There are freeware/OSS programs with "Ghost" functionality.
If you point your "My Documents" at another partition, then you won't lose your work, just any programs you may have installed (and any downloaded Starcraft maps).
Ghost rocks. It should be a reboot requirement -- upon reboot, automatically ghost back to the most recent successful reboot. Of course, that requires some automation which Ghost doesn't really currently support.
One neat automation feature of ghost, however, is to call it with "ghost.exe -rb" which means "reboot after the ghost operation". Invoke it with that, then remove the floppy/CD, and perform the operation, then walk away; when you come back your machine will be booted into the newly-ghosted OS.
It also has automation features to tell it what to ghost, but I haven't gotten that part working yet.
Her comparison (on page 15) of the area to Pompei mirrored my own impressions from her site. Spooky.
I like her broken English, it reminds me of Pulp Fiction when she says "I don't know if this true, people say a lot." -- the line being "They say a lot, don't they?"
By the way, she's kinda cute (surprised noone else picked up on this) and I'm wondering, might she have done this as a way out of Russia? (Y'know, somewhat related to the "Russian brides" sites that supposedly do a lot of business?) Not that I'm interested, I've had enough wives myself, but I'm always questioning motivations...
I don't have a link, but crime rates in the "wild west" are actually lower than most cities in the U.S. It was that small feature of everyone having a gun;)
I came across this comment as I was meta-moderating (agreed it was Insightful), and had to add:
Heinlein said it best: "An armed society is a polite society."
You don't say "f you!" if you think the guy might blow you away for saying it. I completely agree with the second amendment, and attempts to make concealed weapons illegal are, IMHO, unconstitutional.
BTW, if my TV wouldn't shut off when I wanted it to, I'd just unplug it.
Then it would come with an un-unpluggable battery backup, and videocamera so it could turn the volume up when you went to get a snack in the kitchen.
True story: back in 96, before I had a ReplayTV, I was working long hours and rarely got home before 9 pm, so I started taping the prime-time shows I liked. Worked pretty much the same as today, except I had to wait until they were done taping before I could start watching them, and I couldn't watch one while taping another (for the first 6 months; then I got another VCR -- a true geek).
Anyway, the cool part: I had recently retired a machine, and had a spare UPS. I decided to hook it to the TV and VCRs, more to prevent spikes (lotta lightning). Well, one night I'm sitting on the bed watching my stories, when the power goes out. All down the street, the houses are dark, and the ceiling fan slowly winds down to a stop -- but I'm still watching my shows! I thought that was so cool that I still have battery backup on the TV (and ReplayTV).
Please, remember to share all those DVDs with your friends... in fact, why not form "buying clubs" where each member obtains a different set of DVDs, then every week they pass them on to another member? And while we're at it, lets do this with movies, CDs, and games too!
Unless there is a mandate for all ISPs to filter everything coming into the US using these "psychoacoustical filters", then music and movie swapping will continue.
And, imagine if there were: these filters need more than a couple packets to determine whether the file is legit or not. So how would they do their scanning? You start a download, and not receive anything until the filter agrees that it's legit? In that case there'd end up being a lot more broken downloads, and people wouldn't know whether the problem was the filter or something else.
And if the filter let the packets through until it determined that the file was illegal, and then stopped it; well, what's to stop someone from writing a new downloader which just gets 10 random packets at a time, disconnects, then gets another 10 random packets? Bittorrent already does something similar; if you watch the "Details", "Pieces" and "Files" tabs in Azureus you can see that it comes down in no deterministic order at all.
Not only are the barn doors open after the horses have fled, but the barn is on fire, has fallen over, and sunk into the swamp. Entertainment cannot and should not determine the direction of the computer industry; the latter is far larger than the former, and if the former doesn't STFU soon the latter is going to learn how to lobby.
and if the Disembodied Location-specific Conversational Agents disembody students, do they get free lunch?
That's funny (weird), as I was thinking exactly the same thing earlier reading about the new $4,000 dancing robot. What if we gave our creatures a sense of inquisitiveness, and they decided to take stuff apart to figure it out? What if a human ended up erroneously being part of that stuff? Who would be sued?
My favorite image came from one of the early SCO stories. Someone said "Darl shoots himself in the foot right before putting it in his mouth." The image of him drooling blood around a mouthful of athlete's foot...
Perfect reproduction except the last word: it's a fair court, not cop.
The only reference I could find, though, was here, and it does say "cop" but I clearly heard her say "court" and anyway it makes sense, because she's on "trial"...
I can't believe there's not a more-appropriate crime to charge the guy with. Is there some sort of requirement to charge him with the most-serious charge you can, in the USA ? Perhaps that would explain it ?
