I love open source very much, but Open Source Initiative... Get a different acronym or don't abreviate, I don't know many techs that wont get confused or not think about the OSI model when they hear OSI.
Perhaps since 'free' is number 1 of your definition of open source, perhaps the 'FOSI'
Something tells me that this "Hacker OS" would probably get you a hand up your ass and then sent straight to gitmo.
I highly recommend putting windows 2000 or something as your first partition, change the background to puppies, and install a bunch of spyware, leave it on overnight, it will do the job of making it look like it is really used.
I used to be a tech at a conference center where very large companies' executives met.
It allowed me an interesting perspective, (imagine the many British period pieces you see where the nobility is carrying on their conversations in front of "The help" completely unaffected by their presence.) The tech fixing their laptop invisible to them in every way. Even if they are 1 foot away from them working on their laptop or wiring them up with a lav its like you aren't even in the room. (How you can ignore the person rummaging through your shirt and pockets is a mystery to me)
(This was the second favorite conversation I overheard there, it was carried on between two executives, right in front of me, while I was working on the microphones.)
"Everyone always thinks the scientists lead the way discovering cures and shit, but thats B.S., really we have marketing research what people are the most insecure of, what we can make the most money in treating, and then we tell the scientists to work on fixing it" (the conversation continued about what marketing looks for, wealthy and expanding demographics with certain ailments, tracking what well insured baby boomers are the most insecure of, and all the trivial things you can make a pill for, and the naivety and lack of business smarts of their scientists.) This isn't revolutionary I'm sure, but this kind of candor shocked me, These people really are as evil as people say.
(My favorite conversation were two executives talking about how they were "pumping and dumping" their own companies, firing and outsourcing as many people as they can to get short term profits up, get better bargaining power with "results" on their side, with no investments for even a few years in the future, and how great their parachute packages are. (It was a conference of executives on why CEOs are the unsung underpaid employees at a company, and about the wonders of outsourcing everything.)
...If you feel you are dating yourself with buying anything with the words 'DVD' in the name I feel really old.
Try paying hundreds of dollars for a CD Drive (not burner) or hundreds of dollars for a huge (in terms of data storage!) floppy drive that wasn't even 1.44 MB (Whats even worse is when you adjust the numbers for inflation)
I remember reading a Ben Franklin quote, written before the revolution, the gist of which was "We will not rest until our letters can arrive at their destinations unread, with their seals intact" Thats not the quote, If anyone has this quote, or knows the quote, or knows if this was incorrectly attributed to him I would love to know it, its a perfect quote for any email wiretapping debate.
No need to wait a few more years, A computer with a 10 gig hard drive would have been a ~98 era P2 computer, If you go to St Vincents, or any other big thrift store you can probably find a much better computer (Pentium 3 even) with a monitor for around 20.
And if you are lucky some city dumps have a pile of E waste that anyone can salvage from for free. its great for finding old replacement and backup parts. Most of the computers being thrown away now are in the 1gtz+ range with 20-40 gig hard drives loaded with un-wiped personal data, if you are into that sort of thing.
Anyone remember digging around the dark side of the internet (Pre-p2p) scouring virus ridden german warez sites for hours trying to find a handful of roms while fighting to keep the porn popups away?
No I'm sure everyone here somehow managed to know about all the Usenet groups and all the private IRC and FTP sites and never had to do that.
Obviously the vehicle has an engine or some other means of power generation, this is merely a system for quickly expending and recalling energy, not a perpetual motion machine.
Those are only for cleaning up an analogue picture, They are receiving 100% of the digital picture they send, the problem is the picture they send is digital crap. These problems described cannot be caused by a bad signal (the signal was fine) these are encoding issues stemming from the cable company.
"Digital Quality" can mean HD-DVD or digital can mean a postage stamp sized real media stream.
In my experience it seems like they want to fit 15 HD channels in the space one analog channel.
