The first question that arises is how one can duplicate 101 keys that are on today's computer keyboards with the 24 finger key locations (3-way for 4 fingers of each hand) on the ISOS keyboard . The answer is you don't want to.
No, no, clearly the best and easiest solution is to redefine the English alphabet to have only 24 letters.
That waiee, eau can be laisie with ehour taiping skills, and never confuse eheour children with the "Sometimes Whai" rule.
At the other end of the spectrum is the Statue of Liberty. Only a handful of tourists would have been killed, but the symbolic meaning is far, far greater than that of the WTC. Case in point: these two politicalcartoonists. Had the Statue been hit, they wouldn't have drawn the WTC peeking through the debris.
So which target is worse? How many people would have to die in buildings less than 30 years old before that loss outweighs the deep emotional, spiritual significance of losing the ultimate symbol of American unity and liberty?
Far fewer than 5,000, I think, but maybe that's just because it really happened.
Don't forget this recent Onion piece. Stephen Hawking on the cover of a science tabloid. [Second sentence added purely to avoid violating the "postercomment compression filter"...]
I have a Windows box with xwin and a Linux machine. If I run xwin and connect to Linux, I can run xterm, netscape etc. But I can't run AbiWord or the text tool in Gimp because there are no fonts installed in xwin, where it looks for them. That there are fonts installed on the server's local X is irrelevant. That AbiWord itself is running on the server is irrelevant. I got a KVM switch to be able to use said programs.
So it would still be a matter of installing any needed fonts on each X terminal, no? If not, tell me what I was doing wrong...
In the 70s we used them because individual workstations couldn't have enough power to run applications. Then, when they got powerful enough, everyone split apart. Now, we're talking about using X to go back to the idea of mainframes! Weren't there bad problems with peak-hour load across the company? I don't see how this would be any different.
Is Linuxworld just suggesting a way to give a lot of people resources cheaply but at the expense of CPU-sharing?
Jean-Luc Godard said: "The best way to criticize a movie is to make another movie."
Jon: make sure that your first 10 minutes are interesting, funny, insightful, and artistically masterful on their own, or else Godard and Joe Johnston will walk out on you.
Thanks to the economics of Linux, a fourth CG production pipeline is being constructed at DreamWorks in Glendale. Entering production early
next year, the new pipeline will be based entirely on Linux using Intel IA-64 and Pentium4 processors.
A barrage of incessantly excited electrons, zipping back and forth in an intricate magnetic dance, flowed like the Niagra through the labyrinthine catacombs of Cisco's resistors and capacitors within the muggy, dust-ridden interior of OSDN's overworked, recently repaired router. One in particular tumbled through transistors with impunity, spinning with such decided direction that, as it thought, Schrodinger had better start digging a permanent residence for his furry feline friend. Bereft of passion or conviction, one of a garganutan series, this election lived and died like an Egyption spirit for the data he lugged about like a woker ant. He is Eli Electron -- and this is his story.
Harvard scientists have concieved a revolutionary technology
This sounds exactly like late-night infomercials that invariably say things like "our scientists [actors in white lab coats conspicuously walking around behind the one being interviewed] have devised a revolutionary new formula that will make you lose weight without dieting or exercising!"
That is, if the people selling something describe it as "revolutionary" themselves, it isn't. If it really is revolutionary, we'll hear about it in other places. The HP-35 from the slide rule article -- that's revolutionary.
So while this may be a significant improvement, I'd change the prose if I was them.
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That's whet, "to make keen or more acute", in this non-food context.
It's been written:
Alfred E. Programmer: Surprised by Poverty
(that's a Google cache; the original server is refusing me)
Looks like I'll have to buy the White Album again.
The first question that arises is how one can duplicate 101 keys that are on today's computer keyboards with the 24 finger key locations (3-way for 4 fingers of each hand) on the ISOS keyboard . The answer is you don't want to.
No, no, clearly the best and easiest solution is to redefine the English alphabet to have only 24 letters.
That waiee, eau can be laisie with ehour taiping skills, and never confuse eheour children with the "Sometimes Whai" rule.
I take that back. The number is zero. It's just a statue for heaven's sake.
Touche. We can always build another statue.
At the other end of the spectrum is the Statue of Liberty. Only a handful of tourists would have been killed, but the symbolic meaning is far, far greater than that of the WTC. Case in point: these two political cartoonists. Had the Statue been hit, they wouldn't have drawn the WTC peeking through the debris.
So which target is worse? How many people would have to die in buildings less than 30 years old before that loss outweighs the deep emotional, spiritual significance of losing the ultimate symbol of American unity and liberty?
Far fewer than 5,000, I think, but maybe that's just because it really happened.
Thanks.
I have it on good authority that the box will actually be called "My Games Console".
Can I have my 4 karma points now? (with apologies to Ayon Rantz.)
Don't forget this recent Onion piece. Stephen Hawking on the cover of a science tabloid. [Second sentence added purely to avoid violating the "postercomment compression filter"...]
Is this a "Linux as an OS" product or a "Linux Embedded" product?
According to quantum Linux theory, it's both.
Thanks. I though that xfs was just for the local display.
I have a Windows box with xwin and a Linux machine. If I run xwin and connect to Linux, I can run xterm, netscape etc. But I can't run AbiWord or the text tool in Gimp because there are no fonts installed in xwin, where it looks for them. That there are fonts installed on the server's local X is irrelevant. That AbiWord itself is running on the server is irrelevant. I got a KVM switch to be able to use said programs.
So it would still be a matter of installing any needed fonts on each X terminal, no? If not, tell me what I was doing wrong...
Are mainframes good or bad?
In the 70s we used them because individual workstations couldn't have enough power to run applications. Then, when they got powerful enough, everyone split apart. Now, we're talking about using X to go back to the idea of mainframes! Weren't there bad problems with peak-hour load across the company? I don't see how this would be any different.
Is Linuxworld just suggesting a way to give a lot of people resources cheaply but at the expense of CPU-sharing?
Jean-Luc Godard said: "The best way to criticize a movie is to make another movie."
Jon: make sure that your first 10 minutes are interesting, funny, insightful, and artistically masterful on their own, or else Godard and Joe Johnston will walk out on you.
Thanks to the economics of Linux, a fourth CG production pipeline is being constructed at DreamWorks in Glendale. Entering production early next year, the new pipeline will be based entirely on Linux using Intel IA-64 and Pentium4 processors.
What you say !!
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster connected with one of these?!
Someone reply with the second paragraph. I'll make more contributions if a thread gets started :)
A barrage of incessantly excited electrons, zipping back and forth in an intricate magnetic dance, flowed like the Niagra through the labyrinthine catacombs of Cisco's resistors and capacitors within the muggy, dust-ridden interior of OSDN's overworked, recently repaired router. One in particular tumbled through transistors with impunity, spinning with such decided direction that, as it thought, Schrodinger had better start digging a permanent residence for his furry feline friend. Bereft of passion or conviction, one of a garganutan series, this election lived and died like an Egyption spirit for the data he lugged about like a woker ant. He is Eli Electron -- and this is his story.
Harvard scientists have concieved a revolutionary technology
This sounds exactly like late-night infomercials that invariably say things like "our scientists [actors in white lab coats conspicuously walking around behind the one being interviewed] have devised a revolutionary new formula that will make you lose weight without dieting or exercising!"
That is, if the people selling something describe it as "revolutionary" themselves, it isn't. If it really is revolutionary, we'll hear about it in other places. The HP-35 from the slide rule article -- that's revolutionary.
So while this may be a significant improvement, I'd change the prose if I was them.