Multiply the number of obsessive-compulsives (including me;) who just had to tell us their "magical formula" for getting a password, by your karma. Make that number negative (if your karma didn't do it already;). Multiply that by the number of characters in your most recent post.
If the government wants Microsoft to straighten up their act, they should just install telescreens in Microsoft's office complex and in Gates's house. Posters would on every cubicle in the offices and on every wall in Gates' house, saying, "Big Brother is watching you." Judge Jackson would be the face on the posters.
On the telescreens, they could have somebody reading all of the anti-MS posts that get posted at Slashdot.
The world is moving toward socialism. Ever wonder why the rich pay a higher percentage of taxes? It's socialism: spreading the wealth. Which is a good thing. The thing is, there are different forms of socialism. Real socialism used to be practiced in Russia and China (communist countries), where there was no capitalism. Then Russia became capitalist and even China's economy moved toward capitalism (with a communist government).
Actually, there is more of a chance of landing on Boardwalk. You see, the most commonly rolled number with two dice is seven (1/6 chance). Park Place is seven spaces after Go to Jail. Thus, 1/6 of the possible landings on Park Place get taken away. Boardwalk is 9 spaces away. The odds of rolling a nine are 1/9. Out of 36, the odds are 6/36 and 4/36. Therefore, on every 36 trips around the board, Boardwalk gets 2 more landings. Also, there is a Chance Card that tells you to "Take a walk on the Boardwalk," further increasing the odds.
No, O.J. Simpson won because he was a celebrity, and the jury did not want to see a celebrity go to jail. It would be a shock to the nation to have a celebrity like O.J. executed or sent to life in prison. In the U.S. judicial system, celebrities get special treatment. It's not the government's fault, though. It's the juries' fault.
Lightning does strike the same place twice (I know hirschma was probably kidding, but there are some people who believe this myth). There was a report on the news (Philadelphia, ABC, Channel 6) about a person whose house got hit twice. That's a normal, small, house. There was nothing that would attract lightning. Also, lightning strikes tall skyscrapers almost all the time. Here's a page that has info on the Empire State Building. The lightning fact is close to the botton. The building gets struck 100s of times a year, and it acts as a giant lightning rod for the rest of the city.
Very few power outages. There is no ice, no wind, no falling trees to take out power lines or phone lines
No chance of electricuting yourself by hitting a power line with a metal ladder, or by climbing a tree
Trees grow in deformed shapes when growing through power lines. This doesn't happen anymore, so there is less of a chance of a tree falling over because the weight is more evenly distributed.
Lightning does cause more problems, but expensive electronics should be unplugged during a storm anyway! There are no excuses for not doing that.
The strange thing is, I've had a number of bad lightning strikes a few hundred feet away from my house, because I live on a hill. There have been no power surges from the power lines. The only surge I've had was during a sunny day in the early morning, and it blew out everything except my computer and the TV, which were unplugged.
This is just a quick opinion, but as a general rule, users don't get driven away by annoying "features" of Microsoft. Many people don't like the feel of Netscape or the price of Opera. And I don't blame them. With Windows, IE is king because Microsoft has the best product (not a particularly good one, but it's faster than Netscape on Windows) and its free. When new computer buyers get IE shoved into their face, Netscape seems strange. I think Opera is better than IE, but Opera is not free.
If you are using Windows, then it's helpful to get a keyboard with windows keys. Of course, having the buttons above the number pad is preferable. Their only practical use is to minimize a program that is not working or to shut down the computer when a full screen program crashes. You can often press the windows key, and the taskbar will appear at the bottom of your screen, so you can use the start menu (this always works when nothing is crashed, but if a program is frozen, it might not work). Also, pressing 'Windows + D' will minimize everything (and it might not work if a program is frozen).
Of course, if you use a different OS, ignore what I just said. Then the windows button is useless.
Yahoo's search engine is useful in a different way than Google's. If you want to get rid of a lot of trash and get a few selection of good sites, use Yahoo, because their directory is human edited. If that doesn't work, try Google (both their directory and their unorganized pages). Or try Google first then Yahoo second (which is actually the better order).
Actually, I don't think they are reviewing them. I searched for Sam Hughes, and got two matches in a row: 1707992 and 1707993. There has to be some funny names in there.
Duh. 0.1% of bible-reading couples get divorced. That means that 99.9% of bible-reading couples are still together. What are you thinking? It sounds like you believe that 0.1% of all divorced bible-reading couples are divorced. Of course, all divorced couples, of any sort, are divorced, because by definition, a divorced couple is divorced. What the person said made sense. You just couldn't make sense of it.
