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Hrm, you got me thinking about the short horizon... maybe you could just build giant towers? Hey, you could subcontract Cingular and put GSM up there too! That'd be cute.:)
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Could you have GPS in the same orbit as the Moon around the Earth? Like at L1, L2, L4, and L5, but orbiting the Earth at the same speed as the Moon?
Of course the party machines of Nixon and Kennedy were obviously guilty of ballot stuffing. Kennedy had the better stuffers though -- "Thanks, Mayor Daley!". Frankly, I don't think we've ever had 100% honest national elections, but we've only had the technology and information structure to demonstrate it, in a timely manner, in the last 30 years. Landslides are the only things that have kept the vote roughly correct (which you are right, occur more often... though with an electronic system, larger numbers of centralized servers could be compromised depending on how crappy the systems are set up).
OTOH, with the Dems pulling the popular vote and the GOP pulling the strategic/electoral vote, we could still have many close elections in the near future.
Have you seen the PIRATE Act? This is GREAT for enforcement of every penny annie little bullshit copyright violation.
Instead of emailing Linksys (now Cisco) legal about copyright infringement of Open Source code, we can just call up the Feds and have them bust their asses. This is great! Also, you remember that snippet of Javascript you stole to make your homepage slightly more annoying? Guess what?! The Feds are on your ass now!
The Senate has no idea how much copyright violation goes on in this country nor how expensive it will be to outsource its prosecution to the AG's office.
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p.s., Yes, I just wrote my Rep and I'm seriously pissed off that Cornyn sponsored the ART Act. Asshole.
Just buy the full-spectrum ones. I've never had a problem with CFs and the long ones come in a variety of color outputs. Personally, I prefer the full-spectrum to the sunlight-tuned ones. And no, they're not that expensive and are cheaper in terms of direct wattage as well as efficiency (here in Texas, anything that makes the A/C turn on less is GOOD).
That's business DSL you are thinking of. Most consumer ISPs (including all of the big ones) forbid running servers from your house.
SBC/SBCYahoo doesn't (in Austin, TX at least). This is probably because RR is really fast here and the only other selling point for DSL is "um, it's not the other monopoly". In RR's defense, they did unblock port 80, at least in my area.
Right, which is exactly why I voted against light rail last time. Did you see what they were gonna do to Guadalupe?! The commuter rail plan is much more sane and makes much more sense... not that I'll be able to take advantage of it (Northwest Hills in the hizzie). Still, I did email them asking for wifi on the buses. That'd be the only way I could justify moving from a 30min commute to St. Edward's to roughly 75. Personally, I wish they'd taken the 1.5 bil they had in the bank for light rail and scheduled some more routes (like mine, dammit!).
And while I'm bitching, let me just say we better get that route around I-35 done ASA[f]P or those Mexican trucks are gonna make it completely undrivable (versus, just mostly:)
but it IS the best university in the world hands down
...unless you're an undergrad. Then, it's the lottery if you get the good teacher or the TA whose English is just slightly better than line noise. It's been a long time coming, but UT really is becoming more of a graduate research institution fed by undergrads who don't realize they're getting poor service. You'll find many of the good UT teachers also teach at ACC and St. Edward's (and to a lesser extent, Concordia) since a good many of them aren't in tenured positions since they don't do tons of research (which would be a detriment to their real passion -- pedagogy).
I emailed Capmetro about getting wireless services on their buses. That would be the only way I could justify the longer commute time.
And yeah, the rail is intended for cross-county service which, given our demographics, layout, etc., makes a lot more sense. (Feel free to drop me a mail or telnet into silverchat.com[local austinite bbs chat thingy] if you wanna chat about it -- getting kinda off-topic here:)
This is true, but Word is still faster even without OSA. Try it. "The results may surprise you."
And I'm a die-hard Debian guy. The point is just that it needs some more work. EMACS learned long ago that you had to code up some of the lisp in C so it would load sometime this year. Other projects will need to do similar tricks. Prelinking is immensely helpful as is the Mozilla loader, but they're still slower to load (though I have no idea why).
Linux is cheap. Though, even if Windows were distributed gratis, I would probably only use it for my son's games.
Linux applications tend to have a sort of orthogonal stability where if something breaks, it's easy to tell what broke (and possibly why). It's also trivial to find the developer or bugzilla and complain.
Windows isn't cool.
About the only things I noticably miss are:
Shockwave,
decent cross-platform multimedia websites, and
children's games
tuxpaint -- my kid loves this one
It does IP masquerading, loadbalancing of multiple Internet connex, and intelligent firewalling, while still managing to run my desktop.
Client Access Licenses for home users, experimenters, and tinkerers? You're kidding, right?
There is a proven, reliable license authority for OSS software. If I wonder about a license, I go to OSI and look in its list of OSI-approved licenses. With Windows, I have no clue what I get or don't get, what's enforceable and unenforceable, etc. and as a home user, I'll be damned if I'm gonna hire a lawyer to install a damn piece of software.
There are probably more, but that is sufficient to keep me off Windows for the foreseeable future.
Really, there's all kinds of blame to go around, and programmers deserve some of it, the system never should have been so brittle as to cause these kinds of problems in the first place.
Right, so the system administrators are to blame.:)
What would be DAMN cool (to me anyway... I love genealogy and personal histories) would be an international, crosslinked, searchable archive of the email of the dead. Oh sure, "porn buddies" would cleanse any submitted material, but it'd be nice to easily read the correspondence of deceased relatives or other personalities of historical interest. The archive would have to subsist on donations and would have to verify all the correspondents are dead, I'm sure, or face being in the middle of a bunch of lawsuits. I suppose IM logs could be included, too.
