OK, hasn't anyone seen the Terminator series? With pretator drones already in existence it is only a matter of time before the machines take over and man will become a hunted animal, hiding from swarms of robot drones circling overhead.
And isn't anyone suspicious of Arnold Schawartzenegger's race for governor. Wait until he is elected and peels off his humanoid skin to reaval that he is leader of the first wave of machines poised to enslave mankind.
As the battle heats up it becomes more and more obvious that SCO doesn't have a leg to stand on. Their moves are becoming more and more irrational. So what is their motive? They obviously can't win the law suits or make any money off their ridiculous licensing claims. Their motive must be to discredit Linux and the GPL. Now who would stand to benefit from this? Microsoft. There must be a direct link and collusion between Microsoft and SCO. What is needed is either a public or government investigation of this link and its misuse of the court system. While Bill Gates will probably escape any prosecution (again) the real power behind the FUD being spread by SCO needs to be revealed in the court of public opinion.
Maybe Mr. Bush should also. But then anyone who thinks that the U.S. and Japan have had peaceful relations for the past 150 years must be a history expert already.
As the battle heats up it becomes more and more obvious that SCO doesn't have a leg to stand on. Their moves are becoming more and more irrational. So what is their motive? They obviously can't win the law suits or make any money off their ridiculous licensing claims. Their motive must be to discredit Linux and the GPL. Now who would stand to benefit from this? Microsoft. There must be a direct link and collusion between Microsoft and SCO. What is needed is either a public or government investigation of this collusion and its misuse of the court system. While Bill Gates will probably escape any prosecution (again) the real power behind the FUD being spread by SCO needs to be revealed in the court of public opinion.
OK off my soap box.
Don't you hate people who don't put their sig in a separate paragraph?
That should be "I am death, the destroyer of all." Oppenheimer had a bad translation of the Bhagavad Gita. The sanskrit is "Mrtuh Sarva haras ca aham." (Well linguists are nurds too.)
The story did not say that once the parachutes deployed the rocket was caught by a gust of wind and became lodged in a pine tree down the block. It took several hours of throwing rocks and sticks to finally knock it down.
"Neo is not the 1, he is the eigenvector that will create a skew matrix."
One of the better books on OS X that I've found is "Mac OS X Unleashed" by John Ray and William C. Ray. It covers the new GUI based features and apps in OSX such as iPhoto and iTune, but the best part is that over half the book is dedicated to using the terminal. It covers the quirks in OS X/Darwin compared to other UNIX-like systems. Best used as a reference manual, but if you want to read all 1500 pages you are welcome to it.
(I don't have a link to Amazon, but send me money if you like it.)
Video Recorders are made to to one thing. Computer do many different things. What we are seeing here in the computer market is the realization that one OS does'NT fit all. Graphic Designers prefer Macs. Linux is making an impact in the server market. Macs are great as small servers and for music . . .
There will always be room for OS's that only have a 5% or 3% share. The question is can a computer manufacturer survive with only a small share of the market. So far Mac has been able to do so.
Why use.NET? I am happy with my Mac OS X running Apache and FileMaker for the web. A little Perl, a few Java applets, what more do I need? If there is a reason for me to move my site to.NET please let me know. Is it worth the learning curve?
As a new owner of an iMac with iTunes I think that being able to transfer CD music to my hard drive encourages me to buy CD's. Once they are in iTunes i can create my own playlists or let random shuffle pick the songs for me. I have been dissapointed with the quality of MP3's and prefer CD's, but I have to buy them to get the music I want.
The music industry has been trying to pre-program the minds of listeners for years. They need to return to the 60's type of music promotion where everyone was looking for the "new sound" instead of using MTV belly buttons to sell over produced krp.
Wasn't the news of a human clone being born to a member of a cult one of the interogative headlines from Heinlin's "Stranger in a Strange Land"? What's next, are we to await the arrival of Valentine Michael Smith? Grok!
OK, so have any of these developers seen Terminator? Real life Predator drones, what's next? Will man become a hunted animal in a world ruled by machines gone mad? The robots in Asimov's tales were relativly benign since they had to follow the three laws, but hasn't anyone read Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"?
OK, so according to some previous articles posted on slashdot, spammers send out 5 million e-mails for a single promotion. Tax them.1 cents per e-mail and it costs them $5000 dollars. This would seriously cut into their profits since they only expect a few percents of the e-mails to be responded to. The average user would only pay a few cents a month.
I understand that the rocket will use a hundred Estes "D" rockets. The only problem will be recoveing the rocket without the parachute becoming stuck in nearby trees.
Running Chimera (Mozilla for OS X). Ho Hum another active X exploit. Now as a sys admin for an all Apple office what do I have to do? Well, I still haven't finished reading the old Andre Norton paperback I found at the used bookstore...
I actually got up at 5 a.m. and drove to the outskits of town to watch the shower. It was great, I counted 100 in 20 minutes. If it wasn't so cold here I would have stayed out longer (35F, I know thats balmy for some of you, but cold for Tallahassee). At least the skies were clear.
