Re:Clathrates in general ...
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Large-scale melting of clathrates as a result of too much warming could actually bring the greenhouse effect to such levels that it sustains itself, which means that even if we would then stop producing ALL of our own greenhouse gases, the warming would STILL continue as long as there is methane trapped somewhere ready to be released.
Even if it is real, the winner will never have it... why? Well, isn't that really quite obvious, that would be because the fisherman who found it, his whole family (if he had one) and his boat has already been eaten by teenage mutant ninja space fungus.
By now, fungus is probably lying in the bottom of the pacific, planning what is has been planning ever since it first time saw the Earth from its orbital watchplace, total world domination.
Asteroid impact, or volcano eruption for example, could throw small rocks to space... it is of course unlikely that any organisms survive the initial blast, conditions of space, crashlanding to destination and last its completely alien environment, but it's not impossible...
I feel sorry for those patents if any company desides to do that donation... P3 running a windows instead of old box that has been there, and doing what it should do instead of spitting out BSODs.
Simple stuff is sometimes so much better than those modern toys you for some reason think anyone must have, it's a hospital for christs sake, the machine doesn't need to get that last frame out of Q3... if that much processing power is not needed, then changing it to new computer, more powerful but more unstable as well, does absolutely nothing good.
I like it, it is very small, and even if it is
only a preliminary version while java enabled
web browsers have been around for YEARS, it
still seems both faster and more stable than
any java solution I've ever seen in a web browser.
Way to go... now we only need to get all those horrible java applets out of the web and replace them with limbo equivalents.
Don't forget the moons.
Most of people there are claiming that
jupiter-sized planets are too different to either have any life in it or then it will be so very different there is no way for us to understand those beings, and they are probably right but almost all seem to forget the moons.
Jupiter sized planets can have several Earth sized satellites. Think about Europa, or Titan, even those are speculated to maybe host life, yet they are very cold and very far away from then sun. What if Jupiter-sized planet would be at Earth distance from its star and have Europa-like moon?
Re:The problem is in the dependency database
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Don't believe everything you read, either the author of that book had only seen the most complicated spec-files there is, or then he is an idiot.
At simplest, it is not much more than name and version... some other "header"-type information is required, of course adding files is nice so you can actually remove the package with rpm even though you have installed it using some other way.
RPM-specs can be complex if required (compiling some of the most stupid packages is quite a pain in the ass and rpm has to handle that too..), have macros and things, but they certainly don't HAVE to be complex if you are dealing with simple package or no actual compilation process at all.
Re:Save the Earth, do our laundry somewhere else
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The nasty things in space are already there, and anything thats alive in space is protected in a nice sealed ship, and consiquently wouldnt be affected.
Except when it gots hit by that floating mountain of trash. There has already been some fuss about space trash in most used orbiting heights, and those are just spacecraft parts, imagine what it will look like when they go around dumping all that mining and factory crap in there too? The point? Yeah, sure, throw it away in space, but make sure it doesn't float freely around the whole solar system (yes, i know, it's friggin' big, but we tend to have a bad habit putting our waste near us.. so all that stuff would be floating around Earth orbit, or "space lanes", but destroy it (do few gravity calculations, then throw it towards the sun, wait few centuries and here we go, no more trash). Or then make orbiting "landfill" where all that trash is going to stay in one specific area...
I think those bus speeds tend to be irrational so it is 266.666.... And the 0.5-multiplier which has been available for ages is definitely a
non-integer number
So that makes it all clear for 1.2GHz tb, but 1100MHz and one gig parts are still strange, as the 1.1GHz would need 0.125 step... well, maybe the new chipset does support those as well.
It's easier in Europe, as we have several countries instead of only one so we can pick on each other.. not necessary to go over the oceans or to Asia. Swedish are common victim for us Finnish people.
Ha. Europeans invented the damn eletricity, and AC generation too (should've patented it back then...;)), so of course our frequency is the way it is meant to be.
Hmm, any idea what is the history of those particular frequencies, by the way?
Crazy Europeans, eh? (Well, we may be crazy, but you Americans are just plain stupid).
Anyway, do you know what you are talking about? Electrical current is AC because those generators usually _spin_ (this wave thingy is probably no exception), and doing that, they happen to produce current in sine wave pattern - AC current -... any technology isn't perfect, so rectifying that current would lead to performance loss, _THAT_ would be crazy. And there is another good reason to use AC, transformers don't work on DC current.
Uh, if those BIOS memory tests disturb you so much, why don't you just turn them off like the rest of us who don't want to wait?
Put the quick post/boot/whatever option on, and no more memory testing wasting your precious seconds.
Eh, hydrogen from the outside air?
