Pretty much sums it up. These People saw Nixons spanking as a terrible stripping of presidential manhood, and set themselves about to "RESTORE" it. Complete with wiretaps and torture on demand. Dick and Don are in it for the long haul. I don't think they realize what lies at the end of the road they are building. (We would be lucky if it is another good ole fashioned presidential spanking. Can you impeach an entire cabinet?.)
They haven't changed much in the last 20 years. I expect them to act with the same lack of integrity and political chickanery they always have. This is your fathers Nixon administration.
The only good thing to come from any of this is Jon Stewart's Dead-On single syllable impressions. Waaaaunnnggh! Waaaaunnnggh! Heh,Heh,Heh!
Status Summary
Bad weather has scrubbed launching Discovery for the second day in a row.
NASA has rescheduled the launch for Tuesday at 2:38 p.m. EDT (1838 GMT).
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Apple clearly has its feet in two separate and distinct business models, namely computer manufacturing and software creation, and the consumer electronics industry,' Mr. Renck said."
Computers (and peripherals) are Consumer Electronics. You see inside that tiny Consumer Electronic Ipod thingy your kids have there is a tiny computer running tiny software. Ipods are specifically a peripheral to a computer, be it Mac or PC.
Same business model, Apple makes attractive easy to use consumer electronics. (Covers up Newton>)
BTW, why not just link to the artcle three links and two blogs deeep. http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?g uid=%7BEE4732BB-BCFC-49FE-9CA3-6E11FC25122D%7D&sit eid=mktw&dist=
FTA:
Accounting standards, he adds, require that segments generating more than 10% of a company's revenue be broken out by several metrics, including sales, profit and assets. The iPod first passed that threshold in early 2004. Commenting on the issue, in a statement on current accounting and disclosure issues, the SEC staff has said it believes segment information should be broken out unless "separate reporting of segment information will not add significantly to an investor's understanding of an enterprise [because] its operating segments have characteristics so similar that they can be expected to have essentially the same future prospects." Renck goes so far as to say he believes Apple should do a separate breakout for computers, iPods, music-related products, peripherals and software and service. "Their business has changed and they should be doing it differently," he says. "Transparency is what everyone wants, and they don't want to be transparent."
In a sense Microsoft is a lot like the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire's growth and economy was driven by conquering and plundering neighboring regions. Within the Empire they created a sort of safe economic zone where commerce could work and technology could be developed. However, that came at a price, as they tended to destroy everything outside the empire as it grew.
Right, What of the Romans ever done for us? Besides the roads, sanitation and commerce?
On the third hand (yes, it's a Larry Niven reference) I've seen cops beat my friends for trying to feed homeless people on the street in San Francisco. Then they poured our soup down the drain and poured bleach over our bagels right in front of about 100 homeless folks.
Phil's death, while tragic, should not be the end of Troy McClure any more than (say) Yeardley Smith's death (heaven forbid!) would mean the end of Lisa Simpson.
Blasphemy! Long Live the irreplacable Yeardley Smith. (The world needs the wisdom of Herman's Head now, more than ever!)
by 99luftballon (838486) Alter Relationship on Wednesday June 28, @07:01AM Curse you . I was up until 04:30am playing it. Self control is not a strong point.
You're Welcome.
Self-Control seems fine, Good to see you can still drag yourself back here at 7:30am
I'd like to take this bit of ascii to say thanks to both of you.
Alot of the community probably feels Richard doesn't appreciate them. Conversely, I bet he feels unappreciated by most.
Great thing is, he goes forward not because we appreciate him, but because he believes his cause is right and just. As posted earlier I also belive history will judge him a brilliant man who lived to see the majority of his goals achieved (except maybe the HURD kernel). I do everything in my power to help him along in my own limited way.
1. Kernel 2.6.11 and modules
2. Mozilla Suite 1.7.12, browser,mail,irc,etc.
3. Mplayer 3.3.5 audio and video
4. Leafpad 0.7.9 editor/notepad
5. Abiword 2.2.7 wordprocessor
6. Gnumeric 1.4.3 spreadsheet
7. gTFP 2.0.18 ftp client
8. gaim 0.77 IM client
9. Xpdf 3.0.0 pdf viewer
10.Emelfm 0.9.2 file manager
11.Xpaint 2.7.6 paint program
12.Cups 1.1.14 printing
13.unionfs supported as an optional boot parameter
14.MyDSL system of extensions
15.Frugal Installs
16.USB Pendrive Install To me that makes DSL very 2003, it's playing catch up in my books.
We look back fondly on a time before the internet. We think that time was wonderful because it no longer exists.
