I know at one point in history we were able to purchace diamond coated tools easily. From what I understood the process involved methane and microwaves. Things like pocket / hip knives were sold at the local discount stores for a time. It's good to see the fact that there is an application for lab created diamonds, I can see some real world applications for things made out of diamond.
As far as DeBeers the last time they shit a brick was when the former Soviet Union desolved they had a legit fear that the new goverment would permit the shameless diamond flooding on the free market. Fortunatly for them it was pretty much decided they had a good thing going so why fuck with it.
If you watched the BBC video series, they seemed to make a point 101010 on the cavewall. I forget exactly what was being explained other then multi-armed beings who invented underarm deodorent before the wheel.
I always thought that the whole reason for 42 was the fact that it was 101010 in binary.
As far as this particular blend of earl grey goes, I have not tried it yet. Being in america i've found Earl Grey is easy to find, where Ceylon without the bergamot oil is a pain in the tookus. I do enjoy earl grey though, iced with a touch of sugar. The best blend I can get local is actually Stash's with double bergamot oil.
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Well... this is true... but keep in mind that it takes YEARS / decades of inhalation in order to cause a health hazard. Sandblasting and mining are two professions where silicosis is a serious concern.
I'd be less concerned for the patient, but rather for the medial personal who have to work with this stuff. Day at the beach level exposure is probally acceptable risk. Everyday exposure I'd agree with you 100%.
Yes, I happen to agree with you 100%. If they want to tax the line, then they should tax the landline. But they shouldn't apply the same tax for your landline as for your long distance service.
They should just pick one end and tax it. Either tax the physical line whether it be landline or broadband, or just tax the carrier. One or the other. I tend to prefer the physical line personaly as that would resolve the issue of being double taxed for just using a diffrent 1010x code, and this would actually cover ALL interstate communications whether it would be text, voice, or data.
This way, the goverment can be control freaks and give the illusion that this is fair. Subscribers get equaly shafted once, and carriers over your line don't have to deal with the tax unless they provide you with the physical line. And those naughty people overseas can't provide telco like services and let subscribers dodge the tax.
You already pay the tax twice if you use any 1010 xxx codes. This is what's damned annoying.
There was a time that these taxes applied once to the phone line. I noticed one day the bill went up a fuck of alot. AT&T was charging to put their bill on my phone bill, as well as the same taxes were being billed on both the local telco segment of the bill, as well as the AT&T long distance. On top of that, the same taxes apeared for each 1010xxx number, a series of 3 I used at the time. Needless to say there hell of alot of taxes per actual money paid for long distance.
Needless to say, I cancled the long distance, and started using calling cards. It was the only way I could avoid the major double dipping taxes going on.
They are being nothing if not consistant.
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There was a time that I replaced the cells on nokia with off the shelf radio shack AA. I knew they also sold the offical batteries, but their extra long life AA batteries were rated at a higher mA rating then the stock I do believe.
I also remember I had a recent gmt motorola cell phone that did take standard rechargable AA batteries, or a slim NiCad pack.
I never had complex issues with the batteries exploding.
I suspect that your motorola brick phone solution, or was it bag phone, i'm not sure, but considering you were using 25 AA cells. I'm thinking 8 in series and 3 banks. That is probally your problem right there, the fact that hooking up rechargable batteries in series and parelell is going to be a whole bunch of no fun. In this configeration one bank might be slightly less then another bank, and one battery due to internal resistance will always have a greater load, and before you know it, poof! Though I could be confusing the brick phone with the bag phone.
Much wiser to go series for NiCads.
But I did the same thing in the 1980's. Had a friend with a laptop who could choose between the big ass batery pack, or a series of D cells that fit nice and neat in the case. Those radioshack extra long life NiCads worked a hell of alot better then stock. They never went poof!
He also metions talks about people getting around using the service. For years, the TiVo hacking community has known how to partially emulate the service by creating slice files and manually loading them onto the device. Recently hackers have figured out how to get an unmodified TiVo to use a service emulator. What's interesting about these development efforts is that they are not putting TiVo out of business.
Why would it?
Friend: Hey, that's a nice thing what is it? Geek: Oh it's my modified TiVo... it's like a normal TiVo but I don't have to subscribe to their service. Friend: Oh, how do you do that? Geek: Oh you just [insert long technical procedure here]. Friend: Fuck that i'll just pay for the service.
Righto... I dont' run MSN software, in the sence of the MSN explorer package. I have NO wish to run it, it's a bloated bug ridden piece of filth.
MSN messanger on the other hand, well it's got its issues but not nearly so bad as the install package. I'm happy to use it in the event that MSN bans all other clients... that that I prefer it over GAIM or trillian by anymeans, it's just there.
