Not just cell phones, but all means of technology. Have you seen the kinds of robots they have over there? The ones that are captained from a cockpit inside the head of the 6 story-high transforming bot? Why haven't we got any of that?
If there are 12 tracks, then playing back any given track (in this case, the same track) is 1 in 12. It's one in 11 only if I can't choose the same track.:)
Very few people want to hear the same song repeated immediately after each other. If they did, they would've put the song on repeat. Hence it's not intelligent.
Now if they'd play the songs I like back to back, that might be more intelligent, but since I personally can't stand listening to ANY song back to back, it's not intelligent enough for me.
Still better than the day of the tape though--I'd predict the order of the songs after about 2 or 3 listens of the tape.
Yes, but how many of them do that intelligently? My car's Kenwood deck, for instance, may play two tracks back to back because on a 12 track disk, there's a 1 in 12 chance of that happenning.
Funny, I saw more posts that echoed your sentiment last year than this year. Are you sure it's not that you EXPECTED jokes this year, and said to yourself, YAWN? Satire's sometimes funnier if you don't expect it.
I thought they were pretty clever this year. No more clever than last year or the year before, but no less.
I'd imagine that the tracks would have to be fenced off to prevent anybody from tampering with the tracks. Hitting a bird or any other animal at that speed would definitely cause some serious damage. I'm sure the train would be damaged too.
For a limited time only, I have an Apple IIe for sale. Comes with all original hardware. Advertised as the best thing since the Apple I. The Apple I sells for $200, as raved about in this recent Slashdot article so I think a fair asking price is $400. Will include external floppy drive and box of 5 1/4 floppies.
Will clean out cookie crumbs from keyboard on request (or can leave them in for that "nostalgic" feel.
The only way to play back from a MiniDisk is with an analog plug;
You make it sound like recording in analog isn't good enough for a lecture. It's probably good enough for anything--the fact that you record with a mic is probably the limiting factor in the quality of your recording.
If you ever need to record anything live, use MD...you'll never look back to cassette. Digital quality that doesn't degrade with play...track manipulation and deletion on the device itself...track naming on the device itself...it's actually quite versatile.
If you ever pay attention to what reporters use on the news, you'll see that a large portion of them use MD portables with a mini-mic for their interviews.
The thing is, you wouldn't know the Sun disappeared till 8 minutes after the fact anyways. Wouldn't it be so cool that here we are whizzing off into space for 8 minutes while the sun is still shining brightly.
"What's this strange force pulling us off into space?" "It's actually the lack of the sun's gravity. The sun must've disappeared!" "Let's enjoy the last 8 minutes of sunlight while we can! Woohooo!"
ATI TV software works. Camera (and photo editing) software works. The odd time I get a MS Word doc, I can open it no prob.
So the question is, why should I use Linux when these are my main applications? I don't have time to figure out how to update my system to the latest development libraries to compile the latest sound drivers (yes, the alsa drivers for my motherboard don't work), and I've done the research for the TV Tuner card (basically, drivers exist, but application software doesn't). Although the effort to make linux work as well as Windows 98 (what i use) may pay off one day, I've got other things going on in my life and simply can't afford the time.
Yes, I agree...navigating/. without a mouse wheel is just creating a fertile environment for carpal tunnel and other nasty pains to set in.
However, my next favorite feature (though not nearly as popular) is the wheel button. Assign it to doubleclick (which you do much more often then click-scroll) to give your index finger a few more years of life.
The interface used at www.mailandnews.com used to be just a demo for the mail package (POP/IMAP/phone/web) that they had available. Unfortunately, I can't find any info on that anymore, but if you're really interested in it, send them an email.
Preconditions: You're on a plane, and have a drink in a cup that's close to full (about a cm off the top is fine) Assumptions: the pilot is sane and sober; the plane is a commercial aircraft not designed for stuff like flying sideways Normal expectation: when the plane banks to one side, the water would spill out of the cup Observed behaviour: water level will remain parallel to that of the plane, and hence the table that the cup is on, and therefore won't spill.
I noticed this a few years ago, and reasoned thusly: Other than the rudder of the aircraft, the plane has very little lateral resistance. When the plane turns, it banks at an angle to balance out the centripetal forces created by the plane's turning. To the people on the plane (and the beverage), this is simply an increased downward force, but looking out the window, it appears the plane is tilted.
Of course, if the plane runs into turbulence, the drink may spill.
