I haven't been able to read any washington post articles since they
started doing the demographic collector thing.
(I used to often follow links to it from news.google.com)
I fill it in, and it sends me back to the same page.
I am using mozilla 1.4b, and it happened with previous versions.
I do not have cookies blocked for washingtonpost.com.
MUME: Multi Users in Middle Earth. The MUD based on Tolkien's work solved this problem by having an ongoing war between the good races(human,dwarf,elf,hobbit) and the evil races(orc,troll,black numenorean). You could choose to play on either side of the war. It makes for a much more challenging game when your opponents are humans. For the less combative folks, MUME also had things such as herblore skills where you needed to find rare herbs to use and quests to find rare items and you could even fish! 8^) In addition to the typical experience points for defeating monsters, MUME also had a unique system of 'travel points' that you could obtain by exploring far off lands where people hadn't been. I was one of those that loved the excitement of penetrating deep into lands held by the evil races and participating in the war by hunting down , or being hunted by, members of the evil races. One of the most frightening and fun experiences I also had was sneaking into Moria on a solo quest MUME was also really awesome because LotR was translated into 30 something languages and so it was a very large international MUD with contributions from many people and so the world itself was very large.(and 10 years ago the net was more predominately we physics and compsci students and not so many AOLers;) Ahh, nice trip down memory lane there,;) I played for 3 or 4 years religiously, then sporadically for a few more, my primary character being an elf named 'Vosh'.
Isn't it simply "fair use" if you use a short excerpt from a song? My highschool video yearbook project used plenty of mainstream music, but did not use more than 30 seconds or so from a song at a time. The "fair use" reason was what our video production teacher claimed.
It's strange how our society works; in that we are not taught the laws, but often rely on what our acquantances tell us or common sense, 8^)
I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone outline the obvious partial solution to the problem using new tabs and/or windows.
If I see more than one link on a page that I am likely to follow(e.g./. homepage) I simply middle-click the links to open them in a new tab.
This solves the problem of whiping out a branch when going back because each tab has an independant history. A forest of really thin trees(stacks) is much better than a single stack.
mysql has a soundex function builtin so you can build indices with them and do SQl queries with it.
Perl also has the nifty String::Approx module which is great for catching typos instead of homonyms.
I can understand a granularity of 3 months before you start a project.
But they are already 6 months past their first promised release! It defies belief that the best estimate they can still make has an error factor of 3 months.
I was one of the idiots that bought it shortly after release because of the claimed linux support soon, and since the linux server really was out soon they had us all fooled that the linux client really would be soon too. It wasn't until a couple months after the windows release that they even deigned to tell us 'Fall 2002'.
Another interesting tidbit about Kruschev is the mistranslation of the phrase "We will bury you". (Another popular misconception is that he said this during the shoe-banging incident) A more accurate translation would have been something like "we will be at your burial" with the more passive meaning that communism will outlast democracy, not the active meaning, suggested by 'bury', that they planned to kill us. My source for this was my Russian professor in college but I just also found some colloborating evidence in this paper about the difficulties of translation.
For rpm based distros you already have a database of checksums for most of the files on your system and rpm has a way to check them. So the poor man's tripwire is simply to run the verify command for all installed rpms like so: rpm -V `rpm -qa`
It is also useful as a simple way to figure out what legitimate changes have been made to a vanilla install since it will tell you what config files have been modified since the install.
Pravda apparently no longer means truth
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Wow, I didn't realize that pravda had turned into a national inquirer type of paper. The funny thing about this article is how it starts out plausible enough, albiet not newsworthy, much like a decent troll, before it gets into the nitty gritty of UFO's and cyborg Neanderthals as monitoring devices.
Another headline is "America Wants to Use Biological Weapons on Iraq"
The truly sad part is that there are many people in the world who believe nonsense like this.
p.s. Why is this in "science" category instead of "it's funny, laugh"? Did Hemos fall for the troll?
Humanity's egocentrism
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How long will it take for humanity to learn that we aren't as special as we've always assumed?
Some groups of people used to think they were the center of the world(e.g. Zhong Guo==Middle Kingdom)
Bigger groups used to think that earth was the center of reality and everything literally revolved around humans.(A belief vigorously defended)
Leewonhoek's microscope revealed a smaller scale of reality than we knew, and it was quite some time before people accepted it.
Newton's theories seemed to describe how all reality worked until we realized different things were going on at very small and very large scales.
Now we have a much greater understanding of things at the quantum scale and the universal scale, but it seems obvious that that is not the end of it.
Why do we seem to assume that the scale of reality is finite and coincidentally matches the same scale at which we exist? I think that based upon all of our prior fumblings we would be more likely to conclude that reality extends to a much smaller scale than the quantum and a much greater scale than that of the observible universe; even that it is infinite in both directions.
