I'm not surprised they are keeping them offline, I came across this the other day, who knows what else they get up.
SPORTING CHANCE
GUT REACTIONS: Understanding Symptoms of the Digestive Tract by W. G.
Thompson, Plenum Publishing, pp 337, £1725/$2295
Did you know that in preparation for the 1976 Olympics, German swimmers
suffered the indignity of having 18 litres of air pumped into their colons
to improve buoyancy? Thompson says: "It apparently helped crawl and
backstroke specialists, but a breaststroker complained that the gas-filled
gut caused his feet to stick out of the water. Perhaps sports authorities
will need to test athletes for flatus, as well as steroids."
(13 January 1990
Worries me too, if the weight distribution at the poles changed, the gravitational gryoscopic effect of the suns gavitational pull on the earths axial tilt, could suddenly put the north pole over Seattle.
Please stop taking the piss, or what ever you think are doing, you control freak American shit for brains, nappy wearing child that does not the difference between ignorance and innocence or arrogance and confidence. If this is not a message from slashdot to me, then your security is compromised.
Ah wrong again, every comment I've sent, I've previewed and it looked fine. It is the text box to the right of the preview button. When the slashdot page down loaded, the text box to the right of the preview button was defaulted to html not plain old text. Why does HTML look wrong your end?
I cannot believe in all reality, that you consider your pension to be of more importance than the future of the human race and and all the other species on our planet, it seem like to me you have never spawned, therefore do not understand the future or the past.
It seems to me from reading your comment that you think that money is real, not a subjective manipulative technique to get human beings to do what ever they do not want to do.
Don't emulate the kernel, emulate the cpu, or just maybe you do not understand what boolean algebra really means. Sorry I don't want to start a flame war, but do you really know what you are talking about?
Hello, I'm new to slashdot so you will have to forgive me if I am doing this wrong, your comment is the first shaft of light I have had in my desire to master Linux. I have been trying since last November and it is doing my confidence no good at all, please could you email me more info. on what POSIX actually is. You have accuratly defined what has been causing me all the problems, I have tried more than one distro and every time I have tried to configure things, I have come up against the same brickwall, that being, when I try to configure how linux works, from a config utility some obscure file somewhere that I can never seem to find out where it is, overrides those settings and I am back to square one. I think I have configured my slashdot user info with an email address that will reach me. Help me with this problem and you will be my friend for life.
Reading your stuff gave me heart, perhaps you might like my stuff, if it seems to read a bit strange please understand I am only an amateur philosopher not a professional one. My work lives at. http://freespace.virgin.net/peter.turland/START.HT M
Is this your usual response to newcomers to slashdot? I only joined slashdot on Saturday I have used the default settings to reply, your terse reply to my message suggests I am being ignorant, no I am innocent. If my text was wrong, then your complaint should be directed at slashdot for their default settings. I still have a lot to learn how slashdot works, which with my miniscule experience with slashdot, leads me to think, it all seems rather wonderful. The tone of your reply, plus your lack of explanation to my misdemeanor, leads me to think you are an Anonymous Coward. BTW thanks to your rude terseness. I have now discovered the error of my ways. Does it look any better now? Perhaps you should contact the powers that be at slashdot and suggest the default setting should be Plain Old Text not HTML Formatted, How arrogant anonyomous cowards perceive the innocent to be ignorant is one of the sadnesses of modern times.
I've had look at the VWwear site and I'm even more confused, I could not see a price for it any where, I find it hard to believe its free, cos if it was, slashdot would not be having this disscusion, is the real point of this disscusion that Microsoft will not let other people to use their code that interfaces windows apps code to the CPU, if this is so, it makes Microsoft seem even worse than I thought they were, why do they want to hold the development of the human race back so much. Crashing computers leads to phsychosis incoherent rage, the destroying of confidence of people. If you watch somebody trying to get to grips with a PC for the first time and it crashes they blame themselves and think that it was their fault. My case was a little different, years ago I learned to code a 6502 what a gorgeous processor, why oh why, did they not use the same cpu architecture and multiply everything up to 32 bit, you would have ended up with a meg of zero page, which would have meant a meg of usable registers, plus a simple a x and y main registers. Because of circumstances my computing hobby was abandoned for a few years, then I bought a pc and started my old hobby up again, first I played around with qbasic too slow and cumbersome, found out about Delphi this is the life I thought. In the end I gave up, reason being, when I write code I usually spend far more time debugging it than writing it, after all I'm only an amateur, you learn the hard way when you code alone. So what happened when I came to run my code and it crashed I was never sure wether it was my code that was wrong, or the fact I was running it on an unstable operating system, basically it sucked all the confidence out of me, it turned me from a fairly confident geek into a lowly nerd. I often wonder how many other people it did that to as well and further more how much microsoft and IBM between them held back the development of good software. I've been trying to learn linux since last November and I still have not cracked it I've bought all the books and tried and tried I can install it okay, get KDE looking pretty all right the apps work okay, but when I try to configure anything, it never seems to work. I think the problem is, there are that many different distos out there following microsoft and trying to take over the planet, that the original concept of linux is getting diluted. I'm sorry for drifting off topic but I just wanted to get this off my chest.
