You need to take a basic geology course (as well as whoever modded you informative). Not only is the Indian/Australian plate still colliding with with Asian plate, but the process of forming a high point at the center of a meteor impact is nothing like the slow collision of two tectonic plates.
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That isn't true actually. One of the developers mentioned in this story actually (Frysinger) has created both ARM and SuperH ports that work. There are even official ARM netwinder machines for shared development by gentoo devs.
Just wait until their kids find this website. It is completely pointless to anyone that knows anything. However the fact that the virtual slots pay out at a much higher rate than real ones may fool some naive folks.
It's not that simple. If he/she optimized the binaries enough, they will contain instructions not capable of running on the p2. The main one being -march=athlon-xp.
What you can do (and I have before) is use a faster box to build a gentoo userland inside a chroot, and then transfer that to a slower machine.
Ok, let me rephrase then. How is the photo misleading, considering that the title of both the slashdot posting and the linked webpage is Titan's Surface Revealed. The fact of the matter is that the context that the picture appears in should trump any notion that we are looking at Earth. If someone had to read the title and half of the article to figure that out, then there is something wrong.
How is the photo misleading? Also, (moderators) how is this interesting? False-color spectrographic images are pretty standard for this sort of thing. The article clearly states this fact.
I believe you are actually thinking of Europa, a moon of Jupiter. It is thought there is an ocean of liquid water beneath the icy crust. Thus, if there are any hydrothermal vents at the bottom of this ocean, there may be life.
The interest in Titan, as the article points out, is that it is thought to contain a frozen snapshot of pre-life forming compounds similar to what was around in Earth's atmosphere ~4 billion years ago.
I think your moderation detection circuits are fried. The initial moderation was +1 Informative. While funny, the comment was most certainly not informative.
Not only is it a good thing, it's an absolutely *wonderful* thing. When you work with other people who use only MS Excel, and you exchange data and plots through spreadsheet files, a linux spreadsheet with _full_ compatibility is the holy grail. I've been struggling with this for at least three years now. Basically it came down to booting to windows so I could use Excel....not an optimal solution.
There is a differentian between stable and unstable branches specifically built into portage via arch keywords. If a package is unstable for the mips arch lets say, it will have ~mips in the KEYWORDS section of the ebuild. Only users who have the unstable ~mips designated in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS either in/etc/make.conf or via exporting the environment variable will use this package. Once this ebuild is deemed stable and tested (a month with no bug reports I believe), the keyword can then be changed to mips from ~mips. Once it is mips, anyone using the stable branch will be able to use it.
Now this doesn't mean stable users can't use unstable ebuilds, it just means that the unstable ebuilds are masked from the user by default.
I guess since I don't have a CS degree, I haven't been using open source at all for the past *seven* years. Oh wait...I have. I think your statement should have been, "That's the problem with open source. You need a brain to use it."
Just because one doesn't know how to program doesn't mean they can't assist developers in squashing bugs or in improving features.
Is it just me or did the article submitter not provide any alternate professions that are more happy than IT professionals? That'd be like saying I'm short because other people are shorter than me.
The interesting thing about objects that enter the atmosphere is that the rate at which the outer shell ablates away from friction exceeds the rate at which heat conducts through the material. If a chunk of such a comet were to reach the surface without breaking up during the process and land nearby, you could immediately find it see (and touch if you really are up for touching *really* *really* cold stuff) that the object was still frozen.
I can't speak for the sparc and hppa ports, but an install cd for the SGI mips port is problematic. Basically, the prom of SGI machines can only read and boot from EFS formatted cd's that have multiple partitions on them (yes you heard me right...partitions on a cd). There is a kernel patch to support such a cd, but implementing it in an installable iso is difficult. I know for a fact that it's being worked on right now though. Right now the only way to install is through a netboot image, or through root over nfs.
I never said they would cut off support. What I was implying was that perhaps X 4.4 will add some more extensions that NVIDIA decides to support with their future driver versions, rendering older X servers useless with the newer drivers.
Besides, if they are so concerned about alternative operating systems whey isn't there a linux-ppc or linux-alpha version of their binary drivers? I know if there was linux-ppc support I'd really consider getting some ppc hardware to run linux on. What is the barrier? Why can't they just recompile the driver for the different arch and release it?
Ok, let's say a year down the line I buy NVIDIA's latest and greatest 3d card. It will probably only be supported with their latest drivers. If those drivers only work with xfree86 4.4.x, and my distribution of choice refuses to provide a package for xfree86 4.4.x, that puts it upon me to download the source code and build it myself.
Now this doesn't bother me too much because I'm kind of a build-from-source guy anyway, but let's say Joe Sixpack got a bug in his ear and decided to give linux a try. He heard his l33t NVIDIA card will play 3d games in linux, but doesn't have a clue about this whole licensing mess. He then can't figure out why UT2010 or whatever it's currently on won't play, and decides this linux thing is crap and goes back to something that works.
You are right, they are non-free. That's not the issue here. The issue is that NVIDIA cards are currently the best you can use for 3d acceleration in linux. Yeah, ATI has binary drivers now too, but from what I understand they tend to be unstable and games don't run so well. It would be a hard pill for me to swallow if I couldn't play some games in X anymore.
