Damage would be done server side, so that doesn't matter. Also, what the hell language is that, because that's some really strange (or really stupid) syntax. If it's c++, it would make more sense to have something like
I haven't played GNOME mines, but KDE mines is very similar to Windows. It's even got the yellow happy face and everything. Plus there's an online high score list. I suspect cheating, though, because I don't see how 5 seconds on expert is possible.
I understand that a while ago there was some competition between IBM and Motorola about whose chip would be the G5. Was Motorola ever a serious contender, and if so, has Apple decided on IBM? I haven't heard much about Motorola for some time.
The article was slashdotted, so I just guessed from pictures. It was hard to tell, but it looked like it was in front of the galaxy. I know nothing about astronomy, though.
If you look at the image, there are some odd streaks that go from red to blue (or blue to red). I'm just curious here, what are they? I thought maybe it could be a bit of space debris that whizzed in front of the camera, but with an exposure of 3.4 days, the streak would go from one side or another.
The streaks are probably something that moved, though some of them seem brighter in the center, which would indicate it was oscillating. I'm not exactly sure. Anything could move any distance in 3.4 days.
And that big bright cluster in the lower bottom, what's that? It looks pretty close galaxy-wise.
The bright cluster is probably a globular cluster, which is a tight grouping of old stars. It's most likely in our galaxy.
It's a neat pic for sure, a little blurry, which makes it less jawdropping than other hubble efforts but makes sense for a 3.4 day exposure.
Scale it down and it's definitely not blurry. At least not the 6116x7014 image.
Last time I checked, we had a male strip club right across town.
That's nice. Exactly how often do you check?
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I don't know, maybe I'm crazy, but I like the Dish one better. It's so much simpler, and it's got a much cleaner interface. Some of the behaviour is a little weird after having used a Tivo for a year, but it doesn't take long to get used to.
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It's great. Theirs is just as good as Tivo is. In fact, I like theirs better. It seems more responsive, plus it's got 80GB. The only issue is that the hard drive grinds a bit more than the Tivo did, but I don't sleep in the same room as it, and it's not that loud anyway. My experience with Dish Network has been great so far. Very different from my Comcast experience. I just switched to DSL because of two major screwups by Comcast in the first week of being on their network. The switched to Dish was just because digital cable sucks.
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I recently switched to Dish Network from digital cable. Aside from the much better picture quality and customer service, one big advantage is that there's a PVR built into some of the boxes. Previously, I had a Tivo with a lifetime subscription. That's now on the second TV with the first one having the built-in one. I could easily see this becoming standard in both cable and satellite boxes. If the cable companies and satellite companies are supporting it, I don't see it being made illegal any time soon. However, I do foresee the end for Tivo, with PVR functionality becoming standard in set-top boxes.
Re:Everything can be related to math.
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Those aren't logic operators, those are arithmetic operators. Logic operators are AND (&), OR (|), NOT (!), and XOR (^). There are a few other less common ones too, but they don't have any symbols I'm familiar with.
If ebay were held responsible for unmoderated feedback other users left, that would set a very bad precedent. There's not much difference between that and modding a post down on slashdot. Now if someone accuses you of something that isn't true, that's something to take up with that individual. Suing ebay for that would be like suing someone's ISP because their SMTP servers were used by someone to send a libelous email about you. It just doesn't work that way.
Well, what people seemed to be saying last time there was an argument about this is that there was so much changing in the next release that if it didn't justify a major version, nothing could. Then Linus said that it'll be 2.6 and that everyone could shut up because he's not going to change his mind, and so everyone shut up.
And it's uname -r. (r for release) -v is version (basically just the date and time it was compiled)
for 5, I use "for (int x=0;x<10;x++)" (I removed spaces) for 4, I use "while (x<10)" (spaces again) for 3, I use "#include <stdio.h>" (yours will produce an error) for 2, I use "#include <math.h>" (again, error) for 1, I use "int main(int argc, char *argv[])" (I've never seen the syntax you used)
Oh, and to make the < sign, you need to escape it with "<".
Re:Double density floppy anyone?
