I have Rhythmbox as default on 10.04 (Ubuntu and Lubuntu), and see no need for Mono. Is this an outbreak of uncharacteristic good sense in Ubuntu (but only a partial atonement for their Unity sins)?
Or we could just arrest everyone on a rotating basis, assume that they are guilty and give them the option of paying a fine or serving jail time on a chain gang.
You might argue that innocent people will be arrested, but I think there would be relatively few. On a percentage basis, probably below the percentage of innocent people executed in Texas.
And if not, I'm sure Texas can be persuaded to increase its executions of innocent people.
Some, but who in their right mind wants to run Word on a tablet?
Someone, somewhere is probably dreaming of running IE6 on a tablet. And someone else probably wants it to run a SAP client (the only thing more horrifying than IE6). Let us hope all such evil maniacs are ignored.
Riiiight, so I drag around an ugly mechanical drive every time I need to use my laptop, sure. That's exactly why I spent extra money on getting a small and light machine.
For bonus points, ensure the external drive is also noisy, smelly, and discolored (as well as scratched and dented). It will make your MacBook Air look even better in comparison. Of course, this image may be tarnished if the external drive is actually doing a valuable job.
I thought it was as mediocre then as it is now. Am I the only one who just doesn't get the popularity of this game?
Actually, I've still never seen it (living in Finland with several Android smartphones in the house, and a variety of smartphones at work). I'm willing to believe it's mediocre or a lot worse than mediocre.
Of course, there's also the group that wants to run it on 6+ year old hardware
This is posted from a laptop which is 8 years old, buddy. It runs Lubuntu 10.04 LTS, and rocks with it (LXDE). It was starting to suck a bit with Ubuntu 10.04 (Gnome 2) and with PCLinuxOS 2009 (KDE 3.something), but LXDE purged the bloat and revived the hardware.
other OSes like Windows 7 likely won't work well on very old hardware either.
In what way is that relevant? The laptop of which I spoke came with original XP (pre SP1), which ran OK on it, but sucked in so many ways (starting with the applications). I can't imagine running Win7 on it; probably more like staggering or slithering than running, actually.
So why don't I get a new laptop? Easy: this one has a nice 17" 1920x1200 display. All the new models (even from the same vendor) have nothing better than a shortscreen 1920x1080, if they even have that. The extra 120 vertical pixels are valuable.
He's a Catholic theologian, not a US-style Fundie. Not all Christians are afflicted with the Fundie Fallacy and related lunacy; each branch has its own catalog of errors and particular kind of madness.
For example, Catholics are allowed to believe in evolution (two popes more-or-less endorsed it), and generally impugn ID and similar foolishness. However, Catholics are required to believe in a God-did-it-just-for-us creation, albeit not literally the absurd account in Genesis, but a sort-of moving target interpretation that changes over decades (Dawkins was correct in asserting that Catholics were making it up as they went along).
Bloat. Ugly word. Conjures up visions of swollen corpses.
In the early 1990s, I had a 386 system which was loaded with 14MB of RAM. On this system, I had NFS server & client connected to numerous other boxes, OS/2 PM session (typically running PMDraw, Gnuplot, NewsReader/2, Gopher (later WebExplorer), and some CMD.EXE shells), both full screen and windowed Win-OS2 sessions (typically MS Word and suchlike), and an XFree86 session (I forget what it ran, but it was probably important) running simultaneously. In 14MB... and I thought that OS/2 was bloated at the time.
Going back a bit further, I ran classes using a PDP-8 which was loaded up with 16Kwords of memory (1 word = 12 bits). It was multi-user and multi-tasking, and the kids wrote programs in Focal over teletypes. These were all text-based interfaces, naturally, as there was a maximum of 4Kwords in the memory space of any program (including the compiler). Not much bloat, well written manuals documenting everything.
I better doze off in my wheelchair again, now, and drool some more. Otherwise I might reminisce on the multitasking real-time OS I helped write for 8085 systems in the early 1980s using 32KB ROM and 32KB RAM, and which got used quite a lot in industrial control systems (some of them were still running in 2005). Each station could only handle a couple of hundred analog control loops and a few hundred digital I/O with some ladder logic. Shit, they use a PC with a GB to do that nowadays.
