Sometimes you just have to do something more. It's not logical, it's not scientific, but it's fun.
It's like taking a vacation... technically it's cost-prohibitive, a big time-waster, and nothing is accomplished. BUT, you need it! It's to get away from the everyday.
It explains why a lot of geeks (myself included) skydive, go offroad 4x4 trailriding, fly helicopters/planes/(insert other flying device), and enjoy shooting.
Consider it a release from the digital world into the analog.
Ya know, thats something I've been confused about since the beginning of Napster. There was no revenue, no monetary income whatsoever that I know of. Yet, all this time there were servers and pipes that are fat enough to handle all these people connecting to it to authorize. (I'd probably say more than ICQ) Then, you have the RIAA slamming them against the wall for years almost!
Theres another peice of the puzzle that I'm not seeing, or that guy had some major pocket change.
The whole downy thing only really works on fabric with static electricity. Anything to do with more than making your skirt or pants keep from clinging and it's pretty much useless. It's like spritzing water in your hair to keep it from standing up.
my best defense against any virus is to use Norton Antivirus. Oh well, it only helps to our race, called Windows; so most slashdotters can't use it. For them, the HPA may be a better solution.
Thats primarily because Windows only has a shallow immune system to begin with, almost pre-destined to be infected by any virus able to infect anything. However the average slashdotter uses Linux/Unix, or some varient. It has a buit-in immune system, and some safeguards to keep infecteous diseases at least isolated to a certain region until further countermeasures can be taken.
In comparison, it's like comparing a full blown AIDS-infected patient already in a bubble, to a athletic person who eats regularly and has a very healthy immune system.
If it can't spread through "common contact," then how is it spreading? Why do idiots keep repeating this lie? I guess it's Hitler's Big Lie. If you repeat something enough, it becomes true. In this case, you can't argue with death. HIV is spread through contact. How the hell else do people spread it then?
Sexual intercourse, blood tainting (have an HIV infected person bleed on you and you have an open sore/cut, etc), anything that exposes you to fluids from inside their body.
So, the next time you have intercourse with a girl you meet, ask her if she has been tested for HIV or AIDS. You wouldn't, unless both of you were smart. If she leads a lifestyle that includes sleeping around with a few guys here and there, she can easily be infected and spread the virus for years without realizing it. Even if she/YOU were tested within 6 months, who's to say the last person you slept with didn't have it, and your just spreading it until you have your next test?
Safe sex, along with a very strict knowledge about your partners activity, is the only way to keep from acquiring it. Education is knowledge.
Great, lets all live with paranoid pschizophrenia:)
If you worry about these types of things all your life, what type of life do you really have? You have more of a chance to fall unconscious when walking by the side of the road and getting your head run over by a passing pack of school children.
When was the last time a peice of iron that size weighing 10 grams?
Most of the damage done by meteorites that hit this planet is done by the actual impact and movement of air/dirt and rock at the impact site, etc. Take a look at the Barringer crater (In Winslow, Arizona, USA.. a little down the street from Flagstaff) for a practical example. Though it wasn't created with a marble-sized meteor, it is a great example of the typical epicenter activity. You can even create your own meteorite impact there via computer simulation:) It's quite entertaining, though inevitably that's all it is, a play thing.
I had a dream a couple of nights ago about a meteorite crashing through the roof of my room and smashing my server right through the RAID array.
Now I'm going to have more nightmares . ..
I'm surprised Intel hasn't invented some technology to thwart that! Something like a secondary bus to bypass the first damaged one in case a meteor goes through it!
"In recent news, Iraq has allowed UN troops to investigate it's compounds for weapons of mass destruction. U.N. investigators reported finding a large cache of iron-like rocks in one compound. President Bush's response was emminently to start attacking Baghdad immediately to thwart any attempts of Iraqi based Intercontinental Ballistic scattershots of Iron-based missiles. White House spokesman were unavailable to comment at this time."
-- quote -- I believe that there's some sort of rule of maximum velocity due to acceleration depending on max. If it's like lava rock, it's probably got a fairly low mass, in which case there is a possiblity that it might not be able to reach an overly high speed. -- end quote --
But there aren't many rocks that make it through the atmosphere that are consisting of a pourous lavarock type material. Usually, they are made of metals, such as iron. That size of rock made out of iron would have reached a volocity to do a little more than make her say, "oh wow... something hit my leg".
