If you want to maximize use of screen real estate there is nothing better than the ion window manager, especially if you have multiple monitors. It's the only manager I know of that lets you have a separate set of virtual desktops for each monitor that can be switched independently of one another. You will lose a lot of time, however, reconfiguring all the keyboard commands to not suck.
What this means is that being a musician will no longer be a multi-million dollar a year job. It will be a job that pays only thousands of dollars a year, the same thing "the rest of us" get paid. And it also means that more people will be able to be musicians, as opposed to now where being a musician for a living is very difficult. I'll definitely take many musicians making many songs and each making enough money to pay rent over a few musicians making a few songs and making enough to pay everyone's rent. Ask yourself which of these two makes a better society.
At work I had a problem recently where there was significant performance loss because there was a flood of very many very small and simple queries. I had to replace a bunch of them with one very large very complicated query to make things run smoothly. Figure out just how many simple select queries you can flood the server with before it starts to choke. Also make an absolutely enourmous query, really really big, and see how many seconds it takes to get the result on each of the setups.
How can you go out with someone who has interests so different from your own? I'm into geeky things and I'm going to go out with a girl who likes the same sorts of things. I might be willing to have a physical relationship with plenty of girls, but I'm not going to have a serious emotional relationship with someone who wont play games or watch anime and such.
I see too many middle age geeky guys these days who want to do geeky stuff but their wives wont let them. I shit you not, some guy had to watch anime in secret because his wife would have thrown out the DVDs if she saw them.
What kind of relationship is that?
Sure, in some cases guys are just paying way too much attention to other stuff and not the girls. You can't do that, you've gotta give some time. But also remember, girls can't expect to be the only thing that gets attention from the guy. There are other things in his life besides you and there should be other things in your life besides him. Goes both ways.
In short. Everybody get a life and don't be with incompatible people.
If you are using POP there should be a box so that you don't delete your mail from the server after you download it. If you use IMAP this is the default. I don't see what the problem here is. You keep all your messages on the server and your client just checks to see what's there. Your computer be it laptop or desktop is not the place for e-mail to be stored, the server is. If your e-mail server is not backed up you have worse problems. If you're super worried, get gmail.
I don't have a PSP, and I wont buy one just for this. But it's great to see the return of Strider and Magic Sword. Someone really needs to make an update of Strider for the next gen systems.
It's easy to see why usenet is dying. Barely anyone has access to it anymore. Google Groups doesn't give you half of the stuff that's out there. Few ISPs and college still have a server that they allow you to get on, and even those don't list all the groups out there. Any other usenet service I've seen isn't free.
So because there is no easy and free interface to get into usenet, or to even learn about its existence, "normal" peopel aren't going to use it.
To make it worse, geeks like me wont use it (despite knowledge and desire to do so) because there is no free, easy and open server to connect to. Not to mention the fact that all the newsgroup readers suck big time.
The worst part is this, I might be wrong. There might be a free server somewhere I just don't know about. But if I don't know about it, it's hidden or secret. You can't complain something is dying if you keep it a secret.
It's been my understanding that a private school can kick anyone out at any time for any reason as long as you can't prove it was discrimination of some sort. Has anyone heard something to the contrary?
Isn't this a direct contradiction of the DMCA? What if I buy a physical copy of a game that has copy protection and modify that copy protection? Did the lower court make a bad ruling? Or is it only ok if you are not circumventing a copy protection measure?
Yeah, I learned my lesson after dealing with problems proprietary linux software that only works on old redhats a few times. Now I know better.
Always use brand new linux, a real distribution like gentoo/debian/ubuntu. Always use the newest stable software, apache2, mysql5, php5, etc. Next identify your problem. Then find a solution to the problem that runs on that platform. Code it yourself if you have to. Picking a solution first and having to suffer with a bad platform is not worth it.
It's open. You just can't force someone else to change their codebase. If you really want to change it you make and maintain a patchset or your own seperate version of the codebase. Look at how many different kernel sources you can get, yet very few of those patchset ever get applied to the "real" kernel at kernel.org.
The point is you can do whatever you want with the code, but you can't force someone else to use it. I mean think about it. Imagine a code repository where every developer could write anything and it was fully open. It would never build. Code that is good enough usually gets accepted upstream, that darwinistic process helps open source, not the opposite.
