Accidental domain-wide (meaning company-wide in our case) net sends are hilarious, until you send a particularly humiliating one yourself.
Tell me... I once tried to figure out the command line parameters for NET SEND without bothering to ask or search the internet. So i fired up a message like "Does this shit actually work? [my_real_name]"... When suddently all PCs around made BEEP, I realised it not only went to my buddy (as intended), but to the whole domain, about 500 people... D'OH!
Well, this photo certainly looks like on of those frikking Intel bunny men escaped from their clean room, only to be crushed by the NOAA-N Prime... Maybe their caused the accident in the first place, dancing around in a lab and all...
Windows 3.0 ran just fine on DR-DOS. Windows 3.1 didn't, until Novell changed some internal bits/structures in DR-DOS to match MS-DOS (they released a fixed version 6 weeks after 3.1 came out).
AFAICR, there was no warning message when running Win3.0 under DR-DOS6. Win3.1 refused so start but this could be circumvented, as you wrote, by a patch that was released very soon after the Win3.1 launch. However, at that time Novell was not yet the owner of DR-DOS, it was still with Digital Research. Check it out here
Files I receive which need to do something about (like copy, archive, edit...), well things like that I put into a folder whichs name starts with an "!". That way, the folders is in the top of the directory listing. After I reach "!!!!", I continue with "!5" etc until I finally get tired and move "!*" into "!new". This continues until I *definetely* get tired and either burn the complete folder to a CD and delete it on my hard disk... or I do the latter without the CD-burning part...
Well, the Agriculture & Off-highway business is as hi-tech as all those fancy car manufacturers. Add a higher demand for reliability. In the R&D dept of the company I am working with (competitor to CAT - and we are better of course... lol)... well anyway we calculate with that no serious repair must be necessary within the first 10,000 hours. For cars, whis would mean no serious repair within the first 500,000 miles... A slight difference to what we are used to in everyday life, ehhh?
In related news: I wonder whether it is helpful for your dad when you are telling us others of CAT secrets? But keep telling, I surely don't mind. Just don't expect me to tell you some of our's...:)
I must admit that I am incredibly impressed by that piece of work. Not only that they did a fantastic job with the additional objects and textures (48K Spectrum anyone? Or the Duke Nukem 3D game box in Stuarts office?)... no, the atmosphere is as dense as in the original Deus Ex but with more humour (the Duke Nukem reference in PC Gamers... LOL) and they even managed to surpass the original (non-disposable lock-picks etc). GREAT WORK!!
I am really looking forward fo the next episodes. Come on... WORK HARDER AND RELEASE IT ASAP!:)
But you can at least have a look at the pictures, even without a site license... start here and use the arrows to navigate.
And here is the figures from paper #2.
Why not (immediately before testing) record a sequence in a 3D game and use this as your very own benchmark? Then at least the graphic card manufacturer has no chance to trim the driver in advance.
By the way, this reminds me of the days in the early 90s where certain graphic cards could recognise the Ziff Davis 2D Benchmark. In one test sequence, a lot of rectangles were drawn above each other - not a real world application and thus very easy to detect. This lead to the upcome of becnhmarks that consisted of real world applications (like scrolling a big text in Word and drawing diagrams in Excel).
KaZaA Lite has a webpage with verified downloads (seems to be under construction, right now). Or just google. That simple. Despite this, there is a rating system in KaZaA Lite.
Sure, but in order to be of any real use, the globe needs to be much bigger. Today, designer/engineers are using at least 21" screens and resolutions of well above 1280x1024. You are of course right about the misleading effect of 2D views, but any experienced person will rotate the model they are working on once in a while, just in order to let the brain get a refresh on how the model looks in 3D. Try it yourself: You just need to rotate the model about 10 degrees in each direction.
