That's a grand idea! That will ENSURE McCain will be our next president! Thank you for your vote, it goes a long way to helping the Republican party on it's way to the end times!
I smoke pot and hire hookers. If I vote either of the three major party candidates I vote for someone who wants me in jail. I may be a moron, but I'm not stupid enough to vote for someone who wants me in jail.
If all three wanted to outlaw computers who would you vote for?
By your "wasted vote" reasoning, a vote for whoever wins the Democratic primary is a wasted vote, since i'ts a sure thing McCain will be our next President. Although considering both are against pot and hookers, In my case a vote for a Democrat would be as bad as a vote for McCain.
At the risk of redundancy, as I've mentioned in replies to a lot of others, I went to his church's web site a long time ago and was greeted with rhetoric about "white devils". If what he's posted on his site then had reached the mainstream, Obama would have been out of the Presidential race long ago.
That's not what I objected to. I went to his church's web site a long time ago before this flap started, thinking you can learn a lot about a person from what church he goes to (or stays away from).
The church's web site was hate filled; I couldn't believe a Christian could write such garbage, speaking of "white devils" and such. I'm sure ethey've cleaned it up by now at Obama's insistance, after this flap anyway.
If my preacher talked like that I'd find a new church, especially if I was in politics. The fact that Obama would be oblivious to what would happen if word of his pastor's hate got out speaks volumes about Obama's thinking skills.
Wow, my daughter Leila's cat, Shadow, responded to one of my posts!
-mcgrew
PS- Her name is pronounced like the Futurama character's name. She's much older than Futurama, her younger sister just turned 21 (what the link above is about)
Actually the "third eye" is the contact lens on the eye that didn't have the cataract surgery. They call you "four-eyes" because of your corrective lenses, but I'm "three eyes" because I now only need one corrective lens. I don't even need reading glasses with the new IOL, and I'm 56. They're not going to replace the IOL, which replaces the focusing lens when you have cataract surgery. What happened was that I have a detached retina in the eye with the implant in it.
As you have severe myopia you should be warned that you are in danger of retinal tears and retinal detachment as well, as the shape of the myopic eyeball is a cause of a torn or detached retina. If your vision changes suddenly get to your doctor or hospital as soon as possible!
Also, you can have your eyes permanently corrected by an IOL implant, which replaces your eye's natural crystaline lens; they remove the natural lens and replace it with the IOL. No more myopia, but insurance won't cover it if you don't have cataracts, and if you get the new CrystaLens for a cataract insurance won't cover the extra cost.
If your retina does tear, after it's repaired by a laser you will likely suffer from cataracts. You will then need an IOL (Intra-Occular Lens). If so, get the CrystaLens, it's worth the extra money! Although I'm beginning to understand that my outcome was far better than most. Even with a standard old fashioned IOL you still shouldn't need glasses for distance vision, although you will for reading.
If your retina detaches they have to go inside the eyeball with needles and other instruments and do a vitrectomy.
Thanks for the comment. Dr. Odin is out of town so I saw another doctor yesterday, I'll find out Monday when I see Dr. Odin when I have to get the vitrectomy. Interestingly, both retinologists (Dr. Odin and Dr. Dodson) told me my vision in that eye will be even better than it was before, and it was better than 20/20 already after the cataract surgery!
A technician took a test on the eye yesterday with something that looked like it was from STNG, but I had to laugh at a poster on his wall. "Retinator 3 - Rise of the machines" with a photo of burning computer equipment. The caption underneath said "do what you can to make them mad!"
I've often wondered why the EULA would say you can't sell copies, when copyright law already grants the copyright holder that right without a contract. Perhaps to make it as long as possible so you won't read it?
His predictions were from a time where plastics were just being introduced
Um, no, I assure you that they were most definitely NOT just being introduced. I was 16 in 1968 and I assure you I never saw an automobile without a plastic steering wheel. Wikipedia says that bakelite, the first plastic, was announced in 1912. So in 1968 plastic was already 54 years old.
