Ah, I see. Your days seem much more hectic than mine... I'm usually only doing one thing at a time for the day, so I just have a couple reference sites, email, and the web page(s) if working on web stuff. Also I use Ubuntu so in rare cases I need everything the same as when I leave I just save to session and turn off.
Now for open terminals, that's a different story, it's quite often a huge mess! Not even multiple desktops help too much sometimes:-)
Why do you use your computer like that? What is the advantage of having it powered on all the time running several opera windows with a bunch of tabs?
Not trolling, genuinely curious. I turn mine off every day, and almost never have more than 15-20 tabs open. If I need to keep something around I just bookmark it. So just wondering...
True, it is a major pain to get silverlight installed on linux, if the instructions I've seen for it are any indication. Way too much of a pain for me to try it:-)
But my main point was that silverlight is a little more open than flash. There is a reference spec for.net, which silverlight is based on. And MS has released public specs for SL, as well as more details to novell, which in turn has released moonlight as open source.
So definitely not as nice as sun GPL'ing java, but certainly more open than Adobe's "you can't use our specs to create a flash player"
Flash & Java pretty much everywhere,.NET and Silverlight only where Microsoft sees fit Flash everywhere, huh? Ask a BSD user, I'm sure the anwser will be interesting! The truth of the matter is Flash is propriatary and is only available where adobe feels like it.
I'm no MS lover, far from it, but silverlight is more open than flash, and there is a linux version for it, less than a year after it was released. How long will it take for adobe to allow independent implementations of flash?
If you read the article the blog is based on you will see that:
Rappelons qu'aucune de ces informations n'a été donnée lors de la conférence de lancement de la bête, ni dans le communiqué de presse officiel... rough translation "this info has not been provided at the conference or by official press release"
And looking on asus' site, it says they will be windows ready not only.
Hey that's a cool stats monitor. Where did you get it?
Regarding IE6 usage, I found it varies greatly on the site. My open source project site gets 60% FF, about 30% IE of which 40% is IE6. This site breaks in IE6, and frankly I don't care.
The business site gets about 70% IE, of which 55% is IE6 (we get mainly corporate and government visitors). So obviously for that site I do try to make everything work properly.
It's one of those catch 22, if you make changes that cause your site to break in IE6, you lose business, but if no sites are broken on IE6 no one will want to upgrade.
Uh, wouldn't having an unchanging interface make a window easier to forge? You can just grab a screenshot of IE7, having full confidence it will look exactly the same for everyone.
Maybe you are referring to the little dropdown that shows up in pop up dialogs?
FTFA:
In his paper, Molette concluded that even while fractionated spacecraft will have overall higher mass and cost than traditional satellites, these penalties will be outweighed by the advantages of having modules mass-produced and launched into space, which would introduce the same economies of scale and efficiency that PC clusters have over supercomputers. FTFWA (from the fucking wiki article):
Molette's and subsequent analyses[5] concluded that the benefits of fractionated spacecraft were outweighed by their higher mass and cost. Who should I trust? Some blogger that writes a sensationalist article that uses a star wars reference and can't be bothered to read his own sources, or a wiki article that lists proper sources? Decisions, decisions...
I agree completely, good sci-fi has a way of making you think about real world situations from a different context.
However, in this case since we are talking about another species, intra-species conflicts would not apply in the strict sense.
But I would say the line is crossed when the enemy:
Has already committed genocide on our populations.
Has the stated goal of exterminating us all.
Will not negotiate nor make peace.
Even if defeated will never surrender and will continue to kill civilians.
In which case genocide is an acceptable, though unfortunate, solution.
I can think of no historical genocide that was committed under these conditions.
Would you wipe out a species to ensure your own survival? If that species was bent on exterminating mine, yes, I would. And so would any other living thing, for that matter. Genocide and murder are certainly not acceptable in normal times, but when fighting for survival, all bets are off.
2. Don't blame ATI. You should blame to ATI, not the hardworking linux driver writers. With all the vista driver problems, people (that had a clue) were blaming ATI/nvidia for the bad support, not MS. Why should Linux be any different? And the Linux people would happily write drivers themselves if they had they specs and not being worried about getting sued by ATI.
As a matter of fact, now that AMD bought ATI and released the specs, there has been a very rough open source driver released. But guess what - this had everything to do with AMD/ATI. It's completely and utterly their fault that support has sucked so hard so far.
I will never buy another video card again. I find that very hard to believe.
In any case, if AMD is true to their promises, I will only buy ATI cards that are supported by the OSS driver.
