I attend UT, and the explanation I got during orientation was that UT was, at least during the cold war, the custodian of the backup computer for various defense systems. In the event that the primary computer in who-knows-where was destroyed, the computer at our school was supposed to take over.
My iBook had this problem once before, I got a box from Apple on a Tuesday, sent it that night, and got it back with a new logic board Thursday afternoon. My computer began exhibiting the same problems and I had procrastinated on sending it in because it was still slightly usable; my linux machine was dead and I couldnt stand the thought of being without a computer for a few days. My Applecare ran out a week ago, and I had been trying, but failing, to get the money together for the extra two years. I bought it in time, but messed up during the convoluted financial hijinks I had to pull to get it and the order did not go through. The Apple people have been cool about it and are giving me some slack, but it is great to know that if I fuck it up somehow and dont get the extended coverage I dont have a very expensive and unpaid for doorstop.
....but it would be too expensive to fight on Mars. Unless NASA has been doing something they haven't been telling anyone about in the area of really fast propulsion, it is going to be at the best times a long trip, and when Mars is in an unfavorable position it would take years. Plus it would be expensive if you just consider how much money it would take to move the mass of the soldiers, the mass of the weapons, and all the food and life support and rocket that it takes to get to Mars. Any fighting that breaks out up there would probably just incite war back on Earth where it is cheaper to kill people.
Zach is the way to go. Zac looks like something a child would go by. Also, finding my name is not all that big a deal, as it is in the screen grab, in the DNS registry for pulp-online.com, you can reverse DNS my IP to zachwoo.ath.cx, also (note the correct spelling of my given name), and I think is it mentioned once in one of my previous posts or posts under the el_munkie handle here or in other forums, so way to go, Sherlock.
I think the big question here is: what crawled up your ass and died? I haven't been persecuted like this since junior high.
My copy of photoshop is quite legit, asshole. Plus, there is nothing wrong with the PDF format. If you don't like it, don't click on the links I posted and go on with your life.
I have just wanted to show off the ET screengrabs to the Slashdot crowd for a while. Running an FPS over Ethernet is cool if ineffective.
I wasn't diminishing this guys achievement, I know that running ET over SSH is no more impressive, in theory, than runnning "top" over ssh. In fact, I am going to download it as soon as I get back in front of my mac.
OS X screengrabs are natively in PDF format. I didn't feel like Photoshopping the PDFs into JPEGS, and since it's hosted on my webserver, I don't particularly care how wasteful it is of bandwidth. Plus, I want to see how my Linux machine holds up against a small Slashdotting.
Check this screengrab of Konq running on OS X out.
I also figured out how to get my favotite Linux game, Enemy Territory, to run on the Mac despite the fact that a Mac version does not exist, screengrabs here and here.
Of course this was cheating since it was over X11. Konq runs acceptably, but got 1-2 fps on ET.
I work in a newspaper's photo department and there are very stict, and I think sensible guidlines about what can be published, and how. We sell reprints of photos to interested readers to suppliment the paper's income. If someone wants a print of a photo that appeared in our paper, is must have been shot by one of our photographers, otherwise, we don't have the rights to sell it individually because it came from the AP or some other wire service. The publisher has a contract with them that prohibits one paper from commercially selling another paper's photographers photos by themselves. Some newspapers allow the photographers to retain the rights to their photos, some allow them to keep the copyright but not sell the photo, and some claim ownership of anything that was shot on company time.
We can print AP photos in the paper because it's part of our contract, but the only way we could sell an image from the AP individually is if the buyer wants a reproduction of the entire page, which is copyrighted by the newspaper.
We have this where I work too. Every door into and out of and most in the building have a proxy reader. The cool thing is that I keep mine in my wallet and wave it at the reader. I don't even have to take it out.
Do you know of a way to increase the RFID's sensitivity? It would be cool if I didn't even have to take out my wallet; I could just get within 3 feet of the sensor and it would open the door for me, just like in Star Trek, but without the automation.
