It seems like only yesterday that Rod from 'Big Entertainment' was jokingly asking the boys from DEVO if they had locked parts with any female robots lately.
A lot. For something to really be sexy it has to be capable of sexual reproduction. How many sexes does the iPod come in?
There is also a long established usage of the word 'sexy' to refer to inantimate objects (Such as clothing or jewelry) that are designed to attract attention to the wearer from the opposite sex.
What I object to is the more recent usage of the word 'sexy' to apply to any damned thing, like a car, motorcycle, gun, or electronic gadget just because it appears stylish or smartly made.
What will be next, 'pornographic' as an adjective for anything that invokes a great deal of interest and study?
Protect these important words and preserve their meanings for future generations. Just say no to 'sexy iPods'.
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
>> I tried switching the family over to Linux machines over the summer vacation and the objections from the other family members was more than enough to send all 7 machines right back to Windows ME, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
>No one with any intelligence at all would switch all of 7 machines over to a new, untested OS at once. This is a troll.
Not only that, but what kind of person would admit that someone in their own family was running Windows ME (and wanted to go back to it)!
"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila." - Mitch Ratliffe
Governments typically grant access to rights-of-way for cable companies. The also typically decide which company gets to service which areas. In some cases the local government actually owns some of the cable that is used.
Government's view is that these things make the cable companies a set of small government-granted monopolies over specific areas. Therefore it is the government's view that cable operators should be regulated, and taxed, as government sees fit.
"Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated." - Robert C. Savage
>>A Ford Taurus with a 2 billion dollar budget will catch a Ferrari. -Rick
>Probably not, because deep down it's just a Taurus built by Ford.
With a 2 billion dollar budget it makes no difference if you start with a skateboard, the job can get done. You hire Carroll Shelby (or a younger incarnation) to design another 'Ferrari Killer' and stick the Taurus grille and nameplate on it somewhere.
This speaks to the fact that Microsoft has the money and the talent to do things nobody expects them to succeed at. Remember how Bill Gates said everyone would be using Windows for everything back when (1.x, 2.x) nobody wanted to use it for anything?
It probably only really matters how much they want to do it. If they are willing to be laughed at for years and spend unlimited sums in the process they can certainly do it. If the bottom line returns are important in the shorter term, they may not.
"Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month."
- Wernher Von Braun
It seems silly to attach a negative connotation to 'enormity'. If you could use it all by itself as a prejoritive it might make some sense, but you can't.
"Judge, I witnessed the defendant committing an enormity on the date in question!", doesn't really convey any information about what happened.
Since you have to define the badness seperately anyway then 'enormity' should be left without prejudice to be used as a size modifer for good or evil.
"One fifth of the people are against everything all the time." - Robert Kennedy
The 'status quo' was that it was improper for government to take anyone's private property unless it was for public use. They got away with doing it in some cases (at the behest of Donald Trump, etc) because victims, and even their lawyers, were not aware of how to fight it correctly.
Now, the new status quo is going to be that there is no such limitation and everyone will be a potential victim regardless of how well they know their rights or whether they can find good, well informed, representation.
This is not a good thing.
Your position sounds similar to me to saying, 'Since poor people are often victims of crime because they live in bad neighborhoods, instead of trying to prevent that from happening, lets make it easier for people in all neighborhoods to become crime victims so that it balances out.'
"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information." - Winston Churchill
Take homes from rich and poor alike. That makes it okay. The developers need the land, the city needs the tax revenue. If you don't like it move to someplace where the government can only seize property for public use, like it says in the 5th Amendment... oh. Never Mind.
"The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow." - Ayn Rand
"If you found this interesting you might want to read John Hersey's account of the Hiroshima bomb. Published in 1946 and still in print, it's pretty much the definitive version."
I read that 30 years ago. I still remember the descriptions of anti-air gunners who were looking up at the time and had their eyes melted out of their faces.
They stripped naked to protest 'nanopants'. Will they have a massive cigarette-smoking protest against the nanotech cancer therapy?
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
- Bill Watterson
A swamp cooler works by having a fan blow hot air through an absorbant pad which has water flowing through it. The air is cooled, but it also picks up a lot of moisture from the water that is being evaporated. The result is wet air that turns the inside of your house into a swamp.
The device in the article is containing the cold water in piping and blowing the hot air across the pipes to get cooler air. The cooled air won't be evaporating the water by direct contact, so it won't become saturated with moisture and turn the inside of your house into a swamp.
"An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing." - Unknown
"How did the plants ever manage to live before man came along to manage them?"
The plants lived just fine. They lived, reproduced and died. What we need from them is more demanding. We need them to efficiently produce more and more food while taking up less and less farm land and consuming less and less human effort in the process.
If you grow the same crops on the same ground repeatedly, by whatever farming methods, the nutrients are used up. Fertilizers can make up some of the difference, but elements not included in fertilizers will still be drained over time and result in less healthy and less plentiful crops.
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people." - George Bernard Shaw
The article states that people were able to manipulate two documents that contained displayed and undisplayed data (postscript) so that both produced the same MD5 hash string and different displayed text. They could only do this since they controlled the content of both documents and got to determine the hash value before it was made known.
