Especially funny considering my Touchpad could not natively (i.e., at all) be configured to print to the network-enabled printer on my home network. I suppose it's possible that a third-party driver would be needed, but one would think that a) they would try and package all possible driver downloads or b) would allow you to search the internet for them or c) allow user to upload driver manually, but none of those is apparently possible.
Ah well, I haven't booted into WebOS in weeks, anyway, and the new Cyanogen Alpha 3 is terrific.
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You won't get anything if your GPU doesn't support it. The bug in question was causing any GPU that doesn't support AccelerateTrapezoids to revert to non-accelerated mode, IIRC.
Important note about nvidia/rpmfusion and F16
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If you use nvidia drivers with Fedora -- or at very least, do so with the aid of rpmfusion -- you may want to hold off on upgrading to F16.
To see if you should wait, run the following command:
nvidia-settings -q AccelerateTrapezoids
If you get nothing returned (or more accurately, two CRLFs), you will probably want to hold off on upgrading F15 -> F16. Looks like there is a bug in the nvidia drivers which can cause some pretty severe performance degradation.
Specifically, any card that can't handle trapezoid acceleration will suffer due to this regression. And to put it in perspective, my GT240, which is not ancient doesn't support this. So it's pretty bad.
I've been using smart package manager nearly exclusively for a long time now. There is the occasional unfortunate GUI bug but they seem to get rectified pretty well. And if you want, you can always use the CLI backend.
I think there's plenty to be critical about this map, but I'm not going to take it seriously enough to blast it.
However, it woulda been neat to see some representations of linux distributions/efforts that have disappeared along the way -- maybe as piles of rubble or something. Midori Linux, anyone? Perhaps a dot in Linus Bay...
This is true. American corporations can be ridiculously fickle.
Knew someone who worked at a large PTO firm who tried to introduce Gimp as a free software option for doing quick cleanup work of trademark specimens. At the time (not sure if they still do) the GIMP website had a big writeup about the state of (copyright? trademark? patent? I forget) law hosted somewhere on site and listed from the front page.
That's all it was. A writeup. Perhaps slightly strongly-stated, but nothing absurd. It had nothing to do with GIMP.
Regardless, the PTO firm decided it would be too much of a risk to allow the use of GIMP in their office, given their business/clientele.
It's a valid assessment/opinion even if you don't agree with the interpretation of the term 'Libre'.
You may not find yourself at ease with the idea that the term might be unappealing to some any the US, just as some of those blowhards might find the term unappealing because of perceived associations.
But that doesn't make his statement any less relevant, and doesn't make it a troll.
I had one "24/96" faxmodem that could connect v.42/mnp... but only when I used the Cheyenne Faxmodem software, or whatever it was, to dialin to the BBSes I called. It was the damnedest thing, I mucked with every init string, did every bit of research I could on the thing (in the pre-Google days), but could never get compression to work with any of my comm programs. So when I was just browsing forums or door games, I'd use my comm program of choice... but when I wanted to transfer files, I'd dialin with the faxmodem software for that extra 15-20 bps.
Huh. Surprised no one brought up term programs. I seem to remember using... something... I forget what, before a friend introduced me to QModem. And QModem lasted me a long time, until Telix. A lot of people liked Telix, or perhaps still do. I always liked Commo, which was scriptable/macro-able to the nth degree... or Terminate!, which had all the bells and whistles.... and a lot of weird history behind it, iirc.
It is unlikely that you have children under the age of ten. They like to watch the same animated film over and over.
This. And having now seen Cars about a half dozen times in 1080i on our DVR, and then nearly that many times more in 1080p since we decided we might as well buy the BR, it's becoming worth it to us. Animated films are turning out to be the best candidates for Blu Ray anyway. If the kid gets to watch what he wants, and I don't have to suffer through horribly pixelated SD stuff on the kid channels (Noggin, et al), it's win-win.
You may find this website useful in determining whether or not your screen resolution and viewing distance can/should be adjusted to affect any discernible difference.
