Can it be found on Google? Sweet, then fucking link to the results!
You want to know what really rustles my jimmies? It's when someone asks a question, gets some suggestions that don't work, then posts "I fixed it on my own, thanks!" Without a single mention of WHAT THE FUCK FIXED YOUR PROBLEM. Ten years later, guess what the only Google hit for the problem is?
Back in the early 2Ks, I worked for a certain networking gear manufacturer who gets confused with a food service company. Two or three times, a particular virus popped up that looked for open Windows file shares and would drop a copy of itself on said file share, naively hoping that a moron would later see it and click on it. Well, some bright spark had decided that for some reason, printers needed to be set up as a pseudo file share. This would then dump raw ASCII to the printer. (I suppose it might have been possible to get into some HP graphics mode with the right escape characters)
The problem was that in this mode, a form feed character would cause a page eject. Now imagine what happens when a binary file is thrown at this. We had at least one printer (I think it was an LJ4 series) wear out from all the pages it was quickly spewing if its paper tray was particularly well filled.
I'm curious about just which of the seven banned countries all of these supposed H1-B workers are coming from? Certainly India and Pakistan aren't on that list:
Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Iran, Iraq and Yemen
I think part of the problem is a lower barrier to entry. From "have to be at one of a few dozen big universities" or "have to have a modem and be willing to tie up a phone line with it" to "mobile phone shitposting while waiting at the bus stop". The more effort it takes you to be able to post, the more you will care about what you post.
This is when tab completion is your friend, especially when you have path names with spaces in them. Also, for me the big one is overwriting stuff with the mv command (tab completion can make this easier to do), so I have it aliased to "mv -i". I almost never want to delete a file by overwriting it with the mv command.
Sounds like you need to get to work using Handbrake to re-encode your videos, then carry around the results on your own private storage. It'll also save your wireless data quotas and can give you a better picture than streaming. But you'll need to find an RPC1 DVD drive or firmware patch first, because the MPAA conspired with the optical drive industry to make drives fail to operate properly if there's the tiniest hint that you're trying to rip the contents of discs that you purchased, even to use only for your own private purposes.
(Note: don't use Handbrake to rip DVDs even with an RPC1 drive, I tried it a few months ago and it sucked at that. Find another ripper, and only use Handbrake for re-encoding.)
Nope, it's way too intelligent for 4chan/sci/. Clearly you have never been there. It seems to be mostly crackpots and college students asking people to do their homework. The only time any sane people show up at all is during a happening like a SpaceX launch.
the concept of a metric to determine the risk of nuclear mass destruction isn't
That was fine until (as mentioned in the summary) they combined it with things that weren't related to nuclear anything, like "climate change". Now it's a "some things make us uncomfortable so we're going to change this number" metric.
That's why they have a self-destruct mechanism. If it goes off-course, they push the button and it goes boom in the sky, not on the ground. Once it goes boom and becomes little bits, there is no more horizontal acceleration, and the debris falls below where the boom happened, which will likely still be over the water.
Except that the HD Radio """standard""" is full of patents, so even if you knew how to make a digital receiver, you couldn't sell it without paying license fees.
And they call it HD to make you think "high definition" when in reality it's barely up to the quality of a 128K MP3. The HD stands for "Hybrid Digital". There is really no need for it to exist other than ZOMG DIGITAL.
Also, nobody cares about stereo on AM anymore, so there's no need for it there, either. AM (in the US) has become talk radio and low-income music for people who don't give a fuck about audio quality. (The AM band is full of Mexican-style music down here in Texas, with the occasional country or rap station in between.) It is also extremely susceptible to RFI, making the sound quality even worse. I even know of two talk radio stations that have LP FM simulcasts so you can get better audio within the metro area limits.
Some of those albums became available on DTS CD. DTS is an interesting format, because it is a 5.1 format that was designed to work inside of red-book CD audio. They even have to drop the high 2 bits from each channel to keep the dynamic range of binary data from killing speakers when played on a regular CD player without the proper decoder. Still, it's the only CD format that supports quadraphonic audio.
But it had little exposure until DVD made digital audio decoders a thing, and even then you had to hook up everything just right to play DTS from CDs.
I remember watching Saturday morning cartoons one day back in 1978 when they played a Japanese commercial for Star Wars. That really blew my mind. But still not as much as the disappointment that was Galactica '80.
Back in the day, mid '80s or so, my family ended up with an nth generation bootleg VHS of Star Wars. I am sad that I never found it when going through old stuff, because I really wanted to find out that it had the original titles. I still have (old) hope that I might find it someday.
He means a satellite around the moon, dumb-ass. The moon is tidally locked, so the far side always has the moon in the way of the communications path. You need a relay satellite in lunar orbit, and even then you still would only get intermittent communication without multiple relay satellites. That's the main reason that the far side of the moon doesn't get much love.
