Recent developments in automobile and locomotive design have resulted in mass layoffs in the buggy whip industries. Carriage wheel manufacturing is down nearly 100% in the last 100 years alone!
In addition, seafaring technology has resulted in the loss of thousands of manual labor jobs at sea doing things like shoving coal into a 1500 degree "glory hole" for eighteen hours straight, and climbing to the mizzen mast to cut tangled rigging. These lost jobs are gone forever unless we immediately abandon all technology and return to an awkward agrarian society with high infant mortality and a total lack of advanced pharmaceuticals. Similar fields report severe cutbacks as the behemoth of technological progress continues unabated. Eschew the tech! Your iMac is a tool of the devil and it will burn your retinas with its cool shiny grey goodness! You can't even feel it as every day another technique revered by thousands is rendered obsolete! Today cursive, tomorrow, toilet paper! Nobody will ever aim a particle beam at my backside, I assure you! In a thousand years they will annihilate all we hold dear such as amoebic dysentery and irritable bowel syndrome! The HORROR!
"classic american innumeracy". Although I agree with your post I can't get past your bigotry and malice to see its true merit. Why, it must be my American Rosy-Colored Beer Goggles of Politics(tm)! I should take them off, eh?
Or the Clinton Family. Or the Gore Family. (Gore was a photographer in vietnam with a detachment of 12 Marine bodyguards)- face it, if you want someone for president, he ain't gonna be a war hero if he's from a successful family.
Okay, now do I type this into my keyboard at work or my keyboard at home? Do I have to type it into a REAL keyboard or will all these simulated keyboards work?
/peels off 'ancient scrolls' in shame. Places them in 3-ring binder TYPED on six sheets of paper. Some were old enough that the stickum had worn out, were replaced with scotch tape, and retaped when that tape turned yellow. Proud new owner of a finally completed rc.d file. Rebooted. all fileserver functions now mounted, sound even works for the first time in 2 years. (don't need sound on fileserver, really) And no, it's built in to the motherboard, so it isn't wasting PCI bus bandwidth in housekeeping overhead. The overhead was there even without software making calls to/dev/dsp.
Some aircraft are inherently unstable. When I say unstable, it means the aircraft doesn't have a preference for flying straight and level over flying straight down in inverted flight. This means that the aircraft does not resist the transition from level flight to turning or banking. It also makes them difficult to fly. Stable aircraft, on the other hand, are easy to fly straight but can't be used as a fighter aircraft because they bank slowly and they resist everything but level flight. Computers are kind of like this as well. Special purpose computers are wonderfully stable but totally inflexible. Things like analog fire-control computers on submarines never crash. The main problem with PCs is that they are so totally flexible that at any moment, just about any combination of software may be in use at one time. Combine that with an unpredictable action, and software with thousands of relatively unchecked features or controls, and you have a recipe for disaster. Especially since the programmer has no idea what combination of hardware the end user's machine will be running, he can't do anything to deal with other pieces of software trying to access memory space assigned to his app. (Or operating systems that seem to 'forget' who gets what, and prevent violations)
Okay, so it's an imperfect analogy. I got nothing.
Excercise gained by whoring self to Dean Kamen.
Money saved by selling off car and getting company car from Dean Kamen.
More time achieved since all he has to do is sit on his computer and whore online for Dean Kamen. No commute. Segway HT used to go out for Ben and Jerry's.
In better shape- shape WAS approximately spheroid. Has improved to nearly a perfect sphere.
calling someone a twat is INSIGHTFUL???? WTF, moderators???! (although the post IS insightful to some degree, it's a fairly good thing we don't have a POLITE tag for moderators.)
I know that the AGP bus is bidirectional- isn't there a way to write a multiprocessor type app that would allow GPU resources to be added to the standard motherboard resources? Obviously it would have to be a GPU that was open to developers, but if NVIDIA or ATI opened up communication with Linux kernel people or beowulf wannabes would there be a way to either exploit those extra resources when in 2d mode or design a computer with multiple AGP ports to make use of clustering with GPUs? I was thinking this would make a good renderfarm, since traditional x86 processors are not particularly suited for the task. Has anyone concieved or envisioned a software solution to this?
I may be wrong, but isn't it perfectly legal for a person (not covered by an NDA) to write code which is functionally identical to proprietary code, so long as it is not 'cut and paste'? I mean, if I hear that MSAVI.dll (or somesuch) does function X when asked with Y syntax, and I write something that will do the exact same thing the same way, but it's not a derivative of MSAVI.dll (I haven't seen the code), Isn't it my own work?
