't show up when the screen is on, only off and looking almost straight down the screen.
I use those alcohol glasses wipes to clean screens. They work great and take everything right off without having to press or scrub.
I don't know what you people expect from a giant ball of super heated gas undergoing fusion...perhaps large explusions of luke-warm gas and flaccid solar energy?
subject sez it all, brain dead moment...
Maybe it just the geek mentality, but, hell, yeah, I'm taking a 12" Powerbook over a 14" iBook anyday of the week...for me, it's worth the 100 bucks to get the 512MB RAM, DVI, form factor, and nifty aluminum case with attached keyboard.
Of course, on the other hand, I'm baffled by the inconviently portable portable.
And what is up with Apple addressing white spots in 15" Powerbooks but not addressing screen imperfections from keyboard imprint in iBooks? Shouldn't bad design be considered equally?
The first was cool because it was side note, the second one it helps if you have a clue-hey,look explosions!...what was I saying? Oh, and the third seems to be a dissertation on the objective nature of good and evil, judging from the reviews.
"He [Dr. Thomas] added: "If Guy Fawkes was an expert in explosives and so knew what he was doing and had the gunpowder confined in barrels and well packed-in, it could have been almost as powerful as the equivalent TNT explosion so this is a fairly good model," he said."
The explosion model assumes Fawkes was an expert in explosives and would have packed the barrels really tight instead of just using the barrels as is...so by that logic there would have been more gunpowder there than historical attributed. I suppose it could have packed in there with nails and steel balls but then there's less gunpowder than the model (maybe)
Dampness could have been a factor also, generating heat, fire, and explosive pockets rather than an all out boom.
So, yeah, there could have been a big explosion but the polictical implications would have far outreached the physical damage or collateral damage.
Erm, it's 10 bucks a full album on iTunes for most older commerically sucessful releases...and a dollar a song is reasonable considering it's 15.99 to go buy a 12-15 track CD from your local retailer or 11.88-14.85 to buy it on iTunes...which makes up for the electricity and CD-R to make the CD, IMO, plus the savings on gas and sales tax.
DRM is fine as long I get a CD with no strings attached to do whatever I feel like with...it's M$ and the **IAA pushing draconian DRMs to keep media digital where the problem is. Apple said "okay" and then kludged it... (I think when iTunes was licensed no one took it seriously at all...they laughed and then realized it works...hence the ugly WinMediaPlayer 9 DRM)
From the article (and all you need to know):
... After iTunes launched in April, MTV should have been like a hawk on a field mouse."
"There's no doubt it's a strong brand, with a strong profile of viewers," said Phil Leigh, senior analyst at Inside Digital Media, about MTV's plans. "But they can't rely solely on their brand come next year
Oops, I think maybe MTV is the mouse now...I do wonder what gives MTV any kind of credibility selling music when they basically invented reality TV and ran with it, dropping music into 1am to 8am slot or whatever...now they have viewers but I don't think they have any kind of serious listeners.
This whole article is one giant piece of flamebait...GNU-Darwin is clearly crap, doing nothing that can't be accomplished with either FreeBSD or OpenDarwin and Fink. There is nothing newsworthy here, 5 years of an OS that has made significant inroads would be something...Linux certainly developed into something notable in five years beyond a curious *NIX-like OS...and BSD has been around for ages, powering Yahoo and Google et al.
Darwin has not managed managed to achieve anything other than curiousity status, IMO. I mean it's great when it's under OS X and it's cool that Apple is trying to provide an Open Source alternative for its hardware (ever think maybe all those G3s and G4s need to do something and it's easier to sell a G5 when that old computer can become a web server/firewall/mail server/file server for nothing and still use all the Apple hardware? Or let all those switchers do something with that x86 they now have collecting dust?) Plus, ya know, if the hardware market ever goes bust, Apple can always sell this nifty OS as an enterprise/opensource/consumer alternative depending on what they put in or take out...
(Posted from an iBook running Jaguar)
yeah, I missed the boat on the G4 and Panther...my Toshiba Protege 3110CT decided to die a week before classes started so I needed a laptop *now*...I ended buying an iBook 9/06 or well outside Panther...d'oh...
However, I love my iBook to death and really don't care which tells me I made a good choice.
I now have one less reason not to upgrade now...although I must admit, I'm happy with my iBook as is...G4 and Panther two months after I bought it now withstanding...
The security holes affect all 10.2.x versions...and 10.2.8 has been out for at least two weeks.
I checked for patches last night, there weren't any for 10.2.x (Jaguar), only 10.3.0 (Panther)
The security patches (or lack thereof) is a Jaguar problem, not Panther problem (according to @stake & Apple).
So if/when Apple release patches for Jaguar, patch it...otherwise, unrelated.
I think more needs to be preserving the important e-mails of government for posterity. The DoD and other agencies do not backup or retain e-mails in any meaningful way nor does the Whitehouse or National Archive have any kind of e-mail policy, AFIK. Hard disks and, by extentsion, e-mail suffer from the time limit of magnetic media...eventually all those ions disappear and there is no *magnetic* in the media.
CDs have the translation problem...what happens in 150 years when the standards are corrupted or lost and nobody can acknowledge the binary code in any meaningful format?