xmlterm may be what you're thinking of. It's mixed up with Mozilla, which probably means it's still bloated and slow, like it was when I toyed with it for 2 hours way back (1:50 compiling it and getting it to run, 0:10 doing ls and xcat.
I like the idea though, and I'm a bit saddened by the fact that no-one's doing much to advance the state of the CLI. I think there's plenty to be done, and not just with CLI/GUI fusion.
A couple of times, the thought of backing up to paper has crossed my mind
Are printers and scanners good enough to make it worthwhile? I don't know. I haven't run any tests and I don't even have a good feel for how many bits you can print on a square millimetre of paper and scan back reliably.
But let's pretend we can print and resolve three pixels per millimetre and 3 levels each of cyan, magenta, and yellow per pixel, and that we're using A4 paper with 10mm margins.
bash> bc
bc 1.06
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
Damn, just 520k for a whole lot of trouble, paper, and ink.
But, as I say, I don't have a good feel for what bpmm and bpp really are. Does anyone know? Has anyone heard of any attempts to actually do something like this?
But how do you know they have value? It's not just the number of days you come back. There are three other metrics, which tend to be ratios. One is the ratio of replies: How many times did you reply to someone else, or start a thread? Spammers may show up every day, but they don't reply. With a very low reply-to-post ratio, I would say that that is a person who starts a lot of conversations but never replies to anyone else, and it's probably a spammer. Showing up every day is not enough--you have to respond to other people. It's also thread-to-post. How many threads did you touch, how many messages did you write? If you wrote 10 times, all into one thread, that's a low ratio. You have a high conversational concentration.
It seems to me that Mr. Smith has given it a little more thought than you give him credit for.
A Stirling engine works across a heat differential. It can be viewed as being driven by the flow of heat much like a turbine is driven by the flow of water.
The parent poster is talking about harnessing ambient heat, where there is no differential and the heat isn't flowing anywhere. That's an altogether different problem.
It seems to me that the wording here (if it has any weight, that is) would limit the distance to which the letter can travel to 2 hops. From the sender to the intended recipient, and from the intended recipient to third parties. Third parties could not further distribute the letter (or read it) because they're not the intended recipient.
Then again, I'm not a lawyer and I've noticed that logic works differently in lawyer-land.
I needed this last year. I was updating a project with Windows and MacOS version and had to have a mac on my desk. There was plenty of room for the extra keyboard and mouse. The trouble was just that I'd forget to actually switch to the other set. So, half the time I'd end up staring at the mac monitor while moving the PC mouse. It was funny the first few times, but quickly got annoying.
...just like there's no FTP movement or IRC movement. There is however an already substantial, and rapidly growing, movement of spoiled techno-brats who not only think they can enjoy the fruits of other people's labor for free, but also that they're entitled to.
This is me announcing my opposition to that movement, that way of thinking. One datapoint to be counted against all the others and a reminder that not all Slashdotters (and not all spoiled tehno-brats;-), think alike.
I'm surprised emusic.com doesn't get mentioned in every music story around here. Can it be that few Slashdotters know about it?
Emusic is the kind of online music service I think most of us want. You pay a monthly fee to download high quality MP3s. No DRM, no embedded advertising. If they had all the music you might want, there would be nothing more to wish for.
And that's the main thing, of course. They don't generally have the name bands, so your satisfaction with the service depends on you being open to discovering lesser known music.
If that's what you're looking for, you'll find plenty. Go check it out. Also, there are some things there that you may already want, and you could maybe get a good deal by signing up for the minimum term and downloading, say, just the Pixies and a truckload of comedy albums.
It's probably too much to hope for, but if they continue to grow, they may expand their catalog to the point where most music is available from them, free of restrictions.
Unfortunately, it's not all wine and roses, but close enough for me. Here are some things that may turn you off:
They recently angered their Linux-using customers by making their closed source download manager mandatory. The Linux version sucks rather badly. Some customers can't download at all.
Use the service excessively (in their view) and they cut you off. There's a 2000 track/month limit.
The download manager only allows you to queue up 45 tracks. Limiting this is probably the reason they made the DLM mandatory. Why they don't do this on the server side, I can't imagine.
Some albums are only available to US subscribers.
You have to commit for 3 or 12 months.
