I dare you to find one large-scale engagament before June 6th, 1944 in which French troops caused the Germans serious casualties. France fell in 40 days, most of it spent sitting behind the Maignot line wondering where the Germans were.
Hell, the french were fighting with the Nazis in northern Africa. Look up Operation Torch if you don't believe me. (The Big Red One is one depiction of this operation.)
No, it's in euros. But I see you had your laugh now. Don't let me hold you.
Even so, €1200/year is chickenfeed. In-state tuition at a public university here is going to run anywhere from $3000 or so per year on up. Out-of-state tuition and tuition at a private university is considerably higher than that. On top of that, you still have books (could be a few hundred more per semester), room & board (varies, but it'll at least be in the mid-to-high four-figure territory), and whatever other fees and incidental expenses you have.
Maybe not the K7 semprons but I thought K8s did. Did your BIOS recognize the CPU?
The BIOS recognizes it just fine. For whatever reason, AMD either disabled clockspeed control in Socket 754 Semprons or didn't include the necessary circuitry for it (depending on whether Semprons are Athlon 64s with certain functionality (such as half of the cache) turned off or whether they're a completely different design.)
America's 20th Century industry was so obsessed with drugs that it's missing the chance to grow into stemcells. Not just from complacency, but from actually outlawing stemcell research.
Bullshit. Stem cell research has not been outlawed, and you know it. What has been cut off is federal funding for research that involves the creation and use of new lines of embryonic stem cells. No research has been outlawed. You can still get money from Uncle Sam for research using existing embryonic stem-cell lines. You can still get money from Uncle Sam for research using adult stem cells. If you're not bothered by the ethical implications attendant to creating new embryonic stem-cell lines, you can either fund the research yourself or secure state and/or private funding for your work.
If you had RTFA, you would've seen that the Australian researchers used adult stem cells. They're doing research that anybody right here in the U.S. could've done (and most likely are doing). That they got there first may end up being a point of pride for them (and rightly so), but there's nothing different about the legal climate here that would've prevented such a discovery.
I would've recommended that you consider taking a job at Microsoft in their FUD-slinging department, but you're obviously so inept and ham-handed at it that they most likely wouldn't be interested.
Doesn't the iPod show up as a mass storage device when you plug it in?
It does.
In which case can't you load music into it in a platform-agnostic fashion?
With the stock firmware, no. The files are all there (usually with scrambled names if iTunes put them there), but there's a file (iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB) that contains all of the metadata and that tells the iPod which file to play for which song. On Linux, ipodslave and gtkpod provide compatible, but limited, functionality. (gtkpod doesn't know a thing about podcasts or cover art.)
Rockbox is supposed to work on newer iPods. I've not tried it out yet, but my understanding is that you can just dump a bunch of files onto a Rockbox-equipped iPod (or other device) and it'll play them. It's also supposed to coexist with Apple's firmware (dual-boot between the two).
Sometimes I wonder if what drives people to buy cases with lights, strange logos and other gimmicks is the same thing that drives people to drive giant SUVs
That's odd. The impression I get from the gamer cases are that the only people who'd be caught dead building a computer in one aren't much different from the riceboys who think a fart-can exhaust, neon lighting (also frequently seen im gamer cases, I might add), and a Type R sticker will make their POS import go faster. All show, no go.
I grew up using an Apple IIe with a 13" monitor at 320x240, and it was fine at the time.
Hi-Res displayed 280x192 on a monochrome monitor. On a color monitor, the effective resolution was closer to 140x192, with 6 colors that were available (with some restrictions on color placement). With 128K, double Hi-Res boosted the monochrome resolution to 560x192. Color resolution would've still been 140x192, but with 16 colors available instead of 6 (and with fewer restrictions on color placement).
That sounds like a great idea, but how can all that be accomplished without a noticeable performance decrease of nearly everything a user runs inside the guest OS?
It depends on the approach you take to virtualization. Xen offers near-native performance, but it requires specially-modified versions of the guest OS (not a problem for Linux, but it keeps Windows from running). VMware imposes more of a performance penalty, but it can virtualize a closed-source OS such as Windows or OS/2.
