I did not mean to imply that visible light waves are faster than other types of electromagnetic radiation. However, for unwittingly giving this impression, I am having myself dutifully spanked by a number of nuns (all of whom were supermodels before taking their vows) so as to help me remember to Watch My Tounge When Yacking On About Things I Don't Really Understand But Enjoy Yacking On About Anyways.
I still say, however, that a series of PMSE's (Pre-Meditated Stellar Event)is the most economical means of drawing attention to one's self in the galaxy, short of arriving personally, when compared with spewing out radio waves consisting largely of chattering talk show hosts and sounding more like static than anything even remotely intelligent.
Most Efficient, Most Economical, not Most Fastest.
Understood, but look how much trouble WE'RE having trying to catch a glimpse of someone ELSE'S signals. Without knowing exactly where and when to look, it's pretty much a random search.
Visible light is the most efficient possible means of drawing attention. It goes out in all directions and it's faster than anything.
That's kind of tough if they don't know where our doorstep is.
You may then think that "if they know how to create a huge burst of gamma radiation, then they must be advanced enough to find us", but I say nay, not neccessarily. They may have the means to spray a little lighter fluid on a nearby sun without killing themselves, (no small feat, I admit), but they may well be no further along than us in terms of actual interstellar travel and communications.
Remember the soldier's curse about lighting more than 2 smokes with a single match? Crouch in a field on a moonless night and no one can see you. Now light a single match...
I admire the work of SETI, but I think our time would be better spent drawing attention to ourselves in conjunction with scanning the heavens at random.
I really don't think 'THEY' have seen us. When they do, we'll hear about it, for better or worse.
Attention class. Quiet down please. Joey, give Sally her blouse back and sit down.
Good. Now:
You may be under the impression that moderation happens sequentially, as in "He's only been moderated to 4? That's not enough! I'll moderate him to FIVE!" I'm sure that's true at times, but I'll wager that in most cases, a number of folks moderate posts more or less at once. This happens in both directions. An only mildly retarded post may get wailed down to -1 if it's posted near the beginning of the overall thread, while a mildly intelligent post will top the charts at number 5.
The Reason for this is simple: when there's fewer posts for moderators to choose from, more moderator's will moderate the same posts, hence the effects of moderation will be exaggerated.
What's the Cure? They're the guys that wrote "Primary", which is an amazing song, but of no concern to us here. In terms of a cure for A Lack of Temperance in Moderation, I don't think we need one. It just doesn't matter. The system work Pretty Darn Well as it is, and that's a LOT better than Really Bad!
If one were to impart a Fix, I think it would be along the lines of an algorhythm of sorts (no pun intended) which would cause the Strength of a single Act of Moderation (up or down) to vary in relation to the number of posts overall. It would no longer always be "one man, one vote". I must reassert, however, that I think this would be a cosmic waste of time.
In other words...
STOP WHINING!
;^D
cheerz, -kent
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Oracle, eh? Hmph. Ever used it?
I'll go with the College kids. Hell, I'll go with the drunk college kids!
But then most of them are eengineering/scientific types so I may have a tainted sample base. or something.I'd say such users are a significant minority of Linux users nowadays. The fact that Linux can continue to grow in sophistication and reliability AND be useful to lesser-skilled users is evidence of a high degree of Engineering Quality. A rare thing nowadays!
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When "found" = "fixed" I think it's well worth it.
Oh dear! Sounds like someone isn't getting the credibility from his yuppie media peers that he thinks he deserves.
"Drat! If it wasn't for those meddlesome kids..."
Nothing personal, Mr. Katz, but your formula seems all too clear. You gush on about some cause or another and then mix in what you hope are a few 'geek-kulture' pats to the back, in the hopes of getting a call from Time or Rolling Stone admiring your latest tirade, backed-up by an intelligent / passionate discussion amongst 'todays tchnological youth' to show what a significant 'find' you've made.
Your posts are 'hot' in terms of topic, but low in terms of actual substance. It is your hope, i believe, that by initiating discussion of such popular 'hot' topics as Hacker/Cracker, Mitnick, whatever, the intellectual level of the ensuing discussion will be accredited to YOU, when in fact you had little or nothing of any worth to say.
In essence, you are trying to get the readers of Slashdot to write your articles for you, and you get *angry* and *indignant* when folks refuse to play along, and instead call a spade a spade, and have a field day flame-fest at your expense instead, embarrassing you before your valued publishing peers.
