I remember Transmeta claiming that they wouldn't have such problems since things can always be fixed in software. Maby this is a more fundamental problem. Interesting, though.
That's what I thought at first but if you look at the page, you'll see what they are talking about. They have a virtual desktop, literally. They let you run vnc on the virtual computer on your virtual desktop. http://www.3dwm.org/html/gallery_screenshots.html
So? You could make a continuous approximation of this function if you wanted. Then it wouldn't be full of if/thens. Perhaps that would be more logical even, but certainly not practical. I think the average American would much prefer a set of check boxes than computing a high-order Taylor polynomial. This is just a simple way to do it.
Also, consider ther rationale for these credits. You say that Gore hates nonb-readers. I consider these tax credits as financial help with the financial burden having a child. This doesn't make it financially beneficial to have a kid.
The idea of crediting after-school programs and such is to encourage people who otherwise can't afford them to. I assure you there are those for whom that 20% could be a deciding factor in what their child does after school.
I see things the other way around... Gedubya is bumbeling fool who has no buisness being a president---particularly one who will appoint suppream court justices---whereas Gore has something between his ears.
Same here. In 1996 I used something very similar as part of an MIT highschool outrech program. We popped water balloons, bounced water balloons and bounced balls off the ground.
One thing we found was that a billiard ball bouncing off of industrial plastic tial flooring spends less than 1/6000 seconds on the ground and pulls many thousand Gs:-)
Are you serious? I don't mean to judge but I've always thought the VAIO line was the sexiest piece of hardware available. This new version looks like... well... a standard black brick laptop with some plastic dodads on it. I'm very disapointed and am not impressed.
I agree. They kick ass (except for perhaps redhat but that's another story). Don't forget that Enlightenment paved the way for almost everything pretty on the x desktop. I don't see why you are so bitter about Enlightenment.
What about it? It does exactly what it's supposed to do.
and the 'epplets'... what moron thought of those?
Why do you say that? They are great. They are applets but they match the rest of the desktop.
and there is no config tool... econf SUCKS!
Hua? You must have used E0.16 since you complain about the icon box but how can you think there are no gui config tools? When I right click on my desktop I have a menu of GUI tools for:
Focus settings
Move & resize settings
Pager settings
Window placement settings
Multiple desktop settings
Virtual desktop settings
Autoraise settings
Tooltip settings
Audio settings
Group settinhgs
Special FX settings
Desktop background settings
KDE settings
A link to the legacy e-conf gtk app.
Redhat+Gnome+Sawfish = ROCK ON!
I agree. They kick ass (except for perhaps redhat but that's another story).
Don't
I really don't think I'm too much of a zealot. (He says writing in IE) I am aware that there are many ways for windows computers to server programs over a network but from what I know it's not nearly as transparent as under Unix.
As for clustering, I have heard of windows clustering but seeing as I've never heard of people using a Windows cluster which leads me to believe that, while technicly true, windows probably can't do it too well.
I don't use kde, but I don't mind installing the base and libs and multimedia to get kfm. I like kfm as a file manager better then GNOME,...
Fortunately, GNOME's current file manager is at the end of it's life, soon to be replaced with Nautilus.
On an off topic note. What has Linux done that windows hasn't? So far the desktops are somewhat differnet looking, but neither has done anything that is noticably better than Windows. Sure some may say it is more stable, but then so are Solaris and the BSD's.
Um... Clustering, (good) Server, Portable, X11 (windows can't just serve programs over a network)... The list goes on and on... Linux may not be quite ready for a consumer desktop but that's not what it was originally built for.
But what has Linux or UNIX in general done lately that Windows hasn't.
WHAT are you planning to do with the heat? Heat sinks don't destroy heat, they move it. (Actually, NOTHING destroys heat. Part of that conservation of energy thing.)
I may be talking out of my ass here but if the thermal energy applied at one end of a nanotube propigates down the tube like a sound wave, would it be hypotheticly possibal to use the equivilent of active noise cancelation to ``eat up'' the heat?
I doubt this would be feasable because you'd need to actively cancle each tube seperately but in theory...?
And in turn I bristle at the very arrogant notion that anybody who does not go to college will be an uncultured boor, that college is the only salvation from an inevitable life of beer-guzzling barbarism.
This is not how I intended to come across. I agree that college is not for everyone, I was just writing with regard to the trend of techies going streight into the workforce. I'm all for skiping college for the right reasons but when an influencial group of people, many of whom have not had a sizable humanities background, go off to find brave new technological worlds, it is all too easy to be caught up in the joy of the field, ignoring broader implications.
