I've been using a Logitech Digital Pen for a while now. I'm pretty happy with the compromise between a real pad and having a digital copy of what I wrote. The recording made by the pen is of excellent quality. Feel free to check it out.
It has always been an internal codename with the intention of publicly calling the browser component "Mozilla Browser" after 1.4 is released. This is not a retraction of "Mozilla Firebird."
Also the second reason may make a lot of sense in the context of a war. The machines may have built the matrix not only to reap the benefits of human civilization, but also as a means of staying one step ahead of the people they are fighting. The machines wouldn't want to fall behind in technology or science.
And maybe the machines don't want to simulate the war in the matrix so that the people in the matrix don't figure out how to defeat the machines. As we know from the movie, free people have access to the matrix too and might learn how to defeat the machines and implement it.
Disclaimer: I don't pretend to know what reason the writers created for the existence of the matrix, nor do I know whether they thought about this at all. My intention is to postulate why the machines would want to create a matrix. While this is based on the premises of the movie, I am not trying to fill any holes or otherwise account for the movie in any way. It's just for fun.
The first reason I thought of is based on military strategy: know your enemy. What better way to observe humanity than to completely control their environment and have intimate access to every person in the matrix?
This seems to lack because I don't see why you would want to have billions of people in the simulation. This also seems to lack because I can't think of a good reason why the machines wouldn't simulate the war in the matrix, instead they have "the peak of human civilization" in the matrix.
Another reason I came up with was to simply exploit a valuable resource. People are very creative. This seems more likely than the first reason. People are also very inefficient, it would take a whole civilization in order to allow the people in the matrix to come up with new technologies and ideas.
When the machines detect that a new technology has been invented or a scientific discovery is made in the matrix, they study it to see if it could be useful to them. I can't think of a better reason to maintain such a matrix than to reap the fruits of human civilization.
The river powering a major hydroelectric plant in southeast Venezuela lost force due to a severe drought in February 2001. To prevent blackouts, the country slightly lowered the frequency of the current.
Just by going on the information in the article, my guess is that one side-effect of slowing down the generators is a lower frequency for the current. Why would they slow down the generators? Because slower generators use less water.
Presumably they calculated the amount of water feeding the river and made sure that the generators used no more water than would cause the river to get too low, thus preventing the generators from stopping, thus avoiding blackouts.
Agreed, the only keyboard I have found that is better than the 4725 is the model M. I am typing on a 4725 right now (and have a backup), but I yearn for my old model M, which I unfortunately lost in a short-sighted way in a move to a new house.
I have been using mozilla as my main browser for a long time now. Back in the early 0.9.x series, mozilla allowed for specific JavaScript functionality to be turned off, things that are responsible for pop-ups and other miscellaneous annoyances. Mozilla has kept my eyes from pop-ups for about a year. I only see pop-ups when I am forced to use IE and when that happens I shudder.
I was one of the people at the other side of the group. Sorry I didn't get to meet you. The guy who had a digital camera brought an iBook as well. I wonder if he'll post the images. I brought my laptop but left it in the car; there didn't seem to be a point without network connectivity.:) I will be bringing my digital camera next time, though.
I thought Sit 'n Spin was a good pick. Parking on the street is free by 7, but finding a spot was tough. The next venue should have better parking and be a little quieter; a network connection would be nice, too. Perhaps Speakeasy or the Bauhaus cafe? Another option might be a restaurant like Denny's or the Hurricane.
Most of the world doesn't consume like Americans and won't. It's silly to suppose that every single person in the world will consume as much as the highest consumers. If there's not enough resources to support everyone consuming as much as the largest consumers, then it won't happen. Even if they did, at most they would succeed in killing themselves off. The earth would go on.
This brings up the idea of eminent domain. If this technology were classified as a necessary step in increasing the security of operating systems, could the federal government co-opt SCC's patents in the interest of the public good under the doctrine of eminent domain? Is there a precedent regarding the application eminent domain to intellectual property?
If so, would we want them to do so? Eminent domain can cut both ways, since the federal government can assign ownership to corporations, state or federal government in addition to effectively putting something into the physical analog to public domain.
I've been watching this on the Linux Security Module mailing list and have high hopes that SCC sticks to their original promise and not place restrictions on the use of this technology. There are plans to get this into the Linux 2.5 development tree and eventually have it available in 2.6. This is the sort of security technology we desperately need in a popular OS, so let's hope SCC does not prevent its movement towards integration with the main Linux source tree.
It's common knowledge with audiophiles and professional musicians that vacuum tubes are better than solid state technologies at reproducing sound. The highest quality amplifiers in the world use tubes. Most classical concert halls use tube amplifiers.
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I've been using a Logitech Digital Pen for a while now. I'm pretty happy with the compromise between a real pad and having a digital copy of what I wrote. The recording made by the pen is of excellent quality. Feel free to check it out.
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The download links are in the genre pages plainly listed at the site. Pick the album you want and download all the URLs in the m3u.
I've run the weeklies since before 0.1, they all ran for me. I run Thunderbird under Windows XP Pro on a P4 system.
We need more specifics about your problem.
The best place for you to get this fixed is the Thunderbird Bugs forum.
Post a description of your problem with details and exactly what you do to get to the point where you can't run TB.
Just to throw you a bone, make sure you are unzipping TB with all the folders in the zip intact.
nilson built Mozilla Firebird from today (September 1, 2003) and christened it the MozillaZine anniversary edition.
Check it out.
Note: this is a nightly, and happens to have some noticable bugs.
