You could also lower the speed of the connection for certain IPs that have been transferring an excessive amount of data over the last hour. Then it'd just hit the people who are using the most bandwidth regardless of whether they're tunnelling.
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I'm sick and tired of people having invalid hostnames! It's sco-sucks.slashdot.org (note the ORG)! Underscores are not valid DNS characters!
I don't know if it was due to that patch (which they removed from WindowsUpdate), but my XP machine was getting dog slow. When I'd switch over to Microsoft Money, it took forever to swap its memory back from the cache.
I reinstalled my machine because I got a new hard drive (same speed, just larger) and updated everything from WindowsUpdate (supposedly without the patch in question). It performs much, much better now.
I read the other day that Ewan McGregor and Will Smith were offered the part as Neo. McGregor would have seemed like Obiwan in a computer, and Smith would have totally ruined it (fortunately, he made the brilliant career move of acting in Wild Wild West instead of The Matrix). So that got me thinking - there's got to be a better actor for the job than Keanu Reeves, even though his clueless demeanor was perfect for the first movie.
And that actor is...
[Wait for it...]
Wil Wheaton. I mean, who else is the right age and has enough experience acting in the 24th century?
Actually, it's not just a simple spell check. I can't find any current examples, but when you used to search for "nekked", Google would say, "Did you mean nekkid?" (I was having a debate with someone as to whether "nekked" or "nekkid" was more commonly used... no, really!)
It probably has more to do with the number of hits that a similarly-spelled word word has - if there are a lot more for that one than the current one, it makes a suggestion.
Heh. When any of the other subs (or even Lockheed employees) see a bunch of people from my company together, they say, "Are you going on another dang Sycamore luncheon?!" So our reputation preceeds us.
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I'm a subcontractor at Lockheed Martin along with a number of SAIC subs, and I can't say that I've been all that impressed with all of them. Most of them that I've known have been testers, so maybe that's the low rung at SAIC. Also, they never appeared to be that happy with SAIC.
I'd much prefer to be in my situation, where two guys own 51% of the company and give out stock to exceptional employees instead of everyone. They make sure we get great benefits, and despite our high fringe rate, our overall rates are still lower than most because of our low overhead.
It would seriously cut into the funding for such attacks, however.
Not in the near term... the rich would still have their spoils of the oil money for a while, and be angry at us for taking their cash cow away. And there'd be a lot less incentive for countries like Saudi Arabia to pretend to like us.
Switching over to Hydrogen definitely changes oil politics... the Middle East would ease back into irrelevancy, and the US could start ignoring them again like Osama bin Laden wants. But do you think those countries will be happy once we've pulled their major revenue source out from under them? They haven't been able to use their oil wealth to make any other significant industries in their countries.
I seriously doubt switching from oil to hydrogen will stop terrorist attacks.
To all of the posts talking about Amazon as an archiver of book information:
Remember that Amazon OWNS IMDb, which is why you see Amazon links and ads all over the site. Yet IMDb is vastly superior to the information contained within Amazon itself. So, perhaps another major bookseller on the net (bn.com, maybe?) could buy / finance this endeavor to duplicate IMDb/Amazon's successful relationship (assuming that the site gets popular and is unable to support itself).
I think you mean "transportable," not "portable." It's highly unlikely that you'll get that sucker to work on anything but a Microsoft system with the same (or maybe a newer) version of Access.
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You could also lower the speed of the connection for certain IPs that have been transferring an excessive amount of data over the last hour. Then it'd just hit the people who are using the most bandwidth regardless of whether they're tunnelling.
I'm sick and tired of people having invalid hostnames! It's sco-sucks.slashdot.org (note the ORG)! Underscores are not valid DNS characters!
Better yet, just wait until guys start faking a heart attack so women wearing these things have to jump on them to restart their hearts.
I dunno, it seems like Kirk/Picard/Archer seemed to have a good enough handle on this subject all ready.
