lol... you should try it, then you wouldnt think so... I just did (in Sound Forge)... cut it down to 1:08, its just noise... cutting it down to 50% is alright though (4:35)... but somewhere around 65% (5:57) is about right, sounds kinda "proper".
"And I can hear just about any song I ever would want to hear in less than a minute."
Shit, you should check out some of the songs that are longer than a minute, there's some good ones out there, but, yes...those quick little punk ditties are good too.
Same month Opera 9.5 was released, same month Safari 4.0 was released.
Which, maybe it means that they waited exactly for that month, or maybe its entirely the wrong moment since no one was really upgrading anything if it was just before those releases.
Of course, why not? If they developed a gunk eating cleaner it isn't putting any industry out of business, its creating a new one, or adding to an existing one.
There are plenty of alternatives to gasoline in about 90% of its applications, the only reason they don't exist is because it means Company X will go out of business, and/or changing some components in the various applications.
The only reason we are "stuck" with Petroleum products is because that's basically what we started with, so anything "new" doesn't seem quite as good, like... changing OS's... you immediately start thinking "yeah, but the OS I already have does ___ and ___ and ___ so much better" when really it probably doesn't you are just used to doing it that way.
If 300 had NIN in it, it would have been the only thing I liked about 300. Im fairly excited about The Watchmen, but knowing that its the same director doesnt sit well.
I think the best Trailer music ive seen/heard so far is the use of Clint Mansell's - Lux Aeterna (From Requiem For A Dream) for one of the Lord Of The Rings trailers...
But its a great theme for anything envolving a battle or any kind really, I never get sick of it, its like the beginning of Carl Orff's - O Fortuna (From Carmina Burana) so much power there, perfect.
And... Wouldnt you consider Firefox 3.x to be the newest/latest version of Firefox?
Just asking, since, you know... the article is about people not upgrading to the newest. Sure 2.0.xx is still being maintained, but its not adding anything new, and stops being supported in December of this year.
Because its not being built by Americans. It's being built by European Organization for Nuclear Research, A.K.A. 'CERN' (Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire). Thats why its not in the USA, and why its in France.
I dont use the external comment pages, but it is indeed fucked, in Opera 9.52, Firefox 3.01, and IE7.x... it displays as if it was ment for a mobile device/phone (ie: tiny) with some broken boxes at the bottom for tags and url displays.
A combination of all four (keyboard, mouse, voice, touch) is great... because you can actually give the computer 3 commands at (essentially) the same time, and 4 in more rare instances.
Do it mentally for awhile, think about everything you do on your PC (scrolling, left click, right click, etc) and how many times those commands are a fraction of a second apart, then go watch someone with voice and/or touch screens do the same thing... I can probably fire off 12 clicks in the time it takes to say "left click", however, there could be rare times where voice might be more efficient, ie: "200 left clicks".
Touch screen, I just cant understand outside of basic terminals. A lot of the time you are covering up (with your finger/hand) what you are trying to do, and doing it basically blind. Its fine for like (Preview)(Quote Parent)(Options)(Cancel) but try and select, and then copy say the "faq" from between "privacy" and "preferences" at the bottom of Slashdot with a touch screen.
Everything will have to become toyishly large and baby-slow if you remove the mouse.
Indeed, I dont think I will ever give up my mouse, at best I might sacrifice it to say a tablet and pen, but a touch screen and voice commands just will never be accurate or quick enough.
As for dirty screens, maybe in 5 years time, they will have developed some sort of nano-gunk-eating stuff you can wipe on your screen that turns the gunk into oxygen, or a revolving protective cover (like outdoor CCTV camers) and then cleans the gunk off and uses it in some cold fusion cell to power the PC...
Besides, since screens seem to be getting smaller, I really dont see that coinciding with the lack of a pointing device, although, if the entire keyboard was a touch-pad (or two touch screens, one screen, one keyboard), and you held down the [use as mouse] button (somewhere at a corner) then release button, etc that might work.
