1. Practically everything in China is recycled. I've seen old folks / poor people rummage through trashbins with tongs looking for whatever is valuable for picking up some cash. This usually is cans or plastic soda bottles, which usually end up being turned into low-quality polyproplene or such.
2. While the cities I've been to in the last five years have considerably cleaned up their act, China still has an enormous problem with littering. Ever seen the commercials showing the roadside trash from the early 70's in America? That's China nowadays.
3. Many electronic components are desoldered and reused by small mom-and-pop outfits that want to get into business, and don't mind cheaper used components. When you've got lots of people who want to get ahead in life, they will use any resource at their disposal.
I'd like to see them try to subpeona the records of Loompanics Unlimited. They've got the best selection of underground/subversive books I've ever seen, and have been around more than 20 years.
A good source for info on these programs (trojans) is Thiefware.com.
A lot of companies who don't even own these programs will try to scam businesses by trying to sell "keywords" on them. They make impressive claims of their installed "user base" that are wildly over inflated. And they don't bother to mention how they're hijacking people. Sheesh.
I for one hope they introduce the long-rumored flat panel iMac...if for no other reason than it will push down the prices of the existing iMacs to the point that I may be able to justofy converting our office to them. (Yes, I know the total cost of ownership...but bosses like bottom lines)
A great website about all this is ThiefWare. They have comprehensive descriptions of all the companies and the spyware they install.
I discovered this site after being called by a "representative" wanting to sell our company keywords for $30,000! My boss was psyched about it until I impressed upon him that we did not want to be associated with such scum. The bizarro thing was that this salesman didn't even work for Cydoor Networks...they seemed to be parasites of the parasites.
Maaaaan, is there going to be anything worth going to the theaters for this year? This has been one of Hollywood's worst years yet. Here's hoping LOTR will make up for it.
If you are planning on having multiple people running networked games in your house, I would recommend caution when thinking about a hardware router. For example, Linksys (among others) has problems when two people in a household play Q3 and want to connect to the same remote gameserver. As was said before, PracticallyNetworked.com is a good place to investigate before buying.
Alternatively, an old Mac IIcx makes a great router. Two NICs and a video card, old 20mb drive, IPNetrouter software, and there you go! Pretty much unhackable, because with System 7.5.5, you can't even address the Mac's file sharing via tcp/ip. I've got just such a beast running our office because our Linksys died. And I'm really cheap.
Anybody who has listened to the sound of massive piles of Legos being raked through knows that your parents were DEFINITELY not asleep. That's one distinctive sound.
I used to make enormous sailing ships from just the original blocks. I was just pissed I couldn't scrape together enough yellow bricks to make one all yellow. This article just made me feel overwhelmingly sad...
I'm just astonished that they remembered M.U.L.E. (25)
I think about half my free time in college was taken up yelling at the tv or my friends when they wouldn't sell me enough energy to run my production. We used to collect players for a game just by sticking our heads in the door of someone's room and yelling, "MULE!". Hell, it was even a spectator sport. Lately I scrounged up an old C64 that we still use exclusively for playing MULE.
Goddamn Mechtrons.
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They should use a Panasonic Toughbook... I used to use one out in the field, and would occasionally drop the thing 3 feet onto concrete...those things are TOUGH.
Are they going to make available an accessory to inject some spit onto the ball?
Perhaps they could experiment to find the best adulterant to create really wild pitches!
Oh yes, MSC and the Great Brain were some of my favorites...anyone here remember Alvin Fernald and his hijinks? I remember the one where he used a model rocket on a string to send a message into this old house...something like that...anyways, it was another in the genre of books that I highly enjoyed.
I work in the tech end of the online real estate business. Our company pulls down data from foreclosure agencies (HUD, VA, FHA etc.) twice a day and after much reformatting and manipulation, reposts them on the web for all to use for free.
We also upload our data to Homes.com which then is passed on to MSN Homeadvisor, Yahoo! Real Estate and others (we have people call out of the blue who saw the data on sites we've never even heard of).
Problem is, most of the major Real Estate web companies don't update their data nearly often enough to keep up with the market. I've seen properties on MSN that have been off the market for months that have a "newly listed" icon next to them.
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Try going over to USHUD.com and check properties there. It's FREE, you do NOT have to sign up or give away major bodily organs to look at the listings. And heck, we even read/. --end shameless plug--
This would be much like Windows users fixating over AutoCAD or Lightwave.
Actually, as a former user of AutoCAD, I'm quite fixated by it. It's one of the few programs on the PC that have ever made me go "wow" over the power and sheer polishedness of it. Also one of the few windows programs I would absolutely kill to have run native on OSX.
Once one sees a program do something that just seems to meet all needs for a particular range of problems, it just clicks that that is the solution. Especially when it is something as sharply honed as Photoshop is. MacGimp is a great thing; I'm planning on installing it myself, but I see it as a curiosity and nothing more for the professional user.
