Then why not do something about it? If you're afraid of suffering Iraq's fate, build a military strong enough to deter the United States, or at least make it impractical to invade. Like say, Taiwan vs. China, or North Korea vs. Everybody.
Pretty much anyone could conqure North Korea, as long as they didn't mind letting millions of South Koreans die. China, for example, wouldn't have much of a problem.
windows 2000 can stay up for more then 232 milliseconds, but software that depends on GetTickCount() being correct can't. That's probably what happened. They could have rewritten the software to use a 64 bit time variable, or they could have worked around the bug.
They didn't, and that caused the crash. Not "buggy windows".
The fact that they couldn't even figure out how to run a sheduled task in windows to reboot the machine is just pathetic, and shows how incompitant they really are.
Yes, but maybe that was controlled by a cron-job and not some poor person manually initiating it every night? Just like an automated reboot is also not too scary on any decent Unix, but a manual action in MS-world?
a) This could easily been done as a sheduled task in windows 2000.
b) This could have been done by their code, in windows 2000 and windows 95.
c) Windows 2000 does not require a reboot after 49.7 days. Maybe their software relied on gettickcount() or something.
The problem lays with the developers of the software, not microsoft.
Respondents to what? If I may ask, what are your source for those figures? This is not a passive aggressive way of saying I doubt it, but I am quite curious about that issue, and haven't been able to find much trustworthy info that doesn't have an obvious bias one way or another.
Respondents to this 'world poll' that were talking about right now, you idiot. The 'source' is to click on the middle east region on the map, and then iraq, on the new ME map that pops up. You can see for yourself.
I have no idea who the average Iraqi wants to win. I doubt it's very many.
66% of respondents who claim to be from Iraq say they prefer bush. In fact, it's the only other country other then Israel where a majority are Bush supporters (the US tally now sits at 70% Kerry).
I don't think that's too accurate, though.
By the way, anyone else think it's ironic that this site only comes in English?
If anyone lost any critical data due to this 'feature', there could be serious consequences. I'm not sure if rm -rf ~ on OSX makes the files unrecoverable, but the author ought to be liable to pay to recover the data.
In fact, simply writing the software may have been illegal.
If someone steals some CDs from you, you don't have the right to burn their house down.
And, as a matter of fact the software in question may have been violating the GPL. It was basically a front-end to FFMPEG, which is GPL'd, and it may have come bundled with it.
So basically the guy wrote an easy to use front end to some free software, and then trashed people's work when he stopped getting money from it.
I really think the future lays in some sort of system that distributes server load to clients. sort of like an interactive bittorent.
A lot of things that are done these days over the web are extremely simple and could be done on the client side, but can overwhelm a server when it needs to be done for thousands or millions of people. And bandwidth still isn't free.
Nice to be talking about 911 on 9/11. Heh. Anyway.
Why not keep an old cellphone for 911 service? All cellphones can make 911 calls, wether or not they have any other cellular service. That might be better, since GPS enabled cellphoens can give exact locations.
In fact, one thing you could do is have a wi-fi enabled VOIP handset that uses the internet for regular calls, and cellular service for 911 calls.
Give you've seen Leauge 6 times and you still don't understand the insipid plot, you're probably an idiot. Come on, "Special Agent Tom Sawyer"?!, wtf ever.
Is this a little contradictory? Special effects are not ground-breaking. Give me a movie with effects like these and a plot that doesn't insult me. Then, we can call it "groundbreaking."
Right, and these special effects arn't even close to ground breaking, they do look like they were done on a PC or Mac with 3dsMax or something, all shiny, etc.
And the live-action stuff just looks bad like all oversaturated, etc.
You expect us to belive Futurepower(R) has posted almost 2000 comments in four days? That's pretty impressive. Of course, by your mesure I've posted 4,400 comments in just three days.
Or it could be that you're just an idiot who dosn't know that slashdot only displays the last 25 or so comments on the user page.
I agree that it's pretty supicious, but the details of the letters are a little diffrent, even though the overall layout is the same. Take a close look at the serifs on the '1' characters.