I think you've hit one of the nails on the head. If they charge him with the worst possible crime, then he'll want to bargain for being charged with a lesser crime. If they charge him with a lesser crime, then he'll perhaps want to plea not guilty.
Every charge of "guilty" (even if it's a plea bargain from a worse offense) means money in the state's hands, whether through fines or through the increased taxes to pay for additional prison facilities.
Yeah, that had a very odd sex scene in it (she was extremely the opposite of tight, and didn't care what he was doing). Not just people; only females (at least, at the barn he was at -- it's been a while since I read it).
"In the Barn" was also in "Anthonology" (but I don't doubt it was included in more than one anthology).
He's made his bread and butter from Xanth (and I lived in Florida for a while myself, and can see where he's coming from with a lot of it), but he has also written a lot of other, "different" stories like the two we're discussing. I really liked reading the Bio of a Space Tyrant series as a teenager, and the other 5-book series in which consciousness can be teleported into different hosts, I really liked the different points of views that aliens had. I remember the one where the host was like a frisbee donut, and its predator had a long tooth which it caught them on. The frisbees could commit suicide very easily, so when confronted with danger they generally just up and died. The human taught the frisbees to stack together, and then the long-toothed predator couldn't get them into its mouth. Sounds a little silly as I describe it but he did a great job getting into the aliens' heads.
I haven't read anything by Mr. Anthony in... jeesh, almost two decades. Man I'm old.;-) Currently reading lots of Niven (got moderated Troll for saying the Eskimo migration reminded me of Fallen Angels yesterday), Philip K. Dick, Dan Simmons (Hyperion series), and Cory Doctorow (great new author with a very cool business plan).
Oh, right, moderators can't post. But that just doesn't make sense. Niven has a knack for predicting the future wrt technology; I can imagine governments helping their citizens in the very near future by beaming low-power microwaves at them so they can more easily migrate over frozen territory. These Eskimos in the topic are doing just that, migrating to find food. It ties in exactly with Niven's book.
Would it have been less of a troll if I had provided a link? Seriously, I want to understand.
Seriously, though, this is very cool. Melting ice is rather dangerous to be on, no matter how many years of experience you have walking on it. It looks like these maps might help save some lives.
Reminds me of the Niven book "Fallen Angels" in which space-based microwaves are used to assist the travel of the astronauts across the glacier. At one point they strip their clothes off because it's so hot, and meet some Eskimos who are astounded that people can walk naked in freezing weather.
Running an applictation without installing is a great idea for some purposes [...]
If you like this idea, you might be interested in a company called Softricity -- they make an install-less environment for Windows, and the software runs in a virtual environment (virtual registry and file system), so if two applications have conflicts and cannot be run on the same machine, run them through Softricity's environment and they can run on the same machine!
This is amazing for environments with Citrix silos, with apps that must be installed on specific Citrix servers and not others; with Softricity, they can be run on all the Citrix servers, meaning you can eliminate servers from your environment and save on hardware costs, management, electricity, etc.
2.6.0 is now in freeze mode and it will be really hard to remove all the lines that SCO alleges are infringement. Had they released this while 2.6 still was 2.5, the community could (at least in theory) have done a halt in development and spend some time on removing these lines.
My understanding is "removing these lines" actually means replacing them with something functionally equivalent. If it's functionally equivalent, then it doesn't really matter if it's done between 2.5.98 and 2.5.99, or between 2.6.3 and 2.6.4.
Sorry, I like my music live and for the most part acoustic.
I prefer my books handwritten too, but it's so much less convenient than reading them on my Palm on the commuter rail.
As long as the user experience is the same, what does it matter who or what is behind the curtain?
Smart use of technology is doing more with less. I feel bad for the now-out-of-work musicians, but technology always displaces skills, creating opportunities for other skills.
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Exactly -- as I said, my foot was on the floor but the car just wouldn't go any faster, even as I went up and over the overpass. Going up should have slowed it down (it didn't), and coming down should have sped it up (it didn't). I was very unimpressed, but keeping the car on the road was enough trouble that I'm somewhat glad I couldn't get it going any faster. (Good thing there weren't other cars on 95 at 3 am, or for that matter, cops.)
The cool thing, though, was the traction control. I could take a 90 degree corner in the rain with my foot on the floor; the car would come to a complete stop while turning (foot still on the floor), then accelerate in the direction I wanted to go. If I had an older Corvette I probably would have wrecked it. It was twice as fast and twice as safe as the '90 Mustang GT convertible I had before it.
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Sure, the brakes don't get any better, but if you are capable to handle driving your car at 155 mph, odds are you can handle it at whatever speeds above it that it can hit.
