Let's see, it's buggy and its development has been slow. Are you telling me that those two bad things cancel each other out, producing yet another triumph for open source? You zealots can rationalize anything.
This file is actually pretty cool, it has photos of how you hold the ball for each pitch and diagrams showing their flight paths. The only one on your list not covered is the screwball, which AFAIK is like a curveball but breaks the other way, so you have to snap your wrist in the opposite direction to throw it. Not very many pitchers use that one. Enjoy!
PDF is just as open if not more so than Postscript, and there are more and better viewers available for it. Time to get your head out of the early nineties.
It may not be a photograph but it is certainly a picture. If you're going to be a pedant at least get your nit-picks correct.
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The iBook actually does have a PC-Card slot, it's just not externally accessible. The Airport card plugs into it, but I've heard that you can plug other things in as well (if they fit).
Sure, because Mac users are so well-known for not being at all picky about their computing environment. I'm sure if you ordered one to switch to Windows there'd be nary a word of protest. You don't know any Mac owners, do you?:-)
Right. And there are no people on earth under the age of fifteen anymore, just because you and your friends finally entered high school? Look beyond your nose, there are babies being born every day.
Lindows will contain some GPL software, but the whole thing will almost assuredly not be distributed under the GPL. They are free to license their Windows compatibility stuff however they want, and I didn't see anything on their website about releasing that stuff under any sort of Open Source license. Where are you getting your information?
Those machines don't look that cheap to me. They're offering an HP Celeron 700 for $449. A quick check of Best Buy shows that you can get an HP Celeron 1.1 GHz with a bigger hard drive (40M to 10M) and all other specs equal, and with Windows XP Home included for $500 after mail-in rebate. I don't see much of a Windows tax in effect here.
Insightful? Good football players bring in millions of dollars to universities. For their efforts they receive scholarships worth a fraction of that, and you begrudge them even that? I know you spoiled rich kids can't stand that a black kid from a poor family could get a break once in awhile, but this is pathetic.
Linux and the BSD's all run the same X servers, window managers, desktop environments, etc so from a desktop user's perspective there really shouldn't be much difference. The only exception I can think of is nVidia cards, where I believe you need to use a kernel module from nVidia to get the best 3D performance. Last I heard this was available only as a binary for Linux, so if you're using FreeBSD you'd have to use the XFree driver. For 2D framebuffer-type stuff I don't think there is much difference between the free and vendor drivers, but I don't have an nVidia card so I can't say for sure.
Whether you buy it or not is not going to make any difference to Disney, so I say if you want it, get it. You only live once, why deny yourself this little pleasure? The companies that sell you the gas for your car are far more evil than Disney, anyway. Sell your car and buy all the Disney crap your heart desires!:-)
I just looked at the license, which contains this text:
You may use any information in intangible form that you remember after accessing the Software. However, this right does not grant you a license to any of Microsoft's copyrights or patents for anything you might create using such information.
It seems to me that this should put your irrational fears of being "tainted" to rest.
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Let's see, it's buggy and its development has been slow. Are you telling me that those two bad things cancel each other out, producing yet another triumph for open source? You zealots can rationalize anything.
Why not just use Word/PowerPoint themselves, rather than a cheap imitation? The OSX versions are quite nice.
Yeah, don't rebut his arguments, just call him an M$-loving so-and-so. VERY insightful, indeed.
Whoever modded me 'Flamebait' is dumber than Dan Marino. Anyway, sorry for munging the link, here's the correct one (even clickable this time!)
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/baseball/pdf/pitchi
Would you look at that, Slashdot thinks I'm a page widener. Fuck it, might as well turn troll full-time if this is how I'll be treated anyway.
Ask and ye shall receive!
I'm always up for baseball talk, so here ya go:
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/pdf/pitchingpage.
This file is actually pretty cool, it has photos of how you hold the ball for each pitch and diagrams showing their flight paths. The only one on your list not covered is the screwball, which AFAIK is like a curveball but breaks the other way, so you have to snap your wrist in the opposite direction to throw it. Not very many pitchers use that one. Enjoy!
PDF is just as open if not more so than Postscript, and there are more and better viewers available for it. Time to get your head out of the early nineties.
Maybe Arte Johnson got some mod points?
It may not be a photograph but it is certainly a picture. If you're going to be a pedant at least get your nit-picks correct.
The iBook actually does have a PC-Card slot, it's just not externally accessible. The Airport card plugs into it, but I've heard that you can plug other things in as well (if they fit).
Sure, because Mac users are so well-known for not being at all picky about their computing environment. I'm sure if you ordered one to switch to Windows there'd be nary a word of protest. You don't know any Mac owners, do you? :-)
I ripped 'Enter the Wu-Tang' on my iBook and the MP3's play just fine on my iPod. ODB works great on my Mac!
Right. And there are no people on earth under the age of fifteen anymore, just because you and your friends finally entered high school? Look beyond your nose, there are babies being born every day.
Huh? I don't understand your point.
And yet, when he was giving away music he didn't own he was Slashdot's hero. Go figger...
Lindows will contain some GPL software, but the whole thing will almost assuredly not be distributed under the GPL. They are free to license their Windows compatibility stuff however they want, and I didn't see anything on their website about releasing that stuff under any sort of Open Source license. Where are you getting your information?
Those machines don't look that cheap to me. They're offering an HP Celeron 700 for $449. A quick check of Best Buy shows that you can get an HP Celeron 1.1 GHz with a bigger hard drive (40M to 10M) and all other specs equal, and with Windows XP Home included for $500 after mail-in rebate. I don't see much of a Windows tax in effect here.
If you're only changing your own copy and not affecting anyone else's I don't see what the problem is. Your analogy doesn't hold.
Insightful? Good football players bring in millions of dollars to universities. For their efforts they receive scholarships worth a fraction of that, and you begrudge them even that? I know you spoiled rich kids can't stand that a black kid from a poor family could get a break once in awhile, but this is pathetic.
You also fucked up than/then. I think you're ready to be promoted to editor! Congratulations!
Linux and the BSD's all run the same X servers, window managers, desktop environments, etc so from a desktop user's perspective there really shouldn't be much difference. The only exception I can think of is nVidia cards, where I believe you need to use a kernel module from nVidia to get the best 3D performance. Last I heard this was available only as a binary for Linux, so if you're using FreeBSD you'd have to use the XFree driver. For 2D framebuffer-type stuff I don't think there is much difference between the free and vendor drivers, but I don't have an nVidia card so I can't say for sure.
Whether you buy it or not is not going to make any difference to Disney, so I say if you want it, get it. You only live once, why deny yourself this little pleasure? The companies that sell you the gas for your car are far more evil than Disney, anyway. Sell your car and buy all the Disney crap your heart desires! :-)
I just looked at the license, which contains this text:
You may use any information in intangible form that you remember after accessing the Software. However, this right does not grant you a license to any of Microsoft's copyrights or patents for anything you might create using such information.
It seems to me that this should put your irrational fears of being "tainted" to rest.
Take attention away from Be? What attention? I suppose next you'll be accusing them of a FUD campaign against the Coleco Adam.