So pretty, in fact, I'd love to have a 10 foot tall pile of them just to jump in and toss up into the air all around me, and laugh like a madman. If you have any you don't want because you don't think they're aesthetically pleasing enuff, just send them over my way. I'll be more than happy to give them a welcome home.
That's bad. We need a (Score:-1 Sarcastic) mod level.
While I'm no real fanboy of Mandrake, it's still a pretty darned decent distro. You could've instead said "Lindows" (or whatever it's called these days).
If I can't run the programs I already have on an OS, that OS is crippled to me.
Funny you should put it that way... because all the programs I own for RedHat seem to run just fine on SuSE, Mandrake, Gentoo, Slackware, etc,... Heck, they mostly all even seem to run just fine on FreeBSD without much changes too!
I would not, however, expect any Macintosh programs I might own to run on Windows XP, OpenVMS, etc.
It would be even easier to just slap a "Starter Edition" label onto a full version of a distro, and give it away for free, and advertise the fact that our "Starter Version" is NOT crippled at all like theirs is.
I've recently upgraded all my NT servers at work with W2K3 and noticed on the older, slower hardware such as Proliants and Dells with ~500MHz P3 cpus (yep, we'll be running these till they die, they're still doing their job ok) there is a significant, almost comical amount of mouse lag, even on standard CRT monitors. I attribute it to simple OS bloat.
Nobody seems to have yet pointed out something that many Slashdotters have advocated over the years, and that has actually come to fruition, so I underscore it here:
These are not simply called "viruses" (in the generic sense) anymore. Even the mainstream media has come to commonly calling them "Windows viruses" in everyday language. Name recognition is a powerful thing, whether positive or negative. The anti-MS crowd has actually achieved a small victory here, and nobody seems to have noticed that most viruses are indeed being called Windows viruses now.
How much you wanna bet that some MSNBC editor will read this post and realize what has come to pass, that there will soon be an executive order coming down that forbids any of their news writers from ever calling them "Windows viruses" again?
The biggest problem I see with GPS and cameras [digital] right now is battery life. Get GPS fixes from the necessary satellites can really run down your batteries fast.
Are you sure about that? My (rather old) Garmin handheld GPS runs for about 12 solid hours continuously on a set of new AA alkaline penlight batteries. But, my digital camera is only good for about 2 hours on a set of the same AA batteries, and only about 20 minutes if I leave its LCD screen turned on.
What false claim was that? How about simply that the product was supposed to work correctly as it was claimed to do before the sale.
All technology vendors need to be foreced to quit hiding behind some software EULA that allows them to escape being held liable when their stuff don't work right. If it takes charging them with fraud, then so be it.
I'm not a commercial pilot, private pilot only, and I rarely ever use airports that have a tower, I fly in and out of uncontrolled airports 99% of the time. At controlled airports, the "tower" (ATC, could be ground control if you're preparing to take off) tells pilots which runway to use, they do not normally choose for themselves, unless there's an emergency.
Also, the music player interface in not capable of outputting any sound at all into the microphone circuit, it only plays thru the headphones, and when any signal comes in over the radios, the music input gets automatically muted, and the radio overrides it.
Hmmmm.... I wonder how our eyes perceive the even and odd order harmonics resulting from blending colors of the spectrum and distorted waveshapes of light?
Kinda like our ears hear the harmonics produced by complex audio waveforms and the blending of multiple audio pitches.
Birds generally stick around pretty close to the ground. The overwhelming vast majority never venture more than 3000' AGL. The highest flying birds in North America are generally the migratory geese at around 10K feet, which is very impressive considering how lower the oxygen is up there and how much muscle power and metabolism the geese must burn to keep flying that high for long distances, and they're always flying in formation, the tremendous noise of the shuttle's engines will undoubtedly encourage them to fly away from the ship as fast as they can, and they'll have ample warning to make course corrections. The shuttle simply isn't yet going fast enough for a bird strike to do much damage at those very low altitudes where most birds are found near the ground, plus the sound at launch has got to be a huge deterrent to any birds in the immediate airspace above the launch site, the tremendous SPL has got to be extremely bad for their health and even their ability to fly too.
