p.p.s Just what the heck does "Nacho Cheesier" mean, anyway?
It means that the advertising is cheesier than before on their "nacho" flavored chips. And another flavor is called cooler ranch because you're supposed to keep them in the cooler, duh:-3
This is true, though the idea of being able to do a majority of testing for a Window$ based application on a platform that is stable had crossed my mind. Oh well, looks like MS has brought out the Tac Nuke to shoot themselves in the foot.
C has sharps but no flats in western music. As for the Batman episode, which I last saw many moons ago, it could be that D-flat is the preferred naming of that key ([KEY] sharp == [KEY+1] flat)
Personally, I feel that it should be called C-Pound (sorry to those in.UK), as it's used by a company that will Pound you into submission, and the bloat of the program probably adds up to quite a few pounds.
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Looks this may be a windows only tool, sad to say. I should have guessed that MS would do something like this. Creating a language standard then patenting it, I think that would put a crimp in any competition in the compiler market..
It's a standard self extracting zip file. I'm not as knowledgable about the mac as I'd like to be, but any unzipping tool will handle it nicely. Although, shh, you're not supposed to know that.
I guess that I just happen to agree with him on quite a few points, so I see him as well spoken. My damn human nature strikes again.
"No! Eric, put the gun down!"
Look, just because one feels that one has a right to keep and bear arms does not believe that all of ones problems are solved by putting a few shots in the offending person. I believe that one should be able to carry a gun if they're trained and responsible in its use. Perhaps you should read John Lott Jr.'s book "More Guns Less Crime", and read something more than the Democratic Party Line.
This is a great thing. ESR is a very well spoken, even minded person who will add a great voice of reason to an, IMAO, idiotic patent system. Hopefully this will mean fewer incidents like British Telecom's claim to owning the patent on hyperlinks.
Now if we can get some true patent reform that recognizes the fact that after a while thoughts and algorithms become too ubiquitous to be patentable, the US patent system will finally be halfway decent.
What's even worse is the Compaq non-stop campaign. My natural reaction to a popup ad is to click the x in the corner and kill it. The idea behind the compaq ad, was Compaq are non-stoppable. So they made their ad KEEP coming back up about 4 or 5 times. This is just plain annoying and adds stress and extra mouse movement to my already ruined wrists and my already stressed life. I don't need this.
I've come across a few sites like this, and my solution is very simple. I take the offending popup ad and put it way in the lower right hand corner of my desktop, with the edge of the titlebar just barely visible. The banner can do its banner thing, as far as the advertiser's concernetd, and I can see the site unmolested.
"I'm concerned that some day we may decide to start modifying the human genome to think that we can do better than the genome," [Eric] Lander said.
Dammit, my kids have a right to have that fur coat and prehensile tail. Evolution has slowed to nearly a stop ever since we got the dumb idea of breeding based on brains instead of being able to better outrun the hyenas. We need to fix that and get back to evolving towards greatness.
I were going to let this fly, that ain't gonna happen. You giving me the headake eye don't like, my brain is spinning tightly. You trying to take slashdot from the hackers and give it to the grammar loving mans.
I must appologize to all others out there; I loathe grammar flames. Moderators, you may fire when ready.
Hey, I like disco, and country music under the right situation (okay, I like disco under any situation). And I think that these mods would give new meaning to a few more terms:
Foxy Lady. Now refers to females who are crossed with the species Vulpes Vulpes. The same term goes for Vixen.
Getting some tail. One wouldn't know if they were talking about ust getting some ghetto sex or a gen-modded person.
Tired of only having two mamary glands, grow some more.
Sorry for polluting your eyes with these very bad puns. I will go back to my cage now, I promise.
Nope, the entire thing was tongue in cheek. I know perfectly well that if a big humanity killing asteroid was coming our direction and we only had a couple days till it got here and wiped us all out, we'd best max out the credit cards, do everything we'd never do if we'd have to suffer the consequences of society/the law, 'cuz that's all she wrote on humanity.
1) Celera and the HGP have managed to reach some agreement on IP and the sharing of information between the two efforts, thus ending years of bickering, and providing a more complete map than either could accomplish alone (to date).
