Except that the FCC is required to review the diversity of media every two years and decide whether or not ownership limitations need to be opposed or lifted (this was result of the 2 year anniversary from the last review). So if the media really did become a monoculture and the FCC actually did serve the public interest... then we'd be okay.
What I wonder is what the response time is in like one of these things... is it even technically possible to achieve speeds of 120+ wpm on it? (i.e., is the signaling rate of the "orbs" good enough to handle 8 chars per second) Not only that, how fast would a person's wrists have to move on average to move the N millimeters that it takes to do an average "keystroke"?
Also, though I haven't looked at it in comparison to letter frequency, their schema for keystrokes seemed suboptimal, but still pretty good. For example, transitioning from "t" to "h" (arguably one of the most common two-letter combinations in all of typing) requires going from up,right to right,left instead of just leaving one dome the same and moving the other. Same thing with going from "i" to "n" (also very common), you have to go from up,down to down,lower-left. It's a minor thing, but it seems that attention to these things could have a significant impact upon the ease of use (less motion required, which is supposed to be one of their big selling points), and the speed at which people can type on it (if you don't have to move as far, you key faster - kinda like how Dvorak is more optimal than QWERTY).
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Just a note, but debs already have these in the form of their "weak-dependencies" (namely, "Recommends" and "Suggests"). Of coures, as a user it's up to you to decide whether or not to install these packages, but you at least have them readily available (and some nice frontends to apt, like aptitude, allow you to choose to install these by default if you choose). In fact, some may argue that this often leads to a counterargument that package maintainers are too anal-retentive about exotic situations where things that don't require one or more dependencies forces the dependency into a weak dependency instead. For example, a package that I work technically CAN work without a database but it's not incredibly useful without one. As a result, we have it in a weak dependency (Suggests), even though for most users will probably want to use the DB dependency (of course, this is all in the README and whatnot, but since when do users read those?). So, this system does have its quirks as well, but I still vastly prefer it to stupid dependencies that aren't really truly "dependencies" in the real meaning of the word.
Excellent, now I can just apt-get install nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx instead of having to grab the *-src packages and build my own debs. Provided the maintainer will package these... oh please oh please oh please
Not really my cup of tea, but for the home user I hear Mondo Rescue mentioned a lot as a good solution (for backing things up to CD-R(W) for example, though I think it handles most typical backup media). But that's not to say that it's not for "big iron" users as well, as their "About" page states:
Mondo is reliable. It backs up your GNU/Linux server or workstation to tape, CD-R, CD-RW or NFS partition. In the event of catastrophic data loss, you will be able to restore all of your data [or as much as you want], from bare metal if necessary. Mondo is in use by Nortel Networks, Siemens, HP (US and France), IBM, NASA's JPL, dozens of smaller companies, and tens of thousands of users.
It seemed very nice when I tried it, but I just don't think I had the patience to set it up properly. Definitely worth a shot.
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The best part about that whole story was when he claimed that he couldn't up the "super duper warp factor" to 7 because it became crashy, so he had to dial it back to 6. Man that was a good story.
Not only that, but if you try and close a window with multiple tabs open it will show a popup (which you can disable, iirc) asking for confirmation. This has saved me once or twice, because I always display tabs even when there's only one tab to display. So I'll sometimes forget that I was doing something in another tab, try to close the window (though usually I just leave Galeon open most of the time), and be thankfully reminded of the other thing I had to do.
... the people using Hotmail to spam everyone else. Like 50% of the spam that I get is from accounts like hotmail.com or yahoo.com, even on accounts for those very same domains and even with the spam filters for each of those domains on (set to "high" in Hotmail's case). Eliminating spam BEFORE it gets sent seems like perhaps a more important issue for everyone, but then again corporations doing what's best for them and not everyone isn't exactly news either (nor necessarily bad).
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Wow, I don't see anything about it being a development platform in there other than the title.
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Feh, my Atari 2600 walks all over that Pentium 4 AND your Windows 2000 - combined!
Shouldn't that be "like a gecko " anyway?
Except that the FCC is required to review the diversity of media every two years and decide whether or not ownership limitations need to be opposed or lifted (this was result of the 2 year anniversary from the last review). So if the media really did become a monoculture and the FCC actually did serve the public interest ... then we'd be okay.
