Hey, hot X coders, why not implement a Scroll Lock function assigned to that same key that, erm, locks scrolling?
Check out the scroll resistance you can add in the configuration file for "fvwm" and most things that decended from it. As for getting a key to toggle lock on scolling - in Enlightenment you could asign the key to call a "esh" script that would lock scrolling. Other window managers may have other ways to do it. It all come down to the window manager for this stuff (although the virtual screen is X itself).
640x480 greyscale sucks sometimes, but often a lot less than carting around a big heavy monitor that would cost a lot to replace.
A 486 has more computing power than the computers that went up in the first space shuttle, so you can still get a considerable amount of use out of it, so long as you don't any games newer than Quake.
The old 486s are the Gas Guzzzlers
In comparison to what brightness of light bulb?
There are entire countries with very few computers out there
You can't get the uneaten food on the plate to the starving kids somewhere else. Computers are a bit more durable, but the mechinisms to get them overseas aren't there. However local charities could make use of them in your local area.
So they have to create their own software?
Or adapt something that is open source. which would be more valuble in another nation, a closed source accounting package that has stuff for the US tax system, or an open source one that can be modified for local conditions?
One tactic that I think should see a bit more use is the computing model of the early 90's - loads of low end machines running X and a few high end machines to run the intensive stuff. The office apps qualify as intensive stuff, and have more or less killed that model. I've got no idea why X windows isn't used more in education - I can only put it down to a lack of skills.
Perhaps they should ACTUALLY go global
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Perhaps they should actually go global, instead of just saying they are. Accepting VISA and MASTERCARD from outside of the USA would be a good start.
Does anyone know of a real electronic payment solution that allows you to send money from any country with trustworthy banks to another?
OK - so the Australian Liberal Party are right wing and conservative - live with it. No-one said there had to be truth in political advertising!
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state,
Isn't that the USA National Gaurd? Am I missing something here or are you? I know that with the gun control laws groups of outlaws cruise the desert in modified vehicles running on pig manure and Tina Turner... - no wait that was a movie. What really happened is that some people had to turn in AUTOMATIC weapons, which probably should only be in the hands of the military and that well regulated militia you are talking about (Army Reserve over here). Nothing else changed.
However, 9/11 has excellerated this trend considerably.
This happened before September the 11th. The man with the executive authority to authorise this exercise embarrassed the government horribly (telephone fraud), and went from potential leadership material to a punishment posting to defence (not seen as important at the time and subject to lots of cuts) to fill in time before leaving at the next election. He had done silly stunts (involving training SAS personel to be wharf workers!) to try to break a union (and failed, because he did silly stunts), and various other breaches of the rules before he left parliment. It remains to be seen if the minister of defence of the time, Peter Rieth, planned this - ultimately as the person in charge he should be responsible even if he didn't.
One good thing is that it has made more people aware of the monitoring systems that are in place - and to those of you in the USA that are laughing at what is happening in this little country, I ask you where you think we obtained the sophisticated monitoring sytems? Why do you think that these systems are not used where you live?
we're going to start allowing sterile people to procreate?
We already do - with programs like invitro fertilisation. Sterility of some degree is not necessarily a bad trait to pass on - this is not going to cure total sterility of course, you won't get anwhere here with an egg that is not viable. Genetics is not quite as simple as "like father, like son" some traits are unlikely to come up in the next dozen generations.
but do we necessarily want to become a people who can't function without the full dependence on technology?
I don't think this will stop the majority of babies being produced the usual way, no matter how cheap it becomes. After all, you can construct a child now with tools already available in most homes.
Anyway, we decided to bypass evolution the first day someone decided to keep the cute wolf cubs and ditch the rest.
I think the point of the article is - "Look guys, someone is trying to stop purely commercial regional restrictions on software."
Once the lawyers can say that it has happened in country X (or in this case XXXX) their arguments have more weight, despite the differences in legal systems.
I don't know where I'd be without pedantic generalizations.
Probably in the same place - you missed the word "some" - so much for a generalisation!
entire generations spending billions of dollars promoting democracies all over the globe
Yes, from the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli - global police for nearly two hundred years. I think this is straying wildly off the modchip topic!
In Australia, we don't tend to talk about "God Given Rights", we know that we don't have a right to remain silent - so when someone comes along to take away what we do have, even if it is just the ability to play games for the US market, then a lot of people take notice.
