1. Demolish Windsor, Ontario 2. Push for new nuclear reactors or expand the horshoe falls' power production 3. ??? 4. Cheap data centres 5. Nothing of value was lost.
It means when IBM incorporates JFS, or hires kernel-hackers, that those changes benefit every last linux user. That when Red Hat does the same, it might mean a competitor gets it too; but they're going to be forced to reveal their code, too.
BSD/LGPL only works in some cases. Linux is only popular because of the GPL.
What if I only want specific packages? Or more obscure packages?
I want this to get adapted for Debian and Ubuntu, that way you can roll your own custom version a lot more easily. So that way you could, for example, just make your own version of Ubuntu, but including proprietary codecs + software, and maybe other packages you often use, and remove some you don't like on the CD, no matter how obscure.
haaaaa, how cute. That's a 2008 estimate if I recall correctly.
I think it was back in '03, or '04, Torvalds estimated the linux install base at around or just over 1 billion. (there are barely any windows embedded devices. they are barely a blip on the radar, even if MS didn't figure them in their count.)
So no, 1 billion windows installs is in no way impressive.
What's your point? Oh, and get this: I get the latest version of my OS of choice too!
There's nothing special about mac hardware. It doesn't last long. Apple is an OEM. Maybe quality was better back in the day, but brown iPhones, aluminum macs (seriously? it's not even thick!), Foxconn motherboards (*shudder*), and all the issues with magsafe make me stamp a big "DONOTWANT" over apple parts.
1. I think Firefox and a few other browsers now support "apt://" which interfaces with apt and does an apt-get install for packages. It's an idea.
2. ROX supports something like Apple's.app. Your package can be viewed as a single icon representing the program (I think it works with both directories and archives). There's also ZeroInstall.
Honestly, I don't like it either, but it works better than having a million versions of every app distributed over thousands of sites without any checksumming and other integrity checks. In the ideal world, project maintainers would have an "easy install" option, sort of like what ROX has, and let the distribution maintainers manage their repositories.
uOttawa has tunnels all under it, and all sorts of "secret rooms". So did my high school. But nothing this intense.
There's a place in Danemark, I think in Copenhagen actually. From overhead maps it looks like a bunker or water treatment something, but it seems there's cameras and sensors everywhere. Weird.
Think of the consequences, of an oppressive state, that willingly attacks anyone (esp. cyber attacks), blackmails its neighbours (over North Korea), and completely ignores any laws on copyright (be they good or bad). I mean, right now things are not perfect, but at least in the US you can clean out the political chambers and really bring in fresh blood.
But who am I kidding. You're all a bunch of self-loathing teens threatening to slash your wrists.
The US used two nukes offensively to end a war in the least painful way possible. (an amphibious invasion of Japan is a death wish)
Little Kim, on the other hand, is insane enough to threaten his neighbours. The US at least was on good terms for the most part with the USSR when it came to stuff like accidents with subs or something.
North Korea or even Iran getting nukes is like a Cuban Missile Crisis without more missiles in Turkey. And don't forget, negotiations don't work with North Korea or Iran. Not one bit.
Speaking of the BeagleBoard, there's no way to pass audio through that HDMI connector, is there? Possibly splice HDMI and a 3.5mm connector together?
That's probably the single most dissapointing part about the beagleboard, the lack of audio over HDMI. I know it's licensing issues, but it would have made the beagleboard the best HTPC for sub-1080p setups.
I've always wondered why nobody ever stepped up and this, innexpensively.
Look at TI's DaVinci lineup. It's supposed to be small enough to be used in digital cameras (I've only seen it in the OSD 2.0 preview units) and sips power, while being fast enough to encode 720p60 h.264 at real-time. I think there's a beefier DaVinci that can do 1080p30 h.264. (and some devices like Leadtek's Cell card can do it faster than real time at 1080p.)
The major problem with them, other than availability, is cost. Seriously, I'm not going to spend 300$ on a Cell card that makes no mention of an OS other than "Windows XP/Vista". I'm not going to blow 1000$ on a DSP/CPU combo that is supposed to sell for sub-10$ in bulk. And it needs to be able to transcode video using FFMpeg, and occupy a PCIEx1 or PCI slot, or heck USB or FireWire.
