The Intuos3 that I just purchased came with several extra pen tips, three regular ones, one with a spring that makes it softer, and one rough-textured tip, which makes it feel much more like a pencil on paper.
Three different roasting level categories: Mild, Smooth, and Bold.
In addition to that and the bean name, each one has a short description, such as "Light and Herbal" or "Bright with Citrus Notes".. sort of like wine tasting descriptions.
I have been making the medium-grain japanese style rice for a while now... The best stuff I've bought for a reasonable amount of money is Nishiki brand.
1 cup of rice, unwashed 1 1/8 cup of water Stir so that rice is evenly covered by water. Cover with a tight fitting lid. Cook over Med-High heat until water begins to boil, then cut it down to the lowest setting possible. Wait about 10 minutes, or until there is no more liquid water in the pot. Remove from heat, and a few minutes later, uncover and stir. Perfect with some soy sauce or bonito rice seasoning.
And for something completely different, look up recipes for various risottos.
If movies in the theater look a bit fuzzy to you, it's probably not the resolution limitation of the telecine, but one of the following:
*The shot was not completely in focus *Motion blur *CG effects over-processed to "look like film" *It was a bad print *The projection monkey wasn't doing his job very well
I don't know very much Japanese, but the reason is that there are somewhere around 2000 different kanji, each with multiple 'on' and 'kun' readings. When they are combined, the meanings change. Of course there are also hiragana and katakana mixed in with the kanji, and commonly english text as well. Making it even harder to associate shapes to meanings is the fact that the text can be written either horizontally or vertically. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it is exponentially more difficult.
Is there some reason why he is a "Microsoft Psychologist"? Sure, he may be associated with them, but does it really have anything to do with this article?
I'm sure it was meant to be interpreted that he was an "Evil Psychologist", and that we should disagree with his blasphemous comments about our beloved "can yuo raed tihs" word-shape slashdot karma whores.
It checks to see if you have module-init-tools, but otherwise, all it does is grab the kernel package from a mirror (btw, it gets the full package, not the patch updates).
I switched from linux-2.4.20-gentoo1 to linux-2.6.0-test3-mm3 and X seems much more responsive.. no more jumpy mouse cursors, and I no longer have a problem with memory leaks.
Switching to ALSA from OSS is cool, I suppose.. though I don't notice any benefits from it yet, and I'm waiting to see what the sysfs is all about.
Anyway, things are working better than they did before. I would recommend upgrading to 2.6 as soon as its released.
Apparently they do have to be careful with those movies though.. when I was in Chinatown, a woman with a trashbag full of DVDs sold me a bootleg of X-Men 2, but not before finding a good hiding place to hand it over to me.
In the end, it was a mistake.. since I assumed they had the same nice divx movies available online. It was just recorded in the theater with a consumer camcorder.
Remember that Thunderbird is still in the Alpha stage.. It's going to take some more time before they actually reach their goal of a lightweight mail app.
It took Opera a while to optimize their browser as well.
I got the same kind of effect from playing too much Go. I was coming up with capture strategies for people/objects that happened to be in the same room, and visualizing entire Go games in my head at night.
you should try using "emerge -p" next time, so you know what is going to be installed. also, the -v option will list the USE variables that a certain package accepts. (and which ones are being used)
if you want to build a package that isn't marked stable by the gentoo team, you need to set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" first. I know, I know, this is an area of gentoo that needs a lot of work.
Students have the right to distribute literature in school. If the school was distributing it (and this is a government-operated school), then there would be a problem.
Its not as bad as the copy protection from Ultima 7.. you would play for maybe a week before becoming a member of the Fellowship, and then being asked questions from the manual.
In 7.5 there was a checkpoint near the beginning of the game.. if you failed it, everyone would go insane and make animal noises and such.
Have you tried this? I was reading oggdec.html, and it says:
Writing WAV format to stdout is a bad idea. WAV requires a seekable medium for the header to be rewritten after all the data is written out; stdout is not seekable.
The thing I'm missing from all these open source media projects is direct audio CD burning.
I spent hours yesterday looking for an app that will go from OGG to CD audio directly, and all I could find was a crappy shareware program called Ashampoo BurnYa! -- and its only available for windows.
And ahead.de ignores my requests for OGG support in Nero...
Kazaa does sell -a lot- of ads, plus they don't require the same server power as Napster did. Also, companies will pay more for spyware than a simple banner ad.
If this becomes law, how would the government determine what was actually purchased online? Wouldn't businesses simply find some kind of loophole like reporting all their sales as mail orders?
That brings me to my next point... that the internet is not a physical place. In this case it is just another communication method, like a phone, or the US Postal Service. If there is a tax placed on items purchased online, there will have to be a tax on everything else.
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The Intuos3 that I just purchased came with several extra pen tips, three regular ones, one with a spring that makes it softer, and one rough-textured tip, which makes it feel much more like a pencil on paper.
They are labeled.
.. sort of like wine tasting descriptions.
Three different roasting level categories: Mild, Smooth, and Bold.
In addition to that and the bean name, each one has a short description, such as "Light and Herbal" or "Bright with Citrus Notes"
I have been making the medium-grain japanese style rice for a while now... The best stuff I've bought for a reasonable amount of money is Nishiki brand.
1 cup of rice, unwashed
1 1/8 cup of water
Stir so that rice is evenly covered by water.