Of course, if you had just played Riker's game from Risa, you might have had the required practice!
I don't know if it was due to that patch (which they removed from WindowsUpdate), but my XP machine was getting dog slow. When I'd switch over to Microsoft Money, it took forever to swap its memory back from the cache.
I reinstalled my machine because I got a new hard drive (same speed, just larger) and updated everything from WindowsUpdate (supposedly without the patch in question). It performs much, much better now.
I read the other day that Ewan McGregor and Will Smith were offered the part as Neo. McGregor would have seemed like Obiwan in a computer, and
Smith would have totally ruined it (fortunately, he made the brilliant career move of acting in Wild Wild West instead of The Matrix). So that
got me thinking - there's got to be a better actor for the job than Keanu Reeves, even though his clueless demeanor was perfect for the first movie.
And that actor is...
[Wait for it...]
Wil Wheaton. I mean, who else is the right age and has enough experience acting in the 24th century?
Actually, it's not just a simple spell check. I can't find any current examples, but when you used to search for "nekked", Google would say, "Did you mean nekkid?" (I was having a debate with someone as to whether "nekked" or "nekkid" was more commonly used... no, really!)
It probably has more to do with the number of hits that a similarly-spelled word word has - if there are a lot more for that one than the current one, it makes a suggestion.
Except if you're a tourist, you should be warned not to try to iron Australian money to make it nice and flat for a picture.
Oops.
Heh. When any of the other subs (or even Lockheed employees) see a bunch of people from my company together, they say, "Are you going on another dang Sycamore luncheon?!" So our reputation preceeds us.
I'm a subcontractor at Lockheed Martin along with a number of SAIC subs, and I can't say that I've been all that impressed with all of them. Most of them that I've known have been testers, so maybe that's the low rung at SAIC. Also, they never appeared to be that happy with SAIC.
I'd much prefer to be in my situation, where two guys own 51% of the company and give out stock to exceptional employees instead of everyone. They make sure we get great benefits, and despite our high fringe rate, our overall rates are still lower than most because of our low overhead.
Yeah, I started to switch to Dvorak, but the first time I fired up vi with a Dvorak keyboard layout, I quickly abandoned that idea.
You'd think that games would use the key codes rather than the key that the operating system told them, though.
Except they're not just going to charge the people who watch the channel. Everyone with that cable package has to subsidize the anime-watchers.
You mean students formed as a composition of various materials? ;)
Well, before they took the ring from him. Remember the helmet with the pointy things?
Given the popularity that Lord of the Rings has had over the years (starting with the books), perhaps they should add the head of Sauron.
Of course, why stop there? They could add Agent Smith. Or Dr. Evil.
Or if they're looking for full statues for out front, maybe the Terminatrix. Rrrowr.
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That's confusing?
Did anyone else notice that an article about pOOP mentioned a conference named PLoP? Is Beavis coming up with these names or something?
I think that's been beta tested here. Or maybe that's from the Death Star...
My implication was obviously that we nearly completely reduce our dependence on oil, regardless of current practical limitations.
Switching over to Hydrogen definitely changes oil politics... the Middle East would ease back into irrelevancy, and the US could start ignoring them again like Osama bin Laden wants. But do you think those countries will be happy once we've pulled their major revenue source out from under them? They haven't been able to use their oil wealth to make any other significant industries in their countries.
I seriously doubt switching from oil to hydrogen will stop terrorist attacks.
To all of the posts talking about Amazon as an archiver of book information:
Remember that Amazon OWNS IMDb, which is why you see Amazon links and ads all over the site. Yet IMDb is vastly superior to the information contained within Amazon itself. So, perhaps another major bookseller on the net (bn.com, maybe?) could buy / finance this endeavor to duplicate IMDb/Amazon's successful relationship (assuming that the site gets popular and is unable to support itself).
I think you mean "transportable," not "portable." It's highly unlikely that you'll get that sucker to work on anything but a Microsoft system with the same (or maybe a newer) version of Access.