You seem to have misinterpreted the post you replied to.
jonr's point was that why do old recordings cost the same amount as new recordings. Surely by now the cost of the original recording has been well and truly paid off so that shouldn't factor into the current price, also shouldn't the lower demand for most CD's over 2 years old mean lower prices.
How about lightly sanding the LED. The roughed up surface should spread the light better. Maybe you'd end up losing too much light. If you don't mind wasting/replacing an LED or two it might be worth a try anyway.
Simple, make the timeout long enough to cover any unexpected delays, and get it to send the developer reminder emails. Set it to go off 35 days after payment is due.
With Slashdots branching your reply will show up somewhere near the original comment. In a non-branching/flat forum like Joel's your reply will be 50 or so messages below the original.
Did anyone else notice the link provided for StarCraft? Instead of linking to Blizzard or Vivendi, it gives a link to a stock market report for the StarCraft corporation who customise vans. Though even this business report includes a link to the StarCraft:Ghost announcement.
Actually the direction water goes down the drain is caused by local factors, such as random currents and the shape of the sink. Coriolis effects from the spinning of the Earth are too small to affect the water in your sink.
"It has also been said that the human eye cannot detect more than 30 FPS."
Someone may have said that but they've got it back to front. 30FPS isn't the maximum detectable, it's the minumum. 24-30FPS is about the minimum frame rate for filmed images to appear like a moving image and not like a series of still images.
You'd think that after the failure of Cirtuit city's DIVX that they've learnt that consumers aren't interested in limited play DVDs.
Besides, neither of these systems would seem to cause any trouble for DiVX:) for those who what to get around the time out problem
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Your idea seems to be on the right track to me.
The current problem is that Linus can't keep up with all of the patches he is sent, but Linus needs to review every patch for quality before applying it. If Linus were to only receive patches
that had been verified as sane by the subsystem managers it should reduce his workload by filtering the crap stuff.
If patches were sent to a central address eg "patchorama@kernel.org" and automatically forwarded to the correct maintainer. The workload would be divided amongst the maintainers rather than just one "patch penguin" so no one person has to deal with a deluge of patches.
This way each maintainer could focus on their area of expertise, and Linus wouldn't have to waste time reading the dud patches.
Admittedly I don't know what the signal to noise (good to crap) ratio is for patches sent to Linus is. If the majority of patches Linus receives are already of reasonable quality then this system doesn't improve things much.
Bugs happen.
If you're running an important server, you don't install software on its first day of release. It doesn't matter if the software is from Linus, Microsoft, the Apache group, or anybody.
If the system doesn't matter, like your destop machine, then install it straight away but you don't risk it with your mission critical stuff.
It doesn't matter if it was the same worker or not. If any package handler along the way didn't take proper care of their customers property, then they would suffer the stench.
Though I do think the stink package should still have been labelled as fragile.
Just because some Palestinians are idiots doesn't mean that all or even a majority of them are.
Just as the fact there are plenty of stupid Americans doesn't mean that that all or even a majority of them are.
A TV football show here in Australia has a segment each week where a host (Sam Newman) goes out and speaks to people on the street. Almost every person they show is an idiot, many of them mentally handicapped. Obviously not all of the people you'd meet on the streets are idiots but they're the only ones that get shown.
It might change your mind though if it was US citizens again like it was in Oklahoma. Will you be so keen to kill all of the terrorists fellow countrymen.
Of course not all Americans were involved in the OKC bombing. So if this latest attack was by foreign terrorists, why should foriegn innocent civilians be killed in response.
I don't mind Farscape but the "animatronic puppets" are Muppets in both look and sound.
For a show that looks so good in every other aspect the Muppet characters do detract from the experience.
If the rest of the show looked cheap and dodgy then the Muppets would be fine, but they are out of place in a big budget show.
OK, most wouldn't want to pay for the extra cost of a built-in UPS. But most people don't get a UPS for their PC already.
However when its time to replace the ATX style power supply, how about the ATZ(?) power supply be able to include a UPS as an option, so that those who want the added protection can get it.
An intergrated UPS would have the benefit of not wasting power in multiple conversion processes, and have more power left to keep the PC running.
You put the "fucking boxes" on the fucking floor.
The crappy old laptop I've got uses a power supply like this, as does its external CD drive (creative labs). The only thing on my computer power board with a stupid power adapter is the modem, so it has to sit on a wonky angle in the board.
Is it really still that hard to find a PS2?
I could go done to one of our local department stores right now and pick one up, and I live in a small city in southern Australia.
Surely it can't be that hard in the US.
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You seem to have misinterpreted the post you replied to.
jonr's point was that why do old recordings cost the same amount as new recordings. Surely by now the cost of the original recording has been well and truly paid off so that shouldn't factor into the current price, also shouldn't the lower demand for most CD's over 2 years old mean lower prices.
Hmmm, in my local supermarket they already use Fluoros in the refrigerators.
Here's a possibly stupid suggestion.
How about lightly sanding the LED. The roughed up surface should spread the light better. Maybe you'd end up losing too much light.
If you don't mind wasting/replacing an LED or two it might be worth a try anyway.
