Ok, when ripping a script, at least change the name of the main character more than one letter. You see, if i turned in a history paper that was ripped off the internet and i only changed the spelling of a few words, my teacher would not only turn me in for plagiarism, he would smack me in the head with my own stolen paper for blatant stupidity. Come on, people, if your gonna steal something, do it right.
...then ergonomic keyboards and mice are just a marketing ploy! Damn you marketing professionals, and all the money I gave you for stuff you convinced me I needed!
I got a DVD ROM, and of course i run it under linux. I use XINE with Captain CSS's DVD plugin, and they linked to a nice little utility that lets me change the region code on the drive whenever i want, to whatever i want.
Maybe he should have worked for psychic hotline. Or maybe they tried to hire him but he (unlike their psychics) predicted how "profitable" it would be.
If you think about it, the mind is just a big computer doing trillions upon trillions of operations per second. If you were to devote an entire human brain, or even teh 1/10th that the average person uses, to cracking some PGP encryption, you'd have the result in a relatively short amount of time (compared to a field full of crays). The mind is basically a computer with a few functions to determine logical solutions to things and interpret biological input as problems to solve. To replicate AI, we'd have to duplicate the core problem solving functions in our head. But of course, since the human brain is so much faster than a computer, such AI would be about as intelligent as your average comatose person. You would have to rework the code until it was effecient as a human brain. But since the human brain is a computer, and can only base effeciency on what it knows, you can't make the program more effecient than you are, making AI pointless since real intelligence is faster;p
Of course. In the business world, nice guys finish last. A truly good business man would sell his best friend for a profit. Of course, the key is to get a good balance of good businessman and good human being. Some people just take one of the two to the extreme and either a) get their butts kicked (the good human beings) or b) get shunned by everyone else (the good businessmen). And people think life is simple.
I was debating on whether my laptop would have an Athlon 4 or crusoe chip when i got it. Now I'm not sure what the difference will be by the time i order it.
/me also wonders if this means Linus will get paid to improve athlon support =)
Audiogalaxies software is only for windows AFAIK, which means that microsoft works with the RIAA to make sure that it doesnt work properly with all future versions of windows, and the RIAA is happy. Don't you remember the plot to limit mp3 quality to "ween users off mp3 and onto realmedia"?
Could the same bug have resulted in my Computer Programming teacher being hired? I still find it quite odd that she is teaching a top level programming class, yet doesnt understand what a function is. I still recall trying to explain the word "filesystem" to her. Hopefully, the same bug will assist my english grade (hey, it couldnt get worse).
Didn't that happen with windows 98? An omen of things to come? Or maybe they just forgot to add the bluescreen routine, so the hardware just died instead of giving the notorious error message.
Actually, thanks to some last minute changes in the script of the premiere by some not-so-well-known hackers, it was us geeks who made THEM look stupid =)
Yeah, right. Back to that shitty reality with nothing to do formerly known as friday night./me waits for another cheap parody like the star trek cast shooting phasers at the executives until they took the props away
Even better, I'll write up a law, copyright it, and get it passed. My law will repeal all copyright laws. Talk about a paradox.;p
And the best part. People won't even know that they don't have to buy a copy of it from me until after they already did.
I have never been a real apple fan since i started using x86's, but considering the performance you can get out of a chip with half the clockspeed, I think they ARE pretty effecient. Combined with linux, it sounds like a good deal. I still remember running an old shell server off a converted ppc machine. Too bad it had a broken chipset and melted down after two months;)
4 in roman numerals is IV. When the average consumer realizes he spent triple the money on something worth half as much, the paramedics may need to give him one of those. Cooincidence?
IT's amazing how the ending is so open ended. It really makes you think, unlike lots of "modern" movies, which have a clear cut end. You can take this ending any way you want to =)
Quite simple. A single ISP has a fraction of the bandwidth that a backbone provider would have. Which means, even though they stop the flood at the entry to their LAN, their connection to the rest of the world is still shot to shit. Having the big backbone providers stop the flood is much more effective and involves much less down time. (besides the fact that authorities are more likely to pay attention to complaints from UUnet than from joeschmoe.com the ISP)
They found an element capable of being a transistor and are trying to market it. Either that or some physics nerd has waaaaay too much time on his hands....
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Ok, when ripping a script, at least change the name of the main character more than one letter. You see, if i turned in a history paper that was ripped off the internet and i only changed the spelling of a few words, my teacher would not only turn me in for plagiarism, he would smack me in the head with my own stolen paper for blatant stupidity. Come on, people, if your gonna steal something, do it right.
Sound like what happened with the Celeron A whipping the P2's ass?
...then ergonomic keyboards and mice are just a marketing ploy! Damn you marketing professionals, and all the money I gave you for stuff you convinced me I needed!
