I.e. Your right to freedom of expression is cool as long as you don't express yourself by shutting up other people.
Likewise, an anonymously registered and maintained TLD is useful for only a few things. Most of them wrong. I.e. you can knowingly publish libelous material as long as nobody knows it was put out by you.
Worse yet, you can register a domain, which suggests you are somebody else and then put out information damaging to that person. I.e. r_kelly.us loaded to the gills with kiddy porn.
Notice how the translations are larger than everything else combined ?
That I partially reflects the share number of languages available. It also shows how modular KDE's design is. I.e. You can strip out everything language dependent into a separate package without breaking the rest. (Yes, it compiles in English without the i18n package).
I'm not as worried about the purity of the story as I am about the quality. I.e. I try not to grumble too much over 3 separate girlfriends being amalgamated into Mary Jane for Spiderman.
I am even willing to forgive letting her survive being tossed off a very high bridge (Spidy lost a girlfriend that way in the comic)
Those things are sometimes necessary to fit a long story into 2 hours or to promote the "new" paradigm of monogamy among heroes. (Seen a recent James Bond flick?)
In Spiderman's case they managed to still pull it off. The Hulk was another matter.
One thing I do like about the Marvel Superheroes movies is that they usually stock them with actors who look the part. No 5'10" 160 lb guys playing 6'4" 240 lb Vigilantes. That's where the problems began in the Batman movies. They went far and deep, but they started there:). So Wolverine was a little thin and too tall. He was still believable. Hugh Jackman made up for the physical differences by _acting_ the part. If only more movie stars would do that:)
Funy thing with the FF. I spent 6 Years thinking the Thing was black ontil I read a flashback isue that showed his original apearance.
Just something to look out for in the movie.
Another thing. Spiderman was the best Chemis in the Marvel Universe. By giving him biological webs the movie made him average. Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic) is the best phisicist and 3rd best enginear (Behind IronMan and Dr. Doom).
Will they ignore his technological inovations and render him just a luky geak? Or worse, will they pull off a Hulk and drag his forgoten parents into it with prenatal genetic enginearing?
This is in the relms of "That's so obvius, the guy who patented it died laughing":).
I mean a wifi camera is neaded by a lot of people. Let's say you are a jurnalist and want to take pictures where it's not exactly alowed. With wifi, the pics can get out imediatly so that if someone takes your camera to destroy incriminating pics you can let them have it (while recording that "transaction" too).
Without fragile bodies we would not need to stretch our minds. In other words; men as you describe would just live in caves (for comfort, not security) and scrape by hunting with talons and eating raw meat.
Man as he exists now would destroy the race you designed because we have technology he would never have invented.
For me it's the last of the options. I belive God designed phisics and wrote the laws of the universe so that life like us would develop.
That dosn't mean he didn't specificaly direct the evolution of man such that we would become as we are.
I like to mention the apparent coincidence in the creation story (from Genisis chapter 1 in the Bible) and the evidence from the fosile record. I.e. Creaping things before birds and all beasts before man.
How did primitive man before the sience of paleantology come up with the same order of creation?
Having dealt with many Indian natives both on tech support lines and in person, I am in a position to judge. The ones with high level education (I.e. University graduates) have excellent written English and can be called on to spell check or proofread documents. Spoken English is difficult for many of them however. Below that there is a wide gap to the illiterate masses with pore English skills (Written or oral).
In case anyone wants to scream racism, My only surviving grandparent is an Indian. His parents came to Jamaica at the end of the 1800s looking for a better life.
Where I live (Jamaica) a UPS is as popular a periferal as a Printer. Ower power is onreliable inconsistent and flaky.
Why do I mention this? Because no PSU is relable here. OK. The little addapters that ship with Harmon Kardon speakers are especialy bad:)
I Have boght ATX casses in that ballpark. Are they top class ? No. But in this business, the crapy stuff retails for well above the manufacturing cost of the good stuff. With PC Power suplies (ATX and AT) There are no royalties to pay and the design sticks around for years. I.e. VERY Low cost to an eficent manufacturer (I.e. Taiwan)
400GB SATA drives are $355 each (See price watch.com).
A custom microITX Motherboard (With onboard SATA RAID and a reasonable amount of memory plus some kind of embedded OS in FLASH rom can be built for under $300.
Add a $30 custom case and 5 of these drives and these guys are making $600 a pop above retail. Not bad really.
My biggest surprise actually is that Dell doesn't sell such a box. Mr.. Dell said in more than one interview that they are in the business of retailing other peoples innovations after slapping on a recognized brand and a decent warranty.
This storage device is about as obvious a match for them as a "low end" color laser printer.
That's where other companies litteraly gatherd in the parking lot to recrute laid off workers.
In the modern dispensation "job security" means that you have strong skills in several areas alowing you to obtain fresh employment whenever you luse your curent job.
My emphasis on high salarie is to alow for a savings cushion to get you throgh the togh times betwean jobs.
