FreeBSD seems pretty stable if maybe a little boring - like a machine that does it's job so well you forget it's even there
That's sort of the point, really. It shifts the focus away from the operating system itself to the jobs that the operating system is there to perform.
It is an operating system you can forget about, and in many contexts, that's a good thing. Focus on the work, not the environment the work has to run in
Talk to BSD users, and a quiet but clear sense of superiority comes through.
Heh. Yep. Smug bastards the lot of us.
Still. The day i see a BSDUG is the day that.. well, it'll be a weird day.
One interesting thing i've found about the BSD 'market'... it may not have the market share, but with cdrom.com, yahoo.com, and other high-profile high-traffic sites, it's got one hell of a resume
Naturally they should not try to bring back *every* species, that would be impossible. They should only try to bring back extinct species that were large and carnivorous. Then something can go horribly wrong and it'll be up to a rough and ready team of bickering biologists, a journalist, and maybe a plucky grease monkey from brooklyn to save the world.
Of course, with the tendency that Man Playing God With Nature has for going horribly wrong, we can go ahead and assume this will happen with any cloned extinct species. A scourge of angry, man-eating passenger pidgeons does have a certain appeal.
The university thinks i'm a physics major. Actually i'm a physics minor, and a bad movie major.
Wow! Lucas is *my hero*
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"Most people don't like toys and don't think children should be able to play with toys. But I'm a big fan of toys, and I think it helps kids be able to play and expand their imaginations. To contribute to that is I think a good thing."
So. George Lucas is, with no thought of the scandal and controversy this will no doubt bring down on his head, taking a firm position in favor of fun.
Yeah george, most people don't think children should play with toys. But not you. You're the exceptional hero man who thinks children should play with toys. Wow. That's really something. I suppose most people also feel it is perfectly okay to steal puppies and beat them, but you are similarly opposed to that, right?
George Lucas. Prefers good to evil, and thinks fun is a good thing for children to have. He is truly, truly truly in the minority for holding these views, but he is not afraid to voice them, so great is his integrity.
We can't have computers that small because how can we work with them? Where do you attach a keyboard?
Not all computers are personal computers. Not all computers need direct I/O devices hooked up to 'em. You're not going to need a monitor and keyboard hooked up to every node of.. say... a beowulf cluster.
The diminutive size opens up possibilities for *other* uses for computers. Smaller robots, tiny regulatory devices in people's bodies to perform any number of functions to keep a body running better, to name a few.
Even considering computers that *would* be for "personal use", think of how slimmer your laptop would be if the *only* bulk was for the keyboard and screen. Think of faster, more versitile PDAs. Heck. Think of a laptop containing an entire *network*. Or cluster. Or what have you.
There's certainly no cause for saying the possibilities of such development are limited by some need for big bulky things. If you want bulk, the smaller components mean you can cram more of 'em in there.
SDMI can only be dumped to a portable mp3/SDMI player *three times*?
All the more reason to *not* get one of those players then. The technology just doesn't support it. If you want to shell out the big bucks, you can get an hour's worth of music on those things. But if you want to listen to something different and don't want to pay ~$50 for another memory module, you'd have to erase it and dump a different set of files to the device. Meaning you can only take the SDMI files with you three times.
portable mp3 players are a nice idea, but the technology/market isn't up to a point where they're yet feasable as an affordable portable listening device. You're better off getting a soundcard with an optical output (like the Xitel Storm Platinum ) and recording those songs onto minidisc. Cheap, swappable storage, and if you can listen to them on the computer, you can dump them on as many minidiscs as you like as often as you like.
I'm not so sure that SP is only for kiddies... I think it's one of those comedies that works on two levels - a base one for kids and a higher level for adults. *snort* No, i think it works on a base level for the adults as well.
So.. a full *hour* of music can be stored on this mp3, eh? Well, i suppose that's *okay*, but frankly it's still excessively obnoxious to have to erase everything stored in it if I want to bring different music with me.
What i would like is a device which can store over an hour of music digitally, at a high sampling rate, on small units which can be swapped out of the device at my discretion... Something that would be able to store mp3s, copies of CDs, even live recordings, on swappable media.. like discs.. little... discs... smaller than compact discs, "mini" discs if you will...
A human being is dead, people. And he was a human who actually touched some people's lives. I hate to be confrontational, but these comments, and the dept Hemos chose, sadly dissapoint me.