Although "theory of programming" is rather weakly defined:
"The Art of Computer Programming" by Knuth
"Programming Pearls" by Bentley
"Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" by Hofstadter "The Tao of Programming" Jargon File
Did you see "Silence of the Lambs"? You don't think Lecter was responsible for talking his fellow prisoner into commiting suicide, evidently. Your philosophy seems to be based on an assumption that all people are of sound mind(and wiser than average), which unfortunately just ain't so.
Any idea what software was used to make those graphs?
It looks like a neat tool for visualizing sets of numbers.
It reminds me of this awesome applet that shows frequency of numbers used on the net: numbers
So you are claiming that your solicitation of people to talk to you about purchasing your share of this company is not advertisement?! You are an even better marketer than I thought. You win. Alannis wins again, as well.
You were correct about your marketing skills. I bet a lot of other dummies like myself read the whole thing only to find out it's just an advertisement. I guess the moderators didn't read to the end.
There's also the second law of thermodynamics to look at. It states that the universe is constantly heading toward disorder. Evolution violates that law, so which one is right?
I'll let M.C. Stephen Hawking refute this:
Creationists always try to use the second law,
to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw.
The second law is quite precise about where it applies,
only in a closed system must the entropy count rise.
The earth's not a closed system' it's powered by the sun,
so fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun!
That, in a nutshell, is what entropy's about,
you're now down with a discount. Chorus
You down with entropy? Yeah, you know me! (x3)
Who's down with entropy?
Every last homey! mchawking.com
Tab completion rocks for us lousy typists, 8^) set complete=enhance If set to `enhance', completion 1) ignores case and 2) considers periods, hyphens and underscores (`.', `-' and `_') to be word separators and hyphens and underscores to be equivalent.
% ls somefile-1.ext somefile-2.ext somefile-2.ext.bak % less s-1 less somefile-1.ext % less s.. somefile-2.bak
And then there is context sensitive tab completion. % rpm -qi xf-4 rpm -qi XFree86-4.2.0-8
The game Tuxracer, has a really fun level called "Who says penguins can't fly?"
It has a bunch of ice-walled canyons where you can build up a lot of speed and make huge jumps.
Is anyone successfully using this model with linux? or DVR-104?(I can't figure out the difference)
At only $289 for cd and dvd burning it seems to be the best deal out there.
Slashdot Mirror
I fill it in, and it sends me back to the same page.
I am using mozilla 1.4b, and it happened with previous versions.
I do not have cookies blocked for washingtonpost.com.
Any idea what I need to do to get by this thing?
That's what we refer to as "Alanis irony", 8^)
Frustratingly, our entire office is seeing the Matrix at 10pm EST and the eclipse lasts 2 hours starting at 10pm EST also!
MUME: Multi Users in Middle Earth. The MUD based on Tolkien's work solved this problem by having an ongoing war between the good races(human,dwarf,elf,hobbit) and the evil races(orc,troll,black numenorean). You could choose to play on either side of the war. It makes for a much more challenging game when your opponents are humans. ;) ;) I played for 3 or 4 years religiously, then sporadically for a few more, my primary character being an elf named 'Vosh'.
For the less combative folks, MUME also had things such as herblore skills where you needed to find rare herbs to use and quests to find rare items and you could even fish! 8^) In addition to the typical experience points for defeating monsters, MUME also had a unique system of 'travel points' that you could obtain by exploring far off lands where people hadn't been.
I was one of those that loved the excitement of penetrating deep into lands held by the evil races and participating in the war by hunting down , or being hunted by, members of the evil races. One of the most frightening and fun experiences I also had was sneaking into Moria on a solo quest
MUME was also really awesome because LotR was translated into 30 something languages and so it was a very large international MUD with contributions from many people and so the world itself was very large.(and 10 years ago the net was more predominately we physics and compsci students and not so many AOLers
Ahh, nice trip down memory lane there,
http://www.ott-lite.com/
A specially formulated blend of rare earth phosphors is used to create this unique illumination that looks and feels like natural daylight.
My highschool video yearbook project used plenty of mainstream music, but did not use more than 30 seconds or so from a song at a time. The "fair use" reason was what our video production teacher claimed.
It's strange how our society works; in that we are not taught the laws, but often rely on what our acquantances tell us or common sense, 8^)
Oh Stewardess, does anyone speak 'skyjive'?
If I see more than one link on a page that I am likely to follow(e.g. /. homepage) I simply middle-click the links to open them in a new tab.
This solves the problem of whiping out a branch when going back because each tab has an independant history.
A forest of really thin trees(stacks) is much better than a single stack.
mysql has a soundex function builtin so you can build indices with them and do SQl queries with it.
Perl also has the nifty String::Approx module which is great for catching typos instead of homonyms.
I can understand a granularity of 3 months before you start a project.
But they are already 6 months past their first promised release!
