I use Winamp 5 because is has global shortcuts. No matter what application I am in, I can hit the key combo and turn up the volume. That's great functionality that I haven't seen elsewhere.
Yep. At the start of World War II for the US, in December 1941, it was amongst the weakest military-wise in the world. By August, 1945, less than four years later, it had nuked Japan. Nuked. In 1945. Look at the cars in 1945. Some military dude said "Let's make a bomb" and they built it.
But it cost a few billion bucks. GDP-wise, it was probably the largest project in US history. But such a pretty cloud!
Courts have a specific jurisdiction. A court in New Jersey cannot litigate over someone who has never been there, for example. Imagine having to defend yourself in a place you have never been. This is just common sense and fair play.
However, nothing really is commonsense in the law. Rendering people immune from suits in a state they have never been makes sense. However, people started to structure their affairs so that they could only be sued in one state despite doing business in many. Eventually, courts adopted a common sense approach to guarantee "fair play". The case is International Shoe. Seriously. Heh.
You know President Bush is Commander in Chief of the United States of America. He doesn't. Someone should volunteer a few weeks to explain this to him. Maybe he wouldn't be so eager to liberate the Iraqi people.
I hate to say this, but teens aren't quite adults yet. Even physiologically, their brains are matured yet. (The centers for self-restraint do not fully develop until after adolescence.) They need to be monitored. Children who plan on suicide, children who are planning massacres, children who are drinking and worse, these children need help. And we can't help them unless we look after them.
Yes, wiretapping and espionage seems repellant. But we can't stand by and watch Columbines roll by in the name of excess liberalism.
Seven people died when Columbia disintegrated, and the country cares much more about it than a car accident somewhere. Also, the press is not disclosing the number of wounded soldiers (well into the thousands). Because of the improved body armor, soldiers are surviving the battlefield but are losing limbs.
People who say that soldiers knew about the duty are missing the point. Troops have signed on to defend their country. They are willing to die to defend their country. When you send them out to get killed not in furtherance of this duty, then this is not something they have signed up for. Your chain of logic is basically they got what they deserved and somehow that isn't too favorable.
This is blackmail, plain and simple. It is just happening in cyberspace and the current laws are thankfully being applied in this new world. There is no genuine economic transaction being furthered by this man's program but to destroy Google's income. He doesn't have a leg to stand on in court.
Apparently, the scientific community think that the Hubble has become limited in usefulness. The new observatory observes infrared and some visible (though not optical blue.) Everything is red-shifted, they say, so visible light telescopes like Hubble serve no purpose.
However, the new telescope cannot be fixed. It will lie in orbit between the sun and the Earth. What if it breaks? Eh? Bad lens? Bad gyroscopes? HST is in orbit and we can fix it. This can be a backup and it still serves a useful scientific role, as evidenced by its recent Ultra Deep Field exposure.
If we allowed editing after moderation, even if the editing was after a line that said "Moderation--------" this would result in a new type of troll: the 5 Insightful troll with a goatse.cx link.
I moved to the 2.6.3 kernel quite simply. You just have to remember to update module-init-tools. This is really important.
However, 2.6 breaks strange things. The big distros have to support a lot of hardware and software packages and they cannot ship yet unless they have verified all the hardware works. For example, the Cisco VPN client breaks on 2.6.3 but not on 2.6.1. These bugs have to be ironed out before the big distros make a run at 2.6, but individual users can experiment (dual-boot with GRUB) and see if they can. The upgrade in performance is certainly worth it.
I have linux and ACPI seems to work pretty well. The largest things are:
1. The screen. Blank it if possible (edit XF86Config-4) and use the darkest setting you can see with. Redundant, I know. But pay attention and actually do it. 2. The wireless. The radio sucks up a lot of power. If you are not using the web, turn off the card. (You can use the tx setting for your card to put it into a sleep state.) 3. The hard drive. Use hdparm to shut it down if no one is using it. 4. Suspend. Doesn't work on the Latitude D800 yet in KDE. But quit KDE (set session manager to save your settings) and then suspend/hibernate. 5. Enable Throttle. You have to enable this in the BIOS as well as the kernel. Don't forget to enable the modules you need for your particular laptop and chip/chipset. 6. Enable auto-throttle. Throttling by itself is useless because you won't do it manually. You have to automate it. Download and compile auto-throttle and start it up on boot. The Pentium-M has eight modes, I believe, and autothrottle moves it up and down really nicely. No lag at all. It must have something to do with the pre-emptible kernel in 2.6.3. 7. Don't blast music. This takes up a surprising amount of power. 8. In windows, don't set stuff like anti-viruses and disk defragmenters to automatically start. This isn't really good for your battery life if it starts up. 9. Don't compile programs while on battery. (Duh, right? Stupid me.)
