Hmm. I was under the impression that a hedgehog was a one-way trip (which probably explains why they're so much pricier than gerbils). Of course, I imagine how well the trip, uh, comes out depends on which way it starts...
Well, yeah, I did have that thought.. but I'm an *aging* geek, and over time I've developed higher standards. Gotta be pretty as a hedgehog at the very least.
Hmm... is there a DOSbox for XP? wondering if it would fix the choppiness DOS apps experience when run in XP's notion of a DOS window (on a 32bit machine where otherwise, XP runs fine).
I suspect the difference is that Lexus is already *ad-enabled* with its GPS stuff (the basic receiver function is already there, so audio ads require only a small hack at minimal extra cost), whereas the lowly Kia, having no GPS, lacks the *ability* to receive ads. But if this lunacy makes money, I'm sure we'll see an abrupt migration of this "upgrade feature" down to the bottom-end vehicles ASAP.
The sealed beam can't be installed upsidedown, but the right and left headlights are identical and interchangeable. So the R-L patterns are the same for both sides.
I own one of those sealed-beam square-headlight vehicles, and the replacement units come in a choice of one, not right and left. Some of 'em are a lot better'n others, tho. Borg-Wagner has a nice pattern that maximizes ground visibility, with NO dark spots; Sylvania puts out almost a slot-like pattern that leaves dark areas on the ground, and I suspect is harder on oncoming drivers.
I had one of those 12" Panasonic B/Ws. My grandmother won it in a drawing in 1965 or '66. I used it til 1997, when I finally threw it out (sorry now -- it had tubes!) because it had got to where the picture was really faint -- except when the neighbour fucked up my electrical line and sent 220v into my house, then the picture was crystal clear again!! (Exploded a couple lightbulbs, but the TV sure liked it.)
Those old Panasonic electronics were sure durable!!
Maybe they're designed that way NOW. But I can tell you for a fact it wasn't always that way -- if only because the exact same sealed-beam headlight goes on both the right and left sides of my truck.
Of course, I *could* adjust each side independently, but the factory setting is absolutely symmetrical.
The commercials were probably "Public Service Announcements" which all public broadcasters are required to carry a certain number of at no charge. So they cost nothing but what it took to produce them -- probably not a lot as such things go.
I know someone living on $500/month who somehow still finds $120 to pay for high-speed internet, cable TV, and one of the more-complete cellphone packages. He spends another $100 on comic books. Then he whines about being out of money. Mind you he lives on a gov't disability subsidy for being bipolar (actually he's a classic paranoid). He's not out there scratching for a living, nor has he done so for 90% of his adult life.
Your tax dollars at work... enabling those who can't enable themselves.
First time I saw M$ breach this subject was at the Win2K rollout tour, end of 1999. M$'s presenter spent 20 minutes extolling the virtues of software by subscription, and having all your apps and data on someone else's server -- oh how wonderful it will be when someone else gets to do all the work, and all you need do is sit down at your dumb terminal and pay a monthly fee to access your apps and data!!
The audience of some 1000 experienced IT types all developed identical angry frowns.
I said, "Give Islam another few hundred years to mature" and an AC replied, "With atomic bombs at your disposal this is a very idiotic idea. IRAN will prove it."
For some individuals and some sects, this may well be true, just as it is still true today for Christianity (which still has its own nutcase sects, tho they are not nearly as popular as they've been in the past). But that won't stop Islam as a whole from maturing and relaxing, just as Christianity did over the centuries. Unless, of course, all of Islam is taken over by the minority loons -- which could well happen, if circumstances are right for it. That would be a bad thing for everyone, including the majority of Moslems in the world.
Oh, I'm sure there are "better" sources, and sources with less or different biases. But slashdot is okay for quick and dirty, and frankly I'm no longer interested in 99% of what goes on out there. Seen the same old shit 5000 times, tired of it, don't want to see it again!! at least here it's occasionally something that interests me.
One advantage of/. is that sooner or later some insider or more-knowledgeable person is likely to pipe up, which never happens if you rely on standard news sites.
