Or luddophilic technite -- I can't decide which name suits us best.
The Cutting Edge still tempts me now and then, but that other crap was out on the street about the third time I got an ad that used them. PO was out about five years before that.
> A system, method, and computer program product for delivery and automatic execution of security, management, or optimization software over an Internet connection to a user computer responsive to a user request entered via a web browser on the user computer.
The author(s) of Code Red II need to rush out and patent the reverse, since their program lets you deliver and execute "security", "management", and "optimization" software over an internet connection to remote systems, by entering accessing a URL on that remote system.
> Actually, it is the "best interconnectivity" is "Our Internconnectivity"
Sorry; I should have quoted the original poster's "between MS networking protocols and UNIX". For that particular kind of interconnectivity, "none" is what MS likes best.
> Do people who enjoyed George Lucas' original trilogy (well, minus the last half of RotJ) really care about the George Lucas' current focus on ten-year-olds?
Perhaps I overestimate the mental prowess of ten-year-olds, but don't you think TPM was targeted more at the six-year-old crowd?
> How am I supposed to camp out for something with this lame of a title?!
I'll be extremely surprised if this really is the final title. It just doesn't have any "ring" to it. Expect it to morph into something like Attack of the $ADJECTIVE Clones, or maybe substitute some other noun for Attack. Or maybe throw this title out altogether; it is surely just a working title.
BTW, does anyone know what the working titles of the other episodes were?
> Harlan Ellison's was the sole, lonely critical voice to be raised against it, and even in his case his point wasn't so much that it sucked, but just that it wasn't quite as good as everyone else was saying.
I saw it at college age. I was disappointed because it was space opera rather than "hard" scifi of the 2001 variety. But at least it was fun. I've rented it several times, and I'll rent it again someday.
That Pathetic Movie wasn't fun, and I certainly won't be renting it.
> How old you were when you first saw any of the movies has nothing to do with the shortcomings of Phantom Menace.
I second that, and everything else you said in your post. Star Wars wasn't a great movie, but it was a fun movie. And still is, if you rent it and watch it again. TPM, OTOH, is nothing but a pay-per-view commercial for kiddies' toys.
I usually get very absorbed in movies, to the extent that I feel somewhat disoriented when I leave the theater. Not so with TPM; it's one of the handful of movies I've ever seen that didn't make me suspend disbelief for a while. My critical mind was awake and alert the whole time, asking when the cheesy fun was going to start.
Unfortunately, the odor it let out wasn't from cutting the cheese. It was pure, unadulterated dogpoop.
> Clearly the US Atty. intends to prosecute, but I suspect that John Ashcroft not exactly enthusiastic to prosecute Sklyarov.
Presumably the low bail is because the DoJ hopes he will flee the country. It would be a convenient face-saver for a case that doesn't have a leg to stand on, and would let them continue to portray Dmitry as the villian.
> Is this a precursor to the widely expected split of California into North and South? Where is the boundary between these (soon to be two) states that Dimitry cannot cross?
> Windows, on the other hand, has a fixed cost, but (for me at least) requires much less time to get to an operational state.
The big difference for me is, once I install and configure Linux it stays installed and configured. With Windows there's an eternal annoyance of fixing spontaneous reconfigurations and mysterious breakages.
Useless anecdote: Yesterday I ran by a place of business to pick something up. They were expecting me, so I was only in the room for a couple of minutes. What did I hear while I was there? A secretary complained that something wasn't working right on her computer, and someone standing behind her said, "He reinstalled your software yesterday."
The ordinary cost of running Windows makes the hassle of virus repairs look cheap.
> you should know one egregious example of funny strings in Pi at funny positions:
> 42424242 at position 242424.
Incredible! I have just discovered that it also lists out all the digits of pi, starting at offset zero!
Now instead of calculating the digits of pi, we can just look them up in the digits of pi!!!
On a serious note, observe that if pi does indeed have all possible strings embedded in it, then it must have all possible strings embedded in it twice. (And thrice, 4x, 5x, etc. The proof is left as an exercise to the reader.) Thus if it does embed all possible strings, it follows that the first n digits of pi must appear in it somewhere other than at offset zero, for any positive n.
The interesting question is, must it also have all infinite strings embedded in it? I suspect that would lead to a contradiction, but this goes beyond my mathematical competence.
