Realized you can't beat free (beer) pricing earlier
Made a standards following[0] browser with NS4
Not built a leaking memory hog with NS3/4
the browser war might have turned out different. Microsoft, while denying browser choice (they hadn't been found to be a monopoly at that point, so it was within their rights to not bundle a competitors product), won the browser war with a better product for v4,5, and 6, moz is close, but still lacks the speed of IE. (Phoenix helps, but you get OExpress, FPExpress, MSN Messenger with the IE package, why cant NS 7 match speed?)
[0] The NS4 family would not render perfectly valid CSS/DHTML code, but their hacked up proprietary implementation worked fine. IE 4,5, and 6 all have Microsoft extensions, but if you throw w3c spec code at it and it displays correctly.
Amazing how public preception works. Since FDR's administration (1932-1945), the democratic party has decided that bread and circuses (wealth redistribution via social programs) are an effective means of getting reelected. Social security, welfare (AFDC), food stamps, head start, job corps, etc all are born out of this idea of taxing at high rates and then creating a bigger and more bureaucratic gov't. They get media play amongst the poor, their cronies get jobs as gov't workers, and they get relected. Unfortuantely, people become dependent on transfer payments from the gov't and never can dig themselves out of that hole, bankrupting the treasury, causing higher taxes and more inefficency, ad naseum.
To contrast the republican party has figured out a strategy that actually causes economic growth. The first step is balancing the budget or generating surpluses. There are three ways to do that, cutting defense/infrastructure spending( some call this corporate welfare, and done improperly, it is), cutting social spending, or raising taxes. None of the options look particularly good but by cost/benefit analysis, social programs are not as necesary for sustained economic growth, if the other two have their desired effects. Lower taxes or spending on useful projects (research, road development, arpanet) stimulates business growth, increasing employment. Employment means more money for goods consumption by the populus, leading to further employment and a good healthy economy, increasing revenue into the treasury despite a lower tax rate. If surpluses are present, they can be turned around into social spending/more frivilous expenses (performing arts, national parks).
That's how "Reganomics" or "Trickle-Down Economics" is supposed to work, unfortunately, the only modern experiment in it was corrupted on two fronts, with both sides blaming the other. Regan had a grudge against the Soviet Union, spiralling defense spending out of proportion (corporate welfare) in hopes of starving out their capabilities of production. Democrats held on to their Social Security and other welfare programs because they controlled congress. With those two chewing a greater and greater federal debt every year. Late 1987, the economy went through a cyclic dip, similar to the one that we are in now, but as a result of high debt rates, people weren't able to weather the storm. Bush I made an additional mistake in 1990 by compounding the problem with a tax hike in the 1990 budget bill. This kept the economy from rising back up. After the republicans took congress in 94, they attempted to restart the experiment, producing a budget surplus, but the bubble burst in 2000-2001 and 9/11 put unique pressures on the economy. Assuming a republican senate take over, the experiment might be able to run from start to finish of an economic cycle, proving or disporving its viability as an economic model
Hold on, there has to be a BOFH working at Google, ergo, it would be.
Google VP: This piss ant search king is suing us because they don't like their pagerank, would you take care of that
BOFH:Clickity-Clack.
Just to back you up, this "sniper" (what sniper leaves a shell casing?) is at most taking 200M pokes at his targets. 200M isn't that long of a shot, especially for a human sized target.
His choice of weapon also doesn't jibe with the standard gun nut gone bad..223 Rem mag (5.56NATO) is one of the most hated rounds of all time. 55 grains at 3000fps just punches through most targets, insufficient internal trauma for an instant kill. That 13yo kid looks like the Kennedy magic bullet hit him, bounced off his stomach, liver, spleen, and a lung and he didn't die. If this sniper was looking to blend in, he would have a conventional looking.222, 30-06, 7MM Rem Magnum, or other standard hunting rifle in his truck, not an exotic looking CAR-15/Mini-14. (Yes I now they make "hunting rifles" in.223, they are rare though).
Now these numbers actually mean nothing side by side, you would have to look at the powerbands to see over what ranges the power is made. The Ford is a SOHC motor, which is going to alter the powerband/durability signifigantly. GM has some truly inovative transmissions that will affect power output to the road. On top of that, if Dodge builds a Hemi version of that damn V10, it could easily be the first listed 500HP@2500RPM/500LB-FT@2500RPM motor to ever slide out of Detroit.
You can check their diesels on their sites, the dodge should smoke the other two with that cummins monster.
