At my Montessori gradeschool, we learned "D'Nealian" style handwriting. It's printing with most of the benefits of cursive. If you write it faster, it becomes cursive, more or less.
We never learned any other way. That means that even though I handwrite almost nothing, when I do pick up a pen and paper, it's legible and fast.
This dude is just upset that no one wants to join his stupid club.
We get to see what they used, and how they used it so that it would work with their device.
Some GPL projects aren't on ftp.kernel.org, so this portion of the GPL is completely required. In this particular case, they have not:
1) offered this "useless" but required mailorder CD-R. 2) suggested that they are using stock sources.
If they say they're using stock sources, and exactly what they were, then it'll be that much easier for us to hack our devices and make them run IPv6, IPsec, whatever.
You have completely missed my point. My local association that picks our cable provider tacks on $8 to everybody's monthly cable bill, and does the effective equivalent of putting all the cash in a little pile and burning it. If they gave all the money to D.A.R.E. or any other public interest, although they would be doing something I disagree with, they'd at least be actually using the money. Right now, they might as well use the money to buy cherry furniture for their offices, because it certainly never gets seen by any of the people of my county.
I want phone number portability so that I can switch from Cingular's towers to Verizon's. Verizon has much, much better customer support and reception where I live. Don't they think they're going to win here?
Of course, they're also much more expensive, but...
Everybody's cable bill is already padded by the $8 or so that your local cable council demanded in order to give the monopoly to your provider.
Where does that money go? Crappy public outreach programs, etc. I'm all for targetted government programs, but this whole recursive reacharound BS is disgusting.
How is this informative? Last I checked MS Outlook 2k (and XP) don't have any kind of scripting enabled by default. You have to click attachments to get them to do anything, and by default it asks you to Save rather than open. So even if someone clicks on it and then Clicks OK, they just saved it somewhere.
With all the security service patches for Outlook 2k & Exchange, it's IMPOSSIBLE TO SEND A URL. That is how fucking crazy they've gotten about email security. Somehow they think URLs are a security hazard.
This latest worm is being spread because users are morons, and for no other reason. It has nothing to do with Outlook. If you double click on that.pif file after saving it with any mail client, it will compromise your system.
Amen. It always cracked me up to hear my boss on the POE floor talk about how marker makers were necessary because they added stability and sanity to an otherwise irrational market - and then weeks later he'd be calling us frantically:
"Is there a buyout at sixty? There's a rumor here that IBM|Microsof|McDonalds|Pepsi is making a buyout at sixty! Have you guys heard anything? What's going on? [froth][froth]"
Of course, he wasn't the kind of guy to act on that BS, but the pits were certainly full of them. This recent spike doesn't necessarily relate to news, insider trading, or anything in any way even vaguely resembling reality.
I'd suggest that to Apple, both are known quantities. If they're rolling out anytime in the next three months, then they've been working instensively with IBM for the past year or more on this product. They probably know everything about IBM's production capabilities.
That wouldn't get IBM out of hot water. If SCO's claims are true, then damage would have already been done.
Of course, they aren't true, but revealing the problem wouldn't hurt their chances in court.
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Yes, of course that is 100% unreasonable. Just because some Linux hacker removes the offending code does not mean that Linux is in the clear.
If SCO showed the entire world:
1) The offending code in the Linux Kernel (with histories, etc.) 2) The original code in SCO's repository (with histories, etc.) 3) Whatever the hell they're actually accusing IBM of doing. 4) What IBM can do to correct the problem.
This bullshit would already have ended. We'd all start say, "Huh. That doesn't prove anything, but at least we know what the problem is supposed to be. Now we have to wait to hear the actual case."
No, IBM couldn't just replace the offending code, because the damage would already have been done. If someone at IBM (or Linus, or whoever) tried to represent that the offending code never existed... he'd spend a little while in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
They don't have to show their entire codebase. They just need to present what they believe the problem is. Since they haven't told IBM what they can do to remediate the problem, it's clear that they don't want to mitigate the damages. This necessarily means that they do not have a case.
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Oooh. Someone needs to make a screenplay about this. Cross "Ransom" with "Trading Places". Darl McBride (Mel Gibson) has a daughter (Natalie Portman) kidnapped by thugs (Chris Rock, Chris Tucker, and Eddie Murphy (or is that too many black people for a white movie?)) in the employ of a castrating bitch Wall Street lawyer (Cameron Diaz), who force poor little Darl McBride to pump up his company's stock in the next four days or else.
The best CS maps are like this too. de_dust is only popular with public servers and poor players that don't have the patience to wait for a round to finish.
de_train, de_nuke and others require patience, teamwork, etc. They might translate into fantastic paintball arenas. Of course, none of this is ever going to happen anyway, so...
