I have one, and have not had problems with the pusher robots and shover robots in a long time now. However, I am now painfully aware of the terrible secret of space. It keeps me up nights.
I propose limiting their ad clicking on the ISP side with advertising traffic shaping. It is an unfortunate market reality, but these ad-clicking hogs are wasting valuable advertising bandwidth for the rest of the users, and it must be stopped.
Don't let 5% of the ad clickers ruin the internet "experience" for the rest of the users.
I'm more peeved about Finder spinning up every sleeping external drive when I've not asked to look at them. It should only stat things that are being accessed, in my opinion, especially if the OS is aware that they may be sleeping.
I think you meant 'grep -Rl some-string.' Don't fork a new grep for each filename, if you can avoid it. If that's not what you wanted, consider learning to use 'xargs', perhaps:
'find . -type f | xargs -n 1000 grep -l some-string' The '-n 1000' is there in case the output of 'find' would exceed Linux's built-in 128k limit of command-line length.
The big issue here is the dangerous idea that ideas are dangerous.
Far distant dystopian future: With transporter technology, customs "copies" you at the border and keeps a copy of you in stasis for further questioning/interrogation. "You are free to go. Your copy will stay behind for questioning. Don't worry--you won't feel a thing."
I keep thinking back on a USENET posting titled The Legend of Ruritania (this may not be the official link, but is the oldest preserved copy I could quickly locate).
...and the ships using a Compulsator are sitting targets when it's spun up because they can't change course without flipping upside-down, like a gyroscope.
I'm sticking with my Interocitor, thankyouverymuch.
These older IBM keyboards (both the 84-key and 101-key models) were also ultimately repairable, if you had the time. We'd strip them down to their springs and "flip-tabs", wash off the pieces in a bath, wipe down the underlying pcb, then rebuild them after a nasty coke-or-meatball-sub accident where I used to work.
There was nothing spongy inside that would ever be "ruined" by liquids.
However, I'll never forgive IBM for swapping the positions of Ctrl and Caps Lock.
Speaking of which, I cried the day my Northgate OmniKey 102 stopped working. Now THAT was one awesome keyboard. It even came with an extra set of keycaps and a dip switch to let you pick where you wanted Ctrl to live. I personally wanted Caps Lock to live in a van down by the river.
Perhaps you don't understand. It's curving the other way. Used to be convex, then flat, now concave. Makes perfect sense to me in the natural progression of things.
I hereby place into the public domain the concept of a "ring filter", which is activated by an "incoming call" event, and takes several steps:
* Selects a pre-designated audio source of your choosing, including but not limited to:
* Audio file (MP3, AAC, ETC.)
* Video file's audio track (MP4, H.whatever)
* Indexes to a pre-designated time offset into the audio source, then
* Applies a series of well-known signal processing algorithms to it, including:
* fade-in, fade-out, etc.
Along with this concept of the "ring filter", I donate into the public domain the concept of a "ring filter database" (RFDB), which catalogs "useful or interesting" sets of SOURCE/INDEX/FILTER settings that, when applied to well-known source material, wind up having the effect of acting as a "ringtone".
Buy the song once. Store it once. Use it in many ways, as you see fit.
(I know, there's already something called a "ring filter". So sue me.)
Unless you have a simple pay-as-you-go phone or device, it's too easy to overspend in a situation like this where you just have NO IDEA how much your device is costing you on a moment-by-moment basis.
What I'd appreciate is a device that lets you enter an EXPECTED monetary budget for its use, and safeguards to make sure you don't use the device in a manner that exceeds your expectations for how expensive its use should be.
The instant it began international data roaming, sirens should have sounded alerting the user that the device is now operating in a mode contrary to the user's financial expectations.
I'm sure it has an alert when it's battery needs recharging. No such luck when it starts draining your bank account.
During the end credits, I believe, the Mach 5 speeds toward the camera, Speed jumps out, time stands still, and the camera does a "Matrix-Style" sweep of 90 degrees until it's pointed at the driver's side instead of the front.
So, when we talk of a "Matrix-Style" effect, we should have all along been speaking of a "Speed-Racer-Style" effect.
So nice to know that now, not only is my credit card info available, but every taxi trip I take in NYC is geocached for me and the DHS.
I can just imagine a movie in the not too near future (I'm writing this down because I want it documented that I thought of it) where a serial killer spells out the name of his next intended victim using his GPS fare info. The detective cracks that mystery just in time to see the killer spell the name of someone dear to him.
Meh. Probably rent it, but not see it in the theater.
The hardware is nothing to write home about: a 1.5GHz Via C7 with 1GB of RAM and integrated graphics, but as Ars points out, it should be more than capable of performing basic tasks.
I'd just like to point out the absurdity of describing such a powerful computer with terms normally used to describe a 4-function calculator.
When I entered college, I paid for my own 8086 turbo, running DOS 3.something, and a 1200 baud modem. It had a 32MB RLL hard drive. It was also "more than capable of performing basic tasks."
This recalls Wirth's Law (from Nicklaus Wirth of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich): "Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster." Stated another way, "Intel giveth and Microsoft taketh away."
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I have one, and have not had problems with the pusher robots and shover robots in a long time now.
However, I am now painfully aware of the terrible secret of space. It keeps me up nights.
Here me out, there are a lot of people that are knew hear.
Idiot. You mispelled "alot". I hate having to be the grammer knotsee.
Please, oh please, please, puh-leeeeeze, somebody with the free time and passion please port MAME and SCUMMVM to the Wii.
Now that would rock.
Perhaps it will beat Duke Nukem Forever.
Have you, by chance, read Asimov's The Last Question?
I propose limiting their ad clicking on the ISP side with advertising traffic shaping. It is an unfortunate market reality, but these ad-clicking hogs are wasting valuable advertising bandwidth for the rest of the users, and it must be stopped.
Don't let 5% of the ad clickers ruin the internet "experience" for the rest of the users.
I'm more peeved about Finder spinning up every sleeping external drive when I've not asked to look at them. It should only stat things that are being accessed, in my opinion, especially if the OS is aware that they may be sleeping.
I think you meant 'grep -Rl some-string .'
Don't fork a new grep for each filename, if you can avoid it.
If that's not what you wanted, consider learning to use 'xargs', perhaps:
'find . -type f | xargs -n 1000 grep -l some-string'
The '-n 1000' is there in case the output of 'find' would exceed Linux's built-in 128k limit of command-line length.
The big issue here is the dangerous idea that ideas are dangerous.
Far distant dystopian future: With transporter technology, customs "copies" you at the border and keeps a copy of you in stasis for further questioning/interrogation. "You are free to go. Your copy will stay behind for questioning. Don't worry--you won't feel a thing."
I keep thinking back on a USENET posting titled The Legend of Ruritania (this may not be the official link, but is the oldest preserved copy I could quickly locate).
...and the ships using a Compulsator are sitting targets when it's spun up because they can't change course without flipping upside-down, like a gyroscope.
I'm sticking with my Interocitor, thankyouverymuch.
...moving "human resources" overseas...
Wouldn't it be the ultimate in outsourcing if HR functions were outsourced to an overseas company specializing in outsourcing other resources.
Maybe I should set up an overseas HR shop.
These older IBM keyboards (both the 84-key and 101-key models) were also ultimately repairable, if you had the time. We'd strip them down to their springs and "flip-tabs", wash off the pieces in a bath, wipe down the underlying pcb, then rebuild them after a nasty coke-or-meatball-sub accident where I used to work.
There was nothing spongy inside that would ever be "ruined" by liquids.
However, I'll never forgive IBM for swapping the positions of Ctrl and Caps Lock.
Speaking of which, I cried the day my Northgate OmniKey 102 stopped working. Now THAT was one awesome keyboard. It even came with an extra set of keycaps and a dip switch to let you pick where you wanted Ctrl to live. I personally wanted Caps Lock to live in a van down by the river.
