Yeah, but a lot of Macs are bought by schools and universities, and they like to have homogenous environments and haven't upgraded yet. At my institute of higher learning, all of the Macs (even the brand-new ones) run OS9.2 and a good portion of the PCs are still running NT4.
That picture was not taken from the Hubble, nor is it possible to use the Hubble to take pictures of the moon. If the Hubble were pointed to within 5 degrees or so of the Moon or 15 degrees or so of the Sun, the (relatively) large amounts of light coming in would do permeneant damage to the CCDs or whatever it is they use to detect light.
I remember playing Solitaire before MS fixed it back in the days of Windows 98 on a P3/733 and when you won the cards jumped so fast you never saw them...the people with the slower hardware were getting the better Solitaire experience. I still wonder if there's an entire of solitaire players out there that don't even know that the cards jump when you win the game.
Hell, if instead of going through the whole "this is how you put on your seatbelt" "this is how you put on your oxygen mask" "this is what to do if the plane crashes and by some mirarcle there's enough plane left that you have to find a door" speel they just said "RTFM", I'd be really happy. And the flights would probably be about 15 minutes faster.
Oh Jesus, now I'm going to have to work this out, huh. Stupid me and my bluffs. . 7800 DVDs at.000058 LOC/DVD works out to.4524 LOC/in^2, at least according to dc...
This is equivalent to storing the contents of 7,800 DVDs in one square inch of material.
WTF is that? I mean come on...7,800 DVDs? How much is that? I mean howabout some actually useful, quantitative stats, that everyone is familiar with.
If someone will give me the conversion factor between Libraries of Congress and DVD's, then I'll volunteer to work out how much this baby will really hold.
ALS is commonly known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease", not "Stephen Hawking's Ailment".
Dude. This is/.. You know, "News for Nerds." Don't forget the strong international contengent. Everyone, raise your hand if you've heard of Lou Gehrig. Now, everyone raise your hand if you've herd of Stephen Hawking.
mib.gov? The Men in Black are completely unaffiliated with the government, dude. It should be mib.org. Or, considering that they make money from selling velcro or whatever, it might should even be mib.com. Definitely not mib.gov, though.
The problem is not so much that their taking someone's GPL'd program and redistributing it under a new name, but that they are removing the original author's (Albert L Faber) copyright notices. The author's copyright of the program must be maintained in order for the GPL to be effective, otherwise people (like these) could completely jack the code and release it under any liscense they want.
But we should consider ourselves lucky that they're releasing it under the GPL and the source code is still available at the bottom of this page.
What are you talking about? Boeing already produces an entire line of gravity defying products...
Yeah, and if they were the recodring/movie industry, they'd be supporting the Digital Millenium Antigravity Act which would make it a crime to possess, make or even talk about one of these antigravity buggers, instead of embracing the new technology.
I'd have to say that the greatest book on programming is The Tao of Programming by Geoffery James. Sure, it was written in the mid 80's, but being a language agnostic book, it's still surprisingly relevant.
I learned everything I know about programming and even computers in general from that book. It even goes into management and stuff.
You can find it here, assuming you're not on an anti-software patent kick.
Someone should tip off the drilling companies: rather than pay skilled people to operate fancy drilling rigs, just drop the rigs and/or people out of an airplane.
But if you want more choices than that: This article inspired me to do some dumpster-diving in the Registry... Import this key/value: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet0 01\Services\ W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpServer] "InputProvider"= dword:00000001
...or you can just click in that little box and type in the address of the time server you want to use. Not nearly as much fun, I know, but it's how I set my XP box to synchronize with 10.189.12.1.
No, because chess is not a game of perfect information. You know the every detail of the game at a given moment, but you do not know in advance what your opponent will do. That's why you cannot "solve" a game of chess. There's always that unknown variable, and there's simply too many possible moves to take them all into account.
Windows was never an operating system, and certainly wasn't 10 years ago. 10 years ago would have been somewhere in the realm of Windows 3.1 (I think), which was nothing more than a fancy DOS shell. Think of it as X for your *nix box. It was not an OS by any stretch of the imagination. If anything, with the elimination of the DOS underlyings, Windows XP is more of an OS than Windows has ever been.
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You could play MS Flight Sim, and see how much faster you could get from New York to LA than the plane you're actually on.
Jesus christ, talk about a surprise, senaking coffee into a drunk's beer mug! Just imagine sitting back, taking a sip of your nice, chilled beer and then JESUS CHRIST WTF is this?
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Yeah, but a lot of Macs are bought by schools and universities, and they like to have homogenous environments and haven't upgraded yet. At my institute of higher learning, all of the Macs (even the brand-new ones) run OS9.2 and a good portion of the PCs are still running NT4.
Maybe this will convince them to upgrade.
That picture was not taken from the Hubble, nor is it possible to use the Hubble to take pictures of the moon. If the Hubble were pointed to within 5 degrees or so of the Moon or 15 degrees or so of the Sun, the (relatively) large amounts of light coming in would do permeneant damage to the CCDs or whatever it is they use to detect light.
