Well, I made it thru several pages of comments and all I saw was the anti-Bush and anti-American crowd spouting off and attacking the person. Just because you don't like the man doesn't mean you should blame him for all the Earth's ills or all those of our country. Is it even within the realm of possibility that there is something wrong with the treaty? I think so and that is the issue at hand. If everyone else has signed the treaty and you think it's so great then just move along without the US. Or maybe concentrate on fixing that part of the treaty that the US finds objectionable.
Make the emmission rates for all countries equal per square mile or kilometer. Or make the numbers based on population. That should be fair no matter if you are a 3rd world country or not. If they are just now getting industrialized, then they don't have old tech infrastructure to worry about or upgrade, right? Are there other countries that refuse to sign? Look at their objections. Usually you negotiate the rules and requirements of a treaty before you start making people sign it. Why didn't this all come up before? Maybe it did and the tree-huggers just ignored all objections.
Don't label me as a Right-wing wank or whatever from my comments. I'm an independent and I do believe in recycling and environmental issues. My point is that treaties like this should really go in small or medium steps. You don't really want something that reaches real far in the future unless it ramps up over time to reasonable levels.
How about a treaty between countries to share development costs of so called green technology? Share in the dev. of better solar power products, wind power and nuclear power. I should be able to build a house that is not much more expensive than a normal construction method house that includes all current energy saving tech. and have the extra tech pay for itself over a 5-10 year period. Why don't we have durable solar panels for the sun-facing side of the house and the roof that can stand up to any weather? How about a small, efficient windmill that will go on my roof and is no bigger than a TV antenna or a satellite dish? How about a cheap Geo-thermal heating and cooling solution for the house? I talked to a guy last week that said the one he put in his house cost $14,000. That's a bit steep. How about building a power center distrobution device for the home that you can easily wire in the solar, wind and other equipment, that handles the extra power coming in the home and putting the extra into a battery backup or back on the line for sale to the power company. That would be truely useful, especially if a gov't lab designed it and gave the design away, royalty free to several companies to build and sell at a small percent profit. They would sell a ton of those if the other tech. came about.
I want to know what happened to the supposedly great masterpiece of Kubrick's career that he worked so long on. This movie positively sucked. I call it a sleeper, because it put me to sleep 3 different times while I tried to watch it. I finally caught it on HBO in full daylight and opened the blinds to force myself to stay awake. How boring can a movie be? Cruise walked down the street for ten minutes. The scenery didn't even look like he was in New York, it screamed of London. I'm just glad I only tried to watch this stinker on video and HBO, but I want those hours of my life back.
Same goes for HULK of 2003. I want those hours of my life back. They should have paid me to sit through that hideously boring movie. It was like an exposition of slide in and overlay effects that filmmakers could use in the future when they had a script that didn't suck and an actor that wasn't a wooden man. Run away from "movies" like this one.
I boot to DamnSmall Linux on a USB memstick. If you copy the/knoppix directory on the ISO to the root of the memstick it will boot, if you have a motherboard that will boot to USB and you have it set correctly. There is also a bootusb.img file you can put on a floppy that will do a basic linux bootstrap and then pass off control to the USB device. On older hardware, like my laptop, the USB ports don't get initialized soon enough.
Hey, my life is already like a cartoon. What with the Acme products strewn around, safes falling on me, and some of the weird characters I work with that have speech impediments. This is the last thing I need.
Reminds me of something that Wile E Coyote might have purchased from Acme to try to catch the Road Runner. For some reason I see a splat against a large flat rock in their future.
With that anagram as a subject line, you have a new spam campaign. Nothing Like random words in email subjects or blank ones to help me sort my spam out.
That he may have been King is true, but all that pomp and circumstance is fleeting. In the end we all return to dust. Some just do it in a bigger and prettier box.
