I just retired an Octane from service. We stopped running Irix on it and switched to NetBSD because Irix was such a security nightmare. My favorite crack on SGIs' was "All of the worse bits of Solaris and Macintosh all rolled up into one." Probably unfair, becuase ours was a sturdy little machine. I loved the way the peripherals slid in an out on their own chassis.
A subscription to one of their journals is OUTRAGEOUS. Our library has over 50 grand a year set aside for ACS journals. A chemist friend joked with me saying that some of the titles never even get read while in the periodical room.
out West? Well, those are rife with problems (environmental, esp watershed damage). I wonder what the ramifications of renting would be though. Probably, the gubmint isn't allowed to rent them through some sweetheart deal set up for the telcom companies. No, that never happens....
It basically requires an e-mail address within UT's CS department. But since all undergrad and grad CS department students keep their accounts forever, just impose upon the lowest paid code monkey in your shop.:-)
Dow chemical bought what was left of Union carbide in the late 80's / early 90's, long after the disaster settlements had been made. Holding Dow responsable for Bhopal would be like an AMX owner suing DiamlerChrysler 20 years after getting a settlement out of AMX.
Corporations purchase other companies liabilities as well as their assets. It is difficult to imagine that DaimlerChrysler is responsible for flaws in some bad product made under the auspices of a past company name, but it is. This is the same principle that some use to hold companies like IGFarben accountable for slave labor during WWII, or some American corporations having their geneis by being built on profits made from slave labor in the 19th century. While over a long-time scale, these claims are not far-fetched historically speaking. Now legally speaking is another thing and a matter that some crack lawyer can probably handle. You don't have to convince the world, only 12 jurors.
But every Slashdotter on the planet will bitch if this story was linked in the New York Times because they'd have to "register' to read it. New rule of thumb: If a news source does not require a minor hoop to jump through, consider it suspect.
This is not a part of the draft. They already have Selective Service registration. This is an attempt to keep an eye on foreign nationals in college with the added bump of keeping an eye on everyone in college. So will your school do it? Bet your ass compulsory membership is tied to getting fed money. Smile! Smile! Smile!
Movement does not require a change in spatial relations. If it did, then I guess Gramsci couldn't have be a revolutionary in prison. That's the answer: Lock up all the people who are participating or might participate in a revolution then there won't be any!
Newspaper readership per capita in the US is dwarfed by Britain, etc. A newpaper of record doesn't represent the ideas the country as a whole, but is one that is respected throughout. The LATimes, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune (to a lesser degree) are all newspapers of record in the US.
Blogging is a fad and journalists are lazy. Most blogs are nothing more than someone scribbling on the urinal wall of the Internet. The more trustworthy ones are nothing more than people who add a couple of one liners to a news story gathered elsewhere. The blogosphere is filled with kranks and petty megalomaniacs who are only given life by the laziest of professions: journalists.
Why do I call them lazy? Well, I was a journalist and worked the sports desk of a major college town newspaper (Top 10 NCAA spors program every year and the one of best women's BBall school of all time -- you figure it out). I thought the culture of laying around doing nothing until deadline was nigh was peculiar to that newspaper (on all desks) until I got a job at a TV station as a factchecker/script writer on the metro beat. Basically, I would write the little blurbs the talking heads would say. Harder than it seems! Well, the reporters there were equally lazy and often just made shit up on the spot. I was fired for having trouble with "truth."
My point is that if the fad of blogging disappeared, then journalists (read lazy scum) would cut to some other way of increasing their dicking off time. Example: before blogs there was 'trolling the wire.' Basically, you would read wire reports coming out of other metro areas, then take a story that was fairly interesting, add a local angle, change it enough that it was yours and BOOM 8 inches of copy.
It is the US "Paper of Record." In Britain, that would be a paper like the Sunday Times or the Independent. In France, Le Monde. In Slovenia, Delo. In Japan, Asahi Shimbun. In Nashville, TN, that would be the Tennesseean.
