Which reflexes are those? The ones that make your arms shoot straight up in the air and surrender? I didn't think you could surrender in Counterstrike.
If you can figure out a kernel, then you can rebuild a car.
Give me a break. I can rebuild a kernel with 5$ worth of old computer parts. The same can hardly be said about an automobile. Even an old car worth about 5 dollars needs a few hundred dollars worth of tools.
I'd cut a hatch and add a latch and some hinges so I could access the engine compartment. I like doing my own minor maintenance and repairs.
OK, I let your first comment go, but this is the second time you have made this outrageous claim. Are you saying that you could open the hood of a 2004 Audi and diagnose even a small problem? Even the mechanics at the dealership need to hook the engine up to the diagnostic computers these days. I could understand doing repairs on older cars, say circa 1995 and older, but give me a break. I am mechanically inclined as well, but I wouldn't even attempt to repair anything inside the engine of a 2004 car. Expect maybe the washer fluid reservoir, or replace a broken cap. Exactly the parts you could access in this new Volvo.
My personal favourite was the day that I brought in a box of donuts from Tim Horton's. Of course, I came in extra early when nobody was there yet so I had time to "enhance" the donuts. What I did was add a nice dosage of Frank's Red Hot to all the jelly donuts.
The best way to do it was to squeeze a small amount of the jelly onto a spoon, and then fill the donut with Frank's. I could then cover the hole with the Jelly that I removed. A little sprinkle of white sugar (from the coffee packages) covered up any evidence of tampering.
What made the prank even funnier is that all 10 of the donuts were eaten. People would bite into them, make really funny faces but still keep on eating. I actually had to leave the office for about half an hour. I was laughing so much I was crying, and I did't want to expose myself. (even though I was probably on a short list of suspects)
A few more that I have done:
-Flat cola poured into the coffee pot. -Water the office plants with rubbing alcohol -10 packs of sweetener in the coffee pot. -black pepper over top of a box of Timbits. -break all the pencils in the office -call co-workers from the fax machine
However, if I had one and was given a choice between the PS2, Gamecube, and X-Box, I'd most definitely take a PS2. Here you have a simply massive game libary that spans two systems worth of modern classics, a DVD player, and a cheap CD player all in a very small black box for $200.
Yeah, but seeing as you don't own a TV, you could technically only use a third of the capacity of this device. See, games are played on a TV, something you can't watch. DVD's also play on said TV. If you are looking for a cheap CD player, believe me you can get one for a hell of a lot less than 200 dollars. Hell, you can probably find one for 200 pesos.
Sorry, but your opinion does not count, and I am curious why you were even modded up? Is it because you said you don't watch TV, so somebody decided to mod you up +3 intellectual?
There is no listing for virii, but Dorlands Medical dictionary (probably one of the most widely used ones), lists viruses as the plural of virus.
Perhaps because we stopped speaking Latin a great many years ago? See also: focus, octopus. If nothing more, I hope this article will stop people from using the term virii. That has always angered me.
Of course, few people would leave their TV on 24/7 (except businesses and such), but I wonder if the picture degrades as the plasma is used up. After a year or two, do you then need a recharge to get as good of a picture as when you bought the TV?
We currently have about 10 Panasonic plasma displays at work. Not on 24/7, but on for a good 10 hours a day. The biggest problem: burn-in. Most of them display flash animations through Internet Explorer, and by and large they look great. However, within only a few months there is considerable burn-in on each display. Whenever the webserver is offline or otherwise unavailable, the white background error message can badly burn in. There is a feature they call white wash that can clean most of it up, but I am not too sure how much of the lifespan that removes. I'm guessing that the cost of recharging one of these things is probably close to the cost of a brand new unit. As far as lifespan goes, I guess I can let you know in 2 years... I personally haven't noticed any significant degradation in image quality, but the displays are located in such a place as to make an honest judgement impossible. However, it has only been about 5 months.
90% of the OS's out there are great, standards driven, and work well together...there's all sorts of free software out there, that you can even modify the source code to make work the way you want.
I'd be more inclined to say that 90% of the users out there have neither the desire or the skillset to modify source code. I know Linux users find this hard to believe, but most people like to use computers like they use VCR's and DVD players. For every nerd that wants to overclock his DVD player so it runs on Ethanol, 1000 other people use it to -gasp- play movies.
What's scary is imagining what could've happened if someone intentionally tried to hack the power plant. Some terrorist cell could cause a nuclear meltdown without ever setting foot in the US.
You have got to be kidding me. You think that is actually possible? You think somebody could hack into a computer and cause a nuclear meltdown? The amount of FUD people spew here is amazing.