I'm thinking masterbation in space must be a messy thing
Additionally, you always get a push in the opposite direction of where you noodle is pointing to (impulse laws). As Stanislaw Lem noted in "The Fiasco" (*): The perfect murder in space would be to place a naked person in the middle of a room, hovering. He mentioned that you have to be sure that that person has an empty digesting system and an empty bladder. The person would simply starve to death without any opportunity to reach the walls. He seem to have forgotten the noodle, though... (in case of male astronauts) But OK, how great a distance can one overcome with that technique? I mean, blowing off, sleeping for some hours, trying again...;-) . . [Yeah I'm weird and disgusting, I know that]
(*) Not quite sure if it really was in The Fiasco. Hell, I'm not even sure if it was from S.L. at all...
One of these days I'm gonna build me a time machine. This way I could easily read the articles today, then jump back to tomorrow in order to visit the linked page before it was slashdotted.
Or I will buy me a ton of Valium and whenever I read an article, I'll go to sleep for one week so the page maintainers have time to rebuild the server, pay their bandwith-exceeded penalties etc. Yeah, maybe I should start reading only old Slashdot postings, living a life with a 1 week phase shift...
(Off, mumbling about unix-haters, fate, life, the univere and everything)
Well, the best Commander Keen reference IMHO was the secret Wolfenstein level in Doom II: They even had the secret WOLF level (within the secret D2 level) and behind the last door there was: Commander Keen hanging from the roof. You had to shoot the poor fellow to get to the next level...
They have blatently copied the Google look and feel
This is certainly true, but have you been to Altavista lately? Yes, the king of annoying pop-up-pop-under-blinking-shit-distract-me-in-any- way-possible-steal-my-bandwidth-animated-gifs-and- flash-crap has adopted another look & fell. And guess whom they got "inspired" of... And then we have all the other wannabe-Google-copycats out there. Well, let's see it from the positive side: Clean is beautiful, once again. Good for us users.
Where are the mod points when you need them... *sigh*
Taking the risk to be modded "redundant" at best, "troll" at worst, I'd like to underline the feeling here in Europe, that US Americans are fed with disgusting propaganda, cloaked as democratic truth (whatever this might be...).
It is sickening to see the world being pushed towards war by a madman, who wants to even the scores on behalf of his daddy. I remember the times where Reagan was tought to be the worst president ever, but if the internet had exisited back then as it does now, I hardly think that a search in Google for "[name of the preseident]" and "madman" would product that much results. The way the Bush Junta is abusing the US is heart-breaking. Visit http://www.guerrillanews.com for less biased news.
YOU MIGHT BE A PHYSICS MAJOR...
if you frequently whistle the theme song to "MacGyver."
Well, I'd doubt that. During my studies, we used to watch MacGuyver just to make fun of his stupid "inventions". Like when he used a bicycle frame to weld, because "it is made of magnesium". OMFG... On the other hand, we never ran out of stuff to laugh about. Weirdly no girl ever understood why we were laughing... strange...
Melissa Bar has written an insightful article [...]
The real moderation of course is "(Score:5, Troll)" with
Starting Score: 1 point
Moderation +5
50% Insightful
20% Overrated
10% Underated
10% Funny
5% Interesting
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Extra 'Insightful' Modifier 2 (Edit)
Total Score: 5
Anybody read the prequels by Brian Herbert? Thoughts?
Yes, I've read them both, the "Prelude to Dune" trilogy as well as the first book of the "Legends of Dune" trilogy.
Well, the "Prelude..." was really intersting, but slightly less dense and exciting as the original work. But it was a really good read nevertheless.
The "Legend..." trilogy however is a completely different story. Judging from the first book and the outlook to the remaining two, the idea seems to be to introduce everything that exists in Frank Herberts universe, really everything. It seems strange to me that in all those tenthousands of years, nothing happens and suddently the Suk doctors and the Bene Gesserit and the Mentats and every other freak club^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H guild just pops into existence. And everything and everybody is connected by a very limited group of places and characters, with the authors having such a rush...
So no, I don't want to see the "Prelude..."/"Legend..." works to be used for film or TV mini-series/episodes whatever. I wish Brian Herbert and Kevein J Anderson had stopped after completing the "Prelude" trilogy.
