This para sounds like "armed cervixes". Counter insurgency springs to mind.
Also, when I was new to "The Nav", one of the first things I heard (and thought was, umm, "nuts", as in crazy) was:
"Hey, who's the Duty Cum Pumper?" That was a title for the "'girl'/male whore" on duty, the one who (jokingly) would suck off whoever else was on duty." (My first ship (that ship) was all-male crewed.)
"blind faith", that he would be useful as an employee...
"He was one of the original phone phreaks, got arrested for phone fraud, and was even employed by the phone company. The article deals more with his personal life than with his technical exploits, but is a very interesting story.""
WOW! Thank you so much. I'll try that. I also made a few mistakes in my drivel... I referred to PCLOS 2006 when I probably should have said 0.93, as on their site. I REALLY wish I could donate this machine to them so they could do something good, but the rate at which new models and the dizzying array of anti-price-shopping mobo configs probably means that until the ODMs and OEMs decide to stop playing hardball with Linux/Open Source, we'll always be chasing them more than the energy expenditure warrants.
I'll be on the lookout to getting the rubber-outlined multimedia keys to work. I am HOPING that these mean the OS need not be booted into to play media, but I suppose that would be asking for too much. Hibernation and suspend and sleep have varying degrees of functionality. I was tempted to try Ubuntu, but I am hard-core/psychologically stuck on Mandriva and PCLOS mainly for the hardware detection/config GUI and the general GUI.
One thing nice about PCLOS live CDs is that on a lark I installed 2007 over 0.93, and tho sound didn't work aloud (media played, but KMIX and the hardware configs just wouldn't let it reach ears...), the 0.93 kernel did begin booting. Something weird in 0.93 would make it kernel panic and just not boot AT ALL, just like when I had installed it as dual boot on the Gateway HDD. So, I decided to buy another HDD JUST for PCLOS, and installing 2007 over 0.93 acted as an upgrade, not a replacement. Nice. Now, to install it and go to the repositories...
I recently purchased a new laptop from Gateway, the P-6301. It is nice in the sense that it has TWO hard disc bays, and the BIOS allows selection of either for booting. The LCD is 17" diag, optimized for 1420ish by 900.
Something that sucks is that the machine is SO new (it came out Oct 07) that PCLinuxOS 2006 doesn't recognize the rtl 8168 E gigabit ethernet card, and tho PCLinux 2007 does, but it doesn't do sound. I am actually typing this via the PCLOS 2007 disc. I need to download the latest one, so maybe that'll work. However, I still need to use win4lin for things in Win98, mainly because it's pointless to buy the latest win4lin since I think it needs the original install discs, not OEM discs (ostensibly to appease mshaft, and to show face that it is not enabling piracy...). Also, I think Virtualbox would be pointless, too, so I began considering seeking out virtualization tools to let me run Linux inside vista (a horrifying idea, especially since if any crash happens... like the crcdisk.sys crap that goes on after messing with the MBR or shrinking the partition, basically adding Linux to the same disk containing Vista... my suspicion, but who am I? I am sure a hundred people will line up and swear they are dual-booting trouble free. So, it could be hardware, as I am seeing, but the disk is new....
What also sucks, is that Gateway decided to put in only shared memory graphics, so there is no way to run Compiz or Beryl... Sure, all this is obtainable if one can run a live boot disk in the store, but the compelling draws for me were the 17" screen at the price of the 15.4" machines, and the dual hdd bay i suspected being present due to 4 sets of disc stacks embossed on the bottom cover panel.
I SHOULD have or COULD have bought the machines with 15.4" displays and NVidia or ATI graphics and devoted RAM for them, and having 2GB vs the 1GB this machine has, but I wanted the screen real estate and the dual-hdd bay.
What also sucks VERY much is that the OEM install of vister blister had power management and all working fine. I then installed PCLinuxOS on the disk, then after some time decided to go back to vister blister (I did NOT buy the machine for vister blister by a long shot. I WISH I had the original install disk because this reinstally by OEM disk sucks. But, I see that it's microsoft at it's best persecuting (oh, they'll say it's to make reinstallation easier and to reduce piracy...) those who don't believe that an ms OS should hijack the entire disk.
