I have doubts that a medium-sized rock coming directly from the moon would be picked up until it was too late, unless everyone started actively pinging circumlunar space 24/7.
Maybe not, but Roddenberry did sell Star Trek to Paramount as a kind of "wagon train to the stars," and BG was sold as the same basic idea - space Okies led by Lorne Grene.
It was worth trying, and worth doing, though I hope they'll get the actors more coaching for the film. The vision behind it (that everyone would be bilingual in English and Chinese) was good.
Yeah, those are good points by both of you. The point is, they're unlikely to have been deliberate efforts at mimicking typographical errors, unless the typist knew a lot about such errors.
The message wasn't sent to all SCO employees. It was probably printed out (after all, don't all PHBs print their email to read it?), then tossed in a wastebasket rather than shredded like it should have been. And the typos are all obvious likely typos, so either the person who wrote it is an expert on the kinds of errors typists make (say a professional English teacher or editor) or it's real.
If there's nothing wrong with it, why are they using Baystar to hide the money? Microsoft is not funding SCO, they're funding SCO's court attacks on Linux, which may constitute anti-competitive actions in violation of their DOJ settlement. Of course, even if it does, we'd have to wait until January to see some action on this...
When they say "does contain the RPMs needed to run most Linux applications," aren't we by definition talking GPL? Is there a non-GPLed implementation of RPM?
Yes, Herbert (basing his ideas upon his knowledge of desertification on Earth) makes Arrakis dry up because of the actions of little makers in isolating all freestanding water. In the real world, there are a lot of reasons for desertification: deforestation, for instance, and yes, changes in the geology, and simple changes in wind and current patterns. Why would Mars have dried up? Its magnetic field has pretty much died, due to the cooling of the planet's core, and so no longer protects its atmosphere from solar wind; so the lighter elements were blown away and the atmosphere has thinned, and any standing water on the surface has either frozen in the ice caps, seeped into the rocks, or sublimated into the atmosphere, broken down to its component elements, and been blown away by the solar wind.
Actually, no. Folks in universities and *nix shops use LaTeX. Industry Windows shops tended to use WordPerfect, up until version 8, if they wanted to do equations (the pre-MathType equation editor in WP was very, very good, and as someone else has already pointed out, rather LaTeX like). Beginning with 9, WP has sunk into decrepitude, thanks to being bought out by a second-rate graphics outfit.
Also worth noting that these fellows were paid to produce the music, but that once the music was published, no one got any residuals. Now, I think music should pay folks residuals, but it's important not to let a facile metaphor stand in the way of genuine understanding.
Here's the thing: my understanding is that if you apply a value to one entangled particle (say by changing its charge), you break the entanglement. So while you can in a sense say "oh, that particle must be negatively charged, because the one 10 km away is negatively charged," you can't use morse code over that kind of distance. IANAP, but that's my understanding from the articles I've read on entanglement and communications.
Earliest science fiction I know of is Lucian's Vera Historia, which includes a moon travel tale, from AD 160 (there's no missing zero there, folks, that's 2nd century). For fantasy, there's the Odyssey (which is fantasy at least as much as it is mythology), 700 BC (yes, BC). Oh, and it's spelled Aristophanes. And Greek tragedy at least was taken very seriously in Athens: there were competitions for best lead actor (protagonist) and second actor (deuteragonist) and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd best trilogy (and only three trilogies were presented: sometimes they were real trilogies, especially early on in Aeschylus' day, but usually they were only thematically related, if that), and there were reserved seats for the VIPs, including the priest of Dionysos, the god to whom the productions were dedicated. And by the way, a lot of stuff has survived from classical times that isn't "just respected because of its age" - ever hear of Lycophron? No? You know why? Because he sucks. Has survived at least 1900 years, probably 2100.
Notice that the specifications list an IEEE1394 interface? And looking at the front of the camera in this pic, I think I see an iLink logo (a fat lowercase i). iLink is Sony's brand name for 4-pin firewire. If you look under the flap with the i logo, you should see a little port about a third the length and 3/4 to half the width of a USB port. That's the iLink port. As I said above, a 4-pin to 6-pin Firewire cable from Apple should do the trick. iMovie and Final Cut will both recognize the camera. If the computer doesn't have firewire (just possible, I suppose; I got my first mac when OS X came out), then you're using the wrong tool for the job anyway.
Simple counter-example: Does anyone remember how long it took them to patch that URL spoofing problem? I certainly think that it was a problem before they patched it.
Call them on it, and they'll claim that the patch was already KNOWN, it just wasn't IMPLEMENTED. This is looking glass logic. And the worst part is, the PHBs will buy it.
I'm guessing that a head will roll, then. Look, just making that statement is a challenge to these dingbats. Plenty of vulnerabilities are discovered before the patch is out. Many of those vulnerabilities are reported with proof-of-concept code showing how to do an exploit. The vulnerabilities are often discovered through reverse-engineering: they are not exclusively discovered by MS engineers. Now that this fellow has implied otherwise, there will be that much more incentive for the black hats to prove that they have the necessary skill to reverse engineer the OS before MS can catch up.
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I have doubts that a medium-sized rock coming directly from the moon would be picked up until it was too late, unless everyone started actively pinging circumlunar space 24/7.
It's like hemlock. When the bad guys drink it, it's good.
Even when you do notice a typo, they rarely get the warning in time (or perhaps they simply ignore it).
It's in the DVD extras. The two by two, hands of blue guys are from the government behind the government. . . .
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Maybe not, but Roddenberry did sell Star Trek to Paramount as a kind of "wagon train to the stars," and BG was sold as the same basic idea - space Okies led by Lorne Grene.
