I hate to break it to you, but this is a product you will never see around here, because everyone knows that/. geeks never have any. Oddly enough, I never swore an oath to celibacy, I never sought such a state, yet here I am, in the land of nothing down under. Maybe it IS the electromagnetic fields...
Yes, they were a part of Ampex. And there are still sources for open-reel tape, even 2" tape.
Total Media Inc. being one.
In my opinion open-reel may be analog, but it had so many signal degrading problems! Hiss, print-through, edge damage, drop-outs, breakage, flutter and wow. Don't be fooled into thinking that analog tape provided anything pure or natural; it was a kluge.
My older son preferred console video games and, later, Magic. He saw computers as an appliance, and quickly mastered mail, web browser, and IM to further his game play. Well, he did become a War Craft junkie for a while there.
My younger son got hooked early on Bryce, the unique 3d graphics program. At the age of fourteen he could do things with groups and inverted space that I would never have thought possible. He topped out developing web sites with imagemapped renderings so that from a browser you felt as though you were moving through a Myst-like game.
Now he wants to use Maya, but not with a watermark, and he does not want to blow a couple of thousand on the full release.
So now he is a FF-XI junkie. I hope we get the Maya thing resolved soon, so that he gets back to being creative.
To summarize, learning computers is no longer limited to programming or sys admin chores. The PC's role in new media has redefined roles -- these are not your childhood computers.
Not exactly. There was very little mention of the 386 and how its 32-bit flat address space evolved through the 486 to bring us at last to the Pentium. Also missing was the role Microsoft played, at first holding back progress due to lack of support for Intel's new addressing modes, while eventually designing NT to use those modes and to run on different CPUs. In the 386 and 486 we had power MS-DOS could not make use of. Those were the nightmare years of load and stay resident applications, hot keys, 386MAX. Also the dawn of TCP/IP on the PC, care of Trumpet WINSOCK, which was the most wonderful thing to happen to PCs since lower case.
The closest you got to email back then was some bbs programs could call each other at some specific time of night and exchange messages, if you were lucky it only took just over 24 hours to get a reply.
Ah yes, FidoNet. I must say I never got any SPAM on FidoNet.
The BBS craze began with hackers eager to receive neat utilities and games, and the best way to receive is to give. Membership was usually free. A primitive forerunner of BitTorrent.
The BBS scene really blossomed with the introduction of adult boards. These were not so much for downloading pics as for swapping fantasies and meeting people who shared your kink. Image downloads had to wait for higher resolution displays, afforable scanners, and higher bandwidth. By then, AOL and the Internet had taken over. Eventually, and many would say regretably, these would merge.
Anything that potentially interfaces w/the web is a no-no with me (I use zone alarm, so I can see any program trying to access the net).
Good point, but the Devil is in the details. I doubt Zone Alarm would catch Google's program shipping out data. It would if it went out to some weird port number, but why would Google design it that way and make trouble for themselves? Much easier to send it to port 80. You would never see that action unless you log and review all web activity. The best place to hide is in the open, so to speak.
browser caches are there wether they're being searched or not
Read Schneier again. That other individual's files turn up in searches is the result of all users having administrator privleges by default in XP home edition. That XP HE does this is poor policy. Also, browsers should not cache pages sent via SSL, because they are likely to contain sensative information such as credit card numbers. Trivial to add that design to a browser.
Even if Google tries to improve their product, the data remains for less scrupulous programmers to harvest.
As for Google knowing what I search for on my hard drive, well, that isn't nearly interesting as what I search for on Google, and they allready have that. I would like it if they made clear to users that search data is being shipped out.
... at home if you sit at lot in front of the computer, pants off, balls out - while this sounds funny, it actually has had quite an impact on my own dwindling count - and I have no problem with any other functionality down there, as my wife will certainly agree with.:)
At home at the desk or just lounging around I prefer thin, loose shorts or pants made of satin or nylon. Infringing on feminine territory, and maybe that's part of the fun, but mostly it is just really comfortable.
other functionality suggests the ability to get and maintain an erection, or the ability to achieve orgasm. I have always assumed that there was no relationship between these issues and low sperm count due to sitting in chairs. Maybe they correlate on hormone levels, or red blood cell count, and people get confused? Some cyclists claim long rides make their genitals numb and unresponsive, but chairs?
if you're 18 and look at this as a good thing, think about where you want to be in 10 years, if you can truly think that far ahead - if children are on the agenda, be smart and take care.