I tried RH 6 or 7 a few years ago on my desktop machine, but I always had trouble installing programs. Dealing with dependencies, make files, etc. was completely beyond me, and I scrapped it and returned to windows.
Then I bought a mac and began playing around with fink. I had been using various Linux machines at school and had gotten pretty competent with the command line. I really liked the fact that fink checks dependencies, downloads the files, and installs them with one command. When I was showing this off to a friend, he told me about Gentoo and I decided to give it a shot.
I learned more about UNIX-type systems in the week-long install than I had in all my previous experience. The Gentoo installation process will give anyone with half a brain a fair idea how their system works by forcing them to deal with the various config files that they would not have to otherwise deal (until something messes up) in precompiled distros. I had never compiled a kernel before Gentoo, and they made that somewhat scary sounding task easy.
While the speed of programs compiled in portage is an important factor, my desktop seems much more responsive than it was under RH or Mandrake (two other distros I tested before my recent switch to Linux), it is not the selling point for me. It is the ease of installing programs that portage brings.
Of all the cool shit in that book, the second coolest was Reason, a nuclear-powered, multi-barreled railgun with badass computer targeting.
The coolest was the nuclear powered dogs, so I assume there will be a Slashdot article tomorrow on picking up strays, extracting their brains, and putting them in supersonic-capable carapaces.
Yet when Iraq's brutal dictator recently began to cloak himself in Islamic rhetoric, it was primarily the political left in the US and Europe, who wanted to see him left in power.
I don't think that that is due to Islamic rhetoric, but who was pushing for the war in the States. The left opposed the war because Bush was for it, plain and simple. Their views were not based on compassion for the Iraqi people, otherwise they would have opposed it when Clinton attacked Iraq for the exact same reasons in 1998.
To those who think that the more recent Iraq affair is based on a pack of lies from Bush, consider this: Good evening.
Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors.
Their purpose is to protect the national interest of the United States, and indeed the interests of people throughout the Middle East and around the world.
The full transcript can be found here.This the beginning of a speech given by Bill Clinton in '98. The rest goes on to greatly resemble the case the Bush made for war on Iraq. Maybe Clinton was in on what the left thinks is a massive Republican oil-stealing conspiracy? Maybe he fabricated the evidence that led to his conclusion that Iraq had WMDs in order to help his Republican successor? Iraq had WMDs, and even used them (proof of their existence) long after it was supposed to have gotten rid of them.
Three presidents in a row have attacked Iraq. The last two have done so based on Iraq not having proven the destruction of its WMDs. Anyone who thinks that Iraq wasn't developing nasty shit does so merely to toe the party line.
Thank you for getting that axing that piece of crap IE for Mac. If you will please do the same for your other Macintosh software, we can have a utopian platform devoid of shitty code.
Seriously, though, I bought a 12" iBook not too long ago, and it came bundled with MSIE as the default browser! This was during the early days for Safari, and I would understand if Apple HAD to ship a browser, but damn.
According to NORML's website, 80 million Americans have smoked pot, that horrible life-ruining plant. Additionally, Marijuana laws are enforeced much more than those that pertain to P2P programs.
I bought my first mac a few months ago, a 12" iBook, and it has been badass. It had a catastrophic failure at one point that rendered it unable to boot. I got on the phone with Apple and they sent me a box the next day. I shipped it on a Tuesday night, waited a day, and it was waiting for me at work on Thursday with a new mobo and processor.
Apple's custormer support has impressed the hell out of me, and this will not be my last Mac.
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Personally, I think the whole thing is silly anyways, there's more important things to worry about than one's ability to get high. Besides, people will do it regardless of the law anyway.
What's at stake here is more than a persons ability to get high. Our jails are packed, and they are mostly full of people who did nothing to harm anyone and didn't steal anything, they merely smoked or were in possession of a fucking plant. This law is about not clogging jails and the justice system with casual users of marijuana. It is rare for a non-dealing pothead to have more than three ounces in his possession. Anyone caught having over three ounces will still be on the way up shit creek.
