rebuild a knoppix cd with support for gmailfs and set it up in your fs tab. Now any computer that you are allowed to reboot and use a cd-rom on should be suitable for access.
I just got an account today and I had 6 invites at my first login. I think it has a lot to do with the lenght time the referer had the gmail account, becuase the buddies I invited already say they have no invites.
I agree with you here, we should wait until we have the next big boom in a certain industry before offshoring the jobs in the one we have now. For instance if nano-tech or bio-tech have a big boom and much of the young workforce moves in that direction, then we will be able to move much of the computers and software industry to developing nations, in this case we will have a new job force at the high-end, and it will be supported by a cheap foreign developed software system.
You don't *need* to recompile the OS kernel to get it running? But why would an advanced user not want the option of building the OS kernel with specific support for his or her system. Plus compiling the kernel gives you an intimate look at the actual hardware in your machine and can be quite an enjoyable experiance. For the rest of you who don't need or want to compile the kernel, there are plenty of options. I'll use debian as an example becuase its my distro, but for most people you can just type apt-get install kernel-image-2.X.X to install a new kernel already built. Try upgrading your kernel in Windows to take make use of new developments or features.
another site to check out is: y-windows. You'll find that the goal of this project is to build a new gui server-client model much like X but with a built in set of widgets (extendable with a canvas widget). You still have a client server model, but with a standardized toolkit, and with it being re-built from the ground up one of the goals is to have better hardware acceleration (I.E. one thing being thrown around is a desktop built entirely in Cairo or a Vector based desktop, this may be the same thing, I dunno that much about svg). The project is moving slowly at the moment but I spent some time with it in the past and it is progressing so its something interesting to look at for the distant future.
You may want to check out this: http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/gtk-qt I've been using a cvs version from last week and it works quite well. I have all aps using my plastik theme which is quite good even if its a bit plain. I would say a huge majority of apps use either gtk or qt so most of the apps I am using have the same look altough not the same feel (gnome apps and kde apps have diff menu setups and such, and some apps belong to neither desktop) but between theme engines like gtk-qt and freedesktop.orgs other efforts like a universal icon tray standard for both DE's, the linux desktop situation is improving quite a bit. The main problem I am having is sound, but even that, with alsa and dmix is improving. I was able to get arts and sdl audio to play through dmix, so basically 90% of my apps have sound that works well and will play with other apps, mostly openal or new standards like jack are the only problem I have. Personally I'd rather have a linux box even if the DE's aren't perfect, becuase its just more fun, more customizeable, and you learn a hell of a lot more about your hardware and software, which should bring a smile to the face of any geek.
Also, think about the significant computing power you would have to haul along to make decisions about navigating an alien enviroment based soley on sensor data and some AI algorithms.
I don't think the quality of the sensors matters. Its how the AI decides to use that data that comes in that may be a problem. Even if the sensor data that comes in is flawless, if the AI missinterprets that data, or simply makes a bad decision based on that data, and expensive rover could be in trouble.
While the parent was modded funny, this could be a serious issue with so-called AI. Imagine a tiny unforseen deviation between the expected result of the robots reactions, and its actual reactions to an alien environment. This could cuase the rover to do any number of unwanted things. The truth of the matter is that no matter how much the AI is tested on earth, the whole point of the rover is to explore an alien world, and in doing so we don't know exactly what the rover will find, so to let a multi-million/billon dollar rover make its own decisions on how to handle a situation could cause some serious problems. For instance image a rover missinterprets a hole in the ground as a shadow from a rock and considers it safe to drive through, you can kiss the rover goodbye. I think for now, having an actual human interpreting what the rover see's before it moves makes a lot more sense when we are dealing with such great distances and costs. -kaplanfx
Rather IBM, not IMB. Funny thing is I actually clicked the preview button on that one. Man I am so lysdexic or something of that nature. Anyhow, funny that it got modded insightful, usually I post like that would be followed by 20 posts pointing out the error, and at least one flamebait. -kaplanfx
At this rate, they will simply be deminishing the overall loss rates. When we are losing thousands of jobs, the IMB jobs will make us lose less thousands of jobs. -kaplanfx
I concur. Why not write a function that takes the two args? This way a maintainer will not see a - b; and just pass on by, they will see something like subdate(a, b); with the next logical step for a maintainer obviously being to check the function subdate() see what it does, and what value it returns. This was odd to me in c++, a language that implements objects for code readability and reuse, yet also a language that allows something easily confusing or hidden to a maintainer, to be implemented as well. -kaplanfx
Isn't that the good old six of one, half a dozen of another? If a browser truly is standards complaint, just code for that browser and it should work on any other standards complaint browser. That is, at least in theory. -kaplanfx
