"Brother - can you share your pot/smack/crank/acid/horse?"
"Man - can you share your girlfriend/wife?"
"d00d - can you share your code?"
RMS and his GPL - what a frickin' joke. He's nothing more than an ageing hippie who wants the world to be happy & free with everyone sharing their software, so he doesn't have to pay for any. Academia has bought into his mindset because anything that is in any way, shape or form "expensive" is not good for Academia, with the exception of expensive salaries for teachers/professors who should be tried for treason and hung (read "Ward Churchill").
He's a dinosaur and a software marxist - nothing more.
The sooner that the software industry recognizes the GPL and it's varaints for being the joke they are, the better.
I'd like to take the opportunity to correct you...
The Saturn V *was* the largest, most powefull rocket in the world. 1 of the three remaining vehicles was used to loft SkyLab into orbit, and the remaining 2 were used as outdoor display items: one at Johnsons Space Center in Houston and the other I believe is either at Huntsville or the Kennedy Space Center. The three were originally build for Apollo missions 18, 19 & 20 and were cancelled when America's interest in the Apollo program waned in the 70's.
The Saturn V hasn't been built in over 30 years. The costs today to build such a rocket would be (grin) "astronomical", and a budget item that Congress would kill before the first 5 words of the resolution would have been read from the podium.
From what I know, CompTIA is a Computer Industry association - the same folks that you get your A+, Network+ and other Computer Industry certifications. At least that's what is says on their website and my A+ Certification certificate, documentation and little plastic card that fits nicely in my wallet and proves to some extent that I'm not talking out of the top of my hat when I'm working on systems.
The article poster, "heretic9" should be taken out an summerily flogged with a wet noodle for being disingenuous by trying to turn CompTIA into nothing more than a lobbyist organization.
Zonk should be tortured by reading old, fading issues of "Byte" Magazine for not checking the information contained in the poster's submission.
Oh, wait - I thought this was a website that above all else stood for accuracy in their reporting.
Slashdot - the "CBS News with Dan Rather" of the Web.
Eli Whitney invented and patented the Cotton Gin to prevent others from making one of their own. This is a *clear* case of restricting trade and commerce via patent because his design was so open-ended that no one could build *anything* similar, and his 1794 patent was not successfully upheld until 1807.
Before shooting your mouth off, make sure your brain is loaded first!
Look at how many businesses move across the US in order to locate their businesses where the "business climate" is more favorable, expecially due to tax laws.
Is it illegal for a company to change locations so that they don't have to follow a particular set of laws? NO! If so, you can say good-bye to Offshore Oursourcing!
Enron was accused of fraud and power market manipulat...
Oh, wait......Nevermind.
--ScottKin
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You need to check your German/Nazi Rocketry history a bit better.
As with all similar rocketry work, many A4/V2 blew-up on the pad or reached no higher than 300ft before they pitched-over and KATO'ed.
Only after many test launches was the first successful launch of the A4/V2 on Sept. 8, 1944.
--ScottKin
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The largest "successful" rocket ever built - NASA's Saturn V - used Kerosene and LOX (Liquid Oxygen) for the 1st stage.
Also, I think you got nitrogen mixed-up with hydrogen. Nitrogen is mostly inert, but it *is* used to manage volume expansion in fuel tanks and additional exhaust nozzle bell cooling.
--ScottKin
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For the obviously uninformed - RTFW(Read The Friggin' Webpage)!!!
This was *not* a conversion of a Honda to a Countach, but from a Pontiac Fiero.
Pontiac Fieros are probably the most popular KitCar/Replica donor because of the monocoque design of the car; the body skins are actually plastic panels that bolt-on to the monocoque.
There are dozens of KitCar/Replica conversions for Fieros, but bear in mind that to get your Fiero-based Countach looking as it should you need to stretch the car a bit - most Fiero-based Countach "replicars" just don't look right.
Are you meaning to tell me that you actually BELIEVE that OEMs would have had gone out of business if they hadn't bundled Windows instead of just having it on their shelves?
Here - have a cup of that same Kool-aid I just mentioned.
It would have only *slightly* reduced their margins, and not cause them to have to shutter their doors. I know this for a FACT, since I was in the Retail PC business for many years.
How about making sure that SP2 is installed and the Windows Firewall is active?
Any tard who plugs ANY machine into a DSL/Cablemodem/Broadband connection with no protection gets every virus, trojan and bit of spyware they deserve. It's called "Safe Computing", just like "Safe Sex".The problem for both activities has to do with a lack of education and lack of interest in using common sense.