That's exactly what happened. A few weeks ago, I remember hearing on the news, and reading in the paper that they've reached an agreement to the human genome, and that they were going to jointly announce their findings. And corporate competition is not always a bad thing, it's just how that competition is driven that can be bad. It can also lead companies to be leaner, and create more interesting findings so they can have an edge on their competition. The problem is in keeping it competetive enough to keep the edge.
Start applying compression algorithms or various windowing sizes to figure out patterns inside of a gene, a chromosome, and even an individual. Get good cryptographers to look at it, see if they can find patterns. Have computer people look at it, see if we can find patterns. In short, look at the patterns, start inferring more information, experiment, compare with the genomes of other animals, have some fun with the genetic soup.
This is a fun time to be alive, and I'd love to see if there are any interesting results if one were to gzip DNA. I'm sure there are all kinds of interesting thing you could learn from just that.
Now that I saw this thread, I'm starting to regret sending my MX-80 to the Goodwill. Thing was loud, cranky, and beeped like a VW when you sent a ^G to it. I'm serious, write a file that only has a ^G and echo it to your printer port, you'll swear a car's honking at you.
I dunno about the emulator for the sound card, but IMAO, you wouldn't get the same ambiance of an old dot matrix printer and it's printhead sliding back and forth. You can probably pick up a printer at a junk store for no more than $5-$10, so it won't be that big of a loss of fundage
Telling technocrap collectors like myself about a project like this one gets me thinking. I personally have an Epson LQ 500, and at my office we've got a couple OTC 850s, and Oki 320, and a Fujitsu 3300, all collecting dust. Now, I'm sure I can create a nice dot matrix quartet or quintet. Now throw in an Epson Stylus 800, though it's an inkjet, it's actually got a rythmn to it when it's charging it's printheads.
hnn...Carnage Lord ocelotbob...it has a nice ring to it. Of course, it'll have to be Rev. Carnage Lord ocelotbob (I can legally marry people, scary). But still, I like it.
Good radio drama can still be found in stations here and there. Down LA way, KNX has radio dramas every night, and their signal is incredible; being able to hear the station from hundreds of miles away is very common. It all goes back to video killing the radio (drama) star
I have the best solution to the Censorware problem, plus it'll make a lot of people very happy. First, in the rich, upper crust neighboroods, you advertise for realtime filtration of Bad Stuff to protect the whelplings. Next, you advertise in and around colleges such things as "Make Money Viewing Porn". You pay these students about $6.00/hour. Now you put all these students in front of computer terminals, and hook them up to heart monitors. Any time someone subscribing to the service wants to view a page, it's first shown to one of the random college students. Now, if their heart rate rises once they see the page, you know that the page should be filtered.
Don't know about training classes, I like being self reliant about software products , but I can recommend Alex Hartford's "Gimp Essential Reference". It's got a pretty decent amount of information, and has a reasonable price ($25 US).
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It means that the advertising is cheesier than before on their "nacho" flavored chips. And another flavor is called cooler ranch because you're supposed to keep them in the cooler, duh :-3
This is true, though the idea of being able to do a majority of testing for a Window$ based application on a platform that is stable had crossed my mind. Oh well, looks like MS has brought out the Tac Nuke to shoot themselves in the foot.
C has sharps but no flats in western music. As for the Batman episode, which I last saw many moons ago, it could be that D-flat is the preferred naming of that key ([KEY] sharp == [KEY+1] flat)
C-papers
Smoke hash, smoke
Personally, I feel that it should be called C-Pound (sorry to those in .UK), as it's used by a company that will Pound you into submission, and the bloat of the program probably adds up to quite a few pounds.
Microsoft may have patents, patent applications, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights covering subject matter in this document. Except as expressly provided in any written license agreement from Microsoft, the furnishing of this document does not give you any license to these patents, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property.
Looks this may be a windows only tool, sad to say. I should have guessed that MS would do something like this. Creating a language standard then patenting it, I think that would put a crimp in any competition in the compiler market..
It's a standard self extracting zip file. I'm not as knowledgable about the mac as I'd like to be, but any unzipping tool will handle it nicely. Although, shh, you're not supposed to know that.
"No! Eric, put the gun down!"
Look, just because one feels that one has a right to keep and bear arms does not believe that all of ones problems are solved by putting a few shots in the offending person. I believe that one should be able to carry a gun if they're trained and responsible in its use. Perhaps you should read John Lott Jr.'s book "More Guns Less Crime", and read something more than the Democratic Party Line.