Although, there's also the borg option, have some connection into your forearm muscles or something, or directly to your brain, then maybe the mouse would become "old school".
As for vocal things, that'l never work in public, unless its directional, and in offices you'd probably have to make their cages (cubicals) more air-tight, or have sound proofing, even though phones are common, they aren't quite as pollutive (?) as an almost constant ranting of commands at your PC.
Well, if its designed for old people, the ratio of old people who speed is pretty low...
But you would get used to it (if you can teach an old dog new tricks?), just as everything else, most dashes are already obnoxious with lights and gizmo's but you stop noticing at after the first week or so, well depending on how much driving you do, this would take a bit longer, but it would probably (should) require a course on it anyways, at least I hope so, otherwise lots of money into new cars that end up in the junkyard, and bodies in caskets.
But, my over-all opinion is just: "fucking hell, taking even more fun out of driving"... given your name 427ci...you probably agree.
Tell them to take the bus, or the "Shuttle", and stop polluting, bingo isn't that important, but I guess there's more money to be made in this, than in public transportation for elderly.
Yeah, I tried searching for various stuff like that, didnt find anything...
But thats still useless in my books unless those 3 speed limits (or 5MPH less) are the only limits in the entire country.
I was sort of hoping that maybe it was just a digital display of some sort saying the actual speed of the vehicle. [88.8 MPH] that would make sense... some lights on a vehicle, are you shitting me? how many people have 'gotten off' by saying something like "well the sun was reflecting off the lights, there was actually only one lit up"... unless these lights are like huge, and cover the entire top of the trailer or something...
Judge: So, what evidence do you have? Officer: the lights went by... well, really quite fast.
And what does tachometers have to do with it? for starters, you dont have to give a cop your tachcard (at least not in Canada) so what can they do? They can however, get the tachcard from your employer IF your employer actually bothers to collect them to varify your logbooks and such, but thats generally way more trouble than a cop will go for unless someone was killed.
Being able to tap into GPS via the satellite or another means, such as requiring all new automobiles to have a special cop frequency radio-transmitter in the vehicles as well, so instead of a radar gun, your car just tells them 88.88 MPH in a 50MPH Zone...
lol...hmm... Dell Dimension 8300, P4, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (although that wouldnt be used, just passed through), some cheap PCI NIC I dont remember, yadda yadda... although, I cant say ive tested it on anything else, so maybe I am just lucky... never had a reason to use it on any of my other machines, but now i'll have to try, although i dont have anything old old... 2000 is the oldest at the moment, Duron 800, 2007 the newest, Q6600...
But, I havent really stressed it in any way, cause, I can't get Crysis to work on it.:|
Machines can't lie, but neither can people who live on a flat earth, its what they calculated as being accurate, even if their senses and programming was faulty.
The downside to this, is it probably wont be long before the police can tap-into your vehicles GPS (when they get more accurate in mainstream cars) to see if you are speeding or not, since their current systems are now inferior... then there's goes the whole male + car = love relationship...
"fuck you, hunka shit, you ratted me out, to the scrap yard with you"
Yeah, but if you don't check the Remember Me box, shouldnt that be the same as checking a box saying forget me?
Granted thats not how it seems to work on most sites, but, thats how it should be... the site/server/etc forgets you as soon as possible. Thats was a problem that coulnt really be solved say a decade ago when the internet was much more simple, but with all these trackers, and various layers of scripting and runtimes, it should be easy by now.
Sure, you can leave it up to the individual users, but why? One guy makes some script to do that, and it saves millions of people the hassle, instead of millions of hassles, and some guy eating lunch...lol
"...Firefox will store all sessions until you close the entire program, or the sessions expire."
