Horseshit.
Almost all of that ASCII art was done decades before by the RTTY radio geeks, and most of the best stuff was porn.
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So yes, it can be traced back to geeks, but a lot further back than you seem to know about, you young whipper-snapper.
Until some time around 1997, exploring simple travel plans, booking and paying for them was a fucking nightmare for the rest of the world; they'd been doing it for more than a decade already in France, via a system which was very fast (remember those shitty 33.6K & X2 modems?) and very convenient. Standardised. Without pop-ups.
Germany's Post monopoly prevented this and instead buit the BTX system, designed to make profits, primarily for the Post (fmr. Telekom parent), and because phone costs were so high. getting on-line was a terribly expensive proposition in Germany until the Post monopoly was broken up.
I love SysInternals and have the original Winternals files on an old 3.2 SCSI-II somewhere (or maybe buried somewhere in a/win//utils/OS/win directory on my server). Run as many SysInternals as you want and find me the BHO that's preventing an ActiveX control from passing info through a hidden helper browser window. You can sit all day with Proc* looking for that. I want to find a bad thread or spin or memleak, yeah, SysInternals all the way.
HT is by no means dead; you can spend a lot of extra time putting a screw through a board with a hammer but a screwdriver is probably the better and more efficient choice for the job.
Hijacjk This ain't jsut for helpdesk monkeys; we use it constantly in Enterprise software testing. Server works fine, Client works fine, OS checks out, software ain't working. Run HT and find the culprit pretty quickly, and when your customers are telcos and banks doing short-cycle upgrades for occasionally legit reasons, your on-site guys need to find fast answers.
It's not about the will to do it (although that does play a role). The minute the copycyt Chinese land on the Moon the US -- possibly together with Russia &/or the EU -- will put an Apollo-type effort into getting to Mars. Hell, Just read Mary Roach's Packing for Mars (ISBN 978-1-85168-780-0) and see what nearly insurmountable problems there were in getting to the Moon, and she really only deals with life sciences, not physics.
The problem is that we can't realistically get a payload of sufficient size there. The technological hurdles are easy; the problems are physics and biology. We can build a dozen rockets, take advantage of orbital mechanics for unmanned segments, launch 'em off three full-size gantries together so that one launch window serves three machines.
But before we even think about getting the people there we still have to figure out how to arrive, orbit, and then land precisely -- repeatedly -- unmanned, all while dealing with the 8-minute radio delay in the best of circumstances.
The problem of human physiology is even worse than the physics problem. We can come up with odd trajectories and multiple burns and en-route dockings to provide additional fuel to carry such things out. Have you ever seen the astronauts coming back from 3-6 months on the ISS? It takes a huge fucking crew to get them out of the return vehicle and into recovery. It takes three strong men just to pull those poor bastards off the couch and out of the capsule. And that's from LEO. There ain't no recovery crews waiting on Mars.
We can't fucking land more than about tonne on that planet.. Forget the time and the <50% success rate of achieving orbit and landing a probe. We could land on either Phobos or Deimos no problem. Mars has just enough atmosphere to really screw things up.
To even consider going to Mars we first need to send at least 5 rockets full of supplies and land them literally next to each other. We also need to park another 2 or 3 in orbit to hold fuel for Mars Orbit Docking in order to dock and go home within a reasonable time frame. Aldrin's free transfer trajectory is great but unsuitable for human passage.
Get the supplies and contingency machines in place, then think about it. But first figure out how to drop 5 tonnes safely to a very particular spot on the surface. Now do it repeatedly. Because that's what landing on Mars requires.
Why not just farm it out to ESA or Russia? Arianne has a damned impressive success rate and Russia is waging a price war with China. Either way, your payload goes up at rock-bottom prices.
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NASA is a palindrome: an agency formed that first couldn't get off the ground, then got up in the air, then into low orbit, then high orbit, then to the Moon, then to low orbit, and now can't even get off the ground. I used to be so proud of them...
Almost half of all people on-ine (and with no consideration for off-line usage) are still using a decade-old OS. And that's bad why? My fucking Atari 800 blew the doors off of anything that came along for more than a decade and its OS was fucking hard-coded into a 10KB ROM pack (upon which we piggy-backed 4 other selectable 10KB OS.ROMs)
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When an OS -- even from a company you don't like -- does the job it's supposed to do, what's the problem? Of course I like my various *nix installs as long as they do what I need them to do, but if you have to use Windows for anything, XP is the last in a (supported) line which will still more or less do what you tell it to do. You may recall that XP (like everything before it) installs with a basic version of Win3.1.
