You guys are aware that solar flare and sunspot activity are connected to a cycle and that this kind of thing will happen for quite awhile longer before the activity dies off, right? There is really no point of putting up a story about every time we have a big flare, because this could go on for awhile and is really quite normal behavior.
Or did we just manage to/. nasa (ok, so this page at nasa, but still)? Or is it normally this unresponsive? If they can't take on/. and survive, maybe they shouldn't be put in charge of so much sensitive equipment/rocket fuel...
In one of my classes, the professor offered 3% bonus if the class could not have one cell phone go off the whole semster. Half way through that class period, a cell phone goes off in the front row.
ARRRGGHHH.
People need to get over it. Two years ago, you could afford to be out of the loop for a whole _hour_ to go to class, so why can't you now? Just because you don't have to? Blah.
Furthermore, do their lawyers realize that the above would only be illegal if SCO held a patent on UNIX? As in, all UNIX, and as in, a patent, not a copyright. I think the IEEE (or OpenGroup maybe) ought to say a word or two about who owns the copyright on the UNIX standards.
Well, the issue is that different distrobutions include different sets of tools. Some, for example, include many more daemons (think apache, mysql, etc) and turn them on by default. Also, there will be a noticible difference between Gentoo built for Athlon versus Gentoo built for i386, for example. Similarly, the default build instructions are different for different distros. You might download a Redhat ISO targetted for the i586 (pentium) or perhaps Mandrake targetted at i686. So in those cases, often, it would matter.
Nah, the quote was, in fact, "Thank God for Microsoft." You are right, though, that he was talking about Power Point. For some reason, that sig makes people very angry though:)
So? You already shouldn't be using code owned by the said 'less benevolent entities.' Your arguement boils down to "It makes it harder to steal!" I'm all for the protection of software copyrights by both technical and legal means. Now, if it is a question of someone illegally claiming ownership via watermark, the true owner should have plenty of evidence on hand to prove the rogue watermarker has no legal ground to claim ownership-- just as if I took all of the linux source files, put a comment at the top that said "Copyright 2003, Me" and started distributing it.
It is interesting that when you look at the full list of numbers, there are tons of industries that have payed him even more (the oil industry? *gasp* not in louisiana-- never!:)). True, it is kind of worrying that anyone that accepts any outside money is put in charge of anything, but there are two things to consider about that: a) no one accepts funding from any industry, only the rich can afford to run for office, b) How many other people have been payed off by the entertainment industry? If these are somewhat typical contributions on the part of the MPAA, then we might have lost the game...
It isn't like it is the MPAA's job to pick someone that will fairly consider both sides of the issue.
They were talking about flushing the READ cache, iirc-- the bit of memory in your CD-ROM that contains the most recent/popularly read parts of the disk. Some times it is a good idea to flush said cache, instead of rebuilding it by writing over line by line in a full cache. Of course, you are right that it is very stupid for a drive to self-destruct under a flush command (or any command, really).
The war was clearly not about oil, and it's quite obvious that not a drop of it is going to be 'stolen', but don't underestimate the boosting effect cheap oil can have on an economy.
Congratulations, you got closer to what I meant than I did in my original post. Thanks.:)
Why do you care if it is a referral or not? It doesn't cost _you_ anything extra. Though it would cost you time to actually bother to remove the referral info.
From 1996-2001, the Iraqi oil revenue was a total of less than 51 billion. It will cost significantly more than $10 a year to maintain a 'colony' in Iraq. Even assuming upkeep was nothing, and there were no costs after today in Iraq for the US, it would take more than a decade to "pay off" the invasion costs. There are cheaper ways of acquiring the oil than that. Many other countries simply put money in Sadam's pocket, and leased rigs. This is much more cost effective. I think a lot of what the administration has said was bullshit, but I don't buy the blood for oil policy either. People should wisen up and realize that there ARE more important things to the administration than money (i.e. power).
11. Don't spend more money invading a country than actual value of the oil under said country, especially when there are better oil profit/cost relationships in the same region, and the production in question could easily be had from French, German, or Russian companies that actually owned many of the rigs for much less.
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My preferred guide to software development is the corporate environment presented in a fine piece of cinema. You may have seen it. It is called "Office Space." So far the only thing I've found lacking in reality is Milton.
My dad is a hospital administrator, and at the hospital he runs (in rural Louisiana, none the less), they just invested in a voice recognition package specific to medical transcription. They never outsourced their transcription needs overseas, but they were having trouble meeting their needs with the staff on hand. So far he says it works far better than he expected, and has generated any serious errors (it tends to be better at picking out the appropriate medical words than at transcribing normal english. because the doctors tend to use rather obscure words). They still proofread the transcriptions as an error checking, but over all, it has been more accurate than even human transcription and cheaper too.
You have angered the RIAJ and offended our honor. Ha! You shall be destroyed! Ha! You can not hope to match our badly dubbed might. Err... you have no chance to survive, make your time?
UT (Texas) actually spent money printing manuals on stable lego construction for the Intro Electrical Engineering Class (part of the lab is taught with lego mindstorms). I don't think they actually payed anyone to write it, but they did print a ton of copies and bind them up, with covers and everything. The manuals have next to nothing in them about the specs of the RCX module, NQC, or even the horrible "RoboLab" software they actually expect us to use. Tons of stuff about lego drivetrains though...
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I saw MSH and immediatly thought MS Hell, not MS Shell.
Perhaps it should be MSSH?
And I'm not bashing either.
You guys are aware that solar flare and sunspot activity are connected to a cycle and that this kind of thing will happen for quite awhile longer before the activity dies off, right? There is really no point of putting up a story about every time we have a big flare, because this could go on for awhile and is really quite normal behavior.
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I g07 t3h h4ckz.
