the entire broadcast schedule might be nothing but sci-fi shows, tween-lit adaptions and whatever Joss Whedon wants to do
I'm not so sure about the "tween-lit adaptions", but as for the rest i'm not seeing any problem here, other than that i might want to subscribe to cable again. And is having a compelling enough line-up to make me want to subscribe really a problem?
At the university where i work, we use "professional_name.family_name" and if there is a collision, then try "given_name.family_name" and then "professional_name.middle_initial.family_name" and finally "given_name.middle_initial.family_name". And if *all* of those conflict, then we use the first one but add a number to the end of it to make it unique, and generate an exception report so that someone will be made aware of it and can contact the user in question to work out some arrangement for a unique e-mail address that doesn't include a number. Unless they like the number, of course, in which case they could keep it. This system works fairly well; we only have a handful of people to contact each year.
As an example, suppose there is an individual named Jonathan P. Smith who usually goes by "Jon". In that case, we'd try addresses in this order: jon.smith jonathan.smith jon.p.smith jonathan.p.smith jon.smith2 jon.smith3 jon.smith4...and so on until a unique address was found. Note that in the latter cases that have a number, Jon would be contacted by phone to work out an alternate address of his preference.
I think wind turbines are pretty cool. Where can i sign up to have one put in my back yard? Seriously, let me have free power for my home and i'll gladly let the power company use the land for free.
For copyright, how about automatic copyright for 1 year. After that, it has to be renewed for another year. But, the first renewal is only $0.01. Each renewal after that is twice the previous year's renewal fee. So, for example: YEAR COST 1 free! 2 $0.01 3 $0.02 4 $0.04 5 $0.08 10 $2.56 20 $2621.44 30 $2684354.56 40 $2748779069.44 Most works would revert to the public domain in less than 20 years. Works that were still profitable might remain locked up for another decade or so, but anything 40 or more years old would be public domain unless the owner was both insanely rich and insane in their spending habits.
I've asked for a refund on the remainder of my subscription. The site is ugly and unusable now. I'll just have to get tech news from other sources. Too bad; i enjoyed Slashdot for many years.
What software can rip DVDs while preserving the subtitles correctly? I don't mean HandBrake's style of "hard burning" the subtitles into the image. I want all of the subtitle tracks copied and stored in the same MKV container as the video and audio track(s) so that i have the option of turning the subtitles on and off just as i do with the original DVD.
Build it yourself with "server grade" components. My previous machine was almost 10 years old when i retired it. It had 0 hardware failures in that time, and i retired it only because i wanted something with better performance. The previous machine was a SuperMicro motherboard with dual Pentium II-450, 1/2 GB ECC RAM, and SCSI hard disk.
I'm sure my previous machine would have lasted another 5 years if i'd really wanted to run it for 15 years. The other thing i do is about once per year shut the machine down, open it up, and clean out all the dust. At that time i also check that the fans are all functional and replace any that aren't. Really, though, as long as you don't let fans get overly clogged with dust and you don't buy the cheapest ones they are fairly reliable and will usually run for years. If the machine is placed on the floor, it should probably be cleaned more than once per year as it will suck in more dust than if it is placed higher.
My current machine was built with a similar philosophy as to the previous one, and i expect it also to last about 10 years before it is too slow for my taste. Again i used a SuperMicro motherboard and ECC RAM, but this time with SATA instead of SCSI disk. However, i chose one of the "server" SATA disks that is basically disk built to the same standards usually associated with SCSI, but with an SATA interface. That required giving up some capacity (it is only 74 GB), but it is large enough for my needs since i'm not storing multimedia on it. I added the additional requirement of wanting my current machine to be quiet, so i replaced the heat sinks on motherboard and CPU with larger versions, and then used large fans that spin slowly.
Sending an astronaut is many times as expensive, since we need more safety, need to keep the astronaut alive during the long trip over, and need to bring the astronaut back.
