Disabling AutoPlay messes up Windows XP's auto mounting of CDs. At least, it does for me. After ejecting and inserting a new CD, Windows XP will have neglected to unmount the old one and remount the new one, so the filesystem view will be of the old one.
The only way to fix this problem is to eject the CD through the OS (using the Eject context menu works) until it actually unmounts the CD. Then when you insert the new CD it will actually mount it.
Reenabling Auto Play solves all those problems. Then again, it might just be me.
Possibly because there are still several bugs related to that...
When I switched to Qute, for example, all the icons changed but it maintained the Pinstripe spacing until I restarted the browser.
I tested again by changing back to Pinstripe and then back to Qute before posting this - that caused all the browser windows to blank out and the tabs to become unclosable. (There were just a bunch of blank tabs which refused to die.)
Effectively (on Windows at least) you still need to restart Firefox when you change themes to get it to work correctly.
OK, color me confused. I guess it wasn't rejected... I guess they swapped the story order or seomthing? Oddly enough, it no longer lists the previous story I had accepted.
What was the last linux desktop you tried? redhat 3?
Did you read the linked journal entry? Obviously not, or you'd see that the latest Linux distro I used was Gentoo.
I don't remember the last time the X autoconfiguration failed on redhat.
Good for you, it failed for me under Gentoo. Or, rather, it "succeeded" and created the same incorrect configuration file that didn't work. Which is really stupid, considering that the entire system is Plug and Play, has the correct nVidia driver, and is using a freaking HID compliant mouse and keyboard.
What's even more annoying is that the mouse used to work a month or so ago. It only recently stopped working under Linux and nothing I can do to the stupid configuration file will convince it to work. I finally gave up when X hard-crashed and I wound up corrupting the system when I rebooted. (Note: even though Windows 98 understands how to use the ATX power-off interrupt, Linux does not. Your system will spontaneously power down, and your file systems will not be synced. Way to go, Linux, way to go.)
As someone who doesn't use linux, or a recent distro, I think you are wholly unqualified to make such a comment.
You missed the "gentoo" part, huh? Yeah, I'm sure that after I "emerge sync" and "emerge -u world" that I'm still using an ancient distro.
Or, it could be fully up to date and not work anyway. Configuring X should not be such a task. Hell, I shouldn't have to configure something as simple as a keyboard and mouse. Windows has autodected them since what, Windows 95 OSR2?
Configuring which display driver to use, that I can see. Configuring the resolution to use, that I can see. Configuring the refresh rate range? That should be autodetectable through the plug and play monitor I use. Configuring the keyboard and mouse? Um, no. That I should never have to do.
This isn't about being "as bad" as Windows. This is about dropping off the cliff beyond that. It used to be that people not using Linux was because they haven't tried it, or couldn't learn to use it. Now, you're getting people who want to use it, have tried it, and had to abandon it and go back to Windows because their machine couldn't handle Linux.
Yeah - that's basically the problem with Linux. Which is why I switched back to Windows from Linux over a year ago. I haven't missed Linux at all.
Brief summary: Windows just works. It has stability and security problems, of course, but if you run Windows Update and maintain a firewall outside the system it's actually very stable and secure. Linux, while supposedly more secure out of the box, is a royal pain to configure and set up properly as a desktop system.
Hopefully with development on the X system resuming, this will change. (For this post, "X" refers to XFree86/Xorg, since they're basically the same software.) X is the biggest hurdle to Linux becoming a desktop environment - not for the usual "it's slow" reason, but because it's a royal pain in the ass to properly configure. Should the autoconfigure steps fail (or should you, heaven forbid, change something as minor as the mouse), you're left with an unusable system. (Since, for a desktop system, the CLI doesn't count when you want to be using a desktop environment.)
I'd like to reevaluate the current Linux desktops, but current X issues are basically preventing me from doing so. (Namely, X refuses to work with my USB mouse, even though it worked fine a couple of months ago. Since the current desktop environments seem to be totally impossible to navigate by keyboard, I can't even start a terminal window.)
