The WebGopher thing is cool, but if you go to the webpage for heatdeath ( here ) you can try the Java gopher to web gateway. It's a hell of a lot cooler than the gopher support for, say, IE.
Well, sort of. They're known as the Seven Sisters, yes, but most people can only see six. The reason for this is that (according to Greek legend) Orion stole one of them. Taurus the Bull was placed between Orion and the Pleiades to protect them from Orion. That's why there're only six, and that's why they sit on Taurus' shoulder.
There already is a voluntary website rating system. It's the RSAC, and allows you to rate your site in four different categories: nudity, violence, language, and sex. It's been around for a while, and is completely voluntary (which means it's also open for abuse...).
Try Canadian instead of British...
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As with a number of British-published books (most notably Pratchett's Discworld series), they're more often than not also available in Canada. One place that sells online is Chapters. They do have Look To Windward, although they say it'll take 3 to 5 weeks to get it to you.
Pfft. "Big Trouble in Little China" is one of my favourite comedy movies.
That doesn't mean that a movie can appeal to the gamers and not be good at the same time. It looks to me that they could've done a much better job of it and not been so damned formulaic.
Holy sweet Jesus, could it get any more formulaic? From the wise-cracking black guy (at least it's not a wise-cracking black guy being CGI rendered as Jar-Jar), to the pseudo-heroic main character who gets the girl in the end, to the evil guy who's trying to take over the entire world because it's his destiny, there aren't many generic points that haven't been touched. Quest for a magical item? It's there! Creepy sidekick to the bad guy with weird facial features? He's there!
Forgetting something? I don't mean to sound insulting, but perhaps you've forgotten how to click links and read stories?
The first link you post is about a proposed Planet X that lies 30,000 AU from the Sun (Pluto's at about 40 AU). That puts it well outside the Solar System.
The second link you post is about a free-floating "planet" that was discovered by gravitational microlensing. It is also well outside the Solar System.
The story talks about a body (a tad too small to be considered a planet) that's orbiting between Neptune and Pluto. That puts it within the Solar System.
Before you go shooting your mouth off about old news, try reading articles.
That's all true, of course, but if you look at the main OpenBSD page [ link ] then you'll notice the "Three years without a remote hole in the default install!" quote. Now, if you're using OpenBSD as a firewall you're not going with the default install, but this claim is a lot stronger than any other OS out there today.
The previous poster isn't talking about what's displayed on the monitors. If I remember from the last time this monitor was posted on here, the picture of the actual monitor was done as an artist's rendition, and there was nothing being displayed on the screen. What the previous poster wants to see is an actual picture of the monitor. Makes it seem more real, y'know?
The problem that the author of the story has is that kids can't just go out and buy violent games on their own. The problem is that the author has resorted to the usual knee-jerk reaction about censorship, banning games, and children's rights, possibly without realizing that kids can still play these games -- they just need their parents to buy them for them.
But the major difference between this law and, say, movies, is that the movie industry is fairly self-regulating. The government doesn't put the ratings on the films, and the government isn't the one disallowing children from seeing Saving Private Ryan in the theatres.
Actually, you don't get turtled, you get jerseyed. When you turtle (you have to do it yourself), you basically curl up in a ball, allowing the punches to rain down upon your back. When you get jerseyed (someone does it to you, like in the commercial), your jersey (or your business jacket) gets pulled over your head, so you get forced into having punches rain down upon your back.
Actually, you don't get turtled, you get jerseyed. When you turtle (you have to do it yourself), you basically curl up in a ball, allowing the punches to rain down upon your back. When you get jerseyed (someone does it to you, like in the commercial), your jersey (or your business jacket) gets pulled over your head, so you get forced into having punches rain down upon your back.
Actually, the BC government wasn't offering anything. BC wasn't in negotiations with Microsoft to try to get them to move up. It was all rumour and innuendo.
Amen to that. If you ask Joe Blow on the street what he thinks about OS X, odds are rather good that he won't know what you're talking about. Odds are he won't even care that Apple is coming out with a new OS with new whiz-bang features.
Remember the launch of Windows 95? That's about as close to a cultural phenomenon you're going to get over an OS release, and there was more controversy about the Rolling Stones allowing "Start Me Up" to be used in Microsoft's ad campaigns.
Cultural revolution? Bah. Cultural bump-in-the-road is more like it.
*heh* Even better, I'm a Canadian going down to the States in a week, and I want to know if they'll take me down at the border when I wear my DeCSS shirt.
The Ars Technica RAM Guide is a good place to start for the technologies that are around now (SRAM, SDRAM, DRAM, etc.). Ars also has a story about MRAM, which links to this Wired article describing IBM's work in the field.
I can't speak for Linux as a firewall, but if you used that clunky old machine as an OpenBSD firewall, you'd be fairly secure. I have a Pentium-75 running OpenBSD 2.6, and I've noticed no speed dips at all. The load on the firewall sits at about 0.08, so I'd be surprised if your 486 fared much worse.
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No, it should be "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch," commonly abbreviated TANSTAAFL.
The WebGopher thing is cool, but if you go to the webpage for heatdeath ( here ) you can try the Java gopher to web gateway. It's a hell of a lot cooler than the gopher support for, say, IE.
