Hear hear! Motorola has the WORST user interface of any cell phone manufacturer. I lost my wonderful Kyocera a while ago and had to buy a new phone, but my provider didn't carry my model anymore so I just grabbed a Motorola, figuring most phones were probably decent, at least.
Big mistake.
The interface is total crap, and I hate the "turn off" sound. This may be subjective, but it seems like my reception is much worse than with my old phone as well.
Also, the vibration motor is underpowered, so I can't feel it if it goes off in my pocket - therefore I have to use a stupid annoying ring tone.
> Plays games ok, but you have to do crazy stuff like choosing your individual sound card sometimes when installing a game.
Are you talking about Linux or Windows? I've never seen a Linux game that cared what type of soundcard you had. They all have the same API. The drivers just work.
I have, however, seen Windows games that asked you to specify your hardware. Not often, but they do exist. I assume that's just laziness on the part of the programmer though, and the fault of Windows for not having a unified API for that kind of thing, possibly.
> Try telling a woman you see on any street of America that she'd no longer be entitled to an education and... the local religion allows for men to beat their wives.
What are you talking about? There would be much less memory taken up already than there is when I run it on my desktop. For instance, you wouldn't need a window manager or desktop manager (goodbye, GNOME and Metacity). You don't need any of the normal background daemons running (no cron, at, portmap, syslogd, samba...). This would be purely booting up, loading X, and the xinitrc would contain only the command to run doom3 or the menu or whatever.
Your example of incorrect English usage is a little peculiar.
> and other things they say in describing the strenght of the ribbon; "3-5 times as strong as needed", what about correct english as in 3 to 5 times stronger than needed.
I think your suggested correction is the incorrect phrase. Do you say "twice stronger than needed" or "twice as strong as needed". The "3 to 5 times as strong as" phrase translates directly into a mathematical value, e.g. between 300 and 500% of the strength needed. "3 to 5 times stronger than" has no comparative equivalent.
Suckiness varies from person to person - people who liked Battle Royale 1 for the blood and gore and didn't want to think too much about any storyline (let's just see them schoolkids kill each other, yeehaw! what's with this talking stuff, and the teacher's making a painting? stupid! back to the killing!) hate Battle Royale 2.
On the other hand, I (and other people who don't mind having to read dialogue to understand where a story is going) loved BR 2. A friend of mine got an AK-47 just because of Nanahara Shuya's quote about the gun.:)
I'm about to do the same thing; the only difference is I'm pretty much going to start out broke. Know what? I don't mind.
Making half or less what I am now is fine to live on, as long as I have more free time than I currently do. I am not an 8-5 corporate drone, and I've finally come to realize it. On my last day here, I'm coming in with a purple mohawk.
Anybody interested in seeing what professional players might make of go on oddly shaped boards (and playing simultaneous games against professionals, or entering in the U.S. Open tournament, or watching professional games played live and commented upon by other pros, or just being there and breathing in the excitement of go) should try and make it to the U.S. Go Congress this summer.
It's in Rochester, NY this year, hosted by the Rochester Institute of Technology. It's a full week, from July 31st to August 6th. You can register online at http://gocongress.org.
Register! Register now! There are expected to be 400 participants, so there will be people to play no matter what your skill level. And stronger players are almost always willing to give teaching games or quick lessons, if you ask nicely.
This will be my first congress, and I'm really hyped up about it. I'm trying to become 1st dan before the US Open (I'm 1 kyu right now, been playing for 15 months).
X supports a similar method known as "content negotiation" whereby the programs decide between themselves on a compatible format for the data being moved.
I just selected some HTML text, including a hyperlink, from Mozilla, middle-clicked in a GAIM window to send it to a friend and it showed up perfectly formatted, with an active hyperlink in it.
If you want clipboard history / multiple clipboards, you have to use a third-party tool to do it, same as in Windows. It's called XClipboard.
>But cogitate you will, as Cahill gives enough food for thought as post modern man is likely to be able to bear." Read on for the rest of Ursus Maximus' review.
I understand that man might not be able to "bear" very much, but what of the Ursine among us? Won't somebody think of the bears?!!
> Ahhh yes, but there is still Fedora... Speaking of RH Enterprise, can the source be downloaded for free?
