The webkit based browsers and Opera have greasy speed compared to Firefox. Firefox's javascript based XUL design serves it well in that developing for the browser is nice. But it is just plain slow compared to some of the competing browsers. And I've seen more than one conversion story away from Firefox to things like Chrome because the speed difference is so marked. Do the Mozilla folks intend to concentrate on getting the performance up?
After a trip to Brazil, RedHat's Tiemann was told that the Foundation requires that MS have "cabinet level access" to the government and that MS products be used in any projects the Foundation is involved. If there is a shred of truth to this whatsoever than I cannot regard the actions of the Foundation as true charity. Rather it is the most dishonorable sort of influence peddling.
If you are running anything made the last six years or so install linux-image-generic:
apt-get install linux-image-generic
The so-called "generic" kernel is basically tuned for recentish processors. You'll have to install matching restricted drivers and nvidia if using that. You've installed linux-image-386 which of course is a kernel basically tuned for oldish processors and motherboards.
Even if the book is so bad that I can't use it for reference I keep it to show others "look at the shit these idiots wrote".
You'd be amazed how moving a time or three will motivate you to prune the personal library. I vastly prefer reading from a dead tree than even the best ebook reader but on the other hand I'll like the ebooks a lot more when a couple of flash cards in my pocket is the library.
Professors are excellent saps for such tricks or marketing. Because they have reached the peak of educational achievements many of them have got the Ego where they really think they are that much smarter then the rest of the population, even though most of them just got there threw hard work, not superior intellect. So they think they are immune to such tricks.
I won't argue your greater idea "Professors think they are immune to being marketing saps." But I will note that working hard for a long period of time at an intellectual endeavor (getting a physics doctorate say) will make you smarter at least in some areas. Even older brains have some plasticity and constant practice at math and difficult physics ideas will enhance the wiring in the parts of the brain that process such ideas and information associated with such ideas. The short short version is: hard work can make you smarter.
Granted. But understand that many of us have had the opposite experience: Something Just Working on Linux that required hours of hair pulling on Windows. And that means the same argument can apply in reverse.
Well a couple of weeks ago we had the story about the bored professor who made it his hobby to kill Villain carebears. There's some of the appeal of griefing. The game world is limited so some use it as a 3D IRC client where anybody so inclined can kick with a railgun.
So what does this do when forensics are being done on one of these drives? Is the firmware just doing a better job of marking a dirty block available or do the dirty blocks have to be zeroed at some point. Even if the blocks are just marked will they output zeros if 'dd'ed by an OS?
I have to wonder about that. Suppose a faulty part overheated enough to trip the sensor? Or the thing just plain got hot. I've had perfectly functional laptops get damn near hot enough to burn my thighs.
Just where do you think the UN gets the wherewithal to handle such a situation? The UN handled them back in the fifties and I seem to recall we played a large part in that. Though getting into it with NK is debatable, you DON'T wait for an aggressor to mass troops or an armada outside your borders to deal with. Letting one dominate a region you have interests in probably isn't such a hot idea either.
But doesn't a rider on the bomb throw the aim off a bit? But I hear grease penciling obscenities is still great though originality and wit must be shown. No drawing on a big set of genitalia and calling it good.
I can think of no good ways that they are a direct threat but the fact they would trash the northern half of South Korea in the first half hour of a hot war is one deterrent. They've been training massive amounts of long range artillery of Seoul for years and that would be the first thing to go. They could kill more than a "few thousand". The destruction of of Seoul and their likely ability to overrun the DMZ means they can be very very destructive until we start bringing in the carriers and massing in our own troops. We would also have to do this while managing China's agitation and China IS a real threat.
Incidentally trashing SK is also good for causing some financial turmoil in the rest of the world's market. So it would cost a bit of treasure. At least for awhile.
China seems to use NK the same way a redneck likes to keep a slobbering pitbull on a chain prominently on display in his back yard. Sure you can just shoot the nasty thing dead but it won't be the end of it and it isn't much use talking to it. The redneck is the one you have to reason with.
You can still study the GPLed code and re-implement what it does as BSD code. However "ability to implement as GPL in the first place" is a better litmus test of openness as the GPL disallows redistribution if other legal encumbrances such as patents are in play. A given technique could require a $200 patent royalty payment per install but you could still otherwise redistribute under BSD terms. Note well I'm not talking about reusing either BSD or GPL code. As the GP was, I'm talking about being able to implement a given technique AND being able to comply with the GPL's terms of downstream openness.
That is what backups are for and even multiple backups can be kept cheaply. My entire music collection exists on two backup drives and multiple players and PCs some of which aren't in the same physical location. If anything, my collection is safer than CDs that can fall prey to either thieves or various environmental factors. As for formats, everything that was ripped from my own CDs was encoded with LAME with alt-preset-extreme and once storage sizes iterate a couple more times. I may re-rip to flac at some point but mp3s can sound good if you don't mind them getting a little big and use decent software to encode and play them back. Sure AAC or even Vorbis sound just as good with smaller filesizes but even taking pocket portable players into account, my filesizes being 20% larger or so just isn't a factor. My collection being playable anywhere on anything is more important than the slight benefits offered by spiffy new codecs and formats.
