Indeed, perhaps we need to remember Enron and many other companies. High stocks for quite awhile, even stayed up despite many whisperings of problems, and finally plummeting down to nothing. It wasn't because any of these companies had something special, they just acted like they did and allowed others to fall for what they though was "easy money"
I've found that sometimes setting my alarm up a few hours early helps. I get through the stumble phase, get some clothes rather, things set by the door, flop back to bed under a light pillow until alarm #2. For some reason this seems to satisfy my desire to "go back to bed" so that I feel better on the second waking. Also nice if you aren't sleeping well as you can adjust you comfort levels for the addition 2-3h sleep.
You are missing a little bit. There's a reason why AMD started going with giving their processors numbers instead of clock ratings, mainly because clock ratings are starting to mean less and less.
Clock ratio is only one of the things that is indicative of a CPU's power... you might want to consider comparing the 64 and 32 bit varieties of this chip somewhat akin to comparing a 1Ghz P4 Vs an AMD, or a 266Mhz P1 vs a P2-266.
it's in iPods, not in the music.So doing a Linux port certainly doesn't hurt them and may help.
True for Apple, most definately. However not true for the RIAA, which for some reason already seems to equate linux users or other elites with "piracy"
It's not piracy until you sell/give the re-encoded file away to somebody else. Until then it's fair-use (hint: think of devices that play Mp3 but not AAC).
for people who dual-boot Windows and Linux. As well as dedicated music pirates
Well, you must have "stopped" reading sometime before the music pirate section and then picked up again. Dual-boot is stated as a legitimate use, and others are more-or-less implied. While it is wrong to think in a "legal" sense that people will use such a thing for piracy, thinkly with "common sense" dictates that at least a few idiots to use this technology for less savory uses. If you look at everything from A-Bomb to Z, many things created in good intention are often abused.
I think you were trying to be funny... be really even OS allows for simultaneous fixes/updates. Look at kernel updates, a tweaked feature here, a bugfix there... you get the both of both worlds (though I would rather no kernel-level exploit-fixes needed).
Actually, considering this, the joke isn't quite as funny... and I'm a Debian user for both server and desktop in many cases so no pro-MS here.
It's been down for quite awhile now, ever since that last server smackdown.
Guess I'll wait for one of the BSD zealots to take a +5 funny in response.
The author of this entry to "Please help me, Slashdot" has noted early on that he is cheap: The author does not want a loan. He is looking for a scholarship offer -- that is, he would like very much for someone else to pay for his expenses and send him to school for free. (Wouldn't we all have loved that?)
I'm sure we would have... especially considering that the last thing one wants to do when "starting off" in life's career path is have a nicely accumulated debt.
You make this sound like a free handout... you don't perhaps work at a major corporation? Grants and bursaries are an investment in our future workers. What might seem a big deal to you or me (a few grand) really isn't huge to many large or even not-so-large corps.
The problem is that many corps don't note this, rather it is individuals trying to raise up a particular group (racial, gender, etc) to which many bright indivuals don't belong. Unless you are in sports, if you are a "normal guy" then being smart doesn't really help you. And the whole bit about "excellent grades get you to college/a job" doesn't really help you when you haven't the experience for more than a McDonalds job, there are no bursaries for brains, and the average college/Uni is more interested in your $1500+/semester than your A+ average.
It's not about being cheap, it's about the image that's portrayed. Work hard for your grade, do well and it will get you somewhere. The truth is that quite often it will not, as A+ grades often aren't noticed any more than passing ones. Getting good college grades helps, but even then many employers want to see your "paper" and not the marks on the reports.
Real world experience counts the most though... I'd say try and get in and pull a "co-op" or practicum (paid) - which will help you survive most of college debt.
Of course you can, so long as your actions are targetted at a member of that other state. For example, if state X and state Y had different legal ages for alcohol consumption (this occurs in Canadian provinces, not sure if any states are 21), and you knowingly sent a minor in state "X" booze, you might be charged across states.
You might want to take something into consideration:
a) The parent post is assume that all viewers would be horny males
b) Would your wife like to see some naked woman walking down the street, regardless of how attractive (particular if she notices your distraction). How about your mother. A conservative grandmother?
You might want to note that while this not only restricts kids from getting the game, an all out ban would restrict adults as well. It's not just stopping the kids from playing the game, it's restricting the parents too (and those without kids).
beat to a bloody pulp the families of anyone using Linux
I think many of us linux users are already used to being beaten to a pulp. It was called high school. In a game it would be slightly more amusing than real life, go for it.
