I wonder if we link all these "eggs" up, if we would be able to detect the return of the Niburu (the inhabitants of Planet X) before they can invade?;P
Oh well... onto the serious stuff. No, I didn't RTFA. But, I will say that how much money a company makes means nothing to a lot of us. We don't care about profit, we just care about development. After all, besides making music and art and just coding for fun, why would anyone bother getting into computers in the first place?
My point is that we DON'T know for certain who pulled off 9/11. Osama and his organization claimed they did it. Maybe they did. But Al Queda aren't Iraqis, they are from many different countries and nationalities. There are also too many things that point to prior knowledge of the incident that was given to people on a need to know basis. Most of those people being important key figures in business and politics. Again, this could be coincidence.
It's just as easy to believe that Osama did it. Considering that we were supposed to "smoke 'em out" I think we still have a job to do and we're ignoring it. It is appalling that so many people think that our invasion of Iraq was done in the name of fighting terrorism (whatever the definition of that may be today). You didn't say this, but a lot of other people believe it and I will be frank by saying they are at best, idiots.
When 9/11 happened, I was behind the idea of finding those responsible for planning and funding the attack. But as history has shown over and over, it is way too easy to use evets like that to demonize the "enemy" of the day. The poor pagans suffered at the hands of the Catholics by being portrayed as worshippers of the devil himself. Today is no different. The devil has been replaced with "evil doers" and Osama and Saddam linked because they are described as such.
I want to see people who actually do bad things pay for their misdeeds. Most of the Iraqis who have died so far are not those people. Most of the people who were bombed in Afghanistan after 9/11 were not those people. Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, and the rest of G.W. Bush's crew ARE those people. They've done far more harm to U.S. citizens than the guys who flew those planes into the twin towers did.
Think about all the young American men they sent over to Iraq to be slaughtered in an invasion that should have never happened. And for what? We capture the guy who Bush I put into power there in the first place, destroy many cities that innocent people were happy to call home, and kill tons of civilians. There's some "evil doings". Keep in mind, that I don't blame the troops 100%. They're just doing their job, in many cases under duress. I blame the administration for all of those negative outcomes. I also blame them for the predatory practices of their business friends who see money making opportunities in rebuiding Iraq. Why don't I come over to your house, tear it to the ground because the bank that holds your mortgage is "evil" and then send a few contractor friends of mine to come build you a new one that costs even more than what you had before just to iverate you fro the evil bank?
The ONLY reason Iraq happened is that the administration was able to convince most idiot Americans that Saddam was tied into that nebulous bogey man: terrorism. The only reason he got re-elected was because he convinced the same mouthbreathers that he stands up for good christian values. Ha! From what I see the only good christian value is to murder anyone you don't agree with and find a way to make money off of it.
Whatever. I hate politics. I hate what America and most Americans have become, and I have no problem telling everyone that. I'm proud to be "un-American" because it really is the only way to truly be patriotic these days. This country had decent people in it once. Now it's just a bully that is the butt of jokes for the rest of the world and also a threat to world security.
THE growth is way down in the WIndows OS and Office development departments. However, I think the infestation started in the CEO and Chief Software Architect positions and was transmitted to all marketroids first.;P
I didn't think we "deserved" it necessarily. Sure we've done some really horrible things around the globe, but that's a different story. However, I'm tired of people trying to connect 9/11, Saddam and Iraq. There is NO connection.
Good question. I haven't had the time to look at the NX protocol, but I've read about it in the past. Maybe I should take a gander... I really want to be able to publish "meta apps" for home use.
You're cool dude.:) I'll have to check out that site. There are a few projects I've been wanting to build, but etching my own board has always been a hassle.
Yes. I'm using VNC right now to just have a portable desktop at home that I can view anywhere (bedroom, laptop, over the net with SSH, etc...). But, What I'd really like is to be able to "publish" applications using VNC in a rootless mode. That way I could have local apps and remote apps running at the same time. So I could have one instance of an IM client for example running on my app server but displayed in multiple locations at once. However, it wouldn't be an entire desktop that is displayed remotely, just the IM client. And it would mingle with the local apps as well. So far, I've only found one other person who mentioned the idea of a rootless VNC online. I'm sure it will eventually come to pass...
Hmmm... maybe you're right. I was thinking that if I set an app in my Window manager to be displayed on all desktops AND the Xserver that was displaying the DMX "extra heads" over the network was also displaying local apps, I could have:
1. The system in front of me running it's own apps on the local display 2. A "meta App Server" displaying the meta apps on the same local display using DMX 3. Another system system displaying it's local apps and the met apps using DMX once again.
So it becomes a situation where I could be logged into multiple systems doing local stuff, but also displaying the same exact centralized apps on each of those machines as well.
