Many estimate that the 1/1000 chance is way too large. Some estimate that there is only a 1 in 4 million chance even if the remaining 2 gyros fail: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/sa ve_compton_000515.html I think that NASA, like other government agencies I know, is more concerned with covering its own ass against bad press than doing good work.
Public libraries are a wonderful, sharing way to get internet access to anybody who needs it. Unfortunately, many libraries are strapped for cash needed to obtain computer hardware and internet access, primarily because most people are such a bunch of tight-wads when it comes to paying taxes.
Sharing computer resources in a public place is a much more efficient use of computer hardware than having 1 or 2 computers in every home that don't get used 85% of the time.
As much as it pains me to say this, the real leader in the area of getting computer access into libraries is the Gates Foundation. You can walk into almost any public library in the US and find a Gates machine with internet access and lots of nice software.
Does the floppy adapter with your Olympus require a software driver? If it does do you know of any SmartMedia floppy adapters that do not require a driver?
Good point! I hate those d---ed registration sites anyway. If I have to "register" to get something, I usually don't and go somewhere else. Sites like that just lose my business.
You don't have to take all that information. You could have their parents fill out that information. It's not like a 9 year old is going to join a soccer league without his parents' knowledge and permission anyway.
My program contains no threading language, bozos. The threading is done by the JVMs. A different thread is run for the sounds, the graphics, etc. I have no control over how the JVMs on different platforms run my program. And, it seems entirely nondeterministic.
I wrote a Java program for my son to use. Supposedly, it puts pictures of animal pictures on the screen, plays a sound clip, and a person is supposed to click on the picture of the right animal. Programming it was a dream. Easy! Not much code.
The problem: It doesn't run the same on any 2 platforms that I've tried. It doesn't run the same twice on any single platform. You never know which thread will run first. Sometimes the sound comes before the pictures appear (which is not the order it's programmed). Often, it doesn't load the images when I tell it to, and sometimes it doesn't load one of the images at all. The only way I could keep it from playing 2 sound clips at the same time was to specify a sleep the duration of the 1st sound clip. This happens with 4 different JVMs and operating systems (no Sun platforms) that I've tried. And, of course, it often crashes.
I have given up on Java. The point was to make a cross-platform program that non-Linux users could use, but if it only runs well on Sun products, forget it.
Many smaller ISPs belong to a roaming club, i.e. ISPs let people who use a different ISP use their service in exchange for the same service for their customers. I have CNSP (only NM) and their little blurb is:
*********************************************
Roaming Numbers Please follow the link below for a list of dialin number outside the state of New Mexico. Please follow the instructions below on how to logon to these national numbers. We belong to a roaming club which allows us to offer local dialup in most major cities at.70 cents per hour. You will be billed.70 per hour, or whatever is listed to the right of the dial-up number on the link above.
*********************************************
Can you even use AOL with Linux? I don't think so.
Of course, the idea of using public libraries is a most excellent one too! Visiting America's public libraries along route 66 would be most fun. And librarians are always knowledgeable on local things to see and do!
Cost him his business? He's now getting hits out his butt! Any internet service would kill for that kind of traffic. Nobody did get hurt. It's just e-mail. Get out in the real world sometime. As for Slashdot readers, they may not be the most eloquent, but at least they know their rights under law and contract.
Slashdot effect gone wrong? Nobody got hurt, it just created some more publicity, and there's no such thing as bad publicity, right? And it created an investigation at the FBI because of complaints. That's good. Everybody calm down. Good I say.
Sure, they might be religious wackos, but they're not corporate sellouts. Actually, today they have an article about this same topic: How people think of media figures as their "friends." Scary, I think.
NPR is just as bad as large corporate news as far as content goes. Every year their content gets more and more like the major news outlets and every year I hear more and longer plugs for businesses that "gave" them money. I
Most of what gets fixed is not from RedHat's sloppy distribution, it is from fixes made by people who upgrade their own software. Then RedHat makes the latest available in the form of rpms. Example: the kernel. The a newer kernel was posted because it was less prone to DNS attacks. The kernel is not written by RedHat, they just make the latest available.
Another example: Netscape 4.6 is in there. It's essentially just an upgrade from the included 4.5. You don't have to get it, but it's nice to have!
Most of these posts seem to be Apple apologists. For years Apple has been producing crappy, crash-prone software on overpriced hardware. Why do they hang on?
Save yourselves the headache. Get Linux and read the instructions. You'll be glad you did.
Destroying MS could be very easy and inexpensive
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All government would need to do is issue an executive order banning the purchase of M$ products with government money and ban the use of any M$ standard by a government agency. Your pal Bill C. has the authority to do this. Our government spends so much on software, it would be a huge fund injection for the competition, and M$ would crumble. Plus, our civil and military service people would get better software.
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Hey! I like those posts. I always turn my threshold down so I can read them.
Many estimate that the 1/1000 chance is way too large. Some estimate that there is only a 1 in 4 million chance even if the remaining 2 gyros fail: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/sa ve_compton_000515.html I think that NASA, like other government agencies I know, is more concerned with covering its own ass against bad press than doing good work.
A great summer project for college student:
Write an open source MPEG4 player/encoder.
Thanks in advance!
Yeah that "registration" bullshit irks me, being that PBS was developed with taxpayers' money. That should be outlawed.
