"You mean you never glance down at the clock or the radio, or even your fuel gauge or speedometer?"
that's why the most important readings (speed, fuel, etc.) still uses analog dials in most cars. you just need 1/10th of a second to get a reading, while with digital it takes a little longer.
let's face the truth people, C64s, Atari 800s, MSXs an all the other 8 bit computers of that time were little more than glorified consoles, thus the multi-plpayer options.
PCs and Macs OTOH, are meant for professional use by one person at a time. gaming came later to those platforms, almost an afterthought. when serious gaming came to PCs, multiplayer was added in the form of networked games.
if you still insist on multiplayer capability in front of your TV, buy a nintendo Wii and happy gaming
after you install ogg support for quicktime itunes automatically gets the ability to convert from ogg to MP3.
uncheck the option "copy files to itunes music folder when adding to library" in the "advanced" tab of itunes preferences. after that, drag and drop the folder with your.ogg files on itunes, select all of them, then go on the advanced menu and select "convert selection to MP3". itunes will convert all your.ogg songs and save the resulting.mp3 on it's own itunes folder (in windows this is usually My Documents\My Music\iTunes.
after it's done, remove the OGGs from your library and let it sync the MP3s to the ipod.
or just do what i did: install linux and use amarok for all your musical needs. it converts, it plays, it organizes, it downloads lirycs and it manages your ipod in a much better way than itunes could ever dream of.
until a meteor strikes the facility (likely, considering we're talking about the moon) and launches several tonnelades of radioactive dust into space, a large part of which will eventually make it's way to earth.
much better, since we're talking about launching stuff to space, would be to drop it on the sun. even if the star ends up blowing it back to space, it will blow it on several directions, making the ammount that travels back to earth much smaller.
i signed up for AOL beta test here in brasil around 1999/2000. the beta test was free, but didn't make it clear in the beta terms of use that my account would be activated and my credit card charged as soon as the system went gold.
when i received the first charge, i called them and cancelation was easy, a really smooth proccess. they even returned my money as credit on my next creditcard statement.
they're out of business in brasil now. i guess people here didn't like their proprietary system, after all, they got late to a market where regular TCP/IP access was already common.
as a side note: the company i work for just rented the building where AOL brasil was located once.
"And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth."
See ??? first god created the chicken, then the chicken laid the first egg!
"GNUStep looks something like the Sun OpenWindows desktop used to... Icons and apps minimize to the desktop, not the the taskbar area."
kinda off-topic, but... what i'd like to see is a desktop environment that allows me to minimize apps to a _folder_ and a file manager that can tell me when a file is open by hashing it's icon, just like OS/2 warp used to do.
"I want my Xterm window to maximize to the vertical height of the screen without changing width when I double-click the title bar. How would you tell a non-programmer to accomplish that in Gnome or KDE? Will it be easier in GNUStep?"
I'm at the office right now (WinXP only. aaaahrgh!!!), so you'll have to wait until i get home to check, but IIRC, KDE has an option easily accessible through the control panel where you can choose the behavior when you double-click the title bar. options include full-screen maximization (like in windows), roll up the window (like in MacOS classic), minimize (like in MacOS X) or maximize verticaly.
Mac OS X in not the first unix sold by apple. back at the time jurassic park was released, apple had a line of servers and workstations running A/UX, the first homebrew apple unix.
that's why you see a terminal running in one of them.
later versions of A/UX had and interface matching MacOS' (at the time it was known simply as "System") interface, and even had the limited ability to run MacOS apps through a compatibility layer (sort of what wine does).
also, apple distributed IBM's AIX with a short lived network PowerPC server, altought it didn't had the MacOS GUI, just the plain, old and ugly CDE.
I _DO_ live in a third world country, i lived a good part of my life in the last years of our last dictatorship. and yes, the republican government in US is looking more and more like our former dictators.
censhorsip, arms race, beligerance, electoral fraud, media manipulation... it's all there.
yes, there _IS_ an anti-linux crowd. they're made of both die-hard windows fans (they exist. believe me. o know a few) and Unix gurus that still consider linux a "hacker's toy". i work with one of the later types.
