I've got a million questions i'd like to ask you, but... I'll limit myself to just one.:) Many of us here have been using your creation for a decade or more -- well before the "internet revolution" of the early/mid 90's. We remember the internet as being largely free of porn, spam, and all the other forms of noise that appeared soon after. The net seemed cleaner, quieter, and more civilized than it is now. Many of us saw it coming..others felt it would never happen.
My question to you is, having witnessed what the internet has evolved into over the years, do you feel that network perversion (i.e. "perversion" as in misuse...not sexual or moral perversion) is an inevitable consequence of networking in general?...In other words, was the "noise boom" unavoidable?
Our technologically advanced culture has yet to produce a toaster that will neither A) burns toast, or B) toasts evenly.
In other words, we can't even perfect a simple mechanical appliance installed in nearly every single home in our country. Millions of them worldwide, of every imaginable shape and size.
What makes you think someone's going to do the same to a $2M piece of hardware beyond any one person's ability to fully understand and comprehend?
In order to find bugs in the system, you're going to need a SysAdmin. If even a single bug iis discovered in this "SysAdmin replacement" software, you're going to need a SysAdmin to install the patch. To my knowledge, Sun has never produced a bug-free piece of software, ever. The sheer depth and complexity needed to write such a piece of software makes the possibility of it being bug-free virtually impossible. In essence, this project is a titanic waste of time.
When are you people going to believe me? I wasn't kidding about Sun's new "Insanity First" initiative, dammit!
"What do you want??? Never repeat an idea in and article??>
Yes.
My point was, this guy is not stating anything new, or even revolutionary. Any bozo with half a clue can see where wireless is going. Apparently, this guy is just now getting a whiff of technology other people have been trying to deploy for decades. He's far from the clairvoyant this article depicts him as.
Oh dear.. If Nicholas Negroponte's opinion constitutes a brilling insight into the future of wireless technology, that must make you and I look like friggin' Nostradamus. He's not only stating the obvious, he's stating what packet radio geeks have known for decades. Lilypad computing is an inevitable consequence of mobile communications. To anyone familliar with the technology, its obvious. Yeesh....I dont mean to slam Negroponte, but....Heheheh, if stating the obvious is the only pre-requisite for getting your name in lights on Slashdot, I would like to offer a few of my own radically futuristic thoughts and observations.
o Computers are cool, and are getting more and more powerful each year!
o In my opinion, the sky is likely to stay blue.... for a long, long time.
o Many politicians are corrupt!
o Food will become stinky if left out too long.
o If you don't tie your shoe laces, you may trip over them, or worse --- You may fall down! o Community networks such as the ones described by Negroponte are a natural outgrowth of its adoption by consumers. Duh.
o People who end up in car accidents will, oddly enough, send their car in....for repairs!
o Babies smell nice!
o Wireless clouds are rapidly becoming wireless fabrics. Soon, the nation will be filled with people out wardriving who don't even know they're doing so. Welcome to 1975, Nicholas! We've got a great big convoy, rockin' through the night! Oh-we've got a great big connnnvoy, ain't she a beautiful sight.....Coooonnnvoooooy....
I dont have any money because my company got rid of me, replaced me with two Nigerians and a six-pack of Hindus, despite my having 4 certifications and 10 years experience."
"Here's an example of Redhat's lack of courtesy: They disabled the KDE About Box. Now users cannot easily know what license an application is under, nor who the author is. Frankly, this borders on a GPL violation, but no matter, the discourtesy is by far the greater sin.
Actually, this is far from a GPL violation. You are not obligated in any way to preserve authorship credit in GPL'ed software. Infact, according to the GPL, you dont even need to release the source publically -- Only upon request, and even then, you can even charge a small fee for doing so. What you've described here would be a violation of the BSD license, but not in GPL terms. What you're talking about are largely cosmetic changes -- something that RedHat is perfectly entitled to do.
I'll give you a good example. Back in May of '98, RedHat started carrying Propaganda tiles. They opted to rename them, feeling that some of the filenames might raise a few eyebrows upon release. They asked my permission to do so, however -- Which I of course granted.. However, they didn't need to ask me in the first place. Hell, they didn't even have to give me credit. They would be perfectly within their rights to do both without my concent.
