since when has anyone mourned the fact that we no longer have a community speaking ancient Mayan or Pharonic Egyptian?
Since we tried to understand these cultures.
Anything worth keeping will be translated into English.
How do we know what is worth keeping? Your idea of what is worth keeping may very well differ from the idea of the historian of the 43rd century. How do you know everything can be translated into english? There are no 1-to-1 mappings between languages. Whenever you translate a text, some things are lost and some things are added.
The explanation for this is that nobody's ever outside the Matrix in the Movies. The "real world" is actually just a different part of the Matrix. The real world is never shown in the movies. Zion is part of the control mechanism. What it is that is controlled is never revealed.
This is the only explanation that makes sense to me, and it makes the movies much more interesting. This would make Smith the good guy trying to bring the Matrix/Zion down for whatever reason, and Neo the bad guy. See the movies again from this perspective and I believe they will make much more sense. The third movie doesn't really end with peace, but with a restoration of the balance, although in a different way than the previous six (?) times.
Actually, the number is now 2,976, idiot. If you bothered keeping current with the news, you'd know that. And yes, ordinarily such a correction would count as picking nits, but the fact of the matter is that it's because so many of you skip reading international news that we're in this mess in the first place. You're too busy watching football or wrestling.
Actually, the number is now 2,750, idiot. If you bothered keeping current with the news, you'd know that. And yes, ordinarily such a correction would count as picking nits, but the fact of the matter is that it's because so many of you skip reading international news that we're in this mess in the first place. You're too busy watching football or wrestling.
Installing cards can be tricky. Here's what my girlfriend did when trying to install a PCI-card (creds to her for trying, though):
On this particular computer there were more openings in the back of the case than there were PCI-slots on the motherboard. She fastened the card to the case without putting it in a PCI-slot. Then she wondered why it didn't work. I had a hard time not to laugh when I discovered what she had done. I think I did ok, though, since she is still willing to do her own upgrades.:-)
But is the PC as reliable as a room full of communications hardware?
This may just show my limited experience with base stations, but why do they need a big airconditioned room in the first place? The new 3G base stations can be masqueraded as a flag pole. I see no reason why GSM base stations should be any bigger. What am I missing?
You'r only supposed to offer sources if you distribute binaries. It's ok to use it internally without sharing sources. In this case I assume "internally" means "all of China".;-)
AFAIK this is not the case. It's not hard at all to destroy chemical weapons. Most of them fall apart by themselves. Any weapons that were present in 1993 would be useless by now.
It's just like when you forget eggs in the fridge. After a year or so they are not really eggs any more, but rather chemical weapons. With chemical weapons it's the other way around (or so I've been told).
I just took a look at my hands when I type and they are pretty much at a 45 degree angle to the keyboard even though I use the "traditional" touch typing. I guess it depends on how you bend your fingers. If I would straighten out my fingers while in the traditional home row (asdf), I would end up with pretty much the same home row as you (qsdc). In order to press Z I move my pinky to below the center of my palm.
Actually my experience is the opposite. I recently installed a NAT (I use my old PPro for this purpose) and connected a USB printer (HP Deskjet 930C) to it. I installed Mandrake 9.1, but didn't bother to configure the printer, since I've heard that it is supposed to be tricky. Then I installed Mdk9.1 on my other two boxes as well. Sometime later I accidentally tried to print from one of those, and to my surprise the printer connected to the NAT came alive and printed!
IIRC there is a service in Finland to which you can send an SMS with a license plate number, and then get back the owner's name in another SMS. You can then call 411 (or the corresponding finnish number) to get his/hers number. It opens up new possibilities for abuse:-)
...this is the same company that used to make games for OS/2. I remember trying out a demo of GalCiv on OS/2 back in '96 or so. IIRC it was a quite nice game. I seem to remember that they were making some kind of adventure game as well (or was it an RPG?). Whatever happened to that one? What was the game called?
Actually you can do this yourself. I did it a year and a half ago. It's called vertical handover, and I did it between 802.11b and bluetooth. I wanted to do GPRS as well, but I had no access to such hardware at the time. It's quite easy to set up using MobileIP and some clever programming. There should be more advanced solutions available now, I think.
