I was thinking about this just yesterday. I assume that using an accelerated XFree86 driver means that drawing 2D/3D figures is (ideally) passed from the toolkit library to the hardware by X.
But, does QT/KDE actually *use* any of the acceleration features of X? I've got a P200 that seems to run *faster* using the unaccelerated vesa driver because, under x11perf tests, that driver beats the crap out of the (accelerated) S3 driver for drawing bitmaps, even though on other tests, drawing lines and boxes and such, the S3 driver wins.
Could this be one of the reasons for X11's perceived suckiness?
Parent post is an accurate description. Grandparent must be describing physics on some other planet.
In order for a meteor to fall, at terminal velocity, for 100 minutes, it would have to reach terminal velocity 360km above earth. The atmosphere at that altitude is only around 0.00000000001 kg/m^3, not 1.2 kg/m^3.
Technically, to the UK, Americans are 'dang furriners' and vice-versa. I hope that was the political loophole to which you were referring.
You don't really think that eschelon is only used for spying on *other* countries, do you? Why would we possibly need to share the infrastructure with each other, if that were the case?
Also, if you think that Iraq has nothing to do with Israel, rm/eyes/wool.
I think that goes a little above and beyond the few thousand angry phone calls, don't you?
A little. I'm sure it isn't anything the mail room at the courthouse can't handle, though.
I'd rather encourage people to feel free to express disapproval with their government officials than attempt to propagate some absurd notion that judges are privy to an overly-sensitive definition of harrassment by virtue of their position.
If anything, they should be expected to handle a little public backlash like adults.
Oh, the irony. What about the Williams Tower, which is a near exact replica of one of the World Trade towers. It was even designed by the same architect, Minoru Yamasaki.
Someone, I think Nightline, said around 4 million employees for telemarketing in the US. The industry has been saying 2 million of those would be immediately laid off for the DNC. I was stunned. That represents an *enormous* number of people who have (unarguably) completely useless jobs. The US economy is going to hell in a handbasket and I don't know whether a DNC would help or hurt that.
Did you have an argument, or just the personal attack. Judges aren't above the law, as some sort of protected class, although many like to think they are.
Supposedly, they pride themselves on the application of logic and reason. There wasn't anything wrong with the logic of the grandparent post, 'sophistry' aside.
I'm sure this judge can handle answering a few thousand angry phone calls from concerned citizens. Federal judges aren't children, you know.
The people are friendly... it's nice to be able to have a decent, civil conversation with someone you've just met.
That's one reason there's a large percentage of Oklahomans in the telemarketing industry. The other is that almost every fiber optic line in the US runs through the state somewhere. It's openly known that the telecom industry runs a *lot* of things in this state.
Unfortunately, one of those happens to be the corporation commission. I think every commissioner in the state used to work for Southwestern Bell at some point. Don't try to get your deposit back. I'm shocked that the attorney general actually charged those WorldCom execs, but that was probably only at the behest of SBC.
Ha! That game had the worst control *ever*. I used to kick ass just by frantically mashing the controller. The graphics and sound weren't much better, but it was damn fun to play.
Savage is considered by many to be the first title to seamlessly meld two separate game genres, real-time strategy and first-person shooter, into one game.
Choose to be a commander and you will play an in-depth RTS managing the stronghold, or choose to be a warrior and you will play an intense game of first person combat.
This is *exactly* the game I've been waiting for. Ever since Lucasarts started filling out the various categories of gameplay with everything from intergalactic enterprise management to battlefield command to first person lightsabre fighting to piloting an x-wing or tie fighter, I've been waiting for someone to *combine* them into one multiplayer game. This looks like it could fit the bill. Anyone have a review?
He also began trading with Russia. I just saw a video of the kitchen debate recently. It's hilarious: Nixon and Kruschev arguing with each other over who can make better toasters. I guess Nixon won.
Maybe you should try using a recent version of Linux before bashing it.
Most (RH, MDK, Debian) make you install a normal user account during install. All (except Lindows) include dire warnings about using the root account for normal activities.
