IE and Explorer are both bullshit numbers and I think you know that fact. They use so many built-in things that guess their real usage is impossible. Winamp 2.91 is using 11.5MB on my system while streaming Internet radio and 9.9MB for a local MP3. Mcafee is clocking in on my system at 6MB.
So, three things: First, YMMV. Second, he was making a comparison between apples, while you chose apples and oranges (Your virus scanner is 8MB? My audio software is only 7MB! Man, you got screwed!), not to mention the bullshit IE & Explorer numbers. Third, 8MB is pretty good by today's bloatware standards.
Could it be better? Probably. Was your comment a pathetic attempt to troll & mislead people? Absolutely.
Fair enough. I use Red Hat and Gentoo, anyway. My real point was that this guy is a self-declared troll. There's been an unusally high amount of obvious trolls being highly moderated in the last two weeks. The latest tweak to the mod system isn't working.
P.S. How's life in Wean Hall. You're in my old stomping grounds.:-)
***offtopic*** Moderators, I've been seeing a higher number of trolls modded 3 and above. I don't know how in the hell you idiots got karma, but I will get you in metamod.. ***offtopic***
Moving along, Debian isn't going to give you an extended product life over RH's consumer distro.
What in the hell doesn't run on FreeBSD that you'd want a server on?
Click on the Microsoft link. Read the URL. Nice try to redirect us to goatse, Asshat.
Yes, you are correct. What I was instructed about CRT's is that the caps can hold their charge for months. However, the danger level is very low after three days of being unplugged (or at least low enough to not be life-threatening).
If anyone has experiences/info to the contrary, I'd appreciate hearing it. I generally avoided monitor maintenance and always discharged the caps when I did do it.
Or better yet, wait three days for the capacitors to discharge. I get nervous imagining anyone who doesn't have electrical training opening up a monitor on their own. That feeling goes up exponentially thinking about someone trying to discharge the caps without someone there who knows what they're doing to guide them.
Seriously, for those of you who don't know - this will no shit kill you. Especially if you try to discharge the caps. Be careful & try to find someone who's experienced to teach you.
...that Springboard was "the result of massave[sic] R&D". I said that they were heavily invested in it. Those are two totally different things. I was referring to their offerings of Springboard modules and the like. However, I wasn't aware when I wrote it that Handspring is discontinuing Springboard, so it matters little anyway.
I have a Zaurus and love it, so this really isn't of much concern to me. Integrating phones and PDA's is also pretty stupid, IMHO, so there's also little reason for me to care in the future. This is how I justify my ignorace of the deeper details of the Handspring world.;-)
The Marine Corps has numerous land navigation courses. They vary in size and location (some are woodland, some are urban, and most are a bitch *cough*TBS*cough*). The usual technique is to place an ammo box on a post, with an alphanumeric string painted on the box. The boxes are reguarly rotated, to ensure that a path isn't worn (that would sorta defeat the purpose, right?).
So, why can't parks that consider it a problem set up their own, GPS-based, land navigation courses? If they think it is a problem, then they can come up with markers that have an alphanumeric string and place them and rotate them. Obviously, GPS is easier than compass-based navigation, so you would want something small and discrete.
For funding there is two routes. The park could charge a small fee for use of the course, e.g. you don't get a map or your answers verified unless you pay the $5. The other route would be for the groups that support geocaching to either fund the park's efforts or do it themselves, in coordination with the park.
Either way, it's a win for both sides and need only be done where park officials are considering outright banning. The only downside is that you don't get some little trinket (or get to leave one), but is that really enough of a reward now to make a difference?
Yes, now that's probably the most likely example of a feature that will get dropped. Both companies have invested heavily in their respective add-on solutions. Futhermore, they would require extensive hardware modification to implement.
However, it probably would be possible to implement a dual solution. Imagine a Springboard expansion slot that had a Palm Expansion Card adaptor. Or you could add a Palm Expansion Slot on the side, like the Zaurus's SD Expansion Slot, with only a small increase in form factor. For those who want more info:
True. But that doesn't mean that it has to happen here. Just because some companies drop the ball doesn't mean that Palm will. Anyone who can list a feature of a Visor that they think Palm will drop is talking out of their ass until they hear it from Palm. It's impossible to speculate at this point.
The only exception to that statement would be a feature on Visors that has a comparable cousin on PalmPilots and one that Palm has recently dumped a lot of R&D into it. AFAIK, there isn't one. Anyone know of something fitting the bill?
"So what gets dropped? Palm which has probably a nicer "case" style or Handspring with its less desirable case but some features you don't find on Palms."
Wouldn't they most likely use the best features from both?