Speaking of chess, that is one of the easiest games to cheat at.
In online games, there are many people who have programs running while they play. There have been people who at tournaments (on real chessboards) who take bathroom breaks to play out moves on their palm pilot. One person had a hidden camera in his glasses and projector that would project an image sideways through his lens. A tiny mirror in the lens reflected the projection, an image of a computer screen that was back at his friend's house, where his friend was playing the game on a chess program.
I tried installing it, and it did not work. I called tech support, and got the "level 1 tech support level." These people know how to help people who don't know anything about using a computer (and those people usually don't install DSL). They tried walking me throiugh installation, which of course did not work.
"Level 2 tech support"
These guys are supposed to be able to fix problems. "Hmm... maybe your ethernet card is broken. Buy another one." (that did not work). "I'll send you up to 'Level 3 DSL, O.K? They actually know what they're doing. Here's their number."
"Level 3 tech support"
I hear the speaker: "Hello, ISDN tech support on the line."
Since when did DSL people who knew what they were doing magically transform into level 1 ISDN?
The next day I managed to get to level three tech support. They were stumped. "Maybe there's a problem with the line. We'll send some guys to check it out tomorrow." Three days later, some people look at the line. Of course there's nothing wrong with it.
The next day, I found a message on the answering machine: "Uhhh... we didn't do any work on your connection yesterday, but maybe it works, so try it."
The chance of my computer not freezing up when I try to connect ( I managed to get the account set up with my sister's iMac) from my Windows box is now virtually impossible (or is that infinitely improbable?).
It seems to me that the Windows supporter was conceding to the Apple guy that Windows was not that good at some things, because he couldn't lie. However, the Apple guy never needed to concede anything because there are no major faults in their OS.
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It's not exponential, it's sort of hyperbolic. If you take the left side of the equation y = (1 / x), then that is what a graph of warp speeds would look like. Remember how 9.92 is something like 3x faster than 9.91, and as you get closer to ten, the faster the increase is (by A LOT). Warp 10 is infinitely faster than warp 9.9999999999. Of course, the left side of y = 1/x would have to be squished horizontally to fit between the line x=10 and the y-axis, and "negative infinity" would actually be at the origin, because an infinitely slow speed is no motion at all. (you can't go at negative speeds, of course).
...Bill Gates will show a demo by sitting in a car that drives itself, being controlled by WITT (Windows IntelliDrive Two Thousand). When Windows crashes...
There are zillions of places on our planet that are very useful for harnessing energy. Here are my ideas...
Solar-paneled roofs. On every part of the roof.
Solar water heaters. Pipes can go to the roofs of houses, where the sun can heat the water very, very well. Regular heating can be used at the same time, as a backup (using sensors). This idea is currently in use today and was already posted on Slashdot (I'm repeating it because it's a good idea)
Small pinwheel sized wind turbines on the tops of roofs. Every house could afford these.
Playground sets: swings and seesaws can be used to generate energy. There is a place in Africa which has children playing on this circular thingy that pumps water up to a water tower (this was sponsored by a company that put its advertising on the tower)
Small turbines on rain gutters. This would work if the gutters are of the type that don't get clogged.
Computer keyboards that use power generated from the keys getting pressed, rather than from the computer cord. Instead of using lights for Caps Lock, Num Lock, and Scroll Lock, just have three little wheels colored yellow on one side that spin a half turn when their key has been pressed.
A mouse that does the same thing (or is that already what powers the signal? I don't know.). I mean computer mice, not lab mice.
Watches are already powered by your wrist. What about PDAs powered the same way?
Each time a window is opened or closed, it can generate power, being attached to a generator.
There are many places on farms that can have wind and solar power generators on them.
Solar power in the desert.
Many of these ideas could be implemented, making it possible for communities to be free of ugly power lines (above and below ground). Also, none of these ideas use any pollution.
One great invention that my friend has is a radio that plays loudly for two hours if he turns a handle around 25 times.
"You've got mail" is simply incorrect. The correct form is "You've gotten mail."
Also, "You have mail" is correct.
However, "You've mail" is not correct, even allowing for contractions. The verb 'have' can only be put into a contraction when it is being used as a helping verb. In this case, have is an action verb, so it must be separated.
If you're using formal English, contractions aren't allowed at all, but since when have AOL users used formal English?
Now that Napster has started monitering for file names, legitimate users like me can enjoy the service without having to worry that some people are stealing software! Now people like me can trade legitimate songs, by bands like the Slashing Pumpkins, Mave Datthews Bland, and M&M. Those pirates can rot in hell.