That means scary scenarios in which someone downloads a document or piece of code, modifies it, makes it match the original (already published) hash, and redistrutes it are false. The article discusses no such capabilities being discovered.
It just means that if you accept someone else's complex data object and a hash to go with it, be aware that if they wanted to they could have simultaneously created another data object that matched the same hash.
"Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly." - U. Peter
If two documents exist with the same hash, then they were both produced by the same source, since there is no practical, known way of finding a collision without having control of the content of both documents. Therefore, your signed copy of the original document proves that the employer created both versions.
In the short term, okay. But if the soil isn't turned under between seasons in production, how can it regenerate the nutrients that it needs to remain fertile?
In fact, crop lands that are played out are typically planted in a 'soil food' crop and then plowed under during fallow seasons to rebuild the nutrients for later production seasons.
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. "
- H. L. Mencken
Look at the case against Alcoa Aluminum back in the 1940's (or possibly 50's). They were not carrying out any predatory practices against their competitors, just innovating better and faster ways to make and deliver aluminum.
Because they did it so well, they left their competitors in the dust and dominated the market.
The U.S. government forced them to give their trade secrets to their competitors and make major adjustments to their pricing and marketing to allow their less-worthy competitors to profit and gain market share.
So, the precedent is there for the same kind of thing to happen again.
"If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime." - Unknown
I'd rather just have an SD card slot on the phone to capture to. Then I could switch cards if one got full, and the video would only be on my phone and my computer unless I wanted it somewhere else.
If Paris Hilton had a choice she'd probably like it better that way too.
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
- Winston Churchill
It sounds like an 'MLA' (Master License Agreement) where you pay Novell a fixed cost per number of seats you expect to use and get all the server and desktop licenses that you care to use to service that many users.
Slashdot Mirror
I'll have to look for that. I'm embarking tomorrow on my semi-annual tour of used bookstores in the western U.S. (aka vacation trip).
"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." - P.J. O'Rourke
It seems like only yesterday that Rod from 'Big Entertainment' was jokingly asking the boys from DEVO if they had locked parts with any female robots lately.
.....
It seemed so silly at the time, but now
>>>I'd argue that around 95% of John Kerry's votes weren't FOR John Kerry, but rather, AGAINST Bush.
So you're saying that Kerry actually earned less than 2.5% of the votes cast in the 2004 election. I'll go along with that.
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte
>>>The last war will be the one where the basic conflicting nature of mankind is eliminated.
I find it hard to envision a war doing that. I can envision a last war in which mankind is eliminated.
>What's wrong with calling an iPod "sexy"?
A lot. For something to really be sexy it has to be capable of sexual reproduction. How many sexes does the iPod come in?
There is also a long established usage of the word 'sexy' to refer to inantimate objects (Such as clothing or jewelry) that are designed to attract attention to the wearer from the opposite sex.
What I object to is the more recent usage of the word 'sexy' to apply to any damned thing, like a car, motorcycle, gun, or electronic gadget just because it appears stylish or smartly made.
What will be next, 'pornographic' as an adjective for anything that invokes a great deal of interest and study?
Protect these important words and preserve their meanings for future generations. Just say no to 'sexy iPods'.
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
>> I tried switching the family over to Linux machines over the summer vacation and the objections from the other family members was more than enough to send all 7 machines right back to Windows ME, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
>No one with any intelligence at all would switch all of 7 machines over to a new, untested OS at once. This is a troll.
Not only that, but what kind of person would admit that someone in their own family was running Windows ME (and wanted to go back to it)!
"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila." - Mitch Ratliffe
Governments typically grant access to rights-of-way for cable companies. The also typically decide which company gets to service which areas. In some cases the local government actually owns some of the cable that is used.
Government's view is that these things make the cable companies a set of small government-granted monopolies over specific areas. Therefore it is the government's view that cable operators should be regulated, and taxed, as government sees fit.
"Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated." - Robert C. Savage
>>A Ford Taurus with a 2 billion dollar budget will catch a Ferrari. -Rick
>Probably not, because deep down it's just a Taurus built by Ford.
With a 2 billion dollar budget it makes no difference if you start with a skateboard, the job can get done. You hire Carroll Shelby (or a younger incarnation) to design another 'Ferrari Killer' and stick the Taurus grille and nameplate on it somewhere.
This speaks to the fact that Microsoft has the money and the talent to do things nobody expects them to succeed at. Remember how Bill Gates said everyone would be using Windows for everything back when (1.x, 2.x) nobody wanted to use it for anything?
It probably only really matters how much they want to do it. If they are willing to be laughed at for years and spend unlimited sums in the process they can certainly do it. If the bottom line returns are important in the shorter term, they may not.
"Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month."
- Wernher Von Braun
It seems silly to attach a negative connotation to 'enormity'. If you could use it all by itself as a prejoritive it might make some sense, but you can't.
"Judge, I witnessed the defendant committing an enormity on the date in question!", doesn't really convey any information about what happened.
