If you have a server room of constant size, with constant ac going, and you attempt to fill the room with a ridiculous number of boxes (stack that shit!), then as the number of comps in the room approaches infinity, the closer you get to having your b0x3n account for 100% of the electricity bill.
How stupid of a statement was that? Have you guys seen any of Exodus' server rooms? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
the RIAA has Backstreet Boys & Britney Spears. You have anger over restrictions on your rights. Who will win here?
The masses don't care about rights. They're sheep. Just do what the other poster suggested and get handy with a soldering iron. It'll take a bit of effort, but we'll still be able to enjoy the music we own whenever we want to. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
that this will at least prevent all that annoying chain mail?
i usually end my mass emails to my friends with "forward this to whoever i left off, and plz remind me of their email addys." but that's usually like, happy new year, or i'm taking this class next semester, or yo we're meeting on saturday night, etc. if i sent one email to one guy and it was a direct communication to someone, it's kinda rude for that person to just forward it to anyone else, ne? it's like cutting and pasting the contents of one instant messaging conversation into another... at least ask before you do it. i know when someone's doing it to me cause i usually get a "lol" from a stranger and stuff.
the weird thing is: it shouldn't be illegal, it should just be a matter of courtesy. if all personal communication is copyrighted, then isn't forwarding it "fair use" or does that not apply? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
http://www.private.org.il/IP2geo.html basically confirms what you just said. But I do remember going to a web site which told me which city I was browsing from. I thought that was slightly freaky. They can do it, I just didn't bookmark the site (I made it a point to not go back there, and my slashdot submission was rejected) --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Austrailians didn't have a bill of rights? How does making it illegal to mod psxs take away their rights if they don't have already have them? Because 'inalienable' rights are only inalienable if the government agrees, others, people get hurt. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Isn't it illegal for us to put weapons in space? Granted, it's illegal for us to build a missile defense system at the current time, but I think alot more people will raise hell once weapons are put into space. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
NASA's budget, all their current resources, and all that they know from experience vs. $200M.
You and I both know that story isn't going to have a happy ending... Maybe we need to convince Bill Gates that space is a threat to Windows market dominance? Then we'll see $200B thrown at a private space industry. That'd be something. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
I believe that made Timothy post what he posted. Now, 120 millionaires aren't alot of millionaires, but hey, there's 120 rich people who aren't for a tax cut that directly favors them. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Some chick at CMU put out a paper saying that you as a person can be identified with your zip code, your sex, and an age range with about 80% accuracy. If they have your IP they have your zip code. Sites targetted to an audience can probably give them a guess at your age. The same might be said for your sex. It may NOT be that hard to find out who you are.
Of course, once they have your birthday, sex, and zipcode, it's about 87% accurate, but whatever... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
they build their proprietary Windows only networking system just to have someone Samba their way in with Linux? Relax, it's just engineers doing what they do best: making something fit where it shouldn't and previously wouldn't. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
when you put aluminium foil in the microwave, it fries and burns with fire and stuff. am i way off the mark here or is that the same stuff you're suggesting protesters wear, knowing the those same protesters will have microwaves shot at them? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
and would police need such powerful weaponry if they weren't in fear of their own lives? When rioters are destroying property wholesale, what do you suggest, cordoning them off and letting it fizzle out? (which btw, was a method that worked at one point during some LA riot, where the only person injured was the police chief on the scene who refused to go in and beat up on people)
Ok, so I don't have much of an argument there, but lack of action physically hurts the people who have to stand there and watch other people trash the property, homes, and businesses of the people that they're sworn to serve and protect. And of course, the people who stand on the sidelines and bitch about everything will be screaming bloody murder if the police just stand there and do nothing. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Where a seargeant was convicted of molesting, raping, and killing little girls, and a number of people were reprimanded for keeping quiet for fear of being killed by said seargeant? No, cowardly civilians never think things through, but there's two sides to every coin... And when the coin stands on the side... ai yi yi --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Those troops who fired at the Kent State protesters were National Guard, otherwise known as that state's militia. Nothing to do with the U.S. Marine Corps, who btw, have to do peacekeeping missions where people WILL be shooting at them with lethal force. How silly is it to respond to lethal force with non-lethal?
Kent State protests were 30 years ago, and the Seattle protests were dealt with by people who have since been dealt with. I'd much rather protesters be mildly burned than shot at. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Russian, China, Japan or India, name one other country that has a shot in hell of making it to Mars.
