Actually its not inaccurate at all, just very ambiguous. 4 ?s simply means there is some date before 1900 at which time there would be 75 species purged between that date and 1900.
Of course you are right in implying that the parent post has little if any merit as a valid relation.
Since we are interested in identifying all Earth's species, would it take longer to "discover" them all scientifically or perhaps to simply allow mankind with his pollution and environmental manipulation to continue erradicating species until we know all those remaining?
Maybe someone would care to help me understand. Do these business owners not expect their companies to fail or at least run into numerous legal obstacles? They may argue some principle that "information WANTS to be free" or something, but in the end what they are doing, I believe, is couterproductive. Music is not software, you can't give it away... especially when it technically belongs to someone else.
There are some merits to these p2p networks though. For instance I could have never collected some 150 Simpsons episodes without Gnutella and Scour. And of course as they come out on DVD I will buy them, good God its the SIMPSONS how could I not. I also doubt very seriously I could have found a lot of live recordings of Woodie Guthrie or Nirvana.
I suspect Kazaa, Morpheus, etc. will all end up as Gnutella client apps. Looks like Morpheus "Preview Edition" already has.
I'm sure a lot of people are upset about this. They may not have their cable up and running for a bit, but I would urge them to consider how much better it can be with a little restructuring. If you had a good experience with @Home then fine, but a lot of us didn't and are glad to be using more local (if you can call ATT local) providers. These more local carriers are likely more efficient and will offer more reliable service. At the end of last year when ATT split from @Home my connection was down for a few days. Believe me it was hell. But ATT got it back up in half the predicted time of a week and I have had ZERO problems since. They even gave every customer some online gift certificates (real.com and ebags.com). I won't use them but it's a nice gesture, especially after the comletely abismal customer service (or lack of) @Home offered.
I'm a little frightened for young kids today. I know too many parents who will buy a beeping thing with buttons before they throw a ball back and forth with their child or at least supply Legos. Even "educational" games and television programming will drain you if its ALL you do. I'm almost 22; thank god I grew up before most of all these beeping gadgets were on the market.
Don't get me wrong the marvels of distributed computing are endless, but why don't we make ourselves more efficient on a smaller scale first. Besides there are some questions to work out.
"Consider Mary's movie, being uploaded in fragments from perhaps 200 hosts. Each host may be a PC connected to the Internet by an antiquated 56k modem--far too slow to show a high-quality video--but combined they could deliver 10 megabits a second, better than a cable modem."
Ok, thats nice, how do they propose Mary receive 10Mbps? Get 12 DSL lines? What about the people on dial-up? While people gain access to the internet around the world, those of us with the uber-connections will just leech on them? Now, they talk about the "digital divide" but that is just plain vicious. I'd rather be stickin it to The Man then Uncle Sven in Stockholm. So then what, everyone gets a fast connection -> backbone upgrade -> ATT, MCI, Earthlink, Sprint, etc. spend the money that Amgen would save.
Also: How would individuals choose who can use their computers resources given their ethical or moral convictions. While I would surely donate my CPU and disks to cancer research or finding larger prime numbers, I don't want the DoD using it to think up new ways to kill people.
-goto a geek school, I happen to be in Dallas, so we have a nice little TX Instruments incubation center
-try to discern in the class of 400 students the 7 females
-realize that lifestyle has more of an affect on one's ability to interact socially than one's sex
-sidenote: for better ratios see electives in Arts & Humanities, but realize that this is a whole other breed you are dealing with. they are seasoned in the art of "verbal skills" and a desirable outcome is far less likely
-speak in garbled tones to one of said females
-mention online gaming and computer related hobbies in passing
-if conditions warrant, become EQ buddies
-establish RL friendship as well
-hint at and dance around a romantic interest for several months
-finally, before she just gets sick of you, get the gonads to do something about it
-live happily ever after
My gf (yes a 3D RL gf) and I play EQ a lot. What makes us so special? "Because Marge and I have one thing that can never be broken: a strong marriage built on a solid foundation of routine."
Spamming continues BECAUSE IT WORKS. Let's face it, the more emails XYZ Corp sends the more returns the usually get for their effort.
The reason it works is more or less because many people are mindless drones (thank you TV, Media, Internet) and will buy into whatever you put in front of them. Most people aren't like this, but then again most people hate spam.
Why would the same rules not apply to employers? They are simply a smaller population. Even if you argue employers are somehow more intelligent or better educated and thus less susceptible to such schemes, I find it improbable that there are NO employers will buy in.