Wallpaper differs from window decoration in one very important way: A change of wallpaper does not interfere with functionality. Moving the buttons around in a window, however, does interfere with functionality. The addition of a wallpaper doesn't change how a user interacts with their machine. The problem with having multiple window styles is that you effectively create multiple methods of accessing the same stuff. While its neat and cool for many of us, the rest of the world considers this a hinderance, not an advantage. The appearance and usability of the desktop is 99% of the ballgame when it comes to PCs. If the face you present to the world isn't a coherent one, it doesn't matter how great the programs are, or how neat the idea of open source is. It simply wont catch on. We are human beings with eyes, and thats how we judge things, like it or not. By appearances.
Anyway, as i'm sure you'd agree.....Mechanically, changing wallpapers affects nothing, but, changing window layouts affects everything. Some things should remain unalterable. The basic layout and appearance of a window is one of those things.
As unremarkable as it appears on the surface, this may very well be the most significant milestone in Linux's history -- the first step towards a unified desktop appearance.
Whether you like or not, the rest of the world doesn't want "freedom of choice" when it comes to their desktop appearance. They want freedom from choice. They want familliarity. They want sensibile designs. They want a look and feel that will still apply from one machine to the next. They do NOT want pointless bells and whistles like having sideways titlebars and 18 different ways to unminimize a window. They just want to sit down, do their work and move on.
We are not the average user.
All a user should ever need to be concerned with is just that -- getting the job done. In no way whatsoever should they even know about (or even CARE about) the fact that their apps may be provided by two completely different toolkits. Thats our concern, not theirs.
A lack of continuity in the appearance of the Linux desktop has been one if not THE largest stumbling block in Linux' acceptance on the desktop. It all starts there. Say you're a company trying to offer Linux support for their products --- You cant show snapshots of a Linux desktop in the manual, because they all friggin look different! You cant even explain it in text, because "Go here and do this" can often mean two holly and distinctly different things, depending on if youre using KDE, or GNOME, or God knows what.
Windows has a distinct face to it. So does the Mac. So does AIX. So did the Amiga. So did the Atari ST. So does even friggin Solaris! But Linux? No. The Linux desktop, up until now, is a schitzophrenic mess of different personalities dictates by the whims of individual users.
You guys have no idea how important this evolutionary step was. And I, for one, cannot applaud RedHat enough for having the balls and the smarts to take it.
Prologue: As processor speeds increase, computers worldwide have traditionally become more and more unstable..People blamed Microsoft..Software becomes buggier and buggier, to the point where its an accepted part of computing that stuff fails on a regular basis.
Plot: In 2003, household PCs have begun to reach speeds approaching 3 GHz... One night over a sixpack of Dew, a group of computer science geeks with copper blocks and good overclocking skillz (heh) manage to bench 3.1 GHz for the first time in their dorm, and the true reason for years worth of "errors" are revealed. Around 3 GHz, fragments of text are found to materialize in the data that don't belong there -- messages like "Can any-#e se_ this?" "ArE %ou there?" "Is anyone thT*re?"...Linux hackers notice it first, of course, since we're the only ones doing any debugging anymore, or looking at coredumps:) It turns out that at 3.1415 GHz, energy resonsates in such a way as to make communications with the [ past | future | deceased ] possible for the first time. The Government finds out, confiscates the equiptment, and kills the students.
The government takes the gear in to be studied. Emergency meetings are called between the Government and the big 3 -- IBM/HP/Compaq/Sun, to build a "research nexus" where this technology can be developed or exploited for commercial/military gain. During testing, the dead hackers send a message through the engineers telling them who they are, and how they died...The engineers look back in time to learn how the government killed the students, and look forward to see what will happen if this device is every fully developed...A complete friggin nightmare. The plot could diverge into a number of different subthreads at this point, including: "pissed engineers conspire to destroy or shitcan the idea", "the engineers realize they are the ones on the inside trying to communicate out", or "the guys in the dorm hack the hack, so to speak, to go back and make it so that they dont die". Take your pick.:)
In the end, the final scene of the movie shows a complete duplicate of the opening scene, except they decide 3.14 GHz is too fast, and step the clock down a little. One little change in judgement when it comes to overclocking avoids the whole movie.