[0]We are talking cars and light trucks here folks, so OTR/off-road/construction/etc motors aren't counted.
[1]These are using the 1-ton truck motors off of their sites, 2003 model year. I wouldn't consider the Corvette, Viper, and Mustang to all be in the same class, and only Ford is making a RWD non-sports car, so it was the only fair way to compare the big 3
Slashdot and ZD have had a relationship in the past., Taco and maybe Hemos made appearances on Screen Savers when it was still ZDTV and I'm pretty sure Taco has had a guest collumn in PC Mag or ExtremeTech. (I used to work at a printing plant where we ran all the ZD magazines, shame YIL is gone, it was a great mag for n00b135. So squatting that domain is probably a remnant of the good ol days
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Fat chance, yeah there are 1 billion people, but away from the coast it is not much more advanced than sustinence farming. As it stands they are much like the US at the start of the 20th century. Minimum of 50 years and a catostrophic loss to the US (losing a major war, china is the only player that could put up a reasonable fight at this point, maybe India if it could solidify its borders).
Perhaps those little bastards from "the truth" (Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics --Twain) could get a real job and start harassing Bitch Rosen instaead of hard-working farmers and truck drivers whose sole income is dervived from tobacco, with few other crops viable.
Perhaps those causeheads that were at the WTO meeting a few years ago could go protest something besides some poorer nations going from substinence farming to an industrialized state.
Nah, who am I kidding, they only listen to phish and they could care less about bootlegs
No, but Free Bird, Stairway to Heaven, and All Along the Watchtower will all still be under copyright and heard all across the world wherever college students or rednecks gather.
6) Government developed software using open source licencing
Why not just public domain it, that way everyone gets a crack, comercial and free, without licensing?
12) Government procurement policty encouraging/requiring open source
How about rephrasing that as picking the best tool for the job?
14) Tolerating innovation in peer-to-peer tech
Do the crime, do the time. Lets face it, someone pirated Dr Dre's album and Metalica's track on the MI:2 soundtrack prior to release (I'm probably missing some, perhaps Madonna as well), it pissed them off, they called their label (Just Time-Warner at that point, pre-merger), who in turn called the other 4 and said we have to kill these bastards now, instead of hunting down the leak internally and firing them.
16) Privacy: right to surf anonymously
Fine by me, but make the carriers log and only make those available if a wiretap warrant is issued, just like for phones.
parent of parent: GWB isn't killing off millions of innocent civilians based on their ethnicity.
AC parent:Yeah, he got bored of doing that while he was Governor of Texas.
Rape, murder, armed robbery, and kidnapping should be met with swift justice, either by rope, or by the leathal injection. The individuals executed in Texas prisons were of all races, creeds, religions (or lack thereof), and even genders. Deprive a person of their life for wealth or fame and yours should be taken. Few shed a tear at Tim McVeigh's execution (nor should they) and even California would love to get another shot of putting Charlie Manson in the gas chamber, is what they did so different from what the railroad killer did?
But it was M$FT pressuring the NSA to drop the SELinux enhancements and I'm going to gamble it wasn't HPAQ, IBM, or Sun's consulting that is switching the DOI to an all MS shop. Bottom line, I'm a big believer in using the tools that work the best when my tax dollars are involved, frankly, the secretary pool at the NPS is not ready for KDE or Gnome, but their IT admins best realize that for a secure, stable platform, Unix (or similar OSen) using the old standbys of Sendmail, Bind, Apache, and INNd are the gold standard for network services.
Did you not see the story on the guy who shipped his PC UPS and it arrived with forklift wounds in the box. Do not, I repeat do not trust UPS with anything sensitive. Their package hub in Louisville, KY is staffed with college students and low-life temps who only want to work 5 hours a day for $9/hr. The line ops are unionized and management fears a shutdown, so 1 hour smake breaks and 2 hour lunches are the status quo for ops. Add in the leaking packages, drug traffic, and other assorted oddities lurking in your shipping container, it is a wonder any packages survive.
or music they can see and hear on Much Music (MTV)?
Don't sell MM short, MM is nearly on par with MTV2 for signal/noise ratio for music viewing. I can not stand MTV/VH1/CMT 90% of the time, but MM, MTV2, and GAC (Great American Country or Good Ass Country) actually play music instead of Undressed (If I wanted softcore porn, I'd watch Skinemax). That being said, there are redeeming moments for them (Behind the Music is hit or miss, Osbournes, Beavis and Butt-Head, Grand Ol' Opry), but TRL, Pop-up video, and MWL, pretty much ruin them for me.
