>highly-paid Pepsi shill Britney Spears was >photographed with Coca Cola products
about 10 years ago, our vegas brewing club (snafu) attended a lot of chili cookoffs, which generally benefitted some charity or another. We'd take contributions, and only tended to share our beer with those that had donated at our booth.
At one of these, our president, who was, uhh, outgoing, even when sober (if that ever happened:), noted the Bud girls passing by. You know, the ones with the sprayed on dresses that barely make it to their thighs, accompanied by a burly bodyguard or two. "Hey, you want to come over here and try a *real* beer?"
Believe it or not, they did, though their bodyguard was a bit uneasy. And not a single one of us had a bloody camera!!!!!
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, contact an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction.
They clearly state what they're offering in return for what they're taking. They provide you with a certain type of email with certain types of marketing, while you provide them information and bet battered with annoying blinking ads.
They're plain and simply not free to change this or to use information you provided for other purposes.
hawk
Re:Mmmm.. FUN! And a legal nightmare..
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Huh? you leave systems floppy bootable???
to each his own . ..
hawk
Re:Mmmm.. FUN! And a legal nightmare..
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>your wife thinks that your time spent reading slashdot
*I* didn't give your wife the root password . . . so she'd have a hard time installing anything that could touch any system files you've installed, unless *you* gave it to her . ..
hawk, a computational economist who can't even get his wife to use email
>and why I won't buy Dell stock, no matter how well they do
It's too late, anyway--they're closing. See http://www.theonion.com/onion3810/corporation_re ac hes_goal.html
hawk, who regrets the broken link, but can't fix it
Re:This is a trojan horse, plain and simple.
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>that's like your trusty Chevy switching to >Battlebots mode every time it detects a Honda in >the highwayt.
say, is this available as a retrofit for, say, a 1989 Crown Victoria?
hawk, who never did get a usable "Go ahead, Datsun: Make my day!" bumper sticker for his 72 Impala
bees, parachutes, & linear thinking
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From other seminars I've attended in the past:
there's a certain amount of linear modeling the brain can do. Note that, for a small enough interval, a linear model can be made "good enough".
The interesting examples:
1. Move a beehive by a fixed amount each day while they're out gathering. The bees adjust to this (e.g., 10feet/day), and head to where they know it *will be*. Increase this amount by a fixed amount (10, 11, 12, etc.) and they can't do it.
2. Parachute landing. Don't look at the ground. You're falling at a rate the brain can't handle; if you watch, you compensate incorrectly, and often hurt yourself. (so hear the brain seems to expect the gravity induced quadratic, whereas you're moving at a linear rate?).
klyx is dead, dead, dead. I don't know if it's maintained at all, but it was a one-time fork of of an ancient LyX--a release behind lyx when it was released.
klyx and contemporary lyx files are not interchangeable.
klyx will never remerge with lyx; it's forked from too old a version. However, gui independence s the big project in lyx development right now, and will result in multiple toolkits (e.g., qt) being supported.
THere was another of that era, maybe a year or two early. "Interlude" promised to improve your love life, and gave you and that special person a quiz before giving you instructions or some such.
The ad had a buxom beauty in her underwear striking a pose (in bed?), and ran in full color in mainstream computer magazines. THe caption was something like, "How's your love life?"
At one point, Jerry Pournelle ran a review. All I recall is that he and Mrs. Pournelle set out to try it "in the interests of science," were unimpressed,and that it ended asking if anyone had a use for a "sheepskin rug with jam stains" or some such . ..
hawk
Re:while we're at it: color in freebsd nethack?
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>You xterm-happy kid:)
It's not my fault!
The boss just won't spring for a 3x3 shelf of VT100's with a wrist-mount inertial switch to connect the keyboard, so I'm stuck with xterms, the *real* reason for using X.
>I usually would point you to the documemtation,
Been there, done that. TERM was already xterm-color. This now works, but it wasn't before. It may be that all the colors were used up (I have my drive in a loaner laptop, and only get 8 bit--and it's not worth hunting down an xf86config for the few days involved), or there may have bveen another funky interaction going on.