It allows multihead over the network. This might just be the solution I've been looking for to make all the systems in my house display the same instance of an app on the screen at the same on multiple machines. Imagine running am IM app only once, but seeing it on any machine you happen to be working on. Multicast apps!:)
Elektro's dog Sparko has worms! Follow the link from Roland's site for the pictures and look at the Sparko page and you will see that I speak the truth!;)
Looks like you'll need to, um, "re-educate" the consumers first.
And what's wrong with a more educated consumer? Someone who can actually tell the difference between shit and shinola? Is that bad in your worldview? If so, I don't want to live anywhere near you.
Praised? I "praised" Andromeda? I did nothing of the kind. Your reading comprehension skills need a little work. I simply said that Andromeda is better than ALL of the original series and pilfered series that SciFi has done since the mid 90s. Farscape? Crap. Firefly? Total shit. Stargate * were both doomed when they had any affiliation with SciFi. But... they persist because they are popular (not necessarily good, just popular). I would say that in a long sewer pipe filled with foul smelling stuff, Andromeda is the least stinky of the lot. At least they had decent story lines. I like my science fiction to actually focus on the characters, their situations and some realistic aspect of science or the future. I don't like science fiction where the central focus is on war, violence or basically mostly action. (Yes, Andromeda has too much of that for my tastes but they make up for it with decent plot lines.) And don't get me started on the shittiest shows ever: Babylon 5 and Deep Space Nine.
Blah. Here's a "new paragraph" for you to keep you happy.;)
Since when is salsa ever "scorching hot" even in reference to spiciness?
Since the [tt]ime that salsa is made with Habaneros (which aren't really peppers) that will burn a hole straight from your mouth to your ass. Considering that most people here on Slashdot don't have any real distance between those two sections of the body, I guess it doesn't mean much tho...;P
Why don't you take yo grammar/html code nazi self and go to hell? While you're at it, learn what a paragraph IS. It's not two or three sentences and then you hit the next block. People who have been writing for far longer than you obviously have typically put in about 10-20 sentences per paragraph. Unless you're still reading Dr. Seuss and USA Today. In that case I'll cut you a little slack kid.
You have it wrong in my case. I'd love to attack the murderers who pulled off 9/11. It's just that they didn't work for Saddam and they weren't Iraqis. I also wouldn't be surprised if the people who orchestrated the whole thing were white Americans...
Oh my god! The state of Science Fiction is incredibly horrible right now. The last decent science fiction series was Sliders (first and second seasons only), but the SciFi channel had to go and ruin it. In fact, it seems to me that EVERY program to come out of SciFi channel seems to suck. Or if it started off good and got pulled into the SciFi channel, then it gets killed off. Andromeda was slightly above the fray, so SciFi killed it. But trash like the ruined SG1 and the complete papfest Stargate Atlantis keep on keepin' on. It's just not fair. It shouldn't be called the SciFi channel, it should be called the Junk Action Show channel because that's really all it is now. Where's Doctor Who? What about some of the classics of science fiction like Space 1999 or some of the Italian 70s disco cheesefests. Those programs and films have far more integrity than anything that SciFi currently produces. What is it with cable/satellite networks in general and their crap "original programming"? The Sopranos? Shite. Queer as Folk? Nothing beats the original (not the Showtime version). SciFi's original movies (Wizard of Earthsea anyone?) ALL suck the big one. These networks should not and didn't originally exist to produce their own programming. This is what happens when you give people who only have a profit motive primarily in mind the keys to the kingdom. You get a steady flow of crap disguised as creativity. PBS and the BBC produce much better programming in comparison because they are not in it solely for the money.
...being a 100% full time user of Firefox, I was surprised to find a site in a random web search a week or two ago that actually got a pop-up window going, but also appeared to attempt to execute some code as Firefox popped open a dialog asking me what I wanted to do with the file that was being downloaded. Thankfully, I have it ask me what I want to do, but if I was a typical user, I would have already associated the *.DOT file with MS Word and god knows what would have happened. Keep in mind that I didn't actually click on any links that indicated a download, I only clicked on a Google search result which took me to a site that displayed a blank screen and then the pop-up. I have to wonder what would have happened if I had associated OpenOffice.org with the *.DOT file since I run Linux. Probably not much... but it definitely indicates that Firefox will be targetted. The real question is: will the Mozilla project be able to keep up any better than MS has with IE? I'm guessing that they will.
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I wonder if we link all these "eggs" up, if we would be able to detect the return of the Niburu (the inhabitants of Planet X) before they can invade? ;P
No one got the joke, did they?
Oh well... onto the serious stuff. No, I didn't RTFA. But, I will say that how much money a company makes means nothing to a lot of us. We don't care about profit, we just care about development. After all, besides making music and art and just coding for fun, why would anyone bother getting into computers in the first place?
