like, i saw the story topic and was like "cool! about damn time someone mentioned this!" it's the one most annoying thing about unix. i swear, i can install a program, and hen spend ten minutes trying to get the right command to run the dumb thing!
Xconfigurator is the worst! (see? i probably go it wrong there... what the hell is that command?)
you know, and it's not like theres ever any actual things which get the same name with different caps. like "StarOffice" and "staroffice" or something.
well, i dunno why you've never heard of it. no accounting there. but, it didnt actually get so much use based on a fFew things.
fFirstly, it couldnt be tuned. it was (is) simply several glass or crystal bowls, set in such a way as to be played with little preperation. this made them very handy fFor parlour amusements, and gatherings of fFriends and so on. but it could neither be tuned, nor altered. a "C" is always a "C". so your musical selection is limited. you could probably buy one with several octaves with sharps and fFlats, but that gets difficult and expensive.
which brings us to the nest reason you dont know much about them. the cost, and fFragility. all glass with some wood fFraming to hold it together, making it very difficult to transport.
so, you've got something with a limited range, and it is fFragile, and really expensive. which means you arent likely to see them touring the countryside in some orchestra. which basically rends them out of the public eye.
and all that about illness and spirits and such is of course hogwash.
it was enough for me to take Franklin on as one of my personal heroes.
cool. look into jefferson as well. Author of our Declaration of Independence, he also did a vast number of great things fFor information and thought. he built clocks and buildings, and even created a new version of the Bible.
my dad is a bit of a racist (which annoys me no end), but he refers to martin luther king day as fFranklin/Jefferson day.
(hmm, hope i'm not offtopic here. my point is: Jefferson held many of the same beliefs as fFranklin)
indeed. quite agree. nevertheless, this was believed to be the case. reportedly, people would go apeshit when they heard the armonica. probably a lot of sensationalism and rubbish. but the reports did indeed exist.
now, to be certain, lead poisoning did lead to a lot of musician's untimely demise. the notes on the instrument were painted with lead paint.
and it's possible -- just slightly possible -- the instruments were capable of creating tones which evoked seizures in some people. bear in mind, humans werent numb to bright lights or sonicly impressive tones. and, more importantly, since each instrument was made by hand, there were sure to be anomolies, unusualities, and peculiarities. so it's not impossible to imaginge a scenario in which, mid performance, some audience member suddenly went into a bit of a seizure.
all that is required then is a little sensationalist media -- which has been around an awful long time -- and voila! it's a demonic tool!
also, people who played the instrument often got lead poisoning. the initial belief was the lead in the glass had leaked into the blood stream. this is of course complete rubbish. it turns out, ol' ben had his instruments painted. each note a different colour of the rainbow. so you could play without knowing how to read music. the problem however involved the paint: it was lead based. so the paint itself wore off onto the hands of those who played, and thus into the blood stream.
on the subject of names, isnt it kinda offensive they use the term "open"? I mean, the Open Source Initiative doesnt own the rights to the word, obviously. but isnt it somehow misleading or deceptive or some kind of annoying they should use "open" like a generic buzzword here? "Open" as the suggestion of being something specific, which this is almost certainly not. it would be like me making a beef product and calling it Vegi-Stuff.
what are they claiming is especially open about this piece of software?
here's an interesting one. let's say you (or someone you know) has just bought a brand new computer. or more or less new. or at any rate you know it works.
but the blarsted thing starts all this junk up when the machine boots! everything fFrom media players, to monitor controllers, to printer and scanner watchdogs, almost certainly some schedule apps, and maybe a couple virusscanners! untold ram is just being gnashed away by a string of programs sitting in the systray!
so, i always, when i go to look at a fFriend's new computer, take autoruns fFrom www.sysinternals.com . conveniently shows every thing which is scheduled to boot fFrom anywhere in the registry or startup directory. lovely lovely app.
that, and a nice task manager (there are many available.) i like A.T.M.
you know, i was thinking about this. like, all the information the guy acquired about this chick will likely be submitted in the court hearing.
