When I was a student, I worked at different machines all day, and ssh'd into my dorm computer to do various things. I kinda wish I'd known about screen at that point, because I wouldn't have had to kill vim whenever I moved to another computer and forgot to shut it down on my dorm computer.
What I really could have used at the time was a D-BUS like method for instant messaging. I could just ls -lart the logs directory to see when I'd gotten my last message, and tail the newer logs to see what I'd been sent, but I couldn't respond without walking back there. Being able to do something like (not having ever used d-bus or DCOP or whatever, I'm making this up) dcop imer send bob_at_work "I'm stuck at the lab for another hour; I should be back around six." would have been terrifically useful.
Even more useful would have been connecting a basic IM client to an instance running on my computer, so I could have contiguous logs and whatnot.
Music Player Daemon seems like an interesting idea, but uses its own control architecture. What a pain it would be to do that for every application that one wanted to control remotely or from the command line.
Does anyone have an idea what the copyright on these images is? That is, how difficult will it be for me to go to my local Kinko's or Staples and have them make me a nice A0 poster out of one of these pictures?
sort -k1n isn't necessary; sort -n will so the exact same thing.
I was doing the du in a silly way before, though---I was writing du . --max-depth=1 to get a first-level directory structure. Doing the -s * is much less typing. Thanks!
This isn't about people "flocking to it". If you don't like it, don't use it. Linux is not for everyone. We can learn from criticism, and it's a laudable goal to make the operating system widely usable, but trying to foist it where it's not wanted is a losing game.
There was a time when I recommended Linux to anyone within earshot. That time is past. Ironically, some of the people who had Linux foisted onto them (not by me; my advocacy has its limits) have told me that they "finally got it right" with Ubuntu now. So perhaps it's time to upgrade, and see what the fuss is about.
Different tools for different tasks. I use Windows for Warcrafting. I use Linux for programming. (Although cygwin lets me get away with a lot on my Windows machine.)
So, I download and install graphics drivers on a freshly installed machine. The resolution changes to the default high-color or whatever. I'm rather impressed. I go to change the refresh rate, because it's 60Hz, and it's hurting my brain. Still, I'm impressed by setting up graphics drivers without restarting the interface---that's pretty damn nice, right?
What's this? The Display control panel doesn't have more than one tab. It just has the 'Themes' tab, except it's unmarked---there's just the one tab. Well, that's not very useful. Maybe it started wrong, or something. I went in through Control Panel. I went in through Control Panel Classic. I went in through right-clicking on the desktop. I remember restarting at some point. The Display control remained inexplicably and infuriatingly crippled.
Long story short, after a lot of cursing and poking, I hit shift-tab to move onto the tabs at the top of the window, which had been squished down somehow. Yes, a vital part of the interface had been cut off of a nonresizable window, essentially made invisible. I tabbed over, set the resolution and was all good. But what the gray hell was that?!
Eventually, Googling brought me to someone suggesting the use of shift-tab. But, as has been said before, if you're Googling, something's broken.
That's not the point I was making. First off, regular people who own stock don't have the enormous options and kickbacks that the executive class does. And secondly, real incomesare falling. We make up for this by working more, and working harder, to make the same money we were before. Does that seem right to you?
This is a disturbing trend. Companies become more profitable, but because of the downward pressure on wages, that money goes to the few owners, rather than the people working for the company.
The better we work, the harder we work, the smaller the middle class becomes. Jobs are "de-skilled" so they can be performed for minimum wage or less.
Who are these companies going to sell to when no one can afford their wares?
As I recall but cannot find a reference for, you get additional protections for made-up words. So it's a lot harder for you to form the Xerox Laundry Plaza than it is for you to form the Apple Laundry Plaza. I remember the protections on made-up words being a lot stronger, since no one's going to start using them by accident. (Well, it's not likely.)
Huh. I figured everyone worked on the Wikipedia in their native language, and occasionally translated. Though I'm still not convinced that there are more Wikipedians in Europe than there are in the United States, given that server load is highest during US peak hours, not Europe peak hours.
If they don't have much heat capacity, then they'll warm up quickly, and be kinda useless. Water can draw considerably more heat out of your body without heating up as much.
Plus, if it's dry out, the water will evaporate, and you'll lose more heat that way.
