If you were looking in the Artic, for these clouds, Aircraft in the US are grounded, and there had not been any shuttle flights since August 10th, 2001, We could easily have asked Isreal, or China, both of which posess the spyplane technology we are using to study these clouds to make a artic flight. The shuttle had just launched a month earlier, and the vapor trail, from the hole punched in the ozone took only 48 hours to reach the poles, so there were clouds there.
We would have seen the isolated effect of a prior launch without contrails or thunder clouds on the artic polar vortex. I would have been an extrodinary opportunity to study this exact phenomenon and a petcular compnnent of its cause.
"Very little is known about how these clouds form over the poles, why they are being seen more frequently and at lower latitudes than ever before, or why they have been growing brighter."
Should I provide refrences? These clouds form as a result of water vapor deposited in the stratosphere, by the space shuttle and thunderhead clouds. They travel to the poles rather quickly, and form as clouds, due to the stability of the structure of the polar and antartic vortices. This fact is well known, to Dr. Drew Schindell, and Dr. Paul Newman, ( Dr Newman is still studying these clouds as to their structure ), both scientiests clearly know HOW they form, and Dr Schindell incorporates the stability of the antartic vortex into his ozone destruction models. Your Tax dollars at rest.
They are seen more frequently, due to the increased amount of shuttle launches, and the increased amount of thunder clouds. (DUH!). Due to the increase in the amount of water vapor, at those altitudes, the more clouds, the brighter they are, like water vapor on the ground. On a hot and humid day, with little temprature diffrential, you dont see clouds. On cold and humit days, with a lot of temprature diffrential, you see coulds, they are larger, and brighter. Wilbur and Orville Wright saw this and wrote about it 100 years ago.
"AIM will observe two complete cloud seasons over both poles, documenting an entire life cycle of the shiny clouds for the first time." Where was this research during 9/11~9/14? When the US aircrafts were grounded? Wouldn't that have an impact on these clouds? Hundreds of scientsts recognised this opportunity, but Aparently Dr Rusell missed it. Best of luck on the experment...
"'It is clear that these clouds are changing, a sign that a part of our atmosphere is changing and we do not understand how, why or what it means,' stated AIM principal investigator James Russell III of Hampton University, Hampton, Va. 'These observations suggest a connection with global change in the lower atmosphere and could represent an early warning that our Earth environment is being changed.'"
Dr. Russell, it means this: "Anyone not wearing sunblock2000 is going to have a real bad day." -Sarah Connor. or...
"There's the same old news about the springtime Antarctic Ozone Hole. It hasn't changed much since the early 1990s because there is almost no ozone left to destroy." -J Scanlon.
Need more refrences, You can use a search engine, or I can, if you want. It only takes a few seconds. Really. Even Dr Russell can do it.
OK. 40 years in the future, can you imagine RMS coming back to the future and straightning this out? Im pretty sure, that the direction is pretty well set. Who knows what the future will bring, and I can only see some intense legal threat really adversly changing the direction, but FSF is pretty well set for a long time.
Pretty much this will never change: "GNU Emacs is free; this means that everyone is free to use it and free to redistribute it on a free basis. GNU Emacs is not in the public domain; it is copyrighted and there are restrictions on its distribution, but these restrictions are designed to permit everything that a good cooperating citizen would want to do." and
"To make sure that everyone has such rights, we have to forbid you to deprive anyone else of these rights."
Im sure in 40 years, barring some increadible stupid legal threat, it will pretty much remain free.
ok. Let me see? Which are the Zombie Cockroaches, and which are the scientists? Is there are demonstrateable diffrence? Are they both vying for press? Didn't Mabel, the cow, see little diffrence betweem the Pigs and the Humans in the end of "Animal Farm"
Must favor "unreasonably huge subsidies to the Zombie Cockroaches planet."
With Hunger, Global Warming and catostrophic ozone loss affecting the lives of billions, dont you think the scientests/Zombie Cockroaches have something better to do? Hmmm?
Hmmm I knew that those sneaky sons of a... were up to something. Has RMS weighed in on this yet? AMAZON Sucks for two reasons: ( 2++ reasons actually ) 1. The whole "We're patenting prior art" on "One click shopping"(tm), 2. It hurts the local book stores. ( I *LOVE* my local book stores. ) and 3. Amazon does not get me out of the house to meet cute chicks at said local book stores. ( no one on the internet knows: A) Your a Dog, and WORSE B) you shop at Amazon )
I canceled my account there years ago, after RMS boycotted them. I got an account there about 2 years ago, but NEVER PAID THOSE ***** A DIME.