I had a.com Corvette (1999, red: two Prince songs), rated to 173 mph but I couldn't get it over 146 mph (going downhill with pedal on the floor, coming down an overpass on 95 in Ft. Lauderdale where it's completely flat, except for the overpasses and "Mt. Trashmore," the landfill). Must have had a governor or something...
I put Z-rated tires on it; they weren't cheap, but I didn't spend more than $250/tire for the fronts, $350/tire for the rears (total $1200, at Sears in Pompano Fashion Square Mall). I've never heard of Y-rated tires -- just H/S/V/Z (in that order of expense). Are Y greater or lesser than Z?
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If you point your "My Documents" at another partition, then you won't lose your work, just any programs you may have installed (and any downloaded Starcraft maps).
Ghost rocks. It should be a reboot requirement -- upon reboot, automatically ghost back to the most recent successful reboot. Of course, that requires some automation which Ghost doesn't really currently support.
One neat automation feature of ghost, however, is to call it with "ghost.exe -rb" which means "reboot after the ghost operation". Invoke it with that, then remove the floppy/CD, and perform the operation, then walk away; when you come back your machine will be booted into the newly-ghosted OS.
It also has automation features to tell it what to ghost, but I haven't gotten that part working yet.
I like her broken English, it reminds me of Pulp Fiction when she says "I don't know if this true, people say a lot." -- the line being "They say a lot, don't they?"
By the way, she's kinda cute (surprised noone else picked up on this) and I'm wondering, might she have done this as a way out of Russia? (Y'know, somewhat related to the "Russian brides" sites that supposedly do a lot of business?) Not that I'm interested, I've had enough wives myself, but I'm always questioning motivations...
I came across this comment as I was meta-moderating (agreed it was Insightful), and had to add:
Heinlein said it best: "An armed society is a polite society."
You don't say "f you!" if you think the guy might blow you away for saying it. I completely agree with the second amendment, and attempts to make concealed weapons illegal are, IMHO, unconstitutional.
Then it would come with an un-unpluggable battery backup, and videocamera so it could turn the volume up when you went to get a snack in the kitchen.
True story: back in 96, before I had a ReplayTV, I was working long hours and rarely got home before 9 pm, so I started taping the prime-time shows I liked. Worked pretty much the same as today, except I had to wait until they were done taping before I could start watching them, and I couldn't watch one while taping another (for the first 6 months; then I got another VCR -- a true geek).
Anyway, the cool part: I had recently retired a machine, and had a spare UPS. I decided to hook it to the TV and VCRs, more to prevent spikes (lotta lightning). Well, one night I'm sitting on the bed watching my stories, when the power goes out. All down the street, the houses are dark, and the ceiling fan slowly winds down to a stop -- but I'm still watching my shows! I thought that was so cool that I still have battery backup on the TV (and ReplayTV).
Already been done: see Suprnova.
Yeah, so it has a loose definition of "friends" ... but they sure aren't your enemies!
Well, sure, it's a three-step process (and I'm sure there's MTOWTDI):
*Click* remove seatbelt.
*Clunk* open door.
*Splat* roll out.
And, imagine if there were: these filters need more than a couple packets to determine whether the file is legit or not. So how would they do their scanning? You start a download, and not receive anything until the filter agrees that it's legit? In that case there'd end up being a lot more broken downloads, and people wouldn't know whether the problem was the filter or something else.
And if the filter let the packets through until it determined that the file was illegal, and then stopped it; well, what's to stop someone from writing a new downloader which just gets 10 random packets at a time, disconnects, then gets another 10 random packets? Bittorrent already does something similar; if you watch the "Details", "Pieces" and "Files" tabs in Azureus you can see that it comes down in no deterministic order at all.
Not only are the barn doors open after the horses have fled, but the barn is on fire, has fallen over, and sunk into the swamp. Entertainment cannot and should not determine the direction of the computer industry; the latter is far larger than the former, and if the former doesn't STFU soon the latter is going to learn how to lobby.
I don't need a mechanic for that, just a good Dead/Phish/Floyd concert...
That's funny (weird), as I was thinking exactly the same thing earlier reading about the new $4,000 dancing robot. What if we gave our creatures a sense of inquisitiveness, and they decided to take stuff apart to figure it out? What if a human ended up erroneously being part of that stuff? Who would be sued?
"You must go into the closet..."
"What?"
"And there you will have ... lots of fun."
"Listen! Do you smell something?"
A robot that can't get you stoned? Think I'll pass...
My favorite image came from one of the early SCO stories. Someone said "Darl shoots himself in the foot right before putting it in his mouth." The image of him drooling blood around a mouthful of athlete's foot...