Even a human being reaches 200+ MPH when freefalling from 11K feet. An object with less wind resistance would only go faster, considering if it was indeed a meteor it would have been going much faster before it hit the atmosphere. Even going at 50-100 MPH I know I'd be yelling wondering what the hell just hit me as I hold my leg in pain:)
I hardly consider either gnome or kde to be an operating system.
I have both on my system, and apps for both work great under both desktops. That is what they are, desktop environments, not operating systems.
I'm using Window Maker right now, and I have Sylpheed with GTK extensions running, along with a couple of KDE specific apps. If it was a fork of the operating system, I wouldn't be able to do this.
All of this talk reminds me of the thought process of many large organizations that have been around for years.
I'm not downing your idea there (hell, it works for you! go for it.) but my thought process is this:
No matter the operating system on the client side, there is always a way to do this cross platform and completely independant on a single vendor. (read: Microsoft) Especially when it deals with a Office suite that seems to be rising in price faster than petro was a year or so ago in America.
Centrally stored information on a server is quite simply stored in a database (SQL preferrably for standards compliance) and queued as needed by either a PHP or Perl script, and processed as needed. Need to merge a template? Store it centrally and then pull it into the script, fill the template as needed, merge whatever else is needed, and even query the SQL database for other information. It's done daily at ISPs, and most do it on their lunch break.
The nicest thing about the above approach is that no matter the technological fluxes (or whatever Microsoft wants to turn "legacy" today) you never have to worry about it. An office suite should stay on the desktop, because there are modules and classes available for scripting languages that can be ran on the server to perform nearly every task imaginable. Best of all, considering OpenOffice provides XML, (supposedly Word does also...) it can be uncompressed and stored in the database as text! When time comes to use it, easily compress it again on the fly and send it across after alterations are made. XML libraries are available for multiple lanaguages.
I mean, as a potential storefront owner (I'm working on one right now) I know first hand that the worst can happen if you pay by the meg. It might save you cash up front (your a small website, whats the worst that can happen?) but what if you get free advertisement?
NEVER agree to something where your given a certain amount of bandwidth and then have to pay for more. (automatically, no bandwidth throttling...)
At the least, if a provider is going to do something like this, they can offer the ability to just throttle the bandwidth to your allocated amount. I mean, automatically billing is stupid.
Or until X11 has a default XF86Config that basically has a basic VGA-like display to it that will run on almost any vga monitor. (alot like Windows does by default)
Sure, you have to install all of those peices of software if you only have upgrade cds laying around! Jesus.... I have a copy of Windows 98SE sitting here that is installable by itself, why would you need to install 95, then 98 in order to get 98SE installed?
As far as IE3, I haven't seen that since NT4 default install. (well, actually isn't that an even lower version? lol) Win98 uses a higher version of IE, and so does every other version of Windows.
I'm not a Windows advocate by a long shot, but lets try to be fair here. We're talking about installing Win2K, not going across the board with borrowed upgrade cds.
I don't know about you, but the last time I've ever used fdisk under dos was back when I installed win98. Every version of Windows (even NT 4) told you what was available very nicely and asked you where you wanted your system. It also gave you the option in case you didn't know wtf was going on to just hit a key to wipe everything and let windows do it's thing.
As far as Linux, we're talking redhat... it has an interface made specifically for that, disk druid. Hell, it even has what I like to call an "idiot key" where if you don't know wtf your doing it'll just make the partitions for you. (best guess scenario)
Neither would be the most optimized, but both will get them through it without an issue.
fdisk is dead to everyone but the more advanced users who need to use it to do partitioning schemes on their own.
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It's natures way of weeding out our population.
:)
There has to be other ways considering we're starting to cure the diseases!
Sometimes you just have to do something more.
It's not logical, it's not scientific, but it's fun.
It's like taking a vacation... technically it's cost-prohibitive, a big time-waster, and nothing is accomplished. BUT, you need it! It's to get away from the everyday.
It explains why a lot of geeks (myself included) skydive, go offroad 4x4 trailriding, fly helicopters/planes/(insert other flying device), and enjoy shooting.
Consider it a release from the digital world into the analog.
