So we shouldn't prove whether something is right because if it is wrong it will cost too much?
Interesting opinion, but you are just shuffling the cost off to later generations. Say for example gravity control comes out of discovering a error in relativity. Is that worth it?
Then again nothing will have come out of it. Does that mean we wasted the money? No practical value to the populace at large is not the way to practice science. Yay how capitalism has warped my fellow americans minds!
From what I remember from my Japanese studies, the r or l sound produced varies from our useage of r and l because of the position of the toungue.
So follow along and learn something, say an R. Now say an L. Notice the different position of your tounge and mouth? Both of these combined contribute to the sound. Japanese doesn't put the toungue at the ridge of your upper mouth (or your upper teeth) like we do with an L. Nor do they have the toungue curled and towards the bottom with an R. Instead you move your toungue up and towards the ridge. (no curling) and then you keep your mouth fairly round. Now try saying an L. Hard isn't it? Think of a Japanese native trying to do the R and L when you have no equivalent in Japanese.
Romajii is an *approximation* not a direct translation. Do you really think kung fu is how the words are said in Chinese? Or even Volkswagen in German?
Re:Every Theory Needs to be Tested....
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http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/
Too lazy to link that, 29 proofs of microevolution, read through this paper all the way and then tell me that evolution is a theory. I read the whole thing twice, showed it to one of my devout creationist friends, he now at least acknowledges evolution. The only theory behind evolution is *how* it happens.
Speciation has been observed to occur in a time span as small as 10 years. Allow me to say this, Evolution is a fact. How it happens is not.
Now it is just as much a fact as the Earth rotating. It's not to say the Earth might decide tomorrow to rotate the other direction, it's highly unlikely.
And if that isn't good enough for you, I would suggest a career in philosophy.
Not trying to flame, just inform! (he says as he surely gets modded into -1 range)
Slashdot is meta-moderated. We the readers moderate, if you berate anyone, berate the/. populace that moderated this up. Cmdr Taco has no say in what is insightful (outside of picking stories obviously). Would I have moderated this up? No, but then again look at most of the Score:5 Interesting comments in most stories and decide for yourself if it is the pinnacle of a reply.
You do realize that most of your audience for this post will agree 100% with what you are saying?
Attacks against a group, especially a diverse country, is a bit misguided.
Yes I am American, do I 100% agree with what is going on with America? No. In fact I am quite annoyed by the blatant commercilization and puritanization of America. I personally would love to see "morals" and "censorship" changed to reflect what the real majority in America think. Right now we have very old senators, etc... that make alot of the decisions that affect all age groups. I have noticed there is a very large culture gap between different ages.
And almost everyone that I regularly talk to was well aware that we had no business being in Iraq (not the initial reason at least). But the general opinion is that we are already there now, we might as well try to help. Perhaps not the response you are looking for.
And when have we televised the carnage in Iraq? I have never seen dead bodies (even from our own troops we know are dying) on the news.
I'll more than likely get modded down for this, but how is this score:4 insightful? My post is equally full of opinion and conjecture, but I am not trying to put an entire nations collective morality on trial on/. either.
You would be surprised just how alike most Americans are in their viewpoints. We just have VERY vocal minorities that get what they want quite efficiently. I am not refuting what you are saying, just try to not paint with such a broad brush next time.
And if you really want to have fun, try arguing this to another American. Talk about a minefield, I am almost sure that civic education in this country has left for the century. Everyone thinks I am attacking their beliefs, when in fact I am trying to find out why they believe it. The simple question of having someone prove or demonstrate their thinking is somehow enough to be labeled a pseudo-terrorist now. I think I need to move to another country, any suggestions anyone?
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Emphasis mine. It looks like you should have used some other options on installation. Not that I know first hand however. I haven't used this on OSX Server. Buyer beware, caveat emptor, etc...
Ok, I may only be starting to learn German, but I do know that uber is being used in a odd context here.
Will some native German please help me out if I am wrong? Isn't uber meant more for position/location of something? Ie it might mean above, but that refers to position, not necessarily quality or "the best of the best"
And looking at these definitions here: http://dict.leo.org/?search=%FCber&searchLo c=0&rel ink=on&spellToler=std§Hdr=on&tableBorder=1&cmp Type=relaxed&lang=en
And in my dead leaf dictionary I get the same translation.