When people point out your foolishness, you grumble and shout like an old hippie that "It's not for me, it's for the PEOPLE! Your BAD VIBES against me are hurting THE PEOPLE!"
The flip side, of course, is that your presence here is an occasional humorous diversion, and for that I am grateful.
At your best your mildly insightful and entertaining. At your worst, you're a Middleman, which is just another form of Lawyer.
Imagine the fun when digital hooligans use the industry's own tools to shut-down enormous pools of users of a given product.
Imagine all MSWord users in the state of California suddenly having their software nixed, or having every Oracle database in the Pentagon frozen due to "license violation".
Hey, that could well be the 'blue-screen of death' of the 21st century. You won't even get the *chance* to get a good, old-fashinoed Access Violation!
] word foo.txt ] loading... ] Terminated at 005e20010fcb ] License Violation. ]_
I remember seeing an old Commodore PET still in use at a Mom&Pop convenience store in (s)Melrose Massachusetts around 1990. I'll hafta take a little road trip to see if it's still in use.
It's the 'film board' that's going to do all the work. It sounds like the ISP's will only be responsible for blocking sites as directed specifically by the film board. It's an occasional batch load for the isp's but an endless wild goose chase for the film board.
I haven't seen the movie yet, but it seems like JarJar might have been better if he spoke a foreign lanuage (like Greedo) with subtitles. He could be crazy and over the top without resorting to modern day American colloquialisms.
C3P0 Rocked. Awesome costume, enhanced by SUPERBLY subtle sound effects, brought to life by good scripting and a supremely talented British actor.
Both C3P0 and R2D2, all cuteness aside, were the FIRST screen robots to be imbued with such depth of character AND convincing architechture, and one without using ANY actual dialog!
They were the first screen robots that weren't all shiny and clean all the time. They got dented and corroded. When they DID shine, you noticed!
The Jawa scene does bug me, though, with R2 going over rocky terrain with his little treads, wheels, whatever. In the book he is much more articulated, but that would have been *much* more expensive to produce at the time.
Can anyone tell me how to configure WP for a simple Epson Stylus consumer-grade printer? The printer configuration tool that comes with WP only seems to deal with high-end PostScript printers.
c. Make a product (CD/vinyl) available (via web/snail mail/whatever) at a VERY reasonable price. The cat's out of the bag. Anyone can burn cd's. Sell at 5 or 6 dollars a pop an WIN!
At this rate, you're already making FAR more per cd than you would through a big-name contract. You just don't get the (illusory) satisfaction of one big 'paycheck' up front.
Those bastards lured me in with free Pop access and email forwarding and then switched to 'offering' every little option at a dollar a month each. They stayed free long enough to let people become reasonably dependent upon them, and then made their move.
Lesson learned, I reckon.
These guys could do the same. "Look!" "We're free! We're secure! We have no heads!"
Whatever they do is just a bit of flash to get you to click on their banner ads, intentionally or otherwise. Inevitably, they will look into more annoying ways to get you to click on even more banner ads, making sure it takes a good long time for you to read even a single message so their sponsors know you're soaking in all that advertising.
I understand and sympathize with the motivation for this, but have no interest in taking part in their little business.
First off, I hate the Grateful Dead. I hate most of their fans as well. Annoying bunch of pretentious patchouli-drenched turds.
There. That's out of the way.
The Dead might take a lesson from the GPL and let people profit from packaging and selling live gig recordings. It would increase their visibility and get lots of press. The most popular and successful sites/products would still be the ones who *gave* the music away (or sell an excellent product at a *great* price), with a few banner ads and no pop-ups.
I'd think that a bunch of idealistic peacenicks would be overjoyed to know that their music could enable myriad strangers rich and poor alike to buy their daily bread (or at least pay their web-hosting fees). Guess not.
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Yer right!
Damn calculator...
I did not mean to imply that visible light waves are faster than other types of electromagnetic radiation. However, for unwittingly giving this impression, I am having myself dutifully spanked by a number of nuns (all of whom were supermodels before taking their vows) so as to help me remember to Watch My Tounge When Yacking On About Things I Don't Really Understand But Enjoy Yacking On About Anyways.
I still say, however, that a series of PMSE's (Pre-Meditated Stellar Event)is the most economical means of drawing attention to one's self in the galaxy, short of arriving personally, when compared with spewing out radio waves consisting largely of chattering talk show hosts and sounding more like static than anything even remotely intelligent.
