It's a damn good thing you put that "[rolls eyes]" in there, just so we knew for sure you were jesting, not speaking in earnest. I mean, if you'd left that out, I think I'd be torn between the two options, left in a state of trans-enlightenment confusion!
Actually, this may be marked as funny, but there is a kernel of truth to this. A big one, even. Ready to be POPPED!
Like the tokin' spacecowboy tells us, alcohol kills brain cells, killing the weakest ones. Everyone knows this. Everyone also knows that the average human only ever uses 10% of her potential brain power, with the exceptional folks only using a few percentage points more.
When you drink, you are indeed culling the bad, thinning the herd. And as a result, you're giving yourself the chance to use only the best of the best of your brain cells. If you're only going to use 10% of your grey matter, why the hell use all of the average stuff? Why not weed it out, with only the cream of the crop left over for your computational needs?
I did that for my family. After maintaining the family 486SX/25for 6 years- we got it was I was almost 13, and it was time for me to move off to college- I had a little sit down with my dad and said "Pops, next time you buy a computer, whether its this Christmas or in another 10 years, buy a Mac." Amazingly enough, he complied, even ordering the iMac/400 online, which is a feat in and of itself.
When I was in high school I had the time and energy to dick around with that old machine like I did- installing OS/2 2.1 about once a year to run it for a couple months until my dad got confused, and I was compelled to put Win 3.1 back on. Hell, I never even used anything newer than Win 3.1 on the Microsoft side of things until 2000 or so when I got a job on campus with the computer team at the library. Back then, I was pure DOS, then OS/2, back to DOS and then finally to running Linux on a UMSDOS file on my ber own 80 MB hard drive, installed as a slave.
Anyway. Maintaining that POS was a PIA. And most new PCs are worse, not better. So they got a Mac, and when 10.2 came out, I finally upgraded them to 10.2... Though, my dad was pretty confused by 10.2, though not neccesarily disliking it. What can I say- he spends his 40 hours a week programming assembly for old UNIVAC mainframes for Unisys.
Haha. Just kidding. I never used that shit, way too flaky. Although it did almost effectively double the size of your drive for a pretty normal end user. But there were drawbacks, and I never used it more than to say "wow!" M$: DRVSPACE.BIN 0wnZ j00!
At first, I thought you were kidding... Making fun of the guy for pointing it out the obvious... I mean, it's pointed out a number of times in comments here and in the stories. Anyway, this is slashdot, where most of the posters don't read the stories, and most of those who comprehend the stories don't post.:) And then there are the editors, who sometimes just can't read. [1]
But the six hundred-odd readings of your post since that first one got me thinking- I don't think he knew it was in Flash! I mean, duuuh- why else would a game of this non-magnitude require so much raw computation? Beacause game logic is written in ActionScript and the whole package is Flash.
heh. I know I won't be running this bohemoeth.:)
[1] warning to idiots with mod points: that stuff was a joke.
While WinCE and PocketPC prolly have the best tools available, DVD ripping to PDAs isn't only done on WinCE machines- folks do it on Palm OS and the Zaurus as well. Heck, the Sony Clie PDA line even has its own PVR for recording TV and movies in a format and screen size ready to be watched on a Clie handheld. Cute.
I've used some programs that automate this process nicely. I've watched Ghost Dog and Kill Bill vol. 1 on my Clie, though that's it so far for me. The files are good quality for their size- a full length movie with good sound, although a low res, even for the 480x320 screen- comes in at 100 MB or so. The file format is a good one- MPEG4 in a QuickTime 6 file.
I'm not sure if MPEG4+Qt is better than using DivX, which is what the PocketPC folks usually use. But performance is perfect, better than I've seen on a Zaurus C760 or fancy new Dell Axim. The reason for this is likely the MPEG4 decoder chip built into the Clie, which handles the decoding. Completely smooth.
Somewhat ironically lame is that the Zaurus C7x0 has a similar decoding chip, albeit MPEG2 (IIRC). But nooo, Sharp's own apps don't support it, and they won't share a library. Ahh-- open source at work! Still screwed over. *sigh*
You could do this for *actually* cheap, rather than a joke.