The karma bonus is opt-out. You get the karma bonus as a method of modding yourself up. If you didn't think your comment was worth modding up, why would you comment in the first place? The "no karma bonus" checkbox is for times you are making an off-topic response to someone's comment ("ot- your sig") or, well, like this comment here.
It should be assumed (but unfortunately can't be) that someone with excellent karma won't be deliberately trolling of baiting for flames.
And if you never use the karma bonus, why is your comment at 1 when there's no moderation for it?
whitehouse.com? And what does that have to do with the first sound recording, which TFA says will be released Friday?
Considering how late some/. stories are I'm surprised this didn't wait until Friday too. Can we get a dupe, please? Like, on Friday? I mean, it's not like we don't get a lot of them anyway.
followed by a black nationalist who announces that it was actually a black man who invented it first, a Hispanic who proclaims that a Guatemalan invented it first
That would be George Washington Carver Rodrigues LaFitte, the black Hispanic Frenchman who invented a method of storing binary data ao a peanut?
I read the headline and feared this was a new revenue-generating plan from the mind of Darl McBride. "There's this completely untapped market! All we need is a basket of kittens
I don't know, maybe it's nit-picking, but any kill signal (including -9) will have no effect on a zombie process, pretty much by definition. A "zombie" process is just an entry in the process table that can't be removed for some reason (usually because the parent process hasn't read its exit code). There isn't any actual process associated with it, so no signals have any effect.
Well, before the firehose broke in IE (I'm at work. I'm on break.) I voted most of his stuff up. Note that most of what I submit gets voted down or is credited to someone else, even though most of my comments get modded up.
I'm modding myself down for this offtopic comment with the "no karma bonus" box.
IINM there should be an apostrophe there, shouldn't there? Or are you joining the movement to ban the apostrophe?
Less pedantic and more on topic, who is "York"? I thought that this too was a typo and that it meant the state of New York, so I actually clicked the link and discovered that TFA did, indeed say "York". Is that the air conditioner manufacturer, the city in England, or what?
No, I didn't RTFA (eye muss knot bee knew hear). I just searched for "York". Now to rtfa...
But good luck arguing any of that in a court of law
I won't argue in court, that's what lawyers are for. I'm not going to give myself an eye operation, either. I'll leave the surgery to Dr. Odin (yes that's his real name) for the same reason - the lawyer has gone to school for a damned long time to learn what I am ignorant of.
Why do you think people make such a big deal about open-source software?
Several reasons.
You can look at the source and determine that it isn't a trojan, compiling it yourself if you deem necessary
You can modify it to better suit your own needs
It is free as in speech and free as in beer
To give Bill Gates the finger
Some OS software has no closed source counterpart (?)
Since you can view the source, hundreds of thousands of programmers have read the source and debugged it, making it more free of bugs than closed source
Since it has fewer bugs it is more secure
Since you can view the source, hundreds of thousands of programmers have read the source and rewritten parts of it to make it more secure
I could go on; there are many, many more reasons. In fact, there are only a very few reasons to use closed source. There are far more reasons to use any given piece of open source software than closed source. I doubt the EULA has much if anything to do with many people's decisions to go with open source software.
It doesn't matter; I DO NOT AGREE nor do I believe that I have to. I bought the damned thing and copyright law doesn't give them the right to enforce a EULA.
How can you violate an agreement that you never agreed to? Does Microsoft have a copy of a contract with my signature on it saying I'll accept its terms of use for XP? If I had Safari would Apple have a signed contract?
When I go to best buy I don't "license" an OS or piece of software; I pick a box up off the shelf, pay money for it and am delivered a purchase reciept. I then own the goods that I just BOUGHT. I am under no statutory obligation to read anything or sign anything. I tear open the box and do what I want with it, short of violating copyright law.
Your EULA is fiction, and until I see one stand up in court I'm going to ignore it.
The Romans were thought to have used coal for metalwork
I didn't know that there was any other way besides coal/coke for the ancients to have done blacksmithing, although wikipedia says it can be done with charcoal. I have no idea how charcoal would work. The Wikipedia article isn't quite accurate:
Blacksmiths work by heating pieces of wrought iron or steel in a forge until the metal becomes soft enough to be shaped with hand tools, such as a hammer and chisel. Heating is accomplished by the use of a forge fueled by propane, natural gas, coal, charcoal, or coke.
