In the US, cities that have very strict gun control (or complete gun control, ie: no guns allowed) have the highest crime rates.
As a reader of slashdot, and having a low slashdot ID, thus confirming you geekyness, surely you know that correlation does not equal causation. Your argument is spurious.
"Manse" is also used in Philip K Dick's "The Penultimate Truth", which is ironically (or perhaps Zonk is even more with it than anyone imagined) about the collusion of the Communist States with the West to the economic benefit of the elite on both sides, at the expense of freedom of the general populace.
In the mid 90s I was responsible for the maintenance of a few Indy and Indigo2 boxes, each worth over $100K.
I checked out the price of an Indy on eBay the other day, and found they sell for approx $10. That is right, TEN dollars. The real insult in that SGI T-Shirts sell for $15. I literally fell off my chair. I then got up, dusted myself off, and ordered one to add to my "antique" computer collection.
Motorola is big in the embeded market, and the automotive market (chances are most of the chips in your car are Motorola). Most of their fabs are aging, so they make lots of cheap low transistor count chips for all those devices that you never even think about (remote controls, cordless phones and the like.)
Dear FBI:
Get yourself a rack of these: http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/index.html/
I'll be expecting a check in the mail for $99million. You know where to find me.
Wow, the mods are awake today! This 404 link gets +5 Informative!
I've often thought of writing a script to flood bogus data into scam sites
I do this all the time. It is easy with the Firefox Web Developer extension. I just turn the post into a get, remove the field limits, and fill the fields with hundreds of characters. I usually take some text from Project Gutenberg. Then I stuff the big GET into a wget command in a looping bash script and let it run for a few hours. These sites are usually just php mailers, and so I get the satisfaction of filling a scammers mail box.
Probably useless, but it makes me feel better.
(arg, slashdot says I'm a script!, that is it, I done coding for the day and I'm going for a beer)
And of course, I am a programmer analyst, and I have three girls. My parents are elementary school teachers and they had three boys. On my mothers side, my Grandfather was an electrical engineer and had 5 girls.
I work fairly extensivley in spreadsheets in both Windows and Linux (I actually use Excel as a report display format from my CRM app, but that is another story). I work with Excel, OO Calc, and Gnumeric. OO Calc comes out on the bottom of the pile in both Windows and Linux (although Gnumeric is half cooked in Windows). I also prefer Abiword to OO Writer in both OSes as well. I have to say that Excel 2002 is far, far superiour to anything in the FOSS world. It has features out the yin yang, and they actually work. (I know, I know, statistical analysis is broken, and array formulas have the annoying Cntl-Shift-Enter thing)
On the whole, I think OO blows, and there are better alternatives, both FOSS and not. Hey, you can still buy Lotus 123!
OO need alot more than marketing to be successful. I would say by version 3 it will be nicely usable, until then, I avoid it whenever I can.
I bought a domain name and made a little vanity site for my wife for Valentine's Day a couple of years ago, and we're still married!
On the other hand, this is the woman who, after losing her wedding ring in the Atlantic, wanted me to buy her a set of living room furniture instead of replacing the ring. Not the most romantic woman in the world, but then again, I'm not a romantic man (which I suppose is the/. way), so it all works out.
I'm still waiting for the Exchange killer. This look s close, but its still not there. As much as it pains me, I routinely recommend Exchange to my clients that need shared calendaring, shared contacts, a Windows client (no web stuff), and PDA sync. My clients are lawyers, accountants, and insurances agencies. All are huge users of all these features, and I can't just say "Use linux on the desktop". In the real world this all has to work in windows, and the only solution I can find in Exchange/Outlook.
I wish the hula people good luck, but there is a long way to go to match Exchange in features.
The one reason I use Evo is the virtual folders. I have about 30 different virtual folders, making it easy to search for mail from a specific person/company or on a specific subject. This feature makes it stand head and sholders above all other mail clients I've used. (I know M2 has virtual folders too, but M2 is buggy as hell).
Outlook has nothing even approaching this functionality. Evo may share some eye candy, but underneath it is a very different beast. Ever try and pull from two different IMAP servers with Outlook? I did, and it toasted the entire MSOffice install!
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In the US, cities that have very strict gun control (or complete gun control, ie: no guns allowed) have the highest crime rates.
As a reader of slashdot, and having a low slashdot ID, thus confirming you geekyness, surely you know that correlation does not equal causation. Your argument is spurious.
"Manse" is also used in Philip K Dick's "The Penultimate Truth", which is ironically (or perhaps Zonk is even more with it than anyone imagined) about the collusion of the Communist States with the West to the economic benefit of the elite on both sides, at the expense of freedom of the general populace.
In the mid 90s I was responsible for the maintenance of a few Indy and Indigo2 boxes, each worth over $100K.
I checked out the price of an Indy on eBay the other day, and found they sell for approx $10. That is right, TEN dollars. The real insult in that SGI T-Shirts sell for $15. I literally fell off my chair. I then got up, dusted myself off, and ordered one to add to my "antique" computer collection.
