Cheapbytes CDs are ok if you have experience with Linux, but both the newbies and Redhat and Mandrake deserve a break.
Ive never bought a RedHat box, so I dunno about that, but the Mandrake powerpack is definetely a good value.
Besides, it will be better for a newbie to have the full 4 cds (7 including sources) plus manuals (not to mention a serial number for installation support), than an envelope with 2 naked cds and no support at all.
Isnt it strange that GNOME users, instead of posting their reasons why they would disagree with Konold's comment, decided to limit themselves to flame as ACs?
Ok, probably not 10 city blocks, but it would in the very least reduce the building to rubble ...including everybody inside.
I dunno how jaded are you, but that seems pretty serious to me
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The ammount of energy you can store on a flywheel increases 2X as you make it heavier, but it increases 4X if you make it spin faster.
(my figures could be wrong but they run along those lines)
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Re:That makes no sense.
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The discs are made of high quality carbon fiber... even titanium allow flywheels ended up desintegrated at the speeds these babies have to achieve in order for it to store enough energy.
I dont believe depleted uranium is strong enough to withstand the kinetic energy being stored.
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Re:Eco friendly? Wouldn't a LEAD flywheel be bette
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Actually a lead flywheel would destroy itself within a few seconds of spinning at those high speeds... Nope, it has to be made out of high quality carbon fiber (nanotubes?).
Dunno about depleted uranium... but I think it would be the same thing.
How can somebody make a profit selling below cost at all times?
Sorry if I sound incredibly dumb, but I never got it.
I get it when you sell items ever-so-slightly above cost to make a profit selling large volumes, and still out-profiting the small guy. (Wallmart, Barnes and Noble -bricks and mortar stores-)
I also get it when you sell something below cost (or even give away), so that you can then sell other items at a hefty profit (razors, ink-jet printers)
Could some of the Economic/Politic/Corporate knowitalls at Slashdot explain this to me?
Or was it just the byproduct of the "our stock price will go up no matter our business plan" sort of thing that just blew up these last months?
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This is called iconization
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If an animated character looks too human, your ability to empathize with it is limited, because you don't see enough of yourself in it.
However, if the character has slightly-too-large eyes and simple face features (read: cartoony) then it becomes what is known as "an icon", a face without a defined personality. The character becomes "anyone", allowing you to see more of yourself in the character, therefore increasing empathy for him/her.
This psychological effect is used by most cartoonists and animators (wherever they know it or not), specially japanese manga and anime artists, who exploit it drawing simple strokes for main characters (iconizing them and making us feel attached to them), and creating more complex features for antagonists and secondary characters.
For an example, in Evangelion, Shinji Ikari looks like almost every brown-haired 14 year old kid in the world, while Gendou Ikari (his father) is drawn with much more detail, therefore making us sympathize with the boy and alienate from the father at a gut level.
(the fact that Gendou Ikari is the worst father in the history of anime warrants another discussion)
For more reference read:
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud.
A great explanation of how comics and animation "work" and...
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by the late Joseph Campbell, who explains why a great character in a story moves us and inspires us. This was George Lucas's pillowbook when he was creating the first Star Wars trilogy (pity that he decided to only follow his ego for the new one)
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Re:Thank you CMDR TACO!!
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Anonymous Coward wrote:
YOU ARE A MOTHER FUCKER
Jon Katz, stop posting AC!
Face criticism like a man, goddammit!
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Surrounded by two allies!!?
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As for "knowing nothing" about other countries... The thing is, we don't need to... at least not in the way somebody from, say, Germany needs to. We are a huge country bordered by nothing but two allies and two Oceans
Otro gringo pendejo...
Beating your neighboor into submission and stealing half of its territory doesnt make it your ally...
But don't worry, we are slowly and silently reconquering our borders... More people speak Spanish than English in much of California already.
Is a standard always set by the majority?
Is Windows the standard PC Operating System?
Sorry, it pains me to say it, but yes it is.
That's why every peripheral on the planet is shipped with Windows drivers, and why we have to beg, cajole, or reverse engineer to get Linux drivers.
Its well known that Beta is a technologically superior format to VHS, but the weight of the majority states that you are going to use VHS. Sorry Sony, game over for the Betamax.
Same thing here, we would be better off improving RPM and making it a more agreeable standard.