Anyway, I don't intend to let the machine touch the Internet when vista is running. I only bought it because I am using Punch! ViaCAD and IMSI TurboCAD (which bought last week) and they don't work in windoze 98, otherwise I'd have not bothered buying a new machine.
Now, where Vista is WEAK. Vista is that it is MAJOR eye-candy. As much as I am able to bash msoft, I DID feel the pull to eye-candy-heaven when I first ran vista as configured by Gateway. But, Gateway's recover disk is flawed or deliberately missing things to generate tech support revenue. Vista is appearing, to me, major gloss work on top of XP and 2K, at least when vista is set to show things in classic mode. For the home user, using Vista Home Premium (as sold by Best Buy; CompUSA has Ultimate, and their higher prices reflect it; but CU is going out of business, so I was leery of buying from them a machine that is non-returnable, and since CU is closing down by mid February...
I wish there were a law to compel microsoft to provide the original install disk with every machine sold. I don't know yet if product activation will come to haunt me (I was told there is no p/a as vista goes, and that p/a applies to the office products...), but I sure as hell am not going to pay $299 or $300 or even $100 for the privilege of having the original discs. It is so glaring a weakness in that ms bungled billions of dollars for an OS it hailed as the best, most ultimate consumer-oriented OS to date, yet they cannot provide (or line up for install to the factory configs)
THIS patent gives the BEAN COUNTERS something to do with their COUNTER TOPS. AND, to boot, they get to SELL cookies while COUNTING and tracking cookies.
Aside from stealth (the uuber-big-dick-mantra of many US fleets (stealth and raw, gas-guzzling horsepower and intimidating body lines...), why not go for civic-friendly color schemes and lines?
HK motorcycles are really cool-looking. Even their uniforms and helmets are cool. Even though they look like stormtroopers in some of the films.
After watching some HK crimers and actioners I have long felt that most US police departments have odiously, conspicuously, and uninspired, bland paint schemes.
That's why I frackin' HATE trying to submit to Slash. It's probably best to first post it in your journal, THEN submit. I guess it boils down to who knows who, and how well written the submission summary is.
Slash could avoid the moderator/submitter favoritism by revamping the journal system to look at the weight of a journal that is submitted for sharing. The item URL could be fed to the major search engines, then pushed to the top based on the number of qualitative and AUTHORITATIVE links.
For example, NPR, among others, talked about this black hole bullying it's neighbor DAYS ago.
I think the URLs submitted for consideration should not depend on the half-baked commentary by moderators or anyone. The lead-in by the journal should be professional enough-- if it is via a professional journal. This would give a fairer shot to many who lack cute writing skills and yet who deserve some face time instead of the same-old same-old submitters. After all, Slash has THOUSANDS of members, yet only a FEW seem to be privileged to be recognized submitters/moderators named.
"Microsoft is successful today only because of one act - indoctrination: it was conniving enough to wean an entire generation of first-time computer users by making damn sure that, whoever bought a computer, windows would be the first thing they saw."
I seem to remember that ms coerced and threatened manufacturers of PCs to install windows onto them, by 1) making them afraid of being sued as aiding piracy, and 2) by making them think they couldn't sell hardware "missing" an OS.
I also seem to remember them giving PC manufacturers marketing dollars, and allowing retailers to -- for the first decade or so -- get away with unauthorized installation of the OS to make sure there was market penetration.
While I am willing to say windows is a sub-rate product (as are many of "their" products), that's all most of the world knows, and, like sheep, they'll accept that, until Linux or Apple or BSD, et al, erode ms' share of illegally, unethically, immorally-obtained the market.
So, what are the papers complaining about then? Loss of revenues, or competition from CL about journalism?
I don't see CL as a threat to journalism, not by a longshot. So, the papers are whining that they are losing to CL because CL is offering, what, basically a FREE, easy-to-search service? WHY can't the brick-and-mortars printers have beaten CL to the punch? Not as if CL were being malicious. The papers didn't because they didn't have the WILL, or the FORESIGHT early on to think as visionaries. They jumped around did their war dances and CL was passing them up.
