Well, seeing as how we're going to have a LOT of people by then, I think floating cities that are impervious to storms and the like wouldn't seem to be that much a stretch of the imagination. In fact, I won't be surprised if 200 years down the line, the earth looks like a floating mesh of cities and causeways
"In nxt 250 yrs cncpts of sustnblty'd mk us thnk'f dffrnt apprches for svng energy. Wstge of papr and ink'd be rducd thru chnging th way v wrte. Th wrds v use rgulry'd b wrttn in shrtst possible way."
Pretty impressive I must say. Reminds me of this:
Reading Test:
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg!
THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID
Aoccdrnig to rsceearh at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht
oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the
frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses
and you can sitll raed it wouthit any porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn
mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Well, I'm ready to get modded to -1 coz reading ur post made me see a similar analogy, so here goes -
MSU.S. FLOSSterrorists
Same battle concept right? The first does not know how to deal with the second because the first does battle in a TOTALLY different way.
Now, just to clarify things, I'm a Linux guy myself and I use OSS wherever possible. So PLEASE PEOPLE, I'm not saying that FLOSS are terrorists, ok? I'm ONLY TALKING about the battle plans here.
What I'd like to know is by how much this increases floating point and double-precision resolution. Can anybody comment on this?
It's easy to talk about the number of integers possible - because they're a power of 2. But what are we talking about in terms of floating point? Same range, greater resolution? Same resolution, greater range? Or both? Which would be more important?
Does it mean Firefox will run natively on KDE? Yes, that's essentially exactly what it means. We haven't only ported the Gecko but we wanted to make it as complete as possible. I do want to make Firefox a great browser for KDE users. In the coming weeks I'll be integrating KIO, KWallet and KCookieJar so I'm hoping we'll see more great things soon.
And for those who feel a little more advanturous than going for Gentoo, try out http://www.linuxfromscratch.org
By the time you're done, other distros will be a piece of cake. And I'm talking from experience. The best part is that, for every piece of software you need to install, there's an HTML page explaining the hows and whys of the configuration files, needed startup scripts etc...
Sure, it'll take you two weeks, but in those two weeks you'll learn more about Linux than in two years of working with RedHat.
Customizable search plugins are another really great feature. How come nobody has mentioned them?
If you're a power user and you want a bunch of extensions that put you in immediate browser heaven try these:
1) Adblock (block ads) from update.mozilla.org 2) Tabbrowser Extensions (supercharged tabbed browsing) from extensionroom.mozdev.org 3) Mousegestures (mouse & rocker gestures) from update.mozilla.org 4) WebDeveloper (a must for anyone curious about a web page's construction) from update.mozilla.org 5) Bug Me Not (no need to register with those pesky sites like NY Times - requires Java tho) 6) Foxytunes (control Winamp/XMMS/Noatun/Windows Media Player/RealPlayer or any other Linux/Win media player from Firefox) from update.mozilla.org 7) PasteAndGo (no more pasting a URL and then hitting "Go" or hitting Enter) from update.mozilla.org
Also...putting back boxes in takes away the ONE thing that allowed you to compare rates. Now all the company has to say is "The computer shows us your driving habits have worsened these past months" and there is no way you can challenge that claim.
Put black boxes in, sure. But have a transparent way by which you know what rates to expect with what driving patterns. But will that happen? No way.
Take away transparency and you take away accountability and once that goes, you can forget about actually paying LESS for insurance no matter how you drive.
Let's look at things from a Windows user's point of view:
1) Things work. 2) They look good. 3) Few options available, but most are hidden in the registry. Those few options seem more than sufficient for the teeming masses.
Now take someone from that environment and put them on Gnome. What does he/she experience?
1) Stuff works. 2) It looks good. 3) Few options available, but most are hidden in the registry. Those few options seem more than sufficient for the teeming masses.
Now, let's take a windows power user: 1) Things work, but always looking for ways to make them work faster. 2) It looks good, but always looking for ways to customize it. 3) Few options available, so the user always has some program Xteq XSetup Pro to tweak hidden settings all over the place.
Take THAT user and put him/her on KDE: 1) Things work and work fast. User is quite happy. 2) It may or may not look good, but hey, it's VERY customizable, so it WILL look good after a week. 3) Tons of options available all over the place - the former windows power user is in heaven.
