Classic Aistream color scheme. The vintage Airstream travel trailers were aluminum. Hence the shiny appearance. In fact, the design is reminiscent of those vintage trailers.
I can very easily do the same for any other unit of measurment. As long as I can do that, why do I need to learn anything different than what I know today (regardless of whether it is Imperial or Metric).
As an FYI, it is harder to use the metric side of most rulers in the US. The ink guide (that metal strip on wooden ones or the edge with the slight overhang) is usally only on the Imperial side. This side usually slides easier when you draw against it.
Google hits for: +"OpenOffice" training
approximately 1.3M
Google hits for: +"Microsoft Office" training
approximately 6.4M
(You can try other forms such as "Open Office" or "MSOffice" or what not, but that will just add to the gulf between the numbers.)
So, if I'm looking to train my staff (the largest chunk of cost in implementing an Office Suite), it appears to be much more available to train on the MS product than the open source solution. If I live in PodunkTowne, U.S.A., which do you think will be easiest for me to access....not very likely to be OpenOffice. I would bet that OpenOffice training is only really available in larger / more tech savvy areas.
Sure those training companies will travel, but that just adds to the expense.
1. I can actually read the coach's clipboard (especially the ones that print it instead of writing it on a whiteboard). 2. The crowd looks like real people instead of a blur. You can see the thrill of victory and agony of defeat. Entertaining, really. 3. And probably most important....you can see the cheerleaders in more shots.
Actually, the three disk version I bought (long before it was available as an R-rated film at Blockbuster and Target and others) included the HD-DVD version.....I just don't have a player yet.
I, Ned Flanders, take offense at you lumping others with me. I am a lefty crybaby (please visit me at my store) and I do not oppose the government spending my tax dollars on beneficial research.
I remember installing AOL version 1.0 from a disk....with a free trial (no credit card needed). I used up my free time and never installed it again. Even then, it was full of people with screen names that ended in TV. Being young, I didn't know what that meant....but looking back, I realized that it meant transvestite. Pervs from the beginning.
LambdaMOO. You're probably sick of hearing how great LambdaMOO is, particularly if you haven't been able to log on because of overcrowding. Sorry. Fact is, there's so much going on here, and Lambda is so darned addictive, how could I leave it off a "best of" list? If you can squeeze through the door, check it out by telnetting to lambda.parc.xerox.com 8888.
Wow, doesn't this sound like Second Life? Second Life is just a graphical MUD/MUSH/MOO anyway.......
What I always find funny about this argument are that the main people that complain about DRM are also the main ones that are essentially stealing the digital content that DRM is supposed to protect from (albeit doing a poor job in the process).
Mr. Johnson and his 4 kids could care less about DRM because if he *IS* using an online service to get movies, he either accepts that he can't burn it to DVD and just watches it once or he uses CinemaNow and pays to burn it. When he shares with Mr. Willowby, it is by inviting him over for popcorm or by passing a DVD across the street.
But I really don't see why there is such a complaint about DRM. There are many programs available that remove it if you don't want to be so hassled. And worst case, you just get a program like Audigy and re-record the song as it plays over your speakers....slightly manual, but a solution none-the-less (I'm sure there is a similar technique for video).
How much credence can you give someone who ran Windows ME and didn't bother to downgrade to Windows 98 because ME was crappier and slower than 98 with no added benefit.
As for doing "anything", there are still Games. Which, as far as I've seen, no VM gives you direct hardware access to get good performance out of your gaming hardware. That's the whole point of it being virtual. I'm much better off running my games native in Windows and VM'ing Linux to run Linux apps. And I'm sure someone is working on a MacOSX VM....keep your eye on the torrents.
One of these days, your OS will just be a VM player and your OS will come on a USB key-fob (locked down fairly tightly, I'm sure). As long as they can get high performance hardware to work with it, I'm game. I'd love to be able to "dual boot" simply by swapping out my OS memory stick.
* No archive = harder to trace those solicitations from congressman to page * You don't forward the thread, you simply invite them into the chat
But, I agree. IM has it's place, but it is the same reason that our cell phones (which we carry around with us all the time) have voicemail. IM is the phone call and E-mail is the voice mail. I don't see either of them going away (maybe morphing into something better, but not going away).
Internet Traffic Doubles to 5,000 petabits per day by the end of 2007. And 80 percent of it is peer-to-peer file sharing, mostly Skype video and BitTorrent.
