This is completely baseless and uncalled for, as Amsterdam also forbids child porn.
And you say that like it's a bad thing. According to friends who have moved there, Amsterdam is a very nice city to live! Better than most metropolitan areas in the USA, at least.
I dunno - St. Patrick's Day seems to be celebrated worldwide for some reason, which I've never seen happen with any other national holiday...
Here in Brazil we never celebrated it. St. Patrick is almost unknown here. As a largely catholic country, we do celebrate other saints, like St. John, St. Peter... But I never saw any St. Patrick celebration.
Well, the first time I ever sat at a Mac, I placed a floppy in the drive, used it, and then spent a few minutes trying to understand where should I eject it (Which eject button, kemosabe? Mac floppy drives DON'T have an eject button, which is kind of the whole point)
If a soul more acquainted with the MacOS hadn't passed by and said "Just drag it to the trash, it's ok, it won't be erased" I'd never tried it! The "logical" action associated with dragging the disk to the trash, to someone not used to the interface, would be to erase it.
Guess I'll never find out...as now any new MB better have a huge Award sticker on it.
You might find out even so, since Phoenix bought Award around 1998, and they've been a single company since.
They've been shopping around this stuff for several Internet companies, offering them the "opportunity" to be the default home page of the user... whether he wants to or not. The PowerPoint presentation I saw specifically mentioned Phoenix AND Award BIOSes as part of the deal.
I was in your situation, around 6 months ago. I made purchases in Outpost.com and Amazon.com. Both accepted my Brazilian credit card cheerfully, and sent the items to my friend's hotel room with no problems.
Maybe you won't find motherboards on them, but most other hardware (drives, sound boards, etc.) can be found at these stores.
I'd love to see you trying to write anything in Brazilian Portuguese. Anything, mr. High-and-mighty. I have never heard an American speak good Portuguese. It's always horribly broken, and generally much worse than a Brazilian speaking English.
Speaking as a Brazilian myself, I have been complimented several times on my English. My team at work can travel abroad and communicate with absolutely no problems. I'd like to see how well you'd do here in Brazil, trying to communicate in Portuguese.
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Another reason to buy Discworld books from a UK bookstore is the Josh Kirby covers. American editions always have amazingly ugly and nondescript covers.
2) The first Dune game was built by Cryo, a French game house, and followed their standard "just-click-through-the-adventure-and-marvel-at-ou r-gorgeous-graphics" interface they used in almost every game. Check http://www.cryo.fr
3) Westwood, at the time, was distributed by Virgin Games (they weren't part of the EA behemoth)
4) If I'm reading http://dune.cryogame.com right, Cryo is doing a new version of Dune I, called "Frank Herbert's Dune", connected to the Sci-Fi Channel mini-series.
The only thing Dune I and Dune II had in common was distribution by Virgin Games. Different teams, different art styles, completely different games.
Cool concept. However, I think this particular board is a bit too small for what I have in mind. I don't see an IDE connector on the specs. Is there such a thing as a CompactFlash CD-RW? It's probably very expensive anyway.
Actually, I'm talking about what I see available around here. Keep in mind that I live in Brazil, and I haven't ever seen a FlexATX board. However, they sound intriguing.
That said, I could always try buying one on the 'net... Do you recommend any sites?
If I could find a Celeron-level (I'd prefer Duron, but I'm afraid it would generate too much heat) board with an Creative onboard audio, I'd be set...
Agreed on the "good excuse for hacking"... That's what drew me to this project, actually.
I haven't heard much about MiniDiscs lately, how much would you expect these (a recorder and a portable player) to cost? I'll look into that...
Actually, DirecTV receivers in Brazil don't have SPDIF. I'm actually using a plain-vanilla RCA-to-line-in cable directly to the computer. That's an improvement, as my father wanted to use cassette tapes as a transfer device... Until he heard how the first one sounded like;)
Putting another computer on the car is a very different project;) Take a look at http://www.empeg.com (now the RioCar, or something like that). I think building our little appliance will be easier, actually (think about car vibration).
By slim-line case, you're saying something like those "pizza box" computers? Haven't seen them being sold around here lately... Any websites?
Does it really matter any more? With affordable hard drives available in th 25-75gig range, it really wouldn't even matter if the icons are 128x128, 24 bit uncompressed animated tiffs..
I know you're joking, but people really did use tiffs as icons before.
Mac OS X's ancestors, NeXTStep and OpenStep, used 64x64 tiffs as icon files. I'm not sure, but I think Mac OS X allows GIF and JPEG as icons too...
Once again we would have Microsoft "innovating" by stealing NeXT's work... Where do you think the "X" close button came from?
I don't know what Bianchi is smoking. I've watched Corinthians games since I was a little kid, and I NEVER saw this "Corinthiao" word. Not a reference in my entire life.
Shows what a fan I've been, huh? Time to stop caring about soccer...
