Nobody's going to waste moderation points to do that. In the future, it would be better for you to reply to the first post, and title it "[first post title] - REPOST" or something similar. Then people will see both at once, since they'd be in the same thread, and moderate the correct one.
They want to be the first to reach Europa in 2010 so they can use the water in their nuclear engines. Once they start building their "space station" the situation will be clear.
MacOS has supported long filenames alot longer than WinDOS boxes. Anyone remember the late 80s and early 90s? The Mac folk were enjoying 31 characters while the Wintel crowd were stuck with 8.3 names.
It's not called Micros~1 for nothing.
Funny how the Windows ppl talk down the MacOS when it had features long before Windows did (decent GUI, long filenames, multiple monitors, plug-n-play, etc). It wasn't til after Win95 that MacOS started to lose ground in comparison. Windows still drags along much of that legacy, too.
I remember reading _Asimov on Astronomy_ many times as a kid. Here's what I remember from one of his articles:
A true satellite's "primary" gravitational influence is it's primary, naturally enough. (What's that? Well Terra is considered Luna's primary. Sol is Terra's primary. It's the body you revolve around.) Asimov did the calculations for most of the then-known satellites in the solar system. The outermost satellites of Jupiter and Saturn are not "true" satellites in this sense. Sol actually has more influence on them, but the primary has enough effect to keep them close by. They are probably captured bodies, and they may drift away in a couple centuries.
Interestingly enough, Luna is not a true satellite of ours. Our moon isn't really a moon! We're more like a double planet.
Double planets are coorbital. They each have their own orbit around the sun. The orbits are nearly identical, but they are convex. If the secondary body's orbit w.r.t. Sol is ever concave, then it is a satellite of the planet, i.e., the planet has more influence than the sun does. Terra and Luna do influence the orbit of each other gravitationally away from an ellipse, but not enough to cause a "dimple" in the shape.
Anyway, as I read it, this asteroid is not a true moon in the sense of being a satellite of our planet. It still revolves around the sun. However, it is in a gravitational relationship with Terra, as our Luna is. In that sense I suppose it is "a moon".
I think in that same book, maybe even that article, Asimov discussed the Trojan satellites. At that point I don't think anyone had discovered any for earth, but dust clouds were detected in the L4 and L5 positions.
Astronomy is only a neglected hobby of mine, so I may not be totally correct. (I almost got a minor in it, but that's been years ago.)
This kind of thing would be great for rural areas that aren't serviced by a good variety of radio programming. Instead of putting up one huge high-power tower that broadcasts to mostly empty space (though you have to pay the same for it), you can set up these micro-stations in the small towns to rebroadcast a webcast or something. A 1-mile radius could cover towns like that, and you'd still be reaching over 50% of the people in the area.
Hmm, sorta wants me want to rebroadcast KZZQ that way.:)
The thing to realize here is that for a relatively long time, DOOM wasn't available for the Mac, so Marathon filled the bill.
Actually, the thing to realize here is that even the original Marathon totally blows away the DOOM series of games. I've played DOOM, and it sucks. Not only does Marathon look alot nicer and play alot nicer, the game also has a plot and makes you think.
Personally I think M2 was the worst of the 3 games. M1 and Moo (as we typed Marathon Infinity on the BBs and NGs) had much better storylines. If all you care about is "hack and slash" (to borrow a term from RPGs), then M2 is more your baby. The DOOM and Quake families are even more so.
Hey, I'll stunt-double for CmdrTaco. You never know when you might be swapping out some RAM and get a nasty shock. Wouldn't want that to happen on film. The girl geeks would definitely not dig it. OTOH, stunt men are chick magnets, as anyone knows....;)
It would be perfect! We even share the same initials! Really, dude, you gotta have me as your stunt man.