Isn't that more a case of wiping intelligence as opposed to memory?
Wiping memory is like erasing files from a hard drive, bad TV leaves the deleted info with bad sectors so that your brain can't put anything useful there anymore except for half-baked movie quotes
Something looking "too good to be true" doesn't mean you should automatically dismiss the idea. If it looks too good to be true, then further investigation is warranted before proceeding. If it then starts to smell fishy, be careful before investing in such an endeavour.
We have to look at the signs. First, we have the obvious there is no free lunch and if it looks too good to be true, it probably is
Next, we find this line: He ignored police warnings that the deal was bogus and instead blames his losses on corrupt foreign governments
OK, so even the police told him that this would go bad, he continued to dump his money. So now we have "too good to be true" coupled with warnings from the law that he was going to get fleeced
The actual premise of the transaction doesn't even sound legal. A banker needs to move money that isn't his by using an offshore account?
The account had been dormant for years -- ever since the businessman and his family died in a plane crash, the e-mail read. The "banker" needed help moving the money. Otherwise, the government would confiscate it.
That's where Sessions fit in.
And finally the trump:
Still, Sessions was so mesmerized by the well-spoken West Africans that to this day he does not think he was scammed.
"I consider them my friends," he says. "They're not criminals."
If this guy had more money and they asked for it, he would give it up. It goes beyond stupid and trusting to the point of insanity. Yes, he's old, but when you've been warned by police and god knows how many others, lost all the cash you have,and face losing your house then you should know you've been robbed.
This guy has more in common with a gambling addict than a victim. He's still not giving up. I really wouldn't be surprised if he would have given to TV preachers or others who might have fleeced him had the nigerian scammers not caught him first.
If I can go to almost any bank machine in the world and be able to use it without needing to sign up for a new account, why can't I do the same with hot spots?"
Maybe because bank machines are less easily hacked/abused/cracked than most wireless systems?
We've seen cracked or hijacked cellphones, don't you think that this would be done for WiFi?
Moreover, think of the content: crackers would likely be using these hotspots for pr0n, warez, spam, etc. Actually, some already are, but it could get worse unless some really good security is implemented in this system.
And that is SCO's opinion of the GPL. They see GPL'ed projects as a free source of software to run on their OS and steal as they see free. In truth, the GPL is about "sharing" and "contributing" much more than giving away... but don't expect SCO to see this.
Personally, I don't know if I myself would quit righ t away, especially right before Christmas.
I do know I'd be spending all my waking moments not at work looking for new employment. Hell, with the way SCO can be expected to go (down, long and hard sometime in the not-too-far future) I would be looking for a new job even if SCO wasn't evil.
Not quitting without alternate employment doesn't make employees evil. Any not looking for said alternate employment, however, would probably make them rather dumb.
That's one part of the arguement: but there are many factors and sport killing is just one.
Massive overhunting is another, look at how we're depleting world fish stocks. I don't think sport wishing is what's causing this.
The other major factor is of course pollution, and destruction of habitat. Ol' Sabre may have hunted down some mammoths with tooth and nail, he didn't destroy where they lived with piles of toxic shit and clearcutting.
Couldn't there be a game based on this, but for a defence lawyer rather than a prosecuting one?
Say, you get a case or several cases where you have to prove your client innocent through gathering clues (instead of the classic "you are framed and need to prove get yourself out"). Perhaps on some cases you have to decide when your client isn't really innocent after all, or they are innocent of the crime in question but overall definately not a saint.
You could collect clues, get paid, etc, in a quest form, or perhaps a board-game (similar in concept to an advanced "clue?"). Something like an old gumshoe game but a little more advanced?
And yeah, maybe if you made it a large multiplayer online game you could set precedents, etc. Would be cool. Maybe just factor this into a larger MMORPG and have some players act as either lawmaker, citizen, or lawyer? Mock trials?
From many laughed at ideas there is a variation which is brilliance...
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Indeed, perhaps we need to remember Enron and many other companies. High stocks for quite awhile, even stayed up despite many whisperings of problems, and finally plummeting down to nothing. It wasn't because any of these companies had something special, they just acted like they did and allowed others to fall for what they though was "easy money"
I've found that sometimes setting my alarm up a few hours early helps. I get through the stumble phase, get some clothes rather, things set by the door, flop back to bed under a light pillow until alarm #2. For some reason this seems to satisfy my desire to "go back to bed" so that I feel better on the second waking. Also nice if you aren't sleeping well as you can adjust you comfort levels for the addition 2-3h sleep.
