People in the 1800s thought telephones were a luxury. Now our entire emergency response systems are based on it.
Electricity wasn't necessary before 1900 or so. Even until the 1950s there were places without electricity. Could you live a modern life without it? No refrigerator, no TV, no electric lights, no heat (forced air and hot water systems both use electricity to move air or water), no computer, no electric stove or oven. You could *live* without them, but you can't live a modern life.
But to live a modern life you need both of those things. Broadband, and the content and services it delivers, will soon be essential to life in a modern world, particularly as other countries expand its use and lower its price.
I live in a wealthy suburb of PA's state capital. I can't get anything over three megs. A similar area in Korea or Japan can get 10megs or higher for less than what I'm paying.
Why? Because the government realized that broadband is essential to modern life and put its weight behind spreading it to everyone affordably.
Instead, we're focusing on making sure Verizon and Comcast give communities permission to roll FTTH or wireless mesh networks. Wouldn't want to hurt their profits, now would we?
I used to think that, but when I tried NeoOffice/J I found it to be stable and as snappy as MS Office.
There's a universal fear of Java due to experience with poorly coded apps in the past. (*cough*Limewire*cough) But I can honestly say that is unfounded when it comes to NeoOffice/J.
Example: Start up time from double-click to document window for NeoOffice/J is 10 seconds. Start up time for MS Word is 14 seconds on my 1.5GHz 15" Powerbook G4 w/ 1GB of RAM.
But the torrent isn't illegal. If I make a torrent of illegal stuff and post it, am I breaking the law by posting the torrent, even if I never upload or download any data?
They're not distributing content (which is what copyright is all about). They're distributing the means to distribute the content.
Seriously, changing the way that hundreds of millions of people measure time just to make the lives of a few thousand coders a little easier is insane.
One more time: SuprNova wasn't breaking the law. They didn't know the content was illegal. All they knew was that someone made a.torrent of it and posted it. If they should be arresting someone, arrest the people who are violating the copyright by uploading information using a.torrent.
Because *that's* what's illegal. If I put a.torrent of a video I made on the internet, or set up a clearinghouse for other people to do the same, I shouldn't have my house raided. Especially by police who are paid with my tax dollars doing the bidding of corporations in another country.
Yes, but Bucks county blends the coffee according to their own tastes, whereas Starbucks makes the blends according to a recipe that's been focus-group-tested.
They may not grow their own beans, but they mix them in their own proportions, and roast them to their own specifications.
I would be very interested in using any safe mind-enhancing drug. However, the brain is not a computer and life is not a pre-mediated routine.
My boss seems to think my mind is a computer, and my days all seem like pre-mediated routines.
If a drug can help me to avoid burnout and get things done faster, great. Now if you'll excuse me, I have 35 hours of work to do before the end of the day Wednesday, or I don't get to have a Christmas Break.
I had a cup of coffee at Starbucks that tasted like antifreeze. I'm never going in there again (well, other than to use the free WiFi). The coffee that comes in little foil pouches at work tastes better than Starbucks coffee.
What's more unfortunate is that Starbucks has pushed most of the smaller coffee shops out of business. There was one nearby that used to be the hangout for the art & music kids at local schools. The furniture was all mismatched and they had local bands on a small stage and an outdoor patio where people smoked more than tobacco, and a seperate room that had the lights turned off on occassion for make-out sessions. And they rented out space to local theatre troops to practice in, and the kids could come and participate.
But when starbucks moved in they had to close. And since nobody wants to hang out at Starbucks (too well light, crappy music, no smoking of anything), they're stuck driving around or sitting in people's basements.
Just like beer and wine, locally roasted coffee tends to match a palate better. I prefer Bucks County Coffee to Starbucks, because Bucks county A) doesn't have to appeal to the lowest-common-denominator and B) the people who roast it live nearby, and have similar tastes to me.
The only way we'll get a Mac OS X native, MS office compatible office application is if Apple takes KOffice and makes it an Aqua app. Like they did with Konqueror.
