This has nothing to do with free speech, you can broadcast whatever you want on your own system; Closed circuit TV, cable, satellite, internet.
Saying you can't swear on publicly owned TV or radio is like saying you can't swear in a publically owned library. Swearing in a publically owned courthouse can land you in the tank if the judge is in a bad mood. Swearing in my home can get you a punch in the face.
The constitution has nothing to do with it until someone starts telling you that you can't swear at all.
A warm piece of metal will cool faster in a breeze than in still air, because turbulence will mean more air molecules bump up to the metal, and thus absorb more heat faster.
Thats why blowing on your food makes it cool faster.
The NFL went looking for an exclusive deal, and EA won.
But slashdot groupthink has decided that EA is an evil corporate giant and everything they do is malicious, so for the record, EA's goon squad busted into the superbowl, killed a couple guys, pulled Janet Jacksons bra off, and made them sign the paperwork.
Now lets hear more idiotic whining about their "illegal monopoly".
The Wizard counts. It was a two hour commercial for Super Mario Bros 3 and other Nintendo products "WOW! You got the power glove!", there was no other reason that it was made.
Pokemon was a video game *before* the cartoon or trading cards came out, well close to one another. They all launched together as a big effort to promote the others, but the video games are the flagship of the "pokemon" armada.
Yeah, add Resident Evil and House of the Dead and whatever other crap movies I forgot to the list.
You'll see.NET framework in the list of recommended updates for Win 2000, I believe it's included in SP4 - you might want to get that and patch your machine since it sounds like it's about 2 years out of date.
Oh, and XP's UI is the same as 2000s/NTs after three whole mouse clicks (Display Properties->Appearance->Windows Classic Mode). Different shaped bitmaps for onscreen widgets don't really count as "bloat", but whatever.
Try KDE if you really want to see "bloat" at the UI level.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
Sure looks like a BSD-style license to me, it's just not GPL.
The day that a crap movie comes out only to boost the sales of video game will this argument become interesting.
Tomb Raider The Wizard Super Mario Bros Double Dragon Street Fighter Mortal Kombat Pokemon Final Fantasy - Spirits Within Wing Commander And coming soon to a theater near you.. Doom
These were all bullshit movies to schill the games, or "grow the franchise" in marketdrone speak.
There are more, many more if you want to include TV shows in the argument.
It's all the same "industry", the money winds up all in the same pockets.
You've never dealt with black ice, have you? Maybe you live too south to worry about it.
It being cold has nothing to do with an invisible patch of ice all of a sudden being there, in the middle of a plowed and salted highway, where you wouldn't expect it.
Every "major snowstorm" we have in MD, like last Sundays (hah, as a Canadian migrant I laugh at your candy assed excuse for "winter"), there are invariably these pileups of multiple dozen cars, all driving too fast, too close, not expecting that patch of ice.. So they slam into each other like moving dominoes.
I hope these systems evolve to take the inexperienced American driver out of the equation. There are few of us with actual experience driving in real winter situations. I want the first car to hit the ice to warn the ones behind it. I want the cars behind it to automatically decide that they will not go above, say, 45mph (whatever the inevitable law said) until passed the "danger zone".
They always say you cant legislate common sense. But you can approximate it with a computer, and legislate the use of that computer.
Then we can do away with traditional speed limits, and rely on our smart cars who know how fast it is safe to go, based on the situation - how crowded the road is, weather conditions, lighting...
Hell, operational status of the vehicle should be a metric for such an algorithm. I see so many poorly maintained, downright dangerous piles of rusted shit on the road.
I want my car to be smart enough to stay a minimum of 500 yards from any piece of shit car.
An easier, more practical use, would be tailing someone - following another car (not spy shit, like Jim following Sue through some city he's not familiar with). You could tell your car "Hey, dont let me lose that blue hyundai", or some such.
They've got plenty of funding, the whole "scientific study article" is little more than a press release for a "reduced emissions" phone from some german company.
Thats how pcs (at least windows) stores date/times. The whole number is the number of days since whatever beginning date they picked (something in the 70s), and the fraction is the time of day..5 is noon,.75 is 8 PM..
Of course, it then makes what we know as "an hour" an irrational ~0.0416666666 and a minute ~0.006944444 which can be bothersome since giving an "O'Clock" will almost always involve rounding up or down. 32 bits is always enough to round to the right second, so it's not that big a deal.
Umm, it would be exact because the algorithm to copy would be:
copy(file1, file2) while (md5 of file1 != md5 of file2) { try again }
You should be verifying your backups no matter what the storage medium is.
DNA is AFAIK, much more "stable" than photoreactive dyes or magnetic films. Crocodiles have had the same DNA for billions of years, how long will your CD-R last?
Their photo inks are (claim to be at least) water resistant when dried.
I guess it depends what you want them for. I just want to label them myself, and eliminate the hassle of trying to write legibly on my archive discs with a Sharpie marker. I don't plan on getting them wet, except the pr0n ones.
I heard that you can slap one of those clear plastic "disc shield" things that prevent scratches on the label side of the disk if you want the label to be more durable.