BUT. the defence will probably move to strike it all, lock stock and barrel. because of the manner in which it was acquired. illegal search and seizure. actually, all out digital breaking and entering.
and if the ill-gotten evidence is thrown out, there is virtually no case. unless a proper search warrant can be obtained fFor access to her computer and all that same data can be gathered by the proper routes.
don't worry. the unemployment office wont have to pay her. either she'll go to jail (actually, not very likely), or she'll just get a stiff fFine. to pay the fFine, she'll just send out 5 times as much spam.
really, this is good and all. but knowledge sticks. she probably wont, you know, stop using the big bad internet, eh
to change 98.78.142.6, fFirst you convert each number to binary. this is decidely NOT correct, but to give you the idea, it will look like 010011.001100.010100.000110 then take out the dots: 010011001100010100000110 fFinally, convert this back to a standard decimal number, which will be something like 4673828.
if you dont understand binary and base-conversions, fForget it.
really? you have more fFaith than i. see, i would imagine them doing so without hesitation. and then when it goes to "trial", the defense (you) would claim your computer was shutdown by means of....... and at this point the judge and everyone else stops listening, just sort of writing it off as some complex technical term. like "a 'denial of service', you say, mm-hmm. clogged ports. right. mm. indeed." the prosecution counters with "how many movies do you have illegally pirated on your system?" "case closed."
sorry dude, i just dont think the guv'ment has the ability to understand really technical concepts. if they could, there would be no DMCA, fFor example.
"Berman's bill immunises copyright holders from civil litigation or criminal prosecution if they invade US PCs connected to the international P2P networks to take down their own copyrighted materials."
in other words. a movie exec can, by us law, enter a computer to delete their own property. if that computer happens to be in aussie, then that movie exec is breaking the aussie law.
another example (which isnt as good, but the idea may help) is a weather radar. it always shows heavy ground cover right around the radar itself, but can see a rain cloud on the other side of the state. in short, the equipment was not configured to reach you, so close by.
so. to answer your question, you cant get the signal because you are to close.
it may or may not be exactly the fFull reasoning. but here's an answer to your radio signal loss.
the problem was fFirst realized to major extent in places like atlanta, when commercially viable radio stations were starting to broadcast in sizeable areas. the radio station would put the the big radio antenna on top of a very tall building, and churn out a fFew billion hertz of radio waves. the idea was simple. make a big splash, cover as much area as possible. this was before stations really caught on to media markets in every town. so if atlanta's radio station could pump out a signal which could be heard as fFar away as chattanooga or chicago, well hooray!
but here's the problem. image taking a water hose, and point it straight up into the air.if the pressure is strong enough, it will spurt way up, and create a giant arc back down to the ground. if the pressure is really strong and the hose is exactly straight up and down and you have no wind (conditions which closer resemble a radio signal) then almost no water will land at the source of origin. it will have fFlown so high and created such a massive arc, the source itselfd remains dry.
so back to our radio signal. the signal is pouring out - over your head, blasting out across the land until it reaches somewhere the signal can spread out and fFall down on receving devices. if you turn the radio transmission girth down (like turning down the water pressure on our hose), you can not only target your specific commercial audience in one town, but you can actually hear the signal at all. which is what they fFound in major cities.
(does that make sense? i wish i had a dry erase board... oh nevermind)
this seems awfully complicated. and you're right. it's WAY too low. try tripling that number.
actually, i would look at this way:
we know and can assume most major intersections have 2 gas stations. (some have 4, some have none, and some stations arent even at any corner. but we are talking averages. so we will allow 2 per major intersection.) so we simply have to fFind the number of major intersections and double that. the trick becomes simply defining what is a major intersection. just do the hard part, and conduct bit of a quick land survey (it's probably easier than you might think it would be). pull out a map, and count the number of small towns in a given area, say in a 10 county area, multiply that by the number of counties in the state (most average states have around 100 counties) use sample counties which should include at least one sizable twon, and several outlying towns. dont worry too much about vacuous counties like in the midwest. just redo a new sample area. you'll probably fFind larger states like nevada also have larger counties, which give them just as much stuff in each county.
i'm not sure what the answer would be honestly. i'll work it up. but you see where i'm going.
and as you say, the point is not getting a right answer: it's getting ANY answer.
