This would be useful for Gimp and other software with floating tool bars. Put the content on the main (color-calibrated!) screen, and keep the tools on the side.
If you feel the urge to play with MapReduce (or reade the paper), you don't need a fancy Linux distro to do it. MapReduce is simply the map() and reduce() functions, exactly as implemented in Python. Granted, Google implementation can work with absurdly large data sets, but for small data sets, Python is all you need.
It's hard to read about the "health care crisis" since most of the questions are broken. If you can't ask the right question, you can never find the answer. Here's where your post (plus the one you reference and many below) fall down:
100.0% of America has access to health care. You can walk into any clinic in the nation and be served. When people mention "access to health care", they really mean "how can I force you to pay my bills?" But access is not a problem at all in America.
Health care costs an infinite amount of money. One day you will die, there is no way to avoid this. Delaying it will cost an ever increasing amount of money. Who do you want to decide when you are no longer worth the money - yourself, or the someone else? If a treatment is only partially successful and includes some unpleasant side effects, is it worthwhile? Who should make that decision?
Insurance is founded on a scam. There are many laws in place to force insurance companies to provide some level of service for the price, but the basic idea is to get between you and your money and take some of it away. The "corruption" you see is not real corruption, it's simply the nature of insurance.
The only possible way to pull down prices and contain costs is for you to pay for your own health care. I understand this is an unpleasant idea, but it's the only way to get the service you desire. Socialized medicine, whether backed by insurance companies or the government, will never give you what you want.
Piston engines are highly reliable in cars, why do they fall apart in airplanes? The answer is that piston engines are usually too small for the craft they're in, leading the operator to run them near or over 100% power. Pistons can be reliable, but nobody wants to spend the weight to make them so.
If you don't have room for a mouse pad, you have other problems.
... and also doesn't require constantly positioning your hand.
I've never understood this complaint. My mouse pad is 11" x 9", I almost never need to pick up the mouse. A track ball, on the other hand, is like having a 1-inch mouse pad, and requires continuous repositioning of the thumb. Granted your thumb is much lighter than a mouse, but how is picking up your thumb constantly better than picking up the mouse never?
From my experience, a lot of the RSI problems seem to be from reaching for the mouse.
Most RSI problems are in the wrist, which is a result of moving the mouse and typing. If reaching was the cause, we'd see more elbow problems.
No, it can be done in much less. Even GIMP can chop an image into tiles so you can edit multi-gig images with a small amount of RAM. It's pretty common for sound editors to do this too.
And since JPEG images are encoded in 8x8 tiles, it's not actually necessary to decode the whole file if you just want to display a small piece.
One of the sites posted previously has an Omnikey Evolution that might be what you're looking for. Go there, and look for "Evolution". You apparently need to e-mail the guy for info and pricing.
Anarcho-capitalism is inherently broken, so the question is meaningless. A-C believes in property rights, but disbelieves any mechanism to protect them. Or rather, they believe security should be provided by private firms who compete for your dollar. While this does lower the cost of defense, it also brings up the other problem with A-C:
While A-C claims each soul has value (the whole "self-ownership" thing), building the system on capitalism means only the dollar has value, and a soul only has value for the dollars they bring. The only way to protect yourself is to buy security, and you can only buy security if you have dollars. No dollars, no security, and thus no property.
The question is further broken in that "intellectual property rights" are not true rights, but rather a simple pragmatic agreement. There's no natural solution to the "problem," since IP doesn't evoke any natural rights.
The reason we perceive IPR as broken is because those who hold IP don't subscribe to any -ism at all; they are simply self-interested. The current system is not meant to create a level playing field, or even to reward creators, but merely to strengthen power where it already exists.
After all that blather, here's my solution: We need a constitutional amendment that defines "intellectual property" and the "rights" that go with it. Both the government and industry have a vested interest in a warped system; they will never come up with a balanced law. Only the public can devise one, and the only way the public can impose their will on the government is with an amendment.