I shouldn't rot in hell because I am the legitimate Napster user!
What? They started scanning for sonic properties of the files, too? Sigh... I guess they have no tolerance for legit users, either.
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Multiply the number of obsessive-compulsives (including me ;) who just had to tell us their "magical formula" for getting a password, by your karma. Make that number negative (if your karma didn't do it already ;). Multiply that by the number of characters in your most recent post.
You do realize that under socialism, the government would control the software industry, don't you?
Yeah, instead, Microsoft controls the software industry.
If the government wants Microsoft to straighten up their act, they should just install telescreens in Microsoft's office complex and in Gates's house. Posters would on every cubicle in the offices and on every wall in Gates' house, saying, "Big Brother is watching you." Judge Jackson would be the face on the posters.
On the telescreens, they could have somebody reading all of the anti-MS posts that get posted at Slashdot.
The world is moving toward socialism. Ever wonder why the rich pay a higher percentage of taxes? It's socialism: spreading the wealth. Which is a good thing. The thing is, there are different forms of socialism. Real socialism used to be practiced in Russia and China (communist countries), where there was no capitalism. Then Russia became capitalist and even China's economy moved toward capitalism (with a communist government).
Actually, there is more of a chance of landing on Boardwalk. You see, the most commonly rolled number with two dice is seven (1/6 chance). Park Place is seven spaces after Go to Jail. Thus, 1/6 of the possible landings on Park Place get taken away. Boardwalk is 9 spaces away. The odds of rolling a nine are 1/9. Out of 36, the odds are 6/36 and 4/36. Therefore, on every 36 trips around the board, Boardwalk gets 2 more landings. Also, there is a Chance Card that tells you to "Take a walk on the Boardwalk," further increasing the odds.
No, O.J. Simpson won because he was a celebrity, and the jury did not want to see a celebrity go to jail. It would be a shock to the nation to have a celebrity like O.J. executed or sent to life in prison. In the U.S. judicial system, celebrities get special treatment. It's not the government's fault, though. It's the juries' fault.
Lightning does strike the same place twice (I know hirschma was probably kidding, but there are some people who believe this myth). There was a report on the news (Philadelphia, ABC, Channel 6) about a person whose house got hit twice. That's a normal, small, house. There was nothing that would attract lightning. Also, lightning strikes tall skyscrapers almost all the time. Here's a page that has info on the Empire State Building. The lightning fact is close to the botton. The building gets struck 100s of times a year, and it acts as a giant lightning rod for the rest of the city.
- Aesthetical: no more ugly powerlines
- Very few power outages. There is no ice, no wind, no falling trees to take out power lines or phone lines
- No chance of electricuting yourself by hitting a power line with a metal ladder, or by climbing a tree
- Trees grow in deformed shapes when growing through power lines. This doesn't happen anymore, so there is less of a chance of a tree falling over because the weight is more evenly distributed.
Lightning does cause more problems, but expensive electronics should be unplugged during a storm anyway! There are no excuses for not doing that.The strange thing is, I've had a number of bad lightning strikes a few hundred feet away from my house, because I live on a hill. There have been no power surges from the power lines. The only surge I've had was during a sunny day in the early morning, and it blew out everything except my computer and the TV, which were unplugged.
This is just a quick opinion, but as a general rule, users don't get driven away by annoying "features" of Microsoft. Many people don't like the feel of Netscape or the price of Opera. And I don't blame them. With Windows, IE is king because Microsoft has the best product (not a particularly good one, but it's faster than Netscape on Windows) and its free. When new computer buyers get IE shoved into their face, Netscape seems strange. I think Opera is better than IE, but Opera is not free.
If you are using Windows, then it's helpful to get a keyboard with windows keys. Of course, having the buttons above the number pad is preferable. Their only practical use is to minimize a program that is not working or to shut down the computer when a full screen program crashes. You can often press the windows key, and the taskbar will appear at the bottom of your screen, so you can use the start menu (this always works when nothing is crashed, but if a program is frozen, it might not work). Also, pressing 'Windows + D' will minimize everything (and it might not work if a program is frozen).
Of course, if you use a different OS, ignore what I just said. Then the windows button is useless.
The Thinker is copied. The real one is in France, but there is a copy of it at the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia, PA.
Yahoo's search engine is useful in a different way than Google's. If you want to get rid of a lot of trash and get a few selection of good sites, use Yahoo, because their directory is human edited. If that doesn't work, try Google (both their directory and their unorganized pages). Or try Google first then Yahoo second (which is actually the better order).
