I had a fairly serious problem with this a week or so ago (rowdy teens fighting and throwing each other on my car, no damage, but I didn't want to get in a brawl in my bathrobe...), the 911 person was confused, even though I had registered my # with Vonage's 911 system.
In the meantime, I may just plug my spare phone into my landline and use it for 911 only.
(OH, and for NYC vonage folks, you can contact the city via 212-NEW-YORK, since 311 doesn't work.)
Was it perhaps because Bush was visiting England on the anniversary of the event?
Wow, talk about obsessed...
Just because we don't celebrate it here, doesn't mean it's not significant to the English. Don't forget that in England, 400 years ago counts as "recent history"...
(reminds me of a joke: In England, 100 miles is a long way, and in America, 100 years is a long time. That's how you tell it to Americans, reverse it for English.)
... but.. but.. without the profit motive and advertising dollars, how could they possibly innovate?
It's stuff like this that makes me want to see legislation that forces US drug companies to cap their prices at the average of X industrialized countries (say canada + EU + scandinavia).
If Pennington wants to make extensions to X then let him go through the existing X community and standards process.
Why? Forks can be healthy.
Gnome and/or Linux are only a relatively small percentage of X users.
Where are most of the new features in X coming from? Who's driving the mass Unix desktop? I'd have to say that apart from OSX, it's XFree. Nothing wrong with meeting and exceeding what's available on other desktops.
Remember, Gtk was started by a guy who "wanted to learn how to write a GUI". Yes, that's right, and boy does it show.
Yay! Ad-Hominem attacks! What a persuasive, logical and coherent argument!
While I don't use the GNOME environment, I'm glad that folks are building the GLIB/GTK. Given that it's basically GTK and QT that are the relevant X toolkits today (Motif? BWAHAHAHA) and that vendor acceptance outside of OSS OSes (Solaris + gtk ring a bell?) the GTK guy's learning project has been pretty educational, no?
Kent Oh, really? Well, what about that time I found you naked with that bowl of Jell-O?
Last time I tried Q3A it only supported 'standard' 4x3 resolutions up to 1600x1200, and a few piddling sub-1280 wide res's.
OTOH nothing would make me happier than seeing widescreen supported properly. The original UT looked pretty good in 1920x1200, and wasn't _THAT_ slow on my Geforce GTS..
This boils down to the BLAS libraries. The core routine--matrix multiply (GEMM)--was optimized by Kazushige Goto. The current impressive benchmark results are due to a mix of Goto's libraries and Apple's veclib framework.
Why not? # mount -t mysqlfs mysql://user:passwd@dbserver/db/table/mnt/table # cd/mnt/table # vi filename.ext [[ enter file stuff here ]] # vi filename.ext/MIMEtype text/plain # cat filename.ext/ACLs
Let MySQL handle logical volume like stuff, replication, redundancy, etc.. or even better:
# mount -t dbfs -o type=mysql mysql://user:passwd@dbserver/filedb/home/home
Talk about taking your eye off the ball.. Longhorn will prove to be Microsoft's Itanic.. The more eggs they put in the Longhorn basket (where's.NET lately? WinFX?) the more they're gonna lose in the end...
That's why I say, YAY LONGHORN!!! Keep distracting the dinosaur while the small mammals get smarter and faster and better...
I have a MDK 9.1 box running a 2.6.0test7 kernel, along with other nvidia obnoxities, and an LG DVD/CDRW. I've had issues periodically with system lockups when trying to read or write CDs (module conflicts methinks) but I've been able to mostly sort them out.
Maybe it's worth waiting for a Foveon-chipped camera with a 35mm-equivalent exposure area? The only one on the market now uses the X3 chip, which is basically a 25mm, and has a 1.7x multiplier..
how much for a 5.7" 640x480 touchscreen without the amulet wigetry?
They're offering a 'starter kit' for about $400, which is an interesting hobby thing.. I'd _love_ to redo my motorcycle's display ala the IMO-100R300...)