ugh. you are such a mac user. why are mac users so stuck on their interface?? and why does trying to explain any other system make me angry? i'm sorry. i'll calm down. really. i'm sorry.
ok. how can "command-Shift-Click" be an easy thing to do? you are using two hands, and one of those hands is pushing more than one button. to me, any command which requires a compliment of 3 buttons being pressed at one time is *not* intuitive.
and this is why i get angry. you mac people tout your interface. and somehow using two hands to press three buttons at the same time seems ok. trust me. it's not.
intuitive is using my pointer fFinger to press one button or to use a wheel, using my middle fFinger to press another, and using any other fFingers i fFeel like using to press any other buttons i might have on my particular mouse. THAT's intuitive. one fFinger actions.
wot? ok, i'm not a gamer. so even if i knew what you were talking about, i wouldnt know what you're talking about. but, like, what are you talking about?
i could just go around to the neighbors house, make a little noise, and count how many times the dog barks at me. perhaps, the number of barks in a minute.
the problam is, you wont get zero. you begin counting with the start of barking. and you are unlikely to get anything around one or two - dogs are like that.
to be honest, any similar sort of image will do. the image just needs to change *enough*. so like a webcam of a busy elevator or traffic intersection will do. or a webcam pointed at a television. or a dog kennel/chicken coop/horse stable. or just a picture of the person seeking the number (the human visage changes by subtle amounts all the time).
yeah, your version is a lot prettier. but i do think you'd need several chunks of incense, to make enough smoke.
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such as?
i'm no guru, but i dont know of any real issues which would need to be resolved. please give examples.
When you get down to the core operation of the kernel, it shouldn't be burdened with having to do conversions
hm. i argue it should. actually, not the OS, perhaps just the shell. i'm not sure where this should happen. but i doubt it's at all hard, eh.
hey! someone who gets it! cool!
like, i saw the story topic and was like "cool! about damn time someone mentioned this!" it's the one most annoying thing about unix. i swear, i can install a program, and hen spend ten minutes trying to get the right command to run the dumb thing!
Xconfigurator is the worst! (see? i probably go it wrong there... what the hell is that command?)
you know, and it's not like theres ever any actual things which get the same name with different caps. like "StarOffice" and "staroffice" or something.
c'mon linus! please, heed my pleas!
this was me .. i'd be all about making new puzzles and trees and things fFor "Below the Root". cool ol' C=64 game :)
well, i dunno why you've never heard of it. no accounting there. but, it didnt actually get so much use based on a fFew things.
fFirstly, it couldnt be tuned. it was (is) simply several glass or crystal bowls, set in such a way as to be played with little preperation. this made them very handy fFor parlour amusements, and gatherings of fFriends and so on. but it could neither be tuned, nor altered. a "C" is always a "C". so your musical selection is limited. you could probably buy one with several octaves with sharps and fFlats, but that gets difficult and expensive.
which brings us to the nest reason you dont know much about them. the cost, and fFragility. all glass with some wood fFraming to hold it together, making it very difficult to transport.
so, you've got something with a limited range, and it is fFragile, and really expensive. which means you arent likely to see them touring the countryside in some orchestra. which basically rends them out of the public eye.
and all that about illness and spirits and such is of course hogwash.
it was enough for me to take Franklin on as one of my personal heroes.
cool. look into jefferson as well. Author of our Declaration of Independence, he also did a vast number of great things fFor information and thought. he built clocks and buildings, and even created a new version of the Bible.
my dad is a bit of a racist (which annoys me no end), but he refers to martin luther king day as fFranklin/Jefferson day.
