Every time you roll Sauron's eye, the ring token moves forward a square. Its a nice additional rule you could add to traditional Monopoly because it avoid those last 2 or 3 hours while two people duke it out to declare a winner while everybody else is already drunk and naked in the jacuzzi.
This is not an endorsement of the above site. I've never used them. They just happen to have the photo.
> Maybe that's why music soothes the soul. I mean, > if the whole universe has the shape of a sound > producing "horn".. (I know, the subject said > "funnel" but the body says "horn" and I'm a > brass player)
I am also a brass player*. But that doesn't stop me imagining that the Universe is the shape of an erect penis.
Adds a whole new meaning to the "big bang".
Also explains what the unverse was created in 7 seconds.
*Technically not, I play Sax, which any Trumpet playing purist well tell you is a woodwind instrument, even though its not made out of wood.
> whenever I want to find out the name of a song > that I heard on the radio, I just go to google > and type in a lyric or 2 that I remember, and > the word 'lyrics'.
Whenever I want to find out the name of a song, I just post to one of the music groups on usenet:
"Hey, doesn't anybody know that song with the guy in it? It goes kinda like Ba Baa Ba B' Baa Ba Baaaa. and its, like, way cool. Anybody?"
Without doing a thorough search, there seems to be full trees for the stuff they've taken from the GPL... kernel, some apps... but there is other stuff that's only header files.
Maybe their arguement is that the stuff they've taken and changed to run of their platform they've released. This means anybody could down load the code and write their own apps. (Quake for Linksys, anybody?)
Whereas the apps that run over this they are free to keep closed.
That sounds reasonable, unless of course their apps use a lot of the iptables code.
Its a tricky one as netfilter sits in the kernel, so any routing/filtering device works at the kernel level... which as far as I can tell puts it under the GPL.
> Might be fun to try and print out and scan back in say a knoppix cd in as > few pages as possible, "what you mean you don't have a cd drive... you have a scanner?"
In which case, the limitation isn't the write head, its the read head. So where are scanners now, 1200x600 last time I looked. Which puts us around 15MB for a double sided page.
So although it may be a little difficult to put out a Knoppix CD just yet, but that is easily more than enough for a linux distribution.
Maybe for secure applications? IDS, Firewall etc.
Only problem is that none of my computers have the scanner as a boota option.
Something tells me that this still isn't the most efficient way to use paper to distribute porn tho.
300 dpi is 300x300 dots per square inch. You have 8.5 x 11 square inches. That means you have 300x300x8.5x11 dots per page.
What's your encoding mecanism?
If you forget error detector and recovery, divide by 8 and you have byte. Divide by 1024 and you have real kilobytes, then by 1024 and you have real MB, (but given that we are trying to sell thing scheme, divide it by 1,000 and 1,000,000 respectively to give Marketing Bytes).
Given the low quality of the media, I'd be inclined to use 10bit bytes to allow double bit error detection and single bit error recovery. This also makes the maths easier.
So you end up with 300x300/10 = 9000 bytes = 9k per square inch, and 840k per page. Make a double sided version and yo have nearly 1.7MB.
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> That's What Jesus Would Do.
Yes.
But what would Brian Boitano do?
"Armature: A protective covering, structure, or organ of an animal or a plant, such as teeth, claws, thorns, or the shell of a turtle.
However, when they graduated, they could draw claws like a pro.
I was wondering if the inventors had thought about this application of this technology to porn.
The I saw the term "architectural features" and relized that they already had.
I do.
You need this.
Every time you roll Sauron's eye, the ring token moves forward a square. Its a nice additional rule you could add to traditional Monopoly because it avoid those last 2 or 3 hours while two people duke it out to declare a winner while everybody else is already drunk and naked in the jacuzzi.
This is not an endorsement of the above site. I've never used them. They just happen to have the photo.
> nobody wants to be put back to sleep while driving to work.
:)
You obviously don't work for a Telco
But I don't even have a TV to turn off you insensitive clods!
> Maybe that's why music soothes the soul. I mean,
> if the whole universe has the shape of a sound
> producing "horn".. (I know, the subject said
> "funnel" but the body says "horn" and I'm a
> brass player)
I am also a brass player*. But that doesn't stop me imagining that the Universe is the shape of an erect penis.
Adds a whole new meaning to the "big bang".
Also explains what the unverse was created in 7 seconds.
*Technically not, I play Sax, which any Trumpet playing purist well tell you is a woodwind instrument, even though its not made out of wood.
CP/M80 was 8.3 as well. I have no idea what filesystem was underneath it.
I am pretty sure that it predated DOS.
