CVS usage, documents filed, actual state of one person's piece of a project. If you can agree upon a unit for pay, and promise that as long as your company is in business the best people for each project will be kept, it shouldn't be *too* hard (beyond, of course, regular management/hr responsibilities) to find a way of paying for one person's services. And remember, with a secure and stable enough system, the amount of time one person spends actually working should be easily tracked.
A more constructive thing for her to do would be to read *to* or *with* her child. Maybe involve the computer -- PG has an excellent selection of classics, from Shakespeare to Shaw, to Lewis Carroll to Asa Grey (a botanist from around CNY). Too many parents blame the machine for stealing their children away, but refuse to make it a tool of their own choosing.
I'm already having trouble getting Macs and Linux boxes to play nice with Active Directory, who KNOWS what sort of proprietary encryption techniques they'll use to keep Linux and Apple boxes out of the core network.(emphasis mine)
Well, I've noticed a formula for open source software production that goes something like this:
Linux Programmer + Time = Some Really Kickass Shit.
Yup, there's lots of deserted crap out there, but the biggies (GNOME, KDE, XFree^H^H^H^H*, OO.o, OpenUniverse (which nary ever gets mentioned!) xscreensaver, XMMS, Mplayer, Ogle, Xine, VLC...) do keep improving with fantastic results.
One other thing to bear in mind is that this technology produces monochrome prints; i.e. the choice of color is *binary*. How much does it take to get the CD burner to print a 1 or a 0 on the data side? The only thing we need to be sure we're doing is putting these 1's and 0's in the right order (also already done) and maybe starting at the right first point (but this is automatic, too, isn't it? I mean, it's required that your data start at the beginning and work outward...) What's left? Software that takes a picture, organizes the color pigments to arrangements in B&W, converts that to 1's and 0's (isn't that what a tiff file is? I assume because that's what my p/s/c uses for faxes. How hard is it to convert a bmp, jpg, png, etc. to a tiff? Boesn't lib.so do this fairly easily? (I need more programming experience, but I believe this is true!)) and then cut out the parts that wouldn't go on the disc (a circular template with another circle cut out in the middle) right before sending it to the burner.
So, not that hard. Wish I had programming skills right now.
Hello? How am I supposed to know what to do with this thing?
Um, it is a *nix password prompt. It wasn't hard for *me* to figure out what to do with it, and I have less than a decade (maybe less than half a decade) of Linux experience under my belt. Hasn't ESR been using it for quite a while? Printer config is an Administrator's job. The CUPS folk have gone through the (admittedly minimal) trouble of making it so that only someone with SU/root access can f^Hmuck around with those settings. Now, if he had complained about CUPS' method for finding your printer driver (it's an HP psc 1210, just find one that works!) I would agree, but any *nix user who doesn't know who to be at a password/login prompt needs his head examined.
external USB modems?... Or just use micro-atx motherboards that have builtin modems.
Wouldn't both mainly be winmodems necessarily? I honestly don't know, but I'm imagining a dongle in the case of a USB modem, which wouldn't leave room for hardware, and a motherboard-mounted one makes me think of my laptop, and most recent laptops, which use winmodems -- presumably for space and heat dissipation reasons (a dsp is thinner with more surface area than most modem components, so I'm assuming here). Also, an external modem defeats the purpose of ATX, and though this person doesn't necessarily promote ATX (it was the only choice given) the person buying it would necessarily *want* ATX.
I think it's humility. I remember reading on here an article about the CEO of IBM chastising Microsoft for, essentially, being too big for its britches, and specifically saying that they themselves had learned from their own similar mistake. If John Nash was right, the best way to succeed is to succeed together. I think IBM feels empathically as well as intelligently that that is so. Microsoft may in the future, as well.
If the open development and open business models take hold, I think we may see a paradigm shift in industry (though possibly only in software) where no one makes a product, but each (company, community, individual) may add something or change something, and if it takes off well and the resources are there, they will be compensated.
People who say that this model won't work forget (or maybe never learned!) that people are often noticed for their abilities despite the fact that they may not be employed by a company in that field, or may not be particularly well-versed in it, but because they can still understand a particular problem and solve it well.
