The towers you refer to are more commonly (at least by myself in the past) referred to as "the twin towers." Maybe not very significant, but it stands out in my mind.
It makes sense to challenge something like this. Obviously someone is going to be a little be skeptical if you tell them you broke something they were assured is 100% secure. That would be kind of interesting to turn a few other cases around like that.
10 gigs isn't really all THAT much. I just converted my entire CD collection to mp3s not too long ago, only about 100 or so CDs and it was 4 gigs worth of 128 kbps mp3s. (If someone really wants to check my math, go ahead, the 4 gigs is right, the number of CDs is close, but I might have done 256 kbps).
10 gigs is enough to keep you happy for sure though. You could probably put everything you owned on there, and then have room to add new stuff for a few years.
NOFX has survived a very long time without ever being played on the radio or MTV (except for bottles to the ground, the irony was the single was released to radio stations hoping they would play dinosaurs will die, which would have been hilarious, but it didn't happen.)
NOFX has survived solely because they are good (maybe not the best musicians, but people like them), and because they have a highly loyal following, which spread almost solely due to word of mouth about how good they were. I don't know how this relevant at all, oh well.
I find using pricewatch and then going to a local shop (where you are likely to get better support than buying from xyz out on the west coast or something), and tell them how much I *could* get it for, then they will go down to around that price and I end up with a fairly good deal.
It's all nice to have a place like MicroX-press in the area where you can buy stuff and pick it up at their warehouse instead of paying shipping.
How can you determine where it would have landed? Too many factors play into that, and since it wasn't headed AT the Earth, you can't play around with the numbers and say where it would have hit the Earth. The best you could do is if it cross our orbit, you could say "well, if the earth was in that spot at the time it hit it might have been around the equator. And that's about it. Someone asks this every time. That's like saying where the baseball would have hit the batter if it had hit him instead of the catcher's mit. Impossible to know.
Reminds me of the story a few days about the kid who tried build a nuclear reactor for a scout thing. IIRC, the one kid on the simpsons made his own long before that kid did!
I don't recall this robot being an animal. It needs/wants were pretty simple and laid out for it.
Animals are bit more complex, need food, need sex, need to pee, etc. I would assume they would do what they needed to be able to achieve those goals. The robot had a purpose and did something else, and it probably had no clue what it was really doing. My guess is it just kinda wandered off like a lost kid without knowing what it wanted.
You aren't trying to escape if you don't know you are detained. You're just trying to get somewhere else.
Yeah, I have enough trouble keeping track of cds, the smaller they get, the more likely I am going to be to forget them and suck them up in the vacuum or something.
Yeah, it had the "desire" the break out. More than likely it was sitting there doing nothing and started doing something and ended up outside. It has no concept of being detained or will to escape. It basically sounds like its supposed to want to suck energy out of prey, so maybe it figured there might be some in the parking lot if the sun was out.
You're giving it far more credit than it deserves. It only knows what prey is, and how to pick it up and connect with it. It doesn't know what captivity is, only that it was in a situation where it wasn't getting prey.
Yeah, I hate getting phone calls in the middle of a good match of Counter-Strike, holding the phone under your ear while using both hands to play a game is not easy.
Chassis Intrusion detection isn't all it's cracked up to be anyway. Unless you hook it up to some sort of paging device, so that the moment the box is opened you are notified, the person is going to have what they need/want by the time you find out that they were ever in there. Kinda reminds me of the stupid bios messages on boot on the machines here at work "Warning: Case was previously opened" or something.
The original post did make issue of quality vs. what people buy. Their comments about Phillip Morris and Cigars, etc. Think about it, McDonald's is crap, and we all know it, yet billions and billions still buy their food. Why? Why is it that something so crappy, even though we all know it is crappy, and can get something better across the street, we still go there? Because we know what it is. We know what to expect, and that is more important to us than quality.
Basically, I want to know why it is that we will accept something of a lower quality, when we KNOW that something better exists, even at a competitive price? The only reason I can think of for this is because we are more familiar with the item of lesser quality. We only believe that because they have millions and millions of dollars and have sold so many that they can't be wrong. (If it's okay the masses, it must be okay for me?) Past success says nothing about quality, just that they were somehow able to sell a product, regardless of its true merits.
I like to know what my money is going towards. I would need to know exactly what the money is going to be used for, and by whom, and sort of plans they have for the future before giving them any money. Same goes for any charity or business I give money to. Tell me what you are going to do with it before you ask for it. (i.e. 50% operating costs, 50% wages for employees) whatever.
The only thing that would make trillian better is if it were GPL'd or something, then we could hack away at adding the functionality we want, such as like what netmeeting has to offer in the way of video and voice comm. (and windows messenger's voice echo cancellation stuff is very cool if you've ever used it.)
