Hear hear! I also agree with the push to clean up the public airwave. For one thing, it is not *my* job to turn off filth when the shock jocks toss it out in public. I don't want to turn on a radio with family in the car, hear something objectionable and THEN have to tune out. I want the stuff you see and hear and find in public acceptable, and the potty brains that want it can tune in their private parts channel. You can find anything you want if you look for it. I just don't want it hanging out in full public view where those of us who *DONT* want to degrade ourselves keep getting an inadvertant dose.
And don't blame the fcc - the whole thing is the result of Jackson, Bono, etc. They're the one's that brought this on by their actions, lack of self control, cheek, pushing the limits of what you can get away with, publicity seeking, etc.
If there's any one thing that makes the Muslim world think the west is Satan's Brothel, it's what goes on in the media, so don't whine about 'Christian' moralists pushing their values on you.
"While HG Wells was an enthusiastic supporter of many of the film adaptations of his work, the likely attitude that Orson Welles might have had to another director taking one of the works with which he became most closely associated, can only be a matter of conjecture."
Wow, I had a dream about an asteroid hitting the earth the other morning [being a dream sequence, all laws of physics are suspended]. I went outside and everybody was looking at the horizon and this round, crater covered cliche' asteroid was coming right at us, and then it just passed right overhead (that was a big relief!). After a few orbits and just as it was about to plunge into the earth it all turned into a Wallace & Grommit clamation scene, so it cratered in claymation with a big sucking noise and out from a ring around the impact area, up popped a bunch of advertisements for stuff.
Of course you guys realize the mission of OBSD is not tossing in every feature you can think of trying to keep up with the Gates', its something else altogether, thankfully.
If false, it would hardly be the "first" - I can clearly remember a gag 'tech' article from 19 years ago that went around the bbs world, detailing how you could upgrade your 300 baud modem to 1200.
Clip these speed limiting parts out here, wind a coil of wire and solder it in there - and you have a broken modem.;)
A lot of people were stuck at 300 untill their next birthday, and, well, the temptation is strong, hope springs eternal and there's one born every minute.
So Viacom to the carriers is like Msft to PC shops: if you're going to sell out vastly popular products that can make or break you (ok, maybe Viacom doesn't have that much of a headlock on the market) you will have to bundle in the crappy startups we are trying to capture the market in (IE, etc).
Bletch.... If Linux were a typical luser company it would hire a management consultant marketing droid firm for a few hundred million to come up with some Nike swoosh oval shaped or cingular splat inspired copycat weird combo-word (like "Sourceron" - combines the openness of 'source', the positiveness of 'on', with a touch of magician and blab blah blah bs bs bs) focus group approved targeted for the suv/minivan mass market clueless upmarket yuppie type of logo. Utter bletch.
Just say we had a machine capable of copying the pound of sugar
Then the customer would have to pay for the molecular synthesizer, and I bet they won't be cheap! Ok, say a grocery store buys a $50,000 synthesizer that can make basic raw materials like simple organic substances, sugar, salt, etc. out of water (H & O) and cylinders of carbon dioxide (C & O). He borrows 50 grand from the bank to invest in this technological marvel, and has to pay it back in 15 years, the expected life of the machine. He would have to collect enough in the sugar sold to pay off the machine, principle + interest, it's maintenance and repair once the warrenty expires, plus enough extra to pay his rent/mortgage, food, clothing, taxes, health insurance, transportation, childrens college education, etc.
Microsoft proposes that their own customer data collection layer (CDCL) be installed automatically with every copy of Windows. Then any software firm that wants to collect user data will have to pay a fee for it. There. Problem solved.
If evil didn't exist, humans would have to invent it. Face it, computers are boring, but "Rival Hacker Gangs Virus Turf War" is the lifeblood of pop media newstertainment.
One of my project cars from years ago was an early 80's VW diesel - once started, it only needed ONE power connection, and that was the fuel solenoid on the injection pump, and that was so you could turn it off! A small 12 volt battery could do in a bind, and you could actually run everything else 100% mechanical. Of course the oil pressure light wouldn't work, would have to push start, which would be a bitch w/o glow preheaters.
Also be advised that SCO's mission as Msft's attack dog has nothing to do with who owns what code - that's just a smokescreen to create confusion and disuade people from using Linux. The last thing they want is to have the issue settled - the more they can create an atmosphere of legal uncertainty surrounding GNU/Linux and force people into the arms of the 'safe haven', Windows.
Remember, it's not "You're using Linux, you owe us money", it's "Some people say Linux is illegal, some people say it's OK. Gee, I don't know who to believe so I'd better play it safe and get Winders."
people that value such things as knowledge and spreading happiness
Ah yes, well we all do. But the question was, how do you measure such things? From there, you quickly get into the problem of trying to define quality, which some claim you just know already with out having to put a number on it, others turn into babbling idiots trying, and others solve the problem by just attaching dollar values to it.
