"(SCO) is grasping at straws to purport CA as a SCO supporter," Computer Associates said in a statement. "CA stands in stark disagreement with SCO's tactics, which are intended to intimidate and threaten customers."
In August when CA did this they weren't intimidating/threatening? CA didn't know any better because they weren't paying too much attention to SCO's bullshit and not enough to the people who actually have a clue?
Sucks when you are caught between a rock and a hard place I guess.
According to the novel a man with "psychomotor epilepsy" was severely hurting/killing people w/no memories of the events. He was implanted with some sort of device that shocked areas of his brain and stopped the seizures before they happened. The doctors chose an area of the brain that was the pleasure center. The brain began CAUSING seizures to get the shocks.
So, as long as they don't put the shocks into the pleasure centers this should work out! Sci-fi for the masses!
Note: I am only basing this on the book. IANANS (neurosurgeon).
yeah, they cause the least amount of confusion because they are already explained in the examples.
I am sorry, but at the Calc level I am unable to extrapolate the knowledge gained by 4 examples to cover 15 different problems.
It's been an issue with EVERY single Calc book I have seen (6 or 7 IIRC). Math books made for students by math professors. Really doesn't work too well.
- That the problems actually reflect what was "taught" in the examples.
I loved being "taught" what the examples showed and given a graded homework assignment only to find that 90% of the problems could not be solved with the given examples.
was it just me or did this "article" read more like an ad for iPod than anything else?
I actually was discussing this article w/someone else and had metioned that the "research" had no real impact and I was saddened by yet another worthless grant giving to a professor.
If this had been paid for by Apple then maybe I would have been ok w/it.
Tarzan? No, not Tarzan. Think of mentally deficient, socially inept, and physically retarded.
Kasper Hauser Syndrome has a lot to do w/a lack of social interaction as a child. It causes problems with stature, mental development (which is sometimes reversable), and social interactions.
Yeah I do start conversations with strangers. Anything to get a smile. I don't know if they find it worthwhile but I most certainly do. Do you really prefer to hole up in your house and be force fed 50% of your free time?
And since when is anti-social behavior immediately seen as a negative thing.
The examples you gave are good ones to support your side but they aren't valid for what I was saying. I was talking about the general public walking down the street blocking out the rest of the world because they wanted to be in their "cocoon". They don't want social interactions (my example of a student in the hallway at school). They just want to be seperated from everyone else.
It is one thing to want to be alone and have quiet when you are working, researching, or whatever. It is another thing to be spending your FREE TIME being anti-social.
Some women use earphones to deflect unwanted attention, finding it easier to avoid responding because they look already occupied.
People in general do this. I work at a technical college and see numerous students with headphones on (I don't believe I have seen earbuds recently). I see absolutely no reason for people to be listening to music while in any sort of educational institution. I would guess that would be the equivalent of someone's body languge -- showing crossed arms during a conversation.
I think that people are shy enough as it is. We do very little REAL social interaction as it is. Do we really want to become even more anti-social creatures by promoting music as some sort of "shield" from the outside world? Remember, the average person spends about 50% of their daily free time at home watching TV.
Music is something I like to enjoy with others at concerts and at home. Music is something that should be passed on to others. Nothing like finding a new genre of music you have never heard before because a friend had it playing in the car or in his house.
I like to use Food Network. I have found quite a few useful recipes there (one of my favorite was when I cooked for my gf's brother-in-law who is a vegetarian... Portabellas with spinach salad in an eggplant dressing.)
And why isn't there a larger open cookbook on the net?
I once heard a story of a woman that was eating a dessert at a restaurant and thought it was so incredible that she just HAD to have the recipe. She asked the Chef and he at first declined but after her continued insistance a typed sheet was delivered to the woman's table that included the recipe and the bill. She read through the recipe and was delighted. She looked at the bill and it was well over $500. She became infuriated and asked to see the Chef. He explained that her bill was $100 and the cost of the receipe was $400.
worms get onto your computer and make your computer act as a drone to send out spam. So if they were "charging" someone to send emails it wouldn't hurt the spammers only the people the spammers infected.
