Typically I eat snow by sticking my tongue out, not by eating what's on the ground, so I'd be a little surprised (and worried) to find a yellow snowflake flying through the air. I try not to stand under animals pissing from trees when I eat my snowflakes.
It does hurt when the funding, research, and effort could be put to better uses. We ought to work on our needs such as learning about our own planet (there's so much that we don't know), and how our species is going to survive, since at the current rate, survival could become a problem fairly soon. What we shouldn't be worrying about is philosophical questions like if there is life on other planets or the infamous "are we alone?" Sure, finding life on other planets can give immense insight into, among other things, how life is created in general and not just on Earth, but we might want to get to a stable point in society and survival where we're able to take time to study it. It also seems somewhat foolish to be looking at other parts of the universe since we're not able to travel anywhere in a resonable amount of time (reasonable as in under 10000 years) unless we develop ways to travel at large fractions of the speed of light. Even then, outside of our galaxy, the next closest galaxy is millions of light-years away, and the information we've received would be millions of years old. Knowledge is great and everything but the search for extraterrestrial life seems very pointless, especially at our current state.
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"Who killed my son, the gimp?" I totem, but vino didn't accept it. "Start the sound juicer, boys." Yelp!
It's true, hand-rolled computers have a more natural flavor than pre-packaged ones. But then again, if you go with the Dell brand, you don't even need a lighter; they come with self-ignition and everything! Just don't put them in your pocket...
In my experience Macs have better color management than Windows environments, mostly due to Macs having a smaller set of hardware which it runs on. Switch the Mac's LCD with a CRT and it's even better. Perhaps color management isn't as important for audio work, but a lot of audio-related software is written for Mac OS, and it's sometimes difficult to find Windows equivalents that perform similarly. It took me a while to find something like Audio Hijack for Windows.
Macs do have some deficiencies (inefficiencies?), however. When working with many applications at once, say Photoshop, Bridge, InDesign, TextEdit, and Safari (among others), windows can get crowded, and the toolbars of one program may appear to belong to another. Maybe it's nothing bad for some, but to me it's a GUI usability problem. I find MDIs more easily usable, like the Windows version of Photoshop, for example. Exposé and the Dock remedy this somewhat, but overall it feels less efficient than Windows' approach with the taskbar and MDIs (not a spec, but most applications use them). The upcoming Leopard implementation of virtual desktops, called Spaces, seems like a viable alternative, or at least a step in the right direction.
Imagine a the face of a building on a street (top down): ___,,,,____||||___
The,,,, is the display and the |||| is the restaurant. If you were walking left (<-) past the restaurant then it would say you missed it. If you were walking right (->) it would tell you that you're walking towards it. You just kinda have to think about it to get it.
I've ripped music from MySpace pages, but I did it using a recording program like Total Recorder. Basically it creates a virtual audio driver, records using that, then sends the audio to your regular driver. The only downside is that it does so in real-time, so you'd have to wait for the song to play.
Unfortunately MySpace music is only 96kpbs MP3s (AFAIK), so it's gonna be low quality, but lots of artists have MySpace exclusives or live songs only available there, which leaves it as the only choice.
People here (Nebraska) say November 24th. I'm always confused when people write dates here because I'm a dick and always write in the internation format of YY/MM/DD, and now I'm so used to seeing that.:P I don't even know what the standard in the US is.
There are many different kinds of dashes: hyphen, minus, em, en, and figure. I'm sure on a little elevator sign you couldn't tell the difference anyway.
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Typically I eat snow by sticking my tongue out, not by eating what's on the ground, so I'd be a little surprised (and worried) to find a yellow snowflake flying through the air. I try not to stand under animals pissing from trees when I eat my snowflakes.
I kinda think he got the joke since he referenced it in his post.
Does this conversion formula apply to metric shitloads as well? This will greatly help with my engineering work, thanks.
Still, never hurts to check...
