This comes the same day that users report the new MacBook Air doesn't have Flash preinstalled; and while you can install it yourself, Safari doesn't prompt you to do so (just displays a generic "missing plugin" over Flash content and ads).
These days Astronomers are more likely to use Python, Perl, C, C++, Java and other modern languages to write their data analysis tools in.
Well, for the astronomers I support, I see use of Fortran (usually 77) more than anything. Maybe a little C or Perl, but none of the other stuff (excepting Python for stuff like Pyraf...). Unless you want to count iraf and/or IDL scripts as a programming language.;)
There are a few configuration utilities for grub. Vi, Emacs, Pico, etc, etc...take your pick. It's pretty easy to figure out how things work, I think. And you don't even have to remember to rerun grub after you edit the file!:)
LILO was nice enough, did the job just fine. I like grub better. *shrugs*
Yes! Not only did it look like Star Wars, it *sounded* like Star Wars! I'm getting to the point where I don't want to see a John Williams-scored movie. I won't hear anything new, different, and potentially interesting....even though he plagarized (and even outright stole a phrase from) Holst's The Planets for Star Wars back in the day, the music stuck with you. Oh well...enough ranting for now. I just wish the guy would come up with some more original themes and ideas.
How ironic...Howard Berman was one of the key figures last night dealing with the expulsion matter of Rep. Trafficant. He spent a lot of debate time both arguing for Trafficant's expulsion, and arguing against an earlier motion to postpone the vote. He's the ranking minority party member on the Standards (read: Ethics) Committee in the House.
I find this highly interesting and almost funny at the same time...
Bush *did* ask for unlimited powers to fight terrorism, now and in the future. Congress laughed at him. The bill that was passed gave him permission to deal with this tragedy only. He doesn't have a blank check with regard to use of force.
You know, if you're going to just copy word-for-word what Bernhard Rosenkraenzer (bero@redhat.com) said on his own website, (http://www.bero.org/gcc296.html) you should at least give credit where credit is due.
Biases in judges are fine. However, that's only when they're not sitting on their bench, with the robe on. When they're on the bench, presiding over a trial, their biases shouldn't influence the trial in any way, shape, or form. They're supposed to be impartial.
I dislike Microsoft as much as the next person, but Judge Jackson's behavior probably crossed the line. Judges aren't supposed to be giving interviews during a trial they're presiding over.
If you go look at what Amazon's doing, they're simply providing a place for people to sell their books. Amazon isn't selling the books themselves!
Amazon is basically taking care of all the money transfers, and so on. This is essentially one person selling to another. I'm sure Amazon gets some sort of commission or fee, but so what? Where does the Author's Guild seem to think evilness is being done? Above and beyond the fact it's a legal operation. Weird.
Yup. Try doing a search for "Star Wars" on imdb.com.
You'll see that Ep. II is due to be released in 2002, and Ep. III in 2005.
IIRC, Lucas had stated before (no, I don't have any references on this, sorry) that he wanted to have 3 years between each film. I could be wrong. Hope this helps.
Well, from reading the disclaimer at the top of their "Dissertations" page, they say that authors "retain all rights to their works." In addition, authors will still get royalties from any sales of their dissertations.
They also state that they have an agreement of sorts with someone called UMI Dissertations Publishing, whoever that is.
It sounds like something is a little fishy, but at least they're stating out front that no rights are being usurped, IMHO.
It's really frustrating to see people ranting about how the main problem that this show failed was that it was in Kansas. Perhaps it was a small problem, but there were larger problems. As others have stated, there was little to no publicity for the show. Many people here in the greater Kansas City area didn't even know this was going on, and some of them lived 10 minutes away from the show's location.
I'll grant, one part of going to a show must be what can be done after hours, which gives places like Vegas and the rest of the West Coast an advantage. But again, it's not cheap to go to these locations. Can anyone give me a good reason why a Linux show shouldn't be held in the Midwest somewhere? ESR must think it was a good idea, he agreed to come. Same for Emmett, Bruce Perens, and Larry Augustin.
