A european hazelnut/choclate spread like peanut butter. I get mine from German relatives.. its great on toast and in cookies like peanut butter cookies. It tends to be a little greasier so you need to make the dough drier or the cookies will spread when you bake em.
AOL and Time Warner lobbied so hard for the DCMA even before they were bed fellows I figured that gNutella wouldn't last long. Guess Justin is learning his lesson for sleeping with such monolopy. I bet he is pissed, but he should have seen it coming.
Wonder what AOL will do with him now, I do not know the contractural aggrements made when Nullsoft was acquired by AOL, but I bet the relationship between the Giant and the gnat is getting kindof strained.
I had a fresh stack of moderator points and would have loved to moderated in this thread as there are many good comments here, but many of you have not seen the RIAA's form letter to ISP's.
Some of my favorite parts: "he RIAA is a trade association whose member companies create, manufacture and distribute approximately ninety (90) percent of all legitimate sound recordings sold in the United States."
So, If I record a sound and distribute it, its not legitimate wothout their blessing??? At least they call it sound and not music.. bleh.. They also say that, we, the ISP may be in violation of the DCMA for allowing this to reside on our network. IANAL but I thought that the ISP was not responsible for the content posted by its customers??
So, without further BS, here is the whole thing: Some parts have *'s to protect the ISP and the site address.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 13:40:58 -0500 From:antipira@riaa.com To: dns@***.com Cc: webmaster@***.com Subject: unauthorized music site
VIA E-MAIL
March 3, 2000
Administrative Contact *** Communications **** **** Lane ******, ** *****
RE: ftp://leech:leech@216.**.**.**/c:/
Dear Sir or Madam:
I am contacting you on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA) and its member record companies. The RIAA is a trade association whose member companies create, manufacture and distribute approximately ninety (90) percent of all legitimate sound recordings sold in the United States. Under penalty of perjury, we submit that the RIAA is authorized to act on behalf of its member companies in matters involving the infringement of their sound recordings, including enforcing their copyrights and common law rights on the Internet.
We believe your service is hosting the above referenced site on its system. This site, which we accessed on 3/1/00 at 1:34 p.m. (EST), offers approximately 740 sound files for download, including songs by such artists as Bryan Adams, Ozzy Osbourne, Filter, Cake, Radiohead and Sponge. Many of these files contain recordings owned by our member companies. We have a good faith belief that the above-described activity is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. We assert that the information in this notification is accurate, based upon the data available to us.
We are asking for your immediate assistance in stopping this unauthorized activity. Specifically, we request that you remove the site, delete the infringing sound files or that you disable access to this site or the infringing files being offered via your system. In addition, please inform the site operator of the illegality of his or her conduct and confirm with the RIAA, in writing, that this activity has ceased.
You should understand that this letter constitutes notice to you that this site operator may be liable for the infringing activity occurring on your server. In addition, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, if you ignore this notice, you and/or your company may be liable for any resulting infringement. This letter does not constitute a waiver of any right to recover damages incurred by virtue of any such unauthorized activities, and such rights as well as claims for other relief are expressly retained.
Finally, if you or your users wish additional information concerning copyright law as it applies to sound recordings, please feel free to visit and/or link to our educational web site at http://www.soundbyting.com.
Please communicate with me at RIAA, 1330 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 300, Washington, D.C., 20036, Tel. (202) 775-0101, or e-mail antipiracy@riaa.com, to discuss this notice. We await your response.
Very truly yours, Sarah Ehrlich Paralegal, Anti-Piracy RIAA
You are right, there are not enough TLD's, but without enforcing the correct usage of whatever TLD's we have, it does not matter..gov and.mil are of course regulated correctly, but I can have a www.big-ass-e-business.com and also register it in.org and.net, regardless if.org or.net is approiate for my business or goals. Domains have become a marketing gimmick and nothing more. If we get more TLD's we need an orginization devoted to the correct usage and registration of each one. When they are all lumped together it becomes to easy to say.. oh yeah I need that in.net too and no one with any authority cares/has time to investigate that claim.
