I'm surmising that that bit was copied from the article, and if so, then there's a reason my sarcasm alarm is ringing. Personally, I really like the utilitarinism of gaim.
Though I'm thinking I might be in the minority since I use gaim to send text messages to others. I don't think I've actually ever used the picture option...
Apparently they've never heard of gaim. http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ It supports all the major protocols, file transfers, emotes, icons. I've been using it for years and it works great.
We may be a motivated army of geeks, but we're no match for American apathy.
It won't be until Bubba goes out and buys one of those nice new Sony DVD writing PVR's and he tries to save his lastest [Nascar race | Jerry Springer | Reality TV show] to DVD that the broadcast flag will hit him in the face.
Then suddenly the shit will hit the fan and it'll be too late.
Oh the Irony... people talking about the US going to war over the internet... the very thing the US invented in case of a nuclear war...
those with the power and those who want them to relinquish it for a lower amount of control.
What control, what power? The US government stopped "operating" the internet a while ago. The government doesn't own any of the public backbones. The government doesn't own any of the public DNS root servers. The millions of miles of fibre that blanket the US aren't owned by the government.
The maybe was some point in the past when one entity could have "owned" the internet. The internet isn't some flat homogenious collection of nodes. It's a whole bunch of castles with draw bridges between them.
That their continued profitability as a company is merely a privilege, thus I'm invoking my right to take away that privilege by not purchasing any of their products...
Actually, quite a few of us Americans saw the Iraq war for what it was as well, a sham. Unfortunately, the current administration has done an excellent job of charaterizing anybody who's not for the war as anti-American.
If you want to have an interesting discussion, here's a question to ask. Why has the American government banned journalists from taking pictures of the coffins of soldiers killed in Iraq returning to Dover AFB?
A seperate discussion could be focused on the fact that we're spending billions of dollars in Iraq, when instead we should be focused on improving our national security to help prevent another Sept. 11th. However whenever someone goes on TV and points out these flaws, they're quickly dismissed by the government as a hack and professionally attacked by the rabid blind following masses.
That money could be better spent in Russia improving the security around their nuclear stockpiles which are currently practically unguarded. Because the most liking scenario is that Islamic terrorists are going to purchase/steal a nuclear weapon or nuclear materials from someone somewhere in Russia, ship it to Canada and drive it over the border into an American city and detonate it.
Thanks... I was thinking the same thing. How often has this been used? The only thing I can think of is the space labratory that fit into the cargo hold.... That was on columbia...
1. Capable of bringing a shitload of material into orbit. Yup, this can do that two.
2. Repair craft in orbit. How often have we used that capability? At max 5 times, and I think I'm being generous...
3. Building the ISS. Well, the ISS have a pretty capable arm and gantry system. Once things are boosted up to it and attached, it can build itself.
The shuttle has served us well, but I see it as a first step and it has outlived its usefulness. What we should do is scour the shuttle for all of it's great ideas, carry them forward and leave the bad ideas behind.
Here's the problem. Yeah a few volcanoes violently release millions of tons of CO2 in the atmoshere, but that's balanced by millions of squre miles of plants busy doing photosynethis that obsorb the CO2.
We (Humans) come along and do two things. 1. We start displacing the plants. 2. We start producing copious amounts of CO2.
Thus we're knocking the planets balance of CO2 off.
Also you have to make sure that the grounded air is from a subtereanean salt mine (as an above ground salt mine is too salty) so that the salt/humidity/static level of the compressed air is kept at an ambient newton level.
I only half agree. I think grounding straps are basically stupid. However, grounding mats are a gift from the Gods. In my 10 years of tech, I've watched plently of ungrounded people take perfectly working pieces of ram and turn them into memory swiss cheese.
We have a couple of testing stations that have the following setup.
