It's got an ordered royal flush, it's prime, and the bitmap is a fire-breathing dragon, Japanese style. It can also be broken into three groups of digits, such that group z=group(x**2)*(group(y**2). It is also a sequence found naturally within the first thousand digits of pi.
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OK, I'm lying. The site's still Slashdotted. But really, what's the difference?
Hey, how about MacOS on a live CD? After all, I have Linux, BSD, and Solaris live CDs already, why can't I try out MacOS on my toaster without having to go out and buy a special computer just for it?
Shouldn't it be illegal for a computer vendor to force you to only use a particular OS on your computer?
Gee, yes, so we'll throw it on the pile of 972,358 OTHER things the robber barons of the tech industry do with impunity that should be illegal. Thankyouforyourinput.
Nothing is impossible when it comes to a MS f***-up. I once had a vase full of healthy flowers that withered and died next to a machine with Win98 installed. I take no chances. There are more things in heaven and earth than are explained in our technology.
My first thought was "April first isn't for months now!", but no kidding, there really IS an active-X plugin for Mozilla. http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm Not that I'd touch it with a ten-foot, uh, really long thing...just because I run Linux doesn't make me reckless...
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Please, let the kid off the computer for awhile. Play with her on a real, physical board game. Preferably on the porch in the spring time over glasses of lemonade, or next to the window in the winter looking out at the snow.
Incidentally, chess isn't the only game out there. My daughter has so far learned checkers, backgammon, monopoly, othello, and (the very first one I taught her) Go. All on real physical boards. This is coming from a computer geek family with three machines in the house running Linux exclusively: board games are for one-on-one social time.
Doesn't this starkly expose the futility and dysfunctionality of the stock market system, and discredit the idea that "the free market" has some sort of guiding hand that will give the best results?
What kind of insanity is this, that the government goes out of control, spending billions on a pointless war, spends billions more spying on its own citizens - and Google has its stock price downgraded because it stands up to a basic infringement on the rights of American citizens? Even though this would have no effect on profitability or income? Jesus Christ on a stick.
Whoever modded these words troll deserves to be locked up for no reason, never see a trial, and be tortured at Guatanomo bay. And then be "disappeared".
With my new blog, which is all about Linux geekery anyway, I got sick of supporting Internet Explorer because I find when I do that, I'm stuck in the dark ages. Cut out IE and you can use png's for images, CSS2 for style, full Javascript in all it's (mousy) power, a sane character set. The rest of the world has moved forward and left MS in the dust, I'm afraid. MS can copy all they want, but they'll never keep up with the innovators.
But you could care less about a blogger's-eye view. So do this: scan your access logs for browser, OS, screen resolution, etc. When the percentage of an outdated-setup drops to a point where you can exclude that slice of the pie without hurting your business, drop it.
Can anyone tell me how long my web page has to capture the interest of a visitor? I've been searching everywhere for this data but cannot seem to track it down.
An idea from the red guy on my left shoulder:
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Take the deal. Download Anchorun, the auto-crawler bot. Leave it running all night. Sell it's results in the morning!
I've already made up my mind as a youth, and have taught my children the same, that what the government wants and what's good for me, for society, or even the morally right thing to do are two seperate things. Occasionally they coincide, but only rarely. From day one, the kids' have been taught at home; sending them to school is an incidental supplement with some handy benefits. "Appear to be playing by everybody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.", which, I hasten to stress, is only unfortunately necessary in a sick society.
My beef is, classifying things as porn automatically shuts out educational value. What if you have a daughter in her young teens and she wants to know about mammograms, breastfeeding, AIDS prevention, ovary development, etc? I made it my business to learn all about sex I could when I was a pre-teen, and it paid off when my early partners were delighted that I knew more about their anatomy than they did. I intend extending the same liberties to learn to my children.
