I'm not sure what you mean. If you mean count the words in a document, open a document, select [file][properties] and then select the "statistics" tab in the popup. You get word count, paragraph count.... 8 different counts in fact. This with OOo 1.0.2... I don't actually find this useful so I have no recollection whether prior versions did this.
Hold on here! Remember Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? KR was absolutely excellent in that flick. He just should have stuck with the spaced out surfer dude scripts - he's great at those!
And one must ask, if the human body produces 12000 BTU's per day (from the Powerade Ad before the movie - I did no other fact checking), is it more or less efficient to feed the human a sack of potatoes, have the energy burned chemically, and retrieve that through body heat, OR, would it be more efficient to just burn the potatoes (once dried) in a steam generating plant?
I did like the movie, but it is not going to make my alltime great list. As you point out, too much "car chase" crap. If I want that, I could rent that movie with the bus chase - what's it called? I never saw it.
Am I the only one who though Matrix Reloaded was long on car chases and short on story? Don't get me wrong, it blows the doors off junk like Steel Magnolias or such crap - but I would have preferred to see less action (not none, just not 60 mins worth) and more exploration.
I got the DLM running as well after a bunch of fiddling around, but I still feel like whining. I didn't have to do any fiddling around before. Plus, there are other ways they could have gone about preventing data mining, even up to including reasonable download limits. I'm just bitter, but perhaps I'll get over it.
Thank you for the mpg123 tip. I was wondering why my burning script suddenly quit working. Looks like its time to learn another program.
They require you to use their own proprietary DL manager now, which is designed to run on RH 6 and similar. Their suggestion to Linux users who couldn't get the thing to run on modern distributions was to downgrade! And no, you cannot use third party DL managers (until someone cracks the encryption they've gone to for linking to the downloadable songs).
Here's their most recent email:
Dear EMusic Customer,
In response to your email regarding issues you have
had with the new EMusic Linux Download Manager 2.0, we
are pleased to inform you that within the next few
days, we will be releasing a new version which
addresses many of the bugs that have been reported.
While we have fixed many of the bugs that were
reported, the versions have not changed their system
requirements and may not work on all flavors of Linux.
In the future, we plan to create new builds of the
Download Manager to be functional on other flavors of
Linux.
We apologize for any inconvenience the current Download
Manager may have caused you and appreciate your
patience as we address the issues in future versions
of the EMusic Linux DLM.
More information will be available early next week.
First off, instant bread in a bread machine doesn't count. The advantage of hippie parents: we grew our own wheat, ground it up on the back porch in small batches, (ok - so the mill was an electric "magic mill"), then kneaded and baked. The best bread ever, and completely irreproducable except by hand.
As for beer, I brewed my first batch in 1986 and at that time, it was a practically lost art. Finding supplies was hard, but since Vertmont had just upped the drinking age and I missed the grandfather clause by 3 months, I had no choice but pursue the higher knowledge. Glad I did too. Also, I'm glad it's become popular - a hedge against it getting lost again. I remember those summer days in the basement, Doors blaring, cracking open a home brew - nothing like it!
My personal thing is wood fired pottery kilns. I recently built an anagama kiln - firing lasts 5 days in my kiln and uses about 4 cords of wood. Cool thing was, I hooked up an old computer to some digital multimeters which were in turn hooked up to some thermocouples. Although my temperature reading was in milivolts, that was fine because I'm only interested in how the temperature is changing, not what the thermocouples read (they are notoriously inacurate anyway). The computer came into play so I could watch the temperature graph. It was like playing nintendo with fire.
Oh, and my computer was a pentium 133 I picked up for free. Seems the fitting box for a 1000 yo style of kiln. And the coolest part, I have the only english language translation of a book describing how to build these (I know it is so cause my girlfriend and I spent 4 months working on it - she translating and me turning Japanese-English into readable English).
