When I first switched to 2.6.3, I also had issues with my touchpad. I'm on an old Dell Latitutde CPi300. I had to install the synaptics driver for XFree86 to fix this. The driver comes with a bunch of great features, and you can configure the heck out of it, if you so desire. I forgot the url, but google is your friend...
...is that the actual flight is only a small part of the trip.
I, for one, live near the Raleigh/Durham airport. My next trip will be to New Orleans. With standard planes, that's a flight time of maybe 2 hours and a bit. But what about my trip, as it is?
Driving to the airport: 0:10
Parking, waiting for shuttle to bring me to the terminal: 0:20
Checking in, security, waiting, boarding: 1:00
Flying to Charlotte: 1:00
Waiting for connecting flight: 1:10
Flying to New Orleans: 2:10
Waiting for baggage, shuttle: 0:40
Drive to French Quarter: 0:30
So, now the grand total is: 7 hours. If I was on a jet that can reach Mach 7, and would be allowed to do so over land, how much time would this really save? In this example, maybe something between 1 and 2 hours. So, I save about 20 percent of my travel time. Big deal. Having a direct flight, as I still had in 2001, would have saved me more.
So, fast planes are nice and all, and if your idea of a commute is from LA to Tokyo, this is splendid news for you. For the rest of us, faster planes are a nice solution... just not for our problem.
For what it's worth: this simple math is also the reason why Boeing's planned SonicCruiser didn't get anyone really excited.
If you boil Nat's comments down to the core, it really is just No, No, they don't like Qt more than Gtk, really! and when he somewhere deep inside realizes that they actually do, he pushes out a squeaky But, but, but... ok, alright, Gtk sucks, but so does Qt, damn it!.
In the real world, egos matter, but not as much as money, and it is quite obvious that for commercial applications, Qt is viable and poplular, at least for some. For some even more so than Gtk.
Novell will put focus on either Qt or Gtk; everything else is juste a waste. Nat is certainly in a position to know what, and his comments make it obvious that Novell will not push Gtk into the limelight.
So, Nat, take a deep breath, get acquainted to the idea that Qt is not yet another incarnation of evil and stop whining!
The best achievable resolution is apparently better for Mars Global Surveyor, if not by much though: 1.5m vs 2m. The claim to fame of Mars Express seems to be the way that these hi-res shots are embedded in the low-res shots that they take to map the whole planet, which allows them to actually pin-point where the hi-res shots were taken, which, as some claim, is often difficult for the Margs Global Surveyor shots.
This orbiter will be equipped with what NASA calls the "most powerful camera ever flown on a planetary exploration mission"
Technology advances, now that's a surprise! Of course it's better than what Mars Express has now. Of course Mars Express itself is more sophisticated than Mars Odyssey. Of course Mars Odyssey is fancier than <insert name of previous probe>. Of course <continue as desired>...
Why would you spend that sort of money if not for new results, huh? Those marketing droids, just got to love 'em!
Adapting LotR to anything is a bold undertaking. Peter Jackson took the enormous risk to turn it into a movie trilogy, and succeeded, IMO, in the sense that apparently most avoid Tolkien fans seem to approve of his work, even though there are concerns about "streamlining" or "cutting corners" here and there. And I think Jackson deserves an enormous amount of credit for this.
Now, 10 hours of movies are yet quite different from 3 hours of musical. To bring this to the stage in a successful manner, a lot of streamlining and cutting will have to be done, with a tremendous risk of falling short of the original. I will admit that I was sceptical about the movies, and Jackson proved me wrong. I am even more sceptical here.
There are times where it's wise not to tempt fate, and pass on some challenges, instead of taking your shot at it and fail. Come up with your own original story and knockyourself out, no problem. But taint the work of Tolkien with a failed attempt of an adaptation, and people will remember you for a long time...
The "flamebait" line is not a signature. It was part of the actual posting. Anyway, you've asked me to bring forward evidence for my claims, and I will try to show something here.
