No matter what I tried, I couldn't get Gnome to let me change the file associations for files on an SMB share. And, it's absolutely opaque how to change them for regular files too without resorting to editing text files in/usr/share/blahblah.
I dunno about the validity of your other claims, but this does not really give me confidence in them. In Gnome, rightclick a file, Properties, Open With. (Unless you tried a 2 year old version.)
I feel honored and and it's really tempting to let it stand, but seriously, when I wrote this I was not sarcastic, and when you called me on it, I was looking at my drivel and couldn't believe it, or even understand how I arrived at writing this.
I fully agree with you, but it would be nice if clicking "update" from within Firefox would call a package manager function that spawns a window, asks for the pw, and looks for a newer (e.g. beta) firefox package in the distro.
Most of Microsoft's API is already documented.The whole point of an API is that it doesn't matter HOW you implement the functions, as long as you offer the same frontend.
In a perfect world. In reality, you don't have to implement the API, but to reimplement the particular implementation on windows, including behavior that differs from the published docs, and simple bugs.
256 MB is a perfectly reasonable test for anything except a videogame system.
Corporate laptops in our company regularly run this stuff concurrently: WinXP MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint 2003(all with potentially huge files that can use 200 MB RAM or more). Project and Access too you not that regularly. Lotus Notes MS Groove SpySweeper Symantec Antivirus Blackberry Desktop Manager IE or Firefox Altiris client, and assorted other services Misc user software
You are fucked under a gig, and even that is not comfortable
Cowon makes great players that look reasonably pretty (iPod looks better though in my eyes), support all kinds of codecs (ogg, flac, asf, mp3, wma,...), can encode mp3 over the mic, the built-in FM radio, or line-in, play MPEG4 video, and run linux.
Very much agreed. I have lived most of my life in Vienna, Austria, and only ca. 50% of households own a car there. And guess what, you don't need one either:) Now I'm in Berlin. The city is so big area-wise, still by far not finished after the big changes in the 90ies, and the municipality more or less bankrupt. I couldn't get anything done here without a car, and the company pays for it anyway, so...
One of the reasons why US cities are so bad in terms of public transport is in my other post
Right. Of course, this way of zoning was done with the car in mind. It's mostly the fault of the misguided modernists around Le Corbusier and their Charta of Athens (1937)
Well, I compared it to my little Marshall restraining itself at home, and an assortment of distortion and other pedals trying to sound mean, but in vain:) Thanks for the tip
Because if they wanted public transportation, the cities would be designed around it.
Well, yes and no. This is true today because they all have been brainwashed. In the 1880ies, Los Angeles had an electrified tramway network, and by the 1920ies, it had 2,000 km tramway tracks, compared to 300 in a European city like Vienna.
Today, Vienna is a tenth the size of LA, and still has nearly 300 km, plus 60 km underground and 650 km bus lines. LA has had no tramway at all from 1963 to 1990, and today has 90 km, plus a 30 km underground. Didn't find info on buses.
What happened: in Europe, the tramway companies were bought by the local communities pretty quickly and used in a pretty organized manner to steer city development. In the US, the tramway companies of course remained private, and bought land, laid tracks, and developed the land along the tracks, creating the first urban sprawls. This first led to the boom in the 20ies, but when cars became affordable the tramway companies had problems and were bought by the oil and car industry. Once they 0wn3d the tramways, they closed down whole networks. In LA they ripped out the tracks a local tramway company had already laid into the open land, expecting future growth.
A history of tramways in the Wiener Zeitung, a reputable Austrian newspaper, german.
In fact, everything there seems to be designed for driving.
The car culture creates a pull towards car-friendlyness. If people have cars, distances grow. Studies at the Technical University Vienna have shown that the average time we spend for transportation is pretty much constant. If you can go faster, you go farther.
Therefor in a car culture, the shops move to the outskirts where they have less costs, and get away with it because people can drive there for the cheaper prices. The shops offer bigger and bigger packages of household goods, to be chearper, and because people drive there as rarely as possible. The parking lots are huge. The local shops go bankrupt. Suddenly you can't go shopping without a car.
Other example: cars make streets deserted. If people use cars a lot in a city, it gets lonely on the streets. Instead of walking together, people drive by each other. In addition, the noise makes the residents turn away from the street. They close windows, try to be in rooms away from the street. Given time, the architecture will change and turn inwards, presenting cold walls to the outside, with only bathroom and hallway windows. The bed and living room windows face to a courtyard or similar. These changes slowly make the streets uncomfortable and possibly dangerous, and gradually more people switch to cars. Soon there is no space for pedestrians any more, let alone a sidewalk, or anything to walk to.
Except that the widespread use of "low"-tech nanotech (like the spray in the story) will increase the number of types of those particles tremendously, and will likely come up with new types all the time.
