Due to the slight Republican majorities in Congress and the Senate, the Republicans can pass anything that they want to pass. The only thing that the Democrats could do to stop the Ruling Republican Party would be to filibuster, which I believe is only being used to block a few of the worst presidential appointments.
You are making a blanket statement about the attitudes of Americans when only about half of the people in the US agree on any particular issue. In the US, few moderates are ever elected to office. It seems that the Republicans elect far right wing xtian candidates and the Democrats elect far left wing candidates. From past presidential elections, either half of the US votes for a far right wing candidate and half of the US voted for a left wing candidate -- or the voting mechanisms were rigged. The far right wingers won, but that does not mean that the majority of people in the US are right wing xtians, it just means that the right wing xtians won the election. Another issue is that conservative xtians and corporations own the Republican party which means lots of good little xtains vote Republican and corporations make sure that the whole Republican machine is well lubricated. For US political candidates, there can be no middle or moderate ground, any candidate that is moderate is attacked for being "soft" on issues; and *nobody* wants to vote for a candidate that is soft on issues.
SMS messages use abbreviations and shortcuts for words and phrases that make most SMS messages largely unreadable to those people who have not learned SMS code.
It all depends upon whether one can understand the code that is being received; whether the code is Morse code or SMS, it is still a code.
"You mean that when firefox stalls completely, is unresponsive after 5 minutes of waiting and consumes 99% cpu time during the whole sèance, "it's just doing what it's supposed to"? I think not. I have to kill it to fix it, hardly a design feature. It's not a single occurance thing, it is a problem I have had over several ff editions. And I can provoke it whenever I want.
I have never encountered this problem with Firefox and I have occasions where I have several (10 to 20) concurrent downloads running. What are you doing to provoke this behaviour, and have you reported it to the Firefox design team?
It's not so much that people are chosing SCO, that decision has already been made; they are choosing not to replace existing SCO based infrastructures. For many large SCO customers conversion from SCO to another Unix or to Linux would involve considerable pain and expense.
There are companies; including Wal-Mart and possibly McDonald's, that still use SCO Unix. I would imagine that SCO is making money by selling upgrades and support contracts to these existing customers.
" I remember when a few years ago, when all the cartoons on Cartoon Network were still the Classics ("That's all folks").
That has changed over the past 5-6 years. At first I thought it was just me outgrowing the charm of cartoons (I'm 27). But then I realized it wasn't me or my tastes that were changing. It was the quality of the new productions that was sadly deteriorating."
I think that there are two main reasons for this: The classic "cartoons" were made for a mixed audience, either to be shown with feature motion pictures or to be shown on prime time television. The quality of the classic cartoons was intended to be good and the stories were intended to appeal to adults. The original Flintstones episodes included cigarette advertising with the characters smoking Winstons (they stopped smoking when Pebbles was born).
Cartoons have since then degenerated to be child entertainment. The fact that cartoons are now considered to be children's entertainment, along with skin flint budgets and tight schedules makes for crappy cartoons.
It is not the business of the state to protect the profits of liquor stores. It is in the interests of the liquor businesses to ensure that the palms of the lawmakers are sufficiently greased so that the lawmakers enact or retain those laws that are beneficial to the liquor business. There is also the right wing Christian belief that makes it not proper to sell liquor on the Sabbath.
When the laws allow liquor stores to be open on Sunday, the stores that remain closed on Sunday are at a disadvantage to those liquor stores that do open on Sunday. In areas that have laws that prohibit off-sale liquor sales on Sunday, most people plan for the weekend by purchasing liquor in advance or waiting until Monday. Those people who do not plan for the liquor stores being closed on Sunday have to make other arrangements, such as mooching from a friend or going to a bar. Where it is legal for liqor stores to sell on Sunday, people do not have as much of an incentive to plan ahead. If a liquor store is closed on Sunday and there are other liquor stores in the area that are open, it will lose sales to the liquor stores that open on Sunday.
This situation is almost funny when a state prohibits off-sale of liquor on Sunday is adjacent to a state that permits off-sale of liquor on Sunday. On Sunday afternoons there will be a steady stream of cars crossing the state line to buy liquor. The stores that remain closed on Sunday lose sales and the state that does not allow Sunday off-sale liquor will lose liquor taxes to the neighboring state.
So, to answer your question; There is a significant financial benefit for liquor stores when there are laws that do not allow anyliquor stores to be open on Sunday. If all liquor ares are closed on Sunday, they can generally reduce their overhead and not greatly reduce their overall sales. If the state laws allow liquor stores to be open on Sunday it would be an individual business decision whether or not to be closed on Sunday.
