barnes@barnes-t40 barnes $ fglrxinfo display::0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON 9000 DDR Generic OpenGL version string: 1.3 (X4.3.0-3.9.0) barnes@barnes-t40 barnes $ uname -sr Linux 2.6.7-gentoo-r7
So ATI's drivers do work with 2.6.x (at least if you use Gentoo; I haven't tried the official package). However, I agree that NVidia's drivers tend to work better.
It has very little to do with predicting demand. The year of release is encoded as a single digit in the VIN. They gave this digit 30 possible values, so it lasts for 30 years. If they had used two digits, they could have made it last 900 years (using the other 15 digits efficiently would give you more VIN's than the number of cars you could produce in 900 years).
If they were coded by different people you would most likely be right. However, here both systems were coded by the same guy. It's quite possible that he might make similar mistakes in multiple projects (someone who doesn't understand buffer overflows could very well put the same bug in every project he works on). The question becomes whether or not he started from scratch for Google. Although, if his contract stated that he couldn't develop a similar project regardless of the method, then it seems he's in the wrong no matter what.
The quotes indicate that you are not using the term "minority" literally. The term in the US implies disadvantaged, regardless of actual numbers. There are places in the US where whites are the minority. Yet, in those places, whites are not generally referred to as minorities.
Anyway, the point is that certain housing practices hurt low-income families regardless of race. They may or may not be part of a particular race or "minority".
To clarify that a bit: Comprehensive Linux Support Dell supports your computer to help ensure the proper hardware functionality. Computers purchased with Red Hat Linux factory installed also come with installation and configuration support from Dell and a one or three year subscription to the Red Hat Network. Red Hat Network allows administrators to efficiently manage the systems on their network. Through a simple user interface, administrators can perform patch management, updates, monitoring, and maintenance.
For workstations that are shipped with Linux, they offer support. This seems pretty reasonable. I can't imagine having to support every operating system someone tries to put on their hardware.
I think he means randomly as in he'll do it sometimes and ignore it at other times. It's like a random security check at the airport. It's done for a particular reason, but not everyone gets picked, so it is done randomly.
Metric tons are metric units (1000kg). But, in the context of imperial units, a ton is 2000 lbs (~907.185kg).
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This was supposed to be in reply to Bendelo's comment about the garage door (/. messed up, from the color of the link I definitely clicked the right comment). Anyway, it seems they are just very slow at activating accounts. It works just fine now.
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Weird... GMail let me use the invite link that you gave out, but when I try to log in it says the invitation expired. If you click on the original invite link, it says it was used to create my account. I can request password changes and sign in to other google services, but I don't get the actual email account.
They do not have to launch with three people on board. They only need to put three people in to show that they can fit comfortably. The actual flights can be done with one person and enough extra weight to simulate the other two people.
It has to do with maintainability. If you compile every program yourself, you have to be completely responsible for tracking the versions and dependencies of every application. Say you have 200 packages on your computer (fewer than a standard desktop system). Six months from now, do you really want to be tracking down where you got all those from, whether or not they've changed, and then install them all by hand?
Sure, you're free to do./configure; make; make install if you want. Issuing those three commands is not why people like Gentoo. Some like building their system from the ground up (this teaches you a bit about the different layers of your system). Others like the package management system, for source or binary packages. Others like having programs optimized for their specific processor.
From the link it is just referring to support for Intel's Centrino processors. Intel is responsible for the wireless support under Linux for the integrated wireless found in some Pentium M systems.
This is the trouble with getting ogg vorbis playback on any player that was optimized for wma/mp3 playback. I have a Rio SP250 mp3/wma player hacked to run iRiver firmware. iRiver has been working on ogg vorbis playback for all of its players and it seems they were just barely able to make it work. There older players have somewhat limited bitrates that they are capable of playing (up to about 160 kbps). Given that a lot of these players have special hardware for decoding mp3, it wouldn't surprise me that a lot of the older players are incapable of playing ogg vorbis files.
Either that or a very extensive marketing campaign for the Pentium M. The Pentium M is easily confused with chips like the Pentium 4 M. I have a laptop with a 1.6 GHz Pentium M (not full Centrino since it has an IBM a/b wireless card). An IBM project manager for the T-series Thinkpads compared it to a 2.0-2.4 GHz Pentium 4. Given that it also gets 4+ hours of battery life (year old battery with 80% original capacity) while using wireless network, the system is definitely better than a P4 based system. It's also more expensive, which makes marketing it harder.