Shit, I don't know how to score higher. Do I go with "OH NOES! The'yre goez my sallarie" or "Thank fuck! Now I can get a real job."
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Or do I just settle for "Fucker's about my age, said something which made sense, forgot to turn his filters on just like me, it's not the end of the world as we know it"? Oh, and "Give me a billion dollars for being the newest sensible pundit". Fuck, Taco was a billionaire for about 30 minutes and felt the need to write about it here.
With all that work I'm really surprised to see such a lack of taxiway and runway lighting and signage. But I'm a pilot and notice that more than the gee-whiz neatitude of the moving planes and ground support.
They don't do that here in Germany. Flights to the US have an extra layer or two of security theatre, but German airport "security" is more or less a respectful version of what the US had about 25 years ago but with better X-ray technology. Now the UK, that's another matter...
You and everyone else who keeps saying "Oracle don't understand FOSS" are fucking idiots. Oracle damned well understands FOSS but they don't make much money off it. Their intention is to collaborate where necessary and move customers to the closed apps and systems, paying millions in license fees every year. To sweeten things they make all their software -- all of it -- available for free download so that customers, programmers and tech monkeys all can try it out and learn to use it. You only pay for what you put into production. .
Oracle is also one of the top Linux code contributors, popping in more code than even the Linux Foundation (see Table 9): Xen, YAST, NFS on IPv6, "data=guarded" for ext3, Asynchronous IO kernel subsystem, and more. Not surprisingly, most of what Oracle contributes is germane to Orafcle DB & apps, no different from every other contributor working on something he is specifically interested in or in need of.
Larry's a cunt and I'm not about to defend him, but Oracle-the-company (whose decisions are made by Ellison) knows exactly what the fuck they're doing, and if you understood how they think you not only wouldn't have been surprised at the acquisitions of Sun and BEA but you'd have a pretty good idea of who's going next.
You can run it locally rather than on a stick. Go to configuration and kill anything unnecessary. I get better memory usage with FF3 over FF4 despite bugs. Also, kill all services/daemons/auto-run background programs (Quicktime comes to mind) nut being used to free up more RAM.
It was free because they spent money to provide you a service in exchange for the voice clip they got from you.
When you get stuff for free, it's not because you're the customer; you're the product.
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Horseshit.
Almost all of that ASCII art was done decades before by the RTTY radio geeks, and most of the best stuff was porn.
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So yes, it can be traced back to geeks, but a lot further back than you seem to know about, you young whipper-snapper.
"How is it that you manage to look at all this filth and horror and remain a mentally healthy member of society?"
Until some time around 1997, exploring simple travel plans, booking and paying for them was a fucking nightmare for the rest of the world; they'd been doing it for more than a decade already in France, via a system which was very fast (remember those shitty 33.6K & X2 modems?) and very convenient. Standardised. Without pop-ups.
Germany's Post monopoly prevented this and instead buit the BTX system, designed to make profits, primarily for the Post (fmr. Telekom parent), and because phone costs were so high. getting on-line was a terribly expensive proposition in Germany until the Post monopoly was broken up.
Yes, yes they do.
It was just last month I was reading about it. Again.
Or is it that they only want this access for themselves and you're a tairist if you don't think the FBI should have all access to all your activities and communications.
"chairman of Plants Need CO2, a non-profit with ties to the coal industry." Who'd'a thunk??
Can someone please explain to me how "decreased projected income" became "loss"?
"as rich as Germany" before>/i> we gave all that cash to Greece?
HT is by no means dead; you can spend a lot of extra time putting a screw through a board with a hammer but a screwdriver is probably the better and more efficient choice for the job.
Hijacjk This ain't jsut for helpdesk monkeys; we use it constantly in Enterprise software testing. Server works fine, Client works fine, OS checks out, software ain't working. Run HT and find the culprit pretty quickly, and when your customers are telcos and banks doing short-cycle upgrades for occasionally legit reasons, your on-site guys need to find fast answers.
