do you remember when you needed to write the sysop and actually have *references* to get access to the latest Warez? the cool thing about BBSs was the accountability. You only had a few local ones, you built a name for yourself, where people knew you. On the internet, you can spam at will and no one will know who you are or hold a gurdge. I miss the good old days, there was a real sense of community on the BBSs
I realize that some people want to make money off the work and time put into certain ideas, but to say that patenting IP stifles some growth of areas and whatnot, well, that's just obvious.
I feel like I should be moderating myself down, but that just could not be less of news.
since the real problem with solar panels today, and the reason they aren't being used is obviously our countrys lack of flat roofs or walls. oh wait...
I had a wicked knee jerk reaction when I thought they were pushing a book on how to make a bomb, while at the same time the lead story is people getting prosecuted for developing tech to hack a satellite transmition. Glad I read a bit more before going off like a grenade.
since you are obviously running a MP3 server, I think you should set up a FTP server. The users who actually use and understand a FTP client will be the only ones who will upload to your FTP/MP3 server, which is why you are really doing this anyways. Sure, you want to be cool and share, but getting new MP3s without the work of searching is where it's at, from my experience.
I ran both from my computer, and setting up a FTP server like Serv-U is easy as can be, not that the HTTP version is putting a man on the moon either.
Wow, they are selling *computers* on the *internet*, I guess that's proof that they are ahead of thier time. I shouldn't poke fun at that, but for me, when I hear that kind of marketing fluf as the first sentence in an article, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
you are a developer for your company. You know they are stealing some software, that is pretty common in a start up that's under 2 years old, and has only had an office for under a year. The company is trying to register some of it's software and strive twords becoming legit, but you know they aren't there yet.
anyways, you know it's bad when your developing a plug-in for a major piece of software, and when you call thier tech support for an API problem, and they ask for your product ID number, you give it to them, they politely inform you that your using a pirated copy, *and* you quickly realize that there's not even a SINGLE legit copy of thier software in your office.
"Hey, here's a sweet plug-in we developed, and we're sure it works great, even thou we don't have an actual copy of thier product anywhere". Um, yea.
if that line doesn't make you skeptical, I don't know what does. Is the power company trying to earn itself some Karma, or else these poor rural folk might use the OTHER available power company? Hmmmmm, call me a skeptic.
Also, they say ~$45 gets them cable TV and fast Inet access, which is 'half the national average', well, that's exactly what I pay here in the metro Detroit, MI area for both as well for basic cable package plus thier 1.5 Mb cable modem servise (Wide Open West provided). My other option was Comcast, but Wide Open West blows thier doors off in pricing, and I like thier channels better.
The fundamental component of the AirGenTM fuel cell generator is Ballard Power Systems' NexaTM power module, which includes a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell consisting of two electrodes -- the anode and the cathode. Each electrode is coated on one side with a thin platinum catalyst layer and then separated by a polymer membrane electrolyte.
When hydrogen gas is inserted near the anode, it breaks into free electrons and protons. The protons migrate through the electrolyte to the cathode and interact with oxygen from the air to form water and heat. The AirGenTM fuel cell generator uses the heat to evaporate the water into vapor.
And I was just thinking upon reading the headline what I'd pay for a quality spam filter. It wouldn't be much, but my current mental figure is up from "not a damn thing" I was willing to pay just a couple years ago.
power geeks will write things for people like themselves. It only makes sense to invest your time into things that will either benefit you, or interest you.
When the mainstream writes thier own software (read, yea right) then they will write to the masses.
Maybe I'm closed minded, but I'm not holding my breath.
>>(sounds of hundreds of prostitutes crying over lost revenue)
Acutally, I can't confirm the validity of this, but I've heard the week Comdex is in town is the week the prostitutes make the least money of the entire year. It seems to intrinsicly make sense to me, I don't see the geek crowd being as big into whoring as the average LV visitor.
Weigh this accordingly thou, I have little info to back it up
>>The book is divided into beginner, intermediate and advanced sections, which makes it appropriate for a variety of audiences.
It sounds to me like it's equally UNappropriate for all audiences. If I'm a beginner, I want a whole book for me, same with intermediate of expert. There are exceptions to every rule, but that model sounds better than I think it will work.
Well, if I were them, I'd concentrate on making 6 strudy legs instead of 2 backups. But then again, maybe they do have a good reason. I guess since I don't have the inclination to make a desert walking robot, I should't critisise too loudly thou.
