Winamp was pretty cool and had a large user base, plus all of those add ons. Another top competitor player that I was partial too was Sonique. I liked its skins and visualizations better. I can still play it on WINE using my Mint laptop.
I sold mine for $100 to a guy in 1989. I originally paid $450 for it, I think. He was excited to have it. I'd moved on to my second computer a MacPlus by then.
It had a 6502 processor and 8K of RAM. I had to use a cassette recorder to save and load programs and I used video adapter on an old black and white tv as a monitor. And the language I learned was BASIC. I spent many an hour typing in programs from books to run them.
I went to Australia two years ago and passport control was pretty much all automated. A machine scans your passport and takes your picture, you answer some questions on the machine, and you are printed a little receipt with your picture. Pretty much your only human interaction is handing that printout to an agent on the way out to collect your luggage. They still had plenty of human border patrol agents. And my last from the US to UK and back had a lot of passport control automation to it as well. Smile! You are on facial recognition TV.
Besides the Orwellian aspect of the whole thing what I miss most is having my passport stamped.
It's funny when the Right screams voter fraud, the left calls them all stupid because they have no evidence.
When he Left screams voter fraud from Russian hackers that they have zero evidence of, we have to waste millions of taxer payer money with lawsuits and recounts.
There is a difference between voter fraud and election fraud. Voter fraud is when an individual is able to cast a vote they are not supposed to. So far there has only been 4 cases of actual voter fraud this election. Election fraud is on a massive scale where hundreds or thousands of votes are changed or suppressed. It is easier to change the outcome of an election with a rigged election. Republicans falsely claim that voter fraud is a massive problem, so when they control state legislatures, they gerrymander districts and pass onerous voter ID laws that make it difficult or impossible for people who don't generally vote Republican (usually people of color) to vote (they don't need Russian hackers). This is a form of election fraud (but legal). Other forms of election fraud are tampered with ballot boxes like that has been reported in the Wisconsin recount. Democrats claim election fraud. They are not the same or equivalent. Election fraud can be harder to prove or do much about.
We need a balloting system that is auditable. A recount isn't an audit. An audit checks to make sure the system is working as it is supposed to and that votes are counted and reported accurately. This usually means some sort of paper trail. You can still use electronic voting machines as long as it prints a record that can be viewed.
As a side note, I favor an instant-runoff balloting system so that voter preferences are recorded, so that a candidate in a multi candidate election, a candidate doesn't win with a plurality of votes (Candidate A gets 39%, Candidate B gets 37%, Candidate C gets 24%. Candidate A wins but 61% didn't vote for him).
for cable internet because it's the only game in town that has decent speed where I live. We have Netflix, Amazon Prime, a large DVD/Blu-ray library, and an amplified indoor HDTV antenna that gets all the channels I want. I plan to install an outdoor antenna later. I'm probably going to end up getting HBO's streaming service in the not too distant future. Still cheaper than cable TV. There's also a lot of free programming on YouTube as well.
I suspected that Putin is funding many of the nationalist right wing groups in Europe. In other words, he likes stirring the shit. Brexit doesn't benefit the UK or Europe or even the US. It doesn't help when austerity is punishing the working class all across Europe and their voices are being ignored. It makes them easy marks for nationalist and right wing groups and con men. As the UK begins to negotiate its exit the EU will play hardball because if they make concessions, other countries might bolt too. A disunited Europe is exactly what Putin craves for. And if the US chooses the wrong president, it won't be their to help hold Europe together.
On a separate but related note: Texas secessionists are smart enough to understand what Brexit is and have been emboldened by it. Expect to hear more about Texit if Hillary becomes president.
My debugging tool is to paste the offending code in the Google search bar, hit return and see if anyone else has had the same error. And usually someone has. And Stack Overflow is usually near the top of the search results, though the quality of the answers in the search results vary.
It's been months since I've read commented on a/. post. I picked a bad day to come back to look at/. I don't know what's real or fake any more. I have no idea (nor do I really care) what a 'moral right' is. Should I be outraged for being fooled by an April Fool's joke or outraged at Nature?
I'm really going to miss Ballmer's monkey dance
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I must have struck a nerve. Well, I suppose it could have been the KFTRC remark. I will have to use it more often. Regardless, I'm not against nuclear power, but I'm not blind to its hazards and the very very long term consequences our descendants tens of thousands of years from now will be dealing with for what we have done with nuclear power and weapons over the past hundred. We must be very conservative in how we use and deploy it.
