Yeah, but WTH??? I thought it was supposed to be an "academy days" movie, or at least something that took place before the original series. And they get Gary Sinese? Don't get me wrong, I like Gary Sinese, but isn't he a little old to play an academy noob? He's 50 something years old. Just for reference, DeForest Kelley was 46 at the start of TOS (Shatner was 35, Damon is 36).
It's the wrong movie, but I sense a disturbance in the force....
Cool. Doesn't include the federal numbers, but at the top it says the average is 62 cents per gallon total (state+fed). Ouch. Also interesting that our nice Canadian neighbors to the north have this on a nifty web site.
No kidding... The next thing you know, they'll be taxing products like gasoline or tobacco at different (and much higher) rates for no apparent reason. True, true, usually there is some hand-waving about supporting roads and health care costs but I think the accounting out the other end says different. At least in this case, they TELL you the tax rates. Anybody here know the tax rates for gasoline in their city/state? Here, I think it's around 15%, but I can't find info on it anywhere.
Actually, when you download a.deb under Ubuntu, Firefox says "would you like to open this with the application installer" or something similar to that. Click, click, done.
Ah, that makes sense. So, in a nutshell, you're saying that if in SD, the pimple is 3 pixels across in an extreme zoom, the equivalent HD shot would not be as extreme a closeup and the pimple would still be around 3 pixels across.
I guess in porn terms, the 300 pixel tall vagina would still be around 300 pixels tall. That takes the zoom down from 62% the height of the screen to about 27% the height of the screen. Makes sense to me.
You're assuming that the 4th dimension is time. Nobody has ever said that was the case, although many people have ASSUMED it to be true. The 4th dimension is a direction, much like up, down, or sideways, but is orthogonal to all three. See here for a description.
I'd mod your troll to something else if it wasn't for the "You are stupid" comment at the end. It's interesting, though, to see such careless disregard for other people's feelings.
I could provide that information, but it gets back to my original question: why? What's my incentive? I don't want to see the commercial offerings disappear, so I have a stronger incentive not to support the Open Source version. But I bet if there was a piece of open source software that did exactly what visio did, you'd have no problems in using it. That's the incentive. Why pay for closed source software solutions when an equivalent open source alternative exists.
...I'm still waiting for a truly innovative Open Source application that isn't based on years of industrial innovation.
Ever heard of Apache? Most popular web server on the planet? Open source. Based on the NCSA httpd server - also open source.
Ever heard of Firefox? Open source. And as a counter to your "stifling innovation", what third rate browser by Ultra Huge Mega Software Corp was FORCED to innovate because on the non-financially motivated Firefox project? I'll give you a two letter hint - IE
... I've tried Dia and it pales in comparison - partly due to Gimpishness of the UI, but also just b/c Visio and OmniGraffle are mature applications that have the benefit of years of user feedback. So did you offer the Dia team your feedback? Dia's never going to get better without user feedback and development support.
I think they mean direct descendant as in you can trace the lineage directly back to that person. An indirect descendant (not sure if that's the proper term) can have DNA traits tracked back to a particular group of people, but maybe not back to a specific person.
Amen, amen, amen. Most of the bookstores (Borders/B&N) label the section Science Fiction/Fantasy, which I don't have a problem with. To me, they are two very different genres of writing. One involves advanced or alternate SCIENCE, the other involves (usually) some sort of magical powers that are derived from the SUPERNATURAL. Armor by John Steakley is Sci-Fi. The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan is Fantasy. I don't have a problem with both books being in the Science Fiction/Fantasy section, though.
Somebody should send a memo to the Sci-Fi channel, though. They need to add the "Fantasy" in there somewhere...
That almost sounds like a linux release, but the key thing missing in all linux versions is a stable and always-there set of GUI tools so applications can run on the OS itself. linux (IMO) is crippled by that lack of a standard GUI layer. It does have a standard GUI - three of them in fact. Don't think of them as "not a standard", think of them as options. In Windows, you get just one option - Microsoft's. In Linux, you get more than one. If you don't like GNOME, switch to KDE. If those are too heavyweight, switch to XFCE. It's still the same operating system with the same applications and tools, just a different front end. Plus, have you looked at all the extra add-on crap with Windows now? WindowBlinds and ObjectDesktop changes the Windows desktop in large ways - where's your standard GUI there?
Yes, I know I'm arguing both sides of the fence, but in Linux, it's not as "non-standard" as you think, and in Windows it's not as "standard" as you think.
I think that was a HD-DVD ROM drive. I looked over HP's offerings and they don't have a HD-DVD burner listed on their site at all, not even on the high end workstations (nice that they offer Linux versions , though..)
I dunno. Sony is doing pretty good on getting products out in a timely manner. There's been a blu-ray burner shipping since about August of '06 (BR burners are already under $700) and as far as I can tell, there's still not a HD-DVD burner shipping. Toshiba is supposed to start shipping one in volume next month and NEC was supposed to start shipping one mid last year, then August, then Christmas time, I can't find anywhere on the web where they are actually SELLING them.
