The sight of a pack of cigarettes, however, could mean the same person is feeling stressed out and might appreciate a phone call from a friend.
No, a pack of cigarettes, means they hate themselves so much, that they not only want to kill themselves, but they want to insure their deaths are as long, drawn out and painful as possible.:-D
so let me guess, key to Microsoft's strategy is the stupid pills in the car makers water municipal supply, after all it takes a lot of stupid to put something thats as known for unreliability as M$ software, into a mission critical application.
Hmmm thats explains a lot about M$ dominance in general.
How dim are you, he used his own AOL account but he didn't reset the ip address of the machine:
Investigators traced the computer to Krastof when he logged onto his own America Online account at home through one of the stolen computers, White said. That enabled authorities to connect the computer's Internet Protocol address, a number that identifies a computer on the Internet, to Krastof's home address through his AOL account, White said.
So of course he was easy to pickup, he was using the stolen ip of the stolen machine on his AOL account, QED.
Damm why don't I ever get invites to parties like that, you know with girls that solve hilbert problems, seriously that sounds like my kind of party fun, booze chic's and maths what more could a maths geek ask for.
Historically, what is pleasing to the human ear has not changed since man began writing music. What has changed are styles, performances, the instruments used and the way music is produced and recorded, but a compelling melody is still compelling...
Okay, so far, so good; it sounds like they're saying "good music is good music, and here's a tool for telling whether something is good or not."
Ummm no, they make no such claim, they are talking about "what is pleasing to the human ear" they said nothing about good or bad, clearly music that is really really bad, will not be popular, but music need not be realy good to be popular, much of the popular stuff isn't, also music that is very very good, may not be popular. By good and bad here I mean in terms of issues of basic competence, as good and bad have too many meanings if we go beyound that.
Basically what their claim boils down to, is the same thing as the premise behind phycohistory in Isaac Asimovs foundation series, the idea is that whilst individually what we will like/think is impossible to predict, as large groups a lot of stuff cancels, so that the resultant group think is far more predictable.
Of course their use of past hits, means the data is not quite pure, as it's been filtered by the music industry, before it has been filtered by the the public; this is a place where the new world of internet music can help, if we let any one who likes submit music into the system, then over time we can develop purer data.
How do you know this hasn't happend multiple times at M$ etc, would they tell us, not if they can help it, which adds an extra security issue or two on top don't it.
I heard the other day that the RIAA recently complained about someone putting a 1930's or 1940's Bing Crosby radio show on their web site and had his service provider remove it for copyright infringements.
Good God, shouldn't the charges be bad taste and perpetuating a crime against humanity:-D
Nondisclaimer: needless to say I hate bin Crosby and his ilk, plpp plpp crooners plpp plpp
Nobody is *all* bad, but I for one do not want that loonie in my goverment.
He and the rest of his right wing religious zelots have made it their personal agenda to do whatever it takes, and mostly that means ripping apart the Bill of Rights, to enforce their religious views upon all of the US.
Whatever small amount of good he may have ever done in his life, including this, will never outweigh his crimes to the American people for thinking that his religous views are the only ones that matter.
I'm a Commited Penticostal Christian (Hillsong Church), and I'd have to totally with you, except he's not in my goverment (I'm Aussie we have his Cronnies in:'( ), really as a Christian I can only say, Bush and Ashcruft are to Christianity as
al Qaeda is to the Muslim faith, i.e. a pain in the ass that we could do without, thankyou very much.
P.S. I must add that I don't accept them as Chritian brothers, the bible says "by their fruits you will know them" so clearly Small Treey thing (Bush:-D ) and Ashcruft are children of Satan.
As are Howard and co here.
Lol, I saw signs at a High School football game where the cheerleaders (too young & too hot for me) were holding up signs that said I (heart) Cox. I just busted out. Unfortunately I had to explain my low brow humor to my wife who was none too pleased.
Move to Australia man, any real Ozzie would get that and very few would be too prune faced to laugh, after all it was those silly cheer leaders who did it:-D
Not everything has to have an immediate use, commercial or otherwise, to be worthy of existance. To get from here to there, you have to got to all the places in between.
Have we become a population with such a short attention span that we can no longer appreciate the value of long-term research? Far too much research is being scuppered these days because people keep asking "but what's the use of it", and "can we make a profit". Can't we just appreciate it for it's coolness and leave them too it.
Perhaps I'm a pessimist, but I think that if this attitude continues to grow, we will ultimatly be screwed by a lack of blue-sky research.
