WOW, Beatles has such an awesome site I of course wanted to make a backup in case it ever goes down. Of course I want my backup to be have only the most recent data, so I keep my backups as fresh as possible. I also make backups of similar amazing sites strangers sometime send me links to via email...
Maybe someone could help me out. Normally I let this run at night...
Sadly, george-harrison.info returns 503 Unknown Site errors to wget. Does someone know how I may be able to make backups of their site in an automated fasion, preferrably from the command line?
...Patrick Schoonveld (the poor guy responsible for making ads work on Slashdot and other OSTG sites) Now it all makes sense. Send you're swag and free stuff direct to/. employees and get posted on the front page. I'm guessing a free unit it pretty cheap advertising.
... Intelligent design can and has been proved scientifically.
Interesting. Please post a link to your proof for review. I would be quite interested to see exactly what the ID theory is, not to mention the testing involved in proving it.
The people who install the leaked version are software pirates. Pirates don't typically make software companies a lot of money. By leaking a product people want to people who never would have made you money in the first place, you get people talking about it. Seems like a great strategy for MS or any other software company for that matter.
Yes, but what site would be stupid enough to give Microsoft all that publicity for free?
Chevy Chase playing Clark Griswald in Christmas Vacation...
what a cheap, lying, no good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, bloodsucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-assed, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?
Search around and find the wav or MP3. Best all around rant, but Tank Girl is the all around winner for cursing, and Mr. Bergis from Ebaums World probably a close second.
Mark Brunelli, News Editor of searchEnterpriseLinux.com wrote to mention a SearchEnterpriseLinux column about reducing the negative impact laptops can have on a network's security. From the article: "Portable computers often become an extension of the person using them. It is no surprise that laptop users are inclined to be rather autonomously minded. Many users don't realize that the power they have to install software and change set
I think the problem is whatever seems to pass for business schools now a days.
Megalomaniacs go get their MBA and drive these companies like teenagers stealing their dads hotrod using up all the "Human Resources" in the process and leaving a burnt out wreck at the scene while the welfare system and shareholders foot the bill.
Hmm... well, according to my calculations and allowing for rounding to the nearest integer, it looks like they _did_ adjust for inflation, doesn't it?
Maybe - they don't really say. 12 billion to 179 billion over 23 years is indeed 13%. What is not clear is if they already adjusted the 1980 numbers to account for inflation.
For instance if I made $12,000 in 1980, that would be comparable to making over $25,000 in 2003. So you can't compare the amount spent each year directly. You need to adjust the numbers to account for inflation to be sure youre comparing the... spending power so to speak.. of each dollar in the same way.
It's still an increase, but when you count the aging population of baby boomers and the fact that we now have medicine that can keep you alive longer, allegy medicine that people take daily and other factors it may have nothing to do with the law her mentioned.
It's easier to think of it if you increase the time scale. Lets say the White House in DC was remodeled in 1800 for $50,000. Then again in 2000 for $300,000. Which cost more? Adjusting for inflation, the 1800 remodel would cost about $180,000 more in 2000 dollars.
You sometimes see that kind of thing in the numbers thrown around by politicians. I remember some congressman said something like "My daddy never made more then $30,000 a year." Of course adjusting for inflation, his dad brought home quite a bit 60+ years ago when he was growing up. It's all just numbers. This is the same reason people form India can work for $5,000 a year. They are doing quite well, and it's the International Exchange rates that makes it seem they are working for nothing from our point of view. It would be like hiring people from the past working 40 hours a week for two dollars a day.
Amendments could still be useful. If the data suggested by the article is true, then they've identified a problem, and a possible solution that didn't work.
In today's terms you could say the problem is trying to help the US GOV to better leverage it's patent portfolio. We have the technology now to handle so much more information that it should be possible to amend the law to say that the US does own patents on research it funds, then it could have an aution of patent rights. The whole problem was businesses were hesitent to create prodcuts without patent protection.
The current system instead GIVES AWAY ALL PATENTS that were previously owned by the governemtn and says we'll pay you to do the work, if you discover something good for you, keep the patent and make your millions. Imagine instead if the government kept the patent ownership but auctioned off potentially profitable patents for AT LEAST the cost of the funding, and split part of the profit with the scientists. Extermely useful or critical patents could be kept instead of being sold off if deemed necessary.
