Not quite. To attempt to put it simply, speed is linked to time, perhaps, and even then the speed of light *in a vacuum* is the only speed-of-light phenomenon that matters. The photons themselves routinely go slower than that when they pass through a dense medium. They're doing so right now, as they're going slowly through the air between your monitor and your face (air is denser than vacuum... everything is denser than a vacuum!) Your friendly neighborhood Cherenkov radiation(picture) thanks you.
My experience with Dell was: 1) Dial. 2) Wait an hour or so. 3) Hello, where can I find the serial number certificate doohickey to reinstall Windoze 98 on this box? It's on a sticker attached to the left side of the tower you say? Thanks, goodbye.
Helpful, and once I finally got a human on the line, fast and effecient. But still...
Living on the so-called "second most-wired campus" in the nation, I found that the room had about 5 electrical outlet spots with two plugs each. Add alarm clocks, microfridge, two laptops, two printers, cordless phone, two PDA cradles, TV, DVD player, PS2, my beautiful 300 watt surround sound system, a spare lamp or two (mmm)... There are about 3 big-old power strips which are just packed full.
What disappointed me is despite the 10mbps line to the Internet, there were only two outlets. If I use one and my roommate uses one, where do I plug in the old 486 I converted to NetBSD last week? I'm going to have to get some sort of cheap hub, and that means money. If I had money, I'd be using something better than a 486 as my personal web-server/slave machine.
On the other hand, all the people-who-tell-you-these-things in the local university's IT department are quick to point out that it seems it's not really legal to download music you already own. MAKE UP YOUR MINDS, WOULDYA?
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"XSLT: Have you tried it? I rest my case."
As a matter of fact, a decent portion of my work a few years ago was with XSLT. It worked fine and beautifully. Of course, what were doing was really flouting the very design of XML itself itself with what we were doing...:)
In essence, we wrote simple Java classes (yes, we were in Java, that's another matter =b) to query the database, add quick XML-like wrappers, send them back to the servlet, and then get it parsed into a web page with XSLT. You could get a whole lot of code re-use from that sort of thing.
Is flaming terrorists really that smart of an idea?;) Seriously, if Linux/open-source/etc advocates were *really* like terrorists, Microsoft headquarters would be a hole in the ground by now:)
Well, if there's a graphical display, which do I prefer to look at- some cute/hot chick, or a big muscle-bound he-man? Sure, it might be fun to think of yourself as the guy with muscles, but playing with a girl on the screen is significantly more... aesthetically pleasing.:)
Of course, this is a different matter for games where you have a first-person view or in which you have a first-person view, or good old-fashioned textmode RPG games (Angband anyone?) I don't really care.
and in the case of Virtua Figher 4, I play Pai almost exclusively due to her attack set. It's fast, it's got quick counters, and it's not too hard to execute the manuvers.
No, as the article says, there are people out there would would cover the costs of adding support for Microsoft. They're just being anticompetitive and attempting to herd people into buying Win Doze.
This is regulation. I thought regulation was bad for the Internet... and in any case, merely saying that the government should do "something" about it is inviting vague foolishness down on our heads to the detriment of business. Any "solution" implemented on a vague platform like that would probably be worse than the problem, and at best a marginal improvement.
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[10-06-03 20:25:20] well, you get tech support for any linux you like on #angband, provided it's debian
[TOPIC] Luc: #angband: the self-help no-relationship support group. playing angband optional. (FFTA, on the other hand...)
#angband is the mostly-official channel for the game Angband and runs on WorldIRC. WorldIRC sucks.;D
Actually, besides the fact that WorldIRC is prone to having flaky connections, it's a pretty good network. They have some nice services- nickname services and channel services which largely prevent bot idiocy. X, the channel service bot, lets you log in and get operator status, but also supports tiered access, userlist administration, optional "strict ops" policy (only those logged in with the right permissions level can be opped... by anyone) de-op protection, and all sorts of fun stuff like that. You can't take over a WorldIRC channel with bot idiocy, I'll give them that.
If you do end up using WorldIRC, just connect to one of their servers- the randomizing server (irc.worldirc.org) has a tendency to route you over to another IRC network (Infomatrix or something like that).
Google is not ever going to be on the top of my bookmarks. I either set it to my homepage, or use the built-in search functions which link to it through my browser, or...
That's because you have a Palm, right? My Pocket PC speaks Graffiti, but nobody taught me it.
Bleah. Pocket PC. But I didn't have to pay for it;D There is an on-screen keyboard available, but I just don't like the way it works. (eat up half my screen then, wouldya?)
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Not quite. To attempt to put it simply, speed is linked to time, perhaps, and even then the speed of light *in a vacuum* is the only speed-of-light phenomenon that matters. The photons themselves routinely go slower than that when they pass through a dense medium. They're doing so right now, as they're going slowly through the air between your monitor and your face (air is denser than vacuum... everything is denser than a vacuum!)
Your friendly neighborhood Cherenkov radiation (picture) thanks you.
