Fortunately the submitter (Hemos?) name-dropped 3 good ones that have had long runs with (here's the key) creators that have a love of comics and a strong sense of integrity. WELL worth 4 bucks Canadian, or $15-20 for the collections (saves time and money not hunting down back issues).
Related side note: When is the dude that does cerebus.org going to update that thing?!
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Give Mozilla a go, I use it on the Win partition of my home computer and find it equally stable with IE 5.5 (Win 98/Moz ver0.9.1 btw). It really is ready for everyday use with outstanding promise for 1.0
Hey, if that's all you get for your hard earned cash, what better way to even the score with the fascist telco than by stealing an account and sucking it dry? Lather, rinse, repeat.
I can picture Taco at a party with his laser light show machine having an exchange something like this:
Taco: When an electron drops from an outer to an inner level, excess energy is given off as light. The wavelength or color of the emitted light is precisely related to the amount of energy released.
Cute Girl: Eh!
Taco: Yes...what is it, what, what is it?
Cute Girl: Can I play with it?
Taco: No you can't play with it. You won't enjoy it on as many levels as I do... The colors!
As a footnote, the textbook you mention is a true classic that should occupy a space on the shelf of any computing enthusiast -- I used it a few years ago in a senior-level AI course at university which I found to be quite fascinating. I haven't had the chance to use it since, but once I make my fortune I'd love to do a masters at CMU where all the REALLY interesting AI work takes place;-)
A much more obvious place to identify a user's "cost of spam" is fax spam that costs you or your company paper and ink.
I work at a small software dev office and our fax machine receives 6-8 pieces per day (this is in Markham, Ontario - I don't know if there's more stringent fax-spam laws in the U.S. or abroad).
Speaking entirely hypothetically here (I'm sure this "atrocity" isn't nearly what some here are making it out to be), if the Chinese developers are not releasing their kernel mods, they could indeed be building their own closed source OS with appropriate surveillance and anti-crypto in place. Unlike Windows they have the source to play with.
They could call it 'PRC Linux' and market it as a way to thumb your nose at those capitalist swine, and seal the deal with a cute picture of Tux in a red cape.
That post caught my eye in the original thread and spawned quite a few questions and not too many answers. Any Germans who can explain this seemingly insane law care to enlighten the rest of us?
Other information I'm dying to know is the email address of these leeches. I've got a few spam lists I'd like to introduce them to;-)
This made me think of an interesting point - M$ is putting quite a bit on the line here. Seeing as how folk like us are quick to scoff at the quality of Microsoft software, I'm sure that any bad coding style, inefficiencies, etc. will be pounced on even faster.
Also interesting to see will be just how their C# compiler compares to the GPL'ed compilers like gcc and g++.
I have played DDR a few times, and it's the most fun I've had in the arcade in over a decade. While I don't expect to see any of the 30-40 something crowd using it, I'm 25 and my friends (male and female) think it's great.
I was skeptical myself when I saw it for the first time, until I realized what was happening: teenagers gathering somewhere primarily to hang out, and secondarily to be entertained by the arcade machines. They may dress differently than you or I did (Iverson and Bryant basketball jersies and sideways baseball caps), but they are doing the EXACT SAME THING we did in the 80s. The death of the arcade is a load of horsehsit. To all the cynics, here's an example of true innovation being successful! Not another FPS or 4 player racing game. It isn't even about hand-eye coordination. Girls invariably do better than us guys too, which I think is great.
I prefer to think of M$ software as "viral" in the sense that theuser shows symptoms of being forgiving of an unstable, reboot-crazy OS, not to mention lobotomizing the user's notion of choice ("I'd like to use StarOffice, but I can't read anyone elses Word documents")
It can sync to Gnome PIM (gnomecal and gnomecard, which is what I use), and for KDE it syncs with the KOrganizer stuff (which I'm not familiar with). No Evolution yet, but it is in development (or why not take a crack at it yourself, the syncing software is open source and available from their CVS!)
It's fascinating to think how many pounds of paper the perpertual calender in a PDA replaces...