Once X is brought up to the level of the Windows graphical environment (being able to fall back to VGA drivers should the more specific ones fail, being able to select drivers at runtime, being able to change resolution and color depth at runtime (I hear it can do this now, I haven't been able to check), etc.), then maybe Linux can start making inroads in the desktop.
As it stands, the desktop environments are far worse than Windows and don't seem to be getting better. Not that I can really tell, since it doesn't work on my machine at the moment. And, honestly, it's not worth the effort to make it work.
Christ, why are you running KDE on a K6? XP would bring that box to it's knees too.
No it wouldn't. My father ran a test XP system back out when it was still Whistler on a 400MHz or so Pentium II system with 256MB of RAM. It ran absolutely fine.
XP, for the most part, will work fine on older systems provided you have at least 192MB of RAM. Any less than that and you'll be forced to swap to run any pretty much any application. As long as you have plenty of RAM, you should have no problem running Windows XP, even on older hardware.
If you could get a useable experience running Windows 98 or Windows 2000 on your system, you should (with enough RAM) be able to get a usable experience with Windows XP.
Yeah, I suggested XUL, but it's not allowed: IE is the default browser, so it must work in IE. It doesn't have to work in any other browser, so it doesn't.
And XUL isn't quite rich enough for everything - part of the application includes creating SVG documents for making quasi-dynamic graphs. You need to be able to click and drag various elements of the the charts to alter them.
Unfortunately, this SVG requirement means we're IE only (various Opera bugs prevent it from working) because the SVG only works in the Adobe plugin, which doesn't work in any Mozilla build from the past two years. Last I checked Mozilla's SVG support was inadequate for our needs. That may have changed, but I'm not being paid to check that.:)
Actually, Netscape 4 was Mozilla. The Netscape browser has always been called "Mozilla," internally. The code name was "Mozilla" for the original browser project. This is why Netscape 4 identifies itself as "Mozilla/4.0" in the User-Agent header and why every other browser in existance now says "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MyBrowser 5.0)" for their user-agent. (Actually, most now say "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; compatible; MyBrowser/0.9)" - but, anyway...)
The problem is that when Netscape descided to create a new open source browser, they ditched the original Mozilla codebase and called the new browser Mozilla. Given the random crap that's happening now over Netscape the browser, Netscape the portal, and Netscape the ISP (, Netscape the Breakfast Cereal, Netscape the Tiolet Paper), it seems that someone in the Netscape division doesn't grasp that reusing names is a bad thing because it creates confusion. (Like, this thread.)
Netscape 4 could indeed be called "Mozilla." Entering "about:mozilla" in Netscape 4 would get you a screen similar to the one in the newer Mozilla browsers. Yes, this creates confusion with the current mozilla.org Mozilla. But, as mentioned above, naming confusion seems to be on par these days with the Mozilla project. Which is why I just use Phoenix^WFirebird^WFirefox as my browser.
And Netscape 5 did exist at one point. I saw a beta of it that someone was using for a research project. The problem was that Netscape 4 was so horribly broken and that Netscape 5 was based on Netscape 4 that they ditched the entire codebase at that time. I have a feeling that playing "the version number game" helped the next public release of Netscape (the Browser) be "Netscape 6," so that it would have caught up with Internet Explorer's version number, but there was a brief time when Netscape 5 was in development based on Netscape 4.
This is very true - I haven't seen many web application on the public Internet that I'd want to use, but there is a huge demand for internal web application, deployed on the intranet in various buisnesses.
I'm working on several web applications, and we're running into the same problems others have. Currently we're using SVG and various IE-specific JavaScript extensions to try and ape the rich client experience that users and execs demand, but it doesn't really work. I'm very excited about the idea of XAML - we'll almost definitely be switching to it when it comes out, unless there is a more open standard.
(Unfortunately ActiveX and Java applets are forbidden, so a lot of what we'd like to do instead has to be done through SVG and JavaScript, and SVG/JavaScript takes a lot of effort to poorly mimic a native user interface.)
