what more can a girl say? there aren't many men with such atrocious mysogynist recycled lines and ridiculous teeth that'll have a cynical sex kitten on her back on the shagpile in seconds. austin rocks! myers is hilarious in both roles although my personal favourite has to be Dr Evil.
the new film is really a piece of shite but then you're going for frivolous entertainment not earth shattering commentary.
send up in style.
Life is a Parody Old Boy...Come to the Parody
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The Onion on Robots
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· Score: 2
The intrinsic beauty must be in that it is such a succinct hell sexy parody.
The irony is that that in the basis of paroody therin lies a truth. There is a message here, even if there's a big tongue skewering the cheek.
It reads a bit like Sally-Jane Raphael meets late night tele-evangelist that just accidentally swallowed the latest copy of Wired.
Let us offer tenderness and show the robots all the beauty they possess inside.
And more facts as they come to hand as all other sites seem to be suffering/. effect...
K7 apparently will be released at a clock speed of at least 500 MHz. However, there is speculation, for a number of reasons, that it might be released as high as 600 MHz. The first justification I've seen cited for this is that the K7's L2 cache is planned to run at an initial speed of 1/3 of the processor's speed, and when the bus will be at 200 MHz, it is illogical for the L2 cache to have a slower clock speed than the FSB. At this stage however there is no definite evidence to say that the K7 will be released above 500 MHz.
An alt. site to check out for up to speed info is CMP net. They carry an article [albeit a little dateded] article on the specs from a competitive Intel perspective. Makes interesting reading.
Although this newly released version is not portable by any stretch of the imagination [check out those physical dimensions!]... MacPower will be offering another model specifically for car use, the MP3-5200C which comes with a +12V 1.5 Amp adapter cable. Apparently available in July.
I don't think its worth holding your breath over though.
For real portable specs check out the I-JAM. The PDA of the MP3 world.
excuse me while i slip this encrypted DNA in you..
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DNA Encryption
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· Score: 1
the sci-fi movie i was thinking of was Terry Gilliam's Orwell-esque "Brazil" the gripping black cult classic. home of the infamous Ministry of Information, who still manage to blunder through to a bent and bizarre beurocratic end despite a shitload of blundering enroute. it all begins with a typo...
this DNA watermark story has all those hallmarks. to the point it relies on alphabet conversion to a piece of DNA spelling out " the secret message in the middle, plus short marker sequences at each end" then these synthetically engineered strands are just "slipped into a normal piece of human DNA".
gee i hope their data entry staff have high accuracy levels! no room for error...and what? do you meet these encryption chicks in bars, they lure you back to their place to privately encode you? or boys for us girls?
makes james bond and bond girls look postively small town. but probably far more likely.
The Colossus WAS the first single-purpose electronic computer built in Britain, 1943. ENIAC however was the first fully functioning machine to use binary. Other claimants include the German Z-3, built be Konrad Zuse in 1941.
The work undertaken at Bletchely Park was integral to the timely end of WWII. Code name was Ultra. The main task was to simulate a captured German Enigma machine by cracking the Enigma code which Germany transmitted in apparent secrecy thoughout h te war. Enigma had been patented in WW1 to encipher and decipher messages, and was used in civilian life in the interwar years. The Colossus Project entailed highly classified work whose scale and implications were not revealed until thirty years after the war. It was an enormous undertaking, commanding the attentions of a large number of mathematicians, linguists, as well as whole troops of technicians.
