Huh? What does this mean? It does not even parse.
I get the general feeling that you're trying to dis Ubuntu, but please don't blame it for your poor writing skills.
Well, FC5 and GNOME 2.14 are scheduled to be released on the same day, and it's in FC5-test 2, so chances are they'll go out together. I sure hope so, or it may be the end of my relationship with the Hat.
I believe they pushed FC5 a bit to accomodate the new GNOME.
If you want to see a lot more than the two pictures in the MSN article, and even more than the several provided by Nat'l Geographic, check out the Beeb. They have a 1m39s video.
In the upper-right corner you will see the video link. RealPlayer--it may suck for windows users (does it, still?), but it's *nix friendly.
Am I the only one who finds it a bit sad that this poor creature got entangled with the bait, and was only able to get away (after several hours) by ripping off a tentacle?
No, you're not the only one. Cephalopods are very interesting and possibly intelligent creatures, and this giant squid amputee certainly has a bigger brain than any of the posters who offhandedly dismiss your empathy (not withstanding the brain matter that has been lost along with its limb--squids' brains extend into their "arms").
Whether or not it would be capable of creating more cogent responses to your post than them is still open to debate.
Googling for "squid intelligence" led me to this very interesting, if inconclusive article. Unfortunately I couldn't find the article posted on any "reputable" online news source... I'm afraid it's probably plagiarized from some print publication. But here's the link:
You can surely find out far more about cephalopods if you are interested... including those articles I've read before which suggest their intelligence rivals those of dogs. And yes, I do feel some empathy when I see a three-legged dog.
"[CTO of IBM's xSeries server group Tom Bradicich] acknowledges that there are challenges in producing such a large system -- including building support into Windows and Linux, neither of which are suited for 64-processor systems today"
Looks like someone was up to those challenges, eh? 64-processor support *and* 64-bit support. Awesome news.
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In the centigrade scale, at least half the scale is not typically used.
Half the scale not used!? 0 is freezing, 100 is boiling (at std. atmospheric pressure). That entire range is extremely useful and relevant in everyday life.
Where I live, the temperature is usually below freezing this time of year. What logic is there in saying that the first degree below freezing is THIRTY ONE?
Freezing is a very relevant temperature point, and having sub- freezing temperatures lie below zero makes a lot of sense to me. Right now it's -14C here. It's negative. That means its COLD, see?
The ZERO point in Farenheit is pretty damned meaningless (but it'll be well below 0F tonight, woot). Of course, later this year it may reach -40F, which is the only temperature in Farenheit that makes sense--because then it'll also be -40C.
Someone else mentioned Joker.com, and I agree that they are a great registrar. I've used them since 2001, and have about 5 or 6 domains registered with them.
The first thing I heard about these new rules was in some emails from Joker the other day telling me they were locking my domains for me. As far as tech support goes, I've honestly never needed any; I can control every aspect of my domains via a reasonably well designed web interface.
Have you got any reputable source to back up that alleged Stalin quote? It's certainly a provocative statement, and sadly apropos in these times, and I even agree with the moderators who voted your post "Interesting", but I suggest you don't go bandying quotes about if you don't have any evidence that they're real.
I am almost looking forward to that day because then I will have a tiny hard drive to play with.
You mean a dead, tiny hard drive.
The hard drive's the most likely thing to fail. Thank dog I read someone's advice and got an extended warranty on my Rio Karma--the drive just failed after a few months, and Circuit City (bless their megacorporate hearts) just replaced it for me. But yes, I'd buy another one. I love this thing. Even if they're not admitting the problems publicly, I hope the Rio folks are giving unholy hell to the hard drive manufacturer.
Sounds like a good reason not to rent from Hertz! It's not like it's as hard to change car rental agencies as it is to change banks.
Obviously everyone's concept of "important sites" differs, but I haven't used IE (or Windows)* in years and I regulary shop online, do online banking, etc. The few sites that gave me trouble a year or so ago now work great (mostly thanks to improvements in Opera, my primary browser).
