To be fair, if 2 exploits - sorry, bugs were found in some MS Beta stuff, we'd all be guffawing: Hah, imagine what the finished product'll be like.... At this rate, there'll be 2809705 bugs in it.
And while we're at it, can article-writers stop referring to the submillimeter/microwave portion of the spectrum as "radio"?
Just out of interest, why? It is part of the RF spectrum, just way way way up there. It's also good to call it that, because it reminds people that it's part of the same thing as light, xrays, Ham Radio, and mobile phones.
Reminds me of an advert for breakfast cereal in the UK:
May keep your heart healthy as part of a balanced diet.
Every time I hear that, the words may, keep, healthy, and as part of stand out. If you are unspecific enough, of course things'll come true.
I predict that someone, somewhere, within the next 200 years will die of choking on a mouse. Remember, you heard it hear first.
I'd pay twice the current cost gladly, as long as they don't dumb down BBC 1 any more, they fire Jonathon Woss, and they put some decent stuff on Radio 4 in the late evenings. Today in Parliament, WTF.
But seriously though, the VLC command line is insanely retarded. No man page, but vlc --help, and vlc -H for more stuff. It's just horrible. Although I do use it a lot for streaming, multicasting, reencoding, etc.
You managed to spell satellite in two different ways in your post, both of them wrong.
Nothing wrong with having trouble spelling, especially if English isn't your first language - but Firefox does have a built in spell-checker these days...
Indeed. And when they do something new, and it isn't better than what it replaces, that will be news too.
Google seem to identify where computing/networking/IT is junk, and then pour great minds on how to make it "awesome". They then do it, and it is. If they came up with some extension to TCP, IP, IPSec, whatever - I'd be a lot less sceptical than if Microsoft suggested an extension - purely because a:, Google are probably doing it to make it better, and b:, Microsoft would be doing it to break things in a way that would disadvantage other software companies.
Maybe it's a naive, rose-tinted view, but it sure looks nice from here.:)
but having another fair (I hope), well known participant in the market will be a really good thing.
And, as far as I can see, Google have done well, purely because they're damn good at what they put their mind to. Adverts. Search. Email. Try and remember the web before Google came along. Course, now that they're a corporation with shares.....
I think that if they failed to vote in Obama, then they have failed teh internets, and we should just roll up the cables, and let them play in their merry sandpit on their own.:)
Although everyone along the way can learn who emailed who, at what time, from what IP address, with which subject, how long it was, did it have attachments, using which mail client/OS, etc.
Notwithstanding the fact that it was encrypted.
The trouble with Finnish is that not enough places speak it. I hear the Finns are great people, and that Finland is a lovely place - but honestly, I'm not going to try and learn Finnish - there's Sweden, Norway, and Denmark nearby, all of which are vaguely related to each other. (Icelandic too?)
Then, carrying on south, you have Holland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, where a Germanic rooted language can at least help you understand/guess at what something means in a close language. Ik ben een/Ich bin ein, etc. Slavic languages are different from each other, but I can understand a bit of Croatian/Slovak/Polish from my Russian knowledge. And then of course, all the Latin languages.
Exactly. All the Americans I've met (outside America, as I've not been over there) have been cool. I guess that the sort of Americans that venture outside their borders into "the big scary world" are the ones that are worth meeting:)
The first thing I thought of was that in German and Dutch, aard = earth.
I looked it up, and yes, I'm right. Not sure if it was some amazingly funny ironic Jewish joke that I don't get, but hey, in case it's not, we've all been educated.
That would be the worlds biggest PR stunt ever - if he flew up there with some Ubuntu CDs, converted everyone's machines, and flew back - he'd be hailed a saviour.:)
it's a shame they had to fill it with it with mythology, instead of something more useful like some sort of documentation of our current scientific knowledge
Yeah, that would have been amazing - if they'd written down about what we know now.
I never compile USB in to my server kernels, although recent ones require USB for keyboards, though I don't compile any more in. Damn you, USB keyboards.
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Look at the source for the Acid3 page. It's horrific :)
To be fair, if 2 exploits - sorry, bugs were found in some MS Beta stuff, we'd all be guffawing: Hah, imagine what the finished product'll be like.... At this rate, there'll be 2809705 bugs in it.
