Goes to show how long it's been since this meme was funny when it gets mangled this badly.
"In Soviet Russia, road forks you!"...There is no way to work the current topic into this meme, either.
I get this too... I'm assuming it's a video card thing, since the readme file specificly talks about having a pretty beefy card, and mine is... well... coming close to vegan these days.
It's simple, the backups are compressed -- they simply remove all those useless zeroes from the binary data.
We should back up the digits 1 and 0 too, just to be safe. In the event of a fire, we want to be able to reconstruct the data, and what will we do if all the 1's get damaged? We'll also have a handy comparison for the 0, so we can insert it back without too much effort when we un-compress the data.
I DO NOT NEED TO HAVE A GLOWING RED LIGHT JUST TO KNOW MY DEVICE IS TURNED OFF.
There is little use to have a light showing that the TV is on, the display is enough for me. But a small light showing me exactly where the power switch is when it's turned off, can be useful.
Problem is, in a lot of devices, the little red light is on the other freaking side of the device. I end up feeling around in this area for about five minutes before I go "Oh. It's on the other side."
Actually, if you enable "Background Downloads" from the Console Settings menu, and have an active download, pressing the power button will turn off the lights, and video out, but the console remains "on" until the download queue is empty.
Likewise, the 360 keeps enough components in the "on" state while "off" to allow wireless controllers to fully power-up the console. If that isn't a standby mode, I don't know what is.
I'd love for Apple to shut down the ITMS. It would make an example of the Copyright Royalty Board and related parties, and hopefully stop their greedy streak.
So please, I implore you. Strip DRM off all songs, and shut down for a month or so. Prove to the world that you are willing to give up a major revenue stream in the interest of consumers' rights.
You will emerge a hero, and the Copyright Royalty Board might learn a thing or two.
Ignorance and blatant disregard for how something works seems to be what the internet is for in todays society.
Yes, that is what the internet is for.
On a related note, I've used Vista, extensively, and don't like it. I don't bash it at every opportunity, but I do discourage its use for the following reasons
- UAC is still the most aggravating privilege prompt I've used
- Vista, compared with Ubuntu or OS X, runs extremely slowly
- Control Panel, and other OS dialogs have been obfuscated and made extremely convoluted for no apparent reason
- (Subjective) I dislike the Aero user interface
So there are three valid, and one personal reason that I prefer to use Ubuntu and OS X for my computing needs.
It wasn't about clients that leech bandwidth, it was about clients with great interfaces, and additional management methods, such as uTorrent or Azureus' web management. In my opinion, the mainline client was so lacking in features that I considered it to be unusable. Bittorrent owes some of it's success to the fact that there are so many great clients for people to choose. If you're looking for simple, try uTorrent or Transmission. If you need advanced features, try Azureus. People like this kind of choice.
It saddens me to see this, as it means that clients might eventually become less compatible with closed-source revisions of the protocol, and we'll lose some great file-sharing software.
More like Surf's Up, but with emphasis on kernel development, instead of surfing.
By the way, stay tuned for Dreamworks' Pictures "Tux". An animated comedy, starring yet even more penguins, and the lovable little guy himself. Tux is an ordinary penguin, working away at his operating system all day, like good penguins should. A chance meeting with the BSD Daemon and Gnu marks the start of a grand adventure that takes Tux all over the internet (including a brief visit to Slashdot itself). Tux makes friends with a host of colourful characters, meets the girl of his dreams, and learns an important lesson in process prioritization and task scheduling.
What bothers me is people believe naming something "Artist - Track.mp3.exe" will make it look like an mp3. If windows hides the file extensions, then a file called "Artist - Track.mp3.exe" will look like "Artist - Track.mp3" and a file legitimately called "Artist - Track.mp3" will show without any extension at all, and therefore "Artist - Track".
You'd think that one song out of 24 that actually has.mp3 at the end might seem a little suspicious. Especially when that.exe has an icon for a Windows Media Player file, and you use iTunes or Winamp.
There are several hilarious leaked videos of post-theft bait cars and their drug influenced drivers. The neat thing is the car can be locked and stopped remotely, trapping the thief inside, so they never end well for the driver.
