Re:Where's the best info on the war?
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Updates on War in Iraq
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· Score: 4, Informative
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I believe CNN used to have their own server, and I believe somebody decided to steal the nick of President Clinton while there were people transcribing an interview.
You'd think that as long as they were making up these definitions they'd make them shorter so I'd have less for my cramped-out wrist to fill in the blanks with year after year.
"Uh, teacher, I haven't written with my hands for years. Mind if I just run this thing through the inkjet?"
My 1710 has borked itself more times than I can count. The deflector shields (I thought the guy was making some kind of lame excuse to get me out of the shop at first) have gone on it (later repaired), and now it gives me an ADB error every time on startup.
It is a kickass-looking monitor, though. Nice and sharp and clean. If only the ADB ports on it weren't so iffy. I'd buy another one in an instant.
It looks like a somewhat more drab version of the Luna theme (bright colors have all been replaced with varying shades of blue) that looks not bad in my opinion.
Only morons would read a paper considered to be not far above tabloid status. Fact-checking? Whazzat?
I love how he uses Palm's crappy programmers as a sign that developers don't care about the Macintosh, and thus, Apple makes crappy product and will soon go under. That's like me saying that the millions of shovelware vendors for Windows is a sign that Microsoft makes crappy product and will go under.
Hard disk partitions are a lot easier to overwrite or corrupt than flash ROM. Despite the fact that it'd be a lot easier to replace a broken booter, it just doesn't make sense to keep the crucial instructions for resurrecting the machine on a mechanical media.
I feel really secure knowing that security by obfuscation and overblown terrorism fears, my two favorite things in all the world, are finally together.
Considering that here in Alberta we don't have that, I don't think it's very likely that any non-Ontario provinces will have it either. I get my bus schedules from taking out my cell phone and calling the number on the bus stop sign, which then tells me that there are x minutes remaining until a bitter public servant crashes his bus into the shelter I'm cowering behind.
GPG isn't coming out of a large, monolithic corporation, so other large, monolithic corporations inherently distrust it until shown otherwise.
That, and it's fairly unlikely that the GPG group, as great as they are, has a dedicated corporate relations guy whose sole job is to make banks and corporations see the better value in the open-source world.
It's the same thing with Linux, although, now that there are companies like Red Hat backing it and there are lots of people embracing it and talking about their successes, that people are more likely to pick it up and use it for their installations. Sadly, GPG and a lot of other great projects haven't had this happen to them yet.
...command-line MPlayer works perfectly for me. Aside from that, he certainly lets people know what's wrong with the projects they've spent most of their lives on.
In canada, riding bikes on the sidewalk is only illegal for those under 17 (presumably, you don't want your kid getting wasted in the middle of the road).
Only if the man controlling it wants it to! *runs off to apply for a job*
I'd have read it but...
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Linus Is A Hero
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· Score: 3, Offtopic
... Flash is the most horribly evil thing ever to come out of the computer industry. It chokes the flow of free information and turns pages (of information) into giant full-screen animated talking commercials.
That rant's over for now, so I'll just have to ask for somebody to get a text list or something.:)
Well, despite the fact that I hate Microsoft like everyone else here, the act of them fighting against the loads of spam that dumps on Hotmail accounts (even Hotmail accounts that are unused and have never been given out) would be a sign that they're actually listening to their customers, and thus a Good Thing.
You got a BOBBLE-HEAD DOLL OF THE CEO?! Dude, I would so quit that place.
I'm sure he ran over it with his car in the parking lot. If anyone else got bobble-head dolls, you should smash them all with hammers, shove them in a box and fed-ex them to that fat bastard's office along with a note that says: "We made you. We can break you".
Accountability is also a big deal here; public anonymous wi-fi hotspots leave enormous potential for abuse (possibly more than the pay phones next to them?).
It is a pretty cool idea, though. If we had pay WiFi spots at a decent price, I might be able to justify an iPaq or Zaurus with wireless.
Hmmmm, I guess rms should target God as the largest producer of closed-source software in the Universe?)
We've done a good job of reverse-engineering it for the most part; hopefully He doesn't slap the human race with a DMCA lawsuit.
Re:But what about the ROM licenses?
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MAME To Become GPL?
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· Score: 5, Interesting
That would be neat. I think it would be a good idea to start some kind of website dedicated to petitioning arcade companies to release their ROMS to the general public to boot.
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I believe CNN used to have their own server, and I believe somebody decided to steal the nick of President Clinton while there were people transcribing an interview.
