Whenever one of these things pops up everyone lambasts the scammer's poor spelling and grammer, but that doesn't mean much. There are plenty of real respectable buisnesses that have much worce communication skills. What should catch your attention imediately though is internal consistancy.
- In the first e-mail the "deceased's" date of birth is listed as 27/07/1932
- A few mails later lists his date of birth as 1st Oct 1930
- In one e-mail in the same message the scammer says that there last communication with the deceased "was around 25th November 1998". even though "In mid 2001, he asked that the money be liquidated."
I'm sure there are more, that's just what I cought from one casual first reading. I can say that if it was my money I'd first make sure the guy I was dealing with could first keep his story straight. But then again I guess a lot of Religions make less internal sence than this and people give them tonnes of money, so maybe we're all just used to it by now?
As someone who has two fairly major Physics papers due in 4 hours and lives in Portland I can easily say this is the best news I've heard all day.
But why is this news? I hear you ask. Oh come off it, what's wrong with a little cult of personality now and then. Sometimes I think that's the only thing keeping Apple afloat. Anyway let me give you a quick list of reasons why Portland is great: 1. Free Geek, our own local geek run charity. 2. lot's of great microbrews and wifi enabled bars. 3. And of course the beautiful weather. And with that, where ever you are, may your beer be micro and your operating system free. Cheers
I totally agree, in my expirience this is the only rout that ever works for non geeks. We may all think it's a good idea to start with the basics of programming, (algorithms, variables, Boolian logic et all), but that's because we're geeks. We like learning theoretical things. However, from experience most people will quickly lose interrest unless they see some imediate gratification. Teach her to build a basic web page, she can see what she's doing as she goes along and will even have something to show for it. If she's still interrested go for java script, if she's still interrested I'd go for one of the P's (php, perl). If she's still interrested after that you've got her hooked.
I've got it. Here you've got a project that has produced some very good data and yet the creators have decided to stop maintaining it while they completely redo it from the ground up because they think the old base has gotten too "messy" to properly maintain anymore, disenfranchising the user base in the process. That's right all the signs are there, we must have just not noticed before, Hubble must be an open source project.
isn't the speed of light not actually a constant but changing with the expansion of the universe
Short answer no, longer answer we don't know. Pretty much all of modern physics is built off the idea that the speed of light is a constant. If you start changing the speed of light then all sorts of thing "break" like conservation of energy. So if you can change the speed of light, you could create matter out of nothing. Neat trick if you could pull it off. That said changing the speed of light does solve some nasty problems surrounding the big bang.
There's also the question that if the speed of light was changing if we'd even have any way of noticing because everything would be skewed along with it. Fun stuff.
This could actually be THE way to show your friends the superiority of both your skills and your favourite programming environment!
All the hours of practice, the computer science degrees, all the long dateless Friday nights coding, I now know they have led up to this contest. Why I can program anything, except for this emotion you call "love."
So if I have this strait this is a unsupported beta firmware hack to make a dvd drive write with unknown success to a dual layer media which isn't even available yet, will void your warrenty anyway and may kill your drive?
You just hit on my major beef with all of the laptops I've found with Linux Pre-installed. They all seem to be marketed to geeks and cost more (often a lot more) than laptops from other vendors, even the ones who claim they don't pay any MS tax. Granted my time isn't worth much at the moment, but I'd rather pay a few hundred dollars less and spend the hour or so to install Mandrake myself.
So lets forget for a second that the story of Noah's Ark obviously follows the traditions of older stories, and forget about the all of the technical problems with building (not to mention loading) a boat with two of every species of animal. Let's forget about that for just a moment and think about the possibility of atually finding that boat high in a mountain after all this time (assuming the oral tradition even tells us to the right place to look).
If the boat was left to the elements it would have rotted in a few years if not months. Assuming it managed to survive under a sheet of ice it still wouldn't be there. Ice doesn't stay put on a mountain side, there's a very slow but steady stream of ice constantly flowing down the mountain. Anything that used to be up there would have been shifted down the mountain and spit out in a few hundred years.
So in summary even if the story is totally true and they're looking in the right place, it still won't be there. But hey, don't let me be a killjoy, afterall, looking's most of the fun.
