You sound like a Windows user; gnumeric is currently Linux-only, although a Windows port is supposed to be coming. Under Linux, it'd be quite easy to recompile with different limits, you'd just have to find wherever the constant 256 is defined (search Google, there are messages in various mailing list archives detailing this).
Gnumeric (the world's most kickass spreadsheet) can support any number of rows and columns, although usually the 256/65536 limits are compiled in for Excel compatibility.
HURD is (or was) the kernel of the GNU system. Therefore, when comparing Linux (a kernel) to GNU, he was implying a comparision between Linux and HURD.
The iPod is fairly resilient; I've never heard any stories of hard drive failure (not saying it doesn't happen, just that it's not common). Part of that is that the drive is rarely spun up while music is playing, and, when being used as a portable HD, is spun up but quite unlikely to be disturbed.
Drivers aren't required for the iPod on anything supporting standard USB mass storage (win98 and up) or Firewire SBP2 (any recent Mac OS or Windows). The poster wasn't very clear about their needs, so I'm not sure whether an iPod would fit them or not. If you're only concerned with documents, a USB key is all you'll ever need. If you're ferrying around hi-res images or video, then you'll want an iPod or something similar.
Huh? I've never heard anyone else complain about corruption on an iPod (I've certainly not had any problems with mine). And why would Apple try to prevent people from reading non-music files? Being a portable hard drive is one of the major selling points of the iPod; Apple would lose big by crippling it.
Anywhere policies derived from leftist ideology are implemented, the best you can hope for is mediocrity.
Yep, that whole "democracy" thing. Such a failure.If someone isn't able to achieve that standard of living, and they are not disabled in some way, then it is usually because they have made bad choices in life
Everyone in life makes bad choices. Some people are born in bad situations, make the choice to do drugs, possibly get caught driving drunk, and get sent to jail. Others are born into much better circumstances, make the same bad choices, and wind up President of the United States. The consequences of the choices you make depend significantly on your choices in life. Steal a $2000 car? Get locked up half your life. Swindle billions from shareholders and employees? Get out of jail free.
There are so many opportunities available in this country that it's staggering.
Spoken like someone who's never actually had to pursue those opportunities. Try finding a living-wage job in any major city with a high-school education, no exceptional skills, and no family connections. It's not as trivial as you seem to think.
Multiple hours in line waiting to be screened? I don't know what you've been hearing, but it's rarely, if ever, like that. A couple weeks ago I flew out of Atlanta and was picked for special screening. The total process from checkin to me arriving at the gate took half an hour, with the longest contiguous wait in line totaling 15 minutes. On the way back from Portland, I was again picked for extra screening, and the entire thing took maybe ten minutes total.
If your bladder is a problem, wear a diaper or something. I understand that's not the most pleasant thing in the world, but I don't understand why a couple hours of uncomfortable airplane travel would keep you from visiting a dying parent.
Oxygen itself isn't flammable. Fire requires oxygen, and bathing a flame in oxygen will make it burn bigger/hotter/faster, but you can't just burn oxygen. You need fuel to go with it.
Tips for successful STFUing: a) Funny moderations don't count for karma, so joke-posters are not karma whores. b) The parent didn't post the exact same joke, he posted a variant on the same theme, which was different enough to have some value even to people who had read the original post.
You'll notice he's not fighting driver's licenses any more than he's fighting pilot's licenses. It's possible to travel anonymously in a car as long as you're a passenger. Similarly, he thinks it should be possible to travel anonymously in a plane. Aside from hijacking, it's pretty hard to hurt other people while riding in a plane. And having to show ID didn't stop the 9/11 hijackers; they all showed perfectly valid official IDs under their own names. So what's the point?
Yeah, Rockbox is more developed than iPod Linux, but that's irrelevent to the dimensions of the hard drive. There's nothing about a 2.5" HD that makes it easier to develop for than a 1.8" HD. I wasn't contesting that laptop drives are easier to hack physically, just that they had anything to do with open firmware.
We're both right. Deep Blue was tuned to play Kasparov. It would still play quite good chess against anyone else, but it wouldn't fair nearly as well against other top GMs as it did against Kasparov.
IBM dismantled it afterwards, possibly to avoid challenges from other GMs. Deep Blue was built specifically to play Kasparov; it would have performed much worse against Kramnik, Anand, or any other top-level player.
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You sound like a Windows user; gnumeric is currently Linux-only, although a Windows port is supposed to be coming. Under Linux, it'd be quite easy to recompile with different limits, you'd just have to find wherever the constant 256 is defined (search Google, there are messages in various mailing list archives detailing this).
