There's actually another Trek show on Wednesday nights on NBC. It has the same timeline as Star Trek, but it takes place in the early 21st century, and focuses on the leader of one of Earth's countries.
The problem is, the writers are very constrained by being set before the other shows. You know the Vulcans aren't going to show up for a while, and you know the Earth isn't going to be completely destroyed by antything.
So like, when the Captain (they call him 'The President') is on the phone with some other Captain, it's supposed to be really dramatic, but you know nothing really big can happen.
or did others stop caring a lot about speed somewhere around 1Ghz?
Try running Cinelerra on a 1Ghz. Unusable. Your 3D graphics card will not help, you need raw CPU, and I'll bet with an AMD 3200+ you'd still crave more.
FTA: As Washington National Cathedral approached completion, the west towers rose towards the sky, striking toward heaven. During the building a startling idea was hatched: hold a competition for children to design decorative sculpture for the Cathedral.
Darth Vader Drawing Word of the competition was spread nationwide through National Geographic World Magazine. The third-place winner was Christopher Rader, with his drawing of that fearful villain, Darth Vader. The fierce head was sculpted by Jay Hall Carpenter, carved by Patrick J. Plunkett and placed high upon the northwest tower of the Cathedral...
Responding to a question about how MS software is now a huge portion of the cost of a PC because of drops in hardware prices, Balmer says:
And I also don't think hardware prices have come down, at least at the client. Hardware prices have not come down significantly in a number of years
I guess his point is that hardware gets better, not cheaper. But, seriously, I can get 512 MB memory for $80. Try that a 'number of years' ago. If that is not 'prices coming down', what is?
Mackie [mackie.com], Alesis [alesis.com], M-audio [m-audio.com], Roland [roland.com], and MOTU [motu.com] (among others) also make professional audio interface equipment for recording and monitoring/listening.
Cross referencing your list with the ALSA Sound Card matrix, I can only find Roland as having Linux capable cards.
Can you by any chance recommend a card that will work with Linux?
Good comment. If I could mod in this thread, I would.
I stand firm in my freaked-outedness that open source advocates disdain copyrights. Without society's firm belief in creator-ownership, free software would, as I said before, die. It amazes me that geek-advocates travel thousands of miles to the other side of an issue, just so they can steal a copy of the new Moby.
But, you make a good point about ownership of media vs. ownership of IP.
I do believe its everyone's right to do what they wish with their own media
It's not 'your own media' dude.
When you download Linux, you DO NOT OWN IT. Copyrights are ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. You only have rights to it, as granted by the owner of the material, and this is how it should be.
I'll give you a wonderful example. Brigham Young University decided to show Schindler's List to the students. Except, they wanted to show their own version, with all the "offensive content" removed. Speilberg said "no way", and he was fully within his rights to do so.
If copyright owners are not allowed to control what happens to their work, we could not enfoce the GPL. Free software would die.
Just wait until they figure that if you fill a tin can with cement you can put a hole through a car
The German police are already helping them discover this. From the article:
German police fear that the youths will turn to more lethal ammunition than potatoes. Tests have shown that such a bazooka firing an empty film canister filled with sand and the cardboard centres of toilet rolls filled with cement could penetrate brickwork.
North America was pretty well known to Europe before Colombo set foot there
Not sure what your definition of 'well known' is, but clearly Columbus himself did not know about America. Nor did his crew, or his fanciers. Had they known, they never would have bothered trying to come here. What distinguished Colubus's visit is that he mistakenly thought he'd found a cheap way to get to somewhere useful: India. Had they known about America, they never would have set out on the journey in the first place.
Einstein had serious doubts about the morality of atomic weapons [...] But those were moral doubts about the applications of the science, not the research itself.
Actually, I went to see Stephen Hawking speak a few years back, and outside the building were a group of a dozen or so protesters. They were protesting the existence of black holes etc... claiming that Hawking was sent by Satan to lure us away from the Bible.
I can't imagine anything more benign than sitting in a wheelchair thinking about what peices of the universe billions of miles away are like. But, it goes against the bible, so it is 'immoral'.
-see you in hell
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Not sure if you are a troll, but, notice that he mentions his involvement in Team Vodka Martini These guys were mentioned on/. a while back (I don't feel like looking for the article). Although he says none of the computers pictured are used in the contest, someone named Jerkychew clearly has a lot of computers at his disposal. I doubt this is a hoax.
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Looks like someone's got their eyes on Slashdot.
Up 22% today...Hmmmm.
(Yes that's right, Slashdot's ticker symbol is LNUX)
There's actually another Trek show on Wednesday nights on NBC. It has the same timeline as Star Trek, but it takes place in the early 21st century, and focuses on the leader of one of Earth's countries.
The problem is, the writers are very constrained by being set before the other shows. You know the Vulcans aren't going to show up for a while, and you know the Earth isn't going to be completely destroyed by antything.
So like, when the Captain (they call him 'The President') is on the phone with some other Captain, it's supposed to be really dramatic, but you know nothing really big can happen.
The FTP install is free:
Suse FTP install [suse.com]
Unless I'm blind, that site only has the 8.2 live eval, not the full distro. Where's the 8.2 distro?
Phi(15,-10^125)
or did others stop caring a lot about speed somewhere around 1Ghz?
Try running Cinelerra on a 1Ghz. Unusable. Your 3D graphics card will not help, you need raw CPU, and I'll bet with an AMD 3200+ you'd still crave more.
FTA:
As Washington National Cathedral approached completion, the west towers rose towards the sky, striking toward heaven. During the building a startling idea was hatched: hold a competition for children to design decorative sculpture for the Cathedral.
