Yeah every time I go boarding I launch myself 20 feet in the air and do a 720 backflip.
I've been trying to do this in the game (a free Linux demo for the Jay Peak mountain got released a while ago) too, and I end up landing on my ass pretty much every time. Seems realistic enough to me!
And then I launch over a 300 foot vertical drop and hit the ground running without being phased.
If you could get THOSE down to $1 each so they could be used in embedded apps from clothing to toasters you would be giving engineers, designers, and inventors a lot to work with.
I suspect that even if today's 1 Ghz CPUs could be produced for $1 each, they would be much more practical to use in toasters than in clothing. Well, except maybe legwarmers.
Any investors influenced by Slashdot have already blown all their money on Beowulf clusters of shiny things.
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Unless you're at an actual cash machine, in which case your mark has to be pretty stupid not to wonder why you don't just withdraw the $60 right there.
The biggest problem in our corrupt government is that our agencies are forced to farm out to the lowest bidder instead of building the parts that they need themselves for one tenth the price.
I'm clearly missing out on a huge opportunity to sell these parts for 80% profit at half the price.
all these technical advances taken together have created world in which the average man's fate is no longer in his own hands or in the hands of his neighbors and friends
But the technical advances to blame are agriculture and irrigation, not telephones and indoor plumbing. Does the word "serf" ring any bells? The average man's fate hasn't been in his own hands since hunter-gatherer times.
So in essence, theres no reason for me to stop, now that I've already started.
Sure there is. How do you expect them to catch you, other than by connecting to your computer and noticing how many copyrighted files you're currently sharing?
IMO professional distros should always support their latest, and their last major release, so in RedHats case 8.x and 7.3, and not drop support for 7.3 until 9.0 is out.
No, they shouldn't be dropping support for 7.3 until 9.2 is out. Red Hat has been fortunately consistent about releasing solid "x.2" and "x.3" distributions, and unfortunately consistent about releasing flaky "x.0" distributions. I don't think anybody who doesn't upgrade from 7.3 to 8.0 is going to risk upgrading to 9.0 either.
The 2.5" drives in the laptops we get are all 4200 RPMs. I don't think that's fast enough to do video.
It is if the video is already MPEG-4 compressed. 1.5 GB/hour is less than 500 kB/sec. I don't think there's a hard drive sold today that can't handle that.
But was too quick to blame the driver, myself: it crashed frequently in both Linux and Windows, whereas the open source driver worked without a hiccup (and without 3D acceleration, ugh...); however, replacing my power supply without changing any of the software made things perfectly stable as far as I could tell. If you can't afford to experiment with tearing your computer apart, you might want to at least try the closed source driver with AGP support turned off (Option "NvAGP" "0" or something like that in the XF86Config file) and see if it works any better.
For the record, apt for Red Hat is not a separate packaging system, it is a tool that resolves dependencies, downloads packages, etc. for your existing packaging system. So, that covers "pain in the ass to install".
As for pain in the ass to use (I suppose "mplayer Futurama*.avi" counts as a fourth command), does anyone want to tell me:
How I get Windows Media Player 7 to stop trying to take up twice as much screen real estate on buttons I don't want as it does on the actual movie?
How I get it to be "always on top" while it's in a window, so I can watch video while working on something else?
Which Microsoft programmer decided that "Alt+P+R" and "Alt+P+A" were great shortcut keys for rewind and fast forward, but that the arrow keys shouldn't do anything?
It is well known among avid quakers that the physics is different for different framerate,
And does the Quake 3 client actually transmit it's own private physics calculations to the server in a multiplayer game? If so, why would the server believe a client's physics over it's own calculations and why have no cheats sprung up to take advantage of this ridiculous security hole? If not, why does the "different physics" matter?
Regardless of the flaws of the DMCA, this type of software will ALWAYS be illegal (even if the DMCA is repealed and replaced with soemthing else), beacuse it's PRIMARY USE is to circumvent copyright protection measures. This is clearly wrong to anyone with a conscience*.