It does hurt when the funding, research, and effort could be put to better uses. We ought to work on our needs such as learning about our own planet (there's so much that we don't know), and how our species is going to survive, since at the current rate, survival could become a problem fairly soon. What we shouldn't be worrying about is philosophical questions like if there is life on other planets or the infamous "are we alone?" Sure, finding life on other planets can give immense insight into, among other things, how life is created in general and not just on Earth, but we might want to get to a stable point in society and survival where we're able to take time to study it. It also seems somewhat foolish to be looking at other parts of the universe since we're not able to travel anywhere in a resonable amount of time (reasonable as in under 10000 years) unless we develop ways to travel at large fractions of the speed of light. Even then, outside of our galaxy, the next closest galaxy is millions of light-years away, and the information we've received would be millions of years old. Knowledge is great and everything but the search for extraterrestrial life seems very pointless, especially at our current state.
"Who killed my son, the gimp?" I totem, but vino didn't accept it. "Start the sound juicer, boys." Yelp!
Oh my god... The single funniest and most fitting Soviet Russia joke I have ever seen. People looked at me weird because I was laughing at a computer.
It's true, hand-rolled computers have a more natural flavor than pre-packaged ones. But then again, if you go with the Dell brand, you don't even need a lighter; they come with self-ignition and everything! Just don't put them in your pocket...
In my experience Macs have better color management than Windows environments, mostly due to Macs having a smaller set of hardware which it runs on. Switch the Mac's LCD with a CRT and it's even better. Perhaps color management isn't as important for audio work, but a lot of audio-related software is written for Mac OS, and it's sometimes difficult to find Windows equivalents that perform similarly. It took me a while to find something like Audio Hijack for Windows.
Macs do have some deficiencies (inefficiencies?), however. When working with many applications at once, say Photoshop, Bridge, InDesign, TextEdit, and Safari (among others), windows can get crowded, and the toolbars of one program may appear to belong to another. Maybe it's nothing bad for some, but to me it's a GUI usability problem. I find MDIs more easily usable, like the Windows version of Photoshop, for example. Exposé and the Dock remedy this somewhat, but overall it feels less efficient than Windows' approach with the taskbar and MDIs (not a spec, but most applications use them). The upcoming Leopard implementation of virtual desktops, called Spaces , seems like a viable alternative, or at least a step in the right direction.
I've never heard the phrase "little bitches" in reference to floppy disks before. :D
Stephen, Stephan, Steffan, Steffen - I've seen them all. And sometimes Stephen is pronounced as Steven so it gets confusing.
You know a mouse can see because the cursor would move.
Imagine a the face of a building on a street (top down): ___,,,,____||||___
,,,, is the display and the |||| is the restaurant. If you were walking left (<-) past the restaurant then it would say you missed it. If you were walking right (->) it would tell you that you're walking towards it. You just kinda have to think about it to get it.
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I've ripped music from MySpace pages, but I did it using a recording program like Total Recorder. Basically it creates a virtual audio driver, records using that, then sends the audio to your regular driver. The only downside is that it does so in real-time, so you'd have to wait for the song to play.
Unfortunately MySpace music is only 96kpbs MP3s (AFAIK), so it's gonna be low quality, but lots of artists have MySpace exclusives or live songs only available there, which leaves it as the only choice.
Too bad I don't have any mod points or I would have modded that up.
Haha that made me literally laugh out loud!
How about a firewall that prevents it from connecting to the Internet or accessing other programs? ZoneAlarm comes to mind.
I think I missed something here on Slashdot... What is this pipe/tube meme that everybody is repeating?
People here (Nebraska) say November 24th. I'm always confused when people write dates here because I'm a dick and always write in the internation format of YY/MM/DD, and now I'm so used to seeing that. :P I don't even know what the standard in the US is.
Wouldn't you thank your lucky maple leaf?
And half get paid far more? So it all evens out to the average, right? I do remember something like that in math.
They took the title of TFA minus the last four words... So blame ScienceDaily, not the Slashdot editors.
Haha I remember watching that.
He sounds more agonstic than atheist, or just nonreligious like he said.
There are many different kinds of dashes: hyphen, minus, em, en, and figure. I'm sure on a little elevator sign you couldn't tell the difference anyway.
Yeah those plants and their damn migratory routes.