Kids are future adults, future spouses. Like I mentioned, I'm not married yet and I don't like porn for myself, either. My (and any boy's) future wife is out there, somewhere. Just because I'm not married to her yet doesn't mean I have free reign to disrespect her. Also, who says if I were to start looking at porn, that I could stop when I get married? Habits can be hard to break. Better not to disrespect my future wife now, so that I don't end up disrespecting her later.
Yeah, I think porn is unhealthy for adults, too. That's why I choose not to look at it. IMO it shouldn't exist.
I was sitting in AI 2, and my prof had a habit of opening lecture with a 5 minute discussion of current news. That day, one of the students said something like, "Hey, but you missed the biggest news of the day." We all looked at him and waited a beat. "HAL 9000 was activated today."
Porn is mentally and spiritually harmful because it creates erotic thoughts about another person that is not your spouse. I want to reserve my affections for my wife. I want hers reserved for me. How could we truly honor and respect each other if we're always dreaming of people besides each other?
Before anyone goes off on a "oh so you think sex is evil" rant, let me say I think sex is a great thing. Within a marriage relationship. Casual sex diminishes the respect for marriage and your spouse, IMO. (You may disagree, but if you're treating sex casually, how can you know if your respect has lessened compared to what it would be otherwise?) That's something I want to avoid. I don't want to feel cheap with my wife, or to feel that she's cheap, or whatever. I want to cherish her.
And that's why I think porn is harmful.
I'm not actually married right now, but the point remains.
If my money supports the library, I should have a say, yes?
You may not like the fact that your tax money helps pay for M-16's for the military. You have every right to complain about that and try to bring about change.
And I disagree that it is "forced" upon the libraries. If the local library council decides that they want it, that should be fine. If not, that's fine too. If, OTOH, you're saying that McCain's idea of federal legislation to the effect of forcing filters on libraries is bad, I agree. The scope of the federal gov't is far too big. Gov't should be reduced, and brought to a more local level, where it is responsive to the needs of the citizens it serves.
You wouldn't let your kid wander around a city, red light districts and all.. You wouldn't let your kid wander around a pornography store in real life.. . So why are you letting your children Wander around the internet unattended?
You job as a parent is to prepare your children for the world that they will face and to protect them from being injured.
I'd like to point out for your examination the white picket fence. What is it's purpose? Certainly not to keep intruders out, because it's only 3' tall. So why is it there? To protect the kids playing in the yard by keeping them from wandering into dangerous territory! You can't watch your kids 24/7. It's physically impossible. When you can't watch them yourself, you arrange for them to be cared for and watched in a way that you feel appropriate. You carefully pick your babysitters. You lock up sharp objects. You install a fence (!) around your yard.
Filtering software is no different. It's an extension of these same principles. If I leave the kitchen for a minute to let the dog out, I make sure that my 2-yo can't grab anything hot or sharp. If I leave the computer desk for a minute to let the dog out, why shouldn't I have the same reassurance that my 8-yo isn't going to stumble across something harmful, as well?
And let's not get into an argument about whether porn is harmful or not. You have your opinions and I have mine. I believe it is (heck, I feel like I'm harmed when I stumble across porn; I sure don't want my kids seeing it) and you're not going to change my opinion. It's your free speech, yes, but I don't want it in my house.
You had linear algebra in elementary and junior high? Man, I envy you.
My HS math got as far as knowing what a 3x3 matrix looked like, and using it as a shortcut to working with 3 equations "longhand". For a long time, that's all I thought matrices were useful for.
I'm an advocate of making basic algebra a required class. I'd like to start "higher math" education by the 7th grade, because I didn't even have the option of starting algebra until I was a freshman. Even though I could have done both years of algebra in one year, that wasn't an option. I got to trig, and then off to college.
My point remains, however. If you don't understand the principles, how the heck are you going to make any real advances in the area? Kids don't need their own PC laptops in junior high any more than elementary kids need calculators. If you're actually doing linear algebra in 5th grade, get a calculator. I'll bet you dollars to donut holes that 99.75% of schools aren't, though. (I can't believe your piece of sarcasm got moderated up.)
