Why the fuck are you even bothering with this? Let's face it, the closest the average Slashdot reader is going to get to performing cunnilingus is licking their monitor while whacking off to low-quality photoshops of underage pr0n with Natalie Portman's head pasted on.
Instructions on giving good blowjobs would be more useful, since that would help all the 1337 h@x0rs survive in prison.
Genus species: Connochaetes (flowing beard) taurinus (like a bull) albojubatus (white mane)
Size: males 1.25 to 1.45 m (50-58 in.) at the shoulder; females 1.15 to 1.42 m (46-57 in.) at the shoulder
Weight: adult males 165 to 274 kg (360-600 lb.); adult females 140 to 230 kg (308-510 lb.)
Description: This subspecies of wildebeest has a white beard, unlike most other subspecies which have black beards; both sexes have smooth, cowlike horns.
Life span: up to 20 years in zoos
Sexual maturity: females around 2.5 years; males at 3 to 4 years
Gestation: 240 to 255 days; young nurse for 4 to 9 months
Habitat: grasslands of Kenya and Tanzania in eastern Africa
Diet: prefer short grasses, but will eat taller grasses during the dry season; generally drink twice a day
Status: not listed by USFWS or CITES
Fun Facts
1. Each year white-bearded wildebeest migrate in search of fresh pastures. Such migrations may contain as many as one million animals. Thomson's gazelles and plains zebra often travel with the gnus.
2. Eighty percent of calves (sometimes up to half a million) are born within a 2 to 3 week period at the start of the rainy season. Since predators can only take a limited number of prey at any given time, there is a higher chance of survival for each individual calf.
3. Calves can stand and run within 3 to 7 minutes after birth. They follow their mothers as they move with the herd.
4. At night white-bearded wildebeest sleep on the ground in rows; this provides them with the security of being in a group while allowing them space to run in case of an emergency.
Ecology and Conservation
White-bearded gnu have increased greatly in number in recent years. In 1950, a census revealed approximately 100,000 individuals in the Serengeti region; today about 1.5 million white-bearded wildebeest are believed to be present. However, the growth of human settlements along their northern migration routes have begun to disrupt their natural patterns. The grazing and trampling of the grasses by such large herds helps to stimulate grass growth, while their waste provides nutrients for the soil and plants. Wildebeest are also an important food source for predators such as lions and hyenas.
chemical halo burning bright in a sodium haze, all meaning is lost but this confusion remains, i'm going to tear myself apart if i can't get myself together, and spread my pieces around like waste and give my gift of stormy weather, every time i move i feel like something's broken, everytime i laugh i feel like maybe i'm choking, i know you'd laugh too but it's not the funny anymore -i kissed the floor on my way down, a matchhead burning out on the frozen ground- i just want to thank every one of you for all the things you don't do, for the stab in the back for the kick in the face for the pain in the neck and all the shame and disgrace for the spit in the eye and all the things you say, and all the games you play-for the agony and parody for the pain infliction and the drug addiction, you give them so much strength when you show you're weak, please don't rattle your chains it's better when you're meek, here comes another bad trip another life of no sleep another storm in the dark with the sky pouring down every creature will drown this time there will be no Noah's Ark
It is official; Netcraft confirms: some variations of Linux are dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered some variations of Linux community when IDC confirmed that some variations of Linux's market share have dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that some variations of Linux have lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. some variations of Linux are collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict some variations of Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: some variations of Linux face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for some variations of Linux because some variations of Linux are dying. Things are looking very bad for some variations of Linux. As many of us are already aware, some variations of Linux continue to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Freesome variation of Linux is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Freesome variation of Linux developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Freesome variation of Linux is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Opensome variation of Linux leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Opensome variation of Linux. How many users of Netsome variation of Linux are there? Let's see. The number of Opensome variation of Linux versus Netsome variation of Linux posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Netsome variation of Linux users. some variation of Linux/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Netsome variation of Linux posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of some variation of Linux/OS. A recent article put Freesome variation of Linux at about 80 percent of the some variations of Linux market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Freesome variation of Linux users. This is consistent with the number of Freesome variation of Linux Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, Freesome variation of Linux went out of business and was taken over by DBI who sell another troubled OS. Now DBI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that some variations of Linux have steadily declined in market share. some variations of Linux are very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If some variations of Linux are to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. some variations of Linux continue to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, some variations of Linux are dead.
It's the very American story of the pioneering l970's Zephyr skating team, whose LA guerrilla style shook up the mainstream types, and co-opted centuries of building technology to create an appealing and enduring culture with their individualistic brand of guts, energy and drive -- much like the kids who helped build the early Net.
You mean those "kids" working for the Department of Defense on a top secret project to help America win a nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union? Yeah, I can see how that's exactly the same as a bunch of teenagers skateboarding in backyard pools.
By the way, Katz you fucking retard, would you mind explaining what the fuck a movie about skateboarding has to do with either a) news for nerds or b) stuff that matters?
Yeah! 1993 I'm back motherfucker this is Ice T. Got my nigga Ice Cube in the motherfuckin house. Yeah! Up here in the ammo dump studios I got my nigga Aladdin SLJ's in the motherfuckin place behind the mixin boards we about to do dis shit like this here!
