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Anyone remember FLUBBER ?
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More about Dust Removal
Here's my analysis of Adnan Hajj's disastrous image,
This Image Is Not Faked
(The page is written for a general audience, which is why I explain powers-of-two and other computery things.)
It is a bad image which should never have been printed, but the mistake was purely technical and is the same level of mistake as using too much red-eye correction or bad white points, or out-of-focus even.
The mistake was much more on Reuters's photo editor deciding to print such a messed-up picture, than their stringer who through haste submitted it. It's the editor's job to decide what, *if anything*, to print to accompany a story. It's the photographer's job to provide a lot of options for the editor. In the olden days, proof sheets full of options.
I know all the real editors are dead. A shame. Journalism used to be almost respectable!
(I did the photography/journalism stuff for six years in school, never at a professional level. I've done digital audio synthesis since the late 70s, and DSP professionally a few times since the mid-80s, including coding testing and releasing dust removal software. Thus the disastrous image immediately struck me as familiar, similar to testing situations.) -
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Re:ECMA
I've heard they were trying for ACME, but something got messed up in the standardisation process.
(A pity, because these would have been a big hit amongst geeks.) -
Obligatory: Just Imagine a Beowolf Cluster ...
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Re:Microsoft Brand FUDRight, I get it now.
The Bible is like your god's version of The Davinci Code, and you have been chosen by your god to decide which passages are literal, which are allegorical and which have to be manipulated to match the ones you decide are correct.
Oh, and here's an explanation of why you're wrong.
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Re:I WANT THAT ISP!!!!!
Note: I worked for Time Warner in Austin, TX.
If you are a RR subscriber in Austin, TX and have an infected machine; it will be flagged on the network. Once done, the packets get sniffed for viri, spamming, bot attacks, and excessive port scanning. At this point, the network security department files a motion to our tech support deparment to disable the user. From here, we send a DOCSIS command to upload a disable.bin file to the modem.
I think the customer gets two tries to clean their computer last I remembered. If they get disabled again on the third time for the same issues, they must speak directly with the security department to resolve the issue. Basically however, they just need to call the tech support line to get their connection re-enabled and get chewed over the phone for not taking measures to secure their wireless network and/or computers behind the cable modem. Because RR users have access to FREE antivirus software (EZ Armor from CA), the lazy bums no longer have an excuse to stay unprotected.
If you are still having a problem with these DNS attacks, I would recommend contacting the RR security deparment to resolve the issue. you can find all the information you need from the link below. Best of luck.
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Not the first time: GFDL incompatible with GPL
This has happened before. A while back I tried without success to convince Richard Stallman that continuing to promote a license (the GNU Free Documentation License or GFDL)
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
which was incompatible with the GPL was a bad thing. :-)
See for example some reasons at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentatio n_License
http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html
My particular interest was to use information from the GFDL-licensed Wikipedia in GPL programs. I'd go further and question the very reasons the GFDL was created in the first place -- just to make dead tree book publishers' lives easier? Where is the emphasis on freedom there?
I think it is easy for any technologist to underestimate community issues and then to see a license as a program for individual behavior instead of a constitution for a community. The GPL works. It has problems, sure, but it works well enough as a constitution for cooperation. More variants of licenses mainly just make more problems IMHO. -
Re:Using "nanotechnology" to dye your hair...
I guess this means that Grecian Formula is nanotechnology. It's got lead and sulfur too. Who would have thunk it was so advanced?
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firstApple Bets Farm on Heterosexual Computing - GNAA Members Offended
Apple Bets Farm on Heterosexual Computing - GNAA Members OffendedSan Francisco, Ca - Mikhail Borovskiy (GNAP) - Moments after the announcement made by Steve Jobs that Apple would be changing the Macintosh computing platform from a PowerPC based CPU architecture to an Intel Pentium based architecture, GNAA executives jesuitx and timecop were visibly shaken. The announcement confirmed rumors started four days prior when C-Net News reported that this change would be taking place. As C-Net News was the first technical news source to report this story, most people assumed the truth would be somewhere near the polar opposite of their findings.