I think it's input events that need to be enabled. Mine works fine, but I did it months ago, so I can't quite remember. Then you need the X driver from that page, wherever it is. I also had gpm working, though it wasn't supposed to work with the driver in 2.6. I also had the nifty side-scrolling and multi-finger (1 for right, 2 for left, 3 for middle) options working. I was loving it, but I busted the screen!
Depends on the card. My sister's computer (used to be mine) had an odd ESS1869 card, and the 1868 (or whatever) drivers didn't seem to work with it. Anything Creative, no problem. Same with my VIA. ALSA makes it fairly easy, so the 2.6 series, even in testing, has been, for me, a pretty easy experience. The emu10k1 driver (I also have a 'Live!') has been beautiful since I first ftp'd from the console to get it. depmod -a (I think make install did this automatically) and modprobe emu10k1 has always worked smoothly and with few errors. If I then put the driver name in my modules.autoload, I would have no trouble.
Like I said, though, it depends on the card, but then Mandrake 8.0 found that same ESS card just fine, so it depends on how well the OS is configured, too.
Stories like this are aimed at people who *might* build a kernel anyway. A person who wants to know *if* Linux is useful shouldn't be going near the kernel to begin with. That person should be reading articles on installing/test-driving Linux. That's why those of us in the know discuss the problems we have, which discussions can be made to improve the workings of the kernel, and the distro-makers will configure their own damned kernels.
So the problem would be asking the input device to recognize the difference between pressing one key pressing two keys? In other words, the functionality already involved in the device would merely have to be tweaked? Not only that, but assuming you only press one key at a time with a finger, like most people, the tweak involved would be one of the following:
keep track of how many fingers are still beep if unsure which key was meant to be pressed (not the most elegant solution, but goes with the conditioning needed to mount the learning curve) figure the key to which your finger was closest is the correct one
It's kind of sad to hear all these lame excuses not to adopt a new technology in a forum where I would expect to find some who revel in climbing these kinds of little mountains.
So this projected keyboard would still work perfectly in accordance to your looking at the screen and a sheet of paper, rather than looking at the keys (or where they would be, in this case) in order to know what you're typing?
'Round here, the gov'mint does whatever it damned well pleases with our tax dollars. No one complains because no one knows about it. Sometimes, mediums in a nuther [sic] country find out, but since they're usually just commie Frenchies or wussy Brits, no one b'lieves 'em, or if a one does, we know it's our dooty to play along because if it's fer ahr military, it must be for e-radicating injustice 'n' such.
Lets us all keep focused on important stuff like our dash-mounted DVD players 'n' IMs and e-mails about pissing monkeys and wimmin with big hooters!
I hate to respond to my own post, but I need to cover the lot of people who have been responding that "tactical" recognition and "motor memory" are the best indicators of mistakes.
With a projected keyboard, wouldn't one notice in the same fashion that his or her finger moved to the wrong position? And yes, it is a big learning curve, but this sounds like a device *for* people who are willing to overcome such a curve in order to put it to use.
In that case, the output device would be the only way to provide the stimulus (seeing that the wrong thing was typed) to denote the wrong action was made (finger moved to the 'e' position instead of the 'r') in order to cause the processing and memorizing apparati (whichever parts of the brain those are) to link the two.
So the device works perfectly as what it's meant to be.
I'm surprised at this. I figured more of the/. crowd was used to typing while looking at the screen. Isn't that the *best* way to know you typed what you meant? Don't you need to know that the *computer* knows that you meant to call the function certainFunction() instead of reference the array cwrtinFunctin[]?
Just typing this, I must have hit the 'i' key 4 or 5 times incorrectly, but you'll notice no typos after I hit "Submit" because I can see what comes up on the screen in *realtime* rather than stare at the keys until I'm done and then search for the typo in the paragraph-stack (I'm a good speller always, but a bad punner on Monday mornings). Then again, this does explain the massive amount of errors in/. posts...
"2.6.3 and 2.4.25 are out, fixing another vulnerability in do_munmap()."
