"Fed a generous helping of CO2-laden emissions, courtesy of the power plant's exhaust stack, the algae grow quickly even in the wan rays of a New England sun. The cleansed exhaust bubbles skyward, but with 40% less CO2 (a larger cut than the Kyoto treaty mandates) and another bonus: 86% less nitrous oxide."
The fact that the exhaust bubbles implies to me that the exhaust is filtered directly through the "soup".
Indeed, it is a US patent, so everyone who lives in a country with treaties with the US that specify compliance will be screwed just as we are. Currently, this is a big part of gaining free trade status with the US. So doesn't this mean that Europe, China, Japan, Australia, and S.America are screwed? Or what?
Stac? But Stac developed the compression technology. I used Stac before MS had anything to do with it. MS v. Stac could not have been MS inforcing MS's copyright, but rather, as I remember it, they licensed Stac IP with a percentage offered as payment (but any percentage of zero is zero, and so Stac bleed to death when MS bundled the product.)
It looks like they are perhaps suggesting that if you sell 10 million units, you pay 2.5 cents per unit to cover the royalty. But if you only sell 10 units, you have to pay 2.3 millon dollars per unit. Thus, there will suddenly only be a few companies, and that does matter. It forces an oligarchy.
Well but you should only have to install the formating software once, then use it each time you want to format, right? It isn't like you have to install drivers each and every time you want to format, any more than you'd have to install floppy drivers each time you formatted a floppy...right? Perhaps you really meant "Who wants to format (not install drivers) every time you purchase (not plugin) your device"?
Except that they do have a filesystem, and as a matter of fact, they have FAT preinstalled. So it does impact them, and the "Score:4, Insightful" really means that moderation is broken.
It was suggested that the "ball bearing" is the weak point in drives, and that your best best was to not buy a cheap 5400 rpm drive, but rather that the higher quality 7200 rpm drives would be expected to operate longer. Not sure about extending that to 10k, or how true it is for 7200 vs. 5400. Perhaps buying a 10k rpm drive, and trick it down to 5k?
Indeed, it seems to be the very idea of an event loop that is called into question. Somehow, the command line of Unix, and the event loop of the internet, "running on those damned Unix servers." So it is event driven software that he decries...lol...
It didn't show up in any undergraduate classes, but the John Nash "cooperation" vs Adam Smith's "Invisable Hand" of selfish competition did show up in my 800 level Economic Analysis class. I think it is overly strong to suggest that Adam Smith was debunked, so much as proven to be incomplete. Just as we need gravity and the strong force, at least currently, we need both cooperation and competition. From your link, "The Nash solution (especially in his second 1953 article) requires co-operation to achieve the optimum solution because all sub-optimal solutions leaves one or both bargainers worse off. Their maximisation desires force them to co-operate." Yet the author suggests that Adam Smith does not revision. Strange. Then the link goes on with Rand's Prisoner Dilemma experiment, where most tested never find the optimal solution. I wonder if there is a correlation between progress towards an MBA (in the USA) and an inability to find an optimal solution requiring cooperation? I wouldn't be surprised.
I think that the reason that you didn't understand it was because there was zero semantic content. Nothing was actually said, but the noise did seem important. I suspect that the column is perhaps humor of a rare and rarified form. Either that or a troll.
If you want something that isn't available for your distro, then it is possible that dependencies could be a problem. However, it is nice to urpmi app-name, (or apt-get install app-name), and have it list the dependencies, and then ask permission to install them in order to install app-name. You also get a list of "recommended" as well as "required". Very nice. It works. Finding the rpm? I only need to know its name. If you have a degree in computer science, and you suggest that
./configure
make
sudo make install
loses "99% of your audience right there, including myself", I have to question your statement. I honestly can't see you having a computer science degree and not being able to do this. It is easy. It works. If the configure script gives you missing dependencies, these are almost surely going to be as simple as urpmi lib-1 lib-2 lib3, and then the tarball installs. Perhaps I misunderstood what a "cpsc degree" is, though.
