Listen, now. The science of climate change is proven. We have no need for further questioning. The original data has been shredded and the reports have been published. In a Peer Reviewed fashion. So quiet down. You're probably not even a scientist. Where's your Tenure at?
That must mean cut and past on everything else is horrendous. I don't have an iPhone but I now have an iPod Touch and I use it around the home mostly for web stuff over Wi-Fi. Every once in awhile, when I am trying to scroll around on the display, the 'copy' mechanism kicks in and grabs some text instead. A minor annoyance and usually I can deselect it without hitting a hyperlink and Safari flitting off to some other web page.
Yesterday for the first time, I wanted to cut and past something. I've installed QuickOffice on the thing and I wanted to save some text from a web page.
Nothing that I could do, or figure out how to do, would trigger the 'capture text for copying' function that I've inadvertently triggered in the past.
That is NOT my definition of a good cut/paste user interface. There's nothing intuitive about it. I guess I should go out and find an O'Reilly manual for the iPhone OS. They publish the 'Missing Manual' series after all.
Apple's interface design decisions are always highly political and steeped in dogma. It's been that way since the launch of Macintosh.
It's good that you've stepped forward to be the spokesperson for 'the fanboys' Baselbrush... but this is developers.slashdot.org not your usual apple.slashdot.org. Don't you feel kinda out of place here??
So as long as your deism is Secular Humanism it's okay. If you believe in a lot of neo-pagan hokey you can preach to the children about Mother Earth and the environment. The gospel of Gaia, by Lovelock is perfectly alright.
It's a matter of being on the right side of history, and yes history is made by people, and might does make right.
"Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye can see."
I googled that quote, and the first link Google found was to an answers.yahoo.com page where somebody was asking 'Is that quote real?' The highest voted answer was: If it was in a movie, it has a better chance of being pure Hollywood. The like to take stories and make them more "interesting".
I scanned down the rest of the page, and it looked like the rest of the links on the first Google page were all legalize-dope advocacy sites and blogs. This continues on to the second page of results. The last link on page 2 is from a site called 'mycotopia.net' where I assume they advocate hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Pro-dope-smoking forums are sort of a circle-jerk echo chamber, just like any other offbeat advocacy forums.
They've got precious little to do with J.C., even though they worship his words
It sounds a little like you've got your own understanding of Christ's teaching. Which you're using against these others. Very good. What's the name of your religion, or have you not formed a Church yet?
I find it amusing that the page on Jefferson on that web site you linked to (one called 'No Beliefs' that professes a certain expertise on matters regarding religion) where they try to revise the history of Jefferson, with "In spite of right-wing Christian attempts to rewrite history..."
Yes. Spite is a good word. It rhymes with rewrite, even.
Texas essentially became independent at the same time that the Constitutional State of Mexico started to exist. So they were barely ever at all a part of 'Mexico.'
Let them form their own country, fly the Dixie flag, and devolve into a third world country which we can gleefully ignore.
Unfortunately for you, you're talking about the whole center of the country, and it happens to be where most of the food is produced. You really can't afford to live entirely on foodstuffs you import from France.
If you want to talk about Failed States, you need to look more closely at the States whose budgets are in the worst condition. A clue for you: it's those 'blue' states whose governments are held by the throat by the Unions and other special interests.
I'm partial to 'War to Restore Federalism.' Puts the revisionists trying to take power away from the States where the Constitution placed it. Unfortunately the traitors (to the Constitution) won the Civil War
If you were lucky, your machine had a diode array (a big block of diodes in a grid on a PC board) that had the bootloader for paper tape on it.
If you were less lucky, you had to toggle in the paper tape bootloader by hand, a byte at a time using the row of toggle switches on the front of the machine. I had to do this on the ancient PDP-8 in the Science Building on college to complete all of my homework assignments. The programming class was based on FORTRAN (batch) and FOCAL (interactive on ASR-33 terminals.)
I ran a current build of SeaMonkey on an OS 10.2 iMac (a G3) less than six months ago. It worked great. I think trying to run Safari was your mistake (it's a common mistake)
Does anybody have any recent experience with Seagate to share?
