Oh yeah, I forgot how well the Sahara would be wonderful farmland if we didn't put the farmers out of work, how we started the whole Somali famine, caused all of the natural disasters in the world, etc. Nice troll.
What about the 1 million metric tons of food that we just... give away for free? This link is to just one program... in total, the U.S. gives away (for free) about 9 million metric tons of food to needy foreign countries every year. Where's the "profit" in "free."
The real problem is distribution. Quite often, the food doesn't make it to the people it mostly needs to go to. Case in point... the U.N. food-for-oil program in Iraq. Saddam kept almost all of it for his government and military, all the while telling the Iraqi people that they had no food because we were stopping the flow of food. Not true... he was keeping it for himself.
By the way, one million metric tons of food donations equals about 8 pounds per person in the United States. I also happen to donate to local food programs (voluntarily)... approximately 100 lbs per year. Did *you* donate any food this year?
Oh, and you're wrong about why the WTO is bad: The WTO is bad because it fails to protect workers in the United States from foreign competition and encourages things like NAFTA and FTAA, which put our own people out of work. This happens because labor is a lot cheaper elsewhere (so-called sweatshops, etc), so companies increase profit margin by using foreign labor.
It's the same reason that hiring illegal immigrants is bad: It gives a job away that could be filled by a higher-paid, tax-paying, protected-by-labor-law American worker. And, the argument that "they do the jobs nobody else would take" is bullshit. If nobody took the jobs, and they needed to be done, the offered pay would increase until people would take the job for the money. Instead, illegal immigrants are exploited because they can't get a normal job, and fear getting busted.
You guys have to remember that there is a HUGE digital divide out there and getting soldiers with out much education comfortable with computers tends to be quicker and easier with Windows. This believe it or not does NOT boil down to money.
Careful, you are getting really close to assuming "no education" == "stupid" or incapable of learning.
When I was a soldier (a common soldier, straight out of high school), I learned Linux.
When I was a soldier, we used SCO Unix in the field. Others used Solaris.
When I was a soldier, we knew how to use DOS.
It wasn't until around 1998 that lots of machines started coming with Windows. They still won't put Windows on some machines, and never will. (Due to the nature of their use...)
When I was a soldier, we knew how to build networks in the barracks. We strung up Cat5 among all of us with computers, and played network games. Mostly Quake and Warcraft I/II.
I am confident that the average soldier could use KDE and OpenOffice, no problem.
Matter of fact, I was a soldier when I decided the KDE/GNOME debate for myself. I was still using Slackware, installed GNOME, started it up... freeze. Installed KDE, started it up... worked. Been using KDE ever since.
they only want to use what they are comfortable with.
Maybe some. The rest of us just wanted to use something that worked well. I'd like to see someone field a Windows-based fire support computer that blue-screened one out of a thousand times you needed to send off a call-for-fire. That is still unacceptable. I've seen machines with problems that developed on their own blue-screen one out of ten times when you tried to run Office.
I can say one thing for SCO... one thing only. The SCO-based computer system I used *never* crashed, not once, not ever.
In Canada we have these things called "Large Forests". In these "Forests" we have large amounts of "Trees". Because we have so many of these "Trees", it is cheaper for lumber companies to harvest, and make "Lumber". This "Lumber" can be sold cheaply to countries where the lumber companies must pay high prices in order to harvest their small number of "Trees".
In the United States of America, we also have "Large Forests." In these "forests" we also have large amounts of "trees." Some of use would love to make this "lumber" stuff out of them.
The problem is, we also have "Radical Environmentalists" who don't believe that there is such a thing as "sustainable harvesting." Groups of these religious zealots, when possible, tie up every single proposed timber harvest in lawsuits, which drives up the cost of production.
Believe you me, instead of giving all the benefits to you Canadians, I'd rather harvest our own trees and keep our dollars in our own economy, paying our own workers.
Your Commie-64 *would* have ruled, if it didn't go something like this:
Apple: Insert disk, power on, wait 10 seconds, play game.
