If you tried the mosquito samples and simply couldn't hear the last, highest frequency one -- the problem is not your hearing. I opened it with an audio editor to be sure, and the waveform is a flat line. There is NO SOUND in that file.
DOS Airlines Everybody pushes the airplane until it glides, then they jump on and let the plane coast until it hits the ground again, then they push again jump on again, and so on.
Windows Air The terminal is pretty and colorful, with friendly stewards, easy baggage check and boarding, and a smooth take-off. After about 10 minutes in the air, the plane explodes with no warning whatsoever.
Windows NT Air Just like Windows Air, but costs more, uses much bigger planes, and takes out all the other aircraft within a 40-mile radius when it explodes.
Mac Airlines All the stewards, stewardesses, captains, baggage handlers, and ticket agents look the same, act the same, and talk the same. Every time you ask questions about details, you are told you don't need to know, don't want to know, and would you please return to your seat and watch the movie.
Unix Airlines Each passenger brings a piece of the airplane and a box of tools to the airport. They gather on the tarmac, arguing constantly about what kind of plane they want to build and how to put it together. Eventually, they build several different aircraft, but give them all the same name. Some passengers actually reach their destinations. All passengers believe they got there.
OS/2 Airlines The terminal is almost empty, with only a few prospective passengers milling about. The announcer says that their flight has just departed, wishes them a good flight, though there are no planes on the runway. Airline personnel walk around, apologising profusely to customers in hushed voices, pointing from time to time to the sleek, powerful jets outside the terminal on the field. They tell each passenger how good the real flight will be on these new jets and how much safer it will be than Windows Airlines, but that they will have to wait a little longer for the technicians to finish the flight systems. Once they finally finished you're offered a flight at reduced cost. To board the plane, you have your ticket stamped ten different times by standing in ten different lines. Then you fill our a form showing where you want to sit and whether the plane should look and feel like an ocean liner, a passenger train or a bus. If you succeed in getting on the plane and the plane succeeds in taking off the ground, you have a wonderful trip...except for the time when the rudder and flaps get frozen in position, in which case you will just have time to say your prayers and get in crash position.
Wings of OS/400 The airline has bought ancient DC-3s, arguably the best and safest planes that ever flew, and painted "747" on their tails to make them look as if they are fast. The flight attendants, of course, attend to your every need, though the drinks cost $15 a pop. Stupid questions cost $230 per hour, unless you have SupportLine, which requires a first class ticket and membership in the frequent flyer club. Then they cost $500, but your accounting department can call it overhead.
Mach Airlines There is no airplane. The passengers gather and shout for an airplane, then wait and wait and wait and wait. A bunch of people come, each carrying one piece of the plane with them. These people all go out on the runway and put the plane together piece by piece, arguing constantly about what kind of plane they're building. The plane finally takes off, leaving the passengers on the ground waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting. After the plane lands, the pilot telephones the passengers at the departing airport to inform them that they have arrived.
Newton Airlines After buying your ticket 18 months in advance, you finally get to board the plane. Upon boarding the plane you are asked your name. After 6 times, the crew member recognizes your name and then you are allowed to take your seat. As you are getting ready to take your seat, th
Well, that sure is convenient. Which is easier to carry in your pocket: a swiss army knife, or a tool kit? On the other hand, which of them would you rather use to do any serious repair? A dedicated device tends to do its one task much better than an all-purpose device. Audio? Cells tend to have little storage. Gaming? The ergonomics are all wrong. Photo cameras? Even compared to a low-end camera, cells are a joke.
European film industries are heavily subsidized by the state, and when you have to report back to the state on what you've done with their funding, perhaps there is less temptation to cook the books.
I don't know about Europe, but here in Brazil the film industry is also subsidized, especially with tax breaks. And there are two well-known examples of how things go wrong.
Norma Bengell's "O Guarani" cost R$ 4.9 millions, 1/5th of which simply vanished -- and coincidently, at the same time, she bought an apartment worth pretty much the same.
Guilherme Fontes' "Chatô, o Rei do Brasil" burned R$ 15 millions, and remains unfinished because he claims to simply have run out of money.
People support subsidies because their countries can't face Hollywood's hundred-million-bucks blockbusters. But did Roger Corman ever need subsidies? He could take Chatô's budget and produce a dozen movies. And I mean a dozen FUN and PROFITABLE movies.
I recall reading something about those filters... someone copied nasty anti-gay diatribes from a religious group's site and reposted them on a few free webhosting services. All the copies were blocked by a filter as hate speech; the religious group's site was not.
What are you talking about? The N64 controller was JUNK. The dual-shock was far superior in every way.
I was not talking about Nintendo at all. It's just that the Dual Shock is a piss-poor design by itself. And what baffles me is that pretty much every USB gamepad out there is an imitation of it! Why do they copy that junk, rather than something good?!
A very well-designed machine, an excellent controller, and (if you play imports) the finest game library ever. Shameless plug time: check out the Propeller Arena Fan Site.
Seriously, corporations suck - in my experience they're much more hopeless than government organisations. I reckon that whoever says the opposite has an agenda.
If you don't like a company's service, you can always choose another. Can you have for yourself a government different from the one that the majority picked?
There was a reason why we got away from... laissez-faire economics to begin with.
