It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in it. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.
Actually take a look at mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net. I have been using it for quite some time to play most major media content displayed through mozilla, and it has no major problems with most quicktime..
Anyone else imediatly think back to when this article was posted on Slashdot?
More specifically the reference to Canesta and their projected keyboard. It seems like this guy has just basically taken the same thing and only patented it.
Still kind of a intriguing idea!
"I speak of none other than the computer that is to come after me," intoned Deep Thought, his voice regaining its accustomed declamatory tones. "A computer whose merest operational parameters I am not worthy to calculate - and yet I will design it for you. A computer which can calculate the Question to the Ultimate Answer, a computer of such infinite and subtle complexity that organic life itself shall form part of its operational matrix. And you yourselves shall take on new forms and go down into the computer to navigate its ten-million-year program! Yes! I shall design this computer for you. And I shall name it also unto you. And it shall be called... The Earth."
Oh come on guys!!! None of you remember Operation Overkill!!!!?!?!?!? ooii.vbsoft.org/
One of the best sci-fi based doorgames (next to TradeWars that is)
Re:I actually tried to check this out...
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HD DVD Coming Very Soon
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Have you checked out www.openoffice.org. It doesn't have everything that Microsoft Office has, but it is dang close. My thanks to those who put the sweat and labour into such a product!
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly nintey-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
This planet has-or rather had-a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concrened with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches."
You know somehow I don't think this will help us out much.:)
>> Uhm.... which one had Tasha Yar on it? That's
>> the one I want.:)
That would be D
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Microsoft Freon
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another gentleman here in my office made the comment that since freon is a gaseous substance does that mean that Microsoft's new product is
vaporware?
Sorry had to be said!
13,000 Credit Reports Stolen by Hackers
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
ackers posing as employees of the Ford Motor Credit Company have in recent months harvested a trove of 13,000 credit reports -- a virtual one-stop shop for fraud and identity theft -- with data on consumers in affluent neighborhoods across the country.
The company said in a letter to the victims that computer intruders used an authorization code from Ford Credit to get the credit reports from Experian, one of three major reporting agencies.
"I've never seen anything of this size," a spokesman for Experian, Donald Girard, said. "Privacy is the hallmark of our business. We're extraordinarily concerned about the privacy issue here, and the trust factor."
The inquiries gave the intruders access to each victim's personal and financial information, including address, Social Security number, bank and credit card accounts and ratings of creditworthiness, which can be used to identify the best targets.
"This is not just a credit card number; this is the whole kazoo," said Richard Power, the editorial director for the Computer Security Institute, an industry trade group. A criminal could use the data to make credit card charges or even open bank and credit card accounts in the victim's name.
Thefts of credit records, Mr. Power said, are far more common than is reported. "The unique thing about this one," he said, "is that it has surfaced." The theft was first reported yesterday by The Boston Globe and The Detroit News.
Statistics on identity theft are hard to come by, with estimates ranging as high as 700,000 cases a year. Betsy Broder, the assistant director for planning and information of the Federal Trade Commission, said the commission received 86,000 complaints of identity theft last year.
Representatives of Ford Credit said they did not know how the hackers acquired the code, which was used by the company's office in Grand Rapids, Mich. The intruders focused on addresses in affluent neighborhoods, often in numeric sequence, said Rich Van Leeuwen, executive vice president at Ford Credit.
The company said it had sent letters via certified mail to all 13,000 people, urging them to contact Experian and the two other credit reporting giants, Equifax and TransUnion, and to report any evidence of abuse to the F.B.I.
The company has also worked with Experian to set up a phone line to let victims get their credit reports and help them resolve discrepancies.
Neither Ford Credit nor Experian has determined how many people have reported fraudulent charges or other problems. Mr. Girard said that Experian had received 2,700 calls since the letters started going out this month. Although the unauthorized inquiries began in April 2001, Ford first heard about the problem in February, Mr. Van Leeuwen said. Only 400 of the 13,000 victims were customers of Ford Credit, he said.
Dawn M. Clenney, a special agent at the F.B.I. office in Detroit, said that she could not comment, except to say, "We're on the case."
Mr. Girard, the Experian spokesman, said the company would work with the F.B.I. to catch and prosecute the intruders. "It just shows that today, even big companies can be victimized," he said. "it's a never-ending struggle against the bad guys."
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Since no one seemed to catch this :
POPULATION OF UNIVERSE : None.
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in it. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.
Courtesy of the late Douglas Adamas
Actually take a look at mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net. I have been using it for quite some time to play most major media content displayed through mozilla, and it has no major problems with most quicktime..
>>Use a Unix/Linux machine, make sure it has only the access level needed from the outside (maybe sshd running, maybe)
:)
Trinity's invasionHmmm don't you remember what happened in The Matrix2? SSH is hackable. Just ask Trinity
Anyone else imediatly think back to when this article was posted on Slashdot? More specifically the reference to Canesta and their projected keyboard. It seems like this guy has just basically taken the same thing and only patented it. Still kind of a intriguing idea!
