Oh, and of course AOL promptly informed customers of this as soon as they implemented it. Riiiiight.
Twit. They did this without telling anyone. If they had told their customers, who could then have made an informed choice over continuing to connect through AOL, then I'd agree with you. As it is, they hoped to slide this through without telling anyone.
That's a few hours of my life I'd like to have back. I simply cannot believe that anything with Kei and Yuri (yes, that Kei and that Yuri) can have so little gratutious violence, such light property damage and such low body counts.
(And NXE sucked hard too. Worcester-3? Good lord.)
I swear to god, the first time someone makes a Sumomo-themed PDA or cellphone, I will do something very unpleasant with it and to them. I am not joking.
At last, a voice of reason! I wish I had mod points right now.
Just speaking for myself, I like the nice and simple GTK frontend that's included in the Mplayer source tarballs, but I love the fact that it's entirely optional even more.
And to all you Gstreamer fans, ever try to satisfy all of Gnome's dependencies if you're not running Redhat/Debian/Mandrake/etc binary packages? Try compiling Gnome yourself and then we'll talk about how allegedly "great" Gstreamer is. I swear to god, "Gnome documentation" is the biggest oxymoron on the planet. Ten thousand pages all pointing to each other, none of which actually provides information on fixing problems.
Err, sorry. Didn't mean for this to turn into a rant, but oh well. Still mostly ontopic.
I think I love you. You've put into precise words what I could only instinctively feel. Uh, so to speak. And now that you've proved to be a divine being with regard to dear old Heinlein, could you please destroy all memories I have of "Friday" and give me back the hours I lost to it?
I think I know you in person. Or someone like you. Are you one of those humourless bores who refuses to watch anything funnier and more action-filled than Wings of Honneamise?
And before you relaliate with some snarky comment about possible DBZ fandom on my part (which is untrue), let me say that I also appreciate some of the less well known gems of anime. Grave of the Fireflies and Azumanga Daioh come to mind.
Offtopic, but I think Grave of the Fireflies should be required viewing in high school history classes throughout the world.
Congratulations! You seem to not only proved yourself to be illiterate (the previous poster said "right now"), but a first-class asshole as well! Well done!
I'm not sure about ordering off the website. I've got a 3.4 4-CD boxed set in my hands right now, but I bought it at a local store in november of 1997. God, I feel old. I remember when I was installing this on a Compaq 486, one of those damned all-in-one things with built-in monitor.
This may sound stupid, but that boxed set is kind of a prized possession. I keep in on my shelf above my monitor, as a reminder that I didn't always have a high end machine, and to appreciate what I've got. And now that Compaq 486 is running Slack 8 and happily chugging away as my firewall... the damned thing refuses to die.:)
Amen to that. Individual satellites are expensive, as a friend in the Canadian Space Agency told me, mainly due to the R&D and construction of one-shot fabrication equipment. Imagine introducing assembly-line style mass production and modular designs to satellite construction. Sure, each individual satellite may be less effective than the current idea of custom-building, but a thousand less-effective mass production satellites may be more effective than a single custom satellite. I'm certain the idea has crossed the minds of others, I'm not claiming it to be original.:)
And as for launches, what about Earth-based mass drivers? A google search turns up tons of concept art sketches and PhD-level papers. Does anyone have anything easier to understand for someone with a liberal-arts-undergrad level of physics knowledge, with regard to current research on them?
Offtopic, but it would be nice if there were a dumbing-down checkbox on Google. "I want searches in the range of: 1) Grade school 2) High school 3) College 4) Richard Feynman."
What's wrong with the Winamp/XMMS interface? It's fairly intuitive and simple. XMMS itself is reliable and well-written to boot. Even on my ancient K6 mailserver/jukebox, it uses almost no CPU and almost no memory.
Please, no. That awful 2001: A Ranma Odyssey fanfic was bad enough.
(I only wish I were kidding. This atrocity exists. The Tendo sisters as the science team in hibernation? And don't even get me started on the stowaways...)
I'm actually optimistic about this. Clarke's books are long and filled with detail, to be sure, but it's sort of like Lord of the Rings. Lots of description that takes a dozen pages in text, but can be conveyed visually in seconds. It might work, with competent people in charge of the project.
(But if they hire Jerry Bruckheimer, I'm gonna kill someone. Can you imagine what that halfwit would do to the story?)
Well, I bought at a good local shop. I know I could get the parts cheaper through the net, but I like to buy from them when I can. I'm willing to accept a little markup in exchange for competent help.
I'd love to have a bootable compactflash, multimedia/secure digital or smartmedia card reader in place of my floppy drive. Key word here is "bootable". I'd be willing to give up floppies if I could boot off another cheap, randomly-rewriteable media. A nice bonus would be the ability to read digital images faster than through a USB1.1 camera or card reader. Better yet, a combo reader that does all of them. USB versions of combo readers are cheap enough, I don't see IDE versions being any more expensive.
(Then maybe, just maybe, those goddamn Sony Mavicas will die the horrible death they deserve...)
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For a second I thought that read "Brain Powerd". I've never been so glad to see an "e" in my life.
Yes, there is.
Oh, and of course AOL promptly informed customers of this as soon as they implemented it. Riiiiight.
Twit. They did this without telling anyone. If they had told their customers, who could then have made an informed choice over continuing to connect through AOL, then I'd agree with you. As it is, they hoped to slide this through without telling anyone.
I see your new hear. Welcom too Slahsdot.
The difference is that the previous poster implemented this voluntarily for themself. AOL forced this on their customers.