What makes the NYT great is that they hire only the best (and fire them when they fail) and they know their audience holds them to a high standard and BITCHES mightily when they fail. Also, Dick Cheney has banned them from reporting on him. I wonder why?
It has to do with the geoid model used in measuring. Some use a geoid that reflects the 20km bulge, others don't. Remember the earth is not a sphere, and it is certainly not smooth.
I would still fill out the form. Here's why: you would have to link to places like MyWay (reknowned for changing AP stories to suit the DrudgeReport) or to non-subscriber news sites such as the Tampa. FL paper or the Muskogee, OK rag. Who do you trust? I will give them bogus info and just remember some dumb auth stuff to get a better article. Let them link all they want. The reason the NYT is a dream journalism job is not that the pay is great, it's because the paper is great. Yeah, they get shit wrong and are notoriously centrist, but I trust it over, say, some random site off GoogleNews.
OK. I have an account at NYT. The cookie for the account never expires unless I clear my cookies. I don't see what the complaint is. Feed them bogus info using your gmail account as the email recipient. Then you can click on the links without worry. If you are paranoid about the NYT corrupting your precious bodily fluids or something, get over it. Our Big Media overlords have better fish to fry than people who post to/. no matter how self-important we think we are.
Also, I trust the NYT more than say The Washington Times. At least the former is not OVERTLY tied to its alledged political masters. I await your flames with steely-eyed lust.
All of the bitching about Steam should stop. If it weren't for Warezd versions of HL1 and little camping, shit-for-brains cheaters whose mama's didn't love them enough, I'd STILL be playing HL1 in the multi-player mode and treating your asses like Madonna treats dick AND we wouldn't need Steam. I haven't played HL2 multiplayer yet, but if Steam stops 1/10 of the various hacked up cheatmod shit I'll be on it.
What ifn dem turrizts got hold of dat? They'd shoot lasors right at our testic^H^H^H^H^H^Hgon^H^H^Hballs and we wouldn't have a goll durn chance. Better tell Senator Frist it's A-OK to appropriate 300 mill for that Star Wars whatjamagig even if it don't work! Gosh!
Is RedHat still around? When they did the nasty, we cut everything to Debian. Fuhgeddaboutit. We cut down maintenance costs within the first six months simply because we spent so little time in RPM HELL. I'd never go back and, to this day, can't believe I ever went in the first place.
I don't believe 'Al Qaeda' is a signatory party to the Geneva Convention
No. They didn't. But we did. Get it? Besides despite their plainly wrong worldview, they all are citizens of some sovereign nation on this planet and covered by a fuckload of other treaties as well as such. If you are going to walk the walk and talk the talk as a freedom-loving nation, you have to do it whole hog. It is called 'credibility.' Conservatives talk a lot about this notion, but often possess not a single ounce.
What's it say in the Bible? Do no practice evil nor wear evil's garments. Something to that effect. Shooting prisoners is evil. Talking your way around the fact that a prisoner was shot is evil. But what American bothers to read the Bible anyway? Oh, wait. Me.... I love how conservatives hate situational ethics except in their own situation.:-)
Insert Strawman Argument about John Kerry here. I wrote Kucinich in. Now there's a credible patriotic American.
Huh? Russia will never join the EU. Why would they? Economic protection? No. The EU is competition. Military cooperation? No. See previous. They only joined the Council of Europe (a de facto prereq for EU membership) in 1996. Most likely they ratified Kyoto to line up with treaty memberships as part of the COE. Serbia will join the EU before Russia and that isn't even projected as a possiblility until 2030 according to Serbia itself.
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I just retired an Octane from service. We stopped running Irix on it and switched to NetBSD because Irix was such a security nightmare. My favorite crack on SGIs' was "All of the worse bits of Solaris and Macintosh all rolled up into one." Probably unfair, becuase ours was a sturdy little machine. I loved the way the peripherals slid in an out on their own chassis.
