Just what we need, a computer turning English into "Hacking Phlegm and Flu-ish" sounding language and a "Pnuemonia-ese" to English.
I have yet to see how it can cope with needing to change the syntax of a sentence (English is unique with its sentence structure and the ordering of the words) let alone dealing with the differences in the way everybody speaks, and do it in real time.
It sound like there will be a lot of raised eyebrows when the computer turns "Hi, How are you doing?" into "All your base are belong to us !"
Every computer I fix now seems to be riddled with ads.......and spyware,virii and other nasties.
With the XBOX360 coming out in a few days shouldn't Microsoft think about offering Windows in 2 versions also. The XBOX comes in the basic $299(no HDD, extra cables version) and "normal" $399 kitchen sink version(w/ HDD and XBOX live mic). Microsoft could offer Windows as a stripped down (no WMP,IE,OE or Themes) version for free(or close to it) and the "normal version" for $89-129.
People don't trust MS as it is,(Prepare tin-foil hat) why do they think that ads served by them on an OS they have the backdoors to will be any different than having Doubleclick do it...............Oh now I remember they control Claria (nee Gator).
I have Sage 2.2.8 running on a 1.0 Ghz Duron with 256 SDR Memory and ATI 7500 with no hiccups whatsoever.
For HD I use Sage 3.0.7 (beta) and a 2.4 Celeron D with 512mb DDR with Nvidia 6200 w/HDTV out.
I wish I had mod points that could make this a +6 !
This goes along with the general "Pussification" of America. Keep the children safe, keep everything safe. Bah! Bullshit. When I was a kid you didn't HAVE to wear a helmet to ride a bicycle, now I'm suprised that you are allowed to take training wheels off before the age of 16.
Of course being shot into space is going to have a shitload of danger attached to it, people have always know this and it won't change until we get really good at it and completely understand what the how's and why's. The bicycle I had, I would always fall off of it until one day it just became 2nd nature. The Challenger and Columbia accidents were just that accidents, 2 losses out of 113 flights is not a perfect record but for 25+ year old machines it's pretty damn good considering what they go through on each flight. Come on people get to work on something new, we've learned quite a few things since the mid 1960's when these were designed. Just think of how much lighter these babies would be with new computers instead of IBM/360's controlling them.
We have to stop "putting helmets" on everything that is even remotely dangerous and get back to taking a chance or two.
In the future what will stop someone or some entity from falsifying information knowing that the legal system will use this.
How can the info in wayback.org or google be trusted ? You can make redirect pages based on googlebot or wayback that have nothing to do with what is really on the site.
In the article it is mentioned that vodaphone.com was taken by a squatter and they used wayback to show that her intentions were "intended to misleadingly attract consumers",what if she had WBM's bot goto a "nice" page and not the real site that case could have gone differently.
I think that if someone wants to they can plan ahead and use this in a nefarious fashion.
I wonder if he could have used "Pharmaceuticals to your door V1cod1n, 0xyc0nt1n and others for cheep!" emails I always get, It would have taken the edge off a bit at least.
I know it's what everyone thinks daily(man I would love to find the fuckers who sent this.....), but for the most part as a society we don't go primal on a whim. An eye for an eye would have been fun at least, making him sit and read spam all day with a webcam trained on him 24/7.
This is all bullshit anyways.
Horsepower doesn't move a car, Torque does !
It's the reason that Diesel engines are used for trains, trucks and tanks. Horsepower is only good once you get moving and want to speed up.
Quote:The parent poster is absolutely correct, R134a is a greenhouse gas. However, that statement should be qualified: it is only a greenhouse gas when it is released into the atmosphere. Modern technicians use recovery equipment to remove refrigerants from cooling systems (everything from your freezer to your central A/C). The refrigerant is either recycled, or disposed of properly.
This is true until the car hits something !
I realize that driving is a "non-contact" sport but if the front of the car gets sufficently damaged and the condenser purges then 134a has now made it into the atmosphere. Not exactly recycling the way it was intended !
