Erm... You do know it's not possible to have a hard drive that's *not* partitioned, right? (Well, you can,
but you can't do anything with it)
you might not be able to do something with it in windows but in linux you can put a filesystem on an unpartitioned disk.
mkfs.ext2/dev/hdc
for example will put an ext2 filesystem on your drive without a partition.
i hear when using ppower4 it is easier to make transitions, and also making a printable version is simpler. i've been meaning to check it out. i also really like the idea of just having to add a latex class. since it is a class i would think you could add an option to the class to make the presentation printable (without the animations). otherwise i'm pretty happy with it.
i voted, and not for a democrate or a republican. i also vote for the house and senate. it hasn't really helped much. then again i'm only 26. perhaps it will get better with time?
once our corporations have invaded your country i'll start commenting on how you need to do something.
really though most us citizens are quite happy with sitting in their comfortable homes watching who wants to be a millionare. i dont know how to change them, any suggestions?
you do realize that involves purchasing Windows 2000 anyway? (Well, actually, I get it as part of a
campus license agreement, but even at home I have need for Win2K; especially in the way I need it for
development work with my job - telecommuting's fun.)
it seems like you should be a little more selective about where you work. one of the things i told my current employer was that i wouldn't use windows. i was upfront from the beginning. i told him i would rather us an abacus.
there is actually a class file for latex called proper that when converted to a pdf can be used to make presentations. it has the standard stuff for presentations: slide transition, having bullets slide in, themes, etc. i wouldnt suggest you go out and learn how to use latex in order to make presentations, but if you are interested in a wordprocessor also it's not a bad idea. the nice thing about pdf's is there is a viewer for almost any os.
the link above provides some screen shots and if you download the tarball you can also check out an example.
There's absolutely NOTHING to push against in space (last I check, there's no air to push up against
there).
actually the sun sends alot of hydrogen ions into space. these are more commonly known as solar wind. these travel very fast, and i would suspect that it would be possible to use the natural resonance of the solar wind to power the ship.
i think they were referring the durability with respect to space materials. i dont believe they were suggesting you use the vibrational aspects of the concrete. i suppose it is possible to match the resonance with the solar winds.
i wonder if they have tested the materials under the extreme conditions one would encounter in space? it gets really cold at night and really hot during the day up there. i really doubt the latex component will withstand really extreme conditions.
For the first time, a standard psychological test used by clinicians worldwide in the evaluation and treatment of adults will be administered to a machine-based artificial personality.
The test is known as the MMPI-2 (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory).Developed as a specialized psychological test for the measurement of psychopathology, the MMPI has been the preferred psychosocial diagnostic instrument among clinicians for the past 50 years.
Originally published in 1940 by Hathaway and McKinley, MMPI has been implemented in many clinical and non-clinical contexts, including medical, educational, medicolegal and organizational settings. A restandardisation and partial revision of the MMPI resulted in the publication of the MMPI-2 in 1989.
GAC (Generic Artificial Consciousness -- pronounced "Jack") is the artificial personality being developed at the Mindpixel Digital Mind Modeling Project with the collaboration of nearly 40,000 Internet users from more than 200 countries worldwide.
GAC will be evaluated using the MMPI-2 over the next several months to assess its learning of human consensus experience from the Mindpixel project's large and diverse group of users from many different cultures.
The test will be supervised and interpreted by Dr. Robert Epstein, one of the world's leading experts on human and machine behavior.
"Nothing like this has ever been attempted," said Epstein. "We're evaluating thousands of people worldwide as if they were one collective individual."
"We don't know if it is possible to build a normal personality out of millions of little pieces. This experiment will tell us how reasonable the idea is," Epstein added.
In the nearly one year the project has been online, Mindpixel's Internet contributors have made nearly 8 million individual measurements of more than 355,000 individual items of human consensus experience.
The project's organizers hope that they will gain enough information by the time the project's data collection phase is complete (2010) to build a highly accurate statistical model of an average human mind which they hope can be used as a foundation for true artificial consciousness.
One of the world's leading experts on human and machine behavior, Robert Epstein received his doctorate in psychology at Harvard University in 1981. He is Editor-in-Chief of Psychology Today magazine and University Research Professor at United States International University in San Diego.
He is also the founder and Director Emeritus of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies in Massachusetts and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University. He was also the former director of the famed Loebner Prize competition in Artificial Intelligence.
