You're saying that data recovery of journaling filesystems is worse than that of non-journaling ones? What is it that you know and that hundreds of ReiserFS, ext3, NTFS and XFS programmers don't?
Well of course, Steve Fossett didn't design it; Scaled Composites did.
Long distance flights haven't mattered for heavier than air vehicles since the 1930s. People can fly anywhere on earth without more than a couple connecting flights. The distance problem today is largely solved; what matters now is speed. Two hours from NYC to Tokyo would be nice. Wing/body aerodynamics aren't the only issue there of course... vast reductions in flight times require improvements in propulsion that we've all heard about (scramjets, ramjets, pulse detonation). No one cares about distance today.
A no-impact orbit is very unreasonable to maintain below the FAI definition of "space." It is fair to assume that if a craft is in an orbit, then it is in space.
It's basically a crippled iTunes with an embedded Firefox window, with predefined bookmarks for online music stores (not iTMS) and shoutcast listings. No CD burning, no music sharing, no iPod sync, no smart playlists, etc. This is nowhere near an iTunes killer.
Got Rhythmbox? Got Firefox? Then you have Songbird, minus the clunky integration. It's not as bad as Sun's Windows desktop bullshit with StarOffice 5, but god damn it's close.
Let's face it folks; killing iTunes means killing the iTunes music store and the iPod. This Apple music trinity owns over 80% of the market. Among college students and younger, probably more like 95%, and they're the trendsetters. Tearing down iTunes is impossible without taking down the other. And unless the open source community can utilize the iTMS, while developing seamless iPod compatibility, taking out iTunes will be damned near impossible
The space shuttle was only used for satellite launches when disposable rockets lacked the payload capacity. Falcon 1's tiny size changes nothing with regards to the shuttle's use with satellites. It does mean though that Titan and Atlas aren't the only solutions for smaller launches.
I wouldn't be surprised if iRobot did release it
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Since iRobot has strong MIT roots and congratulated the first hackers who modified their Roomba. Later, iRobot released full specifications for the original Roomba and more hacking efforts bloomed.
Oh, and as for the government? This is the same government which released BRL-CAD and NASA World Wind, and sponsored the development of the Reiser filesystem and OK WebServer (kicks Apache in the ass for dynamic sites) among countless other open source projects. Oh, and heard of SELinux? From the big bad NSA? This is all irrelevant though; the DoD did not design this vehicle, iRobot did. iRobot owns the code, not the government
I think the story submitter wanted practical information, not to partake in the blame game. Here it is: WLAN support is abysmal on Linux compared to that on Windows or OS X. You'll be hunting for driver support (if it exists) or spending a couple hours fiddling with ndiswrapper. Pile on the routine annoyances of Linux (the handful of commands necessary to connect to any AP) and you'll get frustrated quickly. No sugar coating; WLAN on Linux sucks.
Yes, we all know that blaming the establishment is very convenient for avoiding the truth. But please, the submitter didn't want to argue; he just wanted some facts.
...I agree. This system is pathetic compared to the PSP or even the Nintendo DS, games and hardware wise. It's impressive for some no-name developer to develop out of the blue, but I have a hard time seeing this thing competing with any other current portable system. It's a hobbyist's toy, nothing more.
Actually, if you had ever used OS X for longer than a few hours, you'd realize that virtual desktops are unneccessary. The Dock and the Finder, along with Expose make window management a breeze. I do agree though that another virtual desktop would work well for KDE; KDE has always been about redundant functionality, shown by the presence of 3 audio players which do the same thing. Another virtual desktop would complete KDE's idiotic design, hopefully reducing its popularity further.
Too many experts are turned away by the teeming, uninformed Wikipedians who tear down useful contributions under the mistaken notions of "balance" or "being informative." Look at Panera Bread; 25% of the article is unequivocal information, the other 75% are advertisement and random facts. It also doesn't use proper paragraphs, and the entire article lacks structure. This is a typical Wikipedia article, but you see many of the same flaws in "Featured" articles. People don't know what to write in this supposed "encyclopedia," nor how.