It's not the convservative making a pro-privacy decision that shocks me. It's the courts making an educated decision.
I did that same with the Got DeCSS shirt. I figure i'll hand out xerox's of the back of it in front of MPAA headquarters.
I got a DVD ROM, and of course i run it under linux. I use XINE with Captain CSS's DVD plugin, and they linked to a nice little utility that lets me change the region code on the drive whenever i want, to whatever i want.
My buddy already grabbed an imported one, right here in the USA. Works very nicely =)
(Now we just need to learn japaneese so we can play the games properly)
Maybe he should have worked for psychic hotline. Or maybe they tried to hire him but he (unlike their psychics) predicted how "profitable" it would be.
If you think about it, the mind is just a big computer doing trillions upon trillions of operations per second. If you were to devote an entire human brain, or even teh 1/10th that the average person uses, to cracking some PGP encryption, you'd have the result in a relatively short amount of time (compared to a field full of crays). The mind is basically a computer with a few functions to determine logical solutions to things and interpret biological input as problems to solve. To replicate AI, we'd have to duplicate the core problem solving functions in our head. But of course, since the human brain is so much faster than a computer, such AI would be about as intelligent as your average comatose person. You would have to rework the code until it was effecient as a human brain. But since the human brain is a computer, and can only base effeciency on what it knows, you can't make the program more effecient than you are, making AI pointless since real intelligence is faster ;p
Of course. In the business world, nice guys finish last. A truly good business man would sell his best friend for a profit. Of course, the key is to get a good balance of good businessman and good human being. Some people just take one of the two to the extreme and either a) get their butts kicked (the good human beings) or b) get shunned by everyone else (the good businessmen). And people think life is simple.
32 bits == 4 bytes, 64 bits == 8 bytes. Increase by 4 bytes. while bytes != times, cnn != programmers. ;p
I was debating on whether my laptop would have an Athlon 4 or crusoe chip when i got it. Now I'm not sure what the difference will be by the time i order it.
/me also wonders if this means Linus will get paid to improve athlon support =)
Audiogalaxies software is only for windows AFAIK, which means that microsoft works with the RIAA to make sure that it doesnt work properly with all future versions of windows, and the RIAA is happy. Don't you remember the plot to limit mp3 quality to "ween users off mp3 and onto realmedia"?
Could the same bug have resulted in my Computer Programming teacher being hired? I still find it quite odd that she is teaching a top level programming class, yet doesnt understand what a function is. I still recall trying to explain the word "filesystem" to her. Hopefully, the same bug will assist my english grade (hey, it couldnt get worse).
Sounds like windows was interpreting "USB" as "U Suck Bill"
Didn't that happen with windows 98? An omen of things to come? Or maybe they just forgot to add the bluescreen routine, so the hardware just died instead of giving the notorious error message.
Sending tourists seems like it's just asking for trouble. And i thought skydiving made it hard to get life insurance...
I belive David Bowie put it best: "Ground control to Major Tom..."
Actually, thanks to some last minute changes in the script of the premiere by some not-so-well-known hackers, it was us geeks who made THEM look stupid =) Yeah, right. Back to that shitty reality with nothing to do formerly known as friday night. /me waits for another cheap parody like the star trek cast shooting phasers at the executives until they took the props away
Even better, I'll write up a law, copyright it, and get it passed. My law will repeal all copyright laws. Talk about a paradox. ;p
And the best part. People won't even know that they don't have to buy a copy of it from me until after they already did.
I have never been a real apple fan since i started using x86's, but considering the performance you can get out of a chip with half the clockspeed, I think they ARE pretty effecient. Combined with linux, it sounds like a good deal. I still remember running an old shell server off a converted ppc machine. Too bad it had a broken chipset and melted down after two months ;)
4 in roman numerals is IV. When the average consumer realizes he spent triple the money on something worth half as much, the paramedics may need to give him one of those. Cooincidence?
IT's amazing how the ending is so open ended. It really makes you think, unlike lots of "modern" movies, which have a clear cut end. You can take this ending any way you want to =)
They force you to agree in the installer, if you click "no", it terminates ;) Even with sun java, you have to agree on extraction, AND on download.
Quite simple. A single ISP has a fraction of the bandwidth that a backbone provider would have. Which means, even though they stop the flood at the entry to their LAN, their connection to the rest of the world is still shot to shit. Having the big backbone providers stop the flood is much more effective and involves much less down time. (besides the fact that authorities are more likely to pay attention to complaints from UUnet than from joeschmoe.com the ISP)
They found an element capable of being a transistor and are trying to market it. Either that or some physics nerd has waaaaay too much time on his hands....
And people call _ME_ a nerd...