Can anyone please tell me how the hell the adjective "gracious" is justified in this context??
Perhaps he meant graceful. Either way, he way overused a two-dollar word. He should have said: "The Ipaq just got a new graceful look with QX microkernel and the elegant Photon micro GUI".
Then again, this is "news for nerds" not "news for over-educated literate-types".
Which tends to make me think the medical ones are a wee bit more powerful.
It's not the power, per se, it's that a medical imager is capable of dispersing X-rays over a much wider range of area, some of which are going to irradiate the operator.
The X-ray machines in an airport are shielded (ever notice the heavy looking rubber skirts that your bags go through on either end?), and the x-rays are directed at a very narrow section of the conveyor belt.
Judging by the pictures this whole thing didn't look that organized to me...
Damn. I'd thought I'd seen it all. You can't even run a story about a fricking BBQ on Slashdot without someone trying to one up the writers. I suppose I should chime in to run this mother into the ground.
The park people said they "really had their shit together". No where in that comment does it say anything about how organzied the operation was. It said they "had their shit together". You inferred that this meant that it was a particularly organized event, but it didn't. It meant they "really had their shit together" just like it said.
Having one's shit together, to me, means that someone has meat, someone has buns, there's a place for garbage, there's a method to get food, there's coolers filled with beverages, and someone seems to know what's happening. It doesn't necessarily mean that this is an efficient, organized troop of BBQ commandoes dispersing from a truck in swat-like fashion to commence operation: cook-out.
It was a freakin' BBQ, how organized would you expect it to be?
My only wish is that the built in programming language was Perl instead of BASIC!
That'd be tough. The memory requirements for even a cut down Perl interpreter are pretty substantial. Also, since the scripts are compiled at run-time, it'd be really slow...
I have two of them that I use regularly. The twelve hour battery life can't be beat, and when they run out, you can use POTS batteries to replace them. Its a great device for writing, although the onboard memory is a bit small.
Since Christmas, I find myself using my Palm m105 and folding keyboard more and more often when I would've used the 102. Still, the 102 is a very useful device.
Well, I got an Ipaq H3150 yesterday. It arrived in the mail right after I sent that last post. I hadn't put Linux on it and was messing around with wince and guess what? It locked up running Pocket Excel, not 2 hours after I pulled it out of the box, BEFORE I had a chance to put any new software on it. Kudos, Microsoft, for another engineering marvel!.
I seriously doubt that it would be legal in any way, shape, or form to set up a kiddie pr0n archive server in Oregon.
If you were going to set up a kiddie porn server, this is the place to come. Owning kiddie porn is not illegal on its face. Kiddie pornographers are prosecuted not because it's illegal to own kiddie porn, but because their behavior poses a threat to society. I'm telling you, it's the wild west out here.
Where I live, in Britain, we have a variety of obscenity laws. And yet, I can go to the pub and watch all nude dancers while I drink. I can also buy hard liquor and hardcore porn from the local corner store, which is more than you can do in Oregon.
Well, in other states, you can't drink hard liquor and wathc all-nude dancers. I was under the impression (from an article in Bizarre) that all-nude dancing was illegal in Britain. Also, you can buy hardcore porn from the corner store in Oregon ( if they want to sell it).
There are restrictions on Liquor sales, but that's beside the point for this argument. We're talking about distributing pornography, not liquor. I wouldn't suggest coming to Oregon to distribute liquor.
Porn. Plenty of porn companies can afford this. If they're doing something extreme, and they're located in a dictatorial country like Australia or the US, this may be a good choice.
In the US, what is deemed obscene varies greatly from place to place. We decide what is obscene from community to community. Where I live, in Oregon, we have no obscenity laws. That's right kids, anything goes. You can watch all nude dancers and drink liquor at the same time. Hard core porn? No problem.
It seems to me that setting up a pornserver in Oregon would be a lot easier to do then to row out into the middle of the ocean to a country with dubious independent status. If Sealand started doing something worth shutting down I don't think UK would have any problem at all "invading" (based on their reputation).
