I really wish someone got around to solve the binary problem once and for all, so Usenet again could be for discussions. By all means, it needs upgrades, like native Unicode support
Usenet is encoding-agnostic: Unicode support depends solely on your client.
and better anonymisation
Pick a server that encrypts your IP. Even some of the free ones will do this (e.g.: news.albasani.net, news.aioe.org).
To me, the most disturbing thing that this research seems to suggest is that subliminal frames actually work.
Since this stuff was dissed as ineffective by a whole lot of sources I'd read in the past, I now wonder if there is some kind of conspiracy going on: false news on the ineffectiveness of subliminal messages being spread by the very people who seek to manipulate the general public through the media.
music is also a distraction; you should be thinking about the problems and coding rather than focusing on the deep beats of the music
That just depends on how much you concentrate on the music: if you really listen to it, it can be distracting. If you merely hear it, that shouldn't be detrimental.
Personally, I find the best music to code to - if any - is either ambient music or "smooth jazz", genres that are mostly made for staying in the background and not claiming too much attention.
I'm getting a surplus Dell Latitude from work. Was going to load Ubuntu but FreeBSD 8 plus KDE 4.3.0 (or later) looks like a fairly crisp choice for me. Anybody have any experience with this combination?
Not with that particular make and model, but a while back I've been running FreeBSD (6.2 and 7) on my laptop for some months.
Sadly, I've had to give up on it because it didn't provide decent ACPI (suspend/resume) support and hardware graphics acceleration.
What I think is really cool about GPS is that without Einstein's theory of general relativity, it wouldn't work. For example, the atomic clocks aboard the satellites run faster because they're higher up in the Earth's gravitational field, and when you're higher in a gravitational field, time flows more quickly.
Nonsense. And gravity does not have anything to do with that.
The onboard clocks run slower (and thus need to be corrected) because, for the satellites to be in a geostationary orbit at that altitude (IOW, to keep the same angular velocity than Earth), they need a linear velocity that's much faster than Earth's.
But God help you if you have a program that relied on the previous behavior.
Well, IIUC, that would just entail converting all floors on negative numbers to ceils: double floorToZero (double n) {
return (n < 0) ? ceil(n) : floor(n); }
In my example you have chip A that computes an integer at the maximum speed. But if we develop super parallel computing [...] you could simply feed your problem split up into a couple of billion of the suckers while taking up the same space as a laptop now and to the user it would feel like the machine is fast enough to compute the giant problem instantly, when really it is slicing that problem up into a couple billion pieces and each 'core" is just doing its teeny tiny bit of the pie.
I too don't think that "worse is better" is a good synopsis for the Unix philosophy, if that's what you mean. Even though the phrase has been used for ages, it's quite misleading.
I was able to install Slackware 12.2 (i.e. the release before 13.0) by downloading just the first CD image, doing a minimal install, and getting the other packages from the official repository when needed. I never had to download any of the remaining CDs.
But I would think, as a content creator, I'd much rather see people pirate my work than see them walk away.
What content have you created? I would like to make you happy by pirating it. As long as it doesn't suck too much, that is.
Better to be famous and unpaid than just unpaid.
No, it's better to be paid for one's work. And if you think you can become famous by releasing your stuff for free, what's stopping you? Go ahead, let's see how famous you get.
In the meantime, how many artists can you name who became famous by having their work pirated?
He is such a happy camper he started asking me about Linux. He is also tired of viruses, spyware worms etc. I burned the 5.3 LiveDVD of Scientific Linux for him, so he can see if he likes it and wants to install it.
I've been using Scientific Linux on my laptop for about a year and a half. It is a very good Red Hat EL clone, and the updates are timely.
But I have to say it's not the most desktop or laptop friendly distro around, from a software point of view. Even after you've added the compatible external repos, you won't find as many software packages as you'd get on a typical desktop-oriented distro. I know I've had to compile more than my share of source code, especially for (but not limited to) "less serious" software such as games and emulators, not all of which I could even get to work.
Also, enterprise-class stability is obtained through use of time-tested software versions, which means most of the software is OLD, sometimes several years old.