In many ways the tribute is a double banger in that it memorialises not just the birth of the application of computers in industrialised society, but also our freedom.
i hate to be an uncool stick in the mud -- but didn't we see these damned cases on/. a few weeks ago? minus the bunny people. i guess that was the clones. it's all a bit deja vu if you ask me.
looks like geeks just officially went mainstream. super-cool. the writing was on the wall. roll on the wannabe tryhard geeks..."i really was a geek at school. i was a misunderstood introverted genius with no social skills who managed to fake really well...sad. sad. sad. there are no sacred areas when the marketers come rolling into town. the dollar is GOD.
do they have cool handbags to go with those ever so cool cases yet?
check out that dubious list of sponsors with big bucks vested in their futuristic eyeballs...of course it would be naive to expect otherwise. this research is a wolf dressed in sheeps clothing and although superficially may be of value to the masses [present and future] serves only the marketeers who will utilise it to furhter maximise their profit margins...yes. i bet they'd love to get into our lounge rooms. they must be pissed they missed out in the 40's and 50's. they won't make that mistake again...all those lost margins...
walt disney...they may as well have spelt out the FBI. even more insidious than the cash motivation has to be the political ramifications....*oooh, it makes them more politically active does it? how can we place control mechanisms on that...* and...*if i place this in the maze which way will the white rat run? let's block that hole shall we?*
how does it feel to be a guinea pig? guess 2000 people/case studies are about to find out.
although Jon's post is largely reminescent of a sermon -- in a very orthodox setting such as slashdot it is far too easy to err on the overly critical side. i see this happen a lot and often unnecessarily. stay a little from that flame button...fact is although opinion may be rife about Jon preaching to the converted, there's always fresh blood coming into any old church. besides that there's nothing wrong with a little reinforcement. hey, it's a classic marketing ploy...repetition...repetition...blip...blip.
hackers...crackers...whatever...fact is it's another much maligned and misunderstood group by society mainly due to fear and misrepresentation through media and the authorities. surely it is the duty of the slashdot and related communities to work on education and demystification for the ignorant masses. this will not be done by wanking off at the first breath over trivialities of finer terminology...it's surely irrelevant...it's the message not the package.
on first impression i have to say that linux.com hits the spot. true, i haven't got to the nuts and bolts of it yet, but then on the whole i could hardly claim anything but ignorance if i did. as a newcomer to the linux fold and hardly having technical background i wouldn't know [and have no desire] how to to delve deep within the intricate bowels of the beast.
as a content developer who is largely a linux newbie, linux.com is heading in the right direction to demystify the jargon which ultimately people like myself without a hardcore programming background find so alienating.
sure linux has been out of the closet for some time but ultimately its heritage has been an inhouse secret for those who give a rat's ass about the differential mechanics. all i want is stability -- and i want it now. it's an added bonus that it also results in a thorn in the side of the microsoft empire.
me, i'm an english freak. kill the purple prose and share enlightenment.
superficially the site has a clean mean interface with enough content to keep me happy for hours...obviously with benchmarking from tried and trued model/. -- a no fail combo.
it can never be all things to all men/women but it definitely bridges a gap.
what's the bet that the queue at the linux expo on the thursday & friday nights will be half as bad as the crowds outside the theatres themselves...if i'm not doing complimentaries, i think i'll take a raincheck and sit it out until the hype dies down a little.
i don't know what all the fuss is about...there's nothing i enjoy more than a frosty bacon milkshake on a hot day! hey maybe this is where mcdonalds got the idea of adding chicken fat into their shakes?
it's another positive rung in the ladder towards world domination and a commercial reality for linux.
i'm interested in how linux.com will diversify itself significantly from/. when it has both rob and patrick lenz forming a base crew on the steering board for the new site, with press statements mooting that linux.com will "let users chat on the site in a model based on techie discussion site Slashdot".
no matter what direction the site takes there can be little doubt that it is another feather in the cap for linux making open source technology even more accessible to the enlightened and newbies alike. and another nail in the coffin for microsoft.
slashdot involvement probably does explain however the noteworthy absence and erratic postings in the last 48 hours or so on slashdot as there must be a fair amount of tweaking going down as the new titanic sets out for a maiden voyage in a few hours time.
funny how the focus of the article seems to rest on the shoulders of chooseyourmail.com's director, ian oxman.
obviously for the purposes of this article he [was] elected to be the representative of the coalition theoretically involved in the 'project'. or is it that obvious? the other collaberators seem to be hanging in the aisles.