How many petabits are wasted on "Frist Psot" posts one wonders......
Virtual CD Control Panel lets you mount the ISO images and use them directly. ISO Recorder gives you the Right-Click/Burn to Disk option from Explorer. I almost never use Roxio or Nero.
I agree. I was watching a six year old chase a super ball the other day. She had very little clue which way the ball was going next. It would take her about six bounces before she could catch it (after it "settled down"). I, however, could catch it on the first bounce. I think that Newtonian thought is learned quickest because there are more observable occurances. It's like learning a (second?) language, the more exposure you have to it, the faster you learn it.
Layne
P.S. Did anyone else think of a Tesseract after actually reading the article? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract) I first came across the concept in the Wrinkle In Time books. Also, the article said that the soccerball shape wasn't the only possible explaination -- maybe the stereographic projection is how it looks.
Office Space made some of the biggest errors related to the computers themselves. When he's trying to get out of the office quickly, it looks like a dual booting Mac he's running. When it shuts down or starts up, it goes to a DOS prompt. The GUI is Mac.
1. Start a pre-paid phone company. 2. With each new activation, call the new user 10 to 12 times making each call last at least 5 minutes. 3. User is forced to buy more minutes for the phone. 4. Profit!
If the music is digital, it is by it's very nature lossy. To convert sound into a digital format, you must sample it. No matter how small your sample, there are gaps between them. The gaps are lost when you digitize the music.
But yeah, from a digital perspective, things can be compressed such that the original is reproducible ("lossless") or an approximation is reproducible ("lossy").
Slashdot Mirror
Classic Aistream color scheme. The vintage Airstream travel trailers were aluminum. Hence the shiny appearance. In fact, the design is reminiscent of those vintage trailers.
Layne
So, my A0 paper can be 1cm * 1000cm or it can be 100cm * 100cm and still work out to be A0? What a stupid system. I'll stick to my 8.5x11.
Layne
Every time I talk to someone outside of the US, I pull up Google. In the search box, just type: How much is X in ?
For example, it is currently 41.7 degrees F outside. After a very quick Google search, I can see....
41.7 degrees Fahrenheit = 5.38888889 degrees Celsius
I can very easily do the same for any other unit of measurment. As long as I can do that, why do I need to learn anything different than what I know today (regardless of whether it is Imperial or Metric).
Layne
As an FYI, it is harder to use the metric side of most rulers in the US. The ink guide (that metal strip on wooden ones or the edge with the slight overhang) is usally only on the Imperial side. This side usually slides easier when you draw against it.
Layne
Google hits for: +"OpenOffice" training
approximately 1.3M
Google hits for: +"Microsoft Office" training
approximately 6.4M
(You can try other forms such as "Open Office" or "MSOffice" or what not, but that will just add to the gulf between the numbers.)
So, if I'm looking to train my staff (the largest chunk of cost in implementing an Office Suite), it appears to be much more available to train on the MS product than the open source solution. If I live in PodunkTowne, U.S.A., which do you think will be easiest for me to access....not very likely to be OpenOffice. I would bet that OpenOffice training is only really available in larger / more tech savvy areas.
Sure those training companies will travel, but that just adds to the expense.
Layne
Yes, I got the memo. I will use the new coversheet on my next TPS report.
Layne
Who says you have to use all of that extra data space for higher QUALITY. What's wrong with more QUANTITY at 480p?
A lot of porn tapes (VHS) went for more hours instead of better stuff. It was advertised on the box, even. 4hrs. 6hrs!!! etc.
Layne
What I like about watching sports in HD vs SD:
1. I can actually read the coach's clipboard (especially the ones that print it instead of writing it on a whiteboard).
2. The crowd looks like real people instead of a blur. You can see the thrill of victory and agony of defeat. Entertaining, really.
3. And probably most important....you can see the cheerleaders in more shots.
Layne
Actually, the three disk version I bought (long before it was available as an R-rated film at Blockbuster and Target and others) included the HD-DVD version.....I just don't have a player yet.
Layne
I, Ned Flanders, take offense at you lumping others with me. I am a lefty crybaby (please visit me at my store) and I do not oppose the government spending my tax dollars on beneficial research.
Thanks,
Ned
The link for those that are asking about the boosters: http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html
(I didn't know and had to look it up, myself).
