There was a good one a few years back on PlanetQuake, where they'd redirected the site to a mirror on geocities, with a news item that they couldn't pay the hosting bills any more. It was very funny, especially with all the popups etc. Geocites must have taken an extra hammering that day:P.
Compaq Australia had a good one last year too. They took out a big full colour advertisement in the Sydney Morning Herald (one of the more respectable newspapers in Sydney) advertising a new technology for their laptop computers, to charge themselves by dialling up to the internet and using the power from the phone line to charge their batteries. It was really quite clever and had me going for a while. It's great to see that they had the balls to do it on such a grand scale too.
Actually, no, the primary colours of pigment are Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow.
The whole RYB thing is a myth propagated by artists and ignorant high school art teachers over the years, which has nothing to do with the actual physical characteristics of colour and how our eyes perceive it. I had this sort of thing ranted at me for a semester in Colour Theory class, and it's actually quite interesting. This my help clear some things up.
DeCSS never was copyrighted by the MPAA/DVD consortium etc. It's not a matter of illegally distributing a copyrighted work, but the fact that it's a tool to circumvent an access protection scheme, which is illegal under the DMCA. Doesn't matter who wrote it or who owns copyright, because by it's very function, it's illegal under the DMCA.
It's hardly OS's fault if you've lost your interest in learning new things.
It's not really a matter of learning, but a matter of remembering commands, switches, config file paths etc. It's all well and good if you are used to it and do it all the time (like a sysadmin), and can be very very productive. But if you only need to do shell-optimised (which are mainly administrative) tasks very occasionally, then it's a pain having to remember a whole lot of junk that you hardly ever use.
With other interfaces like webmin, GUIs etc. all the options are presented to you, so you can just drill down through menus etc. to find what you want. Probably slower than the console for a hardened console user, but for someone who does other work (productive work:D) that doesn't involve the console, then it's much much faster and easier.
The current generation of graphics boards are essentially overclocked already; current NVidia products have heat sinks on the RAM.
The current generation of Pentium IIIs are essentially overclocked already; current Intel products have heat sinks on the core.
Amen to that. If I hear one more Mac *fanatic* crow about Photoshop results I know where to point them.
Uh.. Did you even read what he said? Photoshop and video editing is exactly where the G4 *does* beat x86. Carmack was talking about his testing with Doom 3 and Doom 3 only. Here is what he said (emphasis mine):
Video encoding and large image processing are two areas that it can pay off, because you may be spending 90%+ of your time in one page of code.
The primary purpose is "does it work" not "is it nice to look at" or even "is it elegant."
You've never programmed on a team, have you?:-)
I know what you're saying, but even so - if that code doesn't compile/work etc. you have failed. If it was really about 'is it elegant' or 'is it nice to look at', it would just be a collection of functions and strings that may or may not do something. The primary purpose is to make it work.
The problem is that here the line is blurry, because some people would argue that beauty is seeing ingenious ways to *make something work*. However I wouldn't consider it art. I'd consider it fine and ingenious engineering.
I think he means 'ports software' as in 'software that is in the ports collection'. The only reason I'm not using FreeBSD is that I can't/am-too-lazy to-make-work all those little nifty linux apps that I find in my travels around freshmeat etc. which aren't well known enough to be included in the ports collection. This is also true for official Linux distro packages too, but I can always compile from source, or use an RPM or something that the author has provided.
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Where should Linux go next, then? I think the answer is clear, if you think about it: fluffy toys.
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Aha! Good to see that Ximian knows this and are pushing ahead in this exciting new technology!
There was a good one a few years back on PlanetQuake, where they'd redirected the site to a mirror on geocities, with a news item that they couldn't pay the hosting bills any more. It was very funny, especially with all the popups etc. Geocites must have taken an extra hammering that day :P.
Have a look at this page from Adobe's online guide to colour theory. It's very informative and should help clear things up.
