could very well destroy all of his oil facilities and set all his wells alight if he senses the end is nigh.
And Dick Cheney is licking his lips at that very prospect. Do you have any idea how many billions of dollars Halliburton stands to make if^H^Hwhen they get the job of rebuilding Iraq's oil industry?
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BIGGEST polluter in the world is the US government, and the worst one in this country is the all the federal and state governments. Private and coroporate pollution is almost nil by comparison.
Insightful? While it's entirely plausible that the US Military is the single largest polluter in the world, no one should ever be moderated up for saying so unless they have verifiable links to back it up.
The only link in BitGeek's post is for some goof who calls himself The Hittman. Do you really consider that a reliable reference?
why does text to speech still sound as crappy as Steven Hawking's
It doesn't. Text to Speech has definitely come a long way since the days of Talking Moose and good old Fred. Victoria, for example, is completely intelligible even to my 2 year old daughter.
There are no doubt many other providers that would love to have you.
Nope. In central Maryland (Howard County) there is one cable provider (Comcast) and no DSL (too far from the telco). Satellite is laggy and generally not Mac compatible. So what do you recommend?
In addition to OpenPlay as others have mentioned, don't forget about SDL_net, a networking component for the fabulously cross-platform LibSDL. I've often felt that Apple should contribute directly to SDL rather than work in parallel.
40% of each sale of one product: anti-spam software
Definitely nasty. I just got off the phone with OnRamp Communications, because they host the spammer sexywebcamchix but aren't doing anything about it.
On the front page of ONR.com, they advertise a new service called SpamSlam, which offers spam-blocking to their ISP customers for the low low price of $2 per month! Host spammers, then charge for protection... you can't get much sleazier than that.
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Perhaps (and perhaps not) abortion is immoral, unethical, wrong, etc. Well, so is spam, but spam also happens to be illegal . That's all the difference in the world.
Leibniz's argument which Voltaire ridicules is kinda neat. God is all knowing, all powerful, and all loving. [ . . . ] So this is the best of all possible worlds.
Does anyone else out there believe that the game of Life has direct implications about the (theoretical) nature of God?
In Life, the user is omniscient (you know all the rules and the state of every cell) and omnipotent (you can alter the rules and the cells at your discretion), and could be omni-agapic (as much as you feel like "loving" arrangments of cells in a binary grid). Nevertheless you cannot know the final state of an arbitrary structure, since the Life algorithm is Turing complete. You have to allow the game to play out its course and see what happens.
The analogy to God is left as an exercise for the reader.
Yow, thanks for pointing that out. I categorically oppose usage of Mercator maps for any purpose other than nautical navigation.
Sheesh, especially for displaying geographic data about the folding clients, Equirectangular would be a much better choice, since the calculation for point placement is perfectly linear.
Actually it's just a broken form entirely. The other relevant line is:
form method="post" action= "http://www.house.gov/htbin/formproc/tubbsjones/ht _contact1.txt &display=/tubbsjones/contact_thanks.htm"
But house.gov returns a 404 error at that address.
healthcare costs have gotten out of hand, they only get that way because sniviling losers with the sniffles go to the doctor and say help me, when they can go to the pharmacy themselves
No. The patient count certainly has not increased tenfold in less than a generation. The real reason for increasing costs is that modern technology offers improved treatments, but at a much higher price.
For example, TPA is a more effective treatment for heart attacks than heparin, but it costs something insane (over $1000 per dose I think). If you are having a heart attack, do you want the good stuff or the cheap stuff?
use of the word "transition" illustrates the pipe dream that Apple has
Except that neither Apple nor the OReilly book authors used the word "transition". Are you saying that Apple is to blame for word choices made by Slashdot article submitters?
wouldn't you have to chase foreigners around if they use your code without relevant permission
The US Govt obviously enjoys chasing foreigners, and would want to deny its source code to non-US competitors. Something more like MPL or APSL would work: totally free and open usage by any US entity, but foreigners would need to have MFN status and submit all changes.
"make sure the public gets some return from the endeavor."