If you want more utility: MAKE IT!!!! Isn't that what your oh so precious Linux-hacker mindset is all about? Or does you psuedo ideology get in the way of any cleverness?
WTF are you talking about? Linux has utility coming out the wazoo. And it was all made by the users. We didn't wait for Steve Jobs to shit his vision down into our machines, as mac lusers do, we went out and MADE it. No apologies here. That's what the linux-hacker mindset is about.
So you can sit back and try to defend Apple for not getting the job done, or you can fire up Linux and do it yourself, you mewling, whining sap.
Oh, FFS, grow up. My USB iBall has 2 buttons and a ball to make you envious; having one button on the box itself is hardly a problem when you've got alt/fn/ctrl/apple-key combinations to emulate a couple more buttons as well.
I guess the stock-in-trade Apple apologist cop-out was bound to pop up sooner or later. Yes, yes, we know, Mac users don't need all of the bells and whistles that us non-mac users are used to. Please, explain again how it's soooo much more functional... we're all really very impressed with the technical precision that allows a one button mouse to be as useful as a three button mouse with a wheel. Eventually we'll all be convinced if you continue to tell us how immature we are for wanting more utiliy.
Try AE. I had to learn it when I put Debian on a system a while back (no Pico!). I've grown to like even more than I liked Pico (and I liked Pico a ton).
But who is the culprit urpmi or the packages?
It's hard to tell!
Urpmi is just a transport mechanism. If your system is unstable, then it's the unstable software you installed causing you grief. If the packages downloaded from the site correctly and installed, then URPMI did it's job.
This plot is a total rip-off of the Miyazaki Classic: "Hagamaki Ortifunk", or (from it's American release) "Whistling in the Dark, with Daisies". Can't Americans think of anything original anymore? Could they ever?
I'm working on a web site to expose this travesty to the world. I'm sure everyone will be impressed with my esoteric knowledge of this classic of Japanese animation.
Unfornately I am stuck with redhat and all the latest versions of gnome and kde only have have rpm's for the latest or last 2 versions of mandrake or redhat or suse. If your behind you need to buy again and again. Kind of like a subscription. Hmmmm
How about FTP'ing them, just like you do your precious Deb packages? Lord I hate Debian FUD.
There are plenty of reasons to use Debian no need to BS in order to make it look even better. This kind of CRAP benefits NO ONE
1) They already have enough power to render the movies, that's why they're already out in theaters.
2) The people who MAKE movies are a different group of people than those who SHOW movies.
3) Seti@home has to do a ton of redundant work, because people turn seti@home off in the middle of a block and never turn it on again, kids download block then try to upload spoofed workfiles to crank their work completed stats, and other garbage that the Studios just wouldn't tolerate well.
Consider this: Would the Seti project buy a server farm to perform this work if they could afford it? Or do you think they'd go through all of this crap, simply because they enjoy dealing with crap more than doing science?
It is, in fact, just you. "Open" has nothing to do with whether or not you have to pay for it. If you'd RTF literature, you'd know that.
Not that I support this, but if you're going to go off at least get the basics right. I think this particular action flies in the face of Bill Gates and his gang of idiots by showing just what can be done within the confines of the GPL.
If a person has the right to send spam, then honoring an opt-out list is purely optional.
I understand that we have a right to speak our mind in any forum, but there is no constitutional guarantee of an audience. It's pure crap that we have to pay for the priviledge of being an audience for garbage communications. It'd be one thing if the internet were provided to citizens free of charge, but the same way it's illegal for telemarketers to call cell phones, it ought to be illegal for spammers to contact those who do not actively seek advertisements. Apparently the first amendment doesn't apply to cell phones, setting the precedent for restricting unsolicited e-mail on the internet.
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Can anyone please tell me how the hell the adjective "gracious" is justified in this context??
Perhaps he meant graceful. Either way, he way overused a two-dollar word. He should have said: "The Ipaq just got a new graceful look with QX microkernel and the elegant Photon micro GUI".
Then again, this is "news for nerds" not "news for over-educated literate-types".
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Which tends to make me think the medical ones are a wee bit more powerful.
