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Sure, laugh at how not intellectual football is. Heck, it's as simple as:
Your fast OT slams him inside (This is why he's FAST) and your FB still runs "B" gap. Your QB reads the DE - the first defender outside "B"(Almost 100% guaranteed you'll get a handoff read). If QB gets a "keep" read, he options "W". The "slow" left guard takes "M" unless the NG is in playside "A". In that case both the center and the slow guard drive the NG back and the slow guard looks for a chance to zone block to "M". SE blocks F (deepest, nearest safety) and slot has corner. On backside, "slow" guard picks off anyone upfield trying to follow wing's motion while fast tackle shoeshines the DT.
Yes, because it really drives down the immediacy and relevance of/. to have articles that aren't really news and could easily be researched on Google by someone with a shred of initiative.
Riiight, so the idea is to punish the innocent so that they in turn will punish the guilty. So you wouldn't have any complaints if people started scratching the paint on your car as a protest against a rundown beater parked on your neighbor's lawn? After all, they would just be encouraging you to do something about your neighbor.
I'm very suspicious of any argument that boils down to "the ends justify the means."
See CDT Water for one practical, functional application of aerogel.
In short, they push contaminated water through aerogel and use electrodes to pull ionic molecules apart. The ions get caught in the aerogel mesh, and the purified water flows through. At least, that's my layman's understanding of it.
That means, unless you work or attend one of those institutions, no spam, no mp3s, no pron, no blocking of websites, nothing.
That is a depressing picture you paint. So one of us enterprising slashdotters is just going to have to go work for, or attend, one of these institutions. I'm sure there's a good buck or two to be made via spam, mp3's, pron, and website blocking on this retro internet. Not only that, but those who get there first will make a killing!
$10K, maybe. $40K, and I'd rather hire a private investigator to bust the guy. The less scrupolous might hire a "private investigator" to make sure the guy ends up in the hospital. Even if it's international, $40K should cover it.
It's kind of funny, I guess, but someone should revoke your license to use the word "logic" for that one.
In your world, does "You don't need perfect balance to ride a bicycle" lead to "The best bicylce riders are klutzes"? I hope you're not working on the kernel!
Imagine being able to take a half a megabit and reduce it to only 66K. Why, compressed, that data is only 2K larger than the uncompressed version. Eureka!
(1024 * 512) = 524288 bits, or 65536 bytes, or 64K.
...circumstantial evidence. Why not blame that new restaurant you ate at, or the fact that you wore a new pair of socks without washing them first?
While it's certainly *likely* that the credit card application was somehow responsible, you're going to have a very hard time *proving* that it was. And that's as it should be, even if it is really irritating. It may just be coincidence that your email got published in some new 5,000,000,000 e-mail CD about the same time that your phone number got traded (by your cable company? Existing credit card? Next door neighbor?) to some huge telemarketing list.
While a sudden upswing in spam and telemarketing is certainly irritating, the world would be a mess if you had legal recourse based on such circumstantial evidence. Heck, the credit card comapny could sue *you*, saying that their fraud rate jumped 10% the day your wife filled out the application, so there must be some connection. Fortunately, things don't work that way.
Besides, if you were getting 0 spams a day for a while and are now getting 20, you've got nothing to complain about -- you're one of the lucky ones.
You know, I could get into specifics, but fact is you're apparently a manicheanist. Look it up.
If you think AD is anything like YP or NIS, you're pretty clueless. If you think AD is somehow related to Kerberos, well, I don't know what to say. AD is extensible in ways that NDS isn't, let alone YP or NIS. And Kerberos is a protocol for encrypted communications.
Cheap SCSI clustering also still stands. You're right that the SCSI protocol allows for this kind of use. Please point me to the MySQL or Postgres implementation of SCSI clustering that predates MS SQL 7.0, and I'll grant your point.
There's no real sense talking here, since you're firmly entrenched in the moral high ground. Other folks reading this, though, would do well to learn by example how *not* to come across as a zealot who ignores all facts and reality in the mad rush to rant and rave about the evil empire. MS is *totally* fucked up in many ways, but to claim that they've never done anything worthwhile is to cast yourself as a religous nut rather than a techy nut.