BSDL is a good answer, but it's not the only one. The best answer from a US Govt point of view should be as close to public domain as possible, but non-US users may need explicit permission. That would best satisfy the "national interest", IMO.
In 1989, a random of the
journalistic persuasion asked hacker Paul Boutin "What do you think will
be the biggest problem in computing in the 90s?" Paul's straight-faced
response: "
There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms."
I quoted riclewis (the submitter) in my original message, not Hannibal.
And RicLewis was accurately paraphrasing Hannibal's conclusion:
"The estimated SPEC INT and SPEC FP numbers (937 and 1051) would allow the 970 to clearly dominate the desktop scene were it released tomorrow [...] but when it finally ships the 970 certainly won't spanking anything from Intel or AMD"
if you can't tell the difference between chip architectures by now, there's no point in trying to explain.
I have no idea who you are, Mononoke, but I'd wager $1000 that Hannibal Stokes knows more about chip architecture than you do. The PPC 970 will have a hard fight (both in marketing and benchmarks) against the 4+GHz x86 chips also due a year from now.
p.s. How the heck did that get rated as Insightful? I'm as rabid a Mac addict as any of you, but it's just plain wrong to mod someone up for spouting false evangelism.
if Microsoft and Hollywood spent a fraction of the resources they're throwing at DRM solutions into creating a workable micropayments system for the web,
...then the RIAA and friends would be unemployed very shortly. Micropayment allows individual creators to sell their work directly to consumers without needing middlemen like producers and distributors and industry associations. Why in the world would the big entertainment moguls want that to happen?
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Maryland Internet Marketing LLC, George Alan Moore Jr, 300 Twin Oaks Rd, Linthicum MD, 21090-2154, 877-655-3438, 410-963-8226.
His domains include softwareincorporated.com and ultimatediets.com. He usually sells McAfee VirusScan. If he's spammed you since October, you can sue.
And Dick Cheney is licking his lips at that very prospect. Do you have any idea how many billions of dollars Halliburton stands to make if^H^Hwhen they get the job of rebuilding Iraq's oil industry?
Insightful? While it's entirely plausible that the US Military is the single largest polluter in the world, no one should ever be moderated up for saying so unless they have verifiable links to back it up.
The only link in BitGeek's post is for some goof who calls himself The Hittman. Do you really consider that a reliable reference?
It doesn't. Text to Speech has definitely come a long way since the days of Talking Moose and good old Fred. Victoria, for example, is completely intelligible even to my 2 year old daughter.
Nope. In central Maryland (Howard County) there is one cable provider (Comcast) and no DSL (too far from the telco). Satellite is laggy and generally not Mac compatible. So what do you recommend?
In addition to OpenPlay as others have mentioned, don't forget about SDL_net, a networking component for the fabulously cross-platform LibSDL. I've often felt that Apple should contribute directly to SDL rather than work in parallel.
Definitely nasty. I just got off the phone with OnRamp Communications, because they host the spammer sexywebcamchix but aren't doing anything about it.
On the front page of ONR.com, they advertise a new service called SpamSlam, which offers spam-blocking to their ISP customers for the low low price of $2 per month! Host spammers, then charge for protection ... you can't get much sleazier than that.
Perhaps (and perhaps not) abortion is immoral, unethical, wrong, etc. Well, so is spam, but spam also happens to be illegal . That's all the difference in the world.
Does anyone else out there believe that the game of Life has direct implications about the (theoretical) nature of God?
In Life, the user is omniscient (you know all the rules and the state of every cell) and omnipotent (you can alter the rules and the cells at your discretion), and could be omni-agapic (as much as you feel like "loving" arrangments of cells in a binary grid). Nevertheless you cannot know the final state of an arbitrary structure, since the Life algorithm is Turing complete. You have to allow the game to play out its course and see what happens.
The analogy to God is left as an exercise for the reader.Sheesh, especially for displaying geographic data about the folding clients, Equirectangular would be a much better choice, since the calculation for point placement is perfectly linear.
