Or how about the ability to assign a PS2 mouse and keyboard to one video card output and the USB keyboard and mouse to another video card output to give the ability to login one person on each interface grouping.
If you're talking X11, I think you can already do this. (disclaimer: i've not actually tried this but I figure it should be a fairly straighforward extention of my knowledge of X configuration.)
In your XF86Config file, you can define two keyboards, two mice, two screens (which use the two different vid cards) and when you start X11, just tell it which devices you want to use. These would be server options and startx can pass them through to your server.
I can't address the issue of the kernel's handling of virtual text terminals and device groupings, but if you are using xdm or some kind of graphical login that is running X anyway, I'm pretty sure the X-based device groupings above (with minor tweaks) would work just fine.
Like I said, I haven't tried this before so the ideas could use a little refinement, but I thought I'd throw it out there, just in case it gave someone a good idea.
I read this and the first thought I had was "Is the probability of other life existing inversely proportional to the probability of us contacting this life given that it exists?" If so, no matter what the size of our universe, the probability of coming into contact with other life is a constant.
Bayes' rule (sloppy notation) L: other life exists C: we contact it
P(C|L) = ( P(L|C) P(C) ) / P(L)
P(L|C)=1 since there definitely is life if we contacted it
P(C|L) = P(C) / P(L)
Now redefine the probabilities as function in terms of x, the size of our universe
PCL(x) = PC(x) / PL(x)
Is PCL(x) a constant function? linear? is it monotonic?
Thank you for allowing me to geek out for a minute.
I read this and the first thought I had was "Is the probability of other life existing inversely proportional to the probability of us contacting this life given that it exists?"
If so, no matter what the size of our universe, the probability of coming into contact with other life is a constant.
Bayes' rule
(sloppy notation)
L: other life exists
C: we contact it
P(C|L) = ( P(L|C) P(C) ) / P(L)
P(L|C)=1 since there definitely is life if we contacted it
P(C|L) = P(C) / P(L)
Now redefine the probabilities as function in terms of x, the size of our universe
P(C|L)(x) = PC(x) / PL(x)
Is PCL(x) a constant function? linear? is it monotonic?
Thank you for allowing me to geek out for a minute.
You might be able to do that with samba, by defining a printer or share in your smb.conf with the spool that plays mp3s.
There was an article a couple months ago in Linux Journal, i believe, with instructions on using a smb-shared "printer" on your linux box to run files through ghostscript in order to get PDFs out.
I can't try it out right now but i hope this gives someone an idea.
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The Amulet The Amulet2e is a asynchronous implementation of the ARM processor capable of 40 Dhrystone MIPS with a Core power efficiency of 290MIPS/watt. As it is asynchronous it will change speed dependant on the voltage supplied. Normal operation is at 3.3v but the processor will work correctly down to 1v.
The Mouse
As a real live mouse is not a very reliable piece of equipment we chose to buy a toy mouse (No longer available in the shops!). The mouse runs quite slowly and not in a straight line.
AppleWorks is a very capable (and arguably better than OpenOffice) stand-in for MS Office that also has the virtue of being bundled with new Apple computers. Not to mention being written and endorsed by Apple.
That aside, it sounds like, by trying to exhaustively list alternatives to Office, that you're still assuming that everyone needs some sort of office-like software suite to get their jobs done. That's not the case.
I mostly had in mind the Macs sold to graphic design houses that primarily use Adobe software (Illustrator, PageMaker, Photoshop) or things like QuarkXPress. Apple computers dominate that industry (and until recently I would have said that the converse is also true, i.e. that sales to graphic designers dominate Apple's market) and the need (and usage) of Office in that environment is considerably less prominent than other portions of computer-using businesses. One copy of Office on every computer is not the norm.
BTW Microsoft makes more than Apple for each Mac sold. The profit margin on MS Office is larger than the profit margin on the hardware and OSX (or OS9, or OS10.2).
You should be careful in implying the assumption that everyone who uses an Apple computer also buys and uses Microsoft Office.
This is simply not the case and I'm skeptical that the profit margin of Office is far enough greater than the margins on Apple hardware *plus* the operating system to still be greater "for each Mac sold" when taking into account the fact that a Mac sale does not necessarily imply an Office sale.
When I upgraded Mac OS X, to version 10.2, I was deeply saddened to find that it no longer displays the "happy mac" when booting, but rather that it was replaced by a more "elegant" apple silhouette and a radial throbber.
Do you think the apple hipsters thought the "happy mac" was a little tacky, or just "dated"? Granted, the icon is of a happy mac classic, but I could easily see it replaced by a "happy flat-panel iMac" or even better, a "happy G3 powerbook" (like mine is).
Call me dense (and it's been a while since my last algebra class) but i don't get this one. So you start out saying that a=b and then after some algebra that 0=0.