It seems to me that even over very uneven terrain, that 6 legs should do the job nicely. I mean, 3 legs should be plenty enough for walking over level surfaces. Sure, it can be done with 2, but the benefits of the third are obvious. With the fourth, all of a sudden 3 can stabilise the creature/contraption while the 4th is in motion. With the 5th, you can have 2 moving at the same time, and with 6th, well, you can go hog wild with the movement over even difficult terrain.
I just fail to see the benefit of 8 legs, especially considering all the work that they apear to have claimed to do minimizing enegery consumption, spoken about here http://ais.gmd.de/BAR/SCORPION/simulation.htm
Maybe it's changed in Windows XP or MacOS X. But for Windows 2000 and Redhat Linux 7.2 I have to install and run a separate program and laboriously pick out which files I want to burn and finally say "go".
It has changed in MacOS X.
Ditto for WinXP
the one in Lo-Do (what us natives call lower down town) is *5-stories*. granted, not a heck of a lot of square footage, but that place is HUGE for a books store. when you say "They have a second branch in LoDo (Lower-Downtown) which is smaller but still of quite a respectable size." what are you comparing it to, and auto plant?
I read the article. It looked kinda nifty, but I wanted to know more, since I was still very fuzzy on exactly what the heck a plasmoid was. I searched on google, and that page was the #1 result, and it was #5 on Ask Jeeves.
I kinda like asking Geeves questions "Hey Jeeves, old buddy, do you happen to know what the heck a plasmoid is?" It's so much more conversational than barking orders like "plasmoid" at google. *grin*
At my last (development) job, several of us used to have Nerf (r) gun fights. They were a blast, but we finally stopped doing it because we got sick of hunting for and picking up darts. Now if we had rubberbands, which are about as disposable as you can possibly ask for, well, we'd never have gotten any work done. *grin*
You know, I really miss letting out the warcry "EAT FOAM"
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do you remember when you needed to write the sysop and actually have *references* to get access to the latest Warez? the cool thing about BBSs was the accountability. You only had a few local ones, you built a name for yourself, where people knew you. On the internet, you can spam at will and no one will know who you are or hold a gurdge. I miss the good old days, there was a real sense of community on the BBSs
I realize that some people want to make money off the work and time put into certain ideas, but to say that patenting IP stifles some growth of areas and whatnot, well, that's just obvious.
I feel like I should be moderating myself down, but that just could not be less of news.
since the real problem with solar panels today, and the reason they aren't being used is obviously our countrys lack of flat roofs or walls. oh wait...
I had a wicked knee jerk reaction when I thought they were pushing a book on how to make a bomb, while at the same time the lead story is people getting prosecuted for developing tech to hack a satellite transmition. Glad I read a bit more before going off like a grenade.
>>typically 1MB-6MB
since you are obviously running a MP3 server, I think you should set up a FTP server. The users who actually use and understand a FTP client will be the only ones who will upload to your FTP/MP3 server, which is why you are really doing this anyways. Sure, you want to be cool and share, but getting new MP3s without the work of searching is where it's at, from my experience.
I ran both from my computer, and setting up a FTP server like Serv-U is easy as can be, not that the HTTP version is putting a man on the moon either.
remind me to put my old 486 processors on Ebay.
>>Welcome to Sun's first Web-based mega-launch
Wow, they are selling *computers* on the *internet*, I guess that's proof that they are ahead of thier time. I shouldn't poke fun at that, but for me, when I hear that kind of marketing fluf as the first sentence in an article, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
>>A high-end Sun[tm] XVR-4000 graphics accelerator, packaged with a workgroup Sun Fire[tm] system for high-performance visualization applications
Alright, my next game box will be a Sun! Cost effectiveness be damned, it'll make up for it in cool points.
you are a developer for your company. You know they are stealing some software, that is pretty common in a start up that's under 2 years old, and has only had an office for under a year. The company is trying to register some of it's software and strive twords becoming legit, but you know they aren't there yet.
anyways, you know it's bad when your developing a plug-in for a major piece of software, and when you call thier tech support for an API problem, and they ask for your product ID number, you give it to them, they politely inform you that your using a pirated copy, *and* you quickly realize that there's not even a SINGLE legit copy of thier software in your office.
"Hey, here's a sweet plug-in we developed, and we're sure it works great, even thou we don't have an actual copy of thier product anywhere". Um, yea.
if that line doesn't make you skeptical, I don't know what does. Is the power company trying to earn itself some Karma, or else these poor rural folk might use the OTHER available power company? Hmmmmm, call me a skeptic.
