Software developers that are anal-rententive perfectionists start spasming after a few seconds of dealing with the atrocious pile of shit that is the Win32 API, so I wouldn't worry.
If this takes off, then they've created the first PC-based "razor-blade" market - companies make nothing on the razors, all of the (very high) profits are from the blades - outside of printer consumables.
Assuming, of course, that they've patented & copyrighted things well enough to require you to buy Logitech (R) (TM) supplies.
I've always loved Logitech products. If this takes off, then good for them!
The core problem here is that the RIAA (and MPAA if you want to go there also) leadership is not comprised of reasonable people. They're busy breathing heavily into paper bags over Internet File Sharing and are unwilling to consider any options other than locking up music as tightly as they can, prosecuting everyone they can get their hands on, and lobbying congress for more laws.
This is a textbook example of incompetent leadership in business - management is religeously inflexibile and lives in a complete state of denial while steadily circling the drain.
If the music industry wants to survive they need some fresh blood at the top because all of the laws and lawsuits in the world won't solve their problems, in fact, they will only make them worse...
Dammit, when you refer to a darpa.mil URL in an item like this it should point to some space-age particle beam device that would turn the offending "Warbling Chattybitch" in the seat next to you into a pile of ash. Or better yet, cocaine. Now that would be an invention.
On a more realistic (and practical) note, if they're in front of you and you have a good (and accurate, please) arm, you can always use the partially-chewed hot tamale. They have an excellent size / mass ratio so they can be accurately thrown, and they're extra-sticky.
My friends and I used to refer to this as the HDFL (High-Density Flashing Lights) functionality of a piece of equipment. Nobody on the top floor really wants to admit this, but when The Big Suits of a company take their Important Customers and Media Sycophants on a tour of their Impressive Facilities, they want the totally-cool, ultra-intimidating-looking server room. Not that they'll overtly give you a bigger budget for this (at least in any cases I've been involved with, pun semi-intended), but sneak in a few extra grand to give them a cool-looking server room and watch the love pour in!
Oh yeah, and this is yet another reason for the embarrasing IT slobs out there to neatly bundle their fucking rat's nest of cables... Show a little pride in your work, dammit!
I've been told by a doctor that performs LASIK that in my particular case (~-10.5 diopters of correction in both eyes) I should avoid LASIK, and so I'm waiting for the new implantable lenses (the procedure is reversable, and upgradable).
For now, I think the best things for staring at screens all day long are Rigid Gas-Permeable contact lenses. I've been wearing them for 20+ years (I was an early adopter), and I've never had problems with eyestrain or eye fatigue, even back in the days of horribly curved monitor screens. I've heard similar stories from the few people I know that wear these lenses. I'm sure there's an excellent medical explanation for this, but I haven't looked into it; I'm perfectly happy taking "yes" for an answer.
Only downside: they take about three months to get used to, and they can be quite uncomfortable during that period. There are many positives, however: easier to care for than soft lenses, they don't rip, you can't put them on inside-out, and they only need to be replaced every three years or so (unless your prescription changes).
The other thing that amazes me is how people cheap out on their monitors. If you code for a living, or otherwise spend 90% of your working day starting at a screen, get an excellent one. I dropped about $1K (they're cheaper now) on a 22" NEC Multisync FP1350 monitor (running 1920x1440 @ 72 Hz). It's got about the flattest screen you'll find, and I can easily read 8-pt. text from 3' away (the contact lenses help;) ). Nothing's better for coding than being able to clearly see about 100 rows of text for 18 hours and have it cause no pain or discomfort whatsoever.
Umm... no, this decision has more to do with the fact that after Gray Davis' hopelessly inept handling of our electricity shortage the other year, most people would rather take a long hot bath in sulphuric acid than vote for him...
This just something to endear him to the geeks before the election. It's not like he's getting any of the Moral Minority votes anyway, so what does he have to lose?
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Timothy is only capable of dealing with one Buckley at a time. Perhaps when William F. Buckley Jr. kicks the bucket, he can transfer his monogomous Buckley interests to Christopher...
I'm going to get flamed to a crisp for this, but my choice is: Tom Hanks. And don't look at me funny until you think about it. He's got the right appearance, he's a hell of an actor, and it's been awhile since he's done a good comedy....
I've noticed a general trend among hard drive manufacturers for producing hard drives that suck ass from a quality control standpoint. The good thing is that the drives are very, very cheap now. Why is that so good? RAID-1 is perfectly affordable now. Since it's already built onto many motherboards (or available as an inexpensive PCI card) pretty much anyone who would be more than mildly inconvenienced by a hard drive crash should run it.
Yes, in an ideal world the motherfucking hard drive manufactureres would make drives worth more than the boxes they come in. Until then, I'll keep all of my drives mirrored....
