Oh chill out, for fucks sake. If I had a dollar for every stupid question asked of the Aunt Tillies of the world, when using their iMac or Windoze box I'd be a flippin' millionaire. Well at least a thousandaire. Any way, if it makes you any happier, it could be Uncle Tilly that waas behing the dumbass question. Happy now?
We don't need a better system for watching the stars for these types of objects, but we should be figuring out how to redirect them to Redmond or the RIAA... or the Scientolgists hideout perhaps. I don't know, just an idea, it is Monday after all... right?
I guess users should be able to charge the RIAA for distribution charges since they'll be using their own bandwidth and local machine's storage for the distribution of these silly.nap files, that is assuming, without having taken the time to read their new business model document, that this is still a file sharing peer to peer type system, but one which only hardcore capitalists will want to use.
Removing mercury from circulation is a GOOD THING. When idiot^H^H^H^H^Hunknowing homeowners dump that spilled bit of mercury down the drain the stuff stays in drains and can poison the water supply. Only very small amounts of mercury are of a very substantial cncern environmentally.
Go online and look for mercury toxicity to verify for yourself.
And those little batteries are also a concern. In fact, all batteries should be properly recycled so that the materials can be properly disposed of or even better reclaimed.
Not all environmentalists are complete cranks. I am, but not all of them are.
I'll assume that you are playing the role of Satan's lawyer.
The advantages are obvious, especially if the device can be powered for 10 times as long as the best battery (which is close to an oxymoron as one can get). Batteries suck. They are heavy, they degrade substantially over time, they are heavy, they require tender care and feeding. Lugging around a spare batter is not a good argument either (see repetetive reason number one above.)
A replacement fuel container (with a gaseous feul like hydrogen, methane, propane or butane) or a liquid fuel container (for something like methanol -- that's the stuff that causes blindness, not ethanol which causes stupidity -- I speak from experience) is much easier to carry around and is minimally dangerous. You don't have to worry about running out of juice or having a spare battery so that you can continue using your electronic devices when your unit is running low on power. And if/when these devices become commonplace it would be a simple matter to stop off at your local variety/convenience/corner shop/depanneur to pick up a replacement/refill for the fuel cell.
BTW, I hate batteries. Cell phone batteries, PDA batteries, Laptop batteries. I hate the damn things so much that I will never buy a battery powered laptop (I do borrow one from work on occasion but even that very rarely.)
This won't be like filling your bloody lawnmower either.
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No, audiophiles are the main problem. Mind you, the good thing about audiophiles is that they don't matter to anyone else.
No, this is nothing like switching from Windoze to Linux. Nothing. Switching codecs is trivial, especially for windoze listeners who use winamp (it does do ogg by default now, right?) Anyway, downloading an ogg decoder and installing it into one's favourite "mp3" player is easy, especially for all those technically savvy little buggers out there these days. And its not like one has to actually know what an audio encoder/decoder is actually doing (although, one has to admit that it is one hell of a lot easier to do if you know a bit of C and download the source code)
All it will take is for Oog to become cool. The kids will jump on it and before you know it no one will be using mp3 anymore to rip their own CD's. Q.E.D.
BTW, ogg is fantastic, I've been ripping my CD's to ogg for a while now and, IMHO, the sound is better than mp3, the files are smaller than mp3 even though the bit rate was lower than I used to use for mp3 (64 vs 128).
What the fuck are you going on about? What's the difference between his using 'du/bin/login' and 'du `which login`'? What am I missing?
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Sure, then the theives just have to grab your hand, or the back of your head and shove it up to the scanner. I guess they should also have a stress guage of some kind to, but then I'd never get to my cash after a day of trying to whip the team into shape.
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Ah, could you perhaps elabourate a bit?
ObAside: I think that the most ridiculous password cracking scene has to go to that Swordfish flick (which excelled at showing Halle Berry's tits but otherwise was just another shitty John Travolta flick) where the pinhead hero manages to crack the '128 bit' login while getting a blow job from Halle Berry but with a pistol to his temple! Hey, I bet I can do that too, except without the handgun to the temple part.
Why is this still an issue? Pick a phrase, stick a couple of numbers in it, perhaps a 'special character' or two and go.
"Galadriel is one icy babe but Jackson got it right"
Password: gi1ibbJgir
And I'm sure this approach is nothing new to most/.'ers. And the cool thing is that just a couple of words from the password, say Galadriel and babe, is enough to bring the bloody password back long after one's finished with it.
lighten up yourself, fuck for brains. It's a valid complaint for those of us who don't want to cowtow to the goddamn media monopolies that are taking over the goddamn fucking internet. Fuck off back to your family if you're so fucking concerned about family fucking values.
Fuel cells will be great if they don't get banned by the local fire marshal. I figure with H2's bad rap (think Hindenburg), all it will take is one accident and this will be baned in some major city. Then others will follow
Gha! Someone wasn't happy with Santa's visit.
The same way they stopped building automobiles the first time someone was killed by one. Or how about an automobile crashing into a small hotel and igniting its supply of natural gas. That would convince everyone to stop using methane as a source of energy now wouldn't it.
The fatality rate in 1999 for automobile accidents was 14.2 per 100,000 in the YooEss. That's 42000 people and that's a lot of bodies if you pile them up. You'd have to have one hell of a lot of notebook fires to kill that many people.
Okay, I don't even know what my point is... fuck it.
A standard should be adopted for engineering purposes, but renaming is probably not going to fly at this stage. Perhaps we should use MB2 or soemthing like that to indicate a base 2 megabyte as opposed to a metric megabyte.
Conversationally it doesn't matter whether you're talking about 1024*1024 or 1000*1000.
Of course, it's too early to tell where LoTR will end up on the big list, but I doubt it will compete with The Godfather and Dr. Strangelove in the long run. One of my biggest problems with IMDB is the fact that one can see the histogram of rating results before casting one's vote. I would bet that a lot of people are giving this movie a rating of 10 because they see lots of other people giving it a 10.
Another problem is that the voting scale is too fine for most people and that people tend to be conservatively critical. The number of people voting 2 or 3 is much lower, statistically, that those who vote 8 or 9 becuase people tend to be too NICE when rating a film unless they REALLY hate it in which case they'll give it a 1. A scale of one to four or five would be more indicative than the current scale.
What a load of bullshit. I seem to recall just a few days ago a post regarding the latest ssh exploit, no? Anyway, Microsoft get nailed almost every fucking day so you're bound to see more news items concerning their crappy piece of junk OS (since I worked with Windoze for various reasons for most of the last decade I figure I have the right to bitch about this goddamn piece of shit.)
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Oh chill out, for fucks sake. If I had a dollar for every stupid question asked of the Aunt Tillies of the world, when using their iMac or Windoze box I'd be a flippin' millionaire. Well at least a thousandaire. Any way, if it makes you any happier, it could be Uncle Tilly that waas behing the dumbass question. Happy now?
This is my first anit-katz of 2002. What a load of hogswallop. Fuck off katz.
Er, yeah, and then they'd end up in a *really* nasty lawsuit from Phillips for patent infringment.
Nasty nasty nasty stuff that HF (hydrogen flouride, in case you were wondering).
Yes, because there won't be any PHB's making decisions based on any goddamn /. polls in the near future. At least I hope not, for their sake.
We don't need a better system for watching the stars for these types of objects, but we should be figuring out how to redirect them to Redmond or the RIAA ... or the Scientolgists hideout perhaps. I don't know, just an idea, it is Monday after all ... right?
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Have you ever heard such hubris from Hugh Barrass?
No, they have, but they only have Windoze drivers at the minute. It's this sort of bleeding edge technology that Micro$oft always gets the jump on.
Feh!
And those little batteries are also a concern. In fact, all batteries should be properly recycled so that the materials can be properly disposed of or even better reclaimed.
