I read once that a certain Washington DC Domino's Pizza knew the night before when the first Persian Gulf War was going to start, as they were getting orders from the Pentagon all night long.
My crack dealer had the same hunch about the second Gulf war.
Printing from the source file is WRONG! Export to PDF and it's already printed, just not on paper. Anyone anywhere can print PDF. You can even put a standalone viewer such as Foxit on the same media as your PDF files.
This isn't excusable; Many people choose OpenBSD because of the project's license purity, I personally use OpenBSD and Debian specifically because I trust that the licensing is clean. Admittedly OpenBSD has limited resources and developers may feel the need to take shortcuts, but cutting and pasting isn't a shortcut.
How many of these shortcuts may have slipped by unnoticed? OpenBSD CVS is TAINTED, this is very bad for those of us who support the project in good faith.
He's using a standard logical fallacy: appeal to authority. He is claiming to speak for a majority to make his personal opinion appear authorative, when in reality it is only his view.
The article sneakily avoids the main point of the peak-oil warning, which is not that we're going to run out of oil but that demand will outstrip production.
It doesn't matter how much is in the ground, if it can't be pumped and refined fast enough to meet demand then the price will skyrocket. That's the real danger the world economy is so dependent on cheap oil.
I don't like these rc replacements. If management is an issue, then guis are a fine way to abstract the information, but to extend the abstraction all the way down is a sin.
Sorry, you are posting pure conjecture. Water absorbs heat like nobody's business, that's why temperatures are so much more stable at the coast than not farther inland. There is mounting evidence that clouds are formed due to bacteria seeding them with sulphur dioxide, Albedo issues aside, water vapour is one of the worst greenhouse gases.
Notice how we will evolve to suit the fashion stereotype of today? He totally ignores cultural attractiveness traits as well as pointing out obvious attractiveness markers that we have already evolved in the previous millions of years. He also ignores human reproductive strategies of cuckolding a mixed brood. Not much of an evolutionist, he'd be one of those knowitall asshats that you set on fire after being forced to sit next to him at a dinner party.
And he refused to allow thorough UN-sanctioned inspections, to prove that he had no WMDs.
That's a lie, Saddam fully complied with the UN inspections. Meanwhile, the US was waging a propaganda battle against Hans Blix and the rest of the inspectors, as well as the UN in general.
The UN abandoned their mission on the eve of the US invasion, unable to complete it. Regardless, there were no weapons at all, anywhere.
How would you feel if you invented a high-efficiency engine design, failed to market it to any of the major auto-makers and as you were going bankrupt, Ford started producing something very similar and selling it without giving you credit?
Amen to that. Transmeta's products were niche low-power devices at a time when CPUs were using increasingly large amounts of power, and they were squeezed out just when they were starting to gain a foothold by Intel's low-power products. Now that Apple is onboard, Intel owns the low-power market.
Even though I don't support "IP companies", Transmeta has a right to be sore if their patents were infringed. Intel's chips are good, but the Crusoe offered a realistic avenue to eventually escape the x86 API.
It succeeded. You must have forgotten what Mozilla Application Suite was like.
I remember it well, it was snappy, had a much smaller memory footprint than FF1.5 and also had an inbuilt mail client.
There has always been a need to store data on the local machine. There was previously several different ways of doing this. Using SQLite will be a huge improvement once everything is switched over to it. Firefox will actually be lighter.
Great, the user data will be stored in blob rather than in textfiles.
"Mozilla" also refers to a platform (sometimes called Mozilla Application Framework among a billion other things). See XULRunner. These additions are useful for applications that are built on the Mozilla platform.
I thought Firefox was a browser product? I don't need an OS or runtime engine, there are far better and more robust solutions in place already. XUL apps will still be slow, clunky and redundant with these extensions.
Yes. Duh. Firefox 3.0
I was being sarcastic, but why does the browser have to handle its own low level rendering? FF has turned into a developer circle-jerk.
Geez, what happened to FF being a lightweight alternative to the suite? A fucking SQL engine and more bloat for JS! What next, OpenGL, Parrot and an mp3 player? Christ on a bike, FF is fucking slow enough lately, why the fuck does it need this extra bloat?
n SGI study years ago indicated that 20 CPUs was roughly the upper limit before the cache synchronization load became the bottleneck. That number changes somewhat with the hardware technology, but a workable 80-way shared-memory machine seems unlikely.
Years ago, if someone told me that the 386 family would evolve into what we have today, I would have called them morons, but things progress. Moreover, if this technology were obvious enough that some random poster on/. knew about it, we would undoubtedly already have it. Intel makes big bucks for a reason.
The large projects that succeed all have an arbitrator who has final call on any conflicts: Linux has Linux and OpenBSD has Theo. Sun and Redhat have executives. The decision maker is the final step required in a project to prevent ego-paralysis. It is telling that OpenBSD and Linux are two of the most innovative and complex projects around.
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I don't much care what he thinks of me, but it's obvious that OpenBSD is a labour of love. It shows.
I read once that a certain Washington DC Domino's Pizza knew the night before when the first Persian Gulf War was going to start, as they were getting orders from the Pentagon all night long.
My crack dealer had the same hunch about the second Gulf war.
Printing from the source file is WRONG! Export to PDF and it's already printed, just not on paper. Anyone anywhere can print PDF. You can even put a standalone viewer such as Foxit on the same media as your PDF files.
