I can't speak for Intel specifically, but if you need to place blame, place it squarely on the shoulders of the manufacturers. It has been my experience that they steadfastly refuse to sell to end users like you and I. If you want something, you must go through an authorized distributor. Usually, they'd claim that "we're not set up to sell directly to the public". In reality, I'm sure it has more to do with money and contacts, i.e. [avoiding] cutting into someone else's bottom line.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned Blassic yet. It works quite well for the odd project, or just to play around with. You can use it with or without line numbers and it supports a handful of different syntax models. I believe there are graphics/windowing commands, and it supports file I/O operations as well. You can even call programs from the command line and pass arguments to them, similar to regular scripting languages.
Since I'm not that great with other languages, it has proven itself rather useful a time or two.
It is commentary like this that makes me wish the score could range down to -5, Flamebait. Despite 25 years of experience hacking on computers and electronics, I would still be one of those "drooling idiots" by his metric, just because I glossed my desktop as much as I reasonably could. I did this for one simple reason: I was sick and tired of having a boring, ugly environment.
These days, I just use my computers mostly as a hobby (and so, many of my skills have faded), but what I do would normally be branded "real work" if I were being paid for it (which is occasionally the case). I decline to describe exactly what I do because it is irrelevant to this discussion. Point is, I resent being lumped into that "drooling idiot" category just because of how my desktop environment is set up, even if the comment wasn't directed specifically at me.
Why can't a person have a pretty desktop and still get real work (paid or not) done with it? Is having all that extra eye candy somehow preventing you from filling your screen(s) with plain-Jane terminals or editor windows?
You are not the first to make this comparison, and while the source is still the seventh commandment, it is a reference to the Jewish interpretation of it.
You are not supposed to use His name in a nefarious manner such as claiming some violent event was His will, or that you are going to kill someone "in G*d's name", etc. In Jewish tradition, this is extended such that you are also not supposed to write out the four letter Yod-Hay-Vov-Hay if the media you are writing on is readily defaced. These days, it is applied to all words used as names of G*d. [1] In prayer books, this is usually abbreviated as two Yods and read as Adonai.
Most observant Jews abbreviate His name in some manner or another, with a hyphen being the most common. I use an asterisk, for the sole purpose of avoiding the comparison with "Goddamn".
[1] Except for a scribe making an exact copy of the Torah, or when you are teaching something where spelling His name out is helpful or necessary. Technically, it should also not apply to a website such as Slashdot, which is not readily defaced.
I went and looked at BluRay players the other day, and of the 5 sold at the store I was at, none could up-scale DVD's via component video (all demanded HDMI). I got the impression from that, that none of them could do High Def *at all* via component video, let alone 3D video, and I refuse to support the HDMI "standard".
There are two main purposes to advertising - to create awareness and to generate trial.
These ads we're talking about clearly did the former among us and among the folks who create these stores that make it to Slashdot. For a large proportion of this site's users, Microsoft's ads in particular utterly failed in that second, more important purpose: they didn't get many of us to actually deliberately go out and *try* their products.
The same holds true for the vast majority of commercials on TV and ads on the web (assuming you see them at all), regardless of the nature of the item or concept being advertised. Most of us just don't respond to ads unless it's something we're already shopping for anyway. ("Hm.. product X sounds ok, but product Y looks really good. Perhaps I'll check them both out.")
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This is a geek forum... wouldn't that be time-ramen?
If there's one thing I've wanted for as long as I've used Linux, it's multiple monitor support on the regular, plain text console. I use a dual-head nVidia card, which works fine under X, but console mode has always been a let-down. One monitor always displays a normal console, while the other usually ends up displaying whatever I saw perhaps 10 minutes prior (as if it is showing part of the other monitor's scrollback buffer).
So, each can clearly show unique content in text mode, but does any tool exist that can bring some order to it?
I thought we all frowned on the idea of using strawman arguments here (though I'm sure I've done it myself before).
The concept of being a "hoosier", as you said, is rooted in the idea of being born and raised in Indiana. Unlike the book's protagonist, who claims a completely imaginary concept, Jews the world really do have an undeniable connection to one another, because there are real differences between us and the rest of the world.
As Jews, we have all been brought together under a basic set of precepts, which Hillel summarized into a concept very much like the "Golden Rule". We refer to the tangible aspect of this as "community" (in a different sense than your local neighborhood), an aspect of our social lives that a lot of Slashdotters apparently just don't get.
Having a bunch of us show up at temple for services, wishing each other "shabbat shalom" evokes a wonderful feeling than most of the folks here simply can't appreciate - and that's before any praying or references to G*d even happen.