I can agree with taking care in the sense of don't fall off you bicycle/skateboard/skis and injure your genitals, and don't get the clap, but again, sitting all day when you are 21 and single should not result in any permanent loss of potency even after ten years. Am I wrong?
I think that the RIAA reacted pretty much the same way when mp3.com started copying vast amounts of CD content onto their servers. The plan was to allow customers to download mp3 versions of a CD they just purchased, while waiting for the genuine CD to arrive by mail. I thought it was brilliant, and complied with the intent of copyright law. The RIAA could not see past the unauthorized copying part. Well, Michael Robertson's brazen attitude may have had something to do with it.
Could there be a similarity? Robertson boasted about the end of the retail record industry as we know it, and these guys bring out an absurdly expensive machine. Attention getters? Is there an ego at work here? Perhaps success will be won by coming in low and slow.
The Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) is a web-based system for maintaining information on international students and exchange visitors in the United States. Administered by the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), a division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
SEVIS is designed to keep our nation safe while facilitating the entry and exit process for foreign students in the United States and for students seeking to study in the United States.
To Americans today, "keeping our nation safe" is synonymous with trusting government to act in our best interests. How have so many failed to learn the lessons so clearly taught by our nation's founders, that the government is the enemy of liberty?
For a recording video, you could just have this light stay blinking (or on constant) much like many existing camcorders already do. Wouldnt drain battery life too much and 90% of those buying the phone wouldnt mind, unless you are explicitly using the phone for things that you shouldnt be.
This is the kind '50's style nice-think that has eroded away so much of our liberty. I don't want the state coercing me into avoiding behaviour a few people find offensive, or that if done with poor judgement might offend someone. Let me choose my own course of action, and defend it if I must. In doing so I stand alone, and free, and I accept, indeed cherish, that others be equally free.
Parent currently modded Flamebait? -- moderators must be from red states! Substitute "Microsoft" for AOL and it is still true, though not amazingly.
But sometimes people do wake up, as happened when Hawaiians revolted against the abuse directed at Kamehameha Schools by Bishop Estate. One key factor might be concern for one's own welfare vs. concern for others. "As long as it doesn't affect me" could be a sanity check slogan for a lot of people.
Only a big established company with lots of backing could afford something like this. There's your answer! Get IBM to sponsor it, they're always looking for goodwill projects, and anything to twist the knife in Microsoft makes them happy.
Do not confuse saving Windows with saving the Internet. I am quite certain IBM, as altruistic as they may be, is perfectly happy to let spyware twist the knife and drive people awayfrom Windows and to Linux.
Parent meant new point of view and play on name
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It's not a dildo (probably) or new
I think the parent meant that the name of the virus combined with the appearance of the worm/virus/bug icon produced a new, playfully erotic response. "It's so big!" -- a phrase uttered in awe by a very young woman when I was much younger myself, but she insisted we see if we could squeeze it all in, and I must admit we made room. Much different than the outcome the times I've tried to entertain with the help of a three-stage, solid motor launch vehicle -- "You're not putting that thing inside me, mister!" That would be "Toobig."
This bizarre personality type shows up in music composers, too. Many years ago I attended a very whacked-out performance which involved a bunch of simple phonographs, like this Califone model, strange and unrelated records, and candles. With lights low, the composer-performer lit each candle and stuck it to a record, one or two candles per record. Candles still burning, the records were played all together. When a tone arm reached a candle, the record was supposed to enter a loop, and when all of the records were looping the piece was over. Only, the candles wouldn't stay lit. They didn't want to stick to the vinal. When a candle was hit by a tone arm it was more likely to be knocked over. The composer was frantic, trying to get candles stuck in place and records looping. The audience was laughing hysterically. It was a disaster, it was art!
"Honeywell has a long history of successfully licensing proprietary technologies worldwide for non-competing uses..."
The complaint most often levied at the current (US) patent system is that it stifles competition. Supporters argue that patent holders are willing to license their IP, so only the owner of the patent gets an advantage; that still qualifies as competition. But here we have Honeywell admitting to what is common practice; licensing only in cases where the product does not compete with anything Honeywell sells. This is clearly a case of preventing competition.
