Looking back at your list of privacy things: why would I install a whole fricking plugin to block referrers. You can do that in about:config with a single toggled setting.
The interesting individuals from my past are by definition the kind of people who wouldn't be on Facebook. Now, if I wanted to 'link up' with that portion of people from my past who are the fucktards, yes, Facebook would be excellent. However, I chose to move forward in life, not spin my wheels in muck.
Facebook is almost entirely the wrong place to be.
This whole thing is a plot. BP is trying to make the Democrats lose the next election.
Actually several facts stand in the way of your theory:
1. The US Politician who in the past decade has received the biggest amount of total campaign contributions from BP is Barack Obama. He's been their highest paid political chimp since his senate days.
2. BP is the most liberal, most 'green' of the oil companies. They spent a LOT cultivating that image for themselves. There have been ad campaigns where they say things like 'BP Stands for Beyond Petroleum." If you had to predict which Oil Multinational would be most likely to support a Democratic Party president in the U.S. it would be BP.
Don't worry. They'll be able to get more, once the tax/camel's nose in in the tent. It's similar to the way tax subsidized sports facilties get approval to be built. Here locally, the promoters neglected to mention (oops) the $10M annual operating budget. Once they get a certain amount of fibre laid they can reassess costs.
From what I read on Apple's site about the new OS, there will be provision for a bluetooth keyboard. Which really pleases me, as it sounds like it'll work with the OS 4 upgrade on my iPod.
It kind of irked me that the 'Commodorians' section droned on and on about the Commodore 64, whose enthusiasts are pretty much a group of modest hobbyists with a realistic view of the world, then only mentioned the real nutcase cultists, the Amiga cranks, at the end like an afterthought. Maybe it was viewed as too dangerous to bring up 'the A computer' prominently.
(And probably an Amiga crank or two will respond to this comment, or have one of their friends tag it flamebait.)
Irix is trivial to get ahold of. It isn't incredibly cheap, but media kits are always turning up on eBay. And the ISO images of the disks, while not in a standard filesystem type that makes them 'easy to copy' can be copied as raw images and written as raw images on pretty much any CD Writing software that doesn't insist on seeing them as a filesystem before touching them.
But the real twist and irony of the situation is that SGI in the end turned into just another clonemaker with their 'enhanced' shitboxes running a special 'proprietary' Windows NT.
Journalism is based on flunking out of calculus, so you try to get into the English department, but they won't let you. So you apply to enter J-school instead. As long as you get a passing grade in SelfRighteous 1-001 they let you in.
You mean like using MS Office 4.3 (on Windows 95 OSR-2) on the 486 laptop I got off Craigs List a few weeks ago?
I gave the guy $5 for it, which was more of a courtesy tip for actually listing it and not just shitcanning it. It didn't cost me 111 euros.
There's a lot of productive use for old stuff. But wringing value out of it is a totally different thing than trying to revive further development of it as something new.
And it's not even really shareware. The shareware concept originally entailed releasing fully functional software and relying on the 'honor system' that people would pay.
The time-bomb-laden or otherwise crippled junk that people deal with these days is not sharware per the philosophy that Jim Button promoted. Shovelware is a better term for it.
"Making a good impression" would sort of imply Obama would have to retroactively cease being the single politician who has received the largest financial contributions from BP, though, wouldn't you think??
Sucks to own a Red Lobster franchise, I guess. But those folks have been making their loot through the unsustainabe strip mining of the ocean for years now. It's hard to weep for them very long...
If "making an appointment" is your definition of "traditional" television, then I haven't watched "traditional" television in the decade I've owned my TiVo.
Sure it is. You just have an electronic secretary to make your appointments for you. You have to plan ahead, or have your agent plan ahead, for you. Anything you've 'missed' is gone.
Expanding capacity dramatically because something is 'inconvenient' is, however, similar to the way oil and minerals work. Unused bandwidth is basically a wasted resource, and is the direct result of overbuilt capacity.
the problem with the "destroy government" crowd is that we need strong regulations for something like the economy to work.
Why? If you want a centrally planned Stalinist government you should go elsewhere to where there is one. Oh wait! It failed dismally and has ceased to exist. Never mind.
Right. The New Deal and Great Society and Obamacare are exactly like slavery.
Only if you're ambitious and successful. Then you become a slave to bureaucrats who 'know better than you' where your earned wealth should be distributed.
Rights are not 'given' in the United States. They are inherent. The Constitution is about what government cannot do, not what 'rights' we have.
We are 'given' nothing by the grace of the government. The structure is set up so anything is permitted unless explicitly forbidden, and the 'rules' are set up to limit what may be forbidden. That's a key distinction in the structure of our government compared to many other governments.
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Looking back at your list of privacy things: why would I install a whole fricking plugin to block referrers. You can do that in about:config with a single toggled setting.
The interesting individuals from my past are by definition the kind of people who wouldn't be on Facebook. Now, if I wanted to 'link up' with that portion of people from my past who are the fucktards, yes, Facebook would be excellent. However, I chose to move forward in life, not spin my wheels in muck.
Facebook is almost entirely the wrong place to be.
Apparently someone is confusing Windows XP with Windows ME.
