Let me tell you -- I feel like a junkie every time an episode ends, needing just one more fix... (kinda like season 3). Nothing quite wastes time like 21 hours of a TV show that is as seamless as a movie.
For about a year my brother and I had been hearing how awesome 24 was, and on black friday of last year (2004), BestBuy had the first season for $13. We obviously took that deal on and bought it, and watched it all in about 4 days.
I then proceeded to download season 2 & 3, because of how awesome the show was. At christmas time, he came over and we watched both seasons in about 3 days. THAT is addiction... We were so mad when Season 3 ended, we had to wait until January 9th (when Season 4 started airing) to see more!
Now, Season 4 is airing, 11 episodes in and it is pwning the other seasons by far, but I am FORCED to wait a week to watch a new episode....
Let me tell you, this has actually hilighted Mondays for me (when it airs). I just can't wait until it airs...
Getting back on topic, I download the episodes too, using RSS feeds to automatically download them. After about an hour after it airs I have it on my computer. Since I'm actually watching it when it airs with commercials, this makes it mildly "legal", correct?
Well, perhaps Linux is maturing enough where it could be 2.6 forever.
That's like saying, back in 1996 or so, that Windows 95 is mature enough that we don't need any new operating systems.
There is always room for improvement, new ideas, new architectures, hardware, etc that open up new pathways to more flexible or secure operating system organization.
For the grandparent, it was announced back when 2.6.1 or so was released that there would be no 2.7.x. 2.6.x would be used as development releases, however there would be no official "stable" version, the distributions had to decide which were stable enough for their OSes. I think this was a huge mistake, but the old method wasn't much better. Linus' new proposal fixes pretty much everything that was wrong with the labelling in my opinion.
I too have noticed that lately the/. front page has not been reloading correctly. I am in no way an expert with web page design, so correct me if I am wrong, but could it have something to do with style sheets?
No, it's a problem with the way the Gecko engine renders layers.
Have you ever tried to drive legally in GTA? Its nearly impossible. The traffic is incredibly slow and the lights seem random. The game encourages you to drive like a maniac: speeding, running lights, ramming cars, and driving the wrong way up streets and wherever you please. If we need to look for the real affects of this game, we need to look at traffic violations, not murder.
Actually trying to drive legally in a game can be more fun than doing it in real life. This is why Mafia is so much better at that, it has a speed limit, proper lights, and everything.
I don't think tobacco companies should be liable for "giving people cancer" either. The consumer knows that it will cause cancer (if they don't god help them), it has a warning and everything on the pack, and it's the consumer's fault for smoking it.
The fast food case is even more ridiculous, because not only can you taste the fat and grease, you can see and feel the grease dripping off the side of the burger.
Cat: "So what is it?"
Lister: "Statis preserves time, so a leak must preserve time and this one leads into this room."
Cat: "So what is it?"
Kryton: "It's a rip in the time-space continuum."
Cat: "So what is it?"
Lister: "It's a doorway through time."
Cat: "Oh, a magic door, why didn't you just tell me?"
I don't know if you are talking about replacing the trackpad on the PB with a three button mouse, or simply using a three button mouse. If it is the latter, OS X supports multiple button mice out of the box. I use a three button mouse with my Mac (well, three buttons plus the scroll wheel do-hicky).
See, this is why I don't use Macs, I don't want to just one day start using the word "do-hicky" after another for no reason.;)
All fluxbox needs is a quick and easy way to make/modify themes and it's perfect (maybe i just don't know the proper way).
I don't know about Gnome specific (I don't even have it installed...), but GTK definitely works in Fluxbox, so probably.
"Fluxbox Menu -> System (or User) Styles -> Stylename" is too complicated to change styles for you? Even creating them is easy, a config file and a few pixmaps (or no pixmaps, depends on how you make it) and that's it.
This DeepFreeze programs sounds awesome. This is something that I need on my Linux box (mainly because I'll run something stupid on accident, then have to go back and fix it all, such as chmod'ing an entire chroot directory, but forgetting to unbind (mount -o bind) the libraries to it and not having them bound on read only mode (how stupid can I be?)).
I use a lot of the KDE tools because they are highly configurable, and really well made. The KDE core is horrible though. When running these programs over Fluxbox, it's perfect:)
Maybe it's because people are switching FROM Firefox to something else, but not IE? Is it really that bad if people don't use Firefox, but still aren't using IE?
