Mutt. It worked in 1997, and it still works today. Sure, it has more features, but it's the same basic mail client that worked over dial up with a Pentium 100 box with 8 megs of RAM, and now on my 100Mb net connection with my dual-Xeon workstation with 16 gigs of RAM.
Not really. Most pickup trucks are in active use only for short periods of time -going to and from a job site, hauling tools and materials, etc. They still sit for most of the day while their owners do things. One with a couple hundred mile range would be sufficient for most needs. The trick would be how the range is impacted by the load.
And when it comes time to back up that loaded trailer on the job site, instant torque will be amazing. My guess is a lot of construction sites would love to see a truck with instant torque.
In other news, Enlightenment 0.20.0-alpha includes full support for Wayland. Since 0.20.0 is coming soon(-ish), removing support from 0.19.x is simply an acknowledgment that all Wayland effort is being directed at 0.20 rather than the existing 0.19.x series.
Luckily western society tends to be more secular, but the government that, say, ISIS is setting up, is not like this. Christians here in America would like to have a government like that, where unbelievers are imprisoned or executed. Christians in the middle ages were exactly like this.
I spend a lot of time around Christians, both conservative and liberal. I have literally never heard a single Christian articulate anything like a desire to have unbelievers imprisoned and/or executed. Nothing even close to that.
In 1997 a friend told me about Linux so I checked out a book from the library (the book had a CD with Slackware). I installed Slackware (XFree86 worked out of the box*!) because it was free. Soon I was using Linux because it was Free. Eighteen years later I continue to run Linux because it is Better.
* I later switched from Slackware to RedHat because I could not figure out how to get rid of panning!
4k absolutely will solve the problem with blockiness in fonts—depending on the screen size. My phone (HTC One) has a 1920x1080 display that is absolutely stunning in its clarity. Can't tell with my eyes that the images are just dots; it's truly a beautiful display. I see no blockiness in any image or in text. Zero. Then again it's only a 4.7" display with that many pixels. I saw an 80" TV in the store the other day (also 1920x1080) and was stunned by the distance I had to be from it before I could no longer make out the individual pixels—several feet. Right next to it was a 65" 4k display; I had to get within a foot or so to make out the individual pixels. Granted, I wear corrective lenses, but the difference was remarkable. I would love to have a 4k display as my primary monitor.
Did you read the Nature article and look at figures 2 and 3? The trend is only down until the 19th century, then it's a steep upwards trend.
Sure did. You can pick several 100-year windows and see a similar upward trend. Long, sustained increase around 0. One similar to the one you reference around the year 600. Again, the TWO-THOUSAND-YEAR trend is downward, despite the several sharp-upticks along the way. The brief upticks are outweighed by the long drops.
As has been pointed out the window size used makes all the difference. For example, yesterday morning represented a 40 drop in temperature where I live. Oh noes! Global COOLING! That's compared to last week, though.
Are we aping our planet in pursuit of the American god named Profit? Yep. Should we be concerned about the dangers of coastal flooding? Yep. Does that justify the alarmist use of the hockey stick? Nope.
I couldn't care less about what you get to see, but I would like a filter flag that allows me to ensure my kids are not exposed to gratuitous violence and/or pornography until they are mature enough to deal with it.
To me it seems almost intentionally obtuse to not understand the use case for this.
I am flabbergasted that so many are finding this objectionable. The issue is a voluntary flag that screens out certain material that some find inappropriate, whether for themselves or for the children. The issue is not banning such material from Wikipedia or making it impossible—or even difficult—to access. This is not censorship (no one is suggesting the government control this flag). This is providing a tool to enable Wikipedia users to determine the kind of content they can access for themselves.
Much worse, though, is that the court seems to find that the other factors all weigh strongly in favor of the defendant: the use is scholarly, it is of factual material, it has no material impact on the value or market for the works. Fair use isn't a matter of tallying up factors and giving the win to whoever has the most. The analysis is just supposed to help determine if the use is fair; courts can consider other evidence too, and can weight factors unevenly, or do basically anything else if it helps to decide the issue.
This is/. so I only read the summary, but what disturbs me is the judge's determination that the copyright holder could have made money and whether the university prevented it by using the copyrighted material. While copyright law allows for that determination (see 17 CFR 107), simply offering a copyrighted work for money should not effectively (and automatically) block fair use. I wonder whether this sets a precedent for this.
And while we're at it, would DuckDuckGo's "small following on Slashdot" please enter and sign in with a few posts?
I've been using DuckDuckGo for some time, primarily for the privacy and lack of filtering based on my previous queries (finding political articles that are *not* slanted toward my bias, for example). However, during this time I've discovered that if I really need to find an answer to something I'm entering a `!google' into my search (which forces DuckDuckGo to use Google).:-\
I know this is/. but the article does state that eliminating this spending is part of a trillion dollars in cuts in his first year. Five departments would be eliminated entirely while several more would be greatly reduced in size. So, yeah, twelve billion isn't a lot, but a thousand billion is.
