I stopped using them after they went from PST to GMT. (I am in PST, easier for me just to use a US government site then convert from 24hr to 12 hour and then from GMT to PST)
I am surprised nobody has posted the "Dark Suckers" joke in response to this yet.
Screw it, here it is
For years, it has been believed that electric bulbs emit light, but recent information has proved otherwise. Electric bulbs don't emit light; they suck dark. Thus, we call these bulbs Dark Suckers. The Dark Sucker Theory and the existence of dark suckers prove that dark has mass and is heavier than light. First, the basis of the Dark Sucker Theory is that electric bulbs suck dark. For example, take the Dark Sucker in the room you are in. There is much less dark right next to it than there is elsewhere. The larger the Dark Sucker, the greater its capacity to suck dark. Dark Suckers in the parking lot have a much greater capacity to suck dark than the ones in this room.
So with all things, Dark Suckers don't last forever. Once they are full of dark, they can no longer suck. This is proven by the dark spot on a full Dark Sucker.
A candle is a primitive Dark Sucker. A new candle has a white wick. You can see that after the first use, the wick turns black, representing all the dark that has been sucked into it. If you put a pencil next to the wick of an operating candle, it will turn black. This is because it got in the way of the dark flowing into the candle. One of the disadvantages of these primitive Dark Suckers is their limited range.
There are also portable Dark Suckers. In these, the bulbs can't handle all the dark by themselves and must be aided by a Dark Storage Unit. When the Dark Storage Unit is full, it must be either emptied or replaced before the portable Dark Sucker can operate again.
Dark has mass. When dark goes into a Dark Sucker, friction from the mass generates heat. Thus, it is not wise to touch an operating Dark Sucker. Candles present a special problem as the mass must travel into a solid wick instead of through clear glass. This generates a great amount of heat and therefore it's not wise to touch an operating candle.
Also, dark is heavier than light. If you were to swim just below the surface of the lake, you would see a lot of light. If you were to slowly swim deeper and deeper, you would notice it getting darker and darker. When you get really deep, you would be in total darkness. This is because the heavier dark sinks to the bottom of the lake and the lighter light floats at the top. The is why it is called light.
Finally, we must prove that dark is faster than light. If you were to stand in a lit room in front of a closed, dark closet, and slowly opened the closet door, you would see the light slowly enter the closet. But since dark is so fast, you would not be able to see the dark leave the closet.
Next time you see an electric bulb, remember that it is a Dark Sucker.
There is no set method for playing the game. Like Starcraft, once you get a couple of basic units out then it's all up to the player to control their fate. You don't even need a large army to overwhelm your foe if you can manage a few units intelligently.
I mean as in they have made the game short to medium term only, they have compleatly killed ANY hope of a long term game (resources go away to fast).
The game is pretty much a forced rush. Either you rush or you run out of resources, oh joy.
What, so it stopped sucking sometime in the last few weeks between when the closed the beta and when the game code was shipped?
I mean it sucked last time/I/ played it, and even my hard core blizzard buddies agree.
(I do mean HC though, as in waaaaay to big of fans of the company for sanities sake, really freaky line fans of Blizzard. They say it sucks.)
You want a review of the game? Ok here you go;
It Stinks. Period. Tada. End.
Looks great though.:)
Actualy it is like enjoyable for the first few days, but it has NO staying powering. Definatly NOT another StarCraft. Blizzard has limited the games playability to the point where they FORCE YOU to play Their Way.
Well yes, but the term Homeless refers to a person with out a legaly acknowledged (long term?) residence. Technically anyplace a person stays at is home, but that is semantics. ;p
All I was trying to do was yell at whoever the original poster was that it was important to learn that people who live in places many would consider 'uninhabitable" are now some low life filth who are not worthy or a story, but rather can be perfectly fine and intelligent individuals who just hit upon some tough times.
I think that 'human interest' stories like this one (which, BTW, had my full attention all the way through, some of the writing style was rather amateurish, but overall it was, ick, I feel so dirty saying "a very good article" More then an article when it is about real people.:( ) are important to remind people of the intelligence and even pride of those who may very well be technically homeless. Anybody who has the willpower and industriousness to build their own abode out of spares and scrapes often times salvages from what people throw away are discard, is somebody who is not to be looked over, but somebody who is to be given at least a second look.