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Minidisc didn't catch on here because nobody wants to pay $350 for a minidisc recorder and $2 each for the media when a CD burner is $50, an MP3 CD player is $80, and CD-R media is $15 for 100. All a MD is is compressed audio on a small CD enclosed in plastic.
I think optical storage is going to go the way of the floppy disk and be replaced by flash media. Once the price comes down to about $5 for 32MB ($8.50 for 32MB SM now), it'll be worth it for the convenience. It's much more reliable than CDRW, and it's at least as fast than optical drives (3.5MB/s for SM, CD is 3.6MB/s assuming 24x). Plus, a flash reader is maybe $30 and it'll read and write, and they can be portable, and ideally do not require drivers. CDs are always good for backup, but if you want to transfer a 10MB file between two computers, floppies won't do, and a cd is excessive. Flash would be perfect.
Don't be so damned lazy. Need to pick up something at the store 4 blocks away? Walk, don't drive. Bored on a saturday afternoon? Go outside, don't troll slashdot. Live a 10 minute drive away from where you work? Make it a 30 minute bike ride. If you don't do everything in the easiest way possible, then you don't have to watch what you eat, or go out of your way to exercise.
This gimmick is +5 funny today. It will be +4 funny tomorrow. +3 funny the next day. +2 funny the day after. Perhaps in four days it will be +2 from the karma bonus. After that, +1 offtopic. Then 0 offtopic. Then -1 troll. Then it dies.
My point was that it's already compressed, and so zipping it will do very little. I realize you could compress it a lot more by reencoding it to a different format or a different quality, but applying lossless compression to any compressed video isn't going to do much.
Slashdot Mirror
I haven't played GNOME mines, but KDE mines is very similar to Windows. It's even got the yellow happy face and everything. Plus there's an online high score list. I suspect cheating, though, because I don't see how 5 seconds on expert is possible.
I understand that a while ago there was some competition between IBM and Motorola about whose chip would be the G5. Was Motorola ever a serious contender, and if so, has Apple decided on IBM? I haven't heard much about Motorola for some time.
The article was slashdotted, so I just guessed from pictures. It was hard to tell, but it looked like it was in front of the galaxy. I know nothing about astronomy, though.
If you look at the image, there are some odd streaks that go from red to blue (or blue to red).
I'm just curious here, what are they? I thought maybe it could be a bit of space debris that whizzed in front of the camera, but with an exposure of 3.4 days, the streak would go from one side or another.
The streaks are probably something that moved, though some of them seem brighter in the center, which would indicate it was oscillating. I'm not exactly sure. Anything could move any distance in 3.4 days.
And that big bright cluster in the lower bottom, what's that? It looks pretty close galaxy-wise.
The bright cluster is probably a globular cluster, which is a tight grouping of old stars. It's most likely in our galaxy.
It's a neat pic for sure, a little blurry, which makes it less jawdropping than other hubble efforts but makes sense for a 3.4 day exposure.
Scale it down and it's definitely not blurry. At least not the 6116x7014 image.
lower bottom
What the hell?
Last time I checked, we had a male strip club right across town.
That's nice. Exactly how often do you check?
I don't know, maybe I'm crazy, but I like the Dish one better. It's so much simpler, and it's got a much cleaner interface. Some of the behaviour is a little weird after having used a Tivo for a year, but it doesn't take long to get used to.
It's great. Theirs is just as good as Tivo is. In fact, I like theirs better. It seems more responsive, plus it's got 80GB. The only issue is that the hard drive grinds a bit more than the Tivo did, but I don't sleep in the same room as it, and it's not that loud anyway. My experience with Dish Network has been great so far. Very different from my Comcast experience. I just switched to DSL because of two major screwups by Comcast in the first week of being on their network. The switched to Dish was just because digital cable sucks.
I recently switched to Dish Network from digital cable. Aside from the much better picture quality and customer service, one big advantage is that there's a PVR built into some of the boxes. Previously, I had a Tivo with a lifetime subscription. That's now on the second TV with the first one having the built-in one. I could easily see this becoming standard in both cable and satellite boxes. If the cable companies and satellite companies are supporting it, I don't see it being made illegal any time soon. However, I do foresee the end for Tivo, with PVR functionality becoming standard in set-top boxes.