Well, all computer cases are spec'ed to keep any RF inside the case, so unless the power supply for the light is extremely badly designed, I can't see it really overwhelming the already noisy RF environment in the case. The window might mean more interference for things outside the box, though.
Just my 2
Good questions. The only comment I have is that unfortunately gravity waves do not cancel each other out when a "wave" meets a "trough". I put this exact question to none other than Dr. Robert Forward (many years ago at a seminar on advanced space propulsion methods), and his answer was (IIRC) "Gravity waves don't do that because they have a much more complicated structure than light or sound waves."
Is it possible to upgrade my 4.2 BSD installation? Or do I have to wipe it? I surely hope not!
The upgrade guide speaks of not using my current version of sysinstall; pray tell, how does one get a newer version w/o upgrading in the first place?!?
Ok, what the heck is the Turing-Dick Test? A psycho-sexual test for robots?
Check out the meta tags on the 'Coalition for robot Freedom' page:
meta name="keywords" content="Coalition for Robot Freedom, Mann Act II, Abolition, Robot rights, sentient rights, Turing-Dick Test, Turing Test, AI Rights, Emancipation for All, Katya Rukowski, Anti Robot Militia, ARM, underground railroad, in our image"
Hmmm, a lot of interesting things...my favorite is ARM....from Niven's known space series? Amalgamated Regional Militia? They were the Tech Police. Nahh, I doubt it. But just looking at these tags gives me a pretty good clue as to what this movie's going to be about.
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I just want to know how does one let out an enormous beer burp in zero-g.
One place to look is the US State Department. The Foreign Service there needs tech people, and you'd get the chance to move all over the world on their dime. The pay is not outrageous, but the benefits are great. Plus you get a place to live and a diplomatic passport. No Visa Hassles. Getting in can be a hassle though, it took me over a year for them to give me an answer. (of course, the security clearance can be a nightmare if you've lived overseas before, but it eventually comes through. Just be sure to have a clean credit record too)
It would seem that I was somewhat imprecise in my wording of the original post.
I believe what I meant was more along the lines of: "How is it that none of the great marvels of civil engineering of the last half century have been made with help from nukes?" Whether or not the use of such means is a good idea, (which is highly debatable, and one of the reasons I filed the story in the first place - I wanted to get the input from the/. community) I was not aware of any high-profile projects that made use of them.
Thanks for the feedback, Nerds. That's the Stuff that Matters.
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Isn't this story about 28 days premature?
1. Practically everything in China is recycled. I've seen old folks / poor people rummage through trashbins with tongs looking for whatever is valuable for picking up some cash. This usually is cans or plastic soda bottles, which usually end up being turned into low-quality polyproplene or such.
2. While the cities I've been to in the last five years have considerably cleaned up their act, China still has an enormous problem with littering. Ever seen the commercials showing the roadside trash from the early 70's in America? That's China nowadays.
3. Many electronic components are desoldered and reused by small mom-and-pop outfits that want to get into business, and don't mind cheaper used components. When you've got lots of people who want to get ahead in life, they will use any resource at their disposal.
I'd like to see them try to subpeona the records of Loompanics Unlimited. They've got the best selection of underground/subversive books I've ever seen, and have been around more than 20 years.
A good source for info on these programs (trojans) is Thiefware.com.
A lot of companies who don't even own these programs will try to scam businesses by trying to sell "keywords" on them. They make impressive claims of their installed "user base" that are wildly over inflated. And they don't bother to mention how they're hijacking people. Sheesh.
I for one hope they introduce the long-rumored flat panel iMac...if for no other reason than it will push down the prices of the existing iMacs to the point that I may be able to justofy converting our office to them. (Yes, I know the total cost of ownership...but bosses like bottom lines)
A great website about all this is ThiefWare.
They have comprehensive descriptions of all the companies and the spyware they install.
I discovered this site after being called by a "representative" wanting to sell our company keywords for $30,000! My boss was psyched about it until I impressed upon him that we did not want to be associated with such scum. The bizarro thing was that this salesman didn't even work for Cydoor Networks...they seemed to be parasites of the parasites.
Maaaaan, is there going to be anything worth going to the theaters for this year? This has been one of Hollywood's worst years yet. Here's hoping LOTR will make up for it.
...this is the planet-wide network of Mac cubes? I recall some loon wanted to do that.
If you are planning on having multiple people running networked games in your house, I would recommend caution when thinking about a hardware router. For example, Linksys (among others) has problems when two people in a household play Q3 and want to connect to the same remote gameserver. As was said before, PracticallyNetworked.com is a good place to investigate before buying.
Alternatively, an old Mac IIcx makes a great router. Two NICs and a video card, old 20mb drive, IPNetrouter software, and there you go! Pretty much unhackable, because with System 7.5.5, you can't even address the Mac's file sharing via tcp/ip. I've got just such a beast running our office because our Linksys died. And I'm really cheap.
Anybody who has listened to the sound of massive piles of Legos being raked through knows that your parents were DEFINITELY not asleep. That's one distinctive sound.
