Parent is a legitimate post! The moderator who modded this -1 Troll probably lives on top of the Rockefeller Center or something, where you have perfect reception for any carrier and you can pick up 40 unsecured WiFi hotspots...
I'm from Costa Rica, which has its share of earthquakes. Common wisdom states that the earthquake cycle comes around every 30 to 40 years, and the lasts about 10 years. During that time, a couple of >6.0 earthquakes are expected. This works like clockwork. In 1910, an earthquake levelled the city of Cartago. More high profile earthquakes happened in the 50's, then 30 years of silence, and then the new wave started around 1984 and continued into the early 90's. It now appears to have subsided. In 1991, I experienced the might of a 7.1 quake. I almost crapped my pants.
I find that a good way of generating passwords is to come up with a sentence or a phrase that makes sense to you, take the first letter of each word, and then 1337 it up.
For instance,
Windows XP loves the Sasser worm
becomes:
WxP175W
It's cryptic enough and easy to remember
Branding is one of the greatest scams ever perpetrated on people, but as long as they fall for it, it'll keep going. It might be a good service, or it might not, I haven't tried it to know, but I'd like to think that I'm smart enough to know that using the Napster trademark does not make you the successor of the Napster of old. If I ever use this service, it's because it's good and has a good selection and reasonable prices, not because of the Napster name.
A test for a self sufficient OS is for it to be self hosted, or able to compile itself on itself.
A good test of desktop self-sufficiency could be if an OS can make it's own high quality SVG icons.
Linux is getting there, but not quite yet.
>Games which do not require multiple simultaneous >button presses can be played
Well, that rules out quite a lot of them, doesn't it?
Sorry I wasn't "cunning" enough to think of a joke..
In many countries, it's customary to live with your parents until you get married and move away. That's how it is in Costa Rica, where I'm from. I wouldn't be surprised that Italy is the same way, them being so family oriented.
Yeah, I got your point. I could just do it that way, but I'm afraid I rely too much on programmed drums (I'm a guitarist). Unfortunately, I don't have a drummer, or an apartment where I can bang on a drumset, so I depend heavily on flexible software drums. I've been using Magix Music Studio on Winblows, which is great, flexible and powerful, except that the drum samples sound like crap. But you can do 7/8 polyrhythms just fine...
Anyway, I just got a Powerbook, and I was wondering whether I could make do with GarageBand or whether I need something a bit more sophisticated.
I do have homebrew prog.. but it's not online at the moment.
Thanks for the pointer, BTW. I'm playing a bit with it to see what it can do.
I use Firefox you insensitive clod!
Seriously, with even that old, obsolete behemoth IE coming out with popup blocking. I suppose in a couple of years popup advertising will be obsolete and completely unprofitable.
On the other hand, I'm sure spammers and scumbags like Claria will come up with methods that are twice as annoying and twice as hard to block.
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>I belong to the blank generation...and I can take it or leave it each time...
Why, thank you!!
That takes care of my problem, at least partially...
So as long as I stick with one tempo and time sig within a song (i.e. punk rock) I'll be fine.
I've been playing with GarageBand for a couple of days, and I can't find an obvious way for a song to have multiple tempos or time signatures, making it very limited for doing progressive rock.
And I wish I had a dedicated midi drum editor. I know, that's probably too much to ask from an app that came free with my Powerbook..
It is a pretty ridiculous juxtaposition, but that's the point. People could be writing web apps, GUI apps, and any number of different things in C/C++, yet it has been supplanted in a lot of these applications by special purpose languages. It's been a while since I've done or seen someone doing web apps in C/C++. These days it's PHP/perl/JSP/ASP all the way.
Agreed. Linux has advanced to the point where hardware support is almost not an issue. Almost.
I'd say that if people stick to standard, mainstream hardware, then they won't have any problems.
I've had problems with video card, SCSI cards, RAID cards, Fibre Channel cards, PCI cow milking cards, but never, not once, have I had trouble getting a mainstream sound card to work under Linux.
I like this. It was about time someone saw the need of a cleaner, more modern version of C/C++ that takes the best features of the modern languages that are supplanting it in higher-level application development, like Java and Perl.
However, I it is doubful it will gain a foothold in the current ocean of multiple, semi-specialized languages.
It's nice to see my school in the list. They've had wireless since like the day the first Apple AirPort base station came out, and they deployed it widely pretty much from day one.
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Parent is a legitimate post! The moderator who modded this -1 Troll probably lives on top of the Rockefeller Center or something, where you have perfect reception for any carrier and you can pick up 40 unsecured WiFi hotspots...
Sprint PCS has reasonable coverage and reasonable service, although here in DC I go into roaming whenever I use the Metro..
