Because it's uneconomical. Simple as that. Solar arrays are unusable for mass power generation outside of deserts. Wind power has environmental effects too (birds are killed!), and does not generate as much power as one might hope. I've yet to read or hear much about tidal energy. Power generating dams often come under fire for destroying the environment too. As long as coal, oil, and other fossil fuels are abundant and cheap, the economy will be unwilling to support alternatives. I recently read that my state (Ohio) has enough coal within our borders to supply our own demand for power generation for the next 200 years, even when considering the exponential nature of population growth and factoring in no technological improvements! The holy grail of power generation is nuclear fusion, but that's decades and decades away. Until then, we have to make do with what we have.
We could conceivably be over-estimating the effect of human activity on the Earth's climate, but alternatively we could also be under-estimating it. -- IPCC Chair
What kind of ridiculous statement is that? He might as well say he doesn't have a clue what is going on. Don't rely on UN bureaucrats, get the facts for yourself. John Daly is a noted opponent of the IPCC's shenanigans and has a web site chock full of hard facts and data. Interesting things the IPCC has completely ignored include the satellite temperature records which show no net warming since they were sent up in the late 70's. Mysteriously enough, only a highly-questionable surface record cobbled together from equally questionable sources, many in third world countries, actually shows any warming. Here's a nice graph to look at. Why doesn't the surface record agree with the satellite records? Hmmm....
All of John Daly's site is a good read, with many guest writers that don't tow the IPCC line. The IPCC is hardly an honest, unbiased group. They are a political agency of the UN. Nothing more and nothing less.
And Slashdot, please stop mimicking the liberal media mindset that the earth is undeniably warming, and furthermore that "everyone" agrees with that statement. They don't. Climate science is still a region of massive debate and we can't just say with certainty what the climate will be like in 100 years. Current climate models are trying to extrapolate from very limited datasets. If we had, say, a 1000 years of hard, reliable data, then we could estimate the next 100 with some accuracy. But we barely have 100 years of data now....and never forget that the climate changed far before man ever was around.
These often utilize 19" racks AFAIK, and they are weatherproof and lockable to boot! The downside is that decent real cooling is not very easy to achieve (most traffic signal controllers are designed to have temperature/humidity tolerances that are extreme -- Econolite tests their controllers in an oven), and you'd have a time trying to find a supplier that would sell to an individual. But another avenue to investigate nonetheless, and they come in many sizes (I believe 24" to 72" is about the available height range). Just make sure 19" is the rack size.
Amiga had a nearly silent, small form-factor computer that, unlike the cube, was priced very attractively. The only noise from it came from the floppy drive. Also, unlike the cube, it was actually expandable in a meaningful way. It was called the Amiga 500, and that was really "ahead of its time" in the late 80's. I don't think the cube was "ahead of its time." It was just a dodgy design at the wrong price.
Re:Sick of hearing about "such a great design"
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My "thin, rattling box" (whatever-- An Inwin Q500 case is neither thin nor does it rattle) cost a lot less (less than a 1/3 as much as an equivalent G4 733 tower w/ 17" LCD), did not tie me down to the whims of a single manufacturer, and delivers at least equivalent performance of your silent box. Sure, it has cooling fans, but that's an acceptable tradeoff in my book.
On another tangent, LCDs are still far too expensive. Get back to me when I can equivalent viewing space on an LCD with TWICE the cost as an equivalent viewable size CRT. (19" Viewsonic short depth CRT cost me $335 -- the cheapest 18" LCD is many times more expensive. Even most 17" LCDs are still more than 3 times as expensive)
Apple wins on style over substance any day of the week. But I prefer substance and will keep the beige box. Thanks anyway.
Hauppauge makes a ~$250 card called the WinTV-PVR that captures and encodes MPEG-2 (and probably MPEG-1 as well) on the fly.
Also, MPEG-1 and 2 both, well, SUCK, frankly. If you are serious about capturing video and not having it look like shit, then you are almost certainly relegated to capturing uncompressed RGB video, then compressing it with one of the MPEG-4 codecs (with MP3 audio.) Of course, a fast hard drive is necessary in this situation. 7200RPM IDE of recent vintage is a bare minimum. You need sustained writing capability on the order of 14MB/sec or so. IDE/SCSI RAID setups are even better.
