If it's not open for users to install their own programs, then everyone here will complain that it's a proprietary interface trusted computing bla bla bla.
If it is open for users to install their own programs, then everyone here will complain that it's a huge security risk and will lead to the death of the internet bla bla bla.
I'd rather have one wheel skid than have crappy braking on all four wheels. I've seen too many "all or nothing" abs systems. You slow down gradually, slow down gradually, then all of the sudden the car goes into ABS mode and you're not slowing down half as much unless you bottom out the pedal.
The only time I like ABS is in the snow, and that's because I'm lazy. I get tired of working the brake pedal so damn much.
IMHO, if you can't work the brakes, you don't know how to drive. If you don't know how to drive, stay off the road. In the words of James Dean, "The life you save may be mine."
Only if you're an idiot. This shows you that ABS ISN'T about stopping faster. It will help you stop faster if your idea of hitting the brakes is to stand on the pedal. In that situation, ABS will indeed stop you quicker. However, if you do threshold braking, you'll stop quicker than ABS, which is just a really fast way of pumping the brakes.
What of us who cycle TO work? I'd rather cycle to work in the light and home in the dark than vice-versa. There are more groggy people shaving on the way to work breaking the speed limit by an order of magnatude than there are on the way home.
With the current bent, you can justify putting anything in a school first aid kit. Why do we have defibs in all the schools now? How many lives does that save, one or two a year? But it's for the children, so make the taxpayers spend all this money with minimal return
Monies would be better spent to drill into the kids some sense of traffic saftey or somesuch.
I was speaking of the facts in the article. Did you read the article?
Hard as hell? I don't know that it is "hard as hell" to be your typical tinkerer, and I fail to see where scale has anything to do with this argument. Which scale do you speak of?
The real issue is that necessity is the mother of invention, and people are comfortable sitting in their easy chairs watching Survivor. They don't need anything, so they're not thinking of anything.
A: the apologists who say "innovations per capita don't matter, total number matters!". Give it up. People just don't think anymore. American Idol is probably on somewhere, stealing those innovative minds away.
B: people saying "all the easy things have been invented" The only easy day was yesterday, and they only seem easy because they were simple. Just wait, more "easy" things will be invented, and people will slap their foreheads and say "Why didn't I think of that!"
5. The extremely cynical version: There's no difference between the 600, 650, 700, and 900 versions of the product, yet they charge 3 times as much for the top end. All the difference is in the drivers.
It is? I'm a re-enactor, and every year I get a booklet on "The Pennsic War" and every year it comes opened. The post office says there's nothing that can be done about it. My wife also gets one and hers comes opened too, so it doesn't sound like curiosity.
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I especially liked the part about:
Another, Skillicorn says, is that research shows
people speak and write differently when they feel guilt about a
subject, for instance using fewer first-person pronouns, like I and we.
Because people always use first person pronouns in messages. That's just what's done. And alot of them should be used.
Sounds like a way to track messages with "substance" rather than the "hai h u r? heer are the pictures of my vacation." messages.
Think about that. This man has just come up with a way to measure the relative interest of what the sender has to say to people in the government.
Yet another way to cut down on the messages that the government has to read and be bored with. Yet another way to enable the government to read out communications more effectively
Yet another reason to look into using real encryption.
"You can find out the headlines to the paper before they're delivered if you go to the corner of Return Ave and Theodore St at 4am after the Times drops off the bundle and before the paperboy picks them up"
It's information in a public place that you can pretty much get to if you know where to find it.
And in reading it, you don't take anything away from anyone.
No. Krylon fusion. Just wipe the keyboard down with laquer thinner first. That's what I did with mine when I painted it black. Note that if you don't keep your fingernails trimmed, and you don't touch type proplerly, you'll wear the paint off on some of the keys.
Hardcore geek here, with a UID that's far lower than yours.
Don't block my outbound port 25.
Don't block my outbound ANYTHING.
Block me off completely when my machine hurts the internet by spamming/flooding/whathaveyou.
I'm so sick of this "Let's surrender our internet because of Microsoft" bullshit. I'm sick enough of it to burn karma by posting this crap that's going to get modded into oblivion.
Not all of us know someone with a well connected server. Not all of us want to post mail from somewhere other than our box. I know that my box is working and isn't logging what I'm sending somewhere else. I know that the government isn't reading my email logs. I know that my server is MY SERVER and that's THAT.
If you don't like it, go back to AOL. Then you can have your little closed interface, able to email all of your little friends who use the same closed interface, and get charged for what I can get for free. All I have to pay for is my connection, whereas you'll have to pay for every "value-added" service you use.
Looking back on this, yes I could have made my reply more diplomatic. I'm just tired of the dilution of technology in the name of safety/terrorism/children.
Listen asshole, there are us responsible people that like to get our email no matter what. I remember when this place was filled with open-source running geeks, and not windows script kiddies. I remember when anyone who mentioned port blocking as a blanket policy would get modded to -1 troll, not +4 Informative.
