What scares me is when I wonder what that kind of people do in real life -- and how many are in my social groups.:-(
In real life, those are the folks that lie or exaggerate on FEMA grants or insurance claims. We had a lot of that in Florida after the recent hurricanes. They don't care that it hurts everyone else if they get ahead a little bit.
We programmers are already quite sensitive to typos. I find errors in mass produced sf and fantasy all the time. This ability is what helps us notice those out of place commas or missing semi-colons in our code. 8^)
And this "feature" frustratingly breaks the systems of those of us that haven't gone the way of Microsoft and still use 'alt' as our accel key. I can't search within a wikipedia page(alt-f) or even open a new tab(alt-t).
It was just annoying when mozilla changed the default from 'alt' to 'ctl'; they claimed the unix folks could easily set it back to 'alt', but the newbies coming from the microsoft world are used to 'ctl'. I suppose it makes more sense due to mozilla's cross platform nature.
It is a whole new level of frustration when websites arbitrarily change what your key strokes do. Sadly, I guess I will have to convert to the Microsoft "standard", too.:( ... which also breaks text field editing shortcuts like ctl-u to delete line(quite useful to clear url), ctl-a to go to beginning of line, etc.
I heard an interesting comment on NPR that brought a ray of hope to my disappointment in my belligerent countrymen.
Since Bush moved to the far right to firm up his base and get the votes of the religious folks to help win reelection he may move back more towards the center in his second term since he doesn't need them as much anymore.
Maybe he really can become a uniter instead of a divider. Here's to wishful thinking.
Actually, now that I think about, I recall that the reason I did fine tune the cropping was precisely because of bandwidth. I had read that I should crop to get rid of the sharp drop from image to black which wastes bits. I see what you mean about the aspect ratio being based on the post-cropped image, though.
I used to subscribe to the mplayer lists. I even submitted a patch to mplayer a long time ago which they didn't accept but implemented my feature anyway, so I was happy,:) But they were a bit too spammy and combative for my tastes(like your argument here with nutshell,:). Nowadays I just use the gmane nntp interface to the mailing lists. So I can just look at them when I need to once in a blue moon and easily search the headers too:
Thanks for the advice. I shall put it into practice. I think I cut and pasted most of those settings from the mplayer docs and some other random posts/sites with samples and didn't really investigate very much since it seemed to work ok.:)
I have a similar problem playing files on the dvp642 even without hdtv resolutions. I am going to try a lower bitrate, as someone else suggested. Here is the way I record from regular cable now:
Now I am going to get pummled by Mods I know:) I see my comments go up and down from +4 to +0 in the course of a single hour as Slashdot is overwhelminingly a left-wing Noam Chomsky echo chamber...
This may, possibly, have something to do with prefacing your remarks with a tacit invitation to flamewar?
Exactly. I always skip reading a comment that starts with preemptively whining about moderation regardless of the score.
I think it is time to officially retire the term "third world" since hardly anyone has a clue what it means and keeps making up their own definitions. I have to admit that including a communist country with nuclear weapons is the most imaginitive inclusion in the "third world" I've yet to see. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_world
Truth decays into beauty, while beauty soon becomes merely charm.
Charm ends up as strangeness, and even that doesn't last, but up and down are forever.
I think I just copied it from someone's.sig in nntp://sci.physics
Here was my post on 2003-11-03 to my local LUG on how to fix ffxi's buggy networking problems when playing behind a linux firewall:
I started playing Final Fantasy XI online for PC this weekend. (Yep, had to boot into windows for first time in long time and had a couple crashes to remind me why I stopped using it)
Anyway, I have a linux box as my firewall doing NAT and the game would not work with the error: FFXI:3100 Could not connect to lobby server
Tech support just told me it's my fault for using a linux firewall and implied their system has no bugs and claimed it works with NAT.
After some packet sniffing, I discovered that some bug in the game's network code was causing it to send packets to the external ip of my firewall(port 54001) instead of to square enix's lobby server. A web search of port 54001 came up with a japanese language page which had some iptables rules to use to let FF online work from a playstation through a firewall. Those did not work, but the page also had a list of Square's servers and which ports they use so I made some quick rules to forward any misdirected packets to those listed servers and voila it all worked.