I don't think there are a billion people in China who have the ability to fly in and out of the country. It's my understanding that the government places a lot of restrictions on travel. I visited China for a few weeks with a group of students. We had one tour guide that followed us throughout the country and other local guides for each city. But when we got to Guangzhou (Canton) our main guide had to stay behind. He wasn't allowed to take the train from there to Hong Kong. Our guide in Hong Kong elaborated, explaining that citizens of the mainland are generally not allowed to go to Hong Kong. Even members of the military base there can't leave the confines of the base in general (if they need medical attention, for example, they are flown to mainland China). I'm not familiar with their policies, but it would seem to me that they would prohibit travel to somewhere like the US without special circumstances (education for example).
To add another data point: my school stocked iTunes Pepsi in the soda machines. I went on a streak where 5 or 6 in a row (bought one every couple nights) were winners. Overall I probably saw 1 in 2 or 1 in 3.
The patent expires in October. That isn't really long enough to convince a whole bunch of companies to rewrite graphics software to use png rather than jpeg.
Fraternities are social organizations in college in the US. Some are coed and service oriented. What most people refer to, though, are all male and are mostly social in nature.
Fraternity secrets would involve the procedure of becoming a member, the rituals of the house, etc. Some houses are more secretive than others.
Watch Animal House or any other fraternity movie to get the general idea.
From the bottom of their page it looks like it is partially a ranking based on computer resources in general (ratio of computers to undergrads) and uses wireless to weight the results. This is still a useful thing, but I would agree that wireless coverage alone would be what you'd expect.
The reason to do an entire collection in a lossless format is so that you can later encode it in any format that comes along. On your desktop system it's convenient to be able to play the lossless format, but you probably want lossy encoding for portable devices. Sure you could encode it all in mp3 now, but what if something better comes along in the future? If something happens to your original CD you're stuck doing a conversion from one lossy format to another, which is less than ideal. If you had archived it in a lossless format, it doesn't matter if you keep the CD around, you can always get the best results from a new format.
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I must be imagining things:
:0.0 screen: 0
barnes@barnes-t40 barnes $ fglrxinfo
display:
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON 9000 DDR Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3 (X4.3.0-3.9.0)
barnes@barnes-t40 barnes $ uname -sr
Linux 2.6.7-gentoo-r7
So ATI's drivers do work with 2.6.x (at least if you use Gentoo; I haven't tried the official package). However, I agree that NVidia's drivers tend to work better.
It has very little to do with predicting demand. The year of release is encoded as a single digit in the VIN. They gave this digit 30 possible values, so it lasts for 30 years. If they had used two digits, they could have made it last 900 years (using the other 15 digits efficiently would give you more VIN's than the number of cars you could produce in 900 years).
If they were coded by different people you would most likely be right. However, here both systems were coded by the same guy. It's quite possible that he might make similar mistakes in multiple projects (someone who doesn't understand buffer overflows could very well put the same bug in every project he works on). The question becomes whether or not he started from scratch for Google. Although, if his contract stated that he couldn't develop a similar project regardless of the method, then it seems he's in the wrong no matter what.
The quotes indicate that you are not using the term "minority" literally. The term in the US implies disadvantaged, regardless of actual numbers. There are places in the US where whites are the minority. Yet, in those places, whites are not generally referred to as minorities.
Anyway, the point is that certain housing practices hurt low-income families regardless of race. They may or may not be part of a particular race or "minority".
To clarify that a bit:
Comprehensive Linux Support
Dell supports your computer to help ensure the proper hardware functionality. Computers purchased with Red Hat Linux factory installed also come with installation and configuration support from Dell and a one or three year subscription to the Red Hat Network. Red Hat Network allows administrators to efficiently manage the systems on their network. Through a simple user interface, administrators can perform patch management, updates, monitoring, and maintenance.
For workstations that are shipped with Linux, they offer support. This seems pretty reasonable. I can't imagine having to support every operating system someone tries to put on their hardware.
I think he means randomly as in he'll do it sometimes and ignore it at other times. It's like a random security check at the airport. It's done for a particular reason, but not everyone gets picked, so it is done randomly.
Metric tons are metric units (1000kg). But, in the context of imperial units, a ton is 2000 lbs (~907.185kg).
This was supposed to be in reply to Bendelo's comment about the garage door (/. messed up, from the color of the link I definitely clicked the right comment). Anyway, it seems they are just very slow at activating accounts. It works just fine now.
