no-the Sorbs are an indigenous Slavic minority in the area of Bautzen and Spreewald in eastern Germany, about an hour drive from where I live. Their language is on all the signs in that area.
As someone who has recently assimilated himself into the Dresden culture by moving here, I have to agree. I love Saxony, and Dresden is one of the jewels of the world.
i hate to tell you this, but the *only* place the business plans do survive is the real world. In my imaginary world, these companies...errr...bad things happen.
and every time I eat a burger, 2 tons of modern plants died to make that cow (or something like that). We all know the cars burn too much energy. how long of a period were plants compressed for oil? thus, how long until we run out?
I hate to be the one who tells you this, but besides IBM's 75GXP and 60GXP lines (which fail much more than most), Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, Samsung, and $harddrivemanufacturer's hard disks all fail pretty regularly. IDE drives have never been the pinnacle of reliability. You get what you pay for. I just make sure to get the ones with the 3 year warranties because of this-in 3 years, you normally have a reason to get a new drive anyway (up until recently, with 300GB what am I saying? MS XP 5 or whatever comes out in 2006 won't need that much space for Joe User unless digital music and movies take off even more). RMA'ing a couple maxtors is normal. I've found most drive companies have drives that fail about the same rate when I worked for a company that went through different brands like toilet paper.
Like every new Maxtor, the first one that comes out is the 5400/2MB model. This is for the warez kids and the movie people. Then, in a month or two, sure enough comes the 7200/8MB model for the uber-raid systems sold by Advanced Unibyte and Transtec and the like. Give it a year, and the rest of us will be able to afford it when the 500GB model comes out. Until then, it's dual 120s or 160s for price reasons.
From what I've seen poking around USEnet, JFS seems to have the too little, too late problem. I've never seen it pwn a benchmark like it did today though. I'm a little confused-I have been told XFS is the best designed, highest performing file system, and I would hate to think SGI is getting into a lot of this crap with SCO for a relatively slow journaling file system...
Well, 5 years ago I had a p2-400 with 128MB RAM and a 12GB hard drive. XP still runs fine on that...not that I advocate Windows usage, but I can see why some people might be frustrated. Of course, like any good slashdotter, my current machines are a p4 2.8GHz, an Athlon 2600+, a P4 1.9GHz, a Sun Blade, an SGI O2, a P3 750 lappy, and an 800MHz FP iMac.
Does anyone know why Apple's support in Europe is so bad? I work as a sysadmin at a scientific institution in Germany, and I moved here four months ago from Michigan. I am so shocked at how bad it is here compared to in the states. We preordered a G5 on the day of the announcement and it came in today. That's a lot longer than it took in the States. Oh, and Panther-we've been beta-testing it for some time, and everything we've found that doesn't work with our network (setting a central cups print server for example) we have told Apple, and they told us they would investigate the problems for 700 euro per incident. FOR US TO FIX THEIR BUGS! I like Apple a lot, but it seems they care very little about Europe, and being as that's where I am, and we are running about 400 macs in the institute, I think they should care more. Anyone feel the same? Or anyone in Europe have better experiences?
it's about time we get a funny sco comment. All of them seem to be so tired and annoying, but I laughed at this one because of the grandparent's description.
Incidentally, I just moved to Dresden. Unlike Japan, the Dresdners are still rebuilding from the horror of that night, and the flood last year didn't help. However, all rebuilding should be complete for the beginning of 2006 (the city's 800th anniversary). You should see the Frauenkirche, an incredible old church that was utterly destroyed in 1945, and just started rebuilding in the late 80s (with private money, nonetheless). The scaffolding just came off part of the outside, and it looks amazing. I consider myself very lucky to be able to witness the Frauenkirche's dome in its former glory, as it's been destroyed since 1945. I'm getting very excited, being an American and seeing the horror my country inflicted on this amazing city. If you ever visit East Germany, GO TO DRESDEN and check out the resolve of these amazing people to restore their city to its former greatness. It's a nice place to live, and a great place to visit.