It's not the power, per se, it's that a medical imager is capable of dispersing X-rays over a much wider range of area, some of which are going to irradiate the operator.
The X-ray machines in an airport are shielded (ever notice the heavy looking rubber skirts that your bags go through on either end?), and the x-rays are directed at a very narrow section of the conveyor belt.
Judging by the pictures this whole thing didn't look that organized to me...
Damn. I'd thought I'd seen it all. You can't even run a story about a fricking BBQ on Slashdot without someone trying to one up the writers. I suppose I should chime in to run this mother into the ground.
The park people said they "really had their shit together". No where in that comment does it say anything about how organzied the operation was. It said they "had their shit together". You inferred that this meant that it was a particularly organized event, but it didn't. It meant they "really had their shit together" just like it said.
Having one's shit together, to me, means that someone has meat, someone has buns, there's a place for garbage, there's a method to get food, there's coolers filled with beverages, and someone seems to know what's happening. It doesn't necessarily mean that this is an efficient, organized troop of BBQ commandoes dispersing from a truck in swat-like fashion to commence operation: cook-out.
It was a freakin' BBQ, how organized would you expect it to be?
My only wish is that the built in programming language was Perl instead of BASIC!
That'd be tough. The memory requirements for even a cut down Perl interpreter are pretty substantial. Also, since the scripts are compiled at run-time, it'd be really slow...
You can purchase modern modems with acoustic couplers.
Meant COTS. My bad.
I have two of them that I use regularly. The twelve hour battery life can't be beat, and when they run out, you can use POTS batteries to replace them. Its a great device for writing, although the onboard memory is a bit small.
Since Christmas, I find myself using my Palm m105 and folding keyboard more and more often when I would've used the 102. Still, the 102 is a very useful device.
my ipaq has yet to crash
Well, I got an Ipaq H3150 yesterday. It arrived in the mail right after I sent that last post. I hadn't put Linux on it and was messing around with wince and guess what? It locked up running Pocket Excel, not 2 hours after I pulled it out of the box, BEFORE I had a chance to put any new software on it. Kudos, Microsoft, for another engineering marvel!.
Now I can have a PalmOS device that crashes and only has 8 hours of battery life! Just what I always wanted!
I seriously doubt that it would be legal in any way, shape, or form to set up a kiddie pr0n archive server in Oregon.
If you were going to set up a kiddie porn server, this is the place to come. Owning kiddie porn is not illegal on its face. Kiddie pornographers are prosecuted not because it's illegal to own kiddie porn, but because their behavior poses a threat to society. I'm telling you, it's the wild west out here.
Where I live, in Britain, we have a variety of obscenity laws. And yet, I can go to the pub and watch all nude dancers while I drink. I can also buy hard liquor and hardcore porn from the local corner store, which is more than you can do in Oregon.
Well, in other states, you can't drink hard liquor and wathc all-nude dancers. I was under the impression (from an article in Bizarre) that all-nude dancing was illegal in Britain. Also, you can buy hardcore porn from the corner store in Oregon ( if they want to sell it).
There are restrictions on Liquor sales, but that's beside the point for this argument. We're talking about distributing pornography, not liquor. I wouldn't suggest coming to Oregon to distribute liquor.
Porn. Plenty of porn companies can afford this. If they're doing something extreme, and they're located in a dictatorial country like Australia or the US, this may be a good choice.
In the US, what is deemed obscene varies greatly from place to place. We decide what is obscene from community to community. Where I live, in Oregon, we have no obscenity laws. That's right kids, anything goes. You can watch all nude dancers and drink liquor at the same time. Hard core porn? No problem.
It seems to me that setting up a pornserver in Oregon would be a lot easier to do then to row out into the middle of the ocean to a country with dubious independent status. If Sealand started doing something worth shutting down I don't think UK would have any problem at all "invading" (based on their reputation).
It figures, the link's to an asp. I'm guessing IIS.
If you want more utility: MAKE IT!!!! Isn't that what your oh so precious Linux-hacker mindset is all about? Or does you psuedo ideology get in the way of any cleverness?