C) The soccer team doesn't even have a trademark on the name Corinthians; their name is Corinthiao, which is apparently pronounced the same in Portuguese, but not spelled the same - and domain names are spelled, not spoken aloud (generally).
What are you talking about? They ARE called Corinthians! There's no such a thing as "Corinthiao".
However, I do agree with your other points. They already had a perfectly good domain, and they have no claim for corinthians.com.
There is no such a thing as "Corinthiao". The guy who supports the team is a "corinthiano". The team is called Corinthians.
The founders of the team had been to the UK, where they had seen a team called Corinthians. Going back to Brasil, they decided to build a team and called themselves Corinthians too. Glad there were no trademark disputes in 1910, huh?
I had read about this dispute, but I was pretty sure nothing was going to come out of it. There goes my faith in domain dispute resolutions...
The really ridiculous part is, the Brazilian Corinthians have this name because they patterned themselves after the Corinthians, a UK team. I remember when they played against each other a few years ago... Shouldn't the domain name go then to Corinthians UK, since they owned the trademark before?
(All this makes me really ashamed of being a Corinthians supporter since childhood... Don't think I'll be paying attention to soccer anytime soon)
Slashdot uses JavaScript, which means that it isn't accessible to everyone, but I don't think many of us rue the extra capabilities that this provides.
Slashdot uses JavaScript, but it doesn't REQUIRE it. Actually, it renders quite fine on Lynx (I use it from time to time).
The problem here is reaching what UI people call "graceful degradation". Ok, so the page won't have all the spiffy features on Lynx/Palm/Other resource-starved environment, but the basic info should be available.
I've done it at my job, and it's not that hard. Checking the User-Agent and customizing the content to it (or actually, major families, as Text-only/Old browser/Modern browser) is something every major site should do.
Anyway, Vasco de Gamma was blown off course on a trip to the Horn of Africa in 1500 and accidentally landed in Brazil. Such errors were actually likely given the nature of the fast out-and-down route around Africa to India. So Columbus's courage and stupidity did change history, but America would have been discovered by accident within a century anyway.
That was Pedro Alvares Cabral. Vasco da Gama was the first to do the India route through Africa, in 1496.
Actually, most brazilian historians today agree that Cabral wasn't just "blown off course" and actually knew he should look for something. Come on, how dumb/lucky can someone be to be blown off through all the Atlantic Ocean?
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From all we have heard and seen, it seems Corel Desktop Linux trying to be exactly what the author is proposing.
Of course, we will only know if that's the one when they release the distro. But the other distros would do well in taking a note from this article as well.
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If it were, we'd be living in fucking Amsterdam.
This is completely baseless and uncalled for, as Amsterdam also forbids child porn.
And you say that like it's a bad thing. According to friends who have moved there, Amsterdam is a very nice city to live! Better than most metropolitan areas in the USA, at least.
I dunno - St. Patrick's Day seems to be celebrated worldwide for some reason, which I've never seen happen with any other national holiday...
Here in Brazil we never celebrated it. St. Patrick is almost unknown here. As a largely catholic country, we do celebrate other saints, like St. John, St. Peter... But I never saw any St. Patrick celebration.
Well, the first time I ever sat at a Mac, I placed a floppy in the drive, used it, and then spent a few minutes trying to understand where should I eject it (Which eject button, kemosabe? Mac floppy drives DON'T have an eject button, which is kind of the whole point)
If a soul more acquainted with the MacOS hadn't passed by and said "Just drag it to the trash, it's ok, it won't be erased" I'd never tried it! The "logical" action associated with dragging the disk to the trash, to someone not used to the interface, would be to erase it.
You might find out even so, since Phoenix bought Award around 1998, and they've been a single company since.
They've been shopping around this stuff for several Internet companies, offering them the "opportunity" to be the default home page of the user... whether he wants to or not. The PowerPoint presentation I saw specifically mentioned Phoenix AND Award BIOSes as part of the deal.
I was in your situation, around 6 months ago. I made purchases in Outpost.com and Amazon.com. Both accepted my Brazilian credit card cheerfully, and sent the items to my friend's hotel room with no problems.
Maybe you won't find motherboards on them, but most other hardware (drives, sound boards, etc.) can be found at these stores.
I really shouldn't feed the troll, but...
I'd love to see you trying to write anything in Brazilian Portuguese. Anything, mr. High-and-mighty. I have never heard an American speak good Portuguese. It's always horribly broken, and generally much worse than a Brazilian speaking English.
Speaking as a Brazilian myself, I have been complimented several times on my English. My team at work can travel abroad and communicate with absolutely no problems. I'd like to see how well you'd do here in Brazil, trying to communicate in Portuguese.
Another reason to buy Discworld books from a UK bookstore is the Josh Kirby covers. American editions always have amazingly ugly and nondescript covers.