Nowadays, I only use Yahoo for news.
Actually, I don't think they are reviewing them. I searched for Sam Hughes, and got two matches in a row: 1707992 and 1707993. There has to be some funny names in there.
He must be a citizen of Slashdot Land.
Well, a "cure" for death is bound to kill us all. If we "cure" death, we must "cure" pregnancy, too, to avoid a population explosion.
Duh. 0.1% of bible-reading couples get divorced. That means that 99.9% of bible-reading couples are still together. What are you thinking? It sounds like you believe that 0.1% of all divorced bible-reading couples are divorced. Of course, all divorced couples, of any sort, are divorced, because by definition, a divorced couple is divorced. What the person said made sense. You just couldn't make sense of it.
Speaking of chess, that is one of the easiest games to cheat at. In online games, there are many people who have programs running while they play. There have been people who at tournaments (on real chessboards) who take bathroom breaks to play out moves on their palm pilot. One person had a hidden camera in his glasses and projector that would project an image sideways through his lens. A tiny mirror in the lens reflected the projection, an image of a computer screen that was back at his friend's house, where his friend was playing the game on a chess program.
I tried installing it, and it did not work. I called tech support, and got the "level 1 tech support level." These people know how to help people who don't know anything about using a computer (and those people usually don't install DSL). They tried walking me throiugh installation, which of course did not work.
"Level 2 tech support"
These guys are supposed to be able to fix problems. "Hmm... maybe your ethernet card is broken. Buy another one." (that did not work). "I'll send you up to 'Level 3 DSL, O.K? They actually know what they're doing. Here's their number."
"Level 3 tech support"
I hear the speaker: "Hello, ISDN tech support on the line." Since when did DSL people who knew what they were doing magically transform into level 1 ISDN?
The next day
I managed to get to level three tech support. They were stumped. "Maybe there's a problem with the line. We'll send some guys to check it out tomorrow." Three days later, some people look at the line. Of course there's nothing wrong with it.
The next day, I found a message on the answering machine: "Uhhh... we didn't do any work on your connection yesterday, but maybe it works, so try it."
The chance of my computer not freezing up when I try to connect ( I managed to get the account set up with my sister's iMac) from my Windows box is now virtually impossible (or is that infinitely improbable?).
Disclaimer: These results are typical.
It seems to me that the Windows supporter was conceding to the Apple guy that Windows was not that good at some things, because he couldn't lie. However, the Apple guy never needed to concede anything because there are no major faults in their OS.
It's not exponential, it's sort of hyperbolic. If you take the left side of the equation y = (1 / x), then that is what a graph of warp speeds would look like. Remember how 9.92 is something like 3x faster than 9.91, and as you get closer to ten, the faster the increase is (by A LOT). Warp 10 is infinitely faster than warp 9.9999999999. Of course, the left side of y = 1/x would have to be squished horizontally to fit between the line x=10 and the y-axis, and "negative infinity" would actually be at the origin, because an infinitely slow speed is no motion at all. (you can't go at negative speeds, of course).
...Bill Gates will show a demo by sitting in a car that drives itself, being controlled by WITT (Windows IntelliDrive Two Thousand). When Windows crashes...
There are zillions of places on our planet that are very useful for harnessing energy. Here are my ideas...
Many of these ideas could be implemented, making it possible for communities to be free of ugly power lines (above and below ground). Also, none of these ideas use any pollution.
One great invention that my friend has is a radio that plays loudly for two hours if he turns a handle around 25 times.
The truth is the following:
"You've got mail" is simply incorrect. The correct form is "You've gotten mail."
Also, "You have mail" is correct.
However, "You've mail" is not correct, even allowing for contractions. The verb 'have' can only be put into a contraction when it is being used as a helping verb. In this case, have is an action verb, so it must be separated.
If you're using formal English, contractions aren't allowed at all, but since when have AOL users used formal English?
Now that Napster has started monitering for file names, legitimate users like me can enjoy the service without having to worry that some people are stealing software! Now people like me can trade legitimate songs, by bands like the Slashing Pumpkins, Mave Datthews Bland, and M&M. Those pirates can rot in hell.
I shouldn't rot in hell because I am the legitimate Napster user!
What? They started scanning for sonic properties of the files, too?
Sigh... I guess they have no tolerance for legit users, either.
The thing is, Apple has already released their outdated operating systems to the public domain. They know that there is no point in keeping them.