Neither jet design will work in a vacuum, of course, though theoretical Bussard ramjets would work in the almost vacuum of space.
Replying to my own post, doh! Upon further reflection I realized Bussard ramjets also use conservation of momentum like a rocket. Just the way they gather their fuel before burning it and spewing it out the back resembles the way conventional jets suck in the air/water and shoot it out the back. I guess I'd better go sleep now:-P
Bad analogy; squid, octopus and cuttlefish have no problem whatsoever utilizing a propulsion system that acts on the same principles as a rocket.
While I agree with the thrust (har har) of your post, the principles of squid, octopus, etc. propulsion is much closer to jet than rocket propulsion. Rocket propulsion acts on the principle of conservation of momentum, aka action-reaction; water jets push against the water (by squeezing some internal muscle, I believe), just as manmade jets push against the air. Neither jet design will work in a vacuum, of course, though theoretical Bussard ramjets would work in the almost vacuum of space.
Sorry for not providing any links, but I'm just a bit too lazy/tired right now:-/
Clinton ended up balancing the budget. I'm pretty sure this is due, in part, to Perot's influence during the election. Of course then everyone voted for someone to give them tax cuts right after Clinton's time was up proving that the non-apathetic voters are now only interested in getting a 'rebate'.
Now even the few bread-and-butter Replublicans who are left just get laughed at by their own party for daring to talk about a balanced budget.
Hmmmmm. I might have just argued that you're right:-(
If I download the linked version of Opera am I in Violation of the GPL?
I know that Opera paid to build on the library with closed source software, but I have not. And if I am not mistaken the QT library on my computer is GPL not LGPL therefore I am likly violating the GPL running a closed source app linked to it.
GPL doesn't even need to come into it. QT licensing is (whether GPL, QPL, or whatever) is all developer licensing, not runtime licensing.
Konqueror is ok, but can't really agree with your other points. There can be a really nice framework within KDE but as a user I could not care less.
You obviously didn't really pay attention to the parent. I, as a user, care about the framework because I know, for example, that any KDE program I use will be able to save to and open from: ftp, sftp, ssh (without sftp, via fish), webdav, etc. simply by virtue of using the KDE file dialog. That's true even of the initial release of such a program. Hell, I can whip together a 'hello world' type text editor which can do this in KDE in a few minutes, and I'm just learning C++/KDE programming.
There are a bunch of other examples of this sort (maybe someone more motivated can list some others) which are very relevant to the end user, simply because he can count on certain functionality being present and acting consistently in programs which use the KDE framework.
Politicians have been lying since before you and I were born, so it's no surprise when they do it.
Well, the idiotic voters get what they deserve. If a politician gets accused of "flip-flopping" every time he changes his position, then of course a politician who wants to stay in office is going to fudge on stuff like that. Scientists have the luxury of being (mostly) judged by people (peers) with a clue.
People were saying these things and freaking out just like this when Reagan passed his tax cuts and less than ten years later the debt was gone, grown out of by the huge economic boom they inspired.
What?????!!!!! *Boggle*
No wonder people voted for Reagan and Bush Jr. believing shit like that.
The debt has constantly grown for at least a century and practically tripled under Reagan. The deficit has mostly grown as well, except for the years under Clinton where it finally went down and was just about to become a surplus before Bush passed his tax cuts.
if an item is in a menu in a KDE app, can I necessarily rebind the accelerator associated with it?
Yes. At least to my knowledge. I believe it's offered more or less automatically by virtue of the app binding to the appropriate KDE libraries, so there's no need to have HIG for that. That's what a lot of KDE-haters seem to ignore (or be ignorant of), many of the mechanisms for consistency in KDE are just that: mechanisms; not rules. By learning the technical side of programming a bona-fide KDE app (i.e. using the KDE libs), most of the consistency takes care of itself.
No, I am not free from the majority will of the unwashed, unedjumakated masses.