Just so you guys know, this is the guy who wrote BeMP. (Amp for BeOS, think WinAMP)
Side-note: Thanks Andy for the awesome BeMP. I used that mp3 player more than I can remember. The buttons got me. I have a thing for the look of BeOS buttons, what can I say? And thanks for giving me the BeMP R4 source, I learned alot about BeOS programming from that.
I ported the thing to R5 a loooong time ago. (last time I checked there were still ~400 warnings and a cast bug that made the playlist useless in mp3's encoded with more than 128bps unless your songs really are 6534453435.0 seconds long:D ) I still have the source code lying around on one of my backups. I have to say though, some of the code was nasty. I rewrote a good portion of it before I gave up and created my own personal BeMP, then promptly stopped using BeOS.
And yes BeOS was awesome. It also sucked for hardware support. Have fun getting *ANY* support now. If anyone wants to fight over which os is better here or there, I can break out my old K6-2 350 and we can have a battle royale on latency and what-not. But it doesn't really matter does it?
quote:
Let's review:
The XBOX uses a PII based cpu.
It has 64MB of UMA memory.
It completely omits the traditional PC northbridge/southbridge/whatever chips for its own purposes.
It has a GPU that YOU CANNOT BUY FOR A PC.
It runs a Windows 2000 _derived_ kernel _in rom_.
:quote
The xbox does have a pII and 64mb of memory. but the hardware stuff is totally off.
The xbox uses a gf3 for the gpu, hmmm, how'd that gf3 get in my computer? And the motherboard is a nvidia nforce motherboard sans the pci/agp stuff that the xbox doesn't need being a game system. (I believe there is a northbridge on the nforce, remembering the dual channel ddr ram support online, but I could be wrong:P )
The reason Apple will not do it is because they are a hardware company. Their claim to fame is their OS and GUI, but they make their money moving hardware. If they didn't, they'd be another Be. Now, why would Apple port MacOS X? That takes time, resources. Then you have to support all the crappy x86 hardware out there, and you know what I mean even if you are an x86 proponent--I wouldn't have bought an EpOX-branded board 4 years ago for a workstation machine or an ECS board today. Then there's the tech support.
EpOX and ECS aside, who ever said that Apple supports ALL x86 hardware?
If (and I doubt this) they do, it would be wise for them to build a mac with specific x86 hardware components and support these only and rely on custom motherboard/bios designs to make sure that only their x86 harware is used. (forgive the run-on my english teacher) Then they can partner with nVidia and release a custom motherboard video card combo that beats normal x86 hardware, and is incompatible with other motherboards.
Does this sound crazy to anyone? I just ate alot of nachos so watch out.:)
Oh, btw, I use a Mac. And while we're whipping them out, I'd pit my Mac coworkers against your PC coworkers in a coding fest and bet some serious cash on my boys and girls.
Real professional of you, your post was moderation worthy up to here.
//begin quote
Why is it we humans think that we can conquer every task that we put ourselves to? It makes no sense to me that we might be able to understand something that dolphins know. There are just some things that can't be learned.
//end quote
I ask this in all earnestness(sp?????)
If i have never tried something, I already have failed by not trying.
If I have never known the answer, I never have tried to answer it, or I haven't asked the right question.
If however I have asked the question, I have tried, then at least I personally can feel better by knowing that I have an answer when someone asks me that question.
Unless we have tried, no one will be able to know, no one will be able to start from that point on. The ultimate goal is to answer the question, to ask "What if?". And to answer it.
This is IMNSHO, one of the best things we can learn. Dolphins are one of the smartest mammals/animals on the planet. I personally would be ashamed if everyone said what you just did. It isn't our/my say to tell our fellow humans what is and isn't worthwhile to do. Just because something seems impossible doesn't mean it is. Just because something seems illogical doesn't mean it is. I personally am glad that someone thinks out of the box, if no one did, we all would be in trouble.
I just cant see how us quite possibly learning to communicate with another life form is not worthwhile. Imagine, if you will, the possiblilites, the gains if we do learn to communicate?
