"Trains were not a revolution, just an evolution. People already knew how to get from point a to point b, a train just made the process faster. There's no reason laws for trains would need to be made. "
Uh, no. I don't disagree with your point entirely, but you really don't get it re trains. Yes, people "knew how to get from point a to point b", but the train did much more than make it fast. It made it *safe*. It made it so that people could travel from one end of the continental US in a few days (in relative safety) instead of months fraught with risk.
You would be just as (in)correct to say "Gutenberg didn't do anything special. People already knew how to make books. It just took a lot of monks with some time on their hands. He just made it a lot easier to get the words on to the page much more quickly."
Whoever modded the parent post down as "troll" needs to be smacked. It's not even "off topic." "Irrelevant", perhaps. Hmm. Note to self: Must Meta Moderate more often.
Could be worse. A friend of mine learned a lot of his Japanese from anime. He happens to be a fan of Shoujo (girls) anime. At a party one person asked me why my friend talked like a 12 year old girl.:) I couldn't say much. His Japanese is better than mine, it's just that his vocabulary is a touch... odd.
I remember a few years ago when the PC version of Magic was released. I thought it was funny. The original game's advertisement was "All you need is a deck, a brain and a friend." I guess that last requirement was a bit much for some of them.
The entire concept of "shoot to wound" is utter crap. There are certain basic rules of firearms everyone should know -
1. Always assume the firearm is loaded until you have verified it's status. If you *watch* someone unload it and hand it to you, you *still* treat it as if it were loaded until you check it yourself.
2. Keep your finger out of the trigger well until you plan to fire.
3. You should keep it pointed at the ground unless there is a specific reason to point it some other direction. Yes, even if you know it's unloaded.
3. Don't point the gun at anyone unless you plan to shoot them.
4. Don't shoot someone unless you plan to kill them.
5. Always aim for the center of mass. Trying to aim for legs or hands or heads is showing off, stupid, and likely to get someone (the wrong someone) killed.
Bryan (who has already told his boss that if he ever strikes it rich he will buy his pager and cell phone from his employer for the express purpose of taking them to the firing range and mounting them on targets)
This is *not* the same as making MP3's of all your CD's to listen to from your PC while you're at work. The only way this would have been "ok" would be if every single employee owned all of those CD's.
I think the RIAA's policies stink, but in this case they had the right. Not liking them doesn't give you the right to steal from them.
Bryan (who's going to do a scan of his networks tomorrow for MP3's to delete - if the users don't want me to find them they'd better stick them on the C: drive)
they are hyping the fact they couldn't get Nicole Kidman so they got their second resort Jodie Foster.
Nicole Kidman? Ye Gods. If they wanted her it must be awful. Am I the only one who can now use Kidman as a movie barometer? She's a guide to bad films all by herself. I can't think of a single movie she's been in that didn't bore me to tears. Eyes Wide Shut? Truly awful. Moulin Rouge? A great soundtrack. Just turn off your TV or get the CD. Batman Forever, The Peacemaker, Practical Magic, Days of Thunder. Need I say more?
Not all programs require yEnc in the subject line.
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He mentions this -
It relies upon "yEnc" being in the Subject to determine that the message contains a yEnc binary
Not necessarily. My personal favorite Usenet binaries file grabber, Binary Boy not only handles yEnc nicely but doesn't rely on the subject header to determine whether it's really a yEnc encode or not. Instead it scans the file itself. At least it does as of the current build. (yeah, it's a Windows program, it's closed source and you actually have to pay him money - get over it)
OS/2 is still being used for some things. It's still used to run the Octel 0100 voicemail system and it's just plain solid. It runs. I have *never* had an 0100 crash.
Bryan (who came very close to running Warp on his home system but never quite took the plunge)
At a guess, I'd say that the term came from the studio marketing dept.:)
"Hmmm. Whaddaya think guys? Can we fit 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' on a marquee? Can we get it out there without people thinking it's some sort of perverted SF porn film? Nah. Someone come up with a cool name that's 15 characters or less."
We're going to rule the world with our superior... um... our superior mapping technology? At least that's what the implication is in the article. Oooh, look out! If we decide we don't like you we'll make all the Germans drive their nice BMW's right in to a river with our
evil American GPS signals!
Many other countries, however, see the system as an American monopoly intent on reinforcing U.S. dominion.
Not that I have a problem with a parallel system. More power to anyone who wants to go for it, but "U.S. dominion" seems like kind of a silly justification.
I blow off steam with friends I *don't* work with. Several of them are in the IT field. We all know each other and trust one another. I can bitch and moan about management and the utter BS initiatives that come across - "They wan't you to do *what*? Are they INSANE?!?!" - and not worry about it coming back to bite me because someone couldn't keep their mouth shut.
