Suburban neighborhoods of Jerusalem may not have been critical to the US Armed Forces. But they might have been critical to the strategic situation of the war; I remember watching Netenyahu on CNN, (before he was elected), and how pissed off he was at America for suggesting that Isreal should just "stay out of it" even when Iraq was launching missiles at them. That war could have escalated in a very nasty direction had it not been for the presence of the Patriots, whether they were effective scudbusters or not.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
"John Wayne was a fag" "he was too you boys" "a few years ago, I was doing this contracting job, installing two-way mirrors in his house, and he came to the door wearing a dress"
(from Repo Man - one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies of all time)
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
It's not just appearance! In fact, I think I look a bit less dorky with glasses. It's just that I can't wear contacts (dry eyes, cronic eye infections), and that Glasses are getting pretty old. They get bent, they get scratched, they fog, they slide off my face when I'm mountain biking, they get greasy when I sweat in the summer, they get lost, they're fscking expensive (over 10 years, it's CHEAPER to get the surgery). I can't wake up in the morning and see my wife's face clearly, I can't go swimming, and recognize people poolside, I can't read in bed laying on my side.
In short, they're a big huge fscking pain in the ass! I'm sick of them, and I've been waiting for Retinax since Star Trek III. This surgery is just as good.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
I used to own an Impala with that piece of crap engine. It was in the shop more than my neighbor's MG. And for a car of that weight, it was about HALF the power it needed. The person who decided that this piece of soggy diarreah should be put in the Impala ought to be shot. Maybe in a Cavalier.
It's like the original Celeron chip, the one with NO L2 cache at all.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Our IT guy figued out after about a week of complaints (when I was in Chicago), that our local BDC had froze, and every person with NT would take like 5 minutes to boot because we were synching to Orlando.
But then again, after this IT guy quit, and we had NOBODY watching the NT machines for two weeks, we had not one single network failure. Before he left, about twice a week, something would get fucked up. He'd reboot boxes at lunch time, just because. There was another time when he jiggled a SCSI cable, just to check it out, and the RAID array went down, and took 4 hours to bring back on line. I pity the people he's working for now.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Ha! NT workstation (4 SP5) on a 486 33 with 12 megs of RAM! (used to test-case slow machines > the software will behave thusly if a customer loads our software on a machine below what we recommend are minimum HW requirements). It boots in 8 minutes, give or take.
We'd have 16 megs in the sucker if the 4th RAM slot wasn't bad. We couldn't get it to boot on a 486sx 25. I'm not sure but I think NT just plain wont run on an SX chip. I think it requires a DX. Anybody got a 486 DX 25?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
hm. Maybe I should change MY name to Anonymous Coward, because it seems like all the people who come onto slashdot and say that their NT servers have these unbelievable uptimes are Anonymous Cowards.
So I'm changing my name to A.C., and maybe, just maybe, I can make it through the day without a BSOD on my desktop machine, just like all these other Anonymous Cowards.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Yeah, I was pretty pissed off when we bought Norton Tools for NT for a flaky machine in the lab, it kept doing Diskcheck every time we rebooted, so we wanted to use a different tool to do the disk checking while the server was "up".
Turns out, Norton CAN'T do a disk doctor on NT while NT is up, (like it can for 95/98 and Mac), all it does is reboot the machine and do a diskcheck. IMNSHO, that's retarded.
At least it defrags - a file system that supposedly never gets fragmentation, haw haw!
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
The only thing I could want from my palm is wireless synch and internet access, well, the Palm VII has that covered, don't it. In that case, the only thing the Palm needs is; a more reasonable price-tag. (if they could synch with that Apple AirPort thing, then THAT would be cookin' with gas!)
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Well, that several thousands $$$ is an investment in a multi-purpose entertainment device.
It's already well demonstrated that the average consumer is more than willing to shell out this kind of $$ for home entertainment.
It's also well demonstrated that the average consumer is NOT willing to shell out this kind of $$ for a computer, internet access be damned. Hence, $400 computers.
When PSX II comes out, the PC is toast, my friend.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Oh, come on, don't you remember last year, the commercials where the guy's gotta finish the spreadsheet before the gas truck crashes into his office, and only an AMD CPU is fast enough?
Too bad AMD isn't doing that stuff now. Too bad Compaq isn't doing that stuff now. Too bad Motorola isn't doing that stuff now.
Because you can always out-fud any claims of superior performance by saying that the benchmark's whacked. And if they use YOUR favorite benchmark, you can then say that benchmarking in general is whacked.
The side with the biggest FUD wins.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
If the machine has it's own temperature sensor, what's to stop someone from putting the machine in the shade, or blowing cold air (or liquid nitrogen) on the sensor.
On the other hand, if the machine is internet connected, and goes to a weather database to download what is supposed to be temperature information. . .
