> Hope they drop some hardened screens, too, to help with setup.
Sorry but what about disk images with ssh all set up and ready to go before throwing it from the plane? Most servers I have root on are thousands of kilometers away. The closest is about 600km from this screen and keyboard.
Because before compressing the video you have to move it from the camera to the editing system. The less often you compress the better the quality of the final compressed product. Once the live broadcast has been edited it will be compressed just once before delivery to the end viewer.
Am I the only one to think that there a couple of stories in there that are OK but the rest is very bad writing? It is a book I had to force myself to finish because some parts are so damned boring and others repeated over and over...
Good luck making a meal for 99 euro cents (cost of a frozen pizza).
You can in rural France, Italy, Spain, Greece... My budget was actually 1 Euro per meal per person. Now that we are doing a little better we eat almost only local produce and I have 1.50 per person to play with.
Even Europe is split in two - expensive healthy food in the north and cheaper healthy food in the south. With the climate we have, a large garden and a rain water collecting system food can be had for a little labour (healthy) and the cost of the seeds/plants. Add a few hens and ducks (requires a field for growing corn, most people buy corn from a farmer they know) you have your eggs and meat.
Don't get married at all, living in sin is much more fun!
But if you must:
1) When problems arise: argue, find a compromise, make up (that is the bit which involves lots of sex if you are lucky!). Couples that don't argue never last, all that suppressed/hidden resent eventually finds its way to the surface...
2) Stop reading about how to make marriage work
3) Stop asking questions about how to make marriage work on/.
Being 39 doesn't make you 'too old for tech'... being lazy, unwilling to change, inexperienced and out of touch does.
Sometimes slashdot has comments that are based on common sense! Last year I found a web job. 15 people were interviewed before me. Many were in their 20s. I am 54...
I have access to Google Analytics data for several sites:
US site non IT subject matter - 65/25 IE/Firefox for about 80,000 unique visitors/month
Global site (US+Canada 50% of visits) similar subject matter to above - 54/33 IE/Firefox for about 9,000 visitors
The 5-6 French sites I have access to are also in the 5x/3x range - subject matter is agriculture. IE is banned in many public services in France which is one of the reasons.
Good, some of you are awake and aware of where you country is going (down the drain) and taking much of the world with it (same destination - down the drain).
We were worried out here in "the rest of the world". Can you do something about it? Because the destination isn't very inspiring...
Oh and income tax evasion is illegal in huge chunks of the rest of the world FYI. Taxes are what pay for schools and heaps of useless crap like that.
Biodiesel is economically feasible. Ethanol isn't quite so clear cut. LPG has always been when made from biomass. Some countries are richer than others. Some people are still in the "grab a quick buck" economy while others are planning more long term.
I am sorry but I did not use the word call out of context. Reading the original post I thought to myself "why would anyone in their right mind buy a phone that can't call (for data)?" I know 3G is "data". The term used here (Europe, where 3G has been around for a while) is data call.
If you are limiting the use of call to just voice - and trying to enforce that notion worldwide - I am very sorry for where you are taking the English language.
Silly me you are right, I wasn't thinking. I was stupidly repeating the term used by my 3G provider "data call" as opposed to "voice call".
Call \Call\, v. i.
2. To make a demand, requirement, or request.
[1913 Webster]
To make a "data call" would perchance mean to request data? One can't really say (in Oxford English) "data connection" because as you obviously know (you with a greater mastery of the English language than I and probably an expert in telecoms) the 3G connection is on all the time.
Part of the reason for slow interest may also be that T-Mobile's 3G high-speed data network won't up and running in many cities until the end of the year.
Why would anyone in their right mind buy a phone that can't be used to call?
Firewire/i-Link/ieee1394 -> USB is a downgrade not an upgrade.
USB is slow and a CPU hog. This is real world experience since the year 2000 when I bought my first devices. Firewire 400 is much faster in real world file transfer (factor of 2 at least) than USB2. If you look at the specs this shouldn't be the case, but in daily use...
BUT... both my current devices have USB2 ports as well. I use the USB port on my DVD-RW to boot from CD/DVD. I never use the USB port on my external HD because data transfer is too slow. The most important thing is being able to get your data off the device, if and when, the computer you buy no longer has the FW interface.
I will probably buy a VAIO rather than a MacBook and run FC9 or Ubuntu on it.
Historically the dollar was stronger than European currencies. The Euro came along and software prices have remained the same despite the currency balance changing.
I voted with my wallet - commercial software I needed I bought in the USA (the grey market). Now I use open source or shareware for everything.
When I had a company it cost me less to get a plane ticket, fly to Macworld Boston, buy all the software at show prices and stay a week at Holiday Inn than to buy on the local market. Read that again and think it over. I even got a vacation in the deal. Nowadays plane tickets are expensive...
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> Hope they drop some hardened screens, too, to help with setup.
Sorry but what about disk images with ssh all set up and ready to go before throwing it from the plane? Most servers I have root on are thousands of kilometers away. The closest is about 600km from this screen and keyboard.
I agree with the above. Your communication is bad. For a small fee I will rewrite the appropriate parts of your web site.
Will this mean a nude cosplay protest by beautiful PETA supporters?
You forgot: and the screen will be blue...
