Is that really the way Anonymous Coward started? If so, my memory is failing.
I remember that there was a user that called himself Anonymous Coward in the days before user accounts. I thought that he wrote some pretty decent, though sometimes trollish, posts. Then there were all kinds of problems with people impersonating other users (especially Bruce Perens). So user accounts were created. When the accounts were created, the name "Anonymous Coward" was appropriated from people who weren't logged in. Some claimed that this ticked off the original AC, though no one could tell for sure.
Anyway, if anyone else remembers any of that, please back me up.
What do you consider to be the Linux standard for registering URI schemes in? Mailcap? Facilities specific to KDE or Gnome, like those provided in Konqueoror? Or Firefox's helper application registration?
I don't think Linux is immune to this sort of problem, but it seems like this is one place where the diversity of the desktop on Linux helps quite a bit. I am having a hard time coming up with a realistic way for this to be a problem for a user who runs Windowmaker or FVWM and doesn't install software from really odd sources.
If it is outside of warranty, just replace the hard drive yourself. Or call up TiVo, they will probably swap out your dying one for a refurbed SD TiVo fro cheap. Of course if you really are going to go HD, then it might make sense to switch, but prices will probably drop even more by then.
You're wasting your time - every time this is discussed people submit great and/or obvious ideas for improving Slashdot. Not once have any of them been taken up. Lots of ideas from discussions have been implemented. Accounts, Meta-mod, and Firehose all came up in discussions before they were implemented. You can argue about the executation and the timeliness, but/. certainly listens to its users.
Here's my obvious and great idea for improving it: have a period after the the arrival of the story on the front page in which people are not allowed to post. That would go a long way to minimise the idiot postings from people who DNRTFA. This already effectively the case for subscribers - they see the articles first, but can't post till they go live.
Yep, it is an myth. After I first read this somewhere else, I watched at the credits again. The guy in the diner is credited as "Guy at the counter in Member's Only jacket", or something of the sort. He is not a Leotardo. Tony would have recognized a Leotardo.
That is true. However, liquid steel was found in the basement of the World Trade Center weeks after 9/11. This requires explanation because most people agree that the fires in the WTC towers were not hot enough to melt steel. Food for thought it all. There are several possibles explanations. One comes from some really basic physics - conservation of energy. When objects fall, gravitational potential energy is converted into kinetic energy. When the objects hit the ground some of the kinetic energy is converted into thermal energy, causing the object to heat up. The same thing happens if you repeated bounce a rubber ball. If an entire skyscraper collapses, it would be more surprising if there was no melted metal found.
Also, fires burned in the WTC debris for a long time after the collapse. It would be quite possible for pockets of fire to get hot enough to metal metal. And as others have said, there has been no reliable evidence that the metal found was steel.
Here is a link to the original press release, with better images. Like the AC said, for more details you can get the journal article. It doesn't seem to be up on any of the usual pre-print archives.
I think as much as anything this observation didn't happen before, because Cluster is the first mission to fly spacecraft in relatively tight formation in the correct location. Even with with Cluster, orbital dynamics are such that magnetopause and bow shock crossings do not happen that often, so there is not that much data on them.
As for shocking, I think that is just a bad joke. Though these are nice results, I don't think that anyone is that surprised by them.
Bruce,
Many regions of the magnetosphere seem like possibilities for LDEs, including the bow shock or the magnetopause. There are articles looking into these possible sources linked to from one of the pages your search pops. The consensus seems to be that magnetospheric causes are unlikely.
Really, what is the big deal? If a developer bothers to talk to someone from Microsoft, it seems like it would be pretty likely that the developer would have an interest in Windows. I mean what else is a MySQL guy going to ask him about? DOS ? X-box? Bob ?
There's also no mention of podcast support, which is the real innovation from the Apple TV, in my mind. What is revolutionary about podcast support? TiVo has had it for years?
It is not really much of a proof, though it is an involved problem. Just setup a coordinate system and use it define unit vectors for the relevant sides. Then show that the dot product of the unit vectors is 0. The problem would take some time, but it is not that hard.
