When I worked at Packard Bell tech support, my friend got a call from a woman who was distraught that her AUTOEXEC.BAT file was exactly 666 kilobytes. My friend had her edit the file and add
REM SATAN I CAST THEE OUT
to the end of the file. Did a DIR and checked the filesize -- 682k (or something like that.) Problem solved. The woman said "thank you" and hung up.
I know. In reality there are only about 200 commonly-used Chinese surnames. Even 200(60,000 * 60,000) = 720 billion.
For the 2-character first names, we'll let the Chinese keep their own names and give the nonsense names like "stinky fjord" or "rabbit bowl" to people who don't know the difference.
Now which one of those two individuals is the last sentence refering to?
Just for *more* fun, here is the same passage from the Vulgate Bible. (I know it's not the original, but I understand the King James is mainly translated from the Vulgate.) Maybe this will help clarify whom is being referred to:
16. et faciet omnes pusillos et magnos et divites et pauperes et liberos et servos habere caracter in dextera manu aut in frontibus suis
17. et ne quis possit emere aut vendere nisi qui habet caracter nomen bestiae aut numerum nominis eius
18. hic sapientia est qui habet intellectum conputet numerum bestiae numerus enim hominis est et numerus eius est sescenti sexaginta sex
It seems to me that "sescenti sexaginta sex" refers to the beast here.
No need for four of them. A good Chinese dictionary (I mean the biiig ones) has 60,000 characters.
60,000^3 = 216 Trillion combinations.
Chinese people typically have 3-character names. A one-character family name and a two-character first name.
So all we really need to do is give everyone on Earth a unique Chinese name! And since the characters might be hard to remember, you can tattoo it on their foreheads so the won't forget it.
I know Southern Baptists especially will just love this idea!
16: And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18: Here is wisdom, Let him that have understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (666)
Yes, but then the apartment complex essentially takes on the duties/responsibilities of an ISP.
My company tried to set this sort of thing up in an apartment building in Japan. It turns out that its cheaper and more efficient just to pay an established ISP for service.
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A standardized set of video codecs in a single stable player.
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The tune is copyrighted.
The copyrighted *lyrics* are:
Good morning to you,
Good morning to you,
Good morning dear children.
Good morning to you.
Now the police are on their way.:)
Buck Roger's gorgeous sidekick's name was Erin Gray.
Don't ask me why I remember that. As an 8-year-old I had a crush on both her and Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman).
I have to make a point about "the open source community [having] a hard time getting into the main stream media".
I submitted a story about 3 weeks ago about Linux and a Linux project being literally headline news (front page, top story) in the Nikkei Keizai Shinbun (Financial Times of Japan, the most widely read business newspaper). The story was handled very cluelessly by Slashdot, and probably passed under everyones radar as a result.
I think the situation is becoming more of a case of the community being clueless to the outside world, not t'other way 'round.
Linux is the #1 developed-on OS here. There are about 15 Linux magazines ib print, and most big bookstores have a Linux section.
Not only that, many hardware components in stores have "works with linux" or "works with Turbolinux" stickers on them (if they're compliant, of course, which most are).
Linux is not a "revolution" here. It's taken very seriously. When I take out my Linux laptop at work, the American engineers chuckle. The Japanese engineers ask me what distribution I run and wether I have the latest version of Nautilus.
...was me. The Nikkei article can be found here (if you can read Japanese). It says, in a nutshell, that the four companies will be using Linux as a base for "core banking functions" such as financial calculations. The 4 companies have committed 500 engineers to the project, and they plan for it to be ready for customers by 2003. One thing stated in the print version of the article is that they intend to speed up Linux-based transaction processing.
How do you say Americans are a bunch of brainwashed dum-dums who don't know the first thing about China or its government?
I can't believe how quickly the "eternally vigilant" readers of Slashdot have fallen for all the anti-china warmongering garbage coming out of the US state department and Hollywood.