"Guys what is going on? It seems Apple is trying to market towards 'Straighties'! That's never going to work! Fuck Apple, Apple is dead to me, Apple hit WTC!" said jesuitx upon hearing the news. He was later seen backstage speaking with Apple's Vice-President of Marketing, Phil Schiller, quoted as saying "Phil, baby, this is massively fucked up. As a typical Macintosh user, and as a fellow Vice-President of Marketing [Gay Nigger Association of America], I can tell you there's no amount of spin you could put on this that will save you from losing support from the homosexual installed base [all Macintosh users] that has kept Apple Computer alive for so many years!"
timecop, founder and President of GNAA, is expected to renounce Apple and order the immediate purchase of Chinese made IBM computers by its members, 87% of which are Macintosh users, at the July 8th Copperfield Conference to be held in Kyoto, Japan. At the last Copperfield conference, held in Nome, Alaska, timecop had praised Apple for their continuous support of the homosexual community.
About Apple
Until today, Apple Computer was the creator of the Macintosh, popularly known as the "gay computer". 87% of GNAA members were Mac users. Founded in 1974 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Apple was nearly out of business in the mid 90's, when Jobs was rehired. He then started the now infamous iGay marketing scheme which involved both the Step 2 ???? Profit model, and a 100% effort towards marketing to homosexuals. Apple is nowadays run by fuckfaced retards.
About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?
If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!
Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!- First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
- Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
- Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.
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Re:Everybody is the copycat
OLVWM has had this feature for yonks (some time before GNOME and KDE got off the ground) - screenshot here http://www.luv.asn.au/overheads/wm/olvwm/olvwm_fe
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Re:Well duh
Even though the game Neverwinter Nights had a linux port, it didn't include video support due to the closed nature of bink.
Sometimes you get lucky, and somebody puts enough effort into discovering that it's possible. The following link provides a method to actually get the video support under NWN. It's not user friendly, but it gets the job done if you're willing to slog through it.http://home.woh.rr.com/nwmovies/
'Course, like I said, it's not friendly. At all. It's definitely not something that I'd want the average computer user undertaking, especially if they're used to "stick the CD in, and Windows autoruns the install..." *theatrical sigh* -
hiApple Bets Farm on Heterosexual Computing - GNAA Members Offended
Apple Bets Farm on Heterosexual Computing - GNAA Members OffendedSan Francisco, Ca - Mikhail Borovskiy (GNAP) - Moments after the announcement made by Steve Jobs that Apple would be changing the Macintosh computing platform from a PowerPC based CPU architecture to an Intel Pentium based architecture, GNAA executives jesuitx and timecop were visibly shaken. The announcement confirmed rumors started four days prior when C-Net News reported that this change would be taking place. As C-Net News was the first technical news source to report this story, most people assumed the truth would be somewhere near the polar opposite of their findings.
"Guys what is going on? It seems Apple is trying to market towards 'Straighties'! That's never going to work! Fuck Apple, Apple is dead to me, Apple hit WTC!" said jesuitx upon hearing the news. He was later seen backstage speaking with Apple's Vice-President of Marketing, Phil Schiller, quoted as saying "Phil, baby, this is massively fucked up. As a typical Macintosh user, and as a fellow Vice-President of Marketing [Gay Nigger Association of America], I can tell you there's no amount of spin you could put on this that will save you from losing support from the homosexual installed base [all Macintosh users] that has kept Apple Computer alive for so many years!"
timecop, founder and President of GNAA, is expected to renounce Apple and order the immediate purchase of Chinese made IBM computers by its members, 87% of which are Macintosh users, at the July 8th Copperfield Conference to be held in Kyoto, Japan. At the last Copperfield conference, held in Nome, Alaska, timecop had praised Apple for their continuous support of the homosexual community.