The announcement for 2.6.3 and 2.4.25 was yesterday, and the vulnerability to which the link in the text above refers was with mremap, not munmap; there's also another vulnerability with mremap mentioned yesterday as an *update* to the kernel announcement.
That (the one statement you remembered) is a valid point: an established user-base is the most important thing to remember in making a change to a software product that everyone uses. One could easily say that's a reason for MS *not* to make such a change to the code for, say, the Java VM, which then would not work properly with the thousands (millions?) of java programs, applets, etc. on the Internet, programmed by (reasonably) competent people who, if ever code to standard always do so with that given by Sun within their documentation, in books written by people who are close to the horse's mouth, etc. Microsoft would have to do some *phenomenal* donating to universities in order to get professors to recommend Microsoft's own books over those blessed by Sun -- and they'd have to get people to write them. The fact that Java doesn't work on someone's *computer* (remember, OS and JVM are just strings of letters to some people) won't necessarily make the programmers not code by the established standard.
I would love to hear those other points, though, if you can find them anywhere.
435 is a low number to you? For how long have you been working at Pixar? My Radeon Mobility M7 *occasionally* gets 70 or higher at that resolution, with that amount of video RAM. BTW, the reason it never *feels* like 435 fps is probably because you're running ATi's glxgears which somehow does *wonderfully* for testing. Tuxracer, RtCW, Unreal2003, whatever else you're using, don't have the same mysterious code that ATi's glxgears does, IIUC.
Ditto that. I use my backpack for my laptop and my books. So long as I'm not carrying my entire week's class readings at once, I don't have a problem. Also, a binder or multi-pocketed folder for any important papers. Then a pouch for pens. The laptop pouch has place for a discman/MP3 player, with a hole for headphones. Also, the cell phone goes on the strap. Unless you need clothes with you all the time, you're set for the day.
OTOH, if you *really* want to protect your laptop, get an aluminum or titanium case. Having the laptop on your back only protects it from walking off on its own, but if the bottom's not padded when you set it down, you could end up damaging the edge. A good shell will protect your investment from *you*.
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CVS usage, documents filed, actual state of one person's piece of a project. If you can agree upon a unit for pay, and promise that as long as your company is in business the best people for each project will be kept, it shouldn't be *too* hard (beyond, of course, regular management/hr responsibilities) to find a way of paying for one person's services. And remember, with a secure and stable enough system, the amount of time one person spends actually working should be easily tracked.
A more constructive thing for her to do would be to read *to* or *with* her child. Maybe involve the computer -- PG has an excellent selection of classics, from Shakespeare to Shaw, to Lewis Carroll to Asa Grey (a botanist from around CNY). Too many parents blame the machine for stealing their children away, but refuse to make it a tool of their own choosing.
Well, I've noticed a formula for open source software production that goes something like this:
Linux Programmer + Time = Some Really Kickass Shit.
Yup, there's lots of deserted crap out there, but the biggies (GNOME, KDE, XFree^H^H^H^H*, OO.o, OpenUniverse (which nary ever gets mentioned!) xscreensaver, XMMS, Mplayer, Ogle, Xine, VLC...) do keep improving with fantastic results.
One other thing to bear in mind is that this technology produces monochrome prints; i.e. the choice of color is *binary*. How much does it take to get the CD burner to print a 1 or a 0 on the data side? The only thing we need to be sure we're doing is putting these 1's and 0's in the right order (also already done) and maybe starting at the right first point (but this is automatic, too, isn't it? I mean, it's required that your data start at the beginning and work outward...) What's left? Software that takes a picture, organizes the color pigments to arrangements in B&W, converts that to 1's and 0's (isn't that what a tiff file is? I assume because that's what my p/s/c uses for faxes. How hard is it to convert a bmp, jpg, png, etc. to a tiff? Boesn't lib.so do this fairly easily? (I need more programming experience, but I believe this is true!)) and then cut out the parts that wouldn't go on the disc (a circular template with another circle cut out in the middle) right before sending it to the burner.
So, not that hard. Wish I had programming skills right now.
Upgrade to at least a 14.4 modem, and maybe it will load in less than an hour! ;)
Wait until Dyson comes out with their robot vacuum.
