here in brasil we say "i should kill you" or "i'm gonna kill that that guy" all the freaking time, for even the smallest offense, and everybody undertands that it's just a way to vent some anger.
this is why i don't get why the british are uptight about that. people need a way to relieve tension, keep censoring this kind of stuff, people will start going crazy and actually blowing shit off, instead of just talking it.
russians are testing a thermal camouflage for tanks. it uses infrared cameras to measure the temperature of objects (ground, buildings, trees, etc) surrounding the tanks, then send a command to thermal plates all around the the vehicle to match the measurements. this effectively makes the tank invisible to infrared devices, including night vision goggles.
imagine an american soldier, after being blasted by that tank saying as he dies: "the goggles, they do nothing!"
i've been following the development for more than a year. i've even contributed a fix for a null pointer exception on the menu editor.
the only news for me is to see it back on the news. which is a great thing in the sense that it'd bring awareness to this great desktop manager.
i've tried using KDE, gnome, several *boxen to name a few, but i always go back to windowmaker.
the killer featuer to me is the automatic cascading of new windows. i often need to open more than a dozen terminal windows to do my job, and having them cascaded across several virtual desktops is a helluva lot more eficient than any other method (and no, tabs don't work for my workflow)
evryone IS taxed. you buy a pack of gum, you pay some taxes. it's like that in many countries, not only in US.
and if tie the upper tax bracket to the lowest, the next day congress would drop the lower bracket to 0.1%, get the votes from the lowest bracket and bribes^H^H^H^H^H^Hcampaign contributions from the upper one.
pulse jet - swedish / russian improved by a french engineer ICBM - evolved from the german V2 fying bomb. work done in US by captured nazi scientists scramjet - evolution of ramjets invented in france
wrap it with magnesium or white phosphorous, then insulate it from the atmosphere. once the cable is cut, the oxygen/moisture would ignite the primary and produce heat enough to trigger the termite.
Really? Ok tell that to the database, operating system, and IDE vendors?
that's a small part of the software industry in terms of numbers of jobs. the few remaining player on those areas are raking the billions, of course, but how many people they actually employ writing code ?
i bet for each programer working for those big players, there are ten working for small companies or as independent programers, writing custom code tied to the business models of their employers.
we're wired to care a whole lot more for our next of kin than for complete strangers. so, i one government have a fucked up health care system, a sane nuclear scientist living there who's in need of care for his child _WILL_ sell his knowlege. his instincts will kick in and drive the decisions.
what the parent meant is that instead of using the same standard plug everybody else was using, sony developed their own connector for firewire. so if you had a sony device and a non-sony computer, you'd need an adapter.
basicaly sony reinvented the firewire "wheel" by making it square.
then try this in your windows box, shutdown all redundant services, including themes, netbios (seriously, this is 20 year old shit, why it's still there ?), server, computer browser, indexing service, etc. then compare the gaming performance to what it was before.
getting performance out of a machine by tweaking the system is not just for linux.
i'm just glad linux gives me more and better options to tune my machine.
and i'll do it better. i'm back to college, on a digital games major. this kind of benchmarks yould make for a great paper to show at college. thanks for the idea man.
maybe i'll pitch it showing how much OS optimizations affect older and newer hardware in diferent ways.
some 10 years ago, when even the slightest hiccup could make a game running in linux slow to a crawl (not linux's fault. more like greedy games on average hardware), i ran several tests to find the best settings for performance. here's what i found:
- even a lightwheight window manager like windowmaker, fluxbox or xfce impacts negatively (specially if you're short on RAM) - any cute widget, dockapp or systray app can take a hit. a simple opengl cpu meter, displaynig a spinning cube, running inside a 64x64 dockapp had a 10% hit on glxgears' frame rate - daemons started from init.d scripts steal memory, and if they trigger a backgroud process, bye-bye performance. so make sure anything than trigger lots of disk I/O operations are off. specially if they run from cron - get used to the command line. shut down GDM/KDM/XDM or any other graphical login. log on the console, quickly create an.Xsession file with nothing more than "xterm" on it. as soon as X starts with a windowless xterm, run the game from the CLI.
now, optimize BOTh PC-BSD and linux this way, THEN run a benchmark. otherwise, is the same as trying to compare a default ubuntu with openBSD on which one is more secure. or the other way on which is more usefull as a desktop. it's not right to ebnchmark different OSes by leaving the defaults just like that.
easy to defeat on *NIX. set ownership of ~/.adobe and/or ~/.macromedia with permission 000. presto, no flash crap stored on your computer, unless you're stupid enough to browse the web as root.
also, Samy Kamkar's "super cookie" is easy to avoid/defeat with firefox. click on the icon to the left of the URL, click "more info" then go to permissions. on "set cookies", uncheck "use default", then block. do the same for "offline storage".
leave the site (close the tab to be sure), then clean everything from the last hour on "tools/clear recent history".
i don't have a problem with shorter games, as long as there's replayability.
example: metal gear solid IV.
there's even an achievement for fonishing it in 5 hours or less. the faster that i finished it was 10 hours, but i replayed it some 10 times before selling the PS3 to a friend.
so bring the short games, but make them so there's enough variation to ensure that i'll want to play it over and over again.