It defies belief that the best estimate they can still make has an error factor of 3 months.
I was one of the idiots that bought it shortly after release because of the claimed linux support soon, and since the linux server really was out soon they had us all fooled that the linux client really would be soon too.
It wasn't until a couple months after the windows release that they even deigned to tell us 'Fall 2002'.
Another interesting tidbit about Kruschev is the mistranslation of the phrase "We will bury you". (Another popular misconception is that he said this during the shoe-banging incident)
A more accurate translation would have been something like "we will be at your burial" with the more passive meaning that communism will outlast democracy, not the active meaning, suggested by 'bury', that they planned to kill us.
My source for this was my Russian professor in college but I just also found some colloborating evidence in this paper about the difficulties of translation.
For rpm based distros you already have a database of checksums for most of the files on your system and rpm has a way to check them.
So the poor man's tripwire is simply to run the verify command for all installed rpms like so:
rpm -V `rpm -qa`
It is also useful as a simple way to figure out what legitimate changes have been made to a vanilla install since it will tell you what config files have been modified since the install.
Wow, I didn't realize that pravda had turned into a national inquirer type of paper.
The funny thing about this article is how it starts out plausible enough, albiet not newsworthy, much like a decent troll, before it gets into the nitty gritty of UFO's and cyborg Neanderthals as monitoring devices.
Another headline is "America Wants to Use Biological Weapons on Iraq"
The truly sad part is that there are many people in the world who believe nonsense like this.
p.s. Why is this in "science" category instead of "it's funny, laugh"? Did Hemos fall for the troll?
-
Some groups of people used to think they were the center of the world(e.g. Zhong Guo==Middle Kingdom)
- Bigger groups used to think that earth was the center of reality and everything literally revolved around humans.(A belief vigorously defended)
- Leewonhoek's microscope revealed a smaller scale of reality than we knew, and it was quite some time before people accepted it.
- Newton's theories seemed to describe how all reality worked until we realized different things were going on at very small and very large scales.
- Now we have a much greater understanding of things at the quantum scale and the universal scale, but it seems obvious that that is not the end of it.
Why do we seem to assume that the scale of reality is finite and coincidentally matches the same scale at which we exist? I think that based upon all of our prior fumblings we would be more likely to conclude that reality extends to a much smaller scale than the quantum and a much greater scale than that of the observible universe; even that it is infinite in both directions.Although "theory of programming" is rather weakly defined:
"The Art of Computer Programming" by Knuth
"Programming Pearls" by Bentley
"Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" by Hofstadter
"The Tao of Programming"
Jargon File
Did you see "Silence of the Lambs"? You don't think Lecter was responsible for talking his fellow prisoner into commiting suicide, evidently.
Your philosophy seems to be based on an assumption that all people are of sound mind(and wiser than average), which unfortunately just ain't so.
Wouldn't 'aWidget' indicate a single element to those of us that speak English?
Sounds like 'a widget' to me, 8^).
Any idea what software was used to make those graphs?
It looks like a neat tool for visualizing sets of numbers.
It reminds me of this awesome applet that shows frequency of numbers used on the net: numbers
So you are claiming that your solicitation of people to talk to you about purchasing your share of this company is not advertisement?!
You are an even better marketer than I thought.
You win. Alannis wins again, as well.
You were correct about your marketing skills. I bet a lot of other dummies like myself read the whole thing only to find out it's just an advertisement. I guess the moderators didn't read to the end.
There's also the second law of thermodynamics to look at. It states that the universe is constantly heading toward disorder. Evolution violates that law, so which one is right?
I'll let M.C. Stephen Hawking refute this:
Creationists always try to use the second law,
to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw.
The second law is quite precise about where it applies,
only in a closed system must the entropy count rise.
The earth's not a closed system' it's powered by the sun,
so fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun!
That, in a nutshell, is what entropy's about, you're now down with a discount.
Chorus
You down with entropy? Yeah, you know me! (x3)
Who's down with entropy?
Every last homey!
mchawking.com
Tab completion rocks for us lousy typists, 8^)
set complete=enhance
If set to `enhance', completion 1) ignores case and 2) considers periods, hyphens and underscores (`.', `-' and `_') to be word separators and hyphens and underscores to be equivalent.
% ls
somefile-1.ext somefile-2.ext somefile-2.ext.bak
% less s-1
less somefile-1.ext
% less s..
somefile-2.bak
And then there is context sensitive tab completion.
% rpm -qi xf-4
rpm -qi XFree86-4.2.0-8
It has a bunch of ice-walled canyons where you can build up a lot of speed and make huge jumps.
It's been eight months and I still have that song get stuck in my head every couple weeks.
Is anyone successfully using this model with linux? or DVR-104?(I can't figure out the difference)
At only $289 for cd and dvd burning it seems to be the best deal out there.