Essentially, you need to have two buffers and a loop. While the first buffer is being processed, the second buffer is filled with objects to be processed in the next cycle. When the first buffer is done, swap the buffers and start over. Two buffers are used in order to prevent signal racing conditions. I think you've gone too far off track there. Your paragraph as stated is pretty useless; most algorithms are only able to place one object in the buffer each pass. We need a good practical theory for mass-market parallel computing, and we just don't have that. Until we do, the proper chip and language design won't be obvious.
I'm running 7.10, and am just amazed at the quality of the Linux desktop these days.
* Compiz Fusion is awesome. I'm just amazed at how well it works, with no crashing or rendering errors. I can even play 3D games in a window without any problems.
* Brasero and all the other CD burning apps suck. I tried them all, and still had to resort to the command line for some things. Nero for Linux works perfectly, and is cheap.
No, you typed it into your computer, carefully, with good spelling and grammar. It's apparently an attempt to score some +1 Humor points. I wish you well, so that I may score some points too.
Best prices on NewEgg: Blu-ray is $10 per 25G = 40 cents per gib. Hard drive is $100 per 500G = 20 cents per gib. I'd love a BDR, but as long as hard drives are cheaper, it's just stupid.
On top of that, BD disks have the recordable goo on the bottom side, which makes them less durable than both CDs (goo on top) and DVDs (goo in the middle).
All hard drives have those uber-magnets in them. I have a bunch stuck to my fridge, it's fun watching people try to remove them. One drive yielded a very tiny magnet, used to keep the head in the parked position.
No need to wait. You can get CF-to-IDE adapters dirt cheap. Some adapters even have two slots, simulating the master and slave sides of the IDE bus. CF cards range from very fast for decent money to very cheap with decent speed.
If you sell a binary, the GPL requires only that you supply the source to that buyer. It doesn't require you to give anything away at all, free or otherwise.
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This would be useful for Gimp and other software with floating tool bars. Put the content on the main (color-calibrated!) screen, and keep the tools on the side.
Right, but secession was about preserving slavery.
3 2 2 2 2 4 3 3 6 4 2 100 3 2 2 16 400 7 2 2 8 4 2 15 120 2 3 50 3 6 12 300 2 4 2 4 4 6 2 4 3 24 4 2 100 500
You made a mistake: that 3 is really only 1.5.
If you feel the urge to play with MapReduce (or reade the paper), you don't need a fancy Linux distro to do it. MapReduce is simply the map() and reduce() functions, exactly as implemented in Python. Granted, Google implementation can work with absurdly large data sets, but for small data sets, Python is all you need.
They can't have it, it belongs to the nineties.
Benheck already designed one, and you can buy your own. Even works with the PS2 and PS3.
It's hard to read about the "health care crisis" since most of the questions are broken. If you can't ask the right question, you can never find the answer. Here's where your post (plus the one you reference and many below) fall down:
The only possible way to pull down prices and contain costs is for you to pay for your own health care. I understand this is an unpleasant idea, but it's the only way to get the service you desire. Socialized medicine, whether backed by insurance companies or the government, will never give you what you want.
Try Inkscape, it does an awesome job importing PDFs. Preserves all the graphics and everything, though it can only load one page at a time.
Piston engines are highly reliable in cars, why do they fall apart in airplanes? The answer is that piston engines are usually too small for the craft they're in, leading the operator to run them near or over 100% power. Pistons can be reliable, but nobody wants to spend the weight to make them so.
The trackball requires much less desk space ...
If you don't have room for a mouse pad, you have other problems.
... and also doesn't require constantly positioning your hand.
I've never understood this complaint. My mouse pad is 11" x 9", I almost never need to pick up the mouse. A track ball, on the other hand, is like having a 1-inch mouse pad, and requires continuous repositioning of the thumb. Granted your thumb is much lighter than a mouse, but how is picking up your thumb constantly better than picking up the mouse never?
