There is no need to use the keyboard to cut and paste.
1) you can select and drag the selection anywhere (more intuitive than cut and paste). 2) you can select, then right click/cut, move cursor, right click/paste without touching a key.
My issues with M$ are cheating, lying, breaking other peoples product and *now* that they are getting into bed with DRM companies so I won't control my own computer if it is a M$ one.
I have to choose between 20+ very good boardgames, 12+ new very entertaining TV series (22 hours for $14.99), 18+ new somewhat to very entertaining movies, 6+ engrossing books, playing sports, getting massages, and relistening or rewatching something from my now huge collection (400+ dvd's, 30 to 40 seasons of TV shows) and using the money to upgrade from a burger to a steak or perhaps a fine wine.
Now add to that the lack of good music (I recently added "Blue October" - first encountered via a non-commercial copy of their music btw. I would have never bought them "cold" but now I like their music a lot- they are very good!). At one point, you listened to the radio to get exposure to new music. Now you get recommendations from friends, boards, or you look for popular torrents because the radio is all crap/same songs now.
Anyway, so you have $40- the question is what are you going to spend it on? Today you have MANY options. If they want to get a share of your $40, they better lower their prices. Because $22 for a 2 hour CD is not going to fly compared to a new boardgame, a season of TV, and a movie for the same price.
And I thought it was because they were taught to blow themselves up and that we were not human since the age of 5. I thought it was because they have a culture that celebrates death and has absolutely no compunction about lying blatantly.
I voted against bush. based on social issues.
The only problem with iraq was the decision to stay with too few troops. If he wasn't going to commit, he should have withdrawn the troops as soon as saddam was found so they would be a credible threat again. If he was going to commit, then he needed to at least triple the troops, disarm the population, shoot anyone sneaking into the country, and utterly smash any kind of resistance with gross overkill anytime it popped up.
Then he needed to institute a new school system with books that don't we are non-human but instead taught western values. And hold the line firmly while a new generation of iraqi's grew up that had the same values we do.
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It's very convincing to me when I see a mullah preaching tolerance to us in english and then right after that I see video of him saying it is okay to enslave and kill any non-muslim in arabic to muslims. And videos of children preaching jihad and blowing themselves up from bloody public television shows are pretty convincing too.
Of course, those are preaching to the choir. I've had this opinion since I interacted with them as a college student and found them to be arrogant liars without much honor. It was a unique experience among all the interactions I had with people from all over the world. It was almost like they were insane.
They want to kill us- it is a war to the death- and they are teaching this world view to their 5 year olds. It's going to continue being a problem until they stop. And even the "westernized" Saudi Arabia were still doing all this as recently as last year.
Until here I was with you: like it or not, this country was founded on theistic principles - primarily Christian
It was founded by DEISTS. Many of the important figures held Christianity in poor regard.
Yes, they believed that a supreme being existed.
No, the big guys were not christians.
Franklin: You desire to know something of my religion. It is the first time I have been questioned upon it. But I cannot take your curiosity amiss, and shall endeavor in a few words to gratify it. Here is my creed. I believe in one God, the creator of the universe. That he governs by his providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion, and I regard them as you do in whatever sect I meet with them.
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think his system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble....when the clergy addressed General Washington, on his departure from the government, it was observed in their consultation that he had never, on any occasion, said a word to the public which showed a belief in the Christian religion, and they thought they should so pen their address as to force him at length to disclose publicly whether he was a Christian or not. However, he observed, the old fox was too cunning for them....
The Reverend Doctor James Abercrombie, rector of the church Washington : "Sir, Washington was a Deist."
Thomas Jefferson: Jefferson did not believe in the divinity of Jesus, but he had high esteem for Jesus' moral teachings, which he viewed as the "principles of a pure deism, and juster notions of the attributes of God, to reform [prior Jewish] moral doctrines to the standard of reason, justice & philanthropy, and to inculcate the belief of a future state.
Most of them were Masons. Masons different beliefs than Christians.
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Some christians are fine people. It really bothers me when they throw aside their morals to try to push religion deeper into our secular government. The founding fathers did *not* put "in god we trust" on our money. it was put there much later.
So yes-- they did mostly believe in a supreme being but not in christianity. It became a popular american religion much later.
His point was most people are spoonfed what to believe by the media.
His thread was not flamy or an attack in any particular way I could tell. It was a statement followed by a supporting example. And someone who is "global warming's number one fan" probably modded him down to suppress his supporting example- not his comment.
Actually it would specifically be political and religious statements by websites and Oprah that they would have been intending to protect with the 1st amendment. Protection of porn was purely a side effect.
As a healthy person approaching the half century I now have 30 years of memory of scientific facts that influenced policy and culture that turned out to be wrong (sometimes grossly so).