The scariest video game moments, a few come to mind.
The last level of Zelda 1, that music was eery. In fact, the whole northwest corner of the map was scary. The second quest even moreso.
Castlevania 2, all of it.
There's one more that I immediately think of, though I think a few will disagree, Legacy of the Wizard. It wasn't supposed to be a scary game, but there was just something about it where I was scared to shit whenever I was deep in the dungeons.
There's no need to sue anybody if you have a haunted house. In fact, I'd love to buy a house that was actually haunted. That way I could win the million dollar prize.
It doesn't matter. If someone is using Windows they will be able to see it either way. If they are using a mac they will be able to see it either way. And if they are running Linux they will be able to see it only if they setup codecs properly. Most distros like Ubuntu come with a crap codec setup, but a little extra work fixes that. The thing is that if you use Windows, very few Windows users will be inconvenienced by having to download extra software. If you use QuickTime very few apple uses will be inconvenienced. The quality doesn't really matter so much these days. You get a comparable bitrate to quality ratio with either format. Just gotta keep the bitrate in a good spot, that's what matters most.
Of course, the best would be to use an open streaming video format. But then you're going to inconvenience all the non-Linux users.
This is true, and so is the parent post. I can't really speak for this particular project, which is actually cheaper than most NASA stuff, but most other NASA missions are over engineered and too expensive.
Think about it like this. To make a project that is 90% sure to work it costs X dollars. To make the project 99% sure to work it costs 2*X dollars or more! As the levels of redundancy and robustness of the equipment increases the price increasess exponentially. The 99th percent costs more than the 98th percent and so on.
The problem is that most NASA missions go to the 99th percent no matter what. The reality is that sometimes they could do the same mission 10 times over at 90% reliability for less money than doing the mission ones for 99% reliability. So one out of 10 missions would blow up, but 9 out of 10 would rock the house. That's a lot better than the few we have now.
Why would anyone want a laptop so big? The point of a laptop is that it is portable, you can take it with you places. If it's 20"+ diagonally that really doesn't fit in any bag I know. It's one thing if you are using it as a desktop replacement. And it's another thing if you are using it for something like a display in your booth at a trade show. But for a computer you use on the plane, train and other public spaces it's gotta be smaller. Right now the only things that even come close to good enough are incredibly expensive laptops from japan, the small vaios, the fujitsu lifebook p series and the 12" apples. I haven't found any other laptop even close to small enough.
Wow you completely misunderstand what he's talking about. REAL hypertext doesn't have links. Here's a meta-example of what real hypertext might be like.
<document> <text>text text text.</text> <include first paragraph from joe's site/> <include image from wikipedia/> <include article from slashdot/> </document>
See, now if Joe updates his website, that will modify what appears on this page. And if wikipedia changes the image then the image on my site will be updated and if the article on slashdot gets edited, that will show up too. Not just a link, actual hypertext.
Now, this is the most basic example of use of this technology. imagine what all these web 2.0 people would be doing if they got there hands on this stuff. There's a lot of possibility there.
Don't worry about the technological challenges of how it will work, that's a problem we have yet to solve. Think about the awesome possibilities if we had it and it worked.
I saw a page on macromedia's site awhile back. They were looking to hire someone to port the player to Linux properly.
What bothers me more is that there is no director player for Linux. While it isn't used often, it is quite annoying when someone links me a new director game I can't play.
I also use gaim, but have some problems with it different from the ones you have. Your problem upgrading gaim has to do with your choice of distro. Use a non-rpm distro and you will upgrade it easily.
I have problems with gaim not having full Jabber support. I can set a resource, but not a priority. I also can't add and remove aim/icq transports with gaim. So I have to use exodus to add the transport, but from then on gaim can use it. There are also problems with gaim and file transfer. It seems to work in some cases and not others. Kind of ironic that gaim supports the closed aim protocol better than it supports the open jabber protocol.
Overall I don't think IM is in a sad state in Linux. There are areas which are worse like easy support for multi-button mice, esp. Logitech. And audio is still pretty bad in Linux. I manage to solve my audio problem though by buying new speakers.
You've got something wrong there. It's not called fascism. It's called technocracy. If you ever saw the simpsons episode where MENSA takes over town you have a good idea of what a technocracy is, how it goes right and how it goes wrong.
