"You, as well as most of the public, knows nothing about airplane systems or operations. Electronic devices are *MOST LIKELY* not going to cause the airplane to crash. What they may do is interfere with various navigation systems causing the airplane to go off course. This increases the time of the flight, which increases the cost, which increases the ticket price."
Riiight, so we're told that environmental radiation on these flights is high enough to be an "occupational hazard" but rather heavily regulated devices in my pocket are going to be a problem for the plane's (hopefully) hardend systems?
Bullshit.
Yeah, I gues I could some items like cell phones/radios maybe eletric motors & other such devices that are very rf "leaky" but there's no way in hell I'm buying that story for, say, a cd player.
I suppose there could be other reasons like "our insurance carrier will kill us if we don't take reasonable precautions to ensure that you at least pretend to pay attention to the (generally usesless - I mean wtf cares what you do if your plane smokes some field at 700km/hr?) safety notices, so please kindly turn the walkman"off". yeah I suppose I could buy that, but that's not what they tell you - they say some babble (and it's never really the same on each flight) about "being found to interfere with electrical systems" or "navigation systions" or "the plane's systems" and never once say anything meaningfull or cite a regulation, or give contact info for those with inquiries or complaints.
it's, roughly, the distance from your head to your ass. Oh wait, sorry - my bad, that would be an _inch_
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mmm, trying, trying - nope . I still don't give a fuck what the US considers 'legal'
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>>It's not completely unenforceable. You just need to look at yer HTTP_REFERER log to see who is linking to you. Then you just bring up their site, print it out, and take it to the judge.
>And then the Judge says "show me where they agreed not to link to you" and throws the guy out of the court room.
Not to mention all those referer's list in my logs as "-"
not to be too much of a zealot, but Delphi is nearly certainly superior for all of these cases and it didn't even make the list. Anybody who doesn't think delphi is used hasn't ever done windows based db frontends. Though capable of far more, and now kinda cross platform (with linux hosted kylix) and a windowing kit that makes far more sense then anything visual studio offers I just can't see any reason to ever recomend Vb. For anything.
On that note, can anybody explain why this is actually an insult? I never understood. Surely there are many mothers in the military. And army boots are rather sturdy. If my mother wore army boots I think that would imply she could kick your mother's ass. Actually, I think arming more mothers would be a good idea all-around.
Hmmm, well as one who currently make their living coaching children I can attest to the idea that mothers are scary enough as it is. The last thing I need, when little johnny doesn't make the relay team, is little johnny's mother armed and (presumed rather more) dangerous.
Mmmm - I have to agree. I too had read the books previously (many moons ago) and most of the details were no longer fresh. For that I am very glad. I did, however reread the hobit before seeing FotR. I think that too was wise - it really helped to freshen middle earth in my mind, with out "spoilering" it. I was very happy to have come out of the theater feeling that the movie was a very good synopsis of the first book. Fine on it's own - magnificent when accompianing the original work.
mmm that's why I always kinda hoped that some one would, eventually, have both the cash & the brass ones to do something like a 24 part tv series. That being said, any guess as to how many/.'rs allready have plans for the first weekend after The Return Of The Kind dvd set is realeased? Back-to-Back-to-Back Baby!:)
Personally I think that national treasuries should be morally obligate to give their plates, and what not, to their users and allow their users to freely modify and redistribute the product. I'd call it OpenWallet;p
If I'm in the theater to watch TTT for the first time, and you're in the very same theater but to see your fourth iteration, and you might be getting a little teensy bit bored, if you perchance forget where you are and you take a call on _your_ fucking cell phone, I get to kill you with my +5 Vorpal (Offical) LoTR Special DVDs.
personally if some asshat beside me feels the need to take a call while I'm watching TTT my weapon of choice would prob include a +20 Mace Of Bashing!!!
(This is all moot, of course. The MPAA would still sue you to Weehawken and back. But hey, it's fun to dream...)
Good thing he's in Bolivia - I'd think, assuming that the local government aside of course, that the MPAA could do they *#$@$*% want, I mean who gives a flying, well, anything, about some industry assoc in a foreign country?
