That makes sense but something deep down inside of me still thinks that George just didn't know what the hell a parsec was when he wrote it and so that's the reason it sounds wrong.
Everything else is just George trying to cover up his mistakes, both real and percieved.
No metlin, that's not your father. I knew your father during the Browser Wars.
A young hacker who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the CEO of Microsoft hunt down and destroy developers working on "other browsers". He betrayed and murdered your father.
You are so far off base when it comes to cloning Hitler that it's not even funny man. It borders on ignorance and your ignorance is going to get everybody on earth killed someday!
Everyone knows that he'll be cloned eventually and when he does he's going to pop out of a big silver tube as a fully grown adult with his uniform on and memories intact ready to pick up right where he left off.
We can't let this happen. Now that you know THE TRUTH get out there and tell everyone who'll listen.
Well, actually there is a way to cut them all off from the net and diplomacy is not the only solution.
Of course this other answer involves the use of some cruise missiles and is likely to lead to a much larger problem following shortly thereafter but it's not like this is a real obstacle to the current administration.
Not a particularly good alternative but it's technically another option.
A few years back I got a patent on a device for providing light and heat to a small space by means of the ignition of methane gas directed from the posterior of a human being.
Ok it was stupid but I maintain that it's only marginally more stupid than the patent these morons have and only slightly less likely to survive a challenge.
I got Karma to burn boys, Karma to burn! There aren't enough of you out there to affect my Karma rating.
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Not yet but I did get an "Offtopic" already. Guilty as charged.
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That's the way the system works. Say nothing critical of Linux, Acknowledge nothing positive in Windows, and you take your chances when making a comment on OSX. That is of course because you never know which moderator you're going to get. It might be the Apple zealot or it might be the guy who's so sick of Apple zealots that he slams you down for daring to mention it.
At least with Linux and Windows you know where you stand...."all your Beowulf clusters in Soviet Russia belong to us for Profit!!!" may be the only truly safe ground in here.
Possibly the most insightful comment I've read in weeks. Blinding flash of the obvious it may be but that's it in a nutshell.
If there were only two networks and they both showed blank screens with the sound of fingernails scratching down a chalkboard then the one that was the least grating would probably get an Emmy and get ratings nearly equal to what your average episode of "The Bachelor" pulls.
So true. I personally won't spend any time whatsoever watching anything even remotely close to "reality television". I'm well aware that one viewer isn't going to make much difference of course. I just can't bring myself to watch any of it.
My wife was watching one of them for a while. I don't know which one it was (or care) but when she asked me why I would leave the room when she turned it on I asked her if she liked all of the new reality shows that were coming out. The answer was "Well, no but this one....".
If you're watching one of these things (any of them) then you're part of the problem IMO. She complains of course when scripted shows she likes are cancelled and replaced with "Who wants to be a Bartender and choose from 40 single models who thinik you're worth a billion dollars and working for Donald Trump on an island with two tribes of golddiggers" but still I can see her getting slowly suckered in.
Television before "Reality TV" was pretty bad but it was better than this. Not much better but at least a little.
In the event that your prediction and not Bills ends up being true then I doubt very much that MacOS survives because it's based on OSS. In such an event MacOS would survive for (oddly enough) some of the same reasons why it nearly died. It would survive because it's got a small, intensely loyal user base, and it's tied tightly to the hardware it's designed to run on.
I see you've stumbled upon one of the valuable side effects of my anti-spam/anti-virus program. End users with a vested interest in keeping their systems secure instead of idiots clicking "OK" on every box that pops open in front of their faces is just one of many additional benefits!
And you should add that it won't be their last one. Three weeks (or days) from now someone will post the story again and enough people will participate in the follow up slashdotting to again bring them down. If they went this easily this time then 1/10th of this slashdotting should still do the job just fine sometime in early October.
And yes, I have absolutely no problem voting in favor of capital punishment for sending spam. For that matter you could tack on writing a virus to that and I'd still be for it.
Oh that's easy. The specs on this one can be gleaned from the last few years postings.
The PSDMS would...