Oh, and you better get used to doing little else while you capture video, unless you have a multi-disk SCSI setup with a dedicated capture disk/array. Little random accesses from other activities are the harbinger of a shitload of dropped frames.
SimHealth by Maxis (in 1994, before they sold their soul to EA) probably came the closest to creating a SimPolitics. SimHealth starts in 1992 and gives you 8 years to fix the health care system in the United States. It was a very, very hard game simply because every decision made always later seemed to be the wrong one. Juggling public opinion, political pressure, personal conviction, and logistics was nightmarishly hard in that game. Much of the seeming futility in the game gave light to the madness of politics.
In the beginning you must choose your personal values from a series of diamond-shaped sliders and then foray through a maze of proposals and ideas to actually fulfill what you personally believe in. It's much harder than you would ever dream, and the difficult nature of this so-called game probably limited its popularity, as its one of the least known (and least-liked!) Sim games. I bought it for $10 in 1996 or so when Maxis sold out to EA, and it's no longer available.
...in the US is really quite simple, and I agree with both of you. I feel that the widespread binge drinking at US universities is the result of a too-high drinking age (you can vote, but you can't drink! What the hell is that?), and kids who have been babied to death until they were 18. They get to college, and bam! tons of freedom, never having drunk responsibly in their life (for non-US readers, giving a child any quantity of alcohol, no matter how small, is considered a no-no most places in the US.) These students are presented with unlimited alcohol, of course they're going to drink as much as possible. This retarded program only intensifies the babying and its inevitable consequences.
The teens who were trying to be controlled/babied the most by their parents at my high school were ALWAYS the ones going to keg parties and getting drunk night in and night out. Now, all this being said, of course you have to set some limits -- but setting limits that allow freedom and responsibility are essential. Limits that tie them up completely are going to come back to haunt you once they're broken.
While the Hitchhiker's Guide series is his most popular work, Douglas Adams was also Script Editor for Doctor Who from 1979-1980 and wrote one of the stories, "Shada." Although it was never transmitted in 1979 due to labor strikes at the BBC, it is available as a special tape now. A great story by Douglas Adams and one any fan of his would enjoy.
Sorry to see another great person involved with Dr. Who go.:-(
And if anyone wants to try out some of justin's work and has a ti calc, try out Joltima...you can download at ticalc.org. If your TI has a link port, chances there's a port of Joltima out there for your calculator. Justin blew everyone away in the ti calc "scene" when he released this game out of the blue one day on IRC. It's an awesome RPG and it fits in a few tens of kilobytes.;)
I can honestly say that I believe the console market is alive and healthy! I haven't seen this much vitriol spewed over consoles since the good old SNES vs. Genesis days! Woohoo!
Well, I think you're real dumb. (just kidding) There most certainly is an appreciable sound difference between, say, 128kbps and 256kbps. You'd have to be deaf or only listening to death metal not to notice the quality difference. I realize some encoders are not so great (frankly, I never understood the bemoaning of the loss of the Xing encoder, since the files it produced sounded like shit to me, but I digress), but even 128kbps vs 256kbps within the same encoder is an appreciable difference -- especially in music with a lot of acoustic instruments. I have some Mannheim Steamroller pieces I encoded in a variety of bitrates with GOGO, and 128kbps definitely colors the sound with unwanted artifacts.
Yes, 128kbps is tolerable for the majority, but please don't tell me that you have to have golden ears to hear the difference -- you don't. Personally, I prefer 256kbps, as HD space is cheap and plentiful and I don't want to bother with any possible quality problems at 128kbps. I don't do any internet trading anyway.
The reality is that NASA faked that footage using a rocket made out of tinfoil and old toilet roll tubes, and intercut it with footage of a few people they dragged in off the street.
hmm...sounds like the ideal Doctor Who production.
