I believe many of the Maryland candidates are running the primary unopposed (ie: only one from each party signed up), in which case there pretty much is no choice. It could be that the unopposed candidates were checked by default. I don't know since I haven't voted yet.
"Remember the days when "getting Slashdotted" was every sysadmin's worst nightmare?"
They've got to be kidding -- getting Slashdotted is still every sysadmin's worst nightmare. Slashdot turns servers into smouldering wrecks on a daily basis.
Number one "person" who doesn't matter?: The Business 2.0 Magazine staff who wrote this garbage.
Oh, I do know it ain't gonna happen. So instead I keep hoping that Comiecast will hurry up and buy Adelphia in the hope that they might extend their coverage in the process. There is cable within 1/2 mile of my street -- but Adelphia just doesn't seem to be willing to go that last (half) mile to offer service to us folks in cow country. (There are about 50 households out here absolutely begging for cable tv and broadband internet.)
Where I live, I can't get cable, DSL or satellite internet. No one is providing broadband wireless that actually works at my house and the local microwave inTARweb place is too far away. I would gladly trade in my modem for 384k anything -- free or not free.
My history teacher was one of the finalists for the mission. During the "competition" process Christa McAuliffe became a friend of hers. We watched the launch live during history class. I was 10 years old. We all saw it, but I don't think anyone really understood. School was let out early and when I got home my mom and dad were watching President Regan speaking about the event. With the exception of my mom's death a year later, that was the only time I ever saw my dad cry. During the course of my life, I will forget lots of things but that is a day that I will *never* forget.
For some reason I have a facination with the incident so I have spent a lot of time studying the facts, the videos, the NASA reports. Myth #3 (that the astronauts died at 73 seconds) is the only one that I've found people think to be true. I have a feeling that people do believe it because it's more comfortable to assume they died instantly rather than think it was even possible that they survived the event and met a much more unfriendly end (slamming into the ocean at 200mph).
Nikon is encrypting the *white balance* portion of the RAW format, not the entire file. The Nikon-produced plugin for Photoshop gives you a nice little drop-down for adjusting white balance. I doubt that they would stop supplying that with the cameras, as a great number of photographers are using Photoshop.
BTW, Corel makes an excellent RAW ---> whatever format converter that is freely available (yes, free as in beer!). I think it's called RAWShooter Essentials? It's no faster than the Nikon coverter, however, it cleans up memory after itself and doesn't run your CPU up to 100% during the conversion. I use it all the time to supply JPGs to clients.
"Just be glad this sort of thing is only done with semi-important systems like banking and voting - you just wait until planes and nuclear reactors get outsourced to the cheapest bidder, then you really will be fighting rabid crack whores! we all will!"
I've got news for you. Testing and some bug fixes of avionics software are already being sent to India.
"actually a tricycle with two front wheels and one back wheel."
Really.
When I look at the accompanying photograph, I see one front wheel and two back wheels. Although, I suppose the back wheels could be the front if he's riding backwards....
Holy cow (Dist 3)! That's riddiculous. Someone needs to author a bill mandating that "districts" must be made up of whole counties. Forget this redistricting crap.
Right, but I believe the article said it was 38 seconds before the cabin seperated, and another 24 before it broke apart, resulting in instant death. Those poor men and women knew what was happening for the last 62 seconds.
Pssst....Hey Darl. That's the "Ark of the Covenant". OF. Not "and".
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The "AotC" contained the two tablets upon which the Ten Commandments were written, the staff of Aaron, and a pot of manna. It was where God manifested His earthly presence.
The Ark of the Covenant could only be approached once a year by the high priest on "Yum Kippur"- the Jewish Day of Atonement. On this day, the high priest would enter the Holy of Holies with the blood of a sacrificed lamb. It was also only on this day that God's presence manifested between the two Cherubs. The high priest would sprinkle the blood of the sacrificed lamb on the Mercy Seat. Once received by God, the blood of the lamb atoned (covered) for the sins of the high priest and the entire nation of Israel. This ritual was performed continuously, year after year. The Ark of the Covenant played a key role in the forgiveness of sins.