About Apple
Until today, Apple Computer was the creator of the Macintosh, popularly known as the "gay computer". 87% of GNAA members were Mac users. Founded in 1974 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Apple was nearly out of business in the mid 90's, when Jobs was rehired. He then started the now infamous iGay marketing scheme which involved both the Step 2 ???? Profit model, and a 100% effort towards marketing to homosexuals. Apple is nowadays run by fuckfaced retards.
About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?
If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!
Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!- First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
- Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
- Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.
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Re:No competition = higher prices in the future
I wished I lived on your planet where the price of cable access has gone down. I've paid $50 a month for RoadRunner since 1999.
I had RoadRunner myself at that $55 price ($50 + $5 cable modem rental). These days, it looks to be about $45/mo including modem. That doesn't include the promotional pricing that lasts 3-6 months depending on your provider. Perhaps not a huge decrease in price, but still a promising general direction for consumers. -
From ACME!
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Re:Freshmeat?
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Re:Wow
I wouldn't assume that the factory uses that much thermal paste just because the repair manual shows it that way.
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Re:Unbelievable.
"I'm sick of hacking my website to be IE-compatible...
...I don't care what browser will have the most market share,
as long as it's not IE..."
There is a name for those people who visit your site while using IE. They are called your customers. You sounds as if you do not care about your customers. We all know how well an attitude like that has worked for companies over the years.
Some people don't use Firefox because they already have IE and it works. Others don't use Firefox because of how it works.
They might not like how it does things like
- no "Stop" button on the toolbar
-a mandatory search control toolbar - the kind of "browser helper" thing people have been told contain spyware (anyone remember "Gator"?). (if they wanted a Google, Yahoo or other search toolbar, they would have downloaded and installed one)
-they want to view page source in an editor and not in a dumbed down browser window.
As to conforming to standards compare the rendering of the left column (width: 22ex;) on this site when viewed with IE versus with Firefox.
http://home.nc.rr.com/emulroy/programg.htm
Many use IE so know it works. They normally prefer to not fix what they feel is not broken. If your web site is one of the rare ones that does not work with IE, they are more likely to decide the site is broken than that to download and use some other browser.
If you want to promote Firefox then tell people compelling reasons why it is better for them
and not some "Microsoft is the evil empire with all that money and we socialists object to that" type of drivel.
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gnaaApple Bets Farm on Heterosexual Computing - GNAA Members Offended
Apple Bets Farm on Heterosexual Computing - GNAA Members OffendedSan Francisco, Ca - Mikhail Borovskiy (GNAP) - Moments after the announcement made by Steve Jobs that Apple would be changing the Macintosh computing platform from a PowerPC based CPU architecture to an Intel Pentium based architecture, GNAA executives jesuitx and timecop were visibly shaken. The announcement confirmed rumors started four days prior when C-Net News reported that this change would be taking place. As C-Net News was the first technical news source to report this story, most people assumed the truth would be somewhere near the polar opposite of their findings.
"Guys what is going on? It seems Apple is trying to market towards 'Straighties'! That's never going to work! Fuck Apple, Apple is dead to me, Apple hit WTC!" said jesuitx upon hearing the news. He was later seen backstage speaking with Apple's Vice-President of Marketing, Phil Schiller, quoted as saying "Phil, baby, this is massively fucked up. As a typical Macintosh user, and as a fellow Vice-President of Marketing [Gay Nigger Association of America], I can tell you there's no amount of spin you could put on this that will save you from losing support from the homosexual installed base [all Macintosh users] that has kept Apple Computer alive for so many years!"
timecop, founder and President of GNAA, is expected to renounce Apple and order the immediate purchase of Chinese made IBM computers by its members, 87% of which are Macintosh users, at the July 8th Copperfield Conference to be held in Kyoto, Japan. At the last Copperfield conference, held in Nome, Alaska, timecop had praised Apple for their continuous support of the homosexual community.
