The videos I take on my cheapish digital camera (640x480 interlace@15fps) are good enough from my point of view that I have no desire to get a separate video camera. Really. Just a big enough SD card (Side note: why did cameras abandon the far cheaper CF?) that I can keep a decent amount of video on it.
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For goodness sakes, here on slashdot you can actually do a reasonable approximation of how that would work on usenet, post the "original" and reply separately. And yet you don't, because you know if you did it would be completely obvious that top-posting is superior. What you have posted is a nonsense, because usenet or indeed email messages are separate messages. There is a separate message for the post and reply.
You can set it up as disconnected imap though, and any sensible client will cache messages, so you're pretty much as good as with pop. With pop you either have to delete all the messages from the server when you get them (bad when you go to use another machine, worse when your machine crashes halfway through reading your new messages and you lose the remainder) or leave them there (fills up your inbox).
What about if you need to be able to do that though? Try doing something truly 3d, like Homeworld (If you like it, please give me a hand with the video playback in the source port). Left click, right click, middle click, ctrl-click, ctrl-rightclick, alt-click all do different things, and I only ever increase that, because they're all useful and things I want to do. If you have another mouse button, that's twice as many things you can do with the mouse, *however many you can do with a single button mouse*. In fact it's more because you can click the two buttons together, but anyway, my point is why do Apple people never seem able to see this?
What? Clicking the wheel is a good solid click. Scrolling the wheel makes the tiniest of sounds, more felt than heard, which is as it should be, otherwise you'd get the two confused. The ribbed wheel is really easy to grip, so you can tell how far you scrolled because there's no way it will slip.
Audioscrobbler is the first thing I thought of. I try and look at the websites of my neighbours if they have them, since sharing my musical taste is important if I'm going to like someone, but there's not that much opportunity to interact unless you're willing to go straight to messaging them, which seems a bit too...forward. Having blogging combined with collaborative music filtering seems to me to be a very good idea. If I didn't need to distance myself from my Yahoo identity, I'd try it.
The sizes are usually around the same, so presumably they've done something to bloat the binaries. Perhaps lots of things are statically compiled, or they're unrolling/prelinking/etc. lots of things? Or just luck. It's usually pretty random which comes out bigger, at least IME.
That doesn't match my experiences at all. Mandrake installation goes without a hitch and plays mp3s fine (I don't think it will encode without an external lame.so or something, but playing is no problem). Drivers were better than on windows (I thought XP had no SATA support at all?). And kmix (the default "sound mixer" program, like you get when you click the speaker in the system tray, just like in windows) restores sound levels at kde login, plus most distros will save them when you shut down and restore when you boot up.
As we saw yesterday, Java allows permission elevations via single click from the user, and even with this new focus it's hard to imagine MS making it harder to do something than with its competitor in order to improve security.
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They won't, they've never done anything like that. Slashdotters refuse to believe it, but apple is now more evil than MS.
That wasn't my experience at all. It worked fine, and looked a little better than IE 4 (I think that was the version I had) on however pathetically little colour I was running at (4-bit?)
Yes, just the strings. It won't catch dedicated malicious infringers. But it catches those who do it by accident, or just thought it didn't matter so didn't bother to distribute the source.
Yes they are. Every single one. Thats why that guy who wanted to buy a BSD copy of linux needed everyone's agreement. It's also why changing license is so hard for GPL projects, so when they do change often a lot of stuff has to be rewritten because the developer who owns the copyright to it can't be found. Although the FSF has argued it makes it harder for them to sue, because everyone would have a separate clame on linux. (The FSF makes contributors assign them copyright; if someone rips off GCC then they can do the whole suit themselves).
Why the adjective "western" there? Chinese chess is not noticably more complex than western (the cannon makes it a bit more strategic, but not so much), and if you're trying to make an east-vs-west comparison other games are more representative of what's played in the far east.
It's always peripheral, I've found this. I have a dual-head setup and if I turn the refresh rates down then whenever I'm working on something on one monitor, I can notice the other one flickering. I think it's because our peripheral vision is meant to be very sensitive to movement, to protect us from predators. I'm shortsighted in my left eye, so anything moving on my left side makes me jump, wheras on my right side I ignore it, presumably because I can see it well enough to realise it's no threat.
That's not how it's being spun, that's how it is. It was always the case that these were only the rules for forum posts, or at least it looked like that.
Not insightful. Any half-decent email service will offer you not only free pop3 access but also free access with the superior imap protocol. If your service doesn't, find yourself a better one.
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F'in hell, it's debateable enough on usenet, in email there is NO REASON ON GOD'S EARTH YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO TOP POST. Go back to flaming newbies on what you probably laughably insist is called a newsfroup.
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The videos I take on my cheapish digital camera (640x480 interlace@15fps) are good enough from my point of view that I have no desire to get a separate video camera. Really. Just a big enough SD card (Side note: why did cameras abandon the far cheaper CF?) that I can keep a decent amount of video on it.