A friend got an HD TV, and it looked real bad, so the first thing I did was check all their connections to make sure they were really running HD the whole way, The cable company setup their HD receiver to a giant HD plasma display, over one composite cable. after a search for a few more RCAs to switch him over to component he was running HD but the picture looked even worse. All I did was sharpen the suck in 720p.
It had digital artifacts that reminded me of Real Media movies, on a 56k modem, back in 2000. When people blinked or their mouths moved the shape of their face updated, but the texture stayed the same, very unsettling. Every reporter had a fuzz around their head that looked like a swarm of gnats flying around them, if the camera moved the whole picture took a seccond to update, and at times of high motion the scroll on the bottom became gibberish with lines overlapping lines.
Admittedly it was HD, in times of low/no motion it was a real 720p picture. I'm hoping this is just an encoding error on this providers part and not representative of a trend in digital cable.
Your experience is not universal, Many schools do not offer such a course. I wish they all did.
Just explaining to someone what credit card debt means, in real dollars would be insanely helpfull to thousands and thousands of young people who go to college and start using a credit card like free money, hiding it from their father's as long as possible.
Of course the credit card companies prey on those with student loans in particular since they know there is a very good chance of both huge racked up interest and a father or mother who will "make all the bad things go away, just this once"
Yes people buy non-exclusives, but sadly most "normal" people wont hear about red-ring issues, so that wont really be a factor, the only real factor this xmas is which of the two is cheaper, So we will see how that price war goes down.
Though on this issue of Call of Duty, that wont really sell many consoles, just look at COD3 for 360, 1.6 million copies sold, that really wont move consoles. http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=2966
Assassin's Creed and GTA are the only cross platform games that look like they could sell more than 10 million with ease at the moment.
The Dreamcast was one of the greatest, fun consoles created, in its brief run it boasts more solid fun games than most consoles ever get in their first two years.
Don't start using the Dreamcast as fodder for your console war, May the departed rest in piece
(and regardless, if you really need to say these things why not compare it to a truly bad console like the Saturn or the 3D0)
Also, looking up some of the sales statistics for the game franchises you listed, None were really "Console Sellers" They sold well, and were by no means failures, But for example, no Rachet and Clank game has sold 3 million copies. Thats not a console seller, thats a solid game.
Console Sellers like Mario, Halo, or GTA, which sold 11, 8, and 12 Million respectively are in a class of their own.
The games you listed compare more to things like Paper Mario and Crackdown. Good high selling games that are fun to play on a system, but they don't move units.
I forgot about little big planet, that one will probably sell quite a few consoles if it gets marketed properly because it hits a different demographic well, Hell, its the game that makes me want to get a ps3.
The PS3 is in desperate need of a blockbuster at the moment, Microsoft has Halo, Nintendo has Mario, and PS3 (while not a Sony creation) has GTA.
Without Grand Theft Auto what killer blockbuster games do they have this X-mas? (I'm not talking "It's a good game with high review scores" I'm talking Buy the system, Pre-order the game, Million Seller right away kind of games)
...We really need a geek oversight committee, first a test you have to pass similar to the bar, where you become certified in various geek doctrines, then a nice laminated card, so you can be a card carrying star wars/programming geek (or whatever) and a review board to revoke people's license based on stupid comments like the GP's
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I love open source very much, but Open Source Initiative... Get a different acronym or don't abreviate, I don't know many techs that wont get confused or not think about the OSI model when they hear OSI.
Perhaps since 'free' is number 1 of your definition of open source, perhaps the 'FOSI'
I highly recommend putting windows 2000 or something as your first partition, change the background to puppies, and install a bunch of spyware, leave it on overnight, it will do the job of making it look like it is really used.
Just a cursory glance at one pharma website reveals the word "Ethical" was used 59 times and makes many references to the incredible amount of research they do for curing diseases, Their "Responsibility" which 1/7th of the site is dedicated to. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=a5c&q=site%3Apfizer.com+ethical&btnG=Search
I used to be a tech at a conference center where very large companies' executives met.
