You think Vaidhyanathan is difficult to pronounce? Try Thirugnanasampanthamoorthy. (Minor character in Arthur Clarke's 3001 space odessey, the fourth in the series.) Vaidhyanathan is a very common Indian name, and the other one isn't rare either. Anyway if you find it difficult remember Vie-dhya-nah-thun. I imagine you'll have trouble with the second syllable, its peculiar to sanskrit. I've seen westerners split it into two syllables, like dhee-ya. Its not. Its a single syllable.
we had to endure the infamous "load-shedding" -- a practice of cutting off electricity to whole sections of the city in order to conserve power.
They do that here in India too. Especially in the summer. The next few months are going to be pretty bad. It sucks, especially because I'm running a server on my lil' machine at home. (As if enduring 44 degrees C and near 100% humidity for a whole day weren't bad enough.)
Sorry for shouting, but its Digital restrictions management. ODRL is Orwellian Digital Restrictions Language. Please. If we don't get the name right, who will?
I see a bunch of posts here saying its not cheap for Indians, yada yada. I see this in every story about India. Stop it and think rationally please. A PC costs about Rs 30000-40000 ($600-800). Now would someone who can afford a PC find it too much to pay Rs 850 per month for a 24 hour connection? No! Especially when you consider that it almost works out cheaper the phone bills for a dialup connection.
The average Indian might be very poor, but so what? Those who can buy a computer are usually well off, and can afford this.
Me, I pay only Rs. 650 for a 24 hr connection (fibre optic, last mile copper cable; and yes, I'm from India). BW sucks, 64 kbps, download cap is 300 megs a month, but it's far better than dialup and sufficient for all my needs, and it lets me run a server, so I'm quite happy with it.
So this is a really good thing. I hope lots of people will use it. Quit whining.
That was meant as a joke of course, but pencils are useful things in space flights.
I don't know if this is an urban legend, but you can find it all over the web:
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300 Celsius.
Confronted with the same problem, the Russians used a pencil.
Phew... When I saw a link to an RFC which was purportedly about about security I was sure it was the evil bit thingy. Had to click on the link to verify that it was a different RFC!
Among the newbie friendly distros I'd pick this one because it defaults (IIRC) to a non-root account. If distros like Lindows that set you up as root become popular, it would kill off the perception of Linux as a secure OS. People don't care/understand how secure the kernel/servers are etc; if you have a bunch of newbies clicking on executable attachments then the public is going to perceive it as virus prone. Therefore if you are going to encourage your granny to try linux pick a distro that doesn't follow Bad Computing Practices(TM).
A famous experiment conducted 35 years ago contended that anyone can reach anyone else in the world through a chain of friends of length 6. Some people are trying to find out if this is really the case.
BTW, I wonder how online relationships will compare with real world relationships? One tends to have more acquaintances in meatspace, but our online friends are more diverse.
It would be interesting to apply this kind of analysis to friend/foe relationships on/.
Feeling up to it, cmdrtaco?
Maybe someone who's not an editor can do it too, if they can spider all the user pages. But I suspect it would take forever to do it without getting your IP banned.
I once came across a list of all/. users up to 5 levels in the friends chain from Cmdrtaco (i.e, friends of cmdrtaco, friends of friends,...). I tried googling it now but can't seem to find it:(
... that this guy gets a lot of publicity, and more people buy his music, sending a signal to other artists that there are a lot of people out there who don't buy the RIAA's BS. Of course I'm not saying anything about sending a signal to the RIAA, because those thickheads have repeatedly shown that they can't take a clue even if it jumped up and bit them in the face.
I was wondering if there is any support for WebDAV on PDAs. I think lots of people will be interested in WebDAV support for PDAs. Does anyone know of a WebDAV client for PDAs?
lame text to get past the lame compression filter please ignore this apparently the filter doesn't like so many urls having alot of common text shit i hope this is enough
Google only had a problem with using the verb "to google" to refer to searching with other search engines. I'm sure they're delighted about google becoming a verb. Of course, no one has applied the term "to yahoo!" to other websites, so there is no comparison here.
