It's quite amusing to hear local scumbags being arrested asking for their 'Miranda' rights (they've seen too many US TV shows !) - rights they don't have in this country !
While a dubious abuse of popular culture, the hardware manufacturers are only correct about what a kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte is : in the SI system, we do not use powers of 2 (2^10, 2^20, 2^30), but powers of 10 (10^3, 10^6, 10^9). That's already what the data transmission guys do with kilobits, megabits, gigabits and no one ever complains about them because they are correct.
There is no reason to make an exception, the use of kilo, mega, giga was abuse in the first place (although acceptable in engineering terms, it's only a 2.4% error)
The SI standards bodies have produced the horrendous prefixes kibi-, mebi- gibi- for your binary needs. They're horrible, but the only ones correct.
There's a piece of paper telling what's my name and place of residence ! A piece of paper ! I'm being repressed ! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
After all 1984 is only 21 years late. Big brother !
Speaking of which, most T9 implementations are a pain in the ass to use:
* no automatic transition to classic input when the word you're trying to type is unknown. The only ones that get that one right are Siemens. * no possibility to use more than one dictionary at the same time, which would be very useful in the trilingual environment I am in.
URGENT ASSISTANCE - FROM USA IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED: HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL FROM: GEORGE WALKER BUSH 202.456.1414 / 202.456.1111 FAX: 202.456.2461
DEAR SIR / MADAM,
I AM GEORGE WALKER BUSH, SON OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, AND CURRENTLY SERVING AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THIS LETTER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT MET NEITHER IN PERSON NOR BY CORRESPONDENCE. I CAME TO KNOW OF YOU IN MY SEARCH FOR A RELIABLE AND REPUTABLE PERSON TO HANDLE A VERY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS TRANSACTION, WHICH INVOLVES THE TRANSFER OF A HUGE SUM OF MONEY TO AN ACCOUNT REQUIRING MAXIMUM CONFIDENCE.
I AM WRITING YOU IN ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE PRIMARILY TO SEEK YOUR ASSISTANCE IN ACQUIRING OIL FUNDS THAT ARE PRESENTLY TRAPPED IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ. MY PARTNERS AND I SOLICIT YOUR ASSISTANCE IN COMPLETING A TRANSACTION BEGUN BY MY FATHER, WHO HAS LONG BEEN ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN THE EXTRACTION OF PETROLEUM IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,AND BRAVELY SERVED HIS COUNTRY AS DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED STATES CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.IN THE DECADE OF THE NINETEEN-EIGHTIES, MY FATHER, THEN VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SOUGHT TO WORK WITH THE GOOD OFFICES OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ TO REGAIN LOST OIL REVENUE SOURCES IN THE NEIGHBORING ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN. THIS UNSUCCESSFUL VENTURE WAS SOON FOLLOWED BY A FALLING-OUT WITH HIS IRAQI PARTNER, WHO SOUGHT TO ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL OIL REVENUE SOURCES IN THE NEIGHBORING EMIRATE OF KUWAIT, A WHOLLY-OWNED U.S.-BRITISH SUBSIDIARY.
MY FATHER RE-SECURED THE PETROLEUM ASSETS OF KUWAIT IN 1991 AT A COST OF SIXTY-ONE BILLION U.S. DOLLARS ($61,000,000,000). OUT OF THAT COST,THIRTY-SIX BILLION DOLLARS ($36,000,000,000) WERE SUPPLIED BY HIS PARTNERS IN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA AND OTHER PERSIAN GULF MONARCHIES, AND SIXTEEN BILLION DOLLARS ($16,000,000,000) BY GERMAN AND JAPANESE PARTNERS. BUT MY FATHER'S FORMER IRAQI BUSINESS PARTNER REMAINED IN CONTROL OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ AND ITS PETROLEUM RESERVES.