1) Great idea on the Coal Mines. Start with the Appliacian mountans IMMEEDIATLY. Stop cutting mountain tops. ( get a gander of the pictire with google earth plz...) 2) Excellent idea on the carbon tax. 3) carbon tax on cars. cigarette lighters too! ( Its flaslight time, before the first encore fans..) 4) Busting the damns is in progress. Take a fish to dinner! Er.. mabye a movie too? Hell I dont know... 5) Start looking at personal wind power. Like hot air generators. Keystroke generators. Kenetic chargers for people who only jump to conclusions.
Now... North Dakota aint all that grand, but you want hicks with feet growin out of their heads? Yacca mountain for the same reason. Didnt someone have the grand idea to mint it into money? A new meaning of burning a hole in your pocket.
Now. What is ONE BUILDING THAT HAS LASTED FOR CENTURIES? Yep. Great Wall. Build a raido active wall bewteen Hmm... Utah! Thats it. Encompass the whole damn state in a wall of glowing! Hmm Where is SCO these days? Wall them suckers in too! And while your at it. Wall congress shut. Anywone else you want to punish? Ahh... Redmond...
ok. Since the Dirtbag Director of the mozilla calls the shots, how about KICKING DOWN SOME DEVELOPMENT CASH? like a bit more than a measly 7% of your daily bread? Mod me TROLL. Im angry about this. He gets 1/2 a millon bucks a year, and kicks down only 30k? He probibly pays more than that for transportation.
This is the absolutly greatest opportunity to burn Redmond to the ground, and he is just being greedy about it. Id rather give my buchs to a wino on the street. Its honest. You know where the money is going. But its not like I pay for mozilla. but DAMN. I made about 40k last year. I easly gave at least 5k to work that improves others lives.
I have no utter idea what the man is thinking...other than "He who dies with the most cash wins."
I will refrain from using any more derrigatory terms.
>What is it that makes Vista suck A whole lot of things. 1) The interface is bizarre. Definatly a step back. 2) Performance is abysmal. The only system I have seen it run well on, has 4GB of ram. 3) Its a Microsoft early release product. No performance tunung, shabby workmanship, and the usual Mircosoft.. ship it slow, and the users will apprecuate it later...
Im willing to bet that all those corporate clients, who are now paying through the nose for extended support contracts, are quitetly switching back to XP, and praying that the Vista update will happen before their contracts expire. It wont. Microsoft will delay it due to extended feild testing, ( read : overdue vacations being taken ).
Me? Im migrating systems back to Windows 2k, and sprucing up the interface to LOOK like windows vista. Windows 2K is really starting to mature, and benefiting from all those pesky security holes plugged by Windows XP vunerabilities. He He! I fincally got my father to upgrade all his windows 98 systems to win2k!
OK. I have 7^h6 partitons, on TWO hard disks. System, temp, Applications on the first, Documents, Swap, Backups. I keep all the pron hiddeon on the second HD.
So when the system is booting, it creates its swap file on the second HD. Cuts the boot time by at least 40%. When I launch an application, by clicking on a document, it loads an Applicaion on the first HD, swaps on the second, and then loads the doc from the second.
Backups? Peice of cake. Only have to backup up the backup partiton. When I do program updates, I backup applications to the backup partition, when I do system updates, I backup to the backup partiton. Nightly backups go to the backup partion. I pull out a DVD in the morning, that has the nightly backup on it.
Who said 1GB costs $0.25? YES! My last system had 4 HDs, and the two extra was swap and temp. The current system I am building has 2 HD right now, but I am looking to purchase 2 more.
I have lost 2 HDs due to assorted problems. Never lost a byte of data.
"How about fixing the paging to use it's own partition, ffs!"
Wha? You can do that already! I have it runnong on this machine right now. Ohh...its one of those performance secrets.. Shsssssh.... ( there are some other tricks also about the explorer cache, and tweaking that you can get more performance both from VM and from IE... but... I digress )
Ken: Oh Crap. We wasted all that time rewriting it. Dennis: Yea, I know. How about we get that ole PDP-7 out of the closit again, Ken: Yea? Dennis: and we can port Multics, and emulate the special hardware! Ken: Yea? Dennis: and have Multiple Multiple Multics! Ken: Yea? Dennis: And we can Profit! Ken: Thats Silly, you've been reading slashdot again havent you.
I would just like to point out the work of Drew Schindell, and Paul Newman. Its the ice crystals that form from the particulate matter that cause [obl:Their global climatology theory] the stabaliztion of polar stratospheric clouds, so no, apparently: "Airplanes actually help to replace ozone. Although that shit that comes out as exhaust is still bad." And there have been observations of the ice clouds caused by shuttle launches, reaching the polar stratosphere in less than 48 Hours... ( I still have a head scratcher about this.. 150Mph winds!)
"In addition to CO2, methane has been increasing in the atmosphere," added Dr Russell. "Once methane makes it into the high atmosphere, the sun breaks down the molecule and forms water - so, that's another source for water vapour in addition to the water vapour coming from below."
