Back when AltaVista was king, when Johnathan Yardley of the Washington Post first got on the Internet, he wrote a whining column (all his columns are whining, but that's another topic) about how ineffective it supposedly was for a search he tried to do -- he got the results, but they were on the Nth page, and there were N million results. I emailed him and pointed out that if I just used quote marks around the key phrase, the result he wanted came up on the first page, very near the top (and the total results were more selective). He thanked me, but I don't think he ever printed a retraction/correction.
<sweeping generalization> It's surprising that journalists still haven't picked up on this basic technique, all these years later. </sweeping generalization>
I was just about to post about this, though less humorously. In English, we can say it's neuter, an "it"; but in a language like French, there's no neuter -- every noun is either masculine or feminine. So for French speakers, this is a real issue.
Google and the Babel fish say that "a robot" is "un robot" in French, which means it's masculine. But I'm not sure how accurate they are.
I have yet to buy a DVD player that wasn't able to convert PAL to NTSC, or vice versa, on the fly. Granted, they mostly don't do a great job of it, but it's watchable. And heck, even unconverted PAL is watchable on my NTSC TV -- it comes out stretched, monochrome and a little flickery, but I can see what's going on.
So yes, regions ARE the problem. Fortunately, region-free players, and hacks to make players region-free, are widely available. Check out rpc1.org for a start.
He took "The Soft Weapon" and rewrote it with Trek characters. But he couldn't even be bothered to change the Kzinti to Klingons, which would've been the logical mapping from Known Space to Trek. Frankly, I think it's disgraceful that he took money for this hack job (and I say that as a big Niven fan).
I actually argued about this with someone online once. He brought up Kzinti in a Trek context, based on that episode. I said they had no place in the Trek universe. But he insisted that since it was in TAS, it was canon.
OK, call me a fanboy, but this isn't a troll. I'm glad to see somebody else remembers this, anyway.
There's an easier way to make it so that people have time to vote, without the insecurity of online voting: Make election day a national holiday. It should be.
Not that I'd count on increased turnout, even then. For that, we need more inspiring candidates in the races.
As far as I know, that honor belongs to the Hewlett-Packard Jornada 520/525, a PocketPC device. Color display, Compact Flash slot, plays MP3s fine -- and mine cost $149.95, new, several years ago. Unfortunately the model was discontinued (I believe that's why it was selling for that price), and nothing really comparable has come along since.
You could argue that there's an implied license to stick it on your desktop as a background image. (You could also argue that such a usage is fair use, and doesn't require a license. I would.) But that isn't "fairly unrestricted use", and it isn't remotely the same as republishing it as part of an ad.
What's one thing got to do with the other? You could fairly say "this proves that Lindows/Linspire is sleazy," but we already knew that. It doesn't say a damn thing about Microsoft vs. Lindows.
I'm confused by the author's comment that Apple replaced the pop-out cd trays with slot load cds
Actually he said they were replaced with "slides". What does that mean? I don't know, and I was just about to ask that here. The first things that come to my mind are those old-fashioned CD "caddies", or removable trays. Slot-loading could be another interpretation; but it's not clear from the article. Does anyone here happen to know?
But the Bible contains facts that are listed before science proved them (Even when science previously denied those same facts). I could do some research and list dozens of these facts.
How about one, for a start?
Did you have in mind "facts" like "the Earth is the center of the solar system", or "pi is equal to three"?
As I understand it, OTA reception will work on the HDTV Tivo without a DirecTV subscription, as indeed it does on all DirecTV HD receivers. What won't work, though, is the Tivo functionality, since the Tivo service (for this device) is only available through DirecTV.
Yeah, there are some big things you're not getting:
1. It's higher resolution than even a modern LCD display, and way higher than those old ones.
2. You turn it off, and the picture doesn't go away. (More accurately, it only draws power when changing pages... I wouldn't be surprised if there's no on/off switch at all.) This is huge.
2b. Runs fscking forever on almost no power, as a consequence.
3. It's vastly more readable than those old displays, and probably more readable than your nice backlit TFT.
But in a way, you're right: The initial applications for this will be as a (vastly superior) replacement for monochrome LCDs. It's PERFECT for low-end Palm OS devices.
And can I just add: I want it I want it I want it.
The thing is, Futurama was one of those shows that was driven by one character's unrequited love for another. (Although I suppose there are some who'll argue that it was driven by comedy. Pshaw!) It ended with a story where it looked like Fry and Leela were finally getting together, though the writers left some wiggle room. Now, what would happen in a new season? Either:
1. The writers take advantage of that wiggle room -- no, Fry and Leela didn't really get together; he's still pining for her, she's still turning him down. That's depressing, after everything that happened in the finale. I don't want to see that.
2. They DO get together, and live happily ever after. I'm glad for them, but I don't want to watch that. It's boring. That's why "happily ever after" is always at the end of the story. It's a nice place to live, but you wouldn't want to visit.
Alternatively, they could get together, and then have it not work out. That's even more depressing than the first option.
There are several other ways to deal with that situation, predating CoLinux -- they could repartition and multi-boot, for example; or, there are several distros that can boot from a loopback filesystem (or even the old UMSDOS system). And LINE seems to yield much the same results as CoLinux.