The MDA's that were AGREED to by the OEM vendors gave them discounts on Windows and nothing more. So-fricking-what if IBM lost $3Million over it - I'm sure that their coffers could more than make-up for the loss with no impact on their customers or their bottom line.
And regardless of the BeOS fan-boys here, there was NO MARKET INTEREST in the box or the OS - if their was, then why did they fold and sell their technology to Apple? Be's competitor was the company that bought them out - Apple - and *not* Microsoft.
I'm beginngin to think that the anti-Microsoft faction here has collectively drank from the same batch of Cool-aid!
From http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327009/EN-US/
:
"If you then run the chkdsk/f command on the partition and you perform an audit of the applied permissions, some files and folders may have lost user-defined permissions. These permissions may have been replaced by default permissions that give access only to Local System and Administrators."
Note that if you have the lastest SP, this is a non-issue.
Now, if their descriptors have been reset to Local System and Administrator, wouldn't you need the following:
1. Physical Access to the machine
2. Admin Password
If the said owner of the box did their diligence and secured their system's OS, then #1 and #2 are also non-issues.
The parent to my reply is good evidence that people just pick-and-chose to support their untenable positions.
Then either something is seriously wrong with your machine or you are lying through your teeth just to be an Anti-MS karma-whore.
I have a AMD Athlon XP 2000 with 512MB of DDR RAM and with using up 406MB of that RAM my machine is *very* responsive. I would hope that your system's lack of response is real and that it's a configuration problem, and not that you're just joining the MS-Bashing horde here.
Re-check your system configuration, make sure that you have plenty of VM space assigned and that your HD is fast enough and that the rest of your system is well-balanced. A system with a 2.7gHZ CPU will feel "drag ass" if you have a 5GB HD and it's full of games and MP3's and if you have a 1x AGP video card and 128MB of RAM.
I just get a real kick out of these "My XP runs slow on my fairly-fast CPU" posts, and people don't appear to take the time to figure out WHY their system runs so slow on such a fast CPU.
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There is a big difference between "protesting" and "accosting".
Technically, if those RNC delegates who were accosted by "protestors" were just barely touched by one of the "protestors" then they should have filed charges against them on the grounds of aggravated assault and battery because of the "protestors" actions and state of mind.
I wonder what would have happened if the level of protests aimed at the RNC was aimed at the DNC?..Wait...that would never happen; Democrats are just a bunch of whiners, old-and-moldy hippies and slaves to the "Social State".
(removes tongue from cheek).
Seriously, though - why is it that the "left-wing liberals" are always the one protesting? I wonder what would happen if "right-wing conservatives" started protesting with the vitriol and anger that the "left" does?
I wonder if anyone is currently working on any kind of similar cooling system for high-end PCs/Workstations? I've seen a video of this cooling system on Cray's website, and the process doesn't look to be too difficult, with the exception of how to recover (if possible) any of the Fluroinert from the Processor Cooling cap. Since we're dealing with a state-change, I'm guessing that you'd need some sort of negative pressure inside the cap to draw-off any of the vaporized Fluroinert.
Also, how much heat would one be producing to raise the temperature of the Fluroinert to the evaporation point?
There is one person who resorted to immersing the entire PC in Fluroinert and then chilling the Fluroinert with Liquid Nitrogen, but this seems just too messy:
Just because a newspaper is "recognized" and famous doesn't necessarily mean that it's free from bias.
btw - the term "rag" is slang for "newspaper". To criticize the Fox News Network - and I believe that you're referring to the Cable network of that name - then you would be close. There are several "liberal" commentators there, so it would not be totally right-wing/conservative but leaning to the right-wing/conservative side.
Each of them have their own agenda - if you don't see it, then remove the blinders. If you only read the news from "liberal" sources then you're going to be spoon-fed with their agenda...the same goes for "conservative" media as well.
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1) I do not work at Microsoft - STRIKE ONE
2) I support only who I feel will do the job, regardless of political affiliation. I never vote "party-line" - STRIKE TWO
3) I'm not dirt-poor, but I probably donate more money than you do on a monthly basis to charity - STRIKE THREE
Now, go hug your tree and eat your tofu, slacker!
--ScottKin
"Hey - can you share your food?"
"Brother - can you share your pot/smack/crank/acid/horse?"
"Man - can you share your girlfriend/wife?"
"d00d - can you share your code?"
RMS and his GPL - what a frickin' joke. He's nothing more than an ageing hippie who wants the world to be happy & free with everyone sharing their software, so he doesn't have to pay for any. Academia has bought into his mindset because anything that is in any way, shape or form "expensive" is not good for Academia, with the exception of expensive salaries for teachers/professors who should be tried for treason and hung (read "Ward Churchill").