Since you have to define the badness seperately anyway then 'enormity' should be left without prejudice to be used as a size modifer for good or evil.
"One fifth of the people are against everything all the time." - Robert Kennedy
I saw an old black and white film from decades ago (probably on archive.org) that showed some russian scientists doing the same thing.
"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do."
- Donald Knuth
"Instead of people stealing from me, I could steal from them."
Body parts?
The 'status quo' was that it was improper for government to take anyone's private property unless it was for public use. They got away with doing it in some cases (at the behest of Donald Trump, etc) because victims, and even their lawyers, were not aware of how to fight it correctly.
Now, the new status quo is going to be that there is no such limitation and everyone will be a potential victim regardless of how well they know their rights or whether they can find good, well informed, representation.
This is not a good thing.
Your position sounds similar to me to saying, 'Since poor people are often victims of crime because they live in bad neighborhoods, instead of trying to prevent that from happening, lets make it easier for people in all neighborhoods to become crime victims so that it balances out.'
"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information." - Winston Churchill
Yeah,
Take homes from rich and poor alike. That makes it okay. The developers need the land, the city needs the tax revenue. If you don't like it move to someplace where the government can only seize property for public use, like it says in the 5th Amendment... oh. Never Mind.
"The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow." - Ayn Rand
"If you found this interesting you might want to read John Hersey's account of the Hiroshima bomb. Published in 1946 and still in print, it's pretty much the definitive version."
I read that 30 years ago. I still remember the descriptions of anti-air gunners who were looking up at the time and had their eyes melted out of their faces.
Okay, so the the article was actually about selling PC's with Linux pre-installed. I see that now. I forgot what 'Boxen' was for a moment there.
"Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel." - Homer Simpson
I bought Suse 9.0 at Best Buy when it first came out. I think they have carried all the boxed versions since then as well.
I don't know what other distributions they carry, since I was specifically looking for that one.
This is in Phoenix, Arizona.
They stripped naked to protest 'nanopants'. Will they have a massive cigarette-smoking protest against the nanotech cancer therapy?
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
- Bill Watterson
> How is this different from a swamp cooler?
A swamp cooler works by having a fan blow hot air through an absorbant pad which has water flowing through it. The air is cooled, but it also picks up a lot of moisture from the water that is being evaporated. The result is wet air that turns the inside of your house into a swamp.
The device in the article is containing the cold water in piping and blowing the hot air across the pipes to get cooler air. The cooled air won't be evaporating the water by direct contact, so it won't become saturated with moisture and turn the inside of your house into a swamp.
"An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing." - Unknown
"How did the plants ever manage to live before man came along to manage them?"
The plants lived just fine. They lived, reproduced and died. What we need from them is more demanding. We need them to efficiently produce more and more food while taking up less and less farm land and consuming less and less human effort in the process.
If you grow the same crops on the same ground repeatedly, by whatever farming methods, the nutrients are used up. Fertilizers can make up some of the difference, but elements not included in fertilizers will still be drained over time and result in less healthy and less plentiful crops.
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people." - George Bernard Shaw
The article states that people were able to manipulate two documents that contained displayed and undisplayed data (postscript) so that both produced the same MD5 hash string and different displayed text. They could only do this since they controlled the content of both documents and got to determine the hash value before it was made known.
That means scary scenarios in which someone downloads a document or piece of code, modifies it, makes it match the original (already published) hash, and redistrutes it are false. The article discusses no such capabilities being discovered.
It just means that if you accept someone else's complex data object and a hash to go with it, be aware that if they wanted to they could have simultaneously created another data object that matched the same hash.
"Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly." - U. Peter
If two documents exist with the same hash, then they were both produced by the same source, since there is no practical, known way of finding a collision without having control of the content of both documents. Therefore, your signed copy of the original document proves that the employer created both versions.
In the short term, okay. But if the soil isn't turned under between seasons in production, how can it regenerate the nutrients that it needs to remain fertile?
In fact, crop lands that are played out are typically planted in a 'soil food' crop and then plowed under during fallow seasons to rebuild the nutrients for later production seasons.
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. "
- H. L. Mencken
Anti-trust action can be a harsh solution.
Look at the case against Alcoa Aluminum back in the 1940's (or possibly 50's). They were not carrying out any predatory practices against their competitors, just innovating better and faster ways to make and deliver aluminum.
Because they did it so well, they left their competitors in the dust and dominated the market.
The U.S. government forced them to give their trade secrets to their competitors and make major adjustments to their pricing and marketing to allow their less-worthy competitors to profit and gain market share.
So, the precedent is there for the same kind of thing to happen again.
"If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime." - Unknown
I'd rather just have an SD card slot on the phone to capture to. Then I could switch cards if one got full, and the video would only be on my phone and my computer unless I wanted it somewhere else.
If Paris Hilton had a choice she'd probably like it better that way too.
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
- Winston Churchill
True,
It sounds like an 'MLA' (Master License
Agreement) where you pay Novell a fixed cost per
number of seats you expect to use and get
all the server and desktop licenses that you care to use to service that many users.
They even do it in Washington State