The problem with almost all of these tests is that they generally only catch sociopaths, not psychopaths...
The problem with this distinction (which I had always made as well), is that apparently sociopath is synonymous with psychopath. Apparently sociopath is just a new term to distance the medical condition from the nasty 'psycho' slang. IANAP, however.
I think the directory is still named 2.7, because that's what was there originally and they didn't want to break any links. It's all labelled 2.8 now, and updates a few times a week.
I added to it to the Software Media Manager (although you can do this at the command line as well), as site: http://wwwra.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~was chk/Man drake/gnome2.7 with index: hdlist.cz
Then I did: urpmi.udpate -a urpmi --auto-select
And everything went fine, just fine. I have cooker main, contrib, and plf set up as sources as well. There's a couple of things in the gnome control centre that don't show up, but nothing is crashy or messed up. And considering how long I've been running cooker now, that's impressive.
I'm running them on Mandrake Cooker (development), and it's pretty nice. I'm reasonably sure Cooker is still identical to Official at the moment until all releases are finalized, so it should install fine. You can even set it up with the software sources manager.
The last couple of fglrx packages have installed just fine for me, without even having to exit the GUI (except to reinitialize the driver). Basically you just need to install the ATI rpm with "rpm -i --force xxxx.rpm", and then run fglrxconfig, as it'll tell you to do on the console.
Check out www.rage3d.com for more info...the linux forums have gotten really good.
he optical drive used 2.8W when just spinning and 5.31W when reading. When running 3DMark, the system used about 30W, during playback of an audio CD it used about 19W, the largest single component draw coming from the optical drive. Sadly they did not test the power consumption during DVD playback.
Don't forgot that involves spinning the disc in a nice, smooth, horizontal fashion. Imagine how much more power you need to keep the thing stable while moving it around, at all sorts of angles to gravity? I'd guess about 20-50% more.
The fact that they built waiting time into the pipeline to allow data to get across the chip in time before the next clock cycle really speaks volumes about how high a clock speed they expected the p4 to reach. (and iirc they patented the idea)
Exactly. I thought the original expectation for the architecture was something on the order of 10 GHz. Which would have been truly obscene.
However, in the process of making things as precise as possible, they often make things very difficult to understand, and ironically the stuff they put in to make things very precise may end up not being interpreted as intended, because it's so hard for a third party to understand.
A Brazilian friend of mine was saying he couldn't believe how people could write legal documents in English, since it was by its very nature so much less precise than Portugese. With freedom comes responsibility, I guess.
At that time, I had never heard of the massive demonstrations that happened in Seattle in 1999.
I clearly remember seeing pictures of cops in riot gear in Seattle on good old my.yahoo.com back in the day, so this is a bit misleading. Not that I don't agree with you in general.
Well, correcting myself (I'm in Ireland) - while intra-bank payments from one account to another actually may be instant, the situation I was thinking about was when I transfer money into my credit card from my current account - even though the credit card is with the same bank, this only happens overnight. And inter-bank or international payments as you agree are not instant.
I'm in Canada, just for reference.
As near as I can tell this has to do with the whole Visa/MasterCard situation. Like you say, I can transfer between two accounts with the same back, and it's instaneous. If I try to pay my credit card with that same bank, it takes at least overnight. I'm guessing because it has to go through Visa first.
This same bank seems to be about two business days behind with showing transactions on the credit card as well, whereas debit card transactions show up instantly. This can be annoying over long weekends, as I can currently only see my credit card balance for 5 days ago. And I'm anxious to confirm that the current billing period is over.
Also, this bank only ever updates the credit card just after midnight, although with other banks I've seen transactions go up in the middle of the day. Although not instantaneously. Which again leads me to suspect Mastercard. That same bank also distiguishes between 'transaction date' and 'posting date', which is sometimes the same, but sometimes quite different. Something like a taxi cab that takes credit cards the old paper way can take up to a month.
