For the ultimate backup use the Rosetta Disk. It sez that they can record up to 30,000 pages of text on a 3inch coin. Plain text toboot, no binary. It is actually pretty cool check it out.
What they really ought to do is make 'clippy' skinnable and open up an api to him.
Then you could write yourself a hot as shit Office Assistant that would have a sexy voice.
<sexy voice>
Hey baby, I noticed that you have placed a lot of information on my clipboard, would you like me to hold onto it for other applications when you leave Word?
< sexy voice >
Just an idea....Ok, I'll shut up now.
"The idea has been slower to catch on in the United States, where GE Wind Energy, in Tehachapi, Calif., has deftly defended patents on variable-speed turbines that will be on the books through 2011. "
<paranoid rant>
You see, GE could give a shit about wind power. All you have to do is follow the money. First of all check out the Energy Policy Act of 2003, as Senator Domenici (NM) promises it will fix a whole laundry list of problems with our energy supply (real and percieved). Do` we really need a new Under Secretary position for energy and science as well as two new Assistant Secretary positions: one for science and one for nuclear energy, I digress.
Well, John Rice President and CEO GE Power Systems, recently (May 8) sez he's cautiously optimistic that there will be a new nuclear facility in the United States and has spoken with half-dozen major nuclear utilities about building a new reactor.
And I suppose since GE is a member of United States Energy Association and gave about $9 Million in campaign contributions (since 1990), It probably has some say into Domenici's Energy Bill which provisions for up to 8-10 new 1100MW nuclear reactors that The taxpayers (read you and I) would pay, through loans, 50% of the costs to build these. And according to the Congressional Budget Office the risk of default on such a loan guarantee to be very high - well above 50 percent(p.11). The CBO also figures that each of these will cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $3Billion.
</paranoid rant >
So why the hell would GE develop it's patents on Wind Turbines when the Good Ol US of A is gonna spend $52.6Billion over the next 10 years (p.1) on the Energy Policy Act of 2003.
< rant >
I gonna fuckin lose it about the whole small/meduim/large quagmire.
Some time ago all of the pizza places here in town (probably nationally) decided that it would be a good idea to ged rid of the small pizza and rename everything else e.g.
small -> meduim
meduim -> large
large -> extralarge
The whole thing is a god damn ploy to rip you off to no end, order a medium pizza and you get a fucking small, but it costs the same as a medium
</rant >
I really don't think that we are on the brink of extinction, But I will agree that we are on the brink of all fucking hell breaking loose and something about a handbasket.
Of course it can run linux, I've seen some really bored people get linux to run on just about anything. If someone can get linux to run on an xbox or even a fucking Nintendo some bright individual will figure this out as well
Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie's are now Ilegal in the great state of Colorado.
In an effort to combat shoplifting the state legislature passed a law that basically makes it a misdemeanor for you to "POSSESS A THEFT DETECTION SHIELDING DEVICE..." (read aluminum foil underwear or Deflector Beanie)
Our duly elected represenatives go on to define them as" "...INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO, ANY LAMINATED OR COATED SACK OR CONTAINER THAT IS CAPABLE OF AVOIDING DETECTION BY A THEFT DETECTION DEVICE."
I think that it was Alexander Shulgin that said something like:
They were gonna burn galileo because he thought that you could understand the nature of God with his looking glass. Nowdays nothing much has changed, The Man will still send you to prison for a good long time because you claim to understand the nature of God with some substances
I probably butchered what he actually said but I am pretty sure that it is in TiHKAL (an outstanding read even if you are not a chemist)
It just reminded me that stuff like pledge and dishwashing soap use natural lemon whereas lemon diet coke is artifically flavored (and it tastes like pledge)
First, I believe that humans (in general) are capable of multitasking, and can do a couple of things at the same time. Personally I can eat a Big Mac, Drink a Coke, Smoke, and drive a stick all at the same time. Haven't killed anyone yet, or even come close..
Driving a car is not terribly difficult. Shit, I bet they could teach monkeys to do it. I was a master at Pole Position when I was six.
Third, shit happens!!! Sometimes accidents just happen and someone happens to be on a cell phone, Can you say 'coincidence'. Or maybe you prefer to believe that the sun sets every evening because the street lights come on...
