The fact that you can still see the original movie if you want is what takes my sympathy away from the whiners. It's not as if Leonardo was painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa. At worst it's like Leonardo using new technology to make a Mona Lisa II with a mustache and then selling it. Who cares. The original is still the original... except you could still buy a print of the original Mona Lisa I.
Now *this* IMO is what Slashdot, News for Nerds is all about!
As there is no depth perception, the only practical benefit of this set-up over a photo pasted on the window is that you can change the picture more easily (recall that he can't use it for FMV). But that's not the point. It has immense geek karma, if there is such a thing.
One problem with migration to Thunderbird from Outlook, apart from calendaring, is the ability to download Hotmail, MSN, AOL, or Yahoo! web mail. Mozilla doesn't do this.
Not that I think it's a necessarily useful or even sensible feature, but the point is that a lot of other people do.
On more than one occasion I have tried to encourage someone to switch to a less bug-ridden mail client only to be met with "But how do I check my hotmail?"
Therefore, I'd like to see this feature introduced, not for functionality, but as a migration incentive.
Heh. I once made a stateless distro, based on Red Hat, on a hard drive. The intention was to use it as a car ogg player.
It had / mounted read-only./var cannot be mounted read-only (needs/var/run, etc), so I mounted it as a 16M ramdisk, the contents of which was downloaded from/var.tgz at boot time. It worked splendid. Eventually, the slowest part of the boot process was waiting for the BIOS POST to finish.
You could power down the thing whenever the hell you liked and never see fsck run.
...please include an answer as to why in the world I would have to edit my yum.conf file to install a dvd player and compare that to the difficulties of installing the same software on windows.
Installing on windows, let's see: 1. Try out crappy DVD playing software that came with DVD drive. 2. Get to the screen where it asks for money before letting you use it any more without advertisements popping up. 3. Download better DVD software from the net. 4. Hunt for another one that isn't spyware. 5. Download crack for crappy software that came with DVD drive. 6. Hunt for software that will let you play your region 2 DVD more than twice.
How about with linux: 1. apt-get install ogle 2. ogle
Okay, so Linux does have a steep learning curve, but let's not put windows on too high a pedestal.
If you maintain a group of networked but otherwise independent computers for example a student lab or office farm, consider deploying something like PVM or MPI. It's a great way to get some use out of those idle cycles.
PVM at least scales incredibly well: 25 machines rendering a povray scene take just a fraction over 1/25 the time taken to render it on one machine. I haven't tested MPI yet.
I thought that perhaps it had something to do with copyrighted works falling into the public domain after a period of time.
If you restore/alter the original and change the copyright year (note these new DVDs are copyrighted 1997, the year of the SE's), then George has just bought himself (or probaly more accurately, his estate) an extra 20 years on his copyright.
That is probably the chief motivation behind destroying the original works.
An apt-get update;apt-get upgrade will most of the time do everything you need to update your machine to the "latest" version of whatever you have installed. Of course "latest" depending on whether you're running stable, unstable or testing.
There is really little necessity to go through the old windows-esque way of reinstalling every time a new release of your distro comes out (or take your life in your hands and attempt an 'upgrade'). I guess it's just a change in mindset for how to upgrade a system.
Having said that, I would still love to see some decent management tools like chkconfig appear in debian.
True, but everybody knows what and who you mean when you say:
" I canne do it, cap'n, I'm giving yeh all she's got."
But I guess there is a difference between being well-known and being a 'star', the latter probably being based on your movies box-office takings or some other dubious ranking system.
How come it took so long for the man to get his star?
I mean, this is great and all, but I would have thought that such a household icon would have had one long ago. Perhaps back when he was well enough to enjoy it and give a proper 'acceptance' speech.
Word will continue to dominate whilst third parties only create plugins for Word.
One of the first questions many people will ask upon seeing OpenOffice is "Okay, now how do I use my plugin X that I paid $200 for? What's that, I can't? I'm going back to Word."
EndNote is just one such example.
Fortunately, many plugins are compensated for (Acrobat writer vs OO.o PDF writer) or just plain obsolete (MathType vs the much superior OO.o Formula editor).
I went to http://www.apriori.net/paz/spreadsheet1.html as directed, but there was no spreadsheet there. Just a few brief notes on how a spreadsheet might work had it been there...
And who said I was gay? Maybe I am and maybe I'm not.
