screen(1) needs to have rectangular regions like
desqview (not dv/x) had. It would also be quite
nice to be able to map "{alt}{alt}" to switch tasks,
and there are probably a few other things that would
be nice that I can't think of right now.
But to me, being able to setup all my windows in
various rectangles of a console would be GREAT, and
is the main feature missing from screen.
You may be surprised at how nontrivial the question
of document retention actually is, particularly in
the oil business.
It would not surprise me if the Enron situation ends
in a debacle because it turns out that the government stopped
employees from shredding documents that they were
REQUIRED to destroy. The news media makes it sound
as if any document shredding is a bad thing, but it
could be just as bad if some information that is
required by law or by contract to be kept secret is
accidentally exposed. Mistrial, anyone?
>Look deep into your heart, and tell us honestly:
>how much would you pay for nethack-in-a-box?
>How much is that box worth to you?
If the box contained a nicely typeset and bound
copy of material equivalent to Dylan O'Donell's
site, and the ever-popular "all I got was this
t-shirt", (find the links yourself) and a
CD containing all current versions
of Nethack and Slash'em together with source,
and a searchable, edited archive of
rec.games.roguelike.nethack,I'd pay fifty bucks for it.
All the fees for my telephone service and
my DSL connection cost me somewhere in the ballpark
of $2400.00 per year. For that amount, I get
two phone lines, a fairly decent voicemail package
plus all the add-on services that Qwest sells
(caller-id and so forth), a 1.5/1.5 Mbit ADSL
connection, a/27 routed to me with proper DNS,
a Cisco 678, webspace, mail addresses, nntp access,
yadda yadda, from a clueful ISP that provides
connectivity and not bullshit.
People keep going on and on and on about how MSN
this and AOL/TW that and now Comcast the other thing.
In my WAY NOT humble opinion, when you go for the
cheap option, you're going to get treated like a
commodity consumer, NOT like a customer. If you
are unfortunate enough to live in an area which is
not well-served by competing broadband providers, well,
you have my sympathies. There are downsides to the
area where I live as well. But if you do have a choice,
and you've gone with the lowest priced option when
better though more expensive alternatives are available,
you should stop complaining, and take responsibility
for the consequences of your decisions.
>We try harder." [Avis Car Rental] - Harder than >what? Yesterday?
You're too young, no doubt, to remember the Slogan Wars between Avis and Hertz of the early 60's.
In those days, it was considered taboo for an advertiser to directly mention the competitor's product when making comparisons. In fact, it was quite a shock when, in the mid 1970's we started seeing TV commercials where one brand explicitly stated that their product was better than a specific competitor's product. It's pretty common now, but you never saw it back in the day.
Anyway, some consumer survey gave Hertz marketroids the idea that they were the #1 car rental company (in an unbound domain, with unspecified terms, naturally). Hertz went to town
with this "fact." Worthy of note, the Hertz sign atop the infamous Texas School Book Depository building.
Avis countered Hertz with their own ingenious slogan: various flavors "We're #2, but we try harder."
At the same time, they made yet another marketing innovation -- they designed all their ads so that they could be distinguished at a distance of 40 feet. Thank Helmut Krone for that.
THAT is a good question, but a more general question that I have is, why is it so difficult
to get graymarket ANYTHING in the USA?
Consumer digital recorders without SCMS, for instance? Or local music from other countries,
(and I DON'T mean the "World Music" rack at Tower). Region-free DVD players shouldn't be
a problem: if they're made and sold somewhere
(anywhere), they can be purchased and shipped anywhere, correct? The so-called Internet, together with the worldwide expansion of the courier services, took care of all this silly *geography*, am I wrong?
Is the problem with international mail, or with currency exchange, or with a lack of demand? Or all of the above? Or something else I'm missing?
"Maybe next time, you will think twice before electing (or letting the court appoint) a president. "
[cough]
NEXT time?
think TWICE?
You're still operating under the delusion that people care enough to vote? That slashdot readers
vote? That any statistically significant portion of ANY educated group bothers to vote?