P.S. I love my A/C in my V8 Northstar Cadillac and I don't subscribe to the Green Movement way of thinking. Like George Carlin said "Maybe the world just wanted plastic...That's why we're here"
They had this in the late 80's early 90's. I think it was called "the human drummer" or "The human rhythm machine" I don't remember, but it would take a sample of what was coming off the MIDI line and adjust it's rhythm to be ever so slightly off (read: more human)
I guess it really didn't take off though because I can't find anything on it at all (i guess I'll have to look through my 80's guitar mags)
I had also read the Joe Satriani and his producer are nuts about making a drum machine not sound like a machine. Most (if not all) of Joe's albums are done with Drum Machines, what they do is change all the settings slightly for each drum hit so they all sound different. So listen to "Satch Boogie" and hear how good a drum machine can sound.
P.S. - The other side of this is real drummers using electric drum kits. They will show off how bad you rhythm is if you don't play on the beat.
...with Firefox, use Flashblock
It won't automatically play the flash animation, you have to click on it first.
Everyone with Firefox should have AdBlock, Flashblock, Spoofstick and BugMeNot. Your surfing experience will be ALOT better and faster.
When I set up machines for anyone now I install Firefox (with the above extentions, remove access to IE and install a nice rounded hosts file with all the baddies blocked, I really don't have "can you fix this for me" or "Damn the computer is slow today" calls anymore!!
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How much companies lose for every copy of Windows XP (about $126) they buy?
I love sarcasm.
It looks like more than 12 people are pissed off. http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/23/ 138200&tid=128&tid=211&tid=10
XBOX overheating, Black Screen of death, etc.
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Flashblock !!
The second greatest plugin for Firefox, Adblock being the first
That's funny, all of the power strips I own have a rocker switch on them that turns the whole thing off !
As George Carlin said "Maybe you need to get rid of some needs"
Just what we need, a computer turning English into "Hacking Phlegm and Flu-ish" sounding language and a "Pnuemonia-ese" to English.
I have yet to see how it can cope with needing to change the syntax of a sentence (English is unique with its sentence structure and the ordering of the words) let alone dealing with the differences in the way everybody speaks, and do it in real time.
It sound like there will be a lot of raised eyebrows when the computer turns "Hi, How are you doing?" into "All your base are belong to us !"
Every computer I fix now seems to be riddled with ads.......and spyware,virii and other nasties.
With the XBOX360 coming out in a few days shouldn't Microsoft think about offering Windows in 2 versions also. The XBOX comes in the basic $299(no HDD, extra cables version) and "normal" $399 kitchen sink version(w/ HDD and XBOX live mic). Microsoft could offer Windows as a stripped down (no WMP,IE,OE or Themes) version for free(or close to it) and the "normal version" for $89-129.
People don't trust MS as it is,(Prepare tin-foil hat) why do they think that ads served by them on an OS they have the backdoors to will be any different than having Doubleclick do it...............Oh now I remember they control Claria (nee Gator).
Nope, no thanks, gotta go..
http://www.quad4x.net/?p=360
;)
Even More simple with none of that tedious Cut & Paste
It was a Celeron core with 256k of cache (the garden variety Celeron only had 128k, and the P3 had 512k) kinda in between the Celery & the P3
"Look at how they massacered my boy !"
I have Sage 2.2.8 running on a 1.0 Ghz Duron with 256 SDR Memory and ATI 7500 with no hiccups whatsoever. For HD I use Sage 3.0.7 (beta) and a 2.4 Celeron D with 512mb DDR with Nvidia 6200 w/HDTV out.
Read his sig and it will all make sense !
Or does it use mshtml.dll for it's underpinnings?
If so then it is just as bad as IE is in general (with a useful face on it).
I wish I had mod points that could make this a +6 !
This goes along with the general "Pussification" of America. Keep the children safe, keep everything safe. Bah! Bullshit. When I was a kid you didn't HAVE to wear a helmet to ride a bicycle, now I'm suprised that you are allowed to take training wheels off before the age of 16.
