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Posted by Phil Mellor (monkeyson2) in The Playpen
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President Obama, then

It's not /my/ position, just an article of interest.

But it is one that you feel has sufficient merit to disseminate and defend.

It's not my position that he isn't eligible for being President. The article I'd say certainly has merit for this thread.

The article describes that the authors of the constitution were British as well and hence had dual nationality but wrote in a "grandfather clause" so that they could be President in the early years. They didn't want "split loyalties" in future leaders according to the article, especially to Britain. Time will tell whether it's a correct reading of the constitution or not.

It's not a correct reading of the English language, let alone the US Constitution.

Well that's what you say but time will tell IMO.

The title of the document was this (shouting in original):

OBAMA ADMITS HE WAS BRITISH CITIZEN AT BIRTH - AS SUCH OBAMA IS NOT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN OF US.

I have shown that this is wrong.

I wouldn't say so, I'd say you've just attacked me and mainly made assertions.

As to the "split loyalty" question; as far as I can see, there is no evidence that the framers of the US constitution didn't want "split loyalties" in future leaders (and if they had, I expect they would have written it down). The evidence just shows that they didn't want a president who was too young to eat solid food.

It seems like fair speculation if that's what it is that a nation formed out by revolt and effective civil war would want clear national ties and loyalty.

So, do you think you could agree that the article has no merit, as was pretty clear from the start?

Not at this point, no I don't agree.

Posted by Andrew (andrew) in The Playpen
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Icon Bar released on Windows before RISC OS!

The windows iconbar 'obviously' influenced the designers of Arthur, you can tell by the following similarities.

1) The appalling choice of colour
2) The really terrible icon design

Posted by Peter Howkins (flibble) in General
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Icon Bar released on Windows before RISC OS!

How about... no.

The Windows 1 taskbar acts more like the RISC OS pinboard than the icon bar, in that it only stores icons for minimized windows. It may look like the icon bar, but it does not act like it.

Posted by Jeffrey Lee (Phlamethrower) in General
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Icon Bar released on Windows before RISC OS!

http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/11/20/happy-anniversary-windows-on-the-evolution-of-the-taskbar.aspx

Windows 1 = 1985, Arthur = 1987 (release rather than development dates)

Posted by Jason Togneri (filecore) in General
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Psion 7

Is there support for the Psion 7 or netBook available for RISC OS (I'm a new Virtual Acorn user, by the by).

Posted by Edward Rogers (Monty) in General
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Things you miss from home at work

If it's computer stuff, what's wrong with VNC/X-forwarding/LogMeIn/SSH/FTP/etc?

How does that help me look at a bunch of PDFs containing examples of print stylesheet errors quickly and efficiently, or search the contents of my hard disc?

VNC/X-forwarding/LogMeIn

Those do both the former and the latter. You do know what these things are, don't you?

I think you're trying to solve a different problem to the one I have.

I'm at work. My data is on my work PC. I just want some of the features available for finding and viewing data on my home computer to be available on my work PC because I find them useful. These are core, user facing features that depend on the host OS and local data, and aren't suitable for remote access.

It's ridiculous to suggest using my MacBook's Spotlight service to index my work computer and a whole bunch of servers, or that running Quicklook with VNC over an internet connection is going to live up to the Quick part of its name.

Posted by Phil Mellor (monkeyson2) in General
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Things you miss from home at work

I have my personal laptop at work, but wish I had my monitor too. 1280 x 800 is just not enough desktop space!!

Posted by Andrew Duffell (ad) in General
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Things you miss from home at work

If it's computer stuff, what's wrong with VNC/X-forwarding/LogMeIn/SSH/FTP/etc?

How does that help me look at a bunch of PDFs containing examples of print stylesheet errors quickly and efficiently, or search the contents of my hard disc?

VNC/X-forwarding/LogMeIn

Those do both the former and the latter. You do know what these things are, don't you?

SSH/FTP

Those can do the latter. Sheesh, n00b.

Posted by Jason Togneri (filecore) in General
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Things you miss from home at work

If it's computer stuff, what's wrong with VNC/X-forwarding/LogMeIn/SSH/FTP/etc?

How does that help me look at a bunch of PDFs containing examples of print stylesheet errors quickly and efficiently, or search the contents of my hard disc?

Posted by Phil Mellor (monkeyson2) in General
6 comments in forum