Walking by a house and seeing a mezuzah (a small, decorative container holding a few verses of the Torah) on the door frame should tell you that the people there intend to truly live according to the Torah and the Golden Rule, as it applies to the present day, of course. No one can do this 100% of the time of course, but at least we *try*, unlike a sizeable portion of the population out there, who just treat everyone like shit.
Yeah, there are differences between the various denominations, and differences between individuals, but I'm sure if you were to take a survey of Jews from around the world, you would find dozens of concepts that we all share.
If you need something undeniably tangible, how about this:
All Jews, their children, and spouses, are guaranteed an Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return unless they are dangerous (e.g. violent criminals).
Just put everything in a flat, tab-formatted text file and encrypt it with a decent algorithm, against a strong "line noise" password.
Make a number of copies of the file and put them all on memory cards. Each card should carry several copies of the file (to protect against corruption), and the file should never be stored on any computer. Distribute those cards to safe places around your local area (i.e. one at work, one at a trusted friend's house, etc). Put several copies on a CD or DVD and store that along with another memory card in a safe deposit box, and keep the key to that box somewhere safe but innocuous (hell, your normal keychain is probably enough). Don't tell anyone where that box is kept.
Write the password down, without context, and store it in a safe place well away from any copies of the encrypted file - maybe in your wallet as someone else suggested. Anyone who finds it will probably assume it's just a system password anyway.
I know this sounds far-fetched, but suppose for the moment that Google execs caught wind of this stupidity by SPARC, and perhaps one of them uses SparkFun regularly.....
I realize that Google's software thinks it found legitimate problems, but with both companies' mindshares, this would be the perfect opportunity to dish out a clue or two.
* Walked to court clerk's office to file lawsuits charging unlawful/false arrest.
* Walked to local TV station to clue the local media in on this outrage.
Remember, you can legally photograph anything, anyone, anytime, anywhere, as long as there aren't any clearly posted signs restricting it, even if there *are* signs of a "no trespassing" nature.
That might be true if natural selection could account for outside interference. If we're there to make sure the "weak" variety remains dominant, whether or not it could on its own, then natural selection no longer applies - at that point, it's more like "unnatural" selection.
If I were going to pull sounds from Tron, I'd have chosen the "whoom whoom..." engine effect from a fast-moving Recognizer, or the "simulation" (the stolen one that resembles a solar sail), or perhaps the sound of Sark's airship. Seems like those sorts of sounds would fit the "futuristic-sounding" category while still fitting in reasonably well with normal traffic noise.
See Mask. There's a scene there which fits this quite well: The main protagonist, "Rocky", is asked by his blind friend to describe what vision is like. As I recall, he's stuck for an answer at first, but later figures out an anology: he has her hold a rock that's been heated. She finds it too hot to handle, of course, and he describes this as "red". Similarly, he uses "blue" for a rock that had been chilled, and "green" for a rock that was lukewarm. While there are certainly limits to this, I'm sure people can come up with ways to extend this sort of "tactile" description, since there are three other classes of senses one can draw on.
Depth-of-focus issues aside... Just capture the video stream in all its jittery glory, at a nice, high frame rate, and let a computer post-process that data to stabilize the image. I've seen examples of this after-the-fact process, in addition to the usual realtime image stabilization that many cameras feature.
Sorry, but Wikipedia is just another private website, just like most other websites. By extension, that means it isn't under government control, so your obscure 1984 reference doesn't fit. Personally, I approve of the change (I remember suggesting this very thing not that long ago), if only for one reason alone: I contribute to Wikipedia every chance I get, but I'm getting tired of seeing (and when I can, correcting) vandalism, some of which is just plain juvenile (as if written by an 8 year old), and all of it seems to have been posted by anonymous and/or new users.
I want to see Wikipedia grow and flourish. Rules like this will only help, as long as there are enough "trusted" editors to handle putting the edits into place.
/me looks at her browser window, then at the website it came from, then at the terminal that shows the last 'dpkg' run, then at the about:linux-splash page...
Yup, I'm pretty sure this is Google Chrome for Linux.:-)
I don't know that I'm going to switch to it yet, but I'll say one thing for sure - it's a lot faster than Firefox, especially on large pages (like slashdot).
To be accurate, female hormones are taken well in advance of SRS, sometimes many years ahead, since the person in question needs to live full time as their target sex *before* surgery is authorized (a time period referred to as "real life test" or "real life experience". One needs to feminize the body in order to do this successfully.
Assuming the patient has received the proper dosages of their meds the entire time, their body will have been under the influence of the hormones long enough that the surgery doesn't change much. The patient can stop taking testosterone blockers (usually Spironolactone, sometimes Cyproterone Acetate), but they must continue taking estrogen. Sometimes the patient can reduce their estrogen intake somewhat.
