Balance will be achieved. It is the way of things.
really? what makes you think that? there have been several cataclysmic ice ages that wiped out entire ecosystems. planet-wide waves of extinction have occurred before (the K-T [zoomdinosaurs.com] is only one of them).
Sorry, dude, but SWT is nowhere *near* as complete as Swing, in terms of functionality. I know, I've tried to use it. [...] Worse, it's difficult to deploy, and even more difficult to use, as the documentation is remarkably incomplete.
It's open source, no? Perhaps you could contribute.
Now I wonder if my ISP will now remove the SMTP port 25 block on my ADSL line so that my dynDNS can work without having to use the DynDNS port redirection?
SPF reduces inbound spam with forged return addresses in domains that publish SPF TXT records. It won't prevent users on a network from spewing spam out on port 25.
I think it's fantastic that major ISPs are taking proactive steps to curb junk email from their users.
This won't curb junk mail from AOL users, it will curb junk mail not from AOL but claiming to be from AOL. (Only for those mail servers implementing SPF, though.)
I used to work for IEG, Internet Entertainment Group (now dead), owners of the flagship "ClubLove" and 100's of others. If Photoshop started banning PORN, I can tell you that you would see GIMP eat up a huge market shair. PORN (not "pr0n") is big business. IEG at one time had 10 Silicon Graphics machines feeding into four OC-3 lines (and a bunch of T-1's for getting the live PORN from the studio). We used PhotoShop extensively.
Having just gone one again through my employer's regular anti-harassment training, I cannot help but wonder what it would take for that to be considered a hostile work environment.
Then, he decides to go and pull this shit AND be vocal about it. Kid, seriously, grow up.
He has the right to choose how to spend his time. If he wants to play Don Quixote to the MPAA and RIAA giants, that's his choice. It's arrogance to declare "grow up" or "get a life" when one doesn't approve of someone else's vocation or avocation.
2) Continual stream of stars zoom past windows to convey forward momentum (as opposed to say, rotation or banking). Perhaps they were trying to reproduce one of the things I hated in the original series.
Crud, I was going to watch for that, but I don't recall seeing it. It must not have been as noticeable, as it didn't draw my attention. (I've seen that in a few other shows in the past couple of days and it's usually one of my pet peeves.)
I was particularly fond of the ability of the ships to turn off their engines and retain momentum, which is probably my primary space physics annoyance ever, and the little mini-thrusters firing on the Vipers to allow them to dodge around.
All I can say is that the Vipers must have a heck of a matter-storage arrangement to carry that much fuel in such a small craft.
3) Lovely handheld-style (jerky) camera moves from space. I actually liked this (think they did it in Firefly too), but how do you get the cameraman from "Law and Order" into a spacesuit?
Babylon 5 did this, too. What's the history of this technique? Is there something that's credited with using it first or best?
I love the extreme wide-angle shot that pans slightly and unevenly zooms way in to see a small ship travelling across the background. It gives a very human feel to the camerawork and gives you an idea of the immensity of space.
It would be nice if some well-known network consulting company offered to give them a free/cheap initial consultation, enough to triage the problem and determine what's really going on.
I'd wager money that SCO wouldn't let anyone do this, or would insist on non-disclosure.
The site you quoted says, "The reason why 1 is said not to be a prime number is merely convenience." To paraphrase, 1 is omitted from the set of primes so you can say 6, for instance, is the product of two primes rather than three. If 1 were prime, you would have to add one prime to ever count of prime factors.
However, 1 might be called a trivial prime, since it indeed only has factors of 1 and itself, also 1.
"Look, ours does everything that theirs does, PLUS a little bit more!"
Unfortunately, they convince Windows users that they're buying in to some third-party standard, but they then diverge, making their customers incompatible and pulling apart support for the standard.
Imagine all the good Microsoft could do if they'd just play nicely in the sandbox.
I seem to recall seeing a BSOD on a local public-access cable channels that normally displays informational slides with elevator music for your viewing pleasure.
Even worse, is is now more frequently back on the Windows desktop showing a Windows Messenger spam, where it stays until someone in control happens to check the system or gets a complaint. Stupid viagra spammers are getting free airtime.
I suppose it wouldn't be completely ethical to send it one saying "Firewall your f*cking system!"
The life cycle of a CPU is much shorter than a human life cycle. You don't say that an 11 year old dog is just hitting puberty, do you?
You don't stop feeding a dog just because it's old, do you? (Conclusion: comparing a CPU to a dog doesn't work.)
