No! This was a nightmare! I once had a mac disk I needed to email the contents of so I went downstairs where they have some Macs and was pointed at a machine I could use. I popped the disk in but could not read it. I asked the guy how to get the contents up and he saw that I had put it in a different machine than the one he intended that was broken! No eject button! Cue the paper clip...
I think Snow Crash is an excellent novel. The little touches - such as tattooing 'Poor Impulse Control' on the foreheads of violent criminals - are superb.
One thing that might interest those that have read it is that the opening of the book was originally a short story and quite a comic one at that (calling the main character Hiro Protagonist and making him a 'Pizza Deliverator', the mafia involvement, etc.) and to me there seems to me to be a tension between that opening and the eventual direction of the book (overall a serious novel).
It doesn't stop it being an excellent book but I thought I'd share as it made me go, "Oh, of course" when I heard it.
I've had similar experiences with Site Server. Both machines that have had it installed are being rebuilt prior to our millenium freeze. Hopefully Site Server will not be reinstalled.
siteserver.com has a 'correct order' install and notes if you need it.
I suspect that its rather like making tapes. That's illegal - its a violation of copyright but there's no department full of policemen about to kick your door in for it.
If you set up an enormous site with millions of MP3z^Hs then they'll come after you. If you link to 5 on other sites they won't. If you give away all of the Beatles on a coverdisc on a magazine they'll prosecute and if you lend your mate a CD to copy they won't.
Just keep them moving around so there's too many targets and we'll all get free music. Cool!
I'm not sure why but in the UK Gateway still use www.gateway2000.co.uk and another computer company has www.gateway.co.uk. So maybe the British legal system isn't dealing with all this in the same way.
Oooh don't get me started on Games Worksjop. The only good thing was when they finally dropped RPGs altogether (had been coming for a long time) they flogged every remaining bit of kit for £1 regardless of what it was. Cool.
I agree. There is no such thing as job security. I have worked for the (massive) telco that I work for as both contract and permanent and felt far more secure as a contractor.
As a contractor I would only have been fired as a result of my actions but permanent employees go to the wall all the time due to decisions made four or five levels up from them by people they have never met.
Only in America. Here in the UK it is _impossible_ to do well at school and be cool. Just not possible. I will always remember two boys in my secondary school receiving a standing ovation in a Chemistry class for scoring 7% and 14%. I was sent to the head (principal) because I _could not_ stop laughing.
But if you're posting from the UK like me there's the added issue of convincing the UK govt. to let me go stand trial in the US or the US company prosecuting through UK law.
It'll only be the last one you buy if you're aged 80 or over right now. That or HDDs will become obsolete altogether.
C'mon - I could fill that sucker now given a few years. Just wait 'til 3D immersive worlds with over billions of unique locations and for $5 on MiniminiminiNanoware from the newsagent!! That'll fill 'er!
There is something about a wider audience/anonymity that encourages a poorer quality of post. As the usage of the Notes Conferencing system on VAX/VMS dwindled when I was at University (this was 94-95 and Netscape and Word were all that were used by most) it became a funny, interesting centre of debate and humour - you knew (or knew of) all the posters and it policed itself to a large extent. Apparently now it has dwindled to non-existence.
That said, I am pretty new here and I like it. Better than any newsgroup I've ever been on. Its my most visited site on the web.
And it has a simple look rather like the new Red Hat site. Although Slashdot is somewhat prettier and has slashboxes and is customisable so it is better.
Slashdot Mirror
No! This was a nightmare! I once had a mac disk I needed to email the contents of so I went downstairs where they have some Macs and was pointed at a machine I could use. I popped the disk in but could not read it. I asked the guy how to get the contents up and he saw that I had put it in a different machine than the one he intended that was broken! No eject button! Cue the paper clip ...
I think Snow Crash is an excellent novel. The little touches - such as tattooing 'Poor Impulse Control' on the foreheads of violent criminals - are superb.
One thing that might interest those that have read it is that the opening of the book was originally a short story and quite a comic one at that (calling the main character Hiro Protagonist and making him a 'Pizza Deliverator', the mafia involvement, etc.) and to me there seems to me to be a tension between that opening and the eventual direction of the book (overall a serious novel).
