Friday, August 2, 2002
Episode II On DVD & VHS
On November 12, Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will begin the North American release of Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones on DVD and VHS home video.
Discussion at Slashdot.
NetNewsWire Lite 1.0b7
Brent Simmons
- Fixed a serious performance problem introduced in the last beta.
- Removed horizontal scrollbars from subscriptions and headlines panes.
- New menu command: Open Home in Browser (shift-command-B) opens home page of current subscription in browser.
- Moved Find New Sites submenu to Subscriptions menu.
- Renamed Refresh commands to make them less ambiguous: now it's Refresh Current News and Refresh All News.
The performance is much better than 1.0b6, but it's still pretty sluggish at startup. Thanks for removing the horizontal scrollbars. It's a small thing, but it was bugging me.
The Homeland Security Non-Debate
Ron PaulThe new department represents the biggest government reorganization since the creation of the Department of Defense in the 1940s, and potentially the single biggest expansion of the federal government in our history. Over 175,000 federal employees will be part of the new DHS, and if history is any guide, it will take decades to get all of them working together even marginally. In fact, some estimate that the process of buying and leasing new offices, moving existing offices, and getting all of the new DHS personnel using the same computer and phone systems could take twenty years. So much for streamlining the intelligence gathering process.
