Restart X? whatever for? I often run two different X sessions on my system, with different configurations.
startx --:1
I've also done it with kdm, in fact when I was playing with the kdm source code I had two different versions of kdm running on my machine at once!
Oh really? I;m going to have to start asking for badge IDs as a matter of course. False arrest and harrassment charges are rather easy for a good lawyer to win. Cops may not like it, but they must give you those IDs when you ask.
IF the cop is less than polite make sure you get that id and file a complaint. Psychology studies have shown that cops are in a position of power that is very easy to abuse, you need to remind them that you are watching.
The people of Oragon do pay for those HOV lanes. It is called the gas tax. Come to think of it, I personally pay for part of your HOV lanes, even though I live in MN and have never driven in CA. Most HOV lanes are on federal hiways, which means my federal taxes (including gas tax) go to build it.
Don't recall which case, but the supreem court has ruled that cops do not have to protect you. Case came out when one man broke into a house where 3 women lived, trapped them all in a bedroom, and was raping them. One women (under the bed?) managed to call the police. When they came to the door he answered, and said "no, everything is alright. No, you cannot search without a warrent." (or words to that effect) After the police left he went back to the rape.
A commonly cited case when gun control people bring up the police.
Fight back is a good idea. You missed one important point: get their id. By law they must give you their badge ID. When they stop you for no reason all you need is a lawyer to file charges against them.
BTW, while technically they are not required to help you in getting that id, if you don't have a pen handy and they refuse to lend you their's, write a formal letter of complaint to the police chief. Might or might not result in anything, but it will go on his record. (In most areas you can and should check that record to make sure it is there)
I was talking in '97, but everyone called me some sort of Luddite who didn't understand the new economy. (Though not in those words) The only difference is some (few) of them got their money out in time, most lost a lot of money, while I never had money in it; and now nobody understands the new economy.
If you had been listening there were plenty of people talking about how stupid a lot of these online businesses are. So, will you pay attention to my new words of wisdon: Pay attention to the nay-sayers, they might have wisdom worth listening too. Hopefully you will read that correctly, and not see it as "listen to all the nay-sayers and follow their path".
We get vacation in the US. At least 2 weeks to start with most jobs. They encourage us to take it too. Employeers know that people need to relax to work so they want us to take that time.
I'll grant we sometimes go too far. However many people have gone too far the otherway. Like the time we sent our project leader to the Europe branch for one afternoon (everyone needed his expertise). He spend 3 hours getting them setup for a demonstration, and just as he was about to start the important parts everyone left the office because it was quiting time. Nobody was willing to learn something useful for their job, by staying late just once! I consider that worse than workaholics. The workaholic will lose his family (if he even gets one).
1. Abundant natural resources
Yeah, but we are not alone in that. For that matter, other countries could have bought those resources and made something with them.
2 Slavery, followed by cheap immigrant labour.
Slavery was strictly in the south. Not as useful a you might think, slaves eat year round, and were used mostly for farm work. Slavery was illegal on about half the land, the half that most of the population lived on. By the time the US was really making the big ecconomic gains slavery was illegal
Immigrant labour. Yes, but they did better themselves and their kids while working hard. We don't have it today, yet the US is still a dominate global power. Not that cheap labour isn't helpful, but it isn't enough.
3. A large population.
Not compared to Europe, China, or India. The first had the education to make something of their lives (I'm not sure how China and India fared historicly), and while they could have had cheap labour, since most of the immigrants came from there. There are still many areas on earth that can claim a larger population.
4. Good education.
Europe had it, or at least could have. So could most countries. I'm not sure if they did, but if so why wasn't it enough? If not, why not?
5. Capitalism
So why is everyone so willing to not use it? I agree it is a major factor. It is also a major reason that we still have a work ethic, you can get ahead if you work hard, if you don't work hard you won't.
6. A government willing to use its muscle (military and economic) to get its way.
When? You didn't see that until Vietinam, (maybe Korea) which happened well after the US was a global power. The US was dragged into both world wars, at the start of each we wanted nothing to do with them. Don't bring up the "Spanish-American war" which wasn't really a war, and the Spanish were still a major power at that time, and if they had tried over the years should have been a bigger power.
I've had 6 months before, but it didn't help. I used it up except for a month, and got anyjob before it completely ran out. A year latter I got a job in my field again, but before I could start replenishing my savings they went out of business. Now I'm down to 1.5 months in savings and unemployment. I tried, I had the replacement, but the downturn lasted more than 6 months and caught me more than once.
