I see nothing in the response involving a law either endorsing or persecuting the Jedi faith. You're just one of those shouty "New Sith", aren't you?:-)
The tactile nature thing is entirely subjective, I agree. For flicking through and bookmarking, I do find physical books more user-friendly if I need to cross-reference several pages within a book; I can stick a bookmark (or finger) on each page and rapidly flick from one to another. That's more of a chore with an ereader. But it's personal preference, I know.
Another advantage of ebooks besides the information density that I forgot to mention in my first comment is searching. For keeping track of important or favourite passages, searching can remove the need for bookmarking if one can remember a significant word or two. And it's more useful than a physical index.
I live in a small flat with insufficient space to store lots of books. My Kindle solves that problem.
Reading ebooks is a completely different experience to reading paper books. I miss the tactile nature of paper books, the physical bookmarkability, and the ease of flicking through them. But the practical problem of storage space that ebooks solve is, for me, a more important consideration.
The only thing I don't like about chrome is it's lack of good RSS support
I like RSS Live Links for subscribing to RSS feeds in Chrom{e,ium}. I find it to be a fine replacement for Firefox's live bookmarks. I have no idea whether it'll be any use to you, but there it is.
(I'm not associated with RSS Live Links in any way other than as a happy user).
Story-driven games should be easy. Everyone who starts the story should be able to experience the whole adventure and find out how it ends. They can still challenge more serious gamers by providing sidequests, optional bosses, bonuses for 100% completion etc.
all these so-called "countries" that are or have been engaged in civil war are so because former British colonials drew a map that was convenient for them, forced people to get along at the point of 10,000 bayonets while they were there, and then thought it would continue to be so once they left.
It isn't linked against libssl or libcrypto, so it's safe. Encrypted block devices use the kernel's internal crypto libraries which are completely independent of OpenSSL.
There are already 47,000 or so filesystems in the kernel. Linux has always been about choices.
Just as with filesystems, what will probably happen is that distributions supporting virtualization will pick one. Unless the user selects "super-duper expert installation mode" or whatever, he/she will get the distro's default.
...but I'd have to plug a full-travel keyboard into it. And a proper mouse. And a set of loudspeakers. At which point, it pretty much becomes a desktop.
The watermark metadata is presumably in the MP4 container, so surely one could simply extract the AAC stream and repackage it in a new MP4 container? Or are they watermarking the actual AAC stream somehow?
And an equivalent of "top" for monitoring processes' I/O activity would also be extremely handy
I'd love something like that.
There's a way of logging I/O; it's pretty rough-and-ready, not really suitable for permanent use, but can be handy for figuring out what keeps causing a laptop HDD to spin up, for example. As root, do:
echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/block_dump
I/O is then logged to the kernel ring buffer, and can be retrieved with dmesg. The entries look like:
pdflush(138): WRITE block 1161864 on dm-4 pdflush(138): WRITE block 0 on dm-3 pdflush(138): WRITE block 524328 on dm-3 pdflush(138): WRITE block 786952 on dm-3 pdflush(138): WRITE block 786960 on dm-3
When you've finished, do
echo 0 >/proc/sys/vm/block_dump
as root to turn it off again.
Like I said, very rough-and-ready, nowhere near as nice as a proper I/O top would be, but there it is.
they also have a USB-only My Book "Essential" (read: Cheaper!) version; anyone tried those?
I have the 250G model. I use it for backups; I rsync my box to it once a week. Perfectly fine for my needs. I haven't had it for very long, mind, so can't comment on long-term reliability.
Speaking personally, as a Linux user with stereo speakers and somewhat ropey hearing:
I'm happy with anything that Audacious and/or mplayer can play. Given the choice, I'll take Vorbis first, MP3 second. FLAC is total overkill for the quality of both my ears and equipment. Bitrate-wise, whatever oggenc produces at quality 5 or 6 is more than fine; or, for MP3, lame --preset standard. Plain stereo is perfect for music; it's what CDs provide, and it's all my equipment can cope with.
Good point. Yes, I think it has pretty much got that bad.
In my younger days, I was a firm Labour supporter; was even a party member for a while, did some leafleting and stuff. I'm not quite sure exactly when the rot set in; it was sometime during their second term, I think. The change was gradual; but at some point after the 2001 elections, I realized that they'd become so authoritarian and so hawklike that they didn't represent my views any more.
Politically, I'm closest to the LibDems, I think. I don't find them particularly inspiring, though. Lembit Opik's recent antics are an embarrassment.
The Conservatives' attempt to reinvent themselves is a blatant sham. It looks so much like the pre-1997 "New Labour" project that it isn't funny. David Cameron is Tony Blair all over again.
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You're have to be Bruce Wayne to afford the insurance.
-Stephen
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
I see nothing in the response involving a law either endorsing or persecuting the Jedi faith. You're just one of those shouty "New Sith", aren't you? :-)
-Stephen
The tactile nature thing is entirely subjective, I agree. For flicking through and bookmarking, I do find physical books more user-friendly if I need to cross-reference several pages within a book; I can stick a bookmark (or finger) on each page and rapidly flick from one to another. That's more of a chore with an ereader. But it's personal preference, I know.