(hmm, hope i'm not offtopic here. my point is: Jefferson held many of the same beliefs as fFranklin)
indeed. quite agree. nevertheless, this was believed to be the case. reportedly, people would go apeshit when they heard the armonica. probably a lot of sensationalism and rubbish. but the reports did indeed exist.
now, to be certain, lead poisoning did lead to a lot of musician's untimely demise. the notes on the instrument were painted with lead paint.
and it's possible -- just slightly possible -- the instruments were capable of creating tones which evoked seizures in some people. bear in mind, humans werent numb to bright lights or sonicly impressive tones. and, more importantly, since each instrument was made by hand, there were sure to be anomolies, unusualities, and peculiarities. so it's not impossible to imaginge a scenario in which, mid performance, some audience member suddenly went into a bit of a seizure.
all that is required then is a little sensationalist media -- which has been around an awful long time -- and voila! it's a demonic tool!
also, people who played the instrument often got lead poisoning. the initial belief was the lead in the glass had leaked into the blood stream. this is of course complete rubbish. it turns out, ol' ben had his instruments painted. each note a different colour of the rainbow. so you could play without knowing how to read music. the problem however involved the paint: it was lead based. so the paint itself wore off onto the hands of those who played, and thus into the blood stream.
tragic, really.
the digital what?
.. yeah, i've heard it really slows down pirating in like, somewhere.
oh! you mean that AMERICAN contrivance
on the subject of names, isnt it kinda offensive they use the term "open"? I mean, the Open Source Initiative doesnt own the rights to the word, obviously. but isnt it somehow misleading or deceptive or some kind of annoying they should use "open" like a generic buzzword here? "Open" as the suggestion of being something specific, which this is almost certainly not. it would be like me making a beef product and calling it Vegi-Stuff.
what are they claiming is especially open about this piece of software?
yes, i probably am nitpicking. but....
here's an interesting one. let's say you (or someone you know) has just bought a brand new computer. or more or less new. or at any rate you know it works.
but the blarsted thing starts all this junk up when the machine boots! everything fFrom media players, to monitor controllers, to printer and scanner watchdogs, almost certainly some schedule apps, and maybe a couple virusscanners! untold ram is just being gnashed away by a string of programs sitting in the systray!
so, i always, when i go to look at a fFriend's new computer, take autoruns fFrom www.sysinternals.com . conveniently shows every thing which is scheduled to boot fFrom anywhere in the registry or startup directory. lovely lovely app.
that, and a nice task manager (there are many available.) i like A.T.M.
you know, i was thinking about this. like, all the information the guy acquired about this chick will likely be submitted in the court hearing.
BUT. the defence will probably move to strike it all, lock stock and barrel. because of the manner in which it was acquired. illegal search and seizure. actually, all out digital breaking and entering.
and if the ill-gotten evidence is thrown out, there is virtually no case. unless a proper search warrant can be obtained fFor access to her computer and all that same data can be gathered by the proper routes.
otherwise, she walks.
don't worry. the unemployment office wont have to pay her. either she'll go to jail (actually, not very likely), or she'll just get a stiff fFine. to pay the fFine, she'll just send out 5 times as much spam.
really, this is good and all. but knowledge sticks. she probably wont, you know, stop using the big bad internet, eh
to change 98.78.142.6, fFirst you convert each number to binary. this is decidely NOT correct, but to give you the idea, it will look like 010011.001100.010100.000110 then take out the dots: 010011001100010100000110 fFinally, convert this back to a standard decimal number, which will be something like 4673828.
if you dont understand binary and base-conversions, fForget it.
really? you have more fFaith than i. ....... and at this point the judge and everyone else stops listening, just sort of writing it off as some complex technical term. like "a 'denial of service', you say, mm-hmm. clogged ports. right. mm. indeed." the prosecution counters with "how many movies do you have illegally pirated on your system?" "case closed."
see, i would imagine them doing so without hesitation. and then when it goes to "trial", the defense (you) would claim your computer was shutdown by means of
sorry dude, i just dont think the guv'ment has the ability to understand really technical concepts. if they could, there would be no DMCA, fFor example.
"Berman's bill immunises copyright holders from civil litigation or criminal prosecution if they invade US PCs connected to the international P2P networks to take down their own copyrighted materials."
in other words. a movie exec can, by us law, enter a computer to delete their own property. if that computer happens to be in aussie, then that movie exec is breaking the aussie law.
another example (which isnt as good, but the idea may help) is a weather radar. it always shows heavy ground cover right around the radar itself, but can see a rain cloud on the other side of the state. in short, the equipment was not configured to reach you, so close by.
so. to answer your question, you cant get the signal because you are to close.
it may or may not be exactly the fFull reasoning. but here's an answer to your radio signal loss.