"James Russell gave details of the mission here at the American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly."
( Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs! Thanks Mr Slashdot!)
127.0.0.1 is MY computer! That's amazing! I've got the same IP on my luggage! In case you havent heard: "Hey, there is that pesky 127.0.0.1 again. He is attacking again! The last time I sent him a ping of death my computer crashed! Ill just..."
This one is for real! (I kid you not) Reminds me of an old Mad Joke: "When I woke up, I saw 10 eyes starin at me, so I emptyed my gun, and when I woke up in the morin, I only had my pinkie toes left."
|The rule is simple: if there's two choices that are simply binary (yes, no), |use a single checkbox. If these choices are unrelated but exclusive, |use two radiobuttons. If there are more than two choices, use a list of checkboxes, |or, if they have to exclude eachother, a dropdownlist (for a lot of options) |or a list of radiobuttons. Whenever the number of choices reaches a certain size, |it's better to rethink the interface and reorder.
Hey Hey Hey! You cheated. You have obivuously read the UI books. (http://www.amazon.com/Macintosh-Interface-Guidelines-Technical-Library/dp/0201622165) Better to have everyone know how to critizise a UI so the dweebs at the boots hear a more sophistacated auidence.
The LAST time we did this, my roommate took it upon himself, to scan our network, identify the webserver in the cable modem, and shower it with randombits:
"Hey, I found something at 192.168.100.1, you dont have anyhting running 24 hours do you?" "Did you ping it first" "Yes" "And did you point your browser at it?" "Uhhh no...( 10 seconds later)...Hey! Our cable modem has a webinterface" Grrrrrrrrrr......
Oh the point about the HOSTS thing is this: Whenever you see a threat from an IP: add that IP to point to google.com i.e.
81.95.147.130 google.com # caught as the source of codec expoit by security 193.227.121.22 google.com #
and if you see a threat by a site, i.e. url 127.0.0.1 co8vd.cn # redirect exploit aliciakeys and myspace, taken down, and reappared 127.0.0.1 www.nice8.org # Not quite sire what to do with these dirtbags yet 127.0.0.1 www.we168.org # but nominated for randombit sending, and free security audit
My Hosts editor of choice is now: HostsXpert for windows, and vim for linux. I leave shell script in root.
BEFORE YOU SIGN AN AGREEMENT: ( obl: Ask a lawyer, not slashdot )
If you are involved in solving any problems creatively, and have to do any SOP work for the company in question:
1. Get a stamp, ( DATE: NAME: WITNESS, in boxes ) 2. Get a notebook, and STAMP EVERY PAGE. 3. Write down EVERY IDEA YOU HAVE HAD THAT RELATES TO THEIR WORK. 4. DOCUMENT EVERYTHING, AND WHEN YOU TALK TO THE LAWYER, have him initial all the pages. ( EVEN BLANK PAGES) 5. have a copy made, and send one to yourself, and one to the relative nearist you. Make sure you completely cover the entire package with clear tape.
Note: This is from the 'how to protect intellilectial property' book by Nolo press.
Then when something comes up at your work, that you already have invented. You mearly state that its prior art, but you own the idea.
I worked for a company that did the same thing. I had an agreement in place for non-competition. They asked for 7 years, I told them that they had aready agreed to others for 5, and a few instances where they were starting to get the swing of things 2 years. I told them I would sign for 1 year. I had heard that a lot of discussion went on behind the scenes, and after three days, they accepted the 1 year limit. They asked about 'Prior art' and I gave them the business card of the lawyer.
When the eventual day came up that I had to tell them there was prior art, they screamed and yelled at me for about 1/2 hour, and had a vice-president come and give me the soft talk. I asked for 10,000 stock options. The Chairman of the board came and talked to me. I asked him for 10,000 stock options. He said no. I then told him 'Why is the founding and running of this company predicated on not paying people what they are worth?' "Ahh Eee Ohh? Can I get back to you on that?" And I told everyone at the monday morning meeting about it. Monday afternoon, the first person who had asked me for the agreement, said 'One year is acceptable, and we are granting you 7,500 stock options for use of these three ideas.' I ran into the VP years later. He thold me that they had a boardmeeting about this, and someone said, "Were screwed, if we dont do this, we will esaily loose most of the loyah staff. And if we do this, we are actually rewarding the best of the best. Its going to cost us a lot of money, but how much money are we going to make on this? Actually on all of it?" ( That is what happened Monday when they heard about the morning meeting! )
Later on, two of the ideas turned out to be total duds, and were actually based upon other prior work. The one idea that paid off, got me $25,000 in cash, $2,500 for the patent application, and paid for the lawyer ten times over. I PATENT MY IDEAS NOW! THe patent hangs on the wall beside my degrees. Not worth much now, but it was fun.