That's just *vote* mind you.
Never mind that they don't inundate their representatives with hard, well-written correspondence. Let alone joining the party
or truly participating in the process of representative government.
>No, exactly the opposite; it's saying that we
>should stick a better engine or a supercharger
>or dual exhaust...[etc]
Well, in the case of obsolete pc hardware it's usually not an option to modify or upgrade it, as
these situations generally involve a choice between using it or not, and a zero dollar budget.
Even if I have $3000 for a new notebook, I do NOT have $500 or even $50 for memory and a disk drive for an old one!
What's hard to deal with is the fact that I remember running yggdrasl linux on that very same notebook when it was a current machine, when a P75 notebook was considered desirable, and it was
just fine then. I'm not trying to remove the bumpers and the seats from the CAR, I'm trying to
remove the steel rack from the roof and the dead body in the trunk (from the distribution).
When 16MB of RAM and a 500MB disk drive on a 386/40 was an expensive machine I ran linux with X11 and FVWM, and life was pretty good. That worked better for me than windows 3.11 on the same box. I'd be hard-pressed to put that
same system together today!
There's probably something important about the fact that I still take my 75MHZ toshiba satellite on business trips even though I have several *much* better portables...
>Using a stripped-down desktop because your box
>doesn't have enough horsepower is like ripping
>the back seats out of your Mustang instead of
>putting in a Paxton Novi 2000 supercharger.
Saying that is akin to saying we should send the 86 Jetta to the crusher because it isn't an 02 Passat.
In this case, it's like saying we should send the
67 convertible bug to the crusher.
I have a toshiba laptop that has taken many beatings and continues to be my primary travelling machine -- new dells and even a new toshiba have failed to meet my requirements of
battery life off the AC and resilience to abuse.
Are you saying I shouldn't bother trying to streamline the linux installation that's on there because it doesn't match your own agenda? Or are you trying to imply that it's an equal proposition for me to acquire some titanium cased
gigahertz notebook to replace the old toshiba that
would not die? If so, I'll let you know where to forward the check, or better yet, just ship me my new notebook. By the way, if you have a 64-65 mustang with or without back seats, send it to AZ care of me.
That goes for your boss as well, and anyone else up the corporate chain who has allowed this situation to develop. Amateurs, however well-intentioned, should not be given the responsibility of developing financial and accounting systems or policies.
That said, I must also point something out from the customer's standpoint. There is no possible way that I, the consumer, will accept any term of purchase of any product, that involves the vendor making a monthly charge on my credit card, writing a monthly check on my behalf, or "automatically" withdrawing money from my bank account.
If a merchant is not capable of sending me a bill each month, the customary method of soliciting payment, he is not worthy of my business. Furthermore, if he demands such an arrangement as a means of automatically making my bill payment on my behalf, he has already made a serious social blunder that cost my business from the first word: it is tantamount to accusing me of being a thief, and at the very least has indicated to me that the merchant already considers me irresponsible before our relationship has even been established.
I will do no business with such a cretin. End of story.
>in America the constitution only applies to
>citizens
Such a common belief and so very wrong.
The US Constitution stands as a fundamental line in the sand which separates the powers of government from the rights bestowed upon mankind by powers beyond government and the laws of man.
When I explain to people who ask that my DSL connection costs me about $200/month, they
look at me funny. (That's $109 to the ISP,
80-something to the telco, a voice line is included in that of course, with a pretty good
voice mail system).
Now, every time I hear about how cable users
are being screwed, I look at my 1.5 rate (both
directions), my static netblock, my own primary
dns server, and my http box, and I just laugh.
Of course, I'm typing this on the 49k modem line at my family's farmhouse since I'm on holiday,
trying to be grateful that we even have a PHONE out here, and that it isn't a PARTY LINE. It wasn't very long ago at all that you couldn't get
a private line, much less a data line.
Heck, I'm grateful that I don't have to haul water from a well. That wasn't very long ago either!
My mom's pc fried. She lives in a very rural town in Texas, and I live in Phoenix AZ. So
the usual fix (let's go SHOPPING!) wasn't really
an option this time around.