Just don't come here by boat - we'll send you somewhere else or lock you up in the desert!
That means that if aerosolized and inhaled, it's bad juju for your lungs
It looks like we're safe from plutonium unless there is a nuclear accident that throws the stuff up in the air - just like that big one in the Ukrane where a quarter of the nuclear plant blew up. Do we need an accident of that kind every few years, and in every country, before people think it is relevant? I'm told that the USA is the land of magic where everything is perfect - but reality doesn't agree with that.
If you burn 10000 tons of coal daily to generate 1000MW, you're probably generating 50-100 pounds of radioactive waste a day.
The nuclear power industry has got a lot of milage out of the fact that if you take a large amount of rock you will find some radioactive material in it. Beach sand is mildly radioactive if you look at tonnes of the stuff - but it is not a problem unless the radioactive material is concentrated and put in a kids sandpit. A lot of background radiation comes from the rocks under our feet.
If we assume 1% of it gets released into the atmosphere
The thing about heavy elements guys is that they are heavy. With gravity seperation they tend to go to the bottom - and if the main thing that you are trying to trap is very small particles (as in chunks of material - not sub-atomic particles) of silicates, then the very small particles containing heavy elements are going to get trapped first.
If you want to count gross negligence and poor design (Chernobyl)
Three Mile Island - forging x-rays of welds sounds a bit negligent to me, I believe the judge decided that it was criminally negligent.
Coal cleaner than nuclear? Bullshit.
I think the only people who would have said that ten years ago were working for the Atomic Energy Commision. Their propaganda has worked very well. There are a lot of uses for radioactive materials, but a bit of healthy respect goes a lot furthur than listening to dogma. I suspect that those who also believe that nuclear power is cheap should go looking on the web for British Nuclear Fuels and the enormous economic loss that they have made over the years. Please don't reply that the USA is the land of magic and that no overseas examples apply there.
The fact is that nuke plants are not mismanaged, while even the best managed coal plants are a venom factory.
Read some history. Read a newspaper. NASA and Three Mile Island were mismanaged at various times, and that mismanagement lead to a couple of disasters. You'll find that "the fact is" that a court found that Three Mile Island had been mismanaged - right up to the point of criminal negligence. In this country it is pointed out to students as an example of why you have to keep an eye on contactors. True, Three Mile Island happened a long time ago, but all of the people who are in charge of nuclear power plants now would have been working back then.
There have been frequent accidental releases of radioactive materials in the mines in Australia, but only one so far for 2002. A fact of life is that accidents happen, well designed and well maintained planes fall out of the sky when unforseeable things happen.
the CO2 is cause of great disasters around the world
Such as?
Reducing carbon dioxide output is necessary, but I would prefer to learn from real disasters instead of imagined ones.
However, coal plants release a wide variety of nasty substances such as, mercury, arsenic, chlorine, and lead as well as radioactive uranium and thorium
Have you ever heard of an ash dam? Have you heard of scrubbers? A power station is not an open fireplace with a kettle at the back.
The nuclear waste problem has not been solved fifty years after it was identified. The consequences of a major failure of a nuclear power plant are a lot more than that of an aeroplane hitting a building.
Remember guys, only one unit of Chenobyl went up, the accident could have been four times worse.
You're a nut. I live within 30-45 miles of at least 4 nuclear power plant sites, each with at least 2 reactors. The nice clean air around here would be a filthy mess if they were all belching out coal smoke, doncha think?
OK - take a deep breath, walk away from the TV and go out and learn something about the world. Learn about gathering information and about how to get information from a few sources to work out what is real and what is driven by the agenda of the people speading the information. Read some chemistry, read some physics, learn about pollution control, learn about how governements and business allocate bugets when the unprofitable needs to be made to look good.
Nuclear power is cleaner than anything else that we currently have, because the waste is all nice and tidy and can be dealt with.
Read this again after you look up a high school chemistry book. And remember kids, don't sit those of radioactive waste too close together if you get an untrained, low wage job working with radioactive waste - others have had to learn the hard way.
how many accidents... are associated with mining coal? Twit.
