jesus f'n christ is everyone in the scientific community a retard?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age... DUH:P i noticed this trend when i was 10 i mean SHIT a single volcano dumps out more shit gasses than we ever could
Now that it's october 1 and unisys cant kill me anymore... i propose we expand on gif to be capable of a whopping 512 colors! that's right... 9 bit color! who's with me?
Oh yeah, I just tried to get cable internet alone (without TV or voice), and they acted very rapidly to filter the analog TV out, cut my speed from 6 to 4, and jacked up the price to $60/month. Assholes.
Ditto. Bastards. Thry eve force me to use THEIR POS modem....even though i have my own...
i wish there was something better at a more reasonable price...... i do not want DSL because i dont want to have to pay for a copper phone line.
i use *only* the data connection from the cable co... no phone or TV...and they charge me 60 as well// get my voice service through vonage... seems quite adequate to me... not like i'm doing a live radio show or anything like that...:P
I work as a contractor at a large computer company. All the code i've seen coming out of my peers is spaghetti crap code. All in C. A lot more dangerous IMHO because they dont free malloc'd strings, lots of potential seg faults and just a general lack of understanding of the language. I had to spend an hour explaining why a standard function that returns a string pointer requires its returned string to be freed after use.... I still dont think he understood. Not to mention a complete lack of understanding in the difference in how much time and resources it takes to process a file live on the disk compared to in memory. (small files, but still) and he was at a complete loss at why his printcap processor took 2 minutes and mine worked instantly. I'm no programming god, but SHIT! 2 minutes to process a printcap file with 10+ entries? quite sad.
what do you mean? the Japanese are already there with the Nazi's on the far side of the moon... been there since the 40's thanks to the german Haunebu craft! Hell, they're already on mars thanks to the Haunebu3 crafts:P.. bah.
being the optimist I am, wouldnt that mean there could be countless hyper-intelligent beings that night somehow be able to escape a big crunch? wouldnt that be novel?;)
That's what I was going to say... i cant see myself dishing out $250-$300 for a system... Of course the screen is beautiful, but with threats of dead pixels and broken buttons... I'd definitely expect more... I'm more likely to get another GP32 or a GPX2-F100.. most of the games i'd play are legacy genesis/snes/sms/nes/tg16 games anyways. maybe i'm a bad statistic
I decided to give my dad my old linux laptop and have him use that as his main machine... All he ever does is email, word processing, web, spreadsheets, print prochures, scan, copy,.... simple office type stuff. Here's a list of his main bitches (as a windoze whore)... first major thing: Printer for some odd reason, a perfectly normal postscript xerox printer never wanted to print anything more than about 2MB. I could not find anyone with that same problem, though every machine I tried to print something big from under linux would choke. Eventually, in desperation, after installing EVERY printer filter and driver i could find, it magically started working. second thing: Scanner I installed sane, ran scanimage>blah.pnm and it worked great... but then i ran in xscanimage, and if i ever canceled the print, it just died. besides that, the scans came out kind of dark. It took me about 30 minutes messing with it to figure out it was the exposure time (contrast and brightness had absolutely no effect) third: thegimp, open office, kde apps, gnome apps they all use different dialogs (and terminology) for the same functions (or are missing expected ones) for example, the gimp doesnt have a print option at all (while an integral part of photoshop and every other image editor), while openoffice, kde apps, and gnome apps use all different print and settings dialog styles. I *REALLY* dont want to put him on windows... he's on the road a lot and gets on the internet using his sprint phone (not supported by windows at all because sprint doesnt want you to do that) I also dont want to have to worry about him getting spyware and viruses and all that crap.
If linux will ever become a system to replace windows, forget about making linux like windows.... make the consumer-end of the driver installs work -- maybe have a checkbox on the driver installers (sane, cups, etc) to report back to the developers on how certain printers, scanners, whatever need to be set up and have those as defaults... list EVERY known printer with whatever default settings are needed.. even if two different models use the exact same settings and driver... also, the developers need to work on integrating interface styles... wouldnt this be easy enough with the powerful skinning and theming systems in all these window managers?? Why the frigg cant the qt people, gtk people, E people and so forth and so on get together and come up with a standard theming system? and have that theme to go as far as completely theming even how the guts of dialog boxes (printer options, etc) look?
