What's funny about attempts to visualize other types of life forms is, we tend to visualize those life forms in our own environmental terms. That is, we tend to assume some basic atmospheric conditions, pressure ranges, and temperature ranges. We "assume" certain basic conditions that resemble our own conditions.
There's little to no point in imagining alien life if you can't get with it, Captain Kirk-style, and everyone knows that.
Look, comcast is a private company that exists to make money.
Stop right there. In the interest of honest logical discussion, Comcast is not a private company. They are publicly traded and all such corporations exist, in the words of some dude I once worked for, to make money for the shareholders.
at the precipice of become spacefaring people. Mega volcano? Mega landslide in Hawaii? Defrosting Russian permafrost? Global warming? Comet? Meteor? Gamma ray burst? Solar flare?
Pick one and we're screwed. Sadly all we care about it the latest trinket to amuse our monkey brains while we imagine we are safe from all danger. somehow. maybe.
1) Give children in third world countries old computers 2) Get children addicted to Oregon Trail 3) Watch children forego sex, and therefore reproduction, in favor of Number Munchers 4) Profit!
It worked for Family Guy, it can work for POTUS! Stop watching the partisan media networks! They'll lose advertising dollars! Get the word out on the biggest megaphone around, the Internet!
Btw, I watched a Family Guy DVD marathon instead of the debates, and I consider myself more educated on the issues as a result.
I just installed Mandrake 9.2 for my inlaws, who struggle even to operate Win95 without problems (on a Via C3 800, cuz they couldn't pop for more, not having endless computing resources at their disposal).
It went off without a hitch, the install even configured both printers (one HP Laserjet 6p, the other a pretty new OfficeJet printer/scanner/copier/fax color printer).
Out of the gate, both printers worked, one USB the other parallel. The OfficeJet had great resolution and color printing, printing from Konqueror and Galeon both cleanly.
Their email was a snap to configure, and they worked out the games themselves. I even left them on their own, and they discovered how to attempt to install more software from the distro (without the root password, which I kept, they could not complete it).
More impressive, my 18 year old sister-in-law who'd never used Linux in her life had plopped down and worked gaim and the web browser without any instruction. Oh yes, and the sound card was configured by the install and there was no issue at all.
They were all completely impressed and it probably won't be much longer before they decide they want to use CrossOver Office to make sure there are no font problems or macro issues with their Excel spreadsheets they bring from DCX to work on at home.
Soundcard problems indeed. What a plant, for all the M$ fans to point to and say 'look, we _told_ you it would never work'.
You hear that? That is the sound of inevitability.
HP and probably everyone with a firm toehold in reality in the industry knows that SCO's claims are groundless....thus, they wait long enough that the tech world believes SCO won't have a snowball's chance.....they wait long enough for RedHat and others to file the lawsuit for them.....Then they jump in and say that they fully indemnify anyone using HP's hardware and software, so that new buyers will only invest in HP solutions as SCO vaccine. It's simple, it's marketing, it's a bit....dirty, at least morally to me...but then so's most business.
It's problems relating to 'javah', not java. A quote from the manpage for javah :
"javah produces C header files and C source files from a Java class. These files provide the connective glue that allow your Java and C code to interact. "
Sort of useful.
the javah manpage for solaris
Does anyone recall the facts about the XScale processor at 400Mhz vs the 200Mhz older model?
It's not that the clock speed is giving you double the performance. Anyone saying that 200Mhz is too slow for a PDA just isn't getting it.
The 400Mhz processor for PDAs from Intel gives you pretty much the same performance as the 200Mhz previous model (might even be slightly less performance, I don't remember that clearly), the difference being the *power usage* is much better on the 400Mhz chip, giving you better battery life in your PDA.
16-17 hours of normal usage life out of the Yopi is pretty good, and it might be that the Yopi is superior to the Zaurus on that score, and might widen the distance given the XScale processor, but that's just speculation on my part.
If someone discovers that there are rebroadcasts of 40's baseball games with encoded secret plans, will the DMCA sue the aliens for rights violations? Shut E.T. down, Napster-style?
Redhat's GUI installer isn't the greatest, in my experience.
Installing 8.0 and 9.0 in most scenarios I've dealt with weren't that difficult, and anaconda had no problem detecting the monitor and video to run the GUI install, but several times it just didn't work out. I've experienced snafus trying to install 8.0 on a brand new out of the box HP machine from CompUSA. Intel P4 2-something Ghz, 512MB ram, so on, so forth. The installer had some sort of issue with the monitor or video card. Since failure was not an option, I did it the hard (not really) way, and installed in text mode. No big deal, install went great, Xconfiguration was just fine.
Snafus happened with a Micron PC with an AMD Athlon something or other and an Nforce chipset with integrated what-have-yous. Installed in text mode, after that it was easy as pie. Unfortunately the machine was unstable (probably a faulty power supply), it developed a nasty habit of rebooting or freezing in the middle of navigating Apache.org (apparently when running windows previously similar behaviour was exhibited).
