Something similar is mentioned in Starship Troopers. Biting down opens different commlinks based on which side of your mouth you use. Or something like that, I can't remember exactly how that worked.
Don't know for sure, but isn't 1080i 1920x1080? All the HD channels I get are 1080i 16x9 format, so I always just assumed it was 1920x1080. I don't see how it would be anything different. Can someone with more info please elaborate? The first page of Google's results are vague and I'm incapable of clicking any further.
Dude, I totally hear what you're saying. I know it's futile, but I still believe that if enough people stop putting up with this bullshit, companies will start to pay attention. Start giving people Linux preinstalled on +10% of computers and everything would be fantastically different. If they started doing that, there would be better support for graphics, ACPI, no more stupid winmodems, and so forth. They'd have to try and help better the code and their hardware to meet the plug and play demand that people are used to on Windows. I've found that I've had to wrestle with crap in Windows a lot less than with Linux, especially on laptops (fuck you, Vaio). I've had probably twenty different laptops in the past decade and as they get more complicated, the harder they are to get fully working in either environment. I haven't put Windows on a laptop in ages. The last time I used it on a portable was on my dad's Dell running win2k. Did I have a point here? Oh, yeah. Everyone's always talking about the chicken and the egg critical mass bullshit whenever they bring up adopting open source stuff. It falls on the manufacturers to start offering Linux (or whatever) as a standard reduced price option on all their computers. And fuck all that shit about playing nice with windows. How many regular home users use all that workgroup crap? Unless there's one of us nerds around, there aren't any fileservers, terminals, printservers, subnets, nodes, backups, etc. There are usually a couple of PCs sharing a broadband connection via a simple NAT device. So, everyone wins because my rant declares it so. Now I'm afraid I need to sleep as Ganon's minions have kicked my ass yet again. Fuck you, Ganon.
Just get one of these if you don't want to pay it. Don't worry, I ain't affiliated. I go to pawn shops and scrounge around for a crappy lappy and throw on whatever flavor I'm interested at the time. Then I wind up giving them away because they're slow and start pissing me off.
Kudos to you for helping them with the open source stuff. I didn't know that when I purchased mine in '03 (had it been released back in 11/03?). I took a gander at their code for NSM and the firmware and tinkered here and there, but nothing big. I think it's fucking awesome that they released the source. It would be fun to do this now, but I sold my rig to a co-worker and got an iPod just last month. Yeah, I sold out, blah blah, but I couldn't deal with walking to work everyday with that brick in my pocket anymore. However, in the car it was perfect. It was my little droid co-pilot. Now, if I could only hack it to playback holograms of princesses in distress...
Currently at NASA HQ: "Hold on, we're getting something here. All...these...worlds...are...a...fanta...don't...y ou...wanta...fanta? Fanta? What the hell is this?"
I learned to drive stick from video games. Thank you, Cruisin USA. That's not even close to MS, but just wanted to back you up on the whole usefull skill thing.
You're giving him more credit than is due. His kernel would never have taken off if not for the GPL. In that case I would argue that rms and his lawyer friend created the model. That said, Linus for #1.
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If 3PO never had his memory wiped, then he would have remembered his origins on Tatooine in Episode IV. I'll guess he was present when the twins were separated, hence the need for a complete memory wipe. Also, if someone's capable of being fluent in over six millions forms of communication, perhaps the total storage space available for life data is so small that it's routinely replaced with new, more relevant data?
I've had a Neuros for the past year. While I agree that it kicks total ass, the only problem with it is the size. It's a fucking brick and a pain in the ass to carry around on my daily walk to work. It's perfect for the car, but I'm switching to an iPod next week. I'm willing to forego the massive features for the form factor.
IBM? Support? Ha! My company (a large multinational financial corp) made the mistake of outsourcing all the technologies through IBM. Some of the stuff works, but their websphere Host-On-Demand system for terminal emulation is crap. The support angle of it is absolutely awful. I have a job thanks to their miserable support of anything they don't provide to us at astronomical costs. My team supports everything they don't. Their policy is, "If we didn't provide it then 1) we don't give a damn about it, and 2) we won't even attempt to help you integrate it into the environment we provided for you." Good luck. It took us years of badgering them before they would clear the way for installling Apache on a workstation to provide automatic updates of image processing. And on top of that, they didn't even try to give us a solution - it was just plain no. When we want to do something now, we just do it. Then hell with 'em. If you can wean your company off of their teat, then my hat is not only off to you, but also covered in mustard as I will be happy to eat it.
We at the Vet Pathobiology Lab were always amazed at the speed with which she was able to perform electrophoresis. Anyone who can do a complete isolation and analysis in 45 minutes is a phenomenal scientist, in my book at least.
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Something similar is mentioned in Starship Troopers. Biting down opens different commlinks based on which side of your mouth you use. Or something like that, I can't remember exactly how that worked.
I'd want to watch it. The founder of the Avengers and creater of Ultron? Who wouldn't want to watch that? Plus, I always thought the Wasp was hot.
Make sure Roger Corman is available...to be locked far, far away from these monies.
