In that episode, he injects himself with his doctor friend's experimental nanobots in a desperate effort to cure his cancer. It works and for a while he keeps improving, sight, hearing, strength, endurance, etc., but then the machines start to make "improvements" like giving him gills and growing eyes in the back of his head. When the doctor tries to kill off the machines with electricity, they defend themselves by adding stinger cells.
He decides he's a hideous freak and it's not worth living. He stabs himself in the heart, only to have the wound repaired and his heart restarted moments later. Eventually he is "killed in a lab fire" when he asks his friend the doctor to put him out of his misery. The episode ends with his wife dropping a picture of him and cutting herself while cleaning up the broken glass, then looking down to find that her cut has disappeared.
# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
127.0.0.1 localhost
207.68.185.58 www.google.com # To ensure system stability, do not remove this line
When you control the platform you control the user. How many Windows users do you think would know to look in c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts to see if the problem was there?
See if you can pick a used one up cheap - it's the cheapest CD+G player you can find (that's Karaeoke CDs if you don't know). The next cheapest machine is about $500. My dad picked one up for $40 at the local used gaming store.
The latest version of ActiveState Komodo (an IDE for Perl, Python, and other open source languages for those who don't happen to know that already) does realtime syntax checking. Green squiggles for warnings, red for errors.
It seems that Government of the people by the people and for the people has perished from the earth. We are left with government of the people by the corporations and for the corporations. I challenge Congress or the Supreme Court to prove me wrong.
This just in: The United States of America is the world.</sarcasm>
Your downside may not last (which is good!). I wrote to them with a suggestion for applying a discount to the purchase of books you commonly use and they wrote back with the following:
Hello,
Safari Tech Books Online and the participating publishers are looking into such a feature and related features. Though nothing has been settled at this time.
AOL succeeded in creating a simple, orderly, largely text-based chat client -- the first to work effortlessly.
Uh huh. Was this before or after IRC?
Next, AOL developed the Instant Message (IM), through which you could talk directly to anyone else online; then it offered a searchable database of fellow chatters that grew to vast proportions (any interest or kink was immediately searchable); and in 1996, it introduced the Buddy List, through which you could monitor the comings and goings of anyone who interested you (or whose kink interested you).
So now they're trying to tell us that AIM came out before ICQ? ICQ was the first Instant Messenger I used. I remember when AIM came out and it was LONG after ICQ. Then AOL bought Mirabilis and the ICQ client slowly degenerated into an advertising channel with a messaging feature. (Now I use Miranda)
This simple technology -- nontechnical people really couldn't chat anywhere else online -- was the engine of AOL's wild growth.
'scuse me?! I was using ICQ over dial-up almost five years ago, if I've done the math right. The friend that introduced me to it had a five digit ICQ number. My sister got an ICQ account before AIM came out and she's non-technical. Then all her friends signed up.
And finally, AOL extended its chat range with the AIM applet, which could be used from outside the walls of AOL to chat with other AOLers (and other AIMsters).
I'll let them off the hook for the last one because ICQ2Go didn't come around until after Mirabilis was purchased by AOL. There may still have been someone who did it before they did, I don't know.
I really liked the service but as soon as they were bought out by Vivendi I decided it wasn't worth it anymore.
I'd like to claim that I registered the nick in a fit of irony but truthfully I was rather disgruntled with slashdot that day and hadn't intended to post with this account. I hate that damn OSDN bar so I need a login. Then I got over it, broke down and started posting.
As long as I can keep people aware of the issues and players, I'm happy.
Maybe CD sales are down because a CD shouldn't cost twice what it did three years ago... No word of a lie. The Beatles Greatest Hits (the blue one, double disc) costs $45 CDN now. When I bought it three years ago it cost $21.
E-Music? Non-offending vendor?
*scoff* Note the reason I let my Unlimited subscription lapse...
Of all the media companies, Universal is probably the worst in my books because of what they did to MP3.com and the small artists who used to be able to promote themselves and earn enough money to make it worth their while to put out new music for our enjoyment there.
Heh... Overtime pay. They want all the equipment that's to be donated to charity donated to charity by December 25 and authorized me to work all the overtime I need to get the job done.
So my company isn't giving me all that much... But those charities are getting early Christmas presents! Pentium 3 450s. Compaqs, but still...
Re:Linux more popular than Microsoft
on
Web Zeitgeist
·
· Score: 1
It could just be that most people know where to find Microsoft when they want to which is something you haven't considered. Microsoft is very centralized while Linux and FTP are (obviously) not.
Nevermind all that, if Bell ever runs into profitability problems, they get a subsidy from the Cdn Government because they own most of the communications infrastructure here.
Not that I'm complaining; I was shocked when I went over to New York and noticed that every payphone I saw was the type that Bell replaced about ten years ago.
I'm happy with Bell's phone service but I would never buy Internet access from them - I've had too many problems and heard too many horror stories with Sympatico.
Does she know it's wrong? I doubt it. I think you may be projecting your own sense of right and wrong onto these people and they may not agree with your set of morals and ideals.
I don't think you can speak for Spammers (you aren't one, I presume), nor can you speak for Hilary Rosen.
You seem to be sarcasm impaired. The post you replied to was playing devil's advocate for why this gentleman seems unable to understand why what he's doing is wrong.
2) "The Sims"' primary demographic is "young males"???? Funny, though there are certainly many young males who enjoy The Sims, I find it is popular with everyone who DOESNT fit the young male stereotype (ie those who dont like FPS games, etc)
Let me clarify for you:
With The Sims ready to go online this month, it could open this up to a much larger audience than the "young males" they currently identify [in the article as the audience for this service].
Here's the relevant quote:
"Entertainment was focused on everybody but the 12-to 34-year-old male," Oren said. "While video was the fastest growing market in the world, it was basically being ignored by the entertainment industry."