Most people want to SEARCH, not skip past ads. Or so it's obvious to me. I've found an apartment twice, and found work TWICE via CL, and in both cases, THEY CAME TO ME! Most papers of old have stale ads, or ads so quickly responded to as to be useless.
Anyone remember the old roommate connections of around 1992? It was probably a clue to Craig and his friends. The papers tried similar things but didn't formulate as nicely. CL did and adapted, and look at where it is. It is nimble, responsive, and locality-friendly. Even tourists can jump IN and OUT at will, randomly, and FIND things.
The papers need to change their business models and stop looking for Chrysler/Amtrak/GM bail outs. They need to find relevance. It IS nice to hold on to paper for tactile reasons (folding, dog-earing, spindling, etc), but for on-the-go, or environmentally-conscious types, carrying ink-shedding papers isn't going to do.
Aside from the employees of papers losing their jobs, probably librarians will be next hurt, followed by OCD types who have to stack a paper in a corner until the floor caves in. (It happened in Tokyo in 2004; I saw footage of an apartment collapse due to nobody seriously complaining, and because a mental-case guy stacked papers for YEARS until his upper floor unit collapsed...)
Slashdot Mirror
A good BUTTress...
(I thought I saw "With apologies to The TRICK")
Perpetual energy based on a salt and battery...
rrrrr, mayte!
Who knows? Maybe they DID surmise this, but decided against becoming known as the "Wack chow-ski" brothers...?
This para sounds like "armed cervixes". Counter insurgency springs to mind.
Also, when I was new to "The Nav", one of the first things I heard (and thought was, umm, "nuts", as in crazy) was:
"Hey, who's the Duty Cum Pumper?" That was a title for the "'girl'/male whore" on duty, the one who (jokingly) would suck off whoever else was on duty." (My first ship (that ship) was all-male crewed.)
Sailors say the darndest things...
... Spunk...
Spurts & sprints?
Smooth, or chunky?
Choosy Bots work in a jiffy..
Jeannie!
"blind faith", that he would be useful as an employee...
"He was one of the original phone phreaks, got arrested for phone fraud, and was even employed by the phone company. The article deals more with his personal life than with his technical exploits, but is a very interesting story.""
http://www.radioflyer.com/home/home.html
Anyone?
(Captcha: superior)
WOW! Thank you so much. I'll try that. I also made a few mistakes in my drivel... I referred to PCLOS 2006 when I probably should have said 0.93, as on their site. I REALLY wish I could donate this machine to them so they could do something good, but the rate at which new models and the dizzying array of anti-price-shopping mobo configs probably means that until the ODMs and OEMs decide to stop playing hardball with Linux/Open Source, we'll always be chasing them more than the energy expenditure warrants.
I'll be on the lookout to getting the rubber-outlined multimedia keys to work. I am HOPING that these mean the OS need not be booted into to play media, but I suppose that would be asking for too much. Hibernation and suspend and sleep have varying degrees of functionality. I was tempted to try Ubuntu, but I am hard-core/psychologically stuck on Mandriva and PCLOS mainly for the hardware detection/config GUI and the general GUI.
One thing nice about PCLOS live CDs is that on a lark I installed 2007 over 0.93, and tho sound didn't work aloud (media played, but KMIX and the hardware configs just wouldn't let it reach ears...), the 0.93 kernel did begin booting. Something weird in 0.93 would make it kernel panic and just not boot AT ALL, just like when I had installed it as dual boot on the Gateway HDD. So, I decided to buy another HDD JUST for PCLOS, and installing 2007 over 0.93 acted as an upgrade, not a replacement. Nice. Now, to install it and go to the repositories...
I recently purchased a new laptop from Gateway, the P-6301. It is nice in the sense that it has TWO hard disc bays, and the BIOS allows selection of either for booting. The LCD is 17" diag, optimized for 1420ish by 900.