I'll also note that I recently redid all the tags on my mp3s as ID3v2.3 which allows for maximum compatibility of metadata including lyrics and artwork across different hardware players and software on different operating systems.
At least in the US, payola has put an end to that method of self promotion and it has been the case since at least the early eighties. Even the FMs that aren't ClearChannel will only play one of RIAA promoted Country, Adult Contempory, Classic Rock, or Oldies. This is kinda sad. They even mess up promoting their own stuff. In the Seventies and Eighties, we kids used to be glued to Kasey Kasem's Top 40. It was fun to see if your current favorite would hit #1 and of course you caught all the new cool stuff coming up. Find cool new stuff on the radio now is just laughable.
It can have a slight effect. Much of the ice is fresh water which has a slightly lower density than sea water. So a quantity of fresh water melting into a salt ocean will raise it a (very little) bit.
All this baloney about cow farts, tailpipes, and smokestacks is just a big smokescreen. I'm afraid you're going to find that Lex has already bought up all that soon-to-be beachfront property. We'll be vacationing in Otisburg before we know it. It's a small place......
A quantity of small "coulds" coming together at the wrong time and place is how a lot of accidents happen. This has happened in regards to missile warnings before though thankfully we didn't achieve a critical density of "coulds":
Probably not. Things are worded this way to explain them to laymen. Physicists are going to describe these phenomena with systems of equations and words and the equations will suggest deeper intuitive meaning to those used to working with them.
I agree that the ST was a tad limited in the graphics dept and that naive use of it's hardware produces limited results. However even back in the eighties clever developers got more out of it:
Spectrum 512 could display 48 colors per scanline out of a palette of 512 and it even did some rip-and-retry best fitting of colors so that artists could just draw and the software would take care of rendering the desired result as well as possible within the 48 color per line limitation.
You can also run something like APE and use either your main PC or just any old machine you have laying around to emulate a stack of Atari disk drives. Things like APE are so good that the Atari can't tell the difference and just thinks it's sending SIO commands to real hardware. So you just chuck a disk image in of your favorite game from back in the day that you downloaded and boot the Atari. Nice stuff.
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The webkit based browsers and Opera have greasy speed compared to Firefox. Firefox's javascript based XUL design serves it well in that developing for the browser is nice. But it is just plain slow compared to some of the competing browsers. And I've seen more than one conversion story away from Firefox to things like Chrome because the speed difference is so marked. Do the Mozilla folks intend to concentrate on getting the performance up?
Yeah, but the output peripheral is a real bitch and it can even share error codes with old high speed line printers: ElectricalLoad1: is on fire!
After a trip to Brazil, RedHat's Tiemann was told that the Foundation requires that MS have "cabinet level access" to the government and that MS products be used in any projects the Foundation is involved. If there is a shred of truth to this whatsoever than I cannot regard the actions of the Foundation as true charity. Rather it is the most dishonorable sort of influence peddling.
A copper heatpipe would probably work better unless the strap can be very short.
If you are running anything made the last six years or so install linux-image-generic:
apt-get install linux-image-generic
The so-called "generic" kernel is basically tuned for recentish processors. You'll have to install matching restricted drivers and nvidia if using that. You've installed linux-image-386 which of course is a kernel basically tuned for oldish processors and motherboards.
Even if the book is so bad that I can't use it for reference I keep it to show others "look at the shit these idiots wrote".
You'd be amazed how moving a time or three will motivate you to prune the personal library. I vastly prefer reading from a dead tree than even the best ebook reader but on the other hand I'll like the ebooks a lot more when a couple of flash cards in my pocket is the library.
Professors are excellent saps for such tricks or marketing. Because they have reached the peak of educational achievements many of them have got the Ego where they really think they are that much smarter then the rest of the population, even though most of them just got there threw hard work, not superior intellect. So they think they are immune to such tricks.
I won't argue your greater idea "Professors think they are immune to being marketing saps." But I will note that working hard for a long period of time at an intellectual endeavor (getting a physics doctorate say) will make you smarter at least in some areas. Even older brains have some plasticity and constant practice at math and difficult physics ideas will enhance the wiring in the parts of the brain that process such ideas and information associated with such ideas. The short short version is: hard work can make you smarter.
Granted. But understand that many of us have had the opposite experience: Something Just Working on Linux that required hours of hair pulling on Windows. And that means the same argument can apply in reverse.
Well a couple of weeks ago we had the story about the bored professor who made it his hobby to kill Villain carebears. There's some of the appeal of griefing. The game world is limited so some use it as a 3D IRC client where anybody so inclined can kick with a railgun.
So what does this do when forensics are being done on one of these drives? Is the firmware just doing a better job of marking a dirty block available or do the dirty blocks have to be zeroed at some point. Even if the blocks are just marked will they output zeros if 'dd'ed by an OS?
I have to wonder about that. Suppose a faulty part overheated enough to trip the sensor? Or the thing just plain got hot. I've had perfectly functional laptops get damn near hot enough to burn my thighs.