Winter here is extremely cold and summer extremely hot.
What I've noticed is that summer just feels unbearable some years (temperature doesn't always matter) and it makes me so much more agitated, and tires me out a lot faster. Right now it's 14C in the afternoon outside and I'm having trouble keeping cool, and it just makes me angrier for some reason.
How long until we discover our solar panels covered up the native environment of some desert bug, which has been the sole reason we're protected from X disease?
Or that we've destroyed some endagered cacti/desert critter, and all the "free-the-animals" nuts jump on us?
Is it our fault or responsibility that all of the 3rd world is booming in population, taking their 6+ kids to Europe, and living there?
There's nothing racist about saying Europe is facing a cultural death. If anything it's more racist to say you don't give a damn about there being no white people in Europe. Isn't the death of any culture sad? Didn't you die a little on the inside, too, when you found out about the Japanese situation? Or when your kids (or you when you were a teen) found out about how Russia's population is dwindling down to nothing?
It depends where you are, though. I think this whole city-living has killed being a kid.
When I was growing up I didn't have any kids in my neighbourhood, let alone any my age. What was I going to do? I went out and played, sure, and my dad would bring me places too.
But not everyone got the chance to grow up in a small town out in the middle of nowhere, biking from town to town. I wish I lived that life... it would have been so much cooler.
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Definately. It's just what you need to push for good stability in the north.
The amount of crime, abuse, drug use, and poverty in the north is astounding for a region in a highly-developped nation.
(or were you saying by the 49th? I was thinking more towards Iqaluit)
1. Demolish Windsor, Ontario
2. Push for new nuclear reactors or expand the horshoe falls' power production
3. ???
4. Cheap data centres
5. Nothing of value was lost.
Sure sounds like freedom to me.
It means when IBM incorporates JFS, or hires kernel-hackers, that those changes benefit every last linux user. That when Red Hat does the same, it might mean a competitor gets it too; but they're going to be forced to reveal their code, too.
BSD/LGPL only works in some cases. Linux is only popular because of the GPL.
Mostly you, but it is true that GTK apps will use more images than their windows competitors. Don't know why, must just be a HID thing.
KDE seemed to have wasted space in the initial KDE4 release, but I haven't checked on it in such a long time so I have no idea what it's like.
Still, I find GTK and Qt to be a lot more colourful than Windows, regardless of themes on either platform.
Slax isn't quite there, though.
What if I only want specific packages? Or more obscure packages?
I want this to get adapted for Debian and Ubuntu, that way you can roll your own custom version a lot more easily. So that way you could, for example, just make your own version of Ubuntu, but including proprietary codecs + software, and maybe other packages you often use, and remove some you don't like on the CD, no matter how obscure.
One billion windows devices?
haaaaa, how cute. That's a 2008 estimate if I recall correctly.
I think it was back in '03, or '04, Torvalds estimated the linux install base at around or just over 1 billion. (there are barely any windows embedded devices. they are barely a blip on the radar, even if MS didn't figure them in their count.)
So no, 1 billion windows installs is in no way impressive.
I've got Dell hardware from the 90s working fine.
What's your point? Oh, and get this: I get the latest version of my OS of choice too!
There's nothing special about mac hardware. It doesn't last long. Apple is an OEM. Maybe quality was better back in the day, but brown iPhones, aluminum macs (seriously? it's not even thick!), Foxconn motherboards (*shudder*), and all the issues with magsafe make me stamp a big "DONOTWANT" over apple parts.
1. I think Firefox and a few other browsers now support "apt://" which interfaces with apt and does an apt-get install for packages. It's an idea.
2. ROX supports something like Apple's .app. Your package can be viewed as a single icon representing the program (I think it works with both directories and archives). There's also ZeroInstall.
Honestly, I don't like it either, but it works better than having a million versions of every app distributed over thousands of sites without any checksumming and other integrity checks. In the ideal world, project maintainers would have an "easy install" option, sort of like what ROX has, and let the distribution maintainers manage their repositories.
uOttawa has tunnels all under it, and all sorts of "secret rooms". So did my high school. But nothing this intense.
There's a place in Danemark, I think in Copenhagen actually. From overhead maps it looks like a bunker or water treatment something, but it seems there's cameras and sensors everywhere. Weird.
