save the file as a maya ascii, then open it in wordpad and change the header from "whaterver PLE version" to "the version you have"
save and watch it work
Sitting somewhere in infinite isolation, Marvin the Robot sits and sighs in abject misery. He ponders the loss of his right arm; parts from it used to spit out nothing but 1's and 0's in a small beige box. 1's and 0's, 0's and 1's. Marvin let's out a small mechanical sigh of solitude and begins counting backwards from infinity to 0, in binary.
I have found that for the most part you are correct here. I have 3 programs installed that do this sort of thing; Spybot, Adaware, RegCleaner. They all seem to miss some, and most of them are able to identify spyware that the others miss. Perhaps its too much protection, but I'm tired of formatting and reinstalling every 6 months.
...or spy on them. Kinda hard to detect in my opinion. Small, lightweight, fast moving, autonomous, and able to survive heat (i.e.-sheds heat fairly effectively). I guess it would still be used for killing, only indirectly in this way. Send in the bot, it takes the tactical information and sends it to swat, norad, or the star wars space stations for "dispatch" purposes.
I wouldn't be as worried of them strapping a nuke on one as I would of one crawling under my house at night, down the streets, in workplaces, etc.
Vox
I have had incredible success just repeated whatever they say back to them in the form of a question. Works like a goddamn charm because most women (and people for that matter) love to talk about themselves. For example:
Girl: And then, we like, went to Gina's house and got, like, really drunk.
You: You went to Gina's and got drunk?
Girl: Yeah! And then we were like, so drunk, and like, we went to the bar.
You: You went to the bar huh? How drunk were you?
Girl: We were like, blah blee blahbbyblah.
You: Blahbeblahble? Did you blahblahblah?
This can go on forever, just don't be too obvious about what you are doing. I guarantee if you can handle hearing her spout for this long that you will at least get a number. (Maybe not the right one, but maybe you had bad breath.)
I had similar experiences myself. I remember once on the playground in 3rd grade three kids came up to me and two held me back while the other punched me in the stomach repeatedly. I didn't kick the guy in the nuts, the notion still seems inconceivable, but I did kick him in the jaw while his friends held me in the air. (I noticed it's much easier to deliver a high kick when two guys are holding you up.) It was the first bone I ever broke, and I felt pretty awful afterward. I don't think I ever saw someone cry so hard in my life as that kid when the ambulance came. One of the lunch ladies saw the whole thing and they didn't even suspend me for it.
It took moving away to break the stigma that I was an evil and pain loving maniac. But on the plus side, no one tried to initiate me in high school or middle school. I can't say it was out of respect, I think it was outright fear that made them leave me alone. It's a good thing too because I was a truly a wimp.
But like Dilbert, I think I'm still pumped from using the mouse a lot.:P
Sorry, that came out a little more caustic than I intended it too. I guess I just think it's historic origin makes it more important as a quote due to it's absolute relevance to what is happening today. I probably shouldn't have said anything... please forgive.
If "by the people" you meant "rich land-owning White Anglo-Saxon Protestant male" then yeah.
I guess you didn't get the memo. It was never really for all the people, but it sure does sound good on paper! But, in reality, if you were a woman, or a non-white, I think you would find yourself with considerably less rights than the white men circa 1776. When you look at how far we have come to actually granting equal rights to everyone, you could argue that people in general have more rights now than they did when the country was founded. Keep in mind that some of these fights for equality took place very recently.
So we all have the right to vote and express ourselves. The problem is, we don't. I can't find an actual number right now, but let us just say that a very small fraction of American citizens even vote, but the majority caught the last episode of Seinfeld. Yeah we bitch and moan and post as AC with some new shocker, but the truth is that the American public seems to have a very small attention span to non-entertainment issues. (More Americans tuned into American Idol than the State of the Union.) While I agree with you that corporate favortism and the like is "bad" and we would be better off as citizens without, I think equally tragic is the apathy in which the American public exists.