For a practical data point, I run my web/mail server on a Xen-based VM hosted by these guys. I've not noticed any performance problems with the apps I'm running--djbdns, qmail, courier-imapd, Apache, TWiki.
I use Linux almost exclusively on the command line. In KDE or Gnome, do you really need root privileges to install any software or change your wallpaper?
For wallpaper, no. For software, it depends on what you mean by "install." If you're on a public machine and are just building an app for your own use, you can copy the binaries sonmewhere under ~ and make sure that directory is in your path. You don't need to be root for that, and as long as your app doesn't do something for which it needs to be root (like binding to a privileged port), you'll never need root. If you want your app installed where anybody can use it (under/usr or/usr/local, for instance), the "make install" phase of the build needs to run as root (but everything up to that can be run as a normal user).
take bleach; it's mostly concentrated sodium hydroxide
You meant sodium hypochlorite, right? Sodium hydroxide is the main ingredient in drain cleaner. I'd be pissed if, instead of making the whites whiter, bleach dissolved my laundry and made it go down the drain.
It's not all that concentrated, either. Regular bleach is somewhere around 5% or less sodium hypochlorite, IIRC.
You recommend abolishing IE, but what other commercial web browser is there for Windows?
Why does your browser have to be a closed-source product? Last time I checked, Firefox runs pretty nicely on Windows. If anything, open-source apps running on Windows can serve as a bridge to eventually running open-source apps on something other than Windows. If a file created under (for instance) OpenOffice on Windows opens without issue under OpenOffice on Linux, that's one less impediment to eventually switching away from Windows.
Bolding is mine, but Cingular bolds this whole quote in their document. Meanwhile, I use T-Mobile's dirt cheap 30-bucks-a-month, around 40Kbps 'antiquated' GPRS system to Bluetooth my subnotebook at work to keep IMing, reading mail, downloading simple pages.
Sprint's lower-speed data service is an additional $15 per month (on top of whatever voice plan you use) for unlimited use at about 100-150 kbps both ways. For voice and data, I'm paying about $40 per month. I can browse websites and ssh into my mail server from my Treo 650, or I can use it with my notebook to download anything. I've downloaded podcasts through it, and I could grab TV shows from my MythTV box if I didn't mind waiting 2-3 hours for a "one-hour" show that gets edited before viewing down to 40-45 minutes.
I've even experimented with videoconferencing over Sprint's data service, but the latency and bandwidth weren't really sufficient. The newer service the article describes indicates they've fixed the bandwidth problem, but it makes no mention of latency.
if you want to watch something "live" the you have to see them anyway.
The only time I watch live TV is when I'm visiting my parents. At home, MythTV records everything I watch. Before MythTV, I used a TiVo. Before the TiVo, I used a couple of VCRs. One way or another, I've timeshifted everything I watch since 1992. Life is too short to waste on commercials.
I'm wondering who can afford to watch streaming video on a cell phone, when the cell providers charge by the MB.
Sprint doesn't. I'm paying $15 per month for unlimited data (in addition to $25 for the cheapest voice plan...only 300 minutes or so per month, but I don't use anywhere near that.)
The data service works with the apps in the phone or with my notebook over a Bluetooth connection, too, so I can avoid hotel broadband charges if I want.
And when I'm traveling, or otherwise far away from my recordings, I'm supposed to just run home and load up my SD card, then make the trip back to wherever I was originally in order to watch video?
No, you log into your MythTV box, transcode a show to a suitably low bitrate with MEncoder (or whatever), and download or stream the resulting file. I typically encode video to 320x240 MPEG-4 at 384 kbps and audio to 22.05 kHz mono MP3 at 64 kbps. If the remote location has broadband access of some sort, I could theoretically do HTTP streaming, but I can usually download one hour of video in 30-40 minutes instead. A few minutes' editing with VirtualDub trims out the commercials, after which I can either play it on my notebook with MPlayer or transfer it to my Treo's SD card and play it there with MMPlayer.
I've also downloaded shows through my phone's data connection, but since it's only ~150 kbps, it takes a while. I've not tried encoding at bitrates that low; the resolution would have to be reduced so low that I don't know if it'd be worth watching.
