I am really tired of helping someone over their shoulder as they type, and I tell them "you need to put parentheses around that part," and they ask "What kind?" Or worse yet, they just blithely put curly braces around the text without even asking.
There aren't different kinds of parentheses! There is only one kind! The round kind, found on your shifted number keys! The others are called brackets, or braces!
If I tell you to put braces around it, or brackets, you should know which one is meant!
I read that sticker with some trepidation too, but I haven't had any trouble ripping the tracks and encoding them for my MP3 player. The disc appears to be a standard red book audio disc. I can't figure out what is supposed to be different about it. The only thing odd is, of course, that it is a DVD on one side, and a CD on the other side. I believe that makes it slightly thicker than a normal CD? Perhaps that is what makes it "non-conformant" to the CD standards.
The disc is not copy-protected in any way that I can detect.
Google has definitely changed the web, and the world, by making a huge amount of information instantly accessible.
I also would nominate Yahoo for this same status.
You see, in the early days of the web, there was no way to find anything at all. You had to just hyperlink from one site to another. Most web sites had a Links category where you could find other interesting things. There was no search facility.
Then, the Yahoo guys came along, and they actually started trying to categorize everything. Those categories are still there today. Then they started making those categories searchable, and then they started trying to figure out how to make web pages searchable. Yahoo was the best way to find anything on the Web for several years.
Then Google suddenly appeared, and they got it exactly right. Instant search results, to relevant pages. Yahoo became secondary at that point, but still a major contender in the goal of finding things on the Web.
That's not true. Even Pac Man had those silly little cartoons every few levels, and kept you playing so that you could see what the next one was going to be.
The M4 macro preprocessing tends to insert a lot of extra blank lines into the resulting.cf file, so the dnl's are basically macros that remove extra new-line characters.
I remember in high school a guy from the power company came to talk to the class.
He stated that the power company tries very hard to regulate the 60 Hz power, such that, as exactly as possible, the required 5,184,000 cycles are sent out every day. As a result, any electric clock (especially one that uses a motor) would have very accurate time.
So why is it, that an electronic device, which you normally plug right into the wall, can't find a source of accurate time? There's a very reliable source of time information, right on the other side of the power supply, but the computer ignores it!
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So your solution requires that stupid people stop being stupid.
The basic bittorrent package comes with a script called "btlaunchmany" which already does this in a great way.
You point the script at a directory. When you put.torrent files in the directory, it notices them, and starts up a torrent. When you remove the.torrent file, it cancels the download process. All the torrents are managed together in one interface. So you can leave it running and just drop.torrents in, and when they finish up you can remove them.
I always used to say that Slackware's best feature is that it comes out of the box Broken. It largely works, but there are quirks, things that aren't working quite right, or that need to be tweaked to be most effective.
That is probably not true anymore, but it used to be, and this forced me to Learn Linux in order to fix my system. I would never have delved into so many things if everything had just Worked Right from the start.
Thank you Patrick for making me fix things for myself! I am now a smarter Linux admin because of that.
If Adobe were smart, they would just make their own Linux distribution that runs PhotoShop, with whatever changes they deemed necessary, and then let everyone else standardize around them.
PhotoShop is a popular product, and people would flock to it, as long as they could run their other apps on it, as well.
One of the things that made Microsoft's OS so popular was the fact that it was easily piratable in the earlier days. Apple may well be turning a blind eye to piracy at this stage, in order to get more people hooked on their software.
Am I an idiot because I want to use more than one computer, even though my ISP only gives me ONE IP?
Am I an idiot because I want to keep myself from being infected by the literally hundreds of thousands of zombie computers roaming the internet on a constant basis?
NAT is a good idea. Firewalls are a good idea.
I'm smart enough to configure my firewall to let traffic in, if anyone had a decent push mechanism that I wanted to allow in. I can even direct that traffic to the primary box within my NAT environment where I want that push traffic received. But where is this "real push tech" you speak of, and does it actually push anything useful to me?
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And today, handhelds are an established market.
Of course, nay-sayers only think INSIDE the box.