It allowed me an interesting perspective, (imagine the many British period pieces you see where the nobility is carrying on their conversations in front of "The help" completely unaffected by their presence.) The tech fixing their laptop invisible to them in every way. Even if they are 1 foot away from them working on their laptop or wiring them up with a lav its like you aren't even in the room. (How you can ignore the person rummaging through your shirt and pockets is a mystery to me)
(This was the second favorite conversation I overheard there, it was carried on between two executives, right in front of me, while I was working on the microphones.)
"Everyone always thinks the scientists lead the way discovering cures and shit, but thats B.S., really we have marketing research what people are the most insecure of, what we can make the most money in treating, and then we tell the scientists to work on fixing it" (the conversation continued about what marketing looks for, wealthy and expanding demographics with certain ailments, tracking what well insured baby boomers are the most insecure of, and all the trivial things you can make a pill for, and the naivety and lack of business smarts of their scientists.) This isn't revolutionary I'm sure, but this kind of candor shocked me, These people really are as evil as people say.
(My favorite conversation were two executives talking about how they were "pumping and dumping" their own companies, firing and outsourcing as many people as they can to get short term profits up, get better bargaining power with "results" on their side, with no investments for even a few years in the future, and how great their parachute packages are. (It was a conference of executives on why CEOs are the unsung underpaid employees at a company, and about the wonders of outsourcing everything.)
...If you feel you are dating yourself with buying anything with the words 'DVD' in the name I feel really old.
Try paying hundreds of dollars for a CD Drive (not burner) or hundreds of dollars for a huge (in terms of data storage!) floppy drive that wasn't even 1.44 MB (Whats even worse is when you adjust the numbers for inflation)
I remember reading a Ben Franklin quote, written before the revolution, the gist of which was "We will not rest until our letters can arrive at their destinations unread, with their seals intact" Thats not the quote, If anyone has this quote, or knows the quote, or knows if this was incorrectly attributed to him I would love to know it, its a perfect quote for any email wiretapping debate.
You obviously don't have an HD TV.
The best quality HD is all OTA
No need to wait a few more years, A computer with a 10 gig hard drive would have been a ~98 era P2 computer, If you go to St Vincents, or any other big thrift store you can probably find a much better computer (Pentium 3 even) with a monitor for around 20.
And if you are lucky some city dumps have a pile of E waste that anyone can salvage from for free. its great for finding old replacement and backup parts. Most of the computers being thrown away now are in the 1gtz+ range with 20-40 gig hard drives loaded with un-wiped personal data, if you are into that sort of thing.
http://www.google.com/search?sID=50eccc6e2b0d307d5e8a40fb296f6171&pQ=maglev+power+consumption&libr=81ad859f5795b8f8018f2c4405ee1290&btnI&abc=a2735179cb176f5e0c64262a7f03d515&q=slashdot.org&ororo=f3789b3c1be47758203f9e8a4d8c6a2a
Could someone explain to me how this URL works like it does? Is it just submitting an "I'm feeling lucky" for me, or is it doing something else?
It seems that all that is necessary is the code I left here... http://www.google.com/search?source=&q=test&btnI&q=slashdot.org is the rest just obfuscation or does it do something else I am unaware of
I'm sure this is really old stuff, But I have never seen it before (thankfully my PSP has images disabled)
Anyone remember digging around the dark side of the internet (Pre-p2p) scouring virus ridden german warez sites for hours trying to find a handful of roms while fighting to keep the porn popups away? No I'm sure everyone here somehow managed to know about all the Usenet groups and all the private IRC and FTP sites and never had to do that.
You mean something like a 279 dollar network card with a big knife blade K for a heat sink http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/14/0,1425,sz=1&i=143965,00.jpg
That actually increases ping times. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2037166,00.asp
Obviously the vehicle has an engine or some other means of power generation, this is merely a system for quickly expending and recalling energy, not a perpetual motion machine.
