Hmmm, they could always pack the fiber bundles inside of high explosives. Yeah, it's still get cut another time or two, but word would spread among the back-hoe operators REALLY quick to NOT mess with them fiber cables.
What the hurricane couldn't bring down, the Slashdot effect has/will. Poor little web cam, so bravely facing the onslaught on the storm, only to be blindsided by hordes of geeks clicking it to death.....
I believe the reasons most religion-haters don't have anything against Eastern Philosophies (Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, etc) are thus:
1. Although this is easily argued against, these are philosophies, not religions. 2. There aren't as many people who follow these belief systems as there are the other major religions in the US. 3. I've never had a Buddhist tell me I'm going to hell for what I don't believe or how I live my life. I've never had a Hindu try to convert me or tell me I'm evil for eating a cheeseburger. If Hindu's had the same mindset as christians, eating meat would be punishable by death.
At least, that's my personal take on it... I'm probally wrong. I usually am.
Oh, and if you think religious people are persecuted, try being an Atheist sometime.
Possible solution: (And what I do at work myself) If you can convince the Notes administrator to let you run agents on the server (Which can either be easy, or near impossible, depending on the retentivness of the admin) whip up a server-side agent that simply forwards all mail received to your Notes mail address to your real pop/smtp/god please anything but notesmail address... It works quite nicely for me, and I don't miss any mail...
-Doing my part to free the masses from the shackles of Notus Lotes...
Yes, Clinton is an idiot. And I voted for him. Twice. When confronted with the choices of a dumb evil president (Clinton) or an intelligent evil president (Bush/Dole), I'll choose the dumb one. Kinder Gentler Police State? No thanks. (And yes, I'll admit, Clinton is moving us towards a police state almost as fast as Bush did, but at least his bumbling is helping to slow the actual progress somewhat.) Sorry, but I'd rather have an idiot who wants to control the world than the ex-head of the CIA leading our wonderful nation.
Of course, next time I believe I'll just fully vote my conscious and go Libertarian.
(Intelligent rebuttals will be thoughtfully read and considered. Flames will simply strengthen my current beliefs.)
To make it easier, here are the direct URL's to get the Windows Media Player version of the video: 300KBPS 128KBPS 56KBPS 28KBPS I'll try to get the other formats up soon if someone doesn't beat me to it...
NT5 (I still refuse to call it Win 2000, although W2K does sound about right) does indeed offer IP filtering... I'm currently running RC1, and you can filter by TCP Ports, UDP Ports, and IP Protocols..... I haven't played with this part of it yet, but it also appears to enable encypted IP connections between NT5 computers, and local on the fly encryption for files... (Not that I trust MS to not have a backdoor)
I hate to say it, as I still can't stand MS as a company, but from what I've seen of NT5 so far, I'm rather impressed. My current installation has been up since Friday nite, and I've changed many networking settings, installed/uninstalled many programs, etc, and it hasn't crashed or rebooted yet. (I know, Friday-Tuesday isn't a very impressive uptime, but this IS an MS product I'm talking about here.)
While in theory this would be a nice thing to do, I'd be willing to bet my mother-in-law's life that there are MS people scouring Slashdot, as well as any other discussion-type site that their test has been posted on. Wouldn't do much good to give the details here and not send it to 'em, they'd still have the information almost as quickly.....
Just in case it wasn't obvious, http://www.oscar-mp3.com/baycom.html has the ordering and pricing information for the Oscar. And, to make things REALLY easy, I'll even summarize: Fully Assembled Oscar = 789 DM ($430.44 as of 8/3/99) Kit Oscar = 479 DM ($261.32 as of 8/3/99)
I disagree... There is a very valid reason for the ability to pull MP3's out of directories from a CD. People (Myself included) tend to encode the audio CD's that they own into this very format. Personally, I have 14 CD's of MP3's that I encoded from music CD's I own. I keep the MP3 CD's in CD changers on servers, and play the music off of them through my computer. I would love to have an Oscar, and disagree with the statement that "It is made specificly to copy other artists work."
Okay, I get it now! The design of the iBook assumes that all non-geeks are color-blind, and thus will find the iBook tolerable. That way, geeks can spot the wannabes coming a mile away.