Regarding the technological issue -- I think the spidering can be somewhat useful, but it's kind of like bringing a knife to a gunfight; it isn't going to make up for all the gaffes and flip-flopping on positions that McCain has stated publicly, versus something written on a website/weblog.
A youtube video comparing/contrasting McCain against himself -- of which there are many -- are far more damning than a diff of a website.
...this, of course, probably back before they called anything "skins".
But I remember a friend who found various themes for his Simcity -- there was an "old west" style theme, and a futuristic one and one or two others. The game itself wasn't any different, but instead of, say, gas stations, you'd have horse pastures or something.
I should probably JFGI (again), but I have tried in the past to find anything about them and have been unable.
Not trying to be particularly incindiary, but you know what I'm hearing here? A bunch of "whaa-whaa! Union!" pre-FUD. Clinging to the only identity that american automakers have anymore -- as much as the companies themselves probably hate it -- a union lifeline coupled with "made in America" pride.
I hate the word "paradigm", but really, if such a shift were to take place, with SV moving to the forefront in vehicle breakthroughs, more power to them, even if it comes at the cost of American manufacturing. Getting out of that mold would behoove, not shackle, us. In fact, the argument for American labor in this case feels a whole lot like the same luddite argument spurred by fears that "robots and computers in the workplace will cost American jobs!". That didn't really happen, either, did it?
I could be wrong, but I don't see someone making a lot of inroads arguing pro-union stuff on/. -- from all I've seen, most (but not all) in the tech sector have resisted efforts to unionise.
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Here's an article from as far back as 2007
http://www.bloggingwv.com/print-around-the-world/
If he can use a keyboard/mouse for a while, he could build things, but also work on circuit design (redstone) as well.
"The conservatives are effective. They do things. All we do is buy animal-friendly mascara. " -- Jude, _The Last Supper_
Especially funny considering my Touchpad could not natively (i.e., at all) be configured to print to the network-enabled printer on my home network. I suppose it's possible that a third-party driver would be needed, but one would think that a) they would try and package all possible driver downloads or b) would allow you to search the internet for them or c) allow user to upload driver manually, but none of those is apparently possible.
Ah well, I haven't booted into WebOS in weeks, anyway, and the new Cyanogen Alpha 3 is terrific.
You won't get anything if your GPU doesn't support it. The bug in question was causing any GPU that doesn't support AccelerateTrapezoids to revert to non-accelerated mode, IIRC.
If you use nvidia drivers with Fedora -- or at very least, do so with the aid of rpmfusion -- you may want to hold off on upgrading to F16.
To see if you should wait, run the following command:
nvidia-settings -q AccelerateTrapezoids
If you get nothing returned (or more accurately, two CRLFs), you will probably want to hold off on upgrading F15 -> F16. Looks like there is a bug in the nvidia drivers which can cause some pretty severe performance degradation.
Specifically, any card that can't handle trapezoid acceleration will suffer due to this regression. And to put it in perspective, my GT240, which is not ancient doesn't support this. So it's pretty bad.
More details: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=166698
It /is/ apparently fixed in the 290.06 driver - but that's not in rpmfusion yet.
I've been using smart package manager nearly exclusively for a long time now. There is the occasional unfortunate GUI bug but they seem to get rectified pretty well. And if you want, you can always use the CLI backend.
http://labix.org/smart
I think there's plenty to be critical about this map, but I'm not going to take it seriously enough to blast it.
However, it woulda been neat to see some representations of linux distributions/efforts that have disappeared along the way -- maybe as piles of rubble or something. Midori Linux, anyone? Perhaps a dot in Linus Bay...
...but i mean isn't this what the folks at Second Life have been doing all along? :P.
... the interface will initially be test-marketed in Asia, under "Hong Kong FUI" branding.
This is true. American corporations can be ridiculously fickle.
Knew someone who worked at a large PTO firm who tried to introduce Gimp as a free software option for doing quick cleanup work of trademark specimens. At the time (not sure if they still do) the GIMP website had a big writeup about the state of (copyright? trademark? patent? I forget) law hosted somewhere on site and listed from the front page.
