Fourthy-thousand dollars seems like a reasonably low sum to pay for the privilege of not being snipped, but, with two kids in college, cash flow is a problem for me now and I just don't have that much money on hand.
I would be willing to send you $12.95/month if you would reduce the threat from snipping and gunning to something less severe. I'm sure I could withstand a few hours in the comfy chair.
If this doesn't seem like a good deal to you, then I know of another way that I could pay you the cash. I assure you that this is completely legal! A long lost relative of mine from Germany left me five million Euros in a Swiss bank account. Perhaps you, with your banking connections could help me get the money out of switzerland.
Please send me 8000 US DOLLARS so that I can submit the necessary applications.
You can't teach anyone to be creative. You either are, or are not.
But you can inspire people to be creative. The better the tools they have at their disposal, the more likely it is that they will find a creative way to use them. Of course they'll also find a bunch of trivial uses for them.
Kay's remarks remind me of that famous quote about television being a vast wasteland. It's less true today than it was 50 years ago and that's probably because the ratio of "writers" to "readers" has gone up. He says:
"You can read a document in Microsoft Word, and write a document in Microsoft Word. But the people who did web browsers I think were too lazy to do the authoring part."
I think that's a very important point, though he probably should have mentioned that in the early days of the web, authoring was a key ingredient. I've always wondered what happened to Mosaic's annotate button.
"Who the fuck started this "when in doubt, throw apostrophes at it" shit?"
It dates back to the old testament, Exodus, chapter 8.
- - - - - - - -
AND the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with apostrophes:
3 And the river shall bring forth apostrophes abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
4 And the apostrophes shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.
5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause apostrophes to come up upon the land of Egypt.
6 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the apostrophes came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
7 And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up apostrophes upon the land of Egypt.
8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat the LORD, that he may take away the apostrophes from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the LORD.
9 And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I entreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the apostrophes from thee and thy houses, that they may remain in the river only?
10 And he said, To-morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God.
11 And the apostrophes shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only.
12 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the LORD because of the apostrophes which he had brought against Pharaoh.
13 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the apostrophes died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields.
14 And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
An alternate universe? Why, which one are you from?
according to this page...
The development was delayed several times, however, and the Windows 1.0 hit the store shelves in November 1985. The selection of applications was sparse, however, and Windows sales were modest.
The people voted against Bush, so I'm not sure that he can be classified as an ally. I'm pretty sure that he weighs more than a duck, so the only conclusion I can draw is that Bush is a terrorist witch.
"nod- Until our election system is reformed, the spoiler factor will always keep third parties down."
OTOH, because our system is so screwy, my vote in MA won't count for anything. I can vote for Nader without any fear that Bush will somehow get extra electoral votes. And IIRC, a candidate who has enough popular support is eligible for matching campaign funds.
If a software vendor allows their software to be "pirated", then to hell with them. People don't pirate VALUABLE SOFTWARE. They pay for it, download it under a no charge license, or they wouldn't have bought it anyway.
You get what you paid for and you get paid for what you give.
+4 funny? Those bonehead/. moderators just screwed some guy called "Anonymous Coward" out of a bunch of karma by calling him Funny instead of Insightful.
The machine should be subordinate to the human, not the other way around. Think HAL in 2001. I don't want my car to shut off in the middle of rush hour traffic because it thinks it might cause damage to keep running, and I don't want some machine telling my nurse that I can't have the medicine I need.
Boss: Sorry to wake you, but where's the source code?
Me: Uh, what, oh,/osrc, where else would it be?
Boss: I'm in/osrc and I don't see it.
Me: Do an ls and tell me what you see.
Boss: Dot and dot-dot.
-------------------- I had removed a mount point (/backup) for a failed disk where we mirrored the code. The dumb backup script did something like this:
cd/osrc size=`du -s.` cd/backup rm -rf this that the_other_thing
Fortunately, the tape backup had finished before the stuff was deleted.
"It's funny that you mention the GTO. Right after the Big Three won their stay from fuel economy on trucks so they can "protect" American workers, GM announced that they'd import their GTOs from their Australian branch."
True, but the number of cars is low. Besides, I'd rather import from Australia than from many other countries.
Those Buick v6's can't be beat. Good performance, efficiency, and tremendous longevity.
It's a design that has been in use for nearly 40 years. They've been proven at Indy, in some very fast production cars, and in a zillion daily drivers.
Quit your whining;-) We didn't have some fancy/dev/lpt or even an lpt0:. All we had was the printing terminal. Hell, we didn't even need a computer to make address labels, just a loop of punched tape and either a teletype or flexowriter.
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Dear Towogbola,
Fourthy-thousand dollars seems like a reasonably low sum to pay for the privilege of not being snipped, but, with two kids in college, cash flow is a problem for me now and I just don't have that much money on hand.
I would be willing to send you $12.95/month if you would reduce the threat from snipping and gunning to something less severe. I'm sure I could withstand a few hours in the comfy chair.
If this doesn't seem like a good deal to you, then I know of another way that I could pay you the cash. I assure you that this is completely legal! A long lost relative of mine from Germany left me five million Euros in a Swiss bank account. Perhaps you, with your banking connections could help me get the money out of switzerland.
