FYI, if you need to get an older scanner to work on OS X, then you probably want VueScan. For $50 you get fully-featured scanning software which works well under OS X.
ESR's reply seemed far too angry and less clever than warrented. He pounded the poor Microsoftie Drone with a sledgehammer when he should have used a rapier. For example:
Dear Microsoft: Thank you for your kind offer of employment. However, I'm afraid that I must refuse for the same reason a gazelle declines a dinner invitation from a pack of wolves. Inviting me to work for Microsoft would be rather like asking Rush Limbaugh to run the Democratic National Committee. Given than I am am working to undermine everything Microsoft stands for, I feel it would be in neither of our interests for me to accept employment there. Sincerely, ESR. PS: If your staff have suggested you contact a certain Linus Torvalds or a Richard Stallman about offering them similar employment, I'm afraid I have some bad news...
See how easy that was? Why go for confrontational and boorish when you can make your points more cleverly with wit and tact?
Eric has smart in spades, but his lack of tact and grace hurts the very Open Source movement he supports.
Saying "HA!" just because the source of information is from a publication whose political leanings you are opposed to does not refute the facts presented in that article. This is the Fallacy of Exclusion combined with Guilt by Association. Why not try to refute the facts presented, rather than suggest they must be wrong because of the source they come from? Or would you argue that mainstream conservative opinion is by definition always wrong?
Setting aside for a moment the question of whether the Federal government should be in the business of providing intra-state flood control, any honest look at the history of Louisiana flood control projects show a long history of bipartisan neglect stretching back more than 30 years, none of which has to do with the war in Iraq or global warming:
And there's a lot more evidence in than vein. This was a collective failure of all bracnhes of governments, local, state, and national, over the past 30 years.
"In my day, we didn't have any video games! We just used dice and pieces of cardboard!"
"That's nice gramps, but could you take care of those orcs on the right side of the screen?"
"I remember playing D&D when you had to triangulate between the Basic Edition boxed set, Grayhawk, and the AD&D Monster Manual! Good times, good times..."
"Yeah gramps, I'm sure that was the hotness back when Lincoln was President, but could you cast a fire spell at that troll, like, now?"
"I bet you've never even seen a 20-sided die!"
"Gramps, unless you stop pining about the stone age and start kicking some monster butt, I'm never going to let you play co-op on my PS2 ever again!"
Every single computer user in the world hates our software. This could negatively impact our profits.
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At night our engineers have recurring nightmares of carniverous iPod's hunting them down and tearing out their livers. This has harmed employee morale.
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Every full moon, our Board of Director's is required to pledge fealty to Bill Gates and sacrafice a yak to him. Should we be unable to find a yak one month, Microsoft would be able to crush us beneath their little toes.
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This form 10Q contains spyware. For a 10Q that doesn't contain spyware, click HERE.
Did I say "click HERE"? Hahaha, actually I meant click HERE.
How much clearer than that does it need to be? On what objective, non-partisan evidence can you base your opnion that Gore would have won a honest recount of Florida?
How important is replacing a Supreme Court justice? According to House Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (speaking of the Kelo eminent domain case):
In Monday's article we discussed how a dispute in the House Ethics Committee has kept the members from meeting and considering House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's activities that could have ramifications for Microsoft. In making legislators aware of many issues, the Redmond company's financial reach may be part of why the committee has delayed their investigation. Perhaps everyone involved hopes that a delay will allow the heat to pass on this and other issues.
I'm no Microsoft booster, but that's three sentences, marked by three weasels words, indicating the author isn't sure of anything, but has to throw these points in to support his conspiracy theory.
"Yes, Master Gates! We scurry to obey our Lordship's fearsome wrath!"
"Minion, it's been more than a month since I found a way to make myself more evil and I'm completely out of ideas! I was wondering if your abject, toady self could come up with anything better."
"Errrr, Your Worship could turn his steely fist of retribution to the task of creating more Windows security holes, oh Instigator of Mandatory Overtime?"
"Bah, that's an automated process now! Try harder, you pathetic cringing worm!"
"Ummm, you could always give more money to Darl McBride, oh Slayer of Open Source!"
"That idiotic bungler! We were cought faking evidence in the middle of our trial and still came out on top, and he can't even drag his pathetic little farce out three years?"
"Create an iPod clone, oh Exterminator of the Jobsian Herasy?"
"Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Next!"
"You could get William Hung and Billy Ray Cyrus to collaborate on a new version of "Achy Breaky Heart."
Gates fixed his minion with a steely glare. "Even I have limits."
"Well, then what about buying a spyware company, oh Vengeful Wielder of Billiions? One with really annoying popups and tracking software that's impossible to remove."
"What, like RealMedia?"
"Well, that would work, but I was thinking about Gator, oh Bringer of Viruses."
