Spoken like a person who has never performed music. Every musician worth his salt creates a new and original interpretation of the composer's music. Even the amateurs gathered around the parlor piano were doing something creative within the framework of the composition.
If Apple had an effective monopoly on desktop and laptop machines (as IBM does on mainframes), it would be the same. But since Apple has no such monopoly, it's completely different.
And don't make the absurd statement that Apple has a monopoly on Macs unless you're willing to call BMW a monopoly because they're the only company that can build BMWs.
2. To be serious, there are two lessons we should have learned from the history of the past 150 years.
a. Communism doesn't work.
b. Capitalism doesn't work. What does work is a system in which capitalism drives the economy, but a strong central government keeps the capitalists in check.
The Knowledge Navigator concept had a screen that folded out like a book, as does Courier. It also supported multi-touch, as does Courier. It also did a lot of things that Courier can't do (but of course it didn't really do any of them since it was only a concept). So I think the GP is correct about Courier looking a bit like the Knowledge Navigator.
You could put 6 video cards into a Mac II (Nubus) and run 6 displays as one giant desktop. Of course, the Apple cards were only 640X480, but some higher res cards were available from third parties like Radius.
Shouldn't be modded Flamebait, humorless moderator.
It may be apocryphal, but I have read that Islamic makers of elaborate rugs always include a flaw somewhere in the design. Supposedly, attempting to create something perfect would be an affront to Allah, who is the only being who is perfect and who can create perfection. Maybe Balmer comes from a long line of Persian rug merchants.
Mac Plus (1986) Atari 400 plus peripherals, including an ATR8000, which is a Z80 box that doubled as a CPM machine and an Atari peripherals controller (1983) Sinclair ZX80 computer (1981) (I can't swear that this still works)
If the govt. is in surplus, that means they have WAY too much of our money...yours and mine. they should only have just enough to get the limited number of things done that they are mandated to do constitutionally.
Like maybe starting to pay down the national debt, which is one of the things Al Gore planned to do with the surplus if he had been elected. This would have eventually reduced the sizable interest payments that the govt. is on the hook for and that our taxes go to pay.
And I think it has been shown to be factual, that when taxes are lowered, federal revenues actually go up.
I won't respond to this except to say that you should look further down in the comments, where other posters have cited studies that show that this theory is completely wrong, and to quote one poster, "laughable".
If they cut the corporate taxes...they come in, create more business, and employ more people who then pay more taxes, and govt. gets more revenue. More growth means more revenue, even from less tax venues...
Great theory, has never, ever worked in practice. Witness the Reagan deficits. Witness the govt. going into surplus after Clinton raised taxes. Too bad conservatives are more interested in ideology than in facts.
Yes, the cord on my wireless Mighty Mouse is definitely short...
Disagree on battery life - still on my first set of batteries after 15 months.
Disagree on response times - seems as responsive as a wired mouse.
My scroll ball hasn't gummed up, and the form factor is as good as any I've used. Right-clicking does take getting used to, but is fine once you learn it.
I've replaced most of our bulbs with CFL, and in my experience they last about as long as incandescents. There's no way I'm saving money when the bulbs cost several times more than the incandescents. And I'm not using cheap junk, I'm using name brands like GE.
And if you use an X-10 system, you'll either have to stop using X-10 or buy even more expensive CFLs rated for use with dimmers.
My biology teacher would come up behind a sleeping or misbehaving student and kick his chair out from under him (this was in the '60s when they could do that kind of thing). Very effective technique.
Someone asked him in class what he would do if Sophia Loren (super-hot in that era) walked into the room. His response: "I'd teach her biology." I bet he would.
Absolutely correct. You should know the language well enough to maintain code written by hotdogs, but don't get carried away with all the weird features. You just don't need all that fluff to get code that is usable, accurate, fast, and maintainable. Leave your ego at the door.
One correction to your otherwise +1 post. Walter Reed is not being closed, it's being moved. Bethesda Naval will be expanded, Walter Reed will move in there, and the whole kebab renamed to Walter Reed Military Hospital (or something like that, to reflect that it's not just Army anymore). The Walter Reed annex in Silver Spring, MD, is, as far as I know, not going anywhere.
In 1996 every ISP provided Usenet access, and most of the groups hadn't been swamped with trolls and spam yet. I subscribed to a number of groups on different topics - hobbies, work-related, star trek, alt.ensign.wesley.die.die.die (sorry, Wil). I learned a lot about some areas that I was interested in, and had a lot of fun.
