Neither canditate is espousing censorship. Bush seeks to block porn in public viewing areas. Free speech is one thing,but infringing on another's right to not view porn is another. The same goes for Gore. (Un)fortunately Gore has already proven thow ineffective the governmnet is at getting anything done about this subject. Ain't america great!
Great Brin, another liberal that thinks that forced redistribution of wealth is good. After all, if you managed to get anywhere in life it must have been over the corpses of the poor. Inheritence tax is simply evil. All the hard work of a lifetime forcibly stolen by the government. The really evil part is that even wealthy people aren't liquid (financilly) enough to pay the 50% tax so what happens? Inheritors must sell tangigle assets to pay the tax. Sell family homes, businesses, and land. Still, soud good to you? If so you must also realize that the really wealthy find loopholes (trusts, incorporating) that avoid the tax. The people that really get stung are the upper middle class.
Want a real-life scenario?
My parents have both worked roughly 18hrs/day for the last 35 years. No exageration. My childhood was spent living within a small company. He was a Heating/AC Contractor. Later he sold the business and bought a golf course. If I had to value their total net worth I'd have to guess about $1.5-2 mil.
If my parents were to die in a car wreck tomorrow what would I get? When the IRS asks for its tax money where do I gt it? Maybe 10% of their worth is liquid. If I have to sell either their home or the golf course it would have to be a fire-sale. Golf courses sometimes take years to sell and their home wouldn't come close to covering the tax bill.
Want another example?
The last place I worked the guy sharing a cubicle with me had his father die. His father was a farmer/small business owner in Virginia. He lived in an old farmhouse that had been in the family for over 100 years. Looking at the place you never would have guessed that his net worth was well over $1 mil. Based mostly on the value of the farmland.
In the end my friend had to sell the farm and pay a tax attourny a good chunk of money to keep the inherentence from ruining his own financial health. It made him bitter. Worse, it destroyed a family legacy.
Brin, on another point, America is completly different from England. As you well know, owning land here is easier than ractically anywhere else in the world. All a person has to do to own land is make the right decisions and be willing to put forth the effort.
Decisions are really what this is about. Some people learn to make good decisions and take responsibility for their actions. Fundamentally this ifs how people get ahead in this country. (Un)fortunatly we live in a country where a few greedy politicians discovered a sure fire way to buy the vote of those who -for the most part- have made poor decisions. Tell them that it is their God given right to take money from the wage earners and redistribute it to them. Feed their greed. Demotivate them from even trying to earn their own rewards by telling them they can have it for free.
Responsibility is also what this is about. The Democratic party has an inherent conflict of interrest when it comes to the poor. The poor are their chief source of voters. Every poor person lead down the path to success is one less vote for the democratic party. Just look at the demographics. Sure, not everyone is a poor democrat. By the misplaced idealism of essentially socialist govenrment philosophy has beeen proven a failure time and again. Your hearts are in the right place but your head doesn't understand the problem.
Wan't another reason to vote Republican (probably not but please read this anyway). Abortion. Dont' delude youself into thinking the sides of this issue are Pro-choice/anti-abortion. Abortion is premeditated murder. A fetus is a living human organism. The will come a day, maybe in our own lifetime, when female fertility will be as easy to turn control as a lightswich. When that day comes these feeble excuses over pro-choice and "a woman's right" will sound as reasonable as a southern farmer explaining why slavery is a good thing or a anti-semite explaining why the Jews should all be killed. Abortion is an absolute horror and future generations will view us, will be unable to comprehend us, for the horrors we allowed.
Yer telling me. Right now I'm trying to write a function to send multiple emails containing attachments based on Access queries based on a poorly documented VB command.
The standard Active Directory Service Interfaces objects, or providers, are found within multiple namespaces, typically directory services for various network operating systems. Providers enable communication between the server or client. ADSI 2.5 includes providers for:
Windows NT. ADSI supports the Windows NT® Server 4.0 directory.
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) . The LDAP provider works with any LDAP version 2 or version 3 directory. This provider also works for the Windows® 2000 Active Directory.
Novell NetWare Directory Services (NDS).
