Now chemists have learned how to convert plant biomass directly into a chemical building block that can not only be used to produce fuel, but also plastics, polyester and industrial chemicals cheaply and efficiently.
It says so right in TFA that's "where the fuck it says" it.
I started with 10 GB and do enough tinkering that I filled it up and moved on to 20. Bumping my head against that, but I do a lot of screwing around with new apps and local installs.
I can live with bad grammar in the submissions, and of course in the comments, but can Technical Journalists PLEASE take a few goddamned English courses?
...causing the ViRGE to be unaffectionate dubbed the first 3D decelerator.
Just how far has graphic cards come in the past 15 years?
the original Rage 3D didn't have a whole going for it
The last official drive update for the Savage 3D was posted in 2007, though the modding community has continued to support the card with most recently release (2007) showing support for Vista.
Canadian-based Matrox first got start producing graphic solutions in 1978,...
And before you complain, that search site for morgan kaufmann (listed specifically as the publisher) was linked as the first link to buy the book from the first google result which was the google books preview of the book. IT'S NOT HARD TO FIND.
0. Wrong. Full Stop. See: Eclipse, Blender, and any other of thousands of high quality open source applications that are professional quality, developed by paid professionals, but given away for free so that there is a more vibrant software ecosystem.
1.... Alsa and ESD work just fine. Ubuntu screwed the pooch implementing Pulseaudio, but Alsa and ESD are working just fine on my gaming rig and my htpc to do any audio crap I want. Also, I do remastering work on a base ubuntu install and audacity. So, I call BS on this. It takes effort to get right, but show me a windoze box that does this correctly out of the box without fucking around. Sorry but BS.
2..... Its called an nVidia card and compiz-fusion. IMHO better than the Aero bs, lower resource usage than it, and it solves every one of the issues he's griping about. Show me a system these days that DOESN'T come new with a 3d chipset that can't handle compiz.
3..... This is a) not a bad thing and b) FAR bettter than windoze. I have a whole group of people that are nice enough to package up my software so it installs in two or three clicks or one cli command. Beyond that, if they haven't gotten to it, I can get it packaged from the vendor, or if its EVEN newer, I have a free complete dev system and can compile the damned thing myself using the same dependencies the devs are using to work on it. Grow a clue.
4..... No, no it shouldn't. I don't want joe user to be able to configure some things, because I have to ssh in and fix it for him when he goes playing.
6. I haven't run across this, so I guess i'll hafta take his word. This is why you use a distro who test well:)
7. And the windoze API is so clean and bug free? IE is such a stable application?
8. Then you're not doing it right. Sorry but this isn't a desktop issue so please drive through.
9. Yes, but how about run time behavior. Unix-alikes encourage an app to load EVERYTHING at startup of the app so we don't have to put up with bullshit delays when dynamically loading the wizard for doing task A. Its a difference in philosophy of putting all the wait up front, not "slowness". He obviously doesn't get it.
10. Maybe, so use a stable released version. I agree that for stable stuff this should be better (get cracking devs)
11. So write some documentation. Not every project has infinite resources so you get tradeoffs.
12. Bullshit. gksudo, etc. Learn what you're talking about. ps -A is all the protection against "keyloggers" that I need.
13. I'd rather have broken backwards compatibility than infinite security holes to keep a dead api from a single user system alive.
You do realize that the NUMBER ONE link on google is google books displaying most of the full text for free right? And it contains links for where to buy it. How is this broken?
External hard drives, flash drives, dvd-rw's, backup tape, pick your poison. You have it in a COMPLETELY mutable format, can store it on WHATEVER media you want, can copy it perfectly bit for bit infinite times, your storage doesn't degrade with use, the storage is cheaper per second/hour/program of storage, you can write it back to a portable copy that anyone can view on their player, you can watch it on your ipod, you can share it over the web, you can upload it to youtube. I'm sorry, but saying having it on analog storage that is expensive, unreliable, non portable, unsupported, and low quality is just fucking ignorant.
Hell to back it up forever you can throw it out to carbonite, amazon's cloud, or a hosted backed up server anywhere you want.
