Interesting findings about the various sizes of body parts, but I have another problem with caffiene. I was recently diagnosed with multible hernias and ulcers in my asaphogus caused, among other things, by the over use of caffiene (which contributes to acid reflux disease). No. 20 cups of coffee and seven cokes a day is NOT a good thing for the body. I am now at a greater risk of throat cancer. I am currently on prescription medicine and I must limit my caffiene intake (a serious lifestyle change for someone as addicted as I was).
Just wanted to let you all know... considering how geeks are known for their caffiene habits. This might happen to someone else out there.
By the way, I have heard that caffiene from Gurana (i.e. Bawls) does not have this affect. Can anyone confirm?
Although many people believe that Caffeine prevents the absorbtion of calcium, this is not necessarily the case. this link goes into greater detail on the matter.
First, they argued that the unborn weren't alive and that terminating a pregnancy was a womans right to her own body. The pro-lifers argued that this would one day lead to Euthenasia of the elderly and the handicapped. They said that was rediculous. Now here we are arguing for and against euthenasia.
Do human being have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? NO! they are priveledges that are given and taken from us by Nature, God and our Fellow Man.
Everytime you abort the unborn, kill a handicapped child or murder someone in cold blood you prove that those "rights" do not exist. That's reality, not the constitution.
You can argue that a woman has a right to kill her unborn baby. But for someone who believes that the unborn are as alive as you or me, this is the same as arguing that Adolf Hitler had a right to "purify" his country. Personally, I weep when I hear of the plight of the unborn children just as I do when I hear retellings of the extermination of the jews in Nazi Germany.
As for the "right" to free speech. Don't forget my "right" to disagree and do so vocally! Don't expect me to sit by and smile when you attack the beliefs that make me who I am. And as in the case of the Art Exhibit in New York, don't expect the taxpayers to foot the bill for YOUR free speech! That is absolutely ludicrous. If you wan't to shit on the Virgin Mary don't expect ME to pay for it.
We are being with only two true rights: To Live and then to Die. If human beings have a real right to free speech then it would be UNIVERSAL and not provided for by laws in only few countries.
Whatever happened to going to school to LEARN something? My sister in law is in her senior year at college and on the honor roll. She pesters friend's and family to do her work for her, pays someone to type and prepare all of her papers, and spends most of her own time primping in front of a mirror. Oh, and she is majoring in elementary education (there goes another generation...)
What passes for education today is what is going to make us a nation of fry chefs tommorow (no insult intended toward actual fry chefs.) It's like these Microsoft Certified Training Courses I'm attending - the focus is NOT on learning the subject matter, it's on passing the test so you can have a neat little paper signed by Bill Gates that says "I'm a Systems Engineer!" and in reality signifies nothing. But as long as you get the certification, degree or whatever, that is all that counts anymore - not your ability to perform in the real world.
Absolutely. The modern calendar is based on what was once calculated as the birth of Jesus Christ (most contemporary scholars believe that He was born between 6 BC and 4 BC). On this calendar, there is no 0 AD or 0 BC, the transition is directly from 1 BC straight into 1 AD. Therefore, the first Millenium (AD) began with the year 1 AD. Since a Millenium is a thousand years (and not 999), the second millenium AD began in the year 1001 and the third millenium begins in 2001.
This sucks bigtime as it does not make sense intuitively. The fact that the year "2000" is an even number ending in zero plays on the mind in a way that 2001 does only with Stanley Kubrick and A.C. Clarke fans.
This is bigtime cool as it allows those of us who know better to enjoy two millenium New Years Eve parties... first this year and then the next!
something like this taking place on a mainstream site like CNN. Probably the biggest dividend to the Linux community from RedHat's IPO is that Linux is finally be taken serious by the business community as a whole and not just in the back rooms of the IT departments.
As a Micro$oft Certified Professional (WINNT), my advice to this guy would be to try installing WIN98 before complaining about problems installing Linux. When I do a linux install, the whole process is about 5-15 minutes (depending on what packages I install). WIN98 took me about an hour and a half (and still didn't work with my hardware). I guess I would give more thought to the article if I knew whether or not he has ever installed a fresh OS on a system before. The article gives us no indication that he has experience installing anything, so what is he comparing the Linux install to?
