You finally get technology that you can save data to for 5 years at least (CD media) without having to worry about data loss, and they decide you should be able to render the data useless on that tecnology.
Instead of getting something that works out the door and then improving it, like us programmers, they cripple what's already out and expect to make money off it. I hope this technology won't get off the ground. At least the average consumer is getting smarter every year.
As soon as I saw this, I couldn't take this out of mind: if you have a piece of thread and tie something to an end of it, like a sphere (the Earth) and let the sphere hang from it, the string will tense up and form a straight line. Correct?
Now, if the sphere or Earth were to rotate, your thread would be contorted by the sphere's pull on the point where the thread is tied to the sphere. So, the thread will eventually bend out of its straight shape and collapse from the mere differences in pull provided to the space end (null) and the one given by the Earth's end as it rotates constantly.
My point is, when you build something so large and want it to stand upright, it's hard. It's like trying to lift a flagpole with your bare arms and keeping it from tipping over whenever there's some wind.
Well, tell me what you think. Please, no flames from YOU, mr. Anonymous coward!
Please don't mod this down: finding the precise value of PI has also been very controversial.
The issue is that the value of PI has been calculated to various millions of digits, while the distance to the moon is not even constant. The current data wouldn't differ much with this newly added research.
that you can use the slashdot effect against a single user by posting one of those enemification links.
After all, there are enough users here that a dozen or two will end up making enemies after ignoring the slashcode warnings. I don't know about you, but having a single enemy could hurt my reputation and karma.
If you think it will be hard to make HDTV commercial, just think that this relates only to the US. In third world countries with American cable the hope of making it popular is dozens of times lower.
The problem comes if the FCC does institute the HDTV standard and all our networks go HD by 2007 or 2008. Just let the idea glow a little. Now, what if it did happen... how in the world will those American signals be passed to countries where there is no financial motivation or hope to get receivers or even sell the expensive TVs?
Nothing that has to stay in a bubble can really become profitable and standard. So if they tell me America will have HD signals by 2006, America will drop out of the rest of the world because its signals will be compatible with only a few countries.
Is there any service or program that will let me set the maximum activation of solitaire and freecell to 5 times per day? My dad spends way too much time using these useless programs when I could be coding.
I do not currently know if Win2k allows what I'm talking about, but limiting usage would be a plus and should be a feature of Windows
Wow, it has its own mailer engine? I am genuinly interested on acquiring it to see how I can use it for good things so that I won't have to use Outlook all the time. Does this mailer work as a spam mailer?
This program can send mail using only 110K of code. Outlook is pretty big. Why do viruses have to be so DAMN efficient?
This is interesting, since years ago, I had the custom of using sitting at my computer late at night with my walkman on.
The walkman picked up interference somewhere between 86 and 96Mhz, and the noise drops out when my screen went black.
My TI86 calculator also seemed to emit radiation around that area of the spectrum, except that it's quiet until you type "2 ^ 1000" or "54 !" and press enter. Or tried to run a graphical strange attractor algorithm for a few minutes. I had some fun with my TI by placing it at different angles near my radio and imagine the waves and the radiation... all generated with 6 Volts.
How do we even stay alive with so much "radiation" around us anyway?;-)
Interesting. I think randomly accessing the A: drive and infecting its boot sector would also be a bad virus symptom. It's scary when security seems less and less up to them and more up to us.
It's sad that continuity can be seen as a bad thing for Sci Fi when it is the most important element in Soap Operas. If you can have a guaranteed audience for soaps, even if it's not us geeks:) then how come good Sci Fi cannot keep its own? Ratings are going to affect badly a show that I had just started watching for plot development.
Writers shouldn't see a problem with continuity. Apparently, the excruciatingly slow pace of Dragonball Z is what got so many American kids into it. When you think about it, our (male) kids and future Scifi watchers will prove in the far future that they can withstand the effects of neverending plots. IMHO. Japanese animation like Kenshin and DBZ is showing americans that long hours of characters commenting after every move is no longer taboo.
Another thing: I have friends who are disgusted at the simple sight of humanoid makeup on Sci Fi. There is not much chance for the 'new' plots to attract anyone but dedicated Sci Fi people.
It's 1:35 in the morning and the news say it's around 4 hours from now. Now, here in New York city, there are buildings blocking my view, including my own.
My dad was enthusiastic at first, but the news of the time brought him down. Yes, Central Park would be a good place to go, but I doubt I'll try to camp there in the middle of the night. But that's the only lawn / clear site I know of. Anyone have another one?
