My dad's parents were both farmers, wheat, cows, chickens and other consumables. I recall visiting the farm up in the heartland as a boy. Even though gramdma and grandpa worked from sun-up to sun-down, they still had time to run linux 2 or even 3 hours a day. Grandma had linux installed on his old international tractor. The thing was slow to boot, but boy it was stable. Keep in mind that this was mid to late seventies. I don't know when my grandparents started using linux, but I do know they taught my father to run linux from an early age. Growing up on a farm, my dad has lots of fine memories, but none finer than the lilo prompt and his first command line script.
Our family comes from a long line of linux using farmers. Our anscestors came over from the chezckque republic back in the mid 19th century. Being poor and making a hasty departure, they couldn't bring many belongings with them. My entire family is thankful that my great-great-grandmother chose to bring her trust girdle which she had been running linux on for the better part of 15 years.
The family tree is a little hazier earlier than that. We lost a lot of geneological data during a hard drive failure in 1809. There are some old hardcopy records of running linux during the middle ages on a 85lb rock. There's also some folklore about an remote uncle who booted linux on his cancerous third nipple shortly before dying. From so long ago, it's hard to separate fact from fiction.
I don't have any kids, but when I decide to get someone pregnant,you can bet that I'll have by baby running linux by the time its 1 years old
Why don't you login, coward? Did you expect that response? Huh? Well did you? Huh? HUUHHH??? You wannabe-prescient astroturfing MS-ass sucking, aborted count-revolutionary conservative aristocratic yellow bellied windbag asshat. You can take your "3-4 times longer" and use that to create a slashdot account and back up your spineless wimpering meta-comments with your likely droll nickname. At least that way we can killfile you to oblivioun you humourless dolt.
DID YOU EXPECT that reply? Well did you, asshole? And take your *sigh*'s somewhere else, assclown. Nobody wants to hear your yellow-bellied wimpering here
Ah yes, I remember my days in the air force. We used to refer to the career slide makers as power point rangers. Captains, Majors, and beyond. I don't know who said it, but it certainly applies: "Powerpoint, never before has one tool allowed so many to say so much about so little." Or thereabouts.
Most likey, know one who posts to slashdot has felt real hunger. If you want to know about real hunger, go to the third world where millions of people are starving to death. For slashdot posters and most computer users, hunger is the state of not being able to eat like a king.
Preach on brother. I'm running the gnome that comes with the latest redhat - must be gnome 2.2. Here are some more peeves:
Metacity finally tried to emulate a feature sawfish had forever - vertical and horizontal mazimizations and key bindings. Does seems to work correctly, though.
I have a drawer of launchers on the panel. Every time I restart my desktop, the launchers are rearranged within the drawer. No shit! Layout is more important than the actual icon pictures, guys.
I really really really like GTK's ability to assign shortcut keys to menu items on the fly. Been using this forever. Now, gnome has turned this off by default. Gnomes preferences documentation says nothing about turning it back on. So some google searching suggested editing with the conf tool some bizarre windows like registry, in which I set can-change-accles or something to true. But now, it still doesn't work reliably. Rather, it only seems to work in some gnome apps, not in others.
The amazing thing is that almost all my gripes with the new gnome are with things that have actually broken compared with older releases. This is so unacceptable. The decision to write a new, buggy, feature-crippled window manager was fine, for example, but the decision to deploy that immature piece of software over better existing window managers would have gotten you fired in many software companies.
Bitching aside, 2.2 was less brain dead and damanged than 2.0. Hopefully, 2.4 will be better. Here's a hint, gnome devs: quit pissing off your biggest fans.
Yeah, I know all about speckle interferometry, which is why I carefully chose the words "straight-up image stacking or averaging". The original poster didn't indicate that any transforms were done on the short exposure images, other than perhaps first order moving, which,as you say, givey you some very rough image improvements *if* you don't have some image stabilization in you system in the first place. I could be wrong, perhaps the original poster's description of this software was too coarse.
I'm intentionally excluding movies like Tron and The Last Starfighter, because they weren't very influential. Tron bombed, The Last Starfighter broke even, and more importantly nobody "Ooh"'ed and "Aah!"'ed their use of CG. I'm not saying that the CG in those movies wasn't done well, just that it didn't influence many people.
You must have not been conscious when Tron came out. People ooh'ed and ahh'ed over the effects. Film/art/whatever can be (in fact, must be) influential by not being memorable to the audience, but to other artists/filmmakers/whatever that copy that influence in the production of more popular fare.
You speak of this "hot" as if it were only one thing. Since everyone knows that french fries are hot, for example, would it be OK for McD's to server french fries at 280 C? If you burned yourself, I'll just say, well, duh, everyone knows french fries are hot? Not all hot water has the same propensity for damage.
Hellow fellow intranet user. I couldn't help but notice you mention [insert subject]. Might I recommend that you look at GENTOO instead? Your choice of [insert application] will most likely run 100 to 200% faster with a custome tweaked GENTOO distro. Furthermore, GENTOO provides the best in [insert area], [insert area], and [insert area], which I can see from your discussion of [insert subject] that you are interested in. If I can not convince you with technical arguments, perhaps philosophical ones will do instead: [insert product] is the moral equivalent of the wares sold by [insert despised commercial software company]. By supporting [insert non-GENTOO distro], you are supporting [insert despised CEO] and futhering the cause of evil. Just remember to add --funroll-all-the-loopies and --fomit-instructions and your GENTOO boxen will be super l33t like mine!