"From my experience IE does a great job at rendering broken html"
and that's the core of the whole incompatibility problem. a bunch of lazy ass "webdevelopers" end up doing piss poor jobs, because they know IE will "fix" the problem for them.
the moment IE starts spewing errors when it tries to parse broken HTML, you can bet those lazy bastards will pay more atention to their "code"
"The second is that most of the really good places to build wind generators are _FAR_ away, a lot farther away than your average electric plant to its customers."
bullshit!!!
in my country, 80% of the population lives less than 400 km from the shore, which is the ideal place for windmills, thanks to the constant winds. other south american countries are on the same situation. in africa (mostly tropical/equatorial) there's sun power available most of the year.
beats building a hydroplant a thousand kilometres away from the major urban areas of the country.
wind farm land can also be used as crop|catle land, and places to put them are not as rare as you may think. take my country (brasil) for example. we have more than 8,000 km of shores where wind is pretty much constant. add to this the semi-arids in the north-east region (that's also near the equator line) with strong sunlight all year.
yeah, the windmills are an eyesore, but visual polution is better than air polution.
then it's just using the existing power grid to transport the power to other regions, or use it to make hydrogen from sea water. the by-product of the proccess (chlorine) then can be used to purify water for drinking.
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"You mean you never glance down at the clock or the radio, or even your fuel gauge or speedometer?"
that's why the most important readings (speed, fuel, etc.) still uses analog dials in most cars. you just need 1/10th of a second to get a reading, while with digital it takes a little longer.
Now I dont know about you, but i've never seen a Mac with Symantec installed on it
there. I fixed it for you.
so, by your reasoning MS Windows isn't one of the most "sold" pieces of software ever ?
but it still generates revenue, and for most, this is what counts. specially for shareholders.
because it's a PC, like in Personal Computer.
let's face the truth people, C64s, Atari 800s, MSXs an all the other 8 bit computers of that time were little more than glorified consoles, thus the multi-plpayer options.
PCs and Macs OTOH, are meant for professional use by one person at a time. gaming came later to those platforms, almost an afterthought. when serious gaming came to PCs, multiplayer was added in the form of networked games.
if you still insist on multiplayer capability in front of your TV, buy a nintendo Wii and happy gaming
because some members of RIAA are also members of MPAA. warner and sony comes to mind...
after you install ogg support for quicktime itunes automatically gets the ability to convert from ogg to MP3.
.ogg files on itunes, select all of them, then go on the advanced menu and select "convert selection to MP3". itunes will convert all your .ogg songs and save the resulting .mp3 on it's own itunes folder (in windows this is usually My Documents\My Music\iTunes.
uncheck the option "copy files to itunes music folder when adding to library" in the "advanced" tab of itunes preferences. after that, drag and drop the folder with your
after it's done, remove the OGGs from your library and let it sync the MP3s to the ipod.
or just do what i did: install linux and use amarok for all your musical needs. it converts, it plays, it organizes, it downloads lirycs and it manages your ipod in a much better way than itunes could ever dream of.
this kind of thing is not caused by "lusers working in IT", is caused by lusers working in management. Managers, not IT workers, who outsorce to india
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until a meteor strikes the facility (likely, considering we're talking about the moon) and launches several tonnelades of radioactive dust into space, a large part of which will eventually make it's way to earth.
much better, since we're talking about launching stuff to space, would be to drop it on the sun. even if the star ends up blowing it back to space, it will blow it on several directions, making the ammount that travels back to earth much smaller.
i signed up for AOL beta test here in brasil around 1999/2000. the beta test was free, but didn't make it clear in the beta terms of use that my account would be activated and my credit card charged as soon as the system went gold.
when i received the first charge, i called them and cancelation was easy, a really smooth proccess. they even returned my money as credit on my next creditcard statement.
they're out of business in brasil now. i guess people here didn't like their proprietary system, after all, they got late to a market where regular TCP/IP access was already common.
as a side note: the company i work for just rented the building where AOL brasil was located once.
dozens of millions computers were sold with windows ME pre-installed, and most of them ended up dowgraded to win98 so the owners could wait for XP.
the shiatloads of DRM in vista alone are a good reason to downgrade.