It really is. On many levels modern chip production is horrendously bad for the environment. It's a little known fact but pure silicon doesn't exist naturally on earth, it's a multistep process with some really nasty chemicals to produce it. Lithography is again a multistep process with some truly nasty chemical waste including some strong acids. The machines used to "dope" silicon to produce p/n junctions are often sold off cheep to hobbiests because of the large costs associated with cleaning and recycling them. If you find one don't take it, often they explode if opened. Then let's not forget that the next gen P4 is slotted to run, at what, 150 watts?
Oh, but wait, atleast now there'll be a quarter gram less lead in my computer.
Most people have all the computing power they need. It's time more people worry less about clock speed and more about their electric bills and what happens to all those chemicals after Intel's done with them. Cheers.
What really surprises me is that companies seem to always introduce Linux to their low end computers (Walmart anyone?). A lot of high end Unix workstations are still being sold out there, why aren't more companies pushing a high end Linux workstation?
What really surprised me about this competition is that no one went for the stupid solution. I read about a robot competition in the late 90's that involved obstical avoidance. One of the top finishers had no computer controller it only changed course when it ran into something and placed high just because it didn't break down.
By the numbers now, if 44% of people surveyed contribute content to the internet and 98% of the internet is porn, than a wopping 43% or about 120 million americans are involved in the porn industry. Statistics are a wonderful thing.
As the creator of the original Protest Protest that ran successfully in Portland, Oregon for more than two months I'm considering taking legal action against SCO for damaging my intellectual property. The concepts of irony, humor and sarcasm and their derivative works are my sole property. Much of my IP has been copied verbatim, while some of it (for example humor) have been disguised enough not to be funny, but are still obvious copies. I'll provide specific examples never, but you're encouraged to speculate wildly until then. Current users of ironic works are encouraged to purchase a license to avoid legal issues. In case you're wondering the Protest Protest is real. Go to OutsideWorld if you don't believe me.
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"In some pictures, near the actual explosion, there are rows of criss-crossing smoke trails..."
Just before the explosion they set off rockets to have a visual aid to gauge the blast.
Whenever one of these things pops up everyone lambasts the scammer's poor spelling and grammer, but that doesn't mean much. There are plenty of real respectable buisnesses that have much worce communication skills. What should catch your attention imediately though is internal consistancy.
- In the first e-mail the "deceased's" date of birth is listed as 27/07/1932
- A few mails later lists his date of birth as 1st Oct 1930
- In one e-mail in the same message the scammer says that there last communication with the deceased "was around 25th November 1998". even though "In mid 2001, he asked that the money be liquidated."
I'm sure there are more, that's just what I cought from one casual first reading. I can say that if it was my money I'd first make sure the guy I was dealing with could first keep his story straight. But then again I guess a lot of Religions make less internal sence than this and people give them tonnes of money, so maybe we're all just used to it by now?
As someone who has two fairly major Physics papers due in 4 hours and lives in Portland I can easily say this is the best news I've heard all day.
But why is this news? I hear you ask. Oh come off it, what's wrong with a little cult of personality now and then. Sometimes I think that's the only thing keeping Apple afloat.
Anyway let me give you a quick list of reasons why Portland is great:
1. Free Geek, our own local geek run charity.
2. lot's of great microbrews and wifi enabled bars.
3. And of course the beautiful weather.
And with that, where ever you are, may your beer be micro and your operating system free. Cheers
I totally agree, in my expirience this is the only rout that ever works for non geeks. We may all think it's a good idea to start with the basics of programming, (algorithms, variables, Boolian logic et all), but that's because we're geeks. We like learning theoretical things. However, from experience most people will quickly lose interrest unless they see some imediate gratification. Teach her to build a basic web page, she can see what she's doing as she goes along and will even have something to show for it. If she's still interrested go for java script, if she's still interrested I'd go for one of the P's (php, perl). If she's still interrested after that you've got her hooked.