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Two problems with detecting settings from the registry: What if the windows partition is NTFS or FAT32? and what if the user wants to completely destroy his/her window's partition during the install. It would be easier to distribute a preinstall disk that a user could obtain and run on their system to determine hardware compatibility before obtaining the full linux distribution. That disk could also be used to load settings during the linux install process.
Let's consider everything about Co rel's distro...
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I think that we have to take into account a few of the particulars about Corel's distro: It is very likely (I haven't seen the beta to say for sure) that Corel's beta contains a copy of WordPerfect. It would therefore be in Corel's interest (i.e. protection of intellectual property) to publish thier beta with some type of restrictive license. While Corel does provide free copies of WordPerfect to the Linux community, that version is the PERSONAL edition. If Corel Linux contains the PROFESSIONAL edition, then it is certainly not something that they want to distribute.
My take on the Corel fiasco is that the lawyers were lazy, picked up a pre-written EULA and slapped it on the beta. They should have written a new liscense agreement that just said something like "software contained herein is liscensed under the agreement specified by the copyright holder. Software under copyright of Corel Corporation remains property of said coorporation and under the terms of the beta test shall not be copied or transferred without prior... yada yada yada.
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I would really loved to see how this runs under wine. I know, I know, that isn't the purpose of this distro... but it would be fun to see the results.
More seriously: Other linux distro's should take a clue from this. If it is possible for WinLinux to take a snapshot of your windows hardware settings and then install the appropriate Linux drivers, how about a floppy disk utility that would extract this information to the floppy. Then, during the linux install, the install process could prompt the newbie for the disk and then load the linux drivers. Makes it all pretty simple, huh?
...Depends on who you talk to. Eckert and Mauchly have a much different story concerning those events. As you mentioned, Stanislaw Ulam worked closely with Von Neumann at Los Alamos. It may be possible that his writtings are jaded by that fact, he having only heard Von Neuman's side of the story. Of course, this is a much debated topic. In my original post, I noted that the the book/Engines of The Mind/ detailed how Von Neumann tried to take credit from Mauchly and Eckert. I did not say that this was true.../Engines of the Mind/ fails in that the author did not interview any pro-Von Neumann individuals. I believe that the controversy actually began when Von Neumann authored his first paper on the ENIAC and failed to let Mauchly and Eckert know about the it before it was published. According to/Engines of the Mind/ this made it appear that Von Neumann was the primary inventor behind ENIAC.
I think that it would be safe to say that ENIAC was the first computer resembling our current concept of what a computer is. There were numerous earlier calculating machines (some of which were built, others never were completed, i.e. the works of Charles Babbage) Let us not forget the primitive mechanical computers believed to have been in use in ancient Greece...
/Engines of the Mind/ by Joel Shurkin is another great book that discusses mauchly and eckert in great length, their creating of the ENIAC and John Von Neuman's attempts to claim credit for their work...
a. For those of you who are concerned with the Post Office being a monopoly: Do some research into how the post office got started. Sorry, but the federal government is the only agency that is going to be able to ship ALL first class mail (FedEx will never ship mail to U.S. Navy ships in the middle of the ocean, that's what the Fleet Post Offices do.
b. The USPS ships more tonnage in a single day then FedEx, UPS, Airbourne Express, etc. do in a year.
c. When you get junk mail in your US mail, is it spam?
Lets see, there are linux ports for i386, sparc, power pc, etc. these are all hardware. The idea is to port the SOFTWARE (i.e. the linux kernal) to the new hardware. Get it?
I absolutely agree. I have even heard of the term "geeking" which is a process that occurs when two or more Geeks, who may have never before met, begin to converse about various points of technology - an intimate conversation that make little or no sense to non-geeks.
