I also think it's silly to let the FCC regulate broadcast television when it doesn't regulate cable ("invades your home" vs. "you subscribe"), as the distinction between accessing NBC and accessing Comedy Central from a standard US household setup is viturally zero.
I think there's a pretty clear difference. The former comes into my house whether I want it to or not, and I have to deliberately act to bring the second in. Not that this affects your other arguments in my opinion.
Don't forget about its extremely useful cousin: echo ^V^O (control-V control-O). The ^V says "insert the next key without processing it, so you're writing a command to echo a single ^O. This resets the terminal sometimes when even the reset command can't fix it.
Sadly, even being a 'reluctant' Bush voter still counts as being really really dumb, not to mention xenophobic and willingly ignorant of recent 20th century history.
Or maybe it was that John Kerry:
Thought "No Child Gets Ahead" was a great idea
Strongly favored gun control
Favored mandatory indentured servitude, I mean, community service for graduating high school students
Wanted universal health care
Was hugely pro-union
The fact you assumed I was against him because of his Vietnam record says a lot more about you than me. Hint: even though it's easy to dismiss people who disagree with you as stupid, it's a lot more rewarding to find out why they actually disagree with you.
Hell, I think it's probably a GNU extension, because it's still not in Solaris.
Yeah, because Solaris is often regarded for its pleasant and user-friendly shell environment, so if Solaris doesn't support a convenient option, it must be a weird GNU thing. Either that or it was invented after 1987 and Sun is still evaluating it for inclusion.
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Too bad there's not "-1: Tarded". Seriously, you deliberately avoid one of the most useful tools known to Unix admins just because of a (very) superficial similarity to another tool?
Use case: start a giant build on your home server inside a screen session. Get to work. Wonder if it's still going, SSH in, and run screen -x to check on it.
I always followed the studies that said you're supposed to sit 8 feet away from the TV and had perfect eyes. Then I got a computer, and a year later, I needed glasses.
I always sat 18 inches from a monitor from the time I was a nubbin of a proto-geek and my eyes were perfect. I turned 30 and bam! Out came the astigmatism.
In other words, aging past your prime starts to suck.
And regardless of their intent, over 106,000 Alaskans still put down a vote for a convicted criminal. The extreme partisanship required to do that is beyond comprehension.
Missouri elected a dead man after the governor promised to appoint his widow. There are plenty of partisan idiots everywhere.
Here's a little hint for you, what do you think would happen to the US if the chinese flooded the market with all the US IOUs they've been stashing away?
Once China finished devaluing their investment and jerking the rug out from under their biggest customer, I imagine they'd start looking for less pleasant sources of revenue.
sadly in 2004 W. still had enough people fooled to squeak by.
That overlooks the substantial number of us who picked Bush as the lesser evil. I wasn't pro-Bush in the slightest, but thought (and still think) he was a less-bad option than Kerry. How that guy won the primaries is still beyond me.
Tons of white folks voted AGAINST him for no reason but skin color or perceived religion
My father-in-law is from New York and has said (to my face) that anyone from the South or Midwest is lazy and uneducated because we don't have work ethics or good schools.
I voted for Barr because I like his social policies. My father-in-law voted against Obama because he's black. And yet, next time he visits, he'll patiently explain why I'm an ignorant redneck.
If I were going to do that, I'd almost run it as a scheduled batch process that looked for FLAC files without corresponding MP3s and transcoded them. This way you don't have to use special software setups and it would automatically handle files you buy online.
I'm not sure there's that much resistence to Vorbis/FLAC/what have you among people who play their music off a desktop or laptop.
I'm fairly resistant even though my Rockboxed Sansa can play both just fine. My situations is that I ripped a few hundred of my CDs to high-quality MP3 and it takes up about 30GB of storage. With an 8GB portable player, that means I can take along about a fourth of my collection. This works out pretty well because a lot of it is my wife's stuff that I'm not into, and I don't like every single song from even my favorite artists.
Now, suppose I were starting from scratch and considering FLAC. I'm going to ballpark estimate the resulting collection to be about 3 times larger than what I have now. This is no big deal at all on the desktop, but suddenly the Sansa presents an awful decision:
Only take 1/12th of my collection along, guaranteeing that I'll get an overwhelming desire to hear "Rye Or The Kaiser" which is sitting at home, or
Transcode from FLAC to something reasonably sized at sync time.
You hear variants on the latter a lot: "just transcode when you want another format!" But why? Lame can already make MP3s that are much better than my concert-damaged hearing can distinguish, and they take a third the space of FLAC. Now, I love the idea of FLAC, but in practice I don't really see what problems it would solve for me.
GenCon raised the money with statements like "donate and part of the proceeds go to CCF", which would imply that CCF was somehow involved in the fundraising event. For various complicated legal reasons, CCF has to distance itself from that impression. I think a summary of their summary would be that while they appreciate the thought, they weren't involved in the planning and therefore legally can't accept the donation.
No, you need a 64-bit system to access more than 4GB of RAM (more or less; things get weird with PAE because even then you get low per-process limits) or to run video software optimized for 64-bit systems (which is all the nicely fast stuff these days).
