Maybe. If implemented by a security guard with a pair of calipers that he measures your skull with every time you want to log on, then he logs on for you and if your skull doesn't match the numbers on his clipboard he shoots you.
The foam is probably made from petrochemicals, these were refined from crude oil, probably originating in the middle east, maybe even from Iraq!
You don't have to be Donald Rumsfield to put two and two together and blame Iraq for this heinous atrocity!!!!!:-P
Either that or the shuttle was shot down by an Al Quaida operated railgun lent to Osama by Saddam and fired from Cuba! (those railguns have long range you know).
Y'know I'm not even sure now. All I remember is trying to set up some themes, some desktop stuff and windowmanagerish things and couldn't do them. gconf was no help tho.
I think the worst part was the way they dealt with the windowmanager; no sooner had I gotten used to sawfish and gotted enlightenment to work properly in gnome 1 than they'd changed the WM to metacity and I couldn't change it.
Well... actually I *could* change it but it broke so many things that I decided, heck if I can't choose my windowmanager in gnome anymore I may as well try KDE... I knew that it was very tough and buggy getting an alternate WM working in KDE but I was riled so go figure:) I use the default windowmanager in KDE *but* it came, out of the box, with some decent themeability in it (I like aqua, ok call me a pervert or whatever). Metacity, when it was released with gnome 2 seemed *awfully* new and poorly developed...
I had been avoiding KDE for years, using gnome as my desktop.
Until gnome 2 came out.
Then I felt like the gnome team had somehow managed to slap handcuffs on me! Almost like a Windows gui...
Go mosfet!
KDE isn't so bad as I'd anticipated, and while enlightenment is pretty, and I wish I could *effectively* use enlightenment as my windowmanager in KDE (it hasn't quite worked for me) KDE is (nowadays) nowhere near as bad a slug as it used to be... Except when I'm working diskless of course, then its blackbox.
But notice the difference here, between Linux and certain proprietary OSs?
I have the choice. I can choose if I want gnomes less is more paradigm or kde.
In windows... I guess I could use windowblinds or desktopX or whatever its called, but they just change the way it *looks*...
Where M$ produce the software that controls internet servers?
Just you wait; pretty soon M$ software will be controlling the war machines that serve up American Justice to the world, then we'll be in Big Deep Shit.
Mark my words; big, deep and shit.
If you made a beowulf cluster of these...
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"Oh, and by the way, Britney can whine all she wants, but for every $1 she's whining about, the execs are out 15! She's just the puppet in "her" anti-piracy campaign"
But her record company parasites*cough*executives are probably saying to her something like' "Hell Britney, we just found another zillion of your songs on kazaa. Looks like we won't be able to afford to pay you as much as we'd wanted... see we deduct $1 from your royalty share for each track we find on kazaa, its the only way we can make ends meet."
(either that or "Britney, either you speak out against music piracy or you blow me and all my executive buddies for $50 a pop. Up to you.")
Mitochondria being the 'batteries' of a cell, their DNA regulating a cells energy usage, my guess would be that their effect could be quite important.
The term chimera is usually used to describe a composite organism (from the Greek mythological monster with bits from all sorts of animal).
I've seen the term applied to creatures artificially made from multiple 'parents' (ie; not through crossbreeding). I believe that, for example, the sheep-goat genetic hybrid is classified as a chimera.
Of course, despite *correct* useage of technical terms it is the 'common useage' which actually dictates what a word *means*
(take 'cyber' for example; from the Greek 'Control' it once meant 'something to do with control technologies' then in the 70's it became 'something to do with robots' nowadays it *means* 'talking dirty online';)
Just trying to establish correct useage of the terms;
Arn't these so-called clones really chimera?
They are a genetic blending of two organisms: take the nuclear DNA of one animal and insert it into a cell from another animal, thus creating a chimera with nuclear DNA from one and mitochondrial DNA from the other.
Wouldn't a true clone have to have both nuclear and mitochondrial DNA replicated?
"hiring high-powered lobbyists may have backfired."