You can't blacksmith using just coal; the coal is turned to coke by oxygenating it with a blower, and pouring water on it. At least that's what they taught in my college blacksmithing class. I can't remember the fellow's name, unfortunately, but he was 72 at the time and travelled to different universities teaching his dying art to the younger generation. This was some time in the late 1970s. He'd smithed Gerald Ford's wrought iron fence, at the time of the class Carter was president.
But some replacements go backwards, and there are some technologies that just died. I wrote an article a few years ago titled Useful Dead Technologies that highlighted some of them, albeit tongue in cheek. Lo and behold, two of them I mentioned, volume control knobs and flat cotton shoelaces, have come back in vogue.
When the tornado ripped through my neighborhood in 2006, I was out of power for a week. I sorely missed the gravity furnace with its power pile I'd had a few years earlier; the gas only fails when you don't pay the bill. I heated my apartment with the oven in my gas stove.
Of course, some old tech should die. Like the guillotine. Some should never have been born, like the eight track tape.
But if you're going to run a giant corporation or a country, you're going to need a mainframe, even though PCs are now more powerful than mainframes used to be. Face it, no matter how powerful your laptop is, somebody's going to need a great big giant one that stores a million times as much as it does and processes a million times as fast.
Hell, I bet a VAX wasn't powerful enough to run Vista! (Of course, now someone's going to prove me wrong, because I probably am).
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Wright doesn't hate white people
I saw his church's web site long before this latest flap. He used the term "white devils", as racist a term as "jungle bunnies", maybe even more so.
That's a grand idea! That will ENSURE McCain will be our next president! Thank you for your vote, it goes a long way to helping the Republican party on it's way to the end times!
I smoke pot and hire hookers. If I vote either of the three major party candidates I vote for someone who wants me in jail. I may be a moron, but I'm not stupid enough to vote for someone who wants me in jail.
If all three wanted to outlaw computers who would you vote for?
By your "wasted vote" reasoning, a vote for whoever wins the Democratic primary is a wasted vote, since i'ts a sure thing McCain will be our next President. Although considering both are against pot and hookers, In my case a vote for a Democrat would be as bad as a vote for McCain.
At the risk of redundancy, as I've mentioned in replies to a lot of others, I went to his church's web site a long time ago and was greeted with rhetoric about "white devils". If what he's posted on his site then had reached the mainstream, Obama would have been out of the Presidential race long ago.
That's not what I objected to. I went to his church's web site a long time ago before this flap started, thinking you can learn a lot about a person from what church he goes to (or stays away from).
The church's web site was hate filled; I couldn't believe a Christian could write such garbage, speaking of "white devils" and such. I'm sure ethey've cleaned it up by now at Obama's insistance, after this flap anyway.
If my preacher talked like that I'd find a new church, especially if I was in politics. The fact that Obama would be oblivious to what would happen if word of his pastor's hate got out speaks volumes about Obama's thinking skills.
Wow, my daughter Leila's cat, Shadow, responded to one of my posts!
-mcgrew
PS- Her name is pronounced like the Futurama character's name. She's much older than Futurama, her younger sister just turned 21 (what the link above is about)
Actually the "third eye" is the contact lens on the eye that didn't have the cataract surgery. They call you "four-eyes" because of your corrective lenses, but I'm "three eyes" because I now only need one corrective lens. I don't even need reading glasses with the new IOL, and I'm 56. They're not going to replace the IOL, which replaces the focusing lens when you have cataract surgery. What happened was that I have a detached retina in the eye with the implant in it.
As you have severe myopia you should be warned that you are in danger of retinal tears and retinal detachment as well, as the shape of the myopic eyeball is a cause of a torn or detached retina. If your vision changes suddenly get to your doctor or hospital as soon as possible!