Lots of programs refuse to work when run as root (as opposed to Windows programs, which won't run as anything *but* admin). Any KDE app that needs root access asks for a password; Joe User doesn't need to touch a command line. He does, however, need to know the importance of layered priviledges enough to enter the root password when needed. Besides, *nothing* is easier than su, except maybe the link on my app menu that says "Terminal- Super User Mode".
Regarding the composition of LUG's, I wouldn't be suprised if they *are* Joe User. The local LUG is often the first place Joe User goes for help.
If anything, your entire post seems to fault Linux for bad user habits that are taught and reinforced by *Windows*.
It's because it's too hard to get anything done on a Windows box as a normal user.
Btw, 'run-as' is little more than a half-assed ripoff of 'su'. Try to install a program sometime using 'run-as'. Whose permissions does the installer use? Where do the registry settings go? Why doesn't anything work?
I, and many others, are tired of fighting with half-completed MS 'features' that don't live up to the hype. Maybe, one day, Windows will have finally managed to implement all of the useful features that were designed into the UNIX and Mac OSes. Then I might consider using it. At MS' current rate of ignoring basic functionality in lieu of marketing buzzwords, though, that day will never come.
Manual transmissions aren't prevalent in the US becuase drivers here are too stupid to use them. We are all too stupid to use them because of the poor drivers' education we receive in public schools. Most of the drivers' education in the US is taught by athletics coaches. These are mostly football coaches who aren't qualified to teach any subjects other than driving, yet are required to be teachers in order to coach. These are the same football coaches who are also instrumental in fielding the US military with healthy, attentive, destructive, well-trained 18-year-olds. Said 18-year-old destructo-autometons maintain the US military hegemony over the rest of the world, especially the Middle-East. US military dominance ensures us the upper-hand in international trade relations and guarantees that the Dollar is the currency of choice to back foreign banks. Said economic and military factors work to reduce the cost of foreign goods to USians, especially oil.
Didn't you hear? FOXNews said so. Terrorists hate us because we're so great. They attack us in order to try to bring us down to their level. They live in caves, you know.
The only reasonable response is to attack and invade random countries until the terrorists give themselves up. It's all very clear.
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I've done a little research into solar energy production and know a bit about physics, also. Here are some of my thoughts.
What mechanism actually prevents solar cells from reaching 100% efficiency? I mean, is it a natural physical limit, or is it merely that they haven't been engineered sufficiently to take advantage of all of the light that falls on them? I'd guess that it has something to do with making cells dense enough to capture *every* photon that lands on them.
If that's the case, then there are two ways to increase efficiency, based upon how it is defined:
In normal scientific terms, efficiency would be defined by the amount of energy that is converted compared with the amount of energy that is incident. That's science.
In economic terms, though, efficiency has a completely other meaning. A cell's efficiency is determined by the (manufacturing/maintenance) cost versus the energy converted.
In pseudo-marketing hogwash, the two definitions could be combined. The 'efficiency' of a cell (just the small, *expensive* part that does the conversion) could be defined as the relationship of the size of the cell (and thus the majority of the cost) versus the amount of energy that it converts, regardless of the amount of energy that is incident on the entire system or it's size.
In hogwash terms, a *concentrating* cell arrangement such as this could have 4x the efficiency of a 'normal' solar cell merely by increasing the incident light that falls on the actual collector, the small cell in the middle.
This means that it is actually more *economically* efficient because the most expensive part, the silicon collector, has been substituted with a large area of fresnel lens. It also means that it is, in actuality, no more *scientifically* efficient than other silicon photovoltaics because the *total* incident light on the system is larger.
Goldeneye, really? You must be thinking of the less-than spectacular sequel to Goldeneye, The World is Not Enough.
If you really didn't like the *original* multiplayer console fps, why? You must've never played flag-tag for shots with three other friends. Mario Cart isn't even as fun...
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I was thinking about this just yesterday. I assume that using an accelerated XFree86 driver means that drawing 2D/3D figures is (ideally) passed from the toolkit library to the hardware by X.
But, does QT/KDE actually *use* any of the acceleration features of X? I've got a P200 that seems to run *faster* using the unaccelerated vesa driver because, under x11perf tests, that driver beats the crap out of the (accelerated) S3 driver for drawing bitmaps, even though on other tests, drawing lines and boxes and such, the S3 driver wins.