I used to make enormous sailing ships from just the original blocks. I was just pissed I couldn't scrape together enough yellow bricks to make one all yellow.
This article just made me feel overwhelmingly sad...
"Mmmm.....Get out of MY CHAIR!!!!"
I'm just astonished that they remembered M.U.L.E. (25)
I think about half my free time in college was taken up yelling at the tv or my friends when they wouldn't sell me enough energy to run my production. We used to collect players for a game just by sticking our heads in the door of someone's room and yelling, "MULE!". Hell, it was even a spectator sport. Lately I scrounged up an old C64 that we still use exclusively for playing MULE.
Goddamn Mechtrons.
They should use a Panasonic Toughbook ... I used to use one out in the field, and would occasionally drop the thing 3 feet onto concrete...those things are TOUGH.
Are they going to make available an accessory to inject some spit onto the ball?
Perhaps they could experiment to find the best adulterant to create really wild pitches!
Oh yes, MSC and the Great Brain were some of my favorites...anyone here remember Alvin Fernald and his hijinks? I remember the one where he used a model rocket on a string to send a message into this old house...something like that...anyways, it was another in the genre of books that I highly enjoyed.
I work in the tech end of the online real estate business. Our company pulls down data from foreclosure agencies (HUD, VA, FHA etc.) twice a day and after much reformatting and manipulation, reposts them on the web for all to use for free.
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We also upload our data to Homes.com which then is passed on to MSN Homeadvisor, Yahoo! Real Estate and others (we have people call out of the blue who saw the data on sites we've never even heard of).
Problem is, most of the major Real Estate web companies don't update their data nearly often enough to keep up with the market. I've seen properties on MSN that have been off the market for months that have a "newly listed" icon next to them.
--shameless plug--
Try going over to USHUD.com and check properties there. It's FREE, you do NOT have to sign up or give away major bodily organs to look at the listings.
And heck, we even read
--end shameless plug--
...Ask Jeeves going to make a killing doing this for companies like Microsoft? And look how much money they have made doing it. Hmmmmm.
This would be much like Windows users fixating over AutoCAD or Lightwave.
Actually, as a former user of AutoCAD, I'm quite fixated by it. It's one of the few programs on the PC that have ever made me go "wow" over the power and sheer polishedness of it. Also one of the few windows programs I would absolutely kill to have run native on OSX.
Once one sees a program do something that just seems to meet all needs for a particular range of problems, it just clicks that that is the solution. Especially when it is something as sharply honed as Photoshop is. MacGimp is a great thing; I'm planning on installing it myself, but I see it as a curiosity and nothing more for the professional user.
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Well, all computer cases are spec'ed to keep any RF inside the case, so unless the power supply for the light is extremely badly designed, I can't see it really overwhelming the already noisy RF environment in the case. The window might mean more interference for things outside the box, though. Just my 2
Good questions. The only comment I have is that unfortunately gravity waves do not cancel each other out when a "wave" meets a "trough". I put this exact question to none other than Dr. Robert Forward (many years ago at a seminar on advanced space propulsion methods), and his answer was (IIRC) "Gravity waves don't do that because they have a much more complicated structure than light or sound waves."
Is it possible to upgrade my 4.2 BSD installation? Or do I have to wipe it? I surely hope not!
The upgrade guide speaks of not using my current version of sysinstall; pray tell, how does one get a newer version w/o upgrading in the first place?!?
It would appear I am non-sentient...whoops.
Ok, what the heck is the Turing-Dick Test? A psycho-sexual test for robots? Check out the meta tags on the 'Coalition for robot Freedom' page:
meta name="keywords" content="Coalition for Robot Freedom, Mann Act II, Abolition, Robot rights, sentient rights, Turing-Dick Test, Turing Test, AI Rights, Emancipation for All, Katya Rukowski, Anti Robot Militia, ARM, underground railroad, in our image"
Hmmm, a lot of interesting things...my favorite is ARM....from Niven's known space series? Amalgamated Regional Militia? They were the Tech Police. Nahh, I doubt it. But just looking at these tags gives me a pretty good clue as to what this movie's going to be about.
I just want to know how does one let out an enormous beer burp in zero-g.
One place to look is the US State Department. The Foreign Service there needs tech people, and you'd get the chance to move all over the world on their dime. The pay is not outrageous, but the benefits are great. Plus you get a place to live and a diplomatic passport. No Visa Hassles. Getting in can be a hassle though, it took me over a year for them to give me an answer. (of course, the security clearance can be a nightmare if you've lived overseas before, but it eventually comes through. Just be sure to have a clean credit record too)
It would seem that I was somewhat imprecise in my wording of the original post. /. community) I was not aware of any high-profile projects that made use of them.
I believe what I meant was more along the lines of: "How is it that none of the great marvels of civil engineering of the last half century have been made with help from nukes?" Whether or not the use of such means is a good idea, (which is highly debatable, and one of the reasons I filed the story in the first place - I wanted to get the input from the
Thanks for the feedback, Nerds. That's the Stuff that Matters.