Another Patent I have seen hang on a wall is the Gene Amplification Patent owned by a guy at Chiron. He said "Its worth about 4.3 billion dollars over the life of the patent" He of course is a multi-multi-millionaire. Drives a toyota station wagon.
You just have to judge... What is your idea really worth? ( HA! The Capatia is 'fr**tf*l' Best fortune cookie this month!
Will prove to you, beyound any shadow of doubt, that computers are the essence of all evil. If you trust your computer, then give your teenager the keys to your car, and your bankcard and tell me how much you'd trust them. 'Trusted-computing' is a self contractictory phrase, like Airline Food, and Military Intelligence.
"It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated.
For instance, at the very moment that Arthur said, 'I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle,' a freak wormhole opened up in the fabric of the space-time continuum and carried his words far far back in time across almost infinite reaches of space to a distant galaxy where strange and warlike beings were poised on the brink of a frightful interstellar battle.
The two opposing leaders were meeting for the last time.
A dreadful silence fell across the conference table as the commander of the Vl'hurgs, resplendent in his black jewelled battle shorts, gazed levelly at the G'Gugvuntt leader squatting opposite him in a cloud of green sweet-smelling steam, and, with a million sleek and horribly beweaponed star cruisers poised to unleash electric death at his single word of command, challenged the vile creature to take back what it had said about his mother.
The creature stirred in his sickly broiling vapour, and at that very moment the words, 'I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle' drifted across the conference table.
Unfortunately, in the Vl'hurg tongue this was the most dreadful insult imaginable, and there was nothing for it but to wage terrible war for centuries."
Oh MOD PARENT +1 FUNNY... ah hahhahahahah!
From Babelfish
"É naturalmente bom sabido que a conversa descuidada custa vidas, mas a escala cheia do problema não é apreciada sempre. Por exemplo, no momento very que Arthur disse, ' eu pareço ter a dificuldade tremenda com meu lifestyle, ' um wormhole freak aberto acima na tela do continuum do espaço-tempo e carreguei suas palavras distante distante para trás a tempo através dos alcances quase infinitos do espaço a uma galáxia distante onde os seres estranhos e warlike poised no brink de uma batalha interstellar frightful. Os dois líderes opondo-se estavam encontrando-se com por a última vez. Um silêncio terrível caiu através da tabela de conferência como o comandante do Vl'hurgs, resplendent em seus shorts jewelled pretos da batalha, olhado levelly no líder de G'Gugvuntt que squatting oposto a ele em uma nuvem do vapor sweet-smelling verde, e, com o milhão lustroso e beweaponed horribly os cruzadores da estrela poised para desencadear a morte elétrica em sua única palavra do comando, desafiado a criatura vile fazer exame para trás o que tinha dito sobre sua mãe. A criatura agitou em seu vapor broiling sickly, e nesse muito momento as palavras, ' eu pareço ter a dificuldade tremenda com meu lifestyle ' drifted através da tabela de conferência. Infelizmente, na lingüeta de Vl'hurg este era o insulto o mais terrível imaginable, e não havia nada para ele mas para empreender a guerra terrível por séculos."
I showed this to a friend of mine who speaks Protuguese. After reading only a few sentences, he laughed out loud for a long time. It wasnt so much as the joke itself, but the translantion. Its so extrodinarly bad.
Look at the re-translation:
"Of course good it is known that the careless colloquy cost lives, but the full scale of the problem is not appreciated always.
For example, at the moment very that Arthur said, ' I seem to have the tremendous difficulty with mine lifestyle, ' one wormhole freak (HA!) opened above in the screen of continuum of the space-time and carreguei its words distant distant stops backwards the time (HA!) through reaches them almost infinite of the space to a distant galaxy where the strange beings and warlike poised in brink of a battl
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I hate to see a good idea go to waste:
If you were looking in the Artic, for these clouds, Aircraft in the US are grounded, and there had not been any shuttle flights since August 10th, 2001, We could easily have asked Isreal, or China, both of which posess the spyplane technology we are using to study these clouds to make a artic flight. The shuttle had just launched a month earlier, and the vapor trail, from the hole punched in the ozone took only 48 hours to reach the poles, so there were clouds there.
We would have seen the isolated effect of a prior launch without contrails or thunder clouds on the artic polar vortex. I would have been an extrodinary opportunity to study this exact phenomenon and a petcular compnnent of its cause.
From your refrence:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/images/cont-nasalrcteambushavhrr64-l.jpg
This photo shows the absolute clarity of the skies.
NSFW? NSFW IP? BS! NIAFMY!
( Not Safe For Work? ) ( Bull Sh*t! Not Safe For Work Intellectual Property? Never In A F*ck*ng Million Years! (tm) )
"Very little is known about how these clouds form over the poles, why they are being seen more frequently and at lower latitudes than ever before, or why they have been growing brighter."
Should I provide refrences?
