I don't know about you, but these things look like its just a freznel lens over it. Sure, they put it facing the opposite direction and not over it, but other than that I don't see anything spectacular. It's doing essential the same job: redirect light from the angle out in the desired direction.
Your chilton manuals are in the garage, your cookbooks and recipe boxes are in the kitchen or
True, but if you could stand in your kitchen, and think about your chilton manual in the garage, then reach out and simply pick it up, wouldn't that be good?
That is what you should be able to do in a computer. That is a drawback to an HFS.
[Security Guard]: Excuse me, sir, you're going to have to remove that equipment and place it in the machine. [Passenger]: I can't do that, it's my oxygen tank and wheelchair. [SG]: Sir, you will have to turn off and on your equipment and place it in the X-Ray machine. [P]: Um... You don't understand. I'm disabled. I need my motorized wheelchair and oxygen to live... [Security Supervisor]: What seems to be the hold up here? [SG]: This man refuses to let his equipment be checked through security. He's acting suspiciously, he wont even stand up. [P]: Look, I'm unable to stand. I need this oxygen to breath. What is wrong with you people?! [SS]: Sir, please calm down, or we'll have to have you removed and your equipment confiscated. [P]: Aren't you listening? I'm diabled. It's not like I chose to bring this stuff with me. [SG]: Sir, place the equipment on the X-Ray machine now! I'm not going to tell you again. [P]: Look you stupid cow, I couldn't even if I wanted to. [SS]: That's it. Struggle struggle, yank yank [P]: Gasp, wheeze [SG]: Sir, if you don't get off the floor, we will have you removed from the building! Sir? SIR? [Bystander1]: Look, that man is choking. [Bystander2]: Oh my god! He's must have anthax! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Panic panic, crash crash
If software companies can put licenses on their products that remove thier blame, can't I just do that to a virus I write.
"EULA for You're Skrewed software (virus): If you install this program, you can't blame us it it melts your harddrive. It's only supposed to pr0n spam the whole world and steal your passwords.
NOT LEGAL IN CANADA, Copyright 200x"
Nobody reads those damn things anyway. I bet 10,000 AOL users would install it the first day it was out.
"Computer makers should also stop making devices that allow hackers to create these weapons. By allowing this to persist, the manufacturers are in effect aiding in the commission of a crime. It's high time the scourge of the KEYBOARD was dealt with! We at Micro$oft are currently lobbying for legislation that will make use and manufacture of a keyboard* a capital offense!"
*Keyboard use permitted by monopolistic companies that laugh and spit on the laws of the government they influence.
When was the last time America sent an attack to kill *thousands* of people just for the hell of it! I don't agree with violence, but this is a time when you get out your biggest stick and start whacking till it stops moving! Call us bullies, but we don't make our sole targets civilian! Don't you DARE say we brought THIS on ourselves!
From what I've read so far most posters (or those moderated up) liked FH'sDune. In light of this I must ask this:
What F*CKING show were you watching!! The effects made me think I was watching LEXX, you hade actors avoiding the cheesily painted desert backdrops, Duncan was yet again treated like an extra, Paul didn't come off merely moody (WTF is this Luke comparison) he was a spoiled brat!
What's a mentat? "Uh, some guy who help that fat baron dude"
What's the breeding program? "Huh?"
What's spice? "Um, something that flows and stuff."
Please! Harrison did to Dune what Jar Jar Binks did to Star Wars!
I can understand if Hemos and a few other people liked it, but to moderate up ONLY posts that liked it is going a bit too far!
>1: The fine canals inside bony tissues are of a kind only found in the warm-blooded mammals and birds, but not in other amniotes like crocodiles, lizards, snakes, or turtles.
Aaaah, but a study was done that showed these canals CAN exist in cold-blooded animals because they area created based on activity, which is usually higher in warm-blooded animal, but not exclusivly. Monitor lizards but in a tred-mill developed these canals, while monitort lizards at normal activity levels did not.
I'm with you on this one, as long as they don't show the old ones I saw not too long ago. They had tried to make it "cyber" by making every scene cut this really stupid computer graphics of opening vault doors and rotating inside a cube. It wouldn't have been too bad, but they even did it when the angle of the same scene changed!
Isn't this the same thing that happened 8 months ago with NBC and CBS? Remember when CBS' coverage of Time Square NY digitally covered NBC' ads in every shot it real time? Slashdot even posted a story about it.
Sooner or later this will be cheap enough that local station can buy it and start putting in local product placement. Imagine Buffy sporting a "Jerry's Bait Shop" t-shirt, or Frasier having a "Mike's Lube and Go" poster on the wall.
