Twilight Zone? YES!!! Are You Ready To Fight The POWER! Best pinball machine ever, had to collect all the door panels, and there were gumballs and the power magnents and the piano and all kinda of good stuff.
Wouldn't schmaltz be an insulator? Not a good idea to put on a type of the line semi-conduction I think. At least when the core really gets hot you can throw in some matza balls and have a nice soup.
We already have something like that, its called a kilowatt hour, measures the number of kilowatts any electrical system uses of the grid over the course of an hour.
I concur, and therefore propose a new and relevent benchmark for system boot time called BMPY or Boot Minutes Per Year. This will measure the amount of time (a 24/7 machine) spends per-year in a booting state. for instance imagine you can boot Zeta in 15 seconds but you need to reboot every three days (this is a hypothetical example I have no idea how often it will need to be rebooted) then you have 365/3 boots per year or 122 total boots for a total boot time of 1830 seconds or 30.5 BMPY. Now take another system for example linux that takes 1.5min (a conservative estimate, my system with no optimization takes slightly less) too boot but needs to be rebooted only once a month (again conservative as sometimes I only reboot at major kernel releases) for a total of 90*12 or 1,080 seconds, which comes to 18 BMPY. So in this case although it takes the linux system longer to boot, it actually spends 12.5 minutes less per year booting up. I hope someone will take this idea into serious consideration and maybe create a standard benchmark.
Won't someone please think of the eyecandy. Never used enlightenment myself but those videos of e17 are eyecandylicious if you are into that sort of thing.
my point was that you will typically want to use your distro to install much of the dependencies (i.e. libs) so that if you install something with say apt-get that also depends on the library it will not download a conflicting version. I was only commenting on autopackge, which does not recursively install unmet dependencies as far as I can tell from the homepage.
As broken as the disto system is, it's also a major driver of innovation in linux. If there were only one distro, we would probably not have advanced package management and administration systems we have now.
Maybe my system is just weird, but usually./configure will check deps for me and I'll never get a make file if I don't have the needed stuff. If./configure craps out *most* libs and such are avialable from my distro so I just (insert apt-get, emerge, pacman, rpm, slapt-get here) the library and run./configure again. what I think autopackage would be good for is installing commercial and non OSS apps in your home dir and preventing them from messing with / breaking your system.
Yeah, we all really need a $1,500 tablet to make comic book reading more convenient. Seriously though, comic books are $1.50 to $3.50 or so even if you read 10 comic books every month at $3.50 a pop, you can keep going for 43 months at which point your tablet would have been long obsolete and updated.
3) Whereas most people were posting "No, you should have bought Apple a while ago!" which is about the specifics surrounding Apple's stock history, I was posting the general rule, which is that you don't tend to rush out and buy stock after the good news comes out as the stock has probably gone up pretty much as soon as the news is posted. It kinda goes against the whole "buy low, sell high" thing.
Um... So what you are saying is not only was your post redundant, it was offtopic too. Why bother with another post explaining how your first post was defective? Cut your losses and run or the Slashdot hordes will bury you alive!
and the way KDE's widgets are laid out still hasn't changed. For instance, menus are too close to each other.
If you look closely at the screenshot you will see that both apps where you can see the menu, are NOT KDE apps (xchat and gaim). Your point may in fact be valid but I hope it wasn't inferred solely from the screenshot.
I have the 6010 and it rocks my socks. Great reception, good voice quality, and free from every provider. Anyhow I agree with the grandparent on most points, except that I find the color screen (doesn't need to be 16.7 mil though) actually makes the phone easier to use, because its much easier to read.
I'm not saying that they wouldn't think its shady but I doubt they thought that even if they got caught it could result in them not getting it. This is unlike robbing the bank, where all but the most idiotic and mentaly challenged of our citizens knows that if you get caught you go to jail.
How can you compare robbing a bank to what occured here. I'm not saying the prospective students should not be punished, but robbing a bank is clearly against the law, while its possible that these students did not think or know that accessing this "hidden" url was against the rules. (or maybe they did but its not explicitly clear).
While this could actually be a feasible idea for cargo, it would probably be deadly for a human crew. The initial acceleration involved in such a device would most certainly crush ones internal organs to bits before they ever reach near the necessary speeds to do anything useful.
You laugh, but this theory has exactly the same probability as any major religion of being true. In fact anything you can possibly come up with has an equal chance, or 1/n with n being the total possible permutations of creation and the events that follow.
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Although this is off topic, here's a good quote:
"Those who do not read and understand history are doomed to repeat it." - Harry Truman
-kaplanfx
Twilight Zone? YES!!! Are You Ready To Fight The POWER! Best pinball machine ever, had to collect all the door panels, and there were gumballs and the power magnents and the piano and all kinda of good stuff.
Wouldn't schmaltz be an insulator? Not a good idea to put on a type of the line semi-conduction I think. At least when the core really gets hot you can throw in some matza balls and have a nice soup.