it does produce a sinister tone. the best possible defense to dissuade cynicism and restore faith in the project would surely be to allow CAUCE to handle public relations...hmmm. CAUCE on closer investigation don't seem to be involved in the preliminary process of spam gathering at all and merely benefit from the fruits of 'chooseyourmail''s labour with the prepackaged processed spam sent direct from oxman to CAUCE and then finally to FTC.
begging the question "will the spam recycling centres actions be monitored by a responsible anti-SPAM body such as say CAUCE?" if not, you can sure as hell bet those residual email addresses won't just be burning a hole in CDNOW's pockets.
Wow! Such as song and dance about a 1.1.X release! Haven't those KDE guys taken any lessons for the Mircosoft marketing team?
If you're trying to get a mass market for your product, improved stability and bug fixes would have been enough to warrant KDE 2.0!
Hmmm, to retain the respect of the development community and take over the world at the same time? I don't know if this is possible in today's market! Maybe you guys should turn a blind eye and let KDE slip in a few dramatic version updates every now and then to impress the punters...
With the prerequisite critical mass levels attained [as per Sam Jaffe's comments], the snowball is only just starting to roll down that ol'hill. I wouldn't want to be Bill standing at the bottom. Clone or no.
oh! did this satellite have a variable cylindrical shape with chunks of metal protruding from the mainframe? *she looks warily over her shoulder out the window at the rapidly plummeting object and continues to type panic-stricken into the ever receptive keyboard. in desperation she rips off the upturned trenchcoat and flings it aside* too late. an alien-like dark shadow falls asunder..."aaaah, we're not alone..." splat.
Slashdot Mirror
what more can a girl say? there aren't many men with such atrocious mysogynist recycled lines and ridiculous teeth that'll have a cynical sex kitten on her back on the shagpile in seconds. austin rocks! myers is hilarious in both roles although my personal favourite has to be Dr Evil.
the new film is really a piece of shite but then you're going for frivolous entertainment not earth shattering commentary.
send up in style.
The intrinsic beauty must be in that it is such a succinct hell sexy parody.
The irony is that that in the basis of paroody therin lies a truth. There is a message here, even if there's a big tongue skewering the cheek.
It reads a bit like Sally-Jane Raphael meets late night tele-evangelist that just accidentally swallowed the latest copy of Wired.
Let us offer tenderness and show the robots all the beauty they possess inside.
Ha ha! Yes lets!
And more facts as they come to hand as all other sites seem to be suffering /. effect...
K7 apparently will be released at a clock speed of at least 500 MHz. However, there is speculation, for a number of reasons, that it might be released as high as 600 MHz. The first justification I've seen cited for this is that the K7's L2 cache is planned to run at an initial speed of 1/3 of the processor's speed, and when the bus will be at 200 MHz, it is illogical for the L2 cache to have a slower clock speed than the FSB. At this stage however there is no definite evidence to say that the K7 will be released above 500 MHz.
An alt. site to check out for up to speed info is CMP net. They carry an article [albeit a little dateded] article on the specs from a competitive Intel perspective. Makes interesting reading.
Although this newly released version is not portable by any stretch of the imagination [check out those physical dimensions!]... MacPower will be offering another model specifically for car use, the MP3-5200C which comes with a +12V 1.5 Amp adapter cable. Apparently available in July.
I don't think its worth holding your breath over though.
For real portable specs check out the I-JAM. The PDA of the MP3 world.
the sci-fi movie i was thinking of was Terry Gilliam's Orwell-esque "Brazil" the gripping black cult classic. home of the infamous Ministry of Information, who still manage to blunder through to a bent and bizarre beurocratic end despite a shitload of blundering enroute. it all begins with a typo...
this DNA watermark story has all those hallmarks. to the point it relies on alphabet conversion to a piece of DNA spelling out " the secret message in the middle, plus short marker sequences at each end" then these synthetically engineered strands are just "slipped into a normal piece of human DNA".
gee i hope their data entry staff have high accuracy levels! no room for error...and what? do you meet these encryption chicks in bars, they lure you back to their place to privately encode you? or boys for us girls?
makes james bond and bond girls look postively small town. but probably far more likely.
