Now I don't complain about the comparative emptiness of Reloaded because I *understand* that it's only half of a movie, so of course it has only half of a plot, and the playground fight and the freeway fight more than make up for the lack of paradigmatic innovation by superlative implementation, but who the hell wrote in the utterly pathetic and pointless sex scene? Fire that man. And the direction! This could not be Wachowski doings -- no, not the director(s) of Bound. Whoever shot that crap should be pilloried without limit. How anyone could make Carrie-Anne as sexy as a tapir in a spittoon is a question to boggle the mind.
Anything that improves my marketability as a mate is a good thing, in my view. Dark eyes, white teeth, well- defined eyebrows, no extraneous facial hair, smooth skin, fresh breath -- all of these are of crucial importance in the race to insinuate my genetic material into the pool.
Certainly clean teeth are a good thing, but don't get your hopes up too far.
I seriously doubt that behaviour relates strongly to tooth color. While my primary teeth were blue-white, my permanent teeth have been yellow #2 since day 1. The same is true of all of the members of my father's family, so I'm inclined to think that it is a genetic condition.
Of course smoking and drinking coffee will stain teeth, but that doesn't affect their intrinsic permanent color.
No, not "any system". I think you should review the few years of cryptography. For example, the voting machine could issue a receipt from which any possible combination of votes can be derived. Only the voter knows which key is correct. The voter can report a false key to a coercer.
But frankly, I think the option of a receipt is preferrable, even if the system does not preclude vote-buying certification. The amount of fraud in the last two elections was orders of magnitude higher than in the preceeding decade, and the problem will only get worse over time, since the voting machines are manufactured by affiliates of one political party.
You're much more likely to die of influenza than SARS, at the moment, but if SARS were uncontained, you would soon be vastly more likely to die of SARS than any other infectious disease. Until June, a SARS global pandemic remained a very real threat. Heck, even now it remains a very real threat: Do you really think that rural China is SARS-free, after the mass exodus from Beijing at the height of the epidemic there?
The CCP saw that they were getting ripped over SARS when it leaked out into Vietnam, HK, and Toronto, so they started giving out real numbers. If you chart the noise in those numbers, you will see that suddenly at the end of May, it disappeared. In my opinion, they decided that the real and present economic damage of the ongoing epidemic was worse than the bad rap from supressing the news, so they started feeding the WHO phony numbers at the beginning of June.
By the end of June, China is SARS-free. But if you get a dry, persistent cough and fever in Xi'an, I'd bet dollars to donuts that you will suddenly "disappear". They really don't care if 90% of the Chinese people die -- that would just put the family planning bureau ahead of its goals. All they care about is making sure that SARS does not contaminate tourists or escape the borders.
Customarily, when a telecom worker is decapitated, the U.S. State Department is supposed to send little marshmallow bunnies and chickies to their old co-workers. This just goes to show how far downhill things have gone since Jimmy Carter.
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considering that about 75% of all of my calls are out-to or in-from a crappy cellphone, voip can't hurt my average call line quality much if any.
So the DMCA requires you to psychoanalyze the motives of the manufacturer: Is this behaviour designed as a copyright protection mechanism? Only your analyst knows for sure.
But what we can know for sure is that if Microsoft goes after these guys, it proves that the circumvented feature was NOT for purposes of copyright protection (since no copyrights have been violated), but rather another unlawful means by which this convicted monopolist excludes competitors.
Oh, you mean as in "Does this thing work *anywhere*?" GSM/GPRS basically only works in major metro areas of a few countries, unfortunately. Maybe in 5 years I will find it useful.
At least with a Mac tower (unlike a laptop) it's reasonable to just buy a proper mouse, with three or four buttons and a wheel. Python, on the other hand, is hopeless.
Hire a consultant for installation and training, and do Asterisk. You will have wide open future growth options for the company, and be expanding your career prospects too. Not to mention that your well-spent consulting and training $$ will go a long way in advancing the Asterisk project. Win, win, win.
He said Framemaker, not Photoshop. There is a Photoshop replacement (free), called the GIMP. Framemaker is another issue. You would have to adapt your publishing methods to a very different framework, in moving to Linux. Yes, there are (many, free) tools to replace Framemaker, but if you want bug-compatibility, you're NOT going to be happy. Stick with Mac OSX instead.