No problem. Just move to a remote jungle or desert island somewhere. I'm sure there are some spots still free. Then you'll be free from infrastructure, garbarge collection (the real thing, I mean), hot and cold running water, sewage disposal, and all that annoying stuff that those un-educated peons do.
Or did you mean you want to have your cake and eat it too?
That's a really good reply:-) Still wrong though, since there is a major difference. With my Betamax (yeah I had one of those) I was dependant on movies coming out in that format so I could rent or buy them. With my iRiver I encode all my own songs, so even if the company dies I can still enjoy it until the player dies. And as long as the company is still there, I'm still getting firmware updates. Like I said above, iPod users don't have that level of support despite being part of the 'majority' group of consumers.
So in the worst case I have exactly the same option an iPod owner does for the future: buy a new player.
If you want to get the majority vendors' attention...
You obviously misunderstood the point (and slight sarcasm of) of my post. I don't care about getting Apple's attention. I'm completely happy with my player. I do hope to spread the word to other potential buyers, simply so they can enjoy the benefits of a company which already is *paying* attention, though I realize my contribution is miniscule:-P
So, if support for that format is something that would make you buy and iPod, it might be a good idea to tell them!
I told them indirectly in a similar fashion as the parent poster: I bought an iRiver. I'm also confident that any new features iRiver can get to work with my hardware will become available to me via firmware update which they have demonstrated in the past. Apple doesn't seem to give the existing iPod owners this courtesy; or at least that's what I gather from the other posts here.
Yeah, you're talking about firmware. So hpw many applications have you bought that came with ongoing, free software updates, despite the fact that I'm told such a thing is possible?
Well, iRiver's been fantastic in that department. After seeing that owners of the legacy iHP-100 and some other models got ogg support *after* those models were no longer in the stores, it was clear they don't leave their existing customers in the lurch. That was just another reason for me to buy from them.
I would buy an Iriver player, but they don't have tempo adjustment.
Maybe not yet, but iriver is probably still a good bet, since they have been very active with their firmware updates. They seem offer significant improvements with each update. Just take a look at the latest update. So who knows, maybe that's coming?
In any case I'm wildly happy with this player: tons of functionality over the ipod (radio, recording, built-in mike, standard usb-storage protocol so I don't need proprietary software to copy songs and it doubles as a general file transporter), and it already has 12+ hours playtime: here and now. I just flew over to Germany from California non-stop a few weeks ago and I couldn't help but gloat (quietly, of course) about a fellow passenger and his obvious disappointment as his shiny iPod gave out several hours before the end of the flight;-)
To see how well businesses do without government look at any of a number of countries (including - to some extent - Iraq, these days) where there is not (yet or anymore) a strong system of laws with a government enforcing them. Notice how well-off the people all are? Government and rule-of-law provides the guarantees that paper (or electronic) money will be honored, contracts can be enforced, etc. Otherwise, you have nothing but armed enclaves ruled by warlords who handle all their 'business' through barter, gold, or foreign currency transported around by heavily armed guards.
Those taxes are nothing more than a modest contribution to a system which more than pays for itself by providing a legally-stable environment with a banking system. I'm sure some more economically trained people could provide a better list of the effects lack of government has on an economy.
Summary: The world is not a simple place. Stop pretending it is.
You have to get a sig if you want to be modded up instead of down. That's how people know you're a genuine slashdotter and not just someone who walked in off the street.
I don't think that's necessary. Having a 5 digit Slashdot ID tends to be pretty convincing, let alone the people who have 4 digits and down;-)
Fair enough. I'm not personally offended (I'm not an Engineer). But after all, another poster pointed out where there might be other considerations which apply (acceleration), and I only wanted to point out that Physics (even if it is an 'applied science') is a field which is not *primarily* concerned with building things, whereas Engineering *is*. So, if Physics is applied, then Engineering is *more* applied, and Engineers deserve their due, not the condescension usually displayed by Physicists for Engineers. Truce? Or at least, cease fire?