About 0.00005% of air is hydrogen, you don't exacly cruise away with that, so it's back to "charged cars" and electric current, and power plants, this time separating water and oxygen from water instead of using compressors to tank your air-powered car.
>If I go and buy a Ford because there is a Ford >dealership next door to my house, has Ford >screwed me because they make shitty cars? No, I >have screwed myself for not looking down the >street at the Toyota/Mazda/Honda/Olds/Lexus/BMW >dealerships.
Yeah, you can always buy non-Ford car, and you can buy non-windows OS, but car, or OS, isn't the only thing that counts... let's imagine you can buy whatever car you like, but the gas stations are only selling gas that doesn't work on anything else than Ford? Do you _really_ have a choise to pick up any other car, if you are planning to USE it. That's the situation that was, and actually still is, with Winblows vs. "Alternative" OS's.
I just hope there will be Slot A -> Socket A adapters for these things too, like there is for Slot 1 -> PPGA/FCPGA so this won't go to this crazy "upgrade your motherboard every two weeks" thing...
Yes. Fallout is one of the best games ever, Linux version would be really nice.... for the rest of the wishlist: other games from CRPG/Hack&Slash genre (like Baldur's Gate, Planescape:Torment, Diablo, Darkstone....), Strategy/RTS (Total Annihilation, Homeworld...) And then of course best games in the world, these are old already, so with an extremely good luck game companies could even GPL them like Doom/Quake... Star Control II, UFO:Enemy Unkown (I think US version is called X-Com: Ufo Defence), Lemmings..
So who needs those stupid winblows-toys, when we have wget? It can resume just as well as those, and is not any bloated GUI-monster but good old command-line tool. Well, there may be some front-ends if you really want to torture yourself with GUI software...
I really like links too, it just rocks, but can you explain what exactly is w3m-like navigation? (haven't used w3m much, i didn't like it at all, at least not after trying links also).
That's not very good explanation as they don't need to support Linux, it does not require any changes for the pages (well, they should remove or modify the script that blocks out "unsupported" browsers, but that's it), if the pages work with Winblows Netscape then they are working with Linux Netscape as well without any changes. Right?
Nobody loses any money directly as if it was stealing, but undirectly losing money because of pirated software is as real as it can get. If you give out those 10000 copies you just made, someone who would have bought it otherwise doesn't do it now.. piratism isn't any worst possible crime, but you must be pretty damn stupid to claim it doesn't cost one penny to commercial software makers..
And windows-version may lack some of the features compared to IE or Netscape, but it is *FAST*, *LIGHT*, and *STABLE*. That is why people think it is so good.
>You leave your desktop system on all the time? Why don't you show some consideration for the environment and >stop using electricity when you don't need it? They're throwing more coal in the boilers because of people >like you.
Mostly they are throwing more coal and oil to those power plants because of those idiots who claim to be "green" but still prefer coal and other polluting fossil fuels over nuclear power..
>And no, contributing to distributed.net is not worth it.
One PC doesn't take much electricity to run, especially with some kind power management on. Also, these computers with almost no moving parts, are "growing old", more slowly when they are always on, as heat expansion/shrinking at start/stop is affecting to those components.
>They are readable as they are handed from person to person (site to site). Ya want privacy? Put that postcard >into an envelope, i.e., encrypt. I encrypt, so I don't care who's sniffing my packets.
They are readable, yes, but that certainly doesn't mean that because of that, it's perfectly right to go out there and check someones mailbox for non-enveloped letters or postcards. Neither do i have the right to read someones e-mail even if it's not encrypted. All people do not even know, that their mail can be intercepted on the road, and do not see any reason for some weird encrypting.
>My radio scanner picks up cell phone calls that are BROADCASTED IN THE CLEAR. This is legal (I'm in BC, >Canada). Why shouldn't it be legal to listen in on data BROADCASTED OVER THE INTERNET IN THE CLEAR?
Well, looks like Canadian law sucks (i'll bet somewhere listening private broadcasts, encrypted or not, is unlegal), if something is legal, it is NOT guaranteed that the same thing is right. You should use your own brains also, if you have one of those.
And, wire phone calls are also unencrypted, is it right and legal and moral etc to climb into the pole and start listening? No, hell, it certainly is not.
>No idea about Linux usuability but in theory it should work since it's a PS2 mouse.
I have one of these toys and i kinda like it, it IS really precise, and looks "cool" with all the lights:)
But it's not perfect anyway, as someone said, it doesn't work on all surfaces, and it does lose its location when you move it too fast, then the pointer goes wherever it wants.. i've played with it, though RTS-games and also few FPS:s (Half-Life), its speed of tracking has been enough, but i'm not any hardcore quake fan, maybe mediocre, so maybe it can go haywire with some serious FPS player.