Well... Sarcasm aside, there are a whole lot of worse places to be subservient to.
Are the nanotubes, then, superconductive by nature? fun stuff, if they are.
You call the oft-mentioned neighbor and arrange for him to go over there and drain the pipes for you?
My experience with Dell was:
1) Dial.
2) Wait an hour or so.
3) Hello, where can I find the serial number certificate doohickey to reinstall Windoze 98 on this box? It's on a sticker attached to the left side of the tower you say? Thanks, goodbye.
Helpful, and once I finally got a human on the line, fast and effecient. But still...
Living on the so-called "second most-wired campus" in the nation, I found that the room had about 5 electrical outlet spots with two plugs each. Add alarm clocks, microfridge, two laptops, two printers, cordless phone, two PDA cradles, TV, DVD player, PS2, my beautiful 300 watt surround sound system, a spare lamp or two (mmm)... There are about 3 big-old power strips which are just packed full.
What disappointed me is despite the 10mbps line to the Internet, there were only two outlets. If I use one and my roommate uses one, where do I plug in the old 486 I converted to NetBSD last week? I'm going to have to get some sort of cheap hub, and that means money. If I had money, I'd be using something better than a 486 as my personal web-server/slave machine.
On the other hand, all the people-who-tell-you-these-things in the local university's IT department are quick to point out that it seems it's not really legal to download music you already own. MAKE UP YOUR MINDS, WOULDYA?
"XSLT: Have you tried it? I rest my case." :)
As a matter of fact, a decent portion of my work a few years ago was with XSLT. It worked fine and beautifully. Of course, what were doing was really flouting the very design of XML itself itself with what we were doing...
In essence, we wrote simple Java classes (yes, we were in Java, that's another matter =b) to query the database, add quick XML-like wrappers, send them back to the servlet, and then get it parsed into a web page with XSLT. You could get a whole lot of code re-use from that sort of thing.
Whaling songs! That's where it's at. I reccomend you start with "Cape Cod Girls", "Blow the Man Down", and especially "Blow Ye Winds". ^_^
JUST spammers and RIAA members? Whatever happened to Bill Gates and the Microsoft elites? ^_^
Goodness. The only thing I can imagine being worse than spam in an unregulated Internet is spam in a UN-regulated internet. GAAH!!!
Watch it be bundled with new Windows PCs... that'll get it moving like hotcakes.
Get real. This is Slashdot. Watch us imagine a Beowulf cluster of the stuff. :)
"Be careful what you say in your comments."
OK, let me be very careful and exact.
This... program... is... spyware!!!
Same here. And it was in a book that was a few decades old at the time.
In soviet Russia, nuclear powers YOU!
Wait a moment... that one's actually appropriate. Never mind.
Is flaming terrorists really that smart of an idea? ;) Seriously, if Linux/open-source/etc advocates were *really* like terrorists, Microsoft headquarters would be a hole in the ground by now :)
Well, if there's a graphical display, which do I prefer to look at- some cute/hot chick, or a big muscle-bound he-man? Sure, it might be fun to think of yourself as the guy with muscles, but playing with a girl on the screen is significantly more... aesthetically pleasing. :)
Of course, this is a different matter for games where you have a first-person view or in which you have a first-person view, or good old-fashioned textmode RPG games (Angband anyone?) I don't really care.
and in the case of Virtua Figher 4, I play Pai almost exclusively due to her attack set. It's fast, it's got quick counters, and it's not too hard to execute the manuvers.
No, as the article says, there are people out there would would cover the costs of adding support for Microsoft. They're just being anticompetitive and attempting to herd people into buying Win Doze.
This is regulation. I thought regulation was bad for the Internet... and in any case, merely saying that the government should do "something" about it is inviting vague foolishness down on our heads to the detriment of business. Any "solution" implemented on a vague platform like that would probably be worse than the problem, and at best a marginal improvement.
Like cotton in the old South and the boll weevil? Hmm. I'm starting to like this analogy.
Amazing. That's a lot of nodes.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of chess pieces...
Actually, besides the fact that WorldIRC is prone to having flaky connections, it's a pretty good network. They have some nice services- nickname services and channel services which largely prevent bot idiocy. X, the channel service bot, lets you log in and get operator status, but also supports tiered access, userlist administration, optional "strict ops" policy (only those logged in with the right permissions level can be opped... by anyone) de-op protection, and all sorts of fun stuff like that. You can't take over a WorldIRC channel with bot idiocy, I'll give them that.
If you do end up using WorldIRC, just connect to one of their servers- the randomizing server (irc.worldirc.org) has a tendency to route you over to another IRC network (Infomatrix or something like that).
Google is not ever going to be on the top of my bookmarks. I either set it to my homepage, or use the built-in search functions which link to it through my browser, or...
That's because you have a Palm, right? My Pocket PC speaks Graffiti, but nobody taught me it.
;D
Bleah. Pocket PC. But I didn't have to pay for it
There is an on-screen keyboard available, but I just don't like the way it works. (eat up half my screen then, wouldya?)