So please, dispense with the "it sucked because it was in Kansas City" BS. There are just as many Linux enthusiasts here in the Midwest as there are on the coasts.
The problem exists because people tend to keep their houses longer than the cycle of obsolescence for computer components. As a result, even people who purchase these wired homes will have to pay large sums of money to upgrade their wiring if they want to stay on the cutting edge.
I don't know if it'll require large amounts of money. If the builder/contractor did their job properly, the wires are in a conduit. I know not everyone would be comfortable with it, but it's not that hard to pull the current networking cable (Cat5, maybe), and push the new networking cable in. Hardest part would be re-doing the drops. But that's not even too hard. Replacing a hub is cake. My mom could replace a hub.
I just can't imagine it'd cost a *huge* amount of money to have someone come in and replace the physical wires in your house. Then again, I'm just a college student. In matters such as this, I'm kinda naive.
Well, we're not all blessed with good sound systems in our car. What I was trying to point out was that Creative seems to be indicating that the only way to play this in your car was through their proprietary FM rebroadcaster, which doesn't make sense, due to their inclusion of what sounds like a standard headphone jack. Because of that, you could most likely use any standard rebroadcaster out there already, or a adapter for a tape deck, etc. Of course, Creative could have something sneaky up their sleeves, but I doubt it. Headphone jacks tend to be standard things now.
interesting add-ons coming out (transmit music to your car's FM radio)
This already exists, you don't need to wait for Creative to fix this. If it has a normal headphone jack, go to Best Buy or someplace similar and look in the Discman/Walkman/Headphone area. There should be some FM rebroadcasters there, that simply plug into the headphone jack on your Discman/whatever. Since the tape player in my car doesn't like tapes/adapters, I have to use one of these when I drive to Oklahoma. With the car I have, it's not worth putting a new tape deck or cd deck in it. The rebroadcaster can be a pain sometimes, but it gets the job done. Only cost me $15, I think.
Your answer lies in the fact that Microsoft has been known to just throw NT at a school with a massive discount. At my school, it's happened in the EECS department. We're overrun with NT. We actually have two different EECS accounts. One's for the NT system, one's for the *nix system. The introductory Programming courses (Prog. I, II) are taught in Java (don't ask, that's another bone of contention), using CodeWarrior on kludgy NT boxes in the labs.
And using CodeWarrior was even a bit of a kludge. I took Programming I my first semester here, last year, and we used MS Visual J++. This was because Microsoft gave the Professor a free copy, and he decided to try it out. A lot of students went out and got a copy to put on their home computers, so they could work at home. Guess what happened next semester? EECS realized how bad J++ was, and switched to CodeWarrior. Those of us who'd bought J++ now had to go buy a copy of CodeWarrior. Not cheap, even considering the academic pricing. Ah well, such is the *business* of education...
IIRC, Dell's about the only place that has any higher-MHz PIIIs. Intel "rewarded" them for not going over to AMD by pulling PIIIs from other distributors and giving them to Dell. Nice try. Remember, Gateway went back to AMD because of their concerns on Intel's ability to keep them supplied with the higher-MHz chips.
Well since I don't have any access to one of those nifty permanent internet connections that usually go to slobs and rich businessmen
Well, I would hardly think I'm a slob or rich businessman. I'm a college student paying $35/mo for my cable modem. And no, mommy and daddy aren't paying for anything, either. I'm paying for school, putting myself in debt and working 20 hours/week, which is extending my time in school by at least a year, probably two. So please, keep your generalizations to yourself.
The thing that's really cool about this is how they've designed it. It's very similar to the "Linux Lite"-type offerings we've heard about. You don't have to repartition, it runs off your Windows desktop. You only have to click on an icon. I realize this won't help those who don't dual-boot, but it's a start. I've wanted to try Be for a while, but as a college student, didn't want to shell out $40-50 to do so. I'm gonna download it when it comes out...thank God for cable modems.
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If you're going to directly copy and paste the words from an Ars Technica article (http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/01/as-part-of-budget-deal-congress-blacks-light-bulb-efficiency-standards), at least have the decency to credit it.