Actually, the overwhelming irony of this thread lies in the blind hyposcrisy of pedants who, pretending to deeper understanding, apply dictionaries prescriptively.
A dictionary is a tool for finding the meaning of a term which is not understood. To infer than any use which does not conform to the limited scope of the definition found therein is to abuse the tool as a weapon to assert personal superiority and cultural dominance.
You can get away with this if you are a member of the French Academy. In English, it's just pathetic.
It's not destructive code. It's a means of booting linux, which is a constructive act.
The X-Box is great because you can pick them up dirt cheap, they stack nicely, and their power consumption is low.
I use one as a mail server, another as a file server, another as a web server, another as a firewall, and a fourth as a spare for whichever of the other three breaks down. Now I can reboot the web server without interrupting my wife's use of the web, or email, and I don't have to run a bunch of 300w power supplies to do it.
You can pick up X-Boxes used for cheap, too. I got 4 for less than $350. I plan to get more too, for MAME, for running alternate OSen, for dedicated MP3/Ogg streaming, and to run FreeVo, perhaps? I'm not sure yet, but with boxes so cheap, I can afford to experiment.
No. It's not blackmail. It's an offer to restrain a legal behaviour in exchange for a compensatory benefit. The hackers have every right to release their method for booting, but they are willing to forego doing so, if Microsoft will provide a signed boot loader.
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Now I don't complain about the comparative emptiness
of Reloaded because I *understand* that it's only half
of a movie, so of course it has only half of a plot, and
the playground fight and the freeway fight more than
make up for the lack of paradigmatic innovation by
superlative implementation, but who the hell wrote in
the utterly pathetic and pointless sex scene? Fire that
man. And the direction! This could not be Wachowski
doings -- no, not the director(s) of Bound. Whoever
shot that crap should be pilloried without limit. How
anyone could make Carrie-Anne as sexy as a tapir
in a spittoon is a question to boggle the mind.
Anything that improves my marketability as a mate is a
good thing, in my view. Dark eyes, white teeth, well-
defined eyebrows, no extraneous facial hair, smooth skin,
fresh breath -- all of these are of crucial importance in
the race to insinuate my genetic material into the pool.
Of course being rich helps much, much more.
Certainly clean teeth are a good thing, but don't
get your hopes up too far.
I seriously doubt that behaviour relates strongly to tooth
color. While my primary teeth were blue-white, my
permanent teeth have been yellow #2 since day 1. The
same is true of all of the members of my father's family,
so I'm inclined to think that it is a genetic condition.
Of course smoking and drinking coffee will stain teeth,
but that doesn't affect their intrinsic permanent color.
And best of all, a *correct* result is guaranteed,
for any desired definition of "correct".
VNS stopped conducting exit polls in 2000.
There were no VNS exit polls in 2002.
No, not "any system". I think you should review the
few years of cryptography. For example, the voting
machine could issue a receipt from which any possible
combination of votes can be derived. Only the
voter knows which key is correct. The voter can
report a false key to a coercer.
But frankly, I think the option of a receipt is
preferrable, even if the system does not preclude
vote-buying certification. The amount of fraud in
the last two elections was orders of magnitude
higher than in the preceeding decade, and the problem
will only get worse over time, since the voting machines
are manufactured by affiliates of one political party.
Evidently, in Georgia, they despise the untidy
messiness of reality, preferring the aesthetic
sheen of fantasy and fraud.
You're much more likely to die of influenza than
SARS, at the moment, but if SARS were uncontained,
you would soon be vastly more likely to die of
SARS than any other infectious disease. Until June,
a SARS global pandemic remained a very real threat.
Heck, even now it remains a very real threat: Do
you really think that rural China is SARS-free,
after the mass exodus from Beijing at the height
of the epidemic there?
The CCP saw that they were getting ripped over
SARS when it leaked out into Vietnam, HK, and
Toronto, so they started giving out real numbers.
If you chart the noise in those numbers, you will
see that suddenly at the end of May, it disappeared.
