And it just occurred to me: you'll only be able to watch HD content from a new MacBook with a new DisplayPort monitor--like the one Apple just introduced. That nice old DVI-connected 23" or 30" LCD you've been using up until now won't work.
I know this isn't the answer for everyone, but I'm totally happy with SD video, even on large screens. Thanks, Apple, for giving me yet another reason NOT to move forward. I don't care about HD content but it's nice enough and I'd buy it if all other things were equal--but if it's going to actively work against me, it definitely lands in the "fuck it" pile.
I've been planning to get... maybe a Nokia N810. Or iPhone. Last month I bought an HP 2133.
OT, but this is one nice thing about Apple. Quick: What's an N810? What's an HP 2133? Seriously--a notebook? PDA? Printer? A freaking calculator?* But an iPhone... marketing saturation aside, you could probably guess what that is.:-)
* No need to respond, a quick trip to google images** answered it. And I happen to know what an N810 is, being a longtime Slashdot reader, but if I didn't know, my guess would be it's a phone, since AFAIK, Nokia doesn't make anything BUT phones and that one line of web tablet.
** see? It can be used for something besides porn!:-)
"Even the name 'RadioShack--can you imagine two less appealing words placed next to one another?" [RadioShack CEO Julian] Day said. "What is that, some kind of World War II terminology? Are ham radio operators still around, even? Aren't we in the digital age?"
... will show you the twenty commands you use the most. I wanted to post this in the first thread of this series but I didn't have time. Luckily there have been these related threads--the next best thing to a dupe!:-)
As the original post hints, this is an adaptation of and old Emo Phillips bit.
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said "Stop! don't do it!" "Why shouldn't I?" he said. I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!" He said, "Like what?" I said, "Well...are you religious or atheist?" He said, "Religious." I said, "Me too! Are you christian or buddhist?" He said, "Christian." I said, "Me too! Are you catholic or protestant?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me too! Are you episcopalian or baptist?" He said, "Baptist!" I said,"Wow! Me too! Are you baptist church of god or baptist church of the lord?" He said, "Baptist church of god!" I said, "Me too! Are you original baptist church of god, or are you reformed baptist church of god?" He said,"Reformed Baptist church of god!" I said, "Me too! Are you reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1879, or reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1915?" He said, "Reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1915!" I said, "Die, heretic scum", and pushed him off.
Getting a bit OT here, but signatures aren't so much a proof of identity anymore as they are proof of consciously committing fraud. It's one thing for a crook with a stolen card to say "Huh, I thought it was mine, I've got another card that looks just like it, I must have found that one on the floor, forgot about it, and accidentally used it." It's another thing to tell that same story with "and then I must've accidentally signed someone else's name, too" at the end.
On a related note, I've got a friend that everyone knows as (something like) Bob Smith, but his legal name, and what he signs, is Robert Smith III. Someone filled out some paperwork and signed "Bob Smith" so in this case it was in fact one more piece of evidence that he wasn't the one who signed it.
Seriously, beware. Real business (usually) advertise in legit ways; it's the crappy little places where the owner will pay for the signs himself and put them up himself and he WILL get pissed if he sees you taking "his" property. I once got chased by the big scary-looking owner/manager of the local Sofas-4-Le$$ for picking up his crappy signs. If I had more spare time (I've got two jobs & a baby) I'd talk to the code enforcement office and see if they'd mind me printing up an official-looking magnetic sign to stick on my car and I'd pick them up all the time. And print up a handy 8.5x11 flyer to hand out to anyone who says "Hey! You're taking my sign!" Just a single page that says, basically, "Hey, dumbass, if you leave it on the side of the road, it's litter."
That said, I did call code enforcement one time when a company put up 200 signs near one intersection--literally 50 signs along a half-mile stretch in each direction. I called and for that CE came out and they were gone by the time I got back home. CE hates them just as much as you do, there's just a lot. But taking them down DOES help. Unlike email spam, which can be sent for free, signs cost money and take time to plant, and if they're gone the next day that's a bad return on investment.
If you hate them as much as I do, visit this site for tips and contact your local code enforcement office.