If you liked the interface in RISC, but like Linux, you could try ROX.
As a Canadian, oh god no.
Think of the consequences, of an oppressive state, that willingly attacks anyone (esp. cyber attacks), blackmails its neighbours (over North Korea), and completely ignores any laws on copyright (be they good or bad). I mean, right now things are not perfect, but at least in the US you can clean out the political chambers and really bring in fresh blood.
But who am I kidding. You're all a bunch of self-loathing teens threatening to slash your wrists.
Cowards.
The US used two nukes offensively to end a war in the least painful way possible. (an amphibious invasion of Japan is a death wish)
Little Kim, on the other hand, is insane enough to threaten his neighbours. The US at least was on good terms for the most part with the USSR when it came to stuff like accidents with subs or something.
North Korea or even Iran getting nukes is like a Cuban Missile Crisis without more missiles in Turkey. And don't forget, negotiations don't work with North Korea or Iran. Not one bit.
Speaking of the BeagleBoard, there's no way to pass audio through that HDMI connector, is there? Possibly splice HDMI and a 3.5mm connector together?
That's probably the single most dissapointing part about the beagleboard, the lack of audio over HDMI. I know it's licensing issues, but it would have made the beagleboard the best HTPC for sub-1080p setups.
I've always wondered why nobody ever stepped up and this, innexpensively.
Look at TI's DaVinci lineup. It's supposed to be small enough to be used in digital cameras (I've only seen it in the OSD 2.0 preview units) and sips power, while being fast enough to encode 720p60 h.264 at real-time. I think there's a beefier DaVinci that can do 1080p30 h.264. (and some devices like Leadtek's Cell card can do it faster than real time at 1080p.)
The major problem with them, other than availability, is cost. Seriously, I'm not going to spend 300$ on a Cell card that makes no mention of an OS other than "Windows XP/Vista". I'm not going to blow 1000$ on a DSP/CPU combo that is supposed to sell for sub-10$ in bulk. And it needs to be able to transcode video using FFMpeg, and occupy a PCIEx1 or PCI slot, or heck USB or FireWire.
Perhaps those heirs should work to make their living instead?
Hello LWATCDR. Meet Click 'n Run.
But Linspire is the devil so it never quite caught on.
When you buy an ebook God plants a stalk of corn.
Winter here is extremely cold and summer extremely hot.
What I've noticed is that summer just feels unbearable some years (temperature doesn't always matter) and it makes me so much more agitated, and tires me out a lot faster. Right now it's 14C in the afternoon outside and I'm having trouble keeping cool, and it just makes me angrier for some reason.
Wasn't that the year NASA placed their sensors/monitoring gear right next to an air conditionning exaust?
The ice levels of your childhood were extremely high.
1950-1970 is not an accurate depection of Earth's ideal climate, stop using it as an example.
Real 802.11g, but sadly only WEP. (at the time, there was no WPA2)
Reccomended course of action is to get a USB adapter to put into host mode and set it to transmit as 802.11b with WEP. Avoids any leechers.
Common mistake: They didn't give the money to the Taliban, they gave it to afghan "freedom-fighters". The Taliban later showed up and assumed control.
Deserts are not completely empty.
How long until we discover our solar panels covered up the native environment of some desert bug, which has been the sole reason we're protected from X disease?
Or that we've destroyed some endagered cacti/desert critter, and all the "free-the-animals" nuts jump on us?
Is it our fault or responsibility that all of the 3rd world is booming in population, taking their 6+ kids to Europe, and living there?
There's nothing racist about saying Europe is facing a cultural death. If anything it's more racist to say you don't give a damn about there being no white people in Europe. Isn't the death of any culture sad? Didn't you die a little on the inside, too, when you found out about the Japanese situation? Or when your kids (or you when you were a teen) found out about how Russia's population is dwindling down to nothing?
It depends where you are, though. I think this whole city-living has killed being a kid.
When I was growing up I didn't have any kids in my neighbourhood, let alone any my age. What was I going to do? I went out and played, sure, and my dad would bring me places too.
But not everyone got the chance to grow up in a small town out in the middle of nowhere, biking from town to town. I wish I lived that life... it would have been so much cooler.