Ergo, the only language we should worry about when trying to decide names for planets we could land on is English, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, or Hindi. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Email is ignored, faxes are trashed, snail mail is opened, read, and discussed. Please tell me you used the latter. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
"Damn right. Gee, I can't imagine why the US would refuse to sign a treaty that required the US to implement huge restrictions while paying huge amounts of money. That treaty is primarily money grab by the 3rd world countries."
The countries in question can't afford to pay money that the US Govt has easy access to. It's the problem of asking the us to pay 1 while the rest of the world pays 1/20th. Fine and dandy except the US makes 1 while the rest of the world makes 1/500th. That's where shit falls apart.
The point of contention was weather forests (like our kickass national parks) count as carbon sinks. Scientists disagree over the viability of such an assertion. Specifically, our scientists think we should get credits for them while the rest of the world doesn't. If we can work that out there shouldn't be a problem towards signing the treaty. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
the capitalized parts would imply where he was screaming. I believe the bolding, the italicizing, and the combo of the two are different levels of emphasis. (is bolding > italics or vice versa?)
Which leads to: do rational posters need to emphasize specific points they feel are more important than others, or will the important parts of a well written argument be able to shine through immediately? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Mega Tokyo is about a pair of gamers who get stuck in Tokyo by accident.
Acid Reflux is a fantasy story about a goddess who has to reclaim her universe after her older sister neglected it.
Ever Crest is this awesome Everquest webcomic with actual art and a storyline, not words superimposed over screenshots of the game or nonstop pics of some blue female character's butt.
Flem is this goth-type strip, it's hard to characterize, but it's pretty damn cool.
Dr. Lobster is impossible to characterize, either you like it or you don't. It's awesome if you get into it, and the creators are cool.
This is all quality stuff people. You wouldn't see it in your local newspaper's funnies section, but that's because those old farts wouldn't know funny if it assaulted them with a clue-by-four. Even if you don't like all of them, I guarantee you'll at least bookmark one of them... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Slashdot Mirror
please elaborate.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
If you have a server room of constant size, with constant ac going, and you attempt to fill the room with a ridiculous number of boxes (stack that shit!), then as the number of comps in the room approaches infinity, the closer you get to having your b0x3n account for 100% of the electricity bill.
How stupid of a statement was that? Have you guys seen any of Exodus' server rooms?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
the RIAA has Backstreet Boys & Britney Spears. You have anger over restrictions on your rights. Who will win here?
The masses don't care about rights. They're sheep. Just do what the other poster suggested and get handy with a soldering iron. It'll take a bit of effort, but we'll still be able to enjoy the music we own whenever we want to.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
that this will at least prevent all that annoying chain mail?
i usually end my mass emails to my friends with "forward this to whoever i left off, and plz remind me of their email addys." but that's usually like, happy new year, or i'm taking this class next semester, or yo we're meeting on saturday night, etc. if i sent one email to one guy and it was a direct communication to someone, it's kinda rude for that person to just forward it to anyone else, ne? it's like cutting and pasting the contents of one instant messaging conversation into another... at least ask before you do it. i know when someone's doing it to me cause i usually get a "lol" from a stranger and stuff.
the weird thing is: it shouldn't be illegal, it should just be a matter of courtesy. if all personal communication is copyrighted, then isn't forwarding it "fair use" or does that not apply?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
We both know that Salon isn't exactly a paragon of unbiased news reporting, but the 120 millionaires thing still stands.
But to be honest, so many people have given so many dissenting opinions that I don't know what to think.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
http://www.private.org.il/IP2geo.html basically confirms what you just said. But I do remember going to a web site which told me which city I was browsing from. I thought that was slightly freaky. They can do it, I just didn't bookmark the site (I made it a point to not go back there, and my slashdot submission was rejected)
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Austrailians didn't have a bill of rights? How does making it illegal to mod psxs take away their rights if they don't have already have them? Because 'inalienable' rights are only inalienable if the government agrees, others, people get hurt.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Isn't it illegal for us to put weapons in space? Granted, it's illegal for us to build a missile defense system at the current time, but I think alot more people will raise hell once weapons are put into space.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
NASA's budget, all their current resources, and all that they know from experience vs. $200M.