He takes the stance that as evil as Osama bin Laden is, that George Bush and Dick Cheney allowed the 9-11 attacks to happen as a pretext to declare war with Afghanistan, Iraq, and North Korea in order to control the resources and markets those countries have. Essentially, the powerful corporate interests they have feel the need to expand and conquer new territory in order to gain more power.
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FORGOTTEN THE LESSONS OF THE PAST, THIS IS WHY GERMANY INVADED POLAND!!
Well, actually Germany staged the Polish attack on Sender Gleiwitz. And then we have those who point towards the possibility of an active involvement of US agencies in the 9/11 terror act... "Since today, 5:25 oclock, we shoot back"?? ("Seit heute morgen 5:25 Uhr wird zurrrrrrrückgeschossen")
Reads to me like a memo that has intentionally leaked out into the open, trying to force Sun Management to act. Software Development Dept is clearly unhappy with the Solaris implementation of JRE and therefore stops all use of it, until is has been fixed. While the Java Dept does not seem to have too much hurry to do that (majority of cases closed - "will not fix".
What would you do in your own line organization, when you are the boss of one department and the boss of the other department just gives you the finger? And your superior is unable/unwilling to solve the conflict? You write a flaming mail to your superior's superior, threaten to withdraw any support for the platform your company is famous for and leak the memo into the open to get public support. This, of course, has to be done nicely so that no-one can blame you directly for it.
Quote: "And for those who dislike the idea of yet more plastic in their wallets, Moneo can be incorporated onto their existing credit cards -- something that has never been tried outside of France.".
Bad research. I personally owned such combined money/credit cards in both Germany and Sweden. The idea never went off, though... I don't see what's so new to get all-excited about.
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Accidental domain-wide (meaning company-wide in our case) net sends are hilarious, until you send a particularly humiliating one yourself.
Tell me... I once tried to figure out the command line parameters for NET SEND without bothering to ask or search the internet. So i fired up a message like "Does this shit actually work? [my_real_name]"... When suddently all PCs around made BEEP, I realised it not only went to my buddy (as intended), but to the whole domain, about 500 people... D'OH!
Well, this photo certainly looks like on of those frikking Intel bunny men escaped from their clean room, only to be crushed by the NOAA-N Prime... Maybe their caused the accident in the first place, dancing around in a lab and all...
Windows 3.0 ran just fine on DR-DOS. Windows 3.1 didn't, until Novell changed some internal bits/structures in DR-DOS to match MS-DOS (they released a fixed version 6 weeks after 3.1 came out).
AFAICR, there was no warning message when running Win3.0 under DR-DOS6. Win3.1 refused so start but this could be circumvented, as you wrote, by a patch that was released very soon after the Win3.1 launch. However, at that time Novell was not yet the owner of DR-DOS, it was still with Digital Research. Check it out here
Files I receive which need to do something about (like copy, archive, edit...), well things like that I put into a folder whichs name starts with an "!". That way, the folders is in the top of the directory listing. After I reach "!!!!", I continue with "!5" etc until I finally get tired and move "!*" into "!new". This continues until I *definetely* get tired and either burn the complete folder to a CD and delete it on my hard disk... or I do the latter without the CD-burning part...
Well, the Agriculture & Off-highway business is as hi-tech as all those fancy car manufacturers. Add a higher demand for reliability. In the R&D dept of the company I am working with (competitor to CAT - and we are better of course... lol)... well anyway we calculate with that no serious repair must be necessary within the first 10,000 hours.
:)
For cars, whis would mean no serious repair within the first 500,000 miles... A slight difference to what we are used to in everyday life, ehhh?
In related news: I wonder whether it is helpful for your dad when you are telling us others of CAT secrets? But keep telling, I surely don't mind. Just don't expect me to tell you some of our's...
