Er, most christian festivals are from the pagan festivals, yes including Christmas. And the one that people think is a dirty pagan festival but is in fact christian is Halloween! Check wikipedia if you want...
The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European pagan traditions, until it was appropriated by Christian missionaries (along with Christmas and Easter, two other traditional northern European pagan holidays) and given a Christian reinterpretation.
Since when does a few pictures of naked hippies become news for nerds and stuff that matters?!?
Because its about the _tech_ of the event. If you read the article, you would have seen the 1 time that the word was used near the beginning.
Since we are talking about Burning Man, its worth noting that this was the 20th anniversary of the annual event. I didn't get to go this year, but definitely next year. Looks like a bunch of fun.
CPU load is also slightly higher when Command Queuing technologies are used.
I'm not sure if the command queuing is done on the physical drive (seems reasonable to me) or in the SATA driver (could be). But either way, the command queueing is not going to be a load on the CPU. The observed load on the CPU is probably because it is free from waiting on the disk and is going about its business doing what its supposed to do.
Guys, how ignorant are you? GIMP ships with a menurc with PS keybindings for years, guess why? For GIMP 2.2, a lot of work has been put into making the menus configurable by means of editing XML files. What do you think we did this for? By editing the C source files (which would have been completely unnecessary) and by releasing this as a fork of GIMP, Scott created an unmaintainable mess. Thus I call his work a waste of time.
I mean really, if your app is going to look, feel, and function, like a Windows one, why should I use yours??
You better learn the secret way to delete your post from slashdot before you are sought out and killed.
I've been saying that the whole "free" knockoff, but not as good as Windows thing is dumb for years. I miss the days of FVWM, Afterstep (which too was a knockoff, but I've never seen the original), and other different windowing environments.
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Last time I checked, people were still backporting fixes into 2.2.x branches...
I don't know how much backporting is going on with the 2.0 maintenance, but it was last updated in 2004.
But, if Internet Archive is a valid legal source, then by all means Wikipedia is.
Anything can be evidence in court, but it helps is the evidence is credible or at least semi-permanent. For example, a scribble with a pencil that left an impression on a pad of paper could be evidence in a murder trial, but I doubt the same could be much evidence in a contract dispute.
Wikipedia is a living and changing work that anybody is free to contribute to. The Wayback machine is a part of an organization that is interested in historical preservation of many types of electronic media. Under most circumstances, I would take the Wayback machine over Wikipedia.
I can't for the life of me figure out why stuff like this keeps getting stuck in the YRO section. As far as I can tell, the only person whose rights were in any danger was Paris Hilton - granted, her privacy is largely a theoretical concept these days, but nevertheless, what possible bearing does this kind of thing have on my rights online?
Don't know about you, but I have a cell phone. Oh, and everybody that was in the phonebook had to get their phone numbers changed, notify people, etc.
"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project...will be more exciting, or more impressive to mankind, or more important...and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish...."
-- President John F. Kennedy, 1961
For those that don't know, we landed on the moon for the first time in 1969.
Sorry for my lack of enthusiasm, but this seems like a little bit of date. The article does not mention that this is a replacement for the shuttle to achieve what was lacking in that program, nor does it say that this is an expandable program to get people on Mars or similar.
Instead, it sounds like a survival test where they are trying to get potable water on the moon or whatnot.
A lack of vision is a sign of an uncertain future.
It takes a commercial compiler, but its straight forward, an open specification, can be used "automagically", its portable across machines and languages.
It does not work on a clustered system, but only one that has local processors and memory.
Slackware was my first linux distro. I learned a bunch from it when I first got into linux in 1994 with Slackware 1.something. It used the kernel version 0.99pl13. That was a long time ago.
I'll tell you, it was the best OS I could run at the time. I also thought it was cool that the default computer name back then was "Dark Star", which is a Grateful Dead song for those that don't know. The system was very modular, and it was relatively easy to install. Yes, I installed via sneakernet on 1.44meg floppies. The second time I installed it, I downloaded it over a 14.4 modem, possibly slower.
I did more reading when downloads took days at a time:)
I welcome morons like you making insulting arguments about a profession you apparently can't comprehend. To me, they are basically big bags of hot air that shoot off their mouths without thinking.
I shoot off my mouth _with_ thinking, thank you.
I've met a couple of doctors I've respected. The most was a neurosurgeon who operated on my spine.
I've also had doctors where I asked them about a cyst in my earlobes said "Some people get that". These have gotten so infected in the past that a steady stream of puss shot from one of my ears for 3 or 4 feet. I've gotten some half assed care for that now after numerous doctor visits, the last was a dermatologist. He too did not seem that terribly knowledgeable, but OK, no specific gripes.