So true, And I have to ask this, why are there so many ludites on Slashdot??, last I heard our motto was "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." (as in stuff that matters to geeks/nerds, not pimple brained jocks or what not), so where does welcome ludites & pea brains come into this??
This is supposed to be a geek web site, founded by geeks for geeks of the geeks, where do all these none geek wanna be's get of coming here trying to take the show over??, could all of you ludites and techaphobes just get lost.
Let make it simple, if new technology/science frightens you, your a techniphobe and you do not belong here!!, if you beleive research has to produce an application right now up front, to be worth anything then you are a ludite, and not a geek, and you do not belong here!!.
But I doubt that Mandrake itself would use the 100% OSS label. IMHO, it's not really technically correct. They don't require all licenses to be OSI approved. AFAIK, they require the license to allow the software (source and binary) to be (re-)distributed freely on the the download edition. Which basically boils down to: the licenses usually fit into the OSI spirit, but aren't necessarily officially OSI approved.
Didn't the bionicman & bionicwoman work for the OSI weird.
I really don't think subscribing to a mailing list should have to be a pre-requisite for installing & properly using a modern OS and I think her article reflects that belief as well. I think it's valid to point out that a number of the issues she came across simply worked out of the box with both Windows XP & Mac OS X. If you care about desktop useability one of the things to strive for is to just have things work out of the box without having to refer to google or mailing list archives etc...
Mailing list: Oh yeah I'll subscribe later, but Fedora's working fine for me:-D, sorry but you don't need the list to get it happening, unless your a newb, but if your a newb well... yeah, but the same sorta thing goes for windows in spades.
Ever installed windows, yeah well unless you know what your doing, as for all those problems she had, what she installed on one box, so did I and I've never had a cleaner and better works out of the box install with any OS ever.
she's a stupid Troll, a real reviewer, would have tried several boxes, to get an idea of how it is for most users installing the OS, rather than just how it is on one weird crappy machine. This review is a joke, I could find a box that would do even worse with windows or what ever, heck been there done that, and unlike her I know what I'm doing.
Yeah, I'm a Fedora user, and I stand in utter awe of this reviewers, crapping skills fedora has been the easiest most pain free os I've ever installed, I love it, best linux distro I've ever installed.
Fair compensation" is a relative term, yet human-resource consultants and executive headhunters agree some jobs command excessive compensation that can't be explained by labor supply-and-demand imbalances.
There you have it, garbage in garbage out. In the labour market, supply-and-demand far from being a valid meassure of whether or not someone is under or over paid, is actually nothing but a distorting force, hence labourers despite working their guts out, at back breaking often health damaging work, are almost always underpaid, teachers again (in Australia at least) are under paid.
The correct meassure of this is:
What is the value of this work to the society as a whole
i.e. is the work really needed.
would we be any worse of without it??
What is the value of the work to the employer, in the case the employer is the goverment or a community body this should merge with 1.
What does it cost the worker (i.e. risk etc, how hard is it)
Does it make the world a better place??
How dangerous is it??
supply-and-demand is valid only after all that, really supply-and-demand are only valid in any market after questions of quality, suitability etc are answered, a product/service/whatnot is worthless if it's badly done/made or usless.
If you doubt me then "can I interest you in some rare trash?? or how about some Art work you hate (and thats also a bad investment)??. a bridge I don't own??"
So is it just not possible for a group of Free Software programmers to be non-political?
I like to know how you can have a group of humans which is non-political?, as soon as you have a group you have different views and interests, and thus politics is born.
I'm seriously beginning to question the ability of any open source project to challenge Apple on the user experience front. Come on, look at these JuK screen shots and compare to iTunes screen shots.
and your point was???... of course you didn't have one, it was just that reflex to worhip the great god jobs and his devine system OS Puke, I looked at the screen shots of the two and Kde's Juk might have been just a little nicer, but there was stuff all in it.
I know I'll be modded troll or flame bait for questioning the gospel of mac, but really it's got so if we have a story on earth worms or camels you mac trolls will find a way to whore for OS X with it.
Not necessarily. We get errors in DNA transcription, breaks in DNA, badly transcribed DNA, genes that go crazy and replicate until the host dies, viruses that attack at the genetic level, and a whole host of other cellular and genetic faults.
It's just we have got better at patching these holes, and detecting bugs before they cause major harm... And the massive redundancy at the DNA level helps too...