Ya know, thats something I've been confused about since the beginning of Napster. There was no revenue, no monetary income whatsoever that I know of. Yet, all this time there were servers and pipes that are fat enough to handle all these people connecting to it to authorize. (I'd probably say more than ICQ) Then, you have the RIAA slamming them against the wall for years almost!
Theres another peice of the puzzle that I'm not seeing, or that guy had some major pocket change.
and it's slippery.
touche'.
The whole downy thing only really works on fabric with static electricity. Anything to do with more than making your skirt or pants keep from clinging and it's pretty much useless. It's like spritzing water in your hair to keep it from standing up.
This makes me glad I live in the desert :)
Wow, it is true that some people can find their ass!
my best defense against any virus is to use Norton Antivirus. Oh well, it only helps to our race, called Windows; so most slashdotters can't use it. For them, the HPA may be a better solution.
Thats primarily because Windows only has a shallow immune system to begin with, almost pre-destined to be infected by any virus able to infect anything. However the average slashdotter uses Linux/Unix, or some varient. It has a buit-in immune system, and some safeguards to keep infecteous diseases at least isolated to a certain region until further countermeasures can be taken.
In comparison, it's like comparing a full blown AIDS-infected patient already in a bubble, to a athletic person who eats regularly and has a very healthy immune system.
If it can't spread through "common contact," then how is it spreading? Why do idiots keep repeating this lie? I guess it's Hitler's Big Lie. If you repeat something enough, it becomes true. In this case, you can't argue with death. HIV is spread through contact. How the hell else do people spread it then?
Sexual intercourse, blood tainting (have an HIV infected person bleed on you and you have an open sore/cut, etc), anything that exposes you to fluids from inside their body.
So, the next time you have intercourse with a girl you meet, ask her if she has been tested for HIV or AIDS. You wouldn't, unless both of you were smart. If she leads a lifestyle that includes sleeping around with a few guys here and there, she can easily be infected and spread the virus for years without realizing it. Even if she/YOU were tested within 6 months, who's to say the last person you slept with didn't have it, and your just spreading it until you have your next test?
Safe sex, along with a very strict knowledge about your partners activity, is the only way to keep from acquiring it. Education is knowledge.
running WineX instead of Windows = not buying (or running) a copy of Windows JUST to run a game.
It's a little different.
Great, lets all live with paranoid pschizophrenia :)
If you worry about these types of things all your life, what type of life do you really have? You have more of a chance to fall unconscious when walking by the side of the road and getting your head run over by a passing pack of school children.
When was the last time a peice of iron that size weighing 10 grams?
:) It's quite entertaining, though inevitably that's all it is, a play thing.
Most of the damage done by meteorites that hit this planet is done by the actual impact and movement of air/dirt and rock at the impact site, etc. Take a look at the Barringer crater (In Winslow, Arizona, USA.. a little down the street from Flagstaff) for a practical example. Though it wasn't created with a marble-sized meteor, it is a great example of the typical epicenter activity. You can even create your own meteorite impact there via computer simulation
I had a dream a couple of nights ago about a meteorite crashing through the roof of my room and smashing my server right through the RAID array.
.
Now I'm going to have more nightmares . .
I'm surprised Intel hasn't invented some technology to thwart that! Something like a secondary bus to bypass the first damaged one in case a meteor goes through it!
I doubt you have much of a case to worry guy.
No, it looks a little cratered.
:)
Theres a difference
"In recent news, Iraq has allowed UN troops to investigate it's compounds for weapons of mass destruction. U.N. investigators reported finding a large cache of iron-like rocks in one compound. President Bush's response was emminently to start attacking Baghdad immediately to thwart any attempts of Iraqi based Intercontinental Ballistic scattershots of Iron-based missiles. White House spokesman were unavailable to comment at this time."
-- quote --
:)
I believe that there's some sort of rule of maximum velocity due to acceleration depending on max. If it's like lava rock, it's probably got a fairly low mass, in which case there is a possiblity that it might not be able to reach an overly high speed.
-- end quote --
But there aren't many rocks that make it through the atmosphere that are consisting of a pourous lavarock type material. Usually, they are made of metals, such as iron. That size of rock made out of iron would have reached a volocity to do a little more than make her say, "oh wow... something hit my leg".
