If you RTFA, you'll see that the floppy is being used by a custom hifi shop to build a custom turntable. They're not doing this because they can't afford a turntable, or don't know where to buy one; they're using a floppy drive as a source of parts. The idea being that floppys are actually very sophisticated devices, and are only ridiculously cheap because of the huge economies of scale involved in their manufacture.
If you RTFA, you'll see that the floppy is being used as a very cheap source of a small, low-vibration, brushless motor and control electronics, with a fast start up and low power requirements so it can be run of batteries, for someone who is making a custom turntable.
OK, I've got $2 says they "do a Stallone" and show V with his mask off.
Any takers? I woin either way, cause if I loose then it might mean the film will be watchable.
OK, theres a slight risk in that, because they shaved Ms. Portman, which would indicate that some of the most intensly disturbing parts of the book are still in there, but it's brought huge ammounts of publicity for the film, so it could be a good sign or a bad sign.
Actually, this could be a good Ask Slashdot. "I am a comics fan who shys away from comic book adaptations because I've seen too much unredemable crap - and that's just in the trailers. Keanau as Constantine? Stallone taking his helmet off? Tom Sawyer in LoEG? Sean Connery in LoEG, for that matter! Dr Doom not using magic? The Punisher being a policeman instead of a soldier? (In both versions!) Hulk dogs? No Screwball in Mysterymen? So, Slashdot, what comic book movie adaptations can I, as a comic book fan, see and enjoy?"
Slight hint for next time: caring so much about what you are called does not help your case that you are not an obsessed fan with no life.
Me, I am a trekkie. And if Paramount went insane (well, more insane) and let me make a series of Star Trek, I'd never let the Chief Engineer appear on screen, so I could make believe it was Scotty, out of retirement again.
Don't tell anyone, but they have secretly been in control of the US media for years.
Pamela Anderson? Canadian. Mack Sennett? Canadian. Jim Carrey, Peter Donat, Olive Platt, Rae Dawn Chong, Lorne Green, David Cronenberg, Hayden Christensen, Rick Moranis, Leslie Nielsen, Graham Greene, Dan Ackroyd, Donald Sutherland, Michael J. Fox, Linda Thorson, Carrie-Ann Moss, Jack Warner, Hume Cronyn, Anna Paquin, Tom Green, James Cameron, Jason Priestly, Raymon Massey, Natash Henstridge, Keanau Reeves, Yvonne De Carlo, Jennifer Tilly, Walter Pidgeon, Fay Wray (the female William Shatner, dontcha know), Phil Hartman, Margot Kidder, John Candy, Neve Campbell, Harry Saltzman, Paul Shaffer, Rich Little, Eugene Levy, Brendan Fraser, Christopher Plummer. Canadian, every man-jack of them.
Even we Brits are not safe from them - Lionel Blair? Canadian!
I can never think of Agnes Moorehead as her bewitched character, I just think of the way her voice almost imperceptibly chokes when she says "it's been packed for weeks".
James Doohan did a lot of stuff apart from Trek - check out his IMDB entry. In the Man from U.N.C.L.E. twice, the Fugitive (also twice - they always seemed to reuse actors in those days), Bonanza, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits (very good in that as I recall). I remember seeing him in "The Bold and the Beautiful" and doing a double-take.
Oh, and he was in Bewitched! Series two, not with Agnes Moorehead, alas.
Ah, we don't yet know if that works though, Outlook might helpfully cache the sound file for you on loading. I don't think it does, as I seem to recall that deleting the sound file has the expected effect.
Oh man, first I have to hand back my geek card because I am also an Outlook using geek, and now I realise that I didn't think of this way of doing it, so I have to hand back my MCSE.
I mean, can't you leave me with some shreds of dignity?
Alright, heres my last suggestion, get your colleagues and friends to record a mail notification for you, and attach it to Outlook (via the rules wizard) to play that notification when that person sends you a greeting.
Actually, in 75 years, a candy bar will probably cost $100, but I see your point.
