OT, but had to nit-pick - milquetoast is not "milk toast"
milquetoast - n. One who has a meek, timid, unassertive nature.
Word History: An indication of the effect on the English language of popular culture is the adoption of names from the comic strips as English words. Casper Milquetoast, created by Harold Webster in 1924, was a timid and retiring man named for a timid food. The first instance of milquetoast as a common noun is found in the mid-1930s. Milquetoast thus joins the ranks of other such words, including sad sack, from a blundering army private invented by George Baker in 1942, and Wimpy, from J. Wellington Wimpy in the Popeye comic strip, which became a trade name for a hamburger. If we look to a related form of popular culture, the animated cartoon, we must of course acknowledge Mickey Mouse, which has become a slang term for something that is easy, insignificant, small-time, worthless, or petty.
Oh, in case they change it, basically they have a list of news stories, and one of them links simply to a page advertising (not surprisingly) X-10. The link isn't marked as an ad -- its simply one of the headlines in the news list
so, either they did already change it, it was a mistake, or it was a figment of his imagination
Yeah, you're right. The download page comes up but when you click the 'continue' at the bottom of the page it redirects you to the initial download page that lists sparc only. You can still order it on CD for now ($45 instead of the regular $75).
Re:Sol/x86 disappearing is not good
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>Sun has removed the download links to Solaris 8
Although they removed the links to the download page, it appears that you can still download x86 solaris 8 from sun by just changing the 'sparc' to 'intel' on the download link
Good thing too, I had decided to cobble a machine together to install solaris over the holiday break and had downloaded the HCL to make sure I was using stuff that was supported. I have the machine assembled, but I hadn't downloaded the CD images yet. Guess I'll be doing that tonight.
I'm trying to remember the specifics of the huge dam failure that happened many years ago. I was surprised to see it on the top ten human-made disasters of all time show on TLC a couple of months ago. (TLC's search on their site sucks) I had never heard of it (as most of the western world, it seems).
China's longstanding restrictions on public access to information, debate and decision-making about large dam-construction projects have had fatal consequences in the past. An example was the catastrophic collapse in August 1975 of two large water-conservancy projects in Henan Province, the Banqiao dam and the Shimantan dam. Hitherto almost entirely unreported beyond the confines of China's top party leadership and elite hydrological circles, this event represented by far the largest known dam disaster in human history. In the resulting floods, famine and health epidemics, fatalities amounted to anywhere between 86,000 (the government's internally-released figure) and 230,000 (an estimate produced by eight senior Chinese critics of the Three Gorges project).
Check out the history channel. I saw a preview for shows they are going to air about the history of christmas which seemed to make reference to the 'integration' of christian celebration with non-christian festivals, rituals and feasts.
Tune into The History Channel on Tuesday, December 25 at 9pm ET/PT for the world premiere of In Search of Christmas and explore the historical truth behind the birth of Christ.
You know, I was thinking the same thing after I posted my comment. This thing's novelty as a recreational vehicle seems negligible, but assistance for those with some difficulty getting around might be more useful.
I agree for the most part. The promotion video I saw of a guy in a law office using it to move around and hand out papers gave me the same reaction. I mean, c'mon... god would it kill you to actually walk?
Same with people out for a 'stroll' in the park. That just seems wrong. Get some exercise along with your fresh air and scenery, ferchrissakes. Last thing Americans need is eliminate the last few sources of physical activity that people still actually do.
But, the one thing I saw that was interesting to me, was the applications like postal, delivery and warehouse workers.
I generally think of a 'gadget' as something smaller than a 'bread box' (ie a phone, watch, mp3 player, computer periph, camera, things like that). Something that you buy at circuit city, best buy or radio shack, can carry out in a plastic bag and is either hand-portable or desktop/entertainment center stuff.
Something large enough to ride on would probably be more of a 'toy'.
I'm sure others will disagree with my distinctions, but this is what comes to mind.