You are missing a little bit. There's a reason why AMD started going with giving their processors numbers instead of clock ratings, mainly because clock ratings are starting to mean less and less.
Clock ratio is only one of the things that is indicative of a CPU's power... you might want to consider comparing the 64 and 32 bit varieties of this chip somewhat akin to comparing a 1Ghz P4 Vs an AMD, or a 266Mhz P1 vs a P2-266.
Not GTA3, but how about this
You can use various disliked public figures as DM characters, I believe.
it's in iPods, not in the music .So doing a Linux port certainly doesn't hurt them and may help.
True for Apple, most definately. However not true for the RIAA, which for some reason already seems to equate linux users or other elites with "piracy"
I frown upon this sort of piracy
It's not piracy until you sell/give the re-encoded file away to somebody else. Until then it's fair-use (hint: think of devices that play Mp3 but not AAC).
for people who dual-boot Windows and Linux. As well as dedicated music pirates
Well, you must have "stopped" reading sometime before the music pirate section and then picked up again. Dual-boot is stated as a legitimate use, and others are more-or-less implied. While it is wrong to think in a "legal" sense that people will use such a thing for piracy, thinkly with "common sense" dictates that at least a few idiots to use this technology for less savory uses. If you look at everything from A-Bomb to Z, many things created in good intention are often abused.
I think you were trying to be funny... be really even OS allows for simultaneous fixes/updates. Look at kernel updates, a tweaked feature here, a bugfix there... you get the both of both worlds (though I would rather no kernel-level exploit-fixes needed).
Actually, considering this, the joke isn't quite as funny... and I'm a Debian user for both server and desktop in many cases so no pro-MS here.
It's been down for quite awhile now, ever since that last server smackdown.
Guess I'll wait for one of the BSD zealots to take a +5 funny in response.
The author of this entry to "Please help me, Slashdot" has noted early on that he is cheap: The author does not want a loan. He is looking for a scholarship offer -- that is, he would like very much for someone else to pay for his expenses and send him to school for free. (Wouldn't we all have loved that?)
I'm sure we would have... especially considering that the last thing one wants to do when "starting off" in life's career path is have a nicely accumulated debt.
You make this sound like a free handout... you don't perhaps work at a major corporation? Grants and bursaries are an investment in our future workers. What might seem a big deal to you or me (a few grand) really isn't huge to many large or even not-so-large corps.
The problem is that many corps don't note this, rather it is individuals trying to raise up a particular group (racial, gender, etc) to which many bright indivuals don't belong. Unless you are in sports, if you are a "normal guy" then being smart doesn't really help you. And the whole bit about "excellent grades get you to college/a job" doesn't really help you when you haven't the experience for more than a McDonalds job, there are no bursaries for brains, and the average college/Uni is more interested in your $1500+/semester than your A+ average.
It's not about being cheap, it's about the image that's portrayed. Work hard for your grade, do well and it will get you somewhere. The truth is that quite often it will not, as A+ grades often aren't noticed any more than passing ones. Getting good college grades helps, but even then many employers want to see your "paper" and not the marks on the reports.
Real world experience counts the most though... I'd say try and get in and pull a "co-op" or practicum (paid) - which will help you survive most of college debt.
Of course you can, so long as your actions are targetted at a member of that other state. For example, if state X and state Y had different legal ages for alcohol consumption (this occurs in Canadian provinces, not sure if any states are 21), and you knowingly sent a minor in state "X" booze, you might be charged across states.
You might want to take something into consideration:
a) The parent post is assume that all viewers would be horny males
b) Would your wife like to see some naked woman walking down the street, regardless of how attractive (particular if she notices your distraction). How about your mother. A conservative grandmother?
Nebraska Vice Squad: It's the toughest job you'll ever love.
I don't know about tough, but I'm guessing that for many of the officers checking out these pics, things may have gotten pretty "hard" after awhile.
You might want to note that while this not only restricts kids from getting the game, an all out ban would restrict adults as well. It's not just stopping the kids from playing the game, it's restricting the parents too (and those without kids).
beat to a bloody pulp the families of anyone using Linux
I think many of us linux users are already used to being beaten to a pulp. It was called high school. In a game it would be slightly more amusing than real life, go for it.