They are also probably only counting English-language shows. Half of what I watch in any season is likely to be from the other side of the world, though music gets a larger fraction than that because Western music has been lame since the '90s. Also, I don't watch cable TV or subscribe to Netflix, Amazon, etc., so I don't even have access to much of that 455, nor do I care enough to pirate them. These days it's basically Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Agents of SHIELD, Fox's Sunday night animation block, and Nova, along with various current season anime from Japan.
You mean the new, downgraded Mac Mini with 8GB soldered RAM? I've found three of the 2010-2012 vintage over the past year or two, and they're great, especially as remote servers. One of them is even a late-2012 Quad 2.3 i7 / USB 3.0 model. That was the only time you could get both upgradeable RAM and USB 3.0.
I've been using a Late-2011-17" that I immediately downgraded to 10.6.8 when I got it, and that isn't easy, because it requires at least 10.6.7 and the last retail version was 10.6.3. A few months ago I finally took the plunge to 10.9, and one of my main motivations was that Minecraft (which I haven't been playing anyhow) would fuck up the GPU because of how it used OpenGL in v1.6. I've recently revived an older MacBook Pro to run 10.6.8, so now I can again use some obscure stuff from the PPC era.
I think the thing that bugs me the most is the new document model where you have to use "Duplicate" instead of the good old comfy "Save As". Which is of course not retroactive to older apps, just the updated basic apps from the OS. But I love that it now keeps all my dozens of windows open when I have to restart.
Did you miss that one of those ports is needed for the charger?
My Late-2011 17" (bought in mid 2012) has EIGHT ports: power, ethernet, firewire 800, thunderbolt, three USB 2.0 (3.0 didn't happen until a few months later, only one old-school Mac Mini got it before The Solderening), and an ExpressCard slot (which usually has an SD card adapter in it).
But at least they still have the headphone jack. Not that I use mine, because the little switch inside it sticks, and I always have to tickle it with a toothpick to turn off the optical output after using it with an actual headphone plug.
And that's on top of fully replaceable RAM and SATA SSD. And an optical drive. And a big-ass screen.
So now thanks to "courage" and an obsession with thin, the new "pro" model has half as many ports as the top-of-the-line model from five years earlier. I'd be less unimpressed if they had just added two USB 3.0 ports.
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Can it be found on Google? Sweet, then fucking link to the results!
You want to know what really rustles my jimmies? It's when someone asks a question, gets some suggestions that don't work, then posts "I fixed it on my own, thanks!" Without a single mention of WHAT THE FUCK FIXED YOUR PROBLEM. Ten years later, guess what the only Google hit for the problem is?
Back in the early 2Ks, I worked for a certain networking gear manufacturer who gets confused with a food service company. Two or three times, a particular virus popped up that looked for open Windows file shares and would drop a copy of itself on said file share, naively hoping that a moron would later see it and click on it. Well, some bright spark had decided that for some reason, printers needed to be set up as a pseudo file share. This would then dump raw ASCII to the printer. (I suppose it might have been possible to get into some HP graphics mode with the right escape characters)
The problem was that in this mode, a form feed character would cause a page eject. Now imagine what happens when a binary file is thrown at this. We had at least one printer (I think it was an LJ4 series) wear out from all the pages it was quickly spewing if its paper tray was particularly well filled.
I'm curious about just which of the seven banned countries all of these supposed H1-B workers are coming from? Certainly India and Pakistan aren't on that list:
Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Iran, Iraq and Yemen
I think part of the problem is a lower barrier to entry. From "have to be at one of a few dozen big universities" or "have to have a modem and be willing to tie up a phone line with it" to "mobile phone shitposting while waiting at the bus stop". The more effort it takes you to be able to post, the more you will care about what you post.
This is when tab completion is your friend, especially when you have path names with spaces in them. Also, for me the big one is overwriting stuff with the mv command (tab completion can make this easier to do), so I have it aliased to "mv -i". I almost never want to delete a file by overwriting it with the mv command.
Sounds like you need to get to work using Handbrake to re-encode your videos, then carry around the results on your own private storage. It'll also save your wireless data quotas and can give you a better picture than streaming. But you'll need to find an RPC1 DVD drive or firmware patch first, because the MPAA conspired with the optical drive industry to make drives fail to operate properly if there's the tiniest hint that you're trying to rip the contents of discs that you purchased, even to use only for your own private purposes.
(Note: don't use Handbrake to rip DVDs even with an RPC1 drive, I tried it a few months ago and it sucked at that. Find another ripper, and only use Handbrake for re-encoding.)
Sapphire is aluminum oxide, Al2O3. Oxides are not salts. It's a transparent ceramic.
Nope, it's way too intelligent for 4chan /sci/. Clearly you have never been there. It seems to be mostly crackpots and college students asking people to do their homework. The only time any sane people show up at all is during a happening like a SpaceX launch.
the concept of a metric to determine the risk of nuclear mass destruction isn't
That was fine until (as mentioned in the summary) they combined it with things that weren't related to nuclear anything, like "climate change". Now it's a "some things make us uncomfortable so we're going to change this number" metric.