The only reference I could find, though, was here , and it does say "cop" but I clearly heard her say "court" and anyway it makes sense, because she's on "trial"...
I remember as a kid playing the game "Life" and being shocked that I would be fined for "wreckless" driving.
I mean, c'mon, these game makers want me to be in more accidents? Guess that's like the game that simulates drug trips over in the other thread...
I think you've hit one of the nails on the head. If they charge him with the worst possible crime, then he'll want to bargain for being charged with a lesser crime. If they charge him with a lesser crime, then he'll perhaps want to plea not guilty.
Every charge of "guilty" (even if it's a plea bargain from a worse offense) means money in the state's hands, whether through fines or through the increased taxes to pay for additional prison facilities.
Jaded? I suppose.
"In the Barn" was also in "Anthonology" (but I don't doubt it was included in more than one anthology).
He's made his bread and butter from Xanth (and I lived in Florida for a while myself, and can see where he's coming from with a lot of it), but he has also written a lot of other, "different" stories like the two we're discussing. I really liked reading the Bio of a Space Tyrant series as a teenager, and the other 5-book series in which consciousness can be teleported into different hosts, I really liked the different points of views that aliens had. I remember the one where the host was like a frisbee donut, and its predator had a long tooth which it caught them on. The frisbees could commit suicide very easily, so when confronted with danger they generally just up and died. The human taught the frisbees to stack together, and then the long-toothed predator couldn't get them into its mouth. Sounds a little silly as I describe it but he did a great job getting into the aliens' heads.
I haven't read anything by Mr. Anthony in ... jeesh, almost two decades. Man I'm old. ;-) Currently reading lots of Niven (got moderated Troll for saying the Eskimo migration reminded me of Fallen Angels yesterday), Philip K. Dick, Dan Simmons (Hyperion series), and Cory Doctorow (great new author with a very cool business plan).
Oh, right, moderators can't post. But that just doesn't make sense. Niven has a knack for predicting the future wrt technology; I can imagine governments helping their citizens in the very near future by beaming low-power microwaves at them so they can more easily migrate over frozen territory. These Eskimos in the topic are doing just that, migrating to find food. It ties in exactly with Niven's book.
Would it have been less of a troll if I had provided a link? Seriously, I want to understand.
It's not very long, and your testicles will be crawling up into your body for weeks afterwards. Great stuff. ;-)
Reminds me of the Niven book "Fallen Angels" in which space-based microwaves are used to assist the travel of the astronauts across the glacier. At one point they strip their clothes off because it's so hot, and meet some Eskimos who are astounded that people can walk naked in freezing weather.
If you like this idea, you might be interested in a company called Softricity -- they make an install-less environment for Windows, and the software runs in a virtual environment (virtual registry and file system), so if two applications have conflicts and cannot be run on the same machine, run them through Softricity's environment and they can run on the same machine!
This is amazing for environments with Citrix silos, with apps that must be installed on specific Citrix servers and not others; with Softricity, they can be run on all the Citrix servers, meaning you can eliminate servers from your environment and save on hardware costs, management, electricity, etc.
I love their stuff and use it daily.
My understanding is "removing these lines" actually means replacing them with something functionally equivalent. If it's functionally equivalent, then it doesn't really matter if it's done between 2.5.98 and 2.5.99, or between 2.6.3 and 2.6.4.
Or am I missing something?
I prefer my books handwritten too, but it's so much less convenient than reading them on my Palm on the commuter rail.
As long as the user experience is the same, what does it matter who or what is behind the curtain?
Smart use of technology is doing more with less. I feel bad for the now-out-of-work musicians, but technology always displaces skills, creating opportunities for other skills.
The cool thing, though, was the traction control. I could take a 90 degree corner in the rain with my foot on the floor; the car would come to a complete stop while turning (foot still on the floor), then accelerate in the direction I wanted to go. If I had an older Corvette I probably would have wrecked it. It was twice as fast and twice as safe as the '90 Mustang GT convertible I had before it.
I had a .com Corvette (1999, red: two Prince songs), rated to 173 mph but I couldn't get it over 146 mph (going downhill with pedal on the floor, coming down an overpass on 95 in Ft. Lauderdale where it's completely flat, except for the overpasses and "Mt. Trashmore," the landfill). Must have had a governor or something...
I put Z-rated tires on it; they weren't cheap, but I didn't spend more than $250/tire for the fronts, $350/tire for the rears (total $1200, at Sears in Pompano Fashion Square Mall). I've never heard of Y-rated tires -- just H/S/V/Z (in that order of expense). Are Y greater or lesser than Z?