Another way would be to say that we, the governed, allow the upper classes and government officials to live in large buildings, boss us around, and even humiliate and kill us on occasion so long as they perform some useful purpose: like maintaining order, maintaining public infrastructure, and defending us against possible attack. When and if they get too big for their britches, we the laborers get very upset and kill the lot of them in a big bloody revolution. Immediately following that, the next batch of bigwigs tend to behave themselves for about 3 or 4 generations.
A third way of looking at things is to say that the relationship is more of a two-way street. Citizens have a responsibility to be good citizens, and government officials have a responsibility to be good officials. It's a contract. If one side unilaterally decides to violate that contract, you get a situation much like the United States in 2001.
katute no nihonngo wo sennkou sita mono no watakusi ha, daisannsei desu. jibunn no kennkyuu wo yaranai koto ha nasakenai dake deha naku, nusunnda jyouhou wo iikaeru tisei mo nakereba, tyantou sita gakusei ni naru ki ga deru made, 2,3 nenn gurai ra-mennya to ka de tutometa hou ga ii kamo siremasenn.
I believe you are correct. The GPL and OSS are the antithesis of the corporate model and our current economy.
It would then follow that for GPL/OSS to reach its "full potential", our current society will have to undergo a complete top-to-bottom restructuring.
...and I think that's already started. If the open nature of the internet and GPL/OSS is able to continue despite all governmental and corporate attempts to control it, then those structures will eventually become obsolete, and political and economic power will naturally flow in the direction of the hackers. Once that happens, the needs of Free software programming and programmers could easily be supported by taxes, or slave labor. And no coder who writes good code would ever have to live in a dumpster.
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No no no. He's talking about Satin, the fluffy Persian kitty of the Beast.
True story:
When I worked at Packard Bell tech support, my friend got a call from a woman who was distraught that her AUTOEXEC.BAT file was exactly 666 kilobytes. My friend had her edit the file and add
REM SATAN I CAST THEE OUT
to the end of the file. Did a DIR and checked the filesize -- 682k (or something like that.) Problem solved. The woman said "thank you" and hung up.
I know. In reality there are only about 200 commonly-used Chinese surnames. Even 200(60,000 * 60,000) = 720 billion.
For the 2-character first names, we'll let the Chinese keep their own names and give the nonsense names like "stinky fjord" or "rabbit bowl" to people who don't know the difference.
Now which one of those two individuals is the last sentence refering to?
Just for *more* fun, here is the same passage from the Vulgate Bible. (I know it's not the original, but I understand the King James is mainly translated from the Vulgate.) Maybe this will help clarify whom is being referred to:
16. et faciet omnes pusillos et magnos et divites et pauperes et liberos et servos habere caracter in dextera manu aut in frontibus suis
17. et ne quis possit emere aut vendere nisi qui habet caracter nomen bestiae aut numerum nominis eius
18. hic sapientia est qui habet intellectum conputet numerum bestiae numerus enim hominis est et numerus eius est sescenti sexaginta sex
It seems to me that "sescenti sexaginta sex" refers to the beast here.
What kind of grammar/spelling is this written in? Looks like someone passed it through the english->french->german->english filters in babelfish.
That is English, my friend. Is English not your first language, or did you skip high school?
No need for four of them. A good Chinese dictionary (I mean the biiig ones) has 60,000 characters.
60,000^3 = 216 Trillion combinations.
Chinese people typically have 3-character names. A one-character family name and a two-character first name.
So all we really need to do is give everyone on Earth a unique Chinese name! And since the characters might be hard to remember, you can tattoo it on their foreheads so the won't forget it.
I know Southern Baptists especially will just love this idea!
16: And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
:)
17: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18: Here is wisdom, Let him that have understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (666)
Someone was going to post this eventually.
There goes all my karma
Yes, but then the apartment complex essentially takes on the duties/responsibilities of an ISP.