"If there were no law forbidding it, nothing could *force* liquor stores to stay open 7 days a week."
If the law allows the sale of alcohol (or cars) seven days a week, a liquor store (or car dealership) that closed on Sunday would be at a disadvantage to the liquor stores that opened on Sunday. Liquor stores and car dealerships want the Closed On Sunday laws to remain and are the ones who lobby to not have the laws changed. Mass marketers do much of their business on the weekends, so they lobbied to remove the "blue" laws that prohibited them from being open on Sunday.
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The problems between the Apple patches and khtml, while very significant, are not the actual problem. The problem is that there are some people who are extolling the virtues of Apple contributing to khtml development when the virtues do not in fact exist.
"Just to play devil's advocate though, how are you getting an internet connection to download your OS without an OS, I couldn't get my computer to do that."
I could use another of my computers or a friend's computer to get it and burn a CDROM. There is the possiblity that the computer has an existing OS that is going to be replaced but it's last activity would be to download an image and burn the CDROM of the OS that will replace it. I could also buy a CDROM of the OS or get a book or magazine that has a Linux CDROM in it. I believe that Ubuntu will mail a copy of their CDROM for the asking. I have heard that some libraries will provide copies of Linux.
Joe Sixpack would not have most of these options available to him to obtain an ISO image of XP that includes SP2.
"Having friends who are gentoo advocates, I can promise you that some distro's aren't the kind of thing you can just download and install and run."... "... I happen to have Windows XP Install ISO that has been updated to SP2, which would GREATLY cut back on the install time."
Some Linux distros are suitable for people with little or no Linux knowlege, and others require some knowlege of Linux to install. I would not expect that an inexperienced user should pick Gentoo Linux for their first install.
Is it possible for Joe Sixpack to legally (according to Microsoft's definition of 'legal') obtain an XP Install ISO that is updated to SP2? If somebody buys a retail copy of XP does the package include a CDROM that has SP2 on it? It is possible and easy for anybody with an Internet connection to freely obtain a Linux Install ISO that would include a recent patch level.
There are several circumstances where the use of an alternate SMTP port is desirable, and RFC 2476 recommends port is 587 as an alternate SMTP port. Unless you have prior arragements with the recipient mail server to accept mail on an alternate port, it is extremely unlikely that they will receive your email using any port other than port 25. SMTP servers that use alternate ports are doing so for a reason, and they are very likely to use an authentication system.
"For the submitter to assume that Microsoft has GPL code is nothing short of trolling. Internally, Microsoft has a strict policy against GPL code.""
The submitter's article did not state that the submitter assumed that there was GPL'd code in MS products.
"On the other hand, what I would like to know is how many OSS projects reverse engineer Microsoft products to implement functionality"
Why do you believe that any laws or the EULA were broken by people implementing any funtionality in GPL'd software? If there were laws broken, do you not believe that Microsoft would have the people who broke the laws or the EULA in court?
"Did anyone notice that the Firefox popup blocked notification changed to look like the IE 6 SP2 blocker?
Did you notice that MS Windows looks alot like a windowing system that Xerox invented, or that MS Windows looks like the windowing system used on the Apple Lisa and the Apple Macintosh -- all of which predate MS Windows. Did you notice that Excel looks like VisiCalc and Lotus 1-2-3? Do you feel that it was wrong for MS to have copied the look and feel (and possibly even the name) of products invented by Xerox, Apple, and VisiCalc?
"what he's forgetting is that the gaming industry's target audience isn't self-important middle-aged white men. a demographic that's closer to the mark is kids and teens. *they're* the ones who are providing the main revenue stream for the industry, and, not too coincidentally, *they're* the ones impressed by the fancy flashing lights."
The people buying and playing console and PC games are older than that. A study commisioned by the Interactive Digital Software Association shows that 96 percent of PC game buyers are 18 years or older and that more than 86 percent of console video game buyers are 18 or older. The same study shows that of PC game-playing males, 40 percent are older than 36. According to the Entertainment Software Association, 17 percent of regular video-gamers are over the age of 50 and the average American video game player is 29 years old.
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Because they didn't want to be percieved to be unpatriotic. It is going to be interesting to see how the renewal vote goes.
Due to the slight Republican majorities in Congress and the Senate, the Republicans can pass anything that they want to pass. The only thing that the Democrats could do to stop the Ruling Republican Party would be to filibuster, which I believe is only being used to block a few of the worst presidential appointments.