I've already tried this with Damnsmall Linux. Get the usbboot.img file and rawrite or dd to a floppy. Copy the knoppix directory from a Damnsmall CD to the root of your memstick. The floppy will boot a basic kernel w/ USB support and hand off control to the memstick. DONE. You can create other directories to hold your files. If you use the features of Damnsmall to save your config to the memstick, it will create a/knoppixhome directory. Damnsmall is 50MB, so you need probably a 128MB stick. Damnsmalllinux.org
The first two Superman movies were good, the book for the third movie was good, but it failed in the execution. Could anyone ever believe a coked up Richard Pryor could be a passable computer programmer? Batman movies were OK, the first three anyway. George Clooney was less than stellar, but I don't think he cold help a bad script. I snoozed through that one at the theater and at home after rental. I rented it just to prove it wasn't me being tired. It was dull until the point where Batgirl joined up. Even she couldn't rescue the crappy script though. And Robin became a real ass.
I have to hand it to Stan Lee, keeping the studios close to the original hero stories though. Quite a feat. The X-Men movies have been great, Spiderman too. I haven't seen the newer Punisher, but I liked the one w/ Dolf Lundgren from several years back, even though I am unfamiliar w/ the comic. I really liked most of the Daredevil movie. I thought parts of it showed him as the dark brooding hero like Batman, Punisher and Wolverine were.
What I have to say about Hulk is less than stellar though. Close your eyes if you liked it. It was a CGI movie that was so far over the top it was no longer believeable. The story sucked. The acting was wooden and sucked. Love Jennifer Connely, but she was wasted in this role and almost as much in A Beautiful Mind. They truly fucked up by telling the story out of order. It became confusing. The scene w/ the mutant dogs was very hard to see and didn't make much sense. Did I say the dialog sucked? The general was not believeable and his character sucked. I think that I enjoyed the old Bill Bixby/Lou Farigno combo so much that it just ruined it for me. Bill Bixby was so much better than that no-name loser they got for the HULK movie. The director should be taken out and shot. The only thing I liked about this movie was the cut in of the comic book-like frames, so that you have multiple scenes on the screen at once, but they made it look gimmicky. But this wasn't supposed to be all about Hulk, I digress.
Spiderman was very good, probably ranked among the best of the comic book movies. A good blend of live action, cgi, and a good story/back story, and good dialog. You could actually see feeling from Toby McGuire, like you could from Christopher Reeves and Ben Affleck in their roles.
What all comic based movies suffer from is the need to start at the beginning and introduce all the characters in the first movie. We have to learn where they came from, why and how they got their powers, what drives them, why they are so brooding, etc. Often this leaves little time for the rest of the story to naturally evolve to show where they are in the present day. X-men almost lost it here, because they had so many characters to introduce. Batman, Superman, Daredevil, Spiderman and the first Punisher really struck this balance well. They made the trip enjoyable and made you care about the characters. That is what makes any movie great.
the only way you can lose heat in space is via radiation,
Not exactly. There is also conduction. If I place my palm against a cold piece of metal or any other substance at a lower temperature than my body, the two bodies will attempt to equalize temp. The metal becomes a heat-sink, pulling the heat from my hand. Good reason to wear gloves. Even if you are in the vacuum of space your body will still shed heat. I may absorb heat in the form of solar radiation, but I am still radiating heat.
Oddly enough I know the guy that wrote Ethereal, even though I don't use the program. He's in my Linux User Group. Great guy, he has helped me w/ numerous problems as I switch to Debian.
Anyway, have you asked for these features? Ethereal is under constant development. I think that as long as the new features don't slow the program down and they add necessary functions, they might get added.
So if there are ostensibly no servers or workstations in this submet and it vacuums up all traffic, then it's more of a Blackhole Net. A Honeynet is designed to have fake info and traffic to lure in the hungry cracker, a P2P net is designed to easily share info, the Internet is apperently very good at hooking disparet networks (or spreading penis enlargement pills, no that's my email), and sneaker net is running floppies between computers to share info.
Blackhole Net, where the packets get in, but they don't get out!
"ever listened to the warning at the start of an NFL game?"
Yep. And it strictly prohibits "Public Performance without compensation to or agreement with the NFL". In my opinion, you shouldn't be able to watch the game on TV in a bar unless the bar pays a fee to the NFL. That is a public performance or if I use a projector type TV, throw a pro game or concert up on a wall AND charge admission. If I let five of my friends come over and watch on my big screen for free, then no commercial profit has been made by me. The key is two fold, public performance and profit.
