So you got the Hosts file and didn't bother getting eDexter? I guess half of those "M$-users SuX0R, Linux d00dZ R00l3Z" trolls aren't after all.
For the uninitiated (and for those who aren't forced to use Win at work), eDexter acts as a local-only HTTP server (not accessible through the Net)which replaces the empty boxes caused by 127.0.0.1 in Hosts and stops the resulting time-outs. eDexter has its own image for the space that an ad uses. The default image is a 43-byte GIF (thin pink bar).
Better yet, it doesn't interfere with a locally-running "server" <gag, cough, choke> like IIS or MS Personal Web Server, which some of us also have to run at work. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
woof.
Of COURSE I'd rather run SuSE (even if it would get me sued), but my company wouldn't exist without closed source. And our security is almost as good as Microsoft's! Like Krusty said, don't blame me; they shove all of this money in my hand!
If it's a disability that can be avoided by someone, why the hell should taxpayers foot the bill for shear apathy?
And your above statement shows you have had no direct experience with CTS or RSI.
In the US, surgery for CTS costs no less than $3000 per hand. Only one hand will be done at a time: your other hand, if it also needs surgery, wont be operated on until you have about 80% of use back in the first hand. Recovery to 80% is about 6 weeks, so if you need both hands done, you're out of work for three months.
Can you afford surgery for one hand? Do you have insurance? Can you go three months without a paycheck? Didn't think so. Will there even be a job for you when you get back? Probably not, so how much will it cost all taxpayers to have another guy on unemployment?
Luckily, I'm in Germany (and was when CTS became my little nightmare[1]. Thanks to the health laws and insurance, I paid ZERO for the operations, had my job when I recovered, and had 80% (five weeks), then 60% (remainder of the time) of my paycheck.
woof.
[1] Speaking of nightmares, if you have CTS, you ain't getting much sleep thanks to the secondary pain it causes in your upper arms. It disappears the night after surgery because the nerves are no longer pressed. This upper arm pain indicative of later stage CTS and until the surgery has been done, you won't be sleeping much. Instead, you wake up with incredible pain that only slowly subsides when you shift yourself in a certain position on your back with your head and shoulders elevated, your arms at your sides with the elbows and wrists held at a certain, fairly relaxed angle. You will not be able to hold this position for long once you fall asleep again and you'll be back awake within an hour.
Problem: Jupiter simply doesn't have the *mass* to sustain 5.5x10e9 years of fusion. Its mass is less than 1/1000 the Sun's, and its diameter not 1/10 the Sun's.
More importantly: a bitch-slap from a passing asteroid will not "ignite" a big-ass ball of H & He. This is astrophysics, here; we're talking about 20000000000000000000000000000000kg of hydrogen, not Strike-Anywhere White-Tip kitchen matches!
Jupiter is about 1/80 the mass needed for ignition, which occurs due to heating from internal gravitational collapse.
woof.
"Ignite Jupiter", indeed! Then again, I once thought you might be able to "execute" a star simply by hitting it with a chunk of iron (see my other post on this thread.)
...the reason that the sun doesn't blow apart is the extreme gravity holds it together.
The Law of Hydrostatic Equilibrium: Within every layer [of a star], the outward force of pressure equals the inward force of gravity.
Stars must have M 0.08 Msun to fuse hydrogen.
There exists a high-mass cutoff because very high mass stars cannot attain hydrostatic equilibrium. Very high mass stars produce enormous numbers of high-energy photons (L and T are both large). Photons exert pressure on gas (an effect called radiation pressure.) Ordinarily, the effects of radiation pressure are small, but for stars with M > 60 Msun, models indicate the radiation pressure is large enough to blow the star apart.
...when [stars] run out of fuel, that outward pressure dissapears rather suddenly and everything falls back in.
When a star exhausts the supply of H (hydrogen) in its core, it becomes a giant or supergiant, depending on its mass.
Once a star has used up all the H in its core, fusion of H into He (helium) stops. The core starts to contract just as it contracted as a protostar before H fusion began. As the core contracts, it releases energy. This energy heats up the layer immediately above the contracting He core.
The layer immediately above the core becomes hot enough to initiate the fusion of hydrogen into helium.
The star now has three main layers:
(1) Helium core (inner layer): Releases energy as it shrinks in radius.
(2) Fusion shell: Releases energy as it fuses hydrogen into helium.
(3) Hydrogen envelope (outer layer): Absorbs energy, and swells greatly in size.
These swollen stars are now giants (if M 8 Msun).