Gates/Chong/Pope?
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Gates on Spam
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story has great picture of Bill Gates as well
Is he praising Mel Gibson for Passion of Christ? Is he smoking one incredibly fat doober that would make even Tommy Chong jealous? Is he trying to convince the Pope that Longhorn isn't named after a pornstar? Or is he really just THAT great?
You decide.
Seriously:
Instead of paying a penny, the sender would "buy" postage by devoting maybe 10 seconds of computing time to solving a math puzzle. The exercise would merely serve as proof of the sender's good faith.
And how the fuck would this make a difference? So what? The computer that is supposed to do the work is going to be like Johnny Badass in 2nd grade math class... They are not going to do their homework and just try to bluff it through class. If they do end up having to hand it in to be graded they are just going to get around it some other way. We will end up blocking just as many hosts as before.
Gates' proposed system will be Microsoft patent-encumbered, unsurprisingly.
No kidding. Gates came up w/it why would you be surprised he wouldn't want to protect his idea? No conspiracy here... Was the comment necessary?
So let's pay attention ONLY to the preliminaries where there is MORE than two people running. We have how many people watching American Idol (25+ million). We have how many of those voting?
How many people do you know that when you ask them who their favorite American Idol is will not even hesitate to tell you who and why...
Ask that question of which person running for president and see what you get.
I guarantee you will have a lot more people bright-eyed and bushy-tailed over AI than over the Presidential elections..
and do you think that 99% of the people out there care that they are doing this? NO THEY DON'T. People seem to feel that TV is a necessity in their lives!
My gf is actually pretty pissed off that I don't have cable. This interrupts her Reality TV bullshit with fuzz and intermittent loud buzzing. She can't understand why I am not ready to fork out $55/mo to watch what they feed us.
Ok, so back to the topic... People out there don't care about a broadcast flag. It's not going to affect them. It's just something else that they will hear about, shrug their shoulders, and say, "so?" Remember... We live in a time where people will vote for American Idol contestants (25+ million a week watch that shit) but we can't get anyone to vote for who runs our country. We also live in a time where people look at you crazy when you tell them that their freedoms are being infringed on.
They are talking about controlling the "broadcast flag" on movies that are put out over the airwaves. Once the TV monopolies realize what this could mean to them (especially with DVD releases of shows) it will shift to them as well.
The broadcast flag could be expanded into a whole family of little flaglets, and together giving the system a much more expressive repertoire. One flag might say, "you may not time-shift this program." Another flag might tell your TiVO "you may not fast-forward or skip this program's commercials." A very special flag might disable your TV's channel changer and "off" buttons. There might even be a Mission Impossible flag that makes your digital video recorder self-destruct in five seconds (or at least erase every movie owned by Universal Studios.) Who knows what Hollywood will dream up next!
I realize this guy is sort of pushing the bullshit lines with controlling the OFF BUTTON and the MI sequence but I can actually see them banning you from timeshifting, etc. Look at some DVDs. You already can't skip some commercials on those. I can see it being that way on a rented movie but on one you purchased? That's bullshit.
HDTV was mandated by the government at YOUR expense so that these people could control YOUR choices. Make sure you thank them.
I wasn't overly pleased that w/my new Kodak 5MP I had to "upgrade" to SD/MMC. I already had two 1GB microdrives (which don't tend to find cameras unfortunately) and I had a 128MB CF and a 64MB CF as well.
Turns out that the 512MB SD/MMC has actually been pretty good. I am not terribly pleased with its size (losing factor) but w/the USB 10000 in 1 card reader I am good to go w/all formats.
I guess people are just adverse to spending a lot of money on yet another fucking card.
I think Pepsi and iTunes got it right in their commericial... "We're going to keep downloading music for free whether you like it or not..."
