I've always said that panic is a surefire way to go about getting yourself killed. If you:
A) Live in an earthquake zone. B) Panic at first warning, and flee the city C) Get stuck on a bridge trying to escape. D) Die because the bridge fell into the ocean when the earthquake hit
I have no sympathy for you. You were WARNED for cryssakes...
Hell, you could say the same thing about gold and silver currencies, where in some cases, the currencies themselves weren't even worth the value of the gold and silver in the coin. Money fails when the governments backing that money fail. Fiat or otherwise. It's just that gold traditionally has had more value than paper or cotton or papyrus so your money does not effectively become completely worthless.
So there I am one day, moving out of my house. I've got a bill in the mailbox, and the mailman rolls up, gives me my mail, and proceeds to tell me that the bill I'm mailing has no stamp. I offer to give the guy a buck, a whole DOLLAR to just take the envelope, and put a stamp on it when he gets back to the office. $.63 profit and everything.
Refuses. Insists on some rule that they can't do that for some reason. Luckily I keep a few stamps next to the broken condoms in my wallet, and managed to pay my last cable bill.. wahoo...
Except my parent's Irish Setter. With 3 legs and a penchant for scratching me whenever she sees me, I can't understand how she can balance on two legs... but she's got my parent's wrapped around her little paws. Whipped I say. That, and she's the first dog in the entire bunch, 4 purebreds and 3 mongrels, to detect strange people at 100 yards instantly.
There is lots of variation in purebred dogs. The worst part is that many breeds, like my Gordon Setters, bring lots of genetic defects with them (hip dysplasia and the like).
I find that the vast majority of a dog's personality comes from it's owner. An owner who brooks no shit and gives them appropriate space, you usually get smart dogs. Keep them inside all day, or don't give them any attention, or tie pretty bows in their hair, and you get a complete ditz (like my sisters spaniel). ugh. I'll take my four setters (2 gordons, irish and english) over your border collie any day.:-)
Reminds me of this conversation I started at a party once about bull-fluffers... what's even more amazing than the 12 people who participated, and the poor Domino's Pizza guy we scared the crap out of, is the fact we got 15 minutes of hang-time out of that gag...
<shudder>
Yah... that's a story I want to tell the grand-kids...
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Bad idea. Because then any customer who has a gripe against IBM will be looking at this as a potential option. It's like the "I eat fast food and I'm fat, so I'm gonna sue McDonalds for making me fat"... don't encourage these economic terrorists...
Unless you had a video card that did OpenGL acceleration, like I got to play with. Imagine 3d pipes drawing the entire screen in 5 seconds, and having a full set of regression tests of a top of the line CAD package running full tilt boogey in the background.:-) You think you whippersnappers getting 120 fps in Quake 3 is all that... have nothing on some of the Intergraph or Evans & Sutherland GL cards from the mid '90's... <sigh> The good old days...
I don't know if you noticed, but MS Access DOES have access to NT Users and Groups, and IIRC has since NT 4.0 ~SP3.:-) The marginalization of Novell began when NT/95 came with networking built in. Adding TCP to the OS killed off a LOT of companies. FTP software, Chameleon, etc. Microsoft has indeed made things better for the user and admins, but at what cost?
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Remember that the original ethos of the Internet was to design mechanisms that allow the U.S. military to function in the midst of all-out nuclear war. The equalization of the masses was just a side benefit.:-)
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If I'm a spammer, it's no matter to me to send 1000 emails that don't get read, or 10,000 that don't get read. If your mail server accepts email as code_meister@server.com as valid, the spammers are still going to hit you time and again, whether you have HTML rendering on, because it's not a bounce.
What we need is a way to detect spam before they can execute that first RCPT TO: instruction to the server.
Awww, poor baby doesn't like being told he's got poor comprehension skills. Grow up. You are after all, the one who turned a civil conversation into a personal attack.
Original poster:
Umm, during winter time, the northern hemisphere is closest to the sun, the whole earth is. Relative to the southern hemisphere, the northern is more far away though.
Fact:
Earth at closest approach to the sun (during northern hemisphere winter time, is 91.odd million miles.
Earth at farthest approach to the sun (during northern hemisphere summer time, is 94.5 million miles.
Nothing OP said is factually incorrect, although it is nowhere near as clear as your excellently constructed answer. Happy, you got your ego boost.
So you, asshole, can take your ball, and go the fuck home.:-) Have a nice day.
You said the exact same thing the previous poster did; there was the assumption that winter == northern hemisphere winter, in which case, the Earth is closer to the sun than it is during the northern hempispheres Summer.
