Afghanistan needs Linux right now the way Apu needs banana bread:
OUTDOORS - STREET CORNER, KABUL. A MERCHANT is standing in front of a bombed-out store while a GEEK shows off the Linux laptop he has brought over. ------
GEEK: I noticed you had your hands full with this devastation...so I put together this rad Linux system! MERCHANT: Oh Hallelujah! Our problems are solved, we have Linux! ::: GEEK: Well..maybe you should get an assistant.. MERCHANT: And what would I pay him with, Linux? Sorry, sorry, it's just that I haven't slept in days, and i'm running out of money and...LINUX? What the hell were you thinking? Linux... Apologize, apologize again. As a token of forgiveness, please take this baby.
I just picked up an LG VX10 yesterday, it's a great phone with killer reception - but i didn't know it was possible to build as totally non-intuitive and confusing a UI as it has (and i'm technologically proficent!)
Yes, it's mad offtopic, forgive me, it's early still..
Cicero was right. Oderint dum metuant. Might not be a terribly fuzzy policy, but what the hell, it works...even seems to have prevented global nuclear annihilation (MAD and all that jazz).
Please cut this "your war" crap - i seriously doubt that anybody on/. is a member of the US Congress. We don't have the authority to directly vote on this military campaign, or the use/non-use of landmines, or the use of DU shells, so it's not really "our" action any more than it's yours, except by virtue of passport. Hate on the States all you want, but don't start with that "all of you are personally responsible" BS.
I suspect that these bombers will have conventional as well as nuclear capacity - a 475Kt W-88 is one hell of a shock and awe weapon, but it's not exactly useful for limited strikes, or anything short of total global devastation...
...if i slap a set of p-zero asymmetrico's on mom's forester, it's going to handle a lot better. os obsession is more like being fixated on the paint color or something..
It could be argued, that small Sun desktops (Ultra 5, Ultra 10, Blade100) are essentially PCs with an Ultrasparc CPU. (aside from the UltraSparc CPU and the mainboard, they have commodity hardware like IDE drives, PCI bus and cards, VGA graphics, USB etc)
That's true, but they aren't marketed to the home/SOHO crowd, or even power users for that matter; they also lack the range of software available on a PC (x86/Mac), especially the office/presentation stuff.
Apple used gcc, which did give the 970 an advantage - but is hardly 'tweaked' for the Mac. I'd like to see IBM's own 970 numbers, using a compiler optimized for POWER/PPC in the same way ICC is optimized for x86. I haven't checked them personally, but somebody in the G5 announcement article has, and pointed out (too lazy to link up, sorry) that if you look at both optimized sets of benchmarks, the magnitude grows, but the relationship stays pretty much the same.
Anyway, as a longtime Mac guy, it's nice to see some LEGITIMATE argument about who's fastest, and it gives me a warm feeling deep down inside to know that the *initial* release of the 970 is this fast - I look forward with much anticipation to what IBM does with this chip in the next 12-18 months (coincincidentally the practical timeframe for replacing my dual 1.25, which suddenly doesn't have nearly the appeal it used to...)
Um...$1.99 IS cheaper than $2.00. Not by much, but it is, and it doesn't break the magical $2 barrier (or $2,000 barrier)...it's a classic marketing-psychology trick, like the 9/10Â prices on gas, but it's not "misleading" like the author claims - i think that's the crux of the issue.
What are you smoking? (Can I have some?) Aqua is just a bit bloated, sure, but with Quartz Extreme and a decent gfx card (9000 Pro in my case), it's rock-solid (not crashed once in 9 months, running 30-45 days uptime) and rather smooth and fast. XF86 on PPC is alright, I've never actually had it *lock*, but it's slower, buggier, and to get it to a decent level of performance, you have to jump through flaming hoops while doing a double-back-somersault and whistling the Star-Spangled Banner. (No, XConfigurator didn't work that well.) Aqua...just WORKS. that's one of the big reasons I own a Mac - i can dink around all i want on the CLI or in config files, but at the end of the day, I don't have to.
(XF86 on x86 Linux is light-years ahead of PPC, IMHO)
I would like to see statistics on how many people actually pay for Photoshop, versus how many people use Photoshop.
Probably more interesting and significant if you looked at how many people use PS for production/professional work, vs. how many of those people paid for it. I'd bet most, if not all of the w4r3z copies are all on amateur computers, for dinking around and doing basic home-photo editing - i doubt Adobe legal even cares, let alone can justify going after people who haven't profited at all from it. If you use PS professonally though, it makes a lot more sense to suck up and pay the $500 than risk getting caught by Adobe and paying a LOT more.
