Actually, Passport (I haven't checked out the Liberty system yet) does remind me of the Ident-I-Eaze card... instead of the effective, reliable method of ID (fingerprint, skin scrapings, etc) all of the ID proof is rolled up into one tiny little package that can be easily stolen.
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19 And then I saw a wall of sort of swirling ducks in many colors, but mostly a plaid pattern, you know? 20 And there was a noise as of many syrupy sproingy things.
Nice guy, was old John, but a bit too fond of odd mushrooms...
Actually I've been thinking about that, too. Would Microsoft have anything to gain by buying (or hell, BUILDING) a small island somewhere and moving all operations there? Would that get them out of the antitrust mess?
That, and a clipboard that's standard across KDE/Gnome. It's always a pisser to try to copy a URL someone sends me in lICQ and try to paste it into Galeon, only to find that there's nothing in the clipboard...
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IE for the Mac is also superior to IE for Windows. It even has alpha-channel support for PNG files, which IE for Windows lacks. Do these teams never communicate?
Maybe listening to Slashdot, they'll get so caught up in the thought-provoking, literate, intelligent dialog that they'll forget about the hunger pangs for a while.
That's why it's good to be a tech. I have loads of people like that. I bill them $65/hour. For their money, they get a complete explanation of how to do X, and a demonstration, followed by a session of having THEM do it while I watch and prompt if neccessary. Once they say they are comfortable doing X, I make sure there's nothing else they want for their $65, and leave. If they need to learn how to do Y, or forget how to do X... then I get another $65. And people pay and pay...
When Pancha and Kuzco (as a llama) are in the restaurant, and Kuzco is dressed as a woman to get in the door...
Waitress: Welcome to the Muggy Meat Shack, home of the Mug of Meat. Pacha: We're newly-weds *dumb grin* Waitress: Bless you, sir, for coming out in public...
The entire restaurant scene is nothing short of brilliant comedic genius.
I don't know about Warcraft 3, but if you want a good RTS game that's bubbling over with originality, try Sacrifice. It's a game from Shiny that unfortunately was met with the market's usual reaction to true creativity and brilliance: it was a total flop. But it's a fantastic, powerful game with unbelievable replay value. Oh, and the music is unbelievably awesome. Snag a copy off Ebay or something and try it.
I don't know about VBA from Office, but OpenOffice has an Autopilot that does mass conversions. Run OO's word processor, go to File, Autopilot, Document Converter. Seems to work pretty well for me. It also imports templates and such and automagically guesses where you're keeping most of your Word files.
Or mice, for that matter... I saw a show about mice in Australia... there were so many they were falling out of a wall like a liquid. Incredible. They could empty a grain bin in like 30 seconds.
Sending prisoners to populate another world probably isn't a good idea. I mean, sure, Australia turned out ok, but have you read Arthur C. Clark's Rama series?
My system itself makes noise. It seems to be tied to "stuff happening" inside the box, though I've not been able to track it down precisely. It makes it during virtual memory swapping under Windows, but it also makes it when booting Linux in framebuffer mode. It makes it, but not as loud, while playing Return to Wolfenstien under Linux. It makes loud (audible from the next room, with the case on) noise when playing Warcraft 2, and makes a rhythmic tick-tick-tick-tick when playing MP3s. Based on all this, I almost believe it's something on the motherboard itself, because the noise remains after switching RAM, CPU, power supply, and videocard. It's definitely not coming from the speakers or motherboard buzzer. It started happening about 3 months after I built this system and hasn't stopped since. It's louder in cold weather than in warm, and it's driving me nuts!
Actually, by that time, the volume will probably be set to an MPAA-designated maximum level (one that cannot be heard outside the car). After all, we can't have all those people in the parking lot hearing the music for FREE can we? Tracking them down and fining them all for it is so expensive!
My mom got taken in by this as well. What makes this even worse is by the time she let me know that she had "renewed" her domain name, Verisign/Network Solutions was already listed as the "registrar" for the domain. Apparently this happened WITHOUT the usual confirmation e-mail. Color me surprised, I thought it wasn't possible to switch registrars without going through the usual "This e-mail is being sent to confirm, please reply." stuff.
Those are exactly the channels I'm talking about (and they're still around, on EFnet at least). Your point about pedo != child molester is also absolutely correct.
I guess what I was trying to say in my previous post is that people who haven't BEEN on IRC get the wrong ideas about what's out there. They see the channel #lesbians, or #uberperv, or whatever, and think "My god, my child is hanging out with a bunch of evil queers/lesbians/whatevers!" I got that from my parents because I hung out in a channel called #vampyres, that had nothing to do with vampires in any way. My parents saw the word and instantly assumed the channel was about crazed, blood-drinking supergoths, and that I was hanging out there and getting corrupted in some way. People need to understand that, just like in real life, the name of a place frequently has very little bearing on what goes on in it. Education of parents, congressmen, and other decision-makers in the ways that IRC and other chat networks function is the important thing here.
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Actually, Passport (I haven't checked out the Liberty system yet) does remind me of the Ident-I-Eaze card... instead of the effective, reliable method of ID (fingerprint, skin scrapings, etc) all of the ID proof is rolled up into one tiny little package that can be easily stolen.
Don't these guys watch Star Wars? Droid armies never work!
