Actually, Be was the one that could run old MacOS apps (when running on a PowerPC and using an app called SheepShaver). NeXT didn't have that ability. NeXT didn't even have a PowerPC port when Apple bought them. What NeXT had was Steve Jobs.
The problem is that Microsoft has a reactive security policy. They wait until a worm is created, and then they create a patch to fix it.
Many open source operating systems (e.g. Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD) and open source projects (e.g. Apache, mySql, OpenSSH, PGP, Samba) take a proactive approach. When a theoretical flaw is discovered in one of these open source projects, a patch is created and distributed, even before a worm that takes advantage of the flaw is implemented.
Actually, 35mm film is intrinsically a 4:3 ratio. It's usually cropped to a different ratio either in camera or in post production. There are something like 50 different formats that are used.
Oh yeah, it's dead simple to make a LILO config that has two kernel entries, a default one called "linux" that uses vmlinuz, and the other one called "test" that uses vmlinuz.test. After compiling your kernel, just reboot and type in "new" at the LILO prompt. Easy. Much easier than juggling floppies, IMNSHO.
Read the LILO docs and the WinNT+Linux HOWTO. There's a way to get the WinNT loader to boot to Linux (by tweaking INI files or something) and there's also a way to get LILO to boot WinNT/2000.
I'm not going to reproduce that info here though, you'll have to look it up for yourself.
Once you're done it should boot a lot faster than having to read a kernel from a floppy drive.
Nice essay, but I think my point was that it doesn't matter whether God exists or not.
I think when I said I was agnostic, what I meant was more "apathetic", that I don't care, it doesn't matter much to me, and I'd rather not spend too much time thinking of it. Of course the default belief is that God doesn't exist any more than talking fish do.
Also, like the question of whether talking fish exist or not, I'd rather not spend too much time thinking about whether God exists or not.
Now, philosophy and metaphysics: Many people of a religious bent seem to be of the notion that this planet is special and unique, that we are THE (as in, the only) children of God, and that the idea of intelligent life out there is just so much poppycock. Were life to be discovered "out there", it would become rather more difficult to hold that position.
Many people of a religious bent are morons, blindly believing whatever the elder morons tell them to believe. The interesting religious people are the ones who will argue that the practice of religion does not depend on the existance of God. I.e., it doesn't matter if God exists or not, it doesn't matter if we are the only life in the universe, and it doesn't matter if a zygote has a soul or not.
Similarly, many people of an athiestic bent are also morons, blindly believing whatever the elder athiest thinkers tell them to believe. They will refuse to acknowlege the possible existance of any kind of God whatsoever. Similar to the weird religious peoples, there are weird atheists who will argue that even if a God exists, the best thing we can do is ignore him or her and pay him no attention, because to do so would be the death of our free will.
/me prays for a Sony PS2-Linux kit for the SCPH-30001.
There are two versions of the hard drive adapter out for PS2's in Japan. One is for the original's that used the PCMCIA slot adapter. The other is for the newer units that used the big slot thing (which is where the HDD goes.
There's also the possibility that people will port games (Quake, etc) or emulators (Snes9x, MAME, ZSNES, etc) to the PS2 w/ Linux. This could be an ideal system for emulation. (I'm sure that usage won't be sanctioned by Sony, however).
I saw one running WindowMaker and Netscape 4.7 at E3. The booth was the Macromedia booth, showing the Flash player for Linux on the PS2 in Netscape. The X server is either custom or (more likely) the framebuffer X server running on a kernel fbdev.
3D support is through Mesa, and is software-only for now, AFAIK. Supposedly they will do a hardware accelerated 3D rendering, maybe their own OpenGL library, probably closed-source.
This isn't really a 3rd "season" since the OAV series isn't a TV series, but a direct to video type release. The release doesn't correspond to any "season" like a TV season.
Yeah, it works, but you get fucked up things like slavery, prohibition, and the DMCA because the officials aren't accountable to everyone. The population should be able to organize and overthrow any official or law with a direct election (popular majority vote).
Maybe we can tell her that this corruption of data will inevitably lead to the corruption of youth, and therefore something must be done so that parents can know if their children are purchasing corrupted material.
Most of the people in prison are not murderers. Over half are in prison for drug offenses: usually making drugs, selling drugs, or possessing drugs. Then the people who are in there for stealing or killing are often drug addicts who were stealing or killing to support their habit.
Also, killers usually serve less time because they get paroled. Drug offenders often serve long sentences "without possibility of parole".
Morse Code depends on an intelligent operator to do the decoding. When you try to make a machine understand Morse Code, it doesn't work. So you modify the code and you end up with serial communications standards like RS-232, RS-422, etc.
Serial communications (and any electronic communications really) depends on both sides using a fixed clock of the same rate (baud rate). This is so that the UART, after it sees the start bit, knows how long after that is bit 0, then how long after that is bit 1, etc.
For parallel printers, etc, the latch IS the clock. When the circuit
on the data detects a falling or rising edge (I forget which) on the clock line, the circuit knows that the data on the data lines is ready and valid.
Anyway, serial (e.g., RS-232) wouldn't work reliably without a reliable clock.
NP-complete does not mean incomputable. NP merely means that the time required by a theoretical non-deterministic machine with infinate linear storage space is computable in polynomial time relative to the size of the problem. NP-Complete means that the problem can be mapped onto other equivalent NP-Complete problems. There ARE incomputable problems (e.g., the "busy beaver" problem), but anything NP-Complete is not one of them.
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Many open source operating systems (e.g. Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD) and open source projects (e.g. Apache, mySql, OpenSSH, PGP, Samba) take a proactive approach. When a theoretical flaw is discovered in one of these open source projects, a patch is created and distributed, even before a worm that takes advantage of the flaw is implemented.
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Once you're done it should boot a lot faster than having to read a kernel from a floppy drive.
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I think when I said I was agnostic, what I meant was more "apathetic", that I don't care, it doesn't matter much to me, and I'd rather not spend too much time thinking of it. Of course the default belief is that God doesn't exist any more than talking fish do.
Also, like the question of whether talking fish exist or not, I'd rather not spend too much time thinking about whether God exists or not.
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Similarly, many people of an athiestic bent are also morons, blindly believing whatever the elder athiest thinkers tell them to believe. They will refuse to acknowlege the possible existance of any kind of God whatsoever. Similar to the weird religious peoples, there are weird atheists who will argue that even if a God exists, the best thing we can do is ignore him or her and pay him no attention, because to do so would be the death of our free will.
To me, the only sane choice is agnosticism.
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3D support is through Mesa, and is software-only for now, AFAIK. Supposedly they will do a hardware accelerated 3D rendering, maybe their own OpenGL library, probably closed-source.
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It's just a third arc in the OAV series.
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Maybe we can tell her that this corruption of data will inevitably lead to the corruption of youth, and therefore something must be done so that parents can know if their children are purchasing corrupted material.
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Also, killers usually serve less time because they get paroled. Drug offenders often serve long sentences "without possibility of parole".
It's a fucked up world.
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Serial communications (and any electronic communications really) depends on both sides using a fixed clock of the same rate (baud rate). This is so that the UART, after it sees the start bit, knows how long after that is bit 0, then how long after that is bit 1, etc.
For parallel printers, etc, the latch IS the clock. When the circuit on the data detects a falling or rising edge (I forget which) on the clock line, the circuit knows that the data on the data lines is ready and valid.
Anyway, serial (e.g., RS-232) wouldn't work reliably without a reliable clock.
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