40% of Americans admitted to an interviewer that they are dullards? Woo.
I mean, I'm a very tolerant person, but if you're not interested in politics, or culture, or science, then what exactly are you good for? Soylent Green?
Any PC with less than e.g. a GeForce 5200 can't run Aero, so obviously they have to have some sort of fall-back position. I don't have anything that will run it in my entire company, for example.
Who needs 2 people? It's been well established that all you need to do is:
- subject A buys international ticket - A photoshops and prints an electronic boarding pass for another flight under a different name. - A uses the boarding pass to get past security - A throws the pass in the bin and uses the real ticket to get on the plane
It's amazing that someone worried about security thinks running a beta of a security system is the way to go.
This is of course the great counter to the "but FOSS doesn't have any support". "The US Government can't get support for W2K, what makes you think you can?"
Well, they're coming. The technology to make flat zoom lenses is in a very early state, but it does exist. Meanwhile, if you don't mind an odd shaped phone, there are handsetsw with traditional zoom lenses, such as the Samsung SCH-V770
"Well, Dr Schnieder, with the $10 billion we have extorted from the United Nations, we have been able to build, here in our artificial volcano, a state of the art nuclear-powered bio-nanotech facility that gives us ultimate power over life itself! What fiendish evil shall we commit with it?"
"Well, we could... er... perhaps if we... I got nothing. Dr Wu, any ideas?"
"Tell you what, I'll see if kartack has made any recent posts on Slashdot."
"Ah, now he's always good for a sinister idea. That one about stealing children to make sentinent fastners, I loved that."
"Well, to be fair, Dr Krupov, I don't think that was originally his idea."
Heh, I'd just about decided that rather than spend money (and a month of headaches trying to figure out which one to get) on a new video card so I can play HL2, I'd get myself a Mac Mini instead.
Now it looks like there is a chance that I can get both at once. Sweet!
What I'm looking for, and hopefully will shortly see on your wiki, is a comparison between the two CPU choices on the mini. I had originally settled on a Single Core with 1Gb of RAM as the best set-up for me, but if Dual Core is going to make a difference to gaming, I might stretch the credit card a little further.
(Heh, that last sentence almost convinced me that I'm not going to say "Fuck it, give me the Dual Core" 10 seconds after I enter the Apple Store.;-)
Well, I think the general opinion is that this is for switchers. I mean, I can't buy a MacBook at work, because I need winodows. Or rather, I used ot not be able to buy one. Now I can.
Lately I've been deciding on a new machine, and I'd pretty much came to the conclusion that I would get hold of a Mac Mini rather than putting a new video card in my PC so I could play Half-life 2. BootCamp means I can get both in one go. It also means I can install the windows-only tools I need for work so I don't have to unpack my laptop at home at all.
For that matter it also means that when I next upgrade that laptop a MacBook Pro is a perfectly legitimate choice to make.
All of this is music to Steve's ears, at the low low price of organizing a few windows drivers and an EFI module.
In the star trek future there are replicators and hence money has no meaning. Well, obviously you still need gold pressed latinum if you want to hire a dozy screenwriter, but who'd want to do that?
Though it's not entirely utopian, as clearly there's some microsoft coders around; why else do you think the replicators are too stupid to notice that when Jean-Luc orders tea, he doesn't want stone cold darjeeling?
It's not bloody Linux either though is it? I mean your house has one bit of Ikea furniture in it but that doesn't make it a bloody Ikea house, does it?
A good way to explain DRM is to discuss region encodng in DVDs; "Did you know that you can't play a US DVD on your UK player?" "Yes, I saw something about it. Why is that?" "Because the MPAA broke your DVD player, hoping to make more money."
Wait a minute though, what if they go back in time and kill the ipod before it has time to be killed by the PSP and then the PSP will never have existed and then the DS will be... er... let me start again.
