If someone like you would have come down all high and mighty and mocked my creative outlet, trivialized my many long hours working on what absolutely fascinated me, and told me I was wasting my time, I might not be where I am today. And judging by your tone, you could only dream of being in my shoes today.
Seeing as you posted as an AC, I have a question for you: Where are you today?
The ads at Slashdot aren't so bad, I just wish Flash was banished. Apparently there's a Mozilla/Firebird Flash-killer extension (click the button to stop the blinky blinky), but I mainly use the other major browser.
I thought I was getting it done early on Saturday, but I stopped at my local walmart for gift wrap on the way home, and when I came back out, my window was smashed in and $100 worth of gifts were gone. So, I get to go out again next Saturday.
The IT Department couldn't afford to pay the sales department $699 for each server, so they took one down. They figured nobody would notice, as they haven't come up with anything new recently.
I work in the Canopy Group office buildings at another (non-evil) company. We're all serviced by Center7 and the last time there was the confirmed/acknowledged DDOS attack we felt it hard. Getting to hosts outside of the building was very difficult all day.
No hiccups today. Center7 did promise last time that they could and would isolate everyone else from SCO, so there is another explanation, but...
How can I contact this Center7? I want to be isolated from SCO!
Why did the chicken cross the mobius strip?
To get to the same side!
Hmm, can I get away with this one? It's kinda about force, and biology.
What do you get when you breed an elephant and a poodle?
A dead poodle.
Great... so instead of posting a mirror, they make ABSOLUTELY SURE that Groklaw melts down.
I'm sorry, guys, but I really think this is crappy. You cry about how it's hard to mirror stuff, because it would require *gasp* permission. So instead of taking a little extra time, particularly when you know that the remote server ALREADY can't handle the load, you aim tens of thousands of hits at them.
I'm sure this isn't the intention, but it is essentially a deliberate DoS.
Enough excuses, already.... the prior permission thing just doesn't work anymore. Google mirrors practically EVERYTHING and they don't have specific permission. You can live by the same rules they do.
At the VERY least, in cases where the server is already obviously choking, post a synopsis without a link.
I'm doing my part not to slashdot groklaw, I don't even read the article!;)
The Archos Studio 10 uses a usb bridge to a hard drive, which requires a kernel level driver. This is included in the kernel config for recent kernels. As I understand it, it patches the usbstorage module to have the driver for the bridge. So it should work, assuming Mandrake included that option in their kernel. Other than that, it works like a (thumb drive, pen drive, USB Key).
Perhaps you could change something IN the movie. Like an actor in a certain scene says a different word with the same meaning. i.e. instead of saying Whoa, the actor (keanu in this case) would say Wow. Most people wouldn't notice the difference.
you could have spammer spamming software:). Imagine if every time your filters tagged a message as spam it could send an auto reply with a forged header (fake email address and stuff like that, assuming this doesn't get ruled illegal). Then the spammer would get a randomly generated email along the lines of:
Yes, I am very interested in your product. Please send more information to my address at fictionalPerson@non-existantDomain.net.
Now that would be funny.
Come on, do it one better: Send them the e-mail of another spammer, who will see the address and spam back. It's foolproof!
I remember trying to play Soldier of Fortune (the original) on the hardest difficulty, only using knives. I passed a bit of the games, then I found it almost impossible to win. It would have been a lot easier if you didn't randomly lose knives when you threw them at people. I got bored after a while, but I didn't have a bunch of people waiting for updates, either. I wonder what will happen in a few weeks when/if this person gets bored.
Here in the good old US of A, people can't know who you are voting for, so we would have to blindfold the candidates and lock the voter in a room with them. But then how do we know if people are voting more than once? I know I would!;)
Or any gaming console... AFAIK all console manufacturers lose money on the console itself, hoping to hook others into buying their overpriced games, which make up for the profit.
I don't usually use a mapping program, as I ask the person/business at the destination how to get there. But my brother had a little misfortune with mapquest a couple monts ago when he printed out directions without looking at them first. It was in rural Minnesota, and about half way there, it gave him the direction to go west 1.7 miles on a certain street, then turn left. It gave no street name, nor was there an weasy way to find out what it was. He just drove down each street that seemed to be abbout the right distance away. I don't expect it to know directions everywhere, but it should tell you if it doesn't know something before you use it. Just my opinion.