Is this really such a tragedy? I'd say levity is in order precisely because he *did* touch people's lives. He led a good life, made the world a little better as a result of it. Death's an inevitability, everyone succumbs to it at some point. But at least he put his time on this rock to good use. That's more than a lot of people can say. His death gives those he touched a chance to look at his life as a whole, and I'd say his was pretty good. Hardly something to be upset about.
InterAccess is good for chicago area DSL for a number of reasons. In particular, reasons pertaining to the article above. The annoyance of dealing with 3 different companies is a moot point, since IA is an ISP and a CLEC.
Odd that you have to wait until october. That's most likely an issue with your CO. They aren't turning on areas until there appears to be sufficient demand for it in that area.
Anyone have their familiy not get it or actually turn on you for telling them the truth? Quite the opposite, for me. My mother's a methodist minister, and she sent me her sermon from last week... basically lambasting the people who are going on about how they can spot the potential homicidal wingnuts on looks and popularity level, how people are missing the point in blaming video games as the cause of this violence, and how she's proud to have trenchcoated, weird and creative offspring
Holy cripes on toast. What does this have to do with geekness in any way? Pretty much everything outlined in that article is gosh darned NORMAL. And, BLAND. Particularly the TV review.
Now, this being for "geeks", one might *think* it might touch on some of the exceptional things that have been on the air. Babylon5, for one... as for x-files, well the story's over, so all the series can do now is waffle and have monster of the week episodes. And maybe throw in some "muldar and scully.. will they do it?" subtext. Which is itself quite a shame, since part of the strength (imho) of the show and what set it apart was that it had a male and female character in a relationship that *wasn't* a romantic/sexual one.
Of course, thanks to the braying of the LCD, that's been washed away as well.
But, no mention of Babylon 5, no mention of Mr. Show, no mention of Upright Citizens Brigade, no mention of the movie _pi_ (hey. the math might've been screwy, the technology might've been equally silly, but.. well.. umm.. it had math and technology in *some* form. i'd think it would at least get an honorable mention), no mention of... well, anything *interesting* (with the possible exception of _Happiness_), out of the ordinary, intelligent, or otherwise related to anything "geek".
And. Um. That 70's Show? A SITCOM! A piece of crap, marketing-demongraphic-spawned retro SITCOM!
Pop culture isn't the glue that holds together geek society, pop culture is NOISE that steals our time and insures we buy the right things.
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That's sort of the point, really. It shifts the focus away from the operating system itself to the jobs that the operating system is there to perform.
It is an operating system you can forget about, and in many contexts, that's a good thing. Focus on the work, not the environment the work has to run in
Heh. Yep. Smug bastards the lot of us.
Still. The day i see a BSDUG is the day that.. well, it'll be a weird day.
One interesting thing i've found about the BSD 'market'... it may not have the market share, but with cdrom.com, yahoo.com, and other high-profile high-traffic sites, it's got one hell of a resume
Naturally they should not try to bring back *every* species, that would be impossible. They should only try to bring back extinct species that were large and carnivorous. Then something can go horribly wrong and it'll be up to a rough and ready team of bickering biologists, a journalist, and maybe a plucky grease monkey from brooklyn to save the world.
Of course, with the tendency that Man Playing God With Nature has for going horribly wrong, we can go ahead and assume this will happen with any cloned extinct species. A scourge of angry, man-eating passenger pidgeons does have a certain appeal.
The university thinks i'm a physics major. Actually i'm a physics minor, and a bad movie major.
So. George Lucas is, with no thought of the scandal and controversy this will no doubt bring down on his head, taking a firm position in favor of fun.
Yeah george, most people don't think children should play with toys. But not you. You're the exceptional hero man who thinks children should play with toys. Wow. That's really something. I suppose most people also feel it is perfectly okay to steal puppies and beat them, but you are similarly opposed to that, right?
George Lucas. Prefers good to evil, and thinks fun is a good thing for children to have. He is truly, truly truly in the minority for holding these views, but he is not afraid to voice them, so great is his integrity.
Not all computers are personal computers. Not all computers need direct I/O devices hooked up to 'em. You're not going to need a monitor and keyboard hooked up to every node of.. say... a beowulf cluster.
The diminutive size opens up possibilities for *other* uses for computers. Smaller robots, tiny regulatory devices in people's bodies to perform any number of functions to keep a body running better, to name a few.
Even considering computers that *would* be for "personal use", think of how slimmer your laptop would be if the *only* bulk was for the keyboard and screen. Think of faster, more versitile PDAs. Heck. Think of a laptop containing an entire *network*. Or cluster. Or what have you.
