I know what you mean completely, although I live on the Mexican-American border instead of in Canada. My high school class (and community) is a melting pot of languages including Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, and other languages. Although, most of those languages are in niches and most people only speak English, with a significant amount of people also speaking Spanish and some only speaking Spanish. "Spanglish" in my city is also very common. Let me elaborate.
Before I elaborate, let me describe where I live. My home of El Paso, Texas is the only major city in the U.S. that is directly across from Mexico. By that I mean that if you cross the bridge from downtown El Paso (or at another bridge) to Mexico you are in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Although there are middle and upper class people that speak Spanglish, it appears that the closer the person is to poverty (or maybe youth), the more likely the person speaks Spanglish. In one sentence alone you can hear English words, Spanish words, and "Spanglish" words said with both English and Spanish (or rather, American and Mexican) accents. By "Spanglish" words I mean words that are from English or Spanish but been assimilated into the other language, often using pronunciation rules from both languages, i.e. cake -> cayqui (but spelled cake).
It might be interesting to note the culture. As a 17 year old living in El Paso who just returned from a trip, I have noticed how all the cultures I'm exposed to have mixed. Culture has a new meaning where I live. Most of my community is affected by it. Sometimes we don't even know where a culture-related custom or idea came from. It is as if language and culture as clear-cut, distinctive entities don't exist.
I believe using mirror sites exclusively is the key, too. This could be done either with the users' knowledge or behind the scenes. The first method would probably be the quickest to implement at this time. It would involve something much like what Tucows has. Have a main site that links to mirrors based on region. This selector system might even temporarily not show links to sites that are currently experiencing high loads so people don't just pick the server on the top of the list and/. it.
This could probably be simplified by creating a small program that automates the server search process, and possibly download and apply patches on the fly. Later we might have a mirror system that is distributed. This latter stage could have a system like Freenet which is P2P or a load-balancing, centralized system.
Another method that just came to mind is to use a system similar to Audiogalaxy or Napster. While you've just downloaded a new kernel, your download software remains running. The software could have a default time to terminate. While the software is running, it acts as a small server, and the "Kernelgalaxy" software (what a fitting name) controls distribution in a distributed manner.
Hell, good CCD cameras (not the low resolution toys) are expensive enough. I have been looking for a digital camera that I can buy that won't leave me broke. Alas, I must dream on. Even the CCD cameras for telescopes (which are basically a CCD, a casing, and a cord) are a few hundred or thousand dollars.
I don't know if this was done a hundred years ago, but I know that in astrophotography, this method is very common. While this is probably done with B&W film, CCD camera pictures are taken this way. (Hey, it's the 00's man.) A notable example is the HST. A plethora of you probably know this, but I felt like reminding you.
BTW, I can't imagine the fore-mentioned method being much more difficult than standard B&W photography was a hundred years ago.
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Here at my high school we have competitions for UIL Math. One of them is a calculator test that is timed. Needless to say, we use HP's. More specifically we use 32S II's. I don't think any of the HP RPN scientific and business calculators have changed at all over the past decade. As a company they have been extremely successful in creating high quality products that last. God bless you Wm. Hewlett.
That looks like documentation on the SH and PowerVR, which are nice and all, but aren't very helpful when trying to figure out how to put a harddrive in the DC. You need to know how the harddrive will interface with the Dreamcast, which deals with the system bus and not the GPU or CPU.
i don't know about the geforce, but my tnt2 m64 works nicely under x4.0.1 although i had to tell it to use this card instead of my disabled onboard sis5598 (which is a sucky card). i know that they both use the same driver and i'm not having any of the nonaccelerated lag that had on the sis card. the tnt2 works nicely at 1024x768@24-bit color
i got a kick out that. it should be moderated up to about 3, funny.
doesn't anyone care about the environment?
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not using hyphen everytime one types e-mail = less energy usage = less fossil fuel usage = cleaner environment. don't we all want a cleaner environment?
How 'bout we don't? e-mail takes longer to write (especially for me because i have to go looking for most keys that aren't letters, such as "-").
Speaking of electrons, think about how many of those little guys would be saved if everytime the word "e-mail" was typed and/or transmitted on a network the hyphen was omited. Less electron usage = less energy = less fossil fuel usage = cleaner environment. I think we all want a cleaner environment, don't we?
