Privoxy. Privoxy will filter HTTP requests using regexps and works as well and often better than Adblock. Plus (the best) it's browser neutral and you can do more than just ad blocking (i.e. filtering certain cookies, your user agent, referrer, etc.)
IRC is great for casual chat. It's like your local bar. You'll go down there, hook up with a few friends, and sit down with a beer. The occasional drunken guy/girl will hit on you (no matter what gender you are), you'll laugh and shake it off and as the night goes on you might get into a fight or two. If things escalate too far, you might even get thrown out!
And occasionally, the neighborhood biker gang will walk in and rough things up and the bouncer'll get scared and can't do anything.
What's wrong with that?
IRC's a great way to hang out with some friends who you generally don't have to stress over too much (you've never actually met them anyway) and chill and have some fun. It's very similar to your local bar, but worldwide and online.
For some reason I think that removing validity from Russian spam boxes is slightly less of an issue than asynchronous connections, which immediately and undeniably remove the peer-to-peer model which was envisioned.
The inability to upload data at a reasonable speed has much more of a negative effect on the model of the internet than does checking mail servers for validity.
While this is an excellent point, I'd focus on the more important (and off-topic) issues first.
My recent Linux experiences have been that drivers are *easier* than those on Windows, mainly because most (not incredibly new) devices supported by Linux are supported by the kernels that ship with distributions. The only problems I've ever had are obscure wireless cards (but ndiswrapper is as easy as installing hardware on windows) and the stupid oddly-aligned framebuffer in my laptop (if you don't configure it right, the "top" of the screen is in the middle of the LCD).
I've had far more problems with my mother's laptop and Windows, especially with audio drivers. The drivers provided by the manufacturer are completely wrong, and generic AC'97 drivers recognize the card, then don't use it properly. (Realtek and Conexant).
Though, on the other hand, I'd call myself a Linux guru (I still my first Linux books on my bookshelf with RedHat 3 install CDs) so things like installing ndiswrapper are no big deal to me. Some people hate having to do things like that, and would prefer a GUI wizard like Windows.
Personally I hate the Windows GUI wizard because it offers no feedback as to what's going on (why did the driver fail? what are the raw device IDs?) and so I have to hunt down third-party programs to fix problems.
I'll 100% agree with you that Xgl is *not* ready for any sort of real use (it's buggy, unreliable, and complicated), but have you tried using a Vista beta? They don't install or run very well either.
Why make the argument parisan, when both parties are guilty?
Because it's the current party in power that's the one we need to curtail now. Frankly, many in the American public are too apethetic and completely uneducated about government to understand that there are more than two options, so campaigning against the current (and, in my opinion, greater) evil diminishes the current evil's power. We can take care of the other (and in my opinion lesser) evils later.
Basically there are two options that Americans (and to an extent the rest of the world) have been trained to think about for a long time ("conservative" vs "liberal"). While the two-party system works for awhile, it's clearly failing (in America and abroad) and should be changed. By elliminating the greater evil, we weaken the evil as a whole. And at this point I see the only way to elliminate the greater evil as being targeted, direct political action (protesting, publishing information about their deeds, etc.) against the greater evil. Trying to target the group as a whole only confuses the "average" American (notice how I never called the average American "stupid." I believe that the "average" American is apethetic and uneducated, not "stupid." You can see this for yourself in how we get more votes for American Idol than for many elections, and by simply looking at the newspaper.)
That's what emoticons were created for. If emoticons aren't combined with OMG LOL HAX teenage-girl speak I find them to be an excellent way to express emotion in e-mail.
I believe that emoticons should become an "acceptable" form of expression in corporate e-mail, simply to avoid this issue as a phone call is not always an availiable method of contact.
The authors of the article must not have attended school. At least in the US, school values repetitive labor far more than it values aptitude. Students are graded mostly based on the amount of homework they complete, with aptitude playing a minor role. If this is a good thing is debatable; many say that part of learning to become an able worker in society is learning to work, especially when it's assigned, but on the other hand many (mostly the students doing the work) wonder if it's the best thing they could be doing.
