I know this is specific, but it'd be nice if, by the time features get built into 2.7, someone could get with Dell/Creative and make a driver for the new OEM SB Live cards that Dell sells. It seems there's been no progress on this for a while, and lot's of people are getting these. Sure, flame me for getting a Dell, but this chipset (10k1x) needs a driver.
I always wanted to back the third party candidate (in true Berkeley fashion) and go with Greg's, but they always undercook their crust and its doughy. Blondie's has the persistent rat rumor. By default, its Fat Slice, I just wish the slices were as Fat as they used to be.
That picnic could be a good place for SCO lawyers to deliver legal papers to violators of their copyright. Anyone in attendance running Linux, wearing a Linux related T-Shirt, etc could get sued.
I use Xine, MPlayer, and XMMS all the time and like them quite a lot. Xine is probably my favorite as far as playback goes, but its frontend is still a little lacking. MPlayer needs a little better frontend too but its an overall good program. XMMS has come a long way and is one of my favorite multimedia applications. I'm not dissing any of them, but Real Player has always been aimed at online media playback, and its Linux/Unix port has always been substandard. That's all I really meant. I don't think anything that Real makes will replace MPlayer and Xine and I like having the option to use any of these, but at the same time a fully functional media player from Real that crashes less would be a great addition to the open source realm.
had a plan to make money playing Everquest, but because the market got saturated with people selling Everquest characters/money, he couldn't make enough. He often lives on a bread/water diet and has money making schemes. I'm not lying, this guy's for real. His other schemes include playing Texas Hold 'Em for a living, killing deer w/ a crossbow and using the entire animal like the Native Americans did, and now he wants to go fishing in Yosemite to sustain himself for a year. He's been fishing once, I think.
sounds like this could be a good thing. the older versions of real player for linux worked with moderate success. but they were shoved far out of reach on the real site like that guy in office space who likes his stapler so much. the versions weren't quite current and the players were sub-standard compared to the windows version. it'd be nice if they released a decent media player for linux and even better if it were open sourced.
$6.99 is pretty cheap guys. Most Linux distros in a box cost more than that. And these guys own Unix so their Linux must be the best. I'd trust it more than the kind that guy with the beard sells called Gnu/Linux. And how come he can't spell new right? Its N-E-W. And I still haven't got my free beer.
Why is it that whenever something new is created, people immediately assume it will make their computers faster and then a thousand people go to debunk it, saying it will only make a marginal speed increase.
This technology needs to be tested by other people in order to see if it is legit, as is typical in the scientific community.
But... assuming that it does work as well as it claims, consider first the possibility that its most important use might not be in your overclocked, overheated computer. There are a multitude of applications out there where heat transfer is needed and materials of high thermal conductivity are useful. Yes, it might be that this could apply to the semiconductor industry, then again, it might not. But too many people are thinking one-dimensionally.
So, maybe I'm too lazy to look into it myself, but assuming not too much runaround/rigamarole from M$, would it make sense, financially, to get a windows system from say Dell or a computer store and get a refund, buy a Lindows system, or get a system with no OS and put a downloaded distro on yourself?
As part of the illegal art expo at SF MOMA this month, they've had several shows. I went to one in SF last week which was quite cool. The movement to protect this artform and avoid massive lawsuits seems similar to some of the problems faced in the open source movement. Perhaps there should be an open source music movement now. These artists/musicians/filmmakers are interested in freedom of expression through using other people's work in new and creative ways.
A lot of people have talked about this with only an article's understanding of it. I've watched some footage on tv where they compared umpire calls to the Questec ones. Questec is still not perfect, and gets calls wrong sometime. A lot of the problems occur on the fringes of the zone (as one would expect). It generally doesn't call strikes that are within 2 inches of the plate, which most umpires call strikes. Considering the diameter of the ball this makes sense. Also, there is the problem of pitches that cut across the zone, being within at first, but as they pass the end of the plate are out of the zone. This system still needs improvement. The umpires do not view this as taking their job away, but are concerned about being unfairly evaluated. Likewise, pitchers, such as the usually class act, knowledgeable Curt Schilling have complained that umpires who are aware of the system are purposefully calling games differently because they know they're being watched (the system is only used at some ballparks). This results in an artificially smaller strike zone sometimes. Imagine driving on the freeway knowing there is a cop 4 cars behind you. The laws are always there, but when you feel someone (real or artificial) over your shoulder you can become overcautious and hesitant. As you may remember, Schilling recently punched one of the Questec cameras, as he takes a strong position against the system.