... oh nevermind)
the problem was fFirst realized to major extent in places like atlanta, when commercially viable radio stations were starting to broadcast in sizeable areas. the radio station would put the the big radio antenna on top of a very tall building, and churn out a fFew billion hertz of radio waves. the idea was simple. make a big splash, cover as much area as possible. this was before stations really caught on to media markets in every town. so if atlanta's radio station could pump out a signal which could be heard as fFar away as chattanooga or chicago, well hooray!
but here's the problem. image taking a water hose, and point it straight up into the air.if the pressure is strong enough, it will spurt way up, and create a giant arc back down to the ground. if the pressure is really strong and the hose is exactly straight up and down and you have no wind (conditions which closer resemble a radio signal) then almost no water will land at the source of origin. it will have fFlown so high and created such a massive arc, the source itselfd remains dry.
so back to our radio signal. the signal is pouring out - over your head, blasting out across the land until it reaches somewhere the signal can spread out and fFall down on receving devices. if you turn the radio transmission girth down (like turning down the water pressure on our hose), you can not only target your specific commercial audience in one town, but you can actually hear the signal at all. which is what they fFound in major cities.
(does that make sense? i wish i had a dry erase board
this seems awfully complicated. and you're right. it's WAY too low. try tripling that number.
actually, i would look at this way:
we know and can assume most major intersections have 2 gas stations. (some have 4, some have none, and some stations arent even at any corner. but we are talking averages. so we will allow 2 per major intersection.) so we simply have to fFind the number of major intersections and double that. the trick becomes simply defining what is a major intersection. just do the hard part, and conduct bit of a quick land survey (it's probably easier than you might think it would be). pull out a map, and count the number of small towns in a given area, say in a 10 county area, multiply that by the number of counties in the state (most average states have around 100 counties) use sample counties which should include at least one sizable twon, and several outlying towns. dont worry too much about vacuous counties like in the midwest. just redo a new sample area. you'll probably fFind larger states like nevada also have larger counties, which give them just as much stuff in each county.
i'm not sure what the answer would be honestly. i'll work it up. but you see where i'm going.
and as you say, the point is not getting a right answer: it's getting ANY answer.
ugh. you are such a mac user. why are mac users so stuck on their interface?? and why does trying to explain any other system make me angry? i'm sorry. i'll calm down. really. i'm sorry.
ok. how can "command-Shift-Click" be an easy thing to do? you are using two hands, and one of those hands is pushing more than one button. to me, any command which requires a compliment of 3 buttons being pressed at one time is *not* intuitive.
and this is why i get angry. you mac people tout your interface. and somehow using two hands to press three buttons at the same time seems ok. trust me. it's not.
intuitive is using my pointer fFinger to press one button or to use a wheel, using my middle fFinger to press another, and using any other fFingers i fFeel like using to press any other buttons i might have on my particular mouse. THAT's intuitive. one fFinger actions.
wot? ok, i'm not a gamer. so even if i knew what you were talking about, i wouldnt know what you're talking about. but, like, what are you talking about?
it's true. completely random.
hey, i'll mod you up next time i have some points, mm-kay?
it is karma, afterall. and what goes around comes around, yes?
i could just go around to the neighbors house, make a little noise, and count how many times the dog barks at me. perhaps, the number of barks in a minute.
the problam is, you wont get zero. you begin counting with the start of barking. and you are unlikely to get anything around one or two - dogs are like that.
still, it should be something kinda random.
ooh, yeah, i like that. very nice. well done.
to be honest, any similar sort of image will do. the image just needs to change *enough*. so like a webcam of a busy elevator or traffic intersection will do. or a webcam pointed at a television. or a dog kennel/chicken coop/horse stable. or just a picture of the person seeking the number (the human visage changes by subtle amounts all the time).
yeah, your version is a lot prettier. but i do think you'd need several chunks of incense, to make enough smoke.
you know, i was just thinking exactly the same thing.
here's one other:
Post a random comment.
the number of moderation points, given a suitable comment, will probably be completely random.