I sometimes wish I hasn't bought a house, I could have spent my money getting to Europe, and live there for a few months and take in some culture. (though I'm not sure if that would get me a job when I got back, and I'd need one badly when I got back) Still, that is life, you take your chances and do the best you can.
Part of the Windows XP program requires the windows startup screen to appear in 6 seconds. Or at least they proposed that one, didn't Microsoft force that through?
I agree POST can be a problem. My system takes over a minute to finish POST (yes I have timed it).
On the car? How does that help when he sells the car?
I know of a case where a guy got a DWI while driving a company truck (after hours, legally he can only drive it for work purposes). They fired him of course, but that company was now stuck with a license plate with the offender label (in MN, IIRC this means it had a W on it or some such).
Seems like the wrong solution to me. This guy can still drive someone else's car without the plate, while the company he used to work with is stuck with the truck that advertising a drunk driver at the wheel.
I can't normally tell the difference, but if you hit a chord in your alternate tuning that doesn't work, I can tell that, it sounds awful. The correct tuning does sound better for the chords it gets right though, but you really can only tell the difference in a side by side comparition.
Equal temperment isn't necessarily a godsend for the piano. Many old organs are not equal tempered, and Bach relyed on that for some of his masterpieces. However you must be aware of what is going on when you aren't in equal temperment and avoid the bad keys.
Very few people who tune by ear get the same tuning. Electronic tuners are sometimes better called electronic arbitrators, because when two guys start arguing about tuning (I've see this happen) you pull out the electronic device and use that as a compromise that will work.
If there is only one person who cares about tuning, give him your insterment, let him tune by ear and enjoy it. There are compromises in tuning, and the by ear guy normally has a different compromise in mind.
The only way to get a perfect tuning is to have one string for each note, but remember that a note flat is not the same as the next note down sharp, making for 30+ strings in one scale, something few could deal with. (unless you have a fretless insterment in which case you can do these sharps and flats by ear)
Before you say tuning is a science you need to learn something about tuning. The correct tuning is NOT based on math, where you have A at 440 double it for the next A, and then divide that interval into 12 and put each note in its place based on the division. Well it is, we call it standard temperment (or even temperment), and it is the most common temperment in use today. However Standard temperment is always wrong. We use it because it sounds okay everywhere and we have trained our ears to accept it. True musicians (of which I am not) play with temperment, which allows them to play one chord that is perfect, but it comes at the expensive of some other chord being so wrong even a tone deaf person won't like it. There are many other temperments, with various advantages and disadvantages.
Bach's well tempered organ was written to show off how a chord sounds different in different keys, and doesn't sound the same on with standard temperment.
This is far more complex than a simple science. Stick with standard temperments and your right, it is a science, but are true artist knows and [sometimes] uses other temperments when they are better. That is art.
What does taking the license away matter? I've ridden with people who have had their license taken away[1]. People will just drive anyway. Some people will follow the rules, but at least in the US there often isn't an option if they take away your license.
[1]I only found out (in the one case I know of) because close to our destination he let out a sigh of relief as the cop who passed him going the other way just motioned slow down instead of stopping him.
If you do get caught with illegal roms your case is much better if you can say "Look, I tried to buy these, but they wouldn't let me. See, I bought all the star roms titles." You are still in legal trouble, but the judge and jury will look on you more favorably. In fact they might even dismiss the case because if the company was really interesting in their property they would still be selling it. Okay, that last is a big stretch. You are still better off being legal as much as you can though.
It doesn't happen with alcohol? Where do you live? I've met a few people in my time that live for their alcohol, and I mostly run in crowds that don't touch the stuff. Come to think of it, I've never seen anyone actually get that far on cocaine that they turn to theft. (though again because of the crowds and areas I hang around in I wouldn't expect to see them)
The effects of drugs are well known. Alcohol is destructive, as is cocaine, or pot. Some worse than others. Perhaps problems would go down if drugs were legal, perhaps not. If you are going to compare to alcohol then be honest about it.
I hope not. There should be two unrelated suppliers of ISS transport until going into space is about as common as visits between Europe and North America. (both business and vacation) The shuttle has been our of commission for about a year, what if the replacement (from either side) suddenly has a major disaster and engineers decide that it is a design flaw that shouldn't be risked.
How many US astronauts have died in space? Both shuttles were in the earths atmosphere when astronauts died. I'll admit my memory isn't very good, but I can't recall anyone who died in space itself. Many have died in launch, re-entry, or tests, but in space itself I can't recall any.