WASHINGTON, DC-- On Tuesday, Congress approved the Americans With No Abilities Act, sweeping new legislation that provides benefits and protection for more than 135 million talentless Americans.
The act, signed into law by President Clinton shortly after its passage, is being hailed as a major victory for the millions upon millions of U.S. citizens who lack any real skills or uses.
"Roughly 50 percent of Americans--through no fault of their own--do not possess the talent necessary to carve out a meaningful role for themselves in society," said Clinton, a longtime ANA supporter. "Their lives are futile hamster-wheel existences of unrewarding, dead-end busywork: xeroxing documents written by others, fulfilling mail-in rebates for Black & Decker toaster ovens, and processing bureaucratic forms that nobody will ever see. Sadly, for these millions of nonabled Americans, the American dream of working hard and moving up through the ranks is simply not a reality."
Under the Americans With No Abilities Act, more than 25 million important-sounding "middle man" positions will be created in the white-collar sector for nonabled persons, providing them with an illusory sense of purpose and ability. Mandatory, non-performance- based raises and promotions will also be offered to create a sense of upward mobility for even the most unremarkable, utterly replaceable employees.
The legislation also provides corporations with incentives to hire nonabled workers, including tax breaks for those who hire one non-germane worker for every two talented hirees.
Finally, the Americans With No Abilities Act also contains tough new measures to prevent discrimination against the nonabled by banning prospective employers from asking such job-interview questions as, "What can you bring to this organization?" and "Do you have any special skills that would make you an asset to this company?"
"As a nonabled person, I frequently find myself unable to keep up with co-workers who have something going for them," said Mary Lou Gertz, who lost her position as an unessential filing clerk at a Minneapolis tile wholesaler last month because of her lack of notable skills."This new law should really help people like me."
With the passage of the Americans With No Abilities Act, Gertz and millions of other untalented, unessential citizens can finally see a light at the end of the tunnel.
Said Clinton: "It is our duty, both as lawmakers and as human beings, to provide each and every American citizen, regardless of his or her lack of value to society, some sort of space to take up in this great nation."
I agree that Compaq is doing great work when it comes to servers, espcially with the alpha stuff.. but I cannot and will not forgive them for the poor craftsmanship, quality, and engineering behind any single Presario you can pull out of Compaq's arse. I personally have a Presario 4640 (P2 266) No fan on the CPU but a case fan in the front blowing across it. This is fine except that they put the shortest possible floppy cable they could in the box and to fit it was stretched across the surface of the fann completely blocking airflow. How is that for engineering? Speaking of Presario's has anyone gotten Linux to run on a model near mine? Any version of RedHat from 5.2-6.1 has a kernal oops when formatting a linux partition during the install. I got slackware 3.5 up on it but every 2-10 minutes it complains of dev/hda being out of sync and restarting the drive. YOu subsequently hear the drive spin down and back up, halting disk IO for a good 5-15 seconds. The drive is fine so I can't figure it out.... any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
The scroll sucks A..um..butt when scrolling through snything with alot of drop downs. In essense yo still need to move the pointer away from the fields (towards the edge), defeating the purpose of the wheel. I have had that bite me on many online forms where I fill it out and submit to see suddnley that my age range is 75-90 instead of 20-25 and my income is 100-150k instead of the pathetica amount it is and usually I live in come country like Zaire or Zimbabwe instead of the lousy old USofA. Fun huh?
The things will be SCSI. Segate is aiming them at the Enterprise and upward class server market. Anyone who puts an IDE disk in an important server is an ignoramous. There anre a plethora of reasons to still use SCSI for server applications, although IDE is becoming very fast.
1: SCSI lets you do various EASY raid arrays. 2: The drives in a SCSI chain seek independantly of each other. The slave does not have to wait for the master. 3: More drives per buss and longer bus length. 4: Did I mention RAID already? Hot swappability rules. ten 10 GB disks beat four 25 GB's any day when you can pull a bad one out on the fly. 5: With multiple smaller disks, the data is not spread as far out on the platter, increasing seek times slightly.