Nevermind that Hydrogen is currently produced by steam cracking natural gas, as that is the only cost-effective method available. Why do you think the oil companies quash biodiesel, straight veggie oil burners, resist ethanol, kill the electric car, but embrace hydrogen? Umm.. Did you just answer your own question (as far as the hydrogen goes)?? You can get hydrogen from sea water, sure, but it takes massive amounts of electricity. Sounds like the coal guys need to lobby harder for hydrogen power. But then natural gas is used in a lot of power generating plants, too. So what's more effective? Using natural gas to heat up steam to turn a turbine or using steam to turn natural gas into hydrogen to use in a fuel cell?
what's the time delay between airings on the BBC and airings on Sci-Fi? I talked to somebody in London the other day and they said they are still waiting on the start of season 3 also (course, ours just ended 2 or 3 weeks ago on Sci-Fi), so I'd guess the lag isn't but a couple of months? That's a whole lot better than the lag of several years back in the Tom Baker days (yes, my "geek" card is certified and up to date).
When people record a programme at home "if they don't look at it within 48 hours, they don't look at it at all", he said. Indeed! HE might not look at it, but I use my MythTV PVR for time shifting, and sometimes it's a long time shift. Episodes are recorded every week of the shows I DO watch (and some I might watch if they seem interesting like Modern Marvels episodes) and it's frequently more than a week before I get around to catching up on the missed episodes. But 48 hours? Where the hell did he get that number? Methinks it was produced rectally.
Css browser support. Pretty good guide. If you design for FF or Opera and don't use any hairy CSS, it should look pretty good in IE7 (assuming you're using a decent DOCTYPE) and can be tamed in IE6 with a few tweaks to fix things like the broken box model and such.
Interesting thing I noticed when scrolling through the guide linked above - the level of css support between IE6 and IE7 isn't all that different (maybe a handful of new items supported). So, IE7 was mainly a bugfix release. Five years and they finally fixed the CSS engine. Way to go MS.
If you can't see the sarcasm dripping from above, check your glasses.
So, in the first part of your post, you state that it's illegal for anyone but the Feds to print money, then by the end of the post, you're admitting that local governments CAN have their own local currencies, just as long as it's not considered "legal tender" and is accepted if the parties mutually agree for payment in the local currency. Pick an argument.
Plus, I didn't say that it was legal tender, just that states or cities were allowed to print their own money. Interestingly, they are forbidden from printing their own coins, which is probably a left over of the gold and silver coin days.
I've always been impressed with HP's engineering in their UNIX line of servers (can't speak to the PC based ones). I had a server (actually a B class workstation functioning as a server) several years ago that was knocked off a table onto the floor by the cleaning staff. Even after a 3 foot tumble, it never missed a beat. Never even rebooted. The only evidence was a little scuffing on the case. Nice stuff.
BR burners are already in the price range of current players. See here for a $579 BR burner (dual layer, no less). The cheapest BR player I could find was here for $579. Zero price difference is pretty close in my book.
Note: I'm not affiliated with either of those sites, just did a quick Froogle search.
And just for my 0.02, I vote for Blu-Ray. It's a lot easier to abbreviate Blu-Ray as BR than it is to abbreviate HD-DVD without ambiguity.
The individual states often minted them, which would likely not be allowed under our increasingly powerful central government of today. Not true. It's perfectly legal for states or cities to mint their own currency, as long as the value of the currency is pegged 1 to 1 to the US dollar. Quite a few local cities/areas have local currencies. See the full list..
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Yeah, but WTH??? I thought it was supposed to be an "academy days" movie, or at least something that took place before the original series. And they get Gary Sinese? Don't get me wrong, I like Gary Sinese, but isn't he a little old to play an academy noob? He's 50 something years old. Just for reference, DeForest Kelley was 46 at the start of TOS (Shatner was 35, Damon is 36).
It's the wrong movie, but I sense a disturbance in the force....
Was that Beryl/Compiz and a Gnome autohide toolbar in the first video? The 3D cube desktop rotate was certainly Compiz-esque.
Cool. Doesn't include the federal numbers, but at the top it says the average is 62 cents per gallon total (state+fed). Ouch. Also interesting that our nice Canadian neighbors to the north have this on a nifty web site.
No kidding... The next thing you know, they'll be taxing products like gasoline or tobacco at different (and much higher) rates for no apparent reason. True, true, usually there is some hand-waving about supporting roads and health care costs but I think the accounting out the other end says different. At least in this case, they TELL you the tax rates. Anybody here know the tax rates for gasoline in their city/state? Here, I think it's around 15%, but I can't find info on it anywhere.
Actually, when you download a .deb under Ubuntu, Firefox says "would you like to open this with the application installer" or something similar to that. Click, click, done.
Ah, that makes sense. So, in a nutshell, you're saying that if in SD, the pimple is 3 pixels across in an extreme zoom, the equivalent HD shot would not be as extreme a closeup and the pimple would still be around 3 pixels across.
