We communicate very well. Just not in the most typical places or in the most usual ways./. being one of those atypical places, USENET (or what remains after spamfilters and killfiling) being another.
The witty funny dashing fellow gets his head handed to him time after time by the fat guy down the hall who spends half a day cleaning up the first guy's code with bug fixes and speed enhancements and then finally getting him fired for being a (relatively) crappy programmer.
Actually, in the real world, the dashing fellow gets promoted to management where he can do the least harm, while our friendly large programmer remains in his warren with few prospects for promotion because he is so good at what he does the company can't risk promoting him out of actual productive labor.
Where is the DV support? Where is the MPEG1/VideoCD compression support? (Encoding, not playback)
I was interested in using this on my BP6 2x400(500) Celeron system as a video workstation for burning VideoCDs of home movies onto CDRWs or silver/silver discs, but because of the lack of DV support or MPEG1 compression, I had to go to (horrors!) NT.
BeOS is neat, but it isn't really ready for prime time in the video space.. Any rig that can't handle DV is definitely not suitable for modern corporate/hobbyist video.. DV is _that_ cool.
Aggresive driving involves speeding, passing in the right hand lane, red light running, and other stupid road rage tricks.
A few points:
When speeding is outlawed, only outlaws will speed. Speed doesn't, in and of itself, have to be bundled in with reckless driving behaviors. It's just that if you're gonna drive recklessly, you don't care how fast you're going. You can drive fast carefully and courteously. It's time to decouple speed from recklessness.
Self-appointed 'speed monitors' on the road and people too stupid or lazy to stay right cause right-lane supercruising. Put a law or ordinance in place requiring both no right-lane passing and no left-lane cruising (that is, you must get right when someone's looking to pass) and this problem goes away
I'm glad to see that it's stoplight running causing the most accidents, because it then shows that _speed doesn't cause accidents_, it merely becomes a factor in their severity.
Simple question: why can the Germans drive at acceptably fast rates of speed, while Americans arenot permitted to? The cars are the same, the roads are (in most interstate highways, which, btw, the Autobahn is only limitless in intercity routes) pretty much the same (though they built roads for 40 years while we cheaped out on our quality). Is it the training? Is it the severity of penalty? Is it the culture (are they _better people_ than we are)?
dates have always been somewhat of a clusterfuck in Java. Every language has an area (at least one) in which it sucks hard.
I had written both a countdown clock and a normal desk clock in Java, and had to deal with java.util.date kludgery quite a bit:O.. And the shift from 102 to 11 was pretty useless...
Still, they should have RTFM, particularly knowing how arcane and crappy the Java date interface was.. I'm just chuckling at all the websites featuring 19100, 192000, 3900, etc...
Good lord, I'm annoyed by the lack of proper spelling and grammatical structure these days (though I myself tend to overparenthesize and fly off on tangents: must be the effect of hypertext on human discourse;)..
Man, I've forgotten so much Latin.. (And what a promising student I was, before I discovered USENET, Netrek and mast^H^H^H^H (not necessarily in order;) )..
"Romanus Eunt Domus? The Roman they go to the house???"
Your Working Boy,
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Pokemon and Magic the Gathering are both RPGs in today's world.
And THAT STATEMENT has really killed my good millennium mood.. I really hate what MtG, Pokemon, and all those other annoying CCGs have done to true gaming (AD&D, Shadowrun, Vampire to pick a few of my faves from a hat)..
Old gaming pals tell me to check out online versions (mud-style mostly) but it just isn't the same.. How many of you actually drew your MUD characters, or painted pewter models of them? (Did I just show a fanatic bit here?;)
I guess it's like a thing I used to have in my life that I can only look back on, like a good friend from college who doesn't have email... Your Working Boy,
I doubt you'll derive much nutritional value from their brains..
(and FYI, I did Y2k work for an investment bank for awhile, and we found some really interesting bugs, but most of the issues were cosmetic, and Y2k was not something to stick with: it tended to suck out all of your will to live...)
Actually, get several and put 'em in a stripe on a striping RAID adapter. What good is 160MBps peak if you're limited to a single drive?
Also, consider multiprocessing. Also note that RAMBUS isn't all it's cracked up to be in current implementations, and that you might hold off until GeForce drivers for Linux are available (if not already).