There is demand for this - don't kid yourself. I agree that there is little demand for this by the home user, but buisnesses really would be able to make good use of this technology for deploying internal applications. There probably already are a ton of web applications at most buisnesses (I can think of several where I work), and moving them to a system designed to provide a rich user experience using open standards would be very nice.
The other option is, of course, Longhorn, using XAML and various other Windows technologies. An open standard available before Longhorn is released would almost definitely become the defacto standard, simply because there is a demand for this.
Will this ultimately replace HTML on the Web? I doubt it. But it will likely replace the many internal web applications already in use in many buisnesses.
Maybe not if you've already hit whatever the max the brain can perceive is with your games. But as newer games and technology push technology even further, yes, it makes a visible difference.
Think about it this way. Five years ago or so I used a 15" monitor on my computer and would play games at 640x480. Eventually I upgraded my video card. The games would play maybe 4 or 5 FPS faster at 640x480. But now I could pump the resolution up to 1024x768 and still have an enjoyable experience.
Sometime later I upgraded to a 19" monitor, and an even newer video card, along with a new processor and mother board. I still got about the same FPS at 1024x768 (maybe 4 or 5 FPS higher), but now I could turn on more graphical options and pump the resolution up to 1280x1024.
Basically, using a higher end machine may only net you like 10FPS when using similar settings to a lower class machine, but you can probably also push it higher.
A lot of these graphics cards start hitting other limitations at lower resolutions (like, say, the monitor's refresh rate) at lower resolutions. So your lower-end card will perform about the same at 800x600 as a higher end card will (for example). But if you then crank up the settings a notch, you may be able to get a playable 1280x1024 experience out of a game instead of the 1024x768 you get with the lower-end card.
Basically, 10 FPS might not mean a lot at lower settings, but it can mean quite a lot if it allows you to push it further so that things look nicer at the same FPS that the lower-end card can do. Simple jumps is resolution can really help with the whole gaming experience.
(Actually, that isn't true - it's painted plastic. But it doesn't peel, instead the plastic cracks. Both my mother and I have practically identical Saturns with various body damage involving cracked plastic body parts.)
Is Slashdot stripping entities and international characters yet again?
My tests in preview indicate that they're restricting users to 8-bit ASCII characters.
Slash is perfectly capable of handling international characters. Yet for some unknown reason, Slashdot keeps on restricting its posters to 8-bit ASCII. (Actually, this is a step up - in the past, they restricted to only 7-bit ASCII.)
I know that in the past Slashdot has allowed users to use the pound-sterling symbol, yet for some unknown reason they're stripping international characters yet again. I can only assume that Slashdot only wants Americans to post.
The site is slow, but you can still get through. I dunno if my site will be any better, but I still have like 39GB of transfer I can use that expires at the end of the month, so:
MapQuest used to have aerial photos, so I've seen pictures of my roof, and probably a picture of my car's roof, but I don't know if any of the free mapping problems still offer that.
"Free mapping problems" - yeah, that sounds about right to me. The directions given always later would cause mapping problems when it turned out that "straight" to the computer meant "right-angle turn" due to interesting New England road designs.
(Specifically, I'm thinking of Rt. 2 in Massachusetts. The directions said something like "go through three roundabouts" - turns out one of them was in Concord and the next two were right next to each other in Cambridge. While the one in Concord involved going "straight," the two in Cambridge involved taking first a left turn and then a right turn to stay on the same road. Plus there's this neat area of Route 2 where it suddenly veers off to the right. If you go straight, you wind up on Route 2A, and off of Route 2.)
How does FreeNet work, though? Is it possible to see what's being traded on it?
All you need to do in a civil trial is prove that it's probable that the person commited an illegal act. So if it's possible to prove that FreeNet is mostly used for pirating copyrighted works, and that someone has used FreeNet to transfer xMB worth of material, wouldn't it be possible to sue them in a civil suit?
I'm not sure FreeNet is really a 100% safe solution. Simply using it may be enough to allow you to be sued for probably infringing on copyright, since it doesn't need to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in a civil suit.