I really don't care if my email has trojans in it or not. I don't need my ISP trying to tell me what mail I should and shouldn't get because some idiot might open in and say "Oooh, look, an attachment! It's a zip file! I'll open it! Look, an.exe file! I'll run that". People like that, and people who think that is acceptable behavior, should shut off their computer, throw it out the window, and go outside and read a book.
If ISPs want to filter anything, they should look at outgoing mail, and not do the current "in" thing and just drop it on the floor if something's wrong, but actually bounce it back to the user. If I have something I want to send ot someone, I can do it thru my own mailserver, unless shitheads like you have their way and block outbound 25 to everywhere.
I'd like to know exactly how far you'd take this. Would you fall into the trap of blocking access to IRC because botnets run there? Just think of how many ddos attacks we could prevent if we blocked all users access to IRC! Besides, the only other use for IRC is to steal music.
While we're talking about stealing, let's get rid of usenet. The only people who use usenet are the ones trading warez, porn, movies, and music! That's a waste of time and bandwidth.
Those things sound like items that you'd want to impliment. You'd think it would make for a better internet. I think real geeks know better. Who wants an internet where all you can do is surf the web?
Yes, at home, I'm a *nix guy. At work, I use excel. It all started with estimate sheets. It was a simple way to look at a large number of data and have it mean something. Hours on the bottom, materials and subcontractors on the top. Multiply by amounts and markup, and you have a number. Sum the column, and you have the total job cost.
But when figuring out how much material is needed, it works nice. I take the sign size and add 6" to each side(for large signs) and that gives me a nice rough square footage to order.
How many clips do I need for a flexable face? Well, that's (length+width)*4.
How much vinyl? height*width*.75.
Screws? (height+width)*2/1.5
Neon footage for channel letters? height*3*letters+letters
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REALLY late in the game here, but hoping you see this as a reply. Ever compare the command line syntax of grep to sort?
MS would do better to stop piracy than to stop "clone products".
Besides, what "new computing concept" have they come up with?
I used Word Perfect before there was an MS Word
I used visi-calc before there was an Excel.
I can't think of one piece of software that was written by MS that wasn't written somewhere else first. I could be wrong, however.
Unless they're talking about "look and feel", which I won't comment on.
If it's not open for users to install their own programs, then everyone here will complain that it's a proprietary interface trusted computing bla bla bla.
If it is open for users to install their own programs, then everyone here will complain that it's a huge security risk and will lead to the death of the internet bla bla bla.
I'd rather have one wheel skid than have crappy braking on all four wheels. I've seen too many "all or nothing" abs systems. You slow down gradually, slow down gradually, then all of the sudden the car goes into ABS mode and you're not slowing down half as much unless you bottom out the pedal.
The only time I like ABS is in the snow, and that's because I'm lazy. I get tired of working the brake pedal so damn much.
IMHO, if you can't work the brakes, you don't know how to drive. If you don't know how to drive, stay off the road. In the words of James Dean, "The life you save may be mine."
Only if you're an idiot. This shows you that ABS ISN'T about stopping faster. It will help you stop faster if your idea of hitting the brakes is to stand on the pedal. In that situation, ABS will indeed stop you quicker. However, if you do threshold braking, you'll stop quicker than ABS, which is just a really fast way of pumping the brakes.
Because Standard time is REALLY what time it is, whereas Daylight time is what the government is saying the time is, however, they're wrong.
What of us who cycle TO work? I'd rather cycle to work in the light and home in the dark than vice-versa. There are more groggy people shaving on the way to work breaking the speed limit by an order of magnatude than there are on the way home.
With the current bent, you can justify putting anything in a school first aid kit. Why do we have defibs in all the schools now? How many lives does that save, one or two a year? But it's for the children, so make the taxpayers spend all this money with minimal return
Monies would be better spent to drill into the kids some sense of traffic saftey or somesuch.
I was speaking of the facts in the article. Did you read the article?
Hard as hell? I don't know that it is "hard as hell" to be your typical tinkerer, and I fail to see where scale has anything to do with this argument. Which scale do you speak of?
The real issue is that necessity is the mother of invention, and people are comfortable sitting in their easy chairs watching Survivor. They don't need anything, so they're not thinking of anything.
But I'm tired of
A: the apologists who say "innovations per capita don't matter, total number matters!". Give it up. People just don't think anymore. American Idol is probably on somewhere, stealing those innovative minds away.
B: people saying "all the easy things have been invented" The only easy day was yesterday, and they only seem easy because they were simple. Just wait, more "easy" things will be invented, and people will slap their foreheads and say "Why didn't I think of that!"
5. The extremely cynical version: There's no difference between the 600, 650, 700, and 900 versions of the product, yet they charge 3 times as much for the top end. All the difference is in the drivers.
It is? I'm a re-enactor, and every year I get a booklet on "The Pennsic War" and every year it comes opened. The post office says there's nothing that can be done about it. My wife also gets one and hers comes opened too, so it doesn't sound like curiosity.
I especially liked the part about:
Another, Skillicorn says, is that research shows
people speak and write differently when they feel guilt about a
subject, for instance using fewer first-person pronouns, like I and we.