$40 PDA (iPAQ 3100 series; if you want color, you could spend $75 on a 3600 series) $20 for this software $30 for PCMCIA sleeve (maybe cheaper) $100 a PCMCIA 5 GB HD
Grand total... $190! Although, if you just want an MP3 player, you may as well just get the $200 MuPo (or Muvo) by Creative. Only 4 GB, but it's got the same drive as the iPod mini.
Did the questioner do even a basic look around or search?
Of course he didn't. It's almost as dumb of you to ask as it was for the editors to post this as an Ask Slashdot. This is Slashdot- the only questions that make it are dumb ones.
I for one second the reccomendation for allrecipes.com. Me and my gf have had a lot of good ones from there- and they're rated. Handy to have.
Well, the "terrorist" label is for anyone doing drugs. Smoke a joint, and you're a terrorist. Thrown in jail without a trial or anything resembling due process? It's OK! You're a "terrorist" in the USA under the PATRIOT act! Woohoo!
Umm, sure. This has been gone over a dozen times in as many places. Probably won't happen. There is a pretty explicit clause in the license that says if their claim is proven bunk, that you ain't getting your money back. EV1 took that chance, in a way, putting in that vote of confidence that SCO is right.
So, it sounds like Opera is approaching a next-gen email client, and I'm glad to know it is. But that doesn't mean the others really aren't anything new. Useful, I'm sure, but they are still pretty vanilla email clients.
That said, Opera sure isn't a revolution in a box.
What is so tight about integration between contacts and mail? From what I could tell, it wans't anything too new, and I can't install it to play with it myself, but I'd be curious of finding out what it does that is so... tight.
My first thought was "cool! let's see these new email clients!" But was disapointed to find they are calling boring old clients "next gen." I mean, what do these do different? Not much. It is useful to review them for us, yes, but it's not like they're actually next gen.
Surely you mean to say that functional languages don't have mutable objects, rather than "updatable variables." I mean, what the hell do you mean by "updatable variables?"
In Haskell, I can assign the value 5 to a variable x with "x = 5". And I can certainly "update" that variable by later saying "x = 10".
Well... Someone had to do something to remind everyone how much better Apple does things. You can get a very high end Powerbook G4 with a 17" screen that ways quite a bit less than half of this monster's 16 lbs... Runs a better OS to boot.
A crappy defense, yes. Yup, Bill fucked up a few times. That is expected, though everytime it happens it's a scandal. But at least he didn't make it his policy to fuck up as much as possible like W.
1. I really doubt he'd be accused of grandstanding. His approval ratings and the media bias are positive enough that while there may be a very small group of people who didn't like it, most folks would find it touching.
Of course, after the fact, it may come out that he only went to *one* funeral, disregarding everyone else. If he did that, and had his folks make a huge deal of it, like he was doing something ultra-signifigant, then sure, maybe he'd be accused of grandstanding and rightly so.
2. Good thing Bushie cut their bennies though, eh?
Well, not precisely. In my case, videogames have made me fat and very nice, happy and downright jovial. In the case of my S.O., who usually plays a lot more video games than me, she is skinny and mean.
I would just hope there is a clear stipulation that when SCO looses its case in court they get a refund with Interest:)
Don't think so... I think there was something in the agreement they bought into that said if it's overturned, they're out their money. But that's not a surprise. The court could find otherwise if it was really extreme, but not too likely IMHO. They knew what they were getting into.
Except, sad thing is, they'd probably gain more business from folks wanting to make sure their asses were covered. Sure, I bet there'd be a huge rush of like 4 slashdotters who signed up for new accounts with them to show their support, but nothing very signifigant...
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It's a damn good thing you put that "[rolls eyes]" in there, just so we knew for sure you were jesting, not speaking in earnest. I mean, if you'd left that out, I think I'd be torn between the two options, left in a state of trans-enlightenment confusion!
Actually, this may be marked as funny, but there is a kernel of truth to this. A big one, even. Ready to be POPPED!
