If people who wanted to use Linux for the first time were effectively TOLD what to use on that platform, it'd be a lot more standardized, rather than the mess of 7 flavors of text editors, office suits, boot loaders, desktop environments, etc.
There's something to be said to unilateral dictation of the user experience -- every Windows XP machine in the world, save a few, is going to look and act the same, share a common interface, and have a few apps that are the same regardless of where you go. Linux has no such cross-demographic standardization.
The game's very old now. Most people who want it, have it, and there's pleanty of pirated copies running around on the Internet.
so what if it gets banned...Speaking as a native of Florida, we have too many Hatians anyway. They're a major source of crime and decreasing property values because they come over, illegally, can't get jobs, so they break into cars, and steal things.
It's not right, morally or legally, to kill them or shoot at them or any of that, in real life. But, it's a harmless stress reliever to shoot at them in a game -- it's a way to take out frustration at a particular group of people without having to resort to dangerous and inappropriate physical violence.
Out past GEO in the decay orbits are thousands of satellites in similar situations...once someone finds out how to go harvest them all, they'll be rich.
Only if they're shell calls...Generally, filesystem operations are handeled by Explorer; other API calls are made to the respective services providing that functionality.
ADD is overdiagnosed but it's not a falsehood...While I do know several individuals who got themselves diagnosed with it just to get medicine to sell to other kids/take themselves, my best friend has the disorder legitimately. Without his medication, he's not "useless" but he's a lot more hyper, can't focus on anything for more than a few minutes. When he takes the medicine, it goes away...and he doesn't abuse it or sell it, which leads me to believe it's actualy treating a medical condition.
Filesystems are pretty much *the* layer of abstraction between physical ones and zeros and the operating system.
There doesn't exist a single filesystem that's "better suited" to use on say a flash card than on a disk...If anything, there are some less suited. Something that dutifully journals everything and writes/rewrites one specific section, repeatedly, with every other operation you do, might be bad (premature failure) but other than that, there's nothing that would make a filesystem better for flash memory than something else.
You could certainly *optimize* the filesystem (i.e. MS optimized their X-Box DVDs with variable linear speed drives to place the largest files on the outside rim, to maximize throughput on access) but that's just an arbitrary allocation in an already known and defined filesystem format.
I find Anime, as compared with other cartoons made in America, to have a much different focus.
American cartoons: Futurama Family Guy Simpsons
Japanese cartoons: Inuyasha Naruto etc.
Now, for a comparison and contrast:
American cartoons, generally in 30-minute less commercials segments, are mostly humorous, and completely unconnected. No bridged eps - you can sit down and watch one show isolated and know exactly what's going on.
Japanese cartoons are generally seeming to be started as a series -- if you come in half way, you'll be lost, and have to pick up what's going on as you go.
Japanese ones also tend to address more mature themes than American ones do. (Mature meaning, high-school-level as opposed to middle school...nothing "deep" but "deeper")
I watch both kinds, and all sorts of non-anmiated shows too...anything to entertain. And, different stuff is entertaining to different people, so it all works out in the end.
Yea, I agree with you - I thought RS-232 when I read that, although, USB is a serial port and was touted as the replacement to RS-232 when it came out.
Technically correct but daaaaamn, not like I'd expect.
WiFi Hot-Spots in airports, cafes, etc. *beg* for pricing in a per-MB model.
$2 for the first megabyte (minimum $2) and $0.03 per additional megabyte...That way, people who go in and do a lot of work (downloading Linux ISOs, etc. over the corporate connection) pay more for it, and the people who use it to check their e-mail, pay almost nothing.
WiFi hotspots are one of the few places where a bandwidth-based billing model works.
Flash drives have a MTBF of something like 10,000 to 100,000 cycles of erase and rewrite with new data before failing. 10k on the cheap end, 100k on the expensive end.
How many times are you going to take a picture with that digital camera, anyway?
They're licensing FAT32 which isn't that old, in reality.
It's also very, very simple to speak.
And, it's coming into use as the filesystem of choice for digital cameras and memory cards to use (because of it's simplicity.)
Windows can read it out of box; so can Linux; OSX probably can too. That's all major OSes right there, with no drivers needed.
It's not great, but it's simple...and MS invented it...one of the few good things they've come up with, I'd say (Windows XP and Server 2003 being the others.)
Scratch too easily, not enough advantages over say a Zen or iRiver of the same size to justify the extra price...basically it costs more because it says Apple without really being *superior.* imo.
Everyone knows that the only open source software is software released under the GPL. Everything else, source code or not, is closed source and proprietary, and thus is by extension, the devil.
Perhaps a Linux vendor will spot free licenses and support and consultants, if the Iraqui provisional government agrees to purchase hardware from them.
Or, free on-site setup or something, if they agree to buy a support package.
Or, free everything, and then they'd get a lucrative governemnt contract.
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More isn't better.
If people who wanted to use Linux for the first time were effectively TOLD what to use on that platform, it'd be a lot more standardized, rather than the mess of 7 flavors of text editors, office suits, boot loaders, desktop environments, etc.
There's something to be said to unilateral dictation of the user experience -- every Windows XP machine in the world, save a few, is going to look and act the same, share a common interface, and have a few apps that are the same regardless of where you go. Linux has no such cross-demographic standardization.
if I had mod points I'd mod you up both places, cuz it was a good comment, despite the typo. glad to see some interesting work like that.
The game's very old now. Most people who want it, have it, and there's pleanty of pirated copies running around on the Internet.
so what if it gets banned...Speaking as a native of Florida, we have too many Hatians anyway. They're a major source of crime and decreasing property values because they come over, illegally, can't get jobs, so they break into cars, and steal things.