I get 3:15 hours of battery life on a D800 with the screen on the brightest setting and the internet. Under Linux! Battery life isn't just for windows, you know? Just word processing and web browsing. Cool, huh?
Oh, crap. This is probably a gentoo troll because he mentions "traditional distros". Well, I have gentoo and right now everything is pretty updated because I just installed 2004.0 from the binary sources. But am I going to reinstall everything to keep up to date?
No. I will update software only when it adds functionality or removes vulnerabilities. What is the difference between KDE 3.2.1 and 3.2.0? Not enough to effect me, I guess. But if you are updating from KDE 2.2, then you are making a large jump up. (Trust me!)
Anyway, you can always update with regular distros. And without compiling, mind you. But don't bother chasing version numbers. Just use programs that fit your needs. I mean, installing kernel 2.6.3, for example, killed my Cisco VPN client.
Well, KDE 3.2.0 is much faster than Windows XP. It is less laggy. This might be because of the pre-emptible kernel, though. (I never used previous versions of KDE.) KDE is also more customizable in its GUI behavior and the taskbar is movable. However, it is the little things that make this release better. The helper apps work. (Such as KLaptop.) The icons are neater.
And for a long while, XP was just cuter as an OS. Not anymore. KDE takes the crown. Little popping icons following the cursor. KDE has more options and behaviors, and also transparency on its taskbar. These are all configurable quite easily. You can't do these things with Windows XP.
Of course, you are running linux, so when you read about Windows vulnerabilities, you go to windowsupdate.com and remember that you are running linux.
Even after all this, you have to be careful setting it up. This is the greatest weakness with linux, in my opinion; it takes forever to set up. My system was really slow. And then I enabled DMA. Then I installed the nvidia drivers. And then I edited XF86Config-4 to make it actually use nvidia. (You have to disable "dri" under Modules.) Then you have to steal the windows fonts from your dual-boot partition and emerge the bitstream fonts. Then you have to edit ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file to set the default fonts so everything is just right.
However, these configuration problems are probably gentoo-specific, though. Someone should install Mandrake 10 and see if the configuration is better. (In my experience with Mandrake 9.2, it should be. The package manager is strong, too.) But gentoo is much better because everything you install on your system is up-to-date. Simply emerge sync, and emerge -u system. Ease of use is balanced against up-to-dateness. Hmm....
Right. If nvidia releases a GPLed driver, then what is to prevent ATI from using it to improve their own drivers? I mean, the greatest difference in performance between the products of these companies is their drivers. Nvidia is on-time drivers that are really fast and don't crash.
This pressure does not exist for wireless cards, for the most part. Gamers are early adopters and drive the market for the maximum performance.
Someone modded my post for ndiswrapper as a troll. I wonder why. It does work really well. Could someone care to explain?
I had this ATI card. It was the Radeon 32 DDR. The cheap LE version I had simply had software support for a feature disabled. I enabled it using a utility and it was FINE!
I use ndiswrapper with my Truemobile 1400 card with gentoo. (Sorry. Had to say it.:P)
ndiswrapper 0.5 is absolutely great. It automagically installs using the windriver.inf file and autoloads. Downloads at >500 kb/s sustained. Does not crash.
I wonder if there can be more projects like this one that essentially steal windows drivers and puts them onto linux. There should be more unified driver APIs like ndis out there, right? I wonder if we can get rid of winmodems using wrappers.
On a sidenote, the Cisco VPN client 4.0 hangs on 2.6.3. It works if you switch to a new console. No one knows how to fix it yet. I was using the anomalistic patch, but nothing yet. I guess I have to backpatch the kernel. Yuck.