Sorry, Myriad Genetics, and any other clown who thinks they own the patent to the design of my body. Just because you reverse engineered a few portions of that design does not mean that you now control whether I can look at it or not. I think some massive civil disobedience on this whole patent issue and so called (genetic) IP is in order until we get some politicions in place who can fix the present corrupt system.
Or, better yet heh, file for DMCA violations - they've blatently gone & marketed a service that directly circumvents the DNA encoding that protects your valuable IP. I say sue the bloody bastards into oblivion
Patents on medical products are a touchy subject.
The problem is that this isn't a patent on a medical product, it's a patent on a gene itself. The patent holder is asserting that any test for the mutated gene falls under the patent.
mmmm, with that in mind I've decided to patent hydrogen. If anyone woul like to make use of this rather usefull little item, in any way, they are more then free to send $1.00 (per molecular incident) plus shipping. Discounts may be available for high volume clients.
As I said above, Word can show someformatting but not everything(fonts, language, line spacing etc) like reveal codes can. In WordPerfect you can also search and replace codes like fonts.
Not only that but deleting (not to mention cutting & pasting) codes in word doesn't work worth a damn
My (other) word/wp peeve - layout control. For example, I often needed to duplicate forms. Guess what? nobody's gonna spring for typesetting tools to do the job, nor are they going to be pleased when the rest of the "what happened to the bar thingy at the bottom" folks in the office can't figure out wtf to do with something that doesn't open when they dblclick on it. This means using a word processor to duplicate forms. WP's tables do a _great_ job of this (esp when they have to look _really_ close, lines all matching up & what not) Word? crap don't even consider it.
The basic fact is I want to a word processor that'll not only let me but actively make it easier to put the page I imagine on a real piece of paper. Sure, if the thing can guess intelligently that's good, but when it's all said & done if I can't tweak the doc just so then I might as well be writing html
heh - perhaps not quite what you're looking for, but when i flew to Australia 2 years ago, I bought a rio volt & packed several of Terry Pratchette's Discworld novels, as well as a hefty chunk of Douglas Adams, as audio books. Sure it's a lot slower then reading them, but when you've got time.... Plus you don't need light &, esp for Douglas, I find I get more from the novels by apreciating them at a slower pace.
Even if MS didn't care about Linux, just look at the facts. The Xbox is basically a PC. However, it's sold at a huge loss. The sales of games make up for this loss. However, if everyone buys the Xbox at a loss, and then doesn't buy any games, but installs Linux on it, and uses it as a PC, MS loses a shitload of money. Without the Xbox, these same people wanting a PC would have to buy one from Dell, or something, which comes with Windows XP and other MS software, so MS has made money on software, without losing any money on hardware.
OTOH MS does sell the box, and there isn't any really ethical way they can force you to comply with their business plan. Oh they can try to make it difficult to do otherwise, ie: using "DRM" to restrict code run on the box to preapproved code only, but that's a far step from saying they have any right to tell you that you can't even try.
I have no problem with M/S trying to get me to buy their games (if I had an xbox) but I don't appreciate their attempts to bypass legal systems in several countries to force me to do so.
It would seem to me that in the long haul, Microsoft would support such efforts because they could sell more devices
They don't want to sell devices, they want to sell games...
Tough, the do sell the box. Nobody forces them to do so, and I can't see how modding the box once you've bought it should be/is illegal. I can see how M/S might want certain uses of boxes modden in a particular way restricted but hey that's not what they're fighting.
"I got a website running on my coke can. Please slashdot it to a smoldering lump now"
Wow... I was just about to try such a project. I had been sure that, unlike the C64, the TI Calculator, the potatoe powered server & what not, that the cola powered http server would be suffeciently caffeinated to withstand a/.'ing.
Is it possible that the hypothesis may be fundamentally flawed? Do you know of any research currently being conducted in the area of server metabolism that may be illuminating? I am begging to think that the project may well require more planning then I originally thought....
I hope they mean a first, as in, first time ATI released relatively stable drivers. What bother's me though is "Relatively stable drivers." well, stable in relation to what? In relation to a blind man balancing a chair on his nose while juggling chainsaws?