It doesn't stop it being an excellent book but I thought I'd share as it made me go, "Oh, of course" when I heard it.
What about buying a computer for porno?
I think that you can see here that Mr. Gates cannot be accused of not giving any money to charity.
I've had similar experiences with Site Server. Both machines that have had it installed are being rebuilt prior to our millenium freeze. Hopefully Site Server will not be reinstalled.
siteserver.com has a 'correct order' install and notes if you need it.
I suspect that its rather like making tapes. That's illegal - its a violation of copyright but there's no department full of policemen about to kick your door in for it.
If you set up an enormous site with millions of MP3z^Hs then they'll come after you. If you link to 5 on other sites they won't. If you give away all of the Beatles on a coverdisc on a magazine they'll prosecute and if you lend your mate a CD to copy they won't.
Just keep them moving around so there's too many targets and we'll all get free music. Cool!
I'm not sure why but in the UK Gateway still use www.gateway2000.co.uk and another computer company has www.gateway.co.uk. So maybe the British legal system isn't dealing with all this in the same way.
It all went wrong when Gygax lost control. He may have been a nutter but his heart was in the right place.
Oooh don't get me started on Games Worksjop. The only good thing was when they finally dropped RPGs altogether (had been coming for a long time) they flogged every remaining bit of kit for £1 regardless of what it was. Cool.
I agree. There is no such thing as job security. I have worked for the (massive) telco that I work for as both contract and permanent and felt far more secure as a contractor.
As a contractor I would only have been fired as a result of my actions but permanent employees go to the wall all the time due to decisions made four or five levels up from them by people they have never met.
Lefty: When they send for you, you go in alive, you come out dead, and it's your best friend that does it.
Only in America. Here in the UK it is _impossible_ to do well at school and be cool. Just not possible. I will always remember two boys in my secondary school receiving a standing ovation in a Chemistry class for scoring 7% and 14%. I was sent to the head (principal) because I _could not_ stop laughing.
But if you're posting from the UK like me there's the added issue of convincing the UK govt. to let me go stand trial in the US or the US company prosecuting through UK law.
What on earth did you all think made it worthwhile posting all that drivel?
These guys only run this site, not all sites - leave if you don't like and go elsewhere.
It'll only be the last one you buy if you're aged 80 or over right now. That or HDDs will become obsolete altogether.
C'mon - I could fill that sucker now given a few years. Just wait 'til 3D immersive worlds with over billions of unique locations and for $5 on MiniminiminiNanoware from the newsagent!! That'll fill 'er!
"censorship n. deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances [syn: censoring]
WordNet 1.6 Copyright 1997 by Princeton University. All rights reserved."
Doesn't say anything about who's doing it.
There is something about a wider audience/anonymity that encourages a poorer quality of post. As the usage of the Notes Conferencing system on VAX/VMS dwindled when I was at University (this was 94-95 and Netscape and Word were all that were used by most) it became a funny, interesting centre of debate and humour - you knew (or knew of) all the posters and it policed itself to a large extent. Apparently now it has dwindled to non-existence.
That said, I am pretty new here and I like it. Better than any newsgroup I've ever been on. Its my most visited site on the web.
And it has a simple look rather like the new Red Hat site. Although Slashdot is somewhat prettier and has slashboxes and is customisable so it is better.
Agreed. Anything mainstream and famous enough to have made it into the appalling (but loveable) film 'Hackers' needs to go in there.
DiCaprio's first four films after his "big break" (Titanic):
... aka Purple Haze (1979) .... Barnsby
Beach, The (1999)
Man in the Iron Mask, The (1998/I)
Celebrity (1998)
Don's Plum (1998)
Harrison Ford's first four films after his 'big break' (Star Wars):
Frisco Kid, The (1979)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Officer Bob Falfa
Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
(soon followed by ESB, Raiders... and Blade Runner)
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I will leave you to draw your own conclusions.
Not necessarily: the US have not banned domains that swear in Italian just as Italy have not banned English swear words.