There are HS graduates out there that can't do arithmetic on a 4th grade level. We sure don't need to make this situation even worse by allowing them to just push buttons.
Rhino: Arnie fits the look, but there's no way he'd play the "dumb villain" part.
Vulture: I can't remember his name (it's very weird!) but has anyone seen the movie previews lately? Some older guy crawling up high-tension power line towers? He looks just like how I'd envision this character.
The positioning is the primary problem, IMO. One of the big gripes (among many) I have with Windows is that all the window-control widgets are on the same side! It's far too easy hit one you didn't mean to.
I hope there's some way to configure that. If not, the next version of Kaleidoscope will surely see schemes exactly like MacOS X with the exception of the widgets being placed as they currently are...with the close button far away from the others.
Seems awfully wasteful to me. Icons are visual mnemonics, not full-blown full-size images of their own right! Sheesh. 32x32 has always been fine for me. I seem to remember reading something about 48x48 being a possibility because that's what NeXT supposedly used. Even that's a waste, IMO. I want a larger desktop so I can fit more on it! And I don't want my system resources wasted on stuff I'm not using. *sigh*
Also, isn't it worthwhile to make something more elegant just because you can? If you can do something two ways, both using just as many resources, why not opt for the classier one? Why settle for mediocrity?
How about if browsers flashed warnings when parsing bad HTML. Say, the Mozilla throbber pulsed red "POOR HTML" instead of the dragon for a second. Hmm, it's OSS, maybe I'll have to add that.;)
It is more advanced. You're looking at a work in progress.
Opera 3.6 has the best CSS1 support of any production release browser. I can't say what the 4.0 codebase is like in that regard, but it's going to support a good bit of CSS2 as well. It also supports HTML 3.2 in a compliant fashion, something nothing else was doing, except maybe Lynx. The 4.0 codebase is supposed to be HTML 4.0 compliant.
I don't work for Opera, but I (like the rest of you) like choice. I like it even better when the choice is worth making. A standards-compliant browser is worth it, IMO. So I'll plug Opera, as well as Mozilla. To look at alpha software and say it's a 5 y.o. browser is unfair.
This is only a technology preview. This might even be considered pre-alpha software. I follow Opera very closely (I'm alpha/beta testing for the Mac port when it's ready). If it was beta-level I'd have let you all know 10 days ago, when I first heard about this.:)
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Nobody's going to waste moderation points to do that. In the future, it would be better for you to reply to the first post, and title it "[first post title] - REPOST" or something similar. Then people will see both at once, since they'd be in the same thread, and moderate the correct one.
They want to be the first to reach Europa in 2010 so they can use the water in their nuclear engines. Once they start building their "space station" the situation will be clear.
Thank you, Arthur C. Clarke.
In MacOS 8 and higher, you can "grab" the chrome around any side of a window to move it.
MacOS has supported long filenames alot longer than WinDOS boxes. Anyone remember the late 80s and early 90s? The Mac folk were enjoying 31 characters while the Wintel crowd were stuck with 8.3 names.
It's not called Micros~1 for nothing.
Funny how the Windows ppl talk down the MacOS when it had features long before Windows did (decent GUI, long filenames, multiple monitors, plug-n-play, etc). It wasn't til after Win95 that MacOS started to lose ground in comparison. Windows still drags along much of that legacy, too.
I remember reading _Asimov on Astronomy_ many times as a kid. Here's what I remember from one of his articles:
Anyway, as I read it, this asteroid is not a true moon in the sense of being a satellite of our planet. It still revolves around the sun. However, it is in a gravitational relationship with Terra, as our Luna is. In that sense I suppose it is "a moon".
I think in that same book, maybe even that article, Asimov discussed the Trojan satellites. At that point I don't think anyone had discovered any for earth, but dust clouds were detected in the L4 and L5 positions.
Astronomy is only a neglected hobby of mine, so I may not be totally correct. (I almost got a minor in it, but that's been years ago.)