Some seemed to skip along the atmosphere, fading in and out. There were several doubles and triples going off in different directions. Full moon, but it was low in the sky by 5 a.m. and didn't seem to cause too much back glow. Can't wait for the next big one 100 years from now.
The only problem with the launch was that once the paracute opened, the wind caught the rocket and it got stuck in a tree down the block. One of the neighbor hood kids got it down by throwing a stick at it.
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http://www.arscomica.com/imageoftheday.html
And isn't anyone suspicious of Arnold Schawartzenegger's race for governor. Wait until he is elected and peels off his humanoid skin to reaval that he is leader of the first wave of machines poised to enslave mankind.
OK off my soap box.
Maybe Mr. Bush should also. But then anyone who thinks that the U.S. and Japan have had peaceful relations for the past 150 years must be a history expert already.
http://www.dubyaspeak.com/
OK off my soap box. Don't you hate people who don't put their sig in a separate paragraph?
Dang, I found this on Der Spiegel and was about to post it, but I had to track down the English version first.
Matrix is short for Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange.
Only the begining . . .
No.
That should be "I am death, the destroyer of all." Oppenheimer had a bad translation of the Bhagavad Gita. The sanskrit is "Mrtuh Sarva haras ca aham." (Well linguists are nurds too.)
The story did not say that once the parachutes deployed the rocket was caught by a gust of wind and became lodged in a pine tree down the block. It took several hours of throwing rocks and sticks to finally knock it down.
"Neo is not the 1, he is the eigenvector that will create a skew matrix."
How sad :-(
One of the better books on OS X that I've found is "Mac OS X Unleashed" by John Ray and William C. Ray. It covers the new GUI based features and apps in OSX such as iPhoto and iTune, but the best part is that over half the book is dedicated to using the terminal. It covers the quirks in OS X/Darwin compared to other UNIX-like systems. Best used as a reference manual, but if you want to read all 1500 pages you are welcome to it.
(I don't have a link to Amazon, but send me money if you like it.)
apple is in league with the music companies that are the riaa i dont think steve would torpedo his business partners
at least read the article befor responding
Video Recorders are made to to one thing. Computer do many different things. What we are seeing here in the computer market is the realization that one OS does'NT fit all. Graphic Designers prefer Macs. Linux is making an impact in the server market. Macs are great as small servers and for music . . .
There will always be room for OS's that only have a 5% or 3% share. The question is can a computer manufacturer survive with only a small share of the market. So far Mac has been able to do so.
If the cypress tree in the garden falls on Schroedinger's cat, does the cat make a sound?
Why use .NET? I am happy with my Mac OS X running Apache and FileMaker for the web. A little Perl, a few Java applets, what more do I need? If there is a reason for me to move my site to .NET please let me know. Is it worth the learning curve?
As a new owner of an iMac with iTunes I think that being able to transfer CD music to my hard drive encourages me to buy CD's. Once they are in iTunes i can create my own playlists or let random shuffle pick the songs for me. I have been dissapointed with the quality of MP3's and prefer CD's, but I have to buy them to get the music I want.
The music industry has been trying to pre-program the minds of listeners for years. They need to return to the 60's type of music promotion where everyone was looking for the "new sound" instead of using MTV belly buttons to sell over produced krp.
ok rant over, back to work, peace
Wasn't the news of a human clone being born to a member of a cult one of the interogative headlines from Heinlin's "Stranger in a Strange Land"? What's next, are we to await the arrival of Valentine Michael Smith? Grok!
Yes, but what is the question?
OK, so have any of these developers seen Terminator? Real life Predator drones, what's next? Will man become a hunted animal in a world ruled by machines gone mad? The robots in Asimov's tales were relativly benign since they had to follow the three laws, but hasn't anyone read Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"?
OK, so according to some previous articles posted on slashdot, spammers send out 5 million e-mails for a single promotion. Tax them .1 cents per e-mail and it costs them $5000 dollars. This would seriously cut into their profits since they only expect a few percents of the e-mails to be responded to. The average user would only pay a few cents a month.
I understand that the rocket will use a hundred Estes "D" rockets. The only problem will be recoveing the rocket without the parachute becoming stuck in nearby trees.
Doh.
Running Chimera (Mozilla for OS X). Ho Hum another active X exploit. Now as a sys admin for an all Apple office what do I have to do? Well, I still haven't finished reading the old Andre Norton paperback I found at the used bookstore ...
I actually got up at 5 a.m. and drove to the outskits of town to watch the shower. It was great, I counted 100 in 20 minutes. If it wasn't so cold here I would have stayed out longer (35F, I know thats balmy for some of you, but cold for Tallahassee). At least the skies were clear.
Some seemed to skip along the atmosphere, fading in and out. There were several doubles and triples going off in different directions. Full moon, but it was low in the sky by 5 a.m. and didn't seem to cause too much back glow. Can't wait for the next big one 100 years from now.
The only problem with the launch was that once the paracute opened, the wind caught the rocket and it got stuck in a tree down the block. One of the neighbor hood kids got it down by throwing a stick at it.