Well, you should have been more specific before instead of generalizing to all chemists. Personally, I dislike most organic chemists I meet as well, along with all my ChemE colleagues that have flocked to the ever so trendy biotech field.
I know you do have experience as a former chemist, but the way you speak of chemists, it sounds as if all chemist are simpleton organic chemist. I agree that most organic labs get way more funding and most of the people don't understand the technology behind NMR, but... there are hoards of chemists out there that buck your stereotype. Chemists that don't understand quantum? Try physical chemists. Chemists that wouldn't understand Fourier transforms? How about theoretical chemists. As someone who has worked in an organic lab before, as well as seen the "other side," I'd have to say that chemistry is a lot more than running an organic synthesis and then looking at its NMR spectra. Thus the point of this book, to show people like yourself the frontiers of chemistry. I don't mean to start a chemist vs. physicist flame war (I'm an engineer anyway) but don't be bitter if the chemists get some respect once in a while.
i've heard that pheremones are most commonly found where b.o. is the highest, eg the armpit, so if you illiminate the sweat and odor, would you not also be illiminating a lot of the pheremones too. how will i get chicks then?
I don't know why all the KDE marks want to claim Gnome will inevitably die because of this. Eazel made a decent product. Ximian's is still good. Not to mention that Gnome was around (and open sourced) long before Eazel, Ximian/Helixcode, or even the Gnome Foundation existed. Not to mention the fact that one of main players in the whole situation, Miguel de Icaza, helped work on Gnome for a long time before any of these organizations, and if they were to fold, I'm pretty sure he would continue to work on Gnome. Why would he give up on a project he's spent so much time on and which has blossomed into one of the better GUI's available and one of the best pieces of graphical software for linux. And if you want to involve yourself in petty kde vs gnome flame-wars, just go back and read the hall of fame article about kde vs gnome. I'm sure you'll find plenty of interesting comments there without wasting the time of people reading this thread. If you want to use KDE, then fine, its pretty good. But so is Gnome, and I'll continue using it as long as I think its a great product, which it is.
here's my rant. the towers in kuala lampur and the sears tower are among the tallest buildings in the world. the CN tower in canada is not. why? because its not a building. just because you have a really big antenna with a couple of floors in it, does not mean its a building. canadians need to learn what a building is. (this is a public service announcement to all ignorant canadians, which does not mean all canadians are ignorant)
hey i don't really want to start a flame war, but i'm not impressed that you're so "old school" that your cd's have scratches on them. mine do too. i just think the argument might be better if you, say, had mp3's of the scratched cd's so that it wouldn't be a problem and you could burn a new one if the old cd got really scratched.
how many people actually need multiple copies of the same cd? i've never burned extra copies of cd's i own so i can have one for the car, one for home, and one for the discman. i usually just bring the cd to where i want to play it. man that's really complicated.
just because they've been around longer than script kiddies have been on the planet doesn't mean we should use them over and over again. and as i said before, i'm not saying these words shouldn't be used. yes, they're a part of our vocabulary at this point, its true. but--these words also shouldn't be used to the point that say, all the thirteen year olds who start reading slashdot don't bother to find out what the word means, and suddenly they start using it all the time out of context. however, if the same thirteen year old were to wonder what the word meant, looked it up, and suddenly learned about USENET and the days of BBS, more power to them. i wasn't trying to 'change the world' with my post, i just wanted to express my feeling that post-ers should use some... discretion when choosing how to word their posts, instead of copying what everyone else does. originality is a good thing.