BTW, why Intel-based, if you can use Alpha 21?64(s)? I don't recall if there was a price maximum.. And if you're porting from MIPS anyway...
Also, the two load indicator running lights were really sexy and you won't find them anywhere else.
Actually (and I hate to say this) if you walk NT in SMP mode, the Task Manager has X pulse sections (X=# of procs).. OK, they're not LED graphs, but still..
And I'm surprised you can't find a GNOME version... Your Working Boy,
I got the Curtis monitor stand for my 17" XV17 a few years back, it's rated for 75 lbs and it doesn't have 'joints' (a fixed height with variable tilt on 2 axes) but it works pretty well.
I was hoping to find some kind of articulated thing similar to a lamp arm (but with beefier springs and joints of course;), but I couldn't that could stand up to that much weight.
What is it with Slashdot's dweeping of Beowulf clusters? Noone seems to be able to mention "new computer" without Beowulf being mentioned by someone
The comedy pro technical term for it is 'running gag'. They've been used pretty successfully throughout comedy history, and every culture seems to have them. For example, North Carolina's had Jesse Helms as a running gag for decades now.. And I hear England's royal family continues to garner laughs after centuries, I guess that joke never gets tired...
problem is, people are too chicken-shit to sacrifice anything to defend the things that make life worth living.
Actually, if this century proves anything, it's that Americans are willing to fight and die for principle, if absolutely necessary. The problem is that lately the people espousing the principle and defining necessity have proven themselves unworthy of the people's trust. I can't imagine that going on much longer without some serious backlash...
Jefferson led a very self-contradictory life. While opposed to slavery he owned slaves
So, in other words, he was a fallible human being. Just like you and me. I can live with that. I can still admire the man for the great things he said and by the institutions that he helped build. I can still hold up his genius at self-education as an example that I strive to live up to.
Ironically, Jefferson envisioned a nation of free yeoman landowning farmers exercising educated democracy. I'm sure you could power a small city by hooking up a dynamo to his remains and letting him continue to spin in his grave. Not that I'm saying it's bad that we haven't ended up as an agrarian pasture of a nation, but it does show that good initial standards design (the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, is there an ANSI standard for the Liberty of a System?) should be made flexible to allow modification and extension for impelementation of changing operating parameters..
(yes, yes, he retained his Swiss citizenship, but still, by the end of his life he was one of ours thanks to the intellectual freedom and freedom from persecution as a jew he found here)
And if there's any doubt that the 20th century wasn't the American century, you are wholly ignorant of history. There are dozens of other centuries that Euros, Asians, etc can attempt to claim, but for better or worse the 20th is ours.
The question is, though: whose will the 21st be? Or, more interestingly, does our current nation-state model even survive long enough for any one to make that claim? ('The 21st century is the Micro$oft century.. enough to make you want to take up terrorism as a weekend hobby...')
And not that I hate Europe at all, it's just I get very irritated when our friends across the pond start throwing stones and getting all self-righteously preachy, while not realizing they live in a stained-glass cathedral (which, like the Frauenkirche would still be shattered if not for great men like Marshall).. Hell, I could rant for days on the French, but I have christmas presents to buy..
I'm surprised General Marshall hasn't popped up earlier (in public, not on/.), but then again, sadly, maybe I'm not.
It's strange how history works, how for the greatest stresses and strains great men (and women) seem to come to the fore. Or at least, if they're not great, they put aside their weaknesses to lead. Turns out we were lucky in getting Marshall, Bradley, Nimitz, Eisenhower, great men and great leaders. The last time a happy accident like that came about in Western Civ was probably the American Revolution..
Hell, I'd compare George Marshall to Agricola as much as to George Washington. Anyone would be infinitely lucky to live in a nation founded on the principles of any of those men.
What has this to do with slashdot, you might ask? Well, if it wasn't for Marshall, you probably wouldn't be at that terminal looking at pixels, you'd probably be a wisp of carbon dancing gently across a pockmarked landscape or starving to death in a still-bombed-out European city. I guess it shows that, on occasion, America can export something a bit more useful to the world than 'Baywatch'. If there's any justice, Marshall stands among the greatest men in all of recorded history. And having an idea of Marshall, he probably would balk when asked to line up with them;)
... or, more precisely, a paper white screen. Black on light-grey is really hard on my eyes, and I use my Newton to read books while on the train, in a car, etc..