It was a lot easier to find discussions of areas of interest on Usenet - just browse the hierarchy. Now various interest groups are segregated in their own forums all over the web, and even with Google it's hard to find the good ones. The Usenet groups I used to read have all gone to hell, and are only accessible through Google Groups because my ISP doesn't support a feed. Google Groups sucks compared to a good news reader.
I suspect that these sites all use some third-party shopping cart solution that is badly designed and not tested across the browser universe. And I wish I could mod you funny or insightful or something for your sig...
I've run into this with a number of shopping carts, including some big name sites. I usually have to switch to a different browser - a lot of carts don't work with Safari or Chrome, and some don't even work with FireFox.
I have a relative serving time in a commercially-run prison. Besides this being a totally repugnant concept to begin with, the way the prison corporation profits off the inmates and their families is unreal. For example, inmate phone calls to family are charged at $16 per half hour. Inmates must buy their personal supplies through a commissary run by the corporation at horribly inflated prices. Luxury items like TVs or guitars, and school supplies must be purchased through a special catalog, again at inflated prices.
You might say, "oh, they're criminals, they deserve to be soaked." But in reality it's the families who are being soaked, even though, in many cases, they are the victims of the inmate's crimes, or are suffering from lack of the inmate's income or parenting or whatever.
It's a completely immoral way to make a buck. The owners and executives of these prison corporations are no better than the inmates they are incarcerating.
Rats and mice are also different problems. If you have mice, cats are very effective. Mice will not even approach anywhere they think a cat lives.
Tell that to the mice who live in my house. We have two cats, both of whom have caught mice in the past, and both of whom show great interest in the area the mice live. Doesn't stop the mice from coming in and eating the cat's food and even the cat's grain-based litter (yes, disgusting).
From what I've seen, cats aren't too much use against rats. The best ratter I've known was a dog, but dogs can't get into the small spaces where the rats hang out.
In terms of sonic complexity, the Beatles are more interesting from a musical standpoint than Mozart. He was just an expert tunesmith with the ability to set melodies in symphonic structure.
My god, this is wrong on so many levels that I can't even begin to respond. I love the Beatles - they were among the most creative and sophisticated artists of modern times - but the sophistication and depth of their music does not compare with Mozart.
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Spoken like a person who has never performed music. Every musician worth his salt creates a new and original interpretation of the composer's music. Even the amateurs gathered around the parlor piano were doing something creative within the framework of the composition.
If Apple had an effective monopoly on desktop and laptop machines (as IBM does on mainframes), it would be the same. But since Apple has no such monopoly, it's completely different.
And don't make the absurd statement that Apple has a monopoly on Macs unless you're willing to call BMW a monopoly because they're the only company that can build BMWs.
Two possible responses to this:
1. WHOOSH
2. To be serious, there are two lessons we should have learned from the history of the past 150 years.
a. Communism doesn't work.
b. Capitalism doesn't work.
What does work is a system in which capitalism drives the economy, but a strong central government keeps the capitalists in check.
The Knowledge Navigator concept had a screen that folded out like a book, as does Courier. It also supported multi-touch, as does Courier. It also did a lot of things that Courier can't do (but of course it didn't really do any of them since it was only a concept). So I think the GP is correct about Courier looking a bit like the Knowledge Navigator.
I'm using ME for a useful task - I have it on a PC in the garage that I'm using to prop up a pile of lumber.
You could put 6 video cards into a Mac II (Nubus) and run 6 displays as one giant desktop. Of course, the Apple cards were only 640X480, but some higher res cards were available from third parties like Radius.
Shouldn't be modded Flamebait, humorless moderator.
It may be apocryphal, but I have read that Islamic makers of elaborate rugs always include a flaw somewhere in the design. Supposedly, attempting to create something perfect would be an affront to Allah, who is the only being who is perfect and who can create perfection. Maybe Balmer comes from a long line of Persian rug merchants.
Siamese
Tonkinese
Tabby
Abyssinian
Main Coon
Persian
Mexican Hairless
and of course,
Hep
Cool
Sno
Not that old, really, but...
Mac Plus (1986)
Atari 400 plus peripherals, including an ATR8000, which is a Z80 box that doubled as a CPM machine and an Atari peripherals controller (1983)
Sinclair ZX80 computer (1981) (I can't swear that this still works)
If the govt. is in surplus, that means they have WAY too much of our money...yours and mine. they should only have just enough to get the limited number of things done that they are mandated to do constitutionally.
Like maybe starting to pay down the national debt, which is one of the things Al Gore planned to do with the surplus if he had been elected. This would have eventually reduced the sizable interest payments that the govt. is on the hook for and that our taxes go to pay.
And I think it has been shown to be factual, that when taxes are lowered, federal revenues actually go up.