Verse 1:
It's goin down tonight in L.A. Buckshot and uzis spray Microphone blowa The bitch checka The ho wrecka Ice motherfuckin T Nigga step to me But grab ya hoes quick Cause the Syndicate's throwin that crazy dick Punk motherfuckers run up You'll get done up We'll have your ass gunned up Before sun-up So what's the color I'm raggin? Been a millionare for years Still saggin Left pocket's stuffed with the ???.380 in my right so it sags a little bit More than the rest of my gear When I'm on tour I empty clips Bust lips And break jaws Cause I love to loc up So punk motherfucker don't choke up When you're talkin to me
Chorus:
Ice, Ice motherfuckin T (x4)
Verse 2:
Bush, Quayle and Clinton got a problem with me: The motheruckin T I give less than a fuck about any of them Or their fuckin police friends They'd like to take me out Make me a goner They even tryin to sweat Time Warner Why? For tellin the truth to the youth That a lot of motherfuckers are hot And want police shot? You can't stop the shock (?) The fires are out But the coals are still hot I got juice to bring pain You tryin to fuck with the Ice Are you insane? This shit is bigger than me Be warned It's the calm before the storm And every fuckin thing I write Is gonna be analyzed by somebody white
Chorus
Verse 3:
Run motherfucker, hide motherfucker, trip motherfucker, die motherfucker You don't give love And you won't get loved You don't push And you won't get shoved No joke I ain't here to laugh I ain't here to cry But every night of the week One of my homies die Eeny meeny mynie moe Blood's pourin out the naps of your afro It could be you Could be you Could be you Could be your whole damn crew It happens real quick Screechin tires Next thing you're hit Your body's cold Your body's hot You feel your chest You gasp for breath You're shot And now your homies is trippin' Lookin for a gat to put they clip in Street crime- That's the thing I bring, Ice T I rap ??? sing They call it controversy I call it truth with no mercy The beats are phat Ammo Dump tracks The kind that make speakers crack Not made for squares Or the weak punks That made the bump trunks Press- Get the fuck out my fuckin face I ain't got no more time to waste A ho is a ho, a bitch is a bitch, a nigga is a nigga And that's it I'm through explainin the shit You just makin me backtrack The next duck reporter might get hit with a blackjack Plus Every one of my true fans Totally understands A nigga like me
QUALITATIVE COMMENTS: (with 300 mg) I would have liked to, and was expecting to, have an exciting visual day, but I seemed to be unable to escape self-analysis. At the peak of the experience I was quite intoxicated and hyper with energy, so that it was not hard to move around. I was quite restless. But I spent most of the day in considerable agony, attempting to break through without success. I learned a great deal about myself and my inner workings. Everything almost was, but in the final analysis, wasn't. I began to become aware of a point, a brilliant white light, that seemed to be where God was entering, and it was inconceivably wonderful to perceive it and to be close to it. One wished for it to approach with all one's heart. I could see that people would sit and meditate for hours on end just in the hope that this little bit of light would contact them. I begged for it to continue and come closer but it did not. It faded away not to return in that particular guise the rest of the day. Listening to Mozart's Requiem, there were magnificent heights of beauty and glory. The world was so far away from God, and nothing was more important than getting back in touch with Him. But I saw how we created the nuclear fiasco to threaten the existence of the planet, as if it would be only through the threat of complete annihilation that people might wake up and begin to become concerned about each other. And so also with the famines in Africa. Many similar scenes of joy and despair kept me in balance. I ended up the experience in a very peaceful space, feeling that though I had been through a lot, I had accomplished a great deal. I felt wonderful, free, and clear.
(with 350 mg) Once I got through the nausea stage, I ventured out-of-doors and I was aware of an intensification of color and a considerable change in the texture of the cloth of my skirt and in the concrete of the sidewalk, and in the flowers and leaves that were handed me by an observer. I experienced the desire to laugh hysterically at what I could only describe as the completely ridiculous state of the entire world. Although I was afraid of motion, I was persuaded to take a ride in a car. The driver turned on the radio and suddenly the music 'The March of the Siamese Children' from 'The King and I' became the most perfect background music for the parody of real life which was indeed the normal activity of Telegraph Avenue on any Saturday morning. The perfectly ordinary people on their perfectly ordinary errands were clearly the most cleverly contrived set of characters all performing all manners of eccentric activities for our particular hilarity and enjoyment. I felt that I was at the same time both observing and performing in an outrageous moving picture. I experienced one moment of transcendant happiness when, while passing Epworth Hall, I looked out of the window of the car and up at the building and I was suddenly in Italy looking up at a gay apartment building with its shutters flung open in sunshine, and with its window boxes with flowers. We stopped at a spot overlooking the bay, but I found the view uninteresting and the sun uncomfortable. I sat there on the seat of the car looking down at the ground, and the earth became a mosaic of beautiful stones which had been placed in an intricate design which soon all began to move in a serpentine manner. Then I became aware that I was looking at the skin of a beautiful snake--all the ground around me was this same huge creature and we were all standing on the back of this gigantic and beautiful reptile. The experience was very pleasing and I felt no revulsion. Just then, another automobile stopped to look at the view and I experienced my first real feeling of persecution and I wanted very much to leave.