Another advantage of ebooks besides the information density that I forgot to mention in my first comment is searching. For keeping track of important or favourite passages, searching can remove the need for bookmarking if one can remember a significant word or two. And it's more useful than a physical index.
-Stephen
I live in a small flat with insufficient space to store lots of books. My Kindle solves that problem.
Reading ebooks is a completely different experience to reading paper books. I miss the tactile nature of paper books, the physical bookmarkability, and the ease of flicking through them. But the practical problem of storage space that ebooks solve is, for me, a more important consideration.
-Stephen
There's been a load of blah on Slashdot recently about some election in the colonies; turnabout is fair play :-)
If you mash the Square button while it animates, your JavaScript runs faster!
-Stephen
The only thing I don't like about chrome is it's lack of good RSS support
I like RSS Live Links for subscribing to RSS feeds in Chrom{e,ium}. I find it to be a fine replacement for Firefox's live bookmarks. I have no idea whether it'll be any use to you, but there it is.
(I'm not associated with RSS Live Links in any way other than as a happy user).
-Stephen
The symbol for millimetres is mm, not MM. MM would be "megamega". Dollars megamega is equally nonsensical, mind.
Story-driven games should be easy. Everyone who starts the story should be able to experience the whole adventure and find out how it ends. They can still challenge more serious gamers by providing sidequests, optional bosses, bonuses for 100% completion etc.
-Stephen
...to a geek. We should hold off celebrating until the next power of two. Looking forward to the 131,072nd story!
-Stephen
all these so-called "countries" that are or have been engaged in civil war are so because former British colonials drew a map that was convenient for them, forced people to get along at the point of 10,000 bayonets while they were there, and then thought it would continue to be so once they left.
Fixed your post for you.
-Stephen
-Stephen
Oooh! Oooh! Let's hope it has Flash ads!
-Stephen
Anyways, are they really canceling this show after next season?
No, thank goodness! It's going on semi-hiatus in 2009, with three specials instead of a full season. No news as to whether David Tennant will return in 2010, though.
-Stephen
Who needs adblockers anyway? My brain quite successfully filters out all banner ads.
It's the animated ones that irritate me. I find motion in my peripheral vision distracting.
-Stephen
There are already 47,000 or so filesystems in the kernel. Linux has always been about choices.
Just as with filesystems, what will probably happen is that distributions supporting virtualization will pick one. Unless the user selects "super-duper expert installation mode" or whatever, he/she will get the distro's default.
-Stephen
...but I'd have to plug a full-travel keyboard into it. And a proper mouse. And a set of loudspeakers. At which point, it pretty much becomes a desktop.
-Stephen
Butbutbut... I was told they came from the motherboard stork...
-Stephen
The watermark metadata is presumably in the MP4 container, so surely one could simply extract the AAC stream and repackage it in a new MP4 container? Or are they watermarking the actual AAC stream somehow?
-Stephen
I'd love something like that.
There's a way of logging I/O; it's pretty rough-and-ready, not really suitable for permanent use, but can be handy for figuring out what keeps causing a laptop HDD to spin up, for example. As root, do: I/O is then logged to the kernel ring buffer, and can be retrieved with dmesg. The entries look like: When you've finished, do as root to turn it off again.
Like I said, very rough-and-ready, nowhere near as nice as a proper I/O top would be, but there it is.
-Stephen
they also have a USB-only My Book "Essential" (read: Cheaper!) version; anyone tried those?
I have the 250G model. I use it for backups; I rsync my box to it once a week. Perfectly fine for my needs. I haven't had it for very long, mind, so can't comment on long-term reliability.
-Stephen
Speaking personally, as a Linux user with stereo speakers and somewhat ropey hearing:
I'm happy with anything that Audacious and/or mplayer can play. Given the choice, I'll take Vorbis first, MP3 second. FLAC is total overkill for the quality of both my ears and equipment. Bitrate-wise, whatever oggenc produces at quality 5 or 6 is more than fine; or, for MP3, lame --preset standard. Plain stereo is perfect for music; it's what CDs provide, and it's all my equipment can cope with.
HTH,
-Stephen
Good point. Yes, I think it has pretty much got that bad.
In my younger days, I was a firm Labour supporter; was even a party member for a while, did some leafleting and stuff. I'm not quite sure exactly when the rot set in; it was sometime during their second term, I think. The change was gradual; but at some point after the 2001 elections, I realized that they'd become so authoritarian and so hawklike that they didn't represent my views any more.
Politically, I'm closest to the LibDems, I think. I don't find them particularly inspiring, though. Lembit Opik's recent antics are an embarrassment.
The Conservatives' attempt to reinvent themselves is a blatant sham. It looks so much like the pre-1997 "New Labour" project that it isn't funny. David Cameron is Tony Blair all over again.
-Stephen
I'm in the UK. Fancy doing a vote swap? I'll vote against Labour, and you can vote against the Republicans at your next election :-)
-Stephen
Try do anything useful in 57 lines with today's languages.
Given that DeCSS can be written in six lines of illegible Perl, I shudder to think of what a Perl coder could accomplish with 57 lines...
-Stephen