About Apple
Until today, Apple Computer was the creator of the Macintosh, popularly known as the "gay computer". 87% of GNAA members were Mac users. Founded in 1974 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Apple was nearly out of business in the mid 90's, when Jobs was rehired. He then started the now infamous iGay marketing scheme which involved both the Step 2 ???? Profit model, and a 100% effort towards marketing to homosexuals. Apple is nowadays run by fuckfaced retards.
About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?
If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!
Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!- First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
- Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
- Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.
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That old 8 bit magic can be recaptured today...
...through modern microcontrollers. I have a great time playing with Microchip's offerings (PIC series) - although Freescale, Atmel, etc. have equally good equivalents.
You get seriously fast little CPUs in very self-contained packages (I use the DIP packages - easier to hold, solder and plug into breadboards). The old magic returns.
As an aside, a couple of years ago I put together a NIBL basic microcontroller using a SC/MP II (INS8060) CPU I had from decades ago! If you want to see it, here's the URL:
http://home.austin.rr.com/broadb/chris/SCMP_Compon entside.html
Since that image, I have loaded the ROM image onto an EPROM (rewiring the board a bit for it) - and have applied a tweak I saw in an old Elektor magazine - speeding up the serial communication to 2400Baud (much more comfortable than it's original speed).
On the main topic, my first programmable machine was an HP 25 calculator (1976ish). The first real computer on which I wrote a running program was a Univac 1100 (punch cards, no less!). My first home machine was an Apple II+ - with the 16K expansion card and UCSD Pascal system - oh was I ever king of the hill!
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Re:except that
http://home.san.rr.com/denbeste/search.html
Does my CDMA phone drain the battery faster when it says it is "searching"?
Short answer: Yes, quite a lot.
Long answer: In order to make the battery last as long as possible, all CDMA phones turn on and off portions of themselves constantly.
When the phone is normally idle, the receiver is only on perhaps 2% of the time, if that. But when the phone says it issearching, that means it is attempting to get in contact with the cellular system. To do that, it has to have the receiver on most of the time.
The receiver consumes quite a lot of power, and therefore the phone will drain the battery much faster if it spends long periods searching. If you're going into an area where you can be pretty certain the phone can never contact a cell (such as riding a subway), you might want to turn the phone off in order to preserve the battery. (Note that it does not harm the phone or the battery to search; it just runs the battery down.) -
Re:The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
You can be sure it's not a penguin in sheep's clothing. Considering how fat penguins are they couldn't really fit into much. I wonder what this says about your average Linux user.
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Re:Interesting encyclopedia comparison
The March Upcountry series is actually quite good. It reads like more of Ringo's work than Weber's, for what that's worth. The series works out to be a pretty good coming of age tale, and the paeans to the martial virtues are not overblown. I caught the first two books when they were in the free library and then bought the last two.
Ahh Starfire. The original pocket edition is one of the best games of its generation. It hasn't stood up well - although I prefer the 2d6 weapon rolls to the 1d10 just because I love the feel of the 2d6 bell curve- so I'm playing Full Thrust these days, predominantly online with FTJava - multiplayer, transport over email so not realtime, fog of war, and fighters coming this week in the 1.0 release. Starfire was cursed with mediocre expansions and overcomplex campaign games. Weber came along for the 2nd edition and rewrote the game to be more complex to handle the large battles he wanted (yes, that's what happened). And he wrote novels. They degenerated into one massive assault through a warp point after another. There's no ftl travel, you go through warp poitns and come out in another system. And they're easily defended with vast minefields and ginormous fortresses. Ungameably ugly in my opinion, you're forced into brute force up-the-middle attacks. This forces fleet sizes upwards to sustain the horrific casualty rates (90% attrition in fighter units in battle after battle, 90% percent people. Add in an even more extreme version of the technological one-upmanship in the Honor Harrington books and you get a really flashy strategic situation that's utterly boring to play.