Just where do you think the UN gets the wherewithal to handle such a situation? The UN handled them back in the fifties and I seem to recall we played a large part in that. Though getting into it with NK is debatable, you DON'T wait for an aggressor to mass troops or an armada outside your borders to deal with. Letting one dominate a region you have interests in probably isn't such a hot idea either.
But doesn't a rider on the bomb throw the aim off a bit? But I hear grease penciling obscenities is still great though originality and wit must be shown. No drawing on a big set of genitalia and calling it good.
I can think of no good ways that they are a direct threat but the fact they would trash the northern half of South Korea in the first half hour of a hot war is one deterrent. They've been training massive amounts of long range artillery of Seoul for years and that would be the first thing to go. They could kill more than a "few thousand". The destruction of of Seoul and their likely ability to overrun the DMZ means they can be very very destructive until we start bringing in the carriers and massing in our own troops. We would also have to do this while managing China's agitation and China IS a real threat.
Incidentally trashing SK is also good for causing some financial turmoil in the rest of the world's market. So it would cost a bit of treasure. At least for awhile.
China seems to use NK the same way a redneck likes to keep a slobbering pitbull on a chain prominently on display in his back yard. Sure you can just shoot the nasty thing dead but it won't be the end of it and it isn't much use talking to it. The redneck is the one you have to reason with.
You can still study the GPLed code and re-implement what it does as BSD code. However "ability to implement as GPL in the first place" is a better litmus test of openness as the GPL disallows redistribution if other legal encumbrances such as patents are in play. A given technique could require a $200 patent royalty payment per install but you could still otherwise redistribute under BSD terms. Note well I'm not talking about reusing either BSD or GPL code. As the GP was, I'm talking about being able to implement a given technique AND being able to comply with the GPL's terms of downstream openness.
That is what backups are for and even multiple backups can be kept cheaply. My entire music collection exists on two backup drives and multiple players and PCs some of which aren't in the same physical location. If anything, my collection is safer than CDs that can fall prey to either thieves or various environmental factors. As for formats, everything that was ripped from my own CDs was encoded with LAME with alt-preset-extreme and once storage sizes iterate a couple more times. I may re-rip to flac at some point but mp3s can sound good if you don't mind them getting a little big and use decent software to encode and play them back. Sure AAC or even Vorbis sound just as good with smaller filesizes but even taking pocket portable players into account, my filesizes being 20% larger or so just isn't a factor. My collection being playable anywhere on anything is more important than the slight benefits offered by spiffy new codecs and formats.
I'll also note that I recently redid all the tags on my mp3s as ID3v2.3 which allows for maximum compatibility of metadata including lyrics and artwork across different hardware players and software on different operating systems.
At least in the US, payola has put an end to that method of self promotion and it has been the case since at least the early eighties. Even the FMs that aren't ClearChannel will only play one of RIAA promoted Country, Adult Contempory, Classic Rock, or Oldies. This is kinda sad. They even mess up promoting their own stuff. In the Seventies and Eighties, we kids used to be glued to Kasey Kasem's Top 40. It was fun to see if your current favorite would hit #1 and of course you caught all the new cool stuff coming up. Find cool new stuff on the radio now is just laughable.
It can have a slight effect. Much of the ice is fresh water which has a slightly lower density than sea water. So a quantity of fresh water melting into a salt ocean will raise it a (very little) bit.
http://geography.about.com/library/misc/ucghyben.htm
All this baloney about cow farts, tailpipes, and smokestacks is just a big smokescreen. I'm afraid you're going to find that Lex has already bought up all that soon-to-be beachfront property. We'll be vacationing in Otisburg before we know it. It's a small place......
A quantity of small "coulds" coming together at the wrong time and place is how a lot of accidents happen. This has happened in regards to missile warnings before though thankfully we didn't achieve a critical density of "coulds":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/missileers/falsealarms.html
Probably not. Things are worded this way to explain them to laymen. Physicists are going to describe these phenomena with systems of equations and words and the equations will suggest deeper intuitive meaning to those used to working with them.
I agree that the ST was a tad limited in the graphics dept and that naive use of it's hardware produces limited results. However even back in the eighties clever developers got more out of it:
http://www.asterius.com/atari/spectrum.html
Spectrum 512 could display 48 colors per scanline out of a palette of 512 and it even did some rip-and-retry best fitting of colors so that artists could just draw and the software would take care of rendering the desired result as well as possible within the 48 color per line limitation.
It never ceases to amuse to me that Jay Miner is God to Amigaphiles.....but only when his work carries a Commodore badge.
You can also run something like APE and use either your main PC or just any old machine you have laying around to emulate a stack of Atari disk drives. Things like APE are so good that the Atari can't tell the difference and just thinks it's sending SIO commands to real hardware. So you just chuck a disk image in of your favorite game from back in the day that you downloaded and boot the Atari. Nice stuff.
I like it! And I have just the uniform for these stellar missions. I think they'd look great in either red shirts or orange trimmed tunics.