Whether or not it's unbalanced, it's definitely not one of the maps most characteristic of CS. It's just one of the fastest. There's a reason the CPL used de_train. Of course, de_train would be a whole hell of a lot harder to build.
You suggest that the simulators may be running in a completely different type of universe. I can't speak to that, because I'm bad with physics. However, if our simulator were bound to a similar sort of physics as our own:
There may be no stable enough platform to make such computations. Ever. If, in order to simulate our planet's homelife, you'd need a planet full of future computers simulating at 1/10,000th time (they might need to simulate much much slower), there may be no intelligence in a universe like our own that will ever have the capabilities to dedicate that sort of resources for the amount of time that would be required.
But in order to assure that observation does not modify the outcome of the simulation, they would need to simulate everything we could ever possibly observe, just so that they could know the exact outcome.
Due to my poor understanding of quantum mechanics, I submit a counterargument to myself: The simulators picked an arbitrary resolution, and decided that if we observed quantum events or anything on that scale or smaller, we *would* change the outcome. That's why observation changes the double slit experiment. Because it's all a simulation, dude.
Please, anyone out there that actually knows something about quantum mechanics, feel free to explain why I'm wrong. If I were you, however, I wouldn't waste my time.
Bill Gates has made statements like that about software patents. MS has never, afaik, used software patents in an offensive manner. Sure, they've done some FUD spewing, but their patent-related legal action has always been defensive.
He might not say things like that about his monopoly practices because he thinks he's still vulnerable. I think he's vulnerable too.
I was shocked to see all the "DSL/Wireless Routers with Printer Sharing" at CompUSA. If they're getting sold, then sure, there's a market for this shazz.
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How dare you troll so blatantly. Here on /., we punish trolls like you.
Why, if you're not trolling, then my name isn't Elwood P Dowd.
(it isn't.)
At my Montessori gradeschool, we learned "D'Nealian" style handwriting. It's printing with most of the benefits of cursive. If you write it faster, it becomes cursive, more or less.
We never learned any other way. That means that even though I handwrite almost nothing, when I do pick up a pen and paper, it's legible and fast.
This dude is just upset that no one wants to join his stupid club.
We get to see what they used, and how they used it so that it would work with their device.
Some GPL projects aren't on ftp.kernel.org, so this portion of the GPL is completely required. In this particular case, they have not:
1) offered this "useless" but required mailorder CD-R.
2) suggested that they are using stock sources.
If they say they're using stock sources, and exactly what they were, then it'll be that much easier for us to hack our devices and make them run IPv6, IPsec, whatever.
If that's not flamebait, then my name isn't Elwood P Dowd.
And it isn't.
You have completely missed my point. My local association that picks our cable provider tacks on $8 to everybody's monthly cable bill, and does the effective equivalent of putting all the cash in a little pile and burning it. If they gave all the money to D.A.R.E. or any other public interest, although they would be doing something I disagree with, they'd at least be actually using the money. Right now, they might as well use the money to buy cherry furniture for their offices, because it certainly never gets seen by any of the people of my county.
I want phone number portability so that I can switch from Cingular's towers to Verizon's. Verizon has much, much better customer support and reception where I live. Don't they think they're going to win here?
Of course, they're also much more expensive, but...
That's like saying,
"Pope chosen as #1 Catholic."
No. I remember reading an article about it in my local free weekly. I don't recall the specific programs, but I do remember being shocked by:
1) how ineffective they sounded
2) how misguided they sounded
3) how I had lived in the county my whole life, and never heard of the programs before.
It was the worst kind of pork, and the public had almost no knowledge of its existance.
Everybody's cable bill is already padded by the $8 or so that your local cable council demanded in order to give the monopoly to your provider.
Where does that money go? Crappy public outreach programs, etc. I'm all for targetted government programs, but this whole recursive reacharound BS is disgusting.
How is this informative? Last I checked MS Outlook 2k (and XP) don't have any kind of scripting enabled by default. You have to click attachments to get them to do anything, and by default it asks you to Save rather than open. So even if someone clicks on it and then Clicks OK, they just saved it somewhere.
.pif file after saving it with any mail client, it will compromise your system.
With all the security service patches for Outlook 2k & Exchange, it's IMPOSSIBLE TO SEND A URL. That is how fucking crazy they've gotten about email security. Somehow they think URLs are a security hazard.
This latest worm is being spread because users are morons, and for no other reason. It has nothing to do with Outlook. If you double click on that
Oh. Thanks.