It's true that I do occasionally have trouble with Firefox (which I'm using more and more these days), but it's pre-1.0 software and it's also not the only non-IE browser choice.
*for anything other than testing/development purposes.
The first one (only one on the torrent) works fine for me with xine 0.9.21 (not exactly the latest)... although I do have mplayer-codecs-win32-dmo-9.0-2 installed too.
You make some good points, but doesn't WMP also support MP3s as well as WMA?
Anyway, as far as OGG goes, I just bought a 20GB Rio Karma for a recent road trip, partly because it supports OGG (and MP3, WMA, FLAC and file storage). As bonuses there's an official "lite" Java client (i.e. no hassle to use it under linux!), and an ethernet port in the "dock" (i.e. no USB hassles in any OS, but it also supports USB of course).
I had trouble getting Grip to properly encode Ogg files (hey, I was in a hurry and had never done it before!), so I stuck with MP3s, but my girlfriend used their (full, Windows) client to create Oggs--actually she had problems getting that software to create MP3s (some unbelievable license BS).
This is probably the same reason they haven't done OGG support yet as well, not necessarily because they want to stuff AAC down your throat like MS does with their Windows Media formats, but simply because it's not something over which they have control.
The rest of your post makes sense, but how is Apple's pushing (only supporting) their proprietary format different than Microsoft stuffing WMA "down your throat"? Sounds like mac-head doublespeak to me.
But what if I'm not an athiest? You still demand that I follow your beliefs? You sound like you're more fascist than athiest.
Personally, I respect people of all religions and would defend to the death their right to believe in and practice what they will--as long as that tolerance is mutual, of course. Unfortunately the religious right in America (and everywhere, for that matter) is nowhere near that respectful of others.
In any case, I will give any religious zealots as little money as possible. I do encourage everyone to put their money where their hearts and minds are, and not give it to organization whose values contradict those of the giver/spender.
In case your troll was an attempt to put words into my mouth, I hope this has cleared things up.
Now please, return to the topic: Ugly little electric cars.
Unless Mike Myers has found god in a big way, I doubt it. Googling for "mike myers christian", the first listing was for naked Mike Meyers videos (!!). No, I didn't check those out for authenticity. Nevertheless, I think if the Mike the actor Myers was as much into christianity as these folks, that fact would feature prominently in any google search.
Just read the "Values" page on the myersmotors.com flash-madness web site:
#1: Glorify God
#5: Share our financial success on behalf of God's Kingdom.
#6: Get to know (in the biblical sense) as many numerous groovy chicks as possible before the arrival of Armageddon (which we may or may not see before Doom 3).
Just kidding on that last one...
Anyway, I'm glad they're clear on their values, so those who do not share them can choose to avoid contributing to causes they do not agree with. Personally, if I wanted to give my money to god, I'd arrange to have it buried with me.
I explored their site (and skimmed their TOS) and had no problems, so tried to use their test despite a couple posts mentioning server errors. I clicked the button to test my connection to Boston (across the country incidentally), and the server coughed and died. But for some reason I went back and tried it a second time, and had no problem. They must have their service distributed across several servers and one or more of them is down. If you care, just keep trying. Maybe they're just doing it on purpose, to scare off the slashdotters who were just going to click and run, anyway. =)
So, from the left coast to Boston, I got a 4.0/4.4 possible score. Next I tried San Jose, only about 30 miles away from here--I got under 3.0 on their scale, "worse than a bad cell call". Terribly latency and some packet loss. London? 4.3 out of 4.4! Even Helsinki (4.0?) and Montreal (3.6?) were pretty damned good. I guess. If these measurements are really indicative of anything.
Reminds me of an early Heinlein short story, in which the shorter distances you sent packages by post, the longer they would take to arrive. Send the packets... er, packages, off the planet and they'd get there faster than light!
Mr Melvill said he had heard a loud bang during Monday's record-breaking flight. On the ground, he pointed out a section towards the back of the craft where a part of the structure covering the nozzle had buckled, suggesting it may have caused the odd noise. After the flight he said: "I think I'll back off a little bit now and ride my bike."