Weeelll.... I guess for there to be a man performing such a stunt, likely to be fatal if not completely successfull, one could argue that that's an awfully high bar to set. I mean, after all the practicing & what not if our juggler is still able to simply attempt such a feat he/she must be extrodinarily good at what they do. It would, I should think, be of great comfort for the good folks at ATi to know that their driver developers compare well against such a virtuoso.;p
pretty close, if you were in Canada http://www.shaw.ca/litespeed/
A cable connection rated at "5x faster then dialup" at $30/month CAD. I would think that, assuming you are in the states, there should be someone in your vastly larger market offering cheaper (capped) services.
Wow, what a wonderful, well put argument.
Perhaps, if you've got the time to step down from the dais of your cmdrtaco whorship, you could explain away the inconsistencies of, in his own words, " In other words, this will piss them off.". It might just be a good idea to start with clearing up the issue of how melting a server designed to sell a product (with _no_ banners, according to the cache) is preferable to allowing for the general/. readership to at least view a copy of the _published_ material.
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It amazes me that we still can't figure out that posting mirrors/caches might be a good idea. Esp for a story about 'small systems' I mean, what are the chances that that page is hosted on an openbrick? Any way , please try the google cache for this now melted/. victim : http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache%3Aopenbrick.or g&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta=
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Riiight, so we're told that environmental radiation on these flights is high enough to be an "occupational hazard" but rather heavily regulated devices in my pocket are going to be a problem for the plane's (hopefully) hardend systems?
Bullshit.
Yeah, I gues I could some items like cell phones/radios maybe eletric motors & other such devices that are very rf "leaky" but there's no way in hell I'm buying that story for, say, a cd player.
I suppose there could be other reasons like "our insurance carrier will kill us if we don't take reasonable precautions to ensure that you at least pretend to pay attention to the (generally usesless - I mean wtf cares what you do if your plane smokes some field at 700km/hr?) safety notices, so please kindly turn the walkman"off". yeah I suppose I could buy that, but that's not what they tell you - they say some babble (and it's never really the same on each flight) about "being found to interfere with electrical systems" or "navigation systions" or "the plane's systems" and never once say anything meaningfull or cite a regulation, or give contact info for those with inquiries or complaints.
it's, roughly, the distance from your head to your ass. Oh wait, sorry - my bad, that would be an _inch_
mmm, trying, trying - nope . I still don't give a fuck what the US considers 'legal'
>>It's not completely unenforceable. You just need to look at yer HTTP_REFERER log to see who is linking to you. Then you just bring up their site, print it out, and take it to the judge.
>And then the Judge says "show me where they agreed not to link to you" and throws the guy out of the court room.
Not to mention all those referer's list in my logs as "-"
not to be too much of a zealot, but Delphi is nearly certainly superior for all of these cases and it didn't even make the list. Anybody who doesn't think delphi is used hasn't ever done windows based db frontends. Though capable of far more, and now kinda cross platform (with linux hosted kylix) and a windowing kit that makes far more sense then anything visual studio offers I just can't see any reason to ever recomend Vb. For anything.
Hmmm, well as one who currently make their living coaching children I can attest to the idea that mothers are scary enough as it is. The last thing I need, when little johnny doesn't make the relay team, is little johnny's mother armed and (presumed rather more) dangerous.
Mmmm - I have to agree. I too had read the books previously (many moons ago) and most of the details were no longer fresh. For that I am very glad. I did, however reread the hobit before seeing FotR. I think that too was wise - it really helped to freshen middle earth in my mind, with out "spoilering" it. I was very happy to have come out of the theater feeling that the movie was a very good synopsis of the first book. Fine on it's own - magnificent when accompianing the original work.
mmm that's why I always kinda hoped that some one would, eventually, have both the cash & the brass ones to do something like a 24 part tv series. That being said, any guess as to how many /.'rs allready have plans for the first weekend after The Return Of The Kind dvd set is realeased? Back-to-Back-to-Back Baby! :)
Mmmm, the imagery isn't quite up to snuff. Maybe if your current house was at the bottom of a hole, a mile deep then we'd be talkin'.
Personally I think that national treasuries should be morally obligate to give their plates, and what not, to their users and allow their users to freely modify and redistribute the product. I'd call it OpenWallet ;p
Well, I know that I'm expecting great things from treants in TTT ;p
Ummm, y'know that as the GPL != public domain, that a GPL'ed work is indeed copywrited?
personally if some asshat beside me feels the need to take a call while I'm watching TTT my weapon of choice would prob include a +20 Mace Of Bashing!!!