I have some ST-225 drives I recently got from somebody on a vintage-hardware list. I haven't plugged them in yet to see how reliably they work, though...
Calling this a 'DOS-era limitation' just shows a lack of knowledge about computers of the past. My MicroVAX 3100 will not boot from a hard drive larger than 1GB. I suppose it is fair to call it a 'DOS-era' thing if you were just another kid with a PeeCee clone and his own phillips screwdriver ( the only tool a 'leet computer expert' need own!!)
Hardware/firmware limits for hard drive topologies were a reality for much equipment of the past.
Your last sentence clarified the issue. You said you were born and raised in Texas. Then you babbled some non-texan nonsense. But you cleared the confusion by alluding to the fact that you are from Austin, not Texas, in your last sentence.
I would use the replicator to replicate 10,000 more replicators.
Then I'd bring the 10,000 replicators to a Star Wars Collectable (or Longabergers Basket, or anything else like it) convention. I'd give the replicators, free, to all participants.
Now, add to that the notion that one would not deprive the previous owner of his car.
However, in the case of pirated movies, the owner is the person who holds the copyright. And 'copies for viewing' that are sold are essentially just licensed permission to watch the movie. So the correct analogy to a car would be if you stole the car and prevented the owner from collecting the revenue from renting it to somebody else.
I know, I know. Complicated abstract constructs. Just the kind of thing everybody else here engages in....
iPhone: goes up to 150 mph but only destination it will take you to is the App Store. From there you can tool around in the kiddie go-cart rides in the walled garden.
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Listen, now. The science of climate change is proven. We have no need for further questioning. The original data has been shredded and the reports have been published. In a Peer Reviewed fashion. So quiet down. You're probably not even a scientist. Where's your Tenure at?
No, we don't need to get used to your smugness.
We'll just cut off your fucking food supply.
Grow food on the roof of your highrise. You should be able to produce enough to support about 10% of the people in your building.
Here's a shovel you can use. To grow food, and later, to fight for it.
One of the main concerns about this oil spill has been the economic and environmental impact on some of America's most fertile fishing grounds.
It's irrelevant as a player.
That's the language of hype marketing.
This is developers.slashdot.org, not a marketing blog.
Translation: It depends on whether the people in marketing need it to be a PC or not.
"The best cut n paste UI of any mobile device."
That must mean cut and past on everything else is horrendous. I don't have an iPhone but I now have an iPod Touch and I use it around the home mostly for web stuff over Wi-Fi. Every once in awhile, when I am trying to scroll around on the display, the 'copy' mechanism kicks in and grabs some text instead. A minor annoyance and usually I can deselect it without hitting a hyperlink and Safari flitting off to some other web page.
Yesterday for the first time, I wanted to cut and past something. I've installed QuickOffice on the thing and I wanted to save some text from a web page.
Nothing that I could do, or figure out how to do, would trigger the 'capture text for copying' function that I've inadvertently triggered in the past.
That is NOT my definition of a good cut/paste user interface. There's nothing intuitive about it. I guess I should go out and find an O'Reilly manual for the iPhone OS. They publish the 'Missing Manual' series after all.
Apple's interface design decisions are always highly political and steeped in dogma. It's been that way since the launch of Macintosh.
It's good that you've stepped forward to be the spokesperson for 'the fanboys' Baselbrush... but this is developers.slashdot.org not your usual apple.slashdot.org. Don't you feel kinda out of place here??
So as long as your deism is Secular Humanism it's okay. If you believe in a lot of neo-pagan hokey you can preach to the children about Mother Earth and the environment. The gospel of Gaia, by Lovelock is perfectly alright.
It's a matter of being on the right side of history, and yes history is made by people, and might does make right.
I googled that quote, and the first link Google found was to an answers.yahoo.com page where somebody was asking 'Is that quote real?' The highest voted answer was: If it was in a movie, it has a better chance of being pure Hollywood. The like to take stories and make them more "interesting".
