In New Zealand, broadband is way overpriced. If I want to download 8 gig in a month, it would cost me ten times as much with broadband, unless I accept a speed cap at roughly over 2x my dialup, for about four times as much.
I got a ring from them the other day, really trying ot sell me the faster connection, probably because I use their dialup for as long as three days sometimes.
Surely a record player with a simple "Go" button (they do exist, it automatically cues the needle and starts playing) would be _much_ easier for a "granny" to use.
I still don't think you're serious, though. It's harder to put the records away, clean dust off them etc..
I remember once, after deciphering my doctors handwriting, handing a prescription back to him and asking:
This Amoxil here, are you sure that's not penicillin?.
[embarassed doctor refers to his notes, that not only record my DOB as being the same as my mothers, but also vaguely indicates an allergy to penicillin.]
Had I not vaguely recalled that Amoxil is Amoxillin is Penicillin, I'd have taken a medicine that's not only not suitable for me, but could have serious consequences.
No, I don't expect anybody (excepting my doctor) to have known this, and as for you example, no, I don't think so either - the warning is necessary, or at least not redundant.
Most of the time the warnings are to cover the producers ass, but they're given with the best of intents also. I wouldn't want anybody, no matter how ignorant, to come to harm just because they didn't know something that comes obviously to "the slashdot crowd".
Fair enough though, it says they are "mixed nuts", which doesn't necessarily mean there's any peanuts in them. They probably aren't, either, but were prepared on machines that peanuts have been through.
At age of one, we discovered our son has a serious allergy to peanuts. Since then I've noticed that almost everything in the way of biscuits and breakfast cereals has the "may contain traces of peanuts" disclaimer - and I think it sucks.
Do they or don't they? Why don't you know?
If you acknowledge that peanuts can kill some people, why aren't you taking measures so that your peanut and chocolate bar can contain as many peanuts as you like, yet your apricot mueseli bars are guranteed to contatain none?
That way people who have peanut allergies can, and get this, still be part of your target market. As in, you get money when they buy your things.
'rm' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
For that matter, had you have been using any of MacOS X, Solaris, *BSD, it might have hit you; it's not Linux specific.
And if you were running 'nix, and threw any old perl script* at your prompt wondering what it does I'd think you're a bloody idiot. You should be glad, if anything, it didn't try something specific to your environment.
* by an AC, no less.
disclaimer: I haven't tried to run nor untangle the perl script. It might not be malicious after all.
This is a particularly interesting thread, and I've seen a few insights into why one might want or need to have his cellphone always function, and as you say, we're seeng a courteous chap who does indeed silence his cellphone but remains available - good luck with the birth!
So why block signals, surely we can just enforce a "good manner mode" to the phone instead, by requiring that newly manuf'd phones can have this behaviour imposed in certain local areas.
It's not like 95% of the phones currently in use will not have been upgraded in the next 24 months anyway, if someone does take a call in a cinema you can still always excersize your right to put a straw-full of well-aimed soda on the back of their neck (if everybody did this, you think people would take calls?).
Anyway, "good manner mode" might mean vibrating ring only, no calls placeable/answerable. You can surf the web on your phone if you want, I know I've been to some films where I'd want to do that, but I've left the phone in the car...
I don't remember ever seeing, on the specifications of any CD player, studio/domestic, a frequency response in the order of 0-20,000Hz. Sure, there's no reason a DAC won't go that low, but they'll be fitted with a low-pass filter for sure, as soon as you have 47kohms on the output, 20Hz is probably attenuated to the order of 40dB or so.
He's referring, of course, to Microsoft Corporation, no Bill Gates. Every[body|company] makes mistakes, financial losses for instance. It's just that Mr Gates' corporation is an example of one that makes more uppers than downers.
Sure, Bill Gates has probably never put money into something without thinking that he'll get something in return.
Sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn't, that's business. Even if the net effect is the largest most valuable company in the world, it doesn't mean he's always won.
There are plenty of different ways you can do it without even intruding on the picture much. In NTSC and PAL there's about thirty lines of video offscreen that can have information embedded in them. I would imagine ripping to DivX or somesuch would not include these however.
Opposite colour errors on adjacent lines tend to get canelled out by the human eye quite well, but will be easy to find and make unique.
>But we paid for the media
Keep the media then.
>And besides, what's to say a cosmic storm did not polarize certain sectors on my hard drive which were decoded to be exactly this movie?
fsck should have found the inconsistency.
If your system was up at the time of the storm that penetrated your HDD casing, it almost certainly wouldn't have been after. fsck would have been the next thing to run. (Well, almost. A long time before xine anyway.)
>cat/dev/urandom > somethingsgottagive_ripped_by_Gusto.avi anybody?