You get the source code for everything in the box with the CDs. The GPL ensures that binaries cannot be distributed without also giving away the source code - if you're not giving somebody a binary copy, they don't need the source code either.
However, Fedora is basically RH Enterprise unstable. Redhat is essentially following the Debian development model now, with Fedora stable releases being the equivalent of "testing", Fedora beta and development being the equivalent of "unstable", and RHEL is the equivalent of "stable" (because who runs pure Debian stable except for enterprises anyway?) RHEL is just older versions of the same software with security patches applied and thoroughly tested to work together. Oh, plus a support contract.
I never actually understood this phrase "redheaded stepchild" - does it really have to do with temper? If so, it seems like the stepchild part is weird and unnecessary. I always thought it meant somebody/thing that was treated poorly and unwanted, but I don't know why redheaded stepchildren would fare worse than any other color-haired stepchild in that regard.
In other words, I would like to close by saying that red hair is hot. Unless you're a guy in which case... never mind, red hair is still hot, I'm just not very likely to kiss you.
This is just a guess, but I bet the "22609" is the process ID of the padlocksl script. Sounds like a syntax error or something on line 3 is causing it to abort execution.
It reminds me of a research article a few years ago showing that kids who didn't get breakfast didn't do well at school, so millions were spent enabling school cafeterias to serve breakfasts. When the results were in a few years later it became clear this had had little effect. The actual relationship was that parents who can't be bothered to feed their kids also don't make sure they study.
Of course, in my case, and many of my friends, that would be "parents who don't feed their kids breakfast also don't give them money to buy it with at school... and also not really enough to get a decent lunch with either"
Someone with such a complete lack of empathy or common sense is allowed to carry a gun and a badge?
I thought those were the only people allowed to carry a gun and badge. You need a certain mentality to become a police officer, and it obviously includes the will to stamp on another human being and say "oops, your fault."
There are nice cops out there, I'm sure, but they are few and far between. Do you know why? It is because the raison d'etre for the police force these days is not investigating crimes. It is not protecting the innocent. It is not being "your friendly neighborhood officer." It is giving out speeding tickets.
I've had my house and car broken into several times before. Called the cops each time. In all but one case, there were *obvious* traces of entry. We're talking fingerprints on glass windows so sharp and clear that I could have sampled them myself with a piece of scotch tape. Guess how the cops responded?
The first time it was quite a surprise - after an hour I call the police station back to ask where the forensics unit they said they were sending out is. The response (I got a different operator than last time, apparently one more willing to tell the reality of the situation) "Oh, we don't do that." My response of course was, "well what do you do?" Upon which she replied "There'll be someone down in another hour or so to take a statement." "Huh. Will there be any kind of follow up?" "No, not really." "Great, thanks. Don't bother - I've got business to take care of."
I wish I'd been as sharp as that guy in Texas who called back after twenty minutes and said "Yeah, don't worry about sending anybody over - the guy was still hiding in my house so I shot him." Four squad cars were there in seconds. Guess what they were doing that was so important that they couldn't come earlier to insure the safety of a citizen? The article I read didn't say, but I'm guessing speeding ticket duty.
The police in the US are a joke. Unless you're going 75 miles per hour in a 65 zone, of course.
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What about the idea of shooting it down because for (IIRC) 23 miles around the WTC is restricted airspace? You can't tell that it is on direct course for the WTC, but you *can* tell that it is illegal to be where it is, heading the direction it is, and all commercial pilots know with no question that if they enter that airspace they will be shot down.
A quick google turns up these interesting sites:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/HUN311A.ht ml http://www.coastalpost.com/02/06/02.htm http:// septembereleventh.org/airdefense.php http://www.s tanddown.net/911commissionsubpoenasnor ad.htm http://www.oilempire.us/standdown.html
Many have tried and failed at selling music online before apple made it work.
Have we forgotten mp3.com so quickly? They succeeded pretty well at selling music online, before the RIAA decided they didn't like anybody proving for certain that the RIAA's business model sucks.
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Hear hear! Motorola has the WORST user interface of any cell phone manufacturer. I lost my wonderful Kyocera a while ago and had to buy a new phone, but my provider didn't carry my model anymore so I just grabbed a Motorola, figuring most phones were probably decent, at least.
Big mistake.
The interface is total crap, and I hate the "turn off" sound. This may be subjective, but it seems like my reception is much worse than with my old phone as well.