What the hell does it take, MS-inducted Chernobyl to make them realize that such an OS HAS NO PLACE in a nuclear reactor? Or how about NT crashing a critical system in a battleship?
You do realize that all Nuke plants are equipped with analog/mechanical systems that can shut down the plant in case of a total electrical failure, right?
where there has not been at least one of the arrival/departure screens showing 'This program has performed an illegal operation'. And I visit a fair few international airports.
Just because the displays use Windows doesn't mean anything. It was probably easier for whoever developed the system to develop it on Windows. For all you know it could be getting all of the data from a Linux server. I have seen other cases where Windows is only used as the front end. Banks, for example. PC Financial uses Win2k workstations that connect via IBM's client access to an AS/400. The workstation might crash but it doesn't do a thing to the server.
OK, maybe not the best, but I thought it was really cool. Duke has that bloodied-but-not-quite-dead alien on the ground, with his boot on its head. Before he blows the alien's head off with his 10-guage, the following lines are spoken:
"Who are you?"
"I'm Duke Nukem, and I'm coming to kill you alien bastards"
One more negative point about projectors: Those cooling fans are loud. You don't notice it as much in a large room, but in a smaller living-room type setup you will certainly hear the cooling fan during quiet parts of the movie. Annoying to say the very least.
If you listen to your iPod at 100+ dB for a prolonged period of time, you might find yourself with hearing loss. Broken iPods can be fixed or replaced, but unfortunately your eardrums are permanent, and non replaceable.
I ride my mountain bike to work. I only live about 4 miles from work, which translates to a 15 minute ride to and from work. It's enough to keep me in pretty good shape.
That's nothing. I rollerblade home from work every day that it isn't raining. It is about 15km. Mostly uphill. I do agree, though. It certainly keeps the fat off.
These factors are (usually) carefully taken into consideration in composing an album to create an entire and complete work of art. As the opinions of others in this thread have shown, your "Hit" track mentality is not shared by all.
Which is exactly people buy shit like this, this and this.
It's really a damn shame Kodak discontinued these printers. The quality really is phenomenal. I recently got a chance to check out the new 8500 series, which seems cheaply made, and more consumer oriented. Those 8650's are pretty solid units, with lots of metal framing. The Kodak service guys can take this printer completely apart, replace something, and reassemble within an hour. The new 8500's don't look that servicable, and almost look disposable.
Hopefully our Kodak service contract will keep being renewed.
As anyone who has seen Revenge of the Nerds knows, Louis and Gilbert invented this thing to help the Tri Lambs win the Greek Games. I would expect everyone on Slashdot to know that one.
Yes, it's GTK2--ironically Gimp is one of the last GTK1 users!
I don't think so. I installed a GTK2 version of Gimp on Gentoo last week. I know this for a fact because I do not have GTK1 installed. I'm pretty sure it is beta, but still GTK2. Called the politically incorrect version, according to the splash screen.
While a violet-laser DVD might be available, it will probably be some time before any media is availble for it. If you are looking for high-definition, uncompressed video, DVHS is currently the only way to go. As an added bonus, you can even record on them, as well as play back regular and super VHS.
t's like comparing digital cable to analog cable. Personally, I find the pixelation and compression artifacts in digital cable to be worse than the odd bit of fuzziness in analog cable.
Agreed, but the digital sound makes up for it, in my opinion. Analog cable seems to have a constant hiss in the background, and everything is downmixed to stereo. Digital movie channels can broadcast in 5.1 dolby. I don't notice much pixellation in DVD's, but the picture quality of the digital cable here in Toronto (Rogers Digital Cable), especially on scenes with a lot of blacks and dark colours, is horribly pixellated.
So I guess we have to decide which is more important: Sound quality or picture quality?
There have been bunch of ads lately in the Toronto area about all these great new games available for cellphones. I don't see how people can have fun playing games on a cellphone with a display the size of a postage stamp, but perhaps I'm just too old. I would imagine that the same people using cellphones for games would like to watch movies on a GBA.
I am one of the only people I know who doesn't own a cellphone, GBA, PDA, etc. And I don't even want one. I was offered a free cellphone through work and I declined. I guess that statement right there invalidates all my opinions on portable communications and gaming.
If you need some form of entertainment while commuting/travelling/whatever, why not read a book? I can buy 100 books for the cost of a GBA or cellphone, (provided I do it at secondhand stores) and quite possibly learn something in the process.
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Which reflexes are those? The ones that make your arms shoot straight up in the air and surrender? I didn't think you could surrender in Counterstrike.
If you can figure out a kernel, then you can rebuild a car.