Supergiants and giants with M > 0.4 Msun become hot enough to fuse He into C by the "triple alpha process", making primarily C (carbon), sometimes overshooting and making O (oxygen), and making Be (beryllium) as an intermediary product (and lots of gamma rays, too).
Once a giant or supergiant begins to fuse He in its core, it has four main layers.
Supergiants and giants with M > 3 Msun become hot enough to fuse C into heavier elements.
There is a limit to fusion: Iron (Fe).
The stages in the life of a 25 Msun star:
Hydrogen fusion lasts 7 million years
Helium fusion lasts 500,000 years
Carbon fusion lasts 600 years
Oxygen fusion lasts 6 months
Silicon fusion lasts 1 day
The star's core is now solid iron: end of the line as far as fusion is concerned.
Two choices:
(1) The star finds an alternative pressure source to maintain hydrostatic equilibrium which doesn't rely on the random thermal motions of atoms and ions; or
(2) The star collapses giving you:
a) black hole
or
b) nova/supernova
What I would give for the mod points I had 2 days ago (and didn't use since there was almost nothing worthwhile!) -- THIS IS IMPORTANT!!!
yes, I know I'm posting with +2 and with my name and this post itself isn't iportant, but the parent *IS*!!! If nothing else, I'll be able to find my post, check the parent, and reference the info in it before I write another 23 comments.
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Dear USPTO,
The stupidity of software and idea patents can be proven by the following:
...
Love,
BadDoggie
P.S. Suck a fart out of my ass.
anyone know if the Turtles are still on TV anywhere?
Running occasionally in Germany. The overdub (can you call it that for a cartoon?) is crap, as are most in Europe. Almost all of the jokes and obscure references are gone, so that it's almost like watching one of the Hasbro "cartoons" of the 80s without them actually pushing merch.
"God I love being a TURTLE!!!"
So, _are_ you a Turtle?[1]
Come on now can't we just let a guy enjoy his childhood favorites?
Childhood nothing! I started watching TMNT in college because they dropped a couple good and weird channels. I kept watching it because it was actually kinda interesting. It ain't no Rocky & Bullwinkle[2], but it was well-written and run.
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[1] Seriously obscure and old-timer reference.
[2] The BEST cartoon series EVER!
2) Legitimate-looking warning message straight out of Outlook.
3) Good social engineering
4) Own SMTP engine, so an Outlook script to warn that there's mail w/ attachments going out is useless.
5) New "method" of hiding file extension which is harder to see even if extensions are displayed.
We were all talking about this a week or two ago, but I'm too busy trying to get this pinball machine on eBay, so no time to search through old articles.
How silly of me! Yes, it's such common knowledge that most Win-users have boxen[1] and use various OSes. I'll call ma right now and tell her not to touch the XP machine before she heads over to ms.com with the Atari 800, NetBSD, OS/390 or NT box to download the patch.
Sheesh. People who use non-MS OSes or NT4/Win2K are not going to lose a lot of sleep over this one. The/.ers who *are* worried about this are the ones who don't use Win98 just for games.[2]
woof.
[1] Most non-*nix people think "Boxen" is the name of one of Santa's Reindeer.
[2] Or do parental telephone support.
I know I do. "Hackers" can sieze control if people connect to the Net. MS makes a free fix[1] available on their Web site. Like, through the Net. So eXPendable users are basically forced to play Russian Roulette when they get on-line.
Oh the fun you could have with BackOrificeXP right now... User tries to get patch, Evil haX0r-d00d shoots out a pop-up and mp3: a little Strauss music and a MsgBox reading, "I don't think I can let you do that, Dave."
woof.
[1] As opposed to that Win95 "fix" they called Win98 that you had to pay for.
I'm on a load of mailing lists, and if I don't want to receive email from certain people, it's my job to block them out
Correct, because YOU SIGNED UP FOR A LIST! You can also unsubscribe. I subscribed to NO list and it is impossible for me to unsubscribe to the spam. Furthermore, legitimate lists are rather easy to block, since they use legit headers, standard formats and usually, standard subject lines. This ain't the case with spam.
then the act of listening and processing what they say requires energy, which ultimately costs me money
Wrong again. If you want to listen, that is your choice. It does not cost you money to *hear* someone, and you are able to walk away. If you are NOT able to walk away, there are a number of harassment and assault laws which cover the subject. As you stated yourself, you can get a restraining order. Not so for spam.
Spam costs ME money. Someone else is advertising and expecting ME to pay for it. This has been made illegal in every other form (and there have been some very interesting postal fraud cases as a result). The New York State junk fax law is most likable to this situation, where costs to the advertiser are negligible and costs to the recipient are not.
