I envision an oak or mahogany credenza stereo, but keep the harmon-kardon tube amp and the phat speakers (86 the rest of the system, as well as cutting out the leg area where the radio was) Maybe raise it up to desk height...
I thought taxes were to find marijuana smokers and lock them up, while idly letting the roads become part of the "crumbling infrastructure" so that more taxes can be raised.
"Okay. Sure, it's easier and cheaper to store everybody's money in a few large organisations, let's call them banks, but that same concentration, while it may mean that one single security flaw can expose all that money to theft, I wouldn't want to suggest that we all therefore stuff our mattresses with banknotes and sleep with a pistol under our pillows."
There are people who've been burned and lost enough to banks that this is not joke, not sarcasm, and take this comment seriously.
Okay let's get right to the bottom of this "Good Man" tripe.
A "Good Man" is rich enough that the female will either be able to stop working (or play at working) while Mr. Right supports her. A "Good Man" will be interested in Marriage, which is not always what it's supposed to be, and can often cause problems in relationships. A "Good Man" wants to reproduce, despite the fact that there are too many people on the planet as it is.
Even though by all rights, I should fall squarely into the "Good Man" category, I have experienced real alienation from women; I've got a pretty decent career, and I'm even more attractive than not, but here's the deal: #1. I do NOT want to be married (a contract between you and the STATE, not between you and your SPOUSE, and therefore a myth) #2. I do NOT want to become somebody else's means of support, I want that special somebody to be able to, and want to, take care of herself #3. I do NOT want children. Having children is something you do instead of living your own life.
Needless to say, few women find me worth the time of day when they learn my feelings on those issues.
"If even half these announcements turned out to be accurate"
That's how I felt about the announcemetn that they had technology that would make multi-gigabyte drives smaller and cheaper; and sure enough, just a few years later, that is the case (and I'm still tempted to marvel at a 10 gig laptop drive) Those things qualify as inexpensive, consumer-market items, right?
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Armies kill people NOW by BLOWING THEM TO BITS. To make your cigarette company connection, you lessen the shame of killing people.
Are you absolutely sure? I wonder how that would sound in court...
"Nope, they own the site. It's the same as you cracking your own site. They gave you permission, so it's legal. "
"Nope, they own the crack. It's the same as you smoking your own crack. They gave you permission, so it's legal."
Well? Just because you give someone permission to do something does not make it legal... It does not seem like a silly question to me.
Looking at it another way, I wonder if this opens them up to attacks on their other sites. I did not see 32 pages of legalese explaining what one could and could not do, just some friendly "ground rules". Makes one wonder if they ran this by the lawyers at all. Could somebody claim that they were trying to participate in this contest when they brought down microsoft.com accidentally?
is this just another gimmick for an adult site? I was chuckling at some of the links for the employees. Fairly obvious what kind of business they're trying to start. Nothing new there.
Certain kinds of games have the player immersed in the game, and -only- the game for many hours. Other kinds of games have the player into the game for a few minutes here, doing something else for a few minutes there, etc.
It's the former "take over your computer and a significant percentage of your life" type games where folks will tolerate a reboot, even some signifcant install issues.
The main problem with linux as the os for this, is that it's going to be hard to come up with and installer that works for everybody.
"The boss was also quite put out when Exchange couldnt handle a 500k attachment he was sending, which promptly went through when it was sent through QMail on a FreeBSD box. "
Of course, the "Boss" had an epiphany, and you are now working in a BSD shop? Right? Please tell me you didn't have to keep Exchange after that...
"...what it is that people are doing to be worried about being caught in the first place."
One of the most important aspects to "freedom" as it is written into the American system of government, is that your attitude expressed here is unamerican in nature. Just because someone wants freedom and privacy they should not be subjected to suspicion! Now that we have crossed out that founding principle (time and time again), "security concerns" have replaced "freedom" as the primary national ideal.
