Seriously. The guy can wrap a breakbeat around your head that will leave you wondering if your skull is still in one piece. And they're melodically interesting, too - if your tastes run to jazz, I recommend checking out his album Bricolage: otherwise, start with the more conventionally techno (but still excellent) Supermodified.
Anecdote: I once described the second track on Supermodified, "Four Ton Mantis," as the soundtrack to my nightmares. (if you're interested, the web site for a club called The Spy Bar used to use that song as the background music to a flash movie... anyway.)
Hmm. Looks here like you're running an open mail relay. You've been a bad little server, haven't you? *whip-crack*. Time to plug those security holes, you naughty little thing.
The X-Box is definitely losing money on each sale. I don't have any hard numbers, but I'd be very surprised if they were even breaking even under the original pricing scheme.
I read an article somewhere that said that Michael Dell, upon hearing Microsoft's offer to build X-Boxes for them, essentially laughed it off. "So, let me get this straight: you want me to build these boxes and sell them at a loss? And make up the difference in software - which I don't sell?" Does anyone else have a reference for this?
As much as it's a joke about South Jersey, Wawa is actually a Southeastern Pennsylvania phenomenon. The corporate headquarters is located in Wawa Pennsylvania (near Media, if that helps any), site of the original Wawa dairy farms.
Believe me when I tell you that there are an assload of Wawas in my neck of the woods. In my twenty-minute commute to work, I pass three of them, and there are two additional ones in easy driving range from my office.
Tack on to your list of "you know you're in [insert Wawa area name here]" quips: "...when you say to your friend, "let's go pick up a couple of shorties," and he knows you're not talking about children or skateboards."
...This has been interpreted by the Wallace court as permitting such devious acts as shouting "Fire" in a crowded theater illegal, and under the Grommet Doctrine has allowed threats against the President's life and other disruptive speech to be further limited.
Look, I'm sorry, but claymation figures should not be involved in the formation of national policy, no matter how funny they are.
Here's a thought: if the nanotubes are so efficient at absorbing light, is there a way to build them such that the heat could be effeciently drawn out of them in order to provide power for a turbine?
Or, in English, could you use these things to make ultra-powerful solar panels?
Okay, at the risk of sounding pedantic, go back and read the article.
Microsoft has essentially said, "J'accuse. You have unlicensed software. Either audit all your 25,000 PCs in the next sixty days (by the way, that's about 17 computers an hour, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 60 days), or have us do it. If we do it, and find one - count 'em, one - computer out of compliance, you pay for the software you owe, plus the cost of the audit."
Let's say, just for the sake of argument, that they're fully in compliance with the licenses, with the exception of one PC some shmuck donated to them last week. Doing the audit is an impossibility for them. If Microsoft does it and finds the one PC, they pay (through the nose) for the audit.
Plus, it's not like Microsoft had specific reason to believe that these guys were out of compliance: the "random" audit, according to the article, targets "the nine largest school districts in Oregon and the 15 largest in Washington."
If a cop busts down your neighbor's door, you don't say "serves him right for stealing people's stuff," until they demonstrate that, you know, the neighbor actually stole something. Don't do it here.
Goddamn liberals want to make laws for everything! And while we're at it, don't make laws prohibiting hidden cameras inside hotel suites! After all, you checked into the room, and the fact that your activities in your room were all recorded - including that romp with that beat-ass hooker you picked up at your last trade show - was clearly mentioned in paragraph fifteen of the "In Case of Fire" instructions in your room! To make sure you didn't miss it, we even inserted a reminder just before the book of Deuteronomy in the bible thoughtfully left by the Gideons! Stupid fucking whiners are too dumb to rent a room!
yesterday the supream court decided that CGI kiddie pr0n wasnt pr0n.
Actually, that's not what the decided. Nobody took issue with the fact that computer generated pornography is actually pornography: instead, what they argued is that CGI pornography cannot be prohibited in the same fashion as child pornography. Which makes sense, really, as it doesn't involve children.
Note that if images involving verifiably real kids pop up on the porn scene, even if they were doctored, Congress will have a much easier time getting a new version of the law passed.
I was actually unfamiliar with the rumor: my assumption was based on the fallacious belief that if you can't find 'em on the web, they don't exist. I kinda wish he'd put a web site together, even a two page dealie, so that people know that he, like, still exists, and stuff.
In the meantime, though, I apologize if I helped extend the myth.
It appears that Phage still exists, although I don't see that they have a website anywhere. (Eric! Get a site! It'll make you feel good good good...)
For the record, I live in a suburb of Philadelphia, PA. And unfortunately, I'm kinda gamed out at the moment, but drop me a line if you're interested.:)
There was once an Infocom-like game based on the Chronicles of Amber; does anyone recall it?
I do. I never had the opportunity to play it, though. It was one of those games which was text input only, a la the Infocom games, but had still images representing wherever you were.
There was also a tabletop roleplaying game, called Amber Diceless Roleplay, by the now-defunct (I think) Phage Press. Like the rules suggest, you played it without dice. I own the core rules - it was an interesting game, that I still hope to run sometime, after I find someone else who actually enjoyed the Amber books.