What pro sports, musicians and actors gain from small private, non-commercial replay of events is greater exposure. i.e. Free Advertising. Say I go to a friends house, watch a movie he rented, there is a room full of his friends, we only paid ONE $4 rental fee and then later we discuss the movie. Has the actor/studio really lost anything?
Some of those people would have never paid to see the film in the first place (no lost revenue there), some may have thought the movie sucked until they actually watched it and now will tell others how much they enjoyed it (they may watch again=more rentals, they tell others=more rentals), if people enjoyed the movie they may watch other movies old or new with the same actor or director (more revenue), or the person may have thought the movie totally sucked and go home glad he didn't pay to rent the movie on his own (he likely wouldn't have chosen the movie on his own anyway, e.g. chick-flicks or date movies, no lost revenue). What we see here is a win-win for the studio and the actors. Free advertising. If teh viewers can't now afford to spend their money to view the content, they are encouraged to do so in the future.
The same could be said for a couple of kids sneaking into a movie theater. Sure they aren't supposed to be there as they haven't paid and they may be trespassing, but would you sue them for either loss of wages or something other than the actual criminal trespass? To do so would be detrimental to your future customer base. In reality the best thing to do would be to just put them out of the theater if caught and possibly host a couple of showings for underpriviledged kids. Have a homeless shelter or a youth center hand out passes. Again, nearly free advertising. Engendering goodwill to the fan base has never been a career killer. But do you remember any actors or musicians being able to continue a career after a melt-down infront of the press or after abusing fans while on stage?
If I allow others on the net to download all or part of my music collection, has a sale really been lost. Would that person ever actually heard the songs other than on the radio. I have actually helped them distribute their old tunes even further without any work or cost by them. If the downloader really enjoyed the tunes, he may go buy the full album or buy the next new album. If he doesn't have enough extra money to buy music, he may never buy an album. Have they really lost a sale here? Some of my collection includes stuff that is out of print, completely unavailable. How have they lost? They refuse to make this stuff avail. for purchase indefinitely. However, I can still hear the same tired old Led Zepplin and Pink Floyd songs on the radio.
What a load of crap.
And how about Disney, they stop selling some of their old movies every once in a while to drive up demand right before they go off sale. Why is it still $20 for Snow White and Cinderella? Have the prices of music and movies EVER come down? Become commoditized? No. I still have to pay $13 and up for an album. $20 for a movie. Rental prices have gone up. BMG music service is the only affordable place for me to buy music, but not everything I want is avail. I guess I'll just keep listening to the crappy radio and the same old music I have on CD until all this settles down.
You might just want to use ssl encrypted web-based tax software. I used www.taxact.com and it worked pretty good. Now granted, I used Win2K on my laptop, but the current browsers running on linux should be OK. In fact I think I used Firefox for most of the tax prep work. I much prefer this to loading more software on my PC. At the end I print stuff out and I'm done.
IIRC, Turning used a bunch of wheels w/ gears to simulate the Enigma machine and break the code. Not entirely sure what he did after the war. Sounds like hardware to me. He also laid down the rules for the Turing test whereby we would be able to test an AI.
I thought Babbage and Lady Ada Lovelace were the first software inventors. Or was that programmers?
I've seen these posts about NX over the last few days and I'm not sure if you are just impressed by the product as a user or a shill for the company to sell more licenses.
IIRC, Novell just bought a company that made a Live Linux CD (Knoppix derivative) with all the free Novell client tools and some sort of Citrix (or NX) like software for terminal serving. It was something like Novix or something. I found a link to them on the Knoppix Cousins page. http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/Knopp ixCusto mizations
What's wrong if Novell want to contribute to an Open Source project of their choice? It may be that Novell chose LTSP because it will fit more of the situations they are looking at than NX.
God, I wish I had a PC that beefy. And if I did, I sure as hell wouldn't bog it down with MicroSloth software. Linux, with a full-blown KDE and Seti@Home, baby.
All the mail I get at Hotmail is spam anyway. It's my spam-catcher account. Anything I have to sign up for on the net gets the hotmail account. Anything on the net you sign up for where I actually want to receive it, goes to yahoo. Both are actually spam-catchers.