Sooner or later, it's going to hit its saturation point. Just like with any other network.
The only problem with 802.11b is that you only have a relatively small range to work within. It doesn't take much to have so much traffic in the 2.4 GHz band that smaller wireless devices become useless in anything but Ad-Hoc mode. The future may not so much be in providing wireless technology as Dartmouth suggests, but in developing technologies that control the manner in which these devices communicate (e.g. some way to tell a client to use a different channel, switching, trunking, etc.)
Ich liefere Ihnen Licht und Kraft
Und ermögliche es Ihnen Sprache, Musik und Bild
Durch den Äther auszusenden und zu empfangen Ich bin Ihr Diener und Ihr Herr zugleich
Deshalb hütet mich gut..
Mich, den Genius der Energie.
Makes you wonder how guys like this can manage to remain employed, while the rest of us scrape out a living from unemployment benefits.
This guy buys a 64Kbps X 24 line...and gets 300-600Kbps out of it. Its like, jesus christ you fuckin tard, do the math! This guy has to be from California, he's so clueless. My cable modem, on good days, can pull down at upwards of 2000-2200Kbps, and this guy wonders if 300Kbps on his T1 is acceptable.
You're right. A well placed bitchslap is more than called for here. Any bash monkey can whip up a script to move data over the T1, and clock it repeatedly over the course of several hours. Instead, he tries to use the fucking web. Brilliant.
For the luscious Ginger, I designed my own. A platinum ring with six 5pt round cuts (3 down each side) with a 1 ct. round cut center stone, and baugettes on the sides.. Roughly a $9K-$10K ring. And in my opinion, worth every penny.
Here's what you need to know:
1) Do NOT under ANY circumstances buy from a "mall jeweler".. Mall jewelers sell crap. Literally. Crap quality mass-produced cookie cutter rings with very, very little attention paid to workmanship. Sure, mall jewelers are fine for little things, but for an engadgement ring? No way. Avoid them like the plague. Establish a relationship with a local family jeweler, and one you can trust. Avoid ones that are not run by American citizens.. You can get taken in a hurry by doing business with someone willing to shaft you. The better jewelers will ALWAYS be interested in making a very good first impression with you, to earn your business for years down the road, not for one-time deals.
2) INSIST on having all stones graded by a GIA-Certified gemologist. A good jeweler will have a side office set up, and one or two gemologists who do business there regularly. Ask to see credentials. If they dont have them, or hesitate in ANY form, back out. A good jeweler stands behind his reputation. A shitty jeweler will use distraction and excuses. If possible, ask to see the stone(s) individually under high-powered magnification, using a diamond light. Only a trained eye can spot flaws under a loop. Also, ask to have the diamond "tested" using a UV meter to determine whether its genuine or not. No jeweler worth his salt will be insulted by this request. Another mark of a good, reputable jeweler is if they have a shop on-site, with a full time jeweler complete with leather smock and goggles. Theyre rare, but theyre worth the effort to find. Ask for reccomendations. From adults. Not your peers.:)
3) LIFETIME GUARANTEE. Under no circumstances should you lay down that kinda money for anything less. Chances are, in the future, your wife will have regular maintenance performed on the ring beyond the scope of cleaning. If you dont have a guarantee, you'll be screwed over and over again.
4) DO NOT CUT CORNERS. Cutting corners is bad in two ways -- A) Your wife WILL know, and you DONT want that! B) You get what you pay for. Get the highest quality for what you can afford. Anyone can buy a crappy ring...and most women dont assign a material value on a ring. They assign emotional value to it. You can have a simple, elegant, high quality ring for $2K.
In my case, I was lucky. The center stone I used is an heirloom stone thats been in my family for 3 generations, and was F in clarity and G in color.. The center stone alone is $6000-$7000. I was able to put the remainder of the money towards the setting, and infact, had enough money to have the piece custom made. Its a friggin knockout...and it means alot to ME, personally, because everytime I see it, I know how much BS&T I put into it. I'm proud of what I was able to give her..and she'll have it for the rest of her life. That easilly justifies the cost.