Yes well when the politicians look at how much they spent on the lobbyists (shirtloads)
and compare that with how much they spent on bribes *cough* campaign contributions (none?)
it doesn't take an MBA (like George W's dad bought for him) to work out what you need to do;
You stiff the berk with the gall to fail to bribe you *at*all* and then spent $$$ big to hire an outfit to harass you (erm 'lobbyist: paid bribe giver and harasser').
The inventors of the seqway may be geniuses but they don't understand politics.
I totally agree; "Further, the limitation of lightspeed in communication is only really a problem if you assume that the users of it have to worry about time. I think it is reasonable to assume that before any civilization makes it any distance into space, they will have solved the problem of aging for themselves by whatever means."
But I once was stunned into mental chaos when I heard the eminent Carl Sagan completely and unequivocally dismiss the possibility of extraterrestrials visiting Earth on the grounds that it would take far too long to travel over the vast distances involved. Carl Freakin Sagan! I thought the guy had imagination.
After that I realised that he was, after all, a pothead like myself...
Only I allow myself a bit more imagination when I am stoned out of my gourd.
Cos Big Brother wants to keep a protective eye on you!
The movie (1984) has a very cool scene where the protagonist (Winston, played by Joh Hurt) is doing his morning 'aerobics' at home, in front of his viewscreen, following the instructions of the rather stern lady on the screen... she stops and says something like "Number 1048, you arn't doing it right! Like *this*... Thats better."
Anyone who thinks that the whole 1984 thing is overrated and the Big Brother surveillance society can't be *that* bad should grab a P2P file sharing app and download this movie...
How about Microsoft Visual XML++? If it doesn't exist now it will... or something sufficiently based on XML that it can have XML in the name, but sufficiently different to XML that its incompatible with XML from other vendors and developers will need to learn a whole new way of working with XML.
I just uninstalled my old winamp 2.81 after checking the version history, and d/l'd the one on the winamp site, installed it and checked its version history.
There really is no difference; its not 2.81c or anything; its identical.
Their site contains no references to this bug (that I could find).
The American taxpayer pours money into such things as carrier battle groups and cruise missiles etc all of which are designed for the purpose of ignoring international borders and the lack of compliance of foreign countries with US law.
I'm surprised that Donny R. would pass up the opportunity to blow things up, especially if they are overseas and irritating good, honest, hard working Americans!
"A Russian programmer working in Russia shouldn't have to consult the law books of every nation on Earth to see if his work may or may not violate some law somewhere"
Everyone, in every country on earth needs to be careful that they do not break US law; otherwise they risk ignominious fates such as being abducted to Cuba and 'disappeared' or recieving an unsolicited cruise missile or two.
This is not a troll its genuine concern expressed sarcastically.
Remember the guy who had his dick burnt by using his laptop on his lap?
Thing which bothered me about that was that he felt nothing whilst using the laptop; the pain & blisters appeared some time after using the laptop.
It occurs to me that this makes radiated or conducted heat from the laptop an unlikely culprit; I'd expect pain at the time of heat transferrence not a delayed effect.
Radiation on the other hand could produce such a delayed burn effect, right? Or not?
At the CPU/bus speeds these days, 2GHz processors? They must be emmitting some pretty serious radio signals, and very close like that the inverse quare law won't have blunted its teeth, so to speak.
Maybe, just maybe, modern high speed procs need radiation shielding for close-quarters use?
Heck, maybe Dubbya could have Saddam for possessing radiological weapons just for possessing a multi GHz proc or two...;) oh that last quip was a *joke*
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If they used ethanol to cool the laptops, people would bore holes in the case to drink the coolant.
:-/
Same would, presumably go for isopropyl...
or methanol for that matter.
I'll stop now.
"Perhaps the best solution would be biometrics?"
Maybe. If implemented by a security guard with a pair of calipers that he measures your skull with every time you want to log on, then he logs on for you and if your skull doesn't match the numbers on his clipboard he shoots you.
Let me guess, UDP port 137 is producing lots and lots of logged events?
Thats normal. There are two solutions;
1. Design, build and spread a virus or trojan which will irrevocably destroy all Windows boxes which are connected to the internet without a firewall.
Or
2. Stop logging UDP port 137.
"It wasn't foam, it was Saddam!"
