it's the new Motorola THINKR (tm) implant. It resides in the brain, and is self-assembling. It has TV, DVD, GPS, Java, 12-megapixel camera that uses your eyeballs, and Itunes, of course.
...that animals (and humans, for that matter) can, given time, develop resistance to ionizing radiation? after all, it's known that the animals that currently roam the Chernobyl area are perfectly capable of reproducing, and do not appear to have any visual defects?
maybe they've undergone a mutation that somehow protects their organs (e.g.. thyroid) from radiation. if that is the case, maybe humans will eventually become tolerant to radiation as well.
maybe in a 100 years or so, danger from a radioactive fallout would be comparable to a really nasty oriental food fart.
we do this on a regular basis for customers with lots of foliage and who are desperate to get broadband. this is actually very common.
we found that it's cheaper and safer to have someone (e.g your power company) plant a wooden pole. we've had customers that buried a 60 ft (and a couple of times 70-ft) wooden pole 10 feet in the ground, with some concrete around it, and they've never moved since. you can get a set of pegs to do about 3-4 poles for around 90 bucks, with a tool to drive them in. it helps if you know what you're doing and have some climbing experience, of course.
we also have a couple of customers that have guyed and non-guyed masts and tri-poles up to 70 ft.... people will do strange shit for high speed porn.
the worst part is having to do routine maintenance and realignments, just cause it's time consuming and wears you out.
another neat tower design is the kind that "breaks over" close to the ground, and has a counterweight. you can fold it over, install your gear, and straighten it back up.
In a couple of weeks Microsoft will release a hotfix (no pun intended). It will consist of a package of floss, with the xbox logo on it.
In a month, you will see a Service Pack which includes the above floss, plus a sticky zip-tie thingy to stick to the ceiling to help with the suspension.
So.... can you use a standard PC power supply (with a custom connector) to power the damn thing?
...but tomorrow Microsoft will release a.NET version that is slower, unstable, and a huge memory hog, with "BETA" all over it, but some sucker on slashdot will defend it because hey, even retards deserve a medal every once in a while...:-)
ENLARGE *thud* THIS *thud* YOU *thud* FUCKER!!...*flop*
but seriously, he could've gotten killed for any number of reasons - debts, threats, crossing someone, etc.. He could've been holding something back (one russian news site said his apartment looked like someone rummaged through it), or someone he knew robbed him.
also, it looks like the majority of spam coming from this guy was for his own business - "American Language Center" which is pretty notorious for ICQ and email spamming.
coincidentally, there is a lot of computer-related organized crime in russia. i lived there until i was 15 and even then (back in the early 90's) pirated software and hacking tools were a big market. everyone knew everyone....
those are very nice indeed for photo printing, but are somewhat expensive for everyday text/graphics, IMHO. we had an i900 for a while that printed gorgeous 11x17's. it had a whole battery of cartridges.... we had refill kits and some sketchy software to override the retarded ink usage counter.
on one hand - true. "hackers" cause companies to lose time and money on IT maintenance. on the other hand - antivirus and anti-spyware companies are raking it in, so the vicious clusterfuck of making money continues:-)
so what? other manufacturers have been doing this forever.
also, there is a much higher chance of the nozzles getting clogged on a built-in head system (people with cheap lexmarks and canons know what i'm talking about). I actually prefer having the printhead on the cartridge - you'll never have to throw the printer away if the jets have been clogged with dried ink.
It is possible to clean them out sometimes by running some isopropyl through the heads instead of ink, but i've run in to several printers that got caked up so bad that nothing would clean them.
I wish that the printer manufacturers would make the HEADS and the CARTRIDGES easy to replace. On most of them, you have to take the carriage assembly half way apart to get the heads to slide off.
on a side note, I don't think that inkjet market is going to change direction any time soon - they make most of their money on cartridges. As long as you'll be able to buy a printer for $39 at wallyworld, ink will not be cheap.
-Death is still the #1 killer of all living beings on earth. -Criminals are to blame for 100% of crimes committed. -Toaplan is responsible for all of the "all your base" sightings.