So anyway, I get her to mail me a hard drive,
and while waiting for it, threw a machine together
(a hella nice machine, my mom's worth it), and
I considered how to ship it back.
I had a whole bunch of options:
take it to the airport and ship it on southwest airlines, fly southwest myself with the pc as luggage, drive (24 hours+ each way),
or ship it by courier. Well, I packed it (pretty well, if I do say so), and took it to the local
Mailboxes Etc. clone. They told me straight up,
to unpack it, and pay them to repack it, or else
(1) it probably would be damaged and
(2) it can't be insured if I pack it.
Shipping was a pretty expensive ticket too. But you know what? I paid. And you know what else?
the package arrived beautifully packed, and 100%
working.
>Sysadmins do whatever it takes to *support* the
>people doing the actual work that keeps the
>business afloat. If they do graphic design using
>Photoshop and Illustrator, for example, then
>Windows or MacOS is the correct choice.
What sort of work do you think SysAdmins do, that
leads you to believe they'd use photoshop or illustrator?
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screen(1) needs to have rectangular regions like
desqview (not dv/x) had. It would also be quite
nice to be able to map "{alt}{alt}" to switch tasks,
and there are probably a few other things that would
be nice that I can't think of right now.
But to me, being able to setup all my windows in
various rectangles of a console would be GREAT, and
is the main feature missing from screen.
The language skills demonstrated by Slashdot editors
would amount to failing freshman English in any
University worthy of the name.
If they do this to Wizard of Oz, there
will be problems sync'ing to Pink Floyd.
Don't ask Slashdot.
Ask the professors at your university where you
pursue your business law degree.
Ask the attorney who is retained specifically as
counsel for your company, in regards to each
specific situation.
If you want to do it from your armchair, ask the
American Records Management Association
You may be surprised at how nontrivial the question
of document retention actually is, particularly in
the oil business.
It would not surprise me if the Enron situation ends
in a debacle because it turns out that the government stopped
employees from shredding documents that they were
REQUIRED to destroy. The news media makes it sound
as if any document shredding is a bad thing, but it
could be just as bad if some information that is
required by law or by contract to be kept secret is
accidentally exposed. Mistrial, anyone?
>Look deep into your heart, and tell us honestly:
>how much would you pay for nethack-in-a-box?
>How much is that box worth to you?
If the box contained a nicely typeset and bound
copy of material equivalent to Dylan O'Donell's
site, and the ever-popular "all I got was this
t-shirt", (find the links yourself) and a
CD containing all current versions
of Nethack and Slash'em together with source,
and a searchable, edited archive of
rec.games.roguelike.nethack,I'd pay fifty bucks for it.
All the fees for my telephone service and /27 routed to me with proper DNS,
my DSL connection cost me somewhere in the ballpark
of $2400.00 per year. For that amount, I get
two phone lines, a fairly decent voicemail package
plus all the add-on services that Qwest sells
(caller-id and so forth), a 1.5/1.5 Mbit ADSL
connection, a
a Cisco 678, webspace, mail addresses, nntp access,
yadda yadda, from a clueful ISP that provides
connectivity and not bullshit.
People keep going on and on and on about how MSN
this and AOL/TW that and now Comcast the other thing.
In my WAY NOT humble opinion, when you go for the
cheap option, you're going to get treated like a
commodity consumer, NOT like a customer. If you
are unfortunate enough to live in an area which is
not well-served by competing broadband providers, well,
you have my sympathies. There are downsides to the
area where I live as well. But if you do have a choice,
and you've gone with the lowest priced option when
better though more expensive alternatives are available,
you should stop complaining, and take responsibility
for the consequences of your decisions.
>We try harder." [Avis Car Rental] - Harder than >what? Yesterday?
You're too young, no doubt, to remember the Slogan Wars between Avis and Hertz of the early 60's.