There are also licensing costs related to the format which Sony probably doesn't have to pay. The $1000 price for the player includes the hardware (which is vastly more than the PS3 needs for its Blu-Ray component), the licensing (probably), the manufacturer's markup, and the retail markup. It's likely that the Blu-Ray drive in the PS3 will cost Sony as little as $150-200/unit.
Noise cancelling headphones are excellent for getting sleep and blocking out the obnoxious roar of the plane combined with people talking and kids screaming, however most won't protect from hearing damage (just FYI). The variety that is over-ear and acts as an earmuff actually physically blocks sound and thus will reduce possible hearing damage, however the variety that works by creating opposing sound waves (most in-ear and many over-ear types) does not protect from hearing damage and may actually increase the risks (as it's always piping opposite waves into your ear).
While this wasn't the point of the parent poster I thought I'd point that out.
Sorry that I wasn't clear on this before; the 4GB is a FAT16 limitation not a PSP limitation; if the stick is formatted differently the data is readable from the PC(and yes USB data reading does go through the firmware; some USB bus drivers are loaded). So the problem is NOT the PSP's firmware as in block count/blocksize but rather the filesystem supported.
I believe the neoflash team(a group working on PSP memory adaptors) was able to add up to 36gb on the PSP and have recognized, and haven't tested higher simply because their hardware can't do anything higher. By the way an average PSP game is ~600mb, a movie ripped off UMD is 1.8gb exactly, and a good-quality feature length movie for 2.0(H.264) is about 600mb while for 1.5(MPEG4 Simple) it's about 800mb.
Ever seen the little box next to movie ratings on movie posters? Ever read it? It tells what the movie got the rating it did for, the same way as games. The ESRB ratings and the MPAA ratings are BOTH granular. I actually think this law makes some sense; the movie rating system (which most approve of and which seems to work at least to keep the controversy down) prevents children from seeing R rated movies(M rated games are roughly equal) unless they are accompanied by someone over 18. This would do nearly the same thing for games.
[Semi-OT] Your debian problems were caused by not using dist-upgrade. The dist-upgrade function fixed the "broken system" problem that you mention by installing and uninstalling packages as needed during the upgrade.
Additionally, the ring could have solar panels on the outside and thus power the whole Earth cleanly...unless there is too little silicon on Earth to build that many solar panels...yes I know there is a lot, but that's a lot of solar panel...
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This is really old news...anyway...here's the technical explanation of how this works. The original Japanese PSPs would run unencrypted code straight off of memory sticks. Then Sony released firmware 1.50. Firmware 1.50 required ALL code it ran to be encrypted. But there was a flaw. Some people from a group called psp-dev discovered that the PSP firmware only checked for unencrypted code ONCE, when it read the archive with the name of the application, the icon, etc. They determined that by making an archive with NO code in it, the psp would give it the OK because there was NO code in it whatsoever. Then the memory sticks would be swapped, and the PSP code loader would run the code off the second stick. But that wasn't good enough for PSP-DEV. Using a flaw in the FAT driver on PSP they were able to make this work with ONE memory stick. Why? When two folders are placed on the memory stick, one with a percent sign after it containing the archive and one without a percent sign containing the code, the PSP would allow you to select the archive, then the PSP bootstrapper would read the directory without the %, because the PSP bootstrap and FAT driver do not understand % signs.
He ment the activation code, the code that you have to put in if you don't have Internet access and are activating. And some OEM copies are not bound, it depends on the manufacturer. Many computer companies don't take the time to bind XP to their BIOS. Don't think this is true? Take for example the OEM copies you can buy with mobos/HDs/whatever off the internet-not bound to anything, but still have an OEM key and you still have to ACTIVATE. You clearly don't know what you are talking about. Nice microsoft fanboy...
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Privoxy. Privoxy will filter HTTP requests using regexps and works as well and often better than Adblock. Plus (the best) it's browser neutral and you can do more than just ad blocking (i.e. filtering certain cookies, your user agent, referrer, etc.)