This is getting so wierd. I've never seen so many people with unshakable faith in the corporate system and the noble glories thereof. Hey, remember the "pointy-haired-boss"? How did we get those Dilbert cliches? And what job have you worked where the boss knew a hole in the ground from the one in his head? I've consistantly had blood (or semen) be thicker than water in every single employment experience I've had, and the whole concept of "knowing" was irrelevant. I'm talking Fortune 100 multinational corporations.
I figured you could use a healthy dose of cynicism. If you've worked side by side with degree-holders while coming in cold off the street and working your way up without a degree, as I have, you will discover that the people who want to do the work simply broke into the field before they even finished high school. None of the people who wanted to do the work went to college. They went to college because mommy and daddy paid for them to go, they've never had to work a day in their lives, they'll be useless as a boat anchor when they do find themselves in a job (or their uncle finds one for them), and they rule the world.
You sound like an Ozzy fan. Lived through the 80's being reviled and disdained as a Satanist and druggie and wierdo because he listened to Black Sabbath, only to approach middle age and find out Ozzy's an MTV reality show. Teens coming up to him: "Seen the Osbornes?" "No, but I followed Ozzy back when he was with Black Sabbath." "Black who?"
Dear God in Heaven, they still DO that? I would have thought way back when Neal Stephenson called them on this in his essay "In the Beginning was the Command Line".
I love that policy. I'll enact that one myself from now on, right here on Slashdot. Anybody who wants to contradict or criticize me has to pay-per-incident 95$ (the Neal Stephenson-quoted price - has it gone up?) in small bills to me first, and sign a non-disclosure agreement that their opinions will not be made public.
Do we see more bugs found BECAUSE more users are using a product?
OK, I've heard that logic enough times to be convinced. That's right, I'm totally sold! And there are more poor people than rich people, so really it must be that rich people have just as many problems as poor people, but being poor gets all the exposure so it must get all the negative press. Airtight infallible logic.
You can skip the "Microsoft and security in the same sentence?" comments we've all heard 1000 times, and ask actual questions,
So in other words, we can ask anything we want to as long as it doesn't cast Microsoft in a negative light. We'll be carefully scripting the questions through the filter of loyal Microsoft fanboys who'll just happen to have a pocketfull of mod points today. And then only 12 questions exactly, and we're reminded to give special considerations to somebody facing the world point-blank the way the rest of us do all the time instead of hiding behind a six-figure spin-doctor.
Thanks, but that answers every question I ever had about Microsoft. And mod-downs will trigger automatic reposts.
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Hey, how about MacOS on a live CD? After all, I have Linux, BSD, and Solaris live CDs already, why can't I try out MacOS on my toaster without having to go out and buy a special computer just for it?
Gee, yes, so we'll throw it on the pile of 972,358 OTHER things the robber barons of the tech industry do with impunity that should be illegal. Thankyouforyourinput.
Make a phone call? NMo, wait, it's a *cell* *phone*, what was I *thinking*!?!?
Nothing is impossible when it comes to a MS f***-up. I once had a vase full of healthy flowers that withered and died next to a machine with Win98 installed. I take no chances. There are more things in heaven and earth than are explained in our technology.
My first thought was "April first isn't for months now!", but no kidding, there really IS an active-X plugin for Mozilla. http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm Not that I'd touch it with a ten-foot, uh, really long thing...just because I run Linux doesn't make me reckless...
Incidentally, chess isn't the only game out there. My daughter has so far learned checkers, backgammon, monopoly, othello, and (the very first one I taught her) Go. All on real physical boards. This is coming from a computer geek family with three machines in the house running Linux exclusively: board games are for one-on-one social time.
Nice try.
What kind of insanity is this, that the government goes out of control, spending billions on a pointless war, spends billions more spying on its own citizens - and Google has its stock price downgraded because it stands up to a basic infringement on the rights of American citizens? Even though this would have no effect on profitability or income? Jesus Christ on a stick.
Whoever modded these words troll deserves to be locked up for no reason, never see a trial, and be tortured at Guatanomo bay. And then be "disappeared".