I just sent an email through Comcast's website secifically asking whether IP MASQing was allowed to connect multiple computers. I told them I was soon to be moving into a Comcast area and stated clearly that the DSL provider issues no restriction on such activities. We'll see what they say.
This might be a little off topic, but I noticed, when ATT@Home turned into @attbi, both a speed up in service and a drop off in spam/Nimda hits. Anyone who has web logs knows that the average residential user with the pirated win2k server ("Der, I got this here copy of server and I'm gonna run it cuz I done wanna gonna be 31337") probably still has Nimda. Sigh. For about 4 days after the switch I take it these people were on the phone trying to get their machines online again. Some words of advice for you MediaOne customers: Relish those few days. Call in sick to work. Eat plenty of food the few days before so you don't even have to get up during said time.
Oh BTW here is evidence of Nimda living on. Depending on the day you see that log you may even see some CodeRed boxes out there.
granted, but it's still a pro-censrship move when in entire thread gets bitchslapped to -1. someone doesn't want everyone reading that thread, and, with the tools at hand, bitchslapping the entire thread is the best way to achieve that goal.
"just one more thing in human culture that has been taken over, lock, stock and barrel by megacorporations and their sponsorships"
Although I doubt these athletes dedicate the majority of the time and energy in their lives to a single thing (skiing for instance) without having some level of passion for the sport. One could argue, given the salaries, that engineers and computer scientists are in it for the money. Honestly, we won't make millions in Big Mac commercials, but I doubt there is a well-qualified, intelligent electrical engineer out there that does not at least have the opportunity for making a good living. Some people can easily run fast and jump high and others can understand shortest path algorithms.
Also, what about all the competitors that don't win a medal or aren't a charming posterchild? I sincerely doubt that someone finishing 5th in the 200m (summer event, but still) will be approached by Nike, Reebok, Adidas, etc.
So the 1936 Olympics "meant" something. The reason it meant something also spawned a war that killed some 50 million.
It was not part of this guy's job to donate CPU time on behalf of his campus. Granted any calls to the processor would have halted the software he installed immediately, but consider an analogy.
Your car is under warranty at a given auto dealer. As such when it has problems the mechanic there fixes it. Even if this mechanic could instantly return you car when you walk outside to go somewhere, would you want him keeping a copy of the key and using it without your permission for personal use. Even if that personal use involved bettering society (taking meals to elderly folks or providing a taxi service for kids of working parents)?
sigh, I'm sure this is "offtopic" or something so go ahead...
I'm 21 so I've seen the portable/wirelss/cellphone game industry in action more or less from the beginning. I have to say, I'm not very impressed and never have been. Maybe I just never saw it before but the portable game industry seems to be in the market of creating gadgets to pass the time instead of creating real games.
Since when is playing "Snake" on your Nokia actually fun? Would reading not be both more productive and entertaining? Do you know anyone who would sit at a desk in their home and play a game on a cell phone?
Don't get me wrong. I love games. I think the problem is more that people feel they need to "get connected" and play them "anytime, anywhere" etc...
I live in Dallas, so I never saw the ad. I would suspect that this ad was in fact NOT aimed at younger people. Young people in the US right now will buy into pretty much anything they see that looks "new and flashy" so this kind of ad is just unnecessary.  I propose that this ad was aimed at older folks (i.e. 30-somethings). Think about it, who else would be more conscious of both youth culture and the fact that they are aging quickly.
What I find VERY interesting is how the demographics at which ads are not aimed are so easily confused and quick to dismiss the ad in question as silly or stupid.
"The more people out there saying they have an unbreakable product, it gives customers a false sense of security," says David Dittrich, senior security engineer at the University of Washington. "I'd rather they boast about having a good programming team, or a good auditing process."
Admittedly, but COME ON Dave, it's just not CATCHY. Slogans are often misleading or linguistically incorrect. Here is a list of "catchy slogans" that are either also false, irrelevant, or just silly enough just to point out.
Slogan [Product/Firm]
"The real thing" [Coca-Cola] - I feel that I am pretty real, maybe it should be "A real thing"
"Be all you can be." [U.S. Army] - What the hell does this even mean?
"You'll love the way we fly" [Delta Airlines] - And if I don't?
"You're in good hands." [Allstate Insurance] - The cop said I wasn't at fault. The 3 eyewitnesses said the same. Go to hell.
"Just like you, it never quits." [Mennen] - Someone's credulity is running on high. Are you kidding? If it's hard, I give up. "Huh, TV is funner."
