Why? Because I'm glad to know it was bittorrent that ruined the magic of Star Wars for me.
You see, for a few nasty moments there I thought it was the shitty dialogue, the obscene toy commercialism, and the crude racial sterotyping that was doing it, but now I know it is BitTorrent, so I can uninstall Azereus and get my childhood back...
I still remember my Dad deciding I should go and see Star Wars despite the pain in my bad leg, and I still love him so much for it, and it's good to know that a easy to uninstall protocol is what tried (and failed!) to piss on that memory.
What makes it a really noble announcement by the MPAA is the fact that, since I have bought DVDs of every single non-shite film I ever downloaded via Bittorrent, removing Azereus will decrease MPAA member revenue.
You have to salute people who are willing to make a stand for what they belive in!
The underlying idea of these combination devices is that you always have your phone with you.
So, if there is a camera built into my phone, then as well as always having my phone with me, I always have a basic digital camera with me. Which is good, since people like taking candid snaps, so having a digital camera always with you is fun, even if it is a cheap and simple one.
Ditto phones with calendars, simple video games, ssh clients, and so on.
And what's wrong with that? Unless you are a manufacturer of refurbished rancid butter, of course.
Haven't I seen this text before though? Where's me old EULA collection... Ah, here it is.
37291. Microsoft Windows XP is the product made from impure or rancid Windows NT reduced, for the purpose of cleansing and renovating, to a liquid state by melting and draining off the non-kernel components and afterwards churning or otherwise manipulating it in connection with BSD code or any product of BSD.
37292. It is unlawful for any person to sell any Windows XP unless there is printed upon the label of each and every package, or other container in which such software is put up for sale or sold at retail, all of the following:
(a) The words "needle naddle noo" in letters which are at least as large as any other type or lettering on such label.
(b) The name and address of the manufacturer or distributor's dentist.
(c) The net weight of the contents of the package.
(d) A full and accurate statement of all the ingredients which are contained in the developer's pants.
Every non-moronic bit of hardware does this. Since a power loss while writing the bios turns your device into a paperweight, anything that has a battery and PSU will insist on them both being present to do the write.
Over here in blighty, you see, "Lucas" is the name of a car part manufacturer (now part of TR automotive - the people who made the wheels for the model T interestingly enough), and while it is important to be able to buy a spare headlamp for your car, it isn't news for nerds.
{Don't mind me folks, I'm just grumpy because I had a submission rejected on the grounds that "someone posted the same story with worse links after you did, so we ran with that one"}
The thing is if you use your video ipod to store films on for playing on TV, then you have to store them (and download them from itms) in HDTV resolution. And then fudge them down to the 2" screen in hardware.
I reckon that:
the itunes changes are for using a mac mini as a media centre
the video ipod will come out when they can make one the same size as an ipod that clamshells open with a flexible LCD screen inside that bends round the hinges, so you get a 4"-5" screen. And even then, I'm not sure that would sell
Jobs knows the biggest threat to ipod is from Nokia. The mobile phone is busy obsoleting the PDA, but it has already turned it's baleful eye to the iPod. The moto deal to put itms on a mobile is not going too well - Apple seems to be too used to controlling the whole shebang of hardware and OS and a fair chunk of the apps. Will they make an iPhone? They could build something spectacular, but could they get it cheap enough?
Hey, shoulda fleshed those points out, posted it somewhere, and gotten slashdotted out of existance.:-)
I thought simulation didn't have a faking it sense, am I being a Grammar Nazi?
Chambers sort of agrees with me, or does it?
simulate verb (simulated, simulating) 1 to convincingly recreate (a set of conditions or a real-life event), especially for the purposes of training. 2 to assume a false appearance of someone or something. 3 to pretend to have, do or feel She simulated anger. simulated adj not genuine; imitation simulated leather. simulation noun 1 simulating; something that is simulated. 2 any model of a system or process computer traffic simulation program. ETYMOLOGY: 17c: from Latin simulare.
Ah, the joy of SF! You can talk your way out of anything! Spock dead? No bother, we'll get him back in the next movie.
This exact question is answered in detail in the books.
Basically, if you try and clone someone who has force powers, the force disturbs the cloning process, and the resultant clone ends up mad.
Actually I understand this is a big plot point in one of the books, as someone figures out a way to get round it and begins cloning Siths left right and centre.
