I've had far more success with multiple monitors using nouveau than with the proprietary Nvidia drivers. I'm currently running with 4 monitors using nouveau, and have been for many years. Further, in the last few years I haven't encountered anyone else that's had problems with multiheaded support in nouveau either, and we have an office full of people doing so here.
But they are the only modern fantasy novels that are on the same high level as Tolkien
I couldn't disagree more. Donaldson has a terrible writing style that has a few brief moments of greatness and a lot of tawdry mediocrity. He doesn't come close of Tolkien on any level, and I found "The chronicles of Thomas Covenant the unbeliever" to be very dull for the most part. I wouldn't recommend them to anyone.
Lyndon Hardy - "Master of the five magics" and its sequels (fantasy)
Elizabeth Moon - The "Vatta's war" series (SF)
Vernor Vinge - "A fire upon the deep" and "A deepness in the sky" (SF)
Yep. In addition to the Weapon Shops/Weapon Makers, I loved "The empire of the atom" and "The wizard of Linn". Also the Null-A books. I'd guess I have probably about 75% of the books he wrote, but it's increasingly hard to find the rest.
Well, I suppose I might as well contribute, and do my bit. I wasn't convinced by this new fangled login business, so when/. added them, I held off on registering for what seemed like forever. Eventually, I gave in and created an account, hence my high(!) UID...
A rocket. On a car. Now why does that sound like a terrible idea?
Sounds like a great idea to me. I've seen a couple in the flesh. Take a look at Laffin-Gas for a current example, or Eric Teboul for a rocket powered bike (which even I think sounds like a terrible idea, but it seems to work in practice).
I personally detest glossy screens. They're much harder to read, particularly for those of us with a preference for light text on a dark background. But it seems increasingly all screens are going that way, be it monitors, laptops or televisions. The world sucks sometimes:-(
You can't win without someone else losing. A number of those losers are addicted. It shouldn't take a fucking flowchart to figure this out.
True, every winning bet has a loser on the other side. But to claim the losers are addicted shows a staggering lack of understanding when it comes to gambling. The losers with most of my bets are bookmakers, not individuals. They tend to be massive corporations with market caps in the billions. Am I hurting them when I win? Sure. Is that the same as hurting an individual that's addicted to gambling? Not even close.
I dont see the harm in preventing people from killing themselves on heroin, or from gambling their life savings away
As a professional gambler, I can assure you that I'm light years away from losing my life saving, and make a very healthy income. Yet you're claiming I shouldn't be free to pursue my chosen means of making money because there happen to be some people that aren't disciplined enough to run their own financial affairs. That doesn't sound entirely fair to me.
A couple years ago about fifty slashdot journalers moved over there en masse, and have generally had few (but nonzero*) reasons to regret it.
For an opposing perspective, I went to Multiply solely because the rest of the circle did, and I wholeheartedly regret it. While it certainly has potential, and the richer media is clearly an improvement, it's very buggy, and it's a pain in the arse to use. I frequently end up pointing people to my journal on LJ, simply because I can't work out how to beat Multiply around the head enough to get it to post the content I want. The HTML editor is a joke. Embedding video in a blog (as opposed to Multiply's default copyright infringing "video import" mode) is painful. The friend system is confusing ("friends-only" posts aren't available to certain types of friend). Never seen banhammer problems, but the ongoing problems with the rest of the site make me wish the circle had chosen a better home (LJ, for instance, which has its own faults, but never seems to get in the way of me posting what I want -- which Multiply does).
There are no rocket powered cars in real competition for world records at the moment,
Apart from Bloodhound SSC, you mean? It has a jet engine, that's true. But that's only to take it up to 300mph or so. The rocket is needed to take it up to 1000mph. Although they're not looking to set any records, the Laffin-gas car is an interesting pure rocket car. They're only aiming for 400mph or so, but that's still pretty fast, particularly on their relatively small budget, and they have a nice setup that allows a fairly good degree of control. Not least, the ability to shut it off rather than having to wait until it runs out of fuel:-)
The fact that they're shipping GNU utilities is irrelevant here. The GPL compels you to distribute source and rights when you distribute a binary. There is no requirement to keep it up to date, and Sun/Oracle can do whatever they want with their Solaris cluster packs. What they can't do is distribute updates to paying customer and prevent those customers from passing the updates on to others (for the GPL-licensed parts, that is).
