Yep, but one thing I'd like to see in optical mice is much higher sample rates. Often, when I try to "flick" my mouse around, the pointer does a little dance on the screen and ends up on the opposite side of where it should. Sigh.
Really? I've never had that happen with my MS Explorer mouse. Could it be your mouse? or maybe the surface it's on. I know the surface can affect optical mice quite a bit. The matter the better.
You, AnarchoFreak, are an advocate of goverment of by and for yourself.
No. What makes you think that? I'm an advocate of the people, not myself, or the govenment.
I would turn this around and ask YOU how to stop the cycle? Or do you just hate America so much you hope we go down in the flames and are annihilated?
I never said I hated the US. I just don't like what part of the goverment has done to people. But that dosn't mean I hate the US. Maybe you could say I hate part of your goverment, but deffinitly not the US as a whole, or the US people.
The point that I was trying to make, was that the US has a bad track record when it comes to things like this. And I hope that they do just kill the terroist groups, and not make a tragic situation more tragic by draging more innocent people into this whole thing.
No, that would still be you. I'm not talking about specifics when I mean war is a cycle. I'm talking about the big picture. There has always been wars going on, people retaliating to each other. It never stops, just look back into history and it's blatantly obvious.
"Yes. Of course"? You really belive that it's OK to to kill innocent people? Sure.. your goverment might become friends with the other countries govenment afterwards. But what does that matter? They still killed innocent people.
And yes, war does change things. But usaly for the worst.
Also, you really think that some of the places in the Middle-east are going to be come pals with the western world, just cause the US fire a few missils into civilian buildings?
Who are you standing for anyway? The govenments? or the people?
The thing is, the people that flew those planes into the WTC, belived that evil needed to be eradicated to. You are just like them.
No, cause the US does alot of very nasty things if you do the research. The trouble is, they just do what everyone else does, and see the US as one big enemy. They forget, or ignore that fact that innocent people, just like them, where working in the buildings, and not the leaders that they hate. They're probably sitting in a nice cosy bunker somewhere.
Funny thing is, The US will attack who ever did this. And the civilians of that country will be asking the same question you did.
I call this concept 'war' and it's a silly waste of human life. But it seems to be ok if the waste of life is the 'bad guys'.
Yeah, but not everyone working in either the pentagon or the WTC, or the people in the 4 jets, where evil leaders, bent on greed and killing innocent people, they where just every day Joes, doing there jobs. The people that really do that kinda stuff wouldn't have been there.
And unfortunatly, if the US retaliates. It will be the same story.
Innocent people are always the people that take most of the blow in wars, and the people who start them are always safe in there bunkers.
"Explain the existence of thin laptops, for instance."
WTF?
Thin laptops exist becasue they are thin. This mean that they will take up less space, and will quite oftern be lighter to carry.
Sure, some people will get it as a status symbol. But that's their problem.
I'd like a thin laptop because it's easier to carry around.
If they wern't trying to built them thin as possable. We'd still be lugging around 30kg bricks.
"There's the perception that other software doesn't work the same and isn't fully compatible.
Their perception is probably correct.
"Many rank and file clerical type employees do not want to learn some new software. This goes beyond familiarity. It's irrational."
So what your saying, in fact, is that it doesn't work the same, or is fully compatable?
Why should they bother using StarOffice at all? I hardly think most rank and file clerical type employees, are concerned by matters like MS's monopoly, and GNU software.
We also wouldn't make good batteries (ala The Matrix). So what would we be good for? Nothing! We wouldn't be slaves, we'd be dead.
Or it might be more like the borg. They'll just ignore us. Unless we get in the way. After all.. Why waste resorces killing all the humans in existanmce, when you can easly kill one anytime if it gets in the way.
It's already here... It's called 3d animation. You could probably send all the data need to render Final Fantasy in realtime (might have to lower the image map quality, or use vector/procedual textures).
