I guess the real question is, what difference does it make in the long run whether ClariNet was "the first company to use the Internet as a commercial distribution mechanism," which nobody seems to be disputing, or "the first dot-com"? ClariNet was one of many Internet pioneers.
Being first is overrated anyway. Maybe those of us who were laid off after the Individual-Desktop Data merger could be considered the very first victims of the dot-com bust...
The aim of terrorism is to instil terror into the population at large. If you become terrified, then the terrorists have beaten you.
No. Terrorism is a tactic, not an ideology. The goal of terrorism is to get something else changed by frightening people into allowing it. For example, the goal of ETA was to frighten enough people into forcing the Spanish government to allow Basque independence. If they could have done that by giving away cotton candy they would have done that instead, but they apparently had doubts about its efficacy. Terror is just the means to the end.
That doesn't mean I support curtailing civil liberties to fight terrorism; quite the contrary. But there is already more than enough fuzzy thinking about what terrorism is
Until recently we were still using maps that were designed under Aldus Freehand 3.1, which was released in 1991 before the PowerPCs came out. It runs just fine and dandy on my G5 under Classic in OS X.
I never saw a performance increase from an OS upgrade. Admittedly the most recent years are out of my experience, as I moved on from support before OS X was released.
Well, yes, pre-OS X versions of the Mac OS got slower every revision. But that was another world; Mac OS X has little in common with the older Mac OS except the name. For subsequent versions of OS X - 10.0 was slower than 10.1, which was slower than 10.2, which was slower than 10.3. (10.4, not so much -- at least to me it feels about the same, assuming no Dashboard widgets are running. If they are, then it's slower. We're back to the usual pattern of additional features taking away speed. I don't know what 10.5 will be like.)
It is definitely arguable that this is nothing to crow about; that 10.0 was so terribly slow that the incremental performance tuning in later versions is the least Apple can do. But it is true.
My mom is running a 400 Mhz G3 laptop under 10.3, and it's definitely not as fast as my MacBook Pro, but it's usable.
But the distribution deal Pixar signed means that Disney *already* owns the rights to derivative works of their films. Disney is doing Toy Story 3 already, for example, without Pixar's input. If this all falls through and Pixar signs a new distribution deal through somebody else, that makes it even more likely that we'll see Toy Story 8 and Nemo 17, because the only reason for Disney not to do them -- the potential for aggravating the Pixar relationship -- will be gone.
As a Canadian [and fellow North Americaner] all I have to say is it's good to see someone gets it. Too many foreigners flee their country for safety reasons then just pursue the culture that bred it here[...]
Yes. It's good to find a Canadian who agrees that if the so-called Loyalists had stayed at home and tried to make their state better instead of fleeing to Canada, everybody would be better off.
Of course, it's not too late. As the grandparent stated, more can be done from within the US than from outside. Surely twenty new US senators, and a corresponding shift in the House of Representatives, from north what is now the Canada-US border would make a tremendous difference. You seem to be one of those rare Canadians who recognizes this.
With other related material like the Animated Series and the Trekkies movies, and any extras on the DVDs, I'm sure you could get it up to a month. Clearly Paramount is missing out by not having a Star Trek channel on cable. All Star Trek, All The Time.
I have to say that I agree with this. Although widescreen-versus-normalscreen isn't a very important issue for me, and thus I actually have a 23" widescreen at work and a 20" widescreen at home because that was the least expensive way to get that number of pixels, I would much prefer to have the same number of pixels arranged in a 4:3 arrangement -- or even a 3:4 arrangement.
OK, the idea of hacking an iPod nano is silly, but in all seriousness I would love to have a component-sized iPod for my stereo system. If I had a full-sized iPod with a dead battery and half a clue on how to convert between 3.5" and 1.8" drive cables...
This is what happens when you take your legal understanding from talk radio.
The purpose of the Supreme Court is to apply the Constitution, but they must first interpret the Constitution to figure out what it means. Much of the Constitution was made deliberately vague, because they knew they couldn't imagine everything that was coming so they left it to "posterity" to figure out.
If you're sitting up on the Supreme Court and are trying to figure out some piece of legal terminology that isn't very well defined actually means, one of the reasonable places to look is at other countries when they've tried to answer the same question. If the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council resolves some question in admiralty law in some way, and US law reads in a similar way, then rather than inventing something from whole cloth, it makes sense for the US Supreme Court to take its interpretation from a foreign case, or the definition found in a foreign law. That is not the same thing as giving foreign law a status above US law.
But the America First crowd doesn't understand this. The US is the greatest country on earth! Rah rah rah! Anything from a foreign country must be bad!
Yes, it is difficult to drive 30 mph on a road that's designed for 55 mph, but it's not a conspiracy to raise money, it's a failure of the traffic engineering profession to understand the psychology of drivers.
If you have a structure that's supposed to handle x load, and you design it for 2x load, that yields additional safety. Until recently traffic engineers didn't, for the most part, understand that driving doesn't work like that, because many drivers end up going as fast as they feel is safe, regardless of what the stated limits are.