I don't get into sports, but I have to sat that, with few exceptions, there doesn't need to *be* a gender divide. Most sports should follow weight/strength classes like wrestling and boxing use, where those traits matter at all. If a 200 pound genetic woman sporting a lot of muscle wants to compete in some sport with a 200 pound genetic man with similar traits, I say let them do so!
I don't suppose this will work with something like football, but you get the point.
As I recall, it wasn't 6 million languages... it was 6 million forms of communication, in 3PO's words. See Episode V; when the search droid reaches Hoth and ends up near the rebels' base, its communications channel is picked up by the rebels. 3PO declared at that point that the signals being transmitted by the droid were not something he was familiar with. Since he's a droid, it's safe to assume he can understand data communications protocols just as our computers do, as well as spoken languages, and this seems like a good example of that to me.
There are plenty of ways for two entities to communicate other than spoken languages, such as visual signals as subtle as simple as body language or as obvious as sign language.
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Yes, but they had to...ahem...route around for a solution.
I can't speak for Intel specifically, but if you need to place blame, place it squarely on the shoulders of the manufacturers. It has been my experience that they steadfastly refuse to sell to end users like you and I. If you want something, you must go through an authorized distributor. Usually, they'd claim that "we're not set up to sell directly to the public". In reality, I'm sure it has more to do with money and contacts, i.e. [avoiding] cutting into someone else's bottom line.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned Blassic yet. It works quite well for the odd project, or just to play around with. You can use it with or without line numbers and it supports a handful of different syntax models. I believe there are graphics/windowing commands, and it supports file I/O operations as well. You can even call programs from the command line and pass arguments to them, similar to regular scripting languages.
Since I'm not that great with other languages, it has proven itself rather useful a time or two.
It is commentary like this that makes me wish the score could range down to -5, Flamebait. Despite 25 years of experience hacking on computers and electronics, I would still be one of those "drooling idiots" by his metric, just because I glossed my desktop as much as I reasonably could. I did this for one simple reason: I was sick and tired of having a boring, ugly environment.
These days, I just use my computers mostly as a hobby (and so, many of my skills have faded), but what I do would normally be branded "real work" if I were being paid for it (which is occasionally the case). I decline to describe exactly what I do because it is irrelevant to this discussion. Point is, I resent being lumped into that "drooling idiot" category just because of how my desktop environment is set up, even if the comment wasn't directed specifically at me.
Why can't a person have a pretty desktop and still get real work (paid or not) done with it? Is having all that extra eye candy somehow preventing you from filling your screen(s) with plain-Jane terminals or editor windows?
You are not the first to make this comparison, and while the source is still the seventh commandment, it is a reference to the Jewish interpretation of it.
You are not supposed to use His name in a nefarious manner such as claiming some violent event was His will, or that you are going to kill someone "in G*d's name", etc. In Jewish tradition, this is extended such that you are also not supposed to write out the four letter Yod-Hay-Vov-Hay if the media you are writing on is readily defaced. These days, it is applied to all words used as names of G*d. [1] In prayer books, this is usually abbreviated as two Yods and read as Adonai.
Most observant Jews abbreviate His name in some manner or another, with a hyphen being the most common. I use an asterisk, for the sole purpose of avoiding the comparison with "Goddamn".
[1] Except for a scribe making an exact copy of the Torah, or when you are teaching something where spelling His name out is helpful or necessary. Technically, it should also not apply to a website such as Slashdot, which is not readily defaced.
I went and looked at BluRay players the other day, and of the 5 sold at the store I was at, none could up-scale DVD's via component video (all demanded HDMI). I got the impression from that, that none of them could do High Def *at all* via component video, let alone 3D video, and I refuse to support the HDMI "standard".
Tubestop is your friend (tm).
There are two main purposes to advertising - to create awareness and to generate trial.
These ads we're talking about clearly did the former among us and among the folks who create these stores that make it to Slashdot. For a large proportion of this site's users, Microsoft's ads in particular utterly failed in that second, more important purpose: they didn't get many of us to actually deliberately go out and *try* their products.
The same holds true for the vast majority of commercials on TV and ads on the web (assuming you see them at all), regardless of the nature of the item or concept being advertised. Most of us just don't respond to ads unless it's something we're already shopping for anyway. ("Hm.. product X sounds ok, but product Y looks really good. Perhaps I'll check them both out.")
This is a geek forum... wouldn't that be time-ramen?
If there's one thing I've wanted for as long as I've used Linux, it's multiple monitor support on the regular, plain text console. I use a dual-head nVidia card, which works fine under X, but console mode has always been a let-down. One monitor always displays a normal console, while the other usually ends up displaying whatever I saw perhaps 10 minutes prior (as if it is showing part of the other monitor's scrollback buffer).
So, each can clearly show unique content in text mode, but does any tool exist that can bring some order to it?
Ahh the irony of this statement. Wasn't it always the Mac that everyone used to say was *the* platform for any kind of media production in the past?
