I've pretty much sworn off all European languages now in favor of Japanese which at least makes some sense (what do you mean chair is feminine?!)
No matter what they say about Japanese being a "hard" language, in my experience, there are only two hard parts of it: 1) if you want to read it, you've basically got to learn to read all over again, and 2) a much larger basic vocabulary because of the various politeness/formatlity levels. I mean, seriously, it's really no harder to pronounce than Spanish (if you'll take a moment to learn that hyu and ryu are single sounds), and it's only got like (IIRC) 2 1/2 irregular verbs. (two fully irregular, one with a single irregular form, and eight or so honorifics with a consistently different conjugation) And "language lab" material is easily acquired in the Anime section of Best Buy.
In contrast is Esperanto, which has delusions of being an "international" language, while carrying a bunch of pointless Eastern European baggage.
I just RTFblurb... the point was to have the browser do skinning based on the web site being visited. Which still doesn't help when the user is not using his/her normal computer, and still takes effort to set up the skinning.
If the idea is to skin a user's page on a given web site where they might be phished (like a banking web site), then it won't really help, because the proper skin can't be applied until after a user has logged in, and by then it's already too late! I suppose it might be possible to store that in a cookie, but that would assume that the user never connects from a "fresh" computer that hasn't been used with the site before. And then there are the redirection attacks which make use of a bug in the web site itself to make the phishing site look more legit.
Re:And this is indeed a serious problem with EBay.
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How to Win on Ebay: Snipe
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One other thing to consider is that some people may not feel comfortable putting in their true highest bid when they snipe, if they don't think they need to. So the last time I was in a snipe-war, I did double-sniping, with a reasonable bid at 10 or seconds so left, then my true maximum bid at 5 seconds or so left, already prepared in another browser tab waiting for a click on the "bid" button. I lost the auction, but that was because there were two snipers, one willing to pay way more than my absolute maximum.
At least I had the satisfaction that it didn't sell for less than I would have paid for it.
Yes, they tell you to fuck off very quickly. Ever hear of a UDMA data corruption issue with the Revision 1 B&W G3?
Because of course a seven-year old model is a useful example of Apple in 2006. Does your Mac also take 17 minutes to copy a file? These days you can just open it up and look for the 402 chip before you spend $50 on one.
I currently have the issue [zdnet.com] where the machine simply turns off when the battery has reached around 30-40%, according to the operating system's battery meter.
That's probably "just" your battery dying prematurely. When I noticed that happening to my Pismo in late 2001, just as the warranty was expiring, it had reached the point where its battery went straight from 75% to 1%. A spare battery purchased later also died in a similar way, and a third battery from BTI refuses to charge more than 15-30%. I got Applecare with the 17" G4 that replaced it, and its battery (and the spare I bought when it was new) seem to be doing fine, though I don't normally operate off-grid below the 50% point.
(crossing my fingers as I'm about to get an MBP17 in the next week or two)
My G5 will last me until the second generation of Intel-powered desktop machines.
Unless its coolantleaks first. The best part is its toxic green color. I think I'll stick with my G4 Windtunnel (and its four drive bays) for a bit longer.
I thought this article was about laser-eye surgery, as opposed to laser eye surgery. Meaning I could FINALLY get surgery allowing me to shoot lasers out of my eyes. Like Superman. I've never been so disappointed in my life.
Actually, that would be laser-eye surgery, as in surgery performed by people with laser eyes. Like Superman or that guy from the X-Men. Keep dreaming, you weak non-mutant.
That argument goes both ways. By wearing glasses, my eyes are always protected from flying splinters and sparks when cutting wood or metal, from twigs and thorns when I walk in dense vegetation, etc.
Exactly. And plastic lenses are made from the same stuff as safety goggles (and CDs) anyhow, it's just that most glasses don't give you side protection.
When I was a teenager, I was playing with TTL chips and once accidentally connected a LED directly between +5 volts and ground. The top of it instantly popped off and bounced off my glasses. And my current glasses have two small chips in them, one of which I know was from when a tool I was holding slipped and hit them.
I don't expect them to really do it, but I sure would like to see a cartridge reader accessory (one per cartridge type would be fine), like how the N64 had the ability to read GameBoy cartridges. The real problem would be non-savvy users getting angry when a cartridge doesn't work, either because the contacts are dirty or because it does something weird that the emulator gets wrong.