So, the point is as long as you can stay within one bank things can often be instant (although sometimes front-dated, which is annoying), but dealing with visa/mastercard never is.
"M" is always Mega, obviously. And Mb is usually megabits, and MB is usually megabytes, so your clarification there is a little confusing. I agree that it's best to specify, but that "16 Mb" just makes it less clear.
My main problem is that I just don't make/take a lot of phone calls, maybe two a week. I can barely even remember to keep the battery charged.
That's my problem to (except I get maybe 5 text messages a week as well). Which is why I just always have it on vibrate. If I occasionly don't feel it and miss it, it's no big deal. I usually only get calls when I'm expecting them, and am therefore paying attention to it.
It may well be. My venerable Motorola Startac has a vib then ring option. My new LG doesn't (sticking with the motorla wasn't an option), and I don't know of any of my friends' phones that have the option either.
My piece of crap Motorola C333 has this, and I'm planning to switch to an LG this week. Maybe Motorola patented this feature or something?
I've long since been using vibe only, though. Sadly it's so weak I don't always feel it, even when it's in my pocket. Perhaps I need tighter pants.
Not all, but most do. Even then, I often forget to turn it off of vibrate when I get home and take it out of my pocket. It is my primary phone and it's easy to miss calls if it's on vibrate and not in my pocket.
Two potential easy solutions: a) never take it out of your pocket; b) check the mode every time you take it out of your pocket.
My phone has two buttons you can set to access any menu in the phone, I set one of them to "ring styles". Problem solved.
USAF is still FOUO. The other levels are the same. There is also an unofficial classification that is used called sensitive. Basically, anything that reveals personal info is sensitive and treated as FOUO, even if it's not marked that way.
Ah yes. In Canada there's "Protected A" (for who knows what) and "Protected B" (for personal records).
Yes, most of P G's articles are based on questionable assumptions and more questionable thesis statments..
With the regularity his screeds are being posted here, and the diviseness they seem to cause, I think he's a definite candidate to the be slashdot's resident ranter.
The Universities in Ontario, at least, with engineering programs regularly organize "DUSTED" events (Drink Unsuspecting Small Towns Entirely Dry - which I think is self explanatory). People buy tickets for the bus beforehand, but only the organizers (theoretically) know the location. This works scarily well, especially when you get a few schools together (like around Toronto or Ottawa).
Everyone I mention it to that's ever worked in a bar wants to just punch me, though. Especially if they've ever worked during a frosh week or something similar.
Uh, no major game company releases their big game _after_ the Christmas rush
I'm pretty sure I remember Mega Man regularly being on the cover of Nintendo Power in January. The post-Christmas seemed to be the niche for that series. After all, kids need something to spend the $50 cheque from their uncle that came a month late on.
Why is it the major focus? I can see it being a minor focus, but way make it major? It's not like you have to redo every application, just some stuff in GTK+, write a few themes to utilize it, and you're done!
Ha...have you ever done any programming? Or more specifically, programming for something that had to be tested and stabilized across multiple hardware/software platforms, and even totally different architectures?
Ok so what you are saying, or what this implies, is that a black hole doesn't actually *have* zero volume, but rather its volume is continually decreasing toward zero without actually reaching it?
What the other poster said is true, but also the trick is that saying the density is 'infinite' isn't really specific enough. There's a whole field of research in maths of infinity, which I thankfully haven't strayed down just yet.
Basically saying a value is 'infinite' is just saying it approaches some unattainably large value, but doesn't tell you about how 'fast' it may be approaching it (this is easier to visualize if you picture a function going to infinity along some axis, rather than one specific point).
So basically in your above post saying infinity = infinity was the mistake in your logic. Not all infinites are created equal, is the really mind bending thing.
I don't see why you can just ignore it. An imaginary gamma would imply an imaginary length, as well as imaginary energy and momentum. I'm hard-pressed to define the physical implications of that, and thus continue to believe that FTL motion is impossible from both physical and mathematical standpoints. Please correct me if you have other information...
