"Think we edit fast?" Fine asks, as more images flash by. "I'd be going faster if this shitty computer wasn't so slow." That shitty computer is a dual-Xeon 2.4GHz machine with 1.5GB of RAM.
I wonder why the story's author didn't realize that the bottleneck is probably the shitty IDE drive, not the dual processors and heap of RAM... Shitty computer indeed. It oughtta be able to display images faster than "Fine" can see them. Shitty software or shitty drive interface is my diagnosis.:)
Unless you check the box that says not to do that. You're the one responsible for all of those wornms, aren't you? "I'll just click OK on this box without reading what it says".:)
We don't get to vote on whether we think this is neccesary, though. We get to vote for people who we hope will vote the way we feel, but who we know will probably just vote the way the people who give them money feel. That's the beauty of the US's Democratic Republic - it's only sortof a democracy, because long ago, some people who liked the royal system but disliked the recent series fo kings decided that the common folk were too dumb to understand everything legal (because they were, and still are). Those people making deecisions kept a system that was similar to the royal system with a few modification to make it more democratic. It's *not* a full democracy, though, and keeps moving farther and farther away as the obvious difficulties with such a system become more and more problematic.
Whoa, I'm sliding deeper and deeper into an off-topic rant. Nevermind. I hope everyone here starts voting for everything they have the opportunity to vote for...
He stopped going to flea markets after he "hurt his back". I'm guessing that he's one of those people who got some kind of monsterous settlement from whoever coud be blamed for his "back pain"... That money could've been invested wisely (based on a spam message, no doubt), and the divdends are paying for his compulsive buying habits.
Never been involved with a warranty dispute on a modified car, have you?:) If the owner changes something and that change can be shown to have caused a problem, then the automaker is not liable for that problem. The flip side is that the problem has to be demonstrably caused by the owner's modification. So, if you change your exhaust and the alternator blows up, you can't be denied warranty service. If you change your radiator and the engine overheats, cracking a head, you're quite possibly liable for the service.
The automaker is only at risk if the things that they did cause problems. It's really a suprisingly logical system.:)
The best part here is that, just 2 months ago, my DishNetwork bill increased by %5 for teh second time in 12 months. Yes, that's Dish "we advertise that we're better than cable because cable raises rates all the time" Network, raising their rates all the time.
Damn it, Dish raised my rates to put on extra channels that I don't frigign want. Twice. Why can't they just take those POS channels back and give me my damned South Park? They're watching out for themselves, not me - if Dish's costs go up then my bill goes up so their profit remains constant.
Gee, thanks Dish. I'm glad you can keep making heaps of money by forcing me to pay for 500 channels when I only want about 10...:)
Good thing guns are illeagal there. Criminals, as we know, are very concerned about breaking the law. Surely someone planning to murder someone would be very worried about breaking the law by carrying a gun with them...
So, he agrees that the "commentary on society" can indeed be annoying, but that the physical reflections are what he meant?;)
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You have Slashdot confused with France. Geeks shower only when needed, not every n hours just because someone arbitrarily decided that n+1 hours makes you dirty, whereas the French, well, they just don't bathe at all, for some reason.:)
It's not another distro, it's "run the newest version of your software". You don't *have* to change distros just to upgrade the software, but that seemed the easiest suggestion given that the question was asked by an appearent newbie ('cause you're running whatever was bundled with the distribution which happens to be about a year old).
The k3b site is http://www.k3b.org/ and there's a binary package up there for SuSE 8.2, so you don't have to do that really hard thing known as "compliling" or "figuring out how to read the INSTALL doc". Heck, you don't even have to go to google and click on the first link returned by a search for k3b - the homepage is linked right in the "about k3b" box in the application on your computer right now.
Yeah, but it'll recode the thing in divX;) or whatever codec it's using - which is kinda the same if you've got one of those players that plays back dIVx;( or whatever it uses.;)
If you install SuSE 9.0, which is the current release *and* is available for free now, you'll notice that k3b was updated. Presumably you're using the default windowing setup - KDE - and the default install - which includes k3b (which is really about the best darned Linux program I've used recently). Anyway, the new k3b has support for dvd burning, and the underlying tool set includes the dvdrecord stuff. It works. Well.
