> What we're relating to is responsible reporting, and there's a difference. In some cases, it' tantamount to screaming "fire!" in a crowded movie theater.
But there is a fire. Its only irresponsible
to shout "fire!" in a crowded movie theater if there
isn't on, just like it would be irresponsible to post
non-existent exploits to bugtraq.
Mr. Schmidt is suggesting:
If you see a fire
start in a movie theater, the responsible thing
to do is:
don't inform anyone at risk.
get up quietly.
report the fire to the movie theater's manager.
If the fire is due to negligence of
of it
is irresponsible to tell people how the fire
really started.
You have no moral authority to call the fire department, even if the manager refuses to evacuate the theater.
Geez... They must have cut their spin budget recently.
John Perry Barlow, a founder of the EFF and an early member of the WELL
I suppose to us he is known as a founder of the EFF and WELL memeber, but to everyone else in the world he is the lyrical genius behind the
Grateful Dead.
I use microsoft truetype fonts in X. They look great at small sizes, but as soon as they go above 16pts or so they look like crap.
For example, I have this page rendered using microsoft-georgia and all of the headers are pixelated and grainy. As are the list bullets.
On the monitor at my left I have the same page opened in Internet Explorer with the same font. With the exception of the normal text, it looks MUCH better.
Windows and MacOS have been able to do things like
this for so long... Sometimes I really feel stuck in the 80's using linux.
Keith Packard's new rendering extensions will hopefully be ready soon. His alpha blending screenshots look much cooler anyways (not to mention the sub-pixel ClearType and font anti-aliasing screenshots.)
"Directed panspermia" is a widely accepted theory
that life on earth originated from similar DNA based microbes that fell off the tail of a comet as it passed by our planet.
It makes a lot more sense than thinking that our
complex ecosystem could arise from nothing more
than the hydrogen + nuclear fusion that formed
the rest of our solar system.
Its also interesting because it would imply that
if there is substansial life elsewhere in the
universe, it is likely to be remarkable similar
to life on earth.
I keep perl, python, Eterm, and zsh on a ram disk.
Those are programs which are often spawned, but unlikely to be cached.
My xterms open noticeably quicker since zsh and Eterm don't need to be loaded from disk each time. Perl and Python scripts are executed much quicker as well since I don't have to wait as long for the interpreters to be loaded.
I develop Java under linux, but I still keep a windows box on my desktop for running and debugging java applications. Sure, linux jvm's are improving, but as Michael Hirsch demonstrated in the August 2000 Linux Journal, Microsoft and Symantec's JVM's for windows run faster than even natively compiled Java code under linux(using gnu gcj). So of course the windows JVM's run astronomically faster than linux JVM's.
The windows machine I use is old and slow, and doesn't have much ram. The linux box is a new, high end, smp box. The windows box blows it away when it comes to Java performance.
Mozilla has support for other toolkits besides its own native.
In my.mozconfig, I have: ac_add_options --enable-toolkit=gtk
It builds mozilla based on gtk, as well as a seperate bare bones browser even more streamlined than galeon.
It's also possible to build mozilla based on Qt.
This galeon project isn't anything new, there have been a few other similar projects that have existed(gzilla, qfce), but this seems to be the first independant one based on a usable version of the mozilla embedding widget.
I witnessed Project Earthlight in action, and it does work. However, the original intent of his research was for a completely different application. I highly recommend reading the <a href="http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~aw47967/reu99/watashi /paper-awu-3dbb.ps">paper</a> a-wu wrote on this, it is very insightful.
from his website:
"The paper was accepted to (/published in) the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2000), held in March 2000 in Grenoble, France. I had a short poster session at the conference."
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.experimentalstuff.com/data/ipl-0.1.zip
But there is a fire. Its only irresponsible to shout "fire!" in a crowded movie theater if there isn't on, just like it would be irresponsible to post non-existent exploits to bugtraq.
Mr. Schmidt is suggesting:
Geez... They must have cut their spin budget recently.
Ummm learn how to use google.
asfRecorder
I suppose to us he is known as a founder of the EFF and WELL memeber, but to everyone else in the world he is the lyrical genius behind the Grateful Dead.
For example, I have this page rendered using microsoft-georgia and all of the headers are pixelated and grainy. As are the list bullets. On the monitor at my left I have the same page opened in Internet Explorer with the same font. With the exception of the normal text, it looks MUCH better.
Keith Packard's new rendering extensions will hopefully be ready soon. His alpha blending screenshots look much cooler anyways (not to mention the sub-pixel ClearType and font anti-aliasing screenshots.)
It makes a lot more sense than thinking that our complex ecosystem could arise from nothing more than the hydrogen + nuclear fusion that formed the rest of our solar system.
Its also interesting because it would imply that if there is substansial life elsewhere in the universe, it is likely to be remarkable similar to life on earth.
I keep perl, python, Eterm, and zsh on a ram disk.
Those are programs which are often spawned, but unlikely to be cached.
My xterms open noticeably quicker since zsh and Eterm don't need to be loaded from disk each time. Perl and Python scripts are executed much quicker as well since I don't have to wait as long for the interpreters to be loaded.
I develop Java under linux, but I still keep a windows box on my desktop for running and debugging java applications. Sure, linux jvm's are improving, but as Michael Hirsch demonstrated in the August 2000 Linux Journal, Microsoft and Symantec's JVM's for windows run faster than even natively compiled Java code under linux(using gnu gcj). So of course the windows JVM's run astronomically faster than linux JVM's.
The windows machine I use is old and slow, and doesn't have much ram. The linux box is a new, high end, smp box. The windows box blows it away when it comes to Java performance.
In my .mozconfig, I have: ac_add_options --enable-toolkit=gtk
It builds mozilla based on gtk, as well as a seperate bare bones browser even more streamlined than galeon.
It's also possible to build mozilla based on Qt.
This galeon project isn't anything new, there have been a few other similar projects that have existed(gzilla, qfce), but this seems to be the first independant one based on a usable version of the mozilla embedding widget.
I witnessed Project Earthlight in action, and iti /paper-awu-3dbb.ps">paper</a> a-wu wrote on this, it is very insightful.
does work. However, the original intent of his
research was for a completely different application. I highly recommend reading the <a href="http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~aw47967/reu99/watash
from his website:
"The paper was accepted to (/published in) the
Fourth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2000), held in March 2000 in Grenoble, France. I had a short poster session at the conference."
The CAVE is sold by a company VRCO. Anyone with a spare $15k laying around can buy one. It even runs on linux.
Its based heavily on OpenGL.
An open source analog is in the works right now.