I'll try to be a bit more polite than the previous poster, but I'm sorry, that thing is the biggest eye sore I've ever seen. I've had people running out of my cube screaming in terror all morning (And no, it wasn't from looking at me, their used to that.) I'm actually not trying to be flamebait here, but I'm suprised that so few people find this thing visually painful. I have no problem with computers taking on non-traditional colors, but personally there's no WAY I'd be lugging around a flourescent blue or orange notebook...
Rob, Even if you don't let us vote on 'em, can you put the submissions up somewhere for us to look at? I'd love to see what the artsty among us can do with this...
The exact line, if I recall correctly, is not I've never seen this droid before', but 'I don't recall ever OWNING a droid before'.... Small case of semantics, but in this case, and important one (IMHO, at least)...
Not necessarily... The Meta-Clorians are described as being more of a conduit of the force, not the force itself. That's like saying that a network is CAT-5. It's not CAT-5, but that is what allows it to be a network. Also, judging by Yoda's reaction to the readings, it sounds like using those as a measure of the force is a new and un-proven technique...
For the most part I agree with you Rob. However, after having seen the movie 3 times now, going again tonite, as much as I hate to admit it, Jar Jar is actually starting to grow on me. Granted, it's like a fungus, but I've caught myself laughing at him more than once. I do wish he had been toned down a bit, but I'm finding him actually far less annoying than 'Whiney Luke' of A New Hope. At least Jar Jar is an alien race, which theoretically at least COULD be that annoying. Also, the annoyance, in it's own strange way, explains some of the friction between the Gungans and the Naboo. In general I found the CGI to be breathtaking, except for in the great Gungan/Droid battle. During that scene, at many times I felt like I was watching a late 1980's Saturday morning cartoon... Anyway, I'll stop rambling and get back to work now. I obviously didn't have TOO many problems with the movie, as I've already seen it thrice, and going back again (Which won't be the last time either.)
I want one!!! Anyone have any idea where/how someone could acquire one of these? I'd assume, being a toy from the 1960's that the price would be outrageous, but still.....
(Devious Mind working overtime..... *)@#$ cats meowing outside my window make nice targets for large sound wave.)
(Ed: The writer of this comment would not really shoot a large harmful sound wave at stray cats, as much pleasure as he would get from it.)
Just a comment on this, the only (As of the end of February, 99, when I took my MCSE tests) test that is of the simulation type (As you described) is IIS 4.0... All the other ones are of the simple question, multiple guess variety... It most likely helps that I've been in the IT industry for ~5 years now, but there really wasn't that much studying required... Anyone with a basic understanding of computers and networking should be able to study during their lunch break one day, and take the tests after work, paced at one a day..... Not trying to sound eliteist here, and I apologize if I'm coming off that way, but the Micros~1 tests are MUCH easier than the CNE tests are, from my own experience..... In fact, they were almost insultingly easy for the most part... If I had been taking the tests to try and get a different job with them, I would almost be angry that they are so easy (easy tests = more MCSE's = less value for those of us with said designation), but as I said in my original post, I just did it for the fat bonus my boss waved under my nose... (And now to go get my LCP (Lotus Notes cert - a whopping 3 tests) for another $8000 =)
What's REALLY scary about all this is just how easy MCSE tests are... My company offers a rather sizeable bonus to anyone who get's their MCSE (No matter what your job is, as long as it's technical in some respects)... So, I decided to get my MCSE... It took me all of 6 days from beginning to end, and I do not consider myself to me that much of an expert in MS products by any means.... Six days, six tests, $15,000 for me, so it was well worth it..... Anyway, I'm rambling badly, just wanted to comment how stupid these people must be is they've attended months of classes and still can't pass the MS tests.....
...The more people I meet (Or read about) the more I like my ferrets...
Yes, SMU is based in Dallas, but it has a branch in Houston as well.... (I too am in Dallas) If you're REALLY bored, you can read all about the classes in question by going to http://www.seas.smu.edu/netech/
On the win32 version, it's apprunner.exe. I'd presume on the other versions it'd be some variation of Apprunner, but that would be rather presumptious of me. =)
Slashdot Mirror
Hmmm, they could always pack the fiber bundles inside of high explosives. Yeah, it's still get cut another time or two, but word would spread among the back-hoe operators REALLY quick to NOT mess with them fiber cables.
(Yes, I'm joking...)