"Cool, Crisp, Clear. Obey your thirst." [Sprite] - Too bad I can't patent water.
"Quality is Job 1" [Ford] - HA!
"It's everywhere you want to be." [VISA] - Well, I guess I'm impressed.
"Solutions for a small planet." [IBM] - This is for the most part true. Yes, they do provide "solutions" and this is a relatively small planet.
"We try harder." [Avis Car Rental] - Harder than what? Yesterday?
"I love what you do for me." [Toyota] - Am I supposed to love what THEY do for ME or what I do for THEM?
"Just slightly ahead of our time." [Panasonic] - No, Billy you can't travel into the future I don't care what the Panasonic commercial said.
Without defending the original statement, what we are doing here is deciding where to spend time, money and energy preventing deaths. Effectively though are we deciding who is more important to save? How many Americans would give up cheap gas and larger and larger SUVs so people in the Middle East, Africa, and South America could eat decent meals, get affordable medication, and learn to read? How many Americans would essentially take a hit to their checkbook for an implementation aimed to save lives other then their own (be it the people in their town, state, ethnic group, country, intl alliance), and not because said plan didn't aim to protect them too, but because there was no threat to them in the first place. For instance, would an affluent suburb support inner-city sports or reading programs aimed to reduce crime and dropout rates. Not likely. They would most likely brush it off as "not my [city's, state's, neighborhood's] problem". I would hope that many Americans would support these things, but I have my doubts. We have no attention span (50 yrs TV, 100 yrs marketing), we don't know our own history (one thats both bloody and brutal but heroic and rich), we are short-sighted (oops, we trained those guys?).
With what seems like confusion over what a CS degree really involves I thought I'd post my degree reqs. I am currently 2 semesters from graduating.
CORE:
Calculus 1
Calculus 2
Mechanics and Heat (physics 1)
-M&H Lab
Electricity and Magnetism (physics 2)
-E&M Lab
Science Elective (I took this cool geology course)
Politics & Values in Bus & Tech
Technical Communication
Rhetoric (English)
Government (Texas)
Government (US)
American Hist 1
American Hist 2
Exploration of Humanities
Ethics
MAJOR REQS:
CS 1 (C++ 1)
CS 2 (C++ 2)
Discrete Math 1
Discrete Math 2
Linear Algebra
Computer Organization (Assembly)
Prob & Stat in CS
Algorithm Analysis & Data Structures
Software Eng
Programming Languages
Computer Architecture
-Comp Arch LAB
Operating Systems
Adv. Algorithm Analysis
Automata Theory
Elective (took Unix)
Elective (took Computer Networks)
Elective (took Artificial Int.)
FREE ELECTIVES:
1 (upper lvl): Medieval Europe (Hist.)
2 (upper lvl): Roman Britain (Hist.)
3: Psychology
4: Micro. Economics
5: US & Asia Business Relations
6: Java Programming
7: Accounting (BOORRRING hehe)
If you notice there are only 2 elected and 3 required actual programming based classes: C++ 1 and 2, Comp Org (Assembly), Unix (elective) and Java (elective). I promise you a CS degree is more about math and logic than programming. Granted, in many classes (discrete, data structs, alg analysis, etc) you wrte pseudocode, but thats all. I will probably get an MSCE (not to be confused with an MCSE hehe) or MSCS after this, THEN, if the job requires it, some sort of certification stuffs. Certifications seem MUCH easier than a degree. I have purchased several "certification" books and feel that I could take the test today if I wanted to. Frankly though, I doubt that the mojority of the places for which I may work would care whether I can pass a Cisco or MS cert test.
This is just me, if your goal is the job and not the knowledge then more power to you. Get that certification and pull a paycheck, God knows you'll live more comfortably than me for the next few years.
ideally everyone could transfer data via the internet, intranet, etc. When this is not possible aand a sneakernet is the only way to go, floppies still are very useful for transfering small amounts of information (ie. term paper, program, etc.). Until CDRW is cheap (floppy drives are a few dollars and disks are almost free) floppy will still be used. There is no need to waste CDR after CDR unless you absolutely need the storage space.
it's the Enlightened Simpsons... where the perfect episode is just nothing.
or perhaps this nothingness and (perceived) lack of wit is a merely and finally a raw reflection of our consumer society in general. a form of tough love if you will, for the people that were entertained by the Simpsons and actually GOT IT, but did nothing and never followed its "message". How many people who watch the Simpsons and GET IT really point out others' absurd problems to them (spread the wisdom) or even laugh at their own absurd problems.