Oops. Just realized there wasn't a smiley. Nevertheless, the rest still applies, and I *did* emphasize that I have a high degree of respect for Physicists.
Please accept my apologies for the obvious distress I caused you. I thought my disclaimer about my respect for physicists, as well as the smiley, would soften the 'blow'. But don't you think you could show the same respect for Engineers? Don't you think your statement might have been a little infuriating to Engineers? You seem to think that that sort of consideration should only be shown by others for your field?
Why should you even care about the organization of these files? With data like mp3s the important info is in the tag and shouldn't be stored in the pathname or filename.
Another post already answered you but I'll add my own 2 cents. If Artist/Album organization is enough for me to orient myself, and my ripping software (either ripit or kaudiocreator, depending on situation) will auto-create that directory structure anyway, then why not do it that way? My laptop doesn't have room for my whole collection, and it's quite handy that I can easily ssh to my fileserver (when I'm outside my firewall), tar up an album directory, and scp it over to my laptop without needing a tool that supports those tags (which are there courtesy of the same ripping programs of course). I don't need a DB or search mechanism to know that "Before You Accuse Me" (just to pick a random example;-)) is in my "Creedence Clearwater Revival" directory, so why *must* I organize my files *only* using the tags?
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Neither jet design will work in a vacuum, of course, though theoretical Bussard ramjets would work in the almost vacuum of space.
:-P
Replying to my own post, doh! Upon further reflection I realized Bussard ramjets also use conservation of momentum like a rocket. Just the way they gather their fuel before burning it and spewing it out the back resembles the way conventional jets suck in the air/water and shoot it out the back. I guess I'd better go sleep now
-chris
Bad analogy; squid, octopus and cuttlefish have no problem whatsoever utilizing a propulsion system that acts on the same principles as a rocket.
:-/
While I agree with the thrust (har har) of your post, the principles of squid, octopus, etc. propulsion is much closer to jet than rocket propulsion. Rocket propulsion acts on the principle of conservation of momentum, aka action-reaction; water jets push against the water (by squeezing some internal muscle, I believe), just as manmade jets push against the air. Neither jet design will work in a vacuum, of course, though theoretical Bussard ramjets would work in the almost vacuum of space.
Sorry for not providing any links, but I'm just a bit too lazy/tired right now
-chris
Clinton ended up balancing the budget. I'm pretty sure this is due, in part, to Perot's influence during the election. Of course then everyone voted for someone to give them tax cuts right after Clinton's time was up proving that the non-apathetic voters are now only interested in getting a 'rebate'.
:-(
Now even the few bread-and-butter Replublicans who are left just get laughed at by their own party for daring to talk about a balanced budget.
Hmmmmm. I might have just argued that you're right
-chris
See my other comment just above.
-chris
MSIE was well on top.
But then, as has been said before in answer to that statistic, many people browse slashdot from work, where they aren't using their own computers.
-chris
If I download the linked version of Opera am I in Violation of the GPL?
I know that Opera paid to build on the library with closed source software, but I have not. And if I am not mistaken the QT library on my computer is GPL not LGPL therefore I am likly violating the GPL running a closed source app linked to it.
GPL doesn't even need to come into it. QT licensing is (whether GPL, QPL, or whatever) is all developer licensing, not runtime licensing.
-chris
Konqueror is ok, but can't really agree with your other points. There can be a really nice framework within KDE but as a user I could not care less.
You obviously didn't really pay attention to the parent. I, as a user, care about the framework because I know, for example, that any KDE program I use will be able to save to and open from: ftp, sftp, ssh (without sftp, via fish), webdav, etc. simply by virtue of using the KDE file dialog. That's true even of the initial release of such a program. Hell, I can whip together a 'hello world' type text editor which can do this in KDE in a few minutes, and I'm just learning C++/KDE programming.