Encoding is fairly quick for SD sources (maybe 15 minutes for a good-quality encode, 5 minutes if you don't care as much about artifacts). HD takes a bit longer, but it can also be transcoded.
In criminal and civil law, barratry is the act or practice of bringing repeated legal actions solely to harass.
True, but when was the last time you heard of someone being charged with barratry? Who's going to derail the billable-hours gravy train when there's always a new BMW waiting for a lawyer to drive away in it?
Would if I could. How do I set that up with a OS X server and a Windows XP client? I'm using OSXVNC on the OS X box and the plain jane VNC Viewer on the Windows XP box.
Mac OS X comes with OpenSSH and only needs to have sshd enabled. On your Windows box, you can use Cygwin to install OpenSSH. If you only need an SSH client (no server) on the Windows box, PuTTY will work.
Well that explains why Rupert Murdoch, the richest & most influential media owner in the world (owner of Fox and myspace.) has ended years of Clinton hating and started cosying up to Hilary Clinton.
Riddle me this: if Rupert Murdoch is such a Dem-hater, maybe you could explain why he ran a Gore fundraiser in the 2000 campaign and hooked the Donks up with a steep discount on the use of the Staples Center for their national convention that year. With $25k to the DNC in 1997 and over $80k in total donations to Democrats (the beneficiaries of his largesse include Chuck Schumer, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, and Al Gore...a fair cross-section of the moonbat wing of the party), I think you're going to have a hard time making your argument stick.
Aren't laser discs better fidelity? I haven't seen one in a long time, but they were pretty large (like an LP). I don't know what clever compression techniques were in use back then, but it surely wasn't mpeg2.
Wikipedia says LaserDisc used analog video: "[W]ith a Laserdisc, the pits and lands are created using frequency modulation of an analog signal, with the frequency carrier encoded using pulse-width modulation." It goes on to say that they could store either analog audio or digital audio in various formats, but video appears to have been analog only.
Then again, I've heard many computer illiterate call the tower the CPU. It always makes me cringe.
What's worse is when they insist on calling it the "hard drive." They might as well just scrape their fingernails across a chalkboard, if they're going to be that annoying.
Except that we're talking Windows Vista here and the site that you linked to states:
> It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes
I think I remember reading somewhere that Vista will only load signed drivers.
I forgot that bit...and even if that weren't the case, I suppose there could still be other breakage in the way drivers communicate with a new version of Windows. It does work well with WinXP, at least. It more than likely works the same with Win2K, but I've not tested that. One can always hope that the troubling news that comes about WRT Vista seemingly every day will get people to at least consider alternatives.
(I'm moving more and more of my everyday computing to Linux and Mac OS X. Gentoo for Mac OS X brings a bunch of familiar apps to my mini. As for my AMD64 boxen, they're spending more of their time in Linux than in Windows. Most of the stuff I use under Windows either has a Linux version (Firefox, Thunderbird), has an equivalent/better replacement under Linux (mplayer, gEDA), or works under Wine (VirtualDub). The two or three apps that remain can either run in Win98 under QEMU or, if they need to run on the metal (probably my EPROM burner needs this, as it needs to twiddle the parallel port), maybe a BartPE boot CD will work.)
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Hell, the french were fighting with the Nazis in northern Africa. Look up Operation Torch if you don't believe me. (The Big Red One is one depiction of this operation.)
Even so, €1200/year is chickenfeed. In-state tuition at a public university here is going to run anywhere from $3000 or so per year on up. Out-of-state tuition and tuition at a private university is considerably higher than that. On top of that, you still have books (could be a few hundred more per semester), room & board (varies, but it'll at least be in the mid-to-high four-figure territory), and whatever other fees and incidental expenses you have.
The BIOS recognizes it just fine. For whatever reason, AMD either disabled clockspeed control in Socket 754 Semprons or didn't include the necessary circuitry for it (depending on whether Semprons are Athlon 64s with certain functionality (such as half of the cache) turned off or whether they're a completely different design.)
Semprons don't, which came as a bit of a surprise when I tried to configure clockspeed control and found that it wasn't working.
