How do the Christian fundies explain away the Neanderthals? Last time I checked, according to these fanatics, anything that wasn't written in the King James Bible, either never happened or never existed.
So what? I have a friend that built his own computer, installed Windows 2000 on it, and had nothing more his OS crashing every 15 minutes. Now I am sure there was something that he could have done to fix the issues, but its a computer that is supposed to make his life easier and more fun. So just because a particular person has trouble installing an OS doesn't mean there is something wrong with the OS. The person installing it just doesn't know what they are doing.
I would love to see highly specialized Via Eden platforms, for example:
Embed a TV Tuner Card, Disk-on-Chip, and RAM: would make for a great lowcost baseline Linux PVR platform
Embed a 4 port NIC, Disk-on-Chip, and RAM: would make for a great low cost Linux router, firewall, etc...
RAM is cheap, so I don't know why they haven't embedded RAM on the motherboard like all the other devices, and the VIA EPIA Eden already has a place for a Disk-on-Chip, but the boards sold as of now don't have a DOC installed.
Linux based PVR and Network devices can still be made using the Via Epia Eden by just adding a PCI TV Tuner, PCI NIC, etc... I have Linux installed on my Epia Eden. No fans, low power consumption... I leave it on all the time!
The Via Eden 533mhz x86 based platform goes for about $90. The Via Eden is the new popular inexpensive fanless platform. The VIA Eden has a built in CPU, video, audio, ethernet, usb, etc... Also, the VIA Eden is tiny tiny tiny. Great for little Linux projects.
I am running a default Redhat desktop on it as we speak. Installed right out of the box.
He is using the meaning of "anti" which means "against", and he is using the meaning of "semitic", which means "of semite heritage". Semites are Arabs, racial Jews, Babylonians, etc... The literal meaning of anti-semite is that you are against those races and their culture.
The EPIA Eden is a small form factor low power consumption x86 based motherboard that has built in CPU, audio, video, ethernet, and tv-out. Just add RAM and a HD. The Eden is cheap at $80. Add in RAM, a small HD, and a DVD drive, and you are looking at around $200. Then all you need is a chasis and powersupply. It is best to use a small chasis and fanless powerfupply.
Then add a highly tweaked and stripped down version of Linux, with DivX, MP3, and DVD functionality.
Do you really care whether you use electronic hardware to send your software, or are you interested in sending software over the net? Computers and the internet don't necessarily have to be based on electronic hardware.
The goal of Computer Science is the program? I guess computability theory and complexity theory aren't goals of Computer Science? What about programming language design? Such a narrow definition of Computer Science, such a wrong definition. A better, yet still incomplete definition of Computer Science is that its goal is to understand what can/cannot be computed, and how the computable can be computed.
First off, this paper seems to confuse "Computer Science" with "Software Engineering". "Computer Science" is about theory while "Software Engineering" is about making products and services using software. This makes all of the knocking of the traditional theories of computer science nothing more than apple vs orange. If you read "Software Engineering" in place of "Computer Science", then saying that the goal of computer science (i.e. Software Engineering) is the program... saying that is more correct.
I especially liked the part where they say that elements of a program are not abstractions but symbols. Maybe someone should tell the writer that Computer Science started as an off-shoot of a branch of Constructive Formal Mathematics known as "Metamathematics". Metamathematics concerned itself with symbolic representations of abstractions. Mathematicians 100 years ago spent allot of effort studying various aspects of Metamathematics. Read the original works of Brouwer, Hilbert, Kleene, Church, Turing, and Godel to name a few. Kleene has a good classic textbook on Metamathematics that the writer of this paper should read.
This paper is not scientific. It is not mathematical.
This paper expounds nothing new, original, or worthwhile.
This paper is nothing more than a waste of time. At best it made up some new terminology for someone else's achievements. It would be even more entertaining if the title included a few other meaningless buzzwords/buzzphrases, such as: "paradigm shift".
I still played Quakeworld, which is Quake with physics bug fixes and an optimized network protocol. I just got done playing today. It runs no slower than 72 frames per second on my 4 year old PC! Even in heavy action.
I think the middle eastern states want some weapons equal to those of Israel. Israel is loaded with nukes, bio, and chem weapons. Note many of the middle eastern nations don't get along with Israel, and Israel regularly threatens them with violence. Some call this Terrorism but then that would make almost every nation a Terrorist nation, as basically every nation uses violence for means of political advantage.