Though color would be nice (particularly for medical applications!) this looks like something neat to play with..
How long before you have to "license" the car you drive?
Lots of people do it today, it's called leasing.. You pay for the privilege of driving the car, but the leasing company owns it.
If the company is "licensing" this product to you, then its the owner. Shouldn't that carry some responsibility? Like, can this company be sued if you make a mistake with this tool and injure yourself? Can you sue the "owner" (the company) for not teaching you how to operate it properly? (I know, I hate to bring in more lawyers, but sometimes you have to resort to such techniques).
Interesting bit is, in some states (including, IIRC, NY) owners are legally liable for accidents caused by cars they lease, so leasing companies (including the large auto company financing arms) have been withdrawing from those markets.
"The fact that someone in China in the middle of the night patched it -- there is nothing that says integrity will come out of that process."
Here's a good one. "Me no likee patchee." He's just pissed because the Chinese have yet to kowtow like good little subjects. I assume M$ doesn't have anyone in China working on security. China's timezone would make the middle of the night our workday. Etc, etc.
It'd be insulting if it weren't delivered by such a laughingstock of a monkeyboy messenger.
"We have a process that will lead to sustainable level of quality."
I suppose 'minimal' qualifies as sustainable?
And who's surprised this outburst came out during a Gartner circle jerk? This is the functional equivalent of that ass Mahathir's comments at the OIC.. Preaching to the short-bus choir...
I am still scatching my head about diesel engines being included.
Diesel =~ biodiesel == domestically-produced closed-cycle fuel, or indirect solar power.
diesel-electric hybrids would be significant improvements over gas-electric, at least in terms of fuel economy.
Still, I have to wonder about the economies of scale and Li-Ion batteries.. sure, they're $30-50k now, but what about when you have a few thousand per year? There's more markup in laptop OEM I'm sure...
My bet is they're about to put G5's in the PB line. But that would be pretty shocking. To go from desktop to laptop that quickly??? That's not like Apple, unless I'm forgetting something.
I think you're forgetting that it's the year of the laptop..;)
And I think you'll see speed revs before (or in lockstep with) price drops, given that they said 3GHz in 2004 is realistic..
And listen, the stock G5 may dissipate lots of power at 2ghz, but don't be surprised if Apple comes up with an interesting cooling scheme, runs the chip at lower speeds, and basically sells it as a desktop replacement ala desktop P4 laptops..
IIRC MP3 ringers don't work on P800.. Though WAVs and AU files do, and mono 11khz AU files are pretty darned small, especially since you have to build loops that are essentially the audio equivalent of 256x256 wallpaper textures..
My last one was the Funky Drummer riff, I'm thinking the next one will be the piano intro to 'Take Five'.. Then again, there's at least 3 great 'ringer' tracks on Brubeck's 'Time Out'...
My Newton 2100 is fucking HUGE compared to either of them. It's got two PC-card slots. SIDE BY SIDE.
Then again, it's got proper HWR (no choking on periods, 'k's, 'f's, and '!'s like the servicable P800's jot) and a bigger screen, but the paperwhite, battery life and application support on my P800 is superior.
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Hear hear.
I had a fairly serious problem with this a week or so ago (rowdy teens fighting and throwing each other on my car, no damage, but I didn't want to get in a brawl in my bathrobe...), the 911 person was confused, even though I had registered my # with Vonage's 911 system.
In the meantime, I may just plug my spare phone into my landline and use it for 911 only.
(OH, and for NYC vonage folks, you can contact the city via 212-NEW-YORK, since 311 doesn't work.)
When it has an 802.11 chipset, or you write a bluetooth gateway?
(I doubt cellphones even support bluetooth voice over data...)
Was it perhaps because Bush was visiting England on the anniversary of the event?
Wow, talk about obsessed...