I was an early abandoner of AOL - sometime in 1991 I think, 1992 at the latest (anyone remember Geoworks?). I remember switching over to VMS based Delphi (cause it was cheaper). Sometime around '93, Delphi started offering internet access for an extra charge. I tried it a few times but for the most part, it was really confusing to me. I finally signed up with a local ISP in 1995. It seems like ancient history almost, but that's only 8 yrs.
If a computer is 2yrs old, how many years is that human years? Seems that my internet time perception suffers a similar skew.
Modern art was invented by rich people to make poor people feel stupid.
Or something like that. It has been 16 years at least since I read Kurt Vonegut's "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater" in highschool, but I think that is a fair paraphrasing of a line in the book made after the city council spent 50 grand on a big green canvas with a stip of orange paint running down one side. Always struck me as quite funny... in a true way.
BS, some things are inherently dangerous. For example, chainsaws. To be effective, they must be sharp, and spin the chain fast. The utility of a chainsaw outweighs the danger.
Unlike a chainsaw, coffee is not inherently dangerous - it is only dangerous if improperly prepared. McDonalds repeatedly, and after being on notice of the danger, purposefully created a product that was very dangerous. It is important to comprehend that coffee, unlike most power tools, is not something one would presume to be inherently dangerous. Comparing coffee to powertools is amazingly off the mark.
This is just a cheap excuse to avoid digital distribution. Downloading the movies would be cooler, and more enviro.
It seems the polution comments are not getting modded up. Why? How many billions of these things are going to be produced? Where does plastic come from for the most part (hint - we just had a war over this stuff)? And recycling? Just how easy is it separate the thin metal film from the plastic? Besides that, if these things are reactive to air - the article mentions that they begin to expire as soon as their opened - that would suggest some sort of strong plastic/foil packaging.
People complain about lawyers twisting language but the whole "coffee burn case is frivolous" thing is utter bullshit. Imagine having all the skin on your dick burned off and killed leaving nothing but raw flesh. That is a 3d degree burn in the groin. Now imagine that this problem has happened over and over and over. Imagine that the company knew it was happening over and over and over. THAT is why the damages were high. Not because of a little boo boo - but because permanent and seriosly debilitating injury and excruciating pain. Oh yeah - and when the skin starts growing pack, it has to be cleaned. Imagine having your raw skinless dick debrided daily.
In my experience, "looking busy" is very helpful. As a former wage slave in a state law office, I became exceptionally aware of this. I'm not talking about slacking off either. Sometimes, a problem would simply require thinking time. People who do their thinking while scrawling a pencil across a legal pad, are "busy". People who do it while (blindly) staring out the window, are slackers - never mind that the work is the thought process itself.
My solution, was to open up a case in Westlaw, and the (blindly) stare at it while doing my thinking. I didn't actually work more than I would have just sitting in my chair looking spaced out. In truth, I was was probably less productive because of scroll screen interuptions - but at least I could get my thinking done without the "watcha doin?" interruption. Looking busy is a life skill we all learn to one degree or another.
Hell - people believe in a lot of religions. At least this one has special effects you can actually see... something other religions fail at miserably. I mean it's all fiction, might as well pick one that comes with a movie.
If I was gonna pick though, I'd want something Romulan. Romulan chicks are hot!
Get this:
The department has on its faculty a professor emeritus named Peter Usher whose work on radio-selected quasars the FTP site hosted. The site also had a copy of an a capella song performed by astronomers about the Swift gamma ray satellite, which Penn State helped to design.
That kind of search could only be termed "shotgun".
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Hmmm ... I sense a movie reference which I don't understand. Name that movie - I'm sure I missed it!
I'm on way down to the pawn shop for a nice double barrelled shotgun. This dog needs a shootin'
I'm not sure what you mean. If you mean count the words in a document, open a document, select [file][properties] and then select the "statistics" tab in the popup. You get word count, paragraph count
Then you go and chmod 666 some file
Hold on here! Remember Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? KR was absolutely excellent in that flick. He just should have stuck with the spaced out surfer dude scripts - he's great at those!