We're more like a failover cluster than a single machine...
because God is too smart to not build in the fail safes, also he knew we would choose to sin and the consequences of that, (including viruses and other stuff going wrong).
I have to add that the Bible is very clear that God doesn't originate desease, but rather that desease is a product of the control man gave to sin & the devil over creation, hence desease is an evidence of coruption of design, rather than part of the original design.
Also to equate nano tech with viruses, I'm sure thats just plain wrong.
Right after high school I got a job doing telemarketing for a company that did work for primarily citibank and some other companies - And before I worked for them I had the same mentality as you - People call you up wanting "financial information" of COURSE they must be ripping you off! Now I dont know who called you but where I worked we verified information in a way that made sense - We would ask you for the last four digits of your SSN - Now I know at first you must be like OMFG! NO WAY! but think about it.....What are the last four digits of your SSN going to give me? I mean.....if I have your SSN already and I am trying to screw you over why would I be calling you up and talking to you about it and not just pulling off some identiy scam.... FYI for the most part we would call people up to do balance transfers.....And with as much debt as most Amercians are in - Its not a bad idea....Honestly I would be thrilled if someone called me up and wanted to give me a lower sometimes half as much in APR a year
Hello Mr phone spammer, I wouldn't touch anything that came to me via a method as dodgey as that, nor would I buy from a tv add only type vender, work it out if you use the methods of the shysters people will quite rightly assume you are a shyster; after all the must be some reason you use their methods.
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No, a pack of cigarettes, means they hate themselves so much, that they not only want to kill themselves, but they want to insure their deaths are as long, drawn out and painful as possible. :-D
Hmmm thats explains a lot about M$ dominance in general.
Investigators traced the computer to Krastof when he logged onto his own America Online account at home through one of the stolen computers, White said. That enabled authorities to connect the computer's Internet Protocol address, a number that identifies a computer on the Internet, to Krastof's home address through his AOL account, White said.
So of course he was easy to pickup, he was using the stolen ip of the stolen machine on his AOL account, QED.
Hey and I thought virii was just a wankers way of saying viruses, looks like you need to be just that bit wankier. :-D
oops I miss read partly not party, oh well still a real cool chic
Damm why don't I ever get invites to parties like that, you know with girls that solve hilbert problems, seriously that sounds like my kind of party fun, booze chic's and maths what more could a maths geek ask for.
Basically what their claim boils down to, is the same thing as the premise behind phycohistory in Isaac Asimovs foundation series, the idea is that whilst individually what we will like/think is impossible to predict, as large groups a lot of stuff cancels, so that the resultant group think is far more predictable.
Of course their use of past hits, means the data is not quite pure, as it's been filtered by the music industry, before it has been filtered by the the public; this is a place where the new world of internet music can help, if we let any one who likes submit music into the system, then over time we can develop purer data.
How do you know this hasn't happend multiple times at M$ etc, would they tell us, not if they can help it, which adds an extra security issue or two on top don't it.
Good God, shouldn't the charges be bad taste and perpetuating a crime against humanity :-D
Nondisclaimer: needless to say I hate bin Crosby and his ilk, plpp plpp crooners plpp plpp
He and the rest of his right wing religious zelots have made it their personal agenda to do whatever it takes, and mostly that means ripping apart the Bill of Rights, to enforce their religious views upon all of the US.
Whatever small amount of good he may have ever done in his life, including this, will never outweigh his crimes to the American people for thinking that his religous views are the only ones that matter.
I'm a Commited Penticostal Christian (Hillsong Church), and I'd have to totally with you, except he's not in my goverment (I'm Aussie we have his Cronnies in :'( ), really as a Christian I can only say, Bush and Ashcruft are to Christianity as
al Qaeda is to the Muslim faith, i.e. a pain in the ass that we could do without, thankyou very much.
P.S. I must add that I don't accept them as Chritian brothers, the bible says "by their fruits you will know them" so clearly Small Treey thing (Bush :-D ) and Ashcruft are children of Satan.
As are Howard and co here.
check out http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~alistair/research/ dphil/jckh/altcomm.html
Other whistle languages include articulation so that consonants interrupt the flow of the whistle. The people from Aas in the Pyrenees speak a Spanish-derived dialect which used to be adapted into a whistle language in a similar way to the Silbo Gomera whistle language used by shepherds high up in the mountains in the Canary Island of La Gomera (Classe 1957). Both languages share common traits: the Spanish linguistic framework, the method of whistling, the similar form of signals and the functional purpose of the signalling.