Take Lebanon for example, Israel is currently threatening to attack their country because they want to steal more of Lebanon's water.
The problem is, as a nation you will continue to get bullied, until you get some weapons of your own.
The real question you should ask yourself is why it is ok for the USA and Israel to stockpile weapons of mass destruction, while it is not ok for Iraq.
Just try and pull up examples of "crimes against humanity" against Iraq, and the same can be done for both the USA and Irael.
So Saadam is smart enough to know how to play the game. It is not about him being bad as much as it is him trying to level the playing field. Building weapons of mass destruction is the only way to play with nations like the USA and Israel.
I am a USA citizen, and I try to be objective about these things. Assuming that "we are good, they are bad" will never solve anything. Politicians lie. The USA is spreading FUD with regards to Iraq. It should be quite obvious to you guys, I mean you are more intelligent than the herd.
My understanding is that an Aryan race originated from modern day India, moved through modern day Iran, Iraq... and all the way up to Europe. With some of this tribe settling along the way. Note that allot of important things started in India: advanced mathematics, Sumerians, sophisticated sexuality...
Not that I am Indian, but from what I have seen, they have contributed allot to this world. Oh, and their herbs, spices, and currys rock!
From a programming language point of view, Java and VB are nearly the same frickin thing. They are both object-oriented procedural programming languages. Loops, conditionals, assignments, and statement sequencing. They might use different strings of characters for specifiying those constructs, but that is only a skin deep thing. Bracketing statement blocks with "{" and "}" or "begin" and "end" strings isn't a real difference.
From other points of view, they might differ, but the underlying programming languages are nearly identical.
Something that is nothing like Java would be a purely functional lazy programming language like Haskell or a declarative language like Mercury. Go learn one of those languages, program a small project in it, and then come back here and tell us how different VB and Java truely are.
.NET is language agnostic, if by that you mean procedural language agnostic. VB and Java are about as different as Democrats and Republicans: they are both different sides of the same coin.
So is this another planet that the Sumerians knew about 5000 years ago? Yeah, those ancient peoples who created the first civilizations, written language, mathematics, and astronomy.
Who cares, except employees and stock holders, whether Redhat is making a profit or not.
What is a corporate-style OS, and how is Debian not that style?
What is "actual help support"? And is the help that I get with Debian not support?
"Integration" and "consistency" are two more buzzwords that I do not want to pay for!
I am sure that Redhat actually does care about what the opensource community thinks of their activities. Redhat wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the OSS community.
Not giving away copies of Redhat is a bad idea right now. Redhat has to gain more mindshare and marketshare before they can stop giving away free copies as say Libranet does. But again, not giving away free copies may further alienate the OSS community. That is bad.
The OSS community should not applaud Redhat for acting like a company. I mean, Enron acts like a company, as does Microsoft. The OSS community should and does applaud Redhat for contributing to the further development, improvement, and spreading of opensource software.
Finally, Debian has been proving for years now that Open Source doesn't mean "amateur or broke". Companies are a means to an end. They are not the end itself.
I would also recommend the Barracuda IV. It has good performance, and it is super quiet! I am using my Barracuda IV 80GB harddrive in my otherwise solid state Via Eden based PC. No fans, and the only moving parts are in the harddrive, which as stated is extremely quiet.
My CRT makes more noise than my Eden + Barracuda IV computer.
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I am new to Red Hat and apt-rpm. I used to run Debian, and "dist-upgrade"ing always worked with Debian. Can I assume the same thing with apt-rpm? I am running RH7.3 and want to dist-upgrade to RH8.0. Anything I should know before I try to do so?
Tenebrae is an opensource game engine based on the Quake source code. However, this free engine has many of the same features as the upcoming Doom 3 engine. Stencil shadows, bump maps, per-pixel lighting, reflective water, etc... this game engine has it! Thing is it costs you, and even on a 2ghz Geforce4 setup, it runs under 72 frames per second. Note that for several reasons 72 FPS is optimal for Quake play. A 5ghz CPU with a Geforce4 could probably chrank out 72 FPS in Tenebrae at 1280x1024x32.