Maybe you remember it fondly,but I look at it as the dim ages. With little cloisters of knowledge that you had to seek far and wide to get.01% of the information now readily available to anyone who can read and type.
I could explain it here, but it would be a bit lengthy.
CopOut!
"The Framers" wanted it to be hard/complicated/inefficient to enact legislation so as to put a check on the Mob mentality. You know, like suddenly removing civil liberties and increasing presidential powers.
Of course, I don't have a problem with our gov't safeguarding us and preventing another 3,000 of our citizens from being killed by terrorists, but I guess I'm not blinded by hatred of our President.
So when we get to 3000 kids, dubya sent to die, we'll be even, right.
I guess the 18,350 kids who were wounded is a fair price to pay for you to "feel safer"
Those unacceptable numbers pale in comparison to the casualties and injuries incurred by non-us civilians. Estimated to be 35,000 to 42,000 people. Hmmm. 40,000 family members all love the US now. No reason they would join the insurgents. Was only dad, brother, son.....
War sucks, however, war is sometimes necessarry. Unecessarry war is morally repugnant. Red State/Blue State makes no damn difference.
* WinFS is the codename for a planned relational database layer built on top of NTFS, and is loosely based on SQL Server 2005. In August 2004, Microsoft announced that WinFS would not be included in Windows Vista. This was due to time constraints in developing the technology. Microsoft has been working on this technology since the mid 1990s. For a time, Microsoft had said that WinFS would be released separately of Vista, but on June 23, 2006, Microsoft announced that they decided to integrate some of the developed features into the next versions of ADO.NET and SQL Server, effectively cancelling the WinFS project.
* Due to scheduling issues, the Windows PowerShell, code-named Monad will not be included in Windows Vista. However, Microsoft has announced that it will be available as a separate download in the fourth quarter of 2006
* Owing to significant difficulties in getting third-party developers to support the system (particularly due to the lack of support for writing for the Trusted Operating Root using.NET managed code), the Next-Generation Secure Computing Base architecture was abandoned for Windows Vista.[14] Some aspects of the NGSCB initiative, such as support for Trusted Platform Module chips, are still present, though its role is now limited to being a provider of cryptographic functions which will support BitLocker Drive Encryption.
* Support for Intel's Extensible Firmware Interface was originally slated to be included with Vista, but has been removed due to what Microsoft has described as a lack of support on desktop computers.[15] The UEFI 2.0 specification (which replaces EFI 1.10) wasn't completed until early 2006, and as of mid-2006, no firmware manufacturers have completed a production implementation. Microsoft has stated that it intends on incorporating 64-bit UEFI support into a future update to Vista, but 32-bit UEFI will not be supported.
* PC-to-PC Sync, a Peer-to-peer technology for synchronizing folders on multiple computers running Vista, was removed due to quality concerns. It may arrive sometime in the future in some form.
Well, all I know is, everytime I think of cutting up my partition for Vista Beta, I end up in the shower sobbing Unclean, Unclean. Still haven't tried it, Would be nice to skip this whole OS cycle.
1.)Print Document.
2.)Locate and uncap Sharpie.
3.) Blackout Text.
4.) Scan to DocRedacted.pdf
Wow less than the average government paragraph. Seems like the way they have been doing it for years why change now?
By break their code base he means that alot of code for a 1.1 has to be rewritten in 2.0 if you want to use any 2.0 features/additions.
Instead of backward compatability they cop out and use Side-bySide execution to explain away why "The MS Way to do X" doesn't work this year.
If you want to leave it alone and not update it it will run fine, If, of course, the new computer you are targeting has the 1.1 framework installed or you provide it..Net is nice to program with, just not very much fun to maintain long-life apps.
Do you expect to change his mind? If so, you're an idiot. If not, you just wasted electricity by leaving your computer on long enough to post this drivel to slashdot. You could have saved power by finishing everything else you were going to do with your computer and turning it off and unplugging it that much sooner. You do unplug your computer so you don't waste standby power, right?
If I can help just one mathematically challenged redneck, these electrons were not expended in vain.
My computer has never seen this standby of which you speak, let alone "off?"!
The fact that you can buy Sonic for the GBA, PS2, GCube and probably the 360, means the "Sega Userbase" is enormous compared to the best days of the 16bit wars. Plus the constant stream of engineering outlay for new consoles, new controllers, new media instantly disappeared.
I loved the Master System, Genesis, Game Gear, and Saturn hardware as much as the next geek. But Sega is in a much better place now. Everyone's living room. May it always be so.
What really loved was the Games anyway, Now we can all live in perfect Hedgehogemony.