Could this be one of the reasons for X11's perceived suckiness?
measuring the speed of microwaves, not light
Microwaves are light. They just have a longer wavelength. The speed is the same as for visible light. It is only dependent upon the medium.
if it needs 2 minutes to melt some chocolate, that's not very fast.
Otoh, I wholeheartedly agree with this statement.
Parent post is an accurate description. Grandparent must be describing physics on some other planet.
In order for a meteor to fall, at terminal velocity, for 100 minutes, it would have to reach terminal velocity 360km above earth. The atmosphere at that altitude is only around 0.00000000001 kg/m^3, not 1.2 kg/m^3.
I'd like to see them try to explain in court that God is a fifteen-year-old from Manitoba.
I think that, at the least, recklessness is an element of manslaughter.
Technically, to the UK, Americans are 'dang furriners' and vice-versa. I hope that was the political loophole to which you were referring.
/eyes/wool.
You don't really think that eschelon is only used for spying on *other* countries, do you? Why would we possibly need to share the infrastructure with each other, if that were the case?
Also, if you think that Iraq has nothing to do with Israel, rm
I think that goes a little above and beyond the few thousand angry phone calls, don't you?
A little. I'm sure it isn't anything the mail room at the courthouse can't handle, though.
I'd rather encourage people to feel free to express disapproval with their government officials than attempt to propagate some absurd notion that judges are privy to an overly-sensitive definition of harrassment by virtue of their position.
If anything, they should be expected to handle a little public backlash like adults.
Oh, the irony. What about the Williams Tower, which is a near exact replica of one of the World Trade towers. It was even designed by the same architect, Minoru Yamasaki.
Someone, I think Nightline, said around 4 million employees for telemarketing in the US. The industry has been saying 2 million of those would be immediately laid off for the DNC. I was stunned. That represents an *enormous* number of people who have (unarguably) completely useless jobs. The US economy is going to hell in a handbasket and I don't know whether a DNC would help or hurt that.
Did you have an argument, or just the personal attack. Judges aren't above the law, as some sort of protected class, although many like to think they are.
Supposedly, they pride themselves on the application of logic and reason. There wasn't anything wrong with the logic of the grandparent post, 'sophistry' aside.
I'm sure this judge can handle answering a few thousand angry phone calls from concerned citizens. Federal judges aren't children, you know.
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That should be more like reason #1.
The people are friendly... it's nice to be able to have a decent, civil conversation with someone you've just met.
That's one reason there's a large percentage of Oklahomans in the telemarketing industry. The other is that almost every fiber optic line in the US runs through the state somewhere. It's openly known that the telecom industry runs a *lot* of things in this state.
Unfortunately, one of those happens to be the corporation commission. I think every commissioner in the state used to work for Southwestern Bell at some point. Don't try to get your deposit back. I'm shocked that the attorney general actually charged those WorldCom execs, but that was probably only at the behest of SBC.
Ha! That game had the worst control *ever*. I used to kick ass just by frantically mashing the controller. The graphics and sound weren't much better, but it was damn fun to play.
Savage is considered by many to be the first title to seamlessly meld two separate game genres, real-time strategy and first-person shooter, into one game.
Choose to be a commander and you will play an in-depth RTS managing the stronghold, or choose to be a warrior and you will play an intense game of first person combat.
This is *exactly* the game I've been waiting for. Ever since Lucasarts started filling out the various categories of gameplay with everything from intergalactic enterprise management to battlefield command to first person lightsabre fighting to piloting an x-wing or tie fighter, I've been waiting for someone to *combine* them into one multiplayer game. This looks like it could fit the bill. Anyone have a review?
I haven't tried them, but aren't some of these accelerated?
That damn game had the creepiest sound track that I've ever heard.
He also began trading with Russia. I just saw a video of the kitchen debate recently. It's hilarious: Nixon and Kruschev arguing with each other over who can make better toasters. I guess Nixon won.
Wrong. Wrong. More wrong.
Maybe you should try using a recent version of Linux before bashing it.
