I'm sure we'll all miss him - even if you weren't a fan of his promoting segregation and oppressing civil rights there's no denying his contribution to the political transformation of the South and the Slashdot trolling scene. Truly an American icon.
I'm sure we'll all miss him - even if you weren't a fan of his promoting segregation and oppressing civil rights there's no denying his contribution to the political transformation of the South and the Slashdot trolling scene. Truly an American icon.
While the Slashdot staff are free to do what they feel like, would this site be better off if it chased off its global audience? Would it be as diverse and interesting? What if they decided to exclude all articles and news not pertaining to the US? Is this a good thing?
I don't think so and I suspect I'm not alone here.
I understand and agree that Slashdot is US-based. However, time conversion is not an issue of political correctness. Not every Slashdot reader is aware of the precise offsets of the various US time zones. Complicating this is the daylight savings variable, not specified in the subject.
Which is where a standard comes in handy. Specify one value, for everyone else in the world to apply their offset to. How easy is that?
Or even better, it could've been shown as 2000 EDT(GMT-0400). Satisfies just about everyone then.
As for your analogy with USD, that is flawed. Why? It stays constant regardless of where you live within the US.
I used to think the same way until I started thinking global. Then my perspective changed.
Don't worry about the flame, no offence taken. Best to sort out issues than let them simmer inside and turn into monsters.
The old GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) has effectively been replaced with UTC (Universal Coordinated Time).
GMT was the time recorded by an atomic clock kept at Greenwich, England. UTC is based on another time standard called TAI which is derived from hundreds of atomic clocks in the national standards laboratories of many countries. TAI is slightly different from UTC: UTC is corrected roughly every eighteen months with a 'leap second' to agree with TAI.
Still, GMT and UTC seem to be used interchangeably in the literature, except by hard core time geeks.
Technically, you are not supposed to use LAME unless you have paid Fraunhofer their royalties. While the source code distribution is protected and allowed by law, the binaries are not.
Slashdot Mirror
Who is Robot Ballon?
is that you got audio working on Linux.
The goatse store.
I just heard some sad news on the radio today - U.S. senator Strom Thurmond was found dead in his Edgefield home last night. There weren't any more details yet.
:'(
I'm sure we'll all miss him - even if you weren't a fan of his promoting segregation and oppressing civil rights there's no denying his contribution to the political transformation of the South and the Slashdot trolling scene. Truly an American icon.
He shall be missed
Keep up the good work with your high-quality hilarious flamebait :-)
MD5 checksum of "D:\setup\patches\W2KSP4\W2KSP4_EN.EXE":
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I just heard some sad news on the radio today - U.S. senator Strom Thurmond was found dead in his Edgefield home last night. There weren't any more details yet.
:'(
I'm sure we'll all miss him - even if you weren't a fan of his promoting segregation and oppressing civil rights there's no denying his contribution to the political transformation of the South and the Slashdot trolling scene. Truly an American icon.
He shall be missed
I'm sure our resident expert is more than willing to help.
The two are mutually exclusive.
My first flamebait post. Drink to that, mate!
Disclaimer: Poster is drunk.
It's moments like these that make drinking and Slashdotting fun.
While the Slashdot staff are free to do what they feel like, would this site be better off if it chased off its global audience? Would it be as diverse and interesting? What if they decided to exclude all articles and news not pertaining to the US? Is this a good thing?
I don't think so and I suspect I'm not alone here.
I understand and agree that Slashdot is US-based. However, time conversion is not an issue of political correctness. Not every Slashdot reader is aware of the precise offsets of the various US time zones. Complicating this is the daylight savings variable, not specified in the subject.
Which is where a standard comes in handy. Specify one value, for everyone else in the world to apply their offset to. How easy is that?
Or even better, it could've been shown as 2000 EDT(GMT-0400). Satisfies just about everyone then.
As for your analogy with USD, that is flawed. Why? It stays constant regardless of where you live within the US.
I used to think the same way until I started thinking global. Then my perspective changed.
Don't worry about the flame, no offence taken. Best to sort out issues than let them simmer inside and turn into monsters.
[from Daemon News.]
So no, there's more than political correctness to it
As this is a global site, UTC is more appropriate when quoting time.
None of that daylight savings bullshit for me!
couldn't get worse than that.
So, what are the ramifications of having protected, safe sex? Just curious...
The above is valid if you reside in a country where Fraunhofer has patents on MP3, or if the country honours international patents.
Technically, you are not supposed to use LAME unless you have paid Fraunhofer their royalties. While the source code distribution is protected and allowed by law, the binaries are not.
My Ogg Vorbis collection is getting bigger as I convert all my CDs to it and I need a portable that not only plays it, but also records in it.
Why isn't this done yet?
Change to websites.
Change to versions.
Change to browser's.
Change to your.
There are some stylistic errors but they do not need immediate attention.
Cheers,
CD
Soujanyam is a word in Malayalam that, in this context, means Free [as in beer].
:-)
Swatantryam means Free [as in freedom] - but I'm sure you guessed that
they come with serial numbers.
Hell, even the organic celery in the local supermarket have their own serials. How far will this madness go?