Maybe they wanted to make sure that Stewie couldn't pronounce it properly.
But when are they going to name an asteroid after CleverNickName?
That's why they have a self-destruct mechanism. If it goes off-course, they push the button and it goes boom in the sky, not on the ground. Once it goes boom and becomes little bits, there is no more horizontal acceleration, and the debris falls below where the boom happened, which will likely still be over the water.
Except that the HD Radio """standard""" is full of patents, so even if you knew how to make a digital receiver, you couldn't sell it without paying license fees.
And they call it HD to make you think "high definition" when in reality it's barely up to the quality of a 128K MP3. The HD stands for "Hybrid Digital". There is really no need for it to exist other than ZOMG DIGITAL.
Also, nobody cares about stereo on AM anymore, so there's no need for it there, either. AM (in the US) has become talk radio and low-income music for people who don't give a fuck about audio quality. (The AM band is full of Mexican-style music down here in Texas, with the occasional country or rap station in between.) It is also extremely susceptible to RFI, making the sound quality even worse. I even know of two talk radio stations that have LP FM simulcasts so you can get better audio within the metro area limits.
Some of those albums became available on DTS CD. DTS is an interesting format, because it is a 5.1 format that was designed to work inside of red-book CD audio. They even have to drop the high 2 bits from each channel to keep the dynamic range of binary data from killing speakers when played on a regular CD player without the proper decoder. Still, it's the only CD format that supports quadraphonic audio.
But it had little exposure until DVD made digital audio decoders a thing, and even then you had to hook up everything just right to play DTS from CDs.
I'll wait for General Tso's answer.
I remember watching Saturday morning cartoons one day back in 1978 when they played a Japanese commercial for Star Wars. That really blew my mind. But still not as much as the disappointment that was Galactica '80.
Bugs? Those weren't glitches in the Matrix?
Back in the day, mid '80s or so, my family ended up with an nth generation bootleg VHS of Star Wars. I am sad that I never found it when going through old stuff, because I really wanted to find out that it had the original titles. I still have (old) hope that I might find it someday.
I thought Han Solo was the replicant!
I'm on a static IP and I torrent a lot of current season anime, and the list was EMPTY. I guess I'm just not one of the cool kids.
He means a satellite around the moon, dumb-ass. The moon is tidally locked, so the far side always has the moon in the way of the communications path. You need a relay satellite in lunar orbit, and even then you still would only get intermittent communication without multiple relay satellites. That's the main reason that the far side of the moon doesn't get much love.
They are also probably only counting English-language shows. Half of what I watch in any season is likely to be from the other side of the world, though music gets a larger fraction than that because Western music has been lame since the '90s. Also, I don't watch cable TV or subscribe to Netflix, Amazon, etc., so I don't even have access to much of that 455, nor do I care enough to pirate them. These days it's basically Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Agents of SHIELD, Fox's Sunday night animation block, and Nova, along with various current season anime from Japan.
The Mac Mini is not a viable computer
You mean the new, downgraded Mac Mini with 8GB soldered RAM? I've found three of the 2010-2012 vintage over the past year or two, and they're great, especially as remote servers. One of them is even a late-2012 Quad 2.3 i7 / USB 3.0 model. That was the only time you could get both upgradeable RAM and USB 3.0.
I've been using a Late-2011-17" that I immediately downgraded to 10.6.8 when I got it, and that isn't easy, because it requires at least 10.6.7 and the last retail version was 10.6.3. A few months ago I finally took the plunge to 10.9, and one of my main motivations was that Minecraft (which I haven't been playing anyhow) would fuck up the GPU because of how it used OpenGL in v1.6. I've recently revived an older MacBook Pro to run 10.6.8, so now I can again use some obscure stuff from the PPC era.
I think the thing that bugs me the most is the new document model where you have to use "Duplicate" instead of the good old comfy "Save As". Which is of course not retroactive to older apps, just the updated basic apps from the OS. But I love that it now keeps all my dozens of windows open when I have to restart.
So, did I miss anything?
Did you miss that one of those ports is needed for the charger?
My Late-2011 17" (bought in mid 2012) has EIGHT ports: power, ethernet, firewire 800, thunderbolt, three USB 2.0 (3.0 didn't happen until a few months later, only one old-school Mac Mini got it before The Solderening), and an ExpressCard slot (which usually has an SD card adapter in it).
But at least they still have the headphone jack. Not that I use mine, because the little switch inside it sticks, and I always have to tickle it with a toothpick to turn off the optical output after using it with an actual headphone plug.
And that's on top of fully replaceable RAM and SATA SSD. And an optical drive. And a big-ass screen.
So now thanks to "courage" and an obsession with thin, the new "pro" model has half as many ports as the top-of-the-line model from five years earlier. I'd be less unimpressed if they had just added two USB 3.0 ports.