Re:does that work both ways?
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World Cup Final
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He gives everyone different gifts; theirs happen to be being good at football.
And here I was thinking hard work and practice is what gave them their "gifts", thanks for setting me straight.
Maybe if I pray a whole lot I will suddenly learn Java, it's something I've been meaning to do anyway, why waste times with books when I can beg my magical friend for skills instead!
Thanks, you probably saved me many hours of work and study.
When was the last time you bought a product you had never heard advertised?
I buy surplus electronics all the time, yesterday I bought a truckload of lumber from a place that runs no ads, last week I took my cat to a vet that runs no ads.
In fact, I can't really think of much I have bought in the recent past that does have ads running, at least not durable goods.
As consumables go, I buy mostly store brand items, only going for the name brand when the store brands just aren't as good quality (Got to have real Coke, that store stuff isn't the same).
I think TV advertising is mostly BS, it may be effective for certain products that have wide appeal but not many people know about, but those are few and far between. (PeoplePC comes to mind, back when they were running ads)
For example, I don't think some dude telling people "Up Yours" makes me want a 7UP, but I guess there could be subtle effects that I am not aware of.
I work in the packaging industry, and I think that sort of "on the shelf" advertising is much more important, especially for quasi-commodity items, like food and grocery store type goods.
Companies pay for very expensive packaging sometimes, with metallic inks and special colors, they pay for the premium shelf spaces in the stores, etc. I think that sort of more subtle advertising is a lot more important for consumable goods companies, and I'd bet that gets a lot bigger chunk of their budget than other types of ads, in most cases.
The FTC doesn't seem to have a hammer, it's more like a rubber mallet, considering the penalties that have been handed down in the past, and the fact that Amway still exists.
Stallman added: "Mono will enable you to run your C# programs on the free GNU/Linux operating system using exclusively free software. With Mono, you will be able to use C# if you wish, without surrendering your freedom to study, share, change, and generally control all the software that you use."
IE's PNG support sucks balls. In fact, PNG support in general is kind of weird. I had to resave a PNG three times to get it to reliably display in IE, Netscape, Opera, and Mozilla. For reference, Opera has the best PNG support out of any browser I have seen.
Since the link to PNG won't load for me, and I am not too familiar with the format, can you tell me if it can do the following?
CMYK encoding, YCbCr, L*a*b Resolution Metadata Extensible Metadata A really cool magic number (42):)
For some reason I don't see many of the people this question is asked by running their own apache server with PHP. Needing to set up a web server to run an app that is to be mostly used locally is a mistake only a geek would make.
That's not how metamoderation works. Metamoderation costs the moderator themselves karma if it is voted unfair. You get to keep the karma unless someone else comes along and mods it back down. Metamoderation also is a majority voting system, one metamoderator doesn't make absolute choices, the same moderation is presented to many metamoderators, and the majority vote carries.
You must be thinking of sodium or potassium, not magnesium.
Sort of destroys the credibility of your whole post, besides the fact that any science lab would want stuff like that, you can do a lot of interesting experiments with sodium or potassium.
That is a good point I guess. I always like google because I can search for the generic word "putty" and download the SSH client. Makes it easier for when I am working with network-crippled OS's like Windows.
As it is, msn seems to prefer Windows related sites to Linux ones. I can't point to any particular search and say for sure, but try out some keywords for yourself and see.
Good point, but I think some of us like having servers on our desktop. A lot of us do things like PHP programming, or database programming, and being able to easily have the test bed sitting under your desk rather than in the server room is a real benefit.
Anyway, it really boils down to what you are going to use it for. A GUI isn't as important to someone who works 10 times faster with just a few terminal windows, a browser and their editor of choice.
Come on man, as if the links to goatse all over your account weren't enough of a tipoff, most of your previous posts were also the same kind of karma whoring/trolling, posting stuff other people wrote as your own.
I thought it was kinda funny at first, especially when people kept falling for it, but then I got sick of it.
Re:Don't mod parent up before reading this.
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Doom3 and OpenGL2.0
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Heh, I'm glad the moderators heeded my advice, but I sure don't think my comment is worthy of +5. I'm flattered, but next time save your points for messages that are more than just troll warnings.:)
Don't mod parent up before reading this.
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Doom3 and OpenGL2.0
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The whole idea of a remote security compromise in a MEDIA PLAYER, is insane. I don't know how media player works, but it either must be opening ports up in listen mode, or it is somehow executing code inside the media files. Either one of which is really really stupid.
The link is interesting, but it was already featured on Slashdot months ago, that is why it only got a passing mention.
Re:If if changes the Unix/Linux security model, fi
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Analyzing Palladium
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You don't have to enable root. There are ways to just set up enough accounts that share the various powers of root, to never need root to be enabled anymore.
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He gives everyone different gifts; theirs happen to be being good at football.
And here I was thinking hard work and practice is what gave them their "gifts", thanks for setting me straight.
Maybe if I pray a whole lot I will suddenly learn Java, it's something I've been meaning to do anyway, why waste times with books when I can beg my magical friend for skills instead!
Thanks, you probably saved me many hours of work and study.
When was the last time you bought a product you had never heard advertised?
