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I know i posted this before - i fink i am gonna post this everytime, ellenFeiss is talked about on /. - shes not purty dammit - trust me - i'm one of those rare geeks. Anyway here goes
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Please...please dont slashdot the server (:

Why do you differentiate between "we" and "users" in your statement?

I would appreciate it if you would provide an example, because I am at a loss for one. In the examples I provided, Microsoft did not change the way the user interacts with the programs. Many of the changes that Microsoft makes to software is not to improve functionality, but to break compatibility (i.e., make the code proprietary).

This entire thread is entitled "What's keeping you on Windows?" From reading the comments below, it seems that quality is a major player here.

Quality has nothing to do with the fact that Microsoft is "leveraging" other people's work.

Wow! I never knew that Microsoft was started around 1954! Because you do know that Linux is just another Unix [www.cnam.fr] (ohhhhh, gonna get flamed for that one) varient,

You should be flamed, because Linux is not a UNIX variant. Linux is POSIX-compliant, and all POSIX-compliant OSes can interchange software (after recompiling). Coincidentally, most versions of UNIX are also POSIX-compliant. However, it is possible to make any OS POSIX-compliant (including Microsoft Windows). That doesn't mean those OSes are variations of UNIX. None of the code in Linux came from UNIX. Linux was written from scratch.

"Linux is not Unix! Unix is a proprietary OS, and its code can only be licensed by large companies. Linux is close to Unix in terms of architecture, because the same concepts were used to design both OS's. Linux is POSIX* compatible, so it is able to run the same software as the other Unix variants (HP-UX from Hewlett-Packard, AIX from IBM or Solaris from Sun for example); you just have to recompile your source code on a Linux machine."

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and Unix was first created in 1969 by Ken Thompson.... Or maybe you did'nt know that and you really did think all this started in 1995......

Actually, Linus began working on his OS in 1991:

Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

"Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things). I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work....

"PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs."

History of Linux

I wouldn't take such a shitty tone, but you're attacking my intelligence and creditability here and I don't take that so very lightly.

I am not intending to attack you personally, but I am sensitive to the mis-portrayal of the computer industry by certain political segments. My own sister, who otherwise knew virtually nothing about computers, dogmatically asserted to me that the only reason that Microsoft was being sued was its competitors were jealous. The reason she took that position is her conservative leadership told her these things, and she believed them. This is the same line that Rush Limbaugh and Libertarian commentators take-- and it's all political hysteria, spread by people who don't know and usually don't care about the accuracy of their statements.

http://mozillako.hypermart.net/ieskin/

After installing it, you'll be surprised at how much "faster" mozilla seems.

Check this out (only for adults) Shes nude here Alright you idiots - stop talking about the girl already - shes ugly...oh yeah beat me about the bush and put this thing as offtopic but im sick of Ellen Feiss on /.

but is wired deep into the bowels of the OS, using interfaces not available for other apps

Otherwise, this would exist.

Oh wait. It does.

And if you wrap it a little further down the (paper) match and put an un-folded paperclip along the side, you form a micro sized rocket engine. Remove the paperclip before launch and you have the tube for the exhaust.
You can even make the paperclip into the launchpad.

Here is some other designs:
http://www.matchrockets.com/fire/mr.html - This one has Video and info on calculating velocity!

http://users.bigpond.net.au/mechtoys/matchrocket.h tml

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/TRC/Rockets/match _rocket.html

http://mrockets.hypermart.net/brett/

http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/age subject/lessons/other/match_rocket.html

I recommend you slice it up and sell off most of it. If you and/or your grandpappy were into knives, you might consider having part of it made into a collectible knife.

You could sell it to the knife company for the knife and a nice chunk of cash.

I recall there was a slashdot story on Damascus steel that referred to some of these knives maybe a year ago.

Of course, if its not your typical iron meterorite, then it maybe is even more valuable, so maybe an assay is the best way to start.

Everybody knows that the planets are supposed to be named after the Roman gods. That's just the way it is. Here's a list of some of the more common Roman gods. I'm sure some of the Hercules and Xena fans out there can add to this list.

Personally, I like:

• Minerva, better known by her greek name as Athena. Just because it sounds cool. She sounds like she might be a hottie, too.

• Somnus, the god of sleep. Because of course a planet that far away from the sun must be asleep.

• Bacchus, the god of free beer. Just because I like free beer.

The IE Skin is better installed from its website, because the newer customizable version is not found in MozDev.