If it isn't, then patents on airplane propellers would also prevent people from creating submarine propellers.
I would have to agree- since Linux and its operating system components are primarily open-source, it would be fairly easy for them to prove that sections have been cut and pasted. Intellectual property laws, as I understand them, are not analogous to patent rights, in that if I can make nonidentical code 'b' perform and behave exactly like proprietary code 'a' , then unless I am under an NDA, too fucking bad.
but what if the distance at which it repeats itself is random? (multiple repetitions) I mean, what if it goes on seemimgly randomly for 100 trillion trillion digits and then all of a sudden repeats itself frontwise and then backwards and then has the complete works of shakespeare in octal notation? And then the hitchiker's guide to the galaxy intertwined with the Holy Bible in alternating digits and then everything goes all random again for another 7000 trillion trillion trillion digits and then it ends with a 4? Unless we can tell every single digit in pi, can we ever be sure it keeps going truly infinitely? what if it is just a reeeeeeally long number when you try to express it in base10. Maybe base7 would work better?
If ou are who th nk ou are, then ou owe me m computer back. never got t back after sent t to ou. got another one eventuall but st ll need the hard dr ve from the one sent ou. Now the vowels are not work ng correctl as ou can pla nl see. got a new computer but after onl a few months t started do ng t aga n. th nk t's because got a M crosoft operat ng s stem.
I follower your advice and I got this major bad error message trying to install OSX on my computer. I talked to Apple and they said I have to buy a computer from them in order to get OSX to work at all. I paid for the software and they have this illegal product bundling that prevents me from using it. Maybe next time, before you run your goddamn mouth off, you'll be more specific about HOW to follow your instructions- it turns out I can't just GET MAC OS X. I have to buy this 2500 dollar computer that is SLOWER than the Athlon I paid only 500 bucks for. No thanks.
This is so clearly an example of a SLAPP lawsuit it's not even funny. Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. Used to intimidate people to do what you want. Shameful. I won't ever buy from them again. I don't even care if they withdraw from this lunacy. I want to make an example of them. Unfortunately most of their customers are women who like Preshusss Momentsess. (intentionally gollum-filtered). They don't read slashdot.
Use an electromagnet on the haystack. Everything sticking on the electromagnet = needle.
submerge and ferment the haystack in water until the haystack is gone. The red stain at the bottom of the tank is (was) the needle.
Allow nine small children to choose to play with the haystack that has a needle in it or a pile of toys worth seven hundred dollars. Leave one electrical outlet in the room uncovered. Leave the room unsupervised for thirty seconds. The needle will be in the hot terminal of the electrical outlet when you return and there will be eight small children covered in poop and hay. And one corpse.
Proudly and publicly announce that all dangerous needles have been removed from the haystack. Announce that you are running for Senate. As a Republican. The needle will turn up shortly after the primary election.
Drop the hay from 30,000 feet of altitude in a 5 mph wind. The thing that hits the ground first and nearest to the drop point is the needle.
Here's a lesson, fuckhead moderators- If you disagree, post accordingly. Trolls are offtopic. At best this is flamebait. I can't see troll. Not at all. Fuckholes.
The ACLU is wonderful at protecting certain kinds of speech.. Not so good if you're religious or socially retrograde. Well, lets face it, they're great at protecting Democrat speech. The problem is that the ACLU is great at protecting inoffensive speech, but that's the easy stuff. Real freedom of speech is when David freaking Duke can speak freely. Real freedom of speech is when I can pray wherever I wish, so long as it's not coersive of others' participation. Real freedom of speech is when I can tell the world I don't genuinely want my son to be queer. Real freedom is when I can say that John Ashcroft is not a good republican. He sucks at this. Really. So the ACLU is great for THAT. What if I am a radical heterosexual male who wants to be able to tell off color jokes to people who appreciate them without having to worry about people eavesdropping?
I got that- but the movie was terrible- bad script, worse lighting, bad cinematography, poor acting, bad set design and confusing editing.That coupled with raw, unattractive, realistic nudity! I watch it once a year to remind me how NOT to edit film. It is an excellent book, but this version of the movie looks like it cost *hundreds* of dollars to produce. I saw 1984 once as a play at some amateur summer theater and it was fantastically done. The John Hurt movie was just awful. And the nudity certainly was NOT titilating. Lets face it, nipples should face forward not down.
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Recent developments in automobile and locomotive design have resulted in mass layoffs in the buggy whip industries. Carriage wheel manufacturing is down nearly 100% in the last 100 years alone!
