Clinton was a Rhodes scholar too, and all that intelligence didn't improve his legacy. Anyway, how can you say Bradley is not a career politician when he spent most of his adult life as a Senator, and only got out because Christine Whitman was planning to run against him (at the time)? Now he wants to spend a few more years at the trough in Washington, and somehow he is not a career politician? He is as big a hack as anybody. You shouldn't believe every puff piece you read in Time Magazine.
Absolutely excellent point. It is a (superfluous) attempt to criminalize motivation. But even that is taken into consideration during sentencing. Even in the absence of "hate crime" laws, I will likely get a longer sentence if I murder out of hatred than out of impulse.
..Sure wish we could get VP Gore to do a Slashdot interview, but every time we ask we get fobbed off on a different campaign staffer. Oh well.
Guys, I work on Capitol Hill, and can assure you that Al Gore did NOT write the article. A staffer did. Vice-Presidents, Presidents, and Congressmen do not have time or inclination to do this, especially when they are campaigning. Everything is written and edited by staffers and looked over (sometimes) by the politician.
I can think of only a handful of exceptions to this. Nixon was the last President to write a significant number of his own speeches. Ronald Reagan was the only President to write a book while in office (It was a short book on the subject of abortion). Al Gore actually was one of the few to write a book himself while in office (the execrable Earth in the Balance), but a few of his Senate staff did most of the research. Anyway, Senators serve six-year terms, and have more time on their hands. Almost any other example I can think of was ghostwritten.
Right, but it's still fun considering the fortuitous placement!
No kidding about the common misinterpretation. It sort of reminds me of when I asked an old Southern Baptist neighbor of mine why she would want to use the original KJV since so much of the language is obscure and easily misunderstood. She replied "If King James English was good enough for Jesus, it was good enough for me!"
It appears that the Bible has a more restrictive license. From the last few lines of the last chapter of the last book of the Neww Testament:
I warn every one who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if any one adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if any one takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book. - Revelation 22:18-19
Of course, there is no restriction at all on redistribution.:)
The inquisition wasn't a Holy War. It was a court system to prevent doctrinal dissent. And communism has killed many millions more than any religious wars. You really don't know what you're talking about. But this is beside the point. I was not saying atheism leads directly to Stalin and Mao. I did not make the original post. I was just correcting the one above mine.
Silly boy, it is a context-free rant generator. It's hard to be specific without a context. It cracks me up to see people respond point-by-point to an automated complainer program.
Yeah, and Tito was an altar boy too at one time. The point is, those notorious mass murderers (in the tens of millions) were virulaently anti-religion. Anyway, to say organized religion keeps the world uncivilized is unbelievably stupid, and ignorant. You are flaunting your ignorance.
I remember reading a short story of his where this guy stumbles across a mysterious machine. He pokes around and it captures him inside itself. There he finds a note explaining he is in an automatic casket - it flips him in the yard and buries itself. Yikes what a nightmare. Creepy creepy.
The NSA is essntial for fighting terrorism. The US is extremely vulnerable domestically and overseas. You can debate the ethics of their methods, but they are a very very necessary org. Assuming you don't like bombs going off in large cities. This country could be a war zone.
I'm amazed to see this on PC World. They must perceive some sort of demand among their generic Win32 users for basic Linux installation help.
On a related note, has anybody seen that new magazine Maximum Linux? In my opinion it was nothing as good as it's parent Maximum PC. Some articles were Okay, but the interview was godawful dull, and a lot of the writing was pure palaver. One would expect more from them.
Every time I've asked a professor to email me an assignment, they have always sent a Tex file. They just assume you have access to a Linux system. BTW as far as I have seen there is no free Tex interpreter for Win32. Maybe I'm wrong. Anyway, Tex is standard.
No kidding! WP 2000 for papers and reports, and Mathematica has been available on Linux for years. Also, homework is so much easier on a platform on which I own no games...
Well, There's more to a print preview than that, though, isn't there? If you are in WSIWYG on your screen, that takes into account most formatting. But a print preview also takes into account the quirks of the printer driver. Those two things can be very different, even with high quality hardware and software.