Bullshit. Stem cell research has not been outlawed, and you know it. What has been cut off is federal funding for research that involves the creation and use of new lines of embryonic stem cells. No research has been outlawed. You can still get money from Uncle Sam for research using existing embryonic stem-cell lines. You can still get money from Uncle Sam for research using adult stem cells. If you're not bothered by the ethical implications attendant to creating new embryonic stem-cell lines, you can either fund the research yourself or secure state and/or private funding for your work.
If you had RTFA, you would've seen that the Australian researchers used adult stem cells. They're doing research that anybody right here in the U.S. could've done (and most likely are doing). That they got there first may end up being a point of pride for them (and rightly so), but there's nothing different about the legal climate here that would've prevented such a discovery.
I would've recommended that you consider taking a job at Microsoft in their FUD-slinging department, but you're obviously so inept and ham-handed at it that they most likely wouldn't be interested.
It does.
With the stock firmware, no. The files are all there (usually with scrambled names if iTunes put them there), but there's a file (iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB) that contains all of the metadata and that tells the iPod which file to play for which song. On Linux, ipodslave and gtkpod provide compatible, but limited, functionality. (gtkpod doesn't know a thing about podcasts or cover art.)
Rockbox is supposed to work on newer iPods. I've not tried it out yet, but my understanding is that you can just dump a bunch of files onto a Rockbox-equipped iPod (or other device) and it'll play them. It's also supposed to coexist with Apple's firmware (dual-boot between the two).
That's odd. The impression I get from the gamer cases are that the only people who'd be caught dead building a computer in one aren't much different from the riceboys who think a fart-can exhaust, neon lighting (also frequently seen im gamer cases, I might add), and a Type R sticker will make their POS import go faster. All show, no go.
If you had any familiarity with the fever swamps of the Left, you would've known better than to make that asinine assertion.
Hi-Res displayed 280x192 on a monochrome monitor. On a color monitor, the effective resolution was closer to 140x192, with 6 colors that were available (with some restrictions on color placement). With 128K, double Hi-Res boosted the monochrome resolution to 560x192. Color resolution would've still been 140x192, but with 16 colors available instead of 6 (and with fewer restrictions on color placement).
It depends on the approach you take to virtualization. Xen offers near-native performance, but it requires specially-modified versions of the guest OS (not a problem for Linux, but it keeps Windows from running). VMware imposes more of a performance penalty, but it can virtualize a closed-source OS such as Windows or OS/2.
For a practical data point, I run my web/mail server on a Xen-based VM hosted by these guys. I've not noticed any performance problems with the apps I'm running--djbdns, qmail, courier-imapd, Apache, TWiki.
For wallpaper, no. For software, it depends on what you mean by "install." If you're on a public machine and are just building an app for your own use, you can copy the binaries sonmewhere under ~ and make sure that directory is in your path. You don't need to be root for that, and as long as your app doesn't do something for which it needs to be root (like binding to a privileged port), you'll never need root. If you want your app installed where anybody can use it (under /usr or /usr/local, for instance), the "make install" phase of the build needs to run as root (but everything up to that can be run as a normal user).
You meant sodium hypochlorite, right? Sodium hydroxide is the main ingredient in drain cleaner. I'd be pissed if, instead of making the whites whiter, bleach dissolved my laundry and made it go down the drain.
It's not all that concentrated, either. Regular bleach is somewhere around 5% or less sodium hypochlorite, IIRC.
Why does your browser have to be a closed-source product? Last time I checked, Firefox runs pretty nicely on Windows. If anything, open-source apps running on Windows can serve as a bridge to eventually running open-source apps on something other than Windows. If a file created under (for instance) OpenOffice on Windows opens without issue under OpenOffice on Linux, that's one less impediment to eventually switching away from Windows.
Sprint's lower-speed data service is an additional $15 per month (on top of whatever voice plan you use) for unlimited use at about 100-150 kbps both ways. For voice and data, I'm paying about $40 per month. I can browse websites and ssh into my mail server from my Treo 650, or I can use it with my notebook to download anything. I've downloaded podcasts through it, and I could grab TV shows from my MythTV box if I didn't mind waiting 2-3 hours for a "one-hour" show that gets edited before viewing down to 40-45 minutes.