My company tried to set this sort of thing up in an apartment building in Japan. It turns out that its cheaper and more efficient just to pay an established ISP for service.
A standardized set of video codecs in a single stable player.
The tune is copyrighted. The copyrighted *lyrics* are: Good morning to you, Good morning to you, Good morning dear children. Good morning to you. Now the police are on their way. :)
One vote here for NEC. Mine is a Japanese model (La Vie). It runs linux like a dream with very little tweaking.
Buck Roger's gorgeous sidekick's name was Erin Gray. Don't ask me why I remember that. As an 8-year-old I had a crush on both her and Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman).
I have to make a point about "the open source community [having] a hard time getting into the main stream media".
I submitted a story about 3 weeks ago about Linux and a Linux project being literally headline news (front page, top story) in the Nikkei Keizai Shinbun (Financial Times of Japan, the most widely read business newspaper). The story was handled very cluelessly by Slashdot, and probably passed under everyones radar as a result.
I think the situation is becoming more of a case of the community being clueless to the outside world, not t'other way 'round.
Without question.
Linux is the #1 developed-on OS here. There are about 15 Linux magazines ib print, and most big bookstores have a Linux section.
Not only that, many hardware components in stores have "works with linux" or "works with Turbolinux" stickers on them (if they're compliant, of course, which most are).
Linux is not a "revolution" here. It's taken very seriously. When I take out my Linux laptop at work, the American engineers chuckle. The Japanese engineers ask me what distribution I run and wether I have the latest version of Nautilus.
...was me. The Nikkei article can be found here (if you can read Japanese). It says, in a nutshell, that the four companies will be using Linux as a base for "core banking functions" such as financial calculations. The 4 companies have committed 500 engineers to the project, and they plan for it to be ready for customers by 2003. One thing stated in the print version of the article is that they intend to speed up Linux-based transaction processing.
How do you say Americans are a bunch of brainwashed dum-dums who don't know the first thing about China or its government?
I can't believe how quickly the "eternally vigilant" readers of Slashdot have fallen for all the anti-china warmongering garbage coming out of the US state department and Hollywood.
I notice that Vine Linux is conspicuously missing. Vine is probably the most popular Linux Distro in Japan.
Grimlock like Slashdot.
The 12th century European mummies have their own Linux community.
I think there are a total of 16 Finno-Ugric languages recognized. The Finns are hardly an enigma. Try this link for a bit more on the Finns.
Yes, there are (Indo-) Europeans in Western China right now. They're called Uighurs and they've been there forever so far as I know.
I work here now, but I got my visa the old-fashoned way -- I married a Japanese national.
I do meet a few Americans here, and they are nearly all coming over to work on the same thing: wireless wireless wireless.
That's one way of looking at it.
Another way would be to say that we, the governed, allow the upper classes and government officials to live in large buildings, boss us around, and even humiliate and kill us on occasion so long as they perform some useful purpose: like maintaining order, maintaining public infrastructure, and defending us against possible attack. When and if they get too big for their britches, we the laborers get very upset and kill the lot of them in a big bloody revolution. Immediately following that, the next batch of bigwigs tend to behave themselves for about 3 or 4 generations.
A third way of looking at things is to say that the relationship is more of a two-way street. Citizens have a responsibility to be good citizens, and government officials have a responsibility to be good officials. It's a contract. If one side unilaterally decides to violate that contract, you get a situation much like the United States in 2001.
katute no nihonngo wo sennkou sita mono no watakusi ha, daisannsei desu. jibunn no kennkyuu wo yaranai koto ha nasakenai dake deha naku, nusunnda jyouhou wo iikaeru tisei mo nakereba, tyantou sita gakusei ni naru ki ga deru made, 2,3 nenn gurai ra-mennya to ka de tutometa hou ga ii kamo siremasenn.
It would then follow that for GPL/OSS to reach its "full potential", our current society will have to undergo a complete top-to-bottom restructuring.