By directing the output of random to a file named like that shows you were somehow expecting that file. You can sit down at a table rolling dice and writing down hex all night if you like. Have fun convincing your judge that what he is watching is not actually the feature, just a highly improbable result of some random function.
As I said, the javavm ran at a nice of "0", the default on a unix system. That means it will share CPU rougly equally with other processes on the box that run at the default also.
I also said I was running portage at the time, at a nice of +5. Had the applet have niced itself up to, say +10, (it seemed to do the equivalent on windows machines) it would have used much less CPU, because of the existence of a higher-priority running process, or two.
Yeah but bash can tell when it was started as "sh" and run in compatibility mode, to roughly quote another poster somewhere in this thread - Don't mod me up.
Doesn't seem to be running at a very low priority on my machine - it's taking 75%cpu running at a nice of "0". I am running portage at present, it's use went from about 80% to 7% or so.
It's chewing my cycles, not that I'm complaining, I brought it on, but it's doesn't seem to be running at a low priority by any means.
Hate to burst your bubble, but a base Linux install probably isn't going to have an MP3 encoder, not even a player
Granted, if you downloaded a distribution, or you're online - you'll only have to add a couple more packages, but I'd consider this "extra software" too.
After a Gentoo "emerge system" there's not very much at all to do except read config files. The telnet client isn't even installed.
Don't get me wrong, I just think you could have made your point a bit clearer. Furthermore, I'm once again foregoing moderation to make a friendly comment, isn't that nice of me?
You deliberately read my post out of context - for your benefit I'll take the subtleties out and get to the point.
Your grandparent (slashdot context, since I guess you'll pull me up on that too) said that "The ISS is only 300 miles away from earth", which isn't incorrect, just misleading. At present, the ISS could in fact be more than 12,000km away from YOU/ME get it?
Secondly, London is not "0 miles away from earth by any reasoning...".
Ask any pilot what the mean distance above sea level his runway is, it will not be 0
Neither London, nor Earth is a finite point in space. The distance between them cannot be measured. If you were going to be totally scientific, mean Earth would be the absolute centre of the planet. The may well be one accepted point that is "London". Again, the distance between them will not be zero.
If you're still missing the point, even if the ISS is directly overhead you, and you are geocentrically opposite London, it will still be a fsck of a lot harder to get a can of beer to the ISS than it would to fly 400 passengers to London. I was trying to make the point that just because the ISS orbits at a paltry 300 miles, that doesn't mean in practical terms that it's any "closer" than somewhere halfway around the globe (for me).
Throwing mod points away here, but by that reasoning, London is 0 miles from earth, just as any other destination is. At times, the ISS can be further from you than any place in the world.
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I got a ring from them the other day, really trying ot sell me the faster connection, probably because I use their dialup for as long as three days sometimes.
I still don't think you're serious, though. It's harder to put the records away, clean dust off them etc..
This Amoxil here, are you sure that's not penicillin?.
[embarassed doctor refers to his notes, that not only record my DOB as being the same as my mothers, but also vaguely indicates an allergy to penicillin.]
Had I not vaguely recalled that Amoxil is Amoxillin is Penicillin, I'd have taken a medicine that's not only not suitable for me, but could have serious consequences.
No, I don't expect anybody (excepting my doctor) to have known this, and as for you example, no, I don't think so either - the warning is necessary, or at least not redundant.
Most of the time the warnings are to cover the producers ass, but they're given with the best of intents also. I wouldn't want anybody, no matter how ignorant, to come to harm just because they didn't know something that comes obviously to "the slashdot crowd".
Cue all you "natural selection[sic]" bigots.
At age of one, we discovered our son has a serious allergy to peanuts. Since then I've noticed that almost everything in the way of biscuits and breakfast cereals has the "may contain traces of peanuts" disclaimer - and I think it sucks.
Do they or don't they? Why don't you know?
If you acknowledge that peanuts can kill some people, why aren't you taking measures so that your peanut and chocolate bar can contain as many peanuts as you like, yet your apricot mueseli bars are guranteed to contatain none?
That way people who have peanut allergies can, and get this, still be part of your target market. As in, you get money when they buy your things.
For that matter, had you have been using any of MacOS X, Solaris, *BSD, it might have hit you; it's not Linux specific.
And if you were running 'nix, and threw any old perl script* at your prompt wondering what it does I'd think you're a bloody idiot. You should be glad, if anything, it didn't try something specific to your environment.
* by an AC, no less.
disclaimer: I haven't tried to run nor untangle the perl script. It might not be malicious after all.
So why block signals, surely we can just enforce a "good manner mode" to the phone instead, by requiring that newly manuf'd phones can have this behaviour imposed in certain local areas.