*sarcasm on*
"The egg came first."
read and weep evolutionists:
"And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth."
See ??? first god created the chicken, then the chicken laid the first egg!
it's so clear now, isn't it ?
*sarcasm off*
"GNUStep looks something like the Sun OpenWindows desktop used to... Icons and apps minimize to the desktop, not the the taskbar area."
kinda off-topic, but... what i'd like to see is a desktop environment that allows me to minimize apps to a _folder_ and a file manager that can tell me when a file is open by hashing it's icon, just like OS/2 warp used to do.
"I want my Xterm window to maximize to the vertical height of the screen without changing width when I double-click the title bar. How would you tell a non-programmer to accomplish that in Gnome or KDE? Will it be easier in GNUStep?"
I'm at the office right now (WinXP only. aaaahrgh!!!), so you'll have to wait until i get home to check, but IIRC, KDE has an option easily accessible through the control panel where you can choose the behavior when you double-click the title bar. options include full-screen maximization (like in windows), roll up the window (like in MacOS classic), minimize (like in MacOS X) or maximize verticaly.
and here i was, thinking I was the fanboy...
no i won't... /me owns an iBook G4.
it's with my mother right now. can't wait for her to (finally) buy a mac mini so i can get it back, wipe the disk and install debian.
i bought the quality hardware, not the OS.
your wish has been granted: http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y238/covarde_anon imo/lixao/3772.jpg
i know i sound like a fanboy, but i simply love debian...
to the point of tattooing the swirl on my left arm.
and windowmaker's icon in my back.
and yes, i'm as geek as geek can be.
it wasn't profetic. it was realistic.
Mac OS X in not the first unix sold by apple. back at the time jurassic park was released, apple had a line of servers and workstations running A/UX, the first homebrew apple unix.
that's why you see a terminal running in one of them.
later versions of A/UX had and interface matching MacOS' (at the time it was known simply as "System") interface, and even had the limited ability to run MacOS apps through a compatibility layer (sort of what wine does).
also, apple distributed IBM's AIX with a short lived network PowerPC server, altought it didn't had the MacOS GUI, just the plain, old and ugly CDE.
more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX
I _DO_ live in a third world country, i lived a good part of my life in the last years of our last dictatorship. and yes, the republican government in US is looking more and more like our former dictators.
censhorsip, arms race, beligerance, electoral fraud, media manipulation... it's all there.
the name "radio" comes from the same root as "radiation", i.e. something that propagates radialy from a common center. think on the radius of circle.
yes, there _IS_ an anti-linux crowd. they're made of both die-hard windows fans (they exist. believe me. o know a few) and Unix gurus that still consider linux a "hacker's toy". i work with one of the later types.
"From my experience IE does a great job at rendering broken html"
and that's the core of the whole incompatibility problem. a bunch of lazy ass "webdevelopers" end up doing piss poor jobs, because they know IE will "fix" the problem for them.
the moment IE starts spewing errors when it tries to parse broken HTML, you can bet those lazy bastards will pay more atention to their "code"
have you tested if this app runs op top of Wine ?
"The second is that most of the really good places to build wind generators are _FAR_ away, a lot farther away than your average electric plant to its customers."
bullshit!!!
in my country, 80% of the population lives less than 400 km from the shore, which is the ideal place for windmills, thanks to the constant winds. other south american countries are on the same situation. in africa (mostly tropical/equatorial) there's sun power available most of the year.
beats building a hydroplant a thousand kilometres away from the major urban areas of the country.
wind farm land can also be used as crop|catle land, and places to put them are not as rare as you may think. take my country (brasil) for example. we have more than 8,000 km of shores where wind is pretty much constant. add to this the semi-arids in the north-east region (that's also near the equator line) with strong sunlight all year.
yeah, the windmills are an eyesore, but visual polution is better than air polution.
then it's just using the existing power grid to transport the power to other regions, or use it to make hydrogen from sea water. the by-product of the proccess (chlorine) then can be used to purify water for drinking.