Thank you for your helpful tips on using wc. However, by logo I mean the image, which, if you've noticed, is a part of the google home page.
$ wc logo.gif #see how quickly I learn:) 59 292 8558 logo.gif
So you see, its 8.5KB as I claimed. And 292 words and 59 lines, if that means anything to you.
I hope you will not take me to task because I counted a KB as 1000 bytes instead of 1024.
Grandparent:
google has a clean and fast interface, i dont want to load 10kb of bloat every time i enter a keyword to search for.
Parent:One week 54, the next week 56. They finally worked out it was someone saying how may words appeared on the title page. Since then they've purposly kept it low
Have you noticed that the size of the google logo is 8.5 KB?!?
Of course I understand fully well that google's liteness is a major factor in its favor but the point I'm trying to make is that:
You're downloading more than you think you are
The decrease in the number of words has nothing to do with bandwidth but is to keep users from getting confused/annoyed.
After all, we don't want a single company getting a monopoly on the space elevator market. We all know how bad that is. What should be done now is that standards for space elevator construction should be published* and both companies should build elevators conforming to that standard.
Get your own Jupiter moon NOW! We offer to name any newly discovered satellite of Jupiter with a word of your choice. Rates starting at just $100/moon! For satellites up to a diameter of 500 km we charge only $100, and $50 extra for every 200km of additional size. You can pre-book a name for yet to be discovered satellites up to 3 years in advance! We have exclusive contracts with international astrophysical society. So hurry!!
This reminds me of an unforgettable saga involving Roger Penrose and toilet paper. Apparently, Penrose invented something called a nonrepeating tesselation. (Which I gather is some kind of pattern on a plane which can not be mapped to itself by shifting.) One fine day Penrose (claimed to have) found the pattern on a piece of toilet paper. What did he do? Why, sue the toilet paper company for copyright violation of course! You can read about it here. It absolutely cracked me up the first time I heard it.
Sadly, the prophets at PARC were without honor in their own company, so much so that it became a standard joke to describe PARC as a place that specialized in developing brilliant ideas for everyone else.
After a few paragraphs of whining that she couldn't play CDs she finally reveals that it was because the volume was set to zero. I know, this is a newbie and we aren't supposed to flame her and everything, but really, I have to ask if a person who doesn't think of increasing the volume if she can't hear sound should be using any kind of computer at all.
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You think Vaidhyanathan is difficult to pronounce? Try Thirugnanasampanthamoorthy. (Minor character in Arthur Clarke's 3001 space odessey, the fourth in the series.) Vaidhyanathan is a very common Indian name, and the other one isn't rare either. Anyway if you find it difficult remember Vie-dhya-nah-thun. I imagine you'll have trouble with the second syllable, its peculiar to sanskrit. I've seen westerners split it into two syllables, like dhee-ya. Its not. Its a single syllable.
You mean like ICANN?
we had to endure the infamous "load-shedding" -- a practice of cutting off electricity to whole sections of the city in order to conserve power.
They do that here in India too. Especially in the summer. The next few months are going to be pretty bad. It sucks, especially because I'm running a server on my lil' machine at home. (As if enduring 44 degrees C and near 100% humidity for a whole day weren't bad enough.)
Sorry for shouting, but its Digital restrictions management. ODRL is Orwellian Digital Restrictions Language. Please. If we don't get the name right, who will?
Me, I pay only Rs. 650 for a 24 hr connection (fibre optic, last mile copper cable; and yes, I'm from India). BW sucks, 64 kbps, download cap is 300 megs a month, but it's far better than dialup and sufficient for all my needs, and it lets me run a server, so I'm quite happy with it.
So this is a really good thing. I hope lots of people will use it. Quit whining.