(heya, do I win some sort of run on sentence award there?:D )
1- You made it sound as though multiple desktops was already IMPLEMENTED in Windows. Implementation of a feature in an OS/Gui is usually when the vendor makes it easily accessable, or provides it WITHOUT the necessity of a third-party vendor.
See, what we had here was a communications break down. You are used to Open Source stuff where implementation means there is a button to be pushed, button is pushed, nothing happens, so the user goes into a config file, tweaks some strings, saves, goes to panel, pushs button, nothing happens, user goes and edits a few more stings, pushs button, and something happens.
Now you see that is all the same on Windows, it is just that our Button Pushing Panel has its backend laid down by Microsoft, who then sells off 800 page tomes of API explanation to developers who then to get develope the front end of the Button Pushing Panel, which is then sold to the end user,
who then gets the opporutnity to tweak strings.
:D
I do not believe Windows does this. It might have the back-end for the functionality, but it does not make it available in an accessible manner.
But yah, as I said, in Windows world something is considered 'implemented' when it is documented in some API guide or another.
Actualy I do believe that at once point or another in time it WAS standard fair on windows, but nobody bothered to use it so the feature was dropped and made an optional add on at the OEM/Hardware Manufacturers level. As it is most video cards ship with the underlying system in place (or at least they did a few years ago when I last bought a video card. . ..) and installing the functionality for it otherwise is just a few seconds away for any user anyways (only a gazzilion and one freeware tools to do this exist, the best of which I saw awhile back offers unlimited desktops in any direction and a nifety little uber zoomed out display to scroll around them all, hehe. Rather nifty. ^_^ )
Now I just wish that we would get some decent ANIMATED desktops, ugh. I saw that on a Linux machine YEARS ago, ick. (Active Desktop can do this, but NOBODY uses Active Desktop for anything, heh. It actualy has a good deal of potential, highly under exploited though, could have something to do with it being a buggy piece of crash prone shitware. . ..)
Poster assumed I did not know WTF "multiple" desktops mean, I know what the term means, and I know what application switching is.
For crying out fucking loud, if a person is sitting on/. discussing driver details of a video card, then take the common friggin courtisy of assuming that the person knows what some rather basic terms mean. I know that X can do multiple desktops, I have used it and I realize it is a superior implementation to the rather hackney jobs that are around for Windows, there is no reason to start talking down to me like I am some fool who doesn't know what the anykey is.
Desktop switching means you press a key-combo and it switches you to an entirely different desktop. Yep, that's right. The applications you see, the icons on the desktop, the wallpaper, etc. can all change. (Or not, depending on what your settings are.) Application switching merely allows you to switch between windows, and does not give you any extra screen real estate at all.
No Shit Sherlock.
Now let me repeat myself.
WINDOWS HAS HAD THAT SINCE VERSION 3.1
It just is not advertised / made accessable to the user through the regular GUI. Then again Windows has also had alpha blending since 1999, also not accessible through the normal GUI.::sighs::
I wholeheartedly agree that people should be able to run 'low-bandwith' daemons--provided they stay low bandwith. The problem is that 95% of your cable company's customers haven't heard of sshd, 4.9% have, and.1% actually want to run an sshd server. Sorry, you're not in the target market.
You honestly think the cable company is going to give a fuck if you are running some low bandwidth service? Hell no, they only start bitching some some kid starts up a WarezFTP that is maxing out his cap 24/7.
Companies are about money, as long as you are not using more Bandwidth then you are paying for, they don't give a fuck, they are still making money off of you.
But the TOS says No Servers because it is easier to shush up the whiners that way (see, we said unconditionaly NO SERVERS, no if ands or buts) and ensures that there aren't any (many) loop holes.