And yes, Africans probably care more about staying alive than reading Wikipedia. To anyone considering donating to Wikipedia: your money would be better spent in the hands of an AIDS-related charity or a broad-action organization. Believe it or not, people can still starve to death even if they can look up Calculus in Wikipedia.
A friend of mine who works in the industry (he is running a network for a big graphic place so he knows his stuff) says photoshop and gimp have been feature-parity for all intensive purposes since photoshop 5.0 and that dates back to 1999
Except for the dynamic brushes, 32-bit HDR support, RAW support, vanishing point, layer effects, selectable type antialiasing, nested layer groups, adjustment layers, decent noise removal, filters that don't take years to run (try Gaussian Blur in the GIMP)... The list goes on. The GIMP guys are so busy trying to optimize and fix bugs that they never add any features. Check out Photoshop's Vanishing Point tool. When's the last something you've seen something cool like that put into the GIMP? Oh that's right, never. The creative software field requires innovation and basic technical skill to make it all come together nicely. That's what Adobe has in its developers, and why Photoshop runs circles around the GIMP performance and feature wise. The GIMP team just can't compete.
Did it ever occur to you that Apple wouldn't use intel stickers regardless of intel's logo? Really now, has Apple ever been a fan of idiotic decals that fall off and leave sticky spots that collect dirt? Apple's always been about minimalist form-follows-function design which also happens to look good. Putting any sticker on their machines would intrude on that and look stupid no matter what.
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You're saying that data recovery of journaling filesystems is worse than that of non-journaling ones? What is it that you know and that hundreds of ReiserFS, ext3, NTFS and XFS programmers don't?
Showing off your 5th grade civics education eh?
Well of course, Steve Fossett didn't design it; Scaled Composites did.
Long distance flights haven't mattered for heavier than air vehicles since the 1930s. People can fly anywhere on earth without more than a couple connecting flights. The distance problem today is largely solved; what matters now is speed. Two hours from NYC to Tokyo would be nice. Wing/body aerodynamics aren't the only issue there of course... vast reductions in flight times require improvements in propulsion that we've all heard about (scramjets, ramjets, pulse detonation). No one cares about distance today.
A no-impact orbit is very unreasonable to maintain below the FAI definition of "space." It is fair to assume that if a craft is in an orbit, then it is in space.
Yep, just wait, with longer wings we could build an aircraft that can fly to Mars. That's all it takes.
The FAI differentiates between atmospheric and space flight. Where does the atmosphere end? The FAI's definition is 62 miles ASL.
And no, the Guiness Book of World Records holds no authority in the aerospace community.
It's basically a crippled iTunes with an embedded Firefox window, with predefined bookmarks for online music stores (not iTMS) and shoutcast listings. No CD burning, no music sharing, no iPod sync, no smart playlists, etc. This is nowhere near an iTunes killer.
Got Rhythmbox? Got Firefox? Then you have Songbird, minus the clunky integration. It's not as bad as Sun's Windows desktop bullshit with StarOffice 5, but god damn it's close.
Let's face it folks; killing iTunes means killing the iTunes music store and the iPod. This Apple music trinity owns over 80% of the market. Among college students and younger, probably more like 95%, and they're the trendsetters. Tearing down iTunes is impossible without taking down the other. And unless the open source community can utilize the iTMS, while developing seamless iPod compatibility, taking out iTunes will be damned near impossible
Good point. Maybe a better one though: who stole your sense of humor?
The space shuttle was only used for satellite launches when disposable rockets lacked the payload capacity. Falcon 1's tiny size changes nothing with regards to the shuttle's use with satellites. It does mean though that Titan and Atlas aren't the only solutions for smaller launches.