I am no SCSI guru so I am sure there are more reasons!
Instead of replying a couple of times, I am just replying once. In an earlier post, someone mentioned that he worked for a private JK-12 school that used censoring software but admitted (internally at least) that it was impossible, but the software still allowed them to point the finger away from the school. Presumably removing their reliability. I am currently consulting with a private Christian k-12 school that is interested in filtering software. I instead suggested writing the policy to stat that every attempt is made to monitor, but nor restrict, students access to the inernet. With the help of monitoring software, parents (can/will) be informed of their pupils internet activities.
This could go so far as to automatically generate entire lists of what students have viewed under their login. This of course assumes that accounts are forcibly kept in order and that penalties (IE no access for a (week/month/semester) for passowrd/account trading, sharing, or stealing. While many like my ideas, most seem to look towards what requires less work. Meaning, lets throw in a filtering proxy and be done with it. Any suggestions on furthuring this gaol? Anyone want to write an account system/proxy that monitors and generates reports on induviduals access by login (not IP), that does not cost a screaming fortune, and is easy to implement on a mid-scale basis?
Final accountability should of course rest on the parent. Unfortunately, the parents just want to blame the schools/teachers and take no responsibility. Hence, the schools have to find other places to point fingers: hate internet sites, violent TV ang games, lack of attention form school staff. I just have to know, where the fsck are these parents when their children are snorting coke and making pipe bombs? Where were they when their uncle charlie molested them at age 6? Probably out working to much as some do, or partying to much as others. I will be the first to admit, I run a tight schedule, still go out and have fun occaisionally, but I sitll find time to talk to my kids, play with them, get them on the bus in the morning. It's hard, but it is definately worth it. Not that I want to get on a rant or anything (Dennis Miller Aura).
On to topic too... I can't find any naked chocolate chip cookie women. Unless of course I type and search for either "Chocolate Tit Cookie" or "Chocolate Chip Nookie", but both are unusual typos.
Feel free to flame/freeze/laud/complment/screw/blackmail me anyway you wish.
These views are my own and do not represent my employers brain cell in any way shape or form.
Does it matter? They were mentioned on/. now they are inaccessible. I just love going to my favorite news and tidbits site and not being able to get to the news and tidbits. Reminds me of the old Wendy's "Where's the BEEF??" commercials!
I disagree, if you shrink the size of the computing device,you increase the power/space ratio. We are currently struggling with processors that run with 64-128 bit datapaths. If you can fit the equivelant of 50 Athalons in the space of one, at the same speed, and parallize them then the increase is much more noticable. You have effectively gone fron a 32 bit bus to a 1600 bit bus or five 320 bit bit buses. Even if the 'processor' were taking data at 500Mhz you would be able to crunch the same amount of data in much less time. Think about a single processor that coule render one frame of video the quality of "Toy Story" or better in a second or less. The implications/applications are endless.
For specs on just about any old computer you can think of (and more than a few you can't), go to www.computingmuseum.com. Surf down 2 pages to the museum and have a gander. I myself used to have the TRS-80 model 1 level 2, the Aquarius 1 by Mattel (YES MATTEL makers of Barbie), and a laser Apple 2 compatible. Great blast from the past... I reccomend it to anyone who has played with old computers or has been computing a while.
I think gene patenting would be a mistake, but not really threatening. Here is why:
Genetic Assholes R Us patent's the genes for black hair and blue eyes.
You/your wife gets pregnant with a kid having those genes, can they make you give the genes up? No.. not with out taking your kid, every cell in both parents bodies (and some of the grandparents too). Is this feasable? NO. What is feasible is some moron saying I want a kid that looks just like "blah blah blah" they do it and yay it works. Does it mean anything not really.. just there is some kid running around that is almost identical to "blah blah blah".
