I'm just a dumbass who doesn't "get" higher math at all. But let me try to get this straight, anyway:
Dude develops a "new" system of mathematics. Dude isn't looking for a Nobel prize, or (excuse me!) (is he under 40?) a Fields Medal. He doesn't (prominently enough to notice) post any link to citations in any journal, let alone a peer-reviewed journal.
But he is willing to sell you a MATLab add-on for $250.00?
Does he sell tinfoil hats and perpetual motion machines too?
A reader writes:"After a SF Weekly column on DARPA's TIA, attention has turned to the Poindexter Family house. Using legal/public means groups are finding and publishing Alan's phone numbers, address, etc."
I'm reading this, and wondering, who the hell's Alan?. Is this some ambitious malapropism for "Admiral John" (Poindexter)?
The SF Weekly column (toward the bottom, as part of a series of reader contributions) reveals Alan is Poindexter's son.
< insert obligatory rant about/. editors here >
PS: The first link into the "Poindexter Family" website contains highly annoying embedded midi music. So try to get your pointy-headed boss to click on it.
I wonder what bacteria would look like if we were to store Microsoft[']s code in its DNA. Then give it a year to see what pops out.
After a year, a new EULA pops out. If you want the Service Pack that fixes the compromised immune system DNA, you have to agree to the EULA, which installs the auotmatic apoptosis DNA, forcing what the EULA euphemitically calls a "planned obselescence of all cellular function" just in time for the rollout of MS-DNA 2010.
The episode's look and feel is amazingly authentic. The story is inventive and the acting surprisingly good.
Wait a sec. No way it can be authentic to the original and be well acted.
Much of the charm... of the original... Star Trek was... the wooden acting... not to mention the... inexplicable pauses... in William Shatner's... delivery.
This isn't a huge problem for spammers. If they send you an HTML email, then just opening the email (or previewing it in Outlook) can provide the verification that they need.
Using your firewall, prevent your email client from connecting to any addresses other than your mail servers.
You can still view HTML mail (if you are unfortunate enough to have correspondents who are too clueless to use HTML for mail); but any linked images just won't be downloaded. You'll still be able to click links to lauch your browser if you actualoly feel the need to.
I remember in Dragonball where Goku asked a policeman where Bulma lived and the policeman could call up a picture for every person named Bulma in the city and helped him find her.
What, did the Dragonball universe pass the "Stalker Support Act of 2003"? Or is having everybody's picture in a database just a side-effect of the "Blackshirt Employment Act of 1937"?
Yeah, let's make a "Freshman Face Book" for the entire country. I'll sleep a lot more soundly at night, I'm sure.
and you're making enough and you're sweet enough to give nice techy presents to your "boyfriend's" folks.
This is obviously a troll!
Moderators, mod this troll down!
Oh wait.
I gave my boyfriend a Sony MiniDisc Recorder complete with USB link to his computer so that he can record his first "Live Bagpipe Marching Band CD" while he's performing.
Her boyfriend is in a bagpipe band. False alarm; this truly is/. territory.
It's a free sample. Go to Live Phish and download it yourself.
At the risk of sounding like I'm trying on a tinfoil hat or Richard Stallman's ideology, it's not free. They require a "free" registration.
At minimum, it costs you an email address that's now vulnerable to spam.
Sorry, "free" means I get it with no fuss. I don't wanna be in your database. I am not a number. I am not your consumer-puppet. And I am not Spartacus. (Whoops.)
Err, well, as far as I know, nether Dante, Shakespeare, nor Milton ever wrote a single line of prose in their lives, so I wouldn't expect them to figure out anything about novel writing.
Yeah, you're right, I'm a total dumbass rube. No doubt Dante, Shakespeare, and Milton would all be horrible at writing novels: they had no experience at all in exposition, character development, or plotting. They couldn't tell stories at all; all they did was, like, rhyme and stuff. Filthy hacks.
And style never crosses language barriers, taht's why that Pole Conrad's stories all sucked in English. And I'd hate to have to read Dante, in like, translation or sum'thin'.
Thanks for impressing us more with your erudition, and less with your ability to think an argument through.
Fourth - It's written in a style I've never read before. I can't compare Arquette to any other writer, which in itself is something of an accomplishment.... Where other authors imply things, Arquette writes them in black and white.
Uh-oh. Either:
the reviewer doesn't read a lot, or
Arquette has figurted out something that Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, and Pynchon missed, or
Arquette's writing is a bad attempt a creating a 'new style', apparently ("Where other authors imply things, Arquette writes them in black and white") short on subtlety and long on pure exposition: "See Dick. See Jane. See Dick run."