Why? Why not send the first astronauts on 1-way trips? Of course it would be a suicide mission, but i'm sure there would be plenty of volunteers. Rather than spend the resources to bring them back, use the same resources to send enough supplies that the astronaut is able to live on the surface of Mars for several years.
There's no reason you can't have a low-altitude satellite that is also geosynchronous. It is just going to take a lot of fuel to keep it in that orbit. Namely, it will need a constant thrust pointed at the Earth to keep it from falling. The fuel requirements make it unfeasible to have such a satellite remain in place for more than a few minutes with current technology, but that doesn't mean it is physically impossible.
I think that the GUI experience was better like 10 years ago under Linux with things like AfterStep and WindowMaker, and Enlightenment.
You can pry AfterStep from my cold, dead hands. I still use it daily as my primary window manager. It is fast regardless of the hardware, and the way virtual desktops work is better than any other.
Why the heck did i get modded troll? The site i linked to loads quickly (despite being ubuntu.com) and lists all the torrents. I'm currently downloading the DVD versions using the torrents i grabbed on the site i linked to.
I found a nice page for downloading all the.torrent files that doesn't seem to be overwhelmed yet. It even lists torrents for the 8.04 DVD and PowerPC versions! http://torrent.ubuntu.com:6969/
I've been working with Perl in some fashion for close to a decade. I occasionally use sed or awk, but have not mastered them. So bear in mind that my differing level of experience with the different tools most certainly clouds my judgement.
I would recommend you move up to Perl. Whenever i have to use sed or awk i find them to be quite limiting. Regular expressions don't seem quite as powerful as those in Perl (and if you can master Perl's regular expressions you'll probably love the language). Some of the basic Unix utilities are also noticeably slower than Perl. A few weeks ago i was searching for some plain strings in a very large (multiple gigabytes) file, and naturally i used grep. But grep was taking a very long time. I switched to processing the file with a trivial "perl -ne 'print if/regex/'" and the search went several times faster. I'm not sure why grep has a slow regular expression parser. I have not tested performance of sed and awk against Perl, but i'd not be surprised if they do not fare well either.
That said, if Python is more your thing, go for it. I've wanted to learn Python, but i've gotten used to Perl's CPAN. The other thing that keeps me on Perl is its regular expression parser is so powerful. I've tried doing regex in other languages and it always seems painful by comparison.
I wouldn't say that Perl isn't suited for larger applications. I've written a few multi-thousand line applications that are still easy to maintain. Granted, depending on what you are doing, a few thousands lines might be small to you. For the programming i do (system administration stuff mostly), full applications like that are rather large.
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That Dune reference should probably be modded "funny", not "insightful".
My understanding (and please correct me if i am mistaken) is that worms and viruses infect a system through self-replication without the user's consent. While trojan horses require action on the part of the user. You seem to be confusing trojan horses with viruses. Granted, most so-called "anti-virus" software developed in the last few years also attempts to stop trojan horses.
Like you i am in the US and have looked at the European Linux magazines. They are often better than US magazines in terms of their content, but the price has always been a deterrent. However, they usually have fewer ads than US magazines, and the ads they do have are less obnoxious. That almost makes it worth the high price.
I've recently discovered that vegetable oil works very well for removing stickers from just about anything: wood, metal, plastic, etc. It doesn't matter what type of vegetable oil. I suppose if you wanted to be pretentious you could use extra virgin olive oil, but any liquid cooking oil seems to work. Peel or scrape off the sticker as best you can, then rub oil on the remaining residue. I usually use a cotton swab and just have to lightly rub the gum or glue a bit with oil and the sticky stuff lifts right off.
The article was about removing stickers from a cell phone; i'd advise taking extra care putting oil on something so small so that the oil doesn't get inside. The nice thing about using oil is that it is just food, so you don't have to worry about dealing with toxic solvents. And it is easy to clean up the excess with a rag.
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Am i the only one who initially read the title as "Asshat Petitions FCC To Deny Pandora's Purchase of Radio Station"?