"That's it! Great idea! Good thinking, minion! Tonight you get extra fishheads in your gruel!"
"Yes, kind, kind members of the jury, you'll seeeeee how that nasty little hobbits Mr. Jackson wants to get greedy little mittens all over my client's precious box office receipts for no reason at all!"
KRYTEN: Okay, now let's recap: the limb is connected to neurons which run up to
the left hemisphere of your brain, which controls the right side of your
body. Now, all you have to do is merely command the arm to do something, and it
obeys. Now, let's practice. Right, concentrate, sir. I want you to think: "arm - pick up the ball".
LISTER: Okay.
KRYTEN: Now just think: "I will pick up the ball"
LISTER: I will pick up the ball.
KRYTEN: That's right, good, now, concentrate.
LISTER: *I will pick up the ball*.
KRYTEN: Okay, now *really* think: Hand --
LISTER: I will pick up the ball.
KRYTEN: -- pick up the ball. That's right, that's right.
LISTER: *Pick up the ball*.
KRYTEN: Pick up the ball. Hand, pick up the ball! That's right, now *keep* going, sir! Pick up the ball! Now, focus down onto that and keep the thought, sir! Hand, pick up the ball!
LISTER grunts, effort twisting his feature as the hand lies motionless
KRYTEN: That's right, sir, now keep going, now *really think*, now. Hand, pick up the ball! Now let's really get it going, sir!
LISTER: Pick up the ball! *Pick up the ball*!
KRYTEN: REALLY START TO GO NOW, SIR!
LISTER: HAND, PICK UP THE BALL
KRYTEN: NOW LET'S KEEP MOVING! KEEP ON, SIR, YOU *CAN* DO IT!
LISTER: HAND, PICK UP THE BALL!
KRYTEN: YOU'RE GOING TO MOVE THAT HAND, SIR! YOU'RE *GOING* TO MOVE IT! MOVE THE HAND, SIR!! LISTER: HAND! PICK UP THE BALL!! PICK UP THE BALL!!
"In other news, the European Space Agency also claimed that all it's crewmembers would have their own Hot Martian Love Slave."
All the aforementioned scenarios are about as likely. The ESA needs NASA's help merely to keep the white elephant known as the "International Space Station" alive; given the cracks in both the EU and the Eurozone, not to mention the creeping Euroscoliosis, the idea of ESA funding a Mars mission in our lifetimes is laughable on its face.
Thanks for posting to the thread. As long as you're here, and given your previous statements of support for Mac OS X's NeXTStep derived development environment, now that OS X is going to be on Intel, how difficult do you see the task of converting Active X controls to OpenGL? Or, for that matter, reverse engineering the entire Active X control set for OS X?
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"It lays golden eggs."
"Do we own the goose?"
"No, but we get half the eggs as long as the goose uses our nest."
"We ain't got to do nuthin' and we still get half the eggs?"
"Yep."
"But we don't own the goose."
"Nope."
"I say we kill it!"
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Eric has smart in spades, but his lack of tact and grace hurts the very Open Source movement he supports.
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- "June 1, 1999: Though Congress authorized West Jefferson to complete its levee projects in 1996, the state hasn't made matching money a priority the past three years because the weather "really didn't show us the potential dangers we had until the storms last year
... showed the seriousness of it," said Rep. John Alario, D-Westwego."
- "February 17, 1995: An Army Corps of Engineers "hit list" of recommended budget cuts would eliminate new flood-control programs in some of the nation's most flood-prone spots - where recent disasters have left thousands homeless and cost the federal government millions in emergency aid. Clinton administration officials argue that the flood-control efforts are local projects, not national, and should be paid for by local taxes.
Nationwide, the administration proposes cutting 98 new projects in 35 states and Puerto Rico, for an estimated savings of $29 million in 1996."
And there's a lot more evidence in than vein. This was a collective failure of all bracnhes of governments, local, state, and national, over the past 30 years.Crow T. Trollbot
"In this hypothetical storm scenario, it is estimated that it would take nine weeks to pump the water out of the city, and only then could assessments begin to determine what buildings were habitable or salvageable. Sewer, water, and the extensive forced drainage pumping systems would be damaged. National authorities would be scrambling to build tent cities to house the hundreds of thousands of refugees unable to return to their homes and without other relocation options."
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"That's nice gramps, but could you take care of those orcs on the right side of the screen?"
"I remember playing D&D when you had to triangulate between the Basic Edition boxed set, Grayhawk, and the AD&D Monster Manual! Good times, good times..."
"Yeah gramps, I'm sure that was the hotness back when Lincoln was President, but could you cast a fire spell at that troll, like, now?"
"I bet you've never even seen a 20-sided die!"
"Gramps, unless you stop pining about the stone age and start kicking some monster butt, I'm never going to let you play co-op on my PS2 ever again!"
