I don't know why, but I don't seem to hear any difference between CD Audio or mp3 (128kBit/s). Hell, even Windows Media sounds the same to me. (RealAudio on the other hand has real glitches in it though.)
So, am I going deaf? or are some people exagerating again?
If they shoot down the moon billions will die! People will live underground for centuries and mutate!
I demand that GW Bush stops this terrorist act!
it just seems so fragile
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doesn't it? An accident might be disasterous with objects of this size.
And not everybody would be too happy with it being built, (I think) it would be very easy to sabotage this.
I would love to see it become operational though..
(Or perhaps they should rather invest those billions of dollars in quantum teleportation?:))
err, IANA physicist, but isn't it already known that light _is_ slowed down by gravity? black holes even _stop_ light (it can't escape it's gravitational field) iirc.
you take some meat (doesn't matter what kinda meat, essept fish, fish is not meat...)
Cut the meat into thin, long pieces (like slices, but not exactly slices)
put the meat in a pan with a teenieweenie bit of water and let it boil a bit
Now add some garlic to the boiling meat, and some oil and tomato sauce
Take an onion, and slice it into little discs, throw them in with the meat too
let it all cook for a while (don't forget to stirr occasionaly!!)
now the good thing about this... "Thing I invented" is, it goes perfectly with everything: pasta, rice, plain bread,... It's also much simpler to cook than you'd expect, and it's also done really fast. I usually wait longer for my rice to cook:| If this thing has a real name, please let me know
If you have some more time you can serve the... "Thing I invented" with this "Other thing I made up"
Other thing I made up:
boil some rice
in another pan, cook some vegetables (corn, onions, potato chips,...)
add some curry (spice, not sauce) to the vegetables
When you run out of patience, add the rice to the pan with the vegetables
stir
stir some more
eat
This is also something that's easily prepared, and it actually tastes good!
And now, something I didn't make up: Cacik (Turkish) aka Tzatziki (Greek)
Take some natural yoghurt (not the fruity flavored ones)
take a cucumber, peel and dice it (we want dice that are 1cm^3)
mix the cucumber and the yoghurt (to a satisfactory level)
you may want to add: (some olive oil) && (pepper mint || garlic)
believe it or not, it's custom to also add salt to this...
I know this "cacik" must sound funny to people who have never had the privilege of tasting it, but damn... it goes so well with rice and meat (as a sidedish, instead of salad) but it's also a great snack
Cookies will be stored as they always were... on the client's hard drive. Session (and application) variables will be stored in... that's right! the Memory of the server or perhaps in swapfiles
linux is not an alternative for windows, it's just an OS for computer enthusiasts.. the "Linux vs Windows" thing is just a by-product and is only kept alive by people who suffer from the "Stallman Syndrome"
There is no "distro war". There is however a distro-user war. (i.e. DistX users and DistY users flaming till the wee hours of morning.)
"a Linux Management System" wouldn't be a good idea. The cool thing about linux distros is that they are versatile and modular, tailored to ones needs. You can always pick a distro that meets your requirements just because of this diversity in distros.
that insulting, name calling and ungrounded accusations that have no tangible evidence at all and actually completely make no sense can ever be taken seriously by a person with an IQ higher than his own shoesize.
I have some suggestions for you and your fellow "/. is dying/dead" poster:
- Don't come to/. anymore, don't read/. anymore, don't post on/. anymore, don't even think about/. Nobody forces you to come here, or is there some other evil scheme planned by the/. crew to force you into surfing to/. by tampering with your DNS server?
The majority of the people who are decent posters (and actually read what other people have to say) stick to the rules and have no problem whatsoever with/. policy.. Yes you might get modded down once or twice (perhaps often) that doesn't stop anybody from reading your post by changing their settings... take it like a geek, this is Real Life, stuff that you don't like happens...
My ISP got banned once, without me doing anything wrong. I mailed/. they sent a mail back with an apoligy and an explenation why it had happened... truly these are not the signs of evil in any form...
I'm sick and tired of your kind, the people who post something pseudo-intelligent, thinking that if they actually put some structure in their message that nobody will notice that it's pure bollocks...
It seems to me that you are an extremely bored bloke with no purpose in life. Stop wasting your time with useless crap like this, go read a book or watch a movie... hell even rearranging your socks and underwear would be a better use of time.