MY FAMILY IS CALLING FOR YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE IN FUNDING THE REMOVAL OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ AND ACQUIRING THE PETROLEUM ASSETS OF HIS COUNTRY, AS COMPENSATION FOR THE COSTS OF REMOVING HIM FROM POWER. UNFORTUNATELY, OUR PARTNERS FROM 1991 ARE NOT WILLING TO SHOULDER THE BURDEN OF THIS NEW VENTURE, WHICH IN ITS UPCOMING PHASE MAY COST THE SUM OF 100 BILLION TO 200 BILLION DOLLARS ($100,000,000,000 -$200,000,000,000), BOTH IN THE INITIAL ACQUISITION AND IN LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT. WITHOUT THE FUNDS FROM OUR 1991 PARTNERS, WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO ACQUIRE THE OIL REVENUE TRAPPED WITHIN IRAQ. THAT IS WHY MY FAMILY AND OUR COLLEAGUES ARE URGENTLY SEEKING YOUR GRACIOUS ASSISTANCE. OUR DISTINGUISHED COLLEAGUES IN THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION INCLUDE THE SITTING VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, RICHARD CHENEY,WHO IS AN ORIGINAL PARTNER IN THE IRAQ VENTURE AND FORMER HEAD OF THE HALLIBURTON OIL COMPANY, AND CONDOLEEZA RICE, WHOSE PROFESSIONAL DEDICATION TO THE VENTURE WAS DEMONSTRATED IN THE NAMING OF A CHEVRON OIL TANKER AFTER HER. I WOULD BESEECH YOU TO TRANSFER A SUM EQUALING TEN TO TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT (10-25 %) OF YOUR YEARLY INCOME TO OUR ACCOUNT TO AID IN THIS IMPORTANT VENTURE. THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL FUNCTION AS OUR TRUSTED INTERMEDIARY. I PROPOSE THAT YOU MAKE THIS TRANSFER BEFORE THE FIFTEENTH (15TH) OF THE MONTH OF APRIL. I KNOW THAT A TRANSACTION OF THIS MAGNITUDE WOULD MAKE ANYONE APPREHENSIVE AND WORRIED. BUT I AM ASSURING YOU THAT ALL WILL BE WELL AT THE END OF THE DAY. A BOLD STEP TAKEN SHALL NOT BE REGRETTED, I ASSURE YOU. PLEASE DO BE INFORMED THAT THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION IS 100% LEGAL. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO CO-OPERATE IN THIS TRANSACTION,PLEASE CONTACT OUR INTERMEDIARY REPRESENTATIVES TO FURTHER DISCUSS THE MATTER. I PRAY THAT YOU
Isn't it ironic that slashdot is a basiton of people (righfully) hating patenting obvious combinations of ideas, yet the editors deem it interesting to post an article about how
1) one can use the Wayback Machine 2) to look at a popular website
Just a stupid question, what would have been wrong with replacing the engines with more powerful ones ?
Also, to Leo Di Carpaccio's defense, I don't know how the gpp can compare Hughes's 1 minute flight to the 2500 hrs the A380 has flown since wednesday.
Breaking news ! Apparently, that LSD-induced bullshit Gallileo uttered about laws of physics being invariant in linear uniformly moving reference frames was not so delirious ! Extra ! Extra !
I have a 3MP camera and I almost never have it on the maximum size setting.
You never recut a picture ? You never imagine you picture will look tiny or pixellized when you look at them on a SDGA (super duper graphic array) 20 years from now ?
With storage dirt cheap, not using full resolution is almost criminal.
Why are the shifts we do twice a year just one hour anyway ? What is just so special about 1/24th of a day ?
If anyone is going to change his clocks anyway, why not act like real men, determine the optimum shift, be it 54 min or 89 or 124 or whatever, tell the populace the magic scientists said it was better and use it ? Why that arbitrary one hour shift. It's not like someone's gonna notice anymore after two days.
If we were robots we could even adjust each day, but that's extremistic.
lusers and the dumbing down of things for them are the reason my stupid browser at work says "Shortcut to $filepath at $website", making it actually unreadable.
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How sad but significant you did not put the "Europe" bit between UK and Northern Hemisphere.
How ironic the marathon was in the Empire Cinema.
While a dubious abuse of popular culture, the hardware manufacturers are only correct about what a kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte is : in the SI system, we do not use powers of 2 (2^10, 2^20, 2^30), but powers of 10 (10^3, 10^6, 10^9). That's already what the data transmission guys do with kilobits, megabits, gigabits and no one ever complains about them because they are correct.