My laptop, for example, is only ever used in exactly three places: my desk at work my desk at home my desk in one of our other offices
I do not use it anywhere other than this.
Nor do I carry it much; it goes in a bag in the car, or on a trolley in the airport.
So the size of the thing is practically unimportant to me. I might draw the line at an Osborne one, but otherwise 19" sounds fine to me.
When one of my users needs a laptop, I ask them one key question that immediately identifies which Dell to buy:
do you need something really tiny (if yes, D410) do you need something that is cheap (if yes, D505) do you not care about either of the above (if yes, D810)
For those British readers wondering what the hell the RMV or HMO are, the RMV is the American version of the DVLA.
HMO is a bit harder to translate. Think of what it would be like if you had to deal with a billing department whenever you used the NHS and you'll get the idea.
Be fair though, PowerBert, you are a junior minister in the Department for Productivity, Energy and Industry.
That joke scanned better when they were called the DTi. Damn you, Blair! Blaaaaaiiiiiiiirrrrr!
Well done! Honesty is the best policy:
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INT. LELAND'S OFFICE - CHICAGO ENQUIRER - NIGHT - 1914
Bernstein comes in. An empty bottle is standing on Leland's desk. He has fallen over his typewriter, his face on the keys. A sheet of paper is in the machine. A paragraph has been typed. Kane is standing at the other side of the desk looking down on him. This is the first time we see murder in Kane's face. Bernstein looks at Kane, then crosses to Leland. He shakes him.
BERNSTEIN Hey, Brad! Brad! (he straightens, looks at Kane; pause) He ain't been drinking before, Mr. Kane. Never. We would have heard.
KANE (finally; after a pause) What does it say there?
Bernstein stares at him.
KANE What's he written?
Bernstein looks over nearsightedly, painfully reading the paragraph written on the page.
BERNSTEIN (reading) "Miss Susan Alexander, a pretty but hopelessly incompetent amateur - (he waits for a minute to catch his breath; he doesn't like it) - last night opened the new Chicago Opera House in a performance of - of -" (looks up miserably) I can't pronounce that name, Mr. Kane.
KANE Thais.
Bernstein looks at Kane for a moment, then looks back, tortured.
BERNSTEIN (reading again) "Her singing, happily, is no concern of this department. Of her acting, it is absolutely impossible to..." (he continues to stare at the page)
KANE (after a short silence) Go on!
BERNSTEIN (without looking up) That's all there is.
Kane snatches the paper from the roller and reads it for himself. Slowly, a queer look comes over his face. Then he speaks, very quietly.
KANE Of her acting, it is absolutely impossible to say anything except that it represents a new low... (then sharply) Have you got that, Mr. Bernstein? In the opinion of this reviewer -
BERNSTEIN (miserably) I didn't see that.
KANE It isn't here, Mr. Bernstein. I'm dictating it.
It's an original quote from me, although the idea is not new.
Woo, I'm a sig on slashdot. This is a very geeky moment. In fact, it's only not my all-time geekiest moment because CleverNickName once quoted me on his blog.
Once upon a time I was upgrading iTunes from 4.5 to 4.6. While the upgrade was running, there was a knock at the door. I went to open the door, and who was there, but Steve Jobs! Steve said "Mr. BigLig? Mr Rufus T. BigLig?" "That's me Steve", I replied. And then he kicked me in the nuts.
Well, not exactly. But I did have an "iTunes Music Library file unknown error (-50)" every time I used iTunes from then on. Tried everything - see here for details. It hit about 0.01% of users, and the fix was basically "suffer in agony until 4.7".
And now 4.8 is out, and like a fool, I'm downloading it as I type.
And that, Best Beloved, is how Steve got his Reality Distortion Field.
Slashdot Mirror
I agree, I remember the day when you could depend on Slashdot to give you nothing but uninformed opinion.
Next thing you'll see some post saying "I am a lawyer, actually."
Last I checked, people were allowed to be passionate about things that mean a lot to them.
Yeah, in the big scheme of things it's a stupid bit of fluff, but on the right scale everything is a stupid bit of fluff.
Oh, and we have this thing in English called Hyperbole, I use it about a million times a day, you should check it out.
Why? Because I'm glad to know it was bittorrent that ruined the magic of Star Wars for me.
