No, I didn't try anything else once I realized that Lilo could boot Grub. Sure, people have suggested a number of alternatives in posts, but I'm happy with my solution. (Yes, using something different might save a second or two in the boot time, but I don't really care.)
On my dual-boot laptop, the virus protection in Windows doesn't recognize Grub, so it will wipe the boot sector if it's the primary boot loader. But I realy like not having to do anything after installing a new kernel, so I want to use Grub.
The solution? Install Grub on the Linux partition, and use Lilo to load it. It is rather funny watching the boot messages go through Lilo to get to Grub.
I have my browser set to notify me when new cookies are created, and I've noticed for a while that I'm getting them from various sites from the results of a Google search.
While, in theory, I don't see any reason that they can't change the resolution whenever they want to, currently every network broadcasts in exactly one format per channel.
Fox does everything in 720p. If it's not HD content, they upsample it to 720p (e.g., The Simpsons, advertising, etc.). CBS does 1080i. I'm not sure what PBS uses.
Personally, I wish they would use whatever is as close as possible to the original format. If it's a movie, then do 24 frames per second without interlacing, one frame per original film frame. Yes, the standards support that. If it's a European import, do 50 frames per second. If the ad is in low definition, use 480p.
The best splash screen would be not having one at all. Fortunately, there's a command-line option to turn it off, but I would rather not have to set an alias for every application.
At least it doesn't steal the keyboard focus like OpenOffice does.
For HDTV with Linux, the only option is nVidia, and even there, you have to accept the proprietary drivers. So for MythTV, the AIW is nearly useless.
On the other hand, you don't need anything faster than a 5200. In most cases, even a Geforce 4 440MX is good enough. The only reason for something more powerful is for gaming.
Yes, there are a number of stories here where the referenced site would likely have been willing to pay for the story. However, if you look at the pages for actually advertising on/., there is no reference to buying an article.
My guess is that this is another case where the editor thought it was interesting, so he posted it. Sure, this site is based on user-pays model, but it's not really different from a advertiser-pays site getting plugged when the editor thinks it's interesting.
Sure, there are lots of things you can do with operator overloading, but there are good reasons to avoid them. Ultimately, it comes down to some basic questions:
Will the use of overloading operators...
*) reduce developement time? *) reduce the number of bugs? *) improve maintainability?
In most cases, the answer is at best murky. Sure, if you're doing mathematical programming, adding complex numbers, rational numbers (tracking numerators and denominators instead of using floats), or something like that, then it's intiutively a good thing. But in most cases, it's not intuitive. When someone else comes to the project and tries to figure out what's going on, it's like having a bunch of extra macros for them to look up. Function calls make it much more obvious what's going on.
There are still plenty of things that need to be done to improve Google Maps:
*) Better routes. MapQuest still tends to provide better driving directions. They need to tune it better to select the best route.
*) Newer images. The satellite imagery is about 5 years old in my area, and others are older and lower resolution. They need a consistent plan to update the images.
*) Multiple-stop routes. I want to be able to plan a route that goes from point A to point B to point C. Similarly, I want to be able to look at the route from A to B and force it to take an alternate path. So just how much longer is that senic route?
Use the low-tech solution. The answer key is created by using a hole punch on each correct blank. Then hold it up and mark in red any circle that isn't marked on the student's answer sheet.
Of course, you have to also look for students entering multiple answers (especially if they know how you're grading).
It was already LGPL, but they're dropping the alternate license, which I assume gave Sun additional rights. If Sun is requiring copyright assignment to them for any offically-accepted changes, then Sun can re-release it under any license they want anyway, because they own it.
This only matters if the SISSL gave rights not available with the LGPL, or if Sun isn't requiring copyright assignment for accepted patches (which would otherwise force Star Office to become LGPL, too).
I remember not long ago one drive manufacturer was making a big deal out of lower-capacity drives that were exactly the same as the higher-capacity models, only with a single platter and a single head. The advantages, besides lower cost, are lower power and lower failure rate.