The fact that Intel has relied on this "Mhz Myth" has really killed sales of their Centrino (Pentium M) line of processors. Consumers see the (comparatively low) ghz ratings on the Centrinos (typically about 1.5ghz) and compare them to laptops with less expensive P4's (typically running between 2.5 to 3.5ghz) and wonder why anyone would pick the Centrinos.
This is probably very true in sales to average joe consumer, but not for the educated I.T. geek. I bought a Pentium-M 1.6GHz laptop for my dept at work after exhaustive research of all that was currently available on the market for the budget my boss gave me to work with. The 1.6 Pentium-M, even though it's raw clock speed is much lower, gives an overall "feel" of how fast this machine runs, of roughly comparable to that of a 2.4GHz/533 Northwood P4. It's a fine processor. Battery life is great with this laptop too, and it can even play UT2003/2004 at 1024x768x32 just fine:). Too bad most of the rest of the laptop-buying audience is too dense to look past the bling of clock speed numbers.
Nobody uses it, nobody wants it, few people have ever even seen one. The industry desire to support it just ain't there. It is gonna die. I know a lot of folks who still run OpenVMS systems on the dead Alpha platform, who are scrambling to replace these long running. stable and reliable VMS systems with completely something else.
There exists a perception is that HP is trying to artificially create some use for the Itanium to justify all the work they invested in it with Intel, by making it the next generation OpenVMS platform.
None.... nada, zip, zilch, of the VMS folks I know are interested in even thinking of going there. They'd all rather let their trusty old VMS finish dying the rest of its death and they'll change to something they think to stand a better chance of future support... Like MS Windows systems on the low-end for most users, RS6000/AIX on the high end, and an extreme minority of this group is looking towards Linux and open source solutions.
I've been around this industry for a long time and have yet to lay my hands on, or even personnally see an Itanium box firsthand. The cold hard fact is that few people even care that it exists. Itanium == boondoggle.
I doubt it would set any precedent. There's been far too much media exposure now... I think this is a one-shot, passing phenomina we're observing here, it'll be an academic curiosity for a long time after it's over with, but nobody will ever be able to pull off another boondoggle like this in the I.T. industry again.
...is one of the most safest aircraft ever built. It'll just barely kill you.
Or so the aviation joke has always been told. Any aircraft can kill its occupants if operated incorrectly. So can a car, motorcycle, or a skateboard.
WRT a light plane getting off the ground with two heavy people aboard, yes there are some designs that are better than others. What all aircraft designs have in common is that there is some max gross weight figure that cannot be exceeded or the thing will not fly well (or safely). Just don't exceed that weight limit, and fly the thing within its design and operational parameter limits, and it'll do just fine.
I am a private pilot and own a Piper Cherokee 4-seater. I think the new Sport Pilot certificate (nitpick: it's not a "license", it's a "certificate", there is a significant difference that laypersons just can't seem to ever grasp) will do a lot to help revitalize General Aviation. General Aviation has been under political and economical assault for decades and was/is in danger of perhaps even becoming extinct. What has been needed for about the past 20 years is something to help put the entry into the world of aviation closer to the reach of the average enthusiast who wishes to fly. Hopefully the osmosis of aviation knowledge from the Sport Pilot initiative will ultimately spread more thru the general population too, as greater numbers of people are actually learning the truths about flying aircraft, instead of only hearing such rubbish like what stupid news reporters spew (i.e. that all light planes are "Cessnas" and the engine "stalls" so the thing immediately plumments out of the sky like a rock, and other such nonsense)
Saturn is a huge gas giant like Jupiter. Jupiter eminates massive amounts of life-frying radiation. Even though Saturn has only about 30% the mass of Jupiter (Saturn is also the only planet that has lower density than water!), it is reported that Saturn's radiation output is even higher than that of Jupiter.
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So pretty, in fact, I'd love to have a 10 foot tall pile of them just to jump in and toss up into the air all around me, and laugh like a madman. If you have any you don't want because you don't think they're aesthetically pleasing enuff, just send them over my way. I'll be more than happy to give them a welcome home.
Yeah, it's called Mandrake.
Boo!!!! Hiss!!!!
That's bad.
We need a (Score:-1 Sarcastic) mod level.