"What's really interesting, is that Microsoft supposedly helped Apple 'fix' OSX, and that Microsoft doesn't think Apple is pushing OSX hard enough. Oh, the tangled webs we weave."
And supposedly a not so anonymous good guy (me) was going to give everyone posting on/. free (free as in "free memory") money! millions! per post!
I don't know why you say "make software look like it did 5 years ago", can't you see past the graphics? If they had better artists working on it, it would look just as "hip" and "new" as any other game. It's just some simple image files.... Besides, the fact that it has oodles of fans shows once again that there are actually people out there who play a game for it's gameplay and not the overkill of openGL graphics (Which is a big issue in the gaming industry today: most games just look good, but they suck in gameplay and have a replayabilty of 0.001%.) The only games I still play are StarCraft and totalAnnihilation (old RTS games) and Lemmings for windows... and yes they also look "old" but atleast I enjoy the game cos it's fun, not cos it blasts a trillion polygons per seconds at my retinas... People should return to the old philosophy: games should be fun, not perse pretty
You could equip all future spacecraft with a transmitter that would send out a message in certain intervals. When a robot encounters something, it will first have to verify whether it has a "space-signature-signal" (or some other catchy name). If the object it encounters keeps radio silence (no signature? it's presumably something dead) the robot would have to send a message of it's own to the craft ("Anybody in there?"). The object receiving this message should reply to this, if it doesn't it's getting much more closer to being classified as "junk". Now if the object would fail the second (redundant) test, the Robot is to send visual feedback to earth of the object ("look guys, this thing seems dead enough allright!"). Here it should be analyzed by 2 or more different agencies, in different countries (I say Russia, USA, China, France) this would help avoid all political hassle. Then if the majority (or all) of the agencies give permission, the junk could dropped back in destructive orbit or shot to smithereens with a supercool megalaser!
You might want to bring up the dangers of doing this:
The robot could go berzerk
Some 3v1l h4x0r terrorist might send up fake signals, thus destroying a shutlle with astronauts in it:'(
A war or political unease between 2 countries with agencies
...
This is definitly not a foolproof system, but it's as close as you get imo: the robot does a triple check (first check for the signal from the craft, if it's not there request a signal, if it's not there ask permission from independent earth agencies by sending visual feedback) and it could be equipped with a remote shutdown system, so that IF it goes crazy somehow, we could zap it from earth (to be cleaned up by a colleague)
I know enough people who use IM clients because it's easier to use than IRC clients. Perhaps a cheesy, modified (read: VERY easy to use IRC client, with smilies, "send" buttons AND an option "start up when windows is booting";)) would solve the problem for everyone. Hell, if you take a good look at IM systems, they aren't that different from IRC anyway, they are just really limited and leave out most of the advanced options. ofcourse, on the other hand, I would like to see an IRC network capable of handling the millions of IM users. (imagine trying to explain to a user that he can't message to his friend because there is a netsplit)
You know what, skip that thought, IRC is already filled with nitwit morons, we don't need another 10 million of them spamming the networks:p
yuck! you speak lies! sports are for people who like running after balls or people who try to avoid balls. sometimes they even _just_ run, not chasing anything, but they _just_ run!
let me emphasize that... they _just_ run
I'm sorry, but physical strength isn't something humankind should be proud of. As Darwin clearly pointed out: evolution chose the path of intelligence over brute force for us humans.
There are many resons why I think the worldcup is a bad thing that should be stopped:
1- the money: the amount of money that is poured into the WC is ridiculous. Just consider the ad campaigns Adidas and Nike launched for the WC, and try to visualise this on a global scale. That money alone could rebuild a third-world country. Keep other stuff in mind: stadiums had to be built, little leaflets had to be printed (millions and millions of them), the teams had to be flewn over (they were luxurously accomodated), the refferees had to be payed, etc. etc.
I don't know about the rest of the teams but all the Korean players got 40 million euros _each_ (not from FIFA) for reaching the 4th place.
In short, we are talking about massive sums of money, billions of euros/dollars... that's decadent. This money could be used for somthing far more better to the benefit of mankind.
2- Bread and games: if you keep the mass satisfied with useless stuff such as this, they turn into plants and stop thinking. "Couch-soccering" is mindnumbing and should be made illegal.