That said, on a visual examination, It definetly looks more fake then legit.
There are a few simple ways to help prove that these are legit:
1) CBS (or someone) has the original documents. Take a close look at the documents I mean under a microscope. Are there physical indentations from typewriter keys, or is the ink smooth like that from a laser printer or ink-jet? Presumably there should be lots of physical differences from different documents. Analyze the paper: is it a particular kind? Chemically analyze the ink: is it inkjet ink? Was it from a typewriter ribbon? Showing that the letters had been hammered in would go a long way to showing the document to be real.
2) Get ahold of the kind of typewriters that could print this kind of thing. If it turns out they are as good a match with word as this document, that would definitely settle the question of wether it was possible to print such a thing.
3) Look at army requisition histories (if they exist) if there was a record of the kind of typewriter used being at the base, it would really help. Of course they might just say "5 typewriters" or something.
The steps to show it's a fake are similar, excepting step three. If it could be shown that the typewriters that could do proportionally spaced fonts didn't look exactly like MS words default settings, it would pretty much kill this.
Ultimately, I think this could do a lot more damage to Kerry's campaign if it turns out to be false then it would to bush's campaign if it turned out to be true.
Kerry (now that I think about it) really looks like a Tool for not sticking up for Bush's service record the way Bush has for his. He could at least say something like "I don't know what the deal is with Bush's TANG service history, but I don't think that issue affects his ability to be president" Because honestly, it doesn't.
I've never understood why this was an Issue democrats kept brining up. No undecided voter is going to care at all. If it could be shown that he'd lied about something (as these documents purport) then it would be an issue.
Kerry has really disappointed me as a democrat, and I'm worried we might be stuck with bush for another 4 years due to his idiocy. Wish we'd nominated Edwards.
Looking at the Requisitions could certanly prove that that they did have the typewriters (as long as they're in the right font:), but it wouldn't really prove they didn't.
That said, I doubt we'll find any early 70s typewriter that can exactly reproduce the output of MS Words' default settings.
Do you believe in larger government or smaller government? Good, now realise that it doesn't matter whether you vote Republican or Democrat because, regardless of rhetoric, if you look at the records they do an equally good job of growing government and government spending.
"republicans" in general might have done an OK job, but GW bush has done an awful job.
Well, I'm a Kerry fan and even with biased eyes it looks like it's probably fake. It's still up in the air, (the last peice of evidence we need is to see the output from one of these fancy IBM typewriters that people claim could have been used, if it looks nothing like this, I'd say they're probably faked)
That said, the damage to the Kerry Campaign if these turn out to be fake will be a lot worse then the damage to the bush campaign if they turn out to be true.
Actually, it shows the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans are more than willing to honor our military and let the small stuff slide. We're even willing to forgive Kerry for lying about his service and for admitting to committed war crimes. It just doesn't bother us because we know the realities of war
1) Kerry didn't like about his service, and 2)I guess republicans "know the realties of war" so much better then the democrats, disputed the fact that Kerry served, and Bush, Chenney, etc didn't.
That said, I could care less about this TANG stuff and I have no idea why fundamentalist Democrats persist in pounding on it. Make's 'em look like a bunch of nit-picky wankers.
These latest allegations looked interesting, showing that bush refused a direct order, etc, but now they just look like cheap "he sought yellowcake from Niger" quality forgeries.
Dems need to be talking about the war in Iraq's turn for the worse, and the crappy economy. This story was never going to cause the problems for bush that the SBVT did for Kerry, and if the documents turn out to be fake it's going to end up damaging him a lot (even though he's not responsible for it, his 'surrogates' are pimping the story)
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Then why not do something about it? If you're afraid of suffering Iraq's fate, build a military strong enough to deter the United States, or at least make it impractical to invade. Like say, Taiwan vs. China, or North Korea vs. Everybody.
Pretty much anyone could conqure North Korea, as long as they didn't mind letting millions of South Koreans die. China, for example, wouldn't have much of a problem.
has a plan to fix the country, only I won't tell till I am elected"
More like "has a plan for america which is too boring for the media to report."
windows 2000 can stay up for more then 232 milliseconds, but software that depends on GetTickCount() being correct can't. That's probably what happened. They could have rewritten the software to use a 64 bit time variable, or they could have worked around the bug.