It's not like 95% of the phones currently in use will not have been upgraded in the next 24 months anyway, if someone does take a call in a cinema you can still always excersize your right to put a straw-full of well-aimed soda on the back of their neck (if everybody did this, you think people would take calls?).
Anyway, "good manner mode" might mean vibrating ring only, no calls placeable/answerable. You can surf the web on your phone if you want, I know I've been to some films where I'd want to do that, but I've left the phone in the car...
Maybe he wanted FP...?
...it'll be at least some consolation getting the disk space back.
I don't remember ever seeing, on the specifications of any CD player, studio/domestic, a frequency response in the order of 0-20,000Hz. Sure, there's no reason a DAC won't go that low, but they'll be fitted with a low-pass filter for sure, as soon as you have 47kohms on the output, 20Hz is probably attenuated to the order of 40dB or so.
ultrasound(472511) - he he he
"...known as the brown noise" - har haaa haaa
No Shit! - Oh ho hoo, stop it you devil, you!
20 second delay must've been a bummer for you then.
He's referring, of course, to Microsoft Corporation, no Bill Gates. Every[body|company] makes mistakes, financial losses for instance. It's just that Mr Gates' corporation is an example of one that makes more uppers than downers.
Sure, Bill Gates has probably never put money into something without thinking that he'll get something in return.
Sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn't, that's business. Even if the net effect is the largest most valuable company in the world, it doesn't mean he's always won.
- not publicised? you figured it out.
- it's illegal, hence inadmissible in court.
There are plenty of different ways you can do it without even intruding on the picture much. In NTSC and PAL there's about thirty lines of video offscreen that can have information embedded in them. I would imagine ripping to DivX or somesuch would not include these however.Opposite colour errors on adjacent lines tend to get canelled out by the human eye quite well, but will be easy to find and make unique.
Keep the media then.
>And besides, what's to say a cosmic storm did not polarize certain sectors on my hard drive which were decoded to be exactly this movie?
fsck should have found the inconsistency.
If your system was up at the time of the storm that penetrated your HDD casing, it almost certainly wouldn't have been after. fsck would have been the next thing to run. (Well, almost. A long time before xine anyway.)
>cat /dev/urandom > somethingsgottagive_ripped_by_Gusto.avi anybody?
By directing the output of random to a file named like that shows you were somehow expecting that file. You can sit down at a table rolling dice and writing down hex all night if you like. Have fun convincing your judge that what he is watching is not actually the feature, just a highly improbable result of some random function.
Or, long shot here: You were trying to be funny?
Because we all need a DVD player to be ... fast?
I even had two dupes! When I saw the headline for this article I thought it was the third dupe! A Qupe!
Um, loss anybody? Hello?
I also said I was running portage at the time, at a nice of +5. Had the applet have niced itself up to, say +10, (it seemed to do the equivalent on windows machines) it would have used much less CPU, because of the existence of a higher-priority running process, or two.
Yeah but bash can tell when it was started as "sh" and run in compatibility mode, to roughly quote another poster somewhere in this thread - Don't mod me up.
It's chewing my cycles, not that I'm complaining, I brought it on, but it's doesn't seem to be running at a low priority by any means.
Granted, if you downloaded a distribution, or you're online - you'll only have to add a couple more packages, but I'd consider this "extra software" too.
After a Gentoo "emerge system" there's not very much at all to do except read config files. The telnet client isn't even installed.
Don't get me wrong, I just think you could have made your point a bit clearer. Furthermore, I'm once again foregoing moderation to make a friendly comment, isn't that nice of me?
Your grandparent (slashdot context, since I guess you'll pull me up on that too) said that "The ISS is only 300 miles away from earth", which isn't incorrect, just misleading. At present, the ISS could in fact be more than 12,000km away from YOU/ME get it?
Secondly, London is not "0 miles away from earth by any reasoning...".
- Ask any pilot what the mean distance above sea level his runway is, it will not be 0
- Neither London, nor Earth is a finite point in space. The distance between them cannot be measured. If you were going to be totally scientific, mean Earth would be the absolute centre of the planet. The may well be one accepted point that is "London". Again, the distance between them will not be zero.
If you're still missing the point, even if the ISS is directly overhead you, and you are geocentrically opposite London, it will still be a fsck of a lot harder to get a can of beer to the ISS than it would to fly 400 passengers to London. I was trying to make the point that just because the ISS orbits at a paltry 300 miles, that doesn't mean in practical terms that it's any "closer" than somewhere halfway around the globe (for me).That _anybody_ got laid in the '80s is enough of an eye-opener for me.
Throwing mod points away here, but by that reasoning, London is 0 miles from earth, just as any other destination is. At times, the ISS can be further from you than any place in the world.