Actually, a good book to read on the subject is "Insanely Great" by Steven Levy. Levy, a longtime columnist for MacWorld may be a little too kind to the folks at One Infinite Loop, but it really details the process of the creation and acceptance of the GUI as the defacto standard for personal computers. I haven't had the chance to read "The History of Apple", but I am looking forward to the read sometime in the near future.
Judging from the "Pirates" web site, I expect them to get a number of facts wrong. On thier "Silicon Quiz" they incorrectly attribute the Apple Lisa as being named after Job's daughter. While her name is Lisa, the machine was actually named after another Apple engineer (whose name is unknown to me.)
I have an old Casio Zoomer based on an 8088 compatible NEC processor (4Mhz! WHEW!) It is roughly the size of the original Apple Newton and hit the market in 1992-1993. It uses the GEOS "operating system" (PC flavor of the old GUI for the C=64). It actually runs on a version of DOS and is only and GEOS is only an operating system in the sense of windows 3.X or Win9X. For pics, check out www.grot.com
My God some of you people really suck. You say that Microsoft sucks, Macintosh sucks, and that people need to convert over to Linux and then in the same breath that Katz is just a bystander, not one of "us." This reasoning requires only the brains of a retarded clam. Katz is a writer. He is a member of the media. And no matter how new he is, he is a Linux user. Not a programmer, not a hacker, he is just a Linux user. This does not brand him as a looser or a lower form of life. Get real. Grow up. Move along...
While I would agree that the DOS/NEWDEAL OFFICE combination is an excellent low-power solution for running a "modern" OS on old hardware, this solution just doesn't quite give you the MP3 playback capability that we're looking for here. I ran Caldera DR-DOS and NewDealon my P100 laptop for quite a while and it worked like magic (until I finally installed linux). If you haven't, you should really check out www.newdealinc.com for information on a really awesome alternative desktop operating environment for 8088-80386 PCs (and for people not wanting to run Linux.)
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Interesting findings about the various sizes of body parts, but I have another problem with caffiene. I was recently diagnosed with multible hernias and ulcers in my asaphogus caused, among other things, by the over use of caffiene (which contributes to acid reflux disease). No. 20 cups of coffee and seven cokes a day is NOT a good thing for the body. I am now at a greater risk of throat cancer. I am currently on prescription medicine and I must limit my caffiene intake (a serious lifestyle change for someone as addicted as I was).
Just wanted to let you all know... considering how geeks are known for their caffiene habits. This might happen to someone else out there.
By the way, I have heard that caffiene from Gurana (i.e. Bawls) does not have this affect. Can anyone confirm?
Although many people believe that Caffeine prevents the absorbtion of calcium, this is not necessarily the case. this link goes into greater detail on the matter.
First, they argued that the unborn weren't alive and that terminating a pregnancy was a womans right to her own body. The pro-lifers argued that this would one day lead to Euthenasia of the elderly and the handicapped. They said that was rediculous. Now here we are arguing for and against euthenasia.
Do human being have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? NO! they are priveledges that are given and taken from us by Nature, God and our Fellow Man.
Everytime you abort the unborn, kill a handicapped child or murder someone in cold blood you prove that those "rights" do not exist. That's reality, not the constitution.
You can argue that a woman has a right to kill her unborn baby. But for someone who believes that the unborn are as alive as you or me, this is the same as arguing that Adolf Hitler had a right to "purify" his country. Personally, I weep when I hear of the plight of the unborn children just as I do when I hear retellings of the extermination of the jews in Nazi Germany.
As for the "right" to free speech. Don't forget my "right" to disagree and do so vocally! Don't expect me to sit by and smile when you attack the beliefs that make me who I am. And as in the case of the Art Exhibit in New York, don't expect the taxpayers to foot the bill for YOUR free speech! That is absolutely ludicrous. If you wan't to shit on the Virgin Mary don't expect ME to pay for it.
We are being with only two true rights: To Live and then to Die. If human beings have a real right to free speech then it would be UNIVERSAL and not provided for by laws in only few countries.
Whatever happened to going to school to LEARN something? My sister in law is in her senior year at college and on the honor roll. She pesters friend's and family to do her work for her, pays someone to type and prepare all of her papers, and spends most of her own time primping in front of a mirror. Oh, and she is majoring in elementary education (there goes another generation...)
