Jeez. The guy has a problem with the e450 (by what I understand mostly the fans) being too noisy. I have a tip for him: For ultimate listening pleasure, remove engine from car.
... because of this, to get the maximum total amount of freedom, some people's freedom needs to be limited a bit, so that many others can retain theirs. You can't all have total freedom. Laws are needed to regulate and protect the more important freedoms over the less important ones. It really doesn't have to be all that complicated -- what is more important, zealot nazi racists being able to ventilate their hate speech, or, to protect the people who are the target of their hate speech from another holocaust?
Unfortunately, in some countries, the law doesn't always get its priorities right, especially when there is money involved. That's when you get laws that protect the strong from the weak instead of the other way around. I tend to consider individuals weaker than companies -- most cases companies can easily ruin individuals' lives by suing. Other than protecting freedom, in a democracy laws should reflect what people (in general) want- the desires of the majority having priority over the desires of a minority. I believe most people want good music at a low price. I also believe that a minority of people is making way too much money out of talented artist who hardly see a dime of their work. Sure there are (not necessarily) artists who sell a lot, who do you think earns more from those sales? Them or their record company? Drifted off topic far enough now...
Good question. What will the phone companies do as anti-spam, anti-virus measures? What about a service that blacklists any number not in your phonebook? What if viruses specifically target the phone book?
In case of this particular virus I understand it was bluetooth based -- what about phone manufacturers? Firmware flash updates, anyone?
First, it uses by projecting light onto something. So it doesn't work at night. Second, looking at the cloak, there's still shadows and all. And now they want to apply the same technology to make invisible walls? They'll have a tough job beating the ancient technology called 'glass'.
Reminds me of the old joke: Q: What do you call a device to listen to the heart? A: A stethoscope. Q: What do you call a device to see far? A: A telescope. Q: What do you call a device to see very small things? A: A microscope. Q: What do you call a device that allows you to see through walls? A: A window.
I had the same thought, but I just hear the previous poster mention 'DRM, so possibly not possible'. When it's stream ripping that you want, many soundcards nowadays allow you to capture the digital playback stream before it is D/A converted, just save that stream instead of the network stream and you should be fine too. As usual with streamed audio, don't expect premium sound quality.
"All I want is for it to simply work". I'm not a Mac user but I think Apple got it right in many places. Auto config anything (samba is a royal p.i.t.a. to set up, but windows networking isn't -- is it really that difficult to autodetect a setting that will work?) Go a step further in troubleshooting. "What do you want to do?" - "connect to the internet" "Okay, it looks like your DNS isn't working. Do you want to configure a default one?" Anything as long as it works. Even if things work sub-optimal, it is better than not having them work at all.
Not only easier to read, also more straight-forward to write if you don't use perl on a daily basis. Talk about best tool for the job-- the optimal solution, as usual, is somewhere in the middle, rather than at the extremes.
I like to work in a kinda hybrid environment, using perl as a basis and going for backticks and shell processing whenever I think it to be more straight forward than the perl equivalent. Thus I'll get the best of both worlds. For example:
# do_fancy_perl_stuff_here to fill $tempdir $tempdir =~ s/\s//g; `rm -rf $tempdir`; # $tempdir='/'
This saves me from needing to lookup how to delete a directory in straight perl code, and will be readable by anyone who ever used a shell.
People never used to forget this, but now I see it all the time... People just assume that the background color on a web page will be white, and design with that in mind. I want a browser that sets all unassigned parameters to random default values. That would be absolutely great for test driving web apps- if it looks good in *that* browser, it will look good *everywhere*. And it'd allow me to bitch about almost every website in existence. Until that browser exists, I'll keep using Netscape for those purposes.
These machines cost near to nothing nowadays, is it still possible to decently run X+browser+some apps on such a machine to keep them out of recycling for a bit longer? I've heard of the RULE (run uptodate linux everywhere) project, any other suggestions?
It takes as long for me to perform a task (say, create and print a letter) on that 486 with Win3.1 as it takes me on a 1.7GHZ P4 with Fedora Core 2. BLASPHEMY! Come on, this is slashdot, at *least* you could have bashed XP!
Shame on all of you. In those 15 years, we've seen what was considered state-of-the-art, expensive server hardware degrade to 'suitable for wordprocessing', to a mere packet router. Despite of all pretty eye candy, software isn't what it used to be. "My computer is too slow" is an excuse often heard instead of "my software is badly designed". Of course in those days we had to carve the 0's and 1's of our code in stone, after walking barefeet uphill both ways through blizards. For those who always have had the luxury of lightning fast machines, maybe for a bit you should stand still at what computers at that time were already capable of without 3D accelerator board and a mere 33 megahertz processor.