I scanned down the rest of the page, and it looked like the rest of the links on the first Google page were all legalize-dope advocacy sites and blogs. This continues on to the second page of results. The last link on page 2 is from a site called 'mycotopia.net' where I assume they advocate hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Pro-dope-smoking forums are sort of a circle-jerk echo chamber, just like any other offbeat advocacy forums.
They've got precious little to do with J.C., even though they worship his words
It sounds a little like you've got your own understanding of Christ's teaching. Which you're using against these others. Very good. What's the name of your religion, or have you not formed a Church yet?
I find it amusing that the page on Jefferson on that web site you linked to (one called 'No Beliefs' that professes a certain expertise on matters regarding religion) where they try to revise the history of Jefferson, with "In spite of right-wing Christian attempts to rewrite history..."
Yes. Spite is a good word. It rhymes with rewrite, even.
Texas essentially became independent at the same time that the Constitutional State of Mexico started to exist. So they were barely ever at all a part of 'Mexico.'
Let them form their own country, fly the Dixie flag, and devolve into a third world country which we can gleefully ignore.
Unfortunately for you, you're talking about the whole center of the country, and it happens to be where most of the food is produced. You really can't afford to live entirely on foodstuffs you import from France.
If you want to talk about Failed States, you need to look more closely at the States whose budgets are in the worst condition. A clue for you: it's those 'blue' states whose governments are held by the throat by the Unions and other special interests.
Well, Austin is the state capitol. Everybody knows that politicians and the weirdos and other vermin always fester near the rump of government.
I'm partial to 'War to Restore Federalism.' Puts the revisionists trying to take power away from the States where the Constitution placed it. Unfortunately the traitors (to the Constitution) won the Civil War
If you were lucky, your machine had a diode array (a big block of diodes in a grid on a PC board) that had the bootloader for paper tape on it.
If you were less lucky, you had to toggle in the paper tape bootloader by hand, a byte at a time using the row of toggle switches on the front of the machine. I had to do this on the ancient PDP-8 in the Science Building on college to complete all of my homework assignments. The programming class was based on FORTRAN (batch) and FOCAL (interactive on ASR-33 terminals.)
I ran a current build of SeaMonkey on an OS 10.2 iMac (a G3) less than six months ago. It worked great. I think trying to run Safari was your mistake (it's a common mistake)
Quick access means updating from a mechanical to an optical paper tape reader.
Does anybody have any recent experience with Seagate to share?
I have some ST-225 drives I recently got from somebody on a vintage-hardware list. I haven't plugged them in yet to see how reliably they work, though...
Calling this a 'DOS-era limitation' just shows a lack of knowledge about computers of the past. My MicroVAX 3100 will not boot from a hard drive larger than 1GB. I suppose it is fair to call it a 'DOS-era' thing if you were just another kid with a PeeCee clone and his own phillips screwdriver ( the only tool a 'leet computer expert' need own!!)
Hardware/firmware limits for hard drive topologies were a reality for much equipment of the past.
Your last sentence clarified the issue. You said you were born and raised in Texas. Then you babbled some non-texan nonsense. But you cleared the confusion by alluding to the fact that you are from Austin, not Texas, in your last sentence.
I would use the replicator to replicate 10,000 more replicators.
Then I'd bring the 10,000 replicators to a Star Wars Collectable (or Longabergers Basket, or anything else like it) convention. I'd give the replicators, free, to all participants.
The chaos would be fun to witness.
Now, add to that the notion that one would not deprive the previous owner of his car.
However, in the case of pirated movies, the owner is the person who holds the copyright. And 'copies for viewing' that are sold are essentially just licensed permission to watch the movie. So the correct analogy to a car would be if you stole the car and prevented the owner from collecting the revenue from renting it to somebody else.
I know, I know. Complicated abstract constructs. Just the kind of thing everybody else here engages in....
A correction:
iPhone: goes up to 150 mph but only destination it will take you to is the App Store. From there you can tool around in the kiddie go-cart rides in the walled garden.
Telneting into Carmack's rocket would be fundamentally cool. Where's that packet sniffer again??
You're right. The Chinese will handle it better if we stay out of there and let them explore and drill instead. Which they will.