Those aren't logic operators, those are arithmetic operators. Logic operators are AND (&), OR (|), NOT (!), and XOR (^). There are a few other less common ones too, but they don't have any symbols I'm familiar with.
That would imply that either both the website and slashdot are zero, or that they are opposites. Perhaps this:
lim responsiveness = 0
hits->slashdot_users
Sometimes you just have to be creative. Math is everywhere.
If you really watched too much South Park, you would know it actually looked more like:
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3
--------- --------- ---------
Steal ??? Profit!
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(Mod me down and I sue)
Well, as you may have noticed, the case was dismissed. If only I had mod points...
If ebay were held responsible for unmoderated feedback other users left, that would set a very bad precedent. There's not much difference between that and modding a post down on slashdot. Now if someone accuses you of something that isn't true, that's something to take up with that individual. Suing ebay for that would be like suing someone's ISP because their SMTP servers were used by someone to send a libelous email about you. It just doesn't work that way.
Well, what people seemed to be saying last time there was an argument about this is that there was so much changing in the next release that if it didn't justify a major version, nothing could. Then Linus said that it'll be 2.6 and that everyone could shut up because he's not going to change his mind, and so everyone shut up.
And it's uname -r. (r for release) -v is version (basically just the date and time it was compiled)
It's against the 2.4.21-rc1 kernel, not 2.4.20-rc1.
None of those show up in my C++ code.
for 5, I use "for (int x=0;x<10;x++)" (I removed spaces)
for 4, I use "while (x<10)" (spaces again)
for 3, I use "#include <stdio.h>" (yours will produce an error)
for 2, I use "#include <math.h>" (again, error)
for 1, I use "int main(int argc, char *argv[])" (I've never seen the syntax you used)
Oh, and to make the < sign, you need to escape it with "<".
Minidisc didn't catch on here because nobody wants to pay $350 for a minidisc recorder and $2 each for the media when a CD burner is $50, an MP3 CD player is $80, and CD-R media is $15 for 100. All a MD is is compressed audio on a small CD enclosed in plastic.
I think optical storage is going to go the way of the floppy disk and be replaced by flash media. Once the price comes down to about $5 for 32MB ($8.50 for 32MB SM now), it'll be worth it for the convenience. It's much more reliable than CDRW, and it's at least as fast than optical drives (3.5MB/s for SM, CD is 3.6MB/s assuming 24x). Plus, a flash reader is maybe $30 and it'll read and write, and they can be portable, and ideally do not require drivers. CDs are always good for backup, but if you want to transfer a 10MB file between two computers, floppies won't do, and a cd is excessive. Flash would be perfect.
Are you really the President? That would be pretty cool if GWB posted on Slashdot.
Yes, Oolong, the rabbit that wore a pancake on his head. Sadly, Oolong is no more.
Don't be so damned lazy. Need to pick up something at the store 4 blocks away? Walk, don't drive. Bored on a saturday afternoon? Go outside, don't troll slashdot. Live a 10 minute drive away from where you work? Make it a 30 minute bike ride. If you don't do everything in the easiest way possible, then you don't have to watch what you eat, or go out of your way to exercise.
This gimmick is +5 funny today. It will be +4 funny tomorrow. +3 funny the next day. +2 funny the day after. Perhaps in four days it will be +2 from the karma bonus. After that, +1 offtopic. Then 0 offtopic. Then -1 troll. Then it dies.
The future, as told by localghost.
# we should be allowed to steal music and be left alone by the MPAA,
# we should be allowed to steal movies and be left alone by the RIAA.
The MPAA doesn't care that much when I steal music, and the RIAA doesn't care when I steal movies. Now, if we were to switch those two around...
Also, you're wrong, but I don't feel like saying why, so I'll let someone else do it.
My point was that it's already compressed, and so zipping it will do very little. I realize you could compress it a lot more by reencoding it to a different format or a different quality, but applying lossless compression to any compressed video isn't going to do much.