He's not saying not "Those guys aren't playing fair". The tactics of the other side aren't being held up for judgement.
He's saying, in toungue-in-cheek style "We want to have an overwhelming advantage".
A small, big difference. Appreciate also this context;
There is no fair play. There is no sportsmanship. Honour in warfare? Chivalry? Politeness? In your dreams! In real warfare, the only thing you get for showing any consideration for your opponent is dead.
Well, Red Shift is telling me that Lyra is about a handspan above the horizon to my north-east now, so by fourish it'll be well above the horizon for me. I live about halfway down the east coast.
I've always gone for the extra channels when I'm buying a motherboard. Windows and apps live on one drive, swap/temp files and data on the other.
Real world experience - Rally Championship 2000 - swap file on the same drive as the game - loading times were long - 30 seconds or more. The indicator bar would move for a bit, stop for a bit, move for a bit, stop for a bit...
Change the swap file to the other drive and the level loading time went away. 18 seconds.
And the progress indicator keeps moving all the way with no pauses.
Think of it as the difference between having to do everything one handed (read this bit off the drive, track all the way across the platter to the swap file, write that bit there, track all the way back across the platter for the nexct bit of reading, etc, etc, etc), and having two hands (read with the right, write with the left)
I remeber reading a story somewhere that cheetahs were pretty much certain to become extinct because they lacked the genetic diversity to ensure longterm survival. Or it might have been because they were at the point where there were too many cousins marrying and the aggregating genetic weaknesses (congenital defects, I think I mean) would end up wiping them out.
Bananas, too are supposed to be headed for extinction because they don't produce seeds. And, I suppose, horses and a lot of modern dog breeds wouldn't survive for too long without humans constant intervention.
How long could it take a species to die out that way?
you want to to talk about fraudulent google searches; I'm looking for information on a dialup networking/RAS error 711, right? go to google, do a search on "Remote Access" "error 711" and the first result is for goto.mypc;
"Finally technology has evolved to the point that you no longer need to be sitting in front of a computer to control it. Now you can take complete control of your computer from a remote location with error. With our remote 711 error access software, control your PC from anywhere around the world.
It's so easy and fast, you'll wonder how it's even possible and you'll be glad management access connection 711 remote error you finally have Goto My PC. Set the access remote 711 connection error management up, follow the simple on screen directions, and you can be controlling all your computers from one central location in just minutes. When you download GotoMyPC, you can install it in a matter of minutes.
The sky and your imagination is the limit. View the screen and control the system of a computer located across the room, across town, or across the world with our revolutionary new 711 remote connection access error. The screen of your existing computer, virtually becomes another computer with this software. There is no limit to the range or uses of remote error 711."
Gee, that's really useful information. Now I know exactly what to put on my "never buy. ever." list
Well, it might, given a few million years to do it in. Or possibly less....Let's see...
Say one day there's a bird musical genius. This bird has a song like no other, and it instantly makes all the girl birds want to have his babies.
So this genius bird musician is flying along, calling to all the lady birds (that's birds that are ladies, not the little spotty bugs, you understand), when suddenly, WHAM, he's lying on the ground with the world spinning around and a really big lump on his head.
Now, suppose (to continue this admittedly highly unlikely chain of circumstances) that the bird, after running into the glass a few times, makes the following connection; when he's flying along, singing to all the little girl birdies, and the sound of the echos that come back to his ears from around the place change in a specific little way just before he runs into that invisible tree that's lurking around here somewhere.
If his birdie little brain doesn't get bashed into mush first, or a cat doesn't get him when he's still woozy, there might come a time when he hears that particular type of reflection and ducks. Thereby avoiding the pane of glass, that is. Not by turning into some semi-aquatic member of the avis family that they don't like to talk about because well, he's quackers.
So, to continue, then...if he then teaches it to all his birds, um, girl bird-friends, no, bird girl-friends, and they teach it to their chicks (baby birds that is, not some kind of weird girl bird-on-bird girl thing) and that's a, well at least, it could be loosely termed as some form of evolution.