My point is that we DON'T know for certain who pulled off 9/11. Osama and his organization claimed they did it. Maybe they did. But Al Queda aren't Iraqis, they are from many different countries and nationalities. There are also too many things that point to prior knowledge of the incident that was given to people on a need to know basis. Most of those people being important key figures in business and politics. Again, this could be coincidence.
It's just as easy to believe that Osama did it. Considering that we were supposed to "smoke 'em out" I think we still have a job to do and we're ignoring it. It is appalling that so many people think that our invasion of Iraq was done in the name of fighting terrorism (whatever the definition of that may be today). You didn't say this, but a lot of other people believe it and I will be frank by saying they are at best, idiots.
When 9/11 happened, I was behind the idea of finding those responsible for planning and funding the attack. But as history has shown over and over, it is way too easy to use evets like that to demonize the "enemy" of the day. The poor pagans suffered at the hands of the Catholics by being portrayed as worshippers of the devil himself. Today is no different. The devil has been replaced with "evil doers" and Osama and Saddam linked because they are described as such.
I want to see people who actually do bad things pay for their misdeeds. Most of the Iraqis who have died so far are not those people. Most of the people who were bombed in Afghanistan after 9/11 were not those people. Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, and the rest of G.W. Bush's crew ARE those people. They've done far more harm to U.S. citizens than the guys who flew those planes into the twin towers did.
Think about all the young American men they sent over to Iraq to be slaughtered in an invasion that should have never happened. And for what? We capture the guy who Bush I put into power there in the first place, destroy many cities that innocent people were happy to call home, and kill tons of civilians. There's some "evil doings". Keep in mind, that I don't blame the troops 100%. They're just doing their job, in many cases under duress. I blame the administration for all of those negative outcomes. I also blame them for the predatory practices of their business friends who see money making opportunities in rebuiding Iraq. Why don't I come over to your house, tear it to the ground because the bank that holds your mortgage is "evil" and then send a few contractor friends of mine to come build you a new one that costs even more than what you had before just to iverate you fro the evil bank?
The ONLY reason Iraq happened is that the administration was able to convince most idiot Americans that Saddam was tied into that nebulous bogey man: terrorism. The only reason he got re-elected was because he convinced the same mouthbreathers that he stands up for good christian values. Ha! From what I see the only good christian value is to murder anyone you don't agree with and find a way to make money off of it.
Whatever. I hate politics. I hate what America and most Americans have become, and I have no problem telling everyone that. I'm proud to be "un-American" because it really is the only way to truly be patriotic these days. This country had decent people in it once. Now it's just a bully that is the butt of jokes for the rest of the world and also a threat to world security.
I MUST clarify:
;P
THE growth is way down in the WIndows OS and Office development departments. However, I think the infestation started in the CEO and Chief Software Architect positions and was transmitted to all marketroids first.
I didn't think we "deserved" it necessarily. Sure we've done some really horrible things around the globe, but that's a different story. However, I'm tired of people trying to connect 9/11, Saddam and Iraq. There is NO connection.
Ahhh... so you're a war monger. OK. That makes you wholly irrelevant to me then. Thanks for explaining.
Foe? Why? What'd I do to you?
Good question. I haven't had the time to look at the NX protocol, but I've read about it in the past. Maybe I should take a gander... I really want to be able to publish "meta apps" for home use.
You're cool dude. :) I'll have to check out that site. There are a few projects I've been wanting to build, but etching my own board has always been a hassle.
Yes. I'm using VNC right now to just have a portable desktop at home that I can view anywhere (bedroom, laptop, over the net with SSH, etc...). But, What I'd really like is to be able to "publish" applications using VNC in a rootless mode. That way I could have local apps and remote apps running at the same time. So I could have one instance of an IM client for example running on my app server but displayed in multiple locations at once. However, it wouldn't be an entire desktop that is displayed remotely, just the IM client. And it would mingle with the local apps as well. So far, I've only found one other person who mentioned the idea of a rootless VNC online. I'm sure it will eventually come to pass...
Hmmm... maybe you're right. I was thinking that if I set an app in my Window manager to be displayed on all desktops AND the Xserver that was displaying the DMX "extra heads" over the network was also displaying local apps, I could have:
1. The system in front of me running it's own apps on the local display
2. A "meta App Server" displaying the meta apps on the same local display using DMX
3. Another system system displaying it's local apps and the met apps using DMX once again.
So it becomes a situation where I could be logged into multiple systems doing local stuff, but also displaying the same exact centralized apps on each of those machines as well.