BTW: What's important in deterning a high enogh salary is what's left after your living expenses and business transport costs (ride to work) are coverd. I.e. The money that can either be saved or squanderd on entertainment.
If you get a high salary from a stable company and are a competent worker then you have little to fear.
The terms of employment may say contract or permanent but in reality people get dumped from both categories when hard times come and the least needed persons (in managment's perception) get droped 1st.
In reality the 2 to 4 weeks notice required for termination of a permanent worker don't mean squat. Health insurance etc.. just cost money so make sure the pay is enogh.
"Ask Slashdot". Where Slashdot Editors who don't read Slashdot help Slashdot "readers" who don't read Slashdot to ask questions that could be answerd by using Slashdot's search function.:)
Well it worked great for me, then I took it off.:)
Of course I'm exaggerating the "works great" part. My GPRS enabled celphone stopped being a modem and became a phone. That means it could no longer work for dialup networking.
This problem means little or nothing to anyone who doesn't own a Sony Eriksson T220. To me it's the difference between internet access or staying offline.
Florida has very little to worry about. Hurricanes do NOT kill people. The supply strong winds and lots of rain but people actually die from pore planning, stupid choices, ineffective government and most importantly large scale poverty.
I.e. Florida lost less than 40 people in Hurricanes this year. They were directly hammered by 3 big ones (Category 3 to 5). A single category 4 passed 30 miles south of Jamaica and killed 16 people (.jm is small, 2.7 million). Meanwhile, Haiti was grazed by a tropical storm (not strong enough to be called a hurricane) and around 2000 people have died with another 100000 or so left homeless and starving (I.e. Likely to die if massive amounts of help isn't forthcoming).
PS: I am writing from Jamaica. In case that matters.
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Nothing as Depresing as finding out that not only is my salary lower than the average fore any kind of computer geak job.
It's not even in the same ballpark.
I'm gona have to move.
Your right about the lawsuites so I'll just respond to your .sig
Bload on your hands could also make you a paramedic.
The Namecheap aproch is a reasonable compromise.
Every right has an attached responsibility.
I.e. Your right to freedom of expression is cool as long as you don't express yourself by shutting up other people.
Likewise, an anonymously registered and maintained TLD is useful for only a few things. Most of them wrong. I.e. you can knowingly publish libelous material as long as nobody knows it was put out by you.
Worse yet, you can register a domain, which suggests you are somebody else and then put out information damaging to that person. I.e. r_kelly.us loaded to the gills with kiddy porn.
Step one. Obtain book in plain text format. Method depends on source format.
Step two. Use voice sinthesizer software to turn text into aoudio stream.
Step three. Capture audio stream.
Step four. Convert Audio stream to MP3.
Step five. Profit :)
Faulty reasoning.
Most ills are available in animal form. Including suicide, robbery and assault.
Windows XP Service Pack 2 has only 1 problem (for me) beyond those of regular XP.
My celphone can no longer be used as a cerial divice, aka; Dialup modem.
Yes, The same hardware works on Linux (Dell Inspiron 8200, Sony Erricson T220 on a USB cable) and removing the pack got it working in Windows again.
Notice how the translations are larger than everything else combined ?
That I partially reflects the share number of languages available. It also shows how modular KDE's design is. I.e. You can strip out everything language dependent into a separate package without breaking the rest. (Yes, it compiles in English without the i18n package).
I'm not as worried about the purity of the story as I am about the quality. I.e. I try not to grumble too much over 3 separate girlfriends being amalgamated into Mary Jane for Spiderman.
:). So Wolverine was a little thin and too tall. He was still believable. Hugh Jackman made up for the physical differences by _acting_ the part. If only more movie stars would do that :)
I am even willing to forgive letting her survive being tossed off a very high bridge (Spidy lost a girlfriend that way in the comic)
Those things are sometimes necessary to fit a long story into 2 hours or to promote the "new" paradigm of monogamy among heroes. (Seen a recent James Bond flick?)
In Spiderman's case they managed to still pull it off. The Hulk was another matter.
One thing I do like about the Marvel Superheroes movies is that they usually stock them with actors who look the part. No 5'10" 160 lb guys playing 6'4" 240 lb Vigilantes. That's where the problems began in the Batman movies. They went far and deep, but they started there
Funy thing with the FF. I spent 6 Years thinking the Thing was black ontil I read a flashback isue that showed his original apearance.
Just something to look out for in the movie.
Another thing. Spiderman was the best Chemis in the Marvel Universe. By giving him biological webs the movie made him average. Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic) is the best phisicist and 3rd best enginear (Behind IronMan and Dr. Doom).
Will they ignore his technological inovations and render him just a luky geak? Or worse, will they pull off a Hulk and drag his forgoten parents into it with prenatal genetic enginearing?
This is in the relms of "That's so obvius, the guy who patented it died laughing" :).
I mean a wifi camera is neaded by a lot of people. Let's say you are a jurnalist and want to take pictures where it's not exactly alowed. With wifi, the pics can get out imediatly so that if someone takes your camera to destroy incriminating pics you can let them have it (while recording that "transaction" too).
