Well, you are kidding, but that's mostly true. I've used a russian satphone while on expedition in the farthest reaches of the earth. When you are there you don't really need to call, unless in emergency (and in that case it's only to say goodbye). But you do want to post regular updates (be it email or web), but what data access you had was much worse than SMSs: 150 chars and you had to sync with the sat timing orbits. We later figured out that 9 out of 10 of our messages just went to the bit bucket.
People were really confused and often angry when you told them they need to be outside to make a call.
Also THE main reason to get one is for use when you NEED to call outside of standard cell reception areas, for instance in mountian rescue operations. But for those satphones that use geosync sats (not Irridium), it means that you cannot be in the shadow of a north face (in the northern hemisphere). Another BIG DEADLY drawback.
Most tales about YHWH aren't painting a picture of a nice guy. It's not that unreasonable to even half-seriously suggest that YHWH was an alien; too many of his actions and orders are pretty inhuman by anyone's measure, but fit a heartless robot just fine.
There was this book by Franck Herbert (of Dune fame), I think it was the Dosadi Experiment, where for generations a mix of aliens and humans are stuffed on a planet in the most hostile conditions possible, always forced to fight between themselves and all, with the hope of building super warriors through natural selection. Of course the experiment turns on its experimenters... It kind of looks like you describe. Are there actually people who hold that YHWH could be the manifestation of some alien meant to coax humanity in some directions, with carrot and stick if necessary? Forced evolution via artificial selection ?
I find that switching keyboard is confusing, so I stick to qwerty, even after 5 years in France. And for programming, azerty sucks anyway (no {} and other programming items).
Seriously. People incapable of using both hands at once, how are they going to manage to give real orgasms to their girlfriend once they come out of their mom's basement?
Fixed that for you. OK, I'll be exiting the premises now...
Someday I want to do the same thing with num lock. I want it to be ON all the time with no possibility of turning it off ever.
I saw some solutions for that and tried them. Then when connecting to another machine via VNC I noticed that on the other side the numlock wasn't active and I had to press it locally to activate it remotely... but since I'd removed the capability locally I was screwed. So now I just live with it and press the damn caps-lock after boot.
But seriously, one thing Microsoft did get right is that they pretty much reserved the windows-key as a system-wide shortcut key. Start-D (desktop), Start-L (lock), Start-R (run), Start-F (find), Start-E (explorer). I *love* those key bindings.
While I did use those combinations while I was on Windows, I still think that adding a whole key to the keyboard for what is no more than 4 or 5 basic shortcuts is kind of a waste. Either you add a function key and add functionality with every other key, or you find a Shift-Alt-Ctrl-Whatever to fit it in. It's not even possible to use it for user shortcuts in explorer which is a damn shame.
If the data is out and can't be contained, discredit the source. Call it fabrication, call it a disgruntled ex-employee, make the one spreading the information appear like a lunatic or someone who wants to hurt Uncle Sam (or whoever is the target), under no circumstances even talk about the information leaked, just assassinate the character of the person spreading the information.
It reminds me of the Michael Moore films, in particular the Bush one: the critics kept complaining about what a fat slob he was, about how his movie was biased because he was a commie, how his sources wern't identified, etc, but never did they comment the facts shown in the move. I did find this astounding at the time.
I write in 3 languages on a US keyboard (no accents). I used to know all the Alt codes by heart, but now on Linux I converted the [Caps lock] key to a [Compose] key. That's a very handy trick to do é: press Compose and ', then e. For â, press Compose-Shift-^ then a, etc. And here's how you set it up in KDE: You go in [System Settings][Regional & Language][Keyboard layout][Advanced][Compose key position] and select Caps Lock. Plenty of combinations.
Why is DRAM so large compared to flash memory ? I mean, I have a 32Gb micro-SD card in my phone and it's smaller than a fingernail. But the 8Gb of DRAM in my desktop take 4 large slots and at the time (last year) there weren't any 4Gb modules available in this category. And also I had to add a fan and run them at 666MHz instead of their rated 800MHz or I get hard failures. Doesn't sound very exciting to me.
As for printing, you can use a 600dpi laser to output the whole bible in encoded format on 5 sheets of paper. So yes, you could walk out with 250,000 cables pretty quickly.
Do you know of any printer/scanner software that can do the encoding/decoding so as to do printed backups ? Something with redundancy like rar or turbo codes that prints out a page of pixel soup... I'm not sure how useful it would really be, just curious.
I teach my kids not to hit each other because it's WRONG. It has nothing to do with reciprocity.
Then they probably come back to you with "but WHY is this wrong?", which is a perfectly logical question at this stage. And the correct answer is, of course, "because you wouldn't like it done to you". That's one of the many things I hate about religions, the fact that they are always trying to impose on you that they have all the answers when most of the time those 'answers' make no sense, or the original sense has been lost to history. Why aren't the jews touching anything on saturday ? At a time maybe it was to enforce a rest day, but now all you want to ask is "why is this so retarded that I can't turn the light on ?"