Suddenly scientists are back doing science, businesses get ownership of already completed research with patent protection, scientists get a nice bonus check every once in a while, and the fed actually makes money on scientific research getting potential profit from the sale of the patent instead of sitting on the patents rights until they expire.
Instead you create a new feedback loop where investing in science generates new discoveries that can be sold to businesses for at least the cost of the discoveries and you could turn that money into more funding for schools and more discoveries.
Then maybe we could move away from the current USPTO cash cow that creates such worthless patents lately.
I wonder if these numbers are adjusted for infation?
From Page 8, Paragraph 2 Whatever the answer, it's clear who pays for it. You do. You pay in the form of vastly higher drug prices and health-care insurance. Americans spent $179 billion on prescription drugs in 2003. That's up from... wait for it... $12 billion in 1980. That's a 13% hike, year after year, for two decades.
Assuming they already adjusted for inflation, 12 Billion in 1980 to 179 billion in 2003 would be about 12.5%
Assuming those numbers are NOT adjusted for inflation, then 12 billion 1980 dollars = about 29 billion in 2003 dollars. Growing 29 billion to 179 billion is an 8% increase per year.
I also wonder if this is a linear increase or if there was something sudden jump at some point. Taking two data points and trying to make some sort of comparison other then "this one is bigger" seems rather dumb.
In 1980 I was single, but in 2003 I had a family of four. That doesn't mean I was reproducing at a rate of 6.2% per year.
Can someone point to a data source that has amount spent on drugs each year? I searched the web, but so far I don't see any sources I would trust, mostly stories similar to this.
Video Games are fun, but hopefully with Poker and other games starting to get more air time I'll be able to watch my Monday Night Foosball, join a Fantasy Foosball League and watch the first riots when one University Team beats another one.
Until then I guess I'll have to be happy with The Ocho.
If I remember correctly Taco did post about this some time back. The author only converted the final rendered HTML of/. to proper CSS. Anyone with a bit of skill could do that.
The reason it didn't hit slashcode proper was that it was a mess of code that was hard to follow. There were reasons the html was buggy was because the code making it was buggy.
I'm guessing it's cleaner now, it's been several years since that article, and longer since I've looked at slashcode.
In other words: Nobody with more than a few.doc documents can switch from Ms Office to OpenOffice. Result: $$$ for MS
Now imagine MS Word could save reliably in OO's format. And it can obviously open.doc files reliably.
A company could now run a batch job that opens.doc files and saves them in OO format. MS Word converts all the company documents into OO format. Company then throws away MS Word, and happily uses OO.
Batch Converting MS Word Documents in OpenOffice.org 1. Open File / AutoPilot / Document Convertor 2. Select Microsoft Office 3. Choose any combination of
[X] Word
[X] Excel
[X] PowerPoint formats. 4. Click Next 5. Enter the proper locations for where to read files in and where to dump them out... 6. Click Convert!
Watch (and wait) as hundreds of MS Office Documents are quickly and easily converted to OO formats.
You will lose some formating and I think all macro information, but those can be cleaned up later.
Result: MS looses customers. When you have 90+% of the market that can't really be avoided.
Zotob might be what most people need to clean up their spyware..... That was my first thought too. Although it probably will end up to BE spyware that's just eliminating the competition.
We believe that the company will attempt to disrupt the Xbox 360 launch with a price cut, and as a result may succeed in diverting attention away from the higher priced next generation console. We expect the Microsoft to attempt to engineer the Xbox 360 to be compatible with the current generation Xbox, and as a result, believe that Microsoft will maintain $149 pricing for its money-losing hardware.
We are the Microsoft. You will be assimilated. The exact date of assimilation has slipped once again, but we expect to be at your planet sometime Q1 next year. Be sure to watch for us.
We will bring your total cost of living down through universal cybernetic hardware implants. Periodic software updates may be purchased to allow you to control the new hardware that will periodically sprout from your body. Your normal motor functions will be replaced with an expensive yet inferior system that will only allow you to shuffle along like a crippled old man.
You will have access to the ultimate Peer-to-Peer network with secure music downloads direct to the brain with properly activated frontal lobes.
Slashdot Mirror
Haliburton's new IPv6 division.
WOW, Beatles has such an awesome site I of course wanted to make a backup in case it ever goes down. Of course I want my backup to be have only the most recent data, so I keep my backups as fresh as possible. I also make backups of similar amazing sites strangers sometime send me links to via email...