Quite honestly, if you want a faster desktop, use Debian* with XFCE instead. I can't believe how sluggish the 'buntus are...
About a year and a half ago I switched my wife's laptop from Ubuntu to Debian. I was shocked to discover that while running GNOME, Debian ran about 30 cooler than Ubuntu.
We would need a fresh constitution based on proportional representation in at least one branch of government. Never going to happen in pre-collapse USA.
Wake me when the US voting system actually gives a third party a chance to play any role.
The problem is not the US voting system, but the US voter. I am told frequently that a vote for [insert-third-party-candidate] is really a vote for [first-or-second-party-candidate]. Many US voters vote against a candidate (by voting the other party most likely to defeat said candidate) rather than for a candidate. I decided two presidential elections ago that I would vote *for* the candidate of my choice, rather than against the candidate I liked least. If more voters would follow, we'd see the rise of third parties.
Translation: "to restart the space race, bring in jobs to my home state, and billions of dollars in spending to defense contractors."
I realize this is/. and is, therefore, reactionary to anything with an (R), but is it possible, even a little bit possible, that this Congressman really supports technological research? Could it be possible that he is more knowledgeable about such things precisely because he is from Florida and is therefore better educated about the United States' space program (being genuinely concerned for his constituents)? Is it possible that his motives are genuine and not simply political?
It runs real Linux with real root (out of the box). It has a real xterm and bash is installable. It runs xorg. It's a fantastic phone. However, it doesn't have separate number keys which can be a pain if you're typing a lot of numbers. A cool feature of the xterm is it puts Ctrl, Tab, Esc, PgUp, and PgDn on-screen to work with the physical keyboard. It's great for remote server administration. I wouldn't want to work on it all day, but it's not meant for that, either.
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Mutt. It worked in 1997, and it still works today. Sure, it has more features, but it's the same basic mail client that worked over dial up with a Pentium 100 box with 8 megs of RAM, and now on my 100Mb net connection with my dual-Xeon workstation with 16 gigs of RAM.
Not really. Most pickup trucks are in active use only for short periods of time -going to and from a job site, hauling tools and materials, etc. They still sit for most of the day while their owners do things. One with a couple hundred mile range would be sufficient for most needs. The trick would be how the range is impacted by the load.
And when it comes time to back up that loaded trailer on the job site, instant torque will be amazing. My guess is a lot of construction sites would love to see a truck with instant torque.
In other news, Enlightenment 0.20.0-alpha includes full support for Wayland. Since 0.20.0 is coming soon(-ish), removing support from 0.19.x is simply an acknowledgment that all Wayland effort is being directed at 0.20 rather than the existing 0.19.x series.
Luckily western society tends to be more secular, but the government that, say, ISIS is setting up, is not like this. Christians here in America would like to have a government like that, where unbelievers are imprisoned or executed. Christians in the middle ages were exactly like this.
I spend a lot of time around Christians, both conservative and liberal. I have literally never heard a single Christian articulate anything like a desire to have unbelievers imprisoned and/or executed. Nothing even close to that.
In 1997 a friend told me about Linux so I checked out a book from the library (the book had a CD with Slackware). I installed Slackware (XFree86 worked out of the box*!) because it was free. Soon I was using Linux because it was Free. Eighteen years later I continue to run Linux because it is Better.
* I later switched from Slackware to RedHat because I could not figure out how to get rid of panning!
"Everyone trying to manipulate search results"
Yep. Don't like it? Use duckduckgo.com. Meh. A non-story.
4k absolutely will solve the problem with blockiness in fonts—depending on the screen size. My phone (HTC One) has a 1920x1080 display that is absolutely stunning in its clarity. Can't tell with my eyes that the images are just dots; it's truly a beautiful display. I see no blockiness in any image or in text. Zero. Then again it's only a 4.7" display with that many pixels. I saw an 80" TV in the store the other day (also 1920x1080) and was stunned by the distance I had to be from it before I could no longer make out the individual pixels—several feet. Right next to it was a 65" 4k display; I had to get within a foot or so to make out the individual pixels. Granted, I wear corrective lenses, but the difference was remarkable. I would love to have a 4k display as my primary monitor.
"The hypothetical creature, not found in the fossil record but inferred from it..." I know this is /., but c'mon.
Did you read the Nature article and look at figures 2 and 3? The trend is only down until the 19th century, then it's a steep upwards trend.
Sure did. You can pick several 100-year windows and see a similar upward trend. Long, sustained increase around 0. One similar to the one you reference around the year 600. Again, the TWO-THOUSAND-YEAR trend is downward, despite the several sharp-upticks along the way. The brief upticks are outweighed by the long drops.
As has been pointed out the window size used makes all the difference. For example, yesterday morning represented a 40 drop in temperature where I live. Oh noes! Global COOLING! That's compared to last week, though.
Are we aping our planet in pursuit of the American god named Profit? Yep. Should we be concerned about the dangers of coastal flooding? Yep. Does that justify the alarmist use of the hockey stick? Nope.
