Dinkumware was actually in an ownership lawsuit with a former distributor which prevented MS from bundling a newer version with VC 6. There were claims that VC 7 would include an updated library, but I never cared to investigate.
How it impacts on the human body? We don't know honestly.
That's the point. We don't know what the effects are. It seems only common-sensical that if you don't know if something can make you really sick, you don't use it every day until you find out if it will make you sick. There's even a fancy term for this: The Precautionary Principle.
What we do know is that there are vast commercial interests in keeping wireless going. Judging by that same history you referred to earlier, they are not above lying, destroying evidence, physically threatening dissident scientists and protesters, suing people maliciously... It goes on.
Did you know that at one point in the 1950s, a US federal agency (I think it might have been the FDA) recommended DDT for use as a genital lice remover?
Yes, that is relevant, because back then, the general public didn't know how bad DDT is over the long term. Today, the general public doesn't know how bad constant exposure to RF of all kinds of intensities might be.
Then all the fuckwits who keep abusing everyone around them with their goddamn cell-phones should stop doing it so no-one will be sufficiently pissed off to use a jammer.
There, aren't you glad you decided to degenerate into petty insults?
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Let's be honest here... Who expected any of the dot-coms to fail?
Are you kidding? How could anyone have expected them not to fail? American economic dogma notwithstanding, the world is finite, the amount of resources that could be pumped into ill-conceived, mismanaged, overhyped ventures is finite; it was only a matter of time before the bubble burst and most everyone went under.
Yes, brightness is important. There's few things that can drain my energy faster than a measly 60w ceiling bulb. But that many flourescentes would drive me crazy.
I once tried an Ott light (supposedly a full-spectrum flourescent). It's a great, *bright*, white light, and sure the contrast is amazing with it, but there's so much glare, I couldn't even read a book printed on white paper by it!
For computer use specifically, playing with monitor colour and temperature is a must. Jacking up the reds works wonders for my eyes, especially in blue flourescent light. Oddly enough, I noticed almost no reflection when I made this change at work; with the default blue monitor setting, the monitor was almost unusable in the default position.
It's called the engineering end-run. Hasn't worked so far for strong AI, and I'm sure there are many other examples where we haven't managed to circumvent nature altogether.
Do you have any references for your assertion that the human brain in fact works by computing?
Not after the CNN Propaganda Corps (division of US Army intelligence warfare people) gets through with it. (True story: during the bombing of Yugoslavia, US military personnel worked at CNN preparing "stories". Both parties admitted to this.)
The point isn't the engineer telling you they're having problems, it's the engineer telling (say) Jesse Berst they're having problems, and then reading a long, uninformed, blatantly wrong screed about how incompetent the company people are and how linux is inferior.
Guess what? You're wrong. IE 5.5 for win* does support PNG natively. And unlike the moronic quicktime plugin, you can actually scroll around a large image!
FWIW, earlier versions only supported inline PNGs (for some definition of supported), but spawned an external viewer if you opened a PNG file directly.
...as electing a benevolent (i.e. still restrained by the Constitution) dictatorship for five years.
Has to be said: they're only restrained if someone sues them. There are constant constitutional challenges of federal and provincial government actions. These people aren't all idiots, they do know when they're doing something unconstitutional; they just try anyway and see if someone tries to stop them. If not, they win. --
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If that were the case for Linux, the Tux guys wouldn't be trying to put an http daemon in the kernel. They'd just keep it in user-mode and 'just code it normally'
Have a look at X15, a userspace http server that's neck-and-neck with tux. Of course it benefits from the general infrastructure improvements that came of tux, but it's still strictly userspace.
IIRC, traditionally the only place you could hit the parallel port directly from user space was x86, due to some legacy design ideas. That is to say, linux on alpha also requires a kernel driver.