As enviro-friendly as it sounds, replacing those pounds of paper with pounds of dead batteries, isn't something Mother Nature is likely to thank you for;-)
Insightful indeed, but if money is such a consideration, why the hell wouldn't Agenda top your list? It costs way less than the Yopy or IPaq, and has a very active and geeky community:
To use the examples from the post directly, this makes bringing Linux programs from your (x86) desktop to your (MIPS) Agenda even more trivial. This device just became even cooler!
Also, to a more general audience, if he is actually giving away rings, he obviously believes this, wholeheartedly.
This sentence struck a chord with me. I thought of this guy a lot like a Scientologist in that he had firmly convinced himself of something utterly wacky, but unless he's a lot smarter than he's making himself out to be, he's not actually out to hurt or take advantage of anybody. Thanks for a little perspective.
While I'm sure there's better things one can do than spend all day every day playing Lineage, the Korean custom of playing games in heavily populated gaming rooms is certainly much better in a social sense than the American "basement loner" experience. I must say I'm a little jealous that the Koreans get LAN parties every day. Not only that, the thought of waiting in line to play games makes me feel a bit of nostalgia for arcades of the 80s.
In the "How to Bring Global Peace" section of your website (http://alexchiu.com/philosophy/corp.htm - readers please visit this page, the future of our world may depend on it), did the child who drew the crayon pictures suffer from Tourette's Syndrome? Or was it simply crippling mental retardation.
Also I can't quite comprehend the significance of the "upside down flying staircase" in the first picture. Could you please clarify what you were trying to express with this imagery?
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Fortunately the submitter (Hemos?) name-dropped 3 good ones that have had long runs with (here's the key) creators that have a love of comics and a strong sense of integrity. WELL worth 4 bucks Canadian, or $15-20 for the collections (saves time and money not hunting down back issues).
Related side note: When is the dude that does cerebus.org going to update that thing?!
Give Mozilla a go, I use it on the Win partition of my home computer and find it equally stable with IE 5.5 (Win 98/Moz ver0.9.1 btw). It really is ready for everyday use with outstanding promise for 1.0
Hey, if that's all you get for your hard earned cash, what better way to even the score with the fascist telco than by stealing an account and sucking it dry? Lather, rinse, repeat.
I can picture Taco at a party with his laser light show machine having an exchange something like this:
Taco: When an electron drops from an outer to an inner level, excess energy is given off as light. The wavelength or color of the emitted light is precisely related to the amount of energy released.
Cute Girl: Eh!
Taco: Yes...what is it, what, what is it?
Cute Girl: Can I play with it?
Taco: No you can't play with it. You won't enjoy it on as many levels as I do... The colors!
The clueless-user misnomer problem is a very interesting point, how many people do you know that call their tower "the hard drive"?
When "my hard drive" is making a lot of noise, does it mean a lot of HD swapping, or just a noisy fan? Expert system indeed!
As a footnote, the textbook you mention is a true classic that should occupy a space on the shelf of any computing enthusiast -- I used it a few years ago in a senior-level AI course at university which I found to be quite fascinating. I haven't had the chance to use it since, but once I make my fortune I'd love to do a masters at CMU where all the REALLY interesting AI work takes place ;-)
Great news! Now hurry up, AC and paste the contents of OT III here ;-)
A much more obvious place to identify a user's "cost of spam" is fax spam that costs you or your company paper and ink.
I work at a small software dev office and our fax machine receives 6-8 pieces per day (this is in Markham, Ontario - I don't know if there's more stringent fax-spam laws in the U.S. or abroad).
So sue me for being a poker newbie, but what is an AK preflop? (I'm assuming AK stands for ace-king)
You might just want to copy and paste this at the command prompt. It should fix you problem.
;-)
Speaking entirely hypothetically here (I'm sure this "atrocity" isn't nearly what some here are making it out to be), if the Chinese developers are not releasing their kernel mods, they could indeed be building their own closed source OS with appropriate surveillance and anti-crypto in place. Unlike Windows they have the source to play with.