Besides all that, I can't think of any of my coworkers I'd feel comfortable taking to the firing range. That's a fun way to take out your aggressions Forget FPS or bowling - real bullets and real recoil are a lot more fun. Blowing a few rounds of.357 or.45 through paper targets is a great way to unwind.:)
1. Get yourself a for-pay separate email account (I use runbox for my primary account and it's well worth the $ - @home's mail servers go down more than a well-known Presidential Intern).
2. Complain that their new rule is keeping you from using a service for which you are paying.
With regard to the screenplay, we already know that they've decided to take a bit of license with the story line, and increase Arwen's role (she's a lead character's love interest). They decided to do so because she really doesn't have much of a role in the story -- with the possible exception of Galadrial, no female character does.
I don't object to them increasing the role of Arwen a tad. I object to them turning her in to "Arwen, Warrior Elven Princess" instead of the mild-mannered minor character she was in the book. While we're at it why don't we cast Arnold Schwarzeneggar as Frodo? It's just as true to the story as an aggressive Arwen.
There is already one hell of a strong female character in the story, namely Eowyn. But I guess since she doesn't end up with one of the "Main" characters romantically she doesn't count.
I don't expect them to try to mimic the book 100%, but I do expect them to keep Tolkien's characerization at a minimum.
Bryan
(who will still see the movie, but is dreading the inevitable changes)
The article didn't claim it was the first DVD recorder to market. Read a little more carefully -
"The war over DVD recording standards will escalate Monday when Hewlett-Packard unwraps the details on its first DVD drive for PCs that lets people repeatedly record on discs."
No, they don't sell direct. You can order their stuff through your local Graybar.
Velcro closures, belt snaps that don't require fishing them through your belt as you get dressed. They have them sized for just about everything you can think of from flashlights to multitools to palmpilots & cell phones. Lots of stuff for police & fire too. The only negative comment I've had is that my cell phone and pager sitting adjacent on my belt look like a pistol holster.:)
A right to sponsor research and then try to silence the researchers when the results say something they don't like? No.
The problem comes when you start mixing public & private funds along with public and private interests. If I, BigRichCo, decide to fund research at a private institution with my private dollars, then yes, I can expect a certain degree of control over the results. However, if I then start funding research at a public institution / university with private dollars, that's where a conflict of interest comes in.
Research done at a public institution should be publicly held and publicly available, no strings attached. If you don't like it, start a private research lab.
IF "When it comes down to it, the site was designed for U of U, run on U of U servers, with U of U's name on it. Flikx put in a lot of time and effort, but that doesn't mean that he gets the IP rights to it."
THEN why is he held responsible for the content. They can't have it both ways, it's theirs to copyright and destroy but it's his material for disciplinary purposes? I mean, if they copy wrote it, technically they should discipline themselves for the malfeasant content they're claiming is their own.
Sorry, that doesn't work. Yes, it's U of U's property, physical & intellectual. However, he is responsible for the content.
Put it this way: If I decide to create an internal web page on my company's LAN, say a FAQ for my users, said page belongs to my employer. Even if they never asked me to create it and I did the work on my own time because I thought it would save me a lot of time & work later.
However, if I put things in there they don't like, I'll hear about it. If I put something truly special in there I can expect to be met at the door one morning by a guy with a cardboard box for my stuff. And that's my fault.
OTOH, U of U is handling this in a truly obnoxious manner. In a way the overreaction reminds me of the "zero tolerance" flaps taking place in our elementary & high schools now. If I was the school administration I'd have taken the site down, confiscated everything and told him to keep his nose clean until graduation.
Time to break internic's rules:
Wouldn't be the first time. Some time back there was a guy who managed to pull off registering "Miskatonic.edu" Dunno if they ever figured it out and pulled it, tho.
"You dare to skip my lecture! To the bottomless pit with you!"
The distinction is important for archivists, who might have, say, a building full of 9 track tapes to convert, a process which could take years.
Just ask NASA. It's been a couple of years but I remember a story about 2 guys who do nothing but that. They spend their day prepping deteriorating 9 track tapes to be copied to their HD and then burned to CDR. These are stacks of tape from the Apollo missions mostly. Much more time goes in to prep work than actual reading because the tapes have deteriorated to the point that if they're lucky they get one chance to read the tape. It pretty much self destructs in the process (not the tape itself - the metal oxide coating).
After a good meal at my favorite Japanese restaurant, my wife joked that she wanted an Asahi Beer Super Lucky Cat like the one on the shelf over the bar. I figured it couldn't be *that* hard to find one online. Two hours later I gave up for now.