> It will start a whole new branch of numerology dedicated to finding entire new holy books...
Ah, yes. Bible Codes for mathematicians.
I once seriously considered buying the Bible Codes program, just to see if it could find the message "bible codes, big lie". I wonder whether pi reveals its own naughty secrets.
At the very least we can expect helpful messages like "You can just round it off now, you moron."
For the plot at incidents.org, the last four hourly reports show a pretty clean geometric growth, with the hourly multiplier varying only between 1.63x and 1.68x (it was a bit higher for the earlier reports).
I wouldn't go so far as to predict a continuation, but the numbers are still kind of fun. A 1.6x per hour for 24 hours would give 79,228x. With a basis of 22,001 reporting right now, that would give 1.74 million infections at this time tomorrow.
Surely this one will saturate its niche long before then, if only because of all the repairs that were made a couple of weeks ago. But it gives a hint about what's going to happen when The Big One (tm) comes along.
And the viruses seem to be getting smarter lately. I would guess that TBO will come along by the end of the year, or surely no later than the middle of next year.
Get to work on those disaster recovery plans, folks.
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> Or BenDover.info?
youregonnabe.info.it when your mother reads that.
> This is obviously a flame, and I know I'm going to lose what meager karma points I have with this, but I'm going to say it anyways.
Those who would sacrifice their freedom of speech for karma deserve neither freedom of speech nor karma.
To pare a phrase.
> I just say no to:
1. JavaScript
2. Java
3. Shockwave
4. Flash
5. ActiveX
6. The Cutting Edge
7. Planned Obsolesence
You go, bro! I'm a technophilic luddite too.
Or luddophilic technite -- I can't decide which name suits us best.
The Cutting Edge still tempts me now and then, but that other crap was out on the street about the third time I got an ad that used them. PO was out about five years before that.
> A system, method, and computer program product for delivery and automatic execution of security, management, or optimization software over an Internet connection to a user computer responsive to a user request entered via a web browser on the user computer.
The author(s) of Code Red II need to rush out and patent the reverse, since their program lets you deliver and execute "security", "management", and "optimization" software over an internet connection to remote systems, by entering accessing a URL on that remote system.
> Actually, it is the "best interconnectivity" is "Our Internconnectivity"
Sorry; I should have quoted the original poster's "between MS networking protocols and UNIX". For that particular kind of interconnectivity, "none" is what MS likes best.
> Samba is the best if not only solution for interconnectivity between MS networking protocols and Unix ... but yet MS intends to cut this off.
From Micorsoft's perspective, the "best interconnectivity" is "no interconnectivity".
> Saving us all from better products at little or no cost for bloatware...
Of course. What the heck are patents good for, if you can't use them to cut off the competition's air supply?
> Do people who enjoyed George Lucas' original trilogy (well, minus the last half of RotJ) really care about the George Lucas' current focus on ten-year-olds?
Perhaps I overestimate the mental prowess of ten-year-olds, but don't you think TPM was targeted more at the six-year-old crowd?
> TPM was nothing but a marketing device aimed straight at children.
I misread that as "aimed at straight children".
The question that immediately came to mind was, what kind of children will AotC's marketing be aimed at?
> How am I supposed to camp out for something with this lame of a title?!
I'll be extremely surprised if this really is the final title. It just doesn't have any "ring" to it. Expect it to morph into something like Attack of the $ADJECTIVE Clones, or maybe substitute some other noun for Attack. Or maybe throw this title out altogether; it is surely just a working title.
BTW, does anyone know what the working titles of the other episodes were?
> Harlan Ellison's was the sole, lonely critical voice to be raised against it, and even in his case his point wasn't so much that it sucked, but just that it wasn't quite as good as everyone else was saying.
I saw it at college age. I was disappointed because it was space opera rather than "hard" scifi of the 2001 variety. But at least it was fun. I've rented it several times, and I'll rent it again someday.
That Pathetic Movie wasn't fun, and I certainly won't be renting it.
> Do you troll newsgroups and spout "Worst Episode Ever" alot?
Yes. And the Jedi pay me to do it; I make my living that way.
> It also supports the Macromedia Flash plug-in.
OK, so someone made a language that will make your browser do all the things you ever didn't want it to do. $SUBJECT
> Attack of the Clones" only makes me fear the creation of an entire army of Jar Jars.