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If you want to maximize use of screen real estate there is nothing better than the ion window manager, especially if you have multiple monitors. It's the only manager I know of that lets you have a separate set of virtual desktops for each monitor that can be switched independently of one another. You will lose a lot of time, however, reconfiguring all the keyboard commands to not suck.
What this means is that being a musician will no longer be a multi-million dollar a year job. It will be a job that pays only thousands of dollars a year, the same thing "the rest of us" get paid. And it also means that more people will be able to be musicians, as opposed to now where being a musician for a living is very difficult. I'll definitely take many musicians making many songs and each making enough money to pay rent over a few musicians making a few songs and making enough to pay everyone's rent. Ask yourself which of these two makes a better society.
At work I had a problem recently where there was significant performance loss because there was a flood of very many very small and simple queries. I had to replace a bunch of them with one very large very complicated query to make things run smoothly. Figure out just how many simple select queries you can flood the server with before it starts to choke. Also make an absolutely enourmous query, really really big, and see how many seconds it takes to get the result on each of the setups.
How can you go out with someone who has interests so different from your own? I'm into geeky things and I'm going to go out with a girl who likes the same sorts of things. I might be willing to have a physical relationship with plenty of girls, but I'm not going to have a serious emotional relationship with someone who wont play games or watch anime and such.
I see too many middle age geeky guys these days who want to do geeky stuff but their wives wont let them. I shit you not, some guy had to watch anime in secret because his wife would have thrown out the DVDs if she saw them.
What kind of relationship is that?
Sure, in some cases guys are just paying way too much attention to other stuff and not the girls. You can't do that, you've gotta give some time. But also remember, girls can't expect to be the only thing that gets attention from the guy. There are other things in his life besides you and there should be other things in your life besides him. Goes both ways.
In short. Everybody get a life and don't be with incompatible people.
If you are using POP there should be a box so that you don't delete your mail from the server after you download it. If you use IMAP this is the default. I don't see what the problem here is. You keep all your messages on the server and your client just checks to see what's there. Your computer be it laptop or desktop is not the place for e-mail to be stored, the server is. If your e-mail server is not backed up you have worse problems. If you're super worried, get gmail.
I'll be there playing network m.u.l.e with you.
I don't have a PSP, and I wont buy one just for this. But it's great to see the return of Strider and Magic Sword. Someone really needs to make an update of Strider for the next gen systems.
It's easy to see why usenet is dying. Barely anyone has access to it anymore. Google Groups doesn't give you half of the stuff that's out there. Few ISPs and college still have a server that they allow you to get on, and even those don't list all the groups out there. Any other usenet service I've seen isn't free.
So because there is no easy and free interface to get into usenet, or to even learn about its existence, "normal" peopel aren't going to use it.
To make it worse, geeks like me wont use it (despite knowledge and desire to do so) because there is no free, easy and open server to connect to. Not to mention the fact that all the newsgroup readers suck big time.
The worst part is this, I might be wrong. There might be a free server somewhere I just don't know about. But if I don't know about it, it's hidden or secret. You can't complain something is dying if you keep it a secret.
It's been my understanding that a private school can kick anyone out at any time for any reason as long as you can't prove it was discrimination of some sort. Has anyone heard something to the contrary?
Isn't this a direct contradiction of the DMCA? What if I buy a physical copy of a game that has copy protection and modify that copy protection? Did the lower court make a bad ruling? Or is it only ok if you are not circumventing a copy protection measure?
Yeah, I learned my lesson after dealing with problems proprietary linux software that only works on old redhats a few times. Now I know better.
Always use brand new linux, a real distribution like gentoo/debian/ubuntu. Always use the newest stable software, apache2, mysql5, php5, etc. Next identify your problem. Then find a solution to the problem that runs on that platform. Code it yourself if you have to. Picking a solution first and having to suffer with a bad platform is not worth it.
It's open. You just can't force someone else to change their codebase. If you really want to change it you make and maintain a patchset or your own seperate version of the codebase. Look at how many different kernel sources you can get, yet very few of those patchset ever get applied to the "real" kernel at kernel.org.
The point is you can do whatever you want with the code, but you can't force someone else to use it. I mean think about it. Imagine a code repository where every developer could write anything and it was fully open. It would never build. Code that is good enough usually gets accepted upstream, that darwinistic process helps open source, not the opposite.
