Since I could install from 1.2 and after my emerge sync emerge world at the end would be as up to date as someone who used 2004.3.
Gentoo linux simply does not, now or ever, warrant release notification. It is released and will remain so; up to date today, regardless. This is why I choose it...
However, release announces are no better that SCO stories, redundant and old news.
Clearly you have never found yourself in the outback without an inmarsat uplink and needing to read that email from corporate...:) I maintain an email store on my machine for a lot of reasons and not a one is invalidated by having a web interface as good as my mail client.
To be a morally superior society we need to be morally superior. If I posess a weapon, I intend to use it. Using a weapon against another human is wrong.
If you want to defend yourself, disarm the attacker and use their weapon. THIS is defence as the only reason it happened was because the attacker brought the weapon and there is no possible way to argue that YOU the defender were responsible for the attackers injuries. If I have a weapon waiting and attack someone with it, this is NOT defence, this is assault as it is possible I ambushed my "attacker" when there was no threat to myself. Case in point as to why civilians should not be armed; a man "defending" two women from a "rapist" shot a perfectly innocent newspaper delivery man in the head once over here.
This sums most of my arguement against weapons for self defence. Weapons are for professional soldiers and police. Hell, most police arent sufficiently accurate and skilled with firearms for me to be comfortable with them carrying them.
A great human (ghandi for example) would not even attempt this defence and would not resist the attacker. Im not great, but I try to live well and respect the rules of civilisation.
In my ideal world, the MILITARY would respond to armed incidents with decisive force to clear and pacify, not to arrest. Those who choose to depoly weapons against civilians should be dealt with permanently as they are in my opinion unsalvageable savages.
If you own a weapon there is something fundementally broken inside you. Look at the insecurity that requires you to arm yourself, you have a problem.
People make choices, they and no one else are responsible. However, if you are fucked up enough to kill/hurt people you either have a broken mind or your parents didnt raise you with proper values. Look at the degree of absurd violence against innocent people in the third world to see it has nothing to do with video games.
Mostly, I blame parents, religion or damaged minds for violence against other people. If we just respected each other and the rules of society, it would be all good.
Ah well, enough off topic ranting... this shit annoys me... both the implication that "video games" made me do it and the arguement that you should arm yourself because other people are armed.
You are as safe as you want to feel and CANNOT with any degree of weaponry prevent a determined adversary from killing you. Relax, enjoy life and dont live in fear; if bad shit goes down, deal with it on the spot and move on.
CR-39, Polycarbonate, insertproprietary cast resin here have specific gravities around 1.2; 1.3 at the extreme. Not to mention PC and "high index" resins have superior refractive indices, allowing thinner lenses.
So, the materials are approximately half the weight of glass to begin with and are also thinner. This is why crown glass lenses are all but extinct in developed countries, well over 90% of lenses in the developed world have been polymer for damn near 30 years, longer in some countries.
In fact, I would be willing to bet that unless you bought your glasses in a developing country or SPECIFICALLY sought out an optometrist who would supply them, you probably DO NOT have glass lenses.
See my post somewhere else here:)... Polymer opthalmic lenses have carried (or have had the option to carry, depending on how cheap you are) scratch resistant coatings for a VERY LONG time... Anti reflective coatings too, tho these are not chemical "films" applied as liquids (as per scratch resisiting) but are thin layers of metal applied using PVD (Physical Vapour Deposition).
Most of the "hazing" would be due to build up of oils or fluids leaching in from the exposed edges when they are cut for framing.
Of course, scratch resistant is NOT scratch proof. Not now, not ever.
As the opthalmic industry has applied scratch resistant coatings with matched refractive indices to polycarbonate lenses for many years now. Indeed, the "wire wool" test is a standard for scratch resistance.
It seems just a new application of old technology, long overdue IMHO. When I used to work in R&D for one of the major opthalmic lens manufacturers (when they still had R&D) I recall the licensing of our scratch proof coatings to the optical storage industry was mooted on several occasions.
As the cost of these coatings was prohibitive; often costing up to $12USD per application, I suspect they may have found ways to reduce the cost or they could afford to sacrafice matching of RI or some degrees of scratch resistance.
Furthermore, I recall an undergrad student doing work with Diamond Like Carbon coating of optical media at a local university several years back. Althought the differing refractive indices of media and coating led to problems.
