Shouldn't that be: Discover our Rock-Hard Erections?
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I love the 'prepare to stop' signs.
When I'm driving a car, I figure I should always be prepared to stop. I mean, is there really a big preparation that has to happen? Put down the sandwich makings and drive?
I use TMDA (Tagged Message Delivery Agent http://tmda.net ) which lets me generate addresses which only accept mail either for a limited time or from certain domains/addresses. It'll auto maintain a whitelist, and you can have a blacklist. If mail comes in to an address which has 'expired' or which is from the 'wrong' sender, you can decide whether to drop the email, or send a 'challenge', which if the sender replies to, you receive the email. The only problem with C/R mechanisms like this (besides the ~3x bandwidth:-) is when someone is 'joe-jobbed' and they receive challenges in addition to all the bounces and the 'hey ass, why'd you spam me' emails. Hopefully people will really start to implement 'SPF' http://spf.pobox.com/ soon.
This is my beef with digital photography: I found a negative for a photo that was taken sometime between 1891 & 1934 - prints were beautiful. This negative was not stored properly at all.
I'd agree if I kept my digital images in one place, in one proprietary undocumented format. But I keep my images in a widely understood format (JFIF/JPEG), on multiple media types (HD & CDROM, DAT), in multiple physical locations. If a fire burns down my house I'll still have all those photos. If someone threw away that negative, or it just got wet for any period of time it would have been destroyed.
I worked for Horace Bristol when I was younger, mostly throwing out old negatives. I wish I knew then that all that stuff would be gone forever, and kept those priceless photos; not for their value to me, but for their value to society, to preserve them. If they were digital, Horace wouldn't have had any cause to throw them out, since the cost of keeping them would have been so low.
If your wife really is getting sexual spam and the company won't take better steps to control it, have her bring up the notion of sexual harrasment WRT the spam and then see if they won't let her use some better filtering tech...
The other reply to you is what I'm thinking. When I drive home and park in the driveway or the garage, my car queries my home server for any new MP3s and updates the 'local cache' in the car, without me having to do any work.
Just because the coolant is boiling doesn't mean the cooling properties break down, they are just different. The droplet of water example is pretty silly, since little droplets of water wouldn't cool the pan much even if they weren't boiling. Here's an example that shows that even boiling water cools just fine. Take a sheet of notebook paper and hold it over a gas stove. Watch it burst into flames. Now fold another sheet of notebook paper until it works as a paper cup. Fill the paper cup with water, put directly over the flame of the gas stove. Wait for water to boil, add tea bag and enjoy. Google Search for 'water boil paper cup'
I'd love to see someone make a small box that sits in my trunk or under my seat that acts like a CD Changer. Yeah, I know about the PhatBox, but I don't see the need for the removability at such a high cost. Something more like the YAMPP-3, but with WI-FI. Heck, I'd even be willing to drag an ethernet cable out to the car (hey, a drop in the Garage isn't out of the question) to load up new MP3s over paying ~$800 for the 20GB Phatbox.
That's funny, but since plowing a field is very parallelizable it doesn't make a very good analogy. Especially since in that analogy the Cray isn't two strong oxen, it's more like a machine that can plow all/many of the rows at once, and the linux cluster is a machine that can plow one row at a time, but you can afford to buy a bunch and plow as many at a time as you have $$s to spend.
Another poster has replied that Cocoa > NeXTStep, but I'd just like to point out that the main thing that Cocoa has that NeXTStep was lacking that might have made it easier for Tim is WebCore(tm):-)
the remote cockroach that they had here. Of course, it ended up squashed by a shoe, but before that it got critical intel out. Just imagine a battlefield where you can't trust that the spiders and snakes, or arctic hares aren't working for the other guys!
The Dean: Leaps tall buildings in a single bound, is more powerful than a locomotive, is faster than a speeding bullet, walks on water, gives policy to God.
The Department Head: Leaps short buildings in a single bound, is more powerful than a switch engine, is just as fast as a speeding bullet, walks on water if the sea is calm, talks with God.