You see, for a few nasty moments there I thought it was the shitty dialogue, the obscene toy commercialism, and the crude racial sterotyping that was doing it, but now I know it is BitTorrent, so I can uninstall Azereus and get my childhood back...
I still remember my Dad deciding I should go and see Star Wars despite the pain in
my bad leg, and I still love him so much for it, and it's good to know that a easy to uninstall protocol is what tried (and failed!) to piss on that memory.
What makes it a really noble announcement by the MPAA is the fact that, since I have bought DVDs of every single non-shite film I ever downloaded via Bittorrent, removing Azereus will decrease MPAA member revenue.
You have to salute people who are willing to make a stand for what they belive in!
Good, so we've established that bathtubs aren't so suitable for combining with a phone, and cameras are.
Some one should probably tell Nokia.
One thing people seem not to grasp about Linux on the Mac Mini is that it is a decent cheap way to run Linux on PowerPC hardware.
So, if you're a Linux developer and want to work wiht PowerPC hardware, here's an inexpensive way to do it.
And, since Linus runs on PowerPC, there must be something to be said in favour of it.
The underlying idea of these combination devices is that you always have your phone with you.
So, if there is a camera built into my phone, then as well as always having my phone with me, I always have a basic digital camera with me. Which is good, since people like taking candid snaps, so having a digital camera always with you is fun, even if it is a cheap and simple one.
Ditto phones with calendars, simple video games, ssh clients, and so on.
And what's wrong with that? Unless you are a manufacturer of refurbished rancid butter, of course.
Haven't I seen this text before though? Where's me old EULA collection... Ah, here it is.
37291. Microsoft Windows XP is the product made from impure or rancid Windows NT reduced, for the purpose of cleansing and renovating, to a liquid state by melting and draining off the non-kernel components and afterwards churning or otherwise manipulating it in connection with BSD code or any product of BSD.
37292. It is unlawful for any person to sell any Windows XP unless there is printed upon the label of each and every package, or other container in which such software is put up for sale or sold at retail, all of the following:
(a) The words "needle naddle noo" in letters which are at least as large as any other type or lettering on such label.
(b) The name and address of the manufacturer or distributor's dentist.
(c) The net weight of the contents of the package.
(d) A full and accurate statement of all the ingredients which are contained in the developer's pants.
Every non-moronic bit of hardware does this. Since a power loss while writing the bios turns your device into a paperweight, anything that has a battery and PSU will insist on them both being present to do the write.
but, the thing is Bill, some of us don't have an office in Redmond containing 20 people whose sole job is to read our e-mail for us!
Mod parent down please, on the grounds that it is a review of the T5, not the LifeDrive.
I was quite baffled there for a minute.
Over here in blighty, you see, "Lucas" is the name of a car part manufacturer (now part of TR automotive - the people who made the wheels for the model T interestingly enough), and while it is important to be able to buy a spare headlamp for your car, it isn't news for nerds.
{Don't mind me folks, I'm just grumpy because I had a submission rejected on the grounds that "someone posted the same story with worse links after you did, so we ran with that one"}
... because perhaps by then all the people repeating the tired jokes about "if microsoft made cars" will have given up.
Oh wait, this is slashdot, even the dupe is going to have tired jokes.
I reckon that:
Hey, shoulda fleshed those points out, posted it somewhere, and gotten slashdotted out of existance.
I thought simulation didn't have a faking it sense, am I being a Grammar Nazi?
Chambers sort of agrees with me, or does it?
simulate verb (simulated, simulating) 1 to convincingly recreate (a set of conditions or a real-life event), especially for the purposes of training. 2 to assume a false appearance of someone or something. 3 to pretend to have, do or feel She simulated anger.
simulated adj not genuine; imitation simulated leather.
simulation noun 1 simulating; something that is simulated. 2 any model of a system or process computer traffic simulation program.
ETYMOLOGY: 17c: from Latin simulare.
Well, since you can't go faster than c, it's kinda hard to simulate.
Ah, the joy of SF! You can talk your way out of anything! Spock dead? No bother, we'll get him back in the next movie.
This exact question is answered in detail in the books.
Basically, if you try and clone someone who has force powers, the force disturbs the cloning process, and the resultant clone ends up mad.
Actually I understand this is a big plot point in one of the books, as someone figures out a way to get round it and begins cloning Siths left right and centre.