LOL, @that_isp tech support was a joke. I did it too during a school-free summer. Let me just say that I am surpised their network worked at all. No one (not even people we had to call in Redwood) knew almost nothing about computers much less their own network. One time I had a "senior" tech try to tell me to tell a customer that having AIM and MSN Messenger as startup programs would stop their cable modem from syncing up.
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What so Magic Lantern and Carnivore don't get bogged down?
Actually its not inaccurate at all, just very ambiguous. 4 ?s simply means there is some date before 1900 at which time there would be 75 species purged between that date and 1900.
Of course you are right in implying that the parent post has little if any merit as a valid relation.
Since we are interested in identifying all Earth's species, would it take longer to "discover" them all scientifically or perhaps to simply allow mankind with his pollution and environmental manipulation to continue erradicating species until we know all those remaining?
Maybe someone would care to help me understand. Do these business owners not expect their companies to fail or at least run into numerous legal obstacles? They may argue some principle that "information WANTS to be free" or something, but in the end what they are doing, I believe, is couterproductive. Music is not software, you can't give it away... especially when it technically belongs to someone else.
There are some merits to these p2p networks though. For instance I could have never collected some 150 Simpsons episodes without Gnutella and Scour. And of course as they come out on DVD I will buy them, good God its the SIMPSONS how could I not. I also doubt very seriously I could have found a lot of live recordings of Woodie Guthrie or Nirvana.
I suspect Kazaa, Morpheus, etc. will all end up as Gnutella client apps. Looks like Morpheus "Preview Edition" already has.
I'm sure a lot of people are upset about this. They may not have their cable up and running for a bit, but I would urge them to consider how much better it can be with a little restructuring. If you had a good experience with @Home then fine, but a lot of us didn't and are glad to be using more local (if you can call ATT local) providers. These more local carriers are likely more efficient and will offer more reliable service. At the end of last year when ATT split from @Home my connection was down for a few days. Believe me it was hell. But ATT got it back up in half the predicted time of a week and I have had ZERO problems since. They even gave every customer some online gift certificates (real.com and ebags.com). I won't use them but it's a nice gesture, especially after the comletely abismal customer service (or lack of) @Home offered.
Just my $0.02
I'm a little frightened for young kids today. I know too many parents who will buy a beeping thing with buttons before they throw a ball back and forth with their child or at least supply Legos. Even "educational" games and television programming will drain you if its ALL you do. I'm almost 22; thank god I grew up before most of all these beeping gadgets were on the market.
Don't get me wrong the marvels of distributed computing are endless, but why don't we make ourselves more efficient on a smaller scale first. Besides there are some questions to work out.
"Consider Mary's movie, being uploaded in fragments from perhaps 200 hosts. Each host may be a PC connected to the Internet by an antiquated 56k modem--far too slow to show a high-quality video--but combined they could deliver 10 megabits a second, better than a cable modem."
Ok, thats nice, how do they propose Mary receive 10Mbps? Get 12 DSL lines? What about the people on dial-up? While people gain access to the internet around the world, those of us with the uber-connections will just leech on them? Now, they talk about the "digital divide" but that is just plain vicious. I'd rather be stickin it to The Man then Uncle Sven in Stockholm. So then what, everyone gets a fast connection -> backbone upgrade -> ATT, MCI, Earthlink, Sprint, etc. spend the money that Amgen would save.
Also: How would individuals choose who can use their computers resources given their ethical or moral convictions. While I would surely donate my CPU and disks to cancer research or finding larger prime numbers, I don't want the DoD using it to think up new ways to kill people.
keys to avoiding these perils:
-goto a geek school, I happen to be in Dallas, so we have a nice little TX Instruments incubation center
-try to discern in the class of 400 students the 7 females
-realize that lifestyle has more of an affect on one's ability to interact socially than one's sex
-sidenote: for better ratios see electives in Arts & Humanities, but realize that this is a whole other breed you are dealing with. they are seasoned in the art of "verbal skills" and a desirable outcome is far less likely
-speak in garbled tones to one of said females
-mention online gaming and computer related hobbies in passing
-if conditions warrant, become EQ buddies
-establish RL friendship as well
-hint at and dance around a romantic interest for several months
-finally, before she just gets sick of you, get the gonads to do something about it
-live happily ever after
My gf (yes a 3D RL gf) and I play EQ a lot. What makes us so special? "Because Marge and I have one thing that can never be broken: a strong marriage built on a solid foundation of routine."