Then you get the mutant birds with really high voices, who get clearer echos and don't run into so many windows, give it a few million years of positive feedback and oh look, it's a bird that uses sonar...
'Course, I could just be going out on a limb here.
I don't know any more about the fact that what can be gotten from reading the article (what am I saying?), but I gather a few things;
The operation was intended to disrupt the trans-Siberian natural gas pipeline. Siberia is a wilderness, lots of nothing. It may be that the risk of large numbers of casualties was small.
It must also be remembered that to a lot of people, yes, there was a war on. Note the remarks of Safire himself who says that in 1981, he was occupied with writing a series of hard-line arcticles against the support that "The Commuinists" were getting to build said pipeline, arguing that it would give control of the "energy supply for all of Europe" to the Reds.
I remember growing up in the Eighties. Reagan was a doddering old man who made jokes about the missiles already flying, and there was an awful lot of songs about mushroom clouds. Greenham Common was going to be a nuclear base. I remebering thinking sad for all the poor Wombles...How would they survive when The Common was just a blasted, radioactive wasteland?
Who here thinks that the Reagan government, or perhaps more specifically, this fellow;
William J. Casey, [Reagan's] director of central intelligence, now remembered only for the Iran-contra fiasco...
Who thinks that these people would balk at the thought of pursuing a course of action that could conceivably cause a large number of civilian casualties?
Show me the part of the constitution or the Bill of Rights the part that says he can't do any of this?
Or, to put it another way, it's my business. If I don't want to serve you, it'll be for a good reason. You can be whatever colour you want, what ever religion you want, hell I don't much care what species you are (and you better believe I've seen 'em all, buddy). Wanna come in, have fun, give me your money, fine. Wanna harrass my paying customers, break my machines, lose me business? See the sign? Door's to your left.
See, as the business owner is also a person, he or she too has rights. He doesn't want to have his property damaged or stolen. He doesn't to have to work in a stressful or threatening enviroment. He doesn't want to be negligent. It's what's called contributing to the delinquency of a minor, but what it boils down to is finding answers to life's little questions such as "what are those obviously underage kids looking at on that monitor I can't see with their hands in their pockets, sneaking (crucial point)guilty, furtive looks up at the counter where I'm busy pretending to be fully occupied elsewhere?" and "why is someone trying to access a command line from the machine behind the pillar where they think i can't see them?", and of course the one everybody loves to hate..."Shouldn't you be in school?"
What the grandparent was talking about was discriminating against the people described here.
I got the idea when i noticed that you can run many things from the start-run box. entering "calc" will run the windows calculator, "notepad" will open notepad, stuff like that. In fact, any.exe,.bat or.com file in the/windows or/windows/system folder can be started this way.
So I created a directory to contain the shortcuts to various programs and added that path to my PATH=
Now, I can make a shortcut to anything, give it a simple name and put it in that directory So, start-run-ps opens Photoshop, or start-run-hmp opens my html editor with my homepage loaded ready for editing, for example.
ACtually, I often remember what dreams I've had during the night, especially if they're really good (vivid, clear, coherent). The secret is to exercise your memory. When you start to wake up, if you get the opportunity, just take a minute or two before you open your eyes to run through the tape of last night's episode. Run through it again over breakfast, when you're a bit more awake, get the images in sequence and imprinted firmly in your memory, and hey presto, you can remember stuff.
The article says that he gets a break of two weeks each bitterly cold winter month in Florida, paid for by the studio. He broadcasts from Florida while he's there, probably because the studio doesn't want to spend the money seeing one of their employees out of action for half the month, half of every year.
The other half of winter, presumably, he's down in Boston freezing his mucus membranes off with the rest of us. When he's saying he knows how bad five below zero is even before the wind chill is taken into account, he probably does know what he's talking about.
He may even know more clearly than everybody who's stuck back in Boston, because he's able to actually get warm (like really warm, you know, so warm you don't even have a runny nose, and you can leave the beer in the fridge rather than in the cupboard so it's not too cold to drink.
