Yeah, that works, too, but I usually want to copy whole paths (not just filenames) of a bunch of files at once. I use a little Java prog I wrote to save a list of file paths into a text file, then after some modification with a text editor, I use another Java prog to rename mp3 files and whatnot into a batch. My favorite text editor doesn't do Unicode, and unicode batch files don't work under win2k, so I had to resort to using notepad and writing my own batch emulation app. If I find enough free time in the future, I'd like to work on a text editor.
What was the original article again? Oh yeah, scroll lock and lesbian porn (read: filler article).
Hmm.. Maybe you can call it 'imperial' system because some people will categorize America as an empire. Traditionally, imperial units are all pre-metric, so there's a problem in calling such a new unit 'imperial,' which brings up another point: the French didn't decide to name their meters "foot", because then people would have to ask which foot are you talking about. But nowadays, due to corporate interests, the naming scheme is designed to confuse and extract the most money out of customers. I think the unit "kilobyte" is tainted. It has been given two definitions, so it should be abandoned as a unit. Both "1024 bytes" and "1000 bytes" need a new unit name. (And same goes for calorie vs. Calorie)
There's the argument that the unit for "1024 bytes" ought not to have the name "kilo" in it, but that's just retarded. Languages primarily evolve through bastardization. When the word kilobyte only had one definition (1KB = 2^10B), it gave me no confusion whatsoever. From the article link, "kibi" comes from kilobinary. If a new name must be used, why not call 1024 bytes as 1 kilobinary bytes? I think kilobinary or megabinary is easier to remember and use than kibi or mebi.
Heh, I use Win95 PowerToys instead (even though I used Win 2k). It has a "Send to X..." applet. It adds new items in your "send to" context menu submenu. I always use send filename to clipboard. The problem is, since it's a windows 9x applet, it converts text into windows-1252. And when I paste the result into a windows 2k program, it interprets the text as a shift-jis byte sequence. Which is actually convenient when I want to read what the jumbled up filenames mean that I get from WinMX, but I digress...
the thing with ipods is they probably don't spin most of the time already and only spin for a short while when they do (think huge memory caches), so i don't know how much additional protection a stop-in-10-seconds feature will add (needs cost v. benefit analysis). my rio volt mp3 cd player seems to spin only once every 10 minutes. if only i knew more about tribology and harddrives, i'd be able to appreciate what ibm has done this time around.
Whether it's offshore or OSS, it saves money. And the company that saves the most money can stay competitive, and with that, they won't lose market share. By not losing market share, they can keep more jobs than they would have if they didn't save money with OSS or offshore dev. If US companies didn't save money with OSS and offshore dev, there would be higher US unemployment when foreign companies out-compete them. Slashdot's anti-offshore development thing to me seems like nothing but nationalism/xenophobia, and such attitude will only hurt the US in the long run.
ROTFL! Man, that was a good one. Post WWII Japan, anyone? How about North Korea (aka Democratic People's Republic of Korea)? Of course, anyone can define democracy AND famine such that it satisfies your statement.
Democracy is not the antonym of communism, by the way. Democracy describes how the chiefs get their job. Communism describes an economic model. Famine tends to have stronger correlation with natural disaster, embargo, and war rather than whether or not it is democratic. Not only stronger correlation, but also a causal link, too, which is a plus.
That device looks pretty cool. Strange how it needed approval from the FDA... But is it necessary? It seems like laws these days require people to make things more accessible to handicapped people anyway (fewer stairs + more elevators). Personally I'm waiting for my cheap robot-slave that will make me money.
I think it's not about its genes per se that allowed it to remained unchanged, but rather there were a lack of change in environment that would have caused evolution, such as new predators or new competitors.
Although pushing packets are cheaper than pushing people, the internet would be much more expensive if ISPs tried to collect money each time you pushed a packet. Imagine how many bills that would add up to!
As seen in Tokyo and New York, one way to cut costs is to switch away from tickets and tokens to reusable cards, and to replace people with machines for selling and collecting the tickets.
As seen in Frankfurt and Prague, another way to cut costs is to not check people, but have the police check only a few and fine them when they don't have a pass.
When running, the software appears on the screen as a phone with a dial pad. Phone numbers are dialed by clicking the numbers on the key pad.
