It looks like it's 2 5 1/4" drives tall, which is usually a 2u case, but regardless, that's important info that's omitted in this article. More importantly, however, is the utter lack, it seems, of hot swapping. Yeah, it's got 5 drive bays, but if you've got to power down the server to swap a bad disk out, what's the point? The writer seemed to be more about "oooh shiney" and less about the things that actually matter in a server room.
This is a pre-alpha proof of concept. Make it work, then work on making it gorgeous. A lot of the things you mentioned are possible with the toolkits they're working on, it's just they didn't enable them for various reasons. XUL can do AA, but some people just don't like it; makes fonts look blurry. And one of the other things XUL allows is one to change the UI to their personality. Build an itunes-like frontend, or an amaroK frontend, or a windows media player frontend. Think of this project as more of a media application framework and you get a lot closer to what can be done. It's not just another itunes ripoff.
The eulas mention performance benchmarks. This article dealt more with feature sets and price/performance questions. No benchmark numbers here, so the EULA means nothing.
What about using a bank of high-intensity infrared LEDs? Has anyone experimented with the CCDs to see how well they handle intentional washout? Keeps the plate visible, but cannot be recorded digitally.
I imagine that most distro makers would create a symlink between/usr/X11R6 pointing to/usr, just like they did for a while when various programs were expecting X386, X11, etc. directories.
Yes, I was assuming he had the prequisite libraries. From how he described the problem, he seemed knowledgable enough, but waiting around for everything to install was a hassle for him. If he didn't, I'd have suggested waiting until the final release, or getting a geek buddy to help him out. It's no different from someone working on a car. If someone knows their way around the hood, I'd give them pointers on how to change the carb or belts, but for a neophyte friend, I'd either offer to head over there to help them out, or suggest getting someone to help them out. Sometimes, you give the blatantly simple instructions, sometimes, you give the one-liner that Just Does Everything with no explaination. It all depends on the situation.
Of course, you cut off right before I said if one wants simplicity, to just wait and let someone else package it for you. For the geek, like the original poster was, it is simple. For the uninitiated, it's best to just wait until their distro packages it, due to the reasons I gave. The original poster implied a knowledge of shell, so I provided a way for him to do the install in a fairly straightforward manner. If he gave the impression of being less shell-inclined, I'd have said it's best to just wait until the release version. The Gaim team is really good about providing binaries for popular Linux distros.
Dude, there's this thing called multitasking. Download the client, check back in a bit. Jump to the console, run:
tar xfz gaim-x.x.x.tar.gz && cd gaim-x.x.x &&./configure && make && make install
Simple, doesn't take all of your time. Besides, they don't compile for anything else because it builds for a lot of different gtk/gnome versions. Easier to let the knowledgable people build it themselves, and let the uninitiated wait for their distro makers to include it - cuts down on people complaining because of ancient library versions, etc.
They do. Cheap travel into space means opportunities in metallurgy, mining, medicine, and tourism, just to name a few industries. New Mexico isn't England, it's large, sparse, with a lot of area that, simply put, isn't easily inhabitable, thus mitigating a lot of the pollution problems that come with any large industrial venture. Traffic is not a very major problem as well; the area already has a freeway bisecting it that could handle a few thousand more people in terms of traffic with no problem. New Mexico was chosen precisely because it's out of the way enough that you don't have to worry about the NIMBY affect, but close enough to civilization that people can still get to it. Face it, space is the future, plain and simple.
Yay, human-brained mice. This means that once they escape and start rampaging, scientists will have no choice but to create a race of catpeople to counter them. Of course, this will lead to revolts creating a need for dogpeople, but for a short time, I shall have my catboy! Vengance shall be mine!
EMacs is text mode. This means that you can still have a usable editor session even if your alteration of configuration settings have rendered your computer usable, or if you're accessing a system over a dialup line or cell connection. Linux GUI-based word processesors have had wheelmouse support for years. Unlike Windows, Linux developers still realize that we're not always on a highspeed connection, and thus, allow people to be productive remotely.
Let's take a look at a couple of replies from atheists from this thread, shall we?
Except the difference is that on average (and likely to a very large degree) the "fundamentalist" atheists are much more intelligent and educated than the fundamentalist Christians.
and
OTOH, the fucking fundies deserve every bit of abuse that comes their way, and then some.
Now, let's look at the definition of zeal, shall we?
Enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal and tireless diligence in its furtherance.
The above posters, at least, definitely show a zeal to their own ideal of atheism, willing to speak without tact or diplomacy to further their cause. The definition goes on to say:
See Synonyms at passion.
I don't think you have to go that far in this post to find impassioned atheists. Face it, for a lot of atheists, it's a religion.
Y'all are both irrational idiots, in my opinion. Least the christian fundies recognize that their beliefs are in fact, religious, something that most atheists will vehemently deny. So far, I've only met one atheist who is intellectually honest enough to state that, yes, her beliefs are religious. You intellectually honest enough to admit the same?
The email he wrote was tactless and ill-timed, plain and simple. He knows he's in a controversial position right now, he should have had an ounce of common sense and written his feelings in a much more...political...tone. There were definitely better ways to express his opinion than the email he sent out, which smacked of the same tones and language that he criticizes fundamentalists of using.
It does raise issues about this professor's ability to teach a class objectively and fairly. He knew that in his present situation, he was going to be watched like a hawk, so naturally, the intelligent thing to do would have been to keep his mouth shut until the controversy simmered a bit.
Bend over backwards? They did exactly what their customer asked them to do, which was to stop linking to their site. Only after the value of what podcasting.com was doing was apparent did vegan.com come back wanting to restart the business relationship. At which point, it becomes tough cookies, better luck next time.
Funny, I tried that IE program you mumbled about. Doesn't seem to work too well on my FreeBSD box. So I tried it on my Linux box, same thing. Seems this Micro-Soft company needs to learn a thing or two about coding...maybe 10-15 years this internet explorer thing will be ready for the desktop.
Oh, and I'd never trust any pr0n site that showed this image as pr0n.
See the above example regarding stilleto heels vs sneakers, or think about using a hammer and chisel on a log. While the hammer alone will do insignificant damage, the chisel directs the force of the hammer into a more concentrated area. Similarly, these 700,000 tons concentrated on a fairly small (a block or two) area of the earth's surface causes much, much more pressure on the earth compared to the same amount of area spread over, say, an entire neighborhood. This article doesn't sound too far-fetched to me. Combine a tall building with a relatively shallow fault, and you've got the potential to cause small amounts of movement. While I don't think that it would necessarily be enough to cause a huge quake on its own, it seems more than plausible to cause tiny shifts of land, like is happening in the article in question.
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Of course, you realize that you haven't had to right click in the GIMP for years now, right? Gimp's had pulldown menus by default for a long time now.
The rear view seemed to show a video card with 2 DVI slots, so it looks like it does add a couple full height cards.
It looks like it's 2 5 1/4" drives tall, which is usually a 2u case, but regardless, that's important info that's omitted in this article. More importantly, however, is the utter lack, it seems, of hot swapping. Yeah, it's got 5 drive bays, but if you've got to power down the server to swap a bad disk out, what's the point? The writer seemed to be more about "oooh shiney" and less about the things that actually matter in a server room.
This is a pre-alpha proof of concept. Make it work, then work on making it gorgeous. A lot of the things you mentioned are possible with the toolkits they're working on, it's just they didn't enable them for various reasons. XUL can do AA, but some people just don't like it; makes fonts look blurry. And one of the other things XUL allows is one to change the UI to their personality. Build an itunes-like frontend, or an amaroK frontend, or a windows media player frontend. Think of this project as more of a media application framework and you get a lot closer to what can be done. It's not just another itunes ripoff.
The eulas mention performance benchmarks. This article dealt more with feature sets and price/performance questions. No benchmark numbers here, so the EULA means nothing.
What about using a bank of high-intensity infrared LEDs? Has anyone experimented with the CCDs to see how well they handle intentional washout? Keeps the plate visible, but cannot be recorded digitally.
I imagine that most distro makers would create a symlink between /usr/X11R6 pointing to /usr, just like they did for a while when various programs were expecting X386, X11, etc. directories.
You can compile perl, y'know. Look at the perlcc program for more info.
Yes, I was assuming he had the prequisite libraries. From how he described the problem, he seemed knowledgable enough, but waiting around for everything to install was a hassle for him. If he didn't, I'd have suggested waiting until the final release, or getting a geek buddy to help him out. It's no different from someone working on a car. If someone knows their way around the hood, I'd give them pointers on how to change the carb or belts, but for a neophyte friend, I'd either offer to head over there to help them out, or suggest getting someone to help them out. Sometimes, you give the blatantly simple instructions, sometimes, you give the one-liner that Just Does Everything with no explaination. It all depends on the situation.