Will MSN require end users to actually upgrade, or event to install that stupid MSN explorer? If so i'd be looking for a 3rd party solution and or switching back ICQ or whatever.
Except with Linux you don't have to worry about things like this. The code is there to be viewed by a billion eyes. Nice try though.
Unless someone managed to get root and is running software scanning for other exploitable systems.
But if they got that level of access, chances are they would just authorize themselves.
Besides... I would under the impression that phonehome software used internet exploder, which chances are gets full access to the internet. This is not to say you can't just use mozila and tell explorer to bugger off.
The moral of that story is that paper is kind of fragile as a log material. Make sure it'll survive the calamity that the original equipment wont, lest you be standing with a long face with neither the equipment/data nor the logs.
However, if it were my program I'd seriously consider adding in a hard-to-turn-off warning that would run every time samba runs or performs some action that would show up prominently in user windows (OK, so I'm not sure how to do that offhand).
Just use Messanger, aka Windows Messaging, not to be confused with MSN Messanger, that is a diffrent animal.
Any Windows user who's connected to broadband services may have noticed that there spammers have gotten wind of the fact that win2k, windows NT, perhaps even Windows XP have a build in messaging client. In theory, it's purpose is for admins to tell users their machine is going down. Unlike MSN messanger it doesn't require being hooked up to any server to operate, only the system's IP address.
In theory a Samba connect could trigger a system broadcast popup that says, well, anything you want. Problem being, unless for some reason you could hide it from SCO's view it would likely be detected and removed.
Though URLs would be a pain in the tookus, as near as I can tell Messanger doesn't permit copy and paste, nor dynamic linking. It's actually good in a way because by default it's open and you know how secure windows is.
(And yes, Microsoft's tendancy to re-use the same Title for entirely diffrent software products is frustrating).
Yes, yes they can. However, them taking their ball and going home if you don't want to adopt their perspective on "interoperability" still makes them look like they're in elementary school. It's not that they "can"...people and companies "can" do a lot of things, it's what they choose to do that makes them lame. Or not, as the case may be.
Of course, your little "fuck 'em" comment is exactly like what they're saying to third-parties, so it looks like you don't really have a problem with them.
If Microsoft's issue is just the advertising, then I would not take exception to having 3rd party software incorperating it. Only fair.
If Microsoft's is just being a control freak and choosing to not permit linux or 3rd party to connect at all under any condition, then I would take exception to that. I'd either run a rougue clinet, or choose to use other messaging software.
One thing I use is MSN's chat server. I run a small trivia room. To do so requires 3rd party software with MIRC to connect to MSN's pseudo IRC server. While I appricate the fact that they use advertsing to help pay for the service, in order to run the trivia game I need 3rd party softare. So fuck'em. If they totally ban 3rd party multi-user chat clients, well I guess i'll have to go to normal IRC.
Nothing is different for the end-user's experience. Encoding is a teenie bit more flakey than DiVX, but I'd expect it to have surpassed DiVX within a year in the quality/compression department.
Nothing diffrent? Well decoding on a pentium III 733 seems to be a touch slugish under xvid there DiVX peforms quite well. This is just a casual observation to take with a grain of salt.
The XViDs I have viewed have been of excelent quality though, well worth viewing on a system with a faster cpu then I usualy use for viewing.
Requiring formal agreements could be a sly way to keep open source software out. How would an open source project go about making such an agreement?
Well, I don't know if it's so much about keeping open source out. Microsoft does provide the servers required to keep MSN Messanger online. It's not free by any means from their perspective. Unfortunatly they have every right to create terms of service for use of equipment and services owned and payed for by Microsoft. Hell, they can even require users who use their VoIP solution to speak in a faux-french accent. Their server, their rules.
Now personaly, I don't give a shit. They don't officaly have a linux edition, so I have no choice but to use 3rd party software. Under windows I tend to use Trillian simply because I have a couple of ICQ contacts, a few Yahoo contacts, and MSN messanger contacts.
I do respect the fact that this is Microsoft system, and should they require that 3rd party software be linked to their adverts, I'd be willing to accept those terms. I don't see this as an open source issue but rather respecting the terms and conditions of use of their equipment.
Though.... should Microsoft be unwilling to bend on this issue, I say fuck 'em.
I'll transfer all my property into someone else's name. Sue me? Feel free! They can't get what I don't have.
This way they have to pay their ninga lawyers to get squat.
Until such time SCO can prove ownership of any code in question, I'm not too worried. This can pretty much only happen in court, and this will take a few years.