Aren't processes more useful for server apps? Like when each process gets a certain amount of connections (ie apache), so that if one is brought down the whole service isn't knocked out. But each process is pretty much independent, is doing essentially the same thing, and as such don't share memory or communicate (yes I know about IPC, but it's not quite the same thing).
I don't think this would work with an app such as firefox. If you had a separate process for each tab, think of the insane memory requirements; as they are independent of each other and do not share memory. And how would you make extensions work across multiple tabs?
Now, if you have each process be a different thing (ie one 'process' for extensions, one for each tab, one for the GUI elements, etc) all communicating and being dependent on each other - than what you have are threads, not processes. At least by the definition I've most come across.
Please correct me if I'm not groking it right (like I need to ask around these parts:-) ).
I think you may have that the other way around, usually win admins like 'next'->'next'->'next' type stuff.
Also, many modern linux distros do have GUI tools for various admin tasks, though they much less powerful than the equivalent CLI.
I've used something similar to yours, but with different types of content (not processing), some pages would have extra content that needed some extra styling. I just split the file in 2, then do a test for 'mycontent_extra.php' to see whether I should load these.
It's not pretty, but it is flexible. That's how I feel about PHP as a whole.:-)
When I discovered Python after PHP/Perl I was hooked... much cleaner, much easier to read, and there should be only one way of doing things - the right way. But you still can't beat PHP when it comes to ease and flexibility for web apps/sites, especially when interfacing with a DB.
Good point, but obviously you need to put some checks in there! Also file permissions need to restrict the php user accordingly.
I was just showing the basic principle.
107 km up is much higher than what the sr-71 can reach (about 25km), or any air-breathing craft for that matter. BTW, the original X-prize was for an altitude of 100km.
Maybe you are confusing speed with altitude. You could have orbital velocity at ground level, that wouldn't make the craft an orbiter. To reach orbit or sub-orbit may require a certain speed (physics and all that) but it's not the principal definition, the trajectory is.
I like how the article confuses LED with an OLED display, thereby completely missing the point of the device. Any idiot can stick an LED inside a keyboard key, in fact there are plenty of LED back-lit keyboards out there. But putting in a completely programmable display in each key is something much, much more complicated (and cooler). This is why there has been so much interest in it, and why it so expensive.
Speaking of which, the full blown 103 programmable key version is $1564, but with less programmable keys it is cheaper. As follows:
Nitrous oxide has been called a 'chemical turbocharger' for its similar effect on ICEs (putting more O2 in the combustion chamber), so the parent is correct in that regard, even if his description of it (air + N2) is false.
Ah I see it now, thanks for the tip. This would've been handy for when it's easier to open up GIMP for something simple rather than reboot into windows for photoshop.
Still, you have to admit that the implementation of this feature is horrible - often times I need to keep on adjusting the size of the brush as I work at different zoom levels and areas. GIMP won't let me edit the normal brushes. A GUI should allow you to figure easy stuff like this on your own, and make it so you can actually work efficiently with it. GIMP fails on both counts.
Of course now I can just use PS in Linux, making the GIMP irrelevant to my life, which is awesome:-)
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Ah, I see. Your days seem much more hectic than mine ... I'm usually only doing one thing at a time for the day, so I just have a couple reference sites, email, and the web page(s) if working on web stuff. Also I use Ubuntu so in rare cases I need everything the same as when I leave I just save to session and turn off.
:-)
Now for open terminals, that's a different story, it's quite often a huge mess! Not even multiple desktops help too much sometimes
Why do you use your computer like that? What is the advantage of having it powered on all the time running several opera windows with a bunch of tabs?
...
Not trolling, genuinely curious. I turn mine off every day, and almost never have more than 15-20 tabs open. If I need to keep something around I just bookmark it. So just wondering
No. And don't even think about Mono!
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kidding, use whatever works best
True, it is a major pain to get silverlight installed on linux, if the instructions I've seen for it are any indication. Way too much of a pain for me to try it :-)
.net, which silverlight is based on. And MS has released public specs for SL, as well as more details to novell, which in turn has released moonlight as open source.
But my main point was that silverlight is a little more open than flash. There is a reference spec for
So definitely not as nice as sun GPL'ing java, but certainly more open than Adobe's "you can't use our specs to create a flash player"
I'm no MS lover, far from it, but silverlight is more open than flash, and there is a linux version for it, less than a year after it was released. How long will it take for adobe to allow independent implementations of flash?
And looking on asus' site, it says they will be windows ready not only.
Hey that's a cool stats monitor. Where did you get it?
Regarding IE6 usage, I found it varies greatly on the site. My open source project site gets 60% FF, about 30% IE of which 40% is IE6. This site breaks in IE6, and frankly I don't care.