I have to disagree a little. Many [1] of those I suspect of tax fraud are also involved with voting for those who will raise my taxes. If they had to pay taxes some of them would change their votes.
[1] for some definition of many... I have no idea what the number is, only some informal guesses based on the behavior of some people.
This claim is inconsistent with the practices (such as the Inquisition) of christian churches in the past.
The acts of many churches that call themselves Christian are inconsistent with the teachings of the Bible, which they claim as their source.
Anyone can claim to be Christian, and anyone can claim to speak for God. A lot of people do one or both. God knows who his true servants are. God does not allow me to speak for him, so I cannot tell you who they are. I can (if we wanted to get into it) spend a lot of time going over a lot of scripture and you can make some strong statements based on that scripture in some cases. Still a lot of borderline cases, not in the least because of all the forgiveness cases where someone fits many/all the signs of the unsaved, but are...
I mostly agree, taxes should be collected in one lump payment. It should be due on election day though, make people think a little bit on if these taxes are worth it.
Note, this is not a poll tax, you can pay the tax and not vote if you want. If you don't owe taxes you can still vote.
You always hear about those people who get paid in cash, so they never files taxes... The few times I've heard of them I've found out they are the most rabid "soak the rich in taxes" people. Some make 6 figures, and pay no taxes. Then vote for the guy who raises my taxes.
Fortunately such people are rare, but when they not only cheat the system, but then turn around and sock me for more. If I ever find someone doing this I'll turn them in, please do the same.
Read closely, last time I looked (many years ago), My dad could declare me as a dependant if he wanted to, but if he choose not to I could not declare myself as a dependant.
The rules for college kids suck. They assume your parents are helping you out, even if they are not. Unless you get married, which is stupid in it's own way. (I considered it, marriage is cheap, as is divorce after we graduate. Simple pre-nupt... Make sure you agree to never sleep with each other to make it easy, and preferably never see each other again until after you graduate)
Or maybe cableless since fiber isn't necessarily wire.
I want my laptop online no matter where I go (bus, train, airplane, local park, home, or office. If they make it cheap enough I won't bother with a home network anymore, even my desktop systems should connect to it. And of course the TV, game machine, PDA, and toaster will all connect to it. (Though I still haven't figured out why the toaster needs a net connection)
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Restart X? whatever for? I often run two different X sessions on my system, with different configurations. :1
startx --
I've also done it with kdm, in fact when I was playing with the kdm source code I had two different versions of kdm running on my machine at once!
Oh really? I;m going to have to start asking for badge IDs as a matter of course. False arrest and harrassment charges are rather easy for a good lawyer to win. Cops may not like it, but they must give you those IDs when you ask.
IF the cop is less than polite make sure you get that id and file a complaint. Psychology studies have shown that cops are in a position of power that is very easy to abuse, you need to remind them that you are watching.
The people of Oragon do pay for those HOV lanes. It is called the gas tax. Come to think of it, I personally pay for part of your HOV lanes, even though I live in MN and have never driven in CA. Most HOV lanes are on federal hiways, which means my federal taxes (including gas tax) go to build it.
Don't recall which case, but the supreem court has ruled that cops do not have to protect you. Case came out when one man broke into a house where 3 women lived, trapped them all in a bedroom, and was raping them. One women (under the bed?) managed to call the police. When they came to the door he answered, and said "no, everything is alright. No, you cannot search without a warrent." (or words to that effect) After the police left he went back to the rape.
A commonly cited case when gun control people bring up the police.
Fight back is a good idea. You missed one important point: get their id. By law they must give you their badge ID. When they stop you for no reason all you need is a lawyer to file charges against them.
BTW, while technically they are not required to help you in getting that id, if you don't have a pen handy and they refuse to lend you their's, write a formal letter of complaint to the police chief. Might or might not result in anything, but it will go on his record. (In most areas you can and should check that record to make sure it is there)
I was talking in '97, but everyone called me some sort of Luddite who didn't understand the new economy. (Though not in those words) The only difference is some (few) of them got their money out in time, most lost a lot of money, while I never had money in it; and now nobody understands the new economy.
If you had been listening there were plenty of people talking about how stupid a lot of these online businesses are. So, will you pay attention to my new words of wisdon: Pay attention to the nay-sayers, they might have wisdom worth listening too. Hopefully you will read that correctly, and not see it as "listen to all the nay-sayers and follow their path".
We get vacation in the US. At least 2 weeks to start with most jobs. They encourage us to take it too. Employeers know that people need to relax to work so they want us to take that time.