I got both of these with drives I bought. So if they have a Linux version now available, can I trade up? I never actually installed either software. If I can't trade, then will the cost of the DVD playing software be less than the cost of the OS used to play it? It should be cheaper than a copy of XP, OS X or Linux bought off the shelf at BestBuy.
Apparently SucKIT does this:
http://la-samhna.de/library/rootkits/list.html
SucKIT is a rootkit presented in Phrack issue 58, article 0x07 ("Linux on-the-fly kernel patching without LKM", by sd & devik). This is a fully working rootkit that is loaded through/dev/kmem (i.e. it does not need a kernel with support for loadable kernel modules.
It provides a password protected remote access connect-back shell initiated by a spoofed packet (bypassing most of firewall configurations), and can hide processes, files and connections.
You'd have to get these idiots that design products to design a standard, interchangeable battery. i.e. a standard cell phone battery, used by all brand of cell phones or the same for laptops. I don't see this happening, because they like to charge a hundred bucks for a replacement laptop battery and 25-30 for a cell phone battery. The laptops actually use batteries that you can replace from Battery Patrol, if you don't mind cutting all the hotglue off and soldering your replacement batteries back in.
I don't know about you, but that overlook of the Empire State Bldg. makes me quesy. Judging by the way some of his controls work you might see that image rotate wildly as you move between active program windows. I can see that making me throw up. I'm not afraid of heights, I've jumped out of perfectly good airplanes. It's the fake motion of the rotated image. Honestly, most people just close their eyes and scream the first time they skydive. Me I thought it was the coolest thing ever, until I went scubadiving.
I like the idea of virtual destops way better. In fact I think in the DEFAULT dropdown menu for all open window objects you should be able to send it to another virtual desktop. I've seen this feature before, but it's not enabled on my Knoppix 3.3 as far as I could tell. I would like to open a xterm or something, execute a command and then send it to virtual desktop 2. Open kppp, start internet connection and send it to desktop 3 or minimize to systray. Open Evolution and launch the "get mail" and then send to another desktop til later.
Guys, chill out. He wasn't inferring in that passage in psuedo-German anything about Hitler or Nazis watching Star Wars. If you are a computer Geek like me then you know about the Blinkenlights sign.
Do a google search for Blinkenlights and you find a story about a sign posted in a University computer room:
ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS! Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumbkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.
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Well, I made it thru several pages of comments and all I saw was the anti-Bush and anti-American crowd spouting off and attacking the person. Just because you don't like the man doesn't mean you should blame him for all the Earth's ills or all those of our country. Is it even within the realm of possibility that there is something wrong with the treaty? I think so and that is the issue at hand. If everyone else has signed the treaty and you think it's so great then just move along without the US. Or maybe concentrate on fixing that part of the treaty that the US finds objectionable.
Make the emmission rates for all countries equal per square mile or kilometer. Or make the numbers based on population. That should be fair no matter if you are a 3rd world country or not. If they are just now getting industrialized, then they don't have old tech infrastructure to worry about or upgrade, right? Are there other countries that refuse to sign? Look at their objections. Usually you negotiate the rules and requirements of a treaty before you start making people sign it. Why didn't this all come up before? Maybe it did and the tree-huggers just ignored all objections.
Don't label me as a Right-wing wank or whatever from my comments. I'm an independent and I do believe in recycling and environmental issues. My point is that treaties like this should really go in small or medium steps. You don't really want something that reaches real far in the future unless it ramps up over time to reasonable levels.
How about a treaty between countries to share development costs of so called green technology? Share in the dev. of better solar power products, wind power and nuclear power. I should be able to build a house that is not much more expensive than a normal construction method house that includes all current energy saving tech. and have the extra tech pay for itself over a 5-10 year period. Why don't we have durable solar panels for the sun-facing side of the house and the roof that can stand up to any weather? How about a small, efficient windmill that will go on my roof and is no bigger than a TV antenna or a satellite dish? How about a cheap Geo-thermal heating and cooling solution for the house? I talked to a guy last week that said the one he put in his house cost $14,000. That's a bit steep. How about building a power center distrobution device for the home that you can easily wire in the solar, wind and other equipment, that handles the extra power coming in the home and putting the extra into a battery backup or back on the line for sale to the power company. That would be truely useful, especially if a gov't lab designed it and gave the design away, royalty free to several companies to build and sell at a small percent profit. They would sell a ton of those if the other tech. came about.