I worked with a thermal transfer mylar label printer in an industrial setting a few years back. Unless things have changed, the replacement "ribbons" for those things were crazy expensive. The labels actually wound up costing about a buck each after printing. It was necessary in a factory setting, since the labels were pretty much impervious to all the various fluids that would get spilled on them.
Forget Excel, think about all the Access, FoxPro, or Delphi databases/apps out there.
The only person in our company who could switch to linux would be the front receptionist. And she'd need to dual boot so she can still do all the FedEx stuff.
From wikipedia (plenty more info, google for yourself).
Professor Teuku Jacob, chief paleontologist of the Indonesian Gajah Mada University and other scientists reportedly disagree with the placement of the new finds into a new species of Homo. "It is a sub-species of Homo sapiens classified under the Austrolomelanesid race," he said. He will attempt to prove that the find is from a 25-30 year-old omnivorous subspecies of H. sapiens, and not a 30-year-old female of a new species. He is convinced that the small skull is that of a mentally defective human.
Some scientists reportedly believe the skeleton found may be of a male and not a female and the subject may have been suffering from the disease microcephaly. When interviewed on the Australian television program Lateline, Professor Roberts reportedly conceded that the skeleton may be that of a male rather than a female but he strenuously maintained the fossil is of a new species.
There you have it, many think it was a retarded/deformed member of an already discovered species, not evidence of a "race of hobbits".
Just like all these fantastic discoveries, everyone except the discoverer himself thinks it's bullshit. But of course "remains of ancient retarded midget discovered" doesn't make a very good soundbite.
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This has nothing to do with free speech, you can broadcast whatever you want on your own system; Closed circuit TV, cable, satellite, internet.
Saying you can't swear on publicly owned TV or radio is like saying you can't swear in a publically owned library. Swearing in a publically owned courthouse can land you in the tank if the judge is in a bad mood. Swearing in my home can get you a punch in the face.
The constitution has nothing to do with it until someone starts telling you that you can't swear at all.
He's not a congressman, brain-train.
He doesn't make laws, he regulates, as instructed by his mandate.
A warm piece of metal will cool faster in a breeze than in still air, because turbulence will mean more air molecules bump up to the metal, and thus absorb more heat faster.
Thats why blowing on your food makes it cool faster.
The NFL went looking for an exclusive deal, and EA won.
But slashdot groupthink has decided that EA is an evil corporate giant and everything they do is malicious, so for the record, EA's goon squad busted into the superbowl, killed a couple guys, pulled Janet Jacksons bra off, and made them sign the paperwork.
Now lets hear more idiotic whining about their "illegal monopoly".
This uses GDI+, so an environment like Wine would be more feasible than a port to mono et al.
Unless I'm mistaken, I don't believe any of the OSS alternatives implement (or plan to implement) GDI+.
True enough.
Most people just want red-eye removal, and simple cropping and resizing, and the crap that gets bundled with digital cameras or printers plain sucks.
The Wizard counts. It was a two hour commercial for Super Mario Bros 3 and other Nintendo products "WOW! You got the power glove!", there was no other reason that it was made.
Pokemon was a video game *before* the cartoon or trading cards came out, well close to one another. They all launched together as a big effort to promote the others, but the video games are the flagship of the "pokemon" armada.
Yeah, add Resident Evil and House of the Dead and whatever other crap movies I forgot to the list.
Try running Windows update once in awhile.
.NET framework in the list of recommended updates for Win 2000, I believe it's included in SP4 - you might want to get that and patch your machine since it sounds like it's about 2 years out of date.
You'll see
Oh, and XP's UI is the same as 2000s/NTs after three whole mouse clicks (Display Properties->Appearance->Windows Classic Mode). Different shaped bitmaps for onscreen widgets don't really count as "bloat", but whatever.
Try KDE if you really want to see "bloat" at the UI level.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
Sure looks like a BSD-style license to me, it's just not GPL.
GDI+
The day that a crap movie comes out only to boost the sales of video game will this argument become interesting.
Tomb Raider
The Wizard
Super Mario Bros
Double Dragon
Street Fighter
Mortal Kombat
Pokemon
Final Fantasy - Spirits Within
Wing Commander
And coming soon to a theater near you.. Doom
These were all bullshit movies to schill the games, or "grow the franchise" in marketdrone speak.
There are more, many more if you want to include TV shows in the argument.
It's all the same "industry", the money winds up all in the same pockets.
Called entertainment.
Take a look behind the curtain.
Many video games are movie tie-ins.
Many movies are video game tie-ins.
Who chalks up the bucks for "The Incredibles" for XBox? The video game industry? The movie industry?
What about the revenue for the Doom movie? Video game industry? Movie industry?
What about the revenue for the endless talk tv drivel about the Doom game and movie?
My point is, the money ends up in the same pockets, for the most part.
You've never dealt with black ice, have you? Maybe you live too south to worry about it.
It being cold has nothing to do with an invisible patch of ice all of a sudden being there, in the middle of a plowed and salted highway, where you wouldn't expect it.