It's also worth noting that the joy of driving is in paying attention to the drive - to what the car's trelling you about the road. If you're listening to a book, you're missing the drive. If you live in a high-traffic area where your commute sucks, well, your job probably sucks too, so find a new job elsewhere.:)
Are you sure that Flash isn't Macromedia's better known tool?;)
Anyway, the newest Macromedia suites, and it kills me to say this, actually generate some pretty decent HTML. Prior to MX / MX 2004, the code was awful. Their mouseover, etc. stuff is still awful, and I still prefer to use my own JS (actually, I do all of my development with vim, but I do have to work with other developers), but the HTML Deramweaver spits out (and Fireworks, sortof) is reasonably decent to work with later on.
Yup - lack of unlimited direct connect was a deal-breaker for me. Did I mention that I also have free long distance with the Sprint plan?
Now that we finally have number portability (that was my one aggrevation with the switch - I'd been paying Nextel a "portability fee" for each nubmer for months, but still couldn't take my number with me), I guess that it won't be that big of a deal if Sprint goes under due to losing money, though. I'd probably go back to Nextel, 'cause the service just seemed to be more business-like and the phones weren't *all* stupid game-playing color-picturing toys. Some of the Nextel phones are really just friggin' phones! That's awesome...
Oh, yeah, it's much nicer to have a good way to do those things. I was merely pointing out that is is *possible* with CVS, assuming one wants to put adequate effort into it.:)
Re "how to figure it out" - probably the "easiest" thing to do would be to have a makefile and to rebuild targets involving the checked-in files on checkin. That'd still suck to work with, but would theoretically work - and that's all I'm arguing: "theory". I darn sure don't want to have to implement it.;)
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"Think we edit fast?" Fine asks, as more images flash by. "I'd be going faster if this shitty computer wasn't so slow." That shitty computer is a dual-Xeon 2.4GHz machine with 1.5GB of RAM.
:)
I wonder why the story's author didn't realize that the bottleneck is probably the shitty IDE drive, not the dual processors and heap of RAM... Shitty computer indeed. It oughtta be able to display images faster than "Fine" can see them. Shitty software or shitty drive interface is my diagnosis.
Watch this week's southpark - it's *incredibly* appropriate to current events.
And people thought it was just potty humor...
Unless you check the box that says not to do that. You're the one responsible for all of those wornms, aren't you? "I'll just click OK on this box without reading what it says". :)
We don't get to vote on whether we think this is neccesary, though. We get to vote for people who we hope will vote the way we feel, but who we know will probably just vote the way the people who give them money feel. That's the beauty of the US's Democratic Republic - it's only sortof a democracy, because long ago, some people who liked the royal system but disliked the recent series fo kings decided that the common folk were too dumb to understand everything legal (because they were, and still are). Those people making deecisions kept a system that was similar to the royal system with a few modification to make it more democratic. It's *not* a full democracy, though, and keeps moving farther and farther away as the obvious difficulties with such a system become more and more problematic.
Whoa, I'm sliding deeper and deeper into an off-topic rant. Nevermind. I hope everyone here starts voting for everything they have the opportunity to vote for...
He stopped going to flea markets after he "hurt his back". I'm guessing that he's one of those people who got some kind of monsterous settlement from whoever coud be blamed for his "back pain"... That money could've been invested wisely (based on a spam message, no doubt), and the divdends are paying for his compulsive buying habits.
That's my theory, anyway.
What about those flexible roll-up keyboards?
Never been involved with a warranty dispute on a modified car, have you? :) If the owner changes something and that change can be shown to have caused a problem, then the automaker is not liable for that problem. The flip side is that the problem has to be demonstrably caused by the owner's modification. So, if you change your exhaust and the alternator blows up, you can't be denied warranty service. If you change your radiator and the engine overheats, cracking a head, you're quite possibly liable for the service.
:)
The automaker is only at risk if the things that they did cause problems. It's really a suprisingly logical system.
Also, wget doesn't put the file on stdout.
lynx -dump $domain | display
I think...
The best part here is that, just 2 months ago, my DishNetwork bill increased by %5 for teh second time in 12 months. Yes, that's Dish "we advertise that we're better than cable because cable raises rates all the time" Network, raising their rates all the time.