You cannot legitimately and logically defend spam based on its own definition. It isn't spam if I ask for the mail, and I've never, ever asked someone to send me any sort of advertisement. Not even when they've been willing to pay me to read it. How can you logically expect me to bear the costs of advertising your scam?
Why is it that when Orrin Hatch or some other idiot Congressman wants to "Make The Internet Safe For Children (TM)", the story reads "Hatch's Latest Numbnuts Idea: Nekkid Chickflesh 10pm-5am Only", but when an equally synaptically-challenged German politician says something equally stupid and unworkable, the headline is "Germany Wants to Control Net"? The US does NOT have a monopoly on idiots in government.
You also don't seem to realise that when they're talking about pr0n in Germany, they mean hardcore, as in "penetration". There's nekkid tits on all kinds of magazines, on TV ads, on billboards.
Of course the idea is unworkable, as are most politicians' ideas whenever they wat to "protect" people from themselves. This too shall pass. Move along. Nothing to see here.
woof.
Have you ever noticed that when someone wants a restrictive law, it's always a restriction on someone else? The inevitable excuse is always that someone *else* is being "protected". You and I are smart enough and capable enough to take care of ourselvesand our families, but those other people need protection from themselves.
Your girlfriend needed 1'20" to fall down an entire course? She's a blonde, huh?
woof.
No need to mod this down (No Score +1 Bonus already); I know I'm feeding trolls when I'm replying to someone who posts here, plays Tux Racer and claims to have a girlfriend.
Actually, Star Trek was basically a way to put a lot of current affairs stories in a more palatable setting, such as Kirk kisses Uhuru or the White-on-the-Right-Side guys vs. the White-on-the-Left-Side. Not so bad if it's way off in the future. Spock Amok or whatever [1] was another. At least half the episodes were there to give Shatner a chance to kiss some hot chick in a miniskirt and go-go boots.
There was certainly some pop science, but the show wasn't leading the way or subliminally teaching the masses. Stuff like Transporters and Tricorders and Communicators were rather simple Deus-Ex-Machina methods to deal with some general problems.
"How do you land the ship?"
"Umm... you don't have to. We can kinda land the people. Hell, send 'em wherever we want them to go."
"'K."
That's not to say Star Trek didn't influence a lot of us to at least have a greater interest in science (as if the Apollo program didn't do that already!), but all you have to do is think back to some episode like the giant amoeba in the center of a black hole to realise the closest that show came to serious science or science fiction was New York Post headlines. It was an adventure-soap opera. In space. And in the future.
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[1] Yeah, I know... "Amok Time". Couldn't think of it at first, and my title's better.
Am I the only one who noticed that throughout the article, Linux was only compared to UNIX, and there wasn't a single mention of MS?
Really? I was?!
woof.
Every two weeks (max) I have to explain to some "Administrator" how to make Microsoft Clustering work with various software. I haven't ever in my life had to explain it to someone working in UNIX or Linux. Any ideas why?
Keiner hat einen Anspruch darauf, daß diese Sprache einer anderen Sprache anspruchsvoller gelegt war! Was ist mit dem Flamewar? Und die 4000+ Kommentaren? Im Namen des Herrn, dieses ist verdammt noch mal Slashdot, oder?! GIB MIR MEINE FLAMMEN (or FLAMES) ZURÜCK, DU DRECKSAU!
You're right... it does work better in German.
woof.
BTW, don't use the Fish for this. The Fish is good for getting the gist of things, but the translations themselves are unintentionally funny. Like Japanglish (Mmmmm... tasty Japanglish). If you don't believe me, try my translation in German->English mode! Bwahahahaha!
The brackets and parentheses are killing me! Make them stop!!!
"Average" adult: ~180cm high, 50cm wide, 25cm deep = 225,000cm^3.
Reduce by a fudge factor of around 20% due to empty space = 180,000cm^3.
1m^3 = 1,000,000cm^3, so 1Mcm^3/180Kcm^3 can fit about 5.5 people (only 4.4 without the fudging).
We bring in the trash compactor method of squeezing people down, knock off another 10% and we get 5 people per cubic meter. One km^3 is 1,000,000,000m^3, so you get about 5 billion people mashed into a cubic kilometer. That "factoid" may have been correct when it was first stated, but the planet's WAY past the 5 billion population mark. Check out the World POPClock Projection from the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
The thing is, while it's not too difficult to corectly imagine square kilometers (humans are good with area), we pretty much suck once volume's involved. According to some architects I know (and some others in a documentary on skyscrapers), we do have the technology to build something a kilometer high, but we ain't even close to it yet, for a lot of reasons.