The key to web design is to design with your target in mind. Asking us what's good for web design would only be useful if you were designing another slashdot site. For example, if you're designing for kids, you wouldn't have to worry so much about supporting Netscape on Unix platforms. Likewise, it wouldn't be appropriate to ask kids how to design a slashdot site:)
And, NO, I don't buy all the "God Fixed It"s. If it's true, it can be proven scientifically.
The way I reason it, is, if it can be proved scientifically, then there's no reason to have God. The point of there being a god (not just a Christian God) is to help people explain things that just don't have an obvious rationale behind it. If somebody were able to scientifically explain the Great Flood, I don't think that would convince either you or anybody else of a reality of a Greater Being.
It's like any of the other miracles presented in the Bible. They're called "miracles" because they're unexplainable by scientific means. I don't think your issue (I don't mean this in a negative way) is believing in whether there is a god, but believing whether miracles can really happen. Only if you believe in miracles can you start accepting that some other being is at work.
I was just looking around for some snowboard info today, and came across this site.
Salomon Snowboards. Click on it if you want, so that they realize what the slashdot effect is like on a bulky flash app.
The entire site is in Flash. There's no way to copy and paste info from it. No way to bookmark an existing page. Navigation to a specific section takes seconds longer than a regular site (and I'm not talking about waiting for the info to download--i'm just waiting for the graphics to animate!). If people wanted to see reactive animation, they'd play video games. I used to be able to say that you need nothing faster than a cheap pentium system to surf the web. You can no longer say it with these website monstrosities.
The Find utility is the best feature of Windows' file management system (over Win31 or DOS). It's great to be able to search through a directory of 100 files and immediately find files you need based on the content or name of those files.
A better solution for finding all files ending in *bak is to sort your directory by file type (in Windows Explorer), then simply select all the *.bak files and del.
When I first started using XWindows (being from the Windows world), I put up a screenshot of my windows desktop as the background, and set my commmand prompt to be "c:\", just to make me feel more at home.
Slashdot Mirror
Not just cell phones, but all means of technology. Have you seen the kinds of robots they have over there? The ones that are captained from a cockpit inside the head of the 6 story-high transforming bot? Why haven't we got any of that?
If there are 12 tracks, then playing back any given track (in this case, the same track) is 1 in 12. It's one in 11 only if I can't choose the same track. :)
Very few people want to hear the same song repeated immediately after each other. If they did, they would've put the song on repeat. Hence it's not intelligent.
Now if they'd play the songs I like back to back, that might be more intelligent, but since I personally can't stand listening to ANY song back to back, it's not intelligent enough for me.
Still better than the day of the tape though--I'd predict the order of the songs after about 2 or 3 listens of the tape.
Yes, but how many of them do that intelligently? My car's Kenwood deck, for instance, may play two tracks back to back because on a 12 track disk, there's a 1 in 12 chance of that happenning.
First time I've seen a "Mod parent up" as Insightful. Let's see if I can ride that wave...
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This year's crop blows.
Funny, I saw more posts that echoed your sentiment last year than this year. Are you sure it's not that you EXPECTED jokes this year, and said to yourself, YAWN? Satire's sometimes funnier if you don't expect it.
I thought they were pretty clever this year. No more clever than last year or the year before, but no less.
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I'd imagine that the tracks would have to be fenced off to prevent anybody from tampering with the tracks. Hitting a bird or any other animal at that speed would definitely cause some serious damage. I'm sure the train would be damaged too.
That's the most cruel thing I ever heard. I can hear the tiny yelps and screams as the mice are boiled and de-haired.
This was a joke, not an actual For Sale ad. Gosh darnit.
For a limited time only, I have an Apple IIe for sale. Comes with all original hardware. Advertised as the best thing since the Apple I. The Apple I sells for $200, as raved about in this recent Slashdot article so I think a fair asking price is $400. Will include external floppy drive and box of 5 1/4 floppies.
Will clean out cookie crumbs from keyboard on request (or can leave them in for that "nostalgic" feel.
Serious bidders only.
The only way to play back from a MiniDisk is with an analog plug;
You make it sound like recording in analog isn't good enough for a lecture. It's probably good enough for anything--the fact that you record with a mic is probably the limiting factor in the quality of your recording.
If you ever need to record anything live, use MD...you'll never look back to cassette. Digital quality that doesn't degrade with play...track manipulation and deletion on the device itself...track naming on the device itself...it's actually quite versatile.
If you ever pay attention to what reporters use on the news, you'll see that a large portion of them use MD portables with a mini-mic for their interviews.
<tim><
The thing is, you wouldn't know the Sun disappeared till 8 minutes after the fact anyways. Wouldn't it be so cool that here we are whizzing off into space for 8 minutes while the sun is still shining brightly.