AFAIK the only way to really get paper white is to have a color screen and/or a white backlight..
Plus, color can be a valuable GUI element, if used correctly.. Your Working Boy,
Slashdot Mirror
Hence, they don't communicate very well.
/. being one of those atypical places, USENET (or what remains after spamfilters and killfiling) being another.
We communicate very well. Just not in the most typical places or in the most usual ways.
Happy new year!
Your Working Boy,
The witty funny dashing fellow gets his head handed to him time after time by the fat guy down the hall who spends half a day cleaning up the first guy's code with bug fixes and speed enhancements and then finally getting him fired for being a (relatively) crappy programmer.
Actually, in the real world, the dashing fellow gets promoted to management where he can do the least harm, while our friendly large programmer remains in his warren with few prospects for promotion because he is so good at what he does the company can't risk promoting him out of actual productive labor.
Welcome to the real world, Neo.
Your Working Boy,
Media OS?
Where is the DV support?
Where is the MPEG1/VideoCD compression support? (Encoding, not playback)
I was interested in using this on my BP6 2x400(500) Celeron system as a video workstation for burning VideoCDs of home movies onto CDRWs or silver/silver discs, but because of the lack of DV support or MPEG1 compression, I had to go to (horrors!) NT.
BeOS is neat, but it isn't really ready for prime time in the video space.. Any rig that can't handle DV is definitely not suitable for modern corporate/hobbyist video.. DV is _that_ cool.
Your Working Boy,
A few points:
Simple question: why can the Germans drive at acceptably fast rates of speed, while Americans arenot permitted to? The cars are the same, the roads are (in most interstate highways, which, btw, the Autobahn is only limitless in intercity routes) pretty much the same (though they built roads for 40 years while we cheaped out on our quality). Is it the training? Is it the severity of penalty? Is it the culture (are they _better people_ than we are)?
Rational answers only, please.
Your Working Boy,
dates have always been somewhat of a clusterfuck in Java. Every language has an area (at least one) in which it sucks hard.
:O.. And the shift from 102 to 11 was pretty useless...
I had written both a countdown clock and a normal desk clock in Java, and had to deal with java.util.date kludgery quite a bit
Still, they should have RTFM, particularly knowing how arcane and crappy the Java date interface was.. I'm just chuckling at all the websites featuring 19100, 192000, 3900, etc...
Enjoy the bugs!
Your Working Boy,
We can spell correctly, and use correct grammar.
;)..
;) )..
Good lord, I'm annoyed by the lack of proper spelling and grammatical structure these days (though I myself tend to overparenthesize and fly off on tangents: must be the effect of hypertext on human discourse
Man, I've forgotten so much Latin.. (And what a promising student I was, before I discovered USENET, Netrek and mast^H^H^H^H (not necessarily in order
"Romanus Eunt Domus? The Roman they go to the house???"
Your Working Boy,
Pokemon and Magic the Gathering are both RPGs in today's world.
;)
And THAT STATEMENT has really killed my good millennium mood.. I really hate what MtG, Pokemon, and all those other annoying CCGs have done to true gaming (AD&D, Shadowrun, Vampire to pick a few of my faves from a hat)..
Old gaming pals tell me to check out online versions (mud-style mostly) but it just isn't the same.. How many of you actually drew your MUD characters, or painted pewter models of them? (Did I just show a fanatic bit here?
I guess it's like a thing I used to have in my life that I can only look back on, like a good friend from college who doesn't have email...
Your Working Boy,
Yes, but who metametamoderates the metamoderators?
Your Working Boy,
.... are invalidated? Wasn't 1999 supposed to be the big year for the massive natural disasters, world war with nukes, etc?
;)
Inquiring minds want to know.. Any Nostradamus junkies out there looking to revalidate the master?
Happy new year!
Your Working Boy,
Can I eat their brains anyway?
I doubt you'll derive much nutritional value from their brains..
(and FYI, I did Y2k work for an investment bank for awhile, and we found some really interesting bugs, but most of the issues were cosmetic, and Y2k was not something to stick with: it tended to suck out all of your will to live...)
Your Working Boy,
How about Vancouver or Amsterdam?
Your Working Boy,
NYC has one of the best public transit systems in the nation if you count miles of track, distance to bus/train station, etc..