I'll grant we sometimes go too far. However many people have gone too far the otherway. Like the time we sent our project leader to the Europe branch for one afternoon (everyone needed his expertise). He spend 3 hours getting them setup for a demonstration, and just as he was about to start the important parts everyone left the office because it was quiting time. Nobody was willing to learn something useful for their job, by staying late just once! I consider that worse than workaholics. The workaholic will lose his family (if he even gets one).
Gotta respond:
1. Abundant natural resources
Yeah, but we are not alone in that. For that matter, other countries could have bought those resources and made something with them.
2 Slavery, followed by cheap immigrant labour.
Slavery was strictly in the south. Not as useful a you might think, slaves eat year round, and were used mostly for farm work. Slavery was illegal on about half the land, the half that most of the population lived on. By the time the US was really making the big ecconomic gains slavery was illegal
Immigrant labour. Yes, but they did better themselves and their kids while working hard. We don't have it today, yet the US is still a dominate global power. Not that cheap labour isn't helpful, but it isn't enough.
3. A large population.
Not compared to Europe, China, or India. The first had the education to make something of their lives (I'm not sure how China and India fared historicly), and while they could have had cheap labour, since most of the immigrants came from there. There are still many areas on earth that can claim a larger population.
4. Good education.
Europe had it, or at least could have. So could most countries. I'm not sure if they did, but if so why wasn't it enough? If not, why not?
5. Capitalism
So why is everyone so willing to not use it? I agree it is a major factor. It is also a major reason that we still have a work ethic, you can get ahead if you work hard, if you don't work hard you won't.
6. A government willing to use its muscle (military and economic) to get its way.
When? You didn't see that until Vietinam, (maybe Korea) which happened well after the US was a global power. The US was dragged into both world wars, at the start of each we wanted nothing to do with them. Don't bring up the "Spanish-American war" which wasn't really a war, and the Spanish were still a major power at that time, and if they had tried over the years should have been a bigger power.
I've had 6 months before, but it didn't help. I used it up except for a month, and got anyjob before it completely ran out. A year latter I got a job in my field again, but before I could start replenishing my savings they went out of business. Now I'm down to 1.5 months in savings and unemployment. I tried, I had the replacement, but the downturn lasted more than 6 months and caught me more than once.
I sometimes wish I hasn't bought a house, I could have spent my money getting to Europe, and live there for a few months and take in some culture. (though I'm not sure if that would get me a job when I got back, and I'd need one badly when I got back) Still, that is life, you take your chances and do the best you can.
Part of the Windows XP program requires the windows startup screen to appear in 6 seconds. Or at least they proposed that one, didn't Microsoft force that through?
I agree POST can be a problem. My system takes over a minute to finish POST (yes I have timed it).
On the car? How does that help when he sells the car?
I know of a case where a guy got a DWI while driving a company truck (after hours, legally he can only drive it for work purposes). They fired him of course, but that company was now stuck with a license plate with the offender label (in MN, IIRC this means it had a W on it or some such).
Seems like the wrong solution to me. This guy can still drive someone else's car without the plate, while the company he used to work with is stuck with the truck that advertising a drunk driver at the wheel.
I can't normally tell the difference, but if you hit a chord in your alternate tuning that doesn't work, I can tell that, it sounds awful. The correct tuning does sound better for the chords it gets right though, but you really can only tell the difference in a side by side comparition.
Equal temperment isn't necessarily a godsend for the piano. Many old organs are not equal tempered, and Bach relyed on that for some of his masterpieces. However you must be aware of what is going on when you aren't in equal temperment and avoid the bad keys.
Very few people who tune by ear get the same tuning. Electronic tuners are sometimes better called electronic arbitrators, because when two guys start arguing about tuning (I've see this happen) you pull out the electronic device and use that as a compromise that will work.
If there is only one person who cares about tuning, give him your insterment, let him tune by ear and enjoy it. There are compromises in tuning, and the by ear guy normally has a different compromise in mind.
The only way to get a perfect tuning is to have one string for each note, but remember that a note flat is not the same as the next note down sharp, making for 30+ strings in one scale, something few could deal with. (unless you have a fretless insterment in which case you can do these sharps and flats by ear)
Before you say tuning is a science you need to learn something about tuning. The correct tuning is NOT based on math, where you have A at 440 double it for the next A, and then divide that interval into 12 and put each note in its place based on the division. Well it is, we call it standard temperment (or even temperment), and it is the most common temperment in use today. However Standard temperment is always wrong. We use it because it sounds okay everywhere and we have trained our ears to accept it. True musicians (of which I am not) play with temperment, which allows them to play one chord that is perfect, but it comes at the expensive of some other chord being so wrong even a tone deaf person won't like it. There are many other temperments, with various advantages and disadvantages.
