or will PDA functions in general get blocked? How about SMS?
I hope they block everything. I'm even OK for an EMP when I enter he room : kill ALL devices, those that ring, those that vibrate, those that have annoyingly bright screens - we are here to watch a MOVIE. Keep all tech-savvy-gadgets OUT of the freakin' theater.
./ moderation system really shows its limits when the topic is France. Truly insightful posts such as this should not be modded at the same level than plain morons claiming historical absurdities.
On the evening of July 19, 1969, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts drove his Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, drowning his passenger, a young campaign worker named Mary Jo Kopechne. The senator left the scene of the accident, did not report it to the police for many hours, and according to some accounts considered concocting an alibi for himself in the interim.
At the time, Kennedy managed to escape severe legal and political consequences for his actions thanks to his family's connections (which helped to contain the inquest and grand jury) and to a nationally televised "Checkers"-like speech broadcast a week after the accident. But virtually no journalist who has closely examined the evidence fully believes Kennedy's story, and almost 30 years later, the tragedy still trails the senator, with aggressive press investigations revived in five-year anniversary intervals.
Probably more than any other single factor, Chappaquiddick - a frenzy without end - has ensured that Ted Kennedy would not follow his brother John to the White House.
What did you expect? The game to only run acceptably on hardware that doesn't exist yet? Geez.
You never played an Origin game, did you ?
Games of today for hardware of tomorrow !
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Early computer UNIVAC was found dead in his Washington museum this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to geek culture. Truly an American icon.
Most of IE is loaded when Windows starts. Compare the load time of IE with the time Mozilla takes to start the SECOND time you run it (when its files are in cache) if you want a valid comparison. And then, hard to say which is the fastest.
And Mozilla still has the best security, tabbed browsing, and so on...
My Travelstar hard drive just died, a few days ago.
The "funny" thing is, every morning, after a full night of rest, when the laptop is completely cold, the hard drive is kind enough to work for a few minutes before going "cling cling", BSOD, or kernel panic, thus I can save a few MB worth of data each day.
Gandi.net just happens to be a cheap registrar. I bought a domain there, and their service is perfect AND cheap. Now your idea is just as plain stupid as blacklisting an entire country.
Note also that with a few simple scripts blocking by registrar should be fairly easy.
Hey, take a 3GHz CPU, 3 billion cycles each second.
Assuming 1 trillion = 1000 billion (which isn't true in my native language, but I guess in english it is), you need ~300 seconds, i.e 5 minutes for 1 trillion cycles.
WHY is it unacceptable for children to see people making love (fucking, if you prefer), but it's okay if they see people killing each other with firearms.
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Well, the motherboard as an integrated gigabit port. You'd expect them to try the firewall with a ~1Gb/s traffic.
You forgot the best:
Press 'H' to jump into hyperspace.
or will PDA functions in general get blocked? How about SMS?
I hope they block everything.
I'm even OK for an EMP when I enter he room : kill ALL devices, those that ring, those that vibrate, those that have annoyingly bright screens - we are here to watch a MOVIE. Keep all tech-savvy-gadgets OUT of the freakin' theater.
And kill also the laser pens.
I was logged on MSN yesterday evening.
First, I got messages opening in a window, from people that I don't know.
Then, some messages from people I know, appearing in that same window, instead of their own window.
And after that, a pop up message, from MS, stating the service was going down for maintenance.
It lasted more than one hour.
"jobs would be lost"...
You mean, all the jobs the space industry is going to need so we can escape to another planet, in say, twenty years ?
you mean, like, Ultima VII ?
I never switch off my computer. It is a laptop, so when I don't use it, I let it enter sleep mode. And I resume the *same* session later.
So I really have a failure rate of 100%, I guess.
./ moderation system really shows its limits when the topic is France. Truly insightful posts such as this should not be modded at the same level than plain morons claiming historical absurdities.
reading the title of your post, I first thought you meant that google wanted the IPO money to buy Microsoft.
Now THAT would be a successful IPO.
I didn't get the joke, so I googled a bit:
here
On the evening of July 19, 1969, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts drove his Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, drowning his passenger, a young campaign worker named Mary Jo Kopechne. The senator left the scene of the accident, did not report it to the police for many hours, and according to some accounts considered concocting an alibi for himself in the interim.
At the time, Kennedy managed to escape severe legal and political consequences for his actions thanks to his family's connections (which helped to contain the inquest and grand jury) and to a nationally televised "Checkers"-like speech broadcast a week after the accident. But virtually no journalist who has closely examined the evidence fully believes Kennedy's story, and almost 30 years later, the tragedy still trails the senator, with aggressive press investigations revived in five-year anniversary intervals.
Probably more than any other single factor, Chappaquiddick - a frenzy without end - has ensured that Ted Kennedy would not follow his brother John to the White House.
What did you expect? The game to only run acceptably on hardware that doesn't exist yet? Geez. You never played an Origin game, did you ? Games of today for hardware of tomorrow !
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Early computer UNIVAC was found dead in his Washington museum this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to geek culture. Truly an American icon.
that the internet was VERY controlled in China.
How can this happen then ?
Does it mean that this activity is accepted by their authorities ?
Most of IE is loaded when Windows starts. Compare the load time of IE with the time Mozilla takes to start the SECOND time you run it (when its files are in cache) if you want a valid comparison. And then, hard to say which is the fastest.
And Mozilla still has the best security, tabbed browsing, and so on...
Damn !
My Travelstar hard drive just died, a few days ago.
The "funny" thing is, every morning, after a full night of rest, when the laptop is completely cold, the hard drive is kind enough to work for a few minutes before going "cling cling", BSOD, or kernel panic, thus I can save a few MB worth of data each day.
Heat dissipation, eh ?
it's in the second quadrant, just below the sign "pressboard estates"
Nobody's ever going to fill such an account, at least with small-sized emails.
They could just claim 'unlimited space' accounts.
That would prevent kiddies from wanting to be the one with the biggest account, and from filling them with garbage on purpose.
Another proof that the modern world is a dangerous place.
It was so much safer when native americans used smoke signals to communicate.
I would rather blame the lazy sysadmin who spent his time surfing for pr0n instead of running windows update and setting the firewall up.
"the oldest of them is a pentium3-1ghz"
sounds a bit like "no, I'm not really annoyed by traffic jams when commuting in my helicopter"
Gandi.net just happens to be a cheap registrar. I bought a domain there, and their service is perfect AND cheap. Now your idea is just as plain stupid as blacklisting an entire country.
Note also that with a few simple scripts blocking by registrar should be fairly easy.
Hey, take a 3GHz CPU, 3 billion cycles each second.
Assuming 1 trillion = 1000 billion (which isn't true in my native language, but I guess in english it is), you need ~300 seconds, i.e 5 minutes for 1 trillion cycles.
Back in school, 10 or 15 years ago, I had just begun learning english.. and the english teacher showed us this movie, hiding subtitles.
;-)
Of course at the end I had NO IDEA of what really happened in the movie. Who the characters were, etc...
But I knew ONE thing for SURE : the f-word is the most important word in the american (maybe not english) language
WHY is it unacceptable for children to see people making love (fucking, if you prefer), but it's okay if they see people killing each other with firearms.
What the f... ?
you can surf slashdot while pretending to be working, and still have results to show at the end of the day.