My understanding is that the freedom is not of the programers so much as of the software itself. The idea is that the GPL prevents people from incroaching on the freedom of the code, not the other way around.
Yes and no. That was not the main point of my argument. I imagine that most of the scientists involved with the bomb were college educated but with a highly technical background. They clearly were aware of the conciquences of their actions to some extent but some went on to kill themselves. Your Oppenheimer quote, if I recall correctly, was after the first full test. I take it to mean that, although Oppenheimer knew scientificly and politically what he was doing, it was not untill the test that he fully saw the ramifications of his actions.
Anyway, that was not the point of my original post, just some context for my school's philosophy.
Keep in mind the difference between Open Source and Free Software. Open Source code can be closed but Free Software is Free---it can't be closed. The GPL is viral intentionally with the intention that, one day, all software will be Free.
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I've tried this some but never found a package that I found sufficiently usable... What did you use?
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For anyone who hasn't learned LaTeX, do it. Get The LaTeX book and learn. You'll be glad you did.
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>> see GTK apps redraw themselves.
you're probably using pixmap themes here. if you have big pixmaps, it's going to make things slower. same with kde themes.
Also, the next version of GTK is double buffered so you'll never see redraws.
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Also, consider ther rationale for these credits. You say that Gore hates nonb-readers. I consider these tax credits as financial help with the financial burden having a child. This doesn't make it financially beneficial to have a kid.
The idea of crediting after-school programs and such is to encourage people who otherwise can't afford them to. I assure you there are those for whom that 20% could be a deciding factor in what their child does after school.
--Ben
IMHO Yes, you should vote---Against Bush
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One thing we found was that a billiard ball bouncing off of industrial plastic tial flooring spends less than 1/6000 seconds on the ground and pulls many thousand Gs :-)
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Twinkle, twinkle little star.
Power equals i squared r.
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I agree. They kick ass (except for perhaps redhat but that's another story). Don't forget that Enlightenment paved the way for almost everything pretty on the x desktop. I don't see why you are so bitter about Enlightenment.
--Ben
What about it? It does exactly what it's supposed to do.
and the 'epplets' ... what moron thought of those?
Why do you say that? They are great. They are applets but they match the rest of the desktop.
and there is no config tool... econf SUCKS!
Hua? You must have used E0.16 since you complain about the icon box but how can you think there are no gui config tools? When I right click on my desktop I have a menu of GUI tools for:
Redhat+Gnome+Sawfish = ROCK ON!
I agree. They kick ass (except for perhaps redhat but that's another story). Don't
What?!?! I've never heard that. The gnome icons are central to why so many people think gnome looks so slick.
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This is quite true. That is one of the benefits of Bonobo. Low level GUI hooks are there to be hooked onto by whatever you want.
--BEn
As for clustering, I have heard of windows clustering but seeing as I've never heard of people using a Windows cluster which leads me to believe that, while technicly true, windows probably can't do it too well.
--Ben
Fortunately, GNOME's current file manager is at the end of it's life, soon to be replaced with Nautilus.
On an off topic note. What has Linux done that windows hasn't? So far the desktops are somewhat differnet looking, but neither has done anything that is noticably better than Windows. Sure some may say it is more stable, but then so are Solaris and the BSD's.
Um... Clustering, (good) Server, Portable, X11 (windows can't just serve programs over a network)... The list goes on and on... Linux may not be quite ready for a consumer desktop but that's not what it was originally built for.
But what has Linux or UNIX in general done lately that Windows hasn't.
Not crashed.
--Ben
Is it just me or is an iMac not the most logical computer to cluster. What a waist of 7 monitors, 7 CD drives, 7 flopp... ok no floppies but still.
--Ben
I may be talking out of my ass here but if the thermal energy applied at one end of a nanotube propigates down the tube like a sound wave, would it be hypotheticly possibal to use the equivilent of active noise cancelation to ``eat up'' the heat?
I doubt this would be feasable because you'd need to actively cancle each tube seperately but in theory...?
--Ben
This is not how I intended to come across. I agree that college is not for everyone, I was just writing with regard to the trend of techies going streight into the workforce. I'm all for skiping college for the right reasons but when an influencial group of people, many of whom have not had a sizable humanities background, go off to find brave new technological worlds, it is all too easy to be caught up in the joy of the field, ignoring broader implications.
--Ben
My understanding is that the freedom is not of the programers so much as of the software itself. The idea is that the GPL prevents people from incroaching on the freedom of the code, not the other way around.
--Ben
Anyway, that was not the point of my original post, just some context for my school's philosophy.
--Ben
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