Huh. That sounds kinda nifty, actually. The invention, that is. I doubt you could---I doubt you should---be able to market and promote an invention without significant effort and outlay on your part, if you want to keep control of it.
Still, $3000 seems excessive, especially since the USPTO has demonstrated how bad it is at its job. (Researching prior art and the like.) And you'd likely not have the money to sue someone who infringed on you, in any case. Damn shame.
Anyone have an idea of how to make it so that inventions like this don't get lost in the mists of time?
Pshaw. You don't need nanotunnels or anything like that to build a better fan. [1][2]. Check it out. It has a neat "man, I wish I'd thought of that" feel to it.
Indeed. What some of the libertarian-leaning folks posting here should remember is that corporations are notoriously risk-averse. The majority of basic research is publically funded. Unless it's one of those infuriating deals where a company funds some research at a school, then develops it into a proprietary product---essentially using public funds to subsidize their project. Yecch.
Midas Mulligan ain't gonna swoop y'all off to Galt's Gulch. Ain't gonna happen.
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Speaking of ice, have folks here ever heard of Pykrete? And would this explain why Pykrete melts so slowly?
Supposedly tissue paper works as well as sawdust. So you can tell all your friends you know how to beat someone to death with a wet paper towel.
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Way to fight the stereotype, Slashdot!
(Note the "Bought tooth brush on eBay once used by Ewok stunt double for six hundred bucks.")
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When I was a student, I worked at different machines all day, and ssh'd into my dorm computer to do various things. I kinda wish I'd known about screen at that point, because I wouldn't have had to kill vim whenever I moved to another computer and forgot to shut it down on my dorm computer.
What I really could have used at the time was a D-BUS like method for instant messaging. I could just ls -lart the logs directory to see when I'd gotten my last message, and tail the newer logs to see what I'd been sent, but I couldn't respond without walking back there. Being able to do something like (not having ever used d-bus or DCOP or whatever, I'm making this up) dcop imer send bob_at_work "I'm stuck at the lab for another hour; I should be back around six." would have been terrifically useful.
Even more useful would have been connecting a basic IM client to an instance running on my computer, so I could have contiguous logs and whatnot.
Music Player Daemon seems like an interesting idea, but uses its own control architecture. What a pain it would be to do that for every application that one wanted to control remotely or from the command line.
--grendel drago
Does anyone have an idea what the copyright on these images is? That is, how difficult will it be for me to go to my local Kinko's or Staples and have them make me a nice A0 poster out of one of these pictures?
--grendel drago
sort -k1n isn't necessary; sort -n will so the exact same thing.
I was doing the du in a silly way before, though---I was writing du . --max-depth=1 to get a first-level directory structure. Doing the -s * is much less typing. Thanks!
--grendel drago
This isn't about people "flocking to it". If you don't like it, don't use it. Linux is not for everyone. We can learn from criticism, and it's a laudable goal to make the operating system widely usable, but trying to foist it where it's not wanted is a losing game.
There was a time when I recommended Linux to anyone within earshot. That time is past. Ironically, some of the people who had Linux foisted onto them (not by me; my advocacy has its limits) have told me that they "finally got it right" with Ubuntu now. So perhaps it's time to upgrade, and see what the fuss is about.
Different tools for different tasks. I use Windows for Warcrafting. I use Linux for programming. (Although cygwin lets me get away with a lot on my Windows machine.)
--grendel drago
Evilest Windows XP experience ever, right here:
So, I download and install graphics drivers on a freshly installed machine. The resolution changes to the default high-color or whatever. I'm rather impressed. I go to change the refresh rate, because it's 60Hz, and it's hurting my brain. Still, I'm impressed by setting up graphics drivers without restarting the interface---that's pretty damn nice, right?
What's this? The Display control panel doesn't have more than one tab. It just has the 'Themes' tab, except it's unmarked---there's just the one tab. Well, that's not very useful. Maybe it started wrong, or something. I went in through Control Panel. I went in through Control Panel Classic. I went in through right-clicking on the desktop. I remember restarting at some point. The Display control remained inexplicably and infuriatingly crippled.