He's a dinosaur and a software marxist - nothing more.
The sooner that the software industry recognizes the GPL and it's varaints for being the joke they are, the better.
--ScottKin
I'd like to take the opportunity to correct you...
The Saturn V *was* the largest, most powefull rocket in the world. 1 of the three remaining vehicles was used to loft SkyLab into orbit, and the remaining 2 were used as outdoor display items: one at Johnsons Space Center in Houston and the other I believe is either at Huntsville or the Kennedy Space Center. The three were originally build for Apollo missions 18, 19 & 20 and were cancelled when America's interest in the Apollo program waned in the 70's.
The Saturn V hasn't been built in over 30 years. The costs today to build such a rocket would be (grin) "astronomical", and a budget item that Congress would kill before the first 5 words of the resolution would have been read from the podium.
--ScottKin
Better yet, NWCN. You get national as well as fairly-focused Pacific Northwest News.
http://www.nwcn.com
--ScottKin
From what I know, CompTIA is a Computer Industry association - the same folks that you get your A+, Network+ and other Computer Industry certifications. At least that's what is says on their website and my A+ Certification certificate, documentation and little plastic card that fits nicely in my wallet and proves to some extent that I'm not talking out of the top of my hat when I'm working on systems.
The article poster, "heretic9" should be taken out an summerily flogged with a wet noodle for being disingenuous by trying to turn CompTIA into nothing more than a lobbyist organization.
Zonk should be tortured by reading old, fading issues of "Byte" Magazine for not checking the information contained in the poster's submission.
Oh, wait - I thought this was a website that above all else stood for accuracy in their reporting.
Slashdot - the "CBS News with Dan Rather" of the Web.
--ScottKin
How utterly misguided of you!
Eli Whitney invented and patented the Cotton Gin to prevent others from making one of their own. This is a *clear* case of restricting trade and commerce via patent because his design was so open-ended that no one could build *anything* similar, and his 1794 patent was not successfully upheld until 1807.
Before shooting your mouth off, make sure your brain is loaded first!
--ScottKin
Exactly!
Look at how many businesses move across the US in order to locate their businesses where the "business climate" is more favorable, expecially due to tax laws.
Is it illegal for a company to change locations so that they don't have to follow a particular set of laws? NO! If so, you can say good-bye to Offshore Oursourcing!
You, sir, are a moron.
Companies do not put laws on you or anyone else - or did you forget that YOU are the Government and those who are IN Government work for YOU!
If you don't like the laws, VOTE against them or force your politicians to vote how YOU want them to vote...or VOTE THEM OUT.
How utterly ignorant of you!
--ScottKin
Wait a sec...
...Nevermind.
Enron was accused of fraud and power market manipulat...
Oh, wait...
--ScottKin
You need to check your German/Nazi Rocketry history a bit better.
As with all similar rocketry work, many A4/V2 blew-up on the pad or reached no higher than 300ft before they pitched-over and KATO'ed.
Only after many test launches was the first successful launch of the A4/V2 on Sept. 8, 1944.
--ScottKin
The largest "successful" rocket ever built - NASA's Saturn V - used Kerosene and LOX (Liquid Oxygen) for the 1st stage.
Also, I think you got nitrogen mixed-up with hydrogen. Nitrogen is mostly inert, but it *is* used to manage volume expansion in fuel tanks and additional exhaust nozzle bell cooling.
--ScottKin
For the obviously uninformed - RTFW(Read The Friggin' Webpage)!!!
This was *not* a conversion of a Honda to a Countach, but from a Pontiac Fiero.
Pontiac Fieros are probably the most popular KitCar/Replica donor because of the monocoque design of the car; the body skins are actually plastic panels that bolt-on to the monocoque.
There are dozens of KitCar/Replica conversions for Fieros, but bear in mind that to get your Fiero-based Countach looking as it should you need to stretch the car a bit - most Fiero-based Countach "replicars" just don't look right.
--ScottKin
Are you meaning to tell me that you actually BELIEVE that OEMs would have had gone out of business if they hadn't bundled Windows instead of just having it on their shelves?
Here - have a cup of that same Kool-aid I just mentioned.
It would have only *slightly* reduced their margins, and not cause them to have to shutter their doors. I know this for a FACT, since I was in the Retail PC business for many years.
Are Slashdot readers *really* this naive!!?!?
--ScottKin
How about making sure that SP2 is installed and the Windows Firewall is active?
Any tard who plugs ANY machine into a DSL/Cablemodem/Broadband connection with no protection gets every virus, trojan and bit of spyware they deserve. It's called "Safe Computing", just like "Safe Sex".The problem for both activities has to do with a lack of education and lack of interest in using common sense.
