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2003/10/24 [Computer/SW/Apps, Science/Physics, Computer/Theory] UID:10762 Activity:high |
10/24 IF AIM WAS AROUND WHEN QUANTUM THEORY STARTED http://www.makeoutclub.com/03/page_messageboard.php?topic_id=323705 hahahahahahahahahahah! --maxmcc \_ Dumbass. \_ =((((((((((((((( \_ ?????? PROFIT! |
2003/10/24 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:10763 Activity:high |
10/23 why don't apple port their gui stuff to linux/bsd and make a huge kill bill? \_ Are Linux users willing to pay for a GUI? \_ why don't you get off this account? It's FreeBSD, free OS, administered by so-called commie free of charge. \_ Huh? What's your point? \_ Apple is just another Microsoft, except it try to control everything, thus, less successful at it. Unlike MS, it actually CHARGE people for OS upgrades. \_ What do you mean by that? The fact that you have installed a warez copy of Windows XP doesn't mean it's a free upgrade. \_ You mean like, uh, OS X? |
2003/10/24 [Recreation/Dating, Politics/Foreign/Asia/China] UID:10764 Activity:low |
10/23 Soong May-Ling (aka Madame Chiang Kai Shek) passed away at age 106 in Long Island, NY. A generation has passed into history. A short biography: http://www.wellesley.edu/anniversary/chiang.html \_ Is that a bad thing? \_ it's history. \_ for those who bitching about women right, one should really look at her and how she played the role of the First lady. It's not until the 1970's when the First Lady in the Western world slowly caught up with what she is already done in the 1930's. \_ If you're trying to mention highly-achieved Chinese women in the past, how about the King Mother Chi Hsi (sp?) of the Qing \_ Ci Xi. learn pinying \_ wo hen ta ma de pinying. \_ pinyin, no g \_ wo hen ta ma de in vs ing. no difference to my ear. \_ Sorry, I'm not a Mandarin speaker. Just doing my best. say this 3 times fast: 4 & 10 is 14 _/ 4 & 40 is 44 \_ Try this: 4 is 4. 10 is 10. 14 is 14. 40 is 40. 44 is 44. \_ How about the one that says "When Xi Xi died, she was 44." Or a very long one that started with "There's a poet Shih in a rock chamber. He likes eating lion. ......" Dynasty, and even Empress Wu in the Tang Dynasty a thousand years ago? \_ First Ladies should not have *any* power, control, or influence. Certainly not in a democracy where we elect our leaders, we don't marry them. And you've got a funny idea of women's rights where a woman has to marry the right guy to achieve power or wealth. That sounds very 1950's to me. \_ First Lady is essentially a cabinet position. She is appointed by the same person who appoints everyone else in the cabinet. If anything, the First Lady position is more democracy friendly than the other cabinet positions because you know what you're getting when you vote. We all knew during the election that if GW won Laura Bush would be First Lady, but I think if people had known ahead of time who would be appointed attrorney general it could have thrown the election the other way. \_ Wow, I didn't know Soong Ching-ling became a communists after Dr. Sun died. \_ You can even argue that Dr. Sun was a half of a communist at first place. \_ Is that why Deng Xiao-Ping erected a statue of Dr. Sun somewhere in China (I saw a picture of that in some book) even though he's of the Nationalist Party? \_ Sun Yat-Sen was the Father of Modern (Non-Imperial) China. That he was a borderline socialist before the Nationalist v. Communist fracas broke out is neither here nor there. \_ huh.. huh... he said statue... \_ statue erected statue erected statue erected. are you horny now? \_ reaching the condoms \_ The Soong sisters: One loved power (May-Ling marrying CKS), one loved money (Ai-ling marrying industrialist HH Kung), and one loved China (Ching-ling marrying Sun Yat-Sen). It's a cliche but there you go. \_ Maybe they just loved their husbands. \_ What's the full name of HH Kung? Thanks. \_ The West had Queen Elizabeth. How about Cleopatra? \_ Yeah the whole snake bite thing at the end went well for her. |
2003/10/24 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:10765 Activity:high |
10/23 Housing prices going to tumble. Old ladies worried about high property taxes will be happy! http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P62345.asp \_ uh, that article says nothing about housing prices. -tom \_ look for "real estate". \_ Prop 13 protects old ladies from high housing prices. Anyway, we've been hearing this for years. If you bought a house just before any of the last several housing price tumbles and sold it today you'd have a several hundred percent profit in the Bay Area. \_ yea, but what if you just bought a house? and even if you have a 200 percent appreciation, which I doubt you have, believe me, it still hurts when it goes down. a 200 percent appreciation, believe me, it still hurts when it goes down. \_ doesn't matter at all. the *only* things that matter are your property taxes, monthly payment, and your final selling price when you dump the thing years from now. i'm a home owner who plans to stay for at least 5-7 more years in this house. the current