If your assumption were true, it would be possible, with enough patience and care, to teach a chimp to talk and be just like us, so the chimp could go to school, get a job, and say, run slashdot. This is clearly not the case despite more and more findings that chimps have really advanced mental capabilities.
Well Shit, wow, I guess, I should be giving less credit to Micheal, considering he is not a chimp, and is a part of the "human" (smart quote) race.....
You open a book for research on a topic that you are writing, you quote from the book, and give proper credit to the author, and give credit where credit's do. You follow all the "rules" of writing, and do it in proper form. Your article/topic/essay is HUGE, and published SEVERAL times in various publications where you make a small profit.
Now, you are liable based on LAW, not english writing rules (standard, untill now) to pay, depending on how greedy the lawyers are.
IS THAT WHAT THIS IS COMMING TO?
Oh wait... Money... everyone is f-n greedy, and wants their money.
My hats are off to all the poeople that take their time to work on GPL software and public domain work. LDP for example, freely redistributed software.
... sence.
All to often, people wish aweful things upon others, and I think that you have summed it up very well.
For the rest of you, what is a geeks overall goal anyway, World domaination. (right?) Bill Gates (Geek) got it.
Many of the/.'ers hate him for the fact that M$ is the standard, and *NIX is not. I spend my day in contact with the lowest skilled people working on computers, and Knowing what I know about MS OS's compaired to *NIX ( mainly, Slackware, my distro. next to Windows 2k.) IT IS a nessasary evil, and all the M$ haters need to grow up and realize that not everyone is as smart as we are, nor are their careers centered around using additional features provided by a more configurable OS.
Finally, The M$ Tax, might be steep, but try to imagine the cost of having an enterprize worth of PC's, that only a few employee's truly know how to operate. here is a good example. My situtation:
3000 (users) 10% computer literate = 2700 stupid EU's.
2700 * 800 ( salery per week - general average)= $2,160,000 in one week on employees saleries.)
Cost of licencing for those users with M$ (300(OS) + 500 (office). $2,160,000
2 hours a day in productivy losses because of inablity to opperate the basic features of the computer - (10 (hours per week) * 20 (hourly rate) * 2700) $540,000.
How many weeks till it pays for itself? Exactly 4 (20 days). How long will this continue? indefinatly.. A company this large, is has a signifant amount of new hires, and turnover. Some employees will never get it. My numbers might be off a good bit, although - it does provide some form of guidlines.
So let's sit back and realize that if it wern't for Bill, and his Monolopy (Yes, There are SERVERAL of their pratices I don't agree with) and realize that this is a nessasary evil, and to keep pushing it off is only making you an outsider.
Maybe a thanks in in order for Bill's Vision, and desire to make computer more attainable and usable for the average user. With out the ease of the MAC, and for the lower cost IBM clone and point and click Windows, Most IT professionals would be driving the 87 Civic, not the BMW.
I apprishate his vision, and what he has done. I also enjoy my BMW, and my ability to sit at a computer (M$, or *nix) and truly enjoy making things work, making programs that "do stuff with things" and just being a geek, as well as the ability to meet others that have my interest.
As a member of Earth, we need more people like the guy above that said that he would like to see Bill sit back and just enjoy what he has gotton, and stop pressing matters.
Yes, but you are a geek chick.( not dork, geeks are cool), being a geek chick (attractive or not) you think simmilar to to the guys, that the shell script is totally cool, and mad props to the kid... who wrote it.
My point is, Most(generalization- I live in DC) women, are more conserned about how they look to other women and they ARE expecting that diamond, to show their friends.
My woman is very much like this, although, I know that she loves me, and granted it is a not exactly a tradidtion- (time honored) It is expected in our society.
Now, granted, she (if i ever) will not get a diamond that is HUGE, but reasonable. IT is a good way to fiend off mens checking her out.
IMHO, A married women would be a great date if you are a reader of MAXIM, and sex is all you desire.
Married women will date if they are not happy, and from the Maxim guys perspective, It is the best relationship you can have.
