If only more sites complied with standards, I could dismiss MS entirely for Opera.
If only more people used Opera, then we could dismiss bad designers entirely
I've been using Opera/Linux exclusively since the start of this year (the only new year's resolution I've kept) on my work desktop, and the only thing I need Windows for is Powerpoint from time to time. If I could be bothered with Crossover plugin I could avoid rebooting at all, but I like to remind myself what I'm missing and to be happy to hit the default Linux boot option when I restart again.
It seems from the article, as well as from many other economic indicators, that the launches will not start becoming more frenetic. Telecommunications is the main use for satellites, and most telcos can't even get their more recent birds into profitability. I had a guy from PanAmSat come to desperately try to sell me satellite bandwidth that I clearly didn't need. 10 minutes into the meeting he knew I didn't need it either, but went on for an hour before I found a polite way to get him to go home and worry by himself about how to sell space on his network.
Sometimes I think we should stop making everything go faster and just get in less of a hurry... bigger, faster, more... why?
Then you lose on the fair use (use each condom once only) - and herpes could still get through anyway, with all the juices there will be in between the two condoms making their way around your uncovered parts:)
Yeah I thought it was going to be about keyboard/mouse connectors too, along the lines of adding keystroke detectors inline in some company and then harvesting all sorts of shite corporate email love letters between staff.
Ignorance is never an excuse in the eyes of the law. Bigamy is illegal, but an immigrant from a muslim country could say he thought it was OK because the Coran says so. Can still get prosecuted.
Oh yeah, and the flipping means that the juices of the first woman will interact with your member. So you could still get any number of STDs. I say this problem is impossible.
It's based on averages. So clearly the older you are, the bigger your feet are. By the time your feet stop growing, your spelling probably stops improving (on average, again).
Readers who become big readers later in life may suddenly become better spellers. But they are unlikely to be part of that statistic.
How is that not obvious? Are you one of those people always trying to find the "difficult" or "clever" answer to a simple question?
This was actually an experiment. I took content from several posts which were all modded up, and then put them into one post. I deliberately did not read the article.
It didn't work. But then, I'm not willing to just sit in front of my machine and be in the first 20 or so to submit. Those people get modded up much more easily than others.
I'm going to change my sig. I do quite often. I could care less about karma too - but that is the point of my sig. If you like a post, mod it up.
"The NY Times has a story about a story new bookshelf MP3/CD player from Sony. - It doesn't use MP3, it uses some Sony proprietary format.
Every time you play a CD, the machine automatically copies its tracks onto its built-in 20-gigabyte hard drive. - Unless it's a Sony CD, probably
It will then try to get album track information off the CD or, alternately, you can use the PC link to get titles off your favorite cddb-like site." - Sony have CD-Text, but made it so proprietary that it hasn't caught on. So what a waste of time. Needless to say, if you have a spare $1000 you'd be better buying a PC in a small case to do the job for you. If you don't want a PC but want one of these boxes, this functionality will be pretty bloody useless.
As the article puts it, they've come up with "the world's first TiVo for radio." - It's got nothing to do with radio.
Long overdue -- - Since when has some proprietary crap been "long overdue"?
I only wish it used a format that was closer to standard, - Closer to standard? Either it IS standard, or it isn't.
and let you pull tracks to other media. - OK well we can let this pass. No doubt of course it will be hackable to pull to other media, but you might not be able to hack the proprietary format.
And to think, all those submissions which are made, and this is the best they have? Puhlease.
IDS systems generally automate a number of things that hackers do all the time; possible exploits are often false positives but the sysadmin should be able to see a false positive a mile off.
I have used Snort and Qualys (the high priced commercial outsourced IDS) and both give false positives quite frequently. However, proving they are false positives is part of the skill of a good human sysadmin. This is why IDSes will never replace a good sysadmin. He or she should be able to see the report and say without any shadow of doubt in his speech that any particular exploit shown by the IDS is a false postive or not.
This still means that each IDS has its good points; but why anyone would pay a lot for a system that cannot, by definition, be any better than an up to date Snort and human reading of the report, and knowing your network inside out. Those who buy into big commercial IDSes clearly are investing in software when they should be investing in people, training those people, and understanding those people. Too many middle managers think their sysadmin speaks a language they will never learn, and therefore need these things to understand. But a good sysadmin should try hard to find ways to communicate with them, and can if need be annotate a nice little Snort report and be done with it.