What passes for education today is what is going to make us a nation of fry chefs tommorow (no insult intended toward actual fry chefs.) It's like these Microsoft Certified Training Courses I'm attending - the focus is NOT on learning the subject matter, it's on passing the test so you can have a neat little paper signed by Bill Gates that says "I'm a Systems Engineer!" and in reality signifies nothing. But as long as you get the certification, degree or whatever, that is all that counts anymore - not your ability to perform in the real world.
Absolutely. The modern calendar is based on what was once calculated as the birth of Jesus Christ (most contemporary scholars believe that He was born between 6 BC and 4 BC). On this calendar, there is no 0 AD or 0 BC, the transition is directly from 1 BC straight into 1 AD. Therefore, the first Millenium (AD) began with the year 1 AD. Since a Millenium is a thousand years (and not 999), the second millenium AD began in the year 1001 and the third millenium begins in 2001.
This sucks bigtime as it does not make sense intuitively. The fact that the year "2000" is an even number ending in zero plays on the mind in a way that 2001 does only with Stanley Kubrick and A.C. Clarke fans.
This is bigtime cool as it allows those of us who know better to enjoy two millenium New Years Eve parties... first this year and then the next!
If you are going to post a first post... AT LEAST BE THE FIRST POST! Sure, sure... maybe you got the idea from reading user friendly lately...
something like this taking place on a mainstream site like CNN. Probably the biggest dividend to the Linux community from RedHat's IPO is that Linux is finally be taken serious by the business community as a whole and not just in the back rooms of the IT departments.
As a Micro$oft Certified Professional (WINNT), my advice to this guy would be to try installing WIN98 before complaining about problems installing Linux. When I do a linux install, the whole process is about 5-15 minutes (depending on what packages I install). WIN98 took me about an hour and a half (and still didn't work with my hardware). I guess I would give more thought to the article if I knew whether or not he has ever installed a fresh OS on a system before. The article gives us no indication that he has experience installing anything, so what is he comparing the Linux install to?
Two problems with detecting settings from the registry: What if the windows partition is NTFS or FAT32? and what if the user wants to completely destroy his/her window's partition during the install. It would be easier to distribute a preinstall disk that a user could obtain and run on their system to determine hardware compatibility before obtaining the full linux distribution. That disk could also be used to load settings during the linux install process.
I think that we have to take into account a few of the particulars about Corel's distro: It is very likely (I haven't seen the beta to say for sure) that Corel's beta contains a copy of WordPerfect. It would therefore be in Corel's interest (i.e. protection of intellectual property) to publish thier beta with some type of restrictive license. While Corel does provide free copies of WordPerfect to the Linux community, that version is the PERSONAL edition. If Corel Linux contains the PROFESSIONAL edition, then it is certainly not something that they want to distribute.
My take on the Corel fiasco is that the lawyers were lazy, picked up a pre-written EULA and slapped it on the beta. They should have written a new liscense agreement that just said something like "software contained herein is liscensed under the agreement specified by the copyright holder. Software under copyright of Corel Corporation remains property of said coorporation and under the terms of the beta test shall not be copied or transferred without prior... yada yada yada.
I would really loved to see how this runs under wine. I know, I know, that isn't the purpose of this distro... but it would be fun to see the results.
More seriously: Other linux distro's should take a clue from this. If it is possible for WinLinux to take a snapshot of your windows hardware settings and then install the appropriate Linux drivers, how about a floppy disk utility that would extract this information to the floppy. Then, during the linux install, the install process could prompt the newbie for the disk and then load the linux drivers. Makes it all pretty simple, huh?