Well, sort of. They're known as the Seven Sisters, yes, but most people can only see six. The reason for this is that (according to Greek legend) Orion stole one of them. Taurus the Bull was placed between Orion and the Pleiades to protect them from Orion. That's why there're only six, and that's why they sit on Taurus' shoulder.
Oy, flamebait? My life has been crushed seeing this as flamebait.
But then I had another brownie. Perhaps I shall plotz.
There already is a voluntary website rating system. It's the RSAC, and allows you to rate your site in four different categories: nudity, violence, language, and sex. It's been around for a while, and is completely voluntary (which means it's also open for abuse...).
As with a number of British-published books (most notably Pratchett's Discworld series), they're more often than not also available in Canada. One place that sells online is Chapters. They do have Look To Windward, although they say it'll take 3 to 5 weeks to get it to you.
I'll see your National Monument and raise you one Wailing Wall.
I'll see your twenty pounds of pork and raise you twenty pounds of shellfish.
Please don't passover my offer.
Pfft. "Big Trouble in Little China" is one of my favourite comedy movies.
That doesn't mean that a movie can appeal to the gamers and not be good at the same time. It looks to me that they could've done a much better job of it and not been so damned formulaic.
Holy sweet Jesus, could it get any more formulaic? From the wise-cracking black guy (at least it's not a wise-cracking black guy being CGI rendered as Jar-Jar), to the pseudo-heroic main character who gets the girl in the end, to the evil guy who's trying to take over the entire world because it's his destiny, there aren't many generic points that haven't been touched. Quest for a magical item? It's there! Creepy sidekick to the bad guy with weird facial features? He's there!
Jeremy Irons, how low you've slipped. For shame.
Forgetting something? I don't mean to sound insulting, but perhaps you've forgotten how to click links and read stories?
The first link you post is about a proposed Planet X that lies 30,000 AU from the Sun (Pluto's at about 40 AU). That puts it well outside the Solar System.
The second link you post is about a free-floating "planet" that was discovered by gravitational microlensing. It is also well outside the Solar System.
The story talks about a body (a tad too small to be considered a planet) that's orbiting between Neptune and Pluto. That puts it within the Solar System.
Before you go shooting your mouth off about old news, try reading articles.
That's all true, of course, but if you look at the main OpenBSD page [ link ] then you'll notice the "Three years without a remote hole in the default install!" quote. Now, if you're using OpenBSD as a firewall you're not going with the default install, but this claim is a lot stronger than any other OS out there today.
The previous poster isn't talking about what's displayed on the monitors. If I remember from the last time this monitor was posted on here, the picture of the actual monitor was done as an artist's rendition, and there was nothing being displayed on the screen. What the previous poster wants to see is an actual picture of the monitor. Makes it seem more real, y'know?
The problem that the author of the story has is that kids can't just go out and buy violent games on their own. The problem is that the author has resorted to the usual knee-jerk reaction about censorship, banning games, and children's rights, possibly without realizing that kids can still play these games -- they just need their parents to buy them for them. But the major difference between this law and, say, movies, is that the movie industry is fairly self-regulating. The government doesn't put the ratings on the films, and the government isn't the one disallowing children from seeing Saving Private Ryan in the theatres.
Actually, you don't get turtled, you get jerseyed. When you turtle (you have to do it yourself), you basically curl up in a ball, allowing the punches to rain down upon your back. When you get jerseyed (someone does it to you, like in the commercial), your jersey (or your business jacket) gets pulled over your head, so you get forced into having punches rain down upon your back.
There's a difference.
(woo! massive duplicate posting!)
Actually, you don't get turtled, you get jerseyed. When you turtle (you have to do it yourself), you basically curl up in a ball, allowing the punches to rain down upon your back. When you get jerseyed (someone does it to you, like in the commercial), your jersey (or your business jacket) gets pulled over your head, so you get forced into having punches rain down upon your back.
There's a difference.
3.2% isn't a beer, that's barley juice.
Actually, the BC government wasn't offering anything. BC wasn't in negotiations with Microsoft to try to get them to move up. It was all rumour and innuendo.
Read the article. The bug mentioned in the blurb had a patch released on July 17. The bug mentioned in the blurb was not the one that was exploited.
Amen to that. If you ask Joe Blow on the street what he thinks about OS X, odds are rather good that he won't know what you're talking about. Odds are he won't even care that Apple is coming out with a new OS with new whiz-bang features.
Remember the launch of Windows 95? That's about as close to a cultural phenomenon you're going to get over an OS release, and there was more controversy about the Rolling Stones allowing "Start Me Up" to be used in Microsoft's ad campaigns.
Cultural revolution? Bah. Cultural bump-in-the-road is more like it.
Yeah, substuting for Pritchet, no? Or was it Vandenberg's class?
You mean the French army doesn't get "rooted"? I thought that's why they lost all the time...
*heh* Even better, I'm a Canadian going down to the States in a week, and I want to know if they'll take me down at the border when I wear my DeCSS shirt.
The Ars Technica RAM Guide is a good place to start for the technologies that are around now (SRAM, SDRAM, DRAM, etc.). Ars also has a story about MRAM, which links to this Wired article describing IBM's work in the field.
I can't speak for Linux as a firewall, but if you used that clunky old machine as an OpenBSD firewall, you'd be fairly secure. I have a Pentium-75 running OpenBSD 2.6, and I've noticed no speed dips at all. The load on the firewall sits at about 0.08, so I'd be surprised if your 486 fared much worse.