"Damaging a tree with a firearm" 16USC551;36CFR261.6(2)
"Careless Shooting with a firearm" 16USC551;36CFR261.10(d)
In short don't hang your targets on trees in a National Forest, It cost me $200 and 10 hours of picking up garbage and digging fence post holes.
It's ironic because the forest I was shooting in burned up last summer so the trees would have been wasted anyways...
"justice" has a cover charge; if you can't afford the lwayers, you don't get in the door.
<rant> You are soooo right... Justice is meant/paid for by "we the people" and if the entire system is out of reach of the common man then it is useless. Just fucking burn it down and start over </rant>
Imagine some big ass company like Woohoo, JCN, Bayarea Auctions, DreLL, or moon microsystems to lay off n% of their web developers due to the slowing economy. So Bob, not the stable type (we all have worked with someone like Bob), gets all bent out of shape and decides that he has a grudge against his employer, and decides to embed the malicious code into all of links of his companys website and reformat all of the visitors hard drives (talk about some bad fucking PR)....
When you go around and look at all these pictures and see all the mangled shit, Then sit back and think that if you had a couple thousand?(maybe, don't really have any idea how many there are) of these server rooms...voilà! you got yourself a fuckin internet.
Just the fact that you are reading this is a miracle in itself
I've actually thought about this before. Here in town the Department of Transportation has gone ape shit and put cameras at almost every intersection (at least 4, one pointing each direction). I thought that maybe I could tear apart an old microwave and get the magnetron out and mount it on the roof of my car. Then as I drive under the offending camera the electronics would instantly be fried.
I doubt that the DOT would approve and would probably invite some hassling by the local law enforcement but would it work? Maybe a whole array of them and a portable coleman generator to power it all....
Maybe even get a big ass steel mixing bowl to act as a parabolic reflector to up the effectiveness
Yeah yeah, I know, it would really mess up 802.11b communications in the area but hey, no one is perfect....
You nailed it.... Remember 'DIVX' . It was this great deal where you would pay something like 5 bucks for a DVD but could only watch it for 2 or 3 days. That fucker tanked in no time... I see (hope, prey) that the same goes for this.
You don't have to be into legal documents to be scared as shit when you read p.15
PRAYER FOR RELIEF
WHEREFORE, Plaintffs pray for judgment against Defendants as follows:
1. That the court order Defendants to block Internet traffic to and from the website http://www.listen4ever.com, all the pages affiliated with it, and for any substantially similar successor websites:...(emphesis mine>
I guess that that is it, right? If this passes, then all the RIAA has to show is that any website that is substantially similar should also be shut down.
What the fuck happend? This is the United States right? I just don't think that it is a good thing to let a few suits and lawyers start deciding on what I should have access to.
All you have to do is launch some sort of probe that goes into some sort of orbit that is perpendicular to the Earths. (kinda like that asteroid that is supposed to collide with us somewhere in the year 2019).
Then if you are really good at math, physics, and the like, at some point in the future the two bodies will collide and your earth shattering secret would fall from the sky. And depending on the particular orbit you pick, you could specify the date at which your capsule would fall to earth.
If you only needed a year, you could just launch it so it kinda remains stationary in the Earths orbit, then when the Earth comes back around, it would run into it and fall from the sky
You might want to send a couple for redundancy and pray that your invention is important enough for someone to go look for it...
M&M's and Honey Roasted Peanuts. I could eat the whole damn bowl. Best combination of junk foods ever. (Coke and a Snickers comes in a close 2nd though)
IT IS VERY VERY HARD TO MEASURE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ADVERTISING.
I don't know if that is entirely true, A couple of years back I remember reading somewhere, that Sprite's advertising campaign was so effective that it went from something like 6 to 3 in the softdrink market.
Just because more ads are on the screen doesn't mean I'm going to free up more money to spend.
I know you or I won't but just look at all those ads with those sports guys pitching a great deal on a second mortgage to pay off all your credit cards that are maxed out because you went out and bought a bunch of shit you dont need.