The tallest we've gone so far: Shanghai World Financial Center, which isn't done yet (expected completion: 2004), and the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), which, at 1483 ft (452m), is only 10m higher than the Sears Tower in Chicago. And still not even half a kilometer high.
And there's not many buildings that have a square kilometer footprint, which would cover more than 12 streets and 6 avenues in Manhattan. That's a lot of space. Or ice.
The real reason we're so interested in this is probably because penguins live in Antarctica, which happens to be where most of the TuxRacer location shots were filmed.
woof.
There's no need to mod this as off-topic -- it's a tangent, but not unrelated. I also didn't take the +1. Save your mod points to knock off the flames, trolls, ASCII art and racist/nationalist crap which is sure to fill this story.
That made me laugh like hell... until I remembered how many people working in fields which deal with radioactive material say, "noo-kyoo-lerr".
If it makes you feel better, people from SW Ohio can generally spell "satellite", mainly because they learn real quick that you do NOT spell the town "Cincinatti".
woof.
Of course, the people of Cincinnati also believe in flying pigs, Pete Rose's sainthood, and that the green Sprite delivery van belongs in a St. Patrick's day parade. Oh, and that Budweiser and Miller Lite should be served during "Oktoberfest".
Just how much waight would indevidual comments have.
None whatsoever, when coming from people whose spelling and grammar makes Taco look like even parts OED, "Little, Brown Handbook" and "AP Style Guide".
This is not a flame, people. If you can't/don't spell correctly, your comments will be ignored. Welcome to life. It doesn't matter if English isn't your native language -- if you plan to use it in any serious or official capacity, then use it correctly.
Yeah, I follow my own advice. I work a lot harder on anything I write in German, which isn't my native language, but is the language of the country of my residence.
BTW, non-US opinions -- except those from companies doing business in the US and affected directly by the ruling -- will also be ignored. This is a call for opinions from "interested parties": those who do related and affected business and those whom the Justice Department purports to represent (i.e., US citizens).
woof.
OTOH, ThePilgrim did manage to use "affects" (verb) properly, rather than the oft-misused "effects" (noun). Accident? Subtle humo(u)r?
Rita Pearlman, if I remember right. Man that was a funny skit. Good opening
Oh jeez... you kids today. WTF is Rita Pearlman? Do you mean Rhea Perlman (Cheers), married to Danny DeVito (Taxi)? You rememer incorrectly, which means you probably don't remember life under Ma Bell, not necessarily a bad thing.
It weren't SNL, either. It was Lily Tomlin who made the character "Ernestine, the phone operator", and not only did she do it every chance she got[1], people couldn't see it enough. There's even a couple of clips on her site, http://www.lilytomlin.com/.
Your bill was wrong? Not according to their computers. Phone broken? A serviceman can be out to repair it in... ohh... how's two weeks after next Thursday sound? You paid twice for each telephone in your house (they could check using Ringer Equivalence): a pe phone/month charge and a lease charge for the phone itself. You could not use a non-Bell phone and Bell did not sell, they only leased (licensed?) equipment. Are we seeing the similarities with Microsoft yet?
Us[4] old people still like that Ma Bell character she did (still does, maybe). She could get a whole load of new (geek) fans changing only a few things around, starting with just one vowel in "Ma Bell" and saying "Microsoft" instead of "The Bell System". The break-up of AT&T pretty much did that act in, but she managed a couple post break-up sketches.
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[1] Name the lame '70s variety show, she was there, from Glen Campbell's Coury Hour to the Donny & Marie show[2]
[2] The original one, where they sang a few songs, did sketches that make current SNL not look so bad, and where Marie gave Donnie a pie-in-the-face at least once an episode[3]
[3] Except one show, where she pushed Donny *into* a giant "pie".
[4] I know it should be "We old people", but I gave up grammar for the sound of the phrase.
Giveaway as in "Reveal what's up" and not as in "Here ya go, buddy, have one on me":
"I think the numbers are quite reasonable. The applications are putting a load on us," Muglia said. "These numbers are barely covering (our costs)...We're not making money with these numbers. We want to make it as friction-free as possible to adopt this new platform."
Despite some opinions here, $250 is not a lot for a small developer to pay for a year's certification. Look at Sun's licensing scheme. I have no trouble believing MS aren't maknig a penny and may even be losing money on the scheme right now. What did IE development cost them and was it worth it to own the browser market? Lots, and yes. They're very good at this game.
