See, the thing is, if you made it out of those parabolic dish-thingies, it'd be really, really tough to modify the deflector dish to interface with the sensor array, and emit a neutrino pulse into the heart of the anomaly.
IIRC, whenever the brave crew of the Enterprise modifies the deflector dish to interface with the sensor array and emits a neutrino pulse into the heart the anomaly, it never works as intended.
Name one episode where using the deflector dish actually helped the crisis. I can't recall any.
IIRC, the Foundation was forced to create tiny efficient micro-power generators because they were on Terminus, a planet that's kinda scarce on resources.
What kind of irks me about that is some of the outlying provices surrounding Terminus are told to have "regressed to fossil fuels" and yet they have interstellar spaceships. On fossil fuels? FTL travel? Kind of a strech.
I've been using Slackware on my workstation for many months now, and the stock Linus kernel is rock solid. The only patch I've applied is Robert Love's preemptive patch. I find the stock kernel works well with all my hardware. I also need a stock kernel to grok for my MSc work, so Slack is quite a nice choice for me.
Uhm.... is the parent post +4 informative or +4 sarcastic?
I have another book for beginners called "Beginning Linux Programming" by Wrox press. It too had an example of a CD database. I guess CD databases make great real life examples.
It's actually whale songs coming from an alien probe. We've got to send Captain Kirk back in time to get 2 humpback whales to reply. Oh wait they're not extinct yet.
...there'll a few dozen posts by slashdotters stating how they are wondering what "post-apocolyptic" means. Looks a like typo, but it ends up sounding naughty.
Who in Malay would want to write and develop any software when you could steal it down the street for 7 ringgit?
The name of the country is Malaysia. Malay is the language and also the major ethnic race here.
The answer to your question is : almost nobody. Retail software is practically non-existant. The only job programmers get here is developing custom or in-house software. It's a sad state of affairs, but that's the reality of the situation here.
The hardware isn't cheap. In fact, it's more expensive here in Malaysia where I live than in the US. 1 USD is approximately 3.8 ringgit (Malaysian money). Now if a person has blown 3000 Malaysian ringgit in hardware (about 2 months salary for an average person here), he finds out he needs to spend about 1000 ringgit more for an operating system and an office suite. Then the ultra-cheap pirated versions are really tempting indeed, since one can get any kind of software for only about 7 ringgit apiece.
I live in Penang, and sometimes raids are advertised in the papers. You'll see headlines such as "Raid Next Week", and all the shops close on that day. Neat huh?
There are surprise raids sometimes, but pirates somehow find out about it before hand, and all the shops close on that day. Some surprise.
There really isn't any way to elimainate piracy in Asian countries when the price of licensed software is so high. In the States, $100 for a word processor may be affordable, but when it gets converted to Malaysian currency, it becomes 380 Malaysian ringgit. Considering the per capita income of most Malaysians to be around 1000 to 1500 Malaysian ringgit, it's considered pricy (and the fact that people can easily buy the pirated version for 7 ringgit doesn't help the situation either).
To reduce piracy in these parts, software companies should price their software at prices that are affordable from a local point of view.
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One OS to rule them all,
;)
One Passport to find them,
One OS to bring them all,
And with the EULA bind them!
Sorry couldn't resist
See, the thing is, if you made it out of those parabolic dish-thingies, it'd be really, really tough to modify the deflector dish to interface with the sensor array, and emit a neutrino pulse into the heart of the anomaly.
IIRC, whenever the brave crew of the Enterprise modifies the deflector dish to interface with the sensor array and emits a neutrino pulse into the heart the anomaly, it never works as intended.
Name one episode where using the deflector dish actually helped the crisis. I can't recall any.
There is a significant patch that speeds up write operations for large files on IDE drives by up to 15%. This made it in v2.4.20-pre6.
Hasn't this already been posted?
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http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0
If I remember correctly, DS9 season 1 was kinda lame. I heard it got better in later seasons, but they don't show DS9 on TV where I live any more.
I did manage to watch the entire run of Babylon 5, and that was much better than any Star Trek, in comparison.