Maybe they can make changes to people in the shows, and make the women on Ally McAnorexia look like something other than Stick Figures.
If we just think back to what these people had to work with (compared to today) it's amazing the great games that were produced.
With the visual limits of hardware pretty much easy to max out, they had the time to concentrate on game play and functionality. That's where these games excelled! Who cared that they didn't have 3d texture mapping and realistic, spurting blood. The game play rocked!
Have you ever wondered why the Space Shuttle flies the way it does in orbit. That upside-down, doors half open position. It's so astronauts don't get torn to shreds by a high-velocity paint-chip while floating around out there.
More trash is currently being tracked than functioning craft (both can be considered satelites). We are creating another modern monument that will last eons, a ring around our planet. But ours will be trash!
We should be putting things in space. We should explore and use communications via satelites, but NO thought is going into what happens to all that stuff we leave behind!
This will continue to be our attitude until a shuttle is torn apart by somthing large enough to do it! Say, a one inch bolt that floated away from an old Apollo mission.
YEE GODS I hope not! I am having the HUGEST trouble right now getting Exchange to interoperate with anything standard! I hate being forced to use the horrible monstrosity! I sincerly hope that MAPI (MS version of IMAP) goes the way of the Macarena!
The Helix-Gnome team would either have to pay for the interface (likely not cheap) or reverse engineer it (likely not easy). I dont know of any Open Source attempts at this time and commercial interoperabilty is big bucks!
Let's hope Evolution can stand on it's own. I like the work so far.
Slashdot Mirror
That would have been Lexx.
No fucking duh! Still not that spectacular. Looks like a freznel, acts like a freznel... but its a mirror - ooooooo, aaaaaaah, wow
I don't know about you, but these things look like its just a freznel lens over it. Sure, they put it facing the opposite direction and not over it, but other than that I don't see anything spectacular. It's doing essential the same job: redirect light from the angle out in the desired direction.
Am I missing something?
Not to be a word Nazi (but I will be)
10^100 is a googol, not a google.
Your chilton manuals are in the garage, your cookbooks and recipe boxes are in the kitchen or
True, but if you could stand in your kitchen, and think about your chilton manual in the garage, then reach out and simply pick it up, wouldn't that be good?
That is what you should be able to do in a computer. That is a drawback to an HFS.
This is the daily view of that day:& mo de=
http://slashdot.org/index.pl?issue=19971231
I looked around and only found this as the oldest story on the site.
Dec, 31 1997
What a dumb idea
I don't believe it will work
SpamAssassin does
have to be protected or a holder runs the risk of losing those rights, correct?
Is there precedence for something similar for patent holders?
Frell - "The 'F' word"
Drenn - Crap
Hezmana - Hell
Mivoks - Male genitals
trelk - slut
trat - $hit (the physical stuff)
I've actually caught myself using frell in casual conversation. (I'm already married, so I don't care about getting dates)
I would like to patent the patent for patenting stupid patents.
Say that five times fast.
Ok...
that
that
that
that
that
[Security Guard]: Excuse me, sir, you're going to have to remove that equipment and place it in the machine.
[Passenger]: I can't do that, it's my oxygen tank and wheelchair.
[SG]: Sir, you will have to turn off and on your equipment and place it in the X-Ray machine.
[P]: Um... You don't understand. I'm disabled. I need my motorized wheelchair and oxygen to live...
[Security Supervisor]: What seems to be the hold up here?
[SG]: This man refuses to let his equipment be checked through security. He's acting suspiciously, he wont even stand up.
[P]: Look, I'm unable to stand. I need this oxygen to breath. What is wrong with you people?!
[SS]: Sir, please calm down, or we'll have to have you removed and your equipment confiscated.
[P]: Aren't you listening? I'm diabled. It's not like I chose to bring this stuff with me.
[SG]: Sir, place the equipment on the X-Ray machine now! I'm not going to tell you again.
[P]: Look you stupid cow, I couldn't even if I wanted to.
[SS]: That's it.
Struggle struggle, yank yank
[P]: Gasp, wheeze
[SG]: Sir, if you don't get off the floor, we will have you removed from the building! Sir? SIR?
[Bystander1]: Look, that man is choking.
[Bystander2]: Oh my god! He's must have anthax! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Panic panic, crash crash
THE END
If software companies can put licenses on their products that remove thier blame, can't I just do that to a virus I write.
"EULA for You're Skrewed software (virus):
If you install this program, you can't blame us it it melts your harddrive. It's only supposed to pr0n spam the whole world and steal your passwords.