This brings up a concern about NVIDIA drivers to me. Say NVIDIA only continues to release new drivers compatible with xfree86 4.4 and up. That's *really* going to put pressure on the linux distributions to include 4.4. I wonder how hard it would be for the recent X forks to maintain NVIDIA driver compatibility?
I wasn't demanding anything actually. I'm perfectly happy with my self-built PC running linux. I was simply making a counterpoint that not everyone needs the Apple "user experience" to go along with their hardware.
I was not talking about other people, I was talking about myself. The post I was replying to was attacking *me* for not wanting to pay for software I don't want/need.
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You need to take a basic geology course (as well as whoever modded you informative). Not only is the Indian/Australian plate still colliding with with Asian plate, but the process of forming a high point at the center of a meteor impact is nothing like the slow collision of two tectonic plates.
That isn't true actually. One of the developers mentioned in this story actually (Frysinger) has created both ARM and SuperH ports that work. There are even official ARM netwinder machines for shared development by gentoo devs.
http://www.co2clean.com/snowform.htm Or, in other words, dP/dT=deltaS/deltaV
Just wait until their kids find this website. It is completely pointless to anyone that knows anything. However the fact that the virtual slots pay out at a much higher rate than real ones may fool some naive folks.
I should also have mentioned to be sure to set proper compiler flags for the p2 in the chroot!
What you can do (and I have before) is use a faster box to build a gentoo userland inside a chroot, and then transfer that to a slower machine.
Wrong moon...Iapetus is the one that we should be searching for large black monoliths.
Ok, let me rephrase then. How is the photo misleading, considering that the title of both the slashdot posting and the linked webpage is Titan's Surface Revealed. The fact of the matter is that the context that the picture appears in should trump any notion that we are looking at Earth. If someone had to read the title and half of the article to figure that out, then there is something wrong.
How is the photo misleading? Also, (moderators) how is this interesting? False-color spectrographic images are pretty standard for this sort of thing. The article clearly states this fact.
The interest in Titan, as the article points out, is that it is thought to contain a frozen snapshot of pre-life forming compounds similar to what was around in Earth's atmosphere ~4 billion years ago.
I think your moderation detection circuits are fried. The initial moderation was +1 Informative. While funny, the comment was most certainly not informative.
Uhh...Informative? I think not. There is and has been a windows version of Photoshop for a long time.
Not only is it a good thing, it's an absolutely *wonderful* thing. When you work with other people who use only MS Excel, and you exchange data and plots through spreadsheet files, a linux spreadsheet with _full_ compatibility is the holy grail. I've been struggling with this for at least three years now. Basically it came down to booting to windows so I could use Excel....not an optimal solution.
Now this doesn't mean stable users can't use unstable ebuilds, it just means that the unstable ebuilds are masked from the user by default.
Just because one doesn't know how to program doesn't mean they can't assist developers in squashing bugs or in improving features.
Is it just me or did the article submitter not provide any alternate professions that are more happy than IT professionals? That'd be like saying I'm short because other people are shorter than me.
The interesting thing about objects that enter the atmosphere is that the rate at which the outer shell ablates away from friction exceeds the rate at which heat conducts through the material. If a chunk of such a comet were to reach the surface without breaking up during the process and land nearby, you could immediately find it see (and touch if you really are up for touching *really* *really* cold stuff) that the object was still frozen.
I can't speak for the sparc and hppa ports, but an install cd for the SGI mips port is problematic. Basically, the prom of SGI machines can only read and boot from EFS formatted cd's that have multiple partitions on them (yes you heard me right...partitions on a cd). There is a kernel patch to support such a cd, but implementing it in an installable iso is difficult. I know for a fact that it's being worked on right now though. Right now the only way to install is through a netboot image, or through root over nfs.
Agreed.
Besides, if they are so concerned about alternative operating systems whey isn't there a linux-ppc or linux-alpha version of their binary drivers? I know if there was linux-ppc support I'd really consider getting some ppc hardware to run linux on. What is the barrier? Why can't they just recompile the driver for the different arch and release it?
Now this doesn't bother me too much because I'm kind of a build-from-source guy anyway, but let's say Joe Sixpack got a bug in his ear and decided to give linux a try. He heard his l33t NVIDIA card will play 3d games in linux, but doesn't have a clue about this whole licensing mess. He then can't figure out why UT2010 or whatever it's currently on won't play, and decides this linux thing is crap and goes back to something that works.
You are right, they are non-free. That's not the issue here. The issue is that NVIDIA cards are currently the best you can use for 3d acceleration in linux. Yeah, ATI has binary drivers now too, but from what I understand they tend to be unstable and games don't run so well. It would be a hard pill for me to swallow if I couldn't play some games in X anymore.
This brings up a concern about NVIDIA drivers to me. Say NVIDIA only continues to release new drivers compatible with xfree86 4.4 and up. That's *really* going to put pressure on the linux distributions to include 4.4. I wonder how hard it would be for the recent X forks to maintain NVIDIA driver compatibility?
I wasn't demanding anything actually. I'm perfectly happy with my self-built PC running linux. I was simply making a counterpoint that not everyone needs the Apple "user experience" to go along with their hardware.
I was not talking about other people, I was talking about myself. The post I was replying to was attacking *me* for not wanting to pay for software I don't want/need.