Which is exactly what you said. Thanks for the excellent write up! +1 Informative for you.
Something I'm not debating. But I've learned that just because someone has credentials, doesn't mean their competent, and just because someone is a hobbyist, doesn't mean they don't know more than that PhD teaching our next generation of students.
There will always be people manipulating data for their own agendas, I was attacking the supposition that simply because someone is credentialed, doesn't immediately make them more voracious than someone who is not.
No, what's REALLY underhanded is the politicians giving themselves a loophole. I can understand charities. They usually have little to no money, and so cannot afford the $11,000 smackdown per offense. But politicians shouldn't get the right to free harassment.
Excuse me? The fact that 33% of the price of a gallon of gas is tax doesn't indicate I'm paying for those roads? I'm sorry, but your argument is patently incorrect.
If 100% of American citizens did not benefit from roads and bridges and freeways, then I'd agree with you. The simple fact that that road is what allows that ambulance or that fire truck or that police car to come save their asses puts a hole in your argument.
I pay sales tax when I register/buy my car. I pay excise tax EVERY year, in some cases $100/year depending on how new the car is. I've known people to pay $400 a year for a new car. I pay a tax on every gallon I pump. I pay tolls.
Where exactly in this scheme of things am I not paying more as a driver than a non-driver? A commuter in Boston can expect to pay $2-3000 a year if he stays in the commuter corridors. If I do the same, and factor in the cost of my car over a 5 year period, I've spent over 200-300% of the commuter, and I likely have a vehicle with no resale value.
So okay, I'll pay 6.50 a gallon. But that means your fresh corn and eggs and milk goes up to $10 a gallon, since you're not going to get them without roads and the excellent petroleum distribution network that the "conglomerates" have built to keep costs low.:-) Have a nice day! -Chris
No kidding. I used to run a BBS up here in Massachusetts.. hell, I forget the name of it, must have been nearly 10 years ago I pulled the plug. I used VirtualBBS which got me started programming hardcore again, QuickBasic, but hey, we gotta start somewhere. And then I found the WWIV package on a warez board somewhere, and that got me into learning C. That year and a half jumpstarted my career. What a blast. Being the first BBS in my area to bring Internet email to my users, digging up my driveway to install 24 phone lines... My parents were very kewl about the whole thing...
Things have come a long way since then, but at the same time, I don't think anything can really replace the BBS. Hell, I met nearly every one of the friends I hang out with today online...
All sarcasm aside, you also make a lot of sense with this. There's good reason to research adding "Service Location Protocols" and "Service Publishing" to dynamic dns hosts as extensible fields, say:
XPORT ckaminski:cstrike[server name]/port
The problem with your statement is that right now, and for the forseeable future, it's just as unattainable as a total IPv6 changeover. Software has to get into the habit, CORBA like, of announcing itself to the public, and of looking at central directories for information.
Then the security aspects of this also require intense scrutiny. IPv6 may be more attainable, since it's backwards compatible to IPv4. But your statement bears weight, in that it is the ultimate ideal.
Great, so now we have port collision. Oh wait, you're going to have to dole out an ARP broadcast so the NAT server can grant you, and only you, that port number.... Hmmm, maybe we'll call it the Dynamic Port Configuration Protocol? </sarcasm>
It's bad enough that I have to share 65,000 ports with my four roommates, who may or may not have a clue, and start a Counterstrike server on the port I'm doing my ssh tunnels on; I cannot imagine the pain and suffering of users and ISP call centers alike, if 200+ customers at a time started doing this.
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But VNC's major failing is that it isn't multi-user, and out-of-the-box security sucks. It's in reality no better than PcAnywhere, and indeed, it is often outclassed by said product. Not that I don't use VNC, I use it everywhere, but I prefer to use Microsoft Terminal Services or remote X displays wherever possible instead of VNC.
Killing off X11 is going to put a dent in the big reason why Administrators love Unix: remote everything.
My photo collection alone (RAW source and PSD/TIFF work versions) easily busts 20GB, and I've only been doing digital work for a year. God help me when I get the 15 megapixel camera or the 4x5 and transparency scanner...
Hell, two quarter-page ads I worked on consume at least 2gb a piece.
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I've always said that panic is a surefire way to go about getting yourself killed. If you:
A) Live in an earthquake zone.
B) Panic at first warning, and flee the city
C) Get stuck on a bridge trying to escape.
D) Die because the bridge fell into the ocean when the earthquake hit
I have no sympathy for you. You were WARNED for cryssakes...