If Dvorak is so protective about Fair Use, what is he doing about the DMCA, legislation which seems to me to make it illegal to resist media companies if they try to stop you invoking your fair use rights.
I still don't understand how anyone could find it non-obvious that OS/X for Intel will only run on Apple hardware. Did you see OS/X running on non-Apple PPC hardware? Of course not.
They tried licensing clones a while back and didn't like it.
Oh, I agree, there's lots and lots and lots wrong with Windows.
I guess I was trying to make the point that too often, when people say "Linux needs to do so-and-so to attract Windows Users", the reply is "Linux does do so-and-so if you technobabble technobabble" which does not help attract Windows users
Joel Spolskey's article, refered to today on slashdot, catches it perfectly as a cultural difference - Unix is written for programmers, and Windows for users. Programmers like having a choice of twelve different desktop environments because they like to find the one closest to what they need. Windows users want it to work the same as it always has. Neither side is right, they're just different. Article is at http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Biculturali sm.html
You see, you're utterly missing the point in #3. compare these two, and tell me which one the users prefer:
Windows answer: The fonts look the same in every app
Linux answer: technobabble technobabble QT technobabble technobabble GTK technobabble technobabble libraries technobabble technobabble in KDE you can run something to make them the same technobabble technobabble I'm sure theres something else in gnome technobabble technobabble.
Why does my home machine not run Linux? Because I got *fed up* trying a new distro every month in the hope that the soundcard would work. i am technically capable, and did all the right things, BTW. Did I mention that Alan Cox used to own the exact same laptop, and that the manufacturer is famously Linux friendly?
And before you post suggestions, I don't want to know how to fix it, I want the soundcard to just work, like it does when I install Windows.
It's not a problem that there are multiple distros. It's a problem that there isn't one of them that is a really good desktop OS for people who odn't want to spend a lot of time tuning. As they say, if you want a slick Unix OS on your desktop, buy an Apple.
Who's a really big hardware manufacturer who isn't in hock to Microsoft? Is there anyone who'd consider putting money into a desktop Linux to stop having to pay fees to MS? Lenovo, perhaps?
No no no, you are confusing "made without enough money" with "bad".
The beachball alien is allegedly very influential on sci-fi in the movies; O'Bannon was, so legend goes, so upset and frustrated with how incredibly crap it looked that he decided to write a script about an alien that would scare the pants off you.
Publishers reckoned Americans were too stupid to realise what a philosopher's stone is, and would be confused as to what philosophy had to do with it. Rather insulting, isn't it?
c.f. the James Bond film, License To Kill, which was to be called License Revoked until they decided that no-one would understand what "revoked" means.
Anyway, you've hit on one of the things that baffles me most about PalmOne's current strategy. The Palm V form factor is the best that anyone has come up with for a PDA, without question. so how come Palm, and for that matter anyone else, don't make a unit that shape and size any more?
You see, if you read your question carefully, you'll notice that you are Linux developers. Which means you are making a Linux product, that your company sells. Which means you should be using whatever distro your customers use. Marketing should have those figures for you.
Even if you're writing for some embedded box or such, find the distro closest to the one being used.
Is King Lear art? Is the manual for your toaster art? Is the poorly translated manual for a japanese toaster art? Is the test of the manual for your toaster, burnt onto pieces of toast and displayed in a gallery, art? Is your toaster smeared with an Armenian refugee's excrement art?
Let me tell you a secret about Art: no-one knows what it is. It's all in the eye of the beholder. I use a simple test. Is some man-made artifact meant to provoke emotion in me? If so, it is art. If it does provoke those emotions, then it is good art.
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If you RTFA, you'll see that the floppy is being used by a custom hifi shop to build a custom turntable. They're not doing this because they can't afford a turntable, or don't know where to buy one; they're using a floppy drive as a source of parts. The idea being that floppys are actually very sophisticated devices, and are only ridiculously cheap because of the huge economies of scale involved in their manufacture.