That is all.
Good thing he's in Bolivia - I'd think, assuming that the local government aside of course, that the MPAA could do they *#$@$*% want, I mean who gives a flying, well, anything, about some industry assoc in a foreign country?
Or, better yet heh, file for DMCA violations - they've blatently gone & marketed a service that directly circumvents the DNA encoding that protects your valuable IP. I say sue the bloody bastards into oblivion
mmmm, with that in mind I've decided to patent hydrogen. If anyone woul like to make use of this rather usefull little item, in any way, they are more then free to send $1.00 (per molecular incident) plus shipping. Discounts may be available for high volume clients.
Not only that but deleting (not to mention cutting & pasting) codes in word doesn't work worth a damn
My (other) word/wp peeve - layout control. For example, I often needed to duplicate forms. Guess what? nobody's gonna spring for typesetting tools to do the job, nor are they going to be pleased when the rest of the "what happened to the bar thingy at the bottom" folks in the office can't figure out wtf to do with something that doesn't open when they dblclick on it. This means using a word processor to duplicate forms. WP's tables do a _great_ job of this (esp when they have to look _really_ close, lines all matching up & what not) Word? crap don't even consider it. The basic fact is I want to a word processor that'll not only let me but actively make it easier to put the page I imagine on a real piece of paper. Sure, if the thing can guess intelligently that's good, but when it's all said & done if I can't tweak the doc just so then I might as well be writing html
heh - perhaps not quite what you're looking for, but when i flew to Australia 2 years ago, I bought a rio volt & packed several of Terry Pratchette's Discworld novels, as well as a hefty chunk of Douglas Adams, as audio books. Sure it's a lot slower then reading them, but when you've got time.... Plus you don't need light &, esp for Douglas, I find I get more from the novels by apreciating them at a slower pace.
OTOH MS does sell the box, and there isn't any really ethical way they can force you to comply with their business plan. Oh they can try to make it difficult to do otherwise, ie: using "DRM" to restrict code run on the box to preapproved code only, but that's a far step from saying they have any right to tell you that you can't even try.
I have no problem with M/S trying to get me to buy their games (if I had an xbox) but I don't appreciate their attempts to bypass legal systems in several countries to force me to do so.
Tough, the do sell the box. Nobody forces them to do so, and I can't see how modding the box once you've bought it should be/is illegal. I can see how M/S might want certain uses of boxes modden in a particular way restricted but hey that's not what they're fighting.
Wow... I was just about to try such a project. I had been sure that, unlike the C64, the TI Calculator, the potatoe powered server & what not, that the cola powered http server would be suffeciently caffeinated to withstand a /.'ing.
Is it possible that the hypothesis may be fundamentally flawed? Do you know of any research currently being conducted in the area of server metabolism that may be illuminating? I am begging to think that the project may well require more planning then I originally thought....
Weeelll.... I guess for there to be a man performing such a stunt, likely to be fatal if not completely successfull, one could argue that that's an awfully high bar to set. I mean, after all the practicing & what not if our juggler is still able to simply attempt such a feat he/she must be extrodinarily good at what they do. It would, I should think, be of great comfort for the good folks at ATi to know that their driver developers compare well against such a virtuoso. ;p
pretty close, if you were in Canada http://www.shaw.ca/litespeed/ A cable connection rated at "5x faster then dialup" at $30/month CAD. I would think that, assuming you are in the states, there should be someone in your vastly larger market offering cheaper (capped) services.
Wow, what a wonderful, well put argument. Perhaps, if you've got the time to step down from the dais of your cmdrtaco whorship, you could explain away the inconsistencies of, in his own words, " In other words, this will piss them off.". It might just be a good idea to start with clearing up the issue of how melting a server designed to sell a product (with _no_ banners, according to the cache) is preferable to allowing for the general /. readership to at least view a copy of the _published_ material.
It amazes me that we still can't figure out that posting mirrors/caches might be a good idea. Esp for a story about 'small systems' I mean, what are the chances that that page is hosted on an openbrick? Any way , please try the google cache for this now melted /. victim : http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache%3Aopenbrick.or g&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta=