Really? You have to be infected in order to appreciate the horror of malaria?! Wait'll the HIV folks get a hold of this idea.
I'm eagerly waiting for that conference...
"Sorry Mr president, can I take your pants off ?, so as I was saying, HIV propagation, oh, and your underwear too... Yes, um, right, HIV propagation can take many forms from blood sharing... Would you please bend over a bit Mr president ? Yes, um, from blood sharing to sexual... ah, wait, I need to stimulate myself a bit, just a second... Let me show you some slides in the meantime..."
I probably won't see in in the theatre but count me in for the DVD release, It sounds like a great investment.
The simplest, and most reasonable content would be:
If people are blocking popups, and you try to force upon them a popup advertisement, you are probably being counterproductive to your cause, and are a complete RETARD.
Or maybe you're just working in marketing :
Advertisement FTW ! Ok, pass the doughnuts, I think we're done with the meeting here...
If they are Japanese made maybe. My North American made model barely fits on the desktop. [... ]
I'd upgrade if possible, but with the poor economy that's just not financially feasible at this time.
You know how it is with laptops, the slimmer ones are always way overpriced. They may look better when you take them out at the local café but they're often underpowered.
At a small company we had started last century, we had named all our machines after 8 bit computers. So we had C64, ZX81, Amiga1000, etc.
From the outside, they had aliases such as mail, ftp or www, but their cnames were regularly exposed in various ways, mostly mail headers. So regularly we had mails asking us "wow, you're *really* running your web server on a C64 ?" to which we invariably replied that "yes, and you wouldn't believe what a bitch the Apache port was. Not to mention swapping on a cassette tape."
My home LAN just uses imaginary places, currently with homefree, neverwhere and diskworld.
Pretend for just one moment that your network guy got clocked by a bus. He won't be back to work until someone figures out a way to raise the dead.
You're the new guy they just hired to replace him. Who cares about CNAMEs when you're on the server looking at the hostname? Someone tells you 'daffy' and 'kirk' are down. What are they? What do they do?
Well, if he's the replacement netadmin, he could, like "cat/var/named/<whatever>" on the DNS box and see what it's all about.
I just stopped using their OS and switched to FreeBSD, they are more serious about versions and releases (switch wasn't that painful anyway, and I got a working nvidia driver).
Unfortunately work takes up a disproportionate amount of time in one's life (despite computers and robots which were supposed to eliminate the need to work). Companies need to start accommodating workers instead of spying on them, stressing them out, and treating them like shit.
How is that obvious? I know, it's their software, they can do it however they want, and it's my fault for not reading the warnings, but you've got to admit that's completely different than any other project.
The problem isn't as much that you didn't read the warnings than that the distro integrators didn't either. A number of the latest KDE based ones were unusable because they shipped with the unfinished KDE 4.
I don't know how good compilers have become [... ]
Better.
but I've had to optimize generated code (for space and speed) a long time ago.
Well, that's why then.
And for those who diss gcc, it does support a bit more architectures :
* Alpha
* ARM
* Atmel AVR
* Blackfin
* HC12
* H8/300
* IA-32 (x86)
* x86-64
* IA-64
* Motorola 68000
* MIPS
* PA-RISC
* PDP-11
* PowerPC
* R8C/M16C/M32C
* SPU
* System/390/zSeries
* SuperH
* SPARC
* VAX
(list taken from Wikipedia without further checking) than the other super optimized compilers. So while I expect a bit more work goes into x86 and al., the rest of them are still active (not to mention all the other architectures maintained on a parallel tree).
Yes but IIRC using ogg almost always reduces battery life since the hardware isn't optimized for it.
I don't think it's a matter of hardware optimization, it's just more resource intensive, requiring more cycles, and therefore more power. OTOH a lot of players now support it.
FTA: "I've taken the 8gig and 4 gig drives, nine in total"
FTA: "I used a 350MB.AVI Video file for all testing.".
More importantly, he couldn't use a 16GB file, since FAT32 doesn't support single files over 4GB.
Which is a real shame since I was really looking forward to seeing his technique for fitting those 16GB files on 8 or 4GB drives. Curse you Microsoft !
It's a Microsoft product, and Slashbots love to bash Microsoft just for the sake of bashing Microsoft, even when they do something half-decent(Zune) or even good(Xbox 360).
What's half decent about it ? They just made the same player as everybody else but waste coloured. Just get a Cowon or an iRiver already. Then you'll get a full featured player. Or install RockBox on whatever it currently supports.
I'll remind people one of the older reasons Linus chose KDE: There's a nice GUI for configuring what each mouse button on the title bar of a window does. In GNOME, this functionality simply wasn't available.
