Gold only has value because it historically has had value. What actual use is it, after all?
Look inside your computer...you'll find lots of gold-plated connectors. Some people (women, gangsta rappers, etc.) also seem to like wearing large amounts of it, though I'll concede that this isn't particularly "useful."
Note to Novak: Please don't put ads up on your site. I'd hate for you to get paid every time a vengeful slashkid views your web page.
Using an ad-filtering proxy will keep him from deriving that benefit from a slashdotting. Running something like while true; do lynx -dump http://www.petswarehouse.com >/dev/null; done will also result in no ad views.
might Petswarehouse be a good target for googlebombing? I think that it'd be an appropriate response to the bullying tactics employed by Petswarehouse.
Are there any distributions that do not require an iso image download? Why not just download the source directly? You know, just a boot floppy and a fat internet pipe?
Last time I checked, you could install SuSE that way...download and write some floppies (a boot disk and one or two disks with kernel modules for SCSI/network/etc. support), boot up, and install from an FTP server.
Nope. You can't map more than the 26 letters. And B: is pretty rare these days...
I probably have the only dual Athlon MP system with a 5.25" floppy drive.:-) (That drive and a Supra 14.4 faxmodem are all that's left of the 286 system I built 10 years ago...and the drive is the only part currently in use.) Something that might be a little bit more common, though, would be to see a Zip drive (or other removable-storage drive) show up as B:...my SCSI Zip never did that, but I've seen it happen with IDE Zip drives in some systems.
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what if your camera makes insanely large photos and you would prefer to have them at 1024x768 or smaller?
just change your dpi. 1800x1200 at 300 dpi is a standard size photo. odds are your camera won't have enough MP to print a full sized 8.5x11 sheet of paper (without interpolation).
Unless you have a dye-sublimation printer, you're not printing your photos at 300 dpi anyway...odds are you're closer to 100-150 dpi. Since most printers can only squirt ink or not squirt ink (there's no software-based control of how muck ink is squirted), you need to use dithering to get 4 (or maybe 6) colors to look like 24-bit color.
I don't think the people that he talked about was the consumers, but the hardware vendors, why there is no motherboard with firewire?
We've got an Asus P4S8X on order at work that includes onboard FireWire (and USB 2.0 and Serial ATA, as well). Other SiS 648 motherboards ought to have it as well, since FireWire is built into the chipset.
For years all my BSD-addicted friends used BSD mostly as head-less servers. For years Linux-addicted (like myself) guys enjoyed X11 console on Linux boxes (both servers and workstations).
X11 doesn't belong on servers. I have one Linux server at home, four at work, and one at a friend's place. They run a mix of LFS (4), Gentoo (1), and Slackware (1). None have X11 installed. Most run headless (one of the LFS machines lives next to a Win2K server, so it shares that machine's monitor). Paper MCSEs who only know how to move shiny widgets around a screen with a mouse might find themselves lost when confronted with a rootprompt, but real admins don't need (and don't want) GUIs on servers.
The IF in my very ragged terms is what is used to 'mix' with the signal input to create the output.
You described the local oscillator and its output, not the IF. Most radios use a variable-frequency local oscillator for tuning...its output and the antenna input (possibly RF-amplified) are fed into a mixer. The mixer produces sum and difference signals on all input frequencies; the frequency you want to pick off is the intermediate frequency (IF). A fixed-frequency tuned circuit picks off this signal for demodulation, amplification, etc. As an example, let's say you want to tune in 840 kHz on the broadcast AM band. The IF used in an AM radio is (typically) 455 kHz. If the local oscillator produces 385 kHz, the 840-kHz input will be downmixed to 455 kHz (840-385=455). Tuning the broadcast band requires a local oscillator that produces anything from 55 to 1245 kHz. (Note that if the local oscillator could produce 1295 kHz, you could pick up 840 kHz at what would appear as "1750 kHz" on the dial (1295-840=455). Better shortwave receivers employ two or three mixers at different IFs to make sure each station only appears once. FM receivers use two mixers as well (1st IF is 10.7 MHz, 2nd IF is the same 455 kHz used for AM).)
IFs are typically fixed-frequency tuned circuits, since it's easier to make a good fixed-frequency tuned circuit than a good variable-frequency tuned circuit (TRF receivers and crystal receivers are examples of radios built around variable-frequency tuned circuits). Since the "circuit" involved in the WinRadio is really just some software, they aren't as bound by the limitations of real coils/capacitors/etc. and can use whatever IF they want.