Opera usually, but that doesn't matter as its a general thing with web-browsers on a whole, I know I'm not the only one who doesn't close their browser for weeks at a time, and what about public terminals (cafe/library/etc)
Someone goes to Facebook, signs in, trying to be secure and not checking the Remember Me box, does whatever they were doing, closes the site, figures "ok, good to go"... someone else comes along, types in/Googles Facebook.com... and when it loads, it loads into someones account.
And, if they are tracking you while you arent not at Facebook, or logged in (somehow) then anyone else who uses that computer who goes and buys dildos on eBay, or looks up some SnM, or buys a ticket for vacation, whatever they did, is now added to this tracking data and adding it to User X's info pile, who left the Cafe 4 hours ago...
Given their mass amount of Java usage and applets of all kinds, could it not be possible to keep track of something as simple as a cookie and expire the cookie (or anything else) as the site closes, or at least remembers the fact that the last time this user went to the site they didn't check the Remember Me box?... tens of millions of dollars, thousands/millions of Terabytes of databases, and they can't figure out how to do that when some pissant little forum on air hockey tables can?
Nope, don't think there is yet, there is a raw-avi player, and an mpeg1/2, and wav players, and a cd player... but no mp3 or ogg, or anything yet (surprisingly). Although, you should be able to run it with a hardware mp3/(etc) decoder fairly easy (well easy for those that would try I guess).
MenuetOS Its a bit hardcore though, and you would probably have a hard time getting 'normal' applications to work, but its tiny and quick, although sort of a beta still.
But if you know ASM, its could be a miracle cure or something...
MenuetOS is an Operating System in development for the PC written entirely in 32/64 bit assembly language, and released under the License. It supports 32/64 bit x86 assembly programming for smaller, faster and less resource hungry applications.
Menuet has no roots within UNIX or the POSIX standards, nor is it based on any operating system. The design goal has been to remove the extra layers between different parts of an OS, which normally complicate programming and create bugs.
Menuet's application structure is not specifically reserved for asm programming since the header can be produced with practically any other language. However, the overall application programming design is intended for easy 32/64 bit asm programming. Menuet's responsive GUI is easy to handle with assembly language.
Features:
- Pre-emptive multitasking with 1000hz scheduler, multithreading, ring-3 protection - Responsive GUI with resolutions up to 1280x1024, 16 million colours - Free-form, transparent and skinnable application windows, drag'n drop - IDE: Editor/Assembler for applications - USB 2.0 Hi-speed storage support - TCP/IP stack with Loopback & Ethernet drivers - Email/ftp/http/chess clients and ftp/mp3/http servers - Hard real-time data fetch - Fits on a single floppy
Happens to be a favorite of mine (not mine as in created), although probably not suited to your needs judging by the brief summary.
"...censor content when they receive a request..."
Shhh!... keep your voice down.
See, the way I figure they are trying to make it work, is that they get the public to 'outcry' for limitations on internet/et al content distributors, they bitch to their government, the government (and organizations/associations) creates regulations forcing the ISP's into it, once the ISP's start to (inevitably) fail (because its impossible to regulate) the government takes ownership/complete control over the internet, and then... well... yeah, fuck that.
Its the means to a subversive end.
The radiowaves are already being 'disabled' both TV and Radio-Radio, eventually it'l just end up as The Media... all funneled through the same satellite linkup or something.
On that topic though... ive been using the internet through various means (Dial-Up, ADSL, Satellite, Cable) for about 15 years, and I have only received one notice from my ISP, stating, basically "We have been informed by Party X, that you are downloading illegal content (which was actually a free demo), however, to date we (Telus' - Canada) have never disconnected or prohibited our clients from the internet because of such a notification."...
I found it quite laughable, and will continue to laugh at it.
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lol... you should try it, then you wouldnt think so... I just did (in Sound Forge)... cut it down to 1:08, its just noise... cutting it down to 50% is alright though (4:35)... but somewhere around 65% (5:57) is about right, sounds kinda "proper".
try http://ftp.debian.org/
for a bit more info:
http://wiki.debian.org/ftp.debian.org
"And I can hear just about any song I ever would want to hear in less than a minute."
Shit, you should check out some of the songs that are longer than a minute, there's some good ones out there, but, yes...those quick little punk ditties are good too.
Yeah, my libito does weird things to.
Same month Opera 9.5 was released, same month Safari 4.0 was released.
Which, maybe it means that they waited exactly for that month, or maybe its entirely the wrong moment since no one was really upgrading anything if it was just before those releases.
Of course, why not? If they developed a gunk eating cleaner it isn't putting any industry out of business, its creating a new one, or adding to an existing one.
There are plenty of alternatives to gasoline in about 90% of its applications, the only reason they don't exist is because it means Company X will go out of business, and/or changing some components in the various applications.
The only reason we are "stuck" with Petroleum products is because that's basically what we started with, so anything "new" doesn't seem quite as good, like... changing OS's... you immediately start thinking "yeah, but the OS I already have does ___ and ___ and ___ so much better" when really it probably doesn't you are just used to doing it that way.
Amen.
If 300 had NIN in it, it would have been the only thing I liked about 300. Im fairly excited about The Watchmen, but knowing that its the same director doesnt sit well.
I think the best Trailer music ive seen/heard so far is the use of Clint Mansell's - Lux Aeterna (From Requiem For A Dream) for one of the Lord Of The Rings trailers...
But its a great theme for anything envolving a battle or any kind really, I never get sick of it, its like the beginning of Carl Orff's - O Fortuna (From Carmina Burana) so much power there, perfect.
And... Wouldnt you consider Firefox 3.x to be the newest/latest version of Firefox?
Just asking, since, you know... the article is about people not upgrading to the newest. Sure 2.0.xx is still being maintained, but its not adding anything new, and stops being supported in December of this year.
http://www-hep.phys.cmu.edu/cms/PICT_ARCH/lhc_map.gif
Its about 90% under France.
Because its not being built by Americans. It's being built by European Organization for Nuclear Research, A.K.A. 'CERN' (Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire). Thats why its not in the USA, and why its in France.
Indeed, mod parent 50% Offtopic, 50% Informative.
I dont use the external comment pages, but it is indeed fucked, in Opera 9.52, Firefox 3.01, and IE7.x ... it displays as if it was ment for a mobile device/phone (ie: tiny) with some broken boxes at the bottom for tags and url displays.
Yeah, but its not very efficient.
A combination of all four (keyboard, mouse, voice, touch) is great... because you can actually give the computer 3 commands at (essentially) the same time, and 4 in more rare instances.
Do it mentally for awhile, think about everything you do on your PC (scrolling, left click, right click, etc) and how many times those commands are a fraction of a second apart, then go watch someone with voice and/or touch screens do the same thing... I can probably fire off 12 clicks in the time it takes to say "left click", however, there could be rare times where voice might be more efficient, ie: "200 left clicks".
Touch screen, I just cant understand outside of basic terminals. A lot of the time you are covering up (with your finger/hand) what you are trying to do, and doing it basically blind. Its fine for like (Preview)(Quote Parent)(Options)(Cancel) but try and select, and then copy say the "faq" from between "privacy" and "preferences" at the bottom of Slashdot with a touch screen.
Everything will have to become toyishly large and baby-slow if you remove the mouse.
Indeed, I dont think I will ever give up my mouse, at best I might sacrifice it to say a tablet and pen, but a touch screen and voice commands just will never be accurate or quick enough.
As for dirty screens, maybe in 5 years time, they will have developed some sort of nano-gunk-eating stuff you can wipe on your screen that turns the gunk into oxygen, or a revolving protective cover (like outdoor CCTV camers) and then cleans the gunk off and uses it in some cold fusion cell to power the PC...
Besides, since screens seem to be getting smaller, I really dont see that coinciding with the lack of a pointing device, although, if the entire keyboard was a touch-pad (or two touch screens, one screen, one keyboard), and you held down the [use as mouse] button (somewhere at a corner) then release button, etc that might work.
Although, there's also the borg option, have some connection into your forearm muscles or something, or directly to your brain, then maybe the mouse would become "old school".
As for vocal things, that'l never work in public, unless its directional, and in offices you'd probably have to make their cages (cubicals) more air-tight, or have sound proofing, even though phones are common, they aren't quite as pollutive (?) as an almost constant ranting of commands at your PC.
Well, if its designed for old people, the ratio of old people who speed is pretty low...
But you would get used to it (if you can teach an old dog new tricks?), just as everything else, most dashes are already obnoxious with lights and gizmo's but you stop noticing at after the first week or so, well depending on how much driving you do, this would take a bit longer, but it would probably (should) require a course on it anyways, at least I hope so, otherwise lots of money into new cars that end up in the junkyard, and bodies in caskets.
But, my over-all opinion is just: "fucking hell, taking even more fun out of driving"... given your name 427ci...you probably agree.
Tell them to take the bus, or the "Shuttle", and stop polluting, bingo isn't that important, but I guess there's more money to be made in this, than in public transportation for elderly.
Yeah, I tried searching for various stuff like that, didnt find anything...
But thats still useless in my books unless those 3 speed limits (or 5MPH less) are the only limits in the entire country.
I was sort of hoping that maybe it was just a digital display of some sort saying the actual speed of the vehicle. [88.8 MPH] that would make sense... some lights on a vehicle, are you shitting me? how many people have 'gotten off' by saying something like "well the sun was reflecting off the lights, there was actually only one lit up"... unless these lights are like huge, and cover the entire top of the trailer or something...
No offence, but are you fucking retarded?
Judge: So, what evidence do you have?
Officer: the lights went by... well, really quite fast.
And what does tachometers have to do with it? for starters, you dont have to give a cop your tachcard (at least not in Canada) so what can they do? They can however, get the tachcard from your employer IF your employer actually bothers to collect them to varify your logbooks and such, but thats generally way more trouble than a cop will go for unless someone was killed.
Being able to tap into GPS via the satellite or another means, such as requiring all new automobiles to have a special cop frequency radio-transmitter in the vehicles as well, so instead of a radar gun, your car just tells them 88.88 MPH in a 50MPH Zone...
lol...hmm... Dell Dimension 8300, P4, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (although that wouldnt be used, just passed through), some cheap PCI NIC I dont remember, yadda yadda... although, I cant say ive tested it on anything else, so maybe I am just lucky... never had a reason to use it on any of my other machines, but now i'll have to try, although i dont have anything old old... 2000 is the oldest at the moment, Duron 800, 2007 the newest, Q6600...
But, I havent really stressed it in any way, cause, I can't get Crysis to work on it. :|
Machines can't lie, but neither can people who live on a flat earth, its what they calculated as being accurate, even if their senses and programming was faulty.
The downside to this, is it probably wont be long before the police can tap-into your vehicles GPS (when they get more accurate in mainstream cars) to see if you are speeding or not, since their current systems are now inferior... then there's goes the whole male + car = love relationship...
"fuck you, hunka shit, you ratted me out, to the scrap yard with you"
Yeah, but if you don't check the Remember Me box, shouldnt that be the same as checking a box saying forget me?
Granted thats not how it seems to work on most sites, but, thats how it should be... the site/server/etc forgets you as soon as possible. Thats was a problem that coulnt really be solved say a decade ago when the internet was much more simple, but with all these trackers, and various layers of scripting and runtimes, it should be easy by now.
Sure, you can leave it up to the individual users, but why? One guy makes some script to do that, and it saves millions of people the hassle, instead of millions of hassles, and some guy eating lunch...lol
"arent not" I arn't not fixing that mistake.
"...Firefox will store all sessions until you close the entire program, or the sessions expire."
Opera usually, but that doesn't matter as its a general thing with web-browsers on a whole, I know I'm not the only one who doesn't close their browser for weeks at a time, and what about public terminals (cafe/library/etc)
Someone goes to Facebook, signs in, trying to be secure and not checking the Remember Me box, does whatever they were doing, closes the site, figures "ok, good to go"... someone else comes along, types in/Googles Facebook.com... and when it loads, it loads into someones account.
And, if they are tracking you while you arent not at Facebook, or logged in (somehow) then anyone else who uses that computer who goes and buys dildos on eBay, or looks up some SnM, or buys a ticket for vacation, whatever they did, is now added to this tracking data and adding it to User X's info pile, who left the Cafe 4 hours ago...
Given their mass amount of Java usage and applets of all kinds, could it not be possible to keep track of something as simple as a cookie and expire the cookie (or anything else) as the site closes, or at least remembers the fact that the last time this user went to the site they didn't check the Remember Me box?... tens of millions of dollars, thousands/millions of Terabytes of databases, and they can't figure out how to do that when some pissant little forum on air hockey tables can?
Nope, don't think there is yet, there is a raw-avi player, and an mpeg1/2, and wav players, and a cd player... but no mp3 or ogg, or anything yet (surprisingly). Although, you should be able to run it with a hardware mp3/(etc) decoder fairly easy (well easy for those that would try I guess).
But your welcome to try ;)
"Did it all the time back in the day.
That would be "back in the decade" now, by almost a month.
MenuetOS Its a bit hardcore though, and you would probably have a hard time getting 'normal' applications to work, but its tiny and quick, although sort of a beta still.
But if you know ASM, its could be a miracle cure or something...
MenuetOS is an Operating System in development for the PC written entirely in 32/64 bit assembly language, and released under the License. It supports 32/64 bit x86 assembly programming for smaller, faster and less resource hungry applications.
Menuet has no roots within UNIX or the POSIX standards, nor is it based on any operating system. The design goal has been to remove the extra layers between different parts of an OS, which normally complicate programming and create bugs.
Menuet's application structure is not specifically reserved for asm programming since the header can be produced with practically any other language. However, the overall application programming design is intended for easy 32/64 bit asm programming. Menuet's responsive GUI is easy to handle with assembly language.
Features:
- Pre-emptive multitasking with 1000hz scheduler, multithreading, ring-3 protection
- Responsive GUI with resolutions up to 1280x1024, 16 million colours
- Free-form, transparent and skinnable application windows, drag'n drop
- IDE: Editor/Assembler for applications
- USB 2.0 Hi-speed storage support
- TCP/IP stack with Loopback & Ethernet drivers
- Email/ftp/http/chess clients and ftp/mp3/http servers
- Hard real-time data fetch
- Fits on a single floppy
Happens to be a favorite of mine (not mine as in created), although probably not suited to your needs judging by the brief summary.
"...censor content when they receive a request..."
Shhh!... keep your voice down.
See, the way I figure they are trying to make it work, is that they get the public to 'outcry' for limitations on internet/et al content distributors, they bitch to their government, the government (and organizations/associations) creates regulations forcing the ISP's into it, once the ISP's start to (inevitably) fail (because its impossible to regulate) the government takes ownership/complete control over the internet, and then... well... yeah, fuck that.
Its the means to a subversive end.
The radiowaves are already being 'disabled' both TV and Radio-Radio, eventually it'l just end up as The Media... all funneled through the same satellite linkup or something.
On that topic though... ive been using the internet through various means (Dial-Up, ADSL, Satellite, Cable) for about 15 years, and I have only received one notice from my ISP, stating, basically "We have been informed by Party X, that you are downloading illegal content (which was actually a free demo), however, to date we (Telus' - Canada) have never disconnected or prohibited our clients from the internet because of such a notification."...
I found it quite laughable, and will continue to laugh at it.
Damnit, im rambling again.