Cellular Telephones aren't just used for idle chatter. Remember, a lot (not most, but not insignificant) of cellular traffic comes from telemetry systems. So, the next call you might jam could be some heart paitent's ECG telling his cardiologist that he's having a heart attack, or somebody's Saab saying that it's airbag has gone off in an accident, or perhaps it is just a cell call, and it's just the hospital trying to get their neurosurgeon in.
Well, to be more correct, Mainframe refers to the architecture. You can run Linux on a Mainframe, and Linux isn't a mainframe OS (yeah, I know you usually run Linux/390 under VM, but whatever). The Mainframe is really quite unlike any microcomputer architecture in the way it deals with IO (devices can actually talk to each other directly, I believe) and that is what makes a mainframe a mainframe, not its operating system.
Photoshop will not come in a tarball, nor in a deb, nor in an rpm package. Remember, right now, there are enterprise software packages for Linux, and they don't come in any type of package. (my experience is with Mathematica/Linux, but I do believe Maya works the same) They have installers, just as they do under windows. You run the installer, it vomits all over your computer, you run the app.
Google is not a "tool" in this sense. A hammer is a tool. I can kill someone with a hammer. The internet is a tool. However, the guy at Sears who tells me where to buy a hammer is not a "tool" (well, he may be, but that's a different kind of tool). He can't be used for good or evil. He can tell me where to find a hammer, which I can then use for good or evil.
You are my hero. This is some of the best news I have heard in a long, long time. Open source is about choice, and I'm so sick of hearing people say that "everyone thinks the monolithic suite is bad". I happen to like it.
Why do people always have to drag Google into this sort of thing? Somewhere, someone is pissed off at Google for putting their medical records on the web, and letting people get at them, when they should be angry at the people who posted them to the web in the first place. It's like calling Southwest Bell your partner in crime because you used DSL to steal from an online bank. It just makes SWBell look bad, just as this makes Google look bad.
It scares me to see that Firefox is going to replace Seamonkey when Firefox is not feature complete, and it seems to me that they aren't really making an effort to include everything that you could change on Mozilla in the name of "simplicity". Damnit, I don't like autocomplete. I don't want anything popping up, changing while I'm typing. It distracts me, and it's irritating. I know what I want to type, and I'll type it. But, to get rid of it, I have to go hack it away by removing the chrome piece that runs it. (it's in a JAR file somewhere. it's a really huge pain)
Firebird has the feel of a vendor product, not a flexible open source one. If it's going to be good, I should be able to turn off every feature that you don't absolutely need to browse a web page.
This isn't entirely true. the Video Toaster could handle live video, something you really can't do with any good consumer systems right now. The closest thing that came to a replacement for the video toaster was the Play Trinity, but you can't buy that anymore, not to mention that it was for a much higher end market. It was a professional system.
If I'm a low budget cable access, or UHF station, I can't use Final Cut Pro for my live broadcast. In fact, my local cable access station still uses, guess what, the Video Toaster for this purpose.
MySQL is GPL. You can use it just as you would Linux, or any other GPLed application. It's free. You can use it on a commercial site all you want.
You can even modify it and distribute it in your own application. However, you've got to play by the rules of the GPL (you've got to release your code). If you don't want to play by the rules, you can buy a license, and pay to distribute whatever you want, without ever releasing code. It's really a great system.
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High performance cars (I don't mean a Civic Type-R, I mean, BMW M3, Corvette, WRX STi, Audi RS6, Porsche 911 Turbo) are not designed for low speed driving. And yes, I mean 60mi/h is low speed. These cars are for speeds that most people will never run them at. They are tested as race cars, and built as such. They have features, like the STi's spoiler, that are useless to almost everyone, but vital for where they are designed to be used, on the track (or, in the WRX's case, off the track), at speeds well over 100mi/h.
Getting around in space isn't like getting around a subway system. You can't just jump orbits. You have to know where you're going, and go there at launch, when you're pouring the enormous impulse into the vehicle. The ISS is at a very high inclination orbit in order to be reached by both Russian and American launch facilities. This orbit is a very "expensive" one in terms of energy at launch. Which means less payload.
