Was Oregon Trail really educational? What exactly did it teach? M.U.L.E. was a much cooler strategy/allocation game, plus it teaches kids the important lesson that gambling is fun and always profitable!
Those drives were too slow to read consecutive sectors on the same revolution. We used to format them with an "interleave" of 3:1 or so, so that when you went for the next sector it was under the head instead of already past. Therefore, it took three revolutions to read an entire track that way instead of just one like you have nowadays.
You can do two-finger scroll in X.org, at least my laptop can do it and it's old as dirt. Enable the synaptics driver in X and use synclient to turn on VertTwoFingerScroll and HorizTwoFingerScroll.
I'd expect social networking sites to have the same "network" advantage that eBay does. The more users they have, the more attractive it becomes to new users. Unless eBay totally screws up, they pretty much have the field to themselves because why bother listing on a site nobody looks at? Why wouldn't FaceBook be the same way? If all your friends are there, that's where you'll go.
Disclaimer: I am way too old and curmudgeonly to have used FaceBook myself, so I could be way off.
Were those 24 people randomly-selected to receive a Mac or did they ask to participate? If it's the latter, it's hardly surprising that people who specifically asked for a Mac said they wanted to keep it at the end of the trial.
Just in case you are still working on it, here's something to try. I had problems with Ubuntu on my laptop also that were related to the splash screen it tries to show on bootup. At the GRUB menu, hit 'e' on the standard Ubuntu boot option, then arrow down to the line that starts with 'kernel'. Hit 'e' again and erase the 'splash' at the end of the line and hit enter, then hit 'b' to boot that modified configuration. That finally got me to the GDM prompt with the video intact. If it works you can make it permanent by editing the/boot/grub/menu.lst file.
I think it was Leon Lederman who coined it in his book. He is definitely a high-energy physicist, he was director of Fermilab for years and won a Nobel Prize for discovering the bottom quark. I agree with the sentiment, though, if I never heard it again it would be fine with me. I read the book some years ago but can't remember why he called it that.
The bump in the CDF two-tau decay channel went away with more data, which wasn't too surprising. I'm not sure how all that got so blown up in the science press, the original blog post that started it at Cosmic Variance surely didn't make any discovery claim. Having said that, the other half of the story, the rumored huge excess in the D0 three-b-quark channel, is still unresolved as they have not released any results for over a year. We'll probably see something within a few weeks I guess, I have heard that it is close to ready.
The LHC will probably switch on this year, but it won't generate very much luminosity at first. Perhaps by the end of 2009 it will have made a couple of inverse femtobarns which would be enough, but it will be another year or so after that before the data are processed and analyzed. It takes quite a bit of time to understand and interpret the detector readout. The Tevatron does have a chance if the Higgs is around 160 GeV, but only with about one-in-a-thousand level statistical significance, and so far we are not seeing any excess of events there, but in fact somewhat fewer events than expected.
I also once bought a CD (Lamb) that had problems. It played okay in my stereo but in my computer's drive it would make hella noise when the disk spun up, and I couldn't rip past track 2 without getting errors. I took it back to the store and they exchanged it for a different copy that worked fine. I guess the original disk was out of balance somehow, so it can happen.
You don't even need USB2. I have a Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB, the one that does MPEG encoding, and use it on an old machine that only has USB1.1. I can watch live TV with Sage at up to the 2GB/hr setting with no problems at all, generally I use a 480x480 1.5GB/hr mode that I made and it's just fine, using about 15% of a Celeron 2.4GHz. It's really amazing how little horsepower you need for a PVR box if you have hardware encoding.
Yes, but if someone sends you some code and says, "here ya go, I fixed a bug in your program", that must confer some sort of implicit license to distribute it as part of a new version, right? Otherwise why bother to send it in if you didn't want it distributed? Of course IANAL but that's how it looks to me.
C'mon, Pokemon teaches kids a valuable lesson about the moral ambiguity of our world. The heros and the villains are exactly the same, the only way to tell Ash & friends apart from Team Rocket is that you are TOLD that Ash is the good guy. If you can't see the profundity in that then I don't know what to say...
What you want is MythTV. You can use it without a capture card as a media jukebox, in fact that's how I do it. Play music, movies, get TV listings, check the weather, browse the web, etc, and it's designed from the ground up to with a remote.
I've got one of these too and it works pretty well. The cool thing about an infrared one is that you can learn the keypresses with a regular remote. I have my Sony RM-VL900 programmed with all of the various arrow keys, etc, to control MythTV so I really don't need to use the keyboard itself that much.
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It's only dead-cat-bounced about 10%, if I'm not mistaken. That's nothing to sneeze at, but you'd have to buy a ton of it to make a fortune.
Was Oregon Trail really educational? What exactly did it teach? M.U.L.E. was a much cooler strategy/allocation game, plus it teaches kids the important lesson that gambling is fun and always profitable!
