To elaborate on the danger to the environment, look at this article (www.organicconsumers.org/patent/slowgrow.cfm) to see just how insane things are getting.
You are, indeed, very succesfully elaborating how insane anti-GM crowd is getting.
The nutcases at Scotts have created a grass that can't be killed with most herbicides.
Not most. Not many. Not even few. ONE, you read that right, ONE specific herbicide.
Guess what happens when it spreads to "natural" areas (quotes needed because virtually everywhere has been polluted with alien species).
Well, let me think... same thing that happens when regular grass does? I don't seem to remember seeing any news about golf course grasses almost succeeding in taking over the world and only stopped in last minute by timely dose of Roundup.
Complex ecologies get converted to a golf green, thousands of animal and plant species go extinct
Ow, wow, sounds bad. You might want to explain how exactly it does that. They did not convert it to superman-grass capable of outcompeting every other plant species on the planet, the only difference is the resistance to that one herbicide.
transposon gene is not being expressed in a completely different species from the one originating it.
Transposons may not jump into different species, but they are by no means the only mean of "mobile" genetic material, bacterial plasmids obviously cross species barriers, and some viruses are able to transfer DNA between their hosts.
Dependency checking is (sometimes, I think it's heavily affected by how complicated the dependencies are) kind of slow, true, as is fetching the package data because they're all in separate header files (that has to be pretty hard on web server too), but other than those two bad bottlenecks, 100x slower is bull.
Yum did not come from RedHat, nor is it any more native to RH than apt4rpm is. It came out of Duke University, and is heavily modified version of Yellowdog Updater (yup). Even the name stands for that, "Yellowdog Updater, Modified".
If I'd have to make a guess, RH/Fedora chose it because they love all things Python.
XFree86 4.3.0 FC1 was using came out 26.2.2003, and Radeon 9600 and 9800 series later that year (9800XT not until november, I believe) so it couldn't support them out-of-the-box because they didn't exist when the relevant X version was made.
Since this one will be using the much more recent X.org server based on XFree 4.4.0, yes, it should work fine now.
Note that that concerns only modifying programs, not making new ones, and you left out the best part:
(Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on the Program is not required to print an announcement.)
Which explains how bash etc. "get away" with it, basically they don't get away with anything, there is no requirement to include that in a new program and there is no requirement to include that in modified program if the original was also interactive and didn't have it.
If you modify a previously non-interactive program to be interactive, then it needs to be added.
... I have no idea what a professional DTP application needs JPEG or PNG support for as you need CMYK output if you want to use this professionally. (Please spare me the "but Photoshop saves CMYK JPEGs". Thank you.)
So it has few features that may make it more usable for non-professionals too? Oh the horror, the horror.
Apparently not very much if you don't know that nautilus DOES browse "ssh shares" (sftp), is not slow any more with 2.6, and gedit can open a document from ftp server.
You may love it but the fact is that it breaks the UI paridigm.
The fact is that no UI paradigm fits every possible situation, the amount of pages "power browsers" have open would make using the system nigh impossible if they were all open in invidual windows, and the same holds true in any case where a huge amount of documents is open.
Windows is *document centric*, not application centric. You don't "use" IE, you view a web page. That's why Word is no longer MDI. You don't "use" Word, you open a document.
Besides, that's just word soup, and the name is stupid. You may "view a web page" all you want but it doesn't change the undeniable fact that you use ie toview a web page, application isn't going anywhere from that equation no matter how the words are twisted, it's just as much application centric whether or not there are one or multiple documents open per application window. Window centric would reflect it better.
It has a much more powerfull arm processor, saturn emulation to run old programs, IR port, usb port, and a really cool cs catridge for more memory.
The "old programs" include operating system! What good is powerful arm processor if you waste it's power by running nothing but an emulator for much slower system? 48's already have IR slot, USB port is admittedly neat and SD slot even more so.
The keypad supposedly still sucks compared to old ones, but granted, the + is a good step after the much-hated 49G. They should've named it something else, though, it's misleading and now most probably associate it with 49G.
Nothing simple, or black and white, I would think...
Anyway I plan to buy either a fancy TI-89 or HP49G, when calculus 1 comes along.