They didn't, and that caused the crash. Not "buggy windows".
The fact that they couldn't even figure out how to run a sheduled task in windows to reboot the machine is just pathetic, and shows how incompitant they really are.
Yes, but maybe that was controlled by a cron-job and not some poor person manually initiating it every night? Just like an automated reboot is also not too scary on any decent Unix, but a manual action in MS-world?
a) This could easily been done as a sheduled task in windows 2000.
b) This could have been done by their code, in windows 2000 and windows 95.
c) Windows 2000 does not require a reboot after 49.7 days. Maybe their software relied on gettickcount() or something.
The problem lays with the developers of the software, not microsoft.
Respondents to what? If I may ask, what are your source for those figures? This is not a passive aggressive way of saying I doubt it, but I am quite curious about that issue, and haven't been able to find much trustworthy info that doesn't have an obvious bias one way or another.
Respondents to this 'world poll' that were talking about right now, you idiot. The 'source' is to click on the middle east region on the map, and then iraq, on the new ME map that pops up. You can see for yourself.
I have no idea who the average Iraqi wants to win. I doubt it's very many.
66% of respondents who claim to be from Iraq say they prefer bush. In fact, it's the only other country other then Israel where a majority are Bush supporters (the US tally now sits at 70% Kerry).
I don't think that's too accurate, though.
By the way, anyone else think it's ironic that this site only comes in English?
Gulf War2 started in 2003 and ended on May 1st, 2003
Wow. Someone really should have told the iraqis.
If anyone lost any critical data due to this 'feature', there could be serious consequences. I'm not sure if rm -rf ~ on OSX makes the files unrecoverable, but the author ought to be liable to pay to recover the data.
In fact, simply writing the software may have been illegal.
If someone steals some CDs from you, you don't have the right to burn their house down.
And, as a matter of fact the software in question may have been violating the GPL. It was basically a front-end to FFMPEG, which is GPL'd, and it may have come bundled with it.
So basically the guy wrote an easy to use front end to some free software, and then trashed people's work when he stopped getting money from it.
I really think the future lays in some sort of system that distributes server load to clients. sort of like an interactive bittorent.
A lot of things that are done these days over the web are extremely simple and could be done on the client side, but can overwhelm a server when it needs to be done for thousands or millions of people. And bandwidth still isn't free.
Even Alcohols good, Odd Alcohols Kill.
What on earth do you mean?
Why is this modded 4? What is it you think they mix into beer, vodka, gin, etc?
I guess a lot of cameras use stanard AA batteires, mine has a special 'infolithium' doohicky.
Nice to be talking about 911 on 9/11. Heh. Anyway.
Why not keep an old cellphone for 911 service? All cellphones can make 911 calls, wether or not they have any other cellular service. That might be better, since GPS enabled cellphoens can give exact locations.
In fact, one thing you could do is have a wi-fi enabled VOIP handset that uses the internet for regular calls, and cellular service for 911 calls.
What kind of camera can take 1,500 6 mega pixel pictures without a change of batteries? If you can change batteries, you can change media as well.
I've got a Sony DSC-V1, and I love it. But getting a > 256mb memory stick won't do me too much good without extra batteries.
Give you've seen Leauge 6 times and you still don't understand the insipid plot, you're probably an idiot. Come on, "Special Agent Tom Sawyer"?!, wtf ever.
Is this a little contradictory? Special effects are not ground-breaking. Give me a movie with effects like these and a plot that doesn't insult me. Then, we can call it "groundbreaking."
Right, and these special effects arn't even close to ground breaking, they do look like they were done on a PC or Mac with 3dsMax or something, all shiny, etc.
And the live-action stuff just looks bad like all oversaturated, etc.
Read the page you linked too:
Futurepower(R)'s Latest 24 of 1976 Comments
You expect us to belive Futurepower(R) has posted almost 2000 comments in four days? That's pretty impressive. Of course, by your mesure I've posted 4,400 comments in just three days.