I must admit that I am incredibly impressed by that piece of work. Not only that they did a fantastic job with the additional objects and textures (48K Spectrum anyone? Or the Duke Nukem 3D game box in Stuarts office?)... no, the atmosphere is as dense as in the original Deus Ex but with more humour (the Duke Nukem reference in PC Gamers... LOL) and they even managed to surpass the original (non-disposable lock-picks etc). GREAT WORK!! I am really looking forward fo the next episodes. Come on... WORK HARDER AND RELEASE IT ASAP! :)
But you can at least have a look at the pictures, even without a site license... start here and use the arrows to navigate. And here is the figures from paper #2.
I liked MDK2 except for the horrible professor levels. Thrid-person perspective in close quarters is never a good idea.
Replace "MDK2" with "college" and I totally agree with you...
Why not (immediately before testing) record a sequence in a 3D game and use this as your very own benchmark? Then at least the graphic card manufacturer has no chance to trim the driver in advance.
By the way, this reminds me of the days in the early 90s where certain graphic cards could recognise the Ziff Davis 2D Benchmark. In one test sequence, a lot of rectangles were drawn above each other - not a real world application and thus very easy to detect. This lead to the upcome of becnhmarks that consisted of real world applications (like scrolling a big text in Word and drawing diagrams in Excel).
KaZaA Lite has a webpage with verified downloads (seems to be under construction, right now). Or just google. That simple.
Despite this, there is a rating system in KaZaA Lite.
Sure, but in order to be of any real use, the globe needs to be much bigger. Today, designer/engineers are using at least 21" screens and resolutions of well above 1280x1024. You are of course right about the misleading effect of 2D views, but any experienced person will rotate the model they are working on once in a while, just in order to let the brain get a refresh on how the model looks in 3D. Try it yourself: You just need to rotate the model about 10 degrees in each direction.
I'm thinking masterbation in space must be a messy thing
;-) . . [Yeah I'm weird and disgusting, I know that]
Additionally, you always get a push in the opposite direction of where you noodle is pointing to (impulse laws). As Stanislaw Lem noted in "The Fiasco" (*): The perfect murder in space would be to place a naked person in the middle of a room, hovering. He mentioned that you have to be sure that that person has an empty digesting system and an empty bladder. The person would simply starve to death without any opportunity to reach the walls. He seem to have forgotten the noodle, though... (in case of male astronauts) But OK, how great a distance can one overcome with that technique? I mean, blowing off, sleeping for some hours, trying again...
(*) Not quite sure if it really was in The Fiasco. Hell, I'm not even sure if it was from S.L. at all...
One of these days I'm gonna build me a time machine. This way I could easily read the articles today, then jump back to tomorrow in order to visit the linked page before it was slashdotted.
Or I will buy me a ton of Valium and whenever I read an article, I'll go to sleep for one week so the page maintainers have time to rebuild the server, pay their bandwith-exceeded penalties etc. Yeah, maybe I should start reading only old Slashdot postings, living a life with a 1 week phase shift...
(Off, mumbling about unix-haters, fate, life, the univere and everything)
[...]must mean I'm getting old. And I'm only 18...
;-)
So, Commander Keen is like your role model of a 3 years older brother?
(If I remember correctly, CK was 8 years old back in 1990...)
Well, the best Commander Keen reference IMHO was the secret Wolfenstein level in Doom II: They even had the secret WOLF level (within the secret D2 level) and behind the last door there was: Commander Keen hanging from the roof. You had to shoot the poor fellow to get to the next level...
They have blatently copied the Google look and feel
- way-possible-steal-my-bandwidth-animated-gifs-and- flash-crap has adopted another look & fell. And guess whom they got "inspired" of... And then we have all the other wannabe-Google-copycats out there. Well, let's see it from the positive side: Clean is beautiful, once again. Good for us users.
This is certainly true, but have you been to Altavista lately? Yes, the king of annoying pop-up-pop-under-blinking-shit-distract-me-in-any
Where are the mod points when you need them... *sigh*
Taking the risk to be modded "redundant" at best, "troll" at worst, I'd like to underline the feeling here in Europe, that US Americans are fed with disgusting propaganda, cloaked as democratic truth (whatever this might be...).
