I moved from Windows somewhere around 1995 to Redhat 2.0.2 I think - kernel 1.2.13. I used all the distros and even built my own boxes. And bootstrapped from Gentoo, etc.
I stayed with linux until about 2003. Why did I change? Because finally one day I got really sick of having to face yet another hour trying to get my printer to work. Do I believe in all these FSF ideals? Sure. I even think they're important. But frankly, I need to get on with my job and my work. If free software can produce something that is elegant and just works as well or better than this Apple stuff, I'll come back. Until that time, I have stuff to do.
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However, I'd like to ask a simple question. If the networks can no longer count on people watching at least some ads, how are they to pay for content? The day most people have "auto-commercial-skip" is the day advertisers stop paying to be a part of the program. At that point, the networks would have to charge the consumers directly. Are you interested in paying even more for cable TV then?
1. In the UK the people pay a television tax (license). 2. Part of this money goes to the BBC. 3. The BBC creates some of the finest programs anywhere.
Untrue sir. I have one. I've been playing Duke Nukem Forever on it (and with my HURD kernel nontheless) all afternoon!
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Jehovah's Witness have a theological objection to blood transfusions, but unlike Christian Scientists, not to medical treatment in general. In fact, they are quite insistent on high quality healthcare.
I work in one of the US' big children's hospitals in the neonatal ICU. Right now I'm watching a one month old 34 week gestation boy with a transposition of the great arteries slowly die because of these objections along with a bunch of treatment knots. This belief is utter nonsense. And if you don't believe me, come and watch this life of this little guy slowly ebb away as he struggles and struggles. You look into his eyes and tell me giving him blood will damn him.
How about the idiots who, for example, think Bush is comparable to Hitler?
Of course he's "comparable" to Hitler: It is possible to compare Bush to Hitler: Bush is immensely less charismatic, competent or intelligent than Hitler.
Awesome turn of phrase. And let me be the first to add; Thank God for incompetence!;)
Not meant to be an advertistment - but I think it's a very telling sign when even the secondary market for games can have its own price compare engine.
Not meant to be an advertisement? The only link in the story is the dude's name - which goes right to this search engine website.
and currently stationed by iraq. While I say the more defensive weapons the better, if we have to do it at the expense of making all the whales extinct I say its not worth it. This isnt about saving plankton here, this is about not accidently blowing away the eardrums and thus killing thousands of whales and other marine creatures. There have been experiments with this technology and coincidentally there were massive beachings as the marine mammals could no longer navigate correctly. There are billions of us, I can't say the same for the whales.
It's comforting to hear this view from someone who's still over there. The world thanks you for being big-minded.
(Coming from someone who's sibling is flew for the navy over there).
Do we really need more weapons of war? I mean, in all seriousness. Doesn't the US spend as much on the military as most other nations' GNP combined? Whom are we supposed to be fighting?
GRUB vs. LILO As stated at the start of this article, all boot loaders work in a similar way to fulfill a common purpose. But LILO and GRUB do have a number of differences: LILO has no interactive command interface, whereas GRUB does. LILO does not support booting from a network, whereas GRUB does. LILO stores information regarding the location of the operating systems it can to load physically on the MBR. If you change your LILO config file, you have to rewrite the LILO stage one boot loader to the MBR. Compared with GRUB, this is a much more risky option since a misconfigured MBR could leave the system unbootable. With GRUB, if the configuration file is configured incorrectly, it will simply default to the GRUB command-line interface.
Here's one for Grub: 1. GRUB has one of the most difficult to understand syntaxes and makes you jump over hoops to get the thing working. Unless you want to get lost in docs. (Lilo just makes sense by looking at it).
I can't imagine how they got away with this for so long. 72,000 prescriptions, most for Dilaudid/hydrocordone? Whenever a doctor writes an Rx for a controlled substance he/she needs to specify his DEA number. Don't you think this would have been flagged pretty quickly? 200 prescriptions a day for controlled substances from one doc?
It's only good enough until you actually see HDTV in action. I don't have HDTV and have never seen HDTV outside of Best Buy. Most of my friends don't have HDTV. Except for one. I was at his house this weekend and watched a movie in full HDTV glory. As he readily admitted to me, he can barely stand to watch DVDs or SD broadcasts now because the quality is so much lower than HDTV.