Think about what's going on: MS want to make it easy for developers. They're offering low prices to get a lot of companies to accept and adopt quickly. Consider IE: "Warn if Site Certificate Invalid" and "Notify if certificate has been revoked" are standard options and default on.
Once MS can get to critical mass with.NET and their certiication, your mother-in-law is only going to use MS-certified apps. MS will control the content and the prices will then change to ensure a steady profit stream. This is fairly close to a give-away as it stands, and it meshes with the browser they give away already, and which they have set the way they want it.
Microsoft have added an "E" to their formula: Embrace, Extend, Entrench, Extinguish.
woof.
How am I ever going to beat what's-his-name's "Green Eggs and Hamlet" sig?!
Does anyone know of an E-Mail server that works under Windows?
Mailtraq. Good software. It has no trouble handling offices with 1,000 boxes and can hook up to any provider using SMTP or POP. Good rules sets, accounts, fairly easy to set up, blah blah blah. A search on Google will bring back a lot of third-party info on the software, its configuration and more.
Slashdot Mirror
2) Where's the FUFMe port!
3) D00d! With all these different ports, there's just GOTTA be a way to rip those copy-protected CDs!
woof.
Karma cap: te only way to go is down. Otherwise there's no point in writing another Score:5 post!
For the uninitiated (and for those who aren't forced to use Win at work), eDexter acts as a local-only HTTP server (not accessible through the Net)which replaces the empty boxes caused by 127.0.0.1 in Hosts and stops the resulting time-outs. eDexter has its own image for the space that an ad uses. The default image is a 43-byte GIF (thin pink bar).
Better yet, it doesn't interfere with a locally-running "server" <gag, cough, choke> like IIS or MS Personal Web Server, which some of us also have to run at work. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
woof.
Of COURSE I'd rather run SuSE (even if it would get me sued), but my company wouldn't exist without closed source. And our security is almost as good as Microsoft's! Like Krusty said, don't blame me; they shove all of this money in my hand!
And your above statement shows you have had no direct experience with CTS or RSI.
In the US, surgery for CTS costs no less than $3000 per hand. Only one hand will be done at a time: your other hand, if it also needs surgery, wont be operated on until you have about 80% of use back in the first hand. Recovery to 80% is about 6 weeks, so if you need both hands done, you're out of work for three months.
Can you afford surgery for one hand? Do you have insurance? Can you go three months without a paycheck? Didn't think so. Will there even be a job for you when you get back? Probably not, so how much will it cost all taxpayers to have another guy on unemployment?
Luckily, I'm in Germany (and was when CTS became my little nightmare[1]. Thanks to the health laws and insurance, I paid ZERO for the operations, had my job when I recovered, and had 80% (five weeks), then 60% (remainder of the time) of my paycheck.
woof.
[1] Speaking of nightmares, if you have CTS, you ain't getting much sleep thanks to the secondary pain it causes in your upper arms. It disappears the night after surgery because the nerves are no longer pressed. This upper arm pain indicative of later stage CTS and until the surgery has been done, you won't be sleeping much. Instead, you wake up with incredible pain that only slowly subsides when you shift yourself in a certain position on your back with your head and shoulders elevated, your arms at your sides with the elbows and wrists held at a certain, fairly relaxed angle. You will not be able to hold this position for long once you fall asleep again and you'll be back awake within an hour.
More importantly: a bitch-slap from a passing asteroid will not "ignite" a big-ass ball of H & He. This is astrophysics, here; we're talking about 20000000000000000000000000000000kg of hydrogen, not Strike-Anywhere White-Tip kitchen matches!
Jupiter is about 1/80 the mass needed for ignition, which occurs due to heating from internal gravitational collapse.
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"Ignite Jupiter", indeed! Then again, I once thought you might be able to "execute" a star simply by hitting it with a chunk of iron (see my other post on this thread.)
The Law of Hydrostatic Equilibrium: Within every layer [of a star], the outward force of pressure equals the inward force of gravity.
Stars must have M 0.08 Msun to fuse hydrogen.
There exists a high-mass cutoff because very high mass stars cannot attain hydrostatic equilibrium. Very high mass stars produce enormous numbers of high-energy photons (L and T are both large). Photons exert pressure on gas (an effect called radiation pressure.) Ordinarily, the effects of radiation pressure are small, but for stars with M > 60 Msun, models indicate the radiation pressure is large enough to blow the star apart.
When a star exhausts the supply of H (hydrogen) in its core, it becomes a giant or supergiant, depending on its mass.
