This reminds me a bit of Platonic Chain where one of the girls tracks a guy she bumped into through the nationwide survalance network and figures out his favorite walkways; then hangs around the walkway to try to bump into him again and start up a relationship. It's creepy in a cute sort of way.
Why not do both? That way the deaf person has the maximum amount of visual information to work with, especially if both methods (as is implied by my peer replies) are inaccurate.
Interestingly enough though, people's behaviour has not really changed all that much. It's just that the behaviour is no longer taboo to discuss. In many ways, todays culture is more responsable than the in Victorian times, but it does look worse because we are much more reluctant to try to hide or ignore our social problems.
Interestingly enough. I have a somewhat opposite tale. When I originally got my Palm, it was little more than a mobile e-book reader and game playing utility. Later my company started offering a palm conduit for their internal phonebook. One hotsync and I had the entire company phone book on my palm. This has turned out to be a huge feature for me, and I use my Palm daily.
A couple of years ago I tried one of those regular organizers, however I quickly discovered a rather crippling limitation of them. It is very easy to forget about the start of a meeting listed in your organizer, especially if it's closed and sitting on your desk while you work on a particularly tricky problem. The Palm solves this problem by beeping when you have upcoming events. This is a killer feature for me that makes the scheduler actually useful, plus it integrates with my companies scheduling program (Meetingmaker) so my Palm is always up to date with no additional work on my part.
Finally, I have several utility programs that come in handy more often than you might suspect, from a full featured graphing calculator (easycalc), to a pretty complete unit conversion program (YAUC), to encrypted password storage (Secret!), to an S/Key generator (pilOTP), to Kanji recognition (Kanji), to an emergency console (although it requires me to remember my serial cable) (Online). While all of this took me a while to find and install, the payoff has been big.
Probably the limiting factor there is the PCI bus. Modern ATA HDDs tend to saturate vanilla PCI busses (which is why most chipsets have custom busses between the north and southbridge these days). Add ATA cards and your PCI bus quickly becomes saturated and not very good for serving webpages. Worse, since the NIC probably sits on the PCI bus as well, you can easily starve your NIC with too many ATA devices on PCI ATA controllers.
I know, I have a fileserver at home that has this exact problem, but I don't care if my fileserver is slow so it's not a problem.
I use incremental dumps and my daily dump size from yesterday was: 1,560MB. Now I'm into digital fansubs so this number is inflated, but it should show how easy it is to blow through the bits once you start doing interesting things.
1. Are X-Box serial numbers laid out in some predictable pattern (sequentally for instance?). And if not:
2. Just how big IS that serial number space. Something tells me it's of BIGNUM proportions and it's the kind of thing that you woudn't be able to burn through in your lifetime.
Because network bandwidth is expensive for a home user. What are you going to do when your broadband provider puts a 2GB/month limit on your account and your backups start failing after the first week? The only reason this works now is because broadband providers still have competition (although they're slowly buying it all up) and neither side wants to introduce bandwidth caps (that users find distasteful, even if they aren't hitting them) and drive away their customer base.
Because if you don't bring these problems out into the open, Microsoft won't fix them. There have been several cases in the past where security vulnerabilities were left unpatched until people started clamoring for a fix. Also, this hole is rather severe (if a similar hole was found in SSH or Apache Slashdot would announce it) and the fact that it is digitally signed makes it unusual and newsworthy.
Seems like smaller impacts that wipe out a few cities and send rather nasty tidal surges might be better than a single big hit that cracks the mantle and spells doom for the human race.
Even better might be cracking the asteroid in several pieces so most of the mass misses the Earth.
It seems to me that if we're going to go for the nukes, we're going to want to bring enough to do the job right. I don't want some Texas sized asteroid broken into Kansas sized chunks. I want the asteroid broken into pieces small enough that we can survive a few hit. It seems to me that you could fit quite a bit of fissionable material in the space shuttle.