It is sickening to see the world being pushed towards war by a madman, who wants to even the scores on behalf of his daddy. I remember the times where Reagan was tought to be the worst president ever, but if the internet had exisited back then as it does now, I hardly think that a search in Google for "[name of the preseident]" and "madman" would product that much results. The way the Bush Junta is abusing the US is heart-breaking. Visit http://www.guerrillanews.com for less biased news.
YOU MIGHT BE A PHYSICS MAJOR...
if you frequently whistle the theme song to "MacGyver."
Well, I'd doubt that. During my studies, we used to watch MacGuyver just to make fun of his stupid "inventions". Like when he used a bicycle frame to weld, because "it is made of magnesium". OMFG... On the other hand, we never ran out of stuff to laugh about. Weirdly no girl ever understood why we were laughing... strange...
Melissa Bar has written an insightful article [...]
...or something. :)
The real moderation of course is "(Score:5, Troll)" with
Starting Score: 1 point
Moderation +5
50% Insightful
20% Overrated
10% Underated
10% Funny
5% Interesting
5% Troll
Extra 'Insightful' Modifier 2 (Edit)
Total Score: 5
Anybody read the prequels by Brian Herbert? Thoughts?
Yes, I've read them both, the "Prelude to Dune" trilogy as well as the first book of the "Legends of Dune" trilogy.
Well, the "Prelude..." was really intersting, but slightly less dense and exciting as the original work. But it was a really good read nevertheless.
The "Legend..." trilogy however is a completely different story. Judging from the first book and the outlook to the remaining two, the idea seems to be to introduce everything that exists in Frank Herberts universe, really everything. It seems strange to me that in all those tenthousands of years, nothing happens and suddently the Suk doctors and the Bene Gesserit and the Mentats and every other freak club^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H guild just pops into existence. And everything and everybody is connected by a very limited group of places and characters, with the authors having such a rush...
So no, I don't want to see the "Prelude..."/"Legend..." works to be used for film or TV mini-series/episodes whatever. I wish Brian Herbert and Kevein J Anderson had stopped after completing the "Prelude" trilogy.
He takes the stance that as evil as Osama bin Laden is, that George Bush and Dick Cheney allowed the 9-11 attacks to happen as a pretext to declare war with Afghanistan, Iraq, and North Korea in order to control the resources and markets those countries have. Essentially, the powerful corporate interests they have feel the need to expand and conquer new territory in order to gain more power.
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FORGOTTEN THE LESSONS OF THE PAST, THIS IS WHY GERMANY INVADED POLAND!!
Well, actually Germany staged the Polish attack on Sender Gleiwitz. And then we have those who point towards the possibility of an active involvement of US agencies in the 9/11 terror act... "Since today, 5:25 oclock, we shoot back"?? ("Seit heute morgen 5:25 Uhr wird zurrrrrrrückgeschossen")
Why to waste time with all those JavaScript-popups, here are the real links:
TCA trailer
Whirlwind
Boys to Men
Alia
Teaser
Reads to me like a memo that has intentionally leaked out into the open, trying to force Sun Management to act. Software Development Dept is clearly unhappy with the Solaris implementation of JRE and therefore stops all use of it, until is has been fixed. While the Java Dept does not seem to have too much hurry to do that (majority of cases closed - "will not fix".
What would you do in your own line organization, when you are the boss of one department and the boss of the other department just gives you the finger? And your superior is unable/unwilling to solve the conflict? You write a flaming mail to your superior's superior, threaten to withdraw any support for the platform your company is famous for and leak the memo into the open to get public support. This, of course, has to be done nicely so that no-one can blame you directly for it.
Quote: "And for those who dislike the idea of yet more plastic in their wallets, Moneo can be incorporated onto their existing credit cards -- something that has never been tried outside of France.".
Bad research. I personally owned such combined money/credit cards in both Germany and Sweden. The idea never went off, though... I don't see what's so new to get all-excited about.
Perhaps instead of runme.org, a name like slashdotme.org would have been more appropriate... ;-)