I've been here a long time (10 years or so) and have gotten very efficient at skimming the cream out of the whey:)
Yes, and I refrained from pointing out in my previous post that the culture engendered by Islam seems to have made its followers "slow learners" since it seems to be taking Islam an inordinate amount of time to get past the "rabid fanatics bent on converting the world even after the majority have settled down" stage of a religion's development.
The "young religion" point holds, but one might say that at its worst, Islam sometimes seems like a retarded child that may never grow up.;)
Yep. I do think it's significant that the closer we approach a totalitarian state, the nearer society comes to "moral panic" about whatever is the current "think of the _______" or "we must prevent ______" -- and the more broadly (and shallowly) defined the object of that panic becomes.
Good points. Remember when there was a rash of lunatics driving down the sidewalks with intent to kill? We didn't ban cars or muzzle dumb remarks about bombs, did we? Hell no... in fact it spawned japes like "If you don't like how I drive, stay off the sidewalk!"
Seems we may also cope best with risks perceived as low-risk...
As has been pointed out elsewhere, Islam is still a relatively "young" religion, and is at about the same point that Christianity was a few hundred years ago -- at which point Christians had social wonders like witch hunts and the Inquisition. Give Islam another few hundred years to mature, and hopefully it will also get past the adolescent stage of having to "prove its rightness" to the rest of the world.
You cannot possibly be any weirder than the guy we used to see around in Billings, Montana... in winter, wearing only a kilt and boots, even in -30F weather. And whistling the most beautiful tunes as he roller-skated through the downtown alleys during the lunch hour.
Word around was he was some big muckity businessman, and this was how he relaxed.
Slashdot Mirror
Some Haiku express
Depths of insight and beauty
But this one does not
True... in fact I'm wondering if there's an uglier mammal anywhere!
[looking around]
I meant *outside* of slashdot, you insensitive clods!!
Hmm. I was under the impression that a hedgehog was a one-way trip (which probably explains why they're so much pricier than gerbils). Of course, I imagine how well the trip, uh, comes out depends on which way it starts...
Well, yeah, I did have that thought.. but I'm an *aging* geek, and over time I've developed higher standards. Gotta be pretty as a hedgehog at the very least.
"Essentially they've found something, they don't know what it is..."
Well, I think it's obvious -- it's the Force! ;)
And if I were that ugly, I'd *welcome* extinction!!
Hmm... is there a DOSbox for XP? wondering if it would fix the choppiness DOS apps experience when run in XP's notion of a DOS window (on a 32bit machine where otherwise, XP runs fine).
I suspect the difference is that Lexus is already *ad-enabled* with its GPS stuff (the basic receiver function is already there, so audio ads require only a small hack at minimal extra cost), whereas the lowly Kia, having no GPS, lacks the *ability* to receive ads. But if this lunacy makes money, I'm sure we'll see an abrupt migration of this "upgrade feature" down to the bottom-end vehicles ASAP.
Tinfoil umbrellas??
The sealed beam can't be installed upsidedown, but the right and left headlights are identical and interchangeable. So the R-L patterns are the same for both sides.
I own one of those sealed-beam square-headlight vehicles, and the replacement units come in a choice of one, not right and left. Some of 'em are a lot better'n others, tho. Borg-Wagner has a nice pattern that maximizes ground visibility, with NO dark spots; Sylvania puts out almost a slot-like pattern that leaves dark areas on the ground, and I suspect is harder on oncoming drivers.
I had one of those 12" Panasonic B/Ws. My grandmother won it in a drawing in 1965 or '66. I used it til 1997, when I finally threw it out (sorry now -- it had tubes!) because it had got to where the picture was really faint -- except when the neighbour fucked up my electrical line and sent 220v into my house, then the picture was crystal clear again!! (Exploded a couple lightbulbs, but the TV sure liked it.)
Those old Panasonic electronics were sure durable!!
Maybe they're designed that way NOW. But I can tell you for a fact it wasn't always that way -- if only because the exact same sealed-beam headlight goes on both the right and left sides of my truck.
Of course, I *could* adjust each side independently, but the factory setting is absolutely symmetrical.