C-64: Power on, insert disk, type 'LOAD "GAME",8,1', then grab a beer, drink it, piss it out, cook and eat dinner, eat dessert, and when you were done with all that the machine was ready for you to type 'RUN'.
Seriously, those 1541 drives were *SLOW*. Indeed, I collect retromachines, and I saw a C-64 in a pawn shop yesterday, one of the new, sleek, Amiga-500 lookalikes, and that big, ugly, slow 1541 drive. The sign said "Make an offer, any offer." I passed it up, thinking of all those times my friends and I sat around the machine waiting for the games to load.
There are even fancy little icon-based "Control Panels" that let you access these nifty tools.
Microsoft has Internet Explorer. Linux has Netscape, Mozilla, and Konquerer.
And a whole host of other browsers, specifically you forgot Lynx, Opera, and several 'light' browsers.
Microsoft has Windows Update with 3 clicks. Linux has... manual update with a whole lot of clicks and typing.
Again, distro dependent, but there are tools (RH network, etc.) that make it *that* easy to update.
Microsoft has Windows Media Player. Linux has... zip. (Can anything in Linux play all the formats that WMP can?)
Obviously, you have never looked at MPlayer. It plays *more* formats than WMP can.
Microsoft has (*gasp*) setup.exe as a standard install. Linux has configure, make, and make install.
Again, distro dependent, but if I wanted to, I could use the GUI rpm tools and install that way, or I could just type "rpm -ivh package.rpm" Not all software is delivered in package format, but it also wouldn't be hard to make a GUI tool that could handle packages that implement configure, make, and make install. You could even glean all the configure options and get checkboxes for them, include an optional help file, etc.
Microsoft has Office. Linux has OpenOffice, KDE Office, and StarOffice.
You forgot one choice for Linux: Crossover Office. But, the mere fact that none of the Linux-native choices comes with a dancing, winking paperclip that always looks like it's trying to flirt with me... well, that speaks for itself.
Uncle Sam isn't a corporation. A government's aim isn't to profit it's to provide public services to YOU. Making YOU tighten your belt by raising YOUR taxes is INFINITELY better than tightening the government's belt, because if the government has no money, the economy will fall into a state where you won't have Uncle Sam isn't a corporation. A government's aim isn't to profit it's to provide public services to YOU. Making YOU tighten your belt by raising YOUR taxes is INFINITELY better than tightening the government's belt, because if the government has no money, the economy will fall into a state where you won't have any either, and there's no way to recover from that.any either, and there's no way to recover from that.
What if the whole reason the government isn't collecting enough taxes is because YOU are already tightening YOUR belt because of layoffs and wage freezes?
It's a brilliant scheme. People lose their jobs and face wage freezes or reductions, and the solution of the government is to raise taxes on the people who just had their wages frozen or cut, and and it simply can't collect it at all from the people who are unemployed.
Consequently, working people move out of the state, increasing the relative number of retirees who pay virtually ZERO taxes in Oregon (due to no sales tax and sheltered retirement plans). The same retirees who won't vote for a single local option tax to fund their area schools. ("I don't have kids, why should I pay?")
The real problem Oregon has is that the state is unattractive to business (even hostile), which fails to bring in working taxpayers. Their solution is to raise taxes and minimum wage at the same time, which leads to increased layoffs and a further reduction in revenue.
Oregon doesn't have a motor vehicle inspection program like many states. We do, however, have a biannual emissions inspection.
Obviously you live in the Portland metro area.
News flash: No such inspections are required anywhere else in Oregon.
I wish you Portlanders would wake up and realize that your little chunk of the state doesn't resemble any part of the rest of it (except maybe Eugene), and stop acting like you own the entire fscking state.
Count me in, but I'm only sending the money if you get 15,000 other people to commit:)
Re:Don't forget Harry Turtledove's Darkness series
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I thought the first few books in SoT were excellent. The last couple have been good reads... but I'm not as satisfied with them as I was with Wizard's First Rule and Blood of the Fold, which explored topics of humanity and human relationships. Faith of the Fallen was most interesting when you learned of the Empire's bureaucracy.