3. Symptoms --> Ranting about Emacs vs. Vi, BSD vs. GNU, wearing funny tee-shirts, or having epileptic fits about free software costing literally nothing at work, at home, during spare time, on dates, etc.
I personally think ext3 will win out, as it takes about 20 seconds to convert a 6GB partition... vs. XFS or ReiserFS taking nearly 10 minutes, and much more complexity.
God, that's fast. Um... how come Office takes 20 full seconds to start up on my *4* GB system anyway? You'd think they're converting the whole HD to a secret swapfile-onlyFS:)
But seriously, I love fast algo's ever since I learned a disk write delay is like 1 million processor cycles at least. So long live ext3 (and lesser-swapping algorithms!)
This is the beauty of science. If something doesn't work out the way it was supposed to, if a theory doesn't fit with the cold, hard data, the majourity of scientists will go out of their way to fix the theory (not the data). Scientists are always going out of their way to keep each other in check; at any given time one scientist may be checking some prominent theory or another. It keeps them honest, and while the system isn't fool proof, it's damn tight.
I think your description fits open source's, and it's nice to realize at this time of night that at least Physics will not rest in the hands of a few who "discovered" or created the building blocks of its Standard Model.
>So I clicked on the link looking for
>enlightenment, and all it was was some porn site.
>Then the boss walked in...
>Then the popups started popping up.
If you get Opera or a MDI browser then popups can't overtake your screen... they're contained inside a mother window. And you can promptly ALT-F4 it or Mininize your entire internet session to a full half. Most browsers let windows spawn out of control and in random locations... a very annoying process to "inhibit"
I wish all popups were indeed user-called, with helpful site hints and good-willed javascript, rather than adds or pr0n.
Hey, you're right, darnellmc! I haven't checked the depths of the MSN member site too much, but it's giving me the creeps.
It's amazing that they can have so much control of us by inspecting a browser type, when such inspection should ONLY be used to distribute compatible webpages on ALL browsers.
We SHOULDN'T need their OS to browse JUST a web listing, even if their music is only in WiMP format. Now, let me check Opera and find out why it couldn't sneak in disguised as IE5:)
TV channels did not have watermarks until the middle nineties. Apparently, they did just well before them by doing what radio stations do: announce themselves once every hour. Since US companies don't want people taping their series without attribution, the watermarks AND the station announcents are present at all times.
TV in Dominican Republic is very widespread and, um, advanced for a thirdworld country, with some 15 LOCAL stations in the city VHF, UHF. When I checked 3 years ago, most channels had adopted watermarks, unlike 6 years ago. In spite of the amount of channels, they have less need for logos because nobody tapes shows on a regular basis and you can't BUY the original tapes anyway.
Anyway, outside large cities in the US you need cable anyway. Doesn't your cable box already tell you what channel you are on?
X-windows was here first. It works with Unix or Linux. So apple sees sees the similarity and takes advantage of being the only mainstream OS near a 9.0 release, so since they are already thinking Uni(x), they switch from version 10.0 to X in the label. Maybe the X has to do with the X in Unix also:)
And then, XP comes in when Microsoft sees that the MacOs is picking up pace. Apparently, we don't need to wait 3 years for MS to upgrade a version: 95 -> 98 -> ME -> 2000 -> 2001.
Windows 2001 is XP because they had to stick the X to not suffer from what would have otherwise been a bad looking name. And they had to copy the OS X candy interface to seem boldy innovative.
It pains me that version numbers and now version NAMES are so important, because Netscape 6 [5th release of Netscape catching up to AOL 5 and 6] and MSN 5 [3rd release of MSN internet catching up to AOL 5.0] break version naming rules to catch up to more advanced software... version-wise at least. That's the pattern I see.
when you sign on from Windows, it can only be done through some form of IE, which is what their setup program installs without asking, I must add. So you don't really need a *new* download of IE, they just don't want you browsing their site without an IE browser (probably more privacy intrusive.)
I've been using the Mozilla 4.76 ID under Opera and noticed the upgrade early in July, I think. It was a nasty script that caused my Opera to crash by running out its memory because the messagebox would keep coming back if you said cancel.
It's sad, but MSN communities will not allow me to log in at all without IE and netscape. But netscape is dying.
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It looks like inverted programming to me :)
You finally get technology that you can save data to for 5 years at least (CD media) without having to worry about data loss, and they decide you should be able to render the data useless on that tecnology.
