Steer clear of asymmetrical shaped "CD-Cards". They will kill your cdrom (namely the motor/rotor) because they are unbalanced and vibrate the hell out of the mechanics. Rectangular shaped ones are OK, as long as they are symmetrical.
...to take the main insecurities out of their operation:
Breed a brother of clippy. Make it look like a string of barbed wire and name it, well, Barby (or appropriate alternative to avoid Mattel lawsuits).
Bring in Barby every fucking time the user tries to do something potentially harmful (like choosing the "Remember password" function, opening an attachment, sending out more than 1k of data to the net,...)
That would at least teach people some sense of security about their system. Hell, most car manuals even remember you to keep your car locked at all times it's not in operation and to remove the key from the ignition NO MATTER WHAT. It seems all so logical to thinking people, but most people don't want to think. They want someone to remind them. Still, some people leave their cars idling when they jump into the 7-11, but there is always stupid morons. Those who strictly obey rules had them hammered into their heads or learned it the hard way. Same should apply to OS'es.
Ironically, a lot of the content coming from edonkey is absolutely the same (filesize, name) as stuff from FastTrack network and maybe other networks as well. This leads me to think there are quite some p2p monks that use both systems for hardcore sharing.
I wonder what the state of affairs in p2p would be if these power-users were taken out. Most people have to save bandwidth and don't do a lot of sharing (few files, or outgoing traffic turned off completely) because it drives up the overall traffic counter. I myself use a cable modem and have a fair use clause that limits me to 5 GB. I have exceeded this probably in every month since i have the service, but not excessively (like 10-15GB/month). If I would be sharing all my stuff with full throttle i'd probably ring up 10GB a night.
So the advance of a serverless, true p2p network that can't be taken out might fail at the providers legal gibberish because no one can afford to share bigtime.
"There is the option, however, to cancel a download mid stream without depleting your download count."
I can clearly see people killing the download on the last few bytes by clamping down the bandwidth and cutting off the few last bytes in order to save their slots...
i'd pay the Japanese guy anyway. It is just a buck and Kamen could get a laugh from it by paying with his pi note (his own currency from his independent island Northern Dumpling) and demanding proper change.
The FAQ says:
FROM THE PICTURES, IT LOOKS TOP HEAVY. While the vehicle has a high profile to provide adequate internal headroom (BTW - It's the same height as the original Unimog U90 chassis on which it was based.), the center of gravity is quite low due to the placement of heavy items such as the Engine, Generator, Batteries and Fuel Tanks. Additionally, the vehicle has front and rear antisway bars and an auto leveling air suspension system to assist in dynamic stability.
...about the Unimog. This vehicle, dubbed to be one of the best All-terrain vehicles in the world (with exception to the recent Humvees maybe), was one of the first Mercedes-Benz products after WWII was over. As Germanys industry was was under control of the allieds everything they built needed prior permission. As it seems the allieds took the vehicle for what it was advertised a powerful tractor/transporter for agricultural and civilian construction uses (it was perfect for building roads as the vehicles had cruise control from day one, allowing them to go with very constant 2mph).
Ironically, after the Germans were allowed to establish a military force again they ordered Unimogs and rated them as "military vehicle class A" which means that it is "able to follow a heavy combat tank through heavy terrain with medium speed under all conditions". Created for civilian use it received its well-deserved military honors. Even the US army uses some of them. (Among many many others).
You can check out the vehicle history at the link below, along with some pictures. You can also take a look at the new U400 which looks way ugly in comparison to the older models. Maybe I just like them better because I have driven one of 'em for so many miles.
Ironically for Mercedes-Benz, the sales are going very bad in the last years, that was part of the reason for the facelifted U400 but it is not the competition that's digging MB. Everyon who could possibly use one (military, agricultural, construction,...) already have bought one. And it runs. It is not uncommon to see 1960s models in the streets doing their work. So why buy a new one ?
I can't believe you had the nerve to take a screen shot using Internet Explorer and post it to Slashdot.
Well it may be be some special form of humor, an old english tradition called irony, which is often very subtle and misunderstood. Maybe not. Whatever.
What bugs me more is the fact I can't believe someone in the/. had the nerve of posting this highly irrelevant story. I am not complaining... obviously my slashcrap-detector is broken or needs cleaning or something.
http://www.crayon.de/produkte.html They make software, not crayons:)
Well... The products are more like collections of comic art, 3D art cliparts and stuff like that. They don't claim to make state-of-the-art software. Maybe they have coded a own proprietary viewer, but their main stream of revenue is in the graphic collection stuff.