Before High School, actually, in Junior High, I occupied my time working on a game called "Genocide". I didn't know what "RISK" was at the time, which was amusing, because my game turned out to be alot like it.. Sort of like RISK, but with nukes, targets, and priorities..I had a folder in which I contained all my code (hand-written in AppleSoft BASIC! Hah!)..a nice blue folder I had decorated with newspaper clippings of fighter planes, warheads, mushroom clouds and the like...I named it "Genocide", and wrote the word across the top of the folder in big black letters.
Anyway, that wasnt the fun part. When I was in Junior High, I was very, very quiet. I had no friends. Since I wasn't interested in being popular, or pestering my parents to buy me acid-washed pants and a jean jacket, I more or less blew off my classes and spent my time scribbling code. Such a flagrant act of creativity was a cause of great concern on behalf of my math teacher, and my school's Principal & Vice Principal. They hauled me in one day to question me, like there might be something wrong, and asked me if I was scared of Russians bombing us..something that resembled a friggin drug intervention. Looking back, they were asking me alot of questions in order to determine whether or not I was on drugs, certifiably nuts, or otherwise missing something... (yeah, I know, not much has changed..:) ) Apparently, it turns out my math teacher had expressed some concern over the fact I was carrying around a folder with the words "GENOCIDE" written across the top in big bold letters. They demanded I give up my folder, and offered me a bunch of manilla folders instead. I didn't get it, and being all of 11 years old, I didn't know how to tell adults to fuck off yet.
Since they took my blue folder (and my code!) away from me, I started over. I named the sequel "HOLOCAUST", and subsequently made another folder (this time red) with magazine pictures taped on the front, with the title of the game similarly plastered across the top of the folder in big black letters. I got suspended, out of school, for 3 days.
Turns out my math teacher was Jewish, and thought that I was trying to push his buttons and fuck with his head. He cited an argument him and I got into in class where I told him the parallel lines he drew on the blackboard weren't truly parallel, and that it would be impossible for him to ever draw truly parallel lines. My parents ended up explaining to the school board that an 11 year olds usually lack a thurough understanding of the sociopolitical policies of the German government during the 1930's and 40's.
I honestly didn't know I was offending anyone..I just thought they were cool names for a game. Apparently, its okay to make a game centered on nuclear war where millions of people die, but, naming it "genocide" or "holocaust" was a no-no.
I should have called it "Ouch! You Hurt My Civilization!"..
It's simple, really. If you want to undermine Microsoft, pirate the hell out of their products, and direct people to the alternatives.
It's the American way to express your dissatisfaction with a company. When it's clear who's pocket your elected officials are in, you have a God-given right to revolt.
1) A bootable Linux CD and a few drops of krazy-glue on the spindle hub makes any PC a permanent Linux box. 2) Alt-S, Up Arrow, Enter, CMD, Enter, del c:\winnt\explorer.exe, Enter. bye-bye Windows. 3) Find a list of elected officials' email addresses. Send them an email describing "a new game I hope you enjoy it."
4) Linux-on-a-floppy, and a tap of the reset button.
5) Point people to OpenOffice, not MS Office.
6) Microsoft has a nice "automatic update" feature. It would be nice if we could back-engineer this to introduce an update to Linux.
7) Burn, And Share.
8) The going rate for Microsoft exploits is about 2:1.. For every new product, there are an average of 2 ways to castrate it. Pick a nut. 9) The Trojans knew what they were doing when they climbed inside the horse. Do you?
10) Charity overpowers Greed, and Generosity is a virtue.
A couple days ago I was shopping for a birthday gift for my fiance'...more notably a DVD player. I happened to walk through the section which Best Buy had set up to demo these horseshit "next generation" digital TVs. They had a wall-mounted plasma HDTV with a pricetag of $29999 on it. I looked behind me at the big-screen analog TVs, and noticed the picture was far nicer on them, with better clarity, and a sharper picture than they were on this $30K hunk of shit.
The FCC can take their "mandate" and shove it up their ass. You wont see digital TVs in the future. You'll see analog TV's with digital-to-analog converters built in, most likely. Everyone knows its a massive screw job.
