I rememeber some years agon the State of New York Was unable to refund monies woed to people that they just could not find. A paper did a piece on it and listed the people New York could not find:
Ronald Reagan (He was president at the time so probably hard to find), Bob Hope, Ed Koch, Robert Plant.. there dozens more like that. "Cannot be found" is all a matter of public greed...
I rememeber getting a "Secret picture of a Atomic Bomb schematic" years ago. I may still have it. Its ok though. To preserve national security it is in a format almost impossible to decrypt: Apple Newton Book format.
Movie? Try book: Lucifer's Hammer by Pournelle and Niven. or add in Alien Invasion to Asteroid and: Footfall by the same authors. Highly recomended reading.
I know!! they could move the trash can off the dock and put it...on the DESKTOP!
Oh, and fix the net browsing. That one is the reason I stuck with 10.2
Question: Is this a Internet Explorer specific system or will these ads show up on ANY web browser? So far, I have had very few pop-up, banner or other issues when I use Lynx.
Regardless of Cayce and his sleep predicitons, 2012 has another reason to be predictivly ominous: The Mayan Calendar Long Count runs out that year. Specifically on 23 December 2012 or, if you prefer the original: 13 cycles 0 katuns, 0 tuns, 0 uinals, o kins
One of the absolute beautiful things about the federal system of government we enjoy, is that on any technical issue, or indeed any issue with a greater degree of complexity then that which involves basic body functions, you can rest assured that your elected representative is totally clueless. A friend of mine once proposed an immutable rule and I totally agree with it: Those most qualified to win office by election are the least qualified to serve.
Indeed./. needs to maintain its unbiased perspective. After all, look at the previous slash dot on iTunes. See how biased, one sided and down right mean it is? and editorilaized it is? Compare that article to this one and you will get the flavor of a totally unbiased report form a journalist without an axe to grind: http://www.winnetmag.com/windowspaulthurrott/Artic le/ArticleID/42503/windowspaulthurrott_42503.html
About 30 years for me too... Facinating, desolate, desert place. Back then (the 60s) there was green lumps all over. I always wondered about the chemical make-up of Trinitite given the composition of soil/sand in the Tularosa Basin, the large amounts of gypsum (See White Sands National Monument while there), and the relativly crude U-235 refining techniques used back then (some hexafloride to go?)
A Jack of all trades is EXACTLY what a company wants...but NOT a mediocre one. If you can resolve pesky office suite format issues, then a network issue, then a sql database problem, follow this up with a custom Word macro to solve a unique need in the marketing dept. A quick cola break then reconfigure the mail server, enter some security groups in Active Directory (You will note a Borg bias to my company), then after two calls that a particular app in an obscure branch office are acting flaky realize this means the corporate web server is seconds from melt down and needs reset.
Being able to write a "Killer App" is one thing, and since most IT management is populated by former programmers, that skill is highly rated. In the day to day operation of IT though, the ability to understand the needs and problems of a user base that is not literate in C++ is far more of use.
Was not FAT12 (DOS 2.0) not actually an extension of the CP/M file system? Does not ProDOS, MFS HFS and all most all the other early file systems behave in similar fashions? FAT16 was merely a hacked to 2gb extension of the orignal 32mb limited FS. a Patent on FAT makes NO sense.
Bury the feds in paperwork to the point where they need to literally build warehouses just to house the evidence in the case. Subpoena every document in the known universe. Always hire one more lawyer then they do. Use every legal dodge trick and shysterism known.... This was the IBM paradigm back 1969 through around 1980 in their anit-trust case..
Bill got his start because Mom knew John Opel.
Looks like he picked up yet another trick from the Itty Bitty Machine Company... and the wheel turns..
--stretch memory; and its a real stretch---
CALL -151
C030G (to flip the video bit)
then, if you didn't crash...C3D0
life was so much simpler when you got back to BASICs
It is a game you know: "He who crashes with the most vulnerabilities wins!" Bill hates to loose...
-and to think that after 4 major iterations of OS X they can only muster one puny Trojan. Poor poor Apple...
Any sufficiently ridiculous technology is indistinguishable from a total waste of time..
Is there any truth to the rumor that DRM technology will be implemented on slash dot?
My goodness. this would mean news being promulgated by illiterate, ignorant, uninformed, panderers after obvious political or social agendas instead of the current newspapers and electronic media which..... hey now! wait a minute...
Can it be set to flash green while emiting a pre-recorder "MOVE'EM OUT!" when it sees the little old lady going 15mph in a 50mph zone and slamming brakes every time her imagination invents a reason to be paranoid? Such drivers are as determental to traffic flow as are speeders.