Perhaps you don't understand. It's curving the other way. Used to be convex, then flat, now concave. Makes perfect sense to me in the natural progression of things.
Now explain to me how it is possible that the first two recommended videos that show up after this is done playing are:
* BLONDE AMERICAN SLUT
* Sexy Blonde Shows Off Her Oral Talents.
And no, I'm not making this up.
...I know Judo!
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Simple. It goes under "The, The."
You seem to have confused the effort to free Burma with the older, more amusingly poetic effort to shave Burma.
If you have nothing worth saying, say it with PowerPoint(tm)!
I hereby place into the public domain the concept of a "ring filter", which is activated by an "incoming call" event, and takes several steps:
* Selects a pre-designated audio source of your choosing, including but not limited to:
* Audio file (MP3, AAC, ETC.)
* Video file's audio track (MP4, H.whatever)
* Indexes to a pre-designated time offset into the audio source, then
* Applies a series of well-known signal processing algorithms to it, including:
* fade-in, fade-out, etc.
Along with this concept of the "ring filter", I donate into the public domain the concept of a "ring filter database" (RFDB), which catalogs "useful or interesting" sets of SOURCE/INDEX/FILTER settings that, when applied to well-known source material, wind up having the effect of acting as a "ringtone".
Buy the song once. Store it once. Use it in many ways, as you see fit.
(I know, there's already something called a "ring filter". So sue me.)
Unless you have a simple pay-as-you-go phone or device, it's too easy to overspend in a situation like this where you just have NO IDEA how much your device is costing you on a moment-by-moment basis.
What I'd appreciate is a device that lets you enter an EXPECTED monetary budget for its use, and safeguards to make sure you don't use the device in a manner that exceeds your expectations for how expensive its use should be.
The instant it began international data roaming, sirens should have sounded alerting the user that the device is now operating in a mode contrary to the user's financial expectations.
I'm sure it has an alert when it's battery needs recharging. No such luck when it starts draining your bank account.
During the end credits, I believe, the Mach 5 speeds toward the camera, Speed jumps out, time stands still, and the camera does a "Matrix-Style" sweep of 90 degrees until it's pointed at the driver's side instead of the front.
So, when we talk of a "Matrix-Style" effect, we should have all along been speaking of a "Speed-Racer-Style" effect.
So nice to know that now, not only is my credit card info available, but every taxi trip I take in NYC is geocached for me and the DHS.
I can just imagine a movie in the not too near future (I'm writing this down because I want it documented that I thought of it) where a serial killer spells out the name of his next intended victim using his GPS fare info. The detective cracks that mystery just in time to see the killer spell the name of someone dear to him.
Meh. Probably rent it, but not see it in the theater.
Additionally, how about using this for movie compression? Filling in based on info from previous and next frame.
They could just make Speed 2 a reference to Speed and be done with it, for example.
I'd just like to point out the absurdity of describing such a powerful computer with terms normally used to describe a 4-function calculator.
When I entered college, I paid for my own 8086 turbo, running DOS 3.something, and a 1200 baud modem. It had a 32MB RLL hard drive. It was also "more than capable of performing basic tasks."
This recalls Wirth's Law (from Nicklaus Wirth of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich): "Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster." Stated another way, "Intel giveth and Microsoft taketh away."
I thought it was, "Any sufficiently advanced ignorance is indistinguishable from stupidity."
Other notable variations include:
Clarke's Third Law: prov. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Any sufficiently reliable magic is indistinguishable from technology.
Any sufficiently nice person is indistinguishable from someone who likes you.
Any sufficiently advanced communication technology is indistinguishable from random noise.
--Richard Factor's Corrolary to Clarke's Third Law.
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
--Vernon Schryver
Shermer's Last Law: prov. Any sufficiently advanced Extra-Terrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
--Gregory Benford's Corrolary to Clarke's Third Law.
(Go ahead, you know you want to swipe one of these as your signature. Admit it.)