Not to pick nits, but that's your "antique" jetdirect card, not the printer...
This comes the same day that users report the new MacBook Air doesn't have Flash preinstalled; and while you can install it yourself, Safari doesn't prompt you to do so (just displays a generic "missing plugin" over Flash content and ads).
Is that different from "normal" Macs up to now?
Gordon Gekko does not agree with one of your seven sins...
Dear lord.
Would you like some cheese with your whine?
These days Astronomers are more likely to use Python, Perl, C, C++, Java and other modern languages to write their data analysis tools in.
;)
Well, for the astronomers I support, I see use of Fortran (usually 77) more than anything. Maybe a little C or Perl, but none of the other stuff (excepting Python for stuff like Pyraf...). Unless you want to count iraf and/or IDL scripts as a programming language.
You make that sound like a bad thing.
I wasn't aware LILO had a configuration utility.
:)
There are a few configuration utilities for grub. Vi, Emacs, Pico, etc, etc...take your pick. It's pretty easy to figure out how things work, I think. And you don't even have to remember to rerun grub after you edit the file!
LILO was nice enough, did the job just fine. I like grub better. *shrugs*
Yes! Not only did it look like Star Wars, it *sounded* like Star Wars! I'm getting to the point where I don't want to see a John Williams-scored movie. I won't hear anything new, different, and potentially interesting....even though he plagarized (and even outright stole a phrase from) Holst's The Planets for Star Wars back in the day, the music stuck with you. Oh well...enough ranting for now. I just wish the guy would come up with some more original themes and ideas.
I find this highly interesting and almost funny at the same time...
One nitpick:
Bush *did* ask for unlimited powers to fight terrorism, now and in the future. Congress laughed at him. The bill that was passed gave him permission to deal with this tragedy only. He doesn't have a blank check with regard to use of force.
You know, if you're going to just copy word-for-word what Bernhard Rosenkraenzer (bero@redhat.com) said on his own website, (http://www.bero.org/gcc296.html) you should at least give credit where credit is due.
Biases in judges are fine. However, that's only when they're not sitting on their bench, with the robe on. When they're on the bench, presiding over a trial, their biases shouldn't influence the trial in any way, shape, or form. They're supposed to be impartial.
I dislike Microsoft as much as the next person, but Judge Jackson's behavior probably crossed the line. Judges aren't supposed to be giving interviews during a trial they're presiding over.
This isn't a double standard.
Ummm...Dean Kent is the guy who runs Real World Technologies. Though why the actual author didn't submit it, I don't know.
If you go look at what Amazon's doing, they're simply providing a place for people to sell their books. Amazon isn't selling the books themselves!
Amazon is basically taking care of all the money transfers, and so on. This is essentially one person selling to another. I'm sure Amazon gets some sort of commission or fee, but so what? Where does the Author's Guild seem to think evilness is being done? Above and beyond the fact it's a legal operation. Weird.
Yup. Try doing a search for "Star Wars" on imdb.com.
You'll see that Ep. II is due to be released in 2002, and Ep. III in 2005.
IIRC, Lucas had stated before (no, I don't have any references on this, sorry) that he wanted to have 3 years between each film. I could be wrong. Hope this helps.
Well, from reading the disclaimer at the top of their "Dissertations" page, they say that authors "retain all rights to their works." In addition, authors will still get royalties from any sales of their dissertations.
They also state that they have an agreement of sorts with someone called UMI Dissertations Publishing, whoever that is.
It sounds like something is a little fishy, but at least they're stating out front that no rights are being usurped, IMHO.
It's really frustrating to see people ranting about how the main problem that this show failed was that it was in Kansas. Perhaps it was a small problem, but there were larger problems. As others have stated, there was little to no publicity for the show. Many people here in the greater Kansas City area didn't even know this was going on, and some of them lived 10 minutes away from the show's location.
I'll grant, one part of going to a show must be what can be done after hours, which gives places like Vegas and the rest of the West Coast an advantage. But again, it's not cheap to go to these locations. Can anyone give me a good reason why a Linux show shouldn't be held in the Midwest somewhere? ESR must think it was a good idea, he agreed to come. Same for Emmett, Bruce Perens, and Larry Augustin.