> whenever I want to find out the name of a song
> that I heard on the radio, I just go to google
> and type in a lyric or 2 that I remember, and
> the word 'lyrics'.
Whenever I want to find out the name of a song, I just post to one of the music groups on usenet:
"Hey, doesn't anybody know that song with the guy in it?
It goes kinda like Ba Baa Ba B' Baa Ba Baaaa.
and its, like, way cool. Anybody?"
Its the same company providing the technology and the song database.
Sorry to disagree with the article, but the best way to get an inside look at a patent examener is with a blunt object.
Yeah, I know its a hard job.. but even the worst fuck-up gets it right once in a while.
The solution is simple. Pay the experts what they are worth to do the job. Just like they should with teachers. Its never going to happen.
There is way too much money to be made in having IP control over an uneducated populace.
Is it just me, or did seeing the last three characters in $activity[0] also make you think of the goat.cx guy?
> What's to say it isn't powered by giant invisible lamas?
Llamas as in the South American camel?
I've been in South America for 5 years, and if there are any invisible llamas here, I certainly haven't seen them.
> The noise in your pc is caused by air turbulence caused by the fan blades.
That's why I sealed my PC case and sucked all the air out of it. With no air to move, the fans don't make any noise.
Funny how the computer stopped working tho....
> Wow, you can fit as much data on a sheet of 8.5x11" paper
> as you can on a 15-year-old 3.5x3.5" floppy disk!
Yeah.. but paper predates floppy disks by a good 4000 years.
(o 4096 years for the Metric Pedant).
> How is this odd?
The permit is for disabled drivers.
The parking spots are for _everybody_, you don't have to pay the meter if you are disabled.
So the point is that there are more disabled permits than parking spots.
Yes. That is odd.
I downloaded the code.
Without doing a thorough search, there seems to be full trees for the stuff they've taken from the GPL... kernel, some apps... but there is other stuff that's only header files.
Maybe their arguement is that the stuff they've taken and changed to run of their platform they've released. This means anybody could down load the code and write their own apps. (Quake for Linksys, anybody?)
Whereas the apps that run over this they are free to keep closed.
That sounds reasonable, unless of course their apps use a lot of the iptables code.
Its a tricky one as netfilter sits in the kernel, so any routing/filtering device works at the kernel level... which as far as I can tell puts it under the GPL.
> ( ) More options I've missed
( ) Tux Racer
> 1024, or 2^10, is kilobinary, or kibi.
> 2^20 is mebi, not mega. This has been true since
> 1998, so get with the program.
That's what happens when that marketting people get hold of things.
Metric pedant is fine, but computation still works in base-2.
So:
KB is 1024 bytes
kB is 1000 bytes
Kb is 1024 bits = 128 bytes
kb is 1000 bits = 125 bytes.
Que estupido.
> Might be fun to try and print out and scan back in say a knoppix cd in as ... you have a scanner?"
> few pages as possible, "what you mean you don't
have a cd drive
In which case, the limitation isn't the write head, its the read head. So where are scanners now, 1200x600 last time I looked. Which puts us around 15MB for a double sided page.
So although it may be a little difficult to put out a Knoppix CD just yet, but that is easily more than enough for a linux distribution.
Maybe for secure applications? IDS, Firewall etc.
Only problem is that none of my computers have the scanner as a boota option.
Something tells me that this still isn't the most efficient way to use paper to distribute porn tho.
> No government in the USA hands out handcapped
> parking permits to everyone who asks.
San Francisco at one point had more handicapped parket permits on issue than parking spaces available in the city.
Unfortunately I can't find a link, but I believe it was when I was there around year 2000.
Its not that hard.
300 dpi is 300x300 dots per square inch.
You have 8.5 x 11 square inches.
That means you have 300x300x8.5x11 dots per page.
What's your encoding mecanism?
If you forget error detector and recovery, divide by 8 and you have byte. Divide by 1024 and you have real kilobytes, then by 1024 and you have real MB, (but given that we are trying to sell thing scheme, divide it by 1,000 and 1,000,000 respectively to give Marketing Bytes).
Given the low quality of the media, I'd be inclined to use 10bit bytes to allow double bit error detection and single bit error recovery. This also makes the maths easier.
So you end up with 300x300/10 = 9000 bytes = 9k per square inch, and 840k per page. Make a double sided version and yo have nearly 1.7MB.
>since a paper disc can be cut by scissors easily,
Yep. Scissors cut paper disc, paper disc cuts fingers, fingers bleed on scissors, causing them to rust.
> also montreal drivers know that we're in the
> jay-walking capital of the world.
I'm just waiting for the lawyer to lay the blame on Grand Theft Auto.