I'm not so sure about the "tween-lit adaptions", but as for the rest i'm not seeing any problem here, other than that i might want to subscribe to cable again. And is having a compelling enough line-up to make me want to subscribe really a problem?
At the university where i work, we use "professional_name.family_name" and if there is a collision, then try "given_name.family_name" and then "professional_name.middle_initial.family_name" and finally "given_name.middle_initial.family_name". And if *all* of those conflict, then we use the first one but add a number to the end of it to make it unique, and generate an exception report so that someone will be made aware of it and can contact the user in question to work out some arrangement for a unique e-mail address that doesn't include a number. Unless they like the number, of course, in which case they could keep it. This system works fairly well; we only have a handful of people to contact each year.
As an example, suppose there is an individual named Jonathan P. Smith who usually goes by "Jon". In that case, we'd try addresses in this order: ...and so on until a unique address was found. Note that in the latter cases that have a number, Jon would be contacted by phone to work out an alternate address of his preference.
jon.smith
jonathan.smith
jon.p.smith
jonathan.p.smith
jon.smith2
jon.smith3
jon.smith4
I think wind turbines are pretty cool. Where can i sign up to have one put in my back yard? Seriously, let me have free power for my home and i'll gladly let the power company use the land for free.
For copyright, how about automatic copyright for 1 year. After that, it has to be renewed for another year. But, the first renewal is only $0.01. Each renewal after that is twice the previous year's renewal fee. So, for example:
YEAR COST
1 free!
2 $0.01
3 $0.02
4 $0.04
5 $0.08
10 $2.56
20 $2621.44
30 $2684354.56
40 $2748779069.44
Most works would revert to the public domain in less than 20 years. Works that were still profitable might remain locked up for another decade or so, but anything 40 or more years old would be public domain unless the owner was both insanely rich and insane in their spending habits.
Can you imagine toyota demanding a transfer fee or the right of first refusal when you want to sell your car?
I'd be quite surprised if Toyota were to do that, since i own a Nissan.
I've asked for a refund on the remainder of my subscription. The site is ugly and unusable now. I'll just have to get tech news from other sources. Too bad; i enjoyed Slashdot for many years.
61% of Americans are stupid. Film at 11.
What software can rip DVDs while preserving the subtitles correctly? I don't mean HandBrake's style of "hard burning" the subtitles into the image. I want all of the subtitle tracks copied and stored in the same MKV container as the video and audio track(s) so that i have the option of turning the subtitles on and off just as i do with the original DVD.
Build it yourself with "server grade" components. My previous machine was almost 10 years old when i retired it. It had 0 hardware failures in that time, and i retired it only because i wanted something with better performance. The previous machine was a SuperMicro motherboard with dual Pentium II-450, 1/2 GB ECC RAM, and SCSI hard disk.
I'm sure my previous machine would have lasted another 5 years if i'd really wanted to run it for 15 years. The other thing i do is about once per year shut the machine down, open it up, and clean out all the dust. At that time i also check that the fans are all functional and replace any that aren't. Really, though, as long as you don't let fans get overly clogged with dust and you don't buy the cheapest ones they are fairly reliable and will usually run for years. If the machine is placed on the floor, it should probably be cleaned more than once per year as it will suck in more dust than if it is placed higher.
My current machine was built with a similar philosophy as to the previous one, and i expect it also to last about 10 years before it is too slow for my taste. Again i used a SuperMicro motherboard and ECC RAM, but this time with SATA instead of SCSI disk. However, i chose one of the "server" SATA disks that is basically disk built to the same standards usually associated with SCSI, but with an SATA interface. That required giving up some capacity (it is only 74 GB), but it is large enough for my needs since i'm not storing multimedia on it. I added the additional requirement of wanting my current machine to be quiet, so i replaced the heat sinks on motherboard and CPU with larger versions, and then used large fans that spin slowly.
Sending an astronaut is many times as expensive, since we need more safety, need to keep the astronaut alive during the long trip over, and need to bring the astronaut back.
