...not because of whether it can work or if it's feasible - but as long as it is a nookleer wessel, the likes of Greenpeace or the 'Green' party will scare the public into being against it.
I pass out Knoppix discs to new users all the time. There's no log in, there's no boot paramters, any issues are handled with plain english questions, and most of all, it's visually pleasing. They love it. It gets them started on Linux. You'd be surprised how many people miss DOS and prefer command line, even non-geek computer users.
I dont know what standard you use for geekness, but I consider Gentoo, Debian, or BSD to be geek oriented os's.
It costs $10 USD to buy a small toy consisting of no more than 20 or 30 pieces. In my day, you could buy a thousand piece bucket of blocks for $40 (adjusted for inflation). Now they can't even sell 1000 piece buckets, and a 150 piece model is damn near $35. Meanwhile, there are lego compatible blocks which are just as good, but way cheaper.
Lego needs to stop overcharging for their product if they expect to prosper. If they do, I'll buy 'em.
Just because you ram multiple quotes into a shrill statement doesn't mean they substantiate them. The claims made where extraordinary, the quotes hardly relevent to some, and there is no links so for all we know he could have made them up. More likely, the guy just copied and pasted from some indymedia tripe.
Regardless, its offtopic, and should be moderated as such.
Strange day when the now 2 week old fact that Beagle 2 was a failure is still considered news to/. editors, but the successful Spirit probes impending rover deployment gets no mention, nor does the new high resolution stereograms.
That's why things like binary package managers exist. Even on windows, things like this can be hairy.
Wrong song pal. I have never had more than one or two 'dependancies' with Windows. Maybe I'd have to upgrade a driver or DirectX to get a game to work, but 99% of my downloads worked on the first run. Linux on the other hand suffers from chronic chain dependancies. That's why we have words like "what provides, what depends" in our vocabularies. I can install Windows9x in under 20 mb, but the smallest comparably usable linux install is about 400 mb. The usual is about a gig. It's all those damned dependancies, and when you compile from source like I do it's too big of a pain in the ass.
The bottom line is that there is too much choice in Linux, and unfortunately that means sometimes those choices come with strings attached. It also means we have to put up with often half-assed assembled software.
Oh well. I'm going to dump RedHat for Gentoo or Mandrake soon enough.
- Spirit (~$400 mil) has over six times the budget of the Beagle (~$60 mil)
Yeah, but it worked. Proof positive that you get what you pay for.
- Spirit is built on the success of Pathfinder.
Well you certainly don't build as much on failure, but....
- This is the European Space Agency's *first* time out to mars, and they attempted a *landing*
- Our first two times out failed (Mariner 3 & 4), and our third was just a flyby for 71 photos. Of course, that was 1969.
Things were alot different in 1969. Technology was far less advance, and there was very little hard data on what Mars was like. The ESA has the benefit of knowing what to expect in terms of atmosphere, entry, the journey itself thanks in part to US efforts.
- ESA never had a strong national space program similar to the US or USSR for budget reasons, as
well as many other factors (natural resources, age and background of the nations it comprises, WW I & II)
Burt Rutan and Scaled composites never had a strong space program, but they're pushing ahead with success after success.
Nobody knows why Beagle failed. Plenty of Mars probes fail for completely unpredicatable random reasons that aren't clear until years later.The factors named above are all perfectly irrelevent. This thing could have been intercepted by random space trash for all we know, and that wouldn't have been the fault of the ESA. I suspect it's quite the opposite - inexperience combined with arrogance and politics sabotaged Beagle before it ever left Earths orbit.
Three freaking hours. You see, I wanted to connect to MSN with GAIM. To do this, I have to enable SSL. So I set the flag, and run configure, and it silently fails. After a few minutes I realize it can't find the mozilla-nss packages, so I download and install them. Then I run configure again, and it fails because it can't find some declaration for certain functions. I pour over the GAIM source code, and no luck.
Now the precompiled RPM has SSL enabled, so I d/l it to install. But, it also has GTKSpelling installed, but I can't use it unless I install gtkspell which requires opencdk and aspell and lib-crypt and about three other packages. I download and install all this crap, and I run configure for gaim, and I get the same damn error.
Now, GAIM doesn't have to use NSS for encryption, it can use (somethign else). I download something else, and the 10 packages it depends on, and I still get the same exact compile error. Long story short - I don't have MSN enabled yet, and I don't htink I will.
I won't even tell you the pain in the ass that is realplayer, which I should have known would be a mistake to install.