I've even experimented with videoconferencing over Sprint's data service, but the latency and bandwidth weren't really sufficient. The newer service the article describes indicates they've fixed the bandwidth problem, but it makes no mention of latency.
The only time I watch live TV is when I'm visiting my parents. At home, MythTV records everything I watch. Before MythTV, I used a TiVo. Before the TiVo, I used a couple of VCRs. One way or another, I've timeshifted everything I watch since 1992. Life is too short to waste on commercials.
Sprint doesn't. I'm paying $15 per month for unlimited data (in addition to $25 for the cheapest voice plan...only 300 minutes or so per month, but I don't use anywhere near that.)
The data service works with the apps in the phone or with my notebook over a Bluetooth connection, too, so I can avoid hotel broadband charges if I want.
No, you log into your MythTV box, transcode a show to a suitably low bitrate with MEncoder (or whatever), and download or stream the resulting file. I typically encode video to 320x240 MPEG-4 at 384 kbps and audio to 22.05 kHz mono MP3 at 64 kbps. If the remote location has broadband access of some sort, I could theoretically do HTTP streaming, but I can usually download one hour of video in 30-40 minutes instead. A few minutes' editing with VirtualDub trims out the commercials, after which I can either play it on my notebook with MPlayer or transfer it to my Treo's SD card and play it there with MMPlayer.
I've also downloaded shows through my phone's data connection, but since it's only ~150 kbps, it takes a while. I've not tried encoding at bitrates that low; the resolution would have to be reduced so low that I don't know if it'd be worth watching.
Encoding is fairly quick for SD sources (maybe 15 minutes for a good-quality encode, 5 minutes if you don't care as much about artifacts). HD takes a bit longer, but it can also be transcoded.
True, but when was the last time you heard of someone being charged with barratry? Who's going to derail the billable-hours gravy train when there's always a new BMW waiting for a lawyer to drive away in it?
"What do you call 1000 trolls buried up to their necks in sand?"
"A good start."
"Why don't sharks eat trolls?"
"Professional courtesy."
Hey, it does work!
Mac OS X comes with OpenSSH and only needs to have sshd enabled. On your Windows box, you can use Cygwin to install OpenSSH. If you only need an SSH client (no server) on the Windows box, PuTTY will work.
Riddle me this: if Rupert Murdoch is such a Dem-hater, maybe you could explain why he ran a Gore fundraiser in the 2000 campaign and hooked the Donks up with a steep discount on the use of the Staples Center for their national convention that year. With $25k to the DNC in 1997 and over $80k in total donations to Democrats (the beneficiaries of his largesse include Chuck Schumer, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, and Al Gore...a fair cross-section of the moonbat wing of the party), I think you're going to have a hard time making your argument stick.
In addition to proper grammar, I'd think that God would pay attention to spelling as well.
Besides, doesn't He have better things to do than kill time on /.? :-)
Wikipedia says LaserDisc used analog video: "[W]ith a Laserdisc, the pits and lands are created using frequency modulation of an analog signal, with the frequency carrier encoded using pulse-width modulation." It goes on to say that they could store either analog audio or digital audio in various formats, but video appears to have been analog only.
What's worse is when they insist on calling it the "hard drive." They might as well just scrape their fingernails across a chalkboard, if they're going to be that annoying.
I forgot that bit...and even if that weren't the case, I suppose there could still be other breakage in the way drivers communicate with a new version of Windows. It does work well with WinXP, at least. It more than likely works the same with Win2K, but I've not tested that. One can always hope that the troubling news that comes about WRT Vista seemingly every day will get people to at least consider alternatives.
(I'm moving more and more of my everyday computing to Linux and Mac OS X. Gentoo for Mac OS X brings a bunch of familiar apps to my mini. As for my AMD64 boxen, they're spending more of their time in Linux than in Windows. Most of the stuff I use under Windows either has a Linux version (Firefox, Thunderbird), has an equivalent/better replacement under Linux (mplayer, gEDA), or works under Wine (VirtualDub). The two or three apps that remain can either run in Win98 under QEMU or, if they need to run on the metal (probably my EPROM burner needs this, as it needs to twiddle the parallel port), maybe a BartPE boot CD will work.)