PC games give more than their console equivalents. I pay $30 for Quake, get a fun single-player game, great multiplayer deathmatch... and then the mods come. Capture the Flag, Team Fortress, Rocket Arena, QRally, Zerstorer, Quess, Rise of the Pheonix, Slide, and many more great free addons to my $30 Quake.
Finally, need I point out the free games that are great fun to play on your PC... yet cost money to play on your console:
Tetris, Nethack, FreeCiv, Bridge Builder, and many many more!
TIPS as well as the prevailing attitude held by the general public of the USA is only causing things to get worse.
A recent example is how a woman could report three medical students as suspected terrorists, have them locked up, their possessions molested, and their jobs lost... simply because they looked like Muslims, Arabs, Pakastanis, Iranians, or in many people's minds "like them terrorists". This sparked paranoid delusions, not just within her mind, but within the minds of the general public.
If such horrible things can be inflicted upon you because of your ethnicity makes you a target of the current administration's programs, then how hard is it to imagine your reading habits making you a target of the current administration's programs?
If I read a book about "Islam", "Jihad", "American is Evil", or, hell, any book written by Noam Chomsky... will I be locked up, my possessions molested, my name defaced, and my job lost?
The land of the free? Are you serious? I feel like my nation has become a suicide bomber - ready to self destruct out of shear desperation and hate.
You seem to misunderstand. PocketNES is a NES emulator that runs on the Gameboy Advance. Flash cartidges (aka "backup" carts) for the Gameboy Advance are easily purchased over the internet. Lik-sang is a respected source for such GBA flash carts.
Using PocketNES with a 512Mb flash cart would allow you to put basically all of your favorite NES games on one tiny little cart. No carrying around a bulky card swiping device with tons of cards. Just one small cart plugged into your GBA gives you hundreds of classic NES games.
Considering that classic NES games can be purchased for under $10 from Ebay or used game stores... you can legally own and use the roms with PocketNES as long as you own the original cart.
Interesting stuff, until you realize that most of the problems that we would want our computers to help themselves solve are undecidable. So in general a program can't tell if another program has gone on the fritz.
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How do the Christian fundies explain away the Neanderthals? Last time I checked, according to these fanatics, anything that wasn't written in the King James Bible, either never happened or never existed.
So what? I have a friend that built his own computer, installed Windows 2000 on it, and had nothing more his OS crashing every 15 minutes. Now I am sure there was something that he could have done to fix the issues, but its a computer that is supposed to make his life easier and more fun. So just because a particular person has trouble installing an OS doesn't mean there is something wrong with the OS. The person installing it just doesn't know what they are doing.
RAM is cheap, so I don't know why they haven't embedded RAM on the motherboard like all the other devices, and the VIA EPIA Eden already has a place for a Disk-on-Chip, but the boards sold as of now don't have a DOC installed.
Linux based PVR and Network devices can still be made using the Via Epia Eden by just adding a PCI TV Tuner, PCI NIC, etc... I have Linux installed on my Epia Eden. No fans, low power consumption... I leave it on all the time!
The Via Eden 533mhz x86 based platform goes for about $90. The Via Eden is the new popular inexpensive fanless platform. The VIA Eden has a built in CPU, video, audio, ethernet, usb, etc... Also, the VIA Eden is tiny tiny tiny. Great for little Linux projects.
I am running a default Redhat desktop on it as we speak. Installed right out of the box.
He is using the meaning of "anti" which means "against", and he is using the meaning of "semitic", which means "of semite heritage". Semites are Arabs, racial Jews, Babylonians, etc... The literal meaning of anti-semite is that you are against those races and their culture.
The EPIA Eden is a small form factor low power consumption x86 based motherboard that has built in CPU, audio, video, ethernet, and tv-out. Just add RAM and a HD. The Eden is cheap at $80. Add in RAM, a small HD, and a DVD drive, and you are looking at around $200. Then all you need is a chasis and powersupply. It is best to use a small chasis and fanless powerfupply.
Then add a highly tweaked and stripped down version of Linux, with DivX, MP3, and DVD functionality.
Do you really care whether you use electronic hardware to send your software, or are you interested in sending software over the net? Computers and the internet don't necessarily have to be based on electronic hardware.