Hey, this way we don't have to spend our own money on fighting this problem!
Well actually, yeah, we do. The task force will be driven by the FTC, which means that you paid for it in the form of tax dollars. Just like you pay to have a police force and public schools.
This time around, though, instead of those of us who have to deal with spam daily paying to treat the symptoms, the government (and us, by extention) will be paying to attack the disease. Still a step in the right direction.
April Fool's day alwyas sees a flurry of interest in a "retract my last post" feature for Slashdot. This would enable people to pull posts after coming to the embarassing realization that they've just been trolled by CmdrTaco.
...And if you're throwing a frisbee, the odds are that the disc will veer away from the vertical plane of its initial vector, especially if the frisbee isn't perpendicular to the force of gravity.
Then I bust out emacs, which magically turns a day's worth of drudgery into a few minutes of stimulating mental excercise. I'd call an editor that can do that a work of genius.
I wasn't being ironic when I called it a work of genius, although I may have been when I called it twisted, and almost certainly was when I compared it to the Necronomicon.
Oh, I didn't say that I agreed with Stallman. And frankly, without digging through a bunch of old articles, I don't think that Stallman ever advocated a real commercial position for free software companies, although plenty of people interpreted it that way. I suspect he'd just like to see us go back to computing fiefdoms which exchange code freely with one another, and the monkeys running the show (sysadmins and developers like myself) are the ones who do the coding. That's not the same as setting up shop and saying, "We're your Comprehensive Support Solution for GNU/ Linux / FreeBSD / MonkeyFuckingComputingSolutions!"
In any case, yeah, you're right, the sky isn't always blue. It was just an analogy. What I meant was that Stallman sees the computing landscape in a way which makes certain ethical choices obvious to him, and he's spent much of his professional career trying to convince others of the merit of his views. I respect that.
There are some who believe that dedicating yourself to an ideal, and working ceaslessly in its pursuit, is more than interesting: it's admirable.
And let's not forget that the guy is, to borrow a Bostonism, "wicked smaht." He's MacArthur "genius" grant recipient, the guy frigging invented Emacs, which is a work of twisted genius comperable to the Necronomicon. You may think that his line is boring as dirt, but think how rotten it must be from his perspective - can you imagine spending hours of your time every day trying to convince people that the sky is blue?
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A quick glance at the (hundreds) of posts in this thread didn't give up this name, so:
Amon Tobin.
Seriously. The guy can wrap a breakbeat around your head that will leave you wondering if your skull is still in one piece. And they're melodically interesting, too - if your tastes run to jazz, I recommend checking out his album Bricolage: otherwise, start with the more conventionally techno (but still excellent) Supermodified.
Anecdote: I once described the second track on Supermodified, "Four Ton Mantis," as the soundtrack to my nightmares. (if you're interested, the web site for a club called The Spy Bar used to use that song as the background music to a flash movie... anyway.)
Yeah, because we all know what a second-tier outfit SuSE is.
"Universities Creating Computer Discipline Offices"
Hmm. Looks here like you're running an open mail relay. You've been a bad little server, haven't you? *whip-crack*. Time to plug those security holes, you naughty little thing.
The X-Box is definitely losing money on each sale. I don't have any hard numbers, but I'd be very surprised if they were even breaking even under the original pricing scheme.
I read an article somewhere that said that Michael Dell, upon hearing Microsoft's offer to build X-Boxes for them, essentially laughed it off. "So, let me get this straight: you want me to build these boxes and sell them at a loss? And make up the difference in software - which I don't sell?" Does anyone else have a reference for this?
As much as it's a joke about South Jersey, Wawa is actually a Southeastern Pennsylvania phenomenon. The corporate headquarters is located in Wawa Pennsylvania (near Media, if that helps any), site of the original Wawa dairy farms.
Believe me when I tell you that there are an assload of Wawas in my neck of the woods. In my twenty-minute commute to work, I pass three of them, and there are two additional ones in easy driving range from my office.
Tack on to your list of "you know you're in [insert Wawa area name here]" quips: "...when you say to your friend, "let's go pick up a couple of shorties," and he knows you're not talking about children or skateboards."
Look, I'm sorry, but claymation figures should not be involved in the formation of national policy, no matter how funny they are.
Here's a thought: if the nanotubes are so efficient at absorbing light, is there a way to build them such that the heat could be effeciently drawn out of them in order to provide power for a turbine?
Or, in English, could you use these things to make ultra-powerful solar panels?
Okay, at the risk of sounding pedantic, go back and read the article.
Microsoft has essentially said, "J'accuse. You have unlicensed software. Either audit all your 25,000 PCs in the next sixty days (by the way, that's about 17 computers an hour, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 60 days), or have us do it. If we do it, and find one - count 'em, one - computer out of compliance, you pay for the software you owe, plus the cost of the audit."