On the other hand, the game for the Honor Harrington series is based on the excellent Attack Vector, which manages to put 3d Newtonian space combat on the tabletop. They're calling it the Saganami Island Tactical Simulator and yes, I do have a (small, non-financial) interest in the company. It's on my Christmas list for myself, just ordered it now (yes, I've been good). -
Why go to all the bother...when you can just mail-order an ACME Do It Yourself Tornado Kit
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Re:surreal? Why?Bush: I suppose you are right. I am just so frustrated.....
Blair: Okay, I have a great idea lets let these guys finish up the documentation and I'll take you out to our Favourite Bar
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Re:Wow, this is pretty stupid.Segment, wtf are you trying to prove? You keep quoting the if someone has 75dB PTA hearing loss, that they're severely disabled. However, you apparently don't understand that a 75dB signal does not cause 75dB hearing loss. In fact, it's not even loud. 75dB is the level of a "noisy office", and it's quieter than a busride. To get 75dB hearing loss, you need to attend a rock concert or work construction/airport runway without earplugs, or just get really old so your eardrums lose their elasticity.
Here's a clue: someone with 75dB hearing loss at a given frequency is incapable of hearing a 75dB signal (that means they probably won't year you at all, even if you get up in their face and scream at the top of your lungs). To them, a loud car horn at 115dB would sound like background noise sounds to you (i.e. very quiet), and a jet taking off at 140dB (which would cause you PAIN) would be the equivalent of you hearing normal conversation. In short, "deaf as a doornail."
See this SPL table:
140dB = Jet taking off, 25 meters
115dB = Loud car horn, nearby
100dB = Inside N.Y. subway
85dB = Inside motor bus
75dB = Noisy office
60dB = Conversational speech
50dB = Private office
45dB = Background noise, city home
30dB = Library
20dB = Whisper, leaves rustling
15dB = Good recording studio
In conclusion, hearing loss != SPL. They're both expressed in dB, but they're not the same thing. Hearing loss is subtracted from SPL. -
Re:It crashes too
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Why stop at the hard drive
This guy built his whole machine from lego: http://home.hawaii.rr.com/chowfamily/lego/
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Missing: Egan, Stross, SterlingTwo notable absences are Greg Egan's Permutation City (among others) and Charles Stross' The Atrocity Archive and the stories in Accelerando (among others), and Bruce Sterling's Holy Fire and Distraction (among others). All are hardcore Geek works of real brilliance. Permutation City in particular was published about the same time as Snow Crash, and is both a better and more important novel.
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Real men play text games
My favorite game is DECWAR, and I have a web page about it. The web page is at:
http://home.austin.rr.com/hsnewman/decwar.htm
You can even play it, I have it running under Simh on a pdp10 emulator! Simply log on as 5,30, and you can command your own starship against other humans realtime! -
Re:Can anyone say prior art?
To your point, a 1916 Tampa Tribune newspaper ad containing a customer review.
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LOL HYApple Bets Farm on Heterosexual Computing - GNAA Members Offended
Apple Bets Farm on Heterosexual Computing - GNAA Members OffendedSan Francisco, Ca - Mikhail Borovskiy (GNAP) - Moments after the announcement made by Steve Jobs that Apple would be changing the Macintosh computing platform from a PowerPC based CPU architecture to an Intel Pentium based architecture, GNAA executives jesuitx and timecop were visibly shaken. The announcement confirmed rumors started four days prior when C-Net News reported that this change would be taking place. As C-Net News was the first technical news source to report this story, most people assumed the truth would be somewhere near the polar opposite of their findings.