Too bad that's not what they meant and everyone knows it. Yes, it is true that everyone will find different ways to get around the roadblocks setup. Yes, it is also true that P2P will continue to evolve at a pace where we will be lightyears ahead of the redtape...
But, is it all worth it? Why not support FREE music? Artists that support the distribution of their stuff without issue? That's the future. Having the musicians realize that the fans love their MUSIC not how much money they can make.
Check out Sharing the Groove. Do everyone a favor and jump on the bandwagon.
"It's time for Kazaa to stop using delaying tactics and face the music."
Oh please! Enough with the cheesy quotes already! It's almost as bad as the RIAA saying "Oops I did it again" after attempting to sue yet another innocent victim.
I didn't find anything spectacular about any of them that would make them something I could call "next-generation". Perhaps "up-in-coming versions" or something...
E-mail is NOT the killer app of the Internet. I have used plenty of different email clients and they all work the same. It is just as important as any other Internet communication device (IM, IRC, whatever).
In order to get a feel for how each mail client handles daily tasks, I conducted my review by performing a number of tasks:
Download a reasonably large amount of messages, about 2100 in total
This is funny to me. I consider myself a "regular" computer/Internet user. I don't see the need to download 2100 messages as part of my "daily tasks".
Why is new mail notification (on 3 of the 5) "Audio Only"? I much prefer not having sound and just having a popup notification (or a small blurb come up):
[10:08] > From: Kitch@removed.org [10:08] To: Bill [10:08] Subject: Re: ok.
I guess I am old fashioned...
I also find it strange that only a single one (KMail) supports Maildir. The rest are mbox. I thought Maildir was the future?
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"(SCO) is grasping at straws to purport CA as a SCO supporter," Computer Associates said in a statement. "CA stands in stark disagreement with SCO's tactics, which are intended to intimidate and threaten customers."
In August when CA did this they weren't intimidating/threatening? CA didn't know any better because they weren't paying too much attention to SCO's bullshit and not enough to the people who actually have a clue?
Sucks when you are caught between a rock and a hard place I guess.
Shades of 'The Terminal Man'?
According to the novel a man with "psychomotor epilepsy" was severely hurting/killing people w/no memories of the events. He was implanted with some sort of device that shocked areas of his brain and stopped the seizures before they happened. The doctors chose an area of the brain that was the pleasure center. The brain began CAUSING seizures to get the shocks.
So, as long as they don't put the shocks into the pleasure centers this should work out! Sci-fi for the masses!
Note: I am only basing this on the book. IANANS (neurosurgeon).
yeah, they cause the least amount of confusion because they are already explained in the examples.
I am sorry, but at the Calc level I am unable to extrapolate the knowledge gained by 4 examples to cover 15 different problems.
It's been an issue with EVERY single Calc book I have seen (6 or 7 IIRC). Math books made for students by math professors. Really doesn't work too well.
- That the problems actually reflect what was "taught" in the examples.
I loved being "taught" what the examples showed and given a graded homework assignment only to find that 90% of the problems could not be solved with the given examples.
was it just me or did this "article" read more like an ad for iPod than anything else?
I actually was discussing this article w/someone else and had metioned that the "research" had no real impact and I was saddened by yet another worthless grant giving to a professor.
If this had been paid for by Apple then maybe I would have been ok w/it.
Tarzan? No, not Tarzan. Think of mentally deficient, socially inept, and physically retarded.
Kasper Hauser Syndrome has a lot to do w/a lack of social interaction as a child. It causes problems with stature, mental development (which is sometimes reversable), and social interactions.
Book here at Amazon.
Yeah I do start conversations with strangers. Anything to get a smile. I don't know if they find it worthwhile but I most certainly do. Do you really prefer to hole up in your house and be force fed 50% of your free time?
And since when is anti-social behavior immediately seen as a negative thing.
