Why is it that whenever I go to a Japanese website, it looks like it was made in 1993? Really - frames, rectangular pixellated graphics slapped around, garish/nutty backgrounds. Urgh.
As somebody who has just upgraded their RivaTNT 64 drivers to the latest version (all of about 5 mins before seeing this/. post) I don't think flattening NVidia is going to be much trouble...
> There are plenty of talentedjournalists who > still get stuck in the margins. Being at a job > is not just skill at the task (if that was the > case, management would not be the lost art that > it seems to have become), but also a lot of > intangibles...right place, right time, > political office savvy
So maybe one day the dream of collabroatively-filtered journalism will come true, and then only the ideas, and not the people who have them, will count.
But don't hold your breath. Next century perhaps, when our personality and brand-obsessed generation has bitten the dust.
Noam Chomsky also pointed out that if you do something subversive and don't get punished, you aren't being subversive enough. Punishment (or at least an attempt at punishment) is the litmus test of effective protest because it means your message has been heard.
> I thought the consensus was that current > systems, given a sufficiently large key, were > for all practical purposes unbreakable
If we're talking about quantum encryption (which we are) then actuallly it *IS* completely impossible to break it (undetected) no matter how much computing power you have (even quantum computing power). Well, unless somebody finds a way to circumvent the laws of physics. So maybe the Supreme Being might be able to break it.
I saw a demonstration on live TV of a "non-conducting fluid" on BBC's Tomorrows World about 20 years ago. They had tank of the stuff and put a radio in it - then put a mic next to the tank to hear the music from the radio as it was submerged.
They said it was to be used for cooling. No mention of whether it got things "wet" though.
But then, like so many things on that programme, we never heard of it again. Just like the fire and heat-proof paint that they demonstrated by holding a blowtorch on an egg painted with the paint - then picked up the egg and cracked it showing the yolk unboiled. Never seen that again.
Kiosks have always slightly mystified me, and it seems that what Shirky is describing is relevant to their design, although because his angle is that he has discovered a new phenomenon, he doesn't mention them.
Airports, stations, public buildings... trackerball, touchscreen, crash, crash, crash. Ever since about 1993. They're still around though, and being consistently ignored by all who walk past them.
Eh? I'm using Win2K Pro SP4 here and there ain't no "run as..." on any right click menu I can see. Are you talking about people who have some kind of admin tools package installed? I can get "runas" from the command line mind you.
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> Since then I have moved to hosting all of my > domains on my own co-located server which runs > Exchange 2000, thus complicating things.
LOL! That's the best summary of Exchange I've read in a long time!
> would be an alternative to oil if only the US > government would stop pouring hundreds of > billions of dollars a year in to subsidizing > the oil industry...and killing Iraqis too of course.
I've probably missed something obvious, but what is the HABEAS_SWE rule doing there in the first place? Surely SA should be configured to check the Habeas white and black lists, not look for the haiku headers (which could be on ham or spam).
> For those of you who have never seen "Saving > Private Ryan" or "Band of Brothers", I > recommend them.
While I don't disagree with the sentiment of what you say, I wish those films were not so blatantly US-centric. Anyone watching them would be perfectly justified it concluding that America fought against the Axis powers alone and the Europeans and Anzacs had nothing to do with it.
And just to decimate my karma even more, I would remind anyone who is inclined to think of America as an unusually heroic military force that they have never won a significant military victory without superior numbers or equipment. I don't believe any other nation in history has that distinction.
Well, I tried Gentoo, and oh my god was it hard to install. It didn't recognise my 3Com 509b ISA card (OK a little old) and just left me at a command prompt for things. So I gave up.
I admit I'm a lazy jackass after being spoonfed by RedHat for seven years, but with Fedora going all wobbly who knows what they'll do, I really think Gentoo is gonna scare the bejeezus out of any newbies.
Please Gentoo: lose the hubris, sort our the installation! I'm ready to believe that you're the best distro ever - just as long as I could just run you!!
The times I've seen US TV, it's so utterly - really quite *amazingly* - bland and inoffensive I would be surprised if anything coming out of the States (other than obvious stuff like ads for pork products in Muslim countries, etc.) got banned by anyone else. Not that ads in other countries are particularly racy in my experience either, mind you, but nudity in ads is pretty common in many European countries I suppose.
