1) make prone positions uncomfortable?
2) make it diffcult to retain balance for standing positions?
3) put the interesting action outside the field of view?
Sex in front of the webcam would resolve the above issues and probably enhance the revenue potential of the images. Taking off your watch, socks and taped glasses might also help.
I am eternally indebted to Xaveria Hollander, "The Happy Hooker" for pointing out how ridiculous a man wearing nothing but socks and a watch looks, and make it a point to remove said items FIRST.
You realize, of course, that anti-biotics have no effect on viruses. Viruses require either an immunization by a "flu-shot" by an outside agency or a, by chance, natural immunity which (hopefully) primes the body's defenses against the virus by allowing to recognise the H5N1 (or other distictive) protein configuration as foreign. They may have a beneficial effect against secondary infections, such as those that HIV leave a victim susceptible, the "Immune Deficiency" part of the syndrome.
I have paid for every single DVD I own. No good deed goes unpunished, I am repeatedly subjected to unskippable previews, FBI warnings, commentary disclaimers and the same fscking flying logo and equally annoying jingle at 4 places before actually getting to the content I purchased. If I were stupid enough to buy into HD/BR I additionally lose my control over the resolution I want. This isn't about Imaginary Property rights, it's about THEIR control of MY property.
Anybody who has used much virtualization knows it's not as good as running the OS on hardware... not realizing that VMs cut performance significantly
Unsurprisingly, it all depends on your application. Performance impact would probably be noticable in gaming or possibly in high-demand drawing scenarios like image manipulation (I don't know, I haven't gamed in a VM and don't have image application skills). For everyday common use Joe/Jane Luser with word-processing and web-browsing would experience little perceptible difference unless running VM/PM side by side to visibly highlight the disparity, especially if you turn-off the stupid eye-candy, it doesn't take a lot of horsepower to read keystrokes and draw characters from a font in a pane. We run customers in Terminal/Services virtual servers 20-30 sessions at a crack, on the same physical server running other non-interactive VM like Global Catalog/DNS, file server, etc without complaint.
Now where did I put those 5.25 Wing Commander floppies, maybe there's enough degradation that they'd be playable again on a dual Opteron machine in a FreeDOS XEN VM.
The STNG episode is similar to Orwell's 1984 where O'Brien, the torturer, shows four fingers before Winston's face, O'Brien increases the pain until Winston says that he sees five fingers, finally, Winston actually imagines five fingers.
We should fear a government with "underpaid", party-affiliated bribe-susceptible bureaucrats who find it "easy" to access information on citizens far more than any terrorist bogeyman. One is far more likely to have one's life made a living hell by such mouth-breathers transposing a digit than find death at the hands of a foreign zealot (local zealots^Widiots trying to ban Harry Potter books and otherwise interfere with daily living are something entirely different).
I had similar problems using stock W2003 server DHCP/DNS and a Vista business 64 install. Intel 1000 GT card and onboard Marvell Gbit fail to get addresses. Finally flushed the whole thing an put XP 64 in. Vista will be relegated to a VM for the forseeable future.
an enterprising reporter to contact the HW manufacturers and ask them if thay are going to be taking advantage of this generous offer, then post a list of the decliners and accepters. Then we will have a reliable basis as to which vendors to avoid or support, respectively. I'm sure Maureen O'Gara, with her SCO-honed investigative skills and top-notch journalistic ethics is burning the phone lines with deep probing inquiries on behalf of the consumers even as you read this.
Not made clear is that not just any old flash will do. The flash must be a special RB qualified drive. Admittedly its under $20 for 512M but slapping last years thumb drive aint gonna cut it.
Aint it wunnerful that a security company wants me to run THEIR code on MY machine. A simple menu of hyper-linked images would have done the same job without exposing me the the programming vagaries of the marketing directors inept nephew. Their lack of interest in my security translates in my lack of interest in their product as it probably suffers from a similar inattention to details.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gripping_hand Not that a US bureaucracy can manage to reach that level of sophistication. Forcing one or more balancing "opinions" to reach a minimum level of argument beyond "is Too!/Is Not!" will prove to be an impossible goal for our congress-critters and their appointees.
What self-respecting geek has bookends? The proper care and feeding of reading (Hey! That rhymes) material is stacked on a nearby flat surface in reverse chronological sequence of acquisition.
So we take 4% of the total number of patents granted at the beginning of the millenium in 2001 and this becomes the total number of patents that will be granted per annum. On a quarterly basis Patent applications will be scored on their ingenuity. Top 4% are selected and are published for public review for prior art and other defects prior to final approval. The "Sturgeon's Law"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_Law
remaining 96% are rejected. Resubmissions of rejects must wait 12 calendar months, rejection of actually selected candidates would go through something similar to the current resubmission process. Regardless, every resubmission doubles the application fee to motivate the applicant to do a proper and thorough job on the next try.
Here's hoping you are not tired yet. However, you have piqued my curiosity. Are you hopping on your left foot, right foot, both feet or with mechanical assistance of a pogo stick?
(w00t! FFv2 has saved me from looking like a typographic idiot 5 times in just this post)
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Hmmm, wonder what the UTF8 code for that swirly at-sign style "e" is?
1) make prone positions uncomfortable?
2) make it diffcult to retain balance for standing positions?
3) put the interesting action outside the field of view?
