Not so sure about that, but carbonation does upset the carbon-oxygen cycle of metabolism. The result is that more toxic acidic byproducts of metabolism stay in the blood.
Why even bother? You've got so much history of violation (I know you've converted images to JPEG without paying royalties!), that you should just keep using it like the hardened criminal you are.
They can't sue ALL of us before 2004, and there are still a lot of deep pockets for them to get to.
Too bad Sony doesn't have a patent on registering ridiculous patents and suing only the people you think you'll get the most money out of.
These people have the same scruples as spammers. They think that just because a lot of people banded together and made a lot of money, that they should get some of it for not doing anything.
Forgent should be paying US, the loyal users, for increasing the value of JPEG by making it a popular standard!
If you are concerned about 3DMark...buy a graphics card so expensive that you shed tears when you sign the check (funded by the sale of your firstborn).
Find non-graphics intensive benchmarks, and watch your friends decline to run them like the cowards they are....
#!/usr/bin/perl # # Printer Fun:-) # by Laurens (laurens@netric.org) # # little perl script to change the "ready message" # on printers that support PJL commands. # # tested on a HP 4000/4100 #
Once I was responsible for possessing an HP printer.
It was freshman year of college, and we had a nice HP 4 series laserjet for the dorm to use. I was the first one to figure out you could change the "READY" message on the LCD screen by sending the appropriate PJL commands.
Well, that was pretty fun. Error messages started confusing other students: error messages such as "PAPER UPSIDEDOWN" and "45 MOLDY TONER". Everyone figured it out after a couple weeks, and they had fun with messages like "HACK THE PLANET" and "YOU LOSER!" It was time for one final prank: I posted the message "*RADIATION DANGER*" and stopped by on the way to class. I casually said "huh, what's that mean" in earshot of the housekeeper nearby. I later found out that she had evacuated the lobby and was on the phone trying to warn the helpdesk.
Want a little possessed-computer fun? Pull up a terminal emulator in an X session, su root, and type "cat/dev/urandom >/dev/mouse" Keep your finger over the power button in case the mouse opens a file manager and skips around with root priveleges clicking and dragging....
Well, how about plane-mounted units where the laser *is* the bomb. That way you could take out an Iraqi soldier no matter how many women and children he has tied to his APV.
Actually, if the world could somehow harness the energy expended by Slashdotters in hitting the keys and moving a mouse, we could grill a few chickens.
Do you know what it is they hate about the biodiesel?
It's the smell. If there is such a thing. They feel saturated by it. They can taste it's stink...and every time they do, they fear that they've somehow been infected by it.
Yikes, I had no idea this was heading to +5. I would have worded it a little more carefully.
I know some software engineers, and a lot of them I do indeed consider engineers. They have either had an engineering education, or picked up engineering methods along the way. Their job most definitely could not be done by a smart high-school student and Google.
I think the difference is this: a software engineer knows and understands general engineering methodologies, and can communicate and work with other engineers using the same problem-solving approach. A software engineer can integrate with a hardware engineer, mechanical enginer, and chemical engineer, and can work directly with them to get the task done. That's what engineering is all about, really: a common approach to solving problems, and the ability to mesh your experience into a project with others who aren't in the same discipline.
That's my feeble take on the subject, and I didn't mean to alienate any coders out there...we still need you!
It really works on machines down to 486-SX33, it has a HUGE and growing user base and support network, it is actively being developed (version 4 almost out!). Best of all, it is free. As in, you can download a the full working program and use it as much as you like. If you want the source code, it's $20. That's a much better deal than any other functional CNC program out there, and you think you'll ever see the source?
EMC is out there, but...forget it. It's clumsy, fragmented, and requires a fast computer. TurboCNC can directly drive steppers at 20KHz...there's even phase drive available, which makes driving bipolar steppers as simple as wiring up a bridge chip and a power supply.
You're all code monkeys until your job really CAN'T be done by a smart high-school kid, and you have polished the art to the point that all the OTHER engineers accept and respect you as engineers!
It should be major news that Joe Somebody's computer crashed today, an event greeted with grim commentary and TV specials.
