I liked the way the movie was done, that was fine. What was bad was the *amazingly* *stupid* *charactors*... If you can't figure out to follow a river downstream when you're lost in the woods, you diserve to die.
Computer has web server on port 43474, ports 80, 8080, 21, 43473, and 43475 are all set up to log *any* access to them, plus add an entry to a file that the web server reads for blocked IPs.
With the above setup, if you try to screw with the box then you get on a banned list, probabaly.
Realy, I think a country's body of laws should be the absolute minimal requred to keep order -- that shouldn't include *any* copyright, patent, or trademark laws...
After reading your comment, I agree entirely (Although if I had said it myself I would have come up with a more delicate phrasing)
One of the extremely important comments here is "Tax is only to pay for nessisary services [that can most appropriately be suplied by the govt]. We should not be taxed "Just Because"."
Disclaimer: This comment is written in such a way as to repeat it'sself and to require the point of the comment to be decyphered... sorry.
And so are computers. Computers and Space Ships share a whole bunch of common properties, most importantly for the point I'm trying to make is that they're both completely different from any other tool we've ever had, and require different treatment than any other tool we've ever had.
NASA's Space Shuttle is closer to a bicycle than my Laptop is to a toaster. The laptop requires more effort to learn how to use than the toaster, and that's how it should be.
Remember, the catigory "Tools" covers everything from a pointy stick that you dig vegitable roots out of the ground with to a SGI O2. The O2 requires different treatment from the stick, yes?
The Windows keys do serve a purpoise, but only if you're running Windows with Litestep. (You can set shortcuts like Windows+L to run a passworded screensaver, etc...)
Now if I could just map the Windows keys (under X)to "Alt" and the little "Context Menu Key" to "Super" I'd have Ctrl, Meta, Alt and Super on my keyboard!
Well, it's true, but I know of nothing that can be "Absolutely proven scientifically", and I don't see any way that ANY theory can be so proven. But, I'll accept that "1=1" is a fact.
No, Evolution says that once a stable ecosystem exists it will autoselect for the most fit members and as the level of fitness increases (over the generations), so will charactoristics change to be more adapted to the enviornment.
I doubt that your spit is a stable ecosystem, and even if it were, I doubt a human (esp you) would be the result of the evolution of the organisms in your spit.
Radio Waves: If I realy cared to, I could build a device which would be able to detect those radio waves in such a way that I believe the output of the device. I cannot build a device that will detect the existance of a diety.
The current level of human knowledge makes it impractical to personally test all the scientific theories in existance. The theory of evolution was explained to me by someone who I tend to trust, who got it from a book written by a scientist who he said he trusts. Without trust... human society doesn't properly function. (Or you get some real weird shit, read book 2 of the Deathworld Trilogy by Harry Harrison for a fictional account of a [semi-]functional society without trust.
I have no good way to disprove the existance of a devine entity, but it's so ludicrus I have no reason to need to disprove it. There is no evidence for the existance of a divine entity, and therefore there is no reason for me to accept it as likely. You can't prove that the universe wasn't just created by a 35 meter long crayfish 5 minutes ago. (Oh, you have memories from before 5 minutes ago? Well, you were created with those memories, you never realy did/experianced anything before 5 minutes ago!).
Saying "Thermodynamics says that things progress from order to disorder. Ergo evolution is impossible." is like saying "Theories about magnitism say that opposites attract, therefore homosexuality is against nature!"
Hey, it's still the Theory of Evolution, reguardless of how obvious it is until it can be unquestionably proven scientifically. I mean, the sun OBVIOUSLY revolves around the earth, right? The earth is OBVIOUSLY a flat disk, I can see the edges!
Even the the principals of physics developed by Newton, Einstien, etc are still theories... and might possibly be incorrect.
Always remember - Almost anything can be disproven, almost nothing can be proven.
The USA is apparently capible of all kinds of bullshit that I would have thought it incapible of by reading it's declaration of indpendance and constitution.