"Guchi" is in fact a legitimate kunyomi of "ko" (kuchi). Unless you want argue with the Mombusho, whose toyo kanji listing clearly shows "guchi" as one of the readings.
> Every society strikes a balance between individualism and collectivism.
He he. What a wonderfully pompous post! But I take your point about the social cohesion thing.
If we bring it down to a different level though, I've sometimes wondered whether our CEO has ever woken up in the middle of the night and thought "Shit! I own this company, but the Ops Manager knows the root passwords to ALL our systems... and I don't!"
Maybe I'll show him your post one day if I see him hanging around the server room looking nervous. It might calm him down.
The primary purpose of a marriage is to grant legal status to a man and a woman for the purpose of raising a family.
Eh? What's the use in giving people a "legal status" to have kids? Children have very little to do with marriage, because people will always have sex.
I would say that in fact marriage has everything to do with bonding social groups together. To that end, the primary puprose of marriage is to form a link between families. It's a plus (to the community) that those people may also have kids, but that's a "jam tomorrow" thing and not essential to the process. What *is* essential is to have a formal bond between uncle Betty and autie Albert, who become uncles/aunts-in-law, John and Lizzy, who then become cousins-in-law, etc. etc. They then have an excuse to borrow eachother's cows, share the odd harvest, and generally help eachother out rather than fight (because you fight strangers, you see). Who cares if the couple have kids?
PS: "Marriage is not a right, it is, at best, a tradition or custom." - What the hell does that mean? What's you're point? What does "at best" mean here anyway? Boing!
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Why is it that whenever I go to a Japanese website, it looks like it was made in 1993? Really - frames, rectangular pixellated graphics slapped around, garish/nutty backgrounds. Urgh.
Hey yeah!
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I just never noticed because all my posts gets modded down
As somebody who has just upgraded their RivaTNT 64 drivers to the latest version (all of about 5 mins before seeing this /. post) I don't think flattening NVidia is going to be much trouble...
> There are plenty of talentedjournalists who
> still get stuck in the margins. Being at a job
> is not just skill at the task (if that was the
> case, management would not be the lost art that
> it seems to have become), but also a lot of
> intangibles...right place, right time,
> political office savvy
So maybe one day the dream of collabroatively-filtered journalism will come true, and then only the ideas, and not the people who have them, will count.
But don't hold your breath. Next century perhaps, when our personality and brand-obsessed generation has bitten the dust.
Noam Chomsky also pointed out that if you do something subversive and don't get punished, you aren't being subversive enough. Punishment (or at least an attempt at punishment) is the litmus test of effective protest because it means your message has been heard.
> I thought the consensus was that current
> systems, given a sufficiently large key, were
> for all practical purposes unbreakable
If we're talking about quantum encryption (which we are) then actuallly it *IS* completely impossible to break it (undetected) no matter how much computing power you have (even quantum computing power). Well, unless somebody finds a way to circumvent the laws of physics. So maybe the Supreme Being might be able to break it.
I saw a demonstration on live TV of a "non-conducting fluid" on BBC's Tomorrows World about 20 years ago. They had tank of the stuff and put a radio in it - then put a mic next to the tank to hear the music from the radio as it was submerged.
They said it was to be used for cooling. No mention of whether it got things "wet" though.
But then, like so many things on that programme, we never heard of it again. Just like the fire and heat-proof paint that they demonstrated by holding a blowtorch on an egg painted with the paint - then picked up the egg and cracked it showing the yolk unboiled. Never seen that again.
Odd.
Kiosks have always slightly mystified me, and it seems that what Shirky is describing is relevant to their design, although because his angle is that he has discovered a new phenomenon, he doesn't mention them.
Airports, stations, public buildings... trackerball, touchscreen, crash, crash, crash. Ever since about 1993. They're still around though, and being consistently ignored by all who walk past them.
Tunez is utterly cool and gets over the problem of people squabbling abut what album/playlist to play - collaborative filtering. Wahoo!
Eh? I'm using Win2K Pro SP4 here and there ain't no "run as..." on any right click menu I can see. Are you talking about people who have some kind of admin tools package installed? I can get "runas" from the command line mind you.
> Since then I have moved to hosting all of my
> domains on my own co-located server which runs
> Exchange 2000, thus complicating things.
LOL! That's the best summary of Exchange I've read in a long time!
> would be an alternative to oil if only the US ..and killing Iraqis too of course.
