I think that depends on the dog. Several of my siblings have dogs and have kids under 5 and have never had problems. Though I wouldn't recommend getting a new dog when you have young children, as you want the dog to already know you and be familiar/trusting/loving with you.
Yes. Because there are roughly 2.5 million non-track pairs. So that's about.2% of the possible song pairs are track pairs like 1->2 etc. So if he listens to his entire playlist of 5000 songs, it should happen about 5 times.
Beyond which, the OP never said he considered it unlikely. He said it happened on his iPod, and would then most likely be more likely to occur on a shuffle with a smaller capacity.
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tried clicking a link in a book...
one time in college after several days of no sleep and too much coding, I tried to click on a post-it note that was stuck to the top corner of my monitor.
And another time at work -- again after too little sleep -- I ctrl-c'd something on one computer, then walked into another room and tried to paste it onto that computer. Twice. Then I actually stopped to think about what I was doing.
I'm not saying it's Apple's fault. However, their software for use with the iPod doesn't work on these systems. So if someone has a system like this they shouldn't buy an iPod. Of course a large issue is that this woman apparently didn't read what was required to use the iPod, so I have no sympathy for that. But on the other hand most consumers really aren't that observant, and if they go out to buy an mp3 player, usually the most they know is that they need to hook it up to their computer.
I personally don't own an iPod and won't because they're tied into iTunes and because of the restrictions on music purchased at the iTunes music store. If Apple would open up the iPod slightly, just to allow it to work with other software, I'd have no problem with it, and cases such as this woman who bought it and found out she couldn't use it would almost never happen because there would be options for the software.
I'm not even going to comment on the rest of your post, because it's more rant than debate. However, this:
If she's got no friends and no car and lives in the sticks, then that woman is fucked. How did she get an iPod in this situation anyway? I've had friends using iPods with Windows 98 computers without a problem. A Google search will provide you with countless Linux solutions. And street vendor - are you having a fucking brain aneurism?
Is just stupid. The first two sentences have no bearing on anything. The main issue was that she has no way to get music onto the iPod. This has nothing to do with where she lives/etc. It was suggested that she go to a library to borrow cds and rip them. First off, that's going to be illegal. Second, if the issue is that she has no way of getting music onto the iPod, then ripping music isn't going to help. And sure, maybe you do have friends who run it on Windows 98 without problems, however the requirement as posted by Apple is Windows 2000 or later. So there are some hoops you'd have to jump through to get it running on 98. Hoops probably beyond typical 'consumer' PC users.
actually it's 5 blades on the front and a 'precision' one on the back, so 6 in total. It's the fusion or something... and it comes in regular and vibrating models.
That may be the case, but that's not a lottery. Lottery implies random... so basically it sounds like they took the names of all the kids in the distrcit, threw them in a hat, and pulled out names until they had a full class.
Getting into college just because someone is a legacy is completely stupid and unfair, but it's not at all like randomly picking who to let in.
Yes... Doki Doki Panic or something like that if I'm remembering correctly. However, when marketed in the US with the Mario characters in place of the previous sprites, it became a Mario franchise game.
And how do you think the Firefox address bar does that? It uses a search engine. I believe (though you can probably change this in the settings) that it uses Google. So typing yahoo mail into the firefox address bar is the same as typing yahoo mail into google and clicking I'm feeling lucky. It takes you to the first result, which happens to be mail.yahoo.com.
That's not true at all for network printers on Windows XP. I use almost exclusively network printers on my computer here at work, and to set them up I connect using \\serveraddress\printername
Damn right they make good money on ads.
A coworker at the lab I work at was looking into advertising with them. She said they wanted $20,000/month to run ads. I'm hoping there was a miscommunication somewhere.
Woah... wait... savings versus putting it together yourself?
Not last time I checked. Especially not if you're going with a higher end system. When they run some "free upgrade" deals with more memory or free LCD monitors with some of their lowest end systems, yeah it's cheaper to get a Dell. But in general, without a random special offer for a free monitor or something, I can buy parts and put together a similar computer to a Dell for less. I've done it.
About two years ago I put together a Celeron D 2.4ghz system, with 512MB RAM, a 160GB SATA hard drive, DVD-RW drive a 64mb geforce mx4000 and a firewire card for my DV camcorder. No monitor because I already had one. Total was somewhere in the neighborhood of $350.