I can see it now on Fox: Moon landing was really footage lifted off of Doctor Who from the late 1960's! Why hasn't anybody noticed? The vast majority of Doctor Who of the late 1960's was destroyed in the mid 70's! Hmmmmm...a new conspiracy theory special? It has about as much going for it as the original did! Bleh....
As stated by Eugenia Loli herself, disabling SMP in BeOS (which is just a matter of starting the Pulse app and clicking a button to turn a CPU off) made a whole 0.6 fps difference. And SMP was enabled in Linux as well, though she did not recompile the kernel to test it with it off. The SMP argument does not wash one tiny little bit. And the 'turn things off to optimize' argument doesn't make sense either unless you provide the same courtesy to Windows and BeOS as well.
Secondly, I've not experienced this myself, but from many reliable sources I've heard that the Voodoo-series acceleration is actually better with 3.3.6 GLX drivers than with the 4.0 DRI drivers at the present time.
Third, this wasn't expected to be posted all over for people to see. It was just a tasty tidbit to tantalize the BeOS users who have been waiting for this, so don't get your underwear in a knot if this isn't something straight out of a scientific journal. Sheesh!
As with all of the previous times the talent expressed a desire to leave, the producers will simply produce a regeneration scene to ease the transition to a new Doctor.....er.....wrong show, sorry.
Shaky versions is true. They used Pre-Kernels even:) How bad can you get... And an unfinished GNOME.
Reasons why I don't trust RedHat (shipping pre-kernels as production...not a good idea)
But I prefer RedHat because it comes with what I need, and has a standard (RPM) instead of going against the grain (especially since RPM is GPL'd).
The debian package management system blows RPM away. It's that simple. rpmfind is simply not the same. Many others have already posted why this is so.
Debian has too late a release schedule for me.
Then follow unstable instead of stable. It's awesome to be able to have the latest and greatest with two commands (apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade) Debian unstable tends to actually be sufficiently stable for home use (well, actually, I've never had any problems with debian unstable)-- definitely stay with 'stable' for important machines though.
It would be better if Debian used RPM's. Then I could just mix and match them.
It can -- and it can use tgz's and slp's too. alien is a wonderful program that can easily convert among them all (deb, tgz, rpm, slp)
No, I think *4* years should always be required. I like how my high school does it -- 2 years of grammar (with novels, plays, and such, but the emphasis is still on grammar) and 2 years of pure writing and reading. You write a diatribe of the quality of spanish taught in schools, but you forget to point out the COMPLETE ABSENCE OF GRAMMAR in many schools.
: 2 years of math algebra (I+II) and geometry
Agreed
: 1 year or science
Nah, 2 years. One biological science and one physical science.
: 2 years of social studies (government/politics and history)
I suppose so.
: 4 years of 1 or 2 foreign languages (immersion, not bastardizations like the spanglish taught in schools)
I am very interested in this 'spanglish' taught in some schools. Can you be more specific? My impression of spanglish is along the lines of 'El booko is-o in el houso'
(I'm in my 3rd year of spanish, and know that I have not received Spanglish. The bastardization of Spanish is certainly not universal)
Le escribi un aerograma a mi prima ayer y lo enviare manana -- is that Spanglish? I thought not. (Sorry for the lack of accents and tildes)
: 4 years of a skill like coding, engineering, science, plumbing, etc
That's what technical schools and vocational schools are for (and they manage to pull it off in less than 4 years)
While it is a little difficult to read, there are some important ideas in there. My personal favorite, though, occurs when Washington warns the government to cherish the public credit, and only use taxes in times of war. Guess the government hasn't followed that recommendation very carefully!
One thing I hated about linux distributions was it's upgrade process.
I say:
Yes, upgrading used to be a pain, but Debian has made great strides in this area. Upgrading an entire Debian system to a new release is now possible with just two commands. no pain. In any case, I recommend giving Debian a try, because Linux has changed -- a LOT -- since you last tried it.
P.S. I have tried OpenBSD and FreeBSD. I did go back.:-)
If AMD fails, let's look at the alternatives we'll have left, besides Intel:
* Alphas - a viable alternative, and what my next investment will be if the K7....err.. Athlon doesn't work out.