And the most important thing: yes, it does work in linux, including the wheel, thumb buttons won't work (because of 5 button limit in X), but i don't need them anyway. GPM sometimes complains about "error in protocol" and "no data" to logs, but it still works. Is there any homepage or mailing-list where i could report this so gpm folks might have it work perfectly ?-)
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Large-scale melting of clathrates as a result of too much warming could actually bring the greenhouse effect to such levels that it sustains itself, which means that even if we would then stop producing ALL of our own greenhouse gases, the warming would STILL continue as long as there is methane trapped somewhere ready to be released.
If that happens, then we are screwed.
Even if it is real, the winner will never have it... why? Well, isn't that really quite obvious, that would be because the fisherman who found it, his whole family (if he had one) and his boat has already been eaten by teenage mutant ninja space fungus.
By now, fungus is probably lying in the bottom of the pacific, planning what is has been planning ever since it first time saw the Earth from its orbital watchplace, total world domination.
Asteroid impact, or volcano eruption for example, could throw small rocks to space ... it is of course unlikely that any organisms survive the initial blast, conditions of space, crashlanding to destination and last its completely alien environment, but it's not impossible...
I feel sorry for those patents if any company desides to do that donation ... P3 running a windows instead of old box that has been there, and doing what it should do instead of spitting out BSODs.
Simple stuff is sometimes so much better than those modern toys you for some reason think anyone must have, it's a hospital for christs sake, the machine doesn't need to get that last frame out of Q3... if that much processing power is not needed, then changing it to new computer, more powerful but more unstable as well, does absolutely nothing good.
I like it, it is very small, and even if it is
only a preliminary version while java enabled
web browsers have been around for YEARS, it
still seems both faster and more stable than
any java solution I've ever seen in a web browser.
Way to go... now we only need to get all those horrible java applets out of the web and replace them with limbo equivalents.
Don't forget the moons.
Most of people there are claiming that
jupiter-sized planets are too different to either have any life in it or then it will be so very different there is no way for us to understand those beings, and they are probably right but almost all seem to forget the moons.
Jupiter sized planets can have several Earth sized satellites. Think about Europa, or Titan, even those are speculated to maybe host life, yet they are very cold and very far away from then sun. What if Jupiter-sized planet would be at Earth distance from its star and have Europa-like moon?
Don't believe everything you read, either the author of that book had only seen the most complicated spec-files there is, or then he is an idiot.
At simplest, it is not much more than name and version... some other "header"-type information is required, of course adding files is nice so you can actually remove the package with rpm even though you have installed it using some other way.
RPM-specs can be complex if required (compiling some of the most stupid packages is quite a pain in the ass and rpm has to handle that too..), have macros and things, but they certainly don't HAVE to be complex if you are dealing with simple package or no actual compilation process at all.
I think those bus speeds tend to be irrational so it is 266.666.... And the 0.5-multiplier which has been available for ages is definitely a
non-integer number
So that makes it all clear for 1.2GHz tb, but 1100MHz and one gig parts are still strange, as the 1.1GHz would need 0.125 step... well, maybe the new chipset does support those as well.
It's easier in Europe, as we have several countries instead of only one so we can pick on each other .. not necessary to go over the oceans or to Asia. Swedish are common victim for us Finnish people.
Ha. Europeans invented the damn eletricity, and AC generation too (should've patented it back then...;)), so of course our frequency is the way it is meant to be.
Hmm, any idea what is the history of those particular frequencies, by the way?
Crazy Europeans, eh? (Well, we may be crazy, but you Americans are just plain stupid).
Anyway, do you know what you are talking about? Electrical current is AC because those generators usually _spin_ (this wave thingy is probably no exception), and doing that, they happen to produce current in sine wave pattern - AC current -... any technology isn't perfect, so rectifying that current would lead to performance loss, _THAT_ would be crazy. And there is another good reason to use AC, transformers don't work on DC current.
Actually, it's about 10%. Speed of light is
300 000km/s. Nevertheless, everything else you are saying is probably true.
Uh, if those BIOS memory tests disturb you so much, why don't you just turn them off like the rest of us who don't want to wait?
Put the quick post/boot/whatever option on, and no more memory testing wasting your precious seconds.
Eh, hydrogen from the outside air?
About 0.00005% of air is hydrogen, you don't exacly cruise away with that, so it's back to "charged cars" and electric current, and power plants, this time separating water and oxygen from water instead of using compressors to tank your air-powered car.
>If I go and buy a Ford because there is a Ford >dealership next door to my house, has Ford >screwed me because they make shitty cars? No, I >have screwed myself for not looking down the >street at the Toyota/Mazda/Honda/Olds/Lexus/BMW >dealerships.