1) you can't call her
2) you can't take her out (be seen in public)
3) she mainly wants sex, AND - Someone to talk with afterwards
4) she wants sex
5) she wants sex
6) she wants sex
7) ALMOST everytime you will see her, she wants sex
Finally, the woman that needs the BIG rock, is almost ALWAYS looking for the BBD (bigger, better deal). You see that attrictive woman with the huge rock, ask her out.... (in the parking lot next to your Mercedes, Porshe, or BMW, and you could get lucky.
My girl OTOH, is not like that, she wants to impress her friends with "how much her man loves her"
Sorry, this was way to much
As many people have mentioned above, there are cameras at each of the transponder locations (toll related) and they take a pic if the transponder did not work correctly. To get away with the getting across the bridge for free, you would also need a fake/stolen licence plate.
OTOH - I would imagine that they are scanning the licence plates and cross referencing them against a database with stolen tags, and stolen cars. At least that is what I would be doing.
Their accounting dept people work with M$ computers, and well, i don't think that M$ planned for the calc feture on the computer to account for anything higher then 12.
try to go to indexold.htm (or whatever type of page the use) or differnet variations of index and default, you will prolly locate the normal page after a few tries.
There are several simple solutions. Seeing as this is to wake someone up, we don't want loud and irratating, but simply enough to wake the person up.
Alarm clock: I have a "dream machine" GE and it has a sleep button that turns on the music for a short period of time. Take it apart and run two wires from the "sleep" button, to a spring loaded switch. ( two contacts, (close proximity) and a very minor tension spring) and give her a string to pull. (the string can be attached to her wrist or hand as needed) Setting off the alarm (or music).
This keeps is simple, cheep, and her safe, as there is no electricty for her to touch.
Sorry to hear about her condidition, I wish her and her husband the best.
What does it matter, everything else he does is foregory, why can't his spam selling marketing tactic's also be BS as well. Or, Maybe if he did that... he would be subject to legal ramifications.
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are you an attorney? just loooking to ALSO make money off spam mail?
I think that he was refering to take home (net) money after the mailing. Not gross income. I don't know about Before or after taxes tho. ( if he is in fact paying them)
if you were to do that, you would be on the same level as them, and really not helping any situtation. You must be all of 15 years old, and still in High school.
(I might be a troll, but you are child, and a very immature for your age.)
while I do think that it is a great vision, i don't belive that it is truly a needed evil, and i belive that this is going to be more of a hassle then it would be worth. The old addage says, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
The majority of/. readers are computer literate, and very familliar with it's interface. I would guess that the majority of them also agree that the interface is relitivly simple to understand, and the directory structure (windows, and *NIX flavors) is easy to navigate. Why change that, so that you can see your computer smile at you? Is that needed to write program in Python? Do you really want your computer laughing at you, when you mispell the word "monkey", better yet, for a windows machine, do you want to see it cry (or better yet, see the facial expression of someone having a heart attack) when it locks up?
Me, personally, I could care less about a facial expression, or mouse feedback. I don't want to see everyone drifting in to a world of illusion, and this is what this is going to be the begining of. You think that kids are overweight now, imagine when they can have their friends over virtually to play? they just sit in front of a computer while the droids are in the yard kicking the ball around, and they are at the interface controling them.
Computer in 70's- encapsulated entire room, required hardware changes, and worked VERY slow
Computer in 80's- Slowly moving to desktop, allowed limited proccesses and worked with 5 1/4" disks
Computer in 90's- started the internet revolution, causing many people to get very rich on paper, and then loose it all.
computer in 00-now - Allowing people to work on projects, work more productively and acheive more results in less time.