The examples you gave are good ones to support your side but they aren't valid for what I was saying. I was talking about the general public walking down the street blocking out the rest of the world because they wanted to be in their "cocoon". They don't want social interactions (my example of a student in the hallway at school). They just want to be seperated from everyone else.
It is one thing to want to be alone and have quiet when you are working, researching, or whatever. It is another thing to be spending your FREE TIME being anti-social.
Some women use earphones to deflect unwanted attention, finding it easier to avoid responding because they look already occupied.
People in general do this. I work at a technical college and see numerous students with headphones on (I don't believe I have seen earbuds recently). I see absolutely no reason for people to be listening to music while in any sort of educational institution. I would guess that would be the equivalent of someone's body languge -- showing crossed arms during a conversation.
I think that people are shy enough as it is. We do very little REAL social interaction as it is. Do we really want to become even more anti-social creatures by promoting music as some sort of "shield" from the outside world? Remember, the average person spends about 50% of their daily free time at home watching TV.
Music is something I like to enjoy with others at concerts and at home. Music is something that should be passed on to others. Nothing like finding a new genre of music you have never heard before because a friend had it playing in the car or in his house.
Just my worthless ramblings,
Forgot the link somehow...
Foot Network
Is there a Google for recipes
I like to use Food Network. I have found quite a few useful recipes there (one of my favorite was when I cooked for my gf's brother-in-law who is a vegetarian... Portabellas with spinach salad in an eggplant dressing.)
And why isn't there a larger open cookbook on the net?
I once heard a story of a woman that was eating a dessert at a restaurant and thought it was so
incredible that she just HAD to have the recipe. She asked the Chef and he at first declined but
after her continued insistance a typed sheet was delivered to the woman's table that included the
recipe and the bill. She read through the recipe and was delighted. She looked at the bill and
it was well over $500. She became infuriated and asked to see the Chef. He explained that her
bill was $100 and the cost of the receipe was $400.
Perhaps that's why,
worms get onto your computer and make your computer act as a drone to send out spam. So if they were "charging" someone to send emails it wouldn't hurt the spammers only the people the spammers infected.
story has great picture of Bill Gates as well
.02,
Is he praising Mel Gibson for Passion of Christ? Is he smoking one incredibly fat doober that would make even Tommy Chong jealous? Is he trying to convince the Pope that Longhorn isn't named after a pornstar? Or is he really just THAT great?
You decide.
Seriously:
Instead of paying a penny, the sender would "buy" postage by devoting maybe 10 seconds of computing time to solving a math puzzle. The exercise would merely serve as proof of the sender's good faith.
And how the fuck would this make a difference? So what? The computer that is supposed to do the work is going to be like Johnny Badass in 2nd grade math class... They are not going to do their homework and just try to bluff it through class. If they do end up having to hand it in to be graded they are just going to get around it some other way. We will end up blocking just as many hosts as before.
Gates' proposed system will be Microsoft patent-encumbered, unsurprisingly.
No kidding. Gates came up w/it why would you be surprised he wouldn't want to protect his idea? No conspiracy here... Was the comment necessary?
Just my worthless
Oh, it's a fair comparison...
So let's pay attention ONLY to the preliminaries where there is MORE than two people running. We have how many people watching American Idol (25+ million). We have how many of those voting?
How many people do you know that when you ask them who their favorite American Idol is will not even hesitate to tell you who and why...
Ask that question of which person running for president and see what you get.
I guarantee you will have a lot more people bright-eyed and bushy-tailed over AI than over the Presidential elections..
and do you think that 99% of the people out there care that they are doing this? NO THEY DON'T. People seem to feel that TV is a necessity in their lives!
My gf is actually pretty pissed off that I don't have cable. This interrupts her Reality TV bullshit with fuzz and intermittent loud buzzing. She can't understand why I am not ready to fork out $55/mo to watch what they feed us.