* Cyrix/IBM - low-end, nothing new from them.
* IDT (Winchip) - low-end, nothing new.
* Transmeta - nothing released yet.
* Sun/HP/others - too expensive
* PowerPC - requires purchase of an entire (usually mac) computer. Or is there a motherboard and CPU I can get separately?
I do not 'hate' Intel (My current CPU is an Intel P200MMX), but an Intel only future for the majority of us is NOT rosy in my eyes.
Let's define "beta"...
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The beta format used widespread in video production houses today, etc. is NOTHING, I repeat, NOTHING, like the consumer betamax of the 1980's. While the two formats may have similar names, they aren't the same. For all intents and purposes, the consumer betamax is dead.
As far as I know (linux.com writer), the servers are a few dual Intel Xeon 500 machines on an OC-3 line. I do not have any specifics beyond that (RAM, HD, etc.) but the Xeons give you some idea of the horsepower involved.:-)
Warning! Rocky shores ahead!
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I really am posting this to deter people (especially "newbies") from following the 2.3.x series. MOST of us will not find following the devel series to be of any use. The devel series can be very unstable and chaotic. For example, with 2.1.44, file system corruption was possible. The only people I see with a need to follow this are kernel developers, those people whose only hope for hardware support in the new kernel, and, of course, the thrillseekers and bleeding-edgers.
But, to reiterate, MOST of us do not want to following the devel kernel.
Artdink's claim to fame was the A-Train series in Japan. A-Train 3 in Japan came over here as A-Train, and was released by Broderbund/Maxis for the PC. It is no longer available. (I got it a few years back for $10 in full retail boxes from Maxis. Of course, when Maxis sold its soul to Electronic Arts, it stopped selling almost all of their old games, but I digress.) A-Train also has a PSX version I'm told. Artdink had other games too, I'm sure, but this is the one I'm aware of.
I find it quite amusing that......
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.....the day RedHat Linux 6.0 comes out is the same day I, a longtime RedHat user, switches to Debian 2.1.
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Why not use more wind, tidal, and solar energy?
Because it's uneconomical. Simple as that. Solar arrays are unusable for mass power generation outside of deserts. Wind power has environmental effects too (birds are killed!), and does not generate as much power as one might hope. I've yet to read or hear much about tidal energy. Power generating dams often come under fire for destroying the environment too. As long as coal, oil, and other fossil fuels are abundant and cheap, the economy will be unwilling to support alternatives. I recently read that my state (Ohio) has enough coal within our borders to supply our own demand for power generation for the next 200 years, even when considering the exponential nature of population growth and factoring in no technological improvements! The holy grail of power generation is nuclear fusion, but that's decades and decades away. Until then, we have to make do with what we have.
We could conceivably be over-estimating the effect of human activity on the Earth's climate, but alternatively we could also be under-estimating it. -- IPCC Chair
What kind of ridiculous statement is that? He might as well say he doesn't have a clue what is going on. Don't rely on UN bureaucrats, get the facts for yourself. John Daly is a noted opponent of the IPCC's shenanigans and has a web site chock full of hard facts and data. Interesting things the IPCC has completely ignored include the satellite temperature records which show no net warming since they were sent up in the late 70's. Mysteriously enough, only a highly-questionable surface record cobbled together from equally questionable sources, many in third world countries, actually shows any warming. Here's a nice graph to look at. Why doesn't the surface record agree with the satellite records? Hmmm....
All of John Daly's site is a good read, with many guest writers that don't tow the IPCC line. The IPCC is hardly an honest, unbiased group. They are a political agency of the UN. Nothing more and nothing less.
And Slashdot, please stop mimicking the liberal media mindset that the earth is undeniably warming, and furthermore that "everyone" agrees with that statement. They don't. Climate science is still a region of massive debate and we can't just say with certainty what the climate will be like in 100 years. Current climate models are trying to extrapolate from very limited datasets. If we had, say, a 1000 years of hard, reliable data, then we could estimate the next 100 with some accuracy. But we barely have 100 years of data now....and never forget that the climate changed far before man ever was around.