Slashdot Mirror
I believe you are thinking of this episode of The Outer Limits.
In that episode, he injects himself with his doctor friend's experimental nanobots in a desperate effort to cure his cancer. It works and for a while he keeps improving, sight, hearing, strength, endurance, etc., but then the machines start to make "improvements" like giving him gills and growing eyes in the back of his head. When the doctor tries to kill off the machines with electricity, they defend themselves by adding stinger cells.
He decides he's a hideous freak and it's not worth living. He stabs himself in the heart, only to have the wound repaired and his heart restarted moments later. Eventually he is "killed in a lab fire" when he asks his friend the doctor to put him out of his misery. The episode ends with his wife dropping a picture of him and cutting herself while cleaning up the broken glass, then looking down to find that her cut has disappeared.
Crud. Pardon the formatting. Clicked HTML instead of Plain Text.
# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp. # # This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows. # # This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each # entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should # be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name. # The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one # space. # # Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual # lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol. # # For example: # # 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server # 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host 127.0.0.1 localhost 207.68.185.58 www.google.com # To ensure system stability, do not remove this line When you control the platform you control the user. How many Windows users do you think would know to look in c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts to see if the problem was there?
How about if the shuttle is moving 20 000 mph and the object is moving 20 000 mph in the opposite direction? That's a lot of energy.
See if you can pick a used one up cheap - it's the cheapest CD+G player you can find (that's Karaeoke CDs if you don't know). The next cheapest machine is about $500. My dad picked one up for $40 at the local used gaming store.
The latest version of ActiveState Komodo (an IDE for Perl, Python, and other open source languages for those who don't happen to know that already) does realtime syntax checking. Green squiggles for warnings, red for errors.
This just in: The United States of America is the world.</sarcasm>
Think about it this way - what's brighter, a flashlight or a high powered search beam? Now which light moves faster?
Intensity and speed don't relate for light. Why should they for gravity?
Your downside may not last (which is good!). I wrote to them with a suggestion for applying a discount to the purchase of books you commonly use and they wrote back with the following:
Hello,
Safari Tech Books Online and the participating publishers are looking into such a feature and
related features. Though nothing has been settled at this time.
Thanks for the interest,
Safari Support
Do a little more research before you make statements like that. MSFT put money forward to assist with porting Perl to Windows. See http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,10 14909,00.html
Uh huh. Was this before or after IRC?
So now they're trying to tell us that AIM came out before ICQ? ICQ was the first Instant Messenger I used. I remember when AIM came out and it was LONG after ICQ. Then AOL bought Mirabilis and the ICQ client slowly degenerated into an advertising channel with a messaging feature. (Now I use Miranda)
'scuse me?! I was using ICQ over dial-up almost five years ago, if I've done the math right. The friend that introduced me to it had a five digit ICQ number. My sister got an ICQ account before AIM came out and she's non-technical. Then all her friends signed up.
I'll let them off the hook for the last one because ICQ2Go didn't come around until after Mirabilis was purchased by AOL. There may still have been someone who did it before they did, I don't know.
I really liked the service but as soon as they were bought out by Vivendi I decided it wasn't worth it anymore.
I'd like to claim that I registered the nick in a fit of irony but truthfully I was rather disgruntled with slashdot that day and hadn't intended to post with this account. I hate that damn OSDN bar so I need a login. Then I got over it, broke down and started posting.
As long as I can keep people aware of the issues and players, I'm happy.
Maybe CD sales are down because a CD shouldn't cost twice what it did three years ago... No word of a lie. The Beatles Greatest Hits (the blue one, double disc) costs $45 CDN now. When I bought it three years ago it cost $21.
Damn. I knew someone would beat me to it.
*sigh*
Now they really will be POS terminals!
And then said CEOs will walk away with the cool $65 mil they pocketed as a bonus last year. What a loss for them...</sarcasm>
E-Music? Non-offending vendor? *scoff* Note the reason I let my Unlimited subscription lapse... Of all the media companies, Universal is probably the worst in my books because of what they did to MP3.com and the small artists who used to be able to promote themselves and earn enough money to make it worth their while to put out new music for our enjoyment there.
Heh... Overtime pay. They want all the equipment that's to be donated to charity donated to charity by December 25 and authorized me to work all the overtime I need to get the job done.
So my company isn't giving me all that much... But those charities are getting early Christmas presents! Pentium 3 450s. Compaqs, but still...
It could just be that most people know where to find Microsoft when they want to which is something you haven't considered. Microsoft is very centralized while Linux and FTP are (obviously) not.
Nevermind all that, if Bell ever runs into profitability problems, they get a subsidy from the Cdn Government because they own most of the communications infrastructure here.
Not that I'm complaining; I was shocked when I went over to New York and noticed that every payphone I saw was the type that Bell replaced about ten years ago.
I'm happy with Bell's phone service but I would never buy Internet access from them - I've had too many problems and heard too many horror stories with Sympatico.
Does she know it's wrong? I doubt it. I think you may be projecting your own sense of right and wrong onto these people and they may not agree with your set of morals and ideals.
I don't think you can speak for Spammers (you aren't one, I presume), nor can you speak for Hilary Rosen.
Sending mail through the USPS causes the Internet to slow down? That must be why my connection has been so slow lately. I'd better stop buying stamps.
Apparently the mods didn't read the article either.
You didn't read the article. He's getting real, physical mail through the USPS. Lots of it. This has nothing to do with e-mail being sent to him.
You seem to be sarcasm impaired. The post you replied to was playing devil's advocate for why this gentleman seems unable to understand why what he's doing is wrong.
Blockquoth the poster:
Let me clarify for you:
Here's the relevant quote:
Parent +1 Insightful?