If you RTFA, you'll see that the floppy is being used as a very cheap source of a small, low-vibration, brushless motor and control electronics, with a fast start up and low power requirements so it can be run of batteries, for someone who is making a custom turntable.
OK, I've got $2 says they "do a Stallone" and show V with his mask off.
Any takers? I woin either way, cause if I loose then it might mean the film will be watchable.
OK, theres a slight risk in that, because they shaved Ms. Portman, which would indicate that some of the most intensly disturbing parts of the book are still in there, but it's brought huge ammounts of publicity for the film, so it could be a good sign or a bad sign.
Actually, this could be a good Ask Slashdot. "I am a comics fan who shys away from comic book adaptations because I've seen too much unredemable crap - and that's just in the trailers.
Keanau as Constantine? Stallone taking his helmet off? Tom Sawyer in LoEG? Sean Connery in LoEG, for that matter! Dr Doom not using magic? The Punisher being a policeman instead of a soldier? (In both versions!) Hulk dogs? No Screwball in Mysterymen?
So, Slashdot, what comic book movie adaptations can I, as a comic book fan, see and enjoy?"
Didn't Team America get into trouble for the puppet sex?
Slight hint for next time: caring so much about what you are called does not help your case that you are not an obsessed fan with no life.
Me, I am a trekkie. And if Paramount went insane (well, more insane) and let me make a series of Star Trek, I'd never let the Chief Engineer appear on screen, so I could make believe it was Scotty, out of retirement again.
Don't tell anyone, but they have secretly been in control of the US media for years.
Pamela Anderson? Canadian. Mack Sennett? Canadian. Jim Carrey, Peter Donat, Olive Platt, Rae Dawn Chong, Lorne Green, David Cronenberg, Hayden Christensen, Rick Moranis, Leslie Nielsen, Graham Greene, Dan Ackroyd, Donald Sutherland, Michael J. Fox, Linda Thorson, Carrie-Ann Moss, Jack Warner, Hume Cronyn, Anna Paquin, Tom Green, James Cameron, Jason Priestly, Raymon Massey, Natash Henstridge, Keanau Reeves, Yvonne De Carlo, Jennifer Tilly, Walter Pidgeon, Fay Wray (the female William Shatner, dontcha know), Phil Hartman, Margot Kidder, John Candy, Neve Campbell, Harry Saltzman, Paul Shaffer, Rich Little, Eugene Levy, Brendan Fraser, Christopher Plummer. Canadian, every man-jack of them.
Even we Brits are not safe from them - Lionel Blair? Canadian!
I can never think of Agnes Moorehead as her bewitched character, I just think of the way her voice almost imperceptibly chokes when she says "it's been packed for weeks".
James Doohan did a lot of stuff apart from Trek - check out his IMDB entry. In the Man from U.N.C.L.E. twice, the Fugitive (also twice - they always seemed to reuse actors in those days), Bonanza, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits (very good in that as I recall). I remember seeing him in "The Bold and the Beautiful" and doing a double-take.
Oh, and he was in Bewitched! Series two, not with Agnes Moorehead, alas.
Ah, we don't yet know if that works though, Outlook might helpfully cache the sound file for you on loading. I don't think it does, as I seem to recall that deleting the sound file has the expected effect.
Oh man, first I have to hand back my geek card because I am also an Outlook using geek, and now I realise that I didn't think of this way of doing it, so I have to hand back my MCSE.
I mean, can't you leave me with some shreds of dignity?
Alright, heres my last suggestion, get your colleagues and friends to record a mail notification for you, and attach it to Outlook (via the rules wizard) to play that notification when that person sends you a greeting.
Use a seperate new e-mail notification program (that plays random sounds) in parallel to outlook.
Or write a script that occasionally copies a random WAV to notify.wav (which is what outlook plays).
BTW, the place to start looking for outlook info is the excellent slipstick.com
Actually, in 75 years, a candy bar will probably cost $100, but I see your point.
If Dvorak is so protective about Fair Use, what is he doing about the DMCA, legislation which seems to me to make it illegal to resist media companies if they try to stop you invoking your fair use rights.