While I feel your pain and helplessness as all these things around us are swirling into a maelstrom of fascism, we need to find a place between "I don't care about WMD's, Buffy is on!!! Ssshhh!" and "I'm pissed, hand me the Deagle". Sometimes I read the headlines and my blood boils just like yours is, but outright violent revolution is supposed to be the LAST resort to unsuccessful negotiations with the government. Have we negotiated? Do we care to? Why isn't a violent overthrow of a corporation ever suggested? Aren't they the true objects of your/our distaste?
Oops, 6:20. I have just enough time to catch a ctf4 before the Simpson's starts. (My quake moniker is Corporate Greed, go figure.)
I wholeheartedly agree. But every journey has to take a first step. We are definately babes in the woods.
Electromagnetic energy, light, and gravity are all natural phenomenon, but can be overcome in some cases. For EM and gravity, check that lifter link. For light, fiber optics, plasma (and lasers), etc. We certainly don't have what it takes now, but perhaps later. So, you are correct in saying that it'll never happen soon. To be cliche, Rome wasn't built in a day.
I doubt it will be a "home in time for the world series" kind of travel, probably ever. As far as us needing another planet when this one gets screwed, well, you have a point. What if we found some neat mineral or element previously undiscovered on say, Saturn, that is able to produce a nuclear type reaction with little or no caustic radiation? Slap one of those puppies in a shuttle and see what happens. I am not a physicist, but I would imagine there is no drag in space. (I doubt our computer equipment is anywhere near what we would need to travel very fast in space anyway. IBM's quantum processor? (might help, who knows.)
Who knows if we will even ever make it, and it's not as important and many things going on down here on Earth, but the solution could ONLY be technological in nature. Even if in the most fundamental sense of using basic science into applied science into a tool. (technology)
I'm sure Columbus heard similar comments when he looked for a shortcut and found a continent. (After all, the existing trade rountes were established.) No one knew it was there, and no one believed it could be.
Sometimes we just need to wait for other parts of applied science to catch up so we can move forward with something other than "blips". For example. Maybe this could be used eventually. So far, it seems to be only a "lifter", but we don't quite understand fully why this is happening. I think it qualifies as a naturally occuring phenomenon. (But wouldn't the sun count as one too?) Perhaps it (or something else as of yet undiscovered or uninvented) may hold some answers to our problems. Maybe it's a solar sail that will propel us into intergalactic travel. It might even be a giant slingshot, though unlikely. It may even require a babelfish and a Heart of Gold.:P IANAP
As far as the point of it all. Well, that is harder to discern. Could be greed (space gold!), could be enlightenment (be it scientific or religious), or maybe it's just man's innate desire to conquer things that are considered untouchable. Not sure why but an old L. Ron Hubbard quote comes to mind (mutated version of an oldy but goody):
Now is the time to put our shoulders to men's souls, for these are the times that try men's grindstones. We are the masters of mens' fates and I thank God for my indomitable will."
L. Ron Hubbard - Mission Earth series
Regards, Vox
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As soon as they work out the latency time issues in wifi, I'll make the switch. But right now it's too hard to bunny hop effectively with latencies as they are. I mean, the medics are even passing me by!
He is. There is a trend right now where many senior citizens (and others) are ordering the very same drugs they get in the USA from Canada at 20-50% of the price. Some US agency (i forget which) is getting ready to start airing ad campaingns stating how "dangerous" this practice can be. (In order to protect the bottom line, which is hurting from the faster, more efficient, and far cheaper Canadian alternatives. Maybe they are already, I don't watch TV.) So I think he may have been joking... albeit hard to tell.
The average Joe may not find a great reason to have one (or he may), but in the fields or search and rescue, fire prevention, forestry, maintenence, etc, they are great to have.
Maybe they can get in touch with the Nigerians for some scamming tips. The current 419 variants are getting monotonous. We need some new writers in in the global marketplace.
I guess on the plus side there would be the distinct lack of fat chicks in the pr0n streams we catch outta these technologically endowed countries.
I've never had any trouble hitting the 'next chapter' or 'track forward' button on my computer dvd prog or home dvd player to skip the FBI warning and studio logos. Is this not normal?