"In Germany, trademark suits can be filed by any attorney, even if that attorney doesn't represent the trademark holder" So it looks like the lawyer saw the opportunity for a quick kill, and missed.
Not quite. On their site, the company that set the legal action rolling claims that they hired the lawyer to ensure the trademark compliance.
It looks more like someone from "Crayon" (the copyright holder) did not have a clue what the "Krayon" software (which is a part of KOffice) on the distro actually did. This is easy to understand, because the software pack named "Krayon" wasn't even on the distro cd's, the installation routine only created a menu entry. At first Crayon`s lawyer only sent a "Declaration of Omission" and asked for signature from SuSE. This would be like saying "OK, we did wrong, we admit, we won't ever do it again or pay the agreed amount if we do". I understand that SuSE declined to sign this statement, which then evoked the lawyer to file the suit for more pressure.
No license charges have been agreed upon and both companies see this as a misunderstanding which they are done with now. The original press declaration, unfortunately only in german language is available on http://www.crayon.de/presseerklaerung.html
I came across an interesting note from a NASA engineer, which basically stated that the USA (resp. NASA) would be totally unable to set up another moon mission on short notice! Why you ask? The Apollo project was way before the digital revolution. All the work was done and paper and became archived like paper - hard to find or not at all. The entire knowledge of flying to moon is spending its time on Palm Beach golf greens. No digital trace.
Traditional rockets tend to burn up to one quarter of their overall fuel reserves before they lift the first inches off the ground/out the silo.
Maglev might be able to give these devices a good shove before the rockets kick in and might therefore save substantial amounts of fuel (and fuel saved is weight saved, which then saves even more fuel on the way to orbit).
I have 4 foreign license plates hanging on the wall right behind the monitor (well, foreign to me, they're US plates). Most people think of it as a nifty wall decoration, but little do they know. They hold the keys to my online identity. All of my password consist of a plate number, a combined plate number, the number backwards, etc. And most sites allow you to enter an own forgot-my-pass question. For me this is usually (Illinois+Washington) so i exactly know my passwort. And they're not special plates with dictionary words but alphanumerical ones. Unfortunately my fav isa little too obvious - it's from the State of Washington and reads "31337".
I just smoked some. And in direct comparison to real weed there is a lot of effects missing. I have to conclude that Marijuana probably came some other way.
At least the federal governernment and banking system is VERY eager to replace mangled, broken, burned, shredded and otherwise humiliated money at no extra cost. You just send in your bucks, some specialists do puzzling and replace the money for you. I think this will continue with the DM leaving and the coming.
Another point I have not seen stated around here is the fact that the implementation will not become reality before 2005 for cost reasons. And for the very same reason only notes with a high value (they talk about 200+ which exchanges to a little less thatn $180 or something). So you could just get small notes from the cashier.
Also, it is a small coil, there can't be too much transmission power. Maybe it would work to have the money wrapped in tinfoil before you can exchange it for smaller notes.
military personnel
police personnel
fire sqads
paramedics, doctors and nurses
lots of personnel in the transport industry
lots of people in the IT/comms industry (yes, average/. user, that probably means you, among others)
people in charge of basic supplies (water, electricitiy,...)
If you compare all these groups you might find that this easy brainy job IT job in front of a keyboard yields best pay and comfort and the smallest risk. So stop whining if you have to work over the holidays - others are doing for you all the time.
Well for instance if you were in a hotel lobby, a mall or a train station, personnel could order you to stop taking pics on their premises and order you off. Noncompliance will be a crime (or a misdemeanor at least, i am not too firm in US law)
Given the current craze about security it seems to me that taking pictures of surveillance cams and the personnel operating it is a sure-fire way to get questioned and maybe jailed for a night.
Might be just me though. Maybe it helps to wear a "I am not a terrorist" t-shirt. Maybe not.
I imagine they would get a quite awesome deal if they bought a bulk of 300 million chips. And why give that expensive hardware to the citizen for free? Do as they europeans do, charge. We have to pay for our ID cards and passports.
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So by that logic Microsoft qualifies as a dot-com now ?