We both built lofts of the same dimensions and put them on either side of the room, which was on either side of the window and air vent. Then I built two small tables the same width as our desks, and we placed the desks facing each other on either side of the room, under the lofts, with the tables in between.
So essentially it was like one huge table with a desk on either end. The towers went under the tables, and the air conditioner made a wind tunnel through there, which kept the Athlon from overheating. Definitely gave enough room to have our monitors and desk space too.
The wardrobes were a little higher than the lofts, and were a good place to put a laptop for relaxing while surfing the web or chatting/napping between IM's.
I can't imagine having lived in my dorm room, without the whirr of two full tower computers (one dual proc, one with no case), two laptops, a 486, and the air conditioning on 24/7.
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Not so sure about that, but carbonation does upset the carbon-oxygen cycle of metabolism. The result is that more toxic acidic byproducts of metabolism stay in the blood.
Uh, you make it sound like they LYNCHED the sysadmin and chucked him into the subfloor.
I'm sure the sysadmin has no legal right to withold the password to the system. They own it, and owned it when he set the password in the first place.
Due to fact that he is actually going to be a father, he has already gotten a few more things right than the average Slashdot reader.
Well, with the market the way it is, firstborn are running pretty cheap.
Why even bother? You've got so much history of violation (I know you've converted images to JPEG without paying royalties!), that you should just keep using it like the hardened criminal you are.
They can't sue ALL of us before 2004, and there are still a lot of deep pockets for them to get to.
Too bad Sony doesn't have a patent on registering ridiculous patents and suing only the people you think you'll get the most money out of.
These people have the same scruples as spammers. They think that just because a lot of people banded together and made a lot of money, that they should get some of it for not doing anything.
Forgent should be paying US, the loyal users, for increasing the value of JPEG by making it a popular standard!
If you are concerned about 3DMark...buy a graphics card so expensive that you shed tears when you sign the check (funded by the sale of your firstborn).
Find non-graphics intensive benchmarks, and watch your friends decline to run them like the cowards they are....
Here's a perlscript (not mine).
:-)
:-)\n";
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Printer Fun
# by Laurens (laurens@netric.org)
#
# little perl script to change the "ready message"
# on printers that support PJL commands.
#
# tested on a HP 4000/4100
#
use strict;
use IO::Socket;
use Getopt::Std;
my %opt;
my $data;
my $socket;
print "\nPrinter Fun
print "by Laurens (laurens\@netric.org)\n\n";
getopts("r:t:h", \%opt);
usage() if not %opt or $opt{h};
if ($opt{t} and $opt{r}) {
print "[+] Setting the printer ready message\n";
$data =
"\033%-12345X\@PJL RDYMSG DISPLAY=\"$opt{r}\"\n".
"\033%-12345X\n";
$socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(
PeerAddr=>$opt{t},
PeerPort=>9100,
Proto =>'tcp')
or die "[-] Couldn't connect to $opt{t}:9100 : $!\n\n";
print $socket $data;
close ($socket);
print "[+] DONE!\n\n";
} else {
print "\n[-] Specify -r and -t!\n\n";
}
sub usage {
print "usage: $0 [-r <message>] [-t <hostname/ip>] [-h]\n";
print "-r : ready message display\n";
print "-t : target\n";
print "-h : help/usage\n";
print "example: $0 -r \"netric.org\" -t 192.168.1.123\n\n";
exit;
}
Once I was responsible for possessing an HP printer.
/dev/urandom > /dev/mouse" Keep your finger over the power button in case the mouse opens a file manager and skips around with root priveleges clicking and dragging....
It was freshman year of college, and we had a nice HP 4 series laserjet for the dorm to use. I was the first one to figure out you could change the "READY" message on the LCD screen by sending the appropriate PJL commands.
Well, that was pretty fun. Error messages started confusing other students: error messages such as "PAPER UPSIDEDOWN" and "45 MOLDY TONER". Everyone figured it out after a couple weeks, and they had fun with messages like "HACK THE PLANET" and "YOU LOSER!" It was time for one final prank: I posted the message "*RADIATION DANGER*" and stopped by on the way to class. I casually said "huh, what's that mean" in earshot of the housekeeper nearby. I later found out that she had evacuated the lobby and was on the phone trying to warn the helpdesk.