Whoever came up with "America, land of the Free" probably didn't think it was sarcastic. It's pretty sad when you have to look to Russia and China as beacons of liberty. Oh, they've got their own problems, but if you graph trends in freedom in the US, Russia, and China, it's not a pretty picture. The so-called evil communists are more free now than the've been in 200 years, while we losers in the US are far *less* free than we've been in... well, ever.
If you compare the 20+ year history of Microsoft to the much younger open source movement, I think it may be fair to say that there's been more technical innovation from Microsoft. Of course, the whole open source model is quite an innovation in and of itself.
The first 5 years or so of Linux were mainly focused on replicating funcationality that already existed in non-free Unix OSes. Likewise with the apps. It's only in the past year or two that we're starting to see a good deal of innovation in the form of apps that aren't just clones of non-open-source apps.
Open source is starting to really move, and we're starting to see some truly novel apps and innovations, but I think it's completely understandable that the first decade or so of open source was devoted to bootstrapping our tech to be equal to or better than closed source stuff.
I'm no Microsoft fan, but they *have* introduced some real innovations. Cheap, shared-SCSI-bus clustering comes to mind, as does Active Directory (although AD is certainly inspired by NDS). While Microsoft certainly followed Apple into the era of the GUI, they've made notable improvements to the GUI. There are others, of course; only the most rabid anti-MS zealot could claim that they've *never* done *anything* innovative.
Of course, it says something about Microsoft's insecurity that Ballmer is playing the "Historically, we've done more than open source." Open source is still snowballing -- if Microsoft had a new closed-source competitor that was starting to gain market share, everyone would laugh at marketing material that said "Historically, we've done more than this new competitor."
[quote]If you have the kind of porn that has to be hidden from police, you belong in jail.[/quote]
Really? So if you're gay in Alabama and want porn, you belong in jail? Or if you like oral sex in your porn and you live in Mississippi, you belong in jail? That's a pretty tough stance.
My goddam fat pig of a 99 Trans Am convertible -- 3800lbs w/o driver -- pulls low 12's. That's *with* air conditioning, 1000w of bass power, and full leather, spare tire, trailer hitch, and body panels. And all for probably a comprable cost.
Sentras are nimble cars... they'll often kick my ass in an autocross, if the course is tighter and slower. But getting 14's out of a sentra is like gleefully reporting overclocking a 500mhz Duron to 700mhz. There may be some technical merit there, but neither the starting product nor end result is particularly impressive.
I'm a big fan of a bunch of small bands that depend on CD revenue for things like eating. On the one hand, I can't imagine that they'd care if their music got bundled with the latest SUV because soccer moms and dads would *hate* the music.
Sure, this may make some sense for ultra-corporate music, where it's just a commoditized product, but I can't see it working for music that's less than completely corporate and mainstream.
And Britney Spears Corp. is making more than enough money as is, even with P2P and other piracy. Why would they be interested in giving it away for free?
So, I'm not sure who exactly this concept is supposed to benefit. Not consumers, who just get more crappy music, and not either small bands or giganto-corporate bands. Other than that, it sounds kind of innovative, though.
...secure, locked cockpit doors aren't going to look like such a good idea the first time some terrorist type spends years training to be a pilot and is sitting *behind* that door.
I think you missed the point. The idea is not so that people *in* countries with censorship can circumvent it. The idea is that people *outside* those countries can see what exactly is being censored. For example, I could request that bondage.com be checked from China -- this app would find a Chinese proxy server and try to get bondage.com. If it fails, the censorship got it. If it works, the police show up and shoot some poor admin in China.
When Massive was first tested two armies were pitted against each other to fight it out. Once the scene was rendered, a bug in the program was found. Agents were actually seen running away from the battle field! This simple bug was resolved by adding the rule "If you can't see an enemy, turn around".
Oh no! I'm going to be killed! Run away! Oh no, no enemy in sight! Turn around! Oh no! I'm going to be killed! Run away! Oh no...