Moral of the story: If you want it bad enough to actually pay attention to what you're doing and the pretty install doesn't work, do what Windows can't, and text install. It's basically just as clean and smooth as the GUI, you just have to navigate with the keyboard a little more than with the mouse. No big loss. Xconfiguration and testing are carried off with no problems for the most part with no problems.
Beware, of course, if you have a POS monitor that's so old you can't even find the refresh rates in the specifications on the web. Xconfiguration is a bit more difficult there (so far I've had no luck) and you're SOL if you can't get past the no GUI install (Windows 98 had no problem installing and using the POS ancient Panasonic monitor).
One more thing: Install on a Dell P4 1.3 with 128MB RDRAM was fine, even upgrading from an existing Redhat 7.2 installation. Reconfiguring the video settings within Xwindows was nice and smooth in 9.0, while I did not have the time/inclination to figure the same out in 7.2. Bluecurve is nice though, for a windows manager.
to buy a splashmodule adapter for all of the existing batteries I need to charge? Something about sub-millimeter thin module is mentioned, but not in their minimalist faq. Apparently this module is customized to the size and shape of whatever you need to stick it in.
Huge points for cool factor, but will there be compatibility issues with the SplashModule and my cell phone battery?
...or do mass of the universe calculations meant to encompass everything done by people who can't detect everything seem like a huge waste of resources that could be better spent building me a hot dog and fry stand on Venus or Mars?
If you can replace the cpu with an optical chip clocking at the same speed or faster, you would avoid issues like heat, because the photons don't encounter things like electrical resistance. So you don't need a fan now. And you probably could seriously boost the clock speed. The better this manufacturing process gets, the closer you get to a machine you don't hear. No fans and flash memory sounds like a wearable computer as strong as a pc. And the price is dropping.
Imagine those solar panels forming the biggest mirror ever constructed or dreamt of. Then imagine, as happens so often on the moon, a good-sized space rock smashing that $150 billion dollar investment into splintered fragments. Would make a cool video.
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What's funny about attempts to visualize other types of life forms is, we tend to visualize those life forms in our own environmental terms. That is, we tend to assume some basic atmospheric conditions, pressure ranges, and temperature ranges. We "assume" certain basic conditions that resemble our own conditions.
There's little to no point in imagining alien life if you can't get with it, Captain Kirk-style, and everyone knows that.
Look, comcast is a private company that exists to make money.
Stop right there. In the interest of honest logical discussion, Comcast is not a private company. They are publicly traded and all such corporations exist, in the words of some dude I once worked for, to make money for the shareholders.
at the precipice of become spacefaring people. Mega volcano? Mega landslide in Hawaii? Defrosting Russian permafrost? Global warming? Comet? Meteor? Gamma ray burst? Solar flare?
Pick one and we're screwed. Sadly all we care about it the latest trinket to amuse our monkey brains while we imagine we are safe from all danger. somehow. maybe.
Space stations are shiny.
Someone has probably mentioned this but I can't be arsed to look at everyone else's comments:
What do you bet NASA didn't do their conversion to metric right in their computational modeling?
1) Give children in third world countries old computers
2) Get children addicted to Oregon Trail
3) Watch children forego sex, and therefore reproduction, in favor of Number Munchers
4) Profit!
It's bullet-proof!
That's Numberwang!
Doc! You built a Rocket Ship [time machine] out a 7-series Bimmer [DeLorean] ???
Woah. This is Heavy.
"Sir! Found this Hammer!"
....
....
"Good job, Sergeant!"
"We'll be back, weirdo."
"There's one place we didn't look."
Mr. Gambini, that is a lucid, intelligent, well thought-out comment.
Overruled.
Any wormsign? How's the spice production?
mmmm, traveling without moving...
Wed Feb 22 23:19:32 2006:'scarblac' demoted by 'cygnus' for 1 day reason 'http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=178225& cid=14778813'
Are you saying there aren't any, or are you saying you haven't checked?
...don't rock the vote baby...
...don't tip the vote over...
Rock the vote...
It worked for Family Guy, it can work for POTUS! Stop watching the partisan media networks! They'll lose advertising dollars! Get the word out on the biggest megaphone around, the Internet!
Btw, I watched a Family Guy DVD marathon instead of the debates, and I consider myself more educated on the issues as a result.
Damn donkeys and retarded elephants.
I just installed Mandrake 9.2 for my inlaws, who struggle even to operate Win95 without problems (on a Via C3 800, cuz they couldn't pop for more, not having endless computing resources at their disposal).
It went off without a hitch, the install even configured both printers (one HP Laserjet 6p, the other a pretty new OfficeJet printer/scanner/copier/fax color printer).
Out of the gate, both printers worked, one USB the other parallel. The OfficeJet had great resolution and color printing, printing from Konqueror and Galeon both cleanly.
Their email was a snap to configure, and they worked out the games themselves. I even left them on their own, and they discovered how to attempt to install more software from the distro (without the root password, which I kept, they could not complete it).