Yeah. Switching between desktops under x-window is just a key-command away,
Not to be an ass or anything;
but Windows has had this since 3.1. No idea as to WhyTF MS hasn't advertised the shit out of it, I got a little program to do that under Windows 3.1 from SuperCity(name? They went outa business awhile back, service sucked) along with some other tools and utlities after they f*cked up my computer 3 or 4 times in a row. (luckily shortly after that I learned how to f*ck up my own computer, err, I mean repair. Yah thats the word)
Next week: They're going to explore the woods on the side of the highway with nothing more than a flashlight and a scimitar. Nobody knows whats there....
You'd be surprised.
Been done, minus scimitar. Some homeless person had actualy built themselves a shelter there complete with a crank radio. Rather elaberate, stairs and all. Cloths line and such as well.
At the very least, it is a good lesson to learn, Homeless does not mean stupid or unmotivated.
Oh, and is it just me, or is the author the most condescending fucker on the face of the planet?
Actualy I would say the ten dozen people making jokes about bums in this discussion are.
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TCPA will only matter if it reaches critical mass, but people (and corporations) will have little incentive to upgrade their hardware AND their software just to run Longhorn/Palladium unless they can't do something critical without it.
This is a good theory and all, but remember, companies keep on upgrading their secretaries copy of Windows NT even though NT4 can do everything that they need (type up documents).
Why?
::shrugs:: I have yet to figure this one out, I have so far just gotten to talk to the tech guys who are stuck installing Office{whatever}, and they have no idea why, it is just the latest "policy".
Heck even the local school district is trying to upgrade to WindowsXP, never mind that they where unable to complete their transition to Windows2K due to insufficent hardware (minimum internal district requirement for upgrades was a Pentium class machine, but they where not able to scrounge enough of them up).
They keep on paying for the latest version of Office though (WHHHY???), even just for teaching students typing with. . ..
That, and remember that a lot of PCs are donated, if some company donates a few hundred new tcpa PCs per school to major cities around the US over the course of a few years. . . . ick. Or to public libraries, or any other such place.
Somebody gets used to using Win2004 at school, goes home, what type of PC do you think they are going to want to buy? That is right, Win2004! Microsoft has known this for quite some time, as has Apple, but Apple dropped the ball on donations to schools, heh.
As for me? Fuck it, I'd go to Macs first. Sheez. (uh, steve jobs ain't in on this too is he?)
WHY THE HELL the US has NOT YET placed blocks against US companies selling technology to commie countries?
Ugh. This is getting annoying.
::insert standard line about MS software being so insecure that it is a good thing the commies will be running it::
I [i]so[/i] hope that the CIA/NSA/Whatever are behind this and shoving security holes in all the pertinent software sold to the commies, maybe then for once they would actually be doing their [i]job[/i] instead of working on spying on us the U.S. people. . ..
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the way you write, it looks like you need to have a nuclear engineering PhD to know that 19:00 is 7pm.
Most people* cannot convert between the two times at all and have no idea how to.
*in my experience, depends on environment I would guess.
Ok, cool, whatever. I have no idea what GMT is in relationship to anything (well I guess I do now but it relies on me remembering)
Remembering where I am in relationship to GMT is.
Hey, you had to guess too, hehe. When in a hurry, easier to just type in another address.
I have gotten so I can convert between 24hr and 12hr time with relative ease (if under 12, no converstion neccisary, if over 12, just minus 12)
I stopped using them after they went from PST to GMT. (I am in PST, easier for me just to use a US government site then convert from 24hr to 12 hour and then from GMT to PST)
Feh, I went an entire year awhile back without posting at all and I am still up there.
::shrugs:: most days likely less!
I only spend ~30-45 minutes on the site a day tops.
This is nothing compared to the old BBSs where tons of posts where made on a daily basis, 25-50 posts a day was easy.
Do you have over 1000 [slashdot.org] comments? Why Not?
/. 'lost' 200 or so of my comments. :-D
I'd have more then you, but a few years back
I am surprised nobody has posted the "Dark Suckers" joke in response to this yet.
