there was a time before the HAYES AT modem command set was the standard. There was also a time when internal modems weren't winmodems. And extra Serial ports came on a card.
Doctors are warning that laptop computers may inflict a burn even through clothed skin, after the bizarre case of a Swedish scientist who scorched his penis and testicles while writing a report in his armchair.
The unnamed 50-year-old father of two had balanced the computer on his lap while he wrote the report at home, taking about an hour to do it, according to a letter published in the next issue of the British medical weekly The Lancet.
The following day, he started to develop painful blisters on his foreskin and scrotum, which became infected but eventually cleared up without the need for antibiotics.
Laptop manuals usually advise users not to use the computer while its base is resting directly on exposed skin, as heat can build up if the device is left on for a long time.
In this case, however, the patient had been wearing trousers and underpants.
The tale "should be taken as a serious warning against use of a laptop computer, in a literal sense," said the letter's author, Claes-Goran Ostenson of the department of molecular medicine at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute.
Windows NT/2000 with interix or USF is ertified posix compliant.
Sure, linux is open source, but the documentation is piss-poor. Check the BSD man pages. Check the new posix standard. then check linux documentation. A standard requires strict definitions of inputs, outputs, dependencies, side effects, etc. Linux can't provide that. glibc is slightly better, but it's not a standard.
Liam (the reviewer) also posted his review on amazon.com
Now, aside from the irony of the slashdot review pimping the book for barnes & noble, under the Amazon.com terms of service, all reviews become exclusive property of Amazon.com.
Like it or not, this is just as serious of a licensing breach as if Microsoft Word included emacs code.
Anybody else hear this? I'm not making it up, either --- A man has been jailed for six months after a trainload of commuters saw him having sex with a goat.
Stephen Hall, 23, of Kensington Road, Hull, pleaded guilty to one charge of buggery with an animal after the assault on the female goat in August last year.
Sentencing HIV-positive Hall, Judge Michael Mettyear, at Hull Crown Court, described the incident as "bizarre and disgusting". Hall had a previous conviction for indecent assault against a six-year-old girl.
The judge expressed frustration at being unable to order that Hall be banned from working with children in the future, adding: "You have pleaded guilty to buggery with an animal, a goat. It was committed in open air with people about, with people who could see.
"You were acting in an indecent manner, indeed, there was an seven-year-old boy in a position to see, although he was protected by his grandfather."
The court was earlier told how Hall had been returning from his sister's home on August 14 when the assault took place at the Argyle Street allotments.
A seven-year-old boy out walking with his grandfather had witnessed the attack together with a train-load of commuters on board a Hull to Bridlington service that had stopped at nearby signals.
Hall was seen holding on to a belt that had been put around the nanny goat's neck with one hand, while masturbating with the other. He was then seen with his trousers around his ankles having "penetrative sexual intercourse" with the animal.
Forensic tests matched semen taken from Hall's clothing to that found at the scene and samples of the goat's hairs were also found in his underwear.
Reading from the pre-sentence report, Mr Mettyear said Hall had shown evidence of being "preoccupied with sex", having "emotional instability" and problems maintaining relationships. It added that he targets "vulnerable" victims - "a child in the first instance and now an animal".
well, i hope i'm not interrupting the cirvle jerk, but this isn't really the news that the poster or michael seem to think it is.
I happen to know another company with a negative cash flow in most divisions. Actually, all divisions. It's VA Linux, and they're burning up money (from VCs and the IPO). Does that make them evil? Nope. Capitalism is about investing money (and taking a loss here and now) in the hopes of achieving profits in the future. It cost a lot of money to develop SourceForge (and all those star wars ripoff ads!), but now that it's developed, maybe they'll be able to sell it for large amounts of money.
Why is it different for MS? Because they don't need to seek outside VCs or do an IPO to create MSN or MSNBC or XBox? Or because someone has a hard on for them?
they might not make any money off old issues, but there is a cost associated with converting them into a format viewable online. Additionally, there might be issues with who owns the rights to the articles (some contracts may revert ownership after xx years, or might have only specified the magaize had print publishing rights, etc).
actually, there are fortuitous mutations. Cells have complex mechanisms to detect and fix mutations, and it is true that many mutations either have no effect, or have a negative effect, but it's silly to say they only cause intense damage. Would you say that the only result of a lottery is losing? Most people will wind up poorer (but not wiser), but someone also ends up wining big.
A classic example is sickle cell anemia, which is caused by a one-codon mutation, resulting in red blood cells which have a decreased lifetime. However, in Africa (where sickle cell anemia originates), it is (or was) beneficial because it provided protection against malaria, providing the person with a longer lifespan (as compared to a non-mutated person who dies of malaria at age 3 without producing any children).