I doubt many people would be so afraid of keyboards that they'd rather use a mouse! I'm guessing that there'd also be a feature where you type or click on a nickname from your personal address book to make a call. I can see softphone in the future working with fake urls, sort of like those aim:// urls that Aim has.
x-drive online storage is 2 GB for $29.95 per month
$400.00 gets you... 26 GB per month
Yahoo! Briefcase is 100 MB for $35 per year
$400.00 gets you... 1.14 GB per year
with Mirra, $400.00 gets you 120 GB forever.
Mirra beats all of the above storage options, despite the fact that online storage tend to be more expensive than portable media storage. This could make a whole slew of storages irrelevant. Of course, free software on your OS that serves as FTP is probably the cheapest. A peer-to-peer network of encrypted personal backups could be great for future harddrive backups.
Many of the PCs at the lab i'm at right now have Trillian installed. I can run them and log-in to the Stupid Users' IM accounts! Of course it's the Stupid Users' responsibility, but it's also partly the software provider's responsibility to make software that is right for its userbase.
(In contrast, mozilla user profiles are inaccessible to others on Win2k machines.)
Take a walk down Osaka, say, and you'll inevitably see Yahoo! BB ADSL sales reps vigourously peddling their broadband service exactly because adoption has been so slow. For the most part, the average Japanese person connects to the internet either in the workplace or through their cell phones.
Yeah, I remember seeing Yahoo! ppl handing out their broadband kits in Tokyo, too.
I also remember reading about them in a wired magazine article too.
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Yeah, that works, too, but I usually want to copy whole paths (not just filenames) of a bunch of files at once. I use a little Java prog I wrote to save a list of file paths into a text file, then after some modification with a text editor, I use another Java prog to rename mp3 files and whatnot into a batch. My favorite text editor doesn't do Unicode, and unicode batch files don't work under win2k, so I had to resort to using notepad and writing my own batch emulation app. If I find enough free time in the future, I'd like to work on a text editor.
What was the original article again? Oh yeah, scroll lock and lesbian porn (read: filler article).
Hitachi(formely IBM)'s 120 GB HDD:
123,522,416,640 bytes
So-called 120 GiB (120 * 2^30 bytes):
128,849,018,880 bytes
When Windows reads Hitachi's HD:
123,510,771,712 --- 115 GB
So Windows loses 11,644,928 bytes (possibly to filesystem?). Mac OS X loses 1026 bytes.
Article doesn't use GiB unit.
One imperial kilobyte = 1024 bytes
Hmm.. Maybe you can call it 'imperial' system because some people will categorize America as an empire. Traditionally, imperial units are all pre-metric, so there's a problem in calling such a new unit 'imperial,' which brings up another point: the French didn't decide to name their meters "foot", because then people would have to ask which foot are you talking about. But nowadays, due to corporate interests, the naming scheme is designed to confuse and extract the most money out of customers. I think the unit "kilobyte" is tainted. It has been given two definitions, so it should be abandoned as a unit. Both "1024 bytes" and "1000 bytes" need a new unit name. (And same goes for calorie vs. Calorie)
There's the argument that the unit for "1024 bytes" ought not to have the name "kilo" in it, but that's just retarded. Languages primarily evolve through bastardization. When the word kilobyte only had one definition (1KB = 2^10B), it gave me no confusion whatsoever. From the article link, "kibi" comes from kilobinary. If a new name must be used, why not call 1024 bytes as 1 kilobinary bytes? I think kilobinary or megabinary is easier to remember and use than kibi or mebi.
Heh, I use Win95 PowerToys instead (even though I used Win 2k). It has a "Send to X..." applet. It adds new items in your "send to" context menu submenu. I always use send filename to clipboard. The problem is, since it's a windows 9x applet, it converts text into windows-1252. And when I paste the result into a windows 2k program, it interprets the text as a shift-jis byte sequence. Which is actually convenient when I want to read what the jumbled up filenames mean that I get from WinMX, but I digress...
second search item on google search for Benjamin Curtis: 'Dell Dude' released after marijuana arrest
the thing with ipods is they probably don't spin most of the time already and only spin for a short while when they do (think huge memory caches), so i don't know how much additional protection a stop-in-10-seconds feature will add (needs cost v. benefit analysis). my rio volt mp3 cd player seems to spin only once every 10 minutes. if only i knew more about tribology and harddrives, i'd be able to appreciate what ibm has done this time around.
