The fellow in the fine video says that they acquired parts of it when they bought a company, and that other parts are grad student work. So the jury's still out as the blandness of MS RnD.
Nonetheless Lockeed and their stealth skunk works helped pull up the miracle at the balkin wars, Desert Storm and the newest US Agression in Iran. [emphasis added]
For all our sakes I hope you meant Iraq, not Iran. Iraq, you already have troops in; Iran, you don't.
Does "it.... being used as a stick to scare to the rest of society rather than an as an actual punishment, and is therefore out of proportion" apply to the death penalty? I ask because often people say that capital punishment as a deterrent is one (of a handful, admittedly) justification for the death penalty.
I may be "afraid" like the article says but to me the OLPC is just too far from a regular PC to be useful...If you want to teach tech skills to kids you're far better off trying to emulate a 'real world' pc experience.
The project's about teaching learning skills in situations without much of a prospect for education. The device being used to do that has a full Linux subsystem and plays by POSIX-y rules. The Sugar interface stuff is written in Python, and isn't GNOME or KDE or XFCE or Enlightenment. But so what? Raise a generation of kids with the ability to learn for themselves (I allege Negroponte never wants to have to type "RTFM" again...) and they'll graduate to the sort of computing we find conventional. I think that's the plan.
I have never understood the race to photorealism in games. Perhaps it's for those back-of-box screenshots ("from a version you'll never own"). Better graphics are nice, but they swap the the player's imagination for visual detail. Games companies do this, diverting programming resources from what a game plays like to what a game looks like, without realising that there's a "+5, imagination" gameplay boost that comes from believing that the collection of bad sprites on screen is humanity's last chance for survival against some alien creatures. I think that the greatest advance in the last decade for immersion is the use of surround speakers, not better graphics.
Stallman's making this huge principled stand for freedom, and all Torvalds really cares about is his kernel.
Everyone's freedom is limited: your freedom to swing you fist ends at the start of my nose. So sir, I refer you to the sentiment of the original poster in this thread: If Linux isn't free enough for RMS, RMS is free enough to make himself a suitably-free kernel. Equally, if *BSD isn't free enough for you, or if GPLv2 isn't free enough for you, then you can use GPLv3 software.
Read that Fine Article: they're Xeon 5160's. That's Woodcrest, the first generation of Core-based Xeon chip (Xeon Woodcrest at Wikipedia). No longer Netburst, Dim.
I had the same experience when Quicktime upgraded itself to version 7.1. Somehow it needs more juice than I was willing to give it. Turn off any Equalization you may be running and increase the task priority to AboveNormal in Task Manager to work around this inadequate performance.
I would hope that Novell were awake enough to include actual licenses for Microsoft patents in last year's pact. I would hope that would protect Mono and Moonlight from patent-fu.
I think that the best-regarded source of information about Linux hardware compatibility is the Gentoo Wiki: http://gentoo-wiki.com/. Without knowing anything about your hardware, my guess is you're being bitten by a bug in the nForce chipset drivers.
Password encryption is data storage. Like your hard disks, use something that's big enough for today and remember to upgrade it when the encryption method doesn't have sufficient space to protect you any more.
I'd had two CPU's and Gigabit Ethernet for three years by the time that Vista was on sale to the public. That's not simply "short-sighted with respect to today's systems", that's a total let down to businesses who have high-performance workstations.
But the intervention across the globe by Western governments since the end of WWII is that disruption of peace which makes enemies of those we and our governments have screwed over.
I am not sure I agree with you: this may concern NSA leaks but it is in the arena of civillian wire-tapping and privacy invasion. Do you uphold the laws until they are morally wrong (and then campaign to have them changed), or always go by the book?
How many people in the street and on news broadcasts would agree to the phrase "Life is getting back to normal after the terrorist atrocities in September 2001"?
It's infinite intelligence by induction: prove that we can improve our own 'intelligence' in some manner and then establish machines which do the same thing (literally) ad infinitum. Perhaps we're rolling in that direction already with the information available on the Internet. The biggest hurdle I can see is the question of whether humanity is actually smarter for augmenting individual's intelligence with the Internet. I'm posting this on Slashdot, so perhaps the answer is 'no'.
Now, I have major doubts about the pace of this change, and of when it will kick in, but it seems unlikely that anything short of a planet-wide catastrophe could stop it from happening eventually. I read Dawkins somewhere say that no matter how unlikely the jump from non-sentience to sentience, once it's happened it's so much more likely to happen again. If natural selection calls for CS researchers to write the grant applications for computer modelling of brain structures so that they have a job and can provide for offspring, the crane that lifts life away from unstructured chaos still rises a little for that work.
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The fellow in the fine video says that they acquired parts of it when they bought a company, and that other parts are grad student work. So the jury's still out as the blandness of MS RnD.
For all our sakes I hope you meant Iraq, not Iran. Iraq, you already have troops in; Iran, you don't.
