Fantastic: We killed the wolf, we killed the coyote, and now we're creating a device to reduce the number of the deer's last remaining predator.
Note, hunting on the road is not good. Roads attract people.
What does hunting on the road from your running vehicle with the headlights blinding the animal have to do with wolves? Do you mind if fishermen use depth charges near your beach? They would if you let them.
One year ago I bought a 32" Acer LCD TV. I thought, they make good laptops, lets try this... it has great specs and is so cheap (for at the time). But alas, I noticed how slow it turned on. And I noticed how slow it was to change channels. That was fine, but the visual artifacts and color banding was enough for me to take it back and learn what I was doing. I read AVS Forum and drove around town. Then I did it, I bought a $3500 TV the same size and guess what. It turns on fast, changes channes fast, and has no display bugs (even with SD yes).
So moral of story, if you are picky, you get what you pay for.
This just in:
NASA engineers have desided to stop global warming without more chemical experiments. They are going to put a semi-transparent sun shade in orbit around the sun. It will evenly block 30% of the suns rays from hitting the earth.
Says Pizpot, a Slashdot reader, "Why didn't I think of that"?
You seem to have never used a touch screen in your life. Allow me to explain: They are always poorly calibrated peices of shit due to the seperation between the display and the sensors.
Well then, how come the one at my orthdontist office works so good? It shows a list of patient names and you pick yours. The names are listed vertically in a slightly large font. It never gets my pick wrong. I go there every 2-4 weeks for the last 2 years.
Can you think of a better way for Google to withdraw $1.5 million dollars from its stocks? I bet the Youtube guys bribed them a billion to do the deal. So what if it is for nothing... a billion bucks is a billion bucks.
but they are not going to try and save $500 in hardware costs only to increase support costs by several times that
We would rather not get confused and have two image cds to keep track of. That would double our blank cd cost by %100. And cd storage space would be double to. Also, it sounds better if we try to standardise things because standards are good. Look, we had lunch with the sales rep... it all makes sense. And oh yeah, we are turning off "zip" attachments for email too. Zip files can contain viruses.
It is also ok with me if the program that Amazon uses to log my searches is upgraded now and then to correct mistakes. Like the time, it confused your IP address with that guy from Fargo, who searched for bombs, anthrax and big shoes with false heels. Like heck it is.
Another suburban family morning Grandmother screaming at the wall
We have to shout above the din of our rice crispies We can't hear anything at all Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration But we all know her suicides are fake Daddy only stares into the distance There's only so much more that he can take Many miles away Something crawls from the slime At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake
Another industrial ugly morning Tha factory belches filth into the sky He walks unhindered through the picket lines today He doesn't think to wonder why The secretaries pout and preen like cheap tarts in a red light street But all he ever thinks to do is watch And every so called meeting with his so called superior Is a humiliating kick in the crotch Many miles away Something crawls to the surface Of a dark Scottish loch
Another working day has ended Only the rush hour hell to face Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes Contestants in a suicidal race Daddy crips the wheel and stares alone into the distance He knows that something somewhere has to break He sees the family home now looming in his headlights The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache Many miles away There's a shadow on the door Of a cottage on the shore Of a dark Scottish lake
Many miles away Many miles away Many miles away Many miles away Many miles away...
Hey pizpot, use the "Plain Old Text" input type and it will already do this for you. It also allows HTML tags in the "Plain Old Text" posting format.
Cool, I missed that by not looking in the drop box. All this time I though something was loopy. Makes me think the default should be changed, or is everyone writing their posts in Composer and pasting them into slashdot. Thanks eh.
Just in case some of you are wondering why these batteries explode. A scientific summary would be: They become overcharged.
I thought it was when metal particles from the machine fall into the battery while it is being created. The layers or lithium are thin and rolled up and the metal can create a short due to vibration or thermal contraction. Then the battery shorts itself and starts a metal fire.
PS:
Hey slashdot, you can filter out carriage returns and newline characters and replace them with HTML br with the following perl commands.
$string =~ s/\r\n/####/isg;
$string =~s/\n/####/isg; #Where #### is the HTML br tag. Am I missing something?
I find the best way to clean a keyboard is dump a cup of coffee on it. The replacement is generally spotless! (remind me not to try to disasemble another keyboard--obviously made by aliens)
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The majority of them want to run the installer CD and then just have everything be set up and work.
Me, I'm an old hpux admin. I like a distro that I have to spend all day installing. I like it even better if I need a 2nd computer to solve problems.
Fantastic: We killed the wolf, we killed the coyote, and now we're creating a device to reduce the number of the deer's last remaining predator.
Note, hunting on the road is not good. Roads attract people.
What does hunting on the road from your running vehicle with the headlights blinding the animal have to do with wolves? Do you mind if fishermen use depth charges near your beach? They would if you let them.
One year ago I bought a 32" Acer LCD TV. I thought, they make good laptops, lets try this... it has great specs and is so cheap (for at the time). But alas, I noticed how slow it turned on. And I noticed how slow it was to change channels. That was fine, but the visual artifacts and color banding was enough for me to take it back and learn what I was doing. I read AVS Forum and drove around town. Then I did it, I bought a $3500 TV the same size and guess what. It turns on fast, changes channes fast, and has no display bugs (even with SD yes). So moral of story, if you are picky, you get what you pay for.