I agree, though, that the Wizard's Rules are the most redeeming part of the series.
As you noticed, I especially like the First Rule. It's the first because it is the most important.:) It is also the one I've noticed to be the most true.
Don't forget Harry Turtledove's Darkness series
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Harry Turtledove's Darkness series is a story about a war, very similar to World War II, but set in a usual fantasy world of magic, dragons, etc.
It's a very good read. Character development is excellent, though there are so many characters it's a bit hard to keep track of, at first. However, once you're in to it, you begin to know them intimately.
The Darkness series is a damn good read for anyone that likes good fantasy.
The big problem is that the new prefixes sound... well, stupid.
mebibytes sounds too much like "maybe-bytes" (maybe not...)
kibibits sounds like "kibbles and bits" (feed your pets, anyone?)
gibibytes just sounds like baby-talk. Hell, all of them sound like mumbling.
The thing was, when I was growing up, if kilo or mega (we didn't have giga-anything back then) were prefixed to bits, bytes, words, pages, etc., you knew it was 2^10, 2^20, etc. That was before hard disks and hard disk marketing.
If you're going to replace the prefixes, at least pick something that sounds cool. I don't have any suggestions, but I'll be damned if I say kibi, mebi, and gibi. If that means I have to work in my minor field to get a job... well... hmmm...
For collecting atmospheric, thermal or geological samples across great distances, the 'single-wheel' tumbleweed has some advantages over the usual four-wheeling approach to tough terrain.
Until it runs into a rock or low spot and gets stuck.
Have to correct you on a couple things:... not to mention sprites
The Apple II series did not have sprites as a hardware implementation like C-64s and Ataris did.
memory mapped video
Yeah, that was cool, but still a hassle on a II because the scan-lines are not stored in-order in memory.
soft sectored floppies. every one else was hard sectored leading to incompatible drive, proliferation of formats, and incompatible software for accessing them. the apples could reprogram themselves as drive technology improved rapidly.
Except that that didn't happen much. After the switch from the 13-sector to 16-sector floppy, no advancement was made in Apple II 5.25" floppies. Not even a double-sided drive.
The best upgrade was the SuperDrive card, one of which I am fortunate to own and have inside my IIgs.
Hi CtC? <user> Uh, no. <RIAA> ASL plz <user> get lost <RIAA> plz talk 2 me! <RIAA> plz talk 2 me! <RIAA> plz talk 2 me! <RIAA> plz talk 2 me! <user> fsck off! <RIAA> y r u so mean? <RIAA> wats your name? <user> damnit! leave me alone!/ignore RIAA
Hi CtC?
Uh, no.
ASL plz
get lost
plz talk 2 me!
plz talk 2 me!
plz talk 2 me!
plz talk 2 me!
fsck off!
y r u so mean?
wats your name?
damnit! leave me alone!/ignore RIAA
First problem! You need at least as many exhaust fans as you have intakes, maybe one more if you are counting the PS fan as an exhaust. Turn the two in the back of your case around, and I bet the CPU temperatures will drop 10 or 15 degrees.
In my experience, always have one more intake fan than exhaust fan. If you do that, you'll keep the inside of your case pressurized, so that it doesn't draw in dust through optical drives/any other crack in the case.
Even better, if you put filters on your intake fans (the snap-on ones are great!) then you'll find that your machine stays relatively dust-free on the inside. Great for those windowed cases.
The combination lock is a different thing, and Master(tm) combo locks don't have that particular insecurity (although I'm not sure how sensitive they are; probably ~1000 combinations, which would take about an hour by trial and error).
With Master(tm) brand combination locks, the combination can be figured out in about 10 minutes if you can get the last number in the combination. Google for it, should come up with something.
I've been reading all these posts, and wondering a bit. First off, I'm a student majoring in Geology and Computer Science. (double-major woo!)