I've also had a plastic surgeon that fucked up my face worse than it was before they "fixed" it.
There are other complaints.
I'm not talking about specialties specifically, yes, some of them suck. But your average, "general physician" that works in your "Doc in the box" seems to know less about medicine and health than I think they should.
If I had the money and the time, I would become a doctor to cut out the middleman, but I've got other things I would rather do with my time.
If someone is always late paying bills, showing up, or whatever, that is a psychological problem, obviously not a money problem or a time problem because if they are always behaving that way then the money and the time is a constant and the only variable is the person.
Lateness on the part of a patient is more inconsiderate than lateness on the part of a doctor.
So, I'm inconsiderate for being "late" after the doctor has behaviorally told me that the appointment time is irrelevant?
I'm _always_ on time when the time is important. Always, unless there is a damn good reason (not excuse).
I had to wait hours once for my neurologist
So be early next time! There are things like email, telephones, pagers, or other forms of communication besides agreeing to meet at a certain time and consistently not meeting that time.
Let me put it to you this way. Do you or anybody else wait for anything besides doctors or prescription drugs? I don't.
I'm always late to a doctor's "appointment". Why should I have to wait for them after I already made an appointment?
Also, fact is that there is little difference between a doctor and someone that makes up mnemonic rhymes to monty python songs for 4 years and a doctor. Granted, there are decent doctors out there, but I've never been too impressed with your average doctor.
I welcome websites and/or other means of communication to bring doctors to our level. To me they are basically a non-technical auto mechanic that works on people instead of cars.
Who knows, maybe GMC will start making some profits from making cars again?
For those that don't know, GM for years has only made around 25% of their earnings from cars, the other 75% is up to the reader to figure out if curious.
I say they are not controlling, creating or constructing their environment so much as simply modifying pieces of it (like trees)...which had ALREADY naturally evolved there. No thanks to the beaver.... Take away the trees from beavers and what do they do?
My $200k house's walls and much of its insides are made from trees. My mailbox is full of dead tree material. I even wipe my ass with it.
Beavers are impressive.
Show me a beaver, that in an environment lacking trees, combines polymers to form a synthetic trunk...which is used to construct a dam and reroute the river through a bypass. And make the damn dam hydroelectric too, and have it provide power for lights used to grow real trees in an artificial environment with the intent of making the process of building dams in that location self-sustainable.
Excluding yourself, show me a human that can do all that.
How is it that millions of people use it every day without even knowing that they are using it?
The Tivo was so revolutionary and user friendly that it has become a brandname/product synonym like jello or kleenex.
The Linksys WRT5x series of wireless routers are some of the most commonly used end user products of its type, and it runs linux.
People use google millions of times daily.
People use millions of websites that run Linux daily.
Linus was even surprised to buy a digital picture frame for his wife and found out that it runs Linux.
Seems like Linux is pretty mainstream to me.
Oh, the infamous Linux on the desktop is that what mainstream means?
The issues there are simple. There is not a compellingly different or better GUI subsystem and there is a lacking supply of easy to install and use software.
As soon as those two issues are taken care of, linux will be mainstream on the desktop, otherwise its on embedded systems and servers where it is currently better suited.
If it's a sovereign nation, then why is it still occupied by the US military? Until all foreign troops withdraw from Iraq, it's neither a "sovereign country" nor "mission accomplished" nor anything like that.
It is pretty obvious, especially with the recent lack of action done by the federal government on the Hurricane Katrina aftermath, that the Private sector needs to start taking a more active role in many areas that were previously handled by the government exclusively, one of which is the future of space travel and exploration.
Based on the number of profits in the past that have been made on frontier travel and disaster recovery (aside from 9/11/2001), it seems clear.
Perhaps people finally realized that gambling is a tax on greed and poor math skills.
Realization is a cognitive activity that someone with poor math skills may or may not have.
Running out of money and not being able to afford to play anymore is independent of any cognitive activity, and yes it comes more quickly to those with poor math skills.
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I hope these companies can prove there are enough free mp3's and paid mp3/wma services available that such taxation isn't required.
Unfortunately, there are no free MP3s.
http://www.mp3licensing.com/help/developer.html
http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/index.html
Er, most christian festivals are from the pagan festivals, yes including Christmas. And the one that people think is a dirty pagan festival but is in fact christian is Halloween! Check wikipedia if you want...