It's open source -- if it's too slow or buggy, or not as good as commercial offerings, you can just spend a few months trying to understand the source code so you can fix the bugs yourself and speed up performance, add new features, etc.
Or, you could just buy a commercial rendering package
back in the early 90s, they had a series of ads (Ever shop for a 3 piece suit in your underwear? You will! And the company that will bring it to you is AT&T). Of course, back then, most of their ideas seemed mundane or overly fanciful (like 1920s "city of the future" deals where everyone flys instead of drives), but it was obvious AT&T wouldn't be the ones bringint it to us.
what I think is funny is how you collective epeople rail on Hurd for a minor performance penalty (which enables a *lot* of cool features), but haev such a hard on for XWindows.
Keep in mind that salary is only 50-75% of what it costs to employ a person. I can't speak for Canada, but in the US, the employer pays 7.5% for social security, maybe a few hundred for health insurance (not applicable in canada?), unemployment tax, training costs, other benefits, regulation compliance, etc.
VA Systems fired an employee earlier this year, for an estimated savings of over $1 million (over the next 2000 years). It sucks to be unemployed, but on the bright side, it was jon katz! Woohoo!
Not a troll (wonder how long it will take to get marked as one?) But please tell us why you blindly believe man has landed on the moon.
If the gov't says it's ok for MS to be a monopoly, or copyrights need to be extended, you disagree. But if they make the miraculous claim that they sent a group of men to the moon and brought them back, you don't question it.
I just heard the news on slashdot -- noted SF author Dr. Charles Sheffield, died of brain cancer. No other details were available (unless you clicked on the washington post link!).
Even if you didn't enjoy his books such as "Tomorrow and Tomorrow", "Higher Education", and "The Ganymede Club" (not to be confused with "The Gay Men Club"!), you probably enjoyed watching his son, Gary Sheffield, help the Florida Marlins win the world series. Truly a geek icon.
I know emacs is like a religion for some people, and I know it's more "powerful" (by which I mean it's a lisp interpreter).
Visual Studio lets you see all the methods a C++ object variable can call, it will show what parameters it takes, it will auto-complete function names. I know Borland's Java IDE does the same, and I suspect KDevelop does.
Can emacs do that?
Slashdot Mirror
Holy shit, this is apparently true. Mod me down if you must, but be careful with your laptop!
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November 22 2002
Doctors are warning that laptop computers may inflict a burn even through clothed skin, after the bizarre case of a Swedish scientist who scorched his penis and testicles while writing a report in his armchair.
The unnamed 50-year-old father of two had balanced the computer on his lap while he wrote the report at home, taking about an hour to do it, according to a letter published in the next issue of the British medical weekly The Lancet.
The following day, he started to develop painful blisters on his foreskin and scrotum, which became infected but eventually cleared up without the need for antibiotics.
Laptop manuals usually advise users not to use the computer while its base is resting directly on exposed skin, as heat can build up if the device is left on for a long time.
In this case, however, the patient had been wearing trousers and underpants.
The tale "should be taken as a serious warning against use of a laptop computer, in a literal sense," said the letter's author, Claes-Goran Ostenson of the department of molecular medicine at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute.
Windows NT/2000 with interix or USF is ertified posix compliant.
Sure, linux is open source, but the documentation is piss-poor. Check the BSD man pages. Check the new posix standard. then check linux documentation. A standard requires strict definitions of inputs, outputs, dependencies, side effects, etc. Linux can't provide that. glibc is slightly better, but it's not a standard.
Now, aside from the irony of the slashdot review pimping the book for barnes & noble, under the Amazon.com terms of service, all reviews become exclusive property of Amazon.com.
Like it or not, this is just as serious of a licensing breach as if Microsoft Word included emacs code.
whatever you're on, i want some!
Anybody else hear this? I'm not making it up, either
---
A man has been jailed for six months after a trainload of commuters saw him having sex with a goat.
Stephen Hall, 23, of Kensington Road, Hull, pleaded guilty to one charge of buggery with an animal after the assault on the female goat in August last year.
Sentencing HIV-positive Hall, Judge Michael Mettyear, at Hull Crown Court, described the incident as "bizarre and disgusting". Hall had a previous conviction for indecent assault against a six-year-old girl.
The judge expressed frustration at being unable to order that Hall be banned from working with children in the future, adding: "You have pleaded guilty to buggery with an animal, a goat. It was committed in open air with people about, with people who could see.