11 year old hardware is ancient, and there is no reason to keep backwards compatibility. We can have versions that do run on such hardware, but for the desktop to go forward and snatch more of today's users, we have to target tomorrow's hardware.
One of the aspects that makes Linux powerful is running on everything from watches to enterprise-level servers. I'm sorry that you can only perceive its usefulness on the desktop.
Grandparent writes: The only downside to freedesktop.org's X server is that it will no longer run well on a 20mhz 486.
Parent writes: Worrying about backward compatibility with 30 year-old technology is crippling the Linux desktop.
Someone's worrying about Linux compatibility on PDP/11s?
Seriously, "a 20mhz 486", presumably the 486SL/20, was introduced just 11 years ago. That's about the time it takes (give or take) a human to go from birth to puberty, so it's not exactly archaic.
Being able to run on minimalistic hardware (by today's standards) implies that it isn't too bloated to run on tiny embedded devices.
Yes, 10 years worth of data on climate change is relevant. After all, I remember that when I was a kid 30 years ago it never snowed this much/so little, therefore there must be climate change because I perceive it to be so [...]
Also, even if there is climate change afoot, as has been pointed out elsewhere, it's not necessarily our doing as a species.
It's been pointed out many times before, but worth repeating: the whole boneheaded "Humans as batteries" idea was the weakest link (perhaps the only weak link) in the first movie.
I was hoping this would turn out to be a misunderstanding about the term "power" on the part of Morpheus and others, and that humans were actually being used as CPUs to "power" the Matrix.
Running Linux as a massive Beowulf cluster, of course.
You run a website, it's your job to figure out the funding. Those of us who dislike ads (probably 98% of the planet) will do our best not to see them, and the more technically inclined among us WILL block your ad, and the business-savvy subset of those will sell that setup, in some form, to the rest.
Precisely. It's true all throughout life, if you don't somehow motivate or force people to pay, most people won't do it voluntarily. (This is true for honor systems as well, since they usually use guilt as a motivator.)
What happens if you turn off images altogether, or use a text-mode browser, or are blind? Are you stealing from the website because you aren't viewing ads? How is this essentially different from filtering them out?
Considering this activity is outside of the 11 year high in the cycle,
According to NASA, this current cycle hit its midpoint in 2000. That's only three years ago and only about 1/4 of the way through the cycle, or 1/2 the way back to the nadir of solar activity. We're about as far from the peak as from the trough, so it's not inconceivable that we'd have this kind of activity now.
I am not an astronomer, of course.
I wonder if there is a chance that the sun may do something that may kill us all. Like shed its entire outer skin or something...
Does that mean I'd be spared the deadline pressure I'm currently under?
Just taking 20-40 of the entrants sucks. You follow the rules, come up with a design that costs a million dollars, then they say "sorry, you're not the cheapest - bye bye"...
That's the wrong way to do it, anyway. You pick the winner(s) out of the best ones to do it successfully for the lowest cost, not the ones that only have a low up-front cost. If they don't work, you've binned 80% of your other candidates.
Also, you look for the lowest cost of building the finished unit, not the development costs put up front. Some teams may have had massive amounts of money put into them to guarantee a win, that doesn't imply the finished unit will be expensive to make.
they have the right to dismiss anybody at anytime for any reason. That's just one of the many fun aspects of being a temp.
Not only temps, but often full-time employees as well. I'm not sure in which jurisdictions this extends to, but every full-time position I've had has been an "at will" (IIRC) employee, where the company and myself could terminate the employment arrangement at any time, for any reason not prohibited by law.
A french philopsher in the mid 1800's computed that the amount of work we actually need to do is only 2-3 hours a day and yet we still work our asses off.
Cite? A French philosopher living in the 19th century knew nothing about what I do for a living. Do you actually believe such a massive generalization?
Technical problems require technical solutions; trying to solve a technical problem with a law is completely futile. Imagine trying to solve the powergrid problem with a law - people would simply laugh at that.
If a powergrid problem had to do with systematic failure to use up-to-date hardware, systems, and safety measures, yes, a law may do some good.
Not all problems involving technology are technical problems. Spam is more a social problem than a technical problem.
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Balance will be achieved. It is the way of things.
really? what makes you think that? there have been several cataclysmic ice ages that wiped out entire ecosystems. planet-wide waves of extinction have occurred before (the K-T [zoomdinosaurs.com] is only one of them).
And clearly Nature never recovered from those.
Sorry, dude, but SWT is nowhere *near* as complete as Swing, in terms of functionality. I know, I've tried to use it. [...] Worse, it's difficult to deploy, and even more difficult to use, as the documentation is remarkably incomplete.