Also, the vibration motor is underpowered, so I can't feel it if it goes off in my pocket - therefore I have to use a stupid annoying ring tone.
Motorola phones just suck.
> Plays games ok, but you have to do crazy stuff like choosing your individual sound card sometimes when installing a game.
Are you talking about Linux or Windows? I've never seen a Linux game that cared what type of soundcard you had. They all have the same API. The drivers just work.
I have, however, seen Windows games that asked you to specify your hardware. Not often, but they do exist. I assume that's just laziness on the part of the programmer though, and the fault of Windows for not having a unified API for that kind of thing, possibly.
And I shall ban the use of my work to anyone WITHOUT a Che Guevara T-Shirt.
> Try telling a woman you see on any street of America that she'd no longer be entitled to an education and... the local religion allows for men to beat their wives.
Around here we call that a "trailer park."
What are you talking about? There would be much less memory taken up already than there is when I run it on my desktop. For instance, you wouldn't need a window manager or desktop manager (goodbye, GNOME and Metacity). You don't need any of the normal background daemons running (no cron, at, portmap, syslogd, samba...). This would be purely booting up, loading X, and the xinitrc would contain only the command to run doom3 or the menu or whatever.
I don't know for certain, but I would say that this article makes it seem a lot like the less harmful option.
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http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=23
I like it slow and big.
That's what your mom said! T-tsh tscha!
Your example of incorrect English usage is a little peculiar.
> and other things they say in describing the strenght of the ribbon; "3-5 times as strong as needed", what about correct english as in 3 to 5 times stronger than needed.
I think your suggested correction is the incorrect phrase. Do you say "twice stronger than needed" or "twice as strong as needed". The "3 to 5 times as strong as" phrase translates directly into a mathematical value, e.g. between 300 and 500% of the strength needed. "3 to 5 times stronger than" has no comparative equivalent.
> No. updatedb and slocate find on the filename, not contents.
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Oh, so more like find and egrep.
Suckiness varies from person to person - people who liked Battle Royale 1 for the blood and gore and didn't want to think too much about any storyline (let's just see them schoolkids kill each other, yeehaw! what's with this talking stuff, and the teacher's making a painting? stupid! back to the killing!) hate Battle Royale 2.
:)
On the other hand, I (and other people who don't mind having to read dialogue to understand where a story is going) loved BR 2. A friend of mine got an AK-47 just because of Nanahara Shuya's quote about the gun.
I'm about to do the same thing; the only difference is I'm pretty much going to start out broke. Know what? I don't mind.
Making half or less what I am now is fine to live on, as long as I have more free time than I currently do. I am not an 8-5 corporate drone, and I've finally come to realize it. On my last day here, I'm coming in with a purple mohawk.
Too bad there's not a slashdot modifier "Score +1, Fucking Awesome" or equivalent.
Anybody interested in seeing what professional players might make of go on oddly shaped boards (and playing simultaneous games against professionals, or entering in the U.S. Open tournament, or watching professional games played live and commented upon by other pros, or just being there and breathing in the excitement of go) should try and make it to the U.S. Go Congress this summer.
It's in Rochester, NY this year, hosted by the Rochester Institute of Technology. It's a full week, from July 31st to August 6th. You can register online at http://gocongress.org.
Register! Register now! There are expected to be 400 participants, so there will be people to play no matter what your skill level. And stronger players are almost always willing to give teaching games or quick lessons, if you ask nicely.
This will be my first congress, and I'm really hyped up about it. I'm trying to become 1st dan before the US Open (I'm 1 kyu right now, been playing for 15 months).
X supports a similar method known as "content negotiation" whereby the programs decide between themselves on a compatible format for the data being moved.
I just selected some HTML text, including a hyperlink, from Mozilla, middle-clicked in a GAIM window to send it to a friend and it showed up perfectly formatted, with an active hyperlink in it.
If you want clipboard history / multiple clipboards, you have to use a third-party tool to do it, same as in Windows. It's called XClipboard.
>But cogitate you will, as Cahill gives enough food for thought as post modern man is likely to be able to bear." Read on for the rest of Ursus Maximus' review.
I understand that man might not be able to "bear" very much, but what of the Ursine among us? Won't somebody think of the bears?!!