Really an 'imaginary' number is just a number that is orthoganol to a 'real' number. So for me the question is more whether I'm prepared to accept something moving at a right angle to time, whatever that would mean.
I'd be willing to be on the 'you can't pay? you die!' list if I was allowed to bypass the laws meant to protect me from myself.
What about the emotional trauma inflicted on those whose job it is to save you, but have you watch you die because you can't pay, and chose to be a moron? Think outside yourself.
Surely you're joking. As project lead Linus has *complete* control of where it goes; however, if Linus abuses that control to take the project somewhere people disagree with, they have every right to start their own project.
What about the kernel series maintained by others?
As for the current series, even in that case if there was a lot of pressure to go in a certain direction, and a fork was inevitable, I'm sure he'd work something out. You don't become a good project manager by telling everyone to eff off every single time they disagree.
I could make a film about how great the Nazis were and what a great leader Hitler was, but should I call it a documentary? No. That's propaganda, as are Moore's "documentaries".
Ummm, it's called Triumph of the Will. And yes, it was considered a documentary, despite obviously being propoganda. Not to mention the WWII documentaries from the allied side that were just as skewed, but won oscars nonetheless.
You don't think the typical American romantic comedy that's all about getting the promotion, money, success, whatever, and then getting the girl isn't propaganda for American capitalist values?
Every film has a bias. Take a film class (or hell, any literature or other media class for that matter), and learn to think critically about EVERYTHING you see. You'll probably be impressed with how up front Moore is with his values, at least.
We covered Roger and Me in my film class, and his only really major crime against the documentary was mixing the four traditional modes of documentary style to pull the viewer in unexpected directions. He pretty much helped to establish a fifth style, that yes, is far more direct about it's political intentions.
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The problem with almost all of these tests is that they generally only catch sociopaths, not psychopaths...
The problem with this distinction (which I had always made as well), is that apparently sociopath is synonymous with psychopath. Apparently sociopath is just a new term to distance the medical condition from the nasty 'psycho' slang. IANAP, however.
I think the directory is still named 2.7, because that's what was there originally and they didn't want to break any links. It's all labelled 2.8 now, and updates a few times a week.
s chk/Man drake/gnome2.7
I added to it to the Software Media Manager (although you can do this at the command line as well), as site:
http://wwwra.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~wa
with index:
hdlist.cz
Then I did:
urpmi.udpate -a
urpmi --auto-select
And everything went fine, just fine. I have cooker main, contrib, and plf set up as sources as well. There's a couple of things in the gnome control centre that don't show up, but nothing is crashy or messed up. And considering how long I've been running cooker now, that's impressive.
You can get Gnome 2.8 packages for Mandrake here.
I'm running them on Mandrake Cooker (development), and it's pretty nice. I'm reasonably sure Cooker is still identical to Official at the moment until all releases are finalized, so it should install fine. You can even set it up with the software sources manager.
The last couple of fglrx packages have installed just fine for me, without even having to exit the GUI (except to reinitialize the driver). Basically you just need to install the ATI rpm with "rpm -i --force xxxx.rpm", and then run fglrxconfig, as it'll tell you to do on the console.
Check out www.rage3d.com for more info...the linux forums have gotten really good.
he optical drive used 2.8W when just spinning and 5.31W when reading. When running 3DMark, the system used about 30W, during playback of an audio CD it used about 19W, the largest single component draw coming from the optical drive. Sadly they did not test the power consumption during DVD playback.
Don't forgot that involves spinning the disc in a nice, smooth, horizontal fashion. Imagine how much more power you need to keep the thing stable while moving it around, at all sorts of angles to gravity? I'd guess about 20-50% more.
The fact that they built waiting time into the pipeline to allow data to get across the chip in time before the next clock cycle really speaks volumes about how high a clock speed they expected the p4 to reach. (and iirc they patented the idea)
Exactly. I thought the original expectation for the architecture was something on the order of 10 GHz. Which would have been truly obscene.
