From the Mac Classic user's perspective, OS X just does what you'd expect a spatially-designed interface to do, treat every object the same. If you drag a Word file over a Word file with the same name, it asks if you want to replace it. Ditto folders with the same name.
Why? On my physical desktop objects with the same name can coexist. In OpenVMS coping [dir1]A.A over an existing [dir2]A.A will leave two files [dir2]A.A;1 and [dir2]A.A;2 in the target directory. And incidently, in the same OS rename will not work across volumes. You have to do backup/delete which definitely backs up and then deletes.
Why should MacOS demand that file names be unique? Windows and Gnome rename files on paste if there is a name conflict. Why not do it on a drag? For me it makes sense that only the delete function should be destructive. If you must blow away the replaced file why not put it in the Trash?
It's not manufactured because it doesn't work long-term.
I agree with you, mostly. But I do thing that medical science would be better off if engineers (and perhaps hackers) built equipment like this, rather than have scientists attempt manufacture on a small scale.
I remember an article from years ago about some revolutionary implant. This researcher developed the thing in the 1990's and spent seven years making a miniature version.
How long until there's grafiti everywhere, the seats are slashed, and the cars are rendered unusable by the public?
Depends on where you live. Here in Melbourne, Australia the ticket machines on train stations have about fourteen different anti-vandalisation features. At Incheon, South Korea where I was working last week the ticket machines are little computers with no attempt at protection. They are cleaner, too.
Aye, there's the rub. You simply cannot use semiconductor research as an analogy for medical research. While we know quite a bit about human (and other organism) biology, the amount we don't know is simply staggering.
Yeah but if my lungs fail why can't I live on an artificial lung? If my heart fails why can't I live on an artificial heart? Equipment like this exists in one form or another but it is not manufactured in a way which makes it cost effective to deploy on a large scale, and is not mature enough to be considered reliable.
If we had better connections between engineering and medical science we could all live a lot longer.
Of course it may certainly be possible for a seasoned criminal to get fake papers and leave the US unnoticed, but soe housewife that has been moved to a foreign country? I doubt it.
Buy or borrow a passport from another Russian woman who has no intention of returning home any time soon. Somebody with a similar photo. Even better if you travel as a close relative.
Yeah.. last I checked alaska and russia aren't that far apart
I don't think Nina walked across the Bering strait on the off chance that by not departing officially she could get her ex locked up for a while and make it hard for him to follow her. Once in Russia with the children it would be easy for her to get lost, and the kids left legally after all.
One way out would be to buy or borrow a passport from a friend or relative, somebody you could pass for. But I don't really see why she would do that as opposed to using her own documentation.
Wow, I wish this was even close to being an issue in one of our campaigns here in the USA. Can you imagine having an issue like this on the national agenda here?
Its partly because a Universal Service Obligation is built into our telecommunications laws. Companies which supply loss making services to remote areas get a subsidy from companies which do not. It may not be a driver in the current debate but it is certainly a symptom.
Another factor is that remote areas are currently being hit bad by a drought. Hand wringing over communication is one way for the Government to be seen to be helping people where they can't really do anything about water.
And to top it off, we actually have a very bad problem with rural infrastructure. We have 1/10th the population of the US, and slightly less land area to service. The cost of improving service in remote areas is a political hot potato. The party currently in power is a coalition of the National party which traditionally supports country voters and the more broad based Liberal party. By making broadband an issue the Government is trying to tell the country voters that the opposition Labour party doesn't have an interest in supporting them.
If his technique can make ADSL work at greater distances from the exchange then he might be on to something. I know people who live in non-urban parts of Australia who are just on the limit of distance to the exchange for ADSL to work.
Doubling that distance could increase the number of homes covered by a factor of four.
For some reason even I don't understand I'd really like one of these. Maybe I miss the DEC PDP-11 from my youth too much.
Up until 1998 I was still working with them on the traffic signal systems here in Melbourne.
The mention of wire wrap brought back memories. To install a SCSI card in an 11/84 I had to slide out the CPU box, lie flat on the floor under the system, remove the bottom cover and use a wire wrap tool to repatch one wire in the back plane.
One day one of our people took a look inside an old roadside hut. As he crept into the dank interior, pushing aside cobwebs and worse, he noted the last date on the site log, 10 years in the past and there it was, a PDP8. The last note on the log was from our current manager. Something about a fault and intending to return with parts. I guess it was forgotten for some reason.
There has been ongoing interest in developing a spaceport in this region for some time. Because of its location, they are able to reuse Russian telemetry data.
But being so far north they can only launch to high inclination orbits. Getting to geosynchronous orbit from Canada is uneconomic.
I think it was almost ten years ago when Microsoft came out with active desktop and Netscape countered with something which was really a browser window taking up the whole screen and called a desktop.
I never saw either being used. Is this the same thing?
I mean that you can lose the out of plane momentum in a collision with ring particles, and drop into a lower orbit. You can not turn it into in-plane momentum.
And very willing to give you a bit of the newtons laws up the wazoo to persuade you to move with the herd again.