I've got it. Here you've got a project that has produced some very good data and yet the creators have decided to stop maintaining it while they completely redo it from the ground up because they think the old base has gotten too "messy" to properly maintain anymore, disenfranchising the user base in the process. That's right all the signs are there, we must have just not noticed before, Hubble must be an open source project.
isn't the speed of light not actually a constant but changing with the expansion of the universe
Short answer no, longer answer we don't know. Pretty much all of modern physics is built off the idea that the speed of light is a constant. If you start changing the speed of light then all sorts of thing "break" like conservation of energy. So if you can change the speed of light, you could create matter out of nothing. Neat trick if you could pull it off. That said changing the speed of light does solve some nasty problems surrounding the big bang.
There's also the question that if the speed of light was changing if we'd even have any way of noticing because everything would be skewed along with it. Fun stuff.
This could actually be THE way to show your friends the superiority of both your skills and your favourite programming environment!
All the hours of practice, the computer science degrees, all the long dateless Friday nights coding, I now know they have led up to this contest. Why I can program anything, except for this emotion you call "love."
So if I have this strait this is a unsupported beta firmware hack to make a dvd drive write with unknown success to a dual layer media which isn't even available yet, will void your warrenty anyway and may kill your drive?
Cool! Sorry I'm a sucker for punkrock sollutions.
You just hit on my major beef with all of the laptops I've found with Linux Pre-installed. They all seem to be marketed to geeks and cost more (often a lot more) than laptops from other vendors, even the ones who claim they don't pay any MS tax. Granted my time isn't worth much at the moment, but I'd rather pay a few hundred dollars less and spend the hour or so to install Mandrake myself.
So lets forget for a second that the story of Noah's Ark obviously follows the traditions of older stories, and forget about the all of the technical problems with building (not to mention loading) a boat with two of every species of animal. Let's forget about that for just a moment and think about the possibility of atually finding that boat high in a mountain after all this time (assuming the oral tradition even tells us to the right place to look). If the boat was left to the elements it would have rotted in a few years if not months. Assuming it managed to survive under a sheet of ice it still wouldn't be there. Ice doesn't stay put on a mountain side, there's a very slow but steady stream of ice constantly flowing down the mountain. Anything that used to be up there would have been shifted down the mountain and spit out in a few hundred years. So in summary even if the story is totally true and they're looking in the right place, it still won't be there. But hey, don't let me be a killjoy, afterall, looking's most of the fun.
It really is. On many levels modern chip production is horrendously bad for the environment. It's a little known fact but pure silicon doesn't exist naturally on earth, it's a multistep process with some really nasty chemicals to produce it. Lithography is again a multistep process with some truly nasty chemical waste including some strong acids. The machines used to "dope" silicon to produce p/n junctions are often sold off cheep to hobbiests because of the large costs associated with cleaning and recycling them. If you find one don't take it, often they explode if opened. Then let's not forget that the next gen P4 is slotted to run, at what, 150 watts?
Oh, but wait, atleast now there'll be a quarter gram less lead in my computer.
Most people have all the computing power they need. It's time more people worry less about clock speed and more about their electric bills and what happens to all those chemicals after Intel's done with them. Cheers.
What really surprises me is that companies seem to always introduce Linux to their low end computers (Walmart anyone?). A lot of high end Unix workstations are still being sold out there, why aren't more companies pushing a high end Linux workstation?
What really surprised me about this competition is that no one went for the stupid solution. I read about a robot competition in the late 90's that involved obstical avoidance. One of the top finishers had no computer controller it only changed course when it ran into something and placed high just because it didn't break down.
By the numbers now, if 44% of people surveyed contribute content to the internet and 98% of the internet is porn, than a wopping 43% or about 120 million americans are involved in the porn industry. Statistics are a wonderful thing.
As the creator of the original Protest Protest that ran successfully in Portland, Oregon for more than two months I'm considering taking legal action against SCO for damaging my intellectual property. The concepts of irony, humor and sarcasm and their derivative works are my sole property. Much of my IP has been copied verbatim, while some of it (for example humor) have been disguised enough not to be funny, but are still obvious copies. I'll provide specific examples never, but you're encouraged to speculate wildly until then. Current users of ironic works are encouraged to purchase a license to avoid legal issues. In case you're wondering the Protest Protest is real. Go to OutsideWorld if you don't believe me.