Sure, data falsification is bad, but the parent poster makes a point too. Before passing someone his degree, **doesn't (s)he have to defend their theses to their University**? Surely mr. Schoen misled his Uni, but the same Uni also failed to notice that someone set up them the bomb -- each and every member of the comittee that was evaluating his thesis. By now, isn't it a bit late for them to call bullshit?
Not just unspecific, also uninformative. That 'unprofessional' linux error message actually gave more feedback about the problem than many a Windows error message- it more or less *what* went wrong.
For example, an error like "the page cannot be displayed". What is the URL of the page that cannot be displayed (is it the requested URL or the one we were redirected to by a http Location: header)? Did it even get to the point where the server tried to look for the page? Or perhaps DNS lookup failed? Or maybe the gateway/router is down? Or perhaps 80 is blocked? Or maybe our own firewall settings block all traffic from the requested domain? Quite a spectrum of different situations. Googleable or not, if an error message gives no more info than 'something went wrong', they are useless for troubleshooting. "The file cannot be found" is much more informative when it also mentions which file; if it is, for instance, a missing dll, at least we can install that dll.
Actually my dad tried this once [using the sink as bathtub] before I was born, according to legend, because the tiny house they bought had no shower-- used the sink as tub and got stuck. If he moved one way he'd turn up the burning hot peel-your-skin-off temperature water, moving the other way he'd turn up the so-cold-it-would-freeze-his-you-know-what-off water. My mom, instead of helping out, ran off to get the photo camera. None of the pictures she took got any good, they were all shaken cause of her laughing....
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o-oh, the vi vs. emacs cat is out of the bag again...
Jeez. The guy has a problem with the e450 (by what I understand mostly the fans) being too noisy. I have a tip for him: For ultimate listening pleasure, remove engine from car.
... because of this, to get the maximum total amount of freedom, some people's freedom needs to be limited a bit, so that many others can retain theirs. You can't all have total freedom. Laws are needed to regulate and protect the more important freedoms over the less important ones. It really doesn't have to be all that complicated -- what is more important, zealot nazi racists being able to ventilate their hate speech, or, to protect the people who are the target of their hate speech from another holocaust?
Unfortunately, in some countries, the law doesn't always get its priorities right, especially when there is money involved. That's when you get laws that protect the strong from the weak instead of the other way around. I tend to consider individuals weaker than companies -- most cases companies can easily ruin individuals' lives by suing. Other than protecting freedom, in a democracy laws should reflect what people (in general) want- the desires of the majority having priority over the desires of a minority. I believe most people want good music at a low price. I also believe that a minority of people is making way too much money out of talented artist who hardly see a dime of their work. Sure there are (not necessarily) artists who sell a lot, who do you think earns more from those sales? Them or their record company? Drifted off topic far enough now...
and what about the floppy dive? Better hope that laptop comes with a wetsuit...
... to something like +5, informitive.
Good question. What will the phone companies do as anti-spam, anti-virus measures? What about a service that blacklists any number not in your phonebook? What if viruses specifically target the phone book?
In case of this particular virus I understand it was bluetooth based -- what about phone manufacturers? Firmware flash updates, anyone?
First, it uses by projecting light onto something. So it doesn't work at night. Second, looking at the cloak, there's still shadows and all. And now they want to apply the same technology to make invisible walls? They'll have a tough job beating the ancient technology called 'glass'.
Reminds me of the old joke:
Q: What do you call a device to listen to the heart?
A: A stethoscope.
Q: What do you call a device to see far?
A: A telescope.
Q: What do you call a device to see very small things?
A: A microscope.
Q: What do you call a device that allows you to see through walls?
A: A window.
I had the same thought, but I just hear the previous poster mention 'DRM, so possibly not possible'. When it's stream ripping that you want, many soundcards nowadays allow you to capture the digital playback stream before it is D/A converted, just save that stream instead of the network stream and you should be fine too. As usual with streamed audio, don't expect premium sound quality.