It was worth trying, and worth doing, though I hope they'll get the actors more coaching for the film. The vision behind it (that everyone would be bilingual in English and Chinese) was good.
Yeah, those are good points by both of you. The point is, they're unlikely to have been deliberate efforts at mimicking typographical errors, unless the typist knew a lot about such errors.
The message wasn't sent to all SCO employees. It was probably printed out (after all, don't all PHBs print their email to read it?), then tossed in a wastebasket rather than shredded like it should have been. And the typos are all obvious likely typos, so either the person who wrote it is an expert on the kinds of errors typists make (say a professional English teacher or editor) or it's real.
If there's nothing wrong with it, why are they using Baystar to hide the money? Microsoft is not funding SCO, they're funding SCO's court attacks on Linux, which may constitute anti-competitive actions in violation of their DOJ settlement. Of course, even if it does, we'd have to wait until January to see some action on this ...
Bikini atoll was scragged by a hydrogen fusion bomb ("Bravo"). Hot fusion, of course, not cold.
When they say "does contain the RPMs needed to run most Linux applications," aren't we by definition talking GPL? Is there a non-GPLed implementation of RPM?
Connected to www.vatican.va.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 04:11:56 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.9 OpenSSL/0.9.6g PHP/4.2.2
Well, there it is, folks, final proof: God runs UNIX. You Windows folks had better repent, and right soon.
Yes, Herbert (basing his ideas upon his knowledge of desertification on Earth) makes Arrakis dry up because of the actions of little makers in isolating all freestanding water. In the real world, there are a lot of reasons for desertification: deforestation, for instance, and yes, changes in the geology, and simple changes in wind and current patterns. Why would Mars have dried up? Its magnetic field has pretty much died, due to the cooling of the planet's core, and so no longer protects its atmosphere from solar wind; so the lighter elements were blown away and the atmosphere has thinned, and any standing water on the surface has either frozen in the ice caps, seeped into the rocks, or sublimated into the atmosphere, broken down to its component elements, and been blown away by the solar wind.
By definition, there cannot be "good bits about the Ewoks ..." All things about Ewoks are BAD. Ewww.
1993 or 1994. I know that because I left a job in 1994 where we were using WP 6.0 .
Actually, no. Folks in universities and *nix shops use LaTeX. Industry Windows shops tended to use WordPerfect, up until version 8, if they wanted to do equations (the pre-MathType equation editor in WP was very, very good, and as someone else has already pointed out, rather LaTeX like). Beginning with 9, WP has sunk into decrepitude, thanks to being bought out by a second-rate graphics outfit.
Also worth noting that these fellows were paid to produce the music, but that once the music was published, no one got any residuals. Now, I think music should pay folks residuals, but it's important not to let a facile metaphor stand in the way of genuine understanding.
Here's the thing: my understanding is that if you apply a value to one entangled particle (say by changing its charge), you break the entanglement. So while you can in a sense say "oh, that particle must be negatively charged, because the one 10 km away is negatively charged," you can't use morse code over that kind of distance. IANAP, but that's my understanding from the articles I've read on entanglement and communications.
Earliest science fiction I know of is Lucian's Vera Historia, which includes a moon travel tale, from AD 160 (there's no missing zero there, folks, that's 2nd century). For fantasy, there's the Odyssey (which is fantasy at least as much as it is mythology), 700 BC (yes, BC). Oh, and it's spelled Aristophanes. And Greek tragedy at least was taken very seriously in Athens: there were competitions for best lead actor (protagonist) and second actor (deuteragonist) and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd best trilogy (and only three trilogies were presented: sometimes they were real trilogies, especially early on in Aeschylus' day, but usually they were only thematically related, if that), and there were reserved seats for the VIPs, including the priest of Dionysos, the god to whom the productions were dedicated. And by the way, a lot of stuff has survived from classical times that isn't "just respected because of its age" - ever hear of Lycophron? No? You know why? Because he sucks. Has survived at least 1900 years, probably 2100.
Notice that the specifications list an IEEE1394 interface? And looking at the front of the camera in this pic, I think I see an iLink logo (a fat lowercase i). iLink is Sony's brand name for 4-pin firewire. If you look under the flap with the i logo, you should see a little port about a third the length and 3/4 to half the width of a USB port. That's the iLink port. As I said above, a 4-pin to 6-pin Firewire cable from Apple should do the trick. iMovie and Final Cut will both recognize the camera. If the computer doesn't have firewire (just possible, I suppose; I got my first mac when OS X came out), then you're using the wrong tool for the job anyway.
There are iLink to Firewire cables at the AppleStore: the 4 pin to 6 pin firewire cables under Third-Party Cables should do it. Next time, RTFM.
Apple doesn't make the processors, IBM does. I'm guessing it's the lower power dual-core processors on the PPC roadmap that MS is targeting.
Simple counter-example: Does anyone remember how long it took them to patch that URL spoofing problem? I certainly think that it was a problem before they patched it.
Call them on it, and they'll claim that the patch was already KNOWN, it just wasn't IMPLEMENTED. This is looking glass logic. And the worst part is, the PHBs will buy it.
I'm guessing that a head will roll, then. Look, just making that statement is a challenge to these dingbats. Plenty of vulnerabilities are discovered before the patch is out. Many of those vulnerabilities are reported with proof-of-concept code showing how to do an exploit. The vulnerabilities are often discovered through reverse-engineering: they are not exclusively discovered by MS engineers. Now that this fellow has implied otherwise, there will be that much more incentive for the black hats to prove that they have the necessary skill to reverse engineer the OS before MS can catch up.