Of course, you cut off right before I said if one wants simplicity, to just wait and let someone else package it for you. For the geek, like the original poster was, it is simple. For the uninitiated, it's best to just wait until their distro packages it, due to the reasons I gave. The original poster implied a knowledge of shell, so I provided a way for him to do the install in a fairly straightforward manner. If he gave the impression of being less shell-inclined, I'd have said it's best to just wait until the release version. The Gaim team is really good about providing binaries for popular Linux distros.
tar xfz gaim-x.x.x.tar.gz && cd gaim-x.x.x && ./configure && make && make install
Simple, doesn't take all of your time. Besides, they don't compile for anything else because it builds for a lot of different gtk/gnome versions. Easier to let the knowledgable people build it themselves, and let the uninitiated wait for their distro makers to include it - cuts down on people complaining because of ancient library versions, etc.
They do. Cheap travel into space means opportunities in metallurgy, mining, medicine, and tourism, just to name a few industries. New Mexico isn't England, it's large, sparse, with a lot of area that, simply put, isn't easily inhabitable, thus mitigating a lot of the pollution problems that come with any large industrial venture. Traffic is not a very major problem as well; the area already has a freeway bisecting it that could handle a few thousand more people in terms of traffic with no problem. New Mexico was chosen precisely because it's out of the way enough that you don't have to worry about the NIMBY affect, but close enough to civilization that people can still get to it. Face it, space is the future, plain and simple.
I'm ocelotbob, and am very much male. So unless you're AC/DC, I'm sorry to burst your hopes and dreams.
Yay, human-brained mice. This means that once they escape and start rampaging, scientists will have no choice but to create a race of catpeople to counter them. Of course, this will lead to revolts creating a need for dogpeople, but for a short time, I shall have my catboy! Vengance shall be mine!
EMacs is text mode. This means that you can still have a usable editor session even if your alteration of configuration settings have rendered your computer usable, or if you're accessing a system over a dialup line or cell connection. Linux GUI-based word processesors have had wheelmouse support for years. Unlike Windows, Linux developers still realize that we're not always on a highspeed connection, and thus, allow people to be productive remotely.
Intensity of belief. Any belief or cause held zealously can, by definition, be considered religious.
Y'all are both irrational idiots, in my opinion. Least the christian fundies recognize that their beliefs are in fact, religious, something that most atheists will vehemently deny. So far, I've only met one atheist who is intellectually honest enough to state that, yes, her beliefs are religious. You intellectually honest enough to admit the same?
Sort of like fundamentalist atheists, eh? Because you don't believe in a god, there can't possibly be one, non?
The email he wrote was tactless and ill-timed, plain and simple. He knows he's in a controversial position right now, he should have had an ounce of common sense and written his feelings in a much more...political...tone. There were definitely better ways to express his opinion than the email he sent out, which smacked of the same tones and language that he criticizes fundamentalists of using.
It does raise issues about this professor's ability to teach a class objectively and fairly. He knew that in his present situation, he was going to be watched like a hawk, so naturally, the intelligent thing to do would have been to keep his mouth shut until the controversy simmered a bit.
Bend over backwards? They did exactly what their customer asked them to do, which was to stop linking to their site. Only after the value of what podcasting.com was doing was apparent did vegan.com come back wanting to restart the business relationship. At which point, it becomes tough cookies, better luck next time.
Oh, and I'd never trust any pr0n site that showed this image as pr0n.
Y'know, there's this thing called emulation. Perhaps you should try it.
See the above example regarding stilleto heels vs sneakers, or think about using a hammer and chisel on a log. While the hammer alone will do insignificant damage, the chisel directs the force of the hammer into a more concentrated area. Similarly, these 700,000 tons concentrated on a fairly small (a block or two) area of the earth's surface causes much, much more pressure on the earth compared to the same amount of area spread over, say, an entire neighborhood. This article doesn't sound too far-fetched to me. Combine a tall building with a relatively shallow fault, and you've got the potential to cause small amounts of movement. While I don't think that it would necessarily be enough to cause a huge quake on its own, it seems more than plausible to cause tiny shifts of land, like is happening in the article in question.