"What's this strange force pulling us off into space?"
"It's actually the lack of the sun's gravity. The sun must've disappeared!"
"Let's enjoy the last 8 minutes of sunlight while we can! Woohooo!"
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> If that hadn't come I think we'd probably hit
:)
> the GHz barrier about now, certainly not 3GHz.
Not if I have a mac. Recent FoxTrot
No need for an offtopic mac rant to follow this post
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Then you'd tell everybody, "Talk to the hand".
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Ditto on that.
ATI TV software works.
Camera (and photo editing) software works.
The odd time I get a MS Word doc, I can open it no prob.
So the question is, why should I use Linux when these are my main applications? I don't have time to figure out how to update my system to the latest development libraries to compile the latest sound drivers (yes, the alsa drivers for my motherboard don't work), and I've done the research for the TV Tuner card (basically, drivers exist, but application software doesn't). Although the effort to make linux work as well as Windows 98 (what i use) may pay off one day, I've got other things going on in my life and simply can't afford the time.
<tim><
Yes, I agree...navigating /. without a mouse wheel is just creating a fertile environment for carpal tunnel and other nasty pains to set in.
However, my next favorite feature (though not nearly as popular) is the wheel button. Assign it to doubleclick (which you do much more often then click-scroll) to give your index finger a few more years of life.
<tim><
The interface used at www.mailandnews.com used to be just a demo for the mail package (POP/IMAP/phone/web) that they had available. Unfortunately, I can't find any info on that anymore, but if you're really interested in it, send them an email.
<tim><
Preconditions: You're on a plane, and have a drink in a cup that's close to full (about a cm off the top is fine)
Assumptions: the pilot is sane and sober; the plane is a commercial aircraft not designed for stuff like flying sideways
Normal expectation: when the plane banks to one side, the water would spill out of the cup
Observed behaviour: water level will remain parallel to that of the plane, and hence the table that the cup is on, and therefore won't spill.
I noticed this a few years ago, and reasoned thusly: Other than the rudder of the aircraft, the plane has very little lateral resistance. When the plane turns, it banks at an angle to balance out the centripetal forces created by the plane's turning. To the people on the plane (and the beverage), this is simply an increased downward force, but looking out the window, it appears the plane is tilted.
Of course, if the plane runs into turbulence, the drink may spill.
<tim><
The key to web design is to design with your target in mind. Asking us what's good for web design would only be useful if you were designing another slashdot site. For example, if you're designing for kids, you wouldn't have to worry so much about supporting Netscape on Unix platforms. Likewise, it wouldn't be appropriate to ask kids how to design a slashdot site :)
<tim><
The way I reason it, is, if it can be proved scientifically, then there's no reason to have God. The point of there being a god (not just a Christian God) is to help people explain things that just don't have an obvious rationale behind it. If somebody were able to scientifically explain the Great Flood, I don't think that would convince either you or anybody else of a reality of a Greater Being.
It's like any of the other miracles presented in the Bible. They're called "miracles" because they're unexplainable by scientific means. I don't think your issue (I don't mean this in a negative way) is believing in whether there is a god, but believing whether miracles can really happen. Only if you believe in miracles can you start accepting that some other being is at work.
<tim><
My favorite part is how they customize their graphic depending on the holiday that's coming up :)
Take a look today and see their New Years graphics. I know that Thanksgiving had one too, and probably other holidays.
I was just looking around for some snowboard info today, and came across this site.
Salomon Snowboards. Click on it if you want, so that they realize what the slashdot effect is like on a bulky flash app.
The entire site is in Flash. There's no way to copy and paste info from it. No way to bookmark an existing page. Navigation to a specific section takes seconds longer than a regular site (and I'm not talking about waiting for the info to download--i'm just waiting for the graphics to animate!). If people wanted to see reactive animation, they'd play video games. I used to be able to say that you need nothing faster than a cheap pentium system to surf the web. You can no longer say it with these website monstrosities.
The Find utility is the best feature of Windows' file management system (over Win31 or DOS). It's great to be able to search through a directory of 100 files and immediately find files you need based on the content or name of those files.
A better solution for finding all files ending in *bak is to sort your directory by file type (in Windows Explorer), then simply select all the *.bak files and del.
I think this only works w/ DOS7 (Win95 dos) and higher. I'm pretty sure it doesn't work in Dos 6.
The CBC also has an
online diary of a muslim family's life during and after 9/11.
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When I first started using XWindows (being from the Windows world), I put up a screenshot of my windows desktop as the background, and set my commmand prompt to be "c:\", just to make me feel more at home.
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