However, in the process of making things as precise as possible, they often make things very difficult to understand, and ironically the stuff they put in to make things very precise may end up not being interpreted as intended, because it's so hard for a third party to understand.
A Brazilian friend of mine was saying he couldn't believe how people could write legal documents in English, since it was by its very nature so much less precise than Portugese. With freedom comes responsibility, I guess.
At that time, I had never heard of the massive demonstrations that happened in Seattle in 1999.
I clearly remember seeing pictures of cops in riot gear in Seattle on good old my.yahoo.com back in the day, so this is a bit misleading. Not that I don't agree with you in general.
Well, correcting myself (I'm in Ireland) - while intra-bank payments from one account to another actually may be instant, the situation I was thinking about was when I transfer money into my credit card from my current account - even though the credit card is with the same bank, this only happens overnight. And inter-bank or international payments as you agree are not instant.
I'm in Canada, just for reference.
As near as I can tell this has to do with the whole Visa/MasterCard situation. Like you say, I can transfer between two accounts with the same back, and it's instaneous. If I try to pay my credit card with that same bank, it takes at least overnight. I'm guessing because it has to go through Visa first.
This same bank seems to be about two business days behind with showing transactions on the credit card as well, whereas debit card transactions show up instantly. This can be annoying over long weekends, as I can currently only see my credit card balance for 5 days ago. And I'm anxious to confirm that the current billing period is over.
Also, this bank only ever updates the credit card just after midnight, although with other banks I've seen transactions go up in the middle of the day. Although not instantaneously. Which again leads me to suspect Mastercard. That same bank also distiguishes between 'transaction date' and 'posting date', which is sometimes the same, but sometimes quite different. Something like a taxi cab that takes credit cards the old paper way can take up to a month.
So, the point is as long as you can stay within one bank things can often be instant (although sometimes front-dated, which is annoying), but dealing with visa/mastercard never is.
"M" is always Mega, obviously. And Mb is usually megabits, and MB is usually megabytes, so your clarification there is a little confusing. I agree that it's best to specify, but that "16 Mb" just makes it less clear.
My main problem is that I just don't make/take a lot of phone calls, maybe two a week. I can barely even remember to keep the battery charged.
That's my problem to (except I get maybe 5 text messages a week as well). Which is why I just always have it on vibrate. If I occasionly don't feel it and miss it, it's no big deal. I usually only get calls when I'm expecting them, and am therefore paying attention to it.
It may well be. My venerable Motorola Startac has a vib then ring option. My new LG doesn't (sticking with the motorla wasn't an option), and I don't know of any of my friends' phones that have the option either.
My piece of crap Motorola C333 has this, and I'm planning to switch to an LG this week. Maybe Motorola patented this feature or something?
I've long since been using vibe only, though. Sadly it's so weak I don't always feel it, even when it's in my pocket. Perhaps I need tighter pants.
Not all, but most do. Even then, I often forget to turn it off of vibrate when I get home and take it out of my pocket. It is my primary phone and it's easy to miss calls if it's on vibrate and not in my pocket.
Two potential easy solutions:
a) never take it out of your pocket;
b) check the mode every time you take it out of your pocket.
My phone has two buttons you can set to access any menu in the phone, I set one of them to "ring styles". Problem solved.
USAF is still FOUO. The other levels are the same. There is also an unofficial classification that is used called sensitive. Basically, anything that reveals personal info is sensitive and treated as FOUO, even if it's not marked that way.
Ah yes. In Canada there's "Protected A" (for who knows what) and "Protected B" (for personal records).
usually all you need to get linux drivers developed is some documentation.
it's much cheaper than developing a windows driver, that's for sure.
Unless you have to pay huge sums of money to other companies, whose propriety code you licensed to use in your own driver. Sad but true.
Yes, most of P G's articles are based on questionable assumptions and more questionable thesis statments..