Because before compressing the video you have to move it from the camera to the editing system. The less often you compress the better the quality of the final compressed product. Once the live broadcast has been edited it will be compressed just once before delivery to the end viewer.
Maybe some people don't have facebook accounts?
That there be inflation! Or maybe a /. special offer: ask for 10 years, get two for free!
There has always been a Mac in the house since 1988. Before that there was an Atari 512ST.
But since 1997 we also have PCs running Linux. We had one Windows 95 PC for a while so that I could play Monaco Grand Prix.
... miles on a tank of diesel every two weeks.
That is what I get now and I would want more from advanced technology.
(yes it is a FIAT)
Am I the only one to think that there a couple of stories in there that are OK but the rest is very bad writing? It is a book I had to force myself to finish because some parts are so damned boring and others repeated over and over...
Good luck making a meal for 99 euro cents (cost of a frozen pizza).
You can in rural France, Italy, Spain, Greece... My budget was actually 1 Euro per meal per person. Now that we are doing a little better we eat almost only local produce and I have 1.50 per person to play with.
Even Europe is split in two - expensive healthy food in the north and cheaper healthy food in the south. With the climate we have, a large garden and a rain water collecting system food can be had for a little labour (healthy) and the cost of the seeds/plants. Add a few hens and ducks (requires a field for growing corn, most people buy corn from a farmer they know) you have your eggs and meat.
Don't get married at all, living in sin is much more fun!
But if you must:
1) When problems arise: argue, find a compromise, make up (that is the bit which involves lots of sex if you are lucky!). Couples that don't argue never last, all that suppressed/hidden resent eventually finds its way to the surface...
2) Stop reading about how to make marriage work
3) Stop asking questions about how to make marriage work on /.
Being 39 doesn't make you 'too old for tech'... being lazy, unwilling to change, inexperienced and out of touch does.
Sometimes slashdot has comments that are based on common sense! Last year I found a web job. 15 people were interviewed before me. Many were in their 20s. I am 54...
I have access to Google Analytics data for several sites:
US site non IT subject matter - 65/25 IE/Firefox for about 80,000 unique visitors/month
Global site (US+Canada 50% of visits) similar subject matter to above - 54/33 IE/Firefox for about 9,000 visitors
The 5-6 French sites I have access to are also in the 5x/3x range - subject matter is agriculture. IE is banned in many public services in France which is one of the reasons.
Good, some of you are awake and aware of where you country is going (down the drain) and taking much of the world with it (same destination - down the drain).
We were worried out here in "the rest of the world". Can you do something about it? Because the destination isn't very inspiring...
Oh and income tax evasion is illegal in huge chunks of the rest of the world FYI. Taxes are what pay for schools and heaps of useless crap like that.
... has speed been more important than accumulated knowledge? WTF!
Which ones? Where are you? Who are you?
Three questions to put this into perspective.
Biodiesel is economically feasible. Ethanol isn't quite so clear cut. LPG has always been when made from biomass.
Some countries are richer than others.
Some people are still in the "grab a quick buck" economy while others are planning more long term.
...and do people with fat fingers really need a touchscreen?
I am sorry but I did not use the word call out of context. Reading the original post I thought to myself "why would anyone in their right mind buy a phone that can't call (for data)?" I know 3G is "data". The term used here (Europe, where 3G has been around for a while) is data call.
If you are limiting the use of call to just voice - and trying to enforce that notion worldwide - I am very sorry for where you are taking the English language.
And me 1:1 scale slot cars...
Silly me you are right, I wasn't thinking. I was stupidly repeating the term used by my 3G provider "data call" as opposed to "voice call".
Call \Call\, v. i.
2. To make a demand, requirement, or request.
[1913 Webster]
To make a "data call" would perchance mean to request data? One can't really say (in Oxford English) "data connection" because as you obviously know (you with a greater mastery of the English language than I and probably an expert in telecoms) the 3G connection is on all the time.
Part of the reason for slow interest may also be that T-Mobile's 3G high-speed data network won't up and running in many cities until the end of the year.
Why would anyone in their right mind buy a phone that can't be used to call?
Firewire/i-Link/ieee1394 -> USB is a downgrade not an upgrade.
USB is slow and a CPU hog. This is real world experience since the year 2000 when I bought my first devices. Firewire 400 is much faster in real world file transfer (factor of 2 at least) than USB2. If you look at the specs this shouldn't be the case, but in daily use...
BUT... both my current devices have USB2 ports as well. I use the USB port on my DVD-RW to boot from CD/DVD. I never use the USB port on my external HD because data transfer is too slow. The most important thing is being able to get your data off the device, if and when, the computer you buy no longer has the FW interface.
I will probably buy a VAIO rather than a MacBook and run FC9 or Ubuntu on it.
I know Dick Cheney has assured us that 'Deficits don't matter'
Good so I can keep the house I can't pay for?
Historically the dollar was stronger than European currencies. The Euro came along and software prices have remained the same despite the currency balance changing.
I voted with my wallet - commercial software I needed I bought in the USA (the grey market). Now I use open source or shareware for everything.
When I had a company it cost me less to get a plane ticket, fly to Macworld Boston, buy all the software at show prices and stay a week at Holiday Inn than to buy on the local market. Read that again and think it over. I even got a vacation in the deal. Nowadays plane tickets are expensive...