So what you want a Beowulf cluster inside your PDA now?????
well kiss that battery life goodbye.
Sorry my bad, maybe I should take my own advice. That resolution is on an external monitor. On the laptop monitor it supports 1440x900
Uhmm actually thats the default resolution.
:t /pd f_files/detailed_specs/satellite_P25-S507.pdf
If you look at the specs before making comments like this you would see that it can scale up to 2048x1536. Not too shabby for a laptop if you ask me.
Specs
http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/produc
"I speak of none other than the computer that is to come after me," intoned Deep Thought, his voice regaining its accustomed declamatory tones. "A computer whose merest operational parameters I am not worthy to calculate - and yet I will design it for you. A computer which can calculate the Question to the Ultimate Answer, a computer of such infinite and subtle complexity that organic life itself shall form part of its operational matrix. And you yourselves shall take on new forms and go down into the computer to navigate its ten-million-year program! Yes! I shall design this computer for you. And I shall name it also unto you. And it shall be called... The Earth."
Phouchg gaped at Deep Thought.
"What a dull name," he said...
Oh come on guys!!! None of you remember Operation Overkill!!!!?!?!?!? ooii.vbsoft.org/
One of the best sci-fi based doorgames (next to TradeWars that is)
Have you checked out www.openoffice.org. It doesn't have everything that Microsoft Office has, but it is dang close. My thanks to those who put the sweat and labour into such a product!
Allright Mr. Mccarthy
Take a look at this comment I posted before reading yours. My appologies.
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
:)
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly nintey-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
This planet has-or rather had-a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concrened with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches."
You know somehow I don't think this will help us out much.
Strange I thought it was called Lindows, but maybe thats just my deranged imagination for the morning.
>> Uhm.... which one had Tasha Yar on it? That's >> the one I want. :)
That would be D
another gentleman here in my office made the comment that since freon is a gaseous substance does that mean that Microsoft's new product is vaporware? Sorry had to be said!
Actually I do this on occasion so yes you can. And No I'm not talking about cargo pants. I'm talking about blue jeans, and occasionaly walking shorts.
13,000 Credit Reports Stolen by Hackers By JOHN SCHWARTZ ackers posing as employees of the Ford Motor Credit Company have in recent months harvested a trove of 13,000 credit reports -- a virtual one-stop shop for fraud and identity theft -- with data on consumers in affluent neighborhoods across the country. The company said in a letter to the victims that computer intruders used an authorization code from Ford Credit to get the credit reports from Experian, one of three major reporting agencies. "I've never seen anything of this size," a spokesman for Experian, Donald Girard, said. "Privacy is the hallmark of our business. We're extraordinarily concerned about the privacy issue here, and the trust factor." The inquiries gave the intruders access to each victim's personal and financial information, including address, Social Security number, bank and credit card accounts and ratings of creditworthiness, which can be used to identify the best targets. "This is not just a credit card number; this is the whole kazoo," said Richard Power, the editorial director for the Computer Security Institute, an industry trade group. A criminal could use the data to make credit card charges or even open bank and credit card accounts in the victim's name. Thefts of credit records, Mr. Power said, are far more common than is reported. "The unique thing about this one," he said, "is that it has surfaced." The theft was first reported yesterday by The Boston Globe and The Detroit News. Statistics on identity theft are hard to come by, with estimates ranging as high as 700,000 cases a year. Betsy Broder, the assistant director for planning and information of the Federal Trade Commission, said the commission received 86,000 complaints of identity theft last year. Representatives of Ford Credit said they did not know how the hackers acquired the code, which was used by the company's office in Grand Rapids, Mich. The intruders focused on addresses in affluent neighborhoods, often in numeric sequence, said Rich Van Leeuwen, executive vice president at Ford Credit. The company said it had sent letters via certified mail to all 13,000 people, urging them to contact Experian and the two other credit reporting giants, Equifax and TransUnion, and to report any evidence of abuse to the F.B.I. The company has also worked with Experian to set up a phone line to let victims get their credit reports and help them resolve discrepancies. Neither Ford Credit nor Experian has determined how many people have reported fraudulent charges or other problems. Mr. Girard said that Experian had received 2,700 calls since the letters started going out this month. Although the unauthorized inquiries began in April 2001, Ford first heard about the problem in February, Mr. Van Leeuwen said. Only 400 of the 13,000 victims were customers of Ford Credit, he said. Dawn M. Clenney, a special agent at the F.B.I. office in Detroit, said that she could not comment, except to say, "We're on the case." Mr. Girard, the Experian spokesman, said the company would work with the F.B.I. to catch and prosecute the intruders. "It just shows that today, even big companies can be victimized," he said. "it's a never-ending struggle against the bad guys."
Hey if you want to add on a keyboard low end 40$, high end 100$ you are still less than what the treo is!
You aren't referring to Parsec by any chance are you? Parsec looks like has potential if they can get a final build out. www.parsec.org
Now can you imagine this on a beowulf!!!! Sorry Had to be said
Actually they allready have them. Check out the following website. http://www.aurorasolar.com/