Every "major snowstorm" we have in MD, like last Sundays (hah, as a Canadian migrant I laugh at your candy assed excuse for "winter"), there are invariably these pileups of multiple dozen cars, all driving too fast, too close, not expecting that patch of ice.. So they slam into each other like moving dominoes.
I hope these systems evolve to take the inexperienced American driver out of the equation. There are few of us with actual experience driving in real winter situations. I want the first car to hit the ice to warn the ones behind it. I want the cars behind it to automatically decide that they will not go above, say, 45mph (whatever the inevitable law said) until passed the "danger zone".
They always say you cant legislate common sense. But you can approximate it with a computer, and legislate the use of that computer.
Then we can do away with traditional speed limits, and rely on our smart cars who know how fast it is safe to go, based on the situation - how crowded the road is, weather conditions, lighting...
Hell, operational status of the vehicle should be a metric for such an algorithm. I see so many poorly maintained, downright dangerous piles of rusted shit on the road.
I want my car to be smart enough to stay a minimum of 500 yards from any piece of shit car.
An easier, more practical use, would be tailing someone - following another car (not spy shit, like Jim following Sue through some city he's not familiar with). You could tell your car "Hey, dont let me lose that blue hyundai", or some such.
They've got plenty of funding, the whole "scientific study article" is little more than a press release for a "reduced emissions" phone from some german company.
Thats how pcs (at least windows) stores date/times. The whole number is the number of days since whatever beginning date they picked (something in the 70s), and the fraction is the time of day. .5 is noon, .75 is 8 PM..
Of course, it then makes what we know as "an hour" an irrational ~0.0416666666 and a minute ~0.006944444 which can be bothersome since giving an "O'Clock" will almost always involve rounding up or down. 32 bits is always enough to round to the right second, so it's not that big a deal.
FOREVERMORE
what about people born on Feb 29th? They can't tell people they're only 10 when they've lived 40 years.
This is about the hundredth project of it's kind that I've seen since linux' infancy.
Good luck to it. I'd love see a "works with linux" stamp, and have distro choice be completely irrelevant.
It's absolutely necessary if linux is to go anywhere worth going commercially.
Umm, it would be exact because the algorithm to copy would be:
copy(file1, file2)
while (md5 of file1 != md5 of file2) { try again }
You should be verifying your backups no matter what the storage medium is.
DNA is AFAIK, much more "stable" than photoreactive dyes or magnetic films. Crocodiles have had the same DNA for billions of years, how long will your CD-R last?
Their photo inks are (claim to be at least) water resistant when dried.
I guess it depends what you want them for. I just want to label them myself, and eliminate the hassle of trying to write legibly on my archive discs with a Sharpie marker. I don't plan on getting them wet, except the pr0n ones.
I heard that you can slap one of those clear plastic "disc shield" things that prevent scratches on the label side of the disk if you want the label to be more durable.
I worked with a thermal transfer mylar label printer in an industrial setting a few years back. Unless things have changed, the replacement "ribbons" for those things were crazy expensive. The labels actually wound up costing about a buck each after printing. It was necessary in a factory setting, since the labels were pretty much impervious to all the various fluids that would get spilled on them.
I thought "Japanese language school" meant a school that was taught in Japanese, for non-english speaking Japanese living over here.
I guess it could be a school for teaching the Japanese language.
I'd recommend the submitter first take a few courses in effective communication skills.
But then, those who can, do.. Those who cant, teach.
Make sure you instar rinux on arr the computars, kekekekekekeke
Forget Excel, think about all the Access, FoxPro, or Delphi databases/apps out there.
The only person in our company who could switch to linux would be the front receptionist. And she'd need to dual boot so she can still do all the FedEx stuff.
How about a series of 12 volume sets entitled "How to burn a DVD", "How to print a photo", etc?
From wikipedia (plenty more info, google for yourself).
Professor Teuku Jacob, chief paleontologist of the Indonesian Gajah Mada University and other scientists reportedly disagree with the placement of the new finds into a new species of Homo. "It is a sub-species of Homo sapiens classified under the Austrolomelanesid race," he said. He will attempt to prove that the find is from a 25-30 year-old omnivorous subspecies of H. sapiens, and not a 30-year-old female of a new species. He is convinced that the small skull is that of a mentally defective human.
Some scientists reportedly believe the skeleton found may be of a male and not a female and the subject may have been suffering from the disease microcephaly. When interviewed on the Australian television program Lateline, Professor Roberts reportedly conceded that the skeleton may be that of a male rather than a female but he strenuously maintained the fossil is of a new species.
There you have it, many think it was a retarded/deformed member of an already discovered species, not evidence of a "race of hobbits".
Just like all these fantastic discoveries, everyone except the discoverer himself thinks it's bullshit. But of course "remains of ancient retarded midget discovered" doesn't make a very good soundbite.
This book is full of information anyone thinking of making "the switch" should study on. Definately the "linux bible", IMO.
It's not all apt-get and tux racer.