Really? the govt exist to endorse one form of software over another? why not we want cradle to grave control why not tell me which PC is good for my country while we are at it..
If you think about the economics of it, open source *is* good for their country. Think about a government providing water for its people. They could buy and ship bottled water from some source in the Alps, or they could make the decent quality free stuff already streaming around their country potable for the masses.
Video game makers are getting sued because young people occasionally shoot at people (unwilling to believe that young people kill for personal reasons too). Example.
Performers are getting sued because many people are uncomfortably aroused by nipples (because they are sexually repressed). Example.
I do a similar trick in KDE where I keep a handy little keyboard layout switcher in the task bar. It's fun to have a password most English speakers can't even pronounce.
An example: "hello" in Russian is pronounced "zdravstvootye".
This reminds me of the time Bob Villa built his own house and I think aired some of the construction on his show. As soon as he got done the State of California stepped in and told him that since he didn't get any permits or professional electricians/plumbers/carpenters to work on the house they were going to have to condemn the place.
It's too expensive to be a general handyman for anything anymore.
Anytime you as a software developer want to release software, you have to try to get it pushed out to all the mirrors (which you have no control over) in order for people to access it.
This is why Gentoo developers don't consider you an official mirror unless they have complete control over the machine. Here's the list of sites that don't mind that. Also, very few packages in the portage tree are as big as the Windows service packs. The network bandwidth involved with keeping Gentoo up to date is comparable to keeping Windows up to date, even counting all the little things.
That still doesn't discount emerge with Gentoo's portage. For Gentoo in specific, emerge will retrieve the files it needs (often in source) and then run the various commands it needs to to get the program correctly inserted into your distribution (often this requires compiling).
There's nothing stopping anyone from using portage to install an entire system based on binaries. Besides, if a developer is releasing a package that truly works on all Linuxes then they're packaging compiled binaries for every architecture, using some sort of interpretation, or compiling upon installation. Portage can already retrieve the correct binary for your architecture based solely upon the ebuild file. Unless the AutoPackaging system requires you to download compiles for all architectures at once, they're going to be doing what portage already does with less dependence upon user compilation.
My girlfriend and I have replaced the Clemson phone directory for thefacebook.com where all the pertinent information is stored anyone. It's basically the college version of the ones mentioned in the article.
Just wait until the power companies start offering broadband. Since they're not already in the phone market VoIP won't be hurting them, it'd be helping more than anything else.
Sure some of the big telco's could strike deals with the utilities that would intentionally result in restricted VoIP usage on the power lines, but the power companies should get smart to the fact that they can put the telcos out of business. I strongly believe that the power companies can roll out universal U.S. broadband a lot more efficiently and decades sooner than our telephone companies.
The Unknown As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don't know We don't know.
--Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing
You got it backwards. The Aus. Prime Minister should now show up for all the U.S. gubernatorial congresses. When will they partitioning off the continent and electing senators and representatives?
A fun trick with CRT monitors is to hold one of those massage vibrators on your head while you look at the screen. The screen starts looking really wavy.
You can test your manliness (probably only works for men) by letting out as low a rumble as you can. If your voice is sufficiently deep you'll see the screen start to flicker or wave severely.
Well time took its toll on the old hair cells, and I got the twentieth-anniversary special CD of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 2000 and listened to the band that supposedly has an ultrasonic tone at the end of it... on my headphones... with the volume turned pretty high... and you know what? I couldn't hear a thing.
CDs, with a 44kHz sample-rate, can only play sounds up to 22kHz. I'd bet anything that the ultrasonic tones can be heard on the LP version of that album. I'd also bet that that section of the album would be perfect for figuring out if you need to replace the needle on the record player or if the album has become too worn.
I'd like to add that Clemson University has Mozilla 1.7.3 on its Standard Lab Image which is cloned to over 1000 machines so it seems that Matt (Matt Cantrell, who manages the lab image) has no problem doing this. Right now CLUG is working on getting OpenOffice deployed but Mozilla works just fine saving all its settings to each users' network directory.
The CpSc Dept. opted to put Firefox in its lab image and I'd image that this will spread to SLI once Mozilla stops updating.
Who else can hear the sound a television or monitor makes? I can tell from another room when a TV has been turned off because the high-pitched squeal goes away. Those electronic mosquito repellers are equally annoying.
I've read in various places that women can hear higher pitches than men but I've yet to meet anybody male or female who could hear some of the crap I put up with. Walking into a computer lab is the same to my ears as diving to the bottom of a pool.
Slashdot Mirror
Not only do they have the hottest women in the world, but they have a government with a working brain too!
If only they both had both qualities.
*ducks*
Really? the govt exist to endorse one form of software over another? why not we want cradle to grave control why not tell me which PC is good for my country while we are at it..
If you think about the economics of it, open source *is* good for their country. Think about a government providing water for its people. They could buy and ship bottled water from some source in the Alps, or they could make the decent quality free stuff already streaming around their country potable for the masses.
Similarly:
Video game makers are getting sued because young people occasionally shoot at people (unwilling to believe that young people kill for personal reasons too). Example.