Ain't no hot dogs thawing in my sink.
Spamming continues BECAUSE IT WORKS. Let's face it, the more emails XYZ Corp sends the more returns the usually get for their effort.
The reason it works is more or less because many people are mindless drones (thank you TV, Media, Internet) and will buy into whatever you put in front of them. Most people aren't like this, but then again most people hate spam.
Why would the same rules not apply to employers? They are simply a smaller population. Even if you argue employers are somehow more intelligent or better educated and thus less susceptible to such schemes, I find it improbable that there are NO employers will buy in.
I just sent an email through Comcast's website secifically asking whether IP MASQing was allowed to connect multiple computers. I told them I was soon to be moving into a Comcast area and stated clearly that the DSL provider issues no restriction on such activities. We'll see what they say.
if the guy that made this sleeps just a little sounder knowing that his work is protected now.
This might be a little off topic, but I noticed, when ATT@Home turned into @attbi, both a speed up in service and a drop off in spam/Nimda hits. Anyone who has web logs knows that the average residential user with the pirated win2k server ("Der, I got this here copy of server and I'm gonna run it cuz I done wanna gonna be 31337") probably still has Nimda. Sigh. For about 4 days after the switch I take it these people were on the phone trying to get their machines online again. Some words of advice for you MediaOne customers: Relish those few days. Call in sick to work. Eat plenty of food the few days before so you don't even have to get up during said time.
Oh BTW here is evidence of Nimda living on. Depending on the day you see that log you may even see some CodeRed boxes out there.
granted, but it's still a pro-censrship move when in entire thread gets bitchslapped to -1. someone doesn't want everyone reading that thread, and, with the tools at hand, bitchslapping the entire thread is the best way to achieve that goal.
It's not like the US plays by the rules either. 1. 2.
"just one more thing in human culture that has been taken over, lock, stock and barrel by megacorporations and their sponsorships"
Although I doubt these athletes dedicate the majority of the time and energy in their lives to a single thing (skiing for instance) without having some level of passion for the sport. One could argue, given the salaries, that engineers and computer scientists are in it for the money. Honestly, we won't make millions in Big Mac commercials, but I doubt there is a well-qualified, intelligent electrical engineer out there that does not at least have the opportunity for making a good living. Some people can easily run fast and jump high and others can understand shortest path algorithms.
Also, what about all the competitors that don't win a medal or aren't a charming posterchild? I sincerely doubt that someone finishing 5th in the 200m (summer event, but still) will be approached by Nike, Reebok, Adidas, etc.
So the 1936 Olympics "meant" something. The reason it meant something also spawned a war that killed some 50 million.
It was not part of this guy's job to donate CPU time on behalf of his campus. Granted any calls to the processor would have halted the software he installed immediately, but consider an analogy.
Your car is under warranty at a given auto dealer. As such when it has problems the mechanic there fixes it. Even if this mechanic could instantly return you car when you walk outside to go somewhere, would you want him keeping a copy of the key and using it without your permission for personal use. Even if that personal use involved bettering society (taking meals to elderly folks or providing a taxi service for kids of working parents)?
sigh, I'm sure this is "offtopic" or something so go ahead...
I'm 21 so I've seen the portable/wirelss/cellphone game industry in action more or less from the beginning. I have to say, I'm not very impressed and never have been. Maybe I just never saw it before but the portable game industry seems to be in the market of creating gadgets to pass the time instead of creating real games.
Since when is playing "Snake" on your Nokia actually fun? Would reading not be both more productive and entertaining? Do you know anyone who would sit at a desk in their home and play a game on a cell phone?
Don't get me wrong. I love games. I think the problem is more that people feel they need to "get connected" and play them "anytime, anywhere" etc...
I live in Dallas, so I never saw the ad. I would suspect that this ad was in fact NOT aimed at younger people. Young people in the US right now will buy into pretty much anything they see that looks "new and flashy" so this kind of ad is just unnecessary.  I propose that this ad was aimed at older folks (i.e. 30-somethings). Think about it, who else would be more conscious of both youth culture and the fact that they are aging quickly.
What I find VERY interesting is how the demographics at which ads are not aimed are so easily confused and quick to dismiss the ad in question as silly or stupid.
Admittedly, but COME ON Dave, it's just not CATCHY. Slogans are often misleading or linguistically incorrect. Here is a list of "catchy slogans" that are either also false, irrelevant, or just silly enough just to point out.