Lots, I think you've missed the point here. Nuclear power is not a 1950's shiny clean vision of the future, it is real, dirty and dangerous, just like a lot of other things and more so than most. The whole "environmentally friendly" take on nuclear power was a con job that not even children believed when it was tried in the early eighties, but it has had years to sink in.
you'd realize that Nuclear energy is the most env friendly energy
Fifty years of advertising can't be wrong! Just ignore the accidents, the waste, the deaths, the enormous economic costs (hey kids, the rare earths we use to make nuclear components are common and cheap, that's why we call them rare earths!). The nuclear powered steam plants were to find a peaceful use for the by-products of bomb production. Ultimately they were big white elephants (you don't see any new ones getting built now in countries that already have one do you?) - while the truly useful applications of radioactive materials (medical and industrial) haven't got as much press.
This is the cleanest form of energy we have.
Last I heard plutonium was the most deadly poison known, but now its clean! I must get some to brush my teeth with!
Seriously guys, which would you want to live near, a coal fired plant that is mismanaged and pumps out a lot of nitrous oxide, or a nuclear power plant that is mismanaged and leaks radioactive material.
Clear enough? Now go find legitimate reasons to criticise your government, not cheap shots like "they're just like Mussolini and Hitler!!"
Perhaps you should have actually read the post you criticise - the subject "Not Fascist, but", may have been a clue, the first line starting with "They are not fascist" would have been another.
I too am sick of people applying labels like that in discussions like this to make arguments easier - hence my post. The idiots that say "they're charging more for broadband, the fascists!" were those that I was responding to.
There was a lot more to fascism than a couple of lines in an encylopedia - and their economic policy was to run the government as a business with a minumum of waste and little social consideration - the balance of payments was far more important than cost of goods (they tried to only buy goods from countries that owed them money to keep the mark up - it worked but goods were expensive). Apparently there was an economic need to expand - hence Czechoslovakia and WWII.
Thats not what I said. I said they are "capable" of being used to transmit power. Those are not my exact words
Whoever wrote it was wrong - there's more than just the two of us on slashdot!
They have said with scientific certainty that electromagnetic waves are harmless
Whoever "they" are is also wrong - just ask any physicist.
Why should your power lines run past and irridiate my house?
It is a matter of intensity. Some people would complain if the things are within sight. Some people even complain about that windmills are "visual pollution" - I put the strange person that is complaining to his state government about low intensity electromagnetic radiation in that catagory. Why should the mouse, carrying 5V DC burn his hand when turning on a 110V AC light switch doesn't? He's surrounded by 110V wires in his house. An electromagnetic field fluctuating at 60Hz can penetrate through a couple of centimetres of steel (that's how an induction furnace works), although an Australian judge in a bad moment ruled that it cannot penetrate human skin - so why does the low intensity electromagnetic radiation that he thinks about affect him while the other stuff doesn't?
Can it still be used as an X-term via ethernet or firewire?
Can it do openGL?
Is there documentation about how to talk to sony's layer between linux and the hardware?
If the answer is yes to all above then it will be a very useful box. I don't see it as being in the intrest of sony or the linux community in having a kit that allows you to steal games.
I think a DVD with playstation linux with firewire support would be great - forget about the ethernet card and hard drive.
Export is an option, but the many and varied video formats could create a problem. In Australia there is a big oportunity, with a working digital TV network but not much hardware available that can view it. There is also a large percentage of the population that like to buy hi-tech toys.
Apparently the Australian economy is going to pick up and lead the world in growth, funded by (sit down and secure all loose objects) US venture capitalists! You've got to love those enonomists.
Zaurus is used to being beast of burden to other peoples needs.
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Curious.. Why would a package manager fry libraries required by the item?
Simply because the package manager has no idea that anything is dependant upon those libraries. For instance rpm keeps a list of depenancies of files that have been installed from rpm packages. If nothing has told it that there are dependancies how is it going to know?
Each time I've upgraded Redhat it has taken a few days to find and fix all the bits that have been removed. I haven't installed everything as rpm, I have binaries I still use dating back to 1996 (which won't recompile for the new libraries without work, which I won't do while I still have the old libraries backed up), and have lots of stuff compiled from source (I have never really used source rpms). There are still bits of Slackware 2.0 lurking in the corners. If I take the windows idea of re-format and re-install I would lose a lot of functionality - and it still wouldn't tell rpm what StarOffice, Wordperfect or any of the Loki games uses.
Loki updated their code as glibc was updated - you can't run an old Loki binary on Redhat 7.1 without manually re-installing old libraries. Now that Loki has gone no-one will be updating the software, and successive versions of glibc are likely to break the games, and most linux distributions delete old versions of libraries when they install new ones.
Or are Loki games simply not packaged for those package managers?