It would be soooo difficult to patrol even 10% of the warez channels. Besides that, many of the kiddies involved are not within their jurisdiction. I think they do this entirely for publicity, and as a lame scare tactic.
Oh, and peeking and poking is alive and well on the Win32 platform, if yoúr applications are controlling one another through DDE (what OLE used to be, while OLE is what ActiveX used to be).
Of course, on the Commodore machines you were poking and peeking directly into memory addresses. That use to be the easiest way to load a machine language game from BASIC - you'd set up a For/Next loop to poke the code into a block of memory space, the popular one beginning at 49152. Boy was it easy to program back then!
But isn't publicity often like this? The Mozilla process is new (at least for most mainstream readers) and the result highly anticipated. The news outlets will be back and forth on this topic until they see a product that is at least equal to Internet Explorer 5 (which Nescape 4.7 definitely isn't). They're bashing Mozilla right now, but when it's ready they'll move on to "Ït kicks butt, but is it too late?" just as millions of us are quietly dumping IE.
Hardly anybody pays $180 for Windows98. Also, if the price was jacked up to $500, the barrier to entry into the market would be a lot lower for competing OS's.
It is far more productive to criticize MS's dealings with pre-installed Windows. That's the part that stinks of unfair competition.
Didn't Zdnet have an article within the last couple of days asserting that HP's e-services were doing very poorly?
On one hand, it's great for companies like Netscape, HP and others to open up their code. On the other hand, it seems like open-source is too often seen as a last-ditch strategy for products in trouble. I've already seen numerous articles blaming ópen-source' for Netscape's 'loss' of the browser wars. Does anybody think these last-ditch scenarios will give open source an unjustly negative reputation?
For the first time a machine has passed the Turing test maybe?
I think it says more about the quality of typical slashdot rants than it does about the quality of the complaint generator! If only we could modify it to include a few nasty jibes at JC Dvorak, J Katz, Microsoft, or US encryption export policy. Then we'd have an automated slashdot.
..."Shift.com has got an interview with David Bowie. " Bowie's a genius. Interesting perspectives on where art, music and technology collide with each other.
He's a talented musician, and a thoughtful guy, but you are totally devaluing the word "genius". Words should mean something. We shouldn't need to be impressed with breathless exaggeration.
You are truly deluded if you think PR is the solution to whatever problems people have with their reps. Name a single country where it has improved the actions of the government.
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Clinton was a Rhodes scholar too, and all that intelligence didn't improve his legacy. Anyway, how can you say Bradley is not a career politician when he spent most of his adult life as a Senator, and only got out because Christine Whitman was planning to run against him (at the time)? Now he wants to spend a few more years at the trough in Washington, and somehow he is not a career politician? He is as big a hack as anybody. You shouldn't believe every puff piece you read in Time Magazine.
Absolutely excellent point. It is a (superfluous) attempt to criminalize motivation. But even that is taken into consideration during sentencing. Even in the absence of "hate crime" laws, I will likely get a longer sentence if I murder out of hatred than out of impulse.
Guys, I work on Capitol Hill, and can assure you that Al Gore did NOT write the article. A staffer did. Vice-Presidents, Presidents, and Congressmen do not have time or inclination to do this, especially when they are campaigning. Everything is written and edited by staffers and looked over (sometimes) by the politician.
I can think of only a handful of exceptions to this. Nixon was the last President to write a significant number of his own speeches. Ronald Reagan was the only President to write a book while in office (It was a short book on the subject of abortion). Al Gore actually was one of the few to write a book himself while in office (the execrable Earth in the Balance), but a few of his Senate staff did most of the research. Anyway, Senators serve six-year terms, and have more time on their hands. Almost any other example I can think of was ghostwritten.
No kidding about the common misinterpretation. It sort of reminds me of when I asked an old Southern Baptist neighbor of mine why she would want to use the original KJV since so much of the language is obscure and easily misunderstood. She replied "If King James English was good enough for Jesus, it was good enough for me!"