This kind of thing would be great for rural areas that aren't serviced by a good variety of radio programming. Instead of putting up one huge high-power tower that broadcasts to mostly empty space (though you have to pay the same for it), you can set up these micro-stations in the small towns to rebroadcast a webcast or something. A 1-mile radius could cover towns like that, and you'd still be reaching over 50% of the people in the area.
Hmm, sorta wants me want to rebroadcast KZZQ that way. :)
Actually, the thing to realize here is that even the original Marathon totally blows away the DOOM series of games. I've played DOOM, and it sucks. Not only does Marathon look alot nicer and play alot nicer, the game also has a plot and makes you think.
Personally I think M2 was the worst of the 3 games. M1 and Moo (as we typed Marathon Infinity on the BBs and NGs) had much better storylines. If all you care about is "hack and slash" (to borrow a term from RPGs), then M2 is more your baby. The DOOM and Quake families are even more so.
Hey, I'll stunt-double for CmdrTaco. You never know when you might be swapping out some RAM and get a nasty shock. Wouldn't want that to happen on film. The girl geeks would definitely not dig it. OTOH, stunt men are chick magnets, as anyone knows.... ;)
It would be perfect! We even share the same initials! Really, dude, you gotta have me as your stunt man.
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Kids are future adults, future spouses. Like I mentioned, I'm not married yet and I don't like porn for myself, either. My (and any boy's) future wife is out there, somewhere. Just because I'm not married to her yet doesn't mean I have free reign to disrespect her. Also, who says if I were to start looking at porn, that I could stop when I get married? Habits can be hard to break. Better not to disrespect my future wife now, so that I don't end up disrespecting her later.
Yeah, I think porn is unhealthy for adults, too. That's why I choose not to look at it. IMO it shouldn't exist.
Kaleidoscope (for Macs) does the same thing.
I was sitting in AI 2, and my prof had a habit of opening lecture with a 5 minute discussion of current news. That day, one of the students said something like, "Hey, but you missed the biggest news of the day." We all looked at him and waited a beat. "HAL 9000 was activated today."
And I was sitting in an AI class. Significant?
Porn is mentally and spiritually harmful because it creates erotic thoughts about another person that is not your spouse. I want to reserve my affections for my wife. I want hers reserved for me. How could we truly honor and respect each other if we're always dreaming of people besides each other?
Before anyone goes off on a "oh so you think sex is evil" rant, let me say I think sex is a great thing. Within a marriage relationship. Casual sex diminishes the respect for marriage and your spouse, IMO. (You may disagree, but if you're treating sex casually, how can you know if your respect has lessened compared to what it would be otherwise?) That's something I want to avoid. I don't want to feel cheap with my wife, or to feel that she's cheap, or whatever. I want to cherish her.
And that's why I think porn is harmful.
I'm not actually married right now, but the point remains.
If my money supports the library, I should have a say, yes?
You may not like the fact that your tax money helps pay for M-16's for the military. You have every right to complain about that and try to bring about change.
And I disagree that it is "forced" upon the libraries. If the local library council decides that they want it, that should be fine. If not, that's fine too. If, OTOH, you're saying that McCain's idea of federal legislation to the effect of forcing filters on libraries is bad, I agree. The scope of the federal gov't is far too big. Gov't should be reduced, and brought to a more local level, where it is responsive to the needs of the citizens it serves.
Merely allowing only porn sites to have .xxx domains wouldn't be sufficient. Porn sites would have to be required to have .xxx domains for this to work.
Some comments I've been seeing here...
I'd like to point out for your examination the white picket fence. What is it's purpose? Certainly not to keep intruders out, because it's only 3' tall. So why is it there? To protect the kids playing in the yard by keeping them from wandering into dangerous territory! You can't watch your kids 24/7. It's physically impossible. When you can't watch them yourself, you arrange for them to be cared for and watched in a way that you feel appropriate. You carefully pick your babysitters. You lock up sharp objects. You install a fence (!) around your yard.
