True, but i don't think talking on a cell phone qualifies as a "Random activity of (keyword here) CHOICE", more like an addiction or obsession. : )
That and this is a bit more widespread and "everybody simple" (like windows) that most people can do, but can still screw up their lives. Much unlike linux, where it's a small(er) group of people that have some idea of what they're doing so they (for the most part) won't mess things up beyond repair. For a more simple comparison, it's the difference in dangers between walking on a wet tile surface and pole vaulting. Anybody can walk on wet tile and fall, but to get to a high enough level of experience that you could actually pole vault, let alone have enough confidence in yourself to do somthing in pole vaulting that could really hurt yourself.
Hey, ANYTHING to improve my mom's driving (3 wrecks, 4 years, 4 cars). In another year, I'd like to inherit her car (hopefully in once piece). As it is, I will only drive with my mom in the car if her pager is off and her cell phone is in my pocket, and my friends won't drive with her at all.
Unless you're using a cellular modem near your...unit, I don't think the laptop gives off any radiation. What you're thinking of is the fact that CRT's (tube monitors, tv's, ect) give off radiation with their ERT (electron ray somthing), if i remember correctly that actually emits the radaiton that can harm you.
Whilst we all know that DeCSS is a perfectly legal piece of software designed to facilitate playback under Linux, I think that very few people outside of/. and similar sites has any clue that this is anything other than a tool for the rampant piracy of DVDs.
ummm....yeah. I tink the most use any of us (my friends and I)have gotten out of DeCSS is to capture some fight scenes from a copy of the matrix on dvd that we rented from blockbuster for a parody/school vid project...b/c at the time we didn't have access to a DVD player or see the need to buy the player, although all my friends already have the cassette version.
Although using DeCSS for educational purposes outside of an encryption class are pretty few and far between, i think very few people (no more than a couple hundred) people actually DeCSS their DVD's to a non-encrypted format just to watch them exclusivly on another platform. I think for the most part, people use it to make copies of the movie at DVD quality onto 1 or 2 CD's for their highschool buddies.
Yahoo! has an interesting article that states quite clearly that you can "combining the decoding software DeCSS with DiVX, a two-hour movie that takes up 4.5 billion bits of storage can be compressed to around 750 million bits". That's means most (1 1/2 hour) high quality movies on DVD could end up fitting on a single CD! Scary thought. Dropping the image quality ever so slightly, you could probably fit Fight Club or The Matrix on a single overwritten cd no problem.
that link to the yahoo article is this: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000717/re/video_ piracy_dc_1.html
insert topic of conversation, make blatently obvious conclusions using only the facts presented in the original slashdot post, disregarding the article completely, use lots of exclamation points (!!!) to get your point across.
(insert moderators moding you up
hey, it's worth a try, i'm just too lazy to try and actually work for my karma today : )
I have, I changed to NetZero until that started booting me off, and my parents won't pay for DSL, consequently, I'm having to pay for Cable Internet myself (40$/month)
probably the result of moving from one data center to the next... little problems crop up over time, it was only a matter of time till one (or all) of the servers crashed, either that or the data center that slashdot is hooked up to lost their primary OC-98...somthing along those lines
Why do people act like they're a horrible company just because they have censorware built into their product?
Well at first i thought you were refeering to people considering AOL's censorship bit, but you made several comments regarding to the fact that people thing AOL is evil in general.
People think that AOL is evil for more than a couple reasons. To name the big three, one being busy access numbers (which has been fixed for the most part), two being AOL randomly will sign you off and/or ask you if you "wish to stay online", and three, AOL is ungodly slow, and only allows you to dial up to their service through their software (I for one sitll use aol, and only use it to connect to the net, I minimize it the rest of the time, and even use a seperate POP3 email program, outlook express.). Aol has always had inferior service, inferior products, and for the most part, buggy software.