(with 400 mg) During the initial phase of the intoxication (between 2 and 3 hours) everything seemed to have a humorous interpretation. People's faces are in caricature, small cars seem to be chasing big cars, and all cars coming towards me seem to have faces. This one is a duchess moving in regal pomp, that one is a wizened old man running away from someone. A remarkable effect of this drug is the extreme empathy felt for all small things; a stone, a flower, an insect. I believe that it would be impossible to harm anything--to commit an overt harmful or painful act on anyone or anything is beyond one's capabilities. One cannot pluck a flower--and even to walk upon a gravel path requires one to pick his footing carefully, to avoid hurting or disturbing the stones. I found the color perception to be the most striking aspect of the experience. The slightest difference of shade could be amplified to extreme contrast. Many subtle hues became phosphorescent in intensity. Saturated colors were often unchanged, but they were surrounded by cascades of new colors tumbling over the edges.
(with 400 mg) It took a long time to come on and I was afraid that I had done it wrong but my concerns were soon ended. The world soon became transformed where objects glowed as if from an inner illumination and my body sprang to life. The sense of my body, being alive in my muscles and sinews, filled me with enormous joy. I watched Ermina fill to brimming with animal spirit, her features tranformed, her body cat-like in her graceful natural movement. I was stopped in my tracks. The world seemed to hold its breath as the cat changed again into the Goddess. As she shed her clothes, she shed her ego and when the dance began, Ermina was no more. There was only the dance without the slightest self-consconciousness. How can anything so beautiful be chained and changed by other's expectations? I became aware of myself in her and as we looked deeply into one another my boundaries disappeared and I became her looking at me.
EXTENSIONS AND COMMENTARY: Mescaline is one of the oldest psychedelics known to man. It is the major active component of the small dumpling cactus known as Peyote. It grows wild in the Southwestern United States and in Northern Mexico, and has been used as an intimate component of a number of religious traditions amongst the native Indians of these areas. The cactus has the botanical name of Lophophora williamsii or Anhalonium lewinii and is immediately recognizable by its small round shape and the appearance of tufts of soft fuzz in place of the more conventional spines. The dried plant material has been classically used with anywhere from a few to a couple of dozen of the hard tops, called buttons, being consumed in the course of a ceremony.
Throughout the more recently published record of clinical human studies with mescaline, it has been used in the form of the synthetic material, and has usually been administered as the sulfate salt. Although this form has a miserable melting point (it contains water of crystallization, and the exact melting point depends on the rate of heating of the sample) it nonetheless forms magnificent crystals from water. Long, glistening needles that are, in a sense, its signature and its mark of purity. The dosages associated with the above "qualitative comments" are given as if measured as the sulfate, although the actual form used was usually the hydrochloride salt. The conversion factor is given under "dosage" above.
Mescaline has always been the central standard against which all other compounds are viewed. Even the United States Chemical Warfare group, in their human studies of a number of substituted phenethylamines, used mescaline as the reference material for both quantitative and qualitative comparisons. The Edgewood Arsenal code number for it was EA-1306. All psychedelics are given properties that are something like "twice the potency of mescaline" or "twice as long-lived as mescaline." This simple drug is truly the central prototype against which everything else is measured. The earliest studies with the "psychotomimetic amphetamines" had quantitative psychological numbers attached that read as "mescaline units." Mescaline was cast in concrete as being active at the 3.75 mg/kg level. That means for a 80 kilogram person (a 170 pound person) a dose of 300 milligrams. If a new compound proved to be active at 30 milligrams, there was a M.U. level of 10 put into the published literature. The behavioral biologists were happy, because now they had numbers to represent psychological properties. But in truth, none of this represented the magic of this material, the nature of the experience itself. That is why, in this Book II, there is only one line given to "dosage," but a full page given to "qualitative comments".
Four simple N-modified mescaline analogues are of interest in that they are natural and have been explored in man.
The N-acetyl analogue has been found in the peyote plant, and it is also a major metabolite of mescaline in man. It is made by the gentle reaction of mescaline with acetic anhydride (a bit too much heat, and the product N-acetyl mescaline will cyclize to a dihydroisoquinoline, itself a fine white crystalline solid, mp 160-161 C) and can be recrystallized from boiling toluene. A number of human trials with this amide at levels in the 300 to 750 milligrams range have shown it to be with very little activity. At the highest levels there have been suggestions of drowsiness. Certainly there were none of the classic mescaline psychedelic effects.
If free base mescaline is brought into reaction with ethyl formate (to produce the amide, N-formylmescaline) and subsequently reduced (with lithium aluminum hydride) it is converted to the N-methyl homologue. This base has also been found as a trace component in the Peyote cactus. And the effects of N-methylation of other psychedelic drugs have been commented upon elsewhere in these recipes, all with consistently negative results (with the noteworthy exception of the conversion of MDA to MDMA). Here, too, there is no obvious activity in man, although the levels assayed were only up to 25 milligrams.
N,N-Dimethylmescaline has been given the trivial name of Trichocerine as it has been found as a natural product in several cacti of the Trichocereus Genus but, interestingly, never in any Peyote variant. It also has proven inactive in man in dosages in excess of 500 milligrams, administered parenterally. This observation, the absence of activity of a simple tertiary amine, has been exploited in the development of several iodinated radiopharmaceuticals that are mentioned elsewhere in this book.
The fourth modification is the compound with the nitrogen atom oxidatively removed from the scene. This is the mescaline metabolite, 3,4,5- trimethoxyphenylacetic acid, or TMPEA. Human dosages up to 750 milligrams orally failed to produce either physiological or psychological changes.