We can learn the perspective of a TOTALLY different mindset. We could learn things never before possible, all by breaking one barrier, language. The possibilites are endless. Therefore we MUST try.
I just can't personally fathom not to ask, What if? I don't believe there ISN'T anything I can't learn, because EVERYTHING can be learned. Period, the first step to failure is never to try.
I leave you with this question, Imagine if Einstein, Newton, the Wright Brother's, Tesla, Edison, Sun Tzu, Kennedy, and many, many more, had come to your conclusion, and not tried? (another what if, ironically)
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Well, maybe not for free, but getting out is a good first step. I am basing off the assumption that it is free to ask, not necessarily to keep.
Although after calculating my last girlfriends cost (in time and money) I am wondering just how much benefit I got from the relationship.
So we shouldn't prove whether something is right because if it is wrong it will cost too much?
Interesting opinion, but you are just shuffling the cost off to later generations. Say for example gravity control comes out of discovering a error in relativity. Is that worth it?
Then again nothing will have come out of it. Does that mean we wasted the money? No practical value to the populace at large is not the way to practice science. Yay how capitalism has warped my fellow americans minds!
Yep, my bad. I gotta get out of flat mode.
From what I remember from my Japanese studies, the r or l sound produced varies from our useage of r and l because of the position of the toungue.
So follow along and learn something, say an R. Now say an L. Notice the different position of your tounge and mouth? Both of these combined contribute to the sound. Japanese doesn't put the toungue at the ridge of your upper mouth (or your upper teeth) like we do with an L. Nor do they have the toungue curled and towards the bottom with an R. Instead you move your toungue up and towards the ridge. (no curling) and then you keep your mouth fairly round. Now try saying an L. Hard isn't it? Think of a Japanese native trying to do the R and L when you have no equivalent in Japanese.
Romajii is an *approximation* not a direct translation. Do you really think kung fu is how the words are said in Chinese? Or even Volkswagen in German?
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/
Too lazy to link that, 29 proofs of microevolution, read through this paper all the way and then tell me that evolution is a theory. I read the whole thing twice, showed it to one of my devout creationist friends, he now at least acknowledges evolution. The only theory behind evolution is *how* it happens.
Speciation has been observed to occur in a time span as small as 10 years. Allow me to say this, Evolution is a fact. How it happens is not.
Now it is just as much a fact as the Earth rotating. It's not to say the Earth might decide tomorrow to rotate the other direction, it's highly unlikely.
And if that isn't good enough for you, I would suggest a career in philosophy.
Not trying to flame, just inform! (he says as he surely gets modded into -1 range)
Slashdot is meta-moderated. We the readers moderate, if you berate anyone, berate the /. populace that moderated this up. Cmdr Taco has no say in what is insightful (outside of picking stories obviously). Would I have moderated this up? No, but then again look at most of the Score:5 Interesting comments in most stories and decide for yourself if it is the pinnacle of a reply.
:)
Mine is Score: -1 Off-Topic I'm sure.
You do realize that most of your audience for this post will agree 100% with what you are saying?
/. either.
Attacks against a group, especially a diverse country, is a bit misguided.
Yes I am American, do I 100% agree with what is going on with America? No. In fact I am quite annoyed by the blatant commercilization and puritanization of America. I personally would love to see "morals" and "censorship" changed to reflect what the real majority in America think. Right now we have very old senators, etc... that make alot of the decisions that affect all age groups. I have noticed there is a very large culture gap between different ages.
And almost everyone that I regularly talk to was well aware that we had no business being in Iraq (not the initial reason at least). But the general opinion is that we are already there now, we might as well try to help. Perhaps not the response you are looking for.
And when have we televised the carnage in Iraq? I have never seen dead bodies (even from our own troops we know are dying) on the news.
I'll more than likely get modded down for this, but how is this score:4 insightful? My post is equally full of opinion and conjecture, but I am not trying to put an entire nations collective morality on trial on
You would be surprised just how alike most Americans are in their viewpoints. We just have VERY vocal minorities that get what they want quite efficiently. I am not refuting what you are saying, just try to not paint with such a broad brush next time.