Though, there appear to be new/dev files in 2.4 that offer direct parallel port access. Don't know if they're portable. --
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For more background, see The Unconscious Civilisation by Jon Ralston Saul, Anansi Press. It traces the common ideological heritage of corporatism and that other -ism. --
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I haven't read the book yet, but I did attend a presentation by Raskin last week, and he gave an example of why your suggestion -- visual cues indicating the current mode -- doesn't work.
As stated in the review, people can only consciously concentrate on one thing at a time. They will be concentrating on the task they wish to perform in vi, rather than on the current text colour and by extension, the mode the program is in.
His specific example was of a study he did with experienced users of a particular CAD program. This program has several selection tools, all indicated by different, distinctive mouse pointers. Those are modes.
Users invariably made the same error repeatedly, even with experience: they did something with a specialized selection tool, then moved to select an object with the regular selection tool without switching to it first, even though they were looking right at the visual mode indicator the whole time.
The users were focussing on the task of selecting an object, not on what selection tool (mode) was currently enabled. Adding your visual cue to vi won't help any; people will still get it wrong because they won't be paying attention to the visual cue.
Besides, wouldn't that mess up syntax highlighting? --
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And, although it's gorgeous with antialiasing and TT fonts (the first browser IMO that beat the pants off of IE4/5 for font rendering), it can't resize most text on a page. This makes using pages with teensy letters difficult. --
Change is inevitable.
Has to be said: the RDA of vitamin C is based on the avoidance of serious diseases like scurvy, not on well-being and health.
Actually, the way you know you're getting enough vitamin C is when you get diarrhea. Then you cut back, and that's actually how much you need. I'm taking ~3g a day, and I know people who, while they were sick, were taking as much as 16g with no ill effects.
It has occurred to me that, just as most North Americans are seriously sleep-deprived (according to recent studies, most people in fact need at least 8 hours of sleep each night), we're also probably just as seriously malnourished and nutrient-deprived.
Interesting fact heard from the Barbara Walters show, whatever it's called: they did a study of young, fit men in their early twenties, had them do full routines including exercise, but only with 3 hours of sleep. After 6 days, they had sugar metabolism problems very similar to diabetes. That's only six days! --
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I certainly don't know enough to comment intelligently from personal experience, but this paper on D11 seems to suggest that those methods are actually insufficient for fully accelerating plain 2D X on the local machine.
A lot of the overhead has to do with (un)packing X requests gazillions of times, which, the author claims, also happens in the shm case. --
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then said location owners could expect a long and messy lawsuit from me.
This is why Americans are commonly considered assholes by the rest of the world.
If you don't trust anyone else with your kids, Einstein, then don't leave your kids with anyone else. Period. Full-stop.
And if you really must be separated, then do like they do in every part of the world where the family hasn't been systematically destroyed: leave them with your parents. --
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Obviously you don't have an SMP machine. Nvidia's drivers have serious stability problems in that case, but they'll fix them in the next release, for some value of "next".
And for anyone who runs anything other than (or in addition to) windows and linux, then just about any other card is better, since it will probably work.
Besides, even assuming the drivers wouldn't crash my machine willy-nilly, I have better things to do than fight my package system to manually graft in these ridiculous drivers into what is otherwise a well- and tightly integrated system.
As always, it depends on what you have and what you do, but for me, their drivers are not an option. --
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OK, so you put in yet more parallel memory buses, and you get, say, 6GB/sec transfer. So what? Your latency is just as bad as with 3 GB/sec, and for most things you're likely to do, that's more important.
That is to say, it's more important, at this stage, to reduce the time required to start reading something from memory. Basically, if you're reading in lots of relatively small data, a lower latency, lower bandwidth memory architecture will finish before the higher latency, higher bandwidth architecture. --
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Hear hear! It sucks the life out of you and leaves you feeling hollow, listless and fatigued. And I still hear all the conversations in my immediate vicinity.
