It turns out you get a clearer picture of the face if you use a logorithmic scale, as described on this page. They've also got a few more neat pix for other tracks and a link to a program to make your own.
Look again. It's a joke. Ransom Love says he wants to find a way to include Debian in UnitedLinux and DWN is saying the only way that'll happen is if they make UnitedLinux based on Debian.
If you don't believe it, check out the UnitedLinux FAQ, which states:
Today, four development members - Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE, and Turbolinux - make up UnitedLinux, but the initiative is open for additional Linux companies to participate.
In talking with friends around the country, it sounds like I'm not the only one who got up at 6:30 AM to find out that the local ABC station was not covering the World Cup final.
Sorry to hear about that. Here in Akron, OH, ABC not only showed it this morning, but they reran it at 12:30. Also, interestingly enough, ESPN _didn't_ air the 3rd place game live, but ABC did; and that was the more entertaining game in my opinion.
Stop there. PNG is already lossless up to 16 bits per channel. If you store source code for libpng on the same CD as your images, then as long as CD-ROM drives and C compilers are still readily available (neither of which I can guarantee), you can recover your data.
Not a bad idea. Hell, while you're at it, while not include a copy of the C spec, the GCC source code and a copy of K&R and some other texts?
3.6. All entities can register a domain name directly under.ps with the exception of those ones that are eligible to register under that are eligible to register under one of the following chartered domains, namely:...
plo.ps - for institutions of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).
So when can we expect to see cow.plo.ps?
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As one of those "foreigners" who now lives in the US, I've often wondered how blind people operate here? All the bills are the same size.
I'm not sure how you are supposed to identify bills when you first get them, but I did hear once how blind people tell them apart in their wallet. The trick is to fold each bill differently depending on denomination. One you leave flat, one you fold across the middle, one you fold lengthwize, one you fold into quarters, etc.
agree that it is pretty ridiculous that many products are rated before they ever are out and tested exensively. On sites like Amazon, it is sad to see the pool of reviews so corrupted by obviously irrellevant posts. (sure the series was great, but we are talking about THIS game)
Tell me about it! Just today I was looking at the Amazon page for Grand Theft Auto 3, Gameboy Advance version. It's got a 4.5 star average rating with almost 20 reviews... and it's not even out yet!
Linux is not solely responsible for the five-fold increase in speed. Linux allows ILM to leverage the very high price/performance ratio of the x86 microprocessors produced by AMD and Intel. If SGI ported IRIX to x86, then they might not be using Linux. Of course Linux is free, but ILM had to spend many man hours to port their software.
I agree, in part. While it took many man hours to port, it took much less than it would to port to Windows. Remember, hardware is useless without software. Linux makes the cheap commodity Intel/AMD systems useful by providing a stable, efficient and full-featured platform that's largely compatible with what they're used to. I think you're selling Linu show to say the CPUs deserve more credit; there should be an even share for both.
Of course, performance doesn't suffer when you upgrade from a 5 y/o processor to a new top-of-the-line processor. Most of the descriptions about speed up seem to be directly attributable to Intel, not Linux...
I think part of the point, though, is that it is _because_ Linux is extremely flexible in terms of the wide variety of hardware it will run it that makes it very easy to upgrade your systems and still run the same system. This way, ILM doesn't have to wait for the next SGI systems to come out; if they need more, they can just go out and get it and intergrate it with the systems they are already running since it's all running the same thing.
I disagree (mostly). While there is a number of hard (and some very hard) problems, there is also a large number of easier problems. Part of the skills needed in a programming contest like the ACM runs is identifying, of the 7-8 problems given, which are hard, which are simple and which are merely time consuming (a good example are programs involving board games like Chess or Checkers).
Of the group, there is invariable one (or two) which can be solved by any competant programmer in 15 minutes. Often it's one that initially looks different.
Granted, alongside the easy problem is at least one quite hard one, which, conversely, may initially look the easiest (in fact, they usually are easy, using a straightforward -- and far too slow -- algorithm).
But running away because of the existance of these problems is no reason to avoid programming contests altogether. If anything, they help to demonstrate that graph theory and other concepts are _not_ just abstract, that in fact they are applicable to a number of interesting and relevant problems people want to know the answer to -- and not just "find the shortest route" problems.
wrong. Doom II and Quake were NOT published by Activision.
Doom II was distributed by GT Interactive. Quake was initially distributed entirely by id Software (remember those 'locked shareware' CDs?); I think GTI was involved with the later boxed versions.
Of course, talk about sorcery or homosexuality, and then the Rev. Falwell comes out a-swingin'. Both wings have their authoritarian segments.
Oh certainly, I agree with you there. I didn't mean to imply that there weren't elements of the Democratic party that supported such measures, just that (in general) the left are usually characterized as being opposed to such things.