Then again, IANAL, so I have no idea if this would have any weight in court.
(The funny thing with this post at least was that the first version read "unite," ruining the joke...)
It's fun having mild dyslexia... took me forever to find out that it was Alex Turing and Turing Machines and not Turning. Plus, I'll occasionally be unable to recognize typos because I'll just automatically "correct" them in my brain.
(Actually, it's more like two thing mapped to one meaning - so something like "descent" and "decent" will be "mapped" to the same value, meaning I can't tell them apart on occasion. Eventually my brain will "flush the cache" and then get it correct, or something like that. Whatever.)
Plus, there are times when the correct spellings of words all of a sudden become "wrong" in my brain. So I'll be trying to figure out how to spell "help" because for some reason it looks wrong to me. ("Cancel" also gets me, because I keep on wanting it to be "cancle," and it takes a while for my brain to accept that "cancel" really is correct.)
Besides, in the future, claim you chose an invalid IP address so that people wouldn't try and, uh, hack it to see what's there. Or something. And when people say "but it's in the private addressing space already" say something about preventing people who don't know that from annoying system administrators.
Uh, not that I've ever had to make that excuse before. Never.
Romulan Cloaking Devices have, IIRC, always existed as far as the canon cares
As I recall from the first episode that introduced the concept of a "cloaking device" on the original Star Trek, the Romulans certainly seemed to believe this was a new technology.
Although thinking back on it they may have only been calling it an important state secret, which it of course would have been. Kirk et al seemed to think it was new, but if they only just met the Romulans, I suppose that would make sense.
I dunno, I stopped caring about Star Trek sometime during ST: the Next Generation. I only watched the earlier episodes to make fun. Of, Kirk. And, his. Dialog.
Until after November 2nd, at least. His entire campaign has been trying to paint Kerry as someone who changes his mind at a whim and is against the national defense. Changing his mind on space exploration would give Democrats something to attack him on - saying "see, even Bush changes his mind."
Expect the plans to be canceled sometime mid-November. Which is exactly when everyone expected them to be canceled, anyway.
Instead (oof) they just added (ugh) this stupid (c'mon, move) locking wheel (dammit) to the cart. If it goes out of range (ow!) of the store (umph) then the wheel locks.
Of course, sometimes the wheel locks inside the store too., and sometimes it just breaks and locks permentantly...
But at the very least (kick) no one is would ever try and (let go of the wheel already!) steal one...
(Strangely, those of germanic descent weren't detained.)
Germans are white, and some even immigrated before the nation was the United States (the Pennsylvania Dutch, where Dutch is really Deutsch).
Japanese are "yellow" or whatever. They immigrated only more recently, since around 1850 or whenever Japan's borders were opened to foreigners. (At WWII, that still would have been about three generations or so for those here the longest.)
According to one of my Japanese co-workers, those of Japanese or Asian descent are still discriminated against when it comes to security clearances and government jobs. (I wouldn't know, I'm a white male from a small town, I got my clearance fairly quickly once the paperwork was through.)
Today, it's just those of Arab descent we round up and imprison.
I'm sure you already knew that, though - it just really ought to be said. Racism is hardly dead in America - we've come a long way, but we aren't even near the finish line yet.
How many people until I become worried? I dunno. If Bush were rounding up Muslims in the U.S. and offering rewards for people to turn them in, then I'd be worried.
Until I'd call Bush a Nazi? He'd have to be on a path to completely erradicate every Muslim from the Earth.
Why don't you just calm down and stop calling Bush a Nazi. He isn't. Not by a loooooong shot. That was the only point: It's not fair to call Bush a Nazi.
It's perfectly fair to be upset about the things happening in America and to try and do something about them (although calling Bush a Nazi isn't that productive).
Besides, the vast majority of the prisoners were actual illegal combatants or prisoners of war - it's not like we're going around America and rounding up every person of Arab descent that we see. Were that happening, you might have parallels to the Nazis in 1935. As it stands, it isn't. (Except for some people that have been accused of giving aid to terrorists. Not quite a full roundup of all the Muslims into a concentration camp in the least.)