These often utilize 19" racks AFAIK, and they are weatherproof and lockable to boot! The downside is that decent real cooling is not very easy to achieve (most traffic signal controllers are designed to have temperature/humidity tolerances that are extreme -- Econolite tests their controllers in an oven), and you'd have a time trying to find a supplier that would sell to an individual. But another avenue to investigate nonetheless, and they come in many sizes (I believe 24" to 72" is about the available height range). Just make sure 19" is the rack size.
Amiga had a nearly silent, small form-factor computer that, unlike the cube, was priced very attractively. The only noise from it came from the floppy drive. Also, unlike the cube, it was actually expandable in a meaningful way. It was called the Amiga 500, and that was really "ahead of its time" in the late 80's. I don't think the cube was "ahead of its time." It was just a dodgy design at the wrong price.
My "thin, rattling box" (whatever-- An Inwin Q500 case is neither thin nor does it rattle) cost a lot less (less than a 1/3 as much as an equivalent G4 733 tower w/ 17" LCD), did not tie me down to the whims of a single manufacturer, and delivers at least equivalent performance of your silent box. Sure, it has cooling fans, but that's an acceptable tradeoff in my book.
On another tangent, LCDs are still far too expensive. Get back to me when I can equivalent viewing space on an LCD with TWICE the cost as an equivalent viewable size CRT. (19" Viewsonic short depth CRT cost me $335 -- the cheapest 18" LCD is many times more expensive. Even most 17" LCDs are still more than 3 times as expensive)
Apple wins on style over substance any day of the week. But I prefer substance and will keep the beige box. Thanks anyway.
Hauppauge makes a ~$250 card called the WinTV-PVR that captures and encodes MPEG-2 (and probably MPEG-1 as well) on the fly.
Also, MPEG-1 and 2 both, well, SUCK, frankly. If you are serious about capturing video and not having it look like shit, then you are almost certainly relegated to capturing uncompressed RGB video, then compressing it with one of the MPEG-4 codecs (with MP3 audio.) Of course, a fast hard drive is necessary in this situation. 7200RPM IDE of recent vintage is a bare minimum. You need sustained writing capability on the order of 14MB/sec or so. IDE/SCSI RAID setups are even better.
Oh, and you better get used to doing little else while you capture video, unless you have a multi-disk SCSI setup with a dedicated capture disk/array. Little random accesses from other activities are the harbinger of a shitload of dropped frames.
SimHealth by Maxis (in 1994, before they sold their soul to EA) probably came the closest to creating a SimPolitics. SimHealth starts in 1992 and gives you 8 years to fix the health care system in the United States. It was a very, very hard game simply because every decision made always later seemed to be the wrong one. Juggling public opinion, political pressure, personal conviction, and logistics was nightmarishly hard in that game. Much of the seeming futility in the game gave light to the madness of politics.
In the beginning you must choose your personal values from a series of diamond-shaped sliders and then foray through a maze of proposals and ideas to actually fulfill what you personally believe in. It's much harder than you would ever dream, and the difficult nature of this so-called game probably limited its popularity, as its one of the least known (and least-liked!) Sim games. I bought it for $10 in 1996 or so when Maxis sold out to EA, and it's no longer available.
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...in the US is really quite simple, and I agree with both of you. I feel that the widespread binge drinking at US universities is the result of a too-high drinking age (you can vote, but you can't drink! What the hell is that?), and kids who have been babied to death until they were 18. They get to college, and bam! tons of freedom, never having drunk responsibly in their life (for non-US readers, giving a child any quantity of alcohol, no matter how small, is considered a no-no most places in the US.) These students are presented with unlimited alcohol, of course they're going to drink as much as possible. This retarded program only intensifies the babying and its inevitable consequences.
The teens who were trying to be controlled/babied the most by their parents at my high school were ALWAYS the ones going to keg parties and getting drunk night in and night out. Now, all this being said, of course you have to set some limits -- but setting limits that allow freedom and responsibility are essential. Limits that tie them up completely are going to come back to haunt you once they're broken.
