Would you be able to explain that to us, or would our fragile little heads explode from our inability to comprehend such things, as you have been able to?
My old university has all of 149.150.x.x. There's about 10,000 students & faculty, and each machine used to occupy a single public IP. Now, they have several private VLAN's (10.x.x.x), so now only every building has an IP (well, a few addresses). So between regular Internet access, plus servers, etc., there's probably a couple hundred IP's in use...out of 65534! Aces.
I'd also like to know if companies like IBM, GE, and such really use all of their class A's; or of the US DoD really uses their multiple class A's (at least 3 that ARIN would let me check before they started denying my frequent requests -- that's at least 50 million addresses)
Wait a minute... these days I don't think anyone tolerates kids being hit (if not for moral reasons, because they don't want to end up on the news or on NBC's Extra with an expose' or some shit). Also the U.S. doesn't actively "arm" people, it just provides a 230-year old ambiguously-worded law that seems to allow everyone the right to own firearms. Eh, what can ya do.
fuckin' M! I was thinking about buying just a few shares of SCO the other day (when it was $6). I could have made a few bucks (140%).
If I were to buy just like 10 shares from one of those cheapo brokerage things, the most I'd lose is under $100, but if they win the suit with IBM, get bought by IBM/whoever then I'd make some cash, and end up with stock with another company. Right? (I don't really know how this stuff works)
This is somewhat off-topic, but interesting nonetheless. My friend found this story in the town newspaper's archives (July 11, 1963), just today:
The Post Office Department has announced with more than usual enthusiasm that "Zip Code Is Here!"
Doubtless it will mean increased efficiency for the department. Instead of thinking in terms of places, sorters of mail will now use numbers. According to the new post office terminology you no longer live in Secaucus, NJ, but in 07094. To compare its relative merit, it's like trying to find your way around in a city that has all name streets against one in which streets and avenues are numbered in progressive order.
On the other side of the coin, "Zip Code" is a continuation of an ominous trend to reduce everything to mathematical terms. Telephone exchanges have been changed to simple arithmetic combinations. Before that we were given social security numbers and now even national account numbers.
Countermoves to make us feel more individualistic and less "just another number" would seen to be in order.
I'd really like to see MNG get more attention and support. Last I checked you have to get special plugins for it, to view them with IE. Not sure if Mozilla supports them yet.
I want to get the hell away from GIFs, because I don't want to have to get a license to use it (not like it really matters), and plus being limited to 256 colors sucks.
There isn't anything "natural" about cars or corrective lenses, or supermarkets or even a reliable supply of food.
I've thought about this myself, about the corrective lenses part. In the year 2560, when machines take over the Earth, and we don't have access to contact lenses and glasses, then what? All the people that were "supposed" to be "filtered out" have passed on their bad-vision genetic code, and everyone in the world has bad eyesight. Now everyone's bumping into each other, unable to find food, etc. By this point people also probably lost all their hunting instincts.
Technology, which for now is compensating for our bodily imperfections, is a crutch that might not always be there. And the time it won't be there...
And then on top of that, the compiler optimizes that code, so calculations are no longer the straightforward and intuitive things they used to be, now they're a series of out-of-order, smaller calculations that are harder to recognize. They're efficient as hell but barely reversible.
If that isn't the case then the guilty party is the person that put the offending code in Linux, not all the users (commercial or not) that later used Linux.
True...if IBM stole some SCO code for AIX (or HP with HPUX, or whatever), would every user in the world who bought that software be liable? I guess the difference is that it's free software, but why would that make users responsible for it? I don't get this whole thing.
I believe that IP address was fictitious, either a reserved address or some silly thing like 314.192.36.389
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Well clearly the "scientific" and "authoritative" part was a joke. But the point is, some have found evidence Ogg is better. I'm not saying it's the BEST EVER, it's just not always worse than WMA as the AC claimed.
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First, it was a joke, asshead. Take it easy.
Second, a highly scientific and authoritative experiment by "LitexMedia.com" shows that much of the time Ogg has superior quality, and when it's not the difference is only subtle.
there is no official reference to any particular religion because that way, you might be dumb enough to think that they are talking about YOUR religion
This man speaks sense. I think the Wachowski brothers did intend for some philosophical and theological elements perhaps to enhance the story, but the claim that their changing of the WB logo, which is from the Greek for "word", corrupts the "word" of the Gospel of John...utter baloney.