I bet he could use all that fame to his advantage instead... I mean so many actors started from various forms of porn, so what could be more embarassing than that...?
Maling the same film 5 times in a row and then seriously thinking about coming back for a sixth ? (yes I am talking to you mr stallone).
They're interesting-but I think I would get a headache using it for too long. It's definitely only for 3d images, as browsing the web with it would kill you. There is a tracker to tell if you're viewing a 3d image or not, and then the effect switches off.
At the institute where I work, we demoed one, and I had to give my opinions on it. I believe, however, that the place was charging 500 euro for the screen or something like that? We had a cell modeling program that would display a 3d image of the cell, and that use of the monitor would be nice. I tried to get in after hours and see if I could find some quake patches or something, but at that time my keycard to the institute wasn't working correctly.
From the article- "U.S. copyright laws allow for damages of $750 to $150,000 for each song offered illegally on a person's computer, but the RIAA has said it would be open to settlement proposals from defendants."
Let's correct that. What the RIAA really meant to say was:
"U.S. copyright laws allow for damages of $750 to $150,000 for each song offered illegally on a person's computer, but the RIAA has said it would be open laughing wickedly at settlement proposals from defendants."
The problem is that most people buy the record for a couple "good tracks." Most records I have purchased seem at first to have a couple good songs and a bunch of filler, but I find myself liking the "filler" tracks more when I come back to the recording in a year. Apparently I seem to be the only one who thinks this, as I hear so much complaining about "I bought a cd and I only like 2 songs I hate the RIAA blah blah". Listen with an open mind. There's a reason you like this artist, and most of the time, if you give a record a little time you will learn to respect the rest of it. There's quite a difference between a bad song and a song that doesn't grab you right away.
That hardly means it works. All it would then be good for is barely-2d-hardware-accelerated movies on a home-theater-box running linux. Why wouldn't you then just buy a card that's a bit older and actually works 100%? You don't buy a new $400 ATI video card for its impeccable 2d tv out quality and that only.
I'm one! I also use my serial ports for other things. In fact, I currently have 5 serial devices and I need to swap around cables because I only have two ports. If low-speed interfaces were not useful, Bluetooth would not exist. My 5 serial devices- 1. Nokia 9290 link cable 2. IRDA adapter 3. Nokia 8290 hack cable 4. Remote Control 5. control cable for my UPS
I also use my PC as a dumb terminal when I'm working on Sparcs and when i'm configuring my router. So there.
This reminds me of a terrible oldschool punk rock band that had a hidden track at the end of their (only) record. The conversation went something like this:
"So one time we actually put a lemon in our potato gun and shot it straight upward. THE LEMON NEVER CAME BACK DOWN. So, if you're listening to this, beware of the lemon."
Original gameboy games were $30 too. They've been $30 for 14 YEARS. I remember paying $30 for Kirby's Dream Land and Super Mario Land in 1990. It's amazing they haven't gone up, especially considering the GBA is the only current gaming system that still uses cartridges. Remember Game Gear? Games were $39.99 default. Neo Geo Pocket? Games were $50. Do some comparison before ripping on them.
I remember throwing quarters into Bust-a-move like 8 years ago. Then last year, someone asked me if i had heard of "Snood," supposedly the "most addictive game ever". Surprisingly enough, it's not near as good as Bust-A-Move even though it's a DIRECT RIPOFF and as far as I can tell, the little Bubble Bobble dinosaurs don't get any money from the probably $12 the Snood creators made from including spyware in the game. It's disgusting. Which would you rather play, a game with the bubbly goodness of the dinosaurs, or a crappy ripoff that pops up ads? Give me a break. Frozen Bubble stays relatively true to the original Bust-A-Move, and it's Free, so check that out, but please, for the love of everything that is good, inform EVERYONE you know who has ever heard of Snood that it is a crappy ripoff of Bust-A-Move and it should be called Bust-A-Move, if only to make people aware that Bust-A-Move exists. Please.
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I don't think alcohol is a vice either. I particularly enjoy German beer and its effects on my playing of Mario Party 4.
no-the Sorbs are an indigenous Slavic minority in the area of Bautzen and Spreewald in eastern Germany, about an hour drive from where I live. Their language is on all the signs in that area.