Would the patent system work better if all patent holders were required to license their IP, at fair prices, to all comers? Businesses are required to do business equitably with everyone who wants to do business. Similarly, Honeywell expects to be allowed to bid on -- compete for -- DoD contracts. I'm not sure what their expectation is concerning fair play and equal treatment, given the current Washington culture, but we do have laws that attempt to keep things fair and competitive. Why then should they expect patent law to protect them for competition?
The best way to approach this would be to remove protections, rather than adding requirements, and let the free market work its magic.
You may not achieve the goal of keeping your code out of XP, but you would be awarded fees for its use. Hopefully your legal team won't scoop it all up. You had better hope that during this time, XP is a financial success. If it is a flop and Microsoft goes belly up you victory will be hollow. One must distinguish between hallowed principles and hollow victories.
1. Elections are run by states, not the federal government, while "the military" is federal.
2. There is nothing preventing anyone from creating an open-source voting project. Maybe someone has already staked a claim on sourceforge.
3. The last thing we want is our government involved with development of voting machines... or jet fighters, for that matter! Allow the government to do as little as possible, and then only what cannot be done privately. National defence, for example.
On that basis, Loni Anderson should have no problem parsing my root expressions; however I find that conclusion untenable. Perhaps the operative parameter is not size, but depth. Gee, and I never got to my joke about polished sausage. Maybe next time... but wait, I'm on/.
I don't have an answer to a easy print interface, but I can venture some guesses on what might work. OpenOffice or StarOffice has some kind of ODBC connectivity and maybe that can be capitalized with it's capabilities. Alternatively, and maybe lastly, perl has some printing capabilities that would make for somewhat simple reports but at very high speed.
I have done this using LaTeX. I write the app as an Apache CGI in Perl. I use an HTML form to set up the query specs, send that to the Postgresql (MySQL is another good solution) via Perl's DBI module, and read back the results row by row. I send the output to a temp file on the server (careful, security issues here), formatting cells with LaTeX commands. The tex file gets pushed through pdflatex to produce a pdf file, which is sent back to the browser. PDF files print real nice, and not just on Windows.
The only problem I've had so far is knowing exactly what row I'm on, to get page breaks in the right place.
Now, for the form layout tool. A GUI is nice, so I use Lyx. Lay out the report headers and page headers however you want them. Most report data will go in a table -- make up a few rows of dummy data. When it prints the way you want it, export as a LaTeX file, and use that as the basis for the Perl code. I tried to include sample code but the/. lameness filter got in the way.
Apparently it only works with 2002 or later BMWs...
Well, I used to drive a '72
2002, but it was in very poor shape. Now I have a '74
3.0 CS. In looks what a candy iMac was to a Dell. Any chance the 2002 harness will work in the bigger car? Can't buy proper gas for it, but it is a 12 volt system, so that should work. The only thing digital is the clock. It used to be analog, but the only way it moves now is when your fingers turn the little knob.
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I hate to break it to you, but this is a product you will never see around here, because everyone knows that /. geeks never have any. Oddly enough, I never swore an oath to celibacy, I never sought such a state, yet here I am, in the land of nothing down under. Maybe it IS the electromagnetic fields ...
In my opinion open-reel may be analog, but it had so many signal degrading problems! Hiss, print-through, edge damage, drop-outs, breakage, flutter and wow. Don't be fooled into thinking that analog tape provided anything pure or natural; it was a kluge.
My younger son got hooked early on Bryce, the unique 3d graphics program. At the age of fourteen he could do things with groups and inverted space that I would never have thought possible. He topped out developing web sites with imagemapped renderings so that from a browser you felt as though you were moving through a Myst-like game.
Now he wants to use Maya, but not with a watermark, and he does not want to blow a couple of thousand on the full release.
So now he is a FF-XI junkie. I hope we get the Maya thing resolved soon, so that he gets back to being creative.
To summarize, learning computers is no longer limited to programming or sys admin chores. The PC's role in new media has redefined roles -- these are not your childhood computers.
Not exactly. There was very little mention of the 386 and how its 32-bit flat address space evolved through the 486 to bring us at last to the Pentium. Also missing was the role Microsoft played, at first holding back progress due to lack of support for Intel's new addressing modes, while eventually designing NT to use those modes and to run on different CPUs. In the 386 and 486 we had power MS-DOS could not make use of. Those were the nightmare years of load and stay resident applications, hot keys, 386MAX. Also the dawn of TCP/IP on the PC, care of Trumpet WINSOCK, which was the most wonderful thing to happen to PCs since lower case.