Screw it, here it is
For years, it has been believed that electric bulbs emit light, but recent information has proved otherwise. Electric bulbs don't emit light; they suck dark. Thus, we call these bulbs Dark Suckers. The Dark Sucker Theory and the existence of dark suckers prove that dark has mass and is heavier than light.
First, the basis of the Dark Sucker Theory is that electric bulbs suck dark. For example, take the Dark Sucker in the room you are in. There is much less dark right next to it than there is elsewhere. The larger the Dark Sucker, the greater its capacity to suck dark. Dark Suckers in the parking lot have a much greater capacity to suck dark than the ones in this room.
So with all things, Dark Suckers don't last forever. Once they are full of dark, they can no longer suck. This is proven by the dark spot on a full Dark Sucker.
A candle is a primitive Dark Sucker. A new candle has a white wick. You can see that after the first use, the wick turns black, representing all the dark that has been sucked into it. If you put a pencil next to the wick of an operating candle, it will turn black. This is because it got in the way of the dark flowing into the candle. One of the disadvantages of these primitive Dark Suckers is their limited range.
There are also portable Dark Suckers. In these, the bulbs can't handle all the dark by themselves and must be aided by a Dark Storage Unit. When the Dark Storage Unit is full, it must be either emptied or replaced before the portable Dark Sucker can operate again.
Dark has mass. When dark goes into a Dark Sucker, friction from the mass generates heat. Thus, it is not wise to touch an operating Dark Sucker. Candles present a special problem as the mass must travel into a solid wick instead of through clear glass. This generates a great amount of heat and therefore it's not wise to touch an operating candle.
Also, dark is heavier than light. If you were to swim just below the surface of the lake, you would see a lot of light. If you were to slowly swim deeper and deeper, you would notice it getting darker and darker. When you get really deep, you would be in total darkness. This is because the heavier dark sinks to the bottom of the lake and the lighter light floats at the top. The is why it is called light.
Finally, we must prove that dark is faster than light. If you were to stand in a lit room in front of a closed, dark closet, and slowly opened the closet door, you would see the light slowly enter the closet. But since dark is so fast, you would not be able to see the dark leave the closet.
Next time you see an electric bulb, remember that it is a Dark Sucker.
'Stolen' from here
and of course for every good Hoax theory that has to be an expository page going into more depth.
Which can be found here
Please explain what "their way" is.
There is no set method for playing the game. Like Starcraft, once you get a couple of basic units out then it's all up to the player to control their fate. You don't even need a large army to overwhelm your foe if you can manage a few units intelligently.
I mean as in they have made the game short to medium term only, they have compleatly killed ANY hope of a long term game (resources go away to fast).
The game is pretty much a forced rush. Either you rush or you run out of resources, oh joy.
What, so it stopped sucking sometime in the last few weeks between when the closed the beta and when the game code was shipped?
/I/ played it, and even my hard core blizzard buddies agree.
:)
I mean it sucked last time
(I do mean HC though, as in waaaaay to big of fans of the company for sanities sake, really freaky line fans of Blizzard. They say it sucks.)
You want a review of the game? Ok here you go;
It Stinks. Period. Tada. End.
Looks great though.
Actualy it is like enjoyable for the first few days, but it has NO staying powering. Definatly NOT another StarCraft. Blizzard has limited the games playability to the point where they FORCE YOU to play Their Way.
And it sucks. Period.
Consumer CDR and CDRW media has a shoddy shelf life. From ~5 years (or less!) for cheap media to up to 20 years tops for the good stuff.
Some companies have bragged about archival CDRs which will last ~100 years, but even so. . . .
Well yes, but the term Homeless refers to a person with out a legaly acknowledged (long term?) residence. Technically anyplace a person stays at is home, but that is semantics.
:( ) are important to remind people of the intelligence and even pride of those who may very well be technically homeless. Anybody who has the willpower and industriousness to build their own abode out of spares and scrapes often times salvages from what people throw away are discard, is somebody who is not to be looked over, but somebody who is to be given at least a second look.
:D )
;p
All I was trying to do was yell at whoever the original poster was that it was important to learn that people who live in places many would consider 'uninhabitable" are now some low life filth who are not worthy or a story, but rather can be perfectly fine and intelligent individuals who just hit upon some tough times.