Now, today, almost two years later there's a Dimension B110 desktop on Dell for $359 that's a Celeron D 2.53ghz, 512 RAM, 160GB hard drive, DVD-RW, no clue what video card, so probably integrated, and a 17inch CRT monitor. Pretty much the same, with the exception that it comes with a CRT, which isn't really worth much in my opinion. And I did it 2 years ago, so prices have certainly come down.
Did this remind anyone else of the scene in Sneakers where they're mixing up the scrabble tiles to figure out what Setec Astronomy means... and they end up with like cootys rat semen...
I'm confused. The article summary says "DVB-T capable" which... okay, you could put a DVB card in it I'm sure.
And then a lot of the comments on here are talking about it being a digital PVR and the DVB support. But if you look at the tech specs it says "Hauppauge MPEG2 video capture (single or dual tuner)", which I'm pretty sure means a PVR150 or PVR500 (and later realized I could've just looked at the sales page to figure that out). Then I looked at the features page and get:
"Single or Dual analog tuner capturing at DVD quality." Which seems to back that up. Then they go and throw a wrench in it with:
"Supports DVB-T (subject to availability)." "Can record off your existing Sky Decoder (optional additional feature)."
So it appears that the digital is probably an option, rather than standard configuration.
What I REALLY don't understand is how any of these MythTV preconfigured system companies are staying in business (if they are anyway...). Look at the price they're charging for a single analog tuner system. $1500NZD (~$950USD)
For $950 you can (should) do way better than a single tuner.
Well, I can't definitely say that DSL uses 1024kbit to mean 1mbit, but I do assume they operate on powers of 2, as my DSL (before it was upgraded) was 384kbps down. And now I have a "1.5Mb/384Kb" line. So, based on the Kb numbers they quote, I'm led to assume that the 1.5Mb is actually 1536Kb. Of course this may not be the case, but it's what the numbers imply.
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They already make grapples... apples that taste like grapes... they're damn good too.
I think that depends on the dog. Several of my siblings have dogs and have kids under 5 and have never had problems. Though I wouldn't recommend getting a new dog when you have young children, as you want the dog to already know you and be familiar/trusting/loving with you.
Yes. Because there are roughly 2.5 million non-track pairs. So that's about .2% of the possible song pairs are track pairs like 1->2 etc. So if he listens to his entire playlist of 5000 songs, it should happen about 5 times.
Beyond which, the OP never said he considered it unlikely. He said it happened on his iPod, and would then most likely be more likely to occur on a shuffle with a smaller capacity.
tried clicking a link in a book...
one time in college after several days of no sleep and too much coding, I tried to click on a post-it note that was stuck to the top corner of my monitor.
And another time at work -- again after too little sleep -- I ctrl-c'd something on one computer, then walked into another room and tried to paste it onto that computer. Twice. Then I actually stopped to think about what I was doing.
I'm not saying it's Apple's fault. However, their software for use with the iPod doesn't work on these systems. So if someone has a system like this they shouldn't buy an iPod. Of course a large issue is that this woman apparently didn't read what was required to use the iPod, so I have no sympathy for that. But on the other hand most consumers really aren't that observant, and if they go out to buy an mp3 player, usually the most they know is that they need to hook it up to their computer. I personally don't own an iPod and won't because they're tied into iTunes and because of the restrictions on music purchased at the iTunes music store. If Apple would open up the iPod slightly, just to allow it to work with other software, I'd have no problem with it, and cases such as this woman who bought it and found out she couldn't use it would almost never happen because there would be options for the software.
I'm not even going to comment on the rest of your post, because it's more rant than debate. However, this:
If she's got no friends and no car and lives in the sticks, then that woman is fucked. How did she get an iPod in this situation anyway? I've had friends using iPods with Windows 98 computers without a problem. A Google search will provide you with countless Linux solutions. And street vendor - are you having a fucking brain aneurism?
Is just stupid. The first two sentences have no bearing on anything. The main issue was that she has no way to get music onto the iPod. This has nothing to do with where she lives/etc. It was suggested that she go to a library to borrow cds and rip them. First off, that's going to be illegal. Second, if the issue is that she has no way of getting music onto the iPod, then ripping music isn't going to help. And sure, maybe you do have friends who run it on Windows 98 without problems, however the requirement as posted by Apple is Windows 2000 or later. So there are some hoops you'd have to jump through to get it running on 98. Hoops probably beyond typical 'consumer' PC users.