1. Charge.25 or less per track. 2. Have every single piece of music ever recorded. 3. Have that music in every single format ever offered. 4. Have no DRM whatsoever. 5. Have no restrictions on what you do with the track. Nothing. 6. Pay the artists the vast majority of the price of the song. 7. Have not one single large corporation involved in it. 8. Never utter a sound if the tracks end up on a P2P 9. Work with every digital music player ever made. 10. Work with every operating system ever made. 11. Be entirely based on open source software. 12. Not give a single cent to the RIAA, ever.
And of course once this thing goes broke (prior to ever selling a single track) they'll go back to bitching about iTunes and how it's such a terrible compromise.
It's Clippy. That's why they won't change. If there was a Linux "Clippy" then we'd be beating back Windows users with a stick.
Someone needs to start an Open Source Clippy project and start recruiting developers. We should be able to close the "Clippy Gap" before the end of the decade.
I must add that your "Assault rifles, OTOH, are generally used at shorter ranges..." is not completely (mostly, not completely) correct.
I've owned several of them in the past (Still have a couple) and a very good number of people I know also own one or two. It's one of the byproducts of being a former police officer and hanging around with a group of people who collect guns. Anyway I digress. The point is that most of the assault rifles belonging to the people I know are generally used to sit inside a gun cabinet (or closet) to take up space. They come out when you want to show it to another gun nut and they inspire a great deal of Ooooh'ing and Ahhhh'ing but they're rarely fired.
Seriously. Of the half dozen people I know who own them (including myself) most of us rarely if ever shoot them. It's not that shooting them isn't a lot of fun or anything. It's just that these weapons weren't purchased in many cases because they're such "sweet shooters" (Though my FN-FAL rocks). They were purchased because they're friggin cool. The reality is you pull that thing out so rarely that for many it's almost a waste of money. 9 times out of 10 when I go to a shooting range it's a pistol range. Same goes for most of the gun owners I know.
The assault rifle ban was a joke. It gave the gun control mob a high profile "win" story without affecting much of anything else. The vast majority of guns used illegaly in the US weren't affected by it and the fact that it's been allowed to slide off into oblivion means nothing.
And this is exactly why warfare in the conventional sense simply doesn't work the way it used to. The US pretty much ran the table against the Iraqi army in what? A matter of weeks? Did it even take that long? The Iraqi army was defeated easily. The Iraqi people though were not defeated in any way, shape, or form. They were inconvienienced. They were without electricity. They were basically put it an bad spot but they weren't beaten.
Modern warfare, in it's attempt to spare non-combatants from unnecessary suffering has allowed us to wipe out an army while leaving a nation completely "intact" in terms of it's will to fight. Now don't get me wrong about this. Trying not to kill innocent civilians is a good thing in principal. I'm firmly on the "For" side when it comes to not bombing orphans and hospitals. It's just that when you spare the civilian population from that you don't leave them in the position that the post WWII Germans and Japanese were and that leads to a very crappy environment for nation building.
The US in general sucks at nation building. We've (I'm an American) been good at it twice and that was when we literally blew the holy shit out of everything in sight in Japan and Germany. Once the people in a defeated nation are in complete "Fuck this shit, I don't want to fight anymore. Where do I vote?" mode you can impose a system on them. When they're in "Hey when do I get my power back on and why are you still here?" mode it's impossible.
Bush & Co. screwed up on this one. They seem to have had in mind that they could get WWII era results using 21st century rules of war.
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Even though technically they aren't so much beating the house as they're beating other players I agree with your sentiment in general.
I read "could this proliferation of poker-playing bots undermine the almost $1 billion online gambling industry?" and my first thought was "Fine by me, good riddance to them".
If it meant I never had to see another online casino pop-up ad then that would be a good thing.
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That makes sense but something deep down inside of me still thinks that George just didn't know what the hell a parsec was when he wrote it and so that's the reason it sounds wrong.
Everything else is just George trying to cover up his mistakes, both real and percieved.
No metlin, that's not your father. I knew your father during the Browser Wars.
A young hacker who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the CEO of Microsoft hunt down and destroy developers working on "other browsers". He betrayed and murdered your father.