That's why I'm now eagerly awaiting Fedora 11, which I think will provide a better experience to home users. I would still recommend Scientific Linux as a server OS, however.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, you can: by restricting the query to a whole hieararchy. Just add, e.g., group:comp.* to your search.
Lately, though, I've found the results to be incomplete (by searching for my own posts).
Usenet is encoding-agnostic: Unicode support depends solely on your client.
Pick a server that encrypts your IP. Even some of the free ones will do this (e.g.: news.albasani.net, news.aioe.org).
Have you tried clearing the cache?
From TFA:
One can't help thinking that this would be a better world if all reviewers tested software by sticking to the official system requirements.
Who said it's all text (aside from the incorrect summary) ?
Gopher could (and did) serve all kinds of documents, including multimedia files.
Then again, some others were flashed for 12ms...
To me, the most disturbing thing that this research seems to suggest is that subliminal frames actually work.
Since this stuff was dissed as ineffective by a whole lot of sources I'd read in the past, I now wonder if there is some kind of conspiracy going on: false news on the ineffectiveness of subliminal messages being spread by the very people who seek to manipulate the general public through the media.
That just depends on how much you concentrate on the music: if you really listen to it, it can be distracting. If you merely hear it, that shouldn't be detrimental.
Personally, I find the best music to code to - if any - is either ambient music or "smooth jazz", genres that are mostly made for staying in the background and not claiming too much attention.
The robo-chef doesn't wear a chef hat.
Not with that particular make and model, but a while back I've been running FreeBSD (6.2 and 7) on my laptop for some months.
Sadly, I've had to give up on it because it didn't provide decent ACPI (suspend/resume) support and hardware graphics acceleration.
OTOH, back then we had no need for cents and decimal separators.
"Very little code"? Bah! Kids these days...
This will run on any system where `dc` is installed.
Sorry, I was sincerely convinced that the satellites were geosynchronous.
Nonsense. And gravity does not have anything to do with that.
The onboard clocks run slower (and thus need to be corrected) because, for the satellites to be in a geostationary orbit at that altitude (IOW, to keep the same angular velocity than Earth), they need a linear velocity that's much faster than Earth's.
FF 3.0.x: advisories:21, vulnerabilities:133, unpatched:0% (0 of 21)
FF 3.5.x: advisories:5, vulnerabilities:37, unpatched:0% (0 of 5)
IE 8.x: advisories:5, vulnerabilities:16, unpatched:40% (2 of 5)
End of story, as far as I'm concerned.
Well, IIUC, that would just entail converting all floors on negative numbers to ceils:
double floorToZero (double n)
{
return (n < 0) ? ceil(n) : floor(n);
}
...for spotting the chess reference in the name.
How fast will the problem be sliced?
Where "Orwell" is short for ORson WELLes...
I too don't think that "worse is better" is a good synopsis for the Unix philosophy, if that's what you mean. Even though the phrase has been used for ages, it's quite misleading.
I was able to install Slackware 12.2 (i.e. the release before 13.0) by downloading just the first CD image, doing a minimal install, and getting the other packages from the official repository when needed. I never had to download any of the remaining CDs.
I don't think so. It's exactly when you betray trust that people will flock to a still-free competitor.
I have Fedora Core 1 on a VM and their repos are still alive and well. Look for them at http://archive.fedoraproject.org/.
What content have you created? I would like to make you happy by pirating it. As long as it doesn't suck too much, that is.
No, it's better to be paid for one's work. And if you think you can become famous by releasing your stuff for free, what's stopping you? Go ahead, let's see how famous you get.
In the meantime, how many artists can you name who became famous by having their work pirated?
I've been using Scientific Linux on my laptop for about a year and a half. It is a very good Red Hat EL clone, and the updates are timely.
But I have to say it's not the most desktop or laptop friendly distro around, from a software point of view. Even after you've added the compatible external repos, you won't find as many software packages as you'd get on a typical desktop-oriented distro. I know I've had to compile more than my share of source code, especially for (but not limited to) "less serious" software such as games and emulators, not all of which I could even get to work.
Also, enterprise-class stability is obtained through use of time-tested software versions, which means most of the software is OLD, sometimes several years old.
That's why I'm now eagerly awaiting Fedora 11, which I think will provide a better experience to home users. I would still recommend Scientific Linux as a server OS, however.