Since iRobot has strong MIT roots and congratulated the first hackers who modified their Roomba. Later, iRobot released full specifications for the original Roomba and more hacking efforts bloomed.
Oh, and as for the government? This is the same government which released BRL-CAD and NASA World Wind, and sponsored the development of the Reiser filesystem and OK WebServer (kicks Apache in the ass for dynamic sites) among countless other open source projects. Oh, and heard of SELinux? From the big bad NSA? This is all irrelevant though; the DoD did not design this vehicle, iRobot did. iRobot owns the code, not the government
Owned.
I think the story submitter wanted practical information, not to partake in the blame game. Here it is: WLAN support is abysmal on Linux compared to that on Windows or OS X. You'll be hunting for driver support (if it exists) or spending a couple hours fiddling with ndiswrapper. Pile on the routine annoyances of Linux (the handful of commands necessary to connect to any AP) and you'll get frustrated quickly. No sugar coating; WLAN on Linux sucks.
Yes, we all know that blaming the establishment is very convenient for avoiding the truth. But please, the submitter didn't want to argue; he just wanted some facts.
Race isn't the same as nationality.
"awfully smooth." Does that mean it was running "badly well"? Try to learn the meanings of words before using them.
...I agree. This system is pathetic compared to the PSP or even the Nintendo DS, games and hardware wise. It's impressive for some no-name developer to develop out of the blue, but I have a hard time seeing this thing competing with any other current portable system. It's a hobbyist's toy, nothing more.
5. Is 320x240 enough? I'm an Action Quake 2 addict, but not sure I can play on 320x240.
Good luck playing Quake without a mouse.
Actually, if you had ever used OS X for longer than a few hours, you'd realize that virtual desktops are unneccessary. The Dock and the Finder, along with Expose make window management a breeze. I do agree though that another virtual desktop would work well for KDE; KDE has always been about redundant functionality, shown by the presence of 3 audio players which do the same thing. Another virtual desktop would complete KDE's idiotic design, hopefully reducing its popularity further.
Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism.
Too many experts are turned away by the teeming, uninformed Wikipedians who tear down useful contributions under the mistaken notions of "balance" or "being informative." Look at Panera Bread; 25% of the article is unequivocal information, the other 75% are advertisement and random facts. It also doesn't use proper paragraphs, and the entire article lacks structure. This is a typical Wikipedia article, but you see many of the same flaws in "Featured" articles. People don't know what to write in this supposed "encyclopedia," nor how.
And yes, Africans probably care more about staying alive than reading Wikipedia. To anyone considering donating to Wikipedia: your money would be better spent in the hands of an AIDS-related charity or a broad-action organization. Believe it or not, people can still starve to death even if they can look up Calculus in Wikipedia.
Save every man you can.
A friend of mine who works in the industry (he is running a network for a big graphic place so he knows his stuff) says photoshop and gimp have been feature-parity for all intensive purposes since photoshop 5.0 and that dates back to 1999
Except for the dynamic brushes, 32-bit HDR support, RAW support, vanishing point, layer effects, selectable type antialiasing, nested layer groups, adjustment layers, decent noise removal, filters that don't take years to run (try Gaussian Blur in the GIMP)... The list goes on. The GIMP guys are so busy trying to optimize and fix bugs that they never add any features. Check out Photoshop's Vanishing Point tool. When's the last something you've seen something cool like that put into the GIMP? Oh that's right, never. The creative software field requires innovation and basic technical skill to make it all come together nicely. That's what Adobe has in its developers, and why Photoshop runs circles around the GIMP performance and feature wise. The GIMP team just can't compete.
Just hack the code, Neo.
Are you retarded?
Did it ever occur to you that Apple wouldn't use intel stickers regardless of intel's logo? Really now, has Apple ever been a fan of idiotic decals that fall off and leave sticky spots that collect dirt? Apple's always been about minimalist form-follows-function design which also happens to look good. Putting any sticker on their machines would intrude on that and look stupid no matter what.