Mozilla IE Skin

I don't know if they have changed the shortcuts too, but there is an IE skin for Mozilla.

if you're targeting windows users, use this IE skin, not some crappy netscape skin

Now that you mention the IE skin, I'm surprised Bamm Gabriana hasn't officially released his Windows XP IE skin. It's been gathering dust on his site since August 19. There's no noticeable bugs in the skin, so I don't understand why he doesn't announce it already.

Seeing how the rest of the OS is "borrowed" from Windows, I'm surprised they didn't install the Internet Explorer Skin as the default.

This was exactly the same thought I had....although I think it would be a bit of a stretch for De Niro to play R.F. :)

I was absolutely spellbound by the biography of Feynman shown on NOVA over 10 years ago. Last Journey of a Genius was remarkable and I've been searching for it ever since. I confirmed that it is a BBC production and that WGBH in Boston (NOVA producers) will not be airing it again as far as they know.

I have contacted dozens and dozens of libraries and also these folks to try and beg/borrow/steal a copy of this tape so I can see it again.

I publicly make this pledge of a $50 donation to the EFF for information leading to me securing this tape!

SuperID

I hope you don't mind that I p1r8d your vacation photos, but that cross-eyed thing hurt my brain so I converted it into a red/blue stereogram. Now if I only had a pair of 3d glasses...

That's a pretty light requirement, since the M16A1 is a pretty light gun at 6.35 lbs. Compare it to the M1, at 9.5 lbs and up (and up since the wooden stock was often denser than spec).
Those three pounds don't sound like much until you carry it all day. They really help with guncontrol, too. I can shoot the 30-06 M1 about as well as the .223 M16, since the extra weight helps reduce muzzle jump.

"You see? You are already hooked. Now we need to move faster so that dependance doesn't grow.
Don't create documents in a format where the only application that can read them is controlled by a company whose EULAs say 'We can do anything we like with your computer and you have to like it too'."

In the department of the German Government which deals with recommendations for IT infrastructure and software (for the rest of the state), this was discussed recently. And the outcome was, every time somebody mentioned special software, or access, or compatbility, that only works with Microsoft, the answer were like the one above.

No. I don't think they'll switch tomorrow. What they are going to do (probably) is for now, stick with their legacy apps. But the Government has decided it wants to be "e-Government" too, and so everything must be browser-based and acessible everywhere, internally and externally.

That is a huge advantage, for one thing, there is somebody who says "Things WILL CHANGE", no matter what the users say (so complaining about having to relearn won't do any good). Further, with web-based stuff you are efficiently removing the need for special client software (unless you are a stupid moron and rely on IE-only features). Third, the IT departments can (and they do want to) introduce open solutions in the server space without anybody noticing much, and that's exactly what they are doing now.

So, if the problem will fit into a web-based solution, advocate this instead of bullying the users with SuSE or RedHat CDs. Then, when they are used to using Mozilla or IE (in Windows) for almost all their stuff, the transition to an independant desktop system is much, much easier. They won't even notice the difference if you're clever enough (http://mozillako.hypermart.net/ieskin/).

Well i'm sure the axis of evil (united states, israel and britain) will come up with a great new way to murder thousands of people and profit!

Those islamic guys kinda suck, sure they kill thousands of people, but where's the profit i ask? where is the profit?! AMATUERS!

Step aside and let uncle sam show you how terror is done!

Terror for fun and profit!

Internet Explorer skin

Slighty off topic, but the first sci-fi books I read, Stainless Steel Rat series. The character Slippery Jim diGriz traveled to other planets, and the main spoken language was Esperanto.

BTW, the series rated rather high, so if you like Sci-Fi, you might really like these books.

A young kid wants to be a famous thief, how do you do that in a computer, data driven society?

You mean this plugin?

This reminds me of an amusing web-filter app I whipped up at the last minute to demo some perl modules.

It converts your page to different styles, like the All Your Base, cowtalk and l33t. For example, Yahoo's page shows "W3'\/3 mad3 chang3z! T311 uz wha7 j00 7hink" under the l33t filter.

The filters are applied randomly.

This reminds me of an amusing web-filter app I whipped up at the last minute to demo some perl modules.

It converts your page to different styles, like the All Your Base, cowtalk and l33t. For example, Yahoo's page shows "W3'\/3 mad3 chang3z! T311 uz wha7 j00 7hink" under the l33t filter.

The filters are applied randomly.

• Another first post, another song.

Another first post, another song.

The Falun Gong is a religous movement that has suffered much oppression in China.

Of course, one could also argue that Falun Gong is a doomsday cult which preachs racism. I assume that PRC's government believes that, aside from the implications of competing with a powerful organization full of people with martyr complexes, their actions are little different from Germany's treatment of the Church of $cientology and the United States' treatment of Branch Davidians, for example.