Sweden has a stealth ship as well. Here and here are some articles with a lot of technical details. This article has a few not-rendered pictures of it, and this article has even more info.
Like I said in another post, get the evaluation CD. It is not crippled in any way. It just contains fewer packages. You can later change the source medium to "ftp" if you need the full distribution.
FYI, the evaluation CD will do just fine. I installed 6.4 (IIRC) from the eval cd. When I needed packages not included on the eval, I just changed the installation medium to "ftp" in the setup program, and suddenly I had access to the full distribution which usually takes six cds.
Well, it kind of took off. Like I said in another post, the first commercial mobile phone network was introduced in 1955 in Sweden. The receivers were trunk-sized, and not many could afford them. However, I believe this gave Scandinavia a head start in mobile technology, now dominated by companies like Ericsson and Nokia.
I submitted this a couple of days ago, but it was never posted.
We actually had mobile phones in the 60's.
In 1950 the first fully automatic mobile phonecall was made by an engineer at Ericsson.
By 1955 the first commercially mobile phone system were in use in Sweden. The base stations had a coverage of 25-30km, and the phone equipment weighted about 50 kg. It was called MTA, and was later followed by MTB.
In 1981 the first analogue cellular network was in use in the scandinavian countries. It was called NMT (Nordisk MobilTelefoni).
(I realise that a mobile phone network is not necessarily a cellular network, but this seems relevant anyway.)
Look here for more info (in swedish)./Trynis
Yeah, but if I take pictures of my ski vacation and store them in a file cabinet, I probably will create a manila folder labeled '99 ski vacation. It would be strange to suggest this is uncommon.
Yes, but his point wasn't about file cabinets, it was about minds, and that storage on a computer should work more like a mind than a file cabinet. /Trynis
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Both are actually neutral.
since when has anyone mourned the fact that we no longer have a community speaking ancient Mayan or Pharonic Egyptian?
Since we tried to understand these cultures.
Anything worth keeping will be translated into English.
How do we know what is worth keeping? Your idea of what is worth keeping may very well differ from the idea of the historian of the 43rd century. How do you know everything can be translated into english? There are no 1-to-1 mappings between languages. Whenever you translate a text, some things are lost and some things are added.
Neo's out-of-Matrix powers?
The explanation for this is that nobody's ever outside the Matrix in the Movies. The "real world" is actually just a different part of the Matrix. The real world is never shown in the movies. Zion is part of the control mechanism. What it is that is controlled is never revealed.
This is the only explanation that makes sense to me, and it makes the movies much more interesting. This would make Smith the good guy trying to bring the Matrix/Zion down for whatever reason, and Neo the bad guy. See the movies again from this perspective and I believe they will make much more sense. The third movie doesn't really end with peace, but with a restoration of the balance, although in a different way than the previous six (?) times.
Actually, the number is now 2,976, idiot. If you bothered keeping current with the news, you'd know that. And yes, ordinarily such a correction would count as picking nits, but the fact of the matter is that it's because so many of you skip reading international news that we're in this mess in the first place. You're too busy watching football or wrestling.
;-)
Actually, the number is now 2,750, idiot. If you bothered keeping current with the news, you'd know that. And yes, ordinarily such a correction would count as picking nits, but the fact of the matter is that it's because so many of you skip reading international news that we're in this mess in the first place. You're too busy watching football or wrestling.
Installing cards can be tricky. Here's what my girlfriend did when trying to install a PCI-card (creds to her for trying, though):
:-)
On this particular computer there were more openings in the back of the case than there were PCI-slots on the motherboard. She fastened the card to the case without putting it in a PCI-slot. Then she wondered why it didn't work. I had a hard time not to laugh when I discovered what she had done. I think I did ok, though, since she is still willing to do her own upgrades.
But is the PC as reliable as a room full of communications hardware?
This may just show my limited experience with base stations, but why do they need a big airconditioned room in the first place? The new 3G base stations can be masqueraded as a flag pole. I see no reason why GSM base stations should be any bigger. What am I missing?
This article shows one way to do it under KDE. It's explained on page 3.