This is just one more stupid law, and not one of the worst ones
I've mostly given up on the USA, if this country doesn't get it's act together soon I'm going to move to Canada, where things seem to be a little better.
The crap the US has pulled, what with ignoring the basic human rights "ensured" by the countries constitution, and with setting up and requiring attendance in orgainzations (public schools) that go beyond violating basic human rights.
I have always understood kilobyte to be 1024 bites, megabyte to be 1024^2 bytes, etc; and when I realized that diskmakers were misusing the words I actively considered trying to sue the diskmakers for false advertizing (still think they should be sued, I just don't have the money to do it)
Kilobyte, etc should be strictly defined as NOT powers of 10! That would make the problem go away (poof)
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Another interesting thing that some group should do is come up with a system for speaking in hexideciaml. If we could speak in hex, then we could think in hex, and one of the biggest kludges of all time (actively using the decimal system) would go away.
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But then, some of us work with the GNOME panel hidden off to one side and want apps to pop up using all the space they can...
Could it be possibly that they don't want you using , because you could screw up the presentation of the entire comments page with it?
Could it be that has it's uses for things like, well, HTML tags?
Before you complain, try to figure out why it is the way it is, ok?
I liked the way the movie was done, that was fine. What was bad was the *amazingly* *stupid* *charactors*... If you can't figure out to follow a river downstream when you're lost in the woods, you diserve to die.
Think about it this way:
Computer has web server on port 43474, ports 80, 8080, 21, 43473, and 43475 are all set up to log *any* access to them, plus add an entry to a file that the web server reads for blocked IPs.
With the above setup, if you try to screw with the box then you get on a banned list, probabaly.
At least that's what the error message said should be done...
Sun has, well, "Sun" and "Java". (What if Starbucks wants to use the word "Java" in a product)
Apple has "Macintosh" which conflicts with the (to be eaten) apple.
FASA Corp has "Matrix".
"Joy" dish soap; "Cheer" ditergent; "Tide" (with bleach;
Realy, I think a country's body of laws should be the absolute minimal requred to keep order -- that shouldn't include *any* copyright, patent, or trademark laws...
After reading your comment, I agree entirely (Although if I had said it myself I would have come up with a more delicate phrasing)
One of the extremely important comments here is "Tax is only to pay for nessisary services [that can most appropriately be suplied by the govt]. We should not be taxed "Just Because"."
Be Silent, Heathen!
It was Lartpoink, the 35 meter long crayfish who created the universe but 5 minutes ago!
Do not speak your heracy of false unicorn creators in my presence again. =P
PS. If this was already half posted- well, blame it on Microsoft Products.
Disclaimer: This comment is written in such a way as to repeat it'sself and to require the point of the comment to be decyphered... sorry.
And so are computers. Computers and Space Ships share a whole bunch of common properties, most importantly for the point I'm trying to make is that they're both completely different from any other tool we've ever had, and require different treatment than any other tool we've ever had.
NASA's Space Shuttle is closer to a bicycle than my Laptop is to a toaster. The laptop requires more effort to learn how to use than the toaster, and that's how it should be.
Remember, the catigory "Tools" covers everything from a pointy stick that you dig vegitable roots out of the ground with to a SGI O2. The O2 requires different treatment from the stick, yes?
The Windows keys do serve a purpoise, but only if you're running Windows with Litestep. (You can set shortcuts like Windows+L to run a passworded screensaver, etc...)
Now if I could just map the Windows keys (under X)to "Alt" and the little "Context Menu Key" to "Super" I'd have Ctrl, Meta, Alt and Super on my keyboard!
Well, it's true, but I know of nothing that can be "Absolutely proven scientifically", and I don't see any way that ANY theory can be so proven. But, I'll accept that "1=1" is a fact.
By law, PI is now equal to 3. This is because we (the legislators) could never quite understand fractional numbers, not to mention irrational numbers.