Hello, I'm new to slashdot, so you will have realise, I'm not fully up to speed in terms of how slashdot really works. But some of what I see turns me on. I'm probably a fair bit older than most of the users of slashdot,to give you an idea of my pedigree, I first got deep into the bowels of a computer hand coding assembler into a TRS80, it had four K of memory can you imagine that. A lot of what is going on in computers these days goes right over my head, most people these days are suffering with acronyms desease, well I ask you, an acronim, if you don't know what the letters mean, is about as much use as a choclate fireguard. Well rant out of the way, down to brass tacks. I don't know the legality of running windows apps in the way I'm going to suggest, I more wonder wether anyone has thought of it. Why dosen't Saint Linus build a machine code module, tacked on to the main linux kernel that emulates another pentium, a virtual pentium if you like. I know you can emulate other kinds of cpu with m/code why not another pentium. Yes it would slow things down somewhat, but computers are running that fast these days, it would still make windows apps useable, there are many decent windows programs out their, it seems a shame that they are denied to many linux users. The funny part would happen when the windows app crashed, instead of getting the dreaded blue death, you could get a really sarcastic message saying something like 'Its all right my darling linux will save you, some people write stable code at least.
Slashdot Mirror
Why read it then, are you a cumpuulsive or what?
I do appologise, for my previous comments, my excuse is I'm pissed
Come on language, it should be like english. I know I should be dead, but I haven't got there yet.
I'm not surprised they are keeping them offline, I came across this the other day, who knows what else they get up.
SPORTING CHANCE
GUT REACTIONS: Understanding Symptoms of the Digestive Tract by W. G.
Thompson, Plenum Publishing, pp 337, £1725/$2295
Did you know that in preparation for the 1976 Olympics, German swimmers
suffered the indignity of having 18 litres of air pumped into their colons
to improve buoyancy? Thompson says: "It apparently helped crawl and
backstroke specialists, but a breaststroker complained that the gas-filled
gut caused his feet to stick out of the water. Perhaps sports authorities
will need to test athletes for flatus, as well as steroids."
(13 January 1990
This is just a sample of what can found at.
http://www.nsplus.com/weird/bizarre2.html
Worries me too, if the weight distribution at the poles changed, the gravitational gryoscopic effect of the suns gavitational pull on the earths axial tilt, could suddenly put the north pole over Seattle.
Thank you for your kinds words I live in England.
No kidding
Please stop taking the piss, or what ever you think are doing, you control freak American shit for brains, nappy wearing child that does not the difference between ignorance and innocence or arrogance and confidence. If this is not a message from slashdot to me, then your security is compromised.
No regards
No Karma
No Moderation
I'm outerhere.
I'm 21765-1 gone.
hello GOODBYE
Ah wrong again, every comment I've sent, I've previewed and it looked fine. It is the text box to the right of the preview button. When the slashdot page down loaded, the text box to the right of the preview button was defaulted to html not plain old text. Why does HTML look wrong your end?
Pete
I cannot believe in all reality, that you consider your pension to be of more importance than the future of the human race and and all the other species on our planet, it seem like to me you have never spawned, therefore do not understand the future or the past.
It seems to me from reading your comment that you think that money is real, not a subjective manipulative technique to get human beings to do what ever they do not want to do.
Peter.
Don't emulate the kernel, emulate the cpu, or just maybe you do not understand what boolean algebra really means. Sorry I don't want to start a flame war, but do you really know what you are talking about?
How old do you think I am?