1. Nice grounded table, with grounding mat(s). We also have a couple grounded turn tables that really help when your building a machine. 2. Lots of 3 prong outlets. 3. A common area with all kinds of Power supply testers. 4. A couple of different 450 watt power supplies wired with power switches for different models of motherboards. 5. A common area with with a whole bunch of different ram testers. 6. All our work areas are very well lit. Each station also is equipped with a couple long necked work lights, at least one of them has a magnifying glass so you can make close inspections of parts. 7. A couple of our stations are equipped with grounded compressed air. 8. Bins with test parts (video cards, ram, etc) all conspiciously marked with a color coded label to that bench.
I guess the company I work for works differently. We have our own proprietary operating system and you are expected to know how it works. Luckily we've got a library full of manuals and a test system you can log into.
As for the engineers, we've got a tiered mentoring and peer review process. Yeah, we have a couple of senior engineers leave a year, but by the time they've left, they've also mentored and cultivated the younger enginners.
The training perdiciment is the same all around. Nobody wants to pay for training, so the alternative is reading manuals instead of playing Wow...
Actually the F-22 Raptor already has a laser system that's been designed for it and [I think it] fits in place of bombbay doors.
The laser is ultraviolet, thus it would allow an F22 to loiter in an area and attack ground targetes (Geneva conventions state that we can't attack people with lasers) However, we can cut the truck they're driving in half and thus detonating the fuel tank...
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The main reason for that is (unless I'm mistaken, which I might be) that AOL hasn't released specs about their IM protocol.
Thus all of these libraries that are just educated guesses...
Initially GAIM has had some stability issues but they've gone away. I've been using Gaim constantly for the last year without any issues.
Ironically, my wife's given up on Trillian because of stability issues and switched to gaim...
Read the article? You must be new here ;-)
I'm surmising that that bit was copied from the article, and if so, then there's a reason my sarcasm alarm is ringing.
Personally, I really like the utilitarinism of gaim.
Though I'm thinking I might be in the minority since I use gaim to send text messages to others. I don't think I've actually ever used the picture option...
What *hip* thing doesn't have?
We may be a motivated army of geeks, but we're no match for American apathy.
It won't be until Bubba goes out and buys one of those nice new Sony DVD writing PVR's and he tries to save his lastest [Nascar race | Jerry Springer | Reality TV show] to DVD that the broadcast flag will hit him in the face.
Then suddenly the shit will hit the fan and it'll be too late.
Actually, that might constitue a war crime.
I guess we're just going to have to ban FTL drives.
those with the power and those who want them to relinquish it for a lower amount of control.
What control, what power? The US government stopped "operating" the internet a while ago. The government doesn't own any of the public backbones. The government doesn't own any of the public DNS root servers. The millions of miles of fibre that blanket the US aren't owned by the government.
The maybe was some point in the past when one entity could have "owned" the internet. The internet isn't some flat homogenious collection of nodes. It's a whole bunch of castles with draw bridges between them.
Seriously, where are you going to go worth going if it doesn't have network access.
;-)
C'mon, your a geek. More than 20 ft from a hotspot or a enet jack and you start to get the shakes...
Damn right! It's all Canada's fault! I saw a historical documentary called "Canadian Bacon" about this!
That their continued profitability as a company is merely a privilege, thus I'm invoking my right to take away that privilege by not purchasing any of their products...
Actually, quite a few of us Americans saw the Iraq war for what it was as well, a sham. Unfortunately, the current administration has done an excellent job of charaterizing anybody who's not for the war as anti-American.
If you want to have an interesting discussion, here's a question to ask. Why has the American government banned journalists from taking pictures of the coffins of soldiers killed in Iraq returning to Dover AFB?
A seperate discussion could be focused on the fact that we're spending billions of dollars in Iraq, when instead we should be focused on improving our national security to help prevent another Sept. 11th. However whenever someone goes on TV and points out these flaws, they're quickly dismissed by the government as a hack and professionally attacked by the rabid blind following masses.
That money could be better spent in Russia improving the security around their nuclear stockpiles which are currently practically unguarded. Because the most liking scenario is that Islamic terrorists are going to purchase/steal a nuclear weapon or nuclear materials from someone somewhere in Russia, ship it to Canada and drive it over the border into an American city and detonate it.