How is that different from what the post office currently does ? EVERY package I receive has holes punched into them. And if there are things they like inside, they are missing. A scarf here from granma here, an SD card among a larger order there... Why are standard packages still made of cardboard and not reinforced with some fiber to make it impossible to 'casually' punch a hole through ?
That one man be able to send out so much spam by controlling a large botnet, I can understand. What i don't understand, is how does he find customers who want to advertise through him ?!? Does he have a website with "Sign up here to spam the entire planet 10^6 times over with you p3n1s ads" ?!?
Any iOS device with 4.0 or later supports IPv6, including your iPhone.
Well, I just tried to reach some ipv6 addresses without success, evem http://1/. So my Ubuntu 10.10 + Firefox doesn't support it. My adsl router / access provider doesn't support it. And what about my website, how can I check if it supports ipv6 ? To my defense I just configured its https access this morning, after 14 years...
So, according to you the 1900s != the twentieth century?
No it's not. The simplest way I found to get people like you to understand why is to ask you to count to 10, on your fingers if you need some help. So you go: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Then I ask you to count 10 more, and you start the 2nd decade by, wait for it, 11 !!! It's the same for centuries.
Are you a grammar Nazi? I'm trying to improve my English; please correct my errors!:)
Well, you are in error, but it's not grammar this time C;-)
Not computers that don't run the ISP's anti-virus package, not computers that aren't up-to-date on Windows, but computers that're actively showing the tell-tale signatures of known infections
For example, computers that run non-approved Operating Systems such as Linux?
Computers that run "non-approved" Operating Systems such as Linux won't be actively showing the tell-tale signatures of known infections, because almost all malware is for Windows.
And _if_ they have a rootkit running, they should be disconnected, Linux or not.
OK, thanks. I did obtain their free certificate, but then what do I do with it ? Ain't I supposed to put it on my site somewhere ? And enable SSL somehow ? Their FAQ doesn't say a word about this, or I'm looking in the wrong place.
I used to have an HP dig cam that allowed you to write programs against a public API, that you could load into the camera via the CF card and then run from the camera.
Huh, I'd piss my pants for something like that.. What model was it and are there still cameras like that ?!?
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Well, you are kidding, but that's mostly true. I've used a russian satphone while on expedition in the farthest reaches of the earth. When you are there you don't really need to call, unless in emergency (and in that case it's only to say goodbye). But you do want to post regular updates (be it email or web), but what data access you had was much worse than SMSs: 150 chars and you had to sync with the sat timing orbits. We later figured out that 9 out of 10 of our messages just went to the bit bucket.
People were really confused and often angry when you told them they need to be outside to make a call.
Also THE main reason to get one is for use when you NEED to call outside of standard cell reception areas, for instance in mountian rescue operations. But for those satphones that use geosync sats (not Irridium), it means that you cannot be in the shadow of a north face (in the northern hemisphere). Another BIG DEADLY drawback.
Like they say: "Hardware is the part of the computer that you can kick..."
Most tales about YHWH aren't painting a picture of a nice guy. It's not that unreasonable to even half-seriously suggest that YHWH was an alien; too many of his actions and orders are pretty inhuman by anyone's measure, but fit a heartless robot just fine.
There was this book by Franck Herbert (of Dune fame), I think it was the Dosadi Experiment, where for generations a mix of aliens and humans are stuffed on a planet in the most hostile conditions possible, always forced to fight between themselves and all, with the hope of building super warriors through natural selection. Of course the experiment turns on its experimenters... It kind of looks like you describe. Are there actually people who hold that YHWH could be the manifestation of some alien meant to coax humanity in some directions, with carrot and stick if necessary? Forced evolution via artificial selection ?
I find that switching keyboard is confusing, so I stick to qwerty, even after 5 years in France. And for programming, azerty sucks anyway (no {} and other programming items).
Seriously. People incapable of using both hands at once, how are they going to manage to give real orgasms to their girlfriend once they come out of their mom's basement?
Fixed that for you. OK, I'll be exiting the premises now...
Someday I want to do the same thing with num lock. I want it to be ON all the time with no possibility of turning it off ever.
I saw some solutions for that and tried them. Then when connecting to another machine via VNC I noticed that on the other side the numlock wasn't active and I had to press it locally to activate it remotely... but since I'd removed the capability locally I was screwed. So now I just live with it and press the damn caps-lock after boot.
Map it to a compose key
Most useful keyboard advice ever, when writing multilingual on Linux. It's a liberation after 20 years of memorizing Alt codes on windows !
But seriously, one thing Microsoft did get right is that they pretty much reserved the windows-key as a system-wide shortcut key. Start-D (desktop), Start-L (lock), Start-R (run), Start-F (find), Start-E (explorer). I *love* those key bindings.
While I did use those combinations while I was on Windows, I still think that adding a whole key to the keyboard for what is no more than 4 or 5 basic shortcuts is kind of a waste. Either you add a function key and add functionality with every other key, or you find a Shift-Alt-Ctrl-Whatever to fit it in. It's not even possible to use it for user shortcuts in explorer which is a damn shame.
