Not necessarily. Ever played the Asteroids arcade game? It used a vector monitor. This works by using magnetics to draw a line directly onto specific points on the screen, or something like that. See here.
That said, I don't think it is practical enough to use as a normal monitor.
God no! It's slow enough as it is. I'm not trolling. I find it virtually unusable due to it's lackluster speed. Wouldn't rendering everything by SVG just make it worse?
Debian's apt system is available for RPM-based systems as apt-rpm (see freshrpms).
Also, Mandrake has urpmi which does essentially the same thing, but has a much greater software selection. Correct me if I'm wrong but the only source for apt-rpm is Freshrpms, right?
Good preaching, man. I HATE the movie theatre experience. Ever since I moved to Atlanta, it's been a nightmare every time.
If it's not the droves of gangsta wannabe teenagers, it's the middle-aged overweight women who can't stop talking. The $6 soda. The drive. How about the 6.1 audio system with a blown rear-channel speaker?
I hate the movie theatre experience too. I just went to my local Cineplex Odeon to see Out Of Time (don't bother, it's not very good). There were a reasonable number of trailers, but I wasn't impressed by much else. The projector was out of focus, there were holes in the screen (very noticable when something white goes past in the film) and the print they were showing was badly damaged. For the first 1/4 or so, there were constant speckles and scratches, and for about 20 minutes, later in the film, there was a nasty jiggling line running down the screen.
Even if only 1 out of every 10 000 emails creates a sale for them, they will stay in business. I suspect I may be out on those figures by 10's of thousands, too. The thing about spamming is that it is virtually free to send a million SPAM messages.
This is an incredibly bad idea, and it would break tons of things for users.
Online games? Nope.. need open ports. How about IM? Nope.. only if it was all proxied through Microsoft/Yahoo/AOL's servers, breaking file transfers and voice chat.
What if I want to connect to my Linux machine via ssh remotely? Can't do that either.
You need to edit the properties for the app (i.e. the PIF.).
When the program is running in a window, click the properties icon on the toolbar and it will let you disable various keys which make bad things happen. If it won't let it run in a window, switch to another program (ALT-TAB) so you can see the taskbar and right-click it. Then, pick properties.
Though it's not entirely related, I signed up for a DSL account once with a static IP address. When I got the information from them, they had mistakenly given me a dynamic IP address. So I ca;led them and asked them to switch it. "OK," said the (surprisingly helpful helpdess technician), "You'll get an e-mail with your address in the morning."
Problem was, they sent it to the e-mail address for my new account which I couldn't log onto yet because I hadn't gotten my IP address.
Amen! See the Coyote Linux site. It's IMPOSSIBLE to find anything. (The guy who runs it has even received comments to that effect and has said "Screw you.")
Since when was the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy public domain? It was only written ~25 years ago (well, I don't know the exact date but it couldn't have been much longer than that. The TV series was in 1981.)
The problem with calling it a 404 is that it is not. The two are completely different things and calling them the same will only help to confuse the matter.
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Can't they just split it between multiple reels?
You want to watch movies on a device small enough to fit in your pocket? It would kill my eyes..
Seriously, I have no idea. I really just don't get what is so great about XML. Therefore, I'm going with my above theory.
Not necessarily. Ever played the Asteroids arcade game? It used a vector monitor. This works by using magnetics to draw a line directly onto specific points on the screen, or something like that. See here.
That said, I don't think it is practical enough to use as a normal monitor.
God no! It's slow enough as it is. I'm not trolling. I find it virtually unusable due to it's lackluster speed. Wouldn't rendering everything by SVG just make it worse?
After all, you need to buy the movie to get the whole "Movie X" experience..
I think you see the problem..
Also, Mandrake has urpmi which does essentially the same thing, but has a much greater software selection. Correct me if I'm wrong but the only source for apt-rpm is Freshrpms, right?
I hate the movie theatre experience too. I just went to my local Cineplex Odeon to see Out Of Time (don't bother, it's not very good). There were a reasonable number of trailers, but I wasn't impressed by much else. The projector was out of focus, there were holes in the screen (very noticable when something white goes past in the film) and the print they were showing was badly damaged. For the first 1/4 or so, there were constant speckles and scratches, and for about 20 minutes, later in the film, there was a nasty jiggling line running down the screen.
I say save your money and rent a DVD.
Even if only 1 out of every 10 000 emails creates a sale for them, they will stay in business. I suspect I may be out on those figures by 10's of thousands, too. The thing about spamming is that it is virtually free to send a million SPAM messages.
This is an incredibly bad idea, and it would break tons of things for users.
Online games? Nope.. need open ports. How about IM? Nope.. only if it was all proxied through Microsoft/Yahoo/AOL's servers, breaking file transfers and voice chat.
What if I want to connect to my Linux machine via ssh remotely? Can't do that either.
You need to edit the properties for the app (i.e. the PIF.).
When the program is running in a window, click the properties icon on the toolbar and it will let you disable various keys which make bad things happen. If it won't let it run in a window, switch to another program (ALT-TAB) so you can see the taskbar and right-click it. Then, pick properties.
This is a load of it.
Problem was, they sent it to the e-mail address for my new account which I couldn't log onto yet because I hadn't gotten my IP address.
Amen! See the Coyote Linux site. It's IMPOSSIBLE to find anything. (The guy who runs it has even received comments to that effect and has said "Screw you.")
Yes.. I was just about to comment on that. Here it is: The BOFH wins an award from his peer group ... (halfway down the page)
So what happens if I want to use my ISPs mailserver (or my own, for that matter) when I'm on a trip to Europe? Will I no be able to access by server?
Maybe not, but you don't get a nice diploma for teaching yourself..
Since when was the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy public domain? It was only written ~25 years ago (well, I don't know the exact date but it couldn't have been much longer than that. The TV series was in 1981.)
I'm not French, by the way. Canadian. So stuck in the middle, I guess.
(karma burning mode on)
Scully chose Plan B, which pretty much permenently doomed them to a nitch player.
This is entirely off-topic, but clearly you are an American.
It's niche, and it's pronounced "neesh". (more or less)
Same for clique. "Cleek". (more or less)
They are both French, but you Americans have managed to bastardize them into an unrecognizable mess.
The problem with calling it a 404 is that it is not. The two are completely different things and calling them the same will only help to confuse the matter.
I'm sure that IP address will be used for something else Verisign-related, or will just sit unused for the rest of (IPv4) time.
404 is returned by a server when it exists, but the page does not exist.
Don't you mean wewantournxdomain.com?
NXDOMAIN means that the domain could (as in would be possible to register for), but does not (yet) exist.
This is the same error the lawyers have made in the class-action suit (which I imagine won't be going anywhere now..)
This costs money. I doubt the producers are going to want Windows machines on the set if they have to do retakes when they crash.
DivX 3.11a WAS a hacked Microsoft MPEG-4 codec. BUT, DivX 4 and up are indeed legitimate and are not based on 3.11a in any way.