Now... As for linux & why it doesn't get what attention it should, just take a look a where I live in the eastern part of the US. In the last year within 100 miles of me (which includes Cleveland, Pittsburgh, & Buffalo) their has been 2 Unix jobs available (yes Unix not linux) & absolutely no linux jobs.
You should move - last time I checked, there were tons of Unix related jobs out here in the West. Hell, my company would hire you (if you know your shit).
I don't have any figures to back this up, but I would guess that 500,000,000 computers may be close. There are probably even more than that, but the number actually being used (as opposed to collecting dust in a garage) is undoubtedly less. I own 4, have another 4 at work that I exclusively use, so that's 8 (and only 1 is collecting dust). I'm sure the story is similar with other slasdotters/computer professionals/enthusiasts. So I make up for 7 two yr olds not having any.
As far as logitech goes, I always buy their mice because I find they have the best value for 3 button mice, which before the advent of the wheel mice were becoming hard to find, and are moreso now. Logitech should be aware that since X is still pretty much a 3-button mouse affair (I know wheel mice support is there, shut up already), they could easily capture most of the linux-new-mouse market with some good marketing.
So I suppose if you throw a pile of components, which when assembled correctly form a functional computer, in front of your average user* they'll be able to build a functional computer without any help?
Is this true of Be? For all hardware supported by other operating systems? No, of course not. You obviously hate Linux. People working on Linux know that it has deficiencies as a desktop target - hell, why do you think people are working on projects like Wine?
Of course, the fact that an average user would have problems installing Windows, BeOS, Linux, or any other OS on a system built without those OSes installed in no way disqualifies them as "desktop systems". Guess what? Installing an OS is not really an average user desktop task: sometimes it can be easy (I've had flawless installs of Linux, for example), and sometimes it can be hard (I've had major trouble installing Windows 98 on a computer that Linux ran on with no special tweeking), but the fact is that there are too many hardware variations and combinations out there, and too many potential conflicts for any OS to be able to garuantee that a fresh install will go perfectly smoothly for your "typical" user.
That's the thing, though. Installing an OS is not an average desktop user task. Most desktop systems either come a) preinstalled, or are supported by professionals with more skill than yourself (in the workplace). A preinstalled or IT shop OS can be Linux, BeOS, or whatever else is the best solution.
I just read your user info page - just about everything your submit works to the goal of promoting Be at the expense of bashing Linux. Why do you hate Linux so much? Why do you have such a personal interest in seeing Be succeed, no matter what the ethical cost involved? There are people who like Linux and are working to make it a good, open source, desktop solution. Why does this make you so angry? I've enver seen a Linux fan consistently bash BE in order to increase Linux mindshare, but if I do, I'd chastise him the same way I am doing to you.
It's simple really - you're obviously not a "relatively advanced user". I'm all for BeOS or whatever floats your boat. But if you have supported hardware, and you can't get it to work after a week, don't call yourself advanced as a tactic in your FUD campaign.
ya, that's what I mean. With they right encryption or compression any piece-of-shit major-label-poster child wonder band could sound like your favorite industrial band
Stronger encryption can be nothing but a boon to the world of popular music - sending the encrypted datastream straight to your computer's audio device can be nothing but an improvement for today's hot "artists" like
AO systems rarely (i.e. never that I know about) deform the primary mirror as the primary means to compensate for atmospheric distortion. While the primary mirrors in a large telescopes often have deformation controls, these are mainly used to "fix" the shape of the mirror as it sags under its own weight as it is rotated through the telescopes field of regard. The speed at which you could deform the primary mirror is too small to be of much use in atmospheric compensation. Easier and faster, secondary, tertiary, or later mirrors usually are the main deformable optical elements in these systems.
What scientific american issues/article was that? Much of the calculation can be done with specialized hardware, which has been used in at least one system since the 1980's. It all depends on how big your aperature is, how fast the atmosphere changes (bandwidth of compensation calculations), how many deformation elements are in your array (designed to match seeing quality at telescope site), etc.
