No, the people who I have had to fight did npt have my level of training. If they had, I'd have shot them and saved myself the trouble.
Ehum? Am I the only one who thinks this is ironic? You've spent how many years training, and when you finally have a fair fight you'd shoot them? Where's your sense of pride?!:) (Okay, so you might be intelligent and I would've probably done the same thing, but that's a whole other issue...)
I've never once met anyone who has told me that they were beatten up by a blackbelt when they didn't start the fight themselves. I know that there are bad apples among us, but it's a rarity. Virtually all of the blackbelts that I've met have been extremely non-violent people.
And this is another argument for the parents, if you walk around with a fake blackbelt and without the training, and someone decides to try to beat you up. Who would win?
It's up to the fighters, but if one of them really had a blackbelt (and your level of training), I'd sure as hell know who I'd bet on!
One thing I'd like to build/see is a MythTV setup with an Xbox as a nice front-end in your living room, and a bigger box with several tuner cards, XXX GB HD in RAID, living in your basement/closet/coffin where it can make as much noise as it wants to. This should be possible with Myths distributed architecture, right?
Define decent please. If you mean in performance-terms, then yes, but you might not have the same deadlines as you have. If you mean in quality-terms, then I think your definition of "rendering" is a bit skewed.
Since you're pros, I expect you have the budget for hi-end hardware for your rendering farm. However, if you're a team of amateurs producing an indie cg movie at night/after-work you're in a whole different scenario.
High ranks in businesses ACTUALLY BELIEVE what Microsoft says. "It's Microsoft, why not believe them?". I've SEEN IT.
You're too right about this. My mom heard the phrase: It's all Microsoft software, so it'll work.
And even she had to suppress the laughter.
Or if your Windows installation is anything like Mike The Headless chicken, it can run for 18 months!
http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/story.htm
Of course, if it's anything like mine, it'll run for 30 seconds as well.
Which versions of Word and OpenOffice did you try?
I have both Microsoft Office 2003 and OpenOffice 1.1.2 installed, and IMHO the speed is roughly the same.
Both take ~10 seconds to start, and both feels just as slow in use.
If I just need to write or make notes, I fire up some lightweight _text_ editor, like RoughDraft or Notepad, NOT Word or Writer.
And as for the crashes, I've had quite the opposite experience, I've crashed Writer 1 time as far as I can remember, and Word (every version I tried) countless times on different computers and installations.
Hmmm, maybe I should try it from Sweden where I live?
Altough I already pay ~$50 for my 10MB ethernet connection...
Yet it would be fun to hear what they say.
Yes, MIDI works until you try to describe it with XML in realtime.
Try out Tracktion http://www.mackie.com/products/tracktion/ and watch it lag when you have much data going on.:)
Hehe, I just helped an ex-coworker with HTML produced by Office 2000, which worked perfectly in Firefox, but displayed *alot* of garbage in IE (6SP2).
A quick tour through HTMLTidy and it worked in both, with 50% of the filesize.
Remember the big Dungeons and Dragons scare in the early 80s?
The early 80s you say? Last summer or something here in Sweden.
Two kids found a mans head in a river, some days after, one newspaper made up that the man in question was playing Vampire: The Masquerade and immedietely blamed RPGs, and the rest of the media followed suite.
It wasn't a nice time to be an active RPG player...
And Windows runs like crap on anything lower than a P3-1 GHz (you should see it on my P2-333, in fact, I'm writing this on it).
Seriously, KDE runs like crap on slow hardware. So why do people keep using this argument?
And when comparing prices, why not compare Mac prices with high-end, well designed PCs, like http://www.alienware.com/ or http://www.falcon-nw.com/? Last time I did it, I found the prices to roughly the same.
Please, someone, mail a legal document to this guy's ISP about his copyright infringement and see if they take it down!
(I'd do it, but I'm too tired to write legal stuff.)
Yes, but not everyone here listents to dutch radion. However, everyone who reads this evidently reads./.
All news is old somewhere, so don't give the editors crap now. Do it if they post it again here!
So that's their problem. What they should've used is of course pigeons!
(Just look at google, they haven't sent out a messed up notice of unsolicited sharing to anyone!)
Uhm, if this is the list, haven't they already shown that Torvalds is more important?
I mean, both B and G should be sorted higher then L and T.
Or am I missing their sorting order?
What if on the deathbed you would actually reconsider and halt the service, if only you had remembered to have set it up 40 years ago in the first place...!
Yes, especielly with all the mails you wrote while being pissed off at your boss and the like.
I really think this is a bad idea in the first place. E-mails are far too easy to write, so some people are bound to write nasty mails in anger, which arrive 50 yrs later, and either doesn't mean squat or feeds new fuel to old, forgotten hate.
I did think about this type of service 4 or 5 years ago myself, but in the form of just informing friends in other countries, or on other continents of my death. Makes a bit more sense to me.
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Err... no. It was (and is) successful because it's easy to use. It does what most people want and not much more.
And if that's not innovative, what is?
No, the people who I have had to fight did npt have my level of training. If they had, I'd have shot them and saved myself the trouble.
:)
Ehum? Am I the only one who thinks this is ironic? You've spent how many years training, and when you finally have a fair fight you'd shoot them? Where's your sense of pride?!
(Okay, so you might be intelligent and I would've probably done the same thing, but that's a whole other issue...)