Of course, in most cases, the drive capacity is rounded down to the next marketable number, and the firmware denies the existence of the extra space. That's why they're an even 20GB, instead of 22.4GB or whatever they really are.
Actually, they do just that where I work. Except for the sites that are intentionally blocked by Web Sense (and I understand blocking porn at work to help avoid sexual harassment lawsuits), it works just fine.
It's set up as a transparent proxy, and I have no issues with it. It's especially nice when reloading something on another computer, because it's in the corporate cache.
If done right, I can see lots of good reasons for an ISP to set up a transparent web proxy. (Most of those reasons are to reduce bandwidth.)
When you say "out of the box," do you mean if you buy a retail copy and install it, or if you buy a new system with it preinstalled? Most end-users don't upgrade except when buying a new system.
Are the major PC sellers shipping unpatched XP systems? If so, aren't they liable?
Yes, but at $157.50 per 17-Watt panel, you're looking at $9264/KW. At $.10/KWH, you would need nearly 100,000 hours to break even. If you could get 8 hours at 17W per day, you would need 32.5 years to break even.
Sure, if the standard were being created today, they would do several things differently:
1) They would use a different broadcasting technology to reduce the multipath issues. I don't understand the technical aspects, but I've read that it's very difficult to get good reception of ATSC with a moving antenna (e.g., in a van), but other broadcasting methods don't suffer from that problem.
2) They would include support for MPEG-4 or other higher-compression codecs. This would allow for reception of 1080p.
But the real answer is that this really is a huge step, and while it isn't perfect, it is, as you say, a whole new generation of technology. Like previous generations, we can expect this to last for not just a few years but decades. It won't be replaced until something is not just better, but so vastly superior that it's worth the pain of switching. Such a technology isn't even on the horizon.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that ATSC is broadcast using the same bandwidth as NTSC. Yes, a station can include multiple sub-channels, but each broadcaster still gets a full channel of bandwidth.
However, what this does do is give the FCC a chance to shift all the stations around because we don't really need a full range of VHF and UHF channels. I'm not sure what the actual plan is, but I suspect they're only allocating ATSC channels in a subset of the existing UHF frequencies, so that the old frequencies can be reallocated later.
Yes, technically it's the elimination of NTSC broadcasts, with only the new digital ATSC broadcasts. However, at least in Boston, most ATSC broadcasts are in 720p or 1080i only, so they are HDTV (even if they're just upsampled SDTV shows). That's probably true in many places.
So the distinction between DTV, ATSC, and HDTV from a broadcasting perspective is really just a nitpick that can be ignored for all practical purposes.
(Of course, from a television perspective, there's a huge distinction between simply displaying ATSC, and displaying HDTV resolutions.)
I saw the press conference on NASA TV a short time ago. The summary is slightly wrong--they discovered that it had happened at 5:30, but they don't know when it actually happened, though it was after a previous inspection. I would have thought that they would have video coverage that they could check, but perhaps not until launch.
Also, they said that it was repaired, but the repair left it slightly out of spec. However, engineers reviewed it and certified it for launch.
My impression is that this is near where they lost a number of tiles on early missions that proved to be non-critical.
Amtrak was the governments attempt to rescue the failing rail industry from certain death.
More the passenger rail industry than the freight rail industry. While the freight rail was in decline, Amtrak has done little to help it. Mostly it was saved by the switch to using shipping containers and hauling semi trailers. Freight rail is now doing just fine, though rails are still disappearing as the new business model relies on trucks for local access instead of trains leaving cars at individual warehouses.
Wrong on one point: All that was done was that existing rails were combined under one company, and tracks were reallocated for *both* passenger and freight routes.
Amtrak doesn't own the rails. The rails are owned by different railroads in different places. In my town, an Amtrak train runs on rails owned by CSX, as do commuter rail trains and freight trains. Sure, Amtrak may own rails in some places.
Rails in the US are essentailly analogous to private toll roads. In most places, they're owned by the dominant user
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No, I didn't try anything else once I realized that Lilo could boot Grub. Sure, people have suggested a number of alternatives in posts, but I'm happy with my solution. (Yes, using something different might save a second or two in the boot time, but I don't really care.)