Let's be honest - the reason we hate holodeck episodes is that we don't get to see what I'm sure 99.98% of holodeck time is actually used for (and don't pretend you don't know what I mean).
I don't know.... <font class="sarcasm"> what about an episode where they travel back in time to make sure that holodecks are invented, thus supplying crew members with much needed futuristic pr0n on those five-year / ongoing / accidental missions...? </font>
Keep in mind that in many 32-bit color systems, only 24 bits of color are actually used (8 bits per RBG channel). They store as 32-bit so that the data stays aligned on word boundaries in memory (greatly increasing efficiency for image processing, but the padding would be unneccessary and unwanted when streaming data off the CCD).
If I was trying to design something like this, I would use an array of low-resolution CCDs, put some sort of extremely slick real-time hardware-based compression either on the CCD or someplace within a few cm so I can use an extremely high-speed bus to move the data. Then it's just a matter of keeping your data from the multiple CCDs in sync...
Her view on government-mandated maternity leave is certainly in conflict with libertarian values. However, she is certainly cuter than her competition. After all, politics is just a beauty contest, right?
I don't think it'd be practical to ban somebody from a particularly busy theater.
But there is an easy, self-enforcing, non-technical solution to the problem. When the US Supreme Court ruled flag burning constitutionally-protected free speech, one state (Mississippi, IIRC) had a creative solution. Since the state couldn't enforce any laws prohibiting burning the flag, they simply passed a law stating that the maxiumum penalty would be US$25 for assulting someone who was in the process of burining a flag. I would happily pay $25 to be able to vent my frutstration on some jackass who leaves his cellphone on in the theater.
I just sent EFF $100. If we invoke "Chinese arithmetic" (anyone who's looked at a business plan involving China knows what I'm talking about- "if we could just capture.1% of the 1.x billion-person market) on the Slashdot masses, we should be able to buy us some politicians too!
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Yeah, yeah, I try to limit my flames to one per post... Plus it's always safer to bash M$ than it is *n?x around here...
Software developers that are anal-rententive perfectionists start spasming after a few seconds of dealing with the atrocious pile of shit that is the Win32 API, so I wouldn't worry.
If this takes off, then they've created the first PC-based "razor-blade" market - companies make nothing on the razors, all of the (very high) profits are from the blades - outside of printer consumables.
Assuming, of course, that they've patented & copyrighted things well enough to require you to buy Logitech (R) (TM) supplies.
I've always loved Logitech products. If this takes off, then good for them!
The core problem here is that the RIAA (and MPAA if you want to go there also) leadership is not comprised of reasonable people. They're busy breathing heavily into paper bags over Internet File Sharing and are unwilling to consider any options other than locking up music as tightly as they can, prosecuting everyone they can get their hands on, and lobbying congress for more laws.
This is a textbook example of incompetent leadership in business - management is religeously inflexibile and lives in a complete state of denial while steadily circling the drain.
If the music industry wants to survive they need some fresh blood at the top because all of the laws and lawsuits in the world won't solve their problems, in fact, they will only make them worse...
Dammit, when you refer to a darpa.mil URL in an item like this it should point to some space-age particle beam device that would turn the offending "Warbling Chattybitch" in the seat next to you into a pile of ash. Or better yet, cocaine. Now that would be an invention.
On a more realistic (and practical) note, if they're in front of you and you have a good (and accurate, please) arm, you can always use the partially-chewed hot tamale. They have an excellent size / mass ratio so they can be accurately thrown, and they're extra-sticky.
Just kick anyone off the network who doesn't spend 80% of their time downloading pr0n.
Geez, dude needed to work on his stamina...
Dude, love the sig... I was there for Rickey's 3000th base hit....
My friends and I used to refer to this as the HDFL (High-Density Flashing Lights) functionality of a piece of equipment. Nobody on the top floor really wants to admit this, but when The Big Suits of a company take their Important Customers and Media Sycophants on a tour of their Impressive Facilities, they want the totally-cool, ultra-intimidating-looking server room. Not that they'll overtly give you a bigger budget for this (at least in any cases I've been involved with, pun semi-intended), but sneak in a few extra grand to give them a cool-looking server room and watch the love pour in!
Oh yeah, and this is yet another reason for the embarrasing IT slobs out there to neatly bundle their fucking rat's nest of cables... Show a little pride in your work, dammit!
...when I give those DRM assholes over at Disney the finger.
In some older versions of DOS, you could overflow the drive letter counter and get [:
Ahhhhh... the good old days...
I've been told by a doctor that performs LASIK that in my particular case (~-10.5 diopters of correction in both eyes) I should avoid LASIK, and so I'm waiting for the new implantable lenses (the procedure is reversable, and upgradable).