Consider the Archos Jukebox, a hard-drive based MP3 player.
rockbox is a GPL'd firmware replacement for the Archos; reportedly the rockbox GUI is a considerable improvement on Archos's own GUI.
Since the Archos firmware isn't open-source, the rockbox developers had to extensively reverse engineer their own Jukeboxes to create the software.
Because the newest Archos models -- including the one I just bought -- are hardware incompatible with the older models, I can't use the rockbox software, and am stuck with a great piece of hardware with a tedious and annoying interface.
I know of several people who decided not to purchase Archos's lateset and greatest because rockbox won't run on it.
Had Archos made its firmware open source from the begining, they would now have more and happier purchasers of their hardware. And those purchasers would have a better product. Win-win, in other words.
All is not lost however: Archos has formally asked to include the rockbox software in one of their newest offerings; hopefully this will induce them to open out specifications on their other products as well.
Their firing procedure: the boss invites you out to lunch. As soon as you are outside the turnstyle he says, "You're fired. Give me your ID badge." And you have to wait there a few minutes while a (former) colleague boxes up your personal effects and brings them outside to you.
Why the gratuitous cruely? To make recruitment of new employees so much the harder?
Uh, you have to register because you're purchasing a development system and they want you in the developer program. This isn't a product, it's an early release development platform to enable OEM's and software developers to have early access and detect bugs in both Transmeta's stuff, and your stuff.
And if they asked nicely, I'd probably participate. But don't insist I do beta testing for your product (or "early release"); conscription doesn't put a smile on my face.
Why can't businesses be content with getting my money?
Oh, because they're not selling commodities anymore, they're turning their customers into commodities to be sold.
Shall I supply my blood type and a DNA sample and a piss test and fingerprints in addition to my social security number and home phone and mother's maiden name?'
Get out of my life! Sell me your product and go away! I am not a number, and I don't need to be in your database!
Crap like this really pisses me off: "We've got your money, now go screw yourself, sucker, because we can afford more lawyers than you can."
So post the theater's name! Post the name of the chain!
And post a phone number for each, for the local theater and for the corporate office.
Name names! And give the phone numbers!
Let these slimy bastards realize, along with your $5.50 (or whatever) a public relations cost all out of proportion to their profit from screwing you.
Let them deal with dozens -- no hundreds -- of/.ers calling both the local theater and the national offices to enquire why they can't tell day from night, and more importantly, why they can't treat their customers right when they're fucked up.
I'm sick and tired of businesses feeling they can screw their customers with impunity. Let's give these smug bastards a slashback.
Have you, gentle reader, been screwed by some smug business? Of course you have. Now's your chance to strike back. Help this guy out, and get some of your dignity back at the same time!
Wait till someone comes out with a Penile Growth Hormone (PGH), that supposedly will make your penis grow 1 inch per month....until it gets so long it curves around and jams itself up your ass. Ooofff.
Human Growth Hormone has some legitimate uses -- in a nutshell, stimulating growth -- if your growth is stunted by lack of. Otherwise, no.
Besides, I'm sure the HGH being sold by spam is only the pureset, unadulterated, and completely legit you can get. In fact, if you need money to buy it, I'll give you $419,000,000 if you help me get some funds out of Nigeria.
Don't forget, this $1500 fee, which might just seem a tad expensive to labs in North America, is oftentimes backbreaking to struggling third-world labs.
<voice='Sally Struthers'> ...which is why those labs must often finance their articles with the freelance production of anthrax or penis enlargers.
So please give generously to Achmed and Asok, struggling third-world biologists, by supporting the Secularist Scientists' Fund. </voice>
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I'm just a dumbass who doesn't "get" higher math at all. But let me try to get this straight, anyway:
Dude develops a "new" system of mathematics. Dude isn't looking for a Nobel prize, or (excuse me!) (is he under 40?) a Fields Medal. He doesn't (prominently enough to notice) post any link to citations in any journal, let alone a peer-reviewed journal.
But he is willing to sell you a MATLab add-on for $250.00?
Does he sell tinfoil hats and perpetual motion machines too?
A reader writes:"After a SF Weekly column on DARPA's TIA, attention has turned to the Poindexter Family house. Using legal/public means groups are finding and publishing Alan's phone numbers, address, etc."
/. editors here >
I'm reading this, and wondering, who the hell's Alan?. Is this some ambitious malapropism for "Admiral John" (Poindexter)?