Weird... GMail let me use the invite link that you gave out, but when I try to log in it says the invitation expired. If you click on the original invite link, it says it was used to create my account. I can request password changes and sign in to other google services, but I don't get the actual email account.
They do not have to launch with three people on board. They only need to put three people in to show that they can fit comfortably. The actual flights can be done with one person and enough extra weight to simulate the other two people.
It has to do with maintainability. If you compile every program yourself, you have to be completely responsible for tracking the versions and dependencies of every application. Say you have 200 packages on your computer (fewer than a standard desktop system). Six months from now, do you really want to be tracking down where you got all those from, whether or not they've changed, and then install them all by hand?
./configure; make; make install if you want. Issuing those three commands is not why people like Gentoo. Some like building their system from the ground up (this teaches you a bit about the different layers of your system). Others like the package management system, for source or binary packages. Others like having programs optimized for their specific processor.
Sure, you're free to do
A 500 gig hd? You must have been one rich 12 year old...
From Ontario you'd be able to see Venus move from within the disc of the Sun out past the Sun while the Sun is rising.
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From the link it is just referring to support for Intel's Centrino processors. Intel is responsible for the wireless support under Linux for the integrated wireless found in some Pentium M systems.
This is the trouble with getting ogg vorbis playback on any player that was optimized for wma/mp3 playback. I have a Rio SP250 mp3/wma player hacked to run iRiver firmware. iRiver has been working on ogg vorbis playback for all of its players and it seems they were just barely able to make it work. There older players have somewhat limited bitrates that they are capable of playing (up to about 160 kbps). Given that a lot of these players have special hardware for decoding mp3, it wouldn't surprise me that a lot of the older players are incapable of playing ogg vorbis files.
Either that or a very extensive marketing campaign for the Pentium M. The Pentium M is easily confused with chips like the Pentium 4 M. I have a laptop with a 1.6 GHz Pentium M (not full Centrino since it has an IBM a/b wireless card). An IBM project manager for the T-series Thinkpads compared it to a 2.0-2.4 GHz Pentium 4. Given that it also gets 4+ hours of battery life (year old battery with 80% original capacity) while using wireless network, the system is definitely better than a P4 based system. It's also more expensive, which makes marketing it harder.
I assume they would just send you a slip of paper saying whether or not you won. If you win, you then claim the prize like any other promotion.
I don't think there are a billion people in China who have the ability to fly in and out of the country. It's my understanding that the government places a lot of restrictions on travel. I visited China for a few weeks with a group of students. We had one tour guide that followed us throughout the country and other local guides for each city. But when we got to Guangzhou (Canton) our main guide had to stay behind. He wasn't allowed to take the train from there to Hong Kong. Our guide in Hong Kong elaborated, explaining that citizens of the mainland are generally not allowed to go to Hong Kong. Even members of the military base there can't leave the confines of the base in general (if they need medical attention, for example, they are flown to mainland China). I'm not familiar with their policies, but it would seem to me that they would prohibit travel to somewhere like the US without special circumstances (education for example).
To add another data point: my school stocked iTunes Pepsi in the soda machines. I went on a streak where 5 or 6 in a row (bought one every couple nights) were winners. Overall I probably saw 1 in 2 or 1 in 3.
The patent expires in October. That isn't really long enough to convince a whole bunch of companies to rewrite graphics software to use png rather than jpeg.
Fraternities are social organizations in college in the US. Some are coed and service oriented. What most people refer to, though, are all male and are mostly social in nature.
Fraternity secrets would involve the procedure of becoming a member, the rituals of the house, etc. Some houses are more secretive than others.
Watch Animal House or any other fraternity movie to get the general idea.
From the bottom of their page it looks like it is partially a ranking based on computer resources in general (ratio of computers to undergrads) and uses wireless to weight the results. This is still a useful thing, but I would agree that wireless coverage alone would be what you'd expect.
The reason to do an entire collection in a lossless format is so that you can later encode it in any format that comes along. On your desktop system it's convenient to be able to play the lossless format, but you probably want lossy encoding for portable devices. Sure you could encode it all in mp3 now, but what if something better comes along in the future? If something happens to your original CD you're stuck doing a conversion from one lossy format to another, which is less than ideal. If you had archived it in a lossless format, it doesn't matter if you keep the CD around, you can always get the best results from a new format.
If there are no flaws, it's pretty much perfect.
Just pretty much?
"Burden" seems like a bit too light of a word for getting $25 to support 5 people for a year in California.