What have you just proved? that two equal numbers are in fact equal?
Could it be the part where they are getting a hoot'n'holler out of emptying the urine bag out of the command module and calling it "the constellation of ur-ine"?
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It's a few years old, but a decent book nonetheless.
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What if your signature actually was "PLEASE ASK FOR ID"?
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I read this and the first thought I had was "Is the probability of other life existing inversely proportional to the probability of us contacting this life given that it exists?" If so, no matter what the size of our universe, the probability of coming into contact with other life is a constant.
Bayes' rule
(sloppy notation)
L: other life exists
C: we contact it
P(C|L) = ( P(L|C) P(C) ) / P(L)
P(L|C)=1 since there definitely is life if we contacted it
P(C|L) = P(C) / P(L)
Now redefine the probabilities as function in terms of x, the size of our universe
PCL(x) = PC(x) / PL(x)
Is PCL(x) a constant function? linear? is it monotonic?
Thank you for allowing me to geek out for a minute.
I read this and the first thought I had was "Is the probability of other life existing inversely proportional to the probability of us contacting this life given that it exists?" If so, no matter what the size of our universe, the probability of coming into contact with other life is a constant. Bayes' rule (sloppy notation) L: other life exists C: we contact it P(C|L) = ( P(L|C) P(C) ) / P(L) P(L|C)=1 since there definitely is life if we contacted it P(C|L) = P(C) / P(L) Now redefine the probabilities as function in terms of x, the size of our universe P(C|L)(x) = PC(x) / PL(x) Is PCL(x) a constant function? linear? is it monotonic? Thank you for allowing me to geek out for a minute.
You might be able to do that with samba, by defining a printer or share in your smb.conf with the spool that plays mp3s.
There was an article a couple months ago in Linux Journal, i believe, with instructions on using a smb-shared "printer" on your linux box to run files through ghostscript in order to get PDFs out.
I can't try it out right now but i hope this gives someone an idea.
from http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/rat.html
make sure you check video!
AppleWorks is a very capable (and arguably better than OpenOffice) stand-in for MS Office that also has the virtue of being bundled with new Apple computers. Not to mention being written and endorsed by Apple.
That aside, it sounds like, by trying to exhaustively list alternatives to Office, that you're still assuming that everyone needs some sort of office-like software suite to get their jobs done. That's not the case.
I mostly had in mind the Macs sold to graphic design houses that primarily use Adobe software (Illustrator, PageMaker, Photoshop) or things like QuarkXPress. Apple computers dominate that industry (and until recently I would have said that the converse is also true, i.e. that sales to graphic designers dominate Apple's market) and the need (and usage) of Office in that environment is considerably less prominent than other portions of computer-using businesses. One copy of Office on every computer is not the norm.
You should be careful in implying the assumption that everyone who uses an Apple computer also buys and uses Microsoft Office.
This is simply not the case and I'm skeptical that the profit margin of Office is far enough greater than the margins on Apple hardware *plus* the operating system to still be greater "for each Mac sold" when taking into account the fact that a Mac sale does not necessarily imply an Office sale.
When I upgraded Mac OS X, to version 10.2, I was deeply saddened to find that it no longer displays the "happy mac" when booting, but rather that it was replaced by a more "elegant" apple silhouette and a radial throbber.
Do you think the apple hipsters thought the "happy mac" was a little tacky, or just "dated"? Granted, the icon is of a happy mac classic, but I could easily see it replaced by a "happy flat-panel iMac" or even better, a "happy G3 powerbook" (like mine is).
Ghost Of Christmas Future Taunts Children With Visions Of PlayStation 5
Bullitt (1968)
Genre: Action/Crime/Mystery
Tagline: Steeve McQueen as 'Bullitt'
A Great movie and the reason I have always wanted a hunter-green 289 fastback 1968 Ford Mustang
Wow an Antiloop reference.
Any idea where that sample comes from?
Call me dense (and it's been a while since my last algebra class) but i don't get this one. So you start out saying that a=b and then after some algebra that 0=0.
What have you just proved? that two equal numbers are in fact equal?
here http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html
Does this mean that I might actually be able to get positive FPS now?
what? do you use log-transform normalized FPS measurements?
ADSL (A for asynchronous)
I thought the A was for "Asymmetric"
When you have such a good track record, its a really big deal when things go wrong
IBM DeskStar 75GXP Hard Drive Failures?
Could it be the part where they are getting a hoot'n'holler out of emptying the urine bag out of the command module and calling it "the constellation of ur-ine"?
That could be interpreted as fairly vulgar.
Most respectable programmers I know would rather redirect stdin to a file with cat because of power and ease of use...
Nice to see they're taking tips from the Department of Redundancy Department
Love that one. But do take a look at this:h tml
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/spacepen.
how do you know that's not just a really good windows-looking ui theme?