I remember when my kids were infants, everyone warned us of the "terrible twos", meaning that when the became two years old they would be hard to manage.
What they didn't mention was that things would only get worse from there.
Thanks. I was kinda hoping it would be more plug'n'pray.
BTW, any preferences over SnuSE, Debian, Mandrake, others? I've been using Linux as my desktop instead of Windoze since Slackware 1996 (jeez 8 years). Slack was pretty good replacement for Win 3.1. I've also tried RH, later versions of Slack, Mandrake, etc. I really like Mandrake 8.something, but it didn't support my new video card, so I went with RH 9.0, which kind of sucks. I've gotten lazy when it comes to installing applications that aren't included, and RH puts things in nonstandard places. I'm thinkging of trying MDK 10. Seems like with Linux distros you need to hit the sweetspot of hardware that is not too new or too old.
I tried the Live CD. It booted, I left for awhile, I came back and it looked like Windoze. Also, it didn't find my HP 7110 USB printer/scanner/fax. Next.
In 10 years electricity will be so expensive that it will not be economically feasible to run your laptop, much less this monster.
BTW, does anyone else use Google as a spell checker? I just brought up a Google page, typed in "feasable" and it replied back "Did you mean feasible?".
Well, sort of. Why do you think it's called a voice coil? Someone had the idea in the 1980s (I think) to use speaker technology for the stepper motor in a hard disk. So I guess we've come full circle on this.
Same problem for real-time embedded software. Print statements take a relative eternity, assuming you even have someplace to print to. "Printing" to a memory buffer can help if you bypass the formatting.
I didn't get much past the first paragraph. It seems that their premise is faulty. If you have a working program (and how do you know it is 100% correct anyway?) why not just go with that one?
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He should have incorporated under the guise of doing GMO development. Asscrap never would have touched him.
I remember when my kids were infants, everyone warned us of the "terrible twos", meaning that when the became two years old they would be hard to manage.
What they didn't mention was that things would only get worse from there.
Integral Fast Reactor? It's supposed to be passively safe, and recycles it's own nuclear waste.
Just proves again that you shouldn't drink and read /. at the same time. Got a nasty purple stain on the MB and I think I killed the floppy drive too.
In France they take the highest bid.
Go figure.
It must be /.'s subtle tie-in with the movie. Do they get a kickback?
When I saw "Greek culture" I thought the story was about something else.
Thanks. I was kinda hoping it would be more plug'n'pray.
BTW, any preferences over SnuSE, Debian, Mandrake, others? I've been using Linux as my desktop instead of Windoze since Slackware 1996 (jeez 8 years). Slack was pretty good replacement for Win 3.1. I've also tried RH, later versions of Slack, Mandrake, etc. I really like Mandrake 8.something, but it didn't support my new video card, so I went with RH 9.0, which kind of sucks. I've gotten lazy when it comes to installing applications that aren't included, and RH puts things in nonstandard places. I'm thinkging of trying MDK 10. Seems like with Linux distros you need to hit the sweetspot of hardware that is not too new or too old.
I tried the Live CD. It booted, I left for awhile, I came back and it looked like Windoze. Also, it didn't find my HP 7110 USB printer/scanner/fax. Next.
I'm waiting for Blue Linux.
And if it doesn't work, I'll bet I can develop one for $20,000 and a Freshman.
I was wondering how they "spent" the grad student.
I hope it works better than that single dial thingy that BMW has.
"I said thirty degrees port, not turn on the music!"
In 10 years electricity will be so expensive that it will not be economically feasible to run your laptop, much less this monster.
BTW, does anyone else use Google as a spell checker? I just brought up a Google page, typed in "feasable" and it replied back "Did you mean feasible?".
I think that's the name of the Pitbull down the street.
mkfs.jfs actually gives a warning that you might lose data on the partition?
What is the world coming to?
Is this going to be another one of those developments that we never hear about again?
Well, sort of. Why do you think it's called a voice coil? Someone had the idea in the 1980s (I think) to use speaker technology for the stepper motor in a hard disk. So I guess we've come full circle on this.
Let's see. Aurora-type cruise missile, homemade rail gun, webcam, and 802.11g with high power antenna. I think we've got something here.
DId I leave anything out?
Maybe I don't want one in MY house, but I'd sure like my neighbor to get one.
We used to laugh at Pournelle in Byte Magazine in the 1980's. Asinum Asinum Fricat.
Yeah, I think there was one a week or two ago. Let me get out my Slashdot Archive CD and check.
Doh! Nothing there.
I was hoping WIMPs would explain the rash I get when I go to the beach.
Of course you can't marry Google, but you might have a chance with Sergey.
Same problem for real-time embedded software. Print statements take a relative eternity, assuming you even have someplace to print to. "Printing" to a memory buffer can help if you bypass the formatting.
I didn't get much past the first paragraph. It seems that their premise is faulty. If you have a working program (and how do you know it is 100% correct anyway?) why not just go with that one?
I should have RTFA first.