Like the tokin' spacecowboy tells us, alcohol kills brain cells, killing the weakest ones. Everyone knows this. Everyone also knows that the average human only ever uses 10% of her potential brain power, with the exceptional folks only using a few percentage points more.
When you drink, you are indeed culling the bad, thinning the herd. And as a result, you're giving yourself the chance to use only the best of the best of your brain cells. If you're only going to use 10% of your grey matter, why the hell use all of the average stuff? Why not weed it out, with only the cream of the crop left over for your computational needs?
I did that for my family. After maintaining the family 486SX/25for 6 years- we got it was I was almost 13, and it was time for me to move off to college- I had a little sit down with my dad and said "Pops, next time you buy a computer, whether its this Christmas or in another 10 years, buy a Mac." Amazingly enough, he complied, even ordering the iMac/400 online, which is a feat in and of itself.
When I was in high school I had the time and energy to dick around with that old machine like I did- installing OS/2 2.1 about once a year to run it for a couple months until my dad got confused, and I was compelled to put Win 3.1 back on. Hell, I never even used anything newer than Win 3.1 on the Microsoft side of things until 2000 or so when I got a job on campus with the computer team at the library. Back then, I was pure DOS, then OS/2, back to DOS and then finally to running Linux on a UMSDOS file on my ber own 80 MB hard drive, installed as a slave.
Anyway. Maintaining that POS was a PIA. And most new PCs are worse, not better. So they got a Mac, and when 10.2 came out, I finally upgraded them to 10.2... Though, my dad was pretty confused by 10.2, though not neccesarily disliking it. What can I say- he spends his 40 hours a week programming assembly for old UNIVAC mainframes for Unisys.
awww... the memories...
I've been getting all sorts of super-secret space out of my drives for over 10 years.
The secret to this? Nothing fancy... Just MICROSOFT DOUBLESPACE!
Haha. Just kidding. I never used that shit, way too flaky. Although it did almost effectively double the size of your drive for a pretty normal end user. But there were drawbacks, and I never used it more than to say "wow!" M$: DRVSPACE.BIN 0wnZ j00!
But the six hundred-odd readings of your post since that first one got me thinking- I don't think he knew it was in Flash! I mean, duuuh- why else would a game of this non-magnitude require so much raw computation? Beacause game logic is written in ActionScript and the whole package is Flash.
heh. I know I won't be running this bohemoeth.
[1] warning to idiots with mod points: that stuff was a joke.
While WinCE and PocketPC prolly have the best tools available, DVD ripping to PDAs isn't only done on WinCE machines- folks do it on Palm OS and the Zaurus as well. Heck, the Sony Clie PDA line even has its own PVR for recording TV and movies in a format and screen size ready to be watched on a Clie handheld. Cute.
I've used some programs that automate this process nicely. I've watched Ghost Dog and Kill Bill vol. 1 on my Clie, though that's it so far for me. The files are good quality for their size- a full length movie with good sound, although a low res, even for the 480x320 screen- comes in at 100 MB or so. The file format is a good one- MPEG4 in a QuickTime 6 file.
I'm not sure if MPEG4+Qt is better than using DivX, which is what the PocketPC folks usually use. But performance is perfect, better than I've seen on a Zaurus C760 or fancy new Dell Axim. The reason for this is likely the MPEG4 decoder chip built into the Clie, which handles the decoding. Completely smooth.
Somewhat ironically lame is that the Zaurus C7x0 has a similar decoding chip, albeit MPEG2 (IIRC). But nooo, Sharp's own apps don't support it, and they won't share a library. Ahh-- open source at work! Still screwed over. *sigh*
You could do this for *actually* cheap, rather than a joke.
$40 PDA (iPAQ 3100 series; if you want color, you could spend $75 on a 3600 series)
$20 for this software
$30 for PCMCIA sleeve (maybe cheaper)
$100 a PCMCIA 5 GB HD
Grand total... $190! Although, if you just want an MP3 player, you may as well just get the $200 MuPo (or Muvo) by Creative. Only 4 GB, but it's got the same drive as the iPod mini.
How far we've come- a 1.3 GHz CPU for a 640x480 2D scroller. Oh, progress!
Aaron
Did the questioner do even a basic look around or search?
