If Intel keeps delaying the Pentium 4, they might as well just skip it and go straight for the Pentium 5. This got me thinking that the name "Pentium" was Intel's way of avoiding calling their next chip the 586. So maybe Intel is afraid of the number 5, which means they won't have a Pentium 5 after all. What will they call it instead? Penta-Pentium? Or will they do something like making the "5" an exponent, as in "Pentium to the 5th power"? Or maybe just P-P-P-P-Pentium? Or Pentiummier? Anyone else have any other stupid ideas?
As mentioned in an earlier Slashdot article, the Mattel Agent Zero M 5530 Sonic Blaster is my weapon of choice for silencing my critics. From the Consumer Reports page,The Mattel Agent Zero M Sonic Blaster 5530 fires compressed air with a deafening blast. Our measurements top out at 157 dB-above a level that can do permanent damage to the hearing of an adult.
I have been keeping up to date. It looks as if you haven't.
I followed the instructions here to get the source via CVS and every day or so I run 'gmake -f client.mk' which updates my source files and rebuilds. Is there something I should do to be more up to date than that?
Does anyone else think it is odd that a commercial browser is 'release' quality when they take a slightly buggy beta release from an open-source project, add a bunch more much, much buggier features and then pop it out the door?
I'll probably have ESR scratching my name on a bullet for saying this, but I think the Mozilla/AOL combination illustrates some of the natural incompatabilities between commercial marketing-department-driven software and open-source developer-has-an-itch-to-scratch-driven software.
I keep up to date with the Mozilla code on Linux and I don't see any sort of AOL crap. That tells me that for this product, the poor developers branched their code and started adding all that AOL fluff. As far as most of us are concerned, that effort would have been better used fixing bugs on that branch.
I hope this product stays alive; I'd really like to see it survive. I just hope the marketing doesn't get in the way of stability.
When I voted this morning, I tried to help out the left/progressive third parties. In particular, when a candidate was listed on a major party as well as a minor party, I voted for them on the minor party column, hoping it would help that party in some way.
However, I can't help but feel that the most socially useful thing I did was buying a pastry from the Senior class bake sale on my way out.
Indeed I did, and I laughed all the way through the article. I also couldn't help notice the resemblance to the "potato-powered web server" from a few months ago. It got me wondering, though, of the possibilities for a rice and beans-powered circuit. What's got a higher energy density - rice and beans or a potato? My first vote would go to rice and beans, but if you throw a little cabbage in with the potato - look out! It must act like a catalyst, causing the potato to release more energy than by itself.
The delay is due to the fiber -> fibre conversion process. This isn't so bad with white light, but when you have to convert colored light to coloured light, things get tricky.
Following closely in the orbit of Eros is another asteroid, named Phallus. Astronomers are unsure of the makeup of this asteroid, as it changes size and orientation periodically, growing larger and more vertical as it nears Eros.
I have an old (486DX2-66) laptop with a relatively new, several gig hard drive. I've got an ethernet card for it and a hub at home, so it would be ideal for transferring lots of data. No termination or power-down issues. If you poke around ebay, I'll bet you could find a similar laptop for around $200. The drive would cost you more than that. You can probably get a PCMCIA ethernet adapter for around $40 or so. Another advantage is that you then have a laptop. One disadvantage compared to just a drive would be the size.
how are you supposed to install Office without Windows?
Simple - you run something like wine d:\setup.exe, or whatever the installation program is called on the CD-ROM. I even did this with Quicktime, and was able to install it (but not run it, alas.)
I wonder if there are legal ways to encourage voting. Say, for example, MTV stationed people at polling stations and gave out discount coupons for use at local record stores.
When a company enters the business of making a filter program, one of their assumptions is that there are no rules out there. Thus they must rely on what have been shown time after time to be flawed heuristics to detect "objectionable" material. However, if the US government gets into the act, they may try to fashion legislation forcing web pages to include some meta tag indicating their content, with penalties for content that doesn't match the tag. Then they would lump untagged content with "objectionable" material, requiring it to be blocked, leaving the burden on webmasters to update their sites.
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If Intel keeps delaying the Pentium 4, they might as well just skip it and go straight for the Pentium 5. This got me thinking that the name "Pentium" was Intel's way of avoiding calling their next chip the 586. So maybe Intel is afraid of the number 5, which means they won't have a Pentium 5 after all. What will they call it instead? Penta-Pentium? Or will they do something like making the "5" an exponent, as in "Pentium to the 5th power"? Or maybe just P-P-P-P-Pentium? Or Pentiummier? Anyone else have any other stupid ideas?
