Evolution is a mail client that's being developed by Helix Code. It's currently in the prerelease stage, at version 0.3.1, but it's usable. If you used Outlook before, you'll find evolution to have a very very similar interface.
I use evolution now, keeping a backup somewhere else, and it hasn't lost my mail or anything yet, though it does leave stray processes running all the time. sometimes I have to kill them between launchings of the program so it'll run, but, outside of these glitches thatll likely be fixed by release, I find it to be very easy to use, and pretty stable.
I'd recommend giving it a try. If you're running a major distro, you'll also find helix's install to be very simple, though if you have a slow internet connection it could be painful. You'll have to download a good number of the latest libraries for evolution to work.
Well, I just started reading Sci-Fi this past summer and started with the Foundation series too. Fantastic series. By the way, read Forward the Foundation last. Chronologically it's second, but gives away a lot. Definitely last.
Dune by Frank Herbert is good stuff, but you probably don't want to bother with the whole series - I quit around the 4th book because it was getting too repetitive for me.
William Gibson is great as far as visualization and the worlds he creates go. A few of the scenes are a bit more than you might want your 13 year-old daughter to read, but there's nothing that bad. By him, I've read Idoru (his best, in my opinion), Neuromancer (classic, you'll want to "jack in" too), Count Zero (pretty good), and Mona Lisa Overdrive (not fantastic, but still decent).
Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon. READ.
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451. Good stuff.
Heller's Catch-22 is great. So is Burgess's Clockwork Orange, but that's almost definitely more mature than you want to read with your daughter.
Then there's George Orwell. I don't know if he's really Sci-fi, but he's definitely worth reading. Animal Farm, 1984, and Coming up for Air are all really good.
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is one of the best books I've ever read.
If you've got a while to spare, and you're in the mood for some fantasy reading, there's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, but those are pretty hardcore.
You make a good point, but I don't think it's valid, at least not in this case. If you read the replies to the original article you would've seen that the overwhelming majority of people who replied came out against the article, and from the letter that Mr. Ingles-le Nobel wrote, it seems the fact that it was such an overwhelming majority was important to him. Had the replies to the original article been more varied - that is, had a significant portion of the people thought it was good - I doubt Jane's would've acted this way. I think the people there realize that a lot of the posters could be "script kiddies trying to be all hardcore," but they also realize that some of the posters are experts who know what they are talking about.
Hmm. Could this be like genetic programming, but computers could design themselves to make generations of improvement incredibly quickly? If so, that'd be pretty scary. Once computers have that much control over themselves, we would begin to lose some. Granted, control is something of an illusion, but it's one I like to have.
From the comments I've been reading it seems like the patent is for a processor that would translate instructions for other processors into its own instruction set, make sure the translated instructions would work, and if so run them.
What I want to know is, what would it do if the translated instuction would cause an error? Would the processor just not carry the translated instructions out? If so, that would seem to be quite a flaw. Maybe I'm missing something incredibly obvious here, but maybe not. Can anybody answer my question?
ESR is a leading open source advocate. The Halloween Documents, internal memos from Microsoft about Linux, Open Source, and stuff, were leaked to him and he posted them at opensource.org. If you'd like to find about him and his views, probably reading his reaction to the Halloween Docs would do the job. Or, just go to his homepage and read about him.
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Evolution is a mail client that's being developed by Helix Code. It's currently in the prerelease stage, at version 0.3.1, but it's usable. If you used Outlook before, you'll find evolution to have a very very similar interface.
I use evolution now, keeping a backup somewhere else, and it hasn't lost my mail or anything yet, though it does leave stray processes running all the time. sometimes I have to kill them between launchings of the program so it'll run, but, outside of these glitches thatll likely be fixed by release, I find it to be very easy to use, and pretty stable.
I'd recommend giving it a try. If you're running a major distro, you'll also find helix's install to be very simple, though if you have a slow internet connection it could be painful. You'll have to download a good number of the latest libraries for evolution to work.
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Well, I just started reading Sci-Fi this past summer and started with the Foundation series too. Fantastic series. By the way, read Forward the Foundation last. Chronologically it's second, but gives away a lot. Definitely last.
Dune by Frank Herbert is good stuff, but you probably don't want to bother with the whole series - I quit around the 4th book because it was getting too repetitive for me.
William Gibson is great as far as visualization and the worlds he creates go. A few of the scenes are a bit more than you might want your 13 year-old daughter to read, but there's nothing that bad. By him, I've read Idoru (his best, in my opinion), Neuromancer (classic, you'll want to "jack in" too), Count Zero (pretty good), and Mona Lisa Overdrive (not fantastic, but still decent).
Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon. READ.
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451. Good stuff.
Heller's Catch-22 is great. So is Burgess's Clockwork Orange, but that's almost definitely more mature than you want to read with your daughter.
Then there's George Orwell. I don't know if he's really Sci-fi, but he's definitely worth reading. Animal Farm, 1984, and Coming up for Air are all really good.
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is one of the best books I've ever read.
If you've got a while to spare, and you're in the mood for some fantasy reading, there's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, but those are pretty hardcore.
Hope this was helpful. Have fun reading.
You make a good point, but I don't think it's valid, at least not in this case. If you read the replies to the original article you would've seen that the overwhelming majority of people who replied came out against the article, and from the letter that Mr. Ingles-le Nobel wrote, it seems the fact that it was such an overwhelming majority was important to him. Had the replies to the original article been more varied - that is, had a significant portion of the people thought it was good - I doubt Jane's would've acted this way. I think the people there realize that a lot of the posters could be "script kiddies trying to be all hardcore," but they also realize that some of the posters are experts who know what they are talking about.
I knew I read this story a while ago... here.
Hmm. Could this be like genetic programming, but computers could design themselves to make generations of improvement incredibly quickly? If so, that'd be pretty scary. Once computers have that much control over themselves, we would begin to lose some. Granted, control is something of an illusion, but it's one I like to have.
From the comments I've been reading it seems like the patent is for a processor that would translate instructions for other processors into its own instruction set, make sure the translated instructions would work, and if so run them.
What I want to know is, what would it do if the translated instuction would cause an error? Would the processor just not carry the translated instructions out? If so, that would seem to be quite a flaw. Maybe I'm missing something incredibly obvious here, but maybe not. Can anybody answer my question?
ESR is a leading open source advocate. The Halloween Documents, internal memos from Microsoft about Linux, Open Source, and stuff, were leaked to him and he posted them at opensource.org. If you'd like to find about him and his views, probably reading his reaction to the Halloween Docs would do the job. Or, just go to his homepage and read about him.
Links to his essays
That would cover all I know about him, which really isn't all that much.
I think I have to point out that they're located at linuxone.net, not linuxone.com, so they're actually based in Mountain View, CA, not Austria.
Still fubar tho.