Not all environmentalists are complete cranks. I am, but not all of them are.
The advantages are obvious, especially if the device can be powered for 10 times as long as the best battery (which is close to an oxymoron as one can get). Batteries suck. They are heavy, they degrade substantially over time, they are heavy, they require tender care and feeding. Lugging around a spare batter is not a good argument either (see repetetive reason number one above.)
A replacement fuel container (with a gaseous feul like hydrogen, methane, propane or butane) or a liquid fuel container (for something like methanol -- that's the stuff that causes blindness, not ethanol which causes stupidity -- I speak from experience) is much easier to carry around and is minimally dangerous. You don't have to worry about running out of juice or having a spare battery so that you can continue using your electronic devices when your unit is running low on power. And if/when these devices become commonplace it would be a simple matter to stop off at your local variety/convenience/corner shop/depanneur to pick up a replacement/refill for the fuel cell.
BTW, I hate batteries. Cell phone batteries, PDA batteries, Laptop batteries. I hate the damn things so much that I will never buy a battery powered laptop (I do borrow one from work on occasion but even that very rarely.)
This won't be like filling your bloody lawnmower either.
No, audiophiles are the main problem. Mind you, the good thing about audiophiles is that they don't matter to anyone else.
All it will take is for Oog to become cool. The kids will jump on it and before you know it no one will be using mp3 anymore to rip their own CD's. Q.E.D.
BTW, ogg is fantastic, I've been ripping my CD's to ogg for a while now and, IMHO, the sound is better than mp3, the files are smaller than mp3 even though the bit rate was lower than I used to use for mp3 (64 vs 128).
What the fuck are you going on about? What's the difference between his using 'du /bin/login' and 'du `which login`'? What am I missing?
Sure, then the theives just have to grab your hand, or the back of your head and shove it up to the scanner. I guess they should also have a stress guage of some kind to, but then I'd never get to my cash after a day of trying to whip the team into shape.
ObAside: I think that the most ridiculous password cracking scene has to go to that Swordfish flick (which excelled at showing Halle Berry's tits but otherwise was just another shitty John Travolta flick) where the pinhead hero manages to crack the '128 bit' login while getting a blow job from Halle Berry but with a pistol to his temple! Hey, I bet I can do that too, except without the handgun to the temple part.
"Galadriel is one icy babe but Jackson got it right"
Password: gi1ibbJgir
And I'm sure this approach is nothing new to most /.'ers. And the cool thing is that just a couple of words from the password, say Galadriel and babe, is enough to bring the bloody password back long after one's finished with it.
Feh!
lighten up yourself, fuck for brains. It's a valid complaint for those of us who don't want to cowtow to the goddamn media monopolies that are taking over the goddamn fucking internet. Fuck off back to your family if you're so fucking concerned about family fucking values.
Gha! Someone wasn't happy with Santa's visit.
The same way they stopped building automobiles the first time someone was killed by one. Or how about an automobile crashing into a small hotel and igniting its supply of natural gas. That would convince everyone to stop using methane as a source of energy now wouldn't it.
The fatality rate in 1999 for automobile accidents was 14.2 per 100,000 in the YooEss. That's 42000 people and that's a lot of bodies if you pile them up. You'd have to have one hell of a lot of notebook fires to kill that many people.
Okay, I don't even know what my point is ... fuck it.
And, by extension, that means 100GB of RAM between 2006 and 2008. How much RAM is reserved for the linux kernel ...
Sheesh!
Conversationally it doesn't matter whether you're talking about 1024*1024 or 1000*1000.
Another problem is that the voting scale is too fine for most people and that people tend to be conservatively critical. The number of people voting 2 or 3 is much lower, statistically, that those who vote 8 or 9 becuase people tend to be too NICE when rating a film unless they REALLY hate it in which case they'll give it a 1. A scale of one to four or five would be more indicative than the current scale.
Oh yeah baby, troll me up!