Id love to see some REAL detail about this technique and hear if it is possible to apply to existing CDs/DVDs... although back at aforementioned opthalmic R&D lab I coated all of my own CDs/DVDs that I owned at the time... Since the coating was RI matched, it even repaired scratches:)
fair enough:) I am to used to the assumption of solids as a fluid with very high viscosity that I forget that is an APPROXIMATION of macro behaviour... LOL... given sufficient shear stress, most solids will flow...
the point about the filament only cutting if the filaments bonds are the stronger of the two is correct tho, checked that one:)
A monoatomic filament is only sharp if the bonds between its atoms are stronger than the bonds within the structure it is trying to cut through I would think.
hell, surely there is a possibility that a monoatomic filament would simply pass through solid matter without contacting it??
...At least 7 or 8 years ago in Australia. Of course, no one bought it and the creator was summarily executed for failure to properly respect the beer. One does NOT make sweet beers nor ADD things to beer, EVER.
Course, I was joking about the summarily executed bit... We still hope parliament will pass laws allowing us to kill people who make bad beer, mix beer with other fluids (including spirits). Beer is the greatest gift the gods gave humanity next to the ability and impulse to manufacture missle weapons, it should not be taken lightly.
Of course, I just spent a couple of weeks in the tropics and could be suffering severe dehydration and hallucination. The thing about the caffeinated beer over here was true tho.
Well, I am at least one person who has never had difficulty with steam. Ever.
It "works", I can readily play counter strike, half life or any of the other expansions (except blue shift which I do not own). Furthermore, as I run it under wine on linux; I would *EXPECT* to have problems.
Of course, I need to use a windows box to play CS:Source beta:) dx9 and wine dont play well.
Portability is fine; just copy the entire steam directory onto usb hard drive; install steam on my notebook (for instance) then copy steam directory over install point. It all works, game keys and everything.
I find no flaws whatsoever with steam; and its particularly nice that it frees us from the tyrrany of "insert CD to play game"; tho neverwinter nights and ut(whatever) under linux are very friendly in this respect.
In short, I disagree with the steam bashing; it had teething problems with bandwidth etc, but no worse than slashdot inflicts on unsuspecting websites; but I think it is a bloody good idea, well implemented and more power to them.
Considering as far as I understand it, the US struggles to have half its eligible voters turn out to elections; does it really matter who votes for who when the chances of even a majority of the population actively supporting the winning candidate is fairly slim???
Universal, compulsory sufferage is the only way to fly. Compulsory Sufferage is the price of true freedom.
Gentoo does not IMHO require you to be well versed in the ways and workings of linux; if you can read one of the many languages in which the handbook is written, then I would say you merely require to have sufficient computer literacy to understand the consequences of your actions and the ability to type.
Gentoo makes you work hard to install, as it doesnt abstract you from what you are doing with excessive automation and pretty gui widgets, but it gives clear instructions and reasoning to every step. I find most linux newbies (who are already computer literate, not mousewagglers, but not power users) actually do better for going through a gentoo install and have a fairly good understanding of what they have done at the end.
Course, Im a gentoo supporter, so Im bound to like it.
Gentoo isn't aunt tillies OS by any stretch, but for someone who wants to know what they have done and learn about what they are doing, it is bloody hard to beat.
It would be effective and have serious "Aliens Special Edition" cool factor.
I recommend a LED counter for rounds that gets to zero when there are still a few thousand rounds left... so they only *think* its safe:)
Hasn't a Japanese corporation already...
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...done this??
Toshiba or some such offered a "portable" nuclear reactor, based around a "battery" sealed and full of fissile material plugged into the generating station. Worked as a warmer IIRC.
... it seems to me that most forms of modern encryption actually P problems already.
"If you can search thoroughly you will find the book" from the article.
Their solution time is comparable to their complexity; assuming you can try all possible combinations, you will find the answer... (unless you get a false positive and decrypt plain, readable yet different text)??
I understood that encryption relied upon it being complex enought that it is computationally infeasible to "crack" in a short enough time for the retrieved information to be useful. You increase the solution time by increasing the size/complexity of the key, a polynomial relationship as far as I can tell...
Or should I have paid more attention in math lectures???
Whilst kensington locks are quite easy to bypass, they are an effective deterrent, although downright unneighbourly:) These can be modded with screamers if they are not removed correctly. But by and large they arent helpful and give the impression that you are an anti-social, anal retentive prick:)
Perhaps a large, heavy piece of furniture with a robust lockable compartment; served me very well in my dorm days at uni (Swinburne UoT in Melbourne, Australia; go the Swine!!)