Long story short, after a lot of cursing and poking, I hit shift-tab to move onto the tabs at the top of the window, which had been squished down somehow. Yes, a vital part of the interface had been cut off of a nonresizable window, essentially made invisible. I tabbed over, set the resolution and was all good. But what the gray hell was that?!
Eventually, Googling brought me to someone suggesting the use of shift-tab. But, as has been said before, if you're Googling, something's broken.
--grendel drago
That's not the point I was making. First off, regular people who own stock don't have the enormous options and kickbacks that the executive class does. And secondly, real incomes are falling. We make up for this by working more, and working harder, to make the same money we were before. Does that seem right to you?
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Really? Looked like it did fine in media encoding as well; it's just the synthetic benchmarks (PCMark04) that it falls behind in.
--grendel drago
Err, not precisely. Intel's Pentium M can create a system that draws 132 watts at maximum CPU load, and runs nearly as fast.
I've been buying AMD for about five years, but I think my next system will be a Pentium M. Just as soon as they're a bit cheaper...
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I haven't seen anyone come up with a compelling reason to use the word "meme" as opposed to "idea", or in this case, "category".
1999 called, they want their starry-eyed Wired-wank back...
--grendel drago
This is a disturbing trend. Companies become more profitable, but because of the downward pressure on wages, that money goes to the few owners, rather than the people working for the company.
The better we work, the harder we work, the smaller the middle class becomes. Jobs are "de-skilled" so they can be performed for minimum wage or less.
Who are these companies going to sell to when no one can afford their wares?
--grendel drago
As I recall but cannot find a reference for, you get additional protections for made-up words. So it's a lot harder for you to form the Xerox Laundry Plaza than it is for you to form the Apple Laundry Plaza. I remember the protections on made-up words being a lot stronger, since no one's going to start using them by accident. (Well, it's not likely.)
--grendel drago
Huh. I figured everyone worked on the Wikipedia in their native language, and occasionally translated. Though I'm still not convinced that there are more Wikipedians in Europe than there are in the United States, given that server load is highest during US peak hours, not Europe peak hours.
--grendel drago
Given that the English Wikipedia is more than twice as big as the next largest, it seems a little silly to have it in the middle of Europe.
Bah, it's not like I could go to it if it were more than two hundred miles away, in any case.
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I concur.
--grendel drago
What's the deal with the two or three versions of the ending? I've never seen it before, but I'm moderately confused about what order to watch it in.
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--grendel drago
It's a line from Once More, With Feeling, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical.
Happy to help!
--grendel drago
The printing press wasn't revolutionary! All Gutenberg did was stick block printing on a rack. Evolution, not revolution, obviously.
--grendel drago
You had me right up until "molecular factory". I'm so gullible...
--grendel drago
If they don't have much heat capacity, then they'll warm up quickly, and be kinda useless. Water can draw considerably more heat out of your body without heating up as much.
Plus, if it's dry out, the water will evaporate, and you'll lose more heat that way.
--grendel drago
Huh. That sounds kinda nifty, actually. The invention, that is. I doubt you could---I doubt you should---be able to market and promote an invention without significant effort and outlay on your part, if you want to keep control of it.
Still, $3000 seems excessive, especially since the USPTO has demonstrated how bad it is at its job. (Researching prior art and the like.) And you'd likely not have the money to sue someone who infringed on you, in any case. Damn shame.
Anyone have an idea of how to make it so that inventions like this don't get lost in the mists of time?
--grendel drago
Pshaw. You don't need nanotunnels or anything like that to build a better fan. [1] [2]. Check it out. It has a neat "man, I wish I'd thought of that" feel to it.
--grendel drago
Indeed. What some of the libertarian-leaning folks posting here should remember is that corporations are notoriously risk-averse. The majority of basic research is publically funded. Unless it's one of those infuriating deals where a company funds some research at a school, then develops it into a proprietary product---essentially using public funds to subsidize their project. Yecch.
Midas Mulligan ain't gonna swoop y'all off to Galt's Gulch. Ain't gonna happen.
--grendel drago
Speaking of ice, have folks here ever heard of Pykrete? And would this explain why Pykrete melts so slowly?
Supposedly tissue paper works as well as sawdust. So you can tell all your friends you know how to beat someone to death with a wet paper towel.
--grendel drago