What the hurricane couldn't bring down, the Slashdot effect has/will. Poor little web cam, so bravely facing the onslaught on the storm, only to be blindsided by hordes of geeks clicking it to death.....
Beyond the fact that we don't have to send Slashdot a cashier's check to receive our daily reloads, how is this any different from Slashdot addiction?
(I know, redundany, stupid question, but I just had to ask it.)
-Serk, the happy Slashdot addict.
Whoah. This is now the lead story over at CNN Interactive... (HTTP://www.cnn.com)
I believe the reasons most religion-haters don't have anything against Eastern Philosophies (Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, etc) are thus:
1. Although this is easily argued against, these are philosophies, not religions.
2. There aren't as many people who follow these belief systems as there are the other major religions in the US.
3. I've never had a Buddhist tell me I'm going to hell for what I don't believe or how I live my life. I've never had a Hindu try to convert me or tell me I'm evil for eating a cheeseburger. If Hindu's had the same mindset as christians, eating meat would be punishable by death.
At least, that's my personal take on it... I'm probally wrong. I usually am.
Oh, and if you think religious people are persecuted, try being an Atheist sometime.
(Tongue in cheek, kinda)
That's easy... They're around, they tend to join Board's of Education.
When teaching evolution in school is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.
And that's all I've got to say about that.....
Possible solution: (And what I do at work myself)
If you can convince the Notes administrator to let you run agents on the server (Which can either be easy, or near impossible, depending on the retentivness of the admin) whip up a server-side agent that simply forwards all mail received to your Notes mail address to your real pop/smtp/god please anything but notesmail address... It works quite nicely for me, and I don't miss any mail...
-Doing my part to free the masses from the shackles of Notus Lotes...
Yes, Clinton is an idiot.
And I voted for him.
Twice.
When confronted with the choices of a dumb evil president (Clinton) or an intelligent evil president (Bush/Dole), I'll choose the dumb one. Kinder Gentler Police State? No thanks.
(And yes, I'll admit, Clinton is moving us towards a police state almost as fast as Bush did, but at least his bumbling is helping to slow the actual progress somewhat.) Sorry, but I'd rather have an idiot who wants to control the world than the ex-head of the CIA leading our wonderful nation.
Of course, next time I believe I'll just fully vote my conscious and go Libertarian.
(Intelligent rebuttals will be thoughtfully read and considered. Flames will simply strengthen my current beliefs.)
To make it easier, here are the direct URL's to get the Windows Media Player version of the video: 300KBPS
128KBPS
56KBPS
28KBPS
I'll try to get the other formats up soon if someone doesn't beat me to it...
NT5 (I still refuse to call it Win 2000, although W2K does sound about right) does indeed offer IP filtering... I'm currently running RC1, and you can filter by TCP Ports, UDP Ports, and IP Protocols..... I haven't played with this part of it yet, but it also appears to enable encypted IP connections between NT5 computers, and local on the fly encryption for files... (Not that I trust MS to not have a backdoor)
I hate to say it, as I still can't stand MS as a company, but from what I've seen of NT5 so far, I'm rather impressed. My current installation has been up since Friday nite, and I've changed many networking settings, installed/uninstalled many programs, etc, and it hasn't crashed or rebooted yet. (I know, Friday-Tuesday isn't a very impressive uptime, but this IS an MS product I'm talking about here.)
While in theory this would be a nice thing to do, I'd be willing to bet my mother-in-law's life that there are MS people scouring Slashdot, as well as any other discussion-type site that their test has been posted on. Wouldn't do much good to give the details here and not send it to 'em, they'd still have the information almost as quickly.....
Just in case it wasn't obvious, http://www.oscar-mp3.com/baycom.html has the ordering and pricing information for the Oscar. And, to make things REALLY easy, I'll even summarize: Fully Assembled Oscar = 789 DM ($430.44 as of 8/3/99) Kit Oscar = 479 DM ($261.32 as of 8/3/99)
I disagree... There is a very valid reason for the ability to pull MP3's out of directories from a CD. People (Myself included) tend to encode the audio CD's that they own into this very format. Personally, I have 14 CD's of MP3's that I encoded from music CD's I own. I keep the MP3 CD's in CD changers on servers, and play the music off of them through my computer. I would love to have an Oscar, and disagree with the statement that "It is made specificly to copy other artists work."
Anyway, Just my rambling 2 cents worth.