If the data is out and can't be contained, discredit the source. Call it fabrication, call it a disgruntled ex-employee, make the one spreading the information appear like a lunatic or someone who wants to hurt Uncle Sam (or whoever is the target), under no circumstances even talk about the information leaked, just assassinate the character of the person spreading the information.
It reminds me of the Michael Moore films, in particular the Bush one: the critics kept complaining about what a fat slob he was, about how his movie was biased because he was a commie, how his sources wern't identified, etc, but never did they comment the facts shown in the move. I did find this astounding at the time.
I write in 3 languages on a US keyboard (no accents). I used to know all the Alt codes by heart, but now on Linux I converted the [Caps lock] key to a [Compose] key. That's a very handy trick to do é: press Compose and ', then e. For â, press Compose-Shift-^ then a, etc. And here's how you set it up in KDE: You go in [System Settings][Regional & Language][Keyboard layout][Advanced][Compose key position] and select Caps Lock. Plenty of combinations.
Why is DRAM so large compared to flash memory ? I mean, I have a 32Gb micro-SD card in my phone and it's smaller than a fingernail. But the 8Gb of DRAM in my desktop take 4 large slots and at the time (last year) there weren't any 4Gb modules available in this category. And also I had to add a fan and run them at 666MHz instead of their rated 800MHz or I get hard failures. Doesn't sound very exciting to me.
And the whole things falls apart when the kid sees a toy gun facing his seat...
As for printing, you can use a 600dpi laser to output the whole bible in encoded format on 5 sheets of paper. So yes, you could walk out with 250,000 cables pretty quickly.
Do you know of any printer/scanner software that can do the encoding/decoding so as to do printed backups ? Something with redundancy like rar or turbo codes that prints out a page of pixel soup... I'm not sure how useful it would really be, just curious.
I teach my kids not to hit each other because it's WRONG. It has nothing to do with reciprocity.
Then they probably come back to you with "but WHY is this wrong?", which is a perfectly logical question at this stage. And the correct answer is, of course, "because you wouldn't like it done to you". That's one of the many things I hate about religions, the fact that they are always trying to impose on you that they have all the answers when most of the time those 'answers' make no sense, or the original sense has been lost to history. Why aren't the jews touching anything on saturday ? At a time maybe it was to enforce a rest day, but now all you want to ask is "why is this so retarded that I can't turn the light on ?"
How is that different from what the post office currently does ? EVERY package I receive has holes punched into them. And if there are things they like inside, they are missing. A scarf here from granma here, an SD card among a larger order there... Why are standard packages still made of cardboard and not reinforced with some fiber to make it impossible to 'casually' punch a hole through ?
That one man be able to send out so much spam by controlling a large botnet, I can understand. What i don't understand, is how does he find customers who want to advertise through him ?!? Does he have a website with "Sign up here to spam the entire planet 10^6 times over with you p3n1s ads" ?!?
No, I wouldn't go 1991, 1992 and so on. I would start at 1990, and restart at 2000. No fingers needed.
Then you've counted one specific year twice. Which one ?
I disagree with you, but I think we could have an entertaining conversation at a party. For now, let's agree to disagree :)
Only after a pint.
Any iOS device with 4.0 or later supports IPv6, including your iPhone.
Well, I just tried to reach some ipv6 addresses without success, evem http://1/. So my Ubuntu 10.10 + Firefox doesn't support it. My adsl router / access provider doesn't support it. And what about my website, how can I check if it supports ipv6 ? To my defense I just configured its https access this morning, after 14 years...
So, according to you the 1900s != the twentieth century?
No it's not. The simplest way I found to get people like you to understand why is to ask you to count to 10, on your fingers if you need some help. So you go: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Then I ask you to count 10 more, and you start the 2nd decade by, wait for it, 11 !!! It's the same for centuries.
Are you a grammar Nazi? I'm trying to improve my English; please correct my errors! :)
Well, you are in error, but it's not grammar this time C;-)
Not computers that don't run the ISP's anti-virus package, not computers that aren't up-to-date on Windows, but computers that're actively showing the tell-tale signatures of known infections
For example, computers that run non-approved Operating Systems such as Linux?
Computers that run "non-approved" Operating Systems such as Linux won't be actively showing the tell-tale signatures of known infections, because almost all malware is for Windows.
And _if_ they have a rootkit running, they should be disconnected, Linux or not.
OK, thanks. I did obtain their free certificate, but then what do I do with it ? Ain't I supposed to put it on my site somewhere ? And enable SSL somehow ? Their FAQ doesn't say a word about this, or I'm looking in the wrong place.
Touché
I used to have an HP dig cam that allowed you to write programs against a public API, that you could load into the camera via the CF card and then run from the camera.
Huh, I'd piss my pants for something like that.. What model was it and are there still cameras like that ?!?
Easy to remember