Best part: I'm a software dev, I open CygWin (IT force feeds XP) "cat/dev/urandom", make sure that it's visable in a background window then browse slashdot. They see that and go into dummy mode assuming I'm waiting for my PC to do something. If the only other DEV comes by I tell her I'm testing the RNG on my pc. She knows better, but I'm geeky enough it may be true so she goes away shaking her head and calling me a geeky wierdo.
This is about the only case where it makes sense (often can't tell / don't realize sooner in the pregnancy that something this severe is wrong). It still does not take away the gruesome aspects of what it is. -nB
@ AC: Aside from spelling errors that are bound to happen when frothing at the mouth (I do it too), I have several issues with your post:
so you support partial birth abortions and later term abortions??? you just saisd to because you are pro-choice. RTFP: I personally do not support any abortion, I just refuse to force others to my will.
Why are you against adding a qualifier that states "in instances of medical emergency or extenuating circumstances such as incest or rape?" Because something will happen, that is not covered by the law, yet would merit an abortion. The doctors will refuse to treat the woman without a court order, which may take forever, thus said woman goes to an alley and someone with a coat hanger does it. Very very bad.
a woman has the right to murder her child because it's birth might interffere with her career or the carribian cruise she wants to go on? Unfortunately, yes. I know someone who effectively did this. I do not know how she can stand to live. My daughter would be almost the same age as her child. If I were in her shoes I would break out in tears every time I saw a child the age of what mine would have been.
most anti-abortion people are interested in removeing the "convienence" abortions and the blatent infancide that happens after the second trimester and the most horrible partial birth abortions. I'm sorry you are so mistaken. Most pro-choice people (in fact all those I know except the one mentioned above), simply do not want to legislate morality. This is my case.
Are you are a sick motherfucker that is happy to lie to himself? or are you going to start voting for and rallying for what is really needed?
support abortion laws that make sense, rally against the sick and horrible shit that is in place right now." I do not see how I am lying to myself, but come what may I will fight any law that attempts to dictate morality, abridge free speech, take away my right to keep and bear arms (I do not own a gun BTW), or otherwise pollute the courts with invalid or unconstitutional laws (God I feel out of place living in California). -nB
If I still had mod points I'd mod you into flaimebait oblivion.
As it is I am personally pro-life. My vote, however, is firmly pro choice. Why? Because as soon as you legislate what is acceptable and what is not (as to when an abortion is legal when normally banned), you will inevitably run into a condition where an abortion would make logical sense, but is not covered by the law, and thus is illegal.
I am pro-life because my mother had me ten days after she turned 18. I was put up for adoption, and was loved and raised by a couple who could not have children. They are mom and dad. I now enjoy a wonderful relationship will all my parents, (I have three "dads", two "moms", and one step-mom). I know full well I could be an aborted fetus, but I'm not, thus I'm firmly pro-life. I will not, under darn near any circumstance, impose my belief on another, thus my vote being firmly pro-choice.
You're trying to equate the Holocaust with abortion. While abortion is abominable, even in my eyes (partial birth particularly so) it is not the Holocaust. The Holocaust was about eliminating a human genome from the planet, a far more insidious thing. Get over your bible belt, moralistic, dictatorial views on abortion.
Roe V Wade was a Good Thing (tm) and should be allowed to stand. -nB
You can make more money than your 'replacement' flipping burgers,
When adjusted for cost of living this statement is not true. I live in
California, where we have one of the highest costs of living. I make reasonable
money at my high tech employer, yet I am barely able to make ends meet. I'll
acknowledge that I can likely live on less, but if I were flipping burgers I
would also be completely homeless. I can not live on $6.75 an hour. Not when the
cheapest rent I can find is $750 a month in some really really shitty
apartments. I opted to upgrade to $800/month apartments because the area was
better and I can feel safer with my wife and two kids. I normally don't bash
H1B's and such, as I work with many of them, they are nice, and I enjoy their
company.
What I can't stand about your post is that it assumes that they are getting more
benefit from my job than I give up by loosing my job. To that I cry
bullshit and such very loudly. The nature of the beast is to move where
the costs (labor, EPA, Building, etc.) are lower. This I understand.
I simply re-create myself into something too valuable to be shipped overseas,
now I stay employed. If I loose my job to an individual over there, they
will earn a reasonable wage, but it will not be the same total dollar amount I
earned. Likely it will be 10x less. Thus your argument that one
dollar does them the benefit of my ten may be true, but it doesn't matter,
because they are only going to get paid one dollar for every ten I make.
