You think that's bad? Here in Israel, bezeq gives me 1.5Mbps down, and 96Kbps up. That's right... 16:1, but do you know how easy it is to saturate 96Kbps?
I'm involved in the project (Conditional Access -- the security folks), and this box horrifies me! I mean, the Tivo UI is beautiful, clean, and functional. The new SUE1/SUE2 UI, which came straight from a committee at DTV, is horrible, IMHO.
On the other hand, the box has some incredibly nice features (like purchase from disk-- record now, then decide later if you actually if you want buy, and great interactive application potential).
This is a common misconception about stable and unstable. Unstable does NOT mean that it's fragile, going to break, or unsafe for use. Instead, it means that it has not been verified as stable.
The guidelines for unstable/testing/stable as basically as follows: All new packages are in unstable After about 2 weeks, they are moved to testing, if there are no major bugs At release time, they go into stable.
Thus, if you'd download the latest version from sourceforge, or any kind of "nightly build", you may as well use unstable. If you only use things that have been tested first, but like recent software -- use testing. If you need the best testing availabe (without, of course, paying for testing or doing it yourself!), go with stable
was I the only one who liked the idea of using (let's say) 500K of bandwidth per hour while my screen saver was on anyway (and so I wasn't really doing anything) so that if I saw something interesting, I could have it NOW (and not in the 10 seconds it takes to load a page)? Was I the only one who actually liked their screensaver (yes, it was shiny and flashy, but when you look across the room at it, this stuff is important).
Actually, this post is serious, not sarcastic. Is there any similar replacements?
Hrmm... you use pedestrian crossing buttons? I just make sure to wear my tin foil hat. The only problem is when you have to lay down next to the sensor...
I'm running basically the same system (double the ram, but a GeForce2MX400, and it also plays great! Visual quality is as good as I've ever seen on this card, too (which is not saying much, but still).
I just wanted to post my experience. I'm running HL2 on the following system: AMD XP 2000+ 512 PC2700 Geforce2 MX400 onboard sound (nforce) and I get a great gameplay experience. Sure, the video quality isn't the stunning DX9 path that everyone is oohing and ahing over, but at the recommended settings, I get 40-50 fps on almost all levels, and the game looks very nice. The graphics are good enough, and the fact that it's playable is simply incredible. Kudos for making a game scale down so gracefully-- I haven't seen any programming that nice since Vice City came out, and ran better than GTA3, while adding more features.
Yes, but that advanced medical care is almost always (in all but 3 (now 4) other cases) useless, as rabies KILLS. Obviously, they believe in medical science, which is why they went to the doctors in the first place. If, however, you don't like the idea of prayer... what's so different about this girl? (yes, I'm 100% aware that this is what science will have to research).
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Who sleeps better at night? Bill or Linus?
Bill.
Ever priced a really nice mattress?
Nuff said.
You think that's bad? Here in Israel, bezeq gives me 1.5Mbps down, and 96Kbps up. That's right... 16:1, but do you know how easy it is to saturate 96Kbps?
I believe the original Greek name was "Grunting Under The Burden of Astronomy." ... often abbreviated as GUtBoA.
Or not.
They have the internet on computers now?
You _like_ the new UI?
I'm involved in the project (Conditional Access -- the security folks), and this box horrifies me! I mean, the Tivo UI is beautiful, clean, and functional. The new SUE1/SUE2 UI, which came straight from a committee at DTV, is horrible, IMHO.
On the other hand, the box has some incredibly nice features (like purchase from disk-- record now, then decide later if you actually if you want buy, and great interactive application potential).
So what tool do you use to put ;-) after every other sentence?
This is a common misconception about stable and unstable. Unstable does NOT mean that it's fragile, going to break, or unsafe for use. Instead, it means that it has not been verified as stable.
The guidelines for unstable/testing/stable as basically as follows:
All new packages are in unstable
After about 2 weeks, they are moved to testing, if there are no major bugs
At release time, they go into stable.
Thus, if you'd download the latest version from sourceforge, or any kind of "nightly build", you may as well use unstable. If you only use things that have been tested first, but like recent software -- use testing. If you need the best testing availabe (without, of course, paying for testing or doing it yourself!), go with stable
The real question is if he's a real or not.
Although it has no effect on fertility, spending too much time on Slashdot may harm your chances of reproducing...
was I the only one who liked the idea of using (let's say) 500K of bandwidth per hour while my screen saver was on anyway (and so I wasn't really doing anything) so that if I saw something interesting, I could have it NOW (and not in the 10 seconds it takes to load a page)? Was I the only one who actually liked their screensaver (yes, it was shiny and flashy, but when you look across the room at it, this stuff is important).
Actually, this post is serious, not sarcastic. Is there any similar replacements?
What about someone in a tin foil hat?
Hrmm... you use pedestrian crossing buttons? I just make sure to wear my tin foil hat. The only problem is when you have to lay down next to the sensor...
For me, the groups link on the front page links to the old groups.google.com, and the groups link on a search result links to groups-beta.google.com
Same reason that a magician waves a wand around, I guess. To distract the audience from the boringly simple trick that is being performed ;-)
Ummm... I use a wand to help channel mystic energies. I don't know why you do it.
despite the fact that I posted this comment... I sure hope the Korea/Elderly thing fades!
please ignore this post. The formatting was totally mangled, and I don't feel like rewriting it...
See this brings up an interesting point.
The normal joke is:
Instead of "you ", we have " you"
But what if the subject is not you? Do you replace " " with " " or is it always " YOU"?
Ok, ok, back to work...
In Soviet Russia, robots talk to old people
In Japan, old people talk to robots
In Korea, only the old people talk to robots.
I guess that means the English childrens version won't do so well in Korea...
I'm running basically the same system (double the ram, but a GeForce2MX400, and it also plays great! Visual quality is as good as I've ever seen on this card, too (which is not saying much, but still).
No, that's cruel and unusual punishment.
at http://google.tv
Yes, this is a joke
I just wanted to post my experience.
I'm running HL2 on the following system:
AMD XP 2000+
512 PC2700
Geforce2 MX400
onboard sound (nforce)
and I get a great gameplay experience. Sure, the video quality isn't the stunning DX9 path that everyone is oohing and ahing over, but at the recommended settings, I get 40-50 fps on almost all levels, and the game looks very nice. The graphics are good enough, and the fact that it's playable is simply incredible. Kudos for making a game scale down so gracefully-- I haven't seen any programming that nice since Vice City came out, and ran better than GTA3, while adding more features.
Are you an idiot?
Let's look at the definition you posted:
2: incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
What might be expected -- person doesn't have any easy resources, so they Ask Slashdot
What actually occurs -- answer was just posted.
Now, since the submission was probably before the posting, you can say that this is not so true... but I still maintain that's not so clear.
Yes, but that advanced medical care is almost always (in all but 3 (now 4) other cases) useless, as rabies KILLS. Obviously, they believe in medical science, which is why they went to the doctors in the first place. If, however, you don't like the idea of prayer... what's so different about this girl? (yes, I'm 100% aware that this is what science will have to research).
given that this article was just posted.