As someone who has recently assimilated himself into the Dresden culture by moving here, I have to agree. I love Saxony, and Dresden is one of the jewels of the world.
i hate to tell you this, but the *only* place the business plans do survive is the real world. In my imaginary world, these companies...errr...bad things happen.
i live in germany, and I never get batteries with my remotes...
and every time I eat a burger, 2 tons of modern plants died to make that cow (or something like that).
We all know the cars burn too much energy. how long of a period were plants compressed for oil? thus, how long until we run out?
I hate to be the one who tells you this, but besides IBM's 75GXP and 60GXP lines (which fail much more than most), Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, Samsung, and $harddrivemanufacturer's hard disks all fail pretty regularly. IDE drives have never been the pinnacle of reliability. You get what you pay for. I just make sure to get the ones with the 3 year warranties because of this-in 3 years, you normally have a reason to get a new drive anyway (up until recently, with 300GB what am I saying? MS XP 5 or whatever comes out in 2006 won't need that much space for Joe User unless digital music and movies take off even more).
RMA'ing a couple maxtors is normal. I've found most drive companies have drives that fail about the same rate when I worked for a company that went through different brands like toilet paper.
Like every new Maxtor, the first one that comes out is the 5400/2MB model. This is for the warez kids and the movie people. Then, in a month or two, sure enough comes the 7200/8MB model for the uber-raid systems sold by Advanced Unibyte and Transtec and the like. Give it a year, and the rest of us will be able to afford it when the 500GB model comes out.
Until then, it's dual 120s or 160s for price reasons.
From what I've seen poking around USEnet, JFS seems to have the too little, too late problem. I've never seen it pwn a benchmark like it did today though.
I'm a little confused-I have been told XFS is the best designed, highest performing file system, and I would hate to think SGI is getting into a lot of this crap with SCO for a relatively slow journaling file system...
Well, 5 years ago I had a p2-400 with 128MB RAM and a 12GB hard drive. XP still runs fine on that...not that I advocate Windows usage, but I can see why some people might be frustrated. Of course, like any good slashdotter, my current machines are a p4 2.8GHz, an Athlon 2600+, a P4 1.9GHz, a Sun Blade, an SGI O2, a P3 750 lappy, and an 800MHz FP iMac.
Does anyone know why Apple's support in Europe is so bad? I work as a sysadmin at a scientific institution in Germany, and I moved here four months ago from Michigan. I am so shocked at how bad it is here compared to in the states. We preordered a G5 on the day of the announcement and it came in today. That's a lot longer than it took in the States. Oh, and Panther-we've been beta-testing it for some time, and everything we've found that doesn't work with our network (setting a central cups print server for example) we have told Apple, and they told us they would investigate the problems for 700 euro per incident. FOR US TO FIX THEIR BUGS! I like Apple a lot, but it seems they care very little about Europe, and being as that's where I am, and we are running about 400 macs in the institute, I think they should care more. Anyone feel the same? Or anyone in Europe have better experiences?
it's about time we get a funny sco comment. All of them seem to be so tired and annoying, but I laughed at this one because of the grandparent's description.
Incidentally, I just moved to Dresden. Unlike Japan, the Dresdners are still rebuilding from the horror of that night, and the flood last year didn't help. However, all rebuilding should be complete for the beginning of 2006 (the city's 800th anniversary). You should see the Frauenkirche, an incredible old church that was utterly destroyed in 1945, and just started rebuilding in the late 80s (with private money, nonetheless). The scaffolding just came off part of the outside, and it looks amazing. I consider myself very lucky to be able to witness the Frauenkirche's dome in its former glory, as it's been destroyed since 1945. I'm getting very excited, being an American and seeing the horror my country inflicted on this amazing city. If you ever visit East Germany, GO TO DRESDEN and check out the resolve of these amazing people to restore their city to its former greatness. It's a nice place to live, and a great place to visit.