And then, every two weeks, he gets to leave those balmy, sunny shores and go back to grey skies, rain wind and slush and frozen snot hanging from your top lip. The horror of anticipation that hovers in the last inch of frosty air as you grit your teeth and prepare to drop your naked bum onto a FUCKING COLD toilet seat at six o'clock in the morning...He knows. He can empathise. That's all he may be doing. He doesn't want to tell everybody that he's down in sunny Florida, because then everybody's going to want to lynch him when he gets back at the end of the fortnight.
Rant over. Need beer
PS: It's 32 lovely sunny degrees celcius here, and I get to drink beer out of the freezer (-6c). See? You all hate me now:)
Yeah, I have no problems paying for the games I play. I paid < DrEvil > one HUNDRED dollars <DrEvil> for Neverwinter Nights when it came out. Saved like mad for a month, went out, bought it, brought it home, and have been playing it ever since.
One hundred dollars well spent. People, non-gaming people, said I was mad, they said "You can buy a DVD for 29 bucks, why pay a HUNDRED dollars for a video game?"
Do you know how many packets of Ramen there are in one HUNDRED dollars?
But, anyway, I still have no complaints about paying a hundred bucks for a great game. Even when I saw it a year later in the back rows of the games shop for fifty bucks, I still didn't think I had been ripped off. After all, there were THREE CDs in Neverwinter Nights, and most of the DVDs that I've bought haven't been watched pretty much every day for the next two years.
But hey now, what say that Bioware had've come to me at the end of the first year and and wanted ANOTHER hundred bucks at the end of the first year?
And what about if they want ANOTHER hundred dollars at the end of the third year when I could pick it up in the classic games section for 20 bucks?
Do you think I'm going to consider that a fair and equitable deal? For the Bioware to say "Hey, we want another four weeks of no beer on Sundays or we're going to make your game go away"?
Do you?
submitted without a preview because something's broken behind the button
Sequoia makes a point of stating that its system is much more secure than the Diebold system, since it doesn't rely on Microsoft software.
Their website reads: "While Diebold relies on a Microsoft operating system that is well known and understood by computer hackers, Sequoia's AVC Edge runs on a proprietary operating system that is designed solely for the conduct of elections."
In fact, the system uses WinEDS, or Election Database System for Windows. WinEDS runs on top of the Microsoft Windows operating system. The system also appears to use Microsoft Data Access Components, which was found in the WinEDS folder on the server.
Nice to see standards of honesty and integrity upheld by a company in such a sensitive position. hell, I'd trust them with my vote!
times like this, I'm glad I'm not actually an American, though
There's one thing that I've always wondered about - Does that mean that we are expanding along with it?
Is the earth further away from the sun than it used to be? So the dot on the ballon that represents the Earth and the dot for the sun are further apart?
And that's something I've always wondered - if every point of the universe is expanding relative to every other point, does that mean everything is getting bigger?
Or if it's that the points are getting further away, then is everything getting less dense?
...taking one's children to the theater, mall, museum, event, zoo or beach on the weekend is deemed more appropriate to being a "good" parent, than letting kids sit and watch cartoons.
Huh. Who'da thunk?
But seriously, if this is in fact what's happening, what does that bode for the future? A generation or two isn't in the habit of being an ad-vertainment couch potato? All those museums and theatres can do strange things to impressionable young minds.
Not a bad idea, especially if one is canvassing for _informed_ opinions on technology issues.
The only people she'll hear from are those who know technology well enough, and are intelligent enough to figure out the way around the presented barrier.
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He's not saying not "Those guys aren't playing fair". The tactics of the other side aren't being held up for judgement.
He's saying, in toungue-in-cheek style "We want to have an overwhelming advantage".
A small, big difference. Appreciate also this context;
There is no fair play. There is no sportsmanship. Honour in warfare? Chivalry? Politeness? In your dreams! In real warfare, the only thing you get for showing any consideration for your opponent is dead.