The SF Weekly column (toward the bottom, as part of a series of reader contributions) reveals Alan is Poindexter's son.
< insert obligatory rant about
PS: The first link into the "Poindexter Family" website contains highly annoying embedded midi music. So try to get your pointy-headed boss to click on it.
I wonder what bacteria would look like if we were to store Microsoft[']s code in its DNA. Then give it a year to see what pops out.
After a year, a new EULA pops out. If you want the Service Pack that fixes the compromised immune system DNA, you have to agree to the EULA, which installs the auotmatic apoptosis DNA, forcing what the EULA euphemitically calls a "planned obselescence of all cellular function" just in time for the rollout of MS-DNA 2010.
Let me save
1. [Please insert one of
smelly unwashed ego-maniacal GNU/lixux anti-Stallman
or
smelly un-washed Moutain Dew-swilling linux geek
or
smelly never-showering always-surrendering Frenchman
'will be the only ones able to use this bacterial memory'
joke here.]
2. ???
3. Profit.
The episode's look and feel is amazingly authentic. The story is inventive and the acting surprisingly good.
Wait a sec. No way it can be authentic to the original and be well acted.
Much of the charm... of the original... Star Trek was... the wooden acting... not to mention the... inexplicable pauses... in William Shatner's... delivery.
Great! Another reason to add more and more garish artifical colors to my sugar water.
Gimme some more o' dat green "Romulan Ale"!
1. Don't let a spammer verify your email address
This isn't a huge problem for spammers. If they send you an HTML email, then just opening the email (or previewing it in Outlook) can provide the verification that they need.
Using your firewall, prevent your email client from connecting to any addresses other than your mail servers.
You can still view HTML mail (if you are unfortunate enough to have correspondents who are too clueless to use HTML for mail); but any linked images just won't be downloaded. You'll still be able to click links to lauch your browser if you actualoly feel the need to.
I remember in Dragonball where Goku asked a policeman where Bulma lived and the policeman could call up a picture for every person named Bulma in the city and helped him find her.
What, did the Dragonball universe pass the "Stalker Support Act of 2003"? Or is having everybody's picture in a database just a side-effect of the "Blackshirt Employment Act of 1937"?
Yeah, let's make a "Freshman Face Book" for the entire country. I'll sleep a lot more soundly at night, I'm sure.
The only way they can turely stop piracy is to totally silence music
Yeah, I can never get that John Cage stuff to convert to MP3. The compression numbers just don't make sense.
I mean, what could Compression Percentage: NaN mean???
Ok, so I'm supposed to believe:
you're a girl,
you post to /.,
and you're making enough and you're sweet enough to give nice techy presents to your "boyfriend's" folks.
/. territory.
This is obviously a troll!
Moderators, mod this troll down!
Oh wait.
I gave my boyfriend a Sony MiniDisc Recorder complete with USB link to his computer so that he can record his first "Live Bagpipe Marching Band CD" while he's performing.
Her boyfriend is in a bagpipe band. False alarm; this truly is
Nevermind.
It's a free sample. Go to Live Phish and download it yourself.
At the risk of sounding like I'm trying on a tinfoil hat or Richard Stallman's ideology, it's not free. They require a "free" registration.
At minimum, it costs you an email address that's now vulnerable to spam.
Sorry, "free" means I get it with no fuss. I don't wanna be in your database. I am not a number. I am not your consumer-puppet. And I am not Spartacus. (Whoops.)
Err, well, as far as I know, nether Dante, Shakespeare, nor Milton ever wrote a single line of prose in their lives, so I wouldn't expect them to figure out anything about novel writing.
Yeah, you're right, I'm a total dumbass rube. No doubt Dante, Shakespeare, and Milton would all be horrible at writing novels: they had no experience at all in exposition, character development, or plotting. They couldn't tell stories at all; all they did was, like, rhyme and stuff. Filthy hacks.
And style never crosses language barriers, taht's why that Pole Conrad's stories all sucked in English. And I'd hate to have to read Dante, in like, translation or sum'thin'.
Thanks for impressing us more with your erudition, and less with your ability to think an argument through.
Uh-oh. Either:
the reviewer doesn't read a lot, or
Arquette has figurted out something that Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, and Pynchon missed, or
Arquette's writing is a bad attempt a creating a 'new style', apparently ("Where other authors imply things, Arquette writes them in black and white") short on subtlety and long on pure exposition: "See Dick. See Jane. See Dick run."