At the best the loss of my job helps my Indian counterpart to an extent equal to
my loss. I think that is not how it would work though. I think I
would loose much more than they would gain.
-nB
Overall I agree with this, but my concern is that if you parse the message and find invalid url's then a valid message will be dropped because of a malformed text string. While I suppose that's better than letting more spam through, I would be uneasy about the increase in false positives. -nB
I think that may almost be considered trolling:heh:
My self, I am a Windows and Linux guy. I'm seriously thinking about buying one of these as a simple, small toy. That way I can learn to use Macs. My brother has a mac and such, but I don't really know my way around it. This seems like the perfect chance to learn. -nB
Even the Si based cells cause pollution as they use the same manufacturing techniques as ICs. But it is true I did not cite. I will research this and next time will post links to citations or will not bring it up;-) -nB
The only problem withThe only problem with most solar technologies (this any different?), is pollution. People always tout solar as the green power source, when, in fact solar produces nearly as much pollution as nuclear (arguments about level of waste aside). Add storage of the power in PbA or NiCd cells and you have even more pollution as the cells are retired and recycled (not 100% recovery). While I think this is a Good Thing (TM), I will not embrace it as an end-all, because it isn't one. -nB
most solar technologies
Yes they are. Also a point to note, the blurb says: For a while now, there have been computers (IBM ThinkPad) that won't boot unless you give the password, but you could always rip out the hard drive and read it, right? It is quite wrong. The drive stores the password on a protected portion of the platters, so ripping out the drive will not allow you to read it. You will, however, be able to boot the notebook again. -nB
"why do you think that they included a dedicated x86 processing core into the die?"
They didn't. That's what caused all the fuss. The thing had to emulate x86 and as a result was dreadfully slow compared to a comparably clocked x86 die. -nB
Need to fix an error: =~s/Cray XT3/Cray X1/g Should have compared the X1 not the XT3 for two reasons: Cray X1 is a vector based unit (what the Cray1 wanted to be), while the XT3 is a MPP unit, effectively a cluster computer optimized for density to the extreme of having 4 CPUs per PE. Other reason: XT3 uses opteron CPUs:blush:
My argument still holds, however, because the X1 is the arena where the Itanium competes better. -nB
I call bullshit. It was not an attempt to drop backwards compatibility, but rather an attempt to produce a product vastly superior to an x86 based design. Itanium was not designed for the desktop, or even the standard server market. It was designed for number crunching, which it works quite well at. Is a Cray XT3 backwards compatible with a Cray1 or even a YMP? NO. Same thing goes here. In fact Itanium was designed to compete with the likes of Cray. It was never, ever, designed with desktop in mind. -nB
Funny thing is I liked it for the very reason you didn't. . . go figure. BTW, the reason for creating the world within the world was that they thought it possible to hide data if it was more obsured. -nB
I hear you. While I do like having a 20 gig media player that I can take anywhere and play MP3 and DivX, I find that the battery life blows chunks. I bought mine because it offered a huge capacity and the ability to download content from Flash media (like CF) and could either rip just JPGs or all content on the CF card. This was bliss with my digital camera; I could listen to music and shoot pictures, then download to my HDD and re-use the CF card, without lugging a notebook around.
The downside of all this: The connector is flimsy. If you so much as look at it funny, let alone touch it, while it is transferring you were screwed. While I still use it, if I had it to do over I would have waited and bought a better notebook with the extra $500 I would have had. -nB
Right, so let me clarify: I've always taken I.D. to mean "guided evolution", in so far as life is possible without external guideance. Evolution is real. BUT Self awareness requires some additional "help" if you will.
That's my 2 cents and take what you will from it. -nB
Slashdot Mirror
Best part: /dev/urandom", make sure that it's visable in a background window then browse slashdot.
I'm a software dev, I open CygWin (IT force feeds XP) "cat
They see that and go into dummy mode assuming I'm waiting for my PC to do something.
If the only other DEV comes by I tell her I'm testing the RNG on my pc. She knows better, but I'm geeky enough it may be true so she goes away shaking her head and calling me a geeky wierdo.
Works like a champ.
-nB
This is about the only case where it makes sense (often can't tell / don't realize sooner in the pregnancy that something this severe is wrong).
