I'm as frustrated as anyone about being forced to buy an operating system that I have no intention of using, but really, how different is this from the inclusion of software with the purchase of other computer hardware? For example, should I be entitled to a refund for the unused copy of Adobe Photo Deluxe that came with my printer (assuming that the license agreement is similar to that of Microsoft Windows and has a clause that I don't agree to)?
Nobody can have a perfect understanding of the word, but as long as you dont knowingly turn against what you have read and understood, youshould be alright.
Dude, do you realize how many inconsistencies occur in the Bible? This is literally a case of "damned if you do, and damned if you don't!".
Burning Man is the last week of August, too early for his September start. But Burning Man is definitely worth adjusting your schedule for!!! It's truly a life-changing experience. The rest of the trip will seem very drab in comparison.
Megahertz doesn't only apply to microprocessor control clocks, it merely means 1 million cycles per second. This could be used to describe atoms, radio, or anything else that cycles really quickly.
It doesn't apply only to things that cycle really quickly. Did you know that the earth revolves around the sun at 0.000000000000031689 megahertz?
Sorry for replying to my own post, but I found the article I was referring to. Actually, it's a series of article, with the first (on 2001-07-20) describing the test, and the second (on 2001-07-21) announcing the failure:
Unfortunately I don't have a link, but if memory serves, the ESA almost tested this technology about two years ago. (I think there was even a Slashdot article about it.) A test vehicle was launched, but it exploded before making it to orbit.
I think this is really interesting technology, and hope to see a SUCCESSFUL test of it soon. I've been fascinated with the idea ever since reading about it in a short story by Arthur C. Clarke many years ago.
"Win4Lin requires that a small Linux kernel module and patch be installed"
I stopped reading right there. No thanks. I left my kernel patching days behind me when I tossed Slackware in favour of Red Hat four years ago. I don't want to deal with that shit any more.
The GIF patent (held by Unisys) will expire on June 20.
Does this mean we might actually see another release of xv? John Bradley has been holding off on a new release for years because of the GIF patent issue. Ironically, perhaps the best feature that'll be in the new release will be built-in PNG support (as apposed to having to download a patch or a patched copy of xv to get this).
Their stock is rising (from $12.15 to $13 so far), so whether or not it brings any practical value, it (for some reason) brings a certain amount of shareholder value.
Is it possible to losslessly extract an MPEG-2 stream from a DVD (with synchronized sound, of course)? I know that a DVD uses MPEG2, but it's not entirely obvious to me how to get at the actual MPEG-2, or even if it's possible. From my understanding, the audio and video are split up into separate streams on a DVD (which makes sense, since there can be multiple audio tracks per video track), so they probably have to be re-integrated in some way.
I'm asking this because I, too, am in the process of considering how to best convert my important VHS tapes into a digital format. I think that to be the most flexible I'd like to end up with both an MPEG-2 stream (stored on a hard drive or DVD-R) and a DVD video of each of my recordings. I figure that aughta be easy because a DVD is encoded in MPEG-2. But are they really losslessly interchangeable formats?
I believe the original poster was referring to the vertical (or possibly horizontal) number of pixels in an image, while you're referring to the total number (i.e., area). Given that, your numbers are very roughly the same.
For example, if I type an e acute (é, but not using a glyph) in HTML, with a latin1 charset specified in the metatags, it displays as 2 garbled characters with Phoenix, but displays correctly with Konqueror. On the other hand, arabic fonts work with Phoenix but display as little squares with Konqueror. Similar odd problems with kmail.
That's probably happening because Red Hat Linux changed its default character set from ISO8859-1 to UTF-8 in its 8.0 release. Try setting your LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C" and see if that helps.
A good way to prevent spamming is to use javascript to generate your address. So rather then writing "me@wherever.tld" you write
document.write("me");
document.write("@");
document.write("wherever");
document.write(".tld");
It works pretty well, I've found.