I dunno, he did just bring up his new XP box for playing neverwinter nights and given the shape slash was in before the source was released, he could be that lazy.
Not Europe, France, Spain, Italy, and Portugal. If you speak a romance language as your primary, your world value drops several points in my book. They might hit Switzerland, by why would anyone want to attack the Swiss? Perhaps the French will enjoy the fact that it wasn't the Germans who lead to their demise and I'm sure the US Army would love to get even with Italy for that bastard of a pistol, the M92.
Has winamp 3 and a fresh jre, I just installed it to take a look, same old shit. I wonder if there is a way to backport gecko into 4.x that would be funny
Should increase compression similar to a (super|turbo)charger, but without the added Oxygen provided by N20 or (super|turbo)charging, all you will actually do increase the amount of NOx leaving the tailpipe which is bad, for very little performace gain.
When he started with his "I'm building a game box" series, I really thought it was taco bitching about XP just to prove his 31337n335, but after last nights escapade with a new hp notebook, a HP 812C Printer and XP's insitence that it was a HP 820C, I began to understand his frustrations. I was able to bring up XP Pro cleanly the first time on my box and haven't had a bit of trouble out of it since (0 crashes/lockups, it does reboot once a week for disk doctor to run), but it is really picky about hardware, especially legacy systems.
200', tell the phone company not to worry about the service level and give you a port on the DSLAM, assuming there isn't some ungodly fiber to copper interconnect, load coil, or bridge tap for those 200'. You could sweet-talk your neighbor(s) in between you and the line into burying your own cat 5 or running 802.11 to a neighbor inside that boundary if there is an actual physical limitation between your tin can and the edge.
I don't think ends was the term I was looking for, perhaps "times out after" would have worked better. It is not the ISP's responsibility to do the RIAA's dirty work, if they want a search warrant, make them pay for it.
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I don't know, if someone has a spare tape silo and robot it could probably be done, now I have to wait for my alma mater to get done with it.
the browser war might have turned out different. Microsoft, while denying browser choice (they hadn't been found to be a monopoly at that point, so it was within their rights to not bundle a competitors product), won the browser war with a better product for v4,5, and 6, moz is close, but still lacks the speed of IE. (Phoenix helps, but you get OExpress, FPExpress, MSN Messenger with the IE package, why cant NS 7 match speed?)
[0] The NS4 family would not render perfectly valid CSS/DHTML code, but their hacked up proprietary implementation worked fine. IE 4,5, and 6 all have Microsoft extensions, but if you throw w3c spec code at it and it displays correctly.
Amazing how public preception works. Since FDR's administration (1932-1945), the democratic party has decided that bread and circuses (wealth redistribution via social programs) are an effective means of getting reelected. Social security, welfare (AFDC), food stamps, head start, job corps, etc all are born out of this idea of taxing at high rates and then creating a bigger and more bureaucratic gov't. They get media play amongst the poor, their cronies get jobs as gov't workers, and they get relected. Unfortuantely, people become dependent on transfer payments from the gov't and never can dig themselves out of that hole, bankrupting the treasury, causing higher taxes and more inefficency, ad naseum.
To contrast the republican party has figured out a strategy that actually causes economic growth. The first step is balancing the budget or generating surpluses. There are three ways to do that, cutting defense/infrastructure spending( some call this corporate welfare, and done improperly, it is), cutting social spending, or raising taxes. None of the options look particularly good but by cost/benefit analysis, social programs are not as necesary for sustained economic growth, if the other two have their desired effects. Lower taxes or spending on useful projects (research, road development, arpanet) stimulates business growth, increasing employment. Employment means more money for goods consumption by the populus, leading to further employment and a good healthy economy, increasing revenue into the treasury despite a lower tax rate. If surpluses are present, they can be turned around into social spending/more frivilous expenses (performing arts, national parks).