Space weather may be a slightly simpler system than terrestrial weather, but terrestrial weather has one huge advantage which you alluded to. We have many in situ observations on Earth. The largest problem with understanding what is going on in space is that, we never have enough data. There are very few spacecraft taking measurements, particularly measurements outside of geosynchronous orbit.
In some sense you are right that there are only two objects of interests for Space Weather (the Earth and the Sun), but that picture is two simplified. Using that same level of simplification, there are one or two objects of interest for terrestrial weather (the Earth and maybe the Sun). Yes, fluid dynamics in the atmosphere is an interesting turbulent problem, but plasma fluid dynamics in space is no easier to deal with.
Please forgive my momentary lapse of judgment. I forgot for a moment that this is Slashdot and anything possibly speaking down about the all holy Linux must be smote with the fires of Hell. FUD is a great thing isn't it? It just amazes me how quickly "advocates of freedom" are to crucify each other as opposed to striving to understand where the other is coming from.
Your original post used the fact that Debian has a Hurd port to try to argue that the Debian project was shifting to Hurd because the Linux kernel isn't free or secure enough. The existence of a Hurd port proves no such thing. Just as the existence of a Debian BSD port doesn't prove that the Debian project thinks the GPL is too restrictive of a license. Some Debian developers may feel that way, but that's not a general belief of the project. Developers work on alternate work on alternate kernels for a variety of reasons, but that doesn't change the fact that most Debian work is centered on Linux.
However, if Hurd and Linux were at a place that they were technologically comparable, do you really think that Debian would go with Linux for their mainstream release given their philosophical stance?
The point is that Hurd isn't anywhere near Linux technologically, and it isn't likely to get there until they can substantially increase the number of developers working on it.
Its a moot point.
BTW, from my point of view your FUD was aimed at Debian, not Linux. The idea Debian would shift to an inferior kernel is ridiculous. Debian will continue to have issues with binary blobs being used by the Linux kernel, and other similar problems, but they will be dealt with as they come up. I am sure that there is a small faction of developers who would like to
move Debian's emphasis to Hurd (or BSD), but it is not going to happen any time soon.
In fact, it is a very good thing. Hurd and the entire GNU / FSF philosophy pretty well can't work in the corporate environment.
That's nonsense. Hurd could work fine in a corporate environment, but it just isn't serious competition for Linux (or BSD) yet.
Just as a random aside: Debian has been working on shifting off of the Linux kernel for some time because it isn't "free" or "secure" enough.
I think that you meant to write "Just as a random piece of clueless FUD:..."
No where in your link does it say anything about Debian shifting off of Linux. There are people in Debian working on HURD and BSD flavors of Debian, but that doesn't signal any attempt drop Linux. Debian is about software choice, almost as much as it is about software freedom. Allowing people access to multiple kernels under Debian is a win for everyone and helps improve Linux under Debian as well.
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Ah, let me clarify. People impersonated Bruce Perens, leading him eventually to start technocrat.net
Is that really the way Anonymous Coward started? If so, my memory is failing.
I remember that there was a user that called himself Anonymous Coward in the days before user accounts. I thought that he wrote some pretty decent, though sometimes trollish, posts. Then there were all kinds of problems with people impersonating other users (especially Bruce Perens). So user accounts were created. When the accounts were created, the name "Anonymous Coward" was appropriated from people who weren't logged in. Some claimed that this ticked off the original AC, though no one could tell for sure.
Anyway, if anyone else remembers any of that, please back me up.
There is better coverage of this eclipse and others at NASA's eclipse page.
WFM. Which parts do not work for you?
What do you consider to be the Linux standard for registering URI schemes in? Mailcap? Facilities specific to KDE or Gnome, like those provided in Konqueoror? Or Firefox's helper application registration?
I don't think Linux is immune to this sort of problem, but it seems like this is one place where the diversity of the desktop on Linux helps quite a bit. I am having a hard time coming up with a realistic way for this to be a problem for a user who runs Windowmaker or FVWM and doesn't install software from really odd sources.
If it is outside of warranty, just replace the hard drive yourself. Or call up TiVo, they will probably swap out your dying one for a refurbed SD TiVo fro cheap. Of course if you really are going to go HD, then it might make sense to switch, but prices will probably drop even more by then.