I wonder exactly how Time Warner comes into this considering how they are in the process of merging with AOL. Why would the AOL-Hughes' satellite broadband service try to compete with cable if that's exactly what Time Warner um, err, Time Warner AOL does: cable? A plan in case they have to get rid of part of the future Time Warner AOL? What?
He does have the point that Java is slower despite the fact that it might have been developed for embedded projects. Until Sun makes the first MAJC chip, Java programs are going to be slow and bulky unless they are compiled from bytecode to a PDA's native code by another computer before being transfered to the PDA.
I think GAIM uses a server based buddy list. You can check by using AOL's Quickbuddy (or whatever the new version is called) java client and see if your buddy list is there. If it is, the buddy list is server based. btw, AOL created the first versions of TiK, IIRC, which stored buddylists in the format that the GAIM developers decided to use.
Also, does anyone know why GAIM likes to crash when you try to IM someone when using the Debian version. It's really annoying. That's why I use TiK now.
I think the English spoken throughout the world (American, British, etc) will continue on it's way and possibly die off, while the English used by the scientific/internet/technology community will grow and become more prominent.
That's why you need a language that is, um, with a lack of a better word, object oriented and with other such "features". In that, I mean that you would have concepts such as inheritance, polymorphism, modularity, etc. One could even go into the idea of operator overloading. For example, window has two completely different meanings depending on how you use it. You could mean that it is one of those things that you look through to look outside at the nice scenery and children playing, or a window as in something on your monitor (or whatever you would be using, it doesn't matter) that lets you control and view what a program is doing and outputing. Both allow you some kind of insight to something. For the former it is an insight to the outside world, and for the latter an insight to a functional program. Window is "overloaded" with two different meanings, which are objects. The basic idea of window as being this "object" that allows insight is inherited by the member uses of it.
Too bad Apple G4's don't have better memory bandwidth. Because if NOAA needs high precision, it can do 128-bit floating point math. Not to mention its peak of 3.6 GigaFLOPS (for the 500MHz version).
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I know what you mean completely, although I live on the Mexican-American border instead of in Canada. My high school class (and community) is a melting pot of languages including Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, and other languages. Although, most of those languages are in niches and most people only speak English, with a significant amount of people also speaking Spanish and some only speaking Spanish. "Spanglish" in my city is also very common. Let me elaborate.
Before I elaborate, let me describe where I live. My home of El Paso, Texas is the only major city in the U.S. that is directly across from Mexico. By that I mean that if you cross the bridge from downtown El Paso (or at another bridge) to Mexico you are in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Although there are middle and upper class people that speak Spanglish, it appears that the closer the person is to poverty (or maybe youth), the more likely the person speaks Spanglish. In one sentence alone you can hear English words, Spanish words, and "Spanglish" words said with both English and Spanish (or rather, American and Mexican) accents. By "Spanglish" words I mean words that are from English or Spanish but been assimilated into the other language, often using pronunciation rules from both languages, i.e. cake -> cayqui (but spelled cake).
It might be interesting to note the culture. As a 17 year old living in El Paso who just returned from a trip, I have noticed how all the cultures I'm exposed to have mixed. Culture has a new meaning where I live. Most of my community is affected by it. Sometimes we don't even know where a culture-related custom or idea came from. It is as if language and culture as clear-cut, distinctive entities don't exist.
I believe using mirror sites exclusively is the key, too. This could be done either with the users' knowledge or behind the scenes. The first method would probably be the quickest to implement at this time. It would involve something much like what Tucows has. Have a main site that links to mirrors based on region. This selector system might even temporarily not show links to sites that are currently experiencing high loads so people don't just pick the server on the top of the list and /. it.
This could probably be simplified by creating a small program that automates the server search process, and possibly download and apply patches on the fly. Later we might have a mirror system that is distributed. This latter stage could have a system like Freenet which is P2P or a load-balancing, centralized system.
Another method that just came to mind is to use a system similar to Audiogalaxy or Napster. While you've just downloaded a new kernel, your download software remains running. The software could have a default time to terminate. While the software is running, it acts as a small server, and the "Kernelgalaxy" software (what a fitting name) controls distribution in a distributed manner.
also, atm=atmosphere
Hell, good CCD cameras (not the low resolution toys) are expensive enough. I have been looking for a digital camera that I can buy that won't leave me broke. Alas, I must dream on. Even the CCD cameras for telescopes (which are basically a CCD, a casing, and a cord) are a few hundred or thousand dollars.