It was the Mac port of Word 97.
Gnumeric (the world's most kickass spreadsheet) can support any number of rows and columns, although usually the 256/65536 limits are compiled in for Excel compatibility.
HURD is (or was) the kernel of the GNU system. Therefore, when comparing Linux (a kernel) to GNU, he was implying a comparision between Linux and HURD.
The iPod is fairly resilient; I've never heard any stories of hard drive failure (not saying it doesn't happen, just that it's not common). Part of that is that the drive is rarely spun up while music is playing, and, when being used as a portable HD, is spun up but quite unlikely to be disturbed.
Drivers aren't required for the iPod on anything supporting standard USB mass storage (win98 and up) or Firewire SBP2 (any recent Mac OS or Windows). The poster wasn't very clear about their needs, so I'm not sure whether an iPod would fit them or not. If you're only concerned with documents, a USB key is all you'll ever need. If you're ferrying around hi-res images or video, then you'll want an iPod or something similar.
Huh? I've never heard anyone else complain about corruption on an iPod (I've certainly not had any problems with mine). And why would Apple try to prevent people from reading non-music files? Being a portable hard drive is one of the major selling points of the iPod; Apple would lose big by crippling it.
So, you support the dealth penalty for theft? What's your logic there?
Murder and rape laws protect innocent victims. Drug laws "protect" people from themselves. They're totally different cases.
Isn't that the exact opposite of the libertarian position?
Yep, that whole "democracy" thing. Such a failure.If someone isn't able to achieve that standard of living, and they are not disabled in some way, then it is usually because they have made bad choices in life
Everyone in life makes bad choices. Some people are born in bad situations, make the choice to do drugs, possibly get caught driving drunk, and get sent to jail. Others are born into much better circumstances, make the same bad choices, and wind up President of the United States. The consequences of the choices you make depend significantly on your choices in life. Steal a $2000 car? Get locked up half your life. Swindle billions from shareholders and employees? Get out of jail free.
There are so many opportunities available in this country that it's staggering.
Spoken like someone who's never actually had to pursue those opportunities. Try finding a living-wage job in any major city with a high-school education, no exceptional skills, and no family connections. It's not as trivial as you seem to think.
The Saudi royal family and their cronies are extremely rich. The other 99% of Saudi Arabia is deathly poor.
If the TSA cared about security, they'd ban lighters and matches, which are infinitly more dangerous than nail clippers.
If your bladder is a problem, wear a diaper or something. I understand that's not the most pleasant thing in the world, but I don't understand why a couple hours of uncomfortable airplane travel would keep you from visiting a dying parent.
Oxygen itself isn't flammable. Fire requires oxygen, and bathing a flame in oxygen will make it burn bigger/hotter/faster, but you can't just burn oxygen. You need fuel to go with it.
Tips for successful STFUing:
a) Funny moderations don't count for karma, so joke-posters are not karma whores.
b) The parent didn't post the exact same joke, he posted a variant on the same theme, which was different enough to have some value even to people who had read the original post.
You'll notice he's not fighting driver's licenses any more than he's fighting pilot's licenses. It's possible to travel anonymously in a car as long as you're a passenger. Similarly, he thinks it should be possible to travel anonymously in a plane. Aside from hijacking, it's pretty hard to hurt other people while riding in a plane. And having to show ID didn't stop the 9/11 hijackers; they all showed perfectly valid official IDs under their own names. So what's the point?
Yeah, Rockbox is more developed than iPod Linux, but that's irrelevent to the dimensions of the hard drive. There's nothing about a 2.5" HD that makes it easier to develop for than a 1.8" HD. I wasn't contesting that laptop drives are easier to hack physically, just that they had anything to do with open firmware.
Physical drive size has nothing to do with it, you can run third party firmware on the iPod too.
I don't think it's possible for Slashdot to get any more invalid than it already is. :-)
Soeaking of man-in-the-middle attacks, this thing looks like a lot of fun.
You don't have to be the AP to sniff wireless packets, it's quite easy to do so as a client.
IIRC, that 24MB includes the JRE and other big stuff.
We're both right. Deep Blue was tuned to play Kasparov. It would still play quite good chess against anyone else, but it wouldn't fair nearly as well against other top GMs as it did against Kasparov.
IBM dismantled it afterwards, possibly to avoid challenges from other GMs. Deep Blue was built specifically to play Kasparov; it would have performed much worse against Kramnik, Anand, or any other top-level player.