Space is a very, very big place, and the shuttle (like any space vehicle that isn't mostly fuel) is just a big projectile. You shoot it very fast, very high, and just let it fall around the earth. It can't just pull up and meet with the station without a lot of fuel. You have to aim for it from the start.
I run a server not so that I can have one, but so that I can know how to administrate one. I don't need Apache, I don't need to optimize my SQL stuff, I don't need to do anything like that. But by doing it, I acquire the skills I need to do this in the future, on a much larger scale.
I know Netware because I used it when I didn't need to. I know NT Server for the same reason. I used to run NT for my server, but when I got used to that, I switched to Linux, so that I would learn something new. And now I'm getting pretty good at that.
So, when is gegl supposed to be done enough for a gimp release? I thought that gimp2 was always supposed to be the one that used gegl and fixed everything.
I've got a 9800pro with two monitors (one dvi, one vga) and it works just fine under Windows 2000 (running sp4. it worked under sp3, too. didn't have the card earlier than that)
You can also use two cards with two monitors. I did that before the 9800pro.
However, it is trivial to prove the fact that there are strings that have the same MD5 hash due to the fact that you can't represent 2^65 different numbers with only 2^64 keys.
And this is exactly why the emulation project exists. There are many of us who are still die hard adventure gamers, and for us, old Sierra games (and LucasArts) are all that's left, for the most part. So, I run the MT-32 emulator to make the most of that experience. More than I could when I ran the games when they were new.
But, a resume is a form of direct marketing. You want to sell someone your services. It's a letter that says "if you give me money, I will do something for you". That is exactly what I get in my inbox all the time.
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Cellular Telephones aren't just used for idle chatter. Remember, a lot (not most, but not insignificant) of cellular traffic comes from telemetry systems. So, the next call you might jam could be some heart paitent's ECG telling his cardiologist that he's having a heart attack, or somebody's Saab saying that it's airbag has gone off in an accident, or perhaps it is just a cell call, and it's just the hospital trying to get their neurosurgeon in.
Well, to be more correct, Mainframe refers to the architecture. You can run Linux on a Mainframe, and Linux isn't a mainframe OS (yeah, I know you usually run Linux/390 under VM, but whatever). The Mainframe is really quite unlike any microcomputer architecture in the way it deals with IO (devices can actually talk to each other directly, I believe) and that is what makes a mainframe a mainframe, not its operating system.
Photoshop will not come in a tarball, nor in a deb, nor in an rpm package. Remember, right now, there are enterprise software packages for Linux, and they don't come in any type of package. (my experience is with Mathematica/Linux, but I do believe Maya works the same) They have installers, just as they do under windows. You run the installer, it vomits all over your computer, you run the app.
Google is not a "tool" in this sense. A hammer is a tool. I can kill someone with a hammer. The internet is a tool. However, the guy at Sears who tells me where to buy a hammer is not a "tool" (well, he may be, but that's a different kind of tool). He can't be used for good or evil. He can tell me where to find a hammer, which I can then use for good or evil.
You are my hero. This is some of the best news I have heard in a long, long time. Open source is about choice, and I'm so sick of hearing people say that "everyone thinks the monolithic suite is bad". I happen to like it.
Why do people always have to drag Google into this sort of thing? Somewhere, someone is pissed off at Google for putting their medical records on the web, and letting people get at them, when they should be angry at the people who posted them to the web in the first place. It's like calling Southwest Bell your partner in crime because you used DSL to steal from an online bank. It just makes SWBell look bad, just as this makes Google look bad.
It scares me to see that Firefox is going to replace Seamonkey when Firefox is not feature complete, and it seems to me that they aren't really making an effort to include everything that you could change on Mozilla in the name of "simplicity". Damnit, I don't like autocomplete. I don't want anything popping up, changing while I'm typing. It distracts me, and it's irritating. I know what I want to type, and I'll type it. But, to get rid of it, I have to go hack it away by removing the chrome piece that runs it. (it's in a JAR file somewhere. it's a really huge pain)
Firebird has the feel of a vendor product, not a flexible open source one. If it's going to be good, I should be able to turn off every feature that you don't absolutely need to browse a web page.
