Not to say that they will take off, but... I got a chance to use one of these "Phantoms" when they were under development at MIT. They are very cool. I only saw a few simple demo programs, including pushing blocks around and playing with virtual clay, but it felt completely real.
The active voice is usually more direct and vigorous than the passive:
I shall always remember my first visit to Boston.
This is much better than
My first visit to Boston will always be remembered by me.
The latter sentence is less direct, less bold, and less concise. If the writer tries to make it more concice by omitting ``by me,''...it becomes indefinite...
They go on to point out that active voice is not always better. One good use of passive voice is in emphasizing passivity as in ``the old lady was attacked'' rather than ``someone attacked the old lady.''
To prevent interference, RF lights should simply practice exponential backoff for colision avoidance like everyone else in the 2.4GHz range. What's more, the lights would then become an effective network load monitor.
I have not followed freedb much, but I suspect the software that runs it could be modified to work with books. The Freedb software is under the GPL and uses a MySQL database backend. Someone looking to procrastinate for a few days could probably have a working book database within a few days.
I don't think the author really meant "retroactive" in the sense that former copyright violaters would be freed. My reading of it was that the author meant all copyrights older than 14 years should be revoked.
This is actually not true. (Although not only development-related, the Nautilus mailing list has had over 100 posts in the last day.) Much of the work on Nautilus at the moment is going into porting it to the Gnome 2.0 architecture. From everything I've heard, it is already way faster with Gnome 2.
One more pun that people have missed: The title of the talk was ``The Simpsons Rule''. See MathWorld for information on Simpson's Rule.
Also, here's the email announcing the talk:
DOH! Yes, you heard right....
HMC MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT PROUDLY PRESENTS
The Simpsons Rule: Mathematical Morsels from "The Simpsons"
next THURSDAY, March 14
6:30 PM, Galileo McAlister (HMC)
by Dr. Sarah J. Greenwald, Appalachian State University and Dr. Andrew Nestler, Santa Monica College
Now in its 13th season, "The Simpsons" is an award-winning global pop culture phenomenon. But did you know that "The Simpsons" also contains over one hundred mathematical moments, with material ranging from arithmetic to calculus to Riemannian geometry? There's even a resident mathematician/inventor, Professor Frink. Join us as we present some of our favorite mathematical excerpts from "The Simpsons," and explore the related mathematical content, accuracy and pedagogical value.
Aftermath: Doughnuts (MMMM...Doughnuts) will be served at the end of the talk.
Though fewer than half of Americans with computers say they fully understand how to operate them and all their features, there are differences by region.
As a Junior computer science major, I know now more than ever that I don't know how to use all of the features of my computer. I guess that puts me in the non--tech-savvy half of the population.
My understanding is that going through source to find possible run-time bugs is often not computable. Certainally you could find some things (x = *NULL will always fail, for instance, and while(1) will never halt), but lots of problems would never be found. A better solution would be to use a higher-level language so you don't have to worry about allocating and freeing memory, overrunning arrays, etc.
Fortunatly, some of that illegability is due to poor punctuation. Try this:
"With an internally preemptible kernel, the explicit task yielding is not necessary because the context switch is performed in the interrupt return path via open-coded yields, which are hidden in the unlock code. But you cannot preempt an in-kernel process while it holds locks, so all the unlock, relock and fixup code is needed in either approach."
KDE it gets reasonably fast, but it still seems to run a lot more processes, and swap/access the disk more than other DEs/WMs.
Keep in mind (both for KDE programs and for Gnome programs) that with top, Linux reports each thread as a separate process, even though they share their address space.
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Make that 0<1<2<10<20
That's really cool. Now why isn't that the default?
Personally, I think it should be smarter and sort the way library books are sorted, sorting strings of numbers in numerical order such that:
0121020
and
Aa
--Ben
1. Yes, galeon gets AA fonts with GdkXft. If you don't want to install that, galeon will be ported to Gnome2 and that should do it.
5. GTK2 is double-buffered.
--Ben
And to those 31337 h/\xors who want more configurability, use gconf-editor.
--Ben
killall metacity; sawfish&
That said, Metacity is working correctly for me. I'm not sure why it's behaving how you describe, but it's great when it works.
--Ben
I have this in addition:
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
I'll have those mirrored soon here.
--Ben
For the lazy, here are the Screenshots.
Great work to everyone who helped with this. Gnome2 is amazing.
--Ben
Not to say that they will take off, but... I got a chance to use one of these "Phantoms" when they were under development at MIT. They are very cool. I only saw a few simple demo programs, including pushing blocks around and playing with virtual clay, but it felt completely real.
--Ben
They go on to point out that active voice is not always better. One good use of passive voice is in emphasizing passivity as in ``the old lady was attacked'' rather than ``someone attacked the old lady.''
--Ben
To prevent interference, RF lights should simply practice exponential backoff for colision avoidance like everyone else in the 2.4GHz range. What's more, the lights would then become an effective network load monitor.
--Ben
In response to copyright awareness week, consider taking part in Copyleft Awareness Week. After all, how can you trust an organization that refers to it's "friends" in quotes?
--Ben
I have not followed freedb much, but I suspect the software that runs it could be modified to work with books. The Freedb software is under the GPL and uses a MySQL database backend. Someone looking to procrastinate for a few days could probably have a working book database within a few days.
--Ben
I don't think the author really meant "retroactive" in the sense that former copyright violaters would be freed. My reading of it was that the author meant all copyrights older than 14 years should be revoked.
--Ben
The EFF has some good information on what you can do about this.
--Ben
This is actually not true. (Although not only development-related, the Nautilus mailing list has had over 100 posts in the last day.) Much of the work on Nautilus at the moment is going into porting it to the Gnome 2.0 architecture. From everything I've heard, it is already way faster with Gnome 2.
--Ben
Also, here's the email announcing the talk:
As a Junior computer science major, I know now more than ever that I don't know how to use all of the features of my computer. I guess that puts me in the non--tech-savvy half of the population.
--Ben
My understanding is that going through source to find possible run-time bugs is often not computable. Certainally you could find some things (x = *NULL will always fail, for instance, and while(1) will never halt), but lots of problems would never be found. A better solution would be to use a higher-level language so you don't have to worry about allocating and freeing memory, overrunning arrays, etc.
--Ben
Oh yea? Have a look at this. These people are sick.
--Ben
It is available for X. See my other post on this page.
--Ben
With X, just add match edit rgba=rgb; to /etc/X11/XftConfig to get ClearType fonts in X.
--Ben
"With an internally preemptible kernel, the explicit task yielding is not necessary because the context switch is performed in the interrupt return path via open-coded yields, which are hidden in the unlock code. But you cannot preempt an in-kernel process while it holds locks, so all the unlock, relock and fixup code is needed in either approach."
--Ben
Keep in mind (both for KDE programs and for Gnome programs) that with top, Linux reports each thread as a separate process, even though they share their address space.
--Ben
And which government should do the taxing?
--Ben