Furthermore, we mod. our laptops here at work to "phone home" whenever connected to the internet; this has allowed every stolen laptop to be recovered over the past 2 years. I wont go into details or our IT guys would kill me:)
Otherwise, backup important files and keep in a safe deposit box and insure the devices against theft:) they are, after all, just gadgets and if they get nicked, you get the insurance upgrade without loss of significant data.
My ipod is vfat for that very reason; I also partition and format my portable hard drives from linux as vfat (fat32) so that they can be read from and written too by the vast majority of 32bit+ operating systems.
Linux *can* read ntfs, mac too... given correct modules; writing to NTFS from linux is fun but ultimately painful. The solution is to use vfat for portability.
is my weapon of choice for this; of course, our IT policy does NOT allow portable storage in the building (sensible, if you ask me); we dont actively enforce this (I suggested copper loops around all the doors:), but a thing to consider.
15GB for my moderated music collection, the rest of the space as a mirror of my/home/>username directory from my personal linux box.
Anyway, if ipod (I *REFUSE* to mac up the spelling of ipod) is too pricey, try a USB/firewire 2.5" hdd enclosure; relatively cheap (particularly if you take a trip to asia) and quite small, size of a small PDA; so relatively portable. Most come self powered (from usb/firewire) or with a separate USB~power cable.
grammar and spelling arent the same thing:) besides, teaching an engineer how to spell is like doing something impossible...:)
AND Fascia components are ANY components with a purely visual function; your "bumpers" are the front and rear fascia... the "dash" is the Instrument Panel or Cockpit Module or Crashpad (ok, the crashpad is just the superstructure minus the cross car beam).
why am I replying to an anonymous spelling nazi?? I definately need more beer!
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Since I could install from 1.2 and after my emerge sync emerge world at the end would be as up to date as someone who used 2004.3.
Gentoo linux simply does not, now or ever, warrant release notification. It is released and will remain so; up to date today, regardless. This is why I choose it...
However, release announces are no better that SCO stories, redundant and old news.
just my $0.02.
err!
jak
Clearly you have never found yourself in the outback without an inmarsat uplink and needing to read that email from corporate... :) I maintain an email store on my machine for a lot of reasons and not a one is invalidated by having a web interface as good as my mail client.
...getting a Hydrashock or two
Ah so you only own firearms for range shooting; that is why you own AP rounds rather than ball or wadcutters, right??
Flawed reasoning.
To be a morally superior society we need to be morally superior. If I posess a weapon, I intend to use it. Using a weapon against another human is wrong.
If you want to defend yourself, disarm the attacker and use their weapon. THIS is defence as the only reason it happened was because the attacker brought the weapon and there is no possible way to argue that YOU the defender were responsible for the attackers injuries. If I have a weapon waiting and attack someone with it, this is NOT defence, this is assault as it is possible I ambushed my "attacker" when there was no threat to myself. Case in point as to why civilians should not be armed; a man "defending" two women from a "rapist" shot a perfectly innocent newspaper delivery man in the head once over here.
This sums most of my arguement against weapons for self defence. Weapons are for professional soldiers and police. Hell, most police arent sufficiently accurate and skilled with firearms for me to be comfortable with them carrying them.
A great human (ghandi for example) would not even attempt this defence and would not resist the attacker. Im not great, but I try to live well and respect the rules of civilisation.
In my ideal world, the MILITARY would respond to armed incidents with decisive force to clear and pacify, not to arrest. Those who choose to depoly weapons against civilians should be dealt with permanently as they are in my opinion unsalvageable savages.
If you own a weapon there is something fundementally broken inside you. Look at the insecurity that requires you to arm yourself, you have a problem.
People make choices, they and no one else are responsible. However, if you are fucked up enough to kill/hurt people you either have a broken mind or your parents didnt raise you with proper values. Look at the degree of absurd violence against innocent people in the third world to see it has nothing to do with video games.
Mostly, I blame parents, religion or damaged minds for violence against other people. If we just respected each other and the rules of society, it would be all good.
Ah well, enough off topic ranting... this shit annoys me... both the implication that "video games" made me do it and the arguement that you should arm yourself because other people are armed.
You are as safe as you want to feel and CANNOT with any degree of weaponry prevent a determined adversary from killing you. Relax, enjoy life and dont live in fear; if bad shit goes down, deal with it on the spot and move on.
err!
jak
So you like them heavy then??
Crown glass has an specific gravity of 2.5
CR-39, Polycarbonate, insertproprietary cast resin here have specific gravities around 1.2; 1.3 at the extreme. Not to mention PC and "high index" resins have superior refractive indices, allowing thinner lenses.
