I would like a "rent random un-rated, un-rented movie" option. Whereby if you've already rated or rented a movie it will be excluded, but your queue gets some random movie put in. -nB
Besides, if I said "she should be sent to a prison and raped repeatedly", would you find that funny (well, you might, but perhaps that's the problem)? I doubt it. But, apparently a change of phrasing makes all the difference... Not funny. Specifically because it now is no longer a quote from a movie, and thus is more directly advocating it as torture/punishment.
Fact of the matter is that many people on/. have watched office space and would recognize this line as michael bolton being terrified of his software going wrong and him going to jail. That you were offended by the quote is understandable being the context you were reading it in, but pragmatically it (in this case) is just a quote and you should accept it as such, not as a tacit approval of being cornhole'd while incarcerated. -nB
No, he's right, I'm a closet narcissist. This is my one release in life, to sign my/. posts. I must do it, for if I didn't my heat would explode in an atomic blast unrivaled since the dawn of man. Remember Tunguska? That was when I only had a chance to partially sign a post. You don't want that to happen again do you?
Internal, external, whatever. Irrespective of the application I format any drive before use, additionally I would be spooked by an already formatted drive (don't they ship blank?) -nB
Which one of those is fission? The sun is a fusion reaction (uses Gravity to generate enough pressure fuse H2 to He4 and other stuff). The Farnsworth Fusor is a fusion reaction (uses high energy electron fields to force fusion of D2, HD, HT, DT, or T2 to He4 + neutrons) The Hydrogen Bomb is a fusion reaction (uses a fission bomb primer to generate enough pressure to fuse D2, DT, or T2 to He4 + neutrons)
-1 nitpick but:
We don't know if workable fusion reactors can exist, either. That is provably false. The following are workable (literally) as opposed to workable with a controllable energy output: The sun. H Bombs. "benchtop" reactors with negative energy gain (i.e. Farnsworth Fusor).
Just was feeling pedantic. I actually wholly agree with you. -nB
Hold on, don't you go talking all sensible-like. sorry, won't happen again
You do make a wonderful point of course. While I am not railing against the government but rather an insurance carrier on my site, even that would likely be hazardous in any country lacking the protections on speech we have. The irony is how pissed off people get/are and then say "there ought to be a law". I've been in rather heated debates that almost turned to fights because someone said there ought to be a law, to which I replied hell no there oughtent. I firmly believe the more laws a society has the less free the society is, and as a result the closer it comes to being a totalitarian state. Those same people that chronically nit-pick everyone else are usually the same ones who feel they are faultless, could do better, and if left in charge would gladly suppress speech not in-line with their own ideology. Only people I tend to call patriots who willingly martyr themselves (if grudgingly) for the country are our lads and ladies of the armed forces. Nevermind my opinion on the current state of affairs in US foreign policy and actions*, it doesn't change the fact that these are the people who genuinely put their money where their mouth is. -nB
As a red-blood yank I have to agree though. Europe (as a whole) is rapidly becoming the role-model that the USA once was. Sad really. I still love my country, just my governments breaks have melted and if you thought a run-away semi down hill was bad, try a trillion dollar ball of red tape, pencil pushers, and self-important lawyers (as most congress critters are).
Look, If taking one for the team is the *only* way then fine. If it's the *best* way then maybe. If there is a fairly equitable solution that does not involve martyring one's self then that is the correct course of action. I mean you're almost acting as if the ISP should line up like the Judean People's Front crack suicide squad from Life of Brian, pull aside the armor, and stab one's self in the heart. I mean really, this ISP has armor in the form of lawyers that will go to the press for it, with a media/propaganda devision that rivals the duopoly political party's media machines... Why not use it?
And if you need to move the files to a different volume, just use symbolic links instead of the hard links! Oh, wait... That's right up there with what my brother did. I jokingly told him to sudo rm -r -f / he tried it...