Once a star has used up all the H in its core, fusion of H into He (helium) stops. The core starts to contract just as it contracted as a protostar before H fusion began. As the core contracts, it releases energy. This energy heats up the layer immediately above the contracting He core. The layer immediately above the core becomes hot enough to initiate the fusion of hydrogen into helium.
The star now has three main layers:
(1) Helium core (inner layer): Releases energy as it shrinks in radius.
(2) Fusion shell: Releases energy as it fuses hydrogen into helium.
(3) Hydrogen envelope (outer layer): Absorbs energy, and swells greatly in size.
These swollen stars are now giants (if M 8 Msun).
Supergiants and giants with M > 0.4 Msun become hot enough to fuse He into C by the "triple alpha process", making primarily C (carbon), sometimes overshooting and making O (oxygen), and making Be (beryllium) as an intermediary product (and lots of gamma rays, too).
Once a giant or supergiant begins to fuse He in its core, it has four main layers.
Supergiants and giants with M > 3 Msun become hot enough to fuse C into heavier elements.
There is a limit to fusion: Iron (Fe).
The stages in the life of a 25 Msun star:
Hydrogen fusion lasts 7 million years
Helium fusion lasts 500,000 years
Carbon fusion lasts 600 years
Oxygen fusion lasts 6 months
Silicon fusion lasts 1 day
The star's core is now solid iron: end of the line as far as fusion is concerned.
Two choices:
(1) The star finds an alternative pressure source to maintain hydrostatic equilibrium which doesn't rely on the random thermal motions of atoms and ions; or
(2) The star collapses giving you:
a) black hole
or
b) nova/supernova
All clear now?
woof.
citations/references:8 starrfield.html
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http://www.sciam.com/specialissues/0398cosmos/039
www-astronomy.mps.ohio-state.edu/~ryden/ast162_
cse.psc.sc.edu/hses/StarEvol/pages/reds.htm
blueox.uoregon.edu/~jimbrau/astr122/Notes/Chapt
www.imsa.edu/edu/astrophys/studentwork/inquiry/ (not as good)
yes, I know I'm posting with +2 and with my name and this post itself isn't iportant, but the parent *IS*!!! If nothing else, I'll be able to find my post, check the parent, and reference the info in it before I write another 23 comments.
woof.
Dear USPTO,
...
The stupidity of software and idea patents can be proven by the following:
Love,
BadDoggie
P.S. Suck a fart out of my ass.
Running occasionally in Germany. The overdub (can you call it that for a cartoon?) is crap, as are most in Europe. Almost all of the jokes and obscure references are gone, so that it's almost like watching one of the Hasbro "cartoons" of the 80s without them actually pushing merch.
"God I love being a TURTLE!!!"
So, _are_ you a Turtle?[1]
Come on now can't we just let a guy enjoy his childhood favorites?
Childhood nothing! I started watching TMNT in college because they dropped a couple good and weird channels. I kept watching it because it was actually kinda interesting. It ain't no Rocky & Bullwinkle[2], but it was well-written and run.
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[1] Seriously obscure and old-timer reference.
[2] The BEST cartoon series EVER!
We were all talking about this a week or two ago, but I'm too busy trying to get this pinball machine on eBay, so no time to search through old articles.
woof.
Sheesh. People who use non-MS OSes or NT4/Win2K are not going to lose a lot of sleep over this one. The /.ers who *are* worried about this are the ones who don't use Win98 just for games.[2]
woof.
[1] Most non-*nix people think "Boxen" is the name of one of Santa's Reindeer.
[2] Or do parental telephone support.
Oh the fun you could have with BackOrificeXP right now... User tries to get patch, Evil haX0r-d00d shoots out a pop-up and mp3: a little Strauss music and a MsgBox reading, "I don't think I can let you do that, Dave."
woof.
[1] As opposed to that Win95 "fix" they called Win98 that you had to pay for.
How do you forcefully urge people?
Correct, because YOU SIGNED UP FOR A LIST! You can also unsubscribe. I subscribed to NO list and it is impossible for me to unsubscribe to the spam. Furthermore, legitimate lists are rather easy to block, since they use legit headers, standard formats and usually, standard subject lines. This ain't the case with spam.
then the act of listening and processing what they say requires energy, which ultimately costs me money
Wrong again. If you want to listen, that is your choice. It does not cost you money to *hear* someone, and you are able to walk away. If you are NOT able to walk away, there are a number of harassment and assault laws which cover the subject. As you stated yourself, you can get a restraining order. Not so for spam.