(emphasis mine)
It sounds to me like it might be something more serious than the news I've seen is making it out to be, though I have no doubt they'll iron out the problem before the next flight. I'm just glad he made it back safely this time.
So, I would wager good money that the promised 10 year "lifetime" of your US passports could be rendered invalid just as easily -- and you'd have wasted a wad of cash.
They may end up invalidating all older passports before they were due to expire, but in the USA it only costs $85 to renew a passport. I'd wager that's not a "big wad of cash " to most Yankees who can afford to travel abroad these days, so I say:
If your US passport is going to expire soon anyway, and you care about your privacy, then maybe it's time to lose/sell;) it (the passport!) and get a new one ASAP. While you're waiting for the new one to arrive, contact your House and Senate representatives and tell them you think your elected government's getting a little too nosy for its own good.
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Huh? What does this mean? It does not even parse. I get the general feeling that you're trying to dis Ubuntu, but please don't blame it for your poor writing skills.
I believe they pushed FC5 a bit to accomodate the new GNOME.
Quick googling produces this discussion, but you could always find some more if you looked: http://lwn.net/Articles/168225/In the upper-right corner you will see the video link. RealPlayer--it may suck for windows users (does it, still?), but it's *nix friendly.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4288772. stm
No, you're not the only one. Cephalopods are very interesting and possibly intelligent creatures, and this giant squid amputee certainly has a bigger brain than any of the posters who offhandedly dismiss your empathy (not withstanding the brain matter that has been lost along with its limb--squids' brains extend into their "arms").
Whether or not it would be capable of creating more cogent responses to your post than them is still open to debate.
Googling for "squid intelligence" led me to this very interesting, if inconclusive article. Unfortunately I couldn't find the article posted on any "reputable" online news source... I'm afraid it's probably plagiarized from some print publication. But here's the link:
http://members.fortunecity.com/templarseries/ceph
You can surely find out far more about cephalopods if you are interested... including those articles I've read before which suggest their intelligence rivals those of dogs. And yes, I do feel some empathy when I see a three-legged dog.
Looks like someone was up to those challenges, eh? 64-processor support *and* 64-bit support. Awesome news.
And here I thought he was making a clever pun.
GINJ? That seems like a silly name for a planet!
Half the scale not used!? 0 is freezing, 100 is boiling (at std. atmospheric pressure). That entire range is extremely useful and relevant in everyday life.
Where I live, the temperature is usually below freezing this time of year. What logic is there in saying that the first degree below freezing is THIRTY ONE?
Freezing is a very relevant temperature point, and having sub- freezing temperatures lie below zero makes a lot of sense to me. Right now it's -14C here. It's negative. That means its COLD, see?
The ZERO point in Farenheit is pretty damned meaningless (but it'll be well below 0F tonight, woot). Of course, later this year it may reach -40F, which is the only temperature in Farenheit that makes sense--because then it'll also be -40C.
That one's easy: Tools->AutoCorrect->"Capitalize first letter of every sentence". It's a box. Uncheck it.
I have no idea about your other questions. I think there's an OpenOffice user forum where you could ask...
...and if you try to view MSN's cached page for google, it comes up blank.
Someone else mentioned Joker.com, and I agree that they are a great registrar. I've used them since 2001, and have about 5 or 6 domains registered with them.
The first thing I heard about these new rules was in some emails from Joker the other day telling me they were locking my domains for me. As far as tech support goes, I've honestly never needed any; I can control every aspect of my domains via a reasonably well designed web interface.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa121 800a.htm
No hiss here. Have you got the latest firmware?
You mean a dead, tiny hard drive.
The hard drive's the most likely thing to fail. Thank dog I read someone's advice and got an extended warranty on my Rio Karma--the drive just failed after a few months, and Circuit City (bless their megacorporate hearts) just replaced it for me. But yes, I'd buy another one. I love this thing. Even if they're not admitting the problems publicly, I hope the Rio folks are giving unholy hell to the hard drive manufacturer.