Indeed, if you look at this Massachusetts case - where the state IT people wanted to insist on open standards for documents - the arguments used against were not that this was a bad idea in itself, but that all the standard accessibility apps they used targeted MS Office. (Either they didn't work with alternatives or did work with reduced function set.)
Now, places like Government where they need to know that they will always be able to open their documents are low lying fruit for FOSS software, anything that is liable to block that needs work.
Yes, but remember the third rule of IS security; if the bad guy has physical access to your box, you're screwed.
The first rule of IT security is you do not talk about IT security. The second rule of IT security is YOU DO NOT TALK ABOU... wait, sorry, that's wrong, the second rule of IT security is no smoking.
It's not moving your arms that is the problem, it's holding them out up in front of you for sustained periods of time. Seriously, try it and you'll see what I mean.
Want to test it yourself? Easy. Wash your hands, then take your exisiting laptop screen and draw, with your fingertip, a smiley face or a letter A or something. OK, easy enough. Now keep drawing things. Spell out your name, play tic-tac-toe; basically imagine you are using a touch screen interface. Every 5 minutes, make a mental note of how your arms feel.
I reckon a man like you might make it as far as 20 minutes before you start to cry with the pain.
With me it was a general lack of slickness; I kept having to fiddle with the wifi settings, for example. I have to do that occasionally in windows too, but not as often.
God, that sounds pathetic when I write it down! I mean, WINE now more or less runs the one app I use daily that I cannot get for Linux, time to get serious.
... you see, in my latest try to switch to Linux, I used Breezy Badger, and cam within a hairs breadth of being able to switch. So Dapper is something I eagerly await.
I'm a very awkward bugger when it comes to switching, so if Dapper can satisfy me, then it's going to satisfy a lot of other awkward buggers too, and that has to be good news.
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40% of Americans admitted to an interviewer that they are dullards? Woo.
I mean, I'm a very tolerant person, but if you're not interested in politics, or culture, or science, then what exactly are you good for? Soylent Green?
Any PC with less than e.g. a GeForce 5200 can't run Aero, so obviously they have to have some sort of fall-back position. I don't have anything that will run it in my entire company, for example.
Who needs 2 people? It's been well established that all you need to do is:
- subject A buys international ticket
- A photoshops and prints an electronic boarding pass for another flight under a different name.
- A uses the boarding pass to get past security
- A throws the pass in the bin and uses the real ticket to get on the plane
It's amazing that someone worried about security thinks running a beta of a security system is the way to go.
This is of course the great counter to the "but FOSS doesn't have any support". "The US Government can't get support for W2K, what makes you think you can?"
You can't buy a smartphone without a phone contract? Where do you live?
Well, they're coming. The technology to make flat zoom lenses is in a very early state, but it does exist. Meanwhile, if you don't mind an odd shaped phone, there are handsetsw with traditional zoom lenses, such as the Samsung SCH-V770
First, the things that you can get anywhere:
Then the stuff that also has versions on the Mac:
then the stuff that is Windows only, but there is certainly an equivelant or better package for Mac
Then the stuff that is Windows only:
Wow. I think I just talked myself into a Mac. My results show exactly what Windows does that Macs dont:
So I'm not sure you're going to find a lot of cool apps.
"Well, Dr Schnieder, with the $10 billion we have extorted from the United Nations, we have been able to build, here in our artificial volcano, a state of the art nuclear-powered bio-nanotech facility that gives us ultimate power over life itself! What fiendish evil shall we commit with it?"
"Well, we could... er... perhaps if we... I got nothing. Dr Wu, any ideas?"
"Tell you what, I'll see if kartack has made any recent posts on Slashdot."
"Ah, now he's always good for a sinister idea. That one about stealing children to make sentinent fastners, I loved that."
"Well, to be fair, Dr Krupov, I don't think that was originally his idea."
"That just makes it even more evil!"
Well, basically this is just a way to make 6 nanometer thick wire.
Heh, I'd just about decided that rather than spend money (and a month of headaches trying to figure out which one to get) on a new video card so I can play HL2, I'd get myself a Mac Mini instead.