Spam costs ME money. Someone else is advertising and expecting ME to pay for it. This has been made illegal in every other form (and there have been some very interesting postal fraud cases as a result). The New York State junk fax law is most likable to this situation, where costs to the advertiser are negligible and costs to the recipient are not.
You cannot legitimately and logically defend spam based on its own definition. It isn't spam if I ask for the mail, and I've never, ever asked someone to send me any sort of advertisement. Not even when they've been willing to pay me to read it. How can you logically expect me to bear the costs of advertising your scam?
A couple good links (I'm already karma-capped):
New York Law Journal (Sep. 1997!)
How to use 47 U.S.C. Section 227(b) [Telephone Consumer Protection Act] against junk faxes
woof.
This is not a sig.
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Or is that, "The only good Flashimation is a dead Flashimation." I have trouble remembering.
You also don't seem to realise that when they're talking about pr0n in Germany, they mean hardcore, as in "penetration". There's nekkid tits on all kinds of magazines, on TV ads, on billboards.
Of course the idea is unworkable, as are most politicians' ideas whenever they wat to "protect" people from themselves. This too shall pass. Move along. Nothing to see here.
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Have you ever noticed that when someone wants a restrictive law, it's always a restriction on someone else? The inevitable excuse is always that someone *else* is being "protected". You and I are smart enough and capable enough to take care of ourselvesand our families, but those other people need protection from themselves.
Your girlfriend needed 1'20" to fall down an entire course? She's a blonde, huh?
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No need to mod this down (No Score +1 Bonus already); I know I'm feeding trolls when I'm replying to someone who posts here, plays Tux Racer and claims to have a girlfriend.
There was certainly some pop science, but the show wasn't leading the way or subliminally teaching the masses. Stuff like Transporters and Tricorders and Communicators were rather simple Deus-Ex-Machina methods to deal with some general problems.
That's not to say Star Trek didn't influence a lot of us to at least have a greater interest in science (as if the Apollo program didn't do that already!), but all you have to do is think back to some episode like the giant amoeba in the center of a black hole to realise the closest that show came to serious science or science fiction was New York Post headlines. It was an adventure-soap opera. In space. And in the future.woof.
[1] Yeah, I know... "Amok Time". Couldn't think of it at first, and my title's better.
What idiot modded this a Troll?! Someone does a decent translation and it's a troll? A troll would've translated it to French!
Really? I was?!
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Every two weeks (max) I have to explain to some "Administrator" how to make Microsoft Clustering work with various software. I haven't ever in my life had to explain it to someone working in UNIX or Linux. Any ideas why?
Keiner hat einen Anspruch darauf, daß diese Sprache einer anderen Sprache anspruchsvoller gelegt war! Was ist mit dem Flamewar? Und die 4000+ Kommentaren? Im Namen des Herrn, dieses ist verdammt noch mal Slashdot, oder?! GIB MIR MEINE FLAMMEN (or FLAMES) ZURÜCK, DU DRECKSAU!
You're right... it does work better in German.
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BTW, don't use the Fish for this. The Fish is good for getting the gist of things, but the translations themselves are unintentionally funny. Like Japanglish (Mmmmm... tasty Japanglish). If you don't believe me, try my translation in German->English mode! Bwahahahaha!
The brackets and parentheses are killing me! Make them stop!!!
1m^3 = 1,000,000cm^3, so 1Mcm^3/180Kcm^3 can fit about 5.5 people (only 4.4 without the fudging).
We bring in the trash compactor method of squeezing people down, knock off another 10% and we get 5 people per cubic meter. One km^3 is 1,000,000,000m^3, so you get about 5 billion people mashed into a cubic kilometer. That "factoid" may have been correct when it was first stated, but the planet's WAY past the 5 billion population mark. Check out the World POPClock Projection from the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
The thing is, while it's not too difficult to corectly imagine square kilometers (humans are good with area), we pretty much suck once volume's involved. According to some architects I know (and some others in a documentary on skyscrapers), we do have the technology to build something a kilometer high, but we ain't even close to it yet, for a lot of reasons.
The tallest we've gone so far: Shanghai World Financial Center, which isn't done yet (expected completion: 2004), and the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), which, at 1483 ft (452m), is only 10m higher than the Sears Tower in Chicago. And still not even half a kilometer high.
And there's not many buildings that have a square kilometer footprint, which would cover more than 12 streets and 6 avenues in Manhattan. That's a lot of space. Or ice.
The real reason we're so interested in this is probably because penguins live in Antarctica, which happens to be where most of the TuxRacer location shots were filmed.