It still does not take away the gruesome aspects of what it is.
-nB
@ AC:
Aside from spelling errors that are bound to happen when frothing at the mouth (I do it too), I have several issues with your post:
so you support partial birth abortions and later term abortions??? you just saisd to because you are pro-choice.
RTFP: I personally do not support any abortion, I just refuse to force others to my will.
Why are you against adding a qualifier that states "in instances of medical emergency or extenuating circumstances such as incest or rape?"
Because something will happen, that is not covered by the law, yet would merit an abortion. The doctors will refuse to treat the woman without a court order, which may take forever, thus said woman goes to an alley and someone with a coat hanger does it. Very very bad.
a woman has the right to murder her child because it's birth might interffere with her career or the carribian cruise she wants to go on?
Unfortunately, yes. I know someone who effectively did this. I do not know how she can stand to live. My daughter would be almost the same age as her child. If I were in her shoes I would break out in tears every time I saw a child the age of what mine would have been.
most anti-abortion people are interested in removeing the "convienence" abortions and the blatent infancide that happens after the second trimester and the most horrible partial birth abortions.
I'm sorry you are so mistaken. Most pro-choice people (in fact all those I know except the one mentioned above), simply do not want to legislate morality. This is my case.
Are you are a sick motherfucker that is happy to lie to himself? or are you going to start voting for and rallying for what is really needed?
support abortion laws that make sense, rally against the sick and horrible shit that is in place right now."
I do not see how I am lying to myself, but come what may I will fight any law that attempts to dictate morality, abridge free speech, take away my right to keep and bear arms (I do not own a gun BTW), or otherwise pollute the courts with invalid or unconstitutional laws (God I feel out of place living in California).
-nB
If I still had mod points I'd mod you into flaimebait oblivion.
As it is I am personally pro-life. My vote, however, is firmly pro choice. Why? Because as soon as you legislate what is acceptable and what is not (as to when an abortion is legal when normally banned), you will inevitably run into a condition where an abortion would make logical sense, but is not covered by the law, and thus is illegal.
I am pro-life because my mother had me ten days after she turned 18. I was put up for adoption, and was loved and raised by a couple who could not have children. They are mom and dad. I now enjoy a wonderful relationship will all my parents, (I have three "dads", two "moms", and one step-mom). I know full well I could be an aborted fetus, but I'm not, thus I'm firmly pro-life. I will not, under darn near any circumstance, impose my belief on another, thus my vote being firmly pro-choice.
You're trying to equate the Holocaust with abortion. While abortion is abominable, even in my eyes (partial birth particularly so) it is not the Holocaust. The Holocaust was about eliminating a human genome from the planet, a far more insidious thing. Get over your bible belt, moralistic, dictatorial views on abortion.
Roe V Wade was a Good Thing (tm) and should be allowed to stand.
-nB
You can make more money than your 'replacement' flipping burgers,
When adjusted for cost of living this statement is not true. I live in California, where we have one of the highest costs of living. I make reasonable money at my high tech employer, yet I am barely able to make ends meet. I'll acknowledge that I can likely live on less, but if I were flipping burgers I would also be completely homeless. I can not live on $6.75 an hour. Not when the cheapest rent I can find is $750 a month in some really really shitty apartments. I opted to upgrade to $800/month apartments because the area was better and I can feel safer with my wife and two kids. I normally don't bash H1B's and such, as I work with many of them, they are nice, and I enjoy their company.
What I can't stand about your post is that it assumes that they are getting more benefit from my job than I give up by loosing my job. To that I cry bullshit and such very loudly. The nature of the beast is to move where the costs (labor, EPA, Building, etc.) are lower. This I understand. I simply re-create myself into something too valuable to be shipped overseas, now I stay employed. If I loose my job to an individual over there, they will earn a reasonable wage, but it will not be the same total dollar amount I earned. Likely it will be 10x less. Thus your argument that one dollar does them the benefit of my ten may be true, but it doesn't matter, because they are only going to get paid one dollar for every ten I make. At the best the loss of my job helps my Indian counterpart to an extent equal to my loss. I think that is not how it would work though. I think I would loose much more than they would gain. -nB
Quite an important distinction too.
-nB
Unless you're the mail admin for a company.
-nB
I don't see a 2nd slot on the back, I see the rear faceplace for all of the ports....
.
d es20050111.jpg
look at an exploded view. My brother and I were looking at it last night. I'll try and fine the page . .