Can someone please explain to me why there are people who know everything about soccer (I mean EVERYTHING, they'll tell you who scored a goal in what game and what year, and give background info on the player) and yet they fail to read a decent book?
Again... decadent.
3- "fair play" and "sportsmanship": I have one thing to say on that: "HAHA!". There is no such thing as fairplay in the WC, everybody can clearly see that players just pretend to be hurt and throw themselves on the grass. And I'm not talking about the shirt-pulling and the nasty blows in the backs.
On this subject: let's not forget about the Hooligans.
International soccer and WC is all about winning and money (or fame or women or drugs... whatever...)
in short: BAN the FIFA WC!
jedie's list of other stuff to ban:
"Eurovision songfestival" and any other songfestival without any form of talent but lots of spectacle.
All forms of professional sports.
sport channels and news(who the hell came up with a stupid idea like that? a channel dedciated to sport?)
Slashdot Mirror
The guy is just stating his discomfort with the plagiarism, it's not like he's suing anyone or calling names...
It's a site that has links to stories/funny pictures/flash movies or just journal entries by the webmaster
coolios one of my most favourite blogs
So, am I going deaf? or are some people exagerating again?
Who in their right minds would interview Phlox when there's T'Pol?
I demand that GW Bush stops this terrorist act!
And not everybody would be too happy with it being built, (I think) it would be very easy to sabotage this.
I would love to see it become operational though.. :))
(Or perhaps they should rather invest those billions of dollars in quantum teleportation?
err, IANA physicist, but isn't it already known that light _is_ slowed down by gravity? black holes even _stop_ light (it can't escape it's gravitational field) iirc.
home of the underdogs
these sites have archives (or links to) many (thousands) of old/classic games. even lots of IF (interactive fiction).
That's a correct sentence, right?
I heard the CDC found Vogon sperm samples in those...
Perhaps the headlines should be made more clearer ;)
now the good thing about this... "Thing I invented" is, it goes perfectly with everything: pasta, rice, plain bread, ... :|
It's also much simpler to cook than you'd expect, and it's also done really fast. I usually wait longer for my rice to cook
If this thing has a real name, please let me know
If you have some more time you can serve the... "Thing I invented" with this "Other thing I made up"
Other thing I made up:
This is also something that's easily prepared, and it actually tastes good!
And now, something I didn't make up: Cacik (Turkish) aka Tzatziki (Greek)
I know this "cacik" must sound funny to people who have never had the privilege of tasting it, but damn... it goes so well with rice and meat (as a sidedish, instead of salad) but it's also a great snack
I suggest you give this stuff a try :) :)
Cheers!
Be happy for me!!
I love you all!
No longer a teenager! (but still a lil' kid :p)
thank you for your attention...
carry on your usual bussines
so you have 2 machines, 2 OSs, 2 root/admin passwords, 2 HD Heads and 1 HD.
Cookies will be stored as they always were... on the client's hard drive.
Session (and application) variables will be stored in... that's right! the Memory of the server or perhaps in swapfiles
modded down? this is goddamn funny...
I think the damn moderator never read Douglas Adams...
Now what kind of a geek would that make him?
ofcourse, this is just my EUR .02
I have some suggestions for you and your fellow "/. is dying/dead" poster:
- Don't come to /. anymore, don't read /. anymore, don't post on /. anymore, don't even think about /. Nobody forces you to come here, or is there some other evil scheme planned by the /. crew to force you into surfing to /. by tampering with your DNS server?
The majority of the people who are decent posters (and actually read what other people have to say) stick to the rules and have no problem whatsoever with /. policy.. Yes you might get modded down once or twice (perhaps often) that doesn't stop anybody from reading your post by changing their settings... take it like a geek, this is Real Life, stuff that you don't like happens...
My ISP got banned once, without me doing anything wrong. I mailed /. they sent a mail back with an apoligy and an explenation why it had happened... truly these are not the signs of evil in any form...
I'm sick and tired of your kind, the people who post something pseudo-intelligent, thinking that if they actually put some structure in their message that nobody will notice that it's pure bollocks...
It seems to me that you are an extremely bored bloke with no purpose in life. Stop wasting your time with useless crap like this, go read a book or watch a movie... hell even rearranging your socks and underwear would be a better use of time.
Sinecerely yours, Baykal E.