I agree with all you say except this: It's drawing a long bow to call it a nanotech hazard though.
to me it seems a very typical nanotech hazard, since "to bypass the body's protection mechanisms and directly affect " is a pretty common property of nano particles.
Line 6's Guitarport made me pick up the e-guitar again after many years of not playing. (It unfortunately also made me boot into Windows again).
The problem with the e-guitar is that to get the sound you want for many rock styles, you need to crank up your amp. Effect boxes help, and may be fine for practice, but you never get that sound of a Marshall at 10. Guitarport is a cheap little box with a DSP that is plugged into the USB port. The software lets you choose from a wide variety of preset digital models of famous amps and effects (and you can save your own edits), and you can listen to it over headphones or your stereo at reasonable volume, but still sound "real".
The software is very easy to use, and you can purchase Rifftracker separately, which gives you drum tracks (sampled, and with "human-like" variations, not robotic drum machine tracks) to play along to, lets you record and arrange etc. It is not really useful for serious recording, but is very easy to use and lends itself very well to practicing guitar (instead of fiddling with the PC).
Line 6 also has a professional line of digital effects, amps, and guitars, but they are more expensive, and are not that great IMO for practicing/playing just for fun.
ecause it's impossible to play out of tune on either of them
Not listening to many bad e-guitar players, huh?;) While of course much harder than on the violin, it certainly isn't impossible to be out of tune on an e-guitar: * Many modern guitars have "fast" necks, with frets that are so high that your fingers don't touch the fretboard unless you press hard, kinda like a sitar. Makes it easier to bend and supposedly faster. If you press hard, you'll be out of tune, and it's really easy to do that if you're playing chords * It's common to bend the string to string notes together legato-style, play vibrato, or produce tones that are not exactly half-tones, e.g. the blue note is between two regular half tones. There is lots of out-of-tune potential there:)
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an anyone explain the enduring popularity of those voting machines despites the numerous flaws?
Yes.
its proven that they are not very good a gorilla warfare
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So that's why the stupid beasts are still around.I did wonder
No matter what I tried, I couldn't get Gnome to let me change the file associations for files on an SMB share. And, it's absolutely opaque how to change them for regular files too without resorting to editing text files in /usr/share/blahblah.
I dunno about the validity of your other claims, but this does not really give me confidence in them. In Gnome, rightclick a file, Properties, Open With. (Unless you tried a 2 year old version.)
I feel honored and and it's really tempting to let it stand, but seriously, when I wrote this I was not sarcastic, and when you called me on it, I was looking at my drivel and couldn't believe it, or even understand how I arrived at writing this.
I have no fucking idea what I possibly could have been thinking. Thanks for pointing out how stupid I was.
I fully agree with you, but it would be nice if clicking "update" from within Firefox would call a package manager function that spawns a window, asks for the pw, and looks for a newer (e.g. beta) firefox package in the distro.
A gig is still an insane amount for anyone other than a gamer
:) (more than 10,000 users with these requirements, by the way)
Well, I just told you that it's not an insane amount for the people in my company
Most of Microsoft's API is already documented.The whole point of an API is that it doesn't matter HOW you implement the functions, as long as you offer the same frontend.
In a perfect world. In reality, you don't have to implement the API, but to reimplement the particular implementation on windows, including behavior that differs from the published docs, and simple bugs.
256 MB is a perfectly reasonable test for anything except a videogame system.
Corporate laptops in our company regularly run this stuff concurrently:
WinXP
MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint 2003(all with potentially huge files that can use 200 MB RAM or more). Project and Access too you not that regularly.
Lotus Notes
MS Groove
SpySweeper
Symantec Antivirus
Blackberry Desktop Manager
IE or Firefox
Altiris client, and assorted other services
Misc user software
You are fucked under a gig, and even that is not comfortable
Thanks for the laugh. However, the patent for an "Apparatus for Facilitating the Birth of a Child by Centrigugal (sic) Force" seems to have expired.
it's only 14 pages long
You are joking, right? Right?
I haven't jumped into the rockbox pool yet, but I've been watching it for a long time.. I'm almost ready to take the plunge.
Check out Cowon first
Yeah, I'd like flac support too, but in reality no other player I'd want (not that I want to change players) supports it either
Dunno if you'd want one, but I feel obliged to point you to Cowon to check them out
Cowon makes great players that look reasonably pretty (iPod looks better though in my eyes), support all kinds of codecs (ogg, flac, asf, mp3, wma, ...), can encode mp3 over the mic, the built-in FM radio, or line-in, play MPEG4 video, and run linux.
No-brainer, really
What is mission-critical obviously depends on your mission.