I have att in Chicago here, and I had been judging my speed based on what I considered a local fast debian mirror (~500 kpbs). Someone recommended bandwidthplace to get a better measurement. I've tried this at different times of the day, and the best I ever get is 1.2Mbps
There are a couple other sites I've found that do a test like this, and they give similar results.
I have att in Chicago here, and I had been judging my speed based on what I considered a local fast debian mirror. Someone recommended bandwidthplace to get a better measurement. I've tried this at different times of the day, and the best I ever get is 1.2Mbps
There are a couple other sites I've found that do a test like this, and they give similar results.
heh, I know what you mean (having a conversation via comments on a long-dead thread):-)
Karma cap is fixed at 50 points. Once you reach 50, and further +mods have no effect, but -mods will reduce your karma. Used to be that karma would just keep going up and up as long as you kept getting comments modded up. Sig 11 allegedly started the whole "karma whoring" debate when we started a little 'study' to see if he could determine what kinds of posts moderators were prone to "reward".
A bunch of ppl apparently picked up on this and went about putting sig's findings into practice (posting with lots of links, getting in early on a new story, posting followups under highly modded comments, etc) and there was a lot of screaming about people 'karma whoring' by posting 'karma bait' that was seemingly intended just to get moderation attention.
Seems that some people were interested in playing a sort of game to see how much karma they could accumulate. Taco changed the system to max out at 50 points. This makes sense to me because once you get +20 or so you get the +1 bonus and anything past that is really meaningless (except to those who measure their self-worth in moderation karma, apparently).
Anyway, sorry for the long rambling post. Pretty infrequent that anyone asks me about this anymore...;-)
Yes, I know about critical update notification. What I didn't know is that it is able to download files on its own and then prompt you to install later. My experience with critical update (win 98) was that it pops up and asks if you want to do the update or be reminded later. If I said 'yes', it would *then* start downloading the update and prompt you to start installing once the dl was finished.
I'm glad to hear there is a way to modify the behavior of the feature, it still is a little creepy that Microsoft can push files to a PC without the user explicitly requesting that.
(or, is the default to just prompt you the first time, giving you an option to just let windows automatically download updates when your connection is idle?)
Notification I can live with. I don't have ME, I use windows at work and they went from 95 to NT to now 2000 - I'm only aware of critical update notification. This sounds like it goes beyond that and actually downloads files without you asking and then prompts you to run it.
Microsoft explained that a new feature of Windows XP can automatically download the free fix, which takes several minutes, and prompt consumers to install it.
I must be living under a rock because this is the first I've heard of this. XP just starts downloading files without any action from the user? Does anyone beside me feel uncomfortable about that?
I keep thinking I should drop the link to that page (happened over a year and a half ago) then someone sends me an email or posts a comment about it, so I decide to leave it for a while.
I thought palm was spun off from 3com long ago. And since when is 'corn hole' a verb?;-)
Raises an interesting question, tho... Would 3com be exempt from liability because of the spin-off, or would they still be on the hot-seat because of when the infringement took place?
>they must think they,re customers are as stupid as they want them to be
ding ding ding... that's the correct answer! Johnny, tell him what he's won.
That's the key, isn't it? MS has spent $$$ to make the association PC == Windows with the common-denominator PC buyers. Notice how Steve the Dell kid never has to utter the name 'Microsoft'? If I was Microsoft, I'd want to protect that status using any means.
Slashdot Mirror
>nothing but "milk toast" to offer
OT, but had to nit-pick - milquetoast is not "milk toast"
milquetoast - n. One who has a meek, timid, unassertive nature.
Word History: An indication of the effect on the English language of popular culture is the adoption of names from the comic strips as English words. Casper Milquetoast, created by Harold Webster in 1924, was a timid and retiring man named for a timid food. The first instance of milquetoast as a common noun is found in the mid-1930s. Milquetoast thus joins the ranks of other such words, including sad sack, from a blundering army private invented by George Baker in 1942, and Wimpy, from J. Wellington Wimpy in the Popeye comic strip, which became a trade name for a hamburger. If we look to a related form of popular culture, the animated cartoon, we must of course acknowledge Mickey Mouse, which has become a slang term for something that is easy, insignificant, small-time, worthless, or petty.
