I'm sure the record industry is losing sleep over the pretentious audiophile demographic...
Like me, I guess. I was listening to the newest Dropkick Murphys CD in my car - an Oldsmobile with the factory-upgraded stereo - and it sucked. What's the point of listening to Irish punk loudly when you can only barely tell what the drummer's playing?
My ears are probably shot from a misspent youth and lots of concerts, but even I can tell when an album is horribly, almost criminally ill-mastered. It's not just the audiophiles with their $40,000 oxygen-free gold systems who are affected by this stuff.
Good grief. About 30 people post the same general advice and you're the first one to get it right:
$ uname; sudo bash OpenBSD sudo: bash: command not found
If you're going to train your fingers, you might as well teach them the correct (and shortest) sequence.
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My printer was EASIER to install
When I most recently needed to add a network printer at the office, I went into KDE's printer control panel, clicked New -> Printer, picked the right one from the list of printers it found on our LAN, clicked Next a few times, and printed a test page. I think Linux pretty much has this problem solved.
There is plenty of free open-source software on OS X if that's what you're looking for, it isn't magically turned into shareware
Actually, it is. Take Memtest86+, the de facto standard RAM tester. Now Google for "memtest os x" and you'll find this jerk who sells a compiled version but doesn't make the source available to it. To rub salt in the wound, he's too lazy to make his own website graphics and uses the default "Joomla!...because open source matters".
Sure, you can get Memtest for free if you know how. It's just irksome that the source-deprived shareware version is the one most Mac users will know about. So one program isn't the end of the world, but it seems par for the course for OS X.
Making conditions more complex isn't a good plan at all for maintenance, since it increases the difference between the pseudo-code for the function (i.e. the level that you think about, without all the grotty code for handling failure modes and obscure cases) and the real code...
Not to mention the performance penalties. Since this stuff is typically inside driver code, if there's an exit condition, you want to quit quickly. You don't want to test for if(!needscleanup) 200 times before the exit handler is reached.
It's about cooperation rather than competition. It's about that dirty economic word socialism versus Mother Nature's status quo capitalism.
Oh, yes, because successful F/OSS projects are noted for the genteel deliberation and selfless lack of competition. If egos or reputations were ever became involved, we might see things like people making their own versions of popular software and splitting them off!
Let me give you a hint: Sun and IBM aren't singing Kumbaya as they frolic in the daisies.
I don't think you can say that the GPL has failed in any way. Now, I'm a huge FreeBSD fan, and I wish it had the adoption rate of Linux. Still, despite the restrictions you mentioned, Linux is spreading like wildfire and FreeBSD is just marching along. You or I may prefer the BSD and similar licenses, but that's definitely the minority viewpoint these days.
While China and the US consume the world's resources, even the virtual ones the rest of the world is trying to adopt more efficient methods?
There are only so many ways to efficiently directly address a few billion devices. As computers become ubiquitous (picture a kid in India with a cell phone), so does the demand for addresses. There's no such thing as "fault" here; everyone wants this.
Here's how it happens. In a seated position, fully clothed:
1) Bring baby up to chest.
2) Clear one (1) nipple (e.g. by lifting shirt).
3) Let baby eat.
4) Pull shirt back down.
5) Burp baby. Done.
You missed the controversy-ending step:
0) Cover shoulder and chest with nursing blanket.
That's what my wife did when breastfeeding discreetly in restaurants or other public places. She didn't want to flash the world so she kept everything covered. Neither of us really understood why people want to make this an issue.
"But what if she forgets to bring a blanket?" Simple: parents of small babies don't ever go anywhere without a diaper bag. Ever. Keep the blanket with the bag.
There is no implicit right to re-distribute even if you are given a copy of something for free.
You're 100% correct, but I think it'd be darn difficult to show damages. A certain famous case comes to mind where BellSouth claimed Craig Neidorf stole documents worth $79,449. As it turns out, they offered the documents for sale (from their catalog, no less) for $13. When this came out at trial, BellSouth wisely dropped the case.
OK, it's apparent that you're going to puppydog me until I acknowledge you.
So, become a regular then. Contribute and show that you care about the Wikipedia. Then, gradually, you'll get some weight, and people might pay attention to things you say.
I'm just not that interested. I'll pitch in here or there, but the curve to reach acceptance is higher than I'm willing to climb. It might come as a surprise to people caught up in Wikipedia, but the vast majority of the rest of us are only passively interested in it. We want it to succeed and are even willing to help a little, but not so much that we'll keep coming back time and again until the Editing Gods smile upon us.
Or, you might actually come to agree with most of the policies you now reject.
I'll toss you an alternative idea. WP groupies complain that they hear the same old criticisms trotted out every time WP is mentioned here on Slashdot. Maybe, just maybe, those criticisms are valid. Furthermore, maybe we grouse about it so collectively loudly because we've been made so collectively unwelcome at WP.