There is no reason to make an exception, the use of kilo, mega, giga was abuse in the first place (although acceptable in engineering terms, it's only a 2.4% error)
The SI standards bodies have produced the horrendous prefixes kibi-, mebi- gibi- for your binary needs. They're horrible, but the only ones correct.
Is the film better because you camped two weeks to go to the premiere ? Is the film worse the Saturday after ?
There's a piece of paper telling what's my name and place of residence ! A piece of paper ! I'm being repressed ! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
After all 1984 is only 21 years late. Big brother !
I've seen few, but I still have to reboot my computer when I install a screensaver
Why ? It's a 90 degree rotation. People will feel unhappy unlill they bought 4.
Speaking of which, most T9 implementations are a pain in the ass to use :
* no automatic transition to classic input when the word you're trying to type is unknown. The only ones that get that one right are Siemens.
* no possibility to use more than one dictionary at the same time, which would be very useful in the trilingual environment I am in.
URGENT ASSISTANCE - FROM USA
IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED: HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL
FROM: GEORGE WALKER BUSH 202.456.1414 / 202.456.1111 FAX: 202.456.2461
DEAR SIR / MADAM,
I AM GEORGE WALKER BUSH, SON OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, AND CURRENTLY SERVING AS
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THIS LETTER MIGHT SURPRISE
YOU BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT MET NEITHER IN PERSON NOR BY CORRESPONDENCE. I
CAME TO KNOW OF YOU IN MY SEARCH FOR A RELIABLE AND REPUTABLE PERSON TO
HANDLE A VERY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS TRANSACTION, WHICH INVOLVES THE
TRANSFER OF A HUGE SUM OF MONEY TO AN ACCOUNT REQUIRING MAXIMUM
CONFIDENCE.
I AM WRITING YOU IN ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE PRIMARILY TO SEEK YOUR
ASSISTANCE IN ACQUIRING OIL FUNDS THAT ARE PRESENTLY TRAPPED IN THE
REPUBLIC OF IRAQ. MY PARTNERS AND I SOLICIT YOUR ASSISTANCE IN
COMPLETING A TRANSACTION BEGUN BY MY FATHER, WHO HAS LONG BEEN ACTIVELY
ENGAGED IN THE EXTRACTION OF PETROLEUM IN THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA,AND BRAVELY SERVED HIS COUNTRY AS DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED STATES
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.IN THE DECADE OF THE NINETEEN-EIGHTIES, MY
FATHER, THEN VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SOUGHT TO
WORK WITH THE GOOD OFFICES OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ TO
REGAIN LOST OIL REVENUE SOURCES IN THE NEIGHBORING ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF
IRAN. THIS UNSUCCESSFUL VENTURE WAS SOON FOLLOWED BY A FALLING-OUT WITH
HIS IRAQI PARTNER, WHO SOUGHT TO ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL OIL REVENUE SOURCES
IN THE NEIGHBORING EMIRATE OF KUWAIT, A WHOLLY-OWNED U.S.-BRITISH
SUBSIDIARY.
MY FATHER RE-SECURED THE PETROLEUM ASSETS OF KUWAIT IN 1991 AT A COST OF
SIXTY-ONE BILLION U.S. DOLLARS ($61,000,000,000). OUT OF THAT
COST,THIRTY-SIX BILLION DOLLARS ($36,000,000,000) WERE SUPPLIED BY HIS
PARTNERS IN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA AND OTHER PERSIAN GULF
MONARCHIES, AND SIXTEEN BILLION DOLLARS ($16,000,000,000) BY GERMAN AND
JAPANESE PARTNERS. BUT MY FATHER'S FORMER IRAQI BUSINESS PARTNER
REMAINED IN CONTROL OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ AND ITS PETROLEUM RESERVES.