Wow. That's the first time I've seen an attempt to RTFA result in someone correcting themselves incorrectly. You apparently didn't make it to page 2:
By rewriting existing scientific programs, they say, researchers will be able to get powerful computing from inexpensive clusters of personal computers that are running the free Linux software operating system. Many scientists are now adapting their work to these parallel computing systems, known as Beowulfs, which make it possible to cobble together tremendous computing power at low cost.
"The supercomputer vendors are adamant that I am wrong," Dr. Bell said. "But the Beowulf is a Volkswagen and these people are selling trucks."
I felt the exact same way reading this article. If you turn off the BlueCurve stuff in RH9, you can do the exact same things this guy is talking about in the article. There might be a marginal improvement that I missed in there. But still I'm left asking, what's the improvement? Why should I want to upgrade to this? Why is this on/.?
The author talks about it like it's really great, but gives very little that I saw to support that claim. Did anyone see what I (maybe) missed? Thanks.
No, he meant to confuse the two of you and anyone else who didn't read his nick. For future reference, messages from someone named "Debian Troll" probably aren't asking intelligent questions about Debian.:)
P.S. Fizzl, you are correct about those programs, and yes, apt-get is for updating your system.
The Marine Corps only asked that the JSF be STOVL (Short Take Off/Vertical Landing). You are correct about this carrier being able to handle it, though. It could also carry quite a few helos, as well.
...I know because I've gone to it before. I went while I was stationed at Quantico. They hold every year at the airfield (home to HMX-1, the President's helo pilots and the only experimental helo squadron in the Marine Corps, thus the "X" in their name).
To understand the purpose of the show, you need a little context about what happens at Quantico. It's the home to all Marine Corps doctrine, experimentation, and development. Yes, those may be done in other places, but the commands that control them are all in Quantico. It is also home to the FBI and DEA Academies. Many of the other services have similar setups around the D.C. area. So, Quantico is the ideal location for this sort of thing.
The show's purpose is to let the people who make R&D and purchasing decisions to see what's coming down the pipeline from various companies. Some are things that companies would like to see the military or law enforcement test (and eventually adopt) others are things that are in the military pipeline for deployment and are being showcased. The show let someone see a new product and decide that it is something they'd like to test. They can then acquire some, give them a whirl, and recommend the product if they like it. It also lets you see what's crap. I remeber a Tawainese company that was making a futuristic rifle and had it at the show. The thing looked freaking awesome, until you picked it up. It was heavy as hell & shoddily made ("Should the upper reciever be rattling on this thing?" "Ah yes - that is because our rifle is so flexible!").
In many ways it's very much like a computer trade show. You wander around & hear the sales pitch, try things out, and get lots of free crap. Except instead of getting a hard-on looking at IBM's newest server line, you get the hard-on playing with H&K's newest sidearm.
He just said that last time they had 7 people on the phones. This time he says they have well over 200 on the phone lines alone (I'm listening to the webcast). 20 bucks says his ass is sweating bullets right now...
I'm going to make a guess that you're him or someone like him. Accusing students of being possible drunks is about as mature as if I accused all educators of lacking the social skills and ambition to make it in the private sector. Both are inaccurate and wrong.
Regardless, there IS a problem with lazy educators having tenure. Not just in colleges, but in primary and secondary schools as well. Secondary education seems to be the biggest problem area of the three (speaking from experience). However, having a professor who is rude, obnoxious, lazy, and functionally illiterate on their subject matter is incredibly disruptive to their students and the department that is stuck with them (speaking again from experience).
So, I see a BIG PROBLEM with tenure. Yes, I want professors to have academic freedom and a degree of job security. However, the tenure system is very broken. If he wants to keep it, he should be able to justify why he feels that way AND what he'll do to fix the problems. Don't you think?
You still haven't answered the problem! What should be done about professors with tenure who decide they don't give a shit anymore? How would you fix tenure? You basically said:
1) Yes, tenure has some huge problems. 2) But it's good, too! 3) Periodic contract renewal is bad, too. 4) Athletic programs cause huge problems, too.
All of those are true, but are worthelss statements for fixing tenure. If you want to keep it, justify your answer. Employing misdirection only makes me want to classify you in with some of the lesser of your collegues.
...that may or may not be true (you never know with MS). However, their official position as stated in the article:
Microsoft and Lockheed enter almost every resume they receive into a large database, company officials said. They also keep resumes on file for a year.
I thought it was a typo. Apparently it was just bad logic (and sentence structure). I started with product X. Then I went to product Z. Since no one supports product Y completely, I ended up using product Y. Huh?
If you're concerned with full support, then CSS1 is the logical choice. If not, then give CSS3 a go. Just realize that an under-development W3C recommendation isn't meant for a production site.