PicoGUI hasn't changed its name since its conception, either... what is this guy on about?
Um, it is a *nix password prompt. It wasn't hard for *me* to figure out what to do with it, and I have less than a decade (maybe less than half a decade) of Linux experience under my belt. Hasn't ESR been using it for quite a while? Printer config is an Administrator's job. The CUPS folk have gone through the (admittedly minimal) trouble of making it so that only someone with SU/root access can f^Hmuck around with those settings. Now, if he had complained about CUPS' method for finding your printer driver (it's an HP psc 1210, just find one that works!) I would agree, but any *nix user who doesn't know who to be at a password/login prompt needs his head examined.
Wouldn't both mainly be winmodems necessarily? I honestly don't know, but I'm imagining a dongle in the case of a USB modem, which wouldn't leave room for hardware, and a motherboard-mounted one makes me think of my laptop, and most recent laptops, which use winmodems -- presumably for space and heat dissipation reasons (a dsp is thinner with more surface area than most modem components, so I'm assuming here). Also, an external modem defeats the purpose of ATX, and though this person doesn't necessarily promote ATX (it was the only choice given) the person buying it would necessarily *want* ATX.
I think it's humility. I remember reading on here an article about the CEO of IBM chastising Microsoft for, essentially, being too big for its britches, and specifically saying that they themselves had learned from their own similar mistake. If John Nash was right, the best way to succeed is to succeed together. I think IBM feels empathically as well as intelligently that that is so. Microsoft may in the future, as well.
If the open development and open business models take hold, I think we may see a paradigm shift in industry (though possibly only in software) where no one makes a product, but each (company, community, individual) may add something or change something, and if it takes off well and the resources are there, they will be compensated.
People who say that this model won't work forget (or maybe never learned!) that people are often noticed for their abilities despite the fact that they may not be employed by a company in that field, or may not be particularly well-versed in it, but because they can still understand a particular problem and solve it well.
This is my hope, at least.
I think it's input events that need to be enabled. Mine works fine, but I did it months ago, so I can't quite remember. Then you need the X driver from that page, wherever it is. I also had gpm working, though it wasn't supposed to work with the driver in 2.6. I also had the nifty side-scrolling and multi-finger (1 for right, 2 for left, 3 for middle) options working. I was loving it, but I busted the screen!
Depends on the card. My sister's computer (used to be mine) had an odd ESS1869 card, and the 1868 (or whatever) drivers didn't seem to work with it. Anything Creative, no problem. Same with my VIA. ALSA makes it fairly easy, so the 2.6 series, even in testing, has been, for me, a pretty easy experience. The emu10k1 driver (I also have a 'Live!') has been beautiful since I first ftp'd from the console to get it. depmod -a (I think make install did this automatically) and modprobe emu10k1 has always worked smoothly and with few errors. If I then put the driver name in my modules.autoload, I would have no trouble.
Like I said, though, it depends on the card, but then Mandrake 8.0 found that same ESS card just fine, so it depends on how well the OS is configured, too.
Stories like this are aimed at people who *might* build a kernel anyway. A person who wants to know *if* Linux is useful shouldn't be going near the kernel to begin with. That person should be reading articles on installing/test-driving Linux. That's why those of us in the know discuss the problems we have, which discussions can be made to improve the workings of the kernel, and the distro-makers will configure their own damned kernels.
So the problem would be asking the input device to recognize the difference between pressing one key pressing two keys? In other words, the functionality already involved in the device would merely have to be tweaked? Not only that, but assuming you only press one key at a time with a finger, like most people, the tweak involved would be one of the following:
keep track of how many fingers are still
beep if unsure which key was meant to be pressed (not the most elegant solution, but goes with the conditioning needed to mount the learning curve)
figure the key to which your finger was closest is the correct one
It's kind of sad to hear all these lame excuses not to adopt a new technology in a forum where I would expect to find some who revel in climbing these kinds of little mountains.
So this projected keyboard would still work perfectly in accordance to your looking at the screen and a sheet of paper, rather than looking at the keys (or where they would be, in this case) in order to know what you're typing?