NOT LEGAL IN CANADA, Copyright 200x"
Nobody reads those damn things anyway. I bet 10,000 AOL users would install it the first day it was out.
"Computer makers should also stop making devices that allow hackers to create these weapons. By allowing this to persist, the manufacturers are in effect aiding in the commission of a crime. It's high time the scourge of the KEYBOARD was dealt with! We at Micro$oft are currently lobbying for legislation that will make use and manufacture of a keyboard* a capital offense!"
*Keyboard use permitted by monopolistic companies that laugh and spit on the laws of the government they influence.
When was the last time America sent an attack to kill *thousands* of people just for the hell of it! I don't agree with violence, but this is a time when you get out your biggest stick and start whacking till it stops moving! Call us bullies, but we don't make our sole targets civilian! Don't you DARE say we brought THIS on ourselves!
Hey, let at least wait till the dead are done dying before we start making jokes! Have a little fucking respect!!
From what I've read so far most posters (or those moderated up) liked FH'sDune. In light of this I must ask this:
What F*CKING show were you watching!! The effects made me think I was watching LEXX, you hade actors avoiding the cheesily painted desert backdrops, Duncan was yet again treated like an extra, Paul didn't come off merely moody (WTF is this Luke comparison) he was a spoiled brat!
What's a mentat? "Uh, some guy who help that fat baron dude"
What's the breeding program? "Huh?"
What's spice? "Um, something that flows and stuff."
Please! Harrison did to Dune what Jar Jar Binks did to Star Wars!
I can understand if Hemos and a few other people liked it, but to moderate up ONLY posts that liked it is going a bit too far!
MailVault.com also does PGP over 128bit SSL and plans to open source the whole thing.
>1: The fine canals inside bony tissues are of a kind only found in the warm-blooded mammals and birds, but not in other amniotes like crocodiles, lizards, snakes, or turtles.
Aaaah, but a study was done that showed these canals CAN exist in cold-blooded animals because they area created based on activity, which is usually higher in warm-blooded animal, but not exclusivly. Monitor lizards but in a tred-mill developed these canals, while monitort lizards at normal activity levels did not.
Other than that I can't disagree with you.
Did you guys consider your own distro? Why, why not and will you create a full Bastille distro.
(One minor wishlist item: could you fix the Curses thing for sparc) Sorry, just had to sneak that in.
Hey, what about the GoBots?!
As for Transformers:
I'm with you on this one, as long as they don't show the old ones I saw not too long ago. They had tried to make it "cyber" by making every scene cut this really stupid computer graphics of opening vault doors and rotating inside a cube. It wouldn't have been too bad, but they even did it when the angle of the same scene changed!
Isn't this the same thing that happened 8 months ago with NBC and CBS? Remember when CBS' coverage of Time Square NY digitally
covered NBC' ads in every shot it real time? Slashdot even posted a story about it.
Sooner or later this will be cheap enough that local station can buy it and start putting in local product placement. Imagine Buffy sporting
a "Jerry's Bait Shop" t-shirt, or Frasier having a "Mike's Lube and Go" poster on the wall.
Maybe they can make changes to people in the shows, and make the women on Ally McAnorexia look like something other than Stick Figures.
If we just think back to what these people had to work with (compared to today) it's amazing the great games that were produced.
With the visual limits of hardware pretty much easy to max out, they had the time to concentrate on game play and functionality. That's where these games excelled! Who cared that they didn't have 3d texture mapping and realistic, spurting blood. The game play rocked!
Have you ever wondered why the Space Shuttle flies the way it does in orbit. That upside-down, doors half open position. It's so astronauts don't get torn to shreds by a high-velocity paint-chip while floating around out there.
More trash is currently being tracked than functioning craft (both can be considered satelites). We are creating another modern monument that will last eons, a ring around our planet. But ours will be trash!
We should be putting things in space. We should explore and use communications via satelites, but NO thought is going into what happens to all that stuff we leave behind!
This will continue to be our attitude until a shuttle is torn apart by somthing large enough to do it! Say, a one inch bolt that floated away from an old Apollo mission.
Oh well.
YEE GODS I hope not! I am having the HUGEST trouble right now getting Exchange to interoperate
with anything standard! I hate being forced to use the horrible monstrosity! I sincerly hope that
MAPI (MS version of IMAP) goes the way of the Macarena!
The Helix-Gnome team would either have to pay for the interface (likely not cheap) or reverse
engineer it (likely not easy). I dont know of any Open Source attempts at this time and commercial
interoperabilty is big bucks!
Let's hope Evolution can stand on it's own. I like the work so far.