I think that 'human interest' stories like this one (which, BTW, had my full attention all the way through, some of the writing style was rather amateurish, but overall it was, ick, I feel so dirty saying "a very good article" More then an article when it is about real people.
(heya, do I win some sort of run on sentence award there?
1- You made it sound as though multiple desktops was already IMPLEMENTED in Windows. Implementation of a feature in an OS/Gui is usually when the vendor makes it easily accessable, or provides it WITHOUT the necessity of a third-party vendor.
.) and installing the functionality for it otherwise is just a few seconds away for any user anyways (only a gazzilion and one freeware tools to do this exist, the best of which I saw awhile back offers unlimited desktops in any direction and a nifety little uber zoomed out display to scroll around them all, hehe. Rather nifty. ^_^ )
.)
See, what we had here was a communications break down. You are used to Open Source stuff where implementation means there is a button to be pushed, button is pushed, nothing happens, so the user goes into a config file, tweaks some strings, saves, goes to panel, pushs button, nothing happens, user goes and edits a few more stings, pushs button, and something happens.
Now you see that is all the same on Windows, it is just that our Button Pushing Panel has its backend laid down by Microsoft, who then sells off 800 page tomes of API explanation to developers who then to get develope the front end of the Button Pushing Panel, which is then sold to the end user,
who then gets the opporutnity to tweak strings.
:D
I do not believe Windows does this. It might have the back-end for the functionality, but it does not make it available in an accessible manner.
But yah, as I said, in Windows world something is considered 'implemented' when it is documented in some API guide or another.
Actualy I do believe that at once point or another in time it WAS standard fair on windows, but nobody bothered to use it so the feature was dropped and made an optional add on at the OEM/Hardware Manufacturers level. As it is most video cards ship with the underlying system in place (or at least they did a few years ago when I last bought a video card. . .
Now I just wish that we would get some decent ANIMATED desktops, ugh. I saw that on a Linux machine YEARS ago, ick. (Active Desktop can do this, but NOBODY uses Active Desktop for anything, heh. It actualy has a good deal of potential, highly under exploited though, could have something to do with it being a buggy piece of crash prone shitware. . .
Poster assumed I did not know WTF "multiple" desktops mean, I know what the term means, and I know what application switching is.
/. discussing driver details of a video card, then take the common friggin courtisy of assuming that the person knows what some rather basic terms mean. I know that X can do multiple desktops, I have used it and I realize it is a superior implementation to the rather hackney jobs that are around for Windows, there is no reason to start talking down to me like I am some fool who doesn't know what the anykey is.
For crying out fucking loud, if a person is sitting on
Actualy, on one more note, darn nearly every video card used to ship with progies to do this, but people got tired of it. I mean seriously now, why?
:)
Royal pain in the arse if you ask me, having to keep track of so many screens.
Desktop switching means you press a key-combo and it switches you to an entirely different desktop. Yep, that's right. The applications you see, the icons on the desktop, the wallpaper, etc. can all change. (Or not, depending on what your settings are.) Application switching merely allows you to switch between windows, and does not give you any extra screen real estate at all.
::sighs::
No Shit Sherlock.
Now let me repeat myself.
WINDOWS HAS HAD THAT SINCE VERSION 3.1
It just is not advertised / made accessable to the user through the regular GUI. Then again Windows has also had alpha blending since 1999, also not accessible through the normal GUI.
I wholeheartedly agree that people should be able to run 'low-bandwith' daemons--provided they stay low bandwith. The problem is that 95% of your cable company's customers haven't heard of sshd, 4.9% have, and .1% actually want to run an sshd server. Sorry, you're not in the target market.
You honestly think the cable company is going to give a fuck if you are running some low bandwidth service? Hell no, they only start bitching some some kid starts up a WarezFTP that is maxing out his cap 24/7.
Companies are about money, as long as you are not using more Bandwidth then you are paying for, they don't give a fuck, they are still making money off of you.