The AC's link is probably pretty good start in comparing those, though it's about 49G+, the plus seems very minor difference if you're just looking at model number but it's apparently VERY different and much better than 49G (not that the non-plus is even available anymore).
Did TI finally fess up and create a better beast, or did the quality of HP's went down the drain?
Bit of both, probably, the gap wasn't THAT big, after all, if TI takes few steps forward and at the same time HP quality wents down even a bit, doesn't need to be a total failure...
Is it true that HP screwed up the 49, and all the keys are in the wrong place.
That's probably at least partly a matter of taste, if you've totally used to something and then they go and do any kind of major change to it, of course it feels all wrong to those people... AFAIK the second major gripe with early 49 keypads was that they were rubber and very hard to use, you don't know when it's pressed enough, etc. Old HP's had nice hard plastic keys, with very good audible and tactile feedback - when it clicked, you knew that the input was done. 49G+ has plastic keys again but still nowhere as good as they were.
You use one so I am curious about your opinions? I wonder if its the TI giving them away at schools?
Giving away them at schools is probably a part of it, in addition to those mishaps and improvement of TI.
As for why I started using an old HP even though I'm from the new "TI generation", well... I don't think there's any clear answer to that, or if there is, it's simple, it's mostly by coincidence. I was using a TI-85 in high school like everyone else, and when it was over somehow got this idea that it wasn't good enough for College (looking backwards, it probably would've been, it wasn't so math intensive here), and started looking for a step better one, saw someone selling used 48GX for dirt cheap, knew they were supposedly very good and grabbed it, and the rest is history.
Hardly. If you have a 300 second ping between you and your buddy you can jump servers and go to the one he is on.
Guess it might so in that case, though 300 second lag is pretty damn rare. Whois does show the server on ircnet but it's not much use because more often than not you can't jump there anyway, because everyone seems to I-line only their "own" folks.
I'd forgotten about IRCnet because I never used it. I guess it is one of the big four though.
Yup, it's about equal in size to undernet and efnet, QuakeNet being easily biggest of 'em all now. Might be partially a continent barrier, IRCnet is big in Europe and EF&DALnets in US.
Probably worth a try if you find the time, of course you might end up hating that one too, but nothing much to lose.
Back in those days you could join most channels and find a rational person to talk to. Nowdays it seems to be dominated by script kiddie AOL Windows users.
Well, depends on channel(s) too... there are some bastions of rational people left. And luckily QuakeNet seems to be drawing away the worst of the worst.
That's happening everywhere, though, nothing limited to IRC, Usenet is full of whining morons now, web boards and the like have been always their domain.
I don't shead many tears over DALnet because I never cared for their big-brotherish attitude and I felt like their "services" (which every other baby-IRC network that came after co-adopted) went overboard.
I don't think I've ever used DALnet, no idea about attitude or number of services, I just brought it up because it's probably the biggest and most well known case of whole irc network brought down because of DDoS wave.
Can't use/map? Can't see what server your buddy is on? WTF?/map? Never been on any network where that exists, or ever had, and who cares about that or on what server someone is? Totally useless data, I'd say.
Never used EFNet either, what comes to time... well, that obviously depends on person.
I've always been mostly IRCnet person and it seems to stay relatively untouched so far, of course there's no point in trying to claim that influx of idiots doesn't reach there at all, it does, no corner of internet is safe from them.
But these days, my single requirement - a keypad that actually works as a regular keypad seems to mean that I won't be getting another Nokia.
All of the 6xxx ("business") and 8xxx ("snob") series seem to still have pretty regular looking keypad from a quick glance at web site. Though looks like the weird pads are slowly creeping even into those conservative lines.
The insane keypads are mostly confined into 3k "teen" and 7k "trendy" phone series.
I realize I'm pretty wierd, but I've used my 48gx as an alarm clock for years.
The IR (with suitable software) in 48gx is pretty nifty for timing alarm from every remote controllable device like tv, stereo (though most of those have a built-in alarm), too. With a bit of work, you could even make it first start the device and then gradually turn up volume.
It'll just shift the DCC attacts to target IRC networks (as if they aren't under fire already, witness the destruction of DALnet), and cause grief to those who still use IRC for what it's meant for.
