literally shrapnel-ize itself in my 52x drive, taking the drive out with it. Makes a hell of a bang too, especially when you're sitting there in the dark at 11pm. This was a 'manufactured' not burned disc.
"Prepare for Descent......." **BLAM***tinkletinkle
Why is this bad? At least Apple had the presence of mind to enable their software/machines to create more-or-less *real* (read: based on MPEG-2) DVD's. There are standards out there.
Microsoft is either strong-arming or 'making-an-offer-they-can't-refuse' to the other device makers to include their formats because of Windows XP's ability to import and edit video...but only export into Windows Media format. Unless you can show me where the device makers *went to Microsoft* and said 'we want to include your tech in our machines!' then don't tell me this isn't how it is.
If this doesn't qualify as using monopoly powers to extend said monopoly into separate markets then I don't know what does.
Windows XP has built into it now the capacity to capture and edit video (so say the ads) but *ONLY in the Windows Media format*
Stop. Ponder that. Consider that Apple is now pushing their own OS's ability to capture, edit, and burn DVD video. In MPEG2 no less.
God forbid MS would just *use the existing standards* that are in place and working-very-well-thank-you-very-much. I guess they get to claim this move as an 'innovation.'
No, up until not really all that long ago (a few hundred years) tomatoes were thought to be poisonous (the leaves actually are IIRC) so they weren't eaten. Whereas the potato was a common staple.
I remember having to write a short routine to inform the user that his indexing had finally completed. just a few hundred records taking *several several* minutes.
I remember the macros being an excellent feature at the time!!
The things I keep thinking about if Congress does decide to make an *actual declaration of war*, what all does that entail for our government, and for us as US citizens?
Would the DoD become the War Department?
Would those currently in the US from abroad on visas of various kinds suddenly be required to pack up and go home?
Would we see the same sort of industrial (and in this day, technological) infrastructure changes ala WWII? (Auto plants turned to plane/hum-vee plants etc.)
How willing are *you*, America, to be personally charged with limiting travel, consumption, etc. should the need arise?
Do some research on how the country was affected during WWII. Granted with the industrial power of today I don't forsee as great a change in our lives as then, and this would probably be a different style of war as then, but it could happen.
I'm not clear on how much power the government can 'take' or what sort of changes would be involved in it. I imagine the rules have changed somewhat in the last 60 years, but I'm sure some things have not.
If a declared war drug out for too long (years) or got particularly nasty on our own ground, we could have to face situations like:
o] fuel rationing (tanks, humvees, helicopters, planes, and most ships aren't nuclear powered you know!)
o] conversion of industrial infrastructure to military needs. Suddenly you're not building car bumpers but airplane parts, or more to relate to the/. crowds, Intel's chip fab plants fitted to make millions of smart-bomb controllers and avionics devices. Network lines and satellites 'converted' to secure military communications channels.
o] other rationing of materials like what happened in WWII: tires, some foodstuffs, scrap metal drives, the list goes on. I imagine in today's world it would include raw materials for electronics, and even infrastructure such as telephone/network bandwidth, satellite systems, and possibly electricity in some parts (CA)
o] Are you willing to have to put up with 'terrorist bombing/ shooting/ carbomb/ chemical|bio|nuke weapon drills' in your communities? "Put out those lights!!!" Will you consider it 'putting up with it?'
o] Have you filled out and returned your selective service cards, guys? It could happen.
I hope when you hear the words 'acts of war' bandied about by Congress and the President you don't take it lightly, because I'm certain they're not using them as such. If they intend to do what they say on the order they say, stuff like this could happen.
...to have that much money to just toss around, AND THEN not even realize that yes, Virginia, about the only HD signals out there are broadcast over-the-air currently (apart from the HBO mentioned.) Do your homework, ace reporter.
I don't think *any* sets are shipping with built in HD tuners/decoders yet, and worse still, has ANYONE decided on even a few standards to broadcast in?
Dollars-to-donuts ALL of his brand-spankin-new HD kit is quickly made obsolete and unusable when "they" decide to encrypt and license everything broadcast, or decide on a broadcast spec which his set and/or box doesn't handle....
Unfortunately he's really not that far from the mark. I know perfectly intelligent, reasonable, bright people who seem to lose 1/2 their IQ points when they get in front of a computer.