NetWare 3 bindery (NWCOMPAT).
And the real solution to the problem is getting someone to write an ADSI provider for Linux. So if you are inclined, HERES THE DEVELOPER KIT.
Most research targeted at producing a "marketable" product is bound to be nearsighted. Reasearch for the sake of research is done to promote knowledge. To reach into the future. To push the envelope. Its a well known fact that corporate America is nearsighted. Anything for a quick buck. American companies consistantly refuse to do their own R&D or put real money begind R&D. Instead, they have steered Academic america into their nearsighted dead-end path. Twenty years ago the seperation between corporate america and academia was as well defined as that between church and state. Then schools became corporations. Athletics became profit centers. Research was the next logical conquest. My only hope is that Liberal Arts Universities become so obviously redundant and useless that somthing better can be born.
You wake up at 5AM on your day off. Got to get up and patrol the city because every cop in the city has been put on overtime for the convention. Patrol Officer gives a brief telling you that undercover surveilance has revealed that extremist groups plan to get violent and provoke the police. You think, "damn, I'm not even a Republican, why should I put up with this crap". A brief picture forms in your mind of having to feed your family on anything less than the 24thou you might make this year. Suck it up bucko.
You pick up your riot gear at the office and head out on patrol. First corner you get to someone screams, "Asshole...Pig" in the window of your cruiser. This is only the start of the day.
By 10am things start getting hot. The loonies come out en masse. You are told to get out and pace the block. SOmeone walking by in the crowd sprays you with skunk scent. Not too bad but the smell lingers for 15 min. By noon things are getting out of control. You are exhausted but come across a gaggle of trouble. Guys wearing flak jackets and dark glasses are walking down the street screaming obscenities and blocking pedistrian traffic. Other people on their way about town seem scared of these troublmakers. You decide to check things out.
"What you got in those pockets?", you ask the commando. The guy cracks a smile and says "Left my 'nades at home, officer." "Let's see what's in your backpack." you say. "Fuck no. You need an arrest warrant for that.", he replies. Last thing you need, a guy dressed like a comando talking about grenades and swearing at you. Again. You decide there is a real risk that this guy could be dangerous. "Let's see your ID.", you ask. "No", the commando replies. Time to call in the calvary.
Have some respect. That police man is some underpaid schmuck wo risks his life every day on the job. Why does he do it? I surely don't know. one of my best friends was a cop. He didn't get paid shit, sucky beneeeeeeefits, if anything goes wrong the government is gonna leave you to hang, everyone hates you and the stress is enough to crack most people. You get in a car accident chances are the cops are the first ones there. Some crackhead decides to start harassing you there is noone else to call. So what do you do to show your appreciation? You take the weekend off ot go to another city and act like a terrorist. And you have the call to call the cops assholes. Look in the mirror.
First, one is a tangible asset and the other is information: words and pictures.
This is the essence behind "Freedom of the Press". It is in the interrest of the public that news reporting agencies be allowed to publish leaked facts. Otherwise who is to decide what is a "trade secret"? The companies? certainly not. Otherwise companies could hide their dirty laundy by just calling it a "trade secret". If Apple whats a stranglehold on all of their R&D info then they need to take care of the problem inhouse not bully third party entheusiest newsites.
Not to mention that I somehow think a computer shaped like a cube, a colored computer case or a funky mouse don't amount to "trade secrets". Now if they published non obvoius technological details like a specail process for making a touchpad there might be a case.
In a roundabout way earlier reporting on their boxed-shaped computer may have saved them from potential litigation since Cobalt could have warned them earlier.
Then explain to me the motivation behind moderating down an off-color comment that was on topic. It has to be either political correctness or bible thumping. Did you read my origional post? It was a tongue-in-cheek and definetly on-topic. Who else would waste the effort to mod down somthing they disagree with rather than mod up somthing they agree with. If theRegister.co.uk posted stories 24hrs/day like/. I'd just go there all the time anyhow. Especially since/. is now little more than a glorified CNN tech website. TheRegister posts the news faster and they aren't too politically correct to have a little fun. I guess the recent reference on MSNBC referring to Slashdot as a bunch of Technosnobs is becoming true. I guess all good things must come to an end.