You'r only supposed to offer sources if you distribute binaries. It's ok to use it internally without sharing sources. In this case I assume "internally" means "all of China". ;-)
AFAIK this is not the case. It's not hard at all to destroy chemical weapons. Most of them fall apart by themselves. Any weapons that were present in 1993 would be useless by now.
It's just like when you forget eggs in the fridge. After a year or so they are not really eggs any more, but rather chemical weapons. With chemical weapons it's the other way around (or so I've been told).
I just took a look at my hands when I type and they are pretty much at a 45 degree angle to the keyboard even though I use the "traditional" touch typing. I guess it depends on how you bend your fingers. If I would straighten out my fingers while in the traditional home row (asdf), I would end up with pretty much the same home row as you (qsdc). In order to press Z I move my pinky to below the center of my palm.
Actually my experience is the opposite. I recently installed a NAT (I use my old PPro for this purpose) and connected a USB printer (HP Deskjet 930C) to it. I installed Mandrake 9.1, but didn't bother to configure the printer, since I've heard that it is supposed to be tricky. Then I installed Mdk9.1 on my other two boxes as well. Sometime later I accidentally tried to print from one of those, and to my surprise the printer connected to the NAT came alive and printed!
It just worked out of the box using CUPS.
IIRC there is a service in Finland to which you can send an SMS with a license plate number, and then get back the owner's name in another SMS. You can then call 411 (or the corresponding finnish number) to get his/hers number. It opens up new possibilities for abuse :-)
...this is the same company that used to make games for OS/2. I remember trying out a demo of GalCiv on OS/2 back in '96 or so. IIRC it was a quite nice game. I seem to remember that they were making some kind of adventure game as well (or was it an RPG?). Whatever happened to that one? What was the game called?
"The round trip ping response at 300Km was 300-500 mSec."
With this kind of lag you can't play CounterStrike.
Actually you can do this yourself. I did it a year and a half ago. It's called vertical handover, and I did it between 802.11b and bluetooth. I wanted to do GPRS as well, but I had no access to such hardware at the time. It's quite easy to set up using MobileIP and some clever programming. There should be more advanced solutions available now, I think.
TTT? Let's call it T3, just to confuse everybody.
Why not try a country that's not even present on the map, e.g. SE (Sweden)?
Sweden has a stealth ship as well. Here and here are some articles with a lot of technical details. This article has a few not-rendered pictures of it, and this article has even more info.
Like I said in another post, get the evaluation CD. It is not crippled in any way. It just contains fewer packages. You can later change the source medium to "ftp" if you need the full distribution.
FYI, the evaluation CD will do just fine. I installed 6.4 (IIRC) from the eval cd. When I needed packages not included on the eval, I just changed the installation medium to "ftp" in the setup program, and suddenly I had access to the full distribution which usually takes six cds.
Well, it kind of took off. Like I said in another post, the first commercial mobile phone network was introduced in 1955 in Sweden. The receivers were trunk-sized, and not many could afford them. However, I believe this gave Scandinavia a head start in mobile technology, now dominated by companies like Ericsson and Nokia.
/Trynis
I submitted this a couple of days ago, but it was never posted. We actually had mobile phones in the 60's. In 1950 the first fully automatic mobile phonecall was made by an engineer at Ericsson. By 1955 the first commercially mobile phone system were in use in Sweden. The base stations had a coverage of 25-30km, and the phone equipment weighted about 50 kg. It was called MTA, and was later followed by MTB. In 1981 the first analogue cellular network was in use in the scandinavian countries. It was called NMT (Nordisk MobilTelefoni). (I realise that a mobile phone network is not necessarily a cellular network, but this seems relevant anyway.) Look here for more info (in swedish). /Trynis
I find it hard to believe that this "CD" really
:-)
qualifies as a CD, by the definition.
So, can I sue them for false advertising?
Such jacks would be *much* more expensive. I believe the only reason for using wireless over jacks is that it is cheaper.
Yeah, but if I take pictures of my ski vacation and store them in a file cabinet, I probably will create a manila folder labeled '99 ski vacation. It would be strange to suggest this is uncommon.
Yes, but his point wasn't about file cabinets, it was about minds, and that storage on a computer should work more like a mind than a file cabinet.
/Trynis