From my experience, a lot of the RSI problems seem to be from reaching for the mouse.
Most RSI problems are in the wrist, which is a result of moving the mouse and typing. If reaching was the cause, we'd see more elbow problems.
Dude, this thing could ray trace Crysis.
No, it can be done in much less. Even GIMP can chop an image into tiles so you can edit multi-gig images with a small amount of RAM. It's pretty common for sound editors to do this too.
And since JPEG images are encoded in 8x8 tiles, it's not actually necessary to decode the whole file if you just want to display a small piece.
Likewise. But bear in mind, EOG took nearly a full gigabyte of RAM to do it.
One of the sites posted previously has an Omnikey Evolution that might be what you're looking for. Go there, and look for "Evolution". You apparently need to e-mail the guy for info and pricing.
Anarcho-capitalism is inherently broken, so the question is meaningless. A-C believes in property rights, but disbelieves any mechanism to protect them. Or rather, they believe security should be provided by private firms who compete for your dollar. While this does lower the cost of defense, it also brings up the other problem with A-C:
While A-C claims each soul has value (the whole "self-ownership" thing), building the system on capitalism means only the dollar has value, and a soul only has value for the dollars they bring. The only way to protect yourself is to buy security, and you can only buy security if you have dollars. No dollars, no security, and thus no property.
The question is further broken in that "intellectual property rights" are not true rights, but rather a simple pragmatic agreement. There's no natural solution to the "problem," since IP doesn't evoke any natural rights.
The reason we perceive IPR as broken is because those who hold IP don't subscribe to any -ism at all; they are simply self-interested. The current system is not meant to create a level playing field, or even to reward creators, but merely to strengthen power where it already exists.
After all that blather, here's my solution: We need a constitutional amendment that defines "intellectual property" and the "rights" that go with it. Both the government and industry have a vested interest in a warped system; they will never come up with a balanced law. Only the public can devise one, and the only way the public can impose their will on the government is with an amendment.
I'm running 7.10, and am just amazed at the quality of the Linux desktop these days.
* Compiz Fusion is awesome. I'm just amazed at how well it works, with no crashing or rendering errors. I can even play 3D games in a window without any problems.
* Brasero and all the other CD burning apps suck. I tried them all, and still had to resort to the command line for some things. Nero for Linux works perfectly, and is cheap.
Window of profitability of one of each: 4.5 years. As a bonus, some customers will buy both books.
Yeah, this sort of thing is dead easy under ALSA. You can peel off as many channels as you want from however many sound cards you've installed.
You can also go the other way, and stitch together sound cards to form a 7.1 system.
But I suppose the biggest part of this "hack" is really the media manager that handles three players at once.
No, you typed it into your computer, carefully, with good spelling and grammar. It's apparently an attempt to score some +1 Humor points. I wish you well, so that I may score some points too.
Best prices on NewEgg: Blu-ray is $10 per 25G = 40 cents per gib. Hard drive is $100 per 500G = 20 cents per gib. I'd love a BDR, but as long as hard drives are cheaper, it's just stupid.
On top of that, BD disks have the recordable goo on the bottom side, which makes them less durable than both CDs (goo on top) and DVDs (goo in the middle).
All hard drives have those uber-magnets in them. I have a bunch stuck to my fridge, it's fun watching people try to remove them. One drive yielded a very tiny magnet, used to keep the head in the parked position.
No, not at all, sorry. I'm just making this stuff up. =^p
Compact flash cards use the IDE standard, so the limits for CF should be the same as the limits for IDE.
No need to wait. You can get CF-to-IDE adapters dirt cheap. Some adapters even have two slots, simulating the master and slave sides of the IDE bus. CF cards range from very fast for decent money to very cheap with decent speed.
If you sell a binary, the GPL requires only that you supply the source to that buyer. It doesn't require you to give anything away at all, free or otherwise.