Point 1: The earth would be a lot warmer if the isthmus of Panama did not exist. When it formed, it blocked the flow of warmwater currents, this began the "ice age."
Point 2: Some Geologists call all the time from the late Cenozoic to present the "ice age." This was when Antarctic glaciation began. (Other Geologists refer to the ice age as starting 10 MYA, when mid-latitude glaciation was first evident). The little period of extreme glaciation that ended 10,000 years ago was just that, a period of cyclical glaciation. Things are still a lot colder now than they were 40 million years ago.
Point 3: During the warm periods in the Earth's geologic history, there was much more biodiversity.
Point 4: A warmer planet could mean longer growth cycles, rainer weather, and more farmable land in higher latitudes, if the planet were to become at all like it was in the past.
So, why is global warming necessarily bad? I don't care what you all identify the cause as, and I don't care about rising sea levels. (They are well below average over hundreds of millions of years, you know.)
Microsoft's explanation of why they will not fix the bug, in the security report, uses so many 5-dollar words like "rearchitecting" that I prefer to think it is just a way for them to avoid the effort of making a patch.
Perhaps they don't employ any rearchitects that can do the rearchitecting needed to fix it.
BTW, how does one pronounce "Bxploit?"... I submitted the same story, but spelled correctly:)
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Oh yeah, I forgot how well the Sahara would be wonderful farmland if we didn't put the farmers out of work, how we started the whole Somali famine, caused all of the natural disasters in the world, etc. Nice troll.
What about the 1 million metric tons of food that we just... give away for free? This link is to just one program... in total, the U.S. gives away (for free) about 9 million metric tons of food to needy foreign countries every year. Where's the "profit" in "free."
The real problem is distribution. Quite often, the food doesn't make it to the people it mostly needs to go to. Case in point... the U.N. food-for-oil program in Iraq. Saddam kept almost all of it for his government and military, all the while telling the Iraqi people that they had no food because we were stopping the flow of food. Not true... he was keeping it for himself.
By the way, one million metric tons of food donations equals about 8 pounds per person in the United States. I also happen to donate to local food programs (voluntarily)... approximately 100 lbs per year. Did *you* donate any food this year?
Oh, and you're wrong about why the WTO is bad: The WTO is bad because it fails to protect workers in the United States from foreign competition and encourages things like NAFTA and FTAA, which put our own people out of work. This happens because labor is a lot cheaper elsewhere (so-called sweatshops, etc), so companies increase profit margin by using foreign labor.
It's the same reason that hiring illegal immigrants is bad: It gives a job away that could be filled by a higher-paid, tax-paying, protected-by-labor-law American worker. And, the argument that "they do the jobs nobody else would take" is bullshit. If nobody took the jobs, and they needed to be done, the offered pay would increase until people would take the job for the money. Instead, illegal immigrants are exploited because they can't get a normal job, and fear getting busted.
You guys have to remember that there is a HUGE digital divide out there and getting soldiers with out much education comfortable with computers tends to be quicker and easier with Windows. This believe it or not does NOT boil down to money.
Careful, you are getting really close to assuming "no education" == "stupid" or incapable of learning.
When I was a soldier (a common soldier, straight out of high school), I learned Linux.
When I was a soldier, we used SCO Unix in the field. Others used Solaris.
When I was a soldier, we knew how to use DOS.
It wasn't until around 1998 that lots of machines started coming with Windows. They still won't put Windows on some machines, and never will. (Due to the nature of their use...)
When I was a soldier, we knew how to build networks in the barracks. We strung up Cat5 among all of us with computers, and played network games. Mostly Quake and Warcraft I/II.
I am confident that the average soldier could use KDE and OpenOffice, no problem.
Matter of fact, I was a soldier when I decided the KDE/GNOME debate for myself. I was still using Slackware, installed GNOME, started it up... freeze. Installed KDE, started it up... worked. Been using KDE ever since.
they only want to use what they are comfortable with.
