Reminds me of a time I was talking to a retired chef. He was one of those who's entirely enamored with his abilities, and would be insulted if you asked for a salt shaker. He complained that one time a person asked for some hot sauce with the lobster he'd ordered and claimed to be insulted by the request.
"Probably to cover up the taste of the lobster," I said.
He didn't say anything, but "Mr. Chef" gave me the stink-eye.
I've only monkeyd around with it a little, deciding whether or not it's worth it. So far, it's only sending stuff to me in letterboxed 4:3, and I'm not liking it. It's easier to find a torrent and get the movie that way.
I much prefer Unbox's method of distribution (download it watch it and 24 hours later it deletes itself), but they don't send stuff in hi-def either.
Grumblings aside, I am pretty certain that these companies are coming up with a blue-ray killer, and online distribution for rentals is the way it's going to be in the future.
Hmm, do you have to pay a montly "rental" fee for that card from Comcast though or can I get the card anywhere?
No, and No. Comcast--at least here in Lansing, MI--offers teh first cablecard for free, and the second one for like $1.99. When I had digital cable installed, I specifically told them I wanted a multi stream card that way I wouldn't have to pay the fee for the second card.
I also asked if I could install the thing myself, but they declined. I suspect less a technical issue than them wanting to charge the install fee.
It ran over 10 hours! Why don't today's laptops run ten hours?
My guess would be, judging from your links, is that the laptops of the olden days didn't have a disk driving constantly spinning, a processor that ran at about 4 mumble Mhz, and with a 640x200 display, it probably didn't require as much juice as the laptops nowadays.
I miss my last laptop which could adjust the clock speed. I had it set up that the less juice there was, the lower the clock speed. I could regularly get 3 hours out of it--of course, that was running linux and not the disk thrashing Windows.
<Aside>Seriously, what's going on? When I boot my laptop in Linux, I rarely see the hdd light flicker, but when I boot Windows, it's constantly lit up for the first five minutes, or so.
This isn't an either or choice. The vaccinations need to be gotten, but most pediatricians will work with you if you don't want all 3 vaccines done at once. Our MD told us that the main reason that they give kids vaccine cocktails is because of convenience.
Is there a danger? >shrug Most likely not. Am I going to take any chances, though? No, I'm not. When the time comes, I'm going to request our pediatrician to spread out the vaccinations, rather than have my child's immune system go into overload.
Yeah! I say fuck those farmers who feed us! What have they ever done to deserve stuff?
After all they choose to live out in the sticks, driving their tractors around like they're so fucking cool. I bet those assholes expect things like color TV, too. Bastards!
I don't think that a national guideline for ballot deadlines on federal elections is all that onerous. On the other hand, if there were federal regulations for state and local elections, then that's another story...
From what I understand, KDE isn't going to have feature parity when 4.2 hits. Hopefully by then things will mesh again and the all the ports of the apps I use will be done. Hopefully by then plasma will be able to be themed such that it, you know, fits in with the rest of the applications. C'mon, it's kind of ridiculous that plasma doesn't pick up the KDE theme. I like the flexibility of KDE, but when you can theme every little damned thing, I call BS.
Actually after doing a little bit of experimentation, I've discovered that if you move all the libQt* libraries in the googleearth directory somewhere where google-earth-bin can't find them, then google-earth will latch on to the libQt*.so in/usr/lib. Then it's just a matter of calling "google-earth -style [foo]" and you have beautiful candy-like buttons.
Didn't mean to come off sounding like a douchebag, just curious about "the process," is all.
Is it just a big game of whack a bug? Fix whatever shows up in stderr until it Just Works? Either way thank you for not making it so that I didn't have to install it on my wife's laptop--she's...sensitive about me installing stuff and changing around the icons on her desktop...
It's interesting what sort of secret sauce CodeWeavers is using to make it work, and more interesting to see how long it'll make it back into the main Wine code base.
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Don't know about the parent, but that's when I find them the most insufferable.
"Probably to cover up the taste of the lobster," I said.
He didn't say anything, but "Mr. Chef" gave me the stink-eye.
I read that as "What Would Bronson Do".
Quit being pedantic. It's just not sexy.
I much prefer Unbox's method of distribution (download it watch it and 24 hours later it deletes itself), but they don't send stuff in hi-def either.
Grumblings aside, I am pretty certain that these companies are coming up with a blue-ray killer, and online distribution for rentals is the way it's going to be in the future.
I feel like a pioneer.
Hmm, do you have to pay a montly "rental" fee for that card from Comcast though or can I get the card anywhere?
No, and No. Comcast--at least here in Lansing, MI--offers teh first cablecard for free, and the second one for like $1.99. When I had digital cable installed, I specifically told them I wanted a multi stream card that way I wouldn't have to pay the fee for the second card.
I also asked if I could install the thing myself, but they declined. I suspect less a technical issue than them wanting to charge the install fee.
Or when some jackass feels the pathological need to correct total strangers on a semi-anonymous web forum.
It ran over 10 hours! Why don't today's laptops run ten hours?
My guess would be, judging from your links, is that the laptops of the olden days didn't have a disk driving constantly spinning, a processor that ran at about 4 mumble Mhz, and with a 640x200 display, it probably didn't require as much juice as the laptops nowadays.
I miss my last laptop which could adjust the clock speed. I had it set up that the less juice there was, the lower the clock speed. I could regularly get 3 hours out of it--of course, that was running linux and not the disk thrashing Windows.
<Aside>Seriously, what's going on? When I boot my laptop in Linux, I rarely see the hdd light flicker, but when I boot Windows, it's constantly lit up for the first five minutes, or so.
Is there a danger? >shrug Most likely not. Am I going to take any chances, though? No, I'm not. When the time comes, I'm going to request our pediatrician to spread out the vaccinations, rather than have my child's immune system go into overload.
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Dammit!
Hope this helps...
After all they choose to live out in the sticks, driving their tractors around like they're so fucking cool. I bet those assholes expect things like color TV, too. Bastards!
Jesus, what a total douche bag.
Divorced twice: you make bad choices.
Divorced three times: you're a ... challenge to get along with.
Divorced four times: you're a colossal dick.
Just some observations I've made about human nature throughout the years.
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Ba-zing. You sure showed him!
Mod funny, I think Jack Chick is trolling...
Not only that you totally get the bang the b-grade groupies that the rocket scientists discard!
Oh, and what the hell does a dump truck have anything to do with it?
I don't think that a national guideline for ballot deadlines on federal elections is all that onerous. On the other hand, if there were federal regulations for state and local elections, then that's another story...
Rant over.
Especially for something as solid as BSD. If I'm going to use *nix for my desktop, I want something usable.
YMMV, but it works for me.
Is it just a big game of whack a bug? Fix whatever shows up in stderr until it Just Works? Either way thank you for not making it so that I didn't have to install it on my wife's laptop--she's...sensitive about me installing stuff and changing around the icons on her desktop...
At least then it'd feel native.
It's interesting what sort of secret sauce CodeWeavers is using to make it work, and more interesting to see how long it'll make it back into the main Wine code base.