Do I like what the current administration is doing? No, not really. I didn't support the war in Iraq prior to it (had it been a true multilateral action with actual post-war plans I would have fully supported it, mind you), and I'm quite upset about the suspension of due process to prisoners (a right that I think is on par with the right to free speech).
However - that does not mean that I'd resort to slandering the President of the United States. He's not a Nazi. Not anywhere, at all, close to acting like one. Get some perspective!
Who called it OK? It just doesn't quite match the scale of what the Nazis did - or even the US did - during World War II.
In other words, calling Bush a Nazi isn't valid - Bush is not acting like a Nazi. While there are some parallels that can be drawn behind Guantanamo Bay and the concentration camps, it just isn't on the same scale. No where near.
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The only way to fix this problem is to eject the CD through the OS (using the Eject context menu works) until it actually unmounts the CD. Then when you insert the new CD it will actually mount it.
Reenabling Auto Play solves all those problems. Then again, it might just be me.
When I switched to Qute, for example, all the icons changed but it maintained the Pinstripe spacing until I restarted the browser.
I tested again by changing back to Pinstripe and then back to Qute before posting this - that caused all the browser windows to blank out and the tabs to become unclosable. (There were just a bunch of blank tabs which refused to die.)
Effectively (on Windows at least) you still need to restart Firefox when you change themes to get it to work correctly.
OK, color me confused. I guess it wasn't rejected... I guess they swapped the story order or seomthing? Oddly enough, it no longer lists the previous story I had accepted.
I did. It got rejected in approximately a half-hour.
This, on the other hand, is a duplicate of a story that's still on the front page.
I can forgive the occasional dupe when it's a dupe from three days or more, but... still on the front page?! You've got to be kidding me.
Did you read the linked journal entry? Obviously not, or you'd see that the latest Linux distro I used was Gentoo.
I don't remember the last time the X autoconfiguration failed on redhat.
Good for you, it failed for me under Gentoo. Or, rather, it "succeeded" and created the same incorrect configuration file that didn't work. Which is really stupid, considering that the entire system is Plug and Play, has the correct nVidia driver, and is using a freaking HID compliant mouse and keyboard.
What's even more annoying is that the mouse used to work a month or so ago. It only recently stopped working under Linux and nothing I can do to the stupid configuration file will convince it to work. I finally gave up when X hard-crashed and I wound up corrupting the system when I rebooted. (Note: even though Windows 98 understands how to use the ATX power-off interrupt, Linux does not. Your system will spontaneously power down, and your file systems will not be synced. Way to go, Linux, way to go.)
As someone who doesn't use linux, or a recent distro, I think you are wholly unqualified to make such a comment.
You missed the "gentoo" part, huh? Yeah, I'm sure that after I "emerge sync" and "emerge -u world" that I'm still using an ancient distro.
Or, it could be fully up to date and not work anyway. Configuring X should not be such a task. Hell, I shouldn't have to configure something as simple as a keyboard and mouse. Windows has autodected them since what, Windows 95 OSR2?
Configuring which display driver to use, that I can see. Configuring the resolution to use, that I can see. Configuring the refresh rate range? That should be autodetectable through the plug and play monitor I use. Configuring the keyboard and mouse? Um, no. That I should never have to do.
Yeah - that's basically the problem with Linux. Which is why I switched back to Windows from Linux over a year ago. I haven't missed Linux at all.
Brief summary: Windows just works. It has stability and security problems, of course, but if you run Windows Update and maintain a firewall outside the system it's actually very stable and secure. Linux, while supposedly more secure out of the box, is a royal pain to configure and set up properly as a desktop system.
Hopefully with development on the X system resuming, this will change. (For this post, "X" refers to XFree86/Xorg, since they're basically the same software.) X is the biggest hurdle to Linux becoming a desktop environment - not for the usual "it's slow" reason, but because it's a royal pain in the ass to properly configure. Should the autoconfigure steps fail (or should you, heaven forbid, change something as minor as the mouse), you're left with an unusable system. (Since, for a desktop system, the CLI doesn't count when you want to be using a desktop environment.)