The worst parts hurt will be if company x patents a gene and company y needs to use it for cancer research and cant without massive fees, etc. Then company x makes the new cancer treatment and gets all the money/credit when company did all hte legwork pointing to that gene.
Sometimes I go to work or look at/. and see all the people that know so much more than I do, and it depresses me. On days like this I go out and have a few beers mith my buddies wo became MCSE's and I feel much better.
Your right I think. We did buy up hoards os G.I. Joe, My little Pony, Transformers and the like. It is still goin on today however with things like pokemon, digimon, and power rangers. The list is endless.
However this marketing strategy may scare me, it fits MS perfectly as they are marketing a "Toy Product". I just wonder how often you have to reboot the figures to make them work properly:)
The monkey was smart... he left the show and went open source after seeing thousands of the actions figures put throug the firecracker torture test. He knew that MS couldnt even handle dashes in URL's per the RFC or deal properly with fragmented packets, so how could they compte with the firecracker torture test? The monkey bailed...
A few things here... this was an attempt at humor. I am not the hot grits AC nor the open source (insert female here)AC. It was an attempt (aparrently lame) to get a few laughs out of y2k since it was blown so out of proportion.
It seems that as the Y2K line passes that important abilitites such as pouring hot grits down your pants requires full Y2K compliance. John Smith of Lexington, Kentucky reports, "I am a frequent AC at the popular 'geek site' slashdot and as the Date crossed over I found myself unable to pour hot grits down my pants anymore." John believes its because of a Nural Net upgrade he never received shortly after birth that is to blame for his lack of compliance. We also believe this is the problem that makes him pour hot grits down his pants anyway. "It just goes to show how important achieving 'personal' Y2K complienace is." Said Bruce Dickens, patent holding inventor of one of the most widely used Y2K fixes, windowing. "People asked for these type of problems." He added.
In related news, both the Open Source Natalie Portman and Open Source Drew Barrymore projects seem to have come to a complete standstill. No word yet on wether this is a Y2K caused issue. Both the petrified Natalie Portman and petrified Drew Barrymore projects still seem to be fully operational.
A computer without A Microsoft Operating System is like a dog without bricks tied to it's head.
I work for a purty bug ISP, no not the big big ones, but a decent sized one and all our srvers run on GMT so I will be covering from 10AM-6PM and 8PM-2AM mainly so I can watch our server farm. We are EST (GMT -5).
Yes I am Bah Humbugging at christmas.... poo poo on me, but I am sick to death of the processor race. MOST apps runn fine on existing processors, and yes apps (and OS's) will continue to bloat, but I think both AMD and Intel need to spend more time on 64 bit processing power. As time goes on this will be the only way to fly.
Anyway, I think this has the ability to become a very good thing. While we have seen over the past year or so that businesses have started to turn an eye toward linux and then become major invetors, one of the key obstacles to any type of major OS or software is support. Where do the big guys go when they don't have the knowledge or resources available to figure something out? Once an infrastructure like that is in place it filters down to lower and lower levels, IE: smaller corporations and eventually small businesses. I don't thing that it will be long till me get some certification levels and alphabet soup tied to our knowledge. I know a lot of people here are not exactly friendly toward tech. certifications, but like it or not, a lot of not technical managers look to them to gauge a persons worth. Even if we know the certification doesnt mean crap,
Anyway, our time has come. Make your opportunities!
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A european hazelnut/choclate spread like peanut butter. I get mine from German relatives.. its great on toast and in cookies like peanut butter cookies. It tends to be a little greasier so you need to make the dough drier or the cookies will spread when you bake em.
AOL and Time Warner lobbied so hard for the DCMA even before they were bed fellows I figured that gNutella wouldn't last long. Guess Justin is learning his lesson for sleeping with such monolopy. I bet he is pissed, but he should have seen it coming.
Wonder what AOL will do with him now, I do not know the contractural aggrements made when Nullsoft was acquired by AOL, but I bet the relationship between the Giant and the gnat is getting kindof strained.