Just some thoughts.
I want to know what happened to the supposedly great masterpiece of Kubrick's career that he worked so long on. This movie positively sucked. I call it a sleeper, because it put me to sleep 3 different times while I tried to watch it. I finally caught it on HBO in full daylight and opened the blinds to force myself to stay awake. How boring can a movie be? Cruise walked down the street for ten minutes. The scenery didn't even look like he was in New York, it screamed of London. I'm just glad I only tried to watch this stinker on video and HBO, but I want those hours of my life back.
Same goes for HULK of 2003. I want those hours of my life back. They should have paid me to sit through that hideously boring movie. It was like an exposition of slide in and overlay effects that filmmakers could use in the future when they had a script that didn't suck and an actor that wasn't a wooden man. Run away from "movies" like this one.
I boot to DamnSmall Linux on a USB memstick. If you copy the /knoppix directory on the ISO to the root of the memstick it will boot, if you have a motherboard that will boot to USB and you have it set correctly. There is also a bootusb.img file you can put on a floppy that will do a basic linux bootstrap and then pass off control to the USB device. On older hardware, like my laptop, the USB ports don't get initialized soon enough.
Hey, my life is already like a cartoon. What with the Acme products strewn around, safes falling on me, and some of the weird characters I work with that have speech impediments. This is the last thing I need.
Reminds me of something that Wile E Coyote might have purchased from Acme to try to catch the Road Runner. For some reason I see a splat against a large flat rock in their future.
With that anagram as a subject line, you have a new spam campaign. Nothing Like random words in email subjects or blank ones to help me sort my spam out.
That he may have been King is true,
but all that pomp and circumstance is fleeting.
In the end we all return to dust.
Some just do it in a bigger and prettier box.
I've already tried this with Damnsmall Linux. Get the usbboot.img file and rawrite or dd to a floppy. Copy the knoppix directory from a Damnsmall CD to the root of your memstick. The floppy will boot a basic kernel w/ USB support and hand off control to the memstick. DONE. You can create other directories to hold your files. If you use the features of Damnsmall to save your config to the memstick, it will create a /knoppixhome directory.
Damnsmall is 50MB, so you need probably a 128MB stick.
Damnsmalllinux.org
The first two Superman movies were good, the book for the third movie was good, but it failed in the execution. Could anyone ever believe a coked up Richard Pryor could be a passable computer programmer?
Batman movies were OK, the first three anyway. George Clooney was less than stellar, but I don't think he cold help a bad script. I snoozed through that one at the theater and at home after rental. I rented it just to prove it wasn't me being tired. It was dull until the point where Batgirl joined up. Even she couldn't rescue the crappy script though. And Robin became a real ass.
I have to hand it to Stan Lee, keeping the studios close to the original hero stories though. Quite a feat. The X-Men movies have been great, Spiderman too. I haven't seen the newer Punisher, but I liked the one w/ Dolf Lundgren from several years back, even though I am unfamiliar w/ the comic. I really liked most of the Daredevil movie. I thought parts of it showed him as the dark brooding hero like Batman, Punisher and Wolverine were.
What I have to say about Hulk is less than stellar though. Close your eyes if you liked it. It was a CGI movie that was so far over the top it was no longer believeable. The story sucked. The acting was wooden and sucked. Love Jennifer Connely, but she was wasted in this role and almost as much in A Beautiful Mind. They truly fucked up by telling the story out of order. It became confusing. The scene w/ the mutant dogs was very hard to see and didn't make much sense. Did I say the dialog sucked? The general was not believeable and his character sucked. I think that I enjoyed the old Bill Bixby/Lou Farigno combo so much that it just ruined it for me. Bill Bixby was so much better than that no-name loser they got for the HULK movie. The director should be taken out and shot. The only thing I liked about this movie was the cut in of the comic book-like frames, so that you have multiple scenes on the screen at once, but they made it look gimmicky. But this wasn't supposed to be all about Hulk, I digress.
Spiderman was very good, probably ranked among the best of the comic book movies. A good blend of live action, cgi, and a good story/back story, and good dialog. You could actually see feeling from Toby McGuire, like you could from Christopher Reeves and Ben Affleck in their roles.
