Robo-seeding mission may or may work. Technologically and biologically, yeah, sure, it's possible, but I wouldn't be so sure about the social aspects of such an attempt.
First there is problems of that here in Earth - would people let their biological to-be-children be raised by robots, and by the way things are now, gene manipulated?
And on the destination, would robots succeed in teaching and growing up those humans without any human supervision? We are talking about babies and small children, and machines are most certainly not very good at reacting to unpredictable - if there's something that people, and especially children are, that's unpredictable. They might run away, and fall into savagery for thousands of years (or just die), perhaps star worshipping their nannies as Gods, but still not learn from them. They might be partially successfull and attain our technology level but with society nothing like on Earth (that's not necessarily bad thing, just probably not what we have in mind when sending that mission), etc.
I think it quite likely the writers WILL be at least recognized if not paid. After all, lots of people have been reading those books and would know the tech if it would be used in the real world, and make the fact known, even if there would be official info (Though I think that too would be given, as you said, there's nothing to lose by merely giving out the name of writer, or naming it).
And that may very well be better than being paid, I, at least if I were a Sci-Fi writer and figured out something that might some day be actually implementable, would like the "immortality" of my name being used on the tech. Who knows how long into the future it or its derivatives would be used...
So how about a link? Where does one get big (something like this, or same sized LCD's, which have "resolution" of almost a hundred characters), LED display, preferebly with some kind of controller that takes simple imput so you don't have to program a chip for it to drive dozens of LEDs? I've seen LCD's and some passing mentions to these VFD's, but never any good sized LED display, not that I've looked, but...
What's more hostile about it? I think it's quite the other way round.
If that user goes elsewhere, they have no change of getting any money of him, busines plan will fail, if on the otherhand, someone else writes a basic HOWTO, a customer may not leave and some day still pay the company for more advanced documentation and support.
Of course that's only if I assume that they will go away instead of paying, but that's one way to look at it.
Write support must be enabled when compiling the kernel (because it's experimental), if it's not on, you CAN NOT trash your filesystem by mere mount options.
The confusion point is valid, people would probably expect write support if they could read their files as well and complaint if it didn't work.
So OpenAL is "special library" and ALSA isn't? Not to even mention _commercial_ OSS.
Installing a mere library, or statically linked binary, is certainly easier than a library AND kernel modules. And forcing users to shell out money is totally out of question.
YOUR RSI, and many other cases might have psychosomatic cause, but that doesn't mean that it's always so.
Human body IS fragile when it comes to things it's not designed to do, and people DO get wrist, and other problems from using computers too much, even if it's only a hobby without any emotional stress to cause psychic problems.
World is not black and white.
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Useful extra functionality sure as hells is everything but detrimental. If you don't like 'em, don't use em. But don't whine, they are not even linked on the main page. You wouldn't even KNOW about them if you don't specifically look for them in the beta pages, or see them in slashdot.
Nobody is adding bells and whistles to your basic hammer, but the company that manufactures hammers, also does some other tools. You can buy them if you like, if you don't, well, no harm done. Stop whining.
Google may well be one of the things best kept simple. Point is, Google, the search engine is as simple as it has always been.
What comet research might this be? The new Ariane 5 had only your regular pr0n-beaming tv satellite and some other experimental communications satellite on board.
You people trying to shoehorn everything into a very narrow category just annoy the heck out of me. Sorry to shake your very world but those films you've so neatly arranged into small boxes still bleed their aspects into the other movies, in other boxes. Tough luck.
Sure, Star Wars (see the latter word of name), is a story about few people in a middle of war, so it has war movie aspects, it's an adventure movie too.
You know what? It's also scifi.
Bonds are not mainly that, but YES, they DO have scifi aspects in them and there's not much you or anyone can do to change that.
Besides, he didn't even use the word scifi in the first message, but sf, commonly used as acronym of speculative fiction, a much broader category that includes ones such as scifi and fantasy, most of the horror as well.
It's supposed to be an RPG. If people playing it would REALLY roleplay instead of hack'n'slashing you could earn your game money in the game world, without shelling any money at all, except maybe small initial investment. Get a job for your character, do something "real". Advancing a character is not all about "leveling up", that's just a generalization, and a VERY broad one at that.
If you've really played D&D, you should know that it's the story, not the exact moment when your guy happens to get few points more to his attributes because he has killed enough monsters.
Game like that would have potential to seriously rock. It has some seriuous problems, though: lamers who aren't willing to roleplay would just use real money and screw real players. And if there weren't much of those, money-shelling players company maintaining it wouldn't get enough money to keep it up.