This is about priorities, and if the bill is passed, it indicates that the voters in Nevada think that it is more important to go after malignant criminals and to leave the benign ones alone.
As anyone who has ever watched The Man with the Golden Gun knows, a third nipple is considered a sign of virility in some cultures. I could sure go for one.
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I attend UT, and the explanation I got during orientation was that UT was, at least during the cold war, the custodian of the backup computer for various defense systems. In the event that the primary computer in who-knows-where was destroyed, the computer at our school was supposed to take over.
This makes Canada an ideal vacation place. I might spend Spring Break robbing Canadian banks. See ya soon.
My iBook had this problem once before, I got a box from Apple on a Tuesday, sent it that night, and got it back with a new logic board Thursday afternoon. My computer began exhibiting the same problems and I had procrastinated on sending it in because it was still slightly usable; my linux machine was dead and I couldnt stand the thought of being without a computer for a few days. My Applecare ran out a week ago, and I had been trying, but failing, to get the money together for the extra two years. I bought it in time, but messed up during the convoluted financial hijinks I had to pull to get it and the order did not go through. The Apple people have been cool about it and are giving me some slack, but it is great to know that if I fuck it up somehow and dont get the extended coverage I dont have a very expensive and unpaid for doorstop.
It has to be the same model as yours. Take it, extract what you need and discard the rest.
....but it would be too expensive to fight on Mars. Unless NASA has been doing something they haven't been telling anyone about in the area of really fast propulsion, it is going to be at the best times a long trip, and when Mars is in an unfavorable position it would take years. Plus it would be expensive if you just consider how much money it would take to move the mass of the soldiers, the mass of the weapons, and all the food and life support and rocket that it takes to get to Mars. Any fighting that breaks out up there would probably just incite war back on Earth where it is cheaper to kill people.
Come on, Mrs. Clinton, you're a United States Senator. Have the guts to say that without checking "Post Anonymously".
I think the big question here is: what crawled up your ass and died? I haven't been persecuted like this since junior high.
No, that would be lame.
My copy of photoshop is quite legit, asshole. Plus, there is nothing wrong with the PDF format. If you don't like it, don't click on the links I posted and go on with your life.
I wasn't diminishing this guys achievement, I know that running ET over SSH is no more impressive, in theory, than runnning "top" over ssh. In fact, I am going to download it as soon as I get back in front of my mac.
If you don't like it, fuck off.
I also figured out how to get my favotite Linux game, Enemy Territory, to run on the Mac despite the fact that a Mac version does not exist, screengrabs here and here.
Of course this was cheating since it was over X11. Konq runs acceptably, but got 1-2 fps on ET.
We can print AP photos in the paper because it's part of our contract, but the only way we could sell an image from the AP individually is if the buyer wants a reproduction of the entire page, which is copyrighted by the newspaper.
Come on editors, who wouldn't remember a story about barnyard masturbators and fart sniffers?
There's nothing wrong with dealing coke.
Spamming, on the other hand....
We have this where I work too. Every door into and out of and most in the building have a proxy reader. The cool thing is that I keep mine in my wallet and wave it at the reader. I don't even have to take it out.
Do you know of a way to increase the RFID's sensitivity? It would be cool if I didn't even have to take out my wallet; I could just get within 3 feet of the sensor and it would open the door for me, just like in Star Trek, but without the automation.
I tried RH 6 or 7 a few years ago on my desktop machine, but I always had trouble installing programs. Dealing with dependencies, make files, etc. was completely beyond me, and I scrapped it and returned to windows.
Then I bought a mac and began playing around with fink. I had been using various Linux machines at school and had gotten pretty competent with the command line. I really liked the fact that fink checks dependencies, downloads the files, and installs them with one command. When I was showing this off to a friend, he told me about Gentoo and I decided to give it a shot.