Isn't this exactly the behavior that was going to kill email? How would the average netizen contact you if they aren't on your IM Whitelist and you never check your email? Have you considered that you never recieve emails from new people because it is nearly impossible for new people to contact you. This goes double if your IM client is AIM and you have no provision for offline messaging whatsoever.
Depending on what you're doing on the Usenet, 6GB is nothing. Fansub enthusiasts in particular can pull down 6GB in a couple of days easily. Giganews is a joke. It's horribly overpriced and way too limiting. There are plenty of other usenet services that, while they may have daily limits, have no monthly limit and have lower prices. Giganews also has the slowest Usenet server I've ever seen. Even realatively cheezy offerings like Usenet.com beat them in pretty much every respect.
Of course this will all be moot if ComCast decides to implement ia download cap. I've been expecting this move for awhile now, as they remove competition they start rolling back on service and increasing their price. I can't say that I'm surprised. They have a little state granted monopoly in my area, why wouldn't they start acting like a monopoly? It's not like I can get DSL here since my nearest CO is 13km away, and there are no wireless providers in the area any more.
Because the FreeBSD core team is really building the OS, KDE and Gnome are userland applications are are out of the scope of the core team. KDE and Gnome is left as a port that the user can optionally install later (cd/usr/ports/x11/gnome; make install clean or cd to/usr/ports/x11/kde3; make install clean). In fact the FreeBSD team has been moving to streamline their installer recently be removing as many third party applications (perl) from the base system as possible and instead making them ports.
Charge $50/month for webcasts and you will die a quick yet surprisingly painful death. For that price people will just go back to pirating music instead.
I thought the concern with GM food isn't the genetic code itself, it's the various enzymes or other chemicals the genetically modified food produces. It's a similar concern as feeding cows growth hormone so they grow up bigger and fatter and have a higher return, but then that hormone is in the food you eat and causes you to grow big and fat as well. I havn't seen any scientific studies that actually back this up, but it is at least plausable.
Usually (in my experiance), Mplayer will automatically select the best audio and video out when it's started for the first time (usually Xv and oss (but I'm running FreeBSD). I've never had to specify the vo and ao manually.
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Have you ever seen that ad? She looks like she took a huge hit right before it started, and then starts getting all spacy with the beep noises.
I'll tell you why. When I have my optical mouse right on the desk here at work, it has a terrible slippery/grabby feel to it. It just feels rough. When I put it on this nice cloth mousepad I picked up at a tradeshow, it glides smoothly over the surface and feels much softer. The mouse is also silent on the pad, whereas it makes a scritch/scritch sound on the wood.
Someone needs to do a google search on
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Public Domain". Public domain is there for a reason. Just as Copyright is available to give the artist a means of supporting himself, it was never ment to last his entire life. The purpose is to give the artist an incentive to work, current copyright law fails in this respect because an artist only needs to create one successful work and can immediatly switch to being a leech on society for the rest of his (and his childrens, and childrens childrens) life. Having the works pass into the Public domain is a good idea for two reasons:
1. It is for the greater good of society as other people build on earlier works.
2. It keeps the artist busy as they were supposed to have to keep releasing work to feed themselves as their early work passed into the public domain, just like any other job.
Wow, you must have one impressive machine to have compilied Mozilla, and all of it's dependancies, in 15 minutes. Noramlly when I install a FreeBSD machine, I configure the X from the installer, then set a few port compiles in motion (the ones that have lots of dependancies mostly) and go to bed. When I wake up my system is freshly compiled and ready to go.
Unless I'm in a hurry, then I just use the packages.
Well, I've been playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein on my G200, and I bet I will see a marked improvement in the image quality when I upgrade to the GF4 Ti series card now. I'm planning to run out today and pick up a Geforce (just like I said I would in the petition.:)
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This reminds me a bit of Platonic Chain where one of the girls tracks a guy she bumped into through the nationwide survalance network and figures out his favorite walkways; then hangs around the walkway to try to bump into him again and start up a relationship. It's creepy in a cute sort of way.