I come on, give me a break. I don't know about that. I have a 34" Highdef flatscreen Sony that is beautiful. 1080i from the 4-5 channels that offer it is amazing, yes, but DVDs are still beautiful on it. I was watching LOTR last night and thinking just that. I think it *is* good enough
How the hell is it promising ? HIV is a virus not a bacteria, antibiotics won't do shit against it. You need to kill CD4+ cells that harbor the virus but guess what Sherlock, they die in abot 1.5 days after infection anyway. And even if you figure out how to kill the cells you still don't know which ones to kill because memory T cell contain HIV in latent state ! Bwahahaha ! You better hope you got d32 mutation in your CCR5 receptors because crocodile 'serum' is a crock of shit
Look Stonehenge. The point, and reason it's promising, is that -somehow- the crocodile is able to fend off this virus. A complex biological system more similar to us than "chlorine bleach" (as some other erudite poster mentioned) can destroy this. I don't see what the problem is in understanding this. No, we're not marketing some immunoglobulin or antiviral yet, but how can this not be an important discovery? Most antibiotics/drugs come from plants or molds afterall.
I think America is messed up in some serious ways. This weekend I saw (the rather excellent, IMO) Merchant of Venice with Pacino. It had an "R Rating" because a bunch of ladies run around with their breasts hanging out.
Ok, so some natural breast exposure is not to be seen by anyone under 18. But then you turn on your TV and it is riddled with so many cop shows, including that Special Victims Unit show which seems dedicated to stories about aggravated sexual assault/rape on minors.
Can someone explain to me how natural things such as breasts are so bad but death, destruction, explosions, guns, and rape/sexual assault are so normal????
Ask an IT person if they know what Slashdots tagline is and theyll reply, News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. Slashdot is a very prominent site, but underneath the hood you will find an old jalopy that could benefit from a web standards mechanic.
This is going to sound like a flame - and it isn't meant to be it. But it seems obvious at this point that the people running Slashdot have made their money, or grown tired of it, and have moved on to other things. Just look at the duplicates or the fact that the site really hasn't developed at all for years.
One would think this would be one of the sites that experiment with web technologies. I just don't see it anymore.
Oh give it up. This is so OLD. I've seen this "picture enhancement" being used in the movies all the time. You know, when there's this blurry picture and then suddenly it's "enhanced" and is crystal-clear?
Or on that Alias documentary where the CIA didn't have an audio feed so they had this program that would decipher words by lip reading at this obscene angle from a camera on the ceiling?? This stuff is so easy these days...
You'd think NASA would have this down pat... Maybe it's the budget cuts...
Actually, what were doing with antibiotics is evolving the infection. Rather unintelligently.
Interesting point, but incorrect. The injudicious use of antibiotics may be causing organisms to evolve faster defense mechanisms than they otherwise would, but don't underestimate the effect antibiotics have had on the modern world. Infections can be very nasty to the individual and sometimes the population.
The gist of it is that no further evolution will occur unless humans can be separated into isolated groups."
You know, back when I was a med student, I asked this doctor I worked with if he agreed that humans - due to their ability to change the world around them so much - had stopped evolving. He said something a bit insightful to that - that we were actually evolving much faster than we ever had before not less. And that makes sense. We don't need to take eons to evolve new bodily ways of fighting infection - we have antibiotics now and can fight infection intelligently. The list goes on and on.
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I moved from Windows somewhere around 1995 to Redhat 2.0.2 I think - kernel 1.2.13. I used all the distros and even built my own boxes. And bootstrapped from Gentoo, etc.
I stayed with linux until about 2003. Why did I change? Because finally one day I got really sick of having to face yet another hour trying to get my printer to work. Do I believe in all these FSF ideals? Sure. I even think they're important. But frankly, I need to get on with my job and my work. If free software can produce something that is elegant and just works as well or better than this Apple stuff, I'll come back. Until that time, I have stuff to do.
Even SC2 beat out Duke Nukem Whenever...