If this is a serious question (not just a troll):
I see he posted at 12:29 AM. Trolls don't come out until after 2 AM, so it wasn't a troll.
Just plug them pair-wise into an AC outlet and then call Ameritech and ask them if they smell smoke.
As mentioned in an earlier Slashdot article, the Mattel Agent Zero M 5530 Sonic Blaster is my weapon of choice for silencing my critics. From the Consumer Reports page, The Mattel Agent Zero M Sonic Blaster 5530 fires compressed air with a deafening blast. Our measurements top out at 157 dB-above a level that can do permanent damage to the hearing of an adult.
I haven't had a chance to try this out myself, but you may want to look into something called CVSup
I followed the instructions here to get the source via CVS and every day or so I run 'gmake -f client.mk' which updates my source files and rebuilds. Is there something I should do to be more up to date than that?
I'll probably have ESR scratching my name on a bullet for saying this, but I think the Mozilla/AOL combination illustrates some of the natural incompatabilities between commercial marketing-department-driven software and open-source developer-has-an-itch-to-scratch-driven software.
I keep up to date with the Mozilla code on Linux and I don't see any sort of AOL crap. That tells me that for this product, the poor developers branched their code and started adding all that AOL fluff. As far as most of us are concerned, that effort would have been better used fixing bugs on that branch.
I hope this product stays alive; I'd really like to see it survive. I just hope the marketing doesn't get in the way of stability.
Well, maybe if they didn't run their web server on their TiVo they'd have an easier time handling the load...
However, I can't help but feel that the most socially useful thing I did was buying a pastry from the Senior class bake sale on my way out.
So did you at least get the number of the lady in front of you?
Rob just likes to say "Woody." It's a phase. He'll grow out of it.
In response to their failures, the ZapMe corporation has changed its name and will now be known as FuckMe.
Indeed I did, and I laughed all the way through the article. I also couldn't help notice the resemblance to the "potato-powered web server" from a few months ago. It got me wondering, though, of the possibilities for a rice and beans-powered circuit. What's got a higher energy density - rice and beans or a potato? My first vote would go to rice and beans, but if you throw a little cabbage in with the potato - look out! It must act like a catalyst, causing the potato to release more energy than by itself.
This tragedy could have been averted if only Congress would pass a seven-day waiting period for registering domains.
The delay is due to the fiber -> fibre conversion process. This isn't so bad with white light, but when you have to convert colored light to coloured light, things get tricky.
At least that's something politicians can't blame on video games, music, television, movies, the internet, etc.
Following closely in the orbit of Eros is another asteroid, named Phallus. Astronomers are unsure of the makeup of this asteroid, as it changes size and orientation periodically, growing larger and more vertical as it nears Eros.
I have an old (486DX2-66) laptop with a relatively new, several gig hard drive. I've got an ethernet card for it and a hub at home, so it would be ideal for transferring lots of data. No termination or power-down issues. If you poke around ebay, I'll bet you could find a similar laptop for around $200. The drive would cost you more than that. You can probably get a PCMCIA ethernet adapter for around $40 or so. Another advantage is that you then have a laptop. One disadvantage compared to just a drive would be the size.
Simple - you run something like wine d:\setup.exe, or whatever the installation program is called on the CD-ROM. I even did this with Quicktime, and was able to install it (but not run it, alas.)
How would you get x86 binaries to run on a Mac? I didn't think that Wine would do this for you.
I wonder if there are legal ways to encourage voting. Say, for example, MTV stationed people at polling stations and gave out discount coupons for use at local record stores.
When a company enters the business of making a filter program, one of their assumptions is that there are no rules out there. Thus they must rely on what have been shown time after time to be flawed heuristics to detect "objectionable" material. However, if the US government gets into the act, they may try to fashion legislation forcing web pages to include some meta tag indicating their content, with penalties for content that doesn't match the tag. Then they would lump untagged content with "objectionable" material, requiring it to be blocked, leaving the burden on webmasters to update their sites.
I can't wait to play Virtual Virtual Skeeball on one of these. It'll be just like playing Virtual Skeeball!
There is no spoon. -- Neo
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