Slashdot Mirror
The Darkside http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/v iew/
Rumsfields War http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pent agon/view/
War Behind Closed Doors http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq /view/
Pretty much sums it up. These People saw Nixons spanking as a terrible stripping of presidential manhood, and set themselves about to "RESTORE" it. Complete with wiretaps and torture on demand. Dick and Don are in it for the long haul. I don't think they realize what lies at the end of the road they are building. (We would be lucky if it is another good ole fashioned presidential spanking. Can you impeach an entire cabinet?.)
They haven't changed much in the last 20 years. I expect them to act with the same lack of integrity and political chickanery they always have. This is your fathers Nixon administration.
The only good thing to come from any of this is Jon Stewart's Dead-On single syllable impressions. Waaaaunnnggh! Waaaaunnnggh! Heh,Heh,Heh!
Sorry, live on the space cost. Free and high quality streaming launch.
A cursory glance turned up these
http://countdown.ksc.nasa.gov/elv/public/0 9.html 0 3.html
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/ksclive/kscv
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/ksclive/kscv
java, not quite streaming.
But since you got real player installed you might enjoy this site.
http://www.unitedspacealliance.com/live/archive/
or http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/
All of these (and more, like European Space Broadcasts) are listed at:
http://www.hobbyspace.com/SpaceCasts/#NASATV
Thanks for asking though, now I got whole set of new bookmarks for launch day. If I don't go to the beach that is.
Computers (and peripherals) are Consumer Electronics. You see inside that tiny Consumer Electronic Ipod thingy your kids have there is a tiny computer running tiny software. Ipods are specifically a peripheral to a computer, be it Mac or PC. Same business model, Apple makes attractive easy to use consumer electronics. (Covers up Newton>) BTW, why not just link to the artcle three links and two blogs deeep. http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?g uid=%7BEE4732BB-BCFC-49FE-9CA3-6E11FC25122D%7D&sit eid=mktw&dist=
FTA:
Accounting standards, he adds, require that segments generating more than 10% of a company's revenue be broken out by several metrics, including sales, profit and assets. The iPod first passed that threshold in early 2004. Commenting on the issue, in a statement on current accounting and disclosure issues, the SEC staff has said it believes segment information should be broken out unless "separate reporting of segment information will not add significantly to an investor's understanding of an enterprise [because] its operating segments have characteristics so similar that they can be expected to have essentially the same future prospects." Renck goes so far as to say he believes Apple should do a separate breakout for computers, iPods, music-related products, peripherals and software and service. "Their business has changed and they should be doing it differently," he says. "Transparency is what everyone wants, and they don't want to be transparent."
Dude, I want a transparent Ipod too.
Right, What of the Romans ever done for us? Besides the roads, sanitation and commerce?
It led to one more click. Nice Flocks.
Half-Life
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2: Episode 1
I believe you mean "On the Gripping Hand".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gripping_hand
Blasphemy! Long Live the irreplacable Yeardley Smith. (The world needs the wisdom of Herman's Head now, more than ever!)
Curse you . I was up until 04:30am playing it. Self control is not a strong point.
You're Welcome.
Self-Control seems fine, Good to see you can still drag yourself back here at 7:30am
Yes, Yes it does.
http://oolite.aegidian.org/i te.zip? r emakes/elite_-_the_new_kind_v1_0.zip
http://retrospec.sgn.net/users/tomcat/miodrag/xEl
http://www.rebelstar.cd2.com/cgi-bin/dc.cgi?file=
May I also recommend:
Privateer...
http://priv.solsector.net/
http://wcuniverse.sourceforge.net/
Alot of the community probably feels Richard doesn't appreciate them. Conversely, I bet he feels unappreciated by most.
Great thing is, he goes forward not because we appreciate him, but because he believes his cause is right and just. As posted earlier I also belive history will judge him a brilliant man who lived to see the majority of his goals achieved (except maybe the HURD kernel). I do everything in my power to help him along in my own limited way.
Thanks again, good to see ya Bruce.
1. Kernel 2.6.11 and modules
2. Mozilla Suite 1.7.12, browser,mail,irc,etc.
3. Mplayer 3.3.5 audio and video
4. Leafpad 0.7.9 editor/notepad
5. Abiword 2.2.7 wordprocessor
6. Gnumeric 1.4.3 spreadsheet
7. gTFP 2.0.18 ftp client
8. gaim 0.77 IM client
9. Xpdf 3.0.0 pdf viewer
10.Emelfm 0.9.2 file manager
11.Xpaint 2.7.6 paint program
12.Cups 1.1.14 printing
13.unionfs supported as an optional boot parameter
14.MyDSL system of extensions
15.Frugal Installs
16.USB Pendrive Install
To me that makes DSL very 2003, it's playing catch up in my books.
