That Perturbed Desktop application is the funniest thing I've ever seen.
In spite of the author's quote, "Needless to say, it is quite a hellish experience trying to use the computer in this manner," it's just asking for someone to install it on some poor clod's computer, getting him drunk, and then have him try to do something productive like code in Perl.
"Hey... WTF does an upside down exclamation point stand for?"
To which model do you refer? Zelda, because she kicks butt? Xena, because she's a frickin' hot warrior-lady? Or maybe it was Samus Aran... Or Lara Croft...
We even use it at work to hold beind-the-scenes asynchronous internal-only discussions between team members at different sites as we attend teleconferences with customers.
So you use AIM to talk about how much of an ass the client is behind their back too?:-)
We make up units all the time in/., so I don't see why books wouldn't have ISDN numbers.
If your typical ISDN bandwidth is 128 Kbps, and I can read about... 8 words per second... and given that each word averages about 5 letters, and each letter is a byte... that gives us a relative bandwidth of 8 x 5 x 8 = 320 bits per second... or something like.0025 ISDN numbers.
I don't really feel like calculating that in libraries of congress per fortnight, though. But I can tell you that number would also be really freaking small.
It's really convenient here when I need it... it would just be really nice if I didn't have to launch the craptastic application that is IE 5.5 for Mac every time I wanted to register my wifi card to access the service.
Note to Panera internet provider: Safari is your friend...
To be fair, I've heard of Maria Schneider, and I in general have no ear for music (or the next best music great/talent) at all... I know she is well known in the jazz subculture... this is jazz, it thrives in the underground... and Maria Schneider was well-known long before her Grammy-winning record. Oh, and people that admire jazz tend not to care a lick for the RIAA.
"Every time you say 'I don't believe in torrents', a server falls down and dies."
Sadly, the submitter of the story must have reasoned that torrents really do not exist.
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Well, seeing as they already make lawnmowers, snowblowers, ATVs. industrial generators, motorcycles, boats, scooters, jetskis, and tillers and trimmers... I for one look forward to greeting the new Honda Rocket division.
So I'm guessing that you're one of those people that 25 years ago said, "Skywalker? How cheesy is that? Does he even think he's a native-American tribal hero?"
Or are we again doomed to a thread where all that is holy and righteous was that which was Star Wars 4, 5, and 6.:-p
First, my parents. They have a Sony VAIO (poor unfortuante souls) that they don't really know how to maintain. They run IE, despite my putting Firefox on it, and some version of Windows XP, which I haven't updated since I haven't been home since I got married. All I've heard about it are complaints that it runs extremely slowly, which is odd for a 1.66 GHz processor running the OS it came with. So it's probably spyware-laden, and possibly virus-laden. They should switch ASAP.
For anyone that has any inkling of how to run and maintain a computer, which would any of the people reading this... getting older models right after the newer ones come out would be a good idea, just as it's a better value for your money to purchase a manufacturer-certified 1-year old used car instead of a brand new one. That is an entirely economic decision that's based on your needs and the weight of your wallet.:-)
I will concur with what you said, and provide examples:
The Christian Science Monitor, which is a non-partisan newspaper I like to read online sometimes, wrote an article about Tiananmen Square. How many students were killed, run over by tanks, and otherwise butchered? The answer: We don't know. In fact, evidence is starting to show that no students were killed in the square at all. When there's no foreign reporters around, and the government is the only one that's talking, it is indeed dramatic misportrayal of the facts that tends to take over. That said, estimates of fatalities outside the square range vary, but it was *after* the peaceful protest left the square.
Secondly, I listen to WMBI, which is decidedly right-leaning. Yet, on one of their programs, one of the church leaders in Bejing reported that the government was not stifling state-allowed religions... in fact, the government was very much hands-off. (As Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in China, it may not be coincedence.) It was a different voice from the now-familiar persecution of believers in China, although, once again, that type of persecution was reported to have gone on in the rural areas -- it just wasn't as widespread as most Americans would believe.
I very much appreciate these examples as a welcomed, different view into what China is actually like versus what everyone says it's like.
1.) Putting in http://switch.atdmt.com/action/apple_g7_powerbook also yields a 1x1 image. Thus, that it exists on atdmt's site means nothing.
This just means Apple's thinking ahead, as usual. I'm sure Steve is well aware of how close his researchers are to portable cold fusion power. Now hold on a minute, while I answer this subpoena...
Speaking of which, I could have used SubEthaEdit to have someone help me write this post, as I am now hitting myself over the head with a cluestick with after re-reading the parent.