Want a little possessed-computer fun? Pull up a terminal emulator in an X session, su root, and type "cat
So you prefer the blast-radius approach?
Just don't go to Canada and pronouce 'FA'. You'll get slapped.
Well, how about plane-mounted units where the laser *is* the bomb. That way you could take out an Iraqi soldier no matter how many women and children he has tied to his APV.
Well, TRW just built *and tested* a laser system that can shoot artillery shells out of mid-air.
Sure, it's the size of a small house. But then computers used to be that big.
I realize there are some serious physical problems to overcome such as power density.
You entirely missed the joke.
Actually, if the world could somehow harness the energy expended by Slashdotters in hitting the keys and moving a mouse, we could grill a few chickens.
First posters would be equivalent to nuke plants!
Do you know what it is they hate about the biodiesel?
It's the smell. If there is such a thing. They feel saturated by it. They can taste it's stink...and every time they do, they fear that they've somehow been infected by it.
Lock them up you say?
Wouldn't it be more efficient to use them to fuel your SUV?
Amoco/BP Green: It's People!
(that's funny on multiple levels...think environmentalists, vegetarians, "BP" stands for British People, Soylent Green...pure comedy gold!)
I'd have to disagree with you violently there. I can think of several examples:
The cross.
National flags.
The gold-star sticker.
Yikes, I had no idea this was heading to +5. I would have worded it a little more carefully.
I know some software engineers, and a lot of them I do indeed consider engineers. They have either had an engineering education, or picked up engineering methods along the way. Their job most definitely could not be done by a smart high-school student and Google.
I think the difference is this: a software engineer knows and understands general engineering methodologies, and can communicate and work with other engineers using the same problem-solving approach. A software engineer can integrate with a hardware engineer, mechanical enginer, and chemical engineer, and can work directly with them to get the task done. That's what engineering is all about, really: a common approach to solving problems, and the ability to mesh your experience into a project with others who aren't in the same discipline.
That's my feeble take on the subject, and I didn't mean to alienate any coders out there...we still need you!
I absolutely have to put in a plug for TurboCNC.
It really works on machines down to 486-SX33, it has a HUGE and growing user base and support network, it is actively being developed (version 4 almost out!). Best of all, it is free. As in, you can download a the full working program and use it as much as you like. If you want the source code, it's $20. That's a much better deal than any other functional CNC program out there, and you think you'll ever see the source?
EMC is out there, but...forget it. It's clumsy, fragmented, and requires a fast computer. TurboCNC can directly drive steppers at 20KHz...there's even phase drive available, which makes driving bipolar steppers as simple as wiring up a bridge chip and a power supply.
Check it out at DAK engineering. Also take a look at the Yahoo! group at turbocnc.
You're all code monkeys until your job really CAN'T be done by a smart high-school kid, and you have polished the art to the point that all the OTHER engineers accept and respect you as engineers!
It should be major news that Joe Somebody's computer crashed today, an event greeted with grim commentary and TV specials.
from the bop-whirr-zoop dept.
That should read:
from the bah-weep-granah-weep-ninni-bong dept.
Yeah...it was pretty cool (pun intended).
We both built lofts of the same dimensions and put them on either side of the room, which was on either side of the window and air vent. Then I built two small tables the same width as our desks, and we placed the desks facing each other on either side of the room, under the lofts, with the tables in between.
So essentially it was like one huge table with a desk on either end. The towers went under the tables, and the air conditioner made a wind tunnel through there, which kept the Athlon from overheating. Definitely gave enough room to have our monitors and desk space too.
The wardrobes were a little higher than the lofts, and were a good place to put a laptop for relaxing while surfing the web or chatting/napping between IM's.
I can't imagine having lived in my dorm room, without the whirr of two full tower computers (one dual proc, one with no case), two laptops, a 486, and the air conditioning on 24/7.
Doesn't want a 360-panning VR thing. Wants to stitch multiple images into one big one.
EMP grenades and shells, actually. Knew someone who knew someone who may have been doing work on this subject.
Explosives destructively force metal and magnetics through specially designed casings, inducing massive currents and a noisy EMP blast.