Really? I stand corrected then. I would be curious though. I have read extensively on the last few Ice Age cycles but had not heard of any earlier ones. A Google I go...
My point here though was that orbital dynamics, polar orientation, the wobble in the spin and all the other dynamics of planets can be effected by collisions, gravitational changes (near miss of a very large object), or even gravitational dynamics of far away near misses (moon capture from Asteroid belt by Jupiter, or even collisions between objects and other planets). I would lay money Earth's orbit is not what it was 50- 100- 200 or more million years back. It is, after all, the most crazy billard game ever.
It does. I am quite sure the orbital dynamics of the Earth and the Moon have been influenced by impacts. Example: prior to the dinosaur killer 64 million years ago, I do believe that Earth had never before experienced an Ice Age. Even BIGGER example: the Permian mass extinction (remember Trilobites?) 248 million years ago; I think there is good indications that Earth's orbit was quite different prior to that event. Certainly the atmosphere, climate zones, sea structure and compositions etc were. Look at the Moon. Next full Moon, look closely at Tyco Crater. That is one honkin HUGE hole! look north and south near Tyco. What you see is...cracks. Sometime in the past, a collision occurred that almost cracked the moon in half. The luck of the draw isn't every X*6 million years, it is once....only once. So far, Mammals have won this all important lottery...
From some literature I read some years ago, I remember that the hallmark of an alpha male in Chimp society was the ability to scream loud, gesticulate aggressively, then while standing in a position between its tribe and the perceived threat or object of displeasure, squat, defecate and then skillfully project the product thereof in the general direction of dislike. This is consistent primate behavior. Would not the US Congress or perhaps the UN be a better venue for this sort of study?
Speaking as an artist who still has a photocopy of my one and only 20 dollar royalty check from a album (yeah, that long ago) that grossed many hundred thou...I find the prospect of people downloading my copywrited and commercial music and burning their own copies of it without paying the pirates who originally published it abominable! After all, this whole issue of piracy is just awful! All of us should be paying these pirates! How DARE people inovate!
now...where did I file those buggy-whip stock certificates....
Slashdot Mirror
I am SO grateful! Here I was on efnet hanging on #linuxhelp. To THINK of the potential danger I was in...
I rememeber some years agon the State of New York Was unable to refund monies woed to people that they just could not find. A paper did a piece on it and listed the people New York could not find: Ronald Reagan (He was president at the time so probably hard to find), Bob Hope, Ed Koch, Robert Plant.. there dozens more like that. "Cannot be found" is all a matter of public greed...
I rememeber getting a "Secret picture of a Atomic Bomb schematic" years ago. I may still have it. Its ok though. To preserve national security it is in a format almost impossible to decrypt: Apple Newton Book format.
Movie? Try book: Lucifer's Hammer by Pournelle and Niven. or add in Alien Invasion to Asteroid and: Footfall by the same authors. Highly recomended reading.
I know!! they could move the trash can off the dock and put it...on the DESKTOP! Oh, and fix the net browsing. That one is the reason I stuck with 10.2
Question: Is this a Internet Explorer specific system or will these ads show up on ANY web browser? So far, I have had very few pop-up, banner or other issues when I use Lynx.
Regardless of Cayce and his sleep predicitons, 2012 has another reason to be predictivly ominous: The Mayan Calendar Long Count runs out that year. Specifically on 23 December 2012 or, if you prefer the original: 13 cycles 0 katuns, 0 tuns, 0 uinals, o kins
One of the absolute beautiful things about the federal system of government we enjoy, is that on any technical issue, or indeed any issue with a greater degree of complexity then that which involves basic body functions, you can rest assured that your elected representative is totally clueless. A friend of mine once proposed an immutable rule and I totally agree with it: Those most qualified to win office by election are the least qualified to serve.
Indeed. /. needs to maintain its unbiased perspective. After all, look at the previous slash dot on iTunes. See how biased, one sided and down right mean it is? and editorilaized it is? Compare that article to this one and you will get the flavor of a totally unbiased report form a journalist without an axe to grind: http://www.winnetmag.com/windowspaulthurrott/Artic le/ArticleID/42503/windowspaulthurrott_42503.html
About 30 years for me too... Facinating, desolate, desert place. Back then (the 60s) there was green lumps all over. I always wondered about the chemical make-up of Trinitite given the composition of soil/sand in the Tularosa Basin, the large amounts of gypsum (See White Sands National Monument while there), and the relativly crude U-235 refining techniques used back then (some hexafloride to go?)
Never fear! idspispopd and you are home free!