Actually, it only mentions mozilla. People keep confusing firefox and mozilla. Firefox is not released yet (by that I mean has not reached 1.0) whereas mozilla is the mozilla projects last generation browser. -kaplanfx
mmm but xconfig is so tasty now. I haven't tried the gtk version but the qt version is quite sweet, I installed x and kde on my last machine before building my 2.6 kernel, just so I could use it. (not I would normally install kde anyhow, just usually after I built the kernel) -kaplanfx
Next you are going to tell me the Gentoo installation is easier than Debian huh? Oh and its faster too. Right... I don't think even a skilled user needs to have or even most packages custom compiled. I usually use binaries for everything that I don't need anything out of the ordinary for (I like having my own LAMP packages, etc) Yes Gentoo is good, and I like it, but it is very much for the hobbyist and I feel is really only "fun" the first time around -kaplanfx
The way it has been explained to me, there is a damn good reason that Debian still uses an ncurses installer. Basically becuase it supports so many architectures (a good thing) with so much diff hardware, the ncurses installer is the best interafce to make sure a single installer can support each and every supported architecture. I think broader support for a good distro like Debian is much more important that a true GUI installer. Besides, I find the Debian installer to be the easiest to use, even though maybe its not the prettiest, but thats just my opinion of course. -kaplanfx
You are making some serious assumptions about the needs of life. Life does not have to be like us, and it needn't require things like heavy metals. It might just be something we couldn't imagine in our wildest dreams.
Actually I think the most important fact that points to the (relative) uniqueness of the Sol system is that it is a failed binary system
This statement is simply not known to be true. You are making a huge assumption that failed binary systems are in fact not common. We only know about the planets in a few hundred systems, how can you assume that there are not millions, in the billions of star systems in our galaxy alone that might in fact be failed binary star systems. Not to mention the billions of other galaxies that probably exist and the stars the contain.
Slashdot Mirror
Thats some kinda Pair of Ducks. Either that or we have a futurama type situation on our hands.
"I did do the nasty in the pasty."
-Philip J. Fry
-kaplanfx
rebuild a knoppix cd with support for gmailfs and set it up in your fs tab. Now any computer that you are allowed to reboot and use a cd-rom on should be suitable for access.
-kaplanfx
I just got an account today and I had 6 invites at my first login. I think it has a lot to do with the lenght time the referer had the gmail account, becuase the buddies I invited already say they have no invites.
-kaplanfx
I agree with you here, we should wait until we have the next big boom in a certain industry before offshoring the jobs in the one we have now. For instance if nano-tech or bio-tech have a big boom and much of the young workforce moves in that direction, then we will be able to move much of the computers and software industry to developing nations, in this case we will have a new job force at the high-end, and it will be supported by a cheap foreign developed software system.
-kaplanfx
You don't *need* to recompile the OS kernel to get it running? But why would an advanced user not want the option of building the OS kernel with specific support for his or her system. Plus compiling the kernel gives you an intimate look at the actual hardware in your machine and can be quite an enjoyable experiance. For the rest of you who don't need or want to compile the kernel, there are plenty of options. I'll use debian as an example becuase its my distro, but for most people you can just type apt-get install kernel-image-2.X.X to install a new kernel already built. Try upgrading your kernel in Windows to take make use of new developments or features.
-kaplanfx
another site to check out is: y-windows. You'll find that the goal of this project is to build a new gui server-client model much like X but with a built in set of widgets (extendable with a canvas widget). You still have a client server model, but with a standardized toolkit, and with it being re-built from the ground up one of the goals is to have better hardware acceleration (I.E. one thing being thrown around is a desktop built entirely in Cairo or a Vector based desktop, this may be the same thing, I dunno that much about svg). The project is moving slowly at the moment but I spent some time with it in the past and it is progressing so its something interesting to look at for the distant future.
-kaplanfx
sorry about that, here the hyperlink to that site: qtk-qt
-kaplanfx
You may want to check out this: http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/gtk-qt I've been using a cvs version from last week and it works quite well. I have all aps using my plastik theme which is quite good even if its a bit plain. I would say a huge majority of apps use either gtk or qt so most of the apps I am using have the same look altough not the same feel (gnome apps and kde apps have diff menu setups and such, and some apps belong to neither desktop) but between theme engines like gtk-qt and freedesktop.orgs other efforts like a universal icon tray standard for both DE's, the linux desktop situation is improving quite a bit. The main problem I am having is sound, but even that, with alsa and dmix is improving. I was able to get arts and sdl audio to play through dmix, so basically 90% of my apps have sound that works well and will play with other apps, mostly openal or new standards like jack are the only problem I have. Personally I'd rather have a linux box even if the DE's aren't perfect, becuase its just more fun, more customizeable, and you learn a hell of a lot more about your hardware and software, which should bring a smile to the face of any geek.