I went for Samsung printers for precisely that reason. I have an ML-3051ND at home (and its replacement, an ML-3471ND at work) because they're well built and they use PostScript, and hence aren't tied to any obscure software drivers. They're not colour, but then I remain unconvinced that colour laser printers are worth
while yet. Cheap inkjets give significantly better print quality, at the cost of
having to keep two printers around, one for colour and one for black and white.
But it's a solution that works for me, at least.
I won't claim I liked Lenslok, but I personally never had any problems with it. The results were always clear enough for me to read easily and enter to correct code. YMMV.
The backup strategy is the same as it's been for the past 40 years or more: keep copies of your data offsite, where you can get at them in a reasonable timeframe should anything happen to your local storage. The technology used to implement that strategy changes with time, though. Personally, I made the decision many years ago that removable media was a waste of time. The only sensible option is to have storage powered up and accessible at all times. So I rsync to a hosted server in a remote datacentre (the initial sync took forever over ADSL, but the nightly diffs are pretty quick)
Storyline? What are you smoking? Who gives a shit about the back story? Did Doom succeed because people cared about what Union Aerospace were doing on Mars, or because the gameplay was out of this world? I know where my money would be. Where's the storyline in Tetris? Yet somehow that was mindblowingly successful. Ultimately, it's all about gameplay. Nothing else matters.
Uhhh... how is this news? I've been doing that with Firefox for ages using bookmark keywords. So I have w foo to look up foo on Wikipedia and p foo to look for python documentation about foo for example. That could easily be expanded to do imdb searches, etc if I wanted to. It's reasonable to claim the interface for setting up these searches could be improved, but the functionality is already 99% there.
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.50 what? Dollars? If so, why not say so?
I've had far more success with multiple monitors using nouveau than with the proprietary Nvidia drivers. I'm currently running with 4 monitors using nouveau, and have been for many years. Further, in the last few years I haven't encountered anyone else that's had problems with multiheaded support in nouveau either, and we have an office full of people doing so here.
I couldn't disagree more. Donaldson has a terrible writing style that has a few brief moments of greatness and a lot of tawdry mediocrity. He doesn't come close of Tolkien on any level, and I found "The chronicles of Thomas Covenant the unbeliever" to be very dull for the most part. I wouldn't recommend them to anyone.
Lyndon Hardy - "Master of the five magics" and its sequels (fantasy)
Elizabeth Moon - The "Vatta's war" series (SF)
Vernor Vinge - "A fire upon the deep" and "A deepness in the sky" (SF)
Yes. And not just the well known books, either. I'm rather fond of the collections of short stories, such as "Wanderers of time"
Yep. In addition to the Weapon Shops/Weapon Makers, I loved "The empire of the atom" and "The wizard of Linn". Also the Null-A books. I'd guess I have probably about 75% of the books he wrote, but it's increasingly hard to find the rest.
Well, I suppose I might as well contribute, and do my bit. I wasn't convinced by this new fangled login business, so when /. added them, I held off on registering for what seemed like forever. Eventually, I gave in and created an account, hence my high(!) UID...
Sod computer gaming. My first through when reading this was "can I fit it inside my race helmet and improve my performance in real life?"
Sounds like a great idea to me. I've seen a couple in the flesh. Take a look at Laffin-Gas for a current example, or Eric Teboul for a rocket powered bike (which even I think sounds like a terrible idea, but it seems to work in practice).
I personally detest glossy screens. They're much harder to read, particularly for those of us with a preference for light text on a dark background. But it seems increasingly all screens are going that way, be it monitors, laptops or televisions. The world sucks sometimes :-(
Only in the USA. Here in the free world, our textbooks are not exactly cheap, but they're affordable for students.
True, every winning bet has a loser on the other side. But to claim the losers are addicted shows a staggering lack of understanding when it comes to gambling. The losers with most of my bets are bookmakers, not individuals. They tend to be massive corporations with market caps in the billions. Am I hurting them when I win? Sure. Is that the same as hurting an individual that's addicted to gambling? Not even close.