If the airlines don't want people using skype or VOIP in general, they can set up a firewall/proxy so it would not be possible.
yes, there are l33t hackers that would create a VPN tunnel via HTTP or some other such shit, but the majority of general public don't have any idea how to do that.
also, it could be a matter of policy - if they catch you being loud when you're not supposed to, they can tell you to stop, and if you don't - someone in a uniform will be waiting for you when you get off the plane:-)
Hopefully this will allow observation of the supersymmetry between bosons and fermions, thus providing the first experimental evidence to support superstring theory.
precisely! after all, A gleekzorp without a tornpee is like a quop without a fertsneet (sort of).
but it works VERY well. i've been doing this for a long time. I have one processor fan (like a slim athlon fan) per hard drive, blowing on the circuit board. the hard drives are 36G 10k scsi drives, which get very hot by themselves.
it is sufficient to cool the circuit board - the rest of the hard drive will stay fairly cool as well. It seems like the chips on the circuit board produce more heat than the plates.
i gotta admit, I never used the brackets, I've just been hanging the fans with zip-ties:-)
don't you watch TV? all asteroids hit next to the U.S., so that the water from the tidal wave can knock down all the skyscrapers in NY or LA like dominoes.
It's free. It's open source. It was created by a bunch of university kids, and is now maintained by a bunch of other university kids plus someone who has a full-time job already. It's a research project, not the end-all of image manipulation programs. Nobody is forcing you to use it.
I'm not bitching - i'm just saying that in regards to the topic (anti-GIMP) this is pretty cheesy.
layer support sucks. only very few basic layer modes.
to work on multiple images, you basically have to start another instance of the program. functional but not efficient.
it is incredibly slow. i'm running it on a 1.8 GHz P4, 1 gig of RAM. I apply an effect on a decent size image, and go get a cup of coffee.
oh, try the "re-color" tool, if you've got nothing to do for a while.
can't get anti-aliasing to work right.
interface flickers quite a bit as you navigate through the menus. not critical, but rather annoying.
color picker does not display the color in hex, which makes it harder to use for web graphics.
on a good note, the interface is vaguely familiar to the ubiquitous and expensive software that we all love so much.
how is this anti-GIMP, anyways? it's not cross-platform, it's quite a bit slower, and is targeted at a totally different audience. I agree that it's better than MS Paint, but shit, MS Paint should have been retired years ago.
...why MOST of EA games have been SUCKING ASS lately (and this is not a snap at the game developers).
come on - a new NFL game every year? Another installation of Medal of Honor?.. (fun, but getting old) Another Sims? god, what stupid shit is this? At what point do these games transition from a sequel to a rehash?
I've not seen a single game come out of EA recently that really caught my attention. You can only feed off a fan-base for so long before you have to come up with something ORIGINAL.
I think we've had plenty of WWII shooters, boring-ass life simulators and faux RPG's.
What puzzles me even more is that people are still buying this crap.
so...... EA's treatment of their employees might be their undoing in the end, since creativity and clear thinking is proportional to the employees' social life:-)
same, of course, goes for Eidos, Epic and such. What we need, is a Lara Croft Does Dallas and UT-2010 with guns so fucking big they cover the entire screen.
This is great news - just strolling through the feature list makes me drool. As a matter of fact, I think my boss is already ordering a quad analog board......
as far as the complexity goes... You know, instead of bitching about lack of user-friendly configuration, why won't someone write a web-based interface or something to that effect.
It's FREE software. A feature-for-feature comparable commercial PBX unit would cost you a limb or two, especially considering that with most commercial software PBX's you have to pay the per-node tax...
come on.. if you want to set up a software PBX you should be adept enough to be able to tinker with cryptic text configs..:)
Isn't this about those OverDrive processors we saw back in mid 90-s? e.g. turn your old 386 into a 486DLC? These guys are sure taking their sweet time calling Intel on it......
In other news, Commodore has been making accelerator boards for the Amigas way before PC's - you were able to override the stock 68000 processor with a 68020 or 68030, or if you're l33t, a 68040 *gasp*.. The upgrade always came on a circuit board the size of a large video card.
fdisk/mbr will do you absolutely no good if you're infected with a boot virus, simply because the new boot sector written by fdisk will be infected as well. e.g. NYBOOT, STONER, etc..
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it's the new Motorola THINKR (tm) implant. It resides in the brain, and is self-assembling. It has TV, DVD, GPS, Java, 12-megapixel camera that uses your eyeballs, and Itunes, of course.