I'll have to tell him to do the softlinks / delete the hardlinks as a way to um... shadow his files:-) -nB
Of course you are right. Except in this case it isn't. I'm with all the paranoid ones here. I have a perl script I use often enough: FTP files, ask server to compute MD5, (and SHA1 if $PARANOIA==1), perl does the same at my end, compares if the hash(s) are correct the copy is deemed successful. -nB
So seeing as the holidays are coming, maybe they can wire up 200 500 watt work lamps from the home improvement store and be the star of Bethlehem for the night? Damn, what I wouldn't pay to see that streak across the sky (and the resulting slew of UFO sightings on Norrey at night) -nB
Ethanol is a horrid fuel, especially when made from corn. IIRC when faced with getting energy from corn it is more efficient to simply let it dry in the fields and burn it in a (converted) coal plant rather than try to make ethanol as fuel. Sugar cane and sawgrass are better. As to Mr Bransons jets, he may want to try biodiesel as that has a 93% return on invested energy (converted from soybean crops) Vs, 25% return on ethanol from corn (sorry no numbers for sawgrass or cane in my reference*). Biodiesel is only about 5% less dense an energy source than petro diesel** -nB
* Science News, Farm-Fuel Feedback: Soybeans have advantages over corn(Week of July 15, 2006; Vol. 170, No. 3 , p. 36)Both biofuels yield energy, but with corn-based ethanol, "it takes so much energy to grow the corn and convert it into a fuel, you don't gain very much energy in the overall process," says ecologist David Tilman at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul. While ethanol provides 25 percent more energy than it consumes, the energy gain for soybean biodiesel is 93 percent. Various steps in making ethanol, such as distillation, are energy intensive.
** As wildly reported in bio-diesel circles where a 5% mileage drop is common.
I understand your sentiment, but my point is not BS. They (on the box) state 1 MB is 1,000,000 bytes. It's not "right" but it is not fraud either. It is the fine line those marketing asshats walk every day. -nB
While that is true, in all reality every one knew what they were doing, it's not like it was a secret. Sure we may have griped about it, but it's nothing new and not worth it (to me) to initiate a lawsuit over. Also, even if I wanted to collect on this for all my Seagate drives, there is no reasonable way I could. Since Seagate is so awesome about their warranty I don't bother saving receipts, as a scan of the top of the drive is all they've ever needed from me at work for a replacement drive (without requiring the old one back because of security implications), for my home drives I fill out the RMA and send in my bad drive and a refurb comes back in quick order. I'm a happy customer... -nB
Cable quality matters just as much with digital as with analog. Here's why: http://networkboy.net/hdjitter.shtml. To be fair, of course, there is little to gain once you have reached the "decent quality" tier. -nB
Yes, but as Bruce says: It only takes one person to take an interest in your system that has the appropriate skill set and your content is never again secure. -nB
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I would like a "rent random un-rated, un-rented movie" option. Whereby if you've already rated or rented a movie it will be excluded, but your queue gets some random movie put in.
-nB
Specifically because it now is no longer a quote from a movie, and thus is more directly advocating it as torture/punishment.
Fact of the matter is that many people on
-nB
Basically, yes. I's down to muscle memory at this point.
-nB
No, he's right, I'm a closet narcissist. This is my one release in life, to sign my /. posts. I must do it, for if I didn't my heat would explode in an atomic blast unrivaled since the dawn of man. Remember Tunguska? That was when I only had a chance to partially sign a post. You don't want that to happen again do you?
;-)
Here's to saving the world
-nB
Actually I like:
c:\usr\media
c:\usr\source
c:\usr\<whatever>
To each their own I suppose.
-nB
Um... I've always found it more convenient to mount drives as a subdir in windows, doubly so if you have tons of drives.
-nB
Internal, external, whatever. Irrespective of the application I format any drive before use, additionally I would be spooked by an already formatted drive (don't they ship blank?)
-nB
Which one of those is fission?
The sun is a fusion reaction (uses Gravity to generate enough pressure fuse H2 to He4 and other stuff).
The Farnsworth Fusor is a fusion reaction (uses high energy electron fields to force fusion of D2, HD, HT, DT, or T2 to He4 + neutrons)
The Hydrogen Bomb is a fusion reaction (uses a fission bomb primer to generate enough pressure to fuse D2, DT, or T2 to He4 + neutrons)
-nB
The sun.
H Bombs.
"benchtop" reactors with negative energy gain (i.e. Farnsworth Fusor).
Just was feeling pedantic. I actually wholly agree with you.
-nB
bps
You do make a wonderful point of course. While I am not railing against the government but rather an insurance carrier on my site, even that would likely be hazardous in any country lacking the protections on speech we have. The irony is how pissed off people get/are and then say "there ought to be a law". I've been in rather heated debates that almost turned to fights because someone said there ought to be a law, to which I replied hell no there oughtent. I firmly believe the more laws a society has the less free the society is, and as a result the closer it comes to being a totalitarian state. Those same people that chronically nit-pick everyone else are usually the same ones who feel they are faultless, could do better, and if left in charge would gladly suppress speech not in-line with their own ideology. Only people I tend to call patriots who willingly martyr themselves (if grudgingly) for the country are our lads and ladies of the armed forces. Nevermind my opinion on the current state of affairs in US foreign policy and actions*, it doesn't change the fact that these are the people who genuinely put their money where their mouth is.
