The idea of having states control schools, etc., and not having the Federal Government control as much as it does today, was the original idea in this country. The Federal Government expanded its power with money: raising taxes to the point that states couldn't raise their own money without bankrupting their people, and then being the benevolent provider, giving money to the states for programs IF they did how the Feds pleased. This isn't entirely without benefit (and some stupid restriction that they put on funding would probably have been written into law by many states anyway, as would some wise restriction), but in my opinion it's not a very honest way of doing business.
If the Federal Government went back to what they were originally designed to do, it would just move the problems around, push the vegetables around the plate. It wouldn't give NASA or anything else more money overall because taxes would have to be much lower.
Well when taxes are lower, spending has to be cut somewhere. Many programs want more money, many people want more programs, many people (and corporations) want less taxes (there was a story in today's Chicago Trib about some new super-corporate-freeforall-taxloophole bill today, kinda disheartening, our government is 0wn3d).
Like the MS Word issue, where people with unrealistic demands drive software bloat, the unrealistic demands of people drive deficit spending.
And we elect the nice members of Congress to balance these needs. Better them than me.
On my computer at home I use an old keyboard with the F-keys in both places, plus 20 programmable function keys, which are useful when typing special characters in different languages. 'Tis a nice keyboard, but it's loud as all hell.
So legacy typewriter support is responsible for destroying my wrists to the point that I can hardly toss a frisbee?
I never quite understood the whole "implement a mechanical impediment to typing speed" thing, why not just tell the typists, "if you don't slow down the typewriter will jam"?
That way they eventually could have worked out the tech and made user-friendly keyboards.
And there's also a homemade trick my old physics teacher showed me to build a garbage can into a speaker with some magnets and coils. Sounds allright, better if your can isn't all dented up like mine was.
Reminds me of a thing I saw net-side a few years ago, which was a speaker housed in a cardboard box that could be folded up and taken anywhere. Supposedly it sounded decent too, I can't find the link though.
I guess I don't know quite as much about accoustics as I should, but it seems like most anything could be made to effectively vibrate the air? I'd love to have a computer case from which the sound just "eminates"... or maybe, on a less geeky note, just a new take on the singing tie...
Even if a programmer was given the code it's not hard to hide things in code, and when there's as much code to look through as will constitute Windows Future Edition very little of it can be put through much scrutiny... investigating the code would take even longer than writing it, and that's seeming to take quite a while...
Maybe the Federales can uncover what's causing this little bugger...
Here at work (:-P) I happen to have MS Access running on Windows. MS Access has registered the file extension MAF. There's a Moz extension called MAF that archives web pages, kinda-like-mht-but-supposedly-better, and it saves with extension MAF.
So I save the archives. WhaddyIget? A file, whose extension doesn't show along with the name in explorer (despite that I have it set to show file extensions) with the icon of a shortcut.
Go into folder options->file types, set these files to open in Mozilla. Click apply, ok, close, refresh window, reopen window, reboot Windows, nothing changes. Files still open in Access upon double-click.
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The idea of having states control schools, etc., and not having the Federal Government control as much as it does today, was the original idea in this country. The Federal Government expanded its power with money: raising taxes to the point that states couldn't raise their own money without bankrupting their people, and then being the benevolent provider, giving money to the states for programs IF they did how the Feds pleased. This isn't entirely without benefit (and some stupid restriction that they put on funding would probably have been written into law by many states anyway, as would some wise restriction), but in my opinion it's not a very honest way of doing business. If the Federal Government went back to what they were originally designed to do, it would just move the problems around, push the vegetables around the plate. It wouldn't give NASA or anything else more money overall because taxes would have to be much lower.
Well when taxes are lower, spending has to be cut somewhere. Many programs want more money, many people want more programs, many people (and corporations) want less taxes (there was a story in today's Chicago Trib about some new super-corporate-freeforall-taxloophole bill today, kinda disheartening, our government is 0wn3d).
Like the MS Word issue, where people with unrealistic demands drive software bloat, the unrealistic demands of people drive deficit spending.
And we elect the nice members of Congress to balance these needs. Better them than me.
Ummm, no. T'other way around. Kind of.
I, for one, welcome our translucent overlords.
On my computer at home I use an old keyboard with the F-keys in both places, plus 20 programmable function keys, which are useful when typing special characters in different languages. 'Tis a nice keyboard, but it's loud as all hell.
So legacy typewriter support is responsible for destroying my wrists to the point that I can hardly toss a frisbee?
I never quite understood the whole "implement a mechanical impediment to typing speed" thing, why not just tell the typists, "if you don't slow down the typewriter will jam"?
That way they eventually could have worked out the tech and made user-friendly keyboards.
And there's also a homemade trick my old physics teacher showed me to build a garbage can into a speaker with some magnets and coils. Sounds allright, better if your can isn't all dented up like mine was.
Reminds me of a thing I saw net-side a few years ago, which was a speaker housed in a cardboard box that could be folded up and taken anywhere. Supposedly it sounded decent too, I can't find the link though.
I guess I don't know quite as much about accoustics as I should, but it seems like most anything could be made to effectively vibrate the air? I'd love to have a computer case from which the sound just "eminates"... or maybe, on a less geeky note, just a new take on the singing tie...
Even if a programmer was given the code it's not hard to hide things in code, and when there's as much code to look through as will constitute Windows Future Edition very little of it can be put through much scrutiny... investigating the code would take even longer than writing it, and that's seeming to take quite a while...
Maybe the Federales can uncover what's causing this little bugger...
Here at work (:-P) I happen to have MS Access running on Windows. MS Access has registered the file extension MAF. There's a Moz extension called MAF that archives web pages, kinda-like-mht-but-supposedly-better, and it saves with extension MAF.
So I save the archives. WhaddyIget? A file, whose extension doesn't show along with the name in explorer (despite that I have it set to show file extensions) with the icon of a shortcut.
Go into folder options->file types, set these files to open in Mozilla. Click apply, ok, close, refresh window, reopen window, reboot Windows, nothing changes. Files still open in Access upon double-click.