IRC is great for casual chat. It's like your local bar. You'll go down there, hook up with a few friends, and sit down with a beer. The occasional drunken guy/girl will hit on you (no matter what gender you are), you'll laugh and shake it off and as the night goes on you might get into a fight or two. If things escalate too far, you might even get thrown out!
And occasionally, the neighborhood biker gang will walk in and rough things up and the bouncer'll get scared and can't do anything.
What's wrong with that?
IRC's a great way to hang out with some friends who you generally don't have to stress over too much (you've never actually met them anyway) and chill and have some fun. It's very similar to your local bar, but worldwide and online.
For some reason I think that removing validity from Russian spam boxes is slightly less of an issue than asynchronous connections, which immediately and undeniably remove the peer-to-peer model which was envisioned.
The inability to upload data at a reasonable speed has much more of a negative effect on the model of the internet than does checking mail servers for validity.
While this is an excellent point, I'd focus on the more important (and off-topic) issues first.
My recent Linux experiences have been that drivers are *easier* than those on Windows, mainly because most (not incredibly new) devices supported by Linux are supported by the kernels that ship with distributions. The only problems I've ever had are obscure wireless cards (but ndiswrapper is as easy as installing hardware on windows) and the stupid oddly-aligned framebuffer in my laptop (if you don't configure it right, the "top" of the screen is in the middle of the LCD).
I've had far more problems with my mother's laptop and Windows, especially with audio drivers. The drivers provided by the manufacturer are completely wrong, and generic AC'97 drivers recognize the card, then don't use it properly. (Realtek and Conexant).
Though, on the other hand, I'd call myself a Linux guru (I still my first Linux books on my bookshelf with RedHat 3 install CDs) so things like installing ndiswrapper are no big deal to me. Some people hate having to do things like that, and would prefer a GUI wizard like Windows.
Personally I hate the Windows GUI wizard because it offers no feedback as to what's going on (why did the driver fail? what are the raw device IDs?) and so I have to hunt down third-party programs to fix problems.
I'll 100% agree with you that Xgl is *not* ready for any sort of real use (it's buggy, unreliable, and complicated), but have you tried using a Vista beta? They don't install or run very well either.
Why make the argument parisan, when both parties are guilty?
Because it's the current party in power that's the one we need to curtail now. Frankly, many in the American public are too apethetic and completely uneducated about government to understand that there are more than two options, so campaigning against the current (and, in my opinion, greater) evil diminishes the current evil's power. We can take care of the other (and in my opinion lesser) evils later.
Basically there are two options that Americans (and to an extent the rest of the world) have been trained to think about for a long time ("conservative" vs "liberal"). While the two-party system works for awhile, it's clearly failing (in America and abroad) and should be changed. By elliminating the greater evil, we weaken the evil as a whole. And at this point I see the only way to elliminate the greater evil as being targeted, direct political action (protesting, publishing information about their deeds, etc.) against the greater evil. Trying to target the group as a whole only confuses the "average" American (notice how I never called the average American "stupid." I believe that the "average" American is apethetic and uneducated, not "stupid." You can see this for yourself in how we get more votes for American Idol than for many elections, and by simply looking at the newspaper.)
That's what emoticons were created for. If emoticons aren't combined with OMG LOL HAX teenage-girl speak I find them to be an excellent way to express emotion in e-mail.
I believe that emoticons should become an "acceptable" form of expression in corporate e-mail, simply to avoid this issue as a phone call is not always an availiable method of contact.
Well when you can't see the law, you have no idea what it's doing.
So the time may be...now.
And within a few weeks you will no longer work there :-).
The authors of the article must not have attended school. At least in the US, school values repetitive labor far more than it values aptitude. Students are graded mostly based on the amount of homework they complete, with aptitude playing a minor role. If this is a good thing is debatable; many say that part of learning to become an able worker in society is learning to work, especially when it's assigned, but on the other hand many (mostly the students doing the work) wonder if it's the best thing they could be doing.
There are also licensing costs related to the format which Sony probably doesn't have to pay. The $1000 price for the player includes the hardware (which is vastly more than the PS3 needs for its Blu-Ray component), the licensing (probably), the manufacturer's markup, and the retail markup. It's likely that the Blu-Ray drive in the PS3 will cost Sony as little as $150-200/unit.
