Anyone know if iRiver is planning a small 4 or 5 Gb competitor to the iPod mini? They used to have a 1 Gb hard drive based player but it quickly disappeared. I love my iRiver flash player, but am really jonesing for more storage space while still having a built in radio in a teeny tiny package.
Abandonware sites work on logic somewhat like: "Well, you have this car, but since you've left it parked in the driveway for 6 months without using it, you shouldn't complain if we hotwire it and go joyriding in it... we'll return it so you don't lose anything!"
The logic is more something like, "Well, you have this classic car parked in the driveway, and since it isn't made anymore, I am going to duplicate the plans and build one for myself. Your car still works."
Firefox 0.9.3, and all others before it, on my WinXP machine, have had the same problem - sometimes the text renders too far to the left overlapping the side menu. This is a well known problem. A quick refresh fixes the rendering, so it is not a big deal. But you would think that by now, so close to 1.0, such an obvious problem would have been taken care of.
Well, I am forced to use Word at work and I do hate it. For several concrete reasons, and not just because it is a Microsoft products.
First, figures are a nightmare to deal with. No matter how hard you try, word insists on randomly rearranging them if you type text in the wrong place.
Equations and references are also a real pain in the neck. Having used LaTeX for many years in grad school, I know how things Should be.
Not to mention the fact I have Word 2000, and my boss just got 2003, so we can't even easily interchange files. Or the how Word makes a nightmare out of dealing with formatting and fonts. Or how easily bullets and numbered lists can get screwed up.
When anything anything beyond the most basic functions, it's my experience that Word quickly becomes a royal pain in the ***.
Clearly accurate counting of votes is not a simple problem. Witness Florida 2000.
There are simple things that could be done to make E-voting much better. Like print outs of selections in case of recounts. God forbid Diebold try that.
And in the same vein, I find it hard to take seriously any article that claims OpenOffice.org "Works just fine with.doc,.xls, and.ppt files." No. No it doesn't. Last time I checked (about 3 months ago).doc files had major issues with things like talbes and figures, and.ppt files were hopelessly screwed up. In a work enviroment where I am consantly being sent Microsoft Office files, minor incompatibilities become major headaches.
And yes, there are incompatability issues between different versions of office. But in my experience they pale in comparison to trying to read Office files in OpenOffice. This is why 1) people where I work are discouraged from upgrading to new versions of Office, and 2) OpenOffice is a complete non-starter.
To claim that.doc,.xls, and.ppt files work fine in OpenOffice, doesn't do anyone a favor. It only displays the extreme bias of the author of such a statement.
Only on Slashdot could somebody arguing for the cliff notes version of literature be called interesting. Dumbing down great works of art for the masses, and legions of bored high school students is not any kind of solution.
This may be difficult for you to understand, but most people read great works of literature because they love them, not to impress the neighbor.
Does anyone know if the problem that plauged the initial release of the Mini have been fixed - that is, the bad connector which led to noise after a few weeks of use. I tiny four gig player is just the right size for me, but I refuse to buy one until all the kinks have been worked out.
I'm up for shooting kids wanting to sell me candy bars in the head for knocking on my door.
Curious. I've never had anybody try to sell me a candy bar in the head before. And do they put the candy bar in the head as a result of knocking on the door? Or is the desire to sell caused by the knocking, and then the candy bar is added to the head after the fact?
Quite an existential dilemma you have there. No wonder you just want to shoot the damn kids and be done with it.
Knocks parts off the motherboard, wasn't grounded, refused to measure fan sizes before buying them. And I am still only halfway through the article. Can be summed up in one sentence:
Feckin' eejits shouldn't mess around inside the computer!
Or, I listened to the songs so many times on the radio and listened to the commercials so many times that I own the right to have a copy of the song by having listened to the hundreds of radio commercials.
That's an interesting justification - but that is all it really is, a convoluted justification. You are stealing. You may not agree with the laws that define it as such, but that is what you are doing.
More importantly though is the fact that the artist, whose music you enjoy, does not see a dime, from either you, or the commercials which you use as your primary justification. They are the ones who are hurt the most, by both the RIAA and people who twist logic to justify taking music.
If you want to steal music by ripping CDs from the library, fine. But quit using rationalization to apply a salve to your conscience. Accept what you do for what it is.
from dictionary.com: ------ documentary Audio pronunciation of "documentary" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dky-mnt-r) adj.
1. Consisting of, concerning, or based on documents. ------ F911 fits the definition. Complaining that it isn't a documentary because it's biases run contrary to yours doesn't mean it isn't a documentary.
Cancel the Test! TexasDex has no use for low-bitrate music. Since he clearly speaks for everyone, the entire affair is clearly a frivolous waste of time.
In general, I also think that the new Winstripe theme in 0.9.1 is much better than the version in 0.9.