The airline industry has a much better safety record than the nuclear power industry.They can tout the millions of people they don't kill each year because they intentionally work on safety. The nuclear industry argument is much the same argument that NASA used to launch Challenger. Just because it hasn't blown up yet means it's safe. We still haven't come up with a solution to deal with the tens of thousands of tons of spent fuel sitting in cooling pools at nuclear power plants all over the US. Sure can pretend that clean up of Fukushima and Chernobyl won't take decades if not centuries and will be off limits to human habitation for the same amount of time. But are you aware of all the nuclear accidents, military and civilian? Not to mention the worst nuclear contamination in US and Mexican history involving the recall of thousands of tons of contaminated steel. But you guys keep fucking that radioactive chicken.
It was one minor incident in a conference full of win. I didn't even hear about it until the conference was over. 20% of the 2500 attendees were women. There were people from 41 countries. There were quite a few young programmers in attendance as well because of the education track. PyCon and the Python community has made great strides in outreach. In attendance, there were for organizations for women in tech: Pyladies, LadyCoders, Women Who Code, and CodeChix.
Here's the best take I've read on what happened and what should have happened:
Everyone involved could have handled the situation better. I'm annoyed that this one incident, important for those directly involved, got blown way out of proportion and has shit on all the great things that PyCon achieved this year. Adria Richards does not deserve the abuse she's received even if she handled the situation wrong.
I could go for base 60 but base 64? Need a system that is also easily divisible by 3.
And speaking of pi we should switch to using tau (2*pi) instead of pi.
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When the crystal in their hand starts blinking red, it's time for those old programers to renew and become young programmers again.
Winamp was pretty cool and had a large user base, plus all of those add ons. Another top competitor player that I was partial too was Sonique. I liked its skins and visualizations better. I can still play it on WINE using my Mint laptop.
I sold mine for $100 to a guy in 1989. I originally paid $450 for it, I think. He was excited to have it. I'd moved on to my second computer a MacPlus by then.
It had a 6502 processor and 8K of RAM. I had to use a cassette recorder to save and load programs and I used video adapter on an old black and white tv as a monitor. And the language I learned was BASIC. I spent many an hour typing in programs from books to run them.
It is a form of biometrics to compare the picture on your passport with the one the machine took.
I went to Australia two years ago and passport control was pretty much all automated. A machine scans your passport and takes your picture, you answer some questions on the machine, and you are printed a little receipt with your picture. Pretty much your only human interaction is handing that printout to an agent on the way out to collect your luggage. They still had plenty of human border patrol agents. And my last from the US to UK and back had a lot of passport control automation to it as well. Smile! You are on facial recognition TV.
Besides the Orwellian aspect of the whole thing what I miss most is having my passport stamped.
and speaker blaring "DESTROY ALL HUMANS!" is clearly not a threat to humanity.
It's funny when the Right screams voter fraud, the left calls them all stupid because they have no evidence.
When he Left screams voter fraud from Russian hackers that they have zero evidence of, we have to waste millions of taxer payer money with lawsuits and recounts.
There is a difference between voter fraud and election fraud. Voter fraud is when an individual is able to cast a vote they are not supposed to. So far there has only been 4 cases of actual voter fraud this election. Election fraud is on a massive scale where hundreds or thousands of votes are changed or suppressed. It is easier to change the outcome of an election with a rigged election. Republicans falsely claim that voter fraud is a massive problem, so when they control state legislatures, they gerrymander districts and pass onerous voter ID laws that make it difficult or impossible for people who don't generally vote Republican (usually people of color) to vote (they don't need Russian hackers). This is a form of election fraud (but legal). Other forms of election fraud are tampered with ballot boxes like that has been reported in the Wisconsin recount. Democrats claim election fraud. They are not the same or equivalent. Election fraud can be harder to prove or do much about.
We need a balloting system that is auditable. A recount isn't an audit. An audit checks to make sure the system is working as it is supposed to and that votes are counted and reported accurately. This usually means some sort of paper trail. You can still use electronic voting machines as long as it prints a record that can be viewed.