If anyone happens to know where I can get one...
bporter@DELETEMErunbox.com
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"Trains were not a revolution, just an evolution. People already knew how to get from point a to point b, a train just made the process faster. There's no reason laws for trains would need to be made. "
Uh, no. I don't disagree with your point entirely, but you really don't get it re trains. Yes, people "knew how to get from point a to point b", but the train did much more than make it fast. It made it *safe*. It made it so that people could travel from one end of the continental US in a few days (in relative safety) instead of months fraught with risk.
You would be just as (in)correct to say "Gutenberg didn't do anything special. People already knew how to make books. It just took a lot of monks with some time on their hands. He just made it a lot easier to get the words on to the page much more quickly."
Consider your analogies people.
Whoever modded the parent post down as "troll" needs to be smacked. It's not even "off topic." "Irrelevant", perhaps. Hmm. Note to self: Must Meta Moderate more often.
Could be worse. A friend of mine learned a lot of his Japanese from anime. He happens to be a fan of Shoujo (girls) anime. At a party one person asked me why my friend talked like a 12 year old girl. :) I couldn't say much. His Japanese is better than mine, it's just that his vocabulary is a touch ... odd.
I remember a few years ago when the PC version of Magic was released. I thought it was funny. The original game's advertisement was "All you need is a deck, a brain and a friend." I guess that last requirement was a bit much for some of them.
Go see the trailer being shown at the end of FOTR. They do indeed show ents.
because you don't live in Europe, think again.
I live in Tennessee, but my email provider (Runbox.com) is based in Norway. Fortunately they managed to get their stuff together and should* be safe.
*should: a moral term that has nothing to do with computers. "It' should work." is a worthless statement.
The entire concept of "shoot to wound" is utter crap. There are certain basic rules of firearms everyone should know -
1. Always assume the firearm is loaded until you have verified it's status. If you *watch* someone unload it and hand it to you, you *still* treat it as if it were loaded until you check it yourself.
2. Keep your finger out of the trigger well until you plan to fire.
3. You should keep it pointed at the ground unless there is a specific reason to point it some other direction. Yes, even if you know it's unloaded.
3. Don't point the gun at anyone unless you plan to shoot them.
4. Don't shoot someone unless you plan to kill them.
5. Always aim for the center of mass. Trying to aim for legs or hands or heads is showing off, stupid, and likely to get someone (the wrong someone) killed.
Bryan
(who has already told his boss that if he ever strikes it rich he will buy his pager and cell phone from his employer for the express purpose of taking them to the firing range and mounting them on targets)
Uh, guys?
This is *not* the same as making MP3's of all your CD's to listen to from your PC while you're at work. The only way this would have been "ok" would be if every single employee owned all of those CD's.
I think the RIAA's policies stink, but in this case they had the right. Not liking them doesn't give you the right to steal from them.
Bryan
(who's going to do a scan of his networks tomorrow for MP3's to delete - if the users don't want me to find them they'd better stick them on the C: drive)
they are hyping the fact they couldn't get Nicole Kidman so they got their second resort Jodie Foster.
Nicole Kidman? Ye Gods. If they wanted her it must be awful. Am I the only one who can now use Kidman as a movie barometer? She's a guide to bad films all by herself. I can't think of a single movie she's been in that didn't bore me to tears. Eyes Wide Shut? Truly awful. Moulin Rouge? A great soundtrack. Just turn off your TV or get the CD. Batman Forever, The Peacemaker, Practical Magic, Days of Thunder. Need I say more?
He mentions this -
It relies upon "yEnc" being in the Subject to determine that the message contains a yEnc binary
Not necessarily. My personal favorite Usenet binaries file grabber, Binary Boy not only handles yEnc nicely but doesn't rely on the subject header to determine whether it's really a yEnc encode or not. Instead it scans the file itself. At least it does as of the current build. (yeah, it's a Windows program, it's closed source and you actually have to pay him money - get over it)
OS/2 is still being used for some things. It's still used to run the Octel 0100 voicemail system and it's just plain solid. It runs. I have *never* had an 0100 crash.
Bryan
(who came very close to running Warp on his home system but never quite took the plunge)
At a guess, I'd say that the term came from the studio marketing dept. :)
"Hmmm. Whaddaya think guys? Can we fit 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' on a marquee? Can we get it out there without people thinking it's some sort of perverted SF porn film? Nah. Someone come up with a cool name that's 15 characters or less."
evil American GPS signals!
Not that I have a problem with a parallel system. More power to anyone who wants to go for it, but "U.S. dominion" seems like kind of a silly justification.
I blow off steam with friends I *don't* work with. Several of them are in the IT field. We all know each other and trust one another. I can bitch and moan about management and the utter BS initiatives that come across - "They wan't you to do *what*? Are they INSANE?!?!" - and not worry about it coming back to bite me because someone couldn't keep their mouth shut.