And if you really want to have fun, try arguing this to another American. Talk about a minefield, I am almost sure that civic education in this country has left for the century. Everyone thinks I am attacking their beliefs, when in fact I am trying to find out why they believe it. The simple question of having someone prove or demonstrate their thinking is somehow enough to be labeled a pseudo-terrorist now. I think I need to move to another country, any suggestions anyone?
Really?
Hmm, thats odd. I know T-Mobile also sells the Sony Ericsson T610. Although they have discontinued them to make way for the T616.
You do know the Enterprise shuttle isn't spaceworthy right?
From the linked site:
If the "Permanent IP Address" option was selected during the Open Directory Setup portion of the Setup Assistant, the primary IP address is not meant to be changed. However, you may need to change the IP address of the server at a later date. The script presented here is designed to help you change the IP address of your server, or to help you recover when you experience issues (described below) after having changed the primary IP Address of a Mac OS X Server. Please read the following documentation carefully.
Emphasis mine. It looks like you should have used some other options on installation. Not that I know first hand however. I haven't used this on OSX Server. Buyer beware, caveat emptor, etc...
Here goes whatever karma I had.
o c=0&rel ink=on&spellToler=std§Hdr=on&tableBorder=1&cmp Type=relaxed&lang=en
Ok, I may only be starting to learn German, but I do know that uber is being used in a odd context here.
Will some native German please help me out if I am wrong? Isn't uber meant more for position/location of something? Ie it might mean above, but that refers to position, not necessarily quality or "the best of the best"
And looking at these definitions here:
http://dict.leo.org/?search=%FCber&searchL
And in my dead leaf dictionary I get the same translation.
(curious if my umlauted u survives)
Stick the guy who was quoted in the article in a room with Theo De Raadt(sp?? sorry Theo) of OpenBSD fame.
:D
Then tape the hilarity that ensues, we could have a new weakest link on our hands.
I know I'll get modded down for this, but you only live once.
Just so you guys know, this is the guy who wrote BeMP. (Amp for BeOS, think WinAMP)
:D ) I still have the source code lying around on one of my backups. I have to say though, some of the code was nasty. I rewrote a good portion of it before I gave up and created my own personal BeMP, then promptly stopped using BeOS.
Side-note: Thanks Andy for the awesome BeMP. I used that mp3 player more than I can remember. The buttons got me. I have a thing for the look of BeOS buttons, what can I say? And thanks for giving me the BeMP R4 source, I learned alot about BeOS programming from that.
I ported the thing to R5 a loooong time ago. (last time I checked there were still ~400 warnings and a cast bug that made the playlist useless in mp3's encoded with more than 128bps unless your songs really are 6534453435.0 seconds long
And yes BeOS was awesome. It also sucked for hardware support. Have fun getting *ANY* support now. If anyone wants to fight over which os is better here or there, I can break out my old K6-2 350 and we can have a battle royale on latency and what-not. But it doesn't really matter does it?
Anyway, enough rambling.
I've spent quite some time trying to find a nfs client for windows. Does such a beast exist?
I've found more than enough shareware/etc... but have been unable to find a open source solution.
Does anyone know of a free nfs client for windows?
How sweet is that? I look at the date and it is my very own birthday. Do I get a cookie?
:D
I have alot of reading to catch up on, I didn't start until 1995 or so.
It hasn't even been posted for a while, and his dsl line is hosed, the geocities mirror is toast.
DDOS indeed.
quote:
:P )
Let's review:
The XBOX uses a PII based cpu.
It has 64MB of UMA memory.
It completely omits the traditional PC northbridge/southbridge/whatever chips for its own purposes.
It has a GPU that YOU CANNOT BUY FOR A PC.
It runs a Windows 2000 _derived_ kernel _in rom_.
:quote
The xbox does have a pII and 64mb of memory. but the hardware stuff is totally off.
The xbox uses a gf3 for the gpu, hmmm, how'd that gf3 get in my computer? And the motherboard is a nvidia nforce motherboard sans the pci/agp stuff that the xbox doesn't need being a game system. (I believe there is a northbridge on the nforce, remembering the dual channel ddr ram support online, but I could be wrong
Just thought I'd correct a few glaring errors.