Frankly, it's not our job to beg you to accept our help. If you want it - and Jimmy Wales is flat-out begging for it - then it's incumbent upon you to understand why we're not helping more already. Hint: we're telling you. It's your choice whether to listen.
Not quite. This style of wood stove (common in the Midwest at least) has fans built into its structure. The fire box sits inside a larger metal box, and the fans force air between the two. This lets you burn a fire much hotter than you normally wood and uses ambient room air to keep the whole system safely cooled. If the internal fans aren't blowing, then the fire box is effectively wrapped in a blanket of unmoving air. The insides would overheat while the outside would radiate a lot less heat than, say, a Franklin stove.
The fan is just a "nice touch" that distributes the heat faster. If your power is out, using it without the fan will be fine.
Not in the ones I'm talking about. If you ran them at full heat without the fans, the innards would burn out. You could treat them like a regular fireplace but they'd be horribly inefficient that way.
Are you talking about a wood burning whole house furnace with forced air?
Nope. I'm talking about a wood stove, either free-standing or set into a fireplace. You start the fire then adjust the damper and air vents to control how quickly the wood burns, and the blowers remove what would otherwise be a dangerous amount of heat into the surrounding room. My parents have two of these in different living rooms and one in the basement. When you have it tweaked right and the fans running on full blast, you can't stand to be within several feet of it for more than a minute or two. They normally use just one of the stoves and set the house furnace to 50 degrees or so; it never kicks in.
Sigh... every time any article on Slashdot mentions Wikipedia, there's always a flood of people saying "oh, no, I don't dare write anything lest my poor little article get deleted".
A lot of people in cold climates have backup (or even primary) wood stoves for heat. The main problem is that these have electric fans to blow super-hot air from around the stove's inner box into the room. Now, given that it's cold outside when you're building fires and very hot inside the stove itself, is there some way to directly convert the heat difference into enough electricity to drive the stove's fan?
Seriously, these things can potentially put out tremendous amounts of heat, probably enough to keep the pipes from freezing in a medium-sized house and certainly enough to cook simple foods. I'd think that a self-powered version would be extremely appreciated.
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I'm sure the record industry is losing sleep over the pretentious audiophile demographic ...
Like me, I guess. I was listening to the newest Dropkick Murphys CD in my car - an Oldsmobile with the factory-upgraded stereo - and it sucked. What's the point of listening to Irish punk loudly when you can only barely tell what the drummer's playing?
My ears are probably shot from a misspent youth and lots of concerts, but even I can tell when an album is horribly, almost criminally ill-mastered. It's not just the audiophiles with their $40,000 oxygen-free gold systems who are affected by this stuff.
Good grief. About 30 people post the same general advice and you're the first one to get it right:
If you're going to train your fingers, you might as well teach them the correct (and shortest) sequence.
My printer was EASIER to install
When I most recently needed to add a network printer at the office, I went into KDE's printer control panel, clicked New -> Printer, picked the right one from the list of printers it found on our LAN, clicked Next a few times, and printed a test page. I think Linux pretty much has this problem solved.
I hope this guy doesn't write code.
He's on the Zune team. Why do you ask?
There is plenty of free open-source software on OS X if that's what you're looking for, it isn't magically turned into shareware
Actually, it is. Take Memtest86+, the de facto standard RAM tester. Now Google for "memtest os x" and you'll find this jerk who sells a compiled version but doesn't make the source available to it. To rub salt in the wound, he's too lazy to make his own website graphics and uses the default "Joomla! ...because open source matters".
Sure, you can get Memtest for free if you know how. It's just irksome that the source-deprived shareware version is the one most Mac users will know about. So one program isn't the end of the world, but it seems par for the course for OS X.
Making conditions more complex isn't a good plan at all for maintenance, since it increases the difference between the pseudo-code for the function (i.e. the level that you think about, without all the grotty code for handling failure modes and obscure cases) and the real code...
Not to mention the performance penalties. Since this stuff is typically inside driver code, if there's an exit condition, you want to quit quickly. You don't want to test for if(!needscleanup) 200 times before the exit handler is reached.
copyrights here in Canada only extend for 50 years after the death of the creator.
That is a use of the word "only" with which I was previously unfamiliar.
What were the designers on when they decided "exists" is not a member function of hashes -- excuse me -- dictionaries and arrays?
They renamed it "in".
It's about cooperation rather than competition. It's about that dirty economic word socialism versus Mother Nature's status quo capitalism.
Oh, yes, because successful F/OSS projects are noted for the genteel deliberation and selfless lack of competition. If egos or reputations were ever became involved, we might see things like people making their own versions of popular software and splitting them off!
Let me give you a hint: Sun and IBM aren't singing Kumbaya as they frolic in the daisies.
And this is exactly where the GPL fails.
I don't think you can say that the GPL has failed in any way. Now, I'm a huge FreeBSD fan, and I wish it had the adoption rate of Linux. Still, despite the restrictions you mentioned, Linux is spreading like wildfire and FreeBSD is just marching along. You or I may prefer the BSD and similar licenses, but that's definitely the minority viewpoint these days.
