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Ah so when a severl centimeter thick bolt of lightning hits you you have a good chance of surviving (in pain). But when a couple thousend volts hits you in an electric chair you obviously get knocked unconcious instantly every time, which is of course why it needs to stay on for several minutes...
True but assembly does give you an insight into the lower levels and while it might not be relevent to learn every architecture in detail, it certainly helps to know some basics, even if its just learning PIC!
What i mean is the government says "hey hey, all yo dudes who are re-fitting your exchanges, heres some dosh, go and stick in the shit to make the broadband and do be scrimping and going spending all that cash on coke!"
Actually that would work for the trains too: "Hey bitches, you best be fixin up them rails good, you think yo got an easy ride just because you're private? fuck that hoe, you still working for queen and country and you best buck up your ideas and stop slacking! else ER gonna come round and be bustin your asses all over da floor! shiat you sell out maintenance to the cheapest contracter? fuck that bitch you be doin a proper job now else yo muma gonna be tied to dem tracks y'all!
Funny!? Funny?!??!?!?! wtf how is this funny? you think the fact that your country is run by nothing more than liers, crooks, and businessmen out only for their own money making interests is funny? maybe its funny that you're about to loose the ability to vote because people care more about some quick cash than a fair system? or is it funny that the president wants to do a darl mcbride on america? maybe enron is funny to? haha look at that deficit graph! look bush is a chimp! ooh ooh ooh! ROFL
While they're at it can they just give us all built-in broadband net access? free? if thats not worth paying taxes than fuck knows what is. Most people would use it, probably more than some other things tax goes to (ive never had a go with the parliamentary hooker!).
What they really mean is that all the worthless Die-bold hardware they bought at inflated prices would be.. well more worthless. Its such a fucking piss take because i know any half decent group of slashdotters could come up with a far better system that would cost a fraction of what diebold charges and they wouldnt even want to profit from it. Its like paying a pedophile to look after your kids.
What's even more troubling is that the group has accepted a $1 million gift for a new training institute from Diebold, the machines' manufacturer, which put the testimonial on its Web site.
Suck my cock a fucking gift! Oh i see its a gift when i slip a 50 to the traffic cop who just pulled me over. Of course its a gift when i ask the jury if they would like their new cars in red or blue and its certainly a fucking gift when presidents get donations from group x and then their policies and actions just happen to benifit group x.
Most of the music these days is really just a hook, listen to it a few times and you'll want to keep listening, you dont give a flying fuck for the lyrics, singer or anything else about the song, the verse is just filler until you get to the catchy chorus, the melody is reused and repeated (copy and paste). No-one gives a crap about the lyrics of some queen bitch or boy-band they are as cliche to the point where you can most of the time guess the end of each line. The singers sound exactly the same in each of their categories and they all share in their inflated egos about doing something special. Its all about making money, and I just have nothing to do with it, if i get hooked on a song, theres no chance in fuck that im actually going to go and pay for it.
Suck my balls flaimbait! this isnt flaimbait this is a serious opinion, imagine if this was a safety system in a plane which had countless problems reported every month? we wouldnt be discussing anything except what the best replacement was and how much the manufacturer could be liable for!
I know its not cell phone but Tiscali cut us off one day without any warning and gave a recorded message every time we dialled out, there was no number given to call, there was no number on the bill even! none of the support numbers we found would connect to Tiscali's own bloody service, and the message didnt even mention the name Tiscali! it just said contact your service provider. after spending time calling on (a separate) mobile going through several departments we were led around a total farse, different people saying different things, someone saying it was a billing problem but wouldnt let us pay the extra we apparently owed!? in the end one of their own customer service people told us he had switched providers and gave us a rivals name!
I always thought "America land of the free" ment something about freedom of speech but now i understand, its about the freedom for anyone to freely trade no matter who they are or what agency, commission, organisation or government department they are from. America is about having the freedom to capitalise on your position of power, having the ability to take bribes and make deals. Its more than free speech its about having the right to buy free speech! Im not trolling ive seriously been given an insight into your countries system.
To print multiple slides on the same page just go View->Workspace->Hand-out View
For the word count go File->Properties->Statistics
It took me afew seconds to search for those in the help, but you only need to do that once. I think OpenOffice could drop-in replace Microsoft Office in 9 out of 10 environments, it might not be painless (i wouldnt want the challenge of trying to explain to an entire corporation that the word-count feature was now somewhere else) but if you can get over that its excellent.
I don't think any true geek would do this to the world, the DRM'd hardware would be designed with flaws on purpose (similar for example to AMD stopping overclockers but letting you pencil-in the broken tracks on the CPU) we would still have existing hardware too (id like to see them try and round all that up!) just remember if you're in the business and forced to implement DRM its your duty to do what needs to be done if you know what i mean.