Ah yes, FidoNet. I must say I never got any SPAM on FidoNet.
The BBS craze began with hackers eager to receive neat utilities and games, and the best way to receive is to give. Membership was usually free. A primitive forerunner of BitTorrent.
The BBS scene really blossomed with the introduction of adult boards. These were not so much for downloading pics as for swapping fantasies and meeting people who shared your kink. Image downloads had to wait for higher resolution displays, afforable scanners, and higher bandwidth. By then, AOL and the Internet had taken over. Eventually, and many would say regretably, these would merge.
Good point, but the Devil is in the details. I doubt Zone Alarm would catch Google's program shipping out data. It would if it went out to some weird port number, but why would Google design it that way and make trouble for themselves? Much easier to send it to port 80. You would never see that action unless you log and review all web activity. The best place to hide is in the open, so to speak.
Read Schneier again. That other individual's files turn up in searches is the result of all users having administrator privleges by default in XP home edition. That XP HE does this is poor policy. Also, browsers should not cache pages sent via SSL, because they are likely to contain sensative information such as credit card numbers. Trivial to add that design to a browser.
Even if Google tries to improve their product, the data remains for less scrupulous programmers to harvest.
As for Google knowing what I search for on my hard drive, well, that isn't nearly interesting as what I search for on Google, and they allready have that. I would like it if they made clear to users that search data is being shipped out.
At home at the desk or just lounging around I prefer thin, loose shorts or pants made of satin or nylon. Infringing on feminine territory, and maybe that's part of the fun, but mostly it is just really comfortable.
other functionality suggests the ability to get and maintain an erection, or the ability to achieve orgasm. I have always assumed that there was no relationship between these issues and low sperm count due to sitting in chairs. Maybe they correlate on hormone levels, or red blood cell count, and people get confused? Some cyclists claim long rides make their genitals numb and unresponsive, but chairs?
if you're 18 and look at this as a good thing, think about where you want to be in 10 years, if you can truly think that far ahead - if children are on the agenda, be smart and take care.
I can agree with taking care in the sense of don't fall off you bicycle/skateboard/skis and injure your genitals, and don't get the clap, but again, sitting all day when you are 21 and single should not result in any permanent loss of potency even after ten years. Am I wrong?
This is nothing new. Back in '98, Microsoft was caught doing the same thing to Real Network's software. More recently, Kodak found its digital camera software pushed aside by Microsoft's offering. These adware guys learned from the master -- the name of this game is arrogance.
Could there be a similarity? Robertson boasted about the end of the retail record industry as we know it, and these guys bring out an absurdly expensive machine. Attention getters? Is there an ego at work here? Perhaps success will be won by coming in low and slow.
Obviously intended as flamebait, but such a database exists: SEVIS - Student and Exchange Visitor Information System
The Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) is a web-based system for maintaining information on international students and exchange visitors in the United States. Administered by the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), a division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
SEVIS is designed to keep our nation safe while facilitating the entry and exit process for foreign students in the United States and for students seeking to study in the United States.
To Americans today, "keeping our nation safe" is synonymous with trusting government to act in our best interests. How have so many failed to learn the lessons so clearly taught by our nation's founders, that the government is the enemy of liberty?
This is the kind '50's style nice-think that has eroded away so much of our liberty. I don't want the state coercing me into avoiding behaviour a few people find offensive, or that if done with poor judgement might offend someone. Let me choose my own course of action, and defend it if I must. In doing so I stand alone, and free, and I accept, indeed cherish, that others be equally free.
Lights? We don't need no blinking lights!
But sometimes people do wake up, as happened when Hawaiians revolted against the abuse directed at Kamehameha Schools by Bishop Estate. One key factor might be concern for one's own welfare vs. concern for others. "As long as it doesn't affect me" could be a sanity check slogan for a lot of people.
Do not confuse saving Windows with saving the Internet. I am quite certain IBM, as altruistic as they may be, is perfectly happy to let spyware twist the knife and drive people awayfrom Windows and to Linux.
I think the parent meant that the name of the virus combined with the appearance of the worm/virus/bug icon produced a new, playfully erotic response. "It's so big!" -- a phrase uttered in awe by a very young woman when I was much younger myself, but she insisted we see if we could squeeze it all in, and I must admit we made room. Much different than the outcome the times I've tried to entertain with the help of a three-stage, solid motor launch vehicle -- "You're not putting that thing inside me, mister!" That would be "Toobig."