>I strongly suspect that early in the development >cycle, Sun planned I strongly suspect that early >in the development cycle, Sun planned
erm. Early in the development cycle, Sun had *absoloutely* nothing to do with Star Office. In the last year or two, they bought star division (sometime after 5.x, iirc).
If you're not good enough to manipulate core planes directly with a magnet, you can at least use cat & sed to do your editing . ..
hawk
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It *has* been a long time--but it was definitely the Amulet of Yendor, and I know I also wished for it once and got a cheap plastic imitation.
It's entirely possible that it was a patched version--this was on one of the disks of PD software that came buying a generic PC at a fly-by-night. Or maybe it was a scroll with a wish.
also, isn't nethack the only one with the pet? I assume this must have been nethack in some form . . . and I'm pretty sure it was called that . . . or perhaps some v2 features are long gone???
Now I just need to figure out setting text color (to green, of course) and mapping the evil capslock key to ocntrol in the console (i fixed it under X years ago . ..)
ah-hah! this did it. The above (xterm-color) isn't sufficient under freebsd . ..
now If only I can find a way to do this on the console instead of X (you just can't make an xwindow full screen:()
thanks
hawk
Re:Yay, new way to waste time at work
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>Ah yes, how many years did I play it before >actually finding the amulet for the first time..:)
It only took me a couple of months. I had it. In my hand. The dragon was hurting me, badly--but I had a wishing ring. No problem--wish for the Scroll of Recall (?) to go back to the first level.
And, (*^(*(*&, my finger slipped and hit the wrong key (what, me sweating?) when I told it which item to use, delaying me one round, cuasing my death rather than escape.
be a student or a professor. That way, you start right after class on tuesday, and you have until thursday morning if you arranged your schedule properly!
:)
hawk, who has never stayed up past 11p.m. with a game. OK, would you believe not past midnight? 2am? . . .
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hawk
(There Is a Lunch That Someone Else Pays For)
(note that while not using "ain't," I do end with a preposition . .
>photographed with Coca Cola products
about 10 years ago, our vegas brewing club (snafu) attended a lot of chili cookoffs, which generally benefitted some charity or another. We'd take contributions, and only tended to share our beer with those that had donated at our booth.
At one of these, our president, who was, uhh, outgoing, even when sober (if that ever happened
Believe it or not, they did, though their bodyguard was a bit uneasy. And not a single one of us had a bloody camera!!!!!
*sigh*
hawk
:)
>FWIW, piranha don't get vicious until they're
>thoroughly starved, and there are several species
>of vegetarian Piranha.
See, I *told* you being a vegetarian was a bad idea. Even Piranhas know it makes you taste better . .
hawk
>because of the deployment of Win2000. The
>platform has fine matured as a server.
And given a few revisions, that last portion may finally mature as a sentence
hawk
Nine months is far from absolute. One of my best friends was born a touch more than three months early --- but his twin didn't make it
hawk
They clearly state what they're offering in return for what they're taking. They provide you with a certain type of email with certain types of marketing, while you provide them information and bet battered with annoying blinking ads.
They're plain and simply not free to change this or to use information you provided for other purposes.
hawk
to each his own . .
hawk
*I* didn't give your wife the root password . . . so she'd have a hard time installing anything that could touch any system files you've installed, unless *you* gave it to her . .
hawk, a computational economist who can't even get his wife to use email
It's too late, anyway--they're closing. See
http://www.theonion.com/onion3810/corporation_r
hawk, who regrets the broken link, but can't fix it
>Battlebots mode every time it detects a Honda in
>the highwayt.
say, is this available as a retrofit for, say, a 1989 Crown Victoria?
hawk, who never did get a usable "Go ahead, Datsun: Make my day!" bumper sticker for his 72 Impala
there's a certain amount of linear modeling the brain can do. Note that, for a small enough interval, a linear model can be made "good enough".
