The Tabasco sauce generally isn't used as seasoning. Oddly, most rangers use them as eyedrops to stay awake during training and combat. Burns like hell, but keeps you awake...
Didn't Lucas himself say that Campbell-ianesque mythology was a major (the major) influence for writing Star Wars? I seem to remember this from an interview with Lucas. I'll try and dig this up and post it as a reply....
Why? Because now my cable modem bill could potentially be at the mercy of stupid people. Think about it. If some disgruntled person on a nice fat pipe that doesn't worry about bandwidth usage just sits there and, gee, I don't know, decides to ping you all day with fairly large packets, there isn't a whole lot you can do about it. Charging extra for something that is quite possibly out of the user's control is just wrong.
Yes, it's somewhat off-topic (somewhat). Nurbana, Inc (or LLC or something) has been working on a free blender look-alike for nurb editing. Check it out Here.
Couldn't you just set a cookie, with a site-wide password in it? Then just require the cookie/password protect every page. Or do spam crawlers know what to do with cookies these days?
But my point is that linux competes with solaris in the commercial market. By yanking a good free MS-Office solution for linux, people *might* consider switching to Solaris. No, I don't expect linux people to drop their wallets and shell out money for sun boxes, but it would be a contributing factor. There's quite a bit of other commercial software that isn't available for linux and is for sun/solaris; this could influence some unix admins to either stick with solaris, or move there from linux. The former seems more likely, which means sun's marketing team is trying to hold on to the customers they've got.
I can see why they might want to stop giving away Linux versions of Star Office, but I'd think they want to keep the Windows versions free. Think about it: If the Windows version is free, it gives more people the ability to use Solaris as their workstation, since they can now give documents to Windows users, and the Windows users really don't have an excuse not to read them. And you're sure they'll be able to see them right (as there are still some issues with saving to MS-Office format in Star Office). Besides that, it gets some Windows users using Star Office instead of microsoft office, so if they're ever able to transition to using Solaris, the switch won't be hard (yeah, there would still be a lot of other problems, but if you want regular secretary/office worker types using your system, that's a good thing). I can't imagine they'll make any money selling Windows versions of the software, will they??
Not exactly the first quiet computer...or have we forgotten apple's convection-cooled g4 cubes already? They always seem to be the first ones at doing these kinds of things....
the Right Reverend K. Reid Wightman, UCTAA
Some day you'll be able to store all the inside bits in another dimension, much like Dr. Who's police box.
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Actually, Asimov's famous little book (I, Robot) features a story entitled "Reason" in which this is depicted. Except that the solar station is in space, and not on the moon.
Hm...wouldn't a browser caching the image to disk then be a violation of copyright? Just looking at a web page which happens to have an image with a stegonagraphically hidden message puts a copy of that image on a permanent medium. Assuming the image/its hidden contents are copyrighted, and put on a website, lots of people will be violating the copyright in this way....any laws that set precedent against this sort of thing?
which details someone catching two criminals on camera. Granted part of his solution failed as one of the thieves tripped over the phone cord, but it still got pictures of them, at least. The article doesn't say what software the guy used...it alludes to the fact that he wrote it himself, but papers tend to get things wrong. e-mail him and find out...
Supposedly quad g3/400's are $4500, quad g4/400's are ~$6500. Yeah, it's kind of pricey, but if you stick 8 of these things in a box, you have some serious computational power.....
You'd think so...but SETI doesn't work that way. SETI records information from Aracebo on tape, then ships it out to Stanford. By the time the @HOME clients get it, the recordings are a few months old. Reid
Fresh meat. *sniff*....ah. Use java to start a timer...if the page is left open on the user's desktop for more than a couple of hours, make it stink....Somewhat ironically, I'm a vegeterian.
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The Tabasco sauce generally isn't used as seasoning. Oddly, most rangers use them as eyedrops to stay awake during training and combat. Burns like hell, but keeps you awake...
Didn't Lucas himself say that Campbell-ianesque mythology was a major (the major) influence for writing Star Wars? I seem to remember this from an interview with Lucas. I'll try and dig this up and post it as a reply....
Why? Because now my cable modem bill could potentially be at the mercy of stupid people. Think about it. If some disgruntled person on a nice fat pipe that doesn't worry about bandwidth usage just sits there and, gee, I don't know, decides to ping you all day with fairly large packets, there isn't a whole lot you can do about it. Charging extra for something that is quite possibly out of the user's control is just wrong.