You may want to add
ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2
ac_add_options --disable-toolkit-xlib
ac_add_options --disable-toolkit-qt
It has been released but the release notes just haven't been updated yet. See the files for enlightenment.
Try this on for size: Mozilla Firebird.
It has always been an internal codename with the intention of publicly calling the browser component "Mozilla Browser" after 1.4 is released. This is not a retraction of "Mozilla Firebird."
Please see this MozillaNews article for reference to the real story.
Also the second reason may make a lot of sense in the context of a war. The machines may have built the matrix not only to reap the benefits of human civilization, but also as a means of staying one step ahead of the people they are fighting. The machines wouldn't want to fall behind in technology or science.
And maybe the machines don't want to simulate the war in the matrix so that the people in the matrix don't figure out how to defeat the machines. As we know from the movie, free people have access to the matrix too and might learn how to defeat the machines and implement it.
Disclaimer: I don't pretend to know what reason the writers created for the existence of the matrix, nor do I know whether they thought about this at all. My intention is to postulate why the machines would want to create a matrix. While this is based on the premises of the movie, I am not trying to fill any holes or otherwise account for the movie in any way. It's just for fun.
The first reason I thought of is based on military strategy: know your enemy. What better way to observe humanity than to completely control their environment and have intimate access to every person in the matrix?
This seems to lack because I don't see why you would want to have billions of people in the simulation. This also seems to lack because I can't think of a good reason why the machines wouldn't simulate the war in the matrix, instead they have "the peak of human civilization" in the matrix.
Another reason I came up with was to simply exploit a valuable resource. People are very creative. This seems more likely than the first reason. People are also very inefficient, it would take a whole civilization in order to allow the people in the matrix to come up with new technologies and ideas.
When the machines detect that a new technology has been invented or a scientific discovery is made in the matrix, they study it to see if it could be useful to them. I can't think of a better reason to maintain such a matrix than to reap the fruits of human civilization.
Just by going on the information in the article, my guess is that one side-effect of slowing down the generators is a lower frequency for the current. Why would they slow down the generators? Because slower generators use less water.
Presumably they calculated the amount of water feeding the river and made sure that the generators used no more water than would cause the river to get too low, thus preventing the generators from stopping, thus avoiding blackouts.
Check out these sites:
Model M Keyboard Vendor
Model M Fansite
Agreed, the only keyboard I have found that is better than the 4725 is the model M. I am typing on a 4725 right now (and have a backup), but I yearn for my old model M, which I unfortunately lost in a short-sighted way in a move to a new house.
I haven't seen any debs yet, but you can grab the standard tarball. It should work just fine on a stable or testing Debian distribution.
If you want to use anti-aliased fonts with Phoenix 0.5 on Linux for x86, you can grab pre-built Xft-enabled binaries.
Xft Enabled RPMs and tarballs built under RedHat 8.
Xft Enabled tarball built under Debian unstable.
If you aren't running RedHat 8 or Debian unstable, then you may have to do some work to get these pre-built binaries to run.
I am running the Debian unstable Xft-enabled Phoenix 0.5 binary. It works just fine, and looks ever so good.
No need, mozilla works great.
I have been using mozilla as my main browser for a long time now. Back in the early 0.9.x series, mozilla allowed for specific JavaScript functionality to be turned off, things that are responsible for pop-ups and other miscellaneous annoyances. Mozilla has kept my eyes from pop-ups for about a year. I only see pop-ups when I am forced to use IE and when that happens I shudder.
I was one of the people at the other side of the group. Sorry I didn't get to meet you. The guy who had a digital camera brought an iBook as well. I wonder if he'll post the images. I brought my laptop but left it in the car; there didn't seem to be a point without network connectivity. :) I will be bringing my digital camera next time, though.
I thought Sit 'n Spin was a good pick. Parking on the street is free by 7, but finding a spot was tough. The next venue should have better parking and be a little quieter; a network connection would be nice, too. Perhaps Speakeasy or the Bauhaus cafe? Another option might be a restaurant like Denny's or the Hurricane.
Think "12 Monkeys".
Most of the world doesn't consume like Americans and won't. It's silly to suppose that every single person in the world will consume as much as the highest consumers. If there's not enough resources to support everyone consuming as much as the largest consumers, then it won't happen. Even if they did, at most they would succeed in killing themselves off. The earth would go on.
This is more than a little alarmist. There is a problem, however the quote
"extra planets (the equivalent size of Earth) will be required by the year 2050 as existing resources are exhausted"
is just irresponsible.
This brings up the idea of eminent domain. If this technology were classified as a necessary step in increasing the security of operating systems, could the federal government co-opt SCC's patents in the interest of the public good under the doctrine of eminent domain? Is there a precedent regarding the application eminent domain to intellectual property?
If so, would we want them to do so? Eminent domain can cut both ways, since the federal government can assign ownership to corporations, state or federal government in addition to effectively putting something into the physical analog to public domain.
I've been watching this on the Linux Security Module mailing list and have high hopes that SCC sticks to their original promise and not place restrictions on the use of this technology. There are plans to get this into the Linux 2.5 development tree and eventually have it available in 2.6. This is the sort of security technology we desperately need in a popular OS, so let's hope SCC does not prevent its movement towards integration with the main Linux source tree.
It's common knowledge with audiophiles and professional musicians that vacuum tubes are better than solid state technologies at reproducing sound. The highest quality amplifiers in the world use tubes. Most classical concert halls use tube amplifiers.