MY FAMILY IS CALLING FOR YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE IN FUNDING THE REMOVAL
OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ AND ACQUIRING THE PETROLEUM
ASSETS OF HIS COUNTRY, AS COMPENSATION FOR THE COSTS OF REMOVING HIM
FROM POWER. UNFORTUNATELY, OUR PARTNERS FROM 1991 ARE NOT WILLING TO
SHOULDER THE BURDEN OF THIS NEW VENTURE, WHICH IN ITS UPCOMING PHASE MAY
COST THE SUM OF 100 BILLION TO 200 BILLION DOLLARS ($100,000,000,000
-$200,000,000,000), BOTH IN THE INITIAL ACQUISITION AND IN LONG-TERM
MANAGEMENT. WITHOUT THE FUNDS FROM OUR 1991 PARTNERS, WE WOULD NOT BE
ABLE TO ACQUIRE THE OIL REVENUE TRAPPED WITHIN IRAQ. THAT IS WHY MY
FAMILY AND OUR COLLEAGUES ARE URGENTLY SEEKING YOUR GRACIOUS
ASSISTANCE. OUR DISTINGUISHED COLLEAGUES IN THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION
INCLUDE THE SITTING VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
RICHARD CHENEY,WHO IS AN ORIGINAL PARTNER IN THE IRAQ VENTURE AND FORMER
HEAD OF THE HALLIBURTON OIL COMPANY, AND CONDOLEEZA RICE, WHOSE
PROFESSIONAL DEDICATION TO THE VENTURE WAS DEMONSTRATED IN THE NAMING OF
A CHEVRON OIL TANKER AFTER HER. I WOULD BESEECH YOU TO TRANSFER A SUM
EQUALING TEN TO TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT (10-25 %) OF YOUR YEARLY INCOME TO
OUR ACCOUNT TO AID IN THIS IMPORTANT VENTURE. THE INTERNAL REVENUE
SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL FUNCTION AS OUR TRUSTED
INTERMEDIARY. I PROPOSE THAT YOU MAKE THIS TRANSFER BEFORE THE FIFTEENTH
(15TH) OF THE MONTH OF APRIL. I KNOW THAT A TRANSACTION OF THIS
MAGNITUDE WOULD MAKE ANYONE APPREHENSIVE AND WORRIED. BUT I AM ASSURING
YOU THAT ALL WILL BE WELL AT THE END OF THE DAY. A BOLD STEP TAKEN SHALL
NOT BE REGRETTED, I ASSURE YOU. PLEASE DO BE INFORMED THAT THIS BUSINESS
TRANSACTION IS 100% LEGAL. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO CO-OPERATE IN THIS
TRANSACTION,PLEASE CONTACT OUR INTERMEDIARY REPRESENTATIVES TO FURTHER
DISCUSS THE MATTER. I PRAY THAT YOU
Isn't it ironic that slashdot is a basiton of people (righfully) hating patenting obvious combinations of ideas, yet the editors deem it interesting to post an article about how
1) one can use the Wayback Machine
2) to look at a popular website
Just a stupid question, what would have been wrong with replacing the engines with more powerful ones ? Also, to Leo Di Carpaccio's defense, I don't know how the gpp can compare Hughes's 1 minute flight to the 2500 hrs the A380 has flown since wednesday.
Breaking news ! Apparently, that LSD-induced bullshit Gallileo uttered about laws of physics being invariant in linear uniformly moving reference frames was not so delirious ! Extra ! Extra !
Car analogies are the Canyonero of rethoric.
...must have been Yuri Gagarin : took off, orbited the earth many times, and still managed to land in the Soviet Union
Visual C++ has had an IDE for what, twelve years ? and Borland C++ 15 ? Come on ! Open source just does not cut it for any serious developer.
With storage dirt cheap, not using full resolution is almost criminal.
e2 is subjective. By design. e2 is about emotions. Wikipedia is (tries to be) about facts.
I did. And within 2 months I had a new job. Actually my boss found I was cool after seeing me with that iPod thingy.
So you do need the hostname. Why bother with the IP ?
how do you connect to a particular virtual host if you have only the ip address ?
Why are the shifts we do twice a year just one hour anyway ? What is just so special about 1/24th of a day ?
If anyone is going to change his clocks anyway, why not act like real men, determine the optimum shift, be it 54 min or 89 or 124 or whatever, tell the populace the magic scientists said it was better and use it ? Why that arbitrary one hour shift. It's not like someone's gonna notice anymore after two days.
If we were robots we could even adjust each day, but that's extremistic.
lusers and the dumbing down of things for them are the reason my stupid browser at work says "Shortcut to $filepath at $website", making it actually unreadable.