(And of course one argue about how much the Democrats truly represent "the left"... shades of Ralph Nader's point on the difference between G and D)
I think what a lot of people are missing (and is causing much contention) is that there are two issues here:
1) Should computer games be considered a protected form of speech
2) Should there be restrictions on what type of computer games (movies, music, books, etc.) children can buy?
There's a big difference here.
Movies are a protected form of speech while they are still restricted to minors; i.e. I can make a really nasty porn movie (thanks to freedom of speech) and advertise it and sell it to adults, but not to children (thanks to 'decency' laws).
Whereas here, not only can I not sell Nudie Raider to little kids, but the government can potentially stop me from selling it at all if I have any, say, interracial girl-on-girl action, or if I call the MPAA a bunch of nincompoops, or whatever they want, because it's not protected speech.
I've heard it said that most major disagreements come from a difference in the assumptions of the people disagreeing. That seems to be the issue in this thread. I just wanted to bring to light one possible cause.
I think Darth Maul is trying to say it's the left that promotes freedom of expression for violent/sexual/"inappropriate" media (in all forms) and thus the conservative government has to pass laws and make rulings like this to protect us all.
Or something. Obviously, his brain is wired differently than mine, but I don't think he was trying to suggest it was the left that was behind this ruling.
As I understand it, the restriction on 17 and under going into an R-rated film is not a "law" passed by government but rather an agreement within the entertainment industry to
self-police itself.
I don't think the original poster meant to imply that the movie ratings system is mandated by law, but simply that we (as a society) in general do not have a problem with some restrictions on what media children have easy access to, the most prominent example being movie ratings, and thus most people (or at least the poster) do not object to some restrictions on what computer games children can buy.
(Although many within the federal government make it clear they feel movie ratings should be more heavily mandated and it's also readily appearant that if the industry did not police themselves, the government would enforce their own standards.)
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It turns out you get a clearer picture of the face if you use a logorithmic scale, as described on this page. They've also got a few more neat pix for other tracks and a link to a program to make your own.
If you don't believe it, check out the UnitedLinux FAQ, which states:
The announcers also made the point earlier that it had started to drizzle a bit, so the ball was probably slick.
Too bad for Kahn, he had an amazing series; if Germany had won it he'd have probably gotten the Golden Ball.
In talking with friends around the country, it sounds like I'm not the only one who got up at 6:30 AM to find out that the local ABC station was not covering the World Cup final.
Sorry to hear about that. Here in Akron, OH, ABC not only showed it this morning, but they reran it at 12:30. Also, interestingly enough, ESPN _didn't_ air the 3rd place game live, but ABC did; and that was the more entertaining game in my opinion.
If advertising is really about 'informing' the public to make 'rational' decisions
Wow, who ever told you that? If any marketroid ever told you that with a straight face, rest assured he bust out laughing the instant you were gone.
Seriously, though, you don't get any points for tearing down an argument that no-one made.
Stop there. PNG is already lossless up to 16 bits per channel. If you store source code for libpng on the same CD as your images, then as long as CD-ROM drives and C compilers are still readily available (neither of which I can guarantee), you can recover your data.
Not a bad idea. Hell, while you're at it, while not include a copy of the C spec, the GCC source code and a copy of K&R and some other texts?
So when can we expect to see cow.plo.ps?
As one of those "foreigners" who now lives in the US, I've often wondered how blind people operate here? All the bills are the same size.
I'm not sure how you are supposed to identify bills when you first get them, but I did hear once how blind people tell them apart in their wallet. The trick is to fold each bill differently depending on denomination. One you leave flat, one you fold across the middle, one you fold lengthwize, one you fold into quarters, etc.
agree that it is pretty ridiculous that many products are rated before they ever are out and tested exensively. On sites like Amazon, it is sad to see the pool of reviews so corrupted by obviously irrellevant posts. (sure the series was great, but we are talking about THIS game)
Tell me about it! Just today I was looking at the Amazon page for Grand Theft Auto 3, Gameboy Advance version. It's got a 4.5 star average rating with almost 20 reviews... and it's not even out yet!
That's a great link you posted. Even better, it does appear at least 1 is supported under Linux. The ALSA Project's Soundcard Matrix lists support for the Midiman Delta 66, and there's also OSS/Linux beta support for the LynxONE (though binary non-free).
Of course, they'll both set you back 400-500 bucks... Fortunately, the still well-performing Turtle Beach cards have long enjoyed good Linux support.
Linux is not solely responsible for the five-fold increase in speed. Linux allows ILM to leverage the very high price/performance ratio of the x86 microprocessors produced by AMD and Intel. If SGI ported IRIX to x86, then they might not be using Linux. Of course Linux is free, but ILM had to spend many man hours to port their software.