housing ups and downs mean *nothing* to me. the weather report is more exciting. \_ 5-7 years only? LA housing market was crappy for more than a decade before bouncing back. Housing tends to have longer cycles compared to the stock market. If you need a house, sure, but if you are also thinking of it as a financial investment, think twice. Don't buy more than what you need, or earlier than necessary. \_ Typical housing cycle is about 7 years. In LA it was from 1989 to 1996 or so (top to bottom). Some people say 1991 to 1998. \_ Sure. But if you consider it as an investment, you probably want to look at how long it takes to go from top to bottom and than back to its original level and then some. What would be the return from say 1985 to 1995? \_ Less than 7 years unless you bought at the very top. It took maybe 10 years for the people who did. Real estate rebounds quickly when it finally heads up. \_ This looks like the "very top". \_ Most of us didn't buy this year. \_ Since when did you become the spokesperson for the motd denizens? \_ Maybe, but they said that two years ago. \_ Have prices risen in the last two years? \_ yes, they have. \_ Really? Didn't the luxury home prices fall? And they say those usually lead the way. \_ Keep in mind that once you're in a house it isn't just an investment but your home. You're no longer paying rent which has an investment value of absolutely zero. Property is always a good investment. Location is the only question. \_ On the negative side, you do have to pay property tax, property insurance, various maintenance costs and higher energy bills. Also your 20% ($120000?) down payment could be making money for you if you put it somewhere else. If you invest the $120000 reasonably wisely, that alone could cover a few months rent. \_ yeah, you could put it in the market! oh, the same article says the market is going to tank... \_ He didn't say all markets. He liked emerging markets, for example. That brings up another negative of a to have longer cycles compared to the stock market. If you need a house, sure, but if you are also thinking of it as an investment, think twice. heads up. \_ This looks like the "very top". \_ Since when did you become the spokesperson for the motd denizens, the majority of whom probably haven't bought a house. house as an investment - it is illiquid. |
2003/10/24 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:10766 Activity:nil 75%like:10774 |
10/23 Water Vapor Rules the Greenhouse System http://www.clearlight.com/~mhieb/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html http://www.clearlight.com/~mhieb/WVFossils/ice_ages.html |
2003/10/24-25 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:10767 Activity:nil |
10/24 I bought an external USB case for a hard drive, and it came with a fan attached to the power supply which constantly runs. If I just have my hard drive in there can't I safely turn the (annoyingly loud) fan off? thanks \_ Just get a 2.5" enclosure and spend a bit more for a laptop drive. Not only is it more transportable, you won't have to worry about a fan. \_ Drives can run hot which means you're shortening the life span of the device. The same is true for all computer stuff. You can run a 3.2 ghz P4 without a fan, too. It just won't run for more than a few seconds before it shuts itself off or burns out. \_ I thought P3s shut themselves down, but P4s and later throttle its speed down until temperatures falls? \_ If it was runing 100mhz would you consider that running? \_ If it's a low-speed drive (5400rpm), then you might safely get away with it. Anything higher, and what the above poster said is true. Inside a regular computer case, all your parts depend on the cooling the multiple fans provide. \_ Detach fan. Close case. Do continuous read/writes on your hard disk (defrag? large file copy?). Open case. If drive is too hot to touch, put fan back on. While it's true that a 3.2 GHz P4 will stop in a few seconds w/o fan, heat dissipation has varied widely for 5400, 7200, and 10K drives of different makes and models. \_ Risky. It's going to take some time for it to really heat up. It'd be shame if it OP tested cold and then it died over night. |
2003/10/24-25 [Computer/SW/Mail, Computer/SW/Compilers] UID:10768 Activity:nil |
10/24 Are there any pitfalls involved in using sendmsg/recvmsg over send/recv? I finally got my problems solved with basic sockets, and I'm looking for a good way to say "these bytes are msg1, these are msg2" etc. Thanks \_ These are two separate issues. (1) man sendmsg. (2) Since TCP is byte-stream oriented, you will need to introduce some message delimiting mechanism. Common ways are LF (like SMTP, POP3, BGP) and having predictable message lengths (e.g., constant for all messages, having an early size field which indicates the size of the message, having an early type field which you associate with a given size, etc.). http://tangentsoft.net/wskfaq/articles/effective-tcp.html \_ Thanks for the link. I've been using a length-header so far, but I was thinking that perhaps MSG_EOR would be a better solution. I can't use the delimiter option b/c