Companies should treat ALL employees with respect, not grudgingly cozy up to IT because they feel like IT has them backed into a corner.
i agree about treating everyone with respect, the part about being backed in a corner is mostly because IT is not the core competency of most company (IT companies like google, MS, oracle, etc. excluded), so manager don't understand computers as well as they understand their product and its market, and humans tends to be suspicious of things we don't understand, this makes it easy to put them in the corner and get concessions from them
a thorium reactor for cars (with risk of collision) would forcibly be of the pressurized water, where pure, de-ionized water is heated by the radiactive element, then this water heats regular tap water to generate steam.
the pure water in the primary circuit only gets dumped when the reactor is decomissioned at the end of it's usefull life, in a proper recycling facility that's able to filter any radioactive ions and seal them before dumping the water.
The decision to release OS10.7, or Lion, for download only is hardly going to endear Apple to IT managers who need to conserve network resources. Most of all, IT departments would want to see the Mac OS offering full support for virtualization, on the desktop and on the server.
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ordinance = has the potential to cause untold mayhem, destruction and loss of life
ordnance = just an explosive ammunition
first of all, it's a cultural thing.
here in brasil we say "i should kill you" or "i'm gonna kill that that guy" all the freaking time, for even the smallest offense, and everybody undertands that it's just a way to vent some anger.
this is why i don't get why the british are uptight about that. people need a way to relieve tension, keep censoring this kind of stuff, people will start going crazy and actually blowing shit off, instead of just talking it.
russians are testing a thermal camouflage for tanks. it uses infrared cameras to measure the temperature of objects (ground, buildings, trees, etc) surrounding the tanks, then send a command to thermal plates all around the the vehicle to match the measurements. this effectively makes the tank invisible to infrared devices, including night vision goggles.
imagine an american soldier, after being blasted by that tank saying as he dies: "the goggles, they do nothing!"
fact is, the government SHOULD be a charity. that's one of the reasons it exists. to help and assist the less fortunate.
that they're faster is an established fact, but what's their unladden air speed ?
that's a whole lot of bullshit right there.
i know wikipedia is not a reliable source for any argumentation, but here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchroscope
this is what's in use on power grids all over the world since the concept of interconnected generators was invented.
and both trace their origins to the same place. NextStep was the inspiration for windowmaker and OS X is a direct evolution of the nextsteps codebase.
this is nextstep: http://www.fanboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/nextstep-os.jpg
this is windowmaker: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Windowmaker.jpg
and mac OS X: http://www.knowledgerush.com/wiki_image/4/48/Aqua_(Mac_OS_X)_screenshot.jpg
the similar looks of finder and next's file browser is not a coincidence.
i've been following the development for more than a year. i've even contributed a fix for a null pointer exception on the menu editor.
the only news for me is to see it back on the news. which is a great thing in the sense that it'd bring awareness to this great desktop manager.
i've tried using KDE, gnome, several *boxen to name a few, but i always go back to windowmaker.
the killer featuer to me is the automatic cascading of new windows. i often need to open more than a dozen terminal windows to do my job, and having them cascaded across several virtual desktops is a helluva lot more eficient than any other method (and no, tabs don't work for my workflow)
evryone IS taxed. you buy a pack of gum, you pay some taxes. it's like that in many countries, not only in US.
and if tie the upper tax bracket to the lowest, the next day congress would drop the lower bracket to 0.1%, get the votes from the lowest bracket and bribes^H^H^H^H^H^Hcampaign contributions from the upper one.
pulse jet - swedish / russian improved by a french engineer
ICBM - evolved from the german V2 fying bomb. work done in US by captured nazi scientists
scramjet - evolution of ramjets invented in france
ao, all you got is laser and memory foam.
wrap it with magnesium or white phosphorous, then insulate it from the atmosphere. once the cable is cut, the oxygen/moisture would ignite the primary and produce heat enough to trigger the termite.