We already have something like that, its called a kilowatt hour, measures the number of kilowatts any electrical system uses of the grid over the course of an hour.
-kaplan
I concur, and therefore propose a new and relevent benchmark for system boot time called BMPY or Boot Minutes Per Year. This will measure the amount of time (a 24/7 machine) spends per-year in a booting state. for instance imagine you can boot Zeta in 15 seconds but you need to reboot every three days (this is a hypothetical example I have no idea how often it will need to be rebooted) then you have 365/3 boots per year or 122 total boots for a total boot time of 1830 seconds or 30.5 BMPY. Now take another system for example linux that takes 1.5min (a conservative estimate, my system with no optimization takes slightly less) too boot but needs to be rebooted only once a month (again conservative as sometimes I only reboot at major kernel releases) for a total of 90*12 or 1,080 seconds, which comes to 18 BMPY. So in this case although it takes the linux system longer to boot, it actually spends 12.5 minutes less per year booting up. I hope someone will take this idea into serious consideration and maybe create a standard benchmark.
-kaplanfx
Won't someone please think of the eyecandy. Never used enlightenment myself but those videos of e17 are eyecandylicious if you are into that sort of thing.
-kaplanfx
my point was that you will typically want to use your distro to install much of the dependencies (i.e. libs) so that if you install something with say apt-get that also depends on the library it will not download a conflicting version. I was only commenting on autopackge, which does not recursively install unmet dependencies as far as I can tell from the homepage.
-kaplanfx
As broken as the disto system is, it's also a major driver of innovation in linux. If there were only one distro, we would probably not have advanced package management and administration systems we have now.
-kaplanfx
Maybe my system is just weird, but usually ./configure will check deps for me and I'll never get a make file if I don't have the needed stuff. If ./configure craps out *most* libs and such are avialable from my distro so I just (insert apt-get, emerge, pacman, rpm, slapt-get here) the library and run ./configure again. what I think autopackage would be good for is installing commercial and non OSS apps in your home dir and preventing them from messing with / breaking your system.
-kaplanfx
Yeah, we all really need a $1,500 tablet to make comic book reading more convenient. Seriously though, comic books are $1.50 to $3.50 or so even if you read 10 comic books every month at $3.50 a pop, you can keep going for 43 months at which point your tablet would have been long obsolete and updated.
-kaplanfx
Why are you braggin about this? Clearly your life seriously sucks.
-kaplanfx
It still beats my 8 zilog z80 that I have in this baby. In fact it beats the 32bits in my pentium.
3) Whereas most people were posting "No, you should have bought Apple a while ago!" which is about the specifics surrounding Apple's stock history, I was posting the general rule, which is that you don't tend to rush out and buy stock after the good news comes out as the stock has probably gone up pretty much as soon as the news is posted. It kinda goes against the whole "buy low, sell high" thing.
Um... So what you are saying is not only was your post redundant, it was offtopic too. Why bother with another post explaining how your first post was defective? Cut your losses and run or the Slashdot hordes will bury you alive!
-kaplanfx
and the way KDE's widgets are laid out still hasn't changed. For instance, menus are too close to each other.
If you look closely at the screenshot you will see that both apps where you can see the menu, are NOT KDE apps (xchat and gaim). Your point may in fact be valid but I hope it wasn't inferred solely from the screenshot.
-kaplanfx
Wow, that whole thread and you forgot:
Netcraft confirms KDE 3.4 released!
And point it where? PearPC?
I'm going to have to send the up the bomb then...
-kaplanfx
Does any of the remaining profit go to the Artists or is it used by the RIAA to sue more "customers"?
-kaplanfx
I have the 6010 and it rocks my socks. Great reception, good voice quality, and free from every provider. Anyhow I agree with the grandparent on most points, except that I find the color screen (doesn't need to be 16.7 mil though) actually makes the phone easier to use, because its much easier to read.
-kaplanfx
I'm not saying that they wouldn't think its shady but I doubt they thought that even if they got caught it could result in them not getting it. This is unlike robbing the bank, where all but the most idiotic and mentaly challenged of our citizens knows that if you get caught you go to jail.
-kaplanfx
(Farts in an elevator with only one other person) "It was you!" -Peter Griffin
How can you compare robbing a bank to what occured here. I'm not saying the prospective students should not be punished, but robbing a bank is clearly against the law, while its possible that these students did not think or know that accessing this "hidden" url was against the rules. (or maybe they did but its not explicitly clear).
-kaplanfx
While this could actually be a feasible idea for cargo, it would probably be deadly for a human crew. The initial acceleration involved in such a device would most certainly crush ones internal organs to bits before they ever reach near the necessary speeds to do anything useful.
-kaplanfx
This should be modded (Score:-1, Depressing).
-kaplanfx
You laugh, but this theory has exactly the same probability as any major religion of being true. In fact anything you can possibly come up with has an equal chance, or 1/n with n being the total possible permutations of creation and the events that follow.
-kaplanfx