In addition, seafaring technology has resulted in the loss of thousands of manual labor jobs at sea doing things like shoving coal into a 1500 degree "glory hole" for eighteen hours straight, and climbing to the mizzen mast to cut tangled rigging. These lost jobs are gone forever unless we immediately abandon all technology and return to an awkward agrarian society with high infant mortality and a total lack of advanced pharmaceuticals. Similar fields report severe cutbacks as the behemoth of technological progress continues unabated. Eschew the tech! Your iMac is a tool of the devil and it will burn your retinas with its cool shiny grey goodness! You can't even feel it as every day another technique revered by thousands is rendered obsolete! Today cursive, tomorrow, toilet paper! Nobody will ever aim a particle beam at my backside, I assure you! In a thousand years they will annihilate all we hold dear such as amoebic dysentery and irritable bowel syndrome! The HORROR!
"classic american innumeracy". Although I agree with your post I can't get past your bigotry and malice to see its true merit. Why, it must be my American Rosy-Colored Beer Goggles of Politics(tm)! I should take them off, eh?
Or the Clinton Family. Or the Gore Family. (Gore was a photographer in vietnam with a detachment of 12 Marine bodyguards)- face it, if you want someone for president, he ain't gonna be a war hero if he's from a successful family.
FSCK! I live in Albuquerque- this means I don't exi
Okay, now do I type this into my keyboard at work or my keyboard at home? Do I have to type it into a REAL keyboard or will all these simulated keyboards work?
"Presently, humans are the only living extant species alive in the genus Homo, currently at this time in history which we currently occupy now."
/peels off 'ancient scrolls' in shame. Places them in 3-ring binder TYPED on six sheets of paper. Some were old enough that the stickum had worn out, were replaced with scotch tape, and retaped when that tape turned yellow. Proud new owner of a finally completed rc.d file. Rebooted. all fileserver functions now mounted, sound even works for the first time in 2 years. (don't need sound on fileserver, really) And no, it's built in to the motherboard, so it isn't wasting PCI bus bandwidth in housekeeping overhead. The overhead was there even without software making calls to /dev/dsp.
Some aircraft are inherently unstable. When I say unstable, it means the aircraft doesn't have a preference for flying straight and level over flying straight down in inverted flight. This means that the aircraft does not resist the transition from level flight to turning or banking. It also makes them difficult to fly. Stable aircraft, on the other hand, are easy to fly straight but can't be used as a fighter aircraft because they bank slowly and they resist everything but level flight. Computers are kind of like this as well. Special purpose computers are wonderfully stable but totally inflexible. Things like analog fire-control computers on submarines never crash. The main problem with PCs is that they are so totally flexible that at any moment, just about any combination of software may be in use at one time. Combine that with an unpredictable action, and software with thousands of relatively unchecked features or controls, and you have a recipe for disaster. Especially since the programmer has no idea what combination of hardware the end user's machine will be running, he can't do anything to deal with other pieces of software trying to access memory space assigned to his app. (Or operating systems that seem to 'forget' who gets what, and prevent violations) Okay, so it's an imperfect analogy. I got nothing.
Excercise gained by whoring self to Dean Kamen.
Money saved by selling off car and getting company car from Dean Kamen.
More time achieved since all he has to do is sit on his computer and whore online for Dean Kamen. No commute. Segway HT used to go out for Ben and Jerry's.
In better shape- shape WAS approximately spheroid. Has improved to nearly a perfect sphere.
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calling someone a twat is INSIGHTFUL???? WTF, moderators???! (although the post IS insightful to some degree, it's a fairly good thing we don't have a POLITE tag for moderators.)
I know that the AGP bus is bidirectional- isn't there a way to write a multiprocessor type app that would allow GPU resources to be added to the standard motherboard resources? Obviously it would have to be a GPU that was open to developers, but if NVIDIA or ATI opened up communication with Linux kernel people or beowulf wannabes would there be a way to either exploit those extra resources when in 2d mode or design a computer with multiple AGP ports to make use of clustering with GPUs? I was thinking this would make a good renderfarm, since traditional x86 processors are not particularly suited for the task. Has anyone concieved or envisioned a software solution to this?
I may be wrong, but isn't it perfectly legal for a person (not covered by an NDA) to write code which is functionally identical to proprietary code, so long as it is not 'cut and paste'? I mean, if I hear that MSAVI.dll (or somesuch) does function X when asked with Y syntax, and I write something that will do the exact same thing the same way, but it's not a derivative of MSAVI.dll (I haven't seen the code), Isn't it my own work? If it isn't, then patents on airplane propellers would also prevent people from creating submarine propellers.