I found it difficult to get data about the 60s, which I consider the hay-day of the Soviet Union. Even so, according to the CIA, the illiteracy rate in the US is considerably higher than in Russia.. Of course, the numbers are from different years, and a lot of other things are to be considered here (immigration, for example), but for all I know it is generally agreed, that the Soviet Union had a literacy rate of close to 100%.
As far as health care goes, this was a constitutional right in the Soviet Union, so things are quite different than in the US. Thus, there was no such thing as being to poor for health services.
Now, having this said, my point was not that everything was great in the Soviet Union back then. Lack of freedom and democracy come to mind, and of course the crimes of the Stalin era alone can fill volumes.
What I was trying to say was that the reasoning of the original poster, (Many Chinese are poor, so their country shouldn't engage in space flight), could just as well have been made against the US during NASAs finest days. That's all.
The USA did it and more, [...] but it could afford it, being a truly rich country.
I hope you realize that there's more people in the US today without medical insurance than there were in the USSR during the space race? That there's now more people in the US not receiving a reasonable education than in the USSE back then?
It's your "We're awesome, so we have the right to kick ass, everyone else doesn't really deserve it" attitude that made the US a lot of enemies...
Oh, and before you mod this as flamebait, maybe at least try to make an effort to prove me wrong!
It really makes one wonder where we would be if Goddard had restrictions on fuel sources and flight space
Not to diminish Goddards achievements, but in terms of who-influenced-whom, he was more on a side-track of space explocation. Both Wernher von Braun and Sergej Korolov had most of their roots elsewhere. And of course, the military behind them, paving the road...
"One of the reasons we are doing this with passports first is because the U.S. government has said it will require biometric passports for people wishing to enter the United States," the government spokesperson says. "At first that was to begin in October 2004, but that has be delayed to an unspecified date in 2005."
While it's obvious that there is some strong bias in the oritinal post, your knee-jerk reaction also doesn't really help to paint a nicer picture of the US and its people...
* Throwing out the world "Multipolar".
Before Gallileo, the US was the sole provider of a GPS system. Now there'll be another player. I don't see how the term "multipolar" is inappropriate. About the capital M... come on now, how many posts on slashdot are spelled correctly?
* Referencing the money values in euros, even though the world standard is dollars.
Gallileo started out as a European project, and it would seem pretty obvious that they'd use Euros.
As the article mentions, this is problably not for everyone. Not for most, actually.
Skeptics of wood gasification argue that it devours too much of a not-so-easy-to-replenish natural resource. Walt acknowledges that his BioMax machines aren't for every home or town but that they make most economic and ecological sense in areas where there's plenty of wasted wood that would otherwise be left to rot or tossed - at a cost - in landfills (producing methane and other greenhouse gases).
Rape is probably a more viable source of energy for the masses, growing much faster than wood, and also used successfully for power generation, though also on a relatively small scale yet.
Of course, my dual Athlon produces a lot of heat; there should be a way to make use of that. Uhm, well, ok, forget that:)
What's so special about this FAQ that it received so much attention here? Wasn't too long ago that even the thought of updating it made it to the frontpage
it's an interesting thought/observation that adoption of Linux is made easier if it is different enough from Windows.
While the article is a bit thin on details on this, I'd be curious to know what this extends to. Is it just the look of the widgets? Questions like single vs. double click? Menu layouts of the standard applications? Did anyone make this experience before when trying to convert folks to Linux?
He didn't really get too far into that, but it would be interesting to see how feasible it is to do all the 2D rendering using OpenGL, encapsulated by some layer, like his Evas.
Has anyone done that? Any interesting results? One would think that there's a lot of potential here...
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When I was still living in Germany, I used to read C't regularly, and many others did too. Among sysadmins, IX was also popular. Both from Heise.
What is a heavy load? Are you talking about CPU usage only? Or also memory usage? Disc access? Or other ressources, such as bus, network etc?