Here's a funny anecdote. Some hospital kept on getting fungal infections on their patients that were killing them. No one had any idea where the infections were coming from. Even after the most diligent searching and swabbing, no one could find the source of the mold.
An expert was called in and he found samples of that fungus on unsterilized bandages, Elast-o-Band or something. The motto for that brand was "It holds and molds." Well, at least they were being honest.
The McDonald's coffee plaintiff first asked McDonald's to settle for $20,000, which compensated her *only* for her medical bills. The corporation refused. The $400,000 amount was for pain and suffering compensation, medical bills, as well as punitive damages so McDonald's would stop making their coffee so damned hot. (If it made a net profit by having hotter coffee and just paying $20,000, they would damn well continue doing so.)
This isn't for lawyers, necessarily. I was under the impression that this was to prevent discrimination against members of the Armed Forces or Reserves, who may have to leave the country and drop the lease with little or no notice.
"There has to be some kind of plausable reason for something as dumb as this being victorious."
Maybe because the parent poster is lying. I mean, the statute of limitations on the tort probably already expired. (The kid's eighteen, after all.) The parent poster can reply with name of the case.
This isn't flamebait. I'm just annoyed at people who make quick, uninformed judgments. Normally, medical malpractice cases are extremely difficult to vindicate because the average jury, who just like you, hates malpractice lawyers, has to find by a clear preponderance of the evidence that something wrong happened. To convince a jury of this requires expensive medical expert testimony that is rebutted by the other side. The plaintiff has the burden of persuasion just like the prosecution in a criminal case.
Findings of guilt usually doesn't happen unless the doctor does something blantantly wrong and against medical protocol, such as leaving an instrument behind, amputating the wrong leg, or twisting a baby's head with forceps. Everything else is just too hard for a jury to understand and find guilt on.
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I use Winamp 5 because is has global shortcuts. No matter what application I am in, I can hit the key combo and turn up the volume. That's great functionality that I haven't seen elsewhere.
Yep. At the start of World War II for the US, in December 1941, it was amongst the weakest military-wise in the world. By August, 1945, less than four years later, it had nuked Japan. Nuked. In 1945. Look at the cars in 1945. Some military dude said "Let's make a bomb" and they built it.
But it cost a few billion bucks. GDP-wise, it was probably the largest project in US history. But such a pretty cloud!
That's in Australia, though. They're a bunch of, you know, criminals.
Google might start compressing text files on the fly. They certainly have the computing firepower, with their linux Beowolf clusters and stuff.
Why didn't California just sell it directly to lawyers and double the money?
Courts have a specific jurisdiction. A court in New Jersey cannot litigate over someone who has never been there, for example. Imagine having to defend yourself in a place you have never been. This is just common sense and fair play.
However, nothing really is commonsense in the law. Rendering people immune from suits in a state they have never been makes sense. However, people started to structure their affairs so that they could only be sued in one state despite doing business in many. Eventually, courts adopted a common sense approach to guarantee "fair play". The case is International Shoe. Seriously. Heh.
You know President Bush is Commander in Chief of the United States of America. He doesn't. Someone should volunteer a few weeks to explain this to him. Maybe he wouldn't be so eager to liberate the Iraqi people.
I hate to say this, but teens aren't quite adults yet. Even physiologically, their brains are matured yet. (The centers for self-restraint do not fully develop until after adolescence.) They need to be monitored. Children who plan on suicide, children who are planning massacres, children who are drinking and worse, these children need help. And we can't help them unless we look after them.
Yes, wiretapping and espionage seems repellant. But we can't stand by and watch Columbines roll by in the name of excess liberalism.
Seven people died when Columbia disintegrated, and the country cares much more about it than a car accident somewhere. Also, the press is not disclosing the number of wounded soldiers (well into the thousands). Because of the improved body armor, soldiers are surviving the battlefield but are losing limbs.
People who say that soldiers knew about the duty are missing the point. Troops have signed on to defend their country. They are willing to die to defend their country. When you send them out to get killed not in furtherance of this duty, then this is not something they have signed up for. Your chain of logic is basically they got what they deserved and somehow that isn't too favorable.