Yes, it's somewhat off-topic (somewhat). Nurbana, Inc (or LLC or something) has been working on a free blender look-alike for nurb editing. Check it out Here.
Couldn't you just set a cookie, with a site-wide password in it? Then just require the cookie/password protect every page. Or do spam crawlers know what to do with cookies these days?
But my point is that linux competes with solaris in the commercial market. By yanking a good free MS-Office solution for linux, people *might* consider switching to Solaris. No, I don't expect linux people to drop their wallets and shell out money for sun boxes, but it would be a contributing factor. There's quite a bit of other commercial software that isn't available for linux and is for sun/solaris; this could influence some unix admins to either stick with solaris, or move there from linux. The former seems more likely, which means sun's marketing team is trying to hold on to the customers they've got.
I can see why they might want to stop giving away Linux versions of Star Office, but I'd think they want to keep the Windows versions free. Think about it: If the Windows version is free, it gives more people the ability to use Solaris as their workstation, since they can now give documents to Windows users, and the Windows users really don't have an excuse not to read them. And you're sure they'll be able to see them right (as there are still some issues with saving to MS-Office format in Star Office). Besides that, it gets some Windows users using Star Office instead of microsoft office, so if they're ever able to transition to using Solaris, the switch won't be hard (yeah, there would still be a lot of other problems, but if you want regular secretary/office worker types using your system, that's a good thing). I can't imagine they'll make any money selling Windows versions of the software, will they??
1^2=1; (-1)^2=1; 1^2=(-1)^2; 1=-1; 1=0
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Off-topic? Yes. Do I care? Not really.
Um...shouldn't that be 2=0?
Anybody manage to build a mirror?
So we can see what's going on in the...um...baby's room? :).
Not exactly the first quiet computer...or have we forgotten apple's convection-cooled g4 cubes already? They always seem to be the first ones at doing these kinds of things....
the Right Reverend K. Reid Wightman, UCTAA
Some day you'll be able to store all the inside bits in another dimension, much like Dr. Who's police box.
Actually, Asimov's famous little book (I, Robot) features a story entitled "Reason" in which this is depicted. Except that the solar station is in space, and not on the moon.
Hm...wouldn't a browser caching the image to disk then be a violation of copyright? Just looking at a web page which happens to have an image with a stegonagraphically hidden message puts a copy of that image on a permanent medium. Assuming the image/its hidden contents are copyrighted, and put on a website, lots of people will be violating the copyright in this way....any laws that set precedent against this sort of thing?
Try reading The Monkey Wrench Gang, by the late Ed Abbey.
Erk, darned enter key. Anyway, there was a story from New Zealand flying around a while ago....here it is:
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/0102/09/pageone/pageon
which details someone catching two criminals on camera. Granted part of his solution failed as one of the thieves tripped over the phone cord, but it still got pictures of them, at least. The article doesn't say what software the guy used...it alludes to the fact that he wrote it himself, but papers tend to get things wrong. e-mail him and find out...
Cheers,
Reid
He was born in 1992 according to the book, I think (or maybe I'm mixing up the book and the movie, one said '97, the other '92).
Was kinda surprised nobody posted on HAL's birthday in January, especially with it being 2001 and all....
Nurbana is a blender look-alike for NURBS surfaces. Its website is up over at http://www.nurbana.cx/. Looks to be a pretty interesting project.
Methinks you are incorrect on this one. Please see this article, which talks about a quad processor g3 that was shown at LinuxWorld.
Supposedly quad g3/400's are $4500, quad g4/400's are ~$6500. Yeah, it's kind of pricey, but if you stick 8 of these things in a box, you have some serious computational power.....
Sure, RadioShack, we'll sell you advertising space on our lunar lander. Just give us your name, address, telephone number, and zip code......
Will we start to see Doogie Howser typing lessons now?
You'd think so...but SETI doesn't work that way. SETI records information from Aracebo on tape, then ships it out to Stanford. By the time the @HOME clients get it, the recordings are a few months old. Reid
Fresh meat. *sniff*....ah. Use java to start a timer...if the page is left open on the user's desktop for more than a couple of hours, make it stink. ...Somewhat ironically, I'm a vegeterian.