But does anybody else think that the icons spacing when using small icons is just way too wide? I think it would look MUCH better if they just tweak the spacing a little bit...
I use Firefox with my work's Outlook Web access. The reason you can't reply is you are blocking popups with firefox and mozilla. For some reason you can read a message with popups blocked, but when you reply, if you have popup blocking on, the window just disappears.
The solution is simple; just go to Tools|Options, and add the site's address to the exceptions for popup blocking. My Outlook web access worked perfectly after that.
The NY Times isn't exactly a good example to use regarding liberal media not buying into the Bush adminstration spin. There have recently been a series of editorials in the NY Times where the editors have had to apologize for their coverage of the case for war in the run up to the invasion of Iraq. Seems they were a little too eager to publish the administration's spin on things without bothering to check the facts.
And what exactly does "American Way" mean to you? Because I suspect it means a lot of different things to a lot of different people.
To me, I grew up believing the American way should be that the big and the powerful actually go out of their way protecting the average everyday man, rather than trample on their rights in a greedy rush towards their own gain. At least that's what Superman stood for.
And that doesn't seem to be the country I live in any more.
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The only thing I find really that stupid is that they're going to have to completely reinvent all the relevant characters to fit this 'new' spider man, so what is the point? Why not just make a new super hero?*
Because the movie Spider Man was one of the top grossing movies in India. They want to capitilize on the name recognition of Spider Man while at the same time making a superhero that more Indians can relate to culturally.
The editors here signed million dollar contracts, revenue is coming in from ads and subscriptions, they've been at it for years.... you'd think they'd have learned at least a few basic journalism techniques.
Except that Slashdot is not a journalism site, and we may call the editors "editors" but they are not, at least not in the traditional sense. Slashdot aggregates links to news on other sites. And the "editors" usually just repost submissions along perhaps a supposedly witty comment or two.
So I don't expect basic journalism techniques as the function of Slashdot is not journalism.
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Hardware choice is nice, too.
Anyone know if iRiver is planning a small 4 or 5 Gb competitor to the iPod mini? They used to have a 1 Gb hard drive based player but it quickly disappeared. I love my iRiver flash player, but am really jonesing for more storage space while still having a built in radio in a teeny tiny package.
Abandonware sites work on logic somewhat like: "Well, you have this car, but since you've left it parked in the driveway for 6 months without using it, you shouldn't complain if we hotwire it and go joyriding in it... we'll return it so you don't lose anything!"
The logic is more something like, "Well, you have this classic car parked in the driveway, and since it isn't made anymore, I am going to duplicate the plans and build one for myself. Your car still works."
Big difference there.
Firefox 0.9.3, and all others before it, on my WinXP machine, have had the same problem - sometimes the text renders too far to the left overlapping the side menu. This is a well known problem. A quick refresh fixes the rendering, so it is not a big deal. But you would think that by now, so close to 1.0, such an obvious problem would have been taken care of.
Well, I am forced to use Word at work and I do hate it. For several concrete reasons, and not just because it is a Microsoft products.
First, figures are a nightmare to deal with. No matter how hard you try, word insists on randomly rearranging them if you type text in the wrong place.
Equations and references are also a real pain in the neck. Having used LaTeX for many years in grad school, I know how things Should be.
Not to mention the fact I have Word 2000, and my boss just got 2003, so we can't even easily interchange files. Or the how Word makes a nightmare out of dealing with formatting and fonts. Or how easily bullets and numbered lists can get screwed up.
When anything anything beyond the most basic functions, it's my experience that Word quickly becomes a royal pain in the ***.
Rosenflanz and Gildenflurn are dead!
sorry, go ahead mod me down. I couldn't help it!
I've got an extra invite sitting around that I am not using. Send me an email to jwn87@nospam.hotmail.com and I can fix you up.
Well, I guess since the odd rocks was found in Endurance crater, that pretty much covers the big hole requirement.
Clearly accurate counting of votes is not a simple problem. Witness Florida 2000.
There are simple things that could be done to make E-voting much better. Like print outs of selections in case of recounts. God forbid Diebold try that.
And in the same vein, I find it hard to take seriously any article that claims OpenOffice.org "Works just fine with .doc, .xls, and .ppt files." No. No it doesn't. Last time I checked (about 3 months ago) .doc files had major issues with things like talbes and figures, and .ppt files were hopelessly screwed up. In a work enviroment where I am consantly being sent Microsoft Office files, minor incompatibilities become major headaches.
.doc, .xls, and .ppt files work fine in OpenOffice, doesn't do anyone a favor. It only displays the extreme bias of the author of such a statement.
And yes, there are incompatability issues between different versions of office. But in my experience they pale in comparison to trying to read Office files in OpenOffice. This is why 1) people where I work are discouraged from upgrading to new versions of Office, and 2) OpenOffice is a complete non-starter.