The Mindpixel Digital Mind Modeling Project was launched on July 6, 2000. It is the world's largest Artificial Intelligence effort, with nearly 40,000 contributing members in more than 200 countries.
I throw it away. It really does not cost me anything. the people sending it pay for it's
delivery. It does not piss me off; that is because postal spam has yet to flood me to the
point where I have to spend an hour destroying mail just to be able to open my PO
box.
actually it does cost you. its an indirect cost similar to the indirect cost spam has on the consumer. consider each person in a city of 20,000 gets 1 lb of junkmail each week. your trash service then has to process 20,000 lbs of extra trash each week.
some of this is recycled, but a large portion will go into the landfill. so it is also fairly taxing on the environment. now consider a large city of say 500k or 1mil people. imagine how much waste they have each year that could be reduced by preventing junk mail.
i agree that spam costs people, but i also think junk mail costs people. i think to say both donot is silly and short sighted.
you should explain this to people who make peer reviewed journals. i think they would find it surprising. we cannot even make our publications available on the web after they have been published by the journal, and if we use one of our previously published works we have to cite it. perhaps the same laws dont apply in this case, although i thought it was generalizable.
there are things that you prefer, and there are things that you have the right to. the former is ever growing and the latter is ever shrinking. these two things can sometimes overlap, but not as often as people would like.
it is true that i enjoy posting on slashdot, but i dont confuse that with a right. if malda decided today that i could no longer post, canceled my account, banned my ip and kept an eye out for me as i tried to create new accounts via a proxy server this action would be fine. it is taco's perogative to ban me from slashdot.
at this point i would have to find another outlet where i discuss stuff. i dont think i was really missing the point. people all over slashdot and across the united states think they have these "rights" and it's really annoying. they do however have the right to say they have the aforementioned "rights" and i suppose i'll support their right to say that. i will also refute what they say when i think they are incorrect.
it's strange how people get used to something and then one day it's gone. but hey it was my right; you cannot take that away from me. i personally look forward to the day all cell phones stop working. hell we are so dependent on land lines that to loose those would be an impressive sight to see.
back on topic:) i think the game issue comes down to responsability on the part of the gaming company. they need to be willing to put their foot down when necessary and move swiftly to correct problems when they are found. you are a consumer and can speak with your money. when you are dissatisfied with a product speak out, mail the company, make a thisonlinegamesucks.com website, organize a protest, march on silicon valley, etc. use the rights you do have to achieve what you desire.
thats nice until your daughters tell you they want implants and are starving themselves to look like barbie dolls. is this really the image we want weomen to model themselves after? flip through any magazine and you see the wafelike starved calvinclein models looking at you. kids see this and think: "man i'm too fat, if i want to be accepted as beautiful i'm going to have to starve myself and get plastic sugery". it's really odd to have my 11 year old sister ask me if i think she is fat. i respond with "no, turn off mtv and read a book".
i agree that strong role models are good but i really dont think that laura is a good role model from every perspective.
actually.. when referencing copyrighted work you have to cite the source. even if you wrote it because normally the publisher owns the copyright. in this case even if katz wrote it and the imdb published it they would hold the copyright and he would have to cite the imdb article otherwise it would be considered plagarism.
I do not find it acceptable at all that others determine for me what I can an
cannot do within the boundaries of my legally earned rights.
this is pretty funny. what country are you from. see, here in the us we have a constitution that contains a list of our rights. most of these rights were earned years ago and the people here today now think they have the "right" to everything. i know it sounds kinda silly...
we probably have people who can read "the right to play online games where noone cheats" into the constitution. sadly enough it doesnt mention such a thing. i'm glad to see the founding fathers incorporated online gaming into your legally earned rights. it probably also includes such important things as: watching jerry springer and mtv, shopping with convinence at wal-mart, cheap gass for huge tank-like cars, and lest we forget the right to high speed internet access for everyone. you must indeed live in a wonderful country.