Really, those are the only features I see that other clients offer than trillian needs to. Although, I've been using trillian at home and work for about a month and am very happy (especially with this compact skin I've got, all the others took up waay too much space.)
While the local cafe might make one hell of a sandwich, more people are going to eat at McDonald's even if they are side by side, because they are more familiar with it, and don't care if it is going to kill them because they know what they are getting.
This is the case with a lot of software already. People know what to expect Microsoft, whether or good or bad, and are comfortable with that. You through something new at them, and a lot of people will jump, but not that many. We like what we are familiar with, and that's why people stick with Windows.
It's the same reason Mac users stick with Macs, and why I think that Apple's latest marketing campaign isn't going to accomplish much. Although it would be great if it did.
It's not real uncommon for this sort of thing to happen. Our local newspaper was bought out by Gannette(sp?) a little bit ago, and the editors let them have it for a long time by publishing articles about how terrible they were and how they were going to ruin the newspaper. (IMHO they have ruined it. Story/Advertisement ratio on each page is about 1/6).
While not quite the same thing, I wouldn't want to use a compiler than would accept sloppy code, or try to do its best with crapped up code. It should report an error to inform the coder what they did wrong, and what would happen if it was used. That's what Mozilla does, it says "This is messed up, it shouldn't be like this at all, I don't know what to do with this", IE says, "Well, I think this is what they MEANT to do, so I'll just do it for them." The latter can be pretty dangerous.
Yeah, another friend of mine told me the same, DDR seems to be a great weigh loss method. Basically, it's a lot more fun than running on a treadmill for 30 minutes. =]
Just make sure to click the link in the upper right that says: "Offensive Content Reduction: On" before you want to search for some good porno. It does admit the filter probably is not the greatest, but it's nice to see it applied. Google offers a similar feature on their images search, but not for the content.
I have a feeling this could be similar to the recent Hotmail changes, where a friend of mine with the last name Hancock was told he had to change his last name because it violated their rules. Same went for someone with the last name Hacker. When filtering like that you have to be very careful, because just because something is a naughty word in one context, doesn't mean it is in every context.
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The towers you refer to are more commonly (at least by myself in the past) referred to as "the twin towers." Maybe not very significant, but it stands out in my mind.
It makes sense to challenge something like this. Obviously someone is going to be a little be skeptical if you tell them you broke something they were assured is 100% secure. That would be kind of interesting to turn a few other cases around like that.
10 gigs isn't really all THAT much. I just converted my entire CD collection to mp3s not too long ago, only about 100 or so CDs and it was 4 gigs worth of 128 kbps mp3s. (If someone really wants to check my math, go ahead, the 4 gigs is right, the number of CDs is close, but I might have done 256 kbps).
10 gigs is enough to keep you happy for sure though. You could probably put everything you owned on there, and then have room to add new stuff for a few years.
NOFX has survived a very long time without ever being played on the radio or MTV (except for bottles to the ground, the irony was the single was released to radio stations hoping they would play dinosaurs will die, which would have been hilarious, but it didn't happen.)
NOFX has survived solely because they are good (maybe not the best musicians, but people like them), and because they have a highly loyal following, which spread almost solely due to word of mouth about how good they were. I don't know how this relevant at all, oh well.
I find using pricewatch and then going to a local shop (where you are likely to get better support than buying from xyz out on the west coast or something), and tell them how much I *could* get it for, then they will go down to around that price and I end up with a fairly good deal.
It's all nice to have a place like MicroX-press in the area where you can buy stuff and pick it up at their warehouse instead of paying shipping.
With my Trace Buster Buster Buster Buster Buster Buster 9000 I will be safe from all, so ha.
Yeah, but 1 person on that team is probably smarter than the collective brain of the people working at that McDonalds.
How can you determine where it would have landed? Too many factors play into that, and since it wasn't headed AT the Earth, you can't play around with the numbers and say where it would have hit the Earth. The best you could do is if it cross our orbit, you could say "well, if the earth was in that spot at the time it hit it might have been around the equator. And that's about it. Someone asks this every time. That's like saying where the baseball would have hit the batter if it had hit him instead of the catcher's mit. Impossible to know.
Reminds me of the story a few days about the kid who tried build a nuclear reactor for a scout thing. IIRC, the one kid on the simpsons made his own long before that kid did!
I don't recall this robot being an animal. It needs/wants were pretty simple and laid out for it.
Animals are bit more complex, need food, need sex, need to pee, etc. I would assume they would do what they needed to be able to achieve those goals. The robot had a purpose and did something else, and it probably had no clue what it was really doing. My guess is it just kinda wandered off like a lost kid without knowing what it wanted.
You aren't trying to escape if you don't know you are detained. You're just trying to get somewhere else.