...that animals (and humans, for that matter) can, given time, develop resistance to ionizing radiation?
after all, it's known that the animals that currently roam the Chernobyl area are perfectly capable of reproducing, and do not appear to have any visual defects?
maybe they've undergone a mutation that somehow protects their organs (e.g.. thyroid) from radiation. if that is the case, maybe humans will eventually become tolerant to radiation as well.
maybe in a 100 years or so, danger from a radioactive fallout would be comparable to a really nasty oriental food fart.
just my 2 roubles...
we do this on a regular basis for customers with lots of foliage and who are desperate to get broadband. this is actually very common.
we found that it's cheaper and safer to have someone (e.g your power company) plant a wooden pole. we've had customers that buried a 60 ft (and a couple of times 70-ft) wooden pole 10 feet in the ground, with some concrete around it, and they've never moved since. you can get a set of pegs to do about 3-4 poles for around 90 bucks, with a tool to drive them in. it helps if you know what you're doing and have some climbing experience, of course.
we also have a couple of customers that have guyed and non-guyed masts and tri-poles up to 70 ft.... people will do strange shit for high speed porn.
the worst part is having to do routine maintenance and realignments, just cause it's time consuming and wears you out.
another neat tower design is the kind that "breaks over" close to the ground, and has a counterweight. you can fold it over, install your gear, and straighten it back up.
In a couple of weeks Microsoft will release a hotfix (no pun intended). It will consist of a package of floss, with the xbox logo on it.
In a month, you will see a Service Pack which includes the above floss, plus a sticky zip-tie thingy to stick to the ceiling to help with the suspension.
So.... can you use a standard PC power supply (with a custom connector) to power the damn thing?
...but tomorrow Microsoft will release a .NET version that is slower, unstable, and a huge memory hog, with "BETA" all over it, but some sucker on slashdot will defend it because hey, even retards deserve a medal every once in a while... :-)
here's an interesting wikipedia article that explains exactly why Kushnir's skull abruptly changed shape.
first thought:
...*flop*
ENLARGE *thud* THIS *thud* YOU *thud* FUCKER!!
but seriously, he could've gotten killed for any number of reasons - debts, threats, crossing someone, etc.. He could've been holding something back (one russian news site said his apartment looked like someone rummaged through it), or someone he knew robbed him.
also, it looks like the majority of spam coming from this guy was for his own business - "American Language Center" which is pretty notorious for ICQ and email spamming.
coincidentally, there is a lot of computer-related organized crime in russia. i lived there until i was 15 and even then (back in the early 90's) pirated software and hacking tools were a big market. everyone knew everyone....
those are very nice indeed for photo printing, but are somewhat expensive for everyday text/graphics, IMHO.
we had an i900 for a while that printed gorgeous 11x17's. it had a whole battery of cartridges.... we had refill kits and some sketchy software to override the retarded ink usage counter.
on one hand - true. "hackers" cause companies to lose time and money on IT maintenance. :-)
on the other hand - antivirus and anti-spyware companies are raking it in, so the vicious clusterfuck of making money continues
so what? other manufacturers have been doing this forever.
also, there is a much higher chance of the nozzles getting clogged on a built-in head system (people with cheap lexmarks and canons know what i'm talking about). I actually prefer having the printhead on the cartridge - you'll never have to throw the printer away if the jets have been clogged with dried ink.
It is possible to clean them out sometimes by running some isopropyl through the heads instead of ink, but i've run in to several printers that got caked up so bad that nothing would clean them.
I wish that the printer manufacturers would make the HEADS and the CARTRIDGES easy to replace. On most of them, you have to take the carriage assembly half way apart to get the heads to slide off.
on a side note, I don't think that inkjet market is going to change direction any time soon - they make most of their money on cartridges. As long as you'll be able to buy a printer for $39 at wallyworld, ink will not be cheap.
mirrordot is still happily serving it up here.
-Death is still the #1 killer of all living beings on earth.
...I could go on for hours.
-Criminals are to blame for 100% of crimes committed.
-Toaplan is responsible for all of the "all your base" sightings.
we give you software that sucky-sucky, 5 dollah!
If the airlines don't want people using skype or VOIP in general, they can set up a firewall/proxy so it would not be possible.