Let's say, just for the sake of argument, that they're fully in compliance with the licenses, with the exception of one PC some shmuck donated to them last week. Doing the audit is an impossibility for them. If Microsoft does it and finds the one PC, they pay (through the nose) for the audit.
Plus, it's not like Microsoft had specific reason to believe that these guys were out of compliance: the "random" audit, according to the article, targets "the nine largest school districts in Oregon and the 15 largest in Washington."
If a cop busts down your neighbor's door, you don't say "serves him right for stealing people's stuff," until they demonstrate that, you know, the neighbor actually stole something. Don't do it here.
Ooh! This is fun. Can I play too?
(ahem...)
Goddamn liberals want to make laws for everything! And while we're at it, don't make laws prohibiting hidden cameras inside hotel suites! After all, you checked into the room, and the fact that your activities in your room were all recorded - including that romp with that beat-ass hooker you picked up at your last trade show - was clearly mentioned in paragraph fifteen of the "In Case of Fire" instructions in your room! To make sure you didn't miss it, we even inserted a reminder just before the book of Deuteronomy in the bible thoughtfully left by the Gideons! Stupid fucking whiners are too dumb to rent a room!
Okay, someone else?
Actually, that's not what the decided. Nobody took issue with the fact that computer generated pornography is actually pornography: instead, what they argued is that CGI pornography cannot be prohibited in the same fashion as child pornography. Which makes sense, really, as it doesn't involve children.
Note that if images involving verifiably real kids pop up on the porn scene, even if they were doctored, Congress will have a much easier time getting a new version of the law passed.
I was actually unfamiliar with the rumor: my assumption was based on the fallacious belief that if you can't find 'em on the web, they don't exist. I kinda wish he'd put a web site together, even a two page dealie, so that people know that he, like, still exists, and stuff.
In the meantime, though, I apologize if I helped extend the myth.
It appears that Phage still exists, although I don't see that they have a website anywhere. (Eric! Get a site! It'll make you feel good good good...)
:)
For the record, I live in a suburb of Philadelphia, PA. And unfortunately, I'm kinda gamed out at the moment, but drop me a line if you're interested.
I do. I never had the opportunity to play it, though. It was one of those games which was text input only, a la the Infocom games, but had still images representing wherever you were.
There was also a tabletop roleplaying game, called Amber Diceless Roleplay, by the now-defunct (I think) Phage Press. Like the rules suggest, you played it without dice. I own the core rules - it was an interesting game, that I still hope to run sometime, after I find someone else who actually enjoyed the Amber books.
Well actually, yeah, we do. The task force will be driven by the FTC, which means that you paid for it in the form of tax dollars. Just like you pay to have a police force and public schools.
This time around, though, instead of those of us who have to deal with spam daily paying to treat the symptoms, the government (and us, by extention) will be paying to attack the disease. Still a step in the right direction.
April Fool's day alwyas sees a flurry of interest in a "retract my last post" feature for Slashdot. This would enable people to pull posts after coming to the embarassing realization that they've just been trolled by CmdrTaco.
Huh? IMAP is a protocol. You might as well say, "SMTP is kinda crappy," or "HTTP isn't particularly good."
I take it back. C'mon, Galadriel, sookie sookie, now.
Four hours.
I'll say it again, in italics: four hours.
I liked LotR, but am I the only person who would smuggle a cyanide tablet in a hollow tooth just in case I really had to watch that much?
...And if you're throwing a frisbee, the odds are that the disc will veer away from the vertical plane of its initial vector, especially if the frisbee isn't perpendicular to the force of gravity.
Old indeed. That's Xeno's Paradox, restated very slightly.
I wasn't being ironic when I called it a work of genius, although I may have been when I called it twisted, and almost certainly was when I compared it to the Necronomicon.
Oh, I didn't say that I agreed with Stallman. And frankly, without digging through a bunch of old articles, I don't think that Stallman ever advocated a real commercial position for free software companies, although plenty of people interpreted it that way. I suspect he'd just like to see us go back to computing fiefdoms which exchange code freely with one another, and the monkeys running the show (sysadmins and developers like myself) are the ones who do the coding. That's not the same as setting up shop and saying, "We're your Comprehensive Support Solution for GNU/ Linux / FreeBSD / MonkeyFuckingComputingSolutions!"
In any case, yeah, you're right, the sky isn't always blue. It was just an analogy. What I meant was that Stallman sees the computing landscape in a way which makes certain ethical choices obvious to him, and he's spent much of his professional career trying to convince others of the merit of his views. I respect that.
Yeah, WildBeast. That's exactly what I said. I'm surprised you left out the part where I endorsed killing puppies, though.
There are some who believe that dedicating yourself to an ideal, and working ceaslessly in its pursuit, is more than interesting: it's admirable.
And let's not forget that the guy is, to borrow a Bostonism, "wicked smaht." He's MacArthur "genius" grant recipient, the guy frigging invented Emacs, which is a work of twisted genius comperable to the Necronomicon. You may think that his line is boring as dirt, but think how rotten it must be from his perspective - can you imagine spending hours of your time every day trying to convince people that the sky is blue?