Maybe some. The rest of us just wanted to use something that worked well. I'd like to see someone field a Windows-based fire support computer that blue-screened one out of a thousand times you needed to send off a call-for-fire. That is still unacceptable. I've seen machines with problems that developed on their own blue-screen one out of ten times when you tried to run Office.
I can say one thing for SCO... one thing only. The SCO-based computer system I used *never* crashed, not once, not ever.
In Canada we have these things called "Large Forests". In these "Forests" we have large amounts of "Trees". Because we have so many of these "Trees", it is cheaper for lumber companies to harvest, and make "Lumber". This "Lumber" can be sold cheaply to countries where the lumber companies must pay high prices in order to harvest their small number of "Trees".
In the United States of America, we also have "Large Forests." In these "forests" we also have large amounts of "trees." Some of use would love to make this "lumber" stuff out of them.
The problem is, we also have "Radical Environmentalists" who don't believe that there is such a thing as "sustainable harvesting." Groups of these religious zealots, when possible, tie up every single proposed timber harvest in lawsuits, which drives up the cost of production.
Believe you me, instead of giving all the benefits to you Canadians, I'd rather harvest our own trees and keep our dollars in our own economy, paying our own workers.
HAH!
Your Commie-64 *would* have ruled, if it didn't go something like this:
Apple: Insert disk, power on, wait 10 seconds, play game.
C-64: Power on, insert disk, type 'LOAD "GAME",8,1', then grab a beer, drink it, piss it out, cook and eat dinner, eat dessert, and when you were done with all that the machine was ready for you to type 'RUN'.
Seriously, those 1541 drives were *SLOW*. Indeed, I collect retromachines, and I saw a C-64 in a pawn shop yesterday, one of the new, sleek, Amiga-500 lookalikes, and that big, ugly, slow 1541 drive. The sign said "Make an offer, any offer." I passed it up, thinking of all those times my friends and I sat around the machine waiting for the games to load.
Mostly depends on your distro... I'll relate you to RH 9.
... /usr/local/src?
... /home?
/home/username is a lot simpler than C:\Documents and Settings\User.MACHINE\My Documents\
... nada.
... manual update with a whole lot of clicks and typing.
... zip. (Can anything in Linux play all the formats that WMP can?)
Microsoft has Program Files. Linux has
If you're using GNOME or KDE, you've got a similar construct to "Program Files" available.
Microsoft has Documents and Settings. Linux has
What's wrong with "home," also known as "~"?
Microsoft has Computer Management. Linux has
A distro dependant thing... in RH9:
redhat-config-date
redhat-config-keyboard redhat-config-services
redhat-config-language redhat-config-time
redhat-config-mouse redhat-config-users
redhat-config-printer redhat-config-xfree86
There are even fancy little icon-based "Control Panels" that let you access these nifty tools.
Microsoft has Internet Explorer. Linux has Netscape, Mozilla, and Konquerer.
And a whole host of other browsers, specifically you forgot Lynx, Opera, and several 'light' browsers.
Microsoft has Windows Update with 3 clicks. Linux has
Again, distro dependent, but there are tools (RH network, etc.) that make it *that* easy to update.
Microsoft has Windows Media Player. Linux has
Obviously, you have never looked at MPlayer. It plays *more* formats than WMP can.
Microsoft has (*gasp*) setup.exe as a standard install. Linux has configure, make, and make install.
Again, distro dependent, but if I wanted to, I could use the GUI rpm tools and install that way, or I could just type "rpm -ivh package.rpm" Not all software is delivered in package format, but it also wouldn't be hard to make a GUI tool that could handle packages that implement configure, make, and make install. You could even glean all the configure options and get checkboxes for them, include an optional help file, etc.
Microsoft has Office. Linux has OpenOffice, KDE Office, and StarOffice.
You forgot one choice for Linux: Crossover Office. But, the mere fact that none of the Linux-native choices comes with a dancing, winking paperclip that always looks like it's trying to flirt with me... well, that speaks for itself.
Does anyone use QBASIC anymore? I didn't think M$ even provided it anymore.