Does "it .... being used as a stick to scare to the rest of society rather than an as an actual punishment, and is therefore out of proportion" apply to the death penalty? I ask because often people say that capital punishment as a deterrent is one (of a handful, admittedly) justification for the death penalty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_Trilogy#Relation_to_Halo ...But what might Master Chief do in the mean time?
TFA says "lithium ferro-phosphate".
The project's about teaching learning skills in situations without much of a prospect for education. The device being used to do that has a full Linux subsystem and plays by POSIX-y rules. The Sugar interface stuff is written in Python, and isn't GNOME or KDE or XFCE or Enlightenment. But so what? Raise a generation of kids with the ability to learn for themselves (I allege Negroponte never wants to have to type "RTFM" again...) and they'll graduate to the sort of computing we find conventional. I think that's the plan.
Is that eight instead of 12 because it's a scale model?
I have never understood the race to photorealism in games. Perhaps it's for those back-of-box screenshots ("from a version you'll never own"). Better graphics are nice, but they swap the the player's imagination for visual detail. Games companies do this, diverting programming resources from what a game plays like to what a game looks like, without realising that there's a "+5, imagination" gameplay boost that comes from believing that the collection of bad sprites on screen is humanity's last chance for survival against some alien creatures. I think that the greatest advance in the last decade for immersion is the use of surround speakers, not better graphics.
I'm European, you insensitive clod!
That's what the fiber is for: no E.M. interference. Then you can boost the power lines as needed for the device's optical circuits.
Stallman's making this huge principled stand for freedom, and all Torvalds really cares about is his kernel.
Everyone's freedom is limited: your freedom to swing you fist ends at the start of my nose. So sir, I refer you to the sentiment of the original poster in this thread: If Linux isn't free enough for RMS, RMS is free enough to make himself a suitably-free kernel. Equally, if *BSD isn't free enough for you, or if GPLv2 isn't free enough for you, then you can use GPLv3 software.
That's what the '!notable' Slashdot tag is for.
Read that Fine Article: they're Xeon 5160's. That's Woodcrest, the first generation of Core-based Xeon chip (Xeon Woodcrest at Wikipedia). No longer Netburst, Dim.
Is it light enough to run in Bochs or another processor emulator? Virtualisation is the future they're promising us today...
I had the same experience when Quicktime upgraded itself to version 7.1. Somehow it needs more juice than I was willing to give it. Turn off any Equalization you may be running and increase the task priority to AboveNormal in Task Manager to work around this inadequate performance.
that put a smile on my face - thanks!
I would hope that Novell were awake enough to include actual licenses for Microsoft patents in last year's pact. I would hope that would protect Mono and Moonlight from patent-fu.
I think that the best-regarded source of information about Linux hardware compatibility is the Gentoo Wiki: http://gentoo-wiki.com/. Without knowing anything about your hardware, my guess is you're being bitten by a bug in the nForce chipset drivers.
Password encryption is data storage. Like your hard disks, use something that's big enough for today and remember to upgrade it when the encryption method doesn't have sufficient space to protect you any more.
I'd had two CPU's and Gigabit Ethernet for three years by the time that Vista was on sale to the public. That's not simply "short-sighted with respect to today's systems", that's a total let down to businesses who have high-performance workstations.
As a European, I wouldn't have a problem with Communist. I'd strongly oppose dictatorship. Is the USA political system absolutely non-totalitarian?
I suspect people will object to your example because you can't (as-yet) migrate Wine's processes around hosts.
Peace was not disrupted by the United States
But the intervention across the globe by Western governments since the end of WWII is that disruption of peace which makes enemies of those we and our governments have screwed over.
I am not sure I agree with you: this may concern NSA leaks but it is in the arena of civillian wire-tapping and privacy invasion. Do you uphold the laws until they are morally wrong (and then campaign to have them changed), or always go by the book?
How many people in the street and on news broadcasts would agree to the phrase "Life is getting back to normal after the terrorist atrocities in September 2001"?
It's infinite intelligence by induction: prove that we can improve our own 'intelligence' in some manner and then establish machines which do the same thing (literally) ad infinitum. Perhaps we're rolling in that direction already with the information available on the Internet. The biggest hurdle I can see is the question of whether humanity is actually smarter for augmenting individual's intelligence with the Internet. I'm posting this on Slashdot, so perhaps the answer is 'no'.
Now, I have major doubts about the pace of this change, and of when it will kick in, but it seems unlikely that anything short of a planet-wide catastrophe could stop it from happening eventually.
I read Dawkins somewhere say that no matter how unlikely the jump from non-sentience to sentience, once it's happened it's so much more likely to happen again. If natural selection calls for CS researchers to write the grant applications for computer modelling of brain structures so that they have a job and can provide for offspring, the crane that lifts life away from unstructured chaos still rises a little for that work.