the module must also handle binary data, and I have no guarantees on length either. I guess I'll stick w/ what works. \_ You can come up with a prefix code for your messages. This can be a good idea for reasons other than getting rid of delimiters (since a good prefix code will compress what you send over the wire). -- ilyas \_ I thought you had to have a known alphabet to do that. And the binary data is totally unknown. \_ If it's binary data, the alphabet is {0, 1}, by definition. -- ilyas \_ kinda hard to compress 1 & 0, isn't it? \_ I think you are unclear on the concept. Files you compress with gzip are 1s and 0s, and they compress just fine. -- ilyas \_ I understand the concept, but if you can't predict the expected distribution of your data (even at the byte level) you probably won't achieve much compression-- yes, I'll probably get some compression just by using a standard english distribution, but not enough to make it worthwhile. You are correct in the technical sense, but it's not enough to break what works right now. \_ Sure you will. It's what universal source coding is all about. Why do you think it works on files, where we can't predict the distribution either? At any rate, the original point of using a prefix code in your case was to get rid of delimiters. The compression (which will occur to entropy in the limit, trust me) is just a pleasant side effect. -- ilyas |
2003/10/24 [Uncategorized/Profanity] UID:10769 Activity:nil |
10/24 cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt \_ http://sportsbybrooks.com/MP392.html \_ hi paolo! \_ you've done 8 cunts? \_ must be UCLA guy \_ Twat? \_ Boobs. \_ Mitten! |
2003/10/24-25 [Transportation/Car, Industry/Startup] UID:10770 Activity:nil |
10/24 Any tips on the best way to give a company that tried to screw you over (in this case Advantage-Rent-A-Car) negative publicity? Other than the better business bureau, any good ways to blacklist them? \_ Are there websites similar to http://resellerratings.com for such cases? That would rule! \_ pretty good link, thanks! Yeah, if only they had that for everything... Might be quite helpful/interesting. \_ It's called the better business bureau. As if anyone cares about or reads any of those sites or checks the BBB anyway. I know people who swear by paypal even after seeign <DEAD>palpaysucks.com<DEAD> |
2003/10/24 [Politics] UID:10771 Activity:nil |
10/24 I dedicate this thread to the spewage of bile and hatred towards National Public Radio. Please begin. \_ Hey. I just(6 days ago) started listening to NPR again. I like. \_ NPR is great, what are you smoking? \_ yeah what's so bad, at least they don't devote 4 hours a day devoted to spreading thinly disguised outright LIES about their political enemies. \_ they are about as objective as Pravda. \_ and i HATE classical and jazz do we really need 4 stations on the FM dial in the same area that all play classical and jazz? I don't think so. And they're news coverage of local politics is a complete farce. Where I live the numbnuts NPR announcers can't even pronounce the name of the govorner of the state(because they don't know shit about local politics.) I'm not sure that the comparison to Pravda is appropriate, however. Pravda was just lies and bullshit news. NPR is lies and bullshit news intersperced with the worst music immaginable and endless purile game shows and pontifications by jackoff "experts". |
2003/10/24-25 [Uncategorized] UID:10772 Activity:nil |
10/24 Report on the Matthew Dillon meeting last night? \_He hinted that Cameron Diaz is a hemaphrodite \_ any word on the next version of dtrek? (xtrek predecessor using curses) \_ Yes. |
2003/10/24 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:10773 Activity:nil |
10/24 I was on a singapore airlines plane recently and they had Video On Demand on every seat. All recent movies that you can pause/reverse etc. That tells me that the movies are all in digital form in a file server on the plane. Anybody know more about the format of the files of these things? Is it a bit-by-bit replica of whatever info is on a DVD? Thanks. \_ Several different technologies and patents; see US Patent Nos: 4,688,106; 5,574,662; 5,590,381; 5,671,386; and too many more. The list is probably even longer now - it has been a while since that patent search was run. \_ learn to use motdedit \_ yeah damnit \_ google |
2003/10/24 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:10774 Activity:nil 75%like:10766 |
10/23 What's up with all the censoring? Sheesh. [Post restored] -!op Water Vapor Rules the Greenhouse System http://www.clearlight.com/~mhieb/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html http://www.clearlight.com/~mhieb/WVFossils/ice_ages.html \_ Yawn. |
2003/10/24-26 [Consumer/CellPhone] UID:10775 Activity:low |