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There's no need to mod this as off-topic -- it's a tangent, but not unrelated. I also didn't take the +1. Save your mod points to knock off the flames, trolls, ASCII art and racist/nationalist crap which is sure to fill this story.
If it makes you feel better, people from SW Ohio can generally spell "satellite", mainly because they learn real quick that you do NOT spell the town "Cincinatti".
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Of course, the people of Cincinnati also believe in flying pigs, Pete Rose's sainthood, and that the green Sprite delivery van belongs in a St. Patrick's day parade. Oh, and that Budweiser and Miller Lite should be served during "Oktoberfest".
None whatsoever, when coming from people whose spelling and grammar makes Taco look like even parts OED, "Little, Brown Handbook" and "AP Style Guide".
This is not a flame, people. If you can't/don't spell correctly, your comments will be ignored. Welcome to life. It doesn't matter if English isn't your native language -- if you plan to use it in any serious or official capacity, then use it correctly.
Yeah, I follow my own advice. I work a lot harder on anything I write in German, which isn't my native language, but is the language of the country of my residence.
BTW, non-US opinions -- except those from companies doing business in the US and affected directly by the ruling -- will also be ignored. This is a call for opinions from "interested parties": those who do related and affected business and those whom the Justice Department purports to represent (i.e., US citizens).
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OTOH, ThePilgrim did manage to use "affects" (verb) properly, rather than the oft-misused "effects" (noun). Accident? Subtle humo(u)r?
Oh jeez... you kids today. WTF is Rita Pearlman? Do you mean Rhea Perlman (Cheers), married to Danny DeVito (Taxi)? You rememer incorrectly, which means you probably don't remember life under Ma Bell, not necessarily a bad thing.
It weren't SNL, either. It was Lily Tomlin who made the character "Ernestine, the phone operator", and not only did she do it every chance she got[1], people couldn't see it enough. There's even a couple of clips on her site, http://www.lilytomlin.com/.
Your bill was wrong? Not according to their computers. Phone broken? A serviceman can be out to repair it in... ohh... how's two weeks after next Thursday sound? You paid twice for each telephone in your house (they could check using Ringer Equivalence): a pe phone/month charge and a lease charge for the phone itself. You could not use a non-Bell phone and Bell did not sell, they only leased (licensed?) equipment. Are we seeing the similarities with Microsoft yet?
Us[4] old people still like that Ma Bell character she did (still does, maybe). She could get a whole load of new (geek) fans changing only a few things around, starting with just one vowel in "Ma Bell" and saying "Microsoft" instead of "The Bell System". The break-up of AT&T pretty much did that act in, but she managed a couple post break-up sketches.
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[1] Name the lame '70s variety show, she was there, from Glen Campbell's Coury Hour to the Donny & Marie show[2]
[2] The original one, where they sang a few songs, did sketches that make current SNL not look so bad, and where Marie gave Donnie a pie-in-the-face at least once an episode[3]
[3] Except one show, where she pushed Donny *into* a giant "pie".
[4] I know it should be "We old people", but I gave up grammar for the sound of the phrase.
"I think the numbers are quite reasonable. The applications are putting a load on us," Muglia said. "These numbers are barely covering (our costs)...We're not making money with these numbers. We want to make it as friction-free as possible to adopt this new platform."
Despite some opinions here, $250 is not a lot for a small developer to pay for a year's certification. Look at Sun's licensing scheme. I have no trouble believing MS aren't maknig a penny and may even be losing money on the scheme right now. What did IE development cost them and was it worth it to own the browser market? Lots, and yes. They're very good at this game.
Think about what's going on: MS want to make it easy for developers. They're offering low prices to get a lot of companies to accept and adopt quickly. Consider IE: "Warn if Site Certificate Invalid" and "Notify if certificate has been revoked" are standard options and default on.
Once MS can get to critical mass with .NET and their certiication, your mother-in-law is only going to use MS-certified apps. MS will control the content and the prices will then change to ensure a steady profit stream. This is fairly close to a give-away as it stands, and it meshes with the browser they give away already, and which they have set the way they want it.
Microsoft have added an "E" to their formula: Embrace, Extend, Entrench, Extinguish.
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How am I ever going to beat what's-his-name's "Green Eggs and Hamlet" sig?!
You kids today have it too soft.
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Mailtraq. Good software. It has no trouble handling offices with 1,000 boxes and can hook up to any provider using SMTP or POP. Good rules sets, accounts, fairly easy to set up, blah blah blah. A search on Google will bring back a lot of third-party info on the software, its configuration and more.
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