These clouds form as a result of water vapor deposited in the stratosphere, by the space shuttle and thunderhead clouds. They travel to the poles rather quickly, and form as clouds, due to the stability of the structure of the polar and antartic vortices. This fact is well known, to Dr. Drew Schindell, and Dr. Paul Newman, ( Dr Newman is still studying these clouds as to their structure ), both scientiests clearly know HOW they form, and Dr Schindell incorporates the stability of the antartic vortex into his ozone destruction models. Your Tax dollars at rest.
They are seen more frequently, due to the increased amount of shuttle launches, and the increased amount of thunder clouds. (DUH!). Due to the increase in the amount of water vapor, at those altitudes, the more clouds, the brighter they are, like water vapor on the ground. On a hot and humid day, with little temprature diffrential, you dont see clouds. On cold and humit days, with a lot of temprature diffrential, you see coulds, they are larger, and brighter. Wilbur and Orville Wright saw this and wrote about it 100 years ago.
"AIM will observe two complete cloud seasons over both poles, documenting an entire life cycle of the shiny clouds for the first time."
Where was this research during 9/11~9/14? When the US aircrafts were grounded? Wouldn't that have an impact on these clouds? Hundreds of scientsts recognised this opportunity, but Aparently Dr Rusell missed it. Best of luck on the experment...
"'It is clear that these clouds are changing, a sign that a part of our atmosphere is changing and we do not understand how, why or what it means,' stated AIM principal investigator James Russell III of Hampton University, Hampton, Va. 'These observations suggest a connection with global change in the lower atmosphere and could represent an early warning that our Earth environment is being changed.'"
Dr. Russell, it means this: "Anyone not wearing sunblock2000 is going to have a real bad day." -Sarah Connor. or...
http://www.coastalpost.com/98/8/10.htm
"There's the same old news about the springtime Antarctic Ozone Hole. It hasn't changed much since the early 1990s because there is almost no ozone left to destroy." -J Scanlon.
Need more refrences, You can use a search engine, or I can, if you want. It only takes a few seconds. Really. Even Dr Russell can do it.
OK. 40 years in the future, can you imagine RMS coming back to the future and straightning this out? Im pretty sure, that the direction is pretty well set. Who knows what the future will bring, and I can only see some intense legal threat really adversly changing the direction, but FSF is pretty well set for a long time.
Pretty much this will never change: "GNU Emacs is free; this means that everyone is free to use it and free to redistribute it on a free basis. GNU Emacs is not in the public domain; it is copyrighted and there are restrictions on its distribution, but these restrictions are designed to permit everything that a good cooperating citizen would want to do." and
"To make sure that everyone has such rights, we have to forbid you to deprive anyone else of these rights."
Im sure in 40 years, barring some increadible stupid legal threat, it will pretty much remain free.
ok. Let me see? Which are the Zombie Cockroaches, and which are the scientists? Is there are demonstrateable diffrence? Are they both vying for press? Didn't Mabel, the cow, see little diffrence betweem the Pigs and the Humans in the end of "Animal Farm"
Must favor "unreasonably huge subsidies to the Zombie Cockroaches planet."
With Hunger, Global Warming and catostrophic ozone loss affecting the lives of billions, dont you think the scientests/Zombie Cockroaches have something better to do? Hmmm?
Oh DEAR FREAKING GOD!
ok... That was FUNNY. Actually, for obligitory jokes, that was the best in weeks!
Amazon.com?
... were up to something.
Hmmm I knew that those sneaky sons of a
Has RMS weighed in on this yet?
AMAZON Sucks for two reasons: ( 2++ reasons actually )
1. The whole "We're patenting prior art" on "One click shopping"(tm),
2. It hurts the local book stores. ( I *LOVE* my local book stores. )
and
3. Amazon does not get me out of the house to meet cute chicks at said local book stores.
( no one on the internet knows: A) Your a Dog, and WORSE B) you shop at Amazon )
I canceled my account there years ago, after RMS boycotted them.
I got an account there about 2 years ago, but NEVER PAID THOSE ***** A DIME.
==Rant over==
RMS? RMS? Calling RMS?
Your a psycho I like. Soild thinking:
1) Great idea on the Coal Mines. Start with the Appliacian mountans IMMEEDIATLY. Stop cutting mountain tops. ( get a gander of the pictire with google earth plz...)
2) Excellent idea on the carbon tax.
3) carbon tax on cars. cigarette lighters too! ( Its flaslight time, before the first encore fans..)
4) Busting the damns is in progress. Take a fish to dinner! Er.. mabye a movie too? Hell I dont know...
5) Start looking at personal wind power. Like hot air generators. Keystroke generators. Kenetic chargers for people who only jump to conclusions.