That's how "Reganomics" or "Trickle-Down Economics" is supposed to work, unfortunately, the only modern experiment in it was corrupted on two fronts, with both sides blaming the other. Regan had a grudge against the Soviet Union, spiralling defense spending out of proportion (corporate welfare) in hopes of starving out their capabilities of production. Democrats held on to their Social Security and other welfare programs because they controlled congress. With those two chewing a greater and greater federal debt every year. Late 1987, the economy went through a cyclic dip, similar to the one that we are in now, but as a result of high debt rates, people weren't able to weather the storm. Bush I made an additional mistake in 1990 by compounding the problem with a tax hike in the 1990 budget bill. This kept the economy from rising back up. After the republicans took congress in 94, they attempted to restart the experiment, producing a budget surplus, but the bubble burst in 2000-2001 and 9/11 put unique pressures on the economy. Assuming a republican senate take over, the experiment might be able to run from start to finish of an economic cycle, proving or disporving its viability as an economic model
Hold on, there has to be a BOFH working at Google, ergo, it would be.
Google VP: This piss ant search king is suing us because they don't like their pagerank, would you take care of that
BOFH:Clickity-Clack.
Just to back you up, this "sniper" (what sniper leaves a shell casing?) is at most taking 200M pokes at his targets. 200M isn't that long of a shot, especially for a human sized target.
.223 Rem mag (5.56NATO) is one of the most hated rounds of all time. 55 grains at 3000fps just punches through most targets, insufficient internal trauma for an instant kill. That 13yo kid looks like the Kennedy magic bullet hit him, bounced off his stomach, liver, spleen, and a lung and he didn't die. If this sniper was looking to blend in, he would have a conventional looking .222, 30-06, 7MM Rem Magnum, or other standard hunting rifle in his truck, not an exotic looking CAR-15/Mini-14. (Yes I now they make "hunting rifles" in .223, they are rare though).
His choice of weapon also doesn't jibe with the standard gun nut gone bad.
- GM 8.1L (494CI) V8 340 horsepower@4200RPM/455 lb.-ft. of torque @3200RPM
- Ford 6.8L (414CI) V10 310HP@4250RPM/425lb-ft@3250RPM
- Dodge 8.0L (488CI) V10 305HP@2800RPM/450lb-ft.@2,800RPM
Now these numbers actually mean nothing side by side, you would have to look at the powerbands to see over what ranges the power is made. The Ford is a SOHC motor, which is going to alter the powerband/durability signifigantly. GM has some truly inovative transmissions that will affect power output to the road. On top of that, if Dodge builds a Hemi version of that damn V10, it could easily be the first listed 500HP@2500RPM/500LB-FT@2500RPM motor to ever slide out of Detroit.You can check their diesels on their sites, the dodge should smoke the other two with that cummins monster.
[0]We are talking cars and light trucks here folks, so OTR/off-road/construction/etc motors aren't counted.
[1]These are using the 1-ton truck motors off of their sites, 2003 model year. I wouldn't consider the Corvette, Viper, and Mustang to all be in the same class, and only Ford is making a RWD non-sports car, so it was the only fair way to compare the big 3
Slashdot and ZD have had a relationship in the past., Taco and maybe Hemos made appearances on Screen Savers when it was still ZDTV and I'm pretty sure Taco has had a guest collumn in PC Mag or ExtremeTech. (I used to work at a printing plant where we ran all the ZD magazines, shame YIL is gone, it was a great mag for n00b135. So squatting that domain is probably a remnant of the good ol days
Whoooo....Poison Rocks.
Fat chance, yeah there are 1 billion people, but away from the coast it is not much more advanced than sustinence farming. As it stands they are much like the US at the start of the 20th century. Minimum of 50 years and a catostrophic loss to the US (losing a major war, china is the only player that could put up a reasonable fight at this point, maybe India if it could solidify its borders).
Perhaps those little bastards from "the truth" (Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics --Twain) could get a real job and start harassing Bitch Rosen instaead of hard-working farmers and truck drivers whose sole income is dervived from tobacco, with few other crops viable.
Perhaps those causeheads that were at the WTO meeting a few years ago could go protest something besides some poorer nations going from substinence farming to an industrialized state.
Nah, who am I kidding, they only listen to phish and they could care less about bootlegs
No, but Free Bird, Stairway to Heaven, and All Along the Watchtower will all still be under copyright and heard all across the world wherever college students or rednecks gather.
Needs some tweaks...
6) Government developed software using open source licencing
Why not just public domain it, that way everyone gets a crack, comercial and free, without licensing?
12) Government procurement policty encouraging/requiring open source
How about rephrasing that as picking the best tool for the job?
14) Tolerating innovation in peer-to-peer tech
Do the crime, do the time. Lets face it, someone pirated Dr Dre's album and Metalica's track on the MI:2 soundtrack prior to release (I'm probably missing some, perhaps Madonna as well), it pissed them off, they called their label (Just Time-Warner at that point, pre-merger), who in turn called the other 4 and said we have to kill these bastards now, instead of hunting down the leak internally and firing them.
