I'm short sighted because my eye muscles are too strong, and can't relax enough to focus the image of something more than a couple of metres away on my retina. I was told this by my optician.
I imagine that long-sightedness in old age is, conversely, caused by the degradation of your eye muscles, resulting in them being too weak to focus on something nearby.
Except that people will see their computer not working properly, and blame Microsoft - especially if they bought a pirated Windows preloaded on their new machine.
Polonium-210 is not a substance to mess with. Weight for weight it is 250 billion times as toxic as hydrogen cyanide. It is chemically poisonous and a potent source of alpha particles. As these collide with other particles they generate heat: 140 watts per gram of the isotope. In the body, energetic alphas smash up DNA and interfere with cell division. Just 120 nanograms can deliver a fatal dose of radiation.
I have a bt878 card in my machine, with a 3.5mm patch wire between its audio output and the soundcard.
All you have to do is plug that cable into the Mic socket (instead of Line), turn all the volume meters up to 11, et voila - rhythmic (and highly irritating) induced computer noise, picked up by a cheap TV receiver!
When did it happen that something as seemingly simple as turning a startup sound on or off in a Mac required anything more than a couple of mouse clicks on a GUI? Has Steve Jobs been sleeping at work?
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I'm short sighted because my eye muscles are too strong, and can't relax enough to focus the image of something more than a couple of metres away on my retina. I was told this by my optician.
I imagine that long-sightedness in old age is, conversely, caused by the degradation of your eye muscles, resulting in them being too weak to focus on something nearby.
Except that people will see their computer not working properly, and blame Microsoft - especially if they bought a pirated Windows preloaded on their new machine.
What is FLAC then? Why is that a) lossy or b) PCM?
From the editorial of this week's New Scientist:
Awesome!
What a timesaver!
I prefer "moible".
:)
It sounds better
Dammit, as soon as I run out of mod points.
MOD PARENT UP; INFORMATIVE/INTERESTING.
I personally had no idea that a lot of the stuff mentioned there was still going on inside China. I mean, torture, concentration camps? WTF?
Maybe he just doesn't want to run Linux?
Is that so hard to believe?
I have never (knowingly) even touched a system with a MMORPG installed upon it, but I still loved that episode.
"This could be the end of the world... of Warcraft!"
"You can't just give up on the world... of Warcraft!"
I have a bt878 card in my machine, with a 3.5mm patch wire between its audio output and the soundcard.
All you have to do is plug that cable into the Mic socket (instead of Line), turn all the volume meters up to 11, et voila - rhythmic (and highly irritating) induced computer noise, picked up by a cheap TV receiver!
Is this a bad time to point out how much better Linux is than everything else?
:D
When did it happen that something as seemingly simple as turning a startup sound on or off in a Mac required anything more than a couple of mouse clicks on a GUI? Has Steve Jobs been sleeping at work?
Sounds like good news to me - Linux' installed base will skyrocket once installing Windows becomes a criminal offense!
Ooh, they did that in Dr. Who.
Then the devices took over everyone's brains and turned them into Cybermen...
In communist China, global system positions YOU!
How about letting the air in?
:(
I was fitting a new (80mb!) hard drive to my 1987 Mac SE a month or two ago, and accidentally snapped the back off the vacuum tube...
Oh, you mean like a honeypot?
Yup - this is exactly why I don't bother submitting stories to Slashdot.
And would you have said that to his face? ...no, I didn't think so.
Yeah! Why should we have to look all the way over towards the TV to be reminded of what to do?
Viruses.
Didn't Microsoft pick the BSD sockets system when it needed to implement inbuilt networking? Could be to do with that...
CowboyNeal.
Yup, you're absolutely right. Thanks for such a level-headed critique.
:)
The one point that I would contest, though, is number 5 - Linux SO has a decent file browser! It's called Konqueror