:-P
Dead right!
The foam is probably made from petrochemicals,
these were refined from crude oil,
probably originating in the middle east,
maybe even from Iraq!
You don't have to be Donald Rumsfield to put two and two together and blame Iraq for this heinous atrocity!!!!!
Either that or the shuttle was shot down by an Al Quaida operated railgun lent to Osama by Saddam and fired from Cuba! (those railguns have long range you know).
Honest.
Y'know I'm not even sure now.
:)
All I remember is trying to set up some themes,
some desktop stuff and windowmanagerish things
and couldn't do them. gconf was no help tho.
I think the worst part was the way they dealt with the windowmanager; no sooner had I gotten used to sawfish and gotted enlightenment to work properly in gnome 1 than they'd changed the WM to metacity and I couldn't change it.
Well... actually I *could* change it but it broke so many things that I decided, heck if I can't choose my windowmanager in gnome anymore I may as well try KDE... I knew that it was very tough and buggy getting an alternate WM working in KDE but I was riled so go figure
I use the default windowmanager in KDE *but* it came, out of the box, with some decent themeability in it (I like aqua, ok call me a pervert or whatever).
Metacity, when it was released with gnome 2 seemed *awfully* new and poorly developed...
I had been avoiding KDE for years,
using gnome as my desktop.
Until gnome 2 came out.
Then I felt like the gnome team had somehow
managed to slap handcuffs on me!
Almost like a Windows gui...
Go mosfet!
KDE isn't so bad as I'd anticipated,
and while enlightenment is pretty,
and I wish I could *effectively* use enlightenment as my windowmanager in KDE (it hasn't quite worked for me) KDE is (nowadays) nowhere near as bad a slug as it used to be...
Except when I'm working diskless of course,
then its blackbox.
But notice the difference here, between Linux and certain proprietary OSs?
I have the choice. I can choose if I want gnomes less is more paradigm or kde.
In windows... I guess I could use windowblinds or desktopX or whatever its called, but they just change the way it *looks*...
KDE for Windows XP? Anytime soon?
Where M$ produce the software that controls internet servers?
Just you wait; pretty soon M$ software will be controlling the war machines that serve up American Justice to the world, then we'll be in Big Deep Shit.
Mark my words; big, deep and shit.
Would that be a DDOS X-box?
;)
(D for Distributed and Disk dummy
Its true, its illegal to possess anything that might be useful to a terrorist.
Key blanks and files? Pah, you could be busted for an A-Z
"Oh, and by the way, Britney can whine all she wants, but for every $1 she's whining about, the execs are out 15! She's just the puppet in "her" anti-piracy campaign"
But her record company parasites*cough*executives are probably saying to her something like'
"Hell Britney, we just found another zillion of your songs on kazaa. Looks like we won't be able to afford to pay you as much as we'd wanted... see we deduct $1 from your royalty share for each track we find on kazaa, its the only way we can make ends meet."
(either that or "Britney, either you speak out against music piracy or you blow me and all my executive buddies for $50 a pop. Up to you.")
Mitochondria being the 'batteries' of a cell, their DNA regulating a cells energy usage, my guess would be that their effect could be quite important.
;)
The term chimera is usually used to describe a composite organism (from the Greek mythological monster with bits from all sorts of animal).
I've seen the term applied to creatures artificially made from multiple 'parents' (ie; not through crossbreeding).
I believe that, for example, the sheep-goat genetic hybrid is classified as a chimera.
Of course, despite *correct* useage of technical terms it is the 'common useage' which actually dictates what a word *means*
(take 'cyber' for example; from the Greek 'Control' it once meant 'something to do with control technologies' then in the 70's it became 'something to do with robots' nowadays it *means* 'talking dirty online'
Just trying to establish correct useage of the terms;
Arn't these so-called clones really chimera?
They are a genetic blending of two organisms:
take the nuclear DNA of one animal and insert
it into a cell from another animal, thus creating a chimera with nuclear DNA from one and mitochondrial DNA from the other.
Wouldn't a true clone have to have both nuclear and mitochondrial DNA replicated?
"hiring high-powered lobbyists may have backfired."