Legally, they are no different from litter. If you don't have a permit to leave something in a public place, it's nothing but trash. That said, the neanderthal assholes who post them might not be aware of that* and almost certainly won't be happy if they catch you taking them down, legally right or not, so be careful when picking up trash.
* and I'm sure the assholes who SELL the signs never mention it, either.
I remember reading "The Lost World" when I was a under-read, newly minted college graduate.
After four years of being required to read every crappy book ever written* in high school I was pretty much burned out on reading. (I always liked reading, ever since I was young... I even remember reading Iacocca's biography instead of whatever I was supposed to be reading at the time.) But by the time Hight School was done I was only reading car magazines and stuff like that.
The summer after my first year in college I found (literally--someone left it behind in the movie theater where I was working) a copy of Jurassic Park and I started reading it. I got sucked in right away, literally to the point of hiding it in my cash drawer and reading it at the concession stand that I was working at when it was slow. I burned through it in no time, then started reading his other stuff. I remember reading Andromeda Strain and Terminal Man early on and reading Congo and Sphere later on. (Sphere and Jurassic Park are my favorite books by him and I've read and re-read them both several times.) Then I remembered liking some Stephen King stuff that I had read in the past so I went and looked for more by him (Christine, Firestarter--his early stuff) and then I found more and more authors and I got back into reading and I've been reading steadily ever since. But I'll always remember that it was him and Jurassic Park that got me back into reading for fun. Thank you, Mr. Crichton. You will be missed.
* a couple, like Mosquito Coast, were OK, and I loved Catcher in the Rye, but overall, I hated all the selections at my HS. About 10 books a year, including 2 or 3 to read over the summer. The Guns of Navarone, On the Beach, stuff like that.
du -sh * Calculates the sizes of all folders in the directory you're in. The 'h' means "human-readable." Can also use k (kilobytes) or m (megabytes, not on all systems) if you want absolute, comparable numbers.
Also useful is curl. Great for, among many other things, download sequentially-named files: curl -O example.com/images/[01-24].jpg (that's a capital letter "o")
And now it's time for a joke: Zen guru: What is the sound of one hand clapping? Unix guru: cat/dev/null >/dev/audio
Song also used Linux. They had this cool system where you could listen to some music, view a map of where the plane was, and (most fun of all) play a trivia game where you could see the scores of everyone else on the plane who was playing. Once it was off when we got on the plane and when they came up I saw a familiar boot sequence, even had Tux in the corner. I had just turned my phone off and the system was done booting before I could get it back on to take a pic.
Wow, what a mouthful. 12 syllables. "MP3 100% Compatible" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. They should have gone with something shorter, catchier, but with the same meaning... like "plays for sure!" or something.
I don't know if this will work out as well as some people are predicting. People don't want phones with Android because Android itself is so great. People are excited about Android because it promises to be an open PLATFORM on top of which people can build cool APPS. It's the APPS that everyone wants--like all the cool things we're seeing on the iPhone, but without all the dumb restrictions of Apple and the App Store and the limitations of the iPhone hardware (removable storage, etc.)
But with all these clone handsets will come inevitable hardware variances (motion sensors, single- and multi-touch screens, different screen resolutions, aspect ratios, CPU speed, amount of RAM and storage, etc.) and that will make app development less like iPhone and game console development and more like PC game development: different things require this or that bit of hardware, or work better here or there, etc. It'll be harder for dev's to test thoroughly and it'll be that much more for buyers to keep track of.
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Every version of IE previous to that just defaulted to MSN/Live. And maybe the rules are different when you own 70% of the market instead of 20%.
They'll do that by auditing the books, piling through receipts and conducting interviews with appropriate personnel.
I smell a new TV show! Like CSI, but with accountants!
Same with the iPod. Whatever happened to that thing?
And it just occurred to me: you'll only be able to watch HD content from a new MacBook with a new DisplayPort monitor--like the one Apple just introduced. That nice old DVI-connected 23" or 30" LCD you've been using up until now won't work.
I know this isn't the answer for everyone, but I'm totally happy with SD video, even on large screens. Thanks, Apple, for giving me yet another reason NOT to move forward. I don't care about HD content but it's nice enough and I'd buy it if all other things were equal--but if it's going to actively work against me, it definitely lands in the "fuck it" pile.