Well if you're doing a major rollout, then you're not going to have to hack the kernel too much...i'd suggest corel, they seem to have a good lineup of linux products, although you can't really open up corel linux for hacking at it too much from what i hear...then again, you shouldn't need to. I'm sure if you need to, you could get a licencing deal with corel or somthing.
bottom line is, corel is stupid stupid easy to instal, and wouldn't hurt for user instals
Wow, is it already 6 am? Time flys when you're coding. From what i've heard, Survivor is a pretty interesting show, although, I thought we were all geeks and didn't watch TV b/c computers are the all-encompasing things in our life...Or can you watch survivor streamed over a (preferably opensourced) net streaming program/protocol now? : )
you American's have NO right to call your petrol prices high. Here in England, we pay more than triple what your paying
The reason Gas is more expensive there is:
A) your cities are more crowded, hence need for higher gas price so you won't drive everywhere and pollute the hell out of your already dirty (pollution wise) cites. Hell, you already have to clean off your buildings every 3 years from all the smog and whatnot (in paris at least, where gas prices are comparable)
B) Cost of shipping. You guys use less gas than we do, so they haven't figured out the most efficent way to get gas to your small island. Less efficent means of getting your product to market=more expensive shippping. More expensive shipping=higher end cost.
C) we're americans. We bitch the loudest when things aren't perfect for us. Learn to bitch properly and maybe you might see your prices drop somewhat.
After reading the article, there was a certian quote at the end that stuck me as odd- "but just imagine what might be waiting for us on Titan."
Why not send some sort of flying saucer? I mean, we've always expected "Extraterestials" to come down to us in flying saucers, green skin, bug eyes and all... I propose we send a Flying Saucer to Titan, just to stick it to those lowly aliens and say "Ha! We beat you to it!, now where's your leader?"
And put some plush green alien dolls in there (flying saucer) while you're at it.
Fortunatly, the people who run the space program aren't there due to the people's opinion, or heritage (political leaders), but instead are given their positions (lead design, project manager, ect) after years of experience and training. If anything, these people are doing this from their own know-how and a more limited budget that the americans, and achieving fairly decent results. I, for one, have faith in the Russians.
and I guess you can adapt to british english quite easily.
Yeah, you can adapt to it, but wether or not you can stand it may be another issue altogether. I spent a week in England on a school trip, on the ferry from france to england, there were periodic announcments over the PA, we all thought it was rather hillarious that that particular person spoke like "those people on monty python"...we quickly found out everyone speaks like that, and if you can't stand MP, England/London may not be your pot of tea. : )
Other than that, we were able to find several internet cafes in downtown London, and our (4 star) hotel even had free internet access.
One of these days we;re going to have a moon base, why not fling all the dead space trash at the moon, as, say, spare parts should any of the moon base's stuff break? a tad bit of foresight might be good.
Last I checked, you could download WMP for free (when it was beta) off of microsoft's site. Sure it's included in the total package (win 98, 2000) nowadays for free, but that would make it freeware, meaning you don't have to own a copy of windows to use it; so theroretically it's legal.
Hmm, last time I checked, people like to bitch about software (especially complex software) that is released too early and needs to be patched by various bug fixes. Quake 2 is a great example of this, as are several other Q2 engine games. While we're talking about the slash code, I still think what happens in the gaming world is going to bleed over to the net' community.
I recently got ahold of an older paralell-to-eithernet adapter, and after looking around, i found an old TI graphing calculator-paralell port (used primarily for connecting to a printer, not the standard graph links). We've been working on developing some sort of protocol/interface so that we could (at the minimum) ping a computer on a crossover cable using my TI-86...or somthing. Any ideas?
I don't know if i'd call him Super Spot; when i think of a gigantic dog that would have a dog bone that big, I visualize somthing along the lines of Clifford the Big Red Dog-hell, Granddaddy Clifford the big red dog.
Maybe we should name the "galactical great danes" after our heroic space pioneering doggies? You know, the ones they sent out into space before risking anything with a human? Any thoughts anybody?
well, if they have bug fixes in the carpentry thing, and linux has a compiler, and it's somewhat opensourced, but maybe we'll see an open sourced win9x compiler come from this in the future? any ideas on this?
Yes, the fact that windows throws up windows when they're ready to run after you've put them in the background annoys the hell out of me too. I don't recall having that problem in my original version of win95, but then again the OS hadn't bloated itself with browsers and whatnot yet, and the programs at the time weren't exactly CPU intensive, even for the 486 I was using.
well here's a first hand account; the thing has a metal case and flip cover, even neater is the fact that it has a ergonomic stylus that fits on the inside of the flip case. It also appears that they have the stylus engineered so that should you step on the thing, the stylus won't go through the display. Handy. Other than that, it's got windows media player (hello MP3s), although the onboard speaker is crap. Testing it out on my shift at CompUSA, I could barely hear the sample sound. Other than that, it was reasonably fast, for a 486 running windows 2000.