Also, they say ~$45 gets them cable TV and fast Inet access, which is 'half the national average', well, that's exactly what I pay here in the metro Detroit, MI area for both as well for basic cable package plus thier 1.5 Mb cable modem servise (Wide Open West provided). My other option was Comcast, but Wide Open West blows thier doors off in pricing, and I like thier channels better.
-me
come on, with a name like that, you simply must steal software. I mean, maybe his name isn't Joe Sofware Pirate, but pretty damn close.
>>showing the beauty of Earth as seen from really far away.
or in other words
Good from far, but far from good?
from the article
The fundamental component of the AirGenTM fuel cell generator is Ballard Power Systems' NexaTM power module, which includes a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell consisting of two electrodes -- the anode and the cathode. Each electrode is coated on one side with a thin platinum catalyst layer and then separated by a polymer membrane electrolyte. When hydrogen gas is inserted near the anode, it breaks into free electrons and protons. The protons migrate through the electrolyte to the cathode and interact with oxygen from the air to form water and heat. The AirGenTM fuel cell generator uses the heat to evaporate the water into vapor.
sounds like it's powered by black magic to me
And I was just thinking upon reading the headline what I'd pay for a quality spam filter. It wouldn't be much, but my current mental figure is up from "not a damn thing" I was willing to pay just a couple years ago.
power geeks will write things for people like themselves. It only makes sense to invest your time into things that will either benefit you, or interest you.
When the mainstream writes thier own software (read, yea right) then they will write to the masses.
Maybe I'm closed minded, but I'm not holding my breath.
>>(sounds of hundreds of prostitutes crying over lost revenue)
Acutally, I can't confirm the validity of this, but I've heard the week Comdex is in town is the week the prostitutes make the least money of the entire year. It seems to intrinsicly make sense to me, I don't see the geek crowd being as big into whoring as the average LV visitor.
Weigh this accordingly thou, I have little info to back it up
>>The book is divided into beginner, intermediate and advanced sections, which makes it appropriate for a variety of audiences.
It sounds to me like it's equally UNappropriate for all audiences. If I'm a beginner, I want a whole book for me, same with intermediate of expert. There are exceptions to every rule, but that model sounds better than I think it will work.
Well, if I were them, I'd concentrate on making 6 strudy legs instead of 2 backups. But then again, maybe they do have a good reason. I guess since I don't have the inclination to make a desert walking robot, I should't critisise too loudly thou.
It seems to me that even over very uneven terrain, that 6 legs should do the job nicely. I mean, 3 legs should be plenty enough for walking over level surfaces. Sure, it can be done with 2, but the benefits of the third are obvious. With the fourth, all of a sudden 3 can stabilise the creature/contraption while the 4th is in motion. With the 5th, you can have 2 moving at the same time, and with 6th, well, you can go hog wild with the movement over even difficult terrain.
I just fail to see the benefit of 8 legs, especially considering all the work that they apear to have claimed to do minimizing enegery consumption, spoken about here
http://ais.gmd.de/BAR/SCORPION/simulation.htm
Maybe it's changed in Windows XP or MacOS X. But for Windows 2000 and Redhat Linux 7.2 I have to install and run a separate program and laboriously pick out which files I want to burn and finally say "go". It has changed in MacOS X. Ditto for WinXP
the one in Lo-Do (what us natives call lower down town) is *5-stories*. granted, not a heck of a lot of square footage, but that place is HUGE for a books store. when you say "They have a second branch in LoDo (Lower-Downtown) which is smaller but still of quite a respectable size." what are you comparing it to, and auto plant?
I'll just put this thing in here and show you all that that story is total bullshi
ATZ0
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To scan this article for the wisecracks. This article needs to be modded as something descriptive of "just searching for some wisecracks".
I read the article. It looked kinda nifty, but I wanted to know more, since I was still very fuzzy on exactly what the heck a plasmoid was. I searched on google, and that page was the #1 result, and it was #5 on Ask Jeeves.
I kinda like asking Geeves questions "Hey Jeeves, old buddy, do you happen to know what the heck a plasmoid is?" It's so much more conversational than barking orders like "plasmoid" at google. *grin*
At my last (development) job, several of us used to have Nerf (r) gun fights. They were a blast, but we finally stopped doing it because we got sick of hunting for and picking up darts. Now if we had rubberbands, which are about as disposable as you can possibly ask for, well, we'd never have gotten any work done. *grin* You know, I really miss letting out the warcry "EAT FOAM"