You have misunderstood the purpose of the Nobel Peace Prize. In particular, you have not realized that it is mispelled. It is in fact, the Nobel Please Prize.
This is "please" as in "Please $WINNER, do stuff we think would be really nice.": "Please, Mr. Obama, do stuff we think would be really nice." or "Please Mr. Arafat, do stuff we think would be really nice." Oops, that last one didn't work quite as well as they hoped.
...its name. Internet Exploiter, er I mean Exploder, er I mean Explorer.
They need to change it to something marketroid-based like "Aling". Then everyone who uses their OS's default browser with default settings can be called a "Bing-Aling".
Because nowhere in TFA did it say that they were modding the hardware? Fat PS3s are built to allow you to install Linux, though they do deny you GPU access.
I sure as hell don't. Standard def DVDs look like shit on a large (>30 inches) set, especially with all the annoying DVD artifacts. Give me the high-definition movies and tv shows please.
Turn down your fucking Sharpness control. This is one of those crap options that add noise to the picture just make things look better in the sales room. For most TV sets, the correct setting is ZERO, though some sets (notably Sony) support negative sharpness and the zero setting is in the middle of the bar.
Most of the "artifacts" of DVD are actually due to this. I've even seen completely player-generated screens (not based off of MPEG or JPEG) have "artifacts" because of the ringing from Sharpness.
...meanwhile your remote is crammed with a bunch of buttons that you have to remember in the dark, and have to be properly set up when you get a multi-system remote. Touch-screen is not a solution, because it doesn't give tactile feedback, forcing to look at your remote to do anything.
Personally, this would annoy me. I hate trailers on discs.
Do you hate trailers, or do you hate forced trailers? I can't see how you can have any problem with trailers hiding behind a menu selection, or sometimes two menus (as a sub-item of an Extras menu).
This is a problem with DVD too, it's just that (from what I hear, not having yet drunk Sony's kool-aid) it already takes Blu-Ray what, 60 or more seconds to get where you can start watching the movie when the studio doesn't pull their arrogant "WE'RE SO AWESOME WATCH OUR FLYING LOGO AGAIN WITH CONTROLS DISABLED" crap?
Except you do get full speed... until everybody else wants full speed. According to TFS, this only kicks in when your particular head end gets congested. If this is actually all they are doing (with nothing else like caps on total usage during a month), then it seems much more fair than what they were doing before.
The Windows and OSX abstractions for the display don't provide an API that allows these sorts of optimizations to be done behind the scenes. We have incredible display hardware with awesome features that go unused in these environments because the display abstractions do not allow for them.
Or maybe they do provide the API, and the non-X11 branches of the code simply didn't use them because the guy writing the code didn't know how, and it hasn't been long enough for someone else to come around and fix it?
Slackware was one of the great floppy-loadable distros. I don't think they break it up into floppy-sized chunks any more, but I remember all the fun of trying to install Slackware 3-point-something from floppies. The biggest problem was that HD floppies were sufficiently unreliable that I was constantly re-writing floppy disks on another machine.
Also, Slackware was good for making minimal installs. In particular, Red Hat tried to install and enable EVERYTHING. There were so many buffer-overrun bugs (at least through Red Hat 6.x) that it wasn't even funny.
One nice thing about Slackware was that you could start up from a boot floppy, then you would have enough of Linux running from a ramdisk that you could format your hard drive and start copying each install floppy to the hard disk before even starting. If you have a network card with a supported driver, you can even copy the rest of the distro over via FTP. By installing from the hard disk, you avoid any problems with disk errors on the floppy disks. As long as your hard disk is big enough, this is the best way to go.
The single most annoying misfeature to me with Seamonkey is that someone thought that editing pages in the web browser was such a heavily used feature that it deserved to be bound to a command key. Yeaaaah, no. Many times I have hit that stupid command-E by accident and had to interrupt my concentration to close it.
I'm providing these instructions for those of you who agree that this is not only a pointless feature, but worse than pointless because it's annoying. So open up a Terminal window and get cracking!
cd/Applications/SeaMonkey.app/Contents/MacOS/chrome open -e locale/en-US/navigator/navigator.dtd
* find the three lines containing "editPageCmd"
* remove the "E" character inside the quotes for accesskey and commandkey, but leave the quotes and everything else intact
* save the file
zip -r -q -n "" en-US.jar locale
That's it. If you somehow messed up the file, Seamonkey will open up with only the Apple and application menus. Open up the file and try again.
After many years of use, the lining of a Tokamak core is supposed to get mildly radioactive. And there is no risk of a meltdown because it's hard enough just to keep the thing going in the first place.
But right now, there isn't much nuclear waste being produced by fusion.
Actually, they ARE identical. The four segments were returned from Florida and stowed after the Columbia accident. While in storage they went past their "use by" date, and could not be re-used for an actual manned shuttle flight. However, tests revealed that the propellant was still in good shape, so they were used for this launch. Only a fifth dummy stage was added, with the weight and shape of an actual segment.
In other words, not only are they actual shuttle SRB segments, they are actual SRB segments that went unused for longer than the rated storage life of an unused SRB segment.
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I hope they know better than to use an apostrophe in a plural.
You have misunderstood the purpose of the Nobel Peace Prize. In particular, you have not realized that it is mispelled. It is in fact, the Nobel Please Prize.
This is "please" as in "Please $WINNER, do stuff we think would be really nice.": "Please, Mr. Obama, do stuff we think would be really nice." or "Please Mr. Arafat, do stuff we think would be really nice." Oops, that last one didn't work quite as well as they hoped.
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That wasn't a turn off for anyone?
Apparently not enough to stop people from writing over 100,000 apps.