You are so far off base when it comes to cloning Hitler that it's not even funny man. It borders on ignorance and your ignorance is going to get everybody on earth killed someday!
Everyone knows that he'll be cloned eventually and when he does he's going to pop out of a big silver tube as a fully grown adult with his uniform on and memories intact ready to pick up right where he left off.
We can't let this happen. Now that you know THE TRUTH get out there and tell everyone who'll listen.
Well, actually there is a way to cut them all off from the net and diplomacy is not the only solution.
Of course this other answer involves the use of some cruise missiles and is likely to lead to a much larger problem following shortly thereafter but it's not like this is a real obstacle to the current administration.
Not a particularly good alternative but it's technically another option.
"Microsoft has spent twenty years and untold millions trying to achieve that goal, and they still have quite a way to go."
Yeah but they suck right? This is Slashdot right? Microsoft still sucks? Come on, somebody, what's the official party line on this?
A few years back I got a patent on a device for providing light and heat to a small space by means of the ignition of methane gas directed from the posterior of a human being.
Ok it was stupid but I maintain that it's only marginally more stupid than the patent these morons have and only slightly less likely to survive a challenge.
And another one. Go mods!
I got Karma to burn boys, Karma to burn! There aren't enough of you out there to affect my Karma rating.
Not yet but I did get an "Offtopic" already. Guilty as charged.
That's the way the system works. Say nothing critical of Linux, Acknowledge nothing positive in Windows, and you take your chances when making a comment on OSX. That is of course because you never know which moderator you're going to get. It might be the Apple zealot or it might be the guy who's so sick of Apple zealots that he slams you down for daring to mention it.
..."all your Beowulf clusters in Soviet Russia belong to us for Profit!!!" may be the only truly safe ground in here.
At least with Linux and Windows you know where you stand.
Possibly the most insightful comment I've read in weeks. Blinding flash of the obvious it may be but that's it in a nutshell.
If there were only two networks and they both showed blank screens with the sound of fingernails scratching down a chalkboard then the one that was the least grating would probably get an Emmy and get ratings nearly equal to what your average episode of "The Bachelor" pulls.
So true. I personally won't spend any time whatsoever watching anything even remotely close to "reality television". I'm well aware that one viewer isn't going to make much difference of course. I just can't bring myself to watch any of it.
My wife was watching one of them for a while. I don't know which one it was (or care) but when she asked me why I would leave the room when she turned it on I asked her if she liked all of the new reality shows that were coming out. The answer was "Well, no but this one....".
If you're watching one of these things (any of them) then you're part of the problem IMO. She complains of course when scripted shows she likes are cancelled and replaced with "Who wants to be a Bartender and choose from 40 single models who thinik you're worth a billion dollars and working for Donald Trump on an island with two tribes of golddiggers" but still I can see her getting slowly suckered in.
Television before "Reality TV" was pretty bad but it was better than this. Not much better but at least a little.
In the event that your prediction and not Bills ends up being true then I doubt very much that MacOS survives because it's based on OSS. In such an event MacOS would survive for (oddly enough) some of the same reasons why it nearly died. It would survive because it's got a small, intensely loyal user base, and it's tied tightly to the hardware it's designed to run on.
An 11,000 word group masturbation project based on the "Holy Trilogy".
I see you've stumbled upon one of the valuable side effects of my anti-spam/anti-virus program. End users with a vested interest in keeping their systems secure instead of idiots clicking "OK" on every box that pops open in front of their faces is just one of many additional benefits!
And you should add that it won't be their last one. Three weeks (or days) from now someone will post the story again and enough people will participate in the follow up slashdotting to again bring them down. If they went this easily this time then 1/10th of this slashdotting should still do the job just fine sometime in early October.
A dead spammer wouldn't find a way around it.
And yes, I have absolutely no problem voting in favor of capital punishment for sending spam. For that matter you could tack on writing a virus to that and I'd still be for it.
Oh that's easy. The specs on this one can be gleaned from the last few years postings.
.25 or less per track.
The PSDMS would...