.357 or .45 through paper targets is a great way to unwind. :)
Besides all that, I can't think of any of my coworkers I'd feel comfortable taking to the firing range. That's a fun way to take out your aggressions Forget FPS or bowling - real bullets and real recoil are a lot more fun. Blowing a few rounds of
1. Get yourself a for-pay separate email account (I use runbox for my primary account and it's well worth the $ - @home's mail servers go down more than a well-known Presidential Intern).
2. Complain that their new rule is keeping you from using a service for which you are paying.
3. When they say "too bad", Call a lawyer.
You can release your tensions and act out your aggressions (on the equipment only, mind you) with another kind of titanium ..
http://www.taurususa.com/titanium/index.html
rm -rf /bin/Laden
With regard to the screenplay, we already know that they've decided to take a bit of license with the story line, and increase Arwen's role (she's a lead character's love interest). They decided to do so because she really doesn't have much of a role in the story -- with the possible exception of Galadrial, no female character does.
I don't object to them increasing the role of Arwen a tad. I object to them turning her in to "Arwen, Warrior Elven Princess" instead of the mild-mannered minor character she was in the book. While we're at it why don't we cast Arnold Schwarzeneggar as Frodo? It's just as true to the story as an aggressive Arwen.
There is already one hell of a strong female character in the story, namely Eowyn. But I guess since she doesn't end up with one of the "Main" characters romantically she doesn't count.
I don't expect them to try to mimic the book 100%, but I do expect them to keep Tolkien's characerization at a minimum.
Bryan
(who will still see the movie, but is dreading the inevitable changes)
The article didn't claim it was the first DVD recorder to market. Read a little more carefully -
"The war over DVD recording standards will escalate Monday when Hewlett-Packard unwraps the details on its first DVD drive for PCs that lets people repeatedly record on discs."
Note the word before "first" is "its", not "the."
Ripoffs
No, they don't sell direct. You can order their stuff through your local Graybar.
Velcro closures, belt snaps that don't require fishing them through your belt as you get dressed. They have them sized for just about everything you can think of from flashlights to multitools to palmpilots & cell phones. Lots of stuff for police & fire too. The only negative comment I've had is that my cell phone and pager sitting adjacent on my belt look like a pistol holster. :)
A right to sponsor research and then try to silence the researchers when the results say something they don't like? No.
The problem comes when you start mixing public & private funds along with public and private interests. If I, BigRichCo, decide to fund research at a private institution with my private dollars, then yes, I can expect a certain degree of control over the results. However, if I then start funding research at a public institution / university with private dollars, that's where a conflict of interest comes in.
Research done at a public institution should be publicly held and publicly available, no strings attached. If you don't like it, start a private research lab.
THEN why is he held responsible for the content. They can't have it both ways, it's theirs to copyright and destroy but it's his material for disciplinary purposes? I mean, if they copy wrote it, technically they should discipline themselves for the malfeasant content they're claiming is their own.
Sorry, that doesn't work. Yes, it's U of U's property, physical & intellectual. However, he is responsible for the content.Put it this way: If I decide to create an internal web page on my company's LAN, say a FAQ for my users, said page belongs to my employer. Even if they never asked me to create it and I did the work on my own time because I thought it would save me a lot of time & work later.
However, if I put things in there they don't like, I'll hear about it. If I put something truly special in there I can expect to be met at the door one morning by a guy with a cardboard box for my stuff. And that's my fault.
OTOH, U of U is handling this in a truly obnoxious manner. In a way the overreaction reminds me of the "zero tolerance" flaps taking place in our elementary & high schools now. If I was the school administration I'd have taken the site down, confiscated everything and told him to keep his nose clean until graduation.
Time to break internic's rules: Wouldn't be the first time. Some time back there was a guy who managed to pull off registering "Miskatonic.edu" Dunno if they ever figured it out and pulled it, tho. "You dare to skip my lecture! To the bottomless pit with you!"
The distinction is important for archivists, who might have, say, a building full of 9 track tapes to convert, a process which could take years. Just ask NASA. It's been a couple of years but I remember a story about 2 guys who do nothing but that. They spend their day prepping deteriorating 9 track tapes to be copied to their HD and then burned to CDR. These are stacks of tape from the Apollo missions mostly. Much more time goes in to prep work than actual reading because the tapes have deteriorated to the point that if they're lucky they get one chance to read the tape. It pretty much self destructs in the process (not the tape itself - the metal oxide coating).
After a good meal at my favorite Japanese restaurant, my wife joked that she wanted an Asahi Beer Super Lucky Cat like the one on the shelf over the bar. I figured it couldn't be *that* hard to find one online. Two hours later I gave up for now. If anyone happens to know where I can get one ...
bporter@DELETEMErunbox.com