One additional manipulation with some of these structures has been made and should be mentioned. These are the analogues with an oxygen atom inserted between the aromatic ring and the aliphatic chain. They are, in essence, aminoethyl phenyl ethers. The first is related to mescaline itself, 2- (3,4,5-trimethoxyphenoxy)ethylamine. Human trials were conducted over the dose range of 10 to 300 milligrams and there were no effects observed. The second is related to trichocerine, N,N-dimethyl-2-(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenoxy)ethylamine . It was inactive in man over the range of 10 to 400 milligrams. Mescaline, at a dose of 420 milligrams, served as the control in these studies.
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I propose the following compromise:
1. The government switches to open source software
2. All the goddamn filthy Naderite hippies take a shower once in a while and use deodorant as needed.
Why the fuck are you even bothering with this? Let's face it, the closest the average Slashdot reader is going to get to performing cunnilingus is licking their monitor while whacking off to low-quality photoshops of underage pr0n with Natalie Portman's head pasted on.
Instructions on giving good blowjobs would be more useful, since that would help all the 1337 h@x0rs survive in prison.
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I don't think the Linux kernel is stable enough for him to be finished yet.
Actually, I did shit in your living room.
Sorry.
You know what I really hate?
When you download some girl-on-girl porn, and one of the chicks is really hot and the other one is butt ugly.
Eastern white-bearded wildebeest (gnu)
Connochaetes taurinus
Fast Facts
Common name: wildebeest or gnu
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Genus species: Connochaetes (flowing beard) taurinus (like a bull) albojubatus (white mane)
Size: males 1.25 to 1.45 m (50-58 in.) at the shoulder; females 1.15 to 1.42 m (46-57 in.) at the shoulder
Weight: adult males 165 to 274 kg (360-600 lb.); adult females 140 to 230 kg (308-510 lb.)
Description: This subspecies of wildebeest has a white beard, unlike most other subspecies which have black beards; both sexes have smooth, cowlike horns.
Life span: up to 20 years in zoos
Sexual maturity: females around 2.5 years; males at 3 to 4 years
Gestation: 240 to 255 days; young nurse for 4 to 9 months
Habitat: grasslands of Kenya and Tanzania in eastern Africa
Diet: prefer short grasses, but will eat taller grasses during the dry season; generally drink twice a day
Status: not listed by USFWS or CITES
Fun Facts
1. Each year white-bearded wildebeest migrate in search of fresh pastures. Such migrations may contain as many as one million animals. Thomson's gazelles and plains zebra often travel with the gnus.
2. Eighty percent of calves (sometimes up to half a million) are born within a 2 to 3 week period at the start of the rainy season. Since predators can only take a limited number of prey at any given time, there is a higher chance of survival for each individual calf.
3. Calves can stand and run within 3 to 7 minutes after birth. They follow their mothers as they move with the herd.
4. At night white-bearded wildebeest sleep on the ground in rows; this provides them with the security of being in a group while allowing them space to run in case of an emergency.
Ecology and Conservation
White-bearded gnu have increased greatly in number in recent years. In 1950, a census revealed approximately 100,000 individuals in the Serengeti region; today about 1.5 million white-bearded wildebeest are believed to be present. However, the growth of human settlements along their northern migration routes have begun to disrupt their natural patterns. The grazing and trampling of the grasses by such large herds helps to stimulate grass growth, while their waste provides nutrients for the soil and plants. Wildebeest are also an important food source for predators such as lions and hyenas.
Hard as a freaking rock, baby!
does she swallow?
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With a faster 3MB ondie L3 cache, 6 instructionscycle and 6.4GBs of bandwidth, it is poised to perform at 1.52x of the current Itanium processor. Here's the overview of how the Intel Itanium 2 at 1Ghz clock frequency will perform against the current Itanium 800Mhz processor. To find out in details how Itanium 2 will perform against Sun UltraSparc III in each of the individual benchmarks, check it out here and here Source: VIA Chaintech GeForce4 Ti4600 Review Paul has done up a review on the Chaintech GeForce4 Ti4600 card. Originally, this card is equip with copper heatsinks but they are just too heavy so Chaintech replace them with the shiny golden plated heatsinks instead. This card comes with 128MB of DDR SDRAM, TVOut and Video In. Find out more : Chaintech GeForce4 Ti4600 Review Source: VRZone Samsung 512MB DDRII SDRAM Samsung today announced the industry's first DDRII device, a highdensity 512Mb DDRII SDRAM, that it expects to be the nextgeneration mainstream DRAM technology for highspeed systems. Low 1.8volt Vdd Data transfer rates of 533Mbps that can be extended to a maximum of 667Mbps for networks and special system environments. Offchip driver calibration (OCD) to maintain optimum driver strength Ondie termination (ODT) to ensure optimum signal waveform Posted CAS, a command control method to enhance bus efficiency. 