Do you demonize everyone who disagrees with you, or just everyone who disagrees with you on this issue?
You've just said that the solution for blind people is not to buy EBooks. You have no right to accuse anyone else of lacking a conscience.
You've just given Adobe the sole authority for "transferring certain material from reader to reader". Since every ebook in existence should eventually be public domain, and the length of current copyright terms vastly exceeds the halflife of electronic gadgets, this is unacceptable.
Even in the meantime, I can think of a dozen legitimate reasons for wanting unchained access to material I have purchased (and so there are probably a hundred more I haven't thought of). Getting that access may break the DMCA but does not break copyright law, and it is not immoral of me to want it.
Elcomsoft published code whose primary use is to to break encryption. Subverting copy prevention is a secondary use.
We could have funded all four X-33 proposals (and had enough cash left over to develop any designs that worked into new launch vehicles), so that when Lockheed-Martin screwed up theirs and asked for more money we might have had some alternative to turn to.
Of course, two of those four companies have since been swallowed by the other two, so this is no longer the most viable option... but wouldn't it have been nice, to have aerospace companies competing against each other to produce working results instead of competing against each other to snag NASA's contract for the next One True Space Shuttle?
Is it just the length of the intron sequences that's important, or is it their contents as well? I thought it was just their length that mattered, but that should be a testable hypothesis: instead of removing the "junk DNA", replace it with "white noise" patterns of the same length and see what happens.
If the contents are really important, that kind of throws a monkey wrench in the works of some of the fields that study this stuff, doesn't it? I think scientists are using junk DNA to study cladism and human population movements, for example, because they thought they could be sure that natural selection isn't biasing the results.
If they ever made "Windows for Warheads", I think we'd need a new term for "Blue Screen of Death". There would still be "Screens of Death", sure, but nobody would ever find out what color they were...
To pour orange juice on a motherboard, you have to open up the case first. Open up the case on your brain, and you probably won't even get the chance to test the orange juice!
The idea is for example, viewing a picture would use the same user interface as listening to a music source.
That way, when I need to figure out how to zoom in on the picture I'm viewing, I'll remember the UI from zooming in on the music... er, no...
Well, anyway, when I need to know how to pause the music I'm listening to, it will be the same as pausing the picture... no, that can't be right either...
Well, at least it will simplify the needlessly complex interface of current music players and picture viewers, which make it very hard for new users to... er...
If you want to send people on the most fuel-efficient path to Mars possible (which is almost necessary just to get them there at all, unless you're using a rocket better than anything we've ever built), you use a Hohmann transfer orbit, an ellipse which is tangent to the inner circular orbit (Earth's) at one end and to the outer orbit (Mars') at the other end. Even with a nuclear or better propulsion system, you wouldn't just point the rocket towards Mars and fire, you'd take advantage of your existing velocity in Earth's orbit to cut a sort of diagonal path between the two.
Either way, an extra-close approach of Mars wouldn't cut very much time off the trip.
They've become so addicted to safe, academic research in orbit or from afar that they've forgotten how to take that leap into the unknown which was (in my opinion) what made the early space program (Murcury, Gemini, and Apollo) truly great.
Although I agree that NASA isn't what it used to be, I think you're missing the most important difference between 1960s' NASA and today's NASA: funding with blank checks.
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Yeah every time I go boarding I launch myself 20 feet in the air and do a 720 backflip.
I've been trying to do this in the game (a free Linux demo for the Jay Peak mountain got released a while ago) too, and I end up landing on my ass pretty much every time. Seems realistic enough to me!
And then I launch over a 300 foot vertical drop and hit the ground running without being phased.
Nobody said it used a real biology model!
If you could get THOSE down to $1 each so they could be used in embedded apps from clothing to toasters you would be giving engineers, designers, and inventors a lot to work with.