I don't know if this is an urban legend, but you can find it all over the web:
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300 Celsius.
Confronted with the same problem, the Russians used a pencil.
Phew... When I saw a link to an RFC which was purportedly about about security I was sure it was the evil bit thingy. Had to click on the link to verify that it was a different RFC!
Among the newbie friendly distros I'd pick this one because it defaults (IIRC) to a non-root account. If distros like Lindows that set you up as root become popular, it would kill off the perception of Linux as a secure OS. People don't care/understand how secure the kernel/servers are etc; if you have a bunch of newbies clicking on executable attachments then the public is going to perceive it as virus prone. Therefore if you are going to encourage your granny to try linux pick a distro that doesn't follow Bad Computing Practices(TM).
There's a paper on weblog popularity here. (It got slashdotted IIRC)
BTW, I wonder how online relationships will compare with real world relationships? One tends to have more acquaintances in meatspace, but our online friends are more diverse.
Feeling up to it, cmdrtaco?
Maybe someone who's not an editor can do it too, if they can spider all the user pages. But I suspect it would take forever to do it without getting your IP banned.
I once came across a list of all /. users up to 5 levels in the friends chain from Cmdrtaco (i.e, friends of cmdrtaco, friends of friends, ...). I tried googling it now but can't seem to find it :(
... that this guy gets a lot of publicity, and more people buy his music, sending a signal to other artists that there are a lot of people out there who don't buy the RIAA's BS. Of course I'm not saying anything about sending a signal to the RIAA, because those thickheads have repeatedly shown that they can't take a clue even if it jumped up and bit them in the face.
Ctrl-PgDn: next tab
Works in both mozilla and phoenix
Brevity was never your forte, was it? ;^)
Non-techie news site gets "hacker" right? Very surprising.
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lame text to get past the lame compression filter please ignore this apparently the filter doesn't like so many urls having alot of common text shit i hope this is enough
Google only had a problem with using the verb "to google" to refer to searching with other search engines. I'm sure they're delighted about google becoming a verb. Of course, no one has applied the term "to yahoo!" to other websites, so there is no comparison here.
So you see, its 8.5KB as I claimed. And 292 words and 59 lines, if that means anything to you. I hope you will not take me to task because I counted a KB as 1000 bytes instead of 1024.
Parent:One week 54, the next week 56. They finally worked out it was someone saying how may words appeared on the title page. Since then they've purposly kept it low
Have you noticed that the size of the google logo is 8.5 KB?!?
Of course I understand fully well that google's liteness is a major factor in its favor but the point I'm trying to make is that:
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*By the world wide space consortium?
Get your own Jupiter moon NOW! We offer to name any newly discovered satellite of Jupiter with a word of your choice. Rates starting at just $100/moon! For satellites up to a diameter of 500 km we charge only $100, and $50 extra for every 200km of additional size. You can pre-book a name for yet to be discovered satellites up to 3 years in advance! We have exclusive contracts with international astrophysical society. So hurry!!
This reminds me of an unforgettable saga involving Roger Penrose and toilet paper. Apparently, Penrose invented something called a nonrepeating tesselation. (Which I gather is some kind of pattern on a plane which can not be mapped to itself by shifting.) One fine day Penrose (claimed to have) found the pattern on a piece of toilet paper. What did he do? Why, sue the toilet paper company for copyright violation of course! You can read about it here. It absolutely cracked me up the first time I heard it.
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Sadly, the prophets at PARC were without honor in their own company, so much so that it became a standard joke to describe PARC as a place that specialized in developing brilliant ideas for everyone else.
After a few paragraphs of whining that she couldn't play CDs she finally reveals that it was because the volume was set to zero. I know, this is a newbie and we aren't supposed to flame her and everything, but really, I have to ask if a person who doesn't think of increasing the volume if she can't hear sound should be using any kind of computer at all.
NARA goes online, is welcomed with a hearty slashdotting and goes down in a heap of flames... what an eventful start!