At one point it was. I even used to remove the Gnome window manager to put SawFish back in (much more configurable) so that I had that functionality. Then after a bit I stopped bothering. If I'd wanted a bondage an domination desktop I'd just run Windows or MacOS. So I switched to KDE.
Nowadays I run KDE 3.x on my desktop and KDE 4.x on my laptop. However while KDE 4 is fine for dicking around, it's pretty much impossible to actually work in it. So It's back to Gnome on the lappy which, with the help of Compiz can be made a bit more usable (at least Windows stop coming forward when you click on them and there are more config options).
I'm testing XFCE though which I haven't tried in a while.
This is not true. It is possible to create documentation that is very complete. In the almost 30 years of writing code, I have found MS to be the worst.
Quite, I've had to refer to technical documentation from large entities such as IBM, Tandem, Sun and Microsoft and Microsoft just does a concictantly terrible job of it.
While the others *did* have errors from time, they were rarely completely wrong, making stuff up, or just absent, which I've regularly seen happen with MS.
So instead of iTunes, what apps sync with the Zune I'm curious as to the options you have that iTunes users don't?
So the options are "iTunes" or something so obscure you haven't even heard of it ?
I've never even seen a Zune in the flesh, having only ever used Cowon or iRiver players, but like any other players I expect they work with a file manager or most music players... Amarok manages my players just fine. Or they just show as removable drives.
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uh, global warming proponents i've run into don't understand that water vapour produces the vast majority of our warming effect.
Water vapour also creates clouds which raise the albedo of the globe and lower the amount of energy in the system by reflecting a lot of it back.
It's all quite a bit more complicated than just what gas does what.
Really? You have to be infected in order to appreciate the horror of malaria?! Wait'll the HIV folks get a hold of this idea.
I'm eagerly waiting for that conference...
"Sorry Mr president, can I take your pants off ?, so as I was saying, HIV propagation, oh, and your underwear too... Yes, um, right, HIV propagation can take many forms from blood sharing... Would you please bend over a bit Mr president ? Yes, um, from blood sharing to sexual... ah, wait, I need to stimulate myself a bit, just a second... Let me show you some slides in the meantime..."
I probably won't see in in the theatre but count me in for the DVD release, It sounds like a great investment.
(wait, did I say that out loud ?)
The simplest, and most reasonable content would be:
If people are blocking popups, and you try to force upon them a popup advertisement, you are probably being counterproductive to your cause, and are a complete RETARD.
Or maybe you're just working in marketing :
Advertisement FTW ! Ok, pass the doughnuts, I think we're done with the meeting here...
Wives also make good laptops, i hear.
If they are Japanese made maybe. My North American made model barely fits on the desktop. [ ... ]
I'd upgrade if possible, but with the poor economy that's just not financially feasible at this time.
You know how it is with laptops, the slimmer ones are always way overpriced.
They may look better when you take them out at the local café but they're often underpowered.
Any logical reason a wireless storage device would need 3 cables? Or any more than power supply for that matter?
One is for power, one is the antenna, the last one is to ward off evil spirits.
So nothing special there.
As usual, there's more to this case than meets the eye Dr Watson !
At a small company we had started last century, we had named all our machines after 8 bit computers. So we had C64, ZX81, Amiga1000, etc.
From the outside, they had aliases such as mail, ftp or www, but their cnames were regularly exposed in various ways, mostly mail headers. So regularly we had mails asking us "wow, you're *really* running your web server on a C64 ?" to which we invariably replied that "yes, and you wouldn't believe what a bitch the Apache port was. Not to mention swapping on a cassette tape."
My home LAN just uses imaginary places, currently with homefree, neverwhere and diskworld.
Pretend for just one moment that your network guy got clocked by a bus. He won't be back to work until someone figures out a way to raise the dead.
You're the new guy they just hired to replace him. Who cares about CNAMEs when you're on the server looking at the hostname? Someone tells you 'daffy' and 'kirk' are down. What are they? What do they do?
Well, if he's the replacement netadmin, he could, like "cat /var/named/<whatever>" on the DNS box and see what it's all about.
They have a new logo now.
Every time I see that logo I want to take a pin to it. I like Beastie better .
I just stopped using their OS and switched to FreeBSD, they are more serious about versions and releases (switch wasn't that painful anyway, and I got a working nvidia driver).
Yes, but can you run it on your Acorn ? Hah !
See ? NetBSD is so advanced it can run on *plants* !
The laptop is 12 pounds: two pounds for the laptop, ten pounds for the batteries.
I'm so disappointed... at 12 pounds, they could at least have included a 22" screen. At least I hope it has a quad SLI GPU for crisp Excel rendering.
Maybe next time....