Facts are always correct. It's the *conclusions* people draw from the facts that are so often wrong.
And you misprosecute the war to begin with it makes it worse.
Iraq was winnable.
They just needed to use the Powell doctrine and do some serious post-war planning.
Since they ignored a doctrine that had worked for every conflict since viet nam and post-war planning consisted of "and they will love us and hug us and call us george" it was a failure going in.
It's a bold plan- create a fair democracy in the region as an example to the rest of the region that would undercut their autocratic governments.
At this point, our forces are tied down by their politicians and the opposing forces are too organized. The best thing would be to leave and then return in a decade and kick the anthill over again.
Vs the unified combined might of those countries, fighting as if they were from the same country... yes.
Vs a force literally combined of those armies... iffy.
However, it would be much easier for that many people to attack in other ways. Key resource points and so on. Outsourcing areas would be another. Then there is the fact that most of our manufacturing capability is no longer physically in the united states.
And our labor is now much more expensive than it used to be.
Of course in an all-out war, the combined forces couldn't gather anywhere without being nuked out of oblivion.
Yes- in the US there is no national health care. If you have national health care then none of my advice applies. It must be sweet to live in a country where you can actually retire early if you work hard.
They have these lovely "negotiated" rates here.
97% of people pay them. So a test will be $100, an operation $4100. However.. if you are in the 3% who don't have insurance then you get the "street" rate (even tho almost NOONE pays that rate) and the test would be $575 and the operation would be $24,900.
If you get a chronic condition (hmm. diabetes. high blood pressure. etc.) then you become uninsurable. Your only answer is to work.
If you have a rare and unusually expensive chronic condition then the company will find a reason to fire you in most cases. It's that or drop insurance for everyone else.
There is never an ROI on doing code cleanup and making it easier to maintain from a manager / new development programmer's perspective.
As a maintenance programmer tho... I see faster, more stable, easier to maintain code out of even the little things I manage to sneak in. A solid code cleaning can cut weeks or months off of other projects on the same code base. From everything we've heard- windows source is a mess.
What they probably need to do is spend 6 months and do an architectural code cleanup. There would be no immediately ROI however every project for the rest of time would benefit so theoretically their ROI is infinite.:)
As a maintenance programmer, I've frequently taken multiple pages of code out of programs without changing their functionality. In a large number of cases products are shipped by the development staff with dead code, goofy code, very inefficient code, redundant code, etc.
No because by that time, the patent expired (MUCH faster than copyright) and there are 37 other companies producing widgets.
Why is music so much more special than any other creative work?
Copyright law does not exist to enrich artists. It exists to *encourage* them to create works. Are we experiencing a wave of artists refusing to create works because copyright law isn't strong enough? Are we not in fact experiencing a huge GLUT of entertainment which is only going to become larger over time?
Exactly how long does an artist get to be paid for the same work while the rest of the planet is paid at the end of a week for a week's work and that's it. Why do they rate such special priveleges?
The *REASON* we gave it to them is to encourage creative works. I wasn't aware of any massive shortage of creative works under the old law. If anything, the price is dropping on DVD works so steeply that you wonder why they are fighting so hard to protect them. Why on earth would I tie up my band width for a month to download a DVD, spend the time burning it, spend the money on a DVD, when I could buy it for ($5.99) as i can many titles this week at Fry's.
Any exposure to light and you are going to start losing data. You must use light to scan it.
This might be good for storage for under 2 years- can't see it for archival storage unless you greatly reduce the number of colors so fade won't matter.
In america, citizenry gun ownership lowers crime because of the underlying culture. In iraq, lots of guns and they are killing each other (of course not just with guns- gasoline, bombs, power drills- very inventive people).
If they sued, wouldn't the defendent have the ability to see Microsoft's source in discovery?
I'm betting they have an unbelievable number of patent violations, stolen GPL code, etc. in their code base because as a closed code base it's probably never been reviewed.
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As much as I dislike microsoft...
There is no need to use the keyboard to cut and paste.
1) you can select and drag the selection anywhere (more intuitive than cut and paste).
2) you can select, then right click/cut, move cursor, right click/paste without touching a key.
My issues with M$ are cheating, lying, breaking other peoples product and *now* that they are getting into bed with DRM companies so I won't control my own computer if it is a M$ one.
It's not just CD's.
Say I have $40 dollars.
I have to choose between 20+ very good boardgames, 12+ new very entertaining TV series (22 hours for $14.99), 18+ new somewhat to very entertaining movies, 6+ engrossing books, playing sports, getting massages, and relistening or rewatching something from my now huge collection (400+ dvd's, 30 to 40 seasons of TV shows) and using the money to upgrade from a burger to a steak or perhaps a fine wine.