I recently switched away from Firefox, to Konqueror. This is mainly because every 30 minutes Firefox crashes for me (that's on Linux, on my Windows computers I'm forced to use at school, I use Firefox because it's rock solid).
That's the way people feel about Linux the first time they try it, it's all just because you are used to Linux, and the something new is tricking your brain into thinking it's something absolutely amazing.
I'm sure that if it were the other way around, you being used to FreeBSD and now trying Linux, you would feel the same way.
(Granted, this is all just my thoughts on this matter... My only experience of FreeBSD was it freezing after the first display of the install ("Welcome to FreeBSD, now starting installation" or something like that))
Actually the human population in America has a negative growth rate. So you don't have as much of a surplus as you think. One day your laws may reflect that. Maybe.
Saying software (or whatever had the security holes) is responsible for the theft of sensitive data is like saying the young, female hostage in the bank is an accomplice to the bank robbery.
Putting the value on the left side prevents == VS = mixups
== VS = mixups (for me at least) have nothing to do with not knowing WHERE they belong. I just either hit the key too softly or typing too fast to realize what I just typed. Putting the value first wouldn't help that.
If someone uses funding of $25-38M to break an algorithm of mine, then I want them to be able to break it. It'll make me feel good that someone wants my information that badly, especially when it's stuff like "hmm I need to get eggs tonight after work".
People are afraid to pirate music because it's illegal and the RIAA's scare tactics. I don't think there are many people that are "scared" to post on blogger.com for fear that someone would sue them.
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Let me tell you -- I feel like a junkie every time an episode ends, needing just one more fix... (kinda like season 3). Nothing quite wastes time like 21 hours of a TV show that is as seamless as a movie.
For about a year my brother and I had been hearing how awesome 24 was, and on black friday of last year (2004), BestBuy had the first season for $13. We obviously took that deal on and bought it, and watched it all in about 4 days.
I then proceeded to download season 2 & 3, because of how awesome the show was. At christmas time, he came over and we watched both seasons in about 3 days. THAT is addiction... We were so mad when Season 3 ended, we had to wait until January 9th (when Season 4 started airing) to see more!
Now, Season 4 is airing, 11 episodes in and it is pwning the other seasons by far, but I am FORCED to wait a week to watch a new episode....
Let me tell you, this has actually hilighted Mondays for me (when it airs). I just can't wait until it airs...
Getting back on topic, I download the episodes too, using RSS feeds to automatically download them. After about an hour after it airs I have it on my computer. Since I'm actually watching it when it airs with commercials, this makes it mildly "legal", correct?
Well, perhaps Linux is maturing enough where it could be 2.6 forever.
That's like saying, back in 1996 or so, that Windows 95 is mature enough that we don't need any new operating systems.
There is always room for improvement, new ideas, new architectures, hardware, etc that open up new pathways to more flexible or secure operating system organization.
For the grandparent, it was announced back when 2.6.1 or so was released that there would be no 2.7.x. 2.6.x would be used as development releases, however there would be no official "stable" version, the distributions had to decide which were stable enough for their OSes. I think this was a huge mistake, but the old method wasn't much better. Linus' new proposal fixes pretty much everything that was wrong with the labelling in my opinion.
I too have noticed that lately the /. front page has not been reloading correctly. I am in no way an expert with web page design, so correct me if I am wrong, but could it have something to do with style sheets?
No, it's a problem with the way the Gecko engine renders layers.
No, you'll have to pay me 4 more payments for that. The subscription will be good until 03/04/2005.
I don't know, but if you give me your credit card information I'll charge you 10 easy payments of only $9.95 so you can be 100% sure.
All you have to do is click here.
Have you ever tried to drive legally in GTA? Its nearly impossible. The traffic is incredibly slow and the lights seem random. The game encourages you to drive like a maniac: speeding, running lights, ramming cars, and driving the wrong way up streets and wherever you please. If we need to look for the real affects of this game, we need to look at traffic violations, not murder.
Actually trying to drive legally in a game can be more fun than doing it in real life. This is why Mafia is so much better at that, it has a speed limit, proper lights, and everything.
I don't think tobacco companies should be liable for "giving people cancer" either. The consumer knows that it will cause cancer (if they don't god help them), it has a warning and everything on the pack, and it's the consumer's fault for smoking it.
The fast food case is even more ridiculous, because not only can you taste the fat and grease, you can see and feel the grease dripping off the side of the burger.