What's even more interesting, IMO, is atmospheric blur compensation can be done without adaptive optics using high speed imaging and some heavy duty post processing. Results aren't quite as good as AO, but the cost is far less. Hybrid systems (AO plus post-processing image reconstruction techniques) give you the best bang for the buck.
Adapting technology originally developed by astronomers to obtain better images of the heavens...
Adaptive optics was first developed by the US Military (the Air Force to be specific) who was certainly looking up in the sky with telescopes, but not necessarily at the heavens.
The difficulty of astronomical adaptive optics, in which the phase distortion in an image incurred during transmission throught the atmosphere is removed, is that the atmosphere is such a dynamic thing, and the phase corrections needed must be continuously modified. From this article, on the other hand, I gather the trick in this device is to create a static phase modification (i.e. flexible mirror) that reverses the aberration caused by the imperfaction in a persons retina. Less difficult problem, but less to be gained as compared to the benefits of doing AO on huge telescopes.
This is great news, and I am very proud to say I have been donating plasma for the last 4 years on a regular basis. I am happy that they have found a new use for the plasma and the thought that my plasma might fuel space travelers is very exciting indeed!
Rush down to your local blood center and donate some of your plasma!
What can I say? This was one of the best movie-going experiences of my life. My girlfriend and I went to see it last night. Traffic was bad in downtown seattle, so we were about 5 minutes late. We stopped off at the concession stand, so we actually missed about the first 8 or nine minutes of the movie (enjoyable part #1).
At the concession stand, we ordered a large popcorn, a medium soda, and a box of Red Hots(tm). The minumum-wage-earning, acne-afflicted young man helping us at that snack bar was both cheerful and helpful (enjoyable part #2). He told us for $1 (USD) more, we could have the "mega large vat of popcorn" and the "kidney-buster" large soda drink! I couldn't believe our good fortune! (enjoyable part #3)!!
So we then proceeded to the theatre, wheeling our popcorn and soda in the specially modified golf cart provided by the theatre for a mere $7.50 (USD). When we got in the theatre, we noticed that it was nearly empty - perhaps 10% of the seats were taken (enjoyable part #4)
. We headed straight for the back of the theatre where we proceeded to set up camp.
After a few minutes of watching the movie, I began to suspect that the movie was not very good. Fortunately, at that point I had already consumed about 2.5 gallons (USG) of Mountain Dew(tm), so I needed to go to the "latrine", as they say in the marines. I excused myself and proceeded to the Mens room which was both clean (enjoyable part #5) and well-lit (enjoyable part #6). As I stood there expelling several gallons of Mountain Dew - derived toxins from my body, I noticed the following grafiti scratched on the wall before me:
The MPAA sucks - down with the man - anonymous coward
Well, as you can image, I got quite a chuckle out of that (enjoyable part #7).
Back in the theatre, I asked my girlfriend what I had missed, to which she replied, "not much" (enjoyable part #8). She then excused herself, and I turned my attention to the 6 bushels of popcorn remaining in our bucket (enjoyable part #9). To tell the truth, for the next 20 or 30 minutes, I was so busy eating popcorn and sipping soda that I didn't catch much of Battle Field earth.
Well my girlfriend had returned, but I felt some pressure in the need to return to the "latrine". This time, it wasn't just the soda sending me out, if you catch my drift. I won't make you suffer with the details, but 20 minutes and enjoyable parts #10, #11, and #12 later, I returned to the theatre feeling much better.
By this point, most of the other movie goers had walked out, and we hadn't seen much of the film, so we sunk down to the floor and got freaky in the spilled soda and stale popcorn on the floor (enjoyable part #13). Just as we were finishing, I noticed someone had dropped one of those new gold dollar coins everyone is hoarding - what a find !!!! (enjoyable part #14).
Well, we quietly got back in our seats, but the credits were already rolling. Eventhough we hadn't seen much, we both agreed that it was of the best movies we had ever seen together
Anyone interested in the validity of Ted Holden's interesting theories should stroll on down to the talk.origins news group and ask the residents about Ted Holden. Read this guy's webpages for humor, but know that he is so deadly serious and has been so persistent in his cries of catastrophism, conspiracy, and other mental constipation that overly large sections of the talk.origins FAQ deal with his nonsense. I'm sure he'll welcome the slashdot effect though.