You must be thinking of legal size (8.5 x 14") - going from letter (8.5 x 11") to ledger (11 x 17") is 141% on the ol' Xerox.
Not that metric paper doesn't make more sense (like everything in the metric system), but this is just wrong.
> Ahhh yes, but there is still Fedora... Speaking of RH Enterprise, can the source be downloaded for free?
You get the source code for everything in the box with the CDs. The GPL ensures that binaries cannot be distributed without also giving away the source code - if you're not giving somebody a binary copy, they don't need the source code either.
However, Fedora is basically RH Enterprise unstable. Redhat is essentially following the Debian development model now, with Fedora stable releases being the equivalent of "testing", Fedora beta and development being the equivalent of "unstable", and RHEL is the equivalent of "stable" (because who runs pure Debian stable except for enterprises anyway?) RHEL is just older versions of the same software with security patches applied and thoroughly tested to work together. Oh, plus a support contract.
I never actually understood this phrase "redheaded stepchild" - does it really have to do with temper? If so, it seems like the stepchild part is weird and unnecessary. I always thought it meant somebody/thing that was treated poorly and unwanted, but I don't know why redheaded stepchildren would fare worse than any other color-haired stepchild in that regard.
In other words, I would like to close by saying that red hair is hot. Unless you're a guy in which case... never mind, red hair is still hot, I'm just not very likely to kiss you.
His point was that those are the expensive bits in any cartoon, and probably not more expensive in Futurama than anything else.
This is just a guess, but I bet the "22609" is the process ID of the padlocksl script. Sounds like a syntax error or something on line 3 is causing it to abort execution.
It reminds me of a research article a few years ago showing that kids who didn't get breakfast didn't do well at school, so millions were spent enabling school cafeterias to serve breakfasts. When the results were in a few years later it became clear this had had little effect. The actual relationship was that parents who can't be bothered to feed their kids also don't make sure they study.
Of course, in my case, and many of my friends, that would be "parents who don't feed their kids breakfast also don't give them money to buy it with at school... and also not really enough to get a decent lunch with either"
Someone with such a complete lack of empathy or common sense is allowed to carry a gun and a badge?
I thought those were the only people allowed to carry a gun and badge. You need a certain mentality to become a police officer, and it obviously includes the will to stamp on another human being and say "oops, your fault."
There are nice cops out there, I'm sure, but they are few and far between. Do you know why? It is because the raison d'etre for the police force these days is not investigating crimes. It is not protecting the innocent. It is not being "your friendly neighborhood officer." It is giving out speeding tickets.
I've had my house and car broken into several times before. Called the cops each time. In all but one case, there were *obvious* traces of entry. We're talking fingerprints on glass windows so sharp and clear that I could have sampled them myself with a piece of scotch tape. Guess how the cops responded?
The first time it was quite a surprise - after an hour I call the police station back to ask where the forensics unit they said they were sending out is. The response (I got a different operator than last time, apparently one more willing to tell the reality of the situation) "Oh, we don't do that." My response of course was, "well what do you do?" Upon which she replied "There'll be someone down in another hour or so to take a statement." "Huh. Will there be any kind of follow up?" "No, not really." "Great, thanks. Don't bother - I've got business to take care of."
I wish I'd been as sharp as that guy in Texas who called back after twenty minutes and said "Yeah, don't worry about sending anybody over - the guy was still hiding in my house so I shot him." Four squad cars were there in seconds. Guess what they were doing that was so important that they couldn't come earlier to insure the safety of a citizen? The article I read didn't say, but I'm guessing speeding ticket duty.
The police in the US are a joke. Unless you're going 75 miles per hour in a 65 zone, of course.
What about the idea of shooting it down because for (IIRC) 23 miles around the WTC is restricted airspace? You can't tell that it is on direct course for the WTC, but you *can* tell that it is illegal to be where it is, heading the direction it is, and all commercial pilots know with no question that if they enter that airspace they will be shot down.
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A quick google turns up these interesting sites:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/HUN311A.h
http://www.coastalpost.com/02/06/02.htm
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http://www.oilempire.us/standdown.html
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Many have tried and failed at selling music online before apple made it work.
Have we forgotten mp3.com so quickly? They succeeded pretty well at selling music online, before the RIAA decided they didn't like anybody proving for certain that the RIAA's business model sucks.