Positrons have nothing to do with LEDS, transistors, or diodes, and QED was not relevant to the invention of any of them.
I'm sorry, but...no wait, I'm not sorry, and you're wrong - and an idiot.First of all, I never used the word "invented". However, QED is important to understanding semiconductors. Particularly, diode lasers take advantage of quantum wells which are governed by rules of QED. In fact, our understanding of semiconductors is based on interactions between electrons and hole charges, for which the mathematics involved in Diracs work with charges applies.
As for "time dependant behaviors", that is about the deformation of a surface over time. The mathematics involved in Poincaire's conjecture (and similar calculus) is useful for n-dimensional calculations allowing for complex folding. Such tensors are already used in complex chemistry to explain folding of proteins.
I tried to make a generalized statement. Apparently it was too generalized, and I have to connect the dots for fucktards like you. What kills me is your shitty attitude. It's clear that you need to be ass-raped dry with a cactus to relieve all that repressed homosexual tension you're carrying deep inside.
For those of you wondering "who cares" or "what's the point", well there really is none. Poincare's conjecture has no immediate practical application, or even in the near future. However, proving Poincare's conjecture is a shot in the arm for Special Relativity, which is still a "theory" (much like I have a theory that slashdot exists).
This is an exciting time to be alive. The Riemann hypothesis has been proven.The 16th Hilbert problem has been solved (by a student no less - proof that important discoveries in science are still an individual sport). After thousands of years, Archimedes Loculus has been solved. While these are airy egg-head endeavours, so was once the notion of Diracs Quantum Electrodynamics. Today, the antimatter particles predicted by QED are used to image and diagnose diseases of the brain (Positron Emission Tomography), produce light (Light Emitting Diodes), and they make transistors and diodes work. Having a mathematical proof for Poincare's conjecture could lead to new ways of structuring matters behaviors, including time-dependant transformations. For instance, shorter crumple zones which absorb more energy in automotive collisions.
Someone please stop timothy. I mean, it's embarrassing now: Initially all the anti-american little eurotrash wannabes kept proclaiming this one teeny probe as a sign of european domination of space exploration (ignoring America's single-handed launch of dozens of probes dating back three decades, while this was a joint operation between several european countries). Now that their probe has unequivocally failed, I think it's safe to say they've learned their lesson about being cocky and nationalistic, and will be more gracious next time they have a probe to send up.
More importantly, continuing to talk about how their probe has failed is not news. Don't post about this again until it decides to phone home.
For just plain TV (erm, cable too) I've been using an AverTV card (www.avermedia.com). It's no frills, PCI based, and you need to connect it to your sound card via a jumper. But, it's based on the Brooktree 848 card, which you can use with your native Kernel and the Video4Linux subsystem. For the tuner software, you can use the default XawTV that comes with most applications, but I highly recommend TV Time (tvtime.sourceforge.net). It's very high quality with high reliability, low system foot print, a tidy on screen display, intuitive features, and it interfaces with XML TV to display channel information. You can also add LiRC support and use a remote control. Now, I haven't had much luck getting PVR software (freevo, mythtv) but that's not the cards fault. Freevo has too much dependancy on other applications, particularly perl modules, and mythtv is handicapped by a shoddy python install. Rumor from the developer of TV Time is that it will eventually include PVR capability.
AverTV is about the cheapest BT848 based unit out there, and they make higher models with stereo and dbx support built in, so you can check those out. I don't even own a TV, and havent for two years. I'm always in front of this damn machine. BTW, the Linux applications are far superior in stability, color, and frame rate than the included Windows software.
Did I read this right? Did someone forget what the "O" in "OSS" stands for? Did someone miss the point in "Free as in Beer"?
I know Slashdot is a magnet for anti-capitalist left-wing wannabe-geeks, but this throws the cake. We have finally had a story in which someone pretends to be so concerned for the state of OSS that they'd want to tax, legislation, and otherwise force corporations to contribute to OSS applications. We call people like that hypocrites. The level of cognitive dissonance here is only matched by the incoherent rambling of ideas, none of which will have positive benefits.
Look folks, OSS/FSF/GNU is going to be like any public resource. There will be takers, and there will be givers. Deal with it. If if bothers you that the oss ecology is being exploited, then you have the choice as a consumer to not deal with companies who don't give back. But just like any end-user of OSS software, it's their right not to give back just for using free software.
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...not because of whether it can work or if it's feasible - but as long as it is a nookleer wessel, the likes of Greenpeace or the 'Green' party will scare the public into being against it.