"Morro" will be available as a stand-alone download and offer malware protection for the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.
You had me at "XP". :-)
And I thought the imagery in my area was out-of-date. :-)
How does "looking like a rapper or drug dealer from the early 1990s" == "important"? :-)
I've been planning to get... maybe a Nokia N810. Or iPhone. Last month I bought an HP 2133.
OT, but this is one nice thing about Apple. Quick: What's an N810? What's an HP 2133? Seriously--a notebook? PDA? Printer? A freaking calculator?* But an iPhone... marketing saturation aside, you could probably guess what that is. :-)
* No need to respond, a quick trip to google images** answered it. And I happen to know what an N810 is, being a longtime Slashdot reader, but if I didn't know, my guess would be it's a phone, since AFAIK, Nokia doesn't make anything BUT phones and that one line of web tablet.
** see? It can be used for something besides porn! :-)
Yup, you are 100% correct. One of the funniest bits The Onion ever wrote.
"Even the name 'RadioShack--can you imagine two less appealing words placed next to one another?" [RadioShack CEO Julian] Day said. "What is that, some kind of World War II terminology? Are ham radio operators still around, even? Aren't we in the digital age?"
How the hell did they get a .gov domain considering that they aren't even in power yet?
Um... he is a U.S. senator, you know. If a senator has a good reason to make a new .gov site, I think it's OK.
Agreed. It reminds me of this thread from 2005 where, among other things, I and a few others collaborated to create a one-line script to answer the question "Which commands do I use the most?"This...
... will show you the twenty commands you use the most. I wanted to post this in the first thread of this series but I didn't have time. Luckily there have been these related threads--the next best thing to a dupe! :-)
As the original post hints, this is an adaptation of and old Emo Phillips bit.
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said "Stop! don't do it!"
"Why shouldn't I?" he said.
I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!"
He said, "Like what?"
I said, "Well...are you religious or atheist?"
He said, "Religious."
I said, "Me too! Are you christian or buddhist?"
He said, "Christian."
I said, "Me too! Are you catholic or protestant?"
He said, "Protestant."
I said, "Me too! Are you episcopalian or baptist?"
He said, "Baptist!"
I said,"Wow! Me too! Are you baptist church of god or baptist church of the lord?"
He said, "Baptist church of god!"
I said, "Me too! Are you original baptist church of god, or are you reformed baptist church of god?"
He said,"Reformed Baptist church of god!"
I said, "Me too! Are you reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1879, or reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1915?"
He said, "Reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1915!"
I said, "Die, heretic scum", and pushed him off.
Getting a bit OT here, but signatures aren't so much a proof of identity anymore as they are proof of consciously committing fraud. It's one thing for a crook with a stolen card to say "Huh, I thought it was mine, I've got another card that looks just like it, I must have found that one on the floor, forgot about it, and accidentally used it." It's another thing to tell that same story with "and then I must've accidentally signed someone else's name, too" at the end.
On a related note, I've got a friend that everyone knows as (something like) Bob Smith, but his legal name, and what he signs, is Robert Smith III. Someone filled out some paperwork and signed "Bob Smith" so in this case it was in fact one more piece of evidence that he wasn't the one who signed it.
...he ain't even in office yet and has a .gov...
I think we should just jump straight to having a .obama TLD. :-)
Seriously, beware. Real business (usually) advertise in legit ways; it's the crappy little places where the owner will pay for the signs himself and put them up himself and he WILL get pissed if he sees you taking "his" property. I once got chased by the big scary-looking owner/manager of the local Sofas-4-Le$$ for picking up his crappy signs. If I had more spare time (I've got two jobs & a baby) I'd talk to the code enforcement office and see if they'd mind me printing up an official-looking magnetic sign to stick on my car and I'd pick them up all the time. And print up a handy 8.5x11 flyer to hand out to anyone who says "Hey! You're taking my sign!" Just a single page that says, basically, "Hey, dumbass, if you leave it on the side of the road, it's litter."
That said, I did call code enforcement one time when a company put up 200 signs near one intersection--literally 50 signs along a half-mile stretch in each direction. I called and for that CE came out and they were gone by the time I got back home. CE hates them just as much as you do, there's just a lot. But taking them down DOES help. Unlike email spam, which can be sent for free, signs cost money and take time to plant, and if they're gone the next day that's a bad return on investment.
