less seconds at boot time?
then why don't they use coreboot(ex linuxbios)?
my hp spends at least 5 seconds before grub shows up. coreboot claims 3 second to linux console.
the remaining boot time is os-dependent. my slack takes much more time than ubuntu on identical computers, but that's because of the distro, not something else (ssd excluded)...
...I backup everything, encrypt, put on a free web storage of some kind, take a knoppix,
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4k
pass the border with knoppix, leave the knoppix to them if they want, buy an other knoppix in the us, download everyting and live happy? if they ask you why you did it, easy: i heard you were searching, i didn't want to lose my plane while you were searching, so i don't give you anything to search! ...
do you think it sounds too suspicious?
This is the list of defects that odf still has, according to the SC4
Considering ooxml has much more and much serious problems, I'm starting to think this will end just like the dis29500(ooxml) standardization process.
*sigh*
uhm... i can't really understand this...
in Italy if you don't get 60% you don't pass to the next class...
if you don't get 60% in the first semester, you have to follow after-school classes, and if at the end of the year you still don't have at least 60%, before next school-year, you have to take a test, which will determine which class you are in (next or the same as last year)
but 3 years ago we didn't have this system. people could still pass even if they hadn't 60% in some classes.
what we are seeing now is that teachers do not really want to make a lot of people repeat the year, so the are more reluctant to give 50% score to someone, the votes get a little changed at the end of the year, and so on....
this didn't make our scool system any better, it simply shifted the problem from "kids with low grades" to "teachers don't give low grades". ...but, to be fair, we have other problems here, like parents getting angry if kid gets low mark (!!!), teachers with big and lots of classes (so they don't really want to have more next year, you know...) and other little things.... like not really following the good students, and concentrating on the "bad" ones... and giving few money to teachers and school in general...
I tried to join the local student group that manages lans, sysadmin stuff ecc... ...but after i saw their requirements, i did not even tried to talk to them.
Their rating system is: 40% your university year, 40% your marks and 20% your skills.
Since the ratings are public, I could even see that everyone had 16%+ in the "skill" part.
I'm so angry I'm not even going to tell them all their security holes (_lots_ of them, someone is already using them). ...
my suggestion is just: don't be a bureaucrat. you can lose interesting help.
They're trying to say "People need to open their minds and not have a right or wrong argument". I think it's great.
by "people need to open thir minds", you actually meant "other ways? what other ways? everyone's pc!", right?
seriously, i find those ads are quite nice, since they involve people... but i can't see any openness in presenting a lot of people with the same idea, and not saying anything else...
openness would be having pc/mac guys working together... maybe the pc guy could "win" somehow, but openness involves multiple ideas, not just one.
just look at the "spin graph"... ...
McCain lowest, Obama Highest?
To me, it seems more a political decision than "real" statistic.
i mean... come on... lowest/highest?? and Bush is almost in the middle?
note:I'm not american, so i'm out of the McCain vs. Obama war...
For more reading, try More Guns Less Crime. It was written by a Harvard economist who started off trying to show bad guns are and after quite thorough research using over 1,000 sources ended up buying a gun to defend his family. If you would like an argument backed by facts and not flimsy emotional appeals, read the book.
hello, european speaking here.
we don't have all the guns you have, people here don't think having and carrying guns would protect them.(that's police work)
guess what? we have less people killed by gunfire than you have.
guns are needed where guns already have widespread use, i guess. that's why you need them in the u.s. i think it's called "arms race" or something...
Scientists at the LHC made a funny video to explain what the do there...
they don't talk about black holes and other things, but it should be useful (and funny) for those who do not know what lhc is about...
psychologists aren't and won't be able to cure parkinson and other brain damages.
neuroscience might (actually, already can for parkinson).
please do not compare two kind of studies just because they have a link in common.
neuroscience basically aim at understanding math and physics behind our brain, psychology works at higher levels.
just 3000? well, i might consider getting one then...
i don't know how it works in the US, but here in Europe there's a 2000-3000eur difference between diesel and gasoline cars...
since people still buy diesel cars here, i can't understand how this price difference would be a problem for hybrid....
problem is: if no-one is ever going to use it, what is this standard for?
it's a matter of usefulness... if iso starts to make useless(and ugly, but this is imho) things standards, there will be less incentive to design your product for standards.
I'd really hate that, because I like to read the book myself, and I don't need somebody reading it to me. Having to write everything down distracts from trying to understand what he is saying. If you go home with a bunch of notes that you don't understand, what good is that?
I have done some uni classes without books.
all I can say is:
-Book is never perfect, the teacher gives you feedback, quicker help.
-Teacher without books is not that bad, you learn to write what's important, and leave the rest. I think this is an important skill lots of people don't have.