Instead of getting something that works out the door and then improving it, like us programmers, they cripple what's already out and expect to make money off it. I hope this technology won't get off the ground. At least the average consumer is getting smarter every year.
As soon as I saw this, I couldn't take this out of mind: if you have a piece of thread and tie something to an end of it, like a sphere (the Earth) and let the sphere hang from it, the string will tense up and form a straight line. Correct?
Now, if the sphere or Earth were to rotate, your thread would be contorted by the sphere's pull on the point where the thread is tied to the sphere. So, the thread will eventually bend out of its straight shape and collapse from the mere differences in pull provided to the space end (null) and the one given by the Earth's end as it rotates constantly.
My point is, when you build something so large and want it to stand upright, it's hard. It's like trying to lift a flagpole with your bare arms and keeping it from tipping over whenever there's some wind.
Well, tell me what you think. Please, no flames from YOU, mr. Anonymous coward!
Please don't mod this down: finding the precise value of PI has also been very controversial.
The issue is that the value of PI has been calculated to various millions of digits, while the distance to the moon is not even constant. The current data wouldn't differ much with this newly added research.
that you can use the slashdot effect against a single user by posting one of those enemification links.
After all, there are enough users here that a dozen or two will end up making enemies after ignoring the slashcode warnings. I don't know about you, but having a single enemy could hurt my reputation and karma.
I second you on that. I do not want to disable /. *light* to test this.
My connection is bad and I don't really want my friends to see the "news for nerds" graphic.
I might as well sign out to test it, but I have a hard time remembering my password to get back to my light preferences and my username or karma
They prepare it with foe-ification code. Wow :)
At least I can kill a few known Trolls with my... um, our new power.
Whoohoo!
If you think it will be hard to make HDTV commercial, just think that this relates only to the US. In third world countries with American cable the hope of making it popular is dozens of times lower.
The problem comes if the FCC does institute the HDTV standard and all our networks go HD by 2007 or 2008. Just let the idea glow a little. Now, what if it did happen... how in the world will those American signals be passed to countries where there is no financial motivation or hope to get receivers or even sell the expensive TVs?
Nothing that has to stay in a bubble can really become profitable and standard. So if they tell me America will have HD signals by 2006, America will drop out of the rest of the world because its signals will be compatible with only a few countries.
Is there any service or program that will let me set the maximum activation of solitaire and freecell to 5 times per day? My dad spends way too much time using these useless programs when I could be coding.
I do not currently know if Win2k allows what I'm talking about, but limiting usage would be a plus and should be a feature of Windows
Wow, it has its own mailer engine? I am genuinly interested on acquiring it to see how I can use it for good things so that I won't have to use Outlook all the time. Does this mailer work as a spam mailer?
This program can send mail using only 110K of code. Outlook is pretty big. Why do viruses have to be so DAMN efficient?
Waste the fucking day squinting over meaning less dribble so some zit faced punk can sit inside all day with 30 lives playing Contra
The funniest part now is when I realized this "punk" was my brother!
Virii were programmed in Assembly, and distributed thru real media like 5 1/4 floppies :)
This is interesting, since years ago, I had the custom of using sitting at my computer late at night with my walkman on.
;-)
The walkman picked up interference somewhere between 86 and 96Mhz, and the noise drops out when my screen went black.
My TI86 calculator also seemed to emit radiation around that area of the spectrum, except that it's quiet until you type "2 ^ 1000" or "54 !" and press enter. Or tried to run a graphical strange attractor algorithm for a few minutes. I had some fun with my TI by placing it at different angles near my radio and imagine the waves and the radiation... all generated with 6 Volts.
How do we even stay alive with so much "radiation" around us anyway?
Interesting. I think randomly accessing the A: drive and infecting its boot sector would also be a bad virus symptom. It's scary when security seems less and less up to them and more up to us.
I'll get back to that. First:
:) then how come good Sci Fi cannot keep its own? Ratings are going to affect badly a show that I had just started watching for plot development.
It's sad that continuity can be seen as a bad thing for Sci Fi when it is the most important element in Soap Operas. If you can have a guaranteed audience for soaps, even if it's not us geeks
Writers shouldn't see a problem with continuity. Apparently, the excruciatingly slow pace of Dragonball Z is what got so many American kids into it. When you think about it, our (male) kids and future Scifi watchers will prove in the far future that they can withstand the effects of neverending plots. IMHO. Japanese animation like Kenshin and DBZ is showing americans that long hours of characters commenting after every move is no longer taboo.