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I know this is specific, but it'd be nice if, by the time features get built into 2.7, someone could get with Dell/Creative and make a driver for the new OEM SB Live cards that Dell sells. It seems there's been no progress on this for a while, and lot's of people are getting these. Sure, flame me for getting a Dell, but this chipset (10k1x) needs a driver.
I always wanted to back the third party candidate (in true Berkeley fashion) and go with Greg's, but they always undercook their crust and its doughy. Blondie's has the persistent rat rumor. By default, its Fat Slice, I just wish the slices were as Fat as they used to be.
Blondie's or Fat Slice?
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That picnic could be a good place for SCO lawyers to deliver legal papers to violators of their copyright. Anyone in attendance running Linux, wearing a Linux related T-Shirt, etc could get sued.
I use Xine, MPlayer, and XMMS all the time and like them quite a lot. Xine is probably my favorite as far as playback goes, but its frontend is still a little lacking. MPlayer needs a little better frontend too but its an overall good program. XMMS has come a long way and is one of my favorite multimedia applications. I'm not dissing any of them, but Real Player has always been aimed at online media playback, and its Linux/Unix port has always been substandard. That's all I really meant. I don't think anything that Real makes will replace MPlayer and Xine and I like having the option to use any of these, but at the same time a fully functional media player from Real that crashes less would be a great addition to the open source realm.
had a plan to make money playing Everquest, but because the market got saturated with people selling Everquest characters/money, he couldn't make enough. He often lives on a bread/water diet and has money making schemes. I'm not lying, this guy's for real. His other schemes include playing Texas Hold 'Em for a living, killing deer w/ a crossbow and using the entire animal like the Native Americans did, and now he wants to go fishing in Yosemite to sustain himself for a year. He's been fishing once, I think.
sounds like this could be a good thing. the older versions of real player for linux worked with moderate success. but they were shoved far out of reach on the real site like that guy in office space who likes his stapler so much. the versions weren't quite current and the players were sub-standard compared to the windows version. it'd be nice if they released a decent media player for linux and even better if it were open sourced.
$6.99 is pretty cheap guys. Most Linux distros in a box cost more than that. And these guys own Unix so their Linux must be the best. I'd trust it more than the kind that guy with the beard sells called Gnu/Linux. And how come he can't spell new right? Its N-E-W. And I still haven't got my free beer.
Why is it that whenever something new is created, people immediately assume it will make their computers faster and then a thousand people go to debunk it, saying it will only make a marginal speed increase.
... assuming that it does work as well as it claims, consider first the possibility that its most important use might not be in your overclocked, overheated computer. There are a multitude of applications out there where heat transfer is needed and materials of high thermal conductivity are useful. Yes, it might be that this could apply to the semiconductor industry, then again, it might not. But too many people are thinking one-dimensionally.
This technology needs to be tested by other people in order to see if it is legit, as is typical in the scientific community.
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So, maybe I'm too lazy to look into it myself, but assuming not too much runaround/rigamarole from M$, would it make sense, financially, to get a windows system from say Dell or a computer store and get a refund, buy a Lindows system, or get a system with no OS and put a downloaded distro on yourself?
As part of the illegal art expo at SF MOMA this month, they've had several shows. I went to one in SF last week which was quite cool. The movement to protect this artform and avoid massive lawsuits seems similar to some of the problems faced in the open source movement. Perhaps there should be an open source music movement now. These artists/musicians/filmmakers are interested in freedom of expression through using other people's work in new and creative ways.
Ahh, so its a mass balance based solution.
tired of these tech-writer Linux articles? I am.
A lot of people have talked about this with only an article's understanding of it. I've watched some footage on tv where they compared umpire calls to the Questec ones. Questec is still not perfect, and gets calls wrong sometime. A lot of the problems occur on the fringes of the zone (as one would expect). It generally doesn't call strikes that are within 2 inches of the plate, which most umpires call strikes. Considering the diameter of the ball this makes sense. Also, there is the problem of pitches that cut across the zone, being within at first, but as they pass the end of the plate are out of the zone. This system still needs improvement. The umpires do not view this as taking their job away, but are concerned about being unfairly evaluated. Likewise, pitchers, such as the usually class act, knowledgeable Curt Schilling have complained that umpires who are aware of the system are purposefully calling games differently because they know they're being watched (the system is only used at some ballparks). This results in an artificially smaller strike zone sometimes. Imagine driving on the freeway knowing there is a cop 4 cars behind you. The laws are always there, but when you feel someone (real or artificial) over your shoulder you can become overcautious and hesitant. As you may remember, Schilling recently punched one of the Questec cameras, as he takes a strong position against the system.
why don't we give the contract to Halliburton.