This bizarre personality type shows up in music composers, too. Many years ago I attended a very whacked-out performance which involved a bunch of simple phonographs, like this Califone model, strange and unrelated records, and candles. With lights low, the composer-performer lit each candle and stuck it to a record, one or two candles per record. Candles still burning, the records were played all together. When a tone arm reached a candle, the record was supposed to enter a loop, and when all of the records were looping the piece was over. Only, the candles wouldn't stay lit. They didn't want to stick to the vinal. When a candle was hit by a tone arm it was more likely to be knocked over. The composer was frantic, trying to get candles stuck in place and records looping. The audience was laughing hysterically. It was a disaster, it was art!
"Honeywell has a long history of successfully licensing proprietary technologies worldwide for non-competing uses ..."
The complaint most often levied at the current (US) patent system is that it stifles competition. Supporters argue that patent holders are willing to license their IP, so only the owner of the patent gets an advantage; that still qualifies as competition. But here we have Honeywell admitting to what is common practice; licensing only in cases where the product does not compete with anything Honeywell sells. This is clearly a case of preventing competition.
Would the patent system work better if all patent holders were required to license their IP, at fair prices, to all comers? Businesses are required to do business equitably with everyone who wants to do business. Similarly, Honeywell expects to be allowed to bid on -- compete for -- DoD contracts. I'm not sure what their expectation is concerning fair play and equal treatment, given the current Washington culture, but we do have laws that attempt to keep things fair and competitive. Why then should they expect patent law to protect them for competition?
The best way to approach this would be to remove protections, rather than adding requirements, and let the free market work its magic.
"Wow man, last night we got so high we met some guys in space, and they were so wasted."
"Far out. So that's why my truck is full of shit!"
"Oh yeah, and I thought that was from the cow we passed on the way back."
"Udderly mind blowing. You are talking about the four-legged kind, right? Hey man, not my sister, right? I've had enough of that shit."
"Apparently not enough. Here, have some of this Russian Refuse."
Now that private enterprise has their foot in the space door, how long will it be before we have the first-ever sanitary spacefill?
You may not achieve the goal of keeping your code out of XP, but you would be awarded fees for its use. Hopefully your legal team won't scoop it all up. You had better hope that during this time, XP is a financial success. If it is a flop and Microsoft goes belly up you victory will be hollow. One must distinguish between hallowed principles and hollow victories.
Where porn is involved a lot more than risk gets elevated, regardless of which OS is being used.
1. Elections are run by states, not the federal government, while "the military" is federal.
... or jet fighters, for that matter! Allow the government to do as little as possible, and then only what cannot be done privately. National defence, for example.
2. There is nothing preventing anyone from creating an open-source voting project. Maybe someone has already staked a claim on sourceforge.
3. The last thing we want is our government involved with development of voting machines
On that basis, Loni Anderson should have no problem parsing my root expressions; however I find that conclusion untenable. Perhaps the operative parameter is not size, but depth. Gee, and I never got to my joke about polished sausage. Maybe next time ... but wait, I'm on /.
I have done this using LaTeX. I write the app as an Apache CGI in Perl. I use an HTML form to set up the query specs, send that to the Postgresql (MySQL is another good solution) via Perl's DBI module, and read back the results row by row. I send the output to a temp file on the server (careful, security issues here), formatting cells with LaTeX commands. The tex file gets pushed through pdflatex to produce a pdf file, which is sent back to the browser. PDF files print real nice, and not just on Windows.
The only problem I've had so far is knowing exactly what row I'm on, to get page breaks in the right place.
Now, for the form layout tool. A GUI is nice, so I use Lyx. Lay out the report headers and page headers however you want them. Most report data will go in a table -- make up a few rows of dummy data. When it prints the way you want it, export as a LaTeX file, and use that as the basis for the Perl code. I tried to include sample code but the /. lameness filter got in the way.
Is SecureID the same as the Army's ID card SmartCard? By "Kerbose" do you mean the one in the Army-wide Active Directory?
Well, I used to drive a '72 2002, but it was in very poor shape. Now I have a '74 3.0 CS. In looks what a candy iMac was to a Dell. Any chance the 2002 harness will work in the bigger car? Can't buy proper gas for it, but it is a 12 volt system, so that should work. The only thing digital is the clock. It used to be analog, but the only way it moves now is when your fingers turn the little knob.