I must say, I give my props to the slashdot folk and andover.
What the hell are Props, and where can I get some? Everyone is going on these days about giving proper Props, or getting their Props, and many times they are getting these mysterious Props from The Man. Who is this Man, and how come he has so many of these Props to give away?
On a side note, have you ever noticed that the promulgation of properly propogated processor products propels pro- proposition providers into dis-proporitionate prosperity?
At this point, if Microsoft were to clean up its act with regard to virus vulnerability and security, remove all holes from its sponge-like operating systems, and patch each leaky application, the army of companies in the business of providing bandaids for Microsoft's lesions would suddenly find themselfves without a market or hope for a profit. Virus protection, installation, un-installtion, disk doctoring, system tweeking, and countless other markets swarm like remoras around the whale-shark that is Microsoft. Sudden cluefulness on the part of our Redmond friends would at this point surely result in lawsuits from companies such as Norton and perhaps add to the mountain of evidence the goverment as ammased in its antitrust investigations.
An economy built on 20 years of incompetence won't go down without a fight. Security and vulderability of MS OSes is today just as big an issue as when I first encountered the Jerusalem virus in 1988. Where is the innovation now, MS?
Recently, it has come to our attention that you have been illegally trading certain digital representations of the music belonging to our client, Metallica. First, our position on the matter has always been clear: The Thing That Should Not Be. Your actions have put our clients in dire financial straights. According to Frank Metallica, "they're Bleeding Me dry". This is Sad But True. Our clients preferred recourse is apparently to Kill Em All, but in a less drug-induced stated they have relented to allow Merciful Fate in our dealings with offenders such as your self.
In a Blitzkrieg investigation of the records obtained from Napster (herein known as Phantom Lord), we have clear indication that you were engage in this illegal activity. You may have tried to cover your tracks, but The Memory Remains. After a long Struggle Within, we have decided that while you will remain Unforgiven, we shall not Seek and DestroyOverkill.
You are hereby banned from using Napster until further notified. You should consider your Napster logon Stone Dead Forever and realize any actions on your part should be considered Too Late Too Late.
We seek only to protect the financial security belonging to Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
How spooky - I just finished reaing "Philosphical Consequences of Quantum Theory, Reflections on Bell's Theorem" - ISBN 0-268-01578-3. The book is a collection of papers dealing with the "spookiness" apparently behind this encryption. Strange, though-provoking, and frequently incomprehensible.
Interesting - I read the wired article, and it mentions the fact that a Commercial Linux DVD player has been released. Following that link, I am taken to another Wired article discussing Intervideo's LinDVD announcement.
So we've gone from announcement that a legal will be available soon to the press saying one is already available although it of course isn't available.
If you go to the Intervideo Website, you will find no mention of Linux, a Linux player, or even any announcement on their News page.
Verdict? The Intervideo Announcement is part of an MPAA FUD campaign to weaken their opponents position
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You should move - last time I checked, there were tons of Unix related jobs out here in the West. Hell, my company would hire you (if you know your shit).
Sick of 11? Try 12!!!!
As far as logitech goes, I always buy their mice because I find they have the best value for 3 button mice, which before the advent of the wheel mice were becoming hard to find, and are moreso now. Logitech should be aware that since X is still pretty much a 3-button mouse affair (I know wheel mice support is there, shut up already), they could easily capture most of the linux-new-mouse market with some good marketing.
Sick of 10? Try 11!!!!!
Is this true of Be? For all hardware supported by other operating systems? No, of course not. You obviously hate Linux. People working on Linux know that it has deficiencies as a desktop target - hell, why do you think people are working on projects like Wine?
Of course, the fact that an average user would have problems installing Windows, BeOS, Linux, or any other OS on a system built without those OSes installed in no way disqualifies them as "desktop systems". Guess what? Installing an OS is not really an average user desktop task: sometimes it can be easy (I've had flawless installs of Linux, for example), and sometimes it can be hard (I've had major trouble installing Windows 98 on a computer that Linux ran on with no special tweeking), but the fact is that there are too many hardware variations and combinations out there, and too many potential conflicts for any OS to be able to garuantee that a fresh install will go perfectly smoothly for your "typical" user.