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That and this is a bit more widespread and "everybody simple" (like windows) that most people can do, but can still screw up their lives. Much unlike linux, where it's a small(er) group of people that have some idea of what they're doing so they (for the most part) won't mess things up beyond repair. For a more simple comparison, it's the difference in dangers between walking on a wet tile surface and pole vaulting. Anybody can walk on wet tile and fall, but to get to a high enough level of experience that you could actually pole vault, let alone have enough confidence in yourself to do somthing in pole vaulting that could really hurt yourself.
Hey, ANYTHING to improve my mom's driving (3 wrecks, 4 years, 4 cars). In another year, I'd like to inherit her car (hopefully in once piece). As it is, I will only drive with my mom in the car if her pager is off and her cell phone is in my pocket, and my friends won't drive with her at all.
Unless you're using a cellular modem near your...unit, I don't think the laptop gives off any radiation. What you're thinking of is the fact that CRT's (tube monitors, tv's, ect) give off radiation with their ERT (electron ray somthing), if i remember correctly that actually emits the radaiton that can harm you.
Whilst we all know that DeCSS is a perfectly legal piece of software designed to facilitate playback under Linux, I think that very few people outside of /. and similar sites has any clue that this is anything other than a tool for the rampant piracy of DVDs.
ummm....yeah. I tink the most use any of us (my friends and I)have gotten out of DeCSS is to capture some fight scenes from a copy of the matrix on dvd that we rented from blockbuster for a parody/school vid project...b/c at the time we didn't have access to a DVD player or see the need to buy the player, although all my friends already have the cassette version.
Although using DeCSS for educational purposes outside of an encryption class are pretty few and far between, i think very few people (no more than a couple hundred) people actually DeCSS their DVD's to a non-encrypted format just to watch them exclusivly on another platform. I think for the most part, people use it to make copies of the movie at DVD quality onto 1 or 2 CD's for their highschool buddies.
Yahoo! has an interesting article that states quite clearly that you can "combining the decoding software DeCSS with DiVX, a two-hour movie that takes up 4.5 billion bits of storage can be compressed to around 750 million bits". That's means most (1 1/2 hour) high quality movies on DVD could end up fitting on a single CD! Scary thought. Dropping the image quality ever so slightly, you could probably fit Fight Club or The Matrix on a single overwritten cd no problem.
that link to the yahoo article is this: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000717/re/video_ piracy_dc_1.html
insert topic of conversation, make blatently obvious conclusions using only the facts presented in the original slashdot post, disregarding the article completely, use lots of exclamation points (!!!) to get your point across.
(insert moderators moding you up
hey, it's worth a try, i'm just too lazy to try and actually work for my karma today : )
I have, I changed to NetZero until that started booting me off, and my parents won't pay for DSL, consequently, I'm having to pay for Cable Internet myself (40$/month)
probably the result of moving from one data center to the next... little problems crop up over time, it was only a matter of time till one (or all) of the servers crashed, either that or the data center that slashdot is hooked up to lost their primary OC-98...somthing along those lines
Why do people act like they're a horrible company just because they have censorware built into their product?
Well at first i thought you were refeering to people considering AOL's censorship bit, but you made several comments regarding to the fact that people thing AOL is evil in general.
People think that AOL is evil for more than a couple reasons. To name the big three, one being busy access numbers (which has been fixed for the most part), two being AOL randomly will sign you off and/or ask you if you "wish to stay online", and three, AOL is ungodly slow, and only allows you to dial up to their service through their software (I for one sitll use aol, and only use it to connect to the net, I minimize it the rest of the time, and even use a seperate POP3 email program, outlook express.). Aol has always had inferior service, inferior products, and for the most part, buggy software.
Thanks, I used to get B-side cable for a while before i turned net-only, about the same time our free cable went out.. coincidence? :)
Ok, i'm old enough to know about MST3K, but for the uninformed, what series is this? I think i missed this one.
