I like the part about incrased memory... anyone care to be a complete GNU/Linux source code concordance ^_^?"
Sorry this isn't Microsoft 451 (the number of times windows crashes and burns) Bill isn't driving around setting your OSS on fire.... well not that we're supposed to know about. We don't need people walking around with programs in their memories
Scan-Fab-a-Matic (a cheap foriegn knock off of the Scan-Fab-o-Matic) the poster:
So I can't use my computer as a tool to copy someone else's version of a song? I mean I am just useing my computer to recreate a copy of it. Its not like I am stealing anything because the original is still intact, undamaged and in possesion of the origian owner.
If I downloaded it from an ftp site then deleted it from the same site I could see where you might call that stealing although I would consider it more allong the lines of destruction of property.
I just don't like the fact that people call it stealing because it makes it sound worse that what it is. A way of attaching a word that produces strong emotion to try to make something worse than it really is.
I can't remember whether it was Huey, Dewey, or Louie that said "Thief is such a strong word, but it'll get you 10 points in scrabble."
hence you should use a nice springy keyboard. I think this is why people always pop up in these discussions and say how great those old IBM PC keyboards are (the ones with a sheet of steel in them which makes them so damn heavy).
Heh, i've got the clunky old IBM blunt weapon sitting on the desk here right next to my modded trackball (they just don't make the ergonomic ones for lefties where i shop) I've got to say these springy keyboards were the funnest ones to ever hunt & peck on before i learned to sorta touchtype, i'm up to using 5 fingers and a thumb:)
Fucking clicks from your speakers when you press a mouse button. If that isn't redundant fucking bloatware, than I don't know what is.
perhaps they're just leaving a configurable spot so your cow-orkers can have ducks quack or m-16s fire or women moaning "oh yeah! touch me there" (my college dormmate had that sound mapped to his start navigation. I had to bannish him to his girlfriend's place any time i wanted to get any work done).
We own 20 acres out in the middle of nowhere, and actually have a street (2 lane dirt/gravel with a wooden bridge ove a small creek) named after us because it had to be built for our property to be reached from a paved road. Within the past year we have been fighting the city over the rezoning of the land adjacent to us (along the same edge of the property we have our 1 acre lawn cleared around the house) for a planned community. To discourage future children from wandering onto the property and disturbing my family of foxes, rabbits or wandering into the nest of coral snakes I left. I am cultivating a hedge that is growing well in the year since i planted it. It contains green brair (.5 - 1.25 inch thorns on the parent plant) and poison sumac. But back to the point, i don't mow the lawn. The rabbits keep it pretty trim and we have a nice thick covering of dollar weed and a number of mints. No vines, no mowing, no watering, green all year(north fl does ocasionally frost) and nice soft ground cover. perhaps you should look into getting a bunch of rabbit, i've never found an electric kind with no emisions but i've not looked too hard
But with a margin that was so small that the result would have changed if Palm Beach voters had voted the way they intended to vote.
Even a million recounts could not fix the Palm Beach problem, because people did actually vote for Buchanan, and no recount can show that the really intended to vote for Gore.
speaking as someone who has been living in Florida for 99% of his life I have to point out that Florida contains 74% of the nations DUH. When people get confused by the ballots because they can't read or if they actually wanted to vote Buchanan there is something wrong, we need to have ballots with the pictures next to the names so the twits who screwed up can stop making us look like a state of complete farking idiots
On another note: National DUH distribution 74% in Florida 17% in Holywood 5% in Washington DC 3% remainder of the USA 1% Dubya
Quoth the thingy to which this post is in reply to
If you think MS makes good keyboard and mice, then your probably never tried anything by logitech. They are a much better vendor in my opinion and I like the way they feel.
Totally agree, I purchased a Logitech Trackman Marble FX a month into my freshman year (1998) and it's worked wonderfully since, especially the 4th configurable button. Yes i know the third button is configurable but i use apps that like middle button/ctrl-shift-right clicks
A few years ago I came across a Playstation game at a video store. It was largely unpopular, I guess, because I only read the box, I didn't play it, I haven't seen it since and the name of it always escapes me. It was kinda like Pokemon in that it featured battling monsters, but it was unique because not only could you use the pre-generated monsters included on the game CD, but you could drop your own *MUSIC* CDs in the your PS and it would NON-RANDOMLY generate monsters using the song data to give them their appearence and abilities.