Steer clear of asymmetrical shaped "CD-Cards". They will kill your cdrom (namely the motor/rotor) because they are unbalanced and vibrate the hell out of the mechanics. Rectangular shaped ones are OK, as long as they are symmetrical.
...to take the main insecurities out of their operation:
...)
Breed a brother of clippy. Make it look like a string of barbed wire and name it, well, Barby (or appropriate alternative to avoid Mattel lawsuits).
Bring in Barby every fucking time the user tries to do something potentially harmful (like choosing the "Remember password" function, opening an attachment, sending out more than 1k of data to the net,
That would at least teach people some sense of security about their system. Hell, most car manuals even remember you to keep your car locked at all times it's not in operation and to remove the key from the ignition NO MATTER WHAT. It seems all so logical to thinking people, but most people don't want to think. They want someone to remind them. Still, some people leave their cars idling when they jump into the 7-11, but there is always stupid morons. Those who strictly obey rules had them hammered into their heads or learned it the hard way. Same should apply to OS'es.
With the state of the world being as it is now, i'd say this is an outdated issue... Maybe "partially lethal" would be more appropriate.
Ironically, a lot of the content coming from edonkey is absolutely the same (filesize, name) as stuff from FastTrack network and maybe other networks as well. This leads me to think there are quite some p2p monks that use both systems for hardcore sharing.
I wonder what the state of affairs in p2p would be if these power-users were taken out. Most people have to save bandwidth and don't do a lot of sharing (few files, or outgoing traffic turned off completely) because it drives up the overall traffic counter. I myself use a cable modem and have a fair use clause that limits me to 5 GB. I have exceeded this probably in every month since i have the service, but not excessively (like 10-15GB/month). If I would be sharing all my stuff with full throttle i'd probably ring up 10GB a night.
So the advance of a serverless, true p2p network that can't be taken out might fail at the providers legal gibberish because no one can afford to share bigtime.
I can clearly see people killing the download on the last few bytes by clamping down the bandwidth and cutting off the few last bytes in order to save their slots...
i'd pay the Japanese guy anyway. It is just a buck and Kamen could get a laugh from it by paying with his pi note (his own currency from his independent island Northern Dumpling) and demanding proper change.
Found some more pics describing what the Unimog can go through...
Awesome wheelwork
It's not tipping over...
Pulling a 188,000 pound railcar (old model)
The FAQ says:
FROM THE PICTURES, IT LOOKS TOP HEAVY.
While the vehicle has a high profile to provide adequate internal headroom (BTW - It's the same height as the original Unimog U90 chassis on which it was based.), the center of gravity is quite low due to the placement of heavy items such as the Engine, Generator, Batteries and Fuel Tanks. Additionally, the vehicle has front and rear antisway bars and an auto leveling air suspension system to assist in dynamic stability.
...about the Unimog. This vehicle, dubbed to be one of the best All-terrain vehicles in the world (with exception to the recent Humvees maybe), was one of the first Mercedes-Benz products after WWII was over. As Germanys industry was was under control of the allieds everything they built needed prior permission. As it seems the allieds took the vehicle for what it was advertised a powerful tractor/transporter for agricultural and civilian construction uses (it was perfect for building roads as the vehicles had cruise control from day one, allowing them to go with very constant 2mph).
...) already have bought one. And it runs. It is not uncommon to see 1960s models in the streets doing their work. So why buy a new one ?
Ironically, after the Germans were allowed to establish a military force again they ordered Unimogs and rated them as "military vehicle class A" which means that it is "able to follow a heavy combat tank through heavy terrain with medium speed under all conditions". Created for civilian use it received its well-deserved military honors. Even the US army uses some of them. (Among many many others).
You can check out the vehicle history at the link below, along with some pictures. You can also take a look at the new U400 which looks way ugly in comparison to the older models. Maybe I just like them better because I have driven one of 'em for so many miles.
Unimog History
Ironically for Mercedes-Benz, the sales are going very bad in the last years, that was part of the reason for the facelifted U400 but it is not the competition that's digging MB. Everyon who could possibly use one (military, agricultural, construction,
Well it may be be some special form of humor, an old english tradition called irony, which is often very subtle and misunderstood. Maybe not. Whatever.
What bugs me more is the fact I can't believe someone in the
Well... The products are more like collections of comic art, 3D art cliparts and stuff like that. They don't claim to make state-of-the-art software. Maybe they have coded a own proprietary viewer, but their main stream of revenue is in the graphic collection stuff.