What's he gonna say, "You're doin' a heckuva job, Tony!"
No, there's a whole line of bureaucrats that actually work for Obama that he can say that to, with the same irony as Bush with 'Brownie.'
This whole thing is a plot. BP is trying to make the Democrats lose the next election.
Actually several facts stand in the way of your theory:
1. The US Politician who in the past decade has received the biggest amount of total campaign contributions from BP is Barack Obama. He's been their highest paid political chimp since his senate days.
2. BP is the most liberal, most 'green' of the oil companies. They spent a LOT cultivating that image for themselves. There have been ad campaigns where they say things like 'BP Stands for Beyond Petroleum." If you had to predict which Oil Multinational would be most likely to support a Democratic Party president in the U.S. it would be BP.
And the reason they drilled that far below the sea level is because of restrictions on drilling in more shallow water.
Massive irresponsibility of NIMBY regulators.
I was thinking more along the lines of a gray cap.
Don't worry. They'll be able to get more, once the tax/camel's nose in in the tent. It's similar to the way tax subsidized sports facilties get approval to be built. Here locally, the promoters neglected to mention (oops) the $10M annual operating budget. Once they get a certain amount of fibre laid they can reassess costs.
From what I read on Apple's site about the new OS, there will be provision for a bluetooth keyboard. Which really pleases me, as it sounds like it'll work with the OS 4 upgrade on my iPod.
Real geeks have cards with 74xx-series TTL chips on them. In hardware that still runs.
It kind of irked me that the 'Commodorians' section droned on and on about the Commodore 64, whose enthusiasts are pretty much a group of modest hobbyists with a realistic view of the world, then only mentioned the real nutcase cultists, the Amiga cranks, at the end like an afterthought. Maybe it was viewed as too dangerous to bring up 'the A computer' prominently.
(And probably an Amiga crank or two will respond to this comment, or have one of their friends tag it flamebait.)
Irix is trivial to get ahold of. It isn't incredibly cheap, but media kits are always turning up on eBay. And the ISO images of the disks, while not in a standard filesystem type that makes them 'easy to copy' can be copied as raw images and written as raw images on pretty much any CD Writing software that doesn't insist on seeing them as a filesystem before touching them.
But the real twist and irony of the situation is that SGI in the end turned into just another clonemaker with their 'enhanced' shitboxes running a special 'proprietary' Windows NT.
Journalism is based on research, fact finding...
Journalism is based on flunking out of calculus, so you try to get into the English department, but they won't let you. So you apply to enter J-school instead. As long as you get a passing grade in SelfRighteous 1-001 they let you in.
I run NetBSD on some G3 iMacs. The huge ports collection (pkgsrc) keeps them quite useful. Almost all the current open source packages run fine.
It's good to see an old schoole Amiga enthusiast (ahem) still stoking the pot-bellied stove.
Keep it up, if only for tradition's sake. We wouldn't want the stereotype to fade away.
You mean like using MS Office 4.3 (on Windows 95 OSR-2) on the 486 laptop I got off Craigs List a few weeks ago?
I gave the guy $5 for it, which was more of a courtesy tip for actually listing it and not just shitcanning it. It didn't cost me 111 euros.
There's a lot of productive use for old stuff. But wringing value out of it is a totally different thing than trying to revive further development of it as something new.
And it's not even really shareware. The shareware concept originally entailed releasing fully functional software and relying on the 'honor system' that people would pay.
The time-bomb-laden or otherwise crippled junk that people deal with these days is not sharware per the philosophy that Jim Button promoted. Shovelware is a better term for it.
"Making a good impression" would sort of imply Obama would have to retroactively cease being the single politician who has received the largest financial contributions from BP, though, wouldn't you think??
Sucks to own a Red Lobster franchise, I guess. But those folks have been making their loot through the unsustainabe strip mining of the ocean for years now. It's hard to weep for them very long...
Well, the story is hosted on apple.slashdot.com, not the real slashdot. So we can expect this kind of thing.
If "making an appointment" is your definition of "traditional" television, then I haven't watched "traditional" television in the decade I've owned my TiVo.
Sure it is. You just have an electronic secretary to make your appointments for you. You have to plan ahead, or have your agent plan ahead, for you. Anything you've 'missed' is gone.
Expanding capacity dramatically because something is 'inconvenient' is, however, similar to the way oil and minerals work. Unused bandwidth is basically a wasted resource, and is the direct result of overbuilt capacity.
the problem with the "destroy government" crowd is that we need strong regulations for something like the economy to work.
Why? If you want a centrally planned Stalinist government you should go elsewhere to where there is one. Oh wait! It failed dismally and has ceased to exist. Never mind.
Right. The New Deal and Great Society and Obamacare are exactly like slavery.
Only if you're ambitious and successful. Then you become a slave to bureaucrats who 'know better than you' where your earned wealth should be distributed.
Rights are not 'given' in the United States. They are inherent. The Constitution is about what government cannot do, not what 'rights' we have.
We are 'given' nothing by the grace of the government. The structure is set up so anything is permitted unless explicitly forbidden, and the 'rules' are set up to limit what may be forbidden. That's a key distinction in the structure of our government compared to many other governments.