(I haven't altered my dvd playing hardware in any way ever.)
Slashdot Mirror
save the file as a maya ascii, then open it in wordpad and change the header from "whaterver PLE version" to "the version you have" save and watch it work
Mahatma Ghandi
Sitting somewhere in infinite isolation, Marvin the Robot sits and sighs in abject misery. He ponders the loss of his right arm; parts from it used to spit out nothing but 1's and 0's in a small beige box. 1's and 0's, 0's and 1's. Marvin let's out a small mechanical sigh of solitude and begins counting backwards from infinity to 0, in binary.
I have found that for the most part you are correct here. I have 3 programs installed that do this sort of thing; Spybot, Adaware, RegCleaner. They all seem to miss some, and most of them are able to identify spyware that the others miss. Perhaps its too much protection, but I'm tired of formatting and reinstalling every 6 months.
Vox
...or spy on them. Kinda hard to detect in my opinion. Small, lightweight, fast moving, autonomous, and able to survive heat (i.e.-sheds heat fairly effectively). I guess it would still be used for killing, only indirectly in this way. Send in the bot, it takes the tactical information and sends it to swat, norad, or the star wars space stations for "dispatch" purposes. I wouldn't be as worried of them strapping a nuke on one as I would of one crawling under my house at night, down the streets, in workplaces, etc. Vox
Girl: And then, we like, went to Gina's house and got, like, really drunk.
You: You went to Gina's and got drunk?
Girl: Yeah! And then we were like, so drunk, and like, we went to the bar.
You: You went to the bar huh? How drunk were you?
Girl: We were like, blah blee blahbbyblah.
You: Blahbeblahble? Did you blahblahblah?
This can go on forever, just don't be too obvious about what you are doing. I guarantee if you can handle hearing her spout for this long that you will at least get a number. (Maybe not the right one, but maybe you had bad breath.)
Livin' in a dream world,
Vox
media n. pl. mass media A means of public communication reaching a large audience. I would say that slashdot IS the media, at least part of it.
I had similar experiences myself. I remember once on the playground in 3rd grade three kids came up to me and two held me back while the other punched me in the stomach repeatedly. I didn't kick the guy in the nuts, the notion still seems inconceivable, but I did kick him in the jaw while his friends held me in the air. (I noticed it's much easier to deliver a high kick when two guys are holding you up.) It was the first bone I ever broke, and I felt pretty awful afterward. I don't think I ever saw someone cry so hard in my life as that kid when the ambulance came. One of the lunch ladies saw the whole thing and they didn't even suspend me for it.
:P
It took moving away to break the stigma that I was an evil and pain loving maniac. But on the plus side, no one tried to initiate me in high school or middle school. I can't say it was out of respect, I think it was outright fear that made them leave me alone. It's a good thing too because I was a truly a wimp.
But like Dilbert, I think I'm still pumped from using the mouse a lot.
Vox.
watch out for the infamous fisherman's wharf bush man, its really J. Ashcroft in disguise. Has been for some 24 years...
Vox
Regards, Vox
I'd do her like a trick, mate!
You should credit your quote because it is obviously not yours. (Even if it IS a sig.)
I think Hlllary getting elected counts as a failed negotiation. :P
I guess you didn't get the memo. It was never really for all the people, but it sure does sound good on paper! But, in reality, if you were a woman, or a non-white, I think you would find yourself with considerably less rights than the white men circa 1776. When you look at how far we have come to actually granting equal rights to everyone, you could argue that people in general have more rights now than they did when the country was founded. Keep in mind that some of these fights for equality took place very recently.
So we all have the right to vote and express ourselves. The problem is, we don't. I can't find an actual number right now, but let us just say that a very small fraction of American citizens even vote, but the majority caught the last episode of Seinfeld. Yeah we bitch and moan and post as AC with some new shocker, but the truth is that the American public seems to have a very small attention span to non-entertainment issues. (More Americans tuned into American Idol than the State of the Union.) While I agree with you that corporate favortism and the like is "bad" and we would be better off as citizens without, I think equally tragic is the apathy in which the American public exists.