This isn't entirely true. the Video Toaster could handle live video, something you really can't do with any good consumer systems right now. The closest thing that came to a replacement for the video toaster was the Play Trinity, but you can't buy that anymore, not to mention that it was for a much higher end market. It was a professional system.
If I'm a low budget cable access, or UHF station, I can't use Final Cut Pro for my live broadcast. In fact, my local cable access station still uses, guess what, the Video Toaster for this purpose.
MySQL is GPL. You can use it just as you would Linux, or any other GPLed application. It's free. You can use it on a commercial site all you want.
You can even modify it and distribute it in your own application. However, you've got to play by the rules of the GPL (you've got to release your code). If you don't want to play by the rules, you can buy a license, and pay to distribute whatever you want, without ever releasing code. It's really a great system.
Here is what you're looking for (under windows).
High performance cars (I don't mean a Civic Type-R, I mean, BMW M3, Corvette, WRX STi, Audi RS6, Porsche 911 Turbo) are not designed for low speed driving. And yes, I mean 60mi/h is low speed. These cars are for speeds that most people will never run them at. They are tested as race cars, and built as such. They have features, like the STi's spoiler, that are useless to almost everyone, but vital for where they are designed to be used, on the track (or, in the WRX's case, off the track), at speeds well over 100mi/h.
Just make sure to keep that fire extinguisher handy.
How did SCO get a copy of "IBM AIX source code, an old version labeled MERCED/9922A_43NIA"?
I doubt that IBM would have just turned over source to AIX as part of the trial, much less an old version, so how did they get it?
Getting around in space isn't like getting around a subway system. You can't just jump orbits. You have to know where you're going, and go there at launch, when you're pouring the enormous impulse into the vehicle. The ISS is at a very high inclination orbit in order to be reached by both Russian and American launch facilities. This orbit is a very "expensive" one in terms of energy at launch. Which means less payload.
Space is a very, very big place, and the shuttle (like any space vehicle that isn't mostly fuel) is just a big projectile. You shoot it very fast, very high, and just let it fall around the earth. It can't just pull up and meet with the station without a lot of fuel. You have to aim for it from the start.
We really need a (+1 Uphill both ways) pity moderation.
I run a server not so that I can have one, but so that I can know how to administrate one. I don't need Apache, I don't need to optimize my SQL stuff, I don't need to do anything like that. But by doing it, I acquire the skills I need to do this in the future, on a much larger scale.
I know Netware because I used it when I didn't need to. I know NT Server for the same reason. I used to run NT for my server, but when I got used to that, I switched to Linux, so that I would learn something new. And now I'm getting pretty good at that.
So, when is gegl supposed to be done enough for a gimp release? I thought that gimp2 was always supposed to be the one that used gegl and fixed everything.
Argh.
I've got a 9800pro with two monitors (one dvi, one vga) and it works just fine under Windows 2000 (running sp4. it worked under sp3, too. didn't have the card earlier than that)
You can also use two cards with two monitors. I did that before the 9800pro.
I've got this strange dragon thing for my web browser. And my mathematics program has a leaf? My IM app is, a bookmark? Some sort of award?
Honestly, all icons are just things to click on. You learn what they are. They're just things you recognise. That's it.
It can't be reversed. That's the point of MD5.
However, it is trivial to prove the fact that there are strings that have the same MD5 hash due to the fact that you can't represent 2^65 different numbers with only 2^64 keys.
Did anybody else read GM as game master?
Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Take that damn carp.
Actually, good karma for getting two (Score:5, Informative)'s.
Sierra games supported it
And this is exactly why the emulation project exists. There are many of us who are still die hard adventure gamers, and for us, old Sierra games (and LucasArts) are all that's left, for the most part. So, I run the MT-32 emulator to make the most of that experience. More than I could when I ran the games when they were new.
Also, you need the ROM image from an MT-32 for this to work at all. If I remember correctly, this wasn't needed before.
But, a resume is a form of direct marketing. You want to sell someone your services. It's a letter that says "if you give me money, I will do something for you". That is exactly what I get in my inbox all the time.