This is no longer debatable, just dont use IE that is the only fix. Microsoft are idiots, i dont even want to think about all the other software we use daily (eg ATMs) that they have fucked up on. Can you imagine this in another industry?
Prior art? ill give you prior art, my bloody head! how do humans write to-do lists? by sitting down and thinking "hm now what the fuck do i need to-do today?" ie going through their head and writing everything down. Now I admit, back in 1904 if someone told me they had patented a wonderful new machine that could search through written text and take out all the occurences of the phrase/* TODO: */ and stick them on a new page i would say they were a genious and their new invention could change the world. But in 2004 this is really not something that promotes the advancement and innovation of technology. Its something that computers were already designed to do. Infact can we go as far as to say that anything that can be done in one line of unix shell is off-limits for patenting?
no some are decent, they work regularly for several years, some brands fail much more than others, some only like slow speeds (i've had one shatter in my drive) most (according to tests) will fade after afew years. As for floppies.. i don't think its really viable to take a single file on a single floppy, i always use atleast 2 and each has the same file backed up 5 times. They are just that crap.
Webdesigners follow IE, if pop-ups defaulted to off they would have produced one-window sites and thought about workflow more instead of opening un-needed windows. Current pop-up blockers can be set to automatically allow pop-ups if you clicked on something (link etc) but block pop-ups if they came on their own, microsoft could easily have done something, even if it was just stopping closing windows from opening new windows (only spam needs to use this feature), but they did nothing, not even a pop-up blocker that defaulted to be turned off! (its a tiny bit of code to stick in).
I think unless they came up with a perfect framework/basic-design right from the start (10 years ago) reusing code is just patching holes while more appear, the most important part of any project like this is the fundamental design principle and if it means re-doing from scratch to meet that then thats what needs to be done.
How can anything not be more reliable than floppies and consumer-grade bulk CD-Rs? But yeah the bigger the memory the more un-backed up only-copy stuff people will try and fit on it and the more screwed they'll be when it breaks. But on the other hand, lets get it through before the bloody RIAA/MPAA etc get their mits on it and decide it can only be released in DRM form.
No, windows has gone through several complete re-write cycles - from 3.x to 9x and then to XP and also NT 4 -> NT 5 and unless they are flogging off 20 year old code these days, these are full re-writes (thats what a whole number version means right?) Allot of things could easily be changed without pissing of customers. Pop-up blockers need only to block _un-requested_ pop-ups or more than one pop-up from the same site/page and sites that actually need pop-ups could have told you on the front page "please click the enable pop-up button on the top of your window" etc. this is very simple stuff. Again, giving a script access to the send mail function and your address book when said script can be exicuted simply by opening any email is a very very very stupid idea, criminally stupid i would say and there is absolutely no excuse. I dont see any reason anyone would use this except a company who had NO internet access and used it on their internal network and even then it would be stupid, no there is no argument for that one they fucked up fair and square. Yes people do stupid things but its taken years and years of stupid things for microsoft to realise that a simple warning dialog could help reduce that.
Linux isnt perfect but consider this: If the entire Windows XP/9x/NT code-base was leaked tomorrow, Microsoft by their own philosophy think that 100's of security flaws would be discovered within days. Im sure most of them would be fixed fairly quickly producing a better product (although some might be inherent in the basic design) but imagine the entire Linux kernal was leaked? exactly, it already goes through that process every day.
Yes but the Linux community is much more aware of security problems and if/when it does become more popular with normal users, distros will begin defaulting with better security configurations for the average user. Microsoft for example, could have completely eradicated the problem of Outlook worms several years ago with only a few lines of code or default settings! yes we could have never actually had any Outlook VB script worms if Microsoft had done that! Same goes for IE - popups? few lines of code and it might never have happend, RPC and various other windows issues? most of them were as obvious to Microsoft as a big man-sized airvent would be to a bank-vault designer! Linux might suffer similar targetting if it was number 1 but the developement community would do much more to protect it effectively.
Leaving corporations etc to do what they like has been prooven time and time again to be a stupid idea, but over controlling them is also a bad idea. The FCC just needs to concentrate on stopping vital frequencies being messed with, and stopping gready pigs owning too much of the spectrum, they shouldnt get involved with janet jacksons nipples (mmmmm janet jacksons nipples) or saying shit on tv, how many other countries are this fucked up?
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Ah so when a severl centimeter thick bolt of lightning hits you you have a good chance of surviving (in pain). But when a couple thousend volts hits you in an electric chair you obviously get knocked unconcious instantly every time, which is of course why it needs to stay on for several minutes...