Something that sucks is that the machine is SO new (it came out Oct 07) that PCLinuxOS 2006 doesn't recognize the rtl 8168 E gigabit ethernet card, and tho PCLinux 2007 does, but it doesn't do sound. I am actually typing this via the PCLOS 2007 disc. I need to download the latest one, so maybe that'll work. However, I still need to use win4lin for things in Win98, mainly because it's pointless to buy the latest win4lin since I think it needs the original install discs, not OEM discs (ostensibly to appease mshaft, and to show face that it is not enabling piracy...). Also, I think Virtualbox would be pointless, too, so I began considering seeking out virtualization tools to let me run Linux inside vista (a horrifying idea, especially since if any crash happens... like the crcdisk.sys crap that goes on after messing with the MBR or shrinking the partition, basically adding Linux to the same disk containing Vista... my suspicion, but who am I? I am sure a hundred people will line up and swear they are dual-booting trouble free. So, it could be hardware, as I am seeing, but the disk is new....
What also sucks, is that Gateway decided to put in only shared memory graphics, so there is no way to run Compiz or Beryl... Sure, all this is obtainable if one can run a live boot disk in the store, but the compelling draws for me were the 17" screen at the price of the 15.4" machines, and the dual hdd bay i suspected being present due to 4 sets of disc stacks embossed on the bottom cover panel.
I SHOULD have or COULD have bought the machines with 15.4" displays and NVidia or ATI graphics and devoted RAM for them, and having 2GB vs the 1GB this machine has, but I wanted the screen real estate and the dual-hdd bay.
What also sucks VERY much is that the OEM install of vister blister had power management and all working fine. I then installed PCLinuxOS on the disk, then after some time decided to go back to vister blister (I did NOT buy the machine for vister blister by a long shot. I WISH I had the original install disk because this reinstally by OEM disk sucks. But, I see that it's microsoft at it's best persecuting (oh, they'll say it's to make reinstallation easier and to reduce piracy...) those who don't believe that an ms OS should hijack the entire disk.
Anyway, I don't intend to let the machine touch the Internet when vista is running. I only bought it because I am using Punch! ViaCAD and IMSI TurboCAD (which bought last week) and they don't work in windoze 98, otherwise I'd have not bothered buying a new machine.
Now, where Vista is WEAK. Vista is that it is MAJOR eye-candy. As much as I am able to bash msoft, I DID feel the pull to eye-candy-heaven when I first ran vista as configured by Gateway. But, Gateway's recover disk is flawed or deliberately missing things to generate tech support revenue. Vista is appearing, to me, major gloss work on top of XP and 2K, at least when vista is set to show things in classic mode. For the home user, using Vista Home Premium (as sold by Best Buy; CompUSA has Ultimate, and their higher prices reflect it; but CU is going out of business, so I was leery of buying from them a machine that is non-returnable, and since CU is closing down by mid February...
I wish there were a law to compel microsoft to provide the original install disk with every machine sold. I don't know yet if product activation will come to haunt me (I was told there is no p/a as vista goes, and that p/a applies to the office products...), but I sure as hell am not going to pay $299 or $300 or even $100 for the privilege of having the original discs. It is so glaring a weakness in that ms bungled billions of dollars for an OS it hailed as the best, most ultimate consumer-oriented OS to date, yet they cannot provide (or line up for install to the factory configs)
One can't help wondering whether Blockbuster is feeling Wal-Mart as a 'ball-buster', considering.
Jumping Beans?
THIS patent gives the BEAN COUNTERS something to do with their COUNTER TOPS. AND, to boot, they get to SELL cookies while COUNTING and tracking cookies.
Gives a new meaning to "mad dash" for the coffee.
Aside from stealth (the uuber-big-dick-mantra of many US fleets (stealth and raw, gas-guzzling horsepower and intimidating body lines...), why not go for civic-friendly color schemes and lines?
http://www.police.gov.hk/offbeat/698/014_e.htm
HK motorcycles are really cool-looking. Even their uniforms and helmets are cool. Even though they look like stormtroopers in some of the films.
After watching some HK crimers and actioners I have long felt that most US police departments have odiously, conspicuously, and uninspired, bland paint schemes.
See some of the PTU vehicles at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Police_Force
http://rides.webshots.com/album/554114263xHqZiV
http://www.policecar.net/
For example:
The Body Has A Mind of Its Own (broadcast Friday, December 21st, 2007)
http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200712214
--
Toxic Homes and Household Toxins (broadcast Friday, December 14th, 2007)
http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200712144
--
Exposed: the seven great medical myths
http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article3273183.ece
--
Testing Toys for Lead
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16951320
That's why I frackin' HATE trying to submit to Slash. It's probably best to first post it in your journal, THEN submit. I guess it boils down to who knows who, and how well written the submission summary is.