The game was Monster Rancher (1 or 2) i think it used data on a CD, or some other identifier like CDDB uses, to determine body type, color, and atributes from specific sets.
It always gave me similar creatures from my They might Be Giants discs though
The truly sad thing, of course, is that we already have the perfect personal vehicle---bicycle technology is cheaper, more mature, and more efficient than this stupid Segway.
I think I'll stick to my bipedal octocycle (aka rollerblades) for some odd reason they haven't been banned from sidewalks on campus while skateboards and scooters have, probably has something to do with some of the professors rollerblading around heck, even some of the cops do
Quota: simply putting a well known name on something can make it automatically profitable.
I can't think of any examples of this *coughcoughgeorgeformangrillcough*
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Quotastic: I think that we are ready for an IPO. Any takers? We can use the money to blanket the airwaves with some really cool advertisements. We can have a household name. Nobody will have any idea what we do but that will just add to the mystique. We will also need a really cool logo.
Hey i've got one condition and it would make a cool logo too... Any time light is not hitting the portion facing the earth the must light up to read "CHA" in realy big letters.
Do that and i'll invest. I'll also return to wearing blue spandex and yelling spoon a lot.
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Qoute: wow..your post is funny, but it made me think of something...imagine that it WAS in a geo-synchronous(sp?) orbit. It would have to be alot closer...can you imagine the tides? and the extra gravity....wow...
not to nitpick but aren't the tides caused by the moon's g-field being strongest at different places at different tides (twice a day because the earth rotates so that it's either directly overheadish or directly underfootish) so wouldn't throwing it into geosynch rob us of tides, and hence many types of sea creatures that use the tides as a mating signal? i can hear the screams now "Dear lord, are those bloody grunion still going at it? will someone please move the moon so they'll stop?"
also, i'd be more worried about some button-monkey at nasa (since dubbya has converted their budget into banana's by then) not hitting the brake button on the moon during the move and it drops below where the brake rockets have enough power to overcome momentum AND the earth's gravity.
Quoth the post: Experiment: boil an egg in the microwave and see what happens
I was under the impression (perhaps from physics class in college) that the microwaves in a microwave oven are specifically tuned so they transfer the most energy to water molecules...
and what about the microwave power trasmitters we have out here in the sticks because no one wants to pay to run copper thru 40 miles of swamp to get to our small comunity? i've never seen a bird burst into flames from them before
Quoth again: its's the Death Star disguised as a power plant
That's no moon it's a.... oh wait it is a moon
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Quoth the posties: And that wouldn't be exactly great PR would it? Given that most of the world looks with horror on the 'fact' the US consumes ca. 30% of the world's fossil fuels, it would be great PR!
it'd be great PR except in the countries whose major source of income is selling fossil fuels to the US. and you know i'm not talking about the canadians
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without water on the moon there really won't be much to build a city with..
what about love? or rock & roll? or the vast number(4) of rich tourists that want to be they first * to do *?
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kwoat da tingy: wasn't there a news story in RoboCop about microwave energy from a space facility missing its mark on earth and taking out a small south american village? can't we learn *something* from hollywood?!?
Or on a related note, didn't we learn anyhting from SimCity. or was I the only one who never saw any disasters aside the drift from my microwave plants and the occasional alien invasion?
Quoth the posty-thing: worth restricting people's rights.
It's like the DMCA... It ASSUMES that people are guilty because they look at non-real images. It ASSUMES that these people will later go and commit a crime.
Would SOME people commit a crime based on this virtual desire? Probably.
hey if virtual kiddie pr0n should be a crime what about virtual murder(anyone who plays most FPSs) or virtual carjacking (GTA series) how about virtually piloting without a liscence (flight simulators), they should outlaw masterbation to prevent cruelty to animals
Just because you watch something (or play a game that features it) doesn't mean it'll make a stable person want togo out and do it, take saving private ryan for an example did it make you want to go running around europe shooting germans and blowing up bridges? it shouldn't be congresses job to put everyone in a padded room just so the loonies are locked up
quoth the post No, Linux wont be illegal. It will only be illegal to build and sell a machine that can run it. Of course, it will be illegal to build and sell a machine that runs any version of Windows up to date too, but do you really think Microsoft would be upset about having to sell everyone a new version again?
i bet M$ would have a horrible problem selling everyone a new version of windows since they hold the patent on DRM-OS... then again the problem would be they hurt themself carrying all those bags of money
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Quoth the post: The usual lobbyist would probably promise a contribution to the election campaign, but the geek lobbyist could help the congressman to program his VCR.
