Your friend is right. Rather than the word 'diseases', I should have probably used 'afflictions'.
Myoneurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy.. Shall we break it down, perhaps?
Myo - muscle neuro - nerves gastro - stomach intestinal - speaks for itself encephalo - brain pathy - feeling/suffering. So far as I can tell, this means that due to something between the muscles and nerves in the gastrointestinal region, the brain is feeling a plot of pain. Fun, neh?
As the BSDs are binary compatible with Linux, isn't StarOffice a viable alternative at zero-cost to the end user?
This review contains the words "We have been ignored mainly because of the lack of an office suite with word processor and spreadsheet and presentation package." Am I wrong, or is this simply the first BSD-native Office Suite?
And do you know why I want to see this on the news?
It is because I would really like to see reporters try to get their mouths around diseases such as Myoneurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy and Lysosomal alpha -N-acetylgalactosaminidase deficiency.
They aren't that hard, but still... I want to see it.
You started professionally consulting at 14, and I'd imagine you had been using computers years before that. You had trouble getting people to accept that you actually knew what you were about, but it hasn't stopped you. Good.
The difference here, however, is fairly pronounced. This child is obviously very intelligent, as to use Word and email people at three years old you must be somewhat literate. I was a "gifted" child, and I could read a couple years before I went to school, but that puts me at four years old. This kid is doing the same at three. Cool.
Again though, a three year old who can read and type does not a software executive make. If Microsoft is willing to certify this kid and pretend it is anything but a joke, they are only cheapenning their degree further.
And it's not as though we respect the average MSCE all that much, is it?
Sample test question: When Windows fails to reboot after you have machine-gunned Ctrl-Alt-Del, what do you do?
a) Press Ctrl-Alt-Del again b) Click Start, Click Shutdown, Click Shutdown, Click Okay. c) Press the "Reset" button d) Call HQ on your cell for backup.
This really is nothing but a publicity stunt. (Of course, without Slashdot, almost none of us ever would have ever heard about it, but anyway...)
A three year old "software executive? Give me a break.
On the other hand, this story does have an upside:
"While most others of his age grapple with building blocks, Ajay Puri, all of three years, is comfortable working on the computer using software such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook Express."
And later:
``Puri is real,'' gushed an employee in the company's Bangkok office. ``He is a smart kid. For a moment I envied him that
he could do all that an older executive could,'' she said over telephone.
The city of Chernobyl is still still so polluted that living there is not possible, allthough short-term exposure is quite harmless.
A recent ducumentary puts the population of Pripyat (site of the plant) at 15,000 workers, plus a small number of people who returned despite the radioactivity of the area. (The other side: "Today Pripyat is a radioactive ghost town that will be abandoned for thousands of years." - Ukrainian Review no. 94, Spring 1996)
Hyperbole, perhaps? Not that I'm trying to make light of the fact that thousands have died as a direct result of the fallout from the meltdown. Most of the *known* fatalities were in the Soviet government's cleanup crew. As of three years ago, estimates were that eight to ten thousand liquidators had died from the radiation dose they received.
Your point, unresearched, seems a touch inaccurate. The liquidators (cleanup crew) were there for a short time (less than a year) and 10 years later, 1 in 60 of them were dead. Makes me feel slightly sympathetic for the semi-permanent residents. (Living there is possible, obviously, but not a very good idea)
Also, a BBC article about the first baby being born in the area since the accident.
BBS's are still out there, but you need to know where to look. Hint: A fair number have telnet access.
I won't post the address to any here, since I don't have any particular wish to crash the two that I frequent. However, I will reccommend the program Zap-O-Com (ZOC) which is available at http://www.emtec.com/zoc/index.html. They have a downloadable shareware version. (Because after all - BBS's are what made shareware work not so many years ago.)
ZOC is a very configurable, ANSI enabled telnet/dialup client. The only hitch is that it is only available for Windows and OS/2.
As for doors on the existing BBS's, Trade Wars 2002, Barren Realms Elite, and Falcon's Eye are still ubiquitous. Trade Wars seems to have the most devoted crowd, and there are many lists of active games available. This is one I found after a quick search. Others exist that are updated nearly daily with information such as the nuber of players, planets, corporations, etc. http://www.tradewars.org is a Trade Wars news site. Not sure how good it is.
Anyway, I encourage any people out there who haven't had experience with BBS's to try them out. The community still exists, the only real downside is that it is a lot more trouble to meet someone face to face (should you want to) than it was when everyone was in the same city/town. (Damn you, Mosaic, damn you)
Okay, I'm not sure how this works, but does the NSA have many patents? If not, are they only patenting this because commercially available technology is approaching this level?