Thanks... I was thinking the same thing. How often has this been used? The only thing I can think of is the space labratory that fit into the cargo hold.... That was on columbia...
Thing of the positive, comic book writers everywhere will be rejoying with the material they've just been given...
"Hurricane Gamma has come ashore"...
Well, what does the shuttle really do?
1. Capable of bringing a shitload of material into orbit. Yup, this can do that two.
2. Repair craft in orbit. How often have we used that capability? At max 5 times, and I think I'm being generous...
3. Building the ISS. Well, the ISS have a pretty capable arm and gantry system. Once things are boosted up to it and attached, it can build itself.
The shuttle has served us well, but I see it as a first step and it has outlived its usefulness. What we should do is scour the shuttle for all of it's great ideas, carry them forward and leave the bad ideas behind.
Here's the problem. Yeah a few volcanoes violently release millions of tons of CO2 in the atmoshere, but that's balanced by millions of squre miles of plants busy doing photosynethis that obsorb the CO2.
We (Humans) come along and do two things.
1. We start displacing the plants.
2. We start producing copious amounts of CO2.
Thus we're knocking the planets balance of CO2 off.
Also you have to make sure that the grounded air is from a subtereanean salt mine (as an above ground salt mine is too salty) so that the salt/humidity/static level of the compressed air is kept at an ambient newton level.
I only half agree. I think grounding straps are basically stupid. However, grounding mats are a gift from the Gods. In my 10 years of tech, I've watched plently of ungrounded people take perfectly working pieces of ram and turn them into memory swiss cheese.
We have a couple of testing stations that have the following setup.
1. Nice grounded table, with grounding mat(s). We also have a couple grounded turn tables that really help when your building a machine.
2. Lots of 3 prong outlets.
3. A common area with all kinds of Power supply testers.
4. A couple of different 450 watt power supplies wired with power switches for different models of motherboards.
5. A common area with with a whole bunch of different ram testers.
6. All our work areas are very well lit. Each station also is equipped with a couple long necked work lights, at least one of them has a magnifying glass so you can make close inspections of parts.
7. A couple of our stations are equipped with grounded compressed air.
8. Bins with test parts (video cards, ram, etc) all conspiciously marked with a color coded label to that bench.
What they forgot to tell you is that no law enforcement people go digging for data.
They take a snapshot of your harddrive and run an automated evidence gathering tool against the disk image.
They're bitching because their automated tools can't figure out alternative browers.
Which means if you've got a laptop and it's running linux and your using encrypted filesystems, you must be a terrorist.
I'm missing something.
Why in the hell is sensitive information being stored on a network that's accessible from anything but a machine on the premises?
Now that we've got all this great networking technology, I think it's time that we make the decision to just completely cut off and isolate networks.
I guess the company I work for works differently. We have our own proprietary operating system and you are expected to know how it works. Luckily we've got a library full of manuals and a test system you can log into.
As for the engineers, we've got a tiered mentoring and peer review process. Yeah, we have a couple of senior engineers leave a year, but by the time they've left, they've also mentored and cultivated the younger enginners.
The training perdiciment is the same all around. Nobody wants to pay for training, so the alternative is reading manuals instead of playing Wow...
*shrugs*
As an American, I've never had any issues reading any of the other digit grouping systems.
Then again, I don't any issue switching between SI and "U.S. customary units"
Actually the F-22 Raptor already has a laser system that's been designed for it and [I think it] fits in place of bombbay doors.
The laser is ultraviolet, thus it would allow an F22 to loiter in an area and attack ground targetes (Geneva conventions state that we can't attack people with lasers) However, we can cut the truck they're driving in half and thus detonating the fuel tank...
Hence why I'm not upgrading either.
NesterJ is currently the application that gets run the most on my PSP...
And yes, I only own ROMS for the Nintendo games I actally own...
I admin a pile of windows machines as well, from linux. The tool I use the most for this is "rdesktop".
it's also nice to cifs mount a filesystem and use my active directory account to access it.