>Still, he perseveres; for as near as the Baroque Cycle has one point, it is to explore how the nation-state, modern banking, and modern scientific method arose from the chaos of the 17th century.
Indeed, the trilogy is the story of how modern money and banking arose. The protagonist is capital, and how it arose from its former life as coveted metals, like silver and gold. Empiricism is seen as being dragged along by the pragmatic bankers (and hustlers like Shaftoe and the Duchess of Several Places.)
What I have on my hard drive. I have three different sector editors as well as CD copy software. Are they going to scan for the editors, because I might use them to edit their executables? If I buy a program, I expect it to run with whatever I have on my hard drive. If there are conflicts with common software, I expect the publishers to fix it and issue a free patch. I definitely don't expect them to be scanning my registry for keys that they think might indicate that I might be thinking about maybe making a perfectly legal backup copy of my legally purchased software. There are a couple of RTS games coming out this fall that I'm interested in buying, but if they have this bullshit in them, they'll go right back to the store, or never be purchased if I know ahead of time.
Is not just for rating/. members. Take the high road. Be professional. As others have pointed out, your current boss may be your boss again in another place. However, if your karma is truly excellent, he may wind up working for you.
"There must have been a reason," Yossarian persisted, pounding his fist into his hand. "They couldn't just barge in here and chase everyone out."
"No reason," wailed the old woman. "No reason."
"What right did they have?"
"Catch-22."
"What?" Yossarian froze in his tracks with fear and alarm and felt hiw while body begin to tingle. "What did you say?"
"Catch-22," the old woman repeated, rocking her head up and down. "Catch-22. Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Yossarian shouted at her in bewildered, furious protest. "How did you know it was Catch-22? Who the hell told you it was Catch-22?"
"The soldiers with the hard white hats a clubs. The girls were crying. 'Did we do anything wrong?' they said. The men said no and pushed them away out the door with the ends of their clubs. 'Then why are you chasing us out?' the girls said. 'Catch-22,' the men said. 'What right do you have?' the girls said. 'Catch-22,' the men said. All they kept saying was 'Catch-22, Catch-22.' What does it mean, Catch-22? What is Catch-22?"
"Didn't they show it to you?" Yossarian demanded, stamping about in ager and distress. "Didn't you even make them read it?"
"They don't have to show us Catch-22," the old woman answered. "The law says they don't have to."
>Long the most common way to store letters, homework and other computer files
Let's not forget its most important use: spreading viruses around in the workplace. In our network, most viruses get in because people bring them in on floppies from home, from school sites, etc.
>the floppy disk is going the way of the horse upon the arrival of the car
I own a horse, you insensitive clod. Went for a good long ride at the beach yesterday and didn't handle a floppy once.:-)
Sounds Like the Radioactive Boy Scout
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There is nothing new under the sun, as we are told. This sounds a bit like:
THE RADIOACTIVE BOY SCOUT:
THE TRUE STORY OF A BOY AND HIS BACKYARD NUCLEAR REACTOR
By Ken Silverstein
Random House
209 pp., $22.95
Geek builds breeder reactor in his back yard. The lad is now grown up and in the US Navy, I hear.
Back in the day, when some of my buddies had bar bands, they did have to pay fees to ASCAP (also squeeze to the business agent of the musicians local). It wasn't much, and they didn't get paid much anyway, but it definitely had to be done. If you perform in public, even for free, and posting an mp3 would count as performing in public, the rights holder has to be paid to be legal.
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>On the other hand, Iraq was a tyranical dictatorship, whose leaders and citizens are ignorant, anti-american religious zealots.
True. However, an attack of killer armadillos is a greater threat to the US than Iraq ever was. At least until we invaded them and took over their country. Up til now, Iraq saved its bombs and invasion armies for its fellow Muslims in Iran, and Kuwait. Sadam's slavering screeds aside, they had never done a damn thing to us.
>in Canada, 95% of the population is less than 5 degrees north of the 49th, and that population tend to clump near the cities
Unlike in the United States, where most of the population lives on family farms in the midwest. Actually, the urban/rural population figures for the US and Canada are both about 75% urban according to the US Census Bureau. Somehow the US managed rural elctrification and rural telephone service, anyway.