Or wait, why don't you just go to www.real.com and look for yourself.
RealOne for linux is _RIGHT THERE_ on the main page. Not only that, but it also links straight to the (admittedly, installer, don't like those when package management has been invented) binary file on http. No link trackers and no registration pages. Real 9 codec updates are on another straight link. In a tarball, this time.
It's not only helluwa lot easier to find than any of the previous releases, it's also easier to find than the current windows version!
Also the player itself looks MUCH better than previous Real crap (bit too XP/QT'ish look if you ask me, but anything is better than those old ones...).
I like galeon, but I've got some problems with it..
I know they don't matter for most people, but startup times seem awfully long, heck, it takes _LONGER_ to load galeon than mozilla. Really.
Another is tabs, if (and when, it's only matter of time, they keep accumulating:)) I've got lots of 'em open, things really slow to crawl, opening and closing new tabs seems to take Aeons.
Also, sometimes when closing or creating new tabs from keyboard, keys seem to get "stuck" and go into buffer until the first one is created, and end creating dozens of new, empty tabs, or worse closing multiple when you only meant one.
Anyone experiensing these, or better yet, found a fix?
Currently using galeon 1.2.7 and moz 1.2.1, but these problems are not anything new to these releases.
What if I don't have OS or hardware to run that antique version of Office any more? Yeah, maybe you can save the os as well, but hardware is not going to last forever, it will broke at some time. And what then? Office and OS required to run office don't run on the modern hardware and your stuff is gone.
Point of open format was exactly that, YOU DON'T NEED the application, or any other variable to be exactly the same it was when the document was originally created to document do be able to access it at some point in the future.
ALL of at least most of the software Click-N-Run "charges" (they don't charge for the software, but the service).
Lindows is Debian-based, though, so if you know about it, you don't even need to hunt software online instead of Click-N-Run, just "apt-get software" does it 99% of the time, or if you are into GUI stuff, use Synaptic... probably EASIER than cnr when you get used to it.
I've been using apt4rpm with freshrpms repository on my RH (first 7.x, now 8) for ages and gotta admit - that thing ROCKS. No wonder debianists are so snobist about it, too bad it's not their exclusive right any more;)
Realtek sells their chipsets to anyone who wants them, and some of the manufacturers ARE going to use them to make products that are utter junk.
There are helluva lot cards out there with realtek chipsets, some of them work, others don't - and the whole chipset gets bad reputation because of those that don't. Too bad it's hard to know which one you are getting when buying.
3Com and Intel etc are probably more safe things to buy - if you've got the money - they are always the same, and not made by your INSERT RANDOM EL-CHEAPO CRAP MANUFACTURER THERE, you know what you are getting. I've had some trouble with 3C509 too, but everyone has shitloads of trouble with ISA crap, good you don't see much of that these days...
Wish that could be done, too bad it's not possible.
Dunno about stock market, but it seems that Duron at same clock speed is actually even a bit cheaper, or as expensive as than the VIA C3.
It's just that C3 is socket-370 CPU, you don't plug Duron into same motherboard as one of these. And probably no Socket-A mb's that would be as cheap as whatever walmart is using. And you'd need better cooling for hot-as-hell AMD, so no way that is going for under $200 mark, for $250, maybe, but that fifty dollar difference is too much for the one looking for cheapest possible.
Duron 1.2G with even a decent graphics card (gf2mx, radeon 8500, maybe?) is fine for even a bit modest gamer.
System like that (and I have one myself, haven't really got a budget to updgrade to latest and finest all the time) will play games just fine, even the latest and newest ones, as long as you don't have the weird urge to have all display quality and resolution settings at maximum.
It's been a while since I've had so good a laugh at the expence of conspiracy theory... death rays, weather modification, mind control, free energy, this guy has it all! And in the same package.
I want one of these woodpecker thingies, one if russians might be willing to sell.
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Robo-seeding mission may or may work. Technologically and biologically, yeah, sure, it's possible, but I wouldn't be so sure about the social aspects of such an attempt.
First there is problems of that here in Earth - would people let their biological to-be-children be raised by robots, and by the way things are now, gene manipulated?
And on the destination, would robots succeed in teaching and growing up those humans without any human supervision? We are talking about babies and small children, and machines are most certainly not very good at reacting to unpredictable - if there's something that people, and especially children are, that's unpredictable. They might run away, and fall into savagery for thousands of years (or just die), perhaps star worshipping their nannies as Gods, but still not learn from them. They might be partially successfull and attain our technology level but with society nothing like on Earth (that's not necessarily bad thing, just probably not what we have in mind when sending that mission), etc.