Now... North Dakota aint all that grand, but you want hicks with feet growin out of their heads? Yacca mountain for the same reason. Didnt someone have the grand idea to mint it into money? A new meaning of burning a hole in your pocket.
Now. What is ONE BUILDING THAT HAS LASTED FOR CENTURIES? Yep. Great Wall. Build a raido active wall bewteen Hmm... Utah! Thats it. Encompass the whole damn state in a wall of glowing! Hmm Where is SCO these days? Wall them suckers in too! And while your at it. Wall congress shut. Anywone else you want to punish? Ahh... Redmond...
==End of rant==
ok. Since the Dirtbag Director of the mozilla calls the shots,
how about KICKING DOWN SOME DEVELOPMENT CASH? like a bit more than a measly 7% of your daily bread? Mod me TROLL. Im angry about this. He gets 1/2 a millon bucks a year, and kicks down only 30k? He probibly pays more than that for transportation.
This is the absolutly greatest opportunity to burn Redmond to the ground, and he is just being greedy about it. Id rather give my buchs to a wino on the street. Its honest. You know where the money is going. But its not like I pay for mozilla. but DAMN. I made about 40k last year. I easly gave at least 5k to work that improves others lives.
I have no utter idea what the man is thinking...other than "He who dies with the most cash wins."
I will refrain from using any more derrigatory terms.
==End soap box==
>What is it that makes Vista suck
A whole lot of things.
1) The interface is bizarre. Definatly a step back.
2) Performance is abysmal. The only system I have seen it run well on, has 4GB of ram.
3) Its a Microsoft early release product. No performance tunung, shabby workmanship,
and the usual Mircosoft.. ship it slow, and the users will apprecuate it later...
Im willing to bet that all those corporate clients, who are now paying through the nose for extended support contracts, are quitetly switching back to XP, and praying that the Vista update will happen before their contracts expire. It wont. Microsoft will delay it due to extended feild testing, ( read : overdue vacations being taken ).
Me? Im migrating systems back to Windows 2k, and sprucing up the interface to LOOK like windows vista. Windows 2K is really starting to mature, and benefiting from all those pesky security holes plugged by Windows XP vunerabilities. He He! I fincally got my father to upgrade all his windows 98 systems to win2k!
OK. I have 7^h6 partitons, on TWO hard disks. System, temp, Applications on the first,
Documents, Swap, Backups. I keep all the pron hiddeon on the second HD.
So when the system is booting, it creates its swap file on the second HD. Cuts the boot time by at least 40%. When I launch an application, by clicking on a document, it loads an Applicaion on the first HD, swaps on the second, and then loads the doc from the second.
Backups? Peice of cake. Only have to backup up the backup partiton. When I do program updates, I backup applications to the backup partition, when I do system updates, I backup to the backup partiton. Nightly backups go to the backup partion. I pull out a DVD in the morning, that has the nightly backup on it.
Who said 1GB costs $0.25? YES! My last system had 4 HDs, and the two extra was swap and temp.
The current system I am building has 2 HD right now, but I am looking to purchase 2 more.
I have lost 2 HDs due to assorted problems. Never lost a byte of data.
"How about fixing the paging to use it's own partition, ffs!"
... but... I digress )
Wha? You can do that already! I have it runnong on this machine right now.
Ohh...its one of those performance secrets.. Shsssssh....
( there are some other tricks also about the explorer cache, and tweaking that you can get more performance both from VM and from IE
Nothing to fix here.
Ken: Oh Crap. We wasted all that time rewriting it.
Dennis: Yea, I know. How about we get that ole PDP-7 out of the closit again,
Ken: Yea?
Dennis: and we can port Multics, and emulate the special hardware!
Ken: Yea?
Dennis: and have Multiple Multiple Multics!
Ken: Yea?
Dennis: And we can Profit!
Ken: Thats Silly, you've been reading slashdot again havent you.
Mod Parent +1 FUNNY. -quote from George Carlin...
You FORGOT:
Pants-Snake
One-eyed-wonder worm.
1. Start cable company
2. Get regulated.
3. Raise prices.
4. Profit.
5. Get unregulated
6. More Profit.
7. GO to 2.
The endless money cycle.
I am looking forward to the price increase.
( So far, it has NEVER failed )
I would just like to point out the work of Drew Schindell, and Paul Newman. Its the ice crystals that form from the particulate matter that cause [obl:Their global climatology theory] the stabaliztion of polar stratospheric clouds, so no, apparently:
"Airplanes actually help to replace ozone. Although that shit that comes out as exhaust is still bad."
And there have been observations of the ice clouds caused by shuttle launches, reaching the polar stratosphere in less than 48 Hours... ( I still have a head scratcher about this.. 150Mph winds!)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5021778.stm
"In addition to CO2, methane has been increasing in the atmosphere," added Dr Russell. "Once methane makes it into the high atmosphere, the sun breaks down the molecule and forms water - so, that's another source for water vapour in addition to the water vapour coming from below."