So, in case anyone happens to have problems with this bug in PlayOnline and Final Fantasy XI not working through NAT on an adsl connection, here is the solution.
Here are the relevant parts of my firewall script:
I only carry some cash and 4 cards: driver license, check card, credit card, and one business card of my dad's with all the phone numbers I haven't memorized of family and friends on the back(nope, no cell phone).
Their brand of humor also takes a little bit more thought, so those who don't "get it" usually stop watching.
I love the Daily Show, but if that is what passes for requiring thought then I feel really bad about the mental state of our society.
Most of the skits involve the correspondents doing or saying something outlandish and absurd and Jon playing the straight man to it. Then there is the whole category of jokes geared to our inner 12 years olds that are just funny because they use course language, e.g "Bob Novak, 'douchebag of liberty.'" The clips of various politicians are usually amusing just because they said something stupid. And then there is the annoying, cliched self-deprecating jewish stuff. It's sad that stereotype jokes like that still work so well(further evidence on Tough Crowd).
Anyway, as I said, I still like it. Their consistent formula works, and it is funny. But it doesn't require any more thought to get the humour than it does watching Letterman or South Park.
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In real life, those are the folks that lie or exaggerate on FEMA grants or insurance claims. We had a lot of that in Florida after the recent hurricanes. They don't care that it hurts everyone else if they get ahead a little bit.
That sounds like the behaviour of a company on the way down the drain. Remember PSInet and their so-called "pink contracts"?
We programmers are already quite sensitive to typos. I find errors in mass produced sf and fantasy all the time. This ability is what helps us notice those out of place commas or missing semi-colons in our code. 8^)
And this "feature" frustratingly breaks the systems of those of us that haven't gone the way of Microsoft and still use 'alt' as our accel key. I can't search within a wikipedia page(alt-f) or even open a new tab(alt-t).
:(
It was just annoying when mozilla changed the default from 'alt' to 'ctl'; they claimed the unix folks could easily set it back to 'alt', but the newbies coming from the microsoft world are used to 'ctl'. I suppose it makes more sense due to mozilla's cross platform nature.
It is a whole new level of frustration when websites arbitrarily change what your key strokes do. Sadly, I guess I will have to convert to the Microsoft "standard", too.
... which also breaks text field editing shortcuts like ctl-u to delete line(quite useful to clear url), ctl-a to go to beginning of line, etc.
"Prozium" from Eqilibrium
I find a -2 penalty for funny moderations and reading only 3+ comments works great. 8^)
Since Bush moved to the far right to firm up his base and get the votes of the religious folks to help win reelection he may move back more towards the center in his second term since he doesn't need them as much anymore.
Maybe he really can become a uniter instead of a divider. Here's to wishful thinking.
Small model rockets use a 'streamer' instead of a parachute. It is a piece of paper an inch or two wide and a couple feet long.
I think you may be. To get the proper headers and libraries you just need to install the foo-devel rpms.
There are some decent choices amongst all of those slashboxes:
http://ask.slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome
Quite an impressive animation. I want one on a a globe. :)
I used to subscribe to the mplayer lists. I even submitted a patch to mplayer a long time ago which they didn't accept but implemented my feature anyway, so I was happy, :) But they were a bit too spammy and combative for my tastes(like your argument here with nutshell, :). Nowadays I just use the gmane nntp interface to the mailing lists. So I can just look at them when I need to once in a blue moon and easily search the headers too:
nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.dev el e r
nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.us
Thanks for the advice. I shall put it into practice. I think I cut and pasted most of those settings from the mplayer docs and some other random posts/sites with samples and didn't really investigate very much since it seemed to work ok. :)
mencoder -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:norm=NTSC:chanlist =us-cable -vf crop=625:478:8:2,pp=de/lb -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=2000 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64 -o /home/dkr/vid/tv.avi tv://
With that method, the dvp642 just plays the sound. Too bad it doesn't have an error console to say exactly why it isn't playing something. :)
I think it is time to officially retire the term "third world" since hardly anyone has a clue what it means and keeps making up their own definitions. I have to admit that including a communist country with nuclear weapons is the most imaginitive inclusion in the "third world" I've yet to see.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_world
Isn't it ironic?
skill -9 nick
is a bit quicker
Truth decays into beauty, while beauty soon becomes merely charm. Charm ends up as strangeness, and even that doesn't last, but up and down are forever.