And do you really think, with the Bush administration running things, that the antitrust suit will have any real effect at all?
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word-test.sxw - 34KB
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19 And then I saw a wall of sort of swirling ducks in many colors, but mostly a plaid pattern, you know?
20 And there was a noise as of many syrupy sproingy things.
Nice guy, was old John, but a bit too fond of odd mushrooms...
Actually I've been thinking about that, too. Would Microsoft have anything to gain by buying (or hell, BUILDING) a small island somewhere and moving all operations there? Would that get them out of the antitrust mess?
My sig says it all.
That, and a clipboard that's standard across KDE/Gnome. It's always a pisser to try to copy a URL someone sends me in lICQ and try to paste it into Galeon, only to find that there's nothing in the clipboard...
IE for the Mac is also superior to IE for Windows. It even has alpha-channel support for PNG files, which IE for Windows lacks. Do these teams never communicate?
Maybe listening to Slashdot, they'll get so caught up in the thought-provoking, literate, intelligent dialog that they'll forget about the hunger pangs for a while.
That's why it's good to be a tech. I have loads of people like that. I bill them $65/hour. For their money, they get a complete explanation of how to do X, and a demonstration, followed by a session of having THEM do it while I watch and prompt if neccessary. Once they say they are comfortable doing X, I make sure there's nothing else they want for their $65, and leave. If they need to learn how to do Y, or forget how to do X... then I get another $65. And people pay and pay...
Or my favorite...
When Pancha and Kuzco (as a llama) are in the restaurant, and Kuzco is dressed as a woman to get in the door...
Waitress: Welcome to the Muggy Meat Shack, home of the Mug of Meat.
Pacha: We're newly-weds *dumb grin*
Waitress: Bless you, sir, for coming out in public...
The entire restaurant scene is nothing short of brilliant comedic genius.
The story I've heard behind the salute involves raising the visor on your helmet so that your lord/commander/royalty could see your eyes.
I don't know about Warcraft 3, but if you want a good RTS game that's bubbling over with originality, try Sacrifice. It's a game from Shiny that unfortunately was met with the market's usual reaction to true creativity and brilliance: it was a total flop. But it's a fantastic, powerful game with unbelievable replay value. Oh, and the music is unbelievably awesome. Snag a copy off Ebay or something and try it.
I don't know about VBA from Office, but OpenOffice has an Autopilot that does mass conversions. Run OO's word processor, go to File, Autopilot, Document Converter. Seems to work pretty well for me. It also imports templates and such and automagically guesses where you're keeping most of your Word files.
It's at 418 as I post this... going pretty well so far!
<ObMSTroll>Already doing better than some IIS installations I have seen</ObMSTroll>
For that matter, buy an item that you DON'T know is stolen. They can get you either way.
Or mice, for that matter... I saw a show about mice in Australia... there were so many they were falling out of a wall like a liquid. Incredible. They could empty a grain bin in like 30 seconds.
Sending prisoners to populate another world probably isn't a good idea. I mean, sure, Australia turned out ok, but have you read Arthur C. Clark's Rama series?
My system itself makes noise. It seems to be tied to "stuff happening" inside the box, though I've not been able to track it down precisely. It makes it during virtual memory swapping under Windows, but it also makes it when booting Linux in framebuffer mode. It makes it, but not as loud, while playing Return to Wolfenstien under Linux. It makes loud (audible from the next room, with the case on) noise when playing Warcraft 2, and makes a rhythmic tick-tick-tick-tick when playing MP3s. Based on all this, I almost believe it's something on the motherboard itself, because the noise remains after switching RAM, CPU, power supply, and videocard. It's definitely not coming from the speakers or motherboard buzzer. It started happening about 3 months after I built this system and hasn't stopped since. It's louder in cold weather than in warm, and it's driving me nuts!
Actually, by that time, the volume will probably be set to an MPAA-designated maximum level (one that cannot be heard outside the car). After all, we can't have all those people in the parking lot hearing the music for FREE can we? Tracking them down and fining them all for it is so expensive!
Cool, I'll use that next time there's a New York Times article.
My mom got taken in by this as well. What makes this even worse is by the time she let me know that she had "renewed" her domain name, Verisign/Network Solutions was already listed as the "registrar" for the domain. Apparently this happened WITHOUT the usual confirmation e-mail. Color me surprised, I thought it wasn't possible to switch registrars without going through the usual "This e-mail is being sent to confirm, please reply." stuff.
Those are exactly the channels I'm talking about (and they're still around, on EFnet at least). Your point about pedo != child molester is also absolutely correct.
I guess what I was trying to say in my previous post is that people who haven't BEEN on IRC get the wrong ideas about what's out there. They see the channel #lesbians, or #uberperv, or whatever, and think "My god, my child is hanging out with a bunch of evil queers/lesbians/whatevers!" I got that from my parents because I hung out in a channel called #vampyres, that had nothing to do with vampires in any way. My parents saw the word and instantly assumed the channel was about crazed, blood-drinking supergoths, and that I was hanging out there and getting corrupted in some way. People need to understand that, just like in real life, the name of a place frequently has very little bearing on what goes on in it. Education of parents, congressmen, and other decision-makers in the ways that IRC and other chat networks function is the important thing here.