These Klein bottles are not, in fact, Klein bottles. They are 3-D representations, models, if you will, of a 4-D concept. A real Klein bottle cannot, as far as we are aware, exist in three dimensions.
The details on this are just a touch vague. Which piece of hardware does the actual decoding? I would think the addon, since I don't think a gameboy has the horsepower.
I am sick and tired of hearing about this and that being immoral. America (and other countries too, I suppose) needs to get off its 'my morals are better than yours' high horse and start acting ethically, not morally. Everyone has different morals, but ethics are something that, for the most part, we as individuals can all agree on. We are such a politically and religiously diverse country that coming to a moral focal point is impossible. On the other hand, I think it is possible for each and everyone one of us to treat other people with respect and dignity.
You folks don't get pissed off when an open source product is delayed because it is deemed not ready, yet you get rather hostile when a closed source company pushes back the release of one of THEIR products instead of shipping it broken. Make up your minds.
How about making it a requirement that if you sign the petition, you get entered into the lottery for you and your family to be some of the first to get shipped off?
After all, if you're willing to support having other people carted off, you should be willing to be carted off yourself.
While I enjoy my privacy as much as the next guy, I don't see where people get off downloading free programs like RealPlayer and Comet and then complaining about their information being sold. In most cases, you surrendered your information to them. They are giving you a service for free. Do your research, people. Would you install software on a disk that was being handed out on a street corner without first researching it? No? Then why do it on the Internet? This is not about the legal side of the issue, its about the moral side of the issue. You want to take, take, take free software from commercial institutions but you certainly don't wish to give them anything in return. Stop and think; there is no such thing as a free lunch. Everyone is out to make a buck one way or the other.
Shrinkwrapped products are a separate issue, but as for things you had to go find for yourself, downloaded from the 'Net for yourself, and installed for yourself, stop bitching.
Besides the useless vanity keys stealing invaluable real estate from the main keyboard, we are saddled with an ever-growing number of extra keys in the penalty zone, such as function keys, INSERT and its friends, arrow keys, and relics out of the shrouded mists of antiquity such as SysRQ and Scroll Lock.
Then how would we drop into 'safe mode' in Linux?:)
If you had read the post last time, it noted that this is merely a rumor. Now we have official word from IBM that they really are porting Linux to the S/390. If you don't like confirmation stories, filter out entire topics that you feel you don't need to hear about anyhow, or better yet, don't read Slashdot.
As a matter of fact, I have been using BitchX for a long time. Did you notice that I said binaries? BitchX comes in two flavors.. source and binaries.. If you install from source, yes, it gives you a warning. Have you noticed that the popular distributions install straight from binaries?
Or were you too busy getting huffy about it to even notice that I said binaries?
I was more or less talking about the grand mass of Slashdot weasels;) in the other threads saying they're not going to buy Quake 3 because of this.
I dare say that the ones saying they won't buy it weren't going to buy it anyhow.
Why do I say this?
People who spend money on products are generally (GENERALLY, I say) willing to give up a little privacy so that the product they pay money for will have more value.
I also dare say that the large portion of the people screaming "privacy" are kids, or at least teenagers, who will either be pirating it or will be getting mommy and daddy to buy Quake 3 for them, and thus don't CARE what the $49.95 gets them.
I'm guessing that the next time someone observes your behavior without your knowledge you're going to stop buying the products of whoever they were hired by? That's ludicrous. All id wants to do is support whatever video hardware is being used, and not worry about that which isn't. I personally apologize to John Carmack for the way the/. community is acting like children about this.
Don't boycott ID, I love them, but do send a strong (non-swearing etc) letter to ID protesting it.
But see, I don't CARE what id is doing with my video card information. For all I care, John Carmack himself could be using printouts of it to masturbate with. (John, if you are, please tell me. That would be severely cool..)
Do the BitchX binaries TELL you anywhere that they are going to send a UDP packet to bitchx.com with a packet containing your OS and version? No. Why do we continue to use BitchX then?
well hell, lets sue the hell out of microsoft their products do a LOT more stuff behind the scenes than they explicitly tell us about seriously, folks, get a grip.
Amway doesn't hire goons to break in to Navy offices to try to doctor their CEO's war record.
This I will give you.
Amway doesn't sue anyone who talks about the content of their sales training materials.
No, but they use their enormous corporate power to shut down websites like CoS does
Amway doesn't make its member sever all contact with their families.
Making an uninformed statement are we?
Uplines frequently demand that Amway zombies sever their relationships with their families (or pretty much anyone not in "the business." They also encourage 'amfights' or 'ambattles' (husband/wife pairs getting into heated verbal or physical disputes about 'the business'.)
Do your research.
http://www.best.com/~cobra/amway/aus/index.htm is a mirror of Sidney Schwartz's website, which Amway had shut down.
Not only is it more stable than Windows NT and regular Linux _combind_
.. lets see.. the stability of NT either plus or multipled by the stability of Linux.. which means that this thing, if it were real, could still die a horrible screaming death a few times a day and still fall within these parameters..
They should get their shit together and either impose duties or not, none of these extension shenanigans.. A lot of businesses are counting on duty-free e-commerce to continue in order to be successful.
Did it ever occur to them that OpenBSD might be a better solution?
OpenBSD is already the de facto standard free unix to use as a firewall, and checkpoint could package an entire OpenBSD/FW-1 system together and sell it as a single, ready-to-go-out-of-the-box product.
I have, on my NT server, a two way serial connection to a home automation box.
