It's all done via muscles/tendons/bones/etc. when a cat turns over. It usually will turn its top side over first, then the bottom. Not so much a mechanics problem, but rather a biology problem.
You do know that Microsoft made the WMV format because they didn't want to pay licensing fees included with MPEG standards and whatnot, right? Same goes for WMA and other proprietary shit. I'd rather them use existing open formats, possibly develop from there, and at least be a bit open about your own standards so that people will actually _use_ them in the future.
It could be short for "I racken" (I reckon), or it could just be a way to grab his exclusive attention for a brief moment in order to get a new law introduced into Congress or something in the name of defeating terrorism.
Reverse domain name style naming has been in wide use since the invention of Java packages. Only people like Sun get to have a root name like sun.* in which we all hate.:P
All Microsoft has to do is modify their API's to handle the registry in a method like flatfiles or.programrc files like in most *nix distros. Make it invisible to the developer at first, and then work from there.
Because they all come with >$200 worth of features. I personaly got an iRiver H320 for $215 at Best Buy almost a year ago. Probably the best deal I'd ever gotten.
Don't forget when Google released their Maps API, thusly spawning things like the GNU vs Microsoft animated fights, or that short-lived Amber Alert map thinger, and other fun things posted on Slashdot before.
For those who already have Debian or Ubuntu, add this to your/etc/apt/sources.list file:
# Ubuntu Breezy updates repository deb ftp://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy-updates main restricted universe multiverse # Ubuntu Breezy main repository deb ftp://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy universe main restricted multiverse # Ubuntu Breezy security updates repository deb ftp://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy-security universe main restricted multiverse
Now if only they'd make a symbolic link like the official Debian repositories do so that I wouldn't have to manually update my sources.list file each time, and maybe so that they could provide an unstable and testing repository or something. Be wary, however, that the Ubuntu FTP servers are slow as hell right now.:(
You may think it's faster to use a mouse, but I completely disagree. After learning about the assloads of shortcuts and usability features in Vim, I feel that most GUIs are wastes of time and just make the problem of using it more difficult. The less I have to move my hands from the keyboard the better, especially on a laptop when touchpad usage isn't so fun.
IceWM is good for things like that. Most desktop environments and window managers have themes with the name "Redmond" somewhere in it to signify it's a Windows look-alike theme.
Well, I recently got a mac mini for my sister, and I was setting it up, right? Well, I had the same concern as you. I was able to find the terminal (it was bash even!:D), and it came with a bunch of shell-related programs you normal expect with *nix or BSD. The rc files was nothing to fear as a simple "vi ~/.bashrc" let me make my normal bash configurations, and the same worked for other programs. I even went as far as to "ln -s/Users/home". Overall, I found that Darwin was pretty good when it comes to a BSD environment, but trying to set up a dev environment (although this is my technologically challenged sister who's learned everything she knows from me whenever I felt like explaining it to her) is indeed just as hard to do on Mac as it is on Windows.
Zonk: "There was a flood in Jamaica. Ten thousand Bob Marley impersonators were swept out to sea. Update by Z: fixed amount of deaths."
[pause]
CmdrTaco: "And in other news, Jamaicans are worried that ten thousandd Bob Marley impersonaters may have been killed in friek flooding."
[pause]
Cliff: "And in other news, the Bob Marley Impersonation Council is asking for donations to help in the recovery after disasterous Jamaican floods."
[pause]
samzenpus: "Finally, ten thousand idiots impersonating Bob Marley met the Grim Reaper today after the Microsoft fanboys flooded Jamaica with tears after finding out that Windows Vista will not be released until 2008 due to being rewritten using the OpenBSD kernel."
Lately, Microsoft has been fighting media-related patents and whatnot that generally get in their way of making an all-in-one media system, whether or not those things are Bad Ideas in the first place. Microsoft's been scoring up on the respect scale ever since they decided that, "hey, this patent shit is getting in our way; let's try to end this now."
H.264 is fucking patented, that's why we bitch about it. A standard is patented. A STANDARD is fucking PATENTED. What kind of bullshit is that? If you're going to make a standard, especially an ISO-certified (and IEC in this case) one, then you should really be giving up all "rights" to owning the "standard" so that people can, oh, use it? Sure, patent your method of using the standard all you want; nobody gives a damn as you'll spend more time making the patent than, oh, ffmpeg will spend programming an implementation of the published standard, sorta invalidating your patent based on prior art.
This is why the MPEG is utter bullshit; if things like Unicode or ANSI C were patented, where the hell would we be now?
how did the iPod inflate the price for the standard Mp3 player?
They charged $300 for a device that should only cost ~$150 with the featureset and capacity that it comes with. A sleek design should not cost me $100-200 extra, especially when it lacks all the necessary features of a portable jukebox.
I think the fact that WMA and WMV are butchered versions of an existing standard set by MPEG that are also proprietary kinda killed it. If WMA/WMV were open standards, they would be successful, especially with a large company like Microsoft or Apple behind the format. In fact, this is both of their problem's most of the time; instead of using or improving on an existing open format, they try to reinvent the wheel, fuck it up, and not tell anyone what they changed or did so that only WMP can play those high quality porn movies you get from pay sites.:/
Which is also why it's not uncommon to be able to get a free magazine subscription. As far as I remember, publishers get their money in proportion to how many subscriptions they sell, so the more the better, even if they have to give away many of those subscriptions for free in order to attract new subscribers.