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And yeah, you can quote me on that.
Dr. Cerf,
First of all, thank you---From all of us.
I've got a million questions i'd like to ask you, but... I'll limit myself to just one.
My question to you is, having witnessed what the internet has evolved into over the years, do you feel that network perversion (i.e. "perversion" as in misuse...not sexual or moral perversion) is an inevitable consequence of networking in general?
It's real simple.
Our technologically advanced culture has yet to produce a toaster that will neither A) burns toast, or B) toasts evenly.
In other words, we can't even perfect a simple mechanical appliance installed in nearly every single home in our country. Millions of them worldwide, of every imaginable shape and size.
What makes you think someone's going to do the same to a $2M piece of hardware beyond any one person's ability to fully understand and comprehend?
Cheers,
People, people.... use your heads!
In order to find bugs in the system, you're going to need a SysAdmin. If even a single bug iis discovered in this "SysAdmin replacement" software, you're going to need a SysAdmin to install the patch. To my knowledge, Sun has never produced a bug-free piece of software, ever. The sheer depth and complexity needed to write such a piece of software makes the possibility of it being bug-free virtually impossible. In essence, this project is a titanic waste of time.
When are you people going to believe me? I wasn't kidding about Sun's new "Insanity First" initiative, dammit!
"What do you want??? Never repeat an idea in and article??>
Yes.
My point was, this guy is not stating anything new, or even revolutionary. Any bozo with half a clue can see where wireless is going. Apparently, this guy is just now getting a whiff of technology other people have been trying to deploy for decades. He's far from the clairvoyant this article depicts him as.
Cheers,
Oh dear.. If Nicholas Negroponte's opinion constitutes a brilling insight into the future of wireless technology, that must make you and I look like friggin' Nostradamus. He's not only stating the obvious, he's stating what packet radio geeks have known for decades. Lilypad computing is an inevitable consequence of mobile communications. To anyone familliar with the technology, its obvious. Yeesh....I dont mean to slam Negroponte, but....Heheheh, if stating the obvious is the only pre-requisite for getting your name in lights on Slashdot, I would like to offer a few of my own radically futuristic thoughts and observations.
o Computers are cool, and are getting more and more powerful each year!
o In my opinion, the sky is likely to stay blue.... for a long, long time.
o Many politicians are corrupt!
o Food will become stinky if left out too long.
o If you don't tie your shoe laces, you may trip over them, or worse --- You may fall down!
o Community networks such as the ones described by Negroponte are a natural outgrowth of its adoption by consumers. Duh.
o People who end up in car accidents will, oddly enough, send their car in....for repairs!
o Babies smell nice!
o Wireless clouds are rapidly becoming wireless fabrics. Soon, the nation will be filled with people out wardriving who don't even know they're doing so. Welcome to 1975, Nicholas! We've got a great big convoy, rockin' through the night! Oh-we've got a great big connnnvoy, ain't she a beautiful sight.....Coooonnnvoooooy....
A cell phone named "Symbian".. Small enough to fit you-know-where, and vibrate.
My culture has destroyed itself.
Cheers,
More like:
I dont have any money because my company got rid of me, replaced me with two Nigerians and a six-pack of Hindus, despite my having 4 certifications and 10 years experience."
Cheers,
"Here's an example of Redhat's lack of courtesy: They disabled the KDE About Box. Now users cannot easily know what license an application is under, nor who the author is. Frankly, this borders on a GPL violation, but no matter, the discourtesy is by far the greater sin.
Actually, this is far from a GPL violation. You are not obligated in any way to preserve authorship credit in GPL'ed software. Infact, according to the GPL, you dont even need to release the source publically -- Only upon request, and even then, you can even charge a small fee for doing so. What you've described here would be a violation of the BSD license, but not in GPL terms. What you're talking about are largely cosmetic changes -- something that RedHat is perfectly entitled to do.
I'll give you a good example. Back in May of '98, RedHat started carrying Propaganda tiles. They opted to rename them, feeling that some of the filenames might raise a few eyebrows upon release. They asked my permission to do so, however -- Which I of course granted.. However, they didn't need to ask me in the first place. Hell, they didn't even have to give me credit. They would be perfectly within their rights to do both without my concent.