Obviously everyone's concept of "important sites" differs, but I haven't used IE (or Windows)* in years and I regulary shop online, do online banking, etc. The few sites that gave me trouble a year or so ago now work great (mostly thanks to improvements in Opera, my primary browser).
It's true that I do occasionally have trouble with Firefox (which I'm using more and more these days), but it's pre-1.0 software and it's also not the only non-IE browser choice.
*for anything other than testing/development purposes.
The first one (only one on the torrent) works fine for me with xine 0.9.21 (not exactly the latest)... although I do have mplayer-codecs-win32-dmo-9.0-2 installed too.
Anyway, as far as OGG goes, I just bought a 20GB Rio Karma for a recent road trip, partly because it supports OGG (and MP3, WMA, FLAC and file storage). As bonuses there's an official "lite" Java client (i.e. no hassle to use it under linux!), and an ethernet port in the "dock" (i.e. no USB hassles in any OS, but it also supports USB of course).
I had trouble getting Grip to properly encode Ogg files (hey, I was in a hurry and had never done it before!), so I stuck with MP3s, but my girlfriend used their (full, Windows) client to create Oggs--actually she had problems getting that software to create MP3s (some unbelievable license BS).
The rest of your post makes sense, but how is Apple's pushing (only supporting) their proprietary format different than Microsoft stuffing WMA "down your throat"? Sounds like mac-head doublespeak to me.
Personally, I respect people of all religions and would defend to the death their right to believe in and practice what they will--as long as that tolerance is mutual, of course. Unfortunately the religious right in America (and everywhere, for that matter) is nowhere near that respectful of others.
In any case, I will give any religious zealots as little money as possible. I do encourage everyone to put their money where their hearts and minds are, and not give it to organization whose values contradict those of the giver/spender.
In case your troll was an attempt to put words into my mouth, I hope this has cleared things up.
Now please, return to the topic: Ugly little electric cars.
Just read the "Values" page on the myersmotors.com flash-madness web site:
Just kidding on that last one...
Anyway, I'm glad they're clear on their values, so those who do not share them can choose to avoid contributing to causes they do not agree with. Personally, if I wanted to give my money to god, I'd arrange to have it buried with me.
So, from the left coast to Boston, I got a 4.0/4.4 possible score. Next I tried San Jose, only about 30 miles away from here--I got under 3.0 on their scale, "worse than a bad cell call". Terribly latency and some packet loss. London? 4.3 out of 4.4! Even Helsinki (4.0?) and Montreal (3.6?) were pretty damned good. I guess. If these measurements are really indicative of anything.
Reminds me of an early Heinlein short story, in which the shorter distances you sent packages by post, the longer they would take to arrive. Send the packets... er, packages, off the planet and they'd get there faster than light!
Mr Melvill said he had heard a loud bang during Monday's record-breaking flight. On the ground, he pointed out a section towards the back of the craft where a part of the structure covering the nozzle had buckled, suggesting it may have caused the odd noise. After the flight he said: "I think I'll back off a little bit now and ride my bike."
(emphasis mine) It sounds to me like it might be something more serious than the news I've seen is making it out to be, though I have no doubt they'll iron out the problem before the next flight. I'm just glad he made it back safely this time.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3759307.stm
This article is a bit different (more up-to-date) than the only other BBC article I've seen anyone post here.
They may end up invalidating all older passports before they were due to expire, but in the USA it only costs $85 to renew a passport. I'd wager that's not a "big wad of cash " to most Yankees who can afford to travel abroad these days, so I say:
If your US passport is going to expire soon anyway, and you care about your privacy, then maybe it's time to lose/sell ;) it (the passport!) and get a new one ASAP. While you're waiting for the new one to arrive, contact your House and Senate representatives and tell them you think your elected government's getting a little too nosy for its own good.
Apparently, the assignation of the patent to Microsoft was an error.
Well, we all know what a house of assignation the Patent Office has become lately, so it's no surprise to me that these sorts of things are going on!