I've got one of these. It is by far the best phone I've had. Reliable, long-life battery and indestructable.
I can't even find a demo wii to try out!
This isn't excusable; Many people choose OpenBSD because of the project's license purity, I personally use OpenBSD and Debian specifically because I trust that the licensing is clean. Admittedly OpenBSD has limited resources and developers may feel the need to take shortcuts, but cutting and pasting isn't a shortcut.
How many of these shortcuts may have slipped by unnoticed? OpenBSD CVS is TAINTED, this is very bad for those of us who support the project in good faith.
Common stable molecule discovered to be abundant. News at 11.
Is that the American word for "missile" or something ?
It's made out of aluminum tubes.
Due to the backlight, I've found that using a PDA for e-book reading becomes hard on the eyes after several minutes,
The old mono Palm Pilots are great for reading on. I've been reading with Weasel and Plucker for years, small text but easy to read.
Bears kept eating my sensor on the upper hinge, so I patented moving it to the lower hinge. Would you like to do an IP trade?
He's using a standard logical fallacy: appeal to authority. He is claiming to speak for a majority to make his personal opinion appear authorative, when in reality it is only his view.
And recover them from the backup. You do make backups don't you?
Commodore's modems are also underrated. The release of the vicmodem et al and bundling with Qlink allowed comms to reach a critical mass.
The misrepresentations are this article's only, the book is accurate about the Vax and the Workbench easter eggs.
The article sneakily avoids the main point of the peak-oil warning, which is not that we're going to run out of oil but that demand will outstrip production.
It doesn't matter how much is in the ground, if it can't be pumped and refined fast enough to meet demand then the price will skyrocket. That's the real danger the world economy is so dependent on cheap oil.
I don't like these rc replacements. If management is an issue, then guis are a fine way to abstract the information, but to extend the abstraction all the way down is a sin.
Sorry, you are posting pure conjecture. Water absorbs heat like nobody's business, that's why temperatures are so much more stable at the coast than not farther inland. There is mounting evidence that clouds are formed due to bacteria seeding them with sulphur dioxide, Albedo issues aside, water vapour is one of the worst greenhouse gases.
Notice how we will evolve to suit the fashion stereotype of today? He totally ignores cultural attractiveness traits as well as pointing out obvious attractiveness markers that we have already evolved in the previous millions of years. He also ignores human reproductive strategies of cuckolding a mixed brood. Not much of an evolutionist, he'd be one of those knowitall asshats that you set on fire after being forced to sit next to him at a dinner party.
And he refused to allow thorough UN-sanctioned inspections, to prove that he had no WMDs.
That's a lie, Saddam fully complied with the UN inspections. Meanwhile, the US was waging a propaganda battle against Hans Blix and the rest of the inspectors, as well as the UN in general.
The UN abandoned their mission on the eve of the US invasion, unable to complete it. Regardless, there were no weapons at all, anywhere.
How would you feel if you invented a high-efficiency engine design, failed to market it to any of the major auto-makers and as you were going bankrupt, Ford started producing something very similar and selling it without giving you credit?
Amen to that. Transmeta's products were niche low-power devices at a time when CPUs were using increasingly large amounts of power, and they were squeezed out just when they were starting to gain a foothold by Intel's low-power products. Now that Apple is onboard, Intel owns the low-power market.
Even though I don't support "IP companies", Transmeta has a right to be sore if their patents were infringed. Intel's chips are good, but the Crusoe offered a realistic avenue to eventually escape the x86 API.
It succeeded. You must have forgotten what Mozilla Application Suite was like.
I remember it well, it was snappy, had a much smaller memory footprint than FF1.5 and also had an inbuilt mail client.
There has always been a need to store data on the local machine. There was previously several different ways of doing this. Using SQLite will be a huge improvement once everything is switched over to it. Firefox will actually be lighter.
Great, the user data will be stored in blob rather than in textfiles.
"Mozilla" also refers to a platform (sometimes called Mozilla Application Framework among a billion other things). See XULRunner. These additions are useful for applications that are built on the Mozilla platform.
I thought Firefox was a browser product? I don't need an OS or runtime engine, there are far better and more robust solutions in place already. XUL apps will still be slow, clunky and redundant with these extensions.
Yes. Duh. Firefox 3.0
I was being sarcastic, but why does the browser have to handle its own low level rendering? FF has turned into a developer circle-jerk.
Geez, what happened to FF being a lightweight alternative to the suite? A fucking SQL engine and more bloat for JS! What next, OpenGL, Parrot and an mp3 player? Christ on a bike, FF is fucking slow enough lately, why the fuck does it need this extra bloat?
n SGI study years ago indicated that 20 CPUs was roughly the upper limit before the cache synchronization load became the bottleneck. That number changes somewhat with the hardware technology, but a workable 80-way shared-memory machine seems unlikely.
/. knew about it, we would undoubtedly already have it. Intel makes big bucks for a reason.
Years ago, if someone told me that the 386 family would evolve into what we have today, I would have called them morons, but things progress. Moreover, if this technology were obvious enough that some random poster on
The large projects that succeed all have an arbitrator who has final call on any conflicts: Linux has Linux and OpenBSD has Theo. Sun and Redhat have executives. The decision maker is the final step required in a project to prevent ego-paralysis. It is telling that OpenBSD and Linux are two of the most innovative and complex projects around.
Note: Linux is a kernel.
That's teamwork for you. Nobody's perfect.