Yes well when the politicians look at how much they spent on the lobbyists (shirtloads)
and compare that with how much they spent on bribes *cough* campaign contributions (none?)
it doesn't take an MBA (like George W's dad bought for him) to work out what you need to do;
You stiff the berk with the gall to fail to bribe you *at*all* and then spent $$$ big to hire an outfit to harass you (erm 'lobbyist: paid bribe giver and harasser').
The inventors of the seqway may be geniuses but they don't understand politics.
I totally agree;
"Further, the limitation of lightspeed in communication is only really a problem if you assume that the users of it have to worry about time. I think it is reasonable to assume that before any civilization makes it any distance into space, they will have solved the problem of aging for themselves by whatever means."
But I once was stunned into mental chaos when I heard the eminent Carl Sagan completely and unequivocally dismiss the possibility of extraterrestrials visiting Earth on the grounds that it would take far too long to travel over the vast distances involved. Carl Freakin Sagan! I thought the guy had imagination.
After that I realised that he was, after all, a pothead like myself...
Only I allow myself a bit more imagination when I am stoned out of my gourd.
Cos Big Brother wants to keep a protective eye on you!
The movie (1984) has a very cool scene where the protagonist (Winston, played by Joh Hurt) is doing his morning 'aerobics' at home, in front of his viewscreen, following the instructions of the rather stern lady on the screen... she stops and says something like "Number 1048, you arn't doing it right! Like *this*... Thats better."
Anyone who thinks that the whole 1984 thing is overrated and the Big Brother surveillance society can't be *that* bad should grab a P2P file sharing app and download this movie...
be in breach of the DMCA?
Now if only the judges, lawyers and everyone involved on both sides would be charged under the DMCA...
How about Microsoft Visual XML++?
If it doesn't exist now it will...
or something sufficiently based on XML
that it can have XML in the name,
but sufficiently different to XML that
its incompatible with XML from other vendors and developers will need to learn a whole new way of working with XML.
Just a wild guess.
I just uninstalled my old winamp 2.81
after checking the version history,
and d/l'd the one on the winamp site,
installed it and checked its version history.
There really is no difference; its not 2.81c or anything; its identical.
Their site contains no references to this bug (that I could find).
Good book too, Snowcrash.
Does this new variation have the crazy skateboards and the franchises?
The American taxpayer pours money into such things as carrier battle groups and cruise missiles etc all of which are designed for the purpose of ignoring international borders and the lack of compliance of foreign countries with US law.
I'm surprised that Donny R. would pass up the opportunity to blow things up, especially if they are overseas and irritating good, honest, hard working Americans!
LOL
It was just a paraphrase from the book (actually the movie as I never read it).
In 1984 its Eurasia and East Asia instead of Iraq and North Korea.
We have always been at war with Iraq.
We will always be at war with Iraq.
Until we get around to editing the old newspapers so that we can replace Iraq with North Korea.
Watch the movie.
no, its "I before E except after C and except on the internet."
"A Russian programmer working in Russia shouldn't have to consult the law books of every nation on Earth to see if his work may or may not violate some law somewhere"
Everyone, in every country on earth needs to be careful that they do not break US law; otherwise they risk ignominious fates such as being abducted to Cuba and 'disappeared' or recieving an unsolicited cruise missile or two.
This is not a troll its genuine concern expressed sarcastically.
Remember the guy who had his dick burnt by using his laptop on his lap?
;)
Thing which bothered me about that was that he felt nothing whilst using the laptop; the pain & blisters appeared some time after using the laptop.
It occurs to me that this makes radiated or conducted heat from the laptop an unlikely culprit; I'd expect pain at the time of heat transferrence not a delayed effect.
Radiation on the other hand could produce such a delayed burn effect, right? Or not?
At the CPU/bus speeds these days, 2GHz processors? They must be emmitting some pretty serious radio signals, and very close like that the inverse quare law won't have blunted its teeth, so to speak.
Maybe, just maybe, modern high speed procs need radiation shielding for close-quarters use?
Heck, maybe Dubbya could have Saddam for possessing radiological weapons just for possessing a multi GHz proc or two...
oh that last quip was a *joke*