:)
Oh yeah, you know where I learned that? NPR
She's not English .. she's Greek, if I recall correctly.
No kidding, it's a good thing she hasn't decided to litigate the Greece school system!
..."
Say it with me kids: "alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta (trademark 2003 by Catherine Zeta-Jones), eta, theta
What I wonder is what the response time is in like one of these things ... is it even technically possible to achieve speeds of 120+ wpm on it? (i.e., is the signaling rate of the "orbs" good enough to handle 8 chars per second) Not only that, how fast would a person's wrists have to move on average to move the N millimeters that it takes to do an average "keystroke"?
Also, though I haven't looked at it in comparison to letter frequency, their schema for keystrokes seemed suboptimal, but still pretty good. For example, transitioning from "t" to "h" (arguably one of the most common two-letter combinations in all of typing) requires going from up,right to right,left instead of just leaving one dome the same and moving the other. Same thing with going from "i" to "n" (also very common), you have to go from up,down to down,lower-left. It's a minor thing, but it seems that attention to these things could have a significant impact upon the ease of use (less motion required, which is supposed to be one of their big selling points), and the speed at which people can type on it (if you don't have to move as far, you key faster - kinda like how Dvorak is more optimal than QWERTY).
*chuckle* Linux-based *chortle*
Except that culler is already a word:
Though I suppose it's hard to mistake these two in the same context.
Easy: institute pop-up ads on your site and see if you can Manage to keep any Traffic.
Just a note, but debs already have these in the form of their "weak-dependencies" (namely, "Recommends" and "Suggests"). Of coures, as a user it's up to you to decide whether or not to install these packages, but you at least have them readily available (and some nice frontends to apt, like aptitude, allow you to choose to install these by default if you choose). In fact, some may argue that this often leads to a counterargument that package maintainers are too anal-retentive about exotic situations where things that don't require one or more dependencies forces the dependency into a weak dependency instead. For example, a package that I work technically CAN work without a database but it's not incredibly useful without one. As a result, we have it in a weak dependency (Suggests), even though for most users will probably want to use the DB dependency (of course, this is all in the README and whatnot, but since when do users read those?). So, this system does have its quirks as well, but I still vastly prefer it to stupid dependencies that aren't really truly "dependencies" in the real meaning of the word.
Sadly, I know of people in their 20's who still insist that Krull is a good movie. May Jebus have mercy on their souls...
Excellent, now I can just apt-get install nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx instead of having to grab the *-src packages and build my own debs. Provided the maintainer will package these ... oh please oh please oh please
You've been able to do this for quite some time now by using the /proc filesystem. Check out this mailing list post for details:
http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2002/06 /0044.html
Funny thing is, the first thing I thought when I read "X vs XP" was think X vs XP. Slashdot is reading my mind!
Is this Mitchell a man or a woman? It's hard to keep them straight these days.
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The best part about that whole story was when he claimed that he couldn't up the "super duper warp factor" to 7 because it became crashy, so he had to dial it back to 6. Man that was a good story.
Not only that, but if you try and close a window with multiple tabs open it will show a popup (which you can disable, iirc) asking for confirmation. This has saved me once or twice, because I always display tabs even when there's only one tab to display. So I'll sometimes forget that I was doing something in another tab, try to close the window (though usually I just leave Galeon open most of the time), and be thankfully reminded of the other thing I had to do.
Your comment is entirely orthogonal to the main story, please remain on topic.
(/me lobbies for the changing of "Off-Topic" moderation to "Orthogonal to Topic")
you get the first post. Or not.
... the people using Hotmail to spam everyone else. Like 50% of the spam that I get is from accounts like hotmail.com or yahoo.com, even on accounts for those very same domains and even with the spam filters for each of those domains on (set to "high" in Hotmail's case). Eliminating spam BEFORE it gets sent seems like perhaps a more important issue for everyone, but then again corporations doing what's best for them and not everyone isn't exactly news either (nor necessarily bad).
Like the one seen here. :)
a) She's right GNOME 2.0 was first called a Desktop Environment, then later Desktop and finally Development Plattform.
*bzzzzt* wrong
Let me quote the GNOME 2.0 Release Announcement:
Wow, I don't see anything about it being a development platform in there other than the title.