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Sure, laugh at how not intellectual football is. Heck, it's as simple as:
From Youth Football knowledge base
Simple, right?
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As a representative of the League of the Perpetually Offended, I would like to express outrage over all of this heat speech.
Harumph
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Yes, because it really drives down the immediacy and relevance of /. to have articles that aren't really news and could easily be researched on Google by someone with a shred of initiative.
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Solid concrete? So what do they use it for? Roller hockey on top of it or something?
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Riiight, so the idea is to punish the innocent so that they in turn will punish the guilty. So you wouldn't have any complaints if people started scratching the paint on your car as a protest against a rundown beater parked on your neighbor's lawn? After all, they would just be encouraging you to do something about your neighbor.
I'm very suspicious of any argument that boils down to "the ends justify the means."
Cheers
-b
See CDT Water for one practical, functional application of aerogel.
In short, they push contaminated water through aerogel and use electrodes to pull ionic molecules apart. The ions get caught in the aerogel mesh, and the purified water flows through. At least, that's my layman's understanding of it.
Cheers
-b
That is a depressing picture you paint. So one of us enterprising slashdotters is just going to have to go work for, or attend, one of these institutions. I'm sure there's a good buck or two to be made via spam, mp3's, pron, and website blocking on this retro internet. Not only that, but those who get there first will make a killing!
Cheers
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He's a witch! Burn him!
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Damn! I am getting me into the content business. Oh wait, I already am. Go CRF!
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$10K, maybe. $40K, and I'd rather hire a private investigator to bust the guy. The less scrupolous might hire a "private investigator" to make sure the guy ends up in the hospital. Even if it's international, $40K should cover it.
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It's kind of funny, I guess, but someone should revoke your license to use the word "logic" for that one.
In your world, does "You don't need perfect balance to ride a bicycle" lead to "The best bicylce riders are klutzes"? I hope you're not working on the kernel!
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"Technology: Bringing you a more efficient police state."
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Imagine being able to take a half a megabit and reduce it to only 66K. Why, compressed, that data is only 2K larger than the uncompressed version. Eureka!
(1024 * 512) = 524288 bits, or 65536 bytes, or 64K.
Cheers
-b
...circumstantial evidence. Why not blame that new restaurant you ate at, or the fact that you wore a new pair of socks without washing them first?
While it's certainly *likely* that the credit card application was somehow responsible, you're going to have a very hard time *proving* that it was. And that's as it should be, even if it is really irritating. It may just be coincidence that your email got published in some new 5,000,000,000 e-mail CD about the same time that your phone number got traded (by your cable company? Existing credit card? Next door neighbor?) to some huge telemarketing list.
While a sudden upswing in spam and telemarketing is certainly irritating, the world would be a mess if you had legal recourse based on such circumstantial evidence. Heck, the credit card comapny could sue *you*, saying that their fraud rate jumped 10% the day your wife filled out the application, so there must be some connection. Fortunately, things don't work that way.
Besides, if you were getting 0 spams a day for a while and are now getting 20, you've got nothing to complain about -- you're one of the lucky ones.
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And then there's chipkill, which does one better than ECC by being able to correct multi-bit errors and even function if an entire chip dies.
e rences/chipkill_white_paper.pdf&e=747
More Info: http://www.ece.umd.edu/courses/enee759h.S2003/ref
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You know, I could get into specifics, but fact is you're apparently a manicheanist. Look it up.
If you think AD is anything like YP or NIS, you're pretty clueless. If you think AD is somehow related to Kerberos, well, I don't know what to say. AD is extensible in ways that NDS isn't, let alone YP or NIS. And Kerberos is a protocol for encrypted communications.
Cheap SCSI clustering also still stands. You're right that the SCSI protocol allows for this kind of use. Please point me to the MySQL or Postgres implementation of SCSI clustering that predates MS SQL 7.0, and I'll grant your point.
There's no real sense talking here, since you're firmly entrenched in the moral high ground. Other folks reading this, though, would do well to learn by example how *not* to come across as a zealot who ignores all facts and reality in the mad rush to rant and rave about the evil empire. MS is *totally* fucked up in many ways, but to claim that they've never done anything worthwhile is to cast yourself as a religous nut rather than a techy nut.