The chicken mcnugget is 51% chicken. Otherwise they can't call it the "chicken" mcnugget. The other 49% is fish. Cod, probably.
No, it's just the gambling instinct.
Amen. It always cracked me up to hear my boss on the POE floor talk about how marker makers were necessary because they added stability and sanity to an otherwise irrational market - and then weeks later he'd be calling us frantically:
"Is there a buyout at sixty? There's a rumor here that IBM|Microsof|McDonalds|Pepsi is making a buyout at sixty! Have you guys heard anything? What's going on? [froth][froth]"
Of course, he wasn't the kind of guy to act on that BS, but the pits were certainly full of them. This recent spike doesn't necessarily relate to news, insider trading, or anything in any way even vaguely resembling reality.
I'd suggest that to Apple, both are known quantities. If they're rolling out anytime in the next three months, then they've been working instensively with IBM for the past year or more on this product. They probably know everything about IBM's production capabilities.
We're the only ones that are in the dark.
That wouldn't get IBM out of hot water. If SCO's claims are true, then damage would have already been done.
Of course, they aren't true, but revealing the problem wouldn't hurt their chances in court.
Yes, of course that is 100% unreasonable. Just because some Linux hacker removes the offending code does not mean that Linux is in the clear.
If SCO showed the entire world:
1) The offending code in the Linux Kernel (with histories, etc.)
2) The original code in SCO's repository (with histories, etc.)
3) Whatever the hell they're actually accusing IBM of doing.
4) What IBM can do to correct the problem.
This bullshit would already have ended. We'd all start say, "Huh. That doesn't prove anything, but at least we know what the problem is supposed to be. Now we have to wait to hear the actual case."
No, IBM couldn't just replace the offending code, because the damage would already have been done. If someone at IBM (or Linus, or whoever) tried to represent that the offending code never existed... he'd spend a little while in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
They don't have to show their entire codebase. They just need to present what they believe the problem is. Since they haven't told IBM what they can do to remediate the problem, it's clear that they don't want to mitigate the damages. This necessarily means that they do not have a case.
Oooh. Someone needs to make a screenplay about this. Cross "Ransom" with "Trading Places". Darl McBride (Mel Gibson) has a daughter (Natalie Portman) kidnapped by thugs (Chris Rock, Chris Tucker, and Eddie Murphy (or is that too many black people for a white movie?)) in the employ of a castrating bitch Wall Street lawyer (Cameron Diaz), who force poor little Darl McBride to pump up his company's stock in the next four days or else .
This thing is practically writing itself.
The best CS maps are like this too. de_dust is only popular with public servers and poor players that don't have the patience to wait for a round to finish.
de_train, de_nuke and others require patience, teamwork, etc. They might translate into fantastic paintball arenas. Of course, none of this is ever going to happen anyway, so...
Fill your lava pit with paint, smart guy.
The warping depends on distance from the lens.
If some physicist can explain that one to me, I'll eat my shorts. (Note, we're not talking about blurring, we're talking about warping.)
Whether or not it's unbalanced, it's definitely not one of the maps most characteristic of CS. It's just one of the fastest. There's a reason the CPL used de_train. Of course, de_train would be a whole hell of a lot harder to build.
You suggest that the simulators may be running in a completely different type of universe. I can't speak to that, because I'm bad with physics. However, if our simulator were bound to a similar sort of physics as our own:
There may be no stable enough platform to make such computations. Ever. If, in order to simulate our planet's homelife, you'd need a planet full of future computers simulating at 1/10,000th time (they might need to simulate much much slower), there may be no intelligence in a universe like our own that will ever have the capabilities to dedicate that sort of resources for the amount of time that would be required.
But in order to assure that observation does not modify the outcome of the simulation, they would need to simulate everything we could ever possibly observe, just so that they could know the exact outcome.
Due to my poor understanding of quantum mechanics, I submit a counterargument to myself: The simulators picked an arbitrary resolution, and decided that if we observed quantum events or anything on that scale or smaller, we *would* change the outcome. That's why observation changes the double slit experiment. Because it's all a simulation, dude.
Please, anyone out there that actually knows something about quantum mechanics, feel free to explain why I'm wrong. If I were you, however, I wouldn't waste my time.
Bill Gates has made statements like that about software patents. MS has never, afaik, used software patents in an offensive manner. Sure, they've done some FUD spewing, but their patent-related legal action has always been defensive.
He might not say things like that about his monopoly practices because he thinks he's still vulnerable. I think he's vulnerable too.
I was shocked to see all the "DSL/Wireless Routers with Printer Sharing" at CompUSA. If they're getting sold, then sure, there's a market for this shazz.