Performers are getting sued because many people are uncomfortably aroused by nipples (because they are sexually repressed). Example.
Anyone else notice that the U.N. has an opt-out model while the U.S. is more opt-in?
I do a similar trick in KDE where I keep a handy little keyboard layout switcher in the task bar. It's fun to have a password most English speakers can't even pronounce.
An example: "hello" in Russian is pronounced "zdravstvootye".
This reminds me of the time Bob Villa built his own house and I think aired some of the construction on his show. As soon as he got done the State of California stepped in and told him that since he didn't get any permits or professional electricians/plumbers/carpenters to work on the house they were going to have to condemn the place.
It's too expensive to be a general handyman for anything anymore.
Oh. Heh.
I thought you were making some gigantic pun about Moby Dick.
Portage would never be ported (no pun intended) to *BSD, because we already have Ports.
Don't tell these people.
Anytime you as a software developer want to release software, you have to try to get it pushed out to all the mirrors (which you have no control over) in order for people to access it.
This is why Gentoo developers don't consider you an official mirror unless they have complete control over the machine. Here's the list of sites that don't mind that. Also, very few packages in the portage tree are as big as the Windows service packs. The network bandwidth involved with keeping Gentoo up to date is comparable to keeping Windows up to date, even counting all the little things.
And how many other times has it been implemented for Linux?
Plenty of people publish their own ebuilds seperately from the portage tree. That's what portdir_overlay is for.
It's similar to how many Fedora users get mp3 support. They use an unofficial update site.
That still doesn't discount emerge with Gentoo's portage. For Gentoo in specific, emerge will retrieve the files it needs (often in source) and then run the various commands it needs to to get the program correctly inserted into your distribution (often this requires compiling).
There's nothing stopping anyone from using portage to install an entire system based on binaries. Besides, if a developer is releasing a package that truly works on all Linuxes then they're packaging compiled binaries for every architecture, using some sort of interpretation, or compiling upon installation. Portage can already retrieve the correct binary for your architecture based solely upon the ebuild file. Unless the AutoPackaging system requires you to download compiles for all architectures at once, they're going to be doing what portage already does with less dependence upon user compilation.
Except of course the authors and sole users of BSD. Only they shall survive the passage of the BFGBlaster3000 virus.
My girlfriend and I have replaced the Clemson phone directory for thefacebook.com where all the pertinent information is stored anyone. It's basically the college version of the ones mentioned in the article.
Just wait until the power companies start offering broadband. Since they're not already in the phone market VoIP won't be hurting them, it'd be helping more than anything else.
Sure some of the big telco's could strike deals with the utilities that would intentionally result in restricted VoIP usage on the power lines, but the power companies should get smart to the fact that they can put the telcos out of business. I strongly believe that the power companies can roll out universal U.S. broadband a lot more efficiently and decades sooner than our telephone companies.
The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.
--Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing
Polygraph administrator: Have you read "The Lie Behind the Lie Detector"?
Subject: No.
Polygraph administrator: Crap.
You got it backwards. The Aus. Prime Minister should now show up for all the U.S. gubernatorial congresses. When will they partitioning off the continent and electing senators and representatives?
A fun trick with CRT monitors is to hold one of those massage vibrators on your head while you look at the screen. The screen starts looking really wavy.
You can test your manliness (probably only works for men) by letting out as low a rumble as you can. If your voice is sufficiently deep you'll see the screen start to flicker or wave severely.
That comment was shamelessly ripped from here.
Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double entry accounting.
- From Shibumi, bestseller by Trevanian
Well time took its toll on the old hair cells, and I got the twentieth-anniversary special CD of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 2000 and listened to the band that supposedly has an ultrasonic tone at the end of it... on my headphones... with the volume turned pretty high... and you know what? I couldn't hear a thing.
CDs, with a 44kHz sample-rate, can only play sounds up to 22kHz. I'd bet anything that the ultrasonic tones can be heard on the LP version of that album. I'd also bet that that section of the album would be perfect for figuring out if you need to replace the needle on the record player or if the album has become too worn.
I'd like to add that Clemson University has Mozilla 1.7.3 on its Standard Lab Image which is cloned to over 1000 machines so it seems that Matt (Matt Cantrell, who manages the lab image) has no problem doing this. Right now CLUG is working on getting OpenOffice deployed but Mozilla works just fine saving all its settings to each users' network directory.
The CpSc Dept. opted to put Firefox in its lab image and I'd image that this will spread to SLI once Mozilla stops updating.
Apparently Rez is a popular sound based game since it also includes physical feedback.
Who else can hear the sound a television or monitor makes? I can tell from another room when a TV has been turned off because the high-pitched squeal goes away. Those electronic mosquito repellers are equally annoying.
I've read in various places that women can hear higher pitches than men but I've yet to meet anybody male or female who could hear some of the crap I put up with. Walking into a computer lab is the same to my ears as diving to the bottom of a pool.
Who else remembers seeing this on the Discovery Channel on either Next Step or Beyond 2000 back in the mid-90s?
I miss those shows. So far ahead they beat Slashdot by 10 years.