I think it quite likely the writers WILL be at least recognized if not paid. After all, lots of people have been reading those books and would know the tech if it would be used in the real world, and make the fact known, even if there would be official info (Though I think that too would be given, as you said, there's nothing to lose by merely giving out the name of writer, or naming it).
And that may very well be better than being paid, I, at least if I were a Sci-Fi writer and figured out something that might some day be actually implementable, would like the "immortality" of my name being used on the tech. Who knows how long into the future it or its derivatives would be used...
So how about a link? Where does one get big (something like this, or same sized LCD's, which have "resolution" of almost a hundred characters), LED display, preferebly with some kind of controller that takes simple imput so you don't have to program a chip for it to drive dozens of LEDs? I've seen LCD's and some passing mentions to these VFD's, but never any good sized LED display, not that I've looked, but...
Furthermore, I think that reducing ski-resistance is not going to help these people. I think it's wind resistance that's holding them back.
Well, just wait. It won't be long before some other mad scientist invents aerodynamic human to take care of that problem!
What's more hostile about it? I think it's quite the other way round.
If that user goes elsewhere, they have no change of getting any money of him, busines plan will fail, if on the otherhand, someone else writes a basic HOWTO, a customer may not leave and some day still pay the company for more advanced documentation and support.
Of course that's only if I assume that they will go away instead of paying, but that's one way to look at it.
Write support must be enabled when compiling the kernel (because it's experimental), if it's not on, you CAN NOT trash your filesystem by mere mount options.
The confusion point is valid, people would probably expect write support if they could read their files as well and complaint if it didn't work.
So OpenAL is "special library" and ALSA isn't? Not to even mention _commercial_ OSS.
Installing a mere library, or statically linked binary, is certainly easier than a library AND kernel modules. And forcing users to shell out money is totally out of question.
Never ever heard about a pocket protector before. And didn't know what it was for until I googled a bit.
Is this solely US'ish custom or am I the only one that went "WTF is a pocket protector?"
YOUR RSI, and many other cases might have psychosomatic cause, but that doesn't mean that it's always so.
Human body IS fragile when it comes to things it's not designed to do, and people DO get wrist, and other problems from using computers too much, even if it's only a hobby without any emotional stress to cause psychic problems.
World is not black and white.
Useful extra functionality sure as hells is everything but detrimental. If you don't like 'em, don't use em. But don't whine, they are not even linked on the main page. You wouldn't even KNOW about them if you don't specifically look for them in the beta pages, or see them in slashdot.
Nobody is adding bells and whistles to your basic hammer, but the company that manufactures hammers, also does some other tools. You can buy them if you like, if you don't, well, no harm done. Stop whining.
Google may well be one of the things best kept simple. Point is, Google, the search engine is as simple as it has always been.
What comet research might this be? The new Ariane 5 had only your regular pr0n-beaming tv satellite and some other experimental communications satellite on board.
Or are you refering to some other launch failure?
You people trying to shoehorn everything into a very narrow category just annoy the heck out of me. Sorry to shake your very world but those films you've so neatly arranged into small boxes still bleed their aspects into the other movies, in other boxes. Tough luck.
Sure, Star Wars (see the latter word of name), is a story about few people in a middle of war, so it has war movie aspects, it's an adventure movie too.
You know what? It's also scifi.
Bonds are not mainly that, but YES, they DO have scifi aspects in them and there's not much you or anyone can do to change that.
Besides, he didn't even use the word scifi in the first message, but sf, commonly used as acronym of speculative fiction, a much broader category that includes ones such as scifi and fantasy, most of the horror as well.
It's supposed to be an RPG. If people playing it would REALLY roleplay instead of hack'n'slashing you could earn your game money in the game world, without shelling any money at all, except maybe small initial investment. Get a job for your character, do something "real". Advancing a character is not all about "leveling up", that's just a generalization, and a VERY broad one at that.
If you've really played D&D, you should know that it's the story, not the exact moment when your guy happens to get few points more to his attributes because he has killed enough monsters.
Game like that would have potential to seriously rock. It has some seriuous problems, though: lamers who aren't willing to roleplay would just use real money and screw real players. And if there weren't much of those, money-shelling players company maintaining it wouldn't get enough money to keep it up.
As if people who DO pay to play aren't going to be lamers anyway?
What the heck are 99% of MMORPG players if not lamers.
I didn't manage to get it working on winex (rather new, CVS version), and my codeweavers build doesn't seem to have opengl support.