And an Intel chip? Last time I checked, they produced different chips over the years. Are you referring to the 4004? Or to a P4 Prescott?
When I first switched to 2.6.3, I also had issues with my touchpad. I'm on an old Dell Latitutde CPi300. I had to install the synaptics driver for XFree86 to fix this. The driver comes with a bunch of great features, and you can configure the heck out of it, if you so desire. I forgot the url, but google is your friend...
but wouldn't life be just a little bit too bland without our favorite enemy?
I, for one, live near the Raleigh/Durham airport. My next trip will be to New Orleans. With standard planes, that's a flight time of maybe 2 hours and a bit. But what about my trip, as it is?
- Driving to the airport: 0:10
- Parking, waiting for shuttle to bring me to the terminal: 0:20
- Checking in, security, waiting, boarding: 1:00
- Flying to Charlotte: 1:00
- Waiting for connecting flight: 1:10
- Flying to New Orleans: 2:10
- Waiting for baggage, shuttle: 0:40
- Drive to French Quarter: 0:30
So, now the grand total is: 7 hours. If I was on a jet that can reach Mach 7, and would be allowed to do so over land, how much time would this really save? In this example, maybe something between 1 and 2 hours. So, I save about 20 percent of my travel time. Big deal. Having a direct flight, as I still had in 2001, would have saved me more.So, fast planes are nice and all, and if your idea of a commute is from LA to Tokyo, this is splendid news for you. For the rest of us, faster planes are a nice solution... just not for our problem.
For what it's worth: this simple math is also the reason why Boeing's planned SonicCruiser didn't get anyone really excited.
If you boil Nat's comments down to the core, it really is just No, No, they don't like Qt more than Gtk, really! and when he somewhere deep inside realizes that they actually do, he pushes out a squeaky But, but, but... ok, alright, Gtk sucks, but so does Qt, damn it!.
In the real world, egos matter, but not as much as money, and it is quite obvious that for commercial applications, Qt is viable and poplular, at least for some. For some even more so than Gtk. Novell will put focus on either Qt or Gtk; everything else is juste a waste. Nat is certainly in a position to know what, and his comments make it obvious that Novell will not push Gtk into the limelight.
So, Nat, take a deep breath, get acquainted to the idea that Qt is not yet another incarnation of evil and stop whining!
The best achievable resolution is apparently better for Mars Global Surveyor, if not by much though: 1.5m vs 2m. The claim to fame of Mars Express seems to be the way that these hi-res shots are embedded in the low-res shots that they take to map the whole planet, which allows them to actually pin-point where the hi-res shots were taken, which, as some claim, is often difficult for the Margs Global Surveyor shots.
Anyway, good point made!
Technology advances, now that's a surprise! Of course it's better than what Mars Express has now. Of course Mars Express itself is more sophisticated than Mars Odyssey. Of course Mars Odyssey is fancier than <insert name of previous probe>. Of course <continue as desired> ...
Why would you spend that sort of money if not for new results, huh? Those marketing droids, just got to love 'em!
Adapting LotR to anything is a bold undertaking. Peter Jackson took the enormous risk to turn it into a movie trilogy, and succeeded, IMO, in the sense that apparently most avoid Tolkien fans seem to approve of his work, even though there are concerns about "streamlining" or "cutting corners" here and there. And I think Jackson deserves an enormous amount of credit for this.
Now, 10 hours of movies are yet quite different from 3 hours of musical. To bring this to the stage in a successful manner, a lot of streamlining and cutting will have to be done, with a tremendous risk of falling short of the original. I will admit that I was sceptical about the movies, and Jackson proved me wrong. I am even more sceptical here.
There are times where it's wise not to tempt fate, and pass on some challenges, instead of taking your shot at it and fail. Come up with your own original story and knockyourself out, no problem. But taint the work of Tolkien with a failed attempt of an adaptation, and people will remember you for a long time...