Please send me 8000 US DOLLARS so that I can submit the necessary applications.
Sincerely,
Icabod Slipp
You can't teach anyone to be creative. You either are, or are not.
But you can inspire people to be creative. The better the tools they have at their disposal, the more likely it is that they will find a creative way to use them. Of course they'll also find a bunch of trivial uses for them.
Kay's remarks remind me of that famous quote about television being a vast wasteland. It's less true today than it was 50 years ago and that's probably because the ratio of "writers" to "readers" has gone up. He says:
"You can read a document in Microsoft Word, and write a document in Microsoft Word. But the people who did web browsers I think were too lazy to do the authoring part."
I think that's a very important point, though he probably should have mentioned that in the early days of the web, authoring was a key ingredient. I've always wondered what happened to Mosaic's annotate button.
"Who the fuck started this "when in doubt, throw apostrophes at it" shit?"
It dates back to the old testament, Exodus, chapter 8.
- - - - - - - -
AND the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with apostrophes:
3 And the river shall bring forth apostrophes abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
4 And the apostrophes shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.
5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause apostrophes to come up upon the land of Egypt.
6 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the apostrophes came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
7 And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up apostrophes upon the land of Egypt.
8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat the LORD, that he may take away the apostrophes from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the LORD.
9 And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I entreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the apostrophes from thee and thy houses, that they may remain in the river only?
10 And he said, To-morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God.
11 And the apostrophes shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only.
12 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the LORD because of the apostrophes which he had brought against Pharaoh.
13 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the apostrophes died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields.
14 And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
Exactly right. A true patriot would never speak out against the current ruler.
An alternate universe? Why, which one are you from?
according to this page... The development was delayed several times, however, and the Windows 1.0 hit the store shelves in November 1985. The selection of applications was sparse, however, and Windows sales were modest.
The use of the DMCA may be new, but check out the MAI v Peak case from the early nineties.
The people voted against Bush, so I'm not sure that he can be classified as an ally. I'm pretty sure that he weighs more than a duck, so the only conclusion I can draw is that Bush is a terrorist witch.
"nod- Until our election system is reformed, the spoiler factor will always keep third parties down."
OTOH, because our system is so screwy, my vote in MA won't count for anything. I can vote for Nader without any fear that Bush will somehow get extra electoral votes. And IIRC, a candidate who has enough popular support is eligible for matching campaign funds.
"that is pirating everything"
If a software vendor allows their software to be "pirated", then to hell with them. People don't pirate VALUABLE SOFTWARE. They pay for it, download it under a no charge license, or they wouldn't have bought it anyway.
You get what you paid for and you get paid for what you give.
+4 funny? Those bonehead /. moderators just screwed some guy called "Anonymous Coward" out of a bunch of karma by calling him Funny instead of Insightful.
"Each PC had to serve 256 users!"
What did the 'P' in "PC" stand for?
You make an interesting point, but it's a bit off the mark. This wikipedia reference explains it in more detail.
The parent is right, the color quantization is a lossy process.
The machine should be subordinate to the human, not the other way around. Think HAL in 2001. I don't want my car to shut off in the middle of rush hour traffic because it thinks it might cause damage to keep running, and I don't want some machine telling my nurse that I can't have the medicine I need.
"Would they care to explain this?"
You should review the facts of the DOJ case against MS, you fucking troll.
ivtv has worked out great for me. Thank you!
My only disappointment is that making DVDs and SVCDs from the streams isn't as straightforward as I thought it would be. I don't want to transcode.
How should I set mythtv to get the right codec/stream params? Is remuxing always necessary? If so, which toolchain is best?
This is one of my favorites.
My phone rang at 3am.
/osrc, where else would it be?
/osrc and I don't see it.
/osrc .` /backup
Boss: Sorry to wake you, but where's the source code?
Me: Uh, what, oh,
Boss: I'm in
Me: Do an ls and tell me what you see.
Boss: Dot and dot-dot.
--------------------
I had removed a mount point (/backup) for a failed disk where we mirrored the code. The dumb backup script did something like this:
cd
size=`du -s
cd
rm -rf this that the_other_thing
Fortunately, the tape backup had finished before the stuff was deleted.
"...clams and sand" /bin/clamsh
A pie on their windshield would be better.
"a different extension"
Yeah, like a horse is just a cockroach with different genes.
"It's funny that you mention the GTO. Right after the Big Three won their stay from fuel economy on trucks so they can "protect" American workers, GM announced that they'd import their GTOs from their Australian branch."
True, but the number of cars is low. Besides, I'd rather import from Australia than from many other countries.
"If it hadn't been a black cat I wouldn't have run over it at night."
I would have.
Those Buick v6's can't be beat. Good performance, efficiency, and tremendous longevity.
It's a design that has been in use for nearly 40 years. They've been proven at Indy, in some very fast production cars, and in a zillion daily drivers.
At least it isn't http colon backslash backslash slash dot dot org.
Quit your whining ;-) We didn't have some fancy /dev/lpt or even an lpt0:. All we had was the printing terminal. Hell, we didn't even need a computer to make address labels, just a loop of punched tape and either a teletype or flexowriter.