Yeah, you can always buy non-Ford car, and you can buy non-windows OS, but car, or OS, isn't
the only thing that counts... let's imagine you can buy whatever car you like, but the gas stations are only selling gas that doesn't work on anything else than Ford? Do you _really_ have a choise to pick up any other car, if you are planning to USE it. That's the situation that was, and actually still is, with Winblows vs. "Alternative" OS's.
I just hope there will be Slot A -> Socket A adapters for these things too, like there is for Slot 1 -> PPGA/FCPGA so this won't go to this crazy "upgrade your motherboard every two weeks" thing...
Yes. Fallout is one of the best games ever, Linux version would be really nice.... for the rest of the wishlist: other games from CRPG/Hack&Slash genre (like Baldur's Gate, Planescape:Torment, Diablo, Darkstone....), Strategy/RTS (Total Annihilation, Homeworld...)
And then of course best games in the world, these are old already, so with an extremely good luck game companies could even GPL them like Doom/Quake... Star Control II, UFO:Enemy Unkown (I think US version is called X-Com: Ufo Defence), Lemmings..
So who needs those stupid winblows-toys, when we have wget? It can resume just as well as those, and is not any bloated GUI-monster but good old command-line tool. Well, there may be some front-ends if you really want to torture yourself with GUI software...
I really like links too, it just rocks, but can you explain what exactly is w3m-like navigation? (haven't used w3m much, i didn't like it at all, at least not after trying links also).
That's not very good explanation as they don't need to support Linux, it does not require any changes for the pages (well, they should remove or modify the script that blocks out "unsupported" browsers, but that's it), if the pages work with Winblows Netscape then they are working with
Linux Netscape as well without any changes. Right?
Nobody loses any money directly as if it was stealing, but undirectly losing money because of pirated software is as real as it can get. If you give out those 10000 copies you just made, someone who would have bought it otherwise doesn't do it now.. piratism isn't any worst possible crime, but you must be pretty damn stupid to claim it doesn't cost one penny to commercial software makers..
And windows-version may lack some of the features compared to IE or Netscape, but it is *FAST*, *LIGHT*, and *STABLE*. That is why people think it is so good.
Well, maybe easier than normal keyboard, but probably not easier than wireless keyboards.. as those also use radio just like this.
>You leave your desktop system on all the time? Why don't you show some consideration for the environment and
>stop using electricity when you don't need it? They're throwing more coal in the boilers because of people
>like you.
Mostly they are throwing more coal and oil to those power plants because of those idiots who claim to be "green" but still prefer coal and other polluting fossil fuels over nuclear power..
>And no, contributing to distributed.net is not worth it.
One PC doesn't take much electricity to run, especially with some kind power management on. Also, these computers with almost no moving parts, are "growing old", more slowly when they are always on, as heat expansion/shrinking at start/stop is affecting to those components.
>They are readable as they are handed from person to person (site to site). Ya want privacy? Put that postcard >into an envelope, i.e., encrypt. I encrypt, so I don't care who's sniffing my packets.
They are readable, yes, but that certainly doesn't mean that because of that, it's perfectly right to go out there and check someones mailbox for non-enveloped letters or postcards. Neither do i have the right to read someones e-mail even if it's not encrypted. All people do not even know, that their mail can be intercepted on the road, and do not see any reason for some weird encrypting.
>My radio scanner picks up cell phone calls that are BROADCASTED IN THE CLEAR. This is legal (I'm in BC,
>Canada). Why shouldn't it be legal to listen in on data BROADCASTED OVER THE INTERNET IN THE CLEAR?
Well, looks like Canadian law sucks (i'll bet somewhere listening private broadcasts, encrypted or not, is unlegal), if something is legal, it is NOT guaranteed that the same thing is right. You should use your own brains also, if you have one of those.
And, wire phone calls are also unencrypted, is it right and legal and moral etc to climb into the pole and start listening? No, hell, it certainly is not.
>No idea about Linux usuability but in theory it should work since it's a PS2 mouse.
:)
I have one of these toys and i kinda like it, it IS really precise, and looks "cool" with all the lights
But it's not perfect anyway, as someone said, it doesn't work on all surfaces, and it does lose its location when you move it too fast, then the pointer goes wherever it wants.. i've played with it, though RTS-games and also few FPS:s (Half-Life), its speed of tracking has been enough, but i'm not any hardcore quake fan, maybe mediocre, so maybe it can go haywire with some serious FPS player.
And the most important thing: yes, it does work in linux, including the wheel, thumb buttons won't work (because of 5 button limit in X), but i don't need them anyway. GPM sometimes complains about "error in protocol" and "no data" to logs, but it still works. Is there any homepage or mailing-list where i could report this so gpm folks might have it work perfectly ?-)