The Colossus WAS the first single-purpose electronic computer built in Britain, 1943. ENIAC however was the first fully functioning machine to use binary. Other claimants include the German Z-3, built be Konrad Zuse in 1941.
The work undertaken at Bletchely Park was integral to the timely end of WWII. Code name was Ultra. The main task was to simulate a captured German Enigma machine by cracking the Enigma code which Germany transmitted in apparent secrecy thoughout h te war. Enigma had been patented in WW1 to encipher and decipher messages, and was used in civilian life in the interwar years. The Colossus Project entailed highly classified work whose scale and implications were not revealed until thirty years after the war. It was an enormous undertaking, commanding the attentions of a large number of mathematicians, linguists, as well as whole troops of technicians.
In many ways the tribute is a double banger in that it memorialises not just the birth of the application of computers in industrialised society, but also our freedom.
Yippee!
i hate to be an uncool stick in the mud -- but didn't we see these damned cases on /. a few weeks ago? minus the bunny people. i guess that was the clones. it's all a bit deja vu if you ask me.
looks like geeks just officially went mainstream. super-cool. the writing was on the wall. roll on the wannabe tryhard geeks..."i really was a geek at school. i was a misunderstood introverted genius with no social skills who managed to fake really well...sad. sad. sad. there are no sacred areas when the marketers come rolling into town. the dollar is GOD.
do they have cool handbags to go with those ever so cool cases yet?
check out that dubious list of sponsors with big bucks vested in their futuristic eyeballs...of course it would be naive to expect otherwise. this research is a wolf dressed in sheeps clothing and although superficially may be of value to the masses [present and future] serves only the marketeers who will utilise it to furhter maximise their profit margins...yes. i bet they'd love to get into our lounge rooms. they must be pissed they missed out in the 40's and 50's. they won't make that mistake again...all those lost margins...
walt disney...they may as well have spelt out the FBI. even more insidious than the cash motivation has to be the political ramifications....*oooh, it makes them more politically active does it? how can we place control mechanisms on that...* and...*if i place this in the maze which way will the white rat run? let's block that hole shall we?*
how does it feel to be a guinea pig? guess 2000 people/case studies are about to find out.
this is the bedside volume which will be collecting dust in gibson-esque style roadside tech hotels of the future.
modern day companion to the book of genesis.
although Jon's post is largely reminescent of a sermon -- in a very orthodox setting such as slashdot it is far too easy to err on the overly critical side. i see this happen a lot and often unnecessarily. stay a little from that flame button...fact is although opinion may be rife about Jon preaching to the converted, there's always fresh blood coming into any old church. besides that there's nothing wrong with a little reinforcement. hey, it's a classic marketing ploy...repetition...repetition...blip...blip.
hackers...crackers...whatever...fact is it's another much maligned and misunderstood group by society mainly due to fear and misrepresentation through media and the authorities. surely it is the duty of the slashdot and related communities to work on education and demystification for the ignorant masses. this will not be done by wanking off at the first breath over trivialities of finer terminology...it's surely irrelevant...it's the message not the package.
that's some serious popcorn in the camouflage kit. obviously it wasn't necessary.
...i bided my time and then...snip snip jar jar. alas i knew thee too well. poetry in motion.
private viewing...the projector's cut...
projecting to selected audiences only.
on first impression i have to say that linux.com hits the spot. true, i haven't got to the nuts and bolts of it yet, but then on the whole i could hardly claim anything but ignorance if i did. as a newcomer to the linux fold and hardly having technical background i wouldn't know [and have no desire] how to to delve deep within the intricate bowels of the beast.
