Aircraft maker... cars... finally! After many decades of empty promises, my flying car is here! Now if only they could get to work on those flying cars they promised.
No, that's a terrible example. That's an example that only worked because lots of people did the same thing. And they knew they had to do the same thing, and there was no pretension of originality.
This really belongs in the browser. It wouldn't be hard for browsers that use kernel-level threads to make sure each instance of a plugin runs in its own thread, and that the thread has a decreased (Unix: higher) priority. I don't know about Windows but I'm pretty sure any pthreads system allows separate threads to have separate scheduling policies and parameters.
Perhaps, but why "xfree86"? The "miserable failure" thing was political, but associating XFree86 with porn doesn't seem in any way to serve anyone's interests. If you're paranoid you might accept that enemies of free software, or perhaps enemies of advertising clauses, want to smear the project's name. But come on, surely they have better things to do.
The story I heard is that WP counts words the same way the courts do, whereas MS Word tends to be off. Word limits are particularly important on legal documents, so lawyers will use software that counts words accurately.
The Mint and the BEP do print money, but the Federal Reserve tells them how much they can print. That's what I meant by the Federal Reserve being in control of the money supply. And when the Mint or BEP create some cash, it gets sent to the Federal Reserve, which does the actual work of distributing it to banks.
And yes, of course I realize that taxation makes people poorer. But it serves actual policy goals, like national defense or building Hooters in the midwest. If the government wants people to get rid of money, it should at least set up a Pay Pal account to help them out.
Well, we don't control volcanoes. (The CIA does, and it uses them to produce black helicopters.) But seriously, we worry about what environmental damage we can control. With volcanoes, we're more worried about predicting them so we can move people out of the way.
Huh? If the company tells you it's legal to murder someone and you do that on company time, you're not exactly off the hook. Neither is the company, mind you.
Why, exactly, would the government encourage people to destroy currency? What public policy goal would that serve? (Making people poorer?)
I don't really buy the inflation argument either. Growth in the currency supply accounts for very little of the growth in the money supply. (That's handled by the Federal Reserve, which unlike the Mint has the power to create money.) Quarters account for a tiny fraction of the new currency being produced (coins outlast bills anyway) and collecting all 50 state quarters costs you $12.50. That's a whopping $12.50 removed from the supply of US dollars. That's not going to show up in the CPI numbers...
Of course there are natural sources of CO2. (And BTW, it's not vegetation, but animals, that produces CO2. Plants convert CO2 into O2, (very) roughly speaking.) The point is that there's a natural balance of CO2 sources and sinks. Humans are adding CO2 without providing for anything that removes it. You'd expect that biological CO2 sinks would prosper and make up for the glut of CO2, but humans are turning land that was rich with vegetation into land for human development. So we're reducing CO2 absorbtion and increasing CO2 production.
Look at the rise of CO2 in our atmosphere and tell me again that it's all to be blamed on volcanoes.
That some were found to nest suggests more than simply protecting the eggs, they were keeping them warm. These were not buried nests, but on the surface, exposed. How would a cold blooded animal keep an egg warm?
But perhaps the cold blooded animal could insulate the eggs. The idea being that it could cover the eggs with an area of its body where the skin was a good insulator of heat. (Obviously this can't be the whole skin, otherwise it couldn't be a cold blooded animal.) If the eggs needed an infusion of heat, the parent could generate it through friction; say, by rubbing a limb against the eggs.
Disclaimer: I don't know what I'm talking about. What did you expect on slashdot?
WTF? Do you know how a CPU works? Have you ever programmed in assembly language? Do you even understand the stored-program concept? Apparently your moderators were equally clueless and very, very paranoid. Fucking karma whore.
On another note, I love people who insist on compiling with -O9 or -O6 or something. The documentation doesn't mention anything above -O3, but that doesn't faze our brave hyper-optimizing friends, who "can tell the difference" between a program compiled at -O3 and one compiled at -O9. These are also the people that love to list a dozen specific -f flags that are in fact implied by their optimization level, because they don't trust the -O9 flag to turn all those flags on for them. They'll also specify -march, -mcpu, and maybe -mmmx for good measure, in case the compiler wasn't smart enough to figure out that athlon-xp has MMX extensions, and in case the compiler can find some use for those MMX extensions in chfn, which is invariably the sort of "performance-critical" application they're compiling.
Wow. As ridiculous a use for Linux as I can find, it turns out someone actually wants to do it.:) (And yes, I realize that controlling an embroidering machine isn't half as ridiculous as a potato-powered web server.)
While I agree with you that some election results are really too close to be considered statistically significant, the solution for presidential elections is actually quite simple. Get rid of the winner-takes-all system that all states (but Maine) use for choosing their electors. If Gore and Bush had just split Florida's electors 50-50, the whole debacle could have been avoided. Or better yet, get rid of the whole Electoral College system entirely and use a nationwide popular vote. The more voters you have, the less likely the election will be decided by a few thousand confused elderly voters in Florida. It would also mean that those of us who don't live in "swing states" stop getting ignored by presidential campaigns.
That's what Linux needs! Proper support for embroidering! I hope the fd.o people get around to this soon. Linux really has opportunities in the market for embroidered devices...
But the elevator buttons do show evidence: they light up. At least, they should. If I press an elevator button and it lights up, I assume it's registered my request. If it doesn't light up, I press it again harder.
Which is one of the excuses that non-libertarians use for legalized gambling. It's just "entertainment". Tell that to all the people who piss their savings away thinking they're going to get rich...
The funny thing is my post was modded by at least one person as "informative". Unless the tasks you're fond of automating on Windows involve autoconf...
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Yeah man. It used to be about the music.