Bach's well tempered organ was written to show off how a chord sounds different in different keys, and doesn't sound the same on with standard temperment.
This is far more complex than a simple science. Stick with standard temperments and your right, it is a science, but are true artist knows and [sometimes] uses other temperments when they are better. That is art.
What does taking the license away matter? I've ridden with people who have had their license taken away[1]. People will just drive anyway. Some people will follow the rules, but at least in the US there often isn't an option if they take away your license.
[1]I only found out (in the one case I know of) because close to our destination he let out a sigh of relief as the cop who passed him going the other way just motioned slow down instead of stopping him.
If you do get caught with illegal roms your case is much better if you can say "Look, I tried to buy these, but they wouldn't let me. See, I bought all the star roms titles." You are still in legal trouble, but the judge and jury will look on you more favorably. In fact they might even dismiss the case because if the company was really interesting in their property they would still be selling it. Okay, that last is a big stretch. You are still better off being legal as much as you can though.
It doesn't happen with alcohol? Where do you live? I've met a few people in my time that live for their alcohol, and I mostly run in crowds that don't touch the stuff. Come to think of it, I've never seen anyone actually get that far on cocaine that they turn to theft. (though again because of the crowds and areas I hang around in I wouldn't expect to see them)
The effects of drugs are well known. Alcohol is destructive, as is cocaine, or pot. Some worse than others. Perhaps problems would go down if drugs were legal, perhaps not. If you are going to compare to alcohol then be honest about it.
I hope not. There should be two unrelated suppliers of ISS transport until going into space is about as common as visits between Europe and North America. (both business and vacation) The shuttle has been our of commission for about a year, what if the replacement (from either side) suddenly has a major disaster and engineers decide that it is a design flaw that shouldn't be risked.
How many US astronauts have died in space? Both shuttles were in the earths atmosphere when astronauts died. I'll admit my memory isn't very good, but I can't recall anyone who died in space itself. Many have died in launch, re-entry, or tests, but in space itself I can't recall any.
I have to disagree a little. Many [1] of those I suspect of tax fraud are also involved with voting for those who will raise my taxes. If they had to pay taxes some of them would change their votes.
[1] for some definition of many... I have no idea what the number is, only some informal guesses based on the behavior of some people.
This claim is inconsistent with the practices (such as the Inquisition) of christian churches in the past.
The acts of many churches that call themselves Christian are inconsistent with the teachings of the Bible, which they claim as their source.
Anyone can claim to be Christian, and anyone can claim to speak for God. A lot of people do one or both. God knows who his true servants are. God does not allow me to speak for him, so I cannot tell you who they are. I can (if we wanted to get into it) spend a lot of time going over a lot of scripture and you can make some strong statements based on that scripture in some cases. Still a lot of borderline cases, not in the least because of all the forgiveness cases where someone fits many/all the signs of the unsaved, but are...
I mostly agree, taxes should be collected in one lump payment. It should be due on election day though, make people think a little bit on if these taxes are worth it.
Note, this is not a poll tax, you can pay the tax and not vote if you want. If you don't owe taxes you can still vote.
You always hear about those people who get paid in cash, so they never files taxes... The few times I've heard of them I've found out they are the most rabid "soak the rich in taxes" people. Some make 6 figures, and pay no taxes. Then vote for the guy who raises my taxes.
Fortunately such people are rare, but when they not only cheat the system, but then turn around and sock me for more. If I ever find someone doing this I'll turn them in, please do the same.
Read closely, last time I looked (many years ago), My dad could declare me as a dependant if he wanted to, but if he choose not to I could not declare myself as a dependant.
The rules for college kids suck. They assume your parents are helping you out, even if they are not. Unless you get married, which is stupid in it's own way. (I considered it, marriage is cheap, as is divorce after we graduate. Simple pre-nupt... Make sure you agree to never sleep with each other to make it easy, and preferably never see each other again until after you graduate)
Or maybe cableless since fiber isn't necessarily wire.
I want my laptop online no matter where I go (bus, train, airplane, local park, home, or office. If they make it cheap enough I won't bother with a home network anymore, even my desktop systems should connect to it. And of course the TV, game machine, PDA, and toaster will all connect to it. (Though I still haven't figured out why the toaster needs a net connection)