I don't even like much light irl. Dark games and tv shows forever! I could make out details just fine.. perhaps it is your system that needs its gamma set overall:)
Btw: one of the tenets of user interfaces is: if the user requires a manual, then the interface has failed in its task.
Who made this load of crap up? If the user can use it without a manual it just means the interface is similar to what (s)he has used in the past. Now who's to say this is a good thing? This makes about as much sense as the authors inference that gnome/kde are hard to use because they aren't similar enough to current popular interfaces that a user can't just sit down and be fully productive with it.
If the user requires a manual, it just means the interface is different, and there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with being different.
As an american, I am. However in this day and age a person like me who doesn't support bush, the war in iraq, big business, and condones personal privacy and freedom.. I've been called unamerican so many times I've quite frankly become desensitized to it.
(3) The selective pressures that this will put on all the pests that Roundup is supposed to control. In the same way that staph bacteria have evolved reistance to antibiotics in hospitals, the increased use Roundup will probably lead to the evolution of Roundup resistant superpests.
One of the most important features on life is it's ability to evolve. It is such a fundamental part of life on earth as we know it we really never will be able to fight against it. I mean... that process created beings who can directly manipulate and accelerate that very process. We should not try to fight it, instead we should try to keep up with it, which I believe that if we aren't already, we will be very soon able to do so.
Because it's advertised as 10x. I don't want a 2Ghz cpu that only runs like a 1.4Ghz. Nor do I want 400Mhz ram that only runs like 280Mhz. I don't want gigabit ethernet that runs at 400Mbps. If I wanted that I'd buy 400Mbps ethernet:).
Many newer motherboards however have on board gigabit nic's that bypass the pci bus and use hypertransport or v-link among other things to allow full use of gigabit networking. They are becoming quite common.
It's so easy to get an informative moderation these days...
2. Licensing
X Window System source code is covered by many licenses. All of these licenses have in common the fact that they do not impose significant condi- tions on the modification or redistribution or either source code or binaries beyond requiring one or more of the following:
1. Copyright and/or license notices are left intact.
2. Copyright and/or license notices are reproduced verbatim in documenta-
tion accompanying binary distributions.
3. Attributions are included with documentation accompanying binaries.
Most of these licenses are based on the MIT, X Consortium, or BSD (original and revised) licenses. All of them are consistent with the Open Source Defi- nition, and most are consistent with the Free Software Foundation's Free Software Definition.
You see GPL anywhere in there? These licenses are non-comforming licenses. The GPL is MUCH more restrictive. The whole reason the recent xfree86 license switch is controversial is because they added more restrictions! The GPL isn't the end all and be all of licenses, and much free software does not use it. Sorry to disappoint.
Well considering he started from nothing on a closed system getting to the point where it can be used for all the normal functions the original firmware is is a milstone. It'd be like starting a web brwoser from scratch and getting it to a lynx like state with text formatting... then finally adding image support.
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Why should such a project not be done just because there are more common users than geeks using it? It's not like he intends to sell it.
What happens when linux gets more common users than geeks, should we stop developing it? This is by a geek and currently for the geeks, the numbers be damned.
What player are you using? I cannot play music using any KDE based media player as arts apparantly can't stop skipping to save its life, and it runs with realtime priority as well.
So what if the US made a somewhat unreasonable request? They said no! It's not like they said, "Give him to us or we'll bomb your country."
Not yet at least. Taking bets on how long until the US does though. That or some sort of military extraction is done without Australias permission. The US is a bully, and this represents a country standing up to that bully where most will not. That is the point of this story and most of the posts. We are all waiting to see wether the bully will back down or throw a punch while you are just standing around wondering what is going on.
Hmm the link to http://www.riokarma.com/parishiltonsexvideotapedow nload.htm at the bottom of that page isn't at all suspicious.. who runs that site exactly? I hope not rio..
My guess is that at the high overclocking speeds they are doing the internal temp of the chip stays high enough for these problems to not take effect. While I know absolutely nothing about this, they do offset the incredibly low cooling potential with suicidal overclocking:)
If that is the way it is to be, then I would rather see diversity and choice than corporate adoption. Corporations have a way of screwing up everything they touch anyways. Fortunately hobbyists and people who program for fun will always do what they want or feels best or is the most fun. So I suppose I do not have much to worry about. Linux is also gaining more and more acceptance every year despite your analysis. My computer is not just a tool, it is also a toy, and linux allows me to play hard. I pray linux will always be there for me for that purpose. If corporations see something useful in that, then so be it, if not, oh well. Linux has survived without them this long, it will continue to.
You so wildly missed the point I have to wonder if you were joking. One of th emore gratifying things as an artist is to have your art appreciated and admired by others. The popularity of it happens to be a good indicator of that. Just because when something is done purely for profit popularity is also important doesn't mean both types are wanting the same thing.
The difference is the parent poster would be proud to have his work viewed and admired by millions of people regardless of how they came about it. Hollywood, on the other hand, could care less as long as those millions of people payed for it.
Businesses have been buying influence for a long time people. Get over it.
Get over it? Well damn, I never thought of it that way... It's so simple. I should just get over it. It's so obvious! Here I thought I should do what I can to fight it and prevent it, and all I had to do was get over it.
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I don't even like much light irl. Dark games and tv shows forever! I could make out details just fine.. perhaps it is your system that needs its gamma set overall :)
Including the precise format of ntfs on disk? :)
Btw: one of the tenets of user interfaces is: if the user requires a manual, then the interface has failed in its task.