It looks like a jet-ski except you have to stand up. How is this cool?
Don't throw that IBM away either!
Whether it's offshore or OSS, it saves money. And the company that saves the most money can stay competitive, and with that, they won't lose market share. By not losing market share, they can keep more jobs than they would have if they didn't save money with OSS or offshore dev. If US companies didn't save money with OSS and offshore dev, there would be higher US unemployment when foreign companies out-compete them. Slashdot's anti-offshore development thing to me seems like nothing but nationalism/xenophobia, and such attitude will only hurt the US in the long run.
ROTFL! Man, that was a good one. Post WWII Japan, anyone? How about North Korea (aka Democratic People's Republic of Korea)? Of course, anyone can define democracy AND famine such that it satisfies your statement.
Democracy is not the antonym of communism, by the way. Democracy describes how the chiefs get their job. Communism describes an economic model. Famine tends to have stronger correlation with natural disaster, embargo, and war rather than whether or not it is democratic. Not only stronger correlation, but also a causal link, too, which is a plus.
If increase in productivity causes decrease in employment rates, won't the capitalist world eventually self destruct?
Wonder what the Orissans have done to piss off Jesus/Allah/Krishna so much?
They converted to Buddhism?
That device looks pretty cool. Strange how it needed approval from the FDA... But is it necessary? It seems like laws these days require people to make things more accessible to handicapped people anyway (fewer stairs + more elevators). Personally I'm waiting for my cheap robot-slave that will make me money.
I think it's not about its genes per se that allowed it to remained unchanged, but rather there were a lack of change in environment that would have caused evolution, such as new predators or new competitors.
However, the ginkgo plants are not native to NZ.
Although pushing packets are cheaper than pushing people, the internet would be much more expensive if ISPs tried to collect money each time you pushed a packet. Imagine how many bills that would add up to!
As seen in Tokyo and New York, one way to cut costs is to switch away from tickets and tokens to reusable cards, and to replace people with machines for selling and collecting the tickets.
As seen in Frankfurt and Prague, another way to cut costs is to not check people, but have the police check only a few and fine them when they don't have a pass.
From the NYT article:
When running, the software appears on the screen as a phone with a dial pad. Phone numbers are dialed by clicking the numbers on the key pad.
I doubt many people would be so afraid of keyboards that they'd rather use a mouse! I'm guessing that there'd also be a feature where you type or click on a nickname from your personal address book to make a call. I can see softphone in the future working with fake urls, sort of like those aim:// urls that Aim has.
(sorry for the hiccup in the previous post..)
A May 2002 BBC article was posted on slashdot before. I wonder if it's the same tech or they're using the same graphics for a different tech. Anyhoo, also found another cell-keypad-type article at BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2504091.stm
If I were looking for a new cell phone, I would be worried that I might accidentally press an alphabet when I meant to press a number.
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/250 4091.stm </a>
If I were looking for a new cell phone, I would be worried that I might accidentally press an alphabet when I meant to press a number.
Let's compare...
An 8-pack of 750 MB zip disks: 6 GB for $100.00
$400.00 gets you... 24 GB forever
x-drive online storage is 2 GB for $29.95 per month
$400.00 gets you... 26 GB per month
Yahoo! Briefcase is 100 MB for $35 per year
$400.00 gets you... 1.14 GB per year
with Mirra, $400.00 gets you 120 GB forever.
Mirra beats all of the above storage options, despite the fact that online storage tend to be more expensive than portable media storage. This could make a whole slew of storages irrelevant. Of course, free software on your OS that serves as FTP is probably the cheapest. A peer-to-peer network of encrypted personal backups could be great for future harddrive backups.
(btw, having trouble logging in...)
Many of the PCs at the lab i'm at right now have Trillian installed. I can run them and log-in to the Stupid Users' IM accounts! Of course it's the Stupid Users' responsibility, but it's also partly the software provider's responsibility to make software that is right for its userbase.
(In contrast, mozilla user profiles are inaccessible to others on Win2k machines.)
Take a walk down Osaka, say, and you'll inevitably see Yahoo! BB ADSL sales reps vigourously peddling their broadband service exactly because adoption has been so slow. For the most part, the average Japanese person connects to the internet either in the workplace or through their cell phones. Yeah, I remember seeing Yahoo! ppl handing out their broadband kits in Tokyo, too. I also remember reading about them in a wired magazine article too.