So, the materials are approximately half the weight of glass to begin with and are also thinner. This is why crown glass lenses are all but extinct in developed countries, well over 90% of lenses in the developed world have been polymer for damn near 30 years, longer in some countries.
In fact, I would be willing to bet that unless you bought your glasses in a developing country or SPECIFICALLY sought out an optometrist who would supply them, you probably DO NOT have glass lenses.
err!
jak.
See my post somewhere else here :)... Polymer opthalmic lenses have carried (or have had the option to carry, depending on how cheap you are) scratch resistant coatings for a VERY LONG time... Anti reflective coatings too, tho these are not chemical "films" applied as liquids (as per scratch resisiting) but are thin layers of metal applied using PVD (Physical Vapour Deposition).
Most of the "hazing" would be due to build up of oils or fluids leaching in from the exposed edges when they are cut for framing.
Of course, scratch resistant is NOT scratch proof. Not now, not ever.
Err!
jak.
As the opthalmic industry has applied scratch resistant coatings with matched refractive indices to polycarbonate lenses for many years now. Indeed, the "wire wool" test is a standard for scratch resistance.
:)
It seems just a new application of old technology, long overdue IMHO. When I used to work in R&D for one of the major opthalmic lens manufacturers (when they still had R&D) I recall the licensing of our scratch proof coatings to the optical storage industry was mooted on several occasions.
As the cost of these coatings was prohibitive; often costing up to $12USD per application, I suspect they may have found ways to reduce the cost or they could afford to sacrafice matching of RI or some degrees of scratch resistance.
Furthermore, I recall an undergrad student doing work with Diamond Like Carbon coating of optical media at a local university several years back. Althought the differing refractive indices of media and coating led to problems.
Id love to see some REAL detail about this technique and hear if it is possible to apply to existing CDs/DVDs... although back at aforementioned opthalmic R&D lab I coated all of my own CDs/DVDs that I owned at the time... Since the coating was RI matched, it even repaired scratches
err!
jak.
fair enough :) I am to used to the assumption of solids as a fluid with very high viscosity that I forget that is an APPROXIMATION of macro behaviour... LOL... given sufficient shear stress, most solids will flow...
:)
the point about the filament only cutting if the filaments bonds are the stronger of the two is correct tho, checked that one
A monoatomic filament is only sharp if the bonds between its atoms are stronger than the bonds within the structure it is trying to cut through I would think.
hell, surely there is a possibility that a monoatomic filament would simply pass through solid matter without contacting it??
I dont know which article the poster was reading, but it looked like the big red spot was smack bang over bejing in china and not in eastern russia.
:)
I could be mistake, since we are so unpolluted down here in oz
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jak.
...At least 7 or 8 years ago in Australia. Of course, no one bought it and the creator was summarily executed for failure to properly respect the beer. One does NOT make sweet beers nor ADD things to beer, EVER.
Course, I was joking about the summarily executed bit... We still hope parliament will pass laws allowing us to kill people who make bad beer, mix beer with other fluids (including spirits). Beer is the greatest gift the gods gave humanity next to the ability and impulse to manufacture missle weapons, it should not be taken lightly.
Of course, I just spent a couple of weeks in the tropics and could be suffering severe dehydration and hallucination. The thing about the caffeinated beer over here was true tho.
err!
jak.
Well, I am at least one person who has never had difficulty with steam. Ever.
:) dx9 and wine dont play well.
It "works", I can readily play counter strike, half life or any of the other expansions (except blue shift which I do not own). Furthermore, as I run it under wine on linux; I would *EXPECT* to have problems.
Of course, I need to use a windows box to play CS:Source beta
Portability is fine; just copy the entire steam directory onto usb hard drive; install steam on my notebook (for instance) then copy steam directory over install point. It all works, game keys and everything.
I find no flaws whatsoever with steam; and its particularly nice that it frees us from the tyrrany of "insert CD to play game"; tho neverwinter nights and ut(whatever) under linux are very friendly in this respect.
In short, I disagree with the steam bashing; it had teething problems with bandwidth etc, but no worse than slashdot inflicts on unsuspecting websites; but I think it is a bloody good idea, well implemented and more power to them.
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jak.
:) that is exactly the point.
Our federating politicians understood us completely. While we are here we may as well do the bloody job right...
Thats why our voter turnout is 95+% (enrollment is compulsory but not actively enforced) and generally better than 98% of people enter valid ballots.
