I heard that Future Crew were designing the GPU, and the manufacture would be done by Infinium Labs. Of course, the next version of the OS, codenamed Sabretooth, will be written by 3D Realms.
As one of the few people who seems to understand what you are saying (most replies focused on the past rates of identified infection just by CJD), I agree wholeheartedly.
It's not BSE and CJD that are scary. It is the concept of chain reaction protein warping. Since most (or all) of my biological processes depend at some point on proteins, I'm rather fond of keeping their configuration exactly the way they are.
Prions are conceivably the nanotech nightmare of grey ooze... a wave of mechanical transformation of our constituent chemicals that wipes out everything it comes in contact with. It is probably unlikely, yes... and well worth studying to find just how likely newly arising prions are, and what methods (if any) can be used to actively combat them.
The term KGX is used by some KDE people. It refers to KDE, the layer of GNU tools it uses and the layer of X that it uses. Since after that it could be running on any kernel, KGX comprises the environment being discussed - KDE is aggressively OS agnostic. If it's POSIX and has X, it should run KDE.
Probably because the only section here devoted to rights like that is "Your Rights Online". Since Utah is not a website, database or server, I don't think it really fits. There is the very occasional exception, but this is not a forum for mainstream news.
You might as well ask why the television show Good Eats has not covered the Utah incident. Or post angry comments in the KDE dot News. How about you send an angry email to 43 Folders asking why they haven't posted a story about it.
It's not the fact that there are a percentage of funky gamers (I've been to baseball games and there's a percentage of funky baseball fans, ditto for many groups). It's the dual "attacking and mocking the stupid fans" in a forum theoretically for fans, and an amazing number of posts by people who are both smugly superior and who have clearly never heard of GenCon.
My post was not about hygiene (or the lack of it), it was about the ignorant mocking attitude of many people posting here who also wear the title "geek" with pride, who buy it as a brand and image from ThinkGeek, just like another group buys their brand and image from Abercrombie & Fitch.
You know, as someone who went to cons before there were multiple flavors of Trek, I really get pissed at this kind of comment. You sir, are a fucking dick. You're exactly the same kind of bully who geeks have complained about for decades. A few years of tech stocks soaring and video games becoming popular, and suddenly it's "cool" to be a geek. But the trendy-geeks who have shown up cite references by rote and display the same group bullying behavior of the mundane jackasses who were making fun of people who played video games or worked in the computer industry a decade ago.
You're a bully, a hypocrite and a son-of-a-bitch. You're making fun of nerds on a site that is, by the very subtitle, *for* nerds.
Dozen of replies here display blatant ignorance of what GenCon is. Dozens of people who identify as "geek", but are the equivalent of a football jock who doesn't know what a quarterback is.
(Disclaimer: Drugs are useful. My brother is in the hospital right now, and was likely going to die on Saturday, but is hopefully going to be moved out of the cardiac ICU soon. His life was saved by modern drugs.)
My favorite oddball drugs that are heavily advertised are the "prevents that uncomfortable full feeling" and "cures fullness".
We literally live in a time when being full is considered a major problem worthy of heavy advertising to a large chunk of the human population. Consider the fact that the majority of human history is full of people fighting not to starve to death... and now we're worried about being uncomfortably full.
You can look at that with either bitter sarcasm or wonder at the accomplishments of humanity -- I rotate back and forth. But either way, it's durn funny.
Oh, I know - I just find it amusing that one of the very very few coral links is to announce that something is for sale... a sale that can't be done through the coral link.
Much like many other people in this thread, I haven't used Windows since 1998, and that was Windows NT 4 at an office. I don't particularly hate Windows, I just have always preferred *nix. Before Windows, I was using BSDi, before that, Coherent... and a long procession back to CP/M.
I've never found Windows necessary to get full use out of my computer.
I'm not sure any OCR software would work on it. It's typed on a manual typewriter, but a good chunk of it is handwritten symbols in what looks like a fountain pen with an italic nib. Then there are many handwritten notes scrawled in several colors in the margins and in between lines. Not to mention a couple places where the typewritten text has been crossed out and corrected with a pen. Oh, and the stains, rustmarks from paperclip, the folding marks. And of course, the first part is all in handwritten german script with a thick fountain pen with underlines, overlines and various annotation marks.