Why not do both? That way the deaf person has the maximum amount of visual information to work with, especially if both methods (as is implied by my peer replies) are inaccurate.
Interestingly enough though, people's behaviour has not really changed all that much. It's just that the behaviour is no longer taboo to discuss. In many ways, todays culture is more responsable than the in Victorian times, but it does look worse because we are much more reluctant to try to hide or ignore our social problems.
Yeah, those Netherlandals are always discriminating against those Homo erectus types.
There are no unintentional spelling errors in this post.
Interestingly enough. I have a somewhat opposite tale. When I originally got my Palm, it was little more than a mobile e-book reader and game playing utility. Later my company started offering a palm conduit for their internal phonebook. One hotsync and I had the entire company phone book on my palm. This has turned out to be a huge feature for me, and I use my Palm daily.
A couple of years ago I tried one of those regular organizers, however I quickly discovered a rather crippling limitation of them. It is very easy to forget about the start of a meeting listed in your organizer, especially if it's closed and sitting on your desk while you work on a particularly tricky problem. The Palm solves this problem by beeping when you have upcoming events. This is a killer feature for me that makes the scheduler actually useful, plus it integrates with my companies scheduling program (Meetingmaker) so my Palm is always up to date with no additional work on my part.
Finally, I have several utility programs that come in handy more often than you might suspect, from a full featured graphing calculator (easycalc), to a pretty complete unit conversion program (YAUC), to encrypted password storage (Secret!), to an S/Key generator (pilOTP), to Kanji recognition (Kanji), to an emergency console (although it requires me to remember my serial cable) (Online). While all of this took me a while to find and install, the payoff has been big.
Probably the limiting factor there is the PCI bus. Modern ATA HDDs tend to saturate vanilla PCI busses (which is why most chipsets have custom busses between the north and southbridge these days). Add ATA cards and your PCI bus quickly becomes saturated and not very good for serving webpages. Worse, since the NIC probably sits on the PCI bus as well, you can easily starve your NIC with too many ATA devices on PCI ATA controllers.
I know, I have a fileserver at home that has this exact problem, but I don't care if my fileserver is slow so it's not a problem.
I use incremental dumps and my daily dump size from yesterday was: 1,560MB. Now I'm into digital fansubs so this number is inflated, but it should show how easy it is to blow through the bits once you start doing interesting things.
This raises a couple of interesting questions.
1. Are X-Box serial numbers laid out in some predictable pattern (sequentally for instance?). And if not: 2. Just how big IS that serial number space. Something tells me it's of BIGNUM proportions and it's the kind of thing that you woudn't be able to burn through in your lifetime.
And todays award for gratuitous use of cat(1) goes to s20451. Today's prize is a book "How to use more(1)" by I.C. Weiner.
Because network bandwidth is expensive for a home user. What are you going to do when your broadband provider puts a 2GB/month limit on your account and your backups start failing after the first week? The only reason this works now is because broadband providers still have competition (although they're slowly buying it all up) and neither side wants to introduce bandwidth caps (that users find distasteful, even if they aren't hitting them) and drive away their customer base.
Because if you don't bring these problems out into the open, Microsoft won't fix them. There have been several cases in the past where security vulnerabilities were left unpatched until people started clamoring for a fix. Also, this hole is rather severe (if a similar hole was found in SSH or Apache Slashdot would announce it) and the fact that it is digitally signed makes it unusual and newsworthy.
I'd think that proper brushing would get rid of most of those issues that plaque society.
Seems like smaller impacts that wipe out a few cities and send rather nasty tidal surges might be better than a single big hit that cracks the mantle and spells doom for the human race.
Even better might be cracking the asteroid in several pieces so most of the mass misses the Earth.
It seems to me that if we're going to go for the nukes, we're going to want to bring enough to do the job right. I don't want some Texas sized asteroid broken into Kansas sized chunks. I want the asteroid broken into pieces small enough that we can survive a few hit. It seems to me that you could fit quite a bit of fissionable material in the space shuttle.
