Isn't the NVIDIA driver closed? How does one patch a closed-source driver? I admit, I have very limited knowledge of how the NVidia drivers actually work. I had been using them up until I installed Mandrake 10.2B3 the other day. The nv driver that Mdk10.2 installed works like a dream, though. I assume its 3D performance is sub-par, but I don't use my computer to play games anyway.
This is pretty cool, but what would be killer would be the ability to query Yahoo Finance 5000 times a day. Does anyone know of a large(-ish) source of financial data that's free for the hobby developer?
At what point do we see used CD stores putting a bunch of PCs in their store, equipped with ripping software, and offering to buy back the CD you just purchased? I envision this (all figures in Canadian dollars, general prices of used stores around Toronto):
1) I buy CD in store used for $11 2) I walk over to a computer and rip the CD 3) Transfer the music to my iPod/portable 4) Sell CD back to store for $6-7
Seriously, how many people need stuff in Office that isn't in OpenOffice.org?
Seriously? Plenty. I can't wait for OO 2.0 to come out, so that I can try again to convert some of my friends to Linux, or to OO 2.0 for Windows. Everyone I've talked to needs something different, but here are some of the things:
- Access Equivalent (OO 2.0 will have it) - Times New Roman Font (applies only to Linux, and is still do-able, but is not there out of the box) - Near-perfect conversion from whatever version of Office they currently use (Excel is fine, Word and Powerpoint need some work, but are almost there) - Third-party applications. Right now, I can import a Word document into Documents To Go, and load it on a Palm Pilot, and edit it on the go. I cannot do this with OO files (unless, of course, I save them as.doc).
OpenOffice is the key stumbling block for converting people to Linux, or just open-source in general. I hope that the 2.0 series solves this.
Yes, but I think that Windows XP, when looking for a WAP, is pretty indiscriminant. I seem to remember setting up a linksys wireless router for a friend, changing all the defaults, using the encryption keys. Then one day when his laptop couldn't find the network, it just went to the next available network, an insecure WAP that was his neighbour's.
I agree with you that we should be able to study innate differences between groups of people without people crying foul if they don't like the results. However, if these studies are commissioned or are used as an excuse for someone's biases, then I have a problem.
In this situation, Harvard has low female enrollment in math disciplines. Rather than investigate whether Harvard is actively or inadvertently discouraging females from enrolling, or whether there is some social root cause for females being discouraged from math disciplines, the Harvard Pres pulls some "scholarly work" out of his ass that says women are bad at math. This is what I have a problem with. Even if, on avarage, women are worse at math, I doubt that the difference in man-woman statistics is enough to account for the lack of women in Harvard's math-centric programs.
It's just that it explains the likelyhood of a math or science major being male.
And it can also be used to explain to young women entering high school why they shouldn't be taking advanced math courses.
He threw in the, "it's not necessarily my personal view", because he didn't want to be labeled by people such as yourself.
And what sort of people are they? The kind that label middle-aged men that say "Women lack natural ability in math" as potentially having a bias against women? Sounds like common sense to me.
Perhaps not, but it did refute your earlier statement:
Evolution, for the longest time, was defined as change from one species to another (which has never been found).
The poster gave you an example of observations of change from one species to another: ring species. You now have the additional requirement that evolution must add information to the DNA to be evolution in a 'true' sense. I am assuming that what you require for proof is an example of change from one species to another, where the new species is more complex than the original.
Usually it is to fix windows machines that have been infected with a virus.
What would be killer is if there were a Linux-based program that would scan a Windows file system for viruses and remove them, for those times that you don't have a hidden copy of the system.
I always wonder if there is a condition that works in the opposite way, a bit like dyslexia for reading/writing for maths, a sort of "mathlexia" if you will.
There is such a condition. It's called dyslexia. Dyslexia symptoms include difficulties in mathematics, particularly arithmetic. Sometimes this particular difficulty is termed discalculia.
In my limited experience helping dyslexics with math, I've found that visual aids such as hand tricks work great, and that dyslexics have little trouble with visual math disciplines such as geometry.