We took apart a couple of the cars and mod kits, and they really aren't that impressive, you'd think that the 23,000 rpm engine would really make the car zoom, but it doesn't.
High revving and no torque...sounds like your average ricer.:-)
In fact, it turns out that Windows Media Player (v6.4, anyway, which is the newest version that I'll use) is able to play multiple video streams in an AVI simultaneously, which surprised me. One stream plays in the WMP window, while the other streams open additional windows and play in those.
AVI can only multiplex one video and one audio stream
It's usually not supported by most programs (maybe not even by the Video for Windows and DirectShow APIs), but you can have multiple audio and video streams in an AVI. At work, we have some lossless video-compression code that deals with multiple video streams in an AVI. We had to write our own AVI-handling code to create some of the test files used since we didn't have anything on hand that would do that for us, but one of the test files used has three or four video streams in it. Play it with Windows Media Player and you only get the first video stream, but that's a DirectShow limitation. I'd post a link to the relevant specs, but they didn't turn up after a few minutes of googling (it's not my project, or I'd more than likely have the link in Mozilla).
If Ogg Vorbis are.ogg files, what are they going to call Ogg Theora files?
If they're smart,.avi. Make it a codec that plugs in alongside XviD, Huffyuv, etc., and you'll have a sizable amount of capture/editing/playback software that'll be able to use it right off the bat.
If you look at the actual figures, you get a different picture. In 1997...
You might want to look at more recent statistics. Those numbers are from before they passed their victim-disarmament laws. In the years since, the violent-crime rate has skyrocketed out of control. The British government has succeeded at boiling the frog.
Im sorry, Im Canadain... we have no "second and tenth amendments" nor do people from ecuador
Neither does England...and now that only outlaws are armed as a result of their victim-disarmament laws, their violent-crime rates are among the worst in the industrialized world. You're far more likely to be mugged or killed in London than in New York City.
The only complaint I have now is the lack of the "go button" from IE. I use Mozilla, love the tabbed browsing, but when I cut and paste the URL I'd rather have a convenient button to click instead of having to hit enter.
You're already using the keyboard to copy (Ctrl-C) and paste (Ctrl-V)...why would you want to switch back to the mouse to click a stupid button when Enter is faster? IE's Go button is a misfeature thrown in to appease the AOLers who wouldn't know what to do without it...it's one of the first things I disable in a new Win2K install (that and smooth scrolling, "personalized" menus and other misfeatures).
Flamebait? Umm... sorry guys. I wasn't trying to start a holywar about Operating Systems.
You more than likely got modded down because your post went against Slashbot groupthink. If you're not rabidly opposed to everything MS (excuse me, M$) does, some crack-addict Slashbot moderator will attempt to blast your post into oblivion. It's what passes for advocacy around here. I'll allow that some of Microsoft's recent actions are less than admirable, but the average Slashbot's reaction to mere mention of the company is puerile.
if you're 32 or younger (and have a masters degree or higher) you can go to officer training school.
You don't need a master's for OTS...a bachelor's degree is sufficient. My sister finished OTS this past April; all she has is a BA (?) in psychology (of all things). My father went through OTS in 1978 after he finished college (he had 9 years of enlisted service before that). A master's degree in certain areas might increase your odds of getting accepted, but it's not required.
FYI... if you use Ad-Aware to remove the spyware components of Kazaa, it kills the program.
IIRC, Kazaa needs Cydoor to run. Fortunately, there's a dummy Cydoor DLL available. (Can't say that I've used Kazaa or Kazaa Lite in a while, though...I started running Shareaza recently, which is spyware-free, ad-free, and works with a true decentralized network.)
An NTSC frame, refreshed in two interlaced passes every 1001/30000 of a second, has 480 picture scanlines and 45 vertical blank scanlines.
...and on most TVs, overscan cuts out some of the 480 lines that should be visible. There's more stuff visible in video that I rip from my TiVo and edit on my computer than is visible when the same video is watched on a TV.
Check out the prime time lineup from CBS or ABC. They are already broadcasting a large percentage of High Definition programs. NBC is coming along a bit more slowly, but moving in the right direction...
What the networks do means bugger-all if your local stations haven't upgraded their equipment. Here in Las Vegas, only one station is broadcasting in HD, and they're probably doing that only because they're owned by CBS (and not merely an affiliate).
I doubt I'd be able to cook nearly as well as I can now had it nood been for Alton Brown and Emeril Lagasse.
You needed television in order to learn how to cook?
Sheeeeeyit. Go buy a cookbook, save your braincells.