If you have extreme audio quality demands, the VBR MP3s (about 192kbps average) may not be enough. I've heard warbling in a couple of files. I listen with Sennheiser HD600's.
Now, I don't want to hear any more whining about the RIAA being evil and not producing anything worth listening to anyway. Whine about either one seperately if you want, but if you were about to whine about both, go to emusic instead....And spread the word!
As these games go, NOLF (1 and 2) are great, but...
I am soooooo tired of this whole idea of running around, shotting bad guys, entering fortified installations through the sewers, planting explosives, pulling levers, fucking LEVERS for crying out loud!
It's the same with movies. I saw Gladiator. Mostly a good movie, but... if I see one more where the hero is a great fighter who wants to get out and live a peaceful life, but they MURDER HIS FAMILY SO HE HAS TO KEEP FIGHTING!, I'm gonna fucking kill somebody!
Hell, sometimes they don't even last long enough to carry a debian root image to another box.
But sometimes the lil' bastards surprise you with their near-instructability.
I was exploring an abandoned building the other day. (Hadn't done that in a while.) Aside from the satanic altar, the most interesting thing I found was a 1.44 floppy. There was some kind of glue on parts of it and pieces of broken glass were stuck to it. I took it home, of course, cleaned it up a bit and shoved it in the nearest available floppy drive. It spun up, no errors on mount, a fine FAT filesystem containing files from Oct/Nov '97. Not even a single bad sector.
I'm not sure how long it had been in that dirty, damp environment, but it did have about the same amount of dirt on it as the surrounding stuff, so probably since before the windows were taken out over a year ago.
Are you sure? How many characters does your subject line show?
One day I expanded my subject column for some reason and noticed that almost all the spam had headlines ending in random junk preceeded by enough spacing that I normally wouldn't see it.
Re:Real functionality for mouse buttons
on
3-button Optical Mice?
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
Some kind of function to help with multiple selection could be good.
I sometimes use the computer with the mouse only. The thing that makes me reach for the keyboard is usually a need press shift or ctrl to add files to a selection.
Then again, the whole selection mechanism, as commonly implemented, is not perfect to begin with. Selections are too ephemeral. A single wayward click can undo all your selection work. A "toggle persistent selection" button in the UI would be a general improvement and solve my problem as a side effect.
I just got a reminder of what
happened to Mathworld.
How Eric can keep from writing "Fuck CRC Press" on every page, I do not know.
(BTW, what a nice way to discover my ISP has a transparent proxy.)
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You might want to rework that a little to give it a safe distance from the good old...
Don't go elsewhere to get ripped off, come to us!
I know your doesn't actually say that, but it's the first thing came to mind when I read it :-)
I like the idea though, and I'm a bit saddened by the fact that no-one's doing much to advance the state of the CLI. I think there's plenty to be done, and not just with CLI/GUI fusion.
Not a movie yet, but Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama immediately springs to mind.
Are printers and scanners good enough to make it worthwhile? I don't know. I haven't run any tests and I don't even have a good feel for how many bits you can print on a square millimetre of paper and scan back reliably.
But let's pretend we can print and resolve three pixels per millimetre and 3 levels each of cyan, magenta, and yellow per pixel, and that we're using A4 paper with 10mm margins.
bash> bc
bc 1.06
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details type `warranty'.
ppmm=3
bpc=3
bpp=3*bpc
margin=10
width=210-margin*2
height=297-margin*2
bytes_per_page=width * height * ppmm^2 * bpp / 8
bytes_per_page
532878
bytes_per_page/1024
520
Damn, just 520k for a whole lot of trouble, paper, and ink.
But, as I say, I don't have a good feel for what bpmm and bpp really are. Does anyone know? Has anyone heard of any attempts to actually do something like this?
According to this CD-Recordable FAQ entry , "it depends".
It seems to me that Mr. Smith has given it a little more thought than you give him credit for.
The parent poster is talking about harnessing ambient heat, where there is no differential and the heat isn't flowing anywhere. That's an altogether different problem.
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I'm more interested in how techies can get some in the first place :-)
Then again, I'm not a lawyer and I've noticed that logic works differently in lawyer-land.
An engineer was confused when a a translated spec included water goats. "Water goats"?! Hydraulic rams, actually.
And perhaps most famous of all, "out of sight, out of mind" supposedly came back as "blind idiot".