Because people always use first person pronouns in messages. That's just what's done. And alot of them should be used.
Sounds like a way to track messages with "substance" rather than the "hai h u r? heer are the pictures of my vacation." messages.
Think about that. This man has just come up with a way to measure the relative interest of what the sender has to say to people in the government.
Yet another way to cut down on the messages that the government has to read and be bored with. Yet another way to enable the government to read out communications more effectively
Yet another reason to look into using real encryption.
MASH, heh
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.
And develop a related song . .
Thru early morning code I see
Visions of the things to be
Permissions are withheld from me
I realize and I can see
Chorus:
That Microsoft is brainless
They bring on fruitless changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
The command line game is hard to play
we're gonna lose it anyway
This latest shell is somewhat gay
So this is all I have to say . .
chorus
The only way to win is cheat
But linux has us already beat
A lower cost per license seat
Wow that truly is a feat!
chorus
Ok, someone step up here and write more verses. I wrote these 3 on the fly.
No, more like
"You can find out the headlines to the paper before they're delivered if you go to the corner of Return Ave and Theodore St at 4am after the Times drops off the bundle and before the paperboy picks them up"
It's information in a public place that you can pretty much get to if you know where to find it.
And in reading it, you don't take anything away from anyone.
No. Krylon fusion. Just wipe the keyboard down with laquer thinner first. That's what I did with mine when I painted it black. Note that if you don't keep your fingernails trimmed, and you don't touch type proplerly, you'll wear the paint off on some of the keys.
Hardcore geek here, with a UID that's far lower than yours.
Don't block my outbound port 25.
Don't block my outbound ANYTHING.
Block me off completely when my machine hurts the internet by spamming/flooding/whathaveyou.
I'm so sick of this "Let's surrender our internet because of Microsoft" bullshit. I'm sick enough of it to burn karma by posting this crap that's going to get modded into oblivion.
Not all of us know someone with a well connected server. Not all of us want to post mail from somewhere other than our box. I know that my box is working and isn't logging what I'm sending somewhere else. I know that the government isn't reading my email logs. I know that my server is MY SERVER and that's THAT.
If you don't like it, go back to AOL. Then you can have your little closed interface, able to email all of your little friends who use the same closed interface, and get charged for what I can get for free. All I have to pay for is my connection, whereas you'll have to pay for every "value-added" service you use.
And with a teaser that fails to close the i tag and leaves the rest of the stories on the slashdot page in italics!
And you'll get pulled over by every cop you drive by.
"Sir, I have a suspicion that you are driving without a license"
Looking back on this, yes I could have made my reply more diplomatic. I'm just tired of the dilution of technology in the name of safety/terrorism/children.
I know you understand.
Is it too late to sell them back to the Spanish?
Go ahead, mod me flamebait.
.exe file! I'll run that". People like that, and people who think that is acceptable behavior, should shut off their computer, throw it out the window, and go outside and read a book.
Listen asshole, there are us responsible people that like to get our email no matter what. I remember when this place was filled with open-source running geeks, and not windows script kiddies. I remember when anyone who mentioned port blocking as a blanket policy would get modded to -1 troll, not +4 Informative.
I really don't care if my email has trojans in it or not. I don't need my ISP trying to tell me what mail I should and shouldn't get because some idiot might open in and say "Oooh, look, an attachment! It's a zip file! I'll open it! Look, an
If ISPs want to filter anything, they should look at outgoing mail, and not do the current "in" thing and just drop it on the floor if something's wrong, but actually bounce it back to the user. If I have something I want to send ot someone, I can do it thru my own mailserver, unless shitheads like you have their way and block outbound 25 to everywhere.
I'd like to know exactly how far you'd take this. Would you fall into the trap of blocking access to IRC because botnets run there? Just think of how many ddos attacks we could prevent if we blocked all users access to IRC! Besides, the only other use for IRC is to steal music.
While we're talking about stealing, let's get rid of usenet. The only people who use usenet are the ones trading warez, porn, movies, and music! That's a waste of time and bandwidth.
Those things sound like items that you'd want to impliment. You'd think it would make for a better internet. I think real geeks know better. Who wants an internet where all you can do is surf the web?
Apparently, you do.
OMG, what a concept! Unfortunatly, that's so 1985. Wasn't that when MS started embedding code in .doc files?
Yeah they can. Both from tower information/ triangulation and GPS.
Yes, at home, I'm a *nix guy. At work, I use excel. It all started with estimate sheets. It was a simple way to look at a large number of data and have it mean something. Hours on the bottom, materials and subcontractors on the top. Multiply by amounts and markup, and you have a number. Sum the column, and you have the total job cost.
But when figuring out how much material is needed, it works nice. I take the sign size and add 6" to each side(for large signs) and that gives me a nice rough square footage to order.
How many clips do I need for a flexable face? Well, that's (length+width)*4.
How much vinyl? height*width*.75.
Screws? (height+width)*2/1.5
Neon footage for channel letters? height*3*letters+letters
people SELL programs for things like this.