It allows multihead over the network. This might just be the solution I've been looking for to make all the systems in my house display the same instance of an app on the screen at the same on multiple machines. Imagine running am IM app only once, but seeing it on any machine you happen to be working on. Multicast apps! :)
Elektro's dog Sparko has worms! Follow the link from Roland's site for the pictures and look at the Sparko page and you will see that I speak the truth! ;)
...that it's NUCLEAR. Say it with me:
;)
NEW--CLEE--ARR
If another bonejob says "Nukyelar", I'm going to have to go postal on him. After all... you don't say "Nukyelus", do you???
You do realize that you've completely negated the point to posting any questions as all?
Wow! I need to get out more. ;P
And what's wrong with a more educated consumer? Someone who can actually tell the difference between shit and shinola? Is that bad in your worldview? If so, I don't want to live anywhere near you.
Praised? I "praised" Andromeda? I did nothing of the kind. Your reading comprehension skills need a little work. I simply said that Andromeda is better than ALL of the original series and pilfered series that SciFi has done since the mid 90s. Farscape? Crap. Firefly? Total shit. Stargate * were both doomed when they had any affiliation with SciFi. But... they persist because they are popular (not necessarily good, just popular). I would say that in a long sewer pipe filled with foul smelling stuff, Andromeda is the least stinky of the lot. At least they had decent story lines. I like my science fiction to actually focus on the characters, their situations and some realistic aspect of science or the future. I don't like science fiction where the central focus is on war, violence or basically mostly action. (Yes, Andromeda has too much of that for my tastes but they make up for it with decent plot lines.) And don't get me started on the shittiest shows ever: Babylon 5 and Deep Space Nine.
;)
Blah. Here's a "new paragraph" for you to keep you happy.
Since the [tt]ime that salsa is made with Habaneros (which aren't really peppers) that will burn a hole straight from your mouth to your ass. Considering that most people here on Slashdot don't have any real distance between those two sections of the body, I guess it doesn't mean much tho... ;P
Ummm...'scuse me? [head bobbing ensues]
Why don't you take yo grammar/html code nazi self and go to hell? While you're at it, learn what a paragraph IS. It's not two or three sentences and then you hit the next block. People who have been writing for far longer than you obviously have typically put in about 10-20 sentences per paragraph. Unless you're still reading Dr. Seuss and USA Today. In that case I'll cut you a little slack kid.
Chick Corea is Russian? WTF? Since when?
You have it wrong in my case. I'd love to attack the murderers who pulled off 9/11. It's just that they didn't work for Saddam and they weren't Iraqis. I also wouldn't be surprised if the people who orchestrated the whole thing were white Americans...
Le[tt] the fanboys of the world (mostly Slashdot) come together and make the networks feel their wrath! Big whoop. Next?
Oh my god! The state of Science Fiction is incredibly horrible right now. The last decent science fiction series was Sliders (first and second seasons only), but the SciFi channel had to go and ruin it. In fact, it seems to me that EVERY program to come out of SciFi channel seems to suck. Or if it started off good and got pulled into the SciFi channel, then it gets killed off. Andromeda was slightly above the fray, so SciFi killed it. But trash like the ruined SG1 and the complete papfest Stargate Atlantis keep on keepin' on. It's just not fair. It shouldn't be called the SciFi channel, it should be called the Junk Action Show channel because that's really all it is now. Where's Doctor Who? What about some of the classics of science fiction like Space 1999 or some of the Italian 70s disco cheesefests. Those programs and films have far more integrity than anything that SciFi currently produces. What is it with cable/satellite networks in general and their crap "original programming"? The Sopranos? Shite. Queer as Folk? Nothing beats the original (not the Showtime version). SciFi's original movies (Wizard of Earthsea anyone?) ALL suck the big one. These networks should not and didn't originally exist to produce their own programming. This is what happens when you give people who only have a profit motive primarily in mind the keys to the kingdom. You get a steady flow of crap disguised as creativity. PBS and the BBC produce much better programming in comparison because they are not in it solely for the money.
...being a 100% full time user of Firefox, I was surprised to find a site in a random web search a week or two ago that actually got a pop-up window going, but also appeared to attempt to execute some code as Firefox popped open a dialog asking me what I wanted to do with the file that was being downloaded. Thankfully, I have it ask me what I want to do, but if I was a typical user, I would have already associated the *.DOT file with MS Word and god knows what would have happened. Keep in mind that I didn't actually click on any links that indicated a download, I only clicked on a Google search result which took me to a site that displayed a blank screen and then the pop-up. I have to wonder what would have happened if I had associated OpenOffice.org with the *.DOT file since I run Linux. Probably not much... but it definitely indicates that Firefox will be targetted. The real question is: will the Mozilla project be able to keep up any better than MS has with IE? I'm guessing that they will.