As far as I know it's still causing your inner ear to move and the tiny hairs in it to vibrate.
Noise cancelling headphones are excellent for getting sleep and blocking out the obnoxious roar of the plane combined with people talking and kids screaming, however most won't protect from hearing damage (just FYI). The variety that is over-ear and acts as an earmuff actually physically blocks sound and thus will reduce possible hearing damage, however the variety that works by creating opposing sound waves (most in-ear and many over-ear types) does not protect from hearing damage and may actually increase the risks (as it's always piping opposite waves into your ear).
While this wasn't the point of the parent poster I thought I'd point that out.
Sorry that I wasn't clear on this before; the 4GB is a FAT16 limitation not a PSP limitation; if the stick is formatted differently the data is readable from the PC(and yes USB data reading does go through the firmware; some USB bus drivers are loaded). So the problem is NOT the PSP's firmware as in block count/blocksize but rather the filesystem supported.
I believe the neoflash team(a group working on PSP memory adaptors) was able to add up to 36gb on the PSP and have recognized, and haven't tested higher simply because their hardware can't do anything higher. By the way an average PSP game is ~600mb, a movie ripped off UMD is 1.8gb exactly, and a good-quality feature length movie for 2.0(H.264) is about 600mb while for 1.5(MPEG4 Simple) it's about 800mb.
Ever seen the little box next to movie ratings on movie posters? Ever read it? It tells what the movie got the rating it did for, the same way as games. The ESRB ratings and the MPAA ratings are BOTH granular. I actually think this law makes some sense; the movie rating system (which most approve of and which seems to work at least to keep the controversy down) prevents children from seeing R rated movies(M rated games are roughly equal) unless they are accompanied by someone over 18. This would do nearly the same thing for games.
You can set BT to whatever port you want, so I don't see that as a problem.
[Semi-OT] Your debian problems were caused by not using dist-upgrade. The dist-upgrade function fixed the "broken system" problem that you mention by installing and uninstalling packages as needed during the upgrade.
Because Debian(which Knoppix is based on) still runs XFree.
But with our planet having 100% clean electricity the co2 levels will go down...maybe it would work out, seems a mighty risky attempt...
Additionally, the ring could have solar panels on the outside and thus power the whole Earth cleanly...unless there is too little silicon on Earth to build that many solar panels...yes I know there is a lot, but that's a lot of solar panel...
I find your lack of faith...disturbing...
Ok, yes, thanks. BTW any sprintf operator works, including %n and the like.
This is really old news...anyway...here's the technical explanation of how this works.
The original Japanese PSPs would run unencrypted code straight off of memory sticks. Then Sony released firmware 1.50. Firmware 1.50 required ALL code it ran to be encrypted. But there was a flaw. Some people from a group called psp-dev discovered that the PSP firmware only checked for unencrypted code ONCE, when it read the archive with the name of the application, the icon, etc. They determined that by making an archive with NO code in it, the psp would give it the OK because there was NO code in it whatsoever. Then the memory sticks would be swapped, and the PSP code loader would run the code off the second stick. But that wasn't good enough for PSP-DEV. Using a flaw in the FAT driver on PSP they were able to make this work with ONE memory stick. Why? When two folders are placed on the memory stick, one with a percent sign after it containing the archive and one without a percent sign containing the code, the PSP would allow you to select the archive, then the PSP bootstrapper would read the directory without the %, because the PSP bootstrap and FAT driver do not understand % signs.
He ment the activation code, the code that you have to put in if you don't have Internet access and are activating. And some OEM copies are not bound, it depends on the manufacturer. Many computer companies don't take the time to bind XP to their BIOS. Don't think this is true? Take for example the OEM copies you can buy with mobos/HDs/whatever off the internet-not bound to anything, but still have an OEM key and you still have to ACTIVATE. You clearly don't know what you are talking about. Nice microsoft fanboy...
Seeing as how Bittorrent uses TCP, I'd call that pretty skewed :P.