You don't want to learn how to use a linux based media box. You've arbitrarily decided that because you can't make a dvd-rw burn on whatever box it is you're using that its "inconvenient". You fail to see that you're locking yourself into a dying format that will very soon isolate your media so that no one else could possibly view it unless they come to your stash of vcr's. You have it in a format that is the LEAST CONVENIENT format it could POSSIBLY be in.
Because you can store it on HDDs, flash media, dvd-rs, dvd-rws, etc. You would then have the option to back it up to backup tape if you're so concerned with it being on a media that degrades every time you use it.
So just be honest and say "Get off my lawn, I don't want to learn anything new," rather than making these wild rationalizations about how its "better". Its not, we know its not, you know its not.
Use encrypted connections. Then they can only complain about bandwidth unless they want to be a peer (trust me they don't). FYI, broadcast material is perfectly legal to download.
See my reply above to see why you're misguided. DVD players (for your parents) cost $40 now. DVD-RWs cost ~$2 apiece if you don't hunt around for cheapies. MythTV didn't obey the "broadcast flag" even the 1 time it was "accidentally" set. Its fairly obtuse to keep trying to hunt up blank tapes (that no one manufactures anymore) that wear out and degrade.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.discovery.com%2Feve%2Fforums%2Fa%2Ftpc%2Ff%2F9401967776%2Fm%2F4441931059%2Fp%2F1&ei=zFExSqSyCI3IM-SW8bcH&usg=AFQjCNGBDa_lhIqo7aMlf9mOwSzvz2S0WA&sig2=CJKLPWxEDIZ-So8xqly3aA
The plane takes off. Its powered by the prop pushing against the air, it is a word problems for idiots. Jesus the internets are stupid.
Wow, you've never been to a Journey concert, have you?
You don't do that? Why not?
Fail:
http://forum.boxee.tv/forumdisplay.php?f=5
From TFA:
It says so right in TFA that's "where the fuck it says" it.
I started with 10 GB and do enough tinkering that I filled it up and moved on to 20. Bumping my head against that, but I do a lot of screwing around with new apps and local installs.
Because it had no plot and was boring. I liked season 1. I couldn't get through 4 episodes of season 2. They planned on failing.
I can live with bad grammar in the submissions, and of course in the comments, but can Technical Journalists PLEASE take a few goddamned English courses?
And Sony always plays so nice and openly?
And before you complain, that search site for morgan kaufmann (listed specifically as the publisher) was linked as the first link to buy the book from the first google result which was the google books preview of the book. IT'S NOT HARD TO FIND.
I found it in 15 seconds as the only search result to the string compression algorithms.
What is your problem?
http://www.elsevierdirect.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780127887746
0. Wrong. Full Stop. See: Eclipse, Blender, and any other of thousands of high quality open source applications that are professional quality, developed by paid professionals, but given away for free so that there is a more vibrant software ecosystem.
1.... Alsa and ESD work just fine. Ubuntu screwed the pooch implementing Pulseaudio, but Alsa and ESD are working just fine on my gaming rig and my htpc to do any audio crap I want. Also, I do remastering work on a base ubuntu install and audacity. So, I call BS on this. It takes effort to get right, but show me a windoze box that does this correctly out of the box without fucking around. Sorry but BS.
2..... Its called an nVidia card and compiz-fusion. IMHO better than the Aero bs, lower resource usage than it, and it solves every one of the issues he's griping about. Show me a system these days that DOESN'T come new with a 3d chipset that can't handle compiz.
3..... This is a) not a bad thing and b) FAR bettter than windoze. I have a whole group of people that are nice enough to package up my software so it installs in two or three clicks or one cli command. Beyond that, if they haven't gotten to it, I can get it packaged from the vendor, or if its EVEN newer, I have a free complete dev system and can compile the damned thing myself using the same dependencies the devs are using to work on it. Grow a clue.
4..... No, no it shouldn't. I don't want joe user to be able to configure some things, because I have to ssh in and fix it for him when he goes playing.