And the reason was: because socialist ideas somehow became very popular. Of course, that shit went catastrophically belly-up when they tried it to its full extent. Which shows we need to go back to laissez-faire!
Slashdot Mirror
If you tried the mosquito samples and simply couldn't hear the last, highest frequency one -- the problem is not your hearing. I opened it with an audio editor to be sure, and the waveform is a flat line. There is NO SOUND in that file.
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1990s called, they want their joke back...
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What if Operating Systems Were Airlines?
DOS Airlines
Everybody pushes the airplane until it glides, then they jump on and let the plane coast until it hits the ground again, then they push again jump on again, and so on.
Windows Air
The terminal is pretty and colorful, with friendly stewards, easy baggage check and boarding, and a smooth take-off. After about 10 minutes in the air, the plane explodes with no warning whatsoever.
Windows NT Air
Just like Windows Air, but costs more, uses much bigger planes, and takes out all the other aircraft within a 40-mile radius when it explodes.
Mac Airlines
All the stewards, stewardesses, captains, baggage handlers, and ticket agents look the same, act the same, and talk the same. Every time you ask questions about details, you are told you don't need to know, don't want to know, and would you please return to your seat and watch the movie.
Unix Airlines
Each passenger brings a piece of the airplane and a box of tools to the airport. They gather on the tarmac, arguing constantly about what kind of plane they want to build and how to put it together. Eventually, they build several different aircraft, but give them all the same name. Some passengers actually reach their destinations. All passengers believe they got there.
OS/2 Airlines
The terminal is almost empty, with only a few prospective passengers milling about. The announcer says that their flight has just departed, wishes them a good flight, though there are no planes on the runway. Airline personnel walk around, apologising profusely to customers in hushed voices, pointing from time to time to the sleek, powerful jets outside the terminal on the field. They tell each passenger how good the real flight will be on these new jets and how much safer it will be than Windows Airlines, but that they will have to wait a little longer for the technicians to finish the flight systems. Once they finally finished you're offered a flight at reduced cost. To board the plane, you have your ticket stamped ten different times by standing in ten different lines. Then you fill our a form showing where you want to sit and whether the plane should look and feel like an ocean liner, a passenger train or a bus. If you succeed in getting on the plane and the plane succeeds in taking off the ground, you have a wonderful trip...except for the time when the rudder and flaps get frozen in position, in which case you will just have time to say your prayers and get in crash position.
Wings of OS/400
The airline has bought ancient DC-3s, arguably the best and safest planes that ever flew, and painted "747" on their tails to make them look as if they are fast. The flight attendants, of course, attend to your every need, though the drinks cost $15 a pop. Stupid questions cost $230 per hour, unless you have SupportLine, which requires a first class ticket and membership in the frequent flyer club. Then they cost $500, but your accounting department can call it overhead.
Mach Airlines
There is no airplane. The passengers gather and shout for an airplane, then wait and wait and wait and wait. A bunch of people come, each carrying one piece of the plane with them. These people all go out on the runway and put the plane together piece by piece, arguing constantly about what kind of plane they're building. The plane finally takes off, leaving the passengers on the ground waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting. After the plane lands, the pilot telephones the passengers at the departing airport to inform them that they have arrived.
Newton Airlines
After buying your ticket 18 months in advance, you finally get to board the plane. Upon boarding the plane you are asked your name. After 6 times, the crew member recognizes your name and then you are allowed to take your seat. As you are getting ready to take your seat, th
And not very GOOD CG at that.
Well, that sure is convenient. Which is easier to carry in your pocket: a swiss army knife, or a tool kit? On the other hand, which of them would you rather use to do any serious repair? A dedicated device tends to do its one task much better than an all-purpose device. Audio? Cells tend to have little storage. Gaming? The ergonomics are all wrong. Photo cameras? Even compared to a low-end camera, cells are a joke.
...but I still don't get why a telephone should have any functions other than MAKE PHONE CALLS and STORE PHONE NUMBERS.
I don't know about Europe, but here in Brazil the film industry is also subsidized, especially with tax breaks. And there are two well-known examples of how things go wrong.
Norma Bengell's "O Guarani" cost R$ 4.9 millions, 1/5th of which simply vanished -- and coincidently, at the same time, she bought an apartment worth pretty much the same.
Guilherme Fontes' "Chatô, o Rei do Brasil" burned R$ 15 millions, and remains unfinished because he claims to simply have run out of money.
People support subsidies because their countries can't face Hollywood's hundred-million-bucks blockbusters. But did Roger Corman ever need subsidies? He could take Chatô's budget and produce a dozen movies. And I mean a dozen FUN and PROFITABLE movies.
I recall reading something about those filters... someone copied nasty anti-gay diatribes from a religious group's site and reposted them on a few free webhosting services. All the copies were blocked by a filter as hate speech; the religious group's site was not.
I've just helped a friend upgrade...
Upgrade to Kubuntu, I mean!
No... by definition, "slashdotting" is an influx of traffic from Slashdot to a server that can not handle it.
That's a good move. I don't recall slashdot ever being slashdotted.
It also teaches an important lesson: penises and cutting objects are NEVER supposed to be close to each other.
A very well-designed machine, an excellent controller, and (if you play imports) the finest game library ever. Shameless plug time: check out the Propeller Arena Fan Site.
How much of this nifty stuff was available when the Beatles did some of the greatest albums ever?