Give me a break. I can rebuild a kernel with 5$ worth of old computer parts. The same can hardly be said about an automobile. Even an old car worth about 5 dollars needs a few hundred dollars worth of tools.
I'd cut a hatch and add a latch and some hinges so I could access the engine compartment. I like doing my own minor maintenance and repairs.
OK, I let your first comment go, but this is the second time you have made this outrageous claim. Are you saying that you could open the hood of a 2004 Audi and diagnose even a small problem? Even the mechanics at the dealership need to hook the engine up to the diagnostic computers these days. I could understand doing repairs on older cars, say circa 1995 and older, but give me a break. I am mechanically inclined as well, but I wouldn't even attempt to repair anything inside the engine of a 2004 car. Expect maybe the washer fluid reservoir, or replace a broken cap. Exactly the parts you could access in this new Volvo.
My personal favourite was the day that I brought in a box of donuts from Tim Horton's. Of course, I came in extra early when nobody was there yet so I had time to "enhance" the donuts. What I did was add a nice dosage of Frank's Red Hot to all the jelly donuts.
The best way to do it was to squeeze a small amount of the jelly onto a spoon, and then fill the donut with Frank's. I could then cover the hole with the Jelly that I removed. A little sprinkle of white sugar (from the coffee packages) covered up any evidence of tampering.
What made the prank even funnier is that all 10 of the donuts were eaten. People would bite into them, make really funny faces but still keep on eating. I actually had to leave the office for about half an hour. I was laughing so much I was crying, and I did't want to expose myself. (even though I was probably on a short list of suspects)
A few more that I have done:
-Flat cola poured into the coffee pot.
-Water the office plants with rubbing alcohol
-10 packs of sweetener in the coffee pot.
-black pepper over top of a box of Timbits.
-break all the pencils in the office
-call co-workers from the fax machine
I do not own a TV.
However, if I had one and was given a choice between the PS2, Gamecube, and X-Box, I'd most definitely take a PS2. Here you have a simply massive game libary that spans two systems worth of modern classics, a DVD player, and a cheap CD player all in a very small black box for $200.
Yeah, but seeing as you don't own a TV, you could technically only use a third of the capacity of this device. See, games are played on a TV, something you can't watch. DVD's also play on said TV. If you are looking for a cheap CD player, believe me you can get one for a hell of a lot less than 200 dollars. Hell, you can probably find one for 200 pesos.
Sorry, but your opinion does not count, and I am curious why you were even modded up? Is it because you said you don't watch TV, so somebody decided to mod you up +3 intellectual?
There is no listing for virii, but Dorlands Medical dictionary (probably one of the most widely used ones), lists viruses as the plural of virus.
Perhaps because we stopped speaking Latin a great many years ago? See also: focus, octopus. If nothing more, I hope this article will stop people from using the term virii. That has always angered me.
Of course, few people would leave their TV on 24/7 (except businesses and such), but I wonder if the picture degrades as the plasma is used up. After a year or two, do you then need a recharge to get as good of a picture as when you bought the TV?
We currently have about 10 Panasonic plasma displays at work. Not on 24/7, but on for a good 10 hours a day. The biggest problem: burn-in. Most of them display flash animations through Internet Explorer, and by and large they look great. However, within only a few months there is considerable burn-in on each display. Whenever the webserver is offline or otherwise unavailable, the white background error message can badly burn in. There is a feature they call white wash that can clean most of it up, but I am not too sure how much of the lifespan that removes. I'm guessing that the cost of recharging one of these things is probably close to the cost of a brand new unit. As far as lifespan goes, I guess I can let you know in 2 years... I personally haven't noticed any significant degradation in image quality, but the displays are located in such a place as to make an honest judgement impossible. However, it has only been about 5 months.
90% of the OS's out there are great, standards driven, and work well together...there's all sorts of free software out there, that you can even modify the source code to make work the way you want.
I'd be more inclined to say that 90% of the users out there have neither the desire or the skillset to modify source code. I know Linux users find this hard to believe, but most people like to use computers like they use VCR's and DVD players. For every nerd that wants to overclock his DVD player so it runs on Ethanol, 1000 other people use it to -gasp- play movies.
What's scary is imagining what could've happened if someone intentionally tried to hack the power plant. Some terrorist cell could cause a nuclear meltdown without ever setting foot in the US.
You have got to be kidding me. You think that is actually possible? You think somebody could hack into a computer and cause a nuclear meltdown? The amount of FUD people spew here is amazing.
What the hell does it take, MS-inducted Chernobyl to make them realize that such an OS HAS NO PLACE in a nuclear reactor? Or how about NT crashing a critical system in a battleship?