But the TOS says No Servers because it is easier to shush up the whiners that way (see, we said unconditionaly NO SERVERS, no if ands or buts) and ensures that there aren't any (many) loop holes.
NAT is a pain in the ass, at least the Linksys 'solutions' that I so often get called in to fix are.
(I hear other manufacturers do not blow quite as much)
I find it much easier just to pay the damn $3 a month, yeesh. Considering what Static IPs USED to be at. . . . $3 a month is darn cheap!
Yeah. Switching between desktops under x-window is just a key-command away,
Not to be an ass or anything;
but Windows has had this since 3.1. No idea as to WhyTF MS hasn't advertised the shit out of it, I got a little program to do that under Windows 3.1 from SuperCity(name? They went outa business awhile back, service sucked) along with some other tools and utlities after they f*cked up my computer 3 or 4 times in a row. (luckily shortly after that I learned how to f*ck up my own computer, err, I mean repair. Yah thats the word)
Doesn't that qualify as a home?
So what if they say he doesn't own it? So what if they say he doesn't have a right to be there? His home was, as you say, complete with a crank radio.
Perhaps, just perhaps, that person lived a life of much less stress than there rest of us, even if they didn't have running water or a microwave.
The way I see it, they had a home. They call it Earth.
Dude, lesson, next time reread post before you go off shouting at somebody who is agreeing with your stance, k?
That my site loads in under 5 seconds on most dial up connection, and that I soon plan on vastly enlarging it, but keeping the load times the same.
(Every page is also run though TidyHTML before I upload it, ensuring that every last little byte is cut off of it.)
I have entire image galleries smaller then single images on some websites. ^_^
Next week: They're going to explore the woods on the side of the highway with nothing more than a flashlight and a scimitar. Nobody knows whats there....
You'd be surprised.
Been done, minus scimitar. Some homeless person had actualy built themselves a shelter there complete with a crank radio. Rather elaberate, stairs and all. Cloths line and such as well.
At the very least, it is a good lesson to learn, Homeless does not mean stupid or unmotivated.
Oh, and is it just me, or is the author the most condescending fucker on the face of the planet?
Actualy I would say the ten dozen people making jokes about bums in this discussion are.
TCPA will only matter if it reaches critical mass, but people (and corporations) will have little incentive to upgrade their hardware AND their software just to run Longhorn/Palladium unless they can't do something critical without it.
.
This is a good theory and all, but remember, companies keep on upgrading their secretaries copy of Windows NT even though NT4 can do everything that they need (type up documents).
Why?
::shrugs:: I have yet to figure this one out, I have so far just gotten to talk to the tech guys who are stuck installing Office{whatever}, and they have no idea why, it is just the latest "policy".
Heck even the local school district is trying to upgrade to WindowsXP, never mind that they where unable to complete their transition to Windows2K due to insufficent hardware (minimum internal district requirement for upgrades was a Pentium class machine, but they where not able to scrounge enough of them up).
They keep on paying for the latest version of Office though (WHHHY???), even just for teaching students typing with. . .
That, and remember that a lot of PCs are donated, if some company donates a few hundred new tcpa PCs per school to major cities around the US over the course of a few years. . . . ick. Or to public libraries, or any other such place.
Somebody gets used to using Win2004 at school, goes home, what type of PC do you think they are going to want to buy? That is right, Win2004! Microsoft has known this for quite some time, as has Apple, but Apple dropped the ball on donations to schools, heh.
As for me? Fuck it, I'd go to Macs first. Sheez.
(uh, steve jobs ain't in on this too is he?)
WHY THE HELL the US has NOT YET placed blocks against US companies selling technology to commie countries?
.
Ugh. This is getting annoying.
::insert standard line about MS software being so insecure that it is a good thing the commies will be running it::
I [i]so[/i] hope that the CIA/NSA/Whatever are behind this and shoving security holes in all the pertinent software sold to the commies, maybe then for once they would actually be doing their [i]job[/i] instead of working on spying on us the U.S. people. . .
Annoying.
Personal freedom?
.
Uhhhh. . .
::looks at christian fundies::
Heh.
Yaaaah, suuuuure.