"Guys what is going on? It seems Apple is trying to market towards 'Straighties'! That's never going to work! Fuck Apple, Apple is dead to me, Apple hit WTC!" said jesuitx upon hearing the news. He was later seen backstage speaking with Apple's Vice-President of Marketing, Phil Schiller, quoted as saying "Phil, baby, this is massively fucked up. As a typical Macintosh user, and as a fellow Vice-President of Marketing [Gay Nigger Association of America], I can tell you there's no amount of spin you could put on this that will save you from losing support from the homosexual installed base [all Macintosh users] that has kept Apple Computer alive for so many years!"
timecop, founder and President of GNAA, is expected to renounce Apple and order the immediate purchase of Chinese made IBM computers by its members, 87% of which are Macintosh users, at the July 8th Copperfield Conference to be held in Kyoto, Japan. At the last Copperfield conference, held in Nome, Alaska, timecop had praised Apple for their continuous support of the homosexual community.
About Apple
Until today, Apple Computer was the creator of the Macintosh, popularly known as the "gay computer". 87% of GNAA members were Mac users. Founded in 1974 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Apple was nearly out of business in the mid 90's, when Jobs was rehired. He then started the now infamous iGay marketing scheme which involved both the Step 2 ???? Profit model, and a 100% effort towards marketing to homosexuals. Apple is nowadays run by fuckfaced retards.
About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?
If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!
Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!- First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
- Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
- Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.
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Re:Gadgets (Lasers!)I've done quite a few displays for halloween using lasers. While it's a bit late to start purchasing the equipment, you can accomplish quite a lot with nothing more than a green laser pointer, a fog machine, and a few basic optical components.
The "time tunnel" effect is always a crowd pleaser. Drill a hole in a penny and press it onto the shaft of a small DC motor. (It needs to be almost, but not perfectly, perpendicular to the shaft.) Glue a small mirror (1" square or less) onto the penny. Turn on the motor and bounce the beam off the spinning mirror. Add some fog to the room and dim the lights, and you've got a very cool effect indeed. (Wrap a rubber band around the barrel of the laser pointer to keep it on, and tape it into position near the spinning mirror.)
Or you can build two spinning mirror assemblies and generate lissajous patterns. (Think: Spirograph)
Or use some hot glue to tack a tiny mirror onto your speaker's woofer. Bounce the laser off the mirror while you play loud music, and you'll get all sorts of wierd patterns.
Or lay a CD-ROM on your turntable (you do still have one, right?) with the reflective surface up, and bounce the laser off the disc. (The narrow tracks act like a diffraction grating, splitting a single beam into multiple beams.) Slowly rotate the turntable platter (especially with the disc slightly offset from center) to get more effects.
Have a look at my site for some idea of the types of effects you can produce.
Here are a few other sites that might give you more ideas:
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Re:Well...Especially when you figure in the possibility of triangulating with cell towers.
The proper functioning of adjacent CDMA cell towers (i.e. Sprint, Verizon in the 1.8 GHz bands, and by US West in the 800 MHz bands) must be synchronized within 10 microseconds to support what is called "soft handoff".
CDMA base stations use the GPS constellation to maintain synchronization. The satellites themselves need precise clock synchronization, and this is exported to GPS receivers.
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Re:Inventor misquoted?
Probably something like Mike the Headless Chicken.
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FEMA
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Re:fr1st p0st
So Sun did it first? I would have always expected that Apple employees would be the first to receive GRIDS.
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But what about Macintosh users?
Does this take into consideration the needs of your typical Macintosh user?
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Re:nothing like the...
But does this take into consideration the needs of your typical Macintosh user?
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GNAA: CmdrTaco Caught Having Butt Sex With Horse
Disturbing pictures hit the Internet late tonight showing Slashdot mod CmdrTaco having anal intercourse with a horse. Sources close to Slashdot do not dispute the claim. Ex-wife, SlutBitch4U, says that CmdrTaco has had a fetish for large, dark-colored horse cock since he was caught getting ass raped by a petting zoo pony when he was three years old, then getting brutally raped at the GNAA convention in 1992 thinking it was ass-less chaps night for D&D, which would of only had 2" or max 5" penis instead of 12" baby arms that GNAA members carry.
