On top of which its moraly wrong to require someone to buy a licence to view something that they already own. No, I wouldn't buy a licenced player if one came out. Screw you. I bought my DVD and I'm going to watch it when and how I want and if you don't like that TFB.
--HC
Why does MS prefix everything with an MS. You know, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Windows, etc? Its just branding, and even if you don't like it, it does help let people know a little bit. Like, if I see, KWord, I'm going to know that its not a Gnome or MS product.
"I mean, the two or three pages he spent describing how to eat the perfect bowl of Captain Crunch really wasn't necessary and didn't add much."
I can understand the sentiment but many people, myself included, enjoy this about Stephenson's writings. I know of heard the Captain Crunch bit mentioned in a few (non-Stephenson) slashdot posts. I think that Cryptonimicron would have been worse off if an editor ripped into it and pulled out the long bits about the CC or the Wisdom Teeth, or the pipe organ or the scuba diving. Its part of his style and I, personaly, really like it.
Oh, and then there were the stupid pointless scenes of gore that made me almost puke.
I can't imagine being sensitive enough that that would make me almost puke. Maybe I've just been desensitized by video games or movies, I don't know. But your sentiment really surprised me. I didn't even notice that passage at all, it was just a fight scene and people tend to get killed in those. I don't know, maybe is just me. What do all of you think? Do scenes like this bother you?
--HC
not that LOC is a good measure
I have to disagree. If we couldn't use Libraries of Congress how the hell would we figure out how much all our new hard drives hold. Phaff. Thats like say that a VW bug isn't a good measure!
--HC
No, what you just described is a perfectly fair system. If people get hit in the pocketbook when they vote for people who spend, spend, spend then maybe they will stop voting for them. But if they can just say, "oh, tax the rich" then all we are ever going to do is spend, spend, spend.
Remember when the republicans got all upset when Clinton launched a few cruise missiles to take out Bin Laden. They said he was trying to distract everybody from his impeachment dealings. They certianly seem to have taken those dealings much more seriously than Bin Laden. Just food for thought.
Firefox just a browser that is based off of the browser portion of that suite.
Thuderbird is the same except for mail.
The current idea, as far as I know, is to eventualy have each component (mail, browser, etc) available as a seperate application. The hope is that this will make bug hunting and upgrades easier as everything won't be quite as interconnected.
Does anybody know if its possible to make a bookmark to something like AIM or Thunderbird and keep it on the toolbar? If so, how? I can't find any information on it. Thanks.
--HC
And one more link.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/11/5/94852/0804
Does John Ashcroft have a website? Can we googlebomb it with the phrase "fucking terrorist"?
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Actually, that changed just recently. The new winners are Samsung HDs. Check it out.
On top of which its moraly wrong to require someone to buy a licence to view something that they already own. No, I wouldn't buy a licenced player if one came out. Screw you. I bought my DVD and I'm going to watch it when and how I want and if you don't like that TFB. --HC
Why does MS prefix everything with an MS. You know, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Windows, etc? Its just branding, and even if you don't like it, it does help let people know a little bit. Like, if I see, KWord, I'm going to know that its not a Gnome or MS product.
--HC
Having a more powerfull engine can be useful for accelerating faster even if you don't get it all the way up to its maximum speed.
I really like how he addresses so many things but not the fact that Noak is supposedly 600 years old...
"I mean, the two or three pages he spent describing how to eat the perfect bowl of Captain Crunch really wasn't necessary and didn't add much."
I can understand the sentiment but many people, myself included, enjoy this about Stephenson's writings. I know of heard the Captain Crunch bit mentioned in a few (non-Stephenson) slashdot posts. I think that Cryptonimicron would have been worse off if an editor ripped into it and pulled out the long bits about the CC or the Wisdom Teeth, or the pipe organ or the scuba diving. Its part of his style and I, personaly, really like it.
--HC
Oh, and then there were the stupid pointless scenes of gore that made me almost puke. I can't imagine being sensitive enough that that would make me almost puke. Maybe I've just been desensitized by video games or movies, I don't know. But your sentiment really surprised me. I didn't even notice that passage at all, it was just a fight scene and people tend to get killed in those. I don't know, maybe is just me. What do all of you think? Do scenes like this bother you? --HC
not that LOC is a good measure I have to disagree. If we couldn't use Libraries of Congress how the hell would we figure out how much all our new hard drives hold. Phaff. Thats like say that a VW bug isn't a good measure! --HC
Actualy, Home Depot uses linux, too. Here are a couple of links. One Two
No, what you just described is a perfectly fair system. If people get hit in the pocketbook when they vote for people who spend, spend, spend then maybe they will stop voting for them. But if they can just say, "oh, tax the rich" then all we are ever going to do is spend, spend, spend.
Remember when the republicans got all upset when Clinton launched a few cruise missiles to take out Bin Laden. They said he was trying to distract everybody from his impeachment dealings. They certianly seem to have taken those dealings much more seriously than Bin Laden. Just food for thought.
Mozilla is a suite.
Firefox just a browser that is based off of the browser portion of that suite.
Thuderbird is the same except for mail.
The current idea, as far as I know, is to eventualy have each component (mail, browser, etc) available as a seperate application. The hope is that this will make bug hunting and upgrades easier as everything won't be quite as interconnected.
Does anybody know if its possible to make a bookmark to something like AIM or Thunderbird and keep it on the toolbar? If so, how? I can't find any information on it. Thanks. --HC
I know it is provable that computers can't solve all problems in general, but the same proof indicates humans can't either. What makes you say this?
And one more link. http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/11/5/94852/0804
Does John Ashcroft have a website? Can we googlebomb it with the phrase "fucking terrorist"?
Thank you for appeasing my curiosity without making me have to look at the actual picture. That sounds pretty twisted. --HC
Then why can't bars and the like play CDs that they bought without paying additional royalties? -HC