-nB
* it sucks
freererer...er, yeah, you got me on that one...
As a red-blood yank I have to agree though. Europe (as a whole) is rapidly becoming the role-model that the USA once was.
Sad really. I still love my country, just my governments breaks have melted and if you thought a run-away semi down hill was bad, try a trillion dollar ball of red tape, pencil pushers, and self-important lawyers (as most congress critters are).
OK Enough, I call bullshit.
Look,
If taking one for the team is the *only* way then fine. If it's the *best* way then maybe. If there is a fairly equitable solution that does not involve martyring one's self then that is the correct course of action. I mean you're almost acting as if the ISP should line up like the Judean People's Front crack suicide squad from Life of Brian, pull aside the armor, and stab one's self in the heart. I mean really, this ISP has armor in the form of lawyers that will go to the press for it, with a media/propaganda devision that rivals the duopoly political party's media machines... Why not use it?
-nB
Oh, wait... That's right up there with what my brother did.
I jokingly told him to sudo rm -r -f /
he tried it...
I'll have to tell him to do the softlinks / delete the hardlinks as a way to um... shadow his files
-nB
Of course you are right. Except in this case it isn't.
I'm with all the paranoid ones here. I have a perl script I use often enough: FTP files, ask server to compute MD5, (and SHA1 if $PARANOIA==1), perl does the same at my end, compares if the hash(s) are correct the copy is deemed successful.
-nB
If you actually figured out how to do that DeBeers would shoot you.
and paid better I bet. (Add ex military MP or spec ops to the list as well)
-nB
So seeing as the holidays are coming, maybe they can wire up 200 500 watt work lamps from the home improvement store and be the star of Bethlehem for the night?
Damn, what I wouldn't pay to see that streak across the sky (and the resulting slew of UFO sightings on Norrey at night)
-nB
Ethanol is a horrid fuel, especially when made from corn. IIRC when faced with getting energy from corn it is more efficient to simply let it dry in the fields and burn it in a (converted) coal plant rather than try to make ethanol as fuel. Sugar cane and sawgrass are better. As to Mr Bransons jets, he may want to try biodiesel as that has a 93% return on invested energy (converted from soybean crops) Vs, 25% return on ethanol from corn (sorry no numbers for sawgrass or cane in my reference*). Biodiesel is only about 5% less dense an energy source than petro diesel**
-nB
* Science News, Farm-Fuel Feedback: Soybeans have advantages over corn(Week of July 15, 2006; Vol. 170, No. 3 , p. 36)Both biofuels yield energy, but with corn-based ethanol, "it takes so much energy to grow the corn and convert it into a fuel, you don't gain very much energy in the overall process," says ecologist David Tilman at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul. While ethanol provides 25 percent more energy than it consumes, the energy gain for soybean biodiesel is 93 percent. Various steps in making ethanol, such as distillation, are energy intensive.
** As wildly reported in bio-diesel circles where a 5% mileage drop is common.
I understand your sentiment, but my point is not BS. They (on the box) state 1 MB is 1,000,000 bytes. It's not "right" but it is not fraud either. It is the fine line those marketing asshats walk every day.
-nB
Rule 42 is all you need :-)
Well, It's just like how I have a hydrogen burning car. The hydrogen comes in convenient, safe packets called Heptane and Cetane.
-nB
While that is true, in all reality every one knew what they were doing, it's not like it was a secret. Sure we may have griped about it, but it's nothing new and not worth it (to me) to initiate a lawsuit over. Also, even if I wanted to collect on this for all my Seagate drives, there is no reasonable way I could. Since Seagate is so awesome about their warranty I don't bother saving receipts, as a scan of the top of the drive is all they've ever needed from me at work for a replacement drive (without requiring the old one back because of security implications), for my home drives I fill out the RMA and send in my bad drive and a refurb comes back in quick order. I'm a happy customer...
-nB
Cable quality matters just as much with digital as with analog.
Here's why: http://networkboy.net/hdjitter.shtml. To be fair, of course, there is little to gain once you have reached the "decent quality" tier.
-nB
Yes, but as Bruce says: It only takes one person to take an interest in your system that has the appropriate skill set and your content is never again secure.
-nB