Consider the Archos Jukebox, a hard-drive based MP3 player.
rockbox is a GPL'd firmware replacement for the Archos; reportedly the rockbox GUI is a considerable improvement on Archos's own GUI.
Since the Archos firmware isn't open-source, the rockbox developers had to extensively reverse engineer their own Jukeboxes to create the software.
Because the newest Archos models -- including the one I just bought -- are hardware incompatible with the older models, I can't use the rockbox software, and am stuck with a great piece of hardware with a tedious and annoying interface.
I know of several people who decided not to purchase Archos's lateset and greatest because rockbox won't run on it.
Had Archos made its firmware open source from the begining, they would now have more and happier purchasers of their hardware. And those purchasers would have a better product. Win-win, in other words.
All is not lost however: Archos has formally asked to include the rockbox software in one of their newest offerings; hopefully this will induce them to open out specifications on their other products as well.
...is really much like the Pope encouraging contraction!
Da' Pope don't support contraction!
An' don' you forget it!
Their firing procedure: the boss invites you out to lunch. As soon as you are outside the turnstyle he says, "You're fired. Give me your ID badge." And you have to wait there a few minutes while a (former) colleague boxes up your personal effects and brings them outside to you.
Why the gratuitous cruely? To make recruitment of new employees so much the harder?
[Elvis Costello m]akes Brittany Spears seem like Mozart.
I knew Mozart. I worked in the Senaye with Mozart. Brittany, you're no Wolfgang Amadeus mozart!
--
And I'm no Lloyd Bentsen, but you get the idea.
Uh, you have to register because you're purchasing a development system and they want you in the developer program. This isn't a product, it's an early release development platform to enable OEM's and software developers to have early access and detect bugs in both Transmeta's stuff, and your stuff.
And if they asked nicely, I'd probably participate. But don't insist I do beta testing for your product (or "early release"); conscription doesn't put a smile on my face.
What's with this "you gotta register"?
Why can't businesses be content with getting my money?
Oh, because they're not selling commodities anymore, they're turning their customers into commodities to be sold.
Shall I supply my blood type and a DNA sample and a piss test and fingerprints in addition to my social security number and home phone and mother's maiden name?'
Get out of my life! Sell me your product and go away! I am not a number, and I don't need to be in your database!
Crap like this really pisses me off: "We've got your money, now go screw yourself, sucker, because we can afford more lawyers than you can."
/.ers calling both the local theater and the national offices to enquire why they can't tell day from night, and more importantly, why they can't treat their customers right when they're fucked up.
So post the theater's name! Post the name of the chain!
And post a phone number for each, for the local theater and for the corporate office.
Name names! And give the phone numbers!
Let these slimy bastards realize, along with your $5.50 (or whatever) a public relations cost all out of proportion to their profit from screwing you.
Let them deal with dozens -- no hundreds -- of
I'm sick and tired of businesses feeling they can screw their customers with impunity. Let's give these smug bastards a slashback.
Have you, gentle reader, been screwed by some smug business? Of course you have. Now's your chance to strike back. Help this guy out, and get some of your dignity back at the same time!
Let them know you won't take it anymore!
Wait till someone comes out with a Penile Growth Hormone (PGH), that supposedly will make your penis grow 1 inch per month. ...until it gets so long it curves around and jams itself up your ass. Ooofff.
Ah, I've been using SSRIs since the mid-nineties. Why am I not impotent yet?
/., so it's not like you have a girlfriend, or have even gotten laid.
You post on
So being impotent would just be -1 Redundant.
(1) performs, or offers or agrees to perform, sexual intercourse or deviate sexual conduct; or
And in all seriousness, where is "deviate sexual conduct" defined?
Again, in all seriousness, a sitting US President (and at that time, a member of the bar) claimed oral sex wasn't sex.
Human Growth Hormone has some legitimate uses -- in a nutshell, stimulating growth -- if your growth is stunted by lack of. Otherwise, no.
Besides, I'm sure the HGH being sold by spam is only the pureset, unadulterated, and completely legit you can get. In fact, if you need money to buy it, I'll give you $419,000,000 if you help me get some funds out of Nigeria.
Don't forget, this $1500 fee, which might just seem a tad expensive to labs in North America, is oftentimes backbreaking to struggling third-world labs.
...which is why those labs must often finance their articles with the freelance production of anthrax or penis enlargers.
<voice='Sally Struthers'>
So please give generously to Achmed and Asok, struggling third-world biologists, by supporting the Secularist Scientists' Fund.
</voice>