Aircraft maker... cars... finally! After many decades of empty promises, my flying car is here! Now if only they could get to work on those flying cars they promised.
When Sendmail is involved, you always have root!
No, that's a terrible example. That's an example that only worked because lots of people did the same thing. And they knew they had to do the same thing, and there was no pretension of originality.
This really belongs in the browser. It wouldn't be hard for browsers that use kernel-level threads to make sure each instance of a plugin runs in its own thread, and that the thread has a decreased (Unix: higher) priority. I don't know about Windows but I'm pretty sure any pthreads system allows separate threads to have separate scheduling policies and parameters.
Depends on how the scales of justice find.
Perhaps, but why "xfree86"? The "miserable failure" thing was political, but associating XFree86 with porn doesn't seem in any way to serve anyone's interests. If you're paranoid you might accept that enemies of free software, or perhaps enemies of advertising clauses, want to smear the project's name. But come on, surely they have better things to do.
The story I heard is that WP counts words the same way the courts do, whereas MS Word tends to be off. Word limits are particularly important on legal documents, so lawyers will use software that counts words accurately.
The Mint and the BEP do print money, but the Federal Reserve tells them how much they can print. That's what I meant by the Federal Reserve being in control of the money supply. And when the Mint or BEP create some cash, it gets sent to the Federal Reserve, which does the actual work of distributing it to banks.
And yes, of course I realize that taxation makes people poorer. But it serves actual policy goals, like national defense or building Hooters in the midwest. If the government wants people to get rid of money, it should at least set up a Pay Pal account to help them out.
Well, we don't control volcanoes. (The CIA does, and it uses them to produce black helicopters.) But seriously, we worry about what environmental damage we can control. With volcanoes, we're more worried about predicting them so we can move people out of the way.
Huh? If the company tells you it's legal to murder someone and you do that on company time, you're not exactly off the hook. Neither is the company, mind you.
Why, exactly, would the government encourage people to destroy currency? What public policy goal would that serve? (Making people poorer?)
I don't really buy the inflation argument either. Growth in the currency supply accounts for very little of the growth in the money supply. (That's handled by the Federal Reserve, which unlike the Mint has the power to create money.) Quarters account for a tiny fraction of the new currency being produced (coins outlast bills anyway) and collecting all 50 state quarters costs you $12.50. That's a whopping $12.50 removed from the supply of US dollars. That's not going to show up in the CPI numbers...
Of course there are natural sources of CO2. (And BTW, it's not vegetation, but animals, that produces CO2. Plants convert CO2 into O2, (very) roughly speaking.) The point is that there's a natural balance of CO2 sources and sinks. Humans are adding CO2 without providing for anything that removes it. You'd expect that biological CO2 sinks would prosper and make up for the glut of CO2, but humans are turning land that was rich with vegetation into land for human development. So we're reducing CO2 absorbtion and increasing CO2 production.
Look at the rise of CO2 in our atmosphere and tell me again that it's all to be blamed on volcanoes.
But perhaps the cold blooded animal could insulate the eggs. The idea being that it could cover the eggs with an area of its body where the skin was a good insulator of heat. (Obviously this can't be the whole skin, otherwise it couldn't be a cold blooded animal.) If the eggs needed an infusion of heat, the parent could generate it through friction; say, by rubbing a limb against the eggs.
Disclaimer: I don't know what I'm talking about. What did you expect on slashdot?
WTF? Do you know how a CPU works? Have you ever programmed in assembly language? Do you even understand the stored-program concept? Apparently your moderators were equally clueless and very, very paranoid. Fucking karma whore.
On another note, I love people who insist on compiling with -O9 or -O6 or something. The documentation doesn't mention anything above -O3, but that doesn't faze our brave hyper-optimizing friends, who "can tell the difference" between a program compiled at -O3 and one compiled at -O9. These are also the people that love to list a dozen specific -f flags that are in fact implied by their optimization level, because they don't trust the -O9 flag to turn all those flags on for them. They'll also specify -march, -mcpu, and maybe -mmmx for good measure, in case the compiler wasn't smart enough to figure out that athlon-xp has MMX extensions, and in case the compiler can find some use for those MMX extensions in chfn, which is invariably the sort of "performance-critical" application they're compiling.
Wow. As ridiculous a use for Linux as I can find, it turns out someone actually wants to do it. :) (And yes, I realize that controlling an embroidering machine isn't half as ridiculous as a potato-powered web server.)
While I agree with you that some election results are really too close to be considered statistically significant, the solution for presidential elections is actually quite simple. Get rid of the winner-takes-all system that all states (but Maine) use for choosing their electors. If Gore and Bush had just split Florida's electors 50-50, the whole debacle could have been avoided. Or better yet, get rid of the whole Electoral College system entirely and use a nationwide popular vote. The more voters you have, the less likely the election will be decided by a few thousand confused elderly voters in Florida. It would also mean that those of us who don't live in "swing states" stop getting ignored by presidential campaigns.
That's what Linux needs! Proper support for embroidering! I hope the fd.o people get around to this soon. Linux really has opportunities in the market for embroidered devices...
But the elevator buttons do show evidence: they light up. At least, they should. If I press an elevator button and it lights up, I assume it's registered my request. If it doesn't light up, I press it again harder.
Which is one of the excuses that non-libertarians use for legalized gambling. It's just "entertainment". Tell that to all the people who piss their savings away thinking they're going to get rich...
The funny thing is my post was modded by at least one person as "informative". Unless the tasks you're fond of automating on Windows involve autoconf...
Hey, can I borrow that pot you have? I need to mix some metaphors in it.
Didn't Carl Sagan sue Apple over codenames for some of its early PPC machines?
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