:-)
yes, there are l33t hackers that would create a VPN tunnel via HTTP or some other such shit, but the majority of general public don't have any idea how to do that.
also, it could be a matter of policy - if they catch you being loud when you're not supposed to, they can tell you to stop, and if you don't - someone in a uniform will be waiting for you when you get off the plane
Hopefully this will allow observation of the supersymmetry between bosons and fermions, thus providing the first experimental evidence to support superstring theory.
precisely! after all, A gleekzorp without a tornpee is like a quop without a fertsneet (sort of).
but it works VERY well. i've been doing this for a long time. I have one processor fan (like a slim athlon fan) per hard drive, blowing on the circuit board. the hard drives are 36G 10k scsi drives, which get very hot by themselves.
:-)
it is sufficient to cool the circuit board - the rest of the hard drive will stay fairly cool as well. It seems like the chips on the circuit board produce more heat than the plates.
i gotta admit, I never used the brackets, I've just been hanging the fans with zip-ties
don't you watch TV? all asteroids hit next to the U.S., so that the water from the tidal wave can knock down all the skyscrapers in NY or LA like dominoes.
so, no, it will not hit anywhere unpopulated.
touche....
It's free.
It's open source.
It was created by a bunch of university kids, and is now maintained by a bunch of other university kids plus someone who has a full-time job already.
It's a research project, not the end-all of image manipulation programs.
Nobody is forcing you to use it.
I'm not bitching - i'm just saying that in regards to the topic (anti-GIMP) this is pretty cheesy.
ok, so.....
layer support sucks. only very few basic layer modes.
to work on multiple images, you basically have to start another instance of the program. functional but not efficient.
it is incredibly slow. i'm running it on a 1.8 GHz P4, 1 gig of RAM. I apply an effect on a decent size image, and go get a cup of coffee.
oh, try the "re-color" tool, if you've got nothing to do for a while.
can't get anti-aliasing to work right.
interface flickers quite a bit as you navigate through the menus. not critical, but rather annoying.
color picker does not display the color in hex, which makes it harder to use for web graphics.
on a good note, the interface is vaguely familiar to the ubiquitous and expensive software that we all love so much.
how is this anti-GIMP, anyways? it's not cross-platform, it's quite a bit slower, and is targeted at a totally different audience. I agree that it's better than MS Paint, but shit, MS Paint should have been retired years ago.
No shit?
...why MOST of EA games have been SUCKING ASS lately (and this is not a snap at the game developers).
:-)
come on - a new NFL game every year? Another installation of Medal of Honor?.. (fun, but getting old) Another Sims? god, what stupid shit is this? At what point do these games transition from a sequel to a rehash?
I've not seen a single game come out of EA recently that really caught my attention.
You can only feed off a fan-base for so long before you have to come up with something ORIGINAL.
I think we've had plenty of WWII shooters, boring-ass life simulators and faux RPG's.
What puzzles me even more is that people are still buying this crap.
so...... EA's treatment of their employees might be their undoing in the end, since creativity and clear thinking is proportional to the employees' social life
same, of course, goes for Eidos, Epic and such. What we need, is a Lara Croft Does Dallas and UT-2010 with guns so fucking big they cover the entire screen.
This is great news - just strolling through the feature list makes me drool. As a matter of fact, I think my boss is already ordering a quad analog board......
:)
as far as the complexity goes... You know, instead of bitching about lack of user-friendly configuration, why won't someone write a web-based interface or something to that effect.
It's FREE software. A feature-for-feature comparable commercial PBX unit would cost you a limb or two, especially considering that with most commercial software PBX's you have to pay the per-node tax...
come on.. if you want to set up a software PBX you should be adept enough to be able to tinker with cryptic text configs..
Isn't this about those OverDrive processors we saw back in mid 90-s? e.g. turn your old 386 into a 486DLC?
These guys are sure taking their sweet time calling Intel on it......
In other news, Commodore has been making accelerator boards for the Amigas way before PC's - you were able to override the stock 68000 processor with a 68020 or 68030, or if you're l33t, a 68040 *gasp*.. The upgrade always came on a circuit board the size of a large video card.
fdisk /mbr will do you absolutely no good if you're infected with a boot virus, simply because the new boot sector written by fdisk will be infected as well. e.g. NYBOOT, STONER, etc..