"James Russell gave details of the mission here at the American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly."
( Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs! Thanks Mr Slashdot!)
"Hey, there is that pesky 127.0.0.1 again.
He is attacking again! The last time I sent him a ping of death my computer crashed!
Ill just..."
This one is for real! (I kid you not) Reminds me of an old Mad Joke:
"When I woke up, I saw 10 eyes starin at me, so I emptyed my gun, and when I woke up in the morin, I only had my pinkie toes left."
I also do Polaroid work.
As far as tutorials go:
http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/bert-monroy.html
Uncle Bert is the BEST!
|The rule is simple: if there's two choices that are simply binary (yes, no),
|use a single checkbox. If these choices are unrelated but exclusive,
|use two radiobuttons. If there are more than two choices, use a list of checkboxes,
|or, if they have to exclude eachother, a dropdownlist (for a lot of options)
|or a list of radiobuttons. Whenever the number of choices reaches a certain size,
|it's better to rethink the interface and reorder.
Hey Hey Hey! You cheated. You have obivuously read the UI books. (http://www.amazon.com/Macintosh-Interface-Guidelines-Technical-Library/dp/0201622165)
Better to have everyone know how to critizise a UI so the dweebs at the boots hear a more sophistacated auidence.
Pipe them dev random?
The LAST time we did this, my roommate took it upon himself, to scan our network, identify the webserver in the cable modem, and shower it with randombits:
"Hey, I found something at 192.168.100.1, you dont have anyhting running 24 hours do you?"
"Did you ping it first"
"Yes"
"And did you point your browser at it?"
"Uhhh no...( 10 seconds later)...Hey! Our cable modem has a webinterface"
Grrrrrrrrrr......
Oh the point about the HOSTS thing is this:
Whenever you see a threat from an IP:
add that IP to point to google.com
i.e.
81.95.147.130 google.com # caught as the source of codec expoit by security
193.227.121.22 google.com #
and if you see a threat by a site, i.e. url
127.0.0.1 co8vd.cn # redirect exploit aliciakeys and myspace, taken down, and reappared
127.0.0.1 www.nice8.org # Not quite sire what to do with these dirtbags yet
127.0.0.1 www.we168.org # but nominated for randombit sending, and free security audit
My Hosts editor of choice is now:
HostsXpert for windows, and vim for linux. I leave shell script in root.
Yours,
killmo
But do you have any yellow mustand?
We welcome our new Chinese overlords.
p.s. note to the navy: Note to self: Turn on sonar, BEFORE excercises. Not after.
Save us also from those pesky sand bars...
BEFORE YOU SIGN AN AGREEMENT:
( obl: Ask a lawyer, not slashdot )
If you are involved in solving any problems creatively,
and have to do any SOP work for the company in question:
1. Get a stamp, ( DATE: NAME: WITNESS, in boxes )
2. Get a notebook, and STAMP EVERY PAGE.
3. Write down EVERY IDEA YOU HAVE HAD THAT RELATES TO THEIR WORK.
4. DOCUMENT EVERYTHING, AND WHEN YOU TALK TO THE LAWYER, have him initial all the pages. ( EVEN BLANK PAGES)
5. have a copy made, and send one to yourself, and one to the relative nearist you. Make sure you completely cover the entire package with clear tape.
Note: This is from the 'how to protect intellilectial property' book by Nolo press.
Then when something comes up at your work, that you already have invented. You mearly state that its prior art, but you own the idea.
I worked for a company that did the same thing. I had an agreement in place for non-competition. They asked for 7 years, I told them that they had aready agreed to others for 5, and a few instances where they were starting to get the swing of things 2 years. I told them I would sign for 1 year. I had heard that a lot of discussion went on behind the scenes, and after three days, they accepted the 1 year limit. They asked about 'Prior art' and I gave them the business card of the lawyer.
When the eventual day came up that I had to tell them there was prior art, they screamed and yelled at me for about 1/2 hour, and had a vice-president come and give me the soft talk. I asked for 10,000 stock options. The Chairman of the board came and talked to me. I asked him for 10,000 stock options. He said no. I then told him 'Why is the founding and running of this company predicated on not paying people what they are worth?' "Ahh Eee Ohh? Can I get back to you on that?" And I told everyone at the monday morning meeting about it. Monday afternoon, the first person who had asked me for the agreement, said 'One year is acceptable, and we are granting you 7,500 stock options for use of these three ideas.' I ran into the VP years later. He thold me that they had a boardmeeting about this, and someone said, "Were screwed, if we dont do this, we will esaily loose most of the loyah staff. And if we do this, we are actually rewarding the best of the best. Its going to cost us a lot of money, but how much money are we going to make on this? Actually on all of it?"