Pirate away if you wan't to, but don't get our IRC servers killed because you didn't have enough bandwidth to keep your own warez network running.
When the X-15 was flying NASA essentially shuttle technology 20 years before the shuttle itself. What delayed the inception was Kennedy's push in the Apollo project which was an aviation evolutionary throwback.
Throwback it may be, but evolution is all about efficiency, not complexity, if a simple throw-away rocket is more cheaper than reusable, er, rebuildable winged Shuttle it's more evolved for it's niche no matter how primitive it seems.
Aviation fuel is not taxed, much to the disadvantage of the environment. If it was taxed at the same rate as automotive fuel is in most of the world, flying would be priced where it should be, i.e. out of reach of most people, and there would be substantial environmental benefit.
Because there are much less airplanes than there are cars. If plane emissions ever start to get anywhere even NEAR that of cars, you can bet that they start to get taxed more.
Jet aircraft have done far more damage to the ozone layer than anything else.
Links, please. Planes emit mostly CO2 and Nitrogen oxides just like anything else that burns fossil fuels, NO's do destroy ozone, but nowhere as efficiently as chlorine, and only supersonics fly high enough for their emissions to make it into ozone layer. Now that concorde is gone, only supersonics are military aircraft, not much hope trying to prevent those from flying with taxes.
On lower altutides that most jet aircraft fly at, NO's actually stimulate ozone production, of course on the low altitudes it's a pollutant of it's own and a greenhouse gas as well.
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To elaborate on the danger to the environment, look at this article (www.organicconsumers.org/patent/slowgrow.cfm) to see just how insane things are getting.
You are, indeed, very succesfully elaborating how insane anti-GM crowd is getting.
The nutcases at Scotts have created a grass that can't be killed with most herbicides.
Not most. Not many. Not even few. ONE, you read that right, ONE specific herbicide.
Guess what happens when it spreads to "natural" areas (quotes needed because virtually everywhere has been polluted with alien species).
Well, let me think... same thing that happens when regular grass does? I don't seem to remember seeing any news about golf course grasses almost succeeding in taking over the world and only stopped in last minute by timely dose of Roundup.
Complex ecologies get converted to a golf green, thousands of animal and plant species go extinct
Ow, wow, sounds bad. You might want to explain how exactly it does that. They did not convert it to superman-grass capable of outcompeting every other plant species on the planet, the only difference is the resistance to that one herbicide.
transposon gene is not being expressed in a completely different species from the one originating it.
Transposons may not jump into different species, but they are by no means the only mean of "mobile" genetic material, bacterial plasmids obviously cross species barriers, and some viruses are able to transfer DNA between their hosts.
So there, nature has cross-species GM too.
Dependency checking is (sometimes, I think it's heavily affected by how complicated the dependencies are) kind of slow, true, as is fetching the package data because they're all in separate header files (that has to be pretty hard on web server too), but other than those two bad bottlenecks, 100x slower is bull.
Yum did not come from RedHat, nor is it any more native to RH than apt4rpm is. It came out of Duke University, and is heavily modified version of Yellowdog Updater (yup). Even the name stands for that, "Yellowdog Updater, Modified".
If I'd have to make a guess, RH/Fedora chose it because they love all things Python.
You are correct when it comes to ATI binary drivers, yes.
I believe this was about the default non-3d accelerated drivers that ship with X.
Nothing much they could do about it.
XFree86 4.3.0 FC1 was using came out 26.2.2003, and Radeon 9600 and 9800 series later that year (9800XT not until november, I believe) so it couldn't support them out-of-the-box because they didn't exist when the relevant X version was made.
Since this one will be using the much more recent X.org server based on XFree 4.4.0, yes, it should work fine now.
Note that that concerns only modifying programs, not making new ones, and you left out the best part:
(Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on the Program is not required to print an announcement.)
Which explains how bash etc. "get away" with it, basically they don't get away with anything, there is no requirement to include that in a new program and there is no requirement to include that in modified program if the original was also interactive and didn't have it.
If you modify a previously non-interactive program to be interactive, then it needs to be added.
Well, it's a windows emulator, after all...
... I have no idea what a professional DTP application needs JPEG or PNG support for as you need CMYK output if you want to use this professionally. (Please spare me the "but Photoshop saves CMYK JPEGs". Thank you.)