You're kidding right? That skit was from 2000. It was around the time the Gilette Mach3 came out... which it even mentions in the link you include.
actually it's 5 blades on the front and a 'precision' one on the back, so 6 in total. It's the fusion or something... and it comes in regular and vibrating models.
That may be the case, but that's not a lottery. Lottery implies random... so basically it sounds like they took the names of all the kids in the distrcit, threw them in a hat, and pulled out names until they had a full class.
Getting into college just because someone is a legacy is completely stupid and unfair, but it's not at all like randomly picking who to let in.
Isn't this the same as the screen talked about here? http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/10/ 1521227
I remembered reading the same thing... and here it is: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/09/ 1827211
Yes... Doki Doki Panic or something like that if I'm remembering correctly. However, when marketed in the US with the Mario characters in place of the previous sprites, it became a Mario franchise game.
I'm actually curious what/when public schools taught this. I've certainly never been taught that glass was a liquid.
And how do you think the Firefox address bar does that? It uses a search engine. I believe (though you can probably change this in the settings) that it uses Google. So typing yahoo mail into the firefox address bar is the same as typing yahoo mail into google and clicking I'm feeling lucky. It takes you to the first result, which happens to be mail.yahoo.com.
That's not true at all for network printers on Windows XP. I use almost exclusively network printers on my computer here at work, and to set them up I connect using \\serveraddress\printername
Or sharp... as in C#... used from musical notation where the # is a sharp symbol.
I can't believe you didn't even look at the list.
Damn right they make good money on ads. A coworker at the lab I work at was looking into advertising with them. She said they wanted $20,000/month to run ads. I'm hoping there was a miscommunication somewhere.
Woah... wait... savings versus putting it together yourself? Not last time I checked. Especially not if you're going with a higher end system. When they run some "free upgrade" deals with more memory or free LCD monitors with some of their lowest end systems, yeah it's cheaper to get a Dell. But in general, without a random special offer for a free monitor or something, I can buy parts and put together a similar computer to a Dell for less. I've done it. About two years ago I put together a Celeron D 2.4ghz system, with 512MB RAM, a 160GB SATA hard drive, DVD-RW drive a 64mb geforce mx4000 and a firewire card for my DV camcorder. No monitor because I already had one. Total was somewhere in the neighborhood of $350. Now, today, almost two years later there's a Dimension B110 desktop on Dell for $359 that's a Celeron D 2.53ghz, 512 RAM, 160GB hard drive, DVD-RW, no clue what video card, so probably integrated, and a 17inch CRT monitor. Pretty much the same, with the exception that it comes with a CRT, which isn't really worth much in my opinion. And I did it 2 years ago, so prices have certainly come down.
My dad's college roommate was Richard Rash. I kid you not.
Did this remind anyone else of the scene in Sneakers where they're mixing up the scrabble tiles to figure out what Setec Astronomy means... and they end up with like cootys rat semen...
I'm confused. The article summary says "DVB-T capable" which... okay, you could put a DVB card in it I'm sure.
And then a lot of the comments on here are talking about it being a digital PVR and the DVB support. But if you look at the tech specs it says "Hauppauge MPEG2 video capture (single or dual tuner)", which I'm pretty sure means a PVR150 or PVR500 (and later realized I could've just looked at the sales page to figure that out). Then I looked at the features page and get:
"Single or Dual analog tuner capturing at DVD quality." Which seems to back that up. Then they go and throw a wrench in it with:
"Supports DVB-T (subject to availability)."
"Can record off your existing Sky Decoder (optional additional feature)."
So it appears that the digital is probably an option, rather than standard configuration.
What I REALLY don't understand is how any of these MythTV preconfigured system companies are staying in business (if they are anyway...). Look at the price they're charging for a single analog tuner system. $1500NZD (~$950USD)
For $950 you can (should) do way better than a single tuner.
Well, I can't definitely say that DSL uses 1024kbit to mean 1mbit, but I do assume they operate on powers of 2, as my DSL (before it was upgraded) was 384kbps down. And now I have a "1.5Mb/384Kb" line. So, based on the Kb numbers they quote, I'm led to assume that the 1.5Mb is actually 1536Kb. Of course this may not be the case, but it's what the numbers imply.
Dreamcast was Sega. Sony is the Playstation/PS2 and eventually PS3. :)
The X-Box and whatever Sony's machine was called are good to a point
:)
Wait. Whatever Sony's machine was called? Are you serious? And you're posting on Slashdot about games?
Give me a second... I think my brain is going to explode