how about mandatory castration and hanging of spammers?;)
i run a mail server, web server, etc... my main mailbox used to get close to 200-300 spams daily. I've implemented a few blacklists, including the one that lists all the dynamic IP blocks (a mail server on a dynamic ip makes absolutely no sense to me)since i put all the blacklists in, i get at most 6-7 per day which are usually all caught by my bayesian filters... My dad also uses my server and runs a sales business from his email address... he lost one good email (which he re-requested afterwards), which was blocked by two RBL lists that were questionable from the start. I pulled those two from the list of relays i check and I havnt had a lost email since... RBL lists seem to work really well for me... probably the best anti-spam mechanism i've used. bayesian filters are a good supplement to the system.. i never did get a 99% identification like they claim.. probably closer to 70% -- 30% of 200 is still 60 spams in my inbox daily... something had to be done... RBL's make email bearable again...
back when win2k beta was out, i decided to try it out.. I converted the drives to ntfs and everything.. after it rebooted a few times, it was installed and all of the sudden.. it wouldnt let me copy files in any way... no copy/paste, no drag/drop, command prompt didnt want to work.. nothing. i rebooted the machine... same thing... i decided to try to read the files with a linux boot disk.. no such luck... something about it being a new version of ntfs or something... so i tried the recovery disks......they decided to format the HD completely with no prompting or anything.... I lost about 20GB of (legal) videos and music that day... moral of the story: DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES INSTALL A MS BETA PRODUCT ON A LIVE MACHINE!;)
do those count? they're.... kind of computers..;) could go as far as atari 2600 in that case.... probably the oldes i have that is still hooked up and kicking...
as an extension to what i said.. in september of 2001, i joined an Aikido school.. since then, my energy level has gone up a lot. I can easily do yard work all day in the texas heat for a full day if i needed to HAH amazing feat for a computer geek, eh?
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the amount of bad gasses put out by a volcano is several orders of magnitude greater than what we do.
it's like pissing into the ocean..
jesus f'n christ ... DUH :P
is everyone in the scientific community a retard??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age
i noticed this trend when i was 10
i mean SHIT a single volcano dumps out more shit gasses than we ever could
UNDERSEA IDOL!
i think i'll build me a generator for my back yard now :)
will radio shack or fry's work for parts?
google should DEFINITELY take it :) :)
http://space.google.com/
adapt google maps and use celestia as a googlespace app
that'd rawk!
Now that it's october 1 and unisys cant kill me anymore... i propose we expand on gif to be capable of a whopping 512 colors! that's right... 9 bit color! who's with me?
Oh yeah, I just tried to get cable internet alone (without TV or voice), and they acted very rapidly to filter the analog TV out, cut my speed from 6 to 4, and jacked up the price to $60/month. Assholes.
... i do not want DSL because i dont want to have to pay for a copper phone line.
i use *only* the data connection from the cable co... no phone or TV...and they charge me 60 as well// get my voice service through vonage... seems quite adequate to me... not like i'm doing a live radio show or anything like that... :P
Ditto. Bastards. Thry eve force me to use THEIR POS modem....even though i have my own... i wish there was something better at a more reasonable price...
I work as a contractor at a large computer company. All the code i've seen coming out of my peers is spaghetti crap code. All in C. A lot more dangerous IMHO because they dont free malloc'd strings, lots of potential seg faults and just a general lack of understanding of the language. I had to spend an hour explaining why a standard function that returns a string pointer requires its returned string to be freed after use.... I still dont think he understood.
Not to mention a complete lack of understanding in the difference in how much time and resources it takes to process a file live on the disk compared to in memory. (small files, but still)
and he was at a complete loss at why his printcap processor took 2 minutes and mine worked instantly.
I'm no programming god, but SHIT! 2 minutes to process a printcap file with 10+ entries?
quite sad.
Pffft..
this PROVES slashdotters are not all 14 year old teenage boys!
what do you mean? the Japanese are already there with the Nazi's on the far side of the moon ... been there since the 40's thanks to the german Haunebu craft! Hell, they're already on mars thanks to the Haunebu3 crafts :P .. bah.
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a few links for your amusement:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_ufos
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ufo_aleman/esp_
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Moon_base
http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/moonger.html
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being the optimist I am, wouldnt that mean there could be countless hyper-intelligent beings that night somehow be able to escape a big crunch? wouldnt that be novel? ;)
Anyone think this technology could act as a catalyst for fusion?