But in some areas, temperature varies by location, like in LA, you can drive 10 minutes and reach a higher elevation, or go behind some hills, and you're 10 degrees cooler.
Next thing you know, McDonalds will be charging $2 for a hamburger at 5pm, and $.50 after 8pm. Gee, this isn't any different from the electric company charging more for electricity just because it's Winter, or phone companies charging less for off-peak hours. Or Airlines charging more for, well, what appears to me to be collusion.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Let's all go see "The Messenger" this weekend in support of our French brothers and sisters!
Eat French Bread with French Fries and French Toast covered with French's Mustard and French Dressing, and let's give the California Wine a break this time, okay?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Well, just like ultra-right-wing conservative Christians judge all of those people of color based on the bad actions of a few, there are those out there who will judge all Christians by the few Pat Buchanans of the world.
Ever hear the phrase "bear a cross"? It could be worse. Christians used to get thrown to the lions.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Are you sure translating an official document from French to English isn't against the law? Expect French Foreign Legion troopers outside your door at any moment!
You would think they would prefer an operating system that was designed in France, by Frenchmen, and whose native language is French, and can't be localized to other languages.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Well, if you remember the American release of Akira, they hyped the hell out of it, and because of the piss-poor shitty-ass job of dubbing, (the American voice "actors" made it sound like a Scooby-Doo episode)(IMNSHO), it sucked at the box office. Even Anime fans hated it (of course, they all had a subtitled or japaneese version at home on VHS anyway).
I don't suppose they want to repeat a gamble like that, regardless of Mr. Gaiman's passion.
I might make the round trip to SF to go see it. . . (only 8 hours including the movie)
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
I was already under the influence of other stuff to begin with, (why else would one pop a moth into one's pipe?) so I can't provide an objective opinion. It did make a popping sound tho. ..
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
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Suburban neighborhoods of Jerusalem may not have been critical to the US Armed Forces. But they might have been critical to the strategic situation of the war; I remember watching Netenyahu on CNN, (before he was elected), and how pissed off he was at America for suggesting that Isreal should just "stay out of it" even when Iraq was launching missiles at them. That war could have escalated in a very nasty direction had it not been for the presence of the Patriots, whether they were effective scudbusters or not.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
A friend who worked as a consultant in Chicago said his client's network was named after famous Chicago pizza joints;
Gino
Uno
Due
Connie
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
"John Wayne was a fag"
"he was too you boys"
"a few years ago, I was doing this contracting job, installing two-way mirrors in his house, and he came to the door wearing a dress"
(from Repo Man - one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies of all time)
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
It's not just appearance! In fact, I think I look a bit less dorky with glasses. It's just that I can't wear contacts (dry eyes, cronic eye infections), and that Glasses are getting pretty old. They get bent, they get scratched, they fog, they slide off my face when I'm mountain biking, they get greasy when I sweat in the summer, they get lost, they're fscking expensive (over 10 years, it's CHEAPER to get the surgery). I can't wake up in the morning and see my wife's face clearly, I can't go swimming, and recognize people poolside, I can't read in bed laying on my side.
In short, they're a big huge fscking pain in the ass! I'm sick of them, and I've been waiting for Retinax since Star Trek III. This surgery is just as good.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Cybil (multi-boot machine; Cybil1, Cybil2, Cybil3)
Ice9 (obvious)
Rastamon
Gump
Rocinante (my only Linux box)
Ciguri
(bonus to anyone who can tell me where Ciguri comes from - hint, it proves that I was only kidding about my anti-French tirade)
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
I used to own an Impala with that piece of crap engine. It was in the shop more than my neighbor's MG. And for a car of that weight, it was about HALF the power it needed. The person who decided that this piece of soggy diarreah should be put in the Impala ought to be shot. Maybe in a Cavalier.
It's like the original Celeron chip, the one with NO L2 cache at all.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Well, Rob KNOWS I'm not some Steve Barkhto.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
good point. Then CO2 from a fire extinguisher. Or dry ice.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Our IT guy figued out after about a week of complaints (when I was in Chicago), that our local BDC had froze, and every person with NT would take like 5 minutes to boot because we were synching to Orlando.
But then again, after this IT guy quit, and we had NOBODY watching the NT machines for two weeks, we had not one single network failure. Before he left, about twice a week, something would get fucked up. He'd reboot boxes at lunch time, just because. There was another time when he jiggled a SCSI cable, just to check it out, and the RAID array went down, and took 4 hours to bring back on line. I pity the people he's working for now.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Ha! NT workstation (4 SP5) on a 486 33 with 12 megs of RAM! (used to test-case slow machines > the software will behave thusly if a customer loads our software on a machine below what we recommend are minimum HW requirements). It boots in 8 minutes, give or take.