In those days, it was considered taboo for an advertiser to directly mention the competitor's product when making comparisons. In fact, it was quite a shock when, in the mid 1970's we started seeing TV commercials where one brand explicitly stated that their product was better than a specific competitor's product. It's pretty common now, but you never saw it back in the day.
Anyway, some consumer survey gave Hertz marketroids the idea that they were the #1 car rental company (in an unbound domain, with unspecified terms, naturally). Hertz went to town
with this "fact." Worthy of note, the Hertz sign atop the infamous Texas School Book Depository building.
Avis countered Hertz with their own ingenious slogan: various flavors "We're #2, but we try harder."
At the same time, they made yet another marketing innovation -- they designed all their ads so that they could be distinguished at a distance of 40 feet. Thank Helmut Krone for that.
>The nerve reattachment is tricky...
That's the understatement of the century.
If you can reattach nerves, you can do much
more than "just" cure blindness.
You'll be able to cure almost all paralysis,
probably brain damage, and even, yes, cure Death,
at least some forms of brain-death.
>So where can I buy a "Made in the Ukraine" CDRW?
THAT is a good question, but a more general question that I have is, why is it so difficult
to get graymarket ANYTHING in the USA?
Consumer digital recorders without SCMS, for instance? Or local music from other countries,
(and I DON'T mean the "World Music" rack at Tower). Region-free DVD players shouldn't be
a problem: if they're made and sold somewhere
(anywhere), they can be purchased and shipped anywhere, correct? The so-called Internet, together with the worldwide expansion of the courier services, took care of all this silly *geography*, am I wrong?
Is the problem with international mail, or with currency exchange, or with a lack of demand? Or all of the above? Or something else I'm missing?
"Maybe next time, you will think twice before electing (or letting the court appoint) a president. "
[cough]
NEXT time?
think TWICE?
You're still operating under the delusion that people care enough to vote? That slashdot readers
vote? That any statistically significant portion of ANY educated group bothers to vote?
That's just *vote* mind you.
Never mind that they don't inundate their representatives with hard, well-written correspondence. Let alone joining the party
or truly participating in the process of representative government.
>No, exactly the opposite; it's saying that we
>should stick a better engine or a supercharger
>or dual exhaust...[etc]
Well, in the case of obsolete pc hardware it's usually not an option to modify or upgrade it, as
these situations generally involve a choice between using it or not, and a zero dollar budget.
Even if I have $3000 for a new notebook, I do NOT have $500 or even $50 for memory and a disk drive for an old one!
What's hard to deal with is the fact that I remember running yggdrasl linux on that very same notebook when it was a current machine, when a P75 notebook was considered desirable, and it was
just fine then. I'm not trying to remove the bumpers and the seats from the CAR, I'm trying to
remove the steel rack from the roof and the dead body in the trunk (from the distribution).
When 16MB of RAM and a 500MB disk drive on a 386/40 was an expensive machine I ran linux with X11 and FVWM, and life was pretty good. That worked better for me than windows 3.11 on the same box. I'd be hard-pressed to put that
same system together today!
There's probably something important about the fact that I still take my 75MHZ toshiba satellite on business trips even though I have several *much* better portables...
>Using a stripped-down desktop because your box
>doesn't have enough horsepower is like ripping
>the back seats out of your Mustang instead of
>putting in a Paxton Novi 2000 supercharger.
Saying that is akin to saying we should send the 86 Jetta to the crusher because it isn't an 02 Passat.
In this case, it's like saying we should send the
67 convertible bug to the crusher.
I have a toshiba laptop that has taken many beatings and continues to be my primary travelling machine -- new dells and even a new toshiba have failed to meet my requirements of
battery life off the AC and resilience to abuse.
Are you saying I shouldn't bother trying to streamline the linux installation that's on there because it doesn't match your own agenda? Or are you trying to imply that it's an equal proposition for me to acquire some titanium cased
gigahertz notebook to replace the old toshiba that
would not die? If so, I'll let you know where to forward the check, or better yet, just ship me my new notebook. By the way, if you have a 64-65 mustang with or without back seats, send it to AZ care of me.