Still doesn't mean I like it, or that I avoid driving..
And traffic could be worse (like, LA worse)..
Still, I live in the burbs, and enjoy my 384kbps SDSL link, and when I want to see something or hang out with humans, I can always head on down..
Your Working Boy,
One word:
Amsterdam.
Your Working Boy,
And get the fastest hard drives available.
Actually, get several and put 'em in a stripe on a striping RAID adapter. What good is 160MBps peak if you're limited to a single drive?
Also, consider multiprocessing. Also note that RAMBUS isn't all it's cracked up to be in current implementations, and that you might hold off until GeForce drivers for Linux are available (if not already).
BTW, why Intel-based, if you can use Alpha 21?64(s)? I don't recall if there was a price maximum.. And if you're porting from MIPS anyway...
Your Working Boy,
Also, the two load indicator running lights were really sexy and you won't find them anywhere else.
Actually (and I hate to say this) if you walk NT in SMP mode, the Task Manager has X pulse sections (X=# of procs).. OK, they're not LED graphs, but still..
And I'm surprised you can't find a GNOME version...
Your Working Boy,
Second question: if the seller knows explicitly that the brakes are bad then is it still ok to sell it?
;)
Yes, as long as the fact is disclosed clearly and unambiguously before sale...
(of course, IANAL, that's my disclosure
Your Working Boy,
I got the Curtis monitor stand for my 17" XV17 a few years back, it's rated for 75 lbs and it doesn't have 'joints' (a fixed height with variable tilt on 2 axes) but it works pretty well.
;), but I couldn't that could stand up to that much weight.
I was hoping to find some kind of articulated thing similar to a lamp arm (but with beefier springs and joints of course
Best of luck!
Your Working Boy,
What is it with Slashdot's dweeping of Beowulf clusters? Noone seems to be able to mention "new computer" without Beowulf being mentioned by someone
The comedy pro technical term for it is 'running gag'. They've been used pretty successfully throughout comedy history, and every culture seems to have them. For example, North Carolina's had Jesse Helms as a running gag for decades now.. And I hear England's royal family continues to garner laughs after centuries, I guess that joke never gets tired...
Your Working Boy,
problem is, people are too chicken-shit to sacrifice anything to defend the things that make life worth living.
Actually, if this century proves anything, it's that Americans are willing to fight and die for principle, if absolutely necessary. The problem is that lately the people espousing the principle and defining necessity have proven themselves unworthy of the people's trust. I can't imagine that going on much longer without some serious backlash...
Your Working Boy,
Where would we be without the theory of Gravity?
Standing on the ceiling of my living room?
Civilly Disobeying Newton's Laws,
Your Working Boy,
Jefferson led a very self-contradictory life. While opposed to slavery he owned slaves
So, in other words, he was a fallible human being. Just like you and me. I can live with that. I can still admire the man for the great things he said and by the institutions that he helped build. I can still hold up his genius at self-education as an example that I strive to live up to.
Ironically, Jefferson envisioned a nation of free yeoman landowning farmers exercising educated democracy. I'm sure you could power a small city by hooking up a dynamo to his remains and letting him continue to spin in his grave. Not that I'm saying it's bad that we haven't ended up as an agrarian pasture of a nation, but it does show that good initial standards design (the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, is there an ANSI standard for the Liberty of a System?) should be made flexible to allow modification and extension for impelementation of changing operating parameters..
Your Working Boy,
Who, btw, was naturalized as an American.
(yes, yes, he retained his Swiss citizenship, but still, by the end of his life he was one of ours thanks to the intellectual freedom and freedom from persecution as a jew he found here)
And if there's any doubt that the 20th century wasn't the American century, you are wholly ignorant of history. There are dozens of other centuries that Euros, Asians, etc can attempt to claim, but for better or worse the 20th is ours.
The question is, though: whose will the 21st be? Or, more interestingly, does our current nation-state model even survive long enough for any one to make that claim? ('The 21st century is the Micro$oft century.. enough to make you want to take up terrorism as a weekend hobby...')
And not that I hate Europe at all, it's just I get very irritated when our friends across the pond start throwing stones and getting all self-righteously preachy, while not realizing they live in a stained-glass cathedral (which, like the Frauenkirche would still be shattered if not for great men like Marshall).. Hell, I could rant for days on the French, but I have christmas presents to buy..