Ok, so back to the topic... People out there don't care about a broadcast flag. It's not going to affect them. It's just something else that they will hear about, shrug their shoulders, and say, "so?" Remember... We live in a time where people will vote for American Idol contestants (25+ million a week watch that shit) but we can't get anyone to vote for who runs our country. We also live in a time where people look at you crazy when you tell them that their freedoms are being infringed on.
With all the crap on TV these days, and things like this coming into play, I can only hope people will at least reduce the amount of tv they watch.
Sorry to clue you in but it's only going to get worse. We're headed to 451.
They are talking about controlling the "broadcast flag" on movies that are put out over the airwaves. Once the TV monopolies realize what this could mean to them (especially with DVD releases of shows) it will shift to them as well.
The broadcast flag could be expanded into a whole family of little flaglets, and together giving the system a much more expressive repertoire. One flag might say, "you may not time-shift this program." Another flag might tell your TiVO "you may not fast-forward or skip this program's commercials." A very special flag might disable your TV's channel changer and "off" buttons. There might even be a Mission Impossible flag that makes your digital video recorder self-destruct in five seconds (or at least erase every movie owned by Universal Studios.) Who knows what Hollywood will dream up next!
I realize this guy is sort of pushing the bullshit lines with controlling the OFF BUTTON and the MI sequence but I can actually see them banning you from timeshifting, etc. Look at some DVDs. You already can't skip some commercials on those. I can see it being that way on a rented movie but on one you purchased? That's bullshit.
HDTV was mandated by the government at YOUR expense so that these people could control YOUR choices. Make sure you thank them.
I wasn't overly pleased that w/my new Kodak 5MP I had to "upgrade" to SD/MMC. I already had two 1GB microdrives (which don't tend to find cameras unfortunately) and I had a 128MB CF and a 64MB CF as well.
Turns out that the 512MB SD/MMC has actually been pretty good. I am not terribly pleased with its size (losing factor) but w/the USB 10000 in 1 card reader I am good to go w/all formats.
I guess people are just adverse to spending a lot of money on yet another fucking card.
See here
I think Pepsi and iTunes got it right in their commericial... "We're going to keep downloading music for free whether you like it or not..."
Too bad that's not what they meant and everyone knows it. Yes, it is true that everyone will find different ways to get around the roadblocks setup. Yes, it is also true that P2P will continue to evolve at a pace where we will be lightyears ahead of the redtape...
But, is it all worth it? Why not support FREE music? Artists that support the distribution of their stuff without issue? That's the future. Having the musicians realize that the fans love their MUSIC not how much money they can make.
Check out Sharing the Groove. Do everyone a favor and jump on the bandwagon.
"It's time for Kazaa to stop using delaying tactics and face the music."
Oh please! Enough with the cheesy quotes already! It's almost as bad as the RIAA saying "Oops I did it again" after attempting to sue yet another innocent victim.
what about it? I use Pine myself. I also know that it is outdated, slow, and lacking easy-to-use key features (like modern filtering).
I didn't find anything spectacular about any of them that would make them something I could call "next-generation". Perhaps "up-in-coming versions" or something...
E-mail is NOT the killer app of the Internet. I have used plenty of different email clients and they all work the same. It is just as important as any other Internet communication device (IM, IRC, whatever).
In order to get a feel for how each mail client handles daily tasks, I conducted my review by performing a number of tasks:
Download a reasonably large amount of messages, about 2100 in total
This is funny to me. I consider myself a "regular" computer/Internet user. I don't see the need to download 2100 messages as part of my "daily tasks".
Why is new mail notification (on 3 of the 5) "Audio Only"? I much prefer not having sound and just having a popup notification (or a small blurb come up):
[10:08] > From: Kitch@removed.org
[10:08] To: Bill
[10:08] Subject: Re: ok.
I guess I am old fashioned...
I also find it strange that only a single one (KMail) supports Maildir. The rest are mbox. I thought Maildir was the future?
Just my worthless review of a worthless review,
I empty cans of beer into my tank all the time to fuel myself. I guess we haven't figured that piece of Mr. Fusion out yet ;)