Well. With a modem you have limited baud rate because of amazingly poor
hardware (transformer coils etc. interrupting the line). With better
cables it's a lot easier to stay binary and go to higher baud rates
(e.g. ethernet).
We already have a high-density CD, it's DVD. DVD-RW should be launched by
the summer.
What next, 256 shades
of grey? Different colors anyone? Seems like the designers are forgetting
the KISS rule. The whole point about digital computing is to make simple
things, therefore they are reliable enough to be driven at high clock
speeds. We could just as well have eight different voltage levels on data
lines instead of maximum or zero, but this would arguably make things a
lot more complex than by factor of eight.
Personally I'd wait for the DVD-RW, although I'm afraid it will be
obsolete by the time people can afford it..
But as I learned to make major changes to my system without a gui or
goddamn, *f-ing rebooting every 5 minutes I began to feel that godlike
power again that hooked me on computers back when I was 9. I began to love
Linux. I feel natural with it and can really get around.
I couldn't agree more.. wait, yes, i can...:-)
It's now my 15th month with Linux. I remember when using windoze I wanted
to do something and struggled to get it done. Now I wonder what I could do
with all this power.
I quit wondering which is better, GUI or command line. It's the
combination that rules. RXVT under X (plain Enlightenment). Heck, I even
linked the start button
on my windoze keyboard to run rxvt, because that's where all the commands
can be executed.. No worrying which kind of UI to use when I have them
both equally well.
The important outcome is that, after years with M$ crap, Linux forced me
to get interested in hacking, something immensely valuable in itself,
indispensable in my studies and work, and pretty damn FUN!!!
And the sad counterpoint is that every new
release of losedoze looks more and more like a game console.
Looks like you missed the point... XML or whatever would be the structure
of the file in which the document would be stored. What you're saying is
analogous to people writing.DOC files with ASCII editors, whereas it's
the job of the application to translate the fancy formatting commands into
tags or whatever in the file. There are already lots of HTML design
programs which (unfortunately) let people create fancy web pages without
knowing a bit ot HTML itself. The average joe isn't that much interested
in
the technicalities of the file format, as long as it would be compatible
with other programs and operating systems (which.DOC isn't now).
Agreed. TeX can include simple vector graphics, there are already several
graphing tools that output in [La]TeX, such as XFig and gnuplot. I also
agree with the 'activation energy' (excellent term for this, btw:-) /
learning curve, but there are GUI frontends like LyX - I started out with
LyX but quickly realized pure LaTeX is much, much better.
A prime example of LaTeX was a computer simulation I did for my physics
course. The program made output files for gnuplot, after which a simple
Makefile would plot graphs and run LaTeX, producing the report. I could
rerun it many times to see how the data varied at each trial. At least it
impressed my friends using LoseBlows..
Much of the 'net traffic is already going through optical fibres. Also,
computing in general is moving towards photonics because of the speed
limits imposed by electronics. Some day there may be nothing electronic
between two people sending each other 'email' - will it be called pmail
instead? And what about eThis and eThat eBusinesses?
Thanks for pointing out the difference between the actual ends and the
means to there.
The aim here is to use a computer. If you switch to another operating
system, you can probably get a legacy UI resembling the old system but it
won't give you all the advantages of the new one, and it might be
more cumbersome than its native UI. Imagine getting fake
exhaust from your electric car. If I had to stick to a windoze UI on
Linux, it would be as useless as Windoze to me. This is why I think a
Mac theme on *nix has nothing but parody value.
Exactly. Like the rest of the Gnome/Enlightenment themes are original, not
copying windoze/mac ideas... In the end you just can't tell who's
plagiarizing who, and the idea of intellectual property becomes rather
arbitrary. Which it is, completely artificial, a fancy way of saying it's
mine and it's all mine and you can't take it. The Western people have a
lot to learn.
Isn't it
possible to be a vegetarian in practice (because of your beliefs) but miss
the taste of meat? That's like calling a recovering alcoholic who has a
craving for alcohol a hypocrite.
IMHO if you're a vegetarian and miss the taste of meat, it's only about
practice and health, not belief. The belief behind vegetarianism, that you
shouldn't hurt living beings, doesn't quite fit in with craving for the
taste of dead animals.
I agree that a Mac theme on Linux can be a practical
choice. But if a Mac user wants to become a 'Linux believer;-)' I see
this idea of a 'migration path' only as a hindrance.
It's a valid point to make that Apple has spent a lot of resources in
their desktop design. However, a theme doesn't give you the true Apple
experience, let alone convert your machine into an illegal copy of a
Mac. And isn't 'imitation the most sincere form of flattering'?
OTOH, I can't see why anyone would like an Apple theme on their
GNULIX/BSD/WhateveX. It reminds me of people who call themselves
vegetarians and then crave for veggie sausages, veggie burgers and the
like. Such hypocricy.
My reason for using GNU/Linux is the scope for customizability, that I can
do things in the best possible way for me, not just the only way dictated
by Gates/Jobs/Stalin/[insert your favourite dictator here]. Perhaps the
only vague point about using a Mac (or Windoze for that matter) theme is
to provide Joe A. User an accessible migration path to real operating
systems.