Is this really needed, a interface that would allow people to sit at home, or in their office and never have to move. to feel the mouse actually drag something, and drop it. Does it make things easier? does it allow MORE productiviy then we currently have? will is allow for acutal automation of daily tasks? (can't we aready do this now?)
while I do think that it is a great vision, i don't belive that it is truly a needed evil, and i belive that this is going to be more of a hassle then it would be worth. The old addage says, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
The majority of/. readers are computer literate, and very familliar with it's interface. I would guess that the majority of them also agree that the interface is relitivly simple to understand, and the directory structure (windows, and *NIX flavors) is easy to navigate. Why change that, so that you can see your computer smile at you? Is that needed to write program in Python? Do you really want your computer laughing at you, when you mispell the word "monkey", better yet, for a windows machine, do you want to see it cry (or better yet, see the facial expression of someone having a heart attack) when it locks up?
Me, personally, i could care less about a facial expression, or mouse feedback. I don't want to see everyone drifting in to a world of illusion, and this is what this is going to be the begining of. You think that kids are overweight now, imagine when they can have their friends over virtually to play? they just sit in front of a computer while the droids are in the yard kicking the ball around, and they are at the interface controling them.
Don't care about moderation - Just want comments!
Maybe there is a solution to "putting up a NO SPAMMERS" sign on your mail server.
My idea just occured to me, while this would not prevent the unathorized spammers to send out their email, there could i would imagine, be a very simmilar set up for spammers that are tring to do it legally.
Someone - an Org maybe, could host some form of DNS server that would list all the mail servers that DO NOT WANT SPAM, and the sender would query that server for every message, and in the event that that domain is infact listed, it would not parse the message to the intended recipient.
Downsides of this, is who is going to sponsor/setup/maintain this database.
Based on the # of spam emails that are received everyday, It would be worse the/. effect on 9/11. 24/7/365.
The other option, could be a list that could be downloaded, provided by once again, a service, that you and I could list our mailservers on, and it would be the responsibility of the spammer to maintain adherance to that list. In the event that you are listed and receive unsolicted email, then you would have means to go after offending spammer.
in fact this site would be pretty easy to set up, a simple CGI, where you would submit domains, they would be appended to a text file, and that file downloaded by spammers that have a desire to spam.
I would imagine that you could also use it for individuals as well, slthough, that would create a MASSIVE list of email addresses that would most likly just get used for malicious intent.
My $0.15
I was actually tring to make a joke, but apparently it was not that funny. Oh well. Yea, having something that could create an explosion around say H gas, would not be good. I actaully volunteer at a Firehouse (Hazmat for the area) to maintain their computers- It is a GREAT tax write off.
OFf topic- Spending the day with firefighters is VERY entertaining, i would recomend doing a ridealong for anyone!
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Well with all the hondas... they might just be able to make it selling turbos....
If your assumption were true, it would be possible, with enough patience and care, to teach a chimp to talk and be just like us, so the chimp could go to school, get a job, and say, run slashdot. This is clearly not the case despite more and more findings that chimps have really advanced mental capabilities. Well Shit, wow, I guess, I should be giving less credit to Micheal, considering he is not a chimp, and is a part of the "human" (smart quote) race.....
Please somsone that REALLY knows something about this reply. Thanks - Matt
Now, you are liable based on LAW, not english writing rules (standard, untill now) to pay, depending on how greedy the lawyers are.
IS THAT WHAT THIS IS COMMING TO?
Oh wait... Money... everyone is f-n greedy, and wants their money.
My hats are off to all the poeople that take their time to work on GPL software and public domain work. LDP for example, freely redistributed software.
All to often, people wish aweful things upon others, and I think that you have summed it up very well.
For the rest of you, what is a geeks overall goal anyway, World domaination. (right?) Bill Gates (Geek) got it.
Many of the /.'ers hate him for the fact that M$ is the standard, and *NIX is not. I spend my day in contact with the lowest skilled people working on computers, and Knowing what I know about MS OS's compaired to *NIX ( mainly, Slackware, my distro. next to Windows 2k.) IT IS a nessasary evil, and all the M$ haters need to grow up and realize that not everyone is as smart as we are, nor are their careers centered around using additional features provided by a more configurable OS.
Finally, The M$ Tax, might be steep, but try to imagine the cost of having an enterprize worth of PC's, that only a few employee's truly know how to operate. here is a good example. My situtation:
3000 (users) 10% computer literate = 2700 stupid EU's.