More impressive, my 18 year old sister-in-law who'd never used Linux in her life had plopped down and worked gaim and the web browser without any instruction. Oh yes, and the sound card was configured by the install and there was no issue at all.
They were all completely impressed and it probably won't be much longer before they decide they want to use CrossOver Office to make sure there are no font problems or macro issues with their Excel spreadsheets they bring from DCX to work on at home.
Soundcard problems indeed. What a plant, for all the M$ fans to point to and say 'look, we _told_ you it would never work'.
You hear that? That is the sound of inevitability.
....even though I can't stand HP.
HP and probably everyone with a firm toehold in reality in the industry knows that SCO's claims are groundless....thus, they wait long enough that the tech world believes SCO won't have a snowball's chance.....they wait long enough for RedHat and others to file the lawsuit for them.....Then they jump in and say that they fully indemnify anyone using HP's hardware and software, so that new buyers will only invest in HP solutions as SCO vaccine. It's simple, it's marketing, it's a bit....dirty, at least morally to me...but then so's most business.
It's problems relating to 'javah', not java. A quote from the manpage for javah : "javah produces C header files and C source files from a Java class. These files provide the connective glue that allow your Java and C code to interact. " Sort of useful. the javah manpage for solaris
Does anyone recall the facts about the XScale processor at 400Mhz vs the 200Mhz older model?
It's not that the clock speed is giving you double the performance. Anyone saying that 200Mhz is too slow for a PDA just isn't getting it.
The 400Mhz processor for PDAs from Intel gives you pretty much the same performance as the 200Mhz previous model (might even be slightly less performance, I don't remember that clearly), the difference being the *power usage* is much better on the 400Mhz chip, giving you better battery life in your PDA.
16-17 hours of normal usage life out of the Yopi is pretty good, and it might be that the Yopi is superior to the Zaurus on that score, and might widen the distance given the XScale processor, but that's just speculation on my part.
...to get all UN Inspectors off the moon before the ground assault begins?
If someone discovers that there are rebroadcasts of 40's baseball games with encoded secret plans,
will the DMCA sue the aliens for rights violations? Shut E.T. down, Napster-style?
Redhat's GUI installer isn't the greatest, in my experience.
Installing 8.0 and 9.0 in most scenarios I've dealt with weren't that difficult, and anaconda had no problem detecting the monitor and video to run the GUI install, but several times it just didn't work out. I've experienced snafus trying to install 8.0 on a brand new out of the box HP machine from CompUSA. Intel P4 2-something Ghz, 512MB ram, so on, so forth. The installer had some sort of issue with the monitor or video card. Since failure was not an option, I did it the hard (not really) way, and installed in text mode. No big deal, install went great, Xconfiguration was just fine.
Snafus happened with a Micron PC with an AMD Athlon something or other and an Nforce chipset with integrated what-have-yous. Installed in text mode, after that it was easy as pie. Unfortunately the machine was unstable (probably a faulty power supply), it developed a nasty habit of rebooting or freezing in the middle of navigating Apache.org (apparently when running windows previously similar behaviour was exhibited).
Moral of the story: If you want it bad enough to actually pay attention to what you're doing and the pretty install doesn't work, do what Windows can't, and text install. It's basically just as clean and smooth as the GUI, you just have to navigate with the keyboard a little more than with the mouse. No big loss. Xconfiguration and testing are carried off with no problems for the most part with no problems.
Beware, of course, if you have a POS monitor that's so old you can't even find the refresh rates in the specifications on the web. Xconfiguration is a bit more difficult there (so far I've had no luck) and you're SOL if you can't get past the no GUI install (Windows 98 had no problem installing and using the POS ancient Panasonic monitor).
One more thing: Install on a Dell P4 1.3 with 128MB RDRAM was fine, even upgrading from an existing Redhat 7.2 installation. Reconfiguring the video settings within Xwindows was nice and smooth in 9.0, while I did not have the time/inclination to figure the same out in 7.2. Bluecurve is nice though, for a windows manager.
to buy a splashmodule adapter for all of the existing batteries I need to charge? Something about sub-millimeter thin module is mentioned, but not in their minimalist faq. Apparently this module is customized to the size and shape of whatever you need to stick it in.
Huge points for cool factor, but will there be compatibility issues with the SplashModule and my cell phone battery?
OpenFox's newest reality show...
...or do mass of the universe calculations meant to encompass everything done by people who can't detect everything seem like a huge waste of resources that could be better spent building me a hot dog and fry stand on Venus or Mars?
If you can replace the cpu with an optical chip clocking at the same speed or faster, you would avoid issues like heat, because the photons don't encounter things like electrical resistance. So you don't need a fan now. And you probably could seriously boost the clock speed. The better this manufacturing process gets, the closer you get to a machine you don't hear. No fans and flash memory sounds like a wearable computer as strong as a pc. And the price is dropping.
Imagine those solar panels forming the biggest mirror ever constructed or dreamt of. Then imagine, as happens so often on the moon, a good-sized space rock smashing that $150 billion dollar investment into splintered fragments. Would make a cool video.