What all comic based movies suffer from is the need to start at the beginning and introduce all the characters in the first movie. We have to learn where they came from, why and how they got their powers, what drives them, why they are so brooding, etc. Often this leaves little time for the rest of the story to naturally evolve to show where they are in the present day. X-men almost lost it here, because they had so many characters to introduce. Batman, Superman, Daredevil, Spiderman and the first Punisher really struck this balance well. They made the trip enjoyable and made you care about the characters. That is what makes any movie great.
the only way you can lose heat in space is via radiation,
Not exactly. There is also conduction. If I place my palm against a cold piece of metal or any other substance at a lower temperature than my body, the two bodies will attempt to equalize temp. The metal becomes a heat-sink, pulling the heat from my hand. Good reason to wear gloves. Even if you are in the vacuum of space your body will still shed heat. I may absorb heat in the form of solar radiation, but I am still radiating heat.
Oddly enough I know the guy that wrote Ethereal, even though I don't use the program. He's in my Linux User Group. Great guy, he has helped me w/ numerous problems as I switch to Debian.
Anyway, have you asked for these features? Ethereal is under constant development. I think that as long as the new features don't slow the program down and they add necessary functions, they might get added.
So if there are ostensibly no servers or workstations in this submet and it vacuums up all traffic, then it's more of a Blackhole Net. A Honeynet is designed to have fake info and traffic to lure in the hungry cracker, a P2P net is designed to easily share info, the Internet is apperently very good at hooking disparet networks (or spreading penis enlargement pills, no that's my email), and sneaker net is running floppies between computers to share info.
Blackhole Net, where the packets get in, but they don't get out!
"ever listened to the warning at the start of an NFL game?"
Yep. And it strictly prohibits "Public Performance without compensation to or agreement with the NFL". In my opinion, you shouldn't be able to watch the game on TV in a bar unless the bar pays a fee to the NFL. That is a public performance or if I use a projector type TV, throw a pro game or concert up on a wall AND charge admission. If I let five of my friends come over and watch on my big screen for free, then no commercial profit has been made by me. The key is two fold, public performance and profit.
What pro sports, musicians and actors gain from small private, non-commercial replay of events is greater exposure. i.e. Free Advertising. Say I go to a friends house, watch a movie he rented, there is a room full of his friends, we only paid ONE $4 rental fee and then later we discuss the movie. Has the actor/studio really lost anything?
Some of those people would have never paid to see the film in the first place (no lost revenue there), some may have thought the movie sucked until they actually watched it and now will tell others how much they enjoyed it (they may watch again=more rentals, they tell others=more rentals), if people enjoyed the movie they may watch other movies old or new with the same actor or director (more revenue), or the person may have thought the movie totally sucked and go home glad he didn't pay to rent the movie on his own (he likely wouldn't have chosen the movie on his own anyway, e.g. chick-flicks or date movies, no lost revenue). What we see here is a win-win for the studio and the actors. Free advertising. If teh viewers can't now afford to spend their money to view the content, they are encouraged to do so in the future.
The same could be said for a couple of kids sneaking into a movie theater. Sure they aren't supposed to be there as they haven't paid and they may be trespassing, but would you sue them for either loss of wages or something other than the actual criminal trespass? To do so would be detrimental to your future customer base. In reality the best thing to do would be to just put them out of the theater if caught and possibly host a couple of showings for underpriviledged kids. Have a homeless shelter or a youth center hand out passes. Again, nearly free advertising. Engendering goodwill to the fan base has never been a career killer. But do you remember any actors or musicians being able to continue a career after a melt-down infront of the press or after abusing fans while on stage?
If I allow others on the net to download all or part of my music collection, has a sale really been lost. Would that person ever actually heard the songs other than on the radio. I have actually helped them distribute their old tunes even further without any work or cost by them. If the downloader really enjoyed the tunes, he may go buy the full album or buy the next new album. If he doesn't have enough extra money to buy music, he may never buy an album. Have they really lost a sale here? Some of my collection includes stuff that is out of print, completely unavailable. How have they lost? They refuse to make this stuff avail. for purchase indefinitely. However, I can still hear the same tired old Led Zepplin and Pink Floyd songs on the radio.