"How do I do <X>?"
"Um, go to Start->Programs->X?"
"What? I don't know what you're talking about!!! Stop confusing me!!!"
Granted, I didn't use Ximian Gnome, rather simply the gnome that's in debian/unstable, or at least I did until this weekend. Hello, KDE!! I even moved my mail from Evolution into KMail.
Why? Conviction, pure and simple. The whole thing just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It's (to me) the same as saying "OK, Bill, we give up! We suck! We can't do this ourselves! We'll use your 'innovative' new language, so the MSDN hordes will write Gnome apps!! You win! Uncle! UNCLE!" (The "if you can't beat 'em join 'em" scenario)
If it turns out to be a good (or indifferent) thing then I may switch back, time will tell.
Actually he's probably not too far from the mark. Go to your local Best Buy and try and find the VCR's. The last time I was in there were about 2 el-cheapo models and a beatup SVHS display model tucked away in a corner. It took me a little bit of time and "huh?" head-scratching to find them. Pretty soon: Can't buy VCR, can't rent tapes....cant' *buy* tapes...hm, guess I have to go DVD...
This *will* happen with TV also when HD becomes the standard, encryption crap and all. No TV's to buy? *Have* to buy our super duper HD set (with encryption of course)....
Will somebody please explain to me what-in-the-hell-exactly are "enterprise-level features?"
I mean apart from costing an arm, two legs, and the soul of your first born.
As far as your later point about the company needing to write half of the software they need, wouldn't you agree that the majority of large businesses *do this anyhow*? On one level or another.
It doesn't have a "beginning" or an "end" per se. Those words indicate an existence of a "time before" and a "time after", which there isn't, since time didn't exist until the universe "appeared" and probably won't exist after it either dies from miserable heat death*, or contracts back into the singularity whence it came. Time can only be measured by events. When there are no events, there can be no time. Simple as that.
* Do quantum laws allow for a "heat-dead" universe to truly be "dead"? That is to say there is absolutely zero random pair-generation/destruction going on in the vacuum? Can the energy density == zero? If not then there will always be some aspect of time. It's been a good 6 years since my last modern physics class (which we never got into advanced cosmological stuff like this anyhow...)!!
"Several people commented on hating holodeck...I don't have a problem with them except for one thing...why is there an option to override safety protocols? When is it EVER a good idea to let holograms kill you? So why would the programmers even put that choice in there? "
Even today the military conducts live-fire exercises in which if you're not careful there's a good chance you'll get hurt/killed. Knowing that little detail can change your attitude toward the task at hand in a hurry.
"DS9 has a lot cooler non repetitive conflicts. It has an elaborate plot, and great characters. The only thing I hate about it is the stupid "new" Dax, but its not really that big of a deal. The only reason you probably dont like it is because you didnt start watching from the beginning and nothing made sense. "
Actually thats the problem. I *did* watch DS9 from the beginning. I wanted to give it a chance, really, I did. I just couldn't take the 'soapy' nature it quickly developed. Then they made some lame attempt at making it interesting again by bringing in Worf and the Defiant, and even THAT quickly devolved into some dopey love story....I quit watching.
It's just this guys opinion that so far, Voyager has captured more of what the original and NG shows were about. Is it great and perfect? No. It's still got a lot of the same problems, and I couldn't even stand to watch it for a couple of seasons there in the middle. It's gotten better here towards the end again, and I'm almost ashamed to say I'll be sorry to see it go.
It's not so much the human-ish looking aliens. Thats part of ST's core (how many TOS aliens were really that unique? Mostly just funky skin color and clothes) That's one of the points Gene was making, was that the aliens shouldn't be *too* different from us.
My problem is the whole 'inbreeding' thing that the recent producers have going. Since Gene's departure it's become more the main-plot than anything. Sure Riker had Troi but they didn't bear any ill will nor did they carry on any flings on board. None of this crud happened while Gene was around. At least Kirk got a different exotic alien babe nearly every episode!:)
Voyager *is* one step up from 'Sisko's Bus Station No. 9' anyhow.
IF they'd just be more interested in creating new planets/aliens/stories instead of always falling back on the soap-opera-ish plot lines of recent trek series. Somehow I don't think Gene would approve.