Are you kidding?? I've been playing Duke Nukem Forever here on my Hurd box for the last year!
Bubble Arse? Is it really called Bubble Arse?
Just interesting.
However, I'd like to ask a simple question. If the networks can no longer count on people watching at least some ads, how are they to pay for content? The day most people have "auto-commercial-skip" is the day advertisers stop paying to be a part of the program. At that point, the networks would have to charge the consumers directly. Are you interested in paying even more for cable TV then?
1. In the UK the people pay a television tax (license).
2. Part of this money goes to the BBC.
3. The BBC creates some of the finest programs anywhere.
No.
Next question?
Untrue sir. I have one. I've been playing Duke Nukem Forever on it (and with my HURD kernel nontheless) all afternoon!
Jehovah's Witness have a theological objection to blood transfusions, but unlike Christian Scientists, not to medical treatment in general. In fact, they are quite insistent on high quality healthcare.
I work in one of the US' big children's hospitals in the neonatal ICU. Right now I'm watching a one month old 34 week gestation boy with a transposition of the great arteries slowly die because of these objections along with a bunch of treatment knots. This belief is utter nonsense. And if you don't believe me, come and watch this life of this little guy slowly ebb away as he struggles and struggles. You look into his eyes and tell me giving him blood will damn him.
How about the idiots who, for example, think Bush is comparable to Hitler?
;)
Of course he's "comparable" to Hitler: It is possible to compare Bush to Hitler: Bush is immensely less charismatic, competent or intelligent than Hitler.
Awesome turn of phrase. And let me be the first to add; Thank God for incompetence!
"time is not a single dimension of spacetime but rather a local geometric distinction in spacetime."
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Tcsha. obviously
2006 is the year!
Can't wait to play Duke Nukem Forever on my Phantom Game Console!
Oh get with the times man. I've been playing Duke Nukem Forever here on my GNU/Hurd system for the past eight months! Where've you been??
Robots might allow for delicate surgeries in space,
Rrright. I'm glad we're solving *tomorrow's* problems today. Shouldn't we first actually get a space program?
Not meant to be an advertistment - but I think it's a very telling sign when even the secondary market for games can have its own price compare engine.
Not meant to be an advertisement? The only link in the story is the dude's name - which goes right to this search engine website.
and currently stationed by iraq. While I say the more defensive weapons the better, if we have to do it at the expense of making all the whales extinct I say its not worth it. This isnt about saving plankton here, this is about not accidently blowing away the eardrums and thus killing thousands of whales and other marine creatures. There have been experiments with this technology and coincidentally there were massive beachings as the marine mammals could no longer navigate correctly. There are billions of us, I can't say the same for the whales.
It's comforting to hear this view from someone who's still over there. The world thanks you for being big-minded.
(Coming from someone who's sibling is flew for the navy over there).
Do we really need more weapons of war? I mean, in all seriousness. Doesn't the US spend as much on the military as most other nations' GNP combined? Whom are we supposed to be fighting?
GRUB vs. LILO
As stated at the start of this article, all boot loaders work in a similar way to fulfill a common purpose. But LILO and GRUB do have a number of differences:
LILO has no interactive command interface, whereas GRUB does.
LILO does not support booting from a network, whereas GRUB does.
LILO stores information regarding the location of the operating systems it can to load physically on the MBR. If you change your LILO config file, you have to rewrite the LILO stage one boot loader to the MBR. Compared with GRUB, this is a much more risky option since a misconfigured MBR could leave the system unbootable. With GRUB, if the configuration file is configured incorrectly, it will simply default to the GRUB command-line interface.
Here's one for Grub:
1. GRUB has one of the most difficult to understand syntaxes and makes you jump over hoops to get the thing working. Unless you want to get lost in docs. (Lilo just makes sense by looking at it).
I can't imagine how they got away with this for so long. 72,000 prescriptions, most for Dilaudid/hydrocordone? Whenever a doctor writes an Rx for a controlled substance he/she needs to specify his DEA number. Don't you think this would have been flagged pretty quickly? 200 prescriptions a day for controlled substances from one doc?