Anyway it's open-source, someone go and port the damn thing to SDL already!
Seems that nobody even noticed the whole game...
Well, no, you don't have that version then.
It claims to be version 9.0.7.151 (after quite a clickfest, sucker is almost always segfaulting when I try to get the about dialog)
Let's try again, don't we?
Or wait, why don't you just go to www.real.com and look for yourself.
RealOne for linux is _RIGHT THERE_ on the main page. Not only that, but it also links straight to the (admittedly, installer, don't like those when package management has been invented) binary file on http. No link trackers and no registration pages. Real 9 codec updates are on another straight link. In a tarball, this time.
It's not only helluwa lot easier to find than any of the previous releases, it's also easier to find than the current windows version!
Also the player itself looks MUCH better than previous Real crap (bit too XP/QT'ish look if you ask me, but anything is better than those old ones...).
OF COURSE they want to profit from it.
If you are against someone profiting from ogg, then you are strictly against its use in commercial setting, no matter what you claim.
Care to give an example of company you WOULD LIKE to see use ogg? And someone with enough userbase to make any difference. Microsoft?
I like galeon, but I've got some problems with it..
I know they don't matter for most people, but startup times seem awfully long, heck, it takes _LONGER_ to load galeon than mozilla. Really.
Another is tabs, if (and when, it's only matter of time, they keep accumulating:)) I've got lots of 'em open, things really slow to crawl, opening and closing new tabs seems to take Aeons.
Also, sometimes when closing or creating new tabs from keyboard, keys seem to get "stuck" and go into buffer until the first one is created, and end creating dozens of new, empty tabs, or worse closing multiple when you only meant one.
Anyone experiensing these, or better yet, found a fix?
Currently using galeon 1.2.7 and moz 1.2.1, but these problems are not anything new to these releases.
RH8, Duron 850, 448MB PC-133.
What if I don't have OS or hardware to run that antique version of Office any more? Yeah, maybe you can save the os as well, but hardware is not going to last forever, it will broke at some time. And what then? Office and OS required to run office don't run on the modern hardware and your stuff is gone.
Point of open format was exactly that, YOU DON'T NEED the application, or any other variable to be exactly the same it was when the document was originally created to document do be able to access it at some point in the future.
ALL of at least most of the software Click-N-Run "charges" (they don't charge for the software, but the service).
;)
Lindows is Debian-based, though, so if you know about it, you don't even need to hunt software online instead of Click-N-Run, just "apt-get software" does it 99% of the time, or if you are into GUI stuff, use Synaptic... probably EASIER than cnr when you get used to it.
I've been using apt4rpm with freshrpms repository on my RH (first 7.x, now 8) for ages and gotta admit - that thing ROCKS. No wonder debianists are so snobist about it, too bad it's not their exclusive right any more
Realtek sells their chipsets to anyone who wants them, and some of the manufacturers ARE going to use them to make products that are utter junk.
There are helluva lot cards out there with realtek chipsets, some of them work, others don't - and the whole chipset gets bad reputation because of those that don't. Too bad it's hard to know which one you are getting when buying.
3Com and Intel etc are probably more safe things to buy - if you've got the money - they are always the same, and not made by your INSERT RANDOM EL-CHEAPO CRAP MANUFACTURER THERE, you know what you are getting. I've had some trouble with 3C509 too, but everyone has shitloads of trouble with ISA crap, good you don't see much of that these days...
Wish that could be done, too bad it's not possible.
Dunno about stock market, but it seems that Duron at same clock speed is actually even a bit cheaper, or as expensive as than the VIA C3.
It's just that C3 is socket-370 CPU, you don't plug Duron into same motherboard as one of these. And probably no Socket-A mb's that would be as cheap as whatever walmart is using. And you'd need better cooling for hot-as-hell AMD, so no way that is going for under $200 mark, for $250, maybe, but that fifty dollar difference is too much for the one looking for cheapest possible.
Duron 1.2G with even a decent graphics card (gf2mx, radeon 8500, maybe?) is fine for even a bit modest gamer.
System like that (and I have one myself, haven't really got a budget to updgrade to latest and finest all the time) will play games just fine, even the latest and newest ones, as long as you don't have the weird urge to have all display quality and resolution settings at maximum.
Thanks. That site is hilarious!
It's been a while since I've had so good a laugh at the expence of conspiracy theory... death rays, weather modification, mind control, free energy, this guy has it all! And in the same package.
I want one of these woodpecker thingies, one if russians might be willing to sell.