So please, dispense with the "it sucked because it was in Kansas City" BS. There are just as many Linux enthusiasts here in the Midwest as there are on the coasts.
The problem exists because people tend to keep their houses longer than the cycle of obsolescence for computer components. As a result, even people who purchase these wired homes will have to pay large sums of money to upgrade their wiring if they want to stay on the cutting edge.
I don't know if it'll require large amounts of money. If the builder/contractor did their job properly, the wires are in a conduit. I know not everyone would be comfortable with it, but it's not that hard to pull the current networking cable (Cat5, maybe), and push the new networking cable in. Hardest part would be re-doing the drops. But that's not even too hard. Replacing a hub is cake. My mom could replace a hub.
I just can't imagine it'd cost a *huge* amount of money to have someone come in and replace the physical wires in your house. Then again, I'm just a college student. In matters such as this, I'm kinda naive.
Well, we're not all blessed with good sound systems in our car. What I was trying to point out was that Creative seems to be indicating that the only way to play this in your car was through their proprietary FM rebroadcaster, which doesn't make sense, due to their inclusion of what sounds like a standard headphone jack. Because of that, you could most likely use any standard rebroadcaster out there already, or a adapter for a tape deck, etc. Of course, Creative could have something sneaky up their sleeves, but I doubt it. Headphone jacks tend to be standard things now.
interesting add-ons coming out (transmit music to your car's FM radio)
This already exists, you don't need to wait for Creative to fix this. If it has a normal headphone jack, go to Best Buy or someplace similar and look in the Discman/Walkman/Headphone area. There should be some FM rebroadcasters there, that simply plug into the headphone jack on your Discman/whatever. Since the tape player in my car doesn't like tapes/adapters, I have to use one of these when I drive to Oklahoma. With the car I have, it's not worth putting a new tape deck or cd deck in it. The rebroadcaster can be a pain sometimes, but it gets the job done. Only cost me $15, I think.
Your answer lies in the fact that Microsoft has been known to just throw NT at a school with a massive discount. At my school, it's happened in the EECS department. We're overrun with NT. We actually have two different EECS accounts. One's for the NT system, one's for the *nix system. The introductory Programming courses (Prog. I, II) are taught in Java (don't ask, that's another bone of contention), using CodeWarrior on kludgy NT boxes in the labs.
And using CodeWarrior was even a bit of a kludge. I took Programming I my first semester here, last year, and we used MS Visual J++. This was because Microsoft gave the Professor a free copy, and he decided to try it out. A lot of students went out and got a copy to put on their home computers, so they could work at home. Guess what happened next semester? EECS realized how bad J++ was, and switched to CodeWarrior. Those of us who'd bought J++ now had to go buy a copy of CodeWarrior. Not cheap, even considering the academic pricing. Ah well, such is the *business* of education...
IIRC, Dell's about the only place that has any higher-MHz PIIIs. Intel "rewarded" them for not going over to AMD by pulling PIIIs from other distributors and giving them to Dell. Nice try. Remember, Gateway went back to AMD because of their concerns on Intel's ability to keep them supplied with the higher-MHz chips.
Well since I don't have any access to one of those nifty permanent internet connections that usually go to slobs and rich businessmen
Well, I would hardly think I'm a slob or rich businessman. I'm a college student paying $35/mo for my cable modem. And no, mommy and daddy aren't paying for anything, either. I'm paying for school, putting myself in debt and working 20 hours/week, which is extending my time in school by at least a year, probably two. So please, keep your generalizations to yourself.
The thing that's really cool about this is how they've designed it. It's very similar to the "Linux Lite"-type offerings we've heard about. You don't have to repartition, it runs off your Windows desktop. You only have to click on an icon. I realize this won't help those who don't dual-boot, but it's a start. I've wanted to try Be for a while, but as a college student, didn't want to shell out $40-50 to do so. I'm gonna download it when it comes out...thank God for cable modems.