Recent investigation by animal cruelty investigators have noticed that CmdrTaco has funneled money through proceeds from Slashdot to run a horse rape camp in the mountainous region between Afghanistan and Pakistan. US forces would also like to investigate CmdrTaco's role in distributing loose anus horses to Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters. These horses are widely rumored to have special running powers, possibly the horses are afraid of the anal tortured endured from CmdrTaco and other Slashdot mods at his rape camps. It is also rumored locally in the villages in the area of "HorseRapeCon's", where computer geeks from Slashdot who didn't get laid at DefCon flock to these regions to have wild horse sex orgies, then join the Taliban afterwards. CmdrTaco has been quoted as saying "Horse sex is not a crime.. when you're all done, atleast you have a ride home", in this week's issue of Beastiality Weekly, which is based in Greenbo, Alabama and is distributed by Slashdot.
GNAA believes that CmdrTaco should step down and should surrender to federal and international charges of horse anus endangerment, which carries a maximum fine of anal torture by the hands of his GNAA rapists who sodomized him a decade ago.
The pictures have been disclosed by the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act, so CmdrTaco would like to thank everyone who voted for free speech.
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i caught eminem having sex with a horse
check it out here
at first it was gross
but now it is strangely erotic
i am so turned on right now
will the real slim shady please stand up, please stand up
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Re:Not necessarily
I do not consider it overkill: http://home.san.rr.com/benderfamily/network/radiu
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Re:Headshot!
You've probably heard the term "running around like a chicken with his head cut off." It is possible to have motor control of your body without most of your brain since much of your basic motor control is in the brainstem and spinal cord. Here's an interesting story
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The Sterling-Ellison ConnectionNot many people know that Harlan "discovered" Bruce. He attended a very early Turkey City Writer's Workshop, bought Bruce's first novel (Involution Ocean), and then paid Bruce's way to the Clarion Writer's Workshop. Harlan is a prickly character, but he does have a fine eye for talent (and a gift for making the right enemies).
Bruce has "paid it forward" by helping a number of new writers (myself included) with their careers by subjecting them to the bracing fire of a Sterling critique...
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fpApple Bets Farm on Heterosexual Computing - GNAA Members Offended
Apple Bets Farm on Heterosexual Computing - GNAA Members OffendedSan Francisco, Ca - Mikhail Borovskiy (GNAP) - Moments after the announcement made by Steve Jobs that Apple would be changing the Macintosh computing platform from a PowerPC based CPU architecture to an Intel Pentium based architecture, GNAA executives jesuitx and timecop were visibly shaken. The announcement confirmed rumors started four days prior when C-Net News reported that this change would be taking place. As C-Net News was the first technical news source to report this story, most people assumed the truth would be somewhere near the polar opposite of their findings.
"Guys what is going on? It seems Apple is trying to market towards 'Straighties'! That's never going to work! Fuck Apple, Apple is dead to me, Apple hit WTC!" said jesuitx upon hearing the news. He was later seen backstage speaking with Apple's Vice-President of Marketing, Phil Schiller, quoted as saying "Phil, baby, this is massively fucked up. As a typical Macintosh user, and as a fellow Vice-President of Marketing [Gay Nigger Association of America], I can tell you there's no amount of spin you could put on this that will save you from losing support from the homosexual installed base [all Macintosh users] that has kept Apple Computer alive for so many years!"
timecop, founder and President of GNAA, is expected to renounce Apple and order the immediate purchase of Chinese made IBM computers by its members, 87% of which are Macintosh users, at the July 8th Copperfield Conference to be held in Kyoto, Japan. At the last Copperfield conference, held in Nome, Alaska, timecop had praised Apple for their continuous support of the homosexual community.