I would have to agree- since Linux and its operating system components are primarily open-source, it would be fairly easy for them to prove that sections have been cut and pasted. Intellectual property laws, as I understand them, are not analogous to patent rights, in that if I can make nonidentical code 'b' perform and behave exactly like proprietary code 'a' , then unless I am under an NDA, too fucking bad.
but what if the distance at which it repeats itself is random? (multiple repetitions) I mean, what if it goes on seemimgly randomly for 100 trillion trillion digits and then all of a sudden repeats itself frontwise and then backwards and then has the complete works of shakespeare in octal notation? And then the hitchiker's guide to the galaxy intertwined with the Holy Bible in alternating digits and then everything goes all random again for another 7000 trillion trillion trillion digits and then it ends with a 4? Unless we can tell every single digit in pi, can we ever be sure it keeps going truly infinitely? what if it is just a reeeeeeally long number when you try to express it in base10. Maybe base7 would work better?
If ou are who th nk ou are, then ou owe me m computer back. never got t back after sent t to ou. got another one eventuall but st ll need the hard dr ve from the one sent ou. Now the vowels are not work ng correctl as ou can pla nl see. got a new computer but after onl a few months t started do ng t aga n. th nk t's because got a M crosoft operat ng s stem.
I follower your advice and I got this major bad error message trying to install OSX on my computer. I talked to Apple and they said I have to buy a computer from them in order to get OSX to work at all. I paid for the software and they have this illegal product bundling that prevents me from using it. Maybe next time, before you run your goddamn mouth off, you'll be more specific about HOW to follow your instructions- it turns out I can't just GET MAC OS X. I have to buy this 2500 dollar computer that is SLOWER than the Athlon I paid only 500 bucks for. No thanks.
lol I had the same reaction to goats.com. Not risking it- my retinas just barely healed up from the last goat link.
This is so clearly an example of a SLAPP lawsuit it's not even funny. Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. Used to intimidate people to do what you want. Shameful. I won't ever buy from them again. I don't even care if they withdraw from this lunacy. I want to make an example of them. Unfortunately most of their customers are women who like Preshusss Momentsess. (intentionally gollum-filtered). They don't read slashdot.
Burn Haystack. Everything left is needle.
Use an electromagnet on the haystack. Everything sticking on the electromagnet = needle.
submerge and ferment the haystack in water until the haystack is gone. The red stain at the bottom of the tank is (was) the needle.
Allow nine small children to choose to play with the haystack that has a needle in it or a pile of toys worth seven hundred dollars. Leave one electrical outlet in the room uncovered. Leave the room unsupervised for thirty seconds. The needle will be in the hot terminal of the electrical outlet when you return and there will be eight small children covered in poop and hay. And one corpse.
Proudly and publicly announce that all dangerous needles have been removed from the haystack. Announce that you are running for Senate. As a Republican. The needle will turn up shortly after the primary election.
Drop the hay from 30,000 feet of altitude in a 5 mph wind. The thing that hits the ground first and nearest to the drop point is the needle.
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Here's a lesson, fuckhead moderators- If you disagree, post accordingly. Trolls are offtopic. At best this is flamebait. I can't see troll. Not at all. Fuckholes.
The ACLU is wonderful at protecting certain kinds of speech.. Not so good if you're religious or socially retrograde. Well, lets face it, they're great at protecting Democrat speech. The problem is that the ACLU is great at protecting inoffensive speech, but that's the easy stuff. Real freedom of speech is when David freaking Duke can speak freely. Real freedom of speech is when I can pray wherever I wish, so long as it's not coersive of others' participation. Real freedom of speech is when I can tell the world I don't genuinely want my son to be queer. Real freedom is when I can say that John Ashcroft is not a good republican. He sucks at this. Really. So the ACLU is great for THAT. What if I am a radical heterosexual male who wants to be able to tell off color jokes to people who appreciate them without having to worry about people eavesdropping?
I got that- but the movie was terrible- bad script, worse lighting, bad cinematography, poor acting, bad set design and confusing editing.That coupled with raw, unattractive, realistic nudity! I watch it once a year to remind me how NOT to edit film. It is an excellent book, but this version of the movie looks like it cost *hundreds* of dollars to produce. I saw 1984 once as a play at some amateur summer theater and it was fantastically done. The John Hurt movie was just awful. And the nudity certainly was NOT titilating. Lets face it, nipples should face forward not down.
I SEE UGLY PEOPLE.
That's what's offensive to me- droopy, pendulous breasts on pale bluish skin with grime on it.