It's not right, morally or legally, to kill them or shoot at them or any of that, in real life. But, it's a harmless stress reliever to shoot at them in a game -- it's a way to take out frustration at a particular group of people without having to resort to dangerous and inappropriate physical violence.
Out past GEO in the decay orbits are thousands of satellites in similar situations...once someone finds out how to go harvest them all, they'll be rich.
Radiated energy decreases with the square of the radius.
It might not be "much farther" away from the sun, but it receives much less energy from it. Hence - bigger solar arrays, or smaller power loads.
Only if they're shell calls...Generally, filesystem operations are handeled by Explorer; other API calls are made to the respective services providing that functionality.
Gotcha, sorry about the misunderstanding.
You remind me of another individual I know, and that's a good thing actually.
Eh, I dunno that 16 is quite "childhood" but perhaps.
People grow out of asthma too and that's a legit medical disorder as well.
ADD is overdiagnosed but it's not a falsehood...While I do know several individuals who got themselves diagnosed with it just to get medicine to sell to other kids/take themselves, my best friend has the disorder legitimately. Without his medication, he's not "useless" but he's a lot more hyper, can't focus on anything for more than a few minutes. When he takes the medicine, it goes away...and he doesn't abuse it or sell it, which leads me to believe it's actualy treating a medical condition.
While functionally similar, I always learned the "Big O" notations as:
O(k)
O(kn)
O(k * log n)
O(k * n log n)
O(kn^2)
O(k * n^n)
etc.
where K is some given constant...slightly more clear than O(1) for constant time.
Windows API calls that are handeled by the running shell, explorer.exe.
But, what would make sense for the media?
Filesystems are pretty much *the* layer of abstraction between physical ones and zeros and the operating system.
There doesn't exist a single filesystem that's "better suited" to use on say a flash card than on a disk...If anything, there are some less suited. Something that dutifully journals everything and writes/rewrites one specific section, repeatedly, with every other operation you do, might be bad (premature failure) but other than that, there's nothing that would make a filesystem better for flash memory than something else.
You could certainly *optimize* the filesystem (i.e. MS optimized their X-Box DVDs with variable linear speed drives to place the largest files on the outside rim, to maximize throughput on access) but that's just an arbitrary allocation in an already known and defined filesystem format.
I find Anime, as compared with other cartoons made in America, to have a much different focus.
American cartoons:
Futurama
Family Guy
Simpsons
Japanese cartoons:
Inuyasha
Naruto
etc.
Now, for a comparison and contrast:
American cartoons, generally in 30-minute less commercials segments, are mostly humorous, and completely unconnected. No bridged eps - you can sit down and watch one show isolated and know exactly what's going on.
Japanese cartoons are generally seeming to be started as a series -- if you come in half way, you'll be lost, and have to pick up what's going on as you go.
Japanese ones also tend to address more mature themes than American ones do. (Mature meaning, high-school-level as opposed to middle school...nothing "deep" but "deeper")
I watch both kinds, and all sorts of non-anmiated shows too...anything to entertain. And, different stuff is entertaining to different people, so it all works out in the end.
Yea, I agree with you - I thought RS-232 when I read that, although, USB is a serial port and was touted as the replacement to RS-232 when it came out.
Technically correct but daaaaamn, not like I'd expect.
What kind of desktop machine uses 4-way SMP?
I'm thinking more departmental server or something there.
WiFi Hot-Spots in airports, cafes, etc. *beg* for pricing in a per-MB model.
$2 for the first megabyte (minimum $2) and $0.03 per additional megabyte...That way, people who go in and do a lot of work (downloading Linux ISOs, etc. over the corporate connection) pay more for it, and the people who use it to check their e-mail, pay almost nothing.
WiFi hotspots are one of the few places where a bandwidth-based billing model works.
I've got a damaged computer system in my garage (StorageTek 9393-600) that weighs about 1000 lbs empty.
Any suggestions on getting this thing out? Maybe a salvage dealer would come pick it up?
Flash drives have a MTBF of something like 10,000 to 100,000 cycles of erase and rewrite with new data before failing. 10k on the cheap end, 100k on the expensive end.
How many times are you going to take a picture with that digital camera, anyway?
They're licensing FAT32 which isn't that old, in reality.
It's also very, very simple to speak.
And, it's coming into use as the filesystem of choice for digital cameras and memory cards to use (because of it's simplicity.)
Windows can read it out of box; so can Linux; OSX probably can too. That's all major OSes right there, with no drivers needed.
It's not great, but it's simple...and MS invented it...one of the few good things they've come up with, I'd say (Windows XP and Server 2003 being the others.)
This, actually, is one of the best ideas I've heard yet. (serious!)
De-allocate all Nigerian's ISP netblocks if they don't start policing their netowkr for this kind of abuse.
Scratch too easily, not enough advantages over say a Zen or iRiver of the same size to justify the extra price...basically it costs more because it says Apple without really being *superior.* imo.
This, while a great idea and I might even buy one, is pretty woefully undersized for my needs.
3455 songs totaling just shy of 20GB of data....10.5 days of solid played time, arranged by artist and title. (Yes, I own most of the CDs.)
And I listen to a lot of it at any given time...a track here, a track there, so that I really do use most of the collection all the time.
Too bad I think iPods suck, or I'd buy a 30GB one.
Everyone knows that the only open source software is software released under the GPL. Everything else, source code or not, is closed source and proprietary, and thus is by extension, the devil.
Perhaps a Linux vendor will spot free licenses and support and consultants, if the Iraqui provisional government agrees to purchase hardware from them.
Or, free on-site setup or something, if they agree to buy a support package.
Or, free everything, and then they'd get a lucrative governemnt contract.
Any recommendations of what to get, and when we can expect to see devices that comply with it coming on the market?