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A comprehensive study of the 2000 presidential election in Florida suggests that if the U.S. Supreme Court had allowed a statewide vote recount to proceed, Republican candidate George W. Bush would still have been elected president.
How much clearer than that does it need to be? On what objective, non-partisan evidence can you base your opnion that Gore would have won a honest recount of Florida?
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"O'Connor should be remembered as one of the worst contributors to American jurisprudence in recent history. She was notorious as a "swing vote," equally maddening to Left and Right at various times. But she consistently held one of the most expansionist views of judicial power, committed always to the most capacious version of the Court's authority over American life. A few years ago I told my students my "O'Connor rule" for saving oneself a lot of trouble: If the Court has declared anything unconstitutional, and the vote was 5-4, and the fifth vote was provided by O'Connor, the case was wrongly decided. Reading the opinions is necessary only to confirm that judgment."
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I'm no Microsoft booster, but that's three sentences, marked by three weasels words, indicating the author isn't sure of anything, but has to throw these points in to support his conspiracy theory.
I stopped reading there.
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"Yes, Master Gates! We scurry to obey our Lordship's fearsome wrath!"
"Minion, it's been more than a month since I found a way to make myself more evil and I'm completely out of ideas! I was wondering if your abject, toady self could come up with anything better."
"Errrr, Your Worship could turn his steely fist of retribution to the task of creating more Windows security holes, oh Instigator of Mandatory Overtime?"
"Bah, that's an automated process now! Try harder, you pathetic cringing worm!"
"Ummm, you could always give more money to Darl McBride, oh Slayer of Open Source!"
"That idiotic bungler! We were cought faking evidence in the middle of our trial and still came out on top, and he can't even drag his pathetic little farce out three years?"
"Create an iPod clone, oh Exterminator of the Jobsian Herasy?"
"Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Next!"
"You could get William Hung and Billy Ray Cyrus to collaborate on a new version of "Achy Breaky Heart."
Gates fixed his minion with a steely glare. "Even I have limits."
"Well, then what about buying a spyware company, oh Vengeful Wielder of Billiions? One with really annoying popups and tracking software that's impossible to remove."
"What, like RealMedia?"
"Well, that would work, but I was thinking about Gator, oh Bringer of Viruses."
"That's it! Great idea! Good thinking, minion! Tonight you get extra fishheads in your gruel!"
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You've obviously got a weird cowlick thing going on on the left side of your head...
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LISTER: Okay.
KRYTEN: Now just think: "I will pick up the ball"
LISTER: I will pick up the ball.
KRYTEN: That's right, good, now, concentrate.
LISTER: *I will pick up the ball*.
KRYTEN: Okay, now *really* think: Hand --
LISTER: I will pick up the ball.
KRYTEN: -- pick up the ball. That's right, that's right.
LISTER: *Pick up the ball*.
KRYTEN: Pick up the ball. Hand, pick up the ball! That's right, now *keep* going, sir! Pick up the ball! Now, focus down onto that and keep the thought, sir! Hand, pick up the ball!
LISTER grunts, effort twisting his feature as the hand lies motionless
KRYTEN: That's right, sir, now keep going, now *really think*, now. Hand, pick up the ball! Now let's really get it going, sir!
LISTER: Pick up the ball! *Pick up the ball*!
KRYTEN: REALLY START TO GO NOW, SIR!
LISTER: HAND, PICK UP THE BALL
KRYTEN: NOW LET'S KEEP MOVING! KEEP ON, SIR, YOU *CAN* DO IT!
LISTER: HAND, PICK UP THE BALL!
KRYTEN: YOU'RE GOING TO MOVE THAT HAND, SIR! YOU'RE *GOING* TO MOVE IT! MOVE THE HAND, SIR!! LISTER: HAND! PICK UP THE BALL!! PICK UP THE BALL!!
KRYTEN: YES SIR! YES! WE'RE STARTING TO MOVE, NOW! YES! IT'S DEFINITELY MOVING, SIR! YES!! Oh! Bravo, sir!!
LISTER grabs the ball and sets it three or four inches away.
- Crow T. Trollbot
All the aforementioned scenarios are about as likely. The ESA needs NASA's help merely to keep the white elephant known as the "International Space Station" alive; given the cracks in both the EU and the Eurozone, not to mention the creeping Euroscoliosis, the idea of ESA funding a Mars mission in our lifetimes is laughable on its face.
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Thanks for posting to the thread. As long as you're here, and given your previous statements of support for Mac OS X's NeXTStep derived development environment, now that OS X is going to be on Intel, how difficult do you see the task of converting Active X controls to OpenGL? Or, for that matter, reverse engineering the entire Active X control set for OS X?
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"ass-kissing punditry"
"smugly"
"squirm"
"slither"
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Pinky: I think so, Brain, but won't Bill have to divorce Darl McBride first?
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Place your bets now...
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