Also, I'm not entirely convinced that the "Matrix" is the "womb" from which Neo (a/k/a Jesus Christ) is reborn, as opposed to the definition mathematicians and computer scientists would be familiar with.
Finally, where's Pontius Pilate in all this? I thought that would be an easy one to figure out. Maybe they couldn't figure out a numerological correlation with the letters in character names and somehow tie it to the Romans or Satan or something. How about the smoking Oracle lady? Tank? Switch? They're all important characters. Typical "religion logic" -- leave out the things you can't explain.
I'm not saying the article is all crap (I found some of it interesting), just that people come up with some pretty silly explanations "proving" how everything is about Holy Holy Jesus. (sorry about the flamage)
Just before I graduated high school (1998), they let me take one of the Apple ][e's (notice that I'm using "][" like a giant nerd) that they were about to throw away.
I was so pleased with it. I took a couple disk drives, an old networking card (don't know what kind it was), and even the 80-column expansion card. I took it apart and was fascinated with the cruddy old architecture.
Then one day a couple years ago my mom threw it away, saying it was a "broken old piece of junk" (they did the same to my Vic-20 and ColecoVision).
Almost a year after Paul Graham's "A Plan For Spam" Bayesian is still the easiest system to develop as well as the easiest for the user to use.
I don't know why more people/ISPs aren't using this. This system seems to be the most effective because it doesn't have silly little measures (that block the word "cock", for example, but not the word "c0ck") -- it seems to rate the spam based on its content, which no spammer can get around.
Also, does anyone else forsee spammers hiring people to sit around and answer verification questions all day? It's a hell of a lot faster to do than actually placing calls to people and talking to them, and people (well, if you want to call telemarketers "people", I think they're sub-human) do this all the time.
Gotta love these sarcastic and extreme comments. Did he say we should teach everyone how to create explosives? Did he say that we shouldn't teach the scientific method?
Simmer down. He's complaining that they're dumbing down books, preventing kids from learning important things about chemistry and physics -- not that we're not training kids to be little terrorists.
I used to have some compassion for telemarketers; I'd listen to their shpeil for a couple seconds and politely decline. These days, I have no compassion, and either tell them to piss off or just hang up on them.
I know they're just doing their job. But their job annoys me personally, and they are aware of it. Why not get a better job (better as in, better serves humanity)? Be a waiter, cab driver, janitor, anything that doesn't demand a whole lot of skill, pays better, and annoys people less.
Or is being a telemarketer really that well-paying?
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PLEASE REVEAL TO US, NEO!
I'd also like to know if companies like IBM, GE, and such really use all of their class A's; or of the US DoD really uses their multiple class A's (at least 3 that ARIN would let me check before they started denying my frequent requests -- that's at least 50 million addresses)
But yeah, we do cook people.
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If I were to buy just like 10 shares from one of those cheapo brokerage things, the most I'd lose is under $100, but if they win the suit with IBM, get bought by IBM/whoever then I'd make some cash, and end up with stock with another company. Right? (I don't really know how this stuff works)
The Post Office Department has announced with more than usual enthusiasm that "Zip Code Is Here!"
Doubtless it will mean increased efficiency for the department. Instead of thinking in terms of places, sorters of mail will now use numbers. According to the new post office terminology you no longer live in Secaucus, NJ, but in 07094. To compare its relative merit, it's like trying to find your way around in a city that has all name streets against one in which streets and avenues are numbered in progressive order.
On the other side of the coin, "Zip Code" is a continuation of an ominous trend to reduce everything to mathematical terms. Telephone exchanges have been changed to simple arithmetic combinations. Before that we were given social security numbers and now even national account numbers.
Countermoves to make us feel more individualistic and less "just another number" would seen to be in order.
Rad Hat is totally awesome, dude!! 8-)
I want to get the hell away from GIFs, because I don't want to have to get a license to use it (not like it really matters), and plus being limited to 256 colors sucks.