Cover with a tight fitting lid.
Cook over Med-High heat until water begins to boil, then cut it down to the lowest setting possible. Wait about 10 minutes, or until there is no more liquid water in the pot. Remove from heat, and a few minutes later, uncover and stir.
Perfect with some soy sauce or bonito rice seasoning.
And for something completely different, look up recipes for various risottos.
If movies in the theater look a bit fuzzy to you, it's probably not the resolution limitation of the telecine, but one of the following:
*The shot was not completely in focus
*Motion blur
*CG effects over-processed to "look like film"
*It was a bad print
*The projection monkey wasn't doing his job very well
I don't know very much Japanese, but the reason is that there are somewhere around 2000 different kanji, each with multiple 'on' and 'kun' readings. When they are combined, the meanings change. Of course there are also hiragana and katakana mixed in with the kanji, and commonly english text as well.
Making it even harder to associate shapes to meanings is the fact that the text can be written either horizontally or vertically.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but it is exponentially more difficult.
Is there some reason why he is a "Microsoft Psychologist"? Sure, he may be associated with them, but does it really have anything to do with this article?
I'm sure it was meant to be interpreted that he was an "Evil Psychologist", and that we should disagree with his blasphemous comments about our beloved "can yuo raed tihs" word-shape slashdot karma whores.
Go ahead, mod me down...
Actually, there isn't much advantage in Gentoo when it comes to upgrading the kernel...
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge mm-sources-2.6.0-test4-r2
It checks to see if you have module-init-tools, but otherwise, all it does is grab the kernel package from a mirror (btw, it gets the full package, not the patch updates).
You still have to make menuconfig and compile...
I switched from linux-2.4.20-gentoo1 to linux-2.6.0-test3-mm3 and X seems much more responsive.. no more jumpy mouse cursors, and I no longer have a problem with memory leaks.
Switching to ALSA from OSS is cool, I suppose.. though I don't notice any benefits from it yet, and I'm waiting to see what the sysfs is all about.
Anyway, things are working better than they did before. I would recommend upgrading to 2.6 as soon as its released.
I think they killed the idea to name it "Operation Iraqi Liberation" because of the resulting acronym.
Apparently they do have to be careful with those movies though .. when I was in Chinatown, a woman with a trashbag full of DVDs sold me a bootleg of X-Men 2, but not before finding a good hiding place to hand it over to me.
In the end, it was a mistake.. since I assumed they had the same nice divx movies available online. It was just recorded in the theater with a consumer camcorder.
Ok, so kernel.org wasn't affected much..
I'm taking this torrent down due to lack of downloading.
Grab kernel 2.6.0-test2 via Bittorrent here
Remember that Thunderbird is still in the Alpha stage.. It's going to take some more time before they actually reach their goal of a lightweight mail app.
It took Opera a while to optimize their browser as well.
I got the same kind of effect from playing too much Go. I was coming up with capture strategies for people/objects that happened to be in the same room, and visualizing entire Go games in my head at night.
you should try using "emerge -p" next time, so you know what is going to be installed.
also, the -v option will list the USE variables that a certain package accepts. (and which ones are being used)
if you want to build a package that isn't marked stable by the gentoo team, you need to set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" first. I know, I know, this is an area of gentoo that needs a lot of work.
Students have the right to distribute literature in school. If the school was distributing it (and this is a government-operated school), then there would be a problem.
Artificial languages will never catch on, for the reason that no one speaks them naturally.
Besides, lojban is a ridiculous attempt at one, because it tries to be "fair" to all cultures.
This is an example from the lojban FAQ:
English
"The simplest explanation is usually the best"
lojban
roda poi velcki cu so'eroi ke ganai saprai gi xagrai
Translated back to English
All somethings which-are explanations mostly-are (if superlatively-simple then superlatively-good).
Of course most Americans cannot pronounce "Ingres" correctly either. Seems like a bad starting point for a database name.
Its not as bad as the copy protection from Ultima 7 .. you would play for maybe a week before becoming a member of the Fellowship, and then being asked questions from the manual.
In 7.5 there was a checkpoint near the beginning of the game.. if you failed it, everyone would go insane and make animal noises and such.
20 Calcium
Festering cows
puss and antibiotics
got milk, kids?
Looks like they had a visitor from PETA...
Have you tried this?
I was reading oggdec.html, and it says:
Writing WAV format to stdout is a bad idea. WAV requires a seekable medium for the header to be rewritten after all the data is written out; stdout is not seekable.
The thing I'm missing from all these open source media projects is direct audio CD burning.
I spent hours yesterday looking for an app that will go from OGG to CD audio directly, and all I could find was a crappy shareware program called Ashampoo BurnYa! -- and its only available for windows.
And ahead.de ignores my requests for OGG support in Nero...
Kazaa does sell -a lot- of ads, plus they don't require the same server power as Napster did. Also, companies will pay more for spyware than a simple banner ad.
If Napster made money, Kazaa is making much more.
Freenet is horribly slow, and it's difficult to find anything useful on there so far..
If this becomes law, how would the government determine what was actually purchased online?
Wouldn't businesses simply find some kind of loophole like reporting all their sales as mail orders?
That brings me to my next point... that the internet is not a physical place. In this case it is just another communication method, like a phone, or the US Postal Service. If there is a tax placed on items purchased online, there will have to be a tax on everything else.