Seems to me that if I had technology like this and was a spy agency, I'd be keeping quiet about it. Does this mean that they have something that can break encrypted voice (the logical next step for people worried about this) waiting in the wings? The article says that several European governments are concerned that about what the NSA has been doing with this up until now, and has a quote from a man saying that the UK government is trying to keep encryption away from the people too.
I've read all the comments, and at least a few people have hit it right on the button. They are doing this because of the possibilities if someone were to interupt a tv signal with say, an address from the president of the US. If this person were to insert a high quality thing of say, the president being assasinated, then immediately put up some sort of Technical Difficulties screen, imagine the chaos that could follow it. Especially if this were in some situation like.. the Cuban Missile Crisis.
That all said, SNL could be in some trouble if they improve the quality of their opening sketches. I know at least one went something like this:
Bill Clinton on screen.. (talks a bit, leading to) so, these United States of America are now at war. (looks solemn, cracks up) Hah! I really had you going for a minute there, din't I? I bet my approval ratings just shot through the roof! (puts hand on chin, thinks about that for a second.. Has special address from the president interrupted by special address from Bill Gates who says.. well, nothing.).
You know... I read McDonnell as McDonalds at a first glance. Inspired by this, I thought I'd share a great idea for a patent.
Abstract - Fast Food
A method to make lots of money by microwaving frozen (beef?) and then selling it to people either through a window or over a counter. See (reference) for related trademark on the phrase "Drive thru"
Forget the fact that it's been done for a long time. The US Patent Office obviously has no time to thing about whether prior art exists.
Also, for those wondering, the patent mentioned in the article was filed October 3, 1996.
I posted about this just a couple days ago under another article... It was pointed out that this won't block ads hosted by the server you're currently on, but there are so few of those that it doesn't really bother me.
In either \windows\hosts or/etc/hosts, add the following lines to block ads from doubleclick.net, msn.com, and imgis.net. (Add other servers at will)
No kidding.. For those who don't know, you can filter out banner adds by appending something like the following to whichever you have of \windows\hosts or/etc/hosts:
Don't get me wrong, I am not an M$ lover, but my business relies on selling M$ software. When you and 5000 of your closest buddies go out and pirate *any* software it pushes up the cost for everyone else. You see, if they do not make enough money from the product then they have to charge more to make up the difference. And by pirating software you help that along. (sarcasm)Thanks buddy, thanks a bunch!(/sarcasm)
My sole problem with this - Do you really think that they are going to drop the price of the software if everyone buys it at the inflated price?
The recording industry said that CD prices were only going to be high until the technology was adopted by more people. Though CD's are cheaper to manufacture than cassettes, you can still expect to pay several dollars more for the CD.
The exact same thing is happenning with the transition from VHS to DVD. DVD's are more expensive because they're "new, and there isn't a large market for them yet". Do you really think DVD movies are going to get cheaper as time goes by?
I certainly don't. I certainly don't expect software producers to drop their prices either, when they have a huge market at a higher profit margin.
This isn't totally applicable to the article, but just for all those who say the Dreamcast is doomed, I'll provide a link to this BBC article, which claims that Dreamcast sales in England were at £9m in the first few minutes.
The article also says they had £8.5m in preorders.
I'm sure we'll be able to find first day sales statistics soon enough.
I'd like to remind you all that there's a slight chance Hemos was not the one who posted this two or three days ago, and that mistakes can and do happen.
Hell.. It's much more annoying when you actually *pay for* a newspaper with one editor, and see the same story in it twice or even three times. (Only once that I've seen, ever... Vancouver Province)
Who is David Huffman..? Good god man, read the article.
From it:
Huffman is probably best known for the development of the Huffman Coding Procedure, the result of a term paper he wrote while a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). "Huffman Codes" are used in nearly every application that involves the compression and transmission of digital data, such as fax machines, modems, computer networks, and high-definition television.
There is a real and compelling reason why we have not gone metric -- It is possible to verify measurements down to 1/100 inch with a pocket scale, but only to 1/10 mm. Thus, a shop worker can make finer adjustments on-the-fly with the English system than with the metric system.
Umm... Let's think about this for one moment. 1 inch = 2.54 cm, 2.54 cm = 254 mm.
1/100 of an inch is 2.54 mm. You say that a pocket scale can measure to 1/10 of a mm. I believe this is a typo, and you mean 1/10 of a cm.
Even so, 1/10 of a centimetre is 1 millimetre. 1/100 of an inch is 2.54 millimetres.
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Your friend is right. Rather than the word 'diseases', I should have probably used 'afflictions'.
Myoneurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy.. Shall we break it down, perhaps?