Well, Red Shift is telling me that Lyra is about a handspan above the horizon to my north-east now, so by fourish it'll be well above the horizon for me. I live about halfway down the east coast.
I've always gone for the extra channels when I'm buying a motherboard. Windows and apps live on one drive, swap/temp files and data on the other.
Real world experience - Rally Championship 2000 - swap file on the same drive as the game - loading times were long - 30 seconds or more. The indicator bar would move for a bit, stop for a bit, move for a bit, stop for a bit...
Change the swap file to the other drive and the level loading time went away. 18 seconds.
And the progress indicator keeps moving all the way with no pauses.
Think of it as the difference between having to do everything one handed (read this bit off the drive, track all the way across the platter to the swap file, write that bit there, track all the way back across the platter for the nexct bit of reading, etc, etc, etc), and having two hands (read with the right, write with the left)
Possibly some kind of genetic collapse?
I remeber reading a story somewhere that cheetahs were pretty much certain to become extinct because they lacked the genetic diversity to ensure longterm survival. Or it might have been because they were at the point where there were too many cousins marrying and the aggregating genetic weaknesses (congenital defects, I think I mean) would end up wiping them out.
Bananas, too are supposed to be headed for extinction because they don't produce seeds. And, I suppose, horses and a lot of modern dog breeds wouldn't survive for too long without humans constant intervention.
How long could it take a species to die out that way?
you want to to talk about fraudulent google searches; I'm looking for information on a dialup networking/RAS error 711, right? go to google, do a search on "Remote Access" "error 711" and the first result is for goto.mypc;
s s_ connection_management.html
http://www.vaalit2003.com/error_711_remote_acce
"Finally technology has evolved to the point that you no longer need to be sitting in front of a computer to control it. Now you can take complete control of your computer from a remote location with error. With our remote 711 error access software, control your PC from anywhere around the world.
It's so easy and fast, you'll wonder how it's even possible and you'll be glad management access connection 711 remote error you finally have Goto My PC. Set the access remote 711 connection error management up, follow the simple on screen directions, and you can be controlling all your computers from one central location in just minutes. When you download GotoMyPC, you can install it in a matter of minutes.
The sky and your imagination is the limit. View the screen and control the system of a computer located across the room, across town, or across the world with our revolutionary new 711 remote connection access error. The screen of your existing computer, virtually becomes another computer with this software. There is no limit to the range or uses of remote error 711."
Gee, that's really useful information. Now I know exactly what to put on my "never buy. ever." list
Well, it might, given a few million years to do it in. Or possibly less....Let's see...
Say one day there's a bird musical genius. This bird has a song like no other, and it instantly makes all the girl birds want to have his babies.
So this genius bird musician is flying along, calling to all the lady birds (that's birds that are ladies, not the little spotty bugs, you understand), when suddenly, WHAM, he's lying on the ground with the world spinning around and a really big lump on his head.
Now, suppose (to continue this admittedly highly unlikely chain of circumstances) that the bird, after running into the glass a few times, makes the following connection; when he's flying along, singing to all the little girl birdies, and the sound of the echos that come back to his ears from around the place change in a specific little way just before he runs into that invisible tree that's lurking around here somewhere.
If his birdie little brain doesn't get bashed into mush first, or a cat doesn't get him when he's still woozy, there might come a time when he hears that particular type of reflection and ducks. Thereby avoiding the pane of glass, that is. Not by turning into some semi-aquatic member of the avis family that they don't like to talk about because well, he's quackers.
So, to continue, then...if he then teaches it to all his birds, um, girl bird-friends, no, bird girl-friends, and they teach it to their chicks (baby birds that is, not some kind of weird girl bird-on-bird girl thing) and that's a, well at least, it could be loosely termed as some form of evolution.
Then you get the mutant birds with really high voices, who get clearer echos and don't run into so many windows, give it a few million years of positive feedback and oh look, it's a bird that uses sonar...