OK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween
The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European pagan traditions, until it was appropriated by Christian missionaries (along with Christmas and Easter, two other traditional northern European pagan holidays) and given a Christian reinterpretation.
Since when does a few pictures of naked hippies become news for nerds and stuff that matters?!?
Because its about the _tech_ of the event. If you read the article, you would have seen the 1 time that the word was used near the beginning.
Since we are talking about Burning Man, its worth noting that this was the 20th anniversary of the annual event. I didn't get to go this year, but definitely next year. Looks like a bunch of fun.
CPU load is also slightly higher when Command Queuing technologies are used.
I'm not sure if the command queuing is done on the physical drive (seems reasonable to me) or in the SATA driver (could be). But either way, the command queueing is not going to be a load on the CPU. The observed load on the CPU is probably because it is free from waiting on the disk and is going about its business doing what its supposed to do.
Later on:
Guys, how ignorant are you? GIMP ships with a menurc with PS keybindings for years, guess why? For GIMP 2.2, a lot of work has been put into making the menus configurable by means of editing XML files. What do you think we did this for? By editing the C source files (which would have been completely unnecessary) and by releasing this as a fork of GIMP, Scott created an unmaintainable mess. Thus I call his work a waste of time.
I mean really, if your app is going to look, feel, and function, like a Windows one, why should I use yours??
You better learn the secret way to delete your post from slashdot before you are sought out and killed.
I've been saying that the whole "free" knockoff, but not as good as Windows thing is dumb for years. I miss the days of FVWM, Afterstep (which too was a knockoff, but I've never seen the original), and other different windowing environments.
Last time I checked, people were still backporting fixes into 2.2.x branches...
I don't know how much backporting is going on with the 2.0 maintenance, but it was last updated in 2004.
But, if Internet Archive is a valid legal source, then by all means Wikipedia is.
Anything can be evidence in court, but it helps is the evidence is credible or at least semi-permanent. For example, a scribble with a pencil that left an impression on a pad of paper could be evidence in a murder trial, but I doubt the same could be much evidence in a contract dispute.
Wikipedia is a living and changing work that anybody is free to contribute to. The Wayback machine is a part of an organization that is interested in historical preservation of many types of electronic media. Under most circumstances, I would take the Wayback machine over Wikipedia.
I can't for the life of me figure out why stuff like this keeps getting stuck in the YRO section. As far as I can tell, the only person whose rights were in any danger was Paris Hilton - granted, her privacy is largely a theoretical concept these days, but nevertheless, what possible bearing does this kind of thing have on my rights online?
Don't know about you, but I have a cell phone. Oh, and everybody that was in the phonebook had to get their phone numbers changed, notify people, etc.
Seems like a reasonable choice to me.
Just to be clear, this isn't new news.
OK
"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project...will be more exciting, or more impressive to mankind, or more important...and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish...."
-- President John F. Kennedy, 1961
For those that don't know, we landed on the moon for the first time in 1969.
Sorry for my lack of enthusiasm, but this seems like a little bit of date. The article does not mention that this is a replacement for the shuttle to achieve what was lacking in that program, nor does it say that this is an expandable program to get people on Mars or similar.
Instead, it sounds like a survival test where they are trying to get potable water on the moon or whatnot.
A lack of vision is a sign of an uncertain future.
http://www.userlocal.com/phorum/read.php?f=2&i=490 72&t=49065
Take a look at OpenMP.
It takes a commercial compiler, but its straight forward, an open specification, can be used "automagically", its portable across machines and languages.
It does not work on a clustered system, but only one that has local processors and memory.
Slackware was my first linux distro. I learned a bunch from it when I first got into linux in 1994 with Slackware 1.something. It used the kernel version 0.99pl13. That was a long time ago.
I'll tell you, it was the best OS I could run at the time. I also thought it was cool that the default computer name back then was "Dark Star", which is a Grateful Dead song for those that don't know. The system was very modular, and it was relatively easy to install. Yes, I installed via sneakernet on 1.44meg floppies. The second time I installed it, I downloaded it over a 14.4 modem, possibly slower.
I did more reading when downloads took days at a time
I welcome morons like you making insulting arguments about a profession you apparently can't comprehend. To me, they are basically big bags of hot air that shoot off their mouths without thinking.
I shoot off my mouth _with_ thinking, thank you.
I've met a couple of doctors I've respected. The most was a neurosurgeon who operated on my spine.
I've also had doctors where I asked them about a cyst in my earlobes said "Some people get that". These have gotten so infected in the past that a steady stream of puss shot from one of my ears for 3 or 4 feet. I've gotten some half assed care for that now after numerous doctor visits, the last was a dermatologist. He too did not seem that terribly knowledgeable, but OK, no specific gripes.
