Do you really WANT to be carrying around a camera, a phone, a PDA, and a laptop? You can't fit great optics in the size of a typical mobile phone, so the camera is a toy. If the phone has wi-fi and a decent SSH client, I won't mind any PDA-ness. But I don't ever feel the lack of a laptop, anyway, and just use the phone to be reachable:)
Getting the replacement can take up to two months. What will you do while it's off to be "repaired"? The safest is to live in a cave, like I do. No overheating yet:)
Heh. That chain reminds me of a hacking attempt from a couple of weeks back. I saw entries from Bulgarian, American and Swedish IPs. The funny thing was the Swedish IP was a possible source/bot controller, and it was hosted in the same server farm as mine:)
Yeah, logging is something I won't stop doing, either. Not logging IPs when you run a server is just stupid. I thought Germany was becoming a nanny state that wanted full control over their citizens, but now it seems the lawmakers are simply clueless, making the most wrong choice given any number of choices.
Sure you can: cpudyn - CPU dynamic frequency control for processors with scaling cpufreqd - fully configurable daemon for dynamic frequency and voltage scaling cpufrequtils - utilities to deal with the cpufreq Linux kernel feature
In MY experience, I've found people write APIs over everything they don't find easy enough. For Google Maps, I've found a simple wrapper class that cuts down immensely on the code, and similar projects are bound to exist for.net. As others have mentioned, Google's maps work in pretty much any browser.
Anyone know of a good 3D video card supported by Debian for 3-D out of the box? Good or supported - which do you prefer? Can't have both. ATI's drivers are behind, but at least they've promised source code. NVidia's drivers are necessary to download after the fact. Some don't like them because they're closed, but I just want friggin' Beryl to work. Intel's are excellent, but the cards aren't good..yet. Only onboard video for now, with PCIe cards in the works.
Debian is also a painful distro for NVidia users, due to licenses and such. I've been using Ubuntu for a long time because it's easier to get my NVidia cards working. Just enable an already listed repository, update and install.
The problem starts when devices can't respond at the same frequencies as the CPU. Some devices won't be able to respond in parallel, some have really slow protocols. Then some are completely broken in the way they talk to the computer.
"The BMI is meant to broadly categorize populations for purely statistical purposes. As noted, its accuracy in relation to actual levels of body fat is easily distorted by such factors as fitness level, muscle mass, bone structure, gender, and ethnicity. People who are mesomorphic tend to have higher BMI numbers than people who are endomorphic, because they have greater bone mass and greater muscle mass, respectively, than do endomorphic individuals."
It's more than just the weight of boobs. BMI is not a good measure of anything. From near the end: "An analysis of 40 studies involving 250,000 people, heart patients with normal BMIs were at higher risk of death from cardiovascular disease than people whose BMIs put them in the "overweight" range (BMI 25-29.9)."
If having a perfect BMI doesn't actually mean perfect health, what's the point?
Actually, the first minidisc drive I saw was a friend's early clunky portable, which had a SCSI interface. I don't know why the hell that never was used more, as you then had a format more convenient than ZIP, with slightly more storage, and the bonus of being easy to use for music. But MP3 players have thoroughly killed the market for portable entertainment, and if you're taping a concert..get an Edirol. Still, that's 12 years ago, during which MD could have been greater.
Somewhat extending the diff thing: I find it far more easier to compare code side by side. Just try comparing even a small function/method with a slightly modified version of itself. What's easiest - seeing mostly matching lines side by side, or the whole function above another copy of it? I find myself losing track of the code in the latter case.
But yeah, the diff thing is why each set of sourcecode should have ONE standard and never deviate from it, ever.
The equivalent for cars would be if they recorded all day, facing license plates, and kept track of when everyone passed by the camera, then published that data.
I've stopped caring about overhyped future releases. I check the "this week" and "next week" lists at tothegame.com for what's right around the corner. I knew about this Halo 3 beta only because it was part of the extras in Crackdown (which I bought for the game, not the beta).
BUT I'd really like to try this beta. I've been promised it for a long time (see this sticker on my Crackdown box? See the 5000 people currently playing the beta? It's obviously opened!), and spending a few weeks trying out a near-complete version of the game could help making me purchase it on release day. Provided it's fun and they really listen to ideas, of course:)
>By all means get excited the week before Spore and Halo 3 are on shelves, until then, >let me know what is on shelves now, and whether I should buy it. There's feckall on the shelves now. A few cool older games, a few expansions, a few new hack and slash games, some of which have StarForce. In short, digital distribution, MMOs and console games are the best options now.
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If the phone has wi-fi and a decent SSH client, I won't mind any PDA-ness. But I don't
ever feel the lack of a laptop, anyway, and just use the phone to be reachable
The references to the Zombie Survival Guide weren't enough?
OK, then look at the choice quotes of a poster just below:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=354929&cid=21289339
Yes, just like the article says :)
A gigaflop is not a unit of storage.
Getting the replacement can take up to two months. :)
What will you do while it's off to be "repaired"?