So, what does that have to do with X10, then?
No, Taco was pretty specific:
Oh, in case they change it, basically they have a list of news stories, and one of them links simply to a page advertising (not surprisingly) X-10. The link isn't marked as an ad -- its simply one of the headlines in the news list
so, either they did already change it, it was a mistake, or it was a figment of his imagination
Yeah, you're right. The download page comes up but when you click the 'continue' at the bottom of the page it redirects you to the initial download page that lists sparc only. You can still order it on CD for now ($45 instead of the regular $75).
>Sun has removed the download links to Solaris 8
Although they removed the links to the download page, it appears that you can still download x86 solaris 8 from sun by just changing the 'sparc' to 'intel' on the download link
Good thing too, I had decided to cobble a machine together to install solaris over the holiday break and had downloaded the HCL to make sure I was using stuff that was supported. I have the machine assembled, but I hadn't downloaded the CD images yet. Guess I'll be doing that tonight.
you're obviously forgetting Shatner ;-)
I'm trying to remember the specifics of the huge dam failure that happened many years ago. I was surprised to see it on the top ten human-made disasters of all time show on TLC a couple of months ago. (TLC's search on their site sucks) I had never heard of it (as most of the western world, it seems).
Ah, turned up this page on human rights watch with google. An
excerpt:
China's longstanding restrictions on public access to information, debate and decision-making about large dam-construction projects have had fatal consequences in the past. An example was the catastrophic collapse in August 1975 of two large water-conservancy projects in Henan Province, the Banqiao dam and the Shimantan dam. Hitherto almost entirely unreported beyond the confines of China's top party leadership and elite hydrological circles, this event represented by far the largest known dam disaster in human history. In the resulting floods, famine and health epidemics, fatalities amounted to anywhere between 86,000 (the government's internally-released figure) and 230,000 (an estimate produced by eight senior Chinese critics of the Three Gorges project).
Check out the history channel. I saw a preview for shows they are going to air about the history of christmas which seemed to make reference to the 'integration' of christian celebration with non-christian festivals, rituals and feasts.
h ristmas/index.html
a nukkah/index.html
w anzaa/index.html
Tune into The History Channel on Tuesday, December 25 at 9pm ET/PT for the world premiere of In Search of Christmas and explore the historical truth behind the birth of Christ.
also...
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/holidays/c
as well as...
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/holidays/h
and...
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/holidays/k
Heh, my 5 yr and 8yr just now both fell asleep minutes ago. We also visited the noradsanta.com site to convince them to turn in. Worked like a charm
You know, I was thinking the same thing after I posted my comment. This thing's novelty as a recreational vehicle seems negligible, but assistance for those with some difficulty getting around might be more useful.
I agree for the most part. The promotion video I saw of a guy in a law office using it to move around and hand out papers gave me the same reaction. I mean, c'mon... god would it kill you to actually walk?
Same with people out for a 'stroll' in the park. That just seems wrong. Get some exercise along with your fresh air and scenery, ferchrissakes. Last thing Americans need is eliminate the last few sources of physical activity that people still actually do.
But, the one thing I saw that was interesting to me, was the applications like postal, delivery and warehouse workers.
I generally think of a 'gadget' as something smaller than a 'bread box' (ie a phone, watch, mp3 player, computer periph, camera, things like that). Something that you buy at circuit city, best buy or radio shack, can carry out in a plastic bag and is either hand-portable or desktop/entertainment center stuff.
Something large enough to ride on would probably be more of a 'toy'.
I'm sure others will disagree with my distinctions, but this is what comes to mind.