I've also had a plastic surgeon that fucked up my face worse than it was before they "fixed" it.
There are other complaints.
I'm not talking about specialties specifically, yes, some of them suck. But your average, "general physician" that works in your "Doc in the box" seems to know less about medicine and health than I think they should.
If I had the money and the time, I would become a doctor to cut out the middleman, but I've got other things I would rather do with my time.
If a doctor is always an hour behind...
Thats the point.
If someone is always late paying bills, showing up, or whatever, that is a psychological problem, obviously not a money problem or a time problem because if they are always behaving that way then the money and the time is a constant and the only variable is the person.
Lateness on the part of a patient is more inconsiderate than lateness on the part of a doctor.
So, I'm inconsiderate for being "late" after the doctor has behaviorally told me that the appointment time is irrelevant?
I'm _always_ on time when the time is important. Always, unless there is a damn good reason (not excuse).
I had to wait hours once for my neurologist
So be early next time! There are things like email, telephones, pagers, or other forms of communication besides agreeing to meet at a certain time and consistently not meeting that time.
Let me put it to you this way. Do you or anybody else wait for anything besides doctors or prescription drugs? I don't.
I'm always late to a doctor's "appointment". Why should I have to wait for them after I already made an appointment?
Also, fact is that there is little difference between a doctor and someone that makes up mnemonic rhymes to monty python songs for 4 years and a doctor. Granted, there are decent doctors out there, but I've never been too impressed with your average doctor.
I welcome websites and/or other means of communication to bring doctors to our level. To me they are basically a non-technical auto mechanic that works on people instead of cars.
Who knows, maybe GMC will start making some profits from making cars again?
For those that don't know, GM for years has only made around 25% of their earnings from cars, the other 75% is up to the reader to figure out if curious.
I say they are not controlling, creating or constructing their environment so much as simply modifying pieces of it (like trees)...which had ALREADY naturally evolved there. No thanks to the beaver. ... Take away the trees from beavers and what do they do?
My $200k house's walls and much of its insides are made from trees. My mailbox is full of dead tree material. I even wipe my ass with it.
Beavers are impressive.
Show me a beaver, that in an environment lacking trees, combines polymers to form a synthetic trunk...which is used to construct a dam and reroute the river through a bypass. And make the damn dam hydroelectric too, and have it provide power for lights used to grow real trees in an artificial environment with the intent of making the process of building dams in that location self-sustainable.
Excluding yourself, show me a human that can do all that.
In fact it is said that we are the only species which controls and modifies their environment.
Beavers.
Linux is complicated.
Oh really?
How is it that millions of people use it every day without even knowing that they are using it?
The Tivo was so revolutionary and user friendly that it has become a brandname/product synonym like jello or kleenex.
The Linksys WRT5x series of wireless routers are some of the most commonly used end user products of its type, and it runs linux.
People use google millions of times daily.
People use millions of websites that run Linux daily.
Linus was even surprised to buy a digital picture frame for his wife and found out that it runs Linux.
Seems like Linux is pretty mainstream to me.
Oh, the infamous Linux on the desktop is that what mainstream means?
The issues there are simple. There is not a compellingly different or better GUI subsystem and there is a lacking supply of easy to install and use software.
As soon as those two issues are taken care of, linux will be mainstream on the desktop, otherwise its on embedded systems and servers where it is currently better suited.
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en
I will not use naughty language like I did before, but for me to find the dupe it takes: Apple+L TAB site:slashdot.org das keyboard RETURN
Do they do this for attention or something? Surely they have used google before. Slack bastards.
If it's a sovereign nation, then why is it still occupied by the US military? Until all foreign troops withdraw from Iraq, it's neither a "sovereign country" nor "mission accomplished" nor anything like that.
Sovereignty is a process. Processes take time.
Or at least that's what I've heard.
It is pretty obvious, especially with the recent lack of action done by the federal government on the Hurricane Katrina aftermath, that the Private sector needs to start taking a more active role in many areas that were previously handled by the government exclusively, one of which is the future of space travel and exploration.
Based on the number of profits in the past that have been made on frontier travel and disaster recovery (aside from 9/11/2001), it seems clear.
Perhaps people finally realized that gambling is a tax on greed and poor math skills.
Realization is a cognitive activity that someone with poor math skills may or may not have.
Running out of money and not being able to afford to play anymore is independent of any cognitive activity, and yes it comes more quickly to those with poor math skills.