Just because we don't celebrate it here, doesn't mean it's not significant to the English. Don't forget that in England, 400 years ago counts as "recent history"...
(reminds me of a joke: In England, 100 miles is a long way, and in America, 100 years is a long time. That's how you tell it to Americans, reverse it for English.)
... but.. but.. without the profit motive and advertising dollars, how could they possibly innovate?
It's stuff like this that makes me want to see legislation that forces US drug companies to cap their prices at the average of X industrialized countries (say canada + EU + scandinavia).
If Pennington wants to make extensions to X then let him go through the existing X community and standards process.
Why? Forks can be healthy.
Gnome and/or Linux are only a relatively small percentage of X users.
Where are most of the new features in X coming from? Who's driving the mass Unix desktop? I'd have to say that apart from OSX, it's XFree. Nothing wrong with meeting and exceeding what's available on other desktops.
Remember, Gtk was started by a guy who "wanted to learn how to write a GUI". Yes, that's right, and boy does it show.
Yay! Ad-Hominem attacks! What a persuasive, logical and coherent argument!
While I don't use the GNOME environment, I'm glad that folks are building the GLIB/GTK. Given that it's basically GTK and QT that are the relevant X toolkits today (Motif? BWAHAHAHA) and that vendor acceptance outside of OSS OSes (Solaris + gtk ring a bell?) the GTK guy's learning project has been pretty educational, no?
Kent
Oh, really? Well, what about that time I found you naked with that bowl of Jell-O?
Anything I'm missing?
Will Doom3 support 1920x1200 panels natively?
Last time I tried Q3A it only supported 'standard' 4x3 resolutions up to 1600x1200, and a few piddling sub-1280 wide res's.
OTOH nothing would make me happier than seeing widescreen supported properly. The original UT looked pretty good in 1920x1200, and wasn't _THAT_ slow on my Geforce GTS..
This boils down to the BLAS libraries. The core routine--matrix multiply (GEMM)--was optimized by Kazushige Goto. The current impressive benchmark results are due to a mix of Goto's libraries and Apple's veclib framework.
;)
(ObSimpsonsRef ;)
does it poop ice cream?
Why not?
/mnt/table /mnt/table
/home
# mount -t mysqlfs mysql://user:passwd@dbserver/db/table
# cd
# vi filename.ext
[[ enter file stuff here ]]
# vi filename.ext/MIMEtype
text/plain
# cat filename.ext/ACLs
Let MySQL handle logical volume like stuff, replication, redundancy, etc.. or even better:
# mount -t dbfs -o type=mysql mysql://user:passwd@dbserver/filedb/home
Talk about taking your eye off the ball.. Longhorn will prove to be Microsoft's Itanic.. The more eggs they put in the Longhorn basket (where's .NET lately? WinFX?) the more they're gonna lose in the end...
That's why I say, YAY LONGHORN!!! Keep distracting the dinosaur while the small mammals get smarter and faster and better...
None of this trumps an American's 4th amendment rights. No document you sign or state mandate can, or should.
Cops can monitor your car from outside, via aircraft, cameras, etc. But fitting cars with the automotive equivalent of prisoner ankle bracelets?
Bullshit.
I have a MDK 9.1 box running a 2.6.0test7 kernel, along with other nvidia obnoxities, and an LG DVD/CDRW. I've had issues periodically with system lockups when trying to read or write CDs (module conflicts methinks) but I've been able to mostly sort them out.
Is there new software in 9.2 that goes further?
Maybe it's worth waiting for a Foveon-chipped camera with a 35mm-equivalent exposure area? The only one on the market now uses the X3 chip, which is basically a 25mm, and has a 1.7x multiplier..
Maybe the next generation?
how much for a 5.7" 640x480 touchscreen without the amulet wigetry?
They're offering a 'starter kit' for about $400, which is an interesting hobby thing.. I'd _love_ to redo my motorcycle's display ala the IMO-100R300...)