As a side note, I favor an instant-runoff balloting system so that voter preferences are recorded, so that a candidate in a multi candidate election, a candidate doesn't win with a plurality of votes (Candidate A gets 39%, Candidate B gets 37%, Candidate C gets 24%. Candidate A wins but 61% didn't vote for him).
for cable internet because it's the only game in town that has decent speed where I live. We have Netflix, Amazon Prime, a large DVD/Blu-ray library, and an amplified indoor HDTV antenna that gets all the channels I want. I plan to install an outdoor antenna later. I'm probably going to end up getting HBO's streaming service in the not too distant future. Still cheaper than cable TV. There's also a lot of free programming on YouTube as well.
I suspected that Putin is funding many of the nationalist right wing groups in Europe. In other words, he likes stirring the shit. Brexit doesn't benefit the UK or Europe or even the US. It doesn't help when austerity is punishing the working class all across Europe and their voices are being ignored. It makes them easy marks for nationalist and right wing groups and con men. As the UK begins to negotiate its exit the EU will play hardball because if they make concessions, other countries might bolt too. A disunited Europe is exactly what Putin craves for. And if the US chooses the wrong president, it won't be their to help hold Europe together.
On a separate but related note: Texas secessionists are smart enough to understand what Brexit is and have been emboldened by it. Expect to hear more about Texit if Hillary becomes president.
But honestly, I have no clue. I'm still trying to catch up on all the programming paradigms that were the new hotness 3 or 4 years ago.
There is much truth in what you say. All hail XKCD.
My debugging tool is to paste the offending code in the Google search bar, hit return and see if anyone else has had the same error. And usually someone has. And Stack Overflow is usually near the top of the search results, though the quality of the answers in the search results vary.
Bad.
Yup.
It's great that it worked out for them, but sometimes translations don't come out quite right.
suppose to care?
It's been months since I've read commented on a /. post. I picked a bad day to come back to look at /. I don't know what's real or fake any more. I have no idea (nor do I really care) what a 'moral right' is. Should I be outraged for being fooled by an April Fool's joke or outraged at Nature?
At least we'll always have this video of Steve Ballmer doing the monkey dance.
Oh, just wait for 3D laser sintering printers and then there'll be people printing metal gun parts. I do NOT look forward to that day.
I must have struck a nerve. Well, I suppose it could have been the KFTRC remark. I will have to use it more often. Regardless, I'm not against nuclear power, but I'm not blind to its hazards and the very very long term consequences our descendants tens of thousands of years from now will be dealing with for what we have done with nuclear power and weapons over the past hundred. We must be very conservative in how we use and deploy it.
The airline industry has a much better safety record than the nuclear power industry.They can tout the millions of people they don't kill each year because they intentionally work on safety. The nuclear industry argument is much the same argument that NASA used to launch Challenger. Just because it hasn't blown up yet means it's safe. We still haven't come up with a solution to deal with the tens of thousands of tons of spent fuel sitting in cooling pools at nuclear power plants all over the US. Sure can pretend that clean up of Fukushima and Chernobyl won't take decades if not centuries and will be off limits to human habitation for the same amount of time. But are you aware of all the nuclear accidents, military and civilian? Not to mention the worst nuclear contamination in US and Mexican history involving the recall of thousands of tons of contaminated steel. But you guys keep fucking that radioactive chicken.
Howard: CAN YOU PLEASE, just, help me?!
Althea: Alright, alright, hang on, stay calm. I need an orderly with a wheelchair, I got a robot hand grasping a man's penis out here.
Howard: You think you could be a little more discrete?!
Althea: I'm sorry, we don't have a code for a robot hand grasping a man's penis.
It was one minor incident in a conference full of win. I didn't even hear about it until the conference was over. 20% of the 2500 attendees were women. There were people from 41 countries. There were quite a few young programmers in attendance as well because of the education track. PyCon and the Python community has made great strides in outreach. In attendance, there were for organizations for women in tech: Pyladies, LadyCoders, Women Who Code, and CodeChix.
Here's the best take I've read on what happened and what should have happened:
Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost http://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/
Everyone involved could have handled the situation better. I'm annoyed that this one incident, important for those directly involved, got blown way out of proportion and has shit on all the great things that PyCon achieved this year. Adria Richards does not deserve the abuse she's received even if she handled the situation wrong.
I could go for base 60 but base 64? Need a system that is also easily divisible by 3. And speaking of pi we should switch to using tau (2*pi) instead of pi.