Professor: Leaps short buildings with a running start and favorable winds, is almost as powerful as a switch engine, is slower than a speeding bullet, walks on water in an indoor swimming pool, talks with God if special request is approved.
Associate Professor: Barely clears a quonset hut, loses tug of war with locomotive, can fire a speeding bullet, swims well, is occasionally addressed by God.
Assistant Professor: Makes high marks on wall when trying to leap tall buildings, is run over by locomotive, can sometimes handle a gun without inflicting self injury, dog paddles, talks to animals.
Graduate Student: Runs into buildings, recognizes locomotives two out of three times, is not issued ammunition, can stay afloat with a life jacket, talks to walls.
Undergraduate: Falls over doorstep when trying to enter buildings, says look at the choo-choo, wets himself with a water pistol, plays in mud puddles, mumbles to himself.
Department Secretary: Lifts tall buildings and walks under them, kicks locomotives off the track, catches speeding bullets in her teeth and eats them, freezes water with a single glare, she is God.
Well, unless this form of carbon is unusually reactive, or acts like asbestos (a "physical toxin"), it would likely just break down into carbon in the bloodstream and be absorbed or eliminated like the CO2 in our breath.
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you forgot: "the economy", "democratic", "recount"
Shouldn't that be:
Discover our Rock-Hard Erections?
I love the 'prepare to stop' signs.
When I'm driving a car, I figure I should always be prepared to stop. I mean, is there really a big preparation that has to happen? Put down the sandwich makings and drive?
I hate it when webpages move my windows around. I put my windows where I have them for a _REASON_. don't fucking move /resize my windows.
If you want to have a window of a particular size/location then open a new one!
Bastards. If it weren't Ben & Jerry's I'd boycott!
I use TMDA (Tagged Message Delivery Agent http://tmda.net ) which lets me generate addresses which only accept mail either for a limited time or from certain domains/addresses. It'll auto maintain a whitelist, and you can have a blacklist. If mail comes in to an address which has 'expired' or which is from the 'wrong' sender, you can decide whether to drop the email, or send a 'challenge', which if the sender replies to, you receive the email. :-) is when someone is 'joe-jobbed' and they receive challenges in addition to all the bounces and the 'hey ass, why'd you spam me' emails. Hopefully people will really start to implement 'SPF' http://spf.pobox.com/ soon.
The only problem with C/R mechanisms like this (besides the ~3x bandwidth
This is my beef with digital photography: I found a negative for a photo that was taken sometime between 1891 & 1934 - prints were beautiful. This negative was not stored properly at all.
I'd agree if I kept my digital images in one place, in one proprietary undocumented format. But I keep my images in a widely understood format (JFIF/JPEG), on multiple media types (HD & CDROM, DAT), in multiple physical locations. If a fire burns down my house I'll still have all those photos. If someone threw away that negative, or it just got wet for any period of time it would have been destroyed.
I worked for Horace Bristol when I was younger, mostly throwing out old negatives. I wish I knew then that all that stuff would be gone forever, and kept those priceless photos; not for their value to me, but for their value to society, to preserve them. If they were digital, Horace wouldn't have had any cause to throw them out, since the cost of keeping them would have been so low.
If your wife really is getting sexual spam and the company won't take better steps to control it, have her bring up the notion of sexual harrasment WRT the spam and then see if they won't let her use some better filtering tech...
commercials drive me crazy, I'll stick with LPs (you know, vinyl!).
"Not to be used as a flotation device."
Among other things i can't remember.
and I don't really know what stations they're on, and I'm not ususally concerned about when they're on.
Tivo rules.
The other reply to you is what I'm thinking. When I drive home and park in the driveway or the garage, my car queries my home server for any new MP3s and updates the 'local cache' in the car, without me having to do any work.
Yeah, but i already ruled out Phatbox because of the price... :-)
Heck, if cost was no object I'd just commission the device exactly how _I_ want it.
No no, he was refering to Real when he said 'floundering company', Apple is the 'beleaguered company'.