There are a whole lotta halfwits out there that will take out a 2nd mortgage to but the latest and greatest because, 'Dude, you're gettin a Dell'
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"The more tolerable you make war, the longer the people will tolerate it"
For the ultimate backup use the Rosetta Disk. It sez that they can record up to 30,000 pages of text on a 3inch coin. Plain text toboot, no binary. It is actually pretty cool check it out.
Browsing slash and listening to all of the paranoid lunatics is a great pasttime.
You weren't actually looking for insight were you?
Then you could write yourself a hot as shit Office Assistant that would have a sexy voice.
<sexy voice>
Hey baby, I noticed that you have placed a lot of information on my clipboard, would you like me to hold onto it for other applications when you leave Word?
< sexy voice >
Just an idea....Ok, I'll shut up now.
As a legitimate owner of some Norton products they do phone home during install but they are forthcoming and tell you what they are doing.
<paranoid rant>
You see, GE could give a shit about wind power. All you have to do is follow the money. First of all check out the Energy Policy Act of 2003, as Senator Domenici (NM) promises it will fix a whole laundry list of problems with our energy supply (real and percieved). Do` we really need a new Under Secretary position for energy and science as well as two new Assistant Secretary positions: one for science and one for nuclear energy, I digress.
Anways Being from New Mexico, the home of Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories Don't be so shocked when Domenici's bill is pro nuclear.
Well, John Rice President and CEO GE Power Systems, recently (May 8) sez he's cautiously optimistic that there will be a new nuclear facility in the United States and has spoken with half-dozen major nuclear utilities about building a new reactor .
And I suppose since GE is a member of United States Energy Association and gave about $9 Million in campaign contributions (since 1990), It probably has some say into Domenici's Energy Bill which provisions for up to 8-10 new 1100MW nuclear reactors that The taxpayers (read you and I) would pay, through loans, 50% of the costs to build these. And according to the Congressional Budget Office the risk of default on such a loan guarantee to be very high - well above 50 percent(p.11). The CBO also figures that each of these will cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $3Billion.
< /paranoid rant >
So why the hell would GE develop it's patents on Wind Turbines when the Good Ol US of A is gonna spend $52.6Billion over the next 10 years (p.1) on the Energy Policy Act of 2003.
Just follow the money....
I gonna fuckin lose it about the whole small/meduim/large quagmire.
Some time ago all of the pizza places here in town (probably nationally) decided that it would be a good idea to ged rid of the small pizza and rename everything else e.g.
small -> meduim
meduim -> large
large -> extralarge
The whole thing is a god damn ploy to rip you off to no end, order a medium pizza and you get a fucking small, but it costs the same as a medium /rant >
<
I really don't think that we are on the brink of extinction, But I will agree that we are on the brink of all fucking hell breaking loose and something about a handbasket.
Of course it can run linux, I've seen some really bored people get linux to run on just about anything. If someone can get linux to run on an xbox or even a fucking Nintendo some bright individual will figure this out as well
In an effort to combat shoplifting the state legislature passed a law that basically makes it a misdemeanor for you to "POSSESS A THEFT DETECTION SHIELDING DEVICE..." (read aluminum foil underwear or Deflector Beanie)
Our duly elected represenatives go on to define them as" "...INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO, ANY LAMINATED OR COATED SACK OR CONTAINER THAT IS CAPABLE OF AVOIDING DETECTION BY A THEFT DETECTION DEVICE."
I think that it was Alexander Shulgin that said something like:
They were gonna burn galileo because he thought that you could understand the nature of God with his looking glass. Nowdays nothing much has changed, The Man will still send you to prison for a good long time because you claim to understand the nature of God with some substances
I probably butchered what he actually said but I am pretty sure that it is in TiHKAL (an outstanding read even if you are not a chemist)
go figure....
First, I believe that humans (in general) are capable of multitasking, and can do a couple of things at the same time. Personally I can eat a Big Mac, Drink a Coke, Smoke, and drive a stick all at the same time. Haven't killed anyone yet, or even come close..
Driving a car is not terribly difficult. Shit, I bet they could teach monkeys to do it. I was a master at Pole Position when I was six.
Third, shit happens!!! Sometimes accidents just happen and someone happens to be on a cell phone, Can you say 'coincidence'. Or maybe you prefer to believe that the sun sets every evening because the street lights come on...
