I recall during my first week here at my university (another one of those *IT's), I suddenly heard a loud "CRASH!!!" outside of my window. Someone threw their monitor out the window. Another person ran into our room thinking we did it... It was rather humorous to see people out there with a shopping cart collecting the pieces.....
Yeah, Mr. Wizard was the best science show. I remember watching him often on Nickelodean when I was younger. My favorite experiment was one that involved I think an iron (or another metal) ball filled with I think CO2 (could be wrong there too), and him dropping it from a distance into a bucket and making it explode... And the one w/ PH levels and the changing color of cabbage juice... I was sad when I learned I couldn't find that around here so easily.... Red/Blue PH strips just aren't the same....
People are saying that they have never gotten a virus on the Mac in the past 8+ years. Times have changed. Up until around the time of Windows XP, you didn't see many viruses infect Windows machines, even if they didn't have anti-virus. Viri infections have been increasing at an exponential rate compared to the past. Many more people have been taking interest in virus-writing, and it probably is only a matter of time until Macs are no longer immune to viruses (the same will probably happen to Linux if it continues to take off, even though it is a hackers best friend).
I was working at a Walmart last summer to help pay for college (should I be posting this as AC?), and they are pretty clear to the cashiers there to check ID if it is unsigned, and to verify the signature if it is signed. Being one of the largest corporations in America probably has something to do with their strictness on the issue. Although you do feel pretty bad when some old lady doesn't have another form of valid ID and an unsigned card....
Actually, although I could be wrong, I recall that the "Apple" key was referred to as Open-Apple in the past. (Perhaps there was a Closed-Apple, but I'm not sure, as it's been a while). This is from back when I used a IIGS (I personally consider it to be the first mac due to an underly-used desktop, and many other features that the rest of the II series never had).
Although that was pure sarcasm due to mythTV not really following the philosophy behind cable-company PVRs, I do agree some company needs to take mythTV and turn it into a commercial project. The server-side is well developed, all we really need is a CHEAP set-top box compatible with it (and no, a modded X-Box doesn't count). An open source game console would be nice.......
Although you can use a command line to burn DVDs/CDs, putting together a disc is something I've always like having a simple point-and-click interface for, as we all know dealing with multiple files on the command line isn't the easiest thing to do. Those that do have the Windows version of Nero probably agree that it's the most fully-featured Windows burning software out there. I've been looking for something nice for Linux, and this could have been it if it didn't require the Licensing (I prefer not to have one $150 program on my system when the rest was free). K3B is nice, but part of the KDE bloat. I'm waiting to see where Gnomebaker and I think Graveman will go in terms of becoming a unified and complete burning suite.
Reminds me of back when the Netscape vs. IE wars were hot, when MS introduced a lot of operating system integration with IE4 (I think it was 4) to make it better then netscape. It more or less brought most of the integration features of Win98 to Win95. But if you tried upgrading IE in Win95 with IE 5, it wouldn't upgrade those features, since they wanted you to upgrade to Win98.
That all sounds great... To your average slashdotter who spends almost all waking hours in front of the computer.... But what about the normal people who know there is life beyond the computer? Isn't it easier for them to check things manually?
I played 40k for a while, and yes, Warhammer would be fun if it didn't require you to sell your soul. It is costly as all hell, and painting the miniatures is a task that can only be done decently if you have a lot of free time on your hands. The core rulebook alone cost $40 last I checked, and like $14 I think for each army rulebook (I haven't played in a couple years, so I could be wrong). And a table-full of pewter does involve financial backing. I think I blew about $250 on my mid-size army (About what you'd want to play full games).
Conclusion: Buy a rule book, buy a couple army rulebooks, and use colored pieces of paper to represent the miniatures. It's not pretty, but it's cheap and works!!
I'm in college, so I haven't really seen it used in the workplace, but where I go to school, the CS department uses Solaris SPARC machines (and seem to be upgrading them still), IT uses primarily Linux I believe, and SE uses Windows. So Solaris most likely still has a presense on academia, since our school isn't bound at the hip with SUN or anything.
Why shouldn't they be ethnocentric? This is life. Life is lived where you are, so life for you revolves around your country. I'm not saying it's right, but that's just how the world is. Most countries are probably fairly ethocentric on some level, even if they don't openly show it.
EULA's with spyware typically make the spyware sound like some sort of cure for all your computers problems, giving you lots of "useful features", while they are actually what causes a lot of the problems.
I wholly agree. Even the controls in Goldeneye were great (I'd love to see their targeting controls reimplemented in another game).
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I've been a pretty big fan of anime, and the main reason I've always assumed that they ignore fansubs is that international copyright law is a sticky issue. Japanese companies going after American fansubbers could create some problems. It's the same reason the RIAA and MPAA don't go after people who release US movies overseas before their domestic release date. By pulling their fansubs once a domestic release has been announced, fansubbers can somewhat protect themselves once the animation in question has US laws protecting it.
It's just how the world is. Those in power will do anything to keep it, and those who want power will work very hard to get it. The US will someday soon fall, and so will China after it's had the spotlight for a while. The world is no different then it was in the past aside from the entire world being a country ruled by a fair king (in comparison to medeval times). The only difference is uprising's no longer work because of WMD's (In the US and some other developed countries, not Iraq).
Damn, mine is barely staying above 3000 k/s... Gotta love college campuses... Too bad, slashdotting Microsoft would be a great accomplishment... Although they probably would have considered it an attack by the linux community....
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Wife? Egads, they do exist for the slashdot crowd....
I would have to say this is the most accurate and politically correct story in slashdot history, maybe even news history....
I recall during my first week here at my university (another one of those *IT's), I suddenly heard a loud "CRASH!!!" outside of my window. Someone threw their monitor out the window. Another person ran into our room thinking we did it... It was rather humorous to see people out there with a shopping cart collecting the pieces.....