Well if you're doing a major rollout, then you're not going to have to hack the kernel too much...i'd suggest corel, they seem to have a good lineup of linux products, although you can't really open up corel linux for hacking at it too much from what i hear...then again, you shouldn't need to. I'm sure if you need to, you could get a licencing deal with corel or somthing.
bottom line is, corel is stupid stupid easy to instal, and wouldn't hurt for user instals
Wow, is it already 6 am? Time flys when you're coding. From what i've heard, Survivor is a pretty interesting show, although, I thought we were all geeks and didn't watch TV b/c computers are the all-encompasing things in our life...Or can you watch survivor streamed over a (preferably opensourced) net streaming program/protocol now? : )
you American's have NO right to call your petrol prices high. Here in England, we pay more than triple what your paying
The reason Gas is more expensive there is:
A) your cities are more crowded, hence need for higher gas price so you won't drive everywhere and pollute the hell out of your already dirty (pollution wise) cites. Hell, you already have to clean off your buildings every 3 years from all the smog and whatnot (in paris at least, where gas prices are comparable)
B) Cost of shipping. You guys use less gas than we do, so they haven't figured out the most efficent way to get gas to your small island. Less efficent means of getting your product to market=more expensive shippping. More expensive shipping=higher end cost.
C) we're americans. We bitch the loudest when things aren't perfect for us. Learn to bitch properly and maybe you might see your prices drop somewhat.
Why not send some sort of flying saucer? I mean, we've always expected "Extraterestials" to come down to us in flying saucers, green skin, bug eyes and all... I propose we send a Flying Saucer to Titan, just to stick it to those lowly aliens and say "Ha! We beat you to it!, now where's your leader?"
And put some plush green alien dolls in there (flying saucer) while you're at it.
Fortunatly, the people who run the space program aren't there due to the people's opinion, or heritage (political leaders), but instead are given their positions (lead design, project manager, ect) after years of experience and training. If anything, these people are doing this from their own know-how and a more limited budget that the americans, and achieving fairly decent results. I, for one, have faith in the Russians.
I think i've heard of that country in Risk before...
and I guess you can adapt to british english quite easily.
Yeah, you can adapt to it, but wether or not you can stand it may be another issue altogether. I spent a week in England on a school trip, on the ferry from france to england, there were periodic announcments over the PA, we all thought it was rather hillarious that that particular person spoke like "those people on monty python"...we quickly found out everyone speaks like that, and if you can't stand MP, England/London may not be your pot of tea. : )
Other than that, we were able to find several internet cafes in downtown London, and our (4 star) hotel even had free internet access.
Hadlock
One of these days we;re going to have a moon base, why not fling all the dead space trash at the moon, as, say, spare parts should any of the moon base's stuff break? a tad bit of foresight might be good.
Last I checked, you could download WMP for free (when it was beta) off of microsoft's site. Sure it's included in the total package (win 98, 2000) nowadays for free, but that would make it freeware, meaning you don't have to own a copy of windows to use it; so theroretically it's legal.
Hmm, last time I checked, people like to bitch about software (especially complex software) that is released too early and needs to be patched by various bug fixes. Quake 2 is a great example of this, as are several other Q2 engine games. While we're talking about the slash code, I still think what happens in the gaming world is going to bleed over to the net' community.
I recently got ahold of an older paralell-to-eithernet adapter, and after looking around, i found an old TI graphing calculator-paralell port (used primarily for connecting to a printer, not the standard graph links). We've been working on developing some sort of protocol/interface so that we could (at the minimum) ping a computer on a crossover cable using my TI-86...or somthing. Any ideas?
I don't know if i'd call him Super Spot; when i think of a gigantic dog that would have a dog bone that big, I visualize somthing along the lines of Clifford the Big Red Dog-hell, Granddaddy Clifford the big red dog.
Maybe we should name the "galactical great danes" after our heroic space pioneering doggies? You know, the ones they sent out into space before risking anything with a human? Any thoughts anybody?
well, if they have bug fixes in the carpentry thing, and linux has a compiler, and it's somewhat opensourced, but maybe we'll see an open sourced win9x compiler come from this in the future? any ideas on this?
Yes, the fact that windows throws up windows when they're ready to run after you've put them in the background annoys the hell out of me too. I don't recall having that problem in my original version of win95, but then again the OS hadn't bloated itself with browsers and whatnot yet, and the programs at the time weren't exactly CPU intensive, even for the 486 I was using.
well here's a first hand account; the thing has a metal case and flip cover, even neater is the fact that it has a ergonomic stylus that fits on the inside of the flip case. It also appears that they have the stylus engineered so that should you step on the thing, the stylus won't go through the display. Handy. Other than that, it's got windows media player (hello MP3s), although the onboard speaker is crap. Testing it out on my shift at CompUSA, I could barely hear the sample sound. Other than that, it was reasonably fast, for a 486 running windows 2000.