Isn't this exactly the behavior that was going to kill email? How would the average netizen contact you if they aren't on your IM Whitelist and you never check your email? Have you considered that you never recieve emails from new people because it is nearly impossible for new people to contact you. This goes double if your IM client is AIM and you have no provision for offline messaging whatsoever.
Depending on what you're doing on the Usenet, 6GB is nothing. Fansub enthusiasts in particular can pull down 6GB in a couple of days easily. Giganews is a joke. It's horribly overpriced and way too limiting. There are plenty of other usenet services that, while they may have daily limits, have no monthly limit and have lower prices. Giganews also has the slowest Usenet server I've ever seen. Even realatively cheezy offerings like Usenet.com beat them in pretty much every respect.
Of course this will all be moot if ComCast decides to implement ia download cap. I've been expecting this move for awhile now, as they remove competition they start rolling back on service and increasing their price. I can't say that I'm surprised. They have a little state granted monopoly in my area, why wouldn't they start acting like a monopoly? It's not like I can get DSL here since my nearest CO is 13km away, and there are no wireless providers in the area any more.
Because the FreeBSD core team is really building the OS, KDE and Gnome are userland applications are are out of the scope of the core team. KDE and Gnome is left as a port that the user can optionally install later (cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome; make install clean or cd to /usr/ports/x11/kde3; make install clean). In fact the FreeBSD team has been moving to streamline their installer recently be removing as many third party applications (perl) from the base system as possible and instead making them ports.
It's obviously not the beer, drugs, and exaustion...
Charge $50/month for webcasts and you will die a quick yet surprisingly painful death. For that price people will just go back to pirating music instead.
I thought the concern with GM food isn't the genetic code itself, it's the various enzymes or other chemicals the genetically modified food produces. It's a similar concern as feeding cows growth hormone so they grow up bigger and fatter and have a higher return, but then that hormone is in the food you eat and causes you to grow big and fat as well. I havn't seen any scientific studies that actually back this up, but it is at least plausable.
Usually (in my experiance), Mplayer will automatically select the best audio and video out when it's started for the first time (usually Xv and oss (but I'm running FreeBSD). I've never had to specify the vo and ao manually.
Have you ever seen that ad? She looks like she took a huge hit right before it started, and then starts getting all spacy with the beep noises.
I'll tell you why. When I have my optical mouse right on the desk here at work, it has a terrible slippery/grabby feel to it. It just feels rough. When I put it on this nice cloth mousepad I picked up at a tradeshow, it glides smoothly over the surface and feels much softer. The mouse is also silent on the pad, whereas it makes a scritch/scritch sound on the wood.
Someone needs to do a google search on " Public Domain". Public domain is there for a reason. Just as Copyright is available to give the artist a means of supporting himself, it was never ment to last his entire life. The purpose is to give the artist an incentive to work, current copyright law fails in this respect because an artist only needs to create one successful work and can immediatly switch to being a leech on society for the rest of his (and his childrens, and childrens childrens) life. Having the works pass into the Public domain is a good idea for two reasons:
1. It is for the greater good of society as other people build on earlier works.
2. It keeps the artist busy as they were supposed to have to keep releasing work to feed themselves as their early work passed into the public domain, just like any other job.
Wow, you must have one impressive machine to have compilied Mozilla, and all of it's dependancies, in 15 minutes. Noramlly when I install a FreeBSD machine, I configure the X from the installer, then set a few port compiles in motion (the ones that have lots of dependancies mostly) and go to bed. When I wake up my system is freshly compiled and ready to go.
Unless I'm in a hurry, then I just use the packages.
Well, I've been playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein on my G200, and I bet I will see a marked improvement in the image quality when I upgrade to the GF4 Ti series card now. I'm planning to run out today and pick up a Geforce (just like I said I would in the petition. :)