You may have been joking but i've known people who are on the city council here that would jump all over that geek: "Hey vote no on the Give-yourself-a-million-dollars-from-the-city bill and i'll make your vcr stop blinking 12:00!" city council: "that's cheaper than getting someone else to do it"
Quoth the post: But, GeekPAC? Don't they realize that the elderly gentlemen who run this country are going to have preconcieved notions about that terminiology?
yes they'll remember from their youth that there used to be a carnival that came thru town in 19-dikity-2 ("We had to call it dikity because the kaiser stole our twenty"-Abe Simpson) and that the geeks bit the heads off chickens, then they'll remember there was some rock and roll person who did that and since rock and roll is the music of the devil they'll see us imediately thinking we're working for the M($)PAA or something
Preventing sharing over the internet can be simple. Just Play like China on a smaller scale, Firewall every neighborhood. Then sharing is limited to people who you could pretty much just ask to borrow a CD to burn a copy of.
Oh wait, everyone would have to have a geographically specific access point to the internet (or maybe require ISPs to firewall off blocks of 50 users), hey while we're there give us all DSL or broadband.
Quoth the post: And after seeing the movie, we also know who is really responsible for sinking the Titanic.
We all knowf Celene Dion was on the Titanic she could have shattered the iceberg with her voice. Then again if the were listening to Celene Dion i can understand
Quoth the thingy: You buy music after checking it out on a P2P network, right? I'm fine with that. I do it myself. The original poster said that he has 15GB of music, of which less than one-fifth was actually bought and paid for. That's just being dishonest.
spot on, ever since napster i've not bought any CD that was less thasn 75% listenable, and more often than not it was more than 90% listenable. Of course since that hurts the RIAA's prophets i must be an anti-christ or something. Heck there are even some artists that i know are good enough to produce albums that are less than 3% intolerable mushy filler dran (TMBG's Mink Car album comes to mind).
Quoth the post: Based on the last 2 ammendments to the case it seems logical that the plaintif will include these posts on/. as libelous too.
well, now we know what our subsciption money was realy for, slashdot realy did pick this story upwhen it was just a newsgroups/mailinglist thread but then had to get potential legal phees together to put the article up
Quoth the post: Crows hate owls and hawks and cannot possibly ever hope to win a fight with one, no matter how many crows there are. So, rather than hiding, if crows see a hawk, they will fly around it at a safe distance and SCREAM at it. Caw! Caw! More crows will come and join. If the hawk goes for any one crow, goodbye crow, and the rest will scream even worse. Result: good luck finding prey with a lot of crows tirelessly screaming around you, hawk!
AHA! and since a group of crow is called a murder (IIRC) you are advocating a mob screaming bloody murder... wait... nevermind...
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Sorry this isn't Microsoft 451 (the number of times windows crashes and burns) Bill isn't driving around setting your OSS on fire.... well not that we're supposed to know about.
We don't need people walking around with programs in their memories
I can't remember whether it was Huey, Dewey, or Louie that said "Thief is such a strong word, but it'll get you 10 points in scrabble."
Heh, i've got the clunky old IBM blunt weapon sitting on the desk here right next to my modded trackball (they just don't make the ergonomic ones for lefties where i shop) I've got to say these springy keyboards were the funnest ones to ever hunt & peck on before i learned to sorta touchtype, i'm up to using 5 fingers and a thumb
perhaps they're just leaving a configurable spot so your cow-orkers can have ducks quack or m-16s fire or women moaning "oh yeah! touch me there" (my college dormmate had that sound mapped to his start navigation. I had to bannish him to his girlfriend's place any time i wanted to get any work done).