The commercials were probably "Public Service Announcements" which all public broadcasters are required to carry a certain number of at no charge. So they cost nothing but what it took to produce them -- probably not a lot as such things go.
I know someone living on $500/month who somehow still finds $120 to pay for high-speed internet, cable TV, and one of the more-complete cellphone packages. He spends another $100 on comic books. Then he whines about being out of money. Mind you he lives on a gov't disability subsidy for being bipolar (actually he's a classic paranoid). He's not out there scratching for a living, nor has he done so for 90% of his adult life.
Your tax dollars at work... enabling those who can't enable themselves.
First time I saw M$ breach this subject was at the Win2K rollout tour, end of 1999. M$'s presenter spent 20 minutes extolling the virtues of software by subscription, and having all your apps and data on someone else's server -- oh how wonderful it will be when someone else gets to do all the work, and all you need do is sit down at your dumb terminal and pay a monthly fee to access your apps and data!!
The audience of some 1000 experienced IT types all developed identical angry frowns.
I said, "Give Islam another few hundred years to mature" and an AC replied, "With atomic bombs at your disposal this is a very idiotic idea. IRAN will prove it."
For some individuals and some sects, this may well be true, just as it is still true today for Christianity (which still has its own nutcase sects, tho they are not nearly as popular as they've been in the past). But that won't stop Islam as a whole from maturing and relaxing, just as Christianity did over the centuries. Unless, of course, all of Islam is taken over by the minority loons -- which could well happen, if circumstances are right for it. That would be a bad thing for everyone, including the majority of Moslems in the world.
Oh, I'm sure there are "better" sources, and sources with less or different biases. But slashdot is okay for quick and dirty, and frankly I'm no longer interested in 99% of what goes on out there. Seen the same old shit 5000 times, tired of it, don't want to see it again!! at least here it's occasionally something that interests me.
One advantage of /. is that sooner or later some insider or more-knowledgeable person is likely to pipe up, which never happens if you rely on standard news sites.
I've been here a long time (10 years or so) and have gotten very efficient at skimming the cream out of the whey :)
Yes, and I refrained from pointing out in my previous post that the culture engendered by Islam seems to have made its followers "slow learners" since it seems to be taking Islam an inordinate amount of time to get past the "rabid fanatics bent on converting the world even after the majority have settled down" stage of a religion's development.
The "young religion" point holds, but one might say that at its worst, Islam sometimes seems like a retarded child that may never grow up. ;)
Yep. I do think it's significant that the closer we approach a totalitarian state, the nearer society comes to "moral panic" about whatever is the current "think of the _______" or "we must prevent ______" -- and the more broadly (and shallowly) defined the object of that panic becomes.
Good points. Remember when there was a rash of lunatics driving down the sidewalks with intent to kill? We didn't ban cars or muzzle dumb remarks about bombs, did we? Hell no... in fact it spawned japes like "If you don't like how I drive, stay off the sidewalk!"
Seems we may also cope best with risks perceived as low-risk...
As has been pointed out elsewhere, Islam is still a relatively "young" religion, and is at about the same point that Christianity was a few hundred years ago -- at which point Christians had social wonders like witch hunts and the Inquisition. Give Islam another few hundred years to mature, and hopefully it will also get past the adolescent stage of having to "prove its rightness" to the rest of the world.
For those of us who don't look at other news outlets, this may be the only place we learn of it.
And yeah, Slashdot isn't "News of the World" but it comes close enough, for the issues that we really need to be aware of (such as rights erosions).
You cannot possibly be any weirder than the guy we used to see around in Billings, Montana... in winter, wearing only a kilt and boots, even in -30F weather. And whistling the most beautiful tunes as he roller-skated through the downtown alleys during the lunch hour.
Word around was he was some big muckity businessman, and this was how he relaxed.
"...you open the way for the government to force all criminals to register."
Erm.... a small fix: "...you open the way for the government to force all *citizens* to register."
There, halfway fixed, Tho really that should read "all persons".
More likely scenario:
1) hand over passwords
2) framed by dirty cop who accesses your account
3) jailed for life