Dimmer capabilities, on/off, programming capabilities for the box so that the computer need not even be on to schedule on/offs. www.x10.com . and no, i don't work for them, either.
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These Klein bottles are not, in fact, Klein bottles. They are 3-D representations, models, if you will, of a 4-D concept. A real Klein bottle cannot, as far as we are aware, exist in three dimensions.
The details on this are just a touch vague. Which piece of hardware does the actual decoding? I would think the addon, since I don't think a gameboy has the horsepower.
To answer your question, no, it is not okay to let Gus whack you upside the head with cooking utensils.
Hey! Flamboyant gays need love too! :P
Moderators: This is intended as a lighthearted joke. Before you -1 (Flamebait) me, think about it.
I am sick and tired of hearing about this and that being immoral. America (and other countries too, I suppose) needs to get off its 'my morals are better than yours' high horse and start acting ethically, not morally. Everyone has different morals, but ethics are something that, for the most part, we as individuals can all agree on. We are such a politically and religiously diverse country that coming to a moral focal point is impossible. On the other hand, I think it is possible for each and everyone one of us to treat other people with respect and dignity.
You folks don't get pissed off when an open source product is delayed because it is deemed not ready, yet you get rather hostile when a closed source company pushes back the release of one of THEIR products instead of shipping it broken. Make up your minds.
No, that would be Amway. :D
How about making it a requirement that if you sign the petition, you get entered into the lottery for you and your family to be some of the first to get shipped off?
After all, if you're willing to support having other people carted off, you should be willing to be carted off yourself.
Shrinkwrapped products are a separate issue, but as for things you had to go find for yourself, downloaded from the 'Net for yourself, and installed for yourself, stop bitching.
Then how would we drop into 'safe mode' in Linux? :)
Kernel hackers will know what I'm talking about.
If you had read the post last time, it noted that this is merely a rumor. Now we have official word from IBM that they really are porting Linux to the S/390. If you don't like confirmation stories, filter out entire topics that you feel you don't need to hear about anyhow, or better yet, don't read Slashdot.
As a matter of fact, I have been using BitchX for a long time. Did you notice that I said binaries?
BitchX comes in two flavors.. source and binaries.. If you install from source, yes, it gives you a warning. Have you noticed that the popular distributions install straight from binaries?
Or were you too busy getting huffy about it to even notice that I said binaries?
I read what you said. =)
;) in the other threads saying they're not going to buy Quake 3 because of this.
I was more or less talking about the grand mass of Slashdot weasels
I dare say that the ones saying they won't buy it weren't going to buy it anyhow.
Why do I say this?
People who spend money on products are generally (GENERALLY, I say) willing to give up a little privacy so that the product they pay money for will have more value.
I also dare say that the large portion of the people screaming "privacy" are kids, or at least teenagers, who will either be pirating it or will be getting mommy and daddy to buy Quake 3 for them, and thus don't CARE what the $49.95 gets them.
I'm guessing that the next time someone observes your behavior without your knowledge you're going to stop buying the products of whoever they were hired by? /. community is acting like children about this.
That's ludicrous. All id wants to do is support whatever video hardware is being used, and not worry about that which isn't. I personally apologize to John Carmack for the way the
But see, I don't CARE what id is doing with my video card information. For all I care, John Carmack himself could be using printouts of it to masturbate with. (John, if you are, please tell me. That would be severely cool..)
Do the BitchX binaries TELL you anywhere that they are going to send a UDP packet to bitchx.com with a packet containing your OS and version? No. Why do we continue to use BitchX then?
well hell, lets sue the hell out of microsoft their products do a LOT more stuff behind the scenes than they explicitly tell us about seriously, folks, get a grip.
The BSD license as I've read it allows you to do anything you want with BSD code. Any particular reason Debian cannot GPL their port?
This I will give you.
Amway doesn't sue anyone who talks about the content of their sales training materials.
No, but they use their enormous corporate power to shut down websites like CoS does
Amway doesn't make its member sever all contact with their families.
Making an uninformed statement are we?
Uplines frequently demand that Amway zombies sever their relationships with their families (or pretty much anyone not in "the business." They also encourage 'amfights' or 'ambattles' (husband/wife pairs getting into heated verbal or physical disputes about 'the business'.)
Do your research.
http://www.best.com/~cobra/amway/aus/index.htm is a mirror of Sidney Schwartz's website, which Amway had shut down.
Thanks!
The Church of Scientology should be legally forced to declare whether they are a religion or a corporation.
If they are a religion, then they can't trademark 'their' words, phrases, and ideas.
If they are a corporation, then they don't get tax sheltered.
The CoS is the Amway of the religious world.
Its all about the dollar signs, kids.
(Scientology, Hubbard, Dianetics. Sue me.)
Uh, Cmdr, are you aware that slashdot has had superosity in the comics ("Funnies") slashbox for at least six months... ?
They should get their shit together and either impose duties or not, none of these extension shenanigans.. A lot of businesses are counting on duty-free e-commerce to continue in order to be successful.
A picture of a wheel.
Did it ever occur to them that OpenBSD might be a better solution?
OpenBSD is already the de facto standard free unix to use as a firewall, and checkpoint could package an entire OpenBSD/FW-1 system together and sell it as a single, ready-to-go-out-of-the-box product.
And what do you think X-10 is? :P
I have, on my NT server, a two way serial connection to a home automation box.
Dimmer capabilities, on/off, programming capabilities for the box so that the computer need not even be on to schedule on/offs.
www.x10.com . and no, i don't work for them, either.