...and other will not move to Linux unless *insert specialty application or game* is available on Linux...
Mine is Solidworks. I use Kubuntu, but I have to run SOlidworks in a VM, with all it's overhead, just to work.
However, there is a flipside: I could not run a pure Windows until KDE works reasonably well on Windows. Apps like Kate have me married to that DE.
No matter which OS you prefer, if there is a killer app that you need for it, don't be shy about contacting the developers and letting them know. I have written to Solidworks, and to my local distributor, requesting a Linux version. Do the same for your 'killer apps'.
The skin vision thing strikes me as highly unlikely in the "I would expect to have seen some evidence of it occurring, given the amount of time that people have had their eyes close, covered, or damaged" not the "It is a violation of $SOME_PHYSICAL_LAW as we know it" sense.
Are you aware of how REM was discovered? Sometimes these things hide in plain view.
Is there a list of high-profile ISO members who have resigned over the OOXML scandal? I would like to naively ask why X, Y, and Z left at the next ISO inspection, and hear what the techs say.
I suggest we use: GNU Photo & Image Manipulation Program.
Gnupimap? No, thank you.
I do agree that the project needs a new name. With the exception of Open Office, everytime I introduce someone to any FOSS program, I begin with excusing the lunatic names.
I'd be nothing after what the Niggers do to him when they read his post.
I'm not racist (I hate everybody equally), but those who call themselves Niggers tend to be the violent type. And this guy needs someone to perform some violence on him.
A LOT of people by a PC just to access email or the web. If they can do all this with an OS that starts instantly too , why will they want Vista? Time for MS to sweat possibly?
Because often 'access email' means Word and Powerpoint forwards. I lost one user from Kubuntu to XP Cracked Edition because she _needed_ to read those forwards that her friends with boring jobs send her. OOo 2.4 just did not display them reliably enough. She _notices_ that the system is slower, and she _knows_ that it probably had malware right from the install. But that doesn't bother her as much as not being able to open Powerpoint forwards properly.
Just make sure that your swap partition is large enough to hold your physical RAM and Video RAM when you suspend. For instance, on my Dell Inspiron with 2 GB RAM and 256 MB of Video RAM, I use a 2.5 GB swap partition. That's where the memory goes when the computer suspends.
Wow, and attached to a rocket launcher? That's gotta be a $2000+ scope. No wonder my taxes are so confiscatory.
I would hazard a guess that it is an order of magnitude more expensive than that. Note that this setup could fire more than one rocket. I didn't see other rockets, but I am have since found out that there were either three or five rockets for that one launcher.
It's nice to know that the (presumably) American
well, NATO anyway. Highly likely he was American, just based on numbers.
Apache pilot had IDed his target before firing. I wonder what the firing criteria are? Is he open for fire at the sight of a weapon? Was he looking for someone specific?
Oh, that was in the story too. He was cleared and instructed to fire on anything non-NATO in the battlefield. This gunner was a bit more conscientious than his orders. IIRC he called in his non-fire decision and was not given any challenge on his decision - they don't want any friendly fire, but they didn't want any enemy combatants leaving the area alive either.
I suppose it's not such an awful thing that the gunners can see the faces of the men they're about to kill. Dehumanizing death is all too common.
Authorized to shoot at anything non-NATO? That's absurd! That's slaughter. If an order like that ever came out of my higher-ups, I am certain that my commander wouldn't even let it trickle down to us. We take every opportunity _not_ to kill the enemy, and especially not anything without ID.
Under the Linux model end users aren't supposed to be doing this. Labview should be distributed from the distribution not directly to the customer. The problem is Labview doesn't want to offer their software the Linux way, they want to do it the Windows way and that doesn't work so well.
I am not sure that I follow you. LabView is closed source, so how could it be included with the distro?
What is "offering software the Linux way"? Simply offering an.rpm package or.deb? They do offer a simple.rpm package for Labview, but getting the a2d data acquisition unit working was (is) the real problem.
In Lebanon we found a rocket launcher (US-made, but I am not familiar with them so I do not know which model) all ready for launch, with a huge binocular optical scope. I was a good kilometer from the shoreline and pointing the scope at the ships (however far away they stay from the coast) I could see the sailor's faces and beards clearly. I even think that I could make out blinks. This is with an _optical_ scope on a tripod. The electronic stuff must be scary indeed.
It's nice to know that the (presumably) American Apache pilot had IDed his target before firing. I wonder what the firing criteria are? Is he open for fire at the sight of a weapon? Was he looking for someone specific?