You don't even really have to get that fancy. Using simple HTML character codes is pretty effective at tricking most (if not all) e-mail-address-searching spiders. E.g., simply write:
me@wherever.tld
It will show up on the web page as:
me@wherever.tld
but it won't be recognized as an e-mail address by evil e-mail-address-searching spiders. You can even write working mailto: links like this. E.g.:
Maybe this is an alien transmission a la the movie Contact. The 30th-of-a-second pulses are only a carrier signal, and the sub-pulses, once analyzed more closely, will reveal a message containing detailed blueprints for a massive transportation/communication device!
Not the same! Your code will ++nerdiness and --social_life at least once, even if reading_slashdot isn't true. (a la a do loop). Of course, by posting this I've just nerdiness<<2 and social_life>>2.
Audio formats supported by the P800 include MP3, WAV, AMR, and AU.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't AU the ancient Sun audio format? I find it odd that they advertise support for that, but don't mention Ogg support at all.
A completely separate though: given that will soon be able to make computers which accurately simulate reality (think Matrix), and everyone has one of those computers and can run a Matrix themselves, so there are 6 billion Matrices running, each of them containing "us"...
What are the chances that we're existing in the original?
Something similar to this was discussed in the book Mind Children by Hans Moravec (1988, ISBN 0-674-57618-7). However, the biggest flaw in your argument is the statement "given that will soon be able to make computers which accurately simulate reality...". This is far from given!
A more common problem for me is this: I'm at a public terminal somewhere and want to telnet or ssh to my home machine (or some other machine), only to find that the terminal doesn't have a telnet or ssh client on it, only a web browser.
What I'd really like to find is a Java applet installed somewhere (ideally my home machine, but it could really be anywhere) that emulates a telnet/ssh client. That would allow me (and anyone I give htaccess to) to telnet/ssh to anywhere I want, from any terminal that's capable of running Java applets. Such an applet would be so mindbogglingly useful, I'm surprised I've never seen an instance of it yet.
Once I was actually interested in reading the full text of one of these FBI warnings, so I pressed the pause button to give me more time. Guess what? Pause was disabled. Geesh!
I can hear it now: "Your honor, I wasn't aware of the law because despite my efforts to read the full text of the FBI warning, my DVD player wouldn't let me."
Who the hell is trying to store large complex databases in XML?
You'd be surprised! Once a manager type gets brainwashed into thinking that XML is the be-all end-all of description languages, he often dictates to his minions to use it for all of the storage and communication requirements of the application or system being developed, even if ends up meaning that the resulting system is an order of magnitude less efficient. Then, when the project is finished, the manager asks "why is it so slow?".
I think it's a real shame that D lacks a bool type. That's the first thing I looked for when I went to the spec. It's such a trivial thing to add, and (in my experience) makes a lot of code quite a bit cleaner (i.e., easier to read/understand). It could also (in theory) help a compiler optimize code, because there are only two possible values (enforced at compile time!) rather than the entire range of the integer type.
According to this site, this is the complete list of Constitution-class starships during the original Star Trek Series:
USS Constellation (NCC-1017)
USS Constitution (NCC-1700)
USS Defiant (NCC-1764)
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
USS Excalibur (NCC-1664)
USS Exeter (NCC-1672)
USS Farragut (NCC-1647)
USS Hood (NCC-1703)
USS Intrepid (NCC-1831)
USS Lexington (NCC-1709)
USS Potemkin (NCC-1657)
USS Republic (NCC-1371)
USS Yorktown (NCC-1717)
The site also gives episode references for each of these ships. This is what it says about the Exeter:
NCC-1672 Encyc., TOS "Court Martial"
(identified by wall status display)
Captain Ronald Tracey TOS "The Omega Glory"
Abandoned in orbit around Omega I
It's interesting that in this list the USS Exeter is given the NCC number 1672, but the guys who wrote "Starship Exeter" gave it the number 1706. This was either an oversight on their part, or it's supposed to be a different Exeter.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm as frustrated as anyone about being forced to buy an operating system that I have no intention of using, but really, how different is this from the inclusion of software with the purchase of other computer hardware? For example, should I be entitled to a refund for the unused copy of Adobe Photo Deluxe that came with my printer (assuming that the license agreement is similar to that of Microsoft Windows and has a clause that I don't agree to)?
Dude, do you realize how many inconsistencies occur in the Bible? This is literally a case of "damned if you do, and damned if you don't!".