That's the thing, though. Installing an OS is not an average desktop user task. Most desktop systems either come a) preinstalled, or are supported by professionals with more skill than yourself (in the workplace). A preinstalled or IT shop OS can be Linux, BeOS, or whatever else is the best solution.
I just read your user info page - just about everything your submit works to the goal of promoting Be at the expense of bashing Linux. Why do you hate Linux so much? Why do you have such a personal interest in seeing Be succeed, no matter what the ethical cost involved? There are people who like Linux and are working to make it a good, open source, desktop solution. Why does this make you so angry? I've enver seen a Linux fan consistently bash BE in order to increase Linux mindshare, but if I do, I'd chastise him the same way I am doing to you.
Give it a rest, get a life already, sheesh.
It's simple really - you're obviously not a "relatively advanced user". I'm all for BeOS or whatever floats your boat. But if you have supported hardware, and you can't get it to work after a week, don't call yourself advanced as a tactic in your FUD campaign.
Man I really love your work!!!
Now, if a relatively advanced user can't set something up
and this:
I've spent more than a week on linux, trying to configure things, following every instruction I could find to the letter
Does not add up.
ya, that's what I mean. With they right encryption or compression any piece-of-shit major-label-poster child wonder band could sound like your favorite industrial band
AO systems rarely (i.e. never that I know about) deform the primary mirror as the primary means to compensate for atmospheric distortion. While the primary mirrors in a large telescopes often have deformation controls, these are mainly used to "fix" the shape of the mirror as it sags under its own weight as it is rotated through the telescopes field of regard. The speed at which you could deform the primary mirror is too small to be of much use in atmospheric compensation. Easier and faster, secondary, tertiary, or later mirrors usually are the main deformable optical elements in these systems.
What's even more interesting, IMO, is atmospheric blur compensation can be done without adaptive optics using high speed imaging and some heavy duty post processing. Results aren't quite as good as AO, but the cost is far less. Hybrid systems (AO plus post-processing image reconstruction techniques) give you the best bang for the buck.
Adaptive optics was first developed by the US Military (the Air Force to be specific) who was certainly looking up in the sky with telescopes, but not necessarily at the heavens.
The difficulty of astronomical adaptive optics, in which the phase distortion in an image incurred during transmission throught the atmosphere is removed, is that the atmosphere is such a dynamic thing, and the phase corrections needed must be continuously modified. From this article, on the other hand, I gather the trick in this device is to create a static phase modification (i.e. flexible mirror) that reverses the aberration caused by the imperfaction in a persons retina. Less difficult problem, but less to be gained as compared to the benefits of doing AO on huge telescopes.
At least that's my take on it
Scotch
Rush down to your local blood center and donate some of your plasma!
count to ten
At the concession stand, we ordered a large popcorn, a medium soda, and a box of Red Hots(tm). The minumum-wage-earning, acne-afflicted young man helping us at that snack bar was both cheerful and helpful (enjoyable part #2). He told us for $1 (USD) more, we could have the "mega large vat of popcorn" and the "kidney-buster" large soda drink! I couldn't believe our good fortune! (enjoyable part #3)!!
So we then proceeded to the theatre, wheeling our popcorn and soda in the specially modified golf cart provided by the theatre for a mere $7.50 (USD). When we got in the theatre, we noticed that it was nearly empty - perhaps 10% of the seats were taken (enjoyable part #4)
. We headed straight for the back of the theatre where we proceeded to set up camp.
After a few minutes of watching the movie, I began to suspect that the movie was not very good. Fortunately, at that point I had already consumed about 2.5 gallons (USG) of Mountain Dew(tm), so I needed to go to the "latrine", as they say in the marines. I excused myself and proceeded to the Mens room which was both clean (enjoyable part #5) and well-lit (enjoyable part #6). As I stood there expelling several gallons of Mountain Dew - derived toxins from my body, I noticed the following grafiti scratched on the wall before me:
The MPAA sucks - down with the man - anonymous coward
Well, as you can image, I got quite a chuckle out of that (enjoyable part #7).