While I'm no real fanboy of Mandrake, it's still a pretty darned decent distro. You could've instead said "Lindows" (or whatever it's called these days).
If I can't run the programs I already have on an OS, that OS is crippled to me.
Funny you should put it that way... because all the programs I own for RedHat seem to run just fine on SuSE, Mandrake, Gentoo, Slackware, etc,... Heck, they mostly all even seem to run just fine on FreeBSD without much changes too!
I would not, however, expect any Macintosh programs I might own to run on Windows XP, OpenVMS, etc.
It would be even easier to just slap a "Starter Edition" label onto a full version of a distro, and give it away for free, and advertise the fact that our "Starter Version" is NOT crippled at all like theirs is.
I've recently upgraded all my NT servers at work with W2K3 and noticed on the older, slower hardware such as Proliants and Dells with ~500MHz P3 cpus (yep, we'll be running these till they die, they're still doing their job ok) there is a significant, almost comical amount of mouse lag, even on standard CRT monitors. I attribute it to simple OS bloat.
The closest analogy would be to consider Itanium to be an Edsel instead.
Absolutely nobody wants one or even cares about it either.
Nobody seems to have yet pointed out something that many Slashdotters have advocated over the years, and that has actually come to fruition, so I underscore it here:
These are not simply called "viruses" (in the generic sense) anymore. Even the mainstream media has come to commonly calling them "Windows viruses" in everyday language. Name recognition is a powerful thing, whether positive or negative. The anti-MS crowd has actually achieved a small victory here, and nobody seems to have noticed that most viruses are indeed being called Windows viruses now.
How much you wanna bet that some MSNBC editor will read this post and realize what has come to pass, that there will soon be an executive order coming down that forbids any of their news writers from ever calling them "Windows viruses" again?
The biggest problem I see with GPS and cameras [digital] right now is battery life. Get GPS fixes from the necessary satellites can really run down your batteries fast.
Are you sure about that? My (rather old) Garmin handheld GPS runs for about 12 solid hours continuously on a set of new AA alkaline penlight batteries. But, my digital camera is only good for about 2 hours on a set of the same AA batteries, and only about 20 minutes if I leave its LCD screen turned on.
Maybe Freshmeat.net could help?
... the meat in question is very fresh now, is it?
What false claim was that?
How about simply that the product was supposed to work correctly as it was claimed to do before the sale.
All technology vendors need to be foreced to quit hiding behind some software EULA that allows them to escape being held liable when their stuff don't work right. If it takes charging them with fraud, then so be it.
...order immediate drug tests for the entire staff of the USPTO.
I'm not a commercial pilot, private pilot only, and I rarely ever use airports that have a tower, I fly in and out of uncontrolled airports 99% of the time. At controlled airports, the "tower" (ATC, could be ground control if you're preparing to take off) tells pilots which runway to use, they do not normally choose for themselves, unless there's an emergency.
Also, the music player interface in not capable of outputting any sound at all into the microphone circuit, it only plays thru the headphones, and when any signal comes in over the radios, the music input gets automatically muted, and the radio overrides it.
You mean you don't play that "Danger Zone" song from Top Gun?
Nope. I'm a geek, not a dweeb.
I'll be using my portable MP3/CD player during takeoff, landing, and enroute cruise tomorrow morning... while I'm at the controls of my own airplane!
:p
And yes, I do play Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride" as I'm taking off down the runway. I do it just because it's so damn tacky
...into complete financial oblivion, any 2nd or 3rd party who is careless with our sensitive data.
There is a Windows "Installable File System" for accessing ext2/ext3 partitions in read-only mode. See this website for EXT2IFS
Uhhh, because more than half of Texas is basically wilderness / open range land?
Hmmmm.... I wonder how our eyes perceive the even and odd order harmonics resulting from blending colors of the spectrum and distorted waveshapes of light?
Kinda like our ears hear the harmonics produced by complex audio waveforms and the blending of multiple audio pitches.