Apple invented the true one-click OS installation, and Mac OS X advances the
tradition. Not only is OS X the first Unix-based operating system that's easier to install
than Windows, but it's the easiest Mac OS installation ever.
i dont buy this at all. from my expirence redhat and mandrake have installations that are much easier than windows. really though this is not an issue for windows. as mentioned in the article, windows is normally sold preinstalled on new machines.
i purchased office for $99. it was the educational version and it didnt have access. just powerpoint, word and excel i believe. it was office 95 or 97. i dont remember which.
i remember when they cable guy came to put our box in in the early 80's. he had to run coax every leaving bits and pieces of sheilding and wires in his wake. it was expensive at the time (hell our vcr was huge by todays standards) and here we are now. cable tv is cheap enough to be used to educate the masses and teach them the moral lessons of pokemon.
my parents and the others on my block were footing the bill for for the infrastructure and now that it is in place whe have cable tv in every home (better than clean water:?), at least some might think so). like any new technology it will take some time and the time is inversly porportional to the demand. if enough people want it it will get there alot quicker.
gotta love soccer moms. she's probably too busy riding around in her suv while talking on her cell phone to actually take part in her childrens lives. thats it let the tv raise them then complain when they think they can fly like the power rangers and jump off the roof.
when you purchase internet access you do so under the terms and conditions of the isp. it's a service, and if you dont like it dont use it. people are getting so used to internet access that they think it is some sort of "right". its something you purchase, like paying somone to come in and clean the house. if noone in town does windows then you are just out of luck.
if you think this has something to do with free speech, you can stop over exercising that poor hampster for a minute. that argument only comes into play when the government is involved. the isps have no such obsticles holding them back while administering their network.
if you signed up and it says somewhere in your contract that you will have access to "all" publically available internet sites then you might have a case.
i agree that it is the responsibilty of the readers to read the stories, but the editors should bare some of this responsibility also. when you include the following in a story:
Windows XP (Whistler) won't boot
from disks with MBR partition tables, requiring a new
GUID Partition Table (GPT).
and add no clarification, what do you expect? my inital impression was not good, but i read further befor i started typing. hell, i'm not sure cliff read the entire story either.
i think they have waited too long and dropped the ball on that one. i believe if you dont act to enforce your trademark then you have effictively given it up. perhaps they are trying to preserve whatever they have left with aim.
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Erm... You do know it's not possible to have a hard drive that's *not* partitioned, right? (Well, you can, but you can't do anything with it)
/dev/hdc
you might not be able to do something with it in windows but in linux you can put a filesystem on an unpartitioned disk.
mkfs.ext2
for example will put an ext2 filesystem on your drive without a partition.
use LaTeX? want an online reference manager that
i hear when using ppower4 it is easier to make transitions, and also making a printable version is simpler. i've been meaning to check it out. i also really like the idea of just having to add a latex class. since it is a class i would think you could add an option to the class to make the presentation printable (without the animations). otherwise i'm pretty happy with it.
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lets see...
i voted, and not for a democrate or a republican. i also vote for the house and senate. it hasn't really helped much. then again i'm only 26. perhaps it will get better with time?
once our corporations have invaded your country i'll start commenting on how you need to do something.
really though most us citizens are quite happy with sitting in their comfortable homes watching who wants to be a millionare. i dont know how to change them, any suggestions?
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you do realize that involves purchasing Windows 2000 anyway? (Well, actually, I get it as part of a campus license agreement, but even at home I have need for Win2K; especially in the way I need it for development work with my job - telecommuting's fun.)
it seems like you should be a little more selective about where you work. one of the things i told my current employer was that i wouldn't use windows. i was upfront from the beginning. i told him i would rather us an abacus.
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there is actually a class file for latex called proper that when converted to a pdf can be used to make presentations. it has the standard stuff for presentations: slide transition, having bullets slide in, themes, etc. i wouldnt suggest you go out and learn how to use latex in order to make presentations, but if you are interested in a wordprocessor also it's not a bad idea. the nice thing about pdf's is there is a viewer for almost any os.
the link above provides some screen shots and if you download the tarball you can also check out an example.
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There's absolutely NOTHING to push against in space (last I check, there's no air to push up against there).
actually the sun sends alot of hydrogen ions into space. these are more commonly known as solar wind. these travel very fast, and i would suspect that it would be possible to use the natural resonance of the solar wind to power the ship.
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The concrete doesn't ever need to be lighter than water.
just the mass of the canoe and riders must be less than the mass of the water displaced if the water were at the lip of the canoe.
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i think they were referring the durability with respect to space materials. i dont believe they were suggesting you use the vibrational aspects of the concrete. i suppose it is possible to match the resonance with the solar winds.
i wonder if they have tested the materials under the extreme conditions one would encounter in space? it gets really cold at night and really hot during the day up there. i really doubt the latex component will withstand really extreme conditions.