You are making a blanket statement about the attitudes of Americans when only about half of the people in the US agree on any particular issue. In the US, few moderates are ever elected to office. It seems that the Republicans elect far right wing xtian candidates and the Democrats elect far left wing candidates. From past presidential elections, either half of the US votes for a far right wing candidate and half of the US voted for a left wing candidate -- or the voting mechanisms were rigged. The far right wingers won, but that does not mean that the majority of people in the US are right wing xtians, it just means that the right wing xtians won the election. Another issue is that conservative xtians and corporations own the Republican party which means lots of good little xtains vote Republican and corporations make sure that the whole Republican machine is well lubricated. For US political candidates, there can be no middle or moderate ground, any candidate that is moderate is attacked for being "soft" on issues; and *nobody* wants to vote for a candidate that is soft on issues.
I am disappointed that I will not be able to boycott Lexmark printers -- I already won't buy Lexmark because I think that they are pieces of shit.
SMS messages use abbreviations and shortcuts for words and phrases that make most SMS messages largely unreadable to those people who have not learned SMS code.
It all depends upon whether one can understand the code that is being received; whether the code is Morse code or SMS, it is still a code.
"You mean that when firefox stalls completely, is unresponsive after 5 minutes of waiting and consumes 99% cpu time during the whole sèance, "it's just doing what it's supposed to"? I think not. I have to kill it to fix it, hardly a design feature. It's not a single occurance thing, it is a problem I have had over several ff editions. And I can provoke it whenever I want.
I have never encountered this problem with Firefox and I have occasions where I have several (10 to 20) concurrent downloads running. What are you doing to provoke this behaviour, and have you reported it to the Firefox design team?
It's not so much that people are chosing SCO, that decision has already been made; they are choosing not to replace existing SCO based infrastructures. For many large SCO customers conversion from SCO to another Unix or to Linux would involve considerable pain and expense.
There are companies; including Wal-Mart and possibly McDonald's, that still use SCO Unix. I would imagine that SCO is making money by selling upgrades and support contracts to these existing customers.
Of all of the proprietary formats that Iomega has, I don't think that any of them was really a success. I wonder if this one will be any different.
" I remember when a few years ago, when all the cartoons on Cartoon Network were still the Classics ("That's all folks").
That has changed over the past 5-6 years. At first I thought it was just me outgrowing the charm of cartoons (I'm 27). But then I realized it wasn't me or my tastes that were changing. It was the quality of the new productions that was sadly deteriorating."
I think that there are two main reasons for this: The classic "cartoons" were made for a mixed audience, either to be shown with feature motion pictures or to be shown on prime time television. The quality of the classic cartoons was intended to be good and the stories were intended to appeal to adults. The original Flintstones episodes included cigarette advertising with the characters smoking Winstons (they stopped smoking when Pebbles was born).
Cartoons have since then degenerated to be child entertainment. The fact that cartoons are now considered to be children's entertainment, along with skin flint budgets and tight schedules makes for crappy cartoons.
It is not the business of the state to protect the profits of liquor stores. It is in the interests of the liquor businesses to ensure that the palms of the lawmakers are sufficiently greased so that the lawmakers enact or retain those laws that are beneficial to the liquor business. There is also the right wing Christian belief that makes it not proper to sell liquor on the Sabbath.
When the laws allow liquor stores to be open on Sunday, the stores that remain closed on Sunday are at a disadvantage to those liquor stores that do open on Sunday. In areas that have laws that prohibit off-sale liquor sales on Sunday, most people plan for the weekend by purchasing liquor in advance or waiting until Monday. Those people who do not plan for the liquor stores being closed on Sunday have to make other arrangements, such as mooching from a friend or going to a bar. Where it is legal for liqor stores to sell on Sunday, people do not have as much of an incentive to plan ahead. If a liquor store is closed on Sunday and there are other liquor stores in the area that are open, it will lose sales to the liquor stores that open on Sunday.
This situation is almost funny when a state prohibits off-sale of liquor on Sunday is adjacent to a state that permits off-sale of liquor on Sunday. On Sunday afternoons there will be a steady stream of cars crossing the state line to buy liquor. The stores that remain closed on Sunday lose sales and the state that does not allow Sunday off-sale liquor will lose liquor taxes to the neighboring state.
So, to answer your question; There is a significant financial benefit for liquor stores when there are laws that do not allow anyliquor stores to be open on Sunday. If all liquor ares are closed on Sunday, they can generally reduce their overhead and not greatly reduce their overall sales. If the state laws allow liquor stores to be open on Sunday it would be an individual business decision whether or not to be closed on Sunday.