True but assembly does give you an insight into the lower levels and while it might not be relevent to learn every architecture in detail, it certainly helps to know some basics, even if its just learning PIC!
What i mean is the government says "hey hey, all yo dudes who are re-fitting your exchanges, heres some dosh, go and stick in the shit to make the broadband and do be scrimping and going spending all that cash on coke!"
Actually that would work for the trains too: "Hey bitches, you best be fixin up them rails good, you think yo got an easy ride just because you're private? fuck that hoe, you still working for queen and country and you best buck up your ideas and stop slacking! else ER gonna come round and be bustin your asses all over da floor! shiat you sell out maintenance to the cheapest contracter? fuck that bitch you be doin a proper job now else yo muma gonna be tied to dem tracks y'all!
Funny!? Funny?!??!?!?! wtf how is this funny? you think the fact that your country is run by nothing more than liers, crooks, and businessmen out only for their own money making interests is funny? maybe its funny that you're about to loose the ability to vote because people care more about some quick cash than a fair system? or is it funny that the president wants to do a darl mcbride on america? maybe enron is funny to? haha look at that deficit graph! look bush is a chimp! ooh ooh ooh! ROFL
While they're at it can they just give us all built-in broadband net access? free? if thats not worth paying taxes than fuck knows what is. Most people would use it, probably more than some other things tax goes to (ive never had a go with the parliamentary hooker!).
What they really mean is that all the worthless Die-bold hardware they bought at inflated prices would be.. well more worthless. Its such a fucking piss take because i know any half decent group of slashdotters could come up with a far better system that would cost a fraction of what diebold charges and they wouldnt even want to profit from it. Its like paying a pedophile to look after your kids.
What's even more troubling is that the group has accepted a $1 million gift for a new training institute from Diebold, the machines' manufacturer, which put the testimonial on its Web site.
Suck my cock a fucking gift! Oh i see its a gift when i slip a 50 to the traffic cop who just pulled me over. Of course its a gift when i ask the jury if they would like their new cars in red or blue and its certainly a fucking gift when presidents get donations from group x and then their policies and actions just happen to benifit group x.
Most of the music these days is really just a hook, listen to it a few times and you'll want to keep listening, you dont give a flying fuck for the lyrics, singer or anything else about the song, the verse is just filler until you get to the catchy chorus, the melody is reused and repeated (copy and paste). No-one gives a crap about the lyrics of some queen bitch or boy-band they are as cliche to the point where you can most of the time guess the end of each line. The singers sound exactly the same in each of their categories and they all share in their inflated egos about doing something special. Its all about making money, and I just have nothing to do with it, if i get hooked on a song, theres no chance in fuck that im actually going to go and pay for it.
Suck my balls flaimbait! this isnt flaimbait this is a serious opinion, imagine if this was a safety system in a plane which had countless problems reported every month? we wouldnt be discussing anything except what the best replacement was and how much the manufacturer could be liable for!
Yeah go on mod me down, i've got karma to burn
I know its not cell phone but Tiscali cut us off one day without any warning and gave a recorded message every time we dialled out, there was no number given to call, there was no number on the bill even! none of the support numbers we found would connect to Tiscali's own bloody service, and the message didnt even mention the name Tiscali! it just said contact your service provider. after spending time calling on (a separate) mobile going through several departments we were led around a total farse, different people saying different things, someone saying it was a billing problem but wouldnt let us pay the extra we apparently owed!? in the end one of their own customer service people told us he had switched providers and gave us a rivals name!
I always thought "America land of the free" ment something about freedom of speech but now i understand, its about the freedom for anyone to freely trade no matter who they are or what agency, commission, organisation or government department they are from. America is about having the freedom to capitalise on your position of power, having the ability to take bribes and make deals. Its more than free speech its about having the right to buy free speech! Im not trolling ive seriously been given an insight into your countries system.
You mean like that thing from Space Camp?! Is it as annoying? can it talk? wtf?!
It goes: oil, drugs, oil, bombs, planes, planes, franchise chains. Don't forget the aids drugs you wanna be able to turn a good profit on them.
To print multiple slides on the same page just go
View->Workspace->Hand-out View
For the word count go
File->Properties->Statistics
It took me afew seconds to search for those in the help, but you only need to do that once. I think OpenOffice could drop-in replace Microsoft Office in 9 out of 10 environments, it might not be painless (i wouldnt want the challenge of trying to explain to an entire corporation that the word-count feature was now somewhere else) but if you can get over that its excellent.
I don't think any true geek would do this to the world, the DRM'd hardware would be designed with flaws on purpose (similar for example to AMD stopping overclockers but letting you pencil-in the broken tracks on the CPU) we would still have existing hardware too (id like to see them try and round all that up!) just remember if you're in the business and forced to implement DRM its your duty to do what needs to be done if you know what i mean.