This place is getting positively oppressive. If you say somthing a little toungue in cheek some bible thumping lefty mods you down. You post a reply to a question someone askes thats slightly off topic you get modded down. Get a friggen life losers. Use your mod points to move stuff you like up not the stuff you disagree with down. Bunch of book burning politically correct morons. I'm strating to see why people give up posting honest commentary and start flaming.
Been there tons of times. What usually works for me is getting lots of sleep, drink lots of caffiene and do a little "research". the first to will get your mind into a state where you can focus better and the research can help you see the possibilities. Newsgroups are good for this. Lots of examples to peruse while you are thinking. Getting started is the toughest part when you are stuck, so just start trying things and a solution will usually come to you.
Coder's block seems the biggest problem for me when I don't have confidence with what I'm doing. Recently a large Intranet project I am working on did a 180 degree turn when I was asked to reimplement my work in VBA/ASP instead of PHP. I hit a wall. I felt like I was being asked to "dumb down" my application and implement it in a buggy language. What finally got me going was what I mentioned above. It's really a lot like running. Sometimes you have to push through the low points to keep going.
"I also prefer the single-button design because, as a lefty, I don't like having to mess with flipping the mouse button functions.
This has to be the dumbest review I ever read. sure mice suck when it comes to being a lefty, but griping about the few mice that let you switch button functions is completly moronic. At least come up with legit reasons for crituiqing the mouse. Iber the reviewer didn't even use the damn thing. Wait till the real reviews show. This isn't much different than the touchpads and a lot of reviewers thought they sucked. Including me.
First, we should immediately set up a link where users can send messages directly to congress. Last month Congress threatened to write formal legislation defining "Fair Use". Lets get them working on this. If even 10% of Napsters 20 million users send email to their Congressmen there is little doubt that somthing will happen. Get rid of the ambiguity in "Fair Use". Corporte America shouldn't be allowed to limit what information is exchanged between Americans. At best the onus should be on Corporate America to clearly identify specific Copyright infringments. Not wholesale trampling on peoples free-speech and assiciation rights. Just because a medium makes violating the law easier doesn't give them the right to abuse the legal system and harm the medium providers. Cars aren't governed to stay below 75mph.
Second, maybe the time is right to make more information free. With the economy of scale available to corporate america there is a strong argument that they don't need as much protection from IP theft and monopoly control over their IP product. Things have been swinging in corporate america's favor for far too long. There is an imbalance in the power structure. Let's not forget, companies exist as entities because we, the people allow them to. Corporations achieve an artificial status as citizens because we allow them to. For far too long corporations, as citizens have benefitted from the rights citizens inherit, withour taking of the full responsibilities that citizens inherit. They have too much voice, too much power and take very little responsibility. Its time to take corporate america to task and make them take responsibility. If they want to continue to profit from our work they will have to start giving back. "Special rights" given to corporations providing monopolistic power need to be reigned in.
Obviously you can limit the size of posts. If you do then some people will get ticked. Limiting the quantity of posts isn't too difficult either, as long as you don't allow ACs to post. Then you lose some of your best commentary from informed people. Essentially, anything you you to defend against this sort of attack in a public forum type website inherently makes life more difficult for honest posters.
Noone can predict what technology will become the next "big thing". Does anyone know who invented TCP/IP? Does he control the proxy today? Just because someone sees somthing for the first time it isn't logical to assume that they "own" what they see.
There are many issues to be ironed out before we can assume someone has cornered the market on genetics. The guys that make the big bucks are the one who figure out products to sell based on the information.
A treasure map is worthless without a mode of transportation to get there, a method of keeping the loot and a means of exploiting the loot.
Toll used for "hello_ i own u.htm" ASCII art?
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Does anyone know what tool was used to make this art?