Language is a curious thing. I can't help thinking there's some deeper meaning to the fact that misapplication of it can so easily be funny to us.
I needed this last year. I was updating a project with Windows and MacOS version and had to have a mac on my desk. There was plenty of room for the extra keyboard and mouse. The trouble was just that I'd forget to actually switch to the other set. So, half the time I'd end up staring at the mac monitor while moving the PC mouse. It was funny the first few times, but quickly got annoying.
It's 9:00 in Denver, it's 10:00 in Chicago, it's 11:00 in New York, ...in Baltimore it's 6:42, time for the 11 o'clock report.
This is me announcing my opposition to that movement, that way of thinking. One datapoint to be counted against all the others and a reminder that not all Slashdotters (and not all spoiled tehno-brats ;-), think alike.
Emusic is the kind of online music service I think most of us want. You pay a monthly fee to download high quality MP3s. No DRM, no embedded advertising. If they had all the music you might want, there would be nothing more to wish for.
And that's the main thing, of course. They don't generally have the name bands, so your satisfaction with the service depends on you being open to discovering lesser known music.
If that's what you're looking for, you'll find plenty. Go check it out. Also, there are some things there that you may already want, and you could maybe get a good deal by signing up for the minimum term and downloading, say, just the Pixies and a truckload of comedy albums.
It's probably too much to hope for, but if they continue to grow, they may expand their catalog to the point where most music is available from them, free of restrictions.
Unfortunately, it's not all wine and roses, but close enough for me. Here are some things that may turn you off:
-
They recently angered their Linux-using customers by making their closed source download manager mandatory. The Linux version sucks rather badly. Some customers can't download at all.
-
Use the service excessively (in their view) and they cut you off. There's a 2000 track/month limit.
-
The download manager only allows you to queue up 45 tracks. Limiting this is probably the reason they made the DLM mandatory. Why they don't do this on the server side, I can't imagine.
-
Some albums are only available to US subscribers.
-
You have to commit for 3 or 12 months.
-
If you have extreme audio quality demands, the VBR MP3s (about 192kbps average) may not be enough. I've heard warbling in a couple of files. I listen with Sennheiser HD600's.
Now, I don't want to hear any more whining about the RIAA being evil and not producing anything worth listening to anyway. Whine about either one seperately if you want, but if you were about to whine about both, go to emusic instead.I am soooooo tired of this whole idea of running around, shotting bad guys, entering fortified installations through the sewers, planting explosives, pulling levers, fucking LEVERS for crying out loud!
It's the same with movies. I saw Gladiator. Mostly a good movie, but... if I see one more where the hero is a great fighter who wants to get out and live a peaceful life, but they MURDER HIS FAMILY SO HE HAS TO KEEP FIGHTING!, I'm gonna fucking kill somebody!
Can't we have something new for once?
But sometimes the lil' bastards surprise you with their near-instructability.
I was exploring an abandoned building the other day. (Hadn't done that in a while.) Aside from the satanic altar, the most interesting thing I found was a 1.44 floppy. There was some kind of glue on parts of it and pieces of broken glass were stuck to it. I took it home, of course, cleaned it up a bit and shoved it in the nearest available floppy drive. It spun up, no errors on mount, a fine FAT filesystem containing files from Oct/Nov '97. Not even a single bad sector.
I'm not sure how long it had been in that dirty, damp environment, but it did have about the same amount of dirt on it as the surrounding stuff, so probably since before the windows were taken out over a year ago.
One day I expanded my subject column for some reason and noticed that almost all the spam had headlines ending in random junk preceeded by enough spacing that I normally wouldn't see it.
This text is not here.
(ahem) :-)
and D
I, V, X, L, C, and M. You're welcome
You have speakers, right?
I sometimes use the computer with the mouse only. The thing that makes me reach for the keyboard is usually a need press shift or ctrl to add files to a selection.
Then again, the whole selection mechanism, as commonly implemented, is not perfect to begin with. Selections are too ephemeral. A single wayward click can undo all your selection work. A "toggle persistent selection" button in the UI would be a general improvement and solve my problem as a side effect.
How Eric can keep from writing "Fuck CRC Press" on every page, I do not know.
(BTW, what a nice way to discover my ISP has a transparent proxy.)
Tell you what. I'll send you my copy on DVD of you send me any other movie instead. Deal?