10/24 Exactly how secure is CDMA? I'm asking because I do a lot of banking, stock trade, etc via my cell phone and I'm wondering if land line is more secure. I remember a while ago my friend showed me his scanner which scanned in the 800-900Mhz and we heard a LOT of really good stuff. \_ Analog cells also use 800MHz. That's what you heard. I'm not sure CDMA is truly secure, but it is scrambled enough to stymie Joe Shmoe with a scanner. \_ I think you need hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment to descramble the signal, and you also have to be talking on your cell phone near the thief with the equipment for many days (due to the long code with a 42 day cycle time) before he can descramble it unless he got really lucky. Then he still have to deal with the encryptions. cell phone near the thief with the equipment for many days \_ Just wear your tinfoil hat. \_ I don't think the CDMA standard has any real encryption built in. The security you get from scrambling and spread spectrum parts of CDMA are minimal. Specifically, you can lock in on a given pseudo-noise sequence in time which is linear in the block length. In summary, it's not that secure if someone wants to to put the effort in to crack it and you could probably do it with less than $30K of equipment. \_ and if you have that level of knowledge and that much equipment is it worth your time and risk to engage in petty fraud? i doubt it. \_ Sure it is. That's what criminal .orgs like the mob do. They don't rake in millions on a few big scores. They mostly engage in lots of little petty crimes despite what hollywood would have you think. Reality is a lot more boring than TV. \_ You're correct, but this is mainly true for payment- before he can descramble it unless he got really lucky. Then he still have to deal with the encryptions. \_ Just wear your tinfoil hat. would have you think. Reality is a lot more boring than TV. related stuff (credit cards billing, etc.) -John |
2003/10/24-25 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux] UID:10776 Activity:nil |
10/24 redhat 9 is the best unix - http://www.keishaevans.com/bea/kes14_65_linux.jpg \_ I don't know what to say. \_ [formatd] \_ umm... NOT work safe \_ it would be if she was wearing WholesomeWear: http://www.wholesomewear.com/page-3.html \_ of course if people actually used swimsuits to go *swimming* instead of lounging around like idiots getting skin cancer and staring at eachother....oh, just nevermind. \_ Jesus fucking Christ. \_ She's a man http://www.wholesomewear.com/graphics/page4_07.jpg \_ Flintstone? \_ that looks... unhealthy... \_ her back must _ache_ at the end of the day. \_ provided she's ever off of lying on her back. \_ she probably makes a ton of money from fetishists. \_ There should be something illegal about that. \_ Linux is awesome. |
2003/10/24-25 [Computer/SW] UID:10777 Activity:nil |
10/24 I sent in my UPC bar code, receipt, and the rebate form to Western Digital. 1 week before the rebate expires they mailed me back the whole thing (including the UCP code) with a letter saying that I didn't send the UPC bar code and said I have 10 days to respond. So I resent it again, and this time they told me that the offer expired. The rebate is in the amount of $120 and I'm pretty pissed. I'd like to file a small claims case, but their office location is in MN. What are some other ways to get my $120 back? \_ TELL THEM TO FOAD \_ Lesson: don't bother with mail-in rebates. \_ Why do you want to get involved with the courts for $120? How about you do the non-geeky and social thing and talk to them about it? \_ talk to who? I mailed them and keep getting rejected, with a stamp that says "Your offer has expired." \_ Call (800) 275-4932 (Western Digital's support number), and request, firmly, to speak to a manager. Explain the situation (and don't whine), and insist that they honor the rebate. If you encounter resistance, request to speak to that person's manager. Don't get angry, don't get frustrated, just be persistent. You're in the right. Be persistent, and they'll get the message. |
2003/10/24-25 [Uncategorized] UID:10778 Activity:nil |
10/24 Icelanders are tough bastards: http://csua.org/u/4so (YahooNews) |
2003/10/24-25 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:10779 Activity:nil |
10/24 I'm going to be getting a low-end IBM thinkpad that comes with Windows XP. I know that XP is just one big spyware and so I'm thinking of installing windows 2000 on it. Laptops tend to have customized drivers and such. Anybody tried installing an off the shelf version of windows 2000 on an IBM laptop? Any gotchas I need to know? \_ Just go to IBM's site and download all the drivers. Burn it on a CD, then install win2k. C'mon, it's not that hard to figure out... \_ one big spyware? uhm ok. \_ you're going to be using Windows Update anyway, just use XP. \_ It's not as if you're going to have trouble with product activation on a notebook, where the hardware is fixed. \_ I did exactly this on a dell laptop, and sold the unopened, unbooted XP on ebay. No problems so far (1 year). \_ what did you do with the cd key? it's usually stuck to the bottom of the notebook on Dells \_ peeled it off (very carefully) with my fingernail and slapped it on the plastic wrap around the install disc. \_ I had 2k on a Thinkpad x20 for a while. I didn't like it. There's nothing wrong with XP if you set it up right. -John |
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