Am I the only one not able to connect to SiteFinder anymore? It is refusing my connections. Could it be they shut it down early, or is it just DOS'ed into the stone age?
Building mplayer isn't so bad... i just emerge it and away it goes... a few minutes later it spits out a binary. Only problem is that mplayer is one of a few apps that ignores my CFLAGS, but I understand that it doesn't like heavy optimization.
Of course, n00bs aren't using gentoo, but I doubt it would be hard to roll a src RPM for whatever distro's use those now.
It will cast my vote for an advertiser if I misspell the candidate's name... let's see, which presidential candidate has the biggest pile of cash to spend on ads...
Any Canadian Slashdoters semi-familiar with the laws for me to get a work permit there?
What this has to do with a Segway I do not know. Gerald Ford fell down, too. It was funny. Lots of people think it is funny when the president falls down and bruises his dignity.
Just because it is established doesn't mean it is better. Lots of people like Dvorak much more after they learn the layout, why not the same for the stupid football layout?
The placement is only physical because you are so used to thinking of it as such. Do you know where those bits are really sitting on the platter? This is a completely different approach to data storage. Rather than having things layed out with set "locations" like this:
Music by some_band: Blah Blah by Some_Band (mp3) Foo Bar by Some_Band (ogg vorbis) Other Track by Some_Band (Windows Media)
Things I downloaded from gnutella last night: Blah Blah by Some_Band (mp3) Irritating Song by Flavor of the Week (mp3) Star Wars Kid Video Number 1827 (mpeg 4)
Just because you divide it up one way doesn't mean you have to divide it up that way forever. There is no inherent grouping of files.
I'm sure that the soup has to stop somewhere, though. I MUCH prefer having my standard filesystem in case I need to recover the system. I don't want a database hickup to lose half the system libraries.
This type of system would also make it hard to use the command line. How do you set a path? Multiple files of the same name? I've gotten really fond of just popping up a terminal and using a for loop to batch things together.
I guess something like "for i in "music files i tagged" ; do decode $i ; done" would work, but it would seem that a GUI is really a neccessity here.
That article is about a different technology. It only briefly mentions this company.
In this way it differs from a technology just announced by Seamless Display (a spin-off of Oxford University, UK), which is also hoping to target the large video-wall market. Here, a thin lens at the edge of the display spreads light over the inactive borders surrounding the individual screens, leaving just a shadow.
I had to learn in Wisconsin. Since I LOVE parallel parking so that assholes from the school on my street can't get out, its a skill I use on a regular basis.
Odd, I signed up for Wisconsin's DNC list last year and haven't gotten anything but misguided charities.
"Do you agree that in these troubled times we need the government to provide better security for us and our loved ones?"
"No."
"Well, many people do. Give us money!"
"Why would I do that? I don't WANT to live in a police state!"
Seriously, why would telemarketers WANT a list of 41 million people who have stated that they do not want telemarketing calls? Do they think they have good odds of making some sales? Are they going to recoup their $11000 per infraction fines on a few vinyl siding sales?
I fail to grasp how someone not calling me to offer a service I invariably do NOT want will translate to longer hold times for customer service calls I DO want to make. It's not like my bank is going to call me up in the middle of dinner to ask if I happen to have any disputed charges on my debit card.
Besides, I WANT telemarketers unemployed... they can go back to turning tricks and selling crack on schoolyards. That way they are offering services that people want and use.
Oh, shit... I am stuck in this truck's blind spot and there is half of a tire in the lane in front of me... I'd better take my hands off of the wheel to push this here button so I can stomp on the gas to get in front of the truck.
That doesn't fly, you are going to stomp the gas, nothing is going to happen, and you are going to end up hitting said tire. The situations where you *really* need to speed to avoid an accident are rare, just like the situations when you need to use the shoulder of an eight lane freeway. Notice they spend the extra money to put the shoulder in.
I do not have SoBig on my computer, since I run Linux & SoBig won't run on my box.
Did you try it under WINE? Don't give up so easily! Perhaps with Crossover Virus? They give a free trial, if vanilla WINE doesn't do it, that's your best bet.
All the mirrors I've checked have placeholders.back-RSN.README, just like the ones at ftp.gnu.org. Looks like they don't know how long ago the break-in was, so they pulled the mirrors to be safe.
Would the civilians of Tokyo or Dresden be glad that the US didn't nuke them? I doubt it, because more of them died as a result of conventional weapons than died in Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
If you can't get on the last row, skip Raging Bull and head over to Viper... the further back the better. On those bumps at the end you feel like your head is going to fly off and land in the queues.
And god help you if you want to get PSO for your gamecube... the modem and ethernet adapter are just about impossible to get right now because of Nintendo's underproduction of the damn things, and don't even get me started on the keyboard issue...
Here in Kenosha you could probably hit a diagonal and make it back to the right intersection, assuming it hasn't ripped up for the last 7 months and right turns are allowed.
the blue or purple stuff you put on your car windows is glycol and blue or purple dye, no ammonia at all. same reason eyeglass cleaner is made out of isopropyl alcohol. ammonia is pretty bad for some plastics, plus the alcohols evaporate fairly quickly.
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Am I the only one not able to connect to SiteFinder anymore? It is refusing my connections. Could it be they shut it down early, or is it just DOS'ed into the stone age?