There's certainly no cause for saying the possibilities of such development are limited by some need for big bulky things. If you want bulk, the smaller components mean you can cram more of 'em in there.
SDMI can only be dumped to a portable mp3/SDMI player *three times*?
All the more reason to *not* get one of those players then. The technology just doesn't support it. If you want to shell out the big bucks, you can get an hour's worth of music on those things. But if you want to listen to something different and don't want to pay ~$50 for another memory module, you'd have to erase it and dump a different set of files to the device. Meaning you can only take the SDMI files with you three times.
portable mp3 players are a nice idea, but the technology/market isn't up to a point where they're yet feasable as an affordable portable listening device. You're better off getting a soundcard with an optical output (like the Xitel Storm Platinum ) and recording those songs onto minidisc. Cheap, swappable storage, and if you can listen to them on the computer, you can dump them on as many minidiscs as you like as often as you like.
I'm not so sure that SP is only for kiddies... I think it's one of those comedies that works on two levels - a base one for kids and a higher level for adults.
*snort*
No, i think it works on a base level for the adults as well.
Way to labor up a pun, captain wetblanketron.
So.. a full *hour* of music can be stored on this mp3, eh? Well, i suppose that's *okay*, but frankly it's still excessively obnoxious to have to erase everything stored in it if I want to bring different music with me.
... discs... smaller than compact discs, "mini" discs if you will...
What i would like is a device which can store over an hour of music digitally, at a high sampling rate, on small units which can be swapped out of the device at my discretion... Something that would be able to store mp3s, copies of CDs, even live recordings, on swappable media.. like discs.. little
yeah. minidiscs.
A human being is dead, people. And he was a human who actually touched some people's lives. I hate to be confrontational, but these comments, and the dept Hemos chose, sadly dissapoint me.
Is this really such a tragedy? I'd say levity is in order precisely because he *did* touch people's lives. He led a good life, made the world a little better as a result of it. Death's an inevitability, everyone succumbs to it at some point. But at least he put his time on this rock to good use. That's more than a lot of people can say. His death gives those he touched a chance to look at his life as a whole, and I'd say his was pretty good. Hardly something to be upset about.
That's funny, I remember seeing "Plug and Play" stamped all over the power strips and UPS's when I worked at a computer store. I laughed my off.
I've seen "Y2K Compliant" keyboards...
InterAccess is good for chicago area DSL for a number of reasons. In particular, reasons pertaining to the article above. The annoyance of dealing with 3 different companies is a moot point, since IA is an ISP and a CLEC.
Odd that you have to wait until october. That's most likely an issue with your CO. They aren't turning on areas until there appears to be sufficient demand for it in that area.
On the bright side, they aren't overselling.
Windows will never be an incredible OS
Oh i dunno. I have difficulty believing it sometimes.
Anyone have their familiy not get it or actually turn on you for telling them the truth? Quite the opposite, for me. My mother's a methodist minister, and she sent me her sermon from last week... basically lambasting the people who are going on about how they can spot the potential homicidal wingnuts on looks and popularity level, how people are missing the point in blaming video games as the cause of this violence, and how she's proud to have trenchcoated, weird and creative offspring
Holy cripes on toast. What does this have to do with geekness in any way? Pretty much everything outlined in that article is gosh darned NORMAL. And, BLAND. Particularly the TV review.
... well, anything *interesting* (with the possible exception of _Happiness_), out of the ordinary, intelligent, or otherwise related to anything "geek".
Now, this being for "geeks", one might *think* it might touch on some of the exceptional things that have been on the air. Babylon5, for one... as for x-files, well the story's over, so all the series can do now is waffle and have monster of the week episodes. And maybe throw in some "muldar and scully.. will they do it?" subtext. Which is itself quite a shame, since part of the strength (imho) of the show and what set it apart was that it had a male and female character in a relationship that *wasn't* a romantic/sexual one.
Of course, thanks to the braying of the LCD, that's been washed away as well.
But, no mention of Babylon 5, no mention of Mr. Show, no mention of Upright Citizens Brigade, no mention of the movie _pi_ (hey. the math might've been screwy, the technology might've been equally silly, but.. well.. umm.. it had math and technology in *some* form. i'd think it would at least get an honorable mention), no mention of
And. Um. That 70's Show? A SITCOM! A piece of crap, marketing-demongraphic-spawned retro SITCOM!
Pop culture isn't the glue that holds together geek society, pop culture is NOISE that steals our time and insures we buy the right things.