'Course, I could just be going out on a limb here.
I don't know any more about the fact that what can be gotten from reading the article (what am I saying?), but I gather a few things;
The operation was intended to disrupt the trans-Siberian natural gas pipeline. Siberia is a wilderness, lots of nothing. It may be that the risk of large numbers of casualties was small.
It must also be remembered that to a lot of people, yes, there was a war on. Note the remarks of Safire himself who says that in 1981, he was occupied with writing a series of hard-line arcticles against the support that "The Commuinists" were getting to build said pipeline, arguing that it would give control of the "energy supply for all of Europe" to the Reds.
I remember growing up in the Eighties. Reagan was a doddering old man who made jokes about the missiles already flying, and there was an awful lot of songs about mushroom clouds. Greenham Common was going to be a nuclear base. I remebering thinking sad for all the poor Wombles...How would they survive when The Common was just a blasted, radioactive wasteland?
Who here thinks that the Reagan government, or perhaps more specifically, this fellow;
William J. Casey, [Reagan's] director of central intelligence, now remembered only for the Iran-contra fiasco...
Who thinks that these people would balk at the thought of pursuing a course of action that could conceivably cause a large number of civilian casualties?
Or is that another silly question?
Who'da thunk? He really is a Fascist...
www.actsofgord.com/Wrath/chapter01.html
So the bottom link is wrong too.
Tell it to the Gord
Show me the part of the constitution or the Bill of Rights the part that says he can't do any of this?
Or, to put it another way, it's my business. If I don't want to serve you, it'll be for a good reason. You can be whatever colour you want, what ever religion you want, hell I don't much care what species you are (and you better believe I've seen 'em all, buddy). Wanna come in, have fun, give me your money, fine. Wanna harrass my paying customers, break my machines, lose me business? See the sign? Door's to your left.
See, as the business owner is also a person, he or she too has rights. He doesn't want to have his property damaged or stolen. He doesn't to have to work in a stressful or threatening enviroment. He doesn't want to be negligent. It's what's called contributing to the delinquency of a minor, but what it boils down to is finding answers to life's little questions such as "what are those obviously underage kids looking at on that monitor I can't see with their hands in their pockets, sneaking (crucial point)guilty, furtive looks up at the counter where I'm busy pretending to be fully occupied elsewhere?" and "why is someone trying to access a command line from the machine behind the pillar where they think i can't see them?", and of course the one everybody loves to hate..."Shouldn't you be in school?"
What the grandparent was talking about was discriminating against the people described here.
Gord for Prez!
I claim prior art...
.exe, .bat or .com file in the /windows or /windows/system folder can be started this way.
I got the idea when i noticed that you can run many things from the start-run box. entering "calc" will run the windows calculator, "notepad" will open notepad, stuff like that. In fact, any
So I created a directory to contain the shortcuts to various programs and added that path to my PATH=
Now, I can make a shortcut to anything, give it a simple name and put it in that directory
So, start-run-ps opens Photoshop, or start-run-hmp opens my html editor with my homepage loaded ready for editing, for example.
ACtually, I often remember what dreams I've had during the night, especially if they're really good (vivid, clear, coherent). The secret is to exercise your memory. When you start to wake up, if you get the opportunity, just take a minute or two before you open your eyes to run through the tape of last night's episode. Run through it again over breakfast, when you're a bit more awake, get the images in sequence and imprinted firmly in your memory, and hey presto, you can remember stuff.
The article says that he gets a break of two weeks each bitterly cold winter month in Florida, paid for by the studio. He broadcasts from Florida while he's there, probably because the studio doesn't want to spend the money seeing one of their employees out of action for half the month, half of every year.
The other half of winter, presumably, he's down in Boston freezing his mucus membranes off with the rest of us. When he's saying he knows how bad five below zero is even before the wind chill is taken into account, he probably does know what he's talking about.
He may even know more clearly than everybody who's stuck back in Boston, because he's able to actually get warm (like really warm, you know, so warm you don't even have a runny nose, and you can leave the beer in the fridge rather than in the cupboard so it's not too cold to drink.