60ball BGA package maximizes performance In March 2001, prior to the development of the 512Mb DDRII SDRAM, Samsung created a 2.5V, 128Mb DDRII prototype. In parallel with Samsung's device design, and in an effort to validate the key DDRII technology attributes, IBM developed a firstgeneration DDRII memory interface chip in conjunction with a new registered DIMM. Samsung will commence volume production of the new 512Mb DDRII SDRAM device in Q3 2003. The timely introduction of these nextgeneration DDRII sample devices is in line with the company's strategy to expand its DDR DRAM market share to more than 50 percent in 2002. Samsung intends to maintain its leadership stance in high valueadded memory by being first to market with leadingedge technologies in a wide range of configurations and densities. Source: Samsung VIA Technology Forum 2002 VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced the staging of the third annual VIA Technology Forum in October, a global event showcasing VIA's product and technology strategy in line with its 'Total Connectivity' vision, starting in Taipei and this year adding Shanghai to the list of venues. VIA Technology Forum (VTF) 2002 will open in Taipei, Taiwan on Tuesday 8th October with a compelling twoday programme of keynote presentations and technology seminars following the themes of the Totally Connected Home, Enterprise and Mobility and Embedded Innovation, given by senior executives of VIA, industry experts and high level representatives of industry partners. VTF provides an open and interactive forum for the industry to share VIA's vision of the future of computing, with technology tracks covering future technology trends, product roadmaps and market segments in the four specific areas: Totally Connected Home Future advances in home PC and server applications Home multimedia and storage technologies Home connectivity and gateways Totally Connected Enterprise High performance servers and desktops Future advances in IO and storage technologies Networking connectivity and security Totally Connected Mobility Mobile computing platform innovation and diversification Mobile telephony technologies and applications Embedded Innovation Future directions in embedded solutions Source: VIA VIA Savage XP At Computex DigiTimes Reports : VIA plans to launch its first graphics chip, the Zoetrope corebased Savage XP, in June, aiming at the low and mediumend markets. The performance of the chip is similar to that of Nvidia's GeForce4 MX420. Sources said that the new chip will be quoted at around US$15, which is almost half as cheap as the latest Xabre400 graphics chip from SiS whose performance matches that of the GeForce4 MX460. The launch schedule may not be very favorable to VIA, as the mass production of the Savage XP chips is likely to coincide with Intel 845G chipsets hitting the market on a large scale. They have greater expectations for VIA's Columbia highend graphics core whose performance is reportedly similar to that of Nvidia's NV25. Support the DirectX 8 standard Dualdisplay function 64 or 128MB DDR memory Memory bandwidth of 5.7GBs. Source: DigiTimes Bluetooth Boards At Computex DigiTimes Reports : The Bluetooth application market is expected to be further expanded this year, as more and more motherboard manufacturers plan to launch supporting builtin modules and external dongles. Companies such as MSI, Gigabyte, Epox, Abit and Albatron Technology all plan to showcase related products at the Computex Taipei exhibition next week. However, as the Bluetooth modules are still expensive, most companies can only introduce several flagship products. Currently, one Bluetooth module costs around US$20. MSI and Epox predict that the Bluetooth platform is expected to gain mass popularity when the price of Bluetooth module drops to US$1020 in 2003. Manufacturers Launch Internal External Supplier MSI March (related board) Module USB 1.0based dongle CSR Gigabyte Dongle CSR Epox March (related board) Module USB 1.0based dongle CSR Albatron June Module Ericsson (planning to shift to CSR) FIC Module Siliconwave Abit Latest MAX series boards supporting the use of internal modules Shuttle Planning to launch Bluetoothsupporting motherboards Source: DigiTimes VINIX SiS Xabre Cards VX3300 VX3320 VX3340 VX3360 GPU Name Xaber 80 Xaber 200 Xaber 400 Xaber 600 AGP 4X 8X 8X 8X GPU Clock 183Mhz 200Mhz 250Mhz 300Mhz Memory Clock 366Mhz 400Mhz 500Mhz 600Mhz Render Engine 4 pipeline 8 texels 4 pipeline 8 texels 4 pipeline 8 texels 4 pipeline 8 texels DirectX 8.1 Hardware Support Hardware Support Hardware Support Hardware Support Memory Architecture 128bit 128bit 128bit 128bit Memory Bandwidth 5.3GB 6.4GB 8GB 9.6GB Source: Vinix DFI & FIC At Computex DFI NT72SC i850E, RDRAM PC1066 NB73 i845E NB76 i845G NB30 i845GL NS70E SiS645DX AD76 RAID, AD76 & AD75 VIA KT333CE AD73RAID & AD73PRO VIA KT266A AD77 VIA KT400 FIC VG31 i845G VC19 i845E (RAID) VC37 i845GL VI13 SiS645DX VI39 SiS651 AN17 VIA KT333, RAID Source: iXBT Shuttle SS40G Barebone Review VRZone has a review up on the new Shuttle SS40G mini barebone system for AMD AthlonDuron processors. The light aluminum chassis with blue and orange LEDs makes it looks sleek and trendy. This small cube PC from Shuttle uses the FS40 Flex ATX motherboard based on SiS740 chipset that comes with many integrated features such as SiS315 graphics, LAN, 1394a, TVOut, USB etc. It sure makes a fine multimedia station or an office desktop replacement. Check it out : Shuttle SS40G Barebone Review Source: VRZone TwinMOS DDR400 SDRAM TwinMOS Technologies, the leading memory module manufacturer in ASIA had developed another advance memory module. Catch a glimpse at Taipei Computex 2002 on the working sample of DDR 400 platform at TwinMOS's booth: Hall 1, D518~D520. Indeed, TwinMOS is ever ready on the memory support for the next generation motherboard. Major motherboard manufacturer in Taiwan had been working and developing closely with TwinMOS on VIA KT400, SiS 645DX and SiS 648 design. Test result shown full acceptance on this platform. In fact, with P4 1.6GHz over clocking indicated excellent performances. Editor's word : It appears to me TwinMOS is using Winbond chips for their DDR400 SDRAM instead of Samsung DDR400 TCB4. Winbond DDR333 BH overclock well too so it will be interesting to see how their new DDR400 memory chips will perform. Source: TwinMOS Intel CPU Price Cut Pentium 4 Previous 26th May Drop 2.40B GHz 562 400 29 2.40GHz 562 400 29 2.26GHz 423 241 43 2.20GHz 423 241 43 2.0AGHz 284 193 32 2.0GHz 262 193 26 1.90GHz 225 173 23 1.80GHz 193 163 16 1.70GHz 163 143 12 Pentium 4M 1.80GHz 637 348 45 1.70GHz 508 241 53 1.60GHz 401 198 51 1.50GHz 268 198 26 Pentium IIIM 1.20GHz 401 348 13 1.13GHz 294 268 9 1.06GHz 241 198 18 Xeon 2.20GHz 465 262 44 2.0A GHz 305 224 27 2.0GHz 316 256 19 1.80GHz 224 192 14 1.70GHz 224 202 10 Source: Intel Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved.