A subscription to one of their journals is OUTRAGEOUS. Our library has over 50 grand a year set aside for ACS journals. A chemist friend joked with me saying that some of the titles never even get read while in the periodical room.
out West? Well, those are rife with problems (environmental, esp watershed damage). I wonder what the ramifications of renting would be though. Probably, the gubmint isn't allowed to rent them through some sweetheart deal set up for the telcom companies. No, that never happens....
It basically requires an e-mail address within UT's CS department. But since all undergrad and grad CS department students keep their accounts forever, just impose upon the lowest paid code monkey in your shop. :-)
You should see what Micah Beck is doing with IBP. Can anyone say "Distributed PVR?"
Dow chemical bought what was left of Union carbide in the late 80's / early 90's, long after the disaster settlements had been made. Holding Dow responsable for Bhopal would be like an AMX owner suing DiamlerChrysler 20 years after getting a settlement out of AMX.
Corporations purchase other companies liabilities as well as their assets. It is difficult to imagine that DaimlerChrysler is responsible for flaws in some bad product made under the auspices of a past company name, but it is. This is the same principle that some use to hold companies like IGFarben accountable for slave labor during WWII, or some American corporations having their geneis by being built on profits made from slave labor in the 19th century. While over a long-time scale, these claims are not far-fetched historically speaking. Now legally speaking is another thing and a matter that some crack lawyer can probably handle. You don't have to convince the world, only 12 jurors.
But every Slashdotter on the planet will bitch if this story was linked in the New York Times because they'd have to "register' to read it. New rule of thumb: If a news source does not require a minor hoop to jump through, consider it suspect.
>then how come I can see a single field error in video running at 50 fields per second ?
Because your parents are aliens and when you leave the house, they shed their human skins and breathe dryer lint.
This is not a part of the draft. They already have Selective Service registration. This is an attempt to keep an eye on foreign nationals in college with the added bump of keeping an eye on everyone in college. So will your school do it? Bet your ass compulsory membership is tied to getting fed money. Smile! Smile! Smile!
This was a mere attempt to get people to think about Bob Goatse and no attempt at being accurate. :-)
Movement does not require a change in spatial relations. If it did, then I guess Gramsci couldn't have be a revolutionary in prison. That's the answer: Lock up all the people who are participating or might participate in a revolution then there won't be any!
Newspaper readership per capita in the US is dwarfed by Britain, etc. A newpaper of record doesn't represent the ideas the country as a whole, but is one that is respected throughout. The LATimes, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune (to a lesser degree) are all newspapers of record in the US.
Blogging is a fad and journalists are lazy. Most blogs are nothing more than someone scribbling on the urinal wall of the Internet. The more trustworthy ones are nothing more than people who add a couple of one liners to a news story gathered elsewhere. The blogosphere is filled with kranks and petty megalomaniacs who are only given life by the laziest of professions: journalists.
Why do I call them lazy? Well, I was a journalist and worked the sports desk of a major college town newspaper (Top 10 NCAA spors program every year and the one of best women's BBall school of all time -- you figure it out). I thought the culture of laying around doing nothing until deadline was nigh was peculiar to that newspaper (on all desks) until I got a job at a TV station as a factchecker/script writer on the metro beat. Basically, I would write the little blurbs the talking heads would say. Harder than it seems! Well, the reporters there were equally lazy and often just made shit up on the spot. I was fired for having trouble with "truth."
My point is that if the fad of blogging disappeared, then journalists (read lazy scum) would cut to some other way of increasing their dicking off time. Example: before blogs there was 'trolling the wire.' Basically, you would read wire reports coming out of other metro areas, then take a story that was fairly interesting, add a local angle, change it enough that it was yours and BOOM 8 inches of copy.
It is the US "Paper of Record." In Britain, that would be a paper like the Sunday Times or the Independent. In France, Le Monde. In Slovenia, Delo. In Japan, Asahi Shimbun. In Nashville, TN, that would be the Tennesseean.