Myo - muscle
neuro - nerves
gastro - stomach
intestinal - speaks for itself
encephalo - brain
pathy - feeling/suffering. So far as I can tell, this means that due to something between the muscles and nerves in the gastrointestinal region, the brain is feeling a plot of pain. Fun, neh?
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As the BSDs are binary compatible with Linux, isn't StarOffice a viable alternative at zero-cost to the end user?
This review contains the words "We have been ignored mainly because of the lack of an office suite with word processor and spreadsheet and presentation package." Am I wrong, or is this simply the first BSD-native Office Suite?
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And do you know why I want to see this on the news?
It is because I would really like to see reporters try to get their mouths around diseases such as Myoneurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy and Lysosomal alpha -N-acetylgalactosaminidase deficiency.
They aren't that hard, but still... I want to see it.
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This is pretty much obligatory here, so...
Check out the Human Genome Project's website at http://www.ornl.gov/TechRe sources/Human_Genome/home.html
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You started professionally consulting at 14, and I'd imagine you had been using computers years before that. You had trouble getting people to accept that you actually knew what you were about, but it hasn't stopped you. Good.
The difference here, however, is fairly pronounced. This child is obviously very intelligent, as to use Word and email people at three years old you must be somewhat literate. I was a "gifted" child, and I could read a couple years before I went to school, but that puts me at four years old. This kid is doing the same at three. Cool.
Again though, a three year old who can read and type does not a software executive make. If Microsoft is willing to certify this kid and pretend it is anything but a joke, they are only cheapenning their degree further.
And it's not as though we respect the average MSCE all that much, is it?
Sample test question:
When Windows fails to reboot after you have machine-gunned Ctrl-Alt-Del, what do you do?
a) Press Ctrl-Alt-Del again
b) Click Start, Click Shutdown, Click Shutdown, Click Okay.
c) Press the "Reset" button
d) Call HQ on your cell for backup.
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A three year old "software executive? Give me a break.
On the other hand, this story does have an upside:
And later:
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The city of Chernobyl is still still so polluted that living there is not possible, allthough short-term exposure is quite harmless.
A recent ducumentary puts the population of Pripyat (site of the plant) at 15,000 workers, plus a small number of people who returned despite the radioactivity of the area. (The other side: "Today Pripyat is a radioactive ghost town that will be abandoned for thousands of years." - Ukrainian Review no. 94, Spring 1996)
Hyperbole, perhaps? Not that I'm trying to make light of the fact that thousands have died as a direct result of the fallout from the meltdown. Most of the *known* fatalities were in the Soviet government's cleanup crew. As of three years ago, estimates were that eight to ten thousand liquidators had died from the radiation dose they received.
Your point, unresearched, seems a touch inaccurate. The liquidators (cleanup crew) were there for a short time (less than a year) and 10 years later, 1 in 60 of them were dead. Makes me feel slightly sympathetic for the semi-permanent residents. (Living there is possible, obviously, but not a very good idea)
Also, a BBC article about the first baby being born in the area since the accident.
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BBS's are still out there, but you need to know where to look. Hint: A fair number have telnet access.
I won't post the address to any here, since I don't have any particular wish to crash the two that I frequent. However, I will reccommend the program Zap-O-Com (ZOC) which is available at http://www.emtec.com/zoc/index.html. They have a downloadable shareware version. (Because after all - BBS's are what made shareware work not so many years ago.)
ZOC is a very configurable, ANSI enabled telnet/dialup client. The only hitch is that it is only available for Windows and OS/2.
As for doors on the existing BBS's, Trade Wars 2002, Barren Realms Elite, and Falcon's Eye are still ubiquitous. Trade Wars seems to have the most devoted crowd, and there are many lists of active games available. This is one I found after a quick search. Others exist that are updated nearly daily with information such as the nuber of players, planets, corporations, etc. http://www.tradewars.org is a Trade Wars news site. Not sure how good it is.
Anyway, I encourage any people out there who haven't had experience with BBS's to try them out. The community still exists, the only real downside is that it is a lot more trouble to meet someone face to face (should you want to) than it was when everyone was in the same city/town. (Damn you, Mosaic, damn you)
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Gee.. It's too bad that Russia isn't 5 days worth of time zones ahead of the east coast.
If it were, when Chernobyl goes bang, we could turn off all OUR nuclear power plants in time for the fuel to cool off!
(Reference: this comment)
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why doesn't someone who has more time than I do try to break in to a computer running it.. Like, say.. Your own. (It runs on port 6699..)
I played with it for one second and got this.
# telnet 127.0.0.1 6699
1
Press all the keys I tried, and after one keystroke, it says INVALID REQUEST. Don't press anything for 10-15 seconds, it drops the onnection.