They don't rule for the home or office if you are in close proximity to other people. They make far too much noise.
They do have a good response to touch, and you do have a "positiveness" about keyclick, but it's obnoxious in an environment within earshot of other users.
Solution:- Get a quiet keyboard, a set of headphones, and program Windows to make a click every time you type a key.
From the site:- As established by the Fédération Aéronautique
Internationale - the International governing body of aeronautics - the
rules say a pilot must set a course of waypoints within a band of the
Earth that stays at least 30 degrees latitude south of the North Pole
or 30 degrees north of the South Pole. The lines joining those waypoints
(on a "great circle" projection) must stay outside those polar
caps, although parts of the actual flight can drift inside them.
In my mind the word "meridien" was even in that text, but rightly it's "latitude" which is the word I should have used
No, Branson gave up long ago. I met him when he took off from Marrakech, Morocco, in 1999. He was with Steve Fosset at that time and I was lucky to talk to Steve, who's a pretty genuine guy.
Branson never attempted the flight solo. He was pipped on the circumnavigation by some other team, and Fosset then went alone to become the first to do it solo.
Official rules as to what constitutes a flight which is a real circumnavigation are on the site, it has to be between the two 30 degree meridiens basically... in any case it will not be ratified until some weeks have passed.
Replace girlfriend with wife and I could say that I've more or less done that, although it's usually dependent on what time it is, and how long I end up staying on the phone. Sex is no fun if you have to put someone on hold to orgasm noisily...
It was a lesser cousin to the Amiga, both being based on the Motorola 68000 chipset also found in old Macs of course. Amiga had the edge on colours and sound chips, but the ST was a workhorse in a lot of recording studios because it had built in MIDI ports with the 5-DIN jacks which you could plug in with your regular keyboard cables needing no adaptor.
I had an Atari ST (first series) with :
Single sided, double density 3.5" drive (320KB formatted) which I upgraded myself to a double-sided drive, involving cutting the case because it wasn't an "official" upgrade - my first case mod at just 13 years old...
512Kb RAM
TV out
Yamaha sound chip (4 x 8bit, 44.1kbz samples simultaneously with a bit of luck)
8Mhz clock speed (I think)
16 colours simultaneously from a palette of 512 (RGB values from 0-7 respectively) which you could up to a full 512 onscreen by changing the palette registers several times then waiting for a vertical blank and looping again)
There were 1, 2 and 4Mb versions as well - studios all had at least 1Mb of RAM because Cubase wouldn't run in 512Kb (except the cracked versions).
Loads of great games were out for it, and some good cracking crews with much less of the pretension of the new WareZ k1dd1ez... they had to snail mail disks amongst themselves pretty much...
I learned a lot of my trade on that Atari ST. It was a 16 bit architecture, ahead of its time for its price, and trained my hands on a mouse, touch typing, and of course coding in STOS Basic and later 68000 assembler (remember devpac, anyone)?
I am only getting 966b/s (on a 2mbps link) from the Google cache. The Google Cache slashdotted? Hehehe
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It may be slightly drab, but was once a busy river town.
If you have some spare pewter paper then you may well be able to get a reproduction similar to the original, if you replace your ink with a bitumen based fluid;-)
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Yeah well I wasn't entirely serious. Chalon sur Saone's museum has some good stuff anyway. American museums hold a lot of great European artifacts, and they look after them well. More people get to see them, too.
But this particular photo just happens to be dear to my heart because I stayed there a while and the locals would have liked it back. But of course, art must be disseminated to reach as wide an audience as possible.
I'm still willing to bet that more European stuff is in American (and especially in private collections) than vice versa.
Taken in France by a Frenchman and its in... TEXAS
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I lived in the town of birth of Niecephore Niepce for a year. The photo was taken, I believe, in a nearby village. I find it incredible that this historic piece of French, and by extension European invention, is in America. Many others are too, no doubt. Some great Daguerrotypes are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for example. They are fascinating to look at, as they change a little based on your angle of viewing. Not quite like a holograph but a truly mind-bending experience. They are far more elegant IRL than looked at on a web page in 2D. The silver tones are fantastic compared to white and black photo paper or 72dpi greyscale.