Now add to that the lack of good music (I recently added "Blue October" - first encountered via a non-commercial copy of their music btw. I would have never bought them "cold" but now I like their music a lot- they are very good!). At one point, you listened to the radio to get exposure to new music. Now you get recommendations from friends, boards, or you look for popular torrents because the radio is all crap/same songs now.
Anyway, so you have $40- the question is what are you going to spend it on? Today you have MANY options. If they want to get a share of your $40, they better lower their prices. Because $22 for a 2 hour CD is not going to fly compared to a new boardgame, a season of TV, and a movie for the same price.
Funny,
And I thought it was because they were taught to blow themselves up and that we were not human since the age of 5. I thought it was because they have a culture that celebrates death and has absolutely no compunction about lying blatantly.
I voted against bush. based on social issues.
The only problem with iraq was the decision to stay with too few troops. If he wasn't going to commit, he should have withdrawn the troops as soon as saddam was found so they would be a credible threat again. If he was going to commit, then he needed to at least triple the troops, disarm the population, shoot anyone sneaking into the country, and utterly smash any kind of resistance with gross overkill anytime it popped up.
Then he needed to institute a new school system with books that don't we are non-human but instead taught western values. And hold the line firmly while a new generation of iraqi's grew up that had the same values we do.
---
It's very convincing to me when I see a mullah preaching tolerance to us in english and then right after that I see video of him saying it is okay to enslave and kill any non-muslim in arabic to muslims. And videos of children preaching jihad and blowing themselves up from bloody public television shows are pretty convincing too.
Of course, those are preaching to the choir. I've had this opinion since I interacted with them as a college student and found them to be arrogant liars without much honor. It was a unique experience among all the interactions I had with people from all over the world. It was almost like they were insane.
They want to kill us- it is a war to the death- and they are teaching this world view to their 5 year olds. It's going to continue being a problem until they stop. And even the "westernized" Saudi Arabia were still doing all this as recently as last year.
One man's joke-- another man's flamebait.
Still... it had to be said.
cliched humor... moldy like french cheese.
So close...
...when the clergy addressed General Washington, on his departure from the government, it was observed in their consultation that he had never, on any occasion, said a word to the public which showed a belief in the Christian religion, and they thought they should so pen their address as to force him at length to disclose publicly whether he was a Christian or not. However, he observed, the old fox was too cunning for them. ...
Until here I was with you:
like it or not, this country was founded on theistic principles - primarily Christian
It was founded by DEISTS. Many of the important figures held Christianity in poor regard.
Yes, they believed that a supreme being existed.
No, the big guys were not christians.
Franklin:
You desire to know something of my religion. It is the first time I have been questioned upon it. But I cannot take your curiosity amiss, and shall endeavor in a few words to gratify it. Here is my creed. I believe in one God, the creator of the universe. That he governs by his providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion, and I regard them as you do in whatever sect I meet with them.
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think his system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble.
The Reverend Doctor James Abercrombie, rector of the church Washington : "Sir, Washington was a Deist."
Thomas Jefferson: Jefferson did not believe in the divinity of Jesus, but he had high esteem for Jesus' moral teachings, which he viewed as the "principles of a pure deism, and juster notions of the attributes of God, to reform [prior Jewish] moral doctrines to the standard of reason, justice & philanthropy, and to inculcate the belief of a future state.
Most of them were Masons. Masons different beliefs than Christians.
---
Some christians are fine people. It really bothers me when they throw aside their morals to try to push religion deeper into our secular government. The founding fathers did *not* put "in god we trust" on our money. it was put there much later.
So yes-- they did mostly believe in a supreme being but not in christianity. It became a popular american religion much later.
His point was most people are spoonfed what to believe by the media.
His thread was not flamy or an attack in any particular way I could tell. It was a statement followed by a supporting example. And someone who is "global warming's number one fan" probably modded him down to suppress his supporting example- not his comment.
Actually it would specifically be political and religious statements by websites and Oprah that they would have been intending to protect with the 1st amendment. Protection of porn was purely a side effect.
August 2005
Most published scientific research papers are wrong, according to a new analysis...
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7915
As a healthy person approaching the half century I now have 30 years of memory of scientific facts that influenced policy and culture that turned out to be wrong (sometimes grossly so).
Facts are always correct. It's the *conclusions* people draw from the facts that are so often wrong.
And you misprosecute the war to begin with it makes it worse.
Iraq was winnable.
They just needed to use the Powell doctrine and do some serious post-war planning.
Since they ignored a doctrine that had worked for every conflict since viet nam and post-war planning consisted of "and they will love us and hug us and call us george" it was a failure going in.
It's a bold plan- create a fair democracy in the region as an example to the rest of the region that would undercut their autocratic governments.