Well, word of mouth is the best form of advertising, it makes good sence that the MPAA would be offended that it's now easier for people to communicate that a movie sucked.
I'm sure negative text messages are responcible for a fair bit of lost sales. 11% well that would be rather hard to actually justify given in america use of mobile phones is not as wide spread like Europe for example. I would THINK that bad reviews are likely to be more responcible for loss sales, which isn't shocking as the summer over marketed blockbusters are shameless recycled sequels or just repackaged older ideas with with 33% CGI.
This makes me sad as there is enough in the way of books that actually haven't been made into movies... perhaps it's about high time that hollywood visit the freaking library and find something that hasn't been done yet.
Now the solution would be to make films that don't suck, but that would just be too hard wouldn't it.
Now, why in the hell aren't computer manufacturers doing anything like this? Spending $1 more on fans would get them loads more customers, and spending a few cents on heatsink grease would get them a better reputation, higher maximum operating temperature, and less need for more powerful fans. Can anyone explain why the resort to expensive, complex, unreliable, crap like this, rather than just doing the current convection methods the right way?
Because it costs $1.00 more a unit. Because loud fans take the Tim Allen approach to computing with "MORE POWER grrrr grrrrr grrrr". And also because the the home computing market can cut corners like this without any problems.
Venting outside is good, except in the winter where you are wasting engery. Nothing like an old Sun 4/260 used as a space heater.
What, you didn't get endless phone calls from telemarketers asking you if you need vinyl windows, home secirty, the newspaper, the voice of god, and a demonstration of a vacume?
Man you got it easy. I'd trade telemarketing for death threats anyway.
Hulk 2003 wasn't nearly as amusing as RotH featuring Thor and The Hulk. Hulk 2003 takes it self far too seriously with the offical military involvement. When I think of The Hulk, I think of a band of nasty criminals after some high tech gadget who stumble on David Banner who turns into the Hulk and generally thrashes the places, yet somehow manages to get away without being spotted.
This is The Hulk I remember, a tacky live action TV show that makes you laugh when you watch it.
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I know at one point in history we were able to purchace diamond coated tools easily. From what I understood the process involved methane and microwaves. Things like pocket / hip knives were sold at the local discount stores for a time. It's good to see the fact that there is an application for lab created diamonds, I can see some real world applications for things made out of diamond.
As far as DeBeers the last time they shit a brick was when the former Soviet Union desolved they had a legit fear that the new goverment would permit the shameless diamond flooding on the free market. Fortunatly for them it was pretty much decided they had a good thing going so why fuck with it.
If you watched the BBC video series, they seemed to make a point 101010 on the cavewall. I forget exactly what was being explained other then multi-armed beings who invented underarm deodorent before the wheel.
Cup of Earl Grey to go with your SCO... I mean scone :P
I always thought that the whole reason for 42 was the fact that it was 101010 in binary.
As far as this particular blend of earl grey goes, I have not tried it yet. Being in america i've found Earl Grey is easy to find, where Ceylon without the bergamot oil is a pain in the tookus. I do enjoy earl grey though, iced with a touch of sugar. The best blend I can get local is actually Stash's with double bergamot oil.
Well... this is true... but keep in mind that it takes YEARS / decades of inhalation in order to cause a health hazard. Sandblasting and mining are two professions where silicosis is a serious concern.
I'd be less concerned for the patient, but rather for the medial personal who have to work with this stuff. Day at the beach level exposure is probally acceptable risk. Everyday exposure I'd agree with you 100%.
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When Lewis saw the western frontier, and the majestic rivers... Clark said, "Dam it".
That is the crux of the matter
Yes, I happen to agree with you 100%. If they want to tax the line, then they should tax the landline. But they shouldn't apply the same tax for your landline as for your long distance service.
They should just pick one end and tax it. Either tax the physical line whether it be landline or broadband, or just tax the carrier. One or the other. I tend to prefer the physical line personaly as that would resolve the issue of being double taxed for just using a diffrent 1010x code, and this would actually cover ALL interstate communications whether it would be text, voice, or data.
This way, the goverment can be control freaks and give the illusion that this is fair. Subscribers get equaly shafted once, and carriers over your line don't have to deal with the tax unless they provide you with the physical line. And those naughty people overseas can't provide telco like services and let subscribers dodge the tax.
You already pay the tax twice if you use any 1010 xxx codes. This is what's damned annoying.
There was a time that these taxes applied once to the phone line. I noticed one day the bill went up a fuck of alot. AT&T was charging to put their bill on my phone bill, as well as the same taxes were being billed on both the local telco segment of the bill, as well as the AT&T long distance. On top of that, the same taxes apeared for each 1010xxx number, a series of 3 I used at the time. Needless to say there hell of alot of taxes per actual money paid for long distance.