Layne
I remember installing AOL version 1.0 from a disk....with a free trial (no credit card needed). I used up my free time and never installed it again. Even then, it was full of people with screen names that ended in TV. Being young, I didn't know what that meant....but looking back, I realized that it meant transvestite. Pervs from the beginning.
Layne
This thread had some good info related to the topic of searching (full disclosure, I was a participant in said thread)
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=209162&thresh
Layne
Wow, doesn't this sound like Second Life? Second Life is just a graphical MUD/MUSH/MOO anyway.......
Layne
What I always find funny about this argument are that the main people that complain about DRM are also the main ones that are essentially stealing the digital content that DRM is supposed to protect from (albeit doing a poor job in the process).
Mr. Johnson and his 4 kids could care less about DRM because if he *IS* using an online service to get movies, he either accepts that he can't burn it to DVD and just watches it once or he uses CinemaNow and pays to burn it. When he shares with Mr. Willowby, it is by inviting him over for popcorm or by passing a DVD across the street.
But I really don't see why there is such a complaint about DRM. There are many programs available that remove it if you don't want to be so hassled. And worst case, you just get a program like Audigy and re-record the song as it plays over your speakers....slightly manual, but a solution none-the-less (I'm sure there is a similar technique for video).
Layne
How much credence can you give someone who ran Windows ME and didn't bother to downgrade to Windows 98 because ME was crappier and slower than 98 with no added benefit.
As for doing "anything", there are still Games. Which, as far as I've seen, no VM gives you direct hardware access to get good performance out of your gaming hardware. That's the whole point of it being virtual. I'm much better off running my games native in Windows and VM'ing Linux to run Linux apps. And I'm sure someone is working on a MacOSX VM....keep your eye on the torrents.
One of these days, your OS will just be a VM player and your OS will come on a USB key-fob (locked down fairly tightly, I'm sure). As long as they can get high performance hardware to work with it, I'm game. I'd love to be able to "dual boot" simply by swapping out my OS memory stick.
Layne
Have *YOU* meta-moderated lately? I know I have (too bad, too....if these posts had come up, I would have meta-moderated them....)
/.}, why should I?
I know it's on topic, and I haven't event RTFA....it's {Wired,
Layne
* No archive = harder to trace those solicitations from congressman to page
* You don't forward the thread, you simply invite them into the chat
But, I agree. IM has it's place, but it is the same reason that our cell phones (which we carry around with us all the time) have voicemail. IM is the phone call and E-mail is the voice mail. I don't see either of them going away (maybe morphing into something better, but not going away).
Layne
How many petabits are wasted on "Frist Psot" posts one wonders......
Layne
I like the Virtual CD Control Panel (search Google, I got mine from my MSDN Subscription) and the ISO recorder (http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.ht m) both free as in Beer.
Virtual CD Control Panel lets you mount the ISO images and use them directly. ISO Recorder gives you the Right-Click/Burn to Disk option from Explorer. I almost never use Roxio or Nero.
Layne
I agree. I was watching a six year old chase a super ball the other day. She had very little clue which way the ball was going next. It would take her about six bounces before she could catch it (after it "settled down"). I, however, could catch it on the first bounce. I think that Newtonian thought is learned quickest because there are more observable occurances. It's like learning a (second?) language, the more exposure you have to it, the faster you learn it.
Layne
P.S. Did anyone else think of a Tesseract after actually reading the article? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract) I first came across the concept in the Wrinkle In Time books. Also, the article said that the soccerball shape wasn't the only possible explaination -- maybe the stereographic projection is how it looks.
There are aliens out there......they are *US*. If we look far enough, we will eventually see ourselves. Only rotated 36 degrees (several times over).
Layne
Office Space made some of the biggest errors related to the computers themselves. When he's trying to get out of the office quickly, it looks like a dual booting Mac he's running. When it shuts down or starts up, it goes to a DOS prompt. The GUI is Mac.
Layne
It's really simple:
1. Start a pre-paid phone company.
2. With each new activation, call the new user 10 to 12 times making each call last at least 5 minutes.
3. User is forced to buy more minutes for the phone.
4. Profit!
Layne
If the music is digital, it is by it's very nature lossy. To convert sound into a digital format, you must sample it. No matter how small your sample, there are gaps between them. The gaps are lost when you digitize the music.
But yeah, from a digital perspective, things can be compressed such that the original is reproducible ("lossless") or an approximation is reproducible ("lossy").
Layne