Also, you can have your eyes permanently corrected by an IOL implant, which replaces your eye's natural crystaline lens; they remove the natural lens and replace it with the IOL. No more myopia, but insurance won't cover it if you don't have cataracts, and if you get the new CrystaLens for a cataract insurance won't cover the extra cost.
If your retina does tear, after it's repaired by a laser you will likely suffer from cataracts. You will then need an IOL (Intra-Occular Lens). If so, get the CrystaLens, it's worth the extra money! Although I'm beginning to understand that my outcome was far better than most. Even with a standard old fashioned IOL you still shouldn't need glasses for distance vision, although you will for reading.
If your retina detaches they have to go inside the eyeball with needles and other instruments and do a vitrectomy.
Thanks for the comment. Dr. Odin is out of town so I saw another doctor yesterday, I'll find out Monday when I see Dr. Odin when I have to get the vitrectomy. Interestingly, both retinologists (Dr. Odin and Dr. Dodson) told me my vision in that eye will be even better than it was before, and it was better than 20/20 already after the cataract surgery!
A technician took a test on the eye yesterday with something that looked like it was from STNG, but I had to laugh at a poster on his wall. "Retinator 3 - Rise of the machines" with a photo of burning computer equipment. The caption underneath said "do what you can to make them mad!"
I've often wondered why the EULA would say you can't sell copies, when copyright law already grants the copyright holder that right without a contract. Perhaps to make it as long as possible so you won't read it?
His predictions were from a time where plastics were just being introduced
Um, no, I assure you that they were most definitely NOT just being introduced. I was 16 in 1968 and I assure you I never saw an automobile without a plastic steering wheel. Wikipedia says that bakelite, the first plastic, was announced in 1912. So in 1968 plastic was already 54 years old.
The karma bonus is opt-out. You get the karma bonus as a method of modding yourself up. If you didn't think your comment was worth modding up, why would you comment in the first place? The "no karma bonus" checkbox is for times you are making an off-topic response to someone's comment ("ot- your sig") or, well, like this comment here.
It should be assumed (but unfortunately can't be) that someone with excellent karma won't be deliberately trolling of baiting for flames.
And if you never use the karma bonus, why is your comment at 1 when there's no moderation for it?
Where's the fucking sound clip?
/. stories are I'm surprised this didn't wait until Friday too. Can we get a dupe, please? Like, on Friday? I mean, it's not like we don't get a lot of them anyway.
whitehouse.com? And what does that have to do with the first sound recording, which TFA says will be released Friday?
Considering how late some
followed by a black nationalist who announces that it was actually a black man who invented it first, a Hispanic who proclaims that a Guatemalan invented it first
That would be George Washington Carver Rodrigues LaFitte, the black Hispanic Frenchman who invented a method of storing binary data ao a peanut?
He is no longer the father of sound recording, but his WAS the first to play sound back.
The inventer of this device never indended it for playback. What good is a recording that can't be played back?
I don't know of any useless thing Microsoft has picked up and made useful. I also don't see anywhere that it says Edison ever heard of this guy.
Also, Edison was already not the father of modern sound recording. Modern sound recordings are digital.
-mcgrew
Well, if your moon buggy weighed six times as much as your car then what?
I read the headline and feared this was a new revenue-generating plan from the mind of Darl McBride. "There's this completely untapped market! All we need is a basket of kittens
Did someone say kittens?
"On the streets these days, a dime bag of kittens costs a pretty penny." ~ Oscar Wilde
I don't know, maybe it's nit-picking, but any kill signal (including -9) will have no effect on a zombie process, pretty much by definition. A "zombie" process is just an entry in the process table that can't be removed for some reason (usually because the parent process hasn't read its exit code). There isn't any actual process associated with it, so no signals have any effect.
Maybe we need to cold boot the legal system?
Well, before the firehose broke in IE (I'm at work. I'm on break.) I voted most of his stuff up. Note that most of what I submit gets voted down or is credited to someone else, even though most of my comments get modded up.
I'm modding myself down for this offtopic comment with the "no karma bonus" box.
Sorry to respond to myself, but it's York Capital Managent.
And since it's Thursday I deduce that Zonk must be related to Arthur Dent, who had trouble with Thursday as well!