"The real scandal is that we, the hackers, don't aggressively use strong and unbreakable crypto. Why is SMTP still send in the clear? How about HTTP? "
Eek. Do you realize the processor load that comes from adding ssl to these protocols? A site that runs 1000 http daemons can run substantially fewer HTTPS instances on the same machine.
I received a cold call from somebody at Inprise (and why are we still trying to call it borland?)
She seemed rather perplexed and annoyed that I was only interested in products for Linux and Digital Unix, and was very not interested in talking about anything else. Could I have had an effect?
"the open-source community objected to Mindcraft's use of the Apache Web server...claiming that using the fastest open-source Web server, Zeus, would improve results."
Maybe ZD has the source to Zeus, but not the rest of us.
I do find it interesting that they determined that Zeus' performance "peaked almost exactly where Apache's did."
None of this is very good for the proposal I'm writing for my company to replace Apache with Zeus.
" If you own the copyright, you can re-license your copyrighted material under any other license you choose, conflicting with the GPL or not."
THANK YOU!!! I got moderated down (and maybe flamed, I didn't check) for saying almost this. I did make the mistake of saying "original author" when I menat "copyright holder", but I wasn't wrong.
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I envision an oak or mahogany credenza stereo,
but keep the harmon-kardon tube amp and the phat
speakers (86 the rest of the system, as well as
cutting out the leg area where the radio was)
Maybe raise it up to desk height...
"Has anyone used this product?"
And, until that can be answered "Yes" by
an accounting department of a PUBLIC corp.,
it doesn't mean much.
Publicly traded corporations are fairly limited
in what accounting systems they may use. (This
is the USA only, Delaware Corps only).
I'd really like to know what RHAT uses for Accounting and Finance software.
" phil
Kinda please with himself for worming the Nazi comparison in...
Except that you killed the thread by godwin's law.
Why haven't you been moderated down to -5 or so?
I thought taxes were to find marijuana smokers and lock them up, while idly letting the roads become
part of the "crumbling infrastructure" so that more taxes can be raised.
"Okay. Sure, it's easier and cheaper to store everybody's money in a few large organisations, let's call them
banks, but that same concentration, while it may mean that one single security flaw can expose all that
money to theft, I wouldn't want to suggest that we all therefore stuff our mattresses with banknotes and
sleep with a pistol under our pillows."
There are people who've been burned and lost enough to banks that this is not joke, not sarcasm, and take this comment seriously.
Okay let's get right to the bottom of this
"Good Man" tripe.
A "Good Man" is rich enough that the female
will either be able to stop working (or play at
working) while Mr. Right supports her. A "Good
Man" will be interested in Marriage, which is
not always what it's supposed to be, and can
often cause problems in relationships. A "Good
Man" wants to reproduce, despite the fact that there are too many people on the planet as it is.
Even though by all rights, I should fall squarely into the "Good Man" category, I have experienced
real alienation from women; I've got a pretty decent career, and I'm even more attractive than not, but here's the deal:
#1. I do NOT want to be married (a contract between you and the STATE, not between you and your SPOUSE, and therefore a myth)
#2. I do NOT want to become somebody else's means
of support, I want that special somebody to be able to, and want to, take care of herself
#3. I do NOT want children. Having children
is something you do instead of living your own life.
Needless to say, few women find me worth the time
of day when they learn my feelings on those issues.
Paradox? Was supposed to be this "object oriented" system, looked at the language,
100% procedural. (I should have tried to make
that into haiku).
"If even half these announcements turned out to be accurate"
That's how I felt about the announcemetn that they had technology that would make multi-gigabyte drives smaller and cheaper; and sure enough, just
a few years later, that is the case (and I'm still
tempted to marvel at a 10 gig laptop drive)
Those things qualify as inexpensive, consumer-market items, right?
Armies kill people NOW by BLOWING THEM TO BITS.
To make your cigarette company connection, you
lessen the shame of killing people.
Are you absolutely sure? I wonder how that would
sound in court...