We don't need our officers screwing eachother dammit!
Must be experienced in the maintenance of fires large and small. Knowledge of flash point temperatures for various materials a must, including paper, plastic, and wood. Combustion containment a plus. 2-3 years experience with "firefighting" equipment. Those with excellent long-term memories need not apply.
inquire during normal business hours at primary fire brigade office, or tel. 44-245-22
They don't *have* to tell you that the phone call may be recorded. They do it do be nice.
IIRC the law is that only *one* party needs to be aware that the conversation is recorded. So if the employee answering the phone is aware of it, so be it.
This specifically makes 3rd-party taps illegal and gives an out if you want to record a conversation for legal purposes.
There are still lots of edits done to some of the old Looney Tunes bunch. A lot having to do with nooses and downing bottles of pills and such.
I recently started looking into the matter (by coincidence) and come to find out there are several which simply *will never* be seen again due to ethnic stereotyping and the like. Do a search for 'Tokio Jokio','Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips', and 'All This and Rabbit Stew.' And even more from the pre-looney tunes era (Harmon-Ising) which are even more blatantly so. Should they be shown? A moral dilemna arises. They *should* be available *somewhere* as a matter of history....
After doing my research and doing a little late night viewing of CN this weekend. I'm glad to say a lot of what *had* been cut previously seems to have returned....
For a good idea just search for 'censored looney tunes' and see what has/had been done to them in the past.
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lead to really crummy boot times.
"What's up!?"
"Waitin' for my PC to warm up!"
On the other hand a nice looking 30s-40s radio style case might be pretty nifty looking.
I imagine working that old manual carriage-return lever on your keyboard would be a real b*tch when coding though.
Well, for example, I had my
LOKI DESCENT3 DISC#1
literally shrapnel-ize itself in my 52x drive, taking the drive out with it. Makes a hell of a bang too, especially when you're sitting there in the dark at 11pm. This was a 'manufactured' not burned disc.
"Prepare for Descent......." **BLAM***tinkletinkle
Crawl out from under desk. "WTF?"
Why is this bad? At least Apple had the presence of mind to enable their software/machines to create more-or-less *real* (read: based on MPEG-2) DVD's. There are standards out there.
Microsoft is either strong-arming or 'making-an-offer-they-can't-refuse' to the other device makers to include their formats because of Windows XP's ability to import and edit video...but only export into Windows Media format. Unless you can show me where the device makers *went to Microsoft* and said 'we want to include your tech in our machines!' then don't tell me this isn't how it is.
If this doesn't qualify as using monopoly powers to extend said monopoly into separate markets then I don't know what does.
Well yeah I was speaking about the end product...
How hard would it be for MS to simply have put an MPG/MPG2 encoder into their video app ala Apple?
Not very.
Windows XP has built into it now the capacity to capture and edit video (so say the ads) but *ONLY in the Windows Media format*
Stop. Ponder that. Consider that Apple is now pushing their own OS's ability to capture, edit, and burn DVD video. In MPEG2 no less.
God forbid MS would just *use the existing standards* that are in place and working-very-well-thank-you-very-much. I guess they get to claim this move as an 'innovation.'
No, up until not really all that long ago (a few hundred years) tomatoes were thought to be poisonous (the leaves actually are IIRC) so they weren't eaten. Whereas the potato was a common staple.
I remember having to write a short routine to inform the user that his indexing had finally completed. just a few hundred records taking *several several* minutes.
I remember the macros being an excellent feature at the time!!
"I realized that my job was to stack boxes neatly"
...and now, as you gaze upon the rows of equipment racks, server upon server upon server, your eyes slowly open wider as your pupils narrow....
"My job is *still* stacking boxes neatly!!!"
...Windows®, Linux, and Solaris®...
What's wrong with that picture? Linux *is also* a registered trademark, Microsoft. I suggest you recognize it as such.
Linus, kick some ass here.
The things I keep thinking about if Congress does decide to make an *actual declaration of war*, what all does that entail for our government, and for us as US citizens?
/. crowds, Intel's chip fab plants fitted to make millions of smart-bomb controllers and avionics devices. Network lines and satellites 'converted' to secure military communications channels.
Would the DoD become the War Department?
Would those currently in the US from abroad on visas of various kinds suddenly be required to pack up and go home?