1. Charge
2. Have every single piece of music ever recorded.
3. Have that music in every single format ever offered.
4. Have no DRM whatsoever.
5. Have no restrictions on what you do with the track. Nothing.
6. Pay the artists the vast majority of the price of the song.
7. Have not one single large corporation involved in it.
8. Never utter a sound if the tracks end up on a P2P
9. Work with every digital music player ever made.
10. Work with every operating system ever made.
11. Be entirely based on open source software.
12. Not give a single cent to the RIAA, ever.
And of course once this thing goes broke (prior to ever selling a single track) they'll go back to bitching about iTunes and how it's such a terrible compromise.
It's Clippy. That's why they won't change. If there was a Linux "Clippy" then we'd be beating back Windows users with a stick.
Someone needs to start an Open Source Clippy project and start recruiting developers. We should be able to close the "Clippy Gap" before the end of the decade.
I must add that your "Assault rifles, OTOH, are generally used at shorter ranges..." is not completely (mostly, not completely) correct.
I've owned several of them in the past (Still have a couple) and a very good number of people I know also own one or two. It's one of the byproducts of being a former police officer and hanging around with a group of people who collect guns. Anyway I digress. The point is that most of the assault rifles belonging to the people I know are generally used to sit inside a gun cabinet (or closet) to take up space. They come out when you want to show it to another gun nut and they inspire a great deal of Ooooh'ing and Ahhhh'ing but they're rarely fired.
Seriously. Of the half dozen people I know who own them (including myself) most of us rarely if ever shoot them. It's not that shooting them isn't a lot of fun or anything. It's just that these weapons weren't purchased in many cases because they're such "sweet shooters" (Though my FN-FAL rocks). They were purchased because they're friggin cool. The reality is you pull that thing out so rarely that for many it's almost a waste of money. 9 times out of 10 when I go to a shooting range it's a pistol range. Same goes for most of the gun owners I know.
The assault rifle ban was a joke. It gave the gun control mob a high profile "win" story without affecting much of anything else. The vast majority of guns used illegaly in the US weren't affected by it and the fact that it's been allowed to slide off into oblivion means nothing.
And this is exactly why warfare in the conventional sense simply doesn't work the way it used to. The US pretty much ran the table against the Iraqi army in what? A matter of weeks? Did it even take that long? The Iraqi army was defeated easily. The Iraqi people though were not defeated in any way, shape, or form. They were inconvienienced. They were without electricity. They were basically put it an bad spot but they weren't beaten.
Modern warfare, in it's attempt to spare non-combatants from unnecessary suffering has allowed us to wipe out an army while leaving a nation completely "intact" in terms of it's will to fight. Now don't get me wrong about this. Trying not to kill innocent civilians is a good thing in principal. I'm firmly on the "For" side when it comes to not bombing orphans and hospitals. It's just that when you spare the civilian population from that you don't leave them in the position that the post WWII Germans and Japanese were and that leads to a very crappy environment for nation building.
The US in general sucks at nation building. We've (I'm an American) been good at it twice and that was when we literally blew the holy shit out of everything in sight in Japan and Germany. Once the people in a defeated nation are in complete "Fuck this shit, I don't want to fight anymore. Where do I vote?" mode you can impose a system on them. When they're in "Hey when do I get my power back on and why are you still here?" mode it's impossible.
Bush & Co. screwed up on this one. They seem to have had in mind that they could get WWII era results using 21st century rules of war.
Vger can take care of that you know.
Yeah I know about him. I was making a (in retrospect) fairly lame attempt at a "Paul is Dead" joke.
There's only one living Beatle. Paul died a long time ago and the guy who took his place doesn't count.
C'mon, I thought everybody knew that.
Are you saying that it isn't? Hold on a second, I'm confused...
Even though technically they aren't so much beating the house as they're beating other players I agree with your sentiment in general.
I read "could this proliferation of poker-playing bots undermine the almost $1 billion online gambling industry?" and my first thought was "Fine by me, good riddance to them".
If it meant I never had to see another online casino pop-up ad then that would be a good thing.