We own 20 acres out in the middle of nowhere, and actually have a street (2 lane dirt/gravel with a wooden bridge ove a small creek) named after us because it had to be built for our property to be reached from a paved road. Within the past year we have been fighting the city over the rezoning of the land adjacent to us (along the same edge of the property we have our 1 acre lawn cleared around the house) for a planned community. To discourage future children from wandering onto the property and disturbing my family of foxes, rabbits or wandering into the nest of coral snakes I left. I am cultivating a hedge that is growing well in the year since i planted it. It contains green brair (.5 - 1.25 inch thorns on the parent plant) and poison sumac. But back to the point, i don't mow the lawn. The rabbits keep it pretty trim and we have a nice thick covering of dollar weed and a number of mints. No vines, no mowing, no watering, green all year(north fl does ocasionally frost) and nice soft ground cover. perhaps you should look into getting a bunch of rabbit, i've never found an electric kind with no emisions but i've not looked too hard
speaking as someone who has been living in Florida for 99% of his life I have to point out that Florida contains 74% of the nations DUH. When people get confused by the ballots because they can't read or if they actually wanted to vote Buchanan there is something wrong, we need to have ballots with the pictures next to the names so the twits who screwed up can stop making us look like a state of complete farking idiots
On another note: National DUH distribution
74% in Florida
17% in Holywood
5% in Washington DC
3% remainder of the USA
1% Dubya
Quoth the thingy to which this post is in reply to
If you think MS makes good keyboard and mice, then your probably never tried anything by logitech. They are a much better vendor in my opinion and I like the way they feel.
Totally agree, I purchased a Logitech Trackman Marble FX a month into my freshman year (1998) and it's worked wonderfully since, especially the 4th configurable button. Yes i know the third button is configurable but i use apps that like middle button/ctrl-shift-right clicks
The game was Monster Rancher (1 or 2)
i think it used data on a CD, or some other identifier like CDDB uses, to determine body type, color, and atributes from specific sets.
It always gave me similar creatures from my They might Be Giants discs though
I think I'll stick to my bipedal octocycle (aka rollerblades) for some odd reason they haven't been banned from sidewalks on campus while skateboards and scooters have, probably has something to do with some of the professors rollerblading around heck, even some of the cops do
Quota:
simply putting a well known name on something can make it automatically profitable.
I can't think of any examples of this
*coughcoughgeorgeformangrillcough*
Quotastic:
I think that we are ready for an IPO. Any takers? We can use the money to blanket the airwaves with some really cool advertisements. We can have a household name. Nobody will have any idea what we do but that will just add to the mystique. We will also need a really cool logo.
Hey i've got one condition and it would make a cool logo too... Any time light is not hitting the portion facing the earth the must light up to read "CHA" in realy big letters.
Do that and i'll invest.
I'll also return to wearing blue spandex and yelling spoon a lot.
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wow..your post is funny, but it made me think of something...imagine that it WAS in a geo-synchronous(sp?) orbit. It would have to be alot closer...can you imagine the tides? and the extra gravity....wow...
not to nitpick but aren't the tides caused by the moon's g-field being strongest at different places at different tides (twice a day because the earth rotates so that it's either directly overheadish or directly underfootish) so wouldn't throwing it into geosynch rob us of tides, and hence many types of sea creatures that use the tides as a mating signal? i can hear the screams now "Dear lord, are those bloody grunion still going at it? will someone please move the moon so they'll stop?"
also, i'd be more worried about some button-monkey at nasa (since dubbya has converted their budget into banana's by then) not hitting the brake button on the moon during the move and it drops below where the brake rockets have enough power to overcome momentum AND the earth's gravity.
Quoth the post:
Experiment: boil an egg in the microwave and see what happens
I was under the impression (perhaps from physics class in college) that the microwaves in a microwave oven are specifically tuned so they transfer the most energy to water molecules...
and what about the microwave power trasmitters we have out here in the sticks because no one wants to pay to run copper thru 40 miles of swamp to get to our small comunity? i've never seen a bird burst into flames from them before
Quoth again:
its's the Death Star disguised as a power plant
That's no moon it's a.... oh wait it is a moon
Quoth the posties:
And that wouldn't be exactly great PR would it?
Given that most of the world looks with horror on the 'fact' the US consumes ca. 30% of the world's fossil fuels, it would be great PR!
it'd be great PR except in the countries whose major source of income is selling fossil fuels to the US. and you know i'm not talking about the canadians
without water on the moon there really won't be much to build a city with..
what about love?
or rock & roll?
or the vast number(4) of rich tourists that want to be they first * to do *?
kwoat da tingy:
wasn't there a news story in RoboCop about microwave energy from a space facility missing its mark on earth and taking out a small south american village? can't we learn *something* from hollywood?!?