Don't knock Good Eats. While a cookbook can tell you what ingredients to use and describe a procedure to assemble those ingredients into something edible, it's hard to beat actually watching someone doing something to see how it all comes together. Since you're no longer able to watch everything your mom does in the kitchen (wait a minute...this is/., there are more than a few people here who probably still live with their parents:-P) and you're not likely to attend the CIA just to learn how to fend for yourself, what's wrong with picking up tips from cooking shows?
But with a margin that was so small that the result would have changed if Palm Beach voters had voted the way they intended to vote.
Your intent to vote is indicated by what you marked. If the voters of Pea Brain County are so mentally deficient that they can't figure out the difference between "Buchanan" and "Gore" on their ballots (designed by a Democrat, design signed off on by more Democrats), then they really have no business voting. (Given that these are the same people who can somehow keep track of 50 bingo cards at a time, though, I'm somewhat suspicious of their claims of confusion WRT a single ballot.)
What I found more disturbing about the 2000 election was Gore's attempt to throw out the military vote. There was indeed an attempt to steal the 2000 election...what the left-wing media (ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/etc.) refuses to acknowledge is that it was Gore who tried to steal the election. Thankfully, he failed in his attempt.
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Look inside your computer...you'll find lots of gold-plated connectors. Some people (women, gangsta rappers, etc.) also seem to like wearing large amounts of it, though I'll concede that this isn't particularly "useful."
Using an ad-filtering proxy will keep him from deriving that benefit from a slashdotting. Running something like while true; do lynx -dump http://www.petswarehouse.com >/dev/null; done will also result in no ad views.
might Petswarehouse be a good target for googlebombing? I think that it'd be an appropriate response to the bullying tactics employed by Petswarehouse.
Last time I checked, you could install SuSE that way...download and write some floppies (a boot disk and one or two disks with kernel modules for SCSI/network/etc. support), boot up, and install from an FTP server.
I probably have the only dual Athlon MP system with a 5.25" floppy drive. :-) (That drive and a Supra 14.4 faxmodem are all that's left of the 286 system I built 10 years ago...and the drive is the only part currently in use.) Something that might be a little bit more common, though, would be to see a Zip drive (or other removable-storage drive) show up as B:...my SCSI Zip never did that, but I've seen it happen with IDE Zip drives in some systems.
Unless you have a dye-sublimation printer, you're not printing your photos at 300 dpi anyway...odds are you're closer to 100-150 dpi. Since most printers can only squirt ink or not squirt ink (there's no software-based control of how muck ink is squirted), you need to use dithering to get 4 (or maybe 6) colors to look like 24-bit color.
We've got an Asus P4S8X on order at work that includes onboard FireWire (and USB 2.0 and Serial ATA, as well). Other SiS 648 motherboards ought to have it as well, since FireWire is built into the chipset.
Real men use cat > /usr/bin/foo << "EOF" to enter their programs. :-)
X11 doesn't belong on servers. I have one Linux server at home, four at work, and one at a friend's place. They run a mix of LFS (4), Gentoo (1), and Slackware (1). None have X11 installed. Most run headless (one of the LFS machines lives next to a Win2K server, so it shares that machine's monitor). Paper MCSEs who only know how to move shiny widgets around a screen with a mouse might find themselves lost when confronted with a rootprompt, but real admins don't need (and don't want) GUIs on servers.
You described the local oscillator and its output, not the IF. Most radios use a variable-frequency local oscillator for tuning...its output and the antenna input (possibly RF-amplified) are fed into a mixer. The mixer produces sum and difference signals on all input frequencies; the frequency you want to pick off is the intermediate frequency (IF). A fixed-frequency tuned circuit picks off this signal for demodulation, amplification, etc. As an example, let's say you want to tune in 840 kHz on the broadcast AM band. The IF used in an AM radio is (typically) 455 kHz. If the local oscillator produces 385 kHz, the 840-kHz input will be downmixed to 455 kHz (840-385=455). Tuning the broadcast band requires a local oscillator that produces anything from 55 to 1245 kHz. (Note that if the local oscillator could produce 1295 kHz, you could pick up 840 kHz at what would appear as "1750 kHz" on the dial (1295-840=455). Better shortwave receivers employ two or three mixers at different IFs to make sure each station only appears once. FM receivers use two mixers as well (1st IF is 10.7 MHz, 2nd IF is the same 455 kHz used for AM).)