To claim that
I'll wait for someone who hasn't gone to bed with ID software and Nvidia to review the game before I pass judgement.
I'd suggest you not worry about any reviews and wait to play the game yourself before you pass judgement.
Only on Slashdot could somebody arguing for the cliff notes version of literature be called interesting. Dumbing down great works of art for the masses, and legions of bored high school students is not any kind of solution.
This may be difficult for you to understand, but most people read great works of literature because they love them, not to impress the neighbor.
Does anyone know if the problem that plauged the initial release of the Mini have been fixed - that is, the bad connector which led to noise after a few weeks of use. I tiny four gig player is just the right size for me, but I refuse to buy one until all the kinks have been worked out.
I'm up for shooting kids wanting to sell me candy bars in the head for knocking on my door.
Curious. I've never had anybody try to sell me a candy bar in the head before. And do they put the candy bar in the head as a result of knocking on the door? Or is the desire to sell caused by the knocking, and then the candy bar is added to the head after the fact?
Quite an existential dilemma you have there. No wonder you just want to shoot the damn kids and be done with it.
Knocks parts off the motherboard, wasn't grounded, refused to measure fan sizes before buying them. And I am still only halfway through the article. Can be summed up in one sentence:
Feckin' eejits shouldn't mess around inside the computer!
[1] no K in "natural death", "euthanasia", "old age"...
Or, it could simply go Kaput.
Or, I listened to the songs so many times on the radio and listened to the commercials so many times that I own the right to have a copy of the song by having listened to the hundreds of radio commercials.
That's an interesting justification - but that is all it really is, a convoluted justification. You are stealing. You may not agree with the laws that define it as such, but that is what you are doing.
More importantly though is the fact that the artist, whose music you enjoy, does not see a dime, from either you, or the commercials which you use as your primary justification. They are the ones who are hurt the most, by both the RIAA and people who twist logic to justify taking music.
If you want to steal music by ripping CDs from the library, fine. But quit using rationalization to apply a salve to your conscience. Accept what you do for what it is.
from dictionary.com:
------
documentary Audio pronunciation of "documentary" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dky-mnt-r)
adj.
1. Consisting of, concerning, or based on documents.
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F911 fits the definition. Complaining that it isn't a documentary because it's biases run contrary to yours doesn't mean it isn't a documentary.
Now say it a thousand times.
Cancel the Test! TexasDex has no use for low-bitrate music. Since he clearly speaks for everyone, the entire affair is clearly a frivolous waste of time.
Go about your business, people.
From the article:
It is actually a 27648 byte Win32 executable that has been compressed using the Open Source executable compressor UPX.
Cue the FUD saying "look I told you Open Source was inherently less secure!"
In general, I also think that the new Winstripe theme in 0.9.1 is much better than the version in 0.9.
But does anybody else think that the icons spacing when using small icons is just way too wide? I think it would look MUCH better if they just tweak the spacing a little bit...
I use Firefox with my work's Outlook Web access. The reason you can't reply is you are blocking popups with firefox and mozilla. For some reason you can read a message with popups blocked, but when you reply, if you have popup blocking on, the window just disappears.
The solution is simple; just go to Tools|Options, and add the site's address to the exceptions for popup blocking. My Outlook web access worked perfectly after that.
The NY Times isn't exactly a good example to use regarding liberal media not buying into the Bush adminstration spin. There have recently been a series of editorials in the NY Times where the editors have had to apologize for their coverage of the case for war in the run up to the invasion of Iraq. Seems they were a little too eager to publish the administration's spin on things without bothering to check the facts.
And what exactly does "American Way" mean to you? Because I suspect it means a lot of different things to a lot of different people.
To me, I grew up believing the American way should be that the big and the powerful actually go out of their way protecting the average everyday man, rather than trample on their rights in a greedy rush towards their own gain. At least that's what Superman stood for.
And that doesn't seem to be the country I live in any more.
The only thing I find really that stupid is that they're going to have to completely reinvent all the relevant characters to fit this 'new' spider man, so what is the point? Why not just make a new super hero?*
Because the movie Spider Man was one of the top grossing movies in India. They want to capitilize on the name recognition of Spider Man while at the same time making a superhero that more Indians can relate to culturally.
The editors here signed million dollar contracts, revenue is coming in from ads and subscriptions, they've been at it for years.... you'd think they'd have learned at least a few basic journalism techniques.
Except that Slashdot is not a journalism site, and we may call the editors "editors" but they are not, at least not in the traditional sense. Slashdot aggregates links to news on other sites. And the "editors" usually just repost submissions along perhaps a supposedly witty comment or two.
So I don't expect basic journalism techniques as the function of Slashdot is not journalism.