Might be ignorant, but how is this very much different from a roofie (rohypnol) - sometimes referred to as the "date rape drug."
Subject becomes very pliable while under the influence (like being very drunk I suppose), suffers memory loss of the period while under the influence.
Isn't that more a case of wiping intelligence as opposed to memory?
Wiping memory is like erasing files from a hard drive, bad TV leaves the deleted info with bad sectors so that your brain can't put anything useful there anymore except for half-baked movie quotes
Something looking "too good to be true" doesn't mean you should automatically dismiss the idea. If it looks too good to be true, then further investigation is warranted before proceeding. If it then starts to smell fishy, be careful before investing in such an endeavour.
We have to look at the signs. First, we have the obvious there is no free lunch and if it looks too good to be true, it probably is
Next, we find this line:
He ignored police warnings that the deal was bogus and instead blames his losses on corrupt foreign governments
OK, so even the police told him that this would go bad, he continued to dump his money. So now we have "too good to be true" coupled with warnings from the law that he was going to get fleeced
The actual premise of the transaction doesn't even sound legal. A banker needs to move money that isn't his by using an offshore account?
The account had been dormant for years -- ever since the businessman and his family died in a plane crash, the e-mail read. The "banker" needed help moving the money. Otherwise, the government would confiscate it.
That's where Sessions fit in.
And finally the trump:
Still, Sessions was so mesmerized by the well-spoken West Africans that to this day he does not think he was scammed. "I consider them my friends," he says. "They're not criminals."
If this guy had more money and they asked for it, he would give it up. It goes beyond stupid and trusting to the point of insanity. Yes, he's old, but when you've been warned by police and god knows how many others, lost all the cash you have,and face losing your house then you should know you've been robbed.
This guy has more in common with a gambling addict than a victim. He's still not giving up. I really wouldn't be surprised if he would have given to TV preachers or others who might have fleeced him had the nigerian scammers not caught him first.
If I can go to almost any bank machine in the world and be able to use it without needing to sign up for a new account, why can't I do the same with hot spots?"
Maybe because bank machines are less easily hacked/abused/cracked than most wireless systems?
We've seen cracked or hijacked cellphones, don't you think that this would be done for WiFi?
Moreover, think of the content: crackers would likely be using these hotspots for pr0n, warez, spam, etc. Actually, some already are, but it could get worse unless some really good security is implemented in this system.
The key words are here though:
"Give away their work"
And that is SCO's opinion of the GPL. They see GPL'ed projects as a free source of software to run on their OS and steal as they see free. In truth, the GPL is about "sharing" and "contributing" much more than giving away... but don't expect SCO to see this.
Personally, I don't know if I myself would quit righ t away, especially right before Christmas.
I do know I'd be spending all my waking moments not at work looking for new employment. Hell, with the way SCO can be expected to go (down, long and hard sometime in the not-too-far future) I would be looking for a new job even if SCO wasn't evil.
Not quitting without alternate employment doesn't make employees evil. Any not looking for said alternate employment, however, would probably make them rather dumb.
Where did the SMB protocols come from? Just wondering if it was an MS invention or "borrowed?"
That's one part of the arguement: but there are many factors and sport killing is just one.
Massive overhunting is another, look at how we're depleting world fish stocks. I don't think sport wishing is what's causing this.
The other major factor is of course pollution, and destruction of habitat. Ol' Sabre may have hunted down some mammoths with tooth and nail, he didn't destroy where they lived with piles of toxic shit and clearcutting.
Couldn't there be a game based on this, but for a defence lawyer rather than a prosecuting one?
Say, you get a case or several cases where you have to prove your client innocent through gathering clues (instead of the classic "you are framed and need to prove get yourself out"). Perhaps on some cases you have to decide when your client isn't really innocent after all, or they are innocent of the crime in question but overall definately not a saint.
You could collect clues, get paid, etc, in a quest form, or perhaps a board-game (similar in concept to an advanced "clue?"). Something like an old gumshoe game but a little more advanced?
And yeah, maybe if you made it a large multiplayer online game you could set precedents, etc. Would be cool. Maybe just factor this into a larger MMORPG and have some players act as either lawmaker, citizen, or lawyer? Mock trials?
From many laughed at ideas there is a variation which is brilliance...