Hell, you could say the same thing about gold and silver currencies, where in some cases, the currencies themselves weren't even worth the value of the gold and silver in the coin. Money fails when the governments backing that money fail. Fiat or otherwise. It's just that gold traditionally has had more value than paper or cotton or papyrus so your money does not effectively become completely worthless.
So there I am one day, moving out of my house. I've got a bill in the mailbox, and the mailman rolls up, gives me my mail, and proceeds to tell me that the bill I'm mailing has no stamp. I offer to give the guy a buck, a whole DOLLAR to just take the envelope, and put a stamp on it when he gets back to the office. $.63 profit and everything.
Refuses. Insists on some rule that they can't do that for some reason. Luckily I keep a few stamps next to the broken condoms in my wallet, and managed to pay my last cable bill.. wahoo...
Except my parent's Irish Setter. With 3 legs and a penchant for scratching me whenever she sees me, I can't understand how she can balance on two legs... but she's got my parent's wrapped around her little paws. Whipped I say. That, and she's the first dog in the entire bunch, 4 purebreds and 3 mongrels, to detect strange people at 100 yards instantly.
:-)
There is lots of variation in purebred dogs. The worst part is that many breeds, like my Gordon Setters, bring lots of genetic defects with them (hip dysplasia and the like).
I find that the vast majority of a dog's personality comes from it's owner. An owner who brooks no shit and gives them appropriate space, you usually get smart dogs. Keep them inside all day, or don't give them any attention, or tie pretty bows in their hair, and you get a complete ditz (like my sisters spaniel). ugh. I'll take my four setters (2 gordons, irish and english) over your border collie any day.
So does that make you a stallion fluffer?
Reminds me of this conversation I started at a party once about bull-fluffers... what's even more amazing than the 12 people who participated, and the poor Domino's Pizza guy we scared the crap out of, is the fact we got 15 minutes of hang-time out of that gag...
<shudder>
Yah... that's a story I want to tell the grand-kids...
Who was actually a zebra.
http://www.snopes.com/lost/mistered.asp
Bad idea. Because then any customer who has a gripe against IBM will be looking at this as a potential option. It's like the "I eat fast food and I'm fat, so I'm gonna sue McDonalds for making me fat"... don't encourage these economic terrorists...
Unless you had a video card that did OpenGL acceleration, like I got to play with. Imagine 3d pipes drawing the entire screen in 5 seconds, and having a full set of regression tests of a top of the line CAD package running full tilt boogey in the background. :-) You think you whippersnappers getting 120 fps in Quake 3 is all that... have nothing on some of the Intergraph or Evans & Sutherland GL cards from the mid '90's... <sigh> The good old days...
:-) The marginalization of Novell began when NT/95 came with networking built in. Adding TCP to the OS killed off a LOT of companies. FTP software, Chameleon, etc. Microsoft has indeed made things better for the user and admins, but at what cost?
I don't know if you noticed, but MS Access DOES have access to NT Users and Groups, and IIRC has since NT 4.0 ~SP3.
Remember that the original ethos of the Internet was to design mechanisms that allow the U.S. military to function in the midst of all-out nuclear war. The equalization of the masses was just a side benefit. :-)
If I'm a spammer, it's no matter to me to send 1000 emails that don't get read, or 10,000 that don't get read. If your mail server accepts email as code_meister@server.com as valid, the spammers are still going to hit you time and again, whether you have HTML rendering on, because it's not a bounce.
What we need is a way to detect spam before they can execute that first RCPT TO: instruction to the server.
Awww, poor baby doesn't like being told he's got poor comprehension skills. Grow up. You are after all, the one who turned a civil conversation into a personal attack.
Original poster:
:-) Have a nice day.
Umm, during winter time, the northern hemisphere is closest to the sun, the whole earth is. Relative to the southern hemisphere, the northern is more far away though.
Fact:
Earth at closest approach to the sun (during northern hemisphere winter time, is 91.odd million miles.
Earth at farthest approach to the sun (during northern hemisphere summer time, is 94.5 million miles.
Nothing OP said is factually incorrect, although it is nowhere near as clear as your excellently constructed answer. Happy, you got your ego boost.
So you, asshole, can take your ball, and go the fuck home.
-Chris
You said the exact same thing the previous poster did; there was the assumption that winter == northern hemisphere winter, in which case, the Earth is closer to the sun than it is during the northern hempispheres Summer.
Which is exactly what you said. Thanks for the excellent write up! +1 Informative for you.
-Chris
Something I'm not debating. But I've learned that just because someone has credentials, doesn't mean their competent, and just because someone is a hobbyist, doesn't mean they don't know more than that PhD teaching our next generation of students.