IFs are typically fixed-frequency tuned circuits, since it's easier to make a good fixed-frequency tuned circuit than a good variable-frequency tuned circuit (TRF receivers and crystal receivers are examples of radios built around variable-frequency tuned circuits). Since the "circuit" involved in the WinRadio is really just some software, they aren't as bound by the limitations of real coils/capacitors/etc. and can use whatever IF they want.
High revving and no torque...sounds like your average ricer. :-)
We didn't break anything:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url= /library/en-us/dx8_c/directx_cpp/htm/avirifffilere ference.asp
In fact, it turns out that Windows Media Player (v6.4, anyway, which is the newest version that I'll use) is able to play multiple video streams in an AVI simultaneously, which surprised me. One stream plays in the WMP window, while the other streams open additional windows and play in those.
It's usually not supported by most programs (maybe not even by the Video for Windows and DirectShow APIs), but you can have multiple audio and video streams in an AVI. At work, we have some lossless video-compression code that deals with multiple video streams in an AVI. We had to write our own AVI-handling code to create some of the test files used since we didn't have anything on hand that would do that for us, but one of the test files used has three or four video streams in it. Play it with Windows Media Player and you only get the first video stream, but that's a DirectShow limitation. I'd post a link to the relevant specs, but they didn't turn up after a few minutes of googling (it's not my project, or I'd more than likely have the link in Mozilla).
If they're smart, .avi. Make it a codec that plugs in alongside XviD, Huffyuv, etc., and you'll have a sizable amount of capture/editing/playback software that'll be able to use it right off the bat.
You might want to look at more recent statistics. Those numbers are from before they passed their victim-disarmament laws. In the years since, the violent-crime rate has skyrocketed out of control. The British government has succeeded at boiling the frog.
Neither does England...and now that only outlaws are armed as a result of their victim-disarmament laws, their violent-crime rates are among the worst in the industrialized world. You're far more likely to be mugged or killed in London than in New York City.
You're already using the keyboard to copy (Ctrl-C) and paste (Ctrl-V)...why would you want to switch back to the mouse to click a stupid button when Enter is faster? IE's Go button is a misfeature thrown in to appease the AOLers who wouldn't know what to do without it...it's one of the first things I disable in a new Win2K install (that and smooth scrolling, "personalized" menus and other misfeatures).
You more than likely got modded down because your post went against Slashbot groupthink. If you're not rabidly opposed to everything MS (excuse me, M$) does, some crack-addict Slashbot moderator will attempt to blast your post into oblivion. It's what passes for advocacy around here. I'll allow that some of Microsoft's recent actions are less than admirable, but the average Slashbot's reaction to mere mention of the company is puerile.
You don't need a master's for OTS...a bachelor's degree is sufficient. My sister finished OTS this past April; all she has is a BA (?) in psychology (of all things). My father went through OTS in 1978 after he finished college (he had 9 years of enlisted service before that). A master's degree in certain areas might increase your odds of getting accepted, but it's not required.
IIRC, Kazaa needs Cydoor to run. Fortunately, there's a dummy Cydoor DLL available. (Can't say that I've used Kazaa or Kazaa Lite in a while, though...I started running Shareaza recently, which is spyware-free, ad-free, and works with a true decentralized network.)
That's true enough, but...
What the networks do means bugger-all if your local stations haven't upgraded their equipment. Here in Las Vegas, only one station is broadcasting in HD, and they're probably doing that only because they're owned by CBS (and not merely an affiliate).
Don't knock Good Eats. While a cookbook can tell you what ingredients to use and describe a procedure to assemble those ingredients into something edible, it's hard to beat actually watching someone doing something to see how it all comes together. Since you're no longer able to watch everything your mom does in the kitchen (wait a minute...this is /., there are more than a few people here who probably still live with their parents :-P) and you're not likely to attend the CIA just to learn how to fend for yourself, what's wrong with picking up tips from cooking shows?
Your intent to vote is indicated by what you marked. If the voters of Pea Brain County are so mentally deficient that they can't figure out the difference between "Buchanan" and "Gore" on their ballots (designed by a Democrat, design signed off on by more Democrats), then they really have no business voting. (Given that these are the same people who can somehow keep track of 50 bingo cards at a time, though, I'm somewhat suspicious of their claims of confusion WRT a single ballot.)
What I found more disturbing about the 2000 election was Gore's attempt to throw out the military vote. There was indeed an attempt to steal the 2000 election...what the left-wing media (ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/etc.) refuses to acknowledge is that it was Gore who tried to steal the election. Thankfully, he failed in his attempt.