Have you played with the preferences? It seems like Display Mode: Flat, Sort Order: Highest Scores First, and Threshold: +4 might be what you want.
I have no idea if it includes ZFS yet, but Debian GNU/kFreeBSD certainly includes apt.
Or the more common in engineering circles, pound-mass.
Yep, it is an myth. After I first read this somewhere else, I watched at the credits again. The guy in the diner is credited as "Guy at the counter in Member's Only jacket", or something of the sort. He is not a Leotardo. Tony would have recognized a Leotardo.
Also, fires burned in the WTC debris for a long time after the collapse. It would be quite possible for pockets of fire to get hot enough to metal metal. And as others have said, there has been no reliable evidence that the metal found was steel.
Here is a link to the original press release, with better images. Like the AC said, for more details you can get the journal article. It doesn't seem to be up on any of the usual pre-print archives.
As for shocking, I think that is just a bad joke. Though these are nice results, I don't think that anyone is that surprised by them.
Bruce, Many regions of the magnetosphere seem like possibilities for LDEs, including the bow shock or the magnetopause. There are articles looking into these possible sources linked to from one of the pages your search pops. The consensus seems to be that magnetospheric causes are unlikely.
Really, what is the big deal? If a developer bothers to talk to someone from Microsoft, it seems like it would be pretty likely that the developer would have an interest in Windows. I mean what else is a MySQL guy going to ask him about? DOS ? X-box? Bob ?
One place to look for them is the Assayer.
Ack, I missed that. Though I would say that TiVo is still better known than Apple TV. Though that may npt last long.
What is revolutionary about podcast support? TiVo has had it for years?
A reporter who doesn't understand statistics? Who would have thunk it?
It is not really much of a proof, though it is an involved problem. Just setup a coordinate system and use it define unit vectors for the relevant sides. Then show that the dot product of the unit vectors is 0. The problem would take some time, but it is not that hard.
Space weather may be a slightly simpler system than terrestrial weather, but terrestrial weather has one huge advantage which you alluded to. We have many in situ observations on Earth. The largest problem with understanding what is going on in space is that, we never have enough data. There are very few spacecraft taking measurements, particularly measurements outside of geosynchronous orbit.
In some sense you are right that there are only two objects of interests for Space Weather (the Earth and the Sun), but that picture is two simplified. Using that same level of simplification, there are one or two objects of interest for terrestrial weather (the Earth and maybe the Sun). Yes, fluid dynamics in the atmosphere is an interesting turbulent problem, but plasma fluid dynamics in space is no easier to deal with.
Your original post used the fact that Debian has a Hurd port to try to argue that the Debian project was shifting to Hurd because the Linux kernel isn't free or secure enough. The existence of a Hurd port proves no such thing. Just as the existence of a Debian BSD port doesn't prove that the Debian project thinks the GPL is too restrictive of a license. Some Debian developers may feel that way, but that's not a general belief of the project. Developers work on alternate work on alternate kernels for a variety of reasons, but that doesn't change the fact that most Debian work is centered on Linux.
The point is that Hurd isn't anywhere near Linux technologically, and it isn't likely to get there until they can substantially increase the number of developers working on it. Its a moot point.
BTW, from my point of view your FUD was aimed at Debian, not Linux. The idea Debian would shift to an inferior kernel is ridiculous. Debian will continue to have issues with binary blobs being used by the Linux kernel, and other similar problems, but they will be dealt with as they come up. I am sure that there is a small faction of developers who would like to move Debian's emphasis to Hurd (or BSD), but it is not going to happen any time soon.
That's nonsense. Hurd could work fine in a corporate environment, but it just isn't serious competition for Linux (or BSD) yet.
No where in your link does it say anything about Debian shifting off of Linux. There are people in Debian working on HURD and BSD flavors of Debian, but that doesn't signal any attempt drop Linux. Debian is about software choice, almost as much as it is about software freedom. Allowing people access to multiple kernels under Debian is a win for everyone and helps improve Linux under Debian as well.
Right, Firefox is a distant second in browsers, while microsoft is a distant third in search.