You really think the NRA is so politically powerful just becuase of our voting influence? You'd be suprised how complacent people can be when dealing with an organization where every single member is armed...:D
Oddly enough I actually have more available access to a liter of liquid helium than LN2...think it would work as well, or would it just flash to vapor as soon as it hit the warm cream solution? i know LHe only lasts about a minute when you expose it to air in a styrofoam cup (~3 if you prechill the cup with nitrogen)...helium is some mighty freaky stuff when it's liquid...
Perhaps the good Dr. Torvalds has been rented out for a bit by the major Linux distributors, just in case SCO does show that the code was lifted, so that he can be put under the gun to rewrite the kernel sans offending bits. That is, unless SCO earns some merit on the claims that all SysV-related OSes are derivative...
OS X is BSD, not a line of SysV in the beast, correct?
The Jonestown drink was actually grape Flavor-Aid, not Kool-Aid:
XX. What kind of Kool-Aid was consumed at Jonestown Guyana?
It is a popular misconception that 900 followers of cult leader Jim Jones committed suicide by drinking Grape Kool-Aid laced with cyanide at their commune in Jonestown Guyana in the late 1970's. This is not true. The followers of Jones actually drank cyanide laced Flavor-aid, a cheap imitation of Kool-Aid. The Flavor-aid flavor they consumed was grape. Therefore, Kool-Aid played no part in this tragedy.
Yes, the Matrix does deal with philosophical issuses; however, it doesn't expand or deepen any of them - it just uses them as a basis for what could be a very entertaining scifi movie, if people would stop treating it like Le Mythe de Sisyphe or something.
I would never call a philiosophical textbook philosophy itself, because it doesn't raise any new questions or viewpoints - it just conveniently presents and summarizes what other people have already pondered. Same with the Matrix..the philosophical underpinnings are really interesting, and do make the movies really good, but they aren't new; it's a thought-provoking movie, but there isn't some novel new philosophy that the Wachowski brothers have come up with, as a lot of people on here seem to think.
I suspect that in a lot of towns, Wal-Mart is the *only* place to earn a living wage without working three jobs. Do mommy and daddy still pay your rent, or has your trust fund kicked in yet? You obviously haven't had the pleasure of trying to get by on whatever work you can drum up, be it Wal-Mart greeting or collecting chickens for slaughter.
..they's be *awfully* easy to detect, especially ones that are powered-up enough to detect at 100 feet a tag that's only meant the be read at 5 feet. The recievers would have to be very sensitive, so you could probably just blast a 1W "signal" and cook the circuitry. Or you could just wrap your house in something conductive and make it a giant EM-proof structure (maybe not actually tinfoil, but something thin and conductive that you could lay alongside the Tyvek housewrap).
He's probably the kind of person who won't let me valet his 1988 rusted-out Subaru GL. I don't like Wal-Mart or their business practices at all (haven't been in over a year); that doesn't mean i'm going to take it out on the poor joe who's just trying to feed his family. Asshole.
There already are "underground" gun makers..
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I can't provide any links off the top of my head, but IIRC a LOT of those grey-market booksellers, the ones that carry the Anarchist's Cookbook and Poor Man's James Bond, have several titles on designing and building your own automatic weapons from scratch, down to machining the reciever and things like that.
Of course, if guns were banned, that means the ammo would likely be banned as well, and once that's gone, well, you can reload and cast your own bullets, but gunpowder's tricky to make, and good jacketed rounds, or new brass when your old stuff finally goes, are almost impossible to make yourself...and without bullets, you just have a club that's slightly more effective than a wooden stick. or a spear, if you have a bayonet.
Thank You. I have a 2x1.25 G4 with 512MB stock Apple RAM, 512 of PC2700 DDR SDRAM from Crucial, two ATA drives I scrounged from dead PCs (the stock is a deathstar), a Radeon card, and Philips and Pioneer optical drives (Apple's SuperDrive is just a pioneer DVR-104). No problems whatsoever.
The promise of much faster G4-class processors than anticipated calls into question suggestions not only that Apple will ditch Motorola across the range, but that it sees the 970 as a PowerBook solution, at least in the short term.
We know that if they could upgrade their Windows PCs to Apple Macs - say, by installing an Apple upgrade card that contained any necessary Apple ROMs, etc and then installing the new OS - millions of users would be tempted to abandon Windows and convert to the Mac OS. (Obviously, whether allowing non-Apple customers to convert their machines in this way is something that Apple may or may not want to put into practice, for competitive reasons. Remember, one of the first things that Steve Jobs did on his return to Apple was kill off the authorised Apple clones businesses.)
Or, as has been pointed out many times before, Apple doesn't want the toruble of supporting god-knows-what hardware is going to be in the masses' PCs. One of, if not the major, reasons Apple is able to make the OS play so nice most of the time is their control of the underlying hardware - sure, you can get most any peripheral you want (as long as it comes with a Mac driver), but the basic computer is always consistent. I suppose Apple could just tweak the G4 mobos and replace the processors with P4s, or replace the internals completely, but I doubt that's where the costs of the machine lie, plus the homebrew crowd would scream bloody murder. It makes me shiver to think what OS X would be like if it had to support every piece of x86 hardware under the sun...