Even a human being reaches 200+ MPH when freefalling from 11K feet. An object with less wind resistance would only go faster, considering if it was indeed a meteor it would have been going much faster before it hit the atmosphere. Even going at 50-100 MPH I know I'd be yelling wondering what the hell just hit me as I hold my leg in pain
god that term has been used and used and used so damned much recently on the news.
"Thumbing his nose at "
I really wish CNN would have NOT used that term. I wish Bush wouldn't have used that term! Now everyone is using it!
Ok.. I'm finished.
I hardly consider either gnome or kde to be an operating system.
I have both on my system, and apps for both work great under both desktops. That is what they are, desktop environments, not operating systems.
I'm using Window Maker right now, and I have Sylpheed with GTK extensions running, along with a couple of KDE specific apps. If it was a fork of the operating system, I wouldn't be able to do this.
true, the world didn't "convert" to Word in a month or two when they did.
It was a gradual migration due to the Office suite being on the desktop already. Alot like OpenOffice is now, with several Linuc distributions.
All of this talk reminds me of the thought process of many large organizations that have been around for years.
I'm not downing your idea there (hell, it works for you! go for it.) but my thought process is this:
No matter the operating system on the client side, there is always a way to do this cross platform and completely independant on a single vendor. (read: Microsoft) Especially when it deals with a Office suite that seems to be rising in price faster than petro was a year or so ago in America.
Centrally stored information on a server is quite simply stored in a database (SQL preferrably for standards compliance) and queued as needed by either a PHP or Perl script, and processed as needed. Need to merge a template? Store it centrally and then pull it into the script, fill the template as needed, merge whatever else is needed, and even query the SQL database for other information. It's done daily at ISPs, and most do it on their lunch break.
The nicest thing about the above approach is that no matter the technological fluxes (or whatever Microsoft wants to turn "legacy" today) you never have to worry about it. An office suite should stay on the desktop, because there are modules and classes available for scripting languages that can be ran on the server to perform nearly every task imaginable. Best of all, considering OpenOffice provides XML, (supposedly Word does also...) it can be uncompressed and stored in the database as text! When time comes to use it, easily compress it again on the fly and send it across after alterations are made. XML libraries are available for multiple lanaguages.
shut up, mac user! :)
True binary is 1 and 0!
ahhh the spelling/grammar patrol is out again.
Just read the post and enjoy. Everyone knows you're smarter than everyone else.
I agree with both of you guys.
I mean, as a potential storefront owner (I'm working on one right now) I know first hand that the worst can happen if you pay by the meg. It might save you cash up front (your a small website, whats the worst that can happen?) but what if you get free advertisement?
NEVER agree to something where your given a certain amount of bandwidth and then have to pay for more. (automatically, no bandwidth throttling...)
At the least, if a provider is going to do something like this, they can offer the ability to just throttle the bandwidth to your allocated amount. I mean, automatically billing is stupid.
Or until X11 has a default XF86Config that basically has a basic VGA-like display to it that will run on almost any vga monitor. (alot like Windows does by default)
What the hell are you talking about?
Sure, you have to install all of those peices of software if you only have upgrade cds laying around! Jesus....
I have a copy of Windows 98SE sitting here that is installable by itself, why would you need to install 95, then 98 in order to get 98SE installed?
As far as IE3, I haven't seen that since NT4 default install. (well, actually isn't that an even lower version? lol) Win98 uses a higher version of IE, and so does every other version of Windows.
I'm not a Windows advocate by a long shot, but lets try to be fair here. We're talking about installing Win2K, not going across the board with borrowed upgrade cds.
I don't know about you, but the last time I've ever used fdisk under dos was back when I installed win98. Every version of Windows (even NT 4) told you what was available very nicely and asked you where you wanted your system. It also gave you the option in case you didn't know wtf was going on to just hit a key to wipe everything and let windows do it's thing.
As far as Linux, we're talking redhat... it has an interface made specifically for that, disk druid. Hell, it even has what I like to call an "idiot key" where if you don't know wtf your doing it'll just make the partitions for you. (best guess scenario)
Neither would be the most optimized, but both will get them through it without an issue.
fdisk is dead to everyone but the more advanced users who need to use it to do partitioning schemes on their own.