-Learn to write notes! how can you not understand what you've written? notes are not meant to teach you. they are meant to remeber you of something easier. oh, and i usually listen fist, then ask questions, and just then i write... no, i never missed anything...
-writing notes helps you follow the teacher. it's so useful that sometimes i don't even revise notes.
That said, the best for me is a combo... teacher talks, you take notes, and you use the book at home. ...but if your book costs you 100eur+...
I've avoided some books with wikipedia, so open source books is not a bad idea for me. i'll propose this in my uni.
Not even a hard left, imho.
My father was in China some time ago, he said internet for business tuorists like him was "normal", but if you went out of your hotel, you started to have lots of restrictions.
I think it's the same here. Internet will be "semi-free" just for tourists, and -obviously- just for the olimpic games...
Sad memo...
In Italy our Prime Minister actually said that, speaking of himself, in court.
well, he didn't say pigs actually... nor he put that in plural...
He just said (speaking of himself):"this citizen is more equal than the others, since he's been elected"...
*sigh*
The driver itself is open source but depends on the proprietary Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) that is available in binary form only.
That's for the madwifi driver.
We're talking about the ath9k driver.
There's also ath5k, that does not uses HAL. ...yes, they're all written by the madwifi group...
Today it's Downs Syndrome free, tomarrow it's, "Can I get a medium #1 with blond hair blue eyes, here's 1 egg and a table spoon of semen" "Thank you, your order number is 42".
I think we're confusing tech with politic/ethic here...
I mean... all it takes is a law that says "use only to prevent physical illness" or similar...
ok, other countries won't have it, but waiting will make them come up with the tech sooner or later.
so... isn't this kind of pointless? yeah, it will require much more control and things, but i can't understand why you're washing your hands out of this.
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less seconds at boot time?
then why don't they use coreboot(ex linuxbios)?
my hp spends at least 5 seconds before grub shows up. coreboot claims 3 second to linux console.
the remaining boot time is os-dependent. my slack takes much more time than ubuntu on identical computers, but that's because of the distro, not something else (ssd excluded)...
Xkcd explains it all.
well, here in italy we have Berlusconi that's speaking about ethics, so i guess it's not the most laughable story...
nice try trough.
...I backup everything, encrypt, put on a free web storage of some kind, take a knoppix,
...
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4k
pass the border with knoppix, leave the knoppix to them if they want, buy an other knoppix in the us, download everyting and live happy?
if they ask you why you did it, easy: i heard you were searching, i didn't want to lose my plane while you were searching, so i don't give you anything to search!
do you think it sounds too suspicious?
This is the list of defects that odf still has, according to the SC4
Considering ooxml has much more and much serious problems, I'm starting to think this will end just like the dis29500(ooxml) standardization process.
*sigh*
uhm... i can't really understand this...
...but, to be fair, we have other problems here, like parents getting angry if kid gets low mark (!!!), teachers with big and lots of classes (so they don't really want to have more next year, you know...) and other little things.... like not really following the good students, and concentrating on the "bad" ones... and giving few money to teachers and school in general...
in Italy if you don't get 60% you don't pass to the next class...
if you don't get 60% in the first semester, you have to follow after-school classes, and if at the end of the year you still don't have at least 60%, before next school-year, you have to take a test, which will determine which class you are in (next or the same as last year)
but 3 years ago we didn't have this system. people could still pass even if they hadn't 60% in some classes.
what we are seeing now is that teachers do not really want to make a lot of people repeat the year, so the are more reluctant to give 50% score to someone, the votes get a little changed at the end of the year, and so on....
this didn't make our scool system any better, it simply shifted the problem from "kids with low grades" to "teachers don't give low grades".
I tried to join the local student group that manages lans, sysadmin stuff ecc...
...but after i saw their requirements, i did not even tried to talk to them.
...
Their rating system is: 40% your university year, 40% your marks and 20% your skills.
Since the ratings are public, I could even see that everyone had 16%+ in the "skill" part.
I'm so angry I'm not even going to tell them all their security holes (_lots_ of them, someone is already using them).
my suggestion is just: don't be a bureaucrat. you can lose interesting help.
'Because soldiers are already trained to talk in clean, clear and formulaic ways, it would be a very small step to have them think that way.'
Am I the only one who's thinking "danger!danger!" here?
talking is one thing, changing the way you think is more like... brainwashing?
They're trying to say "People need to open their minds and not have a right or wrong argument". I think it's great.
by "people need to open thir minds", you actually meant "other ways? what other ways? everyone's pc!", right?
seriously, i find those ads are quite nice, since they involve people... but i can't see any openness in presenting a lot of people with the same idea, and not saying anything else...
openness would be having pc/mac guys working together... maybe the pc guy could "win" somehow, but openness involves multiple ideas, not just one.
just look at the "spin graph"...