But then you need to reconstruct it. An if you snoop around previous slashdot stories a bit, you'll know that it is not yet possable to render Final Fantasy (or any realistic CGI movie) in realtime.
Yeah, but. This has also already happened to video. I don't have any exact numbers. But if you compared a DivX, or a compressor of your choice. It will be much smaller than uncommpressed video. DivX can cram 1 1/2 hours onto a 680MB (does anyone have some proper numbers on this
?).
Anyway. I have a 56k modem, and I've can't even stream MP3's at decent quality. Let along, 640x480 30fps HQ video over a 28.8k.
I find it very hard to belive that they can do this. Still...I hope they prove me wrong of course.
You see, Taco explains nicely in the FAQ that he doesn't want to cache linked content because that might require him actually contacting the linkee. And waiting for a reply (the horrors!). After all, contacting the webmaster and ensuring that you won't be fucking over some poor sucker who happens to be hosting some interesting stuff off his personal computer requires effort.
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Fuck! Of course! Taco must be a real lazy person to not bother chassing round webmasters of sites. I mean. It's not like/. get more that 10 submissions let alone 5 posts a day or anything. And webmasters will always reply within an hour! And It's not like he's got something else to do.../. runs its' self.
He'll never run into copyright issues, or get complaints from people. Or run in to techincal issues when caching certian pages etc.
And we all know that a script to cache a page, is easy to write, will be faultless, and won't add that much more stress on to the/. servers.
Hey... I have an idea. Since Taco is too lazy to do it. Why don't you? Or are you too lazy aswell?
The only 'painfull' lego expeirence I had, was when I was looking for certain part for hours...that one bit, that you know you only have one of, and you need it to complete the model.... AAAAAARRH.
This is like suing tobacco companies or gun manufacturers... It's The American Way (tm).
Big, big difference. The gun manufacturers never denied that guns can kill you. They know they can kill, they admit it. And try to make guns safer.
Plus they didn't cover their guns in addictive substances, for the sole perpours of making them addictive.
the Web is basically shit for any reasonably detailed material. Yes it's fun to surf, but when I *really* need to check facts, I go off to a library and get it out of a dead tree tome.
I find that hard to swallow. If you want to research stuff that has been around for a while. Sure, the library is proabaly a better resourse. But what if you want to reseach something recent? No better place than the web.
And yes, the web dosn't have a much credibility as dead tree material. But that's oneof neat things about the web. Anyone can publish on it, so you get to see more different perspectives.
PDA's are a fad, for the most part. Sure, there are valid uses, and they can really help out in certain areas in our life. But for the most part, it's a fruity fad.
Yeah, just like cell phones.
I agree with you when it comes about having them in school. I think a laptop is a much better idea for learing/working on.
PDA's are just PDA's, that is Personal Digital Assistants. They take reminders, calanders, keep all you contacts at hand, remember important dates, keep notes for you. Carry you e-mail. and then copy it back to your computer without you having to type anything. + much more since you can install programs on them.
So they are useful. But not realy suited for the classroom, since they aren't realy made to be a input device.
Taking a note? No problems. But writing down a lecture and doing research? A laptop or paper would be much better.
Bullshit. I used to have a 233, Netscape 4.7 was much faster that IE 5.
But I switched over cause of the better UI, and 'casue it didn't turn a CSS2/HTML4 site to crap. And that's got nothing to do with being able to intergate the browser into the operating system.
Anyway. The reason it wasn't mentioned, is becasue they're comparing Linux browsers. The last time I checked MS didn't make a version of IE for Linux.
You see, this is the kind of shit that puts me off Apple. They seem to make a really good product, they have a great OS, then they fuck it all up casue of some markering department. One could say the same thing has happened to OS X
So much for inivation, quality and thinking different.
I'm sure there are plenty of 'techical' reasons as to why they can't do those two features. But I bet they arn't the real reasons.
Such a shame to see a company--really capable of putting our products better than most on the market--sellout.