It's not about the will to do it (although that does play a role). The minute the copycyt Chinese land on the Moon the US -- possibly together with Russia &/or the EU -- will put an Apollo-type effort into getting to Mars. Hell, Just read Mary Roach's Packing for Mars (ISBN 978-1-85168-780-0) and see what nearly insurmountable problems there were in getting to the Moon, and she really only deals with life sciences, not physics.
The problem is that we can't realistically get a payload of sufficient size there. The technological hurdles are easy; the problems are physics and biology. We can build a dozen rockets, take advantage of orbital mechanics for unmanned segments, launch 'em off three full-size gantries together so that one launch window serves three machines.
But before we even think about getting the people there we still have to figure out how to arrive, orbit, and then land precisely -- repeatedly -- unmanned, all while dealing with the 8-minute radio delay in the best of circumstances.
The problem of human physiology is even worse than the physics problem. We can come up with odd trajectories and multiple burns and en-route dockings to provide additional fuel to carry such things out. Have you ever seen the astronauts coming back from 3-6 months on the ISS? It takes a huge fucking crew to get them out of the return vehicle and into recovery. It takes three strong men just to pull those poor bastards off the couch and out of the capsule. And that's from LEO. There ain't no recovery crews waiting on Mars.
To even consider going to Mars we first need to send at least 5 rockets full of supplies and land them literally next to each other. We also need to park another 2 or 3 in orbit to hold fuel for Mars Orbit Docking in order to dock and go home within a reasonable time frame. Aldrin's free transfer trajectory is great but unsuitable for human passage.
Get the supplies and contingency machines in place, then think about it. But first figure out how to drop 5 tonnes safely to a very particular spot on the surface. Now do it repeatedly. Because that's what landing on Mars requires.
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NASA is a palindrome: an agency formed that first couldn't get off the ground, then got up in the air, then into low orbit, then high orbit, then to the Moon, then to low orbit, and now can't even get off the ground. I used to be so proud of them...
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When an OS -- even from a company you don't like -- does the job it's supposed to do, what's the problem? Of course I like my various *nix installs as long as they do what I need them to do, but if you have to use Windows for anything, XP is the last in a (supported) line which will still more or less do what you tell it to do. You may recall that XP (like everything before it) installs with a basic version of Win3.1.
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Or do I just settle for "Fucker's about my age, said something which made sense, forgot to turn his filters on just like me, it's not the end of the world as we know it"? Oh, and "Give me a billion dollars for being the newest sensible pundit". Fuck, Taco was a billionaire for about 30 minutes and felt the need to write about it here.
With all that work I'm really surprised to see such a lack of taxiway and runway lighting and signage. But I'm a pilot and notice that more than the gee-whiz neatitude of the moving planes and ground support.
They don't do that here in Germany. Flights to the US have an extra layer or two of security theatre, but German airport "security" is more or less a respectful version of what the US had about 25 years ago but with better X-ray technology. Now the UK, that's another matter...
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Oracle is also one of the top Linux code contributors, popping in more code than even the Linux Foundation (see Table 9): Xen, YAST, NFS on IPv6, "data=guarded" for ext3, Asynchronous IO kernel subsystem, and more. Not surprisingly, most of what Oracle contributes is germane to Orafcle DB & apps, no different from every other contributor working on something he is specifically interested in or in need of.
Larry's a cunt and I'm not about to defend him, but Oracle-the-company (whose decisions are made by Ellison) knows exactly what the fuck they're doing, and if you understood how they think you not only wouldn't have been surprised at the acquisitions of Sun and BEA but you'd have a pretty good idea of who's going next.
SC/Oracle
You can run it locally rather than on a stick. Go to configuration and kill anything unnecessary. I get better memory usage with FF3 over FF4 despite bugs. Also, kill all services/daemons/auto-run background programs (Quicktime comes to mind) nut being used to free up more RAM.
Film at 11.
The whole point of winning the war was so that we wouldn't have to live under fascism.
Ford: inventing today what VW put into production 8 years ago.
There's a huge difference between a "crime solved" and a "crime detected", as Copperfield, Bloggs, and Bystander have so often explained.
It was free because they spent money to provide you a service in exchange for the voice clip they got from you. When you get stuff for free, it's not because you're the customer; you're the product.
*golf clap*