Am I the only one that saw this article, and thought I was linked directly to the post due to it's size?
Yeah, Mr. Wizard was the best science show. I remember watching him often on Nickelodean when I was younger. My favorite experiment was one that involved I think an iron (or another metal) ball filled with I think CO2 (could be wrong there too), and him dropping it from a distance into a bucket and making it explode... And the one w/ PH levels and the changing color of cabbage juice... I was sad when I learned I couldn't find that around here so easily.... Red/Blue PH strips just aren't the same....
Hmmmm... A flash memory array to work with a swap file, or more RAM.... Hard decision....
People are saying that they have never gotten a virus on the Mac in the past 8+ years. Times have changed. Up until around the time of Windows XP, you didn't see many viruses infect Windows machines, even if they didn't have anti-virus. Viri infections have been increasing at an exponential rate compared to the past. Many more people have been taking interest in virus-writing, and it probably is only a matter of time until Macs are no longer immune to viruses (the same will probably happen to Linux if it continues to take off, even though it is a hackers best friend).
I was working at a Walmart last summer to help pay for college (should I be posting this as AC?), and they are pretty clear to the cashiers there to check ID if it is unsigned, and to verify the signature if it is signed. Being one of the largest corporations in America probably has something to do with their strictness on the issue. Although you do feel pretty bad when some old lady doesn't have another form of valid ID and an unsigned card....
Actually, although I could be wrong, I recall that the "Apple" key was referred to as Open-Apple in the past. (Perhaps there was a Closed-Apple, but I'm not sure, as it's been a while). This is from back when I used a IIGS (I personally consider it to be the first mac due to an underly-used desktop, and many other features that the rest of the II series never had).
Although that was pure sarcasm due to mythTV not really following the philosophy behind cable-company PVRs, I do agree some company needs to take mythTV and turn it into a commercial project. The server-side is well developed, all we really need is a CHEAP set-top box compatible with it (and no, a modded X-Box doesn't count). An open source game console would be nice.......
Although you can use a command line to burn DVDs/CDs, putting together a disc is something I've always like having a simple point-and-click interface for, as we all know dealing with multiple files on the command line isn't the easiest thing to do. Those that do have the Windows version of Nero probably agree that it's the most fully-featured Windows burning software out there. I've been looking for something nice for Linux, and this could have been it if it didn't require the Licensing (I prefer not to have one $150 program on my system when the rest was free). K3B is nice, but part of the KDE bloat. I'm waiting to see where Gnomebaker and I think Graveman will go in terms of becoming a unified and complete burning suite.
Reminds me of back when the Netscape vs. IE wars were hot, when MS introduced a lot of operating system integration with IE4 (I think it was 4) to make it better then netscape. It more or less brought most of the integration features of Win98 to Win95. But if you tried upgrading IE in Win95 with IE 5, it wouldn't upgrade those features, since they wanted you to upgrade to Win98.
That all sounds great... To your average slashdotter who spends almost all waking hours in front of the computer.... But what about the normal people who know there is life beyond the computer? Isn't it easier for them to check things manually?
If so, I say replace it with two buttons that look like a two way switch so you just have to press your thumb forwards or backwards.
I played 40k for a while, and yes, Warhammer would be fun if it didn't require you to sell your soul. It is costly as all hell, and painting the miniatures is a task that can only be done decently if you have a lot of free time on your hands. The core rulebook alone cost $40 last I checked, and like $14 I think for each army rulebook (I haven't played in a couple years, so I could be wrong). And a table-full of pewter does involve financial backing. I think I blew about $250 on my mid-size army (About what you'd want to play full games). Conclusion: Buy a rule book, buy a couple army rulebooks, and use colored pieces of paper to represent the miniatures. It's not pretty, but it's cheap and works!!
I'm in college, so I haven't really seen it used in the workplace, but where I go to school, the CS department uses Solaris SPARC machines (and seem to be upgrading them still), IT uses primarily Linux I believe, and SE uses Windows. So Solaris most likely still has a presense on academia, since our school isn't bound at the hip with SUN or anything.
Why shouldn't they be ethnocentric? This is life. Life is lived where you are, so life for you revolves around your country. I'm not saying it's right, but that's just how the world is. Most countries are probably fairly ethocentric on some level, even if they don't openly show it.
If only I had thought of that...
EULA's with spyware typically make the spyware sound like some sort of cure for all your computers problems, giving you lots of "useful features", while they are actually what causes a lot of the problems.
That's all fine and dandy. But does it run on linux?
I wholly agree. Even the controls in Goldeneye were great (I'd love to see their targeting controls reimplemented in another game).
I've been a pretty big fan of anime, and the main reason I've always assumed that they ignore fansubs is that international copyright law is a sticky issue. Japanese companies going after American fansubbers could create some problems. It's the same reason the RIAA and MPAA don't go after people who release US movies overseas before their domestic release date. By pulling their fansubs once a domestic release has been announced, fansubbers can somewhat protect themselves once the animation in question has US laws protecting it.
It's just how the world is. Those in power will do anything to keep it, and those who want power will work very hard to get it. The US will someday soon fall, and so will China after it's had the spotlight for a while. The world is no different then it was in the past aside from the entire world being a country ruled by a fair king (in comparison to medeval times). The only difference is uprising's no longer work because of WMD's (In the US and some other developed countries, not Iraq).
Ok, let's see what my roommates already overclocked and overheating Radeon 9800 Pro can do....
Damn, mine is barely staying above 3000 k/s... Gotta love college campuses... Too bad, slashdotting Microsoft would be a great accomplishment... Although they probably would have considered it an attack by the linux community....