Apple doesn't flounder, they do really cool shit that not enough people feel is worth paying the premium for.
Real is floundering around looking for a reason anyone would care that they continue to exist.
Just because the coolant is boiling doesn't mean the cooling properties break down, they are just different.
The droplet of water example is pretty silly, since little droplets of water wouldn't cool the pan much even if they weren't boiling.
Here's an example that shows that even boiling water cools just fine. Take a sheet of notebook paper and hold it over a gas stove. Watch it burst into flames. Now fold another sheet of notebook paper until it works as a paper cup. Fill the paper cup with water, put directly over the flame of the gas stove. Wait for water to boil, add tea bag and enjoy.
Google Search for 'water boil paper cup'
I'd love to see someone make a small box that sits in my trunk or under my seat that acts like a CD Changer. Yeah, I know about the PhatBox, but I don't see the need for the removability at such a high cost. Something more like the YAMPP-3, but with WI-FI.
Heck, I'd even be willing to drag an ethernet cable out to the car (hey, a drop in the Garage isn't out of the question) to load up new MP3s over paying ~$800 for the 20GB Phatbox.
That's funny, but since plowing a field is very parallelizable it doesn't make a very good analogy. Especially since in that analogy the Cray isn't two strong oxen, it's more like a machine that can plow all/many of the rows at once, and the linux cluster is a machine that can plow one row at a time, but you can afford to buy a bunch and plow as many at a time as you have $$s to spend.
Another poster has replied that Cocoa > NeXTStep, but I'd just like to point out that the main thing that Cocoa has that NeXTStep was lacking that might have made it easier for Tim is WebCore(tm) :-)
Book space battles are always better than movie battles. The stuff in the Forever war was some of the coolest battle gear.
The chase in 'Protector' by Larry Niven was pretty cool too.
The price of the average "IBM" PC sold has dropped by roughly 400% since I first bought one in 1989.
Wow. So your $3000 1989 PC now costs _negative_ $9000? ($3000-(4*3000)).
Real life dogs are way way better than a stupid tamagotchi. No, it's much more like a cat.
You post on slashdot and you let a cable guy touch your computer? What _were_ you thinking?
the remote cockroach that they had here. Of course, it ended up squashed by a shoe, but before that it got critical intel out. Just imagine a battlefield where you can't trust that the spiders and snakes, or arctic hares aren't working for the other guys!
About the politics of a university.
The Lighter Side of Education...
The Dean:
Leaps tall buildings in a single bound,
is more powerful than a locomotive,
is faster than a speeding bullet,
walks on water,
gives policy to God.
The Department Head:
Leaps short buildings in a single bound,
is more powerful than a switch engine,
is just as fast as a speeding bullet,
walks on water if the sea is calm,
talks with God.
Professor:
Leaps short buildings with a running start and favorable winds,
is almost as powerful as a switch engine,
is slower than a speeding bullet,
walks on water in an indoor swimming pool,
talks with God if special request is approved.
Associate Professor:
Barely clears a quonset hut,
loses tug of war with locomotive,
can fire a speeding bullet,
swims well,
is occasionally addressed by God.
Assistant Professor:
Makes high marks on wall when trying to leap tall buildings,
is run over by locomotive,
can sometimes handle a gun without inflicting self injury,
dog paddles,
talks to animals.
Graduate Student:
Runs into buildings,
recognizes locomotives two out of three times,
is not issued ammunition,
can stay afloat with a life jacket,
talks to walls.
Undergraduate:
Falls over doorstep when trying to enter buildings,
says look at the choo-choo,
wets himself with a water pistol,
plays in mud puddles,
mumbles to himself.
Department Secretary:
Lifts tall buildings and walks under them,
kicks locomotives off the track,
catches speeding bullets in her teeth and eats them,
freezes water with a single glare,
she is God.
Well, unless this form of carbon is unusually reactive, or acts like asbestos (a "physical toxin"), it would likely just break down into carbon in the bloodstream and be absorbed or eliminated like the CO2 in our breath.
gets all the diamonds we can afford you insensitive clod!