There are a bunch of other examples of this sort (maybe someone more motivated can list some others) which are very relevant to the end user, simply because he can count on certain functionality being present and acting consistently in programs which use the KDE framework.
-chris
Politicians have been lying since before you and I were born, so it's no surprise when they do it.
Well, the idiotic voters get what they deserve. If a politician gets accused of "flip-flopping" every time he changes his position, then of course a politician who wants to stay in office is going to fudge on stuff like that. Scientists have the luxury of being (mostly) judged by people (peers) with a clue.
-chris
People were saying these things and freaking out just like this when Reagan passed his tax cuts and less than ten years later the debt was gone, grown out of by the huge economic boom they inspired.
What?????!!!!! *Boggle*
No wonder people voted for Reagan and Bush Jr. believing shit like that.
The debt has constantly grown for at least a century and practically tripled under Reagan. The deficit has mostly grown as well, except for the years under Clinton where it finally went down and was just about to become a surplus before Bush passed his tax cuts.
See:
http://www.cedarcomm.com/~stevelm1/usdebt.htm
http://www.littlepiggy.net/deficit/index.php
http://members.tripod.com/~zzpat/graphs.htm
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/faq.html
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/5Debt.htm
if an item is in a menu in a KDE app, can I necessarily rebind the accelerator associated with it?
Yes. At least to my knowledge. I believe it's offered more or less automatically by virtue of the app binding to the appropriate KDE libraries, so there's no need to have HIG for that. That's what a lot of KDE-haters seem to ignore (or be ignorant of), many of the mechanisms for consistency in KDE are just that: mechanisms; not rules. By learning the technical side of programming a bona-fide KDE app (i.e. using the KDE libs), most of the consistency takes care of itself.
-chris
No, I am not free from the majority will of the unwashed, unedjumakated masses.
No problem. Just move to a remote jungle or desert island somewhere. I'm sure there are some spots still free. Then you'll be free from infrastructure, garbarge collection (the real thing, I mean), hot and cold running water, sewage disposal, and all that annoying stuff that those un-educated peons do.
Or did you mean you want to have your cake and eat it too?
-chris
Or say you were an air-traffic-controller... - how big a mistake do you want to make.
s tabbing/ s tabbing/
Like this (late) traffic controller, for example:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/02/25/swiss.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/03/16/swiss.
-chris
You made the signal to noise ratio 21:1.
;-)
Don't you mean 1:21? And with your post 1:22? Mine would make 1:23, except I'm sure the count has changed by the time I posted this
-chris
LOL!
:-) Still wrong though, since there is a major difference. With my Betamax (yeah I had one of those) I was dependant on movies coming out in that format so I could rent or buy them. With my iRiver I encode all my own songs, so even if the company dies I can still enjoy it until the player dies. And as long as the company is still there, I'm still getting firmware updates. Like I said above, iPod users don't have that level of support despite being part of the 'majority' group of consumers.
That's a really good reply
So in the worst case I have exactly the same option an iPod owner does for the future: buy a new player.
-chris
If you want to get the majority vendors' attention...
:-P
You obviously misunderstood the point (and slight sarcasm of) of my post. I don't care about getting Apple's attention. I'm completely happy with my player. I do hope to spread the word to other potential buyers, simply so they can enjoy the benefits of a company which already is *paying* attention, though I realize my contribution is miniscule
-chris
So, if support for that format is something that would make you buy and iPod, it might be a good idea to tell them!
I told them indirectly in a similar fashion as the parent poster: I bought an iRiver. I'm also confident that any new features iRiver can get to work with my hardware will become available to me via firmware update which they have demonstrated in the past. Apple doesn't seem to give the existing iPod owners this courtesy; or at least that's what I gather from the other posts here.
-chris
Yeah, you're talking about firmware. So hpw many applications have you bought that came with ongoing, free software updates, despite the fact that I'm told such a thing is possible?