The purpose of the higher brain functions is getting laid more often. Grandparent post was written tongue in cheek. Is your tampon interfering with your sense of humor?
Ugh, can't anyone appeal to common sense instead of sex drive?
What, are you new to the natural world? Your puritanical disapproval of sex is both unnatural and self-destructive. All things relate to sex. I for one appreciate the advertisers constant reminder that, yes, virginia, there is only one biological imperitive: to sire as many bastards as possible. Sex in advertising makes us aware of a products connection with sex, gives meaning to our consumerism impulses, and gives us hope in an increasingly assexual, nihilistic world.
I say more sex in advertising! Especially hot girl-on-girl action.
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Our family comes from a long line of linux using farmers. Our anscestors came over from the chezckque republic back in the mid 19th century. Being poor and making a hasty departure, they couldn't bring many belongings with them. My entire family is thankful that my great-great-grandmother chose to bring her trust girdle which she had been running linux on for the better part of 15 years.
The family tree is a little hazier earlier than that. We lost a lot of geneological data during a hard drive failure in 1809. There are some old hardcopy records of running linux during the middle ages on a 85lb rock. There's also some folklore about an remote uncle who booted linux on his cancerous third nipple shortly before dying. From so long ago, it's hard to separate fact from fiction.
I don't have any kids, but when I decide to get someone pregnant,you can bet that I'll have by baby running linux by the time its 1 years old
Apparently, not every /.er has a shift key, either. Or a sense of humor.
DID YOU EXPECT that reply? Well did you, asshole? And take your *sigh*'s somewhere else, assclown. Nobody wants to hear your yellow-bellied wimpering here
Most likey, know one who posts to slashdot has felt real hunger. If you want to know about real hunger, go to the third world where millions of people are starving to death. For slashdot posters and most computer users, hunger is the state of not being able to eat like a king.
Metacity finally tried to emulate a feature sawfish had forever - vertical and horizontal mazimizations and key bindings. Does seems to work correctly, though.
I have a drawer of launchers on the panel. Every time I restart my desktop, the launchers are rearranged within the drawer. No shit! Layout is more important than the actual icon pictures, guys.
I really really really like GTK's ability to assign shortcut keys to menu items on the fly. Been using this forever. Now, gnome has turned this off by default. Gnomes preferences documentation says nothing about turning it back on. So some google searching suggested editing with the conf tool some bizarre windows like registry, in which I set can-change-accles or something to true. But now, it still doesn't work reliably. Rather, it only seems to work in some gnome apps, not in others.
The amazing thing is that almost all my gripes with the new gnome are with things that have actually broken compared with older releases. This is so unacceptable. The decision to write a new, buggy, feature-crippled window manager was fine, for example, but the decision to deploy that immature piece of software over better existing window managers would have gotten you fired in many software companies.
Bitching aside, 2.2 was less brain dead and damanged than 2.0. Hopefully, 2.4 will be better. Here's a hint, gnome devs: quit pissing off your biggest fans.
The moderation system is way broken. Has been for a long time.
As far as I can tell, you're a Slashbot of sorts yourself. Not all slashbots spew the same crap. HAND.
Give me his name and address so I can go punch him in the throat.
Yeah, I know all about speckle interferometry, which is why I carefully chose the words "straight-up image stacking or averaging". The original poster didn't indicate that any transforms were done on the short exposure images, other than perhaps first order moving, which,as you say, givey you some very rough image improvements *if* you don't have some image stabilization in you system in the first place. I could be wrong, perhaps the original poster's description of this software was too coarse.
You must have not been conscious when Tron came out. People ooh'ed and ahh'ed over the effects. Film/art/whatever can be (in fact, must be) influential by not being memorable to the audience, but to other artists/filmmakers/whatever that copy that influence in the production of more popular fare.
Straight up image stacking or averaging does not remove the effects of atmospheric turbulence. HTH.
Maybe you should ask your question on a GENTOO mailing list or newsgroup?
"I for one welcome our new coffee overloards" - leading mozilla devloper.
'cat' works more me. Imports almost everything. Try 'cat file.mdb' - you won't be disappointed
You speak of this "hot" as if it were only one thing. Since everyone knows that french fries are hot, for example, would it be OK for McD's to server french fries at 280 C? If you burned yourself, I'll just say, well, duh, everyone knows french fries are hot? Not all hot water has the same propensity for damage.
You mean "alternative" as in "same old shit with a different name"? Was that horribly poor comparison on purpose?
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I count five. Keep trying, though.
Do you get all your political ideas from bumper stickers?
I'm a linux user, but listening to people like you makes me want to puke. Do you really talk like that? Shut the fuck up already.
Great idea, that way, the background image gets stored two places!
Yeah, convince yourself that petty little arguments don't go on in the development of proprietary operatings systems. Your post is truly inane.
The purpose of the higher brain functions is getting laid more often. Grandparent post was written tongue in cheek. Is your tampon interfering with your sense of humor?
What, are you new to the natural world? Your puritanical disapproval of sex is both unnatural and self-destructive. All things relate to sex. I for one appreciate the advertisers constant reminder that, yes, virginia, there is only one biological imperitive: to sire as many bastards as possible. Sex in advertising makes us aware of a products connection with sex, gives meaning to our consumerism impulses, and gives us hope in an increasingly assexual, nihilistic world.
I say more sex in advertising! Especially hot girl-on-girl action.