5.... bullshit: http://architectafrica.com/bin0/news200411111_wine.html
6. I haven't run across this, so I guess i'll hafta take his word. This is why you use a distro who test well :)
7. And the windoze API is so clean and bug free? IE is such a stable application?
8. Then you're not doing it right. Sorry but this isn't a desktop issue so please drive through.
9. Yes, but how about run time behavior. Unix-alikes encourage an app to load EVERYTHING at startup of the app so we don't have to put up with bullshit delays when dynamically loading the wizard for doing task A. Its a difference in philosophy of putting all the wait up front, not "slowness". He obviously doesn't get it.
10. Maybe, so use a stable released version. I agree that for stable stuff this should be better (get cracking devs)
11. So write some documentation. Not every project has infinite resources so you get tradeoffs.
12. Bullshit. gksudo, etc. Learn what you're talking about. ps -A is all the protection against "keyloggers" that I need.
13. I'd rather have broken backwards compatibility than infinite security holes to keep a dead api from a single user system alive.
14. Just plain wrong.
Umm are you blind, he ISN'T PUBLISHED BY O'REILLY, the book he's referring to:
http://books.google.com/books?id=mnPeNQ0ZCsUC&pg=PA187&lpg=PA187&dq=data+compression+peter+wayner&source=bl&ots=ADJFApRA6Q&sig=9vqTz19uyk4WjFh5TwT5HY6zzZU&hl=en&ei=HJIMSoTzFITAMq_SzbMG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPA179,M1
is the top result to the string he gives, and is published by Morgan Kaufmann.
You do realize that the NUMBER ONE link on google is google books displaying most of the full text for free right? And it contains links for where to buy it. How is this broken?
I burn it to dvd-rw and carry that over there. Easy.
External hard drives, flash drives, dvd-rw's, backup tape, pick your poison. You have it in a COMPLETELY mutable format, can store it on WHATEVER media you want, can copy it perfectly bit for bit infinite times, your storage doesn't degrade with use, the storage is cheaper per second/hour/program of storage, you can write it back to a portable copy that anyone can view on their player, you can watch it on your ipod, you can share it over the web, you can upload it to youtube. I'm sorry, but saying having it on analog storage that is expensive, unreliable, non portable, unsupported, and low quality is just fucking ignorant.
Hell to back it up forever you can throw it out to carbonite, amazon's cloud, or a hosted backed up server anywhere you want.
You don't want to learn how to use a linux based media box. You've arbitrarily decided that because you can't make a dvd-rw burn on whatever box it is you're using that its "inconvenient". You fail to see that you're locking yourself into a dying format that will very soon isolate your media so that no one else could possibly view it unless they come to your stash of vcr's. You have it in a format that is the LEAST CONVENIENT format it could POSSIBLY be in.
http://www.dvd-recordable.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2616
"Get off my lawn" continues.
Because you can store it on HDDs, flash media, dvd-rs, dvd-rws, etc. You would then have the option to back it up to backup tape if you're so concerned with it being on a media that degrades every time you use it.
So just be honest and say "Get off my lawn, I don't want to learn anything new," rather than making these wild rationalizations about how its "better". Its not, we know its not, you know its not.
Use encrypted connections. Then they can only complain about bandwidth unless they want to be a peer (trust me they don't). FYI, broadcast material is perfectly legal to download.
I'll give you one guess as to why it sounds stupid "when I say it that way". (hint: Because it is)
Which you could never digitize and burn to dvd before they degrade to unwatchable, huh?
See my reply above to see why you're misguided. DVD players (for your parents) cost $40 now. DVD-RWs cost ~$2 apiece if you don't hunt around for cheapies. MythTV didn't obey the "broadcast flag" even the 1 time it was "accidentally" set. Its fairly obtuse to keep trying to hunt up blank tapes (that no one manufactures anymore) that wear out and degrade.
However, you can only lead a horse to water.
So you spent $1000 on VCRs to save $10 on buying some DVD-RW's and $40 to buy your parents a DVD player?
Build a MythTV box, install boxee as well and move out of the dark ages brother!
http://www.mythbuntu.org/
http://www.boxee.tv/
Recommended tuner for mythbuntu:
http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hvr2250.html
Recommended sound card:
http://www.turtlebeach.com/products/riviera/home.aspx