"Damaging a tree with a firearm" 16USC551;36CFR261.6(2)
"Careless Shooting with a firearm" 16USC551;36CFR261.10(d)
In short don't hang your targets on trees in a National Forest, It cost me $200 and 10 hours of picking up garbage and digging fence post holes.
It's ironic because the forest I was shooting in burned up last summer so the trees would have been wasted anyways...
As I see it, everyone here really likes to rant about MS. Just peruse the Front Page,
"justice" has a cover charge; if you can't afford the lwayers, you don't get in the door.
<rant>
You are soooo right... Justice is meant/paid for by "we the people" and if the entire system is out of reach of the common man then it is useless. Just fucking burn it down and start over
</rant>
Imagine some big ass company like Woohoo, JCN, Bayarea Auctions, DreLL, or moon microsystems to lay off n% of their web developers due to the slowing economy. So Bob, not the stable type (we all have worked with someone like Bob), gets all bent out of shape and decides that he has a grudge against his employer, and decides to embed the malicious code into all of links of his companys website and reformat all of the visitors hard drives (talk about some bad fucking PR)....
Paranoid? maybe but just thinking
When you go around and look at all these pictures and see all the mangled shit, Then sit back and think that if you had a couple thousand?(maybe, don't really have any idea how many there are) of these server rooms...voilà! you got yourself a fuckin internet.
Just the fact that you are reading this is a miracle in itself
I've actually thought about this before. Here in town the Department of Transportation has gone ape shit and put cameras at almost every intersection (at least 4, one pointing each direction). I thought that maybe I could tear apart an old microwave and get the magnetron out and mount it on the roof of my car. Then as I drive under the offending camera the electronics would instantly be fried.
I doubt that the DOT would approve and would probably invite some hassling by the local law enforcement but would it work? Maybe a whole array of them and a portable coleman generator to power it all....
Maybe even get a big ass steel mixing bowl to act as a parabolic reflector to up the effectiveness
Yeah yeah, I know, it would really mess up 802.11b communications in the area but hey, no one is perfect....
You nailed it.... Remember 'DIVX' . It was this great deal where you would pay something like 5 bucks for a DVD but could only watch it for 2 or 3 days. That fucker tanked in no time... I see (hope, prey) that the same goes for this.
You don't have to be into legal documents to be scared as shit when you read p.15
PRAYER FOR RELIEF
WHEREFORE, Plaintffs pray for judgment against Defendants as follows:
1. That the court order Defendants to block Internet traffic to and from the website http://www.listen4ever.com, all the pages affiliated with it, and for any substantially similar successor websites:... (emphesis mine>
I guess that that is it, right? If this passes, then all the RIAA has to show is that any website that is substantially similar should also be shut down.
What the fuck happend? This is the United States right? I just don't think that it is a good thing to let a few suits and lawyers start deciding on what I should have access to.
I got it.
All you have to do is launch some sort of probe that goes into some sort of orbit that is perpendicular to the Earths. (kinda like that asteroid that is supposed to collide with us somewhere in the year 2019).
Then if you are really good at math, physics, and the like, at some point in the future the two bodies will collide and your earth shattering secret would fall from the sky. And depending on the particular orbit you pick, you could specify the date at which your capsule would fall to earth.
If you only needed a year, you could just launch it so it kinda remains stationary in the Earths orbit, then when the Earth comes back around, it would run into it and fall from the sky
You might want to send a couple for redundancy and pray that your invention is important enough for someone to go look for it...
M&M's and Honey Roasted Peanuts. I could eat the whole damn bowl. Best combination of junk foods ever. (Coke and a Snickers comes in a close 2nd though)
IT IS VERY VERY HARD TO MEASURE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ADVERTISING.
I don't know if that is entirely true, A couple of years back I remember reading somewhere, that Sprite's advertising campaign was so effective that it went from something like 6 to 3 in the softdrink market.
Just because more ads are on the screen doesn't mean I'm going to free up more money to spend.
I know you or I won't but just look at all those ads with those sports guys pitching a great deal on a second mortgage to pay off all your credit cards that are maxed out because you went out and bought a bunch of shit you dont need.
There are a whole lotta halfwits out there that will take out a 2nd mortgage to but the latest and greatest because, 'Dude, you're gettin a Dell'