Cheers,
A valid question! And, here's your answer:
Wallpaper differs from window decoration in one very important way: A change of wallpaper does not interfere with functionality. Moving the buttons around in a window, however, does interfere with functionality. The addition of a wallpaper doesn't change how a user interacts with their machine. The problem with having multiple window styles is that you effectively create multiple methods of accessing the same stuff. While its neat and cool for many of us, the rest of the world considers this a hinderance, not an advantage. The appearance and usability of the desktop is 99% of the ballgame when it comes to PCs. If the face you present to the world isn't a coherent one, it doesn't matter how great the programs are, or how neat the idea of open source is. It simply wont catch on. We are human beings with eyes, and thats how we judge things, like it or not. By appearances.
Anyway, as i'm sure you'd agree.....Mechanically, changing wallpapers affects nothing, but, changing window layouts affects everything. Some things should remain unalterable. The basic layout and appearance of a window is one of those things.
Cheers,
Its just there to
Wait, i've got it!! How about...we use light to transmit information at the speed of light? WE WILL RULE THE EARTH...OR SOMETHING.
Anyway, since when does going down to a hardware store and buying a flashlight and a light sensor constitute newsworthiness?
Cheers,
As unremarkable as it appears on the surface, this may very well be the most significant milestone in Linux's history -- the first step towards a unified desktop appearance.
Whether you like or not, the rest of the world doesn't want "freedom of choice" when it comes to their desktop appearance. They want freedom from choice. They want familliarity. They want sensibile designs. They want a look and feel that will still apply from one machine to the next. They do NOT want pointless bells and whistles like having sideways titlebars and 18 different ways to unminimize a window. They just want to sit down, do their work and move on.
We are not the average user.
All a user should ever need to be concerned with is just that -- getting the job done. In no way whatsoever should they even know about (or even CARE about) the fact that their apps may be provided by two completely different toolkits. Thats our concern, not theirs.
A lack of continuity in the appearance of the Linux desktop has been one if not THE largest stumbling block in Linux' acceptance on the desktop. It all starts there. Say you're a company trying to offer Linux support for their products --- You cant show snapshots of a Linux desktop in the manual, because they all friggin look different! You cant even explain it in text, because "Go here and do this" can often mean two holly and distinctly different things, depending on if youre using KDE, or GNOME, or God knows what.
Windows has a distinct face to it. So does the Mac. So does AIX. So did the Amiga. So did the Atari ST. So does even friggin Solaris! But Linux? No. The Linux desktop, up until now, is a schitzophrenic mess of different personalities dictates by the whims of individual users.
You guys have no idea how important this evolutionary step was. And I, for one, cannot applaud RedHat enough for having the balls and the smarts to take it.
Cheers,
cd mp3; ls *
Cheers,
Prologue: As processor speeds increase, computers worldwide have traditionally become more and more unstable..People blamed Microsoft..Software becomes buggier and buggier, to the point where its an accepted part of computing that stuff fails on a regular basis.
Plot: In 2003, household PCs have begun to reach speeds approaching 3 GHz... One night over a sixpack of Dew, a group of computer science geeks with copper blocks and good overclocking skillz (heh) manage to bench 3.1 GHz for the first time in their dorm, and the true reason for years worth of "errors" are revealed. Around 3 GHz, fragments of text are found to materialize in the data that don't belong there -- messages like "Can any-#e se_ this?" "ArE %ou there?" "Is anyone thT*re?"...Linux hackers notice it first, of course, since we're the only ones doing any debugging anymore, or looking at coredumps
The government takes the gear in to be studied. Emergency meetings are called between the Government and the big 3 -- IBM/HP/Compaq/Sun, to build a "research nexus" where this technology can be developed or exploited for commercial/military gain. During testing, the dead hackers send a message through the engineers telling them who they are, and how they died...The engineers look back in time to learn how the government killed the students, and look forward to see what will happen if this device is every fully developed...A complete friggin nightmare. The plot could diverge into a number of different subthreads at this point, including: "pissed engineers conspire to destroy or shitcan the idea", "the engineers realize they are the ones on the inside trying to communicate out", or "the guys in the dorm hack the hack, so to speak, to go back and make it so that they dont die". Take your pick.