I find Guinness easier to drink quickly..
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..since it's lass carbonated than most swill that comes out of American taps; it doesn't foam up and stick in my throat. Of course, I also drop a shot of Jameson's into my pint before i toss it back, but that's just my (sorta masochistic) tastes.
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I just picked up an LG VX10 yesterday, it's a great phone with killer reception - but i didn't know it was possible to build as totally non-intuitive and confusing a UI as it has (and i'm technologically proficent!)
Yes, it's mad offtopic, forgive me, it's early still..
Cicero was right. Oderint dum metuant.
/. is a member of the US Congress. We don't have the authority to directly vote on this military campaign, or the use/non-use of landmines, or the use of DU shells, so it's not really "our" action any more than it's yours, except by virtue of passport. Hate on the States all you want, but don't start with that "all of you are personally responsible" BS.
Might not be a terribly fuzzy policy, but what the hell, it works...even seems to have prevented global nuclear annihilation (MAD and all that jazz).
Please cut this "your war" crap - i seriously doubt that anybody on
I suspect that these bombers will have conventional as well as nuclear capacity - a 475Kt W-88 is one hell of a shock and awe weapon, but it's not exactly useful for limited strikes, or anything short of total global devastation...
...if i slap a set of p-zero asymmetrico's on mom's forester, it's going to handle a lot better. os obsession is more like being fixated on the paint color or something..
It could be argued, that small Sun desktops (Ultra 5, Ultra 10, Blade100) are essentially PCs with an Ultrasparc CPU. (aside from the UltraSparc CPU and the mainboard, they have commodity hardware like IDE drives, PCI bus and cards, VGA graphics, USB etc)
That's true, but they aren't marketed to the home/SOHO crowd, or even power users for that matter; they also lack the range of software available on a PC (x86/Mac), especially the office/presentation stuff.
Assuming it's bang/buck, and buck = 0, then bang/buck is Undefined. (division by zero!)
Apple used gcc, which did give the 970 an advantage - but is hardly 'tweaked' for the Mac. I'd like to see IBM's own 970 numbers, using a compiler optimized for POWER/PPC in the same way ICC is optimized for x86. I haven't checked them personally, but somebody in the G5 announcement article has, and pointed out (too lazy to link up, sorry) that if you look at both optimized sets of benchmarks, the magnitude grows, but the relationship stays pretty much the same.
Anyway, as a longtime Mac guy, it's nice to see some LEGITIMATE argument about who's fastest, and it gives me a warm feeling deep down inside to know that the *initial* release of the 970 is this fast - I look forward with much anticipation to what IBM does with this chip in the next 12-18 months (coincincidentally the practical timeframe for replacing my dual 1.25, which suddenly doesn't have nearly the appeal it used to...)
Um...$1.99 IS cheaper than $2.00. Not by much, but it is, and it doesn't break the magical $2 barrier (or $2,000 barrier)...it's a classic marketing-psychology trick, like the 9/10Â prices on gas, but it's not "misleading" like the author claims - i think that's the crux of the issue.
What are you smoking? (Can I have some?) Aqua is just a bit bloated, sure, but with Quartz Extreme and a decent gfx card (9000 Pro in my case), it's rock-solid (not crashed once in 9 months, running 30-45 days uptime) and rather smooth and fast. XF86 on PPC is alright, I've never actually had it *lock*, but it's slower, buggier, and to get it to a decent level of performance, you have to jump through flaming hoops while doing a double-back-somersault and whistling the Star-Spangled Banner. (No, XConfigurator didn't work that well.) Aqua...just WORKS. that's one of the big reasons I own a Mac - i can dink around all i want on the CLI or in config files, but at the end of the day, I don't have to.
(XF86 on x86 Linux is light-years ahead of PPC, IMHO)
I would like to see statistics on how many people actually pay for Photoshop, versus how many people use Photoshop.
Probably more interesting and significant if you looked at how many people use PS for production/professional work, vs. how many of those people paid for it. I'd bet most, if not all of the w4r3z copies are all on amateur computers, for dinking around and doing basic home-photo editing - i doubt Adobe legal even cares, let alone can justify going after people who haven't profited at all from it. If you use PS professonally though, it makes a lot more sense to suck up and pay the $500 than risk getting caught by Adobe and paying a LOT more.
Oh please...have you watched CNN/MSNBC/CNBC/any other American news station lately?