Unless you'd like to work on a fictionalized article about the end of the world using SubEthaEdit with me. In that case I have no qualms about getting/.ed or obtaining profit.:-)
I've thought about it. I picked up an Airport Express for the future a few days ago (my wife and I won't be living in a one-bedroom apartment forever, plus her mac is acting weird when I try to network print to it). I also picked up monster cables at half price from the Apple store. We ended up doing something like you describe.
Basically, she wanted to play songs from her iPod on the surround sound system, which is connected via the Monster cables to the Airport Express... without getting off the couch. (We were tired.:-) Since the iPod is synced with her computer anyway, I went over and shared her library. Then it was just a matter of opening the PowerBook, getting to the shared library in iTunes, and playing songs from her desktop library over the PowerBook onto the Living Room speakers that were connected to the AirPort Express. It takes less time to do this than to describe it.
That was one of those blissful moments where I finally realized that integrating computers with media didn't have to be hard... nor require a separate "media center"... and with apple's stuff, it almost never is hard, and you can extend what you have for minor cost. It's a textbook example of making things that are hard possible.:-) This is roughly the situation you outlined.
Anyways, back to making a JDBC driver for MS SQL Server work... dammit...
Way back when I was bored in high school, I'd put together those 3-D puzzles. Not the piddly ones like victorian houses, either... I did the Eiffel Tower (~700 pieces), Big Ben (~1,400 pieces) and of course, I just had to do Manhattan (~3,200 pieces).
For days afterwards, I was seeing pieces (it took me only about three weeks for Manhattan, spending maybe 2 hours a day on it). Every contiguous object had puzzle patterns on them, probably because my brain had gotten so used to seeing individual puzzle pieces and rearranging them to form bigger parts that still looked like a puzzle. After I got done with Manhattan, there weren't any good ones, so I quit building those things.:-)
The Laddermill would only be flown where aircraft are banned. One such area is the zone along the US-Mexican border, where high-flying balloons fitted with radar are used to combat drug traffickers.
It's a study that puts into numbers what we already knew. Slashdot is just not a very good place to poll for these types of numbers, given how many people that say "I don't own a TV anymore everything is crap!@!#" will get modded up in this discussion.
There are so many things wrong with what you're saying, but the biggest of them all is how you've actually chosen to live in fear.
Mmm... yay for feeding the trolls.
God forbid! That I should think about even the idea of security when designing a public system! Whatever did happen to the idea that we could build a system and it would be just fine, like in the old days? Oh, sure, there have been people that have wanted to attack our infrastructure -- dare I say it -- before 9/11/2001! But security! By God, its existence takes away from my civil liberties!
So why focus all of our systems at one point (or more accurately, 4,000 miles worth of lines)? Plus, this is a waste of taxpayers' money and time for not much in terms of everyday safety. Except maybe an excuse to spread sprawl... ref. to another post about how Houston is laid out.
Of course, if you'd prefer the attitude of not worrying about it, I suppose we could go with blissful ignorance too.
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In spite of the author's quote, "Needless to say, it is quite a hellish experience trying to use the computer in this manner," it's just asking for someone to install it on some poor clod's computer, getting him drunk, and then have him try to do something productive like code in Perl.
"Hey... WTF does an upside down exclamation point stand for?"
Oh, wait... heroin... :-)
So you use AIM to talk about how much of an ass the client is behind their back too? :-)
Fortunately, we believe that better shielding on our PPTP routes will prevent further packet loss.
If your typical ISDN bandwidth is 128 Kbps, and I can read about... 8 words per second... and given that each word averages about 5 letters, and each letter is a byte... that gives us a relative bandwidth of 8 x 5 x 8 = 320 bits per second... or something like .0025 ISDN numbers.
I don't really feel like calculating that in libraries of congress per fortnight, though. But I can tell you that number would also be really freaking small.
Note to Panera internet provider: Safari is your friend...
Still, a good sign.
Obligatory disclaimer... I own a couple of Apples.
"Every time you say 'I don't believe in torrents', a server falls down and dies."
Sadly, the submitter of the story must have reasoned that torrents really do not exist.
Well, seeing as they already make lawnmowers, snowblowers, ATVs. industrial generators, motorcycles, boats, scooters, jetskis, and tillers and trimmers... I for one look forward to greeting the new Honda Rocket division.
Or are we again doomed to a thread where all that is holy and righteous was that which was Star Wars 4, 5, and 6. :-p
First, my parents. They have a Sony VAIO (poor unfortuante souls) that they don't really know how to maintain. They run IE, despite my putting Firefox on it, and some version of Windows XP, which I haven't updated since I haven't been home since I got married. All I've heard about it are complaints that it runs extremely slowly, which is odd for a 1.66 GHz processor running the OS it came with. So it's probably spyware-laden, and possibly virus-laden. They should switch ASAP.
