Sorry, cant quantify offtopic.
In as much as you can't quantify 'freezing' 'boiling'
It's your moral duty as a/.er to correct people who use phrases such as 'more offtopic' 'really freezing' 'very boiling'. (And hurt them)
Warm beer in the UK is because we actually have beer which tastes good.
Not like these half-arsed low alcohol imitations, that _have_ to be chilled in order to be drinkable.
OK, under 5k for home cinema. Oh, and you are still paying, what $20/$30 per DVD?
Sigh no danger. $5k + $20 per film (admittedly for repeated viewing, but let's face it, how often do you re-watch the same thing at the cinema) Compared to how much for the cinema? (Don't know about US prices, but in.uk it's about £5 ~= $7.50).
If anything, the film manufacturers make _more_ from selling the DVDs. So what if a few skip the initial $7.50 preview....
(Of course, when you start to bring in DivX piracy, the game changes, but usually the home cinema enthusiasts see DivX as being far too low quality)
My favourite trick is to have a 'spam only' address, but I seem to have gotten on to the same mailing lists with both... So if I see it in my spam only address, I can use procmail to trash it from my 'main' inbox.
Great!
By the way, have you ever noticed how "everyone" always says everyone else is stupid/an idiot/bad driver/etc? I'll be the first to say, though, that I may be that idiot on occasion. My problem is that most people who think they're "frickin' geniuses" are, sadly, not.
More specifically, if you simply assume that everyone you meet or make some form of contact with is an idiot, you won't go too far wrong.
Well, at least until they punch you for being patronising.
The problem with doing this is that you are committing a criminal offence by doing so. You are effectively, and wilfully commiting a breach of some computer law in your country.
It's one of those long discussions for a rainy afternoon, but IMHO you need to be careful doing that. After all, code red/nimda is just a worm, but if someone catches you hacking their server, then it'll be you in trouble.
Some discussion occured on various securityfocus mailing lists regarding this point. (I haven't posted a link, because the load on the security focus website is too high at the moment.)
It wouldn't be a Slashdot story without an RIAA post... But how _would_ intellectual properly work with a collective mind? One person buys the CD, and all of a sudden, everyone has heard the music?
I predict that this paper will be banned for violation of the DMCA. It's circumvention of copy protection to share memories of music.
Bill Gates, running MS Borg version 1.0 on his own cyber-body? That TRULY would be justice.
OOps, did you suddenly lock up and turn into a statue in the middle of a conference full of Rabid Unix techies, who then promptly took you for a hydrochloric acid bath? That _is_ a shame
Or 'zombie' DoS clients. Which is a good thing really, when you think about it, because it means that if/when they get their legal right to DoS people, then it's not going to be a very effective one....
Userfriendly link for those who didn't see it:) A tragic irony isn't it? I wonder if we can start a campaign to keep the RIAA DoSed off the net. Not that I'd ever condone such a thing, but there are times when a little net abuse is so poetic.
and you end up screaming into the microphone while it sat there flashing its lights "in a friendly way". Ah, well you see, that was your mistake. You're not supposed to scream at it, because that makes it sulk. :)
Chocolatl is an interesting drink. Got a sample when on a tour of a chocolate factory. An acquired taste, it is somewhat bitter, and the spices etc. are definitely not what a 'modern' chocaholic like myself expect. I rather liked it though. (That's not to say that the recipe was particularly authentic though, it was a chocolate factory tour and not an archeological re-creation). Want to try it?
Hey! Don't knock Dune II. I've still got that about somewhere... It's been a _few_ months since I've played it (since about the release of Dune Emperor actually), but I still fish it out from time to time. FWIW I still have, and regularly play Master of Magic too... Only one I'm still eager to find, in such a state that I can play it, is Carrier Command. Found a version, but... well it didn't really run. Now that was an excellent game.
Would you rather be: A) The Doctor B) A Doctor Who bad guy (Like the Master) C) A Doctor Who gribbly monster. (Cyberman, Dalek) D) A Doctor Who assistant. E) Cowboy Neal sitting on the sofa watching the above episode.
So all we have to do is compose a bulk email to all the millions of people around the world:
Would you like to see the scourge of SPAM eliminated? All you need do is send 1 dollar to this address, and we'll take all the money, en mass, and use it to hire contract killers.
Never recieve spam again! All those who send it will be eliminated.
I can just see the possibilities now...
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There's not no-gravity, that's why we have satellites in 'orbit'.
Basically everything in orbit is perpetually falling towards the earth, but because it's got a large sideways vector, it keeps 'missing'.
It _seems_ to be zero gravity, because the object are in free-fall. Microgravity exists because everything is falling at the same rate.
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Sorry, cant quantify offtopic. /.er to correct people who use phrases such as 'more offtopic' 'really freezing' 'very boiling'. (And hurt them)
In as much as you can't quantify 'freezing' 'boiling'
It's your moral duty as a
Warm beer in the UK is because we actually have beer which tastes good.
Not like these half-arsed low alcohol imitations, that _have_ to be chilled in order to be drinkable.