Unfortunately for the romantic, we are economically dominated by the hard boiled scientific minded who insist on measuring and assigning dollar values to everything. If it can't be measured it doesn't exist.
Sorry, got in a hurry there - the old gold standard used to be $32 USD for one oz of gold. However, that definition of value of was allowed to float early in the Roosevelt administration during the depression.
well, what would you measure it in, bananas? Clams? a scale of 1 to 100 where 100 is 32oz of gold? Money is simply a medium of exchange that allows more freedom than simple barter. Why do we measure distance in meters, mass in kilograms and time in seconds - just most people agree and understand those terms.
Sony contacted them, and they said piss off, you didn't want us before now we're a hit and can do our own promotion.
Wow, it's just like the old hit by Sugarloaf:
I got your name from a friend of a friend who said he used to work with you Remember the all night creature from stereo ninety two Yeah I said could you relate to our quarter track tape You know the band performs in the nude He said uh huh don't call us child we'll call you.
Listen kid you paid for the call You ain't bad but we've heard it all before Yeah it sounds like John, Paul and George
Any way we cut a hit and we toured a bit with a song he said he couldn't use. And now he calls and begs and crawls It's telephone deja vu We got percentage points and lousy joints and all the glitter we can use Mama so uh huh don't call us, now we'll call you.
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My router gets 4 octets per address and that's the way I like it!
Hear hear! I also agree with the push to clean up the public airwave. For one thing, it is not *my* job to turn off filth when the shock jocks toss it out in public. I don't want to turn on a radio with family in the car, hear something objectionable and THEN have to tune out. I want the stuff you see and hear and find in public acceptable, and the potty brains that want it can tune in their private parts channel. You can find anything you want if you look for it. I just don't want it hanging out in full public view where those of us who *DONT* want to degrade ourselves keep getting an inadvertant dose.
And don't blame the fcc - the whole thing is the result of Jackson, Bono, etc. They're the one's that brought this on by their actions, lack of self control, cheek, pushing the limits of what you can get away with, publicity seeking, etc.
If there's any one thing that makes the Muslim world think the west is Satan's Brothel, it's what goes on in the media, so don't whine about 'Christian' moralists pushing their values on you.
"While HG Wells was an enthusiastic supporter of many of the film adaptations of his work, the likely attitude that Orson Welles might have had to another director taking one of the works with which he became most closely associated, can only be a matter of conjecture."
Wow, I had a dream about an asteroid hitting the earth the other morning [being a dream sequence, all laws of physics are suspended]. I went outside and everybody was looking at the horizon and this round, crater covered cliche' asteroid was coming right at us, and then it just passed right overhead (that was a big relief!). After a few orbits and just as it was about to plunge into the earth it all turned into a Wallace & Grommit clamation scene, so it cratered in claymation with a big sucking noise and out from a ring around the impact area, up popped a bunch of advertisements for stuff.
Of course you guys realize the mission of OBSD is not tossing in every feature you can think of trying to keep up with the Gates', its something else altogether, thankfully.
The Pilippines gained independence from Spain in 1898, I guess they continued to use the name of the currency tho.
Americans can tell you, never try to conquor a country whose currency is the Dong.
If false, it would hardly be the "first" - I can clearly remember a gag 'tech' article from 19 years ago that went around the bbs world, detailing how you could upgrade your 300 baud modem to 1200.
;)
Clip these speed limiting parts out here, wind a coil of wire and solder it in there - and you have a broken modem.
A lot of people were stuck at 300 untill their next birthday, and, well, the temptation is strong, hope springs eternal and there's one born every minute.
So Viacom to the carriers is like Msft to PC shops: if you're going to sell out vastly popular products that can make or break you (ok, maybe Viacom doesn't have that much of a headlock on the market) you will have to bundle in the crappy startups we are trying to capture the market in (IE, etc).
Texas Memory Systems specifically.
that's about 8KB for every person in the US, including the 'terrorist' bit. You can put a lot of personal data in 8KB.
Bletch .... If Linux were a typical luser company it would hire a management consultant marketing droid firm for a few hundred million to come up with some Nike swoosh oval shaped or cingular splat inspired copycat weird combo-word (like "Sourceron" - combines the openness of 'source', the positiveness of 'on', with a touch of magician and blab blah blah bs bs bs) focus group approved targeted for the suv/minivan mass market clueless upmarket yuppie type of logo. Utter bletch.
The site osdir.com is running Apache/1.3.24 (Unix) PHP/4.1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.8 OpenSSL/0.9.6c on Linux.