The corpses from yesteryear generally look slim. It's the currently living systems that are swollen.
Until half a year ago I used normal USB HDDs that you can buy everywhere. My experience was that they simply aren't meant to be always on and fail pretty soon. I usually had a failed HDD once every quarter year.
It seems to depend on the disk manufacturer.
I have had similar poor experiences to you, but only with two Seagate 2TB "green" USB drives, where one failed without a SMART warning (its SMART data became suddenly spattered with badness) and another reached the "Failure Imminent" status and was promptly retired. They were both in the same environment as two other 2TB USB disks which have been in use for slightly longer without any issues - one is WD, the other is a Buffalo with a WD disk inside. I've replaced the two dead disks with older 1TB USB drives. They're all used for backup of our two home servers, and are cycled between working in a well-ventilated 20C low humidity environment and storage in a dry 0C to 20 enclosure in another building.
This doesn't sound like the suburbs. Sounds more like some white bred mountain compound. Probably surrounded by survivalist compounds on pot plantations.
I stated it's rural, so you're correct that it's not suburbs, but wrong on the rest of your speculations. As far as I know, none of my neighbours are survivalists or run pot plantations (Finland: winter winter, winter). There is a stable about 1km away, and a guy who services tractors about 1km the other direction, but otherwise most people nearby work in the "city" about 20km away.
And those members of the Rectal Inserters Anonymous Assembly and their buddies in the Mutated Pederasts Alaskan Association are now being persecuted because their acronyms are shared with some really sleazy scumags.
I don't know why people defend the use of these toys on Slashdot. They should be ashamed to admit they bought them.
They bit into the apple, chewed and swallowed. Then noticed the slimy worms within.
That embarrassment can be covered only by denial. Hence the defense of their errors.
So the solution is to get the Europeans to subsidize US broadband?
So you're saying that the same level of subsidy should be available in the US? I hate to break this to you, but my connection is not subsidized. So subsidies in the US are already at least as high as here, and possibly higher. However, your ISPs have apparently eaten their subsidies and most of them produced only shit.
The commercial and profitable ISP which serves me also operates nation-wide, but happens to have a monopoly in this area. It's rural, but although high density for a rural area, there are not nearly enough customers to justify two ditches with fiber beside the road. The "regulated" bit means they can't charge more here than in places where they face competition.
what are the odds they have nearly perfect mirrors of 7 or 10 meters?
Hard to say, but probably quite low. The largest telescopes have mirrors of 10-ish meters diameter, but segmented for purposes of manufacturability and reduced mass. These are nearly perfect mirrors for visible light, and depend on adaptive optics (a technology which was originally developed for classified spying purposes). The Keck segmented mirror weighs 18 tons just for the glass part, and an additional 270 tons for the framework holding it, including the adaptive optics actuators. Putting a similar device in space would reduce the required mass of the mount, but not remarkably, as it would need sufficient rigidity (the actuators need a reference structure which yields less than the glass and does not ring).
Given an essentially perfect 10 meter mirror, the resolving power using blue light for targets on the Earth's surface from a quite low 50km orbit would be about 2½mm. This means that two points separated by 2½mm would be just separable (the "Rayleigh" criterion). So, given sufficiently good illumination of its target, it would be able to readably image major headlines and some lesser headlines in a newspaper, but the story text would still be no more than an unintelligible blur.
Scale these results accordingly for smaller or larger telescopes - for instance a 2½ meter mirror would be able to resolve about 1cm from 50km distance in blue light. Of course, real spy satellites operate in much higher orbits, and a resolving potential of 15cm at ground level is conjectured for the 2.4 meter mirror of the KH-11 with a 50% MTF.
I'm sorry, but I'd rather not pay your parents internet bill. If its so important, why don't they move?
I live in the countryside well outside a small city (population about 100,000 including surrounding countryside), and have 100/10 internet. This internet service costs me 43euro per month from the regulated local monopoly. Actually, they're upgrading me to 100/100 in early November with no change in price. So should I move also, to a hell-hole like the US suburbs? GP is correct, US service mostly sucks; some places are OK or even good, but in most places - even some large cities - it sucks.