And one must ask, if the human body produces 12000 BTU's per day (from the Powerade Ad before the movie - I did no other fact checking), is it more or less efficient to feed the human a sack of potatoes, have the energy burned chemically, and retrieve that through body heat, OR, would it be more efficient to just burn the potatoes (once dried) in a steam generating plant?
I did like the movie, but it is not going to make my alltime great list. As you point out, too much "car chase" crap. If I want that, I could rent that movie with the bus chase - what's it called? I never saw it.
Am I the only one who though Matrix Reloaded was long on car chases and short on story? Don't get me wrong, it blows the doors off junk like Steel Magnolias or such crap - but I would have preferred to see less action (not none, just not 60 mins worth) and more exploration.
I got the DLM running as well after a bunch of fiddling around, but I still feel like whining. I didn't have to do any fiddling around before. Plus, there are other ways they could have gone about preventing data mining, even up to including reasonable download limits. I'm just bitter, but perhaps I'll get over it.
Thank you for the mpg123 tip. I was wondering why my burning script suddenly quit working. Looks like its time to learn another program.
They require you to use their own proprietary DL manager now, which is designed to run on RH 6 and similar. Their suggestion to Linux users who couldn't get the thing to run on modern distributions was to downgrade! And no, you cannot use third party DL managers (until someone cracks the encryption they've gone to for linking to the downloadable songs).
Here's their most recent email:
Dear EMusic Customer,
In response to your email regarding issues you have had with the new EMusic Linux Download Manager 2.0, we are pleased to inform you that within the next few days, we will be releasing a new version which addresses many of the bugs that have been reported. While we have fixed many of the bugs that were reported, the versions have not changed their system requirements and may not work on all flavors of Linux. In the future, we plan to create new builds of the Download Manager to be functional on other flavors of Linux.
We apologize for any inconvenience the current Download Manager may have caused you and appreciate your patience as we address the issues in future versions of the EMusic Linux DLM.
More information will be available early next week.
Regards,
EMusic Support
Wow - complete misuse of modding to call this a troll!
The answer is yes and potentially.
First off, instant bread in a bread machine doesn't count. The advantage of hippie parents: we grew our own wheat, ground it up on the back porch in small batches, (ok - so the mill was an electric "magic mill"), then kneaded and baked. The best bread ever, and completely irreproducable except by hand.
As for beer, I brewed my first batch in 1986 and at that time, it was a practically lost art. Finding supplies was hard, but since Vertmont had just upped the drinking age and I missed the grandfather clause by 3 months, I had no choice but pursue the higher knowledge. Glad I did too. Also, I'm glad it's become popular - a hedge against it getting lost again. I remember those summer days in the basement, Doors blaring, cracking open a home brew - nothing like it!
My personal thing is wood fired pottery kilns. I recently built an anagama kiln - firing lasts 5 days in my kiln and uses about 4 cords of wood. Cool thing was, I hooked up an old computer to some digital multimeters which were in turn hooked up to some thermocouples. Although my temperature reading was in milivolts, that was fine because I'm only interested in how the temperature is changing, not what the thermocouples read (they are notoriously inacurate anyway). The computer came into play so I could watch the temperature graph. It was like playing nintendo with fire.
BTW, these kilns are a pyromaniac's dream come true. Mine isn't this huge.
Oh, and my computer was a pentium 133 I picked up for free. Seems the fitting box for a 1000 yo style of kiln. And the coolest part, I have the only english language translation of a book describing how to build these (I know it is so cause my girlfriend and I spent 4 months working on it - she translating and me turning Japanese-English into readable English).
Forget that. I want a job at SCO!!! Don't you all?
Only 1400 lbs per bale, to be sold to the highest bidder. So....
buy one
sell it by the pound on ebay
The company shredding these is called Recall Secure Destruction. Perhaps it is from this or this. The name graphics are the same.
