Also, I hate that productivity = writing memos and using Word. Productivity for me means
writing CGI, working with databases, network and system administration. Why is it so bad when I
counter that my "productivity tools" are nmap, ethereal, snort, inetd, Apache, mod_perl, and so
forth?
Because he/she doesn't believe that people really do that kind of work; many people can't imagine work different than their own.
When the hell are we going to have one of these? Something along the lines of what happened when the Pogo-damned brawling (street fighter) and Virtual-(sport/race/tank/plastic-gun-in-hand) games became popular?
Back when I was a kid I fought and stole for quarters to play coin-op games like Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, Two Tigers, Heavy Barrel, etc. These were games that you could learn to play for a long time after a reasonable investment. Something that would bring you back for more. It was battle against the machine, not against another person.
Virtual sport, etc, games provide somewhat of the same challenge, unfortunately usually the designers expend their efforts working on better hardware skateboards, skis, or rifles, resulting in gameplay that pales in comparison to the $1/play pricing system.
I can only hope that these systems OR SOMETHING ELSE bring back the joy that you could have by playing for a little while, learning something, playing again, and then playing better. All at low cost, and as basically just a "fun" experience and not one with grand theatrics.
Why don't you funnel your talents into a group ripe, ready, and willing to use your programming skills?
And what with their thousands of projects/packages there is assuredly something you can work on which will suit your fancy, keep you busy for an extended period of time, and is assured to be fairly widely dispersed.
Sounds like quality charity work to me...:)
Besides, since I use Debian, I'll get to benefit from it as well.
>> i love Debian, but they have the worst >> timing...
All this stuff will be available in woody, no doubt... where it'll be properly thought of as "unstable" in the Debian sense... so, what's the big deal?
Kernel 2.4.0 should be stable unto itself. glibc, apache, XFree86, PAN, xv, etc may all be stable unto themselves Debian is concerned with everything... so they would be hard-pressed to declare the whole system stable without giving the configuration a while to prove itself.
This has got to be one of the funniest things I've read in a long time.
It reminds me of the guy who experienced just about every urban legend that can happen to a single person (he was recovering from a rat in his KFC, was unknowingly drugged, woke up in a bathtub without his kidneys, lost his leg due to not sending on a chain mail, tried to use a pay phone to call 911 about his kidneys and leg but got jabbed with an HIV infected needle, etc)
Why is it I'm never a moderator when I want to be (and vice versa)?
It would be nice to be able to squirrel away moderator points in our cookies for just such an occasion?
Basically the signal outputted from the tape plays with the gain control chips in your VCR. This results in varying image brightness or blackness, as you've seen.
The signals are ignored by the television set for all intents and purposes.
Disney loves to use this to prevent copies of their movies... and sometimes VCR's have issues with the scheme, resulting in crappy playback of even non-dubbed tapes. Chalk another one up to the wonderful world of corporate paranoia.
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The power companies asked to have the price fixed.
Remember that SCE, PG&E, and SDG&E asked to have the costs fixed to the consumers (as well as for deregulation in general).
Now they're paying through the nose for it.
He's assuming that you are keeping all current
shareholders at some sort of equal value.
"Can I get a witness?"
... ?
... I would just appreciate case
What? Whereabouts can one feel confident that
they can say anything they want
I believe you
examples.
This goes both ways.
It was sarcasm.
When the hell are we going to have one of these? Something along the lines of what happened when the Pogo-damned brawling (street fighter) and Virtual-(sport/race/tank/plastic-gun-in-hand) games became popular?
Back when I was a kid I fought and stole for quarters to play coin-op games like Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, Two Tigers, Heavy Barrel, etc. These were games that you could learn to play for a long time after a reasonable investment. Something that would bring you back for more. It was battle against the machine, not against another person.
Virtual sport, etc, games provide somewhat of the same challenge, unfortunately usually the designers expend their efforts working on better hardware skateboards, skis, or rifles, resulting in gameplay that pales in comparison to the $1/play pricing system.
I can only hope that these systems OR SOMETHING ELSE bring back the joy that you could have by playing for a little while, learning something, playing again, and then playing better. All at low cost, and as basically just a "fun" experience and not one with grand theatrics.
Why don't you funnel your talents into a group
... :)
ripe, ready, and willing to use your programming
skills?
And what with their thousands of projects/packages
there is assuredly something you can work on which
will suit your fancy, keep you busy for an
extended period of time, and is assured to be
fairly widely dispersed.
Sounds like quality charity work to me
Besides, since I use Debian, I'll get to benefit
from it as well.
I thought it was a joke, personally.
I guess I was in the wrong since both Hrunting and, ATM, +3 moderators agree.
Hmm.
perhaps he needs to specify order of operation:
/. (grammar-error) free for 3 years now.
Helping keep
In other words, presumably, if it weren't for his efforts, we'd be _paying_
for even more grammatically incorrect posts.
>> i love Debian, but they have the worst
... where it'll be properly thought of ... so, what's
... so they
>> timing...
All this stuff will be available in woody,
no doubt
as "unstable" in the Debian sense
the big deal?
Kernel 2.4.0 should be stable unto itself.
glibc, apache, XFree86, PAN, xv, etc may all be
stable unto themselves
Debian is concerned with everything
would be hard-pressed to declare the whole
system stable without giving the configuration
a while to prove itself.
I remember the days when one used to just
:)
leisurely reply with an OT response, and maybe
get #1.
What the hell happened.
This has got to be one of the funniest things
I've read in a long time.
It reminds me of the guy who experienced just
about every urban legend that can happen to a
single person (he was recovering from a rat in his
KFC, was unknowingly drugged, woke up in a bathtub
without his kidneys, lost his leg due to not
sending on a chain mail, tried to use a pay phone
to call 911 about his kidneys and leg but got
jabbed with an HIV infected needle, etc)
Why is it I'm never a moderator when I want to be
(and vice versa)?
It would be nice to be able to squirrel away
moderator points in our cookies for just such an
occasion?
This is OT for DVD, but to answer your question:
... and sometimes VCR's have issues with the scheme, resulting in crappy playback of even non-dubbed tapes. Chalk another one up to the wonderful world of corporate paranoia.
It's called `Macrovision' in all probability.
Basically the signal outputted from the tape plays with the gain control chips in your VCR. This results in varying image brightness or blackness, as you've seen.
The signals are ignored by the television set for all intents and purposes.
Disney loves to use this to prevent copies of their movies
3 good reasons which come immediately to mind
(but I have to go so I'm not going to expand right now)
1) Remote administration.
2) Complete lock down of all necessary components so that Grandpa can feel free to go crazy on the computer and be assured that it won't break.
3) Remote administration.
I second that. I had independently thought of Remote Control as being the forebear of the death of MTV.
I don't remember Adam Sandler's role in that show, although I do remember Collin Quinn and Kari (sp?) Werner distinctly (Werner esp.) *grin*