That isn't a troll. I saw danhesketts game a while back, and he has been a firm fixture in my foes list for a while now. He is a broken record. He claims he doesn't work for Microsoft, but he sure knows how to constantly toe the party line.
If you follow the links from MS's terrashare server, you can find a place to order the full survey from the geological survey people. The thing is, it's all flat, and black and white. Not very good for a flight sim type app.
That is messed up. The have a link to the high res version of the "old view", but no links to the high res versions of the new-improved image. Does anyone have any links to a larger version?
Actually This picture shows DD during his brief role as a boy toy for Hitler. This was before the greys abducted him, and warped him 40 years into the future.
Where are you going to pass the law, and how are you going to enforce it in Asia? The only hope would be an international treaty, and even then, it's up to the participating countries to pass and enforce laws dictated by the treaty, and even then, nothing's forcing them to even sign it, and it would also present an opportunity for power grubbing government types to steal even more rights.
There is no good solution, except maybe a good international asskicking. (Not like war, I mean like physical asskicking of the people involved.)
So it's even more efficient at reading a file off a disk and shooting it out on port 80? Really, aren't we to the point where the only thing we can get is more bloated and less efficient? Is there ever a point when software is "finished", in the open source world? Have we fallen victim to constant tinkering just because we can?
I don't know what you mean by mainstream stations, but there were attempts by the other major networks to imitate the Simpsons, after their large success. You had that thing with the muppet dinosaurs, which wasn't animated, but supposedly aiming for Simpson-ness.
You had things like the Critic, and a couple other attempts. Nothing stuck.
I guess you would have to modify all your auth programs to look for that rhythm?
That won't work very well for a network login, TCP will packetize keys that are sent close to each other, throwing you off. I won't even attempt to think about how that work work over satellite, when I ssh, I usually type fast enough so that my keystrokes all get sent at once (the satellite has special proxy software that assumedly avoids sending lots of little packets).
Computers do use more power when they are actually doing something. If one OEM did this, the other OEM would have a big ad campaign with people and their electric bills.
This is simply stealing money right out of people's pockets. I don't see it as any different from what the guys in the movie "Office Space" attempted to do by shaving a couple cents off of each transaction.
Sure, it only costs each user a little bit of money, maybe $1 a month, but it is still stealing.
Distributed.net just uses a network of proxies, are the SETI people idiots or did they just not have the forethought that the distributed.net people had?
That would just encorage "web developers" (I use the term very loosly) to only test their pages in IE. There are more than two browsers, you know. We don't need to give people the impression that it's "OK" to just spit something out of frontpage that isn't anywhere near valid HTML.
It's downright dangerous. I'll give an example. I took VB programming course in college (I was forced), and the professor posted the grades on the web. The grades were listed next to the last four digits of our student ID, at least in IE, mostly anonymous. Apparently though, he just did some sort of "embed database" command in Frontpage, because in Opera, I could see a major error. Everyone's home address, phone number, SSN, etc was included with thier grades! On the web!
Frontpage put the whole database into the web page, and because you could only see the field they actually wanted to show in IE, he went ahead and put it up! One quick glance at the HTML would have been enough for him to see the mistake.
So everyone always asks "What has MS ever done to you?" Well, I think I have a good story to tell them, and also a good reason people should not target browsers for "IE compatibility". We have standards for a reason, follow them.
If you havn't tried Opera 6 yet, make time to try it. It's one of those revolutionary revisions, at least on the Windows and Linux versions. Mac Opera still sucks as far as I can tell though.
Quarter wave CB is 102 inches. I think that is what you are thinking of seeing on Pickups and Tractors. They sometimes have a clip to bend them over when not in use. I can't imagine a 408inch antenna on a vehicle.:)
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That isn't a troll. I saw danhesketts game a while back, and he has been a firm fixture in my foes list for a while now. He is a broken record. He claims he doesn't work for Microsoft, but he sure knows how to constantly toe the party line.
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s/terrashare/terraserver
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If you follow the links from MS's terrashare server, you can find a place to order the full survey from the geological survey people. The thing is, it's all flat, and black and white. Not very good for a flight sim type app.
That is messed up. The have a link to the high res version of the "old view", but no links to the high res versions of the new-improved image. Does anyone have any links to a larger version?