I've thought about this myself, about the corrective lenses part. In the year 2560, when machines take over the Earth, and we don't have access to contact lenses and glasses, then what? All the people that were "supposed" to be "filtered out" have passed on their bad-vision genetic code, and everyone in the world has bad eyesight. Now everyone's bumping into each other, unable to find food, etc. By this point people also probably lost all their hunting instincts.
Technology, which for now is compensating for our bodily imperfections, is a crutch that might not always be there. And the time it won't be there...
I'll RTFA when it comes back to life :).
True...if IBM stole some SCO code for AIX (or HP with HPUX, or whatever), would every user in the world who bought that software be liable? I guess the difference is that it's free software, but why would that make users responsible for it? I don't get this whole thing.
sane justice system...
HAHAHAHAH
I believe that IP address was fictitious, either a reserved address or some silly thing like 314.192.36.389
Well clearly the "scientific" and "authoritative" part was a joke. But the point is, some have found evidence Ogg is better. I'm not saying it's the BEST EVER, it's just not always worse than WMA as the AC claimed.
Second, a highly scientific and authoritative experiment by "LitexMedia.com" shows that much of the time Ogg has superior quality, and when it's not the difference is only subtle.
http://www.cdburner.ca/digital-audio-formats-artic le/digital-audio-comparison.htm
Or for Microsoft to make their own half-assed implementation of it, for everyone to try and cater to (like HTML, CSS, ...)
Ah! Now that's some interesting stuff. Didn't know the Oracle at Delphi had any sort of connection with Jesus.
This man speaks sense. I think the Wachowski brothers did intend for some philosophical and theological elements perhaps to enhance the story, but the claim that their changing of the WB logo, which is from the Greek for "word", corrupts the "word" of the Gospel of John...utter baloney.
Also, I'm not entirely convinced that the "Matrix" is the "womb" from which Neo (a/k/a Jesus Christ) is reborn, as opposed to the definition mathematicians and computer scientists would be familiar with.
Finally, where's Pontius Pilate in all this? I thought that would be an easy one to figure out. Maybe they couldn't figure out a numerological correlation with the letters in character names and somehow tie it to the Romans or Satan or something. How about the smoking Oracle lady? Tank? Switch? They're all important characters. Typical "religion logic" -- leave out the things you can't explain.
I'm not saying the article is all crap (I found some of it interesting), just that people come up with some pretty silly explanations "proving" how everything is about Holy Holy Jesus. (sorry about the flamage)
Complaint: payed for subway, seller WOUDL NOT SHIP!!!1 F---- DO NOY BUY FROM
I guess it means lots of space (for data) in a small amount of (spatial) space. 120something GB in the space of your thumbnail.
But when computers started getting fancy-pants things like megabytes of RAM and 20MB drives is when they stopped being fun.
I was so pleased with it. I took a couple disk drives, an old networking card (don't know what kind it was), and even the 80-column expansion card. I took it apart and was fascinated with the cruddy old architecture.
Then one day a couple years ago my mom threw it away, saying it was a "broken old piece of junk" (they did the same to my Vic-20 and ColecoVision).
I don't know why more people/ISPs aren't using this. This system seems to be the most effective because it doesn't have silly little measures (that block the word "cock", for example, but not the word "c0ck") -- it seems to rate the spam based on its content, which no spammer can get around.
Please check it out.
Also, does anyone else forsee spammers hiring people to sit around and answer verification questions all day? It's a hell of a lot faster to do than actually placing calls to people and talking to them, and people (well, if you want to call telemarketers "people", I think they're sub-human) do this all the time.
Gotta love these sarcastic and extreme comments. Did he say we should teach everyone how to create explosives? Did he say that we shouldn't teach the scientific method?
Simmer down. He's complaining that they're dumbing down books, preventing kids from learning important things about chemistry and physics -- not that we're not training kids to be little terrorists.
I know they're just doing their job. But their job annoys me personally, and they are aware of it. Why not get a better job (better as in, better serves humanity)? Be a waiter, cab driver, janitor, anything that doesn't demand a whole lot of skill, pays better, and annoys people less.
Or is being a telemarketer really that well-paying?
Bingo. Invoking the law on this guy when you've been offended shouldn't be a moral question.
As long as you use the law appropriately, I wouldn't hold it against you (it's bullshit like that Walmart price-publishing suit that's unacceptable).