So it has few features that may make it more usable for non-professionals too? Oh the horror, the horror.
I know this because I use Gnome on a daily basis.
Apparently not very much if you don't know that nautilus DOES browse "ssh shares" (sftp), is not slow any more with 2.6, and gedit can open a document from ftp server.
You may love it but the fact is that it breaks the UI paridigm.
The fact is that no UI paradigm fits every possible situation, the amount of pages "power browsers" have open would make using the system nigh impossible if they were all open in invidual windows, and the same holds true in any case where a huge amount of documents is open.
Windows is *document centric*, not application centric. You don't "use" IE, you view a web page. That's why Word is no longer MDI. You don't "use" Word, you open a document.
Besides, that's just word soup, and the name is stupid. You may "view a web page" all you want but it doesn't change the undeniable fact that you use ie to view a web page, application isn't going anywhere from that equation no matter how the words are twisted, it's just as much application centric whether or not there are one or multiple documents open per application window. Window centric would reflect it better.
Though it seems to me it would have made more sense to just take the Galeon source, make it respect GNOME prefs, and label it Epiphany.
Except that that is what happened. Epiphany was not written from scratch, it's a fork of Galeon.
It has a much more powerfull arm processor, saturn emulation to run old programs, IR port, usb port, and a really cool cs catridge for more memory.
The "old programs" include operating system! What good is powerful arm processor if you waste it's power by running nothing but an emulator for much slower system? 48's already have IR slot, USB port is admittedly neat and SD slot even more so.
The keypad supposedly still sucks compared to old ones, but granted, the + is a good step after the much-hated 49G. They should've named it something else, though, it's misleading and now most probably associate it with 49G.
I never used one. What happened?
Nothing simple, or black and white, I would think...
Anyway I plan to buy either a fancy TI-89 or HP49G, when calculus 1 comes along.
The AC's link is probably pretty good start in comparing those, though it's about 49G+, the plus seems very minor difference if you're just looking at model number but it's apparently VERY different and much better than 49G (not that the non-plus is even available anymore).
Did TI finally fess up and create a better beast, or did the quality of HP's went down the drain?
Bit of both, probably, the gap wasn't THAT big, after all, if TI takes few steps forward and at the same time HP quality wents down even a bit, doesn't need to be a total failure...
Is it true that HP screwed up the 49, and all the keys are in the wrong place.
That's probably at least partly a matter of taste, if you've totally used to something and then they go and do any kind of major change to it, of course it feels all wrong to those people... AFAIK the second major gripe with early 49 keypads was that they were rubber and very hard to use, you don't know when it's pressed enough, etc. Old HP's had nice hard plastic keys, with very good audible and tactile feedback - when it clicked, you knew that the input was done. 49G+ has plastic keys again but still nowhere as good as they were.
You use one so I am curious about your opinions? I wonder if its the TI giving them away at schools?
Giving away them at schools is probably a part of it, in addition to those mishaps and improvement of TI.
As for why I started using an old HP even though I'm from the new "TI generation", well... I don't think there's any clear answer to that, or if there is, it's simple, it's mostly by coincidence.
I was using a TI-85 in high school like everyone else, and when it was over somehow got this idea that it wasn't good enough for College (looking backwards, it probably would've been, it wasn't so math intensive here), and started looking for a step better one, saw someone selling used 48GX for dirt cheap, knew they were supposedly very good and grabbed it, and the rest is history.
Hardly. If you have a 300 second ping between you and your buddy you can jump servers and go to the one he is on.
Guess it might so in that case, though 300 second lag is pretty damn rare. Whois does show the server on ircnet but it's not much use because more often than not you can't jump there anyway, because everyone seems to I-line only their "own" folks.
I'd forgotten about IRCnet because I never used it. I guess it is one of the big four though.
Yup, it's about equal in size to undernet and efnet, QuakeNet being easily biggest of 'em all now. Might be partially a continent barrier, IRCnet is big in Europe and EF&DALnets in US.
Probably worth a try if you find the time, of course you might end up hating that one too, but nothing much to lose.
Back in those days you could join most channels and find a rational person to talk to. Nowdays it seems to be dominated by script kiddie AOL Windows users.
