I really hate those little Lego "kits" with just enough pieces to re-assemble the particular item featured on the packaging. These are usually based on some marketing department 'idea", and clearly outside the best use and enjoyment of Lego itself.
All of those model-specific parts: animal heads, guns, etc. It is the death of creativity and imagination.
"Why design and figure out how to make your own submarine? We've done the FUN part for you! Just stck the blocks together!"
My kids are LOVERS of Lego. They get the BIG blue box, and build what they like.
We in North America live in an era of crypto-fascism, where a shareholder will proxy his vote to put a bullet through a baby's head, just to get another dollar of share price.
"You can't say one thing and do another."-- George W. Bush, 10/31/00
"If you overspend, it creates a fundamental weakness in the foundation of economic growth. And so I'm working with Congress to make sure they hear the message -- the message of fiscal responsibility."-- 9/16/02 (Less than 6 months later, Bush proposed a budget that would put the government more than $300 billion into deficit.)
"Having been here and seeing the care that these troops get is comforting for me and Laura. We are -- should and must provide the best care for anybody who is willing to put their life in harm's way."-- Walter Reed Army Hospital, 1/17/03 (That same day the Bush Administration cut off access to its health care system from approximately 164,000 veterans.)
"We're dealing with first-time responders to make sure they've got what's needed to be able to respond."-- 3/27/02 (Bush said he was proposing $3.5 billion in "new" money for first responders, but he actually tried to rob more than $1 billion from existing grants to local police/fire departments to fund his proposal. In August 2002, Bush rejected another $150 million for grants to state and local first responders.)
"We're working hard to make sure your job is easier, that the port is safer. The Customs Service is working with overseas ports and shippers to improve its knowledge of container shipments, assessing risk so that we have a better feel of who we ought to look at, what we ought to worry about."-- 6/24/02 (Bush's 2003 and 2004 budgets provide nothing for port security grants. In August, he vetoed all $39 million for the Container Security Initiative that he specifically touted.)
"A secure and efficient border is key to our economic security."-- 9/9/02 (Bush promised more INS/Border Patrol staff and facilities, but provided no funding. He vetoed $6.25 million for promised pay upgrades for Border Patrol agents, and his 2004 Budget slashes "Border and Transportation Security" by $284 million.)
"We've got to do more to protect worker pensions."-- 8/7/02 (The Bush Administration proposed new rules so employers could resume converting traditional pension plans to new 'cash balance' plans that can lower benefits of long-serving workers.) "Companies favor these plans because they can slash a worker's pension benefit by 20 to 50 percent in one fell swoop."-- Rep. Bernard Sanders (I-VT.)
"A reformed and strengthened Medicare system, plus a healthy dosage of Medicare spending in the budget, will make us say firmly, we fulfilled our promise to the seniors of America."-- 1/29/03 (Bush's 2004 budget proposes 85% less than what would be needed to meet his goal, and would leave 67% of the total $400 billion pledge to be spent after 2008.)
"I want to thank the Boys & Girls Clubs across the country...The Boys & Girls Club have got a grand history of helping children understand the future is bright for them, as well as any other child in America."-- 1/30/03 (Bush's 2002 budget proposed eliminating all federal funding for the Boys and Girls Club of America.)
"Clear Skies legislation, when passed by Congress, will significantly reduce smog and mercury emissions, as well as stop acid rain. It will put more money directly into programs to reduce pollution, so as to meet firm national air-quality goals...."-- Earth Day speech, 4/22/02 (Actually, the Clear Skies law delays required pollution emission cuts by as much as 10 years, weakens the states' power to address interstate pollution problems, and allows outdated industrial facilities to avoid costly pollution-control upgrades.)
A big deal w/ I/O is not just speed, but concurrency of operation.
I can bring a MySQL server to its knees on a PC server, and remote shell to the box is impossible. On an old SPARC Ultra 80, ssh into the box isn't FAST, but it is possible for remote management.
This is a function of I/O design, more than CPU horsepower. With all the fancy northbridge extensions and DMA, and whatnot - The PC is still a kludge architecture. A brilliant, category changing kludge, but still no great shakes in the I/O dept, when compared against real workstations and mid-range boxes.
Just be glad you don't use an OS w/ hooks into BIOS routines for peripher access!
This is a crappy idea. It got kicked to hell on the Full-Disclosure list about 2 Months ago...
VU#865940 - Microsoft Internet Explorer does not properly evaluate "application/hta" MIME type referenced by DATA attribute of OBJECT element
IE will execute an HTML Application (HTA) referenced by the DATA attribute of an OBJECT element if the Content-Type header returned by the web server is set to "application/hta". An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running IE.
> If God exists we can assume
> the "One True" religion is His.
Everything a limited human consciousness may contain cannot sum the unlimitedness of God.
The one true religion of God is God. Everything else is obfuscation, derivation and interpretation.
Religion that aspires to Paradise is self-worship, and error.
Religion that aspires to God in exclusion of all else is Divine and true - It is found amongst Hindus and Christians and Bhuddists and Muslims and Animists and Unbelievers And Software Developers and Jews.