2700 * 800 ( salery per week - general average)= $2,160,000 in one week on employees saleries.)
Cost of licencing for those users with M$ (300(OS) + 500 (office). $2,160,000
2 hours a day in productivy losses because of inablity to opperate the basic features of the computer - (10 (hours per week) * 20 (hourly rate) * 2700) $540,000.
How many weeks till it pays for itself? Exactly 4 (20 days). How long will this continue? indefinatly.. A company this large, is has a signifant amount of new hires, and turnover. Some employees will never get it. My numbers might be off a good bit, although - it does provide some form of guidlines.
So let's sit back and realize that if it wern't for Bill, and his Monolopy (Yes, There are SERVERAL of their pratices I don't agree with) and realize that this is a nessasary evil, and to keep pushing it off is only making you an outsider. Maybe a thanks in in order for Bill's Vision, and desire to make computer more attainable and usable for the average user. With out the ease of the MAC, and for the lower cost IBM clone and point and click Windows, Most IT professionals would be driving the 87 Civic, not the BMW.
I apprishate his vision, and what he has done. I also enjoy my BMW, and my ability to sit at a computer (M$, or *nix) and truly enjoy making things work, making programs that "do stuff with things" and just being a geek, as well as the ability to meet others that have my interest.
As a member of Earth, we need more people like the guy above that said that he would like to see Bill sit back and just enjoy what he has gotton, and stop pressing matters.
My point is, Most(generalization- I live in DC) women, are more conserned about how they look to other women and they ARE expecting that diamond, to show their friends.
My woman is very much like this, although, I know that she loves me, and granted it is a not exactly a tradidtion- (time honored) It is expected in our society.
Now, granted, she (if i ever) will not get a diamond that is HUGE, but reasonable. IT is a good way to fiend off mens checking her out.
IMHO, A married women would be a great date if you are a reader of MAXIM, and sex is all you desire.
Married women will date if they are not happy, and from the Maxim guys perspective, It is the best relationship you can have.
1) you can't call her
2) you can't take her out (be seen in public) 3) she mainly wants sex, AND - Someone to talk with afterwards
4) she wants sex
5) she wants sex
6) she wants sex
7) ALMOST everytime you will see her, she wants sex
Finally, the woman that needs the BIG rock, is almost ALWAYS looking for the BBD (bigger, better deal). You see that attrictive woman with the huge rock, ask her out.... (in the parking lot next to your Mercedes, Porshe, or BMW, and you could get lucky.
My girl OTOH, is not like that, she wants to impress her friends with "how much her man loves her" Sorry, this was way to much
Don't want to kill this site as well. Interesting how the barcode was mainly for the military at first.
BAR CODE HISTORY A breif page about the progression of the barcode. (timeline mainly)
OTOH - I would imagine that they are scanning the licence plates and cross referencing them against a database with stolen tags, and stolen cars.
At least that is what I would be doing.
Their accounting dept people work with M$ computers, and well, i don't think that M$ planned for the calc feture on the computer to account for anything higher then 12.
Matt
A robotoic hand, and 7800 DVD's of P0rn... no one is going to leave home....
Alarm clock:
I have a "dream machine" GE and it has a sleep button that turns on the music for a short period of time. Take it apart and run two wires from the "sleep" button, to a spring loaded switch. ( two contacts, (close proximity) and a very minor tension spring) and give her a string to pull. (the string can be attached to her wrist or hand as needed) Setting off the alarm (or music).
This keeps is simple, cheep, and her safe, as there is no electricty for her to touch.
Sorry to hear about her condidition, I wish her and her husband the best.
Take it how you want to.....
SHIT, we are all running window$ What is a kernal trap do?
What does it matter, everything else he does is foregory, why can't his spam selling marketing tactic's also be BS as well. Or, Maybe if he did that... he would be subject to legal ramifications.
are you an attorney? just loooking to ALSO make money off spam mail?