Looks like Mysql and X-windows
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Here is info from known ports list on IANA.org
mysql 3306/tcp MySQL mysql 3306/udp MySQL x11 6000-6063/tcp X Window System x11 6000-6063/udp X Window System
First off, you may want to see if there is a FreeBSD or Debian port available for the Challenge XL (MIPS). There is some downloads for IRIX on the SGI website HERE
ChallengeXL The CHALLENGE XL network resource server is a compute and throughput powerhouse for deskside and data center applications in the database, digital media, integer compute real-time and high-performance file serving markets. The CHALLENGE XL can handle extraordinary data management tasks, shifting yesterday's compute paradigm from high-cost mainframes to the industry-leading performance of today's cost-effective symmetric multi-processors. The powerful, flexible CHALLENGE XL system architecture is based on a 1.2GB/second sustained bus, which minimizes time-wasting contention between I/O, memory and compute subsystems. The system supports from two to thirty-six MIPS® R10000 TM CPUs, multiple gigabytes of CPU memory, and up to six 320MB/second POWER Channel-2TM I/O subsystems. The CHALLENGE server's flexible hardware and software configurability allows performance optimization, as well as tangible growth paths to meet future computing demands. The server comes standard with one 320MB/second POWER Channel-2 subsystem. Each POWER Channel-2 subsystem contains an EthernetTM controller, two 20MB/second Fast/Wide 16-bit SCSI-II controllers (configurable as single-ended or differential) a 50MB/second VME controller, two 19.2KB RS232 serial ports, a 38.4KB RS422 serial port, a parallel port, and supports up to two optional daughter boards (HIO modules). External storage is provided via the CHALLENGE Vault XL. With this product, the CHALLENGE servers can support up to 5.6TB of on-line, non-RAID storage and 17.4TB of RAID-5 and RAID-3 storage. The CHALLENGE XL server is ideal for cutting edge data warehousing applications. With CPU and I/O expandability to meet the needs of interactive terabyte databases, this system can be grown to manage the data extraction and data hygiene needs of each customer. HIO-based SCSI expansion provides higher database performance by reducing I/O interrupt overhead. Large secondary cache also increase overall database performance. In addition CHALLENGE uses the IRIX symmetric multi-processing operating system in conjunction with the XFSTM, a native log-based filesystem. This provides a high level of data integrity, quick data recovery, and a robust environment suitable for the parallelism and throughput requirements of data warehousing. The CHALLENGE XL serves the realm of extreme data as a deployable machine unmatched in CPU and I/O throughput capabilities. Complementing these hardware strengths are software advances, which create industry-leading file server performance for the enterprise. For the most creative graphics workstation users manipulating a range of digital media data, IRIX offers deterministic I/O, large file and partition sizes, and intuitive data management through the IRIXPro suite of flexible GUI-based administration tools. Performance-hungry supercomputer sites requiring powerful front-end servers with direct and buffered I/O capabilities also enjoy efficient utilization of high-performance networks (HiPPI, FDDI) and sparse file support.
You wrote:Read the article moron. Its only 3 chapters. I doubt that three dollars is going to break anyone.
Why don't you read the article. King Rogered up to publishing the first three chapters, more only if enough people pay. You could wind up wasting $3 reading three chapters of a book that may never be complete. And my argument that it could tally to more than $15 for an average length book. At least if I buy the real thing in hardcover for the same price I have somthing tangible to resell.
Considering it was released in 1981 on a shoestring budget I think its simply incredible. And funny as hell. You want to see a real crying shame of a movie and proof positive that the public wants more T-N-A in movies go see "Scary Movie". The movie sucks but at least gives the audience a little of what they want.
I really have to wonder how any people are like me and won't even look at a incomplete book. I'm sure as hell not gonna pay $15 (assuming 15 chapters) for a damn downloaded book. King's just a money grubbing scammer leeching off the talent he used to have for writing interresting horror. People buy his books at this point because 1)He is in a niche genre - and there are very few new authors getting published.--Don't even think about bringing up the Bachman crap. I the writer wan't you he wouldn't have gotten published in the first place. 2)People are in the habit of buying his books.
Hey Steve, howsa bout you dump a little of that payola back to the community by starting a book publishing house and publishing books by new writers. Didn't you ever write a book about some guys greed coming back to haunt him?