...Depends on who you talk to. Eckert and Mauchly have a much different story concerning those events. As you mentioned, Stanislaw Ulam worked closely with Von Neumann at Los Alamos. It may be possible that his writtings are jaded by that fact, he having only heard Von Neuman's side of the story. Of course, this is a much debated topic. In my original post, I noted that the the book /Engines of The Mind/ detailed how Von Neumann tried to take credit from Mauchly and Eckert. I did not say that this was true... /Engines of the Mind/ fails in that the author did not interview any pro-Von Neumann individuals. I believe that the controversy actually began when Von Neumann authored his first paper on the ENIAC and failed to let Mauchly and Eckert know about the it before it was published. According to /Engines of the Mind/ this made it appear that Von Neumann was the primary inventor behind ENIAC.
I think that it would be safe to say that ENIAC was the first computer resembling our current concept of what a computer is. There were numerous earlier calculating machines (some of which were built, others never were completed, i.e. the works of Charles Babbage) Let us not forget the primitive mechanical computers believed to have been in use in ancient Greece...
/Engines of the Mind/ by Joel Shurkin is another great book that discusses mauchly and eckert in great length, their creating of the ENIAC and John Von Neuman's attempts to claim credit for their work...
a. For those of you who are concerned with the Post Office being a monopoly: Do some research into how the post office got started. Sorry, but the federal government is the only agency that is going to be able to ship ALL first class mail (FedEx will never ship mail to U.S. Navy ships in the middle of the ocean, that's what the Fleet Post Offices do.
b. The USPS ships more tonnage in a single day then FedEx, UPS, Airbourne Express, etc. do in a year.
c. When you get junk mail in your US mail, is it spam?
Lets see, there are linux ports for i386, sparc, power pc, etc. these are all hardware. The idea is to port the SOFTWARE (i.e. the linux kernal) to the new hardware. Get it?
So, when can we see a linux port for this thing? That is the real question.
I saw, and used, an internet payphone in the mall at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii back in '96.
These things would be good only for checking slashdot.org while away from home without a laptop...
The real trick would be to do this as a Yodaizer. Having to switch around the whole sentence structure and all...
Very interesting. I wonder if they got around the copyright the same way that Bruce Sterling retained the electronic rights to "The Hacker Crackdown."
I absolutely agree. I have even heard of the term "geeking" which is a process that occurs when two or more Geeks, who may have never before met, begin to converse about various points of technology - an intimate conversation that make little or no sense to non-geeks.
I also got Obi-Wan.
Actually, a good book to read on the subject is "Insanely Great" by Steven Levy. Levy, a longtime columnist for MacWorld may be a little too kind to the folks at One Infinite Loop, but it really details the process of the creation and acceptance of the GUI as the defacto standard for personal computers. I haven't had the chance to read "The History of Apple", but I am looking forward to the read sometime in the near future.
Judging from the "Pirates" web site, I expect them to get a number of facts wrong. On thier "Silicon Quiz" they incorrectly attribute the Apple Lisa as being named after Job's daughter. While her name is Lisa, the machine was actually named after another Apple engineer (whose name is unknown to me.)
I have an old Casio Zoomer based on an 8088 compatible NEC processor (4Mhz! WHEW!) It is roughly the size of the original Apple Newton and hit the market in 1992-1993. It uses the GEOS "operating system" (PC flavor of the old GUI for the C=64). It actually runs on a version of DOS and is only and GEOS is only an operating system in the sense of windows 3.X or Win9X. For pics, check out www.grot.com
My God some of you people really suck.
You say that Microsoft sucks, Macintosh sucks, and that people need to convert over to Linux and then in the same breath that Katz is just a bystander, not one of "us."
This reasoning requires only the brains of a retarded clam.
Katz is a writer. He is a member of the media. And no matter how new he is, he is a Linux user. Not a programmer, not a hacker, he is just a Linux user. This does not brand him as a looser or a lower form of life.
Get real. Grow up. Move along...
While I would agree that the DOS/NEWDEAL OFFICE combination is an excellent low-power solution for running a "modern" OS on old hardware, this solution just doesn't quite give you the MP3 playback capability that we're looking for here. I ran Caldera DR-DOS and NewDeal on my P100 laptop for quite a while and it worked like magic (until I finally installed linux). If you haven't, you should really check out www.newdealinc.com for information on a really awesome alternative desktop operating environment for 8088-80386 PCs (and for people not wanting to run Linux.)