Okay, I get it now! The design of the iBook assumes that all non-geeks are color-blind, and thus will find the iBook tolerable. That way, geeks can spot the wannabes coming a mile away.
I'll try to be a bit more polite than the previous poster, but I'm sorry, that thing is the biggest eye sore I've ever seen. I've had people running out of my cube screaming in terror all morning (And no, it wasn't from looking at me, their used to that.) I'm actually not trying to be flamebait here, but I'm suprised that so few people find this thing visually painful. I have no problem with computers taking on non-traditional colors, but personally there's no WAY I'd be lugging around a flourescent blue or orange notebook...
Anyway, just my opinion...
Rob, Even if you don't let us vote on 'em, can you put the submissions up somewhere for us to look at? I'd love to see what the artsty among us can do with this...
The exact line, if I recall correctly, is not I've never seen this droid before', but 'I don't recall ever OWNING a droid before'.... Small case of semantics, but in this case, and important one (IMHO, at least)...
Not necessarily... The Meta-Clorians are described as being more of a conduit of the force, not the force itself. That's like saying that a network is CAT-5. It's not CAT-5, but that is what allows it to be a network. Also, judging by Yoda's reaction to the readings, it sounds like using those as a measure of the force is a new and un-proven technique...
For the most part I agree with you Rob. However, after having seen the movie 3 times now, going again tonite, as much as I hate to admit it, Jar Jar is actually starting to grow on me. Granted, it's like a fungus, but I've caught myself laughing at him more than once. I do wish he had been toned down a bit, but I'm finding him actually far less annoying than 'Whiney Luke' of A New Hope. At least Jar Jar is an alien race, which theoretically at least COULD be that annoying. Also, the annoyance, in it's own strange way, explains some of the friction between the Gungans and the Naboo. In general I found the CGI to be breathtaking, except for in the great Gungan/Droid battle. During that scene, at many times I felt like I was watching a late 1980's Saturday morning cartoon... Anyway, I'll stop rambling and get back to work now. I obviously didn't have TOO many problems with the movie, as I've already seen it thrice, and going back again (Which won't be the last time either.)
I want one!!! Anyone have any idea where/how someone could acquire one of these? I'd assume, being a toy from the 1960's that the price would be outrageous, but still.....
(Devious Mind working overtime..... *)@#$ cats meowing outside my window make nice targets for large sound wave.)
(Ed: The writer of this comment would not really shoot a large harmful sound wave at stray cats, as much pleasure as he would get from it.)
Just a comment on this, the only (As of the end of February, 99, when I took my MCSE tests) test that is of the simulation type (As you described) is IIS 4.0... All the other ones are of the simple question, multiple guess variety... It most likely helps that I've been in the IT industry for ~5 years now, but there really wasn't that much studying required... Anyone with a basic understanding of computers and networking should be able to study during their lunch break one day, and take the tests after work, paced at one a day..... Not trying to sound eliteist here, and I apologize if I'm coming off that way, but the Micros~1 tests are MUCH easier than the CNE tests are, from my own experience..... In fact, they were almost insultingly easy for the most part... If I had been taking the tests to try and get a different job with them, I would almost be angry that they are so easy (easy tests = more MCSE's = less value for those of us with said designation), but as I said in my original post, I just did it for the fat bonus my boss waved under my nose...
(And now to go get my LCP (Lotus Notes cert - a whopping 3 tests) for another $8000 =)
What's REALLY scary about all this is just how easy MCSE tests are... My company offers a rather sizeable bonus to anyone who get's their MCSE (No matter what your job is, as long as it's technical in some respects)... So, I decided to get my MCSE... It took me all of 6 days from beginning to end, and I do not consider myself to me that much of an expert in MS products by any means.... Six days, six tests, $15,000 for me, so it was well worth it..... Anyway, I'm rambling badly, just wanted to comment how stupid these people must be is they've attended months of classes and still can't pass the MS tests.....
...The more people I meet (Or read about) the more I like my ferrets...
Yes, SMU is based in Dallas, but it has a branch in Houston as well.... (I too am in Dallas)
If you're REALLY bored, you can read all about the classes in question by going to http://www.seas.smu.edu/netech/
On the win32 version, it's apprunner.exe. I'd presume on the other versions it'd be some variation of Apprunner, but that would be rather presumptious of me. =)