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe= UTF-8&q=%2Bwhistling+%2Blanguage&btnG=Google+Searc h&meta=
Move to Australia man, any real Ozzie would get that and very few would be too prune faced to laugh, after all it was those silly cheer leaders who did it :-D
Have we become a population with such a short attention span that we can no longer appreciate the value of long-term research? Far too much research is being scuppered these days because people keep asking "but what's the use of it", and "can we make a profit". Can't we just appreciate it for it's coolness and leave them too it.
Perhaps I'm a pessimist, but I think that if this attitude continues to grow, we will ultimatly be screwed by a lack of blue-sky research.
So true, And I have to ask this, why are there so many ludites on Slashdot??, last I heard our motto was "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." (as in stuff that matters to geeks/nerds, not pimple brained jocks or what not), so where does welcome ludites & pea brains come into this??
This is supposed to be a geek web site, founded by geeks for geeks of the geeks, where do all these none geek wanna be's get of coming here trying to take the show over??, could all of you ludites and techaphobes just get lost.
Let make it simple, if new technology/science frightens you, your a techniphobe and you do not belong here!!, if you beleive research has to produce an application right now up front, to be worth anything then you are a ludite, and not a geek, and you do not belong here!!.
So push off would you.
For the non Australians it looks like a Toilet. So for those of you who'd like a desk that looks like a shitter .... there ya go. :-D
Didn't the bionicman & bionicwoman work for the OSI weird.
Mailing list: Oh yeah I'll subscribe later, but Fedora's working fine for me :-D, sorry but you don't need the list to get it happening, unless your a newb, but if your a newb well ... yeah, but the same sorta thing goes for windows in spades.
Ever installed windows, yeah well unless you know what your doing, as for all those problems she had, what she installed on one box, so did I and I've never had a cleaner and better works out of the box install with any OS ever.
she's a stupid Troll, a real reviewer, would have tried several boxes, to get an idea of how it is for most users installing the OS, rather than just how it is on one weird crappy machine. This review is a joke, I could find a box that would do even worse with windows or what ever, heck been there done that, and unlike her I know what I'm doing.
Yeah, I'm a Fedora user, and I stand in utter awe of this reviewers, crapping skills fedora has been the easiest most pain free os I've ever installed, I love it, best linux distro I've ever installed.
There you have it, garbage in garbage out. In the labour market, supply-and-demand far from being a valid meassure of whether or not someone is under or over paid, is actually nothing but a distorting force, hence labourers despite working their guts out, at back breaking often health damaging work, are almost always underpaid, teachers again (in Australia at least) are under paid.
The correct meassure of this is:
supply-and-demand is valid only after all that, really supply-and-demand are only valid in any market after questions of quality, suitability etc are answered, a product/service/whatnot is worthless if it's badly done/made or usless.
If you doubt me then "can I interest you in some rare trash?? or how about some Art work you hate (and thats also a bad investment)??. a bridge I don't own??"
Ummm I think you'll find thats wrong, ok the propotunate loss for IIS is worse, but they've had a notaciable numeric loss too.
I like to know how you can have a group of humans which is non-political?, as soon as you have a group you have different views and interests, and thus politics is born.
and your point was???... of course you didn't have one, it was just that reflex to worhip the great god jobs and his devine system OS Puke, I looked at the screen shots of the two and Kde's Juk might have been just a little nicer, but there was stuff all in it.
I know I'll be modded troll or flame bait for questioning the gospel of mac, but really it's got so if we have a story on earth worms or camels you mac trolls will find a way to whore for OS X with it.
Really, the stuff I learn about my own country from slashdot :-D.
It's just we have got better at patching these holes, and detecting bugs before they cause major harm... And the massive redundancy at the DNA level helps too...
We're more like a failover cluster than a single machine...
because God is too smart to not build in the fail safes, also he knew we would choose to sin and the consequences of that, (including viruses and other stuff going wrong).
I have to add that the Bible is very clear that God doesn't originate desease, but rather that desease is a product of the control man gave to sin & the devil over creation, hence desease is an evidence of coruption of design, rather than part of the original design.
Also to equate nano tech with viruses, I'm sure thats just plain wrong.
let me guess your a spammer??
Hello Mr phone spammer, I wouldn't touch anything that came to me via a method as dodgey as that, nor would I buy from a tv add only type vender, work it out if you use the methods of the shysters people will quite rightly assume you are a shyster; after all the must be some reason you use their methods.