King Arthur: [about the inscription on the rock] What does it say, Brother Maynard? Brother Maynard: It reads, "Here may be found the last words of Clem (5683). He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the holy blackberry in the Castle of Aaauuuggghhh..." King Arthur: What? Brother Maynard: "The Castle of Aaaauuuggghhhh" Sir Bedevere: What is that? Brother Maynard: He must have died while texting it. King Arthur: Oh come on! Brother Maynard: Well, that's what it says. King Arthur: Look, if he was dying, he wouldn't have bothered to text 'Aaaauuuggghhhh'. He'd just say it. Sir Galahad: Maybe he was dictating it. You know, some of those smart phones do translate voice to text. King Arthur: Oh shut up!
Anyone referencing the assault weapon ban as saving lives is almost always being sarcastic. If you read up on the assault weapon ban, you will find that what it mostly banned cosmetic items like bayonet lugs.
What few specific guns that were banned by name were still sold under other names.
The joke among the gun community was that the ban was meant to get rid of "ugly guns." You can pretty much define "ugly gun" as anything that would look cool in an action movie.
Another reason to do that is to show what ID the patron displayed to get in.
Underage people use fake IDs all the time. And if they are caught with one, they get in a fair bit of trouble.
Then the underage people figured out a new trick. They would keep their real IDs on them. Then, if the police asked for an ID, they would give over their real ID. Now it looked like the bar was knowingly allowing in underage patrons.
By taking a picture of you holding your ID, they can show the cops that you were using a fake ID.
"New Precrime Division?" I have news for you. Precrime is already here.
If you are too drunk to drive, so you get in the back seat to sleep it off, you will still get a DUI in Illinois. After all, you might decide to drive anyway.
Another recent case involved a sober friend driving a drunk friend home. The sober guy stops at the grocery store to get some stuff. The cop finds the drunk guy asleep in the passenger seat. The drunk guy doesn't even have keys to the car. Yet he gets arrested for DUI.
The precedent has been set. Now it just needs to be extended to areas.
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In the Norse mythos, the moon is masculine and the sun is feminine.
And almost everything that Tolkien wrote is based off of the Norse mythos. For example, the Norse term for the Earth is Midgard. Midgard means "Middle Earth."
Back in Mac OS 8 days, I use to use DiskExpress Pro. I had configured it to put the most used files at the outer cylinder (i.e. fasted part) of the drive, and the less used files on the inner cylinders.
The software would analyze file usage, and move them around every day. The anecdotal evidence I have that it worked on such small scale was that my girlfriend later asked me how I got the computer to start responding faster.
I don't know how well this technology would help on newer systems. I suspect at least a little. Perhaps it would really show gains for people who are video editing. Alas, Alsoft never updated their software to work on OS X.
Essentially, these guys are doing what DiskExpress did, but on a larger scale. I have to wonder if they are stepping on any of Alsoft's patents.
Call me a power user, but I do think that people should be at least mirroring their drives. I have heard too many people complain about losing something important because of hard drive failure.
Yahoo does provide web hosting services. For $12 a month, you get 5GB of disk space, and 200GB of data transfer. If you don't want to actually bother administrating your own server, that's a pretty good deal.
I am betting a fair number of small to medium businesses actually do use Yahoo! web hosting. But, since their paid services allow pop3 access, I am wondering how vulnerable those users are.
Caching in memory to the point of bloat is really silly given that they store the files on disk.
I think I would give the users a pref that let them say how many pages to keep in memory (default=10 perhaps). As the user goes through pages, old ones are flushed. If the user has more pages open than the limit, then no memory cache is used at all. If the user visits an old page, it can always be reloaded from disk cache.
At the beginning of the message, the sender would transmit a WRU (who are you) code
It seems a bit strange to realize that that abbreviations that everyone thinks was invented with the advent of the internet ("R" = "are", etc) were actually used around seventy years ago.
Slashdot Mirror
Would POP3 over SSL still be a security concern? Because Yahoo now supports that (once again).
King Arthur: [about the inscription on the rock] What does it say, Brother Maynard?
Brother Maynard: It reads, "Here may be found the last words of Clem (5683). He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the holy blackberry in the Castle of Aaauuuggghhh..."
King Arthur: What?
Brother Maynard: "The Castle of Aaaauuuggghhhh"
Sir Bedevere: What is that?
Brother Maynard: He must have died while texting it.
King Arthur: Oh come on!
Brother Maynard: Well, that's what it says.
King Arthur: Look, if he was dying, he wouldn't have bothered to text 'Aaaauuuggghhhh'. He'd just say it.