There's no law behing movie ratings, they're completely voluntary just like the ESRB. In fact, the ESRB's system is much more complex and informative than "PG-13".
So, who cares, as long as both are enforced? As long as I'm allowed to go see R-rated movies, and buy/rent M-rated games, and a 13-year old is not, then I think the system is working.
I see kids renting/buying R rated flicks at blockbuster all the time.
This is an argument for better enforcement of the rating system at Blockbuster. Perhaps a good way to encourage better enforcement is to make its enforcement law and penalizing Blockbuster for breaking the law.
Video games are apparently different because they're interactive.
I think video games are different because they haven't been around as long as movies, and therefore the practice of enforcing the ratings (voluntary or not) is not as established.
I will be happy with xpdf when it allows me to fill in values in pdf forms. I cannot figure out how to do this in linux without acroread (which is buggy and ugly).
Has anyone tried this out? I'm using the "nvidia" driver right now solely because of its speed, but it gives me problems every kernel upgrade. Can the new "nv" keep up?
Well, the article seems to be/.'d, but I wouldn't be surprised if a visual sign that the build is broken might encourage guys to fix it more than, say, me yelling out that the build is broken (mainly how it happens now). Most guys don't know that they've broken the build (forgetting to add a file to the repo that's on their box is common). An automated checkout and build every half hour or so, along with this glowing red light when something is wrong is much better than me building when I have a spare 10 minutes to test if everything is ok.
I will continue to do so until someone makes an IDE on Linux that compares to Visual Studio (and no, Eclipse is not that IDE, especially for non-Java projects).
I will continue to use Eclipse until someone makes an IDE on Windows or Linux that compares to Eclipse (and no, VS.NET is not that IDE, especially for non-C# projects).
I guess what I'm saying is, for what reasons do you believe Eclipse is deficient?
EMusic also went through a period of severely rocking. It used to be $15/month for virtually unlimited downloading (they sent you a nasty email after 2000 downloads in a month, evidently). It looks like their price is now $19/month for 90 tracks. I realize that this is less than $0.25/track (assuming you use it all up in the month), but it's still a far cry from where it used to be. If I'm wrong and their help files are outdated, I would be really excited to hear abou it.
I like widescreen because I use programs that have summaries on the left-hand side, and sometimes a different summary on the right-hand side. I'm always shifting the window width in Eclipse to either see my project summary (left), or my class summary (right). I also use a latex program that gives me a document outline on the left. I'm also using the document map in Word all the time, which is a left-hand side summary of your document. I don't actually think this is the reason laptops are going wide screen (that's probably because people use them to play movies, and that it looks cool), but that's the reason I like it.
RPM is good. I love RPM. I can't imagine where I'd be without that lovely self contained, self extracting package that Just Works(TM). Of course sometimes it dosen't Just Work, like when it was built for a different distro, which is very annoying.
The more common reason for rpms to not Just Work is that there is a dependancy problem (at least, in my experience). Most rpm repositories (ex. rpm.pbone.net) allow you to filter by distribution and version, so finding rpms that were built for your system isn't too much of a big deal. Dependency problems are far more difficult, and this is what urpmi is meant to resolve (no pun intended). You configure it to use one or more repositories as a source of rpms. It uses the hdlist file on the remote repository to figure out what packages depend on what, and gives you messages like "To install this package you also need to install blah and remove blah. Continue?". You then hit yes, and it just does it all. It all hinges on finding a good repository of packages, though. This isn't too tough thanks to Easy Urpmi.
This does not, however, solve the problem of cross-distro rpms. If there are now FC2 urpmi repos, you still could not configure urpmi in Mandrake to use it and still expect it to work.
I would tell you to go get Lomboz, except that there's no release compatible with Eclipse 3.0RC3 (I've heard that you can pull it out of CVS and build it, or you can try someone else's build here for RC1, which is what I use). This would take care of your Tomcat support, along with support for a bunch of other servers (Weblogic, JBoss, etc.), and takes care of JSP syntax highlighting, correction, and debugging. UML is taken care of with a plugin from an Eclipse subproject, UML2. CVS is there right out of the box, as is code completion. Code optimization is helped by Hyades, another Eclipse subproject. How's that? Assuming that the projects release compatible versions once version 3.0 hits, then you need three things:
Thanks! Another example of 's/apt-get install/urpmi' working well! In this case, you have to have cooker contrib in your list. I'm gonna go try it out.