You don't think the government satellites don't have that type of imagery yet?
Nope. Do the math, the resolving power dR of an optically perfect instrument of diameter D and focal length L using light of wavelength W at working distance equal to focal length is given by:
dR=1.22 W L/D
So for a really thick pube of diameter 0.1mm, using blue light of wavelength 0.0004mm, the L/D must not exceed 204. For low orbit, L is at least 50 kilometers, which suggests D must be at least 250 meters. The larger spy satellites have imperfect mirrors of only 2 or 3 meters, so good luck with scaling their diameters up by two orders of magnitude (i.e. 4 orders of magnitude in area for a simple scaling).
Google Earth scares the shit out of me b/c I cannot imagine WTF the government has with their technology.
You're probably thinking of the aerial photography by USGS and others. Not satellite imagery. It's good, but more than an order of magnitude away from resolving a pube, however.
Now I'm depressed and will never have anything to be proud of.
I've taken on those mugging others (at night in Las Vegas in 1989), but never beaten up anyone in a wheelchair.
WTF? Do you live/work among the Amish or in some wierdo Puritan colony?
All of the people in those photos are decently clothed in a law-abiding fashion (by US and European laws, anyway). There are no naughty bits showing, and probably less skin exposed than by typical office garments.
...that's guaranteed to give the kids - and their parents - a good scare.
To give yourself a better chance of not being arrested and getting your name on a nasty list, try wearing something like this or this, or even this. In some ways, it's even more grotesque than the far-below-average naked body, but probably more legal.
Slashdot Mirror
I have Rhythmbox as default on 10.04 (Ubuntu and Lubuntu), and see no need for Mono. Is this an outbreak of uncharacteristic good sense in Ubuntu (but only a partial atonement for their Unity sins)?
Ah, the "but mooom, he started it!". I get it.
Apple: "It's not fair! He hit me back!"
Or we could just arrest everyone on a rotating basis, assume that they are guilty and give them the option of paying a fine or serving jail time on a chain gang.
You might argue that innocent people will be arrested, but I think there would be relatively few. On a percentage basis, probably below the percentage of innocent people executed in Texas.
And if not, I'm sure Texas can be persuaded to increase its executions of innocent people.
Spock: "Computer. This is a class one priority directive. Compute, to the last digit, the value of Pi."
Computer: "The answer is 10, base Pi."
So, in the end you're going to be Binging it anyway.
If you keep on binging yourself, you'll go blind. You need to get a GF...
Some, but who in their right mind wants to run Word on a tablet?
Someone, somewhere is probably dreaming of running IE6 on a tablet. And someone else probably wants it to run a SAP client (the only thing more horrifying than IE6). Let us hope all such evil maniacs are ignored.
Riiiight, so I drag around an ugly mechanical drive every time I need to use my laptop, sure. That's exactly why I spent extra money on getting a small and light machine.
For bonus points, ensure the external drive is also noisy, smelly, and discolored (as well as scratched and dented). It will make your MacBook Air look even better in comparison. Of course, this image may be tarnished if the external drive is actually doing a valuable job.
I thought it was as mediocre then as it is now. Am I the only one who just doesn't get the popularity of this game?
Actually, I've still never seen it (living in Finland with several Android smartphones in the house, and a variety of smartphones at work). I'm willing to believe it's mediocre or a lot worse than mediocre.
Is "Trinity" a deliberate allusion to "Unity"?
No. Unity is merely one third of Trinity.
Its name is one of the few honest aspects of Unity.
Of course, there's also the group that wants to run it on 6+ year old hardware
This is posted from a laptop which is 8 years old, buddy. It runs Lubuntu 10.04 LTS, and rocks with it (LXDE). It was starting to suck a bit with Ubuntu 10.04 (Gnome 2) and with PCLinuxOS 2009 (KDE 3.something), but LXDE purged the bloat and revived the hardware.
other OSes like Windows 7 likely won't work well on very old hardware either.
In what way is that relevant? The laptop of which I spoke came with original XP (pre SP1), which ran OK on it, but sucked in so many ways (starting with the applications). I can't imagine running Win7 on it; probably more like staggering or slithering than running, actually.