Actually it's just a broken form entirely. The other relevant line is: form method="post" action= "http://www.house.gov/htbin/formproc/tubbsjones/ht _contact1.txt &display=/tubbsjones/contact_thanks.htm"
But house.gov returns a 404 error at that address.
For the official record, JJ is referring to the classic quote about US federal spending: "A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money".
Such a good post ... squandered by a gratuitous Nazi reference. Why'd you do it?
No. The patient count certainly has not increased tenfold in less than a generation. The real reason for increasing costs is that modern technology offers improved treatments, but at a much higher price.
For example, TPA is a more effective treatment for heart attacks than heparin, but it costs something insane (over $1000 per dose I think). If you are having a heart attack, do you want the good stuff or the cheap stuff?
Except that neither Apple nor the OReilly book authors used the word "transition". Are you saying that Apple is to blame for word choices made by Slashdot article submitters?
Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner! This is the exact reason why Apple disabled dual monitors on the iBook (and iMac).
I am so very glad this hack was created. When it's time to replace my Pismo, I'll get an iBook.
The US Govt obviously enjoys chasing foreigners, and would want to deny its source code to non-US competitors. Something more like MPL or APSL would work: totally free and open usage by any US entity, but foreigners would need to have MFN status and submit all changes.
Except that public domain also means that anyone can take it and change the license to GPL.
BSDL is a good answer, but it's not the only one. The best answer from a US Govt point of view should be as close to public domain as possible, but non-US users may need explicit permission. That would best satisfy the "national interest", IMO.
We just started something even better -- a pledge drive. Go visit bug 146513 and commit a few bucks to whoever will write the patch for us.
It doesn't? Are you sure you're talking about the right kind of PLC?
And RicLewis was accurately paraphrasing Hannibal's conclusion:
I have no idea who you are, Mononoke, but I'd wager $1000 that Hannibal Stokes knows more about chip architecture than you do. The PPC 970 will have a hard fight (both in marketing and benchmarks) against the 4+GHz x86 chips also due a year from now.
p.s. How the heck did that get rated as Insightful? I'm as rabid a Mac addict as any of you, but it's just plain wrong to mod someone up for spouting false evangelism.
...then the RIAA and friends would be unemployed very shortly. Micropayment allows individual creators to sell their work directly to consumers without needing middlemen like producers and distributors and industry associations. Why in the world would the big entertainment moguls want that to happen?
Also, you really should read the Addonics EULA:
You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble IDE-SCSI Converter, except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation.
You agree that you will not export or re-export IDE-SCSI Converter to any country, person, entity or end user subject to U.S.A. export restrictions. Restricted countries currently include, but are not necessarily limited to Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. You warrant and represent that neither the U.S.A. Bureau of Export Administration nor any other federal agency has suspended, revoked or denied your export privileges.
IDE-SCSI Converter technology is not fault tolerant and is not designed, manufactured, or intended for use or resale as online control equipment in hazardous environments requiring fail-safe performance, such as in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems, air traffic control, direct life support machines or weapons systems, in which the failure of IDE-SCSI Converter technology could lead directly to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage.
Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to IDE-SCSI Converter.
Caution: IDE-SCSI Converter may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.
IDE-SCSI Converter contains a liquid core, which, if exposed due to rupture, should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.
Do not use IDE-SCSI Converter on concrete.
Discontinue use of IDE-SCSI Converter if any of the following occurs:
* Itching
* Vertigo
* Dizziness
* Tingling in extremities
* Loss of balance or coordination
* Slurred speech
* Temporary Blindness
* Profuse sweating
* Heart Palpitations
If IDE-SCSI Converter begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head.
IDE-SCSI Converter may stick to certain types of skin.
When not in use, IDE-SCSI Converter should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration.
Failure to do so relieves the makers of IDE-SCSI Converter, Addonics Incorporated, and its parent company Global Chemical Unlimited, of any and all liability.
Ingredients of IDE-SCSI Converter include an unknown glowing substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.
IDE-SCSI Converter has been shipped to our troops in Saudi Arabia and is also being dropped by our warplanes on Iraq.
Do not taunt IDE-SCSI Converter.