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Back when AltaVista was king, when Johnathan Yardley of the Washington Post first got on the Internet, he wrote a whining column (all his columns are whining, but that's another topic) about how ineffective it supposedly was for a search he tried to do -- he got the results, but they were on the Nth page, and there were N million results. I emailed him and pointed out that if I just used quote marks around the key phrase, the result he wanted came up on the first page, very near the top (and the total results were more selective). He thanked me, but I don't think he ever printed a retraction/correction.
<sweeping generalization>
It's surprising that journalists still haven't picked up on this basic technique, all these years later.
</sweeping generalization>
You're the second Google Researcher to post to this article. How do you guys get this job? Is it full time? What does it pay? It sounds like fun.
I was just about to post about this, though less humorously. In English, we can say it's neuter, an "it"; but in a language like French, there's no neuter -- every noun is either masculine or feminine. So for French speakers, this is a real issue.
Google and the Babel fish say that "a robot" is "un robot" in French, which means it's masculine. But I'm not sure how accurate they are.
I have yet to buy a DVD player that wasn't able to convert PAL to NTSC, or vice versa, on the fly. Granted, they mostly don't do a great job of it, but it's watchable. And heck, even unconverted PAL is watchable on my NTSC TV -- it comes out stretched, monochrome and a little flickery, but I can see what's going on.
So yes, regions ARE the problem. Fortunately, region-free players, and hacks to make players region-free, are widely available. Check out rpc1.org for a start.
He took "The Soft Weapon" and rewrote it with Trek characters. But he couldn't even be bothered to change the Kzinti to Klingons, which would've been the logical mapping from Known Space to Trek. Frankly, I think it's disgraceful that he took money for this hack job (and I say that as a big Niven fan).
I actually argued about this with someone online once. He brought up Kzinti in a Trek context, based on that episode. I said they had no place in the Trek universe. But he insisted that since it was in TAS, it was canon.
OK, call me a fanboy, but this isn't a troll. I'm glad to see somebody else remembers this, anyway.
Actually I don't follow your logic on that one.
There's an easier way to make it so that people have time to vote, without the insecurity of online voting: Make election day a national holiday. It should be.
Not that I'd count on increased turnout, even then. For that, we need more inspiring candidates in the races.
Why are elections under the jurisdiction of the Minsiter for the Environment?
Helium! Such luxury!
As far as I know, that honor belongs to the Hewlett-Packard Jornada 520/525, a PocketPC device. Color display, Compact Flash slot, plays MP3s fine -- and mine cost $149.95, new, several years ago. Unfortunately the model was discontinued (I believe that's why it was selling for that price), and nothing really comparable has come along since.
You could argue that there's an implied license to stick it on your desktop as a background image. (You could also argue that such a usage is fair use, and doesn't require a license. I would.) But that isn't "fairly unrestricted use", and it isn't remotely the same as republishing it as part of an ad.
Eh? The rasta art is credited (to "Colin F." at colin-f.com). The credit screen appears at the end of the Flash movie.
Unless they just added that credit in the last hour...
Perhaps he was thinking of Troy?
Doh, apologies for the phpBB pseudo-HTML. That'll teach me to preview.
Make that "people of even [i]high[/i] intelligence". It's frightening, but some otherwise brilliant souls eschew scientific ways of thinking.
Did you have in mind "facts" like "the Earth is the center of the solar system", or "pi is equal to three"?
As I understand it, OTA reception will work on the HDTV Tivo without a DirecTV subscription, as indeed it does on all DirecTV HD receivers. What won't work, though, is the Tivo functionality, since the Tivo service (for this device) is only available through DirecTV.
Yeah, there are some big things you're not getting:
1. It's higher resolution than even a modern LCD display, and way higher than those old ones.
2. You turn it off, and the picture doesn't go away. (More accurately, it only draws power when changing pages... I wouldn't be surprised if there's no on/off switch at all.) This is huge.
2b. Runs fscking forever on almost no power, as a consequence.
3. It's vastly more readable than those old displays, and probably more readable than your nice backlit TFT.
But in a way, you're right: The initial applications for this will be as a (vastly superior) replacement for monochrome LCDs. It's PERFECT for low-end Palm OS devices.
And can I just add: I want it I want it I want it.
It seems to be a reprint from The Independent (original URL is on the Rense page), a slightly more mainstream source.
Yes, and I haven't watched Frasier since Niles and Daphne got together. (I almost put that in my earlier post, but erased it.)
The thing is, Futurama was one of those shows that was driven by one character's unrequited love for another. (Although I suppose there are some who'll argue that it was driven by comedy. Pshaw!) It ended with a story where it looked like Fry and Leela were finally getting together, though the writers left some wiggle room. Now, what would happen in a new season? Either:
1. The writers take advantage of that wiggle room -- no, Fry and Leela didn't really get together; he's still pining for her, she's still turning him down. That's depressing, after everything that happened in the finale. I don't want to see that.
2. They DO get together, and live happily ever after. I'm glad for them, but I don't want to watch that. It's boring. That's why "happily ever after" is always at the end of the story. It's a nice place to live, but you wouldn't want to visit.
Alternatively, they could get together, and then have it not work out. That's even more depressing than the first option.
OK, so I'm a hopeless romantic.
There are several other ways to deal with that situation, predating CoLinux -- they could repartition and multi-boot, for example; or, there are several distros that can boot from a loopback filesystem (or even the old UMSDOS system). And LINE seems to yield much the same results as CoLinux.