Please explain how I'm exploiting anyone's addition by placing a bet with a bookmaker.
As a professional gambler, I can assure you that I'm light years away from losing my life saving, and make a very healthy income. Yet you're claiming I shouldn't be free to pursue my chosen means of making money because there happen to be some people that aren't disciplined enough to run their own financial affairs. That doesn't sound entirely fair to me.
[1] Mostly. For stuff on this ball of mud. For really[2] large distances, it tends to be measured in kilometres[3] or AU.
[2] For small values of "really". Once you get beyond a certain threshold, light years take over...
[3] Why? Surely if you're talking about interplanetary distances, you use terametres or some other appropriate SI prefix.
A couple years ago about fifty slashdot journalers moved over there en masse, and have generally had few (but nonzero*) reasons to regret it.
For an opposing perspective, I went to Multiply solely because the rest of the circle did, and I wholeheartedly regret it. While it certainly has potential, and the richer media is clearly an improvement, it's very buggy, and it's a pain in the arse to use. I frequently end up pointing people to my journal on LJ, simply because I can't work out how to beat Multiply around the head enough to get it to post the content I want. The HTML editor is a joke. Embedding video in a blog (as opposed to Multiply's default copyright infringing "video import" mode) is painful. The friend system is confusing ("friends-only" posts aren't available to certain types of friend). Never seen banhammer problems, but the ongoing problems with the rest of the site make me wish the circle had chosen a better home (LJ, for instance, which has its own faults, but never seems to get in the way of me posting what I want -- which Multiply does).
Apart from Bloodhound SSC, you mean? It has a jet engine, that's true. But that's only to take it up to 300mph or so. The rocket is needed to take it up to 1000mph. Although they're not looking to set any records, the Laffin-gas car is an interesting pure rocket car. They're only aiming for 400mph or so, but that's still pretty fast, particularly on their relatively small budget, and they have a nice setup that allows a fairly good degree of control. Not least, the ability to shut it off rather than having to wait until it runs out of fuel :-)
The fact that they're shipping GNU utilities is irrelevant here. The GPL compels you to distribute source and rights when you distribute a binary. There is no requirement to keep it up to date, and Sun/Oracle can do whatever they want with their Solaris cluster packs. What they can't do is distribute updates to paying customer and prevent those customers from passing the updates on to others (for the GPL-licensed parts, that is).
I went for Samsung printers for precisely that reason. I have an ML-3051ND at home (and its replacement, an ML-3471ND at work) because they're well built and they use PostScript, and hence aren't tied to any obscure software drivers. They're not colour, but then I remain unconvinced that colour laser printers are worth while yet. Cheap inkjets give significantly better print quality, at the cost of having to keep two printers around, one for colour and one for black and white. But it's a solution that works for me, at least.
Perhaps so, but in pretty much the entire world outside of North America and Australasia, a modern car is unlikely to have an automatic transmission.
I won't claim I liked Lenslok, but I personally never had any problems with it. The results were always clear enough for me to read easily and enter to correct code. YMMV.
The backup strategy is the same as it's been for the past 40 years or more: keep copies of your data offsite, where you can get at them in a reasonable timeframe should anything happen to your local storage. The technology used to implement that strategy changes with time, though. Personally, I made the decision many years ago that removable media was a waste of time. The only sensible option is to have storage powered up and accessible at all times. So I rsync to a hosted server in a remote datacentre (the initial sync took forever over ADSL, but the nightly diffs are pretty quick)
Storyline? What are you smoking? Who gives a shit about the back story? Did Doom succeed because people cared about what Union Aerospace were doing on Mars, or because the gameplay was out of this world? I know where my money would be. Where's the storyline in Tetris? Yet somehow that was mindblowingly successful. Ultimately, it's all about gameplay. Nothing else matters.
... but news for nerds? I'm not seeing it.
Uhhh... how is this news? I've been doing that with Firefox for ages using bookmark keywords. So I have w foo to look up foo on Wikipedia and p foo to look for python documentation about foo for example. That could easily be expanded to do imdb searches, etc if I wanted to. It's reasonable to claim the interface for setting up these searches could be improved, but the functionality is already 99% there.