Most (RH, MDK, Debian) make you install a normal user account during install. All (except Lindows) include dire warnings about using the root account for normal activities.
Lots of programs refuse to work when run as root (as opposed to Windows programs, which won't run as anything *but* admin). Any KDE app that needs root access asks for a password; Joe User doesn't need to touch a command line. He does, however, need to know the importance of layered priviledges enough to enter the root password when needed. Besides, *nothing* is easier than su, except maybe the link on my app menu that says "Terminal- Super User Mode".
Regarding the composition of LUG's, I wouldn't be suprised if they *are* Joe User. The local LUG is often the first place Joe User goes for help.
If anything, your entire post seems to fault Linux for bad user habits that are taught and reinforced by *Windows*.
It's because it's too hard to get anything done on a Windows box as a normal user.
Btw, 'run-as' is little more than a half-assed ripoff of 'su'. Try to install a program sometime using 'run-as'. Whose permissions does the installer use? Where do the registry settings go? Why doesn't anything work?
I, and many others, are tired of fighting with half-completed MS 'features' that don't live up to the hype. Maybe, one day, Windows will have finally managed to implement all of the useful features that were designed into the UNIX and Mac OSes. Then I might consider using it. At MS' current rate of ignoring basic functionality in lieu of marketing buzzwords, though, that day will never come.
Heh. I can explain all of that.
Manual transmissions aren't prevalent in the US becuase drivers here are too stupid to use them. We are all too stupid to use them because of the poor drivers' education we receive in public schools. Most of the drivers' education in the US is taught by athletics coaches. These are mostly football coaches who aren't qualified to teach any subjects other than driving, yet are required to be teachers in order to coach. These are the same football coaches who are also instrumental in fielding the US military with healthy, attentive, destructive, well-trained 18-year-olds. Said 18-year-old destructo-autometons maintain the US military hegemony over the rest of the world, especially the Middle-East. US military dominance ensures us the upper-hand in international trade relations and guarantees that the Dollar is the currency of choice to back foreign banks. Said economic and military factors work to reduce the cost of foreign goods to USians, especially oil.
It's a vicious cycle.
Didn't you hear? FOXNews said so. Terrorists hate us because we're so great. They attack us in order to try to bring us down to their level. They live in caves, you know.
The only reasonable response is to attack and invade random countries until the terrorists give themselves up. It's all very clear.
I've done a little research into solar energy production and know a bit about physics, also. Here are some of my thoughts.
What mechanism actually prevents solar cells from reaching 100% efficiency? I mean, is it a natural physical limit, or is it merely that they haven't been engineered sufficiently to take advantage of all of the light that falls on them? I'd guess that it has something to do with making cells dense enough to capture *every* photon that lands on them.
If that's the case, then there are two ways to increase efficiency, based upon how it is defined:
In normal scientific terms, efficiency would be defined by the amount of energy that is converted compared with the amount of energy that is incident. That's science.
In economic terms, though, efficiency has a completely other meaning. A cell's efficiency is determined by the (manufacturing/maintenance) cost versus the energy converted.
In pseudo-marketing hogwash, the two definitions could be combined. The 'efficiency' of a cell (just the small, *expensive* part that does the conversion) could be defined as the relationship of the size of the cell (and thus the majority of the cost) versus the amount of energy that it converts, regardless of the amount of energy that is incident on the entire system or it's size.
In hogwash terms, a *concentrating* cell arrangement such as this could have 4x the efficiency of a 'normal' solar cell merely by increasing the incident light that falls on the actual collector, the small cell in the middle.
This means that it is actually more *economically* efficient because the most expensive part, the silicon collector, has been substituted with a large area of fresnel lens. It also means that it is, in actuality, no more *scientifically* efficient than other silicon photovoltaics because the *total* incident light on the system is larger.
Here's a good link to a functionally similar inflatable frensel lens design that NASA is using on satellites.
the bastard child of a porsche and a ferrari, ugh...
Goldeneye, really? You must be thinking of the less-than spectacular sequel to Goldeneye, The World is Not Enough.
If you really didn't like the *original* multiplayer console fps, why? You must've never played flag-tag for shots with three other friends. Mario Cart isn't even as fun...