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While the Hitchhiker's Guide series is his most popular work, Douglas Adams was also Script Editor for Doctor Who from 1979-1980 and wrote one of the stories, "Shada." Although it was never transmitted in 1979 due to labor strikes at the BBC, it is available as a special tape now. A great story by Douglas Adams and one any fan of his would enjoy.
:-(
Sorry to see another great person involved with Dr. Who go.
And if anyone wants to try out some of justin's work and has a ti calc, try out Joltima...you can download at ticalc.org. If your TI has a link port, chances there's a port of Joltima out there for your calculator. Justin blew everyone away in the ti calc "scene" when he released this game out of the blue one day on IRC. It's an awesome RPG and it fits in a few tens of kilobytes. ;)
I can honestly say that I believe the console market is alive and healthy! I haven't seen this much vitriol spewed over consoles since the good old SNES vs. Genesis days! Woohoo!
Well, I think you're real dumb. (just kidding) There most certainly is an appreciable sound difference between, say, 128kbps and 256kbps. You'd have to be deaf or only listening to death metal not to notice the quality difference. I realize some encoders are not so great (frankly, I never understood the bemoaning of the loss of the Xing encoder, since the files it produced sounded like shit to me, but I digress), but even 128kbps vs 256kbps within the same encoder is an appreciable difference -- especially in music with a lot of acoustic instruments. I have some Mannheim Steamroller pieces I encoded in a variety of bitrates with GOGO, and 128kbps definitely colors the sound with unwanted artifacts.
Yes, 128kbps is tolerable for the majority, but please don't tell me that you have to have golden ears to hear the difference -- you don't. Personally, I prefer 256kbps, as HD space is cheap and plentiful and I don't want to bother with any possible quality problems at 128kbps. I don't do any internet trading anyway.
The reality is that NASA faked that footage using a rocket made out of tinfoil and old toilet roll tubes, and intercut it with footage of a few people they dragged in off the street.
hmm...sounds like the ideal Doctor Who production.
I can see it now on Fox: Moon landing was really footage lifted off of Doctor Who from the late 1960's! Why hasn't anybody noticed? The vast majority of Doctor Who of the late 1960's was destroyed in the mid 70's! Hmmmmm...a new conspiracy theory special? It has about as much going for it as the original did! Bleh....
As stated by Eugenia Loli herself, disabling SMP in BeOS (which is just a matter of starting the Pulse app and clicking a button to turn a CPU off) made a whole 0.6 fps difference. And SMP was enabled in Linux as well, though she did not recompile the kernel to test it with it off. The SMP argument does not wash one tiny little bit. And the 'turn things off to optimize' argument doesn't make sense either unless you provide the same courtesy to Windows and BeOS as well.
Secondly, I've not experienced this myself, but from many reliable sources I've heard that the Voodoo-series acceleration is actually better with 3.3.6 GLX drivers than with the 4.0 DRI drivers at the present time.
Third, this wasn't expected to be posted all over for people to see. It was just a tasty tidbit to tantalize the BeOS users who have been waiting for this, so don't get your underwear in a knot if this isn't something straight out of a scientific journal. Sheesh!
As with all of the previous times the talent expressed a desire to leave, the producers will simply produce a regeneration scene to ease the transition to a new Doctor.....er.....wrong show, sorry.
Shaky versions is true. They used Pre-Kernels even :) How bad can you get... And an unfinished GNOME.
Reasons why I don't trust RedHat (shipping pre-kernels as production...not a good idea)
But I prefer RedHat because it comes with what I need, and has a standard (RPM) instead of going against the grain (especially since RPM is GPL'd).
The debian package management system blows RPM away. It's that simple. rpmfind is simply not the same. Many others have already posted why this is so.
Debian has too late a release schedule for me.
Then follow unstable instead of stable. It's awesome to be able to have the latest and greatest with two commands (apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade) Debian unstable tends to actually be sufficiently stable for home use (well, actually, I've never had any problems with debian unstable)-- definitely stay with 'stable' for important machines though.
It would be better if Debian used RPM's. Then I could just mix and match them.
