If you're interested, there's a similar story in the Bhagavad Gita (I think).
A king has organized a huge offering to the Gods when in the middle of the Yagna, he notices a mongoose that is oddly colored. Half of its body was normal and the other half was covered in Gold. The mongoose was rolling about on its normal side in the Yagna arena. The King halts the yagna and asks the mongoose what it was doing. The mongoose then tells them a story:
It narrates the tale of a poor family about to sit down to dinner with the few rice cakes they had managed to save over a week after starving in that period. They suddenly hear a beggar at the door. They usher the man in, bathe him, clothe him and sit him down to dinner. They serve him half of the rice cakes they had saved and watch as he eats, making small talk and fanning him with palm leaves to keep him comfortable. After eating them, he begins to lick his fingers which prompts the mother in the family to bring some more rice cakes from the kitchen and put them in the stranger's plate. He eats these too and starts licking his fingers again. The mother then brings the rest of the rice cakes and serves them to the stranger. He eats and is obviously sated and gets up to leave. The family then leads him to the door. At the door, the beggar turns into Indra (the king of the dEvataas) and tells them that this had been a test and that by their graciousness and humility they had obtained the right to travel to heaven together and led them away. The mongoose who had been watching from the bushes then went into the now empty house searching for any morsels left over. It tripped on the doorstep and rolled on the floor of the house. It was astonished that the part of its body that had touched the floor had turned gold.
The mongoose then tells the King, "I've been on a quest, visiting holy places, to find a place as holy as that house. It appears my quest hasn't ended" and leaves.
you should like, take this problem to a dev forum or something instead of posting it here on... wait a minute... what's going on here? what have you done to my taco. TACO!
I am resigned to use LabVIEW which upto now runs on windows only systems. Hence the need for windows. I'd switch to linux as soon as the new release of LabVIEW comes out. Let's see though. The university decides which software to install in the lab PCs.
How about this. Get rid of the windows shell. Run Blackbox (any flavor), get rid of explorer, get xplorer2, opera/firefox, gaim/trillian, uninstall outlook, windows messenger, windows media player 10 (9 or 8 is good enough - use quicktime and iTunes) and you should be good to go. Never be bothered by windows messenger or further updates however clandestine.
I thought it was an optional component you could remove at install time. I've gotten rid of MSN and windows messengers. Doesn't bother me with annoying reminders because I don't use outlook and use opera as default browser. No problems with passport either. Gaim takes care of all messengers.
Rival parties came up with some ingenious methods to beat these "ingenious"....oh sorry, "indeginous" machines(this was done in the previous polls... which were in 2001 I guess). Let's take, for example, the two parties I am interested in, The Congress (I) and the BJP. Now, local Congress leaders (hypothetical case), campaigning in villages, demonstrated the EVMs for public awareness purposes. The villagers were told the "correct" procedure for voting.
"To vote for the party of your choice, please press the button that is placed against the symbol for the Congress(I). This will turn your voting machine on! Now, please press the button against the party of your choice."
There was a few other ideas. Anyone else heard of them?
Slashdot Mirror
Is this really what we're supposed be looking for?
Next thing you know, you'll be covering cooking eggs on over heated laptop models.
Oh. Wait.
I had no idea.
I'm fairly new to slashdot and didn't understand why you people ragged on Dvorak so often. I felt that you were being unfair.
Well, this article proves it. You were just being the jocks all along. Picking on the retarded kid. In this case, Unbelievably retarded kid.
That he finally picked a topic I can relate to must have helped today.
See what I mean? Proves my point. You need to go back to school young man/lady.
hear hear! :)
In Hindu tradition, a person's life from age 5 through 25 is supposed to be spent in the pursuit of education.
The people who thought this up must have had some motive :)
They did however impose celibacy on the Brahmachari. The idea's obviously not going to be popular now.
Vishnu is a "he". He only takes the female form when required. Batteries not included.
I just read that headline like Doyle Redland. Is this even news?
If you're interested, there's a similar story in the Bhagavad Gita (I think).
A king has organized a huge offering to the Gods when in the middle of the Yagna, he notices a mongoose that is oddly colored. Half of its body was normal and the other half was covered in Gold. The mongoose was rolling about on its normal side in the Yagna arena. The King halts the yagna and asks the mongoose what it was doing. The mongoose then tells them a story:
It narrates the tale of a poor family about to sit down to dinner with the few rice cakes they had managed to save over a week after starving in that period. They suddenly hear a beggar at the door. They usher the man in, bathe him, clothe him and sit him down to dinner. They serve him half of the rice cakes they had saved and watch as he eats, making small talk and fanning him with palm leaves to keep him comfortable. After eating them, he begins to lick his fingers which prompts the mother in the family to bring some more rice cakes from the kitchen and put them in the stranger's plate. He eats these too and starts licking his fingers again. The mother then brings the rest of the rice cakes and serves them to the stranger. He eats and is obviously sated and gets up to leave. The family then leads him to the door. At the door, the beggar turns into Indra (the king of the dEvataas) and tells them that this had been a test and that by their graciousness and humility they had obtained the right to travel to heaven together and led them away. The mongoose who had been watching from the bushes then went into the now empty house searching for any morsels left over. It tripped on the doorstep and rolled on the floor of the house. It was astonished that the part of its body that had touched the floor had turned gold.
The mongoose then tells the King, "I've been on a quest, visiting holy places, to find a place as holy as that house. It appears my quest hasn't ended" and leaves.
and as always, thanks for stating the blatantly obvious :)
i thought it was just me.
measures distance, takes a step forward, slaps parent with a fish.
[/end sketch]
"Go on go on! Move along. This is extremely silly. We won't have silly sketches here."
You can't hear it because they're texting!
you should like, take this problem to a dev forum or something instead of posting it here on... wait a minute... what's going on here? what have you done to my taco.
TACO!
-weeps-
heh heh. insightful. one almost feels sentient.
When we took away his stapler. That just pissed him off.
I am resigned to use LabVIEW which upto now runs on windows only systems. Hence the need for windows. I'd switch to linux as soon as the new release of LabVIEW comes out. Let's see though. The university decides which software to install in the lab PCs.
How about this. Get rid of the windows shell. Run Blackbox (any flavor), get rid of explorer, get xplorer2, opera/firefox, gaim/trillian, uninstall outlook, windows messenger, windows media player 10 (9 or 8 is good enough - use quicktime and iTunes) and you should be good to go. Never be bothered by windows messenger or further updates however clandestine.
I thought it was an optional component you could remove at install time. I've gotten rid of MSN and windows messengers. Doesn't bother me with annoying reminders because I don't use outlook and use opera as default browser. No problems with passport either. Gaim takes care of all messengers.
What exactly prevents the removal? Specifics?
This Tolkein you speak of... is it edible?
And... oh yeah! Down with conglomerates!
Let this not be an obscure refrence to the UPN show with Kel and the other dude.
http://www.industelegraph.com
...they were nucular
I actually do. Didn't shave that day.
... or if its already been posted.
Rival parties came up with some ingenious methods to beat these "ingenious"....oh sorry, "indeginous" machines(this was done in the previous polls... which were in 2001 I guess). Let's take, for example, the two parties I am interested in, The Congress (I) and the BJP. Now, local Congress leaders (hypothetical case), campaigning in villages, demonstrated the EVMs for public awareness purposes. The villagers were told the "correct" procedure for voting.
"To vote for the party of your choice, please press the button that is placed against the symbol for the Congress(I). This will turn your voting machine on! Now, please press the button against the party of your choice."
There was a few other ideas. Anyone else heard of them?