So why don't I get a new laptop? Easy: this one has a nice 17" 1920x1200 display. All the new models (even from the same vendor) have nothing better than a shortscreen 1920x1080, if they even have that. The extra 120 vertical pixels are valuable.
... wait a second, let me read the wikipedia article on this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Haught#cite_note-Haught-Coyne-7
- Is an evolutionary creationist
- Testified against ID in a court case
He's a Catholic theologian, not a US-style Fundie. Not all Christians are afflicted with the Fundie Fallacy and related lunacy; each branch has its own catalog of errors and particular kind of madness.
For example, Catholics are allowed to believe in evolution (two popes more-or-less endorsed it), and generally impugn ID and similar foolishness. However, Catholics are required to believe in a God-did-it-just-for-us creation, albeit not literally the absurd account in Genesis, but a sort-of moving target interpretation that changes over decades (Dawkins was correct in asserting that Catholics were making it up as they went along).
Bloat. Ugly word. Conjures up visions of swollen corpses.
In the early 1990s, I had a 386 system which was loaded with 14MB of RAM. On this system, I had NFS server & client connected to numerous other boxes, OS/2 PM session (typically running PMDraw, Gnuplot, NewsReader/2, Gopher (later WebExplorer), and some CMD.EXE shells), both full screen and windowed Win-OS2 sessions (typically MS Word and suchlike), and an XFree86 session (I forget what it ran, but it was probably important) running simultaneously. In 14MB... and I thought that OS/2 was bloated at the time.
Going back a bit further, I ran classes using a PDP-8 which was loaded up with 16Kwords of memory (1 word = 12 bits). It was multi-user and multi-tasking, and the kids wrote programs in Focal over teletypes. These were all text-based interfaces, naturally, as there was a maximum of 4Kwords in the memory space of any program (including the compiler). Not much bloat, well written manuals documenting everything.
I better doze off in my wheelchair again, now, and drool some more. Otherwise I might reminisce on the multitasking real-time OS I helped write for 8085 systems in the early 1980s using 32KB ROM and 32KB RAM, and which got used quite a lot in industrial control systems (some of them were still running in 2005). Each station could only handle a couple of hundred analog control loops and a few hundred digital I/O with some ladder logic. Shit, they use a PC with a GB to do that nowadays.
The corpses from yesteryear generally look slim. It's the currently living systems that are swollen.
Until half a year ago I used normal USB HDDs that you can buy everywhere. My experience was that they simply aren't meant to be always on and fail pretty soon. I usually had a failed HDD once every quarter year.
It seems to depend on the disk manufacturer.
I have had similar poor experiences to you, but only with two Seagate 2TB "green" USB drives, where one failed without a SMART warning (its SMART data became suddenly spattered with badness) and another reached the "Failure Imminent" status and was promptly retired. They were both in the same environment as two other 2TB USB disks which have been in use for slightly longer without any issues - one is WD, the other is a Buffalo with a WD disk inside. I've replaced the two dead disks with older 1TB USB drives. They're all used for backup of our two home servers, and are cycled between working in a well-ventilated 20C low humidity environment and storage in a dry 0C to 20 enclosure in another building.
This doesn't sound like the suburbs. Sounds more like some white bred mountain compound. Probably surrounded by survivalist compounds on pot plantations.
I stated it's rural, so you're correct that it's not suburbs, but wrong on the rest of your speculations. As far as I know, none of my neighbours are survivalists or run pot plantations (Finland: winter winter, winter). There is a stable about 1km away, and a guy who services tractors about 1km the other direction, but otherwise most people nearby work in the "city" about 20km away.
And those members of the Rectal Inserters Anonymous Assembly and their buddies in the Mutated Pederasts Alaskan Association are now being persecuted because their acronyms are shared with some really sleazy scumags.
I don't know why people defend the use of these toys on Slashdot. They should be ashamed to admit they bought them.
They bit into the apple, chewed and swallowed. Then noticed the slimy worms within.
That embarrassment can be covered only by denial. Hence the defense of their errors.
So the solution is to get the Europeans to subsidize US broadband?