Update Your Books.
Maybe you remember it fondly,but I look at it as the dim ages. With little cloisters of knowledge that you had to seek far and wide to get .01% of the information now readily available to anyone who can read and type.
Close but no cigar. Try scientists, Rock, Physics, Nucular etc....Bet they did snag a pint or too though.
"The Framers" wanted it to be hard/complicated/inefficient to enact legislation so as to put a check on the Mob mentality. You know, like suddenly removing civil liberties and increasing presidential powers.
Almost worked too.
War is good for creating jobs, if only we could be at 1999 military and civilian casualty and injury levels.
http://icasualties.org/oif/Cumulative.aspx
Of course, I don't have a problem with our gov't safeguarding us and preventing another 3,000 of our citizens from being killed by terrorists, but I guess I'm not blinded by hatred of our President.
So when we get to 3000 kids, dubya sent to die, we'll be even, right. I guess the 18,350 kids who were wounded is a fair price to pay for you to "feel safer"
Those unacceptable numbers pale in comparison to the casualties and injuries incurred by non-us civilians. Estimated to be 35,000 to 42,000 people. Hmmm. 40,000 family members all love the US now. No reason they would join the insurgents. Was only dad, brother, son.....
War sucks, however, war is sometimes necessarry. Unecessarry war is morally repugnant. Red State/Blue State makes no damn difference.
From the almighty Wiki:
* WinFS is the codename for a planned relational database layer built on top of NTFS, and is loosely based on SQL Server 2005. In August 2004, Microsoft announced that WinFS would not be included in Windows Vista. This was due to time constraints in developing the technology. Microsoft has been working on this technology since the mid 1990s. For a time, Microsoft had said that WinFS would be released separately of Vista, but on June 23, 2006, Microsoft announced that they decided to integrate some of the developed features into the next versions of ADO.NET and SQL Server, effectively cancelling the WinFS project. .NET managed code), the Next-Generation Secure Computing Base architecture was abandoned for Windows Vista.[14] Some aspects of the NGSCB initiative, such as support for Trusted Platform Module chips, are still present, though its role is now limited to being a provider of cryptographic functions which will support BitLocker Drive Encryption.
* Due to scheduling issues, the Windows PowerShell, code-named Monad will not be included in Windows Vista. However, Microsoft has announced that it will be available as a separate download in the fourth quarter of 2006
* Owing to significant difficulties in getting third-party developers to support the system (particularly due to the lack of support for writing for the Trusted Operating Root using
* Support for Intel's Extensible Firmware Interface was originally slated to be included with Vista, but has been removed due to what Microsoft has described as a lack of support on desktop computers.[15] The UEFI 2.0 specification (which replaces EFI 1.10) wasn't completed until early 2006, and as of mid-2006, no firmware manufacturers have completed a production implementation. Microsoft has stated that it intends on incorporating 64-bit UEFI support into a future update to Vista, but 32-bit UEFI will not be supported.
* PC-to-PC Sync, a Peer-to-peer technology for synchronizing folders on multiple computers running Vista, was removed due to quality concerns. It may arrive sometime in the future in some form.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista#XP_feat ures_dropped
Well, all I know is, everytime I think of cutting up my partition for Vista Beta, I end up in the shower sobbing Unclean, Unclean. Still haven't tried it, Would be nice to skip this whole OS cycle.
Still a proud debian pc.
There is a much Simpler Solution.
1.)Print Document.
2.)Locate and uncap Sharpie.
3.) Blackout Text.
4.) Scan to DocRedacted.pdf
Wow less than the average government paragraph. Seems like the way they have been doing it for years why change now?
By break their code base he means that alot of code for a 1.1 has to be rewritten in 2.0 if you want to use any 2.0 features/additions. Instead of backward compatability they cop out and use Side-bySide execution to explain away why "The MS Way to do X" doesn't work this year. If you want to leave it alone and not update it it will run fine, If, of course, the new computer you are targeting has the 1.1 framework installed or you provide it. .Net is nice to program with, just not very much fun to maintain long-life apps.
You troll, Its plenty for Vista, without Aero!
If I can help just one mathematically challenged redneck, these electrons were not expended in vain.
My computer has never seen this standby of which you speak, let alone "off?"!
I loved the Master System, Genesis, Game Gear, and Saturn hardware as much as the next geek. But Sega is in a much better place now. Everyone's living room. May it always be so.
What really loved was the Games anyway, Now we can all live in perfect Hedgehogemony.
Oh, that was bad.