And then, every two weeks, he gets to leave those balmy, sunny shores and go back to grey skies, rain wind and slush and frozen snot hanging from your top lip. The horror of anticipation that hovers in the last inch of frosty air as you grit your teeth and prepare to drop your naked bum onto a FUCKING COLD toilet seat at six o'clock in the morning...He knows. He can empathise. That's all he may be doing. He doesn't want to tell everybody that he's down in sunny Florida, because then everybody's going to want to lynch him when he gets back at the end of the fortnight.
Rant over. Need beer
PS: It's 32 lovely sunny degrees celcius here, and I get to drink beer out of the freezer (-6c). See? You all hate me now :)
Yeah, I have no problems paying for the games I play. I paid < DrEvil > one HUNDRED dollars <DrEvil> for Neverwinter Nights when it came out. Saved like mad for a month, went out, bought it, brought it home, and have been playing it ever since.
One hundred dollars well spent. People, non-gaming people, said I was mad, they said "You can buy a DVD for 29 bucks, why pay a HUNDRED dollars for a video game?"
Do you know how many packets of Ramen there are in one HUNDRED dollars?
But, anyway, I still have no complaints about paying a hundred bucks for a great game. Even when I saw it a year later in the back rows of the games shop for fifty bucks, I still didn't think I had been ripped off. After all, there were THREE CDs in Neverwinter Nights, and most of the DVDs that I've bought haven't been watched pretty much every day for the next two years.
But hey now, what say that Bioware had've come to me at the end of the first year and and wanted ANOTHER hundred bucks at the end of the first year?
And what about if they want ANOTHER hundred dollars at the end of the third year when I could pick it up in the classic games section for 20 bucks?
Do you think I'm going to consider that a fair and equitable deal? For the Bioware to say "Hey, we want another four weeks of no beer on Sundays or we're going to make your game go away"?
Do you? submitted without a preview because something's broken behind the button
Actually, I'm reading down this thread, and I'm hearing "Like sands...Through the hourglass...These are the Days of Our Lives..."
From the article;
Sequoia makes a point of stating that its system is much more secure than the Diebold system, since it doesn't rely on Microsoft software.
Their website reads: "While Diebold relies on a Microsoft operating system that is well known and understood by computer hackers, Sequoia's AVC Edge runs on a proprietary operating system that is designed solely for the conduct of elections."
In fact, the system uses WinEDS, or Election Database System for Windows. WinEDS runs on top of the Microsoft Windows operating system.
The system also appears to use Microsoft Data Access Components, which was found in the WinEDS folder on the server.
Nice to see standards of honesty and integrity upheld by a company in such a sensitive position. hell, I'd trust them with my vote!
times like this, I'm glad I'm not actually an American, though
There's one thing that I've always wondered about - Does that mean that we are expanding along with it?
Is the earth further away from the sun than it used to be? So the dot on the ballon that represents the Earth and the dot for the sun are further apart?
And that's something I've always wondered - if every point of the universe is expanding relative to every other point, does that mean everything is getting bigger?
Or if it's that the points are getting further away, then is everything getting less dense?
Yeah, don't hold your breath;
Court date for the showdown with IBM has been set for April 11 2005.
A year and a half to go. I thought waiting for the first LOTR flick was bad.
Still, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that they're in no rush to get to court.
And they would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for those meddling kids!
A: Nothing! It's all in perfect working order!
Huh. Who'da thunk?
But seriously, if this is in fact what's happening, what does that bode for the future? A generation or two isn't in the habit of being an ad-vertainment couch potato? All those museums and theatres can do strange things to impressionable young minds.
Not a bad idea, especially if one is canvassing for _informed_ opinions on technology issues.
The only people she'll hear from are those who know technology well enough, and are intelligent enough to figure out the way around the presented barrier.
There's another one right down the bottom of the page;
<font color=white>Fnord</font>.