Or it could be that you're just an idiot who dosn't know that slashdot only displays the last 25 or so comments on the user page.
The Times New Roman appeared for the first time on october 3rd 1932 in the Times. Only fourty years later, while the conditions of printing had completely changed, it was replaced by an other.
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I agree that it's pretty supicious, but the details of the letters are a little diffrent, even though the overall layout is the same. Take a close look at the serifs on the '1' characters.
That said, on a visual examination, It definetly looks more fake then legit.
There are a few simple ways to help prove that these are legit:
1) CBS (or someone) has the original documents. Take a close look at the documents I mean under a microscope. Are there physical indentations from typewriter keys, or is the ink smooth like that from a laser printer or ink-jet? Presumably there should be lots of physical differences from different documents. Analyze the paper: is it a particular kind? Chemically analyze the ink: is it inkjet ink? Was it from a typewriter ribbon? Showing that the letters had been hammered in would go a long way to showing the document to be real.
2) Get ahold of the kind of typewriters that could print this kind of thing. If it turns out they are as good a match with word as this document, that would definitely settle the question of wether it was possible to print such a thing.
3) Look at army requisition histories (if they exist) if there was a record of the kind of typewriter used being at the base, it would really help. Of course they might just say "5 typewriters" or something.
The steps to show it's a fake are similar, excepting step three. If it could be shown that the typewriters that could do proportionally spaced fonts didn't look exactly like MS words default settings, it would pretty much kill this.
Ultimately, I think this could do a lot more damage to Kerry's campaign if it turns out to be false then it would to bush's campaign if it turned out to be true.
Kerry (now that I think about it) really looks like a Tool for not sticking up for Bush's service record the way Bush has for his. He could at least say something like "I don't know what the deal is with Bush's TANG service history, but I don't think that issue affects his ability to be president" Because honestly, it doesn't.
I've never understood why this was an Issue democrats kept brining up. No undecided voter is going to care at all. If it could be shown that he'd lied about something (as these documents purport) then it would be an issue.
Kerry has really disappointed me as a democrat, and I'm worried we might be stuck with bush for another 4 years due to his idiocy. Wish we'd nominated Edwards.
Looking at the Requisitions could certanly prove that that they did have the typewriters (as long as they're in the right font :), but it wouldn't really prove they didn't.
That said, I doubt we'll find any early 70s typewriter that can exactly reproduce the output of MS Words' default settings.
Do you believe in larger government or smaller government? Good, now realise that it doesn't matter whether you vote Republican or Democrat because, regardless of rhetoric, if you look at the records they do an equally good job of growing government and government spending.
"republicans" in general might have done an OK job, but GW bush has done an awful job.
Well, I'm a Kerry fan and even with biased eyes it looks like it's probably fake. It's still up in the air, (the last peice of evidence we need is to see the output from one of these fancy IBM typewriters that people claim could have been used, if it looks nothing like this, I'd say they're probably faked)
That said, the damage to the Kerry Campaign if these turn out to be fake will be a lot worse then the damage to the bush campaign if they turn out to be true.
Actually, it shows the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans are more than willing to honor our military and let the small stuff slide. We're even willing to forgive Kerry for lying about his service and for admitting to committed war crimes. It just doesn't bother us because we know the realities of war
1) Kerry didn't like about his service, and 2)I guess republicans "know the realties of war" so much better then the democrats, disputed the fact that Kerry served, and Bush, Chenney, etc didn't.
That said, I could care less about this TANG stuff and I have no idea why fundamentalist Democrats persist in pounding on it. Make's 'em look like a bunch of nit-picky wankers.
These latest allegations looked interesting, showing that bush refused a direct order, etc, but now they just look like cheap "he sought yellowcake from Niger" quality forgeries.
Dems need to be talking about the war in Iraq's turn for the worse, and the crappy economy. This story was never going to cause the problems for bush that the SBVT did for Kerry, and if the documents turn out to be fake it's going to end up damaging him a lot (even though he's not responsible for it, his 'surrogates' are pimping the story)