I remember a USENET post from a few (10?) years ago from a guy that had trouble power-snoozing, so he wrote a program for his computer to play obnoxious WAV files continuously until he could successfully factor five random integers into their prime components.
No, Google couldn't find the original post. (Sorry.)
I've been told it's cool, but I've got 50 spacebucks for anyone who can explain how Kartoo works and why is more useful than a search engine that returns "normal" text results.
I've read the FAQ, I even ran a few searches through it and fiddled with the results, but I still don't get it. Near as I can tell, it's just a way of making spaced-out pictures of words with circles and arrows around them - you know, like PowerPoint, but with fewer distractions.
...especially that part about combining G4 with TechTV. WOOHOO! Half as many options as I have right now?! Please make it a premium subscription channel!
I know someone else that had this problem, so even though I haven't run into this myself, I got to thinking about it. Why couldn't you just run down to CompUSA or BestBuy and get one of those $50 Linksys NAT boxes and do your build behind that? Yeah, it's $50, but it should let you finish the patch downloads without exposing any infectable ports, and you can leave it in place after you're done to prevent inbound traffic from clogging ZA's logs.
It's been a few years since I had to think about this, but I think that's an electric dipole moment, not a magnetic moment you're thinking of.
As I remember it, the 'V' shaped arrangement (H-O-H) of the atoms in the H2O molecule result in a slight misalignment of the electron clouds of the atoms, causing a small electric dipole moment capable of bonding other nearby similarly configured molecules into chains. It's responsible for the hydrogen bonding that gives water its viscosity.
Pardon me for answering my own post, but this continues to dumbfound me.
SCO is represented by attorneys who are arguing a suit over source code copyright infringement who do not understand computers well enough to correctly identify binary digits. It's bad enough that this wasn't caught by a proofreader and ended up in a document filed with the court; but even worse, SOMEBODY TYPED THAT IN TO BEGIN WITH! My guess is that someone googled a definition of binary code and misread the text of the definition.
If they can't tell the difference between binary digits and alpha letters, how are they going to argue the subtleties of source code?
Maybe this partially explains why Boies' firm took the case? Personally, I'm disappointed, but I'm popping popcorn if this thing actually gets to court -- it should be fun to watch.
Ditto, and wouldn't it be even better to record the votes on the ballots in plain english in an easily OCR-able font? Then the tabulator would only have to OCR the ballot and count the number of string occurrences. It takes advantage of technology, provides easy voter review without secret-looking barcodes (because the tabulator sees what you see), and it's even allows for write-in votes to be cast.
I penciled out a sketch of my idea in my journal - check it out if you want.
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I remember a USENET post from a few (10?) years ago from a guy that had trouble power-snoozing, so he wrote a program for his computer to play obnoxious WAV files continuously until he could successfully factor five random integers into their prime components.
No, Google couldn't find the original post. (Sorry.)
I've been told it's cool, but I've got 50 spacebucks for anyone who can explain how Kartoo works and why is more useful than a search engine that returns "normal" text results.
I've read the FAQ, I even ran a few searches through it and fiddled with the results, but I still don't get it. Near as I can tell, it's just a way of making spaced-out pictures of words with circles and arrows around them - you know, like PowerPoint, but with fewer distractions.
Is it because I don't do drugs?
Dwarf-throwing is illegal?! Did I miss a meeting?
Maybe the answer is in who they are polling, not what they are polling about.
...especially that part about combining G4 with TechTV. WOOHOO! Half as many options as I have right now?! Please make it a premium subscription channel!
Prior Art?
Too bad we can't mod the modders, because I'd give a +5 Funny to everyone who modded that "Insightful" instead of "Funny".
I know someone else that had this problem, so even though I haven't run into this myself, I got to thinking about it. Why couldn't you just run down to CompUSA or BestBuy and get one of those $50 Linksys NAT boxes and do your build behind that? Yeah, it's $50, but it should let you finish the patch downloads without exposing any infectable ports, and you can leave it in place after you're done to prevent inbound traffic from clogging ZA's logs.
Mmmmmmm... fork-pie.... [drool][gurgle][drool]....
That's not what a 'spamhole' is around *my* office. Pfft!
Changing the *angle* between the hydrogen atoms?!?!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH---HA-HAHAHA
By the way, Quackwatch and Junk Science are great places to get info for "enlightening the unclean", so to speak.
According to Alton Brown ("Good Eats"), milk is the most complex food we have.
It's been a few years since I had to think about this, but I think that's an electric dipole moment, not a magnetic moment you're thinking of.
As I remember it, the 'V' shaped arrangement (H-O-H) of the atoms in the H2O molecule result in a slight misalignment of the electron clouds of the atoms, causing a small electric dipole moment capable of bonding other nearby similarly configured molecules into chains. It's responsible for the hydrogen bonding that gives water its viscosity.
magnetic water?
HA-HAHAHAHAHA HOHOHOHO HEE!
My wife actually knows someone that drinks 'magnetic water' to remove various unnamed 'toxins' from her body. Weird.
I was thinking of Krusty's back-room writing team on The Simpsons, but that's even more hilariouser -- what are the odds!?
Actually, I hadn't considered OCR as a possible culprit. You're probably right. I mean, that's just too *bizarre* to be an authentic error in 2003.
Pardon me for answering my own post, but this continues to dumbfound me.
SCO is represented by attorneys who are arguing a suit over source code copyright infringement who do not understand computers well enough to correctly identify binary digits. It's bad enough that this wasn't caught by a proofreader and ended up in a document filed with the court; but even worse, SOMEBODY TYPED THAT IN TO BEGIN WITH! My guess is that someone googled a definition of binary code and misread the text of the definition.
If they can't tell the difference between binary digits and alpha letters, how are they going to argue the subtleties of source code?
Maybe this partially explains why Boies' firm took the case? Personally, I'm disappointed, but I'm popping popcorn if this thing actually gets to court -- it should be fun to watch.
Check out this snippet from the footnotes at the end:
[1] Object or binary code is the code computers use and appears as a series of is and Os.
Someone please explain to SCO's attorneys that:
i != 1
and
O != 0
Don't they have ANYONE in their office who knows enough about computers to proofread this stuff?
Back when I was your age, a 9800 baud was one thrilling piece of hardware.
It must have been! I've never heard of such a beast until you just mentioned it.
And to think... mine was a paltry 9600 baud.
I think 9800 was USR Courier proprietary protocol -- You old enough to remember *THAT*, Sonny?!?!
...if you read that as "Gnome BOOTY hunt", and wondered what bozo posted this on
Heh, heh... Derek Smart... Heh, heh, heh...
Derek Smart's Desktop Commander has to be the second drop-dead funniest thingy about gaming ever done, right after OMM's absolutely perfect Crate Rating System.
Don't copy that floppy!
Yeah, that's right. This game is probably doomed, too.
It took me about 10 minutes to figure that out because the slashdot HTM filter didn't print the "<"s.
It sez: "How do you think folks like me feel?", and you need the "<"s to make the "K"s.
She added that the Internet was not broken, as traffic was rerouted through other networks.
Au contraire. The Internet *IS* broken, regardless of damage to this particular cable.
Ditto, and wouldn't it be even better to record the votes on the ballots in plain english in an easily OCR-able font? Then the tabulator would only have to OCR the ballot and count the number of string occurrences. It takes advantage of technology, provides easy voter review without secret-looking barcodes (because the tabulator sees what you see), and it's even allows for write-in votes to be cast.
I penciled out a sketch of my idea in my journal - check it out if you want.