They could call it 'PRC Linux' and market it as a way to thumb your nose at those capitalist swine, and seal the deal with a cute picture of Tux in a red cape.
Hey, bits have rights too y'know :-)
That post caught my eye in the original thread and spawned quite a few questions and not too many answers. Any Germans who can explain this seemingly insane law care to enlighten the rest of us?
;-)
Other information I'm dying to know is the email address of these leeches. I've got a few spam lists I'd like to introduce them to
This made me think of an interesting point - M$ is putting quite a bit on the line here. Seeing as how folk like us are quick to scoff at the quality of Microsoft software, I'm sure that any bad coding style, inefficiencies, etc. will be pounced on even faster.
Also interesting to see will be just how their C# compiler compares to the GPL'ed compilers like gcc and g++.
I have played DDR a few times, and it's the most fun I've had in the arcade in over a decade. While I don't expect to see any of the 30-40 something crowd using it, I'm 25 and my friends (male and female) think it's great.
I was skeptical myself when I saw it for the first time, until I realized what was happening: teenagers gathering somewhere primarily to hang out, and secondarily to be entertained by the arcade machines. They may dress differently than you or I did (Iverson and Bryant basketball jersies and sideways baseball caps), but they are doing the EXACT SAME THING we did in the 80s. The death of the arcade is a load of horsehsit. To all the cynics, here's an example of true innovation being successful! Not another FPS or 4 player racing game. It isn't even about hand-eye coordination. Girls invariably do better than us guys too, which I think is great.
I prefer to think of M$ software as "viral" in the sense that theuser shows symptoms of being forgiving of an unstable, reboot-crazy OS, not to mention lobotomizing the user's notion of choice ("I'd like to use StarOffice, but I can't read anyone elses Word documents")
"Congradulations to everyone at RHAT!"
Congratulations on your new Spell Checker, spelling on here seems to be reaching rediculous proportions.
Great, this whole story is probably the result of some reporter misinterpreting "loosing money" to mean "free-spending".
It can sync to Gnome PIM (gnomecal and gnomecard, which is what I use), and for KDE it syncs with the KOrganizer stuff (which I'm not familiar with). No Evolution yet, but it is in development (or why not take a crack at it yourself, the syncing software is open source and available from their CVS!)
It's fascinating to think how many pounds of paper the perpertual calender in a PDA replaces...
;-)
As enviro-friendly as it sounds, replacing those pounds of paper with pounds of dead batteries, isn't something Mother Nature is likely to thank you for
Insightful indeed, but if money is such a consideration, why the hell wouldn't Agenda top your list? It costs way less than the Yopy or IPaq, and has a very active and geeky community:
linux-pda.org (Agenda slashsite)
subscribe to the mailing lists (between the user and developer lists there's 100 or more messages a day)
Agenda help page outstanding reference and starting point
To use the examples from the post directly, this makes bringing Linux programs from your (x86) desktop to your (MIPS) Agenda even more trivial. This device just became even cooler!
Also, to a more general audience, if he is actually giving away rings, he obviously believes this, wholeheartedly.
This sentence struck a chord with me. I thought of this guy a lot like a Scientologist in that he had firmly convinced himself of something utterly wacky, but unless he's a lot smarter than he's making himself out to be, he's not actually out to hurt or take advantage of anybody. Thanks for a little perspective.
While I'm sure there's better things one can do than spend all day every day playing Lineage, the Korean custom of playing games in heavily populated gaming rooms is certainly much better in a social sense than the American "basement loner" experience. I must say I'm a little jealous that the Koreans get LAN parties every day. Not only that, the thought of waiting in line to play games makes me feel a bit of nostalgia for arcades of the 80s.
Apparently he doesn't yet use a token immortality ring based network.
Alex,
In the "How to Bring Global Peace" section of your website (http://alexchiu.com/philosophy/corp.htm - readers please visit this page, the future of our world may depend on it), did the child who drew the crayon pictures suffer from Tourette's Syndrome? Or was it simply crippling mental retardation.
Also I can't quite comprehend the significance of the "upside down flying staircase" in the first picture. Could you please clarify what you were trying to express with this imagery?