My 1710 has borked itself more times than I can count. The deflector shields (I thought the guy was making some kind of lame excuse to get me out of the shop at first) have gone on it (later repaired), and now it gives me an ADB error every time on startup.
It is a kickass-looking monitor, though. Nice and sharp and clean. If only the ADB ports on it weren't so iffy. I'd buy another one in an instant.
It looks like a somewhat more drab version of the Luna theme (bright colors have all been replaced with varying shades of blue) that looks not bad in my opinion.
It gets better -- if they start talking to LEAs afterward, it's entrapment! This is about the brightest idea I've ever heard.
Only morons would read a paper considered to be not far above tabloid status. Fact-checking? Whazzat?
I love how he uses Palm's crappy programmers as a sign that developers don't care about the Macintosh, and thus, Apple makes crappy product and will soon go under. That's like me saying that the millions of shovelware vendors for Windows is a sign that Microsoft makes crappy product and will go under.
Hard disk partitions are a lot easier to overwrite or corrupt than flash ROM. Despite the fact that it'd be a lot easier to replace a broken booter, it just doesn't make sense to keep the crucial instructions for resurrecting the machine on a mechanical media.
Microsoft: "What's this.. Mozilla.. thing?"
Linux Guys: "It's a simulation of the Web. Your goal is to stop Godzilla."
Microsoft: "Ahhhh...."
I feel really secure knowing that security by obfuscation and overblown terrorism fears, my two favorite things in all the world, are finally together.
Considering that here in Alberta we don't have that, I don't think it's very likely that any non-Ontario provinces will have it either. I get my bus schedules from taking out my cell phone and calling the number on the bus stop sign, which then tells me that there are x minutes remaining until a bitter public servant crashes his bus into the shelter I'm cowering behind.
Neat idea though.
And one of the few Macintosh games to be ported to Windows, instead of the other way around...
GPG isn't coming out of a large, monolithic corporation, so other large, monolithic corporations inherently distrust it until shown otherwise.
That, and it's fairly unlikely that the GPG group, as great as they are, has a dedicated corporate relations guy whose sole job is to make banks and corporations see the better value in the open-source world.
It's the same thing with Linux, although, now that there are companies like Red Hat backing it and there are lots of people embracing it and talking about their successes, that people are more likely to pick it up and use it for their installations. Sadly, GPG and a lot of other great projects haven't had this happen to them yet.
Some of the import stuff wasn't bad, but I think the major reason why it died was because it was hard to code for, AFAIK.
I know 10 000 items is going to take you awhile to list, but if anyone's gotten through, just post some notables.
I still think they should have done some neat flight manuevers like the Snowbirds do here in Canada.
...command-line MPlayer works perfectly for me. Aside from that, he certainly lets people know what's wrong with the projects they've spent most of their lives on.
In canada, riding bikes on the sidewalk is only illegal for those under 17 (presumably, you don't want your kid getting wasted in the middle of the road).
Only if the man controlling it wants it to! *runs off to apply for a job*
... Flash is the most horribly evil thing ever to come out of the computer industry. It chokes the flow of free information and turns pages (of information) into giant full-screen animated talking commercials.
:)
That rant's over for now, so I'll just have to ask for somebody to get a text list or something.
That's kind of neat. I wonder if there are any pages that tell me how to build my own FTP or SSH-based caffeine dispenser.
Well, despite the fact that I hate Microsoft like everyone else here, the act of them fighting against the loads of spam that dumps on Hotmail accounts (even Hotmail accounts that are unused and have never been given out) would be a sign that they're actually listening to their customers, and thus a Good Thing.
I'm sure he ran over it with his car in the parking lot. If anyone else got bobble-head dolls, you should smash them all with hammers, shove them in a box and fed-ex them to that fat bastard's office along with a note that says: "We made you. We can break you".
Then just wait for the cops to show up.
Accountability is also a big deal here; public anonymous wi-fi hotspots leave enormous potential for abuse (possibly more than the pay phones next to them?).
It is a pretty cool idea, though. If we had pay WiFi spots at a decent price, I might be able to justify an iPaq or Zaurus with wireless.
Hmmmm, I guess rms should target God as the largest producer of closed-source software in the Universe?)
We've done a good job of reverse-engineering it for the most part; hopefully He doesn't slap the human race with a DMCA lawsuit.
That would be neat. I think it would be a good idea to start some kind of website dedicated to petitioning arcade companies to release their ROMS to the general public to boot.