Why should they be available as every package known? All that is really needed is an install script to make sure the right libraries exist and that the files get put in the correct spots.
Electricity producing silicon solar-cells actually take more energy and generate more pollution during manufacture, than they will ever generate.
Some numbers to back this up would be nice - I hope it's not the trick of paying for the entire factory (which will outlive individual cells) plus all of the vehicles used to transport the products (which are also used for other things).
Most people seem to forget that the oil they use doesn't grow in the pump, and the coal has to be dug up - getting those energy sources takes energy too.
Anyway, the argument is fairly pointless, since the solar cells are used in applications where it is impractical to use power from the grid (eg. boats, pumps, telecommunication towers, navigation lights or hand held calculators)
This leaves using an intermediary like water or sodium, to be heated by sunlight, and to generate electricity mechanically. This is highly inefficient, and/or dangerous.
Why is it dangerous? Dangerous relative to what? More dangerous than the Hydrofluoric Acid used in oil refining (which of course is only nasty if it gets out)? Your garage is probably full of much more dangerous chemicals than small amounts of hydrogen.
The fact is, sunlight is too diffuse to be a practical large-scale energy supply
KiloWatts per square metre sound like serious amounts of energy to me. Even if you can only get 5 percent of that you are still getting a fair bit of energy.
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Did Loki do any cost/benefit analysis?
I seem to recall web polls asking people if they would buy particular games. The tricky thing would be to work out how many of the people that say yes would wait long enough for the game and actually buy the thing.
The thing that impressed me the most about Loki was the continuing work that was done after the products were released. I bought "Myth II", which was released with only Voodoo fullscreen 3D support, then grabbed the patch and it gave me full OpenGL support on the game. The same thing happened with "Rail Tycoon Gold" - playable with the release, but fantastic with the patch to bring it up to date with newer hardware. The thing that will annoy people the most in the future is that linux distribution updates are likely to break their working Loki games as old libraries are automaticly deleted by package management software
It was supposed to be an electric car that ran for a week without refueling at speeds up to 90 MPH.
I heard that Czech folk tale too. Tesla was portrayed as a charletan by his ememies at the time who made all kinds of weird claims about what he was doing, but ultimately he ended up with the patents (and we use AC current instead of the DC that Edison was pushing). When your enemies are J.P. Morgan, Edison and Marconi and you come from a little central european country that is part of an ancient and crumbling empire, then the dirt sticks (particularly if you announce stuff early, like preliminary work on early return, or if you speculate about possibilities).
As for learning the secrets of the universe from aliens, a lot of stuff is researched outside the US, so it would be true. Some of the scientists that fled the Nazis may have initially even been illegal aliens before their citizenship came through.
Tesla figured out a way to generate unlimited electricity with no waste by using the ionosphere and towers around the world to harvest the current.
It was what you would call a thought experiment (like a Dyson sphere). With sufficient resources it should work, but the resources required would be immense (and most likely the energy require to build it would be less than you would get out of it in its lifetime). You may also recall from your history that early speculation on the ionosphere put it a bit lower.
He then devised a way to put that current in to the ground
It is known as earth return, and is an important part of generating AC current.
Imagine free electricity for everybody, no profit= no investors
So who's going to build millions of towers a few kilometres high for nothing?
Tesla knew mind control could be possible with the current under your feet
Ow! Turn off the current and give me some burn cream and I'll do whatever you say!
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640x480 greyscale sucks sometimes, but often a lot less than carting around a big heavy monitor that would cost a lot to replace.
One tactic that I think should see a bit more use is the computing model of the early 90's - loads of low end machines running X and a few high end machines to run the intensive stuff. The office apps qualify as intensive stuff, and have more or less killed that model. I've got no idea why X windows isn't used more in education - I can only put it down to a lack of skills.
Does anyone know of a real electronic payment solution that allows you to send money from any country with trustworthy banks to another?
One good thing is that it has made more people aware of the monitoring systems that are in place - and to those of you in the USA that are laughing at what is happening in this little country, I ask you where you think we obtained the sophisticated monitoring sytems? Why do you think that these systems are not used where you live?
Anyway, we decided to bypass evolution the first day someone decided to keep the cute wolf cubs and ditch the rest.
But all it seemed to do was clear the screen!
Once the lawyers can say that it has happened in country X (or in this case XXXX) their arguments have more weight, despite the differences in legal systems.