Would we see the same sort of industrial (and in this day, technological) infrastructure changes ala WWII? (Auto plants turned to plane/hum-vee plants etc.)
How willing are *you*, America, to be personally charged with limiting travel, consumption, etc. should the need arise?
Do some research on how the country was affected during WWII. Granted with the industrial power of today I don't forsee as great a change in our lives as then, and this would probably be a different style of war as then, but it could happen.
I'm not clear on how much power the government can 'take' or what sort of changes would be involved in it. I imagine the rules have changed somewhat in the last 60 years, but I'm sure some things have not.
If a declared war drug out for too long (years) or got particularly nasty on our own ground, we could have to face situations like:
o] fuel rationing (tanks, humvees, helicopters, planes, and most ships aren't nuclear powered you know!)
o] conversion of industrial infrastructure to military needs. Suddenly you're not building car bumpers but airplane parts, or more to relate to the
o] other rationing of materials like what happened in WWII: tires, some foodstuffs, scrap metal drives, the list goes on. I imagine in today's world it would include raw materials for electronics, and even infrastructure such as telephone/network bandwidth, satellite systems, and possibly electricity in some parts (CA)
o] Are you willing to have to put up with 'terrorist bombing/ shooting/ carbomb/ chemical|bio|nuke weapon drills' in your communities? "Put out those lights!!!" Will you consider it 'putting up with it?'
o] Have you filled out and returned your selective service cards, guys? It could happen.
I hope when you hear the words 'acts of war' bandied about by Congress and the President you don't take it lightly, because I'm certain they're not using them as such. If they intend to do what they say on the order they say, stuff like this could happen.
...to have that much money to just toss around, AND THEN not even realize that yes, Virginia, about the only HD signals out there are broadcast over-the-air currently (apart from the HBO mentioned.) Do your homework, ace reporter.
I don't think *any* sets are shipping with built in HD tuners/decoders yet, and worse still, has ANYONE decided on even a few standards to broadcast in?
Dollars-to-donuts ALL of his brand-spankin-new HD kit is quickly made obsolete and unusable when "they" decide to encrypt and license everything broadcast, or decide on a broadcast spec which his set and/or box doesn't handle....
Unfortunately he's really not that far from the mark. I know perfectly intelligent, reasonable, bright people who seem to lose 1/2 their IQ points when they get in front of a computer.
"How do I do <X>?"
"Um, go to Start->Programs->X?"
"What? I don't know what you're talking about!!! Stop confusing me!!!"
It's true.
Right now there's some 50 year old UNIX hippie rolling around on the floor while his co-workers scratch their heads going "I don't get it."
SealandKroft indeed.
Granted, I didn't use Ximian Gnome, rather simply the gnome that's in debian/unstable, or at least I did until this weekend. Hello, KDE!! I even moved my mail from Evolution into KMail.
Why? Conviction, pure and simple. The whole thing just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It's (to me) the same as saying "OK, Bill, we give up! We suck! We can't do this ourselves! We'll use your 'innovative' new language, so the MSDN hordes will write Gnome apps!! You win! Uncle! UNCLE!" (The "if you can't beat 'em join 'em" scenario)
If it turns out to be a good (or indifferent) thing then I may switch back, time will tell.
Actually he's probably not too far from the mark. Go to your local Best Buy and try and find the VCR's. The last time I was in there were about 2 el-cheapo models and a beatup SVHS display model tucked away in a corner. It took me a little bit of time and "huh?" head-scratching to find them. Pretty soon: Can't buy VCR, can't rent tapes....cant' *buy* tapes...hm, guess I have to go DVD...
This *will* happen with TV also when HD becomes the standard, encryption crap and all. No TV's to buy? *Have* to buy our super duper HD set (with encryption of course)....
Will somebody please explain to me what-in-the-hell-exactly are "enterprise-level features?"
I mean apart from costing an arm, two legs, and the soul of your first born.
As far as your later point about the company needing to write half of the software they need, wouldn't you agree that the majority of large businesses *do this anyhow*? On one level or another.
Science deals with it quite well...sort of.
It doesn't have a "beginning" or an "end" per se. Those words indicate an existence of a "time before" and a "time after", which there isn't, since time didn't exist until the universe "appeared" and probably won't exist after it either dies from miserable heat death*, or contracts back into the singularity whence it came. Time can only be measured by events. When there are no events, there can be no time. Simple as that.