Two nitpicks about this:
u r-gorgeous-graphics" interface they used in almost every game. Check http://www.cryo.fr
1) The Dune license was held by Virgin Games
2) The first Dune game was built by Cryo, a French game house, and followed their standard "just-click-through-the-adventure-and-marvel-at-o
3) Westwood, at the time, was distributed by Virgin Games (they weren't part of the EA behemoth)
4) If I'm reading http://dune.cryogame.com right, Cryo is doing a new version of Dune I, called "Frank Herbert's Dune", connected to the Sci-Fi Channel mini-series.
The only thing Dune I and Dune II had in common was distribution by Virgin Games. Different teams, different art styles, completely different games.
Cool concept. However, I think this particular board is a bit too small for what I have in mind. I don't see an IDE connector on the specs. Is there such a thing as a CompactFlash CD-RW? It's probably very expensive anyway.
This seems to be just what I was thinking about! The size is just about right.
Thanks, I'll look into this further.
This Terapin sounds perfect!
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I'll show it to my family, and if they are so inclined, that will be the way.
Too bad it has little hack value... I'd still prefer building one myself
Great link!
;( Were it free software, I'd work on a sound recorder for it...
This package is really nifty. I'll download it and take a look.
However, it seems to be more of a media player app. And closed source, at that.
Actually, I'm talking about what I see available around here. Keep in mind that I live in Brazil, and I haven't ever seen a FlexATX board. However, they sound intriguing.
That said, I could always try buying one on the 'net... Do you recommend any sites?
If I could find a Celeron-level (I'd prefer Duron, but I'm afraid it would generate too much heat) board with an Creative onboard audio, I'd be set...
Agreed on the "good excuse for hacking"... That's what drew me to this project, actually.
;)
I haven't heard much about MiniDiscs lately, how much would you expect these (a recorder and a portable player) to cost? I'll look into that...
Actually, DirecTV receivers in Brazil don't have SPDIF. I'm actually using a plain-vanilla RCA-to-line-in cable directly to the computer. That's an improvement, as my father wanted to use cassette tapes as a transfer device... Until he heard how the first one sounded like
Speaking as the originator of this AskSlashdot...
;) Take a look at http://www.empeg.com (now the RioCar, or something like that). I think building our little appliance will be easier, actually (think about car vibration).
Putting another computer on the car is a very different project
By slim-line case, you're saying something like those "pizza box" computers? Haven't seen them being sold around here lately... Any websites?
I know you're joking, but people really did use tiffs as icons before.
Mac OS X's ancestors, NeXTStep and OpenStep, used 64x64 tiffs as icon files. I'm not sure, but I think Mac OS X allows GIF and JPEG as icons too...
Once again we would have Microsoft "innovating" by stealing NeXT's work... Where do you think the "X" close button came from?
Yes, it does. In fact, the reports of Darwin running on Intel mention using LILO to load it.
I don't know what Bianchi is smoking. I've watched Corinthians games since I was a little kid, and I NEVER saw this "Corinthiao" word. Not a reference in my entire life.
Shows what a fan I've been, huh? Time to stop caring about soccer...
What are you talking about? They ARE called Corinthians! There's no such a thing as "Corinthiao".
However, I do agree with your other points. They already had a perfectly good domain, and they have no claim for corinthians.com.
There is no such a thing as "Corinthiao". The guy who supports the team is a "corinthiano". The team is called Corinthians.
The founders of the team had been to the UK, where they had seen a team called Corinthians. Going back to Brasil, they decided to build a team and called themselves Corinthians too. Glad there were no trademark disputes in 1910, huh?
I had read about this dispute, but I was pretty sure nothing was going to come out of it. There goes my faith in domain dispute resolutions...
The really ridiculous part is, the Brazilian Corinthians have this name because they patterned themselves after the Corinthians, a UK team. I remember when they played against each other a few years ago... Shouldn't the domain name go then to Corinthians UK, since they owned the trademark before?
(All this makes me really ashamed of being a Corinthians supporter since childhood... Don't think I'll be paying attention to soccer anytime soon)
Slashdot uses JavaScript, but it doesn't REQUIRE it. Actually, it renders quite fine on Lynx (I use it from time to time).
The problem here is reaching what UI people call "graceful degradation". Ok, so the page won't have all the spiffy features on Lynx/Palm/Other resource-starved environment, but the basic info should be available.
I've done it at my job, and it's not that hard. Checking the User-Agent and customizing the content to it (or actually, major families, as Text-only/Old browser/Modern browser) is something every major site should do.
That was Pedro Alvares Cabral. Vasco da Gama was the first to do the India route through Africa, in 1496.
Actually, most brazilian historians today agree that Cabral wasn't just "blown off course" and actually knew he should look for something. Come on, how dumb/lucky can someone be to be blown off through all the Atlantic Ocean?
Of course, we will only know if that's the one when they release the distro. But the other distros would do well in taking a note from this article as well.
Install the Adobe Acrobat Reader, and configure X to use the fonts that come with it. Do the same for GhostScript.
After I did that, the printing quality did improve a lot... You don't know the difference a good font makes until you see it.