Another thing: I have friends who are disgusted at the simple sight of humanoid makeup on Sci Fi. There is not much chance for the 'new' plots to attract anyone but dedicated Sci Fi people.
It's 1:35 in the morning and the news say it's around 4 hours from now. Now, here in New York city, there are buildings blocking my view, including my own.
My dad was enthusiastic at first, but the news of the time brought him down. Yes, Central Park would be a good place to go, but I doubt I'll try to camp there in the middle of the night. But that's the only lawn / clear site I know of. Anyone have another one?
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I've been staring at that for a few minutes now... what in the hell were they trying to type?
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And how does the hell were they trying to type make you feel?
God, that's fast. Um... how come Office takes 20 full seconds to start up on my *4* GB system anyway? You'd think they're converting the whole HD to a secret swapfile-onlyFS
But seriously, I love fast algo's ever since I learned a disk write delay is like 1 million processor cycles at least. So long live ext3 (and lesser-swapping algorithms!)
I think your description fits open source's, and it's nice to realize at this time of night that at least Physics will not rest in the hands of a few who "discovered" or created the building blocks of its Standard Model.
>Mininize your entire internet session to a full >half.
Sorry, I meant a "full halt."
>So I clicked on the link looking for
>enlightenment, and all it was was some porn site.
>Then the boss walked in...
>Then the popups started popping up.
If you get Opera or a MDI browser then popups can't overtake your screen... they're contained inside a mother window. And you can promptly ALT-F4 it or Mininize your entire internet session to a full half. Most browsers let windows spawn out of control and in random locations... a very annoying process to "inhibit"
I wish all popups were indeed user-called, with helpful site hints and good-willed javascript, rather than adds or pr0n.
Hey, you're right, darnellmc! I haven't checked the depths of the MSN member site too much, but it's giving me the creeps.
:)
It's amazing that they can have so much control of us by inspecting a browser type, when such inspection should ONLY be used to distribute compatible webpages on ALL browsers.
We SHOULDN'T need their OS to browse JUST a web listing, even if their music is only in WiMP format. Now, let me check Opera and find out why it couldn't sneak in disguised as IE5
TV channels did not have watermarks until the middle nineties. Apparently, they did just well before them by doing what radio stations do: announce themselves once every hour. Since US companies don't want people taping their series without attribution, the watermarks AND the station announcents are present at all times.
TV in Dominican Republic is very widespread and, um, advanced for a thirdworld country, with some 15 LOCAL stations in the city VHF, UHF. When I checked 3 years ago, most channels had adopted watermarks, unlike 6 years ago. In spite of the amount of channels, they have less need for logos because nobody tapes shows on a regular basis and you can't BUY the original tapes anyway.
Anyway, outside large cities in the US you need cable anyway. Doesn't your cable box already tell you what channel you are on?
IMHO, the pattern is:
:)
X-windows was here first. It works with Unix or Linux. So apple sees sees the similarity and takes advantage of being the only mainstream OS near a 9.0 release, so since they are already thinking Uni(x), they switch from version 10.0 to X in the label. Maybe the X has to do with the X in Unix also
And then, XP comes in when Microsoft sees that the MacOs is picking up pace. Apparently, we don't need to wait 3 years for MS to upgrade a version: 95 -> 98 -> ME -> 2000 -> 2001.
Windows 2001 is XP because they had to stick the X to not suffer from what would have otherwise been a bad looking name. And they had to copy the OS X candy interface to seem boldy innovative.
It pains me that version numbers and now version NAMES are so important, because Netscape 6 [5th release of Netscape catching up to AOL 5 and 6] and MSN 5 [3rd release of MSN internet catching up to AOL 5.0] break version naming rules to catch up to more advanced software... version-wise at least. That's the pattern I see.
when you sign on from Windows, it can only be done through some form of IE, which is what their setup program installs without asking, I must add. So you don't really need a *new* download of IE, they just don't want you browsing their site without an IE browser (probably more privacy intrusive.)
I've been using the Mozilla 4.76 ID under Opera and noticed the upgrade early in July, I think. It was a nasty script that caused my Opera to crash by running out its memory because the messagebox would keep coming back if you said cancel.
It's sad, but MSN communities will not allow me to log in at all without IE and netscape. But netscape is dying.