Slogan [Product/Firm]
"All this disruption for a campaign that killed five people?"
People die for MANYreasons.
How many kids die from drugs every day?
How many people die from poverty?
etc...
Without defending the original statement, what we are doing here is deciding where to spend time, money and energy preventing deaths. Effectively though are we deciding who is more important to save? How many Americans would give up cheap gas and larger and larger SUVs so people in the Middle East, Africa, and South America could eat decent meals, get affordable medication, and learn to read? How many Americans would essentially take a hit to their checkbook for an implementation aimed to save lives other then their own (be it the people in their town, state, ethnic group, country, intl alliance), and not because said plan didn't aim to protect them too, but because there was no threat to them in the first place. For instance, would an affluent suburb support inner-city sports or reading programs aimed to reduce crime and dropout rates. Not likely. They would most likely brush it off as "not my [city's, state's, neighborhood's] problem". I would hope that many Americans would support these things, but I have my doubts. We have no attention span (50 yrs TV, 100 yrs marketing), we don't know our own history (one thats both bloody and brutal but heroic and rich), we are short-sighted (oops, we trained those guys?).
With what seems like confusion over what a CS degree really involves I thought I'd post my degree reqs. I am currently 2 semesters from graduating.
CORE:
Calculus 1
Calculus 2
Mechanics and Heat (physics 1)
-M&H Lab
Electricity and Magnetism (physics 2)
-E&M Lab
Science Elective (I took this cool geology course)
Politics & Values in Bus & Tech
Technical Communication
Rhetoric (English)
Government (Texas)
Government (US)
American Hist 1
American Hist 2
Exploration of Humanities
Ethics
MAJOR REQS:
CS 1 (C++ 1)
CS 2 (C++ 2)
Discrete Math 1
Discrete Math 2
Linear Algebra
Computer Organization (Assembly)
Prob & Stat in CS
Algorithm Analysis & Data Structures
Software Eng
Programming Languages
Computer Architecture
-Comp Arch LAB
Operating Systems
Adv. Algorithm Analysis
Automata Theory
Elective (took Unix)
Elective (took Computer Networks)
Elective (took Artificial Int.)
FREE ELECTIVES:
1 (upper lvl): Medieval Europe (Hist.)
2 (upper lvl): Roman Britain (Hist.)
3: Psychology
4: Micro. Economics
5: US & Asia Business Relations
6: Java Programming
7: Accounting (BOORRRING hehe)
If you notice there are only 2 elected and 3 required actual programming based classes: C++ 1 and 2, Comp Org (Assembly), Unix (elective) and Java (elective). I promise you a CS degree is more about math and logic than programming. Granted, in many classes (discrete, data structs, alg analysis, etc) you wrte pseudocode, but thats all. I will probably get an MSCE (not to be confused with an MCSE hehe) or MSCS after this, THEN, if the job requires it, some sort of certification stuffs. Certifications seem MUCH easier than a degree. I have purchased several "certification" books and feel that I could take the test today if I wanted to. Frankly though, I doubt that the mojority of the places for which I may work would care whether I can pass a Cisco or MS cert test.
This is just me, if your goal is the job and not the knowledge then more power to you. Get that certification and pull a paycheck, God knows you'll live more comfortably than me for the next few years.
ideally everyone could transfer data via the internet, intranet, etc. When this is not possible aand a sneakernet is the only way to go, floppies still are very useful for transfering small amounts of information (ie. term paper, program, etc.). Until CDRW is cheap (floppy drives are a few dollars and disks are almost free) floppy will still be used. There is no need to waste CDR after CDR unless you absolutely need the storage space.
it's the Enlightened Simpsons... where the perfect episode is just nothing.
or perhaps this nothingness and (perceived) lack of wit is a merely and finally a raw reflection of our consumer society in general. a form of tough love if you will, for the people that were entertained by the Simpsons and actually GOT IT, but did nothing and never followed its "message". How many people who watch the Simpsons and GET IT really point out others' absurd problems to them (spread the wisdom) or even laugh at their own absurd problems.
LOL, @that_isp tech support was a joke. I did it too during a school-free summer. Let me just say that I am surpised their network worked at all. No one (not even people we had to call in Redwood) knew almost nothing about computers much less their own network. One time I had a "senior" tech try to tell me to tell a customer that having AIM and MSN Messenger as startup programs would stop their cable modem from syncing up.
but i dont like vague links either. that's why i like to make them visible AND redundant