On my dual-boot laptop, the virus protection in Windows doesn't recognize Grub, so it will wipe the boot sector if it's the primary boot loader. But I realy like not having to do anything after installing a new kernel, so I want to use Grub.
The solution? Install Grub on the Linux partition, and use Lilo to load it. It is rather funny watching the boot messages go through Lilo to get to Grub.
I have my browser set to notify me when new cookies are created, and I've noticed for a while that I'm getting them from various sites from the results of a Google search.
While, in theory, I don't see any reason that they can't change the resolution whenever they want to, currently every network broadcasts in exactly one format per channel.
Fox does everything in 720p. If it's not HD content, they upsample it to 720p (e.g., The Simpsons, advertising, etc.). CBS does 1080i. I'm not sure what PBS uses.
Personally, I wish they would use whatever is as close as possible to the original format. If it's a movie, then do 24 frames per second without interlacing, one frame per original film frame. Yes, the standards support that. If it's a European import, do 50 frames per second. If the ad is in low definition, use 480p.
Why be constant?
The best splash screen would be not having one at all. Fortunately, there's a command-line option to turn it off, but I would rather not have to set an alias for every application.
At least it doesn't steal the keyboard focus like OpenOffice does.
For HDTV with Linux, the only option is nVidia, and even there, you have to accept the proprietary drivers. So for MythTV, the AIW is nearly useless.
On the other hand, you don't need anything faster than a 5200. In most cases, even a Geforce 4 440MX is good enough. The only reason for something more powerful is for gaming.
Yes, there are a number of stories here where the referenced site would likely have been willing to pay for the story. However, if you look at the pages for actually advertising on /., there is no reference to buying an article.
My guess is that this is another case where the editor thought it was interesting, so he posted it. Sure, this site is based on user-pays model, but it's not really different from a advertiser-pays site getting plugged when the editor thinks it's interesting.
Sure, there are lots of things you can do with operator overloading, but there are good reasons to avoid them. Ultimately, it comes down to some basic questions:
Will the use of overloading operators...
*) reduce developement time?
*) reduce the number of bugs?
*) improve maintainability?
In most cases, the answer is at best murky. Sure, if you're doing mathematical programming, adding complex numbers, rational numbers (tracking numerators and denominators instead of using floats), or something like that, then it's intiutively a good thing. But in most cases, it's not intuitive. When someone else comes to the project and tries to figure out what's going on, it's like having a bunch of extra macros for them to look up. Function calls make it much more obvious what's going on.
There are still plenty of things that need to be done to improve Google Maps:
*) Better routes. MapQuest still tends to provide better driving directions. They need to tune it better to select the best route.
*) Newer images. The satellite imagery is about 5 years old in my area, and others are older and lower resolution. They need a consistent plan to update the images.
*) Multiple-stop routes. I want to be able to plan a route that goes from point A to point B to point C. Similarly, I want to be able to look at the route from A to B and force it to take an alternate path. So just how much longer is that senic route?
Use the low-tech solution. The answer key is created by using a hole punch on each correct blank. Then hold it up and mark in red any circle that isn't marked on the student's answer sheet.
Of course, you have to also look for students entering multiple answers (especially if they know how you're grading).
It was already LGPL, but they're dropping the alternate license, which I assume gave Sun additional rights. If Sun is requiring copyright assignment to them for any offically-accepted changes, then Sun can re-release it under any license they want anyway, because they own it.
This only matters if the SISSL gave rights not available with the LGPL, or if Sun isn't requiring copyright assignment for accepted patches (which would otherwise force Star Office to become LGPL, too).
I remember not long ago one drive manufacturer was making a big deal out of lower-capacity drives that were exactly the same as the higher-capacity models, only with a single platter and a single head. The advantages, besides lower cost, are lower power and lower failure rate.
Of course, in most cases, the drive capacity is rounded down to the next marketable number, and the firmware denies the existence of the extra space. That's why they're an even 20GB, instead of 22.4GB or whatever they really are.