It shouldn't be too hard to figure out what keystroke is not invalid.
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This link lets you read the patent for yourself. It was filed April 15, 1997.
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Okay, I'm not sure how this works, but does the NSA have many patents? If not, are they only patenting this because commercially available technology is approaching this level?
Seems to me that if I had technology like this and was a spy agency, I'd be keeping quiet about it. Does this mean that they have something that can break encrypted voice (the logical next step for people worried about this) waiting in the wings? The article says that several European governments are concerned that about what the NSA has been doing with this up until now, and has a quote from a man saying that the UK government is trying to keep encryption away from the people too.
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I've read all the comments, and at least a few people have hit it right on the button. They are doing this because of the possibilities if someone were to interupt a tv signal with say, an address from the president of the US. If this person were to insert a high quality thing of say, the president being assasinated, then immediately put up some sort of Technical Difficulties screen, imagine the chaos that could follow it. Especially if this were in some situation like.. the Cuban Missile Crisis.
That all said, SNL could be in some trouble if they improve the quality of their opening sketches. I know at least one went something like this:
Bill Clinton on screen..
(talks a bit, leading to) so, these United States of America are now at war. (looks solemn, cracks up) Hah! I really had you going for a minute there, din't I? I bet my approval ratings just shot through the roof! (puts hand on chin, thinks about that for a second.. Has special address from the president interrupted by special address from Bill Gates who says.. well, nothing.).
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Forget the fact that it's been done for a long time. The US Patent Office obviously has no time to thing about whether prior art exists.
Also, for those wondering, the patent mentioned in the article was filed October 3, 1996.
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In either \windows\hosts or
Essentially, the image will be broken. Some browsers handle this more gracefully than others.
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Hmm.... Can we tell I only scanned through the article? It offers a link to basicly the same thing.
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This URL sets a cookie which allows you to opt out of doubleclick.net's tracking. http://ad.doubleclick.net/cgi-bin/optout?
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I can just see Nevada (home of that place called Las Vegas) calling itself the State of Affairs...
The State of Things to Come? That's just... lame.
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Feel free to add any other ad servers to your own.
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Don't get me wrong, I am not an M$ lover, but my business relies on selling M$ software. When you and 5000 of your closest buddies go out and pirate *any* software it pushes up the cost for everyone else. You see, if they do not make enough money from the product then they have to charge more to make up the difference. And by pirating software you help that along. (sarcasm)Thanks buddy, thanks a bunch!(/sarcasm)
My sole problem with this - Do you really think that they are going to drop the price of the software if everyone buys it at the inflated price?
The recording industry said that CD prices were only going to be high until the technology was adopted by more people. Though CD's are cheaper to manufacture than cassettes, you can still expect to pay several dollars more for the CD.
The exact same thing is happenning with the transition from VHS to DVD. DVD's are more expensive because they're "new, and there isn't a large market for them yet". Do you really think DVD movies are going to get cheaper as time goes by?
I certainly don't. I certainly don't expect software producers to drop their prices either, when they have a huge market at a higher profit margin.
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This isn't totally applicable to the article, but just for all those who say the Dreamcast is doomed, I'll provide a link to this BBC article, which claims that Dreamcast sales in England were at £9m in the first few minutes.
The article also says they had £8.5m in preorders.
I'm sure we'll be able to find first day sales statistics soon enough.
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I'd like to remind you all that there's a slight chance Hemos was not the one who posted this two or three days ago, and that mistakes can and do happen.
Hell.. It's much more annoying when you actually *pay for* a newspaper with one editor, and see the same story in it twice or even three times. (Only once that I've seen, ever... Vancouver Province)
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Who is David Huffman..? Good god man, read the article.
From it:
Huffman is probably best known for the development of the Huffman Coding Procedure, the result of a term paper he wrote while a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). "Huffman Codes" are used in nearly every application that involves the compression and transmission of digital data, such as fax machines, modems, computer networks, and high-definition television.
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I can just imagine the song "I'm Afraid of Americans" recharting all over the world in the next few days.
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There is a real and compelling reason why we have not gone metric -- It is possible to verify measurements down to 1/100 inch with a pocket scale, but only to 1/10 mm. Thus, a shop worker can make finer adjustments on-the-fly with the English system than with the metric system.
Umm... Let's think about this for one moment. 1 inch = 2.54 cm, 2.54 cm = 254 mm.
1/100 of an inch is 2.54 mm. You say that a pocket scale can measure to 1/10 of a mm. I believe this is a typo, and you mean 1/10 of a cm.
Even so, 1/10 of a centimetre is 1 millimetre.
1/100 of an inch is 2.54 millimetres.
Oops?
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