The trailers released before the movie hit the big screen were very "HeavyMetalesque". The animation looked very similar. I get the impression there were a lot of peole like me who were dissappointed by the blandness of the movie. Heavy Metal was a unique thing that used the full potential of animation medium. Titan AE on the other hand could have been (and really is) just another cheesy SCIFI that could have been shot with a camera.
What could save this movie before it hits DVD? Do a director's cut with a few extra (rated "R") scenes and a completely new soundrack remix. Heck maybe a RAP soundtrack since rap is today where heavy metal music was back then.
The Open Letter, since taken down, dealt with nVidia threatening to pull the website's use of the nVidia brand name and stop sending samples for review. Why? BECAUSE THEY DARED REVIEW A 3DFX CARD FAVORABLY!!!
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I was being sarcastic. Free speech is probably the best example of navigating a "slippery slope".
N8F8 --Porn monger and free speech advocate.
Want a real-life scenario?
My parents have both worked roughly 18hrs/day for the last 35 years. No exageration. My childhood was spent living within a small company. He was a Heating/AC Contractor. Later he sold the business and bought a golf course. If I had to value their total net worth I'd have to guess about $1.5-2 mil.
If my parents were to die in a car wreck tomorrow what would I get? When the IRS asks for its tax money where do I gt it? Maybe 10% of their worth is liquid. If I have to sell either their home or the golf course it would have to be a fire-sale. Golf courses sometimes take years to sell and their home wouldn't come close to covering the tax bill.
Want another example?
The last place I worked the guy sharing a cubicle with me had his father die. His father was a farmer/small business owner in Virginia. He lived in an old farmhouse that had been in the family for over 100 years. Looking at the place you never would have guessed that his net worth was well over $1 mil. Based mostly on the value of the farmland.
In the end my friend had to sell the farm and pay a tax attourny a good chunk of money to keep the inherentence from ruining his own financial health. It made him bitter. Worse, it destroyed a family legacy.
Brin, on another point, America is completly different from England. As you well know, owning land here is easier than ractically anywhere else in the world. All a person has to do to own land is make the right decisions and be willing to put forth the effort.
Decisions are really what this is about. Some people learn to make good decisions and take responsibility for their actions. Fundamentally this ifs how people get ahead in this country. (Un)fortunatly we live in a country where a few greedy politicians discovered a sure fire way to buy the vote of those who -for the most part- have made poor decisions. Tell them that it is their God given right to take money from the wage earners and redistribute it to them. Feed their greed. Demotivate them from even trying to earn their own rewards by telling them they can have it for free.
Responsibility is also what this is about. The Democratic party has an inherent conflict of interrest when it comes to the poor. The poor are their chief source of voters. Every poor person lead down the path to success is one less vote for the democratic party. Just look at the demographics. Sure, not everyone is a poor democrat. By the misplaced idealism of essentially socialist govenrment philosophy has beeen proven a failure time and again. Your hearts are in the right place but your head doesn't understand the problem.
Wan't another reason to vote Republican (probably not but please read this anyway). Abortion. Dont' delude youself into thinking the sides of this issue are Pro-choice/anti-abortion. Abortion is premeditated murder. A fetus is a living human organism. The will come a day, maybe in our own lifetime, when female fertility will be as easy to turn control as a lightswich. When that day comes these feeble excuses over pro-choice and "a woman's right" will sound as reasonable as a southern farmer explaining why slavery is a good thing or a anti-semite explaining why the Jews should all be killed. Abortion is an absolute horror and future generations will view us, will be unable to comprehend us, for the horrors we allowed.
Yer telling me. Right now I'm trying to write a function to send multiple emails containing attachments based on Access queries based on a poorly documented VB command.
From the MS ADSI website
Getting and Using ADSI Providers
The standard Active Directory Service Interfaces objects, or providers, are found within multiple namespaces, typically directory services for various network operating systems. Providers enable communication between the server or client. ADSI 2.5 includes providers for:
And the real solution to the problem is getting someone to write an ADSI provider for Linux. So if you are inclined, HERES THE DEVELOPER KIT.