I had a fresh stack of moderator points and would have loved to moderated in this thread as there are many good comments here, but many of you have not seen the RIAA's form letter to ISP's.
Some of my favorite parts: "he RIAA is a
trade association whose member companies create, manufacture and
distribute approximately ninety (90) percent of all legitimate sound
recordings sold in the United States."
So, If I record a sound and distribute it, its not legitimate wothout their blessing??? At least they call it sound and not music.. bleh.. They also say that, we, the ISP may be in violation of the DCMA for allowing this to reside on our network. IANAL but I thought that the ISP was not responsible for the content posted by its customers??
So, without further BS, here is the whole thing:
Some parts have *'s to protect the ISP and the site address.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 13:40:58 -0500
From:antipira@riaa.com
To: dns@***.com
Cc: webmaster@***.com
Subject: unauthorized music site
VIA E-MAIL
March 3, 2000
Administrative Contact
*** Communications
**** **** Lane
******, ** *****
RE: ftp://leech:leech@216.**.**.**/c:/
Dear Sir or Madam:
I am contacting you on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of
America, Inc. (RIAA) and its member record companies. The RIAA is a
trade association whose member companies create, manufacture and
distribute approximately ninety (90) percent of all legitimate sound
recordings sold in the United States. Under penalty of perjury, we
submit that the RIAA is authorized to act on behalf of its member
companies in matters involving the infringement of their sound
recordings, including enforcing their copyrights and common law rights on
the Internet.
We believe your service is hosting the above referenced site on its
system. This site, which we accessed on 3/1/00 at 1:34 p.m. (EST),
offers approximately 740 sound files for download, including songs by
such artists as Bryan Adams, Ozzy Osbourne, Filter, Cake, Radiohead and
Sponge. Many of these files contain recordings owned by our member
companies. We have a good faith belief that the above-described activity
is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. We
assert that the information in this notification is accurate, based upon
the data available to us.
We are asking for your immediate assistance in stopping this unauthorized
activity. Specifically, we request that you remove the site, delete the
infringing sound files or that you disable access to this site or the
infringing files being offered via your system. In addition, please
inform the site operator of the illegality of his or her conduct and
confirm with the RIAA, in writing, that this activity has ceased.
You should understand that this letter constitutes notice to you that
this site operator may be liable for the infringing activity occurring on
your server. In addition, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, if
you ignore this notice, you and/or your company may be liable for any
resulting infringement. This letter does not constitute a waiver of any
right to recover damages incurred by virtue of any such unauthorized
activities, and such rights as well as claims for other relief are
expressly retained.
Finally, if you or your users wish additional information concerning
copyright law as it applies to sound recordings, please feel free to
visit and/or link to our educational web site at
http://www.soundbyting.com.
Please communicate with me at RIAA, 1330 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite
300, Washington, D.C., 20036, Tel. (202) 775-0101, or e-mail
antipiracy@riaa.com, to discuss this notice. We await your response.
Very truly yours,
Sarah Ehrlich
Paralegal, Anti-Piracy
RIAA
You are right, there are not enough TLD's, but without enforcing the correct usage of whatever TLD's we have, it does not matter. .gov and .mil are of course regulated correctly, but I can have a www.big-ass-e-business.com and also register it in .org and .net, regardless if .org or .net is approiate for my business or goals. Domains have become a marketing gimmick and nothing more. If we get more TLD's we need an orginization devoted to the correct usage and registration of each one. When they are all lumped together it becomes to easy to say.. oh yeah I need that in .net too and no one with any authority cares/has time to investigate that claim.
CONGRESS PASSES AMERICANS WITH NO ABILITIES ACT
* **************
WASHINGTON, DC--
On Tuesday, Congress approved the Americans With No Abilities Act,
sweeping new legislation that provides benefits and protection for
more than 135 million talentless Americans.