Looks like a job for academic slave labor - i.e., grad students.
Ah - as an update to anybody reading this, I figured it out. Those URLs are incredibly long with some sort of packed or hashed data in a single get variable. Akregator must store some sort of index by the url, but these urls are too long to use. The feeds work fine without that variable on them, so I just stripped them off the url for the feed and it works.
More than that, these are the only feeds that somehow are messing up Akregator's "Keep Article" and "Mark articles as read" features. I have no idea why, but I'm curious if they are feeding misformatted feeds.
Heh. I have just moved to Pennsylvania (from California) so consider the vote cast.
I am very much against voting on one issue; I knew he hated gays (I marched in Sacramento for gay marriage) and was still willing to approach his record with an open mind. But the more I read about the guy's voting record and positions, the more I'm certain that just about anybody will be better than him to represent my views.
Years and years ago, there was a textfile in the root of the ftp site that gave the specific, broken down and unambiguous definition of the format. Heck, checking right now, it's the first result of a Google for METAR.
They always have been - they just hadn't upgraded in awhile. Back in the 80s, you could pull forecasts and weather alerts off their ftp server and as gopher and the web were invented, they gave access to those new technologies. I think they even had a finger service.
This was long before XML, so they invented their own format called METAR, no more difficult than, say, email. It was standard, and they have made it public for decades.
"Becoming one of the most geek-friendly government agencies"? They always have been!
It's okay - it's been published in high school science textbooks. It's one of those incorrect things that has enough examples of it being published that you can "prove" it by citing sources.
But if you talk to somebody who really knows what they are talking about (a chemist or materials scientist), they'll call it bunk. As somebody provided a link above, it it believed to be an artifact of mistranslation of early scientific papers.
Ah, I should have remembered Puerto Rico - considering I grew up and lived many years in South Florida, which is full of puertocubicans.
As I say, I just moved to this region. My introduction to DC was just a couple weeks ago by some friends who work inside the beltway. I saw the license plates and asked, and that was the answer I got. Of course, like most anybody who works in DC, they actually live in Alexandria. Since they are old friends, I'll likely be heading down in that direction fairly often and learn more about DC on each trip.
The federal tax situation is changing for PR and the Virgin Islands, BTW. The IRS is redefining residency and many people feel that they are working toward including the territories under the federal tax laws. (It may be all territories... I only know about the VI) Fun, fun.
Heh. You'd be surprised. Check out science.slashdot.org, and the level leaps up -- at least for the stories that *don't* get posted to the home page. In fact, if a story does not get posted to the home page, it's very likely people in the discussion are actual experts.
I do note that most topics on Ask Slashdot (anything you'd either hire an expensive expert for, or can only be figured out by doing serious book reading research) get useless replies. Also anything with competition - if you say "What's a good way to do foo with Perl?", you'll get 50 answers on how to do it with PHP, 170 with Ruby, 7 in emacs, and 1 in either Intercal or Ada. And zero useful answers.
Incidently, if you actually want to use Ask Slashdot as a resource, there is a way: bookmark the discussion, wait a week or two, and then go back through it looking for links or references. A few people have likely posted a link or three to really nicely complete sites or cited a (gasp!) book that is nice. Watch for names to pick out too; you can find actual experts on the subject that people mention in their post.
Oh, I completely agree that they have to manage their budget well, and one aspect is the handling the sale of surplus equipment in a capable fashion.
But their mandate is one of education, not of revenue. It's when you mix up and forget your primary goal that terrible things happen.
You do you that they had to sell them to locals? That the people buying them had to show that they were resident tax-payers? I would think that the "maximize revenue" was compromised right there...
Of course, there may be other considerations, like "we as taxpayers already paid for them once, and we would like them when you're done with them".
No. I just moved from the state of California to the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. I work (telecommute) out of the territory of the Virgin Islands. There are 46 states, 4 commonwealths, 1 district, and several territories and dependant regions. Various categories have different rights - territories have representatives that can only vote on issues in committee, while states and commonwealths can vote on the floor of the U.S. Congress. The District of Columbia has no representation, as their license plates make clear (they read "No Taxation without Representation", and it's a sore issue).
Since commonwealths have the same rights as states, they are generally lumped in together and "state" is often used to refer to the commonwealths - even inside them. But you do see "commonwealth" used quite often as well, as that is the proper term.