Hah, mod parent up funny! :)
And while we're at it, can article-writers stop referring to the submillimeter/microwave portion of the spectrum as "radio"?
Just out of interest, why? It is part of the RF spectrum, just way way way up there. It's also good to call it that, because it reminds people that it's part of the same thing as light, xrays, Ham Radio, and mobile phones.
Reminds me of an advert for breakfast cereal in the UK:
May keep your heart healthy as part of a balanced diet.
Every time I hear that, the words may, keep, healthy, and as part of stand out. If you are unspecific enough, of course things'll come true.
I predict that someone, somewhere, within the next 200 years will die of choking on a mouse. Remember, you heard it hear first.
I'd pay twice the current cost gladly, as long as they don't dumb down BBC 1 any more, they fire Jonathon Woss, and they put some decent stuff on Radio 4 in the late evenings. Today in Parliament, WTF.
or by posting a Slave Button on your site, you (the "User")
Let me suggest a slight change: by posting a Slave Button on your site, you (the "Leather-hooded Gimp")...
But seriously though, the VLC command line is insanely retarded. No man page, but vlc --help, and vlc -H for more stuff. It's just horrible. Although I do use it a lot for streaming, multicasting, reencoding, etc.
(50^2) - (41^2) = 819 cm2
and sattalite imageary where they are not).
I think with this new satalite you might
You managed to spell satellite in two different ways in your post, both of them wrong.
Nothing wrong with having trouble spelling, especially if English isn't your first language - but Firefox does have a built in spell-checker these days...
Indeed. And when they do something new, and it isn't better than what it replaces, that will be news too. :)
Google seem to identify where computing/networking/IT is junk, and then pour great minds on how to make it "awesome". They then do it, and it is. If they came up with some extension to TCP, IP, IPSec, whatever - I'd be a lot less sceptical than if Microsoft suggested an extension - purely because a:, Google are probably doing it to make it better, and b:, Microsoft would be doing it to break things in a way that would disadvantage other software companies.
Maybe it's a naive, rose-tinted view, but it sure looks nice from here.
but having another fair (I hope), well known participant in the market will be a really good thing.
And, as far as I can see, Google have done well, purely because they're damn good at what they put their mind to. Adverts. Search. Email. Try and remember the web before Google came along. Course, now that they're a corporation with shares.....
I think that if they failed to vote in Obama, then they have failed teh internets, and we should just roll up the cables, and let them play in their merry sandpit on their own. :)
Although everyone along the way can learn who emailed who, at what time, from what IP address, with which subject, how long it was, did it have attachments, using which mail client/OS, etc.
Notwithstanding the fact that it was encrypted.
because it's their home and this isn't china where the government can forcibly move millions of people at their whim.
Yet.
The trouble with Finnish is that not enough places speak it. I hear the Finns are great people, and that Finland is a lovely place - but honestly, I'm not going to try and learn Finnish - there's Sweden, Norway, and Denmark nearby, all of which are vaguely related to each other. (Icelandic too?)
Then, carrying on south, you have Holland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, where a Germanic rooted language can at least help you understand/guess at what something means in a close language. Ik ben een/Ich bin ein, etc. Slavic languages are different from each other, but I can understand a bit of Croatian/Slovak/Polish from my Russian knowledge. And then of course, all the Latin languages.
I've been out of the US for just over 6 years
Exactly. All the Americans I've met (outside America, as I've not been over there) have been cool. I guess that the sort of Americans that venture outside their borders into "the big scary world" are the ones that are worth meeting :)
The first thing I thought of was that in German and Dutch, aard = earth.
I looked it up, and yes, I'm right. Not sure if it was some amazingly funny ironic Jewish joke that I don't get, but hey, in case it's not, we've all been educated.
That would be the worlds biggest PR stunt ever - if he flew up there with some Ubuntu CDs, converted everyone's machines, and flew back - he'd be hailed a saviour. :)
Wouldn't contain your DNA.
three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Splitters!!
a swap of DNA
Er, no - I'm fairly sure it's one way.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=moot
it's a shame they had to fill it with it with mythology, instead of something more useful like some sort of documentation of our current scientific knowledge
Yeah, that would have been amazing - if they'd written down about what we know now.
I never compile USB in to my server kernels, although recent ones require USB for keyboards, though I don't compile any more in. Damn you, USB keyboards.