>Which is why a tablet or mouse is better for detail work than an eraserhead control.
Agreed. I hate the eraserhead sticks. In this case, I think a better analogy is to the arrow key "T" pad. The Rio joystick is not pressure sensitive, just directional. Up, down, left, right, push to select.
I posted a story on this and the new Rio Forge players on August 2 that was rejected. I will point out that the Carbon is actually being released now, so maybe that's why it is news now and wasn't then. Of course, when one compares the significance of this to breathless rumors regarding an advertisement for a possible job opening on the iPod development team....
>On a scroll wheel you have roll and reposition, roll and reposition, roll and
Or, you could just do what I do on my Nitrus; scroll down by using the joystick. It's easier, faster and more accurate than the scroll wheel. It's nice that the player gives you more than one option for navigation. It seems to me that most of the people bashing the Rio interface have never used one.
Hal: "Dave, your really screwed the pooch on that one. I've started the coffee pot, ordered in some chow mein, and sent a text message to Denise that you won't be joining her at the restaurant."
>Corporatism is slowly taking over the USA. I just hope we still have time to stop its onslaught
You must be new here. It was that 21st century man, Calvin Coolidge who said, The business of government is business." It's been going on a long time. On an unrelated note, it was Woodrow Wilson who said, "The business of government is justice." The Coolidge/Hoover doctrine certainly seems in the ascendency.
Tweaking your own box is just a misdemeanor. However, if you and two of your buddies sit around and talk about how to do it. but don't do it, that is a conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor, which is a felony crime. Another four years of the Shrub, and it'll make you an enemy combatant.
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>Still, he perseveres; for as near as the Baroque Cycle has one point, it is to explore how the nation-state, modern banking, and modern scientific method arose from the chaos of the 17th century.
Indeed, the trilogy is the story of how modern money and banking arose. The protagonist is capital, and how it arose from its former life as coveted metals, like silver and gold. Empiricism is seen as being dragged along by the pragmatic bankers (and hustlers like Shaftoe and the Duchess of Several Places.)What I have on my hard drive. I have three different sector editors as well as CD copy software. Are they going to scan for the editors, because I might use them to edit their executables? If I buy a program, I expect it to run with whatever I have on my hard drive. If there are conflicts with common software, I expect the publishers to fix it and issue a free patch. I definitely don't expect them to be scanning my registry for keys that they think might indicate that I might be thinking about maybe making a perfectly legal backup copy of my legally purchased software. There are a couple of RTS games coming out this fall that I'm interested in buying, but if they have this bullshit in them, they'll go right back to the store, or never be purchased if I know ahead of time.
>but what are the criterias for determining derivatives
Anything to do with Nader is old news. As Gertrude said of Oakland, "There is no 'there' there."
Would it be thought that after landing on Mars it would take 20 years for women to be needed. Many of us would feel that need immediatley.
Is not just for rating /. members. Take the high road. Be professional. As others have pointed out, your current boss may be your boss again in another place. However, if your karma is truly excellent, he may wind up working for you.
"I can name that song in three notes."
"There must have been a reason," Yossarian persisted, pounding his fist into his hand. "They couldn't just barge in here and chase everyone out."
"No reason," wailed the old woman. "No reason."
"What right did they have?"
"Catch-22."
"What?" Yossarian froze in his tracks with fear and alarm and felt hiw while body begin to tingle. "What did you say?"
"Catch-22," the old woman repeated, rocking her head up and down. "Catch-22. Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Yossarian shouted at her in bewildered, furious protest. "How did you know it was Catch-22? Who the hell told you it was Catch-22?"
"The soldiers with the hard white hats a clubs. The girls were crying. 'Did we do anything wrong?' they said. The men said no and pushed them away out the door with the ends of their clubs. 'Then why are you chasing us out?' the girls said. 'Catch-22,' the men said. 'What right do you have?' the girls said. 'Catch-22,' the men said. All they kept saying was 'Catch-22, Catch-22.' What does it mean, Catch-22? What is Catch-22?"
"Didn't they show it to you?" Yossarian demanded, stamping about in ager and distress. "Didn't you even make them read it?"