This is not the same as the people who foolishly argue about consolidating KDE and GNOME or dropping one alltoghether.
This is about making a unified package system for all distributions, so that Joe User can download a package, fireup his favorite InstallShield-like tool from KDE, Gnome, WM, [insert your WM here] to quickly install it, without worrying if it will be installed in a wrong location, or if it will bitch about a dependency that you _do_ have installed.
Of course, if we are going to standarize on something, lets change the name of it so that it becomes distro-agnostic.
I suggest.lsp (linux standard package)
Also, openess exists in commerce in the free availability of "consumer reports" type magazines (some sponsored by the local goverments), free speech to talk to your neighboor about the quality of a given product, and your right to publicize (via print, web, etc) your good or bad experiences with a given product or service
I see your point, but I cant help thinking: You cant possibly think of making a living out of selling solutions to people who cant even pay for a PentiumMMX/AMDK5/Cyrix class machines
Dont get me wrong, I get much of my consultancy work because I underbid other consultancy firms that offer MS solutions.
I am able to do this because I dont include software licensing costs and because I dont require my client to upgrade to Pentium4 just for him to be able to run my software.
But I still think that for many cases, it would be cheaper for the customer (in the long run) to bite the bullet and include the cost of a handfull of Cyrix-based machines with 32MB ram.
QT Designer is a very nifty tool for quick prototyping in XML, which can then be converted to C++ classes.
Now, if a better programmer than me could perhaps make an XML parser that could translate this into classes for an interpreted language like Python you would have all the advantages of Visual Basic without the disadvantages.
Disclaimer: I know there are lots of good teachers out there, but lets face it; if you were a good lawyer, you wouldnt be teaching, but litigating. The same applies for almost everything else.
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AtheOS uses Bash and many other GNU tools...
So Stallman could also argue that it should be named GNU/AtheOS, given that he is so fond of demanding credit everywhere the GPL is used.
My wife uses Linux almost exclusively... She is not at all technically inclined, but she likes the lack of random OS crashes...
She tells me she can understand beta quality software crashing when its free from the internet, but she now finds hard to understand why 200+ USD software crashes just as easily.
I think you mean "Americans", our southerly neighbours...
Lo siento, pero creo tu tambien generalizaste demasiado. Solo los gringos estan (o estaban) asi de capados... Nosotros en Mexico regularmente usamos encripcion pesada. Para un ejemplo chequen Linuxppp
una distribucion de linux que surgio por la falta de encripcion pesada en las distros gringas.
Translation: Sorry, but I think you overgeneralized too. Only the gringos are (or were) so emasculated... We at Mexico regularly use heavy encription. For an example see Linuxppp
a Linux distribution that emerged due to the lack of heavy encription on gringo distros.
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Ive never bought a RedHat box, so I dunno about that, but the Mandrake powerpack is definetely a good value.
Besides, it will be better for a newbie to have the full 4 cds (7 including sources) plus manuals (not to mention a serial number for installation support), than an envelope with 2 naked cds and no support at all.
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I dunno how jaded are you, but that seems pretty serious to me
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(my figures could be wrong but they run along those lines)
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I dont believe depleted uranium is strong enough to withstand the kinetic energy being stored.
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Dunno about depleted uranium... but I think it would be the same thing.
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Doh! ;^)
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Sorry if I sound incredibly dumb, but I never got it.
I get it when you sell items ever-so-slightly above cost to make a profit selling large volumes, and still out-profiting the small guy. (Wallmart, Barnes and Noble -bricks and mortar stores-)
I also get it when you sell something below cost (or even give away), so that you can then sell other items at a hefty profit (razors, ink-jet printers)
Could some of the Economic/Politic/Corporate knowitalls at Slashdot explain this to me?
Or was it just the byproduct of the "our stock price will go up no matter our business plan" sort of thing that just blew up these last months?
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However, if the character has slightly-too-large eyes and simple face features (read: cartoony) then it becomes what is known as "an icon", a face without a defined personality. The character becomes "anyone", allowing you to see more of yourself in the character, therefore increasing empathy for him/her.
This psychological effect is used by most cartoonists and animators (wherever they know it or not), specially japanese manga and anime artists, who exploit it drawing simple strokes for main characters (iconizing them and making us feel attached to them), and creating more complex features for antagonists and secondary characters.