Well, depends on channel(s) too... there are some bastions of rational people left. And luckily QuakeNet seems to be drawing away the worst of the worst.
That's happening everywhere, though, nothing limited to IRC, Usenet is full of whining morons now, web boards and the like have been always their domain.
I don't shead many tears over DALnet because I never cared for their big-brotherish attitude and I felt like their "services" (which every other baby-IRC network that came after co-adopted) went overboard.
/map? Can't see what server your buddy is on? WTF? /map? Never been on any network where that exists, or ever had, and who cares about that or on what server someone is? Totally useless data, I'd say.
I don't think I've ever used DALnet, no idea about attitude or number of services, I just brought it up because it's probably the biggest and most well known case of whole irc network brought down because of DDoS wave.
Can't use
Never used EFNet either, what comes to time... well, that obviously depends on person.
I've always been mostly IRCnet person and it seems to stay relatively untouched so far, of course there's no point in trying to claim that influx of idiots doesn't reach there at all, it does, no corner of internet is safe from them.
I am new engineering grad student, you insensitive clod!
But yeah, tell me about it. I've never seen anyone else with a HP (with the exception of one teacher).
But these days, my single requirement - a keypad that actually works as a regular keypad seems to mean that I won't be getting another Nokia.
All of the 6xxx ("business") and 8xxx ("snob") series seem to still have pretty regular looking keypad from a quick glance at web site. Though looks like the weird pads are slowly creeping even into those conservative lines.
The insane keypads are mostly confined into 3k "teen" and 7k "trendy" phone series.
Who the hell will be writing the programs on on-calc keyboard anyway? 100 if statements or no.
Do that on a computer and then copy the results over.
I realize I'm pretty wierd, but I've used my 48gx as an alarm clock for years.
The IR (with suitable software) in 48gx is pretty nifty for timing alarm from every remote controllable device like tv, stereo (though most of those have a built-in alarm), too. With a bit of work, you could even make it first start the device and then gradually turn up volume.
It'll just shift the DCC attacts to target IRC networks (as if they aren't under fire already, witness the destruction of DALnet), and cause grief to those who still use IRC for what it's meant for.
Pirate away if you wan't to, but don't get our IRC servers killed because you didn't have enough bandwidth to keep your own warez network running.
Yes, in the old days IRC *was* about chat. but as time went on, it morphed into more of a file-trading network.
Some networks did, some didn't.
IRCnet is still a chat network, and looks like it's not going anywhere soon or morph to warez-kiddie toy. Which is good.
As the AC stated, Irssi does have dcc port setting.
I guess this brings is to the biggest problem with it, lousy documentation. Python scripting module would also rock.
When the X-15 was flying NASA essentially shuttle technology 20 years before the shuttle itself. What delayed the inception was Kennedy's push in the Apollo project which was an aviation evolutionary throwback.
Throwback it may be, but evolution is all about efficiency, not complexity, if a simple throw-away rocket is more cheaper than reusable, er, rebuildable winged Shuttle it's more evolved for it's niche no matter how primitive it seems.
Moller's car would most certainly be classified as a real airplane, and would require a pilot license.
Most of the drivers wouldn't ever be allowed in the sticks of one of those babies, no need to worry about flying soccer moms, yet.
Aviation fuel is not taxed, much to the disadvantage of the environment. If it was taxed at the same rate as automotive fuel is in most of the world, flying would be priced where it should be, i.e. out of reach of most people, and there would be substantial environmental benefit.
Because there are much less airplanes than there are cars. If plane emissions ever start to get anywhere even NEAR that of cars, you can bet that they start to get taxed more.
Jet aircraft have done far more damage to the ozone layer than anything else.
Links, please. Planes emit mostly CO2 and Nitrogen oxides just like anything else that burns fossil fuels, NO's do destroy ozone, but nowhere as efficiently as chlorine, and only supersonics fly high enough for their emissions to make it into ozone layer. Now that concorde is gone, only supersonics are military aircraft, not much hope trying to prevent those from flying with taxes.
On lower altutides that most jet aircraft fly at, NO's actually stimulate ozone production, of course on the low altitudes it's a pollutant of it's own and a greenhouse gas as well.