Thank you for retarding the progress of Good Technology like MPEG-4 H.264/AVC and MPEG-4 AAC.
If their creators hadn't made those codecs prohibitively expensive to license, W3C would probably be advocating them. You're getting mad at the wrong people.
But it counts for a whole heck of a lot for anyone with more than 3GB of RAM on a Windows box, people who don't want PAE-crippled systems, or people who like to run optimized 64-bit software - like, say, people who enjoy watching videos.
and yes, it's good to be annoying when it comes to frivolities like TV. I wish more people were annoying in regards to frivolities.
You're an elitist ass. I'm not going to get in a pissing match about which of us is smarter, but statistically speaking there's a high probability you'd come out on the low end of that one. Still, sometimes I pry my attention away from fine arts and subtle discourse to watch "Bones" or "The Office". You say "frivolity" and I say "needed pressure release".
Get off your high horse and accept that some people relax using other methods than yours. The ability to enjoy the occasional sitcom or sports event is a positive sign of good mental adjustment.
It is their legal right, but I'm sure plenty of people would like to do something that says, "don't do that."
Why? Really, what gives you the moral right to tell them they can't play their own ads in their own store? What is it they're doing that you have the right to be offended by? Seriously, I'd like to hear a defense of this entitlement theory.
I had similar problems when my monitor lied about it's capabilities, presumably to coerce Windows into picking the right mode for it. I don't have the Xorg.conf I used to fix it anymore, but it was along the lines of telling X to ignore the EDID settings it was receiving from the monitor, then explicitly specifying the maximum frequencies from the card's manual. I wish I didn't have to do that, but place the blame squarely on the monitor.
As far as the fonts, you have something misconfigured. Considering you can adjust TrueType to approximate either Window or OS X, if fonts look bad it's because you need to choose the other.
If he really wants Linux to compete with OS X in terms of interface, he should focus on the X Server first.
Why? What do you personally dislike about X in general (or X.org in particular)? I installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my work Dell and it correctly autoconfigured everything from my subpixel antialiasing on my LCD to my 7-button Microsoft trackball to my Model M keyboard, using the open source accelerated Radeon drivers for my ATI card. I have a nice, composited desktop with no tweaking necessary. What more should I be expecting from my graphics layer?
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The POSIX standards GUARANTEE that "env" is in /bin, so this is VERY portable.
s#/bin#/usr/bin#
I also think it's silly to let the FCC regulate broadcast television when it doesn't regulate cable ("invades your home" vs. "you subscribe"), as the distinction between accessing NBC and accessing Comedy Central from a standard US household setup is viturally zero.
I think there's a pretty clear difference. The former comes into my house whether I want it to or not, and I have to deliberately act to bring the second in. Not that this affects your other arguments in my opinion.
2. reset
Don't forget about its extremely useful cousin: echo ^V^O (control-V control-O). The ^V says "insert the next key without processing it, so you're writing a command to echo a single ^O. This resets the terminal sometimes when even the reset command can't fix it.
Sadly, even being a 'reluctant' Bush voter still counts as being really really dumb, not to mention xenophobic and willingly ignorant of recent 20th century history.
Or maybe it was that John Kerry:
The fact you assumed I was against him because of his Vietnam record says a lot more about you than me. Hint: even though it's easy to dismiss people who disagree with you as stupid, it's a lot more rewarding to find out why they actually disagree with you.
Hell, I think it's probably a GNU extension, because it's still not in Solaris.
Yeah, because Solaris is often regarded for its pleasant and user-friendly shell environment, so if Solaris doesn't support a convenient option, it must be a weird GNU thing. Either that or it was invented after 1987 and Sun is still evaluating it for inclusion.
Moderators are free to mod this Flamebait or Insightful, depending on personal bias.
Too bad there's not "-1: Tarded". Seriously, you deliberately avoid one of the most useful tools known to Unix admins just because of a (very) superficial similarity to another tool?
Use case: start a giant build on your home server inside a screen session. Get to work. Wonder if it's still going, SSH in, and run screen -x to check on it.
I always followed the studies that said you're supposed to sit 8 feet away from the TV and had perfect eyes. Then I got a computer, and a year later, I needed glasses.
I always sat 18 inches from a monitor from the time I was a nubbin of a proto-geek and my eyes were perfect. I turned 30 and bam! Out came the astigmatism.
In other words, aging past your prime starts to suck.
And regardless of their intent, over 106,000 Alaskans still put down a vote for a convicted criminal. The extreme partisanship required to do that is beyond comprehension.
Missouri elected a dead man after the governor promised to appoint his widow. There are plenty of partisan idiots everywhere.
Hope because the idiots that have been running the country for nearly a decade are gone, fear that the new bunch of idiots aren't any better.
No, we still have most of the same Congress.
Here's a little hint for you, what do you think would happen to the US if the chinese flooded the market with all the US IOUs they've been stashing away?
Once China finished devaluing their investment and jerking the rug out from under their biggest customer, I imagine they'd start looking for less pleasant sources of revenue.