Most Efficient, Most Economical, not Most Fastest.
Understood, but look how much trouble WE'RE having trying to catch a glimpse of someone ELSE'S signals. Without knowing exactly where and when to look, it's pretty much a random search.
Visible light is the most efficient possible means of drawing attention. It goes out in all directions and it's faster than anything.
Well, I'm sure going to miss those Australian aborigines, but at least the rest of us will be okay!
Radio waves are great, but there's nothing like a flash in the pan to get some attention.
That's kind of tough if they don't know where our doorstep is.
You may then think that "if they know how to create a huge burst of gamma radiation, then they must be advanced enough to find us", but I say nay, not neccessarily. They may have the means to spray a little lighter fluid on a nearby sun without killing themselves, (no small feat, I admit), but they may well be no further along than us in terms of actual interstellar travel and communications.
Remember the soldier's curse about lighting more than 2 smokes with a single match? Crouch in a field on a moonless night and no one can see you. Now light a single match...
I admire the work of SETI, but I think our time would be better spent drawing attention to ourselves in conjunction with scanning the heavens at random.
I really don't think 'THEY' have seen us. When they do, we'll hear about it, for better or worse.
Try putting a telephone in one side of the tank and a bathroom with a mirror and plenty of beauty supplies in the other.
Just make sure the phone cord doesn't reach as far as the bathroom and you'll be fine. They'll coexist like two peas in a pod.
-Doctor Zaius
Attention class. Quiet down please. Joey, give Sally her blouse back and sit down.
Good. Now:
You may be under the impression that moderation happens sequentially, as in "He's only been moderated to 4? That's not enough! I'll moderate him to FIVE!" I'm sure that's true at times, but I'll wager that in most cases, a number of folks moderate posts more or less at once. This happens in both directions. An only mildly retarded post may get wailed down to -1 if it's posted near the beginning of the overall thread, while a mildly intelligent post will top the charts at number 5.
The Reason for this is simple: when there's fewer posts for moderators to choose from, more moderator's will moderate the same posts, hence the effects of moderation will be exaggerated.
What's the Cure? They're the guys that wrote "Primary", which is an amazing song, but of no concern to us here. In terms of a cure for A Lack of Temperance in Moderation, I don't think we need one. It just doesn't matter. The system work Pretty Darn Well as it is, and that's a LOT better than Really Bad!
If one were to impart a Fix, I think it would be along the lines of an algorhythm of sorts (no pun intended) which would cause the Strength of a single Act of Moderation (up or down) to vary in relation to the number of posts overall. It would no longer always be "one man, one vote".
I must reassert, however, that I think this would be a cosmic waste of time.
In other words...
STOP WHINING!
;^D
cheerz,
-kent
Oracle, eh? Hmph. Ever used it?
I'll go with the College kids. Hell, I'll go with the drunk college kids!
But then most of them are eengineering/scientific types so I may have a tainted sample base. or something. I'd say such users are a significant minority of Linux users nowadays. The fact that Linux can continue to grow in sophistication and reliability AND be useful to lesser-skilled users is evidence of a high degree of Engineering Quality. A rare thing nowadays!
When "found" = "fixed" I think it's well worth it.
Hyuck! Jus' kidding!
Oh dear! Sounds like someone isn't getting the credibility from his yuppie media peers that he thinks he deserves.
"Drat! If it wasn't for those meddlesome kids..."
Nothing personal, Mr. Katz, but your formula seems all too clear. You gush on about some cause or another and then mix in what you hope are a few 'geek-kulture' pats to the back, in the hopes of getting a call from Time or Rolling Stone admiring your latest tirade, backed-up by an intelligent / passionate discussion amongst 'todays tchnological youth' to show what a significant 'find' you've made.
Your posts are 'hot' in terms of topic, but low in terms of actual substance. It is your hope, i believe, that by initiating discussion of such popular 'hot' topics as Hacker/Cracker, Mitnick, whatever, the intellectual level of the ensuing discussion will be accredited to YOU, when in fact you had little or nothing of any worth to say.
In essence, you are trying to get the readers of Slashdot to write your articles for you, and you get *angry* and *indignant* when folks refuse to play along, and instead call a spade a spade, and have a field day flame-fest at your expense instead, embarrassing you before your valued publishing peers.