"All I want is for it to simply work". I'm not a Mac user but I think Apple got it right in many places. Auto config anything (samba is a royal p.i.t.a. to set up, but windows networking isn't -- is it really that difficult to autodetect a setting that will work?) Go a step further in troubleshooting. "What do you want to do?" - "connect to the internet" "Okay, it looks like your DNS isn't working. Do you want to configure a default one?" Anything as long as it works. Even if things work sub-optimal, it is better than not having them work at all.
Not only easier to read, also more straight-forward to write if you don't use perl on a daily basis. Talk about best tool for the job-- the optimal solution, as usual, is somewhere in the middle, rather than at the extremes.
If you would have RTFA, you would have known that it does.
I like to work in a kinda hybrid environment, using perl as a basis and going for backticks and shell processing whenever I think it to be more straight forward than the perl equivalent. Thus I'll get the best of both worlds. For example:
# do_fancy_perl_stuff_here to fill $tempdir
$tempdir =~ s/\s//g;
`rm -rf $tempdir`; # $tempdir='/'
This saves me from needing to lookup how to delete a directory in straight perl code, and will be readable by anyone who ever used a shell.
They must be making heaps and heaps of profit already. What was the last business you saw that publicly announced on their website (and i quote):
;)
"No more investments, please! Stop sending us money!"
Unless they're trying to drive up their market value
People never used to forget this, but now I see it all the time... People just assume that the background color on a web page will be white, and design with that in mind. I want a browser that sets all unassigned parameters to random default values. That would be absolutely great for test driving web apps- if it looks good in *that* browser, it will look good *everywhere*. And it'd allow me to bitch about almost every website in existence. Until that browser exists, I'll keep using Netscape for those purposes.
These machines cost near to nothing nowadays, is it still possible to decently run X+browser+some apps on such a machine to keep them out of recycling for a bit longer? I've heard of the RULE (run uptodate linux everywhere) project, any other suggestions?
It takes as long for me to perform a task (say, create and print a letter) on that 486 with Win3.1 as it takes me on a 1.7GHZ P4 with Fedora Core 2. BLASPHEMY! Come on, this is slashdot, at *least* you could have bashed XP!
Shame on all of you. In those 15 years, we've seen what was considered state-of-the-art, expensive server hardware degrade to 'suitable for wordprocessing', to a mere packet router. Despite of all pretty eye candy, software isn't what it used to be. "My computer is too slow" is an excuse often heard instead of "my software is badly designed". Of course in those days we had to carve the 0's and 1's of our code in stone, after walking barefeet uphill both ways through blizards. For those who always have had the luxury of lightning fast machines, maybe for a bit you should stand still at what computers at that time were already capable of without 3D accelerator board and a mere 33 megahertz processor.
Sure, data falsification is bad, but the parent poster makes a point too. Before passing someone his degree, **doesn't (s)he have to defend their theses to their University**? Surely mr. Schoen misled his Uni, but the same Uni also failed to notice that someone set up them the bomb -- each and every member of the comittee that was evaluating his thesis. By now, isn't it a bit late for them to call bullshit?
Not just unspecific, also uninformative. That 'unprofessional' linux error message actually gave more feedback about the problem than many a Windows error message- it more or less *what* went wrong. For example, an error like "the page cannot be displayed". What is the URL of the page that cannot be displayed (is it the requested URL or the one we were redirected to by a http Location: header)? Did it even get to the point where the server tried to look for the page? Or perhaps DNS lookup failed? Or maybe the gateway/router is down? Or perhaps 80 is blocked? Or maybe our own firewall settings block all traffic from the requested domain? Quite a spectrum of different situations. Googleable or not, if an error message gives no more info than 'something went wrong', they are useless for troubleshooting. "The file cannot be found" is much more informative when it also mentions which file; if it is, for instance, a missing dll, at least we can install that dll.
babelfish from portuguese to english: 'sem' say what you want but I don't think this is a very sexy CPU. Conspiracy theories are welcome from here on.
Absolutely sure -- semPron is Portuguese/Spanish -- 'sem' means 'without'
...insensitive clod!
Actually my dad tried this once [using the sink as bathtub] before I was born, according to legend, because the tiny house they bought had no shower-- used the sink as tub and got stuck. If he moved one way he'd turn up the burning hot peel-your-skin-off temperature water, moving the other way he'd turn up the so-cold-it-would-freeze-his-you-know-what-off water. My mom, instead of helping out, ran off to get the photo camera. None of the pictures she took got any good, they were all shaken cause of her laughing....
Okay prior art-Borland delphi 5?
... with the info in this recent slashdot article.