Darth Vader Drawing
Word of the competition was spread nationwide through National Geographic World Magazine. The third-place winner was Christopher Rader, with his drawing of that fearful villain, Darth Vader. The fierce head was sculpted by Jay Hall Carpenter, carved by Patrick J. Plunkett and placed high upon the northwest tower of the Cathedral...
To see pics, go here Google Image Search
You can also search on 'cathedral kid' in Google Images, the kid that drew it is about half way down.
Responding to a question about how MS software is now a huge portion of the cost of a PC because of drops in hardware prices, Balmer says:
And I also don't think hardware prices have come down, at least at the client. Hardware prices have not come down significantly in a number of years
I guess his point is that hardware gets better, not cheaper. But, seriously, I can get 512 MB memory for $80. Try that a 'number of years' ago. If that is not 'prices coming down', what is?
How about: MS buys 'UNIX' from SCO, and sues RedHat, SuSE.
..uh.. have this 'GPL' document written by a geeky weirdo.
Or, imagine MS vs. Lindows.
MS: We own Windows *and* UNIX.
Lindows: We
Just so we have this clear. Limited Liability only applies if you keep you hands off.
Shit! I thought I was off the hook Investing in Slashdot, but by posting, I'm responsible for this crap? My god, I'm even willing to moderate!!!!!
I really don't understand why the ferocity of their defense of the "Firebird" name.
One is a database.
Another is a browser.
It's also a car.
I think it's also some sort of fiery bird.
Fake Nokia cam-phone ad
This is for the cam-phone, not the phone-cam, but it's damn funny, unless you like cats.
The company has used embedded web technology...they do not need to have a computer built inside
Hey Marge, they have the Internet OFF computers now!
Mackie [mackie.com], Alesis [alesis.com], M-audio [m-audio.com], Roland [roland.com], and MOTU [motu.com] (among others) also make professional audio interface equipment for recording and monitoring/listening.
Cross referencing your list with the ALSA Sound Card matrix, I can only find Roland as having Linux capable cards.
Can you by any chance recommend a card that will work with Linux?
I must add Aardvark [aardvarkaudio.com] to your list; I own the q10, and it is swell! Built better than Protools (digi001) stuff, and sounds great.
The Mbox from Digidesign [digidesign.com] is pretty nice too, altho Win/mac only.
I'm curious, what OS are you using the q10 on. Linux? I'm looking into doing multi-track HD recording and I'd like to be able to do it on a Linux box.
Do you know if this card work with BC2000/Cinelerra?
I'm not getting any instant gratification from the above links and blurb. Can someone explain in a few sentences what Aspect Oriented Programming is?
So they rebuild Windows from scratch every day? Somebody send them a copy of make, please.
They do have make. They start by using a technique you may not have heard of:
make clean
This article is 120 paragraphs long. Yet, somehow there are7 +5 posts submitted within 12 minutes of the article getting posted.
It was clear clear from the content of the posts that none of the posters, or the moderators had read the article.
Post without reading if you want, but please don't moderate.
Good comment. If I could mod in this thread, I would.
I stand firm in my freaked-outedness that open source advocates disdain copyrights. Without society's firm belief in creator-ownership, free software would, as I said before, die. It amazes me that geek-advocates travel thousands of miles to the other side of an issue, just so they can steal a copy of the new Moby.
But, you make a good point about ownership of media vs. ownership of IP.
+1 Insightful
I do believe its everyone's right to do what they wish with their own media
It's not 'your own media' dude.
When you download Linux, you DO NOT OWN IT. Copyrights are ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. You only have rights to it, as granted by the owner of the material, and this is how it should be.
I'll give you a wonderful example. Brigham Young University decided to show Schindler's List to the students. Except, they wanted to show their own version, with all the "offensive content" removed. Speilberg said "no way", and he was fully within his rights to do so.
If copyright owners are not allowed to control what happens to their work, we could not enfoce the GPL. Free software would die.
The German police are already helping them discover this. From the article:
(assuming it used Connection: KeepAlive in the HTTP header)
Never assume.
This is the key to this whole mess. The dude who wrote the blog doesn't know about the KeepAlive HTTP header.
This is about the funniest thing i've ever seen on Slashdot.
Read the whole fucking RFC people.
I'll bet it said: Pneer
North America was pretty well known to Europe before Colombo set foot there
Not sure what your definition of 'well known' is, but clearly Columbus himself did not know about America. Nor did his crew, or his fanciers. Had they known, they never would have bothered trying to come here. What distinguished Colubus's visit is that he mistakenly thought he'd found a cheap way to get to somewhere useful: India. Had they known about America, they never would have set out on the journey in the first place.
Well at least we can all breathe a sigh of relief when Microsoft retires DOS at the end of the year.
Einstein had serious doubts about the morality of atomic weapons [...] But those were moral doubts about the applications of the science, not the research itself.
Actually, I went to see Stephen Hawking speak a few years back, and outside the building were a group of a dozen or so protesters. They were protesting the existence of black holes etc... claiming that Hawking was sent by Satan to lure us away from the Bible.
I can't imagine anything more benign than sitting in a wheelchair thinking about what peices of the universe billions of miles away are like. But, it goes against the bible, so it is 'immoral'.
-see you in hell
Not sure if you are a troll, but, notice that he mentions his involvement in Team Vodka Martini These guys were mentioned on /. a while back (I don't feel like looking for the article). Although he says none of the computers pictured are used in the contest, someone named Jerkychew clearly has a lot of computers at his disposal. I doubt this is a hoax.