chemical halo burning bright in a sodium haze, all meaning is lost but this confusion remains, i'm going to tear myself apart if i can't get myself together, and spread my pieces around like waste and give my gift of stormy weather, every time i move i feel like something's broken, everytime i laugh i feel like maybe i'm choking, i know you'd laugh too but it's not the funny anymore -i kissed the floor on my way down, a matchhead burning out on the frozen ground- i just want to thank every one of you for all the things you don't do, for the stab in the back for the kick in the face for the pain in the neck and all the shame and disgrace for the spit in the eye and all the things you say, and all the games you play-for the agony and parody for the pain infliction and the drug addiction, you give them so much strength when you show you're weak, please don't rattle your chains it's better when you're meek, here comes another bad trip another life of no sleep another storm in the dark with the sky pouring down every creature will drown this time there will be no Noah's Ark
See you in hell!
It is official; Netcraft confirms: some variations of Linux are dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered some variations of Linux community when IDC confirmed that some variations of Linux's market share have dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that some variations of Linux have lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. some variations of Linux are collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict some variations of Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: some variations of Linux face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for some variations of Linux because some variations of Linux are dying. Things are looking very bad for some variations of Linux. As many of us are already aware, some variations of Linux continue to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Freesome variation of Linux is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Freesome variation of Linux developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Freesome variation of Linux is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Opensome variation of Linux leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Opensome variation of Linux. How many users of Netsome variation of Linux are there? Let's see. The number of Opensome variation of Linux versus Netsome variation of Linux posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Netsome variation of Linux users. some variation of Linux/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Netsome variation of Linux posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of some variation of Linux/OS. A recent article put Freesome variation of Linux at about 80 percent of the some variations of Linux market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Freesome variation of Linux users. This is consistent with the number of Freesome variation of Linux Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, Freesome variation of Linux went out of business and was taken over by DBI who sell another troubled OS. Now DBI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that some variations of Linux have steadily declined in market share. some variations of Linux are very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If some variations of Linux are to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. some variations of Linux continue to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, some variations of Linux are dead.
Fact: some variations of Linux are dying
Just walk in, grab a couple cases, and run out.
What the fuck does this sentence mean?
That's his autobiography, right?
Danke!
Next you'll be telling me that Britney's album sales don't make her a talented musician.
I don't care about DOS attacks. If there's someone out there who still hasn't upgraded to Windows, they deserve whatever they get.
Wake him up?
So it's not safe to call Linux an invention, then.
It's the very American story of the pioneering l970's Zephyr skating team, whose LA guerrilla style shook up the mainstream types, and co-opted centuries of building technology to create an appealing and enduring culture with their individualistic brand of guts, energy and drive -- much like the kids who helped build the early Net.
You mean those "kids" working for the Department of Defense on a top secret project to help America win a nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union? Yeah, I can see how that's exactly the same as a bunch of teenagers skateboarding in backyard pools.
Moron.
By the way, Katz you fucking retard, would you mind explaining what the fuck a movie about skateboarding has to do with either a) news for nerds or b) stuff that matters?
Fuck you Katz, you fucking half-wit fucktard.
Yeah! 1993 I'm back motherfucker this is Ice T. Got my nigga Ice Cube in the motherfuckin house. Yeah! Up here in the ammo dump studios I got my nigga Aladdin SLJ's in the motherfuckin place behind the mixin boards we about to do dis shit like this here!
.380 in my right so it sags a little bit More than the rest of my gear When I'm on tour I empty clips Bust lips And break jaws Cause I love to loc up So punk motherfucker don't choke up When you're talkin to me
Verse 1:
It's goin down tonight in L.A. Buckshot and uzis spray Microphone blowa The bitch checka The ho wrecka Ice motherfuckin T Nigga step to me But grab ya hoes quick Cause the Syndicate's throwin that crazy dick Punk motherfuckers run up You'll get done up We'll have your ass gunned up Before sun-up So what's the color I'm raggin? Been a millionare for years Still saggin Left pocket's stuffed with the ???