If you hate them as much as I do, visit this site for tips and contact your local code enforcement office.
Legally, they are no different from litter. If you don't have a permit to leave something in a public place, it's nothing but trash. That said, the neanderthal assholes who post them might not be aware of that* and almost certainly won't be happy if they catch you taking them down, legally right or not, so be careful when picking up trash.
* and I'm sure the assholes who SELL the signs never mention it, either.
I remember reading "The Lost World" when I was a under-read, newly minted college graduate.
After four years of being required to read every crappy book ever written* in high school I was pretty much burned out on reading. (I always liked reading, ever since I was young... I even remember reading Iacocca's biography instead of whatever I was supposed to be reading at the time.) But by the time Hight School was done I was only reading car magazines and stuff like that.
The summer after my first year in college I found (literally--someone left it behind in the movie theater where I was working) a copy of Jurassic Park and I started reading it. I got sucked in right away, literally to the point of hiding it in my cash drawer and reading it at the concession stand that I was working at when it was slow. I burned through it in no time, then started reading his other stuff. I remember reading Andromeda Strain and Terminal Man early on and reading Congo and Sphere later on. (Sphere and Jurassic Park are my favorite books by him and I've read and re-read them both several times.) Then I remembered liking some Stephen King stuff that I had read in the past so I went and looked for more by him (Christine, Firestarter--his early stuff) and then I found more and more authors and I got back into reading and I've been reading steadily ever since. But I'll always remember that it was him and Jurassic Park that got me back into reading for fun. Thank you, Mr. Crichton. You will be missed.
* a couple, like Mosquito Coast, were OK, and I loved Catcher in the Rye, but overall, I hated all the selections at my HS. About 10 books a year, including 2 or 3 to read over the summer. The Guns of Navarone, On the Beach, stuff like that.
du -sh *
Calculates the sizes of all folders in the directory you're in. The 'h' means "human-readable." Can also use k (kilobytes) or m (megabytes, not on all systems) if you want absolute, comparable numbers.
Also useful is curl. Great for, among many other things, download sequentially-named files:
curl -O example.com/images/[01-24].jpg (that's a capital letter "o")
And now it's time for a joke: /dev/null > /dev/audio
Zen guru: What is the sound of one hand clapping?
Unix guru: cat
Song also used Linux. They had this cool system where you could listen to some music, view a map of where the plane was, and (most fun of all) play a trivia game where you could see the scores of everyone else on the plane who was playing. Once it was off when we got on the plane and when they came up I saw a familiar boot sequence, even had Tux in the corner. I had just turned my phone off and the system was done booting before I could get it back on to take a pic.
Wow, what a mouthful. 12 syllables. "MP3 100% Compatible" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. They should have gone with something shorter, catchier, but with the same meaning... like "plays for sure!" or something.
Then I'll just run out and pick up a filter that blocks IR light and put that over the front of my TV-B-Gone. Whaddya say NOW, smart guy?!?
(Just to save some humor-impaired reader from composing a reply telling me why this is a bad idea: I'm joking.)
From day 1 the democrats were labeling McCain as Bush Jr.. if that's not negativity, then I don't know what is.
Um... realism? McCain himself announced that he "voted with the president 90% of the time."
Tomorrow we'll know.
You must be new here.
The more talent you have, the less important the tools are.
I don't know if this will work out as well as some people are predicting. People don't want phones with Android because Android itself is so great. People are excited about Android because it promises to be an open PLATFORM on top of which people can build cool APPS. It's the APPS that everyone wants--like all the cool things we're seeing on the iPhone, but without all the dumb restrictions of Apple and the App Store and the limitations of the iPhone hardware (removable storage, etc.)
But with all these clone handsets will come inevitable hardware variances (motion sensors, single- and multi-touch screens, different screen resolutions, aspect ratios, CPU speed, amount of RAM and storage, etc.) and that will make app development less like iPhone and game console development and more like PC game development: different things require this or that bit of hardware, or work better here or there, etc. It'll be harder for dev's to test thoroughly and it'll be that much more for buyers to keep track of.