Or, Download someone else's provider HERE or HERE
Most research targeted at producing a "marketable" product is bound to be nearsighted. Reasearch for the sake of research is done to promote knowledge. To reach into the future. To push the envelope. Its a well known fact that corporate America is nearsighted. Anything for a quick buck. American companies consistantly refuse to do their own R&D or put real money begind R&D. Instead, they have steered Academic america into their nearsighted dead-end path. Twenty years ago the seperation between corporate america and academia was as well defined as that between church and state. Then schools became corporations. Athletics became profit centers. Research was the next logical conquest. My only hope is that Liberal Arts Universities become so obviously redundant and useless that somthing better can be born.
You wake up at 5AM on your day off. Got to get up and patrol the city because every cop in the city has been put on overtime for the convention. Patrol Officer gives a brief telling you that undercover surveilance has revealed that extremist groups plan to get violent and provoke the police. You think, "damn, I'm not even a Republican, why should I put up with this crap". A brief picture forms in your mind of having to feed your family on anything less than the 24thou you might make this year. Suck it up bucko.
You pick up your riot gear at the office and head out on patrol. First corner you get to someone screams, "Asshole...Pig" in the window of your cruiser. This is only the start of the day.
By 10am things start getting hot. The loonies come out en masse. You are told to get out and pace the block. SOmeone walking by in the crowd sprays you with skunk scent. Not too bad but the smell lingers for 15 min. By noon things are getting out of control. You are exhausted but come across a gaggle of trouble. Guys wearing flak jackets and dark glasses are walking down the street screaming obscenities and blocking pedistrian traffic. Other people on their way about town seem scared of these troublmakers. You decide to check things out.
"What you got in those pockets?", you ask the commando. The guy cracks a smile and says "Left my 'nades at home, officer." "Let's see what's in your backpack." you say. "Fuck no. You need an arrest warrant for that.", he replies. Last thing you need, a guy dressed like a comando talking about grenades and swearing at you. Again. You decide there is a real risk that this guy could be dangerous. "Let's see your ID.", you ask. "No", the commando replies. Time to call in the calvary.
Have some respect. That police man is some underpaid schmuck wo risks his life every day on the job. Why does he do it? I surely don't know. one of my best friends was a cop. He didn't get paid shit, sucky beneeeeeeefits, if anything goes wrong the government is gonna leave you to hang, everyone hates you and the stress is enough to crack most people. You get in a car accident chances are the cops are the first ones there. Some crackhead decides to start harassing you there is noone else to call. So what do you do to show your appreciation? You take the weekend off ot go to another city and act like a terrorist. And you have the call to call the cops assholes. Look in the mirror.
First, one is a tangible asset and the other is information: words and pictures.
This is the essence behind "Freedom of the Press". It is in the interrest of the public that news reporting agencies be allowed to publish leaked facts. Otherwise who is to decide what is a "trade secret"? The companies? certainly not. Otherwise companies could hide their dirty laundy by just calling it a "trade secret". If Apple whats a stranglehold on all of their R&D info then they need to take care of the problem inhouse not bully third party entheusiest newsites.
Not to mention that I somehow think a computer shaped like a cube, a colored computer case or a funky mouse don't amount to "trade secrets". Now if they published non obvoius technological details like a specail process for making a touchpad there might be a case.
In a roundabout way earlier reporting on their boxed-shaped computer may have saved them from potential litigation since Cobalt could have warned them earlier.
Then explain to me the motivation behind moderating down an off-color comment that was on topic. It has to be either political correctness or bible thumping. Did you read my origional post? It was a tongue-in-cheek and definetly on-topic. Who else would waste the effort to mod down somthing they disagree with rather than mod up somthing they agree with. If theRegister.co.uk posted stories 24hrs/day like /. I'd just go there all the time anyhow. Especially since /. is now little more than a glorified CNN tech website. TheRegister posts the news faster and they aren't too politically correct to have a little fun. I guess the recent reference on MSNBC referring to Slashdot as a bunch of Technosnobs is becoming true. I guess all good things must come to an end.
This place is getting positively oppressive. If you say somthing a little toungue in cheek some bible thumping lefty mods you down. You post a reply to a question someone askes thats slightly off topic you get modded down. Get a friggen life losers. Use your mod points to move stuff you like up not the stuff you disagree with down. Bunch of book burning politically correct morons. I'm strating to see why people give up posting honest commentary and start flaming.