I've never once met anyone who has told me that they were beatten up by a blackbelt when they didn't start the fight themselves. I know that there are bad apples among us, but it's a rarity. Virtually all of the blackbelts that I've met have been extremely non-violent people.
And this is another argument for the parents, if you walk around with a fake blackbelt and without the training, and someone decides to try to beat you up. Who would win?
It's up to the fighters, but if one of them really had a blackbelt (and your level of training), I'd sure as hell know who I'd bet on!
One thing I'd like to build/see is a MythTV setup with an Xbox as a nice front-end in your living room, and a bigger box with several tuner cards, XXX GB HD in RAID, living in your basement/closet/coffin where it can make as much noise as it wants to.
This should be possible with Myths distributed architecture, right?
Define decent please.
If you mean in performance-terms, then yes, but you might not have the same deadlines as you have.
If you mean in quality-terms, then I think your definition of "rendering" is a bit skewed.
Since you're pros, I expect you have the budget for hi-end hardware for your rendering farm.
However, if you're a team of amateurs producing an indie cg movie at night/after-work you're in a whole different scenario.
High ranks in businesses ACTUALLY BELIEVE what Microsoft says. "It's Microsoft, why not believe them?". I've SEEN IT. You're too right about this. My mom heard the phrase: It's all Microsoft software, so it'll work. And even she had to suppress the laughter.
Or if your Windows installation is anything like Mike The Headless chicken, it can run for 18 months! http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/story.htm Of course, if it's anything like mine, it'll run for 30 seconds as well.
Which versions of Word and OpenOffice did you try? I have both Microsoft Office 2003 and OpenOffice 1.1.2 installed, and IMHO the speed is roughly the same. Both take ~10 seconds to start, and both feels just as slow in use. If I just need to write or make notes, I fire up some lightweight _text_ editor, like RoughDraft or Notepad, NOT Word or Writer. And as for the crashes, I've had quite the opposite experience, I've crashed Writer 1 time as far as I can remember, and Word (every version I tried) countless times on different computers and installations.
Of course they don't! Who do you go to when you're tired of all the crap and want "quality" (-crap if you're into that)?
Hmmm, maybe I should try it from Sweden where I live? Altough I already pay ~$50 for my 10MB ethernet connection... Yet it would be fun to hear what they say.
doesn't mean you should be jumping to any conclusions ... /. is all about?! :)
What?
I thought that was what
No seriously, I shouldn't. But since the rest of Tracktion is really well designed, I just assumed that he got it right...
Yes, MIDI works until you try to describe it with XML in realtime. Try out Tracktion http://www.mackie.com/products/tracktion/ and watch it lag when you have much data going on. :)
Hehe, I just helped an ex-coworker with HTML produced by Office 2000, which worked perfectly in Firefox, but displayed *alot* of garbage in IE (6SP2). A quick tour through HTMLTidy and it worked in both, with 50% of the filesize.
No to mention the wonderful JScript that logged WinXP users out of the system. :)
Am I the only one remembering that one?
Well, it's always easier to be critical against Kerry than to actually try to compile a list why Bush rocks.
Remember the big Dungeons and Dragons scare in the early 80s? The early 80s you say? Last summer or something here in Sweden. Two kids found a mans head in a river, some days after, one newspaper made up that the man in question was playing Vampire: The Masquerade and immedietely blamed RPGs, and the rest of the media followed suite. It wasn't a nice time to be an active RPG player...
And Windows runs like crap on anything lower than a P3-1 GHz (you should see it on my P2-333, in fact, I'm writing this on it). Seriously, KDE runs like crap on slow hardware. So why do people keep using this argument? And when comparing prices, why not compare Mac prices with high-end, well designed PCs, like http://www.alienware.com/ or http://www.falcon-nw.com/? Last time I did it, I found the prices to roughly the same.
If so, would you get them all running Cygwin on Windows?
Please, someone, mail a legal document to this guy's ISP about his copyright infringement and see if they take it down! (I'd do it, but I'm too tired to write legal stuff.)
Yes, but not everyone here listents to dutch radion. However, everyone who reads this evidently reads ./.
All news is old somewhere, so don't give the editors crap now. Do it if they post it again here!
So that's their problem. What they should've used is of course pigeons! (Just look at google, they haven't sent out a messed up notice of unsolicited sharing to anyone!)
I always thought groklaw was a blog, altough a very well written and professional one? So where's the problem?
Uhm, if this is the list, haven't they already shown that Torvalds is more important? I mean, both B and G should be sorted higher then L and T. Or am I missing their sorting order?
What if on the deathbed you would actually reconsider and halt the service, if only you had remembered to have set it up 40 years ago in the first place...! Yes, especielly with all the mails you wrote while being pissed off at your boss and the like. I really think this is a bad idea in the first place. E-mails are far too easy to write, so some people are bound to write nasty mails in anger, which arrive 50 yrs later, and either doesn't mean squat or feeds new fuel to old, forgotten hate. I did think about this type of service 4 or 5 years ago myself, but in the form of just informing friends in other countries, or on other continents of my death. Makes a bit more sense to me.
I'd personally go with Ok or Cancel for this. Or a killall firefox...
Hey, everything is edible atleast once! I don't know why people keep using "edible" as able to eat something several times.