I won't respond to this except to say that you should look further down in the comments, where other posters have cited studies that show that this theory is completely wrong, and to quote one poster, "laughable".
If they cut the corporate taxes...they come in, create more business, and employ more people who then pay more taxes, and govt. gets more revenue. More growth means more revenue, even from less tax venues...
Great theory, has never, ever worked in practice. Witness the Reagan deficits. Witness the govt. going into surplus after Clinton raised taxes. Too bad conservatives are more interested in ideology than in facts.
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Yes, the cord on my wireless Mighty Mouse is definitely short...
Disagree on battery life - still on my first set of batteries after 15 months.
Disagree on response times - seems as responsive as a wired mouse.
My scroll ball hasn't gummed up, and the form factor is as good as any I've used. Right-clicking does take getting used to, but is fine once you learn it.
I've replaced most of our bulbs with CFL, and in my experience they last about as long as incandescents. There's no way I'm saving money when the bulbs cost several times more than the incandescents. And I'm not using cheap junk, I'm using name brands like GE.
And if you use an X-10 system, you'll either have to stop using X-10 or buy even more expensive CFLs rated for use with dimmers.
My biology teacher would come up behind a sleeping or misbehaving student and kick his chair out from under him (this was in the '60s when they could do that kind of thing). Very effective technique.
Someone asked him in class what he would do if Sophia Loren (super-hot in that era) walked into the room. His response: "I'd teach her biology." I bet he would.
Absolutely correct. You should know the language well enough to maintain code written by hotdogs, but don't get carried away with all the weird features. You just don't need all that fluff to get code that is usable, accurate, fast, and maintainable. Leave your ego at the door.
One correction to your otherwise +1 post. Walter Reed is not being closed, it's being moved. Bethesda Naval will be expanded, Walter Reed will move in there, and the whole kebab renamed to Walter Reed Military Hospital (or something like that, to reflect that it's not just Army anymore). The Walter Reed annex in Silver Spring, MD, is, as far as I know, not going anywhere.
Damn, no mod points. +1 Hilarious.
In 1996 every ISP provided Usenet access, and most of the groups hadn't been swamped with trolls and spam yet. I subscribed to a number of groups on different topics - hobbies, work-related, star trek, alt.ensign.wesley.die.die.die (sorry, Wil). I learned a lot about some areas that I was interested in, and had a lot of fun.
It was a lot easier to find discussions of areas of interest on Usenet - just browse the hierarchy. Now various interest groups are segregated in their own forums all over the web, and even with Google it's hard to find the good ones. The Usenet groups I used to read have all gone to hell, and are only accessible through Google Groups because my ISP doesn't support a feed. Google Groups sucks compared to a good news reader.
I suspect that these sites all use some third-party shopping cart solution that is badly designed and not tested across the browser universe. And I wish I could mod you funny or insightful or something for your sig...
I've run into this with a number of shopping carts, including some big name sites. I usually have to switch to a different browser - a lot of carts don't work with Safari or Chrome, and some don't even work with FireFox.
I have a relative serving time in a commercially-run prison. Besides this being a totally repugnant concept to begin with, the way the prison corporation profits off the inmates and their families is unreal. For example, inmate phone calls to family are charged at $16 per half hour. Inmates must buy their personal supplies through a commissary run by the corporation at horribly inflated prices. Luxury items like TVs or guitars, and school supplies must be purchased through a special catalog, again at inflated prices.
You might say, "oh, they're criminals, they deserve to be soaked." But in reality it's the families who are being soaked, even though, in many cases, they are the victims of the inmate's crimes, or are suffering from lack of the inmate's income or parenting or whatever.
It's a completely immoral way to make a buck. The owners and executives of these prison corporations are no better than the inmates they are incarcerating.
Rats and mice are also different problems. If you have mice, cats are very effective. Mice will not even approach anywhere they think a cat lives.
Tell that to the mice who live in my house. We have two cats, both of whom have caught mice in the past, and both of whom show great interest in the area the mice live. Doesn't stop the mice from coming in and eating the cat's food and even the cat's grain-based litter (yes, disgusting).
From what I've seen, cats aren't too much use against rats. The best ratter I've known was a dog, but dogs can't get into the small spaces where the rats hang out.
In terms of sonic complexity, the Beatles are more interesting from a musical standpoint than Mozart. He was just an expert tunesmith with the ability to set melodies in symphonic structure.
My god, this is wrong on so many levels that I can't even begin to respond. I love the Beatles - they were among the most creative and sophisticated artists of modern times - but the sophistication and depth of their music does not compare with Mozart.
Tunesmith? Philistine!
Does anyone else think that maybe firing squirt guns around computers is less than a brilliant idea?