We'd have 16 megs in the sucker if the 4th RAM slot wasn't bad.
We couldn't get it to boot on a 486sx 25. I'm not sure but I think NT just plain wont run on an SX chip. I think it requires a DX. Anybody got a 486 DX 25?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
hm. Maybe I should change MY name to Anonymous Coward, because it seems like all the people who come onto slashdot and say that their NT servers have these unbelievable uptimes are Anonymous Cowards.
So I'm changing my name to A.C., and maybe, just maybe, I can make it through the day without a BSOD on my desktop machine, just like all these other Anonymous Cowards.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Yeah, I was pretty pissed off when we bought Norton Tools for NT for a flaky machine in the lab, it kept doing Diskcheck every time we rebooted, so we wanted to use a different tool to do the disk checking while the server was "up".
Turns out, Norton CAN'T do a disk doctor on NT while NT is up, (like it can for 95/98 and Mac), all it does is reboot the machine and do a diskcheck.
IMNSHO, that's retarded.
At least it defrags - a file system that supposedly never gets fragmentation, haw haw!
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
now, Elite would be TITS!
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
"what the palm needs is. . ."
Nothing. Come on.
The only thing I could want from my palm is wireless synch and internet access, well, the Palm VII has that covered, don't it.
In that case, the only thing the Palm needs is; a more reasonable price-tag.
(if they could synch with that Apple AirPort thing, then THAT would be cookin' with gas!)
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
shit blue oil all over the rug.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Well, that several thousands $$$ is an investment in a multi-purpose entertainment device.
It's already well demonstrated that the average consumer is more than willing to shell out this kind of $$ for home entertainment.
It's also well demonstrated that the average consumer is NOT willing to shell out this kind of $$ for a computer, internet access be damned. Hence, $400 computers.
When PSX II comes out, the PC is toast, my friend.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Oh, come on, don't you remember last year, the commercials where the guy's gotta finish the spreadsheet before the gas truck crashes into his office, and only an AMD CPU is fast enough?
Too bad AMD isn't doing that stuff now.
Too bad Compaq isn't doing that stuff now.
Too bad Motorola isn't doing that stuff now.
Because you can always out-fud any claims of superior performance by saying that the benchmark's whacked. And if they use YOUR favorite benchmark, you can then say that benchmarking in general is whacked.
The side with the biggest FUD wins.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Okay, this is a really, really stupid idea.
If the machine has it's own temperature sensor, what's to stop someone from putting the machine in the shade, or blowing cold air (or liquid nitrogen) on the sensor.
On the other hand, if the machine is internet connected, and goes to a weather database to download what is supposed to be temperature information. . .
But in some areas, temperature varies by location, like in LA, you can drive 10 minutes and reach a higher elevation, or go behind some hills, and you're 10 degrees cooler.
Next thing you know, McDonalds will be charging $2 for a hamburger at 5pm, and $.50 after 8pm. Gee, this isn't any different from the electric company charging more for electricity just because it's Winter, or phone companies charging less for off-peak hours. Or Airlines charging more for, well, what appears to me to be collusion.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Let's all go see "The Messenger" this weekend in support of our French brothers and sisters!
Eat French Bread with French Fries and French Toast covered with French's Mustard and French Dressing, and let's give the California Wine a break this time, okay?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Well, just like ultra-right-wing conservative Christians judge all of those people of color based on the bad actions of a few, there are those out there who will judge all Christians by the few Pat Buchanans of the world.
Ever hear the phrase "bear a cross"? It could be worse. Christians used to get thrown to the lions.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Never mind this thermodynamics hogwash -
where did the virus come from?
If the new species of man was "caused" by the virus - what caused the virus?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Are you sure translating an official document from French to English isn't against the law? Expect French Foreign Legion troopers outside your door at any moment!
You would think they would prefer an operating system that was designed in France, by Frenchmen, and whose native language is French, and can't be localized to other languages.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Well, if you remember the American release of Akira, they hyped the hell out of it, and because of the piss-poor shitty-ass job of dubbing, (the American voice "actors" made it sound like a Scooby-Doo episode)(IMNSHO), it sucked at the box office. Even Anime fans hated it (of course, they all had a subtitled or japaneese version at home on VHS anyway).
I don't suppose they want to repeat a gamble like that, regardless of Mr. Gaiman's passion.
I might make the round trip to SF to go see it. . . (only 8 hours including the movie)
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
"Was it any good? Did it make you high?"
.
I was already under the influence of other stuff to begin with, (why else would one pop a moth into one's pipe?) so I can't provide an objective opinion. It did make a popping sound tho. .
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
I once SMOKED a bug. It was a moth.
"It would shock you too, the things we used to do on grass."
-XTC, Oranges and Lemons
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".