On what, a 486/33 with ISDN? I'm sure the above on a dual Opteron with an OC3 would hold up just fine.
Just say we had a machine capable of copying the pound of sugar
Then the customer would have to pay for the molecular synthesizer, and I bet they won't be cheap! Ok, say a grocery store buys a $50,000 synthesizer that can make basic raw materials like simple organic substances, sugar, salt, etc. out of water (H & O) and cylinders of carbon dioxide (C & O). He borrows 50 grand from the bank to invest in this technological marvel, and has to pay it back in 15 years, the expected life of the machine. He would have to collect enough in the sugar sold to pay off the machine, principle + interest, it's maintenance and repair once the warrenty expires, plus enough extra to pay his rent/mortgage, food, clothing, taxes, health insurance, transportation, childrens college education, etc.
you can't copy a pound of sugar
and software doesn't just grow on trees either, it has development costs that must be paid for somehow.
Microsoft proposes that their own customer data collection layer (CDCL) be installed automatically with every copy of Windows. Then any software firm that wants to collect user data will have to pay a fee for it. There. Problem solved.
"a major university."
I think you mean "prestigious non-accredited University".
the Cable Descrambler was another one from the `good ol' days` of spam.
If evil didn't exist, humans would have to invent it. Face it, computers are boring, but "Rival Hacker Gangs Virus Turf War" is the lifeblood of pop media newstertainment.
Here are some more down to earth email worms.
One of my project cars from years ago was an early 80's VW diesel - once started, it only needed ONE power connection, and that was the fuel solenoid on the injection pump, and that was so you could turn it off! A small 12 volt battery could do in a bind, and you could actually run everything else 100% mechanical. Of course the oil pressure light wouldn't work, would have to push start, which would be a bitch w/o glow preheaters.
Also be advised that SCO's mission as Msft's attack dog has nothing to do with who owns what code - that's just a smokescreen to create confusion and disuade people from using Linux. The last thing they want is to have the issue settled - the more they can create an atmosphere of legal uncertainty surrounding GNU/Linux and force people into the arms of the 'safe haven', Windows.
Remember, it's not "You're using Linux, you owe us money", it's "Some people say Linux is illegal, some people say it's OK. Gee, I don't know who to believe so I'd better play it safe and get Winders."
people that value such things as knowledge and spreading happiness
Ah yes, well we all do. But the question was, how do you measure such things? From there, you quickly get into the problem of trying to define quality, which some claim you just know already with out having to put a number on it, others turn into babbling idiots trying, and others solve the problem by just attaching dollar values to it.
Unfortunately for the romantic, we are economically dominated by the hard boiled scientific minded who insist on measuring and assigning dollar values to everything. If it can't be measured it doesn't exist.
Sorry, got in a hurry there - the old gold standard used to be $32 USD for one oz of gold. However, that definition of value of was allowed to float early in the Roosevelt administration during the depression.
well, what would you measure it in, bananas? Clams? a scale of 1 to 100 where 100 is 32oz of gold? Money is simply a medium of exchange that allows more freedom than simple barter. Why do we measure distance in meters, mass in kilograms and time in seconds - just most people agree and understand those terms.
I wonder if being posted on slashdot has over loaded the server banded with
you must be new around here
Sony contacted them, and they said piss off, you didn't want us before now we're a hit and can do our own promotion.
Wow, it's just like the old hit by Sugarloaf:
I got your name from a friend of a friend
who said he used to work with you
Remember the all night creature from stereo ninety two
Yeah I said could you relate to our quarter track tape
You know the band performs in the nude
He said uh huh don't call us child we'll call you.
Listen kid you paid for the call
You ain't bad but we've heard it all before
Yeah it sounds like John, Paul and George
Any way we cut a hit and we toured a bit
with a song he said he couldn't use.
And now he calls and begs and crawls
It's telephone deja vu
We got percentage points and lousy joints
and all the glitter we can use
Mama so uh huh don't call us, now we'll call you.
Hey, how about the best of both worlds:
>+-+-+-+-+-GO NORTH
You see two Orcs and an Enforcer
>SHOOT ORC WITH BFG
The Orc explodes in a bloody spray of meat
>SHOOT ORC WITH BFG
You are out of ammo. The Enforcer hits you, -10.
>SHOOT ENFORCER WITH RAIL GUN
You miss the Enforcer. The Orc hits you, -5.
>SHOOT ENFORCER WITH ROCKET
The Enforcer explodes in a bloody spray of meat.
The Orc hits you, -5.
>SHOOT ORC WITH ROCKET
The Orc explodes in a bloody spray of meat.
>GET MEDIKIT
+20
>GET ROCKETS
You now have 55 rockets
>GO NORTH
You see 3 Orcs and 2 Grunts.
>