Cheers
-b
Whoever came up with "America, land of the Free" probably didn't think it was sarcastic. It's pretty sad when you have to look to Russia and China as beacons of liberty. Oh, they've got their own problems, but if you graph trends in freedom in the US, Russia, and China, it's not a pretty picture. The so-called evil communists are more free now than the've been in 200 years, while we losers in the US are far *less* free than we've been in... well, ever.
Cheers
-b
If you compare the 20+ year history of Microsoft to the much younger open source movement, I think it may be fair to say that there's been more technical innovation from Microsoft. Of course, the whole open source model is quite an innovation in and of itself.
The first 5 years or so of Linux were mainly focused on replicating funcationality that already existed in non-free Unix OSes. Likewise with the apps. It's only in the past year or two that we're starting to see a good deal of innovation in the form of apps that aren't just clones of non-open-source apps.
Open source is starting to really move, and we're starting to see some truly novel apps and innovations, but I think it's completely understandable that the first decade or so of open source was devoted to bootstrapping our tech to be equal to or better than closed source stuff.
I'm no Microsoft fan, but they *have* introduced some real innovations. Cheap, shared-SCSI-bus clustering comes to mind, as does Active Directory (although AD is certainly inspired by NDS). While Microsoft certainly followed Apple into the era of the GUI, they've made notable improvements to the GUI. There are others, of course; only the most rabid anti-MS zealot could claim that they've *never* done *anything* innovative.
Of course, it says something about Microsoft's insecurity that Ballmer is playing the "Historically, we've done more than open source." Open source is still snowballing -- if Microsoft had a new closed-source competitor that was starting to gain market share, everyone would laugh at marketing material that said "Historically, we've done more than this new competitor."
Cheers
-b
[quote]If you have the kind of porn that has to be hidden from police, you belong in jail.[/quote]
Really? So if you're gay in Alabama and want porn, you belong in jail? Or if you like oral sex in your porn and you live in Mississippi, you belong in jail? That's a pretty tough stance.
Cheers
-b
My goddam fat pig of a 99 Trans Am convertible -- 3800lbs w/o driver -- pulls low 12's. That's *with* air conditioning, 1000w of bass power, and full leather, spare tire, trailer hitch, and body panels. And all for probably a comprable cost.
Sentras are nimble cars... they'll often kick my ass in an autocross, if the course is tighter and slower. But getting 14's out of a sentra is like gleefully reporting overclocking a 500mhz Duron to 700mhz. There may be some technical merit there, but neither the starting product nor end result is particularly impressive.
Cheers
-b
I'm a big fan of a bunch of small bands that depend on CD revenue for things like eating. On the one hand, I can't imagine that they'd care if their music got bundled with the latest SUV because soccer moms and dads would *hate* the music.
Sure, this may make some sense for ultra-corporate music, where it's just a commoditized product, but I can't see it working for music that's less than completely corporate and mainstream.
And Britney Spears Corp. is making more than enough money as is, even with P2P and other piracy. Why would they be interested in giving it away for free?
So, I'm not sure who exactly this concept is supposed to benefit. Not consumers, who just get more crappy music, and not either small bands or giganto-corporate bands. Other than that, it sounds kind of innovative, though.
Cheers
-b
...secure, locked cockpit doors aren't going to look like such a good idea the first time some terrorist type spends years training to be a pilot and is sitting *behind* that door.
Cheers
-b
I think you missed the point. The idea is not so that people *in* countries with censorship can circumvent it. The idea is that people *outside* those countries can see what exactly is being censored. For example, I could request that bondage.com be checked from China -- this app would find a Chinese proxy server and try to get bondage.com. If it fails, the censorship got it. If it works, the police show up and shoot some poor admin in China.
Cheers
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You mean, I can't go down to the local base and pick up my tank? Even though it was bought with *my* money? Bummer!
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Oh no! I'm going to be killed! Run away! Oh no, no enemy in sight! Turn around! Oh no! I'm going to be killed! Run away! Oh no...
Cheers
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