I'd like to reevaluate the current Linux desktops, but current X issues are basically preventing me from doing so. (Namely, X refuses to work with my USB mouse, even though it worked fine a couple of months ago. Since the current desktop environments seem to be totally impossible to navigate by keyboard, I can't even start a terminal window.)
Once X is brought up to the level of the Windows graphical environment (being able to fall back to VGA drivers should the more specific ones fail, being able to select drivers at runtime, being able to change resolution and color depth at runtime (I hear it can do this now, I haven't been able to check), etc.), then maybe Linux can start making inroads in the desktop.
As it stands, the desktop environments are far worse than Windows and don't seem to be getting better. Not that I can really tell, since it doesn't work on my machine at the moment. And, honestly, it's not worth the effort to make it work.
Christ, why are you running KDE on a K6? XP would bring that box to it's knees too.
No it wouldn't. My father ran a test XP system back out when it was still Whistler on a 400MHz or so Pentium II system with 256MB of RAM. It ran absolutely fine.
XP, for the most part, will work fine on older systems provided you have at least 192MB of RAM. Any less than that and you'll be forced to swap to run any pretty much any application. As long as you have plenty of RAM, you should have no problem running Windows XP, even on older hardware.
If you could get a useable experience running Windows 98 or Windows 2000 on your system, you should (with enough RAM) be able to get a usable experience with Windows XP.
And XUL isn't quite rich enough for everything - part of the application includes creating SVG documents for making quasi-dynamic graphs. You need to be able to click and drag various elements of the the charts to alter them.
Unfortunately, this SVG requirement means we're IE only (various Opera bugs prevent it from working) because the SVG only works in the Adobe plugin, which doesn't work in any Mozilla build from the past two years. Last I checked Mozilla's SVG support was inadequate for our needs. That may have changed, but I'm not being paid to check that. :)
The problem is that when Netscape descided to create a new open source browser, they ditched the original Mozilla codebase and called the new browser Mozilla. Given the random crap that's happening now over Netscape the browser, Netscape the portal, and Netscape the ISP (, Netscape the Breakfast Cereal, Netscape the Tiolet Paper), it seems that someone in the Netscape division doesn't grasp that reusing names is a bad thing because it creates confusion. (Like, this thread.)
Netscape 4 could indeed be called "Mozilla." Entering "about:mozilla" in Netscape 4 would get you a screen similar to the one in the newer Mozilla browsers. Yes, this creates confusion with the current mozilla.org Mozilla. But, as mentioned above, naming confusion seems to be on par these days with the Mozilla project. Which is why I just use Phoenix^WFirebird^WFirefox as my browser.
And Netscape 5 did exist at one point. I saw a beta of it that someone was using for a research project. The problem was that Netscape 4 was so horribly broken and that Netscape 5 was based on Netscape 4 that they ditched the entire codebase at that time. I have a feeling that playing "the version number game" helped the next public release of Netscape (the Browser) be "Netscape 6," so that it would have caught up with Internet Explorer's version number, but there was a brief time when Netscape 5 was in development based on Netscape 4.
I'm working on several web applications, and we're running into the same problems others have. Currently we're using SVG and various IE-specific JavaScript extensions to try and ape the rich client experience that users and execs demand, but it doesn't really work. I'm very excited about the idea of XAML - we'll almost definitely be switching to it when it comes out, unless there is a more open standard.
(Unfortunately ActiveX and Java applets are forbidden, so a lot of what we'd like to do instead has to be done through SVG and JavaScript, and SVG/JavaScript takes a lot of effort to poorly mimic a native user interface.)
There is demand for this - don't kid yourself. I agree that there is little demand for this by the home user, but buisnesses really would be able to make good use of this technology for deploying internal applications. There probably already are a ton of web applications at most buisnesses (I can think of several where I work), and moving them to a system designed to provide a rich user experience using open standards would be very nice.
The other option is, of course, Longhorn, using XAML and various other Windows technologies. An open standard available before Longhorn is released would almost definitely become the defacto standard, simply because there is a demand for this.