I remember taking my kid to the Legoland driving school. This gives a whole new twist to: War Driving...
A Jack of all trades is EXACTLY what a company wants...but NOT a mediocre one. If you can resolve pesky office suite format issues, then a network issue, then a sql database problem, follow this up with a custom Word macro to solve a unique need in the marketing dept. A quick cola break then reconfigure the mail server, enter some security groups in Active Directory (You will note a Borg bias to my company), then after two calls that a particular app in an obscure branch office are acting flaky realize this means the corporate web server is seconds from melt down and needs reset. Being able to write a "Killer App" is one thing, and since most IT management is populated by former programmers, that skill is highly rated. In the day to day operation of IT though, the ability to understand the needs and problems of a user base that is not literate in C++ is far more of use.
Was not FAT12 (DOS 2.0) not actually an extension of the CP/M file system? Does not ProDOS, MFS HFS and all most all the other early file systems behave in similar fashions? FAT16 was merely a hacked to 2gb extension of the orignal 32mb limited FS. a Patent on FAT makes NO sense.
Bury the feds in paperwork to the point where they need to literally build warehouses just to house the evidence in the case. Subpoena every document in the known universe. Always hire one more lawyer then they do. Use every legal dodge trick and shysterism known.... This was the IBM paradigm back 1969 through around 1980 in their anit-trust case.. Bill got his start because Mom knew John Opel. Looks like he picked up yet another trick from the Itty Bitty Machine Company... and the wheel turns..
--stretch memory; and its a real stretch--- CALL -151 C030G (to flip the video bit) then, if you didn't crash...C3D0 life was so much simpler when you got back to BASICs
It is a game you know: "He who crashes with the most vulnerabilities wins!" Bill hates to loose... -and to think that after 4 major iterations of OS X they can only muster one puny Trojan. Poor poor Apple...
Any sufficiently ridiculous technology is indistinguishable from a total waste of time.. Is there any truth to the rumor that DRM technology will be implemented on slash dot?
My goodness. this would mean news being promulgated by illiterate, ignorant, uninformed, panderers after obvious political or social agendas instead of the current newspapers and electronic media which ..... hey now! wait a minute...
Can it be set to flash green while emiting a pre-recorder "MOVE'EM OUT!" when it sees the little old lady going 15mph in a 50mph zone and slamming brakes every time her imagination invents a reason to be paranoid? Such drivers are as determental to traffic flow as are speeders.
Apple views the music store as a loss-leader. Folks Apple is a HARDWARE maker! The whole idea behind the store was to sell iPods!
Really? I stand corrected then. I would be curious though. I have read extensively on the last few Ice Age cycles but had not heard of any earlier ones. A Google I go... My point here though was that orbital dynamics, polar orientation, the wobble in the spin and all the other dynamics of planets can be effected by collisions, gravitational changes (near miss of a very large object), or even gravitational dynamics of far away near misses (moon capture from Asteroid belt by Jupiter, or even collisions between objects and other planets). I would lay money Earth's orbit is not what it was 50- 100- 200 or more million years back. It is, after all, the most crazy billard game ever.
It does. I am quite sure the orbital dynamics of the Earth and the Moon have been influenced by impacts. Example: prior to the dinosaur killer 64 million years ago, I do believe that Earth had never before experienced an Ice Age. Even BIGGER example: the Permian mass extinction (remember Trilobites?) 248 million years ago; I think there is good indications that Earth's orbit was quite different prior to that event. Certainly the atmosphere, climate zones, sea structure and compositions etc were. Look at the Moon. Next full Moon, look closely at Tyco Crater. That is one honkin HUGE hole! look north and south near Tyco. What you see is...cracks. Sometime in the past, a collision occurred that almost cracked the moon in half. The luck of the draw isn't every X*6 million years, it is once....only once. So far, Mammals have won this all important lottery...
From some literature I read some years ago, I remember that the hallmark of an alpha male in Chimp society was the ability to scream loud, gesticulate aggressively, then while standing in a position between its tribe and the perceived threat or object of displeasure, squat, defecate and then skillfully project the product thereof in the general direction of dislike. This is consistent primate behavior. Would not the US Congress or perhaps the UN be a better venue for this sort of study?
Speaking as an artist who still has a photocopy of my one and only 20 dollar royalty check from a album (yeah, that long ago) that grossed many hundred thou...I find the prospect of people downloading my copywrited and commercial music and burning their own copies of it without paying the pirates who originally published it abominable! After all, this whole issue of piracy is just awful! All of us should be paying these pirates! How DARE people inovate! now...where did I file those buggy-whip stock certificates....