I agree, in part. While it took many man hours to port, it took much less than it would to port to Windows. Remember, hardware is useless without software. Linux makes the cheap commodity Intel/AMD systems useful by providing a stable, efficient and full-featured platform that's largely compatible with what they're used to. I think you're selling Linu show to say the CPUs deserve more credit; there should be an even share for both.
Of course, performance doesn't suffer when you upgrade from a 5 y/o processor to a new top-of-the-line processor.
Most of the descriptions about speed up seem to be directly attributable to Intel, not Linux...
I think part of the point, though, is that it is _because_ Linux is extremely flexible in terms of the wide variety of hardware it will run it that makes it very easy to upgrade your systems and still run the same system. This way, ILM doesn't have to wait for the next SGI systems to come out; if they need more, they can just go out and get it and intergrate it with the systems they are already running since it's all running the same thing.
I vote for S^ instead... 'shat'
(2) The problems are too hard.
I disagree (mostly). While there is a number of hard (and some very hard) problems, there is also a large number of easier problems. Part of the skills needed in a programming contest like the ACM runs is identifying, of the 7-8 problems given, which are hard, which are simple and which are merely time consuming (a good example are programs involving board games like Chess or Checkers).
Of the group, there is invariable one (or two) which can be solved by any competant programmer in 15 minutes. Often it's one that initially looks different.
Granted, alongside the easy problem is at least one quite hard one, which, conversely, may initially look the easiest (in fact, they usually are easy, using a straightforward -- and far too slow -- algorithm).
But running away because of the existance of these problems is no reason to avoid programming contests altogether. If anything, they help to demonstrate that graph theory and other concepts are _not_ just abstract, that in fact they are applicable to a number of interesting and relevant problems people want to know the answer to -- and not just "find the shortest route" problems.
... than what seems to be your "See... chrisd wasn't correct in saying the Lone Gunmen are dead! California needn't be pissed off at us anymore!"
Don't forget timeshifters. I may be east coast, but I don't watch much stuff live since I got a TiVo. I was quite pissed off as well.
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wrong. Doom II and Quake were NOT published by Activision.
Doom II was distributed by GT Interactive. Quake was initially distributed entirely by id Software (remember those 'locked shareware' CDs?); I think GTI was involved with the later boxed versions.
Looks like this is it: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jeffreyschwartz/The% 20Consultant.htm
Of course, talk about sorcery or homosexuality, and then the Rev. Falwell comes out a-swingin'. Both wings have their authoritarian segments.
Oh certainly, I agree with you there. I didn't mean to imply that there weren't elements of the Democratic party that supported such measures, just that (in general) the left are usually characterized as being opposed to such things.
(And of course one argue about how much the Democrats truly represent "the left"... shades of Ralph Nader's point on the difference between G and D)
I think what a lot of people are missing (and is causing much contention) is that there are two issues here:
1) Should computer games be considered a protected form of speech
2) Should there be restrictions on what type of computer games (movies, music, books, etc.) children can buy?
There's a big difference here.
Movies are a protected form of speech while they are still restricted to minors; i.e. I can make a really nasty porn movie (thanks to freedom of speech) and advertise it and sell it to adults, but not to children (thanks to 'decency' laws).
Whereas here, not only can I not sell Nudie Raider to little kids, but the government can potentially stop me from selling it at all if I have any, say, interracial girl-on-girl action, or if I call the MPAA a bunch of nincompoops, or whatever they want, because it's not protected speech.
I've heard it said that most major disagreements come from a difference in the assumptions of the people disagreeing. That seems to be the issue in this thread. I just wanted to bring to light one possible cause.
I think Darth Maul is trying to say it's the left that promotes freedom of expression for violent/sexual/"inappropriate" media (in all forms) and thus the conservative government has to pass laws and make rulings like this to protect us all.
Or something. Obviously, his brain is wired differently than mine, but I don't think he was trying to suggest it was the left that was behind this ruling.
As I understand it, the restriction on 17 and under going into an R-rated film is not a "law" passed by government but rather an agreement within the entertainment industry to
self-police itself.
I don't think the original poster meant to imply that the movie ratings system is mandated by law, but simply that we (as a society) in general do not have a problem with some restrictions on what media children have easy access to, the most prominent example being movie ratings, and thus most people (or at least the poster) do not object to some restrictions on what computer games children can buy.
(Although many within the federal government make it clear they feel movie ratings should be more heavily mandated and it's also readily appearant that if the industry did not police themselves, the government would enforce their own standards.)
I want to know, why on earth would Dreamworks want to switch to Linux.
Yeah, too bad there's not some sort of article about it to explain why they switched.
$875 for the TM5800 (I'm not going back to a 266 mhz processor and I'd like to be able to listen to my MP3s with this thing)
266 mhz is more than adequate for MP3s. I used to have a Libretto 50 with a P75 that did a perfectly good job using mpg123.
Wow, all these years using Windows and I didn't know that. Thanks for the tip!