What a load of crap.
And how about Disney, they stop selling some of their old movies every once in a while to drive up demand right before they go off sale. Why is it still $20 for Snow White and Cinderella? Have the prices of music and movies EVER come down? Become commoditized? No. I still have to pay $13 and up for an album. $20 for a movie. Rental prices have gone up. BMG music service is the only affordable place for me to buy music, but not everything I want is avail. I guess I'll just keep listening to the crappy radio and the same old music I have on CD until all this settles down.
You might just want to use ssl encrypted web-based tax software. I used www.taxact.com and it worked pretty good. Now granted, I used Win2K on my laptop, but the current browsers running on linux should be OK. In fact I think I used Firefox for most of the tax prep work. I much prefer this to loading more software on my PC. At the end I print stuff out and I'm done.
IIRC, Turning used a bunch of wheels w/ gears to simulate the Enigma machine and break the code. Not entirely sure what he did after the war. Sounds like hardware to me. He also laid down the rules for the Turing test whereby we would be able to test an AI.
I thought Babbage and Lady Ada Lovelace were the first software inventors. Or was that programmers?
I've seen these posts about NX over the last few days and I'm not sure if you are just impressed by the product as a user or a shill for the company to sell more licenses.
p ixCusto mizations
IIRC, Novell just bought a company that made a Live Linux CD (Knoppix derivative) with all the free Novell client tools and some sort of Citrix (or NX) like software for terminal serving. It was something like Novix or something. I found a link to them on the Knoppix Cousins page.
http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/Knop
What's wrong if Novell want to contribute to an Open Source project of their choice? It may be that Novell chose LTSP because it will fit more of the situations they are looking at than NX.
God, I wish I had a PC that beefy. And if I did, I sure as hell wouldn't bog it down with MicroSloth software. Linux, with a full-blown KDE and Seti@Home, baby.
All the mail I get at Hotmail is spam anyway. It's my spam-catcher account. Anything I have to sign up for on the net gets the hotmail account. Anything on the net you sign up for where I actually want to receive it, goes to yahoo. Both are actually spam-catchers.
What the f*** is that? Sounds like Tatas. I'm going back to bed.
I got both of these with drives I bought. So if they have a Linux version now available, can I trade up? I never actually installed either software. If I can't trade, then will the cost of the DVD playing software be less than the cost of the OS used to play it? It should be cheaper than a copy of XP, OS X or Linux bought off the shelf at BestBuy.
You'd have to get these idiots that design products to design a standard, interchangeable battery. i.e. a standard cell phone battery, used by all brand of cell phones or the same for laptops. I don't see this happening, because they like to charge a hundred bucks for a replacement laptop battery and 25-30 for a cell phone battery. The laptops actually use batteries that you can replace from Battery Patrol, if you don't mind cutting all the hotglue off and soldering your replacement batteries back in.
Make it the last battery you ever buy.
I don't know about you, but that overlook of the Empire State Bldg. makes me quesy. Judging by the way some of his controls work you might see that image rotate wildly as you move between active program windows. I can see that making me throw up. I'm not afraid of heights, I've jumped out of perfectly good airplanes. It's the fake motion of the rotated image. Honestly, most people just close their eyes and scream the first time they skydive. Me I thought it was the coolest thing ever, until I went scubadiving.
I like the idea of virtual destops way better. In fact I think in the DEFAULT dropdown menu for all open window objects you should be able to send it to another virtual desktop. I've seen this feature before, but it's not enabled on my Knoppix 3.3 as far as I could tell. I would like to open a xterm or something, execute a command and then send it to virtual desktop 2. Open kppp, start internet connection and send it to desktop 3 or minimize to systray. Open Evolution and launch the "get mail" and then send to another desktop til later.
I'd send them the sound of .99 in coins dropping into a jar or can.
Guys, chill out. He wasn't inferring in that passage in psuedo-German anything about Hitler or Nazis watching Star Wars. If you are a computer Geek like me then you know about the Blinkenlights sign.
Do a google search for Blinkenlights and you find a story about a sign posted in a University computer room:
ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS!
Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumbkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.