As I see it objects which have a little bit of out of plane momentum will transfer that component to the ring particles they collide with and drop into a lower orbit in the ring plane. Particles with a lot of out of plane momentum will fall right into Saturn. The out of plane momentum can't be turned into momentum in the ring plane.
add this to the fact that air controllers still use equipment that employs vaccuum tubes
If you mean that they use CRT monitors then you are probably right. Most ATC operators are moving to 2k by 2k LCD monitors but the changeover will take time.
If you mean that they use high power valve radio transmittors then it would only be true if that is the best technology available.
If you mean that they use valve computers then you are wrong. I work in the industry, though not supplying the FAA. I am sure they have a reliance on some old systems, but no more so than many organisations like the banks.
Cards are out. Sports are in. Bet on horse racing, football, and dogfighting - the holy trinity.
All online games are easy to fix but I think people who play online poker are crazy. The whole point of the game is making judgements about the cards people are holding from their behaviour. If you can't see them, or even be sure that they are members of your species, why would you play?
I am with the Pak on this one. I have a five year old son and I would gladly murder every human and puppy dog on Earth to protect him, if the situation arose.
Oh and by the way. Niven wrote quite a few books about the Pak protectors apart from the later Ringworld books. They are worth a look if you haven't seen them yet.
gmail actually looked inside my zip file to see if there were any exe files
For one company I exchange email with I have to pgp encrypt most types of potentially executable code, including ksh scripts, then strip the PGP headers and footers and send the raw base64. Its the only way to get it through their mail system.
Of course the problem in that book was the nuclear engine to be used to boost the plant from Geosynchronous transfer orbit into Geosynchronous orbit. Just remember how to use the Hoopsnake procedure.
To take a different tack I can imagine something like a three metre compact disk. Reflective on both sides with a solar powered electronics pack in the middle. Embed LCD panels in the reflective surface of the disk and navigate by light pressure.
You could launch a thousand of these in a single throw and broadcast instructions to focus light on Earth based solar PV power plants during the night.
After the way I've heard some women talk about horse riding. Seems to be a very different experience than for us men
When I was a 14 year old budding geek at high school I used to take a shortcut though the corridor which contained the year 10 girls lockers. One time I was walking through there I overheard a conversation shouted the length of the bank of lockers. It went something like this:
Girl 1: Hey did you hear that $GIRL3 is pregnant again?
Girl 2: No? How did that happen?
Girl 1: Rode a horse bear back in the nude, how do you reckon?
Now don't get us wrong, but we love the freedoms you Euros have
Actually I'm an Australian. But I just want to say that I am grateful for the show which the USA is putting on for the world in this presidential campaign. US presidential elections are a four yearly highlight in international news. Given how much the Republicans appear to be on the nose, and that their opposition is choosing between two mould breaking candidates, something really different seems to be about to happen and I can't wait to watch it, from a distance.
Not being an American I am curious about one thing: what will the US public think about this award? Will it make them more likely to vote for Gore as their next president?
I know that he hasn't announced that he is running, but I assume there is a strategy behind this. But I know that US people have a....different attitude about things which happen outside their country. Will the Nobel prize make Gore seem less like an American to the voting public? Will it push him closer to those freedom hating europeans in their eyes?
You hear all the time about drug runners being busted while bringing in their contraband from Mexico. If this goes through, we'll start seeing a bunch of pasty white guys busted for smuggling in Maxtors.
True geeks know that the best way to smuggle is to build your own UAV's.
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Why? On my physical desktop objects with the same name can coexist. In OpenVMS coping [dir1]A.A over an existing [dir2]A.A will leave two files [dir2]A.A;1 and [dir2]A.A;2 in the target directory. And incidently, in the same OS rename will not work across volumes. You have to do backup/delete which definitely backs up and then deletes.
Why should MacOS demand that file names be unique? Windows and Gnome rename files on paste if there is a name conflict. Why not do it on a drag? For me it makes sense that only the delete function should be destructive. If you must blow away the replaced file why not put it in the Trash?
I agree with you, mostly. But I do thing that medical science would be better off if engineers (and perhaps hackers) built equipment like this, rather than have scientists attempt manufacture on a small scale.
I remember an article from years ago about some revolutionary implant. This researcher developed the thing in the 1990's and spent seven years making a miniature version.
Depends on where you live. Here in Melbourne, Australia the ticket machines on train stations have about fourteen different anti-vandalisation features. At Incheon, South Korea where I was working last week the ticket machines are little computers with no attempt at protection. They are cleaner, too.
Yeah but if my lungs fail why can't I live on an artificial lung? If my heart fails why can't I live on an artificial heart? Equipment like this exists in one form or another but it is not manufactured in a way which makes it cost effective to deploy on a large scale, and is not mature enough to be considered reliable.
If we had better connections between engineering and medical science we could all live a lot longer.
Buy or borrow a passport from another Russian woman who has no intention of returning home any time soon. Somebody with a similar photo. Even better if you travel as a close relative.
I don't think Nina walked across the Bering strait on the off chance that by not departing officially she could get her ex locked up for a while and make it hard for him to follow her. Once in Russia with the children it would be easy for her to get lost, and the kids left legally after all.