For goodness sakes, here on slashdot you can actually do a reasonable approximation of how that would work on usenet, post the "original" and reply separately. And yet you don't, because you know if you did it would be completely obvious that top-posting is superior. What you have posted is a nonsense, because usenet or indeed email messages are separate messages. There is a separate message for the post and reply.
You can set it up as disconnected imap though, and any sensible client will cache messages, so you're pretty much as good as with pop. With pop you either have to delete all the messages from the server when you get them (bad when you go to use another machine, worse when your machine crashes halfway through reading your new messages and you lose the remainder) or leave them there (fills up your inbox).
What about if you need to be able to do that though? Try doing something truly 3d, like Homeworld (If you like it, please give me a hand with the video playback in the source port). Left click, right click, middle click, ctrl-click, ctrl-rightclick, alt-click all do different things, and I only ever increase that, because they're all useful and things I want to do. If you have another mouse button, that's twice as many things you can do with the mouse, *however many you can do with a single button mouse*. In fact it's more because you can click the two buttons together, but anyway, my point is why do Apple people never seem able to see this?
What? Clicking the wheel is a good solid click. Scrolling the wheel makes the tiniest of sounds, more felt than heard, which is as it should be, otherwise you'd get the two confused. The ribbed wheel is really easy to grip, so you can tell how far you scrolled because there's no way it will slip.
Audioscrobbler is the first thing I thought of. I try and look at the websites of my neighbours if they have them, since sharing my musical taste is important if I'm going to like someone, but there's not that much opportunity to interact unless you're willing to go straight to messaging them, which seems a bit too...forward. Having blogging combined with collaborative music filtering seems to me to be a very good idea. If I didn't need to distance myself from my Yahoo identity, I'd try it.
The sizes are usually around the same, so presumably they've done something to bloat the binaries. Perhaps lots of things are statically compiled, or they're unrolling/prelinking/etc. lots of things? Or just luck. It's usually pretty random which comes out bigger, at least IME.
That doesn't match my experiences at all. Mandrake installation goes without a hitch and plays mp3s fine (I don't think it will encode without an external lame.so or something, but playing is no problem). Drivers were better than on windows (I thought XP had no SATA support at all?). And kmix (the default "sound mixer" program, like you get when you click the speaker in the system tray, just like in windows) restores sound levels at kde login, plus most distros will save them when you shut down and restore when you boot up.
No, it's the graphics card. Benchmarking your CPU with an ATI chipset and their CPU with intel crap is certainly not a fair comparison.
Surely intel must sell some laptops with integrated ATI graphics? Not many because they wouldn't be centrino, but some.
Even so I'll bet it's a helluva lot faster than an integrated intel chipset. Have you ever tried to play games on one of those things?
Seeing the pretty KDE. Pretty pretty!
There are many better live CDs than knoppix, seriously, it just gets the most attention. Try one of the ones dedicated to multimedia.
As we saw yesterday, Java allows permission elevations via single click from the user, and even with this new focus it's hard to imagine MS making it harder to do something than with its competitor in order to improve security.
They won't, they've never done anything like that. Slashdotters refuse to believe it, but apple is now more evil than MS.
That wasn't my experience at all. It worked fine, and looked a little better than IE 4 (I think that was the version I had) on however pathetically little colour I was running at (4-bit?)
Yes, just the strings. It won't catch dedicated malicious infringers. But it catches those who do it by accident, or just thought it didn't matter so didn't bother to distribute the source.
Yes they are. Every single one. Thats why that guy who wanted to buy a BSD copy of linux needed everyone's agreement. It's also why changing license is so hard for GPL projects, so when they do change often a lot of stuff has to be rewritten because the developer who owns the copyright to it can't be found. Although the FSF has argued it makes it harder for them to sue, because everyone would have a separate clame on linux. (The FSF makes contributors assign them copyright; if someone rips off GCC then they can do the whole suit themselves).
I can't tell for framerates over 15fps, at least not in the centre of my vision. FMV is FMV is FMV to me.
Why the adjective "western" there? Chinese chess is not noticably more complex than western (the cannon makes it a bit more strategic, but not so much), and if you're trying to make an east-vs-west comparison other games are more representative of what's played in the far east.
It's always peripheral, I've found this. I have a dual-head setup and if I turn the refresh rates down then whenever I'm working on something on one monitor, I can notice the other one flickering. I think it's because our peripheral vision is meant to be very sensitive to movement, to protect us from predators. I'm shortsighted in my left eye, so anything moving on my left side makes me jump, wheras on my right side I ignore it, presumably because I can see it well enough to realise it's no threat.
That's not how it's being spun, that's how it is. It was always the case that these were only the rules for forum posts, or at least it looked like that.
Or use kopete and its gpg integration plugin. That way you can interoperate, if clunkily, with users of other clients too.
Not insightful. Any half-decent email service will offer you not only free pop3 access but also free access with the superior imap protocol. If your service doesn't, find yourself a better one.
F'in hell, it's debateable enough on usenet, in email there is NO REASON ON GOD'S EARTH YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO TOP POST. Go back to flaming newbies on what you probably laughably insist is called a newsfroup.