The scariest video game moments, a few come to mind.
The last level of Zelda 1, that music was eery. In fact, the whole northwest corner of the map was scary. The second quest even moreso.
Castlevania 2, all of it.
There's one more that I immediately think of, though I think a few will disagree, Legacy of the Wizard. It wasn't supposed to be a scary game, but there was just something about it where I was scared to shit whenever I was deep in the dungeons.
There's no need to sue anybody if you have a haunted house. In fact, I'd love to buy a house that was actually haunted. That way I could win the million dollar prize.
It doesn't matter. If someone is using Windows they will be able to see it either way. If they are using a mac they will be able to see it either way. And if they are running Linux they will be able to see it only if they setup codecs properly. Most distros like Ubuntu come with a crap codec setup, but a little extra work fixes that. The thing is that if you use Windows, very few Windows users will be inconvenienced by having to download extra software. If you use QuickTime very few apple uses will be inconvenienced. The quality doesn't really matter so much these days. You get a comparable bitrate to quality ratio with either format. Just gotta keep the bitrate in a good spot, that's what matters most.
Of course, the best would be to use an open streaming video format. But then you're going to inconvenience all the non-Linux users.
This is true, and so is the parent post. I can't really speak for this particular project, which is actually cheaper than most NASA stuff, but most other NASA missions are over engineered and too expensive.
Think about it like this. To make a project that is 90% sure to work it costs X dollars. To make the project 99% sure to work it costs 2*X dollars or more! As the levels of redundancy and robustness of the equipment increases the price increasess exponentially. The 99th percent costs more than the 98th percent and so on.
The problem is that most NASA missions go to the 99th percent no matter what. The reality is that sometimes they could do the same mission 10 times over at 90% reliability for less money than doing the mission ones for 99% reliability. So one out of 10 missions would blow up, but 9 out of 10 would rock the house. That's a lot better than the few we have now.
I think I read something about Nokia/Symbian phones supporting Perl/Phython.
No it shouldn't, Chiropractic is bullshit. See a real back doctor who went to medical school, not a pretend doctor.
Why would anyone want a laptop so big? The point of a laptop is that it is portable, you can take it with you places. If it's 20"+ diagonally that really doesn't fit in any bag I know. It's one thing if you are using it as a desktop replacement. And it's another thing if you are using it for something like a display in your booth at a trade show. But for a computer you use on the plane, train and other public spaces it's gotta be smaller. Right now the only things that even come close to good enough are incredibly expensive laptops from japan, the small vaios, the fujitsu lifebook p series and the 12" apples. I haven't found any other laptop even close to small enough.
Now, this is the most basic example of use of this technology. imagine what all these web 2.0 people would be doing if they got there hands on this stuff. There's a lot of possibility there.
Don't worry about the technological challenges of how it will work, that's a problem we have yet to solve. Think about the awesome possibilities if we had it and it worked.
I saw a page on macromedia's site awhile back. They were looking to hire someone to port the player to Linux properly.
What bothers me more is that there is no director player for Linux. While it isn't used often, it is quite annoying when someone links me a new director game I can't play.
I've looked at those sites once or twice. Never wrote anything for them or asked for anything from them. Just use craigslist.
I also use gaim, but have some problems with it different from the ones you have. Your problem upgrading gaim has to do with your choice of distro. Use a non-rpm distro and you will upgrade it easily.
I have problems with gaim not having full Jabber support. I can set a resource, but not a priority. I also can't add and remove aim/icq transports with gaim. So I have to use exodus to add the transport, but from then on gaim can use it. There are also problems with gaim and file transfer. It seems to work in some cases and not others. Kind of ironic that gaim supports the closed aim protocol better than it supports the open jabber protocol.
Overall I don't think IM is in a sad state in Linux. There are areas which are worse like easy support for multi-button mice, esp. Logitech. And audio is still pretty bad in Linux. I manage to solve my audio problem though by buying new speakers.
I see they have no clinics for addiction to books, movies, tv, sleep, food or work. They better get right on that.
You've got something wrong there. It's not called fascism. It's called technocracy. If you ever saw the simpsons episode where MENSA takes over town you have a good idea of what a technocracy is, how it goes right and how it goes wrong.