Would somebody please think of the Tetris blocks? Every year, millions of blocks that make up a Tetris piece are senselessly killed when people of all ages complete a row horizontally. Many justify this atrocity by saying the blocks are now complete, are going to a better place, and that it adds to their score. We at the Unjust Treatment of Tetris Pieces Foundation implore you to stop killing these defenceless sprites. Please also consider making a donation to our foundation, or participating in our Adopt-a-Brick program, where you can sponsor a Tetris piece, and ensure it lives a full life, with plenty of food, access to clean water, and decent education. Call 1-800-555-TRIS today.
Uhh. Actually Apple has been spamming by inbox nonstop about the fact that OS X 10.5 Beta will be available to people attending the WWDC.
The Leopard beta. Available first at WWDC. The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is less than a week away. Don't miss your chance to see a feature-complete version of Mac OS X Leopard, and take home a beta copy.
I use online banking too, without any problems. I've even logged on to their secure site from my PDA on an unencrypted network at a bus terminal to transfer some money so I could afford a bus ticket home. Technology to the rescue!
I've never changed my password either, and just like the other sibling post, the paypal account that's tied into my bank account also gives me the creeps, but it's still useful, and it's actually saved my ass on a botched ebay auction. (Paypal refunded me when the seller screwed up.)
A recent login to my bank's site yielded a prompt for more security information. I was prompted to select 5 questions, such as "What is your favorite chocolate bar?" and was told that they would occasionally ask me to answer them. My biggest complaint is they do not allow passwords longer than 8 characters. I guess it's either their encryption doesn't support it, or they have problems with people forgetting long passwords. Please, let me choose them if I want!
I thought the point of CAPTCHAs was to compare what a user types with information stored on the hosting server. If the hosting server doesn't know what the book says, then how can it validate the CAPTCHA?
Don't worry, you're not alone. My experience with computers started with the 'dir' command when I was about 12, and that was the last I ever used it. Now, whenever I have to use the command prompt under XP for god-knows what reason, I type 'ls' a few times before remembering...
Slashdot Mirror
That's HEAVY.
There's that word again; "heavy". Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?
In Mother Russia, the mutants are Humans.
Goes to show how long it's been since this meme was funny when it gets mangled this badly. "In Soviet Russia, road forks you!" ...There is no way to work the current topic into this meme, either.
I get this too... I'm assuming it's a video card thing, since the readme file specificly talks about having a pretty beefy card, and mine is ... well ... coming close to vegan these days.
It's simple, the backups are compressed -- they simply remove all those useless zeroes from the binary data.
We should back up the digits 1 and 0 too, just to be safe. In the event of a fire, we want to be able to reconstruct the data, and what will we do if all the 1's get damaged? We'll also have a handy comparison for the 0, so we can insert it back without too much effort when we un-compress the data.
I DO NOT NEED TO HAVE A GLOWING RED LIGHT JUST TO KNOW MY DEVICE IS TURNED OFF.
There is little use to have a light showing that the TV is on, the display is enough for me. But a small light showing me exactly where the power switch is when it's turned off, can be useful.
Problem is, in a lot of devices, the little red light is on the other freaking side of the device. I end up feeling around in this area for about five minutes before I go "Oh. It's on the other side."
Actually, if you enable "Background Downloads" from the Console Settings menu, and have an active download, pressing the power button will turn off the lights, and video out, but the console remains "on" until the download queue is empty.
Likewise, the 360 keeps enough components in the "on" state while "off" to allow wireless controllers to fully power-up the console. If that isn't a standby mode, I don't know what is.
I'd love for Apple to shut down the ITMS. It would make an example of the Copyright Royalty Board and related parties, and hopefully stop their greedy streak. So please, I implore you. Strip DRM off all songs, and shut down for a month or so. Prove to the world that you are willing to give up a major revenue stream in the interest of consumers' rights. You will emerge a hero, and the Copyright Royalty Board might learn a thing or two.
On a related note, I've used Vista, extensively, and don't like it. I don't bash it at every opportunity, but I do discourage its use for the following reasons
- - UAC is still the most aggravating privilege prompt I've used
- - Vista, compared with Ubuntu or OS X, runs extremely slowly
- - Control Panel, and other OS dialogs have been obfuscated and made extremely convoluted for no apparent reason
- - (Subjective) I dislike the Aero user interface
So there are three valid, and one personal reason that I prefer to use Ubuntu and OS X for my computing needs.Your search - "Died in a googlebombing accident" - did not match any documents. You'd think with google exploding and all...