It would be really sad if the primary reason they didn't do it was because someone might turn it into a generic cartridge dumper, because basically everything has been dumped already.
Oh yeah, and it would also be cool if it could have CD system emulators too, like for Turbo CD, Neo Geo CD, and Sega CD. (Then you could play all of ten or so of the good Sega CD games, most of which go for $50 or more anyhow! Wiiii!)
Betamax failed as general public format but went on to become the industry standard for semi-pro and professional low end equipment.
The semi-pro/pro format is Betacam, not Betamax. Same tape size, different format. Betacam records chroma and luma as two separate stripes, which means it uses tape twice as fast.
A stronger border is what Americans want and it's what our security demands and that is what Texas is going to deliver,' Mr Perry said.
Hooray for election years!
For those of you either living under a rock or outside Texas, there's an election coming up for governor, and we have two independent candidates competing along with the usual party candidates.
I can say from experience that writing programs for PPC is a whole new ball game when you're used to x86, and I can only imagine emulating x86 code on PPC being somewhere along the lines of a total nightmare.
Never mind the little bit of trivia that a few years ago, MS bought out a company that was emulating x86 on a PowerMac, and doing it decently enough that it should be able to emulate a 600 MHz celeron on a 3.2GHz PPC.
(Actually, a more important problem is that they changed GPUs, so shader programs and other stuff are not directly compatible.)
Of course Paramount had to screw it up somehow, which they did by not putting in chapter stops... so to reach the second episode of each side you either have to fast forward 22 minutes, or punch in a seek to 22 minutes.
HDMI is also completely irrelevant if you only want to play games on your games console. The HDMI encryption is not and never will be needed to play games in HD.
And for those whining "what about two years from now when I max out my credit card to get a big-ass plasma TV set?", I say buy one of the $100 BR players which will probably have better features by then anyhow. I have never used a PS2 or an Xbox as a DVD player, and I never will use a PS3 or X360 to play HD video discs.
If you have more complex elements, work your way down to Hydrogen with Fusion.
Actually, you work your way toward iron from either direction. The farther away from iron that you start, the easier it is to get a net gain in energy. Fusion is best with hydrogen and helium, and fission is best with heavy elements like uranium, plutonium, and thorium.
You can do fission with light elements (except for hydrogen-1 of course) and fusion with heavier elements, but you have to put in more energy than you get out. This is why stars die out.
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I've pretty much sworn off all European languages now in favor of Japanese which at least makes some sense (what do you mean chair is feminine?!)
No matter what they say about Japanese being a "hard" language, in my experience, there are only two hard parts of it: 1) if you want to read it, you've basically got to learn to read all over again, and 2) a much larger basic vocabulary because of the various politeness/formatlity levels. I mean, seriously, it's really no harder to pronounce than Spanish (if you'll take a moment to learn that hyu and ryu are single sounds), and it's only got like (IIRC) 2 1/2 irregular verbs. (two fully irregular, one with a single irregular form, and eight or so honorifics with a consistently different conjugation) And "language lab" material is easily acquired in the Anime section of Best Buy.
In contrast is Esperanto, which has delusions of being an "international" language, while carrying a bunch of pointless Eastern European baggage.
I just RTFblurb... the point was to have the browser do skinning based on the web site being visited. Which still doesn't help when the user is not using his/her normal computer, and still takes effort to set up the skinning.
If the idea is to skin a user's page on a given web site where they might be phished (like a banking web site), then it won't really help, because the proper skin can't be applied until after a user has logged in, and by then it's already too late! I suppose it might be possible to store that in a cookie, but that would assume that the user never connects from a "fresh" computer that hasn't been used with the site before. And then there are the redirection attacks which make use of a bug in the web site itself to make the phishing site look more legit.
One other thing to consider is that some people may not feel comfortable putting in their true highest bid when they snipe, if they don't think they need to. So the last time I was in a snipe-war, I did double-sniping, with a reasonable bid at 10 or seconds so left, then my true maximum bid at 5 seconds or so left, already prepared in another browser tab waiting for a click on the "bid" button. I lost the auction, but that was because there were two snipers, one willing to pay way more than my absolute maximum.
At least I had the satisfaction that it didn't sell for less than I would have paid for it.
I predict the winner will be... DVD!
Yes, they tell you to fuck off very quickly. Ever hear of a UDMA data corruption issue with the Revision 1 B&W G3?