Even among these, it is rarer than the rarest of the rare.
> Well, it may be acceptable to humans
> but doubtful to God.
Only God is not in error - everything else is error in being partial, not whole. This includes the belief in God itself.
After more than 12 years, where are the significant forks to the Linux kernel? What is the threat they pose to mainstream Linux development and adoption?
User Mode Linux? Now just a new target $ARCH - a series of build options.
Embedded Real-Time Linux? Please...
Forking is better understood as a Biological metaphor, rather than a Religious phenomenon. It is partially Socialogical, partly Technical.
Forking is subject to performance pressures and economic incentives.
It is only a threat to those who derive benefit from a cuture of control and coersion.
Fuck 'em! Playing games is not worth sacrificing software freedom and choice.
The developers who drink this Kool-Aid are halfway down the damnation road to Palladium/NGSCB. There will be little room to squirm back to GL, etc. when the lock comes down on future platforms for DX.
I know somone will mod this down for incindiary content. I don't much care. I have watched commercial software development slide into dire conditions over the last ten years - with Microsoft at the helm. It's like watching the "worst possible scenario" play itself out in slow motion.
,i>Oh yes, brilliant. Then you wipe out every honest digital camera in the vicinity. What if some photo journalist is stopping off for some coffee before heading back to dump the contents of his/her camera and a jerk like you wipes away their day's work? Or a family's irreplaceable snapshots? An artist's day of chasing their hobby?
I didn't mean this as a serious suggestion! The X-Rays would amount to a a slow-death, cancer cannon!
CF and Memory Stick expansion is beginning to be commonplace in these camera phones. Jamming delays transmission from "100% Live", but does little else.
You want to shoot X-Rays strong enough to wipe Flash Mem? Be my guest!
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Everyone should poo in a bag, and FedEx it to Darl's home address.
C'mon! On the count of three... All together now!
1... 2... 3...
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So, How much are they giving for the holiday bonus this year?
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I wish someone would deliver something like 32 tons of horse shit to th SCO offices. Just DUMP it in front of the swinging glass doors.
Ivin's again:
Twenty-four percent of American workers now make less that $8.70 an hour, and they have effectively lost their right to unionize.
As Harold Meyerson reported in The Washington Post, "When European employers look to the United States, they see roughly the same thing that U.S. employers see when they look to China: millions of low-wage workers who have all but lost the right to organize and a government intent on keeping things the way they are."
Florida's electoral votes were pretty clearly stolen. If there weren't a legitimate dispute about that, it wouldn't have gone to the Supremes. The court defied precedent and ruled without Constitutional guidance.
You are still free to choose between Pepsi and Coke at Wall*Mart, or even between Intel and AMD at Comp*USA. You are free to form opinions derived from mega-multi-national owned "media" outlets.
I believe we are about 10 years from living in the exact society portrayed in the movie Brazil. No, this is not rhetorical excess.
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I really hate those little Lego "kits" with just enough pieces to re-assemble the particular item featured on the packaging. These are usually based on some marketing department 'idea", and clearly outside the best use and enjoyment of Lego itself.
All of those model-specific parts: animal heads, guns, etc. It is the death of creativity and imagination.
"Why design and figure out how to make your own submarine? We've done the FUN part for you! Just stck the blocks together!"
My kids are LOVERS of Lego. They get the BIG blue box, and build what they like.
I second the motion. Let's send Arnold too. He likes Total Recall so much in California, let's let him relive the movie.
I hear they can keep 500,000 of us in one facility in Alaska. Conveniently just across the strait from Siberia.
...And on Debian, it's always shipped as such!
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We in North America live in an era of crypto-fascism, where a shareholder will proxy his vote to put a bullet through a baby's head, just to get another dollar of share price.
"If you overspend, it creates a fundamental weakness in the foundation of economic growth. And so I'm working with Congress to make sure they hear the message -- the message of fiscal responsibility."-- 9/16/02 (Less than 6 months later, Bush proposed a budget that would put the government more than $300 billion into deficit.)
"Having been here and seeing the care that these troops get is comforting for me and Laura. We are -- should and must provide the best care for anybody who is willing to put their life in harm's way."-- Walter Reed Army Hospital, 1/17/03 (That same day the Bush Administration cut off access to its health care system from approximately 164,000 veterans.)
"We're dealing with first-time responders to make sure they've got what's needed to be able to respond."-- 3/27/02 (Bush said he was proposing $3.5 billion in "new" money for first responders, but he actually tried to rob more than $1 billion from existing grants to local police/fire departments to fund his proposal. In August 2002, Bush rejected another $150 million for grants to state and local first responders.)
"We're working hard to make sure your job is easier, that the port is safer. The Customs Service is working with overseas ports and shippers to improve its knowledge of container shipments, assessing risk so that we have a better feel of who we ought to look at, what we ought to worry about."-- 6/24/02 (Bush's 2003 and 2004 budgets provide nothing for port security grants. In August, he vetoed all $39 million for the Container Security Initiative that he specifically touted.)