It's about who owns that technology. The motives to promote a certain format are all about who gets the royalties when someone uses it. Many big players are on both sides, hence the reason one doesn't just die out.
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Seeing as you posted as an AC, I have a question for you: Where are you today?
What other major browser, Konqueror?
I thought I was getting it done early on Saturday, but I stopped at my local walmart for gift wrap on the way home, and when I came back out, my window was smashed in and $100 worth of gifts were gone. So, I get to go out again next Saturday.
Normally, I would think that was funny, but I just had my car broken into and many gifts stolen from my local WalMart's parking lot, no joke...
The IT Department couldn't afford to pay the sales department $699 for each server, so they took one down. They figured nobody would notice, as they haven't come up with anything new recently.
I just say serial and then they look at me funny.
It's not a bug, it's a feature!
How can I contact this Center7? I want to be isolated from SCO!
Why did the chicken cross the mobius strip? To get to the same side! Hmm, can I get away with this one? It's kinda about force, and biology. What do you get when you breed an elephant and a poodle? A dead poodle.
I'm doing my part not to slashdot groklaw, I don't even read the article!
every attempt at hardware ID (remember Intel's great Proc Id idea?) has failed.
Hmm, that explains the great failure of the MAC address on my NIC...
According to http://bjorn.haxx.se/isd200/
The Archos Studio 10 uses a usb bridge to a hard drive, which requires a kernel level driver. This is included in the kernel config for recent kernels. As I understand it, it patches the usbstorage module to have the driver for the bridge. So it should work, assuming Mandrake included that option in their kernel. Other than that, it works like a (thumb drive, pen drive, USB Key).
How about running IN a call of some sort, as your favorite rodent pet does.
Host LAN Parties during free time. That's how I socialize (other than my girlfriend).
Perhaps you could change something IN the movie. Like an actor in a certain scene says a different word with the same meaning. i.e. instead of saying Whoa, the actor (keanu in this case) would say Wow. Most people wouldn't notice the difference.
After reading this, I think it's just an oxymoron.
As if NASA needs any more funding problems, $699 goes a long way for monkey-food in space.
Not just $699, but $699 per processor IIRC. With 512 processors, that comes out to around $357,888 plus tax.
But at least you won't get outsourced.... I hope!
you could have spammer spamming software :). Imagine if every time your filters tagged a message as spam it could send an auto reply with a forged header (fake email address and stuff like that, assuming this doesn't get ruled illegal). Then the spammer would get a randomly generated email along the lines of:
Yes, I am very interested in your product. Please send more information to my address at fictionalPerson@non-existantDomain.net.
Now that would be funny.
Come on, do it one better: Send them the e-mail of another spammer, who will see the address and spam back. It's foolproof!
I remember trying to play Soldier of Fortune (the original) on the hardest difficulty, only using knives. I passed a bit of the games, then I found it almost impossible to win. It would have been a lot easier if you didn't randomly lose knives when you threw them at people. I got bored after a while, but I didn't have a bunch of people waiting for updates, either. I wonder what will happen in a few weeks when/if this person gets bored.
Here in the good old US of A, people can't know who you are voting for, so we would have to blindfold the candidates and lock the voter in a room with them. But then how do we know if people are voting more than once? I know I would! ;)
Or any gaming console... AFAIK all console manufacturers lose money on the console itself, hoping to hook others into buying their overpriced games, which make up for the profit.
I don't usually use a mapping program, as I ask the person/business at the destination how to get there. But my brother had a little misfortune with mapquest a couple monts ago when he printed out directions without looking at them first. It was in rural Minnesota, and about half way there, it gave him the direction to go west 1.7 miles on a certain street, then turn left. It gave no street name, nor was there an weasy way to find out what it was. He just drove down each street that seemed to be abbout the right distance away. I don't expect it to know directions everywhere, but it should tell you if it doesn't know something before you use it. Just my opinion.
It's about who owns that technology. The motives to promote a certain format are all about who gets the royalties when someone uses it. Many big players are on both sides, hence the reason one doesn't just die out.
Does the opposite hold true? Can I hack into the credit account of someone, and I get negative penalties? That sounds cool.