The act, signed into law by President Clinton shortly after its
passage, is being hailed as a major victory for the millions upon
millions of U.S. citizens who lack any real skills or uses.
"Roughly 50 percent of Americans--through no fault of their own--do
not possess the talent necessary to carve out a meaningful role for
themselves in society," said Clinton, a longtime ANA supporter. "Their
lives are futile hamster-wheel existences of unrewarding, dead-end
busywork: xeroxing documents written by others, fulfilling mail-in
rebates for Black & Decker toaster ovens, and processing bureaucratic
forms that nobody will ever see. Sadly, for these millions of nonabled
Americans, the American dream of working hard and moving up through
the ranks is simply not a reality."
Under the Americans With No Abilities Act, more than 25 million
important-sounding "middle man" positions will be created in the
white-collar sector for nonabled persons, providing them with an
illusory sense of purpose and ability. Mandatory, non-performance-
based raises and promotions will also be offered to create a sense of
upward mobility for even the most unremarkable, utterly replaceable
employees.
The legislation also provides corporations with incentives to hire
nonabled workers, including tax breaks for those who hire one
non-germane worker for every two talented hirees.
Finally, the Americans With No Abilities Act also contains tough new
measures to prevent discrimination against the nonabled by banning
prospective employers from asking such job-interview questions as,
"What can you bring to this organization?" and "Do you have any
special skills that would make you an asset to this company?"
"As a nonabled person, I frequently find myself unable to keep up with
co-workers who have something going for them," said Mary Lou Gertz,
who lost her position as an unessential filing clerk at a Minneapolis
tile wholesaler last month because of her lack of notable skills."This
new law should really help people like me."
With the passage of the Americans With No Abilities Act, Gertz and
millions of other untalented, unessential citizens can finally see a
light at the end of the tunnel.
Said Clinton: "It is our duty, both as lawmakers and as human beings,
to provide each and every American citizen, regardless of his or her
lack of value to society, some sort of space to take up in this great
nation."
***********************************************
I agree that Compaq is doing great work when it comes to servers, espcially with the alpha stuff.. but I cannot and will not forgive them for the poor craftsmanship, quality, and engineering behind any single Presario you can pull out of Compaq's arse. I personally have a Presario 4640 (P2 266) No fan on the CPU but a case fan in the front blowing across it. This is fine except that they put the shortest possible floppy cable they could in the box and to fit it was stretched across the surface of the fann completely blocking airflow. How is that for engineering? Speaking of Presario's has anyone gotten Linux to run on a model near mine? Any version of RedHat from 5.2-6.1 has a kernal oops when formatting a linux partition during the install. I got slackware 3.5 up on it but every 2-10 minutes it complains of dev/hda being out of sync and restarting the drive. YOu subsequently hear the drive spin down and back up, halting disk IO for a good 5-15 seconds. The drive is fine so I can't figure it out.... any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
The scroll sucks A..um..butt when scrolling through snything with alot of drop downs. In essense yo still need to move the pointer away from the fields (towards the edge), defeating the purpose of the wheel. I have had that bite me on many online forms where I fill it out and submit to see suddnley that my age range is 75-90 instead of 20-25 and my income is 100-150k instead of the pathetica amount it is and usually I live in come country like Zaire or Zimbabwe instead of the lousy old USofA. Fun huh?
I hate to nit pick but today is the 24th. Last Saturday was the 19th. I used to like to live in the past but paxil helped me =)
The things will be SCSI. Segate is aiming them at the Enterprise and upward class server market. Anyone who puts an IDE disk in an important server is an ignoramous. There anre a plethora of reasons to still use SCSI for server applications, although IDE is becoming very fast.
1: SCSI lets you do various EASY raid arrays.
2: The drives in a SCSI chain seek independantly of each other. The slave does not have to wait for the master.
3: More drives per buss and longer bus length.
4: Did I mention RAID already? Hot swappability rules. ten 10 GB disks beat four 25 GB's any day when you can pull a bad one out on the fly.