Though color would be nice (particularly for medical applications!) this looks like something neat to play with..
Why not just buy a different tool and vote with your wallet?
Unless they're a monopoly, in which case sue their ass off?
Beta failed against VHS for similar reasons.. Unfavorable/intolerable licensing terms for a 'superior' product vs. Good Enough and better terms.
How long before you have to "license" the car you drive?
Lots of people do it today, it's called leasing.. You pay for the privilege of driving the car, but the leasing company owns it.
If the company is "licensing" this product to you, then its the owner. Shouldn't that carry some responsibility? Like, can this company be sued if you make a mistake with this tool and injure yourself? Can you sue the "owner" (the company) for not teaching you how to operate it properly? (I know, I hate to bring in more lawyers, but sometimes you have to resort to such techniques).
Interesting bit is, in some states (including, IIRC, NY) owners are legally liable for accidents caused by cars they lease, so leasing companies (including the large auto company financing arms) have been withdrawing from those markets.
"The fact that someone in China in the middle of the night patched it -- there is nothing that says integrity will come out of that process."
Here's a good one. "Me no likee patchee." He's just pissed because the Chinese have yet to kowtow like good little subjects. I assume M$ doesn't have anyone in China working on security. China's timezone would make the middle of the night our workday. Etc, etc.
It'd be insulting if it weren't delivered by such a laughingstock of a monkeyboy messenger.
"We have a process that will lead to sustainable level of quality."
I suppose 'minimal' qualifies as sustainable?
And who's surprised this outburst came out during a Gartner circle jerk? This is the functional equivalent of that ass Mahathir's comments at the OIC.. Preaching to the short-bus choir...
I am still scatching my head about diesel engines being included.
Diesel =~ biodiesel == domestically-produced closed-cycle fuel, or indirect solar power.
diesel-electric hybrids would be significant improvements over gas-electric, at least in terms of fuel economy.
Still, I have to wonder about the economies of scale and Li-Ion batteries.. sure, they're $30-50k now, but what about when you have a few thousand per year? There's more markup in laptop OEM I'm sure...
My bet is they're about to put G5's in the PB line. But that would be pretty shocking. To go from desktop to laptop that quickly??? That's not like Apple, unless I'm forgetting something.
;)
I think you're forgetting that it's the year of the laptop..
And I think you'll see speed revs before (or in lockstep with) price drops, given that they said 3GHz in 2004 is realistic..
And listen, the stock G5 may dissipate lots of power at 2ghz, but don't be surprised if Apple comes up with an interesting cooling scheme, runs the chip at lower speeds, and basically sells it as a desktop replacement ala desktop P4 laptops..
Altivec and lap warming?
I like the aluminum case better, but that's a subjective decision...
Does it fully support standard Bluetooth profiles interoperably, or is it crippled by requiring Nokia accessory junk?
Has Nokia seen the light, or are they still stupid about BT?
IIRC MP3 ringers don't work on P800.. Though WAVs and AU files do, and mono 11khz AU files are pretty darned small, especially since you have to build loops that are essentially the audio equivalent of 256x256 wallpaper textures..
My last one was the Funky Drummer riff, I'm thinking the next one will be the piano intro to 'Take Five'.. Then again, there's at least 3 great 'ringer' tracks on Brubeck's 'Time Out'...
There's a pretty buggy SSH1 version AFAICR.
I tried it, wasn't too impressed, didn't do landscape which is pretty critical imho.
Still, it beats a kick in the balls. and it beats anything _I_'ve written for P800...
dude, what've you been schmoking?
My P800 is a smidge larger than P900.
My Newton 2100 is fucking HUGE compared to either of them. It's got two PC-card slots. SIDE BY SIDE.
Then again, it's got proper HWR (no choking on periods, 'k's, 'f's, and '!'s like the servicable P800's jot) and a bigger screen, but the paperwhite, battery life and application support on my P800 is superior.