"Nope, they own the site. It's the same as you cracking your own site. They gave you permission, so it's
legal. "
"Nope, they own the crack. It's the same as you smoking your own crack. They gave you permission, so it's legal."
Well? Just because you give someone permission to
do something does not make it legal... It does not seem like a silly question to me.
Looking at it another way, I wonder if this opens them up to attacks on their other sites. I did not see 32 pages of legalese explaining what one
could and could not do, just some friendly "ground rules". Makes one wonder if they ran this by the
lawyers at all. Could somebody claim that they were trying to participate in this contest when they brought down microsoft.com accidentally?
is this just another gimmick for an adult site?
I was chuckling at some of the links for the
employees. Fairly obvious what kind of business
they're trying to start. Nothing new there.
Certain kinds of games have the player
immersed in the game, and -only- the game
for many hours.
Other kinds of games have the player into
the game for a few minutes here, doing
something else for a few minutes there,
etc.
It's the former "take over your computer and
a significant percentage of your life" type games
where folks will tolerate a reboot, even some
signifcant install issues.
The main problem with linux as the os for this,
is that it's going to be hard to come up with
and installer that works for everybody.
"The boss was also quite put out when Exchange
couldnt handle a 500k attachment he was sending, which promptly went through when it was sent
through QMail on a FreeBSD box. "
Of course, the "Boss" had an epiphany, and you
are now working in a BSD shop? Right? Please
tell me you didn't have to keep Exchange after that...
"P.S. Does anyone want to sponser my citizenship to another country? "
Do you mean the Peoples Republic of China, or
do you mean Turkey?
"...what it is that people are doing to be worried about being caught in the first place."
One of the most important aspects to "freedom" as
it is written into the American system of government, is that your attitude expressed here
is unamerican in nature. Just because someone wants freedom and privacy they should not be
subjected to suspicion! Now that we have crossed
out that founding principle (time and time again),
"security concerns" have replaced "freedom" as the
primary national ideal.
"The real scandal is that we, the hackers, don't aggressively use strong and unbreakable crypto. Why is
SMTP still send in the clear? How about HTTP? "
Eek. Do you realize the processor load that comes
from adding ssl to these protocols? A site that
runs 1000 http daemons can run substantially fewer HTTPS instances on the same machine.
Of course, you have to *pay* to have an unlisted number....
TWIAVBP, this is not true everywhere...
I received a cold call from somebody at Inprise
(and why are we still trying to call it borland?)
She seemed rather perplexed and annoyed that I
was only interested in products for Linux and Digital Unix, and was very not interested in talking about anything else. Could I have had
an effect?
Please don't confuse Columbia House with Columbia Records. They are totally separate entities.
"Was anyone else worried that it took the day care center over an hour to notice that he was gone? "
Not worried, but it bothers me if they are still
allowed to do business.
> I was under tremendous pressure and eventually I > did what I was told. I am ashamed.
You are not ashamed enough. You should be thinking about this in a prison cell, between shifts at hard labor, staring at your supervisor
in his cell.
But if price is your consideration, then you
aren't trying for a high-performance computer,
which is what this discussion is about.
Argument: how about power failures?
Reply: can you say UPS?
Static RAM. NVRAM.
"the open-source community ...claiming that
objected to Mindcraft's use of the Apache
Web server
using the fastest open-source Web server,
Zeus, would improve results."
Maybe ZD has the source to Zeus, but not the rest of us.
I do find it interesting that they determined that Zeus' performance "peaked almost exactly where Apache's did."
None of this is very good for the proposal I'm writing for my company to replace Apache with Zeus.
" If you own the copyright, you can re-license your
copyrighted material under any other license you choose, conflicting
with the GPL or not."
THANK YOU!!! I got moderated down (and maybe flamed, I didn't check) for saying almost this.
I did make the mistake of saying "original author"
when I menat "copyright holder", but I wasn't wrong.