;-)
Now it looks like there is a chance that I can get both at once. Sweet!
What I'm looking for, and hopefully will shortly see on your wiki, is a comparison between the two CPU choices on the mini. I had originally settled on a Single Core with 1Gb of RAM as the best set-up for me, but if Dual Core is going to make a difference to gaming, I might stretch the credit card a little further.
(Heh, that last sentence almost convinced me that I'm not going to say "Fuck it, give me the Dual Core" 10 seconds after I enter the Apple Store.
Well, I think the general opinion is that this is for switchers. I mean, I can't buy a MacBook at work, because I need winodows. Or rather, I used ot not be able to buy one. Now I can.
Lately I've been deciding on a new machine, and I'd pretty much came to the conclusion that I would get hold of a Mac Mini rather than putting a new video card in my PC so I could play Half-life 2. BootCamp means I can get both in one go. It also means I can install the windows-only tools I need for work so I don't have to unpack my laptop at home at all.
For that matter it also means that when I next upgrade that laptop a MacBook Pro is a perfectly legitimate choice to make.
All of this is music to Steve's ears, at the low low price of organizing a few windows drivers and an EFI module.
In the star trek future there are replicators and hence money has no meaning. Well, obviously you still need gold pressed latinum if you want to hire a dozy screenwriter, but who'd want to do that?
Though it's not entirely utopian, as clearly there's some microsoft coders around; why else do you think the replicators are too stupid to notice that when Jean-Luc orders tea, he doesn't want stone cold darjeeling?
It's not bloody Linux either though is it? I mean your house has one bit of Ikea furniture in it but that doesn't make it a bloody Ikea house, does it?
I was hoping someone would mention Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, I love that book - rather like Catch-22 but if anything even stranger.
A good way to explain DRM is to discuss region encodng in DVDs; "Did you know that you can't play a US DVD on your UK player?" "Yes, I saw something about it. Why is that?" "Because the MPAA broke your DVD player, hoping to make more money."
Wait a minute though, what if they go back in time and kill the ipod before it has time to be killed by the PSP and then the PSP will never have existed and then the DS will be... er... let me start again.
Indeed, if you look at this Massachusetts case - where the state IT people wanted to insist on open standards for documents - the arguments used against were not that this was a bad idea in itself, but that all the standard accessibility apps they used targeted MS Office. (Either they didn't work with alternatives or did work with reduced function set.)
Now, places like Government where they need to know that they will always be able to open their documents are low lying fruit for FOSS software, anything that is liable to block that needs work.
Of course, the correct thing to do in this situation is to take the executive aside and whisper "You're responsible for these features..."
What's more, why is he only finding out about this problem now?
No, my friend, it is you who reveals himself to be new, for it is well known that most Slashdot posters are fakers running Windows XP Home....
It's not moving your arms that is the problem, it's holding them out up in front of you for sustained periods of time. Seriously, try it and you'll see what I mean.
It's called "gorilla arms".
Want to test it yourself? Easy. Wash your hands, then take your exisiting laptop screen and draw, with your fingertip, a smiley face or a letter A or something. OK, easy enough. Now keep drawing things. Spell out your name, play tic-tac-toe; basically imagine you are using a touch screen interface. Every 5 minutes, make a mental note of how your arms feel.
I reckon a man like you might make it as far as 20 minutes before you start to cry with the pain.
With me it was a general lack of slickness; I kept having to fiddle with the wifi settings, for example. I have to do that occasionally in windows too, but not as often.
God, that sounds pathetic when I write it down! I mean, WINE now more or less runs the one app I use daily that I cannot get for Linux, time to get serious.
... you see, in my latest try to switch to Linux, I used Breezy Badger, and cam within a hairs breadth of being able to switch. So Dapper is something I eagerly await.
I'm a very awkward bugger when it comes to switching, so if Dapper can satisfy me, then it's going to satisfy a lot of other awkward buggers too, and that has to be good news.