--ScottKin
How about RTFA!?!
The MDA's that were AGREED to by the OEM vendors gave them discounts on Windows and nothing more. So-fricking-what if IBM lost $3Million over it - I'm sure that their coffers could more than make-up for the loss with no impact on their customers or their bottom line.
And regardless of the BeOS fan-boys here, there was NO MARKET INTEREST in the box or the OS - if their was, then why did they fold and sell their technology to Apple? Be's competitor was the company that bought them out - Apple - and *not* Microsoft.
I'm beginngin to think that the anti-Microsoft faction here has collectively drank from the same batch of Cool-aid!
--ScottKin
From http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327009/EN-US/ :
"If you then run the chkdsk /f command on the partition and you perform an audit of the applied permissions, some files and folders may have lost user-defined permissions. These permissions may have been replaced by default permissions that give access only to Local System and Administrators."
Note that if you have the lastest SP, this is a non-issue.
Now, if their descriptors have been reset to Local System and Administrator, wouldn't you need the following:
1. Physical Access to the machine
2. Admin Password
If the said owner of the box did their diligence and secured their system's OS, then #1 and #2 are also non-issues.
The parent to my reply is good evidence that people just pick-and-chose to support their untenable positions.
Enjoy the ride!
--ScottKin
Apparently, you're one of the lucky few who have not had problems with their iPod.
Google "iPod Problems" and you find 4,080,000 references on Google:
iPOd Problems via Google
This one seemed to be representative of how many people feel about the iPod: Where We Are Bound: iPod problems Admit it: you are a slave to fashion
Consider yourself lucky that you haven't experienced the battery problems, scratchy audio due to faulty headphone jacks, locked-up/frozen iPods, etc.
Your individual experience does not constitute the rest of the world.
--ScottKin
Then either something is seriously wrong with your machine or you are lying through your teeth just to be an Anti-MS karma-whore.
I have a AMD Athlon XP 2000 with 512MB of DDR RAM and with using up 406MB of that RAM my machine is *very* responsive. I would hope that your system's lack of response is real and that it's a configuration problem, and not that you're just joining the MS-Bashing horde here.
Re-check your system configuration, make sure that you have plenty of VM space assigned and that your HD is fast enough and that the rest of your system is well-balanced. A system with a 2.7gHZ CPU will feel "drag ass" if you have a 5GB HD and it's full of games and MP3's and if you have a 1x AGP video card and 128MB of RAM.
I just get a real kick out of these "My XP runs slow on my fairly-fast CPU" posts, and people don't appear to take the time to figure out WHY their system runs so slow on such a fast CPU.
Utterly Amazing!
--ScottKin
Do everyone a favor and do some RESEARCH before you go spouting-off about something that you obviously know NOTHING about.
For some enlightenment, go to www.windowsclusters.org
--ScottKin
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There is a big difference between "protesting" and "accosting".
..Wait...that would never happen; Democrats are just a bunch of whiners, old-and-moldy hippies and slaves to the "Social State".
Technically, if those RNC delegates who were accosted by "protestors" were just barely touched by one of the "protestors" then they should have filed charges against them on the grounds of aggravated assault and battery because of the "protestors" actions and state of mind.
I wonder what would have happened if the level of protests aimed at the RNC was aimed at the DNC?
(removes tongue from cheek).
Seriously, though - why is it that the "left-wing liberals" are always the one protesting? I wonder what would happen if "right-wing conservatives" started protesting with the vitriol and anger that the "left" does?
--ScottKin
Also, how much heat would one be producing to raise the temperature of the Fluroinert to the evaporation point?
There is one person who resorted to immersing the entire PC in Fluroinert and then chilling the Fluroinert with Liquid Nitrogen, but this seems just too messy:
Mission: Submersible
--ScottKin
Absolutely!
For more Examples:
New York Times - Left-wing, liberal newspaper
Washington Times - Right-wing, conservative rag
National Review - definitely Right-wing
Just because a newspaper is "recognized" and famous doesn't necessarily mean that it's free from bias.
btw - the term "rag" is slang for "newspaper". To criticize the Fox News Network - and I believe that you're referring to the Cable network of that name - then you would be close. There are several "liberal" commentators there, so it would not be totally right-wing/conservative but leaning to the right-wing/conservative side.
Each of them have their own agenda - if you don't see it, then remove the blinders. If you only read the news from "liberal" sources then you're going to be spoon-fed with their agenda...the same goes for "conservative" media as well.
We are *all* biased. Deal with it and move along.
--ScottKin