Given that AFAIK there isnt yet an 8-way board or the 8xx series Opterons, the best gift would be if she designed one, laid it out herself (no rip-up and reroute algorithms, 5 layers max), had a prototype made, added glue logic, processors, liquid cooling, atleast 32GB of RAM, in a nice shiney 5U case with 24 hotswapable 143GB 10K SCSI drives, and thats just for storing and editing the home *cough* movie that you'll be spending the rest of the day making. Ok, so I'm singl-ish, go figure.....
The machines cannot be randomly creative as humans are, while The Architect is able to organise logically the Oracle requires The One to be her randomness by proxy as she is not capable of it herself, this is emphasised many times, e.g.
a) Neo's boss is Mr Rhineheart a reference to Luke Rhineheart who wrote The Dice Man back in the 70s, a book about a man who makes all his choices randomly by throwing a dice.
b) when fighting Morpheus says adaptation is not Neos problem, as Neo is only adapting within the parameters of system and is not able to make the creative leap to outside the system
c) while eating there is a conversation where Mouse observes "To denigh our own impulses is to denigh the very thing that makes us human" again the machines cannot do this
d) when fighting Agent Smith Neo stops trying to unlock Agent Smiths grip and makes the leap to using the environment as part of his attack, a creative leap that Agent Smith cannot anticipate and is therefore beaten by.
e) the final creative leap is realising after his death and resurrection that he, The One, is always a part of the system and therefore defeats Smith by fully becoming him and destoying him from the inside.
I would want the money and see the investigators, the DVD Consortium and lawyers on the other side face trial for malicious prosecution, because in the end that is exactly what it was.
I would disgree, I would say, on the Internet the delta of branding can change very fast, it can mean something one day and much less the next or visa-versa. A good example is the Iraq war, the was the making of two brands Al-Jazerra and Salem Pax, AFAIR Al-Jazerra was getting an additional 40,000 subscribers in Europe per week during the war and when they put up an English version of their website it was constantly/.ed as they had proven themselves to be very accurate with their reporting, much more so than many western media who where regurgitating what politians and military analysts were saying while Al-Jazerra had people on the ground telling you exactly what was happening. I was personally shocked when I saw on the BBC the newspeople claiming there was an uprising in Basra, only to find Al-Jazerra had people there and were showing no uprising at all. Of course the Baghdad Blogger AKA Salem Pax was the other brand that exploded into popular consciousness with his blog, Where is Raed? It was only when the US bombed the hell out of all the phone exchanges that they managed to shut him down until the "major combat operations" were over. So there you go, branding is now not the province of brand marketers, boutiques, advertising agencies and the like, branding is now, on the net, something determined more by the customer, and that scares alot of people who are used to having control of what the brand is. Personally I think it's a good thing, if the gloosy advertising says something is great, and you need to buy this product/service from this corp because they are so wonderful and all the related websites say they suck, you know they suck and the brand will actually be a negative to you. This is of course another example of how the unidirectional / assymetric nature of communications and modern life is being leveled by technology.
Actually I have two words for you - Monopolistic Abuse, they should be instantly refered to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, but of course that isnt going to happen, I'm sure Blair and the boys will get paid to look the other way, you should be grateful, you're a CD buyer not an Iraqi / WMD expert / ITN newsnam , they kill those, if you're really lucky they wont make you pay taxes directly to the Blairs Backers / Blairs Cronies. Canada and Australia are looking like better options every day.
That gives me an idea, as SCO ae going to go after European companies now, what you need to do is be a British company that gets hit with one of those threatening letters, then you go out and buy a large number of Put options (you make money on them if their share price goes down) then launch a private criminal prosecution for fraud, or to be sepcific "Attempting To Obtain Money By Deception" in tue legalese, which will be nicely paid for by their stock falling off a cliff as it's a criminal case and you get to put all the SCO execs in jail too. Hacking isnt just for computers, it's good for the financial / justice system as well.
IKYAAL (I Know You Are A Lawyer) because while your argument seems on the surface plausable it misses the most crucial point -
playmate
\Play"mate`\, n. A companion in diversions; a playfellow.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, (C) 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
The dictionary does not specify what diversions, and not not say that they have to be childhood, or even non-sexual, in short a playmate is someone to play with, and that can include in a sexual way. The fact that playmate, like many other standard English words has been trademarked is an indication that like patents and copyrights people have taken a system that should help build and made it destroy. Perhaps Playboy and it's legal team should have a new moto "I have become death, the destroyer of words".