Actually don't know about novices, but I know that in my OS class we had to install Win2k, and linux fedora, and configure them as per the lab requirements on a local network. File server, webserver, database, and the client machines, with access rights for a number of dummy users. Most of the class were seniors, and most had only used windows. Yet linux was easier and faster, by far. Many surprised students. So to your "My.Ass." I say bullshit:-)
"Every distribution should have at least a high quality PDF book included, readable, with screenshots, and up to date for that distribution. The more user-friendly it is meant to be, the more important having this is. Put it on the desktop. "Click Me To Learn Ubuntu!" "
Ubuntu puts it on the top panel bar, and it runs the gnome version of windows help (yelp) with:
* Desktop
* Applications
* Other Documentation
* Manual Pages
About Ubuntu - A short description of Ubuntu 5.10
Ubuntu 5.10 Starter Guide
It is decent documentation for newbies.
Click on Desktop and you get:
* Panel Applets
Accessibility Guide - Accessibility Guide for the GNOME 2.10 Desktop
Search for Files Manual V2.5 - User manual for the Search for Files application.
System Administration Guide - System Administration Guide for GNOME 2.6.
User Guide - User Guide for GNOME 2.6.
Zenity - User manual for the Zenity desktop application.
I'd suggest that linux help systems are way more advanced than the simple pdf file you ask for...give it a try:-)
It does and it doesn't support it out of the box. It does, in that all you have to do is enable Universe, and all kinds of software becomes available. You get that with the box, no need to go back to the store. It does require an internet connection.
I can't believe you are suggesting that linux application installs aren't swift and sweet compared to windows. It seems to me that suggesting that different distros are...uh..."different" is bogus. The fact remains that using Debian, Ubuntu, or Mandrake, you merely bring up the gui to see what is on the servers, and then click. Seemless, easy, and quick. You want to make a generic program that will install on multiple distros, but that isn't the way it works. The distros package it, if they think it is useful enough to be worth their time. If you want to distribute in a general fashion, give up on binaries and go with./configure, make, make install.
I'm unfamilar with this "as good as the general populace believes it is". Most of my fellow students believe that computers suck, and software sucks, and that is just the way that the world is. People lose homework when WinXP goes down, and it won't run. Seems like the number of Mac and Linux users in my dorm has doubled (from almost nothing, to twice that...) in the last year. Agreed that WinXP does better than Win9x. It surely doesn't last as well as linux "in the real world", though in corporate settings with expensive sys admins you might do better.
I think they were considered a troll because when you buy a linux distro in a box, you also recieve decent documentation including nubie chapters that assume you don't know what you are doing. Expect to also see other chapters explaining the unix method for those who care. Contrast this to MS Windows, where the unoffical rumor is that windows documentation sucks on purpose to support third party markets. Using the very same standard the difference is so stark to anybody that has experince with both operating systems that pretending otherwise is viewed as either flamebait or trolling.
It sounds to me like an arguement that I hate hearing, and I'm hearing it more and more: "I don't want to learn how, I just want to do it." "I shouldn't have to understand", I hear, but that doesn't seem to stop you from stating an opinion. Since when is ignorance an opinion? Is it moving forward to ignore mechanism and causation in order to pretend it just doesn't matter? Be honest and admit that if you don't understand it, it doesn't matter to you, but please don't try to pretend it doesn't matter.
Hey now, my legs work too. That doesn't mean I'm going to walk from LA to NY. It does mean I walk and use a stair-stepper. Agreed that people should code by hand to keep in shape, but don't look down at the corporate jet when we have a meeting a long ways away, saying, "I think I'll just walk."
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Actually not all that late, there was one Soylent Green reference at 2:56, and this guy tied for second place at 2:59.
"Fed a generous helping of CO2-laden emissions, courtesy of the power plant's exhaust stack, the algae grow quickly even in the wan rays of a New England sun. The cleansed exhaust bubbles skyward, but with 40% less CO2 (a larger cut than the Kyoto treaty mandates) and another bonus: 86% less nitrous oxide."