OK, under 5k for home cinema. Oh, and you are still paying, what $20/$30 per DVD? .uk it's about £5 ~= $7.50).
Sigh no danger. $5k + $20 per film (admittedly for repeated viewing, but let's face it, how often do you re-watch the same thing at the cinema) Compared to how much for the cinema? (Don't know about US prices, but in
If anything, the film manufacturers make _more_ from selling the DVDs. So what if a few skip the initial $7.50 preview....
(Of course, when you start to bring in DivX piracy, the game changes, but usually the home cinema enthusiasts see DivX as being far too low quality)
The thing about generalisations though, is that everybody does it.
My favourite trick is to have a 'spam only' address, but I seem to have gotten on to the same mailing lists with both... So if I see it in my spam only address, I can use procmail to trash it from my 'main' inbox.
Great!
And what would happen if the people you knew did this too? You'd _never_ speak to each other except by pure chance.
shouldn't that be "shouldn't"?
4 weeks apart? But did the car come first, or did the sex?
This could be very important in determining a causal releationship.
By the way, have you ever noticed how "everyone" always says everyone else is stupid/an idiot/bad driver/etc? I'll be the first to say, though, that I may be that idiot on occasion. My problem is that most people who think they're "frickin' geniuses" are, sadly, not.
More specifically, if you simply assume that everyone you meet or make some form of contact with is an idiot, you won't go too far wrong.
Well, at least until they punch you for being patronising.
I'm sorry, you got that completely wrong: :)
"Ths z gy i uz Clphns ALL th tme nd I nt stpd"
TXT speak is truly the bane of the net.
The problem with doing this is that you are committing a criminal offence by doing so. You are effectively, and wilfully commiting a breach of some computer law in your country.
It's one of those long discussions for a rainy afternoon, but IMHO you need to be careful doing that. After all, code red/nimda is just a worm, but if someone catches you hacking their server, then it'll be you in trouble.
Some discussion occured on various securityfocus mailing lists regarding this point. (I haven't posted a link, because the load on the security focus website is too high at the moment.)
while true; do lynx -dump http://www.riaa.org; done
It wouldn't be a Slashdot story without an RIAA post...
But how _would_ intellectual properly work with a collective mind?
One person buys the CD, and all of a sudden, everyone has heard the music?
I predict that this paper will be banned for violation of the DMCA. It's circumvention of copy protection to share memories of music.
Bill Gates, running MS Borg version 1.0 on his own cyber-body? That TRULY would be justice.
OOps, did you suddenly lock up and turn into a statue in the middle of a conference full of Rabid Unix techies, who then promptly took you for a hydrochloric acid bath?
That _is_ a shame
What they talkin' about.
;p
We already have a collective intelligence, called Slashdot.
The prospect of merging minds with a troll, is not a happy one
Or 'zombie' DoS clients.
Which is a good thing really, when you think about it, because it means that if/when they get their legal right to DoS people, then it's not going to be a very effective one....
Userfriendly link for those who didn't see it :)
A tragic irony isn't it?
I wonder if we can start a campaign to keep the RIAA DoSed off the net. Not that I'd ever condone such a thing, but there are times when a little net abuse is so poetic.
and you end up screaming into the microphone while it sat there flashing its lights "in a friendly way".
:)
Ah, well you see, that was your mistake. You're not supposed to scream at it, because that makes it sulk.
Chocolatl is an interesting drink. Got a sample when on a tour of a chocolate factory. An acquired taste, it is somewhat bitter, and the spices etc. are definitely not what a 'modern' chocaholic like myself expect.
I rather liked it though.
(That's not to say that the recipe was particularly authentic though, it was a chocolate factory tour and not an archeological re-creation).
Want to try it?
Or one of these
Hey! Don't knock Dune II. I've still got that about somewhere...
It's been a _few_ months since I've played it (since about the release of Dune Emperor actually), but I still fish it out from time to time.
FWIW I still have, and regularly play Master of Magic too...
Only one I'm still eager to find, in such a state that I can play it, is Carrier Command. Found a version, but... well it didn't really run. Now that was an excellent game.
So make them train mounted nuclear reactors, and kill two birds with one stone :)
Would you rather be:
A) The Doctor
B) A Doctor Who bad guy (Like the Master)
C) A Doctor Who gribbly monster. (Cyberman, Dalek)
D) A Doctor Who assistant.
E) Cowboy Neal sitting on the sofa watching the above episode.
So all we have to do is compose a bulk email to all the millions of people around the world:
Would you like to see the scourge of SPAM eliminated? All you need do is send 1 dollar to this address, and we'll take all the money, en mass, and use it to hire contract killers.
Never recieve spam again! All those who send it will be eliminated.
I can just see the possibilities now...
There's not no-gravity, that's why we have satellites in 'orbit'.
Basically everything in orbit is perpetually falling towards the earth, but because it's got a large sideways vector, it keeps 'missing'.
It _seems_ to be zero gravity, because the object are in free-fall. Microgravity exists because everything is falling at the same rate.