Considering as far as I understand it, the US struggles to have half its eligible voters turn out to elections; does it really matter who votes for who when the chances of even a majority of the population actively supporting the winning candidate is fairly slim???
Universal, compulsory sufferage is the only way to fly. Compulsory Sufferage is the price of true freedom.
...for a long time.
:)
Its why we ween our children on beer
Im sorry if I disagree.
Gentoo does not IMHO require you to be well versed in the ways and workings of linux; if you can read one of the many languages in which the handbook is written, then I would say you merely require to have sufficient computer literacy to understand the consequences of your actions and the ability to type.
Gentoo makes you work hard to install, as it doesnt abstract you from what you are doing with excessive automation and pretty gui widgets, but it gives clear instructions and reasoning to every step. I find most linux newbies (who are already computer literate, not mousewagglers, but not power users) actually do better for going through a gentoo install and have a fairly good understanding of what they have done at the end.
Course, Im a gentoo supporter, so Im bound to like it.
Gentoo isn't aunt tillies OS by any stretch, but for someone who wants to know what they have done and learn about what they are doing, it is bloody hard to beat.
err!
jak.
...to the motion sensors??
:)
It would be effective and have serious "Aliens Special Edition" cool factor.
I recommend a LED counter for rounds that gets to zero when there are still a few thousand rounds left... so they only *think* its safe
...done this??
:)
Toshiba or some such offered a "portable" nuclear reactor, based around a "battery" sealed and full of fissile material plugged into the generating station. Worked as a warmer IIRC.
If I actually find the story, Ill post a link.
Course, I could be wrong
err!
jak.
:) Thanks for taking the time to respond...
... it seems to me that most forms of modern encryption actually P problems already.
"If you can search thoroughly you will find the book" from the article.
Their solution time is comparable to their complexity; assuming you can try all possible combinations, you will find the answer... (unless you get a false positive and decrypt plain, readable yet different text)??
I understood that encryption relied upon it being complex enought that it is computationally infeasible to "crack" in a short enough time for the retrieved information to be useful. You increase the solution time by increasing the size/complexity of the key, a polynomial relationship as far as I can tell...
Or should I have paid more attention in math lectures???
err!
jak.
Whilst kensington locks are quite easy to bypass, they are an effective deterrent, although downright unneighbourly :) These can be modded with screamers if they are not removed correctly. But by and large they arent helpful and give the impression that you are an anti-social, anal retentive prick :)
:)
:) they are, after all, just gadgets and if they get nicked, you get the insurance upgrade without loss of significant data.
Perhaps a large, heavy piece of furniture with a robust lockable compartment; served me very well in my dorm days at uni (Swinburne UoT in Melbourne, Australia; go the Swine!!)
Furthermore, we mod. our laptops here at work to "phone home" whenever connected to the internet; this has allowed every stolen laptop to be recovered over the past 2 years. I wont go into details or our IT guys would kill me
Otherwise, backup important files and keep in a safe deposit box and insure the devices against theft
err!
jak
My ipod is vfat for that very reason; I also partition and format my portable hard drives from linux as vfat (fat32) so that they can be read from and written too by the vast majority of 32bit+ operating systems.
:)
Linux *can* read ntfs, mac too... given correct modules; writing to NTFS from linux is fun but ultimately painful. The solution is to use vfat for portability.
In my opinion anyway
err!
jak.
is my weapon of choice for this; of course, our IT policy does NOT allow portable storage in the building (sensible, if you ask me); we dont actively enforce this (I suggested copper loops around all the doors :), but a thing to consider.
/home/>username directory from my personal linux box.
15GB for my moderated music collection, the rest of the space as a mirror of my
Anyway, if ipod (I *REFUSE* to mac up the spelling of ipod) is too pricey, try a USB/firewire 2.5" hdd enclosure; relatively cheap (particularly if you take a trip to asia) and quite small, size of a small PDA; so relatively portable. Most come self powered (from usb/firewire) or with a separate USB~power cable.
Anyway, just my 0.02.
err!
jak.
grammar and spelling arent the same thing :) besides, teaching an engineer how to spell is like doing something impossible... :)
AND Fascia components are ANY components with a purely visual function; your "bumpers" are the front and rear fascia... the "dash" is the Instrument Panel or Cockpit Module or Crashpad (ok, the crashpad is just the superstructure minus the cross car beam).
why am I replying to an anonymous spelling nazi?? I definately need more beer!
Its actually more disturbing how little time it took me to bang that out... :)