In the end, the final scene of the movie shows a complete duplicate of the opening scene, except they decide 3.14 GHz is too fast, and step the clock down a little. One little change in judgement when it comes to overclocking avoids the whole movie.
Sooner or later, it's going to hit its saturation point. Just like with any other network.
The only problem with 802.11b is that you only have a relatively small range to work within. It doesn't take much to have so much traffic in the 2.4 GHz band that smaller wireless devices become useless in anything but Ad-Hoc mode. The future may not so much be in providing wireless technology as Dartmouth suggests, but in developing technologies that control the manner in which these devices communicate (e.g. some way to tell a client to use a different channel, switching, trunking, etc.)
Ich liefere Ihnen Licht und Kraft
Und ermögliche es Ihnen Sprache, Musik und Bild
Durch den Äther auszusenden und zu empfangen
Ich bin Ihr Diener und Ihr Herr zugleich
Deshalb hütet mich gut..
Mich, den Genius der Energie.
Great, now the Arabs are gonna shoot it down.
Cheers,
MicroBlogger...Everything you'll ever need in a blog. Period..
Makes you wonder how guys like this can manage to remain employed, while the rest of us scrape out a living from unemployment benefits.
This guy buys a 64Kbps X 24 line...and gets 300-600Kbps out of it. Its like, jesus christ you fuckin tard, do the math! This guy has to be from California, he's so clueless. My cable modem, on good days, can pull down at upwards of 2000-2200Kbps, and this guy wonders if 300Kbps on his T1 is acceptable.
You're right. A well placed bitchslap is more than called for here. Any bash monkey can whip up a script to move data over the T1, and clock it repeatedly over the course of several hours. Instead, he tries to use the fucking web. Brilliant.
Cheers,
Who needs "space art" when you can see the real thing with Celestia?
Cheers,
For the luscious Ginger, I designed my own. A platinum ring with six 5pt round cuts (3 down each side) with a 1 ct. round cut center stone, and baugettes on the sides.. Roughly a $9K-$10K ring. And in my opinion, worth every penny.
Here's what you need to know:
1) Do NOT under ANY circumstances buy from a "mall jeweler".. Mall jewelers sell crap. Literally. Crap quality mass-produced cookie cutter rings with very, very little attention paid to workmanship. Sure, mall jewelers are fine for little things, but for an engadgement ring? No way. Avoid them like the plague. Establish a relationship with a local family jeweler, and one you can trust. Avoid ones that are not run by American citizens.. You can get taken in a hurry by doing business with someone willing to shaft you. The better jewelers will ALWAYS be interested in making a very good first impression with you, to earn your business for years down the road, not for one-time deals.
2) INSIST on having all stones graded by a GIA-Certified gemologist. A good jeweler will have a side office set up, and one or two gemologists who do business there regularly. Ask to see credentials. If they dont have them, or hesitate in ANY form, back out. A good jeweler stands behind his reputation. A shitty jeweler will use distraction and excuses. If possible, ask to see the stone(s) individually under high-powered magnification, using a diamond light. Only a trained eye can spot flaws under a loop. Also, ask to have the diamond "tested" using a UV meter to determine whether its genuine or not. No jeweler worth his salt will be insulted by this request. Another mark of a good, reputable jeweler is if they have a shop on-site, with a full time jeweler complete with leather smock and goggles. Theyre rare, but theyre worth the effort to find. Ask for reccomendations. From adults. Not your peers.
3) LIFETIME GUARANTEE. Under no circumstances should you lay down that kinda money for anything less. Chances are, in the future, your wife will have regular maintenance performed on the ring beyond the scope of cleaning. If you dont have a guarantee, you'll be screwed over and over again.
4) DO NOT CUT CORNERS. Cutting corners is bad in two ways -- A) Your wife WILL know, and you DONT want that! B) You get what you pay for. Get the highest quality for what you can afford. Anyone can buy a crappy ring...and most women dont assign a material value on a ring. They assign emotional value to it. You can have a simple, elegant, high quality ring for $2K.