/. -- a no fail combo.
as a content developer who is largely a linux newbie, linux.com is heading in the right direction to demystify the jargon which ultimately people like myself without a hardcore programming background find so alienating.
sure linux has been out of the closet for some time but ultimately its heritage has been an inhouse secret for those who give a rat's ass about the differential mechanics. all i want is stability -- and i want it now. it's an added bonus that it also results in a thorn in the side of the microsoft empire.
me, i'm an english freak. kill the purple prose and share enlightenment.
superficially the site has a clean mean interface with enough content to keep me happy for hours...obviously with benchmarking from tried and trued model
it can never be all things to all men/women but it definitely bridges a gap.
what's the bet that the queue at the linux expo on the thursday & friday nights will be half as bad as the crowds outside the theatres themselves...if i'm not doing complimentaries, i think i'll take a raincheck and sit it out until the hype dies down a little.
may the hype be with you.
i don't know what all the fuss is about...there's nothing i enjoy more than a frosty bacon milkshake on a hot day! hey maybe this is where mcdonalds got the idea of adding chicken fat into their shakes?
tastes like a chocolate milkshake only crunchy...
it's another positive rung in the ladder towards world domination and a commercial reality for linux.
/. when it has both rob and patrick lenz forming a base crew on the steering board for the new site, with press statements mooting that linux.com will "let users chat on the site in a model based on techie discussion site Slashdot".
i'm interested in how linux.com will diversify itself significantly from
no matter what direction the site takes there can be little doubt that it is another feather in the cap for linux making open source technology even more accessible to the enlightened and newbies alike. and another nail in the coffin for microsoft.
slashdot involvement probably does explain however the noteworthy absence and erratic postings in the last 48 hours or so on slashdot as there must be a fair amount of tweaking going down as the new titanic sets out for a maiden voyage in a few hours time.
the countdown is on...
funny how the focus of the article seems to rest on the shoulders of chooseyourmail.com's director, ian oxman.
obviously for the purposes of this article he [was] elected to be the representative of the coalition theoretically involved in the 'project'. or is it that obvious? the other collaberators seem to be hanging in the aisles.
it does produce a sinister tone. the best possible defense to dissuade cynicism and restore faith in the project would surely be to allow CAUCE to handle public relations...hmmm. CAUCE on closer investigation don't seem to be involved in the preliminary process of spam gathering at all and merely benefit from the fruits of 'chooseyourmail''s labour with the prepackaged processed spam sent direct from oxman to CAUCE and then finally to FTC.
begging the question "will the spam recycling centres actions be monitored by a responsible anti-SPAM body such as say CAUCE?" if not, you can sure as hell bet those residual email addresses won't just be burning a hole in CDNOW's pockets.
SPAM KING the monkey.
suckbush.com and suckbush.org are both still available also. .net, and .org.
funnily enough so are suckclinton.com,
repetition is unlikely but a good boy scout should always be
prepared.
furbie v3.0. except not as nice to stroke. lucky i have a pussy. here snoop doggie dog. robotic bastardry. roll over and play dead.
Wow! Such as song and dance about a 1.1.X release! Haven't those KDE guys taken any lessons for the Mircosoft marketing team?
If you're trying to get a mass market for your product, improved stability and bug fixes would have been enough to warrant KDE 2.0!
Hmmm, to retain the respect of the development community and take over the world at the same time? I don't know if this is possible in today's market! Maybe you guys should turn a blind eye and let KDE slip in a few dramatic version updates every now and then to impress the punters...
With the prerequisite critical mass levels attained [as per Sam Jaffe's comments], the snowball is only just starting to roll down that ol'hill. I wouldn't want to be Bill standing at the bottom. Clone or no.
oh! did this satellite have a variable cylindrical shape with chunks of metal protruding from the mainframe? *she looks warily over her shoulder out the window at the rapidly plummeting object and continues to type panic-stricken into the ever receptive keyboard. in desperation she rips off the upturned trenchcoat and flings it aside* too late. an alien-like dark shadow falls asunder..."aaaah, we're not alone..." splat.
'they' know exactly where it is.