:)
Damn it, Dish raised my rates to put on extra channels that I don't frigign want. Twice. Why can't they just take those POS channels back and give me my damned South Park? They're watching out for themselves, not me - if Dish's costs go up then my bill goes up so their profit remains constant.
Gee, thanks Dish. I'm glad you can keep making heaps of money by forcing me to pay for 500 channels when I only want about 10...
Cursed Bavarian Hip-Hop artists... :)
It's "your" not "you" when you're referring to a possessive, as in "losing your mind when reading inaccurate corrections". ;)
Good thing guns are illeagal there. Criminals, as we know, are very concerned about breaking the law. Surely someone planning to murder someone would be very worried about breaking the law by carrying a gun with them...
I dunno - I think I like the rampant speculation better than the "straight from the horse's mouth" clarification. ;)
So, he agrees that the "commentary on society" can indeed be annoying, but that the physical reflections are what he meant? ;)
You have Slashdot confused with France. Geeks shower only when needed, not every n hours just because someone arbitrarily decided that n+1 hours makes you dirty, whereas the French, well, they just don't bathe at all, for some reason. :)
It's not another distro, it's "run the newest version of your software". You don't *have* to change distros just to upgrade the software, but that seemed the easiest suggestion given that the question was asked by an appearent newbie ('cause you're running whatever was bundled with the distribution which happens to be about a year old).
The k3b site is http://www.k3b.org/ and there's a binary package up there for SuSE 8.2, so you don't have to do that really hard thing known as "compliling" or "figuring out how to read the INSTALL doc". Heck, you don't even have to go to google and click on the first link returned by a search for k3b - the homepage is linked right in the "about k3b" box in the application on your computer right now.
Yeah, but it'll recode the thing in divX;) or whatever codec it's using - which is kinda the same if you've got one of those players that plays back dIVx;( or whatever it uses. ;)
I guess that you didn't realize that's pretty similar to K3B's DVD copy function (or a couple clicks shy of K3B's "make eMovix disk") - on Linux. :)
If you install SuSE 9.0, which is the current release *and* is available for free now, you'll notice that k3b was updated. Presumably you're using the default windowing setup - KDE - and the default install - which includes k3b (which is really about the best darned Linux program I've used recently). Anyway, the new k3b has support for dvd burning, and the underlying tool set includes the dvdrecord stuff. It works. Well.
It's also worth noting that the joy of driving is in paying attention to the drive - to what the car's trelling you about the road. If you're listening to a book, you're missing the drive. If you live in a high-traffic area where your commute sucks, well, your job probably sucks too, so find a new job elsewhere. :)
Make sure to never say "no" around the monkey...
Are you sure that Flash isn't Macromedia's better known tool? ;)
Anyway, the newest Macromedia suites, and it kills me to say this, actually generate some pretty decent HTML. Prior to MX / MX 2004, the code was awful. Their mouseover, etc. stuff is still awful, and I still prefer to use my own JS (actually, I do all of my development with vim, but I do have to work with other developers), but the HTML Deramweaver spits out (and Fireworks, sortof) is reasonably decent to work with later on.
Maye he's got one of those 70's Mac mainframes...
Yup - lack of unlimited direct connect was a deal-breaker for me. Did I mention that I also have free long distance with the Sprint plan?
Now that we finally have number portability (that was my one aggrevation with the switch - I'd been paying Nextel a "portability fee" for each nubmer for months, but still couldn't take my number with me), I guess that it won't be that big of a deal if Sprint goes under due to losing money, though. I'd probably go back to Nextel, 'cause the service just seemed to be more business-like and the phones weren't *all* stupid game-playing color-picturing toys. Some of the Nextel phones are really just friggin' phones! That's awesome...
Oh, yeah, it's much nicer to have a good way to do those things. I was merely pointing out that is is *possible* with CVS, assuming one wants to put adequate effort into it. :)
;)
Re "how to figure it out" - probably the "easiest" thing to do would be to have a makefile and to rebuild targets involving the checked-in files on checkin. That'd still suck to work with, but would theoretically work - and that's all I'm arguing: "theory". I darn sure don't want to have to implement it.