Without a doubt, that's the title's subliminal message: "How can they be clones, if you only buy one of each action figure?"
Expect the action figures for this one to be sold in sets of twelve.
> How old you were when you first saw any of the movies has nothing to do with the shortcomings of Phantom Menace.
I second that, and everything else you said in your post. Star Wars wasn't a great movie, but it was a fun movie. And still is, if you rent it and watch it again. TPM, OTOH, is nothing but a pay-per-view commercial for kiddies' toys.
I usually get very absorbed in movies, to the extent that I feel somewhat disoriented when I leave the theater. Not so with TPM; it's one of the handful of movies I've ever seen that didn't make me suspend disbelief for a while. My critical mind was awake and alert the whole time, asking when the cheesy fun was going to start.
Unfortunately, the odor it let out wasn't from cutting the cheese. It was pure, unadulterated dogpoop.
TPM : "That Pathetic Movie"
> But anybody who remembers the Ewoks smashing Stormtroopers in ROTJ had to see this coming
Yeah, I thought the scene where Leia came out of the Ewok's home wearing her nightgown would have made a much better meme for him to follow up on.
At least we would know where Wookies come from.
> Clearly the US Atty. intends to prosecute, but I suspect that John Ashcroft not exactly enthusiastic to prosecute Sklyarov.
Presumably the low bail is because the DoJ hopes he will flee the country. It would be a convenient face-saver for a case that doesn't have a leg to stand on, and would let them continue to portray Dmitry as the villian.
> Is this a precursor to the widely expected split of California into North and South? Where is the boundary between these (soon to be two) states that Dimitry cannot cross?
The 38th parallel.
> If I win, do I get a trip to the US? (see email address)
Furriners who win a trip to the US shouldn't come unless they also get a get out of jail free card.
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> Windows, on the other hand, has a fixed cost, but (for me at least) requires much less time to get to an operational state.
The big difference for me is, once I install and configure Linux it stays installed and configured. With Windows there's an eternal annoyance of fixing spontaneous reconfigurations and mysterious breakages.
Useless anecdote: Yesterday I ran by a place of business to pick something up. They were expecting me, so I was only in the room for a couple of minutes. What did I hear while I was there? A secretary complained that something wasn't working right on her computer, and someone standing behind her said, "He reinstalled your software yesterday."
The ordinary cost of running Windows makes the hassle of virus repairs look cheap.
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> you should know one egregious example of funny strings in Pi at funny positions:
> 42424242 at position 242424.
Incredible! I have just discovered that it also lists out all the digits of pi, starting at offset zero!
Now instead of calculating the digits of pi, we can just look them up in the digits of pi!!!
On a serious note, observe that if pi does indeed have all possible strings embedded in it, then it must have all possible strings embedded in it twice. (And thrice, 4x, 5x, etc. The proof is left as an exercise to the reader.) Thus if it does embed all possible strings, it follows that the first n digits of pi must appear in it somewhere other than at offset zero, for any positive n.
The interesting question is, must it also have all infinite strings embedded in it? I suspect that would lead to a contradiction, but this goes beyond my mathematical competence.
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> It will start a whole new branch of numerology dedicated to finding entire new holy books...
Ah, yes. Bible Codes for mathematicians.
I once seriously considered buying the Bible Codes program, just to see if it could find the message "bible codes, big lie". I wonder whether pi reveals its own naughty secrets.
At the very least we can expect helpful messages like "You can just round it off now, you moron."
--
> If he gives you a bullshit answer, kick him out the door.
Ask him if he ever gets laid. If he says "yes", then kick him out because he's not true geek material.
For the plot at incidents.org, the last four hourly reports show a pretty clean geometric growth, with the hourly multiplier varying only between 1.63x and 1.68x (it was a bit higher for the earlier reports).
I wouldn't go so far as to predict a continuation, but the numbers are still kind of fun. A 1.6x per hour for 24 hours would give 79,228x. With a basis of 22,001 reporting right now, that would give 1.74 million infections at this time tomorrow.
Surely this one will saturate its niche long before then, if only because of all the repairs that were made a couple of weeks ago. But it gives a hint about what's going to happen when The Big One (tm) comes along.
And the viruses seem to be getting smarter lately. I would guess that TBO will come along by the end of the year, or surely no later than the middle of next year.
Get to work on those disaster recovery plans, folks.