Will this ultimately replace HTML on the Web? I doubt it. But it will likely replace the many internal web applications already in use in many buisnesses.
Think about it this way. Five years ago or so I used a 15" monitor on my computer and would play games at 640x480. Eventually I upgraded my video card. The games would play maybe 4 or 5 FPS faster at 640x480. But now I could pump the resolution up to 1024x768 and still have an enjoyable experience.
Sometime later I upgraded to a 19" monitor, and an even newer video card, along with a new processor and mother board. I still got about the same FPS at 1024x768 (maybe 4 or 5 FPS higher), but now I could turn on more graphical options and pump the resolution up to 1280x1024.
Basically, using a higher end machine may only net you like 10FPS when using similar settings to a lower class machine, but you can probably also push it higher.
A lot of these graphics cards start hitting other limitations at lower resolutions (like, say, the monitor's refresh rate) at lower resolutions. So your lower-end card will perform about the same at 800x600 as a higher end card will (for example). But if you then crank up the settings a notch, you may be able to get a playable 1280x1024 experience out of a game instead of the 1024x768 you get with the lower-end card.
Basically, 10 FPS might not mean a lot at lower settings, but it can mean quite a lot if it allows you to push it further so that things look nicer at the same FPS that the lower-end card can do. Simple jumps is resolution can really help with the whole gaming experience.
- Hey, why didn't the building Fry was in get destroyed?
- Um...
- Uh...
- Because... Shut up!
[ all laugh ]
I can't remember exactly who said what, but it was really amusing listen to them nitpick thier own show.
Because the body is now just colored plastic.
(Actually, that isn't true - it's painted plastic. But it doesn't peel, instead the plastic cracks. Both my mother and I have practically identical Saturns with various body damage involving cracked plastic body parts.)
My tests in preview indicate that they're restricting users to 8-bit ASCII characters.
Slash is perfectly capable of handling international characters. Yet for some unknown reason, Slashdot keeps on restricting its posters to 8-bit ASCII. (Actually, this is a step up - in the past, they restricted to only 7-bit ASCII.)
I know that in the past Slashdot has allowed users to use the pound-sterling symbol, yet for some unknown reason they're stripping international characters yet again. I can only assume that Slashdot only wants Americans to post.
Mirror of the comparison report.
I had this strange vision of Indy Gundam standing there trying to calm his feelings so he could activate his Gundam's amazing Whip Attack.
Then I read the Meesa thing and realized that you said Gungans.
"Free mapping problems" - yeah, that sounds about right to me. The directions given always later would cause mapping problems when it turned out that "straight" to the computer meant "right-angle turn" due to interesting New England road designs.
(Specifically, I'm thinking of Rt. 2 in Massachusetts. The directions said something like "go through three roundabouts" - turns out one of them was in Concord and the next two were right next to each other in Cambridge. While the one in Concord involved going "straight," the two in Cambridge involved taking first a left turn and then a right turn to stay on the same road. Plus there's this neat area of Route 2 where it suddenly veers off to the right. If you go straight, you wind up on Route 2A, and off of Route 2.)
All you need to do in a civil trial is prove that it's probable that the person commited an illegal act. So if it's possible to prove that FreeNet is mostly used for pirating copyrighted works, and that someone has used FreeNet to transfer xMB worth of material, wouldn't it be possible to sue them in a civil suit?
I'm not sure FreeNet is really a 100% safe solution. Simply using it may be enough to allow you to be sued for probably infringing on copyright, since it doesn't need to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in a civil suit.
Then again, IANAL, so I have no idea if this would have any weight in court.
(The funny thing with this post at least was that the first version read "unite," ruining the joke...)
It's fun having mild dyslexia... took me forever to find out that it was Alex Turing and Turing Machines and not Tur n ing. Plus, I'll occasionally be unable to recognize typos because I'll just automatically "correct" them in my brain.