Well, you should have been more specific before instead of generalizing to all chemists. Personally, I dislike most organic chemists I meet as well, along with all my ChemE colleagues that have flocked to the ever so trendy biotech field.
I know you do have experience as a former chemist, but the way you speak of chemists, it sounds as if all chemist are simpleton organic chemist. I agree that most organic labs get way more funding and most of the people don't understand the technology behind NMR, but ... there are hoards of chemists out there that buck your stereotype. Chemists that don't understand quantum? Try physical chemists. Chemists that wouldn't understand Fourier transforms? How about theoretical chemists. As someone who has worked in an organic lab before, as well as seen the "other side," I'd have to say that chemistry is a lot more than running an organic synthesis and then looking at its NMR spectra. Thus the point of this book, to show people like yourself the frontiers of chemistry. I don't mean to start a chemist vs. physicist flame war (I'm an engineer anyway) but don't be bitter if the chemists get some respect once in a while.
i've heard that pheremones are most commonly found where b.o. is the highest, eg the armpit, so if you illiminate the sweat and odor, would you not also be illiminating a lot of the pheremones too. how will i get chicks then?
I don't know why all the KDE marks want to claim Gnome will inevitably die because of this. Eazel made a decent product. Ximian's is still good. Not to mention that Gnome was around (and open sourced) long before Eazel, Ximian/Helixcode, or even the Gnome Foundation existed. Not to mention the fact that one of main players in the whole situation, Miguel de Icaza, helped work on Gnome for a long time before any of these organizations, and if they were to fold, I'm pretty sure he would continue to work on Gnome. Why would he give up on a project he's spent so much time on and which has blossomed into one of the better GUI's available and one of the best pieces of graphical software for linux. And if you want to involve yourself in petty kde vs gnome flame-wars, just go back and read the hall of fame article about kde vs gnome. I'm sure you'll find plenty of interesting comments there without wasting the time of people reading this thread. If you want to use KDE, then fine, its pretty good. But so is Gnome, and I'll continue using it as long as I think its a great product, which it is.
here's my rant. the towers in kuala lampur and the sears tower are among the tallest buildings in the world. the CN tower in canada is not. why? because its not a building. just because you have a really big antenna with a couple of floors in it, does not mean its a building. canadians need to learn what a building is. (this is a public service announcement to all ignorant canadians, which does not mean all canadians are ignorant)
hey i don't really want to start a flame war, but i'm not impressed that you're so "old school" that your cd's have scratches on them. mine do too. i just think the argument might be better if you, say, had mp3's of the scratched cd's so that it wouldn't be a problem and you could burn a new one if the old cd got really scratched.
hmm with the dvd drive, it'd be cool if you got it working with decss code.
how many people actually need multiple copies of the same cd? i've never burned extra copies of cd's i own so i can have one for the car, one for home, and one for the discman. i usually just bring the cd to where i want to play it. man that's really complicated.
just because they've been around longer than script kiddies have been on the planet doesn't mean we should use them over and over again. and as i said before, i'm not saying these words shouldn't be used. yes, they're a part of our vocabulary at this point, its true. but--these words also shouldn't be used to the point that say, all the thirteen year olds who start reading slashdot don't bother to find out what the word means, and suddenly they start using it all the time out of context. however, if the same thirteen year old were to wonder what the word meant, looked it up, and suddenly learned about USENET and the days of BBS, more power to them. i wasn't trying to 'change the world' with my post, i just wanted to express my feeling that post-ers should use some ... discretion when choosing how to word their posts, instead of copying what everyone else does. originality is a good thing.