Mod parent "troll" or "flamebait" please.
I thought we all frowned on the idea of using strawman arguments here (though I'm sure I've done it myself before).
The concept of being a "hoosier", as you said, is rooted in the idea of being born and raised in Indiana. Unlike the book's protagonist, who claims a completely imaginary concept, Jews the world really do have an undeniable connection to one another, because there are real differences between us and the rest of the world.
As Jews, we have all been brought together under a basic set of precepts, which Hillel summarized into a concept very much like the "Golden Rule". We refer to the tangible aspect of this as "community" (in a different sense than your local neighborhood), an aspect of our social lives that a lot of Slashdotters apparently just don't get.
Having a bunch of us show up at temple for services, wishing each other "shabbat shalom" evokes a wonderful feeling than most of the folks here simply can't appreciate - and that's before any praying or references to G*d even happen.
Walking by a house and seeing a mezuzah (a small, decorative container holding a few verses of the Torah) on the door frame should tell you that the people there intend to truly live according to the Torah and the Golden Rule, as it applies to the present day, of course. No one can do this 100% of the time of course, but at least we *try*, unlike a sizeable portion of the population out there, who just treat everyone like shit.
Yeah, there are differences between the various denominations, and differences between individuals, but I'm sure if you were to take a survey of Jews from around the world, you would find dozens of concepts that we all share.
If you need something undeniably tangible, how about this:
All Jews, their children, and spouses, are guaranteed an Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return unless they are dangerous (e.g. violent criminals).
Just put everything in a flat, tab-formatted text file and encrypt it with a decent algorithm, against a strong "line noise" password.
Make a number of copies of the file and put them all on memory cards. Each card should carry several copies of the file (to protect against corruption), and the file should never be stored on any computer. Distribute those cards to safe places around your local area (i.e. one at work, one at a trusted friend's house, etc). Put several copies on a CD or DVD and store that along with another memory card in a safe deposit box, and keep the key to that box somewhere safe but innocuous (hell, your normal keychain is probably enough). Don't tell anyone where that box is kept.
Write the password down, without context, and store it in a safe place well away from any copies of the encrypted file - maybe in your wallet as someone else suggested. Anyone who finds it will probably assume it's just a system password anyway.
I realize that Google's software thinks it found legitimate problems, but with both companies' mindshares, this would be the perfect opportunity to dish out a clue or two.
* Walked to local TV station to clue the local media in on this outrage.
Remember, you can legally photograph anything, anyone, anytime, anywhere, as long as there aren't any clearly posted signs restricting it, even if there *are* signs of a "no trespassing" nature.
That might be true if natural selection could account for outside interference. If we're there to make sure the "weak" variety remains dominant, whether or not it could on its own, then natural selection no longer applies - at that point, it's more like "unnatural" selection.
If I were going to pull sounds from Tron, I'd have chosen the "whoom whoom..." engine effect from a fast-moving Recognizer, or the "simulation" (the stolen one that resembles a solar sail), or perhaps the sound of Sark's airship. Seems like those sorts of sounds would fit the "futuristic-sounding" category while still fitting in reasonably well with normal traffic noise.
See Mask. There's a scene there which fits this quite well: The main protagonist, "Rocky", is asked by his blind friend to describe what vision is like. As I recall, he's stuck for an answer at first, but later figures out an anology: he has her hold a rock that's been heated. She finds it too hot to handle, of course, and he describes this as "red". Similarly, he uses "blue" for a rock that had been chilled, and "green" for a rock that was lukewarm. While there are certainly limits to this, I'm sure people can come up with ways to extend this sort of "tactile" description, since there are three other classes of senses one can draw on.
Depth-of-focus issues aside... Just capture the video stream in all its jittery glory, at a nice, high frame rate, and let a computer post-process that data to stabilize the image. I've seen examples of this after-the-fact process, in addition to the usual realtime image stabilization that many cameras feature.
I want to see Wikipedia grow and flourish. Rules like this will only help, as long as there are enough "trusted" editors to handle putting the edits into place.
Yup, I'm pretty sure this is Google Chrome for Linux. :-)
I don't know that I'm going to switch to it yet, but I'll say one thing for sure - it's a lot faster than Firefox, especially on large pages (like slashdot).
Assuming the patient has received the proper dosages of their meds the entire time, their body will have been under the influence of the hormones long enough that the surgery doesn't change much. The patient can stop taking testosterone blockers (usually Spironolactone, sometimes Cyproterone Acetate), but they must continue taking estrogen. Sometimes the patient can reduce their estrogen intake somewhat.
I don't suppose this will work with something like football, but you get the point.
My brain hurts!
There are plenty of ways for two entities to communicate other than spoken languages, such as visual signals as subtle as simple as body language or as obvious as sign language.