Of course he didn't. It's almost as dumb of you to ask as it was for the editors to post this as an Ask Slashdot. This is Slashdot- the only questions that make it are dumb ones.
I for one second the reccomendation for allrecipes.com. Me and my gf have had a lot of good ones from there- and they're rated. Handy to have.
Well, the "terrorist" label is for anyone doing drugs. Smoke a joint, and you're a terrorist. Thrown in jail without a trial or anything resembling due process? It's OK! You're a "terrorist" in the USA under the PATRIOT act! Woohoo!
Umm, sure. This has been gone over a dozen times in as many places. Probably won't happen. There is a pretty explicit clause in the license that says if their claim is proven bunk, that you ain't getting your money back. EV1 took that chance, in a way, putting in that vote of confidence that SCO is right.
Atta boy, there you go.
... tight.
So, it sounds like Opera is approaching a next-gen email client, and I'm glad to know it is. But that doesn't mean the others really aren't anything new. Useful, I'm sure, but they are still pretty vanilla email clients.
That said, Opera sure isn't a revolution in a box.
What is so tight about integration between contacts and mail? From what I could tell, it wans't anything too new, and I can't install it to play with it myself, but I'd be curious of finding out what it does that is so
My first thought was "cool! let's see these new email clients!" But was disapointed to find they are calling boring old clients "next gen." I mean, what do these do different? Not much. It is useful to review them for us, yes, but it's not like they're actually next gen.
*shrug*
ICQ and Jabber don't require that. At least, ICQ used to not require the person to be logged on, not sure if it's the same since the merger.
I dunno, I always thought adventure games were a pain in the ass to play on a console. I like having a mouse, along with right clickage...
Surely you mean to say that functional languages don't have mutable objects, rather than "updatable variables." I mean, what the hell do you mean by "updatable variables?"
In Haskell, I can assign the value 5 to a variable x with "x = 5". And I can certainly "update" that variable by later saying "x = 10".
Well... Someone had to do something to remind everyone how much better Apple does things. You can get a very high end Powerbook G4 with a 17" screen that ways quite a bit less than half of this monster's 16 lbs... Runs a better OS to boot.
Does Apple own any Acer stock?
A crappy defense, yes. Yup, Bill fucked up a few times. That is expected, though everytime it happens it's a scandal. But at least he didn't make it his policy to fuck up as much as possible like W.
to say nothing of Cheney, Perle, Ashcroft and the rest who are PROUD of being draft dodgers.
Well, duh. They are far to important to have been exposes to any danger. Rich people don't deserve that kind of treatment!
1. I really doubt he'd be accused of grandstanding. His approval ratings and the media bias are positive enough that while there may be a very small group of people who didn't like it, most folks would find it touching.
Of course, after the fact, it may come out that he only went to *one* funeral, disregarding everyone else. If he did that, and had his folks make a huge deal of it, like he was doing something ultra-signifigant, then sure, maybe he'd be accused of grandstanding and rightly so.
2. Good thing Bushie cut their bennies though, eh?
Well, not precisely. In my case, videogames have made me fat and very nice, happy and downright jovial. In the case of my S.O., who usually plays a lot more video games than me, she is skinny and mean.
There's one for the statiticians!
And at least Bill never sent a troop into battle who didn't come home to his or her family.
Is that true?
Or do you include coming home dead as coming home?
I mean, I would take Bill of any Bush any year, but I find it a little unlikely that no soldier died during duty during Clinton's stretch...
I would just hope there is a clear stipulation that when SCO looses its case in court they get a refund with Interest :)
Don't think so... I think there was something in the agreement they bought into that said if it's overturned, they're out their money. But that's not a surprise. The court could find otherwise if it was really extreme, but not too likely IMHO. They knew what they were getting into.
Except, sad thing is, they'd probably gain more business from folks wanting to make sure their asses were covered. Sure, I bet there'd be a huge rush of like 4 slashdotters who signed up for new accounts with them to show their support, but nothing very signifigant...
Not sure where "here" is, but I think it's a good guess to day you're in the US. Which I am. Ahh, the wonders of packages from germany. :D