So, what is my SonyEricsson P900, chopped liver? Sure it's not a dedicated handheld, but I didn't want one. It does IR, Bluetooth, USB, Calendar, doesn't run Windows, etc.
Exiting the market, my ass! They're just going to focus on PDA/Phone unified devices. -l
Slashdot Mirror
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Japanese (basically extra levels to original): 1986
USA (Doki Doki Panic + Mario sprites): 1988
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Hrm, you got me thinking about the short horizon... maybe you could just build giant towers? Hey, you could subcontract Cingular and put GSM up there too! That'd be cute. :)
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Could you have GPS in the same orbit as the Moon around the Earth? Like at L1, L2, L4, and L5, but orbiting the Earth at the same speed as the Moon?
Not good at physics,
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Of course the party machines of Nixon and Kennedy were obviously guilty of ballot stuffing. Kennedy had the better stuffers though -- "Thanks, Mayor Daley!". Frankly, I don't think we've ever had 100% honest national elections, but we've only had the technology and information structure to demonstrate it, in a timely manner, in the last 30 years. Landslides are the only things that have kept the vote roughly correct (which you are right, occur more often... though with an electronic system, larger numbers of centralized servers could be compromised depending on how crappy the systems are set up).
OTOH, with the Dems pulling the popular vote and the GOP pulling the strategic/electoral vote, we could still have many close elections in the near future.
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Have you seen the PIRATE Act? This is GREAT for enforcement of every penny annie little bullshit copyright violation.
Instead of emailing Linksys (now Cisco) legal about copyright infringement of Open Source code, we can just call up the Feds and have them bust their asses. This is great! Also, you remember that snippet of Javascript you stole to make your homepage slightly more annoying? Guess what?! The Feds are on your ass now!
The Senate has no idea how much copyright violation goes on in this country nor how expensive it will be to outsource its prosecution to the AG's office.
-l
p.s., Yes, I just wrote my Rep and I'm seriously pissed off that Cornyn sponsored the ART Act. Asshole.
The problem with Mexico is they imprisoned the WRONG 169 people. ;)
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If I had my guess, most home installations will have manually entered shared keys.
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Just buy the full-spectrum ones. I've never had a problem with CFs and the long ones come in a variety of color outputs. Personally, I prefer the full-spectrum to the sunlight-tuned ones. And no, they're not that expensive and are cheaper in terms of direct wattage as well as efficiency (here in Texas, anything that makes the A/C turn on less is GOOD).
Cheers,
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If we can avoid market dominance of any particular phone, O/S, processor, or VM, that should help mitigate damage through diversity.
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I'm glad the 4000 byte paste on Linux and that Hebrew/Arabic bug posted by that Egyptian LUG guy got fixed. Go Slashdot Power! hehehehehe
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SBC/SBCYahoo doesn't (in Austin, TX at least). This is probably because RR is really fast here and the only other selling point for DSL is "um, it's not the other monopoly". In RR's defense, they did unblock port 80, at least in my area.
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The City and APD have already committed to enforcing it.
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Right, which is exactly why I voted against light rail last time. Did you see what they were gonna do to Guadalupe?! The commuter rail plan is much more sane and makes much more sense... not that I'll be able to take advantage of it (Northwest Hills in the hizzie). Still, I did email them asking for wifi on the buses. That'd be the only way I could justify moving from a 30min commute to St. Edward's to roughly 75. Personally, I wish they'd taken the 1.5 bil they had in the bank for light rail and scheduled some more routes (like mine, dammit!).
:)
And while I'm bitching, let me just say we better get that route around I-35 done ASA[f]P or those Mexican trucks are gonna make it completely undrivable (versus, just mostly
Cheers,
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...unless you're an undergrad. Then, it's the lottery if you get the good teacher or the TA whose English is just slightly better than line noise. It's been a long time coming, but UT really is becoming more of a graduate research institution fed by undergrads who don't realize they're getting poor service. You'll find many of the good UT teachers also teach at ACC and St. Edward's (and to a lesser extent, Concordia) since a good many of them aren't in tenured positions since they don't do tons of research (which would be a detriment to their real passion -- pedagogy).
$0.02USD,
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And yeah, the rail is intended for cross-county service which, given our demographics, layout, etc., makes a lot more sense. (Feel free to drop me a mail or telnet into silverchat.com[local austinite bbs chat thingy] if you wanna chat about it -- getting kinda off-topic here :)
-l
This is true, but Word is still faster even without OSA. Try it. "The results may surprise you."
And I'm a die-hard Debian guy. The point is just that it needs some more work. EMACS learned long ago that you had to code up some of the lisp in C so it would load sometime this year. Other projects will need to do similar tricks. Prelinking is immensely helpful as is the Mozilla loader, but they're still slower to load (though I have no idea why).
Cheers,
-l
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There are probably more, but that is sufficient to keep me off Windows for the foreseeable future.
-l
Right, so the system administrators are to blame. :)
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What would be DAMN cool (to me anyway... I love genealogy and personal histories) would be an international, crosslinked, searchable archive of the email of the dead. Oh sure, "porn buddies" would cleanse any submitted material, but it'd be nice to easily read the correspondence of deceased relatives or other personalities of historical interest. The archive would have to subsist on donations and would have to verify all the correspondents are dead, I'm sure, or face being in the middle of a bunch of lawsuits. I suppose IM logs could be included, too.
What do y'all think?
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So, what is my SonyEricsson P900, chopped liver? Sure it's not a dedicated handheld, but I didn't want one. It does IR, Bluetooth, USB, Calendar, doesn't run Windows, etc.
Exiting the market, my ass! They're just going to focus on PDA/Phone unified devices.
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