Needless to say, I cancled the long distance, and started using calling cards. It was the only way I could avoid the major double dipping taxes going on.
They are being nothing if not consistant.
There was a time that I replaced the cells on nokia with off the shelf radio shack AA. I knew they also sold the offical batteries, but their extra long life AA batteries were rated at a higher mA rating then the stock I do believe.
I also remember I had a recent gmt motorola cell phone that did take standard rechargable AA batteries, or a slim NiCad pack.
I never had complex issues with the batteries exploding.
I suspect that your motorola brick phone solution, or was it bag phone, i'm not sure, but considering you were using 25 AA cells. I'm thinking 8 in series and 3 banks. That is probally your problem right there, the fact that hooking up rechargable batteries in series and parelell is going to be a whole bunch of no fun. In this configeration one bank might be slightly less then another bank, and one battery due to internal resistance will always have a greater load, and before you know it, poof! Though I could be confusing the brick phone with the bag phone.
Much wiser to go series for NiCads.
But I did the same thing in the 1980's. Had a friend with a laptop who could choose between the big ass batery pack, or a series of D cells that fit nice and neat in the case. Those radioshack extra long life NiCads worked a hell of alot better then stock. They never went poof!
He also metions talks about people getting around using the service. For years, the TiVo hacking community has known how to partially emulate the service by creating slice files and manually loading them onto the device. Recently hackers have figured out how to get an unmodified TiVo to use a service emulator. What's interesting about these development efforts is that they are not putting TiVo out of business.
Why would it?
Friend: Hey, that's a nice thing what is it?
Geek: Oh it's my modified TiVo... it's like a normal TiVo but I don't have to subscribe to their service.
Friend: Oh, how do you do that?
Geek: Oh you just [insert long technical procedure here].
Friend: Fuck that i'll just pay for the service.
Piracy... it's like free advertising!
Considering the inevitable consequences of the strategy, I'd rather refer to it as "SCOicide".
Frivolous lawsuits are traditionaly the last ditch effort of a dying company.
Righto... I dont' run MSN software, in the sence of the MSN explorer package. I have NO wish to run it, it's a bloated bug ridden piece of filth.
MSN messanger on the other hand, well it's got its issues but not nearly so bad as the install package. I'm happy to use it in the event that MSN bans all other clients... that that I prefer it over GAIM or trillian by anymeans, it's just there.
Will MSN require end users to actually upgrade, or event to install that stupid MSN explorer? If so i'd be looking for a 3rd party solution and or switching back ICQ or whatever.
Except with Linux you don't have to worry about things like this. The code is there to be viewed by a billion eyes. Nice try though.
Unless someone managed to get root and is running software scanning for other exploitable systems.
But if they got that level of access, chances are they would just authorize themselves.
Besides... I would under the impression that phonehome software used internet exploder, which chances are gets full access to the internet. This is not to say you can't just use mozila and tell explorer to bugger off.
The moral of that story is that paper is kind of fragile as a log material. Make sure it'll survive the calamity that the original equipment wont, lest you be standing with a long face with neither the equipment/data nor the logs.
Store teletype in a remote location
Problem solved.
However, if it were my program I'd seriously consider adding in a hard-to-turn-off warning that would run every time samba runs or performs some action that would show up prominently in user windows (OK, so I'm not sure how to do that offhand).
Just use Messanger, aka Windows Messaging, not to be confused with MSN Messanger, that is a diffrent animal.
Any Windows user who's connected to broadband services may have noticed that there spammers have gotten wind of the fact that win2k, windows NT, perhaps even Windows XP have a build in messaging client. In theory, it's purpose is for admins to tell users their machine is going down. Unlike MSN messanger it doesn't require being hooked up to any server to operate, only the system's IP address.
In theory a Samba connect could trigger a system broadcast popup that says, well, anything you want. Problem being, unless for some reason you could hide it from SCO's view it would likely be detected and removed.
Though URLs would be a pain in the tookus, as near as I can tell Messanger doesn't permit copy and paste, nor dynamic linking. It's actually good in a way because by default it's open and you know how secure windows is.
(And yes, Microsoft's tendancy to re-use the same Title for entirely diffrent software products is frustrating).
Yes, yes they can. However, them taking their ball and going home if you don't want to adopt their perspective on "interoperability" still makes them look like they're in elementary school. It's not that they "can"...people and companies "can" do a lot of things, it's what they choose to do that makes them lame. Or not, as the case may be.
Of course, your little "fuck 'em" comment is exactly like what they're saying to third-parties, so it looks like you don't really have a problem with them.