It wasn't about clients that leech bandwidth, it was about clients with great interfaces, and additional management methods, such as uTorrent or Azureus' web management. In my opinion, the mainline client was so lacking in features that I considered it to be unusable. Bittorrent owes some of it's success to the fact that there are so many great clients for people to choose. If you're looking for simple, try uTorrent or Transmission. If you need advanced features, try Azureus. People like this kind of choice. It saddens me to see this, as it means that clients might eventually become less compatible with closed-source revisions of the protocol, and we'll lose some great file-sharing software.
More like Surf's Up, but with emphasis on kernel development, instead of surfing. By the way, stay tuned for Dreamworks' Pictures "Tux". An animated comedy, starring yet even more penguins, and the lovable little guy himself. Tux is an ordinary penguin, working away at his operating system all day, like good penguins should. A chance meeting with the BSD Daemon and Gnu marks the start of a grand adventure that takes Tux all over the internet (including a brief visit to Slashdot itself). Tux makes friends with a host of colourful characters, meets the girl of his dreams, and learns an important lesson in process prioritization and task scheduling.
James Bond Jr.! James Bond junior chases SCUM around the world!
What bothers me is people believe naming something "Artist - Track.mp3.exe" will make it look like an mp3. If windows hides the file extensions, then a file called "Artist - Track.mp3.exe" will look like "Artist - Track.mp3" and a file legitimately called "Artist - Track.mp3" will show without any extension at all, and therefore "Artist - Track". You'd think that one song out of 24 that actually has .mp3 at the end might seem a little suspicious. Especially when that .exe has an icon for a Windows Media Player file, and you use iTunes or Winamp.
There are several hilarious leaked videos of post-theft bait cars and their drug influenced drivers. The neat thing is the car can be locked and stopped remotely, trapping the thief inside, so they never end well for the driver.
Would somebody please think of the Tetris blocks? Every year, millions of blocks that make up a Tetris piece are senselessly killed when people of all ages complete a row horizontally. Many justify this atrocity by saying the blocks are now complete, are going to a better place, and that it adds to their score. We at the Unjust Treatment of Tetris Pieces Foundation implore you to stop killing these defenceless sprites. Please also consider making a donation to our foundation, or participating in our Adopt-a-Brick program, where you can sponsor a Tetris piece, and ensure it lives a full life, with plenty of food, access to clean water, and decent education. Call 1-800-555-TRIS today.
Whatever. It was good for a chuckle, and that's all that matters.
OH GOD. Don't even THINK that. Not only are you giving THEM ideas, but you're giving ME nightmares!
I use online banking too, without any problems. I've even logged on to their secure site from my PDA on an unencrypted network at a bus terminal to transfer some money so I could afford a bus ticket home. Technology to the rescue!
I've never changed my password either, and just like the other sibling post, the paypal account that's tied into my bank account also gives me the creeps, but it's still useful, and it's actually saved my ass on a botched ebay auction. (Paypal refunded me when the seller screwed up.)
A recent login to my bank's site yielded a prompt for more security information. I was prompted to select 5 questions, such as "What is your favorite chocolate bar?" and was told that they would occasionally ask me to answer them. My biggest complaint is they do not allow passwords longer than 8 characters. I guess it's either their encryption doesn't support it, or they have problems with people forgetting long passwords. Please, let me choose them if I want!
CHMOD 777 *
The command is short, so it can't be too bad, right?
</sarcasm>
Huh? I don't see that. But kernel_task seems to be taking a lot of CPU... maybe I'll kill tha-#$%@NO CARRIER
Mechanic: "Somebody set up us the bomb."
I thought the point of CAPTCHAs was to compare what a user types with information stored on the hosting server. If the hosting server doesn't know what the book says, then how can it validate the CAPTCHA?
John Hodgman, is that you?
Don't worry, you're not alone. My experience with computers started with the 'dir' command when I was about 12, and that was the last I ever used it. Now, whenever I have to use the command prompt under XP for god-knows what reason, I type 'ls' a few times before remembering...