"A secure and efficient border is key to our economic security."-- 9/9/02 (Bush promised more INS/Border Patrol staff and facilities, but provided no funding. He vetoed $6.25 million for promised pay upgrades for Border Patrol agents, and his 2004 Budget slashes "Border and Transportation Security" by $284 million.)
"We've got to do more to protect worker pensions."-- 8/7/02 (The Bush Administration proposed new rules so employers could resume converting traditional pension plans to new 'cash balance' plans that can lower benefits of long-serving workers.) "Companies favor these plans because they can slash a worker's pension benefit by 20 to 50 percent in one fell swoop."-- Rep. Bernard Sanders (I-VT.)
"A reformed and strengthened Medicare system, plus a healthy dosage of Medicare spending in the budget, will make us say firmly, we fulfilled our promise to the seniors of America."-- 1/29/03 (Bush's 2004 budget proposes 85% less than what would be needed to meet his goal, and would leave 67% of the total $400 billion pledge to be spent after 2008.)
"I want to thank the Boys & Girls Clubs across the country...The Boys & Girls Club have got a grand history of helping children understand the future is bright for them, as well as any other child in America."-- 1/30/03 (Bush's 2002 budget proposed eliminating all federal funding for the Boys and Girls Club of America.)
"Clear Skies legislation, when passed by Congress, will significantly reduce smog and mercury emissions, as well as stop acid rain. It will put more money directly into programs to reduce pollution, so as to meet firm national air-quality goals. ..."-- Earth Day speech, 4/22/02 (Actually, the Clear Skies law delays required pollution emission cuts by as much as 10 years, weakens the states' power to address interstate pollution problems, and allows outdated industrial facilities to avoid costly pollution-control upgrades.)
I can bring a MySQL server to its knees on a PC server, and remote shell to the box is impossible. On an old SPARC Ultra 80, ssh into the box isn't FAST, but it is possible for remote management.
Just be glad you don't use an OS w/ hooks into BIOS routines for peripher access!
I don't think you can rely on NORAD. They can't even track airliners out of Logan on rogue filght-paths.
And the U.S.A.,, you tosser!
This is a crappy idea. It got kicked to hell on the Full-Disclosure list about 2 Months ago...
Everything a limited human consciousness may contain cannot sum the unlimitedness of God.
The one true religion of God is God.
Everything else is obfuscation, derivation and interpretation.
Religion that aspires to Paradise is self-worship, and error.
Religion that aspires to God in exclusion of all else is Divine and true - It is found amongst Hindus and Christians and Bhuddists and Muslims and Animists and Unbelievers And Software Developers and Jews.
Even among these, it is rarer than the rarest of the rare.
> Well, it may be acceptable to humans > but doubtful to God.
Only God is not in error - everything else is error in being partial, not whole. This includes the belief in God itself.
Bullshit
Bullshit!
After more than 12 years, where are the significant forks to the Linux kernel? What is the threat they pose to mainstream Linux development and adoption?
User Mode Linux? Now just a new target $ARCH - a series of build options.
Embedded Real-Time Linux? Please...
Forking is better understood as a Biological metaphor, rather than a Religious phenomenon. It is partially Socialogical, partly Technical.
Forking is subject to performance pressures and economic incentives.
It is only a threat to those who derive benefit from a cuture of control and coersion.
Yes. Having some, or having none.
"I don't care, as long as I'm having fun"
The developers who drink this Kool-Aid are halfway down the damnation road to Palladium/NGSCB. There will be little room to squirm back to GL, etc. when the lock comes down on future platforms for DX.
I know somone will mod this down for incindiary content. I don't much care. I have watched commercial software development slide into dire conditions over the last ten years - with Microsoft at the helm. It's like watching the "worst possible scenario" play itself out in slow motion.
I didn't mean this as a serious suggestion! The X-Rays would amount to a a slow-death, cancer cannon!
CF and Memory Stick expansion is beginning to be commonplace in these camera phones. Jamming delays transmission from "100% Live", but does little else.
You want to shoot X-Rays strong enough to wipe Flash Mem? Be my guest!
C'mon! On the count of three... All together now!
1... 2... 3...
So,
How much are they giving for the holiday bonus this year?
I wish someone would deliver something like 32 tons of horse shit to th SCO offices. Just DUMP it in front of the swinging glass doors.
Twenty-four percent of American workers now make less that $8.70 an hour, and they have effectively lost their right to unionize.
As Harold Meyerson reported in The Washington Post, "When European employers look to the United States, they see roughly the same thing that U.S. employers see when they look to China: millions of low-wage workers who have all but lost the right to organize and a government intent on keeping things the way they are."
If you remember that far back - eveything was a different volume. That's the origin of the cursed a: b: c: d: e: f: g: ...
CPM-based BBS systems often had letters up to X: and Y: !
You are still free to choose between Pepsi and Coke at Wall*Mart, or even between Intel and AMD at Comp*USA. You are free to form opinions derived from mega-multi-national owned "media" outlets.
I believe we are about 10 years from living in the exact society portrayed in the movie Brazil. No, this is not rhetorical excess.