Slashdot Mirror
1 != -1
Uh oh, owned by simple algebra.
Well, the barber is normally a woman in the riddle, but you ruined it with your weird ponderings at the end...
Except I would've said "how is {r^2 \frac{dr}{dt}} funny?" :/
1) Should be right by his house.
2) Sometime around 21 Septembre
3) White (Polar Bear)
It's all done via muscles/tendons/bones/etc. when a cat turns over. It usually will turn its top side over first, then the bottom. Not so much a mechanics problem, but rather a biology problem.
You do know that Microsoft made the WMV format because they didn't want to pay licensing fees included with MPEG standards and whatnot, right? Same goes for WMA and other proprietary shit. I'd rather them use existing open formats, possibly develop from there, and at least be a bit open about your own standards so that people will actually _use_ them in the future.
It could be short for "I racken" (I reckon), or it could just be a way to grab his exclusive attention for a brief moment in order to get a new law introduced into Congress or something in the name of defeating terrorism.
But your spelling isn't...
Reverse domain name style naming has been in wide use since the invention of Java packages. Only people like Sun get to have a root name like sun.* in which we all hate. :P
All Microsoft has to do is modify their API's to handle the registry in a method like flatfiles or .programrc files like in most *nix distros. Make it invisible to the developer at first, and then work from there.
If there are thousands of gene-related patents, I'd have to say the mirror sequence is...
That's right, baby, magic fingers. /Family Guy
Because they all come with >$200 worth of features. I personaly got an iRiver H320 for $215 at Best Buy almost a year ago. Probably the best deal I'd ever gotten.
Don't forget when Google released their Maps API, thusly spawning things like the GNU vs Microsoft animated fights, or that short-lived Amber Alert map thinger, and other fun things posted on Slashdot before.
You may think it's faster to use a mouse, but I completely disagree. After learning about the assloads of shortcuts and usability features in Vim, I feel that most GUIs are wastes of time and just make the problem of using it more difficult. The less I have to move my hands from the keyboard the better, especially on a laptop when touchpad usage isn't so fun.
IceWM is good for things like that. Most desktop environments and window managers have themes with the name "Redmond" somewhere in it to signify it's a Windows look-alike theme.
Well, I recently got a mac mini for my sister, and I was setting it up, right? Well, I had the same concern as you. I was able to find the terminal (it was bash even! :D), and it came with a bunch of shell-related programs you normal expect with *nix or BSD. The rc files was nothing to fear as a simple "vi ~/.bashrc" let me make my normal bash configurations, and the same worked for other programs. I even went as far as to "ln -s /Users /home". Overall, I found that Darwin was pretty good when it comes to a BSD environment, but trying to set up a dev environment (although this is my technologically challenged sister who's learned everything she knows from me whenever I felt like explaining it to her) is indeed just as hard to do on Mac as it is on Windows.
Nah man, it'd go something like this:
Zonk: "There was a flood in Jamaica. Ten thousand Bob Marley impersonators were swept out to sea. Update by Z: fixed amount of deaths."
[pause]
CmdrTaco: "And in other news, Jamaicans are worried that ten thousandd Bob Marley impersonaters may have been killed in friek flooding."
[pause]
Cliff: "And in other news, the Bob Marley Impersonation Council is asking for donations to help in the recovery after disasterous Jamaican floods."
[pause]
samzenpus: "Finally, ten thousand idiots impersonating Bob Marley met the Grim Reaper today after the Microsoft fanboys flooded Jamaica with tears after finding out that Windows Vista will not be released until 2008 due to being rewritten using the OpenBSD kernel."
Nah man, you just have to throw a chair at it when it crashes. /lame
Lately, Microsoft has been fighting media-related patents and whatnot that generally get in their way of making an all-in-one media system, whether or not those things are Bad Ideas in the first place. Microsoft's been scoring up on the respect scale ever since they decided that, "hey, this patent shit is getting in our way; let's try to end this now."
H.264 is fucking patented, that's why we bitch about it. A standard is patented. A STANDARD is fucking PATENTED. What kind of bullshit is that? If you're going to make a standard, especially an ISO-certified (and IEC in this case) one, then you should really be giving up all "rights" to owning the "standard" so that people can, oh, use it? Sure, patent your method of using the standard all you want; nobody gives a damn as you'll spend more time making the patent than, oh, ffmpeg will spend programming an implementation of the published standard, sorta invalidating your patent based on prior art.
This is why the MPEG is utter bullshit; if things like Unicode or ANSI C were patented, where the hell would we be now?
how did the iPod inflate the price for the standard Mp3 player?
They charged $300 for a device that should only cost ~$150 with the featureset and capacity that it comes with. A sleek design should not cost me $100-200 extra, especially when it lacks all the necessary features of a portable jukebox.
I think the fact that WMA and WMV are butchered versions of an existing standard set by MPEG that are also proprietary kinda killed it. If WMA/WMV were open standards, they would be successful, especially with a large company like Microsoft or Apple behind the format. In fact, this is both of their problem's most of the time; instead of using or improving on an existing open format, they try to reinvent the wheel, fuck it up, and not tell anyone what they changed or did so that only WMP can play those high quality porn movies you get from pay sites. :/
Which is also why it's not uncommon to be able to get a free magazine subscription. As far as I remember, publishers get their money in proportion to how many subscriptions they sell, so the more the better, even if they have to give away many of those subscriptions for free in order to attract new subscribers.