No, Evolution says that once a stable ecosystem exists it will autoselect for the most fit members and as the level of fitness increases (over the generations), so will charactoristics change to be more adapted to the enviornment.
I doubt that your spit is a stable ecosystem, and even if it were, I doubt a human (esp you) would be the result of the evolution of the organisms in your spit.
Radio Waves: If I realy cared to, I could build a device which would be able to detect those radio waves in such a way that I believe the output of the device. I cannot build a device that will detect the existance of a diety.
The current level of human knowledge makes it impractical to personally test all the scientific theories in existance. The theory of evolution was explained to me by someone who I tend to trust, who got it from a book written by a scientist who he said he trusts. Without trust... human society doesn't properly function. (Or you get some real weird shit, read book 2 of the Deathworld Trilogy by Harry Harrison for a fictional account of a [semi-]functional society without trust.
I have no good way to disprove the existance of a devine entity, but it's so ludicrus I have no reason to need to disprove it. There is no evidence for the existance of a divine entity, and therefore there is no reason for me to accept it as likely. You can't prove that the universe wasn't just created by a 35 meter long crayfish 5 minutes ago. (Oh, you have memories from before 5 minutes ago? Well, you were created with those memories, you never realy did/experianced anything before 5 minutes ago!).
Saying "Thermodynamics says that things progress from order to disorder. Ergo evolution is impossible." is like saying "Theories about magnitism say that opposites attract, therefore homosexuality is against nature!"
Obviously completely unrelated topics.
Hey, it's still the Theory of Evolution, reguardless of how obvious it is until it can be unquestionably proven scientifically. I mean, the sun OBVIOUSLY revolves around the earth, right? The earth is OBVIOUSLY a flat disk, I can see the edges!
Even the the principals of physics developed by Newton, Einstien, etc are still theories... and might possibly be incorrect.
Always remember - Almost anything can be disproven, almost nothing can be proven.
The USA is apparently capible of all kinds of bullshit that I would have thought it incapible of by reading it's declaration of indpendance and constitution.
This is just one more stupid law, and not one of the worst ones
Mario Kart?
That's extremely humorous.
It says it's running at 4mhz and that the storage/RAM avalible is such that they couldn't even fit a complete OS kernel on it.
Oops, I screwed up a little.
We should have a right to Privacy and Anonimity, along similar reasoning as the reasoning behind "freedom of speach".
Congress may make no law restricting the freedom of speach.
This makes any laws that governs the freedom of speach in a way that restricts it unconstitutional - get it?
I've mostly given up on the USA, if this country doesn't get it's act together soon I'm going to move to Canada, where things seem to be a little better.
The crap the US has pulled, what with ignoring the basic human rights "ensured" by the countries constitution, and with setting up and requiring attendance in orgainzations (public schools) that go beyond violating basic human rights.
With binary units might it be best to stick with binary?
Certain base numbersystems are best for certain tasks, base 10 isn't especialy good for anything.
As soon as I come up with a convincing way to speak in hexidecimal or octal I'll no longer use base 10 as my primary number system.
I may even have to do a writeup and attempt to get it posted as a news story here.
No.
Bad Idea(tm).
Bits are one thing that you can't have fractions of.
You can pick us programmers when we start speaking in code, but things like "!=" aren't especially more interesting than things like ":-)".
It's part of the net culture, so deal with it =P
I have always understood kilobyte to be 1024 bites, megabyte to be 1024^2 bytes, etc; and when I realized that diskmakers were misusing the words I actively considered trying to sue the diskmakers for false advertizing (still think they should be sued, I just don't have the money to do it)
Kilobyte, etc should be strictly defined as NOT powers of 10! That would make the problem go away (poof)
-------------------------------------Another interesting thing that some group should do is come up with a system for speaking in hexideciaml. If we could speak in hex, then we could think in hex, and one of the biggest kludges of all time (actively using the decimal system) would go away.