16) Privacy: right to surf anonymously
Fine by me, but make the carriers log and only make those available if a wiretap warrant is issued, just like for phones.
parent of parent: GWB isn't killing off millions of innocent civilians based on their ethnicity.
AC parent:Yeah, he got bored of doing that while he was Governor of Texas.
Rape, murder, armed robbery, and kidnapping should be met with swift justice, either by rope, or by the leathal injection. The individuals executed in Texas prisons were of all races, creeds, religions (or lack thereof), and even genders. Deprive a person of their life for wealth or fame and yours should be taken. Few shed a tear at Tim McVeigh's execution (nor should they) and even California would love to get another shot of putting Charlie Manson in the gas chamber, is what they did so different from what the railroad killer did?
But it was M$FT pressuring the NSA to drop the SELinux enhancements and I'm going to gamble it wasn't HPAQ, IBM, or Sun's consulting that is switching the DOI to an all MS shop. Bottom line, I'm a big believer in using the tools that work the best when my tax dollars are involved, frankly, the secretary pool at the NPS is not ready for KDE or Gnome, but their IT admins best realize that for a secure, stable platform, Unix (or similar OSen) using the old standbys of Sendmail, Bind, Apache, and INNd are the gold standard for network services.
Did you not see the story on the guy who shipped his PC UPS and it arrived with forklift wounds in the box. Do not, I repeat do not trust UPS with anything sensitive. Their package hub in Louisville, KY is staffed with college students and low-life temps who only want to work 5 hours a day for $9/hr. The line ops are unionized and management fears a shutdown, so 1 hour smake breaks and 2 hour lunches are the status quo for ops. Add in the leaking packages, drug traffic, and other assorted oddities lurking in your shipping container, it is a wonder any packages survive.
or music they can see and hear on Much Music (MTV)? Don't sell MM short, MM is nearly on par with MTV2 for signal/noise ratio for music viewing. I can not stand MTV/VH1/CMT 90% of the time, but MM, MTV2, and GAC (Great American Country or Good Ass Country) actually play music instead of Undressed (If I wanted softcore porn, I'd watch Skinemax). That being said, there are redeeming moments for them (Behind the Music is hit or miss, Osbournes, Beavis and Butt-Head, Grand Ol' Opry), but TRL, Pop-up video, and MWL, pretty much ruin them for me.
I dunno, he did just bring up his new XP box for playing neverwinter nights and given the shape slash was in before the source was released, he could be that lazy.
Not Europe, France, Spain, Italy, and Portugal. If you speak a romance language as your primary, your world value drops several points in my book. They might hit Switzerland, by why would anyone want to attack the Swiss? Perhaps the French will enjoy the fact that it wasn't the Germans who lead to their demise and I'm sure the US Army would love to get even with Italy for that bastard of a pistol, the M92.
Has winamp 3 and a fresh jre, I just installed it to take a look, same old shit. I wonder if there is a way to backport gecko into 4.x that would be funny
Should increase compression similar to a (super|turbo)charger, but without the added Oxygen provided by N20 or (super|turbo)charging, all you will actually do increase the amount of NOx leaving the tailpipe which is bad, for very little performace gain.
When he started with his "I'm building a game box" series, I really thought it was taco bitching about XP just to prove his 31337n335, but after last nights escapade with a new hp notebook, a HP 812C Printer and XP's insitence that it was a HP 820C, I began to understand his frustrations. I was able to bring up XP Pro cleanly the first time on my box and haven't had a bit of trouble out of it since (0 crashes/lockups, it does reboot once a week for disk doctor to run), but it is really picky about hardware, especially legacy systems.
mod this guy up, there was no EULA section for Win98/IE6.0 on my machine, just do you want to install and do you want to reboot.
200', tell the phone company not to worry about the service level and give you a port on the DSLAM, assuming there isn't some ungodly fiber to copper interconnect, load coil, or bridge tap for those 200'. You could sweet-talk your neighbor(s) in between you and the line into burying your own cat 5 or running 802.11 to a neighbor inside that boundary if there is an actual physical limitation between your tin can and the edge.
[mandatory clue-deprived comment about the ease of use of pico here] :)
I don't think ends was the term I was looking for, perhaps "times out after" would have worked better. It is not the ISP's responsibility to do the RIAA's dirty work, if they want a search warrant, make them pay for it.