It's open source, no? Perhaps you could contribute.
Now I wonder if my ISP will now remove the SMTP port 25 block on my ADSL line so that my dynDNS can work without having to use the DynDNS port redirection?
SPF reduces inbound spam with forged return addresses in domains that publish SPF TXT records. It won't prevent users on a network from spewing spam out on port 25.
I think it's fantastic that major ISPs are taking proactive steps to curb junk email from their users.
This won't curb junk mail from AOL users, it will curb junk mail not from AOL but claiming to be from AOL. (Only for those mail servers implementing SPF, though.)
Clueless computer teachers have been around for a LOOOONG time, and this has nothing to do with the current president.
It's not even just computer science. In many schools, the old saying "those who can, do; those who can't, teach" holds.
I got away with an amazing amount of slack in junior and senior high school simply because teachers couldn't understand what I was working on.
I used to work for IEG, Internet Entertainment Group (now dead), owners of the flagship "ClubLove" and 100's of others. If Photoshop started banning PORN, I can tell you that you would see GIMP eat up a huge market shair. PORN (not "pr0n") is big business. IEG at one time had 10 Silicon Graphics machines feeding into four OC-3 lines (and a bunch of T-1's for getting the live PORN from the studio). We used PhotoShop extensively.
Having just gone one again through my employer's regular anti-harassment training, I cannot help but wonder what it would take for that to be considered a hostile work environment.
Then, he decides to go and pull this shit AND be vocal about it. Kid, seriously, grow up.
He has the right to choose how to spend his time. If he wants to play Don Quixote to the MPAA and RIAA giants, that's his choice. It's arrogance to declare "grow up" or "get a life" when one doesn't approve of someone else's vocation or avocation.
"A gut buster worthy of John Belushi - but SCO does more drugs" - Timothy Leary
That's a neat trick, getting that quote.
2) Continual stream of stars zoom past windows
to convey forward momentum (as opposed to say,
rotation or banking). Perhaps they were
trying to reproduce one of the things I hated
in the original series.
Crud, I was going to watch for that, but I don't recall seeing it. It must not have been as noticeable, as it didn't draw my attention. (I've seen that in a few other shows in the past couple of days and it's usually one of my pet peeves.)
I was particularly fond of the ability of the ships to turn off their engines and retain momentum, which is probably my primary space physics annoyance ever, and the little mini-thrusters firing on the Vipers to allow them to dodge around.
All I can say is that the Vipers must have a heck of a matter-storage arrangement to carry that much fuel in such a small craft.
3) Lovely handheld-style (jerky) camera moves
from space. I actually liked this (think they
did it in Firefly too), but how do you get the
cameraman from "Law and Order" into a spacesuit?
Babylon 5 did this, too. What's the history of this technique? Is there something that's credited with using it first or best?
I love the extreme wide-angle shot that pans slightly and unevenly zooms way in to see a small ship travelling across the background. It gives a very human feel to the camerawork and gives you an idea of the immensity of space.
It would be nice if some well-known network consulting company offered to give them a free/cheap initial consultation, enough to triage the problem and determine what's really going on.
I'd wager money that SCO wouldn't let anyone do this, or would insist on non-disclosure.
The site you quoted says, "The reason why 1 is said not to be a prime number is merely convenience." To paraphrase, 1 is omitted from the set of primes so you can say 6, for instance, is the product of two primes rather than three. If 1 were prime, you would have to add one prime to ever count of prime factors.
However, 1 might be called a trivial prime, since it indeed only has factors of 1 and itself, also 1.
"Look, ours does everything that theirs does, PLUS a little bit more!"
Unfortunately, they convince Windows users that they're buying in to some third-party standard, but they then diverge, making their customers incompatible and pulling apart support for the standard.
Imagine all the good Microsoft could do if they'd just play nicely in the sandbox.
I seem to recall seeing a BSOD on a local public-access cable channels that normally displays informational slides with elevator music for your viewing pleasure.
Even worse, is is now more frequently back on the Windows desktop showing a Windows Messenger spam, where it stays until someone in control happens to check the system or gets a complaint. Stupid viagra spammers are getting free airtime.
I suppose it wouldn't be completely ethical to send it one saying "Firewall your f*cking system!"
Feinstein has taken payoffs to the tune of $264,566 from the Tv/Movies/Music lobby.
Clearly I'm in the wrong line of work.