Hi, you must be new to the US of A!
'Round here, the gov'mint does whatever it damned well pleases with our tax dollars. No one complains because no one knows about it. Sometimes, mediums in a nuther [sic] country find out, but since they're usually just commie Frenchies or wussy Brits, no one b'lieves 'em, or if a one does, we know it's our dooty to play along because if it's fer ahr military, it must be for e-radicating injustice 'n' such.
Lets us all keep focused on important stuff like our dash-mounted DVD players 'n' IMs and e-mails about pissing monkeys and wimmin with big hooters!
I hate to respond to my own post, but I need to cover the lot of people who have been responding that "tactical" recognition and "motor memory" are the best indicators of mistakes.
With a projected keyboard, wouldn't one notice in the same fashion that his or her finger moved to the wrong position? And yes, it is a big learning curve, but this sounds like a device *for* people who are willing to overcome such a curve in order to put it to use.
In that case, the output device would be the only way to provide the stimulus (seeing that the wrong thing was typed) to denote the wrong action was made (finger moved to the 'e' position instead of the 'r') in order to cause the processing and memorizing apparati (whichever parts of the brain those are) to link the two.
So the device works perfectly as what it's meant to be.
I'm surprised at this. I figured more of the /. crowd was used to typing while looking at the screen. Isn't that the *best* way to know you typed what you meant? Don't you need to know that the *computer* knows that you meant to call the function certainFunction() instead of reference the array cwrtinFunctin[]?
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Just typing this, I must have hit the 'i' key 4 or 5 times incorrectly, but you'll notice no typos after I hit "Submit" because I can see what comes up on the screen in *realtime* rather than stare at the keys until I'm done and then search for the typo in the paragraph-stack (I'm a good speller always, but a bad punner on Monday mornings). Then again, this does explain the massive amount of errors in
Much love all the same!
How long before iTunes is running under GNUstep? That way we can have it under Linux, too!
The announcement for 2.6.3 and 2.4.25 was yesterday, and the vulnerability to which the link in the text above refers was with mremap, not munmap; there's also another vulnerability with mremap mentioned yesterday as an *update* to the kernel announcement.
That (the one statement you remembered) is a valid point: an established user-base is the most important thing to remember in making a change to a software product that everyone uses. One could easily say that's a reason for MS *not* to make such a change to the code for, say, the Java VM, which then would not work properly with the thousands (millions?) of java programs, applets, etc. on the Internet, programmed by (reasonably) competent people who, if ever code to standard always do so with that given by Sun within their documentation, in books written by people who are close to the horse's mouth, etc. Microsoft would have to do some *phenomenal* donating to universities in order to get professors to recommend Microsoft's own books over those blessed by Sun -- and they'd have to get people to write them. The fact that Java doesn't work on someone's *computer* (remember, OS and JVM are just strings of letters to some people) won't necessarily make the programmers not code by the established standard.
I would love to hear those other points, though, if you can find them anywhere.
435 is a low number to you? For how long have you been working at Pixar? My Radeon Mobility M7 *occasionally* gets 70 or higher at that resolution, with that amount of video RAM. BTW, the reason it never *feels* like 435 fps is probably because you're running ATi's glxgears which somehow does *wonderfully* for testing. Tuxracer, RtCW, Unreal2003, whatever else you're using, don't have the same mysterious code that ATi's glxgears does, IIUC.
Really? To me, it sounds like the really bad sequel to "fear dot com".
Yeah, I noticed this in Mandrake 8.0; get with the program! ;)
Ditto that. I use my backpack for my laptop and my books. So long as I'm not carrying my entire week's class readings at once, I don't have a problem. Also, a binder or multi-pocketed folder for any important papers. Then a pouch for pens. The laptop pouch has place for a discman/MP3 player, with a hole for headphones. Also, the cell phone goes on the strap. Unless you need clothes with you all the time, you're set for the day.
OTOH, if you *really* want to protect your laptop, get an aluminum or titanium case. Having the laptop on your back only protects it from walking off on its own, but if the bottom's not padded when you set it down, you could end up damaging the edge. A good shell will protect your investment from *you*.