Actually This picture shows DD during his brief role as a boy toy for Hitler. This was before the greys abducted him, and warped him 40 years into the future.
Dude, did you read the rest of my message?
So it's OK for the non-profit orgs to spam the hell out of me? It's OK for "charity collection" scammers to spam me?
Commercial email isn't the problem, bulk, untargeted email is the problem.
There are laws in a lot of states.
Where are you going to pass the law, and how are you going to enforce it in Asia? The only hope would be an international treaty, and even then, it's up to the participating countries to pass and enforce laws dictated by the treaty, and even then, nothing's forcing them to even sign it, and it would also present an opportunity for power grubbing government types to steal even more rights.
There is no good solution, except maybe a good international asskicking. (Not like war, I mean like physical asskicking of the people involved.)
So it's even more efficient at reading a file off a disk and shooting it out on port 80?
Really, aren't we to the point where the only thing we can get is more bloated and less efficient? Is there ever a point when software is "finished", in the open source world? Have we fallen victim to constant tinkering just because we can?
I don't know what you mean by mainstream stations, but there were attempts by the other major networks to imitate the Simpsons, after their large success. You had that thing with the muppet dinosaurs, which wasn't animated, but supposedly aiming for Simpson-ness.
You had things like the Critic, and a couple other attempts. Nothing stuck.
Why did the parent of this get modded down? Quick Robin, to the metamod-cave.
I guess you would have to modify all your auth programs to look for that rhythm?
That won't work very well for a network login, TCP will packetize keys that are sent close to each other, throwing you off. I won't even attempt to think about how that work work over satellite, when I ssh, I usually type fast enough so that my keystrokes all get sent at once (the satellite has special proxy software that assumedly avoids sending lots of little packets).
I think you misspelled some of those movie titles:
Sneakers
Antitrust
Wargames
1984 (Yeah OK, the book is a lot better than the movie)
The Conversation
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"Joe Sixpack" (God a hate that expression) isn't an idiot. He will know that you don't get something for nothing, and ask what the catch is.
The other problem is there is no money in distributed computing.
No one really has come up with a math-intensive problem that distributes well, that also can make money.
Except for the whole "Green PC" thing.
Computers do use more power when they are actually doing something. If one OEM did this, the other OEM would have a big ad campaign with people and their electric bills.
This is simply stealing money right out of people's pockets. I don't see it as any different from what the guys in the movie "Office Space" attempted to do by shaving a couple cents off of each transaction.
Sure, it only costs each user a little bit of money, maybe $1 a month, but it is still stealing.
Well, I personally thought it was hilarious. Just skip Katz's stupid ranting and click the link, and the world will be good. :)
Why did they jump straight to OGR24? I thought we didn't know the OGRs higher than 19 yet?
Distributed.net just uses a network of proxies, are the SETI people idiots or did they just not have the forethought that the distributed.net people had?
That would just encorage "web developers" (I use the term very loosly) to only test their pages in IE. There are more than two browsers, you know. We don't need to give people the impression that it's "OK" to just spit something out of frontpage that isn't anywhere near valid HTML.
It's downright dangerous. I'll give an example. I took VB programming course in college (I was forced), and the professor posted the grades on the web. The grades were listed next to the last four digits of our student ID, at least in IE, mostly anonymous. Apparently though, he just did some sort of "embed database" command in Frontpage, because in Opera, I could see a major error. Everyone's home address, phone number, SSN, etc was included with thier grades! On the web!
Frontpage put the whole database into the web page, and because you could only see the field they actually wanted to show in IE, he went ahead and put it up! One quick glance at the HTML would have been enough for him to see the mistake.
So everyone always asks "What has MS ever done to you?" Well, I think I have a good story to tell them, and also a good reason people should not target browsers for "IE compatibility". We have standards for a reason, follow them.
If you havn't tried Opera 6 yet, make time to try it. It's one of those revolutionary revisions, at least on the Windows and Linux versions. Mac Opera still sucks as far as I can tell though.
I understand your sentiment, but what pending or passed legislation even came close to touching this sort of experimentation?
Quarter wave CB is 102 inches. I think that is what you are thinking of seeing on Pickups and Tractors. They sometimes have a clip to bend them over when not in use. I can't imagine a 408inch antenna on a vehicle. :)
The all-in-one wasn't too much innovation, only in size, IBM had the 5150 luggable out first.