Compaq Australia had a good one last year too. They took out a big full colour advertisement in the Sydney Morning Herald (one of the more respectable newspapers in Sydney) advertising a new technology for their laptop computers, to charge themselves by dialling up to the internet and using the power from the phone line to charge their batteries. It was really quite clever and had me going for a while. It's great to see that they had the balls to do it on such a grand scale too.
Actually, no, the primary colours of pigment are Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow. The whole RYB thing is a myth propagated by artists and ignorant high school art teachers over the years, which has nothing to do with the actual physical characteristics of colour and how our eyes perceive it. I had this sort of thing ranted at me for a semester in Colour Theory class, and it's actually quite interesting. This my help clear some things up.
Fair enough then :D
April fo... oh... C'mon guys, it's a day late (in AU anyway), and I would have thought it's past 12:00 in the USA too.
DeCSS never was copyrighted by the MPAA/DVD consortium etc. It's not a matter of illegally distributing a copyrighted work, but the fact that it's a tool to circumvent an access protection scheme, which is illegal under the DMCA. Doesn't matter who wrote it or who owns copyright, because by it's very function, it's illegal under the DMCA.
It's hardly OS's fault if you've lost your interest in learning new things.
:D) that doesn't involve the console, then it's much much faster and easier.
It's not really a matter of learning, but a matter of remembering commands, switches, config file paths etc. It's all well and good if you are used to it and do it all the time (like a sysadmin), and can be very very productive. But if you only need to do shell-optimised (which are mainly administrative) tasks very occasionally, then it's a pain having to remember a whole lot of junk that you hardly ever use. With other interfaces like webmin, GUIs etc. all the options are presented to you, so you can just drill down through menus etc. to find what you want. Probably slower than the console for a hardened console user, but for someone who does other work (productive work
All your bridge are belong to us?
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I call it "Mac OH-SEX" :)
The current generation of graphics boards are essentially overclocked already; current NVidia products have heat sinks on the RAM. The current generation of Pentium IIIs are essentially overclocked already; current Intel products have heat sinks on the core.
I think the original poster meant something more along the lines of 'an expansion to the desktop' rather than a move.
I made a slashdot version! Check it out:
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It originates from this, of course:
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Yes, it's my own work :) (well except for the Zero Wing art :P)
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Its 'HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN' not 'HELLO'! Jeez, at least get it right!
Amen to that. If I hear one more Mac *fanatic* crow about Photoshop results I know where to point them.
Uh.. Did you even read what he said? Photoshop and video editing is exactly where the G4 *does* beat x86. Carmack was talking about his testing with Doom 3 and Doom 3 only. Here is what he said (emphasis mine):
Video encoding and large image processing are two areas that it can pay off, because you may be spending 90%+ of your time in one page of code.
Jeez, and I don't even own a mac!
The primary purpose is "does it work" not "is it nice to look at" or even "is it elegant."
:-)
You've never programmed on a team, have you?
I know what you're saying, but even so - if that code doesn't compile/work etc. you have failed. If it was really about 'is it elegant' or 'is it nice to look at', it would just be a collection of functions and strings that may or may not do something. The primary purpose is to make it work.
The problem is that here the line is blurry, because some people would argue that beauty is seeing ingenious ways to *make something work*. However I wouldn't consider it art. I'd consider it fine and ingenious engineering.
Cool dubbed version: HERE
He means the Macromedia Flash Authoring program. Not the free player plugin.
LOL!
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Check this one out. It's been dubbed over with real voices
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JUSTICE!
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I think he means 'ports software' as in 'software that is in the ports collection'. The only reason I'm not using FreeBSD is that I can't/am-too-lazy to-make-work all those little nifty linux apps that I find in my travels around freshmeat etc. which aren't well known enough to be included in the ports collection. This is also true for official Linux distro packages too, but I can always compile from source, or use an RPM or something that the author has provided.
Then when I received it, it must match the sender's IP address or I'll rejected.
What about if the sender is on dialup, or is at a different computer when they send the message?