While China and the US consume the world's resources, even the virtual ones the rest of the world is trying to adopt more efficient methods?
There are only so many ways to efficiently directly address a few billion devices. As computers become ubiquitous (picture a kid in India with a cell phone), so does the demand for addresses. There's no such thing as "fault" here; everyone wants this.
I don't know about you, but even if the whole internet switches to IPv6, I'm still keeping my NAT firewall.
I'm keeping my firewall too. Who's crazy enough to drop it just because IPv6 is around?
My computers have no business being poked from the internet.
Then don't let them be poked, and find a better argument for having good connectivity.
Here's how it happens. In a seated position, fully clothed:
1) Bring baby up to chest.
2) Clear one (1) nipple (e.g. by lifting shirt).
3) Let baby eat.
4) Pull shirt back down.
5) Burp baby. Done.
You missed the controversy-ending step:
0) Cover shoulder and chest with nursing blanket.
That's what my wife did when breastfeeding discreetly in restaurants or other public places. She didn't want to flash the world so she kept everything covered. Neither of us really understood why people want to make this an issue.
"But what if she forgets to bring a blanket?" Simple: parents of small babies don't ever go anywhere without a diaper bag. Ever. Keep the blanket with the bag.
"Hacker Crackdown" by Bruce Sterling, available from Gutenberg. I think he pasted parts of it to Phrack, which he published at the time.
There is no implicit right to re-distribute even if you are given a copy of something for free.
You're 100% correct, but I think it'd be darn difficult to show damages. A certain famous case comes to mind where BellSouth claimed Craig Neidorf stole documents worth $79,449. As it turns out, they offered the documents for sale (from their catalog, no less) for $13. When this came out at trial, BellSouth wisely dropped the case.
OK, it's apparent that you're going to puppydog me until I acknowledge you.
So, become a regular then. Contribute and show that you care about the Wikipedia. Then, gradually, you'll get some weight, and people might pay attention to things you say.
I'm just not that interested. I'll pitch in here or there, but the curve to reach acceptance is higher than I'm willing to climb. It might come as a surprise to people caught up in Wikipedia, but the vast majority of the rest of us are only passively interested in it. We want it to succeed and are even willing to help a little, but not so much that we'll keep coming back time and again until the Editing Gods smile upon us.
Or, you might actually come to agree with most of the policies you now reject.
I'll toss you an alternative idea. WP groupies complain that they hear the same old criticisms trotted out every time WP is mentioned here on Slashdot. Maybe, just maybe, those criticisms are valid. Furthermore, maybe we grouse about it so collectively loudly because we've been made so collectively unwelcome at WP.
Frankly, it's not our job to beg you to accept our help. If you want it - and Jimmy Wales is flat-out begging for it - then it's incumbent upon you to understand why we're not helping more already. Hint: we're telling you. It's your choice whether to listen.
I do not want to know what "sassy water" is.
Clarified that for you...
Yes, that must be it. The critics are all idiots who Just Don't Get It.
Not quite. This style of wood stove (common in the Midwest at least) has fans built into its structure. The fire box sits inside a larger metal box, and the fans force air between the two. This lets you burn a fire much hotter than you normally wood and uses ambient room air to keep the whole system safely cooled. If the internal fans aren't blowing, then the fire box is effectively wrapped in a blanket of unmoving air. The insides would overheat while the outside would radiate a lot less heat than, say, a Franklin stove.
The fan is just a "nice touch" that distributes the heat faster. If your power is out, using it without the fan will be fine.
Not in the ones I'm talking about. If you ran them at full heat without the fans, the innards would burn out. You could treat them like a regular fireplace but they'd be horribly inefficient that way.
Are you talking about a wood burning whole house furnace with forced air?
Nope. I'm talking about a wood stove, either free-standing or set into a fireplace. You start the fire then adjust the damper and air vents to control how quickly the wood burns, and the blowers remove what would otherwise be a dangerous amount of heat into the surrounding room. My parents have two of these in different living rooms and one in the basement. When you have it tweaked right and the fans running on full blast, you can't stand to be within several feet of it for more than a minute or two. They normally use just one of the stoves and set the house furnace to 50 degrees or so; it never kicks in.
Sigh... every time any article on Slashdot mentions Wikipedia, there's always a flood of people saying "oh, no, I don't dare write anything lest my poor little article get deleted".
Maybe that's an indicator that something's wrong?
A lot of people in cold climates have backup (or even primary) wood stoves for heat. The main problem is that these have electric fans to blow super-hot air from around the stove's inner box into the room. Now, given that it's cold outside when you're building fires and very hot inside the stove itself, is there some way to directly convert the heat difference into enough electricity to drive the stove's fan?
Seriously, these things can potentially put out tremendous amounts of heat, probably enough to keep the pipes from freezing in a medium-sized house and certainly enough to cook simple foods. I'd think that a self-powered version would be extremely appreciated.
Prison?
I just threw up a little in my mouth, TYVM.