Sorry. But I don't remember seeing anywhere in the artical about when customers of that ISP where being rung-up, or any artical about how they where rescued.
I'm asumming the FBI where still working on a case, for at least 1 of the 16 months, from the time they searched his place, to the time they they called his lawyer. I would have thought that they'd pick up something big, like ringing customers of the ISP. The FBI may not know much about computers. But they still know how to invesigate.
Anyway, lets say he did ring everyone up, and gain customers from it. Would it still be fraud, since he probably didn't hack the site (like someone said, he uses FrontPage for gods sake). Or would it just be a not-so-nice way of making the most of you opportunities?
But since you've placed me in the "them" corner, let's look at a motive. How about... for money? The oldest motive in the book. Here's a hypothetical;
Brian West works for Cwis, he cracked the website then contacted the Poteau Daily News in order to "rescue" them from the incompetence of his competitor, Cyberlink.
Maybe I'm missing the obvious. But how the hell is that going to get him money? Would anyone really care about their 'rescue'? Are you saying that he thought that running an artical on how they 'rescued' the PDN, would make there web-stie so popular, that they would start to rake in a noicable more cash in profits? Are you on crack?
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Really? I've never had that happen with my MS Explorer mouse. Could it be your mouse? or maybe the surface it's on. I know the surface can affect optical mice quite a bit. The matter the better.
Or maybe I just 'flick' differently.
No. What makes you think that? I'm an advocate of the people, not myself, or the govenment.
I would turn this around and ask YOU how to stop the cycle? Or do you just hate America so much you hope we go down in the flames and are annihilated?
I never said I hated the US. I just don't like what part of the goverment has done to people. But that dosn't mean I hate the US. Maybe you could say I hate part of your goverment, but deffinitly not the US as a whole, or the US people.
The point that I was trying to make, was that the US has a bad track record when it comes to things like this. And I hope that they do just kill the terroist groups, and not make a tragic situation more tragic by draging more innocent people into this whole thing.
"Yes. Of course"? You really belive that it's OK to to kill innocent people? Sure.. your goverment might become friends with the other countries govenment afterwards. But what does that matter? They still killed innocent people.
And yes, war does change things. But usaly for the worst.
Also, you really think that some of the places in the Middle-east are going to be come pals with the western world, just cause the US fire a few missils into civilian buildings?
Who are you standing for anyway? The govenments? or the people?
The thing is, the people that flew those planes into the WTC, belived that evil needed to be eradicated to. You are just like them.
Funny thing is, The US will attack who ever did this. And the civilians of that country will be asking the same question you did.
I call this concept 'war' and it's a silly waste of human life. But it seems to be ok if the waste of life is the 'bad guys'.
To promise retaliation is not hubris, it's appropriate."
So then the US can attcak, and kill thousands of innocent people? Which means that the other side will retaliate back?
Some people just don't understand the whole visous cycle of war and conflict.
And unfortunatly, if the US retaliates. It will be the same story.
Innocent people are always the people that take most of the blow in wars, and the people who start them are always safe in there bunkers.
...Or you could just drink more water, since most people don't drink enough water anyway (2 litres (8 glasses) a day is the right amount AFAIK).
WTF?
Thin laptops exist becasue they are thin. This mean that they will take up less space, and will quite oftern be lighter to carry.
Sure, some people will get it as a status symbol. But that's their problem.
I'd like a thin laptop because it's easier to carry around.
If they wern't trying to built them thin as possable. We'd still be lugging around 30kg bricks.
Their perception is probably correct.
"Many rank and file clerical type employees do not want to learn some new software. This goes beyond familiarity. It's irrational."
So what your saying, in fact, is that it doesn't work the same, or is fully compatable?
Why should they bother using StarOffice at all? I hardly think most rank and file clerical type employees, are concerned by matters like MS's monopoly, and GNU software.
I think you're the only irrational one here...