Apologies if I made a false assumption about your orientation.
What is clear is that I believe that everyone has the right to be the person they were born to be. You do not. What is very clear is that I am not a bigot, like you.
See my earlier post about what you were and were not born to be.
Your ideas kill people, they are false, and they degrade the dignity of a person. That is completely indefensible for any moral person. That you defend the ideas makes you immoral. That you do not recognise right from wrong is an advertisement of your moral perversion. That you do not exist in a vacuum is evidence of a sickness in our culture that will kill a lot more people with ignorance and lies.
Wow. I could have easily said that exact same to you with conviction.
Except that I don't know you. And it is becoming more and more clear that you don't know the One who made you. I pray that one day you will come to know and be all you were truly born to be.
Where do you get your morals that you feel you must defend so vigorously and spew hatred to those who go against them? What is immoral, and by what standards do you make your judgement?
Oh yes, and exactly how does a pro-life anti-depravity moral system kill people?
And no, even if you are gay I don't hate you or consider you less than human.
Nothing makes unnatural worse than criminal. A criminal loses certain rights, such as the freedon to go where ever when they are locked away.
People who perform unnatural acts do not lose any rights when they perform such acts, unless that act also happens to be criminal; they still have the exact same rights as before. Nothing is taken away.
What is at issue is whether the relationship is recognised as a legal institution by the powers that be. And why should it? What would be achieved for society as a whole? Apart from temporarily appeasing a small minority who hide behind the fear of upsetting political correctness.
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The fact that you can still see the original movie if you want is what takes my sympathy away from the whiners. It's not as if Leonardo was painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa. At worst it's like Leonardo using new technology to make a Mona Lisa II with a mustache and then selling it. Who cares. The original is still the original. .. except you could still buy a print of the original Mona Lisa I.
I believe they do use Direct3D for some effects, such as the heat shimmer.
Now that OpenGL 2.0 is out, such features should be available soon in OGL implementations.
Now *this* IMO is what Slashdot, News for Nerds is all about!
As there is no depth perception, the only practical benefit of this set-up over a photo pasted on the window is that you can change the picture more easily (recall that he can't use it for FMV). But that's not the point. It has immense geek karma, if there is such a thing.
Good for him.
No "she" isn't. According to the article, the girl in the picture is Julie, someone who helped out with the project.
The article is © 2004 Ryan Hoagland
One problem with migration to Thunderbird from Outlook, apart from calendaring, is the ability to download Hotmail, MSN, AOL, or Yahoo! web mail. Mozilla doesn't do this.
Not that I think it's a necessarily useful or even sensible feature, but the point is that a lot of other people do.
On more than one occasion I have tried to encourage someone to switch to a less bug-ridden mail client only to be met with "But how do I check my hotmail?"
Therefore, I'd like to see this feature introduced, not for functionality, but as a migration incentive.
In the South Pacific, Dells are only now beginning to make an appearance, and a pretty weak one at that.
HP are only good for their printers and medical instruments. Down here their computer line is a joke.
The vast, vast, VAST majority of desktop PCs are made up by local computer wholesalers. Vast.
Democrats hate fetuses and love gays. What about gay fetuses?
Ahhh, but can anyone really be born gay?
Heh. I once made a stateless distro, based on Red Hat, on a hard drive. The intention was to use it as a car ogg player.
/var cannot be mounted read-only (needs /var/run, etc), so I mounted it as a 16M ramdisk, the contents of which was downloaded from /var.tgz at boot time. It worked splendid. Eventually, the slowest part of the boot process was waiting for the BIOS POST to finish.
It had / mounted read-only.
You could power down the thing whenever the hell you liked and never see fsck run.
...please include an answer as to why in the world I would have to edit my yum.conf file to install a dvd player and compare that to the difficulties of installing the same software on windows.
Installing on windows, let's see:
1. Try out crappy DVD playing software that came with DVD drive.
2. Get to the screen where it asks for money before letting you use it any more without advertisements popping up.
3. Download better DVD software from the net.
4. Hunt for another one that isn't spyware.
5. Download crack for crappy software that came with DVD drive.
6. Hunt for software that will let you play your region 2 DVD more than twice.
How about with linux:
1. apt-get install ogle
2. ogle
Okay, so Linux does have a steep learning curve, but let's not put windows on too high a pedestal.