What's the point of learning an ancient, MS-DOS based language when one could be busy learning something useful like C or Java?
R u sure thatz a problem? :) :)
pls b more specific...
LOLOLOLOL u r 2 funny!
ne1 wanna chat?
Uncle Sam isn't a corporation. A government's aim isn't to profit it's to provide public services to YOU. Making YOU tighten your belt by raising YOUR taxes is INFINITELY better than tightening the government's belt, because if the government has no money, the economy will fall into a state where you won't have Uncle Sam isn't a corporation. A government's aim isn't to profit it's to provide public services to YOU. Making YOU tighten your belt by raising YOUR taxes is INFINITELY better than tightening the government's belt, because if the government has no money, the economy will fall into a state where you won't have any either, and there's no way to recover from that.any either, and there's no way to recover from that.
What if the whole reason the government isn't collecting enough taxes is because YOU are already tightening YOUR belt because of layoffs and wage freezes?
It's a brilliant scheme. People lose their jobs and face wage freezes or reductions, and the solution of the government is to raise taxes on the people who just had their wages frozen or cut, and and it simply can't collect it at all from the people who are unemployed.
Consequently, working people move out of the state, increasing the relative number of retirees who pay virtually ZERO taxes in Oregon (due to no sales tax and sheltered retirement plans). The same retirees who won't vote for a single local option tax to fund their area schools. ("I don't have kids, why should I pay?")
The real problem Oregon has is that the state is unattractive to business (even hostile), which fails to bring in working taxpayers. Their solution is to raise taxes and minimum wage at the same time, which leads to increased layoffs and a further reduction in revenue.
Oregon doesn't have a motor vehicle inspection program like many states. We do, however, have a biannual emissions inspection.
Obviously you live in the Portland metro area.
News flash: No such inspections are required anywhere else in Oregon.
I wish you Portlanders would wake up and realize that your little chunk of the state doesn't resemble any part of the rest of it (except maybe Eugene), and stop acting like you own the entire fscking state.
Count me in, but I'm only sending the money if you get 15,000 other people to commit :)
I thought the first few books in SoT were excellent. The last couple have been good reads... but I'm not as satisfied with them as I was with Wizard's First Rule and Blood of the Fold, which explored topics of humanity and human relationships. Faith of the Fallen was most interesting when you learned of the Empire's bureaucracy.
:) It is also the one I've noticed to be the most true.
I agree, though, that the Wizard's Rules are the most redeeming part of the series.
As you noticed, I especially like the First Rule. It's the first because it is the most important.
Harry Turtledove's Darkness series is a story about a war, very similar to World War II, but set in a usual fantasy world of magic, dragons, etc.
It's a very good read. Character development is excellent, though there are so many characters it's a bit hard to keep track of, at first. However, once you're in to it, you begin to know them intimately.
The Darkness series is a damn good read for anyone that likes good fantasy.
The big problem is that the new prefixes sound... well, stupid.
mebibytes sounds too much like "maybe-bytes" (maybe not...)
kibibits sounds like "kibbles and bits" (feed your pets, anyone?)
gibibytes just sounds like baby-talk. Hell, all of them sound like mumbling.
The thing was, when I was growing up, if kilo or mega (we didn't have giga-anything back then) were prefixed to bits, bytes, words, pages, etc., you knew it was 2^10, 2^20, etc. That was before hard disks and hard disk marketing.
If you're going to replace the prefixes, at least pick something that sounds cool. I don't have any suggestions, but I'll be damned if I say kibi, mebi, and gibi. If that means I have to work in my minor field to get a job... well... hmmm...
For collecting atmospheric, thermal or geological samples across great distances, the 'single-wheel' tumbleweed has some advantages over the usual four-wheeling approach to tough terrain.
Until it runs into a rock or low spot and gets stuck.