Those are only for cleaning up an analogue picture, They are receiving 100% of the digital picture they send, the problem is the picture they send is digital crap. These problems described cannot be caused by a bad signal (the signal was fine) these are encoding issues stemming from the cable company.
"Digital Quality" can mean HD-DVD or digital can mean a postage stamp sized real media stream.
In my experience it seems like they want to fit 15 HD channels in the space one analog channel.
A friend got an HD TV, and it looked real bad, so the first thing I did was check all their connections to make sure they were really running HD the whole way, The cable company setup their HD receiver to a giant HD plasma display, over one composite cable. after a search for a few more RCAs to switch him over to component he was running HD but the picture looked even worse. All I did was sharpen the suck in 720p.
It had digital artifacts that reminded me of Real Media movies, on a 56k modem, back in 2000. When people blinked or their mouths moved the shape of their face updated, but the texture stayed the same, very unsettling. Every reporter had a fuzz around their head that looked like a swarm of gnats flying around them, if the camera moved the whole picture took a seccond to update, and at times of high motion the scroll on the bottom became gibberish with lines overlapping lines.
Admittedly it was HD, in times of low/no motion it was a real 720p picture. I'm hoping this is just an encoding error on this providers part and not representative of a trend in digital cable.
No I think you got that backwards Buy it now. $5 Shipping (UPS Ground): $1,999,999,995
Your experience is not universal, Many schools do not offer such a course. I wish they all did. Just explaining to someone what credit card debt means, in real dollars would be insanely helpfull to thousands and thousands of young people who go to college and start using a credit card like free money, hiding it from their father's as long as possible. Of course the credit card companies prey on those with student loans in particular since they know there is a very good chance of both huge racked up interest and a father or mother who will "make all the bad things go away, just this once"
Good idea, if we used any links from slashdot cute Japanese girls would be goatsed in their good bits.
Yes people buy non-exclusives, but sadly most "normal" people wont hear about red-ring issues, so that wont really be a factor, the only real factor this xmas is which of the two is cheaper, So we will see how that price war goes down.
Though on this issue of Call of Duty, that wont really sell many consoles, just look at COD3 for 360, 1.6 million copies sold, that really wont move consoles. http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=2966
Assassin's Creed and GTA are the only cross platform games that look like they could sell more than 10 million with ease at the moment.
Hey now!
The Dreamcast was one of the greatest, fun consoles created, in its brief run it boasts more solid fun games than most consoles ever get in their first two years.
Don't start using the Dreamcast as fodder for your console war, May the departed rest in piece
(and regardless, if you really need to say these things why not compare it to a truly bad console like the Saturn or the 3D0)
Also, looking up some of the sales statistics for the game franchises you listed, None were really "Console Sellers" They sold well, and were by no means failures, But for example, no Rachet and Clank game has sold 3 million copies. Thats not a console seller, thats a solid game.
Console Sellers like Mario, Halo, or GTA, which sold 11, 8, and 12 Million respectively are in a class of their own.
The games you listed compare more to things like Paper Mario and Crackdown. Good high selling games that are fun to play on a system, but they don't move units.
I forgot about little big planet, that one will probably sell quite a few consoles if it gets marketed properly because it hits a different demographic well, Hell, its the game that makes me want to get a ps3.
The PS3 is in desperate need of a blockbuster at the moment, Microsoft has Halo, Nintendo has Mario, and PS3 (while not a Sony creation) has GTA. Without Grand Theft Auto what killer blockbuster games do they have this X-mas? (I'm not talking "It's a good game with high review scores" I'm talking Buy the system, Pre-order the game, Million Seller right away kind of games)
I updated my synaptics driver and it works like a charm afterwards.
The circuit is already there, I tripped it a while ago, I was left with a very nice brick...
...We really need a geek oversight committee, first a test you have to pass similar to the bar, where you become certified in various geek doctrines, then a nice laminated card, so you can be a card carrying star wars/programming geek (or whatever) and a review board to revoke people's license based on stupid comments like the GP's