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive/
You can do this on any decent nix distro
Wierd. I'm stuck at 97.4%, so I'm going to look around for other torrents or download sites. It just pisses me off that it hangs at 97.4%.
I pass out Knoppix discs to new users all the time. There's no log in, there's no boot paramters, any issues are handled with plain english questions, and most of all, it's visually pleasing. They love it. It gets them started on Linux. You'd be surprised how many people miss DOS and prefer command line, even non-geek computer users.
I dont know what standard you use for geekness, but I consider Gentoo, Debian, or BSD to be geek oriented os's.
If it weren't final, the letters "rc" (release candidate) or "b" (beta) would appear in the filename. It's final.
Can't make money if nobody buys. Price, Demand, Consumer Surplus, et al.
It costs $10 USD to buy a small toy consisting of no more than 20 or 30 pieces. In my day, you could buy a thousand piece bucket of blocks for $40 (adjusted for inflation). Now they can't even sell 1000 piece buckets, and a 150 piece model is damn near $35. Meanwhile, there are lego compatible blocks which are just as good, but way cheaper.
Lego needs to stop overcharging for their product if they expect to prosper. If they do, I'll buy 'em.
Just because you ram multiple quotes into a shrill statement doesn't mean they substantiate them. The claims made where extraordinary, the quotes hardly relevent to some, and there is no links so for all we know he could have made them up. More likely, the guy just copied and pasted from some indymedia tripe.
Regardless, its offtopic, and should be moderated as such.
I just grew a big rubbery one. Thanks man - it takes an outsider to explain America best sometimes.
No facts, just baseless accusations and conjecture. Take your political hack crap over to New Republic or K5 where your lies will be appreciated.
Strange day when the now 2 week old fact that Beagle 2 was a failure is still considered news to /. editors, but the successful Spirit probes impending rover deployment gets no mention, nor does the new high resolution stereograms.
...one more reminder that there are always kooks out there with absolutely no point to their accusatory rants what-so-ever.
Incidentally, what is that page that you enter in someones names and it shows you their connections with other people?
Wrong song pal. I have never had more than one or two 'dependancies' with Windows. Maybe I'd have to upgrade a driver or DirectX to get a game to work, but 99% of my downloads worked on the first run. Linux on the other hand suffers from chronic chain dependancies. That's why we have words like "what provides, what depends" in our vocabularies. I can install Windows9x in under 20 mb, but the smallest comparably usable linux install is about 400 mb. The usual is about a gig. It's all those damned dependancies, and when you compile from source like I do it's too big of a pain in the ass.
The bottom line is that there is too much choice in Linux, and unfortunately that means sometimes those choices come with strings attached. It also means we have to put up with often half-assed assembled software.
Oh well. I'm going to dump RedHat for Gentoo or Mandrake soon enough.
Nobody knows why Beagle failed. Plenty of Mars probes fail for completely unpredicatable random reasons that aren't clear until years later.The factors named above are all perfectly irrelevent. This thing could have been intercepted by random space trash for all we know, and that wouldn't have been the fault of the ESA. I suspect it's quite the opposite - inexperience combined with arrogance and politics sabotaged Beagle before it ever left Earths orbit.
Three freaking hours. You see, I wanted to connect to MSN with GAIM. To do this, I have to enable SSL. So I set the flag, and run configure, and it silently fails. After a few minutes I realize it can't find the mozilla-nss packages, so I download and install them. Then I run configure again, and it fails because it can't find some declaration for certain functions. I pour over the GAIM source code, and no luck.
Now the precompiled RPM has SSL enabled, so I d/l it to install. But, it also has GTKSpelling installed, but I can't use it unless I install gtkspell which requires opencdk and aspell and lib-crypt and about three other packages. I download and install all this crap, and I run configure for gaim, and I get the same damn error.
Now, GAIM doesn't have to use NSS for encryption, it can use (somethign else). I download something else, and the 10 packages it depends on, and I still get the same exact compile error. Long story short - I don't have MSN enabled yet, and I don't htink I will.
I won't even tell you the pain in the ass that is realplayer, which I should have known would be a mistake to install.
I'm sorry, but...no wait, I'm not sorry, and you're wrong - and an idiot.First of all, I never used the word "invented". However, QED is important to understanding semiconductors. Particularly, diode lasers take advantage of quantum wells which are governed by rules of QED. In fact, our understanding of semiconductors is based on interactions between electrons and hole charges, for which the mathematics involved in Diracs work with charges applies.