Joyeux Noel!
Your Working Boy,
I'm surprised General Marshall hasn't popped up earlier (in public, not on /.), but then again, sadly, maybe I'm not.
;)
It's strange how history works, how for the greatest stresses and strains great men (and women) seem to come to the fore. Or at least, if they're not great, they put aside their weaknesses to lead. Turns out we were lucky in getting Marshall, Bradley, Nimitz, Eisenhower, great men and great leaders. The last time a happy accident like that came about in Western Civ was probably the American Revolution..
Hell, I'd compare George Marshall to Agricola as much as to George Washington. Anyone would be infinitely lucky to live in a nation founded on the principles of any of those men.
What has this to do with slashdot, you might ask? Well, if it wasn't for Marshall, you probably wouldn't be at that terminal looking at pixels, you'd probably be a wisp of carbon dancing gently across a pockmarked landscape or starving to death in a still-bombed-out European city. I guess it shows that, on occasion, America can export something a bit more useful to the world than 'Baywatch'. If there's any justice, Marshall stands among the greatest men in all of recorded history. And having an idea of Marshall, he probably would balk when asked to line up with them
Happy holidays!
Your Working Boy,
... or, more precisely, a paper white screen. Black on light-grey is really hard on my eyes, and I use my Newton to read books while on the train, in a car, etc..
AFAIK the only way to really get paper white is to have a color screen and/or a white backlight..
Plus, color can be a valuable GUI element, if used correctly..
Your Working Boy,
Still krashes when viewing /... :(
./configure)
./mozilla http://www.slashdot.org ./mozilla-bin http://www.slashdot.org i lla/dist/bin / dist/bin / bin n /home/otis/.mozilla/otis - notes/m12.html
(RHLinux 6.1 X/GTK/GLIB stock, built with RH6.1 default compiler settings and
a smidge of output:
[otis@marvin bin]$
.//run-mozilla.sh
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/vol/0/tools/misc/mozilla/moz
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/vol/0/tools/misc/mozilla/mozilla
SHLIB_PATH=/vol/0/tools/misc/mozilla/mozilla/dist
LIBPATH=/vol/0/tools/misc/mozilla/mozilla/dist/bi
MOZ_PROGRAM=./mozilla-bin
MOZ_TOOLKIT=
moz_debug=0
moz_debugger=
nsNativeComponentLoader: autoregistering begins.
nsNativeComponentLoader: autoregistering succeeded
nNCL: registering deferred (0)
nsUnixToolkitService: Using 'gtk' for the Widget Toolkit.
nsUnixToolkitService: Using 'gtk' for the Gfx Toolkit.
NS_SetupRegistry() MOZ_TOOLKIT=gtk, WIDGET_DLL=libwidget_gtk.so, GFX_DLL=libgfx_gtk.so
initialized appshell
ProfileName : otis
ProfileDir :
GFX: dpi=96 t2p=0.0666667 p2t=15 depth=16
WEBSHELL+ = 1
Opening file cookperm.txt failed
Initialized app shell component {4a85a5d0-cddd-11d2-b7f6-00805f05ffa5}, rv=0x00000000
Initialized app shell component {18c2f989-b09f-11d2-bcde-00805f0e1353}, rv=0x00000000
WEBSHELL+ = 2
Got the event queue from the service
Calling gdk_input_add with event queue
Note: styleverifytree is disabled
Note: frameverifytree is disabled
Note: verifyreflow is disabled
nsXULKeyListenerImpl::Init()
warning: property locale.all.ET_ET already exists
warning: property locale.all.ET_ET already exists
nsCollationUnix::Initialize mLocale = C
Start reading in bookmarks.html
Finished reading in bookmarks.html (139708 microseconds)
WEBSHELL+ = 3
Setting content window
browser.startup.page = 1
startpage = http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/release
136725216 : Focus occurred on: Window with an HTML doc (happens twice)
136725216 : Focus occurred on: Window with an HTML doc (happens twice)
WEBSHELL+ = 4
Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 1507 (gtk_widget_hide): assertion `widget != NULL' failed.
Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 1424 (gtk_widget_show): assertion `widget != NULL' failed.
Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkMozBox'
Your Working Boy,