So to sum it up, KDE and Gnome in my opinion, both serve a VERY good purpose - they cater to the needs to both ends of the spectrum of Windows users - and they're both getting better/faster with each new version.
Now since we're celebrating Gnome 2.8 RC1 here, kudos go out to the Gome devs out there for capturing the essence of Windows' ease of use and porting it to Linux. You guys are doing a great job.
It would be nice to have a unified Desktop one day, but hey, I'm not complaining right now, even tho I'm a KDE fan - GREAT WORK GNOME! - I'm seriously thinking of setting up Gnome 2.8 as my mum's default Linux account and see how she likes it - she currently uses KDE 3.3:)
The 16 way Linux Cluster uses the 3.06 Xeon processor for each node. Now, why didn't they use the Opteron? Has it got something to do with sponsorship? We know that the Opteron is faster than the Xeon and in chess, ANY additional processing power in an engine vs engine game is welcome.
Also, if I have my basic concepts right, a cluster is a bunch of networked machines whose processing power is combined through software. So we need to add networking speeds into the mix here. I remember reading somewhere that the latest NVIDIA NForce3 motherboards achieve a consistently higher data throughput than say a PCI Gigabit network card. Wouldn't this have helped too?
It would seem to me that they've just thrown away a lot of potential computing power that Hydra could have used.
This is what it's gonna be called....
on
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Leisure Suit Larry - The Effects Of Rejection
Up there with the horror/action series, but something different nevertheless;)
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the names of the students who came up with these ideas. Surely, they deserve some recognition and credit too?
Well, seeing as how we're going to have a LOT of people by then, I think floating cities that are impervious to storms and the like wouldn't seem to be that much a stretch of the imagination. In fact, I won't be surprised if 200 years down the line, the earth looks like a floating mesh of cities and causeways
Yeah, drunken monkeys in drunken trees....hey! I wonder where the kung fu schools would be located.
"In nxt 250 yrs cncpts of sustnblty'd mk us thnk'f dffrnt apprches for svng energy. Wstge of papr and ink'd be rducd thru chnging th way v wrte. Th wrds v use rgulry'd b wrttn in shrtst possible way."
:
Pretty impressive I must say. Reminds me of this
Reading Test:
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd
waht I was rdanieg!
THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID
Aoccdrnig to rsceearh at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it
deosn't mttaer in waht
oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt
tihng is taht the
frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset
can be a taotl mses
and you can sitll raed it wouthit any porbelm. Tihs is
bcuseae the huamn
mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the
wrod as a wlohe.
Amzanig huh?
Jar Jar Jinx
Well, I'm ready to get modded to -1 coz reading ur post made me see a similar analogy, so here goes -
MSU.S.
FLOSSterrorists
Same battle concept right? The first does not know how to deal with the second because the first does battle in a TOTALLY different way.
Now, just to clarify things, I'm a Linux guy myself and I use OSS wherever possible. So PLEASE PEOPLE, I'm not saying that FLOSS are terrorists, ok? I'm ONLY TALKING about the battle plans here.
You think the first one will be called Popeye? :)
Their members are couch potatoes..."People for the leisurely treatment of vegetables"
What I'd like to know is by how much this increases floating point and double-precision resolution. Can anybody comment on this?
It's easy to talk about the number of integers possible - because they're a power of 2. But what are we talking about in terms of floating point? Same range, greater resolution? Same resolution, greater range? Or both? Which would be more important?
Anyone?
Now, THAT would be a good indication
I switched over an entire development team of 15 to the Firefox/Thunderbird combo.
:)
Come on now...pay it forward
From Zack Rusin's Blog :
Does it mean Firefox will run natively on KDE? Yes, that's essentially exactly what it means. We haven't only ported the Gecko but we wanted to make it as complete as possible. I do want to make Firefox a great browser for KDE users. In the coming weeks I'll be integrating KIO, KWallet and KCookieJar so I'm hoping we'll see more great things soon.
And for those who feel a little more advanturous than going for Gentoo, try out http://www.linuxfromscratch.org
By the time you're done, other distros will be a piece of cake. And I'm talking from experience. The best part is that, for every piece of software you need to install, there's an HTML page explaining the hows and whys of the configuration files, needed startup scripts etc...