-kaplanfx
MASS debate, I hope a pun was intended becuase I would certainly like to debate the mass of the Saturnian rings. My guess would be...
Very Heavy
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Also, think about the significant computing power you would have to haul along to make decisions about navigating an alien enviroment based soley on sensor data and some AI algorithms.
-kaplanfx
I don't think the quality of the sensors matters. Its how the AI decides to use that data that comes in that may be a problem. Even if the sensor data that comes in is flawless, if the AI missinterprets that data, or simply makes a bad decision based on that data, and expensive rover could be in trouble.
-kaplanfx
uh image should read imagine, and sadly I did hit the preview button, I guess its just not my day :(
While the parent was modded funny, this could be a serious issue with so-called AI. Imagine a tiny unforseen deviation between the expected result of the robots reactions, and its actual reactions to an alien environment. This could cuase the rover to do any number of unwanted things. The truth of the matter is that no matter how much the AI is tested on earth, the whole point of the rover is to explore an alien world, and in doing so we don't know exactly what the rover will find, so to let a multi-million/billon dollar rover make its own decisions on how to handle a situation could cause some serious problems. For instance image a rover missinterprets a hole in the ground as a shadow from a rock and considers it safe to drive through, you can kiss the rover goodbye. I think for now, having an actual human interpreting what the rover see's before it moves makes a lot more sense when we are dealing with such great distances and costs.
-kaplanfx
Rather IBM, not IMB. Funny thing is I actually clicked the preview button on that one. Man I am so lysdexic or something of that nature. Anyhow, funny that it got modded insightful, usually I post like that would be followed by 20 posts pointing out the error, and at least one flamebait.
-kaplanfx
At this rate, they will simply be deminishing the overall loss rates. When we are losing thousands of jobs, the IMB jobs will make us lose less thousands of jobs.
-kaplanfx
Note its North America for that 1/3, not all will necessarily be in the US.
-kaplanfx
nah, it was just shorthand for the example, I usually try to create var names as readable as possible.
-kaplanfx
I concur. Why not write a function that takes the two args? This way a maintainer will not see a - b; and just pass on by, they will see something like subdate(a, b); with the next logical step for a maintainer obviously being to check the function subdate() see what it does, and what value it returns. This was odd to me in c++, a language that implements objects for code readability and reuse, yet also a language that allows something easily confusing or hidden to a maintainer, to be implemented as well.
-kaplanfx
Isn't that the good old six of one, half a dozen of another? If a browser truly is standards complaint, just code for that browser and it should work on any other standards complaint browser. That is, at least in theory.
-kaplanfx
Actually, it only mentions mozilla. People keep confusing firefox and mozilla. Firefox is not released yet (by that I mean has not reached 1.0) whereas mozilla is the mozilla projects last generation browser.
-kaplanfx
mmm but xconfig is so tasty now. I haven't tried the gtk version but the qt version is quite sweet, I installed x and kde on my last machine before building my 2.6 kernel, just so I could use it. (not I would normally install kde anyhow, just usually after I built the kernel)
-kaplanfx
Next you are going to tell me the Gentoo installation is easier than Debian huh? Oh and its faster too. Right... I don't think even a skilled user needs to have or even most packages custom compiled. I usually use binaries for everything that I don't need anything out of the ordinary for (I like having my own LAMP packages, etc) Yes Gentoo is good, and I like it, but it is very much for the hobbyist and I feel is really only "fun" the first time around
-kaplanfx
The way it has been explained to me, there is a damn good reason that Debian still uses an ncurses installer. Basically becuase it supports so many architectures (a good thing) with so much diff hardware, the ncurses installer is the best interafce to make sure a single installer can support each and every supported architecture. I think broader support for a good distro like Debian is much more important that a true GUI installer. Besides, I find the Debian installer to be the easiest to use, even though maybe its not the prettiest, but thats just my opinion of course.
-kaplanfx
You are making some serious assumptions about the needs of life. Life does not have to be like us, and it needn't require things like heavy metals. It might just be something we couldn't imagine in our wildest dreams.
-kaplanfx
Actually I think the most important fact that points to the (relative) uniqueness of the Sol system is that it is a failed binary system
This statement is simply not known to be true. You are making a huge assumption that failed binary systems are in fact not common. We only know about the planets in a few hundred systems, how can you assume that there are not millions, in the billions of star systems in our galaxy alone that might in fact be failed binary star systems. Not to mention the billions of other galaxies that probably exist and the stars the contain.
-kaplanfx