Very much agreed. I have lived most of my life in Vienna, Austria, and only ca. 50% of households own a car there. And guess what, you don't need one either :) Now I'm in Berlin. The city is so big area-wise, still by far not finished after the big changes in the 90ies, and the municipality more or less bankrupt. I couldn't get anything done here without a car, and the company pays for it anyway, so ...
One of the reasons why US cities are so bad in terms of public transport is in my other post
Right. Of course, this way of zoning was done with the car in mind. It's mostly the fault of the misguided modernists around Le Corbusier and their Charta of Athens (1937)
Will be interesting to see :)
Well, I compared it to my little Marshall restraining itself at home, and an assortment of distortion and other pedals trying to sound mean, but in vain :) Thanks for the tip
Because if they wanted public transportation, the cities would be designed around it.
Well, yes and no. This is true today because they all have been brainwashed. In the 1880ies, Los Angeles had an electrified tramway network, and by the 1920ies, it had 2,000 km tramway tracks, compared to 300 in a European city like Vienna.
Today, Vienna is a tenth the size of LA, and still has nearly 300 km, plus 60 km underground and 650 km bus lines. LA has had no tramway at all from 1963 to 1990, and today has 90 km, plus a 30 km underground. Didn't find info on buses.
What happened: in Europe, the tramway companies were bought by the local communities pretty quickly and used in a pretty organized manner to steer city development. In the US, the tramway companies of course remained private, and bought land, laid tracks, and developed the land along the tracks, creating the first urban sprawls. This first led to the boom in the 20ies, but when cars became affordable the tramway companies had problems and were bought by the oil and car industry. Once they 0wn3d the tramways, they closed down whole networks. In LA they ripped out the tracks a local tramway company had already laid into the open land, expecting future growth.
A history of tramways in the Wiener Zeitung, a reputable Austrian newspaper, german.
In fact, everything there seems to be designed for driving.
The car culture creates a pull towards car-friendlyness. If people have cars, distances grow. Studies at the Technical University Vienna have shown that the average time we spend for transportation is pretty much constant. If you can go faster, you go farther.
Therefor in a car culture, the shops move to the outskirts where they have less costs, and get away with it because people can drive there for the cheaper prices. The shops offer bigger and bigger packages of household goods, to be chearper, and because people drive there as rarely as possible. The parking lots are huge. The local shops go bankrupt. Suddenly you can't go shopping without a car.
Other example: cars make streets deserted. If people use cars a lot in a city, it gets lonely on the streets. Instead of walking together, people drive by each other. In addition, the noise makes the residents turn away from the street. They close windows, try to be in rooms away from the street. Given time, the architecture will change and turn inwards, presenting cold walls to the outside, with only bathroom and hallway windows. The bed and living room windows face to a courtyard or similar.
These changes slowly make the streets uncomfortable and possibly dangerous, and gradually more people switch to cars. Soon there is no space for pedestrians any more, let alone a sidewalk, or anything to walk to.
Except that the widespread use of "low"-tech nanotech (like the spray in the story) will increase the number of types of those particles tremendously, and will likely come up with new types all the time.
I agree with all you say except this: It's drawing a long bow to call it a nanotech hazard though.
to me it seems a very typical nanotech hazard, since "to bypass the body's protection mechanisms and directly affect " is a pretty common property of nano particles.
Line 6's Guitarport made me pick up the e-guitar again after many years of not playing. (It unfortunately also made me boot into Windows again).
The problem with the e-guitar is that to get the sound you want for many rock styles, you need to crank up your amp. Effect boxes help, and may be fine for practice, but you never get that sound of a Marshall at 10.
Guitarport is a cheap little box with a DSP that is plugged into the USB port. The software lets you choose from a wide variety of preset digital models of famous amps and effects (and you can save your own edits), and you can listen to it over headphones or your stereo at reasonable volume, but still sound "real".
The software is very easy to use, and you can purchase Rifftracker separately, which gives you drum tracks (sampled, and with "human-like" variations, not robotic drum machine tracks) to play along to, lets you record and arrange etc. It is not really useful for serious recording, but is very easy to use and lends itself very well to practicing guitar (instead of fiddling with the PC).
Line 6 also has a professional line of digital effects, amps, and guitars, but they are more expensive, and are not that great IMO for practicing/playing just for fun.
ecause it's impossible to play out of tune on either of them
;) While of course much harder than on the violin, it certainly isn't impossible to be out of tune on an e-guitar: :)
Not listening to many bad e-guitar players, huh?
* Many modern guitars have "fast" necks, with frets that are so high that your fingers don't touch the fretboard unless you press hard, kinda like a sitar. Makes it easier to bend and supposedly faster. If you press hard, you'll be out of tune, and it's really easy to do that if you're playing chords
* It's common to bend the string to string notes together legato-style, play vibrato, or produce tones that are not exactly half-tones, e.g. the blue note is between two regular half tones. There is lots of out-of-tune potential there