Agreed! But IMHO much of RH's questionable reputation comes from RedFlag 7.0, which the
military are
not (fortunately) going to use. I'd expect the guys at RH are more careful with stability and
security with this Clinux for embedded systems than that RF^H^H^HRH7.0.
Erm, well, I don't know why you should use it but my 2.2.18 just happens
to work fine. Plus all the application programs I've use it for. But it's
a good question.
Get the optimizing compiler here. Then tweak
arch/i386/Makefile for the required compiler flag. At least that's what I'm doing on my K6,
running 2.2.18 OK.
Please,/. crew, could you give these 'partners' URLs instead of the ones
requiring registration? I know this might cause suspicion at NYTimes, but
there
are quite a few of us who switch to the 'partners' URL anyway. You kind of
miss the point of/. if there's that cumbersome reg stuff between/. and
the/.ed article.
It shouldn't surprise you that the quality of sleep is extremely
important, maybe more so than the quantity.
I was told about the following theory by a psychologist, and I've read
about it elsewhere. Our sleep is divided into cycles of about 1.5 to 2
hours. At
the start and the end the sleep is very light, it is easy to wake up, and
that's when we may have dreams. At the centre, the brain and the rest of
the body are in deep rest. Not surprisingly, if you're woken up at the
centre of the cycle, you'll feel like shit, perhaps for the rest of the
day. So you should time your sleep so that there are full cycles.
You can find your cycle duration by noting how long you sleep
spontaneously. The only problem I don't have a solution for, is if you
sleep for six hours exactly (or a similar coincidence) - are there 3
cycles of 2h or 4 of 1.5h?
A further problem is if (when) you cannot decide when to fall asleep. But
according to the psychologist, it is better to stay awake until the next
potential start of a cycle than to force yourself to sleep. Again this
makes a lot of sense from the common experience.
But don't trust me - I screwed up last night's sleep for some extra work,
ignoring all these cycles, so I may not be in the best shape to explain
this. Anyway, do try it out, it just might work for you.
Oh yes. You mean RedFlag 7.0 == Linux 7.0. Right. But since I'm running a
kernel that was released and compiled this year, it _must_ be Linux
2000. Or is that Linux Millennium Edition? Dunno.
K6s and Athlons have AMD's counterpart of MMX called 3DNow!, in addition
to MMX. Apparently 3DNow! easily outperforms MMX but only a few
applications support it. However, one of these happens to be Gogo
(which also supports MMX). So,
you're not comparing the MMX unit of the two processors. I've noticed the
huge advantage of K6 over Pentium when using Gogo, and it looks like it is
because of 3DNow! vs. MMX.
OK, you tried them (sorry about my comment:-). And that's exactly my
point. We can't generalize these things. If your 'general observation' of
co-authored sequels is disappointing, that may not be the case for
everyone, or for every series.
Fine, if you want to ignore the sequels to Rendezvous with Rama simply because of Clarke's collaboration with Lee. IMHO Clarke could not have written the series (Rama 1 - 4, I'd rather exclude parts 5/6 by Lee alone) nearly as well just by himself. I enjoyed the series a lot, and that's what matters.
On the same lines you could argue you want to ignore any version of Linux not written by Linus alone, although collaboration might have improved it a bit.
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We already have a high-density CD, it's DVD. DVD-RW should be launched by the summer.
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Personally I'd wait for the DVD-RW, although I'm afraid it will be obsolete by the time people can afford it..
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Not that's what I'd call imaginative naming. ;-)
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I couldn't agree more.. wait, yes, i can... :-)
It's now my 15th month with Linux. I remember when using windoze I wanted to do something and struggled to get it done. Now I wonder what I could do with all this power.
I quit wondering which is better, GUI or command line. It's the combination that rules. RXVT under X (plain Enlightenment). Heck, I even linked the start button on my windoze keyboard to run rxvt, because that's where all the commands can be executed.. No worrying which kind of UI to use when I have them both equally well.
The important outcome is that, after years with M$ crap, Linux forced me to get interested in hacking, something immensely valuable in itself, indispensable in my studies and work, and pretty damn FUN!!! And the sad counterpoint is that every new release of losedoze looks more and more like a game console.
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There's XScorch for *nix, too. Can't remember where to get it, check your favourite mirror.
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Looks like you missed the point... XML or whatever would be the structure of the file in which the document would be stored. What you're saying is analogous to people writing .DOC files with ASCII editors, whereas it's
the job of the application to translate the fancy formatting commands into
tags or whatever in the file. There are already lots of HTML design
programs which (unfortunately) let people create fancy web pages without
knowing a bit ot HTML itself. The average joe isn't that much interested
in
the technicalities of the file format, as long as it would be compatible
with other programs and operating systems (which .DOC isn't now).
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A prime example of LaTeX was a computer simulation I did for my physics course. The program made output files for gnuplot, after which a simple Makefile would plot graphs and run LaTeX, producing the report. I could rerun it many times to see how the data varied at each trial. At least it impressed my friends using LoseBlows..