You do realize that all Nuke plants are equipped with analog/mechanical systems that can shut down the plant in case of a total electrical failure, right?
where there has not been at least one of the arrival/departure screens showing 'This program has performed an illegal operation'. And I visit a fair few international airports.
Just because the displays use Windows doesn't mean anything. It was probably easier for whoever developed the system to develop it on Windows. For all you know it could be getting all of the data from a Linux server. I have seen other cases where Windows is only used as the front end. Banks, for example. PC Financial uses Win2k workstations that connect via IBM's client access to an AS/400. The workstation might crash but it doesn't do a thing to the server.
OK, maybe not the best, but I thought it was really cool. Duke has that bloodied-but-not-quite-dead alien on the ground, with his boot on its head. Before he blows the alien's head off with his 10-guage, the following lines are spoken:
"Who are you?"
"I'm Duke Nukem, and I'm coming to kill you alien bastards"
At least this way, I am not contributing to the pollution caused by conventional coal-fired or nuclear power plants!
Why, did you build your computer yourself? What about the power usage by your ISP?
One more negative point about projectors: Those cooling fans are loud. You don't notice it as much in a large room, but in a smaller living-room type setup you will certainly hear the cooling fan during quiet parts of the movie. Annoying to say the very least.
I wish I still had mod points. This is the best comment I have read on Slashdot in months!
It's too bad most people won't even get it.
Are you sure you're not describing coke?
Possibly if you change the timeframe from 5 hours to 5 minutes...
If you listen to your iPod at 100+ dB for a prolonged period of time, you might find yourself with hearing loss. Broken iPods can be fixed or replaced, but unfortunately your eardrums are permanent, and non replaceable.
I ride my mountain bike to work. I only live about 4 miles from work, which translates to a 15 minute ride to and from work. It's enough to keep me in pretty good shape.
That's nothing. I rollerblade home from work every day that it isn't raining. It is about 15km. Mostly uphill. I do agree, though. It certainly keeps the fat off.
These factors are (usually) carefully taken into consideration in composing an album to create an entire and complete work of art. As the opinions of others in this thread have shown, your "Hit" track mentality is not shared by all.
Which is exactly people buy shit like this, this and this.
It's really a damn shame Kodak discontinued these printers. The quality really is phenomenal. I recently got a chance to check out the new 8500 series, which seems cheaply made, and more consumer oriented. Those 8650's are pretty solid units, with lots of metal framing. The Kodak service guys can take this printer completely apart, replace something, and reassemble within an hour. The new 8500's don't look that servicable, and almost look disposable.
Hopefully our Kodak service contract will keep being renewed.
As anyone who has seen Revenge of the Nerds knows, Louis and Gilbert
invented this thing to help the Tri Lambs win the Greek Games. I would expect everyone on Slashdot to know that one.
Yes, it's GTK2--ironically Gimp is one of the last GTK1 users!
I don't think so. I installed a GTK2 version of Gimp on Gentoo last week. I know this for a fact because I do not have GTK1 installed. I'm pretty sure it is beta, but still GTK2. Called the politically incorrect version, according to the splash screen.
While a violet-laser DVD might be available, it will probably be some time before any media is availble for it. If you are looking for high-definition, uncompressed video, DVHS is currently the only way to go. As an added bonus, you can even record on them, as well as play back regular and super VHS.
JVC makes a few nice models.
t's like comparing digital cable to analog cable. Personally, I find the pixelation and compression artifacts in digital cable to be worse than the odd bit of fuzziness in analog cable.
Agreed, but the digital sound makes up for it, in my opinion. Analog cable seems to have a constant hiss in the background, and everything is downmixed to stereo. Digital movie channels can broadcast in 5.1 dolby. I don't notice much pixellation in DVD's, but the picture quality of the digital cable here in Toronto (Rogers Digital Cable), especially on scenes with a lot of blacks and dark colours, is horribly pixellated.
So I guess we have to decide which is more important: Sound quality or picture quality?
There have been bunch of ads lately in the Toronto area about all these great new games available for cellphones. I don't see how people can have fun playing games on a cellphone with a display the size of a postage stamp, but perhaps I'm just too old. I would imagine that the same people using cellphones for games would like to watch movies on a GBA.
I am one of the only people I know who doesn't own a cellphone, GBA, PDA, etc. And I don't even want one. I was offered a free cellphone through work and I declined. I guess that statement right there invalidates all my opinions on portable communications and gaming.
If you need some form of entertainment while commuting/travelling/whatever, why not read a book? I can buy 100 books for the cost of a GBA or cellphone, (provided I do it at secondhand stores) and quite possibly learn something in the process.