Does anyone know of any dual or quad mobos for Athlons? Thanks.
Public libraries are a wonderful, sharing way to get internet access to anybody who needs it. Unfortunately, many libraries are strapped for cash needed to obtain computer hardware and internet access, primarily because most people are such a bunch of tight-wads when it comes to paying taxes.
Sharing computer resources in a public place is a much more efficient use of computer hardware than having 1 or 2 computers in every home that don't get used 85% of the time.
As much as it pains me to say this, the real leader in the area of getting computer access into libraries is the Gates Foundation. You can walk into almost any public library in the US and find a Gates machine with internet access and lots of nice software.
Get a Voodoo. The drivers are open source and they rock under linux. They're also easy to install.
Does the floppy adapter with your Olympus require a software driver? If it does do you know of any SmartMedia floppy adapters that do not require a driver?
Good point! I hate those d---ed registration sites anyway. If I have to "register" to get something, I usually don't and go somewhere else. Sites like that just lose my business.
You don't have to take all that information. You could have their parents fill out that information. It's not like a 9 year old is going to join a soccer league without his parents' knowledge and permission anyway.
Well put. /. should do more reporting, more reports by individuals in the know.
This announcement also confirms ATI's pursuit to become the Linux community's Number One graphics vendor after years of giving it the finger.
This is good news. A little late though. Does any one know if the Voodoo3 3500 mpeg playback is supported under linux?
> One more app that pushes me further toward finally deleting Windoze.
There's only one app you need for deleting windoze: It's called fdisk.
:)
My program contains no threading language, bozos. The threading is done by the JVMs. A different thread is run for the sounds, the graphics, etc. I have no control over how the JVMs on different platforms run my program. And, it seems entirely nondeterministic.
I wrote a Java program for my son to use. Supposedly, it puts pictures of animal pictures on the screen, plays a sound clip, and a person is supposed to click on the picture of the right animal. Programming it was a dream. Easy! Not much code.
The problem: It doesn't run the same on any 2 platforms that I've tried. It doesn't run the same twice on any single platform. You never know which thread will run first. Sometimes the sound comes before the pictures appear (which is not the order it's programmed). Often, it doesn't load the images when I tell it to, and sometimes it doesn't load one of the images at all. The only way I could keep it from playing 2 sound clips at the same time was to specify a sleep the duration of the 1st sound clip. This happens with 4 different JVMs and operating systems (no Sun platforms) that I've tried. And, of course, it often crashes.
I have given up on Java. The point was to make a cross-platform program that non-Linux users could use, but if it only runs well on Sun products, forget it.
Many smaller ISPs belong to a roaming club,
.70 .70 per hour,
i.e. ISPs let people who use a different
ISP use their service in exchange for the same
service for their customers. I have CNSP (only
NM) and their little blurb is:
*********************************************
Roaming Numbers
Please follow the link below for a list of dialin
number outside the state of New Mexico. Please
follow the instructions below on how to logon to
these national numbers.
We belong to a roaming club which allows us to
offer local dialup in most major cities at
cents per hour. You will be billed
or whatever is listed to the right of the dial-up
number on the link above.
*********************************************
Can you even use AOL with Linux? I don't think so.
Of course, the idea of using public libraries is a most excellent one too! Visiting America's public libraries along route 66 would be most fun. And librarians are always knowledgeable on local things to see and do!
Cost him his business? He's now getting hits out his butt! Any internet service would kill for that kind of traffic. Nobody did get hurt. It's just e-mail. Get out in the real world sometime. As for Slashdot readers, they may not be the most eloquent, but at least they know their rights under law and contract.
Slashdot effect gone wrong? Nobody got hurt, it just created some more publicity, and there's no such thing as bad publicity, right? And it created an investigation at the FBI because of complaints. That's good. Everybody calm down. Good I say.
Sure, they might be religious wackos, but they're not corporate sellouts. Actually, today they have an article about this same topic: How people think of media figures as their "friends." Scary, I think.
NPR is just as bad as large corporate news as far as content goes. Every year their content gets more and more like the major news outlets and every year I hear more and longer plugs for businesses that "gave" them money. I
Errata is good. It keeps systems bug free.
Most of what gets fixed is not from RedHat's sloppy distribution, it is from fixes made by people who upgrade their own software. Then RedHat makes the latest available in the form of rpms. Example: the kernel. The a newer kernel was posted because it was less prone to DNS attacks. The kernel is not written by RedHat, they just make the latest available.
Another example: Netscape 4.6 is in there. It's essentially just an upgrade from the included 4.5. You don't have to get it, but it's nice to have!
I like google, because it tells you if it can't find something, rather than spewing a bunch of vaguely related links at you
Most of these posts seem to be Apple apologists. For years Apple has been producing crappy, crash-prone software on overpriced hardware. Why do they hang on?
Save yourselves the headache. Get Linux and read the instructions. You'll be glad you did.
All government would need to do is issue an executive order banning the purchase of M$ products with government money and ban the use of any M$ standard by a government agency. Your pal Bill C. has the authority to do this. Our government spends so much on software, it would be a huge fund injection for the competition, and M$ would crumble. Plus, our civil and military service people would get better software.
Can you run them in SMP, like Celerys?
I'm guessing probably not...