Slash could avoid the moderator/submitter favoritism by revamping the journal system to look at the weight of a journal that is submitted for sharing. The item URL could be fed to the major search engines, then pushed to the top based on the number of qualitative and AUTHORITATIVE links.
For example, NPR, among others, talked about this black hole bullying it's neighbor DAYS ago.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17371531
I think the URLs submitted for consideration should not depend on the half-baked commentary by moderators or anyone. The lead-in by the journal should be professional enough-- if it is via a professional journal. This would give a fairer shot to many who lack cute writing skills and yet who deserve some face time instead of the same-old same-old submitters. After all, Slash has THOUSANDS of members, yet only a FEW seem to be privileged to be recognized submitters/moderators named.
in ...
ANTIGUITY
"The report does not mention whether pornographic internet advertisements were included in the study."
I'd say if it was porn, the subjects could have been involved in:
- Digital More-ass
- Quantum slipstream
- Black holes
- add-vert-tize mints
- Quad-drastic wormhole
with a combination of weak and strong forces bonding and binding the at-tension...
Where are the moderators to guard against "offtopic" moderations by obsequious dumbasses out there who cannot make a connection slap "off topic"?
Sounds like they need Slimfast or Sego....
CelluLOSE in humans is fat?
CelluLOID in film is SLIM
ANY ideas for product names (other than CompressFAST)?
"Microsoft is successful today only because of one act - indoctrination: it was conniving enough to wean an entire generation of first-time computer users by making damn sure that, whoever bought a computer, windows would be the first thing they saw."
I seem to remember that ms coerced and threatened manufacturers of PCs to install windows onto them, by 1) making them afraid of being sued as aiding piracy, and 2) by making them think they couldn't sell hardware "missing" an OS.
I also seem to remember them giving PC manufacturers marketing dollars, and allowing retailers to -- for the first decade or so -- get away with unauthorized installation of the OS to make sure there was market penetration.
While I am willing to say windows is a sub-rate product (as are many of "their" products), that's all most of the world knows, and, like sheep, they'll accept that, until Linux or Apple or BSD, et al, erode ms' share of illegally, unethically, immorally-obtained the market.
Maybe to issue the occasional "kill" command?
It's disgusting that they even dare express any comment. What's next? Apple has a monopoly on hand-held touch-screen multimedia players?
So, what are the papers complaining about then? Loss of revenues, or competition from CL about journalism?
I don't see CL as a threat to journalism, not by a longshot. So, the papers are whining that they are losing to CL because CL is offering, what, basically a FREE, easy-to-search service? WHY can't the brick-and-mortars printers have beaten CL to the punch? Not as if CL were being malicious. The papers didn't because they didn't have the WILL, or the FORESIGHT early on to think as visionaries. They jumped around did their war dances and CL was passing them up.
Most people want to SEARCH, not skip past ads. Or so it's obvious to me. I've found an apartment twice, and found work TWICE via CL, and in both cases, THEY CAME TO ME! Most papers of old have stale ads, or ads so quickly responded to as to be useless.
Anyone remember the old roommate connections of around 1992? It was probably a clue to Craig and his friends. The papers tried similar things but didn't formulate as nicely. CL did and adapted, and look at where it is. It is nimble, responsive, and locality-friendly. Even tourists can jump IN and OUT at will, randomly, and FIND things.
The papers need to change their business models and stop looking for Chrysler/Amtrak/GM bail outs. They need to find relevance. It IS nice to hold on to paper for tactile reasons (folding, dog-earing, spindling, etc), but for on-the-go, or environmentally-conscious types, carrying ink-shedding papers isn't going to do.
Aside from the employees of papers losing their jobs, probably librarians will be next hurt, followed by OCD types who have to stack a paper in a corner until the floor caves in. (It happened in Tokyo in 2004; I saw footage of an apartment collapse due to nobody seriously complaining, and because a mental-case guy stacked papers for YEARS until his upper floor unit collapsed...)
Will IT be visible by Dawn? What will SHE have to say about it?