1. Changing font size when your eyes get tired. 2. Lighted display for reading in the dark. 3. Built in dictionary and encyclopedia for instant reference lookups. 4. Highlighting w/o a highlighting pen. 5. Embedding your own notes. 6. Search. 7.... 8. Profit! (sorry)
I think the ethernet cable in the back of my computer is glowing red. I have two iso's in transit and both are coming in at over 1400KB/sec. That's under 10minutes for both!
That reminds me of the joke about the helicopter lost in the fog. He needed to figure out where he was so he hovered next to the first building that he found and held up a sign that asked "Where am I?" Someone in the building made a sign and held it up that said "In a helicopter!" Hmmm, said the pilot, "That's accurate, but totally worthless information. This must be the Microsoft support center!" He was then able to chart a course safely back to the airport.
Maybe you should have looked it up at some point over the last few decades. Here is an extract from Wikipedia:
A datum is a statement accepted at face value. Data is the plural of datum. A large class of practically important statements are measurements or observations of a variable. Such statements may comprise numbers, words, or images.
The word data is the plural of Latin datum, neuter past participle of dare, "to give", hence "something given". The past participle of "to give" has been used for millennia, in the sense of a statement accepted at face value; one of the works of Euclid, circa 300 BC, was the Dedomena (in Latin, Data). In discussions of problems in geometry, mathematics, engineering, and so on, the terms givens and data are used interchangeably. Such usage is the origin of data as a concept in computer science: data are numbers, words, images, etc., accepted as they stand.
Yeah, I work in a Novell shop and really hesitated to put in the hours to get a CNE. I had already let me MSCE expire. I just cringed every time I realized that the tests were both a cash cow for the OS companies and a tool for their marketing department. I ended up getting an OS agnostic CISSP and specialized in the security side of things.
Now it looks like my years of studying and using Linux are going to put me ahead of my coworkers who trudged down the CNE path.
It's good to have a life choice pay off once in a while!
I come from the land of Starbucks (Seattle) and we laugh at those who actually go there for a good cup of coffee. I get a mocha if I have to drink that swill. We go to SBC (Seattle's Best Coffee) or Vivacci to get a real cup of joe!
Streaming data benefits from QoS. Moving a file can tolerate a 2 second lag in the middle. Talking to Aunt Mae with random time lags is not acceptable. It's not just data, it's timely data.
This is an interesting point. I won't need to ask others to mod you up.
My guess is that there is a chain of "buddies" that connect the two companies. This deal was closed over a beer (...or a soda in Utah). This connection will be impossible to find or prove. We will also never be able to discover overtures to other "speculative investment houses" because of a similar lack of paper trail.
Microsoft argues that extracting the camel would be technologically difficult since the programming code is intertwined with the operating system and cannot simply be plucked out without harming Windows' performance. Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler said that including rival characters would be complicated and might create security problems. Although a ruling against Microsoft may be a hindrance, most experts think Microsoft would successfully find other ways to make its camel available, such as over the internet.
There are two conditions in the order that put SCO in an impossible situation.
1. SCO is to provide and identify with specificity all lines of code in Linux that it claims rights to.
2. SCO is to provide and identify with specificity the lines of code that SCO distribute to other parties. This is to include where applicable the conditions of release, to whom the code was released, and the date and under what circusmstances such code was released.
It sounds like they will have to explain why they released all that source code themselves under the GPL.
I love the smell of squirming lawyers in the morning...
..."Only a few dummies send email back to the spammers."
This filter suggests the possibility of identifying those that DO respond to spam. Spammers, and those that hate spammers, would both be interested in that little bit of information!
It was very common in Arabic Spain to write about the Astrolabe. There are probably hundreds of surviving manuals written in Arabic that are older that this "English" version. I wouldn't be surprised if this is just a rough translation of an Arabic manual.
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Hey, that's MY sig!
Indeed! Can you imagine how banal this topic would be if everyone who [agreed|disagreed] was blocked from even making a Slashdot post?
And I thought I had a high tolerence for insensitive jokes...
1. Changing font size when your eyes get tired. ...
2. Lighted display for reading in the dark.
3. Built in dictionary and encyclopedia for instant reference lookups.
4. Highlighting w/o a highlighting pen.
5. Embedding your own notes.
6. Search.
7.
8. Profit! (sorry)
Maybe GNU/Novell?
Good trace!
ISP is FiberCloud, downtown in the port of Bellingham.
Thanks!
I think the ethernet cable in the back of my computer is glowing red. I have two iso's in transit and both are coming in at over 1400KB/sec. That's under 10minutes for both!