Or it might be more like the borg. They'll just ignore us. Unless we get in the way. After all.. Why waste resorces killing all the humans in existanmce, when you can easly kill one anytime if it gets in the way.
I must have missed the boat on this one.
But why does the slashcode insert spaces into URLs etc., especialy URL's that are't even <A>-links?
Is it supposed to reduce goatse encounters or something?
But then you need to reconstruct it. An if you snoop around previous slashdot stories a bit, you'll know that it is not yet possable to render Final Fantasy (or any realistic CGI movie) in realtime.
Anyway. I have a 56k modem, and I've can't even stream MP3's at decent quality. Let along, 640x480 30fps HQ video over a 28.8k.
I find it very hard to belive that they can do this. Still...I hope they prove me wrong of course.
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Fuck! Of course! Taco must be a real lazy person to not bother chassing round webmasters of sites. /. get more that 10 submissions let alone 5 posts a day or anything. And webmasters will always reply within an hour! And It's not like he's got something else to do... /. runs its' self. /. servers.
I mean. It's not like
He'll never run into copyright issues, or get complaints from people. Or run in to techincal issues when caching certian pages etc.
And we all know that a script to cache a page, is easy to write, will be faultless, and won't add that much more stress on to the
Hey... I have an idea. Since Taco is too lazy to do it. Why don't you? Or are you too lazy aswell?
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The only 'painfull' lego expeirence I had, was when I was looking for certain part for hours...that one bit, that you know you only have one of, and you need it to complete the model.... AAAAAARRH.
8570km/h real speed, 1:10th scale car, 85,700km/h scale speed....That's pretty fast for a Alfa Romeo 156.
Somehow I think I'd lose the C from R/C.
'Cause if one of those things came strait for you at 8570km/h, you'd better...SCRAM!
Ah well, It sounded alot funnier before I typed it.
Palm garffiti areas are small. No point in wasting space on characters that arn't used that much.
Big, big difference. The gun manufacturers never denied that guns can kill you. They know they can kill, they admit it. And try to make guns safer.
Plus they didn't cover their guns in addictive substances, for the sole perpours of making them addictive.
I find that hard to swallow. If you want to research stuff that has been around for a while. Sure, the library is proabaly a better resourse. But what if you want to reseach something recent? No better place than the web.
And yes, the web dosn't have a much credibility as dead tree material. But that's oneof neat things about the web. Anyone can publish on it, so you get to see more different perspectives.
Yeah, just like cell phones.
I agree with you when it comes about having them in school. I think a laptop is a much better idea for learing/working on.
PDA's are just PDA's, that is Personal Digital Assistants. They take reminders, calanders, keep all you contacts at hand, remember important dates, keep notes for you. Carry you e-mail. and then copy it back to your computer without you having to type anything. + much more since you can install programs on them.
So they are useful. But not realy suited for the classroom, since they aren't realy made to be a input device.
Taking a note? No problems. But writing down a lecture and doing research? A laptop or paper would be much better.
But I switched over cause of the better UI, and 'casue it didn't turn a CSS2/HTML4 site to crap. And that's got nothing to do with being able to intergate the browser into the operating system.
Anyway. The reason it wasn't mentioned, is becasue they're comparing Linux browsers. The last time I checked MS didn't make a version of IE for Linux.
So much for inivation, quality and thinking different.
I'm sure there are plenty of 'techical' reasons as to why they can't do those two features. But I bet they arn't the real reasons.
Such a shame to see a company--really capable of putting our products better than most on the market--sellout.
I'm asumming the FBI where still working on a case, for at least 1 of the 16 months, from the time they searched his place, to the time they they called his lawyer.
I would have thought that they'd pick up something big, like ringing customers of the ISP.
The FBI may not know much about computers. But they still know how to invesigate.
Anyway, lets say he did ring everyone up, and gain customers from it. Would it still be fraud, since he probably didn't hack the site (like someone said, he uses FrontPage for gods sake). Or would it just be a not-so-nice way of making the most of you opportunities?