Some people might think that if you shan't dive into proc if you are not up to what you find there, others think otherwise.

Sorry for taking the bait,

the tigga, smoking cocks since 1976.

This one for joe on #trolls. Hope you like it, squire!

Ok, now this is a good song. Mmmm.

This musical first post is at the request of l33t j03. Hope you enjoy it!

For L0rdkariya, a musical first post. Hey, I guess that's just the way it is.

If you need periodic complete system backups get some removable hard drive bays, some 100GB disks and Mondo

What do we have?
MOP

• Computational cost via N-gram analysis
• Distance metric for interlingua quality analysis

First they took over the Cult Awareness Network, then they started selling Linux, and now they've taken over the U.S. Army.
Oh, what hath Xenu wrought?

I agree.

Mmmm.... Drew Barrymore.

I just decided to make a PDF of the PS file. You can download it here.

If you're looking for the news from the site, check out the AC post above.

that's unformed.hypermart.net or http://stonedcow.com/doe/index.php

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Just in case anyone found the cliffside dwellings interesting, they're most likely copied from Renzo Piano's Tjibaou Cultural Center located in New Caledonia (Yes, IAAA - I am an architect). He drew inspiration from the Kanak's (indigineous ppl's) tent dwellings, and the glulam structures feature operable louvers that allow for natural ventilation. Check it out.

Well, according to the First Post Convention 1947, ACs are not allowed to retain the FP, so they are always stripped and given to the rightful Logged In Troll. However, I fully support this effort.

If your book was selling from your publisher you should still be getting paid. It is only if people stop buying it and download it that you will lose out.

Also, you do deserve to be rewarded for a great work but for how long? Every other working stiff doesn't expect to get paid for work they did 20 years ago. If your work was truly great then you will have made in those 20 years enough money to fully compensate you for your effort. If your work was only mediocre then you better start writing or get a job.

And before you denounce me take a look at a site I created 2 years ago - writingpads. I created it with the idea of amateur authors publishing short stories for everybody to enjoy without expecting to make money off it. I actually published the first chapter to the book I was writing at the time (look under fiction) but ended up abandoning the site because I became too busy with another project. I also have wrote music for jazz ensemble. If anybody is interested I can send them a copy for free.

And what's wrong with that. It's becoming even more true now that the commander-in-chief has authorized CIA to use lethal force and is pouring billions of dollars into the machine the history of which is filled with atrocious acts of terror and morally dubious publications.

Yeah, these are the good guys.

Meh. Blind. Whatever. It works (see #4). So who cares if I'm blind?

This site looks like it's got a fair few useful links.

Of course, there are exceptions. Obviously it doesn't take much to saturate a modem connection. But modern modems have data compression built in, so there's not a lot to be gained by compressing the data beforehand.

Another example is one I had to deal with recently. Mat Ballard started distributing Kylix help files in HTML format. This is 100 meg of data, so Mat was concerned to minimize his bandwidth costs. He found he got the best result with bzip2, which reduced his file size to a mere 7.6 meg, or twice the compression of gzip.

This caught my interest. I'd like to distribute a similar collection of documentation. But my app needs to be able to read individual files on the fly. Would bzip2 compression work equally well applied to small blocks of data?

Unless I did something wrong, the answer is no. A bzip-in-tar file doesn't seem to come out any smaller than the equivalent zip file. Perhaps I did something wrong, but it does make sense. Bzip2 gains its superior compression by combining the Burrows-Wheeler transform with old-fashioned Huffman encoding. And BW transforms are drastically more effective on big data sets. So I might as well stick with Zip format. Oh well.

Bottom line: no magic bullet for minimizing bandwidth costs through compression. You need to analyze your specific application and find out what's most effective -- and whether it's worth the trouble.

Nice homepage Big_Ass_Spork

Harassment isn't only for sexual harassment. With our Political Correctness movements, they have added other non sexual types of harassment. File a harassment charge with HR, they cant fire you or switch your job due to retaliation laws against harassment charges.

If your going to be fired or moved to a dead-end job, with our job market defend your rights. A good employee shouldnt be degraded due to age.

Here is a good quick short overview of non-sexual harassment.

The link in the last paragraph, on the word "producers", should go here.

Doom creating the market for "add-in sound and graphics cards" was the final straw.

Holy crap! I'm glad somebody remembers the existence of Wolfenstein 3D!

I don't want to get into a holy war over which game created "the market for add-in sound and graphics cards," but my vote goes to The 7th Guest.