Water expands when heated?? News to me...
But people don't use their noses to communicate emotions.
perl -p -e 's/\r//' <files...>
You don't have to code the while(<>) and print statements; -p will do that for you.
It was Cartoon Network, not Comedy Central.
Duh, the home page. That's why it's so important to have one.
I am really tired of helping someone over their shoulder as they type, and I tell them "you need to put parentheses around that part," and they ask "What kind?" Or worse yet, they just blithely put curly braces around the text without even asking.
There aren't different kinds of parentheses! There is only one kind! The round kind, found on your shifted number keys! The others are called brackets, or braces!
If I tell you to put braces around it, or brackets, you should know which one is meant!
Yahoogle!
The disc is not copy-protected in any way that I can detect.
I also would nominate Yahoo for this same status.
You see, in the early days of the web, there was no way to find anything at all. You had to just hyperlink from one site to another. Most web sites had a Links category where you could find other interesting things. There was no search facility.
Then, the Yahoo guys came along, and they actually started trying to categorize everything. Those categories are still there today. Then they started making those categories searchable, and then they started trying to figure out how to make web pages searchable. Yahoo was the best way to find anything on the Web for several years.
Then Google suddenly appeared, and they got it exactly right. Instant search results, to relevant pages. Yahoo became secondary at that point, but still a major contender in the goal of finding things on the Web.
Should they just assume all sites have limited bandwidth, and then just not post links?
"There's this funny Star Trek site out there, but we can't show it to you. But trust us, it's really funny. Oh yeah."
The quoted messages are all entered into the editor for you to trim and quote as you like.
Mutt is still the best mail client since sliced bread. Why hasn't someone created a graphical version of it? It would destroy everything else. :)
Hidden content!
If you enter the password and then press DELETE, you will get warped into the Internet and become a Freakzoid!!
The M4 macro preprocessing tends to insert a lot of extra blank lines into the resulting .cf file, so the dnl's are basically macros that remove extra new-line characters.
Yes, it is stupid.
How do the geckos keep their pads clean?
You mean if I buy stock in a company and they fail to make a profit, I can put them behind bars? Awesome!
He stated that the power company tries very hard to regulate the 60 Hz power, such that, as exactly as possible, the required 5,184,000 cycles are sent out every day. As a result, any electric clock (especially one that uses a motor) would have very accurate time.
So why is it, that an electronic device, which you normally plug right into the wall, can't find a source of accurate time? There's a very reliable source of time information, right on the other side of the power supply, but the computer ignores it!
We are doomed.
The basic bittorrent package comes with a script called "btlaunchmany" which already does this in a great way. You point the script at a directory. When you put .torrent files in the directory, it notices them, and starts up a torrent. When you remove the .torrent file, it cancels the download process. All the torrents are managed together in one interface. So you can leave it running and just drop .torrents in, and when they finish up you can remove them.
I always used to say that Slackware's best feature is that it comes out of the box Broken. It largely works, but there are quirks, things that aren't working quite right, or that need to be tweaked to be most effective. That is probably not true anymore, but it used to be, and this forced me to Learn Linux in order to fix my system. I would never have delved into so many things if everything had just Worked Right from the start. Thank you Patrick for making me fix things for myself! I am now a smarter Linux admin because of that.
PhotoShop is a popular product, and people would flock to it, as long as they could run their other apps on it, as well.
Yes. In C64 mode.
One of the things that made Microsoft's OS so popular was the fact that it was easily piratable in the earlier days. Apple may well be turning a blind eye to piracy at this stage, in order to get more people hooked on their software.
Am I an idiot because I want to use more than one computer, even though my ISP only gives me ONE IP? Am I an idiot because I want to keep myself from being infected by the literally hundreds of thousands of zombie computers roaming the internet on a constant basis? NAT is a good idea. Firewalls are a good idea. I'm smart enough to configure my firewall to let traffic in, if anyone had a decent push mechanism that I wanted to allow in. I can even direct that traffic to the primary box within my NAT environment where I want that push traffic received. But where is this "real push tech" you speak of, and does it actually push anything useful to me?