I suspect that even if today's 1 Ghz CPUs could be produced for $1 each, they would be much more practical to use in toasters than in clothing. Well, except maybe legwarmers.
Any investors influenced by Slashdot have already blown all their money on Beowulf clusters of shiny things.
Unless you're at an actual cash machine, in which case your mark has to be pretty stupid not to wonder why you don't just withdraw the $60 right there.
The biggest problem in our corrupt government is that our agencies are forced to farm out to the lowest bidder instead of building the parts that they need themselves for one tenth the price.
I'm clearly missing out on a huge opportunity to sell these parts for 80% profit at half the price.
Here's a figure with a source: don't upgrade to more than 512 MB with Win98. support.microsoft.com
all these technical advances taken together have created world in which the average man's fate is no longer in his own hands or in the hands of his neighbors and friends
But the technical advances to blame are agriculture and irrigation, not telephones and indoor plumbing. Does the word "serf" ring any bells? The average man's fate hasn't been in his own hands since hunter-gatherer times.
I wish another game would come along with the impact that Doom had. It was just SOOOO amazing and nothing has come close since.
Deus Ex
So in essence, theres no reason for me to stop, now that I've already started.
Sure there is. How do you expect them to catch you, other than by connecting to your computer and noticing how many copyrighted files you're currently sharing?
IMO professional distros should always support their latest, and their last major release, so in RedHats case 8.x and 7.3, and not drop support for 7.3 until 9.0 is out.
No, they shouldn't be dropping support for 7.3 until 9.2 is out. Red Hat has been fortunately consistent about releasing solid "x.2" and "x.3" distributions, and unfortunately consistent about releasing flaky "x.0" distributions. I don't think anybody who doesn't upgrade from 7.3 to 8.0 is going to risk upgrading to 9.0 either.
The 2.5" drives in the laptops we get are all 4200 RPMs. I don't think that's fast enough to do video.
It is if the video is already MPEG-4 compressed. 1.5 GB/hour is less than 500 kB/sec. I don't think there's a hard drive sold today that can't handle that.
But was too quick to blame the driver, myself: it crashed frequently in both Linux and Windows, whereas the open source driver worked without a hiccup (and without 3D acceleration, ugh...); however, replacing my power supply without changing any of the software made things perfectly stable as far as I could tell. If you can't afford to experiment with tearing your computer apart, you might want to at least try the closed source driver with AGP support turned off (Option "NvAGP" "0" or something like that in the XF86Config file) and see if it works any better.
It's been a while, but I recall running three commands:
/ apt-0.5.4cnc9-fr1.i386.rpm
rpm -U http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/psyche/apt
apt-get update
apt-get install mplayer
For the record, apt for Red Hat is not a separate packaging system, it is a tool that resolves dependencies, downloads packages, etc. for your existing packaging system. So, that covers "pain in the ass to install".
As for pain in the ass to use (I suppose "mplayer Futurama*.avi" counts as a fourth command), does anyone want to tell me:
How I get Windows Media Player 7 to stop trying to take up twice as much screen real estate on buttons I don't want as it does on the actual movie?
How I get it to be "always on top" while it's in a window, so I can watch video while working on something else?
Which Microsoft programmer decided that "Alt+P+R" and "Alt+P+A" were great shortcut keys for rewind and fast forward, but that the arrow keys shouldn't do anything?
A basic equation in quantitative genetics is:
phenotype = genetics + environment + developmental noise.
If this is a quantitative equation, what are the units?
It is well known among avid quakers that the physics is different for different framerate,
And does the Quake 3 client actually transmit it's own private physics calculations to the server in a multiplayer game? If so, why would the server believe a client's physics over it's own calculations and why have no cheats sprung up to take advantage of this ridiculous security hole? If not, why does the "different physics" matter?