Simple, make the timeout long enough to cover any unexpected delays, and get it to send the developer reminder emails. Set it to go off 35 days after payment is due.
However if you've ever had a house built you've most likely had to get the builders back to finish stuff the forgot to do.
And without the backdoor being obvious in the programmers face he'll probably forget to remove it.
With Slashdots branching your reply will show up somewhere near the original comment.
In a non-branching/flat forum like Joel's your reply will be 50 or so messages below the original.
Of course there are financial gains, but they're due to the improved performance of the chips and the fact that they can charge more for faster chips.
Did anyone else notice the link provided for StarCraft?
Instead of linking to Blizzard or Vivendi, it gives a link to a stock market report for the StarCraft corporation who customise vans. Though even this business report includes a link to the StarCraft:Ghost announcement.
In regard to the 68000 I believe it was actually 32-bit but with a 24-bit bus. At least thats how it was setup in the original Macs.
This is fairly simple to get around.
If message comes from someone in your address book then allow it regardless, otherwise apply spam filters.
Actually the direction water goes down the drain is caused by local factors, such as random currents and the shape of the sink. Coriolis effects from the spinning of the Earth are too small to affect the water in your sink.
See this link from Bad Astronomy.
Reread it all yourself, without making the same wrong assumptions you've previously made.
Both of the comments you replied to were certainly talking about the uselessness of the average camera flash beyond 20 feet.
I hope that it was just an honest mistake on your part, otherwise as a previous poster said you are one dumb motherfucker.
"It has also been said that the human eye cannot detect more than 30 FPS."
Someone may have said that but they've got it back to front.
30FPS isn't the maximum detectable, it's the minumum.
24-30FPS is about the minimum frame rate for filmed images to appear like a moving image and not like a series of still images.
You'd think that after the failure of Cirtuit city's DIVX that they've learnt that consumers aren't interested in limited play DVDs.
Besides, neither of these systems would seem to cause any trouble for DiVX:) for those who what to get around the time out problem
Your idea seems to be on the right track to me.
The current problem is that Linus can't keep up with all of the patches he is sent, but Linus needs to review every patch for quality before applying it. If Linus were to only receive patches
that had been verified as sane by the subsystem managers it should reduce his workload by filtering the crap stuff.
If patches were sent to a central address eg "patchorama@kernel.org" and automatically forwarded to the correct maintainer. The workload would be divided amongst the maintainers rather than just one "patch penguin" so no one person has to deal with a deluge of patches.
This way each maintainer could focus on their area of expertise, and Linus wouldn't have to waste time reading the dud patches.
Admittedly I don't know what the signal to noise (good to crap) ratio is for patches sent to Linus is. If the majority of patches Linus receives are already of reasonable quality then this system doesn't improve things much.
Bugs happen.
If you're running an important server, you don't install software on its first day of release. It doesn't matter if the software is from Linus, Microsoft, the Apache group, or anybody.
If the system doesn't matter, like your destop machine, then install it straight away but you don't risk it with your mission critical stuff.
It doesn't matter if it was the same worker or not. If any package handler along the way didn't take proper care of their customers property, then they would suffer the stench.
Though I do think the stink package should still have been labelled as fragile.
Just because some Palestinians are idiots doesn't mean that all or even a majority of them are.
Just as the fact there are plenty of stupid Americans doesn't mean that that all or even a majority of them are.
A TV football show here in Australia has a segment each week where a host (Sam Newman) goes out and speaks to people on the street. Almost every person they show is an idiot, many of them mentally handicapped. Obviously not all of the people you'd meet on the streets are idiots but they're the only ones that get shown.
It might change your mind though if it was US citizens again like it was in Oklahoma. Will you be so keen to kill all of the terrorists fellow countrymen.
Of course not all Americans were involved in the OKC bombing. So if this latest attack was by foreign terrorists, why should foriegn innocent civilians be killed in response.
I don't mind Farscape but the "animatronic puppets" are Muppets in both look and sound. For a show that looks so good in every other aspect the Muppet characters do detract from the experience. If the rest of the show looked cheap and dodgy then the Muppets would be fine, but they are out of place in a big budget show.
Actually he said its not reverting to PIO mode which is the old pre DMA system.
OK, most wouldn't want to pay for the extra cost of a built-in UPS. But most people don't get a UPS for their PC already.
However when its time to replace the ATX style power supply, how about the ATZ(?) power supply be able to include a UPS as an option, so that those who want the added protection can get it.
An intergrated UPS would have the benefit of not wasting power in multiple conversion processes, and have more power left to keep the PC running.
You put the "fucking boxes" on the fucking floor.
The crappy old laptop I've got uses a power supply like this, as does its external CD drive (creative labs). The only thing on my computer power board with a stupid power adapter is the modem, so it has to sit on a wonky angle in the board.
If you'd read morpheus_'s message properly, he said "A 733Mhz processor with an NV20 chip for under $300?"
Where else can you get a computer this powerful this cheap?
Is it really still that hard to find a PS2?
I could go done to one of our local department stores right now and pick one up, and I live in a small city in southern Australia.
Surely it can't be that hard in the US.