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For the first time, a standard psychological test used by clinicians worldwide in the evaluation and treatment of adults will be administered to a machine-based artificial personality.
The test is known as the MMPI-2 (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory).Developed as a specialized psychological test for the measurement of psychopathology, the MMPI has been the preferred psychosocial diagnostic instrument among clinicians for the past 50 years.
Originally published in 1940 by Hathaway and McKinley, MMPI has been implemented in many clinical and non-clinical contexts, including medical, educational, medicolegal and organizational settings. A restandardisation and partial revision of the MMPI resulted in the publication of the MMPI-2 in 1989.
GAC (Generic Artificial Consciousness -- pronounced "Jack") is the artificial personality being developed at the Mindpixel Digital Mind Modeling Project with the collaboration of nearly 40,000 Internet users from more than 200 countries worldwide.
GAC will be evaluated using the MMPI-2 over the next several months to assess its learning of human consensus experience from the Mindpixel project's large and diverse group of users from many different cultures.
The test will be supervised and interpreted by Dr. Robert Epstein, one of the world's leading experts on human and machine behavior.
"Nothing like this has ever been attempted," said Epstein. "We're evaluating thousands of people worldwide as if they were one collective individual."
"We don't know if it is possible to build a normal personality out of millions of little pieces. This experiment will tell us how reasonable the idea is," Epstein added.
In the nearly one year the project has been online, Mindpixel's Internet contributors have made nearly 8 million individual measurements of more than 355,000 individual items of human consensus experience.
The project's organizers hope that they will gain enough information by the time the project's data collection phase is complete (2010) to build a highly accurate statistical model of an average human mind which they hope can be used as a foundation for true artificial consciousness.
One of the world's leading experts on human and machine behavior, Robert Epstein received his doctorate in psychology at Harvard University in 1981. He is Editor-in-Chief of Psychology Today magazine and University Research Professor at United States International University in San Diego.
He is also the founder and Director Emeritus of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies in Massachusetts and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University. He was also the former director of the famed Loebner Prize competition in Artificial Intelligence.
The Mindpixel Digital Mind Modeling Project was launched on July 6, 2000. It is the world's largest Artificial Intelligence effort, with nearly 40,000 contributing members in more than 200 countries.
[Contact: Dr. Robert Epstein, Christopher McKinstry]
02-Jul-2001
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actually kde looks (or the original incarnation looked) like CDE the common desktop environemnt which was pretty standard on alot of unicies.
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I throw it away. It really does not cost me anything. the people sending it pay for it's delivery. It does not piss me off; that is because postal spam has yet to flood me to the point where I have to spend an hour destroying mail just to be able to open my PO box.
actually it does cost you. its an indirect cost similar to the indirect cost spam has on the consumer. consider each person in a city of 20,000 gets 1 lb of junkmail each week. your trash service then has to process 20,000 lbs of extra trash each week.
some of this is recycled, but a large portion will go into the landfill. so it is also fairly taxing on the environment. now consider a large city of say 500k or 1mil people. imagine how much waste they have each year that could be reduced by preventing junk mail.
i agree that spam costs people, but i also think junk mail costs people. i think to say both donot is silly and short sighted.
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you should explain this to people who make peer reviewed journals. i think they would find it surprising. we cannot even make our publications available on the web after they have been published by the journal, and if we use one of our previously published works we have to cite it. perhaps the same laws dont apply in this case, although i thought it was generalizable.
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there are things that you prefer, and there are things that you have the right to. the former is ever growing and the latter is ever shrinking. these two things can sometimes overlap, but not as often as people would like.
:) i think the game issue comes down to responsability on the part of the gaming company. they need to be willing to put their foot down when necessary and move swiftly to correct problems when they are found. you are a consumer and can speak with your money. when you are dissatisfied with a product speak out, mail the company, make a thisonlinegamesucks.com website, organize a protest, march on silicon valley, etc. use the rights you do have to achieve what you desire.
it is true that i enjoy posting on slashdot, but i dont confuse that with a right. if malda decided today that i could no longer post, canceled my account, banned my ip and kept an eye out for me as i tried to create new accounts via a proxy server this action would be fine. it is taco's perogative to ban me from slashdot.
at this point i would have to find another outlet where i discuss stuff. i dont think i was really missing the point. people all over slashdot and across the united states think they have these "rights" and it's really annoying. they do however have the right to say they have the aforementioned "rights" and i suppose i'll support their right to say that. i will also refute what they say when i think they are incorrect.