:repeat
Maybe someone could help me out. Normally I let this run at night...
site-backup-list.txt
http://george-harrison.info/
http://othersites.example.com/
make-backup-sites.bat
wget -r -l 999 --proxy=off -i site-backup-list.txt
goto repeat
Sadly, george-harrison.info returns 503 Unknown Site errors to wget. Does someone know how I may be able to make backups of their site in an automated fasion, preferrably from the command line?
...Patrick Schoonveld (the poor guy responsible for making ads work on Slashdot and other OSTG sites) /. employees and get posted on the front page. I'm guessing a free unit it pretty cheap advertising.
Now it all makes sense. Send you're swag and free stuff direct to
.an answer to the proverbial question, "Who's your daddy?"
Supafly
... Intelligent design can and has been proved scientifically.
Interesting. Please post a link to your proof for review. I would be quite interested to see exactly what the ID theory is, not to mention the testing involved in proving it.
The people who install the leaked version are software pirates. Pirates don't typically make software companies a lot of money. By leaking a product people want to people who never would have made you money in the first place, you get people talking about it. Seems like a great strategy for MS or any other software company for that matter.
Yes, but what site would be stupid enough to give Microsoft all that publicity for free?
This should read...
d itorial/0,289131,sid39,00.html
Mark Brunelli, News Editor of searchEnterpriseLinux.com wrote to mention a SearchEnterpriseLinux column about reducing the negative impact laptops can have on a network's security. From the article: "Portable computers often become an extension of the person using them. It is no surprise that laptop users are inclined to be rather autonomously minded. Many users don't realize that the power they have to install software and change set
I don't mind plugging articles for your own site, but at least practice full disclosure.
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/meetE
I think the problem is whatever seems to pass for business schools now a days.
Megalomaniacs go get their MBA and drive these companies like teenagers stealing their dads hotrod using up all the "Human Resources" in the process and leaving a burnt out wreck at the scene while the welfare system and shareholders foot the bill.
I think the current trend is let little companies do R&D and survive or not. If they do well buy them out.
Of course what ends up happening after they buy out is like picking a flower, it tends to kill what once made it bloom in the first place.
Woohoo! We can now masturbate AND power our car with the results!
*grabs a box of tissues*
Car Pooling just got a whole lot cheaper.
Ehternet seemed to grow by powers of 10, but I don't quite understand how WiFi does it
10 Megabit, 100Megabit, 1000Megabit
vs
11MB to 56 MBs and now this...
What is being improved on to increase bandwidth? Can someone explain - I'm a software geek, not hardware.
Hmm... well, according to my calculations and allowing for rounding to the nearest integer, it looks like they _did_ adjust for inflation, doesn't it?
... spending power so to speak .. of each dollar in the same way.
Maybe - they don't really say. 12 billion to 179 billion over 23 years is indeed 13%. What is not clear is if they already adjusted the 1980 numbers to account for inflation.
For instance if I made $12,000 in 1980, that would be comparable to making over $25,000 in 2003. So you can't compare the amount spent each year directly. You need to adjust the numbers to account for inflation to be sure youre comparing the
It's still an increase, but when you count the aging population of baby boomers and the fact that we now have medicine that can keep you alive longer, allegy medicine that people take daily and other factors it may have nothing to do with the law her mentioned.
It's easier to think of it if you increase the time scale. Lets say the White House in DC was remodeled in 1800 for $50,000. Then again in 2000 for $300,000. Which cost more? Adjusting for inflation, the 1800 remodel would cost about $180,000 more in 2000 dollars.
You sometimes see that kind of thing in the numbers thrown around by politicians. I remember some congressman said something like "My daddy never made more then $30,000 a year." Of course adjusting for inflation, his dad brought home quite a bit 60+ years ago when he was growing up. It's all just numbers. This is the same reason people form India can work for $5,000 a year. They are doing quite well, and it's the International Exchange rates that makes it seem they are working for nothing from our point of view. It would be like hiring people from the past working 40 hours a week for two dollars a day.
Amendments could still be useful. If the data suggested by the article is true, then they've identified a problem, and a possible solution that didn't work.