At this point, our forces are tied down by their politicians and the opposing forces are too organized. The best thing would be to leave and then return in a decade and kick the anthill over again.
Oh well, when you put it that way!
All the US has to do is roll a lot of 6's on defense and the rest of the world is toast!
Vs the unified combined might of those countries, fighting as if they were from the same country... yes.
Vs a force literally combined of those armies... iffy.
However, it would be much easier for that many people to attack in other ways. Key resource points and so on. Outsourcing areas would be another. Then there is the fact that most of our manufacturing capability is no longer physically in the united states.
And our labor is now much more expensive than it used to be.
Of course in an all-out war, the combined forces couldn't gather anywhere without being nuked out of oblivion.
My grandma was miserable the last 6 years of her life and yet, she said she prefered it over dying (and she was religous too).
Dignity is great for the young to push onto the old. Most people will fight to stay alive by any means fair or foul.
Me... i always pictured myself hobbling into some place, half blind, barely breathing and taking out a bunch of badguys and dying in the process.
Hero complex?
Well...
Unless there is a "TEXAS" in another country...
Yes- in the US there is no national health care. If you have national health care then none of my advice applies. It must be sweet to live in a country where you can actually retire early if you work hard.
They have these lovely "negotiated" rates here.
97% of people pay them. So a test will be $100, an operation $4100. However.. if you are in the 3% who don't have insurance then you get the "street" rate (even tho almost NOONE pays that rate) and the test would be $575 and the operation would be $24,900.
If you get a chronic condition (hmm. diabetes. high blood pressure. etc.) then you become uninsurable. Your only answer is to work.
If you have a rare and unusually expensive chronic condition then the company will find a reason to fire you in most cases. It's that or drop insurance for everyone else.
I agree that developers have a problem with this.
:)
But...
There is never an ROI on doing code cleanup and making it easier to maintain from a manager / new development programmer's perspective.
As a maintenance programmer tho... I see faster, more stable, easier to maintain code out of even the little things I manage to sneak in. A solid code cleaning can cut weeks or months off of other projects on the same code base. From everything we've heard- windows source is a mess.
What they probably need to do is spend 6 months and do an architectural code cleanup. There would be no immediately ROI however every project for the rest of time would benefit so theoretically their ROI is infinite.
As a maintenance programmer, I've frequently taken multiple pages of code out of programs without changing their functionality. In a large number of cases products are shipped by the development staff with dead code, goofy code, very inefficient code, redundant code, etc.
If you get a bad chronic condition you can go through a million dollars in under a year.
And yet when the same person, performs the same song, every night in the pub, they must pay (or go to jail in japan recently here on slashdot).
No because by that time, the patent expired (MUCH faster than copyright) and there are 37 other companies producing widgets.
Why is music so much more special than any other creative work?
Copyright law does not exist to enrich artists. It exists to *encourage* them to create works. Are we experiencing a wave of artists refusing to create works because copyright law isn't strong enough? Are we not in fact experiencing a huge GLUT of entertainment which is only going to become larger over time?
And when the artist can live 100 years?
And when the artist can live 200 years?
Exactly how long does an artist get to be paid for the same work while the rest of the planet is paid at the end of a week for a week's work and that's it. Why do they rate such special priveleges?
The *REASON* we gave it to them is to encourage creative works. I wasn't aware of any massive shortage of creative works under the old law. If anything, the price is dropping on DVD works so steeply that you wonder why they are fighting so hard to protect them. Why on earth would I tie up my band width for a month to download a DVD, spend the time burning it, spend the money on a DVD, when I could buy it for ($5.99) as i can many titles this week at Fry's.
Any exposure to light and you are going to start losing data.
You must use light to scan it.
This might be good for storage for under 2 years- can't see it for archival storage unless you greatly reduce the number of colors so fade won't matter.
Remember-- this is *until* you develop any kind of chronic medical condition.
Then you may become uninsurable *and* you won't get the negotiated rate at medical facilities any more. So it's a double whammy.
How much of their population are modern nation states willing to keep incarcerated for crimes which won't stop just because you arrest people?
Yea... they didn't dare go into Falouja.
But that's not my point.
In america, citizenry gun ownership lowers crime because of the underlying culture.
In iraq, lots of guns and they are killing each other (of course not just with guns- gasoline, bombs, power drills- very inventive people).
They also allowed win3.11 to be openly pirated and really made no effort to stop piracy of win95 either.
And you could install any number of computers from one CD up through Win98SE (maybe win2k).
If they sued, wouldn't the defendent have the ability to see Microsoft's source in discovery?
I'm betting they have an unbelievable number of patent violations, stolen GPL code, etc. in their code base because as a closed code base it's probably never been reviewed.