(Actually, it's more like two thing mapped to one meaning - so something like "descent" and "decent" will be "mapped" to the same value, meaning I can't tell them apart on occasion. Eventually my brain will "flush the cache" and then get it correct, or something like that. Whatever.)
Plus, there are times when the correct spellings of words all of a sudden become "wrong" in my brain. So I'll be trying to figure out how to spell "help" because for some reason it looks wrong to me. ("Cancel" also gets me, because I keep on wanting it to be "cancle," and it takes a while for my brain to accept that "cancel" really is correct.)
Besides, in the future, claim you chose an invalid IP address so that people wouldn't try and, uh, hack it to see what's there. Or something. And when people say "but it's in the private addressing space already" say something about preventing people who don't know that from annoying system administrators.
Uh, not that I've ever had to make that excuse before. Never.
As I recall from the first episode that introduced the concept of a "cloaking device" on the original Star Trek, the Romulans certainly seemed to believe this was a new technology.
Although thinking back on it they may have only been calling it an important state secret, which it of course would have been. Kirk et al seemed to think it was new, but if they only just met the Romulans, I suppose that would make sense.
I dunno, I stopped caring about Star Trek sometime during ST: the Next Generation. I only watched the earlier episodes to make fun. Of, Kirk. And, his. Dialog.
So there's a decent chance I'm completely wrong.
Until after November 2nd, at least. His entire campaign has been trying to paint Kerry as someone who changes his mind at a whim and is against the national defense. Changing his mind on space exploration would give Democrats something to attack him on - saying "see, even Bush changes his mind."
Expect the plans to be canceled sometime mid-November. Which is exactly when everyone expected them to be canceled, anyway.
Instead (oof) they just added (ugh) this stupid (c'mon, move) locking wheel (dammit) to the cart. If it goes out of range (ow!) of the store (umph) then the wheel locks.
Of course, sometimes the wheel locks inside the store too., and sometimes it just breaks and locks permentantly...
But at the very least (kick) no one is would ever try and (let go of the wheel already!) steal one...
Germans are white, and some even immigrated before the nation was the United States (the Pennsylvania Dutch, where Dutch is really Deutsch).
Japanese are "yellow" or whatever. They immigrated only more recently, since around 1850 or whenever Japan's borders were opened to foreigners. (At WWII, that still would have been about three generations or so for those here the longest.)
According to one of my Japanese co-workers, those of Japanese or Asian descent are still discriminated against when it comes to security clearances and government jobs. (I wouldn't know, I'm a white male from a small town, I got my clearance fairly quickly once the paperwork was through.)
Today, it's just those of Arab descent we round up and imprison.
I'm sure you already knew that, though - it just really ought to be said. Racism is hardly dead in America - we've come a long way, but we aren't even near the finish line yet.
Until I'd call Bush a Nazi? He'd have to be on a path to completely erradicate every Muslim from the Earth.
Why don't you just calm down and stop calling Bush a Nazi. He isn't. Not by a loooooong shot. That was the only point: It's not fair to call Bush a Nazi.
It's perfectly fair to be upset about the things happening in America and to try and do something about them (although calling Bush a Nazi isn't that productive).
Besides, the vast majority of the prisoners were actual illegal combatants or prisoners of war - it's not like we're going around America and rounding up every person of Arab descent that we see. Were that happening, you might have parallels to the Nazis in 1935. As it stands, it isn't. (Except for some people that have been accused of giving aid to terrorists. Not quite a full roundup of all the Muslims into a concentration camp in the least.)
Do I like what the current administration is doing? No, not really. I didn't support the war in Iraq prior to it (had it been a true multilateral action with actual post-war plans I would have fully supported it, mind you), and I'm quite upset about the suspension of due process to prisoners (a right that I think is on par with the right to free speech).
However - that does not mean that I'd resort to slandering the President of the United States. He's not a Nazi. Not anywhere, at all, close to acting like one. Get some perspective!
In other words, calling Bush a Nazi isn't valid - Bush is not acting like a Nazi. While there are some parallels that can be drawn behind Guantanamo Bay and the concentration camps, it just isn't on the same scale. No where near.