Who made this load of crap up? If the user can use it without a manual it just means the interface is similar to what (s)he has used in the past. Now who's to say this is a good thing? This makes about as much sense as the authors inference that gnome/kde are hard to use because they aren't similar enough to current popular interfaces that a user can't just sit down and be fully productive with it.
If the user requires a manual, it just means the interface is different, and there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with being different.
This is slashdot, not my masters thesis.
That's all well and good. Just don't try to outlaw it because I don't give a shit about people being able to eat :)
As an american, I am. However in this day and age a person like me who doesn't support bush, the war in iraq, big business, and condones personal privacy and freedom.. I've been called unamerican so many times I've quite frankly become desensitized to it.
(3) The selective pressures that this will put on all the pests that Roundup is supposed to control. In the same way that staph bacteria have evolved reistance to antibiotics in hospitals, the increased use Roundup will probably lead to the evolution of Roundup resistant superpests.
One of the most important features on life is it's ability to evolve. It is such a fundamental part of life on earth as we know it we really never will be able to fight against it. I mean... that process created beings who can directly manipulate and accelerate that very process. We should not try to fight it, instead we should try to keep up with it, which I believe that if we aren't already, we will be very soon able to do so.
Because it's advertised as 10x. I don't want a 2Ghz cpu that only runs like a 1.4Ghz. Nor do I want 400Mhz ram that only runs like 280Mhz. I don't want gigabit ethernet that runs at 400Mbps. If I wanted that I'd buy 400Mbps ethernet :).
Many newer motherboards however have on board gigabit nic's that bypass the pci bus and use hypertransport or v-link among other things to allow full use of gigabit networking. They are becoming quite common.
It's so easy to get an informative moderation these days...
2. Licensing
X Window System source code is covered by many licenses. All of these
licenses have in common the fact that they do not impose significant condi-
tions on the modification or redistribution or either source code or binaries
beyond requiring one or more of the following:
1. Copyright and/or license notices are left intact.
2. Copyright and/or license notices are reproduced verbatim in documenta-
tion accompanying binary distributions.
3. Attributions are included with documentation accompanying binaries.
Most of these licenses are based on the MIT, X Consortium, or BSD (original
and revised) licenses. All of them are consistent with the Open Source Defi-
nition, and most are consistent with the Free Software Foundation's Free
Software Definition.
You see GPL anywhere in there? These licenses are non-comforming licenses. The GPL is MUCH more restrictive. The whole reason the recent xfree86 license switch is controversial is because they added more restrictions! The GPL isn't the end all and be all of licenses, and much free software does not use it. Sorry to disappoint.
Well considering he started from nothing on a closed system getting to the point where it can be used for all the normal functions the original firmware is is a milstone. It'd be like starting a web brwoser from scratch and getting it to a lynx like state with text formatting... then finally adding image support.
Why should such a project not be done just because there are more common users than geeks using it? It's not like he intends to sell it.
What happens when linux gets more common users than geeks, should we stop developing it? This is by a geek and currently for the geeks, the numbers be damned.
What player are you using? I cannot play music using any KDE based media player as arts apparantly can't stop skipping to save its life, and it runs with realtime priority as well.
Or is your problem universal?
Gee why didn't we think of this before? We coulda saved so much time. You make it sound so easy too...
You may fedex it to me now :)
I really doubt his intention was to use the focussed beam to power fusion, cause, ya know, he was recommending an alternative TO fusion...
So what if the US made a somewhat unreasonable request? They said no! It's not like they said, "Give him to us or we'll bomb your country."
Not yet at least. Taking bets on how long until the US does though. That or some sort of military extraction is done without Australias permission. The US is a bully, and this represents a country standing up to that bully where most will not. That is the point of this story and most of the posts. We are all waiting to see wether the bully will back down or throw a punch while you are just standing around wondering what is going on.
Hmm the link to http://www.riokarma.com/parishiltonsexvideotapedow nload.htm at the bottom of that page isn't at all suspicious.. who runs that site exactly? I hope not rio..
This would be akin to you noticing your neighbor left the keys in his car and you decided to take it for a ride before telling him about it.
Oh shit! That's illegal?!
My guess is that at the high overclocking speeds they are doing the internal temp of the chip stays high enough for these problems to not take effect. While I know absolutely nothing about this, they do offset the incredibly low cooling potential with suicidal overclocking :)
If that is the way it is to be, then I would rather see diversity and choice than corporate adoption. Corporations have a way of screwing up everything they touch anyways. Fortunately hobbyists and people who program for fun will always do what they want or feels best or is the most fun. So I suppose I do not have much to worry about. Linux is also gaining more and more acceptance every year despite your analysis. My computer is not just a tool, it is also a toy, and linux allows me to play hard. I pray linux will always be there for me for that purpose. If corporations see something useful in that, then so be it, if not, oh well. Linux has survived without them this long, it will continue to.
You so wildly missed the point I have to wonder if you were joking. One of th emore gratifying things as an artist is to have your art appreciated and admired by others. The popularity of it happens to be a good indicator of that. Just because when something is done purely for profit popularity is also important doesn't mean both types are wanting the same thing.
The difference is the parent poster would be proud to have his work viewed and admired by millions of people regardless of how they came about it. Hollywood, on the other hand, could care less as long as those millions of people payed for it.
Businesses have been buying influence for a long time people. Get over it.
Get over it? Well damn, I never thought of it that way... It's so simple. I should just get over it. It's so obvious! Here I thought I should do what I can to fight it and prevent it, and all I had to do was get over it.
RTFA
Only the windows api's are patented. Obviously, gnome probably won't be using those.
What if you just think bodily harm in general is funny? I'm the bastard that'll laugh my ass off if I see you slip and fall.