That's what I was going to say...
i cant see myself dishing out $250-$300 for a system... Of course the screen is beautiful, but with threats of dead pixels and broken buttons... I'd definitely expect more... I'm more likely to get another GP32 or a GPX2-F100.. most of the games i'd play are legacy genesis/snes/sms/nes/tg16 games anyways. maybe i'm a bad statistic
I decided to give my dad my old linux laptop and have him use that as his main machine... All he ever does is email, word processing, web, spreadsheets, print prochures, scan, copy, .... simple office type stuff. Here's a list of his main bitches (as a windoze whore)...
first major thing: Printer
for some odd reason, a perfectly normal postscript xerox printer never wanted to print anything more than about 2MB. I could not find anyone with that same problem, though every machine I tried to print something big from under linux would choke. Eventually, in desperation, after installing EVERY printer filter and driver i could find, it magically started working.
second thing: Scanner
I installed sane, ran scanimage>blah.pnm and it worked great... but then i ran in xscanimage, and if i ever canceled the print, it just died. besides that, the scans came out kind of dark. It took me about 30 minutes messing with it to figure out it was the exposure time (contrast and brightness had absolutely no effect)
third: thegimp, open office, kde apps, gnome apps
they all use different dialogs (and terminology) for the same functions (or are missing expected ones)
for example, the gimp doesnt have a print option at all (while an integral part of photoshop and every other image editor), while openoffice, kde apps, and gnome apps use all different print and settings dialog styles.
I *REALLY* dont want to put him on windows... he's on the road a lot and gets on the internet using his sprint phone (not supported by windows at all because sprint doesnt want you to do that) I also dont want to have to worry about him getting spyware and viruses and all that crap.
If linux will ever become a system to replace windows, forget about making linux like windows.... make the consumer-end of the driver installs work -- maybe have a checkbox on the driver installers (sane, cups, etc) to report back to the developers on how certain printers, scanners, whatever need to be set up and have those as defaults... list EVERY known printer with whatever default settings are needed.. even if two different models use the exact same settings and driver...
also, the developers need to work on integrating interface styles... wouldnt this be easy enough with the powerful skinning and theming systems in all these window managers?? Why the frigg cant the qt people, gtk people, E people and so forth and so on get together and come up with a standard theming system? and have that theme to go as far as completely theming even how the guts of dialog boxes (printer options, etc) look?
does anyone else think of those socker moms in minivans blowdrying their hair while putting on lipstick?
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how about mandatory castration and hanging of spammers? ;)
i run a mail server, web server, etc...
my main mailbox used to get close to 200-300 spams daily. I've implemented a few blacklists, including the one that lists all the dynamic IP blocks (a mail server on a dynamic ip makes absolutely no sense to me)since i put all the blacklists in, i get at most 6-7 per day which are usually all caught by my bayesian filters...
My dad also uses my server and runs a sales business from his email address... he lost one good email (which he re-requested afterwards), which was blocked by two RBL lists that were questionable from the start. I pulled those two from the list of relays i check and I havnt had a lost email since... RBL lists seem to work really well for me... probably the best anti-spam mechanism i've used. bayesian filters are a good supplement to the system.. i never did get a 99% identification like they claim.. probably closer to 70% -- 30% of 200 is still 60 spams in my inbox daily... something had to be done... RBL's make email bearable again...
... good point...
DUDE!@ you totally ripped that idea off from the screen savers last night!
back when win2k beta was out, i decided to try it out.. I converted the drives to ntfs and everything.. after it rebooted a few times, it was installed and all of the sudden.. it wouldnt let me copy files in any way... no copy/paste, no drag/drop, command prompt didnt want to work.. nothing. ...they decided to format the HD completely with no prompting or anything.... I lost about 20GB of (legal) videos and music that day... ;)
i rebooted the machine... same thing...
i decided to try to read the files with a linux boot disk.. no such luck... something about it being a new version of ntfs or something... so i tried the recovery disks...
moral of the story: DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES INSTALL A MS BETA PRODUCT ON A LIVE MACHINE!
do those count? they're .... kind of computers.. ;)
could go as far as atari 2600 in that case.... probably the oldes i have that is still hooked up and kicking...
as an extension to what i said.. in september of 2001, i joined an Aikido school.. since then, my energy level has gone up a lot. I can easily do yard work all day in the texas heat for a full day if i needed to
HAH
amazing feat for a computer geek, eh?