That's all it was. A writeup. Perhaps slightly strongly-stated, but nothing absurd. It had nothing to do with GIMP.
Regardless, the PTO firm decided it would be too much of a risk to allow the use of GIMP in their office, given their business/clientele.
You completely missed what he said.
It won't see much adoption by offices in the U.S
It's a valid assessment/opinion even if you don't agree with the interpretation of the term 'Libre'.
You may not find yourself at ease with the idea that the term might be unappealing to some any the US, just as some of those blowhards might find the term unappealing because of perceived associations.
But that doesn't make his statement any less relevant, and doesn't make it a troll.
Wise words.
Sixdegrees -> Friendster -> Orkut -> Myspace -> Facebook. And I know I am missing at least one or two in there.
Nevermind, they did downthread. :-D
newbs.
Probably try to get himself named to the Wake County Board of Education.
I had one "24/96" faxmodem that could connect v.42/mnp... but only when I used the Cheyenne Faxmodem software, or whatever it was, to dialin to the BBSes I called. It was the damnedest thing, I mucked with every init string, did every bit of research I could on the thing (in the pre-Google days), but could never get compression to work with any of my comm programs. So when I was just browsing forums or door games, I'd use my comm program of choice... but when I wanted to transfer files, I'd dialin with the faxmodem software for that extra 15-20 bps.
Huh. Surprised no one brought up term programs. I seem to remember using... something... I forget what, before a friend introduced me to QModem. And QModem lasted me a long time, until Telix. A lot of people liked Telix, or perhaps still do. I always liked Commo, which was scriptable/macro-able to the nth degree... or Terminate!, which had all the bells and whistles.... and a lot of weird history behind it, iirc.
It is unlikely that you have children under the age of ten. They like to watch the same animated film over and over.
This. And having now seen Cars about a half dozen times in 1080i on our DVR, and then nearly that many times more in 1080p since we decided we might as well buy the BR, it's becoming worth it to us. Animated films are turning out to be the best candidates for Blu Ray anyway. If the kid gets to watch what he wants, and I don't have to suffer through horribly pixelated SD stuff on the kid channels (Noggin, et al), it's win-win.
You may find this website useful in determining whether or not your screen resolution and viewing distance can/should be adjusted to affect any discernible difference.
http://www.carltonbale.com/home-theater/home-theater-calculator/
Refactor how, and how often do you do this? Reply under this comment [slashdot.org], please.
Would that be a GOTO? ;)
I hear that if you accumulate ten McCain Points, you can trade them in for a liver spot.
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Regarding the technological issue -- I think the spidering can be somewhat useful, but it's kind of like bringing a knife to a gunfight; it isn't going to make up for all the gaffes and flip-flopping on positions that McCain has stated publicly, versus something written on a website/weblog.
A youtube video comparing/contrasting McCain against himself -- of which there are many -- are far more damning than a diff of a website.
...only for those who continue to confuse that +5 ogre slaying knife online and in real life ;)
...this, of course, probably back before they called anything "skins".
But I remember a friend who found various themes for his Simcity -- there was an "old west" style theme, and a futuristic one and one or two others. The game itself wasn't any different, but instead of, say, gas stations, you'd have horse pastures or something.
I should probably JFGI (again), but I have tried in the past to find anything about them and have been unable.
Not trying to be particularly incindiary, but you know what I'm hearing here? A bunch of "whaa-whaa! Union!" pre-FUD. Clinging to the only identity that american automakers have anymore -- as much as the companies themselves probably hate it -- a union lifeline coupled with "made in America" pride.
/. -- from all I've seen, most (but not all) in the tech sector have resisted efforts to unionise.
I hate the word "paradigm", but really, if such a shift were to take place, with SV moving to the forefront in vehicle breakthroughs, more power to them, even if it comes at the cost of American manufacturing. Getting out of that mold would behoove, not shackle, us. In fact, the argument for American labor in this case feels a whole lot like the same luddite argument spurred by fears that "robots and computers in the workplace will cost American jobs!". That didn't really happen, either, did it?
I could be wrong, but I don't see someone making a lot of inroads arguing pro-union stuff on