For anyone that has any inkling of how to run and maintain a computer, which would any of the people reading this... getting older models right after the newer ones come out would be a good idea, just as it's a better value for your money to purchase a manufacturer-certified 1-year old used car instead of a brand new one. That is an entirely economic decision that's based on your needs and the weight of your wallet. :-)
The Christian Science Monitor, which is a non-partisan newspaper I like to read online sometimes, wrote an article about Tiananmen Square. How many students were killed, run over by tanks, and otherwise butchered? The answer: We don't know. In fact, evidence is starting to show that no students were killed in the square at all. When there's no foreign reporters around, and the government is the only one that's talking, it is indeed dramatic misportrayal of the facts that tends to take over. That said, estimates of fatalities outside the square range vary, but it was *after* the peaceful protest left the square.
Secondly, I listen to WMBI, which is decidedly right-leaning. Yet, on one of their programs, one of the church leaders in Bejing reported that the government was not stifling state-allowed religions... in fact, the government was very much hands-off. (As Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in China, it may not be coincedence.) It was a different voice from the now-familiar persecution of believers in China, although, once again, that type of persecution was reported to have gone on in the rural areas -- it just wasn't as widespread as most Americans would believe.
I very much appreciate these examples as a welcomed, different view into what China is actually like versus what everyone says it's like.
This just means Apple's thinking ahead, as usual. I'm sure Steve is well aware of how close his researchers are to portable cold fusion power. Now hold on a minute, while I answer this subpoena...
Speaking of which, I could have used SubEthaEdit to have someone help me write this post, as I am now hitting myself over the head with a cluestick with after re-reading the parent.
The article you're looking for is here.
Unless you'd like to work on a fictionalized article about the end of the world using SubEthaEdit with me. In that case I have no qualms about getting /.ed or obtaining profit. :-)
So I guess if you don't have enough links in your story, maybe if you make your link as long as possible, the better it will be? Feel free to mod me down, I don't particularly mind. But I still insist it's the longest link ever.
Basically, she wanted to play songs from her iPod on the surround sound system, which is connected via the Monster cables to the Airport Express... without getting off the couch. (We were tired. :-) Since the iPod is synced with her computer anyway, I went over and shared her library. Then it was just a matter of opening the PowerBook, getting to the shared library in iTunes, and playing songs from her desktop library over the PowerBook onto the Living Room speakers that were connected to the AirPort Express. It takes less time to do this than to describe it.
That was one of those blissful moments where I finally realized that integrating computers with media didn't have to be hard... nor require a separate "media center"... and with apple's stuff, it almost never is hard, and you can extend what you have for minor cost. It's a textbook example of making things that are hard possible. :-) This is roughly the situation you outlined.
Anyways, back to making a JDBC driver for MS SQL Server work... dammit...
Someone at the FBI definitely should have read this article.
Way back when I was bored in high school, I'd put together those 3-D puzzles. Not the piddly ones like victorian houses, either... I did the Eiffel Tower (~700 pieces), Big Ben (~1,400 pieces) and of course, I just had to do Manhattan (~3,200 pieces).
For days afterwards, I was seeing pieces (it took me only about three weeks for Manhattan, spending maybe 2 hours a day on it). Every contiguous object had puzzle patterns on them, probably because my brain had gotten so used to seeing individual puzzle pieces and rearranging them to form bigger parts that still looked like a puzzle. After I got done with Manhattan, there weren't any good ones, so I quit building those things. :-)
Tank...?!
The Laddermill would only be flown where aircraft are banned. One such area is the zone along the US-Mexican border, where high-flying balloons fitted with radar are used to combat drug traffickers.
It's not even slashdotted. Yet.
It's a study that puts into numbers what we already knew. Slashdot is just not a very good place to poll for these types of numbers, given how many people that say "I don't own a TV anymore everything is crap!@!#" will get modded up in this discussion.
Mmm... yay for feeding the trolls.
God forbid! That I should think about even the idea of security when designing a public system! Whatever did happen to the idea that we could build a system and it would be just fine, like in the old days? Oh, sure, there have been people that have wanted to attack our infrastructure -- dare I say it -- before 9/11/2001! But security! By God, its existence takes away from my civil liberties!
</sarcasm>
So why focus all of our systems at one point (or more accurately, 4,000 miles worth of lines)? Plus, this is a waste of taxpayers' money and time for not much in terms of everyday safety. Except maybe an excuse to spread sprawl... ref. to another post about how Houston is laid out.
Of course, if you'd prefer the attitude of not worrying about it, I suppose we could go with blissful ignorance too.