Actually, Nvidia's new license specifically allows their drivers to be included in any distribution.
That's a few hours of my life I'd like to have back. I simply cannot believe that anything with Kei and Yuri (yes, that Kei and that Yuri) can have so little gratutious violence, such light property damage and such low body counts.
(And NXE sucked hard too. Worcester-3? Good lord.)
Funny, Mplayer seemed to like the file just fine, as long as one makes sure to install FAAD2 1.1 before compiling Mplayer.
I swear to god, the first time someone makes a Sumomo-themed PDA or cellphone, I will do something very unpleasant with it and to them. I am not joking.
At last, a voice of reason! I wish I had mod points right now.
Just speaking for myself, I like the nice and simple GTK frontend that's included in the Mplayer source tarballs, but I love the fact that it's entirely optional even more.
And to all you Gstreamer fans, ever try to satisfy all of Gnome's dependencies if you're not running Redhat/Debian/Mandrake/etc binary packages? Try compiling Gnome yourself and then we'll talk about how allegedly "great" Gstreamer is. I swear to god, "Gnome documentation" is the biggest oxymoron on the planet. Ten thousand pages all pointing to each other, none of which actually provides information on fixing problems.
Err, sorry. Didn't mean for this to turn into a rant, but oh well. Still mostly ontopic.
I think I love you. You've put into precise words what I could only instinctively feel. Uh, so to speak. And now that you've proved to be a divine being with regard to dear old Heinlein, could you please destroy all memories I have of "Friday" and give me back the hours I lost to it?
I think I know you in person. Or someone like you. Are you one of those humourless bores who refuses to watch anything funnier and more action-filled than Wings of Honneamise?
And before you relaliate with some snarky comment about possible DBZ fandom on my part (which is untrue), let me say that I also appreciate some of the less well known gems of anime. Grave of the Fireflies and Azumanga Daioh come to mind.
Offtopic, but I think Grave of the Fireflies should be required viewing in high school history classes throughout the world.
Sanity is overrated. Sometimes utter mindless lunacy can be entertaining too.
Congratulations! You seem to not only proved yourself to be illiterate (the previous poster said "right now"), but a first-class asshole as well! Well done!
I'm not sure about ordering off the website. I've got a 3.4 4-CD boxed set in my hands right now, but I bought it at a local store in november of 1997. God, I feel old. I remember when I was installing this on a Compaq 486, one of those damned all-in-one things with built-in monitor.
:)
This may sound stupid, but that boxed set is kind of a prized possession. I keep in on my shelf above my monitor, as a reminder that I didn't always have a high end machine, and to appreciate what I've got. And now that Compaq 486 is running Slack 8 and happily chugging away as my firewall... the damned thing refuses to die.
Um, there was no Slackware 5. Patrick jumped from 4 to 7.
BTW, Patrick, you and your distro both kick ass. Keep the faith!
Am I the only human being alive who actually likes Hudson Hawk?
Amen to that. Individual satellites are expensive, as a friend in the Canadian Space Agency told me, mainly due to the R&D and construction of one-shot fabrication equipment. Imagine introducing assembly-line style mass production and modular designs to satellite construction. Sure, each individual satellite may be less effective than the current idea of custom-building, but a thousand less-effective mass production satellites may be more effective than a single custom satellite. I'm certain the idea has crossed the minds of others, I'm not claiming it to be original. :)
And as for launches, what about Earth-based mass drivers? A google search turns up tons of concept art sketches and PhD-level papers. Does anyone have anything easier to understand for someone with a liberal-arts-undergrad level of physics knowledge, with regard to current research on them?
Offtopic, but it would be nice if there were a dumbing-down checkbox on Google. "I want searches in the range of: 1) Grade school 2) High school 3) College 4) Richard Feynman."
What's wrong with the Winamp/XMMS interface? It's fairly intuitive and simple. XMMS itself is reliable and well-written to boot. Even on my ancient K6 mailserver/jukebox, it uses almost no CPU and almost no memory.
can you think of a better adjective to describe these kinds of laws that doesn't involve excrement.
I don't know about the previous poster, but I sure can't.
Please, no. That awful 2001: A Ranma Odyssey fanfic was bad enough.
(I only wish I were kidding. This atrocity exists. The Tendo sisters as the science team in hibernation? And don't even get me started on the stowaways...)
I'm actually optimistic about this. Clarke's books are long and filled with detail, to be sure, but it's sort of like Lord of the Rings. Lots of description that takes a dozen pages in text, but can be conveyed visually in seconds. It might work, with competent people in charge of the project.
(But if they hire Jerry Bruckheimer, I'm gonna kill someone. Can you imagine what that halfwit would do to the story?)
Well, I bought at a good local shop. I know I could get the parts cheaper through the net, but I like to buy from them when I can. I'm willing to accept a little markup in exchange for competent help.
New motherboard: CAN$119.
Athlon 2100+: CAN$206.
512MB RAM: CAN$115.
Realizing you have no cash left to replace your 16MB NVidia TNT2: Priceless.
I'd love to have a bootable compactflash, multimedia/secure digital or smartmedia card reader in place of my floppy drive. Key word here is "bootable". I'd be willing to give up floppies if I could boot off another cheap, randomly-rewriteable media. A nice bonus would be the ability to read digital images faster than through a USB1.1 camera or card reader. Better yet, a combo reader that does all of them. USB versions of combo readers are cheap enough, I don't see IDE versions being any more expensive.
(Then maybe, just maybe, those goddamn Sony Mavicas will die the horrible death they deserve...)