Now if we can get some true patent reform that recognizes the fact that after a while thoughts and algorithms become too ubiquitous to be patentable, the US patent system will finally be halfway decent.
I've come across a few sites like this, and my solution is very simple. I take the offending popup ad and put it way in the lower right hand corner of my desktop, with the edge of the titlebar just barely visible. The banner can do its banner thing, as far as the advertiser's concernetd, and I can see the site unmolested.
Dammit, my kids have a right to have that fur coat and prehensile tail. Evolution has slowed to nearly a stop ever since we got the dumb idea of breeding based on brains instead of being able to better outrun the hyenas. We need to fix that and get back to evolving towards greatness.
I must appologize to all others out there; I loathe grammar flames. Moderators, you may fire when ready.
Hey, I like disco, and country music under the right situation (okay, I like disco under any situation). And I think that these mods would give new meaning to a few more terms:
Sorry for polluting your eyes with these very bad puns. I will go back to my cage now, I promise.
Nope, the entire thing was tongue in cheek. I know perfectly well that if a big humanity killing asteroid was coming our direction and we only had a couple days till it got here and wiped us all out, we'd best max out the credit cards, do everything we'd never do if we'd have to suffer the consequences of society/the law, 'cuz that's all she wrote on humanity.
That's exactly what happened. A few weeks ago, I remember hearing on the news, and reading in the paper that they've reached an agreement to the human genome, and that they were going to jointly announce their findings. And corporate competition is not always a bad thing, it's just how that competition is driven that can be bad. It can also lead companies to be leaner, and create more interesting findings so they can have an edge on their competition. The problem is in keeping it competetive enough to keep the edge.
This is a fun time to be alive, and I'd love to see if there are any interesting results if one were to gzip DNA. I'm sure there are all kinds of interesting thing you could learn from just that.
Now that I saw this thread, I'm starting to regret sending my MX-80 to the Goodwill. Thing was loud, cranky, and beeped like a VW when you sent a ^G to it. I'm serious, write a file that only has a ^G and echo it to your printer port, you'll swear a car's honking at you.
I dunno about the emulator for the sound card, but IMAO, you wouldn't get the same ambiance of an old dot matrix printer and it's printhead sliding back and forth. You can probably pick up a printer at a junk store for no more than $5-$10, so it won't be that big of a loss of fundage
Telling technocrap collectors like myself about a project like this one gets me thinking. I personally have an Epson LQ 500, and at my office we've got a couple OTC 850s, and Oki 320, and a Fujitsu 3300, all collecting dust. Now, I'm sure I can create a nice dot matrix quartet or quintet. Now throw in an Epson Stylus 800, though it's an inkjet, it's actually got a rythmn to it when it's charging it's printheads.
Hey don't you know we've got a saying over here in the states: Any problem cannot be solved with a sufficiently large amount of high explosives. And anyways, how else do you deflect a big rock heading your way?
hnn...Carnage Lord ocelotbob...it has a nice ring to it. Of course, it'll have to be Rev. Carnage Lord ocelotbob (I can legally marry people, scary). But still, I like it.
Good radio drama can still be found in stations here and there. Down LA way, KNX has radio dramas every night, and their signal is incredible; being able to hear the station from hundreds of miles away is very common. It all goes back to video killing the radio (drama) star
No, it answers the question on what happened to that jolt when I put it in the paint shaker. Now we just need to find that caffeine.
No, we'll just see more Kitty Porn.
I have the best solution to the Censorware problem, plus it'll make a lot of people very happy. First, in the rich, upper crust neighboroods, you advertise for realtime filtration of Bad Stuff to protect the whelplings. Next, you advertise in and around colleges such things as "Make Money Viewing Porn". You pay these students about $6.00/hour. Now you put all these students in front of computer terminals, and hook them up to heart monitors. Any time someone subscribing to the service wants to view a page, it's first shown to one of the random college students. Now, if their heart rate rises once they see the page, you know that the page should be filtered.
Don't know about training classes, I like being self reliant about software products , but I can recommend Alex Hartford's "Gimp Essential Reference". It's got a pretty decent amount of information, and has a reasonable price ($25 US).