Novells tiny seven page objection
There's more than one Novell? =)
IINM there should be an apostrophe there, shouldn't there? Or are you joining the movement to ban the apostrophe?
Less pedantic and more on topic, who is "York"? I thought that this too was a typo and that it meant the state of New York, so I actually clicked the link and discovered that TFA did, indeed say "York". Is that the air conditioner manufacturer, the city in England, or what?
No, I didn't RTFA (eye muss knot bee knew hear). I just searched for "York". Now to rtfa...
I won't argue in court, that's what lawyers are for. I'm not going to give myself an eye operation, either. I'll leave the surgery to Dr. Odin (yes that's his real name) for the same reason - the lawyer has gone to school for a damned long time to learn what I am ignorant of.
Why do you think people make such a big deal about open-source software?
Several reasons.
- You can look at the source and determine that it isn't a trojan, compiling it yourself if you deem necessary
- You can modify it to better suit your own needs
- It is free as in speech and free as in beer
- To give Bill Gates the finger
- Some OS software has no closed source counterpart (?)
- Since you can view the source, hundreds of thousands of programmers have read the source and debugged it, making it more free of bugs than closed source
- Since it has fewer bugs it is more secure
- Since you can view the source, hundreds of thousands of programmers have read the source and rewritten parts of it to make it more secure
I could go on; there are many, many more reasons. In fact, there are only a very few reasons to use closed source. There are far more reasons to use any given piece of open source software than closed source. I doubt the EULA has much if anything to do with many people's decisions to go with open source software.What does that have to do with the price of eggs in China?
It doesn't matter; I DO NOT AGREE nor do I believe that I have to. I bought the damned thing and copyright law doesn't give them the right to enforce a EULA.
Ok, I'll buy that. By "smooth" he meant "smoothER". But why plastic? I've never seen plastic that was as rough as concrete or tarmac.
How can you violate an agreement that you never agreed to? Does Microsoft have a copy of a contract with my signature on it saying I'll accept its terms of use for XP? If I had Safari would Apple have a signed contract?
When I go to best buy I don't "license" an OS or piece of software; I pick a box up off the shelf, pay money for it and am delivered a purchase reciept. I then own the goods that I just BOUGHT. I am under no statutory obligation to read anything or sign anything. I tear open the box and do what I want with it, short of violating copyright law.
Your EULA is fiction, and until I see one stand up in court I'm going to ignore it.
-mcgrew
I didn't know that there was any other way besides coal/coke for the ancients to have done blacksmithing, although wikipedia says it can be done with charcoal. I have no idea how charcoal would work. The Wikipedia article isn't quite accurate:You can't blacksmith using just coal; the coal is turned to coke by oxygenating it with a blower, and pouring water on it. At least that's what they taught in my college blacksmithing class. I can't remember the fellow's name, unfortunately, but he was 72 at the time and travelled to different universities teaching his dying art to the younger generation. This was some time in the late 1970s. He'd smithed Gerald Ford's wrought iron fence, at the time of the class Carter was president.
I really should build a forge.
But some replacements go backwards, and there are some technologies that just died. I wrote an article a few years ago titled Useful Dead Technologies that highlighted some of them, albeit tongue in cheek. Lo and behold, two of them I mentioned, volume control knobs and flat cotton shoelaces, have come back in vogue.
When the tornado ripped through my neighborhood in 2006, I was out of power for a week. I sorely missed the gravity furnace with its power pile I'd had a few years earlier; the gas only fails when you don't pay the bill. I heated my apartment with the oven in my gas stove.
Of course, some old tech should die. Like the guillotine. Some should never have been born, like the eight track tape.
But if you're going to run a giant corporation or a country, you're going to need a mainframe, even though PCs are now more powerful than mainframes used to be. Face it, no matter how powerful your laptop is, somebody's going to need a great big giant one that stores a million times as much as it does and processes a million times as fast.
Hell, I bet a VAX wasn't powerful enough to run Vista! (Of course, now someone's going to prove me wrong, because I probably am).
-mcgrew