Have to correct you on a couple things: ... not to mention sprites
The Apple II series did not have sprites as a hardware implementation like C-64s and Ataris did.
memory mapped video
Yeah, that was cool, but still a hassle on a II because the scan-lines are not stored in-order in memory.
soft sectored floppies. every one else was hard sectored leading to incompatible drive, proliferation of formats, and incompatible software for accessing them. the apples could reprogram themselves as drive technology improved rapidly.
Except that that didn't happen much. After the switch from the 13-sector to 16-sector floppy, no advancement was made in Apple II 5.25" floppies. Not even a double-sided drive.
The best upgrade was the SuperDrive card, one of which I am fortunate to own and have inside my IIgs.
Hi CtC? /ignore RIAA
<user> Uh, no.
<RIAA> ASL plz
<user> get lost
<RIAA> plz talk 2 me!
<RIAA> plz talk 2 me!
<RIAA> plz talk 2 me!
<RIAA> plz talk 2 me!
<user> fsck off!
<RIAA> y r u so mean?
<RIAA> wats your name?
<user> damnit! leave me alone!
Hi CtC? /ignore RIAA
Uh, no.
ASL plz
get lost
plz talk 2 me!
plz talk 2 me!
plz talk 2 me!
plz talk 2 me!
fsck off!
y r u so mean?
wats your name?
damnit! leave me alone!
First problem! You need at least as many exhaust fans as you have intakes, maybe one more if you are counting the PS fan as an exhaust. Turn the two in the back of your case around, and I bet the CPU temperatures will drop 10 or 15 degrees.
In my experience, always have one more intake fan than exhaust fan. If you do that, you'll keep the inside of your case pressurized, so that it doesn't draw in dust through optical drives/any other crack in the case.
Even better, if you put filters on your intake fans (the snap-on ones are great!) then you'll find that your machine stays relatively dust-free on the inside. Great for those windowed cases.
I was going on a first-time attempt. It's about how long it took me the first time. :)
If I had a reason to crack master locks all the time I'm sure I could get very quick at it!
The combination lock is a different thing, and Master(tm) combo locks don't have that particular insecurity (although I'm not sure how sensitive they are; probably ~1000 combinations, which would take about an hour by trial and error).
With Master(tm) brand combination locks, the combination can be figured out in about 10 minutes if you can get the last number in the combination. Google for it, should come up with something.
I've been reading all these posts, and wondering a bit. First off, I'm a student majoring in Geology and Computer Science. (double-major woo!)
Point 1: The earth would be a lot warmer if the isthmus of Panama did not exist. When it formed, it blocked the flow of warmwater currents, this began the "ice age."
Point 2: Some Geologists call all the time from the late Cenozoic to present the "ice age." This was when Antarctic glaciation began. (Other Geologists refer to the ice age as starting 10 MYA, when mid-latitude glaciation was first evident). The little period of extreme glaciation that ended 10,000 years ago was just that, a period of cyclical glaciation. Things are still a lot colder now than they were 40 million years ago.
Point 3: During the warm periods in the Earth's geologic history, there was much more biodiversity.
Point 4: A warmer planet could mean longer growth cycles, rainer weather, and more farmable land in higher latitudes, if the planet were to become at all like it was in the past.
So, why is global warming necessarily bad? I don't care what you all identify the cause as, and I don't care about rising sea levels. (They are well below average over hundreds of millions of years, you know.)
Ouch! Hit with the -1 by a rabid Trekkie. :)
I could comment on how that reinforces my argument...
But, sheesh, can't anyone take a joke?
It was on a gaming site.
I thought it was far too lame to submit to slashdot.
I guess I need to rethink slashdot's lameness level.
Microsoft's explanation of why they will not fix the bug, in the security report, uses so many 5-dollar words like "rearchitecting" that I prefer to think it is just a way for them to avoid the effort of making a patch.
:)
Perhaps they don't employ any rearchitects that can do the rearchitecting needed to fix it.
BTW, how does one pronounce "Bxploit?"... I submitted the same story, but spelled correctly
For those people that have an InFocus or similar 1024x768+ projector. Turn your projector into a decent projection HDTV, for a nice big screen.
That's what I'd do with it, anyway.