I don't know much about the US infantry (and being/. I didn't RTFA), but where I serve only snipers and sharpshooters use scopes. Most friendly fire incidents are not the work of snipers, who take the time to accurately engage and ID their targets. This sounds to me that either the US infantry is reckless (snipers firing without positively IDing their targets), or that the term 'friendly fire' was used to gain support from those unfamiliar with military tactics.
From the video, you can clearly see they're interested in ideas that could, for instance, ease the burden put on poor people in countries like Africa.
1) What they are clearly showing us, is not necessarily the big picture. In any case, I hope that Google profits from this, it is a company and in order to do more projects like this it needs to profit.
There are already news articles written for when Obama is elected president. The same news organizations also have articles written for when McCain is elected president. The do this, so once elections are over, they will be the first to post an article about it. It takes time to write and edit, so time is saved by doing everything before hand.
There was also a speech ready to explain to Americans why Neal and Buzz won't be coming hope. Thank God (and NASA engineers) the world did not have to hear it.
Plus, the biggest strength in Linux is its diversity and flexibility. Adding such a standardized base might kill some of that flexibility.
Each distro can be as flexible as it wants to be within it's own native package manager's format. However _in_addition_ to that format, they would ideally all support a lowest common denominator. That way, software houses could package for that LCD and have it work on any distro.
Just this week I am fighting with LabView, trying different versions of OpenSuse, Mandriva, and Ubuntu trying to get it to install along with daqmx. What a pain! Projects like the LSB attempt to make this as easy as with Windows.
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...and other will not move to Linux unless *insert specialty application or game* is available on Linux...
Mine is Solidworks. I use Kubuntu, but I have to run SOlidworks in a VM, with all it's overhead, just to work.
However, there is a flipside: I could not run a pure Windows until KDE works reasonably well on Windows. Apps like Kate have me married to that DE.
No matter which OS you prefer, if there is a killer app that you need for it, don't be shy about contacting the developers and letting them know. I have written to Solidworks, and to my local distributor, requesting a Linux version. Do the same for your 'killer apps'.
Dude... the " - Mozilla Firefox" at the end is because that's what you're using... :P
Mine says Vimperator, you insensitive clod!
I think it is much easier to bring 2 USB keys to Mexico, move the data on them and send them home via regular mail, separately.
Last time I tried that, one of the USB keys came back with a NIN video.
The skin vision thing strikes me as highly unlikely in the "I would expect to have seen some evidence of it occurring, given the amount of time that people have had their eyes close, covered, or damaged" not the "It is a violation of $SOME_PHYSICAL_LAW as we know it" sense.
Are you aware of how REM was discovered? Sometimes these things hide in plain view.
didn't IBM also resign from ISO over OOXML?
Is there a list of high-profile ISO members who have resigned over the OOXML scandal? I would like to naively ask why X, Y, and Z left at the next ISO inspection, and hear what the techs say.
Hate to feed the troll but...
"Drop the lame prefixes"
iPhoto, iWork, iPod, iMac, iPhone.
iHate them.
I suggest we use: GNU Photo & Image Manipulation Program.
Gnupimap? No, thank you.
I do agree that the project needs a new name. With the exception of Open Office, everytime I introduce someone to any FOSS program, I begin with excusing the lunatic names.
+5 Balls
Wouldn't that make walking a tad awkward?
I'd be nothing after what the Niggers do to him when they read his post.
I'm not racist (I hate everybody equally), but those who call themselves Niggers tend to be the violent type. And this guy needs someone to perform some violence on him.
A LOT of people by a PC just to access email or the web. If they can do all this with an OS that starts instantly too , why will they want Vista? Time for MS to sweat possibly?
Because often 'access email' means Word and Powerpoint forwards. I lost one user from Kubuntu to XP Cracked Edition because she _needed_ to read those forwards that her friends with boring jobs send her. OOo 2.4 just did not display them reliably enough. She _notices_ that the system is slower, and she _knows_ that it probably had malware right from the install. But that doesn't bother her as much as not being able to open Powerpoint forwards properly.
True I'd have modded him + points simply for not posting AC.
+5 Balls
Just make sure that your swap partition is large enough to hold your physical RAM and Video RAM when you suspend. For instance, on my Dell Inspiron with 2 GB RAM and 256 MB of Video RAM, I use a 2.5 GB swap partition. That's where the memory goes when the computer suspends.
This is with an _optical_ scope on a tripod.
Wow, and attached to a rocket launcher? That's gotta be a $2000+ scope. No wonder my taxes are so confiscatory.
I would hazard a guess that it is an order of magnitude more expensive than that. Note that this setup could fire more than one rocket. I didn't see other rockets, but I am have since found out that there were either three or five rockets for that one launcher.