5: With multiple smaller disks, the data is not spread as far out on the platter, increasing seek times slightly.
I am no SCSI guru so I am sure there are more reasons!
Instead of replying a couple of times, I am just replying once. In an earlier post, someone mentioned that he worked for a private JK-12 school that used censoring software but admitted (internally at least) that it was impossible, but the software still allowed them to point the finger away from the school. Presumably removing their reliability. I am currently consulting with a private Christian k-12 school that is interested in filtering software. I instead suggested writing the policy to stat that every attempt is made to monitor, but nor restrict, students access to the inernet. With the help of monitoring software, parents (can/will) be informed of their pupils internet activities.
This could go so far as to automatically generate entire lists of what students have viewed under their login. This of course assumes that accounts are forcibly kept in order and that penalties (IE no access for a (week/month/semester) for passowrd/account trading, sharing, or stealing. While many like my ideas, most seem to look towards what requires less work. Meaning, lets throw in a filtering proxy and be done with it. Any suggestions on furthuring this gaol? Anyone want to write an account system/proxy that monitors and generates reports on induviduals access by login (not IP), that does not cost a screaming fortune, and is easy to implement on a mid-scale basis?
Final accountability should of course rest on the parent. Unfortunately, the parents just want to blame the schools/teachers and take no responsibility. Hence, the schools have to find other places to point fingers: hate internet sites, violent TV ang games, lack of attention form school staff. I just have to know, where the fsck are these parents when their children are snorting coke and making pipe bombs? Where were they when their uncle charlie molested them at age 6? Probably out working to much as some do, or partying to much as others. I will be the first to admit, I run a tight schedule, still go out and have fun occaisionally, but I sitll find time to talk to my kids, play with them, get them on the bus in the morning. It's hard, but it is definately worth it. Not that I want to get on a rant or anything (Dennis Miller Aura).
On to topic too... I can't find any naked chocolate chip cookie women. Unless of course I type and search for either "Chocolate Tit Cookie" or "Chocolate Chip Nookie", but both are unusual typos.
Feel free to flame/freeze/laud/complment/screw/blackmail me anyway you wish.
These views are my own and do not represent my employers brain cell in any way shape or form.
Fuck emacs and vi!!!! PICO ALL THE WAY BABEEE!! or notepad...
lol hahahahahaha
go ahead moderate the shit outta me.. I am in a foul wit today
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Does it matter? They were mentioned on /. now they are inaccessible. I just love going to my favorite news and tidbits site and not being able to get to the news and tidbits. Reminds me of the old Wendy's "Where's the BEEF??" commercials!
AND
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/12/01/133232.shtm
Must... find... new... material... sleep.. overpowering ... reason... I .. never... sleep... damnit...
Why is it good stuff gets mentioned once (if ever) and vapourware gets repeated over and over and over again? Is it wishfull thinking?
I disagree, if you shrink the size of the computing device,you increase the power/space ratio. We are currently struggling with processors that run with 64-128 bit datapaths. If you can fit the equivelant of 50 Athalons in the space of one, at the same speed, and parallize them then the increase is much more noticable. You have effectively gone fron a 32 bit bus to a 1600 bit bus or five 320 bit bit buses. Even if the 'processor' were taking data at 500Mhz you would be able to crunch the same amount of data in much less time. Think about a single processor that coule render one frame of video the quality of "Toy Story" or better in a second or less. The implications/applications are endless.
For specs on just about any old computer you can think of (and more than a few you can't), go to www.computingmuseum.com. Surf down 2 pages to the museum and have a gander. I myself used to have the TRS-80 model 1 level 2, the Aquarius 1 by Mattel (YES MATTEL makers of Barbie), and a laser Apple 2 compatible. Great blast from the past... I reccomend it to anyone who has played with old computers or has been computing a while.
Nostalgia just aint what it used to be.
He would not have to make them transferrable, hell just auction off your handle/password loaded with karma and start another!