So you're saying that the same level of subsidy should be available in the US? I hate to break this to you, but my connection is not subsidized. So subsidies in the US are already at least as high as here, and possibly higher. However, your ISPs have apparently eaten their subsidies and most of them produced only shit.
The commercial and profitable ISP which serves me also operates nation-wide, but happens to have a monopoly in this area. It's rural, but although high density for a rural area, there are not nearly enough customers to justify two ditches with fiber beside the road. The "regulated" bit means they can't charge more here than in places where they face competition.
what are the odds they have nearly perfect mirrors of 7 or 10 meters?
Hard to say, but probably quite low. The largest telescopes have mirrors of 10-ish meters diameter, but segmented for purposes of manufacturability and reduced mass. These are nearly perfect mirrors for visible light, and depend on adaptive optics (a technology which was originally developed for classified spying purposes). The Keck segmented mirror weighs 18 tons just for the glass part, and an additional 270 tons for the framework holding it, including the adaptive optics actuators. Putting a similar device in space would reduce the required mass of the mount, but not remarkably, as it would need sufficient rigidity (the actuators need a reference structure which yields less than the glass and does not ring).
Given an essentially perfect 10 meter mirror, the resolving power using blue light for targets on the Earth's surface from a quite low 50km orbit would be about 2½mm. This means that two points separated by 2½mm would be just separable (the "Rayleigh" criterion). So, given sufficiently good illumination of its target, it would be able to readably image major headlines and some lesser headlines in a newspaper, but the story text would still be no more than an unintelligible blur.
Scale these results accordingly for smaller or larger telescopes - for instance a 2½ meter mirror would be able to resolve about 1cm from 50km distance in blue light. Of course, real spy satellites operate in much higher orbits, and a resolving potential of 15cm at ground level is conjectured for the 2.4 meter mirror of the KH-11 with a 50% MTF.
I'm sorry, but I'd rather not pay your parents internet bill. If its so important, why don't they move?
I live in the countryside well outside a small city (population about 100,000 including surrounding countryside), and have 100/10 internet. This internet service costs me 43euro per month from the regulated local monopoly. Actually, they're upgrading me to 100/100 in early November with no change in price. So should I move also, to a hell-hole like the US suburbs? GP is correct, US service mostly sucks; some places are OK or even good, but in most places - even some large cities - it sucks.
You don't think the government satellites don't have that type of imagery yet?
Nope. Do the math, the resolving power dR of an optically perfect instrument of diameter D and focal length L using light of wavelength W at working distance equal to focal length is given by:
dR=1.22 W L/D
So for a really thick pube of diameter 0.1mm, using blue light of wavelength 0.0004mm, the L/D must not exceed 204. For low orbit, L is at least 50 kilometers, which suggests D must be at least 250 meters. The larger spy satellites have imperfect mirrors of only 2 or 3 meters, so good luck with scaling their diameters up by two orders of magnitude (i.e. 4 orders of magnitude in area for a simple scaling).
Google Earth scares the shit out of me b/c I cannot imagine WTF the government has with their technology.
You're probably thinking of the aerial photography by USGS and others. Not satellite imagery. It's good, but more than an order of magnitude away from resolving a pube, however.
Now I'm depressed and will never have anything to be proud of.
I've taken on those mugging others (at night in Las Vegas in 1989), but never beaten up anyone in a wheelchair.
Don't retreat! Let's just advance to the rear in the American way...
As soon as the spy satellite images are good enough to resolve pubic hairs, the Chinese hackers will be all over them.
When that happens, nude sunbathing in the decadent West might just cripple the Chinese military effort... So do your duty, girls!
NSFW! NSFW! NSFW!
WTF? Do you live/work among the Amish or in some wierdo Puritan colony?
All of the people in those photos are decently clothed in a law-abiding fashion (by US and European laws, anyway). There are no naughty bits showing, and probably less skin exposed than by typical office garments.
...that's guaranteed to give the kids - and their parents - a good scare.
To give yourself a better chance of not being arrested and getting your name on a nasty list, try wearing something like this or this, or even this. In some ways, it's even more grotesque than the far-below-average naked body, but probably more legal.