I buy surplus electronics all the time, yesterday I bought a truckload of lumber from a place that runs no ads, last week I took my cat to a vet that runs no ads.
In fact, I can't really think of much I have bought in the recent past that does have ads running, at least not durable goods.
As consumables go, I buy mostly store brand items, only going for the name brand when the store brands just aren't as good quality (Got to have real Coke, that store stuff isn't the same).
I think TV advertising is mostly BS, it may be effective for certain products that have wide appeal but not many people know about, but those are few and far between. (PeoplePC comes to mind, back when they were running ads)
For example, I don't think some dude telling people "Up Yours" makes me want a 7UP, but I guess there could be subtle effects that I am not aware of.
I work in the packaging industry, and I think that sort of "on the shelf" advertising is much more important, especially for quasi-commodity items, like food and grocery store type goods.
Companies pay for very expensive packaging sometimes, with metallic inks and special colors, they pay for the premium shelf spaces in the stores, etc. I think that sort of more subtle advertising is a lot more important for consumable goods companies, and I'd bet that gets a lot bigger chunk of their budget than other types of ads, in most cases.
Heh, don't take it personally man, I'm just joking around.
THEIR WRONG
Is this a new game, dueling morons?
The FTC doesn't seem to have a hammer, it's more like a rubber mallet, considering the penalties that have been handed down in the past, and the fact that Amway still exists.
he makes bearded linux hippies take night flights to save money and apparently requires them to double up on hotel rooms.
:)
Heh, as much as I have flamed you in the past, I have to say, that was a slick one. I laughed.
Uh, the current month is June. Is it next month or this weekend?
Why do people keep modding up this troll?
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Stallman added: "Mono will enable you to run your C# programs on the free GNU/Linux operating system using exclusively free software. With Mono, you will be able to use C# if you wish, without surrendering your freedom to study, share, change, and generally control all the software that you use."
What does TIFF do that PNG doesn't?
:)
IE's PNG support sucks balls. In fact, PNG support in general is kind of weird. I had to resave a PNG three times to get it to reliably display in IE, Netscape, Opera, and Mozilla. For reference, Opera has the best PNG support out of any browser I have seen.
Since the link to PNG won't load for me, and I am not too familiar with the format, can you tell me if it can do the following?
CMYK encoding, YCbCr, L*a*b
Resolution Metadata
Extensible Metadata
A really cool magic number (42)
For some reason I don't see many of the people this question is asked by running their own apache server with PHP. Needing to set up a web server to run an app that is to be mostly used locally is a mistake only a geek would make.
That's not how metamoderation works. Metamoderation costs the moderator themselves karma if it is voted unfair. You get to keep the karma unless someone else comes along and mods it back down. Metamoderation also is a majority voting system, one metamoderator doesn't make absolute choices, the same moderation is presented to many metamoderators, and the majority vote carries.
We had a bill to force cable people to share their wires but it got killed.
I kinda have a problem with bills like that. Would you like it if the government forced you to let your competitors rent out parts of your storefront?
You must be thinking of sodium or potassium, not magnesium.
Sort of destroys the credibility of your whole post, besides the fact that any science lab would want stuff like that, you can do a lot of interesting experiments with sodium or potassium.
That is a good point I guess. I always like google because I can search for the generic word "putty" and download the SSH client. Makes it easier for when I am working with network-crippled OS's like Windows.
As it is, msn seems to prefer Windows related sites to Linux ones. I can't point to any particular search and say for sure, but try out some keywords for yourself and see.
Good point, but I think some of us like having servers on our desktop. A lot of us do things like PHP programming, or database programming, and being able to easily have the test bed sitting under your desk rather than in the server room is a real benefit.
Anyway, it really boils down to what you are going to use it for. A GUI isn't as important to someone who works 10 times faster with just a few terminal windows, a browser and their editor of choice.
Come on man, as if the links to goatse all over your account weren't enough of a tipoff, most of your previous posts were also the same kind of karma whoring/trolling, posting stuff other people wrote as your own.
I thought it was kinda funny at first, especially when people kept falling for it, but then I got sick of it.
Heh, I'm glad the moderators heeded my advice, but I sure don't think my comment is worthy of +5. I'm flattered, but next time save your points for messages that are more than just troll warnings. :)
http://www.gamespy.com/e32002/pc/carmack/index2.sh tml
I wish I could rip off Carmack's words and present them as my own, that would make me uber-leet like you.
You can finger your girlfriend,
You can finger John Carmack,
But you can't get your girlfriend to write good vertex shading code!
The whole idea of a remote security compromise in a MEDIA PLAYER, is insane. I don't know how media player works, but it either must be opening ports up in listen mode, or it is somehow executing code inside the media files. Either one of which is really really stupid.
Really? I can't get a confirmation on Google for those stats, but now that I think about it, he does seem kind of old in the picture.
To think we were staring up the ass of a dead merchant marine that whole time. Sort of metaphysical there.
Scraping things across holes.....especially oily fingertips, will eventually lead to nasty build-up partially obscuring the cavity.
Someone better tell the goatse guy about that.
The link is interesting, but it was already featured on Slashdot months ago, that is why it only got a passing mention.
You don't have to enable root. There are ways to just set up enough accounts that share the various powers of root, to never need root to be enabled anymore.