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It's not BSE and CJD that are scary. It is the concept of chain reaction protein warping. Since most (or all) of my biological processes depend at some point on proteins, I'm rather fond of keeping their configuration exactly the way they are.
Prions are conceivably the nanotech nightmare of grey ooze... a wave of mechanical transformation of our constituent chemicals that wipes out everything it comes in contact with. It is probably unlikely, yes... and well worth studying to find just how likely newly arising prions are, and what methods (if any) can be used to actively combat them.
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You might as well ask why the television show Good Eats has not covered the Utah incident. Or post angry comments in the KDE dot News. How about you send an angry email to 43 Folders asking why they haven't posted a story about it.
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Or, of course leap years.
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My post was not about hygiene (or the lack of it), it was about the ignorant mocking attitude of many people posting here who also wear the title "geek" with pride, who buy it as a brand and image from ThinkGeek, just like another group buys their brand and image from Abercrombie & Fitch.
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You're a bully, a hypocrite and a son-of-a-bitch. You're making fun of nerds on a site that is, by the very subtitle, *for* nerds.
Dozen of replies here display blatant ignorance of what GenCon is. Dozens of people who identify as "geek", but are the equivalent of a football jock who doesn't know what a quarterback is.
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My favorite oddball drugs that are heavily advertised are the "prevents that uncomfortable full feeling" and "cures fullness".
We literally live in a time when being full is considered a major problem worthy of heavy advertising to a large chunk of the human population. Consider the fact that the majority of human history is full of people fighting not to starve to death... and now we're worried about being uncomfortably full.
You can look at that with either bitter sarcasm or wonder at the accomplishments of humanity -- I rotate back and forth. But either way, it's durn funny.
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One of the few coral links in a writeup, and it is one of the few stories that should really be linked directly to the site.
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I've never found Windows necessary to get full use out of my computer.
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Looks like a job for academic slave labor - i.e., grad students.
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I am very much against voting on one issue; I knew he hated gays (I marched in Sacramento for gay marriage) and was still willing to approach his record with an open mind. But the more I read about the guy's voting record and positions, the more I'm certain that just about anybody will be better than him to represent my views.
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This was long before XML, so they invented their own format called METAR, no more difficult than, say, email. It was standard, and they have made it public for decades.
"Becoming one of the most geek-friendly government agencies"? They always have been!
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But if you talk to somebody who really knows what they are talking about (a chemist or materials scientist), they'll call it bunk. As somebody provided a link above, it it believed to be an artifact of mistranslation of early scientific papers.
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As I say, I just moved to this region. My introduction to DC was just a couple weeks ago by some friends who work inside the beltway. I saw the license plates and asked, and that was the answer I got. Of course, like most anybody who works in DC, they actually live in Alexandria. Since they are old friends, I'll likely be heading down in that direction fairly often and learn more about DC on each trip.
The federal tax situation is changing for PR and the Virgin Islands, BTW. The IRS is redefining residency and many people feel that they are working toward including the territories under the federal tax laws. (It may be all territories... I only know about the VI) Fun, fun.
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I do note that most topics on Ask Slashdot (anything you'd either hire an expensive expert for, or can only be figured out by doing serious book reading research) get useless replies. Also anything with competition - if you say "What's a good way to do foo with Perl?", you'll get 50 answers on how to do it with PHP, 170 with Ruby, 7 in emacs, and 1 in either Intercal or Ada. And zero useful answers.
Incidently, if you actually want to use Ask Slashdot as a resource, there is a way: bookmark the discussion, wait a week or two, and then go back through it looking for links or references. A few people have likely posted a link or three to really nicely complete sites or cited a (gasp!) book that is nice. Watch for names to pick out too; you can find actual experts on the subject that people mention in their post.
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But their mandate is one of education, not of revenue. It's when you mix up and forget your primary goal that terrible things happen.
You do you that they had to sell them to locals? That the people buying them had to show that they were resident tax-payers? I would think that the "maximize revenue" was compromised right there...
Of course, there may be other considerations, like "we as taxpayers already paid for them once, and we would like them when you're done with them".
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Since commonwealths have the same rights as states, they are generally lumped in together and "state" is often used to refer to the commonwealths - even inside them. But you do see "commonwealth" used quite often as well, as that is the proper term.
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