On backing up the shuttle, eight trash cans and a tabby were trampled. I blame the lipstick.
omfg phantom is 1.32012536x faster than both of those so they are obviously teh sux0rtz d00d wtf
How old are you? It's originally from Cool Hand Luke.
Don't know for sure, but isn't 1080i 1920x1080? All the HD channels I get are 1080i 16x9 format, so I always just assumed it was 1920x1080. I don't see how it would be anything different. Can someone with more info please elaborate? The first page of Google's results are vague and I'm incapable of clicking any further.
Dude, I totally hear what you're saying. I know it's futile, but I still believe that if enough people stop putting up with this bullshit, companies will start to pay attention. Start giving people Linux preinstalled on +10% of computers and everything would be fantastically different. If they started doing that, there would be better support for graphics, ACPI, no more stupid winmodems, and so forth. They'd have to try and help better the code and their hardware to meet the plug and play demand that people are used to on Windows. I've found that I've had to wrestle with crap in Windows a lot less than with Linux, especially on laptops (fuck you, Vaio). I've had probably twenty different laptops in the past decade and as they get more complicated, the harder they are to get fully working in either environment. I haven't put Windows on a laptop in ages. The last time I used it on a portable was on my dad's Dell running win2k. Did I have a point here? Oh, yeah. Everyone's always talking about the chicken and the egg critical mass bullshit whenever they bring up adopting open source stuff. It falls on the manufacturers to start offering Linux (or whatever) as a standard reduced price option on all their computers. And fuck all that shit about playing nice with windows. How many regular home users use all that workgroup crap? Unless there's one of us nerds around, there aren't any fileservers, terminals, printservers, subnets, nodes, backups, etc. There are usually a couple of PCs sharing a broadband connection via a simple NAT device. So, everyone wins because my rant declares it so. Now I'm afraid I need to sleep as Ganon's minions have kicked my ass yet again. Fuck you, Ganon.
Just get one of these if you don't want to pay it. Don't worry, I ain't affiliated. I go to pawn shops and scrounge around for a crappy lappy and throw on whatever flavor I'm interested at the time. Then I wind up giving them away because they're slow and start pissing me off.
You build your own laptops? There are only a few vendors out there that offer lappies w/o the MS tax.
Kudos to you for helping them with the open source stuff. I didn't know that when I purchased mine in '03 (had it been released back in 11/03?). I took a gander at their code for NSM and the firmware and tinkered here and there, but nothing big. I think it's fucking awesome that they released the source. It would be fun to do this now, but I sold my rig to a co-worker and got an iPod just last month. Yeah, I sold out, blah blah, but I couldn't deal with walking to work everyday with that brick in my pocket anymore. However, in the car it was perfect. It was my little droid co-pilot. Now, if I could only hack it to playback holograms of princesses in distress...
Oh god I hope AA isn't required. I'm incapable of editing video without my bitter lager.
Currently at NASA HQ: "Hold on, we're getting something here. All...these...worlds...are...a...fanta...don't...y ou...wanta...fanta? Fanta? What the hell is this?"
No. They were placebo bees.
Yeah, but have you ever watched it...on weed?
I learned to drive stick from video games. Thank you, Cruisin USA. That's not even close to MS, but just wanted to back you up on the whole usefull skill thing.
You're giving him more credit than is due. His kernel would never have taken off if not for the GPL. In that case I would argue that rms and his lawyer friend created the model. That said, Linus for #1.
If 3PO never had his memory wiped, then he would have remembered his origins on Tatooine in Episode IV. I'll guess he was present when the twins were separated, hence the need for a complete memory wipe. Also, if someone's capable of being fluent in over six millions forms of communication, perhaps the total storage space available for life data is so small that it's routinely replaced with new, more relevant data?
This post will sink faster than a lead zeppelin.
I've had a Neuros for the past year. While I agree that it kicks total ass, the only problem with it is the size. It's a fucking brick and a pain in the ass to carry around on my daily walk to work. It's perfect for the car, but I'm switching to an iPod next week. I'm willing to forego the massive features for the form factor.
Hmmmm, not sure, but wouldn't that be similar to someone using AOL's mail client to send an MP3?
Your comparisons are insightful, indeed. But you forget that THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!
*runs screaming into net ops room, kitana drawn...*
Like this iDol?
IBM? Support? Ha! My company (a large multinational financial corp) made the mistake of outsourcing all the technologies through IBM. Some of the stuff works, but their websphere Host-On-Demand system for terminal emulation is crap. The support angle of it is absolutely awful. I have a job thanks to their miserable support of anything they don't provide to us at astronomical costs. My team supports everything they don't. Their policy is, "If we didn't provide it then 1) we don't give a damn about it, and 2) we won't even attempt to help you integrate it into the environment we provided for you." Good luck. It took us years of badgering them before they would clear the way for installling Apache on a workstation to provide automatic updates of image processing. And on top of that, they didn't even try to give us a solution - it was just plain no. When we want to do something now, we just do it. Then hell with 'em. If you can wean your company off of their teat, then my hat is not only off to you, but also covered in mustard as I will be happy to eat it.
We at the Vet Pathobiology Lab were always amazed at the speed with which she was able to perform electrophoresis. Anyone who can do a complete isolation and analysis in 45 minutes is a phenomenal scientist, in my book at least.