When people point out your foolishness, you grumble and shout like an old hippie that "It's not for me, it's for the PEOPLE! Your BAD VIBES against me are hurting THE PEOPLE!"
The flip side, of course, is that your presence here is an occasional humorous diversion, and for that I am grateful.
At your best your mildly insightful and entertaining. At your worst, you're a Middleman, which is just another form of Lawyer.
Imagine the fun when digital hooligans use the industry's own tools to shut-down enormous pools of users of a given product.
Imagine all MSWord users in the state of California suddenly having their software nixed, or having every Oracle database in the Pentagon frozen due to "license violation".
Hey, that could well be the 'blue-screen of death' of the 21st century. You won't even get the *chance* to get a good, old-fashinoed Access Violation!
] word foo.txt
] loading...
] Terminated at 005e20010fcb
] License Violation.
]_
I vote "Self Help" as the most heineous mis-nomer since "Ethnic Cleansing".
Still in business?
Yeah?
You win!
Stay where you are. We're sending some people right over...
I remember seeing an old Commodore PET still in use at a Mom&Pop convenience store in (s)Melrose Massachusetts around 1990. I'll hafta take a little road trip to see if it's still in use.
It's the 'film board' that's going to do all the work. It sounds like the ISP's will only be responsible for blocking sites as directed specifically by the film board. It's an occasional batch load for the isp's but an endless wild goose chase for the film board.
Ho ho!
I haven't seen the movie yet, but it seems like JarJar might have been better if he spoke a foreign lanuage (like Greedo) with subtitles. He could be crazy and over the top without resorting to modern day American colloquialisms.
C3P0 Rocked. Awesome costume, enhanced by SUPERBLY subtle sound effects, brought to life by good scripting and a supremely talented British actor.
Both C3P0 and R2D2, all cuteness aside, were the FIRST screen robots to be imbued with such depth of character AND convincing architechture, and one without using ANY actual dialog!
They were the first screen robots that weren't all shiny and clean all the time. They got dented and corroded. When they DID shine, you noticed!
The Jawa scene does bug me, though, with R2 going over rocky terrain with his little treads, wheels, whatever. In the book he is much more articulated, but that would have been *much* more expensive to produce at the time.
Read the book. He's a whiney, frustrated teenager who, by the stories end, 'comes of age'.
Duh. It's called 'story', like *oh* *my* GOD!
Gag a maggot.
Can anyone tell me how to configure WP for a simple Epson Stylus consumer-grade printer? The printer configuration tool that comes with WP only seems to deal with high-end PostScript printers.
cheerz!
So long as they
a. Write good songs
b. Promote themselves
c. Make a product (CD/vinyl) available (via web/snail mail/whatever) at a VERY reasonable price. The cat's out of the bag. Anyone can burn cd's. Sell at 5 or 6 dollars a pop an WIN!
At this rate, you're already making FAR more per cd than you would through a big-name contract. You just don't get the (illusory) satisfaction of one big 'paycheck' up front.
God Bless America.
With mp3, we're negotiating the best deal ever.
Those bastards lured me in with free Pop access and email forwarding and then switched to 'offering' every little option at a dollar a month each. They stayed free long enough to let people become reasonably dependent upon them, and then made their move.
Lesson learned, I reckon.
These guys could do the same. "Look!" "We're free! We're secure! We have no heads!"
Whatever they do is just a bit of flash to get you to click on their banner ads, intentionally or otherwise. Inevitably, they will look into more annoying ways to get you to click on even more banner ads, making sure it takes a good long time for you to read even a single message so their sponsors know you're soaking in all that advertising.
I understand and sympathize with the motivation for this, but have no interest in taking part in their little business.
First off, I hate the Grateful Dead. I hate most of their fans as well. Annoying bunch of pretentious patchouli-drenched turds.
There. That's out of the way.
The Dead might take a lesson from the GPL and let people profit from packaging and selling live gig recordings. It would increase their visibility and get lots of press. The most popular and successful sites/products would still be the ones who *gave* the music away (or sell an excellent product at a *great* price), with a few banner ads and no pop-ups.
I'd think that a bunch of idealistic peacenicks would be overjoyed to know that their music could enable myriad strangers rich and poor alike to buy their daily bread (or at least pay their web-hosting fees). Guess not.
Bottom Line: fsck 'em!