And yes, CSS2 support isn't complete, but it's pretty close. I do all of my sites in CSS2 and don't have any problems. You're site doesn't look that fancy, so CSS2 should do fine.
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IE and Explorer are both bullshit numbers and I think you know that fact. They use so many built-in things that guess their real usage is impossible. Winamp 2.91 is using 11.5MB on my system while streaming Internet radio and 9.9MB for a local MP3. Mcafee is clocking in on my system at 6MB.
So, three things: First, YMMV. Second, he was making a comparison between apples, while you chose apples and oranges (Your virus scanner is 8MB? My audio software is only 7MB! Man, you got screwed!), not to mention the bullshit IE & Explorer numbers. Third, 8MB is pretty good by today's bloatware standards.
Could it be better? Probably. Was your comment a pathetic attempt to troll & mislead people? Absolutely.
Fair enough. I use Red Hat and Gentoo, anyway. My real point was that this guy is a self-declared troll. There's been an unusally high amount of obvious trolls being highly moderated in the last two weeks. The latest tweak to the mod system isn't working.
:-)
P.S. How's life in Wean Hall. You're in my old stomping grounds.
***offtopic***
Moderators, I've been seeing a higher number of trolls modded 3 and above.
I don't know how in the hell you idiots got karma, but I will get you in metamod..
***offtopic***
Moving along, Debian isn't going to give you an extended product life over RH's consumer distro.
What in the hell doesn't run on FreeBSD that you'd want a server on?
Click on the Microsoft link. Read the URL. Nice try to redirect us to goatse, Asshat.
Finally, just read this guy's Journal.
Yes, you are correct. What I was instructed about CRT's is that the caps can hold their charge for months. However, the danger level is very low after three days of being unplugged (or at least low enough to not be life-threatening).
If anyone has experiences/info to the contrary, I'd appreciate hearing it. I generally avoided monitor maintenance and always discharged the caps when I did do it.
Or better yet, wait three days for the capacitors to discharge. I get nervous imagining anyone who doesn't have electrical training opening up a monitor on their own. That feeling goes up exponentially thinking about someone trying to discharge the caps without someone there who knows what they're doing to guide them.
Seriously, for those of you who don't know - this will no shit kill you. Especially if you try to discharge the caps. Be careful & try to find someone who's experienced to teach you.
...that Springboard was "the result of massave[sic] R&D". I said that they were heavily invested in it. Those are two totally different things. I was referring to their offerings of Springboard modules and the like. However, I wasn't aware when I wrote it that Handspring is discontinuing Springboard, so it matters little anyway.
;-)
I have a Zaurus and love it, so this really isn't of much concern to me. Integrating phones and PDA's is also pretty stupid, IMHO, so there's also little reason for me to care in the future. This is how I justify my ignorace of the deeper details of the Handspring world.
The Marine Corps has numerous land navigation courses. They vary in size and location (some are woodland, some are urban, and most are a bitch *cough*TBS*cough*). The usual technique is to place an ammo box on a post, with an alphanumeric string painted on the box. The boxes are reguarly rotated, to ensure that a path isn't worn (that would sorta defeat the purpose, right?).
So, why can't parks that consider it a problem set up their own, GPS-based, land navigation courses? If they think it is a problem, then they can come up with markers that have an alphanumeric string and place them and rotate them. Obviously, GPS is easier than compass-based navigation, so you would want something small and discrete.
For funding there is two routes. The park could charge a small fee for use of the course, e.g. you don't get a map or your answers verified unless you pay the $5. The other route would be for the groups that support geocaching to either fund the park's efforts or do it themselves, in coordination with the park.
Either way, it's a win for both sides and need only be done where park officials are considering outright banning. The only downside is that you don't get some little trinket (or get to leave one), but is that really enough of a reward now to make a difference?
Yes, now that's probably the most likely example of a feature that will get dropped. Both companies have invested heavily in their respective add-on solutions. Futhermore, they would require extensive hardware modification to implement.
However, it probably would be possible to implement a dual solution. Imagine a Springboard expansion slot that had a Palm Expansion Card adaptor. Or you could add a Palm Expansion Slot on the side, like the Zaurus's SD Expansion Slot, with only a small increase in form factor. For those who want more info:
Handspring: Springboard Expansion
The Palm Expansion Slot & Expansion Cards
True. But that doesn't mean that it has to happen here. Just because some companies drop the ball doesn't mean that Palm will. Anyone who can list a feature of a Visor that they think Palm will drop is talking out of their ass until they hear it from Palm. It's impossible to speculate at this point.
The only exception to that statement would be a feature on Visors that has a comparable cousin on PalmPilots and one that Palm has recently dumped a lot of R&D into it. AFAIK, there isn't one. Anyone know of something fitting the bill?