With the regularity his screeds are being posted here, and the diviseness they seem to cause, I think he's a definite candidate to the be slashdot's resident ranter.
The Universities in Ontario, at least, with engineering programs regularly organize "DUSTED" events (Drink Unsuspecting Small Towns Entirely Dry - which I think is self explanatory). People buy tickets for the bus beforehand, but only the organizers (theoretically) know the location. This works scarily well, especially when you get a few schools together (like around Toronto or Ottawa).
Everyone I mention it to that's ever worked in a bar wants to just punch me, though. Especially if they've ever worked during a frosh week or something similar.
That was clearly one of the best chapters ever. I used to have a link to the first chapter, in english and (I believe) Polish, but can't find it now.
Uh, no major game company releases their big game _after_ the Christmas rush
I'm pretty sure I remember Mega Man regularly being on the cover of Nintendo Power in January. The post-Christmas seemed to be the niche for that series. After all, kids need something to spend the $50 cheque from their uncle that came a month late on.
Why is it the major focus? I can see it being a minor focus, but way make it major? It's not like you have to redo every application, just some stuff in GTK+, write a few themes to utilize it, and you're done!
Ha...have you ever done any programming? Or more specifically, programming for something that had to be tested and stabilized across multiple hardware/software platforms, and even totally different architectures?
Ok so what you are saying, or what this implies, is that a black hole doesn't actually *have* zero volume, but rather its volume is continually decreasing toward zero without actually reaching it?
What the other poster said is true, but also the trick is that saying the density is 'infinite' isn't really specific enough. There's a whole field of research in maths of infinity, which I thankfully haven't strayed down just yet.
Basically saying a value is 'infinite' is just saying it approaches some unattainably large value, but doesn't tell you about how 'fast' it may be approaching it (this is easier to visualize if you picture a function going to infinity along some axis, rather than one specific point).
So basically in your above post saying infinity = infinity was the mistake in your logic. Not all infinites are created equal, is the really mind bending thing.
I don't see why you can just ignore it. An imaginary gamma would imply an imaginary length, as well as imaginary energy and momentum. I'm hard-pressed to define the physical implications of that, and thus continue to believe that FTL motion is impossible from both physical and mathematical standpoints. Please correct me if you have other information...
Really an 'imaginary' number is just a number that is orthoganol to a 'real' number. So for me the question is more whether I'm prepared to accept something moving at a right angle to time, whatever that would mean.
I'd be willing to be on the 'you can't pay? you die!' list if I was allowed to bypass the laws meant to protect me from myself.
What about the emotional trauma inflicted on those whose job it is to save you, but have you watch you die because you can't pay, and chose to be a moron? Think outside yourself.
Surely you're joking. As project lead Linus has *complete* control of where it goes; however, if Linus abuses that control to take the project somewhere people disagree with, they have every right to start their own project.
What about the kernel series maintained by others?
As for the current series, even in that case if there was a lot of pressure to go in a certain direction, and a fork was inevitable, I'm sure he'd work something out. You don't become a good project manager by telling everyone to eff off every single time they disagree.
I could make a film about how great the Nazis were and what a great leader Hitler was, but should I call it a documentary? No. That's propaganda, as are Moore's "documentaries".
Ummm, it's called Triumph of the Will. And yes, it was considered a documentary, despite obviously being propoganda. Not to mention the WWII documentaries from the allied side that were just as skewed, but won oscars nonetheless.
You don't think the typical American romantic comedy that's all about getting the promotion, money, success, whatever, and then getting the girl isn't propaganda for American capitalist values?
Every film has a bias. Take a film class (or hell, any literature or other media class for that matter), and learn to think critically about EVERYTHING you see. You'll probably be impressed with how up front Moore is with his values, at least.
We covered Roger and Me in my film class, and his only really major crime against the documentary was mixing the four traditional modes of documentary style to pull the viewer in unexpected directions. He pretty much helped to establish a fifth style, that yes, is far more direct about it's political intentions.