Re:Press release is kind of funny...
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News from Mars
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Well, hell... the Brits still call the USA "the Colonies"... Sounds like "being very American" can actually be traced back to Europe in the first place:)
Yeah.. every time I search for somethink like "Erin Gray Naked", I get all these cheesy fake celebrity pr0n sites that all _eventually_ wind up a Mr. Skin!
WTF google? I need better obscure 70s TV start naked searches!
well, I thought the whole point to any "geekiness"-related article was to completely avoid the _actual_ topic and just verbally pound my puny geek chest about anything that would give me a geeky leg up on the competition!
But it'll make it a hell of a lot easier to write configuration UIs (especially ones with a common look and feel) if the underpinnings are all based on XML. Heck... you could write a generic config file editor and then just expand on it to customize for complicated things like XF86. Also, an XML Schema validation would automagically tell you which piece of the file is not correct, instead of missing a space between two values in the XF86Config... It's a heck of a lot easier to visually parse XML than something that requires a space between 2 numbers and an "X" between 2 others... When things don't work right, we get flashing screens and kicked back to the command line rather than an invalid configuration error.
because XF86Config is not as simple as foo=bar.... which video settings does your video card support? Which refresh rates? What color depth. You're way oversimplifying it.
First audio I downloaded was Monty Python's Holy Grail snippets in AU format on the HP UX machines at work while I was in college back in 1992... It took me forever to figure out how to play them.
What's invasive? It's not like your punching in with a rectal exam!
Are you afraid that the system will notice that there is a lot of hair on your palms? hmm? Beating the bishop a little too much, eh? Waxing the old carrot and don't want anyone to know?
Just because you battle the cyclops every chance you get doesn't mean that they have to choose another biometric measurement!
Re:Is Apple or Microsoft forcing HP to do this?
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No WMA for HP iPod
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They're a monopoly on making cool-looking overpriced hardware;)
(Posts like this are like setting fire to your own Karma...)
I thought the whole concept of getting different card didn't work, since the phones were bound the card or some nonesense... Maybe just in the US? Dunno.
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Well, hell... the Brits still call the USA "the Colonies"... Sounds like "being very American" can actually be traced back to Europe in the first place :)
Yeah.. every time I search for somethink like "Erin Gray Naked", I get all these cheesy fake celebrity pr0n sites that all _eventually_ wind up a Mr. Skin!
WTF google? I need better obscure 70s TV start naked searches!
But it'll make it a hell of a lot easier to write configuration UIs (especially ones with a common look and feel) if the underpinnings are all based on XML.
Heck... you could write a generic config file editor and then just expand on it to customize for complicated things like XF86. Also, an XML Schema validation would automagically tell you which piece of the file is not correct, instead of missing a space between two values in the XF86Config...
It's a heck of a lot easier to visually parse XML than something that requires a space between 2 numbers and an "X" between 2 others...
When things don't work right, we get flashing screens and kicked back to the command line rather than an invalid configuration error.
well, actually I alternate occasionally... it feels like someone else is doing it... :)
I thought most of them already had Popeye arms from ... well... you know...
I know this is off-topic, but:
Am I the only one who finds it excrutiating that someone thought it was a good idea to use "com.com" as a domain??
you other brothers can't deny...
When a girl walks in
with an itty bitty waist
and a round thing in your face,
you get sprung...
geez... I can't believe I know the words to that song...
My old ISP Smart.net used to give each user the third-level domain for their userid back in 1994!
"Ewww... You got your Gentoo stuck in my hair!"
It'd be just like being in the Matrix.... Not sure if that weird fluid is needed though...
Cameras at the front door scan for people. When a hit on a known person is made, that person's name is announced.
What I do with that information is up to me... (System: "Your mother-in-law." Me: *hiding in the basement*)
Are you afraid that the system will notice that there is a lot of hair on your palms? hmm?
Beating the bishop a little too much, eh?
Waxing the old carrot and don't want anyone to know?
Just because you battle the cyclops every chance you get doesn't mean that they have to choose another biometric measurement!
(Posts like this are like setting fire to your own Karma...)