Sex in front of the webcam would resolve the above issues and probably enhance the revenue potential of the images. Taking off your watch, socks and taped glasses might also help.
I am eternally indebted to Xaveria Hollander, "The Happy Hooker" for pointing out how ridiculous a man wearing nothing but socks and a watch looks, and make it a point to remove said items FIRST.
You realize, of course, that anti-biotics have no effect on viruses. Viruses require either an immunization by a "flu-shot" by an outside agency or a, by chance, natural immunity which (hopefully) primes the body's defenses against the virus by allowing to recognise the H5N1 (or other distictive) protein configuration as foreign. They may have a beneficial effect against secondary infections, such as those that HIV leave a victim susceptible, the "Immune Deficiency" part of the syndrome.
I forget, is that California or Florida?
I have paid for every single DVD I own. No good deed goes unpunished, I am repeatedly subjected to unskippable previews, FBI warnings, commentary disclaimers and the same fscking flying logo and equally annoying jingle at 4 places before actually getting to the content I purchased. If I were stupid enough to buy into HD/BR I additionally lose my control over the resolution I want. This isn't about Imaginary Property rights, it's about THEIR control of MY property.
For everyday common use Joe/Jane Luser with word-processing and web-browsing would experience little perceptible difference unless running VM/PM side by side to visibly highlight the disparity, especially if you turn-off the stupid eye-candy, it doesn't take a lot of horsepower to read keystrokes and draw characters from a font in a pane. We run customers in Terminal/Services virtual servers 20-30 sessions at a crack, on the same physical server running other non-interactive VM like Global Catalog/DNS, file server, etc without complaint.
Now where did I put those 5.25 Wing Commander floppies, maybe there's enough degradation that they'd be playable again on a dual Opteron machine in a FreeDOS XEN VM.
The STNG episode is similar to Orwell's 1984 where O'Brien, the torturer, shows four fingers before Winston's face, O'Brien increases the pain until Winston says that he sees five fingers, finally, Winston actually imagines five fingers.
We should fear a government with "underpaid", party-affiliated bribe-susceptible bureaucrats who find it "easy" to access information on citizens far more than any terrorist bogeyman. One is far more likely to have one's life made a living hell by such mouth-breathers transposing a digit than find death at the hands of a foreign zealot (local zealots^Widiots trying to ban Harry Potter books and otherwise interfere with daily living are something entirely different).
I had similar problems using stock W2003 server DHCP/DNS and a Vista business 64 install. Intel 1000 GT card and onboard Marvell Gbit fail to get addresses. Finally flushed the whole thing an put XP 64 in. Vista will be relegated to a VM for the forseeable future.
an enterprising reporter to contact the HW manufacturers and ask them if thay are going to be taking advantage of this generous offer, then post a list of the decliners and accepters. Then we will have a reliable basis as to which vendors to avoid or support, respectively.
I'm sure Maureen O'Gara, with her SCO-honed investigative skills and top-notch journalistic ethics is burning the phone lines with deep probing inquiries on behalf of the consumers even as you read this.
Not made clear is that not just any old flash will do. The flash must be a special RB qualified drive. Admittedly its under $20 for 512M but slapping last years thumb drive aint gonna cut it.
Aint it wunnerful that a security company wants me to run THEIR code on MY machine. A simple menu of hyper-linked images would have done the same job without exposing me the the programming vagaries of the marketing directors inept nephew. Their lack of interest in my security translates in my lack of interest in their product as it probably suffers from a similar inattention to details.
What kind of response do such people expect to get back from an edifice?
> . You might as well be putting a gun to a developer or musicians head. So unless you wanna kill dont be a PIRATE!"
The PUPPIES! Don't forget the sad-eyed puppies left to starve, uncared for by their deceased masters. The kittens, of course, get what they deserve.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gripping_hand
Not that a US bureaucracy can manage to reach that level of sophistication. Forcing one or more balancing "opinions" to reach a minimum level of argument beyond "is Too!/Is Not!" will prove to be an impossible goal for our congress-critters and their appointees.
>> Someone messed up in their PR dept.
>OMG, I hope you are joking....
Why? What possible reason would slashdotters have to be concerned about a PR department?
What self-respecting geek has bookends?
The proper care and feeding of reading (Hey! That rhymes) material is stacked on a nearby flat surface in reverse chronological sequence of acquisition.
Followed at 10 by "Stargate Hooker", sorry for the late hour, even though one of the characters/actors is a "little person", this aint a kiddie show.
IANAQM (Quantum Mechanic) but I do not recall the discovery announcement for this hadron(?).
Too busy patenting the period (pick whichever meaning you prefer), I guess.
So we take 4% of the total number of patents granted at the beginning of the millenium in 2001 and this becomes the total number of patents that will be granted per annum. On a quarterly basis Patent applications will be scored on their ingenuity. Top 4% are selected and are published for public review for prior art and other defects prior to final approval. The "Sturgeon's Law" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_Law remaining 96% are rejected. Resubmissions of rejects must wait 12 calendar months, rejection of actually selected candidates would go through something similar to the current resubmission process. Regardless, every resubmission doubles the application fee to motivate the applicant to do a proper and thorough job on the next try.
Here's hoping you are not tired yet. However, you have piqued my curiosity. Are you hopping on your left foot, right foot, both feet or with mechanical assistance of a pogo stick?
(w00t! FFv2 has saved me from looking like a typographic idiot 5 times in just this post)