Been there tons of times. What usually works for me is getting lots of sleep, drink lots of caffiene and do a little "research". the first to will get your mind into a state where you can focus better and the research can help you see the possibilities. Newsgroups are good for this. Lots of examples to peruse while you are thinking. Getting started is the toughest part when you are stuck, so just start trying things and a solution will usually come to you.
Coder's block seems the biggest problem for me when I don't have confidence with what I'm doing. Recently a large Intranet project I am working on did a 180 degree turn when I was asked to reimplement my work in VBA/ASP instead of PHP. I hit a wall. I felt like I was being asked to "dumb down" my application and implement it in a buggy language. What finally got me going was what I mentioned above. It's really a lot like running. Sometimes you have to push through the low points to keep going.
"I also prefer the single-button design because, as a lefty, I don't like having to mess with flipping the mouse button functions.
This has to be the dumbest review I ever read. sure mice suck when it comes to being a lefty, but griping about the few mice that let you switch button functions is completly moronic. At least come up with legit reasons for crituiqing the mouse. Iber the reviewer didn't even use the damn thing. Wait till the real reviews show. This isn't much different than the touchpads and a lot of reviewers thought they sucked. Including me.
First, we should immediately set up a link where users can send messages directly to congress. Last month Congress threatened to write formal legislation defining "Fair Use". Lets get them working on this. If even 10% of Napsters 20 million users send email to their Congressmen there is little doubt that somthing will happen. Get rid of the ambiguity in "Fair Use". Corporte America shouldn't be allowed to limit what information is exchanged between Americans. At best the onus should be on Corporate America to clearly identify specific Copyright infringments. Not wholesale trampling on peoples free-speech and assiciation rights. Just because a medium makes violating the law easier doesn't give them the right to abuse the legal system and harm the medium providers. Cars aren't governed to stay below 75mph.
Second, maybe the time is right to make more information free. With the economy of scale available to corporate america there is a strong argument that they don't need as much protection from IP theft and monopoly control over their IP product. Things have been swinging in corporate america's favor for far too long. There is an imbalance in the power structure. Let's not forget, companies exist as entities because we, the people allow them to. Corporations achieve an artificial status as citizens because we allow them to. For far too long corporations, as citizens have benefitted from the rights citizens inherit, withour taking of the full responsibilities that citizens inherit. They have too much voice, too much power and take very little responsibility. Its time to take corporate america to task and make them take responsibility. If they want to continue to profit from our work they will have to start giving back. "Special rights" given to corporations providing monopolistic power need to be reigned in.
3DFx killed their own golden goose by keeping the Glide API closed until Death came to dinner. Not much to credit them for.
Obviously you can limit the size of posts. If you do then some people will get ticked. Limiting the quantity of posts isn't too difficult either, as long as you don't allow ACs to post. Then you lose some of your best commentary from informed people. Essentially, anything you you to defend against this sort of attack in a public forum type website inherently makes life more difficult for honest posters.
Noone can predict what technology will become the next "big thing". Does anyone know who invented TCP/IP? Does he control the proxy today? Just because someone sees somthing for the first time it isn't logical to assume that they "own" what they see.
There are many issues to be ironed out before we can assume someone has cornered the market on genetics. The guys that make the big bucks are the one who figure out products to sell based on the information.
A treasure map is worthless without a mode of transportation to get there, a method of keeping the loot and a means of exploiting the loot.
Does anyone know what tool was used to make this art?
Here is info from known ports list on IANA.org
mysql 3306/tcp MySQL
mysql 3306/udp MySQL
x11 6000-6063/tcp X Window System
x11 6000-6063/udp X Window System
Good point, I have to admit that I'd rather donate to a free project than pay for somthing essentially free.
Here is a link on how to install KDE on IRIX, it may be worth a try to put a new face on IRIX.