Those drives were too slow to read consecutive sectors on the same revolution. We used to format them with an "interleave" of 3:1 or so, so that when you went for the next sector it was under the head instead of already past. Therefore, it took three revolutions to read an entire track that way instead of just one like you have nowadays.
Amen, it formats the disk and copies shit over, who cares what it looks like? You're only going to run it once.
You're thinking of the original SunOS. Solaris is SVR4.
Nope, mine does two-finger scroll anywhere on the pad also, and it's old. That's not new at all.
You can do two-finger scroll in X.org, at least my laptop can do it and it's old as dirt. Enable the synaptics driver in X and use synclient to turn on VertTwoFingerScroll and HorizTwoFingerScroll.
I'd expect social networking sites to have the same "network" advantage that eBay does. The more users they have, the more attractive it becomes to new users. Unless eBay totally screws up, they pretty much have the field to themselves because why bother listing on a site nobody looks at? Why wouldn't FaceBook be the same way? If all your friends are there, that's where you'll go.
Disclaimer: I am way too old and curmudgeonly to have used FaceBook myself, so I could be way off.
Were those 24 people randomly-selected to receive a Mac or did they ask to participate? If it's the latter, it's hardly surprising that people who specifically asked for a Mac said they wanted to keep it at the end of the trial.
For a userbase that is always congratulating itself on how smart it is, there sure are a lot of gullible people reading Slashdot...
Ubuntu uses apt, not yum. I call shenanigans!
Just in case you are still working on it, here's something to try. I had problems with Ubuntu on my laptop also that were related to the splash screen it tries to show on bootup. At the GRUB menu, hit 'e' on the standard Ubuntu boot option, then arrow down to the line that starts with 'kernel'. Hit 'e' again and erase the 'splash' at the end of the line and hit enter, then hit 'b' to boot that modified configuration. That finally got me to the GDM prompt with the video intact. If it works you can make it permanent by editing the /boot/grub/menu.lst file.
My Compaq Armada M300 from way back when (2002?) with a Synaptics touchpad does two-finger scrolling in Xorg. You can turn it on with synclient.
I think it was Leon Lederman who coined it in his book. He is definitely a high-energy physicist, he was director of Fermilab for years and won a Nobel Prize for discovering the bottom quark. I agree with the sentiment, though, if I never heard it again it would be fine with me. I read the book some years ago but can't remember why he called it that.
The bump in the CDF two-tau decay channel went away with more data, which wasn't too surprising. I'm not sure how all that got so blown up in the science press, the original blog post that started it at Cosmic Variance surely didn't make any discovery claim. Having said that, the other half of the story, the rumored huge excess in the D0 three-b-quark channel, is still unresolved as they have not released any results for over a year. We'll probably see something within a few weeks I guess, I have heard that it is close to ready.
The LHC will probably switch on this year, but it won't generate very much luminosity at first. Perhaps by the end of 2009 it will have made a couple of inverse femtobarns which would be enough, but it will be another year or so after that before the data are processed and analyzed. It takes quite a bit of time to understand and interpret the detector readout. The Tevatron does have a chance if the Higgs is around 160 GeV, but only with about one-in-a-thousand level statistical significance, and so far we are not seeing any excess of events there, but in fact somewhat fewer events than expected.
Cool, I thought I was just a big loser, but it turns out I was an ahead-of-my-time visionary!
I also once bought a CD (Lamb) that had problems. It played okay in my stereo but in my computer's drive it would make hella noise when the disk spun up, and I couldn't rip past track 2 without getting errors. I took it back to the store and they exchanged it for a different copy that worked fine. I guess the original disk was out of balance somehow, so it can happen.
You don't even need USB2. I have a Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB, the one that does MPEG encoding, and use it on an old machine that only has USB1.1. I can watch live TV with Sage at up to the 2GB/hr setting with no problems at all, generally I use a 480x480 1.5GB/hr mode that I made and it's just fine, using about 15% of a Celeron 2.4GHz. It's really amazing how little horsepower you need for a PVR box if you have hardware encoding.
Yes, but if someone sends you some code and says, "here ya go, I fixed a bug in your program", that must confer some sort of implicit license to distribute it as part of a new version, right? Otherwise why bother to send it in if you didn't want it distributed? Of course IANAL but that's how it looks to me.
Does it have tabs?
But have you seen the Prima episodes! That chick could put your eyes out!
C'mon, Pokemon teaches kids a valuable lesson about the moral ambiguity of our world. The heros and the villains are exactly the same, the only way to tell Ash & friends apart from Team Rocket is that you are TOLD that Ash is the good guy. If you can't see the profundity in that then I don't know what to say...
What you want is MythTV. You can use it without a capture card as a media jukebox, in fact that's how I do it. Play music, movies, get TV listings, check the weather, browse the web, etc, and it's designed from the ground up to with a remote.
I've got one of these too and it works pretty well. The cool thing about an infrared one is that you can learn the keypresses with a regular remote. I have my Sony RM-VL900 programmed with all of the various arrow keys, etc, to control MythTV so I really don't need to use the keyboard itself that much.