Thanks for the working link, the one in the linked page didn't work.
Is this what I hope it is?
Will it let me grow/shrink partitions at runtime? Ala legato storage manager for Solaris?
Please let this be the case.
Ok, i've been reading thru all of his xml/xsl tutorials, and other things he's put on developerworks.
I have on question.
How the heck does this guy find the time for all of this??????
Not only to research and test, but to write a tutorial as well, he's insane. My hat (if I would ever wear one) goes off to him.
Resume your normal activities.
ROTFLASTC
HAHAHAHA
Mod parent up.
The reason Apple will not do it is because they are a hardware company. Their claim to fame is their OS and GUI, but they make their money moving hardware. If they didn't, they'd be another Be. Now, why would Apple port MacOS X? That takes time, resources. Then you have to support all the crappy x86 hardware out there, and you know what I mean even if you are an x86 proponent--I wouldn't have bought an EpOX-branded board 4 years ago for a workstation machine or an ECS board today. Then there's the tech support.
EpOX and ECS aside, who ever said that Apple supports ALL x86 hardware?
If (and I doubt this) they do, it would be wise for them to build a mac with specific x86 hardware components and support these only and rely on custom motherboard/bios designs to make sure that only their x86 harware is used. (forgive the run-on my english teacher) Then they can partner with nVidia and release a custom motherboard video card combo that beats normal x86 hardware, and is incompatible with other motherboards.
Does this sound crazy to anyone? I just ate alot of nachos so watch out. :)
Oh, btw, I use a Mac. And while we're whipping them out, I'd pit my Mac coworkers against your PC coworkers in a coding fest and bet some serious cash on my boys and girls.
Real professional of you, your post was moderation worthy up to here.
We're geeks, we don't need no stinking reason/point.
Now this IS fun, start it up and turn while standing still in a room with alot of doors.
It's a frickin slide show that never ends :) God am I now disoriented, maybe I'll take up smoking weed, It seems perfectly suited for this.
Then again maybe not, but this is really hard to aim with the keyboard, the guys are now 20 pixels wide, have fun hitting them.
Quake just got funner.
Why is it we humans think that we can conquer every task that we put ourselves to? It makes no sense to me that we might be able to understand something that dolphins know. There are just some things that can't be learned.
//end quote
I ask this in all earnestness(sp?????)
If i have never tried something, I already have failed by not trying.
If I have never known the answer, I never have tried to answer it, or I haven't asked the right question.
If however I have asked the question, I have tried, then at least I personally can feel better by knowing that I have an answer when someone asks me that question.
Unless we have tried, no one will be able to know, no one will be able to start from that point on. The ultimate goal is to answer the question, to ask "What if?". And to answer it.
This is IMNSHO, one of the best things we can learn. Dolphins are one of the smartest mammals/animals on the planet. I personally would be ashamed if everyone said what you just did. It isn't our/my say to tell our fellow humans what is and isn't worthwhile to do. Just because something seems impossible doesn't mean it is. Just because something seems illogical doesn't mean it is. I personally am glad that someone thinks out of the box, if no one did, we all would be in trouble.
I just cant see how us quite possibly learning to communicate with another life form is not worthwhile. Imagine, if you will, the possiblilites, the gains if we do learn to communicate?
We can learn the perspective of a TOTALLY different mindset. We could learn things never before possible, all by breaking one barrier, language. The possibilites are endless. Therefore we MUST try.
I just can't personally fathom not to ask, What if? I don't believe there ISN'T anything I can't learn, because EVERYTHING can be learned. Period, the first step to failure is never to try.
I leave you with this question, Imagine if Einstein, Newton, the Wright Brother's, Tesla, Edison, Sun Tzu, Kennedy, and many, many more, had come to your conclusion, and not tried? (another what if, ironically)
Didn't you ever wonder why the SR-71 has all those corrugations? That is the design, when it is hot the joints seal.
Pretty cool if you ask me, and this from 1960 tech.
Too bad the XB-70 never made it into production, it was cooler on all points, and a much cleaner aerodynamic design.