The solution to this is not to allow drivers to go 55 mph in areas with pedestrian traffic, but to redesign the road so it feels right to drivers to go 30 mph. This is called traffic calming.
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Selling to the ISP, not the user, was ClariNet's model too (see ).
Being first is overrated anyway. Maybe those of us who were laid off after the Individual-Desktop Data merger could be considered the very first victims of the dot-com bust...
"Many companies refuse to use GPL code because of its viral nature."
This would explain why BSD is so much more popular than Linux then.
Isn't Mac OS X the most widely distributed Unix-like operating system?
What about rubber trees?
You have to watch out for the ants moving them.
No. Terrorism is a tactic, not an ideology. The goal of terrorism is to get something else changed by frightening people into allowing it. For example, the goal of ETA was to frighten enough people into forcing the Spanish government to allow Basque independence. If they could have done that by giving away cotton candy they would have done that instead, but they apparently had doubts about its efficacy. Terror is just the means to the end.
That doesn't mean I support curtailing civil liberties to fight terrorism; quite the contrary. But there is already more than enough fuzzy thinking about what terrorism is
Until recently we were still using maps that were designed under Aldus Freehand 3.1, which was released in 1991 before the PowerPCs came out. It runs just fine and dandy on my G5 under Classic in OS X.
Even for Slashdot, using "in en_GB" for "in British English" is too geeky to live.
But the distribution deal Pixar signed means that Disney *already* owns the rights to derivative works of their films. Disney is doing Toy Story 3 already, for example, without Pixar's input. If this all falls through and Pixar signs a new distribution deal through somebody else, that makes it even more likely that we'll see Toy Story 8 and Nemo 17, because the only reason for Disney not to do them -- the potential for aggravating the Pixar relationship -- will be gone.
I think the parent means "hectomillionaire," as being a centimillionaire isn't all that exciting.
See the list of SI prefixes here.
It would also help with your skiboxing.
Yes. It's good to find a Canadian who agrees that if the so-called Loyalists had stayed at home and tried to make their state better instead of fleeing to Canada, everybody would be better off.
Of course, it's not too late. As the grandparent stated, more can be done from within the US than from outside. Surely twenty new US senators, and a corresponding shift in the House of Representatives, from north what is now the Canada-US border would make a tremendous difference. You seem to be one of those rare Canadians who recognizes this.
Grandparent: "What great things has America done recently," in the last ten years?
Parent: "Not trying to take over the world."
That's setting the bar pretty darned low -- and isn't it even more true of every other country?
("What are we going to do tonight, USA?" "Same thing we do every night -- try to NOT take over the world!")
With other related material like the Animated Series and the Trekkies movies, and any extras on the DVDs, I'm sure you could get it up to a month. Clearly Paramount is missing out by not having a Star Trek channel on cable. All Star Trek, All The Time.
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I have to say that I agree with this. Although widescreen-versus-normalscreen isn't a very important issue for me, and thus I actually have a 23" widescreen at work and a 20" widescreen at home because that was the least expensive way to get that number of pixels, I would much prefer to have the same number of pixels arranged in a 4:3 arrangement -- or even a 3:4 arrangement.
After all, it is a daemon, right?
OK, the idea of hacking an iPod nano is silly, but in all seriousness I would love to have a component-sized iPod for my stereo system. If I had a full-sized iPod with a dead battery and half a clue on how to convert between 3.5" and 1.8" drive cables...
A reference undoubtedly to Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS).
This is what happens when you take your legal understanding from talk radio.
The purpose of the Supreme Court is to apply the Constitution, but they must first interpret the Constitution to figure out what it means. Much of the Constitution was made deliberately vague, because they knew they couldn't imagine everything that was coming so they left it to "posterity" to figure out.
If you're sitting up on the Supreme Court and are trying to figure out some piece of legal terminology that isn't very well defined actually means, one of the reasonable places to look is at other countries when they've tried to answer the same question. If the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council resolves some question in admiralty law in some way, and US law reads in a similar way, then rather than inventing something from whole cloth, it makes sense for the US Supreme Court to take its interpretation from a foreign case, or the definition found in a foreign law. That is not the same thing as giving foreign law a status above US law.
But the America First crowd doesn't understand this. The US is the greatest country on earth! Rah rah rah! Anything from a foreign country must be bad!
I like your nickname. XP Professional:Slashdot::XP Home:Squiggleslash.
Somebody has the job of searching alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes all day for steganographs. Nice work if you can get it.
If you're going to write down passwords, at least keep the list in your wallet and not at your desk.
"... till I said, 'And creating a nuisance.' And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench, talkin' about crime ..."
If you have a structure that's supposed to handle x load, and you design it for 2x load, that yields additional safety. Until recently traffic engineers didn't, for the most part, understand that driving doesn't work like that, because many drivers end up going as fast as they feel is safe, regardless of what the stated limits are.
The solution to this is not to allow drivers to go 55 mph in areas with pedestrian traffic, but to redesign the road so it feels right to drivers to go 30 mph. This is called traffic calming.
In other words, you've got to know when to hold 'em, and know when to fold 'em -- know when to walk away, and in the case of SCO, know when to run.