I still don't understand how anyone could find it non-obvious that OS/X for Intel will only run on Apple hardware. Did you see OS/X running on non-Apple PPC hardware? Of course not.
They tried licensing clones a while back and didn't like it.
Oh, I agree, there's lots and lots and lots wrong with Windows.
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I guess I was trying to make the point that too often, when people say "Linux needs to do so-and-so to attract Windows Users", the reply is "Linux does do so-and-so if you technobabble technobabble" which does not help attract Windows users
Joel Spolskey's article, refered to today on slashdot, catches it perfectly as a cultural difference - Unix is written for programmers, and Windows for users. Programmers like having a choice of twelve different desktop environments because they like to find the one closest to what they need. Windows users want it to work the same as it always has. Neither side is right, they're just different. Article is at http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Bicultural
Burn a CD with XP and the drivers on it?
You see, you're utterly missing the point in #3. compare these two, and tell me which one the users prefer:
Windows answer:
The fonts look the same in every app
Linux answer:
technobabble technobabble QT technobabble technobabble GTK technobabble technobabble libraries technobabble technobabble in KDE you can run something to make them the same technobabble technobabble I'm sure theres something else in gnome technobabble technobabble.
Why does my home machine not run Linux? Because I got *fed up* trying a new distro every month in the hope that the soundcard would work. i am technically capable, and did all the right things, BTW. Did I mention that Alan Cox used to own the exact same laptop, and that the manufacturer is famously Linux friendly?
And before you post suggestions, I don't want to know how to fix it, I want the soundcard to just work, like it does when I install Windows.
Never mind the GUI, never mind the text file, why doesn't it just frickin work?
It's not a problem that there are multiple distros. It's a problem that there isn't one of them that is a really good desktop OS for people who odn't want to spend a lot of time tuning. As they say, if you want a slick Unix OS on your desktop, buy an Apple.
Who's a really big hardware manufacturer who isn't in hock to Microsoft? Is there anyone who'd consider putting money into a desktop Linux to stop having to pay fees to MS? Lenovo, perhaps?
No no no, you are confusing "made without enough money" with "bad".
The beachball alien is allegedly very influential on sci-fi in the movies; O'Bannon was, so legend goes, so upset and frustrated with how incredibly crap it looked that he decided to write a script about an alien that would scare the pants off you.
Perhaps's it's "Tom Clancey's Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince"...
Leisure Supervisor makes sense, doesn't it? Supervisor of the Leisure department, there ya go.
Publishers reckoned Americans were too stupid to realise what a philosopher's stone is, and would be confused as to what philosophy had to do with it. Rather insulting, isn't it?
c.f. the James Bond film, License To Kill, which was to be called License Revoked until they decided that no-one would understand what "revoked" means.
Ah, the dilemma, use my mod points or post?
Anyway, you've hit on one of the things that baffles me most about PalmOne's current strategy. The Palm V form factor is the best that anyone has come up with for a PDA, without question. so how come Palm, and for that matter anyone else, don't make a unit that shape and size any more?
Seriously, they know what distro you should use.
You see, if you read your question carefully, you'll notice that you are Linux developers. Which means you are making a Linux product, that your company sells. Which means you should be using whatever distro your customers use. Marketing should have those figures for you.
Even if you're writing for some embedded box or such, find the distro closest to the one being used.
... you're asking Slashdot to recommend which audio player has the best DRM?
Is King Lear art? Is the manual for your toaster art? Is the poorly translated manual for a japanese toaster art? Is the test of the manual for your toaster, burnt onto pieces of toast and displayed in a gallery, art? Is your toaster smeared with an Armenian refugee's excrement art?
Let me tell you a secret about Art: no-one knows what it is. It's all in the eye of the beholder. I use a simple test. Is some man-made artifact meant to provoke emotion in me? If so, it is art. If it does provoke those emotions, then it is good art.
Which raises the interesting question, if you plumbed in Duchamp's "Fountain" would it stop being art?