In Australia, we don't tend to talk about "God Given Rights", we know that we don't have a right to remain silent - so when someone comes along to take away what we do have, even if it is just the ability to play games for the US market, then a lot of people take notice.
Just don't come here by boat - we'll send you somewhere else or lock you up in the desert!
There have been frequent accidental releases of radioactive materials in the mines in Australia, but only one so far for 2002. A fact of life is that accidents happen, well designed and well maintained planes fall out of the sky when unforseeable things happen.
Such as?Reducing carbon dioxide output is necessary, but I would prefer to learn from real disasters instead of imagined ones.
The nuclear waste problem has not been solved fifty years after it was identified. The consequences of a major failure of a nuclear power plant are a lot more than that of an aeroplane hitting a building.
Remember guys, only one unit of Chenobyl went up, the accident could have been four times worse.
Seriously guys, which would you want to live near, a coal fired plant that is mismanaged and pumps out a lot of nitrous oxide, or a nuclear power plant that is mismanaged and leaks radioactive material.
I too am sick of people applying labels like that in discussions like this to make arguments easier - hence my post. The idiots that say "they're charging more for broadband, the fascists!" were those that I was responding to.
There was a lot more to fascism than a couple of lines in an encylopedia - and their economic policy was to run the government as a business with a minumum of waste and little social consideration - the balance of payments was far more important than cost of goods (they tried to only buy goods from countries that owed them money to keep the mark up - it worked but goods were expensive). Apparently there was an economic need to expand - hence Czechoslovakia and WWII.
Can it do openGL?
Is there documentation about how to talk to sony's layer between linux and the hardware?
If the answer is yes to all above then it will be a very useful box. I don't see it as being in the intrest of sony or the linux community in having a kit that allows you to steal games.
I think a DVD with playstation linux with firewire support would be great - forget about the ethernet card and hard drive.
IMHO the terrorist threat should be the last thing to be considered - if nothing is built in case it gets blown up then no-one will get anywhere.
Apparently the Australian economy is going to pick up and lead the world in growth, funded by (sit down and secure all loose objects) US venture capitalists! You've got to love those enonomists.
Had very bad B5 quote. Probably have very bad karma, but at least there is symmetry.
Each time I've upgraded Redhat it has taken a few days to find and fix all the bits that have been removed. I haven't installed everything as rpm, I have binaries I still use dating back to 1996 (which won't recompile for the new libraries without work, which I won't do while I still have the old libraries backed up), and have lots of stuff compiled from source (I have never really used source rpms). There are still bits of Slackware 2.0 lurking in the corners. If I take the windows idea of re-format and re-install I would lose a lot of functionality - and it still wouldn't tell rpm what StarOffice, Wordperfect or any of the Loki games uses.
Loki updated their code as glibc was updated - you can't run an old Loki binary on Redhat 7.1 without manually re-installing old libraries. Now that Loki has gone no-one will be updating the software, and successive versions of glibc are likely to break the games, and most linux distributions delete old versions of libraries when they install new ones.
Why should they be available as every package known? All that is really needed is an install script to make sure the right libraries exist and that the files get put in the correct spots.Most people seem to forget that the oil they use doesn't grow in the pump, and the coal has to be dug up - getting those energy sources takes energy too.
Anyway, the argument is fairly pointless, since the solar cells are used in applications where it is impractical to use power from the grid (eg. boats, pumps, telecommunication towers, navigation lights or hand held calculators)
Why is it dangerous? Dangerous relative to what? More dangerous than the Hydrofluoric Acid used in oil refining (which of course is only nasty if it gets out)? Your garage is probably full of much more dangerous chemicals than small amounts of hydrogen. KiloWatts per square metre sound like serious amounts of energy to me. Even if you can only get 5 percent of that you are still getting a fair bit of energy.The thing that impressed me the most about Loki was the continuing work that was done after the products were released. I bought "Myth II", which was released with only Voodoo fullscreen 3D support, then grabbed the patch and it gave me full OpenGL support on the game. The same thing happened with "Rail Tycoon Gold" - playable with the release, but fantastic with the patch to bring it up to date with newer hardware. The thing that will annoy people the most in the future is that linux distribution updates are likely to break their working Loki games as old libraries are automaticly deleted by package management software
As for learning the secrets of the universe from aliens, a lot of stuff is researched outside the US, so it would be true. Some of the scientists that fled the Nazis may have initially even been illegal aliens before their citizenship came through.