Spooky fast!
That reminds me of the joke about the helicopter lost in the fog. He needed to figure out where he was so he hovered next to the first building that he found and held up a sign that asked "Where am I?" Someone in the building made a sign and held it up that said "In a helicopter!" Hmmm, said the pilot, "That's accurate, but totally worthless information. This must be the Microsoft support center!" He was then able to chart a course safely back to the airport.
Maybe you should have looked it up at some point over the last few decades. Here is an extract from Wikipedia:
A datum is a statement accepted at face value. Data is the plural of datum. A large class of practically important statements are measurements or observations of a variable. Such statements may comprise numbers, words, or images.
The word data is the plural of Latin datum, neuter past participle of dare, "to give", hence "something given". The past participle of "to give" has been used for millennia, in the sense of a statement accepted at face value; one of the works of Euclid, circa 300 BC, was the Dedomena (in Latin, Data). In discussions of problems in geometry, mathematics, engineering, and so on, the terms givens and data are used interchangeably. Such usage is the origin of data as a concept in computer science: data are numbers, words, images, etc., accepted as they stand.
Arrrggh! You made me relive the painful past.
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Once you start down the cert path it's easy to continue because you've already invested so much time and money.
I think there were seven MS tests, four months of study, two Novell tests, [head explodes here]
Yeah, I work in a Novell shop and really hesitated to put in the hours to get a CNE. I had already let me MSCE expire. I just cringed every time I realized that the tests were both a cash cow for the OS companies and a tool for their marketing department. I ended up getting an OS agnostic CISSP and specialized in the security side of things.
Now it looks like my years of studying and using Linux are going to put me ahead of my coworkers who trudged down the CNE path.
It's good to have a life choice pay off once in a while!
The first batch of SCO officers will just be getting out of jail at this point in time.
Inquiring minds want to know how large his member is, and how large it was before he started buying from SPAM.
He probably gets his money from that nice guy in Nigeria...
I come from the land of Starbucks (Seattle) and we laugh at those who actually go there for a good cup of coffee. I get a mocha if I have to drink that swill. We go to SBC (Seattle's Best Coffee) or Vivacci to get a real cup of joe!
Streaming data benefits from QoS. Moving a file can tolerate a 2 second lag in the middle. Talking to Aunt Mae with random time lags is not acceptable. It's not just data, it's timely data.
This is an interesting point. I won't need to ask others to mod you up.
My guess is that there is a chain of "buddies" that connect the two companies. This deal was closed over a beer (...or a soda in Utah). This connection will be impossible to find or prove. We will also never be able to discover overtures to other "speculative investment houses" because of a similar lack of paper trail.
... you can't handle a slashdot'ing!
According to Netcraft:
The site osdir.com is running Apache/1.3.24 (Unix) PHP/4.1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.8 OpenSSL/0.9.6c on Linux.
Microsoft argues that extracting the camel would be technologically difficult since the programming code is intertwined with the operating system and cannot simply be plucked out without harming Windows' performance. Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler said that including rival characters would be complicated and might create security problems. Although a ruling against Microsoft may be a hindrance, most experts think Microsoft would successfully find other ways to make its camel available, such as over the internet.
There are two conditions in the order that put SCO in an impossible situation.
1. SCO is to provide and identify with specificity all lines of code in Linux that it claims rights to.
2. SCO is to provide and identify with specificity the lines of code that SCO distribute to other parties. This is to include where applicable the conditions of release, to whom the code was released, and the date and under what circusmstances such code was released.
It sounds like they will have to explain why they released all that source code themselves under the GPL.
I love the smell of squirming lawyers in the morning...
I didn't have time to try all the wonderful word combinations that DO work at MSN, but I did notice that "blow me, Bill" works fine.
So Bill, go XFree86 yourself!
You could just frame it and put it next to the "Customer Service Award" from Enron that you bought on eBay last year.
Not tinfoil lenses, but they do make contact lenses that change the color of your eyes. Those will play havoc with this system.
..."Only a few dummies send email back to the spammers."
This filter suggests the possibility of identifying those that DO respond to spam. Spammers, and those that hate spammers, would both be interested in that little bit of information!
I suggest hunting them down and killing them.
It was very common in Arabic Spain to write about the Astrolabe. There are probably hundreds of surviving manuals written in Arabic that are older that this "English" version. I wouldn't be surprised if this is just a rough translation of an Arabic manual.
Natalie Portman is a dead distro, you insensitive clod!