( That is what happened Monday when they heard about the morning meeting! )
Later on, two of the ideas turned out to be total duds, and were actually based upon other prior work. The one idea that paid off, got me $25,000 in cash, $2,500 for the patent application, and paid for the lawyer ten times over. I PATENT MY IDEAS NOW! THe patent hangs on the wall beside my degrees. Not worth much now, but it was fun.
Another Patent I have seen hang on a wall is the Gene Amplification Patent owned by a guy at Chiron. He said "Its worth about 4.3 billion dollars over the life of the patent" He of course is a multi-multi-millionaire. Drives a toyota station wagon.
You just have to judge... What is your idea really worth?
( HA! The Capatia is 'fr**tf*l' Best fortune cookie this month!
>"people have to trust their computers."
NEVER. I have been using computers since 1970. This book:
http://www.amazon.com/Satan-Psychotherapy-Unfortunate-Kassler-J-S-P-S/dp/059514506X
Will prove to you, beyound any shadow of doubt, that computers are the essence of all evil.
If you trust your computer, then give your teenager the keys to your car, and your bankcard and tell me how much you'd trust them. 'Trusted-computing' is a self contractictory phrase, like Airline Food, and Military Intelligence.
Please add to your host files:
127.0.0.1 www.nice8.org
127.0.0.1 www.we168.org
excuuus me: "Are you an expert on the aerodynamic qualities of food?"
You should never say things like that on Slashdot. He JUST MIGHT BE.
( Did you really write that? Did I really read it? OMG, I am laugning so hard Im going to be sick!)
Time for a WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE!
OK! For those who have NOT read Douglas Adams,
"I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle"
Started a interstellar war.
http://www.cgoakley.demon.co.uk/vlhurgs/index.html
"It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated.
For instance, at the very moment that Arthur said, 'I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle,' a freak wormhole opened up in the fabric of the space-time continuum and carried his words far far back in time across almost infinite reaches of space to a distant galaxy where strange and warlike beings were poised on the brink of a frightful interstellar battle.
The two opposing leaders were meeting for the last time.
A dreadful silence fell across the conference table as the commander of the Vl'hurgs, resplendent in his black jewelled battle shorts, gazed levelly at the G'Gugvuntt leader squatting opposite him in a cloud of green sweet-smelling steam, and, with a million sleek and horribly beweaponed star cruisers poised to unleash electric death at his single word of command, challenged the vile creature to take back what it had said about his mother.
The creature stirred in his sickly broiling vapour, and at that very moment the words, 'I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle' drifted across the conference table.
Unfortunately, in the Vl'hurg tongue this was the most dreadful insult imaginable, and there was nothing for it but to wage terrible war for centuries."
Oh MOD PARENT +1 FUNNY... ah hahhahahahah!
From Babelfish
"É naturalmente bom sabido que a conversa descuidada custa vidas, mas a escala cheia do problema não é apreciada sempre. Por exemplo, no momento very que Arthur disse, ' eu pareço ter a dificuldade tremenda com meu lifestyle, ' um wormhole freak aberto acima na tela do continuum do espaço-tempo e carreguei suas palavras distante distante para trás a tempo através dos alcances quase infinitos do espaço a uma galáxia distante onde os seres estranhos e warlike poised no brink de uma batalha interstellar frightful. Os dois líderes opondo-se estavam encontrando-se com por a última vez. Um silêncio terrível caiu através da tabela de conferência como o comandante do Vl'hurgs, resplendent em seus shorts jewelled pretos da batalha, olhado levelly no líder de G'Gugvuntt que squatting oposto a ele em uma nuvem do vapor sweet-smelling verde, e, com o milhão lustroso e beweaponed horribly os cruzadores da estrela poised para desencadear a morte elétrica em sua única palavra do comando, desafiado a criatura vile fazer exame para trás o que tinha dito sobre sua mãe. A criatura agitou em seu vapor broiling sickly, e nesse muito momento as palavras, ' eu pareço ter a dificuldade tremenda com meu lifestyle ' drifted através da tabela de conferência. Infelizmente, na lingüeta de Vl'hurg este era o insulto o mais terrível imaginable, e não havia nada para ele mas para empreender a guerra terrível por séculos."
I showed this to a friend of mine who speaks Protuguese. After reading only a few sentences, he laughed out loud for a long time. It wasnt so much as the joke itself, but the translantion. Its so extrodinarly bad.
Look at the re-translation:
"Of course good it is known that the careless colloquy cost lives, but the full scale of the problem is not appreciated always.
For example, at the moment very that Arthur said, ' I seem to have the tremendous difficulty with mine lifestyle, ' one wormhole freak (HA!) opened above in the screen of continuum of the space-time and carreguei its words distant distant stops backwards the time (HA!) through reaches them almost infinite of the space to a distant galaxy where the strange beings and warlike poised in brink of a battl