...
McCain lowest, Obama Highest?
To me, it seems more a political decision than "real" statistic.
i mean... come on... lowest/highest?? and Bush is almost in the middle?
note:I'm not american, so i'm out of the McCain vs. Obama war...
For more reading, try More Guns Less Crime. It was written by a Harvard economist who started off trying to show bad guns are and after quite thorough research using over 1,000 sources ended up buying a gun to defend his family. If you would like an argument backed by facts and not flimsy emotional appeals, read the book.
hello, european speaking here.
we don't have all the guns you have, people here don't think having and carrying guns would protect them.(that's police work)
guess what? we have less people killed by gunfire than you have.
guns are needed where guns already have widespread use, i guess. that's why you need them in the u.s. i think it's called "arms race" or something...
I can't imagine why you think this was in any way a good idea.
law says he's wrong, ok.
but the main principle of law is to punish those who damage, not those who help.
That is why I still think he's right.
Scientists at the LHC made a funny video to explain what the do there...
they don't talk about black holes and other things, but it should be useful (and funny) for those who do not know what lhc is about...
psychologists aren't and won't be able to cure parkinson and other brain damages.
neuroscience might (actually, already can for parkinson).
please do not compare two kind of studies just because they have a link in common.
neuroscience basically aim at understanding math and physics behind our brain, psychology works at higher levels.
just 3000? well, i might consider getting one then...
i don't know how it works in the US, but here in Europe there's a 2000-3000eur difference between diesel and gasoline cars...
since people still buy diesel cars here, i can't understand how this price difference would be a problem for hybrid....
problem is: if no-one is ever going to use it, what is this standard for?
it's a matter of usefulness... if iso starts to make useless(and ugly, but this is imho) things standards, there will be less incentive to design your product for standards.
not_caring_about_standards==not_having_standards, imho.
how are we going to recognise all those terrorists now?
it may have been a good idea, but the implementation was horrible, come on....
then you could just buy a 300$ ebook reader, if you could use open source ebooks, you may start saving even in only 1 year.
I'd really hate that, because I like to read the book myself, and I don't need somebody reading it to me. Having to write everything down distracts from trying to understand what he is saying. If you go home with a bunch of notes that you don't understand, what good is that?
I have done some uni classes without books.
...but if your book costs you 100eur+...
all I can say is:
-Book is never perfect, the teacher gives you feedback, quicker help.
-Teacher without books is not that bad, you learn to write what's important, and leave the rest. I think this is an important skill lots of people don't have.
-Learn to write notes! how can you not understand what you've written? notes are not meant to teach you. they are meant to remeber you of something easier. oh, and i usually listen fist, then ask questions, and just then i write... no, i never missed anything...
-writing notes helps you follow the teacher. it's so useful that sometimes i don't even revise notes.
That said, the best for me is a combo... teacher talks, you take notes, and you use the book at home.
I've avoided some books with wikipedia, so open source books is not a bad idea for me. i'll propose this in my uni.
A long-time practitioner of "creative bookkeeping" and "creative business practices" advocates "creative capitalism." What a shocker.
I'm sure mob bosses would rather people call murder "creative surgery" too.
In Italy we've already started:
previously illegal accounting practices are now "creative accounting".
Thanks to berlusconi, obviously.
Not even a hard left, imho.
My father was in China some time ago, he said internet for business tuorists like him was "normal", but if you went out of your hotel, you started to have lots of restrictions.
I think it's the same here. Internet will be "semi-free" just for tourists, and -obviously- just for the olimpic games...
in short, nothing new...
Some pigs are more equal than others.
Sad memo...
In Italy our Prime Minister actually said that, speaking of himself, in court.
well, he didn't say pigs actually... nor he put that in plural...
He just said (speaking of himself):"this citizen is more equal than the others, since he's been elected"...
*sigh*
From the MadWifi homepage:
The driver itself is open source but depends on the proprietary Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) that is available in binary form only.
That's for the madwifi driver.
...yes, they're all written by the madwifi group...
We're talking about the ath9k driver.
There's also ath5k, that does not uses HAL.
no, no!
This is how it works!
Today it's Downs Syndrome free, tomarrow it's, "Can I get a medium #1 with blond hair blue eyes, here's 1 egg and a table spoon of semen" "Thank you, your order number is 42".
I think we're confusing tech with politic/ethic here...
I mean... all it takes is a law that says "use only to prevent physical illness" or similar...
ok, other countries won't have it, but waiting will make them come up with the tech sooner or later.
so... isn't this kind of pointless? yeah, it will require much more control and things, but i can't understand why you're washing your hands out of this.