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Much of the 'net traffic is already going through optical fibres. Also, computing in general is moving towards photonics because of the speed limits imposed by electronics. Some day there may be nothing electronic between two people sending each other 'email' - will it be called pmail instead? And what about eThis and eThat eBusinesses?
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The aim here is to use a computer. If you switch to another operating system, you can probably get a legacy UI resembling the old system but it won't give you all the advantages of the new one, and it might be more cumbersome than its native UI. Imagine getting fake exhaust from your electric car. If I had to stick to a windoze UI on Linux, it would be as useless as Windoze to me. This is why I think a Mac theme on *nix has nothing but parody value.
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Exactly. Like the rest of the Gnome/Enlightenment themes are original, not copying windoze/mac ideas... In the end you just can't tell who's plagiarizing who, and the idea of intellectual property becomes rather arbitrary. Which it is, completely artificial, a fancy way of saying it's mine and it's all mine and you can't take it. The Western people have a lot to learn.
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IMHO if you're a vegetarian and miss the taste of meat, it's only about practice and health, not belief. The belief behind vegetarianism, that you shouldn't hurt living beings, doesn't quite fit in with craving for the taste of dead animals.
I agree that a Mac theme on Linux can be a practical choice. But if a Mac user wants to become a 'Linux believer ;-)' I see
this idea of a 'migration path' only as a hindrance.
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OTOH, I can't see why anyone would like an Apple theme on their GNULIX/BSD/WhateveX. It reminds me of people who call themselves vegetarians and then crave for veggie sausages, veggie burgers and the like. Such hypocricy.
My reason for using GNU/Linux is the scope for customizability, that I can do things in the best possible way for me, not just the only way dictated by Gates/Jobs/Stalin/[insert your favourite dictator here]. Perhaps the only vague point about using a Mac (or Windoze for that matter) theme is to provide Joe A. User an accessible migration path to real operating systems.
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Agreed! But IMHO much of RH's questionable reputation comes from RedFlag 7.0, which the military are not (fortunately) going to use. I'd expect the guys at RH are more careful with stability and security with this Clinux for embedded systems than that RF^H^H^HRH7.0.
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Erm, well, I don't know why you should use it but my 2.2.18 just happens to work fine. Plus all the application programs I've use it for. But it's a good question.
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Get the optimizing compiler here. Then tweak arch/i386/Makefile for the required compiler flag. At least that's what I'm doing on my K6, running 2.2.18 OK.
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Please, /. crew, could you give these 'partners' URLs instead of the ones
requiring registration? I know this might cause suspicion at NYTimes, but
there
are quite a few of us who switch to the 'partners' URL anyway. You kind of
miss the point of /. if there's that cumbersome reg stuff between /. and
the /.ed article.
Cheers,
TeknoHog
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I was told about the following theory by a psychologist, and I've read about it elsewhere. Our sleep is divided into cycles of about 1.5 to 2 hours. At the start and the end the sleep is very light, it is easy to wake up, and that's when we may have dreams. At the centre, the brain and the rest of the body are in deep rest. Not surprisingly, if you're woken up at the centre of the cycle, you'll feel like shit, perhaps for the rest of the day. So you should time your sleep so that there are full cycles.
You can find your cycle duration by noting how long you sleep spontaneously. The only problem I don't have a solution for, is if you sleep for six hours exactly (or a similar coincidence) - are there 3 cycles of 2h or 4 of 1.5h?
A further problem is if (when) you cannot decide when to fall asleep. But according to the psychologist, it is better to stay awake until the next potential start of a cycle than to force yourself to sleep. Again this makes a lot of sense from the common experience.
But don't trust me - I screwed up last night's sleep for some extra work, ignoring all these cycles, so I may not be in the best shape to explain this. Anyway, do try it out, it just might work for you.
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The other Finnish mobile phone business makes a GPS-equipped phone. It has a large display for maps. Not sure what bands are supported, though.
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Because everyone here prefers bash to that horrible GUI.
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(emoticons suck. read between the lines.)
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K6s and Athlons have AMD's counterpart of MMX called 3DNow!, in addition to MMX. Apparently 3DNow! easily outperforms MMX but only a few applications support it. However, one of these happens to be Gogo (which also supports MMX). So, you're not comparing the MMX unit of the two processors. I've noticed the huge advantage of K6 over Pentium when using Gogo, and it looks like it is because of 3DNow! vs. MMX.
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OK, you tried them (sorry about my comment:-). And that's exactly my point. We can't generalize these things. If your 'general observation' of co-authored sequels is disappointing, that may not be the case for everyone, or for every series.
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Equally, why not compete in writing clean, indented, well commented Perl? Oh wait.. that must be a logical contradiction. :-)
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On the same lines you could argue you want to ignore any version of Linux not written by Linus alone, although collaboration might have improved it a bit.
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Primordial ooze -> Lots of mutations -> Human
Now repeat that with operating systems...
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