In fact the town (Chalon sur Saone, in Burgundy) is a quiet place with very little tourism. Should that photo be there, however, perhaps it would be taken more often for what it is - the birthplace of modern photography. There is a little Museum there (The Niepce Museum) which is fantastically interesting. Sadly its piece de resistance is in Texas.
Chalon sur Saone still has a big Kodak factory though. A lot of you who may have toured in Paris etc may have bought film manufactured there.
That sounds pretty far out but convincing enough. I've been interested in extinction events for some time. Any more general links you have would be appreciated
nemesis Pronunciation Key (nm-ss)
n. pl. nemeses (-sz)
A source of harm or ruin: Uncritical trust is my nemesis.
Sounds like the Slashdot effect
Retributive justice in its execution or outcome: To follow the proposed course of action is to invite nemesis.
i.e., clicking the link at the launch time is inviting Nemesis...
An opponent that cannot be beaten or overcome.
The unconscious attitude that rests, all the same, with Slashdot readers... that they will get to see the page even though thousands of others are all trying at the same time.
One that inflicts retribution or vengeance.
It will be in Quicktime no doubt and everyone will be seeking their Wine, so maybe that should be re-distribution (changing distro?) so that they have better Quicktime support in friendly RPM format (yes I'm getting tenuous now)
Nemesis Greek Mythology. The goddess of retributive justice or vengeance.
Godesses... Rather than cite any myself (OK, I always fancied a bit of Deanna Troi actually) I invite you to comment...
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If only more people used Opera, then we could dismiss bad designers entirely
I've been using Opera/Linux exclusively since the start of this year (the only new year's resolution I've kept) on my work desktop, and the only thing I need Windows for is Powerpoint from time to time. If I could be bothered with Crossover plugin I could avoid rebooting at all, but I like to remind myself what I'm missing and to be happy to hit the default Linux boot option when I restart again.
Sometimes I think we should stop making everything go faster and just get in less of a hurry... bigger, faster, more... why?
Then you lose on the fair use (use each condom once only) - and herpes could still get through anyway, with all the juices there will be in between the two condoms making their way around your uncovered parts :)
Yeah I thought it was going to be about keyboard/mouse connectors too, along the lines of adding keystroke detectors inline in some company and then harvesting all sorts of shite corporate email love letters between staff.
Ignorance is never an excuse in the eyes of the law. Bigamy is illegal, but an immigrant from a muslim country could say he thought it was OK because the Coran says so. Can still get prosecuted.
Oh yeah, and the flipping means that the juices of the first woman will interact with your member. So you could still get any number of STDs. I say this problem is impossible.
Readers who become big readers later in life may suddenly become better spellers. But they are unlikely to be part of that statistic.
How is that not obvious? Are you one of those people always trying to find the "difficult" or "clever" answer to a simple question?
If you take standard condom best practices, you can't do it either. You can't wear both. You can rarely flip a condom (should use only once anyway)...
Stupid question, if you ask me.
It didn't work. But then, I'm not willing to just sit in front of my machine and be in the first 20 or so to submit. Those people get modded up much more easily than others.
I'm going to change my sig. I do quite often. I could care less about karma too - but that is the point of my sig. If you like a post, mod it up.
p.s. What the heck does it have to do with radio?
- It doesn't use MP3, it uses some Sony proprietary format.
Every time you play a CD, the machine automatically copies its tracks onto its built-in 20-gigabyte hard drive.
- Unless it's a Sony CD, probably
It will then try to get album track information off the CD or, alternately, you can use the PC link to get titles off your favorite cddb-like site."
- Sony have CD-Text, but made it so proprietary that it hasn't caught on. So what a waste of time. Needless to say, if you have a spare $1000 you'd be better buying a PC in a small case to do the job for you. If you don't want a PC but want one of these boxes, this functionality will be pretty bloody useless.
As the article puts it, they've come up with "the world's first TiVo for radio."
- It's got nothing to do with radio.
Long overdue --
- Since when has some proprietary crap been "long overdue"?
I only wish it used a format that was closer to standard,
- Closer to standard? Either it IS standard, or it isn't.
and let you pull tracks to other media.
- OK well we can let this pass. No doubt of course it will be hackable to pull to other media, but you might not be able to hack the proprietary format.
And to think, all those submissions which are made, and this is the best they have? Puhlease.
I have used Snort and Qualys (the high priced commercial outsourced IDS) and both give false positives quite frequently. However, proving they are false positives is part of the skill of a good human sysadmin. This is why IDSes will never replace a good sysadmin. He or she should be able to see the report and say without any shadow of doubt in his speech that any particular exploit shown by the IDS is a false postive or not.