In today's terms you could say the problem is trying to help the US GOV to better leverage it's patent portfolio. We have the technology now to handle so much more information that it should be possible to amend the law to say that the US does own patents on research it funds, then it could have an aution of patent rights. The whole problem was businesses were hesitent to create prodcuts without patent protection.
The current system instead GIVES AWAY ALL PATENTS that were previously owned by the governemtn and says we'll pay you to do the work, if you discover something good for you, keep the patent and make your millions. Imagine instead if the government kept the patent ownership but auctioned off potentially profitable patents for AT LEAST the cost of the funding, and split part of the profit with the scientists. Extermely useful or critical patents could be kept instead of being sold off if deemed necessary.
Suddenly scientists are back doing science, businesses get ownership of already completed research with patent protection, scientists get a nice bonus check every once in a while, and the fed actually makes money on scientific research getting potential profit from the sale of the patent instead of sitting on the patents rights until they expire.
Instead you create a new feedback loop where investing in science generates new discoveries that can be sold to businesses for at least the cost of the discoveries and you could turn that money into more funding for schools and more discoveries.
Then maybe we could move away from the current USPTO cash cow that creates such worthless patents lately.
Assuming those numbers are NOT adjusted for inflation, then 12 billion 1980 dollars = about 29 billion in 2003 dollars. Growing 29 billion to 179 billion is an 8% increase per year.
I also wonder if this is a linear increase or if there was something sudden jump at some point. Taking two data points and trying to make some sort of comparison other then "this one is bigger" seems rather dumb.
In 1980 I was single, but in 2003 I had a family of four. That doesn't mean I was reproducing at a rate of 6.2% per year.
Can someone point to a data source that has amount spent on drugs each year? I searched the web, but so far I don't see any sources I would trust, mostly stories similar to this.
perhaps the patents is letting users see the results or limiting it to 100. :o)
Hard to say knowing the USPTO
http://www.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=Roland+Pi quepaille&btnG=Search+Blogs
Video Games are fun, but hopefully with Poker and other games starting to get more air time I'll be able to watch my Monday Night Foosball, join a Fantasy Foosball League and watch the first riots when one University Team beats another one.
Until then I guess I'll have to be happy with The Ocho.
If I remember correctly Taco did post about this some time back. The author only converted the final rendered HTML of /. to proper CSS. Anyone with a bit of skill could do that.
The reason it didn't hit slashcode proper was that it was a mess of code that was hard to follow. There were reasons the html was buggy was because the code making it was buggy.
I'm guessing it's cleaner now, it's been several years since that article, and longer since I've looked at slashcode.
In other words: Nobody with more than a few .doc documents can switch from Ms Office to OpenOffice. Result: $$$ for MS
.doc files reliably.
.doc files and saves them in OO format. MS Word converts all the company documents into OO format. Company then throws away MS Word, and happily uses OO.
Now imagine MS Word could save reliably in OO's format. And it can obviously open
A company could now run a batch job that opens
Batch Converting MS Word Documents in OpenOffice.org
1. Open File / AutoPilot / Document Convertor
2. Select Microsoft Office
3. Choose any combination of
[X] Word
[X] Excel
[X] PowerPoint formats.
4. Click Next
5. Enter the proper locations for where to read files in and where to dump them out...
6. Click Convert!
Watch (and wait) as hundreds of MS Office Documents are quickly and easily converted to OO formats.
You will lose some formating and I think all macro information, but those can be cleaned up later.
Result: MS looses customers.
When you have 90+% of the market that can't really be avoided.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_will_bury_you
:)
Reminds me of that recent article about testing CEO's for being a sociopath.
Zotob might be what most people need to clean up their spyware.....
That was my first thought too. Although it probably will end up to BE spyware that's just eliminating the competition.
We are the Microsoft. You will be assimilated. The exact date of assimilation has slipped once again, but we expect to be at your planet sometime Q1 next year. Be sure to watch for us.
We will bring your total cost of living down through universal cybernetic hardware implants. Periodic software updates may be purchased to allow you to control the new hardware that will periodically sprout from your body. Your normal motor functions will be replaced with an expensive yet inferior system that will only allow you to shuffle along like a crippled old man.
You will have access to the ultimate Peer-to-Peer network with secure music downloads direct to the brain with properly activated frontal lobes.
We will tell you where you want to go.
does it include the return trip?
Yes, but only if you have a minimum three day orbit.