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Electricity wasn't necessary before 1900 or so. Even until the 1950s there were places without electricity. Could you live a modern life without it? No refrigerator, no TV, no electric lights, no heat (forced air and hot water systems both use electricity to move air or water), no computer, no electric stove or oven. You could *live* without them, but you can't live a modern life.
But to live a modern life you need both of those things. Broadband, and the content and services it delivers, will soon be essential to life in a modern world, particularly as other countries expand its use and lower its price.
I dont' know, but the time it took them to switch to OS X made a lot of people switch.
Why? Because the government realized that broadband is essential to modern life and put its weight behind spreading it to everyone affordably.
Instead, we're focusing on making sure Verizon and Comcast give communities permission to roll FTTH or wireless mesh networks. Wouldn't want to hurt their profits, now would we?
"There are too many sevens in that date. I need a smoke."
Care to back that up^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H explain?
It makes more sense if you see it in public. I didn't get it until I had a chance to go use one and found it to be quite enjoyable.
There's a universal fear of Java due to experience with poorly coded apps in the past. (*cough*Limewire*cough) But I can honestly say that is unfounded when it comes to NeoOffice/J.
Example: Start up time from double-click to document window for NeoOffice/J is 10 seconds. Start up time for MS Word is 14 seconds on my 1.5GHz 15" Powerbook G4 w/ 1GB of RAM.
Thanks a lot.
USB = Undead Serial Bus.
They're not distributing content (which is what copyright is all about). They're distributing the means to distribute the content.
You must be new here.
Because *that's* what's illegal. If I put a .torrent of a video I made on the internet, or set up a clearinghouse for other people to do the same, I shouldn't have my house raided. Especially by police who are paid with my tax dollars doing the bidding of corporations in another country.
In other words: SuprNova wasn't offering illegal content; it was offering .torrents of illegal content that people submitted to them.
Get a clue.
My dad owns a portion of Apple, too. And his portion is voting stock, unlike Microsoft's. Does that mean he tells me what to put on my machine?
Congratulates ThoreauHD, you're 10 years ahead of your time!
They may not grow their own beans, but they mix them in their own proportions, and roast them to their own specifications.
Yes, but the beans and blend are determined by people thousands of miles away and are shipped there.
My boss seems to think my mind is a computer, and my days all seem like pre-mediated routines.
If a drug can help me to avoid burnout and get things done faster, great. Now if you'll excuse me, I have 35 hours of work to do before the end of the day Wednesday, or I don't get to have a Christmas Break.
IE for Mac is for people who are on OS 9 and are unable to upgrade or unwilling to switch to YDL or another PPC linux distro.
I had a cup of coffee at Starbucks that tasted like antifreeze. I'm never going in there again (well, other than to use the free WiFi). The coffee that comes in little foil pouches at work tastes better than Starbucks coffee.
What's more unfortunate is that Starbucks has pushed most of the smaller coffee shops out of business. There was one nearby that used to be the hangout for the art & music kids at local schools. The furniture was all mismatched and they had local bands on a small stage and an outdoor patio where people smoked more than tobacco, and a seperate room that had the lights turned off on occassion for make-out sessions. And they rented out space to local theatre troops to practice in, and the kids could come and participate.
But when starbucks moved in they had to close. And since nobody wants to hang out at Starbucks (too well light, crappy music, no smoking of anything), they're stuck driving around or sitting in people's basements.
Just like beer and wine, locally roasted coffee tends to match a palate better. I prefer Bucks County Coffee to Starbucks, because Bucks county A) doesn't have to appeal to the lowest-common-denominator and B) the people who roast it live nearby, and have similar tastes to me.
Mmmm... alligator.
That's funny, I could have sworn more people were working on OpenOffice. NeoOffice/J is unstable and slow, though not as bad as AbiWord.
The only way we'll get a Mac OS X native, MS office compatible office application is if Apple takes KOffice and makes it an Aqua app. Like they did with Konqueror.
That's worse than death by snoo snoo.