I hear Mandrake is good for beginners. I started off with RedHat, which wasn't bad.
Although most people won't agree, you could even start with Gentoo. It's very well documented, and pretty much forces you to understand important concepts. It's easy to set up, and the support is great (the forums).
Wouldn't the fact that movies can be rented make a huge difference in pirating?
With a CD, you can't rent it at a low cost to see if you like it. With a movie, however, for just a few dollars you can enjoy the movie, and if you want to, purchase it without fear of wasting your money.
What about heat exhaust from factories, cars, AC, and the such.
You'd think the city itself (buildings, constant traffic) would provide quite a bit of shade on it's dark asphalt and concrete to control the heat at least a bit.
But a devkit would allow you to work on a SNES emulator wouldn't it?
I know there probably wouldn't be enough processing power, but things like mode7 effects could be reasonably reproduced with GBA hardware.
It would sorta be like playing playstation games on a dreamcast with Bleemcast. The emulation isn't meant to be exact, and as a result, it looks better.
Maybe the use of the GBA's hardware like this (though i guess it would be harder to do with sound effects and the such.. since the ear discriminates more than the eye often) could make a half reasonable emulator, which could be a bit slow, but still pretty to the eyes and ears.
It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere I'm all alone, more or less Let me fly, far away from here Fun, fun, fun, in the sun, sun, sun... I want to lie shipwrecked and comatose Drinking fresh mango juice Goldfish shoals, nibbling at my toes Fun, fun, fun, in the sun, sun, sun... Fun, fun, fun, in the sun, sun, sun...
... the above message should not be "flamebait".. it's a valid argument, even though it might even be offtopic. I hope it doesn't get moderated negatively.
"Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public."
I have a friend who developped his own metric clock. It's totally useless, but he can always tell ya how many 100th of a day are left before midnight (non-metric).
way to go Tom.
"Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public."
I just thought that I'd add something to my message..
If you have a car moving at 10 m/s (with respect to the ground), with someone on it, and they through a ball at 5 m/s (w/ respect to the car), both the ball toss and the car are going in the same direction, then, with respect to the ground, the ball is moving at 15 m/s (10 + 5).
Now, this is what confuses people alot. What if you had a flash light mounted on a car going at 220 m/s, and beside the car a flashlight mounted to the ground? If you stood infront of these flashlights, one might think that the light coming from the car is actually travelling faster than the light emitted from the flashlight on the ground.. That is, of course, false! Why? I don't think we really know yet (or that's what they told me in highschool). Light, from any source moving at any speed, will always register as moving with the speed of 'c'. This is why my above message works out. Of course, there are specific equations to work out time/space dialation (the one i used up there isn't correct for finding dialation, it's just an example to show why dialation happens).
Once again, I hope that was informative, and I welcome any corrections.
"Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public."
That's where relativity jumps in. I only covered this for about a week in high-school, so i'm not exactly sure about it all =).. but in those cases, to compensate for what may seem like something going faster than "c", time and space distort.
v = d / t right? right.
so if d = 2, and t =.5, THEN v = 4. now, saw we double v (v = 8), to make the equation valid, we need to make one of 2 possible changes! We can either change d from 2, to 4.. OR, we can change t from.5 to.25 !
Check it out: 8 = 4 /.5 or 8 = 2 /.25
See? it works both ways. NOW, since we can't have a speed exceeding c (well, i guess we can, but lets just say, for this case in specific, that we can't) we must change another part of the equation so it remains valid. We can either change the distance in the equation, or the time in the equation. that's how i remember they explained relative velocities that would exceed c. Either space or time changes so that nothing exceeds c, and so that c is always the same (no matter the frame of reference). Hope that helped!
"Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public."
"I realized that in fact it is more logically correct to say that stars are stationary"
Well, it is all about frames of reference. If your frame of reference only includes the earth and one star, and the distance between both is changing, then, you can logically say either:
1) The earth is moving w/ respect to the star (The star is motionless)
2) The star is moving w/ respect to the earth. (The earth is motionless)
Up to now, what you have said can be right.. NOW, if we include 2 stars and the earth in a frame of reference, and star 1 is moving away from the earth (w/ respect to the earth), star 2 is moving towards the earth (wrtte), and star 1 is moving away from star 2 (w/ respect to either star 1 or star 2) , your options now are:
1) The earth is moving w/ respect to star 1 (star 1 is motionless, but earth and star 2 move)
2) The earth is moving w/ respect to star 2 (star 2 is motionless, but earth and star 1 move) 3) Star 1 is moving w/ respect to Earth (Earth is motionless, but star 1 and star 2 move) 4) Star 2 is moving w/ respect to Earth (Earth is motionless, but star 2 and star 1 move) 5) Star 1 is moving w/ respect to Star 2 (Star 2 is motionless, but star 1 and the earth move) 6) Star 2 is moving w/ respect to Star 1 (Star 1 is motionless, but star 2 and the earth move)
None of the possibilities now have BOTH stars motionless, that's where the problem lies.. unless all stars in the world are glued onto a matt, and some god slides the matt around, you are wrong.. Sorry!
"Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public."
If something becomes open-source, even though it's still under copyright, wouldn't that make it easy to steal an algorithm and not get caught? You could find a kick-ass algorithm in the code, and use it yourself. I think it would be REALLY hard to prove that you didn't write the algorithm yourself, instead of copying it. I know this isn't big time stealing, but it's still something.
I may be totally wrong on this, I'm not exactly a programming god;P
"Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public."
Why is it that United States people mock Canadians? Why is it that Canadians mock people in the states? We're both actually very similar.. States people say Canadians are savages, or very simple, or too passive, or undevelopped.. and then Canadians say States folk are dumb, stunned, uncultured, violent, loud mouthed, hateful, messed-up, and have a crappy education system. I seriously don't think either side has any true knowledge about the true state of either country. According to statistics about the states, crime is higher there, but that's only natural because their popular is greater.. (and don't believe that the relationship between crime and population is linear.. there are many variable in such an equation, and the greater the population, the faster the crime RATE will increase). And as to why people in the states say all those dumb things about canadians, that's purely due to lack of information about our culture.. We Canadians get a dose of "American" cultures everyday through our TVs and other media (ps, the US isn't the only state in the Americas, Canada is also an "american" country).. The reason that people from the states sound so ignorant about Canada is that they don't EVER get a dose of OUR culture.. WE get nbc, abc, cbs, etc... and i seriously doubt they get our CBC;P anyway, the point is.. all this "Canada is a great place, don't dis it" and "No Way! the US has freedom of speech!" crap is stupid. Get educated, THEN argue.
"Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public."
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Hrmm, it shouldn't have taken me 8+ minutes to post that message / The reply about not wanted to download wasn't up yet.
Why not just download a distribution for free?
I hear Mandrake is good for beginners. I started off with RedHat, which wasn't bad.
Although most people won't agree, you could even start with Gentoo. It's very well documented, and pretty much forces you to understand important concepts. It's easy to set up, and the support is great (the forums).
You could mirror their portage server.
Wouldn't the fact that movies can be rented make a huge difference in pirating?
With a CD, you can't rent it at a low cost to see if you like it. With a movie, however, for just a few dollars you can enjoy the movie, and if you want to, purchase it without fear of wasting your money.
"caused by the asphalt and concrete in cities."
What about heat exhaust from factories, cars, AC, and the such.
You'd think the city itself (buildings, constant traffic) would provide quite a bit of shade on it's dark asphalt and concrete to control the heat at least a bit.
do you really think they'd consider a movie with a take on AI as AI fact?
Why would this Cyc's database keep a record of sci-fi movies if it's just Science-fiction?
But a devkit would allow you to work on a SNES emulator wouldn't it?
I know there probably wouldn't be enough processing power, but things like mode7 effects could be reasonably reproduced with GBA hardware.
It would sorta be like playing playstation games on a dreamcast with Bleemcast. The emulation isn't meant to be exact, and as a result, it looks better.
Maybe the use of the GBA's hardware like this (though i guess it would be harder to do with sound effects and the such.. since the ear discriminates more than the eye often) could make a half reasonable emulator, which could be a bit slow, but still pretty to the eyes and ears.
maybe i'm just crazy.
... and I just download SlackWare 8 last night!
sigh..
It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere
I'm all alone, more or less
Let me fly, far away from here
Fun, fun, fun, in the sun, sun, sun...
I want to lie shipwrecked and comatose
Drinking fresh mango juice
Goldfish shoals, nibbling at my toes
Fun, fun, fun, in the sun, sun, sun...
Fun, fun, fun, in the sun, sun, sun...
... maybe I'm thinking of the wrong thing
sorry, typo:
no mention of a ksplash fix tho.
(upgrading your qt package will most likely fix this however)
no mention of the ksplash fix tho.
(updating your qt package will most likely fix this however)
for screwing up my account..
Slashdot has tacked on other people's comments to my account, and has therefore brought down my karma..
how do I erase this shitty user?? it's worthless now.. damn taco.
boo slashdot.
The quick brown fox junps over the lazy dog.
Hell!!
I'm performing on the show in April!!
Look for Funky Dory, we're a band from St. John's NF.
Aparently there's a Funky Dory First Poster Fan amongst the slashdotters, so we'll at least get one viewer.
Why does everybody find it funny to take other people literally when they are obviously exagerating on purpose?