Birds generally stick around pretty close to the ground. The overwhelming vast majority never venture more than 3000' AGL. The highest flying birds in North America are generally the migratory geese at around 10K feet, which is very impressive considering how lower the oxygen is up there and how much muscle power and metabolism the geese must burn to keep flying that high for long distances, and they're always flying in formation, the tremendous noise of the shuttle's engines will undoubtedly encourage them to fly away from the ship as fast as they can, and they'll have ample warning to make course corrections. The shuttle simply isn't yet going fast enough for a bird strike to do much damage at those very low altitudes where most birds are found near the ground, plus the sound at launch has got to be a huge deterrent to any birds in the immediate airspace above the launch site, the tremendous SPL has got to be extremely bad for their health and even their ability to fly too.
The fact that Intel has relied on this "Mhz Myth" has really killed sales of their Centrino (Pentium M) line of processors. Consumers see the (comparatively low) ghz ratings on the Centrinos (typically about 1.5ghz) and compare them to laptops with less expensive P4's (typically running between 2.5 to 3.5ghz) and wonder why anyone would pick the Centrinos.
:). Too bad most of the rest of the laptop-buying audience is too dense to look past the bling of clock speed numbers.
This is probably very true in sales to average joe consumer, but not for the educated I.T. geek. I bought a Pentium-M 1.6GHz laptop for my dept at work after exhaustive research of all that was currently available on the market for the budget my boss gave me to work with. The 1.6 Pentium-M, even though it's raw clock speed is much lower, gives an overall "feel" of how fast this machine runs, of roughly comparable to that of a 2.4GHz/533 Northwood P4. It's a fine processor. Battery life is great with this laptop too, and it can even play UT2003/2004 at 1024x768x32 just fine
Nobody uses it, nobody wants it, few people have ever even seen one. The industry desire to support it just ain't there. It is gonna die. I know a lot of folks who still run OpenVMS systems on the dead Alpha platform, who are scrambling to replace these long running. stable and reliable VMS systems with completely something else.
There exists a perception is that HP is trying to artificially create some use for the Itanium to justify all the work they invested in it with Intel, by making it the next generation OpenVMS platform.
None.... nada, zip, zilch, of the VMS folks I know are interested in even thinking of going there. They'd all rather let their trusty old VMS finish dying the rest of its death and they'll change to something they think to stand a better chance of future support... Like MS Windows systems on the low-end for most users, RS6000/AIX on the high end, and an extreme minority of this group is looking towards Linux and open source solutions.
I've been around this industry for a long time and have yet to lay my hands on, or even personnally see an Itanium box firsthand. The cold hard fact is that few people even care that it exists. Itanium == boondoggle.
I doubt it would set any precedent. There's been far too much media exposure now... I think this is a one-shot, passing phenomina we're observing here, it'll be an academic curiosity for a long time after it's over with, but nobody will ever be able to pull off another boondoggle like this in the I.T. industry again.
...is one of the most safest aircraft ever built. It'll just barely kill you.
Or so the aviation joke has always been told. Any aircraft can kill its occupants if operated incorrectly. So can a car, motorcycle, or a skateboard.
WRT a light plane getting off the ground with two heavy people aboard, yes there are some designs that are better than others. What all aircraft designs have in common is that there is some max gross weight figure that cannot be exceeded or the thing will not fly well (or safely). Just don't exceed that weight limit, and fly the thing within its design and operational parameter limits, and it'll do just fine.
I am a private pilot and own a Piper Cherokee 4-seater. I think the new Sport Pilot certificate (nitpick: it's not a "license", it's a "certificate", there is a significant difference that laypersons just can't seem to ever grasp) will do a lot to help revitalize General Aviation. General Aviation has been under political and economical assault for decades and was/is in danger of perhaps even becoming extinct. What has been needed for about the past 20 years is something to help put the entry into the world of aviation closer to the reach of the average enthusiast who wishes to fly. Hopefully the osmosis of aviation knowledge from the Sport Pilot initiative will ultimately spread more thru the general population too, as greater numbers of people are actually learning the truths about flying aircraft, instead of only hearing such rubbish like what stupid news reporters spew (i.e. that all light planes are "Cessnas" and the engine "stalls" so the thing immediately plumments out of the sky like a rock, and other such nonsense)
Saturn is a huge gas giant like Jupiter. Jupiter eminates massive amounts of life-frying radiation. Even though Saturn has only about 30% the mass of Jupiter (Saturn is also the only planet that has lower density than water!), it is reported that Saturn's radiation output is even higher than that of Jupiter.