Filtering software is no different. It's an extension of these same principles. If I leave the kitchen for a minute to let the dog out, I make sure that my 2-yo can't grab anything hot or sharp. If I leave the computer desk for a minute to let the dog out, why shouldn't I have the same reassurance that my 8-yo isn't going to stumble across something harmful, as well?
And let's not get into an argument about whether porn is harmful or not. You have your opinions and I have mine. I believe it is (heck, I feel like I'm harmed when I stumble across porn; I sure don't want my kids seeing it) and you're not going to change my opinion. It's your free speech, yes, but I don't want it in my house.
You had linear algebra in elementary and junior high? Man, I envy you.
My HS math got as far as knowing what a 3x3 matrix looked like, and using it as a shortcut to working with 3 equations "longhand". For a long time, that's all I thought matrices were useful for.
I'm an advocate of making basic algebra a required class. I'd like to start "higher math" education by the 7th grade, because I didn't even have the option of starting algebra until I was a freshman. Even though I could have done both years of algebra in one year, that wasn't an option. I got to trig, and then off to college.
My point remains, however. If you don't understand the principles, how the heck are you going to make any real advances in the area? Kids don't need their own PC laptops in junior high any more than elementary kids need calculators. If you're actually doing linear algebra in 5th grade, get a calculator. I'll bet you dollars to donut holes that 99.75% of schools aren't, though. (I can't believe your piece of sarcasm got moderated up.)
There are HS graduates out there that can't do arithmetic on a 4th grade level. We sure don't need to make this situation even worse by allowing them to just push buttons.
That's the one. Thanks. :)
Rhino: Arnie fits the look, but there's no way he'd play the "dumb villain" part.
Vulture: I can't remember his name (it's very weird!) but has anyone seen the movie previews lately? Some older guy crawling up high-tension power line towers? He looks just like how I'd envision this character.
The positioning is the primary problem, IMO. One of the big gripes (among many) I have with Windows is that all the window-control widgets are on the same side! It's far too easy hit one you didn't mean to.
I hope there's some way to configure that. If not, the next version of Kaleidoscope will surely see schemes exactly like MacOS X with the exception of the widgets being placed as they currently are...with the close button far away from the others.
Seems awfully wasteful to me. Icons are visual mnemonics, not full-blown full-size images of their own right! Sheesh. 32x32 has always been fine for me. I seem to remember reading something about 48x48 being a possibility because that's what NeXT supposedly used. Even that's a waste, IMO. I want a larger desktop so I can fit more on it! And I don't want my system resources wasted on stuff I'm not using. *sigh*
Exactly!
Also, isn't it worthwhile to make something more elegant just because you can? If you can do something two ways, both using just as many resources, why not opt for the classier one? Why settle for mediocrity?
How about if browsers flashed warnings when parsing bad HTML. Say, the Mozilla throbber pulsed red "POOR HTML" instead of the dragon for a second. Hmm, it's OSS, maybe I'll have to add that. ;)
Ahhh, the great MDI vs SDI debate. Put in your two cents in the Opera for Linux NG.
It is more advanced. You're looking at a work in progress.
Opera 3.6 has the best CSS1 support of any production release browser. I can't say what the 4.0 codebase is like in that regard, but it's going to support a good bit of CSS2 as well. It also supports HTML 3.2 in a compliant fashion, something nothing else was doing, except maybe Lynx. The 4.0 codebase is supposed to be HTML 4.0 compliant.
I don't work for Opera, but I (like the rest of you) like choice. I like it even better when the choice is worth making. A standards-compliant browser is worth it, IMO. So I'll plug Opera, as well as Mozilla. To look at alpha software and say it's a 5 y.o. browser is unfair.
This is only a technology preview. This might even be considered pre-alpha software. I follow Opera very closely (I'm alpha/beta testing for the Mac port when it's ready). If it was beta-level I'd have let you all know 10 days ago, when I first heard about this. :)
The Linux kernel.