Wow! that guy said he could eat a horse! Let's call the SPCA!
"Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public."
... the above message should not be "flamebait".. it's a valid argument, even though it might even be offtopic. I hope it doesn't get moderated negatively.
"Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public."
Now this last moderation "Doesn't make a LICK of sense!"
"Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public."
heh. but it IS in use!
I have a friend who developped his own metric clock. It's totally useless, but he can always tell ya how many 100th of a day are left before midnight (non-metric).
way to go Tom.
"Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public."
I just thought that I'd add something to my message..
If you have a car moving at 10 m/s (with respect to the ground), with someone on it, and they through a ball at 5 m/s (w/ respect to the car), both the ball toss and the car are going in the same direction, then, with respect to the ground, the ball is moving at 15 m/s (10 + 5).
Now, this is what confuses people alot. What if you had a flash light mounted on a car going at 220 m/s, and beside the car a flashlight mounted to the ground? If you stood infront of these flashlights, one might think that the light coming from the car is actually travelling faster than the light emitted from the flashlight on the ground.. That is, of course, false! Why? I don't think we really know yet (or that's what they told me in highschool). Light, from any source moving at any speed, will always register as moving with the speed of 'c'. This is why my above message works out. Of course, there are specific equations to work out time/space dialation (the one i used up there isn't correct for finding dialation, it's just an example to show why dialation happens).
Once again, I hope that was informative, and I welcome any corrections.
"Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public."
I thought you might have meant it in that way.. but I just had to make sure =)
Oh, and I agree with you, but I thought a scientific approach might be more clarifying than a philosophical-type one.
"Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public."
That's where relativity jumps in. I only covered this for about a week in high-school, so i'm not exactly sure about it all =).. but in those cases, to compensate for what may seem like something going faster than "c", time and space distort.
.5, THEN v = 4. .5 to .25 !
.5 .25
v = d / t right? right.
so if d = 2, and t =
now, saw we double v (v = 8), to make the equation valid, we need to make one of 2 possible changes! We can either change d from 2, to 4.. OR, we can change t from
Check it out:
8 = 4 /
or
8 = 2 /
See? it works both ways. NOW, since we can't have a speed exceeding c (well, i guess we can, but lets just say, for this case in specific, that we can't) we must change another part of the equation so it remains valid. We can either change the distance in the equation, or the time in the equation. that's how i remember they explained relative velocities that would exceed c. Either space or time changes so that nothing exceeds c, and so that c is always the same (no matter the frame of reference). Hope that helped!
"Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public."
Well, it is all about frames of reference. If your frame of reference only includes the earth and one star, and the distance between both is changing, then, you can logically say either:
Up to now, what you have said can be right.. NOW, if we include 2 stars and the earth in a frame of reference, and star 1 is moving away from the earth (w/ respect to the earth), star 2 is moving towards the earth (wrtte), and star 1 is moving away from star 2 (w/ respect to either star 1 or star 2) , your options now are: None of the possibilities now have BOTH stars motionless, that's where the problem lies.. unless all stars in the world are glued onto a matt, and some god slides the matt around, you are wrong.. Sorry!
"Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public."
If something becomes open-source, even though it's still under copyright, wouldn't that make it easy to steal an algorithm and not get caught? You could find a kick-ass algorithm in the code, and use it yourself. I think it would be REALLY hard to prove that you didn't write the algorithm yourself, instead of copying it. I know this isn't big time stealing, but it's still something.
;P
I may be totally wrong on this, I'm not exactly a programming god
"Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public."
agreed
"Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public."
Why is it that United States people mock Canadians? Why is it that Canadians mock people in the states? We're both actually very similar.. States people say Canadians are savages, or very simple, or too passive, or undevelopped.. and then Canadians say States folk are dumb, stunned, uncultured, violent, loud mouthed, hateful, messed-up, and have a crappy education system. I seriously don't think either side has any true knowledge about the true state of either country. According to statistics about the states, crime is higher there, but that's only natural because their popular is greater.. (and don't believe that the relationship between crime and population is linear.. there are many variable in such an equation, and the greater the population, the faster the crime RATE will increase). And as to why people in the states say all those dumb things about canadians, that's purely due to lack of information about our culture.. We Canadians get a dose of "American" cultures everyday through our TVs and other media (ps, the US isn't the only state in the Americas, Canada is also an "american" country).. The reason that people from the states sound so ignorant about Canada is that they don't EVER get a dose of OUR culture.. WE get nbc, abc, cbs, etc... and i seriously doubt they get our CBC ;P anyway, the point is.. all this "Canada is a great place, don't dis it" and "No Way! the US has freedom of speech!" crap is stupid. Get educated, THEN argue.
"Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public."