The business site gets about 70% IE, of which 55% is IE6 (we get mainly corporate and government visitors). So obviously for that site I do try to make everything work properly.
It's one of those catch 22, if you make changes that cause your site to break in IE6, you lose business, but if no sites are broken on IE6 no one will want to upgrade.
Uh, wouldn't having an unchanging interface make a window easier to forge? You can just grab a screenshot of IE7, having full confidence it will look exactly the same for everyone.
Maybe you are referring to the little dropdown that shows up in pop up dialogs?
Don't worry, no one will lose their mind over this ;-)
However, in this case since we are talking about another species, intra-species conflicts would not apply in the strict sense.
But I would say the line is crossed when the enemy:
- Has already committed genocide on our populations.
- Has the stated goal of exterminating us all.
- Will not negotiate nor make peace.
- Even if defeated will never surrender and will continue to kill civilians.
In which case genocide is an acceptable, though unfortunate, solution.I can think of no historical genocide that was committed under these conditions.
As a matter of fact, now that AMD bought ATI and released the specs, there has been a very rough open source driver released. But guess what - this had everything to do with AMD/ATI. It's completely and utterly their fault that support has sucked so hard so far.
I will never buy another video card again. I find that very hard to believe.
In any case, if AMD is true to their promises, I will only buy ATI cards that are supported by the OSS driver.
... which should be some time after they release a 64-bit photoshop version for any platform.
Aren't processes more useful for server apps? Like when each process gets a certain amount of connections (ie apache), so that if one is brought down the whole service isn't knocked out. But each process is pretty much independent, is doing essentially the same thing, and as such don't share memory or communicate (yes I know about IPC, but it's not quite the same thing).
:-) ).
I don't think this would work with an app such as firefox. If you had a separate process for each tab, think of the insane memory requirements; as they are independent of each other and do not share memory. And how would you make extensions work across multiple tabs?
Now, if you have each process be a different thing (ie one 'process' for extensions, one for each tab, one for the GUI elements, etc) all communicating and being dependent on each other - than what you have are threads, not processes. At least by the definition I've most come across.
Please correct me if I'm not groking it right (like I need to ask around these parts
I think you may have that the other way around, usually win admins like 'next'->'next'->'next' type stuff.
Also, many modern linux distros do have GUI tools for various admin tasks, though they much less powerful than the equivalent CLI.
It's not pretty, but it is flexible. That's how I feel about PHP as a whole.
When I discovered Python after PHP/Perl I was hooked
But you still can't beat PHP when it comes to ease and flexibility for web apps/sites, especially when interfacing with a DB.
Good point, but obviously you need to put some checks in there! Also file permissions need to restrict the php user accordingly.
...)
I was just showing the basic principle.
Try this one, a very very simple site I made (and before anyone bitches I didn't feel like doing the extra work to support IE properly)
http://file-folder-ren.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=/home/ianare/.mozilla/bookmarks
(I'm kinda curious
print 'My content';
require("footer.php"); or
require($_GET['page'].'.html');
print 'bottom of page';
... where the content is changed with a GET variable, i.e. mylayout.php?page=mycontent
(using print rather than escaping to html due to slashdot restrictions)
No one would pay extra for a player nobody makes content for. So it also goes something like this:
MSFT: "If HD-DVD wins then the PS3 is basically doomed to failure."
That which seems silly to me is, to base weather something is interesting, based on how the persons command of english grammar good is. :-)
But thanks for the tip.
107 km up is much higher than what the sr-71 can reach (about 25km), or any air-breathing craft for that matter. BTW, the original X-prize was for an altitude of 100km.
Maybe you are confusing speed with altitude. You could have orbital velocity at ground level, that wouldn't make the craft an orbiter. To reach orbit or sub-orbit may require a certain speed (physics and all that) but it's not the principal definition, the trajectory is.
Speaking of which, the full blown 103 programmable key version is $1564, but with less programmable keys it is cheaper. As follows:
Nitrous oxide has been called a 'chemical turbocharger' for its similar effect on ICEs (putting more O2 in the combustion chamber), so the parent is correct in that regard, even if his description of it (air + N2) is false.
Ah I see it now, thanks for the tip. This would've been handy for when it's easier to open up GIMP for something simple rather than reboot into windows for photoshop.
:-)
Still, you have to admit that the implementation of this feature is horrible - often times I need to keep on adjusting the size of the brush as I work at different zoom levels and areas. GIMP won't let me edit the normal brushes. A GUI should allow you to figure easy stuff like this on your own, and make it so you can actually work efficiently with it. GIMP fails on both counts.
Of course now I can just use PS in Linux, making the GIMP irrelevant to my life, which is awesome