In many cases, assuming the software is not proprietary, the work is available to the whole government for unlimited use and it falls under the public domain. Public domain materials can be requested by anyone, but in practice the people who know about an internal government project are limited. Thus, being available to the public does not mean anyone would know to ask [for it]. So is it really public?
A little later:
The advantage of an Open Source Software license is that the code must be published--I assume that to mean that it must be made available via the Web. An Open Source Software license creates clear commercial rights, making it more likely that government funded code will result in something beneficial for citizens, including eGovernment re-use that cuts costs--and hopefully taxes someday.
This seems to say that public domain software does not have to be accessible, whereas open source software does. I'm not quite sure why this is, though. Is there some sort of acessibility clause in the GPL?
...why not try City of Heroes, or some other multiplayer game that your SO might enjoy. I know my SO used to get bored when I'd pour hours into Final Fantasy X, but after a while, she realized it was fun to watch. Then she realized it was fun to discuss possible strategies. Then she realized it was fun to tell me what strategies to use. Then she took over my game. Anyway, all this was only after she had finished her own game that I had bought for her (Champions of Norath). The lesson I learned? Make gaming and spending time with your SO non-mutually-exclusive. Don't assume that she likes games with cute animals, get her to try Baldur's Gate and the like. Then sit there and watch her play it. Unlike us, a lot of the time women can play video games and carry on a conversation. Then, later, when you're playing some games, she will be much less inclined to demand you shut it off. She'll just sit down with you and assume that you're also able to carry on a conversation (good luck, there).
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What's wrong with it? It works well with firefox.
You obviously haven't tried filling out forms...
Isn't the NVIDIA driver closed? How does one patch a closed-source driver? I admit, I have very limited knowledge of how the NVidia drivers actually work. I had been using them up until I installed Mandrake 10.2B3 the other day. The nv driver that Mdk10.2 installed works like a dream, though. I assume its 3D performance is sub-par, but I don't use my computer to play games anyway.
This is pretty cool, but what would be killer would be the ability to query Yahoo Finance 5000 times a day. Does anyone know of a large(-ish) source of financial data that's free for the hobby developer?
At what point do we see used CD stores putting a bunch of PCs in their store, equipped with ripping software, and offering to buy back the CD you just purchased? I envision this (all figures in Canadian dollars, general prices of used stores around Toronto):
1) I buy CD in store used for $11
2) I walk over to a computer and rip the CD
3) Transfer the music to my iPod/portable
4) Sell CD back to store for $6-7
I now have an album for $4-5, it seems legally.
Seriously, how many people need stuff in Office that isn't in OpenOffice.org?
.doc).
Seriously? Plenty. I can't wait for OO 2.0 to come out, so that I can try again to convert some of my friends to Linux, or to OO 2.0 for Windows. Everyone I've talked to needs something different, but here are some of the things:
- Access Equivalent (OO 2.0 will have it)
- Times New Roman Font (applies only to Linux, and is still do-able, but is not there out of the box)
- Near-perfect conversion from whatever version of Office they currently use (Excel is fine, Word and Powerpoint need some work, but are almost there)
- Third-party applications. Right now, I can import a Word document into Documents To Go, and load it on a Palm Pilot, and edit it on the go. I cannot do this with OO files (unless, of course, I save them as
OpenOffice is the key stumbling block for converting people to Linux, or just open-source in general. I hope that the 2.0 series solves this.
Shouldn't people already be doing this?
Yes, but I think that Windows XP, when looking for a WAP, is pretty indiscriminant. I seem to remember setting up a linksys wireless router for a friend, changing all the defaults, using the encryption keys. Then one day when his laptop couldn't find the network, it just went to the next available network, an insecure WAP that was his neighbour's.
I agree with you that we should be able to study innate differences between groups of people without people crying foul if they don't like the results. However, if these studies are commissioned or are used as an excuse for someone's biases, then I have a problem.