Of course being shot into space is going to have a shitload of danger attached to it, people have always know this and it won't change until we get really good at it and completely understand what the how's and why's. The bicycle I had, I would always fall off of it until one day it just became 2nd nature. The Challenger and Columbia accidents were just that accidents, 2 losses out of 113 flights is not a perfect record but for 25+ year old machines it's pretty damn good considering what they go through on each flight. Come on people get to work on something new, we've learned quite a few things since the mid 1960's when these were designed. Just think of how much lighter these babies would be with new computers instead of IBM/360's controlling them.
We have to stop "putting helmets" on everything that is even remotely dangerous and get back to taking a chance or two.
Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle and read some interesting things about the STS program
Standing on a overpass speaking to a passing car, "Hey you! Look out for that tree" or "Kent, This is God, Stop Touching That !"
Childhood stuff never gets old
Wow, I guess I was the last person on the funny boat today, everyone had the same idea.
oh well
It would avoid BitTorrent from having 'Tony The Tiger' as a spokesman.
" BitTorrrent , It's Grrreat !"
In the future what will stop someone or some entity from falsifying information knowing that the legal system will use this.
,what if she had WBM's bot goto a "nice" page and not the real site that case could have gone differently.
How can the info in wayback.org or google be trusted ? You can make redirect pages based on googlebot or wayback that have nothing to do with what is really on the site.
In the article it is mentioned that vodaphone.com was taken by a squatter and they used wayback to show that her intentions were "intended to misleadingly attract consumers"
I think that if someone wants to they can plan ahead and use this in a nefarious fashion.
I wonder if he could have used "Pharmaceuticals to your door V1cod1n, 0xyc0nt1n and others for cheep!" emails I always get, It would have taken the edge off a bit at least.
I know it's what everyone thinks daily(man I would love to find the fuckers who sent this.....), but for the most part as a society we don't go primal on a whim.
An eye for an eye would have been fun at least, making him sit and read spam all day with a webcam trained on him 24/7.
This is all bullshit anyways.
Horsepower doesn't move a car, Torque does !
It's the reason that Diesel engines are used for trains, trucks and tanks. Horsepower is only good once you get moving and want to speed up.
Quote : The parent poster is absolutely correct, R134a is a greenhouse gas. However, that statement should be qualified: it is only a greenhouse gas when it is released into the atmosphere. Modern technicians use recovery equipment to remove refrigerants from cooling systems (everything from your freezer to your central A/C). The refrigerant is either recycled, or disposed of properly.
This is true until the car hits something !
I realize that driving is a "non-contact" sport but if the front of the car gets sufficently damaged and the condenser purges then 134a has now made it into the atmosphere. Not exactly recycling the way it was intended !
P.S. I love my A/C in my V8 Northstar Cadillac and I don't subscribe to the Green Movement way of thinking. Like George Carlin said "Maybe the world just wanted plastic...That's why we're here"
In a galaxy far, far away.... My Ass.
I knew it was true ever since I was a kid ! Ha !
They had this in the late 80's early 90's. I think it was called "the human drummer" or "The human rhythm machine" I don't remember, but it would take a sample of what was coming off the MIDI line and adjust it's rhythm to be ever so slightly off (read: more human)
I guess it really didn't take off though because I can't find anything on it at all (i guess I'll have to look through my 80's guitar mags)
I had also read the Joe Satriani and his producer are nuts about making a drum machine not sound like a machine. Most (if not all) of Joe's albums are done with Drum Machines, what they do is change all the settings slightly for each drum hit so they all sound different. So listen to "Satch Boogie" and hear how good a drum machine can sound.
P.S. - The other side of this is real drummers using electric drum kits. They will show off how bad you rhythm is if you don't play on the beat.
Correct me if I am wrong but isn't expedia.com Microsoft's lil' baby ? If so who thinks that IEx will ever help get rid of the problem ?
...with Firefox, use Flashblock
It won't automatically play the flash animation, you have to click on it first.
Everyone with Firefox should have AdBlock, Flashblock, Spoofstick and BugMeNot. Your surfing experience will be ALOT better and faster.
When I set up machines for anyone now I install Firefox (with the above extentions, remove access to IE and install a nice rounded hosts file with all the baddies blocked, I really don't have "can you fix this for me" or "Damn the computer is slow today" calls anymore!!