I think that he was refering to take home (net) money after the mailing. Not gross income. I don't know about Before or after taxes tho. ( if he is in fact paying them)
(I might be a troll, but you are child, and a very immature for your age.)
Subscribe hoim to mags. The little cards, he would be great for say, International Male Mag.
The majority of /. readers are computer literate, and very familliar with it's interface. I would guess that the majority of them also agree that the interface is relitivly simple to understand, and the directory structure (windows, and *NIX flavors) is easy to navigate. Why change that, so that you can see your computer smile at you? Is that needed to write program in Python? Do you really want your computer laughing at you, when you mispell the word "monkey", better yet, for a windows machine, do you want to see it cry (or better yet, see the facial expression of someone having a heart attack) when it locks up?
Me, personally, I could care less about a facial expression, or mouse feedback. I don't want to see everyone drifting in to a world of illusion, and this is what this is going to be the begining of. You think that kids are overweight now, imagine when they can have their friends over virtually to play? they just sit in front of a computer while the droids are in the yard kicking the ball around, and they are at the interface controling them.
Don't care about moderation - Just want comments!
Computer in 70's- encapsulated entire room, required hardware changes, and worked VERY slow
Computer in 80's- Slowly moving to desktop, allowed limited proccesses and worked with 5 1/4" disks
Computer in 90's- started the internet revolution, causing many people to get very rich on paper, and then loose it all.
computer in 00-now - Allowing people to work on projects, work more productively and acheive more results in less time.
Is this really needed, a interface that would allow people to sit at home, or in their office and never have to move. to feel the mouse actually drag something, and drop it. Does it make things easier?
does it allow MORE productiviy then we currently have?
will is allow for acutal automation of daily tasks?
(can't we aready do this now?)
while I do think that it is a great vision, i don't belive that it is truly a needed evil, and i belive that this is going to be more of a hassle then it would be worth. The old addage says, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
The majority of /. readers are computer literate, and very familliar with it's interface. I would guess that the majority of them also agree that the interface is relitivly simple to understand, and the directory structure (windows, and *NIX flavors) is easy to navigate. Why change that, so that you can see your computer smile at you? Is that needed to write program in Python? Do you really want your computer laughing at you, when you mispell the word "monkey", better yet, for a windows machine, do you want to see it cry (or better yet, see the facial expression of someone having a heart attack) when it locks up?
Me, personally, i could care less about a facial expression, or mouse feedback. I don't want to see everyone drifting in to a world of illusion, and this is what this is going to be the begining of. You think that kids are overweight now, imagine when they can have their friends over virtually to play? they just sit in front of a computer while the droids are in the yard kicking the ball around, and they are at the interface controling them. Don't care about moderation - Just want comments!
No, you would blow the 2.5 mil on p0rn, and would have to go back to work, Just like i did!
My idea just occured to me, while this would not prevent the unathorized spammers to send out their email, there could i would imagine, be a very simmilar set up for spammers that are tring to do it legally.
Someone - an Org maybe, could host some form of DNS server that would list all the mail servers that DO NOT WANT SPAM, and the sender would query that server for every message, and in the event that that domain is infact listed, it would not parse the message to the intended recipient.
Downsides of this, is who is going to sponsor/setup/maintain this database. Based on the # of spam emails that are received everyday, It would be worse the /. effect on 9/11. 24/7/365.
The other option, could be a list that could be downloaded, provided by once again, a service, that you and I could list our mailservers on, and it would be the responsibility of the spammer to maintain adherance to that list. In the event that you are listed and receive unsolicted email, then you would have means to go after offending spammer. in fact this site would be pretty easy to set up, a simple CGI, where you would submit domains, they would be appended to a text file, and that file downloaded by spammers that have a desire to spam. I would imagine that you could also use it for individuals as well, slthough, that would create a MASSIVE list of email addresses that would most likly just get used for malicious intent. My $0.15
OFf topic- Spending the day with firefighters is VERY entertaining, i would recomend doing a ridealong for anyone!