In this situation, Harvard has low female enrollment in math disciplines. Rather than investigate whether Harvard is actively or inadvertently discouraging females from enrolling, or whether there is some social root cause for females being discouraged from math disciplines, the Harvard Pres pulls some "scholarly work" out of his ass that says women are bad at math. This is what I have a problem with. Even if, on avarage, women are worse at math, I doubt that the difference in man-woman statistics is enough to account for the lack of women in Harvard's math-centric programs.
It's just that it explains the likelyhood of a math or science major being male.
And it can also be used to explain to young women entering high school why they shouldn't be taking advanced math courses.
He threw in the, "it's not necessarily my personal view", because he didn't want to be labeled by people such as yourself.
And what sort of people are they? The kind that label middle-aged men that say "Women lack natural ability in math" as potentially having a bias against women? Sounds like common sense to me.
I'm pretty fukking tired of hitting k and then tab in my shell, and having 8 pages of apps kome up.
This is not proof of evolution.
Perhaps not, but it did refute your earlier statement:
Evolution, for the longest time, was defined as change from one species to another (which has never been found).
The poster gave you an example of observations of change from one species to another: ring species. You now have the additional requirement that evolution must add information to the DNA to be evolution in a 'true' sense. I am assuming that what you require for proof is an example of change from one species to another, where the new species is more complex than the original.
Usually it is to fix windows machines that have been infected with a virus.
What would be killer is if there were a Linux-based program that would scan a Windows file system for viruses and remove them, for those times that you don't have a hidden copy of the system.
I always wonder if there is a condition that works in the opposite way, a bit like dyslexia for reading/writing for maths, a sort of "mathlexia" if you will.
There is such a condition. It's called dyslexia. Dyslexia symptoms include difficulties in mathematics, particularly arithmetic. Sometimes this particular difficulty is termed discalculia.
In my limited experience helping dyslexics with math, I've found that visual aids such as hand tricks work great, and that dyslexics have little trouble with visual math disciplines such as geometry.
There's no law behing movie ratings, they're completely voluntary just like the ESRB. In fact, the ESRB's system is much more complex and informative than "PG-13".
So, who cares, as long as both are enforced? As long as I'm allowed to go see R-rated movies, and buy/rent M-rated games, and a 13-year old is not, then I think the system is working.
I see kids renting/buying R rated flicks at blockbuster all the time.
This is an argument for better enforcement of the rating system at Blockbuster. Perhaps a good way to encourage better enforcement is to make its enforcement law and penalizing Blockbuster for breaking the law.
Video games are apparently different because they're interactive.
I think video games are different because they haven't been around as long as movies, and therefore the practice of enforcing the ratings (voluntary or not) is not as established.
I will be happy with xpdf when it allows me to fill in values in pdf forms. I cannot figure out how to do this in linux without acroread (which is buggy and ugly).
Has anyone tried this out? I'm using the "nvidia" driver right now solely because of its speed, but it gives me problems every kernel upgrade. Can the new "nv" keep up?
Well, the article seems to be /.'d, but I wouldn't be surprised if a visual sign that the build is broken might encourage guys to fix it more than, say, me yelling out that the build is broken (mainly how it happens now). Most guys don't know that they've broken the build (forgetting to add a file to the repo that's on their box is common). An automated checkout and build every half hour or so, along with this glowing red light when something is wrong is much better than me building when I have a spare 10 minutes to test if everything is ok.
I will continue to do so until someone makes an IDE on Linux that compares to Visual Studio (and no, Eclipse is not that IDE, especially for non-Java projects).
I will continue to use Eclipse until someone makes an IDE on Windows or Linux that compares to Eclipse (and no, VS.NET is not that IDE, especially for non-C# projects).
I guess what I'm saying is, for what reasons do you believe Eclipse is deficient?
EMusic also went through a period of severely rocking. It used to be $15/month for virtually unlimited downloading (they sent you a nasty email after 2000 downloads in a month, evidently). It looks like their price is now $19/month for 90 tracks. I realize that this is less than $0.25/track (assuming you use it all up in the month), but it's still a far cry from where it used to be. If I'm wrong and their help files are outdated, I would be really excited to hear abou it.