Maling the same film 5 times in a row and then seriously thinking about coming back for a sixth ? (yes I am talking to you mr stallone).
Freudian slip, anyone?
They're interesting-but I think I would get a headache using it for too long. It's definitely only for 3d images, as browsing the web with it would kill you. There is a tracker to tell if you're viewing a 3d image or not, and then the effect switches off. At the institute where I work, we demoed one, and I had to give my opinions on it. I believe, however, that the place was charging 500 euro for the screen or something like that? We had a cell modeling program that would display a 3d image of the cell, and that use of the monitor would be nice. I tried to get in after hours and see if I could find some quake patches or something, but at that time my keycard to the institute wasn't working correctly.
From the article-
"U.S. copyright laws allow for damages of $750 to $150,000 for each song offered illegally on a person's computer, but the RIAA has said it would be open to settlement proposals from defendants."
Let's correct that. What the RIAA really meant to say was:
"U.S. copyright laws allow for damages of $750 to $150,000 for each song offered illegally on a person's computer, but the RIAA has said it would be open laughing wickedly at settlement proposals from defendants."
ooh.
The problem is that most people buy the record for a couple "good tracks." Most records I have purchased seem at first to have a couple good songs and a bunch of filler, but I find myself liking the "filler" tracks more when I come back to the recording in a year. Apparently I seem to be the only one who thinks this, as I hear so much complaining about "I bought a cd and I only like 2 songs I hate the RIAA blah blah". Listen with an open mind. There's a reason you like this artist, and most of the time, if you give a record a little time you will learn to respect the rest of it. There's quite a difference between a bad song and a song that doesn't grab you right away.
That hardly means it works. All it would then be good for is barely-2d-hardware-accelerated movies on a home-theater-box running linux. Why wouldn't you then just buy a card that's a bit older and actually works 100%? You don't buy a new $400 ATI video card for its impeccable 2d tv out quality and that only.
The meaning of life is not pong and space invaders?
mod up-that was priceless!
I'm one!
I also use my serial ports for other things. In fact, I currently have 5 serial devices and I need to swap around cables because I only have two ports. If low-speed interfaces were not useful, Bluetooth would not exist.
My 5 serial devices-
1. Nokia 9290 link cable
2. IRDA adapter
3. Nokia 8290 hack cable
4. Remote Control
5. control cable for my UPS
I also use my PC as a dumb terminal when I'm working on Sparcs and when i'm configuring my router.
So there.
This reminds me of a terrible oldschool punk rock band that had a hidden track at the end of their (only) record. The conversation went something like this:
"So one time we actually put a lemon in our potato gun and shot it straight upward. THE LEMON NEVER CAME BACK DOWN. So, if you're listening to this, beware of the lemon."
I don't think I'll ever forget that.
Original gameboy games were $30 too. They've been $30 for 14 YEARS. I remember paying $30 for Kirby's Dream Land and Super Mario Land in 1990. It's amazing they haven't gone up, especially considering the GBA is the only current gaming system that still uses cartridges. Remember Game Gear? Games were $39.99 default. Neo Geo Pocket? Games were $50. Do some comparison before ripping on them.
oh, and I'm aware that puzzle bobble came before bust-a-move, but they're the same game. Bust-a-move is just the american name for it.
I remember throwing quarters into Bust-a-move like 8 years ago. Then last year, someone asked me if i had heard of "Snood," supposedly the "most addictive game ever". Surprisingly enough, it's not near as good as Bust-A-Move even though it's a DIRECT RIPOFF and as far as I can tell, the little Bubble Bobble dinosaurs don't get any money from the probably $12 the Snood creators made from including spyware in the game. It's disgusting. Which would you rather play, a game with the bubbly goodness of the dinosaurs, or a crappy ripoff that pops up ads? Give me a break. Frozen Bubble stays relatively true to the original Bust-A-Move, and it's Free, so check that out, but please, for the love of everything that is good, inform EVERYONE you know who has ever heard of Snood that it is a crappy ripoff of Bust-A-Move and it should be called Bust-A-Move, if only to make people aware that Bust-A-Move exists. Please.