Chorus:
Ice, Ice motherfuckin T (x4)
Verse 2:
Bush, Quayle and Clinton got a problem with me: The motheruckin T I give less than a fuck about any of them Or their fuckin police friends They'd like to take me out Make me a goner They even tryin to sweat Time Warner Why? For tellin the truth to the youth That a lot of motherfuckers are hot And want police shot? You can't stop the shock (?) The fires are out But the coals are still hot I got juice to bring pain You tryin to fuck with the Ice Are you insane? This shit is bigger than me Be warned It's the calm before the storm And every fuckin thing I write Is gonna be analyzed by somebody white
Chorus
Verse 3:
Run motherfucker, hide motherfucker, trip motherfucker, die motherfucker You don't give love And you won't get loved You don't push And you won't get shoved No joke I ain't here to laugh I ain't here to cry But every night of the week One of my homies die Eeny meeny mynie moe Blood's pourin out the naps of your afro It could be you Could be you Could be you Could be your whole damn crew It happens real quick Screechin tires Next thing you're hit Your body's cold Your body's hot You feel your chest You gasp for breath You're shot And now your homies is trippin' Lookin for a gat to put they clip in Street crime- That's the thing I bring, Ice T I rap ??? sing They call it controversy I call it truth with no mercy The beats are phat Ammo Dump tracks The kind that make speakers crack Not made for squares Or the weak punks That made the bump trunks Press- Get the fuck out my fuckin face I ain't got no more time to waste A ho is a ho, a bitch is a bitch, a nigga is a nigga And that's it I'm through explainin the shit You just makin me backtrack The next duck reporter might get hit with a blackjack Plus Every one of my true fans Totally understands A nigga like me
Chorus (x2)
QUALITATIVE COMMENTS: (with 300 mg) I would have liked to, and was expecting to, have an exciting visual day, but I seemed to be unable to escape self-analysis. At the peak of the experience I was quite intoxicated and hyper with energy, so that it was not hard to move around. I was quite restless. But I spent most of the day in considerable agony, attempting to break through without success. I learned a great deal about myself and my inner workings. Everything almost was, but in the final analysis, wasn't. I began to become aware of a point, a brilliant white light, that seemed to be where God was entering, and it was inconceivably wonderful to perceive it and to be close to it. One wished for it to approach with all one's heart. I could see that people would sit and meditate for hours on end just in the hope that this little bit of light would contact them. I begged for it to continue and come closer but it did not. It faded away not to return in that particular guise the rest of the day. Listening to Mozart's Requiem, there were magnificent heights of beauty and glory. The world was so far away from God, and nothing was more important than getting back in touch with Him. But I saw how we created the nuclear fiasco to threaten the existence of the planet, as if it would be only through the threat of complete annihilation that people might wake up and begin to become concerned about each other. And so also with the famines in Africa. Many similar scenes of joy and despair kept me in balance. I ended up the experience in a very peaceful space, feeling that though I had been through a lot, I had accomplished a great deal. I felt wonderful, free, and clear.
e . It was inactive in man over the range of 10 to 400 milligrams. Mescaline, at a dose of 420 milligrams, served as the control in these studies.
(with 350 mg) Once I got through the nausea stage, I ventured out-of-doors and I was aware of an intensification of color and a considerable change in the texture of the cloth of my skirt and in the concrete of the sidewalk, and in the flowers and leaves that were handed me by an observer. I experienced the desire to laugh hysterically at what I could only describe as the completely ridiculous state of the entire world. Although I was afraid of motion, I was persuaded to take a ride in a car. The driver turned on the radio and suddenly the music 'The March of the Siamese Children' from 'The King and I' became the most perfect background music for the parody of real life which was indeed the normal activity of Telegraph Avenue on any Saturday morning. The perfectly ordinary people on their perfectly ordinary errands were clearly the most cleverly contrived set of characters all performing all manners of eccentric activities for our particular hilarity and enjoyment. I felt that I was at the same time both observing and performing in an outrageous moving picture. I experienced one moment of transcendant happiness when, while passing Epworth Hall, I looked out of the window of the car and up at the building and I was suddenly in Italy looking up at a gay apartment building with its shutters flung open in sunshine, and with its window boxes with flowers. We stopped at a spot overlooking the bay, but I found the view uninteresting and the sun uncomfortable. I sat there on the seat of the car looking down at the ground, and the earth became a mosaic of beautiful stones which had been placed in an intricate design which soon all began to move in a serpentine manner. Then I became aware that I was looking at the skin of a beautiful snake--all the ground around me was this same huge creature and we were all standing on the back of this gigantic and beautiful reptile. The experience was very pleasing and I felt no revulsion. Just then, another automobile stopped to look at the view and I experienced my first real feeling of persecution and I wanted very much to leave.
(with 400 mg) During the initial phase of the intoxication (between 2 and 3 hours) everything seemed to have a humorous interpretation. People's faces are in caricature, small cars seem to be chasing big cars, and all cars coming towards me seem to have faces. This one is a duchess moving in regal pomp, that one is a wizened old man running away from someone. A remarkable effect of this drug is the extreme empathy felt for all small things; a stone, a flower, an insect. I believe that it would be impossible to harm anything--to commit an overt harmful or painful act on anyone or anything is beyond one's capabilities. One cannot pluck a flower--and even to walk upon a gravel path requires one to pick his footing carefully, to avoid hurting or disturbing the stones. I found the color perception to be the most striking aspect of the experience. The slightest difference of shade could be amplified to extreme contrast. Many subtle hues became phosphorescent in intensity. Saturated colors were often unchanged, but they were surrounded by cascades of new colors tumbling over the edges.