I like widescreen because I use programs that have summaries on the left-hand side, and sometimes a different summary on the right-hand side. I'm always shifting the window width in Eclipse to either see my project summary (left), or my class summary (right). I also use a latex program that gives me a document outline on the left. I'm also using the document map in Word all the time, which is a left-hand side summary of your document. I don't actually think this is the reason laptops are going wide screen (that's probably because people use them to play movies, and that it looks cool), but that's the reason I like it.
RPM is good. I love RPM. I can't imagine where I'd be without that lovely self contained, self extracting package that Just Works(TM). Of course sometimes it dosen't Just Work, like when it was built for a different distro, which is very annoying.
The more common reason for rpms to not Just Work is that there is a dependancy problem (at least, in my experience). Most rpm repositories (ex. rpm.pbone.net) allow you to filter by distribution and version, so finding rpms that were built for your system isn't too much of a big deal. Dependency problems are far more difficult, and this is what urpmi is meant to resolve (no pun intended). You configure it to use one or more repositories as a source of rpms. It uses the hdlist file on the remote repository to figure out what packages depend on what, and gives you messages like "To install this package you also need to install blah and remove blah. Continue?". You then hit yes, and it just does it all. It all hinges on finding a good repository of packages, though. This isn't too tough thanks to Easy Urpmi.
This does not, however, solve the problem of cross-distro rpms. If there are now FC2 urpmi repos, you still could not configure urpmi in Mandrake to use it and still expect it to work.
The price of the Zaurus is about the same as an iPod mini (~ $250), but much more than the cost of an mp3 player that takes CF (nex iia = ~ $70).
I would tell you to go get Lomboz, except that there's no release compatible with Eclipse 3.0RC3 (I've heard that you can pull it out of CVS and build it, or you can try someone else's build here for RC1, which is what I use). This would take care of your Tomcat support, along with support for a bunch of other servers (Weblogic, JBoss, etc.), and takes care of JSP syntax highlighting, correction, and debugging. UML is taken care of with a plugin from an Eclipse subproject, UML2. CVS is there right out of the box, as is code completion. Code optimization is helped by Hyades, another Eclipse subproject. How's that? Assuming that the projects release compatible versions once version 3.0 hits, then you need three things:
Lomboz
UML2
Hyades
Thanks! Another example of 's/apt-get install/urpmi' working well! In this case, you have to have cooker contrib in your list. I'm gonna go try it out.
From the article:
In many cases, assuming the software is not proprietary, the work is available to the whole government for unlimited use and it falls under the public domain. Public domain materials can be requested by anyone, but in practice the people who know about an internal government project are limited. Thus, being available to the public does not mean anyone would know to ask [for it]. So is it really public?
A little later:
The advantage of an Open Source Software license is that the code must be published--I assume that to mean that it must be made available via the Web. An Open Source Software license creates clear commercial rights, making it more likely that government funded code will result in something beneficial for citizens, including eGovernment re-use that cuts costs--and hopefully taxes someday.
This seems to say that public domain software does not have to be accessible, whereas open source software does. I'm not quite sure why this is, though. Is there some sort of acessibility clause in the GPL?
Check if you actually have javascript enabled. I'm using Firefox 0.8, with pop-ups blocked, and the mouseover pop-up got me (only one, though).
...why not try City of Heroes, or some other multiplayer game that your SO might enjoy. I know my SO used to get bored when I'd pour hours into Final Fantasy X, but after a while, she realized it was fun to watch. Then she realized it was fun to discuss possible strategies. Then she realized it was fun to tell me what strategies to use. Then she took over my game. Anyway, all this was only after she had finished her own game that I had bought for her (Champions of Norath). The lesson I learned? Make gaming and spending time with your SO non-mutually-exclusive. Don't assume that she likes games with cute animals, get her to try Baldur's Gate and the like. Then sit there and watch her play it. Unlike us, a lot of the time women can play video games and carry on a conversation. Then, later, when you're playing some games, she will be much less inclined to demand you shut it off. She'll just sit down with you and assume that you're also able to carry on a conversation (good luck, there).