While I feel your pain and helplessness as all these things around us are swirling into a maelstrom of fascism, we need to find a place between "I don't care about WMD's, Buffy is on!!! Ssshhh!" and "I'm pissed, hand me the Deagle". Sometimes I read the headlines and my blood boils just like yours is, but outright violent revolution is supposed to be the LAST resort to unsuccessful negotiations with the government. Have we negotiated? Do we care to? Why isn't a violent overthrow of a corporation ever suggested? Aren't they the true objects of your/our distaste?
Oops, 6:20. I have just enough time to catch a ctf4 before the Simpson's starts. (My quake moniker is Corporate Greed, go figure.)
Regards,
Vox
Electromagnetic energy, light, and gravity are all natural phenomenon, but can be overcome in some cases. For EM and gravity, check that lifter link. For light, fiber optics, plasma (and lasers), etc. We certainly don't have what it takes now, but perhaps later. So, you are correct in saying that it'll never happen soon. To be cliche, Rome wasn't built in a day.
I doubt it will be a "home in time for the world series" kind of travel, probably ever. As far as us needing another planet when this one gets screwed, well, you have a point. What if we found some neat mineral or element previously undiscovered on say, Saturn, that is able to produce a nuclear type reaction with little or no caustic radiation? Slap one of those puppies in a shuttle and see what happens. I am not a physicist, but I would imagine there is no drag in space. (I doubt our computer equipment is anywhere near what we would need to travel very fast in space anyway. IBM's quantum processor? (might help, who knows.)
Who knows if we will even ever make it, and it's not as important and many things going on down here on Earth, but the solution could ONLY be technological in nature. Even if in the most fundamental sense of using basic science into applied science into a tool. (technology)
I guess in the end I feel that whatever portion
Regards,
Vox
Sometimes we just need to wait for other parts of applied science to catch up so we can move forward with something other than "blips". For example. Maybe this could be used eventually. So far, it seems to be only a "lifter", but we don't quite understand fully why this is happening. I think it qualifies as a naturally occuring phenomenon. (But wouldn't the sun count as one too?) Perhaps it (or something else as of yet undiscovered or uninvented) may hold some answers to our problems. Maybe it's a solar sail that will propel us into intergalactic travel. It might even be a giant slingshot, though unlikely. It may even require a babelfish and a Heart of Gold.
As far as the point of it all. Well, that is harder to discern. Could be greed (space gold!), could be enlightenment (be it scientific or religious), or maybe it's just man's innate desire to conquer things that are considered untouchable.
Not sure why but an old L. Ron Hubbard quote comes to mind (mutated version of an oldy but goody):
Now is the time to put our shoulders to men's souls, for these are the times that try men's grindstones. We are the masters of mens' fates and I thank God for my indomitable will."
L. Ron Hubbard - Mission Earth series
Regards,
Vox
I guess I just wanna have a bunny Hop-opoly.
Here (from Space Bunnies I believe)
Here (a kangaroo)
Cya in there then, eh?
Vox (a.k.a.- Corporate Greed)
Hitler's Reich Marshall Goering at Nuremberg Trials
He is. There is a trend right now where many senior citizens (and others) are ordering the very same drugs they get in the USA from Canada at 20-50% of the price. Some US agency (i forget which) is getting ready to start airing ad campaingns stating how "dangerous" this practice can be. (In order to protect the bottom line, which is hurting from the faster, more efficient, and far cheaper Canadian alternatives. Maybe they are already, I don't watch TV.) So I think he may have been joking... albeit hard to tell.
The average Joe may not find a great reason to have one (or he may), but in the fields or search and rescue, fire prevention, forestry, maintenence, etc, they are great to have.
I guess on the plus side there would be the distinct lack of fat chicks in the pr0n streams we catch outta these technologically endowed countries.
Time to go grab some falafel...
Vox
I've never had any trouble hitting the 'next chapter' or 'track forward' button on my computer dvd prog or home dvd player to skip the FBI warning and studio logos. Is this not normal?
(I haven't altered my dvd playing hardware in any way ever.)
Vox