What makes the NYT great is that they hire only the best (and fire them when they fail) and they know their audience holds them to a high standard and BITCHES mightily when they fail. Also, Dick Cheney has banned them from reporting on him. I wonder why?
It has to do with the geoid model used in measuring. Some use a geoid that reflects the 20km bulge, others don't. Remember the earth is not a sphere, and it is certainly not smooth.
But Wil Wheaton isn't married. If you look close Bob Goatse is wearing a wedding ring....
I would still fill out the form. Here's why: you would have to link to places like MyWay (reknowned for changing AP stories to suit the DrudgeReport) or to non-subscriber news sites such as the Tampa. FL paper or the Muskogee, OK rag. Who do you trust? I will give them bogus info and just remember some dumb auth stuff to get a better article. Let them link all they want. The reason the NYT is a dream journalism job is not that the pay is great, it's because the paper is great. Yeah, they get shit wrong and are notoriously centrist, but I trust it over, say, some random site off GoogleNews.
OK. I have an account at NYT. The cookie for the account never expires unless I clear my cookies. I don't see what the complaint is. Feed them bogus info using your gmail account as the email recipient. Then you can click on the links without worry. If you are paranoid about the NYT corrupting your precious bodily fluids or something, get over it. Our Big Media overlords have better fish to fry than people who post to /. no matter how self-important we think we are.
Also, I trust the NYT more than say The Washington Times. At least the former is not OVERTLY tied to its alledged political masters. I await your flames with steely-eyed lust.
>I wish the linked story had more details; it's not clear from the
>results mentioned whether there's a strong causal relationship
>here.
Statistics (Results) show strong correlations, not causation, nicht wahr?
>The studio probably doesn't want it to get crushed by Star
>Wars the way Logan's Run was.
This begs the question: Did Logan's Run deserve to be crushed? Survey says....
All of the bitching about Steam should stop. If it weren't for Warezd versions of HL1 and little camping, shit-for-brains cheaters whose mama's didn't love them enough, I'd STILL be playing HL1 in the multi-player mode and treating your asses like Madonna treats dick AND we wouldn't need Steam. I haven't played HL2 multiplayer yet, but if Steam stops 1/10 of the various hacked up cheatmod shit I'll be on it.
What ifn dem turrizts got hold of dat? They'd shoot lasors right at our testic^H^H^H^H^H^Hgon^H^H^Hballs and we wouldn't have a goll durn chance. Better tell Senator Frist it's A-OK to appropriate 300 mill for that Star Wars whatjamagig even if it don't work! Gosh!
Is RedHat still around? When they did the nasty, we cut everything to Debian. Fuhgeddaboutit. We cut down maintenance costs within the first six months simply because we spent so little time in RPM HELL. I'd never go back and, to this day, can't believe I ever went in the first place.
I don't believe 'Al Qaeda' is a signatory party to the Geneva Convention
:-)
No. They didn't. But we did. Get it? Besides despite their plainly wrong worldview, they all are citizens of some sovereign nation on this planet and covered by a fuckload of other treaties as well as such. If you are going to walk the walk and talk the talk as a freedom-loving nation, you have to do it whole hog. It is called 'credibility.' Conservatives talk a lot about this notion, but often possess not a single ounce.
What's it say in the Bible? Do no practice evil nor wear evil's garments. Something to that effect. Shooting prisoners is evil. Talking your way around the fact that a prisoner was shot is evil. But what American bothers to read the Bible anyway? Oh, wait. Me.... I love how conservatives hate situational ethics except in their own situation.
Insert Strawman Argument about John Kerry here. I wrote Kucinich in. Now there's a credible patriotic American.
Huh? Russia will never join the EU. Why would they? Economic protection? No. The EU is competition. Military cooperation? No. See previous. They only joined the Council of Europe (a de facto prereq for EU membership) in 1996. Most likely they ratified Kyoto to line up with treaty memberships as part of the COE. Serbia will join the EU before Russia and that isn't even projected as a possiblility until 2030 according to Serbia itself.