Because of course a seven-year old model is a useful example of Apple in 2006. Does your Mac also take 17 minutes to copy a file? These days you can just open it up and look for the 402 chip before you spend $50 on one.
I currently have the issue [zdnet.com] where the machine simply turns off when the battery has reached around 30-40%, according to the operating system's battery meter.
That's probably "just" your battery dying prematurely. When I noticed that happening to my Pismo in late 2001, just as the warranty was expiring, it had reached the point where its battery went straight from 75% to 1%. A spare battery purchased later also died in a similar way, and a third battery from BTI refuses to charge more than 15-30%. I got Applecare with the 17" G4 that replaced it, and its battery (and the spare I bought when it was new) seem to be doing fine, though I don't normally operate off-grid below the 50% point.
(crossing my fingers as I'm about to get an MBP17 in the next week or two)
My G5 will last me until the second generation of Intel-powered desktop machines.
Unless its coolant leaks first. The best part is its toxic green color. I think I'll stick with my G4 Windtunnel (and its four drive bays) for a bit longer.
I thought this article was about laser-eye surgery, as opposed to laser eye surgery. Meaning I could FINALLY get surgery allowing me to shoot lasers out of my eyes. Like Superman. I've never been so disappointed in my life.
Actually, that would be laser-eye surgery, as in surgery performed by people with laser eyes. Like Superman or that guy from the X-Men. Keep dreaming, you weak non-mutant.
That argument goes both ways. By wearing glasses, my eyes are always protected from flying splinters and sparks when cutting wood or metal, from twigs and thorns when I walk in dense vegetation, etc.
Exactly. And plastic lenses are made from the same stuff as safety goggles (and CDs) anyhow, it's just that most glasses don't give you side protection.
When I was a teenager, I was playing with TTL chips and once accidentally connected a LED directly between +5 volts and ground. The top of it instantly popped off and bounced off my glasses. And my current glasses have two small chips in them, one of which I know was from when a tool I was holding slipped and hit them.
The SNES wasn't reading the cartridges, the adapter was. The adapter was a nearly complete GameBoy which merely used the SNES as an I/O slave.
Please, don't go insulting two wonderful foods by comparing them with gamer funk.
It would be really sad if the primary reason they didn't do it was because someone might turn it into a generic cartridge dumper, because basically everything has been dumped already.
Oh yeah, and it would also be cool if it could have CD system emulators too, like for Turbo CD, Neo Geo CD, and Sega CD. (Then you could play all of ten or so of the good Sega CD games, most of which go for $50 or more anyhow! Wiiii!)
Betamax failed as general public format but went on to become the industry standard for semi-pro and professional low end equipment.
The semi-pro/pro format is Betacam, not Betamax. Same tape size, different format. Betacam records chroma and luma as two separate stripes, which means it uses tape twice as fast.
"Smells like a steak, seats thirty-five... Caynonero! Caynonero!"
Hooray for election years!
For those of you either living under a rock or outside Texas, there's an election coming up for governor, and we have two independent candidates competing along with the usual party candidates.
Never mind the little bit of trivia that a few years ago, MS bought out a company that was emulating x86 on a PowerMac, and doing it decently enough that it should be able to emulate a 600 MHz celeron on a 3.2GHz PPC.
(Actually, a more important problem is that they changed GPUs, so shader programs and other stuff are not directly compatible.)
The hell with that, when did they evolve buffalo wings?
So is this guy any relation to one miss Anne Elk?
That being said, Sony's gun, meet Sony's foot.
My laserdisc box set says that you are wrong.
Of course Paramount had to screw it up somehow, which they did by not putting in chapter stops... so to reach the second episode of each side you either have to fast forward 22 minutes, or punch in a seek to 22 minutes.
And for those whining "what about two years from now when I max out my credit card to get a big-ass plasma TV set?", I say buy one of the $100 BR players which will probably have better features by then anyhow. I have never used a PS2 or an Xbox as a DVD player, and I never will use a PS3 or X360 to play HD video discs.
I think he meant "lukewarm claims about fusion".
Actually, you work your way toward iron from either direction. The farther away from iron that you start, the easier it is to get a net gain in energy. Fusion is best with hydrogen and helium, and fission is best with heavy elements like uranium, plutonium, and thorium.
You can do fission with light elements (except for hydrogen-1 of course) and fusion with heavier elements, but you have to put in more energy than you get out. This is why stars die out.
I went to all that trouble to look it up, when slashdot (probably automatically) had already linked it as a "related story".