Have you tried one of those U-Scan checkouts at places like Kroger, K-mart, etc. They are very convient, and there is little to no human interaction, only one cashier has to watch 4 checkouts.
Actually, this is a good point, does he know that the seasons are opposite of ours? He's starting in September. Maybe he's thinking of staying in the south through the winter months.
Fermilab National Particle Accelerator lab in Chicago is a neat place. It's worth it just to see the building. They also have an underground concert hall so you might check out their schedule. I saw Philip Glass play there back in 1997 and it was really cool.
Yeah right, I'll bet they are getting buddy buddy with the TV networks and telling them things like "Either you're on our side, or you'll stop showing our movies." Perhaps I'm wrong. Actually, I hope that I am.
A good thing...
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Pods Unite
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This is a good thing. Many companies are indirectly promoting mp3 music, etc.
Now some blokes are going to go make a BTron OS theme or whatnot for GTK, Sawfish, Enlightenment, Blackbox, twm+... All based on a couple of screenshots!!!
If one takes the time to write up a nice well written comment, one has missed the window of modding because not many modders read past a certain point and stop modding. However, if you quickly write up something out of your ass, it will get a score of 5 for being flamebait.
Hey, did you get that memo about the TPS reports? Well it's just that now we're putting a cover sheet on them and if you could do that in the future it would be great. Thanks...
One more thing. Usually the product that wasn't built well fails in the end. But it really depends on what market it is, how much demand there is and also who the customer is. The situation is going to be different if this is a product for the consumption of millions of people (ie, a game or whatnot) than if it is a product for a large corporation (large database interface, etc.)
This is one reason why we as a society need to find ways to get rid of this need for greed and wealth and money in general. Otherwise things just keep running into the ground.
Microsoft maybe leaders in new technology.....
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...but according to this article on CNN. Companies aren't looking to buy the newest technology anymore. They are looking to cut costs. What gets me about this article though is they say that Sun and other Unix providers suffer and companies like Oracle and Microsoft win. I guess they are talking about proprietary Un*xes that use non-x86 CPUs.
That's why English is a "living" language.
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Isn't It Ironic?
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Not that I agree that the definition of irony should be changed. But English is still a living language, which means that the definition and scope of words will change. So perhaps someday in the dictionary under the entry for irony or ironic, it will include what people commonly mean it to be.
No, I'm not confusing them, I'm saying that to say that the worm had a peak infection rate of 3 billion systems per hour is very misleading because the worm would never actually infect 3 billion systems as long as there are less than 3 billion. The difference between this and say what your speedometer reads on your car is that in your car, provided there is enough road, you can most likely transverse 120 miles in one hour. The statistic should have said that the worm had a peak rate of 50 million computers per minute or 833,333 per second. This would have been more accurate.
What kind of a statistic is that? How can it fully complete a 3 billion system per hour cycle if there are not 3 billion systems to infect (I'm guessing that there aren't). So it's true rate is how ever many systems it actually did infect, which is likely a lot less than 3 billion. You can't just calculate the speed over 2 minutes and multiply it by 30. That'd be like a starship that was able to travel at 15 billion light years per hour. Really? Where would it go?
Now if someone would only release a patch to stop that infernal beeping when you click in the wrong place on the window. xset and setterm seem to have no effect.
It's kinda strange looking in the end but I was rewarded with a rather funny picture on page 6 where you see the finished monitor, but in the background you see one of his speakers sitting on top of a monitor swing arm. ie. something else to use your monitor stand for?
Do you see a pattern here? Perhaps that deactivating these tags or documenting how to do it will violate the DMCA, then more people will have no choice but to adopt it. The DMCA may be further reaching than we all thought. Perhaps it's time to move to Tycho.;-)
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Have you tried one of those U-Scan checkouts at places like Kroger, K-mart, etc. They are very convient, and there is little to no human interaction, only one cashier has to watch 4 checkouts.