;) ). Nothing's better for coding than being able to clearly see about 100 rows of text for 18 hours and have it cause no pain or discomfort whatsoever.
For now, I think the best things for staring at screens all day long are Rigid Gas-Permeable contact lenses. I've been wearing them for 20+ years (I was an early adopter), and I've never had problems with eyestrain or eye fatigue, even back in the days of horribly curved monitor screens. I've heard similar stories from the few people I know that wear these lenses. I'm sure there's an excellent medical explanation for this, but I haven't looked into it; I'm perfectly happy taking "yes" for an answer.
Only downside: they take about three months to get used to, and they can be quite uncomfortable during that period. There are many positives, however: easier to care for than soft lenses, they don't rip, you can't put them on inside-out, and they only need to be replaced every three years or so (unless your prescription changes).
The other thing that amazes me is how people cheap out on their monitors. If you code for a living, or otherwise spend 90% of your working day starting at a screen, get an excellent one. I dropped about $1K (they're cheaper now) on a 22" NEC Multisync FP1350 monitor (running 1920x1440 @ 72 Hz). It's got about the flattest screen you'll find, and I can easily read 8-pt. text from 3' away (the contact lenses help
Umm... no, this decision has more to do with the fact that after Gray Davis' hopelessly inept handling of our electricity shortage the other year, most people would rather take a long hot bath in sulphuric acid than vote for him...
This just something to endear him to the geeks before the election. It's not like he's getting any of the Moral Minority votes anyway, so what does he have to lose?
Timothy is only capable of dealing with one Buckley at a time. Perhaps when William F. Buckley Jr. kicks the bucket, he can transfer his monogomous Buckley interests to Christopher...
Just so long as it's not Keanu Reeves.
Ewen McGregor maybe? Kinda short, but...
Jason Mewes looks a little too pathetic...
I'm going to get flamed to a crisp for this, but my choice is: Tom Hanks. And don't look at me funny until you think about it. He's got the right appearance, he's a hell of an actor, and it's been awhile since he's done a good comedy....
I've noticed a general trend among hard drive manufacturers for producing hard drives that suck ass from a quality control standpoint. The good thing is that the drives are very, very cheap now. Why is that so good? RAID-1 is perfectly affordable now. Since it's already built onto many motherboards (or available as an inexpensive PCI card) pretty much anyone who would be more than mildly inconvenienced by a hard drive crash should run it.
Yes, in an ideal world the motherfucking hard drive manufactureres would make drives worth more than the boxes they come in. Until then, I'll keep all of my drives mirrored....
And they would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those meddling slashdotters....
Let's be honest - the reason we hate holodeck episodes is that we don't get to see what I'm sure 99.98% of holodeck time is actually used for (and don't pretend you don't know what I mean).
I don't know.... <font class="sarcasm"> what about an episode where they travel back in time to make sure that holodecks are invented, thus supplying crew members with much needed futuristic pr0n on those five-year / ongoing / accidental missions...? </font>
Keep in mind that in many 32-bit color systems, only 24 bits of color are actually used (8 bits per RBG channel). They store as 32-bit so that the data stays aligned on word boundaries in memory (greatly increasing efficiency for image processing, but the padding would be unneccessary and unwanted when streaming data off the CCD).
If I was trying to design something like this, I would use an array of low-resolution CCDs, put some sort of extremely slick real-time hardware-based compression either on the CCD or someplace within a few cm so I can use an extremely high-speed bus to move the data. Then it's just a matter of keeping your data from the multiple CCDs in sync...
Her view on government-mandated maternity leave is certainly in conflict with libertarian values. However, she is certainly cuter than her competition. After all, politics is just a beauty contest, right?
My understanding is that the Notes client runs just fine under WINE. I've not tested this myself yet, though...
I don't think it'd be practical to ban somebody from a particularly busy theater.
But there is an easy, self-enforcing, non-technical solution to the problem. When the US Supreme Court ruled flag burning constitutionally-protected free speech, one state (Mississippi, IIRC) had a creative solution. Since the state couldn't enforce any laws prohibiting burning the flag, they simply passed a law stating that the maxiumum penalty would be US$25 for assulting someone who was in the process of burining a flag. I would happily pay $25 to be able to vent my frutstration on some jackass who leaves his cellphone on in the theater.
Don't mod me up - I'm at the karma kap.
Better idea: click on this link and open your wallet. Seriously. At least give them what you gave the MPAA & RIAA's members over the last few months.
What have you done?
.1% of the 1.x billion-person market) on the Slashdot masses, we should be able to buy us some politicians too!
I just sent EFF $100. If we invoke "Chinese arithmetic" (anyone who's looked at a business plan involving China knows what I'm talking about- "if we could just capture