It can -- and it can use tgz's and slp's too. alien is a wonderful program that can easily convert among them all (deb, tgz, rpm, slp)
: What we need is a system that gives you say:
As the minimum requirements, of course.
: 2 years of english
No, I think *4* years should always be required. I like how my high school does it -- 2 years of grammar (with novels, plays, and such, but the emphasis is still on grammar) and 2 years of pure writing and reading. You write a diatribe of the quality of spanish taught in schools, but you forget to point out the COMPLETE ABSENCE OF GRAMMAR in many schools.
: 2 years of math algebra (I+II) and geometry
Agreed
: 1 year or science
Nah, 2 years. One biological science and one physical science.
: 2 years of social studies (government/politics and history)
I suppose so.
: 4 years of 1 or 2 foreign languages (immersion, not bastardizations like the spanglish taught in schools)
I am very interested in this 'spanglish' taught in some schools. Can you be more specific? My impression of spanglish is along the lines of 'El booko is-o in el houso'
(I'm in my 3rd year of spanish, and know that I have not received Spanglish. The bastardization of Spanish is certainly not universal)
Le escribi un aerograma a mi prima ayer y lo enviare manana -- is that Spanglish? I thought not. (Sorry for the lack of accents and tildes)
: 4 years of a skill like coding, engineering, science, plumbing, etc
That's what technical schools and vocational schools are for (and they manage to pull it off in less than 4 years)
While it is a little difficult to read, there are some important ideas in there. My personal favorite, though, occurs when Washington warns the government to cherish the public credit, and only use taxes in times of war. Guess the government hasn't followed that recommendation very carefully!
Here is the unabridged version of Washington's Farewell Address
You said:
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One thing I hated about linux distributions was it's upgrade process.
I say:
Yes, upgrading used to be a pain, but Debian has made great strides in this area. Upgrading an entire Debian system to a new release is now possible with just two commands. no pain. In any case, I recommend giving Debian a try, because Linux has changed -- a LOT -- since you last tried it.
P.S. I have tried OpenBSD and FreeBSD. I did go back.
If AMD fails, let's look at the alternatives we'll have left, besides Intel:
* Alphas - a viable alternative, and what my next investment will be if the K7....err.. Athlon doesn't work out.
* Cyrix/IBM - low-end, nothing new from them.
* IDT (Winchip) - low-end, nothing new.
* Transmeta - nothing released yet.
* Sun/HP/others - too expensive
* PowerPC - requires purchase of an entire (usually mac) computer. Or is there a motherboard and CPU I can get separately?
I do not 'hate' Intel (My current CPU is an Intel P200MMX), but an Intel only future for the majority of us is NOT rosy in my eyes.
The beta format used widespread in video production houses today, etc. is NOTHING, I repeat, NOTHING, like the consumer betamax of the 1980's. While the two formats may have similar names, they aren't the same. For all intents and purposes, the consumer betamax is dead.
As far as I know (linux.com writer), the servers are a few dual Intel Xeon 500 machines on an OC-3 line. I do not have any specifics beyond that (RAM, HD, etc.) but the Xeons give you some idea of the horsepower involved. :-)
I really am posting this to deter people (especially "newbies") from following the 2.3.x series. MOST of us will not find following the devel series to be of any use. The devel series can be very unstable and chaotic. For example, with 2.1.44, file system corruption was possible. The only people I see with a need to follow this are kernel developers, those people whose only hope for hardware support in the new kernel, and, of course, the thrillseekers and bleeding-edgers.
But, to reiterate, MOST of us do not want to following the devel kernel.
Artdink's claim to fame was the A-Train series in Japan. A-Train 3 in Japan came over here as A-Train, and was released by Broderbund/Maxis for the PC. It is no longer available. (I got it a few years back for $10 in full retail boxes from Maxis. Of course, when Maxis sold its soul to Electronic Arts, it stopped selling almost all of their old games, but I digress.) A-Train also has a PSX version I'm told. Artdink had other games too, I'm sure, but this is the one I'm aware of.
.....the day RedHat Linux 6.0 comes out is the same day I, a longtime RedHat user, switches to Debian 2.1.