* Do quantum laws allow for a "heat-dead" universe to truly be "dead"? That is to say there is absolutely zero random pair-generation/destruction going on in the vacuum? Can the energy density == zero? If not then there will always be some aspect of time. It's been a good 6 years since my last modern physics class (which we never got into advanced cosmological stuff like this anyhow...)!!
"Several people commented on hating holodeck...I don't have a problem with them except for one thing...why is there an option to override safety protocols? When is it EVER a good idea to let holograms kill you? So why would the programmers even put that choice in there? "
Even today the military conducts live-fire exercises in which if you're not careful there's a good chance you'll get hurt/killed. Knowing that little detail can change your attitude toward the task at hand in a hurry.
"DS9 has a lot cooler non repetitive conflicts. It has an elaborate plot, and great characters. The only thing I hate about it is the stupid "new" Dax, but its not really that big of a deal. The only reason you probably dont like it is because you didnt start watching from the beginning and nothing made sense. "
Actually thats the problem. I *did* watch DS9 from the beginning. I wanted to give it a chance, really, I did. I just couldn't take the 'soapy' nature it quickly developed. Then they made some lame attempt at making it interesting again by bringing in Worf and the Defiant, and even THAT quickly devolved into some dopey love story....I quit watching.
It's just this guys opinion that so far, Voyager has captured more of what the original and NG shows were about. Is it great and perfect? No. It's still got a lot of the same problems, and I couldn't even stand to watch it for a couple of seasons there in the middle. It's gotten better here towards the end again, and I'm almost ashamed to say I'll be sorry to see it go.
As for plot holes, eh, it's just a TV show.
It's not so much the human-ish looking aliens. Thats part of ST's core (how many TOS aliens were really that unique? Mostly just funky skin color and clothes) That's one of the points Gene was making, was that the aliens shouldn't be *too* different from us.
:)
My problem is the whole 'inbreeding' thing that the recent producers have going. Since Gene's departure it's become more the main-plot than anything. Sure Riker had Troi but they didn't bear any ill will nor did they carry on any flings on board. None of this crud happened while Gene was around. At least Kirk got a different exotic alien babe nearly every episode!
Voyager *is* one step up from 'Sisko's Bus Station No. 9' anyhow.
IF they'd just be more interested in creating new planets/aliens/stories instead of always falling back on the soap-opera-ish plot lines of recent trek series. Somehow I don't think Gene would approve.
We don't need our officers screwing eachother dammit!
Try gnome-apt. Yeah it's a little rough around the edges (OK a lot rough) but if you really need a graphical apt/dpkg tool it'll get the job done.
.debs properly, might want to try it out (if you want kde)
apt-get install gnome-apt.
I think kpackage in kde2 will also handle
Must be experienced in the maintenance of fires large and small. Knowledge of flash point temperatures for various materials a must, including paper, plastic, and wood. Combustion containment a plus. 2-3 years experience with "firefighting" equipment. Those with excellent long-term memories need not apply.
inquire during normal business hours at primary fire brigade office, or tel. 44-245-22
They don't *have* to tell you that the phone call may be recorded. They do it do be nice.
IIRC the law is that only *one* party needs to be aware that the conversation is recorded. So if the employee answering the phone is aware of it, so be it.
This specifically makes 3rd-party taps illegal and gives an out if you want to record a conversation for legal purposes.
That's not *entirely* true.
There are still lots of edits done to some of the old Looney Tunes bunch. A lot having to do with nooses and downing bottles of pills and such.
I recently started looking into the matter (by coincidence) and come to find out there are several which simply *will never* be seen again due to ethnic stereotyping and the like. Do a search for 'Tokio Jokio','Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips', and 'All This and Rabbit Stew.' And even more from the pre-looney tunes era (Harmon-Ising) which are even more blatantly so. Should they be shown? A moral dilemna arises. They *should* be available *somewhere* as a matter of history....
After doing my research and doing a little late night viewing of CN this weekend. I'm glad to say a lot of what *had* been cut previously seems to have returned....
For a good idea just search for 'censored looney tunes' and see what has/had been done to them in the past.