But you could care less about a blogger's-eye view. So do this: scan your access logs for browser, OS, screen resolution, etc. When the percentage of an outdated-setup drops to a point where you can exclude that slice of the pie without hurting your business, drop it.
Can anyone tell me how long my web page has to capture the interest of a visitor? I've been searching everywhere for this data but cannot seem to track it down.
Take the deal. Download Anchorun, the auto-crawler bot. Leave it running all night. Sell it's results in the morning!
I've already made up my mind as a youth, and have taught my children the same, that what the government wants and what's good for me, for society, or even the morally right thing to do are two seperate things. Occasionally they coincide, but only rarely. From day one, the kids' have been taught at home; sending them to school is an incidental supplement with some handy benefits. "Appear to be playing by everybody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.", which, I hasten to stress, is only unfortunately necessary in a sick society.
Here's a recent story by her concerning CP80, the latest attempt to make pornography go away: http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/30342/. *Don't* *miss* the "educational" Flash video by CP80 about pr0n http://www.cp80.org/solutions/CP80-Flash-Overview. html , which is a contender for the title of "The 'Reefer Madness' of anti-porn propaganda". Anybody know of others?
Wait a minute, which "bush" were you talking about?
My beef is, classifying things as porn automatically shuts out educational value. What if you have a daughter in her young teens and she wants to know about mammograms, breastfeeding, AIDS prevention, ovary development, etc? I made it my business to learn all about sex I could when I was a pre-teen, and it paid off when my early partners were delighted that I knew more about their anatomy than they did. I intend extending the same liberties to learn to my children.
This is getting so wierd. I've never seen so many people with unshakable faith in the corporate system and the noble glories thereof. Hey, remember the "pointy-haired-boss"? How did we get those Dilbert cliches? And what job have you worked where the boss knew a hole in the ground from the one in his head? I've consistantly had blood (or semen) be thicker than water in every single employment experience I've had, and the whole concept of "knowing" was irrelevant. I'm talking Fortune 100 multinational corporations.
What planet does this happen on? You have to know something to know whether or not somebody else knows something. There are bosses who notice?
I figured you could use a healthy dose of cynicism. If you've worked side by side with degree-holders while coming in cold off the street and working your way up without a degree, as I have, you will discover that the people who want to do the work simply broke into the field before they even finished high school. None of the people who wanted to do the work went to college. They went to college because mommy and daddy paid for them to go, they've never had to work a day in their lives, they'll be useless as a boat anchor when they do find themselves in a job (or their uncle finds one for them), and they rule the world.
You sound like an Ozzy fan. Lived through the 80's being reviled and disdained as a Satanist and druggie and wierdo because he listened to Black Sabbath, only to approach middle age and find out Ozzy's an MTV reality show. Teens coming up to him: "Seen the Osbornes?" "No, but I followed Ozzy back when he was with Black Sabbath." "Black who?"
I love that policy. I'll enact that one myself from now on, right here on Slashdot. Anybody who wants to contradict or criticize me has to pay-per-incident 95$ (the Neal Stephenson-quoted price - has it gone up?) in small bills to me first, and sign a non-disclosure agreement that their opinions will not be made public.
Boy, I gotta move to where my local TV stations have content like that!
OK, I've heard that logic enough times to be convinced. That's right, I'm totally sold! And there are more poor people than rich people, so really it must be that rich people have just as many problems as poor people, but being poor gets all the exposure so it must get all the negative press. Airtight infallible logic.
So in other words, we can ask anything we want to as long as it doesn't cast Microsoft in a negative light. We'll be carefully scripting the questions through the filter of loyal Microsoft fanboys who'll just happen to have a pocketfull of mod points today. And then only 12 questions exactly, and we're reminded to give special considerations to somebody facing the world point-blank the way the rest of us do all the time instead of hiding behind a six-figure spin-doctor.
Thanks, but that answers every question I ever had about Microsoft. And mod-downs will trigger automatic reposts.