I learned more about UNIX-type systems in the week-long install than I had in all my previous experience. The Gentoo installation process will give anyone with half a brain a fair idea how their system works by forcing them to deal with the various config files that they would not have to otherwise deal (until something messes up) in precompiled distros. I had never compiled a kernel before Gentoo, and they made that somewhat scary sounding task easy.
While the speed of programs compiled in portage is an important factor, my desktop seems much more responsive than it was under RH or Mandrake (two other distros I tested before my recent switch to Linux), it is not the selling point for me. It is the ease of installing programs that portage brings.
Of all the cool shit in that book, the second coolest was Reason, a nuclear-powered, multi-barreled railgun with badass computer targeting.
The coolest was the nuclear powered dogs, so I assume there will be a Slashdot article tomorrow on picking up strays, extracting their brains, and putting them in supersonic-capable carapaces.
Yet when Iraq's brutal dictator recently began to cloak himself in Islamic rhetoric, it was primarily the political left in the US and Europe, who wanted to see him left in power.
.This the beginning of a speech given by Bill Clinton in '98. The rest goes on to greatly resemble the case the Bush made for war on Iraq. Maybe Clinton was in on what the left thinks is a massive Republican oil-stealing conspiracy? Maybe he fabricated the evidence that led to his conclusion that Iraq had WMDs in order to help his Republican successor? Iraq had WMDs, and even used them (proof of their existence) long after it was supposed to have gotten rid of them.
I don't think that that is due to Islamic rhetoric, but who was pushing for the war in the States. The left opposed the war because Bush was for it, plain and simple. Their views were not based on compassion for the Iraqi people, otherwise they would have opposed it when Clinton attacked Iraq for the exact same reasons in 1998.
To those who think that the more recent Iraq affair is based on a pack of lies from Bush, consider this:
Good evening.
Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors.
Their purpose is to protect the national interest of the United States, and indeed the interests of people throughout the Middle East and around the world.
The full transcript can be found here
Three presidents in a row have attacked Iraq. The last two have done so based on Iraq not having proven the destruction of its WMDs. Anyone who thinks that Iraq wasn't developing nasty shit does so merely to toe the party line.
Thank you for getting that axing that piece of crap IE for Mac. If you will please do the same for your other Macintosh software, we can have a utopian platform devoid of shitty code.
Seriously, though, I bought a 12" iBook not too long ago, and it came bundled with MSIE as the default browser! This was during the early days for Safari, and I would understand if Apple HAD to ship a browser, but damn.
According to NORML's website, 80 million Americans have smoked pot, that horrible life-ruining plant. Additionally, Marijuana laws are enforeced much more than those that pertain to P2P programs.
I bought my first mac a few months ago, a 12" iBook, and it has been badass. It had a catastrophic failure at one point that rendered it unable to boot. I got on the phone with Apple and they sent me a box the next day. I shipped it on a Tuesday night, waited a day, and it was waiting for me at work on Thursday with a new mobo and processor.
Apple's custormer support has impressed the hell out of me, and this will not be my last Mac.
so how did they get bombed in the first gulf war?
Personally, I think the whole thing is silly anyways, there's more important things to worry about than one's ability to get high. Besides, people will do it regardless of the law anyway.
What's at stake here is more than a persons ability to get high. Our jails are packed, and they are mostly full of people who did nothing to harm anyone and didn't steal anything, they merely smoked or were in possession of a fucking plant. This law is about not clogging jails and the justice system with casual users of marijuana. It is rare for a non-dealing pothead to have more than three ounces in his possession. Anyone caught having over three ounces will still be on the way up shit creek.
This is about priorities, and if the bill is passed, it indicates that the voters in Nevada think that it is more important to go after malignant criminals and to leave the benign ones alone.
As anyone who has ever watched The Man with the Golden Gun knows, a third nipple is considered a sign of virility in some cultures. I could sure go for one.