There should be no continuation of race based programs, organizations, or policies.
Nebraska's Initiative 424 for the win.
sadly in 2004 W. still had enough people fooled to squeak by.
That overlooks the substantial number of us who picked Bush as the lesser evil. I wasn't pro-Bush in the slightest, but thought (and still think) he was a less-bad option than Kerry. How that guy won the primaries is still beyond me.
My question would be, why didn't 95% of whites vote for Obama?
Because more than 5% of us disliked his policies? I didn't vote for McCain, either.
Tons of white folks voted AGAINST him for no reason but skin color or perceived religion
My father-in-law is from New York and has said (to my face) that anyone from the South or Midwest is lazy and uneducated because we don't have work ethics or good schools.
I voted for Barr because I like his social policies. My father-in-law voted against Obama because he's black. And yet, next time he visits, he'll patiently explain why I'm an ignorant redneck.
If I were going to do that, I'd almost run it as a scheduled batch process that looked for FLAC files without corresponding MP3s and transcoded them. This way you don't have to use special software setups and it would automatically handle files you buy online.
I'm not sure there's that much resistence to Vorbis/FLAC/what have you among people who play their music off a desktop or laptop.
I'm fairly resistant even though my Rockboxed Sansa can play both just fine. My situations is that I ripped a few hundred of my CDs to high-quality MP3 and it takes up about 30GB of storage. With an 8GB portable player, that means I can take along about a fourth of my collection. This works out pretty well because a lot of it is my wife's stuff that I'm not into, and I don't like every single song from even my favorite artists.
Now, suppose I were starting from scratch and considering FLAC. I'm going to ballpark estimate the resulting collection to be about 3 times larger than what I have now. This is no big deal at all on the desktop, but suddenly the Sansa presents an awful decision:
You hear variants on the latter a lot: "just transcode when you want another format!" But why? Lame can already make MP3s that are much better than my concert-damaged hearing can distinguish, and they take a third the space of FLAC. Now, I love the idea of FLAC, but in practice I don't really see what problems it would solve for me.
I think the logic is this:
GenCon raised the money with statements like "donate and part of the proceeds go to CCF", which would imply that CCF was somehow involved in the fundraising event. For various complicated legal reasons, CCF has to distance itself from that impression. I think a summary of their summary would be that while they appreciate the thought, they weren't involved in the planning and therefore legally can't accept the donation.
No, you need a 64-bit system to access more than 4GB of RAM (more or less; things get weird with PAE because even then you get low per-process limits) or to run video software optimized for 64-bit systems (which is all the nicely fast stuff these days).
Thank you for retarding the progress of Good Technology like MPEG-4 H.264/AVC and MPEG-4 AAC.
If their creators hadn't made those codecs prohibitively expensive to license, W3C would probably be advocating them. You're getting mad at the wrong people.
The point is that 64-bit isn't everything.
But it counts for a whole heck of a lot for anyone with more than 3GB of RAM on a Windows box, people who don't want PAE-crippled systems, or people who like to run optimized 64-bit software - like, say, people who enjoy watching videos.
and yes, it's good to be annoying when it comes to frivolities like TV. I wish more people were annoying in regards to frivolities.
You're an elitist ass. I'm not going to get in a pissing match about which of us is smarter, but statistically speaking there's a high probability you'd come out on the low end of that one. Still, sometimes I pry my attention away from fine arts and subtle discourse to watch "Bones" or "The Office". You say "frivolity" and I say "needed pressure release".
Get off your high horse and accept that some people relax using other methods than yours. The ability to enjoy the occasional sitcom or sports event is a positive sign of good mental adjustment.
It is their legal right, but I'm sure plenty of people would like to do something that says, "don't do that."
Why? Really, what gives you the moral right to tell them they can't play their own ads in their own store? What is it they're doing that you have the right to be offended by? Seriously, I'd like to hear a defense of this entitlement theory.
GNU Free Documentation License 1.3! That just souns silly and verbose.
Twelve syllables.
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license 3.0
Seventeen syllables. Yep, definitely less verbose.
I had similar problems when my monitor lied about it's capabilities, presumably to coerce Windows into picking the right mode for it. I don't have the Xorg.conf I used to fix it anymore, but it was along the lines of telling X to ignore the EDID settings it was receiving from the monitor, then explicitly specifying the maximum frequencies from the card's manual. I wish I didn't have to do that, but place the blame squarely on the monitor.
As far as the fonts, you have something misconfigured. Considering you can adjust TrueType to approximate either Window or OS X, if fonts look bad it's because you need to choose the other.
If he really wants Linux to compete with OS X in terms of interface, he should focus on the X Server first.
Why? What do you personally dislike about X in general (or X.org in particular)? I installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my work Dell and it correctly autoconfigured everything from my subpixel antialiasing on my LCD to my 7-button Microsoft trackball to my Model M keyboard, using the open source accelerated Radeon drivers for my ATI card. I have a nice, composited desktop with no tweaking necessary. What more should I be expecting from my graphics layer?