It doesn't apply only to things that cycle really quickly. Did you know that the earth revolves around the sun at 0.000000000000031689 megahertz?
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/2 0/1246254 2 2/0321239
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/
There was another Slashdot article about solar sails (from 2002-04-29) here:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/2 9/1246221
It mentions a test to be launched "sometime after September". I don't know if that test ever launched.
I think this is really interesting technology, and hope to see a SUCCESSFUL test of it soon. I've been fascinated with the idea ever since reading about it in a short story by Arthur C. Clarke many years ago.
I stopped reading right there. No thanks. I left my kernel patching days behind me when I tossed Slackware in favour of Red Hat four years ago. I don't want to deal with that shit any more.
Does this mean we might actually see another release of xv? John Bradley has been holding off on a new release for years because of the GIF patent issue. Ironically, perhaps the best feature that'll be in the new release will be built-in PNG support (as apposed to having to download a patch or a patched copy of xv to get this).
Their stock is rising (from $12.15 to $13 so far), so whether or not it brings any practical value, it (for some reason) brings a certain amount of shareholder value.
I'm asking this because I, too, am in the process of considering how to best convert my important VHS tapes into a digital format. I think that to be the most flexible I'd like to end up with both an MPEG-2 stream (stored on a hard drive or DVD-R) and a DVD video of each of my recordings. I figure that aughta be easy because a DVD is encoded in MPEG-2. But are they really losslessly interchangeable formats?
I believe the original poster was referring to the vertical (or possibly horizontal) number of pixels in an image, while you're referring to the total number (i.e., area). Given that, your numbers are very roughly the same.
That's probably happening because Red Hat Linux changed its default character set from ISO8859-1 to UTF-8 in its 8.0 release. Try setting your LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C" and see if that helps.
You don't even really have to get that fancy. Using simple HTML character codes is pretty effective at tricking most (if not all) e-mail-address-searching spiders. E.g., simply write:
It will show up on the web page as:
but it won't be recognized as an e-mail address by evil e-mail-address-searching spiders. You can even write working mailto: links like this. E.g.:
Not the same! Your code will ++nerdiness and --social_life at least once, even if reading_slashdot isn't true. (a la a do loop). Of course, by posting this I've just nerdiness<<2 and social_life>>2.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't AU the ancient Sun audio format? I find it odd that they advertise support for that, but don't mention Ogg support at all.
Something similar to this was discussed in the book Mind Children by Hans Moravec (1988, ISBN 0-674-57618-7). However, the biggest flaw in your argument is the statement "given that will soon be able to make computers which accurately simulate reality...". This is far from given!
What I'd really like to find is a Java applet installed somewhere (ideally my home machine, but it could really be anywhere) that emulates a telnet/ssh client. That would allow me (and anyone I give htaccess to) to telnet/ssh to anywhere I want, from any terminal that's capable of running Java applets. Such an applet would be so mindbogglingly useful, I'm surprised I've never seen an instance of it yet.
I can hear it now: "Your honor, I wasn't aware of the law because despite my efforts to read the full text of the FBI warning, my DVD player wouldn't let me."
You'd be surprised! Once a manager type gets brainwashed into thinking that XML is the be-all end-all of description languages, he often dictates to his minions to use it for all of the storage and communication requirements of the application or system being developed, even if ends up meaning that the resulting system is an order of magnitude less efficient. Then, when the project is finished, the manager asks "why is it so slow?".
I think it's a real shame that D lacks a bool type. That's the first thing I looked for when I went to the spec. It's such a trivial thing to add, and (in my experience) makes a lot of code quite a bit cleaner (i.e., easier to read/understand). It could also (in theory) help a compiler optimize code, because there are only two possible values (enforced at compile time!) rather than the entire range of the integer type.
The site also gives episode references for each of these ships. This is what it says about the Exeter:
It's interesting that in this list the USS Exeter is given the NCC number 1672, but the guys who wrote "Starship Exeter" gave it the number 1706. This was either an oversight on their part, or it's supposed to be a different Exeter.I hate postings like this, because I never know whether I should mod it +1 Funny or -1 Clueless.