I was an early abandoner of AOL - sometime in 1991 I think, 1992 at the latest (anyone remember Geoworks?). I remember switching over to VMS based Delphi (cause it was cheaper). Sometime around '93, Delphi started offering internet access for an extra charge. I tried it a few times but for the most part, it was really confusing to me. I finally signed up with a local ISP in 1995. It seems like ancient history almost, but that's only 8 yrs.
If a computer is 2yrs old, how many years is that human years? Seems that my internet time perception suffers a similar skew.
Modern art was invented by rich people to make poor people feel stupid.
Or something like that. It has been 16 years at least since I read Kurt Vonegut's "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater" in highschool, but I think that is a fair paraphrasing of a line in the book made after the city council spent 50 grand on a big green canvas with a stip of orange paint running down one side. Always struck me as quite funny
BS, some things are inherently dangerous. For example, chainsaws. To be effective, they must be sharp, and spin the chain fast. The utility of a chainsaw outweighs the danger.
Unlike a chainsaw, coffee is not inherently dangerous - it is only dangerous if improperly prepared. McDonalds repeatedly, and after being on notice of the danger, purposefully created a product that was very dangerous. It is important to comprehend that coffee, unlike most power tools, is not something one would presume to be inherently dangerous. Comparing coffee to powertools is amazingly off the mark.
This is just a cheap excuse to avoid digital distribution. Downloading the movies would be cooler, and more enviro.
It seems the polution comments are not getting modded up. Why? How many billions of these things are going to be produced? Where does plastic come from for the most part (hint - we just had a war over this stuff)? And recycling? Just how easy is it separate the thin metal film from the plastic? Besides that, if these things are reactive to air - the article mentions that they begin to expire as soon as their opened - that would suggest some sort of strong plastic/foil packaging.
Scrap the crap - just put it up for download.
People complain about lawyers twisting language but the whole "coffee burn case is frivolous" thing is utter bullshit. Imagine having all the skin on your dick burned off and killed leaving nothing but raw flesh. That is a 3d degree burn in the groin. Now imagine that this problem has happened over and over and over. Imagine that the company knew it was happening over and over and over. THAT is why the damages were high. Not because of a little boo boo - but because permanent and seriosly debilitating injury and excruciating pain. Oh yeah - and when the skin starts growing pack, it has to be cleaned. Imagine having your raw skinless dick debrided daily.
In my experience, "looking busy" is very helpful. As a former wage slave in a state law office, I became exceptionally aware of this. I'm not talking about slacking off either. Sometimes, a problem would simply require thinking time. People who do their thinking while scrawling a pencil across a legal pad, are "busy". People who do it while (blindly) staring out the window, are slackers - never mind that the work is the thought process itself.
My solution, was to open up a case in Westlaw, and the (blindly) stare at it while doing my thinking. I didn't actually work more than I would have just sitting in my chair looking spaced out. In truth, I was was probably less productive because of scroll screen interuptions - but at least I could get my thinking done without the "watcha doin?" interruption. Looking busy is a life skill we all learn to one degree or another.
Well, there is hope for you ... unless you know off the top of your head just which season it was in which she returned from the dead.
If you are interested in athiesm, here's a better definition.
Starship counselors are OK, but first season security officers who come back to life as romulans are WAY hotter! ;-)
Hell - people believe in a lot of religions. At least this one has special effects you can actually see ... something other religions fail at miserably. I mean it's all fiction, might as well pick one that comes with a movie.
If I was gonna pick though, I'd want something Romulan. Romulan chicks are hot!
Get this: The department has on its faculty a professor emeritus named Peter Usher whose work on radio-selected quasars the FTP site hosted. The site also had a copy of an a capella song performed by astronomers about the Swift gamma ray satellite, which Penn State helped to design.
That kind of search could only be termed "shotgun".