Actually, this is a good point, does he know that the seasons are opposite of ours? He's starting in September. Maybe he's thinking of staying in the south through the winter months.
This is going to be more than one lifetime experience. There is so much stuff to see, the hard part will be to decide what to see and do.
Fermilab National Particle Accelerator lab in Chicago is a neat place. It's worth it just to see the building. They also have an underground concert hall so you might check out their schedule. I saw Philip Glass play there back in 1997 and it was really cool.
Be sure to check out the north side of Baker Beach while you're there. Make sure it's a sunny day though. ;-)
Yeah right, I'll bet they are getting buddy buddy with the TV networks and telling them things like "Either you're on our side, or you'll stop showing our movies." Perhaps I'm wrong. Actually, I hope that I am.
This is a good thing. Many companies are indirectly promoting mp3 music, etc.
Come on, an O wing fighter?
Now some blokes are going to go make a BTron OS theme or whatnot for GTK, Sawfish, Enlightenment, Blackbox, twm+... All based on a couple of screenshots!!!
No more $900 cups of coffee..
Was that in a deleted scene? ;-) Mike Judge really needs to make some more movies.
If one takes the time to write up a nice well written comment, one has missed the window of modding because not many modders read past a certain point and stop modding. However, if you quickly write up something out of your ass, it will get a score of 5 for being flamebait.
Hey, did you get that memo about the TPS reports? Well it's just that now we're putting a cover sheet on them and if you could do that in the future it would be great. Thanks...
One more thing. Usually the product that wasn't built well fails in the end. But it really depends on what market it is, how much demand there is and also who the customer is. The situation is going to be different if this is a product for the consumption of millions of people (ie, a game or whatnot) than if it is a product for a large corporation (large database interface, etc.)
This is one reason why we as a society need to find ways to get rid of this need for greed and wealth and money in general. Otherwise things just keep running into the ground.
...but according to this article on CNN. Companies aren't looking to buy the newest technology anymore. They are looking to cut costs. What gets me about this article though is they say that Sun and other Unix providers suffer and companies like Oracle and Microsoft win. I guess they are talking about proprietary Un*xes that use non-x86 CPUs.
Not that I agree that the definition of irony should be changed. But English is still a living language, which means that the definition and scope of words will change. So perhaps someday in the dictionary under the entry for irony or ironic, it will include what people commonly mean it to be.
No, that would make too much sense.
Ps. wouldn't it be nice if slashdot didn't make you wait 20 seconds to reply.
Good...
No, I'm not confusing them, I'm saying that to say that the worm had a peak infection rate of 3 billion systems per hour is very misleading because the worm would never actually infect 3 billion systems as long as there are less than 3 billion. The difference between this and say what your speedometer reads on your car is that in your car, provided there is enough road, you can most likely transverse 120 miles in one hour. The statistic should have said that the worm had a peak rate of 50 million computers per minute or 833,333 per second. This would have been more accurate.
What kind of a statistic is that? How can it fully complete a 3 billion system per hour cycle if there are not 3 billion systems to infect (I'm guessing that there aren't). So it's true rate is how ever many systems it actually did infect, which is likely a lot less than 3 billion. You can't just calculate the speed over 2 minutes and multiply it by 30. That'd be like a starship that was able to travel at 15 billion light years per hour. Really? Where would it go?
That's more than 1 per second since 1 billion seconds is almost 32 years.
Now if someone would only release a patch to stop that infernal beeping when you click in the wrong place on the window. xset and setterm seem to have no effect.
It's kinda strange looking in the end but I was rewarded with a rather funny picture on page 6 where you see the finished monitor, but in the background you see one of his speakers sitting on top of a monitor swing arm. ie. something else to use your monitor stand for?
Do you see a pattern here? Perhaps that deactivating these tags or documenting how to do it will violate the DMCA, then more people will have no choice but to adopt it. The DMCA may be further reaching than we all thought. Perhaps it's time to move to Tycho. ;-)