(I'm kidding. If you think this post is motivation enough to flame me, go right ahead.)
Or did we just manage to /. nasa (ok, so this page at nasa, but still)? Or is it normally this unresponsive? If they can't take on /. and survive, maybe they shouldn't be put in charge of so much sensitive equipment/rocket fuel...
Sadly, enough, I actually used that this morning. Of course, it was about a radio telescope...
In one of my classes, the professor offered 3% bonus if the class could not have one cell phone go off the whole semster. Half way through that class period, a cell phone goes off in the front row.
ARRRGGHHH.
People need to get over it. Two years ago, you could afford to be out of the loop for a whole _hour_ to go to class, so why can't you now? Just because you don't have to? Blah.
This is a standard troll. Please don't feed. It is like a form letter. Fill in the OS, and you're all ready to go.
Furthermore, do their lawyers realize that the above would only be illegal if SCO held a patent on UNIX? As in, all UNIX, and as in, a patent, not a copyright. I think the IEEE (or OpenGroup maybe) ought to say a word or two about who owns the copyright on the UNIX standards.
Well, the issue is that different distrobutions include different sets of tools. Some, for example, include many more daemons (think apache, mysql, etc) and turn them on by default. Also, there will be a noticible difference between Gentoo built for Athlon versus Gentoo built for i386, for example. Similarly, the default build instructions are different for different distros. You might download a Redhat ISO targetted for the i586 (pentium) or perhaps Mandrake targetted at i686. So in those cases, often, it would matter.
Nah, the quote was, in fact, "Thank God for Microsoft." You are right, though, that he was talking about Power Point. For some reason, that sig makes people very angry though :)
I have a leaked beta of the new linux.
So? You already shouldn't be using code owned by the said 'less benevolent entities.' Your arguement boils down to "It makes it harder to steal!" I'm all for the protection of software copyrights by both technical and legal means. Now, if it is a question of someone illegally claiming ownership via watermark, the true owner should have plenty of evidence on hand to prove the rogue watermarker has no legal ground to claim ownership-- just as if I took all of the linux source files, put a comment at the top that said "Copyright 2003, Me" and started distributing it.
:)
Of course, you are the egg troll
It is interesting that when you look at the full list of numbers, there are tons of industries that have payed him even more (the oil industry? *gasp* not in louisiana-- never! :)). True, it is kind of worrying that anyone that accepts any outside money is put in charge of anything, but there are two things to consider about that: a) no one accepts funding from any industry, only the rich can afford to run for office, b) How many other people have been payed off by the entertainment industry? If these are somewhat typical contributions on the part of the MPAA, then we might have lost the game...
It isn't like it is the MPAA's job to pick someone that will fairly consider both sides of the issue.
They were talking about flushing the READ cache, iirc-- the bit of memory in your CD-ROM that contains the most recent/popularly read parts of the disk. Some times it is a good idea to flush said cache, instead of rebuilding it by writing over line by line in a full cache. Of course, you are right that it is very stupid for a drive to self-destruct under a flush command (or any command, really).
The war was clearly not about oil, and it's quite obvious that not a drop of it is going to be 'stolen', but don't underestimate the boosting effect cheap oil can have on an economy.
:)
Congratulations, you got closer to what I meant than I did in my original post. Thanks.
Why do you care if it is a referral or not? It doesn't cost _you_ anything extra. Though it would cost you time to actually bother to remove the referral info.
http://www.notinournames.org/iht/articles/vonspone ck-oil-revenues.html
From 1996-2001, the Iraqi oil revenue was a total of less than 51 billion. It will cost significantly more than $10 a year to maintain a 'colony' in Iraq. Even assuming upkeep was nothing, and there were no costs after today in Iraq for the US, it would take more than a decade to "pay off" the invasion costs. There are cheaper ways of acquiring the oil than that. Many other countries simply put money in Sadam's pocket, and leased rigs. This is much more cost effective. I think a lot of what the administration has said was bullshit, but I don't buy the blood for oil policy either. People should wisen up and realize that there ARE more important things to the administration than money (i.e. power).
11. Don't spend more money invading a country than actual value of the oil under said country, especially when there are better oil profit/cost relationships in the same region, and the production in question could easily be had from French, German, or Russian companies that actually owned many of the rigs for much less.
Money can't buy justice!
Err... um, money didn't always buy justice!
My preferred guide to software development is the corporate environment presented in a fine piece of cinema. You may have seen it. It is called "Office Space." So far the only thing I've found lacking in reality is Milton.
Generally, when Darl is talking, it isn't out of the mouth...
My dad is a hospital administrator, and at the hospital he runs (in rural Louisiana, none the less), they just invested in a voice recognition package specific to medical transcription. They never outsourced their transcription needs overseas, but they were having trouble meeting their needs with the staff on hand. So far he says it works far better than he expected, and has generated any serious errors (it tends to be better at picking out the appropriate medical words than at transcribing normal english. because the doctors tend to use rather obscure words). They still proofread the transcriptions as an error checking, but over all, it has been more accurate than even human transcription and cheaper too.
You have angered the RIAJ and offended our honor.
Ha!
You shall be destroyed!
Ha!
You can not hope to match our badly dubbed might.
Err... you have no chance to survive, make your time?
I can import one and get all of the new Shoyu Weeni tunes.
If you don't get it, you need to watch more Harvey Birdman.
UT (Texas) actually spent money printing manuals on stable lego construction for the Intro Electrical Engineering Class (part of the lab is taught with lego mindstorms). I don't think they actually payed anyone to write it, but they did print a ton of copies and bind them up, with covers and everything. The manuals have next to nothing in them about the specs of the RCX module, NQC, or even the horrible "RoboLab" software they actually expect us to use. Tons of stuff about lego drivetrains though...