What bothers me the most about them is the lack of phones with Bluetooth
I'm from Costa Rica, which has its share of earthquakes. Common wisdom states that the earthquake cycle comes around every 30 to 40 years, and the lasts about 10 years. During that time, a couple of >6.0 earthquakes are expected. This works like clockwork. In 1910, an earthquake levelled the city of Cartago. More high profile earthquakes happened in the 50's, then 30 years of silence, and then the new wave started around 1984 and continued into the early 90's. It now appears to have subsided. In 1991, I experienced the might of a 7.1 quake. I almost crapped my pants.
I find that a good way of generating passwords is to come up with a sentence or a phrase that makes sense to you, take the first letter of each word, and then 1337 it up. For instance, Windows XP loves the Sasser worm becomes: WxP175W It's cryptic enough and easy to remember
Branding is one of the greatest scams ever perpetrated on people, but as long as they fall for it, it'll keep going. It might be a good service, or it might not, I haven't tried it to know, but I'd like to think that I'm smart enough to know that using the Napster trademark does not make you the successor of the Napster of old. If I ever use this service, it's because it's good and has a good selection and reasonable prices, not because of the Napster name.
A test for a self sufficient OS is for it to be self hosted, or able to compile itself on itself.
A good test of desktop self-sufficiency could be if an OS can make it's own high quality SVG icons.
Linux is getting there, but not quite yet.
>Games which do not require multiple simultaneous >button presses can be played
Well, that rules out quite a lot of them, doesn't it?
Sorry I wasn't "cunning" enough to think of a joke..
In many countries, it's customary to live with your parents until you get married and move away. That's how it is in Costa Rica, where I'm from. I wouldn't be surprised that Italy is the same way, them being so family oriented.
Yeah, I got your point. I could just do it that way, but I'm afraid I rely too much on programmed drums (I'm a guitarist). Unfortunately, I don't have a drummer, or an apartment where I can bang on a drumset, so I depend heavily on flexible software drums. I've been using Magix Music Studio on Winblows, which is great, flexible and powerful, except that the drum samples sound like crap. But you can do 7/8 polyrhythms just fine...
Anyway, I just got a Powerbook, and I was wondering whether I could make do with GarageBand or whether I need something a bit more sophisticated.
I do have homebrew prog.. but it's not online at the moment.
Thanks for the pointer, BTW. I'm playing a bit with it to see what it can do.
I use Firefox you insensitive clod!
Seriously, with even that old, obsolete behemoth IE coming out with popup blocking. I suppose in a couple of years popup advertising will be obsolete and completely unprofitable.
On the other hand, I'm sure spammers and scumbags like Claria will come up with methods that are twice as annoying and twice as hard to block.
>I belong to the blank generation ...and I can take it or leave it each time...
Why, thank you!! That takes care of my problem, at least partially... So as long as I stick with one tempo and time sig within a song (i.e. punk rock) I'll be fine.
I've been playing with GarageBand for a couple of days, and I can't find an obvious way for a song to have multiple tempos or time signatures, making it very limited for doing progressive rock. And I wish I had a dedicated midi drum editor. I know, that's probably too much to ask from an app that came free with my Powerbook..
For some reason, the only thing I can see coming out of this is a big bite in the ass...
Seems like Comcast is shaping up to be the next Evil Empire. Too bad, I am reasonably happy with their service.
It is a pretty ridiculous juxtaposition, but that's the point. People could be writing web apps, GUI apps, and any number of different things in C/C++, yet it has been supplanted in a lot of these applications by special purpose languages. It's been a while since I've done or seen someone doing web apps in C/C++. These days it's PHP/perl/JSP/ASP all the way.
Agreed. Linux has advanced to the point where hardware support is almost not an issue. Almost.
I'd say that if people stick to standard, mainstream hardware, then they won't have any problems.
I've had problems with video card, SCSI cards, RAID cards, Fibre Channel cards, PCI cow milking cards, but never, not once, have I had trouble getting a mainstream sound card to work under Linux.
I like this. It was about time someone saw the need of a cleaner, more modern version of C/C++ that takes the best features of the modern languages that are supplanting it in higher-level application development, like Java and Perl.
However, I it is doubful it will gain a foothold in the current ocean of multiple, semi-specialized languages.
It's nice to see my school in the list. They've had wireless since like the day the first Apple AirPort base station came out, and they deployed it widely pretty much from day one.
Please, don't feed the troll.
I've seen this one a few times already.
I can see why. I used Macs for years but I didn't write a line of code for them (except java) until Mac OS X came out.
behold my sig....
That's cool, but would really have OpenBSD ported to my Casio G-Shock watch.
Only then will I will secure from malicious crackers, worms and viruses!
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