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Does this mean that Darl and Co are forgiving us of our alledged copyright/license/"whatever they're accusing us of today" sins? Thanks guys!:)
So, if they are distributing it, it's probably the last version that was OK. Has anyone done a diff of the version on SCO's ftp site and the following version? (And then the following, and the following.....)
That might reveal which code they are laying claim to.
Just FYI, the process isn't all that difficult. Fill out the form on copyright.gov and send them a check for $30. That's basically it.
They do have some complicated FAQs that walk you through picking the right form. I was able to email them for some help in figuring out how to register a collection of over 3000 photographs concerning different subjects, but in the end I got it done for no more than my $30, the cost of postage, and a couple hours of my time.
Farmer A has a cow for sale. Farmer B wants to buy the cow. They agree on a price. Farmer B forks over the cash and takes his new cow home. Sometime later, the cow gives birth.
Farmer A is pissed because if he had known the cow was pregnant, he would have doubled the price. Farmer B is a happy camper cuz he got a freebie.
I'm not a big fan of it, but my husband likes it. Slice it up thin & fry it. Serve with macaroni and cheese for a QUICK meal on nights that we've got meetings @ the firehouse.
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I'm a big fan of G&B dark chocolate bars. They're wonderful for flourless chocolate cake!
I believe many of the Maryland candidates are running the primary unopposed (ie: only one from each party signed up), in which case there pretty much is no choice. It could be that the unopposed candidates were checked by default. I don't know since I haven't voted yet.
"Remember the days when "getting Slashdotted" was every sysadmin's worst nightmare?"
They've got to be kidding -- getting Slashdotted is still every sysadmin's worst nightmare. Slashdot turns servers into smouldering wrecks on a daily basis.
Number one "person" who doesn't matter?: The Business 2.0 Magazine staff who wrote this garbage.
Oh, I do know it ain't gonna happen. So instead I keep hoping that Comiecast will hurry up and buy Adelphia in the hope that they might extend their coverage in the process. There is cable within 1/2 mile of my street -- but Adelphia just doesn't seem to be willing to go that last (half) mile to offer service to us folks in cow country. (There are about 50 households out here absolutely begging for cable tv and broadband internet.)
But hey, I can dream can't I? lol
Where I live, I can't get cable, DSL or satellite internet. No one is providing broadband wireless that actually works at my house and the local microwave inTARweb place is too far away. I would gladly trade in my modem for 384k anything -- free or not free.
So that's why my replacement power module has been sitting in the St. Louis Fedex facility since Monday. Who knew?
My history teacher was one of the finalists for the mission. During the "competition" process Christa McAuliffe became a friend of hers. We watched the launch live during history class. I was 10 years old. We all saw it, but I don't think anyone really understood. School was let out early and when I got home my mom and dad were watching President Regan speaking about the event. With the exception of my mom's death a year later, that was the only time I ever saw my dad cry. During the course of my life, I will forget lots of things but that is a day that I will *never* forget.
For some reason I have a facination with the incident so I have spent a lot of time studying the facts, the videos, the NASA reports. Myth #3 (that the astronauts died at 73 seconds) is the only one that I've found people think to be true. I have a feeling that people do believe it because it's more comfortable to assume they died instantly rather than think it was even possible that they survived the event and met a much more unfriendly end (slamming into the ocean at 200mph).
Nikon is encrypting the *white balance* portion of the RAW format, not the entire file. The Nikon-produced plugin for Photoshop gives you a nice little drop-down for adjusting white balance. I doubt that they would stop supplying that with the cameras, as a great number of photographers are using Photoshop.