More AD, as it's not Inexpensive, 4 x $169 (cheapest quote on pricewatch.com for 250GB drives) = $507 that leaves $692 for the interface electronics and profit, now if it had 5 drives arranged as a RAID 5 array that would be nearer the mark, right now you'd paying over the odds for this, even though it comes in a nice shiny box.
It was Barnes Wallace who invented the Bouncing Bomb used against the German dams, though as the film makes clear he borrowed it from Horatio Nelson who used to bounce cannonballs off the water to get a more devestating impact against a target, as is made clear in the film, Barnes was a complete ubergeek, which is best summed up by an exchange in which a military man sat behind a desk asks him how he intends to get hold of a Wellington bomber to test his theory to which he replies "I'll tell them I designed it".
It could be worse, you could get arrested for copying your freinds girlfreind, I think these two chaps need to settle this once and for all, a meeting in Copenhagen should do it.
This is a great idea, I can post an MP3 of myself mumbling something unintelligible on the company website, and now we're a music publisher with permanent antitrust exemption, now if only the excellent Mr. Hatch gives employees of music publishers immunity from criminal prosecution I can hire my staff out as hitmen with impunity!
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Keyboard seldyia I'm afraid, had to type fast, before anyone else thought of it, and I didnt even get moded up as funny, oh well, I'm at the karma cap anyhow.
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And the ticker symbol is changed from SCOX to SUX...
FireBox is great for gadgets and toys, run by a couple of real geeks, and no I dont work for them, family member etc, I'm just a customer.
Given that AFAIK there isnt yet an 8-way board or the 8xx series Opterons, the best gift would be if she designed one, laid it out herself (no rip-up and reroute algorithms, 5 layers max), had a prototype made, added glue logic, processors, liquid cooling, atleast 32GB of RAM, in a nice shiney 5U case with 24 hotswapable 143GB 10K SCSI drives, and thats just for storing and editing the home *cough* movie that you'll be spending the rest of the day making. Ok, so I'm singl-ish, go figure.....
The machines cannot be randomly creative as humans are, while The Architect is able to organise logically the Oracle requires The One to be her randomness by proxy as she is not capable of it herself, this is emphasised many times, e.g.
a) Neo's boss is Mr Rhineheart a reference to Luke Rhineheart who wrote The Dice Man back in the 70s, a book about a man who makes all his choices randomly by throwing a dice.
b) when fighting Morpheus says adaptation is not Neos problem, as Neo is only adapting within the parameters of system and is not able to make the creative leap to outside the system
c) while eating there is a conversation where Mouse observes "To denigh our own impulses is to denigh the very thing that makes us human" again the machines cannot do this
d) when fighting Agent Smith Neo stops trying to unlock Agent Smiths grip and makes the leap to using the environment as part of his attack, a creative leap that Agent Smith cannot anticipate and is therefore beaten by.
e) the final creative leap is realising after his death and resurrection that he, The One, is always a part of the system and therefore defeats Smith by fully becoming him and destoying him from the inside.
1. Set up social-networking site
2. Let no one in
3. Once everyone is talking about it ask for $1 per invite via PayPal
4. Profit!
I would want the money and see the investigators, the DVD Consortium and lawyers on the other side face trial for malicious prosecution, because in the end that is exactly what it was.
On the Internet, name brand means nothing.
/.ed as they had proven themselves to be very accurate with their reporting, much more so than many western media who where regurgitating what politians and military analysts were saying while Al-Jazerra had people on the ground telling you exactly what was happening. I was personally shocked when I saw on the BBC the newspeople claiming there was an uprising in Basra, only to find Al-Jazerra had people there and were showing no uprising at all. Of course the Baghdad Blogger AKA Salem Pax was the other brand that exploded into popular consciousness with his blog, Where is Raed? It was only when the US bombed the hell out of all the phone exchanges that they managed to shut him down until the "major combat operations" were over. So there you go, branding is now not the province of brand marketers, boutiques, advertising agencies and the like, branding is now, on the net, something determined more by the customer, and that scares alot of people who are used to having control of what the brand is. Personally I think it's a good thing, if the gloosy advertising says something is great, and you need to buy this product/service from this corp because they are so wonderful and all the related websites say they suck, you know they suck and the brand will actually be a negative to you. This is of course another example of how the unidirectional / assymetric nature of communications and modern life is being leveled by technology.