> government would stop pouring hundreds of
> billions of dollars a year in to subsidizing
> the oil industry.
I've probably missed something obvious, but what is the HABEAS_SWE rule doing there in the first place? Surely SA should be configured to check the Habeas white and black lists, not look for the haiku headers (which could be on ham or spam).
Please can anyone help me out!
> For those of you who have never seen "Saving
> Private Ryan" or "Band of Brothers", I
> recommend them.
While I don't disagree with the sentiment of what you say, I wish those films were not so blatantly US-centric. Anyone watching them would be perfectly justified it concluding that America fought against the Axis powers alone and the Europeans and Anzacs had nothing to do with it.
And just to decimate my karma even more, I would remind anyone who is inclined to think of America as an unusually heroic military force that they have never won a significant military victory without superior numbers or equipment. I don't believe any other nation in history has that distinction.
You're right. It was just a card I found lying in the corner of my bedroom and slapped it in without thinking. I'm being unreasonable.
I love Gentoo and all Linux distibutions, and will never say a bad word against them.
> download the DOS utility from 3com and disable
> PnP and hard code the irq and io address Then
> pass the arguments to the module
Well yeah! Of course! Why didn't I see the incredible simplicity of that?? Doh!
Look: Debian picked up the card no problem. I feel a total astroturfer so I better shut up about this, but Gentoo - no I'll shut up.
Well, I tried Gentoo, and oh my god was it hard to install. It didn't recognise my 3Com 509b ISA card (OK a little old) and just left me at a command prompt for things. So I gave up.
I admit I'm a lazy jackass after being spoonfed by RedHat for seven years, but with Fedora going all wobbly who knows what they'll do, I really think Gentoo is gonna scare the bejeezus out of any newbies.
Please Gentoo: lose the hubris, sort our the installation! I'm ready to believe that you're the best distro ever - just as long as I could just run you!!
From what I can tell, Debian offers:
- ease of installation
- ease of use (apt-get)
- stability
- warm glow
I'm now uninstalling RedHat 7.3 and running Debian stable. Who cares about the cutting edge? I have users to serve.
So what happens if you want to correspond with somebody about Viagra?
Would this thread get ignored, for instance?
Totally OT, but you're right.
I found it quite hard, to read that comment, because, it had so many commas in, I kept on pausing.
The power of the comma must not be underestimated. HEY! At last a better sig than my current one!
Not trying to troll, but how do we know you're the real Brad Fitzpatrick?
;-)
Ha ha, only serious. But your profile is blank, and I can't see your PGP key - which might be construed as ironic under the circumstances
The times I've seen US TV, it's so utterly - really quite *amazingly* - bland and inoffensive I would be surprised if anything coming out of the States (other than obvious stuff like ads for pork products in Muslim countries, etc.) got banned by anyone else. Not that ads in other countries are particularly racy in my experience either, mind you, but nudity in ads is pretty common in many European countries I suppose.
"Guchi" is in fact a legitimate kunyomi of "ko" (kuchi). Unless you want argue with the Mombusho, whose toyo kanji listing clearly shows "guchi" as one of the readings.
> Every society strikes a balance between individualism and collectivism.
He he. What a wonderfully pompous post! But I take your point about the social cohesion thing.
If we bring it down to a different level though, I've sometimes wondered whether our CEO has ever woken up in the middle of the night and thought "Shit! I own this company, but the Ops Manager knows the root passwords to ALL our systems... and I don't!"
Maybe I'll show him your post one day if I see him hanging around the server room looking nervous. It might calm him down.
Eh? What's the use in giving people a "legal status" to have kids? Children have very little to do with marriage, because people will always have sex.
I would say that in fact marriage has everything to do with bonding social groups together. To that end, the primary puprose of marriage is to form a link between families. It's a plus (to the community) that those people may also have kids, but that's a "jam tomorrow" thing and not essential to the process. What *is* essential is to have a formal bond between uncle Betty and autie Albert, who become uncles/aunts-in-law, John and Lizzy, who then become cousins-in-law, etc. etc. They then have an excuse to borrow eachother's cows, share the odd harvest, and generally help eachother out rather than fight (because you fight strangers, you see). Who cares if the couple have kids?
PS: "Marriage is not a right, it is, at best, a tradition or custom." - What the hell does that mean? What's you're point? What does "at best" mean here anyway? Boing!