Or on a related note, didn't we learn anyhting from SimCity. or was I the only one who never saw any disasters aside the drift from my microwave plants and the occasional alien invasion?
Quoth the posty-thing:
worth restricting people's rights.
It's like the DMCA... It ASSUMES that people are guilty because they look at non-real images. It ASSUMES that these people will later go and commit a crime.
Would SOME people commit a crime based on this virtual desire? Probably.
hey if virtual kiddie pr0n should be a crime what about virtual murder(anyone who plays most FPSs) or virtual carjacking (GTA series) how about virtually piloting without a liscence (flight simulators), they should outlaw masterbation to prevent cruelty to animals
Just because you watch something (or play a game that features it) doesn't mean it'll make a stable person want togo out and do it, take saving private ryan for an example did it make you want to go running around europe shooting germans and blowing up bridges?
it shouldn't be congresses job to put everyone in a padded room just so the loonies are locked up
quoth the post
No, Linux wont be illegal. It will only be illegal to build and sell a machine that can run it. Of course, it will be illegal to build and sell a machine that runs any version of Windows up to date too, but do you really think Microsoft would be upset about having to sell everyone a new version again?
i bet M$ would have a horrible problem selling everyone a new version of windows since they hold the patent on DRM-OS... then again the problem would be they hurt themself carrying all those bags of money
Quoth the post:
The usual lobbyist would probably promise a contribution to the election campaign, but the geek lobbyist could help the congressman to program his VCR.
You may have been joking but i've known people who are on the city council here that would jump all over that
geek: "Hey vote no on the Give-yourself-a-million-dollars-from-the-city bill and i'll make your vcr stop blinking 12:00!"
city council: "that's cheaper than getting someone else to do it"
Quoth the post:
But, GeekPAC? Don't they realize that the elderly gentlemen who run this country are going to have preconcieved notions about that terminiology?
yes they'll remember from their youth that there used to be a carnival that came thru town in 19-dikity-2 ("We had to call it dikity because the kaiser stole our twenty"-Abe Simpson) and that the geeks bit the heads off chickens, then they'll remember there was some rock and roll person who did that and since rock and roll is the music of the devil they'll see us imediately thinking we're working for the M($)PAA or something
Preventing sharing over the internet can be simple. Just Play like China on a smaller scale, Firewall every neighborhood. Then sharing is limited to people who you could pretty much just ask to borrow a CD to burn a copy of.
Oh wait, everyone would have to have a geographically specific access point to the internet (or maybe require ISPs to firewall off blocks of 50 users), hey while we're there give us all DSL or broadband.
heck if they would offer it i'd subscribe already
Quoth the post:
And after seeing the movie, we also know who is really responsible for sinking the Titanic.
We all knowf Celene Dion was on the Titanic she could have shattered the iceberg with her voice.
Then again if the were listening to Celene Dion i can understand
Quoth the thingy:
You buy music after checking it out on a P2P network, right? I'm fine with that. I do it myself. The original poster said that he has 15GB of music, of which less than one-fifth was actually bought and paid for. That's just being dishonest.
spot on, ever since napster i've not bought any CD that was less thasn 75% listenable, and more often than not it was more than 90% listenable. Of course since that hurts the RIAA's prophets i must be an anti-christ or something. Heck there are even some artists that i know are good enough to produce albums that are less than 3% intolerable mushy filler dran (TMBG's Mink Car album comes to mind).
Quoth the post: /. as libelous too.
Based on the last 2 ammendments to the case it seems logical that the plaintif will include these posts on
well, now we know what our subsciption money was realy for, slashdot realy did pick this story upwhen it was just a newsgroups/mailinglist thread but then had to get potential legal phees together to put the article up
Quoth the post:
Crows hate owls and hawks and cannot possibly ever hope to win a fight with one, no matter how many crows there are. So, rather than hiding, if crows see a hawk, they will fly around it at a safe distance and SCREAM at it. Caw! Caw! More crows will come and join. If the hawk goes for any one crow, goodbye crow, and the rest will scream even worse. Result: good luck finding prey with a lot of crows tirelessly screaming around you, hawk!
AHA! and since a group of crow is called a murder (IIRC) you are advocating a mob screaming bloody murder... wait... nevermind...