Nope, that's not it, it seems. I see that you're still posting 25 minutes later. And even in the same story.
Actually, they do just that where I work. Except for the sites that are intentionally blocked by Web Sense (and I understand blocking porn at work to help avoid sexual harassment lawsuits), it works just fine.
It's set up as a transparent proxy, and I have no issues with it. It's especially nice when reloading something on another computer, because it's in the corporate cache.
If done right, I can see lots of good reasons for an ISP to set up a transparent web proxy. (Most of those reasons are to reduce bandwidth.)
It seems that Shakey's is still around. Clearly not in the same numbers as it once was, though.
When you say "out of the box," do you mean if you buy a retail copy and install it, or if you buy a new system with it preinstalled? Most end-users don't upgrade except when buying a new system.
Are the major PC sellers shipping unpatched XP systems? If so, aren't they liable?
Yes, but at $157.50 per 17-Watt panel, you're looking at $9264/KW. At $.10/KWH, you would need nearly 100,000 hours to break even. If you could get 8 hours at 17W per day, you would need 32.5 years to break even.
That's just not practical.
Much as I would love to generate my own electricity, a wind turbine isn't likely to be allowed by my town.
Pretty much the only clean energy that I could generate legally is solar, and that's just not cost effective, especially in Massachusetts.
Sure, if the standard were being created today, they would do several things differently:
1) They would use a different broadcasting technology to reduce the multipath issues. I don't understand the technical aspects, but I've read that it's very difficult to get good reception of ATSC with a moving antenna (e.g., in a van), but other broadcasting methods don't suffer from that problem.
2) They would include support for MPEG-4 or other higher-compression codecs. This would allow for reception of 1080p.
But the real answer is that this really is a huge step, and while it isn't perfect, it is, as you say, a whole new generation of technology. Like previous generations, we can expect this to last for not just a few years but decades. It won't be replaced until something is not just better, but so vastly superior that it's worth the pain of switching. Such a technology isn't even on the horizon.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that ATSC is broadcast using the same bandwidth as NTSC. Yes, a station can include multiple sub-channels, but each broadcaster still gets a full channel of bandwidth.
However, what this does do is give the FCC a chance to shift all the stations around because we don't really need a full range of VHF and UHF channels. I'm not sure what the actual plan is, but I suspect they're only allocating ATSC channels in a subset of the existing UHF frequencies, so that the old frequencies can be reallocated later.
Yes, technically it's the elimination of NTSC broadcasts, with only the new digital ATSC broadcasts. However, at least in Boston, most ATSC broadcasts are in 720p or 1080i only, so they are HDTV (even if they're just upsampled SDTV shows). That's probably true in many places.
So the distinction between DTV, ATSC, and HDTV from a broadcasting perspective is really just a nitpick that can be ignored for all practical purposes.
(Of course, from a television perspective, there's a huge distinction between simply displaying ATSC, and displaying HDTV resolutions.)
I saw the press conference on NASA TV a short time ago. The summary is slightly wrong--they discovered that it had happened at 5:30, but they don't know when it actually happened, though it was after a previous inspection. I would have thought that they would have video coverage that they could check, but perhaps not until launch.
Also, they said that it was repaired, but the repair left it slightly out of spec. However, engineers reviewed it and certified it for launch.
My impression is that this is near where they lost a number of tiles on early missions that proved to be non-critical.
More the passenger rail industry than the freight rail industry. While the freight rail was in decline, Amtrak has done little to help it. Mostly it was saved by the switch to using shipping containers and hauling semi trailers. Freight rail is now doing just fine, though rails are still disappearing as the new business model relies on trucks for local access instead of trains leaving cars at individual warehouses.
Amtrak doesn't own the rails. The rails are owned by different railroads in different places. In my town, an Amtrak train runs on rails owned by CSX, as do commuter rail trains and freight trains. Sure, Amtrak may own rails in some places.
Rails in the US are essentailly analogous to private toll roads. In most places, they're owned by the dominant user
I'll only buy nVidia because it's the only one with halfway decent drivers for Linux.