(with 400 mg) It took a long time to come on and I was afraid that I had done it wrong but my concerns were soon ended. The world soon became transformed where objects glowed as if from an inner illumination and my body sprang to life. The sense of my body, being alive in my muscles and sinews, filled me with enormous joy. I watched Ermina fill to brimming with animal spirit, her features tranformed, her body cat-like in her graceful natural movement. I was stopped in my tracks. The world seemed to hold its breath as the cat changed again into the Goddess. As she shed her clothes, she shed her ego and when the dance began, Ermina was no more. There was only the dance without the slightest self-consconciousness. How can anything so beautiful be chained and changed by other's expectations? I became aware of myself in her and as we looked deeply into one another my boundaries disappeared and I became her looking at me.
EXTENSIONS AND COMMENTARY: Mescaline is one of the oldest psychedelics known to man. It is the major active component of the small dumpling cactus known as Peyote. It grows wild in the Southwestern United States and in Northern Mexico, and has been used as an intimate component of a number of religious traditions amongst the native Indians of these areas. The cactus has the botanical name of Lophophora williamsii or Anhalonium lewinii and is immediately recognizable by its small round shape and the appearance of tufts of soft fuzz in place of the more conventional spines. The dried plant material has been classically used with anywhere from a few to a couple of dozen of the hard tops, called buttons, being consumed in the course of a ceremony.
Throughout the more recently published record of clinical human studies with mescaline, it has been used in the form of the synthetic material, and has usually been administered as the sulfate salt. Although this form has a miserable melting point (it contains water of crystallization, and the exact melting point depends on the rate of heating of the sample) it nonetheless forms magnificent crystals from water. Long, glistening needles that are, in a sense, its signature and its mark of purity. The dosages associated with the above "qualitative comments" are given as if measured as the sulfate, although the actual form used was usually the hydrochloride salt. The conversion factor is given under "dosage" above.
Mescaline has always been the central standard against which all other compounds are viewed. Even the United States Chemical Warfare group, in their human studies of a number of substituted phenethylamines, used mescaline as the reference material for both quantitative and qualitative comparisons. The Edgewood Arsenal code number for it was EA-1306. All psychedelics are given properties that are something like "twice the potency of mescaline" or "twice as long-lived as mescaline." This simple drug is truly the central prototype against which everything else is measured. The earliest studies with the "psychotomimetic amphetamines" had quantitative psychological numbers attached that read as "mescaline units." Mescaline was cast in concrete as being active at the 3.75 mg/kg level. That means for a 80 kilogram person (a 170 pound person) a dose of 300 milligrams. If a new compound proved to be active at 30 milligrams, there was a M.U. level of 10 put into the published literature. The behavioral biologists were happy, because now they had numbers to represent psychological properties. But in truth, none of this represented the magic of this material, the nature of the experience itself. That is why, in this Book II, there is only one line given to "dosage," but a full page given to "qualitative comments".
Four simple N-modified mescaline analogues are of interest in that they are natural and have been explored in man.
The N-acetyl analogue has been found in the peyote plant, and it is also a major metabolite of mescaline in man. It is made by the gentle reaction of mescaline with acetic anhydride (a bit too much heat, and the product N-acetyl mescaline will cyclize to a dihydroisoquinoline, itself a fine white crystalline solid, mp 160-161 C) and can be recrystallized from boiling toluene. A number of human trials with this amide at levels in the 300 to 750 milligrams range have shown it to be with very little activity. At the highest levels there have been suggestions of drowsiness. Certainly there were none of the classic mescaline psychedelic effects.
If free base mescaline is brought into reaction with ethyl formate (to produce the amide, N-formylmescaline) and subsequently reduced (with lithium aluminum hydride) it is converted to the N-methyl homologue. This base has also been found as a trace component in the Peyote cactus. And the effects of N-methylation of other psychedelic drugs have been commented upon elsewhere in these recipes, all with consistently negative results (with the noteworthy exception of the conversion of MDA to MDMA). Here, too, there is no obvious activity in man, although the levels assayed were only up to 25 milligrams.
N,N-Dimethylmescaline has been given the trivial name of Trichocerine as it has been found as a natural product in several cacti of the Trichocereus Genus but, interestingly, never in any Peyote variant. It also has proven inactive in man in dosages in excess of 500 milligrams, administered parenterally. This observation, the absence of activity of a simple tertiary amine, has been exploited in the development of several iodinated radiopharmaceuticals that are mentioned elsewhere in this book.
The fourth modification is the compound with the nitrogen atom oxidatively removed from the scene. This is the mescaline metabolite, 3,4,5- trimethoxyphenylacetic acid, or TMPEA. Human dosages up to 750 milligrams orally failed to produce either physiological or psychological changes.
One additional manipulation with some of these structures has been made and should be mentioned. These are the analogues with an oxygen atom inserted between the aromatic ring and the aliphatic chain. They are, in essence, aminoethyl phenyl ethers. The first is related to mescaline itself, 2- (3,4,5-trimethoxyphenoxy)ethylamine. Human trials were conducted over the dose range of 10 to 300 milligrams and there were no effects observed. The second is related to trichocerine, N,N-dimethyl-2-(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenoxy)ethylamin