>They answer to nobody
Oh, they'll answer to the United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
alright, just haven't been asked yet!
When she asks, she'll be asking nicely, with a cruiser and harriers just in case she gets the wrong answer.
Why is this different from someone asking if there's a fast way to a medical degree for instance?
> i sent a message to the CEO, COO, and CFO with
>their credit card information.
What you did is known as "pulling a Schwartz"
You are lucky they didn't fire you and then prosecute you.
>They're out of business now. Take that for what
>it's worth.
You are twice lucky: so far, they haven't held you responsible for this.
That goes for your boss as well, and anyone else up the corporate chain who has allowed this situation to develop. Amateurs, however well-intentioned, should not be given the responsibility of developing financial and accounting systems or policies.
That said, I must also point something out from the customer's standpoint. There is no possible way that I, the consumer, will accept any term of purchase of any product, that involves the vendor making a monthly charge on my credit card, writing a monthly check on my behalf, or "automatically" withdrawing money from my bank account.
If a merchant is not capable of sending me a bill each month, the customary method of soliciting payment, he is not worthy of my business. Furthermore, if he demands such an arrangement as a means of automatically making my bill payment on my behalf, he has already made a serious social blunder that cost my business from the first word: it is tantamount to accusing me of being a thief, and at the very least has indicated to me that the merchant already considers me irresponsible before our relationship has even been established.
I will do no business with such a cretin. End of story.
>in America the constitution only applies to
>citizens
Such a common belief and so very wrong.
The US Constitution stands as a fundamental line in the sand which separates the powers of government from the rights bestowed upon mankind by powers beyond government and the laws of man.
When I explain to people who ask that my DSL connection costs me about $200/month, they
look at me funny. (That's $109 to the ISP,
80-something to the telco, a voice line is included in that of course, with a pretty good
voice mail system).
Now, every time I hear about how cable users
are being screwed, I look at my 1.5 rate (both
directions), my static netblock, my own primary
dns server, and my http box, and I just laugh.
Of course, I'm typing this on the 49k modem line at my family's farmhouse since I'm on holiday,
trying to be grateful that we even have a PHONE out here, and that it isn't a PARTY LINE. It wasn't very long ago at all that you couldn't get
a private line, much less a data line.
Heck, I'm grateful that I don't have to haul water from a well. That wasn't very long ago either!
>But you know that pretty much convinced us all
>that when it comes right down to it each man has
>pretty much got to make his own rules.
Sounds to me like the Sherrif made the rules.
This is as if Exxon had offered to sink another tanker to settle the Valdez case...
>I don't understand what the big deal is.
The big deal is that you can be sent to PRISON
for dissemenating this information.
>The writers did an incredible job sticking to
>the true story
Oh! I hadn't realized it's a TRUE story!
NOW I'm interested!
My mom's pc fried. She lives in a very rural town in Texas, and I live in Phoenix AZ. So
the usual fix (let's go SHOPPING!) wasn't really
an option this time around.
So anyway, I get her to mail me a hard drive,
and while waiting for it, threw a machine together
(a hella nice machine, my mom's worth it), and
I considered how to ship it back.
I had a whole bunch of options:
take it to the airport and ship it on southwest airlines, fly southwest myself with the pc as luggage, drive (24 hours+ each way),
or ship it by courier. Well, I packed it (pretty well, if I do say so), and took it to the local
Mailboxes Etc. clone. They told me straight up,
to unpack it, and pay them to repack it, or else
(1) it probably would be damaged and
(2) it can't be insured if I pack it.
Shipping was a pretty expensive ticket too. But you know what? I paid. And you know what else?
the package arrived beautifully packed, and 100%
working.
I'd do it again, especially now!
>Sysadmins do whatever it takes to *support* the
>people doing the actual work that keeps the
>business afloat. If they do graphic design using
>Photoshop and Illustrator, for example, then
>Windows or MacOS is the correct choice.
What sort of work do you think SysAdmins do, that
leads you to believe they'd use photoshop or illustrator?
>Planes are safe, full stop.
Not flying on planes is safer than flying on them.