This still means that each IDS has its good points; but why anyone would pay a lot for a system that cannot, by definition, be any better than an up to date Snort and human reading of the report, and knowing your network inside out. Those who buy into big commercial IDSes clearly are investing in software when they should be investing in people, training those people, and understanding those people. Too many middle managers think their sysadmin speaks a language they will never learn, and therefore need these things to understand. But a good sysadmin should try hard to find ways to communicate with them, and can if need be annotate a nice little Snort report and be done with it.
It was a joke *sigh*
They do have a good response to touch, and you do have a "positiveness" about keyclick, but it's obnoxious in an environment within earshot of other users.
Solution:-
Get a quiet keyboard, a set of headphones, and program Windows to make a click every time you type a key.
From the site:-
As established by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale - the International governing body of aeronautics - the rules say a pilot must set a course of waypoints within a band of the Earth that stays at least 30 degrees latitude south of the North Pole or 30 degrees north of the South Pole. The lines joining those waypoints (on a "great circle" projection) must stay outside those polar caps, although parts of the actual flight can drift inside them.
In my mind the word "meridien" was even in that text, but rightly it's "latitude" which is the word I should have used
Branson never attempted the flight solo. He was pipped on the circumnavigation by some other team, and Fosset then went alone to become the first to do it solo.
Official rules as to what constitutes a flight which is a real circumnavigation are on the site, it has to be between the two 30 degree meridiens basically... in any case it will not be ratified until some weeks have passed.
You have any worries about coming down with white hair, then?
Replace girlfriend with wife and I could say that I've more or less done that, although it's usually dependent on what time it is, and how long I end up staying on the phone. Sex is no fun if you have to put someone on hold to orgasm noisily...
Except that metals with no official hallmark are always treated as suspicious
I had an Atari ST (first series) with :
There were 1, 2 and 4Mb versions as well - studios all had at least 1Mb of RAM because Cubase wouldn't run in 512Kb (except the cracked versions).
Loads of great games were out for it, and some good cracking crews with much less of the pretension of the new WareZ k1dd1ez... they had to snail mail disks amongst themselves pretty much...
I learned a lot of my trade on that Atari ST. It was a 16 bit architecture, ahead of its time for its price, and trained my hands on a mouse, touch typing, and of course coding in STOS Basic and later 68000 assembler (remember devpac, anyone)?
I am only getting 966b/s (on a 2mbps link) from the Google cache. The Google Cache slashdotted? Hehehe
If you have some spare pewter paper then you may well be able to get a reproduction similar to the original, if you replace your ink with a bitumen based fluid ;-)
But this particular photo just happens to be dear to my heart because I stayed there a while and the locals would have liked it back. But of course, art must be disseminated to reach as wide an audience as possible.
I'm still willing to bet that more European stuff is in American (and especially in private collections) than vice versa.
In fact the town (Chalon sur Saone, in Burgundy) is a quiet place with very little tourism. Should that photo be there, however, perhaps it would be taken more often for what it is - the birthplace of modern photography. There is a little Museum there (The Niepce Museum) which is fantastically interesting. Sadly its piece de resistance is in Texas.
Chalon sur Saone still has a big Kodak factory though. A lot of you who may have toured in Paris etc may have bought film manufactured there.
That sounds pretty far out but convincing enough. I've been interested in extinction events for some time. Any more general links you have would be appreciated
A source of harm or ruin: Uncritical trust is my nemesis.
Sounds like the Slashdot effect
Retributive justice in its execution or outcome: To follow the proposed course of action is to invite nemesis.
i.e., clicking the link at the launch time is inviting Nemesis...
An opponent that cannot be beaten or overcome.
The unconscious attitude that rests, all the same, with Slashdot readers... that they will get to see the page even though thousands of others are all trying at the same time.
One that inflicts retribution or vengeance.
It will be in Quicktime no doubt and everyone will be seeking their Wine, so maybe that should be re-distribution (changing distro?) so that they have better Quicktime support in friendly RPM format (yes I'm getting tenuous now)
Nemesis Greek Mythology. The goddess of retributive justice or vengeance.
Godesses... Rather than cite any myself (OK, I always fancied a bit of Deanna Troi actually) I invite you to comment...