Not quite. On their site, the company that set the legal action rolling claims that they hired the lawyer to ensure the trademark compliance.
It looks more like someone from "Crayon" (the copyright holder) did not have a clue what the "Krayon" software (which is a part of KOffice) on the distro actually did. This is easy to understand, because the software pack named "Krayon" wasn't even on the distro cd's, the installation routine only created a menu entry. At first Crayon`s lawyer only sent a "Declaration of Omission" and asked for signature from SuSE. This would be like saying "OK, we did wrong, we admit, we won't ever do it again or pay the agreed amount if we do". I understand that SuSE declined to sign this statement, which then evoked the lawyer to file the suit for more pressure.
No license charges have been agreed upon and both companies see this as a misunderstanding which they are done with now. The original press declaration, unfortunately only in german language is available on http://www.crayon.de/presseerklaerung.html
I came across an interesting note from a NASA engineer, which basically stated that the USA (resp. NASA) would be totally unable to set up another moon mission on short notice! Why you ask? The Apollo project was way before the digital revolution. All the work was done and paper and became archived like paper - hard to find or not at all. The entire knowledge of flying to moon is spending its time on Palm Beach golf greens. No digital trace.
Traditional rockets tend to burn up to one quarter of their overall fuel reserves before they lift the first inches off the ground/out the silo.
Maglev might be able to give these devices a good shove before the rockets kick in and might therefore save substantial amounts of fuel (and fuel saved is weight saved, which then saves even more fuel on the way to orbit).
Weed and shrooms, Futurama 1st and 2nd season in a row, some firecrackers at midnight and extreme hardcore powerchilling (tm) .
Happy new year! (Who makes the FP in 2002?)
And who will use the various Unix and Linux derivates when we are all dead, but they don't fail. Might this be the beginning of digital evolution?
I have 4 foreign license plates hanging on the wall right behind the monitor (well, foreign to me, they're US plates). Most people think of it as a nifty wall decoration, but little do they know. They hold the keys to my online identity. All of my password consist of a plate number, a combined plate number, the number backwards, etc. And most sites allow you to enter an own forgot-my-pass question. For me this is usually (Illinois+Washington) so i exactly know my passwort. And they're not special plates with dictionary words but alphanumerical ones. Unfortunately my fav isa little too obvious - it's from the State of Washington and reads "31337".
I just smoked some. And in direct comparison to real weed there is a lot of effects missing. I have to conclude that Marijuana probably came some other way.
I love first-hand science.
At least the federal governernment and banking system is VERY eager to replace mangled, broken, burned, shredded and otherwise humiliated money at no extra cost. You just send in your bucks, some specialists do puzzling and replace the money for you. I think this will continue with the DM leaving and the coming.
Another point I have not seen stated around here is the fact that the implementation will not become reality before 2005 for cost reasons. And for the very same reason only notes with a high value (they talk about 200+ which exchanges to a little less thatn $180 or something). So you could just get small notes from the cashier.
Also, it is a small coil, there can't be too much transmission power. Maybe it would work to have the money wrapped in tinfoil before you can exchange it for smaller notes.
military personnel
police personnel
fire sqads
paramedics, doctors and nurses
lots of personnel in the transport industry
lots of people in the IT/comms industry (yes, average/. user, that probably means you, among others)
people in charge of basic supplies (water, electricitiy,...)
If you compare all these groups you might find that this easy brainy job IT job in front of a keyboard yields best pay and comfort and the smallest risk. So stop whining if you have to work over the holidays - others are doing for you all the time.
Well for instance if you were in a hotel lobby, a mall or a train station, personnel could order you to stop taking pics on their premises and order you off. Noncompliance will be a crime (or a misdemeanor at least, i am not too firm in US law)
Given the current craze about security it seems to me that taking pictures of surveillance cams and the personnel operating it is a sure-fire way to get questioned and maybe jailed for a night.
Might be just me though. Maybe it helps to wear a "I am not a terrorist" t-shirt. Maybe not.
I imagine they would get a quite awesome deal if they bought a bulk of 300 million chips. And why give that expensive hardware to the citizen for free? Do as they europeans do, charge. We have to pay for our ID cards and passports.
Can somebody please mod this guy down? I give him credit for disguising the goatse.cx as a wired.com link, but that's about it.