This is no longer debatable, just dont use IE that is the only fix. Microsoft are idiots, i dont even want to think about all the other software we use daily (eg ATMs) that they have fucked up on. Can you imagine this in another industry?
Prior art? ill give you prior art, my bloody head! how do humans write to-do lists? by sitting down and thinking "hm now what the fuck do i need to-do today?" ie going through their head and writing everything down. Now I admit, back in 1904 if someone told me they had patented a wonderful new machine that could search through written text and take out all the occurences of the phrase /* TODO: */ and stick them on a new page i would say they were a genious and their new invention could change the world. But in 2004 this is really not something that promotes the advancement and innovation of technology. Its something that computers were already designed to do. Infact can we go as far as to say that anything that can be done in one line of unix shell is off-limits for patenting?
no some are decent, they work regularly for several years, some brands fail much more than others, some only like slow speeds (i've had one shatter in my drive) most (according to tests) will fade after afew years. As for floppies.. i don't think its really viable to take a single file on a single floppy, i always use atleast 2 and each has the same file backed up 5 times. They are just that crap.
Webdesigners follow IE, if pop-ups defaulted to off they would have produced one-window sites and thought about workflow more instead of opening un-needed windows. Current pop-up blockers can be set to automatically allow pop-ups if you clicked on something (link etc) but block pop-ups if they came on their own, microsoft could easily have done something, even if it was just stopping closing windows from opening new windows (only spam needs to use this feature), but they did nothing, not even a pop-up blocker that defaulted to be turned off! (its a tiny bit of code to stick in).
I think unless they came up with a perfect framework/basic-design right from the start (10 years ago) reusing code is just patching holes while more appear, the most important part of any project like this is the fundamental design principle and if it means re-doing from scratch to meet that then thats what needs to be done.
How can anything not be more reliable than floppies and consumer-grade bulk CD-Rs? But yeah the bigger the memory the more un-backed up only-copy stuff people will try and fit on it and the more screwed they'll be when it breaks. But on the other hand, lets get it through before the bloody RIAA/MPAA etc get their mits on it and decide it can only be released in DRM form.
Proper bo!
No, windows has gone through several complete re-write cycles - from 3.x to 9x and then to XP and also NT 4 -> NT 5 and unless they are flogging off 20 year old code these days, these are full re-writes (thats what a whole number version means right?) Allot of things could easily be changed without pissing of customers. Pop-up blockers need only to block _un-requested_ pop-ups or more than one pop-up from the same site/page and sites that actually need pop-ups could have told you on the front page "please click the enable pop-up button on the top of your window" etc. this is very simple stuff. Again, giving a script access to the send mail function and your address book when said script can be exicuted simply by opening any email is a very very very stupid idea, criminally stupid i would say and there is absolutely no excuse. I dont see any reason anyone would use this except a company who had NO internet access and used it on their internal network and even then it would be stupid, no there is no argument for that one they fucked up fair and square. Yes people do stupid things but its taken years and years of stupid things for microsoft to realise that a simple warning dialog could help reduce that.
Linux isnt perfect but consider this: If the entire Windows XP/9x/NT code-base was leaked tomorrow, Microsoft by their own philosophy think that 100's of security flaws would be discovered within days. Im sure most of them would be fixed fairly quickly producing a better product (although some might be inherent in the basic design) but imagine the entire Linux kernal was leaked? exactly, it already goes through that process every day.
Yes but the Linux community is much more aware of security problems and if/when it does become more popular with normal users, distros will begin defaulting with better security configurations for the average user. Microsoft for example, could have completely eradicated the problem of Outlook worms several years ago with only a few lines of code or default settings! yes we could have never actually had any Outlook VB script worms if Microsoft had done that! Same goes for IE - popups? few lines of code and it might never have happend, RPC and various other windows issues? most of them were as obvious to Microsoft as a big man-sized airvent would be to a bank-vault designer! Linux might suffer similar targetting if it was number 1 but the developement community would do much more to protect it effectively.
Picks up de-gausser.. Gentlemen, i think you know what we need to do. Kachink.
Leaving corporations etc to do what they like has been prooven time and time again to be a stupid idea, but over controlling them is also a bad idea. The FCC just needs to concentrate on stopping vital frequencies being messed with, and stopping gready pigs owning too much of the spectrum, they shouldnt get involved with janet jacksons nipples (mmmmm janet jacksons nipples) or saying shit on tv, how many other countries are this fucked up?
I think what they ment was without him, Hitler would be drinking tea at No.10, but he did have a pretty big impact.