One way out would be to buy or borrow a passport from a friend or relative, somebody you could pass for. But I don't really see why she would do that as opposed to using her own documentation.
Its partly because a Universal Service Obligation is built into our telecommunications laws. Companies which supply loss making services to remote areas get a subsidy from companies which do not. It may not be a driver in the current debate but it is certainly a symptom.
Another factor is that remote areas are currently being hit bad by a drought. Hand wringing over communication is one way for the Government to be seen to be helping people where they can't really do anything about water.
And to top it off, we actually have a very bad problem with rural infrastructure. We have 1/10th the population of the US, and slightly less land area to service. The cost of improving service in remote areas is a political hot potato. The party currently in power is a coalition of the National party which traditionally supports country voters and the more broad based Liberal party. By making broadband an issue the Government is trying to tell the country voters that the opposition Labour party doesn't have an interest in supporting them.
If his technique can make ADSL work at greater distances from the exchange then he might be on to something. I know people who live in non-urban parts of Australia who are just on the limit of distance to the exchange for ADSL to work.
Doubling that distance could increase the number of homes covered by a factor of four.
Up until 1998 I was still working with them on the traffic signal systems here in Melbourne.
The mention of wire wrap brought back memories. To install a SCSI card in an 11/84 I had to slide out the CPU box, lie flat on the floor under the system, remove the bottom cover and use a wire wrap tool to repatch one wire in the back plane.
One day one of our people took a look inside an old roadside hut. As he crept into the dank interior, pushing aside cobwebs and worse, he noted the last date on the site log, 10 years in the past and there it was, a PDP8. The last note on the log was from our current manager. Something about a fault and intending to return with parts. I guess it was forgotten for some reason.
But being so far north they can only launch to high inclination orbits. Getting to geosynchronous orbit from Canada is uneconomic.
I think it was almost ten years ago when Microsoft came out with active desktop and Netscape countered with something which was really a browser window taking up the whole screen and called a desktop.
I never saw either being used. Is this the same thing?
I mean that you can lose the out of plane momentum in a collision with ring particles, and drop into a lower orbit. You can not turn it into in-plane momentum.
As I see it objects which have a little bit of out of plane momentum will transfer that component to the ring particles they collide with and drop into a lower orbit in the ring plane. Particles with a lot of out of plane momentum will fall right into Saturn. The out of plane momentum can't be turned into momentum in the ring plane.
If you mean that they use CRT monitors then you are probably right. Most ATC operators are moving to 2k by 2k LCD monitors but the changeover will take time.
If you mean that they use high power valve radio transmittors then it would only be true if that is the best technology available.
If you mean that they use valve computers then you are wrong. I work in the industry, though not supplying the FAA. I am sure they have a reliance on some old systems, but no more so than many organisations like the banks.
All online games are easy to fix but I think people who play online poker are crazy. The whole point of the game is making judgements about the cards people are holding from their behaviour. If you can't see them, or even be sure that they are members of your species, why would you play?
I am with the Pak on this one. I have a five year old son and I would gladly murder every human and puppy dog on Earth to protect him, if the situation arose.
Oh and by the way. Niven wrote quite a few books about the Pak protectors apart from the later Ringworld books. They are worth a look if you haven't seen them yet.
For one company I exchange email with I have to pgp encrypt most types of potentially executable code, including ksh scripts, then strip the PGP headers and footers and send the raw base64. Its the only way to get it through their mail system.
Wikipedia has an interesting article on the subject
Of course the problem in that book was the nuclear engine to be used to boost the plant from Geosynchronous transfer orbit into Geosynchronous orbit. Just remember how to use the Hoopsnake procedure.
To take a different tack I can imagine something like a three metre compact disk. Reflective on both sides with a solar powered electronics pack in the middle. Embed LCD panels in the reflective surface of the disk and navigate by light pressure.
You could launch a thousand of these in a single throw and broadcast instructions to focus light on Earth based solar PV power plants during the night.
Wouldn't that be NOT poison, or is that something else?
Take it easy
When I was a 14 year old budding geek at high school I used to take a shortcut though the corridor which contained the year 10 girls lockers. One time I was walking through there I overheard a conversation shouted the length of the bank of lockers. It went something like this:
Girl 1: Hey did you hear that $GIRL3 is pregnant again?
Girl 2: No? How did that happen?
Girl 1: Rode a horse bear back in the nude, how do you reckon?
Actually I'm an Australian. But I just want to say that I am grateful for the show which the USA is putting on for the world in this presidential campaign. US presidential elections are a four yearly highlight in international news. Given how much the Republicans appear to be on the nose, and that their opposition is choosing between two mould breaking candidates, something really different seems to be about to happen and I can't wait to watch it, from a distance.
Not being an American I am curious about one thing: what will the US public think about this award? Will it make them more likely to vote for Gore as their next president?
....different attitude about things which happen outside their country. Will the Nobel prize make Gore seem less like an American to the voting public? Will it push him closer to those freedom hating europeans in their eyes?
I know that he hasn't announced that he is running, but I assume there is a strategy behind this. But I know that US people have a
True geeks know that the best way to smuggle is to build your own UAV's.