"You were acting in an indecent manner, indeed, there was an seven-year-old boy in a position to see, although he was protected by his grandfather."
The court was earlier told how Hall had been returning from his sister's home on August 14 when the assault took place at the Argyle Street allotments.
A seven-year-old boy out walking with his grandfather had witnessed the attack together with a train-load of commuters on board a Hull to Bridlington service that had stopped at nearby signals.
Hall was seen holding on to a belt that had been put around the nanny goat's neck with one hand, while masturbating with the other. He was then seen with his trousers around his ankles having "penetrative sexual intercourse" with the animal.
Forensic tests matched semen taken from Hall's clothing to that found at the scene and samples of the goat's hairs were also found in his underwear.
Reading from the pre-sentence report, Mr Mettyear said Hall had shown evidence of being "preoccupied with sex", having "emotional instability" and problems maintaining relationships. It added that he targets "vulnerable" victims - "a child in the first instance and now an animal".
Story filed: 11:43 Friday 15th March 2002
I happen to know another company with a negative cash flow in most divisions. Actually, all divisions. It's VA Linux, and they're burning up money (from VCs and the IPO). Does that make them evil? Nope. Capitalism is about investing money (and taking a loss here and now) in the hopes of achieving profits in the future. It cost a lot of money to develop SourceForge (and all those star wars ripoff ads!), but now that it's developed, maybe they'll be able to sell it for large amounts of money.
Why is it different for MS? Because they don't need to seek outside VCs or do an IPO to create MSN or MSNBC or XBox? Or because someone has a hard on for them?
I've taken shits that were more intriguing.
you can use lyx from the command-line to compile lyx files, don't know anything about a vt100-lyx though.
they might not make any money off old issues, but there is a cost associated with converting them into a format viewable online. Additionally, there might be issues with who owns the rights to the articles (some contracts may revert ownership after xx years, or might have only specified the magaize had print publishing rights, etc).
A classic example is sickle cell anemia, which is caused by a one-codon mutation, resulting in red blood cells which have a decreased lifetime. However, in Africa (where sickle cell anemia originates), it is (or was) beneficial because it provided protection against malaria, providing the person with a longer lifespan (as compared to a non-mutated person who dies of malaria at age 3 without producing any children).
must resist urge to post snide comment ...
Or, you could just buy a commercial rendering package
back in the early 90s, they had a series of ads (Ever shop for a 3 piece suit in your underwear? You will! And the company that will bring it to you is AT&T). Of course, back then, most of their ideas seemed mundane or overly fanciful (like 1920s "city of the future" deals where everyone flys instead of drives), but it was obvious AT&T wouldn't be the ones bringint it to us.
what I think is funny is how you collective epeople rail on Hurd for a minor performance penalty (which enables a *lot* of cool features), but haev such a hard on for XWindows.
Keep in mind that salary is only 50-75% of what it costs to employ a person. I can't speak for Canada, but in the US, the employer pays 7.5% for social security, maybe a few hundred for health insurance (not applicable in canada?), unemployment tax, training costs, other benefits, regulation compliance, etc.
VA Systems fired an employee earlier this year, for an estimated savings of over $1 million (over the next 2000 years). It sucks to be unemployed, but on the bright side, it was jon katz! Woohoo!
It was juicy -- almost as juicy as your mom's furburger after the CLIT gang-banged her.
That's true. I know whenever I fart, I always think of Fortran.
Not a troll (wonder how long it will take to get marked as one?) But please tell us why you blindly believe man has landed on the moon.
If the gov't says it's ok for MS to be a monopoly, or copyrights need to be extended, you disagree. But if they make the miraculous claim that they sent a group of men to the moon and brought them back, you don't question it.
I just heard the news on slashdot -- noted SF author Dr. Charles Sheffield, died of brain cancer. No other details were available (unless you clicked on the washington post link!).
Even if you didn't enjoy his books such as "Tomorrow and Tomorrow", "Higher Education", and "The Ganymede Club" (not to be confused with "The Gay Men Club"!), you probably enjoyed watching his son, Gary Sheffield, help the Florida Marlins win the world series. Truly a geek icon.
I know emacs is like a religion for some people, and I know it's more "powerful" (by which I mean it's a lisp interpreter). Visual Studio lets you see all the methods a C++ object variable can call, it will show what parameters it takes, it will auto-complete function names. I know Borland's Java IDE does the same, and I suspect KDevelop does. Can emacs do that?
Is that why CmdrTaco wears lipstick and eyeliner?
Alphabetically, users is close to usr but the similarity ends there.
Unless you have accounts with names like "include", "local", "man", "lib", etc.