As for "time dependant behaviors", that is about the deformation of a surface over time. The mathematics involved in Poincaire's conjecture (and similar calculus) is useful for n-dimensional calculations allowing for complex folding. Such tensors are already used in complex chemistry to explain folding of proteins.
I tried to make a generalized statement. Apparently it was too generalized, and I have to connect the dots for fucktards like you. What kills me is your shitty attitude. It's clear that you need to be ass-raped dry with a cactus to relieve all that repressed homosexual tension you're carrying deep inside.
Mathematically speaking, that's a pretty small world of difference you're talking about.
For those of you wondering "who cares" or "what's the point", well there really is none. Poincare's conjecture has no immediate practical application, or even in the near future. However, proving Poincare's conjecture is a shot in the arm for Special Relativity, which is still a "theory" (much like I have a theory that slashdot exists).
This is an exciting time to be alive. The Riemann hypothesis has been proven.The 16th Hilbert problem has been solved (by a student no less - proof that important discoveries in science are still an individual sport). After thousands of years, Archimedes Loculus has been solved. While these are airy egg-head endeavours, so was once the notion of Diracs Quantum Electrodynamics. Today, the antimatter particles predicted by QED are used to image and diagnose diseases of the brain (Positron Emission Tomography), produce light (Light Emitting Diodes), and they make transistors and diodes work. Having a mathematical proof for Poincare's conjecture could lead to new ways of structuring matters behaviors, including time-dependant transformations. For instance, shorter crumple zones which absorb more energy in automotive collisions.
...with a few hundred thousand fewer seaguls. Clean renewable energy AND pest control!
Slashdot. News for people who can't get the point. Stuff that doesn't matter.
Are we going to have to put up with repetitive regurgitative stories about Beagle 2 on into the new year as well? NOBODY FUCKING CARES!
Criticize a moderator, and you're a "troll" regardless of the content of your post. Slashdot is a fucking joke sometimes.
Someone please stop timothy. I mean, it's embarrassing now: Initially all the anti-american little eurotrash wannabes kept proclaiming this one teeny probe as a sign of european domination of space exploration (ignoring America's single-handed launch of dozens of probes dating back three decades, while this was a joint operation between several european countries). Now that their probe has unequivocally failed, I think it's safe to say they've learned their lesson about being cocky and nationalistic, and will be more gracious next time they have a probe to send up.
More importantly, continuing to talk about how their probe has failed is not news. Don't post about this again until it decides to phone home.
For just plain TV (erm, cable too) I've been using an AverTV card (www.avermedia.com). It's no frills, PCI based, and you need to connect it to your sound card via a jumper. But, it's based on the Brooktree 848 card, which you can use with your native Kernel and the Video4Linux subsystem. For the tuner software, you can use the default XawTV that comes with most applications, but I highly recommend TV Time (tvtime.sourceforge.net). It's very high quality with high reliability, low system foot print, a tidy on screen display, intuitive features, and it interfaces with XML TV to display channel information. You can also add LiRC support and use a remote control. Now, I haven't had much luck getting PVR software (freevo, mythtv) but that's not the cards fault. Freevo has too much dependancy on other applications, particularly perl modules, and mythtv is handicapped by a shoddy python install. Rumor from the developer of TV Time is that it will eventually include PVR capability.
AverTV is about the cheapest BT848 based unit out there, and they make higher models with stereo and dbx support built in, so you can check those out. I don't even own a TV, and havent for two years. I'm always in front of this damn machine. BTW, the Linux applications are far superior in stability, color, and frame rate than the included Windows software.
Did I read this right? Did someone forget what the "O" in "OSS" stands for? Did someone miss the point in "Free as in Beer"?
I know Slashdot is a magnet for anti-capitalist left-wing wannabe-geeks, but this throws the cake. We have finally had a story in which someone pretends to be so concerned for the state of OSS that they'd want to tax, legislation, and otherwise force corporations to contribute to OSS applications. We call people like that hypocrites. The level of cognitive dissonance here is only matched by the incoherent rambling of ideas, none of which will have positive benefits.
Look folks, OSS/FSF/GNU is going to be like any public resource. There will be takers, and there will be givers. Deal with it. If if bothers you that the oss ecology is being exploited, then you have the choice as a consumer to not deal with companies who don't give back. But just like any end-user of OSS software, it's their right not to give back just for using free software.
The puppy was killed, not abused. Are you always an uncouth bastard, or do you have good days?