Regardless of the flaws of the DMCA, this type of software will ALWAYS be illegal (even if the DMCA is repealed and replaced with soemthing else), beacuse it's PRIMARY USE is to circumvent copyright protection measures. This is clearly wrong to anyone with a conscience*.
Do you demonize everyone who disagrees with you, or just everyone who disagrees with you on this issue?
You've just said that the solution for blind people is not to buy EBooks. You have no right to accuse anyone else of lacking a conscience.
You've just given Adobe the sole authority for "transferring certain material from reader to reader". Since every ebook in existence should eventually be public domain, and the length of current copyright terms vastly exceeds the halflife of electronic gadgets, this is unacceptable.
Even in the meantime, I can think of a dozen legitimate reasons for wanting unchained access to material I have purchased (and so there are probably a hundred more I haven't thought of). Getting that access may break the DMCA but does not break copyright law, and it is not immoral of me to want it.
Elcomsoft published code whose primary use is to to break encryption. Subverting copy prevention is a secondary use.
I wonder if he thought that we were just a group of a dozen pimply faced nerds not very far removed from Trekies/ers?
That would be a sad mistake to make, when in reality we're a group of a hundred thousand pimply faced nerds not very far removed from Trekkies.
We could have funded all four X-33 proposals (and had enough cash left over to develop any designs that worked into new launch vehicles), so that when Lockheed-Martin screwed up theirs and asked for more money we might have had some alternative to turn to.
Of course, two of those four companies have since been swallowed by the other two, so this is no longer the most viable option... but wouldn't it have been nice, to have aerospace companies competing against each other to produce working results instead of competing against each other to snag NASA's contract for the next One True Space Shuttle?
Is it just the length of the intron sequences that's important, or is it their contents as well? I thought it was just their length that mattered, but that should be a testable hypothesis: instead of removing the "junk DNA", replace it with "white noise" patterns of the same length and see what happens.
If the contents are really important, that kind of throws a monkey wrench in the works of some of the fields that study this stuff, doesn't it? I think scientists are using junk DNA to study cladism and human population movements, for example, because they thought they could be sure that natural selection isn't biasing the results.
If they ever made "Windows for Warheads", I think we'd need a new term for "Blue Screen of Death". There would still be "Screens of Death", sure, but nobody would ever find out what color they were...
To pour orange juice on a motherboard, you have to open up the case first. Open up the case on your brain, and you probably won't even get the chance to test the orange juice!
They don't have 3D support or dual head support for the 9700 yet, do they? The changelog only seems to mention 2D support.
The idea is for example, viewing a picture would use the same user interface as listening to a music source.
That way, when I need to figure out how to zoom in on the picture I'm viewing, I'll remember the UI from zooming in on the music... er, no...
Well, anyway, when I need to know how to pause the music I'm listening to, it will be the same as pausing the picture... no, that can't be right either...
Well, at least it will simplify the needlessly complex interface of current music players and picture viewers, which make it very hard for new users to... er...
Why was this a good idea again?
It would have been nice to see what the display actually looks like, not just screenshots pasted onto the photographs.
If you want to send people on the most fuel-efficient path to Mars possible (which is almost necessary just to get them there at all, unless you're using a rocket better than anything we've ever built), you use a Hohmann transfer orbit, an ellipse which is tangent to the inner circular orbit (Earth's) at one end and to the outer orbit (Mars') at the other end. Even with a nuclear or better propulsion system, you wouldn't just point the rocket towards Mars and fire, you'd take advantage of your existing velocity in Earth's orbit to cut a sort of diagonal path between the two.
Either way, an extra-close approach of Mars wouldn't cut very much time off the trip.
They've become so addicted to safe, academic research in orbit or from afar that they've forgotten how to take that leap into the unknown which was (in my opinion) what made the early space program (Murcury, Gemini, and Apollo) truly great.
Although I agree that NASA isn't what it used to be, I think you're missing the most important difference between 1960s' NASA and today's NASA: funding with blank checks.