This is blackmail, plain and simple. It is just happening in cyberspace and the current laws are thankfully being applied in this new world. There is no genuine economic transaction being furthered by this man's program but to destroy Google's income. He doesn't have a leg to stand on in court.
Duh. If you don't want a virus infection, then you need a good firewall program. Use BlackICE.
Oh. Wait.
Did you tell him to submit it as a MS Word format? Large companies usually require resumes in MS Word DOC files. Did your HR ask for DOCs?
Apparently, the scientific community think that the Hubble has become limited in usefulness. The new observatory observes infrared and some visible (though not optical blue.) Everything is red-shifted, they say, so visible light telescopes like Hubble serve no purpose.
However, the new telescope cannot be fixed. It will lie in orbit between the sun and the Earth. What if it breaks? Eh? Bad lens? Bad gyroscopes? HST is in orbit and we can fix it. This can be a backup and it still serves a useful scientific role, as evidenced by its recent Ultra Deep Field exposure.
If we allowed editing after moderation, even if the editing was after a line that said "Moderation--------" this would result in a new type of troll: the 5 Insightful troll with a goatse.cx link.
I moved to the 2.6.3 kernel quite simply. You just have to remember to update module-init-tools. This is really important.
However, 2.6 breaks strange things. The big distros have to support a lot of hardware and software packages and they cannot ship yet unless they have verified all the hardware works. For example, the Cisco VPN client breaks on 2.6.3 but not on 2.6.1. These bugs have to be ironed out before the big distros make a run at 2.6, but individual users can experiment (dual-boot with GRUB) and see if they can. The upgrade in performance is certainly worth it.
I have linux and ACPI seems to work pretty well. The largest things are:
1. The screen. Blank it if possible (edit XF86Config-4) and use the darkest setting you can see with. Redundant, I know. But pay attention and actually do it.
2. The wireless. The radio sucks up a lot of power. If you are not using the web, turn off the card. (You can use the tx setting for your card to put it into a sleep state.)
3. The hard drive. Use hdparm to shut it down if no one is using it.
4. Suspend. Doesn't work on the Latitude D800 yet in KDE. But quit KDE (set session manager to save your settings) and then suspend/hibernate.
5. Enable Throttle. You have to enable this in the BIOS as well as the kernel. Don't forget to enable the modules you need for your particular laptop and chip/chipset.
6. Enable auto-throttle. Throttling by itself is useless because you won't do it manually. You have to automate it. Download and compile auto-throttle and start it up on boot. The Pentium-M has eight modes, I believe, and autothrottle moves it up and down really nicely. No lag at all. It must have something to do with the pre-emptible kernel in 2.6.3.
7. Don't blast music. This takes up a surprising amount of power.
8. In windows, don't set stuff like anti-viruses and disk defragmenters to automatically start. This isn't really good for your battery life if it starts up.
9. Don't compile programs while on battery. (Duh, right? Stupid me.)
I get 3:15 hours of battery life on a D800 with the screen on the brightest setting and the internet. Under Linux! Battery life isn't just for windows, you know? Just word processing and web browsing. Cool, huh?
Oh, crap. This is probably a gentoo troll because he mentions "traditional distros". Well, I have gentoo and right now everything is pretty updated because I just installed 2004.0 from the binary sources. But am I going to reinstall everything to keep up to date?
No. I will update software only when it adds functionality or removes vulnerabilities. What is the difference between KDE 3.2.1 and 3.2.0? Not enough to effect me, I guess. But if you are updating from KDE 2.2, then you are making a large jump up. (Trust me!)
Anyway, you can always update with regular distros. And without compiling, mind you. But don't bother chasing version numbers. Just use programs that fit your needs. I mean, installing kernel 2.6.3, for example, killed my Cisco VPN client.
Well, KDE 3.2.0 is much faster than Windows XP. It is less laggy. This might be because of the pre-emptible kernel, though. (I never used previous versions of KDE.) KDE is also more customizable in its GUI behavior and the taskbar is movable. However, it is the little things that make this release better. The helper apps work. (Such as KLaptop.) The icons are neater.