Back in the theatre, I asked my girlfriend what I had missed, to which she replied, "not much" (enjoyable part #8). She then excused herself, and I turned my attention to the 6 bushels of popcorn remaining in our bucket (enjoyable part #9). To tell the truth, for the next 20 or 30 minutes, I was so busy eating popcorn and sipping soda that I didn't catch much of Battle Field earth.
Well my girlfriend had returned, but I felt some pressure in the need to return to the "latrine". This time, it wasn't just the soda sending me out, if you catch my drift. I won't make you suffer with the details, but 20 minutes and enjoyable parts #10, #11, and #12 later, I returned to the theatre feeling much better.
By this point, most of the other movie goers had walked out, and we hadn't seen much of the film, so we sunk down to the floor and got freaky in the spilled soda and stale popcorn on the floor (enjoyable part #13). Just as we were finishing, I noticed someone had dropped one of those new gold dollar coins everyone is hoarding - what a find !!!! (enjoyable part #14).
Well, we quietly got back in our seats, but the credits were already rolling. Eventhough we hadn't seen much, we both agreed that it was of the best movies we had ever seen together
Scotch
Anyone who thinks that anyone who thinks that anyone who uses Bladenc is an idiot is a bigger idiot is an even bigger idiot.
And so on
Anyone interested in the validity of Ted Holden's interesting theories should stroll on down to the talk.origins news group and ask the residents about Ted Holden. Read this guy's webpages for humor, but know that he is so deadly serious and has been so persistent in his cries of catastrophism, conspiracy, and other mental constipation that overly large sections of the talk.origins FAQ deal with his nonsense. I'm sure he'll welcome the slashdot effect though.
What the hell are Props, and where can I get some? Everyone is going on these days about giving proper Props, or getting their Props, and many times they are getting these mysterious Props from The Man. Who is this Man, and how come he has so many of these Props to give away?
On a side note, have you ever noticed that the promulgation of properly propogated processor products propels pro- proposition providers into dis-proporitionate prosperity?
while (1) karma--;
An economy built on 20 years of incompetence won't go down without a fight. Security and vulderability of MS OSes is today just as big an issue as when I first encountered the Jerusalem virus in 1988. Where is the innovation now, MS?
I always wanted to write a book called "X for complete fucking morons" Where X is the subject at hand.
Recently, it has come to our attention that you have been illegally trading certain digital representations of the music belonging to our client, Metallica. First, our position on the matter has always been clear: The Thing That Should Not Be. Your actions have put our clients in dire financial straights. According to Frank Metallica, "they're Bleeding Me dry". This is Sad But True. Our clients preferred recourse is apparently to Kill Em All, but in a less drug-induced stated they have relented to allow Merciful Fate in our dealings with offenders such as your self.
In a Blitzkrieg investigation of the records obtained from Napster (herein known as Phantom Lord), we have clear indication that you were engage in this illegal activity. You may have tried to cover your tracks, but The Memory Remains. After a long Struggle Within, we have decided that while you will remain Unforgiven, we shall not Seek and Destroy Overkill.
You are hereby banned from using Napster until further notified. You should consider your Napster logon Stone Dead Forever and realize any actions on your part should be considered Too Late Too Late.
We seek only to protect the financial security belonging to Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Sincerely, FUD ( Master of Puppets)
> RMS is the strongest religous fundamentalist ... This word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
I think Microsoft should be broken up into 20,000 companies, or one per employee, whichever is greater.
How spooky - I just finished reaing "Philosphical Consequences of Quantum Theory, Reflections on Bell's Theorem" - ISBN 0-268-01578-3. The book is a collection of papers dealing with the "spookiness" apparently behind this encryption. Strange, though-provoking, and frequently incomprehensible.
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So we've gone from announcement that a legal will be available soon to the press saying one is already available although it of course isn't available.
If you go to the Intervideo Website, you will find no mention of Linux, a Linux player, or even any announcement on their News page.
Verdict? The Intervideo Announcement is part of an MPAA FUD campaign to weaken their opponents position
My other .sig is funny