The interesting examples:
1. Move a beehive by a fixed amount each day while they're out gathering. The bees adjust to this (e.g., 10feet/day), and head to where they know it *will be*. Increase this amount by a fixed amount (10, 11, 12, etc.) and they can't do it.
2. Parachute landing. Don't look at the ground. You're falling at a rate the brain can't handle; if you watch, you compensate incorrectly, and often hurt yourself. (so hear the brain seems to expect the gravity induced quadratic, whereas you're moving at a linear rate?).
hawk
klyx and contemporary lyx files are not interchangeable.
klyx will never remerge with lyx; it's forked from too old a version. However, gui independence s the big project in lyx development right now, and will result in multiple toolkits (e.g., qt) being supported.
hawk
However, this conversation has degenerated so far already, with so much misinformation, that I"m not going to get into details.
hawk, esq.
The ad had a buxom beauty in her underwear striking a pose (in bed?), and ran in full color in mainstream computer magazines. THe caption was something like, "How's your love life?"
At one point, Jerry Pournelle ran a review. All I recall is that he and Mrs. Pournelle set out to try it "in the interests of science," were unimpressed,and that it ended asking if anyone had a use for a "sheepskin rug with jam stains" or some such . .
hawk
It's not my fault!
The boss just won't spring for a 3x3 shelf of VT100's with a wrist-mount inertial switch to connect the keyboard, so I'm stuck with xterms, the *real* reason for using X.
>I usually would point you to the documemtation,
Been there, done that. TERM was already xterm-color. This now works, but it wasn't before. It may be that all the colors were used up (I have my drive in a loaner laptop, and only get 8 bit--and it's not worth hunting down an xf86config for the few days involved), or there may have bveen another funky interaction going on.
But thanks.
hawk
>cycle, Sun planned I strongly suspect that early
>in the development cycle, Sun planned
erm. Early in the development cycle, Sun had *absoloutely* nothing to do with Star Office. In the last year or two, they bought star division (sometime after 5.x, iirc).
hawk
hawk, who understands that if windows is the answer, you asked the wrong question
Come on, man. Show a little self respect!
If you're not good enough to manipulate core planes directly with a magnet, you can at least use cat & sed to do your editing . .
hawk
It's entirely possible that it was a patched version--this was on one of the disks of PD software that came buying a generic PC at a fly-by-night. Or maybe it was a scroll with a wish.
also, isn't nethack the only one with the pet? I assume this must have been nethack in some form . . . and I'm pretty sure it was called that . . . or perhaps some v2 features are long gone???
hawk
Now I just need to figure out setting text color (to green, of course) and mapping the evil capslock key to ocntrol in the console (i fixed it under X years ago . .
hawk
ah-hah! this did it. The above (xterm-color) isn't sufficient under freebsd . .
now If only I can find a way to do this on the console instead of X (you just can't make an xwindow full screen
thanks
hawk
>actually finding the amulet for the first time..
It only took me a couple of months. I had it. In my hand. The dragon was hurting me, badly--but I had a wishing ring. No problem--wish for the Scroll of Recall (?) to go back to the first level.
And, (*^(*(*&, my finger slipped and hit the wrong key (what, me sweating?) when I told it which item to use, delaying me one round, cuasing my death rather than escape.
and I never got that far again.
This would have been 1988, so was that version 2?
hawk
but how about a belligerent carnivore--now there's a twist. Penalized for eating anything *but* a vegetarian . .
hawk, a belligerent carnivore and also a belligerent evangelical pacifist
be a student or a professor. That way, you start right after class on tuesday, and you have until thursday morning if you arranged your schedule properly!
:)
hawk, who has never stayed up past 11p.m. with a game. OK, would you believe not past midnight? 2am? . . .
I recall that I used to play on consoles rather than in an xterm under debian . .
hawk
p.s. The foreground color should be set to green, and bg to black--this shows that you have the status to get a green-screen vt100 . .
:)