Really? Ok tell that to the database, operating system, and IDE vendors?
that's a small part of the software industry in terms of numbers of jobs. the few remaining player on those areas are raking the billions, of course, but how many people they actually employ writing code ?
i bet for each programer working for those big players, there are ten working for small companies or as independent programers, writing custom code tied to the business models of their employers.
multiboxing means having two (or more) WoW accounts playing simultaneously on different computers (or in the same computer if it's powerful enough).
i just checked, apparently it's not against blizzard's EULA to do that.
most sane parents ?
we're wired to care a whole lot more for our next of kin than for complete strangers. so, i one government have a fucked up health care system, a sane nuclear scientist living there who's in need of care for his child _WILL_ sell his knowlege. his instincts will kick in and drive the decisions.
you'd know that if you were a parent.
what the parent meant is that instead of using the same standard plug everybody else was using, sony developed their own connector for firewire. so if you had a sony device and a non-sony computer, you'd need an adapter.
basicaly sony reinvented the firewire "wheel" by making it square.
then try this in your windows box, shutdown all redundant services, including themes, netbios (seriously, this is 20 year old shit, why it's still there ?), server, computer browser, indexing service, etc. then compare the gaming performance to what it was before.
getting performance out of a machine by tweaking the system is not just for linux.
i'm just glad linux gives me more and better options to tune my machine.
yes i am.
and i'll do it better. i'm back to college, on a digital games major. this kind of benchmarks yould make for a great paper to show at college. thanks for the idea man.
maybe i'll pitch it showing how much OS optimizations affect older and newer hardware in diferent ways.
some 10 years ago, when even the slightest hiccup could make a game running in linux slow to a crawl (not linux's fault. more like greedy games on average hardware), i ran several tests to find the best settings for performance. here's what i found:
- even a lightwheight window manager like windowmaker, fluxbox or xfce impacts negatively (specially if you're short on RAM) .Xsession file with nothing more than "xterm" on it. as soon as X starts with a windowless xterm, run the game from the CLI.
- any cute widget, dockapp or systray app can take a hit. a simple opengl cpu meter, displaynig a spinning cube, running inside a 64x64 dockapp had a 10% hit on glxgears' frame rate
- daemons started from init.d scripts steal memory, and if they trigger a backgroud process, bye-bye performance. so make sure anything than trigger lots of disk I/O operations are off. specially if they run from cron
- get used to the command line. shut down GDM/KDM/XDM or any other graphical login. log on the console, quickly create an
now, optimize BOTh PC-BSD and linux this way, THEN run a benchmark. otherwise, is the same as trying to compare a default ubuntu with openBSD on which one is more secure. or the other way on which is more usefull as a desktop. it's not right to ebnchmark different OSes by leaving the defaults just like that.
the LG prada phone was anounced before the iphone, LG even acused apple of stealing it's design.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada_(KE850)
read the "iphone controversy" section.
easy to defeat on *NIX. set ownership of ~/.adobe and/or ~/.macromedia with permission 000. presto, no flash crap stored on your computer, unless you're stupid enough to browse the web as root.
also, Samy Kamkar's "super cookie" is easy to avoid/defeat with firefox. click on the icon to the left of the URL, click "more info" then go to permissions. on "set cookies", uncheck "use default", then block. do the same for "offline storage".
leave the site (close the tab to be sure), then clean everything from the last hour on "tools/clear recent history".
i don't have a problem with shorter games, as long as there's replayability.
example: metal gear solid IV.
there's even an achievement for fonishing it in 5 hours or less. the faster that i finished it was 10 hours, but i replayed it some 10 times before selling the PS3 to a friend.
so bring the short games, but make them so there's enough variation to ensure that i'll want to play it over and over again.
Companies should treat ALL employees with respect, not grudgingly cozy up to IT because they feel like IT has them backed into a corner.
i agree about treating everyone with respect, the part about being backed in a corner is mostly because IT is not the core competency of most company (IT companies like google, MS, oracle, etc. excluded), so manager don't understand computers as well as they understand their product and its market, and humans tends to be suspicious of things we don't understand, this makes it easy to put them in the corner and get concessions from them
pure water don't retain radiation, you know ?
a thorium reactor for cars (with risk of collision) would forcibly be of the pressurized water, where pure, de-ionized water is heated by the radiactive element, then this water heats regular tap water to generate steam.
the pure water in the primary circuit only gets dumped when the reactor is decomissioned at the end of it's usefull life, in a proper recycling facility that's able to filter any radioactive ions and seal them before dumping the water.
The decision to release OS10.7, or Lion, for download only is hardly going to endear Apple to IT managers who need to conserve network resources. Most of all, IT departments would want to see the Mac OS offering full support for virtualization, on the desktop and on the server.
before reaching a coclusion, read a better researched article, written by someone who really knows macs firts: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars (warning, 14 pages article)
lion can be burned to a DVD after download, also, in the near future, apple will ofer lion on thumb drives for $69.
the EULA also mentions virtualisation. the hypervisor probably needs to run on a mac OS host, but it is supported as guest, if the EULA is true.
they did. it's called "dalvik". the problem is, oracle thinks dalvik infringes on patents used by java's hotspot(tm) runtime.