It was a big deal when we got "instant-on" TV's.
But I missed the dot when turned off. Not the waiting for on part though. How many kids would play with turning off a TV set I wonder.
If there are no peasants then there can be no upper class after all.
This just in: NASA engineers have desided to stop global warming without more chemical experiments. They are going to put a semi-transparent sun shade in orbit around the sun. It will evenly block 30% of the suns rays from hitting the earth. Says Pizpot, a Slashdot reader, "Why didn't I think of that"?
Regarding the topic of counting all the votes the same day as the election:
Why can a country with 30 million people do it with paper ballots?
"oh we have 300 million people... that is too many more to count"
AND my answer to that is BS! You have 10 times more counters, so what is the problem? The paper ballot system does so scale.
DUH!
7. some geek dresses in black and shoots someone's kid? are they crazy?
If human beings were designed, it seems to be a poor design to include copies of viruses in it
Hint, hint... only the ignorant would entertain a belief in god. Or else, playing along to fit in and get rich.
You seem to have never used a touch screen in your life. Allow me to explain: They are always poorly calibrated peices of shit due to the seperation between the display and the sensors.
Well then, how come the one at my orthdontist office works so good? It shows a list of patient names and you pick yours. The names are listed vertically in a slightly large font. It never gets my pick wrong. I go there every 2-4 weeks for the last 2 years.
Can you think of a better way for Google to withdraw $1.5 million dollars from its stocks? I bet the Youtube guys bribed them a billion to do the deal. So what if it is for nothing... a billion bucks is a billion bucks.
Why not just pass a law that parents can't use the public legal system to sue public schools?
but they are not going to try and save $500 in hardware costs only to increase support costs by several times that
We would rather not get confused and have two image cds to keep track of. That would double our blank cd cost by %100. And cd storage space would be double to. Also, it sounds better if we try to standardise things because standards are good. Look, we had lunch with the sales rep... it all makes sense. And oh yeah, we are turning off "zip" attachments for email too. Zip files can contain viruses.
but I doubt they'll be able to use it effectively in criminal trials.
Since when do terrorists go to trial?
That is OK with me.
It is also ok with me if the program that Amazon uses to log my searches is upgraded now and then to correct mistakes. Like the time, it confused your IP address with that guy from Fargo, who searched for bombs, anthrax and big shoes with false heels. Like heck it is.
Enough already. Here it is in black and white:
Another suburban family morning
Grandmother screaming at the wall
We have to shout above the din of our rice crispies
We can't hear anything at all
Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration
But we all know her suicides are fake
Daddy only stares into the distance
There's only so much more that he can take
Many miles away
Something crawls from the slime
At the bottom of a dark
Scottish lake
Another industrial ugly morning
Tha factory belches filth into the sky
He walks unhindered through the picket lines today
He doesn't think to wonder why
The secretaries pout and preen like cheap tarts in a red light street
But all he ever thinks to do is watch
And every so called meeting with his so called superior
Is a humiliating kick in the crotch
Many miles away
Something crawls to the surface
Of a dark Scottish loch
Another working day has ended
Only the rush hour hell to face
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
Contestants in a suicidal race
Daddy crips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
He sees the family home now looming in his headlights
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
Many miles away
There's a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake
Many miles away
Many miles away
Many miles away
Many miles away
Many miles away...
Hey pizpot, use the "Plain Old Text" input type and it will already do this for you. It also allows HTML tags in the "Plain Old Text" posting format.
Cool, I missed that by not looking in the drop box. All this time I though something was loopy. Makes me think the default should be changed, or is everyone writing their posts in Composer and pasting them into slashdot. Thanks eh.
Just in case some of you are wondering why these batteries explode. A scientific summary would be: They become overcharged.
I thought it was when metal particles from the machine fall into the battery while it is being created. The layers or lithium are thin and rolled up and the metal can create a short due to vibration or thermal contraction. Then the battery shorts itself and starts a metal fire.
PS: Hey slashdot, you can filter out carriage returns and newline characters and replace them with HTML br with the following perl commands.
$string =~ s/\r\n/####/isg;
$string =~s/\n/####/isg; #Where #### is the HTML br tag. Am I missing something?
Wait till a house catches fire and someone dies. Then Sony really will be a 4-letter word.
Hmmm... It is more than a honeypot, if you think about the state of the USA. Anyone who even contacts the company will be put on terror lists. Gasp.
So, it is a honeypot. LOL
... JEEP at 50 mph...
maybe they could bounce a laser off the roof/window of the jeep and listen that way.
I find the best way to clean a keyboard is dump a cup of coffee on it. The replacement is generally spotless! (remind me not to try to disasemble another keyboard--obviously made by aliens)
Just bleach your whole place, and seal it with plastic. Then stay in side.
Yes mazes suck! Like my shiney box of Doom3 CDs that are still shiney. After playing for 2 hours and not getting out of the first level I moved on.
The next ID software game will be their first that I do not buy on day one. Normally I trust them.