Yeah, I have enough trouble keeping track of cds, the smaller they get, the more likely I am going to be to forget them and suck them up in the vacuum or something.
Yeah, it had the "desire" the break out. More than likely it was sitting there doing nothing and started doing something and ended up outside. It has no concept of being detained or will to escape. It basically sounds like its supposed to want to suck energy out of prey, so maybe it figured there might be some in the parking lot if the sun was out.
You're giving it far more credit than it deserves. It only knows what prey is, and how to pick it up and connect with it. It doesn't know what captivity is, only that it was in a situation where it wasn't getting prey.
I saw a deer run across the field.
Those men are hunting deer.
This is the best example I can think of, there are others.
That's why Spamassassin is highly customizable. Using the default ruleset it will catch things like that, but you can easily change how it works.
Yeah, I hate getting phone calls in the middle of a good match of Counter-Strike, holding the phone under your ear while using both hands to play a game is not easy.
Chassis Intrusion detection isn't all it's cracked up to be anyway. Unless you hook it up to some sort of paging device, so that the moment the box is opened you are notified, the person is going to have what they need/want by the time you find out that they were ever in there. Kinda reminds me of the stupid bios messages on boot on the machines here at work "Warning: Case was previously opened" or something.
The original post did make issue of quality vs. what people buy. Their comments about Phillip Morris and Cigars, etc. Think about it, McDonald's is crap, and we all know it, yet billions and billions still buy their food. Why? Why is it that something so crappy, even though we all know it is crappy, and can get something better across the street, we still go there? Because we know what it is. We know what to expect, and that is more important to us than quality.
Basically, I want to know why it is that we will accept something of a lower quality, when we KNOW that something better exists, even at a competitive price? The only reason I can think of for this is because we are more familiar with the item of lesser quality. We only believe that because they have millions and millions of dollars and have sold so many that they can't be wrong. (If it's okay the masses, it must be okay for me?) Past success says nothing about quality, just that they were somehow able to sell a product, regardless of its true merits.
If I could run MacOS X on my PC I would at least give it a try, but I've got too much money already invested in hardware.
I like to know what my money is going towards. I would need to know exactly what the money is going to be used for, and by whom, and sort of plans they have for the future before giving them any money. Same goes for any charity or business I give money to. Tell me what you are going to do with it before you ask for it. (i.e. 50% operating costs, 50% wages for employees) whatever.
The only thing that would make trillian better is if it were GPL'd or something, then we could hack away at adding the functionality we want, such as like what netmeeting has to offer in the way of video and voice comm. (and windows messenger's voice echo cancellation stuff is very cool if you've ever used it.)
Really, those are the only features I see that other clients offer than trillian needs to. Although, I've been using trillian at home and work for about a month and am very happy (especially with this compact skin I've got, all the others took up waay too much space.)
While the local cafe might make one hell of a sandwich, more people are going to eat at McDonald's even if they are side by side, because they are more familiar with it, and don't care if it is going to kill them because they know what they are getting.
This is the case with a lot of software already. People know what to expect Microsoft, whether or good or bad, and are comfortable with that. You through something new at them, and a lot of people will jump, but not that many. We like what we are familiar with, and that's why people stick with Windows.
It's the same reason Mac users stick with Macs, and why I think that Apple's latest marketing campaign isn't going to accomplish much. Although it would be great if it did.
It's not real uncommon for this sort of thing to happen. Our local newspaper was bought out by Gannette(sp?) a little bit ago, and the editors let them have it for a long time by publishing articles about how terrible they were and how they were going to ruin the newspaper. (IMHO they have ruined it. Story/Advertisement ratio on each page is about 1/6).
While not quite the same thing, I wouldn't want to use a compiler than would accept sloppy code, or try to do its best with crapped up code. It should report an error to inform the coder what they did wrong, and what would happen if it was used. That's what Mozilla does, it says "This is messed up, it shouldn't be like this at all, I don't know what to do with this", IE says, "Well, I think this is what they MEANT to do, so I'll just do it for them." The latter can be pretty dangerous.
Yeah, another friend of mine told me the same, DDR seems to be a great weigh loss method. Basically, it's a lot more fun than running on a treadmill for 30 minutes. =]
Just make sure to click the link in the upper right that says: "Offensive Content Reduction: On" before you want to search for some good porno. It does admit the filter probably is not the greatest, but it's nice to see it applied. Google offers a similar feature on their images search, but not for the content.
I have a feeling this could be similar to the recent Hotmail changes, where a friend of mine with the last name Hancock was told he had to change his last name because it violated their rules. Same went for someone with the last name Hacker. When filtering like that you have to be very careful, because just because something is a naughty word in one context, doesn't mean it is in every context.