IIRC, the Foundation was forced to create tiny efficient micro-power generators because they were on Terminus, a planet that's kinda scarce on resources.
What kind of irks me about that is some of the outlying provices surrounding Terminus are told to have "regressed to fossil fuels" and yet they have interstellar spaceships. On fossil fuels? FTL travel? Kind of a strech.
Aaaah.... I've been Lone Gunmenned.
:)
In the country where I live, SG1 hasn't gone that far yet
Sith (evil programmers) use the red ones. Blue, green and now purple are used by the good guys :)
...and the mental image I get is a penguin on a snowboard. I think I've seen a rendered image of that somewhere...
I've been using Slackware on my workstation for many months now, and the stock Linus kernel is rock solid. The only patch I've applied is Robert Love's preemptive patch. I find the stock kernel works well with all my hardware. I also need a stock kernel to grok for my MSc work, so Slack is quite a nice choice for me.
C'mon CmdrTaco. We need one :)
The actual images are at
...where the n before the .JPG are integers from 1 to 10.
http://home.attbi.com/~mrwatchdawg_01/n.JPG
First person shooters are the boy bands of the computer gaming world.
That has to be the most insightful comment I've seen in a long time. Somebody mod this guy up!
Uhm.... is the parent post +4 informative or +4 sarcastic?
I have another book for beginners called "Beginning Linux Programming" by Wrox press. It too had an example of a CD database. I guess CD databases make great real life examples.
It's actually whale songs coming from an alien probe. We've got to send Captain Kirk back in time to get 2 humpback whales to reply. Oh wait they're not extinct yet.
In this interview with Robert Love in July, he predicted 18 months before 2.6 gets released(that would make the release early in 2004).
:) Now that's a first.
I'm more inclined to go with Robert Love's estimate considering 2.4's late release.
Offtopic : Hey, my story submission got accepted!
I'm reasonably sure that I just heard Jack Valenti spinning in his grave
Jack Valenti is dead?
The chalkboard in the classroom was white except for the outline of the teacher's profile. You could see that he held his arms up to cover his face.
Wow. Just like what happens to the coyote in "Road Runner".
...there'll a few dozen posts by slashdotters stating how they are wondering what "post-apocolyptic" means. Looks a like typo, but it ends up sounding naughty.
This guy seems to disagree with you.
And it's more usable in a biological format too :)
Who in Malay would want to write and develop any software when you could steal it down the street for 7 ringgit?
The name of the country is Malaysia. Malay is the language and also the major ethnic race here.
The answer to your question is : almost nobody. Retail software is practically non-existant. The only job programmers get here is developing custom or in-house software. It's a sad state of affairs, but that's the reality of the situation here.
The hardware isn't cheap. In fact, it's more expensive here in Malaysia where I live than in the US. 1 USD is approximately 3.8 ringgit (Malaysian money). Now if a person has blown 3000 Malaysian ringgit in hardware (about 2 months salary for an average person here), he finds out he needs to spend about 1000 ringgit more for an operating system and an office suite. Then the ultra-cheap pirated versions are really tempting indeed, since one can get any kind of software for only about 7 ringgit apiece.
I live in Penang, and sometimes raids are advertised in the papers. You'll see headlines such as "Raid Next Week", and all the shops close on that day. Neat huh?
There are surprise raids sometimes, but pirates somehow find out about it before hand, and all the shops close on that day. Some surprise.
There really isn't any way to elimainate piracy in Asian countries when the price of licensed software is so high. In the States, $100 for a word processor may be affordable, but when it gets converted to Malaysian currency, it becomes 380 Malaysian ringgit. Considering the per capita income of most Malaysians to be around 1000 to 1500 Malaysian ringgit, it's considered pricy (and the fact that people can easily buy the pirated version for 7 ringgit doesn't help the situation either).
To reduce piracy in these parts, software companies should price their software at prices that are affordable from a local point of view.
Linus handles himself so well when talking to the 'normals'
I guess you'll only find a sentence like this on slashdot. And, *shudder*, it makes sense too.