In my opinion, they decided that the real and present
economic damage of the ongoing epidemic was
worse than the bad rap from supressing the news,
so they started feeding the WHO phony numbers
at the beginning of June.
By the end of June, China is SARS-free. But
if you get a dry, persistent cough and fever
in Xi'an, I'd bet dollars to donuts that you
will suddenly "disappear". They really don't
care if 90% of the Chinese people die -- that
would just put the family planning bureau ahead
of its goals. All they care about is making sure
that SARS does not contaminate tourists or escape
the borders.
Customarily, when a telecom worker is decapitated,
the U.S. State Department is supposed to send
little marshmallow bunnies and chickies to their
old co-workers. This just goes to show how far
downhill things have gone since Jimmy Carter.
considering that about 75% of all of my calls
are out-to or in-from a crappy cellphone, voip
can't hurt my average call line quality much if
any.
So the DMCA requires you to psychoanalyze
the motives of the manufacturer: Is this
behaviour designed as a copyright protection
mechanism? Only your analyst knows for sure.
But what we can know for sure is that if
Microsoft goes after these guys, it proves
that the circumvented feature was NOT for
purposes of copyright protection (since no
copyrights have been violated), but rather
another unlawful means by which this convicted
monopolist excludes competitors.
> ... GSM/GPRS ... anywhere ...
Oh, you mean as in "Does this thing work *anywhere*?" GSM/GPRS basically only works
in major metro areas of a few countries,
unfortunately. Maybe in 5 years I will find
it useful.
At least with a Mac tower (unlike a laptop) it's
reasonable to just buy a proper mouse, with
three or four buttons and a wheel. Python, on
the other hand, is hopeless.
Which in turn makes it impossible to read the code.
Exactly.
But Python code is so ugly it makes me
pine for Basic.
I'd rather become a politician than a Python
programmer.
Actually, the 1.3.1 US JRE for Windows is 5 MB,
a fair bit smaller than any python environment.
The sager would be sweet, if it could
support more RAM. !GB is not much, when
you're running VMware.
Hire a consultant for installation and training,
and do Asterisk. You will have wide open future
growth options for the company, and be expanding
your career prospects too. Not to mention that
your well-spent consulting and training $$ will
go a long way in advancing the Asterisk project.
Win, win, win.
He said Framemaker, not Photoshop.
There is a Photoshop replacement (free),
called the GIMP. Framemaker is another issue.
You would have to adapt your publishing methods
to a very different framework, in moving to
Linux. Yes, there are (many, free) tools to
replace Framemaker, but if you want bug-compatibility,
you're NOT going to be happy. Stick with
Mac OSX instead.
Actually, the overwhelming irony of this thread lies
in the blind hyposcrisy of pedants who, pretending
to deeper understanding, apply dictionaries prescriptively.
A dictionary is a tool for finding the meaning of
a term which is not understood. To infer than any
use which does not conform to the limited scope of
the definition found therein is to abuse the tool
as a weapon to assert personal superiority and
cultural dominance.
You can get away with this if you are a member
of the French Academy. In English, it's just
pathetic.
It's not destructive code. It's a means of booting
linux, which is a constructive act.
The X-Box is great because you can pick them up dirt
cheap, they stack nicely, and their power consumption
is low.
I use one as a mail server, another as a file server,
another as a web server, another as a firewall,
and a fourth as a spare for whichever of the
other three breaks down. Now I can reboot the
web server without interrupting my wife's use
of the web, or email, and I don't have to run
a bunch of 300w power supplies to do it.
You can pick up X-Boxes used for cheap, too.
I got 4 for less than $350. I plan to get more
too, for MAME, for running alternate OSen,
for dedicated MP3/Ogg streaming, and to run
FreeVo, perhaps? I'm not sure yet, but with
boxes so cheap, I can afford to experiment.
No. It's not blackmail. It's an offer to
restrain a legal behaviour in exchange for
a compensatory benefit. The hackers have every
right to release their method for booting,
but they are willing to forego doing so, if
Microsoft will provide a signed boot loader.
And exactly what law do you think is
being broken, in this instance?
> Perpetual motion is proven impossible.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means
what you think it means.
Nah, the added value of Akamai is that BitTorrent
uses 5 times as much upstream as downstream.