I don't know if this was done a hundred years ago, but I know that in astrophotography, this method is very common. While this is probably done with B&W film, CCD camera pictures are taken this way. (Hey, it's the 00's man.) A notable example is the HST. A plethora of you probably know this, but I felt like reminding you. BTW, I can't imagine the fore-mentioned method being much more difficult than standard B&W photography was a hundred years ago.
Here at my high school we have competitions for UIL Math. One of them is a calculator test that is timed. Needless to say, we use HP's. More specifically we use 32S II's. I don't think any of the HP RPN scientific and business calculators have changed at all over the past decade. As a company they have been extremely successful in creating high quality products that last. God bless you Wm. Hewlett.
Try the #nvidia channel on irc.openprojects.net
I think Caldera already has this honour. Their Linux Technology Preview uses 2.4, although it is a test version.
That looks like documentation on the SH and PowerVR, which are nice and all, but aren't very helpful when trying to figure out how to put a harddrive in the DC. You need to know how the harddrive will interface with the Dreamcast, which deals with the system bus and not the GPU or CPU.
i don't know about the geforce, but my tnt2 m64 works nicely under x4.0.1 although i had to tell it to use this card instead of my disabled onboard sis5598 (which is a sucky card). i know that they both use the same driver and i'm not having any of the nonaccelerated lag that had on the sis card. the tnt2 works nicely at 1024x768@24-bit color
i got a kick out that. it should be moderated up to about 3, funny.
not using hyphen everytime one types e-mail = less energy usage = less fossil fuel usage = cleaner environment. don't we all want a cleaner environment?
How 'bout we don't? e-mail takes longer to write (especially for me because i have to go looking for most keys that aren't letters, such as "-"). Speaking of electrons, think about how many of those little guys would be saved if everytime the word "e-mail" was typed and/or transmitted on a network the hyphen was omited. Less electron usage = less energy = less fossil fuel usage = cleaner environment. I think we all want a cleaner environment, don't we?
That's why there are the mirrors. I usually keep to mirrors in my sources.list just in case something goes wrong with one of them.
I wonder exactly how Time Warner comes into this considering how they are in the process of merging with AOL. Why would the AOL-Hughes' satellite broadband service try to compete with cable if that's exactly what Time Warner um, err, Time Warner AOL does: cable? A plan in case they have to get rid of part of the future Time Warner AOL? What?
He does have the point that Java is slower despite the fact that it might have been developed for embedded projects. Until Sun makes the first MAJC chip, Java programs are going to be slow and bulky unless they are compiled from bytecode to a PDA's native code by another computer before being transfered to the PDA.
I think GAIM uses a server based buddy list. You can check by using AOL's Quickbuddy (or whatever the new version is called) java client and see if your buddy list is there. If it is, the buddy list is server based. btw, AOL created the first versions of TiK, IIRC, which stored buddylists in the format that the GAIM developers decided to use. Also, does anyone know why GAIM likes to crash when you try to IM someone when using the Debian version. It's really annoying. That's why I use TiK now.
Better yet, why don't they spend time hunting down all the bugs in their software and looking for original ideas.
I think the English spoken throughout the world (American, British, etc) will continue on it's way and possibly die off, while the English used by the scientific/internet/technology community will grow and become more prominent.
wtf? Why did you say my house is your cat?
Sounds like the extreme form of Spanglish that exists here on the US-Mexico border.
That's why you need a language that is, um, with a lack of a better word, object oriented and with other such "features". In that, I mean that you would have concepts such as inheritance, polymorphism, modularity, etc. One could even go into the idea of operator overloading. For example, window has two completely different meanings depending on how you use it. You could mean that it is one of those things that you look through to look outside at the nice scenery and children playing, or a window as in something on your monitor (or whatever you would be using, it doesn't matter) that lets you control and view what a program is doing and outputing. Both allow you some kind of insight to something. For the former it is an insight to the outside world, and for the latter an insight to a functional program. Window is "overloaded" with two different meanings, which are objects. The basic idea of window as being this "object" that allows insight is inherited by the member uses of it.
Too bad Apple G4's don't have better memory bandwidth. Because if NOAA needs high precision, it can do 128-bit floating point math. Not to mention its peak of 3.6 GigaFLOPS (for the 500MHz version).