For an example, in Evangelion, Shinji Ikari looks like almost every brown-haired 14 year old kid in the world, while Gendou Ikari (his father) is drawn with much more detail, therefore making us sympathize with the boy and alienate from the father at a gut level.
(the fact that Gendou Ikari is the worst father in the history of anime warrants another discussion)
For more reference read:
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. A great explanation of how comics and animation "work" and...
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by the late Joseph Campbell, who explains why a great character in a story moves us and inspires us. This was George Lucas's pillowbook when he was creating the first Star Wars trilogy (pity that he decided to only follow his ego for the new one)
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Jon Katz, stop posting AC! Face criticism like a man, goddammit!
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Otro gringo pendejo...
Beating your neighboor into submission and stealing half of its territory doesnt make it your ally...
But don't worry, we are slowly and silently reconquering our borders... More people speak Spanish than English in much of California already.
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That's why every peripheral on the planet is shipped with Windows drivers, and why we have to beg, cajole, or reverse engineer to get Linux drivers.
Its well known that Beta is a technologically superior format to VHS, but the weight of the majority states that you are going to use VHS. Sorry Sony, game over for the Betamax.
Same thing here, we would be better off improving RPM and making it a more agreeable standard.
This is not the same as the people who foolishly argue about consolidating KDE and GNOME or dropping one alltoghether.
This is about making a unified package system for all distributions, so that Joe User can download a package, fireup his favorite InstallShield-like tool from KDE, Gnome, WM, [insert your WM here] to quickly install it, without worrying if it will be installed in a wrong location, or if it will bitch about a dependency that you _do_ have installed.
Of course, if we are going to standarize on something, lets change the name of it so that it becomes distro-agnostic. .lsp (linux standard package)
I suggest
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I will certainly look it up!
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You cant possibly think of making a living out of selling solutions to people who cant even pay for a PentiumMMX/AMDK5/Cyrix class machines
Dont get me wrong, I get much of my consultancy work because I underbid other consultancy firms that offer MS solutions.
I am able to do this because I dont include software licensing costs and because I dont require my client to upgrade to Pentium4 just for him to be able to run my software.
But I still think that for many cases, it would be cheaper for the customer (in the long run) to bite the bullet and include the cost of a handfull of Cyrix-based machines with 32MB ram.
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Now, if a better programmer than me could perhaps make an XML parser that could translate this into classes for an interpreted language like Python you would have all the advantages of Visual Basic without the disadvantages.
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Disclaimer: I know there are lots of good teachers out there, but lets face it; if you were a good lawyer, you wouldnt be teaching, but litigating. The same applies for almost everything else.
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So Stallman could also argue that it should be named GNU/AtheOS, given that he is so fond of demanding credit everywhere the GPL is used.
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There are more RPM users than DEB users, but the Debian people are notoriously vocal, therefore giving the appearance of a multitude.
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She tells me she can understand beta quality software crashing when its free from the internet, but she now finds hard to understand why 200+ USD software crashes just as easily.
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Lo siento, pero creo tu tambien generalizaste demasiado. Solo los gringos estan (o estaban) asi de capados... Nosotros en Mexico regularmente usamos encripcion pesada. Para un ejemplo chequen Linuxppp una distribucion de linux que surgio por la falta de encripcion pesada en las distros gringas.
Translation: Sorry, but I think you overgeneralized too. Only the gringos are (or were) so emasculated... We at Mexico regularly use heavy encription. For an example see Linuxppp a Linux distribution that emerged due to the lack of heavy encription on gringo distros.
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@P=split//,".URRUU\c8R";@d=split//,"\nrekcah xinU / lreP rehtona tsuJ";sub p{ @p{"r$p","u$p"}=(P,P);pipe"r$p","u$p";++$p;($q*=2) +=$f=!fork;map{$P=$P[$f^ord
($p{$_})&6];$p{$_}=/ ^$P/ix?$P:close$_}keys%p}p;p;p;p;p;map{$p{$_}=~/^[ P.]/&&
close$_}%p;wait until$?;map{/^r/&&}%p;$_=$d[$q];sleep rand(2)if/\S/;print
Larry Wall won the obfuscated C contest twice, you know?
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Seems that this is a problem regarding Red Hat, not Ximian...
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