BTW, Corel makes an excellent RAW ---> whatever format converter that is freely available (yes, free as in beer!). I think it's called RAWShooter Essentials? It's no faster than the Nikon coverter, however, it cleans up memory after itself and doesn't run your CPU up to 100% during the conversion. I use it all the time to supply JPGs to clients.
"Hence the mail server was shut down for approximately 2 days/48 hours (4th Dec evening to 5th Dec noon). "
Hrm.... 12/04/04 evening to 12/05/04 noon. And that was "2 days/48 hours" on WHAT planet?
It's an evil plan to covertly slashdot Yahoo.
"Just be glad this sort of thing is only done with semi-important systems like banking and voting - you just wait until planes and nuclear reactors get outsourced to the cheapest bidder, then you really will be fighting rabid crack whores! we all will!"
I've got news for you. Testing and some bug fixes of avionics software are already being sent to India.
"actually a tricycle with two front wheels and one back wheel."
Really.
When I look at the accompanying photograph, I see one front wheel and two back wheels. Although, I suppose the back wheels could be the front if he's riding backwards....
Holy cow (Dist 3)! That's riddiculous. Someone needs to author a bill mandating that "districts" must be made up of whole counties. Forget this redistricting crap.
They probably use Zip+4 to split the area into segments.
Right, but I believe the article said it was 38 seconds before the cabin seperated, and another 24 before it broke apart, resulting in instant death. Those poor men and women knew what was happening for the last 62 seconds.
A very sobering thought.
Darl quote from the article:
.Hey Darl. That's the "Ark of the Covenant". OF. Not "and".
:)
"the ark and the covenant"
Pssst...
**************
The "AotC" contained the two tablets upon which the Ten Commandments were written, the staff of Aaron, and a pot of manna. It was where God manifested His earthly presence.
The Ark of the Covenant could only be approached once a year by the high priest on "Yum Kippur"- the Jewish Day of Atonement. On this day, the high priest would enter the Holy of Holies with the blood of a sacrificed lamb. It was also only on this day that God's presence manifested between the two Cherubs. The high priest would sprinkle the blood of the sacrificed lamb on the Mercy Seat. Once received by God, the blood of the lamb atoned (covered) for the sins of the high priest and the entire nation of Israel. This ritual was performed continuously, year after year. The Ark of the Covenant played a key role in the forgiveness of sins.
***************
Does this mean that Darl and Co are forgiving us of our alledged copyright/license/"whatever they're accusing us of today" sins? Thanks guys!
Ban all 12-year old girls!
Nah .. the legal definition of insane is "doing the same thing over and over again, yet expecting different results."
:)
SCO is doing different things, expecting the same result.
I think we've just discovered a good use for Flash Mobs. :)
Microsoft has copied some of my code, and put it in Windows. Every Windows user must pay me a $700 licensing fee or I will sue them.
What? I'm sorry, I can't show you the code -- it's a trade secret. Just trust me and sign that check.
So, if they are distributing it, it's probably the last version that was OK. Has anyone done a diff of the version on SCO's ftp site and the following version? (And then the following, and the following.....)
That might reveal which code they are laying claim to.
Just FYI, the process isn't all that difficult. Fill out the form on copyright.gov and send them a check for $30. That's basically it.
They do have some complicated FAQs that walk you through picking the right form. I was able to email them for some help in figuring out how to register a collection of over 3000 photographs concerning different subjects, but in the end I got it done for no more than my $30, the cost of postage, and a couple hours of my time.
(see my post above -- replied to the thread instead of to your post)
Farmer A has a cow for sale. Farmer B wants to buy the cow. They agree on a price. Farmer B forks over the cash and takes his new cow home. Sometime later, the cow gives birth.
Farmer A is pissed because if he had known the cow was pregnant, he would have doubled the price. Farmer B is a happy camper cuz he got a freebie.
I'm not a big fan of it, but my husband likes it. Slice it up thin & fry it. Serve with macaroni and cheese for a QUICK meal on nights that we've got meetings @ the firehouse.