And for a long while, XP was just cuter as an OS. Not anymore. KDE takes the crown. Little popping icons following the cursor. KDE has more options and behaviors, and also transparency on its taskbar. These are all configurable quite easily. You can't do these things with Windows XP.
Of course, you are running linux, so when you read about Windows vulnerabilities, you go to windowsupdate.com and remember that you are running linux.
Even after all this, you have to be careful setting it up. This is the greatest weakness with linux, in my opinion; it takes forever to set up. My system was really slow. And then I enabled DMA. Then I installed the nvidia drivers. And then I edited XF86Config-4 to make it actually use nvidia. (You have to disable "dri" under Modules.) Then you have to steal the windows fonts from your dual-boot partition and emerge the bitstream fonts. Then you have to edit ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file to set the default fonts so everything is just right.
However, these configuration problems are probably gentoo-specific, though. Someone should install Mandrake 10 and see if the configuration is better. (In my experience with Mandrake 9.2, it should be. The package manager is strong, too.) But gentoo is much better because everything you install on your system is up-to-date. Simply emerge sync, and emerge -u system. Ease of use is balanced against up-to-dateness. Hmm....
Right. If nvidia releases a GPLed driver, then what is to prevent ATI from using it to improve their own drivers? I mean, the greatest difference in performance between the products of these companies is their drivers. Nvidia is on-time drivers that are really fast and don't crash.
This pressure does not exist for wireless cards, for the most part. Gamers are early adopters and drive the market for the maximum performance.
Someone modded my post for ndiswrapper as a troll. I wonder why. It does work really well. Could someone care to explain?
I had this ATI card. It was the Radeon 32 DDR. The cheap LE version I had simply had software support for a feature disabled. I enabled it using a utility and it was FINE!
I use ndiswrapper with my Truemobile 1400 card with gentoo. (Sorry. Had to say it. :P)
ndiswrapper 0.5 is absolutely great. It automagically installs using the windriver.inf file and autoloads. Downloads at >500 kb/s sustained. Does not crash.
I wonder if there can be more projects like this one that essentially steal windows drivers and puts them onto linux. There should be more unified driver APIs like ndis out there, right? I wonder if we can get rid of winmodems using wrappers.
On a sidenote, the Cisco VPN client 4.0 hangs on 2.6.3. It works if you switch to a new console. No one knows how to fix it yet. I was using the anomalistic patch, but nothing yet. I guess I have to backpatch the kernel. Yuck.
Here's a funny anecdote. Some hospital kept on getting fungal infections on their patients that were killing them. No one had any idea where the infections were coming from. Even after the most diligent searching and swabbing, no one could find the source of the mold.
An expert was called in and he found samples of that fungus on unsterilized bandages, Elast-o-Band or something. The motto for that brand was "It holds and molds." Well, at least they were being honest.
The McDonald's coffee plaintiff first asked McDonald's to settle for $20,000, which compensated her *only* for her medical bills. The corporation refused. The $400,000 amount was for pain and suffering compensation, medical bills, as well as punitive damages so McDonald's would stop making their coffee so damned hot. (If it made a net profit by having hotter coffee and just paying $20,000, they would damn well continue doing so.)
This isn't for lawyers, necessarily. I was under the impression that this was to prevent discrimination against members of the Armed Forces or Reserves, who may have to leave the country and drop the lease with little or no notice.
"There has to be some kind of plausable reason for something as dumb as this being victorious."
Maybe because the parent poster is lying. I mean, the statute of limitations on the tort probably already expired. (The kid's eighteen, after all.) The parent poster can reply with name of the case.
This isn't flamebait. I'm just annoyed at people who make quick, uninformed judgments. Normally, medical malpractice cases are extremely difficult to vindicate because the average jury, who just like you, hates malpractice lawyers, has to find by a clear preponderance of the evidence that something wrong happened. To convince a jury of this requires expensive medical expert testimony that is rebutted by the other side. The plaintiff has the burden of persuasion just like the prosecution in a criminal case.
Findings of guilt usually doesn't happen unless the doctor does something blantantly wrong and against medical protocol, such as leaving an instrument behind, amputating the wrong leg, or twisting a baby's head with forceps. Everything else is just too hard for a jury to understand and find guilt on.