You and I both know that story isn't going to have a happy ending... Maybe we need to convince Bill Gates that space is a threat to Windows market dominance? Then we'll see $200B thrown at a private space industry. That'd be something.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
but I don't think you actually know what you're talking about:
b uffett/index.html
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/02/15/
I believe that made Timothy post what he posted. Now, 120 millionaires aren't alot of millionaires, but hey, there's 120 rich people who aren't for a tax cut that directly favors them.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Some chick at CMU put out a paper saying that you as a person can be identified with your zip code, your sex, and an age range with about 80% accuracy. If they have your IP they have your zip code. Sites targetted to an audience can probably give them a guess at your age. The same might be said for your sex. It may NOT be that hard to find out who you are. Of course, once they have your birthday, sex, and zipcode, it's about 87% accurate, but whatever...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
they build their proprietary Windows only networking system just to have someone Samba their way in with Linux? Relax, it's just engineers doing what they do best: making something fit where it shouldn't and previously wouldn't.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
What's the difference? The marines are there to enforce the peace, the police are there to enforce the law.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
when you put aluminium foil in the microwave, it fries and burns with fire and stuff. am i way off the mark here or is that the same stuff you're suggesting protesters wear, knowing the those same protesters will have microwaves shot at them?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
and would police need such powerful weaponry if they weren't in fear of their own lives? When rioters are destroying property wholesale, what do you suggest, cordoning them off and letting it fizzle out? (which btw, was a method that worked at one point during some LA riot, where the only person injured was the police chief on the scene who refused to go in and beat up on people)
Ok, so I don't have much of an argument there, but lack of action physically hurts the people who have to stand there and watch other people trash the property, homes, and businesses of the people that they're sworn to serve and protect. And of course, the people who stand on the sidelines and bitch about everything will be screaming bloody murder if the police just stand there and do nothing.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Where a seargeant was convicted of molesting, raping, and killing little girls, and a number of people were reprimanded for keeping quiet for fear of being killed by said seargeant? No, cowardly civilians never think things through, but there's two sides to every coin... And when the coin stands on the side... ai yi yi
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Those troops who fired at the Kent State protesters were National Guard, otherwise known as that state's militia. Nothing to do with the U.S. Marine Corps, who btw, have to do peacekeeping missions where people WILL be shooting at them with lethal force. How silly is it to respond to lethal force with non-lethal?
Kent State protests were 30 years ago, and the Seattle protests were dealt with by people who have since been dealt with. I'd much rather protesters be mildly burned than shot at.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Russian, China, Japan or India, name one other country that has a shot in hell of making it to Mars.
Ergo, the only language we should worry about when trying to decide names for planets we could land on is English, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, or Hindi.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Was it sent via email, fax, or snail mail?
Email is ignored, faxes are trashed, snail mail is opened, read, and discussed. Please tell me you used the latter.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
"Damn right. Gee, I can't imagine why the US would refuse to sign a treaty that required the US to implement huge restrictions while paying huge amounts of money. That treaty is primarily money grab by the 3rd world countries."
The countries in question can't afford to pay money that the US Govt has easy access to. It's the problem of asking the us to pay 1 while the rest of the world pays 1/20th. Fine and dandy except the US makes 1 while the rest of the world makes 1/500th. That's where shit falls apart.
The point of contention was weather forests (like our kickass national parks) count as carbon sinks. Scientists disagree over the viability of such an assertion. Specifically, our scientists think we should get credits for them while the rest of the world doesn't. If we can work that out there shouldn't be a problem towards signing the treaty.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
the capitalized parts would imply where he was screaming. I believe the bolding, the italicizing, and the combo of the two are different levels of emphasis. (is bolding > italics or vice versa?)
Which leads to: do rational posters need to emphasize specific points they feel are more important than others, or will the important parts of a well written argument be able to shine through immediately?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
"Excercise for the reader: try to make a comperable list of innovations that Microsoft has made. ;-)"
http://research.microsoft.com/
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
"and most CS majors were aware of Chips & Dips, and would read it regularly."
What is Chips & Dips? Is it still published/updated?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
read Mega Tokyo: http://www.megatokyo.com/
read Acid Reflux: http://acid.purrsia.com/
read Ever Crest: http://beta.evercrest.com/
read Flem: http://impure.org/flem/comic/new.htm
read Dr. Lobster: http://www.drlobster.com/
Mega Tokyo is about a pair of gamers who get stuck in Tokyo by accident.
Acid Reflux is a fantasy story about a goddess who has to reclaim her universe after her older sister neglected it.
Ever Crest is this awesome Everquest webcomic with actual art and a storyline, not words superimposed over screenshots of the game or nonstop pics of some blue female character's butt.
Flem is this goth-type strip, it's hard to characterize, but it's pretty damn cool.
Dr. Lobster is impossible to characterize, either you like it or you don't. It's awesome if you get into it, and the creators are cool.
This is all quality stuff people. You wouldn't see it in your local newspaper's funnies section, but that's because those old farts wouldn't know funny if it assaulted them with a clue-by-four. Even if you don't like all of them, I guarantee you'll at least bookmark one of them...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
and that would be...?
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057