Well, iRiver's been fantastic in that department. After seeing that owners of the legacy iHP-100 and some other models got ogg support *after* those models were no longer in the stores, it was clear they don't leave their existing customers in the lurch. That was just another reason for me to buy from them.
-chris
I would buy an Iriver player, but they don't have tempo adjustment.
;-)
Maybe not yet, but iriver is probably still a good bet, since they have been very active with their firmware updates. They seem offer significant improvements with each update. Just take a look at the latest update. So who knows, maybe that's coming?
In any case I'm wildly happy with this player: tons of functionality over the ipod (radio, recording, built-in mike, standard usb-storage protocol so I don't need proprietary software to copy songs and it doubles as a general file transporter), and it already has 12+ hours playtime: here and now. I just flew over to Germany from California non-stop a few weeks ago and I couldn't help but gloat (quietly, of course) about a fellow passenger and his obvious disappointment as his shiny iPod gave out several hours before the end of the flight
-chris
And where do people get money? From businesses.
To see how well businesses do without government look at any of a number of countries (including - to some extent - Iraq, these days) where there is not (yet or anymore) a strong system of laws with a government enforcing them. Notice how well-off the people all are? Government and rule-of-law provides the guarantees that paper (or electronic) money will be honored, contracts can be enforced, etc. Otherwise, you have nothing but armed enclaves ruled by warlords who handle all their 'business' through barter, gold, or foreign currency transported around by heavily armed guards.
Those taxes are nothing more than a modest contribution to a system which more than pays for itself by providing a legally-stable environment with a banking system. I'm sure some more economically trained people could provide a better list of the effects lack of government has on an economy.
Summary: The world is not a simple place. Stop pretending it is.
-chris
You have to get a sig if you want to be modded up instead of down. That's how people know you're a genuine slashdotter and not just someone who walked in off the street.
;-)
I don't think that's necessary. Having a 5 digit Slashdot ID tends to be pretty convincing, let alone the people who have 4 digits and down
-chris
Fair enough. I'm not personally offended (I'm not an Engineer). But after all, another poster pointed out where there might be other considerations which apply (acceleration), and I only wanted to point out that Physics (even if it is an 'applied science') is a field which is not *primarily* concerned with building things, whereas Engineering *is*. So, if Physics is applied, then Engineering is *more* applied, and Engineers deserve their due, not the condescension usually displayed by Physicists for Engineers. Truce? Or at least, cease fire?
-chris
Oops. Just realized there wasn't a smiley. Nevertheless, the rest still applies, and I *did* emphasize that I have a high degree of respect for Physicists.
-chris
Please accept my apologies for the obvious distress I caused you. I thought my disclaimer about my respect for physicists, as well as the smiley, would soften the 'blow'. But don't you think you could show the same respect for Engineers? Don't you think your statement might have been a little infuriating to Engineers? You seem to think that that sort of consideration should only be shown by others for your field?
Cheers,
Chris
How about old style file browse windows (ala gnome 2.4) that can be divided into 2 independantly browsable views (in the same window)...
You mean like Konqueror allows? See my other post.
-chris
Why should you even care about the organization of these files? With data like mp3s the important info is in the tag and shouldn't be stored in the pathname or filename.
;-)) is in my "Creedence Clearwater Revival" directory, so why *must* I organize my files *only* using the tags?
Another post already answered you but I'll add my own 2 cents. If Artist/Album organization is enough for me to orient myself, and my ripping software (either ripit or kaudiocreator, depending on situation) will auto-create that directory structure anyway, then why not do it that way? My laptop doesn't have room for my whole collection, and it's quite handy that I can easily ssh to my fileserver (when I'm outside my firewall), tar up an album directory, and scp it over to my laptop without needing a tool that supports those tags (which are there courtesy of the same ripping programs of course). I don't need a DB or search mechanism to know that "Before You Accuse Me" (just to pick a random example
-chris