Why? Why not send the first astronauts on 1-way trips? Of course it would be a suicide mission, but i'm sure there would be plenty of volunteers. Rather than spend the resources to bring them back, use the same resources to send enough supplies that the astronaut is able to live on the surface of Mars for several years.
I prefer this slight modification because it strips comments that don't start in the first column:
egrep -v '^\s*(#|$)' inputfile | less
There's no reason you can't have a low-altitude satellite that is also geosynchronous. It is just going to take a lot of fuel to keep it in that orbit. Namely, it will need a constant thrust pointed at the Earth to keep it from falling. The fuel requirements make it unfeasible to have such a satellite remain in place for more than a few minutes with current technology, but that doesn't mean it is physically impossible.
Why the heck did i get modded troll? The site i linked to loads quickly (despite being ubuntu.com) and lists all the torrents. I'm currently downloading the DVD versions using the torrents i grabbed on the site i linked to.
I found a nice page for downloading all the .torrent files that doesn't seem to be overwhelmed yet. It even lists torrents for the 8.04 DVD and PowerPC versions!
http://torrent.ubuntu.com:6969/
Digital Consumer Entrapment
I've been working with Perl in some fashion for close to a decade. I occasionally use sed or awk, but have not mastered them. So bear in mind that my differing level of experience with the different tools most certainly clouds my judgement.
I would recommend you move up to Perl. Whenever i have to use sed or awk i find them to be quite limiting. Regular expressions don't seem quite as powerful as those in Perl (and if you can master Perl's regular expressions you'll probably love the language). Some of the basic Unix utilities are also noticeably slower than Perl. A few weeks ago i was searching for some plain strings in a very large (multiple gigabytes) file, and naturally i used grep. But grep was taking a very long time. I switched to processing the file with a trivial "perl -ne 'print if /regex/'" and the search went several times faster. I'm not sure why grep has a slow regular expression parser. I have not tested performance of sed and awk against Perl, but i'd not be surprised if they do not fare well either.
That said, if Python is more your thing, go for it. I've wanted to learn Python, but i've gotten used to Perl's CPAN. The other thing that keeps me on Perl is its regular expression parser is so powerful. I've tried doing regex in other languages and it always seems painful by comparison.
I wouldn't say that Perl isn't suited for larger applications. I've written a few multi-thousand line applications that are still easy to maintain. Granted, depending on what you are doing, a few thousands lines might be small to you. For the programming i do (system administration stuff mostly), full applications like that are rather large.
That Dune reference should probably be modded "funny", not "insightful".
My understanding (and please correct me if i am mistaken) is that worms and viruses infect a system through self-replication without the user's consent. While trojan horses require action on the part of the user. You seem to be confusing trojan horses with viruses. Granted, most so-called "anti-virus" software developed in the last few years also attempts to stop trojan horses.
Like you i am in the US and have looked at the European Linux magazines. They are often better than US magazines in terms of their content, but the price has always been a deterrent. However, they usually have fewer ads than US magazines, and the ads they do have are less obnoxious. That almost makes it worth the high price.
You must really be new here!
I've recently discovered that vegetable oil works very well for removing stickers from just about anything: wood, metal, plastic, etc. It doesn't matter what type of vegetable oil. I suppose if you wanted to be pretentious you could use extra virgin olive oil, but any liquid cooking oil seems to work. Peel or scrape off the sticker as best you can, then rub oil on the remaining residue. I usually use a cotton swab and just have to lightly rub the gum or glue a bit with oil and the sticky stuff lifts right off.
The article was about removing stickers from a cell phone; i'd advise taking extra care putting oil on something so small so that the oil doesn't get inside. The nice thing about using oil is that it is just food, so you don't have to worry about dealing with toxic solvents. And it is easy to clean up the excess with a rag.
The internet is not a big truck! It's a series of tubes!
I like what passes for "Informative" on Slashdot.