I think I just copied it from someone's .sig in nntp://sci.physics
Their navigation display did actually flake out while the rocket was firing three flights ago; the pilot said he just kept going since with his head straight forward he could see the earth out of the corner of his eye and knew he was still going up.1 4P m
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipOne_flight_
http://scaled.com/projects/tierone/logs-WK-SS1.ht
Here was my post on 2003-11-03 to my local LUG on how to fix ffxi's buggy networking problems when playing behind a linux firewall:
l es -I PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp -s $intnet -d $extip --dport 51220 -j DNAT --to 61.195.48.234:51220
I started playing Final Fantasy XI online for PC this weekend.
(Yep, had to boot into windows for first time in long time
and had a couple crashes to remind me why I stopped using it)
Anyway, I have a linux box as my firewall doing NAT and the game
would not work with the error:
FFXI:3100 Could not connect to lobby server
Tech support just told me it's my fault for using a linux firewall
and implied their system has no bugs and claimed it works with NAT.
After some packet sniffing, I discovered that some bug in the game's
network code was causing it to send packets to the external ip of
my firewall(port 54001) instead of to square enix's lobby server.
A web search of port 54001 came up with a japanese language page
which had some iptables rules to use to let FF online work from
a playstation through a firewall. Those did not work, but the page
also had a list of Square's servers and which ports they use so
I made some quick rules to forward any misdirected packets to those
listed servers and voila it all worked.
So, in case anyone happens to have problems with this bug in
PlayOnline and Final Fantasy XI not working through NAT on
an adsl connection, here is the solution.
Here are the relevant parts of my firewall script:
extint="eth0"
extip=`ifconfig eth0|grep 'inet addr'|cut -f2 -d:|cut -f1 -d" "`
intint="eth1"
intnet="192.168.1.0/24"
iptab
iptables -I PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp -s $intnet -d $extip --dport 51240 -j DNAT --to 61.195.48.236:51240
iptables -I PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp -s $intnet -d $extip --dport 51300 -j DNAT --to 61.195.48.238:51300
iptables -I PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp -s $intnet -d $extip --dport 51301 -j DNAT --to 61.195.48.239:51301
iptables -I PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp -s $intnet -d $extip --dport 54000 -j DNAT --to 61.195.48.239:54000
iptables -I PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp -s $intnet -d $extip --dport 54001 -j DNAT --to 61.195.48.209:54001
iptables -I PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp -s $intnet -d $extip --dport 54002 -j DNAT --to 61.195.62.141:54002
iptables -I PREROUTING -t nat -p udp -s $intnet -d $extip --dport 54120 -j DNAT --to 61.195.62.144:54120
iptables -I PREROUTING -t nat -p udp -s $intnet -d $extip --dport 54246 -j DNAT --to 61.195.62.158:54246
Anyway, I like the 'taxi wallet' format the best. It is pocket shaped and nice and light.
http://www.hammacher.com/publish/70450.asp (first search result)
I only carry some cash and 4 cards: driver license, check card, credit card, and one business card of my dad's with all the phone numbers I haven't memorized of family and friends on the back(nope, no cell phone).
I love the Daily Show, but if that is what passes for requiring thought then I feel really bad about the mental state of our society.
Most of the skits involve the correspondents doing or saying something outlandish and absurd and Jon playing the straight man to it. Then there is the whole category of jokes geared to our inner 12 years olds that are just funny because they use course language, e.g "Bob Novak, 'douchebag of liberty.'" The clips of various politicians are usually amusing just because they said something stupid. And then there is the annoying, cliched self-deprecating jewish stuff. It's sad that stereotype jokes like that still work so well(further evidence on Tough Crowd).
Anyway, as I said, I still like it. Their consistent formula works, and it is funny. But it doesn't require any more thought to get the humour than it does watching Letterman or South Park.
The very small vocabulary needed for desktop control makes the speech recognition much more accurate and usable.
- Emanuel Lasker, chess world champion
http://senseis.xmp.net/?GreatQuotes
The French are also the ones that built Iraq's nuclear reactor Osirak(which Israel blew up after Iran failed to.)