Assume I am a violent person, with psychopathic disorder.
If I assumed that, then you would have to turn in your geek badge.
Remember the commandment: "Thou shalt let bullies beat you to a pulp, and thou shalt not fight back, unless with girlie jabs."
Cat: "So what is it?"
Lister: "Statis preserves time, so a leak must preserve time and this one leads into this room."
Cat: "So what is it?"
Kryton: "It's a rip in the time-space continuum."
Cat: "So what is it?"
Lister: "It's a doorway through time."
Cat: "Oh, a magic door, why didn't you just tell me?"
I don't know if you are talking about replacing the trackpad on the PB with a three button mouse, or simply using a three button mouse. If it is the latter, OS X supports multiple button mice out of the box. I use a three button mouse with my Mac (well, three buttons plus the scroll wheel do-hicky).
;)
See, this is why I don't use Macs, I don't want to just one day start using the word "do-hicky" after another for no reason.
So, you are writing you 10 000 line program, get half way through it today,
I don't know about you, but to me that sounds like a LOT of work for one day... 5,000 lines?
And how many bugs do you think will be in those 5,000 lines if you only worked on that in one day? 10,000? 20,000?
Will gnome programs run under fluxbox as well?
All fluxbox needs is a quick and easy way to make/modify themes and it's perfect (maybe i just don't know the proper way).
I don't know about Gnome specific (I don't even have it installed...), but GTK definitely works in Fluxbox, so probably.
"Fluxbox Menu -> System (or User) Styles -> Stylename" is too complicated to change styles for you? Even creating them is easy, a config file and a few pixmaps (or no pixmaps, depends on how you make it) and that's it.
Whoa...
This DeepFreeze programs sounds awesome. This is something that I need on my Linux box (mainly because I'll run something stupid on accident, then have to go back and fix it all, such as chmod'ing an entire chroot directory, but forgetting to unbind (mount -o bind) the libraries to it and not having them bound on read only mode (how stupid can I be?)).
I'm using Fluxbox :P
:)
I use a lot of the KDE tools because they are highly configurable, and really well made. The KDE core is horrible though. When running these programs over Fluxbox, it's perfect
Blaming Shockwave would be blaming the wrong people, you want to blame Macromedia instead.
Maybe it's because people are switching FROM Firefox to something else, but not IE? Is it really that bad if people don't use Firefox, but still aren't using IE?
I recently switched away from Firefox, to Konqueror. This is mainly because every 30 minutes Firefox crashes for me (that's on Linux, on my Windows computers I'm forced to use at school, I use Firefox because it's rock solid).
That's the way people feel about Linux the first time they try it, it's all just because you are used to Linux, and the something new is tricking your brain into thinking it's something absolutely amazing.
I'm sure that if it were the other way around, you being used to FreeBSD and now trying Linux, you would feel the same way.
(Granted, this is all just my thoughts on this matter... My only experience of FreeBSD was it freezing after the first display of the install ("Welcome to FreeBSD, now starting installation" or something like that))
Along with the highly exploded useless IP laws out there, there is also a plague on this country called "laziness".
People typing that they care isn't enough, I care, but I'm too lazy to do anything about it.
Actually the human population in America has a negative growth rate. So you don't have as much of a surplus as you think. One day your laws may reflect that. Maybe.
So... rape is going to be less of a crime?
I would rather use my CPU cycles for research on protein folding, a serious problem that can cause disease, than finding prime numbers.
Saying software (or whatever had the security holes) is responsible for the theft of sensitive data is like saying the young, female hostage in the bank is an accomplice to the bank robbery.
Putting the value on the left side prevents == VS = mixups
== VS = mixups (for me at least) have nothing to do with not knowing WHERE they belong. I just either hit the key too softly or typing too fast to realize what I just typed. Putting the value first wouldn't help that.
If someone uses funding of $25-38M to break an algorithm of mine, then I want them to be able to break it. It'll make me feel good that someone wants my information that badly, especially when it's stuff like "hmm I need to get eggs tonight after work".
People are afraid to pirate music because it's illegal and the RIAA's scare tactics. I don't think there are many people that are "scared" to post on blogger.com for fear that someone would sue them.
It still unclear what motivated this 43-year-old to launch such a bizarre worm.
My guess is he wanted to flood the 911 service with useless calls, and in the long run potentially harm people because they can't get through to 911.