White noise generators are installed by the same sort of moron who chooses cube farms for employees. --
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Given recent events, this is not much of a concern, but still, there's the possibility that the machine will, say, level a refugee camp instead of an enemy encampment. How, exactly, do you propose tagging the refugee camp and everything in it?
Just consider all the civilians who have been slaughtered, and all the wrong targets that were blown up, by American "smart weaponry" this past decade. In those cases, there was ultimately a human making the call; remove the human, and the first really major f*ckup will cause a huge uproar.
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The point was that had Napster located itself in Andorra, to take an A, the U.S. government would *not* have been within their legal rights to shut down the servers. In fact, shutting down servers in a foreign country without local governmental permission could quite easily be viewed as an act of war.
And if the decision was made to shut down those servers regardless, what could the Andorrans do about it? Nato has already demonstrated that it can run roughshod over what used to be a sovereign state in the middle of Europe; who would stop the US, say, from blowing up these servers?
For that matter, who stopped the US from invading Panama, or Grenada, or <insert 3rd world country/banana republic here>? They have the military might, they're the big bully on the block, they can basically do what they want to these little insignificant countries. --
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Dinkumware was actually in an ownership lawsuit with a former distributor which prevented MS from bundling a newer version with VC 6. There were claims that VC 7 would include an updated library, but I never cared to investigate.
Though I understand how it can be missed, it's not easy to concentrate while being bludgeoned by papa Herbert's didactic, semicoherent ranting.
That's the point. We don't know what the effects are. It seems only common-sensical that if you don't know if something can make you really sick, you don't use it every day until you find out if it will make you sick. There's even a fancy term for this: The Precautionary Principle.
What we do know is that there are vast commercial interests in keeping wireless going. Judging by that same history you referred to earlier, they are not above lying, destroying evidence, physically threatening dissident scientists and protesters, suing people maliciously... It goes on.
Did you know that at one point in the 1950s, a US federal agency (I think it might have been the FDA) recommended DDT for use as a genital lice remover?
Yes, that is relevant, because back then, the general public didn't know how bad DDT is over the long term. Today, the general public doesn't know how bad constant exposure to RF of all kinds of intensities might be.
There, aren't you glad you decided to degenerate into petty insults?
Are you kidding? How could anyone have expected them not to fail? American economic dogma notwithstanding, the world is finite, the amount of resources that could be pumped into ill-conceived, mismanaged, overhyped ventures is finite; it was only a matter of time before the bubble burst and most everyone went under.
I once tried an Ott light (supposedly a full-spectrum flourescent). It's a great, *bright*, white light, and sure the contrast is amazing with it, but there's so much glare, I couldn't even read a book printed on white paper by it!
For computer use specifically, playing with monitor colour and temperature is a must. Jacking up the reds works wonders for my eyes, especially in blue flourescent light. Oddly enough, I noticed almost no reflection when I made this change at work; with the default blue monitor setting, the monitor was almost unusable in the default position.
Do you have any references for your assertion that the human brain in fact works by computing?
The point isn't the engineer telling you they're having problems, it's the engineer telling (say) Jesse Berst they're having problems, and then reading a long, uninformed, blatantly wrong screed about how incompetent the company people are and how linux is inferior.
FWIW, earlier versions only supported inline PNGs (for some definition of supported), but spawned an external viewer if you opened a PNG file directly.
Has to be said: they're only restrained if someone sues them. There are constant constitutional challenges of federal and provincial government actions. These people aren't all idiots, they do know when they're doing something unconstitutional; they just try anyway and see if someone tries to stop them. If not, they win.
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Change is inevitable.
Have a look at X15, a userspace http server that's neck-and-neck with tux. Of course it benefits from the general infrastructure improvements that came of tux, but it's still strictly userspace.
Here's the first announcement: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel /0104.3/0788.html
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Change is inevitable.
Though, there appear to be new /dev files in 2.4 that offer direct parallel port access. Don't know if they're portable.
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Change is inevitable.