It's only good enough until you actually see HDTV in action. I don't have HDTV and have never seen HDTV outside of Best Buy. Most of my friends don't have HDTV. Except for one. I was at his house this weekend and watched a movie in full HDTV glory. As he readily admitted to me, he can barely stand to watch DVDs or SD broadcasts now because the quality is so much lower than HDTV.
I come on, give me a break. I don't know about that. I have a 34" Highdef flatscreen Sony that is beautiful. 1080i from the 4-5 channels that offer it is amazing, yes, but DVDs are still beautiful on it. I was watching LOTR last night and thinking just that. I think it *is* good enough
How the hell is it promising ? HIV is a virus not a bacteria, antibiotics won't do shit against it. You need to kill CD4+ cells that harbor the virus but guess what Sherlock, they die in abot 1.5 days after infection anyway. And even if you figure out how to kill the cells you still don't know which ones to kill because memory T cell contain HIV in latent state ! Bwahahaha ! You better hope you got d32 mutation in your CCR5 receptors because crocodile 'serum' is a crock of shit
Look Stonehenge. The point, and reason it's promising, is that -somehow- the crocodile is able to fend off this virus. A complex biological system more similar to us than "chlorine bleach" (as some other erudite poster mentioned) can destroy this. I don't see what the problem is in understanding this. No, we're not marketing some immunoglobulin or antiviral yet, but how can this not be an important discovery? Most antibiotics/drugs come from plants or molds afterall.
I think America is messed up in some serious ways. This weekend I saw (the rather excellent, IMO) Merchant of Venice with Pacino. It had an "R Rating" because a bunch of ladies run around with their breasts hanging out.
Ok, so some natural breast exposure is not to be seen by anyone under 18. But then you turn on your TV and it is riddled with so many cop shows, including that Special Victims Unit show which seems dedicated to stories about aggravated sexual assault/rape on minors.
Can someone explain to me how natural things such as breasts are so bad but death, destruction, explosions, guns, and rape/sexual assault are so normal????
How much bandwidth is /. wasting every month by not creating a standard xhtml page even though someone created one for them already
and from here.
Ask an IT person if they know what Slashdots tagline is and theyll reply, News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. Slashdot is a very prominent site, but underneath the hood you will find an old jalopy that could benefit from a web standards mechanic.
This is going to sound like a flame - and it isn't meant to be it. But it seems obvious at this point that the people running Slashdot have made their money, or grown tired of it, and have moved on to other things. Just look at the duplicates or the fact that the site really hasn't developed at all for years.
One would think this would be one of the sites that experiment with web technologies. I just don't see it anymore.
Planet X Larger Than Pluto?
Slow news day?
If the US Justice Department can coordinate such an effort among 11 different nations and justice systems, why can't we find Osama Bin Laden?
Probably because he doesn't download movies. He just goes to the theater in Detroit.
Oh give it up. This is so OLD. I've seen this "picture enhancement" being used in the movies all the time. You know, when there's this blurry picture and then suddenly it's "enhanced" and is crystal-clear?
Or on that Alias documentary where the CIA didn't have an audio feed so they had this program that would decipher words by lip reading at this obscene angle from a camera on the ceiling?? This stuff is so easy these days...
You'd think NASA would have this down pat... Maybe it's the budget cuts...
Actually, what were doing with antibiotics is evolving the infection. Rather unintelligently.
Interesting point, but incorrect. The injudicious use of antibiotics may be causing organisms to evolve faster defense mechanisms than they otherwise would, but don't underestimate the effect antibiotics have had on the modern world. Infections can be very nasty to the individual and sometimes the population.
The gist of it is that no further evolution will occur unless humans can be separated into isolated groups."
You know, back when I was a med student, I asked this doctor I worked with if he agreed that humans - due to their ability to change the world around them so much - had stopped evolving. He said something a bit insightful to that - that we were actually evolving much faster than we ever had before not less. And that makes sense. We don't need to take eons to evolve new bodily ways of fighting infection - we have antibiotics now and can fight infection intelligently. The list goes on and on.
Apparently you haven't driven on some of Cleveland's roads.
Damn man - you've been thinking the same thing I think every morning. That and why we need a traffic light every 20 feet.