O.K. looks like I may be eating crow.
We were looking at this image:
http://images.apple.com/macmini/images/designinsi
and it was late, we wanted to believe, etc...
guess that explaines the high price for 1Gig of ram.
-nB
Overall I agree with this, but my concern is that if you parse the message and find invalid url's then a valid message will be dropped because of a malformed text string. While I suppose that's better than letting more spam through, I would be uneasy about the increase in false positives.
-nB
Thats a nice stunt
How do you combat this? If the e-mail contains an invalid domain name kill it? What about typos?
-nB
I think that may almost be considered trolling :heh:
My self, I am a Windows and Linux guy. I'm seriously thinking about buying one of these as a simple, small toy. That way I can learn to use Macs.
My brother has a mac and such, but I don't really know my way around it. This seems like the perfect chance to learn.
-nB
It has two dimm slots (at right angles to each other).
Left side of the DVD and back of the box.
you can put up to a gig in it.
-nB
Never mess with the FBI when budgets are on the line!
Ahh HA ha ha . . . AAk
-nB
Funny thing is the MB (server) is fine, but the router is not!
-nB
Even the Si based cells cause pollution as they use the same manufacturing techniques as ICs. ;-)
But it is true I did not cite. I will research this and next time will post links to citations or will not bring it up
-nB
The only problem withThe only problem with most solar technologies (this any different?), is pollution.
People always tout solar as the green power source, when, in fact solar produces nearly as much pollution as nuclear (arguments about level of waste aside). Add storage of the power in PbA or NiCd cells and you have even more pollution as the cells are retired and recycled (not 100% recovery).
While I think this is a Good Thing (TM), I will not embrace it as an end-all, because it isn't one.
-nB
most solar technologies
Yes they are. Also a point to note, the blurb says:
For a while now, there have been computers (IBM ThinkPad) that won't boot unless you give the password, but you could always rip out the hard drive and read it, right?
It is quite wrong.
The drive stores the password on a protected portion of the platters, so ripping out the drive will not allow you to read it. You will, however, be able to boot the notebook again.
-nB
"why do you think that they included a dedicated x86 processing core into the die?"
They didn't.
That's what caused all the fuss. The thing had to emulate x86 and as a result was dreadfully slow compared to a comparably clocked x86 die.
-nB
Need to fix an error: :blush:
=~s/Cray XT3/Cray X1/g
Should have compared the X1 not the XT3 for two reasons:
Cray X1 is a vector based unit (what the Cray1 wanted to be), while the XT3 is a MPP unit, effectively a cluster computer optimized for density to the extreme of having 4 CPUs per PE.
Other reason: XT3 uses opteron CPUs
My argument still holds, however, because the X1 is the arena where the Itanium competes better.
-nB
I call bullshit.
It was not an attempt to drop backwards compatibility, but rather an attempt to produce a product vastly superior to an x86 based design.
Itanium was not designed for the desktop, or even the standard server market. It was designed for number crunching, which it works quite well at.
Is a Cray XT3 backwards compatible with a Cray1 or even a YMP?
NO.
Same thing goes here. In fact Itanium was designed to compete with the likes of Cray. It was never, ever, designed with desktop in mind.
-nB
Funny thing is I liked it for the very reason you didn't. . . go figure. BTW, the reason for creating the world within the world was that they thought it possible to hide data if it was more obsured.
-nB
I hear you. While I do like having a 20 gig media player that I can take anywhere and play MP3 and DivX, I find that the battery life blows chunks. I bought mine because it offered a huge capacity and the ability to download content from Flash media (like CF) and could either rip just JPGs or all content on the CF card. This was bliss with my digital camera; I could listen to music and shoot pictures, then download to my HDD and re-use the CF card, without lugging a notebook around.
The downside of all this:
The connector is flimsy. If you so much as look at it funny, let alone touch it, while it is transferring you were screwed.
While I still use it, if I had it to do over I would have waited and bought a better notebook with the extra $500 I would have had.
-nB
Right, so let me clarify:
I've always taken I.D. to mean "guided evolution", in so far as life is possible without external guideance. Evolution is real.
BUT
Self awareness requires some additional "help" if you will.
That's my 2 cents and take what you will from it.
-nB
in intelligent design.
-nB
Yeah, but you need a terminal fixed-width font in your sig for that to be really classic.
I know, I know, -1 nitpick.
-nB