Unfortunately work takes up a disproportionate amount of time in one's life (despite computers and robots which were supposed to eliminate the need to work). Companies need to start accommodating workers instead of spying on them, stressing them out, and treating them like shit.
But Nokia *likes* to connect to people !
"2009 will surely be the year of the Pandora."
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
We all know the Pandora's only marketable feature is that you can run emulators on it out of the box.
That's what *you* think, it's *real* killer feature is that it'll come with Duke Nukem Forever preloaded.
We'll see who's laughing then !
How is that obvious? I know, it's their software, they can do it however they want, and it's my fault for not reading the warnings, but you've got to admit that's completely different than any other project.
The problem isn't as much that you didn't read the warnings than that the distro integrators didn't either. A number of the latest KDE based ones were unusable because they shipped with the unfinished KDE 4.
That really didn't help.
Normal people like to write readable code.
It's just a damn shame that so few normal people are programmers.
I don't know how good compilers have become [ ... ]
Better.
but I've had to optimize generated code (for space and speed) a long time ago.
Well, that's why then.
And for those who diss gcc, it does support a bit more architectures :
* Alpha
* ARM
* Atmel AVR
* Blackfin
* HC12
* H8/300
* IA-32 (x86)
* x86-64
* IA-64
* Motorola 68000
* MIPS
* PA-RISC
* PDP-11
* PowerPC
* R8C/M16C/M32C
* SPU
* System/390/zSeries
* SuperH
* SPARC
* VAX
(list taken from Wikipedia without further checking) than the other super optimized compilers. So while I expect a bit more work goes into x86 and al., the rest of them are still active (not to mention all the other architectures maintained on a parallel tree).
So while it's not great, it's still not too bad.
One word: agnostic. It becomes agnostic in C as opposed to ASM.
Shouldn't it be written in Python then ? Or in Java ?
Konsole is not yet ported. Which makes me very sad since I switched to Windows 7 until KDE 4 stops being the trainwreck that it is, [ ... ]
This has to be one of the most bizarre comments I've ever read in here (and that's quite something).
Yes but IIRC using ogg almost always reduces battery life since the hardware isn't optimized for it.
I don't think it's a matter of hardware optimization, it's just more resource intensive, requiring more cycles, and therefore more power.
OTOH a lot of players now support it.
Did he run tests with 16GB files?
FTA: "I've taken the 8gig and 4 gig drives, nine in total"
FTA: "I used a 350MB .AVI Video file for all testing.".
More importantly, he couldn't use a 16GB file, since
FAT32 doesn't support single files over 4GB.
Which is a real shame since I was really looking forward to seeing his technique for fitting those 16GB files on 8 or 4GB drives. Curse you Microsoft !
You might have trouble finding your files on ReiserFS.
Nah, you just have to dig around a bit in the directories. They're rarely very far from where you last saw them.
It's a Microsoft product, and Slashbots love to bash Microsoft just for the sake of bashing Microsoft, even when they do something half-decent(Zune) or even good(Xbox 360).
What's half decent about it ? They just made the same player as everybody else but waste coloured. Just get a Cowon or an iRiver already. Then you'll get a full featured player. Or install RockBox on whatever it currently supports.
I'll remind people one of the older reasons Linus chose KDE: There's a nice GUI for configuring what each mouse button on the title bar of a window does. In GNOME, this functionality simply wasn't available.
At one point it was. I even used to remove the Gnome window manager to put SawFish back in (much more configurable) so that I had that functionality. Then after a bit I stopped bothering. If I'd wanted a bondage an domination desktop I'd just run Windows or MacOS. So I switched to KDE.
Nowadays I run KDE 3.x on my desktop and KDE 4.x on my laptop. However while KDE 4 is fine for dicking around, it's pretty much impossible to actually work in it. So It's back to Gnome on the lappy which, with the help of Compiz can be made a bit more usable (at least Windows stop coming forward when you click on them and there are more config options).
I'm testing XFCE though which I haven't tried in a while.
This is not true. It is possible to create documentation that is very complete. In the almost 30 years of writing code, I have found MS to be the worst.
Quite, I've had to refer to technical documentation from large entities such as IBM, Tandem, Sun and Microsoft and Microsoft just does a concictantly terrible job of it.
While the others *did* have errors from time, they were rarely completely wrong, making stuff up, or just absent, which I've regularly seen happen with MS.
So instead of iTunes, what apps sync with the Zune I'm curious as to the options you have that iTunes users don't?
So the options are "iTunes" or something so obscure you haven't even heard of it ?
I've never even seen a Zune in the flesh, having only ever used Cowon or iRiver players, but like any other players I expect they work with a file manager or most music players... Amarok manages my players just fine. Or they just show as removable drives.