I think gene patenting would be a mistake, but not really threatening. Here is why:
/. and see all the people that know so much more than I do, and it depresses me. On days like this I go out and have a few beers mith my buddies wo became MCSE's and I feel much better.
Genetic Assholes R Us patent's the genes for black hair and blue eyes.
You/your wife gets pregnant with a kid having those genes, can they make you give the genes up?
No.. not with out taking your kid, every cell in both parents bodies (and some of the grandparents too). Is this feasable? NO. What is feasible is some moron saying I want a kid that looks just like "blah blah blah" they do it and yay it works. Does it mean anything not really.. just there is some kid running around that is almost identical to "blah blah blah".
The worst parts hurt will be if company x patents a gene and company y needs to use it for cancer research and cant without massive fees, etc. Then company x makes the new cancer treatment and gets all the money/credit when company did all hte legwork pointing to that gene.
Sometimes I go to work or look at
Your right I think. We did buy up hoards os G.I. Joe, My little Pony, Transformers and the like. It is still goin on today however with things like pokemon, digimon, and power rangers. The list is endless.
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However this marketing strategy may scare me, it fits MS perfectly as they are marketing a "Toy Product". I just wonder how often you have to reboot the figures to make them work properly
The monkey was smart... he left the show and went open source after seeing thousands of the actions figures put throug the firecracker torture test. He knew that MS couldnt even handle dashes in URL's per the RFC or deal properly with fragmented packets, so how could they compte with the firecracker torture test? The monkey bailed...
A few things here... this was an attempt at humor. I am not the hot grits AC nor the open source (insert female here)AC. It was an attempt (aparrently lame) to get a few laughs out of y2k since it was blown so out of proportion.
Geez... get a life people.
It seems that as the Y2K line passes that important abilitites such as pouring hot grits down your pants requires full Y2K compliance. John Smith of Lexington, Kentucky reports, "I am a frequent AC at the popular 'geek site' slashdot and as the Date crossed over I found myself unable to pour hot grits down my pants anymore."
John believes its because of a Nural Net upgrade he never received shortly after birth that is to blame for his lack of compliance. We also believe this is the problem that makes him pour hot grits down his pants anyway. "It just goes to show how important achieving 'personal' Y2K complienace is." Said Bruce Dickens, patent holding inventor of one of the most widely used Y2K fixes, windowing. "People asked for these type of problems." He added.
In related news, both the Open Source Natalie Portman and Open Source Drew Barrymore projects seem to have come to a complete standstill. No word yet on wether this is a Y2K caused issue. Both the petrified Natalie Portman and petrified Drew Barrymore projects still seem to be fully operational.
A computer without A Microsoft Operating System is like a dog without bricks tied to it's head.
I work for a purty bug ISP, no not the big big ones, but a decent sized one and all our srvers run on GMT so I will be covering from 10AM-6PM and 8PM-2AM mainly so I can watch our server farm. We are EST (GMT -5).
But a third person is much more fun than a bungee cord!
Yes I am Bah Humbugging at christmas.... poo poo on me, but I am sick to death of the processor race. MOST apps runn fine on existing processors, and yes apps (and OS's) will continue to bloat, but I think both AMD and Intel need to spend more time on 64 bit processing power. As time goes on this will be the only way to fly.
Finally... an Intelligent FP :).
Anyway, I think this has the ability to become a very good thing. While we have seen over the past year or so that businesses have started to turn an eye toward linux and then become major invetors, one of the key obstacles to any type of major OS or software is support. Where do the big guys go when they don't have the knowledge or resources available to figure something out? Once an infrastructure like that is in place it filters down to lower and lower levels, IE: smaller corporations and eventually small businesses. I don't thing that it will be long till me get some certification levels and alphabet soup tied to our knowledge. I know a lot of people here are not exactly friendly toward tech. certifications, but like it or not, a lot of not technical managers look to them to gauge a persons worth. Even if we know the certification doesnt mean crap,
Anyway, our time has come. Make your opportunities!