I warn every one who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if any one adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if any one takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book. - Revelation 22:18-19
Of course, there is no restriction at all on redistribution. :)
No but you can use this one.
The inquisition wasn't a Holy War. It was a court system to prevent doctrinal dissent. And communism has killed many millions more than any religious wars. You really don't know what you're talking about. But this is beside the point. I was not saying atheism leads directly to Stalin and Mao. I did not make the original post. I was just correcting the one above mine.
Silly boy, it is a context-free rant generator. It's hard to be specific without a context. It cracks me up to see people respond point-by-point to an automated complainer program.
Yeah, and Tito was an altar boy too at one time. The point is, those notorious mass murderers (in the tens of millions) were virulaently anti-religion. Anyway, to say organized religion keeps the world uncivilized is unbelievably stupid, and ignorant. You are flaunting your ignorance.
I remember reading a short story of his where this guy stumbles across a mysterious machine. He pokes around and it captures him inside itself. There he finds a note explaining he is in an automatic casket - it flips him in the yard and buries itself. Yikes what a nightmare. Creepy creepy.
The NSA is essntial for fighting terrorism. The US is extremely vulnerable domestically and overseas. You can debate the ethics of their methods, but they are a very very necessary org. Assuming you don't like bombs going off in large cities. This country could be a war zone.
On a related note, has anybody seen that new magazine Maximum Linux? In my opinion it was nothing as good as it's parent Maximum PC. Some articles were Okay, but the interview was godawful dull, and a lot of the writing was pure palaver. One would expect more from them.
Tatoos on my forearm.
Every time I've asked a professor to email me an assignment, they have always sent a Tex file. They just assume you have access to a Linux system. BTW as far as I have seen there is no free Tex interpreter for Win32. Maybe I'm wrong. Anyway, Tex is standard.
No kidding! WP 2000 for papers and reports, and Mathematica has been available on Linux for years. Also, homework is so much easier on a platform on which I own no games...
Well, There's more to a print preview than that, though, isn't there? If you are in WSIWYG on your screen, that takes into account most formatting. But a print preview also takes into account the quirks of the printer driver. Those two things can be very different, even with high quality hardware and software.
It would be soooo difficult to patrol even 10% of the warez channels. Besides that, many of the kiddies involved are not within their jurisdiction. I think they do this entirely for publicity, and as a lame scare tactic.
Of course, on the Commodore machines you were poking and peeking directly into memory addresses. That use to be the easiest way to load a machine language game from BASIC - you'd set up a For/Next loop to poke the code into a block of memory space, the popular one beginning at 49152. Boy was it easy to program back then!
But isn't publicity often like this? The Mozilla process is new (at least for most mainstream readers) and the result highly anticipated. The news outlets will be back and forth on this topic until they see a product that is at least equal to Internet Explorer 5 (which Nescape 4.7 definitely isn't). They're bashing Mozilla right now, but when it's ready they'll move on to "Ït kicks butt, but is it too late?" just as millions of us are quietly dumping IE.
It is far more productive to criticize MS's dealings with pre-installed Windows. That's the part that stinks of unfair competition.
On one hand, it's great for companies like Netscape, HP and others to open up their code. On the other hand, it seems like open-source is too often seen as a last-ditch strategy for products in trouble. I've already seen numerous articles blaming ópen-source' for Netscape's 'loss' of the browser wars. Does anybody think these last-ditch scenarios will give open source an unjustly negative reputation?
I think it says more about the quality of typical slashdot rants than it does about the quality of the complaint generator! If only we could modify it to include a few nasty jibes at JC Dvorak, J Katz, Microsoft, or US encryption export policy. Then we'd have an automated slashdot.
He's a talented musician, and a thoughtful guy, but you are totally devaluing the word "genius". Words should mean something. We shouldn't need to be impressed with breathless exaggeration.
German elections in 1932 are more relevant to contemporary multi-party democracy than to British colonialism in the 1700's.
You are truly deluded if you think PR is the solution to whatever problems people have with their reps. Name a single country where it has improved the actions of the government.