The safest is to live in a cave, like I do. No overheating yet
Heh. That chain reminds me of a hacking attempt from a couple of weeks back. :)
I saw entries from Bulgarian, American and Swedish IPs. The funny thing was
the Swedish IP was a possible source/bot controller, and it was hosted in
the same server farm as mine
Yeah, logging is something I won't stop doing, either. Not logging IPs when
you run a server is just stupid. I thought Germany was becoming a nanny state
that wanted full control over their citizens, but now it seems the lawmakers
are simply clueless, making the most wrong choice given any number of choices.
Sure you can:
cpudyn - CPU dynamic frequency control for processors with scaling
cpufreqd - fully configurable daemon for dynamic frequency and voltage scaling
cpufrequtils - utilities to deal with the cpufreq Linux kernel feature
All are found in your apt repository.
In MY experience, I've found people write APIs over everything they don't find easy enough. .net. As others have mentioned, Google's
For Google Maps, I've found a simple wrapper class that cuts down immensely on the code,
and similar projects are bound to exist for
maps work in pretty much any browser.
KPDF came with my Kubuntu installation. Never failed me. ;)
It also pleases the raving hippies who want everything open source
How does an extradition treaty apply in this case? Does it go both ways?
they've promised source code. NVidia's drivers are necessary to download after the fact. Some don't
like them because they're closed, but I just want friggin' Beryl to work. Intel's are excellent,
but the cards aren't good..yet. Only onboard video for now, with PCIe cards in the works.
Debian is also a painful distro for NVidia users, due to licenses and such. I've been using Ubuntu
for a long time because it's easier to get my NVidia cards working. Just enable an already listed
repository, update and install.
>professional social networking crowd
What the hell does that mean? Professional social networking?
Prostitutes? Drug dealers?
The problem starts when devices can't respond at the same frequencies as the CPU.
Some devices won't be able to respond in parallel, some have really slow protocols.
Then some are completely broken in the way they talk to the computer.
"The BMI is meant to broadly categorize populations for purely statistical purposes. As noted, its accuracy in relation to actual levels of body fat is easily distorted by such factors as fitness level, muscle mass, bone structure, gender, and ethnicity. People who are mesomorphic tend to have higher BMI numbers than people who are endomorphic, because they have greater bone mass and greater muscle mass, respectively, than do endomorphic individuals."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index
It's more than just the weight of boobs. BMI is not a good measure of anything. From near the end:
"An analysis of 40 studies involving 250,000 people, heart patients with normal BMIs were at higher risk of death from cardiovascular disease than people whose BMIs put them in the "overweight" range (BMI 25-29.9)."
If having a perfect BMI doesn't actually mean perfect health, what's the point?
I think a closed-source freeware driver has less chance to be ported to Mac than this:
http://www.ext2fsd.com/projects/projects.htm
18 months old, huh? You know about the extended warranty, right?
It's good for another 18.
gave = face. Argh. One of these days, I'll install lighting in my cave..
Kicking a turtle shell in an alien's gave, making him fall over a ledge and die is still plenty violent ;)
Six locks, huh? I'll use the window.
Actually, the first minidisc drive I saw was a friend's early clunky portable, which had a SCSI interface.
I don't know why the hell that never was used more, as you then had a format more convenient than ZIP,
with slightly more storage, and the bonus of being easy to use for music. But MP3 players have thoroughly killed
the market for portable entertainment, and if you're taping a concert..get an Edirol. Still, that's 12 years ago,
during which MD could have been greater.
Somewhat extending the diff thing: I find it far more easier to compare code side by side.
Just try comparing even a small function/method with a slightly modified version of itself.
What's easiest - seeing mostly matching lines side by side, or the whole function above
another copy of it? I find myself losing track of the code in the latter case.
But yeah, the diff thing is why each set of sourcecode should have ONE standard and
never deviate from it, ever.
Let's use a car analogy. Yours sucks.
The equivalent for cars would be if they recorded all day, facing license plates,
and kept track of when everyone passed by the camera, then published that data.
So Finnish copyright law is martyr-based?
Got a picture? That spreadsheet requires a login :/
I've stopped caring about overhyped future releases. I check the "this week" and "next week" lists at
:)
tothegame.com for what's right around the corner. I knew about this Halo 3 beta only because it
was part of the extras in Crackdown (which I bought for the game, not the beta).
BUT I'd really like to try this beta. I've been promised it for a long time (see this sticker on my
Crackdown box? See the 5000 people currently playing the beta? It's obviously opened!), and
spending a few weeks trying out a near-complete version of the game could help making me
purchase it on release day. Provided it's fun and they really listen to ideas, of course
>By all means get excited the week before Spore and Halo 3 are on shelves, until then,
>let me know what is on shelves now, and whether I should buy it.
There's feckall on the shelves now. A few cool older games, a few expansions, a few new hack
and slash games, some of which have StarForce. In short, digital distribution, MMOs and
console games are the best options now.