it's strange how people get used to something and then one day it's gone. but hey it was my right; you cannot take that away from me. i personally look forward to the day all cell phones stop working. hell we are so dependent on land lines that to loose those would be an impressive sight to see.
back on topic
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thats nice until your daughters tell you they want implants and are starving themselves to look like barbie dolls. is this really the image we want weomen to model themselves after? flip through any magazine and you see the wafelike starved calvinclein models looking at you. kids see this and think: "man i'm too fat, if i want to be accepted as beautiful i'm going to have to starve myself and get plastic sugery". it's really odd to have my 11 year old sister ask me if i think she is fat. i respond with "no, turn off mtv and read a book".
i agree that strong role models are good but i really dont think that laura is a good role model from every perspective.
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actually.. when referencing copyrighted work you have to cite the source. even if you wrote it because normally the publisher owns the copyright. in this case even if katz wrote it and the imdb published it they would hold the copyright and he would have to cite the imdb article otherwise it would be considered plagarism.
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I do not find it acceptable at all that others determine for me what I can an cannot do within the boundaries of my legally earned rights.
this is pretty funny. what country are you from. see, here in the us we have a constitution that contains a list of our rights. most of these rights were earned years ago and the people here today now think they have the "right" to everything. i know it sounds kinda silly...
we probably have people who can read "the right to play online games where noone cheats" into the constitution. sadly enough it doesnt mention such a thing. i'm glad to see the founding fathers incorporated online gaming into your legally earned rights. it probably also includes such important things as: watching jerry springer and mtv, shopping with convinence at wal-mart, cheap gass for huge tank-like cars, and lest we forget the right to high speed internet access for everyone. you must indeed live in a wonderful country.
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Apple invented the true one-click OS installation, and Mac OS X advances the tradition. Not only is OS X the first Unix-based operating system that's easier to install than Windows, but it's the easiest Mac OS installation ever.
i dont buy this at all. from my expirence redhat and mandrake have installations that are much easier than windows. really though this is not an issue for windows. as mentioned in the article, windows is normally sold preinstalled on new machines.
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i purchased office for $99. it was the educational version and it didnt have access. just powerpoint, word and excel i believe. it was office 95 or 97. i dont remember which.
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i remember when they cable guy came to put our box in in the early 80's. he had to run coax every leaving bits and pieces of sheilding and wires in his wake. it was expensive at the time (hell our vcr was huge by todays standards) and here we are now. cable tv is cheap enough to be used to educate the masses and teach them the moral lessons of pokemon.
:?), at least some might think so). like any new technology it will take some time and the time is inversly porportional to the demand. if enough people want it it will get there alot quicker.
my parents and the others on my block were footing the bill for for the infrastructure and now that it is in place whe have cable tv in every home (better than clean water
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I wonder how many people lose jobs because of this childish behaviour
it's sad, but perhaps these people shouldnt have these jobs.
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gotta love soccer moms. she's probably too busy riding around in her suv while talking on her cell phone to actually take part in her childrens lives. thats it let the tv raise them then complain when they think they can fly like the power rangers and jump off the roof.
sing it with me folks..
BLAME CANADA... BLAME CANADA
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when you purchase internet access you do so under the terms and conditions of the isp. it's a service, and if you dont like it dont use it. people are getting so used to internet access that they think it is some sort of "right". its something you purchase, like paying somone to come in and clean the house. if noone in town does windows then you are just out of luck.
if you think this has something to do with free speech, you can stop over exercising that poor hampster for a minute. that argument only comes into play when the government is involved. the isps have no such obsticles holding them back while administering their network.
if you signed up and it says somewhere in your contract that you will have access to "all" publically available internet sites then you might have a case.
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i agree that it is the responsibilty of the readers to read the stories, but the editors should bare some of this responsibility also. when you include the following in a story:
Windows XP (Whistler) won't boot from disks with MBR partition tables, requiring a new GUID Partition Table (GPT).
and add no clarification, what do you expect? my inital impression was not good, but i read further befor i started typing. hell, i'm not sure cliff read the entire story either.
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i think they have waited too long and dropped the ball on that one. i believe if you dont act to enforce your trademark then you have effictively given it up. perhaps they are trying to preserve whatever they have left with aim.
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has anyone found a linux solution for this kind of thing. would broadcast2000 do it?
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