If Microsoft's issue is just the advertising, then I would not take exception to having 3rd party software incorperating it. Only fair.
If Microsoft's is just being a control freak and choosing to not permit linux or 3rd party to connect at all under any condition, then I would take exception to that. I'd either run a rougue clinet, or choose to use other messaging software.
One thing I use is MSN's chat server. I run a small trivia room. To do so requires 3rd party software with MIRC to connect to MSN's pseudo IRC server. While I appricate the fact that they use advertsing to help pay for the service, in order to run the trivia game I need 3rd party softare. So fuck'em. If they totally ban 3rd party multi-user chat clients, well I guess i'll have to go to normal IRC.
Nothing is different for the end-user's experience. Encoding is a teenie bit more flakey than DiVX, but I'd expect it to have surpassed DiVX within a year in the quality/compression department.
Nothing diffrent? Well decoding on a pentium III 733 seems to be a touch slugish under xvid there DiVX peforms quite well. This is just a casual observation to take with a grain of salt.
The XViDs I have viewed have been of excelent quality though, well worth viewing on a system with a faster cpu then I usualy use for viewing.
Requiring formal agreements could be a sly way to keep open source software out. How would an open source project go about making such an agreement?
Well, I don't know if it's so much about keeping open source out. Microsoft does provide the servers required to keep MSN Messanger online. It's not free by any means from their perspective. Unfortunatly they have every right to create terms of service for use of equipment and services owned and payed for by Microsoft. Hell, they can even require users who use their VoIP solution to speak in a faux-french accent. Their server, their rules.
Now personaly, I don't give a shit. They don't officaly have a linux edition, so I have no choice but to use 3rd party software. Under windows I tend to use Trillian simply because I have a couple of ICQ contacts, a few Yahoo contacts, and MSN messanger contacts.
I do respect the fact that this is Microsoft system, and should they require that 3rd party software be linked to their adverts, I'd be willing to accept those terms. I don't see this as an open source issue but rather respecting the terms and conditions of use of their equipment.
Though.... should Microsoft be unwilling to bend on this issue, I say fuck 'em.
I'll transfer all my property into someone else's name. Sue me? Feel free! They can't get what I don't have.
This way they have to pay their ninga lawyers to get squat.
Until such time SCO can prove ownership of any code in question, I'm not too worried. This can pretty much only happen in court, and this will take a few years.
Well, word of mouth is the best form of advertising, it makes good sence that the MPAA would be offended that it's now easier for people to communicate that a movie sucked.
I'm sure negative text messages are responcible for a fair bit of lost sales. 11% well that would be rather hard to actually justify given in america use of mobile phones is not as wide spread like Europe for example. I would THINK that bad reviews are likely to be more responcible for loss sales, which isn't shocking as the summer over marketed blockbusters are shameless recycled sequels or just repackaged older ideas with with 33% CGI.
This makes me sad as there is enough in the way of books that actually haven't been made into movies... perhaps it's about high time that hollywood visit the freaking library and find something that hasn't been done yet.
Now the solution would be to make films that don't suck, but that would just be too hard wouldn't it.
Actually, I think that these ports are filtered due to the fact that people had open file shares.
When broadband was new, and hit offices and small networks, it wasn't all that unusual to hit your network neighborhood and see, well, your neighbors.
I could be wrong on this, but I know this was an issue circa 1999/2000.
Now, why in the hell aren't computer manufacturers doing anything like this? Spending $1 more on fans would get them loads more customers, and spending a few cents on heatsink grease would get them a better reputation, higher maximum operating temperature, and less need for more powerful fans. Can anyone explain why the resort to expensive, complex, unreliable, crap like this, rather than just doing the current convection methods the right way?
Because it costs $1.00 more a unit. Because loud fans take the Tim Allen approach to computing with "MORE POWER grrrr grrrrr grrrr". And also because the the home computing market can cut corners like this without any problems.
Venting outside is good, except in the winter where you are wasting engery. Nothing like an old Sun 4/260 used as a space heater.
What, you didn't get endless phone calls from telemarketers asking you if you need vinyl windows, home secirty, the newspaper, the voice of god, and a demonstration of a vacume?
Man you got it easy. I'd trade telemarketing for death threats anyway.
Hulk 2003 wasn't nearly as amusing as RotH featuring Thor and The Hulk. Hulk 2003 takes it self far too seriously with the offical military involvement. When I think of The Hulk, I think of a band of nasty criminals after some high tech gadget who stumble on David Banner who turns into the Hulk and generally thrashes the places, yet somehow manages to get away without being spotted.
This is The Hulk I remember, a tacky live action TV show that makes you laugh when you watch it.