I remember playing Solitaire before MS fixed it back in the days of Windows 98 on a P3/733 and when you won the cards jumped so fast you never saw them...the people with the slower hardware were getting the better Solitaire experience. I still wonder if there's an entire of solitaire players out there that don't even know that the cards jump when you win the game.
Hell, if instead of going through the whole "this is how you put on your seatbelt" "this is how you put on your oxygen mask" "this is what to do if the plane crashes and by some mirarcle there's enough plane left that you have to find a door" speel they just said "RTFM", I'd be really happy. And the flights would probably be about 15 minutes faster.
Oh Jesus, now I'm going to have to work this out, huh. Stupid me and my bluffs. .000058 LOC/DVD works out to .4524 LOC/in^2, at least according to dc...
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7800 DVDs at
I think you're a wee bit off.
This is equivalent to storing the contents of 7,800 DVDs in one square inch of material.
WTF is that? I mean come on...7,800 DVDs? How much is that? I mean howabout some actually useful, quantitative stats, that everyone is familiar with.
If someone will give me the conversion factor between Libraries of Congress and DVD's, then I'll volunteer to work out how much this baby will really hold.
Mail 'em, hell! Fax it too 'em.
Maybe three times, just to make sure.
ALS is commonly known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease", not "Stephen Hawking's Ailment".
/.. You know, "News for Nerds." Don't forget the strong international contengent. Everyone, raise your hand if you've heard of Lou Gehrig. Now, everyone raise your hand if you've herd of Stephen Hawking.
Dude. This is
Thank you.
mib.gov? The Men in Black are completely unaffiliated with the government, dude. It should be mib.org. Or, considering that they make money from selling velcro or whatever, it might should even be mib.com. Definitely not mib.gov, though.
You're welcome.
The problem is not so much that their taking someone's GPL'd program and redistributing it under a new name, but that they are removing the original author's (Albert L Faber) copyright notices. The author's copyright of the program must be maintained in order for the GPL to be effective, otherwise people (like these) could completely jack the code and release it under any liscense they want.
But we should consider ourselves lucky that they're releasing it under the GPL and the source code is still available at the bottom of this page.
What are you talking about? Boeing already produces an entire line of gravity defying products...
Yeah, and if they were the recodring/movie industry, they'd be supporting the Digital Millenium Antigravity Act which would make it a crime to possess, make or even talk about one of these antigravity buggers, instead of embracing the new technology.
I'd have to say that the greatest book on programming is The Tao of Programming by Geoffery James. Sure, it was written in the mid 80's, but being a language agnostic book, it's still surprisingly relevant.
I learned everything I know about programming and even computers in general from that book. It even goes into management and stuff.
You can find it here, assuming you're not on an anti-software patent kick.
In ten years, you can get a 120 Terabyte drive. Only one problem: What the hell would you put on it to fill it up?
MS Windows XP 8. Duh.
Someone should tip off the drilling companies: rather than pay skilled people to operate fancy drilling rigs, just drop the rigs and/or people out of an airplane.
Yeah, we like to call those airplanes B-52's.
But if you want more choices than that:0 01\Services\ W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpServer]= dword:00000001
...or you can just click in that little box and type in the address of the time server you want to use. Not nearly as much fun, I know, but it's how I set my XP box to synchronize with 10.189.12.1.
This article inspired me to do some dumpster-diving in the Registry... Import this key/value:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet
"InputProvider"
-David
Oh please, when was the last time you actually bought a microsoft product?
Oh, come on, that bandwidth wasn't free!
I think some slashdotter found their "convenient, accessible self-destruct device". Or maybe we all did.
Ahhh, you mean they were supposed to be a Beowolf cluster of people!
Yeah, that's because we spent so much time beta testing the 2.4 kernels that we're taking a short break.
The fairer species? Dude, you need to get out more, women are really a lot like you, and are even of the same species, too.
No, because chess is not a game of perfect information. You know the every detail of the game at a given moment, but you do not know in advance what your opponent will do. That's why you cannot "solve" a game of chess. There's always that unknown variable, and there's simply too many possible moves to take them all into account.
Windows was never an operating system, and certainly wasn't 10 years ago. 10 years ago would have been somewhere in the realm of Windows 3.1 (I think), which was nothing more than a fancy DOS shell. Think of it as X for your *nix box. It was not an OS by any stretch of the imagination. If anything, with the elimination of the DOS underlyings, Windows XP is more of an OS than Windows has ever been.
And you need internet connectivity for that why?
Er, uh, is it just me or does it look like she's wearing her underwear outside of her pants?
Jesus christ, talk about a surprise, senaking coffee into a drunk's beer mug! Just imagine sitting back, taking a sip of your nice, chilled beer and then JESUS CHRIST WTF is this?
-David