Sure, it'll take you two weeks, but in those two weeks you'll learn more about Linux than in two years of working with RedHat.
Well, that depends on which MS copyrights you're violating :)
Customizable search plugins are another really great feature. How come nobody has mentioned them?
:
If you're a power user and you want a bunch of extensions that put you in immediate browser heaven try these
1) Adblock (block ads) from update.mozilla.org
2) Tabbrowser Extensions (supercharged tabbed browsing) from extensionroom.mozdev.org
3) Mousegestures (mouse & rocker gestures) from update.mozilla.org
4) WebDeveloper (a must for anyone curious about a web page's construction) from update.mozilla.org
5) Bug Me Not (no need to register with those pesky sites like NY Times - requires Java tho)
6) Foxytunes (control Winamp/XMMS/Noatun/Windows Media Player/RealPlayer or any other Linux/Win media player from Firefox) from update.mozilla.org
7) PasteAndGo (no more pasting a URL and then hitting "Go" or hitting Enter) from update.mozilla.org
Also...putting back boxes in takes away the ONE thing that allowed you to compare rates. Now all the company has to say is "The computer shows us your driving habits have worsened these past months" and there is no way you can challenge that claim.
Put black boxes in, sure. But have a transparent way by which you know what rates to expect with what driving patterns. But will that happen? No way.
Take away transparency and you take away accountability and once that goes, you can forget about actually paying LESS for insurance no matter how you drive.
At least we're moving away from the Library Of Congress unit of measurement :)
Let's look at things from a Windows user's point of view :
:
:)
1) Things work.
2) They look good.
3) Few options available, but most are hidden in the registry. Those few options seem more than sufficient for the teeming masses.
Now take someone from that environment and put them on Gnome. What does he/she experience?
1) Stuff works.
2) It looks good.
3) Few options available, but most are hidden in the registry. Those few options seem more than sufficient for the teeming masses.
Now, let's take a windows power user
1) Things work, but always looking for ways to make them work faster.
2) It looks good, but always looking for ways to customize it.
3) Few options available, so the user always has some program Xteq XSetup Pro to tweak hidden settings all over the place.
Take THAT user and put him/her on KDE:
1) Things work and work fast. User is quite happy.
2) It may or may not look good, but hey, it's VERY customizable, so it WILL look good after a week.
3) Tons of options available all over the place - the former windows power user is in heaven.
So to sum it up, KDE and Gnome in my opinion, both serve a VERY good purpose - they cater to the needs to both ends of the spectrum of Windows users - and they're both getting better/faster with each new version.
Now since we're celebrating Gnome 2.8 RC1 here, kudos go out to the Gome devs out there for capturing the essence of Windows' ease of use and porting it to Linux. You guys are doing a great job.
It would be nice to have a unified Desktop one day, but hey, I'm not complaining right now, even tho I'm a KDE fan - GREAT WORK GNOME! - I'm seriously thinking of setting up Gnome 2.8 as my mum's default Linux account and see how she likes it - she currently uses KDE 3.3
Thought for a second there that PG-13 became PG-20 hehe...now wouldn't THAT be nice lol
OK Darl, you can come out now...we know it's you...and Bill...I can see you hiding behind him.
Yeah and we won't have battalions anymore. We'll have clans.
Maybe he's a die hard Shrek fan ;)
The 16 way Linux Cluster uses the 3.06 Xeon processor for each node. Now, why didn't they use the Opteron? Has it got something to do with sponsorship? We know that the Opteron is faster than the Xeon and in chess, ANY additional processing power in an engine vs engine game is welcome.
Also, if I have my basic concepts right, a cluster is a bunch of networked machines whose processing power is combined through software. So we need to add networking speeds into the mix here. I remember reading somewhere that the latest NVIDIA NForce3 motherboards achieve a consistently higher data throughput than say a PCI Gigabit network card. Wouldn't this have helped too?
It would seem to me that they've just thrown away a lot of potential computing power that Hydra could have used.
Leisure Suit Larry - The Effects Of Rejection
;)
Up there with the horror/action series, but something different nevertheless
lol....so they've basically invented SFF-ATA-120 ;)
;)
*ducks*