The goal of Computer Science is the program? I guess computability theory and complexity theory aren't goals of Computer Science? What about programming language design? Such a narrow definition of Computer Science, such a wrong definition. A better, yet still incomplete definition of Computer Science is that its goal is to understand what can/cannot be computed, and how the computable can be computed.
First off, this paper seems to confuse "Computer Science" with "Software Engineering". "Computer Science" is about theory while "Software Engineering" is about making products and services using software. This makes all of the knocking of the traditional theories of computer science nothing more than apple vs orange. If you read "Software Engineering" in place of "Computer Science", then saying that the goal of computer science (i.e. Software Engineering) is the program... saying that is more correct.
I especially liked the part where they say that elements of a program are not abstractions but symbols. Maybe someone should tell the writer that Computer Science started as an off-shoot of a branch of Constructive Formal Mathematics known as "Metamathematics". Metamathematics concerned itself with symbolic representations of abstractions. Mathematicians 100 years ago spent allot of effort studying various aspects of Metamathematics. Read the original works of Brouwer, Hilbert, Kleene, Church, Turing, and Godel to name a few. Kleene has a good classic textbook on Metamathematics that the writer of this paper should read.
This paper is not scientific. It is not mathematical.
This paper expounds nothing new, original, or worthwhile.
This paper is nothing more than a waste of time. At best it made up some new terminology for someone else's achievements. It would be even more entertaining if the title included a few other meaningless buzzwords/buzzphrases, such as: "paradigm shift".
I still played Quakeworld, which is Quake with physics bug fixes and an optimized network protocol. I just got done playing today. It runs no slower than 72 frames per second on my 4 year old PC! Even in heavy action.
I think the middle eastern states want some weapons equal to those of Israel. Israel is loaded with nukes, bio, and chem weapons. Note many of the middle eastern nations don't get along with Israel, and Israel regularly threatens them with violence. Some call this Terrorism but then that would make almost every nation a Terrorist nation, as basically every nation uses violence for means of political advantage.
Take Lebanon for example, Israel is currently threatening to attack their country because they want to steal more of Lebanon's water.
The problem is, as a nation you will continue to get bullied, until you get some weapons of your own.
The real question you should ask yourself is why it is ok for the USA and Israel to stockpile weapons of mass destruction, while it is not ok for Iraq.
Just try and pull up examples of "crimes against humanity" against Iraq, and the same can be done for both the USA and Irael.
So Saadam is smart enough to know how to play the game. It is not about him being bad as much as it is him trying to level the playing field. Building weapons of mass destruction is the only way to play with nations like the USA and Israel.
I am a USA citizen, and I try to be objective about these things. Assuming that "we are good, they are bad" will never solve anything. Politicians lie. The USA is spreading FUD with regards to Iraq. It should be quite obvious to you guys, I mean you are more intelligent than the herd.
My understanding is that an Aryan race originated from modern day India, moved through modern day Iran, Iraq... and all the way up to Europe. With some of this tribe settling along the way. Note that allot of important things started in India: advanced mathematics, Sumerians, sophisticated sexuality...
Not that I am Indian, but from what I have seen, they have contributed allot to this world. Oh, and their herbs, spices, and currys rock!
From a programming language point of view, Java and VB are nearly the same frickin thing. They are both object-oriented procedural programming languages. Loops, conditionals, assignments, and statement sequencing. They might use different strings of characters for specifiying those constructs, but that is only a skin deep thing. Bracketing statement blocks with "{" and "}" or "begin" and "end" strings isn't a real difference.
.NET is language agnostic, if by that you mean procedural language agnostic. VB and Java are about as different as Democrats and Republicans: they are both different sides of the same coin.
From other points of view, they might differ, but the underlying programming languages are nearly identical.
Something that is nothing like Java would be a purely functional lazy programming language like Haskell or a declarative language like Mercury. Go learn one of those languages, program a small project in it, and then come back here and tell us how different VB and Java truely are.
Stop applying Cantor's diagonal method to our government!
So is this another planet that the Sumerians knew about 5000 years ago? Yeah, those ancient peoples who created the first civilizations, written language, mathematics, and astronomy.
That is worse than a page in goatsecx!
My pencil and pad of paper has infinite battery life... so by your standards, the Visor sux.
Who cares, except employees and stock holders, whether Redhat is making a profit or not.