Nah... thats the key to a two player, infinite lived Konami game on the NES... the key to a Diebold machine is a titanium drill bit and some patience.
Building mplayer isn't so bad... i just emerge it and away it goes... a few minutes later it spits out a binary. Only problem is that mplayer is one of a few apps that ignores my CFLAGS, but I understand that it doesn't like heavy optimization.
Of course, n00bs aren't using gentoo, but I doubt it would be hard to roll a src RPM for whatever distro's use those now.
Your search - [deleted] - did not match any documents.
I rock.
PS: Don't call me.
It will cast my vote for an advertiser if I misspell the candidate's name... let's see, which presidential candidate has the biggest pile of cash to spend on ads...
Any Canadian Slashdoters semi-familiar with the laws for me to get a work permit there?
What this has to do with a Segway I do not know. Gerald Ford fell down, too. It was funny. Lots of people think it is funny when the president falls down and bruises his dignity.
One word here: QWERTY.
Just because it is established doesn't mean it is better. Lots of people like Dvorak much more after they learn the layout, why not the same for the stupid football layout?
I'm looking at getting the Sidekick. Is it any good?
Well, some people enjoy handball...
You were probobly right. I had two C64 drives die of thirst... something to do with mounting the power supply under the CPU on the thing.
The placement is only physical because you are so used to thinking of it as such. Do you know where those bits are really sitting on the platter?
/home/ /home/user /home/user/music/mp3/ /home/user/music/mp3/some_band
This is a completely different approach to data storage. Rather than having things layed out with set "locations" like this:
/
you set the boundries on the fly:
Music by some_band:
Blah Blah by Some_Band (mp3)
Foo Bar by Some_Band (ogg vorbis)
Other Track by Some_Band (Windows Media)
Things I downloaded from gnutella last night:
Blah Blah by Some_Band (mp3)
Irritating Song by Flavor of the Week (mp3)
Star Wars Kid Video Number 1827 (mpeg 4)
Just because you divide it up one way doesn't mean you have to divide it up that way forever. There is no inherent grouping of files.
I'm sure that the soup has to stop somewhere, though. I MUCH prefer having my standard filesystem in case I need to recover the system. I don't want a database hickup to lose half the system libraries.
This type of system would also make it hard to use the command line. How do you set a path? Multiple files of the same name? I've gotten really fond of just popping up a terminal and using a for loop to batch things together.
I guess something like "for i in "music files i tagged" ; do decode $i ; done" would work, but it would seem that a GUI is really a neccessity here.
Sorta like Bubba and Fresh Fish are "partners" in the bighouse.
I had to learn in Wisconsin. Since I LOVE parallel parking so that assholes from the school on my street can't get out, its a skill I use on a regular basis.
Odd, I signed up for Wisconsin's DNC list last year and haven't gotten anything but misguided charities.
"Do you agree that in these troubled times we need the government to provide better security for us and our loved ones?"
"No."
"Well, many people do. Give us money!"
"Why would I do that? I don't WANT to live in a police state!"
Seriously, why would telemarketers WANT a list of 41 million people who have stated that they do not want telemarketing calls? Do they think they have good odds of making some sales? Are they going to recoup their $11000 per infraction fines on a few vinyl siding sales?
I fail to grasp how someone not calling me to offer a service I invariably do NOT want will translate to longer hold times for customer service calls I DO want to make. It's not like my bank is going to call me up in the middle of dinner to ask if I happen to have any disputed charges on my debit card.
Besides, I WANT telemarketers unemployed... they can go back to turning tricks and selling crack on schoolyards. That way they are offering services that people want and use.
Oh, shit... I am stuck in this truck's blind spot and there is half of a tire in the lane in front of me... I'd better take my hands off of the wheel to push this here button so I can stomp on the gas to get in front of the truck.
That doesn't fly, you are going to stomp the gas, nothing is going to happen, and you are going to end up hitting said tire. The situations where you *really* need to speed to avoid an accident are rare, just like the situations when you need to use the shoulder of an eight lane freeway. Notice they spend the extra money to put the shoulder in.
Did you try it under WINE? Don't give up so easily! Perhaps with Crossover Virus? They give a free trial, if vanilla WINE doesn't do it, that's your best bet.
All the mirrors I've checked have placeholders.back-RSN.README, just like the ones at ftp.gnu.org.
Looks like they don't know how long ago the break-in was, so they pulled the mirrors to be safe.
Would the civilians of Tokyo or Dresden be glad that the US didn't nuke them? I doubt it, because more of them died as a result of conventional weapons than died in Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
Polycarb = 1.589, and since it is flat on both sides, it has zero refractive power, so its index of refraction means absolutely nothing.
If you can't get on the last row, skip Raging Bull and head over to Viper... the further back the better. On those bumps at the end you feel like your head is going to fly off and land in the queues.
And god help you if you want to get PSO for your gamecube... the modem and ethernet adapter are just about impossible to get right now because of Nintendo's underproduction of the damn things, and don't even get me started on the keyboard issue...
Here in Kenosha you could probably hit a diagonal and make it back to the right intersection, assuming it hasn't ripped up for the last 7 months and right turns are allowed.
the blue or purple stuff you put on your car windows is glycol and blue or purple dye, no ammonia at all. same reason eyeglass cleaner is made out of isopropyl alcohol. ammonia is pretty bad for some plastics, plus the alcohols evaporate fairly quickly.