"They don't have to show us Catch-22," the old woman answered. "The law says they don't have to."
"What law says they don't have to?"
"Catch-22."
>where Paramount could squeeze yet another dollar out of the Trek world.
Lost your copy of The Rules of Acquisition did you?>Long the most common way to store letters, homework and other computer files
Let's not forget its most important use: spreading viruses around in the workplace. In our network, most viruses get in because people bring them in on floppies from home, from school sites, etc.>the floppy disk is going the way of the horse upon the arrival of the car
I own a horse, you insensitive clod. Went for a good long ride at the beach yesterday and didn't handle a floppy once.There is nothing new under the sun, as we are told. This sounds a bit like:
THE RADIOACTIVE BOY SCOUT: THE TRUE STORY OF A BOY AND HIS BACKYARD NUCLEAR REACTOR
By Ken Silverstein
Random House
209 pp., $22.95
Geek builds breeder reactor in his back yard. The lad is now grown up and in the US Navy, I hear.
Back in the day, when some of my buddies had bar bands, they did have to pay fees to ASCAP (also squeeze to the business agent of the musicians local). It wasn't much, and they didn't get paid much anyway, but it definitely had to be done. If you perform in public, even for free, and posting an mp3 would count as performing in public, the rights holder has to be paid to be legal.
>On the other hand, Iraq was a tyranical dictatorship, whose leaders and citizens are ignorant, anti-american religious zealots.
True. However, an attack of killer armadillos is a greater threat to the US than Iraq ever was. At least until we invaded them and took over their country. Up til now, Iraq saved its bombs and invasion armies for its fellow Muslims in Iran, and Kuwait. Sadam's slavering screeds aside, they had never done a damn thing to us.>in Canada, 95% of the population is less than 5 degrees north of the 49th, and that population tend to clump near the cities
Unlike in the United States, where most of the population lives on family farms in the midwest. Actually, the urban/rural population figures for the US and Canada are both about 75% urban according to the US Census Bureau. Somehow the US managed rural elctrification and rural telephone service, anyway.>Which is why a tablet or mouse is better for detail work than an eraserhead control.
Agreed. I hate the eraserhead sticks. In this case, I think a better analogy is to the arrow key "T" pad. The Rio joystick is not pressure sensitive, just directional. Up, down, left, right, push to select.I posted a story on this and the new Rio Forge players on August 2 that was rejected. I will point out that the Carbon is actually being released now, so maybe that's why it is news now and wasn't then. Of course, when one compares the significance of this to breathless rumors regarding an advertisement for a possible job opening on the iPod development team....
>On a scroll wheel you have roll and reposition, roll and reposition, roll and
Or, you could just do what I do on my Nitrus; scroll down by using the joystick. It's easier, faster and more accurate than the scroll wheel. It's nice that the player gives you more than one option for navigation. It seems to me that most of the people bashing the Rio interface have never used one.> 1. Use line breaks 2. Note that the first step is actually not a very wise thing to do. Don't try it at home!
3. Post witty response to correct article.This is /. Who bothers to RTFA?
Hal: "Dave, your really screwed the pooch on that one. I've started the coffee pot, ordered in some chow mein, and sent a text message to Denise that you won't be joining her at the restaurant."
Out for a duck is out for no runs, breaking your duck is actually getting somewhere (i.e. making some runs).
Well, if you meant getting off the schneid, why didn't you say so?>Corporatism is slowly taking over the USA. I just hope we still have time to stop its onslaught
You must be new here. It was that 21st century man, Calvin Coolidge who said, The business of government is business." It's been going on a long time. On an unrelated note, it was Woodrow Wilson who said, "The business of government is justice." The Coolidge/Hoover doctrine certainly seems in the ascendency.lower the threat level to blue now?
Tweaking your own box is just a misdemeanor. However, if you and two of your buddies sit around and talk about how to do it. but don't do it, that is a conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor, which is a felony crime. Another four years of the Shrub, and it'll make you an enemy combatant.
>TSR? You're an old one, I must say. ;)
Well, still young enough to remember things anyway.>Build an internet incorruptible by corps and goverments.
Young, naive one aren't you.