About Apple
Until today, Apple Computer was the creator of the Macintosh, popularly known as the "gay computer". 87% of GNAA members were Mac users. Founded in 1974 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Apple was nearly out of business in the mid 90's, when Jobs was rehired. He then started the now infamous iGay marketing scheme which involved both the Step 2 ???? Profit model, and a 100% effort towards marketing to homosexuals. Apple is nowadays run by fuckfaced retards.
About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?
If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!
Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!- First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
- Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
- Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.
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Re:Let's do a Slashdot ISP rating.
Umm, yeah. Whatever. I've got Comcast and my download speed is 4 megabits.
Um, neat, but RoadRunner is 5 Mbps downstream cap.
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Apple Bets Farm on Heterosexual Computing - GNAA MApple Bets Farm on Heterosexual Computing - GNAA Members Offended
Apple Bets Farm on Heterosexual Computing - GNAA Members OffendedSan Francisco, Ca - Mikhail Borovskiy (GNAP) - Moments after the announcement made by Steve Jobs that Apple would be changing the Macintosh computing platform from a PowerPC based CPU architecture to an Intel Pentium based architecture, GNAA executives jesuitx and timecop were visibly shaken. The announcement confirmed rumors started four days prior when C-Net News reported that this change would be taking place. As C-Net News was the first technical news source to report this story, most people assumed the truth would be somewhere near the polar opposite of their findings.
"Guys what is going on? It seems Apple is trying to market towards 'Straighties'! That's never going to work! Fuck Apple, Apple is dead to me, Apple hit WTC!" said jesuitx upon hearing the news. He was later seen backstage speaking with Apple's Vice-President of Marketing, Phil Schiller, quoted as saying "Phil, baby, this is massively fucked up. As a typical Macintosh user, and as a fellow Vice-President of Marketing [Gay Nigger Association of America], I can tell you there's no amount of spin you could put on this that will save you from losing support from the homosexual installed base [all Macintosh users] that has kept Apple Computer alive for so many years!"
timecop, founder and President of GNAA, is expected to renounce Apple and order the immediate purchase of Chinese made IBM computers by its members, 87% of which are Macintosh users, at the July 8th Copperfield Conference to be held in Kyoto, Japan. At the last Copperfield conference, held in Nome, Alaska, timecop had praised Apple for their continuous support of the homosexual community.
About Apple
Until today, Apple Computer was the creator of the Macintosh, popularly known as the "gay computer". 87% of GNAA members were Mac users. Founded in 1974 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Apple was nearly out of business in the mid 90's, when Jobs was rehired. He then started the now infamous iGay marketing scheme which involved both the Step 2 ???? Profit model, and a 100% effort towards marketing to homosexuals. Apple is nowadays run by fuckfaced retards.
About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?
If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!
Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!- First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
- Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
- Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.
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As an SF Writer, Does That Mean I'm a Pusher?"Say, you like to get galactic, you know what I'm sayin? Man, I got The Skiffy to set you up, man. I got some ssensa-wonder, I got some hard SF if yo hardcore. I even got that bad-ass Postcyberpunk they all be talkin' about. Hey man, I'll set you..."
Or does being a science fiction bookseller count as being a pusher? "Yo man, if ya hardcore, I got some Gene Wolfe and Philip K. Dick to set you up man. Unless you're totally freaky, and then I've got some R. A. Lafferty...
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As an SF Writer, Does That Mean I'm a Pusher?"Say, you like to get galactic, you know what I'm sayin? Man, I got The Skiffy to set you up, man. I got some ssensa-wonder, I got some hard SF if yo hardcore. I even got that bad-ass Postcyberpunk they all be talkin' about. Hey man, I'll set you..."
Or does being a science fiction bookseller count as being a pusher? "Yo man, if ya hardcore, I got some Gene Wolfe and Philip K. Dick to set you up man. Unless you're totally freaky, and then I've got some R. A. Lafferty...