I guess in porn terms, the 300 pixel tall vagina would still be around 300 pixels tall. That takes the zoom down from 62% the height of the screen to about 27% the height of the screen. Makes sense to me.
You're assuming that the 4th dimension is time. Nobody has ever said that was the case, although many people have ASSUMED it to be true. The 4th dimension is a direction, much like up, down, or sideways, but is orthogonal to all three. See here for a description.
I'd mod your troll to something else if it wasn't for the "You are stupid" comment at the end. It's interesting, though, to see such careless disregard for other people's feelings.
...I'm still waiting for a truly innovative Open Source application that isn't based on years of industrial innovation.Ever heard of Apache? Most popular web server on the planet? Open source. Based on the NCSA httpd server - also open source.
Ever heard of Firefox? Open source. And as a counter to your "stifling innovation", what third rate browser by Ultra Huge Mega Software Corp was FORCED to innovate because on the non-financially motivated Firefox project? I'll give you a two letter hint - IE
... I've tried Dia and it pales in comparison - partly due to Gimpishness of the UI, but also just b/c Visio and OmniGraffle are mature applications that have the benefit of years of user feedback. So did you offer the Dia team your feedback? Dia's never going to get better without user feedback and development support.I think they mean direct descendant as in you can trace the lineage directly back to that person. An indirect descendant (not sure if that's the proper term) can have DNA traits tracked back to a particular group of people, but maybe not back to a specific person.
Amen, amen, amen. Most of the bookstores (Borders/B&N) label the section Science Fiction/Fantasy, which I don't have a problem with. To me, they are two very different genres of writing. One involves advanced or alternate SCIENCE, the other involves (usually) some sort of magical powers that are derived from the SUPERNATURAL. Armor by John Steakley is Sci-Fi. The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan is Fantasy. I don't have a problem with both books being in the Science Fiction/Fantasy section, though.
Somebody should send a memo to the Sci-Fi channel, though. They need to add the "Fantasy" in there somewhere...
Yes. It's the third of Arthur C. Clarke's three laws of prediction.
Yes, I know I'm arguing both sides of the fence, but in Linux, it's not as "non-standard" as you think, and in Windows it's not as "standard" as you think.
Indeed.. somebody meta-modding or with mod points fix this. It certainly isn't a troll...
I think that was a HD-DVD ROM drive. I looked over HP's offerings and they don't have a HD-DVD burner listed on their site at all, not even on the high end workstations (nice that they offer Linux versions , though..)
I dunno. Sony is doing pretty good on getting products out in a timely manner. There's been a blu-ray burner shipping since about August of '06 (BR burners are already under $700) and as far as I can tell, there's still not a HD-DVD burner shipping. Toshiba is supposed to start shipping one in volume next month and NEC was supposed to start shipping one mid last year, then August, then Christmas time, I can't find anywhere on the web where they are actually SELLING them.
what's the time delay between airings on the BBC and airings on Sci-Fi? I talked to somebody in London the other day and they said they are still waiting on the start of season 3 also (course, ours just ended 2 or 3 weeks ago on Sci-Fi), so I'd guess the lag isn't but a couple of months? That's a whole lot better than the lag of several years back in the Tom Baker days (yes, my "geek" card is certified and up to date).
Css browser support. Pretty good guide. If you design for FF or Opera and don't use any hairy CSS, it should look pretty good in IE7 (assuming you're using a decent DOCTYPE) and can be tamed in IE6 with a few tweaks to fix things like the broken box model and such.
Interesting thing I noticed when scrolling through the guide linked above - the level of css support between IE6 and IE7 isn't all that different (maybe a handful of new items supported). So, IE7 was mainly a bugfix release. Five years and they finally fixed the CSS engine. Way to go MS.
If you can't see the sarcasm dripping from above, check your glasses.
So, in the first part of your post, you state that it's illegal for anyone but the Feds to print money, then by the end of the post, you're admitting that local governments CAN have their own local currencies, just as long as it's not considered "legal tender" and is accepted if the parties mutually agree for payment in the local currency. Pick an argument.
Plus, I didn't say that it was legal tender, just that states or cities were allowed to print their own money. Interestingly, they are forbidden from printing their own coins, which is probably a left over of the gold and silver coin days.
I've always been impressed with HP's engineering in their UNIX line of servers (can't speak to the PC based ones). I had a server (actually a B class workstation functioning as a server) several years ago that was knocked off a table onto the floor by the cleaning staff. Even after a 3 foot tumble, it never missed a beat. Never even rebooted. The only evidence was a little scuffing on the case. Nice stuff.
BR burners are already in the price range of current players. See here for a $579 BR burner (dual layer, no less). The cheapest BR player I could find was here for $579. Zero price difference is pretty close in my book.
Note: I'm not affiliated with either of those sites, just did a quick Froogle search.
And just for my 0.02, I vote for Blu-Ray. It's a lot easier to abbreviate Blu-Ray as BR than it is to abbreviate HD-DVD without ambiguity.
I've got Discovery HD.. Still waiting for Sci-Fi HD, though. Can't wait to watch Mansquito in HD!