Worthy of the 5: Funny, but also insightful.
My laptop, for example, is only ever used in exactly three places:
my desk at work
my desk at home
my desk in one of our other offices
I do not use it anywhere other than this.
Nor do I carry it much; it goes in a bag in the car, or on a trolley in the airport.
So the size of the thing is practically unimportant to me. I might draw the line at an Osborne one, but otherwise 19" sounds fine to me.
When one of my users needs a laptop, I ask them one key question that immediately identifies which Dell to buy:
do you need something really tiny (if yes, D410)
do you need something that is cheap (if yes, D505)
do you not care about either of the above (if yes, D810)
It makes the whole process much easier.
It is the same, it is mentioned in TFA.
OneNote is good, but I wonder what kind of note-taking app Apple would come up with for a Tablet Mac.
BTW, do you think they'd call it the iTablet, the Newton, or the Einstein?
Plug your Mac Mini into the TV.
For those British readers wondering what the hell the RMV or HMO are, the RMV is the American version of the DVLA.
HMO is a bit harder to translate. Think of what it would be like if you had to deal with a billing department whenever you used the NHS and you'll get the idea.
Be fair though, PowerBert, you are a junior minister in the Department for Productivity,
Energy and Industry.
That joke scanned better when they were called the DTi. Damn you, Blair! Blaaaaaiiiiiiiirrrrr!
INT. LELAND'S OFFICE - CHICAGO ENQUIRER - NIGHT - 1914
Bernstein comes in. An empty bottle is standing on Leland's desk. He has fallen over his typewriter, his face on the keys. A sheet of paper is in the machine. A paragraph has been typed. Kane is standing at the other side of the desk looking down on him. This is the first time we see murder in Kane's face. Bernstein looks at Kane, then crosses to Leland. He shakes him.
BERNSTEIN
Hey, Brad! Brad!
(he straightens, looks at Kane; pause)
He ain't been drinking before, Mr. Kane.
Never. We would have heard.
KANE
(finally; after a pause)
What does it say there?
Bernstein stares at him.
KANE
What's he written?
Bernstein looks over nearsightedly, painfully reading the paragraph written on the page.
BERNSTEIN
(reading)
"Miss Susan Alexander, a pretty but
hopelessly incompetent amateur -
(he waits for a minute to
catch his breath; he doesn't
like it)
- last night opened the new Chicago
Opera House in a performance of - of -"
(looks up miserably)
I can't pronounce that name, Mr. Kane.
KANE
Thais.
Bernstein looks at Kane for a moment, then looks back, tortured.
BERNSTEIN
(reading again)
"Her singing, happily, is no concern
of this department. Of her acting,
it is absolutely impossible to..."
(he continues to stare at the page)
KANE
(after a short silence)
Go on!
BERNSTEIN
(without looking up)
That's all there is.
Kane snatches the paper from the roller and reads it for himself. Slowly, a queer look comes over his face. Then he speaks, very quietly.
KANE
Of her acting, it is absolutely
impossible to say anything except
that it represents a new low...
(then sharply)
Have you got that, Mr. Bernstein?
In the opinion of this reviewer -
BERNSTEIN
(miserably)
I didn't see that.
KANE
It isn't here, Mr. Bernstein. I'm dictating it.
BERNSTEIN
(looks at him)
I can't take shorthand.
KANE
Get me a typewriter. I'll finish
the notice.
Bernstein retreats from the room.
It's an original quote from me, although the idea is not new.
Woo, I'm a sig on slashdot. This is a very geeky moment. In fact, it's only not my all-time geekiest moment because CleverNickName once quoted me on his blog.
Let me tell you a story.
Once upon a time I was upgrading iTunes from 4.5 to 4.6. While the upgrade was running, there was a knock at the door. I went to open the door, and who was there, but Steve Jobs! Steve said "Mr. BigLig? Mr Rufus T. BigLig?" "That's me Steve", I replied. And then he kicked me in the nuts.
Well, not exactly. But I did have an "iTunes Music Library file unknown error (-50)" every time I used iTunes from then on. Tried everything - see here for details. It hit about 0.01% of users, and the fix was basically "suffer in agony until 4.7".
And now 4.8 is out, and like a fool, I'm downloading it as I type.
And that, Best Beloved, is how Steve got his Reality Distortion Field.