"If there were no law forbidding it, nothing could *force* liquor stores to stay open 7 days a week."
If the law allows the sale of alcohol (or cars) seven days a week, a liquor store (or car dealership) that closed on Sunday would be at a disadvantage to the liquor stores that opened on Sunday. Liquor stores and car dealerships want the Closed On Sunday laws to remain and are the ones who lobby to not have the laws changed. Mass marketers do much of their business on the weekends, so they lobbied to remove the "blue" laws that prohibited them from being open on Sunday.
Apple first integrated SMALL 3.5" flops on the Lisa
Proprietary software from WebSideStory -- STFW.
The problems between the Apple patches and khtml, while very significant, are not the actual problem. The problem is that there are some people who are extolling the virtues of Apple contributing to khtml development when the virtues do not in fact exist.
"Just to play devil's advocate though, how are you getting an internet connection to download your OS without an OS, I couldn't get my computer to do that."
I could use another of my computers or a friend's computer to get it and burn a CDROM. There is the possiblity that the computer has an existing OS that is going to be replaced but it's last activity would be to download an image and burn the CDROM of the OS that will replace it. I could also buy a CDROM of the OS or get a book or magazine that has a Linux CDROM in it. I believe that Ubuntu will mail a copy of their CDROM for the asking. I have heard that some libraries will provide copies of Linux.
Joe Sixpack would not have most of these options available to him to obtain an ISO image of XP that includes SP2.
"Having friends who are gentoo advocates, I can promise you that some distro's aren't the kind of thing you can just download and install and run." ... "... I happen to have Windows XP Install ISO that has been updated to SP2, which would GREATLY cut back on the install time."
Some Linux distros are suitable for people with little or no Linux knowlege, and others require some knowlege of Linux to install. I would not expect that an inexperienced user should pick Gentoo Linux for their first install.
Is it possible for Joe Sixpack to legally (according to Microsoft's definition of 'legal') obtain an XP Install ISO that is updated to SP2? If somebody buys a retail copy of XP does the package include a CDROM that has SP2 on it? It is possible and easy for anybody with an Internet connection to freely obtain a Linux Install ISO that would include a recent patch level.
There are several circumstances where the use of an alternate SMTP port is desirable, and RFC 2476 recommends port is 587 as an alternate SMTP port. Unless you have prior arragements with the recipient mail server to accept mail on an alternate port, it is extremely unlikely that they will receive your email using any port other than port 25. SMTP servers that use alternate ports are doing so for a reason, and they are very likely to use an authentication system.
XP is still competing with Windows 2000. There are many corporations (with lots of seats) that see no need to adopt XP.
Snopes also says " Al Gore did not claim he "invented" the Internet, nor did he say anything that could reasonably be interpreted that way."
Few people, if anybody, block Google advertising; on the other hand, MS Search advertising is the type of advertising that many people would block.
Wormholes.
"For the submitter to assume that Microsoft has GPL code is nothing short of trolling. Internally, Microsoft has a strict policy against GPL code.""
The submitter's article did not state that the submitter assumed that there was GPL'd code in MS products.
"On the other hand, what I would like to know is how many OSS projects reverse engineer Microsoft products to implement functionality"
Why do you believe that any laws or the EULA were broken by people implementing any funtionality in GPL'd software? If there were laws broken, do you not believe that Microsoft would have the people who broke the laws or the EULA in court?
"Did anyone notice that the Firefox popup blocked notification changed to look like the IE 6 SP2 blocker?
Did you notice that MS Windows looks alot like a windowing system that Xerox invented, or that MS Windows looks like the windowing system used on the Apple Lisa and the Apple Macintosh -- all of which predate MS Windows. Did you notice that Excel looks like VisiCalc and Lotus 1-2-3? Do you feel that it was wrong for MS to have copied the look and feel (and possibly even the name) of products invented by Xerox, Apple, and VisiCalc?
"what he's forgetting is that the gaming industry's target audience isn't self-important middle-aged white men. a demographic that's closer to the mark is kids and teens. *they're* the ones who are providing the main revenue stream for the industry, and, not too coincidentally, *they're* the ones impressed by the fancy flashing lights."
The people buying and playing console and PC games are older than that. A study commisioned by the Interactive Digital Software Association shows that 96 percent of PC game buyers are 18 years or older and that more than 86 percent of console video game buyers are 18 or older. The same study shows that of PC game-playing males, 40 percent are older than 36. According to the Entertainment Software Association, 17 percent of regular video-gamers are over the age of 50 and the average American video game player is 29 years old.