In my case, I was lucky. The center stone I used is an heirloom stone thats been in my family for 3 generations, and was F in clarity and G in color.. The center stone alone is $6000-$7000. I was able to put the remainder of the money towards the setting, and infact, had enough money to have the piece custom made. Its a friggin knockout...and it means alot to ME, personally, because everytime I see it, I know how much BS&T I put into it. I'm proud of what I was able to give her..and she'll have it for the rest of her life. That easilly justifies the cost.
Before High School, actually, in Junior High, I occupied my time working on a game called "Genocide". I didn't know what "RISK" was at the time, which was amusing, because my game turned out to be alot like it.. Sort of like RISK, but with nukes, targets, and priorities..I had a folder in which I contained all my code (hand-written in AppleSoft BASIC! Hah!)..a nice blue folder I had decorated with newspaper clippings of fighter planes, warheads, mushroom clouds and the like...I named it "Genocide", and wrote the word across the top of the folder in big black letters.
Anyway, that wasnt the fun part. When I was in Junior High, I was very, very quiet. I had no friends. Since I wasn't interested in being popular, or pestering my parents to buy me acid-washed pants and a jean jacket, I more or less blew off my classes and spent my time scribbling code. Such a flagrant act of creativity was a cause of great concern on behalf of my math teacher, and my school's Principal & Vice Principal. They hauled me in one day to question me, like there might be something wrong, and asked me if I was scared of Russians bombing us..something that resembled a friggin drug intervention. Looking back, they were asking me alot of questions in order to determine whether or not I was on drugs, certifiably nuts, or otherwise missing something... (yeah, I know, not much has changed..
Since they took my blue folder (and my code!) away from me, I started over. I named the sequel "HOLOCAUST", and subsequently made another folder (this time red) with magazine pictures taped on the front, with the title of the game similarly plastered across the top of the folder in big black letters. I got suspended, out of school, for 3 days.
Turns out my math teacher was Jewish, and thought that I was trying to push his buttons and fuck with his head. He cited an argument him and I got into in class where I told him the parallel lines he drew on the blackboard weren't truly parallel, and that it would be impossible for him to ever draw truly parallel lines. My parents ended up explaining to the school board that an 11 year olds usually lack a thurough understanding of the sociopolitical policies of the German government during the 1930's and 40's.
I honestly didn't know I was offending anyone..I just thought they were cool names for a game. Apparently, its okay to make a game centered on nuclear war where millions of people die, but, naming it "genocide" or "holocaust" was a no-no.
I should have called it "Ouch! You Hurt My Civilization!"..
Cheers,
I wonder if they'll give us refunds on our Windows CDs..Says so in the EULA, after all.
It's simple, really. If you want to undermine Microsoft, pirate the hell out of their products, and direct people to the alternatives.
It's the American way to express your dissatisfaction with a company. When it's clear who's pocket your elected officials are in, you have a God-given right to revolt.
1) A bootable Linux CD and a few drops of krazy-glue on the spindle hub makes any PC a permanent Linux box.
2) Alt-S, Up Arrow, Enter, CMD, Enter, del c:\winnt\explorer.exe, Enter. bye-bye Windows.
3) Find a list of elected officials' email addresses. Send them an email describing "a new game I hope you enjoy it."
4) Linux-on-a-floppy, and a tap of the reset button.
5) Point people to OpenOffice, not MS Office.
6) Microsoft has a nice "automatic update" feature. It would be nice if we could back-engineer this to introduce an update to Linux.
7) Burn, And Share.
8) The going rate for Microsoft exploits is about 2:1
9) The Trojans knew what they were doing when they climbed inside the horse. Do you?
10) Charity overpowers Greed, and Generosity is a virtue.
Hi.
We invented it.
Have a nice day,
Bowie
A couple days ago I was shopping for a birthday gift for my fiance'
The FCC can take their "mandate" and shove it up their ass. You wont see digital TVs in the future. You'll see analog TV's with digital-to-analog converters built in, most likely. Everyone knows its a massive screw job.