I have att in Chicago here, and I had been judging my speed based on what I considered a local fast debian mirror (~500 kpbs). Someone recommended bandwidthplace to get a better measurement. I've tried this at different times of the day, and the best I ever get is 1.2Mbps
There are a couple other sites I've found that do a test like this, and they give similar results.
here's a site that links to a whole bunch:
http://home.cfl.rr.com/eaa/Bandwidth.htm
I have att in Chicago here, and I had been judging my speed based on what I considered a local fast debian mirror. Someone recommended bandwidthplace to get a better measurement. I've tried this at different times of the day, and the best I ever get is 1.2Mbps
There are a couple other sites I've found that do a test like this, and they give similar results.
here's a site that links to a whole bunch:
http://home.cfl.rr.com/eaa/Bandwidth.htm
heh, I know what you mean (having a conversation via comments on a long-dead thread) :-)
;-)
Karma cap is fixed at 50 points. Once you reach 50, and further +mods have no effect, but -mods will reduce your karma. Used to be that karma would just keep going up and up as long as you kept getting comments modded up. Sig 11 allegedly started the whole "karma whoring" debate when we started a little 'study' to see if he could determine what kinds of posts moderators were prone to "reward".
A bunch of ppl apparently picked up on this and went about putting sig's findings into practice (posting with lots of links, getting in early on a new story, posting followups under highly modded comments, etc) and there was a lot of screaming about people 'karma whoring' by posting 'karma bait' that was seemingly intended just to get moderation attention.
Seems that some people were interested in playing a sort of game to see how much karma they could accumulate. Taco changed the system to max out at 50 points. This makes sense to me because once you get +20 or so you get the +1 bonus and anything past that is really meaningless (except to those who measure their self-worth in moderation karma, apparently).
Anyway, sorry for the long rambling post. Pretty infrequent that anyone asks me about this anymore...
Yes, I know about critical update notification. What I didn't know is that it is able to download files on its own and then prompt you to install later. My experience with critical update (win 98) was that it pops up and asks if you want to do the update or be reminded later. If I said 'yes', it would *then* start downloading the update and prompt you to start installing once the dl was finished.
But if you got the machine with XP pre-installed?
I'm glad to hear there is a way to modify the behavior of the feature, it still is a little creepy that Microsoft can push files to a PC without the user explicitly requesting that.
(or, is the default to just prompt you the first time, giving you an option to just let windows automatically download updates when your connection is idle?)
Notification I can live with. I don't have ME, I use windows at work and they went from 95 to NT to now 2000 - I'm only aware of critical update notification. This sounds like it goes beyond that and actually downloads files without you asking and then prompts you to run it.
Microsoft explained that a new feature of Windows XP can automatically download the free fix, which takes several minutes, and prompt consumers to install it.
I must be living under a rock because this is the first I've heard of this. XP just starts downloading files without any action from the user? Does anyone beside me feel uncomfortable about that?
thanks.
I keep thinking I should drop the link to that page (happened over a year and a half ago) then someone sends me an email or posts a comment about it, so I decide to leave it for a while.
PlanetChristmas
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
Nevermind, the answer is in the article (hangs head in corner).
>While the Judge will corn hole 3Com
;-)
I thought palm was spun off from 3com long ago. And since when is 'corn hole' a verb?
Raises an interesting question, tho... Would 3com be exempt from liability because of the spin-off, or would they still be on the hot-seat because of when the infringement took place?
>(slashcode strips sarcasm markup code)
<sarcasm>man, I hate when that happens</sarcasm>
:-)
>they must think they,re customers are as stupid as they want them to be
ding ding ding... that's the correct answer! Johnny, tell him what he's won.
That's the key, isn't it? MS has spent $$$ to make the association PC == Windows with the common-denominator PC buyers. Notice how Steve the Dell kid never has to utter the name 'Microsoft'? If I was Microsoft, I'd want to protect that status using any means.
>IP law in the US depends upon one thing, the dollar. If you have more of them, you win, whatever the merits of the case.
"You've heard of the golen rule? Whoever has the gold makes the rules!"