It's nice to know that the (presumably) American
well, NATO anyway. Highly likely he was American, just based on numbers.
Apache pilot had IDed his target before firing. I wonder what the firing criteria are? Is he open for fire at the sight of a weapon? Was he looking for someone specific?
Oh, that was in the story too. He was cleared and instructed to fire on anything non-NATO in the battlefield. This gunner was a bit more conscientious than his orders. IIRC he called in his non-fire decision and was not given any challenge on his decision - they don't want any friendly fire, but they didn't want any enemy combatants leaving the area alive either.
I suppose it's not such an awful thing that the gunners can see the faces of the men they're about to kill. Dehumanizing death is all too common.
Authorized to shoot at anything non-NATO? That's absurd! That's slaughter. If an order like that ever came out of my higher-ups, I am certain that my commander wouldn't even let it trickle down to us. We take every opportunity _not_ to kill the enemy, and especially not anything without ID.
I will contact Labview, Canonical, and Suse to ask about this, thanks. I understand that Suse is an officially supported platform for Labview.
The a2d (analog to digital) bit needs a kernel driver for the pci / usb data acquisition hardware.
Under the Linux model end users aren't supposed to be doing this. Labview should be distributed from the distribution not directly to the customer. The problem is Labview doesn't want to offer their software the Linux way, they want to do it the Windows way and that doesn't work so well.
I am not sure that I follow you. LabView is closed source, so how could it be included with the distro?
What is "offering software the Linux way"? Simply offering an .rpm package or .deb? They do offer a simple .rpm package for Labview, but getting the a2d data acquisition unit working was (is) the real problem.
Prone to being abused? Which language isn't?
Javascript?
In Lebanon we found a rocket launcher (US-made, but I am not familiar with them so I do not know which model) all ready for launch, with a huge binocular optical scope. I was a good kilometer from the shoreline and pointing the scope at the ships (however far away they stay from the coast) I could see the sailor's faces and beards clearly. I even think that I could make out blinks. This is with an _optical_ scope on a tripod. The electronic stuff must be scary indeed.
It's nice to know that the (presumably) American Apache pilot had IDed his target before firing. I wonder what the firing criteria are? Is he open for fire at the sight of a weapon? Was he looking for someone specific?
I don't know much about the US infantry (and being /. I didn't RTFA), but where I serve only snipers and sharpshooters use scopes. Most friendly fire incidents are not the work of snipers, who take the time to accurately engage and ID their targets. This sounds to me that either the US infantry is reckless (snipers firing without positively IDing their targets), or that the term 'friendly fire' was used to gain support from those unfamiliar with military tactics.
From the video, you can clearly see they're interested in ideas that could, for instance, ease the burden put on poor people in countries like Africa.
1) What they are clearly showing us, is not necessarily the big picture. In any case, I hope that Google profits from this, it is a company and in order to do more projects like this it needs to profit.
2) Africa is not a country.
Why not read the TOS before spouting stupid questions...
You must be new here.
Whoever modded Parent troll and GP redundant needs to brush up on their Martian history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_canal
You could have gone to the homepage http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/
There it states 67.5 Terrabits received. (Terrabits, not terrabytes)
They could have gotten it down to 99 kb, but the damn webmaster insisted on a Flash animation.
That's what you get for drooling over Seven of Nine.
There are already news articles written for when Obama is elected president. The same news organizations also have articles written for when McCain is elected president. The do this, so once elections are over, they will be the first to post an article about it. It takes time to write and edit, so time is saved by doing everything before hand.
There was also a speech ready to explain to Americans why Neal and Buzz won't be coming hope. Thank God (and NASA engineers) the world did not have to hear it.
She couldn't remember what it said. I told her it said to plug it in or it would turn itself off. Her response: "Oops".
And you decided to spend the rest of your life with this woman, and mingle your genes with hers, and have her raise your children????
People who wish to mingle genes and raise children with _female_humans_ generally learn to accept this. Not that I expect all /.ers to understand.
Plus, the biggest strength in Linux is its diversity and flexibility. Adding such a standardized base might kill some of that flexibility.
Each distro can be as flexible as it wants to be within it's own native package manager's format. However _in_addition_ to that format, they would ideally all support a lowest common denominator. That way, software houses could package for that LCD and have it work on any distro.
Just this week I am fighting with LabView, trying different versions of OpenSuse, Mandriva, and Ubuntu trying to get it to install along with daqmx. What a pain! Projects like the LSB attempt to make this as easy as with Windows.