What is a corporate-style OS, and how is Debian not that style?
What is "actual help support"? And is the help that I get with Debian not support?
"Integration" and "consistency" are two more buzzwords that I do not want to pay for!
I am sure that Redhat actually does care about what the opensource community thinks of their activities. Redhat wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the OSS community.
Not giving away copies of Redhat is a bad idea right now. Redhat has to gain more mindshare and marketshare before they can stop giving away free copies as say Libranet does. But again, not giving away free copies may further alienate the OSS community. That is bad.
The OSS community should not applaud Redhat for acting like a company. I mean, Enron acts like a company, as does Microsoft. The OSS community should and does applaud Redhat for contributing to the further development, improvement, and spreading of opensource software.
Finally, Debian has been proving for years now that Open Source doesn't mean "amateur or broke". Companies are a means to an end. They are not the end itself.
I would also recommend the Barracuda IV. It has good performance, and it is super quiet! I am using my Barracuda IV 80GB harddrive in my otherwise solid state Via Eden based PC. No fans, and the only moving parts are in the harddrive, which as stated is extremely quiet.
My CRT makes more noise than my Eden + Barracuda IV computer.
I am new to Red Hat and apt-rpm. I used to run Debian, and "dist-upgrade"ing always worked with Debian. Can I assume the same thing with apt-rpm? I am running RH7.3 and want to dist-upgrade to RH8.0. Anything I should know before I try to do so?
Tenebrae is an opensource game engine based on the Quake source code. However, this free engine has many of the same features as the upcoming Doom 3 engine. Stencil shadows, bump maps, per-pixel lighting, reflective water, etc... this game engine has it! Thing is it costs you, and even on a 2ghz Geforce4 setup, it runs under 72 frames per second. Note that for several reasons 72 FPS is optimal for Quake play. A 5ghz CPU with a Geforce4 could probably chrank out 72 FPS in Tenebrae at 1280x1024x32.
With a PC I get more! I am not losing out on anything. First off, there are free mods for games you have already bought:
Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3, Half-Life, Unreal, UT, Never Winter Nights, Starcraft, etc...
PC games give more than their console equivalents. I pay $30 for Quake, get a fun single-player game, great multiplayer deathmatch... and then the mods come. Capture the Flag, Team Fortress, Rocket Arena, QRally, Zerstorer, Quess, Rise of the Pheonix, Slide, and many more great free addons to my $30 Quake.
Finally, need I point out the free games that are great fun to play on your PC... yet cost money to play on your console:
Tetris, Nethack, FreeCiv, Bridge Builder, and many many more!
TIPS as well as the prevailing attitude held by the general public of the USA is only causing things to get worse.
A recent example is how a woman could report three medical students as suspected terrorists, have them locked up, their possessions molested, and their jobs lost... simply because they looked like Muslims, Arabs, Pakastanis, Iranians, or in many people's minds "like them terrorists". This sparked paranoid delusions, not just within her mind, but within the minds of the general public.
If such horrible things can be inflicted upon you because of your ethnicity makes you a target of the current administration's programs, then how hard is it to imagine your reading habits making you a target of the current administration's programs?
If I read a book about "Islam", "Jihad", "American is Evil", or, hell, any book written by Noam Chomsky... will I be locked up, my possessions molested, my name defaced, and my job lost?
The land of the free? Are you serious? I feel like my nation has become a suicide bomber - ready to self destruct out of shear desperation and hate.
You seem to misunderstand. PocketNES is a NES emulator that runs on the Gameboy Advance. Flash cartidges (aka "backup" carts) for the Gameboy Advance are easily purchased over the internet. Lik-sang is a respected source for such GBA flash carts.
Using PocketNES with a 512Mb flash cart would allow you to put basically all of your favorite NES games on one tiny little cart. No carrying around a bulky card swiping device with tons of cards. Just one small cart plugged into your GBA gives you hundreds of classic NES games.
Considering that classic NES games can be purchased for under $10 from Ebay or used game stores... you can legally own and use the roms with PocketNES as long as you own the original cart.
Interesting stuff, until you realize that most of the problems that we would want our computers to help themselves solve are undecidable. So in general a program can't tell if another program has gone on the fritz.
By your same reasoning, President Bush is also privileged, elite, and college-educated. Does that make him the least bit intelligent?