WTF are you talking about? Linux has utility coming out the wazoo. And it was all made by the users. We didn't wait for Steve Jobs to shit his vision down into our machines, as mac lusers do, we went out and MADE it. No apologies here. That's what the linux-hacker mindset is about.
So you can sit back and try to defend Apple for not getting the job done, or you can fire up Linux and do it yourself, you mewling, whining sap.
Oh, FFS, grow up. My USB iBall has 2 buttons and a ball to make you envious; having one button on the box itself is hardly a problem when you've got alt/fn/ctrl/apple-key combinations to emulate a couple more buttons as well.
I guess the stock-in-trade Apple apologist cop-out was bound to pop up sooner or later. Yes, yes, we know, Mac users don't need all of the bells and whistles that us non-mac users are used to. Please, explain again how it's soooo much more functional... we're all really very impressed with the technical precision that allows a one button mouse to be as useful as a three button mouse with a wheel. Eventually we'll all be convinced if you continue to tell us how immature we are for wanting more utiliy.
Try AE. I had to learn it when I put Debian on a system a while back (no Pico!). I've grown to like even more than I liked Pico (and I liked Pico a ton).
So, you're brushing up on your Spanish to go to Brazil. Hmm...
Is emacs better than vi?
Yes, but xemacs is better than both.
Is red better than blue?
Red is most definately better than blue. You'd have to be a sloped-brow knuckle-dragger if you thought otherwise.
:P
But who is the culprit urpmi or the packages?
It's hard to tell!
Urpmi is just a transport mechanism. If your system is unstable, then it's the unstable software you installed causing you grief. If the packages downloaded from the site correctly and installed, then URPMI did it's job.
This plot is a total rip-off of the Miyazaki Classic: "Hagamaki Ortifunk", or (from it's American release) "Whistling in the Dark, with Daisies". Can't Americans think of anything original anymore? Could they ever?
I'm working on a web site to expose this travesty to the world. I'm sure everyone will be impressed with my esoteric knowledge of this classic of Japanese animation.
Unfornately I am stuck with redhat and all the latest versions of gnome and kde only have have rpm's for the latest or last 2 versions of mandrake or redhat or suse. If your behind you need to buy again and again. Kind of like a subscription. Hmmmm
How about FTP'ing them, just like you do your precious Deb packages? Lord I hate Debian FUD. There are plenty of reasons to use Debian no need to BS in order to make it look even better. This kind of CRAP benefits NO ONE
1) They already have enough power to render the movies, that's why they're already out in theaters.
2) The people who MAKE movies are a different group of people than those who SHOW movies.
3) Seti@home has to do a ton of redundant work, because people turn seti@home off in the middle of a block and never turn it on again, kids download block then try to upload spoofed workfiles to crank their work completed stats, and other garbage that the Studios just wouldn't tolerate well.
Consider this: Would the Seti project buy a server farm to perform this work if they could afford it? Or do you think they'd go through all of this crap, simply because they enjoy dealing with crap more than doing science?
It is, in fact, just you. "Open" has nothing to do with whether or not you have to pay for it. If you'd RTF literature, you'd know that.
Not that I support this, but if you're going to go off at least get the basics right. I think this particular action flies in the face of Bill Gates and his gang of idiots by showing just what can be done within the confines of the GPL.
I wonder why /., the champions of open source, aren't using a Linux box with a few NICs and some hacked-together code as a load balancer?
If you'd read teh post on newsforge, you'd know that it was EXODUS's routers that went down, NOT OSDN's. RTF News Articles.
If a person has the right to send spam, then honoring an opt-out list is purely optional.
I understand that we have a right to speak our mind in any forum, but there is no constitutional guarantee of an audience. It's pure crap that we have to pay for the priviledge of being an audience for garbage communications. It'd be one thing if the internet were provided to citizens free of charge, but the same way it's illegal for telemarketers to call cell phones, it ought to be illegal for spammers to contact those who do not actively seek advertisements. Apparently the first amendment doesn't apply to cell phones, setting the precedent for restricting unsolicited e-mail on the internet.