That's why you write your own cluster-able code to use the Message Passing Interface, as opposed to writing it to use PVM.
If you maintain a group of networked but otherwise independent computers for example a student lab or office farm, consider deploying something like PVM or MPI. It's a great way to get some use out of those idle cycles.
PVM at least scales incredibly well: 25 machines rendering a povray scene take just a fraction over 1/25 the time taken to render it on one machine. I haven't tested MPI yet.
I thought that perhaps it had something to do with copyrighted works falling into the public domain after a period of time.
If you restore/alter the original and change the copyright year (note these new DVDs are copyrighted 1997, the year of the SE's), then George has just bought himself (or probaly more accurately, his estate) an extra 20 years on his copyright.
That is probably the chief motivation behind destroying the original works.
So it was a win-win situation.
Ford got to keep their pride, and satisfaction of what they could do to people who tick them off.
And California didn't have to look at Ford motor cars for a while.
Or just use apt-get on another distro like Redhat.
about Debian is the ease of upgrades.
An apt-get update;apt-get upgrade will most of the time do everything you need to update your machine to the "latest" version of whatever you have installed. Of course "latest" depending on whether you're running stable, unstable or testing.
There is really little necessity to go through the old windows-esque way of reinstalling every time a new release of your distro comes out (or take your life in your hands and attempt an 'upgrade'). I guess it's just a change in mindset for how to upgrade a system.
Having said that, I would still love to see some decent management tools like chkconfig appear in debian.
True, but everybody knows what and who you mean when you say:
" I canne do it, cap'n, I'm giving yeh all she's got."
But I guess there is a difference between being well-known and being a 'star', the latter probably being based on your movies box-office takings or some other dubious ranking system.
How come it took so long for the man to get his star?
I mean, this is great and all, but I would have thought that such a household icon would have had one long ago. Perhaps back when he was well enough to enjoy it and give a proper 'acceptance' speech.
*Sigh*, no ogg vorbis this time around.
I think I'll stick with my iriver, thanks.
The lava lamps I've encountered require about three hours warm-up time before they really get going.
Perhaps it's designed for those really big bugs.
I don't know about OO, but KDE has been able to do several different flavours of sub-pixel hinting for a while now.
Word will continue to dominate whilst third parties only create plugins for Word.
One of the first questions many people will ask upon seeing OpenOffice is "Okay, now how do I use my plugin X that I paid $200 for? What's that, I can't? I'm going back to Word."
EndNote is just one such example.
Fortunately, many plugins are compensated for (Acrobat writer vs OO.o PDF writer) or just plain obsolete (MathType vs the much superior OO.o Formula editor).
And don't get me started on label printing...
... when's it being done for OpenOffice?
I went to http://www.apriori.net/paz/spreadsheet1.html as directed, but there was no spreadsheet there. Just a few brief notes on how a spreadsheet might work had it been there...
And who said I was gay? Maybe I am and maybe I'm not.
Apologies if I made a false assumption about your orientation.
What is clear is that I believe that everyone has the right to be the person they were born to be. You do not. What is very clear is that I am not a bigot, like you.
See my earlier post about what you were and were not born to be.
Your ideas kill people, they are false, and they degrade the dignity of a person. That is completely indefensible for any moral person. That you defend the ideas makes you immoral. That you do not recognise right from wrong is an advertisement of your moral perversion. That you do not exist in a vacuum is evidence of a sickness in our culture that will kill a lot more people with ignorance and lies.
Wow. I could have easily said that exact same to you with conviction.
Except that I don't know you. And it is becoming more and more clear that you don't know the One who made you. I pray that one day you will come to know and be all you were truly born to be.
Where do you get your morals that you feel you must defend so vigorously and spew hatred to those who go against them? What is immoral, and by what standards do you make your judgement?
Oh yes, and exactly how does a pro-life anti-depravity moral system kill people?
And no, even if you are gay I don't hate you or consider you less than human.
Nothing makes unnatural worse than criminal. A criminal loses certain rights, such as the freedon to go where ever when they are locked away.
People who perform unnatural acts do not lose any rights when they perform such acts, unless that act also happens to be criminal; they still have the exact same rights as before. Nothing is taken away.
What is at issue is whether the relationship is recognised as a legal institution by the powers that be. And why should it? What would be achieved for society as a whole? Apart from temporarily appeasing a small minority who hide behind the fear of upsetting political correctness.