Here is a blurb about what the Challenge XL was intednded to be used for: (copied from this website you may find helpful)
ChallengeXL The CHALLENGE XL network resource server is a compute and throughput powerhouse for deskside and data center applications in the database, digital media, integer compute real-time and high-performance file serving markets. The CHALLENGE XL can handle extraordinary data management tasks, shifting yesterday's compute paradigm from high-cost mainframes to the industry-leading performance of today's cost-effective symmetric multi-processors. The powerful, flexible CHALLENGE XL system architecture is based on a 1.2GB/second sustained bus, which minimizes time-wasting contention between I/O, memory and compute subsystems. The system supports from two to thirty-six MIPS® R10000 TM CPUs, multiple gigabytes of CPU memory, and up to six 320MB/second POWER Channel-2TM I/O subsystems. The CHALLENGE server's flexible hardware and software configurability allows performance optimization, as well as tangible growth paths to meet future computing demands. The server comes standard with one 320MB/second POWER Channel-2 subsystem. Each POWER Channel-2 subsystem contains an EthernetTM controller, two 20MB/second Fast/Wide 16-bit SCSI-II controllers (configurable as single-ended or differential) a 50MB/second VME controller, two 19.2KB RS232 serial ports, a 38.4KB RS422 serial port, a parallel port, and supports up to two optional daughter boards (HIO modules). External storage is provided via the CHALLENGE Vault XL. With this product, the CHALLENGE servers can support up to 5.6TB of on-line, non-RAID storage and 17.4TB of RAID-5 and RAID-3 storage. The CHALLENGE XL server is ideal for cutting edge data warehousing applications. With CPU and I/O expandability to meet the needs of interactive terabyte databases, this system can be grown to manage the data extraction and data hygiene needs of each customer. HIO-based SCSI expansion provides higher database performance by reducing I/O interrupt overhead. Large secondary cache also increase overall database performance. In addition CHALLENGE uses the IRIX symmetric multi-processing operating system in conjunction with the XFSTM, a native log-based filesystem. This provides a high level of data integrity, quick data recovery, and a robust environment suitable for the parallelism and throughput requirements of data warehousing. The CHALLENGE XL serves the realm of extreme data as a deployable machine unmatched in CPU and I/O throughput capabilities. Complementing these hardware strengths are software advances, which create industry-leading file server performance for the enterprise. For the most creative graphics workstation users manipulating a range of digital media data, IRIX offers deterministic I/O, large file and partition sizes, and intuitive data management through the IRIXPro suite of flexible GUI-based administration tools. Performance-hungry supercomputer sites requiring powerful front-end servers with direct and buffered I/O capabilities also enjoy efficient utilization of high-performance networks (HiPPI, FDDI) and sparse file support.
Why don't you read the article. King Rogered up to publishing the first three chapters, more only if enough people pay. You could wind up wasting $3 reading three chapters of a book that may never be complete. And my argument that it could tally to more than $15 for an average length book. At least if I buy the real thing in hardcover for the same price I have somthing tangible to resell.
Considering it was released in 1981 on a shoestring budget I think its simply incredible. And funny as hell. You want to see a real crying shame of a movie and proof positive that the public wants more T-N-A in movies go see "Scary Movie". The movie sucks but at least gives the audience a little of what they want.
I really have to wonder how any people are like me and won't even look at a incomplete book. I'm sure as hell not gonna pay $15 (assuming 15 chapters) for a damn downloaded book. King's just a money grubbing scammer leeching off the talent he used to have for writing interresting horror. People buy his books at this point because 1)He is in a niche genre - and there are very few new authors getting published.--Don't even think about bringing up the Bachman crap. I the writer wan't you he wouldn't have gotten published in the first place. 2)People are in the habit of buying his books.
Hey Steve, howsa bout you dump a little of that payola back to the community by starting a book publishing house and publishing books by new writers. Didn't you ever write a book about some guys greed coming back to haunt him?
What could save this movie before it hits DVD? Do a director's cut with a few extra (rated "R") scenes and a completely new soundrack remix. Heck maybe a RAP soundtrack since rap is today where heavy metal music was back then.
The Open Letter, since taken down, dealt with nVidia threatening to pull the website's use of the nVidia brand name and stop sending samples for review. Why? BECAUSE THEY DARED REVIEW A 3DFX CARD FAVORABLY!!!