>What I'd really like is the option to turn off their mind numbing Muzak
> Please press Star (*) to disable Muzak
I haven't had a chance to call Crystal Decisions for some time, but in the late 90's they had the option to pick what type type of muzak you wanted.
Anyone know if this is still available?
Motorola is big in the embeded market, and the automotive market (chances are most of the chips in your car are Motorola). Most of their fabs are aging, so they make lots of cheap low transistor count chips for all those devices that you never even think about (remote controls, cordless phones and the like.)
Wow, that is the best post I've read in awhile, and me sitting here without any mod points.
Are you sure you are on the right forum? I think you meant to post that on http://plastic.com/ instead.
This talk of Flash Gordon makes me think of Flesh Gordon. There were lots of "high beams" in that movie! I'd say it should be at the top of the list!
Fat chicks, dude. Fat chicks. Check out the wired gallery. I need to go scrub my eyes with some environmentally unfriendly soap.
And that is why you geeks never get dates! Those look like perfectly average women to me. Repeat after me
"Actual live women do not look like porn stars"
Now stop looking as http://nakedteens.com/, go meet som actual live women, and get laid dammit!
There, I've done my good deed for the day.
(Oh, what do you know, http://nakedteens.com/ is much faster now.)
later... I've got some, uh... work to do
Dear FBI: Get yourself a rack of these: http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/index.html/ I'll be expecting a check in the mail for $99million. You know where to find me.
Wow, the mods are awake today! This 404 link gets +5 Informative!
I've often thought of writing a script to flood bogus data into scam sites
I do this all the time. It is easy with the Firefox Web Developer extension. I just turn the post into a get, remove the field limits, and fill the fields with hundreds of characters. I usually take some text from Project Gutenberg. Then I stuff the big GET into a wget command in a looping bash script and let it run for a few hours. These sites are usually just php mailers, and so I get the satisfaction of filling a scammers mail box.
Probably useless, but it makes me feel better.
(arg, slashdot says I'm a script!, that is it, I done coding for the day and I'm going for a beer)
And of course, I am a programmer analyst, and I have three girls. My parents are elementary school teachers and they had three boys. On my mothers side, my Grandfather was an electrical engineer and had 5 girls.
Anecdotally, the stats don't hold up for me!
LPIC 1 Exam Cram 2 is the authoritative tree-based text to aid and abet interested parties accomplishing a LPI LPIC level 1 certification...
....? And and can't imagine that a tree make a very good study guide.....
Is that b-tree, balanced n-ary tree, red-black tree, or
(slaps head)
Oh, a book! Wow, I've been coding for too long today!
I work fairly extensivley in spreadsheets in both Windows and Linux (I actually use Excel as a report display format from my CRM app, but that is another story). I work with Excel, OO Calc, and Gnumeric. OO Calc comes out on the bottom of the pile in both Windows and Linux (although Gnumeric is half cooked in Windows). I also prefer Abiword to OO Writer in both OSes as well. I have to say that Excel 2002 is far, far superiour to anything in the FOSS world. It has features out the yin yang, and they actually work. (I know, I know, statistical analysis is broken, and array formulas have the annoying Cntl-Shift-Enter thing)
On the whole, I think OO blows, and there are better alternatives, both FOSS and not. Hey, you can still buy Lotus 123!
OO need alot more than marketing to be successful. I would say by version 3 it will be nicely usable, until then, I avoid it whenever I can.
I bought a domain name and made a little vanity site for my wife for Valentine's Day a couple of years ago, and we're still married!
/. way), so it all works out.
On the other hand, this is the woman who, after losing her wedding ring in the Atlantic, wanted me to buy her a set of living room furniture instead of replacing the ring. Not the most romantic woman in the world, but then again, I'm not a romantic man (which I suppose is the
Here in Canada I've seen a stripper sit on the stage with a drink coaster protectings her privates as everyone threw loonies and twonies.
Necessity is the mother of invention!
I'm still waiting for the Exchange killer. This look s close, but its still not there. As much as it pains me, I routinely recommend Exchange to my clients that need shared calendaring, shared contacts, a Windows client (no web stuff), and PDA sync. My clients are lawyers, accountants, and insurances agencies. All are huge users of all these features, and I can't just say "Use linux on the desktop". In the real world this all has to work in windows, and the only solution I can find in Exchange/Outlook.
I wish the hula people good luck, but there is a long way to go to match Exchange in features.
Let the flame war begin!
The one reason I use Evo is the virtual folders. I have about 30 different virtual folders, making it easy to search for mail from a specific person/company or on a specific subject. This feature makes it stand head and sholders above all other mail clients I've used. (I know M2 has virtual folders too, but M2 is buggy as hell).
Outlook has nothing even approaching this functionality. Evo may share some eye candy, but underneath it is a very different beast. Ever try and pull from two different IMAP servers with Outlook? I did, and it toasted the entire MSOffice install!
Blu-Ray backup already exists my friend!
http://www.sony.net/Products/MO-Drive/ProDATA/