Wouldn't they most likely use the best features from both?
"To all the ladies on Trepia..."
Yeah, he's talking to both of you.
If you logoff & logon again, it repopulates the list. Goat-boy went away. Not ideal, but better than nothing.
There's already a Goatsex account. No way to delete it, either. None.
Thanks, Trepia! And here I was pissed that ICQ didn't have a way to look at flying fecal matter...
I felt the exact same way reading this article. If you turn off the BlueCurve stuff in RH9, you can do the exact same things this guy is talking about in the article. There might be a marginal improvement that I missed in there. But still I'm left asking, what's the improvement? Why should I want to upgrade to this? Why is this on /.?
The author talks about it like it's really great, but gives very little that I saw to support that claim. Did anyone see what I (maybe) missed? Thanks.
No, he meant to confuse the two of you and anyone else who didn't read his nick. For future reference, messages from someone named "Debian Troll" probably aren't asking intelligent questions about Debian. :)
P.S. Fizzl, you are correct about those programs, and yes, apt-get is for updating your system.
Wrong. Try again. The JSF (F-35B) is STOVL. Check your facts next time...
The Marine Corps only asked that the JSF be STOVL (Short Take Off/Vertical Landing). You are correct about this carrier being able to handle it, though. It could also carry quite a few helos, as well.
...I know because I've gone to it before. I went while I was stationed at Quantico. They hold every year at the airfield (home to HMX-1, the President's helo pilots and the only experimental helo squadron in the Marine Corps, thus the "X" in their name).
To understand the purpose of the show, you need a little context about what happens at Quantico. It's the home to all Marine Corps doctrine, experimentation, and development. Yes, those may be done in other places, but the commands that control them are all in Quantico. It is also home to the FBI and DEA Academies. Many of the other services have similar setups around the D.C. area. So, Quantico is the ideal location for this sort of thing.
The show's purpose is to let the people who make R&D and purchasing decisions to see what's coming down the pipeline from various companies. Some are things that companies would like to see the military or law enforcement test (and eventually adopt) others are things that are in the military pipeline for deployment and are being showcased. The show let someone see a new product and decide that it is something they'd like to test. They can then acquire some, give them a whirl, and recommend the product if they like it. It also lets you see what's crap. I remeber a Tawainese company that was making a futuristic rifle and had it at the show. The thing looked freaking awesome, until you picked it up. It was heavy as hell & shoddily made ("Should the upper reciever be rattling on this thing?" "Ah yes - that is because our rifle is so flexible!").
In many ways it's very much like a computer trade show. You wander around & hear the sales pitch, try things out, and get lots of free crap. Except instead of getting a hard-on looking at IBM's newest server line, you get the hard-on playing with H&K's newest sidearm.
He just said that last time they had 7 people on the phones. This time he says they have well over 200 on the phone lines alone (I'm listening to the webcast). 20 bucks says his ass is sweating bullets right now...
I'm going to make a guess that you're him or someone like him. Accusing students of being possible drunks is about as mature as if I accused all educators of lacking the social skills and ambition to make it in the private sector. Both are inaccurate and wrong.
Regardless, there IS a problem with lazy educators having tenure. Not just in colleges, but in primary and secondary schools as well. Secondary education seems to be the biggest problem area of the three (speaking from experience). However, having a professor who is rude, obnoxious, lazy, and functionally illiterate on their subject matter is incredibly disruptive to their students and the department that is stuck with them (speaking again from experience).
So, I see a BIG PROBLEM with tenure. Yes, I want professors to have academic freedom and a degree of job security. However, the tenure system is very broken. If he wants to keep it, he should be able to justify why he feels that way AND what he'll do to fix the problems. Don't you think?
You still haven't answered the problem! What should be done about professors with tenure who decide they don't give a shit anymore? How would you fix tenure? You basically said:
1) Yes, tenure has some huge problems.
2) But it's good, too!
3) Periodic contract renewal is bad, too.
4) Athletic programs cause huge problems, too.
All of those are true, but are worthelss statements for fixing tenure. If you want to keep it, justify your answer. Employing misdirection only makes me want to classify you in with some of the lesser of your collegues.
Yeah, because sad messages would suck...
I thought it was a typo. Apparently it was just bad logic (and sentence structure). I started with product X. Then I went to product Z. Since no one supports product Y completely, I ended up using product Y. Huh?
If you're concerned with full support, then CSS1 is the logical choice. If not, then give CSS3 a go. Just realize that an under-development W3C recommendation isn't meant for a production site.
And yes, CSS2 support isn't complete, but it's pretty close. I do all of my sites in CSS2 and don't have any problems. You're site doesn't look that fancy, so CSS2 should do fine.