I would disgree, I would say, on the Internet the delta of branding can change very fast, it can mean something one day and much less the next or visa-versa. A good example is the Iraq war, the was the making of two brands Al-Jazerra and Salem Pax, AFAIR Al-Jazerra was getting an additional 40,000 subscribers in Europe per week during the war and when they put up an English version of their website it was constantly
Actually I have two words for you - Monopolistic Abuse, they should be instantly refered to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, but of course that isnt going to happen, I'm sure Blair and the boys will get paid to look the other way, you should be grateful, you're a CD buyer not an Iraqi / WMD expert / ITN newsnam , they kill those, if you're really lucky they wont make you pay taxes directly to the Blairs Backers / Blairs Cronies. Canada and Australia are looking like better options every day.
That gives me an idea, as SCO ae going to go after European companies now, what you need to do is be a British company that gets hit with one of those threatening letters, then you go out and buy a large number of Put options (you make money on them if their share price goes down) then launch a private criminal prosecution for fraud, or to be sepcific "Attempting To Obtain Money By Deception" in tue legalese, which will be nicely paid for by their stock falling off a cliff as it's a criminal case and you get to put all the SCO execs in jail too. Hacking isnt just for computers, it's good for the financial / justice system as well.
IKYAAL (I Know You Are A Lawyer) because while your argument seems on the surface plausable it misses the most crucial point -
playmate
\Play"mate`\, n. A companion in diversions; a playfellow.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, (C) 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
The dictionary does not specify what diversions, and not not say that they have to be childhood, or even non-sexual, in short a playmate is someone to play with, and that can include in a sexual way. The fact that playmate, like many other standard English words has been trademarked is an indication that like patents and copyrights people have taken a system that should help build and made it destroy. Perhaps Playboy and it's legal team should have a new moto "I have become death, the destroyer of words".
There is no .NET
I think once your wife found out that the trip involved Carrie Ann Moss and a shower you might find divorce papers waiting for you at home.
More AD, as it's not Inexpensive, 4 x $169 (cheapest quote on pricewatch.com for 250GB drives) = $507 that leaves $692 for the interface electronics and profit, now if it had 5 drives arranged as a RAID 5 array that would be nearer the mark, right now you'd paying over the odds for this, even though it comes in a nice shiny box.
Pr0nfountain leads to sticky keyboards
It was Barnes Wallace who invented the Bouncing Bomb used against the German dams, though as the film makes clear he borrowed it from Horatio Nelson who used to bounce cannonballs off the water to get a more devestating impact against a target, as is made clear in the film, Barnes was a complete ubergeek, which is best summed up by an exchange in which a military man sat behind a desk asks him how he intends to get hold of a Wellington bomber to test his theory to which he replies "I'll tell them I designed it".
Thought they just recounted tales of BOFH?
Actually it should have read -
Wi-Fi, 'shrooms, Anarchist Cookbook and ingredents for 50 gallons of home made napalm
It could be worse, you could get arrested for copying your freinds girlfreind, I think these two chaps need to settle this once and for all, a meeting in Copenhagen should do it.
When you think the page is /.ed so you traceroute and find Harvard is using Cogent!
Verity Stob fiction becoming fact?
Numbers to be patentable
Patented numbers 'a good idea'
First integer patented
Softwron shows off its new technology
'Wron number caught in Fermat-defying romp
Whats next, the USPO taking it's cue from The Onion?
It takes me back too, to the days when PEEK and POKE were innocent words to my young mind...
This is a great idea, I can post an MP3 of myself mumbling something unintelligible on the company website, and now we're a music publisher with permanent antitrust exemption, now if only the excellent Mr. Hatch gives employees of music publishers immunity from criminal prosecution I can hire my staff out as hitmen with impunity!
It's downloadable free from here
Shame she's attached, well atleast you can have a laugh with her about my post, and thanks for the response.
Keyboard seldyia I'm afraid, had to type fast, before anyone else thought of it, and I didnt even get moded up as funny, oh well, I'm at the karma cap anyhow.