:-)
There will always be people manipulating data for their own agendas, I was attacking the supposition that simply because someone is credentialed, doesn't immediately make them more voracious than someone who is not.
But thanks for the bit of common sense.
Both should be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism and analytical thinking and extensive fact checking should follow.
But nah, we're too lazy for THAT...
Yeah, because I forgot my bib, and eating your spleen while waiting for the bus would be too messy.
Anyone for finger sandwiches?
Eating forever and being a lazy slob.
Oh wait... that's me... gotta go hide that hydro...
No, what's REALLY underhanded is the politicians giving themselves a loophole. I can understand charities. They usually have little to no money, and so cannot afford the $11,000 smackdown per offense. But politicians shouldn't get the right to free harassment.
Excuse me? The fact that 33% of the price of a gallon of gas is tax doesn't indicate I'm paying for those roads? I'm sorry, but your argument is patently incorrect.
:-) Have a nice day!
If 100% of American citizens did not benefit from roads and bridges and freeways, then I'd agree with you. The simple fact that that road is what allows that ambulance or that fire truck or that police car to come save their asses puts a hole in your argument.
I pay sales tax when I register/buy my car.
I pay excise tax EVERY year, in some cases $100/year depending on how new the car is. I've known people to pay $400 a year for a new car.
I pay a tax on every gallon I pump.
I pay tolls.
Where exactly in this scheme of things am I not paying more as a driver than a non-driver? A commuter in Boston can expect to pay $2-3000 a year if he stays in the commuter corridors. If I do the same, and factor in the cost of my car over a 5 year period, I've spent over 200-300% of the commuter, and I likely have a vehicle with no resale value.
So okay, I'll pay 6.50 a gallon. But that means your fresh corn and eggs and milk goes up to $10 a gallon, since you're not going to get them without roads and the excellent petroleum distribution network that the "conglomerates" have built to keep costs low.
-Chris
No kidding. I used to run a BBS up here in Massachusetts.. hell, I forget the name of it, must have been nearly 10 years ago I pulled the plug. I used VirtualBBS which got me started programming hardcore again, QuickBasic, but hey, we gotta start somewhere. And then I found the WWIV package on a warez board somewhere, and that got me into learning C. That year and a half jumpstarted my career. What a blast. Being the first BBS in my area to bring Internet email to my users, digging up my driveway to install 24 phone lines... My parents were very kewl about the whole thing...
Things have come a long way since then, but at the same time, I don't think anything can really replace the BBS. Hell, I met nearly every one of the friends I hang out with today online...
<sigh>
Is that even possible? I thought the horizon drops at 16-20 miles? Do you mean skyscrapers? Grain silos?
No sarcasm intended.
-Chris
All sarcasm aside, you also make a lot of sense with this. There's good reason to research adding "Service Location Protocols" and "Service Publishing" to dynamic dns hosts as extensible fields, say:
XPORT ckaminski:cstrike[server name]/port
The problem with your statement is that right now, and for the forseeable future, it's just as unattainable as a total IPv6 changeover. Software has to get into the habit, CORBA like, of announcing itself to the public, and of looking at central directories for information.
Then the security aspects of this also require intense scrutiny. IPv6 may be more attainable, since it's backwards compatible to IPv4. But your statement bears weight, in that it is the ultimate ideal.
Great, so now we have port collision. Oh wait, you're going to have to dole out an ARP broadcast so the NAT server can grant you, and only you, that port number.... Hmmm, maybe we'll call it the Dynamic Port Configuration Protocol?
</sarcasm>
It's bad enough that I have to share 65,000 ports with my four roommates, who may or may not have a clue, and start a Counterstrike server on the port I'm doing my ssh tunnels on; I cannot imagine the pain and suffering of users and ISP call centers alike, if 200+ customers at a time started doing this.
But VNC's major failing is that it isn't multi-user, and out-of-the-box security sucks. It's in reality no better than PcAnywhere, and indeed, it is often outclassed by said product. Not that I don't use VNC, I use it everywhere, but I prefer to use Microsoft Terminal Services or remote X displays wherever possible instead of VNC.
Killing off X11 is going to put a dent in the big reason why Administrators love Unix: remote everything.
My photo collection alone (RAW source and PSD/TIFF work versions) easily busts 20GB, and I've only been doing digital work for a year. God help me when I get the 15 megapixel camera or the 4x5 and transparency scanner...
Hell, two quarter-page ads I worked on consume at least 2gb a piece.