For more background, see The Unconscious Civilisation by Jon Ralston Saul, Anansi Press. It traces the common ideological heritage of corporatism and that other -ism.
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Change is inevitable.
Exactly what do you think the Nato countries were doing with all their bombers and attack choppers and ground troops?
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Change is inevitable.
As stated in the review, people can only consciously concentrate on one thing at a time. They will be concentrating on the task they wish to perform in vi, rather than on the current text colour and by extension, the mode the program is in.
His specific example was of a study he did with experienced users of a particular CAD program. This program has several selection tools, all indicated by different, distinctive mouse pointers. Those are modes.
Users invariably made the same error repeatedly, even with experience: they did something with a specialized selection tool, then moved to select an object with the regular selection tool without switching to it first, even though they were looking right at the visual mode indicator the whole time.
The users were focussing on the task of selecting an object, not on what selection tool (mode) was currently enabled. Adding your visual cue to vi won't help any; people will still get it wrong because they won't be paying attention to the visual cue.
Besides, wouldn't that mess up syntax highlighting?
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Change is inevitable.
And, although it's gorgeous with antialiasing and TT fonts (the first browser IMO that beat the pants off of IE4/5 for font rendering), it can't resize most text on a page. This makes using pages with teensy letters difficult.
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Change is inevitable.
Actually, the way you know you're getting enough vitamin C is when you get diarrhea. Then you cut back, and that's actually how much you need. I'm taking ~3g a day, and I know people who, while they were sick, were taking as much as 16g with no ill effects.
It has occurred to me that, just as most North Americans are seriously sleep-deprived (according to recent studies, most people in fact need at least 8 hours of sleep each night), we're also probably just as seriously malnourished and nutrient-deprived.
Interesting fact heard from the Barbara Walters show, whatever it's called: they did a study of young, fit men in their early twenties, had them do full routines including exercise, but only with 3 hours of sleep. After 6 days, they had sugar metabolism problems very similar to diabetes. That's only six days!
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Change is inevitable.
Thanks for coming out, einstein. It's not an equivalent client.
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Change is inevitable.
A lot of the overhead has to do with (un)packing X requests gazillions of times, which, the author claims, also happens in the shm case.
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Change is inevitable.
This is why Americans are commonly considered assholes by the rest of the world.
If you don't trust anyone else with your kids, Einstein, then don't leave your kids with anyone else. Period. Full-stop.
And if you really must be separated, then do like they do in every part of the world where the family hasn't been systematically destroyed: leave them with your parents.
--
Change is inevitable.
And for anyone who runs anything other than (or in addition to) windows and linux, then just about any other card is better, since it will probably work.
Besides, even assuming the drivers wouldn't crash my machine willy-nilly, I have better things to do than fight my package system to manually graft in these ridiculous drivers into what is otherwise a well- and tightly integrated system.
As always, it depends on what you have and what you do, but for me, their drivers are not an option.
--
Change is inevitable.
That is to say, it's more important, at this stage, to reduce the time required to start reading something from memory. Basically, if you're reading in lots of relatively small data, a lower latency, lower bandwidth memory architecture will finish before the higher latency, higher bandwidth architecture.
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Change is inevitable.
White noise generators are installed by the same sort of moron who chooses cube farms for employees.
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Change is inevitable.
Just consider all the civilians who have been slaughtered, and all the wrong targets that were blown up, by American "smart weaponry" this past decade. In those cases, there was ultimately a human making the call; remove the human, and the first really major f*ckup will cause a huge uproar.
--
Change is inevitable.
And if the decision was made to shut down those servers regardless, what could the Andorrans do about it? Nato has already demonstrated that it can run roughshod over what used to be a sovereign state in the middle of Europe; who would stop the US, say, from blowing up these servers?
For that matter, who stopped the US from invading Panama, or Grenada, or <insert 3rd world country/banana republic here>? They have the military might, they're the big bully on the block, they can basically do what they want to these little insignificant countries.
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Change is inevitable.