I'm a Canadian. You Merkans would hate it here. This place sucks. Don't come here. We regularly eat children and stab puppies for sport. It's cold and everyone has a dog-sled. This is a horrible purgatory. I beg of you, please don't come here.
I didn't want a camera phone either. Then someone gave me a T610. It had a camera; albeit crappy. Then I bought a K750i which came with an equally unwanted camera but it turned out to be good enough to take pictures of the scene of a minor car accident I was in. The other driver lied to his insurance company and they refused to cover the claim. I produced pictures taken by my camera phone to prove he lied to his insurance company. They fixed my truck and he doesn't have insurance anymore.
Now I like camera phones.
Well, at least one problem I've encountered is with my vendor-neutral and non-discount SonyEricsson K750i. Now that the firmware is 'old', I want to upgrade it. The only way I can see to do that is via the official SE site with their software. It won't let me upgrade the firmware because it doesn't recognize the carrier that my phone is currently using. ie: it has no custom firmware matching my carrier.
So, unless I do a bunch of secret-squirrel digging/haxoring, I have a dead-end product.
It's a bootloader! For a broken architecture nonetheless. Are you people really so bored that all you can think to discuss is which bootloader is best? How about which 'ls' is best? With color or without? Or how bout tabs versus spaces? Only uses LILO. Only the true race uses Grub...
Please.. Shouldn't you kids be out on a date tonight?
You know, I'd already seen this before the/. story but the surprise I got when zooming in was true... It sucks to have everyone spoiling the surprise for others though.
The Amish have an incidence of autism [google.com] that is less than 1/10th of the general population of the US.
Widely believed to be a result of thimerosol (Largely Mercury) in vaccines. One Amish community studied for Autism had only 4 cases. 1 child had large exposure to mercury while really young, and the other 3 had been vaccinated when they were babies.
They must be talking about some other kind of flash than anything I've used... I routinely rewrite 128MB-512MB CF cards for an embedded product and it's nowhere near the speed of a laptop disk. Maybe they're thinking some sort of RAM cache.
Asterisk is a demonstration product that Digium wrote to sell their proprietary hardware. They don't care about interoperability with other SIP devices, which is why you've never seen them at a SIPit interop event, and which is why Asterisk doesn't interoperate well with user agents... Sure, you can call your grandma with it and talk to her for 10 minutes, maybe even put her on hold, but don't try any really complicated call scenarios.
That's why there are standards.
It's not a 2 second delay.. It's a "I don't know where to send media until I get some from the other side" delay.
See: "IETF believes IPv6 is the answer to everything and therefore NAT does not exist so we shall not pay lip service to it in any RFC's."
Maybe I like to store other data on there when I travel. Like encrypted backups of the personal data on my laptop... Travelling puts my laptop "in harms way". I don't want it to be stolen, but if it does, at least my data will come with me. Between trips, my iPod lives in my vehicle for months at a time and I never get repeat music. In fact, "shuffle" is a good way to re-discover some of the music I forgot I liked.
Everyone has different priorities and usage patterns. I bought what I think is right for me. If I were more active, by walking or riding to work, I'd probably own a Shuffle or an iPod Mini.
"Get this 3 CD set of healing tracks! Just play it on any stereo to cure cancer, diabetes, and hemmorhoids!"
"do no evil" yeah right.
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Defining Google
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After RTFA'ing, I got such a sense of 'bullshit' like the whole thing was a PR move... I've experienced first-hand google's "evil"... I run a web-portal that gets a lot of trafffic. We signed up for adsense or whatever they call it these days. Well, one of our users thought he would do us a favor and generate a bunch of fake clicks... Within a couple hours, google had banned us and turned off our site. We spent weeks trying to find a human to plead our case to. Eventually we found someone who said "sorry, we understand it was not your fault but our policy is that you are now banned forever."... So we tried to sign up with other ad-networks but were rejected by all of them. Seems there's a black-list hosted by Google that all the banner-ad companies subscribe to. It's taken over a year, running our site by getting donations from our users and pitching in some of our own personal money, to find an advertiser willing to take a gamble on us...
Want to take down a google customer? Send your click-bot over there...
Look, I have a welder, a plasma cutter, and various other bits of metal torture... The absolutely last thing I would ever consider wasting my time on is a stupid box to store my computer. I mean really. What's next, neon under the honda? Maybe some fake disc rotors to hide the little girly drum brakes?
I hate ads as much as the next guy. But there are some sites that I find of value that are supported by ad revenue. I don't want to block ads on those sites. I run a popular 'portal' for enthusiasts of the vehicle I own.. There are 4 of us that run this site. We do it as strictly a volunteer project. But we ship out over a million emails a day on a half dozen lists, keep 10s of gigabytes of archives consisting primarily of technical information, and run a web server with a forum and technical downloads... Our user community voluntarily contributes a few thousand dollars a year to help the site run, but we top up our revenue with ads. Our users understand that we're not generating ad revenue so we can buy cool wheels for our trucks, it's to keep the site running...