The life cycle of a CPU is much shorter than a human life cycle. You don't say that an 11 year old dog is just hitting puberty, do you?
You don't stop feeding a dog just because it's old, do you? (Conclusion: comparing a CPU to a dog doesn't work.)
11 year old hardware is ancient, and there is no reason to keep backwards compatibility. We can have versions that do run on such hardware, but for the desktop to go forward and snatch more of today's users, we have to target tomorrow's hardware.
One of the aspects that makes Linux powerful is running on everything from watches to enterprise-level servers. I'm sorry that you can only perceive its usefulness on the desktop.
Grandparent writes: The only downside to freedesktop.org's X server is that it will no longer run well on a 20mhz 486.
Parent writes: Worrying about backward compatibility with 30 year-old technology is crippling the Linux desktop.
Someone's worrying about Linux compatibility on PDP/11s?
Seriously, "a 20mhz 486", presumably the 486SL/20, was introduced just 11 years ago. That's about the time it takes (give or take) a human to go from birth to puberty, so it's not exactly archaic.
Being able to run on minimalistic hardware (by today's standards) implies that it isn't too bloated to run on tiny embedded devices.
Yes, 10 years worth of data on climate change is relevant. After all, I remember that when I was a kid 30 years ago it never snowed this much/so little, therefore there must be climate change because I perceive it to be so [...]
Also, even if there is climate change afoot, as has been pointed out elsewhere, it's not necessarily our doing as a species.
B following A does not imply that A causes B.
It's not as if people were badly treaten inside the Matrix. They were happy and everything.
Not exactly. Remember, that was apparently tried in previous versions of the Matrix and didn't work...
It's been pointed out many times before, but worth repeating: the whole boneheaded "Humans as batteries" idea was the weakest link (perhaps the only weak link) in the first movie.
I was hoping this would turn out to be a misunderstanding about the term "power" on the part of Morpheus and others, and that humans were actually being used as CPUs to "power" the Matrix.
Running Linux as a massive Beowulf cluster, of course.
You run a website, it's your job to figure out the funding. Those of us who dislike ads (probably 98% of the planet) will do our best not to see them, and the more technically inclined among us WILL block your ad, and the business-savvy subset of those will sell that setup, in some form, to the rest.
Precisely. It's true all throughout life, if you don't somehow motivate or force people to pay, most people won't do it voluntarily. (This is true for honor systems as well, since they usually use guilt as a motivator.)
What happens if you turn off images altogether, or use a text-mode browser, or are blind? Are you stealing from the website because you aren't viewing ads? How is this essentially different from filtering them out?
Considering this activity is outside of the 11 year high in the cycle,
According to NASA, this current cycle hit its midpoint in 2000. That's only three years ago and only about 1/4 of the way through the cycle, or 1/2 the way back to the nadir of solar activity. We're about as far from the peak as from the trough, so it's not inconceivable that we'd have this kind of activity now.
I am not an astronomer, of course.
I wonder if there is a chance that the sun may do something that may kill us all. Like shed its entire outer skin or something...
Does that mean I'd be spared the deadline pressure I'm currently under?
Just taking 20-40 of the entrants sucks. You follow the rules, come up with a design that costs a million dollars, then they say "sorry, you're not the cheapest - bye bye"...
That's the wrong way to do it, anyway. You pick the winner(s) out of the best ones to do it successfully for the lowest cost, not the ones that only have a low up-front cost. If they don't work, you've binned 80% of your other candidates.
Also, you look for the lowest cost of building the finished unit, not the development costs put up front. Some teams may have had massive amounts of money put into them to guarantee a win, that doesn't imply the finished unit will be expensive to make.
they have the right to dismiss anybody at anytime for any reason. That's just one of the many fun aspects of being a temp.
Not only temps, but often full-time employees as well. I'm not sure in which jurisdictions this extends to, but every full-time position I've had has been an "at will" (IIRC) employee, where the company and myself could terminate the employment arrangement at any time, for any reason not prohibited by law.
A french philopsher in the mid 1800's computed that the amount of work we actually need to do is only 2-3 hours a day and yet we still work our asses off.
Cite? A French philosopher living in the 19th century knew nothing about what I do for a living. Do you actually believe such a massive generalization?
Technical problems require technical solutions; trying to solve a technical problem with a law is completely futile. Imagine trying to solve the powergrid problem with a law - people would simply laugh at that.
If a powergrid problem had to do with systematic failure to use up-to-date hardware, systems, and safety measures, yes, a law may do some good.
Not all problems involving technology are technical problems. Spam is more a social problem than a technical problem.