"Necesity is the mother of invention".
Without fragile bodies we would not need to stretch our minds. In other words; men as you describe would just live in caves (for comfort, not security) and scrape by hunting with talons and eating raw meat.
Man as he exists now would destroy the race you designed because we have technology he would never have invented.
For me it's the last of the options. I belive God designed phisics and wrote the laws of the universe so that life like us would develop.
That dosn't mean he didn't specificaly direct the evolution of man such that we would become as we are.
I like to mention the apparent coincidence in the creation story (from Genisis chapter 1 in the Bible) and the evidence from the fosile record. I.e. Creaping things before birds and all beasts before man.
How did primitive man before the sience of paleantology come up with the same order of creation?
Mouse over is useless for blind people. It's a neat trick for sighted beta testers however.
Actualy many of the robuts in "I-Robot" simply didn't obay the laws at all. They did so acting as part of a super robut trying to live by "law 0".
Homage to the author of the 3 laws?
Is Asimo short for Isaac Asimov? You see robots in civilian settings MUST obey the 3 laws to be useful
Having dealt with many Indian natives both on tech support lines and in person, I am in a position to judge. The ones with high level education (I.e. University graduates) have excellent written English and can be called on to spell check or proofread documents. Spoken English is difficult for many of them however. Below that there is a wide gap to the illiterate masses with pore English skills (Written or oral).
In case anyone wants to scream racism, My only surviving grandparent is an Indian. His parents came to Jamaica at the end of the 1800s looking for a better life.
Q: What is the worlds largest English Speaking Democracy?
A: If you said "USA", you just removed a Billion people from the planet. That's right. English is Indea's primary language.
So much for that "More accurate than OCR" stuff.
Relieble power sopply?
:)
Where I live (Jamaica) a UPS is as popular a periferal as a Printer. Ower power is onreliable inconsistent and flaky.
Why do I mention this? Because no PSU is relable here. OK. The little addapters that ship with Harmon Kardon speakers are especialy bad
I Have boght ATX casses in that ballpark. Are they top class ? No. But in this business, the crapy stuff retails for well above the manufacturing cost of the good stuff. With PC Power suplies (ATX and AT) There are no royalties to pay and the design sticks around for years. I.e. VERY Low cost to an eficent manufacturer (I.e. Taiwan)
400GB SATA drives are $355 each (See price watch.com).
A custom microITX Motherboard (With onboard SATA RAID and a reasonable amount of memory plus some kind of embedded OS in FLASH rom can be built for under $300.
Add a $30 custom case and 5 of these drives and these guys are making $600 a pop above retail. Not bad really.
My biggest surprise actually is that Dell doesn't sell such a box. Mr.. Dell said in more than one interview that they are in the business of retailing other peoples innovations after slapping on a recognized brand and a decent warranty.
This storage device is about as obvious a match for them as a "low end" color laser printer.
Funny you mention IBM Boca Raton.
That's where other companies litteraly gatherd in the parking lot to recrute laid off workers.
In the modern dispensation "job security" means that you have strong skills in several areas alowing you to obtain fresh employment whenever you luse your curent job.
My emphasis on high salarie is to alow for a savings cushion to get you throgh the togh times betwean jobs.
BTW: What's important in deterning a high enogh salary is what's left after your living expenses and business transport costs (ride to work) are coverd. I.e. The money that can either be saved or squanderd on entertainment.
If you get a high salary from a stable company and are a competent worker then you have little to fear.
The terms of employment may say contract or permanent but in reality people get dumped from both categories when hard times come and the least needed persons (in managment's perception) get droped 1st.
In reality the 2 to 4 weeks notice required for termination of a permanent worker don't mean squat. Health insurance etc.. just cost money so make sure the pay is enogh.
"Ask Slashdot". Where Slashdot Editors who don't read Slashdot help Slashdot "readers" who don't read Slashdot to ask questions that could be answerd by using Slashdot's search function. :)
Well it worked great for me, then I took it off. :)
Of course I'm exaggerating the "works great" part. My GPRS enabled celphone stopped being a modem and became a phone. That means it could no longer work for dialup networking.
This problem means little or nothing to anyone who doesn't own a Sony Eriksson T220. To me it's the difference between internet access or staying offline.
Florida has very little to worry about.
Hurricanes do NOT kill people. The supply strong winds and lots of rain but people actually die from pore planning, stupid choices, ineffective government and most importantly large scale poverty.
I.e. Florida lost less than 40 people in Hurricanes this year. They were directly hammered by 3 big ones (Category 3 to 5). A single category 4 passed 30 miles south of Jamaica and killed 16 people (.jm is small, 2.7 million). Meanwhile, Haiti was grazed by a tropical storm (not strong enough to be called a hurricane) and around 2000 people have died with another 100000 or so left homeless and starving (I.e. Likely to die if massive amounts of help isn't forthcoming).
PS: I am writing from Jamaica. In case that matters.