Those of you blocking ads on slashdot better be paying for your subscription.
At work, I have 5 LCD's on my desk comprising 3 computers; with 1 keyboard/mouse... If it weren't for LCD, I'd be wearing shorts and a tank top to work every day....
Maybe not entirely due to the patriot act, but as a Canadian whose currency is now worth far more relative to the US dollar than it has been in my memory, I've decided I can use this opportunity to spend some of my pesos buying stuff in the US. I have friends in europe experiencing the same phenomenon...
I learned a lot by being forced to use gentoo.
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I learned things I would never have learned.. Like, for example, the author of 'iproute2' doesn't like/usr/include so he provides his own with the package. I learned the "iptables" developers can't agree which kernel includes to use, so they provide "unofficial" patches in order to make their software work....
Yup. Things I would never have discovered were I using some other distribution that didn't expose me to these things.
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I'm a Canadian. You Merkans would hate it here. This place sucks. Don't come here. We regularly eat children and stab puppies for sport. It's cold and everyone has a dog-sled. This is a horrible purgatory. I beg of you, please don't come here.
It's ok. I bought a PC that came with an XP license and I've never used it; so we cancel each other out.
I think that'd make an awesome sex-toy for my wife and her girlfriend.
I didn't want a camera phone either. Then someone gave me a T610. It had a camera; albeit crappy. Then I bought a K750i which came with an equally unwanted camera but it turned out to be good enough to take pictures of the scene of a minor car accident I was in. The other driver lied to his insurance company and they refused to cover the claim. I produced pictures taken by my camera phone to prove he lied to his insurance company. They fixed my truck and he doesn't have insurance anymore. Now I like camera phones.
I wonder what my managers are going to do during meetings now? I'm so used to seeing the tops of their heads; I probably won't even recognize them.
So, unless I do a bunch of secret-squirrel digging/haxoring, I have a dead-end product.
Great research. Now let us know when you find a 3-track reader so it will actually pertain to the hotel keycards we're talking.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/book s.htm
Please.. Shouldn't you kids be out on a date tonight?
You know, I'd already seen this before the /. story but the surprise I got when zooming in was true... It sucks to have everyone spoiling the surprise for others though.
Widely believed to be a result of thimerosol (Largely Mercury) in vaccines. One Amish community studied for Autism had only 4 cases. 1 child had large exposure to mercury while really young, and the other 3 had been vaccinated when they were babies.
http://salon.com/news/feature/2005/06/16/thimerosa l/index_np.html
They must be talking about some other kind of flash than anything I've used... I routinely rewrite 128MB-512MB CF cards for an embedded product and it's nowhere near the speed of a laptop disk. Maybe they're thinking some sort of RAM cache.
Asterisk is a demonstration product that Digium wrote to sell their proprietary hardware. They don't care about interoperability with other SIP devices, which is why you've never seen them at a SIPit interop event, and which is why Asterisk doesn't interoperate well with user agents... Sure, you can call your grandma with it and talk to her for 10 minutes, maybe even put her on hold, but don't try any really complicated call scenarios. That's why there are standards.
It's not a 2 second delay.. It's a "I don't know where to send media until I get some from the other side" delay. See: "IETF believes IPv6 is the answer to everything and therefore NAT does not exist so we shall not pay lip service to it in any RFC's."
http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina27.htm
Everyone has different priorities and usage patterns. I bought what I think is right for me. If I were more active, by walking or riding to work, I'd probably own a Shuffle or an iPod Mini.
thank you. I was wondering if anyone else was going to realize the pure ridiculousness of this idea.
"Get this 3 CD set of healing tracks! Just play it on any stereo to cure cancer, diabetes, and hemmorhoids!"
Want to take down a google customer? Send your click-bot over there...
It's all about function and substance, not form.
Chrome don't get ya home.
Those of you blocking ads on slashdot better be paying for your subscription.
At work, I have 5 LCD's on my desk comprising 3 computers; with 1 keyboard/mouse... If it weren't for LCD, I'd be wearing shorts and a tank top to work every day....
Maybe not entirely due to the patriot act, but as a Canadian whose currency is now worth far more relative to the US dollar than it has been in my memory, I've decided I can use this opportunity to spend some of my pesos buying stuff in the US. I have friends in europe experiencing the same phenomenon...
Yup. Things I would never have discovered were I using some other distribution that didn't expose me to these things.
Where's my NetBSD disc?
Soon we'll have all the windows virii ported too... It'll be just like old times...