Sir Galahad: Maybe he was dictating it. You know, some of those smart phones do translate voice to text.
King Arthur: Oh shut up!
Is that what you would call a real life pve experience?
I am betting he is talking about "Spencer F. Katt". Spencer is a pseudonym for a tech gossip / rumors column writer. He's been around for a long time.
http://www.eweek.com/category2/0,1874,1642,00.asp
So now a company can try this:
1) Submit obvious idea for patent.
2) Have a "third party" submit prior art. A shoddy version so that it is easily dismissed.
3) Get the patent.
If any trial happens, try to get the opponent's prior art thrown out by proving it is related to the prior art that had been previously submitted.
Of course, I have to wonder if this would ran afoul of any conspiracy or fraud type laws.
Maybe the wasted part are comments.
Anyone referencing the assault weapon ban as saving lives is almost always being sarcastic. If you read up on the assault weapon ban, you will find that what it mostly banned cosmetic items like bayonet lugs.
What few specific guns that were banned by name were still sold under other names.
The joke among the gun community was that the ban was meant to get rid of "ugly guns." You can pretty much define "ugly gun" as anything that would look cool in an action movie.
Another reason to do that is to show what ID the patron displayed to get in.
Underage people use fake IDs all the time. And if they are caught with one, they get in a fair bit of trouble.
Then the underage people figured out a new trick. They would keep their real IDs on them. Then, if the police asked for an ID, they would give over their real ID. Now it looked like the bar was knowingly allowing in underage patrons.
By taking a picture of you holding your ID, they can show the cops that you were using a fake ID.
"New Precrime Division?" I have news for you. Precrime is already here.
If you are too drunk to drive, so you get in the back seat to sleep it off, you will still get a DUI in Illinois. After all, you might decide to drive anyway.
Another recent case involved a sober friend driving a drunk friend home. The sober guy stops at the grocery store to get some stuff. The cop finds the drunk guy asleep in the passenger seat. The drunk guy doesn't even have keys to the car. Yet he gets arrested for DUI.
The precedent has been set. Now it just needs to be extended to areas.
Take a look at Acoustic Snooping. Yes, what the GP said is true.
In the Norse mythos, the moon is masculine and the sun is feminine.
And almost everything that Tolkien wrote is based off of the Norse mythos. For example, the Norse term for the Earth is Midgard. Midgard means "Middle Earth."
Of course, it's so different that it took me half an hour to figure out how to install Firefox, but that's to be expected I guess. :)
;-)
So, you're telling us that it took you half an hour to learn how to drag and drop?
Back in Mac OS 8 days, I use to use DiskExpress Pro. I had configured it to put the most used files at the outer cylinder (i.e. fasted part) of the drive, and the less used files on the inner cylinders.
The software would analyze file usage, and move them around every day. The anecdotal evidence I have that it worked on such small scale was that my girlfriend later asked me how I got the computer to start responding faster.
I don't know how well this technology would help on newer systems. I suspect at least a little. Perhaps it would really show gains for people who are video editing. Alas, Alsoft never updated their software to work on OS X.
Essentially, these guys are doing what DiskExpress did, but on a larger scale. I have to wonder if they are stepping on any of Alsoft's patents.
Call me a power user, but I do think that people should be at least mirroring their drives. I have heard too many people complain about losing something important because of hard drive failure.
Or perhaps it will sound as though it was written by William Shatner.
int main() { printf("Hello World."); return 0;}
I'll... um... do the comments later.
Yahoo does provide web hosting services. For $12 a month, you get 5GB of disk space, and 200GB of data transfer. If you don't want to actually bother administrating your own server, that's a pretty good deal.
I am betting a fair number of small to medium businesses actually do use Yahoo! web hosting. But, since their paid services allow pop3 access, I am wondering how vulnerable those users are.
Caching in memory to the point of bloat is really silly given that they store the files on disk.
I think I would give the users a pref that let them say how many pages to keep in memory (default=10 perhaps). As the user goes through pages, old ones are flushed. If the user has more pages open than the limit, then no memory cache is used at all. If the user visits an old page, it can always be reloaded from disk cache.
Isn't this how browsers use to work?
You just need to add Iron Rations to the list of equipment, and you are ready to head off to the UnderDark.
Or perhaps, to go after Red Dragons.
The iTunes Music Store distributes AAC files, not MP3s.
However, I didn't think that AAC was encumbered by patents. Apparently, it is.
It seems a bit strange to realize that that abbreviations that everyone thinks was invented with the advent of the internet ("R" = "are", etc) were actually used around seventy years ago.