The fact that the exhaust bubbles implies to me that the exhaust is filtered directly through the "soup".
Indeed, it is a US patent, so everyone who lives in a country with treaties with the US that specify compliance will be screwed just as we are. Currently, this is a big part of gaining free trade status with the US. So doesn't this mean that Europe, China, Japan, Australia, and S.America are screwed? Or what?
Stac? But Stac developed the compression technology. I used Stac before MS had anything to do with it. MS v. Stac could not have been MS inforcing MS's copyright, but rather, as I remember it, they licensed Stac IP with a percentage offered as payment (but any percentage of zero is zero, and so Stac bleed to death when MS bundled the product.)
He is also known for swearing and throwing office furniture, although that makes him "crazy", not "insane".
Doesn't Phillips own the CD copyright? Or is that just CD Audio?
It looks like they are perhaps suggesting that if you sell 10 million units, you pay 2.5 cents per unit to cover the royalty. But if you only sell 10 units, you have to pay 2.3 millon dollars per unit. Thus, there will suddenly only be a few companies, and that does matter. It forces an oligarchy.
Well but you should only have to install the formating software once, then use it each time you want to format, right? It isn't like you have to install drivers each and every time you want to format, any more than you'd have to install floppy drivers each time you formatted a floppy...right? Perhaps you really meant "Who wants to format (not install drivers) every time you purchase (not plugin) your device"?
"paying for FAT but getting some new MS exclusive format"...ha! FAT *is* now MS exclusive, except as they choose to sell access, that is the point
Except that they do have a filesystem, and as a matter of fact, they have FAT preinstalled. So it does impact them, and the "Score:4, Insightful" really means that moderation is broken.
It was suggested that the "ball bearing" is the weak point in drives, and that your best best was to not buy a cheap 5400 rpm drive, but rather that the higher quality 7200 rpm drives would be expected to operate longer. Not sure about extending that to 10k, or how true it is for 7200 vs. 5400. Perhaps buying a 10k rpm drive, and trick it down to 5k?
Indeed, it seems to be the very idea of an event loop that is called into question. Somehow, the command line of Unix, and the event loop of the internet, "running on those damned Unix servers." So it is event driven software that he decries...lol...
It didn't show up in any undergraduate classes, but the John Nash "cooperation" vs Adam Smith's "Invisable Hand" of selfish competition did show up in my 800 level Economic Analysis class. I think it is overly strong to suggest that Adam Smith was debunked, so much as proven to be incomplete. Just as we need gravity and the strong force, at least currently, we need both cooperation and competition. From your link, "The Nash solution (especially in his second 1953 article) requires co-operation to achieve the optimum solution because all sub-optimal solutions leaves one or both bargainers worse off. Their maximisation desires force them to co-operate." Yet the author suggests that Adam Smith does not revision. Strange. Then the link goes on with Rand's Prisoner Dilemma experiment, where most tested never find the optimal solution. I wonder if there is a correlation between progress towards an MBA (in the USA) and an inability to find an optimal solution requiring cooperation? I wouldn't be surprised.
I think that the reason that you didn't understand it was because there was zero semantic content. Nothing was actually said, but the noise did seem important. I suspect that the column is perhaps humor of a rare and rarified form. Either that or a troll.
If you want something that isn't available for your distro, then it is possible that dependencies could be a problem. However, it is nice to urpmi app-name, (or apt-get install app-name), and have it list the dependencies, and then ask permission to install them in order to install app-name. You also get a list of "recommended" as well as "required". Very nice. It works. Finding the rpm? I only need to know its name. If you have a degree in computer science, and you suggest that
./configure
make
sudo make install
loses "99% of your audience right there, including myself", I have to question your statement. I honestly can't see you having a computer science degree and not being able to do this. It is easy. It works. If the configure script gives you missing dependencies, these are almost surely going to be as simple as urpmi lib-1 lib-2 lib3, and then the tarball installs. Perhaps I misunderstood what a "cpsc degree" is, though.