And supposedly a not so anonymous good guy (me) was going to give everyone posting on /. free (free as in "free memory") money! millions! per post!
I don't know why you say "make software look like it did 5 years ago", can't you see past the graphics?
If they had better artists working on it, it would look just as "hip" and "new" as any other game. It's just some simple image files....
Besides, the fact that it has oodles of fans shows once again that there are actually people out there who play a game for it's gameplay and not the overkill of openGL graphics (Which is a big issue in the gaming industry today: most games just look good, but they suck in gameplay and have a replayabilty of 0.001%.)
The only games I still play are StarCraft and totalAnnihilation (old RTS games) and Lemmings for windows... and yes they also look "old" but atleast I enjoy the game cos it's fun, not cos it blasts a trillion polygons per seconds at my retinas...
People should return to the old philosophy: games should be fun, not perse pretty
When a robot encounters something, it will first have to verify whether it has a "space-signature-signal" (or some other catchy name).
If the object it encounters keeps radio silence (no signature? it's presumably something dead) the robot would have to send a message of it's own to the craft ("Anybody in there?").
The object receiving this message should reply to this, if it doesn't it's getting much more closer to being classified as "junk".
Now if the object would fail the second (redundant) test, the Robot is to send visual feedback to earth of the object ("look guys, this thing seems dead enough allright!").
Here it should be analyzed by 2 or more different agencies, in different countries (I say Russia, USA, China, France) this would help avoid all political hassle.
Then if the majority (or all) of the agencies give permission, the junk could dropped back in destructive orbit or shot to smithereens with a supercool megalaser!
You might want to bring up the dangers of doing this:
This is definitly not a foolproof system, but it's as close as you get imo: the robot does a triple check (first check for the signal from the craft, if it's not there request a signal, if it's not there ask permission from independent earth agencies by sending visual feedback) and it could be equipped with a remote shutdown system, so that IF it goes crazy somehow, we could zap it from earth (to be cleaned up by a colleague)
well... my 2 cents :)
I know enough people who use IM clients because it's easier to use than IRC clients. ;)) would solve the problem for everyone.
Perhaps a cheesy, modified (read: VERY easy to use IRC client, with smilies, "send" buttons AND an option "start up when windows is booting"
Hell, if you take a good look at IM systems, they aren't that different from IRC anyway, they are just really limited and leave out most of the advanced options.
ofcourse, on the other hand, I would like to see an IRC network capable of handling the millions of IM users. (imagine trying to explain to a user that he can't message to his friend because there is a netsplit)
You know what, skip that thought, IRC is already filled with nitwit morons, we don't need another 10 million of them spamming the networks :p
let me emphasize that...
they _just_ run
I'm sorry, but physical strength isn't something humankind should be proud of. As Darwin clearly pointed out: evolution chose the path of intelligence over brute force for us humans.
1- the money: the amount of money that is poured into the WC is ridiculous. Just consider the ad campaigns Adidas and Nike launched for the WC, and try to visualise this on a global scale. That money alone could rebuild a third-world country. Keep other stuff in mind: stadiums had to be built, little leaflets had to be printed (millions and millions of them), the teams had to be flewn over (they were luxurously accomodated), the refferees had to be payed, etc. etc.
I don't know about the rest of the teams but all the Korean players got 40 million euros _each_ (not from FIFA) for reaching the 4th place.
In short, we are talking about massive sums of money, billions of euros/dollars... that's decadent. This money could be used for somthing far more better to the benefit of mankind.
2- Bread and games: if you keep the mass satisfied with useless stuff such as this, they turn into plants and stop thinking. "Couch-soccering" is mindnumbing and should be made illegal.
Can someone please explain to me why there are people who know everything about soccer (I mean EVERYTHING, they'll tell you who scored a goal in what game and what year, and give background info on the player) and yet they fail to read a decent book?
Again... decadent.
3- "fair play" and "sportsmanship": I have one thing to say on that: "HAHA!". There is no such thing as fairplay in the WC, everybody can clearly see that players just pretend to be hurt and throw themselves on the grass. And I'm not talking about the shirt-pulling and the nasty blows in the backs.
On this subject: let's not forget about the Hooligans.
International soccer and WC is all about winning and money (or fame or women or drugs... whatever...)
in short: BAN the FIFA WC!
jedie's list of other stuff to ban:
Flame on!
looks pretty irritating to me