Slowly FALLING temperatures... up until 200 years ago or so, then sharply rising. There's your blade. Look at the graphs in the Nature article.
The temperature graph shows a higher jump between 500 and 1000. The linear trend is still downward for 2,000 years.
I couldn't care less about what you get to see, but I would like a filter flag that allows me to ensure my kids are not exposed to gratuitous violence and/or pornography until they are mature enough to deal with it.
To me it seems almost intentionally obtuse to not understand the use case for this.
I am flabbergasted that so many are finding this objectionable. The issue is a voluntary flag that screens out certain material that some find inappropriate, whether for themselves or for the children. The issue is not banning such material from Wikipedia or making it impossible—or even difficult—to access. This is not censorship (no one is suggesting the government control this flag). This is providing a tool to enable Wikipedia users to determine the kind of content they can access for themselves.
Much worse, though, is that the court seems to find that the other factors all weigh strongly in favor of the defendant: the use is scholarly, it is of factual material, it has no material impact on the value or market for the works. Fair use isn't a matter of tallying up factors and giving the win to whoever has the most. The analysis is just supposed to help determine if the use is fair; courts can consider other evidence too, and can weight factors unevenly, or do basically anything else if it helps to decide the issue.
This is /. so I only read the summary, but what disturbs me is the judge's determination that the copyright holder could have made money and whether the university prevented it by using the copyrighted material. While copyright law allows for that determination (see 17 CFR 107), simply offering a copyrighted work for money should not effectively (and automatically) block fair use. I wonder whether this sets a precedent for this.
FTA:
I hate it when people thoughtlessly mention large numbers in conversation when they clearly have no concept whatsoever of scale.
There are approximately 7 billion people in the world... so by the above gentleman's assessment, there would be only 7 terrorists, worldwide.
Seriously?
Sorry... pet peeve of mine.
I agree. If I've said it once, I've said it a trillion times: people shouldn't exaggerate.
And while we're at it, would DuckDuckGo's "small following on Slashdot" please enter and sign in with a few posts?
I've been using DuckDuckGo for some time, primarily for the privacy and lack of filtering based on my previous queries (finding political articles that are *not* slanted toward my bias, for example). However, during this time I've discovered that if I really need to find an answer to something I'm entering a `!google' into my search (which forces DuckDuckGo to use Google). :-\
The next time there's a hurricane coming up Galveston Bay, I want Ron Paul to be out in the middle of it. Outside. Naked.
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BMO
I don't want Ron Paul outside naked *anywhere*.
Yeah, that 1% really does a whole lot.
I know this is /. but the article does state that eliminating this spending is part of a trillion dollars in cuts in his first year. Five departments would be eliminated entirely while several more would be greatly reduced in size. So, yeah, twelve billion isn't a lot, but a thousand billion is.
Any time I see a 10 year budget I get a good chuckle. We don't even have a budget for this year.
Or last year.
Or the year before.
Gaah. Stupid slashdot. It doesn't show the degree symbol after 30. Bleh.
Quite honestly, if you want a faster desktop, use Debian* with XFCE instead. I can't believe how sluggish the 'buntus are...
About a year and a half ago I switched my wife's laptop from Ubuntu to Debian. I was shocked to discover that while running GNOME, Debian ran about 30 cooler than Ubuntu.
We would need a fresh constitution based on proportional representation in at least one branch of government. Never going to happen in pre-collapse USA.
You mean like the House of Representatives?
Wake me when the US voting system actually gives a third party a chance to play any role.
The problem is not the US voting system, but the US voter. I am told frequently that a vote for [insert-third-party-candidate] is really a vote for [first-or-second-party-candidate]. Many US voters vote against a candidate (by voting the other party most likely to defeat said candidate) rather than for a candidate. I decided two presidential elections ago that I would vote *for* the candidate of my choice, rather than against the candidate I liked least. If more voters would follow, we'd see the rise of third parties.
Translation: "to restart the space race, bring in jobs to my home state, and billions of dollars in spending to defense contractors."
I realize this is /. and is, therefore, reactionary to anything with an (R), but is it possible, even a little bit possible, that this Congressman really supports technological research? Could it be possible that he is more knowledgeable about such things precisely because he is from Florida and is therefore better educated about the United States' space program (being genuinely concerned for his constituents)? Is it possible that his motives are genuine and not simply political?
Oh, wait. This is slashdot.
So is the E17 desktop "officially" released now, or what?
No.
It runs real Linux with real root (out of the box). It has a real xterm and bash is installable. It runs xorg. It's a fantastic phone. However, it doesn't have separate number keys which can be a pain if you're typing a lot of numbers. A cool feature of the xterm is it puts Ctrl, Tab, Esc, PgUp, and PgDn on-screen to work with the physical keyboard. It's great for remote server administration. I wouldn't want to work on it all day, but it's not meant for that, either.
Isn't the entire point of twitter communicating with a large audience? If no one knows who you are, then what's the point?
I always thought the point was narcissism.