So what is a democracy? Is the US one, considering that Al Gore, even though he won the popular vote, is not president?
Has the "civilized" world been democratic in the 1800s, when only white male were allowed to vote in most places?
So, what exactly is a democracy?
I found it difficult to get data about the 60s, which I consider the hay-day of the Soviet Union. Even so, according to the CIA, the illiteracy rate in the US is considerably higher than in Russia.. Of course, the numbers are from different years, and a lot of other things are to be considered here (immigration, for example), but for all I know it is generally agreed, that the Soviet Union had a literacy rate of close to 100%.
As far as health care goes, this was a constitutional right in the Soviet Union, so things are quite different than in the US. Thus, there was no such thing as being to poor for health services.
Now, having this said, my point was not that everything was great in the Soviet Union back then. Lack of freedom and democracy come to mind, and of course the crimes of the Stalin era alone can fill volumes.
What I was trying to say was that the reasoning of the original poster, (Many Chinese are poor, so their country shouldn't engage in space flight), could just as well have been made against the US during NASAs finest days. That's all.
I hope you realize that there's more people in the US today without medical insurance than there were in the USSR during the space race? That there's now more people in the US not receiving a reasonable education than in the USSE back then?
It's your "We're awesome, so we have the right to kick ass, everyone else doesn't really deserve it" attitude that made the US a lot of enemies...
Oh, and before you mod this as flamebait, maybe at least try to make an effort to prove me wrong!
Just for the record: Hitler was "spawned" in Austria...
In good ol' Germany, that is!
It really makes one wonder where we would be if Goddard had restrictions on fuel sources and flight space
Not to diminish Goddards achievements, but in terms of who-influenced-whom, he was more on a side-track of space explocation. Both Wernher von Braun and Sergej Korolov had most of their roots elsewhere. And of course, the military behind them, paving the road...
FYI... The one used in Shanghai, China is the German made Transrapid.
"One of the reasons we are doing this with passports first is because the U.S. government has said it will require biometric passports for people wishing to enter the United States," the government spokesperson says. "At first that was to begin in October 2004, but that has be delayed to an unspecified date in 2005."
* Throwing out the world "Multipolar".
Before Gallileo, the US was the sole provider of a GPS system. Now there'll be another player. I don't see how the term "multipolar" is inappropriate. About the capital M... come on now, how many posts on slashdot are spelled correctly?
* Referencing the money values in euros, even though the world standard is dollars.
Gallileo started out as a European project, and it would seem pretty obvious that they'd use Euros.
What if they do the DNA tests and it turns out that Billy the Kid isn't in either of those graves?
Am I the only one who thinks that this statement sounds pretty arrogant and derogatory?
I think it's FrameMaker.
Skeptics of wood gasification argue that it devours too much of a not-so-easy-to-replenish natural resource. Walt acknowledges that his BioMax machines aren't for every home or town but that they make most economic and ecological sense in areas where there's plenty of wasted wood that would otherwise be left to rot or tossed - at a cost - in landfills (producing methane and other greenhouse gases).
Rape is probably a more viable source of energy for the masses, growing much faster than wood, and also used successfully for power generation, though also on a relatively small scale yet.
Of course, my dual Athlon produces a lot of heat; there should be a way to make use of that. Uhm, well, ok, forget that :)
What's so special about this FAQ that it received so much attention here? Wasn't too long ago that even the thought of updating it made it to the frontpage
While the article is a bit thin on details on this, I'd be curious to know what this extends to. Is it just the look of the widgets? Questions like single vs. double click? Menu layouts of the standard applications? Did anyone make this experience before when trying to convert folks to Linux?
He didn't really get too far into that, but it would be interesting to see how feasible it is to do all the 2D rendering using OpenGL, encapsulated by some layer, like his Evas.
Has anyone done that? Any interesting results? One would think that there's a lot of potential here...