You really think the NRA is so politically powerful just becuase of our voting influence? You'd be suprised how complacent people can be when dealing with an organization where every single member is armed...:D
Oddly enough I actually have more available access to a liter of liquid helium than LN2...think it would work as well, or would it just flash to vapor as soon as it hit the warm cream solution? i know LHe only lasts about a minute when you expose it to air in a styrofoam cup (~3 if you prechill the cup with nitrogen)...helium is some mighty freaky stuff when it's liquid...
Perhaps the good Dr. Torvalds has been rented out for a bit by the major Linux distributors, just in case SCO does show that the code was lifted, so that he can be put under the gun to rewrite the kernel sans offending bits. That is, unless SCO earns some merit on the claims that all SysV-related OSes are derivative...
OS X is BSD, not a line of SysV in the beast, correct?
Yes, the Matrix does deal with philosophical issuses; however, it doesn't expand or deepen any of them - it just uses them as a basis for what could be a very entertaining scifi movie, if people would stop treating it like Le Mythe de Sisyphe or something.
I would never call a philiosophical textbook philosophy itself, because it doesn't raise any new questions or viewpoints - it just conveniently presents and summarizes what other people have already pondered. Same with the Matrix..the philosophical underpinnings are really interesting, and do make the movies really good, but they aren't new; it's a thought-provoking movie, but there isn't some novel new philosophy that the Wachowski brothers have come up with, as a lot of people on here seem to think.
If they don't like it they can quit.
I suspect that in a lot of towns, Wal-Mart is the *only* place to earn a living wage without working three jobs. Do mommy and daddy still pay your rent, or has your trust fund kicked in yet? You obviously haven't had the pleasure of trying to get by on whatever work you can drum up, be it Wal-Mart greeting or collecting chickens for slaughter.
..they's be *awfully* easy to detect, especially ones that are powered-up enough to detect at 100 feet a tag that's only meant the be read at 5 feet. The recievers would have to be very sensitive, so you could probably just blast a 1W "signal" and cook the circuitry. Or you could just wrap your house in something conductive and make it a giant EM-proof structure (maybe not actually tinfoil, but something thin and conductive that you could lay alongside the Tyvek housewrap).
He's probably the kind of person who won't let me valet his 1988 rusted-out Subaru GL. I don't like Wal-Mart or their business practices at all (haven't been in over a year); that doesn't mean i'm going to take it out on the poor joe who's just trying to feed his family. Asshole.
I can't provide any links off the top of my head, but IIRC a LOT of those grey-market booksellers, the ones that carry the Anarchist's Cookbook and Poor Man's James Bond, have several titles on designing and building your own automatic weapons from scratch, down to machining the reciever and things like that.
Of course, if guns were banned, that means the ammo would likely be banned as well, and once that's gone, well, you can reload and cast your own bullets, but gunpowder's tricky to make, and good jacketed rounds, or new brass when your old stuff finally goes, are almost impossible to make yourself...and without bullets, you just have a club that's slightly more effective than a wooden stick. or a spear, if you have a bayonet.
Thank You.
I have a 2x1.25 G4 with 512MB stock Apple RAM, 512 of PC2700 DDR SDRAM from Crucial, two ATA drives I scrounged from dead PCs (the stock is a deathstar), a Radeon card, and Philips and Pioneer optical drives (Apple's SuperDrive is just a pioneer DVR-104). No problems whatsoever.
The promise of much faster G4-class processors than anticipated calls into question suggestions not only that Apple will ditch Motorola across the range, but that it sees the 970 as a PowerBook solution, at least in the short term.
We know that if they could upgrade their Windows PCs to Apple Macs - say, by installing an Apple upgrade card that contained any necessary Apple ROMs, etc and then installing the new OS - millions of users would be tempted to abandon Windows and convert to the Mac OS. (Obviously, whether allowing non-Apple customers to convert their machines in this way is something that Apple may or may not want to put into practice, for competitive reasons. Remember, one of the first things that Steve Jobs did on his return to Apple was kill off the authorised Apple clones businesses.)
Or, as has been pointed out many times before, Apple doesn't want the toruble of supporting god-knows-what hardware is going to be in the masses' PCs. One of, if not the major, reasons Apple is able to make the OS play so nice most of the time is their control of the underlying hardware - sure, you can get most any peripheral you want (as long as it comes with a Mac driver), but the basic computer is always consistent.
I suppose Apple could just tweak the G4 mobos and replace the processors with P4s, or replace the internals completely, but I doubt that's where the costs of the machine lie, plus the homebrew crowd would scream bloody murder. It makes me shiver to think what OS X would be like if it had to support every piece of x86 hardware under the sun...
..since it's lass carbonated than most swill that comes out of American taps; it doesn't foam up and stick in my throat. Of course, I also drop a shot of Jameson's into my pint before i toss it back, but that's just my (sorta masochistic) tastes.