...its name. Internet Exploiter, er I mean Exploder, er I mean Explorer.
They need to change it to something marketroid-based like "Aling". Then everyone who uses their OS's default browser with default settings can be called a "Bing-Aling".
...er I mean "privateers".
How is this in any way a troll?
Because nowhere in TFA did it say that they were modding the hardware? Fat PS3s are built to allow you to install Linux, though they do deny you GPU access.
...then it's a good thing we're nowhere near being able to use He3 as a fuel.
You can actually get 'narrow exceptions' to the fundamental rights?
The Second Amendment doesn't give you the right to shout "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre.
I sure as hell don't. Standard def DVDs look like shit on a large (>30 inches) set, especially with all the annoying DVD artifacts. Give me the high-definition movies and tv shows please.
Turn down your fucking Sharpness control. This is one of those crap options that add noise to the picture just make things look better in the sales room. For most TV sets, the correct setting is ZERO, though some sets (notably Sony) support negative sharpness and the zero setting is in the middle of the bar.
Most of the "artifacts" of DVD are actually due to this. I've even seen completely player-generated screens (not based off of MPEG or JPEG) have "artifacts" because of the ringing from Sharpness.
...meanwhile your remote is crammed with a bunch of buttons that you have to remember in the dark, and have to be properly set up when you get a multi-system remote. Touch-screen is not a solution, because it doesn't give tactile feedback, forcing to look at your remote to do anything.
Personally, this would annoy me. I hate trailers on discs.
Do you hate trailers, or do you hate forced trailers? I can't see how you can have any problem with trailers hiding behind a menu selection, or sometimes two menus (as a sub-item of an Extras menu).
This is a problem with DVD too, it's just that (from what I hear, not having yet drunk Sony's kool-aid) it already takes Blu-Ray what, 60 or more seconds to get where you can start watching the movie when the studio doesn't pull their arrogant "WE'RE SO AWESOME WATCH OUR FLYING LOGO AGAIN WITH CONTROLS DISABLED" crap?
Nah, they would have just renamed it to "Urectumix".
That kid sure played a mean game of hardball with them.
Except you do get full speed... until everybody else wants full speed. According to TFS, this only kicks in when your particular head end gets congested. If this is actually all they are doing (with nothing else like caps on total usage during a month), then it seems much more fair than what they were doing before.
Even a stopped clock's minute hand is right 24 times a day.
The Windows and OSX abstractions for the display don't provide an API that allows these sorts of optimizations to be done behind the scenes. We have incredible display hardware with awesome features that go unused in these environments because the display abstractions do not allow for them.
Or maybe they do provide the API, and the non-X11 branches of the code simply didn't use them because the guy writing the code didn't know how, and it hasn't been long enough for someone else to come around and fix it?
At least they said Mac and not MAC. To those who spell it in all caps, I say: Hey retards, it's not an acronym!
Slackware was one of the great floppy-loadable distros. I don't think they break it up into floppy-sized chunks any more, but I remember all the fun of trying to install Slackware 3-point-something from floppies. The biggest problem was that HD floppies were sufficiently unreliable that I was constantly re-writing floppy disks on another machine.
Also, Slackware was good for making minimal installs. In particular, Red Hat tried to install and enable EVERYTHING. There were so many buffer-overrun bugs (at least through Red Hat 6.x) that it wasn't even funny.
One nice thing about Slackware was that you could start up from a boot floppy, then you would have enough of Linux running from a ramdisk that you could format your hard drive and start copying each install floppy to the hard disk before even starting. If you have a network card with a supported driver, you can even copy the rest of the distro over via FTP. By installing from the hard disk, you avoid any problems with disk errors on the floppy disks. As long as your hard disk is big enough, this is the best way to go.
Ok, I've been looking but I don't see anywhere on the FCC website to actually give them feedback.
That's because they're in control of their own Electronic Media.
The single most annoying misfeature to me with Seamonkey is that someone thought that editing pages in the web browser was such a heavily used feature that it deserved to be bound to a command key. Yeaaaah, no. Many times I have hit that stupid command-E by accident and had to interrupt my concentration to close it.
I'm providing these instructions for those of you who agree that this is not only a pointless feature, but worse than pointless because it's annoying. So open up a Terminal window and get cracking!
cd /Applications/SeaMonkey.app/Contents/MacOS/chrome
open -e locale/en-US/navigator/navigator.dtd
* find the three lines containing "editPageCmd"
* remove the "E" character inside the quotes for accesskey and commandkey, but leave the quotes and everything else intact
* save the file
zip -r -q -n "" en-US.jar locale
That's it. If you somehow messed up the file, Seamonkey will open up with only the Apple and application menus. Open up the file and try again.
Also, deuterium and tritium can be found in Dihydrogen Monoxide.
After many years of use, the lining of a Tokamak core is supposed to get mildly radioactive. And there is no risk of a meltdown because it's hard enough just to keep the thing going in the first place.
But right now, there isn't much nuclear waste being produced by fusion.
We still don't have the technology to produce carbon nanofibers in anything like the lengths that would be required to build it.
Hey, give the guy a break. At least he didn't say that we should go to the moon to mine Helium-3 to use in fusion reactors.
Actually, they ARE identical. The four segments were returned from Florida and stowed after the Columbia accident. While in storage they went past their "use by" date, and could not be re-used for an actual manned shuttle flight. However, tests revealed that the propellant was still in good shape, so they were used for this launch. Only a fifth dummy stage was added, with the weight and shape of an actual segment.
In other words, not only are they actual shuttle SRB segments, they are actual SRB segments that went unused for longer than the rated storage life of an unused SRB segment.