Actually don't know about novices, but I know that in my OS class we had to install Win2k, and linux fedora, and configure them as per the lab requirements on a local network. File server, webserver, database, and the client machines, with access rights for a number of dummy users. Most of the class were seniors, and most had only used windows. Yet linux was easier and faster, by far. Many surprised students. So to your "My.Ass." I say bullshit :-)
"Every distribution should have at least a high quality PDF book included, readable, with screenshots, and up to date for that distribution. The more user-friendly it is meant to be, the more important having this is. Put it on the desktop. "Click Me To Learn Ubuntu!" "
:-)
Ubuntu puts it on the top panel bar, and it runs the gnome version of windows help (yelp) with:
* Desktop
* Applications
* Other Documentation
* Manual Pages
About Ubuntu - A short description of Ubuntu 5.10
Ubuntu 5.10 Starter Guide
It is decent documentation for newbies.
Click on Desktop and you get:
* Panel Applets
Accessibility Guide - Accessibility Guide for the GNOME 2.10 Desktop
Search for Files Manual V2.5 - User manual for the Search for Files application.
System Administration Guide - System Administration Guide for GNOME 2.6.
User Guide - User Guide for GNOME 2.6.
Zenity - User manual for the Zenity desktop application.
I'd suggest that linux help systems are way more advanced than the simple pdf file you ask for...give it a try
It does and it doesn't support it out of the box. It does, in that all you have to do is enable Universe, and all kinds of software becomes available. You get that with the box, no need to go back to the store. It does require an internet connection.
I can't believe you are suggesting that linux application installs aren't swift and sweet compared to windows. It seems to me that suggesting that different distros are...uh..."different" is bogus. The fact remains that using Debian, Ubuntu, or Mandrake, you merely bring up the gui to see what is on the servers, and then click. Seemless, easy, and quick. You want to make a generic program that will install on multiple distros, but that isn't the way it works. The distros package it, if they think it is useful enough to be worth their time. If you want to distribute in a general fashion, give up on binaries and go with ./configure, make, make install.
I'm unfamilar with this "as good as the general populace believes it is". Most of my fellow students believe that computers suck, and software sucks, and that is just the way that the world is. People lose homework when WinXP goes down, and it won't run. Seems like the number of Mac and Linux users in my dorm has doubled (from almost nothing, to twice that...) in the last year. Agreed that WinXP does better than Win9x. It surely doesn't last as well as linux "in the real world", though in corporate settings with expensive sys admins you might do better.
Cygwin makes it possible to work sanely with WinXP. If you are allowed to install it...
I thought I was the only one who had to open their case to install WinXP!
I think they were considered a troll because when you buy a linux distro in a box, you also recieve decent documentation including nubie chapters that assume you don't know what you are doing. Expect to also see other chapters explaining the unix method for those who care. Contrast this to MS Windows, where the unoffical rumor is that windows documentation sucks on purpose to support third party markets. Using the very same standard the difference is so stark to anybody that has experince with both operating systems that pretending otherwise is viewed as either flamebait or trolling.
It sounds to me like an arguement that I hate hearing, and I'm hearing it more and more: "I don't want to learn how, I just want to do it." "I shouldn't have to understand", I hear, but that doesn't seem to stop you from stating an opinion. Since when is ignorance an opinion? Is it moving forward to ignore mechanism and causation in order to pretend it just doesn't matter? Be honest and admit that if you don't understand it, it doesn't matter to you, but please don't try to pretend it doesn't matter.
Hey now, my legs work too. That doesn't mean I'm going to walk from LA to NY. It does mean I walk and use a stair-stepper. Agreed that people should code by hand to keep in shape, but don't look down at the corporate jet when we have a meeting a long ways away, saying, "I think I'll just walk."