Hello,
I'm new to slashdot so you will have to forgive me if I am doing this wrong, your comment is the first shaft of light I have had in my desire to master Linux. I have been trying since last November and it is doing my confidence no good at all, please could you email me more info. on what POSIX actually is. You have accuratly defined what has been causing me all the problems, I have tried more than one distro and every time I have tried to configure things, I have come up against the same brickwall, that being, when I try to configure how linux works, from a config utility some obscure file somewhere that I can never seem to find out where it is, overrides those settings and I am back to square one. I think I have configured my slashdot user info with an email address that will reach me. Help me with this problem and you will be my friend for life.
Pete.
Reading your stuff gave me heart, perhaps you might like my stuff, if it seems to read a bit strange please understand I am only an amateur philosopher not a professional one. My work lives at. http://freespace.virgin.net/peter.turland/START.HT M
Is this your usual response to newcomers to slashdot? I only joined slashdot on Saturday I have used the default settings to reply, your terse reply to my message suggests I am being ignorant, no I am innocent. If my text was wrong, then your complaint should be directed at slashdot for their default settings. I still have a lot to learn how slashdot works, which with my miniscule experience with slashdot, leads me to think, it all seems rather wonderful. The tone of your reply, plus your lack of explanation to my misdemeanor, leads me to think you are an Anonymous Coward. BTW thanks to your rude terseness. I have now discovered the error of my ways. Does it look any better now? Perhaps you should contact the powers that be at slashdot and suggest the default setting should be Plain Old Text not HTML Formatted, How arrogant anonyomous cowards perceive the innocent to be ignorant is one of the sadnesses of modern times.
I've had look at the VWwear site and I'm even more confused, I could not see a price for it any where, I find it hard to believe its free, cos if it was, slashdot would not be having this disscusion, is the real point of this disscusion that Microsoft will not let other people to use their code that interfaces windows apps code to the CPU, if this is so, it makes Microsoft seem even worse than I thought they were, why do they want to hold the development of the human race back so much. Crashing computers leads to phsychosis incoherent rage, the destroying of confidence of people. If you watch somebody trying to get to grips with a PC for the first time and it crashes they blame themselves and think that it was their fault. My case was a little different, years ago I learned to code a 6502 what a gorgeous processor, why oh why, did they not use the same cpu architecture and multiply everything up to 32 bit, you would have ended up with a meg of zero page, which would have meant a meg of usable registers, plus a simple a x and y main registers. Because of circumstances my computing hobby was abandoned for a few years, then I bought a pc and started my old hobby up again, first I played around with qbasic too slow and cumbersome, found out about Delphi this is the life I thought. In the end I gave up, reason being, when I write code I usually spend far more time debugging it than writing it, after all I'm only an amateur, you learn the hard way when you code alone. So what happened when I came to run my code and it crashed I was never sure wether it was my code that was wrong, or the fact I was running it on an unstable operating system, basically it sucked all the confidence out of me, it turned me from a fairly confident geek into a lowly nerd. I often wonder how many other people it did that to as well and further more how much microsoft and IBM between them held back the development of good software. I've been trying to learn linux since last November and I still have not cracked it I've bought all the books and tried and tried I can install it okay, get KDE looking pretty all right the apps work okay, but when I try to configure anything, it never seems to work. I think the problem is, there are that many different distos out there following microsoft and trying to take over the planet, that the original concept of linux is getting diluted. I'm sorry for drifting off topic but I just wanted to get this off my chest.
Hello, I'm new to slashdot, so you will have realise, I'm not fully up to speed in terms of how slashdot really works. But some of what I see turns me on. I'm probably a fair bit older than most of the users of slashdot,to give you an idea of my pedigree, I first got deep into the bowels of a computer hand coding assembler into a TRS80, it had four K of memory can you imagine that. A lot of what is going on in computers these days goes right over my head, most people these days are suffering with acronyms desease, well I ask you, an acronim, if you don't know what